#and all over the place

[rabbitmotifs]

i think ive seen u talk abt the xmen comics (if im wrong, this is embarassing sorry) but do u have any xmen comic recomendations? its always scary to start reading marvel comics beacuse theres like a million and one different canons and its scary to start

hi!! while i do love xmen I AM THE WRONGGG PERSON TO ASK THIS. im so sorry if ive misled u... (ive only been here for maybe a month and a half!)

so atm irdk ab specific xmen runs im mostly relying on the animated/live action adaptations atm (if i read any more things than i already am for grad school, ill explode) - my plan is to get thru tas and 97 and then go through the comics with the help of this guide you might find useful!

otherwise id probably just dig around one particular character you find interesting because i reckon there are many other character-specific reading guides out there as well :]

[krirebr]

Well. My evening's really sucked. Hoping takeout and TV will help me feel better.

I would totally take some soft, comforting thots about some ce babes.

[tags-ohara]

feeling so many emotions right now but i just want to say that the brettsey fandom has been the best fandom ive been in…the most welcoming fandom who welcomed me with open arms 🥲 even tho there have been some tough times lol. ive met so many amazing people in this fandom. truth be told, this show has brought me so much comfort (regardless of how i felt towards the ending). i started watching in nov 2020, a time where i needed something to find comfort in, and i found that within this show and ship. i discovered my love for giffing and making edits because of this show and it is something i’ll always be grateful for 🥹 i do not know what is going to happen with this blog if im being honest - ill be on here once in a while but after giffing this episode, i may be taking a break. other than that, i just wanted to say how grateful and happy i am we got to experience this together <3 here’s to brettsey endgame 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

[wolfsetfree-if]

Raise your hand if you liked Kesha's pov

[nervous-young-homo]

i am loving the late night tubbo + foolish content

[i-m-not-a-penguin]

While season 3 of Ted Lasso wasn't the worst thing ever, some decisions made - especially in the finale - were enough to make me not even want to re-watch the other two seasons

[clone-whore-99]

I had a dream last night that Tech was alive, but captured by the enemy and brainwashed into thinking he was a woman called Annilise

[aelswiths]

🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨ (sent by volvaaslaug)

This one was very hard, because I usually just find one song and then listen to it on repeat for years before finally finding a new one.

1) Helig by John Lunn & Eviør

2) Take Me to Church by Hozier

3) Neptune by Sleeping At Last

4) Harm & Boon by Balmorhea

5) Dancing in the Moonlight by King Harvest

[mmriesoftvat]

canon already broke itself

so i'm going to break it even more and say that. LET'S SAY childe had a hunch that irminsul would be a tool in this overarching quest of scara's. childe is one of the more dangerous harbingers, right? maybe the most straightforward, but i'd like to think he'd get up to his fair share of trickery hijinks.

so let's say he knew. cause why else would he just let the gnosis go? the harbingers wanted it, they wouldn't let such a powerful device go that easily if it was meant for the tsaritsa, especially childe, who is loyal to her.

so childe lets it go with scara, because he had a feeling scara and the traveler would have a significant encounter in sumeru, and that dottore is involved, that irminsul is involved. maybe it has to do more with the traveler's reputation than anything else. with how much the traveler seems to save the day, childe probably bet on it happening again in sumeru.

but what if childe knew time was going to be messed with as well? It wouldn't be too difficult for them to infiltrate the Akademiya and either watch things implode or have a direct hand in it. So they probably planned to use that concept for themselves too.

I mean, it's why Dottore was involved, right?

But also consider: descender is a fatui term, it could be that the harbingers/the tsarita managed to take a precaution at least in some manner to protect their memories beforehand in case time erased something big. Maybe they have a descender on the inside, or they still have a bargain going with one of the descenders they met previously. (cough cough, zhongli.)

Even if said preservation is simply an alternate excuse for their actions, like Childe in Inazuma. Cause Childe would definitely remember going to Inazuma.

Maybe not every harbinger would think to do something like this, but I feel like Childe would since some of his actions directly involved the balladeer. I wouldn't say he'd want someone to record everything for him, but at least help him fill in some missing gaps.

[tscsunlover]

OKAY but everyone who is saying have kit and ty meet up in sobh now and just don’t write twp-

JUST NO there are so many other plots we need solved in twp, the tlbotw epilogue, the whole clave situation that going on rn, thule, whatever’s going on on fairy?!? LIKE THERE ARE SO MUCH REASONS WHY WE NEED TWP and not just for kit and ty reunion. I need twp for my sanity she can’t leave all those cliff hangers for us. like I do get wanting the kit and ty reunion now but we have to be patient! we’ll all appreciate the wait when the masterpiece that is twp comes out

[hdawg1995]

It's Scalla's birthday and Ajax was able to jump though space, time, what ever it was that put him in her future and not his just to surprise her! He would get there a little late, maybe the last to arrive, and surprise his role model with the fact that he was HERE in HER timeline!

That... was the plan anyway...

sunbreeze grove was a buzz with soft laughter and quiet cheering. There were balloons floating in the sky as the warrior approached, Hector looking ready to fly up and chase a few. Ajax hadn't thought of bringing balloons... maybe he should have brought an actually present instead of just... you know, himself and Hector.

"You think she'll be disappointed?" he asks the baby dragon, startling them out of their pounce.

a dragon of few words, Hector tilts his head and frowns with narrowed eyes. 'doubt it'.

"Yea, you're right." He said. "Scalla will just be happy to see us. She hadn't been visiting lately..."

Why hadn't she been visiting? normally he sees The Other Hero of Lore once a week, but maybe she is getting Better. Now that he has seen the horrors and event she has been though, he understands why she flees to the past so much. Maybe Scalla not visiting meant she was finally moving on from certain things.

Ajax ignores the small, tiny, almost unnoticeable pang of sadness he feels at the thought of not seeing his mentor again.

Looking out at the grove again, he can see some familiar faces- Artix, Cysero, Twilly, even Ghost! They all seem to be standing around a pit, the cheering getting loader as he got closer- oh. Cysero did indeed make a pit for the food monsters to fight in. Ajax watches the hotdog monsters chase a balloon mage long enough to get noticed.

"Oi, green hair!" Cysero calls. "Five bucks to place a bet! Ten to watch!"

"oh uhh I-" he starts looking though his bag for some coins when he realizes something. "wait... ten bucks to WATCH?"

"Yea!"

"nope." He takes several steps back from the pit. "Thats a scam."

"Finally! Someone calls him out." Ghost comments from his spot, floating above the pit.

Ajax watches them bicker about undead not having pockets and floating is cheating. Its all very silly and it brings a smile to his face but as something taps him on the leg, he is reminded of where he is.

"Haiyas!" Twilly greets him. "Are you a friend of Scalla's?"

Right. Not his timeline. Also his first attempt at timeline jumping.

"Yea. I'm Ajax." He stoops to shake Twilly's offered hand. "Nice to meet you!"

"Oh! Scalla mentioned you! She said you weren't coming!" the red moglin tilts his head. "Did things change?"

"Something like that. Now i can surprise her!" he smiles and Twilly laughs.

He says Scalla will be very happy to see him, especially with all thats happened. He think he knows what the moglin is talking about when he notices Artix shy away from the conversation.

...he isn't sure what that means but part of him thinks he should just walk away from that one...

and walk away he does. He bids farewell and gets told where the birthday girl is by a purple haired woman he... doesn't know. Rolith's wife he thinks? he only remembers seeing her once in his timeline. She directs him to the main house and he is off like a bolt. Hector catches up, balloon in his jaws as he sits up with it. Ajax stoops to tie the balloon to the dragon's horn when the door he is in front of opens.

"Sorry, one second!" He calls up.

"Ajax?"

he frowns with the realization that Scalla opened the door, which means his plan to sneak up on her or jump out from behind a door way to surprise her is out the window. However, the shock and hope in her voice is enough for him to smile and stand, ready to give her a hug and catch up and-

"...Scalla?"

Ajax has never seen scalla without her helmet before. He has rarely seen her face, just used to seeing her visor. He remembers her eyes were red like Draco's with hints of orange in the right light, but...

She smiles and cocks her head to the side, long brown hair tumbling over, a few stands getting caught on the hook of her wings which fold tightly together. Shes watching him with bright eyes that glow with a yellow light he had seen behind her visor -oh... that makes sense actually- and... he can't get over her hair.

"The one and only." she says.

They stand in the door way for a little too long; the party guests have gone quiet and someone clears their throat loadly.

This prompts Ajax to plant a hand on Scalla's head.

"May i help you?" she almost growls as he pats her hair.

"Just smoothing out your helmet hair." he smiles.

"Helmet ha- AJAX!" shes swatting at his hand as they laugh. "I don't have helmet hair!"

"Are you sure?" he reels back for a moment before reaching back in and ruffling the little tuffs of hair that barely count as bangs. "Cause you have worn that helmet for YEARS!"

"AJAX!" She grabs his hand and twists it behind his back as he cackles. "My hair is FINE!" she bites the inside of her cheek to keep from smiling.

"I'm surprised you -ow- have hair!" He isn't having a easy time keeping balanced and trying to look at her.

that comment seems to make something click in the older hero since she lets him go, allowing him to tumble to the ground. Ajax stands up and brushes the dirt off. When he looks at Scalla again shes got almost half of her locks in her hands, petting it like she doesn't believe it's real.

"I'm kinda sad you're a brunette." He comments.

"Not all of us can have bright green hair like you." She looks up at him.

Its so weird seeing the top of Scalla's head. Seeing long brown hair draped over her shoulders. Normally he would be weirded out by the lack of armor but he has seen her casual clothes before- although the vest looks new. must be a gift,- and have NEVER seen her hair.

He feels weird. Like he just noticed something odd about his best friend. Only instead of odd, its just her hair. Normally its a dark shadow of spikes and tangle- he touched it once while they were hanging out because he has very little impulse control and wonderer if it even was hair sticking out of her helmet. The answer was Technically Its Hair. When she has that helmet on everything becomes... chaos. EnTropy, he realizes. Like a shadow of it's true form.

"Does he always stare like that?" Rolith's wife- uhh... he can't remember her name...

"No, Alina." Scalla turns to her. "Hes just shocked. He has never seen my hair before."

"Oh!" Alina looks... startled. hands over her mouth and eyes very wide. "so this is your protégé!"

Ajax notices Artix slump back in the background, Cysero catching him. Thats... weird. Scalla's Artix is weird.

Speaking of, Scalla has grabbed him and has him in a head lock he wasn't prepared for.

"Not fair! I wasn't ready! HEY!-" He attempts to protest the headlock, but realizes too late her actual goal.

She flips his hood off, and unties his hair.

"Hey!-" he wants to be mad because it takes forever to get his hair how he likes it, but...

"You want to make fun of MY helmet hair? look at yours!" She ruffling every strand he has and is laughing. He can't remember if he has ever heard her laugh this... happy before.

He has heard it hallow and humorless, and cheerful and full of warmth, but never "happy". There is way too much to unpack in this moment.

Elysia breaks up their wrestling match- mostly because Cysero had moved the ticket booth over to where Ajax was trying to get free and Scalla was preventing it- and cake is served. It feels strange to be sat around so many familiar faces who only know him though second-hand accounts from Scalla. He has to introduce himself to people he has known for years and when he talks about his adventures they all assume it takes place somewhere other than Lore. which is... not entirely false.

Ajax was helping clean up when he found himself alone with Artix. Other than himself, Artix was the only one in full armor ready for battle, which helped Ajax feel less awkward about being in full heavy plate.

"So..." the paladin started, taking a stack of plates to the kitchen. "Scalla is your... mentor."

"mhmm." Ajax nodded. "Shes showing me the ropes and guiding me though the rougher parts of being a adventurer."

Artix makes a non-committal sound as they set the plates in the sink.

"You probably have a lot of questions for her." the paladin says.

"Yea. She seems so happy its..." he frowns and looks at a dirty plate. "i hate to say it, but it feels off. like something bad is happening behind the scenes."

Artix claps a hand on his shoulder and gives Ajax the same smile he gave the warrior during the dark orb search. A smile full of trust and confidence.

"You're used to looking out for her?"

"Kinda." he scratches the back of his neck. "She seems pretty scary when she goes all quiet and starts staring at people rather than talking. From what i've seen i seem to be the-... i seem to be one of the few people who can get though to her when shes like that."

Artix shakes his head and turns his attention to the plates. "You're right. You are the only one who can get though to her."

oh... thats worrisome.

"I think this is a good thing." Ajax says, taking his gauntlets off because he is going to focus on something other than the conversation and oh look dirty dishes! "Her mental health hasn't been great- and here she is without a helmet!"

Artix nods along, watching the warrior clean the plates.

"What do you know about me and her?"

Ajax thinks for a moment. Something is raising the alarm but he shrugs it off. "Not much. You helped raise Draco."

"yea. something like that." Artix folds his arms and stands awkwardly to the side.

oh boy awkward social interaction.

"I'll be blunt." Artix says and Ajax mentally thanks him. "When you showed up, I had the wrong idea."

"huh?" Ajax puts the clean plate in a dish rack.

"I thought... you and scalla were..." he made some sort of hand motion and ajax repeated it with a tilt of his head. "Dating."

"nope." He turns back to the plates. "Shes a lovely person and i'm sure anyone would be happy to be with her, but shes not my type."

Artix is quiet for a long time. Long enough for Ajax to finish the dishes and Scalla to come into the kitchen and drag the two of the out.

"You were washing dishes. Of course you were." Shes smiling as she scolds the warrior.

"I dirtied them, i should clean them!"

"washing your own plate? sure. you washed EVERYONE'S!" he can tell she isn't actually mad. besides, who gets mad about washing dishes?

"oh!" Ajax takes his bag and starts looking though it once scalla has dragged him and Artix out of the house. "Almost forgot your present!"

Scalla tries looking over his shoulder so he moves away. "its not wrapped!" he says. After a few fake searches in his bag for her gift she rolls her eyes and holds her arms out expectantly.

"Just give me my present!" she laughs. he isn't going to get used to that. it sounds so happy it makes him want to laugh too.

"Okay, here it is!" he feints with his bag only to spin around and wrap his arms around her. "A hug!"

Scalla is frozen for a moment, which he expected. The last time he "hugged" her was when she was drowning in her head, trying to attack Jaania. It takes her a moment before she hugs him back. Its a tight squeeze with her resting her head against his. Theres a tear going down her cheek and she whispers Thank You.

"I told you- like a god damn snugglebear." He gently knocks his head into her's and notices Artix.

He is smiling with tears in his eyes. He gives Ajax a thumbs up before leaving.

yea scalla's Artix is weird.

"Now that i gave you your present..." he pulls away to hold her at arm's length. "WHAT happened?"

"its a... complicated story?"

the short version, he finds, is Scalla sat in her Inn at the Edge of Time for... well, she said it felt like months... battling the Tomix simulation.

It was awful at first. She couldn't even convince herself to go into the arena at first. After a while, the simulation... reacted to her. The first time it acted odd- "Avatar of time scalla said its like a ghost in the gnomish tech. Not a real ghost, but the simulation doing something it shouldn't. like its possessed."- was when she had a small break down. Normally if you stop fighting, the simulations in the inn continue fighting, but the Tomix simulation stopped. another time the breakdown was... big. huge even. and the simulation turned itself off and kicked her from the arena. Eventually it went from having break downs because she was Fighting Tomix, to not having break downs because...

"Only you could view The Inn at the Edge of Time breaking as the simulation pitying you." Ajax patted Scalla on the back.

the party was over now. it was just them and the dragons, sitting on the fountain, watching Draco and Hector play.

"You go cry in front of a realistic simulation of Tomix and watch it stop fighting you and come back and tell me that isn't pity." She glared off into the distance. "i couldn't stand it... I didn't like the thought of Tomix pitying me. I wanted... i don't know... to make him proud."

"Ah."

They stared up at the sky for a while longer, watching the oranges turn to purple and then the dark blue of night.

"I think he would be proud." Ajax whispers. "You faced your grief and grew from it."

"yea." She ran her hands though her hair. "I'm... not all there yet... but i have hair again."

The warrior's laugh rings though the grove, gets carried by the breeze, and almost covers the sound of another laugh.

Almost.

The dragons stop their tug-o-war game to look around while the warrior and dragonlord search for the third voice.

"Just the wind." Ajax says. because he doesn't want to say what he thinks.

"Yeah. Just the wind." Scalla agrees for the same reason.

"I'm glad you're better, Scalla." Ajax changes the subject. "Happy birthday."

"Thanks for coming... and for putting up with Artix. He uhh... hasn't been the same since i came back."

"Yea he thought we were dating." Ajax blurts.

"Ew." Scalla smiles.

"Hey! I'm a catch!"

"Agreed. Its just gross he thinks the first guy i get close to is dating me."

"Oh."

draco walks over to the heroes and snorts. "You guys are being weird."

He is scooped up by Scalla while Hector tackles Ajax into the fountain.

"You guys should get going." She says and looks up at the sky. "Your ride is here."

Sure enough, the tear in space, time, and reality appears above, almost invisible in the night sky. Ajax frowns.

"Can i be honest?"

"Why wouldn't you be?"

"I don't know. Social norms?" Ajax looks to Scalla seriously. "Now that you're getting better... am i going to see you again?"

Scalla tilts her head. hums. runs her fingers though her hair. tilts her head the other way.

"scalla!" Ajax says.

"Of course you goof." She slaps his knee. "I've been going back in time for more than just nostalgia now, you know."

And... yea, he does know. It just feels better when its said.

"Thanks." he says. "That'll do."

"That'll do for what?" Scalla asks.

"That'll do as a birthday present. Since you missed mine." Ajax smirks and quickly gathers his dragon.

"I MISSED YOUR BIRTHDAY?" Scalla is standing, Draco on her shoulders equal parts horrified and angry. "W-WHEN WAS IT?"

"Last month." Hector grows to his titan size as the pair make haste to the tear in the sky.

"THAT DOESN'T COUNT AS YOUR PRESENT!" Scalla roars from bellow.

"IF MY HUG COUNTS-" Ajax starts as Hector hovers above the grove. "-YOU ASSURING ME WE'RE FRIENDS COUNTS!"

"AJAX!" Scalla can't seem to counter that argument and watches as the second hero of lore and his dragon fly off. She watches until the tear is gone and calm has returned.

"Fine." she says. "But next year i'm getting you a new fishing rod."

[wyn-n-tonic]

Hi O! That last Frizzy installment was 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻I'm so curious what happened between the split part 3 and this? Will you ever write about that point in time? Right after Lizzy is back in Will's care and Frankie is locked away in the cabin. That slooow painful crawl to get better (on both sides) really interests me and I'm rooting for them so hard istg!

hi, bestie! so first of all, thank you so much! it means a lot to me that you read it at all but the fact that you care enough to ask me about it? ugh, be still my beating heart! second of all... yes, but it's more complicated than yes.

that time is, what i feel like, the meat of their story. i've written them, their beginning, their break up, their resolution. but i haven't written the parts that make up their conflict or the work towards that resolution and for that i'm really sorry. but it's because they mean so much to me and those parts of their story especially mean so much to me. but it takes a lot out of me to write and if i'm going to do it then i'm going to do it as accurately and authentically as possible. their sex life is just easier to write, their cute moments with Emmy are just easier to write. and, after so many installments to their story, i still feel like i'm getting to know these characters.

truth be told, i stopped seeing this as fanfiction a long time ago and even though i know that it is, these characters are so much more to me than that now. my first Frizzy post was in April. i've almost spent a year with them living inside of my head and telling me about themselves and their family.

i do have a chapter of Lizzy and Will coming up that will take place during that time. we'll finally see where his own anger and hurt over the situation flipped from Frankie to Lizzy. there's so much more of them inside of me but there's so much more research that needs to go into it as well and several of those parts will be with Frankie as the reader insert (because my clown ass didn't take this to third person near the beginning).

i know there's so much of this story that people wouldn't like. i think that TikTok clocked that i was writing about pregnancy and miscommunication and whatnot because they put me on anti-miscommunication/anti-pregnancy trope BookTok and it's kind of dampened my spirits about a lot of it but i'm trying not to let it get to me.

but i always said that my goal with writing was that if it meant something to even one person then i am happy. there are so many who care about this story and it's crazy. happy doesn't even describe it. it's tipped into being overwhelmed and truly amazed. thank you for being one of those people.

[azuremallone]

[armysantiny]

Something’s up with my writing...it’s not the same quality but I really want this Hyunjin fic to come out well

[harbingerofsoup]

can’t wait to go to my very serious writing workshop with my very serious and introspective classmates and read my very chaotic found poem i created by quoting memes from november 5th