#de bug mode

[shieldpup]

So i was playing indigo park (great game already out for free on steam and maybe steam deck download it this isnt a promotion or anything i genually think its a great game to play) and i was trying to turn off my flash light but then somhow i press some keys then entered de-bug mode by magic lol, would not like this to be patched up tbh too good to pass up

[mooooonnnzz]

Miguel taking his daughter to spider HQ?

Miguel takes his daughter to HQ! How bad could it be?

✎ my brain is brewing with words

✎ fem reader!!

✎ send more ideas cuz my brain is in writing mode rn hehe

✎ oh miguel is also lil grumpy here bc why not

✎ ok thats all!! :p

Miguel is very hesitant to bring you to HQ. He doesn’t want to have you near harm's way. Plus, there would be nothing for you to do there so what’s the point?

Though, you’re persistent and didn’t take his no for an answer.

He eventually gave in when you roped Lyla into it. He couldn’t deal with two annoyances at once. (He means it endearingly)

So, he brings you to HQ—against his will

Your eyes sparkled with amazement as you took in the place. The area was huge. “This place is so cool!” You marveled. You look over to Miguel, beaming brightly. “This is awesome!” You whispered and yelled, your attention going back to the Spider-People who swung and walked by. Miguel shook his head in amusement, a smile pulling to his lips. As you continued to wander off, he noticed you were walking a little close to the edge. “Cuidado!” His webs shoot around your waist as you near the edge. He pulls you into his chest, letting out a relieved sigh. “You have to be careful when you’re walking around here.” He’s following you like a hawk after that.

Since it’s your first time there, everyone jumps to the assumption that you’re another Spider-Woman who Miguel or Jess recruited.

Miguel is quick to squander those ideas. He informs them that you’re his daughter and he’s showing you the place.

They all have to take a moment. They’re all like, “What? Miguel has a daughter?”

When they ask why he never told them, he responds by saying; “You never asked.”

“That’s your daughter?” Peter B. Parker was gagged. He couldn’t comprehend the fact that Miguel had a daughter. “How come you never talked about her?!” His eyes are blown wide and his jaw is slack. Like, Miguel O’Hara has a daughter?! “I do. You just don’t listen.” He grumbled out, sending an icy glare to Peter. Miguel does talk about you, it just gets overshadowed by how much Peter talks about Mayday. “What? When!?” Peter sputters out. “All the time.” You roll your eyes at Miguel’s cold behavior. “Papi, don’t be mean.” Miguel’s pinched expression visibly softens at your words, right when Miguel is about to apologize, Peter turns over to you excitedly. “Do you want to meet my daughter?” Miguel lets out a long sigh. “Mayday would love to meet you!” Peter grins. “Speaking of the little devil, where is she?” He looks around, lips downturned into a frown. He cups his hands around his mouth. “Mayday!” Another sigh leaves Miguel’s lips. “Mayday, honey! Where are you?” Miguel takes this opportunity to grab your shoulder and walk away from Peter. Once he’s far enough, he gives you a tense smile. “Oh, there you guys are! For a second I thought you ran away from me.” Peter swings right next to Miguel, Mayday sitting comfortably in her baby carrier. The smile on Miguel’s face drops. “Anyways, meet Mayday!”

Miguel dreads the moment when you have to meet Gwen, Miles, Pav, and Hobie. They always bug him about you, wondering when he’ll bring you over.

They’ve seen him see videos of you and him on his little holograms as he worked, he isn’t secretive about you.

Plus, whenever he gets the chance to talk about you, he doesn’t hesitate to start blabbering.

So they know pretty much almost everything about you.

Blame Miguel

“Miigueel,” Gwen dragged out his name teasingly as she swung in front of you and Miguel. “Is this who we think it is!” Pavitr was brimming with excitement as he dropped right next to Gwen. “Is this Miguel’s daughter?” Hobie raised a brow as he leaned an arm on Pav’s shoulder. “About time we meet her!” Miles smiled, giving you a friendly wave. You wave back, chuckling to yourself. Miguel dragged a hand down his face as he groaned dramatically loud. “Estos son los imbéciles de los que te sigo hablando.” Miles' face dropped to an offended look. “Really?” Miles says. Hobie furrowed his brows. “What did he say?” He looked over to Miles in confusion. Pavitr shrugged. “I don’t know but I don’t think it was a good thing.”

The whole tour was a headache for Miguel. He couldn’t stay in one place without Gwen offering a new place to head to, or Hobie asking questions on how you manage to have a dad like Miguel.

Pav was adding his commentary to certain situations which drove Miguel up the wall. Miles was trying to strike up a conversation with you, trying to impress you by speaking in Spanish.

Then Peter came along and the whole thing fell into chaos

“Hold Mayday real quickly. I need to take a picture of you two!” Peter handed you Mayday and she fumbled in your hands until you managed to rest her on your side. “Picture? Can I join!” Pavitr jumped right next to you, striking a dashing smile as he struck a pose. Miles and Gwen swarmed in the photo, settling around you and posing. Gwen did a peace sign while Miles did bunny ears on Gwen. Hobie lazily smiled, body halfway into the frame. “Hobie, get your whole body in the photo!” Peter motioned Hobie to move into the frame. “I don’t wanna.” Hobie shrugged. Peter sighed and let him be, gleefully saying “Cheese!” as he snapped a few photos. “Oh, MJ is gonna love this!” Peter mumbled to himself. Mayday looked up at you, cutely babbling in her baby language. Her chubby arm grappled onto your shoulder and pulled herself up with her inhuman baby strength. “Oh! Peter, she’s climbing on me!” You watch in horror as she settles on your shoulder, only to fall back and luckily get caught by Miguel. “Oh, don’t worry. She does that.” Peter waves it off, eyes glued on the photos. “Por Dios,” Miguel murmured under his breath.

When you got home, Miguel swore to himself that he’d never bring you back over there.

You went back to HQ a day later.

[thequeensthroat]

A sick, sad woman sings, "I'm gay, I'm bursting with joy": Verdi's Violetta Valéry, the lady of the camellias, from La Traviata (1853). Tubercular, she projects a fast showy cabaletta to stun the house at the first act's end. As coloratura was falling out of style, Verdi resurrected it for this one moment in La Traviata; coloratura, no longer the soprano's natural gift, is a sign of her recidivism—a talent she turns on when pushed to the edge. Coloratura is Violetta's problem, her last resort, a sign that she has abjured bourgeois sexual arrangements and has returned to a scapegoated social position. When she proclaims free love and goes gay ("Gioir!"), these liberating decisions force her into archaic modes of routing air through her body, virtuoso techniques for which her recompense is an audience's love. The phobic logic that frames AIDS today and that framed TB and syphilis yesterday locks Violetta in a jam. By living for pleasure she commits suicide. Coloratura will kill her, but it thrills us. And though she, too, takes pleasure in courtesan delights, with each repetition of the gay yet lumbering main theme the soprano grows more dolorous, the downbeats more ponderous, as if this cabaletta were a totentanz. In a 1955 La Scala performance, Maria Callas's "Sempre libera" has the deliberateness of a girl about to swallow Seconals. She says she wants to fit from pleasure to pleasure ("Sempre libera degg'o folleg giare di gioia in gioia"), and her melody lands on the downbeat's blossom, sucks it, and rebounds. She rises to a high C, slides down, and continues, with effort, the self-consciously gay melody. The slide and the slowness convince us that her illness is showing, that she can no longer afford to live it up. Ha ha ha! No one believes operatic laughter: horrid, hollow. Offstage, Alfredo serenades her, but she repeats her cabaletta, she returns to coloratura's seraglio. Her initials are V. V.: the V of Verdi, vortex, virtuoso, violet, venereal, and voice. (She began to spill and display on the syllable "vor" of "vortici.") In "Sempre libera," Violetta warns: Lose yourse in my voice's vortex, and you'll die of consumption. The song we love for its own sake, the soprano we love because she turns away from Alfredo and domesticity, and pumps us with coloratura: these are deadly de-lights. It kills her to sing, and it kills us to listen. She is contagious. From Violetta, we catch the opera bug.

Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen's Throat

[jacky93sims]

I'm the Brazilian, who talked about the Brazilian kitchen bug, thank you very much for solving the problem, and one more thing, it would be great if you brought other conversions of this Brazilian who made the sink,for example, pressure cooker, clay couscous dish, electric shower, and coffee pot, patreon link for the objects: "patreoncom/posts/kit-de-objetos-90526530" "patreoncom/posts/bule-de-cafe-86963254" Thank you very much for everything!

More Brazilian Kitchen Stuff (and a Shower) for The Sims 2

These are 4to2 conversions from AdylPetraz, low poly. All except the Cous Cous Dish (which is in deco-miscellaneous section of Buy Mode) is functional. The Pressure Cooker works like my One Pot Functional, so you need the recipes from there. The Coffee Machine has its own coffee cup.

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[lmchaptertitlebracket]

also curious: who is this mysterious Walton????? I think I’ve never come across that translation! Do you know where I can find a copy? 👁️

Ah yes, perhaps I should've clarified because it's more obscure! I'm still collecting information about it, but Walton is William Walton one of the four translators in an 1890s edition made for a Collected Works.

From what I've been able to find, the earliest printing of this translation's from an 1892 edition of Hugo's works; links to this printing were gathered up by @melannen here. It was also reprinted c. 1894 in a 28-volume set of all Hugo's novels, a couple of which are available on the Internet Archive (my beloved) or Google Books.

The four translators were split up over five volumes; William Walton translated Fantine, J. C. Beckwith translated Cosette, Jules Gray translated Marius and Jean Valjean, and Edouard Jolivet translated Plumet/Saint-Denis.

I'm still researching this translation, because it doesn't seem to be widely-known. All I can really tell you about them is that neither William Walton and J.C. Beckwith should be confused with the composers for the organ of the same name (seriously, what an odd coinkydink). I've also found a portrait of a J. C. Beckwith (this one a John Carroll), by Sargent, and it's not a super common name so there's a possibility it's him, but also this J. C. Beckwith appears to have been an artist and there's no solid evidence of it being the same J. C. Beckwith other than the name and being alive in this time period.

In addition to the scans Melannen linked above, here are some more I could find:

Fantine bk. 1-3: https://books.google.com/books?id=NbQXAQAAMAAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=Qq8xAQAAMAAJ (more pictures, worse scan)

Fantine bk. 4-8: https://archive.org/details/novelsvictorhug06hugogoog

Cosette bk. 1-3: https://archive.org/details/novelscompleteun11unse

Cosette bk. 4-8: https://archive.org/details/novelsvictorhug07hugogoog

TlotRPatEotRS-D bk. 1-7 https://books.google.com/books?id=nqpcAAAAMAAJ

TlotRPatEotRS-D bk. 8-15 https://archive.org/details/novelsvictorhug04hugogoog https://archive.org/details/novelsvictorhug02hugogoog

And more from that 28 volume set:

man who laughs tr. Phillips https://archive.org/details/novelsvictorhug03hugogoog/page/n12/mode/1up

bug-jargal tr. Eugenia de B. https://archive.org/details/novelsvictorhug05hugogoog/page/n13/mode/1up

nddp vol 1 trans. Beckwith https://archive.org/details/hug01hugogoog/page/n12/mode/1up

nddp vol. 3 trans. Beckwith https://archive.org/details/novelsvictorhug05hugogoog/page/n12/mode/1up

This doesn't appear to be the exact same printing edition? But here's the Artois translation of Toilers which appears in that same set:

vol. I-II: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156765/

vol. III-IV: https://archive.org/details/toilersofsea0000mary

[changingplumbob]

Boy oh boy this has been a long one! Sorry it's taken so long. Rotation 9 began all the way back on March 20th which means it's taken me around six and a half months to get through everyone. During this time I have also been plagued by a bad IBS flare up that leaves me fatigued so my guess is that's why things took much longer than normal.

While all households collectively aged a year and three quarters when you put it all together we've lived through 17 and a half years of sim time for a total of 70 sim days. Thank you for joining me on the journey! I'm going to be taking the rest of the month of October off from long form writing while I build SBL back up and engage in Simblreen antics. Rotations and Growing with Glenn will start back up in November.

Now, on to the noteworthy stuff! Main points followed by chapter summaries below the cut. Time to celebrate my sims achievements!

Five Sims Promoted - One max career!

Nine Skills Maxed

Eight New Builds

Seven Birthdays

One Wedding

Four Household Adoptions

York Household, Chapter 9

Calista and Aaron made their first nectar but mostly they were in parent/grandparent mode. Deanna was dumped by Paris and had a bad bug but still passed her first term of university. The youngest York aged up, realised they were trans, and she has renamed herself Artemisia, or Emi or Emisia to her friends and family.

2. Chopra Household, Chapter 6

Rahul worked from home all week to help with his young family. Mercedes and Savannah aged up to children and have started school. Savannah is still feeling the effects of her motor delay while Mercedes may have a speech delay but turns out to be gifted. Viola aged up into a wild toddler and the household is due another shake up as Cassandra discovered she is pregnant for the third time!

3. Romero Household, Chapter 1

Marta helped her fiance Keira learn about Dia de los Muertos as they paid respect to those in the forever save who couldn't attend the wedding. Keira began her job at the Marine Life Institute and Marta met some of her neighbours after barista shifts. Then the couple were married at Willow Creek church and honeymooned in Sulani. They are currently looking at options for having kids.

4. Pancakes Household, Chapter 9

Eliza got promoted to level 9 of the corporate career. She and Bob decided that rather than have another pregnancy they would adopt so infant Tiana joined the family. Ginger got another fur sibling as dog Strawberry joined the household. Fergus aged up to a materialistic teen and after a week of working on their grades and cheer skills Onyx finally got their horse, named Maelstrom.

5. New Goth Household, Chapter 4

Alexander and Milton retrieved Bella's old journals for Milton to begin reading, and the family celebrated Harvestfest with the Chopras. Alexander and James talked about having kids, and James admitted he would like to adopt a teen rather than having an infant. Milton went through a bear phase and Ariadne was adopted by the couple.

6. Villareal Household, Chapter 6

Joey released his first video game and became a one star celebrity. Devin filmed a pirate film and her regular TV series. Luna spent most of her time trying to patch things up between her younger brother Max and his wife. Alfred broke many dollhouses and Rilian got a kiddie pool to play in.

7. Nishidake Household, Chapter 7

It was a speedrun for this family but both Charlie and Kaori have finally reached the rock climbing skill needed to attempt to make it to the mountain summit. Clover learned to not eat trash but continued to knock the bin over for fun.

8. Woods Household, Chapter 2

The murder mystery took a backseat this time. The couple met the Moonwood Collective and Samir ranked up to a Veteran werewolf. Reece started his biology degree and hosted some meditation sessions. The pair have also discovered they are fated mates.

9. Knightstone Household, Chapter 9

It was festive season for the aliens in Chestnut Ridge. While Adam worked on his skills angling for that final promotion he managed to publish three books. Suzanna had a tough time with coworker Faye but reached a truce for the sake of their careers. She also finished a third collection, the My Sims trophy collection. Silas grew closer with fellow aliens Ruth and Tyree and showed off a Red Coral at show and tell. Pollock aged from an infant into a toddler and continued to learn.

10. Foster Household, Chapter 9

Winter ended in Sulani. Harvey managed to get promoted but didn't catch any new types of fish this time. Kayleigh sold enough paintings to become a global Superstar and was our first sim to reach the top of her career! The focus was mainly on Carson who was navigating a crush while figuring out his identity as an asexual. Clumsy flirting eventually led to him officially being Ariadne's boyfriend though.

Woah that was a lot huh? I need to rearrange my navigation for this save before rotation 11 starts but any pressing thoughts? Any bits you loved or hated? How was the new bold and colour coded dialogue? Did it make it any easier to follow when multiple people were talking? Any things you wish will or won't happen next time?

[marcmarcmomarc]

Once Upon a Lamp - list of characters

In honor of Once Upon a Studio turning one year old

EXT. THE STEVE JOBS BUILDING - EARLY EVENING

The Adventures of André and Wally B.

André

Wally B.

Luxo Jr.

Luxo Jr.

Luxo Sr.

Red’s Dream

Lumpy

Red

Tin Toy

Tinny

Gumbo

Flip ‘n Beth

Ace

Clocky

Spot

Zoo Train

Chrome Dome

Rallye Guy

Fire Hydrant

Helicopter Sheep

Toypot

Frodo

Bouncy

Eben’s Car

Les

RenderMan

Knick Knack

Knick

Sunny Miami

Sunny Florida

Sunny Egypt

Sunny Jamaica

Sunny Palm Springs

Sunny Israel

Surf Death Valley

Sunny Atlantis

Toy Story (Toys)

Woody

Buzz Lightyear

Jessie

Mr. Potato Head

Slinky Dog

Rex

Hamm

Bo Peep

Mrs. Potato Head

Bullseye

Mr. Pricklepants

Dolly

Trixie

Buttercup

Chuckles

Stinky Pete

Barbie

Ken

Lots-o-Huggin’ Bear

Big Baby

Twitch

Stretch

Chunk

Sparks

Chatter Telephone

Bookworm

Peas-in-a-Pod

Forky

Giggle McDimples

Ducky

Bunny

Duke Caboom

Gabby Gabby

The Dummies

Billy, Goat, and Gruff

Toy Story (Human side)

Andy Davis

Mrs. Davis

Molly Davis

Sid Phillips

Hannah Phillips

Bonnie Anderson

Bonnie’s Mom

Bonnie’s Dad

Buster

Scud

Geri’s Game

Geri

A Bug’s Life

Flik

Hopper

Princess Atta

Princess Dot

The Queen

Molt

Slim

Heimlich

Francis

Manny

Gypsy

Rosie

Tuck

Roll

P.T. Flea

Dim

Mr. Soil

Dr. Flora

Thorny

Cornelius

Thumper

Aphie

For the Birds

Bluebird Flock

Gawky Bird

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Commander Nebula

Mira Nova

XR

Booster

Warp Darkmatter

Gravitina

N0S-4-A2

XL

Monsters, Inc.

James P. Sullivan

Mike Wazowski

Boo

Celia Mae

Randall Boggs

Henry J. Waternoose

Johnny Worthington

Scott “Squishy” Squibbles

Don Carlton

Terri and Terry Perry

Art

Tylor Tuskman

Val Little

Fritz

Katherine “Cutter” Sterns

Duncan P. Anderson

Roz

Yeti

Jeff Fungus

Banana Bread

Roger Rogers

Suzy “Sunny” Sunshine

Finding Nemo

Marlin

Dory

Nemo

Hank

Boundin’

Jackalope

Lamb

The Incredibles

Bob Parr

Helen Parr

Violet Parr

Dashiell Parr

Jack-Jack Parr

Lucius Best

Edna Mode (E)

Buddy Pine

Winston Deavor

Evelyn Deavor

Mirage

Rick Dicker

Voyd

One Man Band

Bass

Treble

Tippy

THX

Tex

Cars

Lightning McQueen

Tow Mater

Cruz Ramirez

Lifted

Stu

Mr. B

Ratatouille

Remy

Alfredo Linguini

Chef Skinner

Colette Tatou

Django

Emile

Anton Ego

Presto

Presto DiGiotagione

Alec Azam

WALL-E

WALL-E

EVE

Captain B. McCrea

John

Mary

M-O

The Defective Robots

Hal the Cockroach

Partly Cloudy

Gus

Peck

Up

Carl Fredricksen

Russell

Dug

Charles Muntz

Alpha

Beta

Gamma

Kevin

Kevin’s Babies

Day & Night

Day

Night

La Luna

Bambino

Papà

Nonno

Brave

Merida

Elinor

Fergus

Hamish

Hupert

Harris

Fergus’ Dogs

Angus

The Witch

Maudie

Lord MacGuffin

Lord Macintosh

Lord Dingwall

Young MacGuffin

Young Macintosh

Wee Dingwall

The Witch’s Crow

Conan the Clan Dingwall Hunk

The Blue Umbrella

Blue

Red

Lava

Uka

Lele

Inside Out (Mindscape)

Joy

Sadness

Anger

Fear

Disgust

Anxiety

Envy

Ennui

Embarrassment

Nostalgia

Inside Out (Humans)

Riley Andersen

Jill Andersen

Bill Andersen

Grace Hsieh

Bree Young

Valentina Ortiz

Dani

Ally

Sofia

Nour

Coach Roberts

Sanjay’s Super Team

Sanjay

Sanjay’s Father

Hanuman

Durga

Vishnu

The Good Dinosaur

Arlo

Spot

Henry

Ida

Buck

Libby

Nash

Ramsey

Butch

Thunderclap

Downpour

Coldfront

Frostbite

Windgust

Bubbha

Lurleane

Pervis

Earl

Forrest Woodbush

Fury

Destructor

Dream Crusher

Debbie

Piper

Piper

Lou

Lou

J.J.

Coco (Land of the Living)

Miguel Rivera

Dante

Abuelita Elena Rivera

Enrique Rivera (Papá)

Luisa Rivera (Mamá)

Tío Berto Rivera

Tía Carmen Rivera

Tía Gloria Rivera

Abuelito Franco Rivera

Abel Rivera

Rosa Rivera

Socorro Rivera

Benny Rivera

Manny Rivera

Coco (Land of the Dead)

Papá Héctor Rivera

Ernesto de la Cruz

Mamá Imelda Rivera

Pepita

Mamá Coco Rivera

Papá Julio Rivera

Tía Rosita Rivera

Tía Victoria Rivera

Tío Óscar Rivera

Tío Felipe Rivera

Bao

Mom

Son

Dad

Cindy

Purl

Purl

Lacy

Office Bros.

Office Ladies

Kitbull

Kitbull

Dog

Smash and Grab

Smash

Grab

Float

Father

Son

Wind

Ellis

Ellis’ Grandma

Onward

Ian Lightfoot

Barley Lightfoot

Laurel Lightfoot

Corey

Colt Bronco

Blazey

Soul (Living World)

Joe Gardener

Libba Gardener

Dez

Curley

Dorothea Williams

Connie

Soul (The Great Before)

22

Moonwind

Terry

Counselor Jerry A

Counselor Jerry B

Loop

Renee

Marcus

Out

Greg

Jim

Manuel

Greg’s Parents

Gigi

Luca

Luca Paguro

Alberto Scorfano

Giulia Marcovaldo

Ercole Visconti

Massimo Marcovaldo

Daniela Paguro

Lorenzo Paguro

Grandma Libera Paguro

Ciccio

Guido

Machiavelli

Nona

Nona

Renee

Twenty-Something

Gia

Nicole

Turning Red

Meilin Lee

Miriam Mendelsohn

Abby Park

Priya Mangal

Tyler Nguyen-Baker

Ming Lee

Jin Lee

Grandma Wu Lee

Auntie Chen

Lily

Helen

Auntie Ping

Mr. Gao

4*Town

Lightyear

Izzy Hawthorne

Sox

Mo Morrison

Darby Steel

Commander Burnside

Alisha Hawthorne

Kiko Hawthorne

Elemental

Ember Lumen

Wade Ripple

Bernie Lumen

Cinder Lumen

Gale Cumulus

Fern Grouchwood

Clod

Brook Ripple

Harold Ripple

Alan Ripple

Lake Ripple

Eddy Ripple

Marco Ripple

Polo Ripple

Ghibli

Flarrietta

Flarry

Self

Self

Win or Lose

Coach Dan

Vanessa

Rochelle

Elio

Elio Solis

Elio’s Aunt

Ambassador Questa

Ambassador Grigon

Hoppers

Mabel

King George

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Notes

Everybody is all smiles for the group picture, from heroes to villains and everything in-between. Even characters who were otherwise sticks in the mud like Hank genuinely smile for the picture. Villains such as Muntz, de la Cruz, Lotso, Thunderclap and his gang, Syndrome, Evelyn, Randall, Waternoose, Hopper, Skinner, and Ercole, as much of evil psychopaths they were, are seen tenderly and respectfully singing along. Even Sid, who was a massive bully to Hannah, is seen giving her a kind brotherly embrace. Also, most movies’ main cast seem to be cramped together. Even the villains stand near their respective heroes, everyone in a healthy relationship with their families and loved ones are tenderly holding each other close, and many of the larger characters offer their bodies for the smaller ones.

Forky, Heimlich, Dory, Jack-Jack, Mater, WALL-E, and one of the triplets wave at the camera.

Dim and Wee Dingwall give the camera dopey smiles.

The egg-shaped bluebirds and the gawky bird stand perched above the entrance. The bluebirds are happy to have the gawky bird with them, a far cry from how they treated him in their short.

Sulley carries Boo tenderly in his arms. Helen does the same to Jack-Jack, as do Presto with Alec, Carl and Russell with Kevin’s babies, Elinor and Fergus with their triplet sons, Embarrassment with Envy, Massimo with Machiavelli, and Izzy with Sox.

Terri attempts to dance before his other half stops him.

Hank carries Marlin, Dory, and Nemo in a coffee pot.

Voyd and Abby giddily bounce in place, clearly the most excited for the photo.

Linguini carries Remy while Colette holds Django and Emile.

WALL-E and EVE hold the umbrellas from The Blue Umbrella.

HAN-S still can’t stay still, shaking aggressively as the photo is taken.

Kevin and her babies take the time to mimic Carl once again.

Maudie and the Clan Dingwall hunk share a loving look.

Young Macintosh flexes his pecs while giving the camera a cocky smile, the same type of smile given by characters like Terry, Darby, and Clod.

The Witch has her Crow standing perched on her shoulder.

Being stationary volcanoes, Uka and Lele are unable to leave their photo. Thankfully, they have Thunderclap and his gang to hold it so they can be in the group picture.

Nostalgia sticks her head out from behind Embarrassment, clearly hiding from the other emotions.

Riley, Grace, and Bree all carry Knick together while Riley’s parents carry the Miami and Florida knick knacks, Val and the Fire Hawks carry the Egypt, Jamaica, Palm Springs, Israel, and Death Valley knick knacks, and Coach Roberts carries Sunny Atlantis in her fish bowl.

Cindy, Son’s fiancée, winks at the camera as the photo is taken.

Machiavelli gives the camera his standard bored look.

Mei has her red hair, panda ears, and panda tail, continuing to embrace her panda.

Aaron Z gives the camera a thumbs up while Tae Young makes a heart with his hands.

Izzy gives Sox a neck scratch.

Alisha and Kiko’s inclusion also counts due to their backlash following the movie’s release.

[utterentropy]

Oh Chonny Jash fans of Tumblr, what is your favourite part of each of your HMSW2 designs?

I'll say mine (warning: canon-divergence ahead!!):

-Heart's droopy antlers (thank you Grimmie for convincing me to make them droopy instead of Kirin-like!!) are a BIG favourite of mine, they look so unique and the idea that they move like animal ears really really assists in having him express without visible eyes!! I also adore his bird tail, I NEVER knew how much I loved bird tails until I have him one, it practically completes his design. I've seen next to no Hearts with bird tails and that devastates me, he looks SO COOL WITH ONE!!

-For Mind, it's between his esca, which really fits with the aquatic theme and aids the idea of him producing sunlight from somewhere on his body, plus it's just so cute!! I also really really REALLY like how in my AU when he sleeps his eyes are closed upwards instead of downwards like how animals do, as demonstrated in this post!! I also have in my hero-villain crossover AU that Mind has a tail mode of code that can shapeshift based off of what the binary code on it says!! I may be a dirty Heart fictionkin (doubles DNI pls just putting it out there) but I loooooooove Mind and he's extremely close to being my favourite alongside Heart!!

-Soul's an interesting one, as he has a much more "generally human"-like design than Heart and Mind do; as, Heart and Mind are full ids while Soul became one. The iconic Trident tail is always a plus and the black and white eyes are a classic, but I think what I like the most is simply his extra limbs that he can manifest and his massive size. They're simple; but I love em!! Really makes him look menacing.

-Whole, similarly to Soul, looks mostly human, even more so as he's Soul before he lost his humanity. I think I like his constantly closed eyes the most, makes him look sweet and calm, and his classic halo + fleur de lis tail absolutely make him look holy. Actually, I just remember as I was typing this a REALLY cool design choice that Grimm and I made where Whole is specifically always drawn simply, in a cutesy artstyle, whilst Soul was always drawn detailed as a way to show the contrast between what life was like between the two!! The canon-divergence of this AU is really showing, heh.

-And finally, Soul Two! Yep, a joke character is canon, but only to a select few of the AUs. All of the critters have cheek markings based around the celestial body they represent; Heart has crescent moons, Mind has suns, Soul has a four-pointed star/a rising sun (depends on which author draws him), and Soul Two, whom represents astroid belts, basically just has freckles!! He also parallels HMS's animal-theming; Heart being flying animals, Mind being aquatic animals, and Soul being land animals, Soul Two is colony animals!! Which is why he's so bug-like, and makes sense why in the Main AU/Separation AU (both the "base" AUs) Soul, whom retains Soul Two's attributes as Soul Two never actually ended up splitting off from him, is cat-like, as cats are colony animals!!

-As a bonus, Heart's cat looks perpetually traumatised due to his wide eyes and eyebrow-like markings and that's still the best design I've ever come up with for a cat lol.

Over seventy-five-percent of these are things Grimmie thought of, I'm totally not obsessed no never I hate them they suck. Feel free to reply, reblog, or even just put in the tags the ones you like for yours!! I can't wait to see em. :)

[frozen-snowflakesandsunflowers]

Disney 100 ✨🏰🤍

Wishing you all a happy new year and to Disney, a belated 100th anniversary! 🎉

To celebrate Disney’s century milestone, I created an illustration based on 100 of Disney’s most known and loved characters from their respective movies/ series. I’ve included all the ones I’ve known and feel are generally popular but I’m sorry if your personal favourites aren’t here.

This has been in the works for almost four months now but due to many delays I couldn’t finish it on time. So here it finally is!

Out of all these range characters, the hardest to draw was the Cars. I’m not used to drawing cars so I’m not generally good at them (yet). Some of these may look simple and easy to draw but trust me, they’re not 😂.

With drawing the characters and the background, I like to be accurate with the respective style it’s drawn/ animated in and the colours too. But also I wanted to also simplify the 3D ones and add a little depth using shadow to the 2D ones. For example some of these films would have a desaturated grainy effect to it and I wanted to keep that. But finally after months of working on it, it’s completed and I’m happy with it! ✨.

Please, please do check it out on Instagram too:

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All the 100 characters featured in this piece are listed below:

1927: Trolley Troubles / Oswald The Lucky Rabbit (2022): Oswald

1937: Snow White: Snow White and the Evil Queen

1941: Dumbo: Dumbo and Timothy Q. Mouse

1942: Bambi: Thumper and Bambi

1943: Private Pluto: Chip and Dale

1944: The Lion King: (Child) Simba

1949: Pinocchio: Pinocchio

1950: Cinderella: Cinderella

1951: Alice In Wonderland: Alice, Cheshire cat and Mad Hatter

1953: Peter Pan: Peter Pan and Tinker Bell

1959: Sleeping Beauty: Aurora and Maleficent

1963: The Sword in the Stone: Arthur Pendragon

1964: Mary Poppins: Mary Poppins

1967: 101 Dalmatians: Cruella De Vil and Patch | Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo

1970: Aristocats: Toulouse, Marie and Berlioz

1973: Robin Hood: Robin Hood

1977: The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh: Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin

1989: The Little Mermaid: Ariel, Flounder, Sebastian and Ursula

1991: Beauty And The Beast: Belle

1992: Aladdin: Aladdin, Jasmine and the Genie

1993: Steamboat Willie/ Mickey Mouse Series: Mickey & Minnie Mouse | Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas: Jack Skellingtion

1995: Lady and the Tramp: Lady & Tramp | Toy Story: Woody and Buzz Light-year | Pocahontas: Pocahontas

1997: Hercules: Hercules & Megara

1998: Mulan: Mulan | A Bug's Life: Flik

2000: The Emperor's New Groove: Kuzco

2001: Monsters Inc: Sulley, Mike and Mary Gibbs aka Boo

2002: Lilo & Stitch: Lilo and Stitch

2003: Finding Nemo: Nemo and Dory

2004: The Incredibles - Helen Parr aka Elastic girl, Robert (Rob) Parr aka Mr. Incredible, Jack-Jack Parr and Edna Mode

2006: Cars: Lighting McQueen and Tow Mater

2007: Enchanted: Giselle Phillip

2008: WALL - E: Wall-E & Eve | Phineas and Ferb: Phineas Flynn and Ferb Fletcher

2009: The Princess and the Frog: Tiana | UP: Carl Fredricksen and Dug

2010: Tangled: Rapunzel & Flynn Ryder aka Eugene Fitzherbert and Pascal

2012: BRAVE: Merida | Wreck-It Ralph: Wreck-It Ralph and Vanellope Von Schweetz

2013: Frozen: Elsa, Anna and Olaf

2014: Big Hero Six: Baymax

2015: Inside Out: Joy and Sadness

2016: Moana: Moana | Zootopia (2016): Nick Wilde & Judith (Judy) Laverne Hopps

2017: COCO: Miguel Rivera

2020: Soul: Joe and 22

2021: Luca: Luca | Encanto: Mirabel and Isabella Mardigal | Raya And The Last Dragon: Raya

2022: Red Panda: Mei Lee aka the Red Panda

2023: Elemental: Ember Lumen & Wade Ripple | Wish: Asha and Star

[cocoaberrycake]

You want to know what I discovered on today's warframe shenanigans? I feel every tenno should know this.

Listen.

If you take Excalibur Umbra to the Circuit and change into the Drifter, Excalibur stays on the field and MOVES ON ITS OWN, HELPING YOU IN BATTLE. How cool is that? It's basically like having a companion in the Duviri circuit. (Being in solo mode might have something to do with triggering this.)

No other warframe does this, or at least I haven't been able to replicate it (they just disappear whenever the Drifter is on the field).

I don't have a screenshot so you'll have to take my word for it. If I get to repeat the steps in my next session, I'll take a picture for you to see.

(and if for whatever reason this happens to be a bug, please don't fix it DE, it's really cool and it actually helps us weak solo players to finish our runs...)

[revacholianpizzaagenda]

Hey, do you know if there's a record somewhere of which version of DE doesn't have the weird little tweaks ZAUM has been adding for the past few months? I got a friend to play it a while back and it kept having little things off, like Fortress Occident becoming Fortress Accident. You seemed like the best person to ask.

Fortress Accident has always been Fortress Accident in-game - Fortress Occident was always only the early RL name of ZA/UM studio, the one they announced No Truce With The Furies with! Afaik the only post-ousting addition was collage mode (the Jamais Vu scenes were released post ousting but they have Hindpere's name on them so the writing predates it). What other things were off? I think you can cross reference anything on fayde which hasn't been updated since Morgue added the translations. I'm not aware of any text changes in the game itself, just a couple new languages, bug fixes, new bugs, fixing the new bugs, introducing some more...

Anyway I've never gone looking for older builds but if anyone here has a link...!

[equipe]

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Afin d'éviter toute confusion possible avec la fonction Communautés (la page en français arrive !), les Labels communautaires ont été renommés en Classificateurs de contenu. De plus, les Règles communautaires s'intitulent maintenant Règles d'utilisation (et seront bientôt consultables en français).

La catégorie "Communautés" proposées dans notre formulaire de contact a été réassignée à la fonction Communautés. N'hésitez pas à la sélectionner pour toute question, tout commentaire, doute ou signalement de bug à ce sujet.

Les invitations à rejoindre des communautés sont désormais aussi envoyées via les notifications Push de l'application. Ainsi, lorsqu'un utilisateur disposant de l'appli à jour et ayant activé les notifications est invité dans une communauté, il reçoit l'invitation par notification plutôt que par un message direct de Tumblrbot.

L'option "Sa piste audio est lue automatiquement." a été ajoutée aux raisons possibles de signalement d'une publicité.

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Lors de la consultation d'un blog sur le réseau de blogs (ex. : equipe.tumblr.com), il est de nouveau possible de naviguer entre les images d'un diaporama visionné en mode lightbox (image en plein écran).

Durant un court laps de temps ce lundi 24 juin, les billets programmés ou placés en file d'attente n'étaient pas publiés. Ce bug a été rapidement corrigé et toutes les publications en retard ont bien été mises en ligne. Si malheureusement ce n'est toujours pas le cas, nous vous invitons à vérifier vos brouillons.

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Gaming Thoughts - September 2023 - Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth

I've had this game on my backlog for a good while for the Switch version and decided to finally load it up. I've always been into Digimon for just as long of a time as I've been into Pokemon. But I always gone back and forth on which of the two I like more, but I do tend to prefer several of the Digimon designs more than pokemon designs at times personally as well.

Either way, being that the only other Digimon RPG that I've played before was Dusk. I have to admit that going into this felt very familiar in how some of the systems worked as well so I had no issues acclimating to the game at all. Though the Switch version does have one small 'flaw' to it that can be more seen as a feature instead of a bug if you're busy like I am. That being that the Digi-Farm still runs while the switch is in sleep mode apparently.

Obviously in doing that it does make the game a bit too easy if one was seeking a challenge since the Digi-Farm allows your 'mons to level up over time, but at this point in time for me, I didn't care at all. But the general way the turn-based battle system is done along with the digivolution and de-digivolution trees are set up for being able to get other digimon into your 'dex' I do find myself enjoying it a lot more than the recent pokemon games. (Seriously, just going up and down the trees to get certain skills feels a lot more rewarding compared to trying to breed and hope you get lucky to pass certain moves around.) And the scan feature more rewards encounters as well for being able to get mon's instead of just 'hope you're lucky'

Though just being able to turn off rando encounters or just force into one on the fly without a lot of menu surfing or taking up inventory/moveslot space is also a plus too.

But honestly, I feel like the story for this game and the characters is where it really shines. I've not finished the game so far, and only at Chapter 17 presently, but honestly a lot of the NPCs are just likable in the main story, esp Nokia during one of her major scenes. And honestly I have to admit that I really like Arata as a character as well.

Though god Kyoko is making me VERY suspicious of her now with her...crazy coffee.

Anyways, as for this piece, when I started the game, I had picked Hagarumon as being my starting Digimon in the game out of the options that I was given, and well, I knew immediately before starting the game that Machinedramon was one of the mon's that I aimed to get as part of my primary team. (Hence the one that is shown in the background) And thus it was only natural to draw them with the main protagonist of the game as well. (Currently the main ones that I've been using on my team besides Machinedramon are also Imperialdramon Dragon Mode, MetalSeadramon, and Omnimon Zwart)

And honestly, the protag is not quite a silent protag even though it seems like it at times. besides having dialogue options to give to the NPC while speaking, there are rare points that even the protag themselves have lines of dialogue too. Which does make them more like their own character.

Either way, very enjoyable game, moreso if you always enjoyed the franchise too. Though I have every intention of also starting up Hacker's Memory at some point in the future too after finishing this game as well.

[theclairvoyage]

Chapter 3: Flor de Caña

Series Masterlist | Main Masterlist

Pairing: Javier Peña x AUSA!f!reader

Fresh off acing his marksmanship test, Javi returns to The Dark Horseman, where he gets to know an alluring attorney.

Chapter warnings: alcohol consumption, smoking, firearm use, adult language, mentions of violence, mentions of human trafficking, mentions of drugs, mentions of graphic violence, mentions of substance abuse and death, allusions to smut, crime scene investigation, murder, reader is able-bodied, has long hair and is roughly the same height as Javi, Spanish usage (translations at the end)

WC: 4k

Fall 1992

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Javier shoves his Glock 19 in his waistband, sweat droplets rolling from his forehead and audibly landing on the cold cement floor of the outdoor shooting range at the Federal Building.  Penn stands behind him, stopwatch looped around his wrist, clipboard clutched to his chest, occasionally pulling it in front of him to jot down scores.

“Alright, Peña—last stage,” he barks, “2 shots standing and 3 kneeling, all behind cover and all from 25 yards.  You’ll do that twice.  Questions?”

Javi spits as he shakes his head, some stray dirt, bugs, and sweat having accumulated in his mouth during the first 7 stages.  He wipes his brow one last time, loads the Glock, and gets ready for Penn to give him the go-ahead.

“And… go!” Penn yells.  Javi goes into action mode, standing behind the wall prop and peeking out to shoot the target.  Bang.  Bang.

He drops to his knee and aims, firing three more times.  Bang.  Bang.  Bang.  Rinse and repeat.

He stands, signaling that he’s done.  Penn clicks the stopwatch and tallies Javier’s score on the clipboard.  He whistles.

“Congrats, Peña—you passed, and with an instructor certification score of 56/60.  You’ll be able to teach this stuff once you’re fully certified as a special agent,” Penn says, clapping Javi on the back.  Javi snorts.

“Thanks, Penn.  Shooting in the jungle makes everything else seem so easy,” he murmurs.  Penn guffaws.

“Now we can finally set up this stakeout in Lawton,” he says, cheesy grin plastered on his wrinkled face.  Javier is elated—he had been looking forward to being out in the field again and partaking in the action.  Stakeouts were his bread and butter—he spent countless hours posted up in an unmarked vehicle or building surveilling and directing moves in Colombia.  It felt good to finally be able to put his skills to use.

“What’s the preliminary plan?  And site?” Javier asks, unloading the chamber of his warm gun.

“There’s an International Festival next week that spans 3 days.  It’ll be packed.  People from all over Oklahoma and the country attend.  Our surveillance team has gotten confirmation that the Locos will be there, most likely looking for falcons and setting up transactions,” Penn says.  Javier nods.

“So, are we planning on posing as employees?  Police?” Javi guesses as Penn leads them back into the building.

“Specifics are still in the works, though I like your thinking.  We’ll work with OKCPD and LPD to figure out the best plan,” Penn says, impressed.  Javi fights the urge to roll his eyes—he might’ve been an FBI rookie, but he’d had years of experience as a federal agent under his belt.  He decides to give Penn the benefit of the doubt—the man is corny, but he’s at least giving feedback.

“US Attorney’s Office gonna be assisting?” Javi asks nonchalantly, already knowing Penn will have something curt to say.  Sure enough, Penn winks at Javi.

“Miss her already, eh?” Javi rolls his eyes so hard it hurts.  Penn chuckles.  “Just givin’ ya shit.  Yes, the Assistant US Attorney will be helping.  Might even be part of the surveillance team.”

Javi’s eyes widen.  “S’not a good idea for her to be in plainclothes.  People probably know who she is and that might set off some alarms,” he reminds Penn.

“You are correct,” Penn agrees, “But she doesn’t usually go out in plainclothes.  She’ll be watching and listening elsewhere.”

Quietly, Javi breathes a sigh of relief.  He’s already protective of you—something new for him.  Penn, like clockwork, interrupts his thoughts.

“Peña—you’ve got one test left before you’ll be a fully certified Special Agent.  Your Supervisory Special Agent training will take place after that,” he beams, clapping a hand on Javi’s shoulder.  Javi shakes his head, smirking.

“I’ve had some practice, Penn—should’ve been certified sooner,” he bemoans.  He’s always been tough on himself, reflective of how he was raised.  Penn scoffs.

“You’re doing great.  We really are lucky to have you—the DEA screwed up real bad,” he chuckles.  Javi snorts.

“Take the rest of the day—we’ll figure out a plan with the Assistant Director, US Attorney’s Office, and the PD Teams soon.  Nice work.”  Javi gives Penn a single nod before leaving for the day.

Javi awakens in the hours post dinnertime that evening.

“Fuck,” he groans.  He doesn’t nap for this reason.  He glances at his watch, digging into his wrist from his slumber.  It’s not too late, but late enough for a drink.

He’d lied down when he got back from work, exhausted from the marksmanship test, and relished the comfort of his new sectional.  His apartment was finally starting to resemble a residence, and not a bachelor pad.  Unfortunately for him, though, the couch might’ve been a little too comfortable.  It was a stark contrast from his stone slab of a mattress.

Throwing on some jeans and a loose button-up linen shirt, he makes the trek to the Horseman.  The creaky door opens the same way it always does, and the jukebox is playing the same slow song, but there’s something different—you.

You’re perched in the same chair you were last time he saw you here, though you’re wearing shorts and a baggy tee.  He glances at your long, smooth legs and swallows hard—he’s starting to think that perhaps every part of you is perfect.  You turn and watch him saunter over to the bar, smirking.  Javi can’t help the smirk that follows on his own face.

He pulls back the chair next to you and gestures.  “Is this seat taken?” he says, voice still raspy from his nap.  You notice, cocking an eyebrow at him, smirk still contouring your cheeks.

“It is now,” you reply smoothly.  Javi’s stomach does some somersaults as he pulls up next to you, realizing this is the first time you two have been in such proximity.  He takes a deep breath as the bartender pours him his usual, taking your scent with him.  He fights the urge to groan.

“You look tired,” you say, eyeing him as he takes the first sip of his whiskey.  His hair is slightly mussed, button up shirt undone at the top, revealing a strong, tanned chest.  His sleeves are short, too, showing off ropy forearms.  Your thighs contract instinctively.

“Made the mistake of taking a nap,” he replies, smoothing a hand through his hair.  It’s like he heard your thoughts.

“Another rookie mistake,” you quip, bringing your glass to your lips.  He bursts out laughing, uncovering a brilliant smile that you had failed to notice.

“You’re funny, Lawyer Lady,” he says, staring at you as you take a sip.  His gaze spans your face, making frequent stops at your lips and eyes.  He’s not even trying to hide his attraction, now.  You giggle and shake your head, not meeting his eyes—you can feel them pierce your skin.

“Seems like you got it all.  Brains, looks, charm.  Must be nice,” he says, nudging your side lightly with his elbow.

“I should charge just for my presence, yeah?” you joke, pulling another belly laugh from him.

“Well, if law doesn’t work out, you have a few options,” he replies.  It’s his turn to take a sip now, and you watch as his lips groove over the rim of the glass, mustache hairs swaying from the air escaping his nostrils as he tips back.  That fucking mustache did things to you, made you squirm inside.  You wanted to feel it scratch the skin on your lips, your—

“Why do I feel like you’re hitting on me, Javi?” you croon, a lame attempt to silence your dirty thoughts.  He stiffens, nerves alight—usually, he’s on point with the charm when it comes to women.  You, though?  Different ballgame.  You sniffed him out from the jump.  He figures up a witty remark before the awkward silence settles.

“What, no one’s ever told you that you’re smart and beautiful?  I’m the first?” You’re caught off guard by his humor, and another loud laugh escapes your lips.  You roll your eyes and shake your head.

“You’re not too bad yourself, Peña,” you say, finishing your drink with a quick swig.  He shivers at your compliment.  The bartender comes over and raises his brows at you, silently asking if you’d like another.

“Yeah, I’m good for more.  Late start tomorrow,” you say, shrugging your shoulders.

Pulse thrumming, Javi leans back in the chair as he thinks of something to say.  He wants to know you but doesn’t want to push too fast.

“You live close to here?  Or you just took to this particular hole in the wall?” Javi asks, spinning the chair to face you.  You watch the bartender pour you another glass before doing the same, crossing one leg over the other and leaning back.  He tries not to glance down at your legs.

“Both,” you reply, taking a sip.  Javi nods.  His gaze is hot on your face.  He’s entranced by your eyes, but damn, his are just as magnetizing.  He realizes he still doesn’t know the mysterious brown liquid you’re drinking.

“Whiskey drinker?  You are from the Midwest,” he asks, reaching for a toothpick from the bar station.  He maneuvers it around his mouth, tip rustling the bristles of his mustache, drawing your eyes there.  He turns to look at you again, and you tear your gaze from his lips.

“Hell no.  Rum.  My dad was the whiskey drinker.  Couldn’t put that bottle down,” you say, voice dropping in volume slightly.  Javier assumes he’s dead, by your change in tone and expression.

“Sorry to hear that.  My dad loved the bottle, too,” he says, tilting his head at you involuntarily.  You lock eyes with him for a moment, and he sees pain.  Pain that you’ve gotten adept at stuffing behind the many boxes within your brain.  Your lips pull into a smile, but your eyes don’t change.

“It’s a hard thing to quit,” you say, nodding slowly and looking away from Javi.  He can tell this is a sore spot for you—your demeanor has morphed from playful to solemn, though you still seem happy.  Instinctively, he reaches out and touches your forearm, sending shocks up to your shoulder.

“I know exactly what you mean, hermosa,” he says, not fighting the compulsion this time.  You are beautiful, after all.  He removes his hand after a beat, the warmth from his fingertips lingering on your skin.  You crack a big smile, and your eyes finally match.

“Anyway.  I see you discovered that I’m not married,” you say, lips twitching into a smirk.  Redness blooms on his neck and ears as he recalls looking at your left hand in the conference room the other day.

“Sorry—instinct,” he says, half-truthfully.

“Yeah?  Been with a lot of married women?” you poke.  He loves how playful you are, sparring with him like one of the boys.  There’s a childlike curiosity to you that fascinates him.  He chuckles, turning away to take a sip.

“I won’t lie to you, I have,” he says matter-of-factly.  “Not my finest moment.”  Now, it’s your turn to put a hand on his forearm.  He freezes at your touch.

“It’s okay—I was partly joking.  Not judging you,” you say.  He turns to look at you, deep amber eyes smoldering.  It catches you off guard and scares you—he could make you do anything if he looks at you like that.  Your heart threatens to escape your ribcage.  You swallow, tucking the nerves away, and speak again.

“I did some reading up on you, Javi.  You’re highly regarded in the DEA world,” you say, removing your hand from his arm and propping your head on your hand as you study him.  He shrugs, lips moving to one side of his face.

“It was a hard gig, chasing Escobar.  I’m glad I’m here, though,” he says, staring in your eyes.  It’s quiet for a moment, except the sparks flying between the two of you, hot and molten.

“Me, too.  We’re lucky to have you,” you say, finally breaking eye contact to take another sip.  His eyes travel down to your crossed legs, to your worn sandals, back up to your face.  He can’t get over how gorgeous you are—and he’s never had to hold back with a woman like this.  Taking a deep breath and another sip of whiskey, he studies at the bottles behind the bar momentarily.

“So—you drinking Captain?” he asks, head bobbing as he searches for all the rum bottles on display.

“I honestly don’t know—I think tonight is Flor de Caña,” you say in perfect Spanish.  Javi’s not surprised but impressed.

“¿Hablas español, hermosa?” Javi tests you, eyes crinkling from the big smile he’s sporting.

“Sí, empecé a aprender cuando era joven,” you reply, not missing a beat.  He shakes his head as he turns away, still grinning.

He was fucked.

“You try a new one every night, then?” he asks.  You nod.

“Yeah, if I can.  Makes things interesting,” you reply, swishing the brown liquid around the glass as you try to count off how many bottles you’ve tried behind the bar.  You’re not sure—this quiet tavern does a surprisingly good job of rotating liquors at a decent pace.

Feeling a whiskey-powered surge of bravado, Javi takes a risk and asks a personal question.

“So, Lawyer Lady—you ever been married before?” he asks, turning to watch your reaction.  You mirror him and cock an eyebrow, pursing your lips in amusement.

“Nope.  What about you?  I’m sure women fall over for you,” you ask, matching his courage.  Your brand of it is sexier, though, he thinks.  He snorts, a lame attempt to disguise his giddiness from yet another compliment from you.

“No, hermosa—never had the time nor the desire,” he replies.  You nod slowly, breaking eye contact and staring down at your glass.  He can’t tell if you’re surprised, bummed, or just thinking.

“Me neither.  Odds of anything lasting are too low for my liking,” you say, finishing your glass.  He chuckles.

“So, you’re a math nerd, too?” Javi teases, poking your ribs again with his elbow.  You shake your head and laugh, some loose hair falling from your shoulders to your arm.  Instinctively, Javi pulls them from your skin, the feeling of you electrifying his fingertips.  His touch burns your skin.  Your breath hitches ever so slightly, but he notices.

“Sorry, it’s j—,” he starts, before you cut him off.

“Instinct?  I figured.  It’s okay,” you tease him, punctuating the word playfully.  His fingertips rest on your forearm as he stares at you, still blazing, his gaze sweeping down to your lips.  The rum has you feeling quite brave, too, and you test the waters with a question of your own.

“And what’s behind the way you keep staring at my lips?  Instinct, too?”

Javi’s heart bangs against his chest, eyes widening briefly in surprise before he feels the blood in his limbs rush to a different appendage.  Fuck it, he thinks.  He feels good about this.

“That, or I just really wanna kiss you.” His eyebrow cocks as he half-smirks at you, leaning closer to you ever so slightly.  At this point, he’d normally be balls deep in whatever poor lass approached him at the bar, clothes piled on the floor and tongues tangled, but he wants to savor this—it’s almost foreplay, the way you two tease and tango.  He struggles to keep his erection tame in his jeans.

You giggle quietly, almost mischievously, fantasizing of you perched on your kitchen countertop, legs wrapped around Javi as he fucks you slow and hard.  You can almost hear his pants and groans in your ear, breath caressing your skin as his lips and teeth mark your neck.  You shiver.

“What’s funny, hermosa?” He asks, tantalized, similar images projecting in his head.  He needs to leave soon, before he busts out of these jeans.

“Oh, nothing at all—truly,” you say with a sly smile, taking some cash out of your purse and dropping it next to your empty glass.  You stand from the chair and stretch absentmindedly, the hem of your shirt lifting to reveal the bottom half of your navel and smooth hipbones loosely draped in denim.  Javi’s eyes immediately lock on, and he takes a deep breath, trying to stifle the growl in his chest.  He takes another sip, aggressively.

“¿De qué piensas?” he asks, still watching as your arms come back down, shirt hem slowly covering your exposed skin.  You groan as you finish releasing the tension in your back and shoulders.  Fuck, he does like every sound you make.

“About how not ready I am for this recon mission coming up,” you lie, folding those pornographic images and other feelings about Javi you’re not ready to acknowledge in the pit of your mind.

“Piece of cake.  Trust me.  Can I walk you out?” he says, fishing bills out of his wallet and standing to join you.  He despises the thought of you walking alone in the dark, even if you’re well-acquainted with the area.  You nod, smiling softly at him.

You wave at the bartender and head for the exit as Javi follows, his warm hand finding home on the small of your back as he guides and opens the door for you.  You feel safe around him, which simultaneously alarms and arouses you.

The outside air greets you, quiet gusts nipping at your skin.  You instinctively wrap your hands around your arms and rub the goosebump-ridden flesh.  Javi curls his hand around your waist and pulls you closer, hoping to share some of the warmth from his body with you.  You relax into him as you walk toward the parking lot.

An eternity seems to pass as both of you trek toward your car, quiet steps in perfect synchrony.  The streetlights paint both of you in a flickering melon-amber glow.  You feel almost ethereal in his grasp, and he, too, as he holds you so closely to him.  His grip on your waist is soft, but his arm is firm around your back, a silent promise of protection.  This is not how either of you expected your day to culminate, but it’s a welcome surprise.  Oddly enough, it doesn’t feel foreign.

Your unique scent invades his nostrils, fucking with his head—he’s so giddy and nervous from being around you, but touching and smelling you makes his dick grow harder and harder as you get closer to your car.

“This is me,” you say, nodding toward a beat-up sedan.  Javi whistles.

“This is what they got you driving?  C’mon, LL—you need something fancier,” he jokes, lightly squeezing your waist.  Rolling your eyes, you laugh and pull your keys out of your purse, facing away from him.

“It’s inconspicuous—it’s not my car, either,” you say, winking playfully at Javi.  He swallows hard.  You turn to look at him and study his face.

The earth stills for a moment as both of you ponder how to say goodbye.  Javi wasn’t kidding earlier about wanting to kiss you, needing to feel your plush lips and your body pressed against his.  You’d be lying if you said you didn’t want the same.  All you’d need to do is lean in a bit and close your eyes.  Javi’s gaze draws a triangle from your eyes to your lips, fingertips lightly digging into your side.

A loud gale interrupts your thoughts, your hair flying into your vision.  Javi, acting on instinct once again, reaches to smooth the strands from your face.  You blink at him.  His hand hooks under your jaw, thumb swiping the soft skin of your face.  Your legs tremble ever so slightly.

“I’ll see you around, hermosa,” he breathes, leaning in.  You close your eyes and expect his lips to meet yours, but they don’t—they brush your cheek in a soft, soft kiss.  It’s delicate, sweet—and irritating.  You wanted more.

“Bye, Javi,” you murmur, surprisingly frustrated.  You turn away and try to leave his grasp, but he holds you firm at the waist.

“Hey,” he says, urging your attention, “You okay?”

You blink a couple times as you stare back at him, heat pooling in your cheeks.  He sees the frustration on your face.  You’d somewhat melted in his touch and peeled back some layers, showing him more emotion than you’d preferred—now, it’s made you feel like an idiot.

“Yes, of course… why wouldn’t I be?” you breathe, realizing now that you’re panting.  Javi is, too—holding back like this is a skill he’s not practiced often.  He still has a hand on your cheek, the other on your waist.  Puppy dog eyes stare back at you, hypnotizing you into tranquility.

“I normally don’t… don’t do this kinda stuff,” Javi says, looking down at the ground briefly.

“Do what?  Meet up with somewhat strangers at weird taverns and discuss alcoholic fathers?” you quip, grinning.  There, you are.  Javi chuckles.

“Only beautiful ones,” he adds, expression softening. Your smile fades and cheeks burn at his compliment.

“Something tells me that you’re good at getting people to do what you want,” you admit, mesmerized by his gaze.

“Yeah?  Are you included in that?” he asks quietly, pensive brown eyes glued to yours.  He’s not looking at your lips, now—he wants to see you.  You laugh breathily and shrug.

“You’ll have to present solid evidence to convince me to do anything,” you tease.  He chuckles again.

“So… can I convince you to go out into the field with me in Lawton?” he postulates, raising an eyebrow at you.  Your eyes widen in disbelief.

“Absolutely not—no matter how good you are,” you say, chuckling incredulously.

Suddenly, Javi pulls you into a warm embrace, arms looped under yours and barred across your back.  You sigh heavily, wrap your arms around his broad shoulders, and sink into him once again, now taking in his scent.  Cedarwood, musk, aftershave, whiskey, and faint cigarette smoke—complex, yet telling.  A man in pain, struggling to find purpose.  Your heart sinks at the thought of him drinking his own life away.  Javi pulls away slightly after a beat and you feel his breath—and smirk—on your earlobe.

“You have no idea how good I am, hermosa,” he whispers.  You freeze momentarily and stifle a whimper at the thought of what his mouth and that mustache can do.  You unwrap from each other, and he holds your hand for a moment before kissing the back of it softly.

“Bye, Rookie,” you breathe, smiling.  A similar one cracks on his face.

“Adios, hermosa.”  You watch him turn and walk the opposite direction, hand pulling a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.

"Hey!" you call.  He turns to face you, now walking backwards toward his apartment.  He cocks his head at you and grins as he takes a drag.

“Stuff’s gonna kill you,” you scold him playfully.  He shakes his head, smiling as he pulls the cigarette from his lips and exhales a trail of smoke from the side of his mouth.

"S'not the only thing."

Javi walks home with a pep in his step.

Your scent lingers on his shirt, in his nostrils.  Sweet, spicy, alluring.

Pictures of your face plaster the walls of his mind.  Your beautiful eyes, your wit.  Your boisterous laugh.

He wants to hear all your sounds, to see all your emotions spilling out of those captivating eyes.  He wants to feel your breath quicken as he brings you to ecstasy and feel it slow as you fall asleep next to him.

And as he finally drifts off to sleep, he dreams of your skin on his, your laughter, and a field of flores.

¿Hablas español, hermosa = do you speak Spanish, beautiful?

Sí, empecé a aprender cuando era joven = Yes, I began learning when I was young.

Flor de Caña = Cane Flower

¿De qué piensas? = What are you thinking about?

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HENFORD HIDERS FOR PREHISTORIC SAVES - MOD | HENFORD HIDERS PARA SAVES PRÉ-HISTÓRICOS

WHAT DOES THIS MOD DO? | O QUE ESSE MOD FAZ?

This mod is similar to timeless and Henford Hiders and hides objects scattered around the world of Henford-on-Bagley that don't match the prehistoric era. Most of these objects are in Debug, but there are also some in buy mode. This mod does not delete objects. It just hides them from the player's view.

Este mod é semelhante ao timeless e Henford Hiders e esconde objetos espalhados pelo mundo de Avelândia do Norte que não combinam com a época pré-histórica. A maioria desses objetos está no Debug, mas também tem alguns do modo de compra. Este mod não deleta os objetos. Apenas os esconde da visão do jogador.

BUGS | ERROS

This mod isn't perfect (but it helps with screenshots). There are still objects that aren't hidden like stairs, gnomes, bathrooms, barbecues and so on. I believe this is because many are from other packs or base game. I'm working on the Base Game version of Hiders too. But for now, for full immersion I advise you to use mod tool 2.6.6 to cover this objects with rocks. There is no way to modify the structure of the neighborhoods, changing the streets, for example. I think Twisted Mexi is trying that with Create a World. Some objects were also not well worked on in the world by EA, like the hole that appears in the ground when the gazebo is removed.

Este mod não é perfeito (mas ajuda nas capturas de tela). Ainda há objetos que não ficam escondidos como escadas, gnomos, banheiros, churrasqueiras e etc. Acredito que isso aconteça porque muitos são de outros pacotes ou jogo base. Eu estou trabalhando na versão do Hiders para Jogo Base também. Mas, por enquanto, para uma total imersão aconselho a usar o mod tool 2.6.6 para cobrir este item com pedras. Não há como modificar a estrutura das vizinhanças, mudando as ruas, por exemplo. Creio que o Twisted Mexi está tentando isso com o Create a World. Alguns objetos também não foram bem trabalhados no mundo pela EA, como o buraco que aparece no chão quando se tira o coreto.

HOW IS THIS MOD MADE? | COMO ESTE MOD É FEITO?

I used the Simplified Modding tutorial, but I also had to go further because some objects weren't hidden just by following the instructions. I used the Sims 4 Studio program and reset the values ​​of "Footprint", "Rig" and "Model" in "Object Definition" of each package. Basically everywhere there was a number, I changed the values ​​to "000000...". According to the author of the tutorial, this just hides the objects, not taking away their lighting and sound.

Eu utilizei o tutorial do Simplified Modding, mas também tive que ir além porque alguns objetos não ficaram escondidos apenas seguindo as instruções. Usei o programa Sims 4 Studio e zerei os valores de "Footprint", "Rig" e "Model" em "Object Defintion" de cada package. Basicamente em todos os lugares onde havia uma numeração, eu mudei os valores para "000000...". Segundo o autor do tutorial, isto apenas esconde os objetos, não tirando sua iluminação e som.

FUTURE UPDATES AND SIMILAR MODS | FUTURAS ATUALIZAÇÕES E MODS SEMELHANTES

Within Sims 4 Studio, some objects appear invisible. I tried to open some of them and found files of food plates and other interesting things. It is possible that I will try to improve this mod in the future, but frankly opening each of these objects takes a lot of work and I already don't have the time and resources (the notebook is old and slow) to do what I set out to do. I still intend to make versions for the Base Game (20% completed), Sulani, Moonwood Mill and other worlds that I find interesting.

Dentro do Sims 4 Studio, alguns objetos aparecem invisíveis. Eu tentei abrir alguns deles e achei arquivos de pratos de comida e outras coisas interessantes. É possível que eu tente melhorar este mod no futuro, mas francamente abrir cada um destes objetos dá um bocado de trabalho e eu já estou sem tempo e recursos (o notebook está velho e lento) para fazer o que me propuz. Eu ainda pretendo fazer as versões para o Jogo Base (20% concluído), Sulani, Moonwood Mill e outros mundos que achar interessante.

I tried to delete the little houses from the views, but my photoshop knowledge is still limited :(

Who knows, maybe one day I'll be able to...

Eu tentei apagar as casinhas das vistas, mas meus conhecimentos de photoshop ainda são limitados :(

Quem sabe algum dia...

HOW TO DOWNLOAD AND USE | COMO BAIXAR E UTILIZAR

If you download this file DO NOT USE the Henford Hiders mod from Simplified modding. I don't think it will conflict, but you will be using memory space in your mods folder. There is no need to have two identical files.

Se você fizer o download deste arquivo, NÃO UTILIZE o mod Henford Hiders de Simplified modding. Eu não acredito que irá dar conflito, mas você estará usando espaço de memória na sua pasta de mods. Não há necessidade de ter dois arquivos iguais.

There are two files to download below. USE ONLY ONE VERSION. Unzip and place in your mods folder.

Há dois arquivos para baixar abaixo. UTILIZE APENAS UMA VERSÃO. Descompacte e coloque em sua pasta de mods.

HENFORD HIDERS - PREHISTORIC SAVES

This version is for those who just want to use the mod and don't intend to modify it. It has only 1.57 MB on disk, 404 package files and 12 folders.

Esta versão é para quem quer apenas usar o mod e não pretende modificá-lo. Tem apenas 1,57 MB em disco, 404 arquivos package e 12 pastas.

HENFORD HIDERS - PREHISTORIC SAVES - FOR MODDERS

This version is for Modders. If you want to see the file and know which objects I've hidden, download this version. The difference is that it comes with an image named as the package. If you don't agree with something I've hidden, just delete the package file and the object will reappear in your world. I recommend that you delete the images afterwards because the images increase the size of your folder to 7.16 MB and 808 files.

Esta versão é para Criadores. Se você quer ver o arquivo e saber quais objetos eu escondi, baixe está versão. A diferença é que vem uma imagem junto nomeada como o package. Se você não concordar com algo que eu escondi, apenas delete o arquivo package e o objeto voltará a aparecer em seu mundo. Recomendo que apague as imagens depois porque as imagens aumentam o tamanho da sua pasta para 7,16 MB e 808 packages.

DOWNLOAD - only one - apenas um

Henford Hiders - Prehistoric Saves

Henford Hiders - Prehistoric Saves - for Modders

If you find any errors, please report them via the tumblr ask me.

Se encontrar algum erro, por favor informe através da caixa de mensagens do tumblr.

[jayde-skye86]

On My Way To You

4 Learning about Paris

As Marinette’s feet touched back on to the rooftops in Paris, she saw Chat Noir, Ryuko, and Viperion. 

“Milady, Queenie told us to meet with you. What is happening?” Chat spoke up as he approached Ladybug. Concern written all over his face. She was supposed to be at her aunt and uncle’s farm this week. Why the sudden message from Abeille stating that their leader needed to meet with them.

“I have to tell you all some news. Bunnyx told me, before leaving for my aunt’s farm, of a new Miraculous threat. She also told me that it would be wise to involve the Justice League this time. Right now, our Queen is keeping Superman and other members company. I would like for you to be there with me when I tell them. This way we are all in the know and I only have to say this once. Hopefully.” Ladybug sighed, not liking the fact that she hadn’t had the time up until now to let them know that there was the possibility of more danger happening in another city in the near future.

“You know I will follow you wherever you need me to go, Ladybug.” Viperion approached and put his hand on her shoulder.

“He’s right, hime. You have our complete trust. I will go with you.” Ryuko nodded in agreement.

“Take us to the party, Bug. You already knew my answer before you stepped foot through Kaalki’s portal.” Chat Noir smiled.

Ladybug smiled, relieved to hear the words that she already knew but needed to hear at that moment. “I know that, but I need this to be your choice. Before we go back to the farm, I will tell you what I told Abeille. I leave the choice to you if you reveal your identity to everyone that is there.” The trio nodded their heads.

With that, Ladybug turned back around, “Good. Voyage.”

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As the portal opened back up, Damian stood straighter and gripped his blade tighter. He was still unsure about this whole situation. He knew that this wasn’t a set-up. What he didn’t like was not knowing what was going on, for Marinette to reveal their identities like she did.

Three new figures stepped through the portal before Ladybug reappeared. “Kaalki, dismount,” Marinette’s suit changed once again. She was now in a suit that was a black suit that had red gradient through the shoulders and her hips with black polka dots where her suit was red, and red polka dots where it was black. She wore black boots that came to a point on her thighs with two thick red stripes. With coordinating black gloves that reached mid-bicep, with the same two stripes at the top of her gloves. With her ever present yo-yo, attached to her hip.

They saw a tiny floating white and brown horse appear. Ladybug then reached for her yo-yo, put her hand into the yo-yo and retrieved an apple from her pocket dimension. “Thank you, Kaalki. Here is your apple. Tikki, spots off.” Marinette de-transformed back to her regular clothes. After handing the small red kwami a cookie to regain her strength. Tikki sat down on Marinette’s shoulder, ready to help in any way that she could, if needed.

The little horse kwami bowed. “It was my honor, Guardian.” Kaalki replied before she ate her apple.

“Alright, we can start this now. My name is Ladybug, I am the leader of the Miraculous team and the Grand Guardian. This is Chat Noir, Viperion, and Ryuko. There is one other member that is permanently in our group, but she is the one that is finding more information for us to follow, even as we speak. Her name is Bunnyx.” Marinette then introduced the Kent’s and Wayne’s to the French heroes. Marinette was fully in leader mode. Where she was clearly still unsure about her decision before she left for her other members, Damian could see she was now ready to take charge of the situation.

“Marinette, since when have there been heroes in Paris, and why are we just now hearing about this?” Clark asked, wanting to learn the answer, with everyone else nodding along.

Marinette sighed, scratching the back of her neck. Let it begin, I suppose. “We have been heroes for 8 years now. Chat and I were tasked by the former Grand Guardian to become the chosen holders of the Kwami’s of both Creation,” pointing to herself then pointing to Chat who raised his hand with an awkward hand, “And destruction, the two most powerful miraculous known to exist. We were needed to rescue Nooroo, the kwami of Transmission and Duusu, the kwami of Emotion.” Alfred held Nooroo’s Kwagatama just a little tighter, almost like he was giving Nooroo a hug. Truly sad to hear that his dear old friend was abused like that. 

“A lot of the citizens wanted the Justice League to be called in the beginning. We brought up the argument, that if anyone in the Justice League were to be akumatized everyone in Paris would be dead. With no chance of being revived.”

At this, the man with black and teal dyed hair and a black suit with a deep forest green chest piece that turned lighter green the closer to his abs, Damian remembered him being introduced as Viperion “When you are akumatized whatever negative feelings you had could be magnified. Depending on how strong your feelings were was how difficult the battle was to fight.”

“Chat Noir and I were the only permanent fighters for about a year and a half, though depending on the akuma we were able to get permission from Master Fu, the old guardian, to find a temporary holder for another kwagatama so long as their identity was not compromised, and they were trustworthy. That is how Chat and I decided that we could keep Reine Abeille, Viperion, Ryuko and Bunnyx as permanent heroes once I became Guardian.”

“It took us 5 years for us to defeat our two villains. You see, we were tasked with fighting against the main villain Hawkmoth, known in his everyday life as Gabriel Agreste, who was the one that used Nooroo. He was later on joined by Mayura, or Nathalie Sancoeur, his assistant who used the kwami Duusu, That ended up killing her not long after we defeated her and Hawkmoth. Hawkmoth could create Akuma’s by finding citizens or tourists that were feeling strong negative emotions. While the victim who was akumatized would forget the attack happened, the citizens who were not akumatized could remember everything that happened to them. If we died, every single death, we would remember them. When you witness an attack, that terror sticks with you long after the attacks did. Most of the citizens of Paris are still in therapy to this day.” There was a very audible gasp heard once they found out that death was involved.

Clark had to ask a question that he was now afraid to hear the answer to. “Did you ever die, Mari?”

“Yes, we have all died, in multiple timelines, so many times that we have lost count.” Marinette knew that there was no use hiding that fact from her cousin.

“The night before Chloe and I got on our bus to come here, Bunnyx came to me after Chloe fell asleep to let me know that there was another villain that found another kwagatama that we will need to fight in order to save the kwami and citizens that will be affected by this new threat.” Marinette turned to directly talk to Bruce and his family. “That is where you will come in, Bruce, as it will directly affect Gotham. I, no. We will need to move to your city at least temporarily. I do know that you don’t like other heroes without your knowledge. Whether you want any of us in Gotham, we will be there. You all will have to accept that this involves all of us. It is my responsibility as the guardian to keep the Miraculous safe from harm. That is something that I take very seriously.”

Bruce was quiet for a moment, lost in thought. “Fine, how can we help? Have you thought of a plan?” Not really liking the fact that they were about to have a few more heroes in his city. It was no secret that he wasn’t the biggest fan of magic. Though magic had its uses, it was something that he could not use without risk of losing himself to the darkness that is inside himself.

“How do you feel about hiring a fashion designer to make you and your family a few suits for any upcoming galas that you will be hosting?” Marinette smiled brightly. Looking over towards Tim, Jason, Dick and Damian, giving them a wink when she heard them snicker. “It just so happens that I know of someone that is great with celebrities. She, along with her two business associates, are looking into opening up a new store in Gotham. I do believe that Tim would love to work with her. I could put in a good word for you and your family, if you like.”

“That being said, I would also like to know if, while we are there, we could help you with your nightly patrols? This would help us get to know Gotham a little better while we look for these Miraculi.” Marinette started stuttering just a little after speaking this part of her plan, “B-before you say too much, let me first let you know that, when it comes to patrolling and stopping every day, well, n-night crimes. You take the lead. We will listen to your directions. When it comes to the Miraculous and kwami, that is where you listen to me. Please.”

Bruce walked up to Marinette, putting a hand on her shoulder. He hoped that she took it as a comforting gesture. He was very bad at showing his feelings in general. “Marinette, I would love to hire this fashion designer you are talking about. If you can get me her contact information, I will reach out to her when we get back to Gotham.”

“You just met her, father. Drake is already in possession of her business card. Though, seeing how the fool reacted in the car on the way here. You may have to pry it from his cold, dead fingers. I can help with that if you would like.” Damian smiled, only half joking, while looking directly at his brother whose hands were already clenched up in fists ready to fight Damian. As if the fool could win. 

Marinette’s airy giggle appeared once more. He could get used to hearing her laugh… What? “There will be no need for that, Damian. I have plenty of my business cards in my backpack. I will get one for your father, later.”

Damian gave her a playful pout. “Is there any chance that I can convince you to forget about those extra business cards?” All he got for a reply was an eye roll from Marinette.

“Mari-hime, what is this new threat that Bunnyx has mentioned?” Ryuko spoke up for the first time since they appeared. To Damian, she reminded him of Cass. She was silently observing them, watching to see if there was any threat. She was in a black armored suit with red and gold details swirling throughout her suit. Finally, she had a wakizashi attached to her back. 

“There are many different Miracle boxes scattered around the world. Bunnyx has told me that there is a box that has been another set discovered that is based off of mythical creatures from around the world. We have to find the Banshee Miraculous before it is found. As of now, all I really know is that the Banshee Miraculous has been broken like Duusu was, and it was last seen centuries ago in what is now Gotham. We need to find it before anyone else does. If possible.”

“Well Milady, since we will be moving to Gotham, I suppose I should introduce myself to everyone formally. Plagg, claws in.” As Chat Noir de-transformed, a tall blonde man the same age as Marinette approached everyone, waving at everyone. “Hello, My name is Adrien Agreste, chosen holder of Plagg the kwami of destruction.” He pointed to a small flying black cat sitting on his left shoulder.

“Hey, do you have any Camembert floating around in your yo-yo Pigtails?” Plagg asked Marinette.

“I will get you some shortly, Plagg. Just be patient.” Adrien interjected. Plagg grunted at his chosen’s reply.

“Agreste? Any relation to Gabriel?” Dick spoke up, noticing that he wasn’t the only one that picked up on that detail.

“Yes. There is no easy way around the fact that man was my father. If you could even call him that. I am proud to say that I am nothing like that man.” Adrien admitted. He had no love for that man. What love he had for his father was lost long ago.

“The sins of the father should never put a burden on the son. You were proving your self worthy of the respect that you were given the entire time that you fought against Hawkmoth. It matters not what people were saying about you after the defeat of that monster. You proved them all wrong.” Ryuko spoke up with conviction. “Longg, clear the sky.” Ryuko de-transformed into a young woman that looked similar to Marinette, but with some differences. Where Marinette had an angular face and brilliant blue eyes. With hair that now reached down to her waist. This young woman had a round face and deep chocolate brown eyes, with hair that reached just past her shoulders that was currently in a low ponytail.

She gave everyone a bow. “Hello, my name is Kagami Tsurugi. It is an honor to meet you all.”

“Sass, scales rest.”  Viperion now de-transformed. He was wearing black distressed jeans with a black Kitty Section t-shirt and a teal and black vegan leather jacket, both made by Marinette. He then looked back around to the group still gathered together and gave them a smile and waved. “Hello everyone. My name is Luka Couffaine. Marinette, will you need all of us to move to Gotham?”

Marinette had a thoughtful look at that question. “That’s something that I need to think about a little more. I think, if anything, we would need to buy a house that has six or more rooms. That way, you will be able to visit and feel at home. Something that we can live and train in, preferably. But let’s worry about that a little later.”

They all stood around for another hour talking to one another until it was around 9 pm in Kansas, meaning it was closer to 4 am in Paris. Finally, Marinette and Paris three heroes stood up and bid farewell to everyone. Marinette transformed once again before opening a portal once again to send Adrien, Kagami and Luka back to Paris.

The four heroes were soon back where they met up 4 hours ago. Saying their good nights to each other. As Marinette stepped back through Kaalki’s portal for the final time that night. Relieved to know that a plan was at least starting to form.

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Here is the fourth chapter. I am going to be introducing some new kwami later on in the later story. I have an idea about which kwami I am going to use and name, but I have started a list of legends that I want to borrow from. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to message me. I want to pull from myths from all around the world. This is great fun for me. As always, until next time. Bye!!