#anyways time to try and distract myself😔

[emily-mooon]

Me rn:

[momomallowart]

Happy International Women's Day! I love women and I love Tomura so I drew him as a beautiful woman ʕ⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴥ⁠ꈍ⁠ʔっ💗

Close up 🫶💗

[luvergirl-535]

trouble in paradise

pairing - paige bueckers x azzi fudd

word count - 1.1k

c/w - fluff, azzi is cute when she’s mad and paige can’t handle allat

a/n - heavily based off my irl relationships. i have been both p and a in this situation 😔. anyway just a silly lil blurbski for yall (lol at me writing absolutely anything but the prompts you guys send me) (i promise i want to do every single one of them)

“And she was like, ‘You can’t even shoot.’ I don’t even know what got into her, because she knows—she knows I can shoot. Everybody knows I can fucking shoot!”

“Mhm,” Paige mumbles, nestled into the crook of Azzi’s neck, trailing lazy kisses across the soft expanse of skin.

“And you know how patient I am. But I was already annoyed with her because of how she was playing in practice and then she has the audacity to mess with me in the locker room?” Azzi makes a frustrated sound, hand absentmindedly holding the back of Paige’s head, keeping her in place. “And then, and then, she’s all, ‘It was just a joke, chill out!’ Like, what?”

“Crazy work,” Paige replies. She nuzzles up behind Azzi’s ear, letting the tip of her tongue wet the spot slightly.

It’s Azzi’s most sensitive spot, but she doesn’t even react. “And now I seem like a bitch for, for—for sticking up for myself!”

“Nobody thinks you’re a bitch, baby,” Paige reassures, voice gravelly and gentle—a product of the slow, languid sex they had only half an hour prior. How they got from that to this, Paige doesn’t know.

“They do. I can tell. Carol came up to me after and was like, ‘Be nicer to KK, she’s sensitive.’ Well, so am I! But are we being nice to Azzi? No. So, like, what’s the problem here? Why am I being targeted?”

To be fair, Azzi had been a little unnecessarily mean to KK earlier in the locker room. She’d already had a long day and with KK testing her during practice, she wasn’t ready for any teasing afterwards. Paige had tried to tell KK this, catching her before they entered the locker room and saying, “Hey, I know it seems like y’all are just messing around but she’s actually pissed right now.” But KK had laughed her off with a, “Nah, we’re just playin’.”

Paige had let her find out the hard way that when it comes to Azzi, she’s always the expert.

But she knows better than to voice her opinion right now. She’d probably be forced to do the walk of shame out of her own room. Instead, she continues with her ministrations, scraping her teeth against the shell of Azzi’s ear before tugging on her earlobe.

“I just think it’s unfair,” Azzi continues with a huff.

“So unfair,” Paige agrees.

“I don’t like being the bad guy.”

Paige can’t help but smile a little into Azzi’s neck at the thought of her—dimples and curly hair and all—ever being considered ‘the bad guy’ by anybody. Especially by their teammates, who know her well enough to know she’d never hurt a fly. She’s hard to annoy, hard to rile up; Paige is the best at it, and that’s saying something considering it’s difficult even for her to get a reaction out of the younger girl. All the girls know she’d only ever snap at someone if her buttons were really pushed.

KK may be off pouting somewhere, and their teammates may be comforting her, but nobody really thinks Azzi’s in the wrong here. How could they? She’s their princess.

“You’re not, sweet girl,” Paige says, straightening her expression before lifting her head. Azzi’s eyebrows are furrowed, lips formed into an angry pout. Paige’s mind conjures images of those adorable malicious-looking kittens. This time, there’s no hiding her amused smile.

Azzi’s eyebrows go even lower, if that’s possible. “What is funny?”

“Nothin’, baby,” Paige says, trying to distract her with a kiss, but Azzi isn’t having it. She pushes at her chest with a huff, which only serves to make Paige chuckle a little.

“You’re not taking me seriously!” Azzi whines, wriggling around in an attempt to get out from underneath her girlfriend, but Paige has hands on either side of her shoulders, her knees straddling her hips. She’s caged in.

“I am!” Paige says as earnestly as she can. “I wasn’t laughing at you, I thought of something else that was funny.”

Azzi’s pout grows in intensity and Paige isn’t laughing anymore.

One of the many things Paige has learned from dating Azzi is that scientists are lying when they say there are only three basic units of the brain. There is actually a secret, fourth unit that is only unlocked when one gets a girlfriend. And this unit of the brain serves to do one thing and one thing only: make her happy.

If a doctor were to put Paige in an MRI scan, and have Azzi speak to her during it, this is what would happen:

Phrases like ‘Do you think she’s pretty?’, ‘Do you like this picture of me?’, and, of course, ‘Would you love me if I were an inanimate object?’ would light up that brain activity sensor like a christmas tree. Alarm bells would go off along with an urgent, robotic voice saying something like ‘Emergency Situation Detected.’

There’s always a slew of solutions to these dilemmas and Paige is usually pretty good at saying the perfect thing. But that pout—that pout has only one solution: groveling.

“I’m sorry, baby, don’t look at me like that,” Paige coos, fighting against the hand on her chest to pepper kisses over Azzi’s face.

“You were laughing at something else?” Azzi asks, giving up on fighting Paige to cross her arms over her chest, which is somehow worse. “So you weren’t paying attention.”

“No, I was—ok, I promise I was listening to you, princess—“

“So you were laughing at me.”

“Not like that!” Paige insists, making an attempt at kissing Azzi’s pout away. But Azzi doesn’t reciprocate, just stares at her with an expression that’s somewhere between accusing and hurt. “You’re just cute, baby. I can listen to you and still acknowledge you’re cute.”

“But I’m genuinely annoyed and you’re just sitting here laughing at me.”

“I know, I’m sorry. I promise I was listening to you, angel.” When she goes for another kiss, Azzi kisses her back, which is a good sign. “You’re right, it’s annoying. It’s not funny.”

“It’s not,” Azzi reiterates.

Paige kisses her again. “Not at all.”

“And you agree with me, right?” Azzi asks, pout disappearing and eyebrows shooting up as if to warn her about the consequences of saying the wrong thing here. “You don’t think I need to apologize?”

Paige thinks they both need to apologize. KK for pushing Azzi around, and Azzi for retaliating a little too strongly.

There’s no way in hell she’ll say this.

“‘Course, pretty girl,” Paige says. She nearly sighs with relief when Azzi uncrosses her arms, wrapping them around Paige’s neck to play with her hair.

She smiles approvingly, pulling her down for a sweet kiss. When she pulls away, it’s only enough that their lips are still brushing when she speaks. And then she says, “Okay. Then go out there and stand up for me.”

Emergency Situation Detected.

[k3n999]

Aight aight~ here are my thoughts on TS 2.0 demo. SPOILERS.

About Exile origin

There's smth I'm confused abt with MC and their curse

My thoughts on LIs in this new update <3

Yes ofc I'm gonna yap more abt Leander

Useless 1am thoughts but genuinely terrified me

(Also please excuse my ENG (^^;;; )

I alrd gave my opinions on the replacement with the Hound to the Exile before but @/slyfire gave a perfect rundown on this topic! (Read here if you're interested~) Perfectly summed up everything I thought abt it. One of the things I want to highlight from their breakdown is this:

It seems the exile can unlock this red option:

It makes sense because they have an 'uncanny intuition for detecting danger'. That made mereally anticipate what's going to happen when we finally face the Soulless soon...To my surprise, they changed the options for this scene as well and I was excited 'Fight back' is an option, and ofc I chose it, eager to see what would happen but the result wasn't so pretty💀

Nope, I didn't expect for MC to pull off some sick move to fight the soulless, but what I was hoping for to see them AT LEAST DO SOMETHING or ANYTHING to survive, after all they're 'seasoned survivalist' and 'well-versed in deciphering Soulless'. They also have been taught how to survive in the wild.

So maybe dodging some attacks and do something to distract the soulless before Mhin arrives. But instead they tried to use their curse to purify the soulless temporarily. I mean, yeah cool, would love to see that happen, but at the time, it felt like a bad idea??? and yeah it was hdakdasks

This is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for when I picked the Exile origin.. MC doing something that ties back to their background. I KNOOOWW, I know, it is still a demo, but, give us something-- a little bit that shows exile is good enough to be a replacement to the Hound. *sobs*

Also, did i miss anything abt how MC KNEW they could purify soulless? I'm aware I have a memory of a goldfish so maybe there's something that I forgor😔 Please let me know I'm actually curious (><!! I was surprised we got to see them unwrap the bandages, even attempt to try purify the soulless this soon.

And that's that.

ANYWAY *throws some glitters and sparkles*

My thoughts on LIs <3 just a basic rundown, nothing serious...kind of.

Kuras

Is it just me or does our pristine doctor seems to glow a lot more brighter in this update? Did I accidently turn the brightness up to max?? Because his beauty blinded me for sure, ESPECIALLY HIS EYES!!! I think I'm obsessed...so many pics it's so hard to choose! but something about the 2nd pic gives off softness, purity, innocence and sincerity to me uuuueeegghh and maybe I'm overthinking it bcuz it looks glowy to me🥺🥺🥺 Anw, love the lil ahem ahem...date..we had by the river (ughh the scenery was beautiful😔) I don't remember from previous demo but in this version,Kuras seems much more likely to show that he has a strong interest in the MC. I found myself more and more..dazzled by Kuras this time...I think he's gonna be my 2nd favourite I fear🥺................................ (Leander is behind me isn't he?🧍)

Vere

Well well weeellll~ looks like the fox has lost its tongue. Happy to see Vere is not just about wanting to snap our neck and eat us alive (yet). I didn’t know that we had chosen to ignore him and resist him(??) is what makes us interesting in his eyes? Not sure, but whatever made him react that way made me think of someone *side-eye Ais

[Is it kind of his type or something?...]

Mhin

Mhin is more approachable and um less snappy? than before, which I'm happy about (and can't wait for the moment when they can fully trust and feel comfortable with MC😭 I really want to see that happen so bad....) I love we got to see their nerdy side when they analyzing the soulless asjdasj That honestly caught me off guard. And how they show a little smile and get a bit bashful whenever we catch onto something they like🥺

Ais

[LOOK Y'ALL HIS OTHER HAND IS DOWN *head in hands**copium*]

*sigh* ...I love him..........*slaps face* I um, can't really hide my disappointment when we got less sprites of him. I know... because I remember every single expression and the movement he makes. Yes, I sound like a creep. Only for him tho~- *gets shot* I was hoping to at least him show his fang when he grins,-- pout OR BLUSH. But hey *sobs* we got bloody knuckles. I'm not complaining. Oh and no Princess sprite either *cries* I also hoping they also make the exterior of Ais' place. I am very curious how it look.... And this right here:

means thousands for me <3

(Do you think I'm done? Of course not. Yes I'm holding myself back from saying more because I'm gonna do a separate post just to talk about him😔)

Leander

[I want to kick him in the ass]

And at last, here we are. Of course I have to leave him for the end. The highlight of this updated demo; our lovely sus man, Leander. What kind of sorcery and flavor did they put into this man. WHY IS HE SO MUCH DIFFERENT THAN THE OLD DEMO?!!!??? He used to be much more tolerable and I- I thought I could fix him, BUT NOW this man is nothing but glaring red in my eyes😭NINONINONINOOOO🚨🚨🚨 the alarm in my head went off when he said this:

What the actual fck do you mean by that mister💀☝️

At the time, I thought it was just Leander being the haha silly guy he is!! --and then he starts making UwU face and saying things like; 'You don't owe me anything' 'I'll help you all the time' 'You're not believe me?' 🥺👉👈 Yeah it's cute and all but all this makes me...strangely uncomfortable...UNTIL HE LOCKED THE DAMN DOOR. I couldn't help but foolishly screamed for Ais, hoping he would pick me up and comfort me😭

The whole scene in the room; gave me nothing but smth close to claustrophobia. My legs wouldn't stop shaking, I kept biting my nails (afraid to see what would happen next) The whole time I felt trapped. All his sweet words felt some kind of spells in my ears- like MC couldn't do anything but 'Yes' to every word he said... AND THAT MC IS RASVAN DAMMIT AAAAA😭

Me through my monitor screen:

"RASVAAAAANNNN GET OOOOUUTT ITS A TRRAAPPPPPP DONT LISTENN TO HIMMMM PUSH HIM AAWWAAYYYYYYY RASSSVAAANNNNN"

I was already off my seat when it get to this part, LIKE AINT NO WAY Y'ALL GONNA DO IT??? and they don't🧍somehow I feel relief.

Dear Leander fans/simps out there, please don't hate me for having this kind of reaction (I was once one of you but now.........) ajsdghasd OVERALL do I hate this big massive changes on Leander? No. Absolutely not, in fact I like it even more. It shows that Leander might potentially be the scariest one among the LIs, despite being human. And I'm very much looking forward to seeing what kind of sht he'll pull in the full release.

Before I forget- can I just say how much I love his introduction? It's so much better compared to the old demo (I have more to say to this but brain is giving up on me rn)

And now here come my silly 1am thoughts; it's abt both Ais and Leander...

Since, ofc, we don't know what exactly Leander wants from us-- what if the feelings are genuine? The way he acts, all stuff he says to us, sure, some things might raise a brow.. but- but what if he actually sincere and this is just him wants to have us in his (somewhat) twisted way. WHILE AIS THO, all the stuff that I've been saying how soft he can be is just an act???? What if he’s fooling us, only to throw us away later???? What if the devs want to trick us (<Ais fans)??? Maybe there's some kind of twisted plot twist waiting at the end???----

I told you these are just silly and stupid thoughts, but idk why I decided to deep dive into it💀 Sometimes I like to think worse things that could possibly happen. It's fun to get lost in these thoughts even part of me know it won't likely to happen. But heh WHAT IF am I right? I'm still on abt with the theory and analysis with; Leander is green but is the reddest red flag ever while Ais is red but is greenest, most foresty flag ever. I'm so into it and want more ppl to talk about it *looks at you with my sparkly eyes*

ANYWAY, I'm gonna be sound more stupider if I keep this going. I'm going sleep and dream abt aisvan 🚶.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING. Hope all of you have a wonderful day and keep playing demo until the full release comes out🥰(me).

[purinfelix]

more joao felix pleasee 😔😔💞💞 ur girl is desperate

study buddy ｡˚✐~ joao felix

pairing: joao felix x reader summary: in which joao has to balance being both your boyfriend and study buddy warnings: none! w/c: 883

a/n: a little ironic that i'm procrastinating my final assignments by writing this but its motivaiton for myself okay!!! anyways hope you like this thank u sm for ur request <333

“Joao,”

“Hm?”

“Stop staring at me and focus, you have an exam to study for.”

You watched your boyfriend straighten up at your words, but not without a sly smirk spreading across his face at having been caught in the act of admiring you. Admittedly, it wasn’t something you weren’t used to by now - but it just wasn’t the time. Maybe if you were less stressed about the mountain of work and studying you had to do you might’ve even entertained him, but even so, your university library was no place for such things.

“I can’t help it, you’re distracting me,” he mumbled, turning back to the several open textbooks he had laid out in front of him - likely in an attempt to look like he was doing work. This elicited a small, shy chuckle from you, even though you were trying your best to maintain your firm demeanour.

“Well, you’re lucky anyways,” you hummed, “you’ll ace your exams no matter what. I, on the other hand, am practically screwed for this final.”

Now it was his turn to laugh, “You can’t be serious baby.” You turned to give him a look that made it clear you were as serious as you could get.

“You’ll be fine, you worry too much,” he sighed, scooting his chair a little closer.

“Easy for you to say,” you grumbled, gripping the pen in your hand even tighter as you worked on your notes.

It had become sort of a routine for the two of you ever since the semester started, these study dates. Whoever’s class finished first would rush off to secure a seat, your favourite being a pair of desks tucked away in some far corner of the massive library, in between tall shelves of books that hadn’t been touched in decades. Sure, you would muck around a little bit before hand - Joao always insisted on being your personal escort once your class finished, and somehow the two of you always ended up in a cafe on your way for a little ‘sweet treat’.

But it was convenient for the two of you, you got to see each other and spend time in each other’s company in a way that slotted neatly into both of your busy student schedules - plus, you could never figure out why but you seemed to work much better in your boyfriend’s company than you did alone. Even if you found yourself having to put up with his protests against studying multiple times throughout the session.

However what had been a fun little meet up in the earlier weeks of the semester had now become tense, with the onset of finals and end-of-semester assignments. Your boyfriend never seemed to have as much a sense of urgency as you did about these things, and still didn’t understand why you got so worked up about academics. In a weird way, you appreciated it though, for moments like this.

You felt the warmth of his touch on the back of your hand - gentle, soothing.

“Baby,” he murmured, just loud enough for you to hear him through the haze of stress that had seemed to follow you around for the last week. You paused, turning to look up at him and his soft gaze.

“What,” you said, trying not to sound too mad at him interrupting what could’ve been a very thorough revision session - never mind it being your third for the day.

“You’ll be fine for this exam, trust me,” his tone was different from before, the air of humour completely lost and replaced by a sense of earnestness.

“No, but-” you began to protest before he interrupted you.

”You work hard, harder than me and probably harder than most of the people in your class, I know that. You’ll be okay,” you felt your heart soften, accompanied by a pang of annoyance at the fact he always seemed to know what to say to you when you got worked up. You let out a soft sigh to let him know you appreciated his words.

“Now, I think you’ve done enough for today. Why don’t we pack up, grab some dinner, and head home so you can get a good night’s sleep.” A part of you wanted to protest so badly, to shove him away and ask him who the hell he thought he was for talking to you like you were some sort of child. But the rest of you was too tired to do anything but nod, and the better part understood that he wasn’t doing this out of anything but pure love and care for you - as your boyfriend.

You watched as he moved quickly to pack away your things, being gentle with your notes and laptop, before slinging both his and your bag over your shoulder. He reached out a hand to you, which you took, standing up slowly to prevent your legs from cramping up as you were only just realising how long you’d been sitting still for. You looked up as he smiled lovingly, sweeping your hair back to plant a soft kiss on your forehead and drag you out of the library.

[neverthatsirius-jo]

jo is very silly and uses her tumblr blog as a journal part fourty seven

ok so basically today all was going well, we sat together in this class and the professor could not be bothered to give the class so he just sat there and she spent the entire time telling me stories about her life.

we then went to a café to meet up with two of the other girls in our group and she k—WAIT I REMEMBEREDDDD as we walked she looped our arms together 😔💗

at the café she kept telling me the story and silly ass me kind of got teary-eyed cause i got bummed out all of a sudden cause what she was telling me reminded me of some issues im having with a long distance friend anyway (me airing out all my business ok). i felt like she noticed but at the time she didn’t say anything. i ended up telling her some words of encouragement and that she could talk to me whenever she needed and her face is literally this emoji: 🥹 so she hugs me 😦✨🥳💗🤍

WAITTT I JUST FOUND OUT SOMETHING ELSJWJWJSAHS ok im sorry this is chaotic. i just went to instagram cause i was taking a break from writing this and she posted a story where the prompt was like a few random photos of your week SHE PUT A PHOTO OF OUR NAMES WRITTEN ON THE TABLE THE THING I TALKED ABOUT THE OTHER DAY well anyways

we go to a park nearby all four of us and that’s when things start going downhill cause by that point im trying real hard to hold the tears in, i cant talk so im just listening to them, tbh i don’t know what happened cause i had been having a good day. and i felt worse cause i couldn’t join in on the conversation and felt i was being boring. one of them asks me if im okay and i let out a very squeaky YEAH but i manage not to cry. we are walking to go to class again when she <3 stops me and asks me: okay, why are you crying?

AND I BREAK (guys this can’t keep happening, it’s been two times before this one but i cant hold it in if you ask me if im ok !!) and im like: dude im so embarrassed im sorry. and they of course are the sweetest girls in the world and they are trying to comfort me and she says: was it something i said?

and im like: what noo

so then she brings up the café and tells me my eyes had gotten all glossy and im like oh well yeah. but i explain it wasn’t what she said but rather that it reminded me of something

but im sobbing so they ask me if i want to skip class and distract myself for a bit and they all skip with me 🤧 and we go to another café we always go 🤧 and they tell me i can talk to them but if i don’t want to that’s fine 🤧

oh and at one point in the park she rested her head on my shoulder while she was looking for something on her phone and i swear i forgot how to breathe, i became a statue. tried to act nonchalant (failed probably)

anyways she buys a chocolate milk and when we sit down she puts it in front of me, and i look at her and im like ??? and she’s like: for you ☺️

i accept it but i tell her im gonna repay it (guess who’s buying her one of the breads that she likes tomorrow :p). they keep chatting and im kinda lost in my own thoughts trying to chime in every once in a while. i was waiting for the milk to get a bit colder before putting the chocolate but she sees me and asks me: do you want me to prepare it? GUYSSSS 😭

i tell her no and after a while she asks me again if i want to talk. I START CRYING AGAIN NOO HAHS but i open up (miracle) and they are so kind and they try to give me advice and offer comfort :((

by the end i felt much better and she gave me a hug and rubbed my back and i was like noo dont that 😖

we group-hugged and went to the last class of the day and on the bus back home i listened to maybe by gabriela bee which was probably a bad choice in such circumstances :))

[cosmicalily]

how did you develop such a successful blog?? was wondering about starting up my own but have no clue what to do i fear i lack the commitment😔

hi baby!! first of all, ty for calling me successful, i definitely wouldn't consider myself that but i love you 😭 lemme break down the process for you bc it seems nerve-wracking but it's honestly just about testing and trying things out!!

1. I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THE COMMITMENT ISSUES. i started this blog back in like early 2023, ditched it for a while, started posting again in late 2023, ditched it for basically all of 2024 and only started consistently posting in november. so when i restarted my blog, i already kind of had a small following which gave me a boost. time was a big thing for me, but tbh my fics didn't do well super until last year anyway, which brings me onto point 2

2. try to stay consistent, but also don't over post. i realised my fics would do better when id only post once every two to three days rather than everyday or multiple times a day. this is bc it gives that singular fic time to actually gain attention and grow in popularity before people get distracted by the next!! also, something i found as someone with adhd is that prewriting a TON and saving it in my drafts to post later on helps me keep posting consistently even if im not writing consistently. i'd say at least 50% of everything i post is pre written days or even weeks in advance!! if im in a creative mood or have the time to write, i always try to do extra or even start fics/list ideas so if i have a creative dry spell, i have backups.

last of all, the algorithm is messy and confusing to navigate (even for me ill have times where one fic will get only 200 notes and another with similar content will get 1.5k) and your first few posts might not do as well, but don't lose hope!! keep putting your things out there, it'll take time but it's such a beautiful community on here xxx good luck my angel

[udon-udon]

so gramps ain't doing too well, and he's finally admitted to the hospital, but since he's really old and has dementia, they can't really do much for him and can only try to keep him as comfortable as they can get him to be, so we really don't know how many days he has left and that's really stressful cause it could literally happen any day;;;; obvs the whole family's on edge and anxious and ofc sad which brings the mood down extensively. it's gonna be hard for everyone when the time comes and even if i do "mentally prepare" myself, it's still gonna be really rough not only cause of my own loss, but feeling the loss of the whole family u know. it isn't the first time it's happened cause grams passed first about 5 years ago, but it's still rough when it happens again 😔 and then the whole funeral procedure will take a while as well and that's when it's gonna get real hard too...

anyway its just been really rough esp the past few days, and i'm always on edge and it's hard to not think about it, but even if i try to distract myself from it, i feel guilty for not thinking about it....

[lelitachay]

Hello there!

I'm sorry I haven't able to continue reading your masterpiece. (Live's been busy, and with little time I have, I can only focus in one fandom 😔). Anyway I know you're an amazing writter.

So for the ask game:

2 and 15

Hope you have a great day 🥰

Hi, Tare-chan! Such a long time. I'm so glad to see you in my notification box. Please, don't apologise about that, I can't expect people to stay in one fandom for so many years lol. I'm the one who's taking forever to finish the story. And I know exactly how you feel, my only fandom atm is Frozen and I can't follow all the stories I'd like to. I have several in line tbh. Who knows, maybe one day when Søsken is finished you can stop by and see what happens at the end. I can drop a message when that happens if you want :P

Now, about the questions, let's see... 2. Do you read/reread your own fics? Oh, yes. Actually when you read the first chapters of Søsken you can see in the A/N that I constatly say the story is a personal challenge and that I am writing it for myself. I was not lying about that. I'm still challenging myself and writing it for myself. I was just immensely lucky for people like you to like the story and start reading it alongside me. Lately, I've been re-reading the latest chapters and I've had more trouble re-reading the first ten chapters. Whenever I go back to the very beginning I see all the little mistakes and things I'd like to correct and I get distracted. One day I'll correct those mistakes. For now, I just read and try to enjoy whatever thoughts I put into words. Re-reading also helps me see if I have already tackled major plot points or not. So, it's both entertaining and helpful.

15. How do you come up with titles for your fics/chapters? I've got to admit that titles are hard. Harder than I thought they would be. Usually, when the title for a chapter comes first and links the different scenes is better. When that happens I have a thread to follow. Most of the time, sadly, I can't find the right title and I end up listening to songs that inspired the scenes or part of the story to see if one of the words in the lyrics help me name the chapter. 90% of the time I write the chapter first and then I try to see what I can do about the name. Thank you for stopping by and leaving an ask! Thank you for your kind words as well! So glad to see you're doing okay, just vibing in a different fandom :D

[pinkchrissysposts]

Hey!! Same anon that asked if we could write our affs instead of saying/thinking them. IDK if you've already answered my first ask or not lol. So, I just wanted to share two almost void success stories with you, to motivate myself and potentially others ahah. So let's go with the first one. At that moment, I had known about the void state for like only a few days, and I was really sceptic. But I was also like okay let me give it a try. So, I laid in a starfish position and started saying affs, but, at some point my mind started wandering to stupid thoughts and I started feeling like I was levitating and after like a few minutes I noticed it and I freaked out and I fell myself fall back on the ground, but what is xeird is that when I felt myself fall back on the ground there was also a louuud noise at the same time and it hurted really bad... 😭😣😔

Anyway here is the second one. This one was like four months ago I think??? Well I found out that distracting myself was an easy way to get extremely close to the void! So I put on music in my headphones, put them on my head and I laid in a starfish position, didn't move, started imagining scenarios to the song, and soon enough my mind was wandeting around lol. So after what felt like between 30seconds and 2minutes, I felt my whole body levitating and spinning, which made me panic after like a good minute of those symptoms, and I just got up. And when I tell you taht I was so dizzy that I couldn't walk straight because of how much I was spinning while attempting ugh!!!! Anyway, I hope this will be able to help someone ahah!

That's a good progress all you have to do is ignore the symptoms that's IT BUT CONGRTS BIG OR SMALL WE MUST CELEBRATE😔👍💯

[campbyler]

ok. a genuine question. how do u guys write 20-30k *chapters* bc i will outline fics minutely or i will just let myself start writing based off a vibe & either way i will get 600 words out of maybe. two hours of work. on a good day with no distractions/interruptions, & i very much do not have an uninterrupted two hours to write very often, so you can imagine how slowly things get written T_T so i’m interested if there’s any aspect of any of your writing processes that really enables u guys to write so much or if it’s not really something you think about? anyways i really like ur guys’s work, & thank you for deciding to write for byler bc i know me and a lot of people enjoy it a lot. thanks!!

hello !! this is a super valid question and i’ll try my best to answer it for you 😗✌️

andi infamously writes a lot faster than thea and i do (she finished draft 1 of chapter 3 in like. two days. which was so scary. i’m in awe of her fr) but she has also spent a lot of time editing ch3 so it’s definitely not like these chapters are publish-ready in a short amount of time by any means! it took thea a couple of months total to fully write + edit ch1 and it took me about 3.5 weeks to write ch2 and another two weeks to edit it which is part of the reason we’ve spaced out our posting schedule like we have — we put a lot of effort and care into these updates and we want to give ourselves as much time as possible to get ahead before all 3 of us inevitably get so super busy with work and/or school in the fall!! so while we do write a lot, please don’t think we are so insanely speedy about it because unless we are having Really Good Writing Days, that’s definitely not the case. sometimes we do have days where we are really in the zone and write more than usual, but at least for me, this is so so so rare. whatever i write in this time gets heavily edited because so much of it was nonsensical brain vomit LOL

as far as writing process goes, i think one of the things that motivates us a lot is that we genuinely do just talk about this au constantlyyyyy like we’re always coming up with silly little hcs or drawing for it or adding to the Lore ™️so we’re always getting inspired to write! all three of us are definitely people who use writing as a way to relax or even reward ourselves after a long day; we would probably die if we had to go too long unable to :/ messages like “i can’t wait to get home and write after work today” or “i’m going to write a little bit of ___ before bed because i deserve it” are very commonly found in our gc because we really just look forward to it so much! as for our scary word counts, i feel like there is a lot of worldbuilding in this universe specifically, and pacing is really important to us — we want to make sure introductions and set-up to a scene and character interactions are meaningful and flow naturally, and building tension (which is a hallmark of this fic hehe) does take some time, which can definitely add up word count-wise.

for the most part, none of us usually have a solid few hours to sit and write either (unless it’s on our days off or after work if we’re not too tired) and we get a lot of writing done in chunks! we hold each other accountable for short check-ins (“ask me for a snip in 30 minutes”) which is super helpful when you’re stuck, because it kind of forces you to get Something down without worrying if it’s super polished and edited and perfect. if you’re writing on your own, something i’ve started doing lately is setting a 15 minute timer and just seeing how much i can get done in that time, and then setting another and doing it again (up until however much time you have to write that day). i’ve found that the artificial deadline helps break the monotony of sitting in front of your computer for Hours on end with nothing to show for it bc TRUST we’ve all been there and it sucks so bad 😔✊

this got super long so i apologize but i hope at least a little bit of it was helpful! it definitely helps that we are constantly feeding into each other (i.e: having brainrot) and offering inspiration and advice, which does wonders for creative flow tbh. we’re definitely not cranking these chapters out as quickly as people might seem to think — thea started chapter four, which won’t be posted for about a month, maybe a week or two ago. i just started chapter 5 — about 6 weeks away — yesterday lol so we do take our time! don’t be scared by the giant chapters, we just had a lot of content we wanted to include in each one and are in too deep to take anything out 🥳🥳 thank you for the question! good luck with your writing we believe in you 🫡

[starjxsung]

starrrrr 💕💕💕 I missed youuu

school is literally starting up again I'm so over it already 😭 senior year guys let's goo

HEY I TURNED 20??? LIKE IT FEELS WEIRD TO SAY IM TWENTY YEARS OLD NOW. buttt it also just feels the same lmao

but I have bigger things to worry about, like trying to get SKZ tickets when they release the US dates. i just hope I get good seats 😭 honestly I hope I get any seat bc this would be my first time seeing them live IM SO EXCITED... it feels crazy to think that I've been a stay for over two years now... i remember just getting into them as they closed off oddinary era, and my first comeback with them was maxident. it literally feels like a couple months ago, and I feel like time is flying by so fast now, literally every year just goes by quicker and quicker 😭

yk maybe that's a good thing bc my surgery is scheduled (as of now) for October 31st, which I don't remember if I told you the date or not but yeah. I'm glad I could get on the books pretty quick, but it also feels a little too quick, yk?? i just feel like there's so much to think about especially bc I've never had anything remotely like this before... the only time I've had anything down was stitches on my lip when I was like five 😭 (I banged into a clock, don't ask...) but it's kind of overwhelming even for me. but at the same time I still feel a bit iffy about it, I just want to get it done and see if it works.

but yeah anyways I LOVE YOU AND I MISS YOU AND I WANT TO KISS YOU STAR BB!!!! feel free to write an essay for me to read about your life and literally everything you're doing bc I need to distract myself from starting senior year 😔😔

miley says hello and that she loves you 💕💕

MY LOOOOOVEEEEEEE OH MY GOD. IM SO SORRY THIS IS SO LATE. HOW’VE YOU BEEN????

Also HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY???? 20 YEARS OLD!!!!!!! FUCKKKKK THAT’S SUCH A FUN AGE I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT SO MUCH RAHHHH did you do anything to celebrate???? Dinner? Cake?????? HAPPY FRICKIN BIRTHDAYYYYY LIVE IT UP SO HARD 20 IS GOING TO BE AMAZING TO YOU 🎉🫶🎊

Also FELTTTTTT on the skz tickets part oh my god 😭 even just seeing the start of the tour and seeing all the clips has me PANICKING…… like if I don’t get to see Bang Chan solo stage with that shirt off…… hell nah. I can’t believe how fast time is going by too???? Like wym we’re already past ate promotions and the Korean shows are finished????? That doesn’t sound real 😭 TIME ISNT REAL YALL

Also I am SO GLAD you were able to get your surgery on the books!!! I know it seems really scary but at least once you’re finished with all the prepping and everything, it’ll just be like one big long nap and then you’ll be finished 🥹 sending you so much love and good vibes and manifesting the surgery goes smoothly and that you’ll feel so much better after it. I’ll be thinking of you all Halloween!!! I’m so proud of you I promise everything is going to be okay and you’re so strong and capable of getting through it! ❤️

I love you so so so much I hope the start to senior year has been nothing short of amazing!!!! My life has been the boring same usual shit but I’m insanely busy with work (I really should be sleeping rn bc I have a 7am meeting tomorrow lollll) but !!!! I’m excited for fall and everything’s fine! I just need to take the world’s longest nap tbh

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH BABY ANGEL a million hugs and kisses for you as always ALSO THANK U FOR MY DAILY DOSE OF MILEY I LOVE HER SO MUCH…. I offer you a momo in exchange (she loves you too !!!!)

[angelkiss230]

𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓯𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓳𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓷𝓪𝓵

—-･ ｡ﾟ☆:*.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. -—

Sorry everyone, recently i’ve been somewhat MIA. I haven’t really had the time to shift nor the energy so I haven’t forced it.

I’ve been attempted a few times since i’ve last been on here but I haven’t had much success because i’ve been so busy. I FINALLY have some time to myself.

Whenever I attempt to shift (actual attempt not a half ass one), I will get the symptoms of shifting like floating, spinning, etc. I always end up falling asleep one way or another 😔 it’s a little frustrating. I feel like my symptoms have slowly decreased along with my attempts recently.

I’ve been trying different methods and tbh I haven’t had a ton of luck yet. but tbf Ive also only tried a select amount of methods. I’ve tried the void method (I end up falling asleep), raven method (I get distracted easily), etc.

My biggest thing has been affirmations. Ive been affirming while I can’t shift such as “Shifting comes easy to me, I’ve shifted already this is a parallel reality, etc”.

any tips and advice is greatly appreciated 🙏

anyway that’s all I have for now 🤞

[kingreywrites]

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[kelliealtogether]

1. Idk what it is, but the oneshots you make that just give us a TASTE? Those stay with me. The mortician fic and the art dealer fic - i think about the wider verse's those fics belong to a lot, actually!

5. This is halfway to a confession: i have had Boxes on the Lawn open in my tabs for 5 months and I keep getting distracted. Its open bc its yours and therefore I know its going to be good/worth it. But at the same time it haunts and taunts me, jeering 'Why haven't you read me yet?' BECAUSE I HAVE 4 BOOKS BORROWED FROM THE LIBRARY AND I ALSO HAVE TO MAKE MYSELF WRITE FIREFOX.

Anyway - you're a wonderful writer and I promise to haunt your inbox the same way this fic tab haunts my firefox when I finally get around to it ♡

9. S - ... sor

[I am aggressively taken out by your security detail]

🥺 I have so much fun with one-shots and I'm so happy you enjoy them. I try to throw in enough "worldbuilding" and background, and it makes me all warm and fuzzy that you think of broader universe of them. 😊

And I hope you like Boxes when you do read it! No pressure at all. It'll always be there. 😌 Library books have due dates and are probably much better written. I'd consider those more important.

Sore... I'm workin' on it. 😔

Thank you so much! This was such a lovely message to receive. 🥰

[Fanfic asks - for the askers.]

[destinyc1020]

can u elaborate a lil bit on wat u think "going on a break" mayb have meant to both T and Z? im assuming that T thought they were done for good n Z thought that theyre was room to try again

(Lol I hope you have a comfy chair! 😅)

Yea, I def think Z was keeping the door open, otherwise, she wouldn't have even bothered to give Tom that belated gift (neck chain). She's not poor lol, so throwing it away could have been an option if she was really through with him, especially had he been a bad bf. But he wasn't. They def still loved and cared about each other.... at least, that was what I gathered from their actions during the press tour.

They were also apparently still communicating with each other as well... (even for silly things), which was revealed in that press interview about Z sending Tom that calculator meme, and Tom not getting it, and him joking about being "ghosted by an actress named Zendaya" because Z didn't respond back coz she knew she would see him soon in the interview circuit lol. 😅Meanwhile, Jacob revealed that he didn't even get such a text at all lol . 👀

With Tom, I think the door was always still open as well, but like most men, he dealt with his pain through using distractions. I've noticed that a lot of times, Men and women deal with their pain a little differently. While women will a lot of times rally around with their family and friends and cry and talk, and vent, on the flip side, many times some men will quickly rebound, have a bunch of flings (or ONS), and engage in a bunch of other destructive behaviors (ie. drinking too much, being risky, etc) in order to mask or distract themselves from their pain.

It's almost ironic that the MORE in love a guy was with a woman, the more likely he will actually engage in those behaviors after a breakup. It's strange, but it's true. I think some women take it personally 

and view it to mean: “Oh, so he must not have really loved me anyway!" 😔.... But in realty, the OPPOSITE is actually true. Guys don't always deal with their emotions all that well tbh lol.

That's why, when some fans kept on saying: "Well, Tom moved on first with Olivia!!", I kept saying to myself: He's not really "moving on", he's rebounding. There's a huge difference.

And women rebound as well! They'll get with a bad boy, or just someone who doesn't remind them of their ex at all, because they're trying to quickly feel good again and “move on” also. But these rebound relationships don't usually work out in the long run, because the REASON why they got into the relationship in the first place was to get over someone ELSE. The person usually hasn’t done any personal reflection...no self/inner work, and the original purpose for getting into the relationship was skewed from the get-go, so usually these rlshps are either kind of superficial, or don't last as long as their previous long-term rlshp with their ex that they're trying so desperately to get over. 🤷🏾‍♀️  They’re just trying to feel good again, nothing more...nothing less. 

So bottom line, my guess is that deep down, Tom & Z both probably sort of had the door still "open" for each other to a possible reconciliation in the future, but Tom, feeling hurt (and being the more impulsive of the two of them), may have let his guard down that day at the festival, and was caught with Olivia. And of course, I'm sure him being seen in those pics with Z's neck chain gift didn't quite go over too well with Z at all. 👀

But by that point, I think Z felt like it was best that they just go their separate ways completely, since (in her eyes) it seemed as though Tom was ready to date other ppl. 🤷🏾‍♀️  I personally think she was hurt that he seemed to move on so FAST.... Especially right after the press tour.

Idk... in my mind this would kind of explain why Tom was returning the Tomdaya jacket after the Tolivia incident, and also why Z's behavior towards him seemed to change almost over night, and why Tom seemed so regretful for the pics, and it would prob also explain how his heartbreak was “kind of his fault....”.  (We still don’t know for sure WHO or WHAT “heartbreak” he was referring to, so this is all just speculation)

I've always wondered if TZ were fighting a lot and knew that a breakup was on the table, but weren't expecting the breakup in May to be the FINAL STRAW... but Olivia made it a firm breakup.

I think there's a huge difference btwn two ppl both realizing that even though they may love each other, their relationship is getting a little toxic/contentious, and so they both make a mature decision and agree that they need to take a BREAK from each other and not be in a relationship with each other right now (kind of like separation).....vs... "WE ARE OVER for GOOD!!" 😡(like, divorce)

Idk... this is just how I've always read the situation when the events first came out in July 2019....

But, who knows what REALLY happened ykwim? 🤷🏾‍♀️

Either way, they've both forgiven each other, and are on good terms now, so that’s all that really matters! 😊