#but the colors r great so it balances out

[deuynndoodles]

[id: a colored, digital drawing of link and marin from link's awakening, drawn back to back. the way it's colored makes it appear surreal and dreamlike. marin stands in front, holding a hand up to her chest, singing with a pleasant smile on her face. she is framed by the light, casting a shadow over link. link is playing her ocarina, glancing over her shoulder to stare at marin with a pensive, sad expression. end id]

the isle of koholint is but an illusion

[itsalwaysdark]

i like overthink everything now it makes me feel so dumb. i used 2 be able to just talk 2 ppl but nowadays every single thing im like Is that actually going to make them hate me. Yes probably. and then i just dont respond which makes ppl hate me. this is how it is

[digi-lov]

LadyDevimon EX1-060 Alternative Art by Kariki Hajime from the Digimon Illustration Competition 2023 Pack

「Blood moon」 by Kariki Hajime

Winners' comments Digimon is a very special anime series and many of its monsters have left unique impressions on me. I wanted to share the appeal of Digimon with everyone through my artwork, so LadyDevimon Under a Scarlet Full Moon was born.I'm grateful that my work has been well received and feel honored to have participated in the competition with other artists. I will keep working in the future!

Judge's comment This is an amazing work that stood out in terms of color balance, personal touches, and composition. Congratulations on winning the Grand Prix!! - Mr. Kenji Watanabe

With so many great works of LadyDevimon, this one really charmed us with the unique composition and characteristic use of colors. Looking at the fallen angel standing tall against the blood moon, what does her facial expression tell? - Mr. Masashi Harada

Congratulations on winning the Grand Prize. It's so stylish. The handling of the lighting is wonderful and there's what's flowing down from the moon, blood is it? It might look like that because of how her hair blows in the wind from the gorge. It might be that we came across her at a moment that we aren't meant to see. This work has a strange charm that sets off the imagination despite its simplicity, rousing that kind of feeling. - Mr. Shinsuke Kojima

The character's pose and the layout of her expression and the screen are extremely stylish. I rate this highly for the high level of pure drawing ability as well as the flavor of the illustration and the taste of color in the background. - Digimon Card Game R&D Team

I was overwhelmingly captivated by this picture even during the first judging and that didn't change until the end. It's an illustration with amazing colors and composition. - Ms. Hiromi Seki

I love the composition where LadyDevimon seems to look down on both the Digiworld and the real world, while the red moon in the background matches the character's attributes, contributing to an overall great color tone. What is it that she is gazing at? It's an impressive illustration that promises to tell a narrative. - Digimon Ghost Game Production Staff

[from the website]

[my-own-walker]

The World Turns All Around Her

@lili-tate says: We need a fic with daddy kit!!

note: i can do that! i know i said previously that i didn't want to write father!evan but i womaned up and decided to expand my horizons.

warnings: dad!kit, mom!reader (sorry to be so heteronormative, it was the 60s!), fluff, lowkey postpartum but mostly just exhausted mother, 1965 (you decide if the events of asylum happened or not)

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My heart is so full of them, I can hardly call it my own.

Kit and Winnie. Winifred Eve Walker.

She just celebrated her first birthday and is proficient in babbling and repeating the sounds that come out of Kit and my mouths. She's close to walking, but not quite. She never quite crawled, actually.

I watch as she scoots across the floor, leading with one leg. It's almost as if she's trying to stand, favoring her right side, the bottom of her tiny foot slapping the floor as she slides along. Her left leg drags along, and her hands compensate for what she lacks in balance. Winnie settles next to her toy bin, which seems closer to a pile at the moment, and picks out a pastel pink rattle.

She cries out in joy as she shakes it, thoroughly enthused by the jingling of the beads inside. She Winnie-walks back over to me, sitting on the couch, and hands me the rattle. I know what she wants, so I do it.

I drop the toy onto the ground. "Uh oh!" I exclaim.

"Uh oh!" she repeats, picking up the rattle, clutching it tightly in her chubby little fist. She smiles up at me as she holds the object out to me once more.

Winnie has eight teeth so far. She's teething, which makes her a bit of a handful. But, seeing her toothy little grin staring up at me, complete with her big, twinkling eyes and round cheeks, makes it all worth it.

These little games, though, admittedly exhaust me. When she's not down for naps or eating, she and I get stuck in cycles of repetitive entertainment. Entertaining mostly for her. That's how babies are, though.

I love that she's grown to an age where she is more interactive, and more fun. Up until she was about six months old she just slept and ate, nothing else. Now, she loves to learn and play and try to talk. She's more mobile.

It's adorable. She's a lovable little person. Kit and I made her, and we wouldn't change a hair on her little head. But how active she is gets tiring.

"Beautiful girl!" I proclaim in a sing-songy voice, grabbing the rattle from her. I drop it again. It clatters to the wood floor loudly. "Uh oh," I call out.

"Uh oh," she echoes. Before she can repeat the cycle, though, I hear a car door close outside.

"Is that daddy?" I ask excitedly, my head stooping and my palms facing up. She grins back at me. "I think that's daddy!" I stand up, scooping her up into my arms in the same motion. I rest her on my hip as we venture through the house to the front door. She nibbles her hand as we go.

The door opens and a rush of cold air, along with Kit, comes through it. His expression brightens as soon as he sees us, his lips curled upward in a smile. "My gorgeous girls!" he exclaims.

He shuffles his feet on the mat by the door, knocking the snow off his boots before stepping forward into to house. He swings the door closed behind him and wraps his arms around the both of us. I kiss his cheek. It's icy cold from the brisk air outside. January in Massachusetts is as white as a rabbit's fur, with snow coloring every inch of ground.

Kit breaks his embrace and looks deeply into my eyes. His face, despite the cold, is as sunny as ever.

"How was your day?" I ask, adjusting Winnie's position on my hip.

"Great now that I've seen you two ladies," he chirps. "Here, lemme take her from ya." He reaches out for her and opens and closes his hands, like a child begging for more sweets.

"Don't you want to take your jacket off first? And your boots?" A subtle hint, yes, but I spent the entirety of Winnie's nap polishing the floors. I don't want him tracking wet slush in.

"Ah, right," he rasps, kicking his shoes off right next to the mat. They clunk down and around loudly. He shuffles to the coat closet and hangs his coat, smelling of tires and motor oil, up on the rail. "Now pass the little chickie over to Daddy." I hand a smiling Winnie to her father. He spins around and giggles with her, then holds her neck as he flips her upside down and back up again.

He repeats the action a few more times before disappearing into the living room with her.

I silently rejoice in the moment, happy to see my husband whisk the baby away so I could have time to finish cooking. I hear them playing, which usually consists of Kit talking away happily, replying to Winnie's oohs and ahhs as if they were having a real conversation.

After a bit of chopping and seasoning, I throw the prepared supper in the oven. I wipe my hands on my apron, untie it behind my back, and hang it on the hook on the wall next to the stove. I grab Winnie's bottle out of the water it was warming up in.

"Kit!" I call, walking through the house to the living room, bottle in hand. I pause in the doorway when I come upon the sight of the two of them. Kit has Winifred in his lap facing him. He sings to her softly:

"So if you tell her every day you love her And if you tell her everything she could be You'll find out that your world will turn around her"

"What a lovely song," I coo, astounded by the softness he's displaying.

He jumps and both of them turn to look at me. Winnie's smile is bigger than the whole sky. "Christ, you scared me," he breathed, a smile breaking across his whole face, reaching his eyebrows last.

"Dinner's ready," I say quietly, walking into the room to grab Winnie from him.

"Ah, ah," he tuts, "I got her." He stands, holding her high above his head before bringing her down and kissing her in a swift motion.

"You'll put her to bed?" I ask, eyebrow raised. I usually take bedtime duty, since he's the one who wakes up with her, changes her, and feeds her in the morning.

"Yes ma'am," he insists. He looks at Winnie and tickles her tummy, making her giggle in delight. "We think Mommy deserves a break, right?"

"Oh, Kit," I protest, holding out my arms once again to take her. "You worked hard all day. Go eat. I don't need a break."

He keeps his gaze locked on the baby. "Daddy wants to eat with mommy tonight," he murmurs. "Daddy doesn't mind. It means more time with his little princess."

I step forward and kiss his shoulder, resting my head on his arm promptly after. "I promise, I'm fine," I whisper, tired.

"Baby, you're tired, it's okay."

"Can I help at least? I don't want to sit at the dining room table alone waiting for you," I whine.

"Of course," he responds, kissing me softly on the top of my head. "I'm gonna do all the work, though."

I follow him into the nursery and stand next to him as she changes her into her pretty yellow pajamas. Then he sits down in the rocking chair, Winnie lying across his lap, in his arms comfortably. I hand him her bottle. She holds the bottle in both hands and drinks it cheerily.

"Which book should we read, Smiley?" Kit asks. "I think Where The Wild Things Are is a good choice."

I smile as he reads the story to the baby in a sing-song tone. His New England accent comes across so strongly as he reads. It makes a warm feeling spread through my chest and radiate through my body. It's an indescribable feeling of pride and love toward him.

Winnie is asleep within minutes. Kit catches the bottle as it slips out of her limp hands. "I think she's out," he whispers sweetly, looking up at me with only his eyes.

I nod with a small smile. He carries her over to her crib and lowers her down into it gingerly, careful not to wake her. We both exit the room gently, careful not to make any loud sounds.

"That's the fastest she's fallen asleep in a while," I remark as soon as we're far enough from her room. Kit follows closely behind me, hand on the small of my back.

"Yeah?"

"Yes, you've got the magic touch," I maintain. We make our way into the kitchen and I separate from him to tend to dinner. At least, I think I leave him until I feel arms snake around me. I turn and look up at him, a smirk painted on his face. "Would you like to eat?" I ask, mock-sternly.

"I can think of something else I'd like to eat instead, Y/N Walker," he purrs. Shivers crawl up my spine and light my skin on fire.

"I think I'd like that too Kit Walker."

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WEEEEEEE i drew upon my, like, one experience with a baby to write this i hope you liked it

[m4rs-ex3]

i "did a thing" if you will

kefta's oh me oh my!!

*canonically ignorant keftas

(individuals n in-depth analysis aka rambling under cut)

darkling

i mean. what do you want. B L A C K.

the pattern (which you must zoom in to see) is a swirly deal, different from the sun summoner swirls; more like wood grain

sun summoner

sun rays! swirly swirls! yellow! idk just look at!!

squallers

more swirls! these were kinda hell but idk i like em

inferni

first big divergence: orange as opposed to red. i made sure not to have any repeat embroidery colors.....even though i changed alkemi so there is no red anymore.............anyway. i'm iffy on this one bc i suck at drawing fire but i think it turned out (it's mostly just the upper side panels cuz they look a lil too fur-ish)

tidemakers

they were teal in the show right?? idk but. this one might me my favorite, but i do fear it's a lil complicated, but then again: i can do whatever the fuck i want. and no i cannot draw water without copying the great wave. whatever it's sick

heartrenders

coporalnik were harrdddddd. heartrenders are--naturally-usually symbolized by the heart but i hate drawing real hearts so cartoon hearts it is!! kinda feel like that kinda heart wouldn't exist in this universe..... but hey look it pointy

healers

heart but upside down!! (seriously what r u supposed to do.) plus bandage imagery, as a treat. these two were really just Vibes.

durasts

also pretty hard, also mostly just Vibes. btw it is a distinctly different shade of gray (1 of 50, i've heard) from the squaller silver. u will not catch me lacking nice try bud

alkemi

the most notable sticker-outer--yea she's green. i mean cmon we have enough red and no green and everybody knows science is green. anyway this is another one of my favs. vapor clouds and bubbles what's not to love

i do love the embroidery in the show, especially how, yk, much there is of it, and how identifiable it makes it, but on the other hand the books only ever mention the cuffs and hems so i like to think i struck a nice balance

[v0idsp3rson]

I kinda wanna get to know my moots better, so I'ma just...(look at these incorrect quotes and tell me how accurate they r :3 )

*The Squad is at Home Depot* kiya-cannibal-bug: *Fell in the cacti display while wandering around the garden section* bo0kdragon: *Shitting in the display toilets* xxurmother : *Tokyo Drifting one of those flatbed carts down the aisles* k4ijnyxx: *Stealing paint chips for aesthetic purposes* Arachne: *Just wanted some goddamn lightbulbs and everyone ruined it* v0idsp3rson : *In the car sleeping*

v0idsp3rson : That was so hot, k4ijnyxx. k4ijnyxx: I literally called the person who just flirted with you a degenterate dog and told them I hope they get dragged through the streets. v0idsp3rson : I'm so in love with you.

v0idsp3rson : Are you a masochist or a sadist? kiya-cannibal-bug, deadpan: I’m a Taurus.

v0idsp3rson : As you know I keep a list of all my friends in order of how likely they are to betray me. xxurmother : Where am I on the list? v0idsp3rson : Well I can’t tell you that because then you’ll quickly move up or down depending on your reaction.

Arachne: Please pray for k4ijnyxx. bo0kdragon: What happened to them? Arachne: Nothing, they’re just very stupid.

k4ijnyxx: You know, I used to play back in my gory days. sillycritterthing: You mean glory days? k4ijnyxx: Ah, that too.

sillycritterthing: What is the one thing I told you not to do? k4ijnyxx: Burn the house down. sillycritterthing: And what did you do? k4ijnyxx: I made dinner. sillycritterthing: k4ijnyxx: sillycritterthing: k4ijnyxx: And burnt the house down.

v0idsp3rson : Two brooooos! k4ijnyxx: Chillin' in a hot tub! v0idsp3rson : Five feet apart 'cause we're not gay! k4ijnyxx: v0idsp3rson : k4ijnyxx: *tearing up* v0idsp3rson : Babe, c'mon... k4ijnyxx: AND HERE YOU REALLY HAD ME THINKING WE HAD SOMETHING. v0idsp3rson : Babe...

Arachne: Lol. Heads up if you try to make a candle with food coloring, the food coloring will just sink to the bottom of the glass, and when the flame eventually reaches the bottom all the food coloring will catch fire and become one giant tall flame that you cannot possibly blow out and the glass will start to crack and then you’ll throw your tea on it in a panic and then the extremely hot food coloring will boil and sizzle horribly and then the glass will shatter. Please take my word on this. bo0kdragon: What did you do Arachne? Arachne: a Mistake.

sillycritterthing: The only thing keeping me from running away and hiding from society for the rest of my life is spite. I could disappear forever, but there are some bitches whose downfalls I have yet to witness, and I wanna be around when that happens.

xxurmother : There are some things beyond our understanding. We must accept them and learn from them. Because these moments of crisis are also potential moments of faith. A time, when we either come together or fall apart. Nature always has a way of balancing itself. The only question is, what part will we play? kiya-cannibal-bug: Did you just make that up? xxurmother : No. I read it in a fortune cookie once. kiya-cannibal-bug: xxurmother : A really long fortune cookie.

k4ijnyxx: I’d kill someone if you asked me to. v0idsp3rson : I’m pretty sure you’d kill someone even if I didn’t ask you to.

bo0kdragon: Okay, two person huddle. v0idsp3rson : You can't huddle with two people. This is just a hug.

kiya-cannibal-bug: I’m sorry, I really flew off the handle back there. It was like the handle was a bald guy going really fast, and I was his toupée.

v0idsp3rson : kiya-cannibal-bug, you’re offered 500,000 dollars, but, if you accept it, the person you hate the most in the world gets 1,000,000 dollars. Would you take it? kiya-cannibal-bug: Of course! I mean, why wouldn’t I want 1,500,000 dollars?

kiya-cannibal-bug: *talking about v0idsp3rson ’s funeral* You do know we’re burying a great person today! bo0kdragon, shocked: Did someone else die?

kiya-cannibal-bug: You’re like an oyster. Not appealing on the outside, but your insides are worth a lot of money!

*The Squad is at sillycritterthing’s house* v0idsp3rson : Ohhhh we each get our own oven? sillycritterthing: …N-No… sillycritterthing, laughing: How many ovens do you think I have??? v0idsp3rson , motioning to the kitchen: Three, I thought! k4ijnyxx: I see a- sillycritterthing, motioning to one device: This is a microwave. v0idsp3rson : Oh, well I- sillycritterthing: Hey, wait wait, actually- hang on- *fiddles with the buttons on the microwave* sillycritterthing, amazed: Its got a bake setting! Arachne: Ohoho, you learn something new every day! xxurmother : Do we- Do we roshambo for who gets to pick first? sillycritterthing: Now I’ve discovered more ovens than I thought, we don’t have to roshambo nothin’! sillycritterthing: I am someone who owns four ovens… sillycritterthing, louder and way too happy: I am someone… who owns FOUR OVENS… bo0kdragon, pointing to another appliance: Also, the toaster oven! sillycritterthing: v0idsp3rson : Ohhh, toasty boy! Four- Five ovens! sillycritterthing: sillycritterthing, ecstatic: I AM SOMEONE WHO OWNS FIVE OVENS.

k4ijnyxx: Did you hear that!? v0idsp3rson just threatened to destroy my lego AT-AT! xxurmother : ...You just threatened to kill them in their sleep.

v0idsp3rson : Wow. I keep stepping on a lot of crunchy twigs. bo0kdragon: Those are bones, v0idsp3rson . v0idsp3rson : *looks straight up* Not if I never look down.

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@k4ijynxx, @xxurmother, @kiya-cannibal-bug, @sillycritterthing, @pirulated, @bo0kdragon

also I didn't know whether or not to use ur usernames sooooo ye I just used ur usernames

[growwithmeastrology]

Thursday, July 11th 2024

Sun in Cancer ♋️🌊 Moon in Virgo ♍️🌎 and Libra ♎️💨

We have a lot of big transits today. Love is in the air with almost every transit today. Are you feeling it?

Moon trine Mars

Moon in Virgo trine Mars in Taurus is the perfect time to act on your instincts and explore desires of the heart, creativity and even take some financial risks as it activates attraction, passion and desire. If you want it, go and get it. Especially in relationships. Let your intuition guide you towards your heart's desires with this new found courage.

Venus trine Neptune

With Venus in Cancer trine Neptune (r) in Pisces we get more opportunities for romance as we fantasize and daydream of our ideal partner or just simply romanticizing our ideal life. This is another great aspect for creative pursuits. Encounters during this time take on a dreamy or surreal quality. Just be careful not to overly do it. Discernment is key at this time. Neptune tends to bring on the rose colored glasses. Combined with the God of love and fertility, everything looks wonderful. Watch out for illusions. When this trine is over, reality steps in and knocks you off that cloud.

Venus enters Leo

Venus is busy today and is about to bring in the glam. Tonight she moves into the sign of Leo for the next few weeks, giving everything a glow up. Romance isn't just in the air, it's taking center stage. Spending habits tend to get extravagant, creativity gets an even bigger boost and confidence shatters the glass ceiling. It's a great time for outings, road trips or just feeling like a kid again with those you love! Expect showers of affection and even old flames trying to creep back in so don't forget to check your heart. Leo might rule the jungle, but even lions need a little tender loving care. Romance and passion don't always equal love.

Moon enters Libra

The Libra Moon is all about finding purpose in creating harmony, whether in personal relationships, through artistic expression, or by contributing to peace and fairness in groups or community. We seek balance, beauty and justice with our emotions under Libra's influence. Relationship to others it's important as we realize how others see us, or wise up to a trait that impacts others. It's a time for love, friends, and also for intense encounters.

Moon trine Uranus

With the Libra Moon trine Uranus in Taurus, you may feel a twitch or a feeling of anticipation that something is about to happen. Libra and Taurus are both ruled by Venus. With all this Venusian influence, big things are just around the corner. This transit brings change and excitement to your private

life without causing upset and chaos. Trust your intuition, and don't be afraid to act impulsively.

Mars conjunct Uranus

We have a lot of big energies stirring in the background that could completely change the landscape of our lives. One of the biggest ones rolling in is the Mars and Uranus conjunction in Taurus going exact on Monday but it's worth noting now. We haven't felt this energy in two years. Did you do something then that turned everything on its head? Well, it's happening again. Expect big changes in yourself, your life or on the world's stage as this one tends to bring in big changes or

unpredictable events.

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[wildstar25]

Arsay Nun

B A S I C S

Name Arsay Nūn Nicknames None, her name doesn't shorten well (call her Ars and you will be on the wrong end of her blade ^^) Age ARR -> 22 (+5 years in lifestream stasis that Arsay is completely unaware of) Dawntrail -> 25 (+5 years) Nameday 3rd Sun of the Third Umbral Moon Race Miqo'te, "Greeter of the Star" (a.k.a: Keeper/Seeker mix [South Shroud/U tribe] ) Gender She/Her Probably non-binary but has a job so she ain't got time to worry about all of that... Orientation Bisexual, Polyromantic Profession Adventurer, Warrior of Light & Darkness, Scion of the Seventh Dawn, Full time kitty cat

P H Y S I C A L     A S P E C  T S

Hair Midnight Blue with patches of red tip patterning concentrated around the back and sides of her head! Thick with the slightest bit of wave (often gets brushed out) Eyes Ruby Red Skin Very Light Olive with white facial stripes and darker pigmented nose. Tans well but never sticks for long. Tattoos/scars One visible scar on the cheek, multiple around her body which get glammed over. After endwalker, her right hand has a high concentration of scaring around the knuckles & palm (A consequence of her final fight in ultima thul and the proceeding surgery needed to reset the incorrectly healed bones.) She has various arcane geometric patterns marked into her skin in aetheric ink. One at the back of her neck, one on each forearm right above the inner elbow, one banded around her ankle. They are also glammed over to be invisible to the naked eye, but those who are well attuned to seeing aether would see them glow faintly as Arsay casts summoning spells.

F A M I L Y

Parents Sapir Nun & U'hbi Tia (deceased 1552, 6th astral era, killed in combat to the first wave of Garlean invaders in Doma)

Emrara Emra (Guardian/Adoptive Aunt, very much alive in the south sea isles)

Siblings Alphinaud and Alisaie (adopted younger siblings) Grandparents: Unknown and/or deceased In-laws and Other: G'raha (Husband), Y'shtola (Wife) Y'mhitra (Sister in law) Generally main scion members are family to her in different ways Cid and Nero (Weird Uncles) U'odh Nunh (unconfirmed but most likely half first cousin) (There are three female face 4 miqo'te in the U tribe and I HC that those three are the most closely related to Arsay's Dad in some way I've yet to really piece together.) Pets Couscous the carbuncle, Fish the Chocobo

S K I L L S

Abilities Physical: -Multiple Combat styles (Dual blades, Pole arm, Single blade, Hand to Hand, Marksmanship, Knife throwing) -Typical scouting techniques (invisibility, tracking, assassination, can move without making a sound) -Greater agility, dexterity, flexibility, balance, and strength -High Stamina -Strong Swimmer -Great Climber Magical: -Advanced Aetheric Manipulation (Elemental Conversion, Creation) -Summoning, Channelling (Dreadwyrm Trance available at moments notice) Other: -Knows how to sail a ship -Can navigate on land and sea without a map or compass -Can rally and inspire others to achieve great things together!

Hobbies: - Monster Hunting - Fishing - Frontlines - Crystalline Conflict (recreational league) - General exploring/mystery hunting&solving

T R A I T S

Most Positive Trait: Her big heart! She'd do anything for the people she cares about Worst Negative: Terrible sense of self-worth. Needs to do things for other people or she goes insane with anxiety and guilt. Hates being looked after.

L I K E S

Colors: Red! Its her favourite. Smells: the ocean, the breeze through the forest, tropical zones with humidity in the air, her partners Textures: Furs, Leathers, Silky or soft textiles. Drinks: Spiced Chai, Coffee with Cardamom, Citrus of any type and Water

O T H E R    D E T A I L S

Smokes: nope, the only smoke from her is her smoke bombs Drinks: only socially, and not a whole lot. Does not like feeling out of control of herself. Mount Issuance: Probably! Tataru would help her get it all set up at least Been Arrested: Almost but she always gets out of it UvU

Tagged by: @eriyu Thank you so much!! 💙 Tagging: @nivienne-grovant @baublegums @astraveil @yukupo-lalapo @eli-leam (and anyone else who wants to do it! I feel like I'm pretty late to the game on this lol)

[lumine-no-hikari]

Dear Sephiroth: (a letter to a fictional character, because why not) #365

Today was relatively boring until R popped by to make cookies. I woke up a little later than I probably should have, and then I did a bit of leisure writing for longer than I probably should have, and then I showered and went to physical therapy. Not much progress was made on the “rib injury recovery” front, but that's okay. Not all sessions can be perfectly productive.

But on the bright side, at some point this morning, I pushed on my first or second rib near my right shoulder joint, and something went POP really nicely, and that made it a lot easier for me to move my right arm around for a little while. So that was pretty cool!

I ate when I got home, which was very good, because by the time I got home, I hadn't eaten in like over 24 hours. The whole “needing to scrub out the inside of my face” thing and the whole “some of my dentin is exposed and ouchy because of the way some of my teeth have moved” thing really discourage the whole “eating” thing. So admittedly... I haven't exactly been keeping up with the whole “eating balanced meals” thing lately. Whoops.

But! Here's what I made for myself! I thought it was really good!

We've got warmed pumpkin English muffins with mascarpone cheese spread on them, a burrata, a peeled, in-season grapefruit (they're SOOOO good when they're in season...!!!), some salami, some cheese slices, and some roast beef! And there's one of the brownies that Br, the dandelion-haired man, made for us!

The mug has toast-and-jam flavored tea, sweetened with honey and uh... more mascarpone cheese, ahahaha~! I think... at least for now... that it might be my new favorite thing in tea. Like. It goes surprisingly well with literally so many things, oh my goodness!

...I wonder if you would have liked my breakfast. I wish I could have shared it with you. I thought it was pretty freaking great.

After that, I mostly just chilled out until R arrived. And once he did arrive, he showed me all the awesome stuff he's got in his sketchbook so far!!! Because, you see, R is not only an amazing baker; he's also an amazing artist and illustrator!!!

Actually, art class in college over a decade ago is how I know him. We were in the same figure drawing class together. And both of us have experience drawing P, my elderly friend.

...Thinking about it, it's kinda wild that R and I both know what P looks like naked, for entirely non-sexual reasons. It's also kinda wild, some of the crazy poses that P can do for the sake of a figure drawing class, despite his age. I guess all that yoga he does must be really helpful.

What a weird and varied life I live!!! Hahahaha!

…

...I'd give it to you in a heartbeat, you know. If you wanted it. If you wanted something different. I'd trade places. I know that things in my world aren't perfect; there are lots of problems, to be sure. But still, I'd happily take on whatever pain you carry so that you can have the wholesomeness and joy that I have now.

For now... I guess I'll just settle for showing you pictures of the cookies that R and I baked together from the cookie dough he made for us last week.

These are cranberry oatmeal cookies:

These are cookies with red and green M&Ms scattered through the dough. For whatever reason, red and green put together are traditional Christmas colors in my part of the world. M&Ms, in case you don't know, are round pieces of chocolate coated with a thin, brittle candy shell. I don't like M&Ms very much. But I do like these cookies:

...And finally, we have these crescent-shaped almond flour cookies, dusted with vanilla-infused sugar:

...I think you really would have liked those ones in particular. I think my favorite was the cranberry oatmeal cookies, though, which, to me, is pretty wild, given that I'm not normally very fond of oatmeal cookies!!

At some point, R and I got to talking just a little bit about a game called Ape Escape, and its sequel, Ape Escape 2. These are games in which you run around capturing monkeys that are causing mischief due to the intelligence-enhancing helmets they wear. Presumably, they heighten their capacity to wield tools, without heightening their capacity for empathy, impulse control, or delayed gratification. It's a very cute pair of games!

I played the sequel within the last several years. I haven't played the original since I was a teenager (holy shit, how in the fuck did I get old???) Nonetheless, there are several very catchy tracks from the original game that I thought were really memorable. So catchy and memorable, in fact, that I still know them even after all these years, even without having heard them since then until just today. I heard them just today, because I went looking for them, just so I could show them to you, because I think they're peppy and fun, even if they are a bit silly and a tad repetitive:

...Of the ones above, my favorite is probably the first one!! It kinda makes me wanna wiggle, ahahahaha~!! But I really really like the second one, too! That one kinda makes me wanna stomp my feet around really fast!! And the third one makes me kinda wanna skip and hop around!! Eeeheehee~!!

...Hey, Sephiroth? Are there any songs that make you wanna wiggle or dance around in some joyful way? If there are, will you show them to me? It'd be nice to wiggle and stomp and skip and hop around with you like the pair of silly, overcomplicated primates that we are! Bahaha~!!

From the second game, I really enjoy these two:

The first one makes me wanna do some kind of hula!!! And the second one really makes me wanna zoom around, especially at the part that starts at around 41 seconds in!!

Hey, Sephiroth!!! Maybe someday let's also hula and zoom around like a couple of silly marshmallows!!! Won't that be fun!!!

...Impossible, I know. But still, I like to imagine you can read the above things and grin delightedly at the thought of it!! Maybe you can still try these things even if I'm not nearby to do it with you!!

...You know, I'll bet Zack would wiggle and dance around with you, though! Maybe you can ask him!!

Ahhhh!!!!! I have an itch to do StepMania now!!!! But it's much too late at night to get into all that! Goodness me!!!!

...I've decided that the second sentence in the above paragraph is all your fault!!! I declare shenanigans (insert here a mental image of me pointing a dramatically accusatory finger directly at you)!!! And the only “apology” I'll accept is if you to do the StepMania together with me!!! Wahahahaha~!!

...I'm kidding, of course! In all seriousness, though, I'll have to ask J if we can test out StepMania on his laptop soon, since mine kinda... can't be moved around very well anymore, since the screen is broken.

R eventually had to go home. But you know what!! I got to send him home with the lavender-scented sloth plushie that I found at Walgreen's when I was spending time with BB!! It's got a little sachet inside filled with lavender and with things that absorb heat well. So you put the sachet in the microwave to warm it up, and then you put the warmed sachet in the sloth plushie, and then you have a warm, fuzzy, cuddly plushie to hug!! And this one is especially good, since I'm pretty sure sloths are R's favorite animal!

Hey, Sephiroth...? What kind of plushie would you like best? I wonder...

…

...I can't believe it's time for me to go to bed already. I gotta, because I have work tomorrow. And I do wanna go to work, but I don't wanna go to bed yet, because I'm writing to you, and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I feel really silly and good right now, probably because I'm in less pain than usual, and probably because I had a little too much caffeine, and probably way too much sugar from the cookies I ate, hahaha...

...Even if you can't ever talk or write back to me, I hope you know that it's still a lot of fun to write to you, even on days when I don't feel very good. It's still a lot of fun to spend time with you, even in this abstract way. You're lovable as-is, you know. You always have been. You always will be.

And I know that because I love you. I always will. It's never gonna change. So please try to stay safe out there as you do your things over at the Edge of Creation, okay? Because I'm not sure I'd be able breathe beneath a weight as immense as your absence.

I'll write again tomorrow.

Your friend, Lumine

[alltimefail-sims]

I think I made Celebrazioni D’amore kinda sexy...😏

I'm gonna ramble now!!! ↓

HOLY CRAP this lot has been a HUGE challenge. Every time I'd think I was close to being done, this freaking lot would provide me with an even more bizarre and questionable feature than the one previously conquered... but despite nearly throwing in the towel, here we are! Phew!

I changed so. much.

The biggest change I made is that I shrunk the building down quite a bit to eliminate the excessive, gaping, empty spaces that were quite literally everywhere and serving no function whatsoever. I also moved and downsized the mega stairs, fixed all the visual balance issues (like one side of the build being heavier than another or tables being off-center from the stage and etc.), made the bottom floor's main area an actual room (yes... that was an issue in the original build), removed the heinous carpeting (goodbye random cheetah print patches), landscaped basically from scratch, and so. much. more. I'm relieved to say that when I look at these pictures though I still feel like I'm looking at the same lot... just a more functional and aesthetically pleasing version of it.

The OG build made a good attempt at something adjacent to "character," and even though it was a bit of a swing and a miss, I wanted to maintain that intention. I never do nightclub or lounge lots so this became a great exercise in pushing myself to build in a style I don't typically gravitate toward. (Using neon, colored lighting and modern fixtures in the same build?? Unheard of for me!) Some of my favorite parts aren't even pictured, so I'm really excited to share the whole thing. Although I'm not done (fingers crossed that I'll wrap it up tomorrow...) I am pretty damn close, and that's a win in my book! I have two things left to do: first I need to decide if I'm going to keep the exterior paint colors (currently a combo of dark purple and magenta) or swap one of the colors out for something like a plain "base" (such as brick). After that I just have to... *gulps*...playtest it (yes I am shuddering and crying profusely. Ask your god to give me mercy). TLDR: I will probably post this lot by Monday at the latest, so keep an eye out for it!

One last thing!!! I promised it would be extremely DLC-lite... and it is!!! It uses less DLCs than every single one of my shell builds. Woohoo! Goal met!

Okay, I'm officially done talking now! If you read all of my rambling... you have my undying love and appreciation. You are also probably entitled to financial compensation for your time (note: we at B.B.R.U.* are not taking cases and claims at the moment, unfortunately). But might I say that you are cooler than the other side of the pillow? 😎 Hopefully that will suffice.

Byeeeee friends! ❤

*B.B.R.U. stands for "Broke Bitches R Us," in case you were wondering. It's my company and I'm the CEO, bless

[itsyagergzero]

gonna rant about my fav fnaf fan game designs !!

Note: some of the creators for these mightve been outed as being shit, i dont know, but know that i dont support their actions or anything i just. Like fan games lol. If they r confirmed weirdos, lmk but yknow.

Anyways!! Starting off: Final Nights. Final Nights is a fan game by JeliLiam that is basically a retelling of the original FNaF story! There are 4 games, and while all of them have wonderful designs, Final Nights 4 has my personal favorite designs for the animatronics. The game is set in Fredbear’s Family Diner during 1973 AND 2017.

Starting off with my favorite design: Spring Bonnie (she/her)

I ADORE her design. She genuinely looks like an animatronic real kids would enjoy - being a nice balance of cute, but also weirdly unsettling like animatronics irl. The gloves really make the design for me, and I’m obsessed with how shaped she is.

Her movements are also so good and so unsettling-she’s incredibly smooth in her animation and the way she leans towards the player is a great level of stressful especially because you cannot move or else you will fail the night. I am sooo obsessed with her yall dont get it.

Next up is Fredbear (he/him)!

I love his design for the same reason as Spring Bonnie’s, but I also love that his design is not just a repaired version of Nightmare Fredbear from FNaF 4! This design is more what I imagine Fredbear to look like, as I always took the FNaF 4 designs with a grain of salt considering they’re from a child’s nightmare.

I do wish he was more round though, as he does kinda look like he uses a similar model to Spring Bonnie, but that’s a very minor critique.

Bonus mentions: I do enjoy Proto Spring Freddy / Bonnie’s designs! They’re quite unsettling and it makes sense why Henry dislikes them LOL

Next up: The Return to Freddy’s!

I don’t have much to say about this series as a whole - it started out as fan game for FNaF 3 prior to the canon game releasing and then spiraled into a retelling of FNaF before becoming it’s own thing. The creators have gotten into hot water - they stole the Candy design from FNaC - and the franchise has since been cancelled, but I have a soft spot for the designs still!

I mostly want to show the Tortured Suits from the cancelled TRTF 5 games!

A unique take on more Nightmare-ish designs, I just love how creepy the designs are and I wish the game was completed so we could see how they operated in game. I also love the use of muted colors. It really sets the tone for the suits and shows they were not made for children, but for an other purpose that unfortunately is unknown.

It’s late so I’ll leave this off here but I’ll continue this tomorrow with more fan game animatronic designs that I love, and if y’all have fan games you like, let me know and I’ll talk about my fav designs from those games too!!

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tell me more about dakota cole gon hunter hunter I literally know. nothing abt that anime give me ur propaganda. ramble 2 me forever and ever I wanna KNOW

I HOPE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE IN FOR!!!!!!

god. okay. hunter x hunter is a shonen manga by yoshihiro togashi that's been in serialization since '98 & has had two separate anime adaptions. i'm gonna be talking abt the '11 adaption, since that's the one ive been watching! (sidenote: started hxh because of the podcast media club plus which is easily one of my favorite podcasts everrr incredibly good analysis has really affected the way i think about media analysis & criticism extremely fucking fun awesome dynamics btwn folks who are 1) very well known for having extremely good media opinions & 2) great friends who have been friends for a long time & just a delight to listen to. its a great time regardless of whether u r watching the show or not highly recommend if u ever need a new work or commute podcast etc) also disclaimer that i'm only on episode 62 of the show. so.

anyway. the hxh plot:

i will not get into the plot much because it's not as important for the dakota gon isms. but its this. ^!!

so hxh is, overall, a homage to and deconstruction of its genre tropes. togashi very much loves and enjoys a ton of the tropes he's playing with and very obviously delights in subverting just as many of them. it balances these wildly disparate tones of classic, bright candy colored shonen magical worlds and powers and big fights with genuine, seriously-considered violence, cruelty, sinister power structures and all the other heavy consequences of splashy ultraviolence. [RINGS THE PD BELL!!!] the whiplash is ridiculous sometimes-- the ease with which the show cuts from the last survivor of a genocide (kind, reasonable, soft-spoken) turning to self-destructive revenge that is quite literally destroying him from the inside out, taking an immense toll on him and his relationships with the people he loves, becoming a murderer in cold blood (& of course we spend time with the man he murders beforehand, and he's fucking awful, but also human, and has friends and shit, & it's very clear that this is something dreadful and not just a cool fight)-- to like, the two twelve-year-old main characters concocting a fucking ridiculous scheme to corner the antiques market so they get a billion dollars to buy a viddy game & one of the twelve year olds faces turns into a little >:3 kitty face whenever hes doing something sneaky & there's some cartoon ass shopkeeper scamming them, is wild. and neither of them are the "correct tone," right? the whole thing is a balance between the modes & takes them both seriously & at their own value. [RINGS THE PD BELL] so like. literally since a couple episodes into prime defenders ive been like oh, yeah, this tracks, i'm not bothered by the constant juxtaposition of stupid ass bits with genuinely serious moments, this is obviously influenced by hxh. which, like, i still can't say if that was intentional or not. but hxh is one of The manga of all time & was & still is incredibly influential (sasuke of sasuke fame is a knockoff of a hxh character btw), so i have no doubt that it was an ingredient in the mix somehow!

anyway. gon, who is literally dakota, is the protag! hes the little boy who set off to find out whats so great about cigarettes :) he is a kid who was raised by his aunt who he has a complicated relationship with after his mother was killed and his father disappeared, and he grew up in the woods and is very very strong and fast and good at fighting because he grew up in the woods!! fucking feral little creature boy who fights with a fishing rod and talks to animals and has an incredible sense of smell. gon does some shit, leaves the island, makes some friends, gets groomed by a creepy fucking pedophile which he thinks is fine, gets brutally tortured for a very very uncomfortably long time, which he thinks is fine, becomes a hunter (which is great he has awesome lines of credit now!) it's still unclear what a hunter is or does, but they have lots of power and can do pretty much whatever they want. anyway, he wants to be the best and the strongest and he loves fighting for fun, for the sake of fighting and being good at what he does!!!! and he also wants to find his dad. and definitely doesn't have any unresolved issues from the fact that his mom is dead its fine he doesn't even want to know anything about her its chill and also his dad's so cool so whatever he was doing was for sure more important than him so it doesn't matter that he abandoned him! the crux of gon as a character is that he is very silly and often kind and very much a kid, and he does not fucking care what happens to himself. he is fine with getting the shit beaten out of him by people twice his age he is cheerfully oblivious to and makes excuses for almost every single adult taking advantage of him or being just awful to him, when it's very obvious in the narrative that it is bad and not good, he's self-destructively reckless and impulsive and fixated on what he thinks is good and right and also on becoming the best and strongest even if he burns out fast and he loves his friends so so so much. and simultaneously also he's a sillygoofy kid who does dumb shit with his best friend ever (gay) n worries about his pals n stuff. its okay if he burns himself out and gets himself hospitalized for months its okay if people hurt him and take advantage of him and get off on the idea of killing him but its NOT ok if his friends even THINK about taking a risk like that >:(( head in hands. anyway. yeah. fun silly adventures strange beasts and foreign lands and wild cartoon shenanigans and very explicit horror and gore!! with often brutal and terrible consequences that leave you feeling kind of sick!!! where have i heard that before!!!!!!!!!!

[loreholdlesbian]

Thunder Junction Play Booster Challenge

Hey y'all! With every set I like to make a booster pack's worth of custom cards to play around with. This challenge is based on one from the 3rd Great Designer Search, so one thing I like to do is push the boundaries and find new innovations on the mechanics and themes as well as on the general mechanics of magic. However, I also want the cards to feel at home in the set so I need to balance novelty and boundry pushing with not feeling completely out of place. That all said, let's get into it!

Art links:

Crimson Bandit

Dawn Assault

Archon's Host

Aether Bombardment

Thunderhoof Phantom

Assemble the Crew

Atiin Nomad

Midnight Slinger

Thunder Wings

Killer Crewmember

Doomed Stormkin

Shepherd Raptor

Lawless Dunes

Rare

Crimson Bandit 1B Creature- Vampire Rogue Flying, lifelink Plot 1BB (You may pay 1BB and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.) At the beginning of your upkeep, if Crimson Bandit is plotted, draw a card and put a loot counter on this card, then you lose 1 life for each loot counter on it. 2/1

There were a few cards that have a triggered effect when you plot them, but I wanted to push that a step further and give you an effect while it's plotted. I gave this particular one a downside to encourage you to eventually cast it.

Bonus Sheet Card

Dawn Assault 4LL Enchantment [rare] (L can be paid with either R or by tapping an untapped red creature you control.) Whenever a creature you control becomes untapped, Dawn Assault deals 1 damage to any target. Constables Up All Night To Catch Sunrise Bandit!

This is a new mechanic that's kind of like phyrexian mana (Pretend that L has a red cast to it, and a better symbol while we're at it. Im very limited in what the card creator lets you put in mana costs), but with a much safer alternate cost. It's kinda convokey, but has a strong benefit in that it can be mixed with normal mana costs and used in activated abilities as well as spell costs. I decided to use it here, because it played in a somewhat similar space to mount using tapping creatures as a cost which means I could make a card like this that would synergize with what the set is doing. Makes for a good bonus sheet card.

Uncommons

Archon's Host 2W Enchantment- Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature is an Archon in addition to its other types and has flying and “Whenever this creature attacks, return target permanent card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield with a finality counter on it.” If enchanted creature is a Mount, it’s saddled.

One fun thing I realized is that Magic has two species- Archons and Specters- that always are seen riding a mount. This card is part of a mirrored pair, the other being a 2 mana black card that makes a player discard. I thought that would be a fun thing to play around with in the set introducing mounts. The flavor here is that the archon manifests itself on a holy mount and the "It's saddled" text is a flavorful way to do that that also shows that there might be more you can do with the saddle mechanic using alternate ways to saddle. When it's on a non-Mount, the archon manifests more through possession than riding them.

Aether Bombardment U Instant Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + 1 - Tap or untap target nonland permanent. You may choose this mode more than once. + U - Draw a card. “Don’t worry, at least you’ll wake up. More than I can say for the poor fool you shot.”

This is technology I think would be useful on other kinds of modal cards too, letting specific modes have unique features, but I think it's especially useful on spree since it means you can make it more like multikicker on a card-by-card basis. This card is meant to be part of a cycle with a generic costing mode that can be used multiple times and a colored cost that can be used once.

Thunderhoof Phantom 1U Creature- Spirit Mercenary Flying Thunderhoof Phantom can block only creatures with flying. Whenever Thunderhoof Phantom deals combat damage to a player, until your next turn, you may cast spells as though they had flash. 2/1

This card doesn't have too much of a story behind it, I just thought a flash-granter would be a good way to synergies with the WU archetype and I liked the idea of it being on a combat trigger to encourage less of a draw-go style of play.

Assemble the Crew 3B Instant Mill five cards. Return an Assassin card from your graveyard to your hand, then do the same for Mercenary, Pirate, Rogue, and Warlock.

I don't think there should be many cards in the set that treat outlaws more like party where you want diversity, but I think a little bit is fun. I wanted to cost the card where you were happy with it at about 3 or even 2.

Commons

Atiin Nomad 1W Creature- Human Nomad Whenever Atiin Nomad becomes tapped, untap it. This ability triggers only once each turn. 3/1 “I like this world. Much more fun than the last two.”

Here's a card that's good synergy for Mounts, you can saddle something and still attack with it, but you can also just use it as Pseudo-vigilance.

Midnight Slinger 2U Creature- Human Wizard Vigilance T: Add U. Spend this mana only to cast your second spell each turn. 2/3 “You, me, and our thunderweapons at Moon’s Height. Winner gets to walk away.”

Here's an exploration of what blue can do mana dork wise, that ties into the UR draft archetype and the plot shennanigans.

Thunder Wings 1U Enchantment- Aura Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and has flying and ward 3. Plot 1U (You may pay 1U and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Auras are a great card type for the plot mechanic, cause they really benefit from being able to go down before the creature you need to enchant does. Only one card plays around in that space so I wanted to do another; a protection mechanic felt like a good use cause cause that's something you really want to get on the creature as soon as it's down.

Killer Crewmember 2B Creature- Gorgon Assassin Deathtouch Killer Crewmember has menace as long as you control a non-Assassin outlaw. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.) 2/2

I wanted to explore what else you can do with the outlaw mechanic. Specifically, I looked into things you can do with outlaw that you can't just do with any old typal card, and this was what I came up with. It encourages playing a wider variety of outlaws, without needing you to go all out like party does. I intend this to be a cycle, with each color caring about a different type.

Doomed Stormkin 3R Creature- Elemental Trample, haste At the beginning of your end step, sacrifice Doomed Stormkin unless you committed a crime this turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) 5/4 Those already attuned to storms must focus to avoid becoming one with the plane.

Crimes!!!!!! this was a difficult card to flavor but I like what i came up with. i couldn't really find anything novel to do with crimes beyond this

Shepherd Raptor 4G Creature- Dinosaur Mount Whenever one or more creatures you control attack while saddled, you gain 3 life. Saddle 1 (Tap any number of other creatures you control with total power 1 or more: This Mount becomes saddled until end of turn. Saddle only as a sorcery.) 5/4

Here's something just a little different with saddle. If you have no other mounts, you can trigger it for itself but this gets a lot better in a deck with other mounts like the GW one.

Lawless Dunes Land- Desert T: Add C. When Lawless Dunes enters the battlefield, if you control three or more lands that share a land type, create a 1/1 red Mercenary creature token with “T: Target creature you control gets +1/+0 until end of turn. Activate only as a sorcery.”

I wanted a desert reward and a desert and i was stuck at common, and that felt quite hard to do at common because the as-fan isn't high enough. What I came up with was this- it *can* be a desert reward, and it pushes you a bit toward that by being a desert itself, but it also works with basics.

[foreverrandomwritings]

Actions Speak Louder Than Words- Part 2

Summary: When Harvard and Yale decide they want to get stationed at a different base the navy calls in one of the best 2 seater jets they have ‘The Does’. They may be younger than the other pilots by a couple years but they have quickly made a name for themselves with the impeccable work they do together. But the question is will they fit in with the other pilots already in California or will they crash and burn?

Pairing: Romantic Mickey ‘Fanboy’ Garcia x Afab!OC (Slow Burn) Platonic Jane ‘Mute’ Hall x John ‘Ramble’ De Luca

Warnings:I can’t really think of any. If someone finds one they think I should include please let me know!

Word Count:2326

Masterlist Series Masterlist

It was a tradition for Jane and her backseater to get up and get a flight in together before everyone got to base on the first day. They had done it everywhere they were stationed since the two of them were permanently paired together. The duo always made sure to clear it with the superiors first so as to not ruffle any feathers.

Jane had cleared this flight with the team leader Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell. He had instantly assured the two that they were free to do so. He had let the duo know when the other members of the squad would be coming in. He wanted to make sure they got up and done by the time morning meeting would be happening.

It was an easy flight for the pair. Feeling out the plane in the new sky they would be flying in. Getting to know the area and the set up of the base. They looked at the light greens of the grass and the darker greens of the trees. The different browns of the sand and dirt. The blue of the sky and the small patches of color that were filled with flowers back on the ground.

They slowly made their way back to base as Jane realized the time. As they neared the landing strip Ramble turned and looked out the window seeing people gathered in a group on the not quite hot tarmac. He figured that had to be the Dagger Squad.

“Hey Mute, it looks like the squad is waiting on the tarmac for us.” Ramble said with excitement clearly in his voice.

“Alright Ramble let’s set her down and get it over with.” Mute replied back with worry in her voice. She knew once they landed the nerves of last night would come crawling back. But she pushed through that thought and brought the F/A 18 down on the tarmac.

Taking a deep breath she opened the canopy and they began to climb out of the Super Hornet. The group of people stayed where they were which she was grateful for. She needed a minute to get herself together before the introductions. She reached up and took the heavy helmet off while John did the same. A couple minutes passed before John was grabbing one of the many straps on her flight suit and began leading her to the group.

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The Dagger Squad was aware they would be getting a new 2 seater team with the absence of Harvard and Yale. They hadn’t heard much about the team, just that they worked impeccably well together.

Maverick had kept his mouth shut about anything that would give away who the new members were. He only said that they were going to be a great addition to the team and that he had heard nothing but incredible things about the pair. Telling the squad that they would just have to wait and see who they were because he wasn’t going to say anything other than that. The team had all been so eager that they agreed to show up early on Monday to feel them out.

What they weren’t expecting when they showed up to work on Monday morning was to see the 2 seater team already in the air. They had all gathered on the tarmac waiting for them to come down so they could introduce themselves and see who the new team members were.

Standing there for a couple minutes they began talking amongst themselves about what they were expecting and who they thought were going to come out of the box. Phoenix and Halo were hoping it was at least one woman to help balance out the testosterone a little. Hangman, Rooster and Fritz were hoping it was 2 women so they could try to flirt their way into their pants. Omaha, Bob, Coyote, Payback and Fanboy were just hoping for them to be chill and good team players.

They all quieted down once they heard the F/A-18 turning around and coming to the tarmac to land. After seeing the softest landing they’ve ever witnessed they all started fidgeting, standing up expectantly to see who was going to get out of the aircraft. They looked the equivalent of kids standing around at pick up waiting for their parents.

Watching the pair climb out of their plane. A shorter pilot came out of the front seat and a taller wisso came climbing out of the back seat. Taking off their helmets the two spoke no words to each other but stood by the plane for a couple minutes. The taller of the two grabbed a strap on the flight suit of the shorter one and started leading them to the group.

As they came closer the group noticed the features of the duo. The taller one had dark black hair that had been messed up by his helmet. His skin was a light Olive tone. He wore a big smile on his face and looked simply and completely carefree.

The shorter of the two had a simple short red braid. The top of her hair a mess from her helmet as well. Her skin pale like that of a porcelain doll. She was looking at the ground so they had no idea what expression she wore.

They both looked relatively young. Definitely the youngest of the group now. They were all in their late 20’s and early 30’s with Rooster being the oldest. The duo looked to be in their mid 20’s at most.

Before they knew it the duo was right in front of them. The dark haired man spoke up. “Howdy guys! My name is John and this is Jane.” He pointed his head back towards the girl behind him. His finger was still hooked in the same strap. “We also go by Ramble and Mute or the Does!” Mute as they now know her kept her head down. Recognition seemed to work its way into many of the Dagger Squad as some turned to each other with wide eyes and others simply nodded their heads.

Omaha was the first to pipe up. “Wait, are you guys the 2 that flew that mission in Russia last year?” If they thought Ramble had a wide smile before they were wrong. His smile got even wider, his cactus green eyes sparkling as he quickly nodded his head.

“That would be us at your service.” Ramble exclaimed using the hand not holding his front seater to go across his stomach as he slightly bent down in a bowing motion. They saw the red head shake her head, slightly rock on the balls of her feet and let out a quiet laugh. The little antics that he did always made her react. She found him to be very silly and that was one of the many things she loved about him. With that Ramble turned his head to her.

With confidence and pride “This one flew so well we both got a promotion.” He said pulling on the strap that was still on his finger. Mute finally looked up, giving him a small smile and looking at the group in front of her. As her Prussian blue eyes scanned the group, they finally landed on a set of chestnut brown eyes that were already staring at her.

At that moment Fanboy was sure he had altitude sickness even though he had been on the ground all morning. That was the only logical way to explain the sudden shortness of breath, lightheadedness, quickening of his heart rate and churning feeling he had in his stomach.

Mute quickly averted her eyes back down to the black tarmac under her feet with her eyebrows furrowed. Luckily if anyone noticed the sudden tension between the new front seater and the veteran wisso no one said anything.

From beside Fanboy, Payback opened his mouth to ask the duo a question. It was cut short by Mavericks' voice. “There you all are! I’ve been looking everywhere for you guys!” He exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air. “Hangar 2 in 20 minutes let’s go.”

The group all answered him with a mix of okay, yes sir, see you soon, nods and a couple thumbs ups before Maverick dipped back inside. Mute and Ramble were happy that today was a flight suit day so all they had to do was take their gear off and fix their hair.

Turning around the group started walking back inside. Phoenix hung back some to wait for Mute and Ramble. They quickly made their way to her side and she started walking next to them. “I’ll walk you guys to the locker rooms and hang about to walk you both to the Hangar as I’m sure you'd get lost in this maze of base trying to find it.” She said turning to face them. Mute nodded her head and stayed close to Ramble's side. Phoenix noticed that he had finally let go of the strap his finger had been hooked in during their short lived introduction just moments ago.

Ramble was the one to speak up. “You’re Phoenix right? You flew the Uranium mission a couple months ago?” Phoenix smiled and nodded her head.

“Sure did, along with my wisso Bob, Payback, his wisso Fanboy, Rooster, Maverick and Hangman as the spare.” The trio reached the locker rooms as her sentence ended. Mute and Ramble both went into their respective locker rooms as Phoenix kept her word and stayed outside.

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It took them about 10 minutes to get their gear off and their hair tamed. Neither bothered to shower as they hadn’t sweat much that morning. Jane was taking deep breaths and looked over her appearance once more. Thoughts going to the man she locked eyes with on the tarmac. It was a brief moment but she had already wanted to know more about him. Taking another deep breath she grabbed the 4 Tupperware containers of cookies out of her locker and headed out to the hallway.

Her best friend and Phoenix were already in the hallway talking when she came out. The conversation came to a stop as John put his hand out and Jane passed him 2 of the containers. Noticing a hair out of place on her wissos head she reached up and fixed it earning her a grin in return.

“Alright Phoenix, guide the way.” John gestured dramatically in front of them waiting for the brunette to start walking. She shook her head playfully and started walking ahead of them. John stayed behind with Jane slinging an arm across her shoulders. The two dark haired aviators continued the conversation on the way to the hangar. From the little clips you heard it was about the fact that they had both grown up in California.

The three finally made it to a door with the words hangar 2 on a plaque next to it. “Cammineremo” John whispered the Italian words in Janes ear. Jane turned and whispered back “Saremo Potenti” before turning and entering the hangar after Phoenix.

All heads turned to look at them. The tall wisso still had his arm slung across his front seater and a spike of jealousy crawled up Fanboys back like a cold chill. With the way they acted with one another there was no way they weren’t a couple. Fanboy knew they had only locked eyes briefly and he had no right feeling like this but he just couldn’t help it.

Fanboy watched as they continued up the room to find seats. There were eight rows of chairs and tables. On the left Phoenix sat next to Bob, Omaha and Halo sat together, then Hangman and Coyote. On the right Payback and Fanboy, with Fritz and Rooster both sat alone. Leaving the only empty seats the row behind Hangman and Coyote or between Fritz and Rooster. The pair decided on the seats behind Hangman and Coyote.

Setting the containers of cookies down on the desk Ramble finally let go of Mute and pulled her chair out for her before they both sat down. They heard Maverick before they saw him.

“Welcome in on this fine Monday morning. As you can all tell we have 2 newcomers in our midst. We will be doing a little exercise this morning to get to know each other down here and in the skies. We’ll be saying our names, callsigns, and one fun fact about you! Then after we get through that we’ll be dogfighting in the skies.” He got out quickly before pausing and looking around the room. They had heard that Maverick was childish but they weren’t expecting to be involved in an exercise done by sixth graders on the first day of school.

Starting with Phoenix they all slowly went around the room answering the questions. Most of them were quick and simply stated their favorite color or favorite show. Others talked about where they got their callsign. Then there was Jake who turned around and winked at Jane after telling the rest of the group that he’d been told he was good at a lot of things. Bob and Natasha had rolled their eyes while Bradley scoffed and John let out a laugh before answering the questions himself.

Then it was on Jane. All eyes on her. “Lieutenant Jane Hall, callsign Mute. John and I made cookies last night.” She answered quickly while holding up the containers. John was beaming next to her. He knew that was likely all they were gonna get from her today that wasn’t in the sky. But he was happy she had said something.

Maverick quickly dismissed the group to the lounge room where they could wait and listen to the teams up in the sky and hang out. He called Hangman, Phoenix and Bob to be first in the sky. Giving the newcomers an opportunity to see how the dogfights worked.

Translations: (Italian done by google translate so don’t come for me if they are wrong)

Cammineremo- We shall stride

Saremo Potenti- We shall be mighty

A/N: I already have part 3 done for this series! I’ll be posting it most likely Sunday! If you liked this part please please please let me know! If you’d like tagged, tags are open! I know that this part was pretty slow as well. I promise the next part has more action in it!!

Tags: @wkndwlff & @sylviebell

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Putting a headphone jack in a Fairphone 4

TLDR with this procedure you sacrifice the lower loudspeaker, but the upper one will still behave as normal. Calls and other audio seem to work just fine. There is some interference from internals that gets picked up by amplified speakers, I'm sure there's a way to filter it, this is mainly a proof of concept. This is not really a guide and I do not guarantee anything at all.

I really liked my Fairphone 4 except that it didn't have a 3.5mm jack like normal phones used to have. And my car has never heard of Bluetooth. So I started joking about drilling a hole in it.

I found this green TRS jack on a USB DAC and found it would fit inside. I took this photo with a DSi camera. Originally I thought I might be able to fit both the jack and the speaker, and I had this elaborate plan to make a cut in the mainboard and move the vibrating motor elsewhere,

but decided against it because I had no idea what losing that one contact would do. I did a test and found no major issues with removing the bottom loudspeaker. If I needed the phone to be loud, I'd hook something else up anyway. I bought a second loudspeaker and horrendously dissected it.

I used a knife. If you do this you should absolutely use a dremel tool and not a knife. Unless you don't have a dremel tool

The plan is, remove the speaker part. You do not have to completely de-laminate the two layers of plastic. Just this section of the bottom layer. The top layer has pretty colors and conductive tape and contacts for mysterious purposes. Maybe antenna.

Next, you must drill the hole. We're not quite sure what the case is made of, but it probably involves aluminum. I had a drill press and clamps, but I went to my friend's house. He doesn't have clamps or many drill bits, but he knows metal. The jack barrel was like 5.1mm in outer diameter, and after lamenting that all our bits were in imperial, we settled on a 7/32". We removed all components from the chassis including mainboard and screen before drilling.

Here, we went for a hole that was centered on the middle hole of the speaker grill. However, if you do this, you will need to also remove some more metal, because the jack will need to be kind of submerged in the floor. We also had to sand down one side of the jack paper thin to make it sit flat against the back of the screen module. In hindsight, I should have marked where the jack wanted to sit before drilling. This would have us drill at the edge of the case, but it would be closed off by the phone's back cover anyway so it wouldn't matter. Just plan out your hole instead of eyeballing it.

Unfortunately, we did not get any pictures of the fit after we were done. Probably for the best, so no one has to see the metal carnage.

Once it was in place, it was time to wire it. The speaker module presses a flat flex cable up against these two contacts on the board.

I originally managed to solder to the flat cable, but then made a mistake and tore the pads, so I ended up soldering directly to those spring pins on the mainboard. I used magnet wire for everything. I just connected both the L and R pins of the jack to this one speaker output because I didn't feel like probing out the top speaker connector and running wire up there just yet. Ideally I would have a switched jack that interrupts the top speaker, but that's for later. I might salvage something from an Apple device, their jacks tend to be compact.

Hot glued the thing in place, and this is the end result. It works just great with passive headphones. I'll upload a demo video when I get the chance, I've already used my 1 video. I wish I had taken better pictures, but it wasn't very convenient.

The caveats in the beginning apply. It's also way too loud because it's meant to drive a speaker, and it's balanced for that too. I might be able to put a resistor divider on there to reduce the output volume and let a louder signal drown out the interference a bit better?

I have no idea if this is a thing people do, putting audio jacks in their phones. But I would think that replacing the speaker like this would work on a lot of different phones. Maybe worth trying?

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I would love to hear ur kuro thoughts and hcs and fanfic recs sometime!

oh boy i have so many… hmm hm mhm ok

PART ONE: thoughts

controversial opinion!! i don’t think the undertaker is related to vincent/frances/o!ciel/misc. at least not by blood, but obviously there was something going on with claudia. but i feel like atp in the manga we would’ve had something more to hint at it like we did with the 2 ciels theory.

uh uh uh i literally almost shat myself when doll came back because WHAT! i missed her sm but i thought like… there was no way for her to come back?? but she’s here :) she’ll probably end up dead or getting snake killed though. finny is probably safe in terms of making it to the end of the manga

they should have killed off bard. i love him he’s one of my favorite characters but i’m tired of the manga not having any REAL stakes. either that or i’ve just been watching too much attack on titan/game of thrones recently. but idk killing off bard would have been ROUGH like woah, that’s a key piece to o!ciels success just gone. it would have balanced out the ‘win’ that o!ciel got with meyrin and ran mao

the chapters are WAYYY too short... like decrease the quality of the work to make more or take longer to release longer chapters pls and thanks. not every panel has to be this beautiful thing it can b a bit rough yana pls….. waiting on new chapters is GRUEEEEELING LIKE GRUELING. don’t get me even started on the last chapter bc what was THAT??? that was literally nothing like nothing, at all. the last two/three chapters should have been just one

PART TWO: headcanons

ronald died due to dick in lawnmower and that technically counted as offing himself bc it was 100% his fault

sebastian can taste food like a person can he’s just 1. not used to it 2. an asshole

o!ciel on multiple occasions has swiped everything off his desk, called sebastian into his room, and made him pick everything up and put it back EXACTLY where it was and if sebastian fucks it up o!ciel makes him start over

finny wasn’t allowed inside the manor for 2 weeks after he got his head stuck between the bannisters

lizzys favorite color is green

PART THREE: fanfic recs

so tbh i don’t consume a lot of fanfic for kuro just because filtering out all the garbage cuts out MOST fics on ao3, and i wouldn’t touch wattpad with a ten foot pole (i’m too lazy to figure out ff.net)

some fics i enjoy that you probably already know about are:

Coattails by @pain-in-the-butler

this is literally classic kuro fanfic like this is THEE fanfic for this fandom (but it’s highly likely you know this) i have a huge special interest in late victorian history in general so i very much appreciate the lengths the author goes to to make things feel authentically victorian :)

New Life; Cool Life by Rhonda

it’s very interesting and special to me !! it’s pretty dark but not terribly so, and it has some great character exploration for grelle and o!ciel. very au but feels like canon characters

Front Page News by TheArchaeologist

i like fics where sebastian gets the crap knocked out of him. great ensemble fic with focus on the servants :)

Staring Contest by BrainExhaustionGodStan

focus on bard but just a SMIDGE of dadbastian which is great

One is One, and All Alone by @pain-in-the-butler

oh my god another banger fic by my favorite kuro author wow. this one is a cool little snippet of r!ciel and o!ciel if they ended up going to weston. rlly cute very wholesome but with some angst ! but it’s hurt/comfort