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chaoticcutiewhirl · 2 years ago

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Warriors Shenanigans

Remember the Warrior cat books? Well I am about to talk and complain about them:

I have been trying to get through Bramblestar’s Storm for months and the reason why: Bramblestar is a terrible protagonist. He is a big part about why I hate the New Prophecy, so while I was reading tonight I was talking to myself as I do; talking about the issues in the writing aspect of the mainline Warriors books because, you know there is a ton more Everything after New Prophecy except Dawn of the Clans, goes back to New Prophecy in someway when it is objectively the worst set in the series.

Bramblestar is the main tie to some of the worst paced books, like everything after Book 3 of New Prophecy, then his super edition is a slog. Overall the New Prophecy after book 3 is a mess, and Power of Three was written juist to wrap up New Prophecy with The Fire Scene to which, IMO is the weakest part of Power of Three. The Difference between New Prophecy books and the rest of the serieses, I can’t pick up those books for fun, I can’t read that series just for the fact of a fun book to read. The Original Series and Dawn of the Clans have those books where I feel obligated to read the entire series because its so good, while The Power of Three I can pick up and read at any point for fun with Omen being kinda both .

People mainly complain about New Prophecy as the first half is travel books and the latter half is badly written but the only part I don’t like about travel books is when you look to Firestar’s quest which is the worst part of travel books, New Prophecy and the POT and Omen have good Travel books IMO, then again two of those series have the supplemented preTribe flashbacks of Jay’s Wing, which I like too. I am still on my catch up to the newest books but just wanted to complain, and I have my ideas to throw for this on how to fix things more:

In New Prophecy the main way to fix things is post Book 3, have the Mudclaw rebellion happen but have it take a little longer and linger, use Leafpool’s perspective to explore Windclan a little as Onestar becomes the Onestar we know after TNP. Besides that limit the Brambleclaw conflict as his story was the least compelling, same with Squirrelflight’s, they got the limelight in the first half, let them step back for a moment. Have Book 5 be Hawkfrost’s death and the beginning of Brambleclaw and Squilf’s relationship more seriously, having Leafpool be the main focus though. Having the last half focus on each protagonist in their plot mainly, leaving Squilf to be the final book’s main protag. Brambleclaw should only have one chapter in this final book and have Leafpool realize about the kits at this point, covering the Leafpool’s Wish Novella in the main series, ending the book off on Squilf telling Brambleclaw she is pregnant and having Ashfur’s plot sprinkled in.

For Power of Three, I say leave it mostly unchanged, but with what you do change is about Ashfur, have him be more connected to the plot if you must have your Fire scene. Have him be the one to introduce Lionblaze to the Dark Forest, connecting via Darkstripe for him before Tigerstar I decides to train Lionblaze with Hawkfrost. Have Lionblaze’s chapters slowly set up Omen by him seeing glimpses of other clans in the Dark Forest while he is only seeing Darkstripe and Tigerstar I. Then have Ashfur go to the Dark Forest the first time so the Broken Code twist of Ashfur being the evil mastermind is less played up for the idea of “Oh yeah he was accidentally put into Starclan due to an Oopsie Whoopsie!” Also have the last book be where Lionblaze is chased out of the Dark Forest so that plot thread could have a conclusion.

Omen goes mostly unchanged except in story structure of protags:

Lionblaze is only a protagonist for book one and maybe book six, having his plot be played out through the perspectives of Jayfeather and Dovewing as in the books he did basically nothing

Jayfeather and Dovewing have the whole series to be protagonists

Ivypool is a protagonist for a couple of Chapters in Book 2, pulling a Stormfur in Moonrise, just before she is a full on protagonist in Book 3 onward.

I think this would fix Omen’s main issue in pacing as the Erins obviously didn’t know how to juggle four protagonists because they did not write ensembles that much as more often than not, outside the first series and DOTC, most side characters get shoved to the back, unless you are from the New Prophecy or were more important in Power of Three.

Basically the main issues in Warriors when isolated without looking at the more contreversial aspects when looking to the real world... are Bramblestar and Lionblaze in the plots they are involved in.

#Warriors #Warrior Cats #Bramblestar Sucks #Lionblaze sucks #Lionblaze #Bramblestar #Writing critique

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lhexpress · 3 years ago

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Why Detroit: Become Human’s Parallel to the U.S. Slavery is Flawed

In the past year being in the Detroit: Become Human fandom, I’ve seen many posts attempting to cover and express why the game’s core message of android rights = black rights is inherently flawed. I recently watched two wonderful video essays, Detroit: Become Human - It’s Bad and Detroit: Become Human - The Worst Civil Rights Allegory, that I think succinctly and elegantly explain why this message is flawed. This post is a brief summary of what the two videos said. All screenshots are from the first video.

Why it’s inherently racist to say human slavery = android slavery

As the two infographics explain above, D:BH’s main argument revolves around “androids are like us; they’re alive, so it’s wrong to enslave them.” A parallel should work both ways– if we can say “android are like humans,” we should also be able to say “humans are like androids.” However, once we do the latter, we can automatically see the flaw of this parallel. In doing so, we’re saying, “androids were made to be property, to serve humans = black people were made to be property and serve white people.” I don’t think I need to explain further why this parallel is outrageously racist.

This leads me to my second point:

The issue of deviancy = bug in an android

Going back to D:BH’s main parallel of human slavery = android slavery, this again insinuates “black people were made to serve white people and them rebelling against their masters is a ‘bug.’” With the knowledge that deviancy is a virus, confirmed to us by Kamski, Amanda, and Markus and Connor’s ability to deviate androids by touch, players have the idea that only deviants are alive and non-deviants are not.

Kamski: Androids share identification data when they meet another android. An error in this program would quickly spread like a virus, and become an epidemic. The virus would remains dormant, until an emotional shock occurs… Fear, anger, frustration. And the android becomes deviant. Probably all started with one model, copy error… A zero instead of a one… Unless of course... Some kind of spontaneous mutation.

This begs the question: why should we care about non-deviants? If they aren’t alive, they aren’t aware of their own suffering. If we do have the ability to prevent deviancy, why shouldn’t we? As the infographic above explains, this wouldn’t be unethical as non-deviants don’t even have the ability to make this choice for themselves.

However, the game contradicts itself that “only deviants are alive” through the player’s experience of playing Kara, Markus, and especially Connor. All these androids, pre-deviancy, are able to feel and experience emotions, like love, without going deviant. Aren’t these things signs that non-deviants are alive? The only thing deviancy changes for all of them the freedom of choice.

Then, that poses another question: does the freedom of choice inherently make you alive? If you’re just given the freedom of choice without prior experiencing emotions (I’m referencing the androids Markus/Connor deviate by touch here), why does that make you alive?

Which brings me to my third point:

Where are the answers?

Instead of even attempting to answer any of the questions D:BH poses, the game never goes further than its shallow explanation of “androids are alive, so they must be free.” The game crumbles under any sort of questioning. Furthermore, all the “villains” of the story– Amanda, Perkins, even Kamski– never provide any good counter-arguments to this claim, forcing players to have to agree with this sentiment.

But isn’t the point sci-fi to explore both the good and bad of a futuristic concept? Which brings me back to my original point– the game can’t do this because it’s trying to make deviancy an allegory to black rights, in which any counter-argument to that is morally wrong. But, if it strayed away from this parallel– instead delving into what D:BH should have been (an exploration of what it means to be alive as a non-biological being), the game would be able to apply much more meaningful and thought-provoking messages than “slavery is bad.”

The video provides an example of this exploration being done right, as well as providing a new basis of what D:BH should have been:

Star Trek: The Next Generation | “The Measure of a Man”

This episode of Star Trek: Next Generation revolves around Data, an android aboard the starship Starfleet. In order to start mass-producing androids like Data, they must disassemble Data. However, in the process of doing so, he might lose his memories, effectively “dying.” The episode debates whether or not Data should have a say in this procedure. If he is not deemed as alive, they can do anything to him as it is not unethical to see him as property. However, if he is alive, this would be unethical as they are robbing away his ability to choose and effectively enslaving both him and his “offspring.”

The video explains in a lot more detail the plot surrounding this episode and why it does it well, but I’ll sum it up here why this episode works versus why D:BH doesn’t:

Closing thoughts: What could have been done to change this?

If someone planned on rewriting D:BH, there are two ways of going about this:

Sticking with the human slavery = android slavery message

Ditching that entirely and exploring the central question of what makes a thing alive

Both could work– albeit with major changes. For the first message to work, androids must be created with sentience. Instead of androids, one could maybe replace them with human clones or simply doing what Star Trek: Next Generation did– however, this would mainly defeat the whole meaningfulness behind the concept of deviancy.

With the second, this requires the least amount of tweaking to the original plot (most of the change would be towards Markus’ storyline). By simply using the premise that D:BH provides as way to explore how we prove androids are alive, D:BH could finally reach its full potential as a game and be the impact on sci-fi that it wished to be.

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txrantinx · 2 years ago

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Groupie {l.h.}

Pairing: Luke x Reader

Rating: R (MINORS SHOO)

Contains: choking, multiple orgasms, p in v (use protection kiddos), blowjob, pent up emotions

Word Count: 3.6K (whoopsies)

Request: Yes! Groupie w Luke?

A/N: The groupie series continues. Oh my god she’s BACK???? I AM HI. Luke Hemmings comes into play in this one. I love that you guys love this series so much, and I’m sad that this is the the second to last one in the series. I am completely sorry that this will be my last smut posting (or is it). I couldn’t just leave you all without something to remember me by. I’m not leaving, but I hope you all really like this one, because I love the groupie series, and I hate that it’s slowly coming to an end. This blog has been my life for the past six years and I really appreciate all of you that have stuck around throughout all my slow updates. I love you all, enjoy this. xox - Alyssa

Sometimes, the unexpected can happen, and the unexpected hits you at the worst times. I tend to believe this statement. The world likes to make things the worst at the worst times, and you just have to live with it. And somehow, I had weaved my way into a job that I absolutely despised. Money was tight, and I needed to pay rent on my apartment. This was my way of getting extra money. The infamous band so called ‘5 Seconds of Summer’ had sent an email to my employer asking if any women would like to join them on tour. Since my boss knew I needed extra money, he forwarded me that email. I took the job, however reluctantly. I met the band, introduced myself and we went from there.

Life on tour seemed almost surreal, I got to go to places I had never dreamed of going. I saw sights that each city held near and dear: the Chicago Bean, The Big Apple in New York, The Vegas Strip, Disney Land in California, Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, Yellow Stone Park in Wyoming. The list could go on forever. I was in a dream land for the first few months, the head producers for the show basically being my personal chauffeur's. But, somehow, I had not realized that the band had taken a peculiar interest in my standings on tour, one in particular.

The lead singer, Luke Hemmings took interest in me almost immediately. The tall, lanky blonde always looking at me from across the room, making faces that sent me into shivers. I shied away, uncomfortable with his never ending stare at first. They only got more intense as I started to unload on the bus. His baby blue eyes would always find mine and he’d continuously stare me down. Sometimes I felt like he was undressing me with his eyes. It made a chill run down my spine at the thought of laying underneath him and having him take me. I started to think more about that, and I that’s when I realized just what I was here for. The email hadn’t been very specific, but I could put two and two together. I had signed up to become a groupie for this band.

I found myself staring back at Luke as the months went on, my own mind travelling to a place I hadn’t even thought of. My teeth would clamp onto my bottom lip as I averted my gaze from his. These type of exchanges went on for a few months until Luke finally sat down next to me one day. It was the first time he had actually said a word to me.

“I see you staring at me, baby,” he said. I glanced at him from my peripheral, eyeing him cautiously.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I said, trying to act innocent, crossing my legs. I saw him roll his eyes at my lie, seeing right through me.

“You know exactly what I’m talking about, sweetheart,” he almost growled as his overly large hand landed on my upper thigh. I whimpered, trying to keep my eyes down as I watched his hand run up my leg.

“Luke, no,” I said, pushing his hand off my thigh and standing up. I trudged away.

That had been the last time he had even uttered a word to me. There were a few stray glances thrown between the two of us, but nothing other than that. Luke had seemed to make it his own personal mission to stay as far away from me as possible. I just sat there, knowing that my job was to be his, and his alone. But, could I do that if he was being so elusive 75% of the time?

I was never one for first moves, but I mustered up enough courage to do so one evening while Luke was mindlessly strumming his guitar. I walked in front of him, sitting myself down next to him, watching as his fingers plucked the vinyl, beautiful sounds coming from the barrel. I watched in awe, seeing his nimble fingers pluck at the strings, making the beautiful vibrations. He never seemed to notice me, too enthralled with his guitar to pick up his head.

The melody sounded like something I had heard before, but it wasn’t one of his songs. I recognized it as Twenty One Pilots’ Car Radio. It just happened to be a favourite of mine. I closed my eyes listening mindlessly as I tried to pin what verse he was playing with the notes. Sometimes quiet is violent, I find it hard to hide it, my pride is no longer inside, it’s on my sleeve. I hummed the lyrics to myself as he continued to play through the chorus. I rested my back against the wall, watching his fingers move fluidly to strike the notes of the song as it hit a bridge and a beat drop.

“I love that song,” I accidentally said out loud, causing the blonde in front of me to look up, startled. My eyes widened, mouth falling slack into a state of surprise, a pink blush covering my cheeks as I pressed myself against the wall further, thinking I could melt into it, be invisible.

“{Y/N} what are you doing here?” he asked me then, setting his guitar down on the stand next to the bed.

“I heard you playing and I wanted to see for myself?” it came as more of a question than a statement because of the nerves that had spiked through my body. My fingers were twitching at my sides, I could feel them.

Luke cocked his head, patting the spot next to him on his bed. Cautiously, I made my way over to him, sitting a good distance away from him to keep my personal space intact. He chuckled at my state of shock, taking my upper arm and tugging my frame towards his. I reluctantly slid closer, feeling his arm brush my own. I subconsciously moved to cross myself, uncomfortable with our proximity.

“I won’t bite, I promise,” he said lightly, tapping my thigh. I flinched just a tad, but it was enough for him to withdraw his hand and place it in his own lap. His other hand came to ruffle his hair, bringing the curly locks into a better position. I was staring at this point, and he could tell.

Luke’s eyes locked on my gaze, a smirk turning up his small pink lips as he caught me red handed. I had no strength to avert my eyes, just kept staring at him like I was a puppy who wanted a treat. He was now so close to me that I could smell his breath coming off his lips; it was minty, like he had just brushed his teeth. My teeth clamped onto my bottom lip, tugging on it as we both got lost in each other’s gazes “{Y/N}..” he started, but I was quicker.

My mind had shut down, and my body was doing whatever it wanted. I leaned over him, knees on either side of his lap, straddling him. Luke’s eyes followed my movements, now having to look up at me. His rather large hands found my waist, anchoring me to him so I wouldn’t tumble backwards. I sat there for a few moments, trying to figure out what I had just done, but my thoughts were interrupted by his lips. They were soft, moist and gentle. I was’t physically or mentally prepared, but my body somehow knew what was happening. My eyes fluttered closed as I kissed him back, slow at first, but then he started to get rough.

Luke’s hand gripped the end of my tshirt, balling it in his fists as he attacked my mouth with his own. My hands mindlessly tangled in the golden locks of his hair, pulling ever so slightly. I felt Luke smile into the kiss, tugging upwards on my shirt, wanting it off. I relinquished my hold on his hair, holding my arms straight up so that he could remove the offending fabric off my body. He tossed the shirt somewhere in the room, before he moved his head to place open-mouthed kisses along my neck. “You’re so beautiful,” he breathed between kisses. I couldn’t help the blush that tinted my chest, a sigh of contentment coming from my parted lips.

Quick fingers came to unclip my bra, the straps sliding down my shoulders as Luke pulled yet another piece of clothing from my heated skin. I couldn’t seem to catch my breath, he was everywhere, and I was getting impatient. My hands wandered towards the end of the tattered black tee adorning his chest, tugging upwards as he mimicked my movements from earlier so I could get his shirt off as well. I pushed him backwards so I could sit atop his broad figure, readjusting myself so I could show some love to his toned chest.

My lips ghosted over his chest, planting kisses every now again as my hands ran over his stomach. Sounds of appreciation came from the man below me as I did my best to not collapse in awe at the beauty of Luke Hemmings. Calloused finger tips grazed my jaw line as his face raised upwards to capture the edge of my jaw in his lips, harshly sucking on the skin there. Blood rushed to the placement, a red bruise surely being formed. My hands reached for the button of his jeans, expertly getting it undone and sliding his pants down his legs, throwing them into the pile of clothes. My eyes followed my hands, graced with the sight of the tent in his underwear, eyes widening only slightly, enough for him to notice.

“Think you can handle that?” he asked, a hint of cockiness in his voice. I huffed, glaring at him from under the hair that was in my face. I pushed it out of the way, meeting his crystal blue eyes, wild with excitement and lust. I hesitated to grip the waistband of the only piece of clothing separating me from the unknown, but my hands were faster than my mind, I pulled off the tight piece of cotton, watching as his member sat up against his abdomen, swollen and red. Luke chuckled at the face I made, but I quickly shut him up as I took him in my hands.

I spread the precum dripping from the tip as lubrication, slowly pumping my hand up and down his shaft. A hiss left his lips, and I looked up to his eyes closed and his arms anchored behind his head. My tongue darted out to wet my lips, before I leaned over him, taking his dick in my mouth. A sigh left his parted lips, finally getting what he wanted. I relaxed my jaw, taking as much of him as I could without gagging, and moving my hand around the rest of him. My mouth moved expertly, tongue swirling around him every so often. I breathed slowly through my nose, hollowing out my cheeks so that he could get the feeling of my mouth around him. A sharp intake of breath from him indicated that I was doing well. I started to bob my head up and down a little faster than before, really taking him, his hips started to buck up into my mouth, whimpers coming from his mouth. The hands that were previously behind his head came to pull my hair into a make shift pony tail that he could hold onto. I moaned at the feeling, sending vibrations to his shaft which only egged him on more.

Luke started to push down on my head, and immediately I relaxed my jaw and let him do what he wanted, I felt my nose touch his pubic bone, and the tip of his dick at the back of my throat. I swirled my tongue around him once more before was pulling me off of him. I whined at the disconnection, pouting. “ I don’t wanna cum yet,” he whispered, using his hold on me to pull me into another heated kiss. My hands quickly gripped his hair again, pulling on it as his traveled lower down my back, sinking into the leggings that were donning my legs. Quick hands pushed me back, my shoulders sinking into the sheets on his bed.

Luke quickly rid me of my leggings, throwing them in the pile of our clothes in the room. His mouth traveled down my exposed abdomen, making sure to mark me wherever he saw fit. My hips pushed upwards, craving any sort of friction in the midst of all the teasing. Large hands came to swat my hips so I couldn’t squirm. A whine fell from my lips as he chuckled at my position. Clouds of bliss covered my eyes, so much so that I didn’t realize he had began rubbing me through my panties. A sigh of relief left my lips as I finally got the friction I had been wanting. I crained my neck to look at him, hair disheveled, stubble from a few weeks of not shaving covering his jaw. The everlasting smirk on his face disappearing as he ripped my panties from my hips. I raised my back so he could get them off me, no sooner had i did that, his large arm was coming to hold my hips down again.

“I think you’ve been wanting for quite some time now,” he breathed with a chuckle as I fought every muscle in my body to stay still. “Tell me you want this,” his fingers trailing dangerously close to my wanting center. A low moan came from my mouth as I squeaked out a ‘yes’. That was all he needed; his thumb began to press harshly against my clit, rubbing circles every now and again, driving me crazy. I tossed my head back, sighing in contentment as I reached for whatever I could hold on to. “Look at me,” he mumbled, making me raise my head. Once I did, I almost moaned because his lips were on my inner thighs, like lighting, he planted a kiss to my clit before he really gave me what I wanted. My body writhed in wait, waiting for him to do something. It’s as if he read my mind, his hand turned the other way, thumb pressing against my clit as he slipped one of his fingers inside me. Eyes screwing shut, hands clenching the sheets, I let out a breath of relief.

My hands flew behind me, gripping onto the plush cases of feather pillows that donned his bed. I squeezed my eyes shut as he worked with me, stretching me in the most glorious way. “Please,” I whined, surprising myself. I had never been a beggar, but I was finished with the teasing he was surely enjoying. Luke chuckled from his position, swatting me, the echo of skin on skin contact radiating through the room. My hips jutted upwards again, craving more than what he was giving me; Luke swatted me again, this time dipping his mouth towards my center. A chaste kiss was pressed to where I needed him most. Due to the everlasting teasing, a jolt of electricity hit me, a whimper leaving my mouth.

Slowly, he added another finger, eliciting a moan from me. I was rolling my hips in rhythm with his movements, a tight knot forming in the pit of my stomach. I gripped his hair harshly, pushing him down more; he was faster than me. He gripped my wrist and held it to the mattress, halting his movements. I huffed, annoyed and deprived, watching him as he towered over me.

“I don’t think so,” he stated, gripped my hips and flipping me so I was on my stomach, head facing away from him. I lowered my head to to the mattress, bracing myself for what I knew was moments from happening. I felt the mattress dip with his weight, hands on my hips, searing my already heated flesh. He grabbed my throat, forcing my body upwards, thumb and fingers pressing on either side of my neck. “Tell me what you want,” he rasped, putting more pressure on my throat. I let out a low gasp, my vocal cords refusing to work in that moment. “Fine, be like that,” he stated, gripping my hip bone with his other hand, steadying me, thrusting smoothly into me.

I choked out a groan, my arms winding around his neck to hold myself up. “Oh, my god-I” I couldn’t form coherent sentences, my mind fogged from lust and the rocking of his hips. He let go of my throat and I fell forward, catching myself on my elbows. It was then that he really went to work. His hips snapped forward with a purpose, moving my body forward so much that the headboard smacked the wall. “Luke, I-fuck” still no coherent sentences. The knot that had formed earlier was now in full force and ready to spring.

“I can feel you clenching,” he chuckled darkly, running his fingers along my shoulders, planting kisses there to soothe me. “I know you want too, cum for me baby,” he said. My eyes screwed shut, all I saw was stars as my body convulsed below him, an animalistic moan ripped through my throat as I fought to control my spasmic movements. He made sure to hold my body tightly, rubbing circles on my hips as he worked me through my orgasm. “We’re not done,” he breathed, flipping me to the side. He laid down on his back, propped on his elbows. I gawked at him, legs still trembling, but knew what he wanted. My strength came back almost instantly as I straddled him.

He helped me guide himself into my dripping core, and I adjusted yet again. My body shivered with pleasure, already beginning to clench around him again. I willed myself to relax as I put both of my palms on his chest and moved myself upward. Luke hissed under me, one of his hands reappearing from the mattress to stroke my stomach. I moved myself slowly, grinding against him every now and again just for good measure. My head lolled back with the pleasure of it, but he wasn’t having my lazy movement. Large hands came to stop my hips just above his pelvic bone. I quickly snapped my eyes open before he thrust his hips upward to meet mine. I collapsed to his chest, feeling him hit a spot that made my vision go black.

“Luke, right there” I cried, holding onto him for dear life. I felt my second orgasm climbing rapidly, I knew it was only a matter of time before I burst. A string of curse words fell from my mouth, I fought with my body. Luke kept snapping his hips with force. Then, he stopped. I jumped, taking over my slow movements from before. Beads of sweat dripped down both of our bodies, I wasn’t sure how long I could hold out. My thighs quaked with anticipation and pleasure. I lowered myself to him, pressing my lips to his; in a quick motion he gripped my hair, whispering in my ear:

“Relax, baby, I’ve got you,”

I whimpered, the knot in my stomach threatening to break. Clammy hands came to scrape at his chest, surely leaving red trails of my nails. He hissed in response. He liked it. Noted. My chest glistened with sweat, the audible sound of skin on skin and the absurd amount of moans were the only things filling his room. I lowered myself again to his chest, hissing as he moved his hips in a way that made me wild. My eyes shut hard, broken moans coming from deep in my chest as I fought with every nerve ending in my body.

“Luke, please, please,” I sobbed, sinking my teeth into his neck. He hissed again, swatting my rear for the third time. He snarled out a final ‘let go’ into my ear. That was all I needed. I fell into his chest, feeling his cock twitch inside me just the same. Ripple after ripple of pleasure scorched through me, before he roughly grabbed my hips, forcing himself to snap upwards. Chasing his own release, I coiled again, not even having come down from my previous orgasm; he already had me chasing another one. “Oh, my god, oh my GOD,” I rambled, hearing him groan under me as he once again told me to come, but with him this time.

For the final time, I collapsed, feeling his cum, hot and warm, spurt on my chest. Somewhere in between me finishing, and barely knowing, he had pulled out. I let out a laugh, trying to catch my breath.

“You okay?” Luke questioned from beside me, running a hand through his hair that I surely had messed up. I couldn’t help but giggle, bringing my hands up to cover my reddened face.

“I’m more than okay, that was pent up for a long time,” I stated, staring at him, watching his lips pull to a grin. He nodded, too tired to say anything else. Somehow I knew this wouldn’t be the last time we did this.

#5sos smut #luke hemmings #5sos #luke hemmings smut #calum hood #michael clifford #smut #one shot

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asmolemmeeatyouout · 4 years ago

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The boys with Autistic! MC! part two ! SFW

(Bc I’m self indulgent and like 5 ppl wanted it so yesyesyes)

(Had my first proper spoonie day in a while today so imma finish this after what 4 months? Whoopsie. Sorry if any of the points overlap I’ve not re read my last post, please shoot me an ask if you want anything clarified/expanded on !)

Lucifer:

Has to stop his brothers from constantly bothering you when you’re overwhelmed (they’re just worried)

You very quickly learn his office is the safest place to be when overwhelmed due to the dim lighting and the brother deterring curse on his doorway

He has a record player and SO much classical music for when you need background noise

This leads to impromptu slow dancing when you insist he needs a break and there’s music playing

If you have your own records, the *smoother ones will end up mixed in with his

*smoother as in less staccato /distracting because he is most likely working

Very much enjoys spending time in silence with you, he finds it comfortng to just exist with someone without having anything needed of him

Especially if you’re both doing your own thing, like you just being in the room with him (playing a game or reading or smthn) while he does his paperwork is so soothing to him

Mammon:

Have you seen his horns? They’re so smooth and shinyyy, a+++ stimming material

He loves head pats so he’ll willingly put his head in your lap when you watch movies

he’s very proud of his demon form but also kind of shy so it’ll take some coaxing to get him to let you touch his horns but when he sees how content it makes you? It’s his new favourite hobby letting you play with his hair and horns during movies

(That said they’re very sensitive (like him) so be gentle)

He WILL adopt your love language and mannerisms:

if you bump people he will start knocking into you constantly, (wrists, hips, shoulders, head, any and all on random repeat)

if you like to collect and give things to people he will a. Hoard them in a little shrine (that he Denys. having) and b. Start looking for things he can give you back

If you rub textures you like you’ll find him stroking your arms/face/jumper right back (sometimes with his face, but only ever in private because he feels vulnerable using such a soft form of affection)

Levithian:

You cannot tell me this man isn’t autistic

Communication is SO! EASY!

Then even If you don’t understand you can just ask. You can just ask and he’ll tell you. None of this ‘figure it out yourself’ nt bullshit

Our baby has anxiety anyway so he’s probably ‘over’ explained it before you can say anything

(Over explained in the sense of nt, personally I love it when ppl get really detailed)

In that case he gets embarrassed about how much he’s talking so it’s your turn to reassure him that he’s not boring you

The solace you get in realising you like all of his autistic traits soothes your own insecurities

That being said your anxiety (if you have it) is matchy matchy so don’t expect him to talk to the cashier for you

He’s very chill with you being non verbal because either he’s absorbed in his own game/anime/show or it means there’s more room for him to talk about his interests

That being said if your special interests/ hyperfixations don’t line up on any given day? The bickering over who’s turn it is to infodump gets intense (this is the one source of all your arguments)

All the other brothers are kind of terrified/jealous of your relationship, especially when they see you talking about a shared special interest because you talk rapid fire and very in-depth. to them it’s almost like you’re talking in code or another language because they know all the individual words but what the everloving fuck are you on about

Asmodeus:

Has specific outfits he wears when he wants you to hug him (which is always). They’re made out of the softest material, or any clothing of his you’ve expressed a texture interest in.

Finds it so amusing when you come rushing over to rub your face against his chest bc mmmmm softsoftsoft

Likes to text you in the morning to see how you’re feeling (and how sensory sensitive you are because god forbid his outfit with chains and jangles stops him from seeing you)

Understands better than Anyone that affection and love can be shown in a whole barrage of ways not just physically

Figures out how you show affection faster than any of the other brothers

Immediately starts reciprocating it (partly bc he’s selfishly trying to make you love him most)

Satan:

Will learn about your special interests so he can engage you on the topic

Is the ONLY person in the house you can talk about any special interest with, no matter how niche because he loves learning (although he does prefer the *academic* side of them rather than pop culture but he will listen to both)

*academic* as in something involving learning about something or crafting or *how* to do something, not just like, maths

You’re pretty much the only person who can keep up with him in terms of knowledge and enthusiasm (even if it’s only for very specific things) and thus you become the person he talks to about his interests

Originally kind of annoyed by how absentminded you are (because you forget several dates) but once you get settled into a routine he starts to find it cute how habitual you are, and then realises it could work to his advantage.

He then schedules a date into your weekly routine (or biweekly depending on your energy levels) so you start to get upset if it’s missed bc it’s part of your routine. (Satan is ridiculously smart and is very much willing to manipulate your routine to his (and yours) advantage, he is a demon after all)

Beelzebub:

Gives the best squishes. He’s just so big he can literally envelope you (in other news he is terrified of hurting you so he’s very nervous at first, he’s used to huggin ppl very gently bc he is a muscle mountain)

Maybe don’t use chew stims around him (unless he’s eating) because seeing you use them will either make him hungry, or he’ll ask to see it and oops it’s been swallowed hope you didn’t want that back (he’s very apologetic he really didn’t mean to but it was in his mouth and chewed before he could think)

Literally the kindest man in the universe, if you have issues with shame or *guilt* (especially if it creeps outta nowhere or it relates to not being able to do something) he will a. Reassure you and give you cuddles until you feel okay (or one on one bonding time if you’re too touch sensitive) then b. Go help with whatever task was too much so you don’t have to worry

Belphagor:

Have I mentioned the stuffies? This boy definitely has a stash of soft toys that all have names and personalities. This originally stemmed from the fact he was locked alone in an attic for a year, he needed some form of company or he was gonna go crazy, and sleeping alone is meh in his opinion. But then he became attached and after you showed him yours? And you weren’t ashamed of your teddy bears or how much you loved them he confided in you about his. (And you had a tea party)

Problems sleeping ? (Me too bud it’s 3.44 am lol) nonononno baby boy has got you, just snuggle up to him and you’ll be snoozing in no time (I HC that being around belphagor just makes you a little sleepy and the longer you’re there the stronger the urge to sleep gets)

You’re at rad (or out in public and can’t leave) and get overstimmed? Belphie has got you! He keeps sunglasses on him so he can secretly sleep when he’s not supposed to. Also (imo) he’s the king of hoodies, both his main outfits have a hood (and you can’t convince me he doesn’t wear one of them over his uniform as soon as lucifer dips), my boy will slip his hoodie on you and wrap you in a hug to get you away from the noise/sights

(I am now too tired to write anymore, hope yall enjoyed!)

#obey me #obey me hcs #obey me autistic mc #autistic mc #mammon hc #belphagor hc #lucifer hc #asmodeus hc #satan HC #beelezebub hc #leviathan hc

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homebody-nobody · 4 years ago

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So last week lots of jiara writers were posting their wips and we never got to see yours so what are your current wips if you have any?

Yeah see I got tagged but none of mine have titles til right before I publish them so I didnt think I had anything cool to share. I'm honored u thought of me tho!!

Rn I only have four I'm *actively* working on cause I try and keep my workload ~somewhat~ manageable lol

Current title: ana's birthday fic

@rcsales sorry babe this is gonna be like... two months late now. Probly more whoopsie. Basically I promised ana club smut and then I accidentally gave it a storyline and now it's at 21.8k and I still have three more porn scenes to write AND all the respective connective tissue, so. That's where I've been focusing efforts and I know its gonna take me a while to finish yet, but it is the filthiest, most sinful thing I've ever fucking written and I'm not even done with the first smut scene yet, so prepare thyselves

Current title: 'katie's bday fic'

Ditto on the apology to @aarchiess for the tardiness of said gift. This one is much shorter and deadass half way done but I hit a block and am trying to get ana's done first so hopefully I can slam it out in like 2/3 days once I'm done with the epic currently in progress. It's literally just van sex.

Title: 'home (where your heart is set in stone)

This is my roommate fic I have like 8 anons clamoring for and I SWEAR TO GOD GUYS ITS NOT ABANDONED!! I have the entire outline finished and I am still really excited to get working on it again, but I have the previous two fics to finish first.

Title: caught between (the devil and the deep blue sea)

Another multichap that looks forsaken but is not. @aarchiess and I brainstorm for this monster daily and it lives rent free in my head. We r still outlining and chap two is started, with a ton of other scenes half-written and conceptualized, as well. I want to finish the "oneshots" first n then slam out at least two chaps of home before I fully body this fic, but Katie works on it a lot in small pieces and we r both excited to share it with y'all

Floating ideas:

Engineering school au collab with @yellowlaboratory

5/6 n 1 abt ~sinful things~ collab with @hvitstark

A band au with rockstar!JJ and reporter!Kie that will probs be my next multichap after home and caught between are done

And about a million others that float around in my brain that I keep ~meaning to get to~

Anyway, thanks SO much for asking, and hopefully this is an answer to the anons that keep asking abt the multichaps... I'm sorry for ignoring y'all I get ~anxious~ lol. I swear I'm writing!! I just also started my first Big Kid 9-5 so I dont have as much time to spend on fic, and I've been trying to do less screens for mental health reasons, so even if the writing is going at a snail's pace, I promise the idea factory is churning at all waking hours.

#anon #answeres #jiara #jiara fic #obx #obx fic #outer banks #wip #lets talk about fic baby

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phoebehalliwell · 4 years ago

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If Prue had lived, what do you think her kids would have been like, and how do you think they would have affected the various power level structures of the next gen?

okay so i think there are a couple options based on who’s the father of the child that would yield different results so in a very me fashion imma make this a very long post and break down all of them. this is 2.5k. it’s going under a cut.

andy so i think had andy not died he and prue would have definitely gotten married first i would say somewhere around the season 2 finale maybe the penultimate episode to end on a sweet high note while still setting up season 3 or something i think he and prue would have their first child ehh probably announced in the s3 finale. i think she’d be a girl i think she’d be a telekinetic like her mama and i think her name would definitely be patricia (and i wanna say in her teenage years she’d go by trix) i think her powers would definitely grow to advanced telekinesis by the time she’s of a fighting age. if i were writing her i would give her a gradual power development of like telekinetically lifting herself up in fights (like what we sometimes saw prue do) to levitation to flight if i wanna get really jiggy w it). i would think prue would definitely want multiple kids (ideally three daughters) and i think andy would definitely Also want sorta that white picket fence family. i think that piper and leo would still be pregnant at the end of season four, with prue’s second pregnancy occuring around beginning to mid season five. i also think about halfway through prue’s second pregnancy she and andy would choose to move out into their own home bc well let’s face it the manor’s a lil crowded (paige is also here in the au don’t ask me how). so wyatt matthews halliwell would be born in february prue and andy would probably move out in april their second child would be born hmm let’s say september. a girl named hmm it has to be a p name i’m firm on that but i don’t really wanna go penelope bc then i feel like it’s too locked in to a naming after ancestors thing but like also it would still be a very prue name & prue is already named after her ancestors so what the hell i’ll name her penelope. let’s talk powers. baby wyatt will keep his whitelighter based powers such as an orb shield, orbing, and healing, but he won’t be a telekinetic. he still has the power of projection. the twice blessed isn’t a thing. penelope i think would be the molecular witch, with powers of molecular deceleration & acceleration (but not freezing or combustion) as well as the ability to adjust her own molecular structure and “phase” (a la kitty pryde from xmen). next in the halliwell line would be chris who would still be born in october of 03 with powers of orbing, telekinesis, and telekinetic orbing, followed then by andy and prue’s third daughter born in utopia in s7 lemme go check the family tree for names there aren’t actually that many p names on there so now i guess lemme make one up one that sounds appropriately vintage like okay so i personally hc p bowen (prue’s past life) to be named pearl, p baxter as pauline, and p russel as phyllis out of all of those i think i’d chose pearl okay so i googled 19th century baby names p names i found were parthena permilia philippa pamela patience and priscilla. okay so i’m actually deciding now that the name philippa comes from andy’s side of the family and that’s the name of the third daughter who will follow suit with the charmed one’s schtick and have premonitions, which includes both precognition and retrocognition, as well as clairvoyance and limited telepathy (she’s basically a human lie detector, but if she actually wants to hear someone’s thoughts, she was to have physical contact and be in a quasi-meditative state). piper be pregnant with melinda at the end of s8, melinda’s powers would be empathy along with the whitelighter powers of healing orbing and photokinesis. next would be the twins tam and kat who would still split molecular combustion and immobilization as well as the whitelighter powers basically i wouldn’t change their powers from what they already have henry jr is also here, still a mortal. pj would not be named pj as Prue Isn’t Dead but i think phoebe would still really wanna stick with the p names. since prue’s already burned through the family tree i think she’d pick a more modern name (and i’m sticking with the gender neutral theme all of phoebe’s kids have) so like percy pax pemberley i’m also really tempted by pisces. hmm. pemberly. who i’d give astral projection and then also um well possession. like yeah y’know projecting her astral form into somebody else and being able to like read them while in their bodies all that. parker stays with premonition and uhh i just recently came up with a power progression for parker that i would love to employ but like i think i really wanna keep it a secret for now but i might end up talking about it later peyton would still be a telekinetic and all three cupitches can still beam and sense love. okay!

jack jack gets an obligatory section bc he was one of the few love interests to last more than one episode but uhh that baby would definitely be a whoopsie! or should i say,,, babies that’s right it’s twins. and i don’t think prue and jack would together romantically but i think they’d still be like y’know friends i think jack would be there to support prue & his kids but i do think prue would be the primary caregiver i think jack would maybe get them like on weekends or like every third week of the month. and i’m Really tempted to give them last name first names and have the kids be names warren and sheridan and Yes they’d be both boys. i sorta wanna melinda warren both of em and just like. give em all three powers what the hell. given that it’s so many powers stacked in one witch i don’t think their powers would ever greatly develop i don’t think there’d be any advanced telekinesis or molecular combustion or like astral premonitions but i do think they have all three powers. and they are identical. so they’re both born in 2000, flash foward to 2002 wyatt is born wyatt matthew halliwell with orbing, orb sheild, healing, telekinetic orbing, and telekinesis. cut forward to 2004 piper has her second child who is in this reality a girl, with orbing, molecular combustion/immobilization, & invisibility. her name would be melinda christina halliwell. i think we can fast forward the timeline a bit i think the piper and leo would have their third child at the end of s8 another boy named john after grams’s maiden name, orbing, premonition, levitation. i feel like cosmically we’ve already filled our twin quotient so no tam & kat in this universe so paige and henry only have one kid a daughter i always pick from shakespeare baby names for not!tam&kat bc like. they’ve got shakespeare names. in the past i’ve used isabel and beatrice this time i’m gonna go for jourdain who has the power of projection, as well as the whitelighter power of omnilingualism. henry & paige still end up accidentally adopting a mortal in this au, but here she’s a girl, so instead of making the henry jr joke henry calls her paige jr the name sticks she goes by pj. cupitches once again we’re going pemberley parker and peyton and once again i’m sticking with the same power set from the andy timeline.

bane okay so give me a sign they have sex prue is pregnanté bane is in jail. charges of racketeering, tax evasion, money laundering and embezzlement, but like okay he’s a career criminal, meaning their notoriously hard to catch. and i think he’s have a good lawyer. max sentence for racketeering is 20 years, tax evasion 5, money laundering 20, embezzlement 3. i’m not a law student i don’t know shit about like,, douple jeopardy all that but like. imma say sentenced to ten years in jail let out in 7 on good behavior + they’re all nonviolent crimes so. is that how it works? okay but basically baby #1 prolly a sagittarius born in 2000. i’m saying girl. i think again like with the jack situation this really isn’t prue’s white picket fence family this is strange and rebellious and unprecedented meaning it’s not guaranteed to be a “p” name but nothing’s like. immediately coming to mind. i feel like it has to be a name that captures prue’s rebellious spirit and the sorta intense passion she keeps below the surface so i wanna go for something outta left field. i also feel like prue cares a lot about the meaning / origin of her baby name so i’m gonna pick from a list of witches of myth. hecate’s obvi out as she’s a demon in charmed verse so i’m thinking circe or freyja. i feel like circe’s more associate with turning men into pigs than anything else so i’m gonna settle with freyja who’s technically a goddess and not a witch but like. minutia. i’m giving her the same power set as patricia / trix which is advance telekinesis + eventual flight. yada yada yada baby wyatt chris & melinda are born, powers as in canon (including empathy for melinda which is in fact Not Canon but like canon in my heart). tamora and kat are born, powers as in canon, bane is out of jail, pemberley is born, astral projection + possession, henry jr is there, prue and bane have another kid in ‘08, a girl (i’m sticking with the badass women of myth theme) named atalanta, nicknamed tal rhymes with the cal in calorie. yes i know i’m very white. powers of molecular immobilization & cryokinesis. next born in 09 cupitch parker still with cupid powers and premonition, then prue and bane’s third daughter born in 2010 (i’m telling you bane def has that like white picket fence adoring family dream. he frickin loves kids & like dutifully drives them to ballet practice every day after school type thing. loves the idea of being able to yell “honey! i’m home!” total sap) her name’s probs gonna be like. morrigan. her powers are a riff on the premonition aspect of thee power of three, she can pick up on “psychic reverb” and sense if a great act of magic has happened somewhere as well as sense great good, great evil, and immense power. also with the her psychic power she can mark crossroads and tell if a decision is about to be altering, though she can’t sense which outcome is the “best”. finally baby peyton still a telekinetic cupitch born in 2011.

justin congrats, bud. the only other prue love interest to make it past a single episode. too bad we really don’t know shit about this guy. simp? we can assume? yeah so in this timeline they come together basically when piper & leo are getting married so in this timeline we are still getting wyatt first with all his canonically op self. then we’re getting chris, same as in canon i guess i feel like he should have more powers give him combustive orbing what the fuck why not. okay so like maybe ‘03-’04 prue and justin move out / move in together, married by late ’04 (just before utopia in s7). they have their first daughter in 2005 still s7 once again named patricia and she’s a telekinetic like prue. we’ll push melinda up to ’06 still an empath + other whitelighter powers & tlk orb. 2007 will have both tam & kat with their canon powers, followed by penelope with cryokinesis, closed out with pemberley with astral projection. jump to 09 parker born with premonition in spring and i said philippa was an andy’s family name so patience in the fall. and she can uhh same thing as morrigan she’s psychic. 2011 the final baby is born it’s peyton telekinetic + cupitch powers as always. henry jr is also here placed where he normally is (slightly younger than pj/pemberley)

bonus round!dency addition okay so idk if i’ve said this before but i’ve actually sorted out dency’s relatives in her world one sec i gotta pull up the google doc okay dency born first only child the source’s heir next up is melinda penelope “penn” halliwell the only child of leo & piper aka the twice blessed followed by paige’s sons taran & kai, twins, the ultimate power. but now prue’s in the mix! i’m pairing her with andy bc that was her most significant relationship. as previously stated i think prue and andy’s first child would be born in early season four as patricia, same powers as stated earlier with advanced telekinesis & flight. dency technically would no longer be named dency in this au as once again, prue is not dead. she would be named victoria after her grandfather. same powers that she already holds (pyrokinesis, cryokinesis, flaming, limited telepathy (only the lie detector part) & super strength). her power rivals that of patricia’s despite not being the first born in the generation bc she was infused with the source. she would be born early s5. then keeping with the timeline piper & leo’s firstborn comes mid s5, another girl named melinda. melinda’s powers are orbing, molecular immobilization, and advanced healing. at this point prue is Pregnant Again and calls dibs on the name penelope so that does not become melinda’s middle name. in the dency au coop shows up earlier, which in turn accelerates paige and henry ending up together because i said so. piper is pregnant at the beginning of s6. prue and andy have their second daughter penelope, paige and henry get together, piper and leo have their second daughter christina. s6 ends. penelope gets molecular deceleration & acceleration. christina has orbing, telekinesis, & an orb shield. s7. whoops paige is pregnant. hey it’s twins! tamora & kat. tamora is the physical while kat is the spiritual. tamora can orb, telekinetically orb, and has normal telekinesis. kat has premonitions, clairvoyance, and omnilingualism. s8. prue gets pregnant again at some point. season finale. philippa is born. she can astral project, and will later develop suggestion. piper is pregnant again. it’s still 2006. now it’s 2007. piper’s baby is born. it’s a boy??? meet baby john. an empath. omnilingual. can orb. henry jr also shows up. at this point it’s been like 5 years since phoebe’s traumatic incident with cole / the source and she decides she wants to have kids again. she and coop have their first daughter in 2008, a girl they name leona. cupid powers of beaming & sensing love, and levitation that will eventually develop into flight. limited precognition. 2010. they have another child, this time a boy, warren. beaming, sensing love, telekinesis, telekinetic beaming. 2011 they final baby of the generation is born, phoebe and coop’s daughter let’s call her charlotte. she doesn’t have molecular immobilization, that magic mix with a cupid’s control over time. she has temporal stasis (& beaming & sensing love)

#zoo wee mama #charmed #prue halliwell #i didn't get too much into the familiar dynamics and relationships bc like #holy shit there are so many of them #wow #anyway this was fun!#next gen #charmed next generation #💌#i don't think this counts as a mini essay this is more like #hmm #a catalogue

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wayves-domain · 5 years ago

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Miku Expo 2020 post but it’s too late.

Whoops

Anyway, HOLY SHIT this was a ride!

I won’t be listing all songs because this is already late, I’ll be covering the ones that stood out to me the most.

Let’s dive in!

Dang there were a lot of people! I managed to get a bit closer in the crowd than this pic so that was nice, still wasn’t able to see much due to me being a 5’2 gremlin.

Song list was a little different from London, Paris and Berlin tho. I went all researchy to know all the songs and we get songs I never thought I would hear live. And I LOVED it!

First off we got Miku’s Resonance (instead of Raspberry Monster) and I was singing along, without realizing it was one of my FAVORITE SONGS!

Oof, terrible pic right? Sorry about that.

Moving on to Rin!

While those three countries got Sweet Magic, Amsterdam got Kokoro, and I was living. That was my favorite F2nd song so of course I knew it by heart

It’s the best photo I got from the song. I love this dong so fucking much

Then we got, instead of Dappou Rock (the other countries), Butterfly On Your (Right) Shoulder. I was vibing so hard I forgot to take pics. Fuck.

ANYWAY

Moving on to the others because there’s so many Miku songs and I won’t be able to add that many pics on mobile!

Remote Controller! GOD I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG

It reminded me of me wanting to be able to shut my brother up when he’s gaming (it still does).

Meiko and Kaito! I got to see Remade Blue Longing (loving that putfit girl ) and Attakaito and I was so happy! These songs really checked my vibes though, ad I did not know them word for word, so I yelled in gibberish most of the songs...

Hurrah for my bad as fuck iPhone cam and ruining Kaito 😭

Two Luka songs! Never Die made me cry more than I wanted and after that one (RIGHT after that one) came Even If It’s Your Happiness which sounded so beautiful

Later on we got Jump For Joy, and I got a good pic of two (2) girlfriends

After that, a bit more serious...

The wowaka tribute. I’d like to take a moment to say how much Wowaka has meant to me. I might not have known him personally, but his music helped me through tougher times, songs like Rolling Girl and World’s End Dance Hall were one of the first songs I ever listened to when joining the fandom over 5 years ago. Rest in peace Wowaka. You won’t need to keep on rolling anymore. 💔

*wipes away tear irl* well then, let’s continue. After his tribute, we got Unhappy Refrain instead of Rolling Girl, which was a huge surprise to me, but tears were shed nontheless. They even projected crescent moons at the end of the concert, but I wasn’t able to photograph them in time. However, they’re in my photographic memory forever, and they were beautiful.

Hibana Hibana Hibana Hibana!!!!

I can’t even describe how hard I screamed when I heard the opening notes! All the people yelling nanananana were amazing, the good vibes were in the room. And what made it better is that it’s in the new Mega39’s, so when the game releases in europe I’ll be damned if I don’t get it.

Ohedo Julia Night was a blast! When Miku blasted those drums I happily drummed along, almost hit someone while doing so, whoopsies.

After that the bad got introduced with was amazing!

Decade, last expo’s theme was played, it was really great!

Hm, what else? Oh! I know!

BRING! IT! ON! That’s right, Giga’s Bring It On was live and HOLY FUCK I downloaded the song immediately on the way home, what a banger

Thank you random glowstick for ruining Rin...

After that, the last song and this year’s theme Lucky Orb played and EEEEE I LOVE THE OUTFIT!

That’s it for my two month late review on Miku Expo 2020, hope yall can forgive my evil camera

#p rambles #miku expo 2020 #miku expo #sorry it’s so late #irl stuff interfered

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jmtorres · 3 years ago

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Did it, because I would rather tumblr make money this way than off of post+ BS. Part of me feels like it's a high cost but good grief I pay $5 a month for MarioKart Gold, like, it's worth it to me? I am on tumblr approximately every day, it is one of the ways I feed my ADHD brain enough varied input not to crawl the walls, so it was a worthwhile investment for me.

[image description: screencap of "Ad-Free Browsing" tab of Tumblr settings on desktop/browser view, showing "Your subscription is active" in a green highlight box, describing the plan as "Enjoy Tumblr without interruptions from ads" and "$39.99/year" with a button below to "Cancel subscription"; a "Payment method" description with credit card information blacked out by the screencapper for user security, showing a date of February 25, 2023 for the next payment; and a button at the bottom to "Contact support" if you "Need some help with your subscription?" /end id]

Couldn't do it through the iOS app, had to do it in the browser, but that means apple doesn't take a (n enormous) cut, and more money goes to keeping the tumblr servers from doing a whoopsy or whatever the silly error message is.

I suspect some people are having a kneejerk negative reaction to the idea of a subscription service because we're starting to have more prominent conversations about how the digital world and digital providers want us to pay for a subscription rather than buying media outright (ie Adobe and Microsoft switching to a model where you have to pay monthly to access their software and your files, and streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Spotify, instead of just buying DVDs/blu-rays/CDs/or even non-physical purchases like off of BandCamp, although there's also something to be said about if you don't download your digital purchases and expect to be able to get them out of the cloud from whatever device then you're at the mercy of the media provider anyway). (Sidenote: is my comparison of MarioKart Gold essentially doing what Adobe does re making you subscribe for software? Sort of, but. MarioKart updates with new race tracks/variations of race tracks every 2 weeks, periodically comes out with new drivers, carts, etc, and also has a live component where you race against other users. And technically you can get most of that without paying anything! But my point is they're actually making the game interesting on an ongoing basis, rather than it being a static piece of software that COULD be a single purchase, and that's how I justify subscribing to them.)

SO THEN, Tumblr. What does Tumblr offer that makes it worth a subscription rather than a one-off purchase (possibly elsewhere)? Tumblr is not merely a media storage system, although the immense amount of images and video people upload on here is part of why they need significant funds to function. It's also (micro)blogging/interaction. Their service is a real-time, (approximately) social media service, not just media/software rental like the subscription services you may have seen rants telling you to get rid of. Tumblr is a way I get varied viewpoints and interests from users I have chosen to follow, not from an algorithm designed to get clicks out of me like on youtube or tiktok or instagram or twitter. (Obviously Tumblr does have "best stuff first" and "because you liked" which we do not want, but hey, they are settings you can TURN OFF.) Tumblr is a hub where I get to see what you are all watching and reading and drawing and making and analyzing and writing. This is not readily duplicable by following your individual RSS feeds the way something like Spotify is duplicable by buying the music you want directly from the actual artists. I mean, SOME of you have your own sites and sell the art you make, but I don't think most of the people I follow are monetized actually, and by and large, the general internet user no longer has (or knows the meaning of) an RSS feed, and I'm not sure the general internet user ever did or if I was in a weird niche in the early 2000s. I can't aggregate you all to view easily without this service, so Tumblr is actually doing me a service.

Both MarioKart and Tumblr are doing something I like: you CAN get most of the functionality for free, they're not requiring you to pay. I think, unfortunately, that also means that a lot of people devalue the functionality that's provided, because there's a mentality of, if I can get it for free, it's not worth anything, is it? But before you decry Tumblr offering a subscription for ad-free service, remember a) no one is making you pay for it, you can just choose not to spend money on it if you don't think it's worth it to you or if money's tight, and you can still get most of the functionality of Tumblr, and b) Tumblr DOES have functionality most of us like or we wouldn't be here. We like having our dashboard in reverse chronological order. We like the tag system. We like the ability to post high-quality pictures, videos, and long text posts. We like being able to reply to posts. We like being able to send asks (and some people like being able to receive them!). We like the communities of users we've chosen to follow, that Tumblr allows us to connect to. We like not being relentlessly tracked like on Facebook, and frankly, paying for a subscription DIRECTLY allows that to keep being a thing, because the other main option for income for a site like Tumblr is relentless tracking used for targeted ads. Like Facebook does.

Sure, there are problems with Tumblr. It's not perfect. It could stand improvement. It's made mistakes in the past (though not all of them are its fault--if you want to get upset about certain types images and words no longer being allowed here, you need to get mad at Apple's walled-garden philosophy about their app store, and about United States legislation limiting what's allowed on the internet. I'm not being super specific here so my comments don't get shadow-banned due to "bad" keyword usage. And that's a 'feature' of Tumblr that is super terrible but you can definitely point the finger at Apple throwing a tantrum and Tumblr trying to keep questionable posts from popping up in Apple's test searches so that the Tumblr app can stay in the iOS store. I've read about Apple/the iOS App Store limitations being extremely up for interpretation to the individual Apple tester, like, it's inconsistent and therefore extremely difficult to meet the standards because the standards are not standardized. Tumblr is basically doing the best that it can on that front).

But my point is, for all of the problems with Tumblr, you and I are still here using it, it has enough features that make it worth using to us. And it's up to you if those features are worth paying for, for your own use case and budget and priorities, but please acknowledge that there are positive features, even if you choose to take advantage of the option to continue using them for free.

And if you do become a paying subscriber? That means Tumblr is more likely to listen to you and me about future changes and future problems.

This is 100% new and 100% Tumblr with 0% ads.

If you love ads, then this post is not for you. If you love Tumblr but hate ads and want the one to continue without having to endure the other, then this post is literally for you. Hello, you.

As of today, you can set up ad-free browsing on your personal desktop computer, from anywhere in the world, and then enjoy the same effervescent Tumblr you know and love (yes, including mobile) without the interruption of ads. Scroll away.

Some caveats:

It’s $4.99 for a month of pure, unadulterated nonsense.

If you like a discount, you can get 33% off (that’s four months for free) at $39.99 for a whole year. Imagine.

This is opt-in. You don’t have to do this. We won’t make you.

How do you opt in?

Easy! Just go to your Account Settings on desktop and hit "Go Ad-Free." From there, you can choose to pay monthly or yearly:

And that’s it! You’ll be able to enjoy your favorite blogs and posts without any pesky ads getting in the way.

That’s all for now, Tumblr. Back to your blorbos.

#how to tumblr #tumblr #subscription #digital capitalism #webbed site

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nikatyler · 6 years ago

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You might have seen me complain about this “graduation thing” that I had to write. (my English teacher actually called it a thesis, but that sounds too fancy in my opinion lol. I just...can’t see myself writing a thesis...yet. Language is funny.) Well, IT IS DONE. I CAN BREATHE NOW. I have some more things to finish before my graduation exams, and then I have to learn all the topics for the exams but for now, everything is fine. I’ll worry about this later. Speaking of exams and everything, I have one last month of high school left. When did that happen? There are the exams in May, uni entrance exams in June...and then I’m off to the so called adulthood. Help??

Let’s talk about sims for a bit...well, I’d love to but I’m almost never playing anymore. There’s no time. I’ll probably play BPR this weekend, as per usual. I guess I’ll start posting it in like June or July, so that will be almost a year since I started playing it. It’s going to be great, I promise. Well, the beginning already makes me cringe, but the things I’m doing now are fun. Kinda cringey too, but I feel like I can justify that since that’s cringey on purpose haha.

Replies now. There’s a lot of them because I don’t do these regularly anymore oops. It’s probably not everything because my activity feed hides stuff from me. I just know it. Smh tumblr

alfalfalegacy replied to your photoset “Sammy: … Lydia: “Come on.” Sammy: “These…these two guys. They laughed...”

Can't believe I'm about to throw hands with some teenagers I haven't even met lol

Same lol. They won’t even ever show up but I hate them so much

myopiccc replied to your photoset “Lydia: “They should mind their own business! Sammy, listen to me now....”

I'm on your side Lydia!

She has a good valid point but if I could talk about this to her I would probably try to stop her too. She doesn’t think about the consequences haha

create-a-sim replied to your photoset “Sim Request: Michelle Emmons for @alfalfalegacy I do this thing that...”

she's soooo cute!!

Thank youuu! I really like how she turned out too!

melien replied to your post “post nsb”

Anon told you to post nsb so you should immediately go play and post nsb because your blog exists exclusively for their personal pleasure and entertainment! No excuses!!

Wait until they find out I want to post BPR next. Another sims 3 save. SCANDALOUS. HOW DARE I PLAY ANYTHING THAT ISN’T OUR LORD AND SAVIOR THE SIMS 4™. Sorry I read a post comparing ts3 and ts4 a few days ago and I’m still salty.

Anon pls don’t start a riot

melien replied to your photoset “Annabeth: “Uh…I think your face is stuck.” Regan: “Didn’t you know...”

I second this! It's kinda creepy when it happens

It’s too much. If they smiled a little less, I probably wouldn’t mind but this is just creepy. It kinda reminds me of that Momo thing that was everywhere on the internet a few months ago. My sister showed me a picture and uhh...I didn’t need to see that.

melien replied to your photoset “Adam: “Why can’t you be more like your siblings?” Lydia: “Umm, dad,...”

She's a modern day Tyler I guess

Sort of, yeah. Tyler kinda fakes it I’d say, he’s not as dumb as he’s trying to seem. It’s a role he chose to play for reasons. Which...probably makes him dumb in a way but oh well. Lydia...I don’t want to say she’s dumb because she’s not really, but there’s a slight difference between her and Tyler haha. I could talk about this a lot.

melien replied to your post “I`d looove to make ships with other people however I`m not completely...”

It's fine! Showing them in the legacy is more than enough. With people who I have the most ships with, we do discuss them, but it's not like 24/7 headcanon exchange, it just happens naturally whenever either of us has an idea. There's no right way to act when you have a ship with someone, so you're good! It's still much better than one-sided ship when the other person just isn't interested.

I’m the kind of person who would like to have everything clear, possibly broken down to a step-by-step tutorial haha. Even though I know some things don’t work like that. So naturally, stuff like talking to people confuses me a lot. Also, teamwork! I don’t know how to do it. Depending on who I’m working with, I’ll either be the one who does all the decisions or the one who nods and agrees with everything the partner says. Communication is hard, basically.

I think that here, another big problem with me is that I hate spoilers and I don’t want to spoil anything to anyone ever. Even if they probably have the right to know first. But hey, all the current ships I have with other people have been shown, maybe I’ll feel more comfortable doing it now?

melien replied to your photoset “Didn’t I tell you to go inside? “Omg muuuuum leave me alone.”

Caleb: okay

Caleb: *rises from his grave* “Don’t disrespect me, son-in-law.”

melien replied to your photoset “Hey hi hello I know everyone is busy downloading Strangerville right...”

Super late here but Myra and everyone else look great! ��

Thank! I’ve been thinking about updating the entire tree again though, giving everyone new pictures, so who knows how long this will stay whoops.

melien replied to your post “Why do y'all open sim requests when I have no use for more sims. �� I...”

Same :/ I want sims from everyone but I just know I won't use them anywhere in the nearest future and I don't want to put pressure on myself

Looking back, I’m actually glad I requested all these sims for gen 6 because it kept me going. I knew I had to get through the hard too-many-sims-in-the-household part because I wanted to show them in the end.

I hate when people request sims and then never ever use them anywhere. Don’t get me started on “hey I want to start a new legacy, please give me spouses for all ten generations”, followed a few days/weeks later by “hey guys sorry, I’m not that interested in this legacy, I’ll be starting a new one” - and the cycle starts over again. Why would anyone do that? Just ask for a gen 10 sim when you get there, it’s not that hard to wait.

I mean, here’s what I’m doing right now - I’ve created a peach spouse for my bpr sim months ago, they haven’t even met in the legacy yet, but I’d already love to have the orange sim for the next generation because I’m so excited about this all at the moment. Am I going to ask someone now? Hell no. I didn’t play this legacy for like six months and even though I love it so much lately, there’s a chance I’ll lose interest in it again. I’ll ask for an orange sim when I’ll know I can do gen 3...it’s gen 3 right. Oh well.

melien replied to your photoset “I forgot this interaction existed. I don’t do weddings too often. My...”

Is this a wedding-specific interaction? I feel like I haven't seen it in my game yet but idk for sure

Yes! I think they can only do it with that moodlet they get as soon as they get married.

melien replied to your photoset “Lydia the…wait, I need a really good superhero name. Ah, I’ll think...”

Lydibug

Uhhhh, the other day I thought about how Eielyd (switched i/y because of her name, I know it’s eyelid) would be a really stupid nickname for her but Lydibug actually sounds cool aaaand it’s now canon she loves Miraculous Ladybug.

melien replied to your photoset “Lydia: “I’m gonna make fun of every asshole in this town. Starting...”

Ooooooooo good luck getting out of this one

Whoopsie

Something similar actually happened to me in elementary school, my friend and I were talking about which colour we want our house be when we’re adults and then I said something like: “I don’t know but I definitely don’t want it to be yellow! Yellow houses are ugly.” And she goes: “My house is yellow.” My face turned red and I started shaking because I thought I had offended her sooo badly. I remember I got out of it saying something like: “Your house is okay, I just don’t like the bright yellow ones.” I don’t know what I had against yellow houses, to be fair. But I didn’t like them.

alfalfalegacy replied to your photoset “Sammy: “How was your day, Will?” Will: “Good. Very good. You need to...”

Oh my god Will ��

Don't jump ahead in the plot lol

Since he plays so much with magic, maybe he’s seen the future haha

autistichatkid replied to your post “Hi guys, I have a question �� I know some of you have been here...”

rose!!! idk exactly when but i believe miracle was a child and tyler had long hair

alfalfalegacy replied to your post “Hi guys, I have a question �� I know some of you have been here...”

Came in just before Miracle's gen started and have stayed ever since!!

lalunebleue replied to your post “Hi guys, I have a question �� I know some of you have been here...”

I first started following when you were doing the ts3/ts4 crossover story with Zoe. That was a really cool idea.

kyveria replied to your post “Hi guys, I have a question �� I know some of you have been here...”

right at the beginning of your nsb legacy, and I thought it was the best one! ��

harmoniouspixels replied to your post “Hi guys, I have a question �� I know some of you have been here...”

I found your blog around the time Caleb was pregnant with Miracle and the mommy jokes from Tyler began (I could’ve been following earlier, but I distinctly remember that)

simlovinggirl replied to your post “Hi guys, I have a question �� I know some of you have been here...”

I found you on Gen 5 of your Rose Legacy. Miracle's story still pulls at my heart ♥

autumndiesirae replied to your post “Hi guys, I have a question �� I know some of you have been here...”

I think I got your blog on my recommended feed during Ross' transformation in NSB

whysimstho replied to your post “Hi guys, I have a question �� I know some of you have been here...”

I was looking up nsb stories to read, and I found the breeze legacy which was around when Ross was still a child. Then I noticed your sims 3 posts and was like "oo that looks cool" so I started reading them from the beginning too lol

desira-sims replied to your post “Hi guys, I have a question �� I know some of you have been here...”

I came across a Caleb and Ross post. I then proceeded to binge read your nsb until I had caught up.

This post lowkey backfired. I asked just because I was curious and suddenly there I was, reading the comments and sobbing because this is so cool and basically, I love and appreciate you all so much guys, you have no idea.

I guess it’s one thing knowing you see someone in your activity feed all the time, and the other thing is actually remembering when you’ve started seeing them and how much they’ve seen. It’s insane.

It’s also interesting to see how I feel about many of these things now (Zoey and Miracle’s storylines are the greatest example) and then here you are still saying it was good...makes me wonder if I’m too hard on myself. I’m never satisfied with everything!

kymmaisims replied to your post “Plans for this week and other rambling”

Take your time! We understand ��

It’s going to be a few hard months now...but hopefully I’ll be able to do it!

alfalfalegacy replied to your photoset “Annabeth: “Consider yourself invited, Micah.”

!!!

Here we finally gooooo

alfalfalegacy replied to your photoset “Cassandra: “That was the dumbest romcom I’ve seen in a while.” Sammy:...”

The way Sammy looks at her in this post is really cute :')))

PROTECT

pxelblobs replied to your post “Nope! Not at all. I did not just read all 377 pages of your Rose...”

I did! It took a few days but it inspired me to play a non berry save.

Yay, I’m happy to hear that!

kymmaisims replied to your post “In case you were wondering why there were no timezone reblogs today: I...”

*cough* poses *cough* �� Congrats on almost reaching a milestone! You deserve it!

Thank you! Three more followers left. That’s insane. I still feel the same way I did when I only had like 100 followers.

tiny-tany-thaanos replied to your photoset

No, Miracle don't return to the aliens right now! You still have teens to raise! And a husband.

That would have been kinda cool if it happened, wouldn’t it? You’re not ready for what actually happened. Haha...haha...hahaha...just you wait, it starts today.

tiny-tany-thaanos replied to your photoset “Calypso Heather for @sinfulwunders’s Melanie BC A long time ago,...”

Oh. My. God is she cool!

Thank you! I knooow, I love her so much *-* I tried doing some things differently this time and it was so worth it.

justkeeponsimming replied to your photoset “Look, she deserves a break. She freaking raised six children.”

She looks so adorable OMG

She does! My opinion on her has changed a lot through the years (I mean, she’s not my most favourite sim anymore, I don’t think her storyline was the best thing I’ve ever done etc), but nothing will change the fact that she’s the cutest sim I have.

harmoniouspixels replied to your post “˜ºï¸ Caleb Vatore”

Re Number 2: Yes, you're right! He's shown being romantic with women and then a guy in the vampire pack's trailer. We stan a canon bisexual icon

Ahh I knew I didn’t make it up! We stan a canon bisexual icon indeed

alfalfalegacy replied to your photoset “Will: “A real fairy!” ??: “Huh?” Will: “I mean…oh my god. I’m sorry....”

Will's a big mood though. Cause I too would see a fairy and then immediately blurt something out like that ��

I wouldn’t blurt it out, probably (I don’t talk irl lmao), but I’d do something equally embarrassing and my reaction would be probably the same. I’d run away and feel bad about it.

tiny-tany-thaanos replied to your photoset “One Year of Breeze NSB Legacy! On this day one year ago, as soon as I...”

Happy birthday, the Breezes! ❤️��❤️

fataleromeo replied to your photoset “One Year of Breeze NSB Legacy! On this day one year ago, as soon as I...”

I love these edits! ��

froggypixel replied to your photoset “One Year of Breeze NSB Legacy! On this day one year ago, as soon as I...”

This is so freakin cool��❤️❤️

justkeeponsimming replied to your photoset “One Year of Breeze NSB Legacy! On this day one year ago, as soon as I...”

ronnie these edits are SO cute! I love love love what you did with the screenshots in the background!

Thank you guys! ♥ ♥ I didn’t know what to do, so I just took some simple couple pictures and then I thought wait a minute...I could put screenshots from the two finished generations in the background!

I kinda wanna do the same thing for Rose Legacy which turns three years old this April, but I hate editing ts3 pictures - mainly because the alpha hair is a bitch to edit, at least for me. I’m pretty good at faking it, but I actually don’t know much about Photoshop :D Once again, thank you guys.

#replies #alfalfalegacy #myopiccc #create-a-sim #melien #autistichatkid #lalunebleue #kymmaisims #tiny-tany-thaanos #justkeeponsimming #kyveria #harmoniouspixels #simlovinggirl #autumndiesirae #whysimstho #desira-sims #fataleromeo #froggypixel

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pluckyredhead · 6 years ago

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Pls share more about Heroes in Crisis??

OKAY SO.

The pitch for Heroes in Crisis (well, the pitch to readers) was that there was going to be this place called Sanctuary, set up by the Justice League, where heroes could come and get therapy for their trauma - but something terrible happens there, and the heroes have to deal with it. The stars were going to be the trinity plus Booster Gold and Harley Quinn. It’s by Tom King and Clay Mann.

[SPOILERS AHEAD!]

So, okay, first of all, I was...concerned by King choosing to use Booster as a major character because a) WHAT IF HIS TRAUMA WAS THAT TED DIED AGAIN??? (it’s not, Ted’s fine) and b) he really shat the bed when he wrote Booster in his Batman run. I mean, just terrible.

(Short version: Booster decides to go back in time and save Bruce Wayne’s parents as a wedding gift for Batman even though four fucking seconds prior to that he was in a Superman storyline where he was like “Superman you can’t change the past, sorry bro!” and also in this continuity I’m not sure Bruce and Booster have ever MET. Anyway he created a dystopian AU where Selina is feral and kills Alfred and Batman is...some other guy who kills the Waynes, so AU Bruce chains Booster up in the basement for a year and tortures him until he agrees to bring the Waynes back and the whole experience drives Booster “insane” but he manages to restore the original timeline in the end? It’s a wildly illogical storyline that treats Booster like a more profound idiot than I think any other writer I’ve seen, and that’s saying something.)

So anyway, Heroes in Crisis starts in media res with shit already having gone down at Sanctuary, which is a fine way to start a story usually, but “Batman and Superman and Wonder Woman have an old country house somewhere remote staffed by therapy robots that we’ve never mentioned” is...KIND OF A LEAP. (I will say that Bruce deciding that the best way to provide therapy is via robots and surveillance footage that is immediately deleted is VERY in character. Bruce talk to a human please.)

Anyway a bunch of characters are dead: Roy Harper, white Wally West (because there are two Wallys now), Blue Jay, Hot Spot, Lagoon Boy, Steel (one of the Henshaws, not John Henry Irons), and Poison Ivy. So I guess the killer really fucking hated redheads? Also I’m weirdly sad about Lagoon Boy even though I hadn’t thought about him for at least 10 years. Also I find it very very hard to believe that either Ivy or Wally will stay dead for even a full 12 months. But way to bury your gays, King! (Ivy, not Wally. Afaik.)

Meanwhile Booster and Harley are on the run because they are the primary suspects but are also both convinced the other did it? Well, Harley is convinced Booster did it, Booster hasn’t strung together a full sentence in two whole issues. Like at one point he jovially lets slip to Barry that Wally is dead. LOL WHOOPSIE BOOSTER’S AN IDIOT I GUESS. Also he “was crazy” but he’s better now because that’s how mental health works! After FINALLY resetting his continuity so that the most traumatic thing in his backstory (Ted’s death) hadn’t happened, King broke him in someone else’s book for fun! I HAVE BEEN STANNING BOOSTER GOLD FOR TOO MANY YEARS TO LET THIS STAND.

So basically we were told it would be a story about trauma and healing, but it’s actually a whodunnit with the trinity trying to solve the murders while Harley and Booster scamper around in the background. Because what you want for a story about grisly mass murder is to center it on two comedy characters.

The only concession to the whole “trauma” thing is these talking heads pages where the characters talk about all the terrible things they’ve gone through, except...they’re not real things? Like, Bruce goes into a whole thing about how all his kids have died, except...they haven’t, in this continuity. (There’s a great post about it here.) Superman’s like “It’s so hard to know whether I’m Superman or Clark!” which...isn’t a thing with Superman, and never has been. Wonder Woman’s like “.................I’m good, actually” but...with a sad face? (Like, her Traumatic Moment {TM} on the variant covers is killing Max Lord, which a) DID! NOT! HAPPEN! IN! THIS! CONTINUITY! and b) she didn’t mind, SHE’S AN AMAZON WARRIOR.)

(Oh also Harley is WAY overpowered. She takes out THE WHOLE TRINITY!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!! SHE IS A CLOWN WHO CAN DO HANDSTANDS, SHE CANNOT DEFEAT WONDER WOMAN. (King fucking loves this move, I’m still mad about the page in his Batman run where Catwoman defeated Barry and both Wallys at once.))

So, in conclusion:

1. We were told we’d get a story about trauma and mental health but it’s actually a murder mystery.

2. We were told it wasn’t a Capital C Crisis but at least 7 characters are dead, including a black teenage boy and a queer woman.

3. The “trauma” the A-list heroes are whining about isn’t canon and has nothing to do with the plot.

4. We’re apparently supposed to believe that Batman would believe for even a hot Gotham second that Harley or Booster would kill at least seven people including Ivy.

5. Booster is wildly OOC.

But, I mean, it sure is pretty:

#heroes in crisis #booster gold #harley quinn #I'M MAD #tawghasa

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39haru-bom · 6 years ago

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50 Questions Tag

I was tagged by @janarine - thank you 😄heheh.

I’ve never done anything like this before, so I hope I’m doing it right! Sorry if I mess up somehow.

1. What takes too much of your time?

Animal Crossing (New Leaf). I think I’m spending too much time on my town right now...

2. What makes your day better?

Talking to my best friend, she always cheers me up heheh. Writing, listening to music, and doing something music related too.

3. What’s the best thing that happened to you today?

I haven’t done much today, but my sister just baked a cake and let me try some, so that was pretty sweet.

4. What fictional place would you like to go to?

Yumenosaki. It’s really the only fictional place I can think of that I’d like to go to tbh. There’s this kid I go to school with that’s basically Tori anyway.

5. Are you good at giving advice?

Eh, sometimes (I think). People say I am, but sometimes I don’t think anything I say makes any sense. I do like to help people out though!

6. Do you have any mental illness?

Anxiety.

7. Have you ever experienced sleep paralysis?

I don’t think so. But I do have a lot of very dark and vivid dreams.

8. What musician inspired you the most?

Definitely Stray Kids. Not only their music and lyrics inspire me and help me get through things, but also them themselves - idk I look up to them a lot.

Bolbbalgan4/BOL4 and SHISHAMO influence me a lot musically as well.

9. Have you ever fallen in love?

Nope. I mean, I’ve had a crush before, but I wouldn’t call it love.

10. What’s your dream date?

I’m not sure, but maybe either something at home where it feels cozy, or maybe at a cafe? Idk I just really like cafes.

11. What do others notice about you?

Maybe my height? I used to have teeth that stuck out, but now I’m just pretty average.

12. What is an annoying habit you have?

Biting my lips. I really hate that I do this.

13. Do you still talk to your first love?

Referring to the person I used to have a little crush on - yes, we’re pretty good friends.

I’m pretty sure anyway.

14. How many ex’s do you have?

None. I don’t think much about dating.

15. How many songs are in your playlist?

There are around 3500 on my main playlist. I’m always listening to music, and I’m always adding more.

16. What instruments can you play?

I’m learning to play ukulele. I really like playing it heheh, and I’m going to start writing my own stuff soon I think.

I was learning guitar, but I lost interest and had no patience for it.

17. Who do you have the most pictures of?

I have more memes and reaction images saved on my phone than anything else (whoops). But putting those aside, I have a lot of pictures of Mika Kagehira. But if we’re talking about real people, I’d say Stray Kids - Hyunjin, Felix and Chan to narrow it down.

18. Where would you like to go before you die?

I definitely want to visit Italy and see where my family comes from! I really want to learn more about my family and Italy.

19. What is your zodiac?

Libra! ♎️

20. Do you relate to it?

Yeah? Sometimes I guess.

21. What is happiness to you?

I’m not very good with words or my thoughts, but happiness to me is enjoying and embracing what you have, whether it be people, objects, or anything else, and accepting yourself? Enjoying the nice moments you have with people maybe. I guess that’s basically my take on true happiness.

22. Are you going through anything right now?

Hmm, maybe a little bit right now. But I’m trying to stay positive for those around me.

23. What’s the worst decision you’ve ever made?

I had this really good friend a couple of years ago. She always looked out for me, made sure I wasn’t alone in class, etc etc. it was a bit hard for me to sit with her sometime though, seeing as she was in that more “popular” group of people. I started sitting with other people after a bit because I thought that it’d be easier on her, but I still regret not talking to her about it first. I’m not very good with communication. We don’t talk anymore and that kind of makes me a bit sad, but that’s my fault, and I know that. I’m trying to become a bit better now, and it’s taught me to take other people’s feelings into consideration (I believe that people are in your lives sometimes to reach you something, so I guess this is one of the things that she has taught me).

24. What’s your favourite store?

In general, Big W 😂 because I always find myself wanting to go there for some strange reason. Either that or Temt or QBD Books.

25. What’s your opinion on abortion?

I guess it depends on the situation, but ultimately it’s a person’s own choice whether or not they want it, it’s not my position to tell them yes or no.

26. Do you keep a bucket list?

Yes! I’ve always had an idea of what I wanted to be on it, but recently I’ve started to write one :)

27. Do you have a favourite album?

I don’t really have a favourite album, but to name a few that I really like are any of Stray Kids’ albums, MCR’s The Black Parade, and Broken Iris’ “The Eyes of Tomorrow” (sorry it takes me back to my “emo” days).

28. What do you want for your birthday?

I don’t really want anything in the aspect of presents, but I’d really like to have dinner with my family. I really like to spend time with my family.

29. What are most people’s first impression of you?

A lot of people think I’m the shy nice girl, which I guess is true-

Until I get comfortable with you, then I’m really hyper and loud heheh.

30. What age do you seem according to most people?

Well, I’ll be turning 16 this year. I don’t know what age I seem like to people right now, but I know that when I was younger I looked a lot older than what I was.

I was always really tall for my age, but I think now I’m not that tall in comparison to some girls in my grade.

31. Where do you keep your phone while your sleeping?

I usually keep in one of my drawers next to my bed. I don’t like to keep it right next to my head while I’m sleeping, but I like to have it close to me incase I need to write something down, especially if I get an idea for something I’m writing.

32. What word do you say the most?

Definitely “like”. I always say “like, uh” a lot, and also “you know?”, although that’s two words.

33. What’s the oldest age you would date?

As of right now, maybe 17, maybe 18? I think I’m still a bit too young to date anyone older than that, but when I’m a bit older, a 3-4 year age gap would be fine I guess.

34. What’s the youngest age you would date?

I’m not sure. Maybe 15? I don’t think I’m really ready for dating anyway... lmao.

35. What job/career do most people say would suit you?

My family and friends when I was younger used to say that I should be a model? But I think they were just being nice. I also think it was because of how tall I am.

I also was told once or twice that I should be a nurse, since I care a lot for people I guess. I don’t think I have a real interest in the medical field though, I think all of my interests lie in the creative sort of field.

With that being said, my dream job is actually to be a florist :)

36. What’s your favourite music genre?

I don’t really have a favourite genre, or a specific genre I listen to. I listen to lots of different genres in lots of different languages, as I like to keep an open mind- I‘m really interested in other cultures and countries, especially their languages as I find many languages very pretty.

But if I had to narrow it down, then maybe indie and punk rock?

37. If you could live in any country in the world, where would it be?

I’m going to be 100% honest-

Hands down, I’d stay in Australia. I’m sorry, I just really love my country. It’s my home after all.

But if I had to choose another country, then maybe Italy or Japan?

38. What is your current favourite song?

There are too many songs that I absolutely love.

But my absolute favourite song is Awkward Silence by Stray Kids. It always makes me happy somehow whenever I listen to it.

39. How long have you had this blog for?

I started this blog almost a year ago to try and make friends that are into the same things as me, but unfortunately due to my anxiety and nonexistent social skills I could never bring myself up to speak to anyone.

I started posting and reblogging things on here not too long ago though, so I guess that’s when I finally started using this blog.

40. What are you excited for?

I’m going to America in a couple of months. Although it makes me extremely anxious, I’m kind of excited for it still.

41. Are you a better talker or listener?

I’m 50/50. Sometimes I chat people’s ears off, but then sometimes I like to listen to people and people always say that I’m a good listener. I guess it all depends.

42. What is the last productive thing you did?

I did some unfinished homework. I’m on school break right now so I’m trying not to be lazy for once.

43. What do you want for Christmas?

I literally just want to spend time with my family heheh, I don’t ever really have anything to ask for for Christmas or my birthday.

44. What classes do you get the best grades in?

Japanese. It’s the only class that calms me and gives me sanity (usually), so I’m actually able to focus for once.

45. On a scale of 1-10, how are you feeling right now?

8. I’m feeling pretty all right, since school holidays just started, but for some reason I constantly feel stressed and worried, and I’m always tired since I get hardly any sleep. But my plan is to

46. What can you see yourself doing in 10 years?

Hopefully I’m a florist heheh.

47. When did you first get your heartbreak?

I’ve never had a love related heartbreak, but the first time I ever felt my heart shatter was in year 4 when I was told my great grandmother passed away. I was really close with her and I still miss her a lot.

48. At what age do you want to get married?

I’ve never really thought about this. Should I be? Whoopsie.

Maybe late twenties? I’m not sure.

49. What career did you want to have as a child?

There were MANY things I wanted to be when I was little.

I wanted to be a figure skater, ballerina, model, preschool teacher, nurse, police officer, artist of some kind, writer, singer, actor, dancer, and the list goes on. But I really regret not working towards being a figure skater when I was younger, I really wish I was one heheh.

50. What do you crave right now?

Proper sleep.

I’m tagging @kyoko-yuuki :)

I only have one person to tag, don’t have many mutuals lol.

Sorry it took me a bit to finish it, I’m not really good with a lot of things :P

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So... i remember for this year’s sterek week, one of the promtps was role reversal where stiles is the one with a large family and Derek has a small family, and it made me thiiink....

this got super fucking long soooo more under the cut.

Like, not only does Stiles have 6 brothers and sisters (for a total of 7 Stilinski children), but he’s a twin. at that he’s not even the oldest, he’s the smack-dab-in-the-middle Middle Child™ He shares his room with 3 of his brothers and is forced on the top bunk of his bed where his twin, Stuart, kicks him in the middle of the night. David and Cole don’t do shit to try and stop him because of the twins, Stiles is the youngest and somehow deserves the nightly punishment. Across the hall, his two sisters Dina and Penny share what used to be an office, and the baby, Yani, sleeps in the crib in their parents room.

He and all his brothers look more or less like carbon copies of each other, and people swear he and Stuart are the same person if they are not standing in the room together. His mom will often call him by the wrong name, and his dad doesn’t even call out names anymore, probably too confused by the mass of clones running in and out of his peripheries.

They’re crammed into this tiny house that his parents bought ages ago, and it’s practically bursting at its seams with teenagers and a whoopsie baby. They all go to the same school, because Irish Twins seem to run in their Polish family lines. Stiles, and to a lesser extent Stuart, just get lost in the fold of things. He gets into a lot of trouble, but never enough to make his parents seem to notice him. Another call the principal’s office is old news they don’t even bother to ground him for.

Derek on the other hand, lives with his mom. Just his mom. His dad died before he was born on a military mission in south america. He’s easily the apple of his mother’s eye. an eye which she rarely takes off of him for more than a few moments. If he’s not at school or at baseball practice, he is with his mother. She holds a tight leash on him, not because she’s a helicopter mom, but because she has no idea what she would do if she lost him.

Derek’s mom has a good job, so their house is big, bigger than anything they will ever need. He kind of hates it. It’s usually quiet, and there is nothing to do besides homework and watch tv. he doesn’t even have a video game system because his mother is convinced it will make him violent. Derek doesn’t really have friends, none that he’s allowed to hang out with outside of school at least. It’s kind of suffocating....

Then they meet.

Stiles is left to walk to school because fucking Cole, Penny, and Stuart left with the car they all share while Stiles was still in the shower, then dad dropped Dina and David off while Stiles was eating. Mom was going in the other direction to drop Yani off at Daycare and didn’t want to waste gas by driving him to school. Forgotten again. Jesus, he feels like a real life Kevin McCallister.

It’s one of the rare days when Derek’s mom can’t take him to school, so Derek gets to ask Boyd to come pick him up. Erica is riding shotgun and they all have coffee from Starbucks. They’re talking about the test that is coming up at the end of the week, worried that Mr. Harris is going to post dumb questions about shit they haven’t even covered like he did on the last exam when Derek sees on of the Stilinski’s walking. Derek asks Boyd to slow down, and he opens the window and yells, “Stilinski!” because there are so many of them crawling over that school it’s almost impossible to tell them apart. The Stilinski turns around, “need a ride?” Derek offers, because it’s winter now and it’s fucking cold and no one should have to walk to school on a morning like this.

At first Stiles turns it down, because a) Derek hale is a good kid and is probably just doing this out of pity b) This is probably the only alone time Stiles will get for a while c) Stiles is pretty pissed at the hand he’s been dealt, and this walk is really letting him let go of some pent up steam.

But... Derek’s smile looks genuine, so he huffs out a sigh and makes his way into the little car. And it flourishes from there. Derek and Stiles make fast friends, like weirdly fast. Somehow being picked up becomes a thing for them, even if it’s Derek’s mom who picks him up and takes him to school. This leads to Derek’s mom allowing Stiles to come over after school sometimes, and even... letting Derek go out on Friday nights after his baseball games.

It doesn’t take long for his brother’s to start teasing him about his new friend, or even a few times his new BoooOOoooyyyYYYYFFfffrriiiiIiieeEEnnnnNNNDddDdd. all of which Stiles vehemently denies. The first time Derek comes over to Stiles’ house, it’s a nightmare. The doorway is jammed with shoes, and there is a naked toddler running around and yelling upstairs and a smoke alarm in the kitchen and the back door is open, when did they get a dog? why is there salsa spilled on the couch?! and Derek loves it.

Of course John and Claudia are super nice and eager to meet Stiles’ friend ‘he’s never brought home a friend before’ and dinner is good, if not a little darker than it should be and Derek kind of can’t believe that people can live so messily and be so happy. Derek is jealous of Stiles’ fully and loving house.

On the flip side, Stiles loooooves being at Derek’s house, because it’s quiet and dinner is made and ready and he doesn’t have to fight over the food on the table. There are no stray animals crawling through the door and no toddler yelling about not wanting to put pants on.

One night, when Stiles and Derek are dancing on that line between “are we friends or something more?” Stiles admits that he kind of hates his family, this coming after his mother announces she’s having another baby. He says that he hates being one of a set, and how even between him and Stuart, Stuart always seems a little bit more important. He says that no matter what he does to distinguish himself from his brothers, he can’t seem to be different enough for anyone to notice, and then:

“I notice,” Derek says they’re sitting on the hood of the car Stiles and his brother’s share. Stiles bargained cleaning the bathroom for a month to get it for the night.

and then Stiles leans over and kisses Derek, and Derek lets him and that night Derek’s mom is not happy that they stayed out past curfew but she knew he was with Stiles so they were safe. Their sleepovers get a lot more explicit after that. Cole goes off to college the next year, but the number of kids doesn’t change at Michael is born.

Sometimes Derek will stay over at Stiles’ house, though sharing the room with his twin brother, little brother, and a toddler doesn’t allow for much hanky panky. When they stay at Derek’s they get it on like the horny teenagers they are. (tbh it was a relief to all parents involved that there weren’t going to be any stilinski grandchildren coming from Stiles and Derek anytime soon so they allowed it(Cole was NOT happy about this development when he tried to bring his girlfriend home after senior prom))

Like... Stiles and Derek don’t want to be dramatic... but they’re going to get married someday. Derek is a year older than Stiles, so when he graduates, he stays to go to community college to wait for Stiles. It’s year and years down the road, and Derek and Stiles finally put rings on it and they’re sitting at their dinner table talking about life and stuff and Derek just kind of asks off the top of his head, “So like... do you want a big family? For us, I mean?” because they both have talked about having a family before and they knew it was something they were going to want, the size of that family was never discussed though. Especially considering that after Stiles left his parents house, his mom and dad kept the limit of 8 kids in the house for 5 more years. brings Stiles family up to 13 kids. (The sheriff finally got a vasectomy, which he announced on facebook shortly after the last stilinski was announced.)

The question gave stiles pause, because his parents house was a mad house for years and years but... they were happy and loved. Despite Stiles near crippling identity struggles all throughout his childhood, he enjoyed having a big family. He also knew that Derek craved family, he was an only child, and ad no cousins. Hell, their wedding was pretty much a Stilinski family reunion with Derek and his mom. Seriously, the Stilinski are like fucking rabbits, Stiles has 82 cousins. Eighty. Two. Cousins. Stiles just didn’t know how big of a family Derek wants.

“Do you?” he asks in lieu of an answer.

“I mean... a few kids would be nice but-” Derek stops pausing to feel out Stiles’ facial cues.

“A few like-?”

“Four?” Derek answers, very nervous.

“Oh thank god,” Stiles says relaxing into his chair, he hadn’t even realized he was doing that. “I thought you were going to say something like 8. I couldn’t do 8. My mother was a saint but I’m pretty sure she contemplated murder once or twice.” Derek stares at Stiles some more. This definitely wasn’t a deal breaker, they know adoption is a hard avenue to follow, but it’s just to get a general idea. Stiles cuts into Derek’s thoughts, “Stop over thinking it. Four sounds perfect.”

AND THEN THEY KISS AND ADOPT THREE KIDS BECAUSE TURNS OUT THREE IS ACTUALLY PERFECT AND THEY LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER THE END.

#shut up katie #sterek

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