#c: Quint

[void-botanist]

Shoot for the Stars, and You'll Land on Mellendorff Station

Today is the 55th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing. To celebrate, the Shrimps had a flash fiction challenge for today only. The prompt? Just "moon". Here's my flash fiction about Quint, the one-day captain of the Melichacha.

Shrimp stats Rating: G Length: 244 words Content notes: contains moon Author notes: Quint is a mushroom person and has eyes several times the size of a human's. Summary: Quint reflects on having made it to the moon :)

Hours ago, on the surface of Thurba, Quint had been too excited to finally kinda step foot in its fines to think about much else. And then there was the collections mission, which had needed all parts of their attention that weren’t drifting to the impossible view of Horma rising just past the horizon. Arguably more than that, since it was hard to look away from their first moonrise from the moon. But now, sitting by a Thurba-side window in the small but mostly-empty commissary on Mellendorff Station, they were struck by the thought that some part of the windless wastes they could see in the distance had their round patterned spacesuit-prints on it. They’d made it. They didn’t want to cry, because they knew what would happen if they did, but they couldn’t stop the tears from flowing. How many years had they spent slogging through school and getting through trainings and pretending in simulators to be sitting here? Here, close enough to Thurba that it was like looking down from an airship? Their tears began to sheet over their big eyes and they ripped open the velcro of their breast pocket to get at their handkerchief. It was still hard to calm their tear ducts once they could see again, but after a minute they managed to look out at the grey surface beside the station and simply feel that, for the first time in a long time, their heart was full.

[honeyedblossom]

closed starter for @ofcelestiials ( peter )

"Oh come on, dad, there's a couple minutes left and it's just getting good," Quint exclaimed, sitting up slightly to reach out for the remote Peter was now holding. "I promise I'll put her to bed once it's done, just sit down and join us."

[ratsummer]

I think Phantom was fending for himself for years in the pit, running the circles from just about the age a ghoul can probably survive on their own. He was born into a small but loving pack, so he learned how to be a good ghoul kit, but once he was on his own, he didn't have anyone to socialize him as a young adult ghoul. Sure, he'd tag along with the odd band of ghouls here and there when the opportunity arose, but those alliances were born out of necessity and always quite brief.

All this to say, between his lack of guidance from adult ghouls, his trauma, and the neurodivergencies he was born with, Phantom has held on to a lot of ghoul kit behaviors.

When he's first summoned and meeting his new pack, everyone is on edge. He's small for a quint, and has a confusing blend of kit and adult behaviors. Once the infirmary ghouls have confirmed he is in fact an adult ghoul who chose of his own volition to respond to the summon, and not in fact a large kit they've accidentally abducted, everyone relaxes a bit.

At first, as they're learning about how Phantom was living for years prior to his summoning, emotions run high. They all hide it well from him, not wanting to frighten or burden him. Even so, there are many late nights in the den spent whispering and weeping as they process the things they learn of Phantom's past.

As time passes though, and Phantom settles in and gets comfier with all of them, the sadness and anger pass. They learn to interpret Phantom's unusual blend of behaviors, and they love him all the more. No one pressures Phantom to change, or tells him that he's doing something wrong. They accept him for who he is, and as long as he's not uncomfortable, embarrassed, or inadvertently harming himself, they're happy.

And oh, how they love their baby bat.

It took a while for Phantom to relax enough around anyone to purr at all, but now it's almost nonstop. Almost anything will set it off, too. Swiss walks into the same room as him? Purring. Mountain puts a hand on his shoulder to keep him still while he reaches over him for something in the kitchen? Purring. Dewdrop says good morning? Purring. When everyone gets together after a long day to cuddle in the den, Phantom's purrs stand out from the rest. He hasn't quite switched from the cooing, nasally purr of a kit into the rumbling, chest purr of an adult. He's slowly working into his chest purr, especially as he spends time cuddling on Mountain, Aether, and Swiss. Their purrs are deepest and most obviously resonating from their chests, making it easier for Phantom to imitate. Regardless of how he sounds, though, a purring Phantom is a happy Phantom is a Phantom getting many kisses.

Phantom is also working on scenting. The first person Phantom ever tried scenting was Dew, and boy was the fire ghoul confused at first. They were cuddled up on the couch, watching Cumulus teach Swiss some new crocheting techniques, when Phantom started headbutting him. To be fair, it was a gentle headbutting, really more bumping his face into Dew's jaw and nuzzling into him each time. Even so, it caught Dew off guard. Luckily, Rain was sitting on the opposite end of the couch and caught Dew's attention before he could react poorly. Dew, unlike Rain, had never really spent much time around ghoul kits, so failed to recognize Phantom's kit-like attempts at scenting. Rain mimed at him frantically until he got the memo and started scenting Phantom back. "Oh, Phantom," Rain chimed in soon after, "You're being such a lovebug for Dew. He likes gentler scenting though, sweetheart, do you want me to show you? Come here, it's my turn!" And of course, Rain instantly had a lapful of cooing, cuddly ghoul to coach, leaving Dew to roll around and be embarrassed over how in love with Phantom he is.

Phantom also kneads a lot more than most adult ghouls. While the others might do a little kneading here and there when they're feeling deeply sleepy and relaxed, Phantom seems to knead whether he's feeling calm or stressed. His most frequent victims are Cumulus, Swiss, Cirrus, and Mountain, and he kneads on whatever body part is closest. Tummies, thighs, arms, Cumulus even lets him get away with kneading on her boobs. He zones out hard when he starts kneading, almost slipping into a trance. They've all had to do a little correcting for Phantom with this behavior, just to show him how to keep his claws from hurting soft skin and to make sure he doesn't squeeze too hard. Sometimes, when he's having trouble being gentle, they'll pass him a stuffie or a pillow to work instead. He seems to knead the most during mass, Papa's chanting and the choral accompaniment relaxing him. Usually it's Mountain who will grab him when he starts getting glassy-eyed, holding him in his lap and letting him knead away at his arm.

Aether and Cirrus have spent a lot of time helping Phantom with his emotional regulation. Once he's feeling safe and secure with his new pack, that no one is going to hurt him if they notice him, he gets a bit too reactive when his emotions run high. When he messes up the same section of a song for the sixth time, he starts yelling and crying. When he slept poorly, he hisses and growls. When he trips down the last couple stairs in front of some siblings, he hides and mopes for hours, crying and skipping meals. Aether and Cirrus help him learn to identify how is body is reacting in a situation, and what emotion goes with it. They help him respond more calmly, so he doesn't hurt or frighten anyone. They teach him coping skills, like deep breathing, or leaving a room, or asking someone for a hug. It's not always easy, but Phantom is diligent and attentive, and with guidance he quickly finds techniques that work for him.

Yeah, idk. Just. I could go on and on. Phantom being a little different from what his new pack is used to and it's okay. It's not his fault. He's so full of love, and he finally gets to share it. He's so full of love, and his pack is thrilled that he shows them in his own way. Ugh. Nobody look at me.

[smoothriverrocksrock]

Hiiiii, Love DeceptiBee Au- I've started writing a fanfic based on it. Hope that's okayyyyyy (I will credit you C: ) So question: How do you think the autobots change in this Au since Bee isn't with them? Do they become more unhinged since their moral backbone isn't there?

And what kind of gossip would B give to Elita?

Holy shit, thank you!!!!! Totally okay with it :D here’s the think everyone, go check it out it’s awesome!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59493127/chapters/151727290

Personally I think any changes that come from Bumblebee being a Decepticon will have a butterfly effect aspect to them. Nothing seems different at first, not in the Quint war or the beginning of the civil war (assuming you choose to make the civil war happen, Bee could absolutely stop that at the roots by pestering Megatron enough) but it’s not until the war starts getting narrowed down that things become apparent

Information that Bee could’ve gotten for the Autobots is no longer known, and vise versa. Now the Decepticons have another spy to utilize. Again, depends if you wanna go all the way to Earth, but if you do now the Decepticons have a chill soldier who can arrange trade negotiations with humans without giving into the impulses of squishing them on sight. (Despite how much I love the Spike & Bee dynamic, I know how exhausting planning a million year long war story would be and I do NOT want to do that. Pick your battles ig, I plan on going the easy way out with Bee preventing the war)

So at first obviously none of the Decepticons are gonna tell Bee anything on account of not knowing him. This means that while Elita is telling him all about the new alt-modes the miners got and how they’re redesigning the Iacon legal system, all he can really offer is stuff like “I’m 70% some of these guys can combine but I have no idea how I can test this” and “the coneheads keep ramming into things and I think they have cyber-ram cna”

It’s not until Bee starts snooping into people’s stuff that he really gets some juicy information. Elita starts getting messages like “Buzzsaw keeps the cutest little clay sculptures, he’s such an artist!” and “I’m currently convincing Thundercracker to join the Autobots because holy primus do you guys need some flyers your fleet is shit” and “*insert video of Ravage doing a backflip*”

Elita appreciates the sentiments, but she’d reallyyyyy like that information on the Decepticon’s latest census. Alas, all she can offer is a video of this Ultra Magnus guy she just met getting pushed down the stairs by Sideswipe

[pregnantpixiedreams]

[26 wks and me and the quints are having our weekly ultrasound. I also had an iron transfusion to help get everyone's birth weight up, and combat the anemia that comes with carrying so many babies. We got to see everyone but baby C, who I guess didn't feel like showing her face again today!]

[cybertron-after-dark]

oooo kimmie, can you tell us about the tfa and rb overlap?

Everyone prepare yourselves bc the floodgates are opened and now I'm never going to shut up about this

In a meta context, there's SO much overlap between the shows. A lot of the same people worked on it, especially the writers, and it 100% shows. Mr. Marty Isenberg you are not slick.

In terms of the actual content of the shows though, the similarities are overflowing.

First and foremost, the emphasis on cultural differences and exchanges with the human-bot relationships. TFA had a good bit of it and it was very very fun every time it happened (bots not really knowing what level of self defense is appropriate to teach a child, being very confused about what exactly humans eat, bee picking up video games, bulkhead picking up art, ALL that good shit), but you don't always get to focus on it with all the action and political intrigue going on. And while rescue bots has its share of intensity, there's a lot more space for the mundane interactions. Blades being tv obsessed, the bots celebrating Allspark day, boulder's love of just Everything on earth. They had a whole episode just about teaching the bots to fish.

There's also the fact that everyone on griffin rock is a little bit Unhinged in a lot of the same ways the humans kicking around Detroit are. Just. Vaguely Weird Vibes in very funny ways. And the same tendency to switch from revering the emergency services which they may or may not know the bots are part of to wildly distrusting them on a dime. Optimus would not leave an encounter with Mrs Nederlander unscathed bro. I don't know if any of the bots could.

Speaking of humans, the villains in rescue bots feel like what the tfa human villains could have been if not for being wildly overshadowed by the decepticons. Evan and Myles? I think you mean Henry Masterson's shitty cousins he only interacts with through the CoD lobby. Madelyne Pynch? That's just girlboss Porter C. Powell. Quint Quarry? Sir that is Master Disaster if he existed for more than like two minutes of a singular episode and bagged more than one bot. Dr. Morocco? Meltdown but better at, like, everything (especially lab safety).

Then there's the constant state of both teams grilling the hell out of each other All The Time. Chaotic. Absolute Creechurs. They love each other so much but they also all live in close contact and see each other all the time and thus they are So Mean To Each Other (though they're a bit meaner in tfa just bc older audience)

The Sumdacs and the Greenes being two duos of an absentminded but well meaning technological genius and his intelligent and Highly Cool pigtailed daughter who both have to deal with the dad's tech going completely out of control is pretty on the nose too. (Oh God now I'm just imagining an au where tfp starscream successfully gets rid of Megatron after the space bridge explosion and sends him hurtling towards earth and crashlanding right on griffin rock whee doc green finds his head. Can you imagine. The misery of tfp Megatron having to deal with a human. He's having several mental breakdowns, 100%)

Even Cody and Sari have a lot of similarity as characters. Cody is a lot more mild mannered compared to the absolute Gremlin that is Sari, but they both still struggle a lot with wanting to help but feeling too small to make an impact, even though they matter so much more than they could ever know. They're surrounded by heros, giants, and it's hard for them not to feel like they're fading into the background. And when both their families realize how they've been making those kids feel they put so much effort to make sure they're loved and feel like their efforts matter. It's the same arc in different forms. And it's so good both ways.

Overall they're both shows that feel like they're trying to say similar things to different audiences. That Earth is wonderful and worth protecting. That any effort can make massive differences, even if you don't feel like you can do enough. That a hero can come from somewhere humble, and the best ones usually do. That people deserve kindness and a genuine effort at understanding. That nobody is without value.

And honestly? That what I love most about both of them.

[blueikeproductions]

Some more anecdotal thoughts on TFONE.

Spoilers still.

The concept of the Worker-Bots being lower class, and several characters having serial numbers over names suggests this is meant to be wide spread. Only D-16 and B-127 seem to be this for some reason, with Elita-1 sorta meeting half way. Instead of Orion Pax, you’d think he’d also have a serial number in C-01 or the more on the nose OP-1984. Jazz is a miner and still named Jazz, rather than J-06. Sideswipe could be SW-04, Arcee RC-86, Ironhide, I-98, and so forth. Maybe I’m looking too much into it, but you’d think considering the “demeaning” nature, Sentinel would go farther and strip them of their very names as well as their Cogs.

Sentinel never actually Transforms into his Vehicle Mode at all, and is exclusively in Robot Mode throughout the movie. His wings and jet boosters in his feet make it clear he’s a jet like his toys, but the only thing he turns into is his heavy artillery Apex Armor like mode in the climax.

Despite having a toy that shows the Quintessons can Transform, it’s unknown if they can in the actual film. This feels like an unintended side effect of retconning them as being descendants of Quintus Prime, as technically that should mean they’re Cybertronian, and therefore be able to Transform. The EarthSpark ones are unable to as far as we can tell, with the only Quintus descendants that can being the Terrans. Unless the Quints go the way of the Echidnas and Owls in the Sonic movies, maybe that’s something reserved for a possible TFTWO. Maybe their ship Transforms into a robot called Quintus Maximus, I ‘unno.

Due to copyright jargon, the series usually can’t use the terms Transformer or Transform in non modern animated media super well, leading to clunky ways of describing themselves. The EarthSpark and TFONE books have resorted to calling the species “Transformers Bots” which sounds like a bad SyFy parody show. While G1 and Beast Machines in particular freely refer to the species as “Transformers”, more modern material like Prime and EarthSpark imply the Transformers call themselves “Cybertronians” while “Transformer” is a term coined by humans. Though in RiD15, the Bee Team, in particular Fixit, off and on refer to themselves as Transformers, confusing the matter. TFOne goes nuts, not even trying to hide who they are and what they do, with the species collectively called “Transformers”, their Cogs “Transformation Cogs” like in G1 (they never once call them “T-Cogs” like in Prime), with Optimus able to actually say “Transform and Roll Out!” Megatron sadly never gets to say “Transform & Rise Up!” like his Animated self (and to a lesser extent his Prime self), but Megatron nevertheless adapts Rise Up! as his team’s battle cry.

A little boy in the theater I was in got really excited when the Autobots stumbled on the deer-bots, like he was pumped. Where’s the deer-bot toy, Hasbro? You have a customer.

Like other media, it’s not super clear if these examples of Cybertronic fauna can Transform. They’re not shown to, but nothing suggests they can’t either. They probably would turn into humanoid robots if they got toys, but I like to think, similar to Cyberverse, the deer turn into little cars or something.

The organic plant life is never explained, though Orion and the others don’t recognize it either, and remark in surprise something non metallic can live on the surface. Some fan theories suggest the plant life was due to the Quintessons’ maybe attempting to terraform Cybertron, but the how and why remain unclear. It might just be a throwaway reference to Beast Machines and Galaxy Force, both famously incorporating organics into Cybertron at series end.

The Allspark is never referenced in the film, so how the Transformers reproduce is never specified. Presumably the Allspark still exists, but then again some modern media is slowly moving away from it. IDW never used it in either of its G1 main line books, instead having Vector Sigma, the Matrix, the Moon Bases and Cybertron itself generating life. The Allspark was in TFP and RiD15, but wasn’t crucial to the plot. Prime ends with Optimus and Wheeljack casually fetching the relic in a sector in space, with its (now empty) container used to trap Unicron’s Spark. EarthSpark showed the Allspark existed but quickly tossed it aside, favoring the OTHER life giving relic, the Emberstone. Skybound has yet to reference the Allspark, but going by how close it’s sticking to 80’s material, Vector Sigma is pry more likely. The TFONE Matrix is similar to the Allspark in that it’s connected to Cybertron’s naturally flowing Energon, and without it, Cybertron is doomed to dwindling resources. What this means if the story continues and the Transformers leave Cybertron for Earth we have yet to see.

How the Autobots and Decepticons get their names is a bit clunky. The Decepticons get it in a similar way to IDW, the one reference to it, where they take it from the “deception” of Sentinel and Orion. The Autobots seems to be more spontaneous, it seemingly coming from Orion, now Optimus, reflecting on the miners’ new autonomy with their Cogs, dubbing them “Autobots”. How the Autobots get their logo isn’t known either, the logo just pops up as the credits roll. The Decepticons get their logo from Megatronus Prime’s face mask, as D-16 was a fan boy, collecting related merch. Sentinel, out of spite, torches a crude version of the mask on D-16’s chest which completes the origin. Ironically, as Megatronus never becomes The Fallen and is legitimately heroic as far as we can tell, his symbol being used by Megatron as it is, intentionally by the writers or not, mirrors a similar situation with The Punisher’s logo.

Double checking it, Zeta Prime is apparently a replacement for the 13th Arisen Prime. My guess is they replaced him because without The Fallen, The Arisen word play doesn’t work. Plus, having Orion Pax be preordained to be Optimus like he was in Aligned doesn’t fit here. Zeta Prime isn’t depicted as being the sociopath he’s portrayed as in IDW, but we don’t see a lot of him either, so it’s hard to say for sure (though I doubt he’d be carrying the Matrix if he was). What is for sure is they make it clear, until a future movie retcons it, that the Primes were all benevolent beings shepherding the Transformers. None of that “The Primes are all corrupt and horrible!” nonsense. Sentinel is the only one depicted as being corrupt, but he’s also not a (true) Prime either. Optimus is depicted as the true successor to what the Primes stood for, vs Sentinel who was in it for his own greed. This somewhat mirrors stuff like Nova Prime, though it’s more streamlined so casuals can understand it.

[void-botanist]

The Melichacha Crew: A Powerpoint

I added some extra lore to this one since I know at least @writinglittlebeasts was hungering for it, lol. There's even more embedded lore that I didn't really get into so feel free to question me in the replies/tags/asks/dms if anything catches your fancy.

Tagging various other people who I believe will be interested: @vacantgodling @sam-glade @kingkendrick7 @outpost51 @writernopal @athenswrites

[trialsinthelateromanrepublic]

trial of Titus Annius Milo

date: 52 BCE, Milo charged on March 26, trial on April 4-7/[8]) charge: lex Pompeia de vi (murder of Clodius) defendant: T. Annius Milo pr. 55 advocates: M. Claudius Marcellus cos. 51 M. Tullius Cicero cos. 63 (Crawford, Orations 72)  prosecutors: M. Antonius q. 51, cos. 44, 34 (subscr.) Ap. Claudius Pulcher cos. 38 (nom. del.) Ap. Claudius Pulcher sen.? (subscr.) P. Valerius Nepos (subscr.)  quaesitor: L. Domitius Ahenobarbus cos. 54 jurors: Q. Petilius M. Porcius Cato pr. 54 (voted A) P. Varius witnesses: Q. Arrius pr. before 63 = ? Q. Arrius pr. 73 C. Causinius Schola of Interamna C. Clodius Fulvia M. Porcius Cato pr. 54 Sempronia residents of Bovillae virgines Albanae 

Cic. Mil.; Liv. Per. 107; Vell. 2.47.4-5; Asc. 30-56; Quint. Inst. 3.6.93, 3.11.15 and 17; 4.1.20; 4.2.25, 4.3.17, 6.3.49, 10.1.23; Plut. Cic. 35; App. BCiv. 2.21-22, 24; Dio 40.54-55.1; Schol. Bob. 111-125St; Schol. Gronov. D 322-323St; see also Cic. Att. 5.8.2-3, 6.4.3, 6.5.1-2

[honeyedblossom]

Quinton had never cheated a day on his life, certainly not when it came to his career, so as he overheard what Uzel said his expression displayed genuine surprise. "Perhaps your card dealer doesn't enjoy playing against a pro, but you can pull up my profile." He told the other, placing his hand faced down. "Slots bore me, though you're more than willing to jump in for a round to oversee things."

@prcttyvxnom

open starter

location: the casino

"not saying you're lying or anything, but why would my card dealer lie to me?" uzel asked calmly. "i think it's time for you to step away from the cards table and maybe try some of the slot machines. how does that sound?"

[p1nkcanoe]

re-quint magic toys:

imagine someone linking a fleshlight to Person A's hole. Person B fucking the fleshlight while person C fucks A normally

would it feel like DP? would it feel like getting fucked²? would it feel like they had a second hole? (or third if they already have 2)

the possibilities are endless.

also if they cum in the fleshlight can person A and C feel it? can person C and B feel eachother? does the cum get magic-ed into existence so suddenly A is dripping cum even tho C hasnt cum yet. that could also be fun with (semi-)public play

having a quint-dildo of person A and quint-fleshlight of person B and then person C making them fuck through that. again possibly with (semi-) public play.

anyways Im insane about magic toys dont mind me

you've got me thinking about little dick dew, who loves to top but never gets the same satisfaction from his partner about his size and how they "fill him up so good" like the others do. everyone always wants to fuck mountain because he's hung like a fucking horse, and swiss has a beautiful dick in general, aether's girth is enough to take anyone's breath away, and even rain has the length on him that makes people whine and beg... and then there's dew.

it's not his fault that his dick is small -- he certainly didn't choose it -- but when the sudden opportunity arose for him to try out some "magic fleshlight" that aeth had in his possession, really who was he to say no?

and that was how he got into the situation he was currently in: with his cock balls deep inside of rain and with mountain only a few feet away, panting and moaning in his desk chair, with the earth ghoul's dick sliding forcefully in and out of a pretty pink tube of plastic and silicone. as it turns out, the toy had been temporarily linked to rain, and whatever entered it also entered his hole (the sensation, at least. upon that first glorious slide in, dew was pleased to find that his hole didn't stretch open further than the circumference of his much smaller cock). and now he's fucking rain with everything he's got, gripping his hips so hard that his knuckles are white. the bed creaks, the air stinks, and mountain is there, too, matching his thrusts with his own slides into the toy.

"fuck, dew-" rain keeps saying, gasping out his name between the sounds of their hips slamming together. "you're so fucking huge-!"

and sure, dew cums embarrassingly fast, because the sound of someone begging for his dick, asking for more of his length, his girth, and telling him that he's huge is something excitingly novel.

[pregnantpixiedreams]

[In a few days time, we have our scheduled C-section for the quints, it feels unreal! I've been trying to prepare Bracken for us leaving for a week or so and when we might be back.]

[a-thousand-attempted-words]

Writing 101: Narration Sentence

And how it'll help you script, your characters and perhaps even your sanity!

This is a form of narrative structure, meaning that it provides you with a baseline, but also a framework for your story.

What is a narration sentence?

In its baseform, its a complete summary of what your character, your story or a single event wants, does and struggles with. It is generally formulated like this:

A wants B because of C but D

They are the quint essence and therefore short. If your narrative sentence meanders around a lot, you need to define it better.

What can a narration sentence achieve?

Keep your silver lining in mind

Define your characters precisely

Help you summarise chapters in one glance

Remind you what you wanted to achieve

Set up clear contrasts and motivations

As you can see, narration sentences are there to help you have less work and a clearer vision. Thats pretty much all.

Some examples

Protagonist wants to save the princess because they want to be a hero but the dragon is too powerful.

As you can see, we havent even met the protagonist but we already know they are a little selfish and fame hungry (or maybe naive), the world isnt really in their favor and theres an antagonist setup. We also have a setup for potential failure or trickery to beat the odds.

Lets look at something a little more complex.

Antihero wants to redeem themselves out of shame but they dont grasp the breadth of their actions.

Emotions are always hard to put into words, but here we have someone who is yet blind to what they have actually done and they will have a long winded journey before they get there. What exactly they are ashamed about isnt necessarily part of the narration sentence, because we always keep it as short as we can. But (!) if you feel its easier to make it longer, go for it. This is your sentence after all.

Lets do a few more for funsies:

The wolf wants to eat red riding hood because he is really hungry but red riding hood is smarter than he is.

Rapunzel wants to leave the tower because she longs for freedom and agency but there is no key.

Snow White wants to survive against her murderous stepmother but she remains naive.

Moana wants to see the world because that is the call of her people but she hasnt learned any of the skills to do that.

You get the point, dont you.

Its Motivation, Setup, Roadblock all in one pretty sentence. Sometimes, over chapters and character change, these structures need to be retuned. Having an overarching narration sentence and several smaller ones is also allowed and can help you see If any of your changes are a little too much (and if they feel like a lot has changed, what have you done to justify that?)

Transition

Hope this helps :)

[beeloovedd]

First of all, I really like your fics about phantom with ocd

Can you write something about him having a REALLY tough time with his ocd and maybe even some comfort from Swiss or Mountain?

Maybe he’s so up in his head and kinda stuck in his thoughts and tries to refuse comfort?

And big thanks in advance if you write something

-Anon

Hi! Thank you!

And of absolutely course

TW: Crying, Mentions of Nightmares, a couple cheek and head kisses, trying to make it seem and act ok when your not, overthinking, panic

Characters: Phantom, Mountain and Swiss

As ok as anyone could be

Phantom sniffles quietly and hides more in the pillow to muffle up the quiet sobs

It's been a really long day...well a long week at that

They went to the store and he kept tapping everything, he tried to keep it minimal but people noticed and were looking at him

They had a meeting with the other churches and the masks felt too tight and too loose at the same time

Maybe it was just his mind running and him getting overstimulated

But today has been hard since he got up

As soon as he woke up his body was sore from tossing and turning all night from nightmares and not being able to sleep and his face was sticky from the sweat and the tears from not being able to sleep and the nightmares

Maybe the nightmares has a point

Maybe he was too much, too annoying, too loud

A burden

He didn't deserve the love the pack gives them if he just brings them down all the time

And here he is proving his point as his eyes begin to get glossy with tears

He quickly wipes his eyes and sits up slowly

He sniffles and takes a deep breath before standing

His head a bit dizzy and vision a bit blurry from tears

He begins to walk to the bathroom but first of course he has to do the compulsion Ritual

He sighs and taps his dresser twice with both hands then once with one hand

He taps the bed twice with both hands then quickly rushed to the bathroom before he finds something else to tap

He gets to the bathroom and quickly closes the door then looks at himself in the mirror before letting out a quiet groan

He taps the door knob twice then taps the wall three times then the other wall twice

He makes a small click noise with his mouth twice then he sighs quietly as he finishes for now

He turns on the water and cups it in his hands then puts it on his face

He splases the water on himself about 5 five times before turning it off then shaking off his hands

He looks at the sink knob and the towel, debating on which one to touch first

He lets out a small whine in his throat as his mind tells him something bad gonna happen either way

He stands there looking like a wet cat for a few seconds before finnaly just getting the Ritual over with

He takes a small and light deep breath before tapping the knob once with both hands then patting his face dry with the towel

His ears twitch as he ears knocking on his bedroom door and a muffled voice

He thinks it's just his mind, no one would or should actually care to look for him anyway

As soon as he finishes patting his face he hears his bedroom door open

He tenses as he realizes it wasn't his mind messing with him

"Hey Bug you in here?" He hears Swiss's voice from the other side

He takes a deep breath and shakes his hands slightly to try and calm down some of the anxiety

"Yea, just a minute" he says back as mind mind begins to run 10 times faster and he tries to calm himself down

Swiss looks at the door concerned and confused

He feels that something's off, a high spike in anxiety and sad energy

Though he thinks that could just be a false alarm or him just thinking that since he can't sense energy that good due to him not being a full earth or Quint ghoul

Phantom wipes his eyes and takes another quiet deep breath again

He opens the door and forces a smile

"Hey Swiss, what do you need?" He says with his voice breaking slightly

Swiss raises an eyebrow and looks at him

"Oh I just came to tell you that Cumulus and Aroura made cupcakes, though I don't know how many are left, cirrus and Dew kept sneaking some out" he says with a small laugh

Phantom chuckles, not surprised by Cirrus and Dew being cupcake thiefs

Then Swiss looks at phantom with a small smile to offer some comfort

"hey bug? I'm not trying to be an intruder and please tell me if I'm crossing anything here but are you ok? You've been in your room almost all day and the energy around here has been..off"

Phantom tenses, not liking or expecting this conversation again

He doesn't like talking about it, well it feels good to talk about it and get it off of his chest but he also really doesn't like putting the weight on his shoulders on to others

It shouldn't be their problem, he shouldn't be their problem, they have their own life, they should be worrying about his

"no I'm ok" he says with a forced small smile

Swiss raises an eyebrow and hold his hand out

"I know that's not true bug, what's wrong?"

Phantom tenses and avoids eye contact

"No really swiss! I'm fine, it's just been...a long day" he says, his voice breaking slightly towards the end, he hugs himself to provide himself a small bit of comfort

Swiss looks at phantom and opens his arms, letting the ghoul decide if he wants a hug or not

Phantom glances at Swiss, desperately wanting a hug but his mind telling him that he's being weak and that he doesn't deserve it

Phantom let's his heart win over his mind and falls into Swiss arms

Swiss hugs him tightly and Phantom finnaly lets his body win and let's himself cry into Swiss's shoulder

Swiss kisses his head and rubs his back as he lets the younger ghoul let everything out

He's just glad he was there to catch it

After a few minutes Phantom calmd down a bit and they move from standing to sitting on the bed

Stray tears fall down his cheeks as his mind continues to run

"I don't deserve this" he whispers out with a sniffle

"you don't deserve what, bug?" Swiss asks quietly

Phantom sniffles and looks up at Swiss

"anything, I-i don't deserve any of this" he says quietly with his voice cracking from the tears

Swiss looks down at him and pets his hair gently

"why don't you deserve this? You deserve the world Ant"

Phantom shakes his head and his breath hitches

"no.. I'm annoying, I'm a burden, I'm always keeping you guys behind or p-pulling you all down with me, you all have your own problems, you don't need to worry about mine" he whispers about with a sniffle, not even realizing he's saying what's on his mind

"i-im a bad ghoul, Swiss" he says as tears begin to fall again

Swiss looks down a phantom in surprise then gently and carefully makes phantom look up at him

"hey, we don't talk about ourselves like that, you wanna know something?" Swiss says as he waits for phantom to look him in the eye

"what?" Phantom says quietly

"you are the most special and fun ghoul I've ever met, in no way at all are you ever a burden or annoying, we all have our own wants and needs and that's perfectly ok, you can't keep trying to fight your thoughts alone, bug, you have us to help you now, and if you think your ever a bother then that's wrong, you always have us, got it?" Swiss say while gently cupping Phantom's face and wiping his tears

"g-got it" Phantom says with a last small sniffle

"good"

Swiss smiles and kisses his cheek and Phantom laughs

"now, how about you go get comfortable and I message mountain and ask him to bring us some tea and we'll watch the nightmare before Christmas again?" Swiss raises an eyebrow and smiles

"yes please!" Phantom says excitedly, jumping up to go get into his pajamas

Swiss laughs softly, happy that everythings ok now and texts Mountain

A few minutes later Swiss and Phantom are on the bed with phantom laying between Swiss's legs with his back to Swiss's stomach and swiss playing with Phantom's hair

"hey here you go" Mountain says softly as he hands mountain and Swiss their tea

"thank you" Phantom says with a smile as he takes a drink

"thank you Mount, wanna watch nightmare before Christmas with us?" Swiss says looks up at mountain with a smile

Mountain looks at them then at the tv

"you both are welcome and scootch" he says with a chuckle as he sits joins on the bed with them

Eventually the night falls and Phantom falls asleep on Swiss's chest and Swiss lays his head on Mountain's shoulder

"Long day?" Mountain asks as he runs his fingers lightly down Swiss's shoulder

Swiss shrugs

"Yea, for him too" Swiss says, leaning down to kiss phantoms head

"hes ok now?" Mountain asks with a soft smile

"as ok as anyone could be" swiss says with a smile before leaning up to kiss mountains cheek

Swiss leans his head back on Mountain's shoulder and mountain leans his head on top of Swiss's and they fall asleep peacefully on top of eachother

<3

[void-botanist]

spin spin!!

Two spins for you, Ren! I'm not gonna post screenshots because I'm away from my normal computer but you got Bean & Kylis Shenanigans and DS Book 3.

I haven't really talked about either but I want to connect some of the dots for Shenanigans: Bean is a quasi-parent to Red from the Melichacha crew. When Red was six, Bean, who was training to be a teacher in the capital alongside Kylis, got his first placement as a middle school teacher in Red's town. In fact, partly because Red's mom was the placement coordinator for that area, Bean came to live with her and Red. Kylis, meanwhile, got placed somewhere else, possibly in the same city where they eventually became a drag queen's assistant. But you know they both got asked to use their teacher skills (such as the rare skill of being able to drive a car) for some real ridiculous stuff.

I had to actually go and look to see what DS book 3 was supposed to be because how the Delphonus Saga is divided up is still kind of uncertain. Here's the summary:

After months of training, the Melichacha crew is on break to go home and see their families for a month before the mission launches. This book follows all seven of them as they try to tie up loose ends and say goodbye.

I fucking love this whole book concept and I've written a tiny bit of it. The speed round version (made possible by the fact that the powerpoint intro exists) of what everyone gets up to is:

Quint faces up to the dad they're sure isn't proud of them

Vy was originally supposed to be the one non-astronaut member of the trifecta; that's changed but either way she has heart-to-hearts with her trans mom, probably about how things are going to shake out with her various partners after this mission

Red reflects a lot on home and how this might be eir last mission, in more than one way (ey're not like suicidal but this mission is scary)

Derik runs into his ex-boyfriend Mirilde in a coffee shop and gets back together with him

Wylie might still follow my old vision of making things right with his oldest sibling Snap - it depends on when Snap moved to Icepith I think

Binna has to reconcile the Silas situation and entertain some difficult feelings about her dad

Dez goes to Halli & Sam's wedding with Syndy as his plus one (originally Zalen and Silas's but I was like dude I dropped a canonical future wedding right here in TFA let's have the payoff)

🎡 Tell me to spin the wheel of wips and get a new fact! 🎡

[trialsinthelateromanrepublic]

trial of Marcus Caelius Rufus

date: 56 BCE, trial held on April 3 and 4 charge: lex Plautia de vi (civil disturbance at Naples, assault on Alexandrians at Puteoli, property damage to Palla, murder of Dio, receiving gold for the murder of Dio, attack on a senator, plot to murder Clodia) defendant: M. Caelius Rufus pr. 48 (spoke pro se [for himself], ORF 102.III) advocates: M. Licinius Crassus cos. 70, 55, cens. 65 (ORF 102.IV) M. Tullius Cicero cos. 63 (Sch. 34) prosecutors: P. Clodius = ? Pulcher aed.cur. 56 (ORF l64.I) (subscr.) L. Herennius Balbus (ORF 163.I) (subscr.) L. Sempronius Atratinus cos. suff. 34 (nom. del.) praetor or iudex quaestionis [presiding magistrate]: Cn. Domitius iud. quaest. 56?, pr.? 54 = ? Cn. Domitius Calvinus cos. 53, 40 witnesses: ? C. Coponius pr. 49 ? T. Coponius Q. Fufius Kalenus cos. 47 ? familiares Clodiae [friends/family of Clodia] (Cael. 66)

Cic. Cael.; Strab. 17.1.11; Quint. Inst. 4.2.27, 11.1.51 and 68; Suet. Gram. 26; Dio 39.14.3