#but a little cough is not sickness

[kitamars]

lovey dovey (alt ver of the first one under the cut!)

[stormxpadme]

Me: While I wait for my phone to load so I can go swim in the tub and kill this cold before it starts, maybe I can finish translating the new chapter real quick.

New chapter: Here's that gym scene with Remy you wrote 15 years ago, I hope you know what these Horizontal Bar figures mean in English :-).

Me: ...

Me: Anyone remind me why tf I am doing this.

[esaari]

[sassycyborgninja]

does anyone else see the vision or am i insane

my friend @sol-thorne suggested Ford as Six cuz— SIXer— SIX finger- yk in case that wasnt obvious

we’re geniuses i know youre welcome dont thank us

[triglycercule]

sleep deprived dust can't recognize what's dream and what's real when he goes in and out of consciousness so i think dust is allowed to be incredibly reckless when he's awake but thinks he's in a dream. he will kill whoever passes by him (or attempt to. for him it's an instict to shoot bones anyways.) he will drink 4 bottles of alcohol just because he thinks its just a lucid dream. have incredibly loud conversations with phantom paps because he's asleep so nobody will hear him talk. or just have loud ass breakdowns because again he thinks he's asleep!!! nobody's gonna know what he gets up to in his dreams. and until someone (probably phantom paps) tells him that he's not asleep and this is reality he won't realize until he's done something really reckless

horror is seconds away from exploding dust's skull open with his magic while dust is trying to strangle him and FINALLY phantom paps tells him he's awake and dust snaps out of it. killer is walking around the house with bones sticking out of him like pins on a sewing pattern (casually too. another day in the life for him) and he just asks dust what that was about. dust just gets off of horror and shrugs his shoulders with an idk. and then walks away. this is the 6th time its happened this month

[scarlet-wish-draws]

Might hop on the infection au thing for a little while. We'll see how it goes.

[salt-baby]

I just don't understand people who don't do a COVID test when they get sick

[whumpypepsigal]

Whumptober 2023 | No. 13

Infection

Roswell, New Mexico s04e06: “Will you make it go away?”

@whumptober @whumptober-archive

[twisted-wonderland-shenanigans]

Are we going to get more Marine Biology Mini Yuu with everyone being either Harpy or mermaids?

Yes, we are, actually! And I am so sorry for everyone who has been waiting, but I'm working my way through things!

I've been working on and off on the project for a little longer than I would care to admit, but after my hiatus (which I'm still easing myself into a pace I'm comfortable with again to avoid burnout), I decided to reattempt it to get a better flow.

If I can manage to figure out how to design things, I may attempt to do creature concept sketches for how the boys would look like in this AU like I've started doing for the Monster!AU so I can add it to the fic once it's done! 👀

At the moment, Rook is the only harpy in this version of the AU, but he will serve a role just like the others, and there shall be cuteness galore with mini!Yuu! ÙvÚ

[icewindandboringhorror]

Some (late) holiday photos of the boye~!

[inaris-mage-of-storms]

(A little continuation of Muscle Memory, anyone?)

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The day went well, more or less - only one little ol' fire, and it was put out practically right away! Honestly, Tango probably wouldn't even have remembered it happened if not for the way Jimmy's brow furrowed and the corners of his mouth turned down as he frowned at the scorch marks inside the microwave.

"I don't know what happened! I could have sworn I - " Jimmy turned his head and coughed into his elbow. "I really thought the pizza was already in there. Sorry."

"Hey, it's okay!" Tango nudged Jimmy's shoulder with his own. Skizz glanced over from where he was locking the door and flipping the sign to 'closed' before grabbing the mop. "You did amazing. We would have been in so much trouble without you."

He expected Jimmy to smile. He didn't expect the smile to feel so weak, to fail to reach those bright hazel eyes that were usually so determined.

"I could have been a lot faster," said Jimmy. "Forgot what I was doing a couple of times, and that definitely slowed you down. You and Skizz work so hard, and I just - "

Skizz leaned the mop against the wall and took Jimmy's face in both his hands, squishing his cheeks. "You stop that right now! You are an integral part of this kitchen, an excellent chef, and - woah, you're kind of hot, dude, are you okay?"

"Heh." Jimmy's smile was a little more genuine now, but the flush on his face wasn't from Skizz's words. "Bro, right in front of my rancher?"

It was Tango's turn to frown, mentally kicking himself for not realizing sooner that something was up. When Skizz let go, Tango put a hand on Jimmy's forehead, confirming for himself what was wrong. "You should have said something if you weren't feeling well. We could have done without you for a little bit. I mean, not well, because you're a superstar, but we could have managed."

"I'm fine, really," Jimmy insisted. "I'm just a little, tiny bit - um. Maybe a lot bit dizzy." He let his head fall forward onto Tango's shoulder. "Didn't want to be a bother," he mumbled.

"Hoh boy. You wanna get him home while I finish up here, Top?" Skizz looked as worried as Tango felt.

"I can still help clean up!" Jimmy straightened back up, trying to look as alert as possible, but whatever illness was about to hit him was catching up fast now that he didn't have the urgency of a busy restaurant to keep him moving. "I can't leave you to do all the work when you two already do so much more than - "

"Jimmy. You work just as hard as we do, maybe harder," said Tango firmly. "You are not a bother. There isn't much left to do, and Skizz can handle the rest of it just fine, okay? Let us take care of you."

Tango knew from his own experience that telling Jimmy to stop thinking like that would be ineffective. He knew from his own experience that it might take him a while to truly believe the compliments, if he ever did at all - but it didn't matter. Tango would remind Jimmy of his worth a hundred times a day for a hundred years if he had to.

"Okay," said Jimmy in a small voice. "Can - can we get some ginger ale on the way?"

Tango smiled. "Yeah, we can do that. Wanna veg on the couch and watch some bad movies?"

Jimmy nodded, looking absolutely miserable now that he wasn't trying to hide it, and Tango wanted to have him bundled in a blanket ten minutes ago. Skizz shooed them out, assuring Jimmy that he would be fine, honest, he just had to finish the mopping and a couple of dishes and he would be right behind them, and if Jimmy didn't stop fretting and leave right now then he was going to be carried home.

"Gosh, I think he means it," grinned Jimmy, letting Tango take his hand and pull him out of the restaurant.

"Oh, he does," said Tango with his own grin. "Impulse tried the same thing as you, once. And I do mean once. Skizz scooped him up like a sack of potatoes and dumped him in bed. The look on his face was priceless."

His grin faded a little when Jimmy's laugh turned into a cough, and it wasn't long before he had him safely home and tucked against his side while they flipped through TV channels. The restaurant would have to be closed for a few days - Skizz could handle closing up on his own, but running the entire place by himself was too much to ask. Tango was sure Jimmy would insist he was fine on his own, but he wasn't going to hear of it, and he knew Skizz would agree.

"You're not a bother," he whispered against Jimmy's forehead, even though Jimmy had dozed off at least three cheesy plot developments ago. A hundred times a day, if he had to; whatever it took to re-train the muscle memory of Jimmy's self-depreciation into self-worth instead.

}{ Part Three }{

[nosyrobin]

Honestly I’ve been waking up gasping for air because ever since I was sick I’ve been coughing excessively and it hurt me badly. But my cough is like going away, but I wake up out of no where sometimes and start coughing or basically gasping for air. It only stops for like a few seconds and then I’m fine. Im honestly so tired.

[natjennie]

I have no idea if I'm having surgery tomorrow or not because it's been the weekend so we couldn't call to ask so who the fuck knows. but I have to prepare and not have anything to eat or drink after midnight and not take my meds or anything beforehand without any idea if it's actually happening or not. no idea. everything's up in the air. don't have a solid plan for yknow. my first ever surgery. I feel like shit. I'm nervous. I'm scared. I can't predict what's gonna happen until the moment of. pretty much nightmare scenario for me.

[meownotgood]

bad news: I am very sick right now and these cough drops I have to take every few minutes taste like shit

good news: under the influence chapter two on saturday (probably) (unless I spontaneously get even sicker) (pray for me)

[artisticmiles]

Why? Why must every single piece of media have suffering?

Why is the world so hell-bent on showing how there's no such thing as happy endings? What's the point of escaping into a fantasy world if even there you aren't guaranteed happiness and peace?

Why must happily-ever-after's be fairytales even in children's media?

There's no point in showing them happy and in love at the end of Gen 4 if you're just going to destroy that notion in Gen 5.

Now, every single scene they share will be forever tainted by the knowledge that Discord will spend centuries alone, mourning the loss of Fluttershy. Tainted by the knowledge that not even this fantastical world of brightly colored ponies is free of suffering.

Just think about what that tells kids, especially those with bad home situations. That not even a show about the power of love and friendship actually believes that love conquers all. That, for some, loneliness is not only guaranteed but also inevitable? That regardless of how much effort you put into it, some people just don't get happy endings?

That is the type of thing that can have devastating effects on a kid, especially if they keep seeing it repeatedly in all sorts of different media.

[justaz]

okay but have we considered morgana x freya?? two women who believed themselves to be monsters, hunted by the same man and his loyal followers, cursed, doomed to death the moment someone finds them out, alone. they wish for freedom, somewhere where they can be themselves, where they dont have to hide, where they can embrace their power and who they are without fear or without harming anyone.