#and i regret nothing

[stiles24]

Right on Time. | e.m.

Pairing: Eddie Munson x (f)reader.

Summary: Eddie's best friend comes to the rescue when a certain 'fan' of his band just won't quit.

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Rushing through the doors of The Hideout, you're greeted first by the familiar rush of smokey air, and then the gruff smile of Nick the bouncer. Squeezing his arm as you walked past, something near the stage caught your eye.

Gareth had spotted you the moment you walked in, and was now waving frantically. Subtlety had never been his strong point, and today was no different. As each step took you closer to him, his eyes darted between you, and the side of the stage.

"Where's the fire, G?"

Following his gaze, it took only seconds to zero in on the source of his panic.

Eddie was kneeling at the edge of the stage, tonight's setlist clutched tightly in his ringed fingers like a lifeline. Leaning dangerously close to him was the She-Devil, dressed in her usual skin-tight clothing. Her real name was Tiffany, and she'd graduated from Hawkins High a few years earlier. She had a thing for guys in bands, and apparently, Eddie was really doing it for her these days.

Tiffany had been to the last four Corroded Coffin shows, each time doing more and more to get Eddie's attention. To her, this seemed to mean wearing less clothing, and invading Eddie's personal space more. You'd been a little surprised when Eddie had brushed her off the first week, but it was clear that he wasn't interested, something she wasn't, or didn't care to understand.

The first time she'd shown up to one of their shows with a few friends, it had earned Jeff a punch to the chest while the boys were packing up. He'd joked that you had competition for the title of their number one fan. You'd not so politely reminded him that you were their first, number one, and sometimes only fan, and that if he ever disrespected you like that again, you might slip and tell Ms. Dunne the math teacher about the dream of his she'd starred in.

Looking back at Gareth, he gestured wildly.

"You have to do something!" He went as far as to grab you by the shoulders and shake. "You have to save him."

"First of all, you've been reading too many fantasy novels, Gar. You need to take a breath."

It made you laugh a little as you watched your friend visibly inhale, as if it was the first time in a while that he'd done so.

Looking back over your shoulder, you took a breath of your own, trying to come up with an idea. Though you weren't above violence, The Hideout wasn't the place for it. You didn't want Nick to have to get involved, and it'd be a pain in the ass for the boys to have to find a new place to play for five drunks each week.

If you were being honest, you didn't want to get involved either, but Eddie looked like a drowning man, and as his best friend, you were almost legally obligated to help him in this situation. He winced as Tiffany ran a blood red nail down his arm, and that was the final hit of courage you needed. You just hoped what you were about to do wasn't going to blow up in your face.

Steeling yourself with a few deep breaths, you gave Gareth's arm a final squeeze and turned to where Eddie was in She-Devil's clutches.

"Hey, handsome!" Eddie's head whipped towards you at the sound of your voice, his eyes wide.

Before you could second guess your actions, you pushed yourself up on your tiptoes, and grabbed Eddie's collar, pulling him close enough to press your lips to his own.

The kiss was quick, over before it had really begun, but Eddie's hand came up to circle your wrist, his rings cool against your heated skin. When his eyes opened, you widened your own, pleading silently with him to play along.

A scoff came from behind you, and you called on everything you'd learned in tenth grade drama class as you turned to face the She-Devil herself.

"Oh, hi! I hope I'm not interrupting. It's just so hard to keep my hands off this guy when he's in the same room." Before she could say anything, you looked back over your shoulder to Eddie, who was trying his hardest not to laugh. "Sorry I'm late, baby. Heather just kept talking about her boyfriend instead of helping me close up, when all I wanted to do was get here to see mine."

At the insinuation that Eddie was your boyfriend, two things happened. Eddie's arm snaked around your shoulders from behind, and Tiffany huffed loudly, before turning to stomp away towards the bar. Once she was out of earshot, you turned to face him, raising an eyebrow.

"Mission accomplished?"

Instead of saying anything, Eddie slid himself off the edge of the stage, coming to rest directly in front of you.

"You-you kissed me."

"I know, Eds. I was there. I'm sorry. I just couldn't think of anything else, and you looked like you needed help, and-"

"You wanna do it again?"

It was pointless to try stopping the blush that spread across your cheeks, so you buried your face into Eddie's chest, feeling the rumble of his laughter. Folding you into his arms, a calloused hand found a home on the sliver of skin at the base of your spine, making it very hard for you to think.

"My hero," he whispered into the crown of your head.

"Sorry I was late,"

Pulling back a little, he shook his head.

"Nah, you were right on time."

[corkinavoid]

A list of things I've done that pissed my mother off, but as Batfam + Team Phantom edition

Bruce: got into a verbal fight and held a year-long grudge at my teacher for not giving me a fair grade at an annual competition, and proceeded to go out of my way to win said competition next year

Alfred: refused to eat her food, got told to cook for myself and did so, ending up with both my dad and sister saying my banana bread was the best thing they've eaten

Dick: swung on the bungee rope over the dry riverbed turned into junk yard, fell, miraculously did not die, went to that same bungee rope the next day

Babs: organized a stake out, found out which neighbor had been messing with trash bins when everyone blamed raccoons, called said neighbor a raccoon for the next three weeks

Jason: kept reading books at night with a flashlight, when said flashlight was taken away, lit a candle and accidentally almost set the house on fire

Tim: fled to a different country across the globe without telling anyone except my sister, who's been 7 at the time, and did not respond to any calls or messages for three months

Steph: picked a dress with glitter for a dinner with her relatives after specifically being told not to, was forced to change, but took my revenge by exploding a glitter bomb in the car when we have already arrived at the relatives' house

Cass: responded with 'sorry I didn't quite catch that could you repeat' to her very long rant, over text

Damian: successfully clawed and gnawed at a classmate's face after they destroyed my painting

Duke: was the leader of school rebellion over the 'no wigs allowed in school' rule in sixth grade, managed to convince two teachers to join, ended up with the rule taken down

Danny: accidentally shocked myself with a tazer I stole from her handbag, cried, when she came to ask what happened, showed her by repeating the accidental electrocution

Dan: pushed my maternal aunt into the pool and watched her flounder, knowing very well she is a bad swimmer, when confronted about it later argued it was the kiddie part of the pool and she could not have drowned

Jazz: told her I was in love with a girl she disliked, when she voiced her opinion on it, made a whole argument about how I'm supposed to learn from my own mistakes and not from her experiences

Dani: zoned out while she was yelling at me, came back to her saying 'you're no better than a pig', impulsively told her 'it's because of genetics' and started oinking

Sam: painted my nails and toes on my left hand and left foot black, dyed my hair purple, but only on the left side, as well as got a piercing on the left eyebrow, while the whole right side was left 'natural'

Tucker: learned to change the wi-fi password and held power over the internet every time she took my electronics away by asking a friend that lived nearby to come by my house and using their phone to change the password

Bonus:

Selina: repeatedly stolen antique jewelry from grandma because she, in turn, stole it from my other grandma

Valerie: turned rogue, teamed up with the opponent team in lasertag and helped them win over my own teammates

Talia: threatened a person I will carve their eyeballs out with a spoon if they ever as much as look at my sister funny again, a month later gave them a decorated silver teaspoon as a birthday gift

Jack Fenton: failed my driving license test seven times, three of which were on purpose

Maddie: ruined her plans of my picture-perfect marriage by friendzoning a son of her friend, claiming I'm saving my love only for the important things like mozzarella

Vlad: scared my sister shitless by telling her a scary story about ghosts under her bed and then hiding under her bed and making 'boo' noizes

Clockwork: purposefully made her experience deja vu by wearing the exact same clothes and greeting her the exact same way in the exact same place for three days in a row

[bebekalord]

Happy doodle hour!

Rei training!! I'm preparing a little bit to draw more Hisui, so there will be a lot of character doodles like this, I think And yep, Rufflet and Rei parallels. Even if i mostly draw Akari, i still love my fluffy-boiii I'm still not sure whether to draw him as a Pla protagonist or not....It's a tough choice between two absolutely adorable kids, and about both I have headcanons and some thoughts…. :(

[linkito]

[hhau]: a night for living

"Haven't heard of that dance move," Grian teases, amused. "Tumbling down like a sack of uncoordinated potatoes." He giggles, tipsy and much more carefree.

"Oh, Grian, I practically invented that dance move!" Scar cheers, gesturing to spin Grian again, sure to guide him through each step of the process.

version without Mr. Beak chimken below the cut:

[leijonzzz]

I paid money to watch a grown man play jezzball live in a theater I love this show

[o-phreneticum]

What if… what if we kissed in a glass coffin 😳😳

[idiotdriftinginspace]

I offer memes for one of my favourite fics (written by @lets-try-some-writing)

I made them simply because they wer funny in my head :D

orginal photos and flat colors under cut

flat colors

and og photos

-and rambling as usual, and weird/crack ideas that I don't regret in the slightest; you have been warned XD

I saw this slav totem somewhere on tumblr and my first thought was: "Autoway, Ironhide and Springer". At the same time I knew this would be very out of character for them in the middle of war.

My excuse why I did draw it in the end? One: How could I not to XD; and Two: Since orginal circumstances were not suitable, they didn't have a chance to be young and do stupid stuff. And then it enlightend me: WHAT IF THEY COULD?! And so I present to you a glimps of "these 3 were born after the war with quintessons" timeline. I decided to shove them into either some military high school or just military, but not on the war front, after all they are still warframes.

This "alt timeline" (if I can even call it that XD) exists solely for this one meme, just me having a thought "what if they could be teenagers and annoy their sergeant (what if it was Kup >:) ) without major consequences (e.g. cleaning washracks for a month instead of having your helm blown of). And the funniest thing, I have absolutley no idea what else to do with this concept, exept maybe the RGB trio being a menace in th military (I am not downloading tiktok so terrible yt compilations must suffice, sorry <:) )

For lamborgini twins - I really wanted do do something for -back then a brand new- chapter 43, but again Auto just didn't fit in there, be it scale or how things played out in the story, and so Prowl was shoved here against his will. This is probably how Sentinel views them and why he sent Autoway there, my only excuse XD.

And Whirl is here solely for laughs, gigles and "what if he met the twins" scenario XD. If they met somwhere just before discovering the ring I'm guessing they would get along like a house on fire XD

[ickyguts]

@technicoloranimalviolence SENT ME THE ORIGINAL AND SAID IT WAS FLIPQY AND I HAD TO DRAW IT

[historicity-was-already-taken]

My favorite dad joke behavior is to go up to someone reading a work of history and say “don’t tell me how it ends!!” with a wry chuckle.

[undiewears]

RATED P FOR PISS

[fora-d-orbita]

I spent a night researching how to play the different varients of Sabacc for a fanfic and decided to compile things up for the other poor writers out there:

Notes: There's cannon stuff here, but also some of the licensed versions of the games sold at the Disney parks, so take everything here with great assault and check the fontes to see what is cannon and what is not. This post contains the rules of traditional sabacc, the corelian spite, the Coruscant shift and the dice game Hintaro (the one Qui-Gon played to win slaves)

TRADITIONAL SABACC

The traditional sabacc deck is made of 76 cards. Sixty were distributed in four suits (Flasks, Sabers, Staves, and Coins), with 15 cards per suit: pip cards numbered 1 through 11, plus a Commander numbered 12, a Mistress numbered 13, a Master numbered 14, and an Ace numbered 15. The other 16 were two sets of 8 special cards: Blance (−11), The Idiot's (0), Endurance (−8), Moderation (−14), The Evil one (−15), The Queen of Air and Darkness (−2), Demise (−13), and The Stars (−17 and −10). Fonte

The objective of traditional sabacc is to get to a hand total of 23 — positive or negative —, without "bombing out" your hand (getting 24 or more).

A hand with pure 23 (positive or negative) is called Pure Sabacc.

Negative numbers beat their positive counterparts, and thats because there's less negative cards than positive, so the (second) best hand you can ever get is -23, but that also means -19 beats 19, 20, 21 and 22 (because the negative values are worth more).

There's also a thing called the Idiot's Array that's a hand that wins against all the others and consists of an Idiot (Zero), a 2 and a 3 (both negative and positive work). Fonte

While playing you'll be handling two pots, the Sabacc Pot and the Hand Pot. At the start of the game each player put an entrance fee into the Sabacc Pot (I can only assume the credit quantity is defined by the table you are playing) and one player makes an initial bet into the Hand Pot before the dealer gives everyone their cards (usually really small amounts - since you don't know how good your hand will be yet) and that's called "your blind".

After the someone makes the blind and you receive your cards (each player starts with two cards) it's time to play three rounds:

Betting: after seeing your cards you can Call the bet, raise it, or fold it. If you fold it you put all your previous bets into the Sabacc Pot and exit the game.

Trading: that's how you make your hand better. You can either drawn a card, trade a card (by discarting and then buying a card) or stay (which basically is to do nothing). The two important things in this round is that you can't just discard, meaning that if you drawn a card your hand will now forever consist of three cards instead of the initial two, also if you choose to trade you have to DISCARD FIRST then buy a new card so when you discard the card you don't know what you getting next is better or worse then what you initially had in your hand and that brings more of gambling aspect to the game.

Dice: the dice is where things can get really messy. At the end of each turn the dealer rolls two dice and if the numbers/symbols are equal ALL PLAYERS discard the hands, the deck is shuffled again and everyone gets a new hand with two cards and the game basically restarts (keeping all the bets of previous rounds). That is called a SHIFT. If the symbols of the dice don't match nothing happens.

If you have a really good hand and you're trying to milk the other people for credits (which is basically standing by/raising your bets to keep the numbers raising and you can win more money) you are also risking losing your hand with a shift during the dice round, and to counter that you can try to scare your opponent into folding by revealing one of the cards in your hand in the INTERFERENCE FIELD during your turn (either during betting or trading).

So let's imagine I have an Idiot's Array (or I want you to think I have one), I can put my Idiot (0) in the Interference Field so everyone can see. The idiot Array being the best hand in the game chances are everyone's going to fold their hands, unless you think I'm a liar (which is fair). Alternatively if I have a 14 or a 15 (which are cards close to 23) I can pull that in the Interference Field and even if a Shift happens during the dice round all the players keep the cards in their Interference Field. (I truly hope I didn't make this too confusing) You can place as many cards into the Interference Field as you like (out of the hand maximum of 3), but revealing all three cards is basically Calling Alderaan (which I will explain in a bit) and ending the game.

After the dice round the games goes back to the betting round and the cycle (betting, trading, dice) continues until someone calls Alderaan, which happens when this person thinks they have the best hand and won the game. When someone calls Alderaan every player in the table reveals their cards and the players with the best hand takes the HAND POT of every player.

The Sabacc Pot can only be won by a player with a Pure Sabacc hand or an Idiot's Array Hand. So let's say the winning hand in a game is a 20, the winner takes the hand pot of every player, but the Sabacc Pot (made of the blind and all the folders) stays in the game for another game until someone gets a Pure Sabacc or an Idiot's Array. Easy right?

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If you or someone else called Alderaan and you Bomb Out — meaning you have a hand total above 23 (negative or positive) or a 0 — you have to pay a fee into the Sabacc Pot.

Besides the Idiot's Array there's another special hand that is the fourth best overall (the Idiot's being the best, then -23 is second and 23 is the third) called The Fairy Empress and it consists of two -2 cards. It's not clear if a Fairy Empress is able to win the Sabacc Pot (my personal opinion is that it don't), so I guess it depends on the house rules.

THE CORELIAN SPIKE SABACC

It's the game portrait in the Solo movie of Han Solo! And (in my opinion) it's like Sabacc for little kids — meaning there's less cards to count. So cute!

The objective here is actually to get a hand as close to ZERO as possible.

The deck is made of 62 cards being 30 green cards with positive numbers going from 1 to 10 (so is three of each number), 30 red cards with negative numbers going to -10 to -1, and 2 Sylops that are worth 0.

Similar to REAL Sabacc we have two pots, the Sabacc Pot and Hand pot. Whoever has the hand closer to zero wins the Hand Pot and if that is a true zero that person also wins the Sabacc Pot.

At the start of a game each player pays the fee at the Sabacc Pot and makes a blind bet, each player gets two cards for their starter hand. The dealer then picks the card from the top of the deck and puts it into the Discard Pile.

The game consists in three phases:

The card phase: you can Stand with your hand, Draw a new card from the deck, or Swap a card either by discarding a card and buying a new one or by picking the card from the top of the discard pile and then discarding a card. Once you drawn a card your hand total goes up, and you can't discard a card without swapping. So let's say you hand total is 4 cards, you can never go back to have 2 cards again.

The betting phase: you can either Check and do nothing, you can Bet and put more money into the Hand Pot either Calling or Raising a previous bet of making one your one if you the first one to play, or you can Junk and exit the game leaving your previous bets on the Sabacc Pot.

And the Dice phase: that works exactly like the one in real Sabacc. So you roll to dice and if the symbols match you discard your hand and pick a new one, except this time you receive the same quantity of cards you had previously. So if you had 4 dice and you had to discard you hand you buy 4 new cards. During the shift (it's unclear if the act of discarding your hand and buying a new one is also called a shift in this game, but that's how I'm calling for this "guide") some dealers can pick the card from the top of the deck and put on the top of the deck so no one can buy the card that was discarded during the shift, thus making the game more fair. But between you and me where the hell are you going to find a fair dealer in the Star Wars universe?!

Corelian Spike has a lot of special hands so I go over each one really quick from the best hand to the less best:

1. Pure Sabacc: two Sylops (the 0 cards)

2. Full Sabacc: 10, -10, 10, -10 and an Sylop.

3. Fleet: 4 of a kind+ a Sylop (so here could be four 1 cards, or four 10 cards, don't matter if they are positive or negative + the Sylop)

4. Yee-Haa (I swear I'm not making this up): a pair and a Sylop (ex: 2, 2 + the Sylop)

5. Rhylet: Three of a kind + a pair (ex: 1,1, 1, -2, -2)

6. Squadron: four of a kind (1,1,1,1)

7. Gee Whiz: positive or negative 1 to 4 + a corresponding 10 (-1,-2,-3,-4,-10 or a 1,2,3,4,10)

8. Straight Khyron: run of 4 cards (ex:3,4,5,6)

9.Bantha's Wild: three of a kind (let's say 3,3 and 3)

10. Rule of two (and name raise so many fucking questions with cannon): two pairs (2,2,4,4)

11. Sabacc pair: a Sabacc with one pair (2,2, -4 — and it is a Sabacc bc it's equal to zero)

You need to consider that most of these eleven wining hands are almost impossible to get, to so most games will end either with a Sabacc ( a hand total to 0 — not to be confused with a PURE Sabacc) or with hand totals of One or Two (so still close to zero). And the Sabacc Pot can only be won if you hand total is zero, even if you have a special winning hand.

Fontes

THE CORUSCANT SHIFT SABACC

This one is actually the easiest of the butch, BUT it have the most different game play.

So the deck have 30 positive cards and 30 negative cards going from the numbers 1 to 10 divided by 3 suits: Circles, Triangles and Squares.

So we have: Circles 1 to 10, Circles -10 to 1, Triangles 1 to 10, Triangles -10 to -1, Squares 1 to 10 and Squares -10 to -1. AND THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT. The deck also has two Sylops that are equal to 0 and are worth for any Suit. The total amount of cards in the deck is 62, just like Corelian Spike.

The game also uses dice, but they are two different kinds of dice. One of them is a number dice that has the numbers -10, 10, -5, 5 and two zeros, the other one is a shapes dice that has (you've guessed!) circles, triangles and squares.

At the beginning of the game you're going to roll the two dice and see the results, the objective of the game then becomes having the closest number that we called with the numbered dice with the most amount of cards of the shape that we called with our shape dice.

So let's say we called a -5 and a triangle, we need to get as close as we can to a hand total of -5, but also have a certain amount of triangles in our hand to win.

I know it's a little confusing the first time you hear about this shit, but imagine we're playing together and we both have a hand total of pure -5 but I have a 10 square and a -5 circles and you have 7 triangle and a -2 triangle, you actually won from me bc you have more triangles than I. So the shapes are actually used more to decide between a tight. It's actually really easy.

So the game starts by rolling the dice and defining the objective, then the dealer gives FIVE cards for each player instead of the traditional 2 of the other kinds of Sabacc game. Then we have the games phases:

Select: where you select your cards by discarding the ones you don't want. You can't discard as many cards as you want, including your whole hand, as long as you made it clear to everyone in the table how many are you keeping (wink wink) and then we go on into:

Betting: no mystery here, you can raise a bet, call a bet or fold in which case you out all of your cards into discard and leave you previous bets on the table.

Now we restart the circle by giving each player the exact amount of cards they previously discarded. So if you discarded (or if people think you did) four cards you now gain 4 new cards and the table goes into Selecting and Betting again.

You may notice there's no Sabacc pile in the Coruscant Shift, so the winner gets everything despite which hand they ended up with.

When a player is confident enough in their victory they reveal their cards and everyone else needs to do it too, player with the closest total of cards sorted in the dice win, if it's a tie the shape value decides the winning hand, but if it's a tie in numbers and shape (my total is -5 and have 3 triangles and your total is -5 and you have 3 triangles) each player will draw a new card from the pile, player with the biggest number wins the game. So if I draw a 9, but you draw a 10 you won the game.

I actually really like Coruscant Shift because the gameplay aspect of it sound really fun and things can change a lot the more players you have in the table, kind like Space UNO if you think about it. Also is very fitting that Coruscant have the most weird version of the game.

Fontes

HINTARO

Hintaro is a dice game, so it's mostly luck but it has a little twist to it.

Each player has two dice and the dealer has one dice.

The winning dice rolls from weakest to strongest are:

4. Double Kulro

3. Double Tukar

2. Quad Kulro

1. Double Tukar and Double Kulro.

Each face of the dice can 1 Kulro, 2 Kulro, 1 Tukar, 2 Tukar, One Tukar and one Kulro, or a blank — Kulro and Tukar being the names of each symbol.

The dealer dice is different and haves 2 symbols: the Hin symbols cancel out one Tukar, the Taro symbols cancels out one Kulro and a blank.

The game starts with all players rolling their double dice, then they make bets and the dealer rolls their dice to cancel out one symbol in the table, after that the player with the highest winning hand takes the bets. If no one has a winning hand the game continues until someone win.

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THAT'S IT!

[tychogender]

i cant wait to force everyone who knows and loves me to watch me eat these fondant effigies of my two favourite characters in a manner a kin to the painting 'saturn devouring his sons'

[bathenaswopez]

Nom Nom November: Denzo | Damon Salvatore x Enzo St. John (The Vampire Diaries)

A little gift for @doyelikehaggis <3

“Still a culinary wiz after all these years, I see.” Enzo remarked, watching Damon chopping a tomato.

“You know it, honey.”

Once Damon finished chopping the tomato, he used the knife to slide the slices in. He smiled as he began to mix up the soup.

It’d been a while since he cooked like this. And he only cooked like this for the people he loved, like Bonnie, Stefan, Elena, Enzo, etc.

Damon washed his hands with soap and warm water, then sat back on the couch with Enzo. He sniffed the British man’s neck, “Ric?”

Enzo shrugged, “He was getting on my bloody nerves with his talk of ‘good decisions’ and ‘morals’, and I was hungry.”

Damon chuckled lightly before kissing his boyfriend on the lips. He licked his lips, “This might be better than the actual soup.”

[happy-emmdings]

ouat scenes + incorrect quote generator pt. 1/?

[azuli-bean]

It's YOU, your honor, you're why I ship them-

???!!!!

I'm kidding, I knew. I wanted to be silly >X3

[lidensword]

Voici des petites scènes concernant les pilotes de la machine Olmèque et le groupe de recherche (aka, les gars qui "ne trouveraient pas une vache dans un couloir")

Tao a tout gâché.