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[lulublack90]

Prompt 6 - Holiday

@jegulus-microfic September 6, Word count 209

“Tickets, money, passport,” Regulus repeated to himself as he patted each pocket that held the items he recited. 

“I don’t know why you’re so worried, love. Everything’s packed, the taxi's booked. In fact,” James said as he looked down at his watch, we’re an hour early. So let’s just relax and have a cup of tea.” 

Regulus did not feel relaxed, even with his favourite tea in his hand. He just wanted to go. But soon the clock's hands ticked around, and the taxi pulled up outside the house. “Here we go!” James crowed happily. “It’s holiday time!” James grabbed all their bags and put them into the car's boot. 

Regulus was strapping himself in when James tried to jump from the car with his seat belt still on. He wrestled with it, finally freeing himself before racing back into the house. “Bloody passport,” James groused when he’d locked the house back up and got into the taxi again. Regulus just shook his head and took it off him as he clearly couldn’t be trusted. Once they were on the white sands of the beach with their documents safely in the hotel rooms safely. That’s when he’d relax for now, he’d just concentrate on getting James on the plane. 

[argentinpantsuit]

HELL YEAH LIAN !!!!

[tracybirds]

FFF entry for Scott, riff off the prompt "quiet" aka give Scott some!thank you @gumnut-logic for both the prompts and the readthrough :)

Scott massaged his forehead, fingers moving without thought to the pressure points that would relieve the building tension. It was already too late, the headache blooming behind his eyes, and he leaned back with an involuntary groan.

“It’s too early for this,” he whispered to himself, the words half an admonishment and half coaxing him upright. “Come on, Tracy, keep going. Only…”

A glance at his watch sent Scott’s heart sinking.

He slumped forward, cradling his head in his hands, wondering if it was too late to call off the company address.

A shadow fell across the desk.

“Hey.”

It was all Scott could do not to flinch away from the sound.

There was a beat of blissful silence, before he heard the soft rustle of his brother crouching next to him.

“Scott, you don’t need to stay for this,” said John, his voice pitched low. “I was just coming to say goodbye, come back with us.”

Scott let loose a chuckle. “John, I think an eight hour flight with Gordon and Alan might actually kill me.”

“You could hide in the cockpit,” offered John, with a small smile.

Scott shook his head, closing his eyes against the wooziness.

“’M alright, Johnny,” he said. “Just need some quiet.”

“And a nap.”

“At nine in the morning?”

John shrugged. “Never stopped me. Are you saying you don’t want to go back to bed?”

“Yeah,” agreed Scott amiably. “I could sleep for a year still.”

His eyes stayed closed as John clasped his shoulder, the vibration shaking him down to his bones as John stood and moved into the other room.

Cupboards shut with muffled bangs and the tell-tale rattle of John rifling through the first-aid kit filled Scott’s ears and mind, too far gone to focus on anything other than immediate sensation.

With a great effort, Scott pulled himself to his feet, his muscles protesting their role in holding him upright against the immense weight of his own limbs.

“Here,” said John, handing him a glass of water and some pills. “Painkillers and anti-nausea. You’ll need it for the flight.”

“I’m not getting on the plane,” mumbled Scott. “I have to stay here.”

“They don’t need you,” said John.

The bluntness sent Scott reeling but before he could string together an objection John spoke again, his soft voice refusing all argument.

“You said you’d do it different to Dad.”

Scott’s gaze sharpened, the quick of his breath and the blood pumping waking his body faster than any medication.

“Dad did his best.”

“He did,” agreed John.

What John didn’t say meant almost as much as what he did say, but Scott didn’t have the capacity to puzzle out his meaning.

A vein pulsed in his temple, a dull pain echoing between his ears.

“Alright, I’ll come,” he said, reaching for John.

John slung Scott’s arm around his shoulder.

“Glad to have you."

[sunflowersolace]

i’m the only person who understands them

[inkykeiji]

if caleb doesn’t stop ruffling my hair and calling me pipsqueak i’m going to sneak into his bedroom and suck his cock :)

[fabdante]

It's mating season in my hermit crab tank, and batman fertilized gans eggs again. and he will not stop guarding her.

which is really funny because i opened the tank to do something, and he practically threw her at me because he thought i was a threat.

so like hes doing an awful job i love both of them.

[vande14y]

Sketch of Aki for Street Fighter 6

[whilstiveputdownthisfic]

8:44 pm edt Wednesday October 9 2024

[agentsnickers]

@piedoesnotequalpi tagged me and this sounds fun, so:

I tried to keep it to one character per piece of media and promptly cheated at that self-imposed restriction by defining PJO & Heroes separately so I didn't have to choose between Nico & Jason. Whoops!

As ever, I'm a bit at a loss for who to tag so if you want to participate feel free to claim I tagged you!

[carfuckerlynch]

Do u have a knives tag/post? Woulf like to c urs:3

not of my personal collection! frankly they're mostly nothing special they're almost all wusthof brand from the kit I bought when I started culinary school last year. my roll that I take places with me is green waxed canvas w brown leather it was a birthday gift from my sister it's very pretty from here. I have an 8" French knife/chefs knife, a 4" paring knife, a 6" prep knife, a very small tourne/birds beak knife (maybe 3"?), and a bunch of other miscellaneous tools in there (microplaner, measuring spoons, melon ballers, honing rod, offset spatula etc) PLUS. my baby my pride and joy my custom birthday knife kindly funded by my grandmother

of them all I would say the tourne knife was the most unexpectedly useful? If you're blanching and peeling tomatoes or other fruits or trying to take bruises or eyes out of potatoes or do other small fiddly tasks that require a certain amount or torque. I would look into one. plus they're silly little guys

[tawus]

For small titty queens like myself: it being the swimwear season, make sure to order swimwear based on how you expect it to look on your titties. Pay attention precisely to the chest. Every other part will turn out fine, but the tits will be an issue. Istg it matters tons when you try em on

[scrumptiousstuffs]

X marked the spot!!! 👏👏👏👏 good job my duckling!

Chimon as the adorable Pennhuang and Hugo getting X (literally and figuratively 😂)

Home School Series, episode 6

[thisbluespirit]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Sapphire and Steel, Doctor Who (2005) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Silver (S&S), Sapphire (S&S), Steel (S&S), The Doctor | Ruth Clayton Additional Tags: Serial: s06 Assignment Six, Fix-It, Time Travel, Alien Technology, POV Silver, Post-Canon, Escape, Telepathy Summary:

When the trap closes on Sapphire and Steel, Silver is set free with no idea what happened or how to fix it - until a strange woman arrives and offers to help Silver break the trap and free his colleagues.

[actual-corpse]

I NEED Rachel Ray to know that my cat HATES this food.

[justascrollingghost]

The amount of respect I have for double acts is unreal - I was told they might hire another one of me and threw a huge fit cause it’s my job😂

[theworldoffandoming]

OC questions: 1, 7, 10, 20

....... Tumblr just wiped my entire response I am so sad... I didn't even get a chance to save a draft it didn't prompt me. What the heckkkk...

Well... here we go again. :( Wish I'd copied to clipboard... TT.TT

Now then. Since there's no OCs asked for I'll pick randomly... Or, well, recount the ones I chose from memory ..... QwQ... And maybe add a few.

1. What kind of person is your OC in a crisis? Are they calm and collected? Do they panic? Or are they chronically the cause?

Tsuname slowly begins to panic until he becomes the crisis, so the last two, yeah.

Shiido tends to be the calm and collected one, but especially in the teen years he's a little less collected in a certain crisis.

I think Sz'nami tends to look to others for help in a crisis. She can get a little overwhelmed, but if she has to deal with it alone, she probably just acts on the fight part of flight or flight instincts.

Naru tends to be a more extreme form of that, with her first instinct being to throw the problem on someone else as quick as she can. But if she has no choice, she turns more to the flight instinct than fight. She can also sometimes be the cause of a crisis.

Ril'siiya's solution is to talk very quickly. It might look like she's panicking and she probably is, but mostly she's just trying to think out loud. So she might end up coming up with something or finding the right person to help fairly quickly despite it looking like a mess.

Korosa - panic but also do. If he was with others he might bark orders to try to get them to fix the problem, but if it's alone then it's the former.

7. Does your OC like their natural hair color or do they dye it? What styles do they prefer?

Most of my OCs don't dye their hair but there are a few with dyed hair from some stalled out stories.

Fuuma has had her hair white for a while but green ends might be somewhat new. The main thing she doesn't like about her hair is it's very messy. Tends not to like taming.

Her mom has blue ends. She prefers medium long with bangs and Fuuma is very similar that way.

Glen dyed his hair gene-altering green as a kid so it stays that way. He only learned to embrace it in his 20s when he started sporting the fringe and tiny ponytail. Until then he'd worn hats and kept his head shaved.

Jasmine, if she does dye, probably keeps the colors au naturale or maybe not too far from natural. She's more into taking care of her hair and likes it medium-long with M-shaped bangs. Maybe she does highlights sometimes, not sure.

10. Is your OC sentimental or pragmatic? Do they keep mementos or only what they need to survive? Have they always been this way or did something happen to make them change?

Sz'nami is pretty sentimental. She became more so after losing Tsunne though.

Shiido is pretty pragmatic. Though he has some things he has a certain protective emotion towards, like things he smuggled out of Waizu's sight, his possessions are largely utilitarian.

Naru is probably middle-tier. Not as sentimental as Sz'nami, not as pragmatic as Shiido. She probably likes to collect things, but doesn't have a super mushy emotional attachment to most things.

Tsuname is fairly sentimental, but he hasn't been able to visit his house again where he's at in his story let alone find out what happened to his possessions.

Ril'siiya probably started out middle-tier with a few things she liked, but she tended to lose interest in them after a while or give them away. Especially after the invasion though she becomes a lot more minimalistic, deciding to do away with most of her late family's things once enough time has passed and keep only what she needs in her new tree home. For her it's a way of moving on from what happened.

Korosa is pretty sentimental about his crafts and the shop he runs. If anything he resents his older brother for leaving the shardsmithing craft and him to run the shop alone. For him it's a way of carrying on the family legacy and to him his brother effectively disinherited himself by ditching.

20. Has your OC ever done something terrible and lied about it? Did they run away or blame someone else for it? How long did they maintain the lie and did the truth ever come out?

Okay, let's see if I can remember what I wrote for this one.

So I have a number of one-off antagonists that this is a double-positive for. I have some villains that it's a positive for if I think about it. And then there's the ones that either didn't get the chance to lie about it but would have given the chance, then those that did horrible things and fessed up, or lied to themselves and it's part of their character arc. So let's break that down...

Schröndinger's OCs

So both of these may not even exist when the dust settles because they had pretty short parts in the story and I'm not sure that they're meaningful enough to make it into a final, but in the rough draft they exist.

First off is Prasinus, who I have a feeling has done things and lied about it or ran away, but he's not telling me if he has, so that might be a false positive. It's harder to lie though in his current environment though so if he did something it's probably before he even appears in the story.

But next is a definitely not false positive. Jaxine, who has a lasting effect on Naru to the point that it's become a nuisance and I'm questioning the purpose of having him exist in the story at all. He did some not-so-great things while working as a prison guard and would have continued if not for Naru and a certain droid. He might've kept up his crimes for years before getting busted. I'm not sure he tried to pin the blame on someone else though. Probably just covered his tracks or gaslit people into thinking his victims were insane.

Positive if I think about it

So in Nell's case it's more of a cover-up. There definitely are things he's blamed others for but it's a bit more complicated and not directly related to stuff he's done. He did separate himself from the scene and generally when someone's found out about it, he's tied up the loose ends so to speak. So a lot of the things he's done have yet to gain any traction as far as becoming publicized goes, but there is still someone that knows some of the things he's lied about who figured it out not long after it happened, so... it depends on the timeline but probably a few weeks?

Waizu has similarly worked together to cover up and reframe his actions to those outside of his immediate circle. To those inside his immediate circle he's owned up to what he's done but reframed it as a good thing. Nell might also be the type to reframe in some cases but it depends.

Didn't get the chance to lie

Korosa did something terrible but it was found out too quickly for him to lie about it. He would have tried if he could have though.

Naru has done a few pretty bad things and also would have lied about them given the chance, but was generally found out before she could. In her case she also gets into the lying-to-self category about how she cooperated with Waizu in his crimes, but that's for another section.

Wouldn't have lied

Now since Shiido's thing only affected one person, it was obviously discovered by the person who was affected. But in his case he wouldn't have lied about it if it was a secret, but he might have tried to explain himself depending on who found out.

Tsuname's done some things but he can't really lie. He's fessed up to what he's done fairly quickly, tried to downplay it but ultimately failed at that too. He's another one for the lying to self category and when he figures that out it's a big part of his character arc.