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moshieee · 5 months ago
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Bro my tag is bixell bud?
I
I just
(dies of cute)
Aahh
Oh no!
Bixell don't die on me
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bowtiepastabitch · 9 months ago
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Good Omens Fanfic Data: 2023
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Top 5 Tags Per Month
Excludes basic a/c ship tags. Common tags coded by color. Interesting changes or patterns are in bold.
January: fluff, human au, humor, post-canon, established relationship
February: fluff, angst, human au, established relationship, hurt/comfort
March: fluff, human au, angst, post-canon, first kiss (honorable mention: pining)
April: fluff, human au, angst, hurt/comfort, first kiss (honorable mention: humor)
May: fluff, human au, blairamok's #IneffableMay, established relationship, hurt/comfort
June: fluff, human au, established relationship, hurt/comfort, angst
July: fluff, angst, fix-it, hurt/comfort, s2 spoilers
~~~~SEASON TWO~~~~
August: angst, fluff, hurt/comfort, post s2, s2 spoilers (honorable mention: fix-it) (@neil-gaiman you know what you did)
September: fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, crowley is a mess, ineffable idiots
October: fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, post s2, crowley is a mess
November: fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, crowley is a mess, post s2 (honorable mentions: angst with a happy ending, hurt crowley)
December: fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, ineffable idiots, crowley is a mess (honorable mention: Christmas)
January 2024: fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, crowley is a mess, human au (honorable mention: anal sex)
At time of posting there are still a couple hours left on the poll that I plan to use for additional GO fic data, so please go vote if you haven't already. Info about how the process for this is under the cut:)
Data was collected on February first, 2023, using Ao3's filtering system. Each month represents fics updated from the first through last days of the month. Please note that fics are filtered by when it was updated, not originally published, so longer running fics will be sorted under when they were finished or last added to. Unrated fics are not included in the graph, an oversight on my part whilst collecting data, but make up a very small portion of total fics and are often podfics or artwork.
Tags excluded in tag rankings are: "Aziraphale loves Crowley", "Crowley loves Aziraphale", and "Ineffable Husbands", which were consistently ranked among the top tags and I found unhelpful for determining patterns in fan engagement since they are, after all, simply facts. Honorable mentions are tags that ranked within the top 10 tags for the month which were unique to the month or contributed to an interesting trend.
Data collection is all done by me, so slight errors in copying down information are possible. Yes I made teen purple instead of yellow, I found it aesthetically pleasing. So sue me.
January of 2024 was included because I thought the additional data provided interesting information, especially the return of the human au tag (officially "alternate universe-human"), the higher ratio of explicit to nonexplicit fics, and the debut of "anal sex" in the top ten tags. It was a great month for the fandom.
Current other data projects include average word-counts by month and estimation of the total number of words written by members of the fandom. If there's any data or patterns you'd like to see, or questions you'd like answered, drop them in my ask box!
All of this is dedicated to the wonderful amazing writers in the fandom, including lovely mutuals whose work I totally recommend @voluptatiscausa @fellshish @phoen1xr0se @indigovigilance @ineffabildaddy (if I didn't tag you don't read into it, I've got a medically-concerningly bad memory and just popped through my recent reads on ao3.)
<3
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shadowynn · 2 years ago
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Hello! I am another new follower person who absolutely binge-read both series of yours and liked them a lot so far! You write very well and it makes me curious as to if you perchance have any other Ateez ot8 x reader fics from mutuals or others that you’d recommend as well?
These kinds of fantasy aus are honestly so fun to read and write, so I can imagine with how well you portrayed them, you must have had some good inspiration for both stories
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hi!!! sorry for the super late response, life just sort of hit, but thank you so much!! i really appreciate it! i absolutely love writing, mainly because it allows me to get my brainrot on paper and then i can reread it to my heart's content. and getting to share it with you is just like an added bonus! :)
and yes, i do! though i'm a bit lacking in getting around to reading them. the ones i would recommend off the top of my head are:
@mint-yooxgi: so i've been super behind in catching up with their works, but the first book of Hotel California was soo good and now as i'm writing this, i see they have new stuff since my hiatus and like, i'm so excited to check it out.
@hoonieversed: i have been meaning to read be the light and i haven't really gotten around to it, like a lot of things, but what i've seen, i'm super hyped! it sounds like such a cool concept!
@berryunho: the answer. super, super cool stuff if you're into cults. honestly such a unique concept and so very well written.
@the7thcrow: not all that glitters is gold. this is one that has been recommended to me a few times, and while i haven't quite gotten around to reading it yet, what little i did see was soo good. like, the writing is absolutely phenomenal. i'm just waiting for some time to binge read it because i know when i start, i'm not going to wanna stop.
also, i would totally recommend @hwaightme as well. i haven't quite gotten a chance to read their works, but the bit i've seen when it pops on my feed looks really good. none of is straight ot8 from what i know, but if you want some individual fluff in one-shot forms, give it a try!
i know there are definitely more, but these are just the first few that popped into my mind. so, if anyone knows anymore tag please! i wanna have some more recs too!
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ticklepinions · 3 years ago
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Blogs You Just Need to Follow
Hi, I am here to promote some seriously amazing people. I will try my best to give a good summary of why they are so special. I hope you enjoy and I hope you consider reblogging their work. (If we mutuals and you didn't make the "cut" no hard feelings, I plan to update regularly). Also not a ranked list. All the people mentioned are amazing in their own right. As always please read their bios before following. Some may be a mix between sfw/nsfw. They will be highlighted orange.
To help find who was recently added, I highlighted their tags in blue.
Tword Fiction/Stories:
@intheticklecloset - another wonderful and lovely person. You know those people who get really excited about a certain topic and you can see the joy in their eyes? That's exactly the what you'll get if you follow. With countless amazing fics from many beloved fandoms like Big Windup, Haikyuu! Check the tag #inthetwordcloset
@happyandticklish - their writing is like liquid gold. You want to drink until you drop. It quenches a thirst you didn't even know you had. Writer of multiple fandoms, you're definitely missing out if you don't follow them. Check the incoming tag #happyandtwordish for my personal faves!
@writingwitharlo - there is just something about their writing that just makes you crave for more. As you know I love when you can feel the artist's love in their craft. Writes for Harry Potter, Heartstopper and more! Make sure to show them some love! Check out the incoming tag #writingwitharlo for my personal faves!
@ticklishraspberries - they are an amazing writer. One that perfects letting the writer feel immersed within their story. A phenomenal writer that's written for over 65 fandoms. Yes. 65. Not only are they a talented writer but they have a fun loving personality as well. Check out the incoming #twordishraspberries to see my personal faves!
@cantsaythetword - my bro bro crow. Love this funky lad and his spectacular fics. If you love things like Marvel (stucky fans I'm looking at you), heartstopper, Dr Who AND more, this blog is for you. He is an incredible human being blessed with the gift of writing beautiful and wholesome pieces. Check out the incoming #cantsaythetword to see my faves :).
@parker-fluff - not just a writer but an artist too. And phenomenal at both. Your chibi artsyle brings a smile to my face. And I can't wait to read through the countless fics/drabbles you've made! If you love Peter Parker, then you'll adore our friendly neighbourhood artist/writer parker-fluff! Check out the #parkerfluff tag for my faves!
Artists:
@skribblz - now the artists on this platform are going to be the crème de la crème. And one of them is my buddy, my pal, skribblsz. The talent y'all. The sheer talent that oozes from this blog will have you in awe. Trigger warning, everytime you visit this blog your jaw will most definitely drop. Lovely, and kind hearted artist who loves their craft and it shows. Check the tag #skribblz
@ticklishfanart - I freaking love Jay. Look at their stuff I dare you. Do you see the love that's in the lines that are drawn? Cause I do. Every piece of work they put out is an absolute masterpiece. MHA fans should definitely pay a visit, you won't be disappointed. Check the tag #twordishfanart Or #ticklishfanart
@ssnicker-doodless - okay. Like. I just. I can rave on about them till the cows come home. The artist of the century. Picasso reborn. You do not want to stare at their art too long, perfection burns the eyes. #snickers doodles
@sleepysheepytea - okay so. The softest, cutest, most adorable art??? So glad I recently followed them. If I were to describe the beautiful art they create it would be like a nice and much needed cup of hot choccy on a cold winter night; it just hit right ya feel? #sleepy
@tiklart - a really unique and wonderful art style. If you're looking for MHA art, hint hint. Amazing and talented artist!! #tiklart
@wormonastriing - one of the OGs. The mf GOAT. Drawings that are so freaking realistic, idk how people can even be that talented. Must be illegal. Jail for bestie. #wormy
@simplysmilingdrew - super cute art. Even cuter scenarios. She is honestly a master of her craft. On top of all the wonderful drawn art is that she us a tword fic writer too! A whole double threat! Worth the follow for sure.
@isoots - new to the scene and already coming in hot with the talent. Give their art some well-deserved lovin'
@spensed-up-chilly-pepps - just recently followed and let me tell ya, if you like art and good vibes all around, you should definitely follow them. If you love team fortress you're in luck.
@dokidoki-muffin - such a talented artist. One look of their work and you'll be foaming at the mouth /pos. Pretty sure humankind was not fit for seeing such perfection- and for free!?!? And the artist is a sweetheart on top of all of that???? Follow now. Check out the new tag #dokidokimuffin for my fav pieces (spoiler alert its all of them).
@lovelymessybubbly - such a an angel and kind and caring person. Such a unique and adorable art style as well! Always love when you can tell how much love an artist pours into their creations, definitely worth a follow. Check out the incoming tag #lovelymessybubbly
@kiri-mikua - literally followed them a couple of days ago. A new artist on the block, with their own unique art style that is simply to die for. Their intricate works make you crave even more. Please show them lots of much deserved love! Check out the incoming #kirimikua for my faves!
@jettorii - we have so many new upcoming artists so ofc we gotta hype them up. I LOVE their art so much. The line art style is so cute and well done. A wonderful artist who has graced us with amazing fan art of spiderman, ninjago, and puss 'n boots. Please join me in applauding their great work. Check out the incoming #jettori tag for my faves :)
@chibimochii - if you like Genshin Impact boy oh boy do I have an artist for you! From colorured to sketched, following them is something you won't regret. Simply a beautiful art style that rivals the actual game imo. Thank you for sharing your wonderful art with us all. Check out the incoming #chibimochii tag for my personal faves!
@fanta-syrop - no because your style is so unique and idk how to describe it other than it evokes so much joy and happiness. They are a multi fandom artist currently feeding us with Genshin fan art. So very worthy of your following. Check out the incoming #fantasyrop for my faves!
@tklfluff - genuinely obsessed with your art. Not only that but you're a talented writer too!? Damn. Double homicide /ref. Fuelling my need for the Peter Parker Bros, and seeing them in your beautiful work is truly an honour. Check out the incoming #tklfluff tag for my faves!
@carrie-tate - yet another extremely talented artist I follow! So many fandoms and even their own OCs! Love how you draw your faves getting flustered over some wiggling fingers. Your art is truly one of a kind /pos. Check out the incoming #carrie-tate tag for my faves!
@feathergil - totally and utterly in love with their art style. It's soft and cute and sophisticated. Their art genuinely looks like it comes to life "night at the museum" style. Not only are they genuinely such a talented person they are also so cool and nice. Check out the incoming #feathergil tag for my faves!
@reererfjernfibeufkjebq - a hidden gem in our humble community. You may not be able to pronounce their blog name but why do you need to anyways? You'll need all your brain power to comprehend the sheer talent this person has. If you love Marvel especially characters that don't get a lot of mainstream attention, this blog is for you. Check out the incoming #reerer tag for my faves!
Bonus:
Check out my masterlist if you want to read some of my work
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House Party
Summary: You were invited to a party, little did you know, your best friend would be there too Pairing: Jensen Ackles x Reader Squares:  Smut for Make Me Feel Bingo // Sat on their lap instead of the chair for SPN Fluff // Jensen Ackles for Winchester & Beyond Bingo // Stolen Kisses for Any Fandom Fluff // Slow Burn for Tell Me A Story Bingo // Friends with Benefits for SPN Mixed Bingo Warnings: +18 MINORS DO NOT INTERACT Friends to Lovers, Smutish, cockwarming, alcohol, party, dirty talk, teasing, no panties, jealousy (mention)  Word Count: 1466 A/N:  This is my first attempt to actually write some graphic smut, so please be nice. In here you will also find some bolded prompts for the 7k follower celebration of @negans-lucille-tblr’s  This fic is unbeta’d so any mistakes (grammar, spelling, etc) are mine.
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It was Tuesday night when your calendar app notified you that you had your best friend Muni’s house party on Saturday. You texted her and agreed to meet on Thursday to buy clothes for the party.  You bought a two-part dress that you certainly were going to wear almost no underwear because it was really tight. You felt insecure by wearing something that tight but you couldn’t deny you looked amazing. 
When you arrived at Muni’s house, there were many people, and it was just less than an hour since it started. You saw some mutual friends, some men were drooling while staring at you. You were aware of that, but they didn’t care you could see them. In a way it made you feel uncomfortable. You were checking your phone every now and then like you were expecting a call or something.
You were about to flirt with a guy when you saw someone’s back. You could recognize that back everywhere. It was Jensen Ackles, he made it to the party. The last time you saw him, you were drunk and having sex. Amazing sex if you could brag out, the best you’ve ever had. You were staring at him when he turned around and saw you, he had a small smile, but then he saw what you were wearing and his eyes filled with lust. Yes, you were some feet away from him, and still, you were able to feel his intense gaze, he was undressing you with his eyes and you were ruining your panties to just thinking of him. You smirked at him, smiled like you were the only ones in the room, and went to find Muni. You were with Muni dancing and talking with some of her friends when you felt a presence behind you. You knew it was him, that unique scent he has, the perfume he wears, that undeniable presence you could identify without thinking.  Your body reacted at him, not the way you were expecting but you pressed and grind your butt against him.
-Hey sweetheart — he said to your ear, pulling a hand around your waist and getting you closer to him Your whole body shivered at hearing him in such a low tone. You kept grinding your ass against him. You turned around and gave him a quick peck on the lips and then you left. Jensen was perplexed and you were red in embarrassment. Thank god for the alcohol you were drinking, sober you’ve never acted this way.
Jensen was one of your best friends and you were madly in love with him. You thought he was not interested in you, at least not like you wanted, you had sex with him in the past, but never flirted back the way it did today. He was different, he encouraged you to keep moving your ass against his crotch, he never stopped you. And when you kissed him, he never backed away. Your panties were ruined by now, you could feel how wet they were. You were ruined.
-Have you seen how Jensen looks at you? — Muni asked you Jensen appeared in front of you, stole a kiss and he continued his way. You were frozen, you weren’t expecting it at all -Oh my god — Muni exclaimed — What the hell just happened? She was surprised, she had never seen Jensen acting that way with anyone, not even with you.  -He is so into you. Buying that dress was the best decision you could ever make. -I still hate it. It’s too tight — you complained -Well, Jensen loves it. He can’t take his eyes off you. Clearly, he wants you in his pants -Half the men in here want the same thing. Besides, he just sees me as his friend, nothing more -Babe, the way he is looking at you, and behaving around you, doesn’t show him as just a friend. He is interested in you -He is just teasing. He would never be interested in me — you admitted sadly -Let’s wait until the party ends, and then you tell me. You’ll thank me later — he said and left you alone Wherever you were going, you could feel Jensen’s intense glare following you. Maybe Muni was right and he was interested in you, or maybe just wants sex. It wouldn’t be the first time, sex without feelings. 
You needed to go to the bathroom and he was just in the way. Two can play the game. You approached him and gave him a long kiss. He grabbed you from your waist deepening it. You broke the kiss and before he could say something you kept walking. You’ve just ruined a friendship. This was the end. Once in the bathroom, you checked your panties, as you expected, they were a mess. It was getting uncomfortable to have them wet, so you took them off and threw them on the laundry basket that Muni has there hidden. No one would know you are not wearing panties, the bottom of your dress is too tight. You felt uncomfortable at first, but you tried to not think about it.
When you got back to the party, Jensen was out of sight. You felt bad, it was your fault, you made him feel uncomfortable and he left. You went to the kitchen to grab another beer when you spotted him sitting alone with his phone in one of the corners. You grabbed two beers and went where he was seated -Nobody puts baby on the corner — you said while sitting on his lap instead of a chair He smiled and grabbed one of the beers opening up and handing it to you, grabbing the other for him. You accommodate yourself in his lap, making sure to press your ass against his semi-hard cock. Jensen could feel you and with his free hand, he grabbed you from your waist putting the hand over your thigh.  Just feeling his cock through the fabric and his hand on your thigh, you were getting even wetter. Jensen squeezed your thigh and kissed you on your neck -Don’t you get tired of teasing? Wearing that tight little dress giving nothing left for the imagination? -Mhm… Jay — you moaned moving your ass He moved the hand that was on his thigh higher to the hem of your skirt. You opened your legs. You seated sideways on his lap, putting one arm around his neck and the other near his crotch -Mmm sweetheart, you feel what you do to me? You make me get jealous of everyone wanting to devour you. -But I want you, not them— you said moving your hand to his crotch Jensen moved his hand higher and looked at you with lustful eyes. He smirked at you when he realized you were wearing nothing -What a naughty girl, no wearing any panties — he moved his hand inside your skirt -I bet you are really wet You moved your hand to his zipper  -Please, Jens — you moaned Jensen was hard, his cocked throbbed when you grabbed from under his underwear. You could feel the tip getting wet with precum. Jensen opened your legs a little more and moved a finger along your folds -Mmm baby, you’re so wet You opened his jeans and took his cock out. You got up and Jensen with wide eyes open realized what were you going to do -Are you getting my cock warmed? — He said helping you to sit on his cock -Mhm… Jens — you moaned while kissing him
You’ve had sex with him before, but today he was a lot bigger than you expected. Probably it was the position you were both seated, he filled you up and reached places no one has ever touched. He held you in place and started to kiss you. You could feel his cock getting harder inside you. You tried to circle your hips while making out with him, you needed the friction, but Jensen held you in place. -Jens… — You broke the kiss -What is it, baby? -I don’t know how long I will resist without moving -Me neither, sweetheart. I want you so bad -I want you too — You gave him another kiss — Let’s go to the guest room, I’m staying there tonight -Tomorrow I’ll take you on a date. That’s a promise
When you moved from his lap, you felt empty. He was quick to fix his pants and then you grabbed his hand, ready to be fucked out by your best friend. Muni saw that you were taking him to your room and smirked. A minute later you got a text “I told you. Please be quiet. I want all the details.”
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@girl-next-door-writes | @spnfluffbingo | @winchesterandbeyondbingo | @anyfandomfluffbingo | @supernatural-jackles | @spnmixedbingo | @thevelvetseries | @caplanreads | @akshi8278 | 
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quidfree · 4 years ago
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,,would you mind elaborating on your tags on the fem bakugou post,,
oh god yeah ok. like there are many ways in which i authentically believe bnha would be extremely improved if bakugou was simply a girl but i’ll try to stick to the minimum here.
anyways bnha/anime in gen lbr has a woman problem and i really don’t want to harp on about it but if you disagree send an ask and i’ll fight about it. i think for bnha this would be greatly countered by having bakugou be the exact same character but a girl. still gets the secondary protagonist slot, still gets the masses of character development, narrative importance, parallel to the protagonist, etc, but just happens to be a girl. that’s levels of focus and care afforded to absolutely no female character in bnha and generally in anime of its genre. separately, there is no female character like bakugou- yes, there are aggro girl characters, but they fall under Aggro Girl Character tropes, whereas bakugou is a fully realized fairly unique and heavily nuanced character. like it’s rare to have such a major character be such an unrepentant bastard from the outset w zero tragic backstory but then consistently remain one of the main characters in the series and be given the significance he gets. to have all of that afforded to a female character would make my year. i want more complex female characters who don’t fall under Complex Female Character archetypes- who are complicated in ways male characters get to be. for me it would be extremely refreshing to have midoriya be the fundamentally nice (if extremely dangerous) protag and bakugou as the girl character being the fundamentally not-nice (and similarly dangerous) foil. instead the closest female foil charas we have to the protags are uraraka and momo, both of which are nicer and softer and more self-conscious and weaker than their male counterparts. i like uraraka and momo. i would love female bakugou.
anyways though i would again like bakugou to remain the exact same i do accept that the change would alter some of the ways the story plays out, w some unavoidable sympathy added to the character’s storyline. like wouldn’t it make more sense for bakugou to be SO VERY ANGRY about ever being offered help if bakugou was a girl. wouldn’t bakugou resent midoriya so much more for looking out for him if bakugou was a girl. wouldn’t bakugou be SO RAVENOUSLY FURIOUS at todoroki for holding back in their sports fest fight after giving his all to midoriya if bakugou was a girl. there’d just be an added nuance to bakugou’s ego and temper w society filtered in- bakugou would still be the same asshole as always, but there’d also be some external context. i think it would be good content.
final note bc i appreciate this is getting long- i also think there would be so much potential for comedy in-universe about this. like, midoriya remains as awkward as he is around girls (meeting uraraka, his interactions w hatsume, etc etc) despite having been best/worst friends w bakugou since diapers and this does not compute as weird to him at all bc bakugou does not register as a girl to him. ‘that’s just kacchan! that’s different!’ kirishima still finds bakugou to be the manliest person in school. the bakusquad routinely forgets bakugou is only figuratively one of the boys. bakugou has like a horrendous mullet situation going on to look distinct from mitsuki bc otherwise it’s a lost cause. mineta is dead. bakugou resents todoroki far longer and more stubbornly than in canon bc of the indignity of sports fest since it was grounded in apparent misogyny; todoroki remains wholly oblivious since he sees bakugou less as a Weak Girl and more as a Raging Asshole. all might and/or bakudeku’s mothers ship bakudeku (to their mutual horror). just a lot of slight tweaks that entertain me.
also naturally i love bakugou from a character perspective and i think as a species humanity should have reached the stage where girls get to have characters like that too. terrible role models for all <3 that’s feminism baby
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emzchaos · 3 years ago
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check-in tag ✅⭐
thankyou for tagging me @sulaniturtles🥰
why did you choose your url?:
Ahh ok well I started this blog off as Sharksimz, then changed it to seviies (after my sim SE7VEN) then I left simblr for a six-month break. I came back and hated seviies and wanted to be funny. Awkwardlyhere was taken so I mixed my favorite flower the Orchid and added a lyhere.. It's a fucking pun and I hate myself every day.
any side blogs? if you have them, name them and why you have them:
orchidlyfinds - For CC I like but am not at my PC
emziasraccoonadoption - Raccoon Adoptions
how long have you been on tumblr?:
This is my 7th year.. it doesn't feel that long but it has been
do you have a queue tag?:
Queue? Whats that?
why did you start your blog in the first place?:
Well it was a mix of filling a void of grief and diving into a many simblr blogs like @neopixiesims, @ellemant (When it was josiesimblr), @penelope-and-wonders, @beverlyallitsims, @eslanes, @shysimblr and some others but they are no longer posting or active. These blogs were my welcome and inspiration to start my first blog.
why did you choose your icon/pfp?:
It's Oakley, I don't need a reason really
why did you choose your header?:
It's Millie & Oakley as Young adults.
what’s your post with the most notes?:
My Pride Month edit with 118 notes :o
how many mutuals do you have?
I have so many, I lost count over the year
how many people do you follow?:
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how many followers do you have?:
Just slightly under 1000
have you ever made a shitpost?:
All the fucking time lol
did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? who won?:
Ahh I rather not say. I don't want to bring shit up.
how often do you use tumblr each day?:
I should be in bed but still up on tumblr soo uhh too often
how do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?:
Depending on what it is. I have just given up on a pretty blog it's just trash and I reblog what I want to
do you like ask games?:
Yess!!!
do you like tag games?:
Yes, I don't always get to them because I really suck and get anxious no one will like me after I post them..
which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?:
@warmsol, @amelettes have you seen their sims! @berrysweetboutique, @klodas. @literalite, @klayde just a few but honestly I think in ways so many people are tumblr famous for having unique sims and great stories so maybe all my mutals are tumblr famous
do you have a crush on a mutual?:
Yes!! Every single one of them, their sim and stories are more worthy than my terrible story and posts lol (Self hating)
My tag victims - @pink-chevalier, @sienna-simmer, @kouzeesim, @cyazurai, @amelettes, @simsstuph, @erosims, @theplumblob, @lunchsims, @leafykii, @skylarsimsstories and anyone who sees's this I guess (I still suck at tagging)
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rpbetter · 3 years ago
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I often see multis post that they want to make a new muse, at the same time as they're backed up on threads and asks, and they get their followers to "enable" them to make that muse in the post replies. What is your take on this? Is it a they-can-do-what-they-want situation, or is it reasonable to be annoyed when I see this? Or both?
Hey, Anon!
Both.
I mean, as usual, this is my opinion of an opinion-based matter. This isn't an equation that has an objectively right to wrong scale, it isn't actually hurting any living person or thing. But...it is incredibly annoying and can be hurtful.
They can totally do what they want, and much of the nature of genuine creativity is exactly that - the allowance of doing whatever you so desire. It's something I support rather adamantly, but it's also something I support trying our best to do responsibly and without being hurtful to anyone in a hobby that involves more than ourselves.
This isn't deciding to write another fic when you've not finished the previous four or five that others were interested in, or never finishing any of your original fiction, but continually starting new projects. While others might be enjoying those things as well, you didn't agree to interact with them. They're audience members, not participants.
When others are participants in a hobby that has to work both ways, it's different. Your actions do affect other, real human beings.
So, I totally feel like you've a right to be annoyed every time you see that happening. I do. I tend to unfollow people who do that repeatedly, as we're not pursuing the hobby in the same way. I'll argue all day that someone has a right to their, sometimes literally, eighty-plus muses they never develop or stick to, but that doesn't mean I want to engage with them as a writing partner.
For those of us who want long-term writing partners with the same, well-developed muses, this kind of thing just is annoying. As is everything else that comes with it.
As in...
They're constantly posting "talk me out of adding x" as code for "talk me into writing x."
No one actually wants to be talked out of it, which was probably more obvious to everyone else here than it was me for a little while lmao I tend to take things rather literally. This was, as one can imagine, not appreciated! Telling someone in total earnestness, "I really don't think that's a good choice. You're always saying how overwhelmed you are and just dropped multiple threads yesterday, so adding another muse is going to make you feel worse eventually. Don't do it! :)" is so not what they were looking for. As was evident by the return meltdown over how they could do what they wanted, like I said they couldn't or had any authority over what they're doing with their time.
It's an obnoxious bit of pandering for a foregone conclusion.
Have you ever seen anyone who posts that sort of thing not pick up that muse? I haven't. I've only seen muns who are legitimately on the fence about it asking others in private conversations or testing out the muse decide against it. The thing that makes this incredibly irritating is the attention-seeking and need to validate something they must know isn't a great choice, otherwise, they'd just do it. They're aware that they're behind on drafts, asks, and other things - aware that this is maybe a dick move when they owe everyone already. So, they're seeking "permission" with full knowledge that multiple mutuals are going to hop on that post with encouragement, even some of the ones being messed over by this choice.
It puts people in a bad situation.
Some of those people genuinely don't care, they just want to interact with any muse, and I'm going to be awful and say it - they don't care about totally interchangeable muses and have them themselves. That's fine, this isn't a problem for them. It is for the mutuals who are hoping that maybe if their writing partner gets into this new muse, they'll get a reply to their threads with that energy, or that they'll stick to this one and they can have consistent interactions with them. It is for the mutuals who feel pressured to respond positively because they fear not responding at all will make them seem like bad rpers.
One more thing playing into the counter logic excuse for shitty behavior of "it's just a hobby" is one more thing too many, and it does exactly that.
No one wants to be accused of being remotely too invested in RP anymore, of taking it too seriously, or having any emotional investment in muses, stories, or muns. Not accepting every choice someone makes that negatively impacts you with a grin on your face while you dump confetti on them for it just isn't a comfortable option for a lot of muns anymore. Honesty isn't a comfortable option. While the other option isn't either, it seems better than that mutual noticing you're the only writing partner who didn't hop onto that post with support any of the multiple times they reblogged it. It's only a hobby in which everyone can do what they want until what one wants clashes. Then, you're getting a callout for being addicted to RP.
And the way it tends to clash most is in having expectations of others. Ones that would be totally normal in any other hobby requiring interaction with other people.
Like not overburdening yourself at the expense not only of yourself but those on your "team." That's what is being done when someone knows they cannot keep up with themselves, but continues to add to the situation with new muses.
Not only are you no longer getting responses already while they're intending to add even more to their overflowing plate, you'll be dropped again when they have to "fresh start" their blog because they're burned out.
I have to put that in quotations because I don't know how it's a fresh start when you keep everything but the blog layout the same. All the muses and all the behaviors, including adding a new one despite not having the time or interest necessary to do so, is inevitably maintaining the problems that led to burnout. Dropping every thread, changing the URL, a new blog layout, new aesthetics, isn't fixing the issue even if it temporarily reinvigorates the mun.
The mun is definitely doing things that are not helpful to them, it's stressful and upsetting to experience burnout, but it's at least that mun's choice. Both to do it and to become defensive over fixing it, thus, never fixing it. It isn't anyone else's choice to be repeatedly dropped or ignored, though...unless they just keep sticking around for it.
Again, we're supposed to respect everyone's choices. That's fine when it really works that way, when it is truly everyone. But it's not an acceptable decision to see a multimuse of twenty or more muses and say that's your limit, that you've experienced too many muns who are serial muse-adders not being able to keep up with themselves, so you don't interact with these blogs. If one feels that way, they had better not put it in their rules or ever be upfront about this as a reason, when one is demanded, for not following back or interacting.
It's not acceptable to see a writing partner adding another muse after they've owed you for months, just wiped their inbox, and keep expressing being overwhelmed/behind and become annoyed. Let alone dropping them or explaining to them why you are doing so.
The only "acceptable" course of action is hoping that they totally forget you exist so you can quietly slip away.
I don't feel like that's especially fair or mature. It certainly isn't helping the communication problem we absolutely do have here in the RPC when only one party is allowed to communicate without fear of being labeled, rather ironically, as a bad RP partner.
While this problem seems to be most prevalent in more casual RPers, it's certainly not isolated there. I feel like it's necessary to say that I've had muns I both interacted with and were simply on my dash alike who were not on that more casual side who went from being multis to being muse collectors. Once they hit over fifteen of them or so, they stopped even bothering to try to refrain from picking up at least one muse from every new piece of media they consumed or were inspired by.
It was more annoying because they had been capable of writing truly unique characters they stuck to, and even if they were, with full and upfront admission before interaction, slower to respond, those responses were well worth any wait for the quality of writing and storytelling going on. That's so much worse than someone who was always at a lower skill level as a writer, didn't have a good grasp on characterization, and wasn't especially dedicated to anything. It's depressing and disappointing, but it's also not what you think you're getting into when trying to carefully pick who to write with. Like everyone else, my time to enjoy this hobby is far from twenty-four-seven as well. It's important to me to try to choose muns I'll work out with well so that neither of us is wasting the other's time. And that's what it feels like - the investment of time was a waste because their hobby became adding infinite muses, or rather, the idea of muses.
So, yes, while it is fully everyone's right to write what and how they want to (even if it amounts to not writing at all), it'd be nice if we were all as committed to doing so in a way that was adult enough to respect commitments we've made to each other as we are, as a RPC, to losing our minds when someone merely drops the words "commitments" or "respect."
For the inevitable muse-collectors running across this:
Fiction is inspiring! That doesn't mean you needn't be inspired by anything, just that picking up or creating a whole other muse might not be the best way to follow this inspiration.
If you're considering another muse, but you find yourself already behind and/or overwhelmed? Try one of these instead:
create a plot based on it! Write up the idea and put it in your wanted plots/wishlist tag. Bring it up to partners you think might be interested in it as well, or seek out a crossover from that fandom
make it a new verse for an existing muse! This is as close as you get to creating a new muse without actually doing so, and in many ways, it takes even more creativity. How is your muse different in this AU than they are in canon, how are they the same? In the ways that they are the same, what similar events but done in a way that is natural/logical to this universe have happened to maintain that? Get really creative!
for either/both of these, make some moodboards and aesthetics with that energy while you're waiting on someone to take you up on these new things. Answer some HC asks or tag games using your new verse, or write an independent HC for the verse or plot
talk to writing partners who already love that muse about their new verse/your desired plot! No, not pressuring talk, just normal conversation between friends, but maybe they will be interested in starting a thread
simply be inspired to include some aspect of what you liked in an existent thread. A particular scene you could pull ideas from, the overall mood of a film, or the way something was written in a book - include that in your replies somehow! RP is creative writing, be creative
There are so many, honestly more organic, directions to take inspiration than bluntly adding a new muse. Especially when you're already overburdened, not holding up your end of replies, and/or not able to portray each muse as their own character properly.
Sometimes, it's not just not a great idea to add a whole new muse, and that's alright. There seems to be a serious problem with fomo going on with this whole issue, too. You're not going to miss out if you do not immediately add this character to your multi, and you're never going to fully keep up with what is trending anyway. Do it because you still want to write this muse in four months instead, they're obviously not going anywhere if that's the case, and they'll be a better developed, interesting portrayal for that.
And people do have a right to be annoyed when they feel sidelined by you seeing a shiny object and repeatedly pandering for validation in dropping them for it. Particularly if you're a mun who, further, expects everyone to be just as interested in every new muse you make as the last. As in, you're annoyed when you keep creating muses no one is falling over themselves to interact with, guilting, shaming, or outright demanding that this new muse is interacted with before they have access to the previous ones.
They don't have a right to be mean you to, but they have a right to be annoyed and to drop you. They even have a right to politely decline explaining this to you if they feel unsafe, or to politely explain it to you before they move on.
Absolutely everyone's right to pursue RP and every facet of it as they so please, but no one else has to like what you're doing.
If this response grates on some of you out there? Consider the other options you have, how you might be making others feel, and that it's actually completely okay to tell yourself no. You won't perish if you tell yourself no to taking on a new muse when you, honestly, should not! It'll be okay! Maybe, you just need to evaluate if there is another muse, or more than one, you should remove before adding one. Maybe, you just need some time to reorganize how you reply before you add this one. "No" when told to yourself can simply mean "no, not right now, it isn't a good time/situation."
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longbobmckenzie · 3 years ago
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I posted 1,189 times in 2021
252 posts created (21%)
937 posts reblogged (79%)
For every post I created, I reblogged 3.7 posts.
I added 2,603 tags in 2021
#litg - 802 posts
#litg ff - 688 posts
#mutuals write stuff - 295 posts
#mutuals write stuff i like - 226 posts
#longbob answers asks - 142 posts
#rec'd - 128 posts
#longbob writes - 101 posts
#sos - 81 posts
#self rb - 77 posts
#litg fanfiction - 63 posts
Longest Tag: 89 characters
#got the first part of this ask as well but everything that needs to be said is right here
My Top Posts in 2021
#5
it’s just a crush ch. 1 [Bobby x MC]
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Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32240941/chapters/79904947
New town, new school, new friends. Those are the top things on Meg Rennell’s mind when she and her brother Gary move away from Chatham. Then she sees Bobby McKenzie in the hallway at school, and one glimpse changes her life forever.
The question is… will he ever notice her?
It’s finally here! I first dreamed up the concept for this fic a year ago, and put it on the backburner while I worked on W&S and EOTW. Then I wanted to have a clear direction and a bunch of chapters written before posting, got distracted by ntoo and a few other things along the way, and now I’m finally posting!
Hope you enjoy! 💕
44 notes • Posted 2021-06-28 16:50:04 GMT
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Thanks so much to the wonderful and super-talented @smaiihands for this ABSOLUTELY STUNNING commission of Henrik Blondbeard, one of the characters in my LITG pirate fic Edge of the World!
It was such a pleasure working with you again!
A/N: yes, it's true that he doesn't have a beard. that's still his name!
57 notes • Posted 2021-07-31 18:54:39 GMT
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Whiskey & Scotch ch. 45:Epilogue is up!
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Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/24148177/chapters/73219032
Thanks to everyone for reading!
Also a HUGE thank you to @smaiihands​, who created this commissioned piece and brought one of my favourite scenes in the whole fic (from ch. 31) to life! I’m so in love with it!!!
65 notes • Posted 2021-02-28 22:28:39 GMT
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Thoughts on LITG Matchmaker
Posted this on the Fusebox subreddit here if you’d like to upvote/comment, but thought I’d share my thoughts on tumblr as well.
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Don't download it. Don't play it. Definitely don't spend money on it.
I know it's tempting, but just don't - unless you really like match-3 games and don't mind a diluted version of the same content you've already played.
If you download it, FB will see how many people have downloaded the app. If you play it, you'll be watching ads, and Fusebox will earn ad revenue.
Money talks, and the only way to get Fusebox to understand that we want full seasons of LITG content (the game we're really here for) is to boycott Matchmaker and just not give them what they want.
Look at all the time and hard work that was poured into LITG. Even if we don't like S3 or different aspects of the other seasons, we still recognize that a lot of hard work was put into it, and the people who worked on it have been treated unfairly by Fusebox. They've been laid off, and the work they've done - the art, the characters, the story - has been outsourced and turned into a stripped-down version that forces you to play a bunch of puzzles just for a few lines of dialogue. All so that Fusebox can spend less and earn more.
The regular game is what made this fandom what it is. We get angry at it, but we still replay it over and over. We discuss it, we tell others about it, we write fanfiction about it, we bond with others over it. Do you think we're gonna be doing that for matchmaker? No. If Fusebox doesn't create more real content, this fandom will die. The game has its issues - lots of them - but it was unique for its replayability. The characters are what make the game, and that's just not going to be compelling enough in a match-3 game.
So delete Matchmaker. Go back to the real game and replay S1, S2, CMM, even S3. Let's show Fusebox what we want, since they won't listen to our complaints.
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Commissioned this beautiful portrait of Long Bob McKenzie from @smaiihands​, and I can’t stop looking at it! 😍
The work is to accompany my fic Edge of the World, which I recently completed on AO3 - click the title if you’re interested in checking it out! It’s an original pirate AU inspired by the boys’ dinner conversation in S2 after girls’ day, and features all the S2 characters in some way or form. It was so much fun to write and I’m so pleased to see Long Bob come to life!
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darknessisafriend · 4 years ago
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Hey! I love your writing so much!!! Could i pls request a Joaquin x Reader where they've been close friends for like a couple yrs now and theyre just hanging out or smth together one day and eventually fall asleep together. As one of them is falling asleep tho, they tell the other that they love them (doesn't matter to me who says it first, w/e fits best 😂) nd obv the other overhears it nd then like the next am or w/e they talk about it nd confess their feelings nd start dating. Thank you!!!��
Hey thank you for the request! I finally wrote it and I hope you will enjoy <3 
Disclaimer: this is a work of fiction inspired by what we see of these people, I do not claim to know them nor to establish this work as the truth about their personal lives, the realities might be completely different.
                                             First date?
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“See? This movie was great!” You exclaimed as you entered Joaquin’s home with a big smile.
“Right…I wasn’t expecting it; it was pretty good; I’ll recommend it to my sisters.” He admitted, closing the door behind you, taking off his hoodie and throwing it on the couch.
“I think Rain will particularly love it.” You replied, taking off your shoes with your feet, keeping on your hoodie, well, the hoodie he had given you. Even if the weather was warm, you loved keeping it on, wrapped up in his smell.
“Yeah, definitely.” He passed a hand through his hair, following you to his kitchen. You were so used to come to his place, it was as if you lived in it and it made him smile. Even more, when he saw you being happily greeted by Soda, giggling as he licked your face.
“Awwww I missed you too, my snuggle bear!” you beamed kissing its head before getting up and letting Joaquin pet his dog. You watched him, those two had an incredible bond; you saw it not only now but also every time you came to his home for dinner, to watch a movie or simply because you missed him.
“So, what are we cooking my dear vegan chief?” you put your hands on your hips, hungry and eager to start.
“Well, what do you want to eat?” he grinned putting his hands on the central counter, slightly leaning towards you.
“Why not some vegetables lasagna?” you suggested with an excited grin. He had been vegan for longer than you are, so naturally you loved when he gave you cooking lessons.
“Sure. It’s not a ten-minute thing you know? We’ll have to keep ourselves busy while it cooks.”
“Well it’s not like you were a boring guy.” You teased him, and he arched an eyebrow in return.
“I’m a boring guy.” He declared, shaking his head in disbelief.
“You’re not!” you instantly retorted with a giggle, smashing your hands on the counter.
“Yes I am! What are we gonna do? Like just talk or play or read, nothin’ exciting.” He replied modest, he always had a hard time understanding why people found him interesting.
“But you know I love doing those things with you! Come on let’s start cooking, boring man.” You gave him a big kiss on the cheek and went to take an apron for yourself and him. As your back was turned on him, you didn’t notice his little blush at your kiss; you often did it, but it still had the same effect on him.
The two of you started cooking, rarely talking and mostly focused on your tasks, washing and cutting the vegetables, preparing the pasta. But with Joaquin, often silence spoke better than words…you threw looks at each other, full of tenderness and playfulness. And of course, little smiles followed, but those were more discreet, shy…each time your fingers accidentally brushed over his, your heartbeat would increase and your cheeks get flushed; what you didn’t know is that Joaquin felt the same; just like he didn’t know about the growing affection you had for him.
“Here, put the layers of eggplant like that…” he indicted in a murmur, as if to not trouble the peaceful silence of the room. Joaquin moved to get the tomato sauce on your left side, his arms basically wrapping around you in the process. You didn’t know if you two were always so close, but you only noticed today or maybe Joaquin was being bit more tactile today…in any case you didn’t complain and you enjoyed it.
“Alright, now we let it cook for 45 minutes. Time to be patient.” Joaquin broke the silence; cleaning is hands on a dish towel. You took off your apron and smiled at him, already thinking of what you could do while it cooks.
“Let’s go in the garden; it will be soon dark. Let’s watch the sunset.” You suggested softly, Joaquin nodding with a little smile; he loved to spend time in nature, and even more when it was with you or his family. He followed you outside and Soda too, he was such a clingy dog and you loved it.
You went to sit in the grass and finally laid down, watching the many warm colors of the sky, slowly disappearing, letting a few stars appear…it was always a wonderful sight. Joaquin quietly joined you, laying down beside you, Soda resting his head on his belly, Joaquin’s fingers distractingly scratching its head. He felt your gaze on him and briefly met your eyes, you gave him a gentle smile, slightly blushing; he had caught you staring at him, once again.
The both of you stayed silent, focusing back on looking at the sky and listening to few birds that were still singing at dusk. You thought about this moment you were spending with Joaquin, all the moments you had been spending with him lately. There wasn’t a day where you didn’t at least call him; he was constantly part of your thoughts, how was he feeling? Did he think about you when you are not together? And in which way did he think about you? Could he feel more than friendship for you one day? You were pushed out of your thought by a soft and constant sound, finally realizing it was Joaquin who seemed to have fallen asleep, he was breathing deeply, almost sounding like a light snore.
You slowly shifted towards him, resting on your elbow. You detailed his peaceful face, his thick brows, his pouty lips with his unique scar, his silver hair…the most handsome silver fox you had ever met. You hesitated before slowly letting your fingers brush the features you loved so much.
“I love you…” you whispered, leaning forward to place a feather-like kiss on his cheek, right at the corner of his mouth. You wanted to kiss him, but who knows how he would react…you softly smiled and as gently as you could laid your head on his chest; listening to his heartbeat, you noticed how it was actually rather fast, he must have been really tired…
You quickly drifted off to sleep, lulled by his steady breathing. But that sleep was of a short time when you were awakened by the timer of the oven, it was ready and your nap close to Joaquin already over. You met Joaquin’s look as he realized how close your body was to his, you had really slept on him.
“Come on, let’s check our lasagnas before it burns.” You replied in a low tone, your eyes briefly lingering on his lips; you should go back inside before he asks why you were on him. And you got up, Soda following you eagerly. Joaquin watched you for a few seconds puzzled by the whole situation, he had to talk about this, no matter how uncomfortable it would be. He soon reached you in the kitchen, you were taking out the plate from the oven and put it down on the counter with a smile.
“Damn that looks great! We’re going to-” but you were interrupted by the face your friend made; he looked nervous and careful. “What is it?”
“I heard what you said. Back in the garden.”
You opened and closed your mouth several times, not knowing what to say “Oh…I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make un-…” he cut you off by putting his hand on yours, his thumb soothingly stroking your skin.
“Hey, it’s all good! I just want to talk about it...” He flashed you a little smile, perhaps himself a bit nervous and licking his lips before speaking “I like you too…very much.” He started, looking at you to assess your reaction to his words. Your eyes detailed his face, he was waiting for your reaction and honestly you didn’t know how to react. Was he really telling you that the feeling is mutual?
“Huh…really? Very much?” you pushed to make sure you had understood correctly.
“Yes, I…I think I’m in love with you.” He clarified, scratching the back of his head, yes it was a bit uncomfortable to talk about that but if that meant a chance to end up together, he was willing to. Your heart missed a beatt, you pinched your lips together to stop squealing in joy like a crazy girl, but it made you so happy. You moved your fingers to lightly caress the back of his hand, a little smile slowly forming on Joaquin’s face.
“Well, why don’t we make this dinner our first date?” you suggested sweetly, kissing his cheek. Joaquin met your eyes, in the end it wouldn’t change much, you loved each other greatly already but he will finally be able to show you fully how much you mean to him.
Joaquin’s squad: @arcticmonkais​ @amourtiara @sirianfromsixties @sweetness-doesnt-touch-my-face @live-love-loki @lyoongx @skaravile @jaylovesbats @niniita-ah @dirtyginger @valentina15  @cumberbitching @weirdflecksbutok @charlie-sisters @stardancerluv @sgtsavoytruffle @ohcarlesmycarles @rajacero
If you want to be added to the tag list just ask !
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hopeamarsu · 3 years ago
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Blog Questions
Thank you lovelies @clydesducktape @safarigirlsp @finn-ray-nal-beads and @daydreamsofren for tagging me ❤️
1. Why did you choose your url?
This is an old (and I mean OLD, like from the first grade) nickname of mine that I still use. I added another word into it to make it a bit more unique and it has stuck ever since. 
2. Any side blogs?
One. I used to have two, but I deleted one of them because it was getting some... unwanted attention. 
3. How long have you been on Tumblr?
6 years on the dot. Crazy! But there was a period of a couple of years when I was inactive, and I came back almost a year ago. 
4. Do you have a queue tag?
Queue baby queue. But I rarely use it, mostly when I want to spread out things. 
5. Why did you start your blog in the first place?
In the first place? As a personal blog to sort out my mind and keep track of my favorite shows (I needed the spoilers and pictures because nothing ever makes it here in time... pfft). 
6. Why did you choose your icon/pfp?
Because my ugly mug shouldn’t be plastered on the internet. And I love piccrew games! 
7. Why did you choose your header?
Water and sea calms me and I took the picture one day when we were hiking and I loved the clearness of the sea. 
8. What’s your post with the most notes?
Honestly I don’t know. Maybe my Kylo Soulmate AU? 
9. How many mutuals do you have?
I do and they are all so wonderful <3
10. How many followers do you have?
The number baffles me sometimes. 
11. How many people do you follow?
It’s a three-digit number. 
12. Have you ever made a shitpost?
Probably lots of times without me even realizing it. 
13. How often do you use Tumblr each day?
Ehh... Can I skip this one? 
14. Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?
Not really. Have I disagreed with someone, sure, but I don’t seek them out if I do. If someone sends me something, I will gladly discuss and we can disagree but it’s all been polite.
15. How do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts?
Not my thing. 
16. Do you like tag games?
I do! But I do get a little shy sometimes about doing them because I don’t want to bother people. 
17. Do you like ask games?
Yes! I love ask games, but again I get a little shy. I’ve been burned a couple of times when no-one sent in an ask so I rarely reblog them because that feeling sucked big time. 
18. Which of your mutuals do you think is Tumblr famous?
There is just one question: What in fact is a Tumblr famous? 
19. Do you have a crush on a mutual?
Shh, don’t tell anyone. But yes. 
20. Tags
This has been doing rounds today so I think most people have done it or been tagged, so if you see this, consider this your tag! I love reading the answers! 
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retphienix · 4 years ago
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It's been 6 years :)
On March 30th, 2015 I decided I wanted a gaming side blog. (so we're early, but shush, it's the month for me)
I didn't know what I'd use it for exactly, but I had ideas- something I always have even if most of them only get as far as daydreamin' or writing out before closing them :P
For proof on the lack of direction the blog initially had- the March 30th date is the anniversary of my first post, an in-depth and lengthy review of Dragon Warrior Monsters for the GBC.
If you know the blog then you know "Extremely long and in-depth reviews" aren't the norm around here. As a matter of fact, that first post is the ONLY one I've done!
The closest I've come to ever repeating that would be the (word of the day) Directionless video I put out on Hades to get a grip on the concept of making videos, but that wasn't nearly as much of a 'review' as that first post is.
Tangent, definitely planning on trying my hand at videos some more for the foreseeable future. Probably not gonna use the tagline Full Impressions that I tossed as a whim for the Hades video but yeah- I'm excited to try my hand at a few videos :) tangent over.
It didn't take me long to come up with what I'd like to do for the blog though :)
A few months later I liveblogged a challenge run of FFT where I used only Ramza- a solo run. - Which maybe only happened because I tried a nuzlocke run a year prior on my main account-
(Nuzlocke | FFT challenge run)
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Thanks to that haphazard liveblog experiment I started to realize a couple things which became the primary motivators behind this blog.
1) I LOVE sharing experiences. No brainer, I'm sure, but being able to share my experiences, and compare them with others' experiences, and just that mutual sharing is uplifting and feels good to do.
2) Liveblogging is an EXCEPTIONAL motivator to buckle down and play all those games I said I'd play (cue everyone laughing because I'm still way behind and have an immeasurable backlog).
But I mean that, on both respects. I have plenty of motivators toward the blog today, but if I were to be concise it's pretty much "It's easier to beat games if I liveblog them- otherwise I get distracted and play other games" and "I love sharing experiences and thoughts with people about my favorite thing- games."
Since 2015 I've tackled around 70 games as full playthroughs, and an untold ton as one offs or just to ramble about for a bit.
I've had a lot of highlights over the years, and I don't talk much about it as an overall experience so I thought for the anniversary I'd try to do just that. Not everything- I can't say I have photographic memory that would bring all of it up without prompting after all :P But whatever comes to mind as I browse some of my old stuff- as well as some thoughts on what I'd like to see in the future.
It's gonna be a bit self-centric I assume as I type this preamble to it, so let me say outright that this blog wouldn't be half of what it is without all the people who've given it the time of day over the years.
From recommending games they love or appreciate, to comparing thoughts, to offering kind words for analysis I've done over the years, to pointing out when I'm dumb and misread a situation :P- to, yes, even the people who decided "Fuck this guy's ramble" and deleted my captions before reblogging my gifs way back during Hamtaro (Of COURSE I remember that! It's amusing lol).
This is better because of others, because of the interactions and the people I've gotten the chance to chat with or befriend. It's just a liveblog more or less, my own little bit of fun I toss out for myself if for anyone- so seeing others enjoy this or that from the work I put into sharing my experiences or thoughts is always a joy in itself :)
Anyway, onto selfishly rambling about some tidbits of the past :)
Also sorry but no, opted to not shove a ton of photos in, it does have a handful of links to old posts though :P
This'll be disorganized as heck as I'll add to it over time before I feel it's worth posting (or the tumblr post editor becomes a hassle and more or less forces me to).
First~
FFT Solo Ramza Challenge: Considering it was roughly the first thing this blog has done, it's also something that's stuck in my head a lot more clearly than most of the other stuff I've done to be honest lol.
In truth, this is partially because FFT is my favorite game, bar none. But it's also because the whole experience was pretty new to me. Prior to it I had really only done one self-imposed-challenge that wasn't requested by the game in some manner and that was a nuzlocke run of Blue version.
So adding a challenge to my favorite game was a fantastic experience!
Notes I just wanted to say today about that run: If anyone enjoys FFT I honestly recommend giving it a shot for the unique story it lends itself to. I do recommend skipping the rules until after the second battle but that's up to YOU to decide.
My first post on the subject is me complaining about spending 4 hours grinding out the second fight and, despite hyperbole being my natural state, that was NOT hyperbole.
It DID take 60~ restarts to beat. It DID take 4 hours. The reason is that that 2nd battle is RNG as HECK, you HAVE to have Delita do some meaningful actions, you HAVE to have the enemies miss and make poor plays, you damn near HAVE to crit a few instances to save yourself from taking too much damage.
It's a numbers game to the extreme, so I wouldn't fault anyone for 'cheating' and skipping the 2nd fight for the ruleset lol.
The memory that stands out the most for that run is actually isolated in a post in which Ramza (Purrick in this run) talks like a total badass as just ONE DUDE running into a room full of enemies. I just think on that as a great encapsulated view of what it was like. The run started off face grindingly difficult, but because FFT is a game that offers so much freedom to the player it was extremely easy to 'break' the game into making Purrick overpowered as hell.
That's something I love about some tactical RPGs, I love having the ability to play smart so that I can play stupid later on, and breaking the game into making him one shot god is certainly a good payoff for playing smart early on :P
RetQuick: I miss RetQuick, it was primarily a short experiment I did in 2015 where I'd play a game for a short span of time (REALLY short, like 10-20 minutes) and record that for the purpose of making gifs and saying a short piece on what I thought.
It's one of those formats where the purpose was pretty shallow- but had a reason. I wanted to try making some gifs with some tools that existed online, so I made an excuse to do just that.
I also wanted to play a TON of games, usually through emulation on my sister's PSP, and this let me do that.
These two minor goals came together and so I spent a while making RetQuicks which were honestly more fun to make than they had any right to be. I mean the gifs were tedious but the playing? The thought sharing? The end product ocassionally having more appeal than just a photoset? It was fun.
I'm thinking whenever I have trouble picking a game for the blog I'll revisit the format... sorta.
I already reused it for a short stint to show clips I had no plan on expanding into a playthrough, but that died as well as it was too similar to Tidbits posts (another tag I no longer really use).
My thought is to rebrand retquick as something of a tryout for what game comes next. Play a handful of my backlog games for an hour or so each and say some thoughts before saying which one I'll continue as the main game for that period of time.
Old Tag Stuff: One of those things that only sticks to me since I made the decisions but it's always funny for me to look back on my old posts because I was apprehensive as hell toward making my posts visible. The reason my early playthroughs on the My-Tags page are variants of Ret instead of just "The name of the game so people can find this post" is because I felt like a liveblog would just spam the tag to hell-
Something I don't remotely feel bad for doing anymore.
So I avoided getting any sort of spotlight for quite a while on the blog for little reason.
Why Retphienix?: This is just a dumb thought I wanted to share and I'm sure I've said before.
It stands for retro!
Yeah!
Ain't that dumb and also not a real shorthand? lol
I think I have some sort of deer in headlights anxiety towards naming things, I mean do you think I think Full Impressions is a good summation for a video? I don't. But perhaps that's overshadowed by the other inexperiences and anxiety driven decisions that had- doesn't matter.
Retphienix is Retphienix because I sat there in 2015 and thought "Well... what do I name an alt account?"
My main is Redphienix, which yes, is ALSO a terrible name AND is misspelled. But it's that because of sentimental reasons. As a kid I misspelled Redphoenix when making my gamertag (I knew how to spell Phoenix back then as well, I was too excited about xbox live and misspelled it) and it's become something of a sentimental misspelling.
So I wanted to make a mix on that for my game blog, but I had no idea what. In the end I thought "RetroPhienix? I don't know. Retphienix is closer to Redphienix. I'll do that" and so it was done.
And just like how Redphienix is both bad and misspelled but exists because of sentimental reasons- Retphienix has acquired the same 'flavor' in my eye lol.
Aspirations for the blog: I have no immediate ramp up plans or road map or whatever, and in truth I'll be happy if the blog stays just as it is forever- up until tumblr ends- I cry over lost posts- and I reopen it on another platform.
But I do have blurry half-considered daydreams that I'd like to see happen for the blog through some hard work or shifts on my part.
One is something I'm already doing kinda, hence my embarrassing means of bringing it up a lot lately. Videos- I want those. I wanna make some looks back on series people don't talk about that I enjoy, I want to make videos sharing my thoughts on games I beat for the blog (like what full impressions kinda was, but I don't think they'll have a unified name from here on out). Maybe retrospectives, but mostly when I think of making a video tied to retphienix or me in general it's me looking at a game that said something to me, and saying it louder with my own interpretations on it.
You know the kind, videos where they talk about a video game but not the whole thing- just a singular message they really heard loud and clear from it intentionally or not. I dig those and I know I end a lot of games having plenty to say that could be directed into such a format.
We'll see.
And I'm along for the ride on that one as well- currently I'm keeping my eyes on whatever is directly next, which happens to be "I plan on playing Omori, if it clicks as something to talk about I would like to take a shot at that in a video too!"
The other is that I'd like to build a small community. Wouldn't know the first thing on doing that in a modern sense, but just a little online friend group to chat with and play games together. Something that could open up multiplayer and coop experiences being better shared on the blog and would just in general expand my gaming to what it used to be back on the 360 when I had a large group to play with.
Since the 360 era ended I've pretty much closed off- stopped playing competitive games due to lack of interest- and slowed down to playing all games either solo, with randoms (and no mic usually), or with my cousin. It's a rare instance when I play with some good people like @gamesception or another friend of mine, John.
When I diverted from playing competitive games nonstop toward other genres I didn't intend to also cut out all my online gaming buds, it just kinda happened, and I never really put any effort into rectifying that.
So more or less I'd like to one day sit down and work on a discord server, and then buck up and put the leg work in to make some gamin' buds again, but that's such a vague concept anymore.
Sounds all sad and what not but it's more ambivalent, I made decisions that
changed how gaming worked for me after the 360 and this is just where it landed for better and worse- I'd just like to see if I can make it a little better :P
General things I think when I think retphienix: Honestly? I think of how much fun I've had over the years and how thankful I am to have had an outlet that encouraged me to explore more of the medium.
I REALLY love games. I went to college for games, I've written LEAGUES about games, I've played countless games, my childhood was games, my adult life is games- games games games yada yada yada.
So when I think of retphienix I think of how without it I probably wouldn't have explored a lot of the corners of gaming that I have.
I genuinely, and I mean this, might not have sat down and beaten FF7 for myself and would have considered the amount I played as a kid to be enough.
I might not have played Chrono Trigger yet, and I KNOW I wouldn't have played Chrono Cross, and I'm happy as hell to have played both of those. CT was a mind blowing moment for me that showed me just how good an RPG can be, and CC gave me miles to think of in terms of innovating an RPG and how beholden to the narrative a sequel should be (I don't feel CC should have been chrono at all lol).
I DEFINITELY wouldn't have given New Vegas another chance. And I know I'm a sourpuss on NV, I've been that way since I maxed my achievements on the 360 for it, but replaying it really did reveal to me how exceedingly negative I was being.
My memories had become "It's brown and a boring location >:(" and "The factions all suck and it doesn't do anything with the idea of bad factions >:(" and became "It's... a little brown guys, not a big fan of the area" and "They didn't do enough with exploring the gray factions" while adding "Wait. This is pretty damn fun. And 90% of the additions are stellar. And I forgot about Dead Money, my favorite dlc in any game ever with a story that tears at my heart every time I think of it, NV good actually?"
Faxanadu would have remained a cool game I saw on SSFF and not a game I played to the end and fell in love with the aesthetic feel it has!
Also that's a game I cheated like crazy on lol, I would do it again! Save state scumming games meant to be rudely difficult is only fair :P
I probably would have never sat down to play through Windwaker which was such a positive and uplifting experience that I now get the most relaxed and warm feeling in my heart when I see those blue waves.
There's so many experiences I would have left on the table in favor of like... putting more hours into a live service title or something.
Maybe, and no offense to my cousin or anyone else playing it, but maybe I'd be no-lifing World of Warcraft nonstop just stagnating my interest toward the skinner box mechanics of an MMO?
Some offense, actually but lightheartedly lol.
But beyond the entire games I've played for the blog, when I think retphienix I picture all the time making gifs, all those games I played on the PSP for short stints, buying a retron 5 to add to what I could explore and being stoked when they shipped a freebie box of old controllers to go with it, getting angry at the retron for being a Piece Of Shit lol, crying at the end of damn near every game with an emotional story because I'm a big emotional mess of a person who finds investing and crying at a story way too easy thanks to empathy pulls, oh!-
Getting excited whenever I found that I had a "*controversial*" opinion that no one would care about lol. Like the one that comes to mind is that I thoroughly believe that Dragon Ball Z II: Gekishin Freeza!! for the NES is WAY better than the fandom recognized and appreciated sequel/remake Dragon Ball Z: Legend of the Super Saiyan!
How many people do you hear talking about either game, let alone saying the NES game that is roughly half of the SNES remake is the better one :P But I stand by that! The SNES one is a remake of DBZ1 and 2 for the NES but it loses all the charm and some of the fun of the NES ones by being a lackluster SNES game!
lol
I admitted wholeheartedly that this post would be a lit-
little directionless (gotta love the new tumblr poster making me break sentences like that), but to sum things up.
It's been 6 years. It's been an untold amount of work to be honest- liveblogging a game, at least for me, hasn't been the easiest thing. It's a lot of thinking out my thoughts (heh), it's a lot of learning tools to make the capturing process possible, it's a lot of experimenting, it's a lot of writing and editing, and, well, sometimes it's just tough.
I mean I went to school for coding, not video editing, not writing, not image processing, not this or that- but this hobby has introduced a lot of things even if only at a VERY base level (I admit fully to using online alternatives to make gifs for instance).
I learned a lot about, well, a lot of things in order to use this blog to learn more about games- and all that work has become part of why I've loved all 6 years of this blog.
6 years of gaming, work, and you all- and it's been worth the investment :) Here's to many more and all of you whether you stumble upon this post or not- literally anyone who's interacted in these 6 years, thank you, and anyone who hasn't I offer you well wishes as well.
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dudeandduchess · 5 years ago
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Sweetest Sin [Rengoku Kyoujurou x F!Reader] Chapter 1
Rating: E! NSFW Characters: Rengoku Kyōjurō x Tsundere F!Reader Chapters: 5/5 Summary: A written collection of all the times when Rengoku proposed to his then-lover, who eventually gave in and became his wife. Tags: Smut, Fluff, Short Series, Fingering, Creampie, Established Relationship, Marriage Proposal, Mild Manga Spoilers (Very mild, I promise), Impregnation, Finger Sucking, Praise Kink, Dirty Talk, Light Dom/sub, Tsundere Reader
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“What now, Kyōjurō?” (Y/n)’s irate voice cut through the muffled chatter of children playing outside, as she turned her narrow-eyed gaze at Rengoku Kyōjurō— the Demon Slaying Corps’ Flame Hashira, and her lover.
Despite the angry tone of his beloved’s voice, the Hashira’s smile never dampened one bit. It was still as exuberant as it was when he had entered her home. Had he been any other man, (Y/n)’s reception would have been off-putting, but he didn’t mind her attitude one bit.
(Y/n) was a naturally grumpy person, and he couldn’t help but find that adorable. It made her very unique in his eyes, and it also made him love her even more.
However, it wasn’t all angry expressions and heated remarks with her. One of the highlights of his days was when she would practically melt in his hands; he loved seeing the flustered expression on her face, and he loved hearing her pleasured moans even more.
It made the flame in his heart burn even brighter.
“How is the love of my life doing on this amazing day?” Rengoku greeted enthusiastically, while he settled down behind his lover and wrapped his arms around her. His legs settled on either side of her— practically caging her.
And, completely nonplussed by her unresponsiveness, the Flame Hashira nuzzled his nose against the crook of (Y/n)’s neck, before planting a slew of butterfly kisses all over her exposed skin.
“I missed you, (Y/n). Did you miss me?”
(Y/n) remained quiet, but not because she didn’t want to talk to him. She was quiet because she had been stunned silent by her lover’s forwardness. They had been together for almost four years, but had been friends for longer than that— yet he always managed to reduce her into a blushing mess.
With quite some effort, the (h/c) haired woman cupped her face in her hands— to hide her flaming cheeks— then stuttered out, “W-what kind of a question is that?!”
Rengoku merely chuckled at his love’s flustered response, knowing that she would give him a proper answer soon.
“O... of course I did. You were gone for a week, after all, Kyōjurō.”
A grin tugged up at the corners of the Hashira’s lips, before he sealed them over a small patch of skin on her neck. He bit down gently, then proceeded to suck hard enough to leave a love bite. And slowly, his rough hands trailed down to cup (Y/n)’s ample breasts through her Slayer uniform.
“Ah, I missed you too, (Y/n).” The Hashira chuckled, as he sensuously rubbed his thumbs against his lover’s hardening nipples. “I love you so much.”
No more honest words had ever been uttered from Rengoku’s mouth; as he did love the woman in his arms more than his own life. He would willingly give everything up for her, just as she had done for him.
She had left her clan and the life she had come to know, all because of him. Because they wanted to be together, despite the (L/n) clan’s tradition of choosing the head family’s spouses.
He fully expected them to have been married the moment they were of age, but she seemed adamant about shooting down all of his proposals.
Silence reigned between the two as the blond continued his sensual ministrations, all while pressing fleeting kisses against (Y/n)’s jaw. He didn’t mind her unresponsiveness, since he already knew that she loved him even though she rarely said it.
It made the moments when she uttered those words even more special; and he tended to replay those memories whenever he felt down during missions.
“I’ve asked this before, but won’t you marry me, my Sweet Flame?”
“Kyōjurō.” Was her only response— uttered in a disgruntled tone that made him chuckle.
“One of these days I’ll get you to say yes, (Y/n),” Rengoku affirmed, while a grin played at his lips. “Just you wait.”
“Yes, have fun with doing that,” (Y/n) deadpanned, even though her heart was racing inside her chest. It wasn’t that she was opposed to the idea of marrying her lover, but it had to do with the fact that they simply couldn’t get married.
Even though she was estranged from her clan, it stood to reason that she still had a father that wanted her back. And unless her father severed the last vestiges of his ties with her, she would never be able to marry Kyōjurō without (L/n) Daichi’s consent.
“I definitely will,” Rengoku gave a hearty laugh with the answer, before leaning down to bite the lobe of (Y/n)’s ear. He then heard her breath hitch on a gasp, so he took that as his signal to continue with what he was leading up to.
Slowly, the Hashira’s battle roughened hands unbuttoned his lover’s shirt— being sure to make quick work of it. And once the garment was fully untucked from her pants, he slid the material off of her shoulders, before tossing it to the side.
Normally, she would have already thrown a fit with how careless he had been with her uniform, but at that moment she was too busy leaning her head against his shoulder, and also enjoying her lover’s hands on her.
“Your skin is as beautiful as ever, (Y/n),” Rengoku whispered gruffly against her bare shoulder, then proceeded to leave small love bites along her silken skin. “But you’re going to look much lovelier with my marks all over you.”
A quiet moan answered the Hashira’s words, which made him smile as he made quick work of (Y/n)’s belt and pants. In one swift move, he had already pushed her clothes— along with her underwear— down her thighs.
His left hand delved down to her cunt— all wet and needy for him. And while his middle finger teased her opening, his thumb played with her clit, which had her trying— and failing— to hold back her moans.
Every pass of his warm finger against her needy opening made her mewl, and that was music to Rengoku’s ears.
“You’re such a good girl, (Y/n). Already so wet for me. Did you miss me that much?”
At first, the young woman tried to resist giving an answer, but the fingers at her crotch increased their pace at playing with her, which had her digging the heels of her feet against the tatami flooring. And when Rengoku’s middle finger dipped inside her, her instantaneous reaction was to throw her head back and let out a breathless cry of pleasure.
“Did you miss me, (Y/n)?” Kyōjurō rasped against her ear; still holding a lascivious smile on his face.
(Y/n) shook her head, and bit down on her tongue— more to provoke him than anything— and was coaxed into another moan when her lover added another finger in her cunt. That action had her clutching onto his thighs— her nails digging into the fabric of his pants, as well as the flesh underneath.
“I need an answer, my love… or else I’m going to stop.”
In a split-second decision, (Y/n) opted to finally give in and tell him what he wanted to hear. “Yes. I missed you, Kyōjurō. I missed you so much.”
“Very good. You’re such a good girl, (Y/n),” The blond praised her softly, as his fingers relentlessly thrust into her tight cunt. He then curled his digits against her walls, which had her shaking with pleasure.
The pressure was building up inside her, like a spring that was being coiled so tight. Every thrust of Rengoku’s fingers inside her brought her closer and closer to her impending release; and it was only made much quicker with his thumb playing with her clit.
Then finally, with a stuttered cry, (Y/n)’s walls clamped down on his fingers as she came.
When the Hashira pulled his fingers out of her, he was pleasantly surprised at how well her cum coated his fingers. And gently, he brought his hand up to (Y/n)’s face and tapped her lips with his cum-stained digits.
(Y/n), in turn, opened her mouth and took in her lover’s fingers with earnest. She licked and sucked at his digits, even going as far as to pull them deeper inside. It wasn’t really a problem for her, as she was used to sucking on Rengoku’s long and thick cock.
One could even say that she had had a lot of practice.
“I can’t wait to put my cock inside you. Do you want that, (Y/n)?”
The (h/c) haired woman found herself nodding, as she pulled out her lover’s now-clean fingers from her mouth. “Please, I want you to fuck me.”
A grin tugged at the corners of the blond’s lips, and he wasted no time in pinning her beneath him.
He pulled her pants and underwear off in one smooth move, which left her in nothing but her tabi socks. Then, the Flame Hashira slung her legs over his shoulders, before pulling himself out of the confines of his pants.
Upon seeing her lover’s impressive length, (Y/n) reached out and wrapped her hands around the thick shaft. She pumped his cock a few times, before lining the tip up against her cunt and using the head of it to rub her clit.
“Please, Kyōjurō, I need you.”
With an enthusiastic nod, Rengoku pushed into his lover’s waiting opening— sheathing his cock fully inside her in one stroke. He then began moving against her, not being mindful of the pleasured moans spilling from his lips. All that mattered was him and her, and their mutual pleasure.
“You feel so good around me, (Y/n),” he cried out through moans, which had the woman beneath him blushing even more than she already was. It seemed that whenever they had sex, she always adapted a perpetual blush— because he loved slathering praise upon her.
And while she enjoyed hearing him sing her words of praise, it simultaneously embarrassed her because of how much she found joy in the simple action.
His hands held her calves in a bruising grip, but she didn’t mind as he picked up the pace. He was hitting that one spot inside her that felt so good, and she couldn’t help but press the back of her right hand against her mouth— to suppress the pleasured cries rolling off her tongue.
“I’m so close, (Y/n). I’m going to fill you up with so much cum,” Rengoku groaned as he amped up the force of his thrusts. It was enough to have (Y/n)’s body inch up the tatami mat little by little.
And when he reached his peak, the Hashira came with a loud grunt that (Y/n) found hotter than anything. And she was about to say so, when she felt him pull out of her— which made his cum slowly dribble out of her.
To her genuine surprise, Rengoku reached down and started pushing his seed back inside her— all while grinning from ear to ear. She didn’t have to ask him what he was doing, he simply told her with that annoying expression, “If you get pregnant, then we’ll have to get married, (Y/n) my Sweet Flame.”
“No, Kyōjurō.” With a swift kick to his shoulder, the blond fell against the floor. Yet, the smile never left his lips. “We’re done here.”
“We’re not done until I say we’re done.”
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Note: Hello, everyone! Welcome to Rengoku's story! I hope you guys enjoy it. I just love him so much, okay? He comes next to my bby Giyuu. <3 Comments and suggestions are highly appreciated. <3 <3
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mystickitten42 · 4 years ago
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Wizard Hearts 2020 Survey
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Between September 1 and December 31 I took part in the @gameofdrarry​ Wizard Hearts fic reading fest playing for Team Vanaheim. The four suits of cards (and an optional Smut suit) had a trope assigned to each card and the goal was to read and comment on fics we haven’t read before. We also had monthly team assignments (I’ve linked the Vanaheim team assignments here).
For this survey, we had the option to answer 13 of 18 questions. As this will be long, I’ll continue under the cut. 
But, before I get to the survey, I’d like to take the opportunity to thank the mods for all their hard work checking our comments and spreadsheets, keeping track of points, creating and checking our assignments, and answering all the questions asked on the Discord Server  ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
1.What was the first fic you read for the game/fest? Why did you choose it? 
The Four Doors by fluxweed. This was a story I had planned to read for a while and was actually mid-story when I realised, ‘hey, this works for 5♦️ Memory Loss.’ This was such an interesting story (I highly recommend!) and I loved the Legilimency aspects of it as well as how the relationship between Harry and Draco developed. After the fact, I was kicking myself that I didn’t use this for Smut Suit Jack ‘Power Dynamics’ because this would have been perfect for that trope and I struggled to find another suitable fic for that trope.
2. What was the last fic you read for the game/fest? How did it feel reading 52+ fics?
Tell me the end at the beginning by harryromper. I’m a big fan of harryromper’s stories and am still making my way through their posted works, so of course I was thrilled to read this for A❤️ Healer!Draco. This story has an amazing Draco. He’s hot AF in his three-piece suits, swears in French, and the staff at St Mungo’s call him McFrosty. This was written for 25 Days of Draco and Harry 2018 and harryromper has just finished a new story for this year’s fest which I can’t wait to go and read.
I read the 52 card regular deck, the smut suit, as well as 16 Go Squid fics, so I read 81 fics in total for this fest. But I also read a lot more than that during the fest including fics that didn’t qualify for the cards or were non-Drarry (I went on a Jeddy, Scorbus and Charlie Weasley bender mid-fest). 
I’d say this fest made me seek out fics that I otherwise wouldn’t have found, and it’s definitely made me a better commenter. I wouldn’t say that I read any more than usual, but I did take notes while reading so I could leave a detailed comment at the end. One side-effect of this fest is that my MFL list has grown exponentially because I added everything from the Thrice Fic List, the remaining fics from the Go Squid List and anything interesting that I found while searching for fics to fit the tropes. 
3. What's a fic you think is a hidden gem and deserves more hype?
Stand Back: I’m About to Perform Archaeology by Blowfish_Diaries I can’t say enough good things about this fic. I couldn’t read it for the cards because I’d already read it and flailed in the comments so I rec’d it for Go Squid. It’s set during Eighth Year and has the perfect combination of humour, snark, banter, Harry and Draco bonding over Harry’s shitty childhood, drinking and party games, pining, and Hung!Harry. I read this more than six months ago and I still can’t stop thinking about it. Go and read it!
Passion Cake by ICMezzo This fic was both hilarious and beautifully written. I loved it so much I immediately wrote a rec for it. I adored Baker!Draco and his process for baking. I’m still cracking up at Harry almost serving a passion-inducing cake at Teddy’s birthday. 
Haunt the corner of my eye by harryromper. This was such a gorgeous read. I’ve read several other pieces by haryromper and just knew this would be amazing (and it was). I loved the way the story unraveled and I adore fics set inside Grimmauld Place.
4. What was your strategy for choosing fic/tropes for your reading list? Was there a fic/trope you found you simply couldn’t resist?
With a few exceptions, I started with the major cards so I’d always be able to contribute towards my team’s Royal Flush hand each week. Initially I tried to pick fics that were 50k+ and that qualified for the bonus box (Fest fic for ♣️, Multi-chap for ❤️, Before 2014 for ♦️). Eventually I had to lower the word count so I could finish the deck, but most fics I read were at least 10k+. I also tried to read something each of my teammates had written. 
I’d be hard-pressed to pick just one trope I couldn’t resist, but some of my faves included: Eighth Year, Bed Sharing, Roommates, Mutual Pining, Auror Partners.
5. Was there a trope that you’ve read a lot of previously that you found uniquely presented? 
Three Boxes and a Scrapbook by dracogotgame. I’ve read a fair number of bonding fics and the usual format is: Draco & Harry fighting, bonding incident, getting used to the bond, and resolution (whether that be severing the bond or living with it). I loved how dracogotgame mixed it up. We started with Harry and Draco getting divorced and Draco heading off to France. Then we see the after-effects of a year together and learn about the bond through flashbacks (many as part of the scrapbook photos). The story is so beautifully presented and I loved Bill’s presence in Harry’s life. 
6. What's a line from a fic that you can't stop thinking about?
There’s a passage from Writcraft’s Slice of Life that I can’t stop thinking about:
“Harry sometimes feels like those discarded jam tarts. The ones that nobody else wanted, not perfect enough to bring out in front of guests.”
This gets me every time. It’s such a perfect metaphor to describe Harry’s life at that time and it makes me tear up every time I think about it. Then the jam tarts are woven throughout the entire fic and it’s just perfect and gorgeous. I made a rec for this fic. 
Also, Harry’s love confession during Names and Dreams of Futures Past by KittyAug has stayed with me since I read the fic. I can’t stop thinking about it. The whole scene was so perfect and emotional. I don’t want to spoil it so I won’t carry on, but I do recommend it. 
8. Was there a trope you’ve never read or heard of before? What did you think?
OMG yes. Magic Healing Cock was a trope I’d never heard of and yet I could immediately think of the perfect fic for it, which unfortunately I had already read, To Be Out of Your Own (and consumed by another) by Cassiara. I ended up reading The Conquering of Harry Potter’s Virginity by FantasyFiend09 which was a fun story. Surprisingly, while reading for the other tropes, I encountered several more fics that could fill the Magic Healing Cock trope. I dunno, maybe I should make a rec list or something 🤣
9. Which trope did you read that pleasantly surprised you?
I was pleasantly surprised by Vampire!fic. I love vampire stories. I love Drarry (obviously). But I haven’t read much vampire Drarry. I read Midnight in the City of a Hundred Spires by Shiftylinguini and it was sooooo good. The way they characterised vampire!Draco felt so authentic and I loved the magical theory surrounding Harry and the consequences of him being a Horcrux for so many years. 
10. Is there a fic that made you laugh out loud?
Ad Pavonem by Lomonaaeren, which fittingly I read for Crack!fic. Harry as a peacock is hilarious and the whole story is so well written. I love it when an author treats crack seriously and really goes for it. I appreciated the way the story was told through both peacock-Harry’s POV (a perfect blend of animal instinct yet distinctly Harry)  and Draco’s POV (I adored his observations of the peculiar peacock and later his unique understanding of peacock-Harry). I made a rec for this here.
11. What is your favourite trope and why?
It’s really hard for me to pick just one, but if I had to choose I’d go with Hogwarts Eighth Year. I love it when barriers are broken down through party games and inter-house unity, and of course I adore roommates and bedsharing. Insert humour, snark and banter, plus magical theory and I’m all in. I think at least 11 of the fics I read for the fest were set in Eighth Year.
12. Which tropes did you skip? Would you be willing to share why? If you didn’t skip a trope, was there one that gave you pause? 
I considered using a wildcard in place of Smut Suit Jack: Power Dynamics. One of the things I really love about Drarry is how evenly matched they are, like the opposite sides of a coin: light and dark, magically powerful and wild vs controlled and precise. They’ve both caused each other pain and both have things to apologise for. So a power imbalance takes away what I love about Drarry and it sort of rubs me the wrong way. Balance, Imperfect by bixgirl1 would have been a perfect fit for this trope and explores the power imbalance within a Healer/Patient relationship beautifully and with sensitivity, but I’d already read it and commented. I ended up reading Rebuilding Draco Malfoy by khasael, which I found through sitp’s awesome rec lists, and I did enjoy reading it. 
15. Which suit did you have the most fun reading? Why?
I enjoyed all the suits. But, if I had to pick one, I’d have to go with hearts. There are so many tropes I love in that suit including Room of Requirement, Grimmauld Place, Powerful!Harry, Crack!fic, Established Relationship, Veela, and Dragons. There were so many fics I wanted to read (and added many to my MFL list) but I tried to choose those which were multi-chaptered for the bonus point.
18. Do you have any feedback for the mods of the game/fest? Would you be interested in playing again if the opportunity arose? Share more info about your experience. 
Overall I really enjoyed the fest. One complaint would be that the bonus box for Spades was “not on AO3” and I refuse to read stuff not on AO3 because: 1) I don’t want to have to create an account anywhere else, and 2) I really like the formatting (especially for mobile viewing) and tagging way better on AO3. So I would prefer if there was a different bonus option next time, but of course that’s up to you.
I really enjoyed the team activities, but it was a struggle to fit them in with all the reading, commenting and getting my own writing done. Maybe we could do with one or two less next time?
I would definitely play again, but not necessarily next year. This was a big game to play and I didn’t sign up for Fan Fair commenting because it would have felt like too much (of course I realise now I could have possibly double-dipped and used my comment for both fests). So I may play again if it’s offered next year, but I also may sit a year out. I’ll have to see where I’m at closer to September. But I would be intrigued if the tropes were mixed up a bit. I don’t mind repeats but maybe swap some out. It seemed a bit repetitive to have both Soulmates and Soulmarks, and there’s already an element of Power Dynamics with BDSM and A/B/O. I’d love to see Polyamorous Sex, Legilimency, Wandlore, Sentient Houses, Curse-Breakers (or Unspeakables).
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kinda-ooc-just-a-little · 4 years ago
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Heart of a Lion
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Chapter 9 Kindness and Virtue
Shinso x Reader
Rated M for Future Mature Themes (Not Explicit)
Tags: slow burn, mutual pining, secretive quirk
Summary: You never wanted to be a hero. You come from a long family of heroes, so why not just be a normal person? That’s what you hoped, until you re-connected with your old High School friend/crush.
Chapter 1 / Chapter 2 / Chapter 3 / Chapter 4 / Chapter 5 / Chapter 6 / Chapter 7 / Chapter 8 / Chapter 9 /
Once upon a time, around when quirks first started appearing, there was a family that was cursed to be quirk-less. It did not matter who they tried to mate with, even if they had the most powerful quirk holder, their child would not inherit any power from their parents. In the beginning, this was fine, as more than half the population was quirk-less. However, as time went on, they were slowly becoming the minority and being the outcast of society. In response to this, one generation decided to move away from the city into the country, away from society to live in peace.
One day, the mother and father decided to go for a walk. They walked along the river that ran behind their home into the forest. It was a peaceful walk, until they ran into some people who were beating up a poor animal. Quickly, they rushed to it’s aid, running off the wretched humans. They got a closer look, and to their surprise, lied a lioness breathing and whining heavily. They carried the animal back to their home to heal the lioness and allow her a peaceful place to sleep.
As the father was returning home with food for the lioness, a strange light surrounded her as she stood and jumped down from her bed. They stepped back in shock as they heard a voice call their names.
“I am eternally grateful for saving me. You have proved that you have hearts of kindness and virtue. I am a guardian spirit. The family line I have spent years watching over has ended and I require another family to share my power with. If you accept, I can grant you great power that is stronger than any quirk in this world.”
The father and mother looked toward each other, as if thinking the same thing. “We humbly thank you for the opportunity,” the father said first. “But if you surely can grant power, then we do not wish it to be for us.”
“It is our son.” The mother added. “He was born very weak. Without a quirk, we fear he may not be able to protect himself. He is twelve years old but has only truly lived half that. If what you said is true, then we beg you. Please, give him a chance to live a good life.”
The lioness nodded. “You are more selfless than I thought. My power shall start with him and will be shared down the family line. Your lineage will no longer have to worry about living a weak life, for strength will only be a call away.”
The father and mother smiled and hugged each other, relieved that their son could truly start living his life. However, the lioness gave a warning. “My power is granted to those with kindness and virtue. If this power is used for anything other than good intentions, then your family will lose this power forever.”
They agreed to the lioness’s terms, happy just to even have a chance to give their son a better life.  “Go to him.” The lioness said. “Teach him how to be kind and to not take this life for granted.”
“Yes, of course.” The father said.
“Thank you for this gift.” The mother said. “We will not waste this opportunity.”
And so, they went to the hospital where their son was. Everyone was astonished to see this once weak boy who could not get up from his bed, suddenly was sprinting down the halls with glee. Everyone was so happy to see the amazing progress and the parents were overflowed with emotion.
However, they had only just begun to witness what the power of the lioness could truly do.
Weeks passed since the boy’s recovery and he was joyful with every step he took. One day, the boy was on a walk with his family down the river side. They had reached an area where the river turned into whitewater rapids. They were just about to continue until they heard a scream from the river. They ran to see that a child had fell into the river and was about to be swept into the rapids. The mother and father tried to find a branch to reach them, until their son suddenly jumped into the rapids. His mother and father scrambled to save them, only to see him fight through the force of the river, grab the child, and carry her to safety.
His parents were so astonished. Was this the true power the lioness offered?
After everything was settled, they went home to discuss this new phenomenon. The son said he felt a strong will to save the girl and he simply asked anyone to give him the strength to do so.
“It is just as the lioness said. Her strength will only be a call away.”
That day the son made a vow to honor this new spirit within him. He vowed to unlock and discover any power he could so he would easily have access to the strength he has been blessed with so he can save everyone he can, just like the girl in the river.
For generations this power has been passed down and shared throughout the family line, every member working hard to unlock their own special power and use it for the good of the people.
“Everyone in the family forms their own unique power that reflects themselves. Some of them uses her animal form, some simply calls upon the power to make them stronger… some even learned to breathe fire or ice.” You said. “However, because someone can easily take advantage of this power, the first one made a rule to not use the power in vain.”
“The first one?” Shinso tilted his head.
“That’s how we refer to the boy that was first granted the power. Technically, my however-many-great grandfather.” You groaned a little, remembering practically being forced to study your family history. “Don’t remember though. I think I fell asleep during that lecture.”
You observed Shinso to see he didn’t move at all during the time you were telling your family story. He practically sat there in confusion most of the time. You hoped it wasn’t too much for him. The last thing you needed for him was another reason to leave you again.
You shuddered at the thought. You just got him back. It would be a cruel world if he decided to not talk to you again. Oh god, would he do that? You thought as you looked over at Shinso who was staring at the floor in thought. You wanted to know what he was thinking. “Um… Shinso?”
He jerked his head with a “Huh?” and locked his indigo eyes with yours.
“What… what are you thinking?” you dared to ask.
“A lot.” He replied. “Everything is starting to make sense.”
You tried so desperately to stop your hand from shaking from anxiety. Your heart was practically waiting for him to either understand or tell you off for not trusting him. Before you could get your answer, a nurse knocked and walked in. “Shinso? I’m sorry to tell you this, but we need you back in your room to do some more testing.”
“Okay,” he said. “I’ll be there in a bit.”
The nurse took her leave and a heavy silence fell in the room as you still waited for his opinion on the matter. He took a deep breath and stood up. “I should get back.”
“Okay.” Your body was frozen in place as your thoughts screamed Just ask him! as he started to make his exit. “Wh-wait!” you shouted as he reached for the door.
“Y-yes?” he stuttered, startled by your sudden outburst.
Your fists clenched as you tried to find the right words. You’ve been waiting years for the opportunity to tell him this and you doubt he can even comprehend the significance of this moment. Of course, he wouldn’t. You remembered the many nights you spent just talking with him. He shared everything with you. His dreams and his thoughts were no secret, yet you wouldn’t even spare a conversation about your day, always steering the conversation back to him when you had the chance.
“Um… have a good night.” Was all you said as you let him go. You figured he’d been through enough for the weekend and you didn’t want to push him to be emotionally available, especially with what he had to go through just the day before.
You just hoped he could understand.
This… is not good, you thought as you awoke in the stairwell of the agency you currently worked at. You run your hand through your hair and sighed as you made your way back to your department with a blanket that you seemed to have taken from the lobby room. For two weeks at random times, you found yourself forgetting time or waking up in random places. Thankfully, the episodes didn’t last long, and you’ve managed to stay in the good graces of the boss despite this setback. Yet still, it is a mystery why it kept happening.
You dropped off the blanket in the lobby, trying to avoid questioning glances at your slightly bed head as you made your way to the elevators to get back to where you worked. Entering the elevator, you didn’t even notice another person was with you until you heard a deep voice call your name. You looked to the person to see clear indigo eyes that you had not seen in a while. You missed them.
“You don’t look too good.” He looked at you, concerned. “Have you been sleeping at all?”
You debated on whether to tell him the full truth or just tip-toe around it. “I’m still getting used to the new job. I’m sure it’s just temporary.”
He clenched his jaw. He was sure that wasn’t the case as he heard rumors that you had been spacing out lately. But he didn’t want to intrude if it was personal. Besides, if you needed his help, you would tell him… right? “Well, you went through a lot in the last couple of weeks. Don’t push yourself.”
The air felt heavy. You knew he knew that you were holding something back. You didn’t want him to worry. He’s a pro hero and he’s already busy enough. You decided you could handle it alone. “I won’t.”
The doors opened and you gave him a small smile before you left. Taking a seat at your small desk, you checked the time to see you stayed five minutes over your break. You groaned as you resumed your work, but your thoughts never strayed from those indigo eyes. Shinso never really held a full conversation with you since that day. Of course, meetings and villain attacks kept him busy, but you couldn’t stop the negative thoughts that flooded into your head, wondering if it was just an excuse to not see you.
You wanted to see him.
You grabbed your head as it felt like white noise was spreading through it. You massaged your skull in an attempt to make it go away. Seriously, what the hell is going on? You didn’t even notice your team leader quietly walking up to you until he put his hand on your shoulder. You jumped and let out a small embarrassing yelp and tripped over your words as you asked him if he needed anything.
“You seem stressed. I know it’s your weekend off tomorrow, so why don’t you head home early?”
You pursed your lips. If even your team leader could tell something was off with you then Shinso definitely could. “I just haven’t been getting a lot of sleep, Sei. I’m fine. I don’t want people to pick up my slack over such a reason.”
“Such a reason is why we want you to go home.” Sei responded. “Go home and get some rest. We can cover you for today.”
“But-“
“No buts!” Another coworker chipped in. “You went through some crazy shit a couple weeks ago. You haven’t even given yourself a chance to rest. Just take the weekend and go get a massage or something.”
“Or get laid.” Everyone glared at the girl who said it. “What? It’s what I do to relax!”
You chuckled at everyone’s efforts to cheer you up. “Thanks. You all have no idea how much this means to me. I promise I’ll be much better by Monday.”
You gathered your things, said your goodbyes and left the office. As you made your way down the hallway you felt yourself go light headed again. What the hell is happening? To avoid staring eyes, you shuffled into the bathroom and splashed water on your face. You wished Shinso was here.
What? You questioned the intrusion thought. Why is he coming up in this situation? You groaned as the fuzz in your head started to grow fierce, becoming a full-on headache. So many thoughts suddenly flooded your head that all lead to the same person: Shinso.
Stop, stop, stop! You tried to control your thoughts and the sudden increase in blood pressure. Please just make it stop!
And then you felt everything go black.
“Thank you all for the hard work this month and enjoy your early weekend!”
Shinso lightly massaged his neck as he made his way to the elevators. He was elated to finally have an early weekend, although, he was sure it would pass unceremoniously. Entering the elevators, he hovered his finger over the ground floor button. Would it be okay to visit them? Shinso debated in his head if it was okay to see you. Worry for you filled his mind the entire meeting, wondering if what you said was true or if there was another reason for you spacing out. He decided you probably wouldn’t mind and he had promised to do more for you anyway, visiting you could be a start. He pressed the button to your floor and made his way to where he knew your office was… except you weren’t there.
“Hey, Professor X, what’s up?” Sei, your team leader, asked.
Shinso smirked at his antics, amused that he still poked fun at the pro-heroes, despite his position. “If you’re referring to my vast intellect, then thank you.”
Sei chuckled at Shinso, also amused that he still puts up with his teasing. “Seriously, what’s up? It’s not like you to stop here.”
“Where’s the newbie?” Shinso asked. “I just saw them before my meeting.”
“The newbie looked like they haven’t been resting well so I sent them home early.” Sei answered. “Why? You interested or something?” He nudged Shinso with his elbow.
Shinso averts his eyes and anxiously rubbed his neck. “Something like that.”
“Then you better get going. I just sent them home not too long ago, you might be able to catch them.”
Shinso thanked the man and quickly made his way down the hall. He had no idea how he would be able to find you, but he knew he had to try. Hopefully you-
“Ahh! Help!”
Shinso’s thoughts were cut short when he heard a womanly scream from around the corner of the hall. He immediately clutched his capture device, ready to face a villain but as he turned the corner, he saw… the lioness?
He was confused to see the spirit was sniffing a woman who was trapped against the wall. The lioness growled and turned her nose up, as if repulsed with her smell. The lioness continued down the hall until she spotted Shinso. Immediately, the lioness charged him.
Shinso was frozen in place. He could barely make out the voices advising him to run, or even react when the lioness pounced on him to the floor. Shinso shut his eyes expecting his face to be chomped off but it never came. Instead, he felt a wet muscle run up his cheek. He opened his eyes to see the lioness licking his face and then burying her head in his shoulder, letting out a deep purr as she nestled on top of his body.
“Well this is quite the predicament.” Sei said, observing the situation before him. He tried to get close, but the lioness growled at him when he took a step forward. “You two know each other?”
Shinso was about to question him if he knew about you but stopped himself. If you didn’t want to tell your team about your quirk, then he probably shouldn’t. “In a way, yes.” He simply said, petting the giant cat before him. “I can take care of it.”
“Should probably do it fast. Before someone calls animal control.” Sei chuckled before walking away.
Shinso groaned at his attempt at a joke, but he was right. Shinso figured he should probably get you out of there before someone tried to take control of the situation. He pushed the lioness off enough so he could stand. “Come on, let’s get out of here.” He started to walk toward the elevators and easily enough, the lioness followed him inside, everyone else refusing to ride with them.
Eyes were trailed on him the entire way home. Even in a world filled with quirks that make people look like animals, people are still afraid of lions? Shinso questioned. He looked toward the lioness that was happily trotting next to him, her tail bouncing back a forth. Shinso wondered what to do with you. He could try to take you back to your apartment, but he didn’t know where that was. He decided the best thing to do was take you to his apartment. It was a builder floor that had plenty of room for a lion to live in. Reaching the apartment, he opened the door and the lioness immediately pounced inside, sniffing and rubbing on everything in sight. Shinso chuckled to himself. If only you could see this.
But Shinso didn’t know if this was you or not. From what your team leader said, you weren’t sleeping well and when he saw you in the elevator you looked far from okay. Was this the reason? He felt a little saddened that you didn’t confide in him with your struggle. He thought you were beginning to trust him again.
He decided to put the situation in the back of his mind and go to the kitchen to find something to eat. As he was rummaging through the fridge, he could feel the lioness rubbing against his thigh. “Are you hungry too?” He asked, petting her on the head as she made happy growling noises. “I’m not sure I have enough to feed you but hopefully this could hold you over until you change back.” He pulled a chicken from his freezer and set the oven to preheat. The lioness hummed as she laid down on the kitchen floor, her tail still happily moving back and forth. As Shinso made dinner, he pondered why you would change into that form. Perhaps too much stress from what had happened… or maybe summoning lioness the first time did something to you.
He finished cooking the chicken and placed a large portion on a plate. He placed the plate on the ground and the lioness ate it in just a couple of bites. Although she finished fast, she looked satisfied. Shinso set his plate on the counter and ate while the lioness sat next to his feet, occasionally pawing at his toes. He couldn’t help but reach down and ruffle his hand on her head. Despite being a ferocious beast, in this state, she looked just like a house cat.
He finished his meal and cleaned up his kitchen. As he was finishing, he realized that the lioness wasn’t in the spot he left her. He searched the apartment to find that she had cuddled up in his bed, her whiskers twitching as she slept comfortably in his spot. Shinso smiled as he grabbed extra blankets and pulled them over her form. He stroked her as she cuddled herself under the blanket.
It was so strange to think that this was you but in a different form. Even still, he was happy just to be next to you, even if it wasn’t really you. Or maybe it was you. Shinso wanted to ask you so many questions about your quirk, how it worked, what are the drawbacks… (Midoriya must have rubbed off on him.) He wanted so desperately to see you and make sure you were okay after the villain attack, but he found himself busy at every turn. At least now, you were where he could see you, and he wasn’t going to let you go until he knew you were okay.
He decided to let you rest as much as you could. He started to leave, but then grunted in embarrassment when he remembered what happened when you woke up from your quirk. He searched through his dresser to find a sweater and sweat pants that looked to be your size and left them on the edge of the bed. He left the room but not without giving one last look and a quiet “goodnight,” leaving you to get a good night’s sleep.
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gaalee-bingo · 4 years ago
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bingo rules and faq
how does this work?
gaalee bingo is a low-key, no-obligation event to create gaalee content! this blog will gather prompts throughout the month of september, and cards will be filled during the month of october. bingo cards will be created in 3x3, 4x4, and 5x5 formats. each card will have a unique set of prompts. individual cards will not be issued; rather, cards will be posted publicly here on tumblr (2 cards of each size--a green card and a red card--because, well, it’s gaalee). you can choose to work from a single card or multiple cards. prompt fills can be art, fic, moodboards, playlists, icon sets, panel edits, memes, cosplay, photos of your dog dressed as gaara, etc. as long as it’s gaalee and fits a prompt, it counts!
when is this happening?
prompt submissions will be open from september 1st - september 30th, 2020. all bingo cards will be published on october 1st. you can post your prompt fills at any time between october 1st - october 31st (halloween!) 
how do i submit a prompt?
go to the submissions page to submit prompts. prompts will not be published individually or associated with your username, so feel free to submit as many as you want. i will simply be using the submissions queue to gather prompts to develop the bingo cards. submitting prompts is not an obligation to participate in filling a bingo card. 
what kind of prompts are needed?
prompts can be any topic you’d like! a prompt can be as simple as a color, as straightforward as an AU, or as broad as an emotion. please ensure prompts are no more than 1-3 words; this is so they fit onto the bingo square while still being legible. prompts should be safe-for-work so that anyone can fill them. i reserve the right to edit or decline to use a prompt. not all prompts may make it onto a card, especially if there are a lot of them. examples of possible prompts might be things like: ‘high school AU’, ‘mutual pining’, ‘sunflowers’, ‘bliss’. 
how do i sign up to fill a bingo card?
there are no formal sign-ups for this event. cards will be posted publicly and tagged ‘cards’. there will be a total of 6 cards in 3 sizes (3x3, 4x4, and 5x5). you can announce that you’re choosing to fill a certain card, or you can pick from among many cards. just go with what sparks your interest! this is supposed to be a fun, laid-back event in this very stressful year. 
i don’t think i can create (3, 5, 25) things in a month. do i need to aim for a bingo or black out?
nope! if you want to fill 1 square, that’s fine. if you want to pick and choose only the prompts on a card that speak to you, that’s also fine. if you want to black-out all 6 cards, i will shit my pants in awe, but that’s absolutely fine. 
what are the minimum requirements for a prompt fill?
i’m going to leave this open to the individual participants. if you feel like what you’ve created meets the prompt, it counts. i’m not here to judge your creative interpretations. a single creation (fic, art, icon set, playlist) can only count towards one bingo square at a time. however, if you make something that is long-form, such as a multichapter fic or a comic (or a rock opera), individual chapters or comic pages (or songs) can be counted as separate prompt fills. 
can my prompt fill be nsfw?
sure, if that’s where the inspiration takes you! any nsfw content posted on tumblr should be appropriately tagged and behind a ‘read more’. any nsfw content hosted off-site should likewise be clearly labeled. if you are creating nsfw art, be mindful of tumblr’s content guidelines. you may want to consider posting a cropped or censored image on tumblr and linking to another site (twitter, privatter, pixiv, imgur) for the full image. i ask that individuals under 18 not create nsfw material for the bingo. 
i have something i’m already working on that meets a prompt, can that count?
yes, with caveats. the creation must be new (posted on or after october 1st) to count towards a bingo square. if you already have a project in the works and something new you’re adding to the project meets a prompt, that can count. for example, if you’re in the middle of publishing a 500k sci-fi epic, and you post chapter 13 of that during the bingo period, you can count that towards a square with the prompt ‘sci-fi’. if you say you created something with the bingo/prompt in mind, i’m gonna take your word for it. the only other restriction is that if you’re creating your art/fic/etc. for another event (e.g. a ship week, theme week, exchange), you should check the rules of that event to ensure they don’t have any restrictions on counting a project towards multiple events.
what do i get for completing my card?
badges will be awarded for the following: 1st prompt fill, “scattershot” fills (filling 3 or more prompts that don’t result in a bingo), four corners, any bingo line, and blackout (whole card completed). i’ll post your badge when i reblog your post. badges are just little icons that you can keep for your own satisfaction. they don’t convey any special privileges other than my undying admiration. 
how do i post a prompt fill?
post your fill here on tumblr (or a link to your fill if it’s hosted offsite), and tag @gaalee-bingo in your post! be sure to actually ping the blog directly; if you just post it to the tags, your prompt fill may be lost. be sure to note which prompt and which card you’re completing and if you hit any of the badge levels. any longform fic should be behind a ‘read more’ or hosted offsite, so as not to clog people’s dashes. please be considerate when tagging and warning for your fills; use your best judgment to warn for common triggers. if it’s been more than 24 hours since you posted your prompt fill and i have yet to reblog it and/or issue your badge, please send an ask here or to @ghoste-catte. if you’re posting a fill to Ao3, you can add it to the gaalee_bingo collection by typing ‘GaaLee_Bingo’ (without quotation marks) in the ‘collections’ box when you post you work. 
what if i fill a prompt after october 31st?
we always love more gaalee material! tag the blog, and i’ll still do my best to reblog it! i just can’t commit to a 24-hour timeframe or to creating badges after the conclusion of the event. i’ll do my best, though. 
i have another question that you didn’t answer!
send an ask and i’ll answer as soon as possible!
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