#feeling loved and appreciated😌

[elitadream]

Ok, I have one last question regardig the babies, sort of anyway, How would everyone react to seeing an adult Jr?

Ooh, that's a fun one to imagine! ☺️🩵

They would recoil in shock upon seeing this large beast suddenly appearing around the corner and barreling towards them at high speed; their instant feeling of alarm relenting somewhat upon seeing the huge grin on his face and the sincere joy in his eyes.

"Mario!!"

Before the man could react or even process this new development, he would be swept up right off the ground by two massive paws and squished in a strong bear hug, wheezing from the pressure.

"It's so good to be able to do this for once!" The creature would exclaim, happily swinging him back and forth in his crushing hold. His voice -pleasantly deep and amicable, yet unmistakably familiar- would have Mario blinking incredulously in recognition.

"Junior??" He would rasp, hardly able to breathe. The Koopa would finally release him, still smiling broadly, and it would only be then that Mario would note how strikingly similar he looks to Bowser. Behind them, Luigi and Peach would also stare in amazement.

"Can you believe it? Now I'm just like my papa!"

The prince would strike a regal pose for good measure, his merriment however dissipating rather swiftly as he would hum and join his hands in front of himself in thought; a hint of his usual self reflecting starkly in his sheepish demeanor. "Too bad it's only temporary though..."

"You- But- What- How's that possible??" Luigi would stammer out loud, visibly dumbfounded.

"I, uh... took Kamek's wand while he was asleep," Junior would say, shuffling his feet bashfully. There would be a stunned silence before he would hastily add, "B-but I made sure to put it back where I found it before anyone noticed! He usually keeps it under lock and key. I just wanted to try it, that's all! Besides, the age inducing spell only lasts about an hour, so... I'll be a kid again very soon."

His enthusiasm would deflate entirely with his statement, and Mario couldn't help but shake his head with a fond chuckle at that. Peach and Luigi would follow suit, sharing an amused look.

"What's so funny?" Junior would ask, frowning confusedly.

"You seem to think of that as a bad thing," Mario would answer. "As though this older version of you is better."

While explaining himself, he would step forward and maintain Junior's gaze, his expression warm and indulgent.

"And fair enough, it's indeed incredible... I'm looking at you and- I feel so proud. But that's only because of who you already are. Child or not, it doesn't matter. You're amazing, and I know that you have a bright future ahead of you. I'm only glad I got to see a small glimpse of it today."

Junior's astonishement would morph into deep thankfulness and delight as he would promptly embrace him again; albeit more gently this time.

"Thank you," he would murmur, giving the man a meaningful squeeze.

Mario would take a moment to marvel at how big and robust and majestic his young friend has temporarily become, openly welcoming the fantastic surrealness of the moment. As for Luigi and Peach, they would similarly admire the stark change in Junior's appearance; however knowing full well that it will only be a matter of time before they see him like this again. ^-^ 💫

[coffeeshib]

Hi, Hello!

I haven't gotten any tumblr notifications from you in a while, and I just wanted to check on you and make sure you were okay! I hope your life is going splendidly!

hello, hi! very sweet of you to check in - i'm doing okay!! most of my attention has been focused elsewhere, but recently life has gotten a bit lighter so i have some time & energy for some fandom stuff again

[yi3248]

sometimes self care is drawing your own custom card holder cover

[pinkyjulien]

🟨 Then n' Now - High Voltage edition ⚡

Yoinking @arcandoria's idea and making one of those before/after post focused on the babies💛 motivated by AND motivating @elvenbeard to do the same 😌🤏

This will be both a VP and Modding journey 👉

▶ December 2020

━ "No mods, we die VP like men!"

AKA open up PhotoMode and get as close as you can to your fav, playing with angles while getting the camera stucks in the surrounding 80% of the time and trying to make the characters look at each others in a "natural" way 👀

▶ early 2021

━ "I learned how to app swap and I cannot be stopped"

I got into modding because/thanks to Mitch 🤠 and the first thing I did was to .app swap him into all of the romance scenes 😩🤏 My BIG MODDER GOAL back then was to have Him and Valentin in the panzer scene, meaning I needed to find a way to:

Swap Valentin into Panam's place

Swap Mitch into V/Player's place

Unlock the camera / have a true free-roam experience

and also remove all of the HUD and green filter

I was just a tiny dude with Big Dreams 👀

▶ first half 2021

━ "I can change clothes now! AKA OOC-fest"

Ugh. JHGFHJGHFJ

Looking back at some of the stuff I did before legit gives me so much icks now 💀 the joy and freedom of being a simp with fresh modding power, you just Do Stuff because You Can! Who cares if the character turns extremly OOC, right? keeping them for the memories 🤭

▶ first half 2021

━ "ReShade? What's a ReShade"

My first month of playing around with Reshade! Everything was way too saturated, too bright or too dark- but it was new and exciting! Experimenting with more swapping, more photomode-posing 🤏

▶ July 2021

━ "the Modding High"

Camera unlocks, Player Replacer, FixSwaps, Bi River trick, Blur Remover, Facial expressions for V, Swap to Everyone... my peak as a modder still to this day ngl

I achieved all I ever wanted, did the mods I needed to be able to smooch Mitch and have my canon panzer scene 🧡 (cannot showcase it here on Tumblr for hornyjail reason)

The "bi river" trick was involving CyberCat, an old save editor software that allowed you to swap V presets! You had to launch the romance scene with River as a fem V, then save at the start of it using the "Save Anytime" mod, edit your save file by swapping in your Male V preset, and Voila~ you had a Masc V in the River scene :D

▶ August 2021

━ "Custom poses Fever"

...and the first true love kisses!

Searching and modding your first poses swaps, then spawning the blorbos in game, timing the expressions and animation correctly and... having them "kiss for real" for the first time 🥺😩 ouugghh IT HITS! It hits so good!

From there, the rest of 2021 was focused on playing around with custom poses and exploring my own canon; giving new canon-compliant appearances to Mitch and Valentin, doing VP comics... also exploring some AUs and doing special occasion outfits, like Halloween!

▶ 2022

━ "I can create my own story"

I focused a lot on my own canon in 2022, via comics and photoset exploring what happens to both Mitch and Valentin's respective past and shared future together

Modding was also a big part of the year! There wasn't any big breakthrough other than the scenerid extract for custom poses, which allowed me to finally use the amazing tender animations from the Judy scene in my boys tent 🤭

▶ 2023

━ "Still here"

There will always be new exciting way of exploring and creating content for my babes- the knowledge of custom made poses allowing us for even more angst, tenderness, passion!

and I'm looking forward to it all 🥺🧡

Those years's been a whole creative journey~ and it's thanks to those two, my blorbos, my beloved stinkies, that I'm the modder and photographer that I am now!

Who knows where they'll take me next 💛😊

[hotcinnamonsunset]

I'm a swim teacher (mostly little kids, but I've taught a few beginning adults), and treading water as a means of keeping yourself alive used to be taught, but is really not considered watersafe anymore.

(because treading water requires so much effort/energy, eventually you will get tired and not be able to anymore, so the solution now is a good float on your back which requires next to no effort)

If you want to improve your swimming, you should work on your float in an area of the pool that you can comfortably stand up in.

You do that by trying to float (either in starfish position or with legs together, both are equally valid). You just float for a second and when you feel you've gotten a good float, just stand up.

Another thing you can do is, (again in the shallow area you can easily stand up in if you need to), retrieve coins or bottlecaps (anything that sinks) or something from the pool bottom in the like 3ft/1m section of the pool. Diving down to the bottom helps you learn so much fine motor control of your buoyancy and swim and really improves your confidence and watersafety, try to swim with your belly just above the bottom of the pool so a length of at least 6ft/2m or so (still in the shallow end, but if you get more confident in a few weeks/a month-ish you can go deeper).

Oh my goodness, reading this is a relief! Because while I can tread water, as was taught back when I had swim lessons, it was never a favorite of mine because it is so exhausting after a while.

So! Knowing that floating on your back is the recommended course of action is huge because that’s, like, the one good thing I can do! I never really saw that as being the most useful skill except for a way to pass the time doing nothing in a pool but now that it has been deemed with life saving properties, hooray😅

Back strokes were my saving grace, it’s the face-in-water swimming that’s my downfall. I have no qualms about using flotation devices though no matter how dorky🤿thanks so much for the tips!

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Here's your reminder to post an update!

Okay I'm finally alive enough and have the time to get into it lmao under the cut just bc it's not particularly exciting and I'm briefly summarizing

So I went to my ranch hand job yesterday bc there was literally nobody else working, was kinda overwhelmed bc there were way more visitors than I was expecting and I was trying to stay the hell away from other people, but I was getting through it. But then I saw the creep ass coworker pull up so I locked myself in the barn before he could see me and sent out a desperate sos to literally all of my other coworkers bc I panicked lmao. So two of the guys from my fire station and my medic partner ended up coming to rescue me, and another one of them called me while I was there alone, so we love to see that. So they all stuck around and helped out until that creepy mfer left, then we all got food and hung out outside, I got made fun of for like ninety minutes straight for being diseased 😔

One of them left once we decided to change locations, we went to some park nearby to loiter, hung out there for a couple hours on the swings bc we're children, another one of the guys left so then it was just me and my partner. I got talked into hanging out in the car with him for a bit bc it was cold as hell outside and I ended up falling asleep?? Like girl help 😭 but when I woke up we went to get drinks and snacks so that was cool. Got my car and went home a while after that tho bc I was tired and dying lmao. Not really anything interesting but it felt like so much and I was being a gross wreck the whole time lmao

[jaetaimjadore]

cryingggggg enha just released what im positive will be the masterpiece of a century, @lebrookestore finally showed up in my feed (f u tumblr 🖕), and the weather is ABSOLUTELY DIVINE but here i am stuck in interview prep hell T^T

[thirium-800]

Aw man, I (FelicisAmor) won a gift prize on the Decharts birthday stream 🥹🥹🥹

I honestly love that community so much. The kindness and generosity restores my faith in humanity 🩵

Tuning in never fails to make me smile. Wonderful humans.

[sweetpaintedladie]

my friend whose in college came to visit me while he’s on thanksgiving break and he found me a copy of playback by tom petty and the heartbreakers on vhs and i literally cannot comprehend how sweet that was 😭<3 it’s in such perfect condition too

[spaceratprodigy]

me reading the tags everyone left on my art

[blujayonthewing]

hey, not to be weird but shoutout to anyone who's ever been lowkey thirsty or Eyes Emoji or idk even just like 'oh cute!!' about any of my OCs? for one thing I very rarely design my characters with the intention of being attractive-- I just Love Them A Lot, so it makes me feel really good that maybe that's translating through my art; for another thing one of The Hangups about some of the self-indulgent art I feel like doing sometimes is the 'nobody is going to want to see this??' but I have a psychological safety net there now for... actually... all of my OCs?? and I sincerely appreciate that

[modernmanblues]

this Eric Stewart/John Paul Jones thing i got going on right now reminds of the Gerry Beckley/Robert Lamm thing i had going on this past summer during my Hot Chicago summer era lol

Eric Stewart = John Paul Jones??

Gerry Beckley = Robert Lamm??

🤨🤨🤨🤨

[kindahoping4forever]

CRYSTAL!!! i am back from the dead and here to praise your writing (as always) hehe

THREE WORDS. BLOOD MOON LIT. CRYSTAL ITS SO GOOD i always love first time sex when they’re written properly - like when people go totally overboard on the ‘is this okay?’ & like awkwardness it’s booooooring BUT YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD AND ITS PERFECT. made me feel very single though because now i want a fwb buddy who looks and speaks and thinks exactly like ashton irwin 🥲

honestly the flirty banter is i swear your specialty so it’s written PERFECTLY and the fact that you love beard!ash almost as much as i do if not more is the best thing EVER

crystal you’ve slayed once again congratulations babe

Thank you so much, I'm glad you got to read it! Tbh I'm so used to writing established relationships, I think I'd forgotten how fun it is to write first time sex! One of my favorite things about it is finding ways to convey that sense of discovery - it's comfortable but it's still kind of weird, it's something they've done before but not with each other - and I think having it be in the context of friends to lovers adds such an interesting layer to it!

And obviously. Beard!Ash forever. Like. My dude can shave all he wants IRL but you can bet Crystal's fic!Ash is gonna have a full and beautiful beard 99.9% of the time. 😌🤡

Blood Moon Lit

[debellatis]

I'm super satisfied with the result, and at the same time not happy at all I can be read like this wth

[le-velo-pour-dru]

I am a girl who craves special attention and love and recognition to a degree that probably isn't fair to the people around me 😅

[kuromi-hoemie]

I've been hanging out with my manager so much lately !! i usually only talk to her virtually once a week, i am so energized.. i love her 😩