#but! i'd rather they come be mean to me rather than anyone else bc/ i'll just reply with viago and not feed them

[tinytinybumblebee]

I’m so so sorry you’ve gotten such mean messages lately!! You’re only small :( Please know that your posts brighten up my dash, and that liking certain characters absolutely doesn’t make you a bad person! I’m sending you a big internet hug.

Aaaa you're too find ;o; I think it's a mass anon hate thing going around, like anons going to every blog that write anything about Izzy Hands and saying rude things (because three other folks have told me they got similar messages- which, isn't nice at all!! We're just, doin our silly fictional pirate show stuff!) but im small and mighty and will fite those anons, with kindness!

sending you a biiiig internet hug right back to you!!!

[yandere-yearnings]

Hello Dar! 🦢 nonnie is back and I hope you've been doing well! ^^

Something I've been thinking about for a while now is your style of writing. I feel like in your writing you frame even the smallest detail as if it's the most important thing in the world. It always feels very poetic/romantic even if that's not necessarily what the scene is about. So I was wondering where you got this writing style from? Since I've personally never read anything quite like yours before. Or just in general what inspires you to write?

-Yours truly, 🦢

hii swan nonnie🥺🩷 it's always, always a pleasure to have you back, i hope you've been well too🥰 lately my health hasn't been the greatest, but aside from that, i've been doing okay!! thank you for asking👉👈

bc my response got a bit long, i'll put it under a cut so i'm not clogging up anyone's dash🤧

first of all, i'm genuinely flattered you've even been thinking of my writing actually, that means so much to me😭💕 ig if i had to explain how my style came to be, it would have smth to do w/ writing more for myself rather than for others? when i was younger, i had this mentality that i had to follow all the rules in order to make a good piece, so i was constantly restricting my creativity by sticking to advice like 'show-don't-tell' or 'leave it up to the reader's imagination' and stuff along those lines. but somewhere along the way, i kinda realised that in doing so, i was starting to hate what i created.

after that, i just tried my hardest to write what i'd wanna read personally, in a style that was compelling to me. i mean, i still have my insecurities, sometimes i think wow, i really did not need to waffle that much, but at the end of the day, it still feels more fulfilling. even if something is considered 'wrong' by professional standards, my only long-term judge is myself at the end of the day. so i try to focus less on what's been done before, and more on what i would like to do (which is the reason why i still put spaces between my em dashes when ik that technically you're not supposed to haha)

as for the prose itself, i just write like that bc that's how my thought process works😭💔 like, i'm colourblind, so i have a habit of trying to understand the implications a colour can have rather than the actual colour itself, right? and that type of magnification can be applied to everything else when i put words down. looking at the smaller aspects that build the bigger picture, and then how much of an influence it can have on the scene i'm trying to portray, smth along those lines.

another thing is that, i believe throughout my time writing, most of my works have been angst and imo the smallest details really do feel like the most important thing in the world when viewed through a negative lens so maybe i picked it up from there and rolled w/ it for everything else🤧 the real cause is kinda hard to pin-point somehow

to answer your second question, if you asked me in the past what inspired me to write, i'd probably say smth like 'having a story to tell'. now though, the only thing keeping me doing this is that i genuinely really just like piecing words together in as many different ways as possible. it kinda feels like solving a puzzle so it's super satisfying🥰

ALSO THANK YOU FOR SAYING IT FEELS POETIC/ROMANTIC😭😭 i've always kinda worried that my writing feels too stiff, so hearing that makes me really happy, i really appreciate it swan nonnie😩💕 and you saying that you've not come across something similar before feels like a really sweet compliment too❗❗

[moondragon618]

So uh. I think I've decided that I want to be a little bit more open about some things on here bc honestly trying not to acknowledge it is just causing me a ton of unnecessary stress (and I'm sure as fuck not acknowledging it irl lmaooo) so yeah. So I'll start with this: I'm currently unemployed and living with my parents (mom and stepdad) and my younger but also adult brother (they all have some form of income but it's only just barely enough to get by). Now on its own the whole all of us living together thing should not be that big of a deal apparently according to what I've learned from hearing other ppl's experiences in similar situations. Unfortunately my parents do not think like this. My mom especially is convinced that we are literally ruining her life so y'know that's fun (:

Okay but seriously. I'm about to sound like I'm trying to downplay this (and maybe I am bc. Yk.) but like a good 80% or so of the time it's. Fine. We get along okay. But I know that's only bc we never acknowledge The Problems outside of the few bad days and we always just go on like those never even happened. And here's what I mean by bad days btw: ""Family Meetings"". Yeah that phrase is literally a fucking trigger for me now it's fucking bullshit. When I was younger it meant "me getting screamed at about how fucked up I am and how fucked I'll be in the "real world" and how I'm just "a soft spoiled little bitch bc I never got my ass beat" (like my brother. bc he's definitely fine and has no issues at all lmaooo) (and usually without the bitch part aside from once when I was a teenager) and now it's more "me getting screamed at by my mom abt how I'm ruining her life and her marriage" etc. etc. So yeah. My stepdad is a little better in that he only yelled at me one time when I was like 12 I think? And then never again. And he seems to at least understand that if screaming at still hasn't "fixed" me after 25 fucking years then it's probably not going to so yeah. And he did actually kind of stand up for me during the last one (in late September-ish) which I know isn't much but it's still way more than anyone else has done so I do appreciate it.

Anyway the last one was really fun (terrible) I got the usual + being told I being disrespectful for not coming out to the living room bc I was having a panic attack and quite literally frozen and unable to move 👍👍👍 And I've also been limited to just my phone since then bc my mom took my computer (bc god forbid we consider there might be a reason I'm on it so much) and still hasn't given it back and tbh I think I'd rather kms than ask for it back so that's fun too (:

I am aware that this is abusive behavior and that screaming at your child for any reason is in fact child abuse btw. It took me until very recently to come to terms with that even while knowing that (and I'm probably still not fully there tbh) but I know. It's that fucking generational trauma bullshit yk. My mom's side of the family is Fucked Up like her parents were terrible and their (mostly her dad's idk the other ones lol) parents. Yeah I'm not even comfortable talking about them right now that's like a whole other thing lmao. But yeah I know that doesn't even remotely make it okay.

And yeah like the day after shit like that happens we just never acknowledge it again until everyone's losing their shit again because nothing ever changes. Believe it or not being screamed at does not help me figure out how to navigate getting a source of income or how I'm supposed to do anything when we sure as fuck can't afford another vehicle or how I'm ever going to be able to afford my own place to live lmaooo. And I also literally cannot even talk to them about any of this without losing my ability to speak so that really doesn't help either (: I sure as fuck haven't tried calling out the bullshit either bc fuck that there's no fucking way that's going over well and I couldn't even if I wanted to (: (: (:

So I'm just kinda stuck here ig. It's really not too bad (most of the time). I'm not saying that to minimize or invalidate anything either I just want you all to know that it's not like super urgent or anything, I'm not in danger, my mental health isn't great obviously but I'm not at risk of hurting myself or suicide or anything. Promise <3 I'm a tenacious bastard sticking around out of pure spite and a desire to keep creating things if nothing else lmao :)

God this is kind of a trauma dump lmao but that about sums it up ig? I'm also very much open to advice if anyone has any <3

[iturmom]

i physically cannot sleep. i'm kinda starting to get tired but i cannot fall asleep there's absolutely nothing i can do to shut my brain off i just cannot quit desperately trying to figure out how i can prevent my life from spiralling into danger. but i don't think any of the ideas i have come up with could work. there's literally nothing i can do. i have absolutely no control over my life it is not mine anymore. ffs i was forced to exist against my will the least they could do is not fucking torture me for it but this is just how the powers that be operate they see us as no more than livestock. if there was anything (morally sound i don't value my life over anyone else's i would rather just die i refuse to compete) i could possibly do to stop suffering i would start right away god knows i can't sleep. but there's nothing. i'd even sell nudes at this point but no one wants that there's millions of free nudes online and i don't have anything to offer i mean i have nice assets but so do the millions of other free nudes online? i know how to paint pretty well but i don't know how to make art and i don't think i will ever be a good artist and i don't care i don't have anything to prove i don't want to compete i have nothing to offer there's plenty of great art out there and it's not going to come from me bc i just don't have it in me. i want to sell commissions but no one wants to buy paintings from someone who's not an artist. i literally just have no options for a job with a living wage. i have nothing to fucking offer that the powers that be value enough to let me survive. and i had 5000 from tax returns and covid stimulus. i could survive on that money for a little while. but my mother tried to kill me because i am nonbinary and mentally ill and not a fascist and a lot of other reasons she hates me for that are just not deserved. she tried to kill me. her husband helped hold me down. they twisted my arms and legs. my mother knocked my phone out of my hand and i was wailing begging for my partner i was on the phone with to help me somehow. until my mother silenced me with her hand on my throat. she choked me 4 times. when the cops arrived she was still on top of me and i got arrested. and i was homeless and i wasn't safe there obviously so i had to travel between alabama and texas for court i could not stay in alabama it was not safe. so i had to spend all my savings for the court bullshit and of course the case just ended up getting dismissed because she attacked me. but now i'm just left to die. i get no reparations. my mother tried to kill me the state arrested me for it and costed me my life's savings and everyone just tells me tough shit. i can't get disability even with all my trauma i can't fucking function without constant distraction or i'm just constantly tortured by cptsd. as mentioned i am too fucked up to function but i also have nothing to offer an employer i'll never make a living wage! honestly i'm being fucking purposely personally tortured by the world and they'll just keep getting away with it because no one will fight for me. my mother fucking tried to kill me for being nonbinary no one cares. i was date raped no one cares. i was an orphan. you know i busted my ass to build myself a stable living by my fucking bootstraps by 23 and had it all taken away from me by a violent roommate who attacked me and once again the police did nothing to help and rejected my protection order. one person chose evil one time and ruined my life irreparably. not to mention just the fact that i was forced to live with sketchy people just to afford to survive and all the fucked up shit that causes that to be the case. i'm fucked. and it doesn't fucking matter. i'll never have my life back. i'll never have autonomy over my life. my life was stolen from me and now i'm forced to suffer with no other option available.

[somewhereinthepines]

This is just a funny little thing rather than an ask, but thank you for sharing your fics with us. After the whole Ao3 drama over the past day or so, of not being able to access the site and its fics, I just wanted to say thank you bcs I enjoy your work. I was having fic withdrawals and thinking, "What if the site never comes back up? I'll never be able to read them again, and I'll never know what happens." So yeah, just thought I'd send this to you, haha :) It just goes to show just how important fandom is. Hopefully, this will encourage others to comment on fics they like since everyone has been struggling without their fics.

howdy there! it’s always lovely to hear from you, ask or not. and yeah, i was a bit sad, that i couldn’t read before bed, like i usually do as well. but tbf, ao3 server/staff is pretty apt and usually they deal with site’s issues fairly quickly. it wasn’t the first time, when the site was down due to cyber attacks. after a couple of days, it always bounces back. i do get the sentiment tho. and it’s really nice to see someone else being this gentle of the writing and online fic community. writing/reading was smth that i held dear since my mid-teens, so i can get the feeling of ‘what if i will never read it again’. i still feel sad about some fics, that i loved, but which got deleted. i wish that i could store it all somewhere. 

anyways, thank you for reaching out! and i agree! i always found shelter from irl stuff in stories, be it my own or someone else’s fics. in online communities writing tends to be looked down upon. a typical ‘it’s written like a fanfiction’ thing, that people throw around as an insult, esp when it comes to some canon property that didn’t met their expectations. but honestly, those people just never read a good fic, i guess. i feel bad for them lol. esp bc it does make sense to write fics, even before you would write a movie script or say, a book. writing like any skill needs to be worked on, and experimented with. fics provide all the ground, that you want for that. esp bc you can even have many accs and stay anon, if you don’t wanna smth to be tied up to you in future. but, welp, i do hope that eventually folks will learn to have more respect for online creators. bc like….i mean, it’s literally a free entertainment. of all kinds and genres. too bad that at times, it’s difficult for people to just create and enjoy what they do. but i always say, that i do believe that anyone can start drawing or writing. it won’t be flawless, esp at first, but this way whatever you want can exist out there. 

but ah, okay. sorry! i talk hella a lot. once again, it’s very touching for you to message me! both as a fellow author and a fellow reader, i’m glad to have the same feeling of ‘i really love fics and ao3.’

[janiedean]

hi!! ive been interested in writing fanfic commissions but am concerned about the legality. do u know if it’s like 10000% legal to profit off fanfic? i am very nervous

(hello I'm answering old asks sorry for the lateness this week was busy as hell)

tldr: sadly it's not legal the way fanart is for a whole lot of reasons that I think are kinda idiotic because if one is viable then also the other would be though I do get why and you absolutely can not and should not advertise on ao3 that you're taking them or that fic X was a commission because it's forbidden by their terms, but

on the other side it's extremely unlikely that anyone gets prosecuted for it these days especially if you're not writing for someone who behaves like anne rice of old but like people getting dragged to court for writing fic isn't likely these days and even back when anne rice was being extremely serious about it people would get cease and desist notifications rather than actually having to face more repercussions (that was of course for free fic) but like... let's be real anon now where the hell is the reylo fanfic book

right so

now: anyone like literally anyone into fandoms would see this and think WOW I'LL EAT MY HAT IF THIS WASN'T A REYLO FIC BEFORE, and I just looked it up and it thanks rian johnson at the end of it so like.... I mean idk how you could make it any clearer because it is. this book is a new york times bestseller X°D like, new york times bestseller, and it's a reworked fanfic that no one tried to hide was a reworked fanfic. is the author getting sued by disney to hell and back? no she's not. I would like to also state that disney is the corporation that when asked if a family could put a spiderman picture on the grave of their five year old dead child denied the request on the basis of wanting to preserve the innocence of the characters on a stupidass copyright basis, so like... I mean I doubt that they have scruples in picking battles when it comes to their property, and they haven't bothered to go after this one, and not even counting this.... like everyone and their relatives knows that 50sog was a twilight fanfic but did anyone complain? nah. and like... the 50sog author sure as fuck profited off their au.

now, does this mean it's legal? still no. but do I think it's likely that random person (you, me, whoever else) taking commissions to pay the bills and making extremely little money from it in comparison to what either reylo book over there or 50sog did is gonna get targeted because they took writing commissions that they aren't advertising as such on the platform they publish them on (that is if you do bc if someone wants a private commission you don't even have to publish it)? I also don't think that either also because most ppl whose work you'll write fic for are rich enough that your fic won't at all harm their earnings nor they'll risk stealing ideas from you for the follow-up novel if they read it. also there's a bunch of stuff for which you wouldn't even need to worry bc idk sherlock holmes stories are off copyrights so if you want to write a SH fanfic and publish it you don't even have to pay royalties and I'd like to remind everyone neil gaiman won an award with a study in emerald which he himself described as sherlock holmes meets lovecraftian horror fanfic so like... half of your fave authors prob wrote fic and published it. (michael chabon aka one of my faves ever also published his sherlock holmes fic which makes me thing a bunch of male authors absolutely wrote SH fic when in middle school and I can't blame them for that but nvm) I get being nervous but 99.9999999% you'll be fine if you take them, and good luck if you do <3

[nathank77]

4/7/24

7:57 p.m Edited/Significantly Added To 8:36 p.m

This is how I'm perceived:

A fucking nerd. Maybe the choice is obv, I only spent 80$ on glasses. I have two pairs that fit somewhat comfortably. I can wear them in the car and when I'm alone sometimes but I got to adjust to life without them...

I should prob forgo lens crafter, save myself a lot of money for 1 pair of perfect glasses. And start taking photos without glasses for my dating profile. I can stop wearing them in my videos. And really only wear them when I drive.. and eventually not even then.

Eventually I'll adjust to blurry, uncomfortable and weak eye sight and I'll find a girl.

I haven't reached out to Reilly in two days cause I mean let's be real. What's the next step? A date. Telling her I'm trans. Maybe my shirtless photo was enough. Telling her I'm disabled and broke. No girl is going to want me. I got to get out 90% of the bad before I go on that date so I don't get hurt.

Beyond that okay- I do want to date a mom, I want to be a dad. Idc if "step" comes in front of the title. I want family photos, and I want to be needed as much as I need them.

Yet Reilly has 4 children, age does matter to me. One is a one year old.... I can't do poppy diapers and if i could I'd want to go through the entire pregnancy with my gf or wife. Let's say this 1 year old was out of diapers... that would change things. The younger they are the more, "important," I'll be I could even be called dad but my ocd as it stands does not permit me to do poopy diapers. I want a girl who has 2-3 kids, and for them to be able to wipe their own ass. I mean 5- any age..

Beyond that I'm in love with Elise regardless of it is unrequited or not. And I mean I am trying to move on but I don't want to waste anyone's time. Reilly is pretty in that one photo.... there is only one....she's not supermodel material but she's pretty. Although to say I know what she looks like is ridiculous with only one photo...

Anyways, I got to lose the glasses, lens crafters is stupid when it's going to cost me an arm and a leg... and I'm still going to feel like a nerd that no one wants to date.

Maybe I'm being stupid about Reilly bc I still got to break the news. Being a voice hearer would be something I'd tell her like 5-6 months into dating, why? I'm going to prove that I'm sane, and can live my life and do my shit, I'm going to prove I am safe around children and not a danger to society. This applies to any woman... or person I date... I have to prove that if I never told you I had auditory hallucinations, you would have never known bc I'm normal....

But the trans thing and the disabled thing can't be hidden that long obv.... however proving my sanity and safety in terms of having auditory hallucinations can def wait..

I'm so in love with Elise it makes it hard to take anyone else seriously... I mean I suppose if I were to have money to take Reilly out on a date it would be different... I'm always that guy who is like I'd like to meet and I bring up free spots and the girl goes, why not coffee or dinner and then I say well I'm broke... and if she isn't willing to pay it fizzles out... a lot of women go on dates for free food. I wish I wasn't being sexist but my sister does it all the time.. once Katelyn said I'm going on lots of dates with guys who i think are ugly but, FREE CHICKEN WINGS!

Maybe it's just the quality of people I meet rather than "women." It's not women, it's a quality of person...

Either way even if I was loaded I'm not buying a girl a coffee or a dinner on a first date, what's wrong with going to the Park and sitting outside? It's free, peaceful and allows a lot of time for talking.

Anyways I feel undatable.. Elise could not even be a thought and I'm like well... I got all these flaws and most people want to start with coffee or dinner or drinks... and they expect the guy to pay..

Idk what to do. All I know is I'm very in love with Elise. I feel fucking stupid for that. Going back to that song Shape Shift by Silverstein, "I never stood a chance here did I?" I listen to it all the time sometimes on repeat bc with everyone and anyone I never stood a chance at being someone's husband.

I probably can't even get a girl from Kenya... I don't have money and like I said before it's a fucking park date, I'm not buying and having you ghost me, I need my money. Maybe 3 months down the line but I'm not being used nor am I wasting money on someone who won't work out.

For all I know I could date Reilly for 6 months, meet her kids, be a totally normal great guy and tell her I have auditory hallucinations and she may be like I'm sorry it's not going to work out.

I got a lot counted against me. I'm ready to date. I'm so ready. I just feel like I'm undatable...

Like let's say I do have a soulmate and let's say it's Elise, how can I give her what she needs other than love? I would pay for her dinner, I'd pay for her coffee but I couldn't do it often. I would for her bc I know her personally, she's not some random off a dating site.

I'd be a financial drain on her. Or any person I date at that rate. I mean I'd love to take her and her girls for ice cream and picnics that I prepare. I'd like to go to the zoo, a baseball game whatever, but I don't have the money. Not for anyone no matter how much I love them. Not even for just me. I have more money than I did quiting weed but I'm still impoverished...

I can't get her a ring, it would take me years, I can't even pay half for the wedding. This applies to all women but I dream of it being Elise.

Maybe Elise doesn't want anyone seeing all of her photos... maybe that's why it's just her wedding, that's been consistently up for a long time or maybe she was never here and it's all visual hallucinations. Or maybe she's like I'm just a concerned friend and you might be right that this is too personal for me to read. Idk.

Although I didn't screenshot her changes bc I didn't want to be a creep. I wish i had cause I have no proof, her family reunion was up a hour after I posted my post yesterday. I have no proof all her WOW posts disappeared after I posted about my Battlenet account... I don't want to take screenshots. It makes me feel creepy.

If I didnt feel so undatable I'd make more of an effort on Reilly.

Dating me is like dating a pauper... I could have continued to talk to Jenny she did touch my finger when she gave me my phone back but she was one of those girls that I would have had to drop hundreds on bc we both lived in different states and she's not that type of girl to spend money on a guy.

I could find a girl who is willing to spend money on their guy but I feel like a financial drain. I feel worthless. I often think about how much money Katie must have saved cutting me loose.

Who would chose love and personality over financially stability? Tbh probably no one.

[dakotafoxandtheobstacles]

11/9/23

I love where I live. I love my job (even the parts I really fucking hate that make me feel like I'm not actually doing anything I'm just so happy to be there working w this family). I love the family I work for. But I don't think anyone is ever going to love me the way the parents love each other. It is so fucking beautiful and kind and I can't fucking imagine that ever happening for myself. I see it in my aunt and uncle. I see it in my two best friends. And it feels so fucking impossible for me.

I really don't think anyone is going to love me. I got my lab results back. They were normal which is good for recovery but it just reinforces that I'm recovering which means I am in fact gaining weight and I'm not just imagining it and I don't think anyone is ever going to love me or want me as long as I look like this. And I don't know what to do bc everything I've tried has just gotten me sick and made me hate myself even more. I really feel like I am going to be alone forever and no one is ever going to love me without hurting me at the same time. I don't think I'm going to get anything but that kind of love.

The love I see in my boss' is so fucking gentle and kind. I can't imagine ever getting that especially since I look like this. And since I pick my skin. I'm struggling really hard to accept being alone because of the reasons why I'm alone. It really fucking feels like there is something wrong with me and no matter what I do there will always be something wrong with me. And I don't think there is ever going to be anyone to see past it. Nor will I let anyone see.

I am so fucking scared of being broken one more time because I don't think I'll survive it. And when I really come down to it every time I deny the opportunity I'm breaking myself. Just little bits very slowly but I think I'd rather that than have someone hurt me again.

I wish I knew what was true I wish my memory was clear. I wish I didn't have to work this hard every day just to fucking survive. I'm so tired. I'm carrying so much alone. I feel unworthy of anyone else. Like no one deserves to be with me. Like loving me is giving someone poison and I'm the only one that knows I'm poisonous.

Besides who is ever going to want a girl with herpes again. I have to tell people before I ever invite them over. I have to let.people like me for me which feels fuckin gnarly. I feel so disgusting all the time. I wish I knew what was wrong with me so I could fix it. Besides my appearance.

I want to fix what is wrong with me but I can't fix the herpes I will always have that. I will always be a dirty slut. Forever. Even if I never have an outbreak it is in my fucking nerves until I die. I wish I died when I found out. Living with it is really hard. Sam fucking ruined me and I don't know if I'll ever find myself again.

[basgiathfm]

Would it be possible to keep signets unique? It's sort of disheartening to try and search for a power only to have someone else take it, if it makes sense

i totally get how that can feel, and you make total sense. i'll give you a few reasons why i don't want to limit all signets to 1 per the rp. first, even in the books there are duplicates, only a few are marked as rare and those will be ones that as they come in i'll keep track and possibly limit them. second, there aren't really a lot of powers that fit within this roleplay, so if i limit it to 1 per, it could mean we hardly have anyone else join bc there isn't a signet for them. which leads into my last point and i wouldn't think of it as someone taking the signet you've chosen. they very well could have come into the rp with that already in mind, and pick it without seeing someone else has it. if we limited, it could be the loss of an amazing writer/character when they find they can't apply with that signet and are also upset for it. or, a person could see your amazing idea and fall in love with the power themselves, just like you did.

i really tossed this around for a while before opening the rp, but as someone who has been in a rp with power limitations like this, it got really hard not too far in for people to come up with untaken powers and join/pick up characters. i don't want that here. plus those with similar or the same powers also have the chance to practice with one another and build connections outside of their bubble if that makes sense. i'm so sorry to be turning down your suggestion, i really take player ideas/input seriously as many of you will see throughout this rp. this is just something i've already done a lot of thought on and can see more harm than good in limiting like that.

i'd say if you want a unique signet to pick one that is super rare, or come ask me if it would or wouldn't be and we can go from there ! then, you have the potential to only share that signet with maybe 1-2 others rather than just anyone in the rp.

[fragilecqpricorn]

ooo looks fun thank u!

1. Were you named after anyone?

Lee is shortened from my birth name, but the "-lee" portion of my birthname did come from my grandfather!

2. When was the last time you cried?

not sure, it's been a little while. maybe a month or so. i mostly only cry when my hypochondria is bad and I haven't had a rough patch in a bit. I'm not super emotive in general unless it's very intense anxiety or anger. I'm not really a cryer.

3. Do you use sarcasm?

Daily. Without meaning to. I can't stop. It's a problem. Never take me seriously, but also don't laugh at me I'll cry.

4. What's the first thing you notice about people?

Hair, and then voice / inflections (if you have a calming voice you are the coolest person ever to me)

5. What's your eye color?

Medium brown. Not much else to say there lmao.

6. Scary movie or Happy Ending?

Scary movie!!! Actually fuck you, scary movie with a happy ending, bc they can coexist. But if I have to pick I love a tragic horror, scary movie, final girl type vibe. give me the gore and blood and body horror and fear.

7. Any special talents?

I'm pretty damn good at knowing like every fucking song ever I think. Turn some shit on and I will probably know the name of it. And if I don't I will next time. I also play like 6 instruments so music in general is somewhat of a talent I suppose.

Also would like to think I'm good at math and writing (two things I like a lot). I've gotten a decent following writing romantic fanfics over the years, but I've also been told I'm pretty decent at writing horror both in gruesome ways and slow, psychological ways and I wanna explore that a lot more.

8. Any pets?

Juno !!!

she is my pride and joy. my baby. I love her dearly and miss her constantly when I'm at college. so ready to have a place of my own where I can keep her full time.

9. What sports do you play / have played?

nothing, ever lol. was always the nerd and the music/theater kid. I was a cheerleader in kindergarten and decided I'd never do anything remotely similar again.

10. How tall are you?

5'5 :)

11. What was your favorite subject in school?

Pre-college days, it was government and history. Math before it got hard enough that I actually had to try. College has made me really enjoy economics and accounting. Love me some business courses. Anything where I don't have to do a significant amount of boring reading is alright with me though tbh.

12. Dream job?

I could see myself being happy in many places in life, but with the college path I'm on right now, probably either financial analysis or accounting! preferably somewhere in a creative field or where I feel like I'm making a difference, rather than just a random soulless corporation. I also wouldn't mind looking into treasury type, political jobs at some point. Running for an office is more of a back burner thing, maybe if I get frustrated enough with the state of the world that I finally feel like taking it into my own hands lol

Tagging: no one in particular (seems like majority of my mutuals have already done it) but it's fun so like,,, do it!!!

Thanks for the tag @theydoctor <3 :D

1. Were you named after anyone?

I named myself after Theodore Laurence from Little Women (a very trans book, go listen to the Jo's Boys podcast)

2. When was the last time you cried?

Recently. Like Friday maybe

3. Do you use sarcasm?

Yes :P though it is mostly in reaction to other people's sarcasm

4. What's the first thing you notice about people?

I think their vibe? like maybe their sense of style

5. What's your eye color?

Brown :)

6. Scary movie or happy ending?

false dichotomy but happy endings mainly

7. Any special talents?

I can solve a rubik's cube (it's a good fiddle)

8. Any pets?

My bby boys! We have two corgi/chihuahua puppies. they're 6 months old and I love them.

[Image description: 2 images of corgi/chihuahua puppies.

The first image is a brown and white corgi/chihuahua mix puppy standing outside with snow on his nose. Both his ears are standing up.

The second image is a brown corgi/chihuahua mix puppy standing outside with snow on his nose. His left ear is standing up while his right one flops downward.

End image description.]

9. What sports do you play/ have played?

I played volleyball and basketball as a youngun

10. How tall are you?

5'6

11. What was your favorite subject in school?

Probably lab days in Chemistry :D titration my beloved

12. Dream job?

Public librarian or archivist. In community with others, in some way for sure.

Tagging: @prismartist, @sherlock-is-ace, and @join-me-in-the-bog. No pressure tho!

[loverboy-ish-archive]

ok hi got back from watching Smile 2022 and it... was... a movie. :/ i don't fully regret going to watch it bc at least i'm doing Something with my time but like... some things bothered about it like i knew it would.

alright so spoiler-free warnings:

ableism. saw this coming a mile away bc the main character's a doctor so :/ although i will say it came from some of the characters saying ableist shit ("mental cases") rather than the actual narrative's message. ... I think. i don't know if the movie was going for an actual message or just Being A Horror Movey.

suicide. first scene (aftermath), hospital scene (happens on-screen And You Can See It), and others of other people (mentioned, shown post-mortem, one video that is Also Graphic).

gore and body horror.

animal death.

alright so. spoiler-filled territory under the cut (+ some more clarification, i guess. mention/implied past child abuse).

this movie made me mad actually quite early on lmao. there is one patient, Carl (who isn't affected by the curse, so he lives he's. Alive), and the interview Rose (the main character) had with him just felt... :/ "i know these things feel real but they can't hurt you" sort of end to their "conversation" idk that feels... like she's a bad doctor like c'mon that's not fucking helping "it's all in your head" type of bullshit.

and, again, other forms of ableism -- other characters calling Rose's patients "mental cases" and the like. -_- was that Fucking Necessary. i mean i GUESS it lends to #realism and possibly even a hint of a critique or an indication to the otherwise uninformed audience that the mental health industry is kinda shit + people should be, idk, nicer or w/e. i'm not gonna give it that much credit.

i don't think the Graphic On-Screen Suicide was necessary. i know it's a horror movie but like. man? on top of that there's also photographs of suicide aftermaths + one video of a suicide in progress. which... alright i guess they're not As Bad.

more petty i guess + poking at plot-holes but: Rose kinda annoyed me. just as a person. girl i know you're running on No Sleep At All + So Much Fear + Trauma but why would you show THOSE photos to your sister. ok tbf she's dealing with it (Badly) so i might not be entirely fair to her (and there was one scene where she was being a bit daft but it was a Dream All Along) but still. yeah idk i'm sorry Rose nvm (but also. the photos. why're you telling your SISTER THIS. C'MON.)

on a neutral note: i was Not expecting an actual monster reveal. the design for the creature at the end (at the Very End, not the Mom Creature) was interesting + tied in with the title, i'll give it that.

on a positive note? i guess? maybe it did have something to say-- mental health is a Thing, you can't really completely heal from trauma (and even guilt -- because Rose, at ten years old, let her mother die -- tbf she was scared of the woman), but you can try to move on with your life and heal as best you can. kinda undone by the ending tho, bc it IS a horror movey and they LOVE twist endings. ah well. btw i did guess it as one of a few possible endings.

the characters... i thought they were fine enough. rose's boyfriend/fiance, trevor, felt kinda flat -- or more like a stock character i guess, Boyfriend Who Doesn't Believe Girlfriend -- which :/ sucks (Even tho it'd be difficult to believe All That LMAO but still tho). ummm the relationship between rose + holly felt real to me, or at least believable. idk i don't Know shit like this + i'm not very coherent LMAO. uhhh i liked rose's therapist, she felt normal + realistic to me.

honestly i think apart from the things that Annoyed + Concerned Me it was an ok horror movie. i'd probably watch a sequel. i wouldn't recommend it tho :/

idk if anyone else has seen it lmk what u think (But also don't feel Pressured to see it.) bc maybe i'm being too harsh on it bc i only just got back like... idk 30 or so minutes ago LOL

[rev3rb]

Aaaaah! Hi again. Wow. I did not expect that big of a fight between Ashera and Yu. I feel bad for Ashera, he’s so confused about if anyone else truly has his and Krul’s best interests at heart. I mean clearly the First only uses ppl as pawns, and while I’m sure Yuu does want to save everyone, as any heroic protag does, but if that’s not an option he will 100% settle for just Mika. It was lowkey funny watching Ashera call him out for it. For Mika, Yuu’s logic and morals literally go out the window, immediately lmao. Like wdym you’re gonna fight for Mika’s life even when you’re dead?? Be fr bro. It kinda makes me want Yuu to get his way just to see how he actually plans to accomplish this.

And I’m also excited that they’re continuing to address the core debate of whether one should let humans die. It’s interesting to see characters argue that life is not inherently better than death.

Hey! I intended to answer this early when you sent it as I saw the notif, but I was trying to avoid spoilers for another manga... not that that worked :) But anyways!

Yeah, honestly I didn't either. I thought either Yu or Ashera would get stopped before much could happen, but I guess I was wrong! Though, it doesn't seem like it will last much longer.

I also feel bad for Ashera. This chapter made his character grow on me a lot. As you say, he's really struggling, and I liked when he acknowledges that he's really made nothing but mistakes up to this point. I wouldn't necessarily agree with him, but it really shows that he's just doing his best. He's not perfect. He's willingly been The First's pawn, and it hurts to see him used and then thrown away like this, even if it does mean that he will now likely be aligning with Krul (and Guren and crew).

As for Yuu, I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if he did want to save everyone because, as you said, he's a heroic shonen protag, but the story is really pushing us as the audience to believe that he's going to choose Mika over everyone else. Both are in line with his character. It all just becomes a question of how he'd do that. Other than some nonsense (deserved or otherwise) with his seraph abilities, saving everyone, Mika included, seems impossible. I guess only time will tell. Regardless of what he picks, I feel it's safe to say that it will have to involve Mika also being saved, bc yeah. As you point out logic and morals go out the window when it comes to Mika. I'm quite sure Yuu doesn't even have a plan at the moment and is just in 'they wanna take my Mika away. I won't let them' mode right now. He's a very "I'll wing it and I'm sure it will work out" kind of person. If he does have a plan then kudos to him I guess. I'd also be interested to see what that plan is.

Regardless, yeah. This all puts Ashera in an awkward spot, and I'm glad to see that he's done willingly being someone else's pawn and is trying to forge his own path to salvation.

The debate that life isn't inherently better than death has been a concept that's been floating around in OnS for a long time now and yeah. It's great to see it continue. Really, if anything, OnS seems to say that dying is easy; it's living that is hard. Specifically, living without those you care about, which plays into Krul's 'I'm fine as long as I have you Ashera'. Then again, really, OnS shows us that dying and living isn't what's terrible. Rather, it's not having the choice of whether you live or die. Dying without being able to live (aka being killed [look I'm trying to be poetic here]) and living without being able to die both suck. You don't truly understand that until you've experienced it for yourself. ... or maybe I'm just trying too hard to be deep...

Anyways, as a last note, something about The First being nailed down to a truck bed as the vampires drive around made me laugh harder than it should have. And that truck bed is massive??

Thanks for once again sending an ask!

[bimbinis]

Genuinely curious why you hate new Vegas

BOY WHERE TO START

There is entirely way too much I have to say about this fucking game because unfortunately I have in fact played it, for multiple hours, way after I'd already decided I didn't like it, so much that I actually think trying to explain all of it I think I might actually have to go beyond the fabled mobile post character limit, but for starters a thing that exponentially increases the amount I hate it is that I listened to/believed the hype and expected the game to be not just good but according to FNV fans (particularly Hbomberguy who was the guy who convinced me to spend my own real human money on this shit with his video about it) that it was going to be the best game of all time. It's not. It's far, really far from it.

I don't even think it's the worst game of all time. I think it's shit, like, unambiguously, but there are games that are both worse on a technical aspect and even less enjoyable than FNV is. But FNV couldn't have the decency of just being bad, it also had to carry an insufferably, inexplicably smug essence to it, like it really believes itself to actually be one of the greatest games of all time. So a lot of the unpleasantness of playing this shit game comes not from its own inherent shittiness but from how that shittiness looks when compared to not only what they promised but what they honest to God believe they achieved.

Let's start with the choices and morality system. I think this is a good point to illustrate what I'm talking about bc it's the thing most hyped about it. FNV fans seemingly love the game because it "let's you do anything", and while I could go into a very long tangent about what "can do anything" means in a context like this I'll just trust everyone to understand that what this means is never going to be "literally anything at all" but rather "you can navigate situations the game delineated for you in multiple ways that correspond to what most people would reasonably consider doing in a situation like that".

Having established that, FNV doesn't have that. Or rather, at the very least, it doesn't have that anywhere that matters. The game is railroaded to hell regardless of what anyone says. Take the start of the game. From the first city, you can go to multiple directions. Sounds good right? Except in every one of them aside from the next point in the main storyline you're almost certainly gonna die. Surely you could be super good at the game, or just minmax the shit out of your build (usually the same thing) so sure, you "can do anything you want (but terms and conditions may apply)".

Once you start the storyline itself, you realize most of your choices are either quite meaningless or are stupid choices people would only pick to see what happens. And, maybe that's just my personal belief that isn't gonna be self evident to everyone but I think that it should be self evident that a game about important MORAL choices where half the choices you make are basically just for shits and giggles is a bad game about moral choices. What do you get from siding with the powder gangers? Morally they're the wrong choice, narratively they're not particularly interesting (although, no one else is either lol) and mechanically you only get a handful of quests with XP rewards. And in exchange you gain infamy with the entire first town of the fucking game. The only reason that choice is there is so they can say it's there.

Then you get to Primm (and you'll always get to Primm next) and you see Caesar's Legion (who up to this point you only heard negative things about) has burnt down an entire town and fucking crucified the people in there, and then the game forces you to interact with an unbearably cringy LARPer raving about sodomites or whatever. This, for your information, is what Hbomb described as being great at representing how good fascism is at dressing up its true intentions with pretty words, and what one of the lead designers of the game said was their attempt (that they seem unironically proud of) at showing how seductive the aesthetics of fascism can be which may make you lose sight of its most pernicious aspects. They say this, because they really think making Caesar just say the name Hegel means they wrote dialogue, seemingly forgetting that 1) no, it does not and 2) that is not even close to our first contact with Caesar and no, seeing a group of people that FUCKING CRUCIFIES PEOPLE FOR BEING SODOMITES DOES NOT MAKE THEM SEEM APPEALING TO JOIN. This is yet another choice that is obviously in the wrong but again, because it's there, they get to say that their choices game is meaningful or whatever because you can choose to be inequivocably evil.

The most ludicrous part of it is that FNV fans criticize the whole "your only actual choice is whether you want to be good or evil" when it's done in Fallout 3, because "Bethesda are evil and ruined our game series waaa" but when the golden boys at Obsidian do it it's "masterful, nuanced storytelling". What a joke.

This whole choices shit ties into mechanics (as I said, minmaxing is a way of maximizing your choices), so let's talk about the karma system: it's pointless and does nothing. Also it exposes the sham of the game being about making you come to your own conclusion of what's morally good and bad because the creators already tell you what they think you should do based on what makes you lose or gain karma so like. lol.

Moving on, character building is shit bc there's obviously only one right way of doing it ever: Charisma 1 Intelligence 10, and maxing out speech as early as possible because guess what: most of their "amazing nuanced storytelling" is locked behind a mindless fucking skill check so you don't have to actually, say, think about your words and what would be the correct thing to say to deescalate a situation or such, no, you just pick the option that has the number on it. Which is obviously the right choice that will give you the most mechanic, moral and narrative payoff.

Let me tell you a little story: when I played that shit arse fucking "free the prostitutes from the casino" quest (which, had the worst game mechanic of all time, waiting for an NPC to walk from one point to the other, a grand total of 3 fucking times) the game gave me a skill check at the end. If I could pass it, I walked out fine. If I couldn't, they killed the guy I was escorting out of town even though I could take them out and I failed the quest. All of that shit I did was for nothing and I get no storytelling rewards from trying to play the game the way I can and want to (killing guys that annoy me). I know FNV fans will be rabid about that shit because "well you do have other choices!" Yes I did. The one I picked was pumping myself full of drugs so I passed the strength check and making this stupid fucking check meaningless. I passed and I still didn't like it. Doesn't help that the quest itself was bad, and shows just how disgustingly chauvinistic this game is, which makes me all the more puzzled about why so many of the people who praise it are at least nominally leftists. Probably bc it's mostly in the form of American chauvinism (this game is disgustingly American) and American leftists are so fucking clueless about that lmao (we're not getting into that though this is already gonna be too long even without that)

As if the quest itself being bad wasn't enough and didn't have a stupid fucking ending like that, afterwards when you go to talk to that stupid fucking piece of shit disgusting jackass robot (that they shoved in that shit to railroad me into doing their shit main quest the way they wanted me to) to tell him about how you feel about their faction, your only option is to say you have no beef with them because you put in a different guy in charge of it who's exactly like the first guy. You walking in the casino afterwards and killing everyone inside makes no narrative difference either.

Another example: the quest where you help a bunch of ghouls build a rocketship to moon, the entire time I was doing that quest I thought I would get the option to tell them "hey this guy is obviously pulling your leg and this is a suicide mission" and then you get to the end and you just. Don't. Your only options are sending them to certain doom or letting the one human member sabotage their ship and kill them instantly instead of just eventually. It's not like it wouldn't be silly to also be able to just dissuade members of a cult all willy nilly like that, but the idea should have been at least acknowledged, so that the quest could have like, said anything about anything at all.

The only time I did a quest where I felt like my wish was actually fulfilled was the quest in Novac where a guy asks you to find out who sold his wife into slavery (who btw he himself killed because he "couldn't bear to see her like that or something" lol) and you find out it's the nice mayor old lady and the options you get to complete the quest are either tell him the true culprit or pin it or someone else, either way he kills the person you tell him did it. I didn't wanna do either so I killed him instead. I failed the quest and got his stupid fucking beret stuck in my inventory permanently but I hated him anyway so I was satisfied. I felt like that was an actually engaging moment of RP especially since I got away with it very easily lmao. If I DIDN'T hate him however that would be yet another moment where the game would have shat the bed

I haven't even started on the worldbuilding. It's laughably bad. Again, FNV fans will make fun of Fallout 3 for putting shit from the original game in without any thought into it just because it's an iconic recognizable thing even though FNV didn't mind continuing to use caps, that they intentionally make not make sense. There is a quest where you go to investigate someone "making counterfeit caps". What, pray tell, is a counterfeit cap? Every time I drink a sarsaparilla I add a cap to my inventory. Are you saying that those were all made before the bomb hit and I'm drinking centuries old soda? Or that there is a centralized government unit fabricating sarsaparillas with serialized official caps in the game where the whole plot is about multiple factions fighting to seize control of the land? How do people even take that seriously

And then you get into how the game looks. I'm not talking about the fact that it's visually ugly as sin, which it is, absolutely. I'm talking about the fact that it's been now (as well established) multiple generations of people who have been living here post war and these people have decided that fabricating printing presses to make their comically on-the-nose propaganda posters was a priority but they've never even considered making a single broom. None of the places look actually lived in. There's no names on them. People don't come in and out. There are no identifying items, decorations, anything that would make them even slightly stand out from each other. The house you can sleep and store items in in Goodsprings belongs to Easy Pete, and my girlfriend knew waay more about FNV than I did and she never even noticed that.

The outside world is not any better. Making a game in a desert true to the real life region sounds pretty cool until you start realizing that every single step of your entire map looks indistinguishable from one another. And I still don't think that's justifiable btw. An artist should know how to make shit stand out from one another.

This is just scratching the surface of all my beef with the game btw. As mentioned I didn't get into how Disgustingly American it is (and I use these words very specifically and very deliberately), but also, how annoying and unlikable almost all characters are, how uninspired and lame the dungeons are, how the UI is dogshit and also the Only criticisms FNV fans are ever willing to (begrudgingly) admit which are the bugs (which they either blame on Bethesda or "b-b-but they only had 18 months!" anyway) and the shit gunplay (which they'll argue is good actually bc it's an RPG and also FNV isn't a looter shooter it's a Real Serious Game so you shouldn't even want to shoot your gun anyway and also that's what VATS is for!).

Which also gets me into the point where I mention that the most annoying thing about New Vegas fans is that the way they maintain this self delusion that New Vegas is The Perfect Game is by claiming that anything good it does ever is completely Obsidian's merit but everything bad about it is Bethesda's fault. The FNV crew are all seasoned talented industry professionals which is how they managed to make such a masterpiece but they're also helpless idiot babies who are powerless to stop Bethesda's evil evil reign of terror that forced them to continue to use caps and also make them more incoherent. Essentially, I have more to say about it but I just shot this down sorta haphazardly and I think it's enough to make my point.

In conclusion, FNV is shit

[helloalycia]

worth the wait [one] // daisy johnson

summary: when your best friend, Skye, keeps running away from home, you're left to deal with the consequences, but then one day, she doesn't come back.

warning/s: mentions of unwanted foster kids

author’s note: this is a five parter and each chapter is quite long bc i got carried away. i've literally been working on this for so long so i hope there's still some daisy johnson stans out there to appreciate this!

part two | part three | part four | part five | part six | masterlist | wattpad

"She's the only person she talks to... doesn't listen to anyone... just try..."

I twiddled my thumbs as I refrained from rolling my eyes. Mr Lock was pretty stupid if he thought I couldn't hear him with the door slightly ajar.

"...can't do much... good student?"

"She'll tell you what she knows," I heard Mr Lock say more clearly, to the police officer, before the door got pushed open.

I glanced at him as he feigned a smile for my sake, making his way over to his desk and sitting opposite me. The police officer followed after him, taking a seat at the edge of the desk and watching me with curious eyes like she was studying my every move.

"As you are probably aware, Miss Y/L/N, your friend Skye has gone missing," Mr Lock began to explain. "Her foster family have tried contacting her, but they can't find her."

I felt nervous with the police officer watching me, trying not to glance her way for fear she'd know I was hiding something.

"We just want to bring her home safely," Mr Lock continued. "And you're the closest person to her."

It wasn't a question – he knew I was the closest person to her. We'd done this back and forth many times before, every time Skye decided to run away. And it didn't get any easier.

I swallowed hard. "If you're asking me if I know where she is, I can promise you I don't."

Technically I wasn't lying, so that wasn't too much of a stretch.

"Have you had any contact with her since yesterday morning?" the police officer asked.

I shook my head and tried to ignore how warm I was getting. "I usually meet her by the entrance before class, but she wasn't there. I thought she was just pulling a sick day or something."

The officer hummed in response and the way she didn't give away what she was thinking didn't help with my nerves.

"So, you know nothing of Skye's disappearance?" Mr Lock asked with a raised eyebrow. "Anything you can tell us will be greatly appreciated. Her family just want her home and we all want her to be safe. You know the drill."

"I want that, too," I lied as confidently as I could. "You know she's done this before... she'll come back. She always does."

Mr Lock sighed and rested his head in his hands; he was clearly exhausted from having this same chat with me every few months Skye decided to leave.

"I think that's everything," the police officer said, before standing up straight. She glanced at me, adding, "Thank you for your cooperation. Please let your teacher know if you hear anything from her."

I nodded awkwardly. "Will do."

Mr Lock stood up, hand on his hip with mild frustration. He nodded my way and waved a hand dismissively. "Okay, you can go now, Y/N. Back to class, go on."

I nodded and looked between them both before grabbing my backpack and heading to the door. I could hear them talking quietly though, and felt mildly guilty for lying.

"...does this regularly now," the police officer was saying. "She'll turn up."

"She's wasting our time," Mr Lock was mumbling. "She always does this and for what?"

I sighed inwardly before leaving his office and heading back to class. I continued on with my school day as normal, up until lunchtime when I got a message from Skye herself.

Heading to the toilets to ensure nobody would see me, I slipped into a cubicle and pulled out the burner phone Skye gave me the first time she ever ran away a few years ago. She was always cautious of being caught out but still wanted to be able to contact me, so this was her solution. I didn't argue it as I only ever wanted to make sure she was okay and I could at least talk to her.

She'd texted me, it reading: Meet me by the ice cream truck in the park after school.

I was relieved to know she was okay, since it was the first text she'd sent me since she left yesterday morning. But it was frustrating that she'd disregarded my many concerned texts before that.

With a huff, I replied: I'm doing good, thanks for asking. You could've texted sooner, Skye.

It took a moment before she responded. Sorry, mom

I rolled my eyes, knowing she'd have that annoyingly cute smile on her face as she texted from wherever the hell she was.

Another text came through from her. Sorry I didn't reply sooner. Everything cool with the cops?

I sighed and hastily replied: Everything is as cool as it can be. I'll talk to you later when I see you. You safe?

Every time she left, she came back without a scratch to my relief, but it didn't make me feel any better when she would leave again and again. Running was her way of rebelling against everything – the countless foster families she went through, the teachers who ridiculed her, the other students who judged her. I didn't know where she went – it would change every time and I was sure she was making it up to make me feel better – but I covered for her because I cared about her and didn't want her to push me away like she did with everyone else. It was getting old though.

Her text came through and the heaviness on my shoulders lifted with relief. I'm always safe. But thanks for caring.

I always care. You know that.

I do. I'll see you later, Y/N. Love you.

I love you, too. See you later.

She stopped responding and I put the phone away before taking a deep breath. Seventeen and Skye had me feeling like a soldier's wife at freakin' war. She was gonna give me a heart attack one of these days.

—

"Over here."

I spun around and felt my racing heart calm down when I saw the familiar teasing smile of Skye watching me behind the abandoned ice cream truck.

"You're okay," I breathed out with relief before moving forward and pulling her in for a tight hug.

She laughed but wrapped her arms around me, squeezing gently. "I always am, I told you."

I refrained from rolling my eyes as I pulled away, meeting her gaze. "I'll always worry, Skye."

Momentarily, her playful demeanour disappeared and was replaced with something genuine. "I know... sorry. Thanks for coming."

I ran a hand through my hair and sighed. "Skye, you can't keep running away like this. Mr Lock called me in again. Thinks I know where you are. Says your family are worried."

Skye snorted as she took a seat on the bench nearby. "They're probably throwing a party in my absence. This is just protocol for them. All of them."

I watched her with a pitiful gaze before taking a seat next to her. "The police came again."

"But you covered, right?" Skye asked with a quirked brow.

"Obviously," I said, making her smile, but I didn't return it. "I hate lying to them. It makes me feel... dirty."

"It's not like you're hiding the location of a war criminal, Y/N, chill," she teased, patting my knee.

"Where were you this time?" I asked, afraid to know the answer.

A grin appeared on her lips with remembrance as she reached into her backpack, pulling out a laptop.

I furrowed my eyebrows. "Where d'you get that?" 

She seemed proud as she said, "I won it in a bet."

"Skye!"

"What? It was fair play and I happened to win," she said with a shrug.

I facepalmed. "Skye, if you needed a laptop, you should've asked. I could have asked my parents or– or– I don't know–"

"What? Fundraised for the poor foster girl in class who can't buy a laptop like everyone else?" she cut me off bitterly, before replacing the laptop in her bag. "I'd rather not."

I frowned, moving to rest a hand on her back, but she shook me off harshly before standing up.

"Skye, I didn't mean it like that," I said apologetically, standing up, too. "I just meant– I could have helped. I want to help. I don't want you to have to make bets to get stuff. I just want you to be safe."

Skye and I becoming friends was something I never could have seen coming, but when we were partnered in science class in middle school, we kind of just fell into each other's lives. I knew of her situation with her many foster families and always knew she deserved better. Sometimes though, I think she felt the difference in our lives when it came to little things like buying stuff, and I hated it.

"Skye–"

"It's okay," she interrupted, glancing at me with sad eyes. "I know you want to help. But I'm okay."

Treading carefully, I asked, "Where did you go then?"

She ran a hand through her hair. "Library."

I narrowed my eyes. "You expect me to believe that?"

She met my eyes and shrugged. "You don't have to, but it's the truth."

I couldn't be bothered arguing with her, so I simply played along. "Fine. You went to the library and won a bet with someone, getting their laptop."

"Exactly."

I gave her a knowing look. "When are you coming back? To school?"

She was about to respond, but her phone vibrated and she checked it quickly, her eyes lighting up. I tried not to roll my eyes at her change of mood, not wanting to imagine the bond she'd made with her new friends.

She finally answered. "A few days, I promise."

It wasn't much, but it was better than nothing, so I nodded. "Okay. A few days. You'll keep in touch though, yeah?"

"I will, I promise," she said with a small smile before moving forward and hugging me tightly. "Thanks, Y/N."

I sighed but returned her hug, knowing I couldn't stay mad at her for long. "Just please take care of yourself, Skye. And if you need anything – and I mean anything – just ask. Unfortunately, I have a soft spot for your dumbass."

She laughed and admittedly, my stomach did somersaults at the sound. She pulled away but kept within arm's reach, allowing me to see the honesty shining in her brown eyes.

"I'll see you in a few days," she promised. "I love you."

"I love you, too," I replied, watching as she stepped back to leave.

She sent a final smile my way before running away, leaving me standing there alone and with a worried heart.

"More than you'll know," I muttered to myself, knowing I could never tell her how I truly felt.

—

"Won't your mum kill you for this?"

I shrugged, leading Skye through the the party-goers and to the kitchen where the drinks were. "She's okay with it because she knows I'm responsible. Plus, I promised her I wouldn't get drunk."

Skye let out a laugh. "Right. You're at a high school party and you're not gonna drink. That's totally happening."

I poured myself and Skye a drink as I quirked a brow. "I never said I wasn't going to drink. Just that I wouldn't get drunk. There's a difference, Skye."

She seemed impressed as she nodded. "Sneaky."

I was invited to this party by some girl in class and thought it would be nice for Skye and I to go to since it had been a while since we'd hung out. She didn't want to go at first, but after a little convincing on my end, she joined me.

We ended up staying there for about an hour when Skye needed to go to the bathroom and I decided to grab a snack from the kitchen. As I was browsing the bowls and considering whether I wanted to risk grabbing food from a shared bowl, I felt someone tap my shoulder from behind me.

When I turned, I was surprised to see a very tall guy stood there with a smirk on his face.

"It's Y/N, right?" he began the conversation, before suddenly raising his hand and reaching for something in my hair. "Sorry, you had some fluff there."

I smiled awkwardly and pushed my hair behind my ear. "Er, thanks. Yeah, I'm Y/N. I'm sorry, I don't think I recognise you."

He shook his head. "I didn't think you would. We don't go to the same school. I saw you walking around and thought I'd introduce myself."

"Oh, er..." I didn't know what to say as I wasn't really interested in his clear advances.

"Can I get you a drink?" he asked suddenly, still smirking at me.

"I already have one," I said conclusively, before aiming to move past him, but he put his arm in the way. I looked at it before raising my eyebrow at him. "You gonna let me go?"

He snickered. "Come on, just let me get you a drink."

"I'm not interested," I told him straightforwardly before attempting to make another move, but he pushed me back gently. "Dude, come on."

"What's one drink gonna do?" he asked persistently (and annoyingly).

"I–"

"She said back off," another voice came out of nowhere, and suddenly Skye appeared and pushed the guy back harshly, stepping between us.

"Skye, I–" I began, but the guy was already glaring down at her with a fake smile on his lips.

"Or what?" he asked rhetorically.

She returned his glare and said nothing. I rested a hand on her arm and tried to tug her backwards, but she wasn't moving. Always the stubborn one.

"What are you gonna do, Skye?" he repeated with bitter humour. "You gonna call the cops? I heard they know you pretty well by now, don't they?"

"Don't speak to her like that," I said angrily, glaring at him.

He began to laugh, shaking his head, before finally walking away. I released a deep breath and watched as Skye turned around to face me.

"Are you alright?" I asked her gently, resting a hand on her arm as I found her eyes.

"Are you?" she countered, looking over me with concern. "That guy was a jackass."

"He was, but I had it under control," I said with reassurance, before downing the rest of my drink and throwing the cup in the bin. "You didn't need to step in."

"Uh, yeah, I did," she said, stepping in my line of sight. "He was a creep."

I rolled my eyes playfully. "Okay, Skye, whatever you say. Thank you."

"You're welcome, now can we leave?"

I shoved her in the shoulder slightly. "We're not leaving. Not yet anyway. There's a foosball table in the other room I wanna play with and you're playing, too."

She sighed dramatically. "Fine."

I grinned at her before dragging her to the other room by her hand.

Another hour passed when I unfortunately began to feel the effects of my drink that I later came to learn was spiked by the arsehole who tried to hit on me. I wasn't particularly aware of my actions, otherwise I definitely wouldn't have done nor said half the things I did. Things like playing beer pong for the third time in a row and losing every game.

"It's just me an' you, Y/L/N," Kate, the girl I was playing with, said as we both a had a cup left. "Think you can win?"

I laughed as I rolled the ball between my fingers. "Third time's the charm...?"

The group of teenagers around us watched with anticipation as I aimed the shot up in my mind. It wasn't exactly helpful that I could barely stand up straight and my eyes were crossing over, making the cup move around slowly.

"One... two... three...," I counted down, before tossing the ball and watching it bounce off the side of the table and onto the floor. "Well, shit."

Everybody laughed as I ran a hand through my hair. Kate chuckled before grabbing the ball and lining it up. Miles better than I did, she aimed quickly and got it in the cup in one shot, resulting in cheers from everyone. I laughed and grabbed the cup, eyeballing the beer. I wasn't really a fan of beer, but a game was a game.

I downed the cup and pulled a face at how disgusting it tasted, before tossing the cup on the floor. I pushed away from the table I was leaning on, before falling back and hitting the floor, butt-first. I giggled to myself as I tried to stand up, but with great difficulty.

"Y/N, there you are!"

I looked up and lit up when I saw none other than Skye standing above me. She bent down and grabbed my hands before helping me stand up. I stumbled into her, but thankfully she caught my weight and let me lean on her for support.

"How did you get drunk so quickly?" she asked with surprise, leading me to the front door. "I've literally been with you. Until you ditched me twenty minutes ago which wasn't cool since I only came to this stupid party because of you."

I laughed. "I'm sorry. I saw the ping pong table and couldn't resist."

She sighed to herself before leading me outside. "You smell like alcohol."

"That's because I had some," I whispered not-so-quietly in her ear, before erupting into giggles.

"I gotta get you home," she mumbled, before searching my pockets. "Where are your keys?"

"My mum is gonna k-kill me," I realised, but a dopey smile was on my lips. "You have to sleepover."

She found my keys and began leading me to my car. "I'm gonna have to, aren't I? So much for not getting drunk."

I covered my mouth to try and stop the laughter from spilling out. She didn't seem amused as she managed to get me into the passenger's seat before rounding the car to the driver's seat. When she got comfortable, I watched her with a childish grin.

"You can't drive," I said in a know-it-all voice. "You didn't pass your test, silly."

She started the engine and began doing her mirror checks before pulling out, muttering, "Nobody has to know."

I watched as she drove, feeling exhausted but lighter than usual. She looked really pretty tonight. I wanted to tell her when we went to the party, but I didn't want her to get the wrong idea. Now however, it was all I could think about and my heart was fluttering at the thought.

"Here, drink this," she ordered, before throwing a bottle of water into my lap.

"But–"

"No buts, just drink it," she said authoritatively, glancing at me.

I didn't want to argue with her, so I began opening the bottle as I giggled to myself. "You said butts."

She groaned to herself and I drank the water as instructed, even if I really didn't want to.

Before I knew it, we had arrived at my house and Skye was helping me to the door.

"Your mum knows you're coming back late, so this shouldn't be a problem," she said quietly, mostly to herself. "Try not to make noise though, okay?"

I nodded obediently, before putting my finger to my mouth. "Sshhhh. Quiet."

She rolled her eyes before using my keys to open the door and drag me inside. I stayed as quiet as I could, letting her take me upstairs and to my room. Only, before we could go in, I heard my mum call out for me.

"Y/N, love, is that you?"

I stared blankly at Skye as she gave me a knowing look with wide eyes, nodding. I continued staring at her as my mum called my name again.

"Answer her!" she whisper-shouted to me.

"But you said to stay quiet," I said with confusion.

She facepalmed. "Just answer her," she said with frustration.

"Well then, no need to get crabby," I mumbled before calling out to mum, "It's me, mum! Skye and I are back!"

There was a pause before she called back, "Okay! Make sure you lock the front door!"

I snickered to myself as Skye shoved me into my bedroom before I could reply.

"Will do, Mrs Y/L/N!" Skye called out before slipping into my room with me.

She flicked on the light as I flopped onto my bed with a satisfied sigh. Suddenly, something was tossed onto my face making me groan as I pulled them off. I realised they were pyjamas.

"Get changed. Now."

I sat up and saw Skye watching me with a stern expression. I couldn't help but smile to myself, giggling. She looked really cute when she pretended to be angry.

"Y/N," she warned.

"I'm not tired," I lied, standing up. I wanted any excuse to keep on talking to her.

"I don't care," she said with a shrug. "You're going to bed whether you like it or not."

"But I wanna talk to you," I whined like a child, before moving forward to grab her hand.

She let go and gently pushed me to the bed. "Don't be a baby, Y/N."

I hugged her quickly, smiling to myself. "Thank you for being here. And for coming with me tonight."

"Yeah, yeah..."

"I'm serious," I said, pulling away and almost falling backwards, but she held me upright. "Thanks."

Her expression softened. "Unfortunately, that's what friends are for, Y/N. I wasn't gonna leave you."

I breathed out, momentarily startled by her sharp gaze. She had the most beautiful eyes, I always thought it. Somehow, she had the power to make me freeze up and forget everything I was thinking or going to say and I never knew why.

"I love you," I said truthfully, not caring what I was saying and too overcome with emotion to care.

She rolled her eyes, a smile of amusement dancing on her lips. "You gotta keep it down, Y/N."

I smiled widely. "But I do."

She gave me a knowing look. "I know you do. And I love you, too, but you have to get ready. Tomorrow morning is not gonna be kind to you."

"No, you don't get it, I really love you, Skye," I said, my mouth going dry as I stared at her with butterflies in my stomach.

"I know," she played along, patting me on the shoulder. "You done, idiot?"

"I'm in love with you," I blurted suddenly, smile disappearing. I stared at her, trying to ignore the blurriness in my vision. "I always have been."

Her smile seemed to fade when she realised how serious I had become. She licked her lips and shook her head slowly, lowering her hands.

"You don't know what you're saying, Y/N," she said quietly.

I grew distracted by her lips, barely acknowledging what was coming out of her mouth. "I do," I told her.

She didn't know what to say, and before I knew it, I had moved forward and pressed my lips to hers. It was something I'd wanted to do for so long and now that I was finally doing it, my shoulders felt lighter as if I wasn't carrying a huge secret on them anymore.

I closed my eyes and momentarily felt her kiss back, hands resting on my chest. It didn't last very long as she gently pushed me away, leaving me face to face with her flushed cheeks and swollen lips. I was sure I didn't look any different.

"You're drunk," she stated awkwardly.

I swallowed the lump in my throat and began to come to terms with what I'd just done, what I'd just ruined. I stepped back and shook my head.

I swallowed the lump in my throat and began to come to terms with what I'd just done, what I'd just ruined. I stepped back and shook my head.

"I'm so sorry, Skye. I–"

"It's okay," she reassured me. "Please, let's just get you ready for bed, okay?"

I avoided her eyes as I nodded, feeling my heart ache with discomfort.

When I woke up the next morning, I didn't remember much from the night before. At least not straight away. All I had to remind me of it was an insane headache that wouldn't go away and a rancid taste in my mouth. Thankfully, Skye caught me up with how drunk I was and how she had to stay with me to cover for me before she left me to shower and freshen up.

Unfortunately for me, showering and freshening up gave me enough time to remember parts of the night before, including the main bit where I kissed my best friend and expressed my feelings for her.

To say I was freaking out was an understatement. I couldn't believe I had done the very thing I had avoided for years. Seeing her at the breakfast table made me wonder why she hadn't mentioned it. Was she embarrassed? Did she want to pretend it never happened? Was she uncomfortable?

I wasn't sure whether to go along and pretend I couldn't remember it, or admit the truth and apologise profusely. In the end, I ended up doing the latter.

We were eating pancakes that she'd made with my mum as I spoke up.

"So, I, er, I'm kinda remembering some stuff from last night," I said awkwardly, glancing up at her.

She slowed down with her eating, avoiding my eyes. "You do?"

I nodded, looking back down to my food. "Yeah. Particularly the, well, I–"

"You don't have to say it," she assured me, and I looked up to see her watching me with a small smile.

"I'm really sorry," I got out with a deep breath. "I don't know why I did that. Or said those things. It was stupid."

"It was?"

"You should've left after that, but you didn't for some reason," I continued with a grimace of embarrassment. "We can totally pretend it didn't happen."

She chewed on the inside of her mouth as she nodded slowly in agreement. I nodded, too, eyes falling to my pancakes.

"Thanks," I mumbled. "And thank you for making sure I was okay. You're a really great friend."

She smiled at me with distracted eyes. "Anytime, Y/N."

[golbrocklovely]

omg anon, i completely forgot to post this two days ago ! my apologies...

here is the next batch of colby's tweets from 2016.

i don’t have proof that these are his tweets, but believe me, they are his.

if it’s bold and italicized, it’s someone's tweet to him.

if it's in (), that's just me commenting bc some of the ones down below are... strange lol

~~~~~~

Oct. 1 - Even scientologists know there's more to all of this

(i'm sorry i have to butt in... wtf is this tweet????? lmao)

Oct. 2 - I'd walk through hell for you

Oct. 3 - I'm overly protective

so that means if you had a girlfriend you'd protect her a lot

@/NicoleR5forlife protect her with my life

Never let people walk all over you. Stand your ground and speak up if you have to

Oct. 4 - My mind always occupied with the thought of what could be

Don't let beauty disguise personality

Oct. 5 - I think about you often. Hard for me not to.

Oct. 6 - Sometimes, you just gotta push yourself to do things you're not very comfortable with.

Oct. 7 - "You know, I never wanted it to turn out this way.."

Oct. 9 - I'm a dreamer

Confidence is sexy

Oct. 12 - I hate comparing myself to others, but it's hard not to in the world of social media

Sit under the stars with me

Oct. 13 - I like girls who portray confidence and don't give a crap about the negative things

Oct. 15 - You know you know I'm only a fool for you.

Making the most of it while I'm young

Oct. 16 - Looking for that someone I can give my all to

Oct. 17 - I'm in dire need of an escape. Wanna go see the world

Oct. 18 - I want a little dog friend

Calling all little doggie friends to come love meeee

Call me crazy, I'm far from normal

me too. Hi crazy I'm insane.

@/Jellis7898 "hi crazy I'm insane" I really like that

If I couldn't have you, well, I'd rather be alone.

Oct. 20 - New day, same feelings

Oct. 21 - Don't wait for the "right" time. You'll wait forever

Oct. 24 - Gloomy days in LA are the best

Oct. 25 - I live to make you happy.

I feel like I'm driving myself crazy. I need to stop

Oct. 28 - I can't stress how important it is to always do what makes you happy despite anyone else's opinion

Oct. 27 - Not the life it seems like.

Oct. 29 - Remember. It's okay not to be okay sometimes.

Oct. 30 - Need someone to cuddle with on this lazy Sunday

Putting my 100% trust in someone seems almost impossible

Nov. 1 - You're beautiful no matter what they say

Nov. 2 - I lost my class ring and that makes me so sad. I just wanna find it

Nov. 5 - I feel like I live a nocturnal life

Nov. 6 - I've gotten to the point where I just ride the rollercoaster of life .. not even trying to fight anything.

I'm dying my whole head bright neon yellow

I want you all to call me "lemon head"

Guys I'm kidding ... but you can still call me lemon head if thats what your heart wants

(these past three tweets had me dying lmao)

Nov. 7 - I put way too much pressure on myself sometimes. Just gotta chill out for a second

NIK JUST SLAPPED ME SO HARD IN THE FACE

SLAP HIM BACK

I did c:

I cared so much that it made me a different person at times.

I try to share my thoughts with you as much as I can. And I get it, sometimes it doesn't make sense. But bare with me

Nov. 11 - If you ever want to find out why someone is acting a certain way ... ask them. Communication is key

I appreciate you. The person reading this tweet I'm writing right now .. I really care about you. Thank you for being in my life.

I feel like in the world I live in everything is dramatic. Always.

Nov. 15 - Such a hopeless romantic at heart .. even if I don't show it that often

Mess with me, I'll get over it. Mess with my friends, not a good idea for you..

Nov. 16 - @/itscolbybrock come watch Harry Potter with me :(

@/alyssayikes you're a wizard, Alyssa

Nov. 19 - There's nothing more nerve racking than being in an elevator that makes loud, creaky noises.

Confession: sometimes I watch chiropractic adjustment videos because I like the satisfying noise of the back cracks.. Is that weird

"And I know I know you're in love with me and I've been ignoring you.."

Nov. 20 - "She's just got a funny way of loving me.."

Nov. 21 - I will always have respect for you.. until you break my trust

Nov. 22 - I miss my little Puggle.

Time to go grocery shopping! We just ran out of chicken nuggets and that is NOT okay.

You're worth fighting for.. and that's why I keep pushing

Nov. 23 - Perfect date: laying in a trunk bed looking at the stars. Listening to our favorite songs and eating our favorite foods.

Nov. 25 - Let me tell you something that I want you to remember: You are NOT alone.

Nov. 26 - Because of you, I'm still dreaming

Nov. 28 - I want adventure .. But only with you

If only you could see what goes on in my mind

Nov. 29 - RT @LifeLimits: Every girl deserves a guy that can make her heart forget that it was ever broken.

Nov. 30 - My mind is just a big blur today

Dec. 1 - I always do the most embarrassing things. Hahah definitely gunna regret a few things I post on the internet in a few years

Dec. 2 - Do you ever wake up and are just like "Go away sun.. im NOT READYY" Cause that's me today

Oversized hoodies are the best thing to cuddle in

I want a koala onesie.

Dec. 3 - If you are someone who will stay 100% loyal in a relationship, I have the highest level of respect for you.

Dec. 4 - Seeing you always makes my world so much brighter

Dec. 5 - I want to get married to a krispy kreme donut

Dec. 6 - Being yourself is attractive. Confidence is everything

Dec. 8 - All my friends are better than me at bowling

lets go bowling, I promise you I'm worse

@/corrinamortiz I'll take you just so I can win

I just want to make a giant impact on the world

Dec. 10 - I want you guys to know me as a person... not just a character in videos. And trust me, in the next few weeks. I'll make that happen.

I wanna kiss someone under a mistletoe this year

Dec. 12 - I'd be the type of boyfriend who would want to show my girl off to the entire world

Dec. 15 - Thankful for you

Dec. 17 - Really hate to scare you guys, but I just hope you support everything that happens in the near future

So excited to see my baby girl. (Talking about my dog)

Dec. 20 - Nothing would be possible without you. And for that, thank you.

Dec. 21 - I got mah organic gummy bears ... I am happy

Worried that the lady sitting next to me can hear the staggering amount of screamo blaring through my headphones. :3

Turbulence gives me so much anxiety

Dec. 22 - Just walked around the mall I'm permanently banned in. I know I know, I'm a rebel.

As weird as this is to say .. I actually missed the gloomy days in Kansas

Dec. 23 - I can tell my mom anything. And that is something I'm SO thankful for. Don't know what I'd do if I couldn't

Dec. 24 - I love all animals. 😍 like how can you not ?

(hi im gonna go cry now)

Dec. 25 - These are the moments you should cherish! The ones with your family. Everyone in the same place

Dec. 26 - Sometimes I'll talk to myself, I'm not afraid to admit that

What happened you ask? I got sick and impatient.

I've been dreaming so much lately

Goin back to my roots

Dec. 28 - The new Star Wars movie made me so emotional idk why

Heading back to the land of dreams

Dec. 30 - New Years kiss 🤔

Seems like all I do is wind up missing you

Dec. 31 - Be safe tonight guys, love you

[phantaloon-books]

(some) Riordanverse characters (bc I never read TKC) and which Hogwarts House I think they would be in

Warning: this is a long one

Nico: the dude is definitely Gryffindor without a doubt. Like Sorting isn't about some traits and some characteristics, it's about core personality. He may have gone through some of the roughest stuff when he was 10-12, and he was resentful and bitter, but he was brave and bold af throughout everything he did. From learning about his powers, to using them relentlessly despite knowing how exhausted he is afterwards, to his willingness to do whatever is necessary to do what has to be done, because it has to be done. You can't change my mind that he's Gryffindor lol.

Grover: Do I even need to explain why he's Gryffindor? He's a satyr, and even if we're shown strong satyrs, they're not really supposed to be brave fighters. Yet he is one of the strongest, bravest nature spirits we've ever encountered in the Riordanverse, and one of the bravest in general. Like he's so passionate about doing what is good, he's a hero, and the only thing he doesn't match with common Gryffindors is that he's humble and as far from arrogant as could be possible, but it doesn't take his courage away.

Hazel: She's Gryffindor, and core personality-wise, she and Nico are very much alike. They don't ever think about themselves, like Hazel really always does what has to be done, no matter the cost, I mean she literally died preventing Gaea to rise the first time, and she freed Thanatos while believing he would take her back to the Underworld. She's brave af, and she has one of the most strong willpower we've seen in the Riordanverse. She's a passionate hero, and she's the closest thing to a real knight in shining armor.

Lester: I'm gonna place him in Gryffindor because I don't think he fits in in the other houses lmao. That said, as Apollo he's very shitty, but as Lester, he's one of the most courageous people. He's grown so much, he's so willing to actually do stuff now, and sacrifice everything to do what's right, including his life, even if he doesn't know he's gonna survive. Hell, he really went most of TTT with an incredibly painful wound that nearly turned him undead, and he cared more for the future of Camp Jupiter than his own life. Additionally, he's a bit arrogant and cocky, but he truly means well, I love Lester so much.

Clarisse: Look look, all I have to say is that no one could have pulled off less than half the stuff Clarisse has done, she's so Gryffindor it hurts. She's reckless and impulsive, but she's driven by her passion to do good, even if she's the daughter of war, and was bullied by her own father. She's daring, she's bold and she is the hero. She's also arrogant and thinks she can solve everything by herself, something characteristic more of the canon Gryffindors in the books, rather than what the fans have shaped. In fact, she's very much like Gryffindors in the books, who are actually very rude to other houses and think they're the best. Still, at heart, she's in this house.

Alex: I'm in a huge dilemma about where to put them, but I reckon they'd fit pretty fine in Gryffindor. Not only are they daring and courageous, they're proud of who they are, but not in a too full of themselves kind of way, rather in a 'I am who I am, and if you can't accept me, fuck off' kind of way. They can get carried away rather easily though, and very arrogant, thinking they don't need anyone else, when they do in fact need some company. They are one of the kindest and at the same time most ambitious characters we've met, but they are brave beyond understanding in a very personal way, thus, Gryffindor.

Percy: I think it's fair to say he'd be Hufflepuff, because loyalty is literally his fucking fatal flaw, and he is the kindest sweetheart to all those who deserve it, he goes out of his way to help those who need help, whether that be mortals, halfbloods, gods, magical creatures or even his own enemies. He's too good for this world, and even if he's grown a bit bitter, he always looks to fight justly for what is right, and never loses faith in others. That, and the fact that he turned down immortality so that the olympians were more inclusive of minor gods, and their children were treated better. He's just a lovely soul, he's like 80% Hufflepuff so that's enough for me. All that and he's stubborn as hell.

Jason: Hufflepuff. Just, undoubtedly Hufflepuff. Like he seems to be this cold and self centered hero with a superiority complex (bc of all the son of Jupiter stuff) but he's the softest guy there is. Not only is he hardworking, open minded and kind, he appreciates justice but he doesn't seek for revenge or anything, he makes sure people are treated fairly and wants everyone to be accepted. Proof of that is how he continued Percy's job of including more gods, and made sure Nico felt comfortable with who he was. He truly has a heart of gold. (He deserved better btw)

Meg: God I can't decide between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor, but I think I'll go with the former. She's so strong, my baby, she's faced so much wrong, but she's still so kind and understanding of others, especially those who deserve kindness. She puts up such a hard facade, but she's so patient and warm and inclusive. She's brave and strong (as strong as the big three kids, if not stronger), but she's also so loyal to her beliefs despite how she was forced someone else's beliefs for years, so I'll keep her in Hufflepuff. Also, she's stubborn af, and she can be lazy, so that settles it.

Will: I KNOW some people will say Will could be in other houses that are not Hufflepuff, BUT I won't have it any other way. Will is literally the warmest person ever. He is kind and sympathetic and enthusiastic and patient and inclusive. Like Helga Hufflepuff would take one look at him and lose her shit screaming "mine". He's the guy who saw the son of Hades so many people were scared of and immediately grabbed his hand and transfered him some warmth and didn't let him go ahead and get himself killed. He's also the one who everyone loves and likes, so much that Clarisse gets along with him and he can calm her down. He's the ideal Hufflepuff, you can't change my mind.

Magnus: I mean, what else can you expect from the son of the god of summer? He's literally a guy who heals others with warmth. He's also the guy who spent years on the street with the most difficult situations, and accepts every single person the way they are. He's inclusive af, and tolerant of everything. He's the guy who's closest include a deaf elf, a Muslim valkyrie, and a black dwarf, and he's dating a genderfluid person. Yes he's brave, and he's kinda smart, and he's ambitious, BUT none of those qualities overpower his Hufflepuff nature.

Piper: Kinda debated whether Gryffindor or Ravenclaw fits more, but in the end I went with Ravenclaw. Even though she isn't a fighter, she's very very brave, yet her bravery isn't compared to her wits. Like others in the PJOverse, she wins her fights by outsmarting her opponents, but unlike others that's one of her strongest traits. She's witty and creative and a little on the negative side, she really struggled to work in a group rather than by herself. On another note, she's able to keep calm in crazy situations and come up with the craziest most unthinkable solutions (I'm talking borderline ridiculous) that always somehow work. She's not booksmart, but she knows so much about everything, and she's lifesmart you know?

Reyna: Why are some of these so hard? Deeply debating whether she'd be Ravenclaw or Slytherin. In the end I'd go more for Ravenclaw though. Reyna's smart as hell, she's strong and sharp, and she always sees the best way out of a situation. She's witty and observant, being able to keep her cool in battle and lead others in the best direction. She's always looking to grow, and she prefers to do things on her own, but she's a great leader. She has some Slytherin qualities, and she's not learning as learning oriented as others, but she's definitely Ravenclaw.

Sam: Let's face it, Sam has the only active neurons in all of MCGA, she's definitely Ravenclaw. I'm gonna be honest though, I've only read MCGA once, so I can't remember much of their personalities, but Sam is witty and clever, pretty much the only one who can come up with competent plans, while the others rely mostly on luck and whatever plan they can cook up in 5 seconds. She's loyal and true to who she is, and she's extremely courageous and proud of who she is, but her sharpness is what she stands out for me, which is why I put her in Ravenclaw.

Annabeth: I know the obvious option is Ravenclaw, but I genuinely think she's also Slytherin. Yes she is booksmart and wise like Ravenclaw, but her personality matches Slytherins' ambitious, cunning and resourceful nature. She's smart as fuck, but she's calculative, she always finds a way to end up winning, and while she does so by outsmarting her opponents, she wouldn't need to outsmart them if she weren't so competitive. I feel like there's this 40/60 odds on Slytherin rather than Ravenclaw, but it's that small difference that counts. Plus her leadership skills are so powerful that people don't ask, they just know she's the boss.

(Also just picture the sweet and loyal Hufflepuff boy with the strong and cunning Slytherin girl, like it should be as opposite as it is with Poseidon and Athena, but they're so cute)

Leo: Idk what you can expect that's not Slytherin. This boy is the embodiment of ambition and determination. Reminder that not all Slytherins are bad btw (I'm slytherin myself), but like he's life smart and cunning, and he can analyze situations faster than anyone else. He's charismatic and talented, and there's no one to stop him from triumphing. I don't have much to say, I just know he'd be in Slytherin.

Rachel: She's kinda a difficult one, and I struggle between Gryffindor and Slytherin, and tbh I'm still not sure. But I think I'd place her in Slytherin, because even if she's brave af (especially since she was a mortal fighting in a war out of her power), her main trait is her determination. When she's set on something, she gets it done. You can't tell her she can't do something, because she will find a way to do it. She's kind, and she's only a mortal, but she still has incredible power unlike any other. I don't think I can really name it, but I think she'd be put on Slytherin with much difficulty from the Sorting Hat.

Luke: Where else could Luke possibly go? On the meaner side Slytherins have created themselves, Luke would be part of those misled by who preceded them, by those who want to take advantage of their mistreatment (bc let's face it, Slytherins are mistreated by both students and Hogwarts staff), and turn them cold and bitter. Luke is ambitious and manipulative, being manipulated himself, and it comes easily because of his natural charisma and talent. He's very freaking determined and cunning too. He'd fit right into Slytherin, but he'd be viewed as one of the rotten lot.

Thalia: I don't have much to say about this, but Thalia is the girl whose fatal flaw is their desire for power (or smth along those lines), just like most Slytherins. She's ambitious, she's smart, she's truly talented, she stands out between the rest, and she knows it, and she actually kinda likes it.

(Also I put Annabeth, Thalia and Luke in the same house because they're all kinda similar, even if their beliefs and postures are different.

Frank: Ngl I'm having more difficulty with Frank than anyone else. I'm kinda torn between Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw. I literally can't choose. He'd fit perfectly in any of them lmao, I just can't decide where he'd go. You decide this one yourself.

Please keep in mind, this is my personal opinion and my take on the characters, and not all of you will agree, and that's fine! You can let me know what you think (kindly please, don't come at me), and if you want to, send me an ask on a character you want me to do the same as these (as long as it's not TKC, I'M SORRY I haven't read those) go ahead, don't be shy!