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[ngmn2002]

Silly - Serious "Red House" Arc Thoughts

♡ A little kid ♡ is found by Kou and Nene in the dangerous red house... lil Tsu called Nene-chan "onee-chan" while lil Amane called her "onee-san" wow... As Nene-chan took him in a 'hug' I think maybe she was the only one from the people who came into the house to treat Tsu with 'kindness'? Nice Nene-chan? He hugged her back. How cute. maybe he was also feeling so lonely so it felt really good to have some care They seemed to get along reallllly well later on! Can't wait to see the roles reversed now in ch 107, maybe? ~

.......... This thing makes me question lots of stuff. What's the state Tsukasa really is in? A thing I wondered about too many times was Tsukasa's need for 'food' to keep surviving. Did he need that in the red house? Or not? The status of this boy confuses me A LOT, not only in this age, but in all his other ages as well. Anyway, Nene-chan was going too well with her speech until......

........... Huh.....?

Sometimes I really question myself how the minds of those teens work. Of course he will answer who is Hanako? Is it hard to ask with "Hanako's" real name instead? like you did when you told him 'Amane is going to kill you'

A rare big brain Kou moment. Please... how did you see they are the same? I'm sorry... Tsukasa... but...

If I were to show this thing to someone and asked whether you '2' are the same person or not, I believe the answer will be... they are not. So Kou, my question is... based on what did you make your assumption? His aura? It's different I believe? Hmm... is it the power of hatred that made you know that's its target? Not bad.

Switch places with me, Nene.. please? ♡

Please!!!!!!! ♡

Oh... she kept on going with that "Hanako-kun's descendent" thingy.

She asked Tsu if he likes Ice cream, tho!!! She was planning on getting him some!! Such a nice girl!! Sharing food with the twins is always fun!!! From his reaction, I bet he does. You made him feel hungry, Nene-chan! Now I want to see her and Tsu enjoying some ice cream together..

help!!! ♡

and here I was thinking this thing comes only from elders' mouths, I was wrong. Tsukasa-kun is unique. ♡ tho, the things that took Nene away look similar to things in No.6's boundary.

Tsukasa's hidden talent. A great artist & singer/musician.♡ (any hidden meanings behind this lyrics?) Kou with a bear at hand.. he looked funny

Oh, of course he isn't a "normal" thing. Also, hands off, how rude. You have a little sister yourself, do you go treating her this way? What a terrible behavior. Yeah, he is his brother. My god, imagine if Amane saw this terrible behavior of Kou while he is crying for Tsu to come back safely to him. Even if he was a 4 year old he may... get on Kou pretty hard. Hmm... he did hear him saying he wants to get revenge on Tsu and saw him... trying to harm him in hell of mirrors.. ooops... this boy is only adding red flags to his record. He should be careful. duh. Imagine someone threatening *your* little bother/yorishiro/most important thing/moon just like that. Not nice. Not nice.

????? ♡

Calm down, will you? Let your heroic words follow your heroic actions. Let actions come first, dear.

Please show him how it words, Karma-kun. ♡

Thank you. ♡ ~

Not that I hate you Kou, but you see... this whole Tsukasa deal of yours is getting way too boring and most importantly, complete nonsense.

This thing gets me confused. Too many clocks reminds me of No.1's deal with clocks... water is pouring out of the pipes but...? it looks like it's just frozen? as Kou says there is not water on the ground. We know the red house is not a boundary, and has its own time and space... but really.. what is it exactly?

The next thing with Kou and Tsu... is a bit wired... the questions Tsu asked... I want to ask him the first one actually because I'm totally confused on his *feelings* right now. The second one, no need. He did.

Of course, my dear! How can I resist this this amount of curtness? ♡

Clumsy sweetie! so lovely! ♡

Indeed. ♡ Tsu knows loooooots of stuff we don't. ♡ Soooo... of course he knows lots of stuff you don't. That's obvious. Tsu always feels like he is teaching Kou stuff in their interactions, haha.

Also... won't get tired of seeing the 2 Tsukasas together like this! It's so much fun. ♡ especially when one of them looks like a confused little kitten, while the other looks like this fully capable in charge cat. ♡

Hmm... maybe you should ask 'Tsu' to teach you how to hold a child in a proper way.

Hmm... this thing had always been a thing to make me go "man, Tsukasa and Nene are similar". I mean, it's the same hamster-merch in both things. The toy little Tsukasa got and the name of the movie Amane invited Nene to share the exact same name! Amane said he was going to watch that movie with Tsukasa… but Tsukasa doesn't like "movie theatres", so he invited Nene instead. I don't know if that's the case or not, since Tsukasa seems to get into the story in later events… but it seems that Amane catches this 'hamster' similarity between them… "they are into the same kind of thing". Maybe both of them are into 'hamsters', one likes them as a movie or to have them at home, while the other is into toys. Another thingggg... the name is really eye-catching! "Hamester Space Wars" .... "Hamster- Tsu + Nene / Space- Amane / Tsu / Wars.. the movie type, hehe" It's funny and sweet that Amane loves two who are similar in many cases so so so much. Now that I imagine it… maybe if the three did share a normal life together… let's imagine, I think Amane's heart won't be able to handle it… they are way too cute and lovely to him. His 2 lovely angels. ♡♡~

I wonder how did Tsu feel about this thing, did he find this Hanako who he question who is it a little ago 'familiar'? Looks like Amane in some way? and what is it with this thing in the twins' chest erea? did they share the red house/Sumire's village 'kami?' together at some point? maybe after Amane killed him? did it split in 2? we saw Tsukasa talking with it at that one time he said he is granting Mit's wish, I guess? how confusing.

Hmm... when you have a 4 year old kid teaching you stuff... instead of it being the opposite way. How fun. Teach us, Tsukasa-kun!!! ♡ he is always teaching Kou stuff whether as kid Tsu or older Tsu isn't he?x2

Awww... sweetie! ♡

first time I read this up until the end of the chapter I cried a lot, it felt like a cruel joke.

Ahh... still wondering if this thing will get referenced... maybe we will get back to it someday.....

Now, from Nene's experience in the place where Katakori and the sacrificed girls are, I wonder how it felt for Tsukasa the first time he got there and later on...? He seems to be a 'special case', not similar to the rest for some reason. also, as he knows a way to go in between there and the red house, I wonder if he used not to spend all his time in the red house and simply kept going back and forth between the 2 places. Tho, saying 2 places maybe is a bit wrong... since that place is connected to the red house. And finally, Nene-chan is back to Kou and Tsukasa, creating a little funny scene for me to enjoy. ~

big brain moment.

I care about this guy. Uh... I can say I'm really looking forward to see him back someday and learn more about him, he is pretty interesting. even little him in No.6's flashback is cute.

. . . As always, due to pic limits- a continuation will be added in a 'reblog'.

Random Stuff

So... giving this manga a really fast look... I want to read it thoughtfully again someday These little things stood out to me...

Hanako and keys....... please stop.. I can't take it. This little pose of his mocks me a bit. you want to know about my key so baaad?~ realllllly?~ just haaaang there.~ there seems to be a lock in there too? if that won't make me go even more crazy her brooch is also there. for some reason.

Everything as in... 'everything'? then how come you didn't know his future will change? or that it's different from what's in his book, even? his inference with supernatural stuff (the clock) while you call him 'normal' While this 'everything' is not so reliable for me at this point, I'm still interested to see you back at some point to tell us more about this 'everything'.

Never gets old. ~

I wonder how come Kou didn't tell Teru Hanako-san put a seal on his staff or how Teru supposedly didn't notice the seal on it with it right there in front of his own eyes many times until now. Did he see it's best if it stays sealed like that for Kou's sake, despite it being like a 'family treasure' to the Minamotos?

Talking about Teru looking after Kou...

He keeps a close eye on Kou, to the point when Kou skipped class, he was there to see about it...

but when Kou stayed after school to hang out with an 'evil spirit' as Teru calls it, got beaten by Tsukasa... he was nowhere to be found.... how come? it would be funny if he didn't ask about Kou's injury after he got home or if Kou was like: yeah.. I fell down. haha.

Hmm... Tsukasa is selfish? How come? Please... I'm crying in here and want him to think about HIMSELF more. Not too 'wise' of you miss, you should know better. Not to say... she is talking as if she doesn't put herself that category. The deepest part of that category. How funny.

I wonder juuuust a little why she would show some nice gestures from time to time with others...

like the mokke or even Mitsuba 2.0, while she goes around stating she doesn't care if all case to exist at the end.

Nene is not an exception. She even talked about her in person. In front of her- let's be friends/I don't want to harm you. Behind her back- I don't care for her, even if she doesn't want to keep going in destroying the Yorishiros, I won't give her a choice, then I don't care if she died out of it. .....................

Another thing... she seems to take Nene's hands in hers quite often... which kind of makes me wonder...

Nene didn't ever question her hands heat, or said they are cold or whatever. She appears in photos normally, even ... hmm... something about her is different from usual 'ghosts'. she is not a living, yet not a ghost... fine. who cares.

Ok, to cool off!

Ehhhh.... perfection.......

Let's keep going!

Hmm... doesn't this apply to ch 86? or... does a cheek kiss count? ...... or were they supposed to have it back then? after all... Hanako-kun really seemed to be about to do that, but was holding back I guess?

Hmm... really deep words. kinda reminds me of this...

Anyway... these...

Huh? You queen of luck. Won't say more.

forgetting about the whole -boy/girl- thing because I just feel it's misleading at this point... what do you mean sir?! ............. I'm just laughing, if anything, looking forward to see the lovers' suicide ............ this thing... when you don't want to see things in 'some way' but you're forced to, anyway. it's mocking.

Ok, now... p.p arc related little stuff

Defensive lovely Nene-chan!

This boy and keys... again... STOP!!!

T-T

Can perfectly see Tsukasa & Nene in here.~ But oh, we got a similar thing with them, hehe...

uhh... how lovely...

what a nice feeling...

Then do a thing about him, instead of just threatening little him then crying later because of how 'helpless' you are. Prove your attitude to me, Kou-kun. Not with words, tho. I'm already sick of that.

Still feeling bad Tsu was left out from all this fun!!! Ahhh!!! He would love to be a part of this!! WON'T HE?! That wasn't fair!!! WHY wasn't Tsukasa asked to come join in this, huh?! At some point Amane-kun can say "I had these tickets to go watch a movie with my lil bro but he doesn't like theaters, so would you come with me, Yashiro-san?" then "we need students to volunteer to clean the pool, I asked Minamoto 'Yashiro-san' even Mitsuba 2.0 is there! and we still need more participators" THEN GO TO YOUR SUPPOSED -THE CLASS NEXT DOOR- TWIN"!!!!!! UHHHGGG!!! This thing makes me angry!! I get maybe we weren't supposed to see Tsukasa with others too much back then, or even the twins together too much.. but like... that's not fair....... let the boy have some fun!!!

................... ok... enough of that........... didn't expect I will talk this much about it.......

Oh... some deep words, again....

At times I really wonder... If Tsukasa had some other goals out of letting our guys in this perfect pic world, beside that obvious 'grant M 2.0 wish' one destroy No.4's yorishiro... maybe he wanted them to get what kind of reality they actually live in, see how they would react.. will they still want it? reject it? try to change it? Hanako-kun is a special case, isn't he? I think maybeee... to Tsu... this was also a push for Hanako-kun into the right direction! get him to open his eyes to some of his hidden desired and actually.. at some point.. voice some of them out!

In addition to everything, maybe he said that influenced by their p.p arc experience. Tsu even got Nene-chan to lean some cool lessons in the little experience/the wish of No.4 thingy. How cool of him.

I don't know how to put this thing... but all I will just say is that Tsukasa maybe was after hitting too many birds with one stone out of the p.p thing. He must be proud of his work at this point. Lots was achieved in that arc, especially on the HanaNene side and MK, which also seem to Tsu's interest kind of. This boy... a true mastermind, have to say. looking at 12 y.o Tsu... am I surprised? not at all.

That being said, let's welcome our cute little mastermind kitty-boy!~ no matter how much time passes, I'm so in love with this whole scene.

So, yeah... I really do sympathize with Amane-kun in here. I mean... his little brother is soooo irresistible~ let's admire him together, Amane-kun!!!

yessss, just like this! . . .

Due to pic limits, some more stuff will be added in a 'reblog'.

[sheila--e]

Guido Mista found shot twelve times in the chest in a parking lot, while eating a burger with no honey mustard. Local little blonde teenager caught in a nearby car explosion reports that "they were self inflicted upon trying to open the wrapper".

[ellecdc]

Helloo!!!

Fisrt: I bloody love your blog, you knoked me up on Poly!Moonwater and now I always think about them.

Second: Could I request black brother centric fic? Like it’s a Poly!wolfstar X reader, (or literally any ship that you like involving Sirius), where they have a kid, and Sirius is like watching them play alongside Reg, and he just starts spiralling bc he’s afraid that he might become like his parents, and Reg starts comforting him taking in account what they had to go through, and their relationship growing ecc… and he’s like “Just the fact that you’re worrying means you’re not like that, you’re doing a great job.” And Sirius just dies crying with him.

Obv only if you feel comfortable writing it!! Thank you!!!

those poor sad boys; what I wouldn't do for them

parents!wolfstar x reader but it's Sirius and Regulus centric

CW: brief mention of Black brother's childhood, Sirius spiralling, Regulus talking sense into him, baby wolfstar being a certified menace, hurt/comfort

Regulus should have known there was an ulterior motive to Sirius’ “are you busy this afternoon?” text. 

Not that Regulus didn’t like spending time with his older brother (though he would staunchly deny that he did if Sirius ever asked), but it wasn’t common for Sirius to invite him over unprompted.

And sure enough, as Regulus stepped through the floo at your, Remus, and Sirius’ shared home, he quickly realised why.

Your pudgy little offspring (that Regulus loved more than life itself) was sitting in a booster seat at the kitchen island as she shoved some form of noodle into her mouth and babbled at Sirius which sounded nonsensical to Regulus but seemed to make perfect sense to Sirius as he answered her queries.

And you and Remus were nowhere to be found. 

“Look who it is, babygirl!” Sirius cheered as Regulus stepped into the kitchen, though Regulus could see some of his brother’s usual enthusiasm was curbed.

“Unc’Regloo!” Aurora cheered excitedly as she raised her messy fists up into the air much like she was cheering at a quidditch match. 

“How’s my future little seeker?” Regulus asked as he planted a kiss into the toddler’s  hair.

“Please.” Sirius scoffed as Regulus knew he would. “She’s going to be a beater like her daddy, obviously.”

Sirius and Remus (though Remus certainly only did it to get a rise out of Sirius) argued emphatically over who the child looked more alike - Sirius or Remus - having kept the biological father unknown.

Regulus was happy to note though that the child was nearly a carbon copy of you; She had your hair, your eyes, and your smile. 

But the way the child ‘pat Regulus’ arm lovingly’ [leaving a small orange coloured handprint on his pressed shirt] was all Sirius. 

“Where’s your better third’s?” Regulus asked as he leaned against the granite countertops - well out of reach of Sirius’ mischievous offspring [and her messy hands]. 

Sirius spared him a half-hearted glare as he turned back to watch his daughter. “Papa had an interview at Hogwarts today and mummy is at the Ministry.” Sirius explained as if it had been Aurora who had asked the question.

“I see why you called, then.” Regulus added solemnly, turning to look at the child. “I wouldn’t want to leave you alone with Papa either.”

The child giggled as she shoved more noodles into her mouth, but Regulus turned to see Sirius staring at the child dejectedly.

“Sirius?”

Sirius cleared his throat and seemed to ‘shake himself off’ as he asked Aurora to drink some water and then helped her clean her hands and face [and even her hair; Salazar, babies were messy]. 

“Daddy! Can play outside?” Aurora asked excitedly, clasping her hands under her chin and batting her lashes at her father as if she were asking for something quite outlandish.

“Of course, sweetheart! Lead the way!” Sirius agreed readily, following the child out the sliding back door as Regulus followed the pair. 

Aurora was no sooner pouring sand into a little plastic bucket before Sirius let out a shuddering breath. “I don’t know what I’m doing, Reg.” He whispered quietly.

Regulus surveyed his brother in bemusement; Sirius sat on the patio furniture with his elbows on his knees and one hand covering his mouth as he stared unseeingly at his daughter.

“You’re supervising your child during playtime, Sirius.” Regulus offered, causing Sirius to scoff unamusedly. 

“I’m going to fuck it up; all of it. I don’t know why I ever thought I could do this, because I can’t.” 

“Whoa, whoa.” Regulus interrupted quickly, turning his body directly towards his brother. “You can’t do what exactly?”

“Any of it, Regulus.”

“You can’t love Remus and Y/N?” Regulus asked simply.

“Well, no not that; I mean, of course I do-”

“You can’t love that sweet little girl over there who thinks you just hung the stars because you agreed to let her play in dirt?” He continued, gesturing to said child who was now dumping the bucket of sand on top of her head and squealing in delight. 

“I….I don’t know how to be good… To be a good husband and father to them, Reg. I don’t know how to be…to be better; better than them.” 

The them remained unexplained, but both brother’s knew who Sirius was referring to.

“Well,” Regulus started with a sigh, turning back to watch Aurora jump up and run over only to slam her little body into Sirius’ larger one. 

Sirius, for his part, pretended to have the wind knocked out of him causing the child to squeal before he scooped her up into his arms and planted three smacking kisses to her sand covered face, and plopping her back on the ground for her to toddle back off again. 

“Mother would have had your head for squealing like that.” Regulus said simply, causing Sirius to let out a sigh that sounded awfully close to a sob. “Father would have backhanded you for getting sand on his trousers. Kreacher would have been ordered to lock you in your room for daring to touch a guest with dirty little hands if we had ever dared to eat without utensils.”

He took a deep breath before he turned his now shining eyes back to his big brother; the only family member who ever showed him any amount of love and affection throughout his entire childhood that wasn’t conditional or performative. “And I don’t know that I was ever kissed by our parents. Were you? Do you remember them pressing a kiss to our cheeks?”

Sirius shook his head minutely as both brothers pretended they didn’t notice the tears falling down his face. 

“That child is far more loved by you alone than the two of us ever were growing up, and the best part is that she knows she’s that loved.” Regulus pressed, looking back towards his niece as she moved towards a water table Sirius had called Regulus over to help Remus build a few weeks ago whilst he and you drank spiked lemonade and watched them struggle. 

“And that’s not even taking into account the amount of family she has surrounding her; me, the Potter’s, Remus’ parents, and you Marauders.” He spat as if it was a dirty word, causing Sirius to chuckle wetly. 

“And Siri…” Regulus stated more earnestly, forcing Sirius to make eye contact with him before continuing. “The fact that you’re even worried about it tells me you’re already far better than them, yeah?”

Sirius chuckled wetly again as he squeezed his eyes shut; more tears falling as he nodded his head. 

Both boys were surprised when a small hand appeared on Sirius’ cheek, gently wiping at the tears adorning her father’s face.  “Why daddy cry? Daddy have owie?”

Sirius laughed again and pulled himself together. “No, daddy doesn’t have an owie darling girl.”

“Daddy sad?” She asked again, tilting her head slightly as if that might help her understand her father’s predicament any better.

“Daddy was sad, but he feels a lot better now that you’re here.” He said with a smile. “Better not leave me here alone with your uncle though, otherwise he might make me cry again.”

Regulus scoffed derisively before Aurora pointed a stern glare at him that wasn’t particularly intimidating but sweet Merlin did she ever look like you.

“Bad unc-Regloo! Make daddy cry!” She shouted as she hopped off her father’s lap and made for Regulus. 

Regulus - not willing to find out what exactly the child had in store for him - hopped out of his seat and took off in a ‘run’ which began a squeal-laughing chase around the backyard as Sirius laughed and cheered Aurora on.

“That’s right, baby girl! Avenge your father! Make sure to get his ribs; that’s where he’s most ticklish!”

Yeah, Regulus thought to himself, Sirius really has nothing to worry about at all. 

[ladydostoevsky]

Idk of request are still opens, but if no you can just ignore this haha.

Sooo can you do an escenario of hua cheng x male!reader x xie lian where the reader was the best friend of xie lian before xian le fell and like with the power of character backstory they knew hua cheng aswell.

That was like the context, but my request is like:

After the 800 years of previous events, xie lian, hua cheng and the reader meet again at the banyue arc(with xie lian meeting hua cheng fisrt ofc) and when they saw the reader (who ill suppose died by saving xie lian from something and u know, ✨️drama✨️) they can't belive it cus his soul should have been banished and welp. After the end of the thing (timeskip) when the reader tries to leave after helping em' with the mission, both xie lian and hua chen stop him from doing so. But why did M/N tried to leave as fast as possible? Hoho, well let's say he accidentaly inhaled a flowers scent wich had an strong afrodasic and didn't want to make a fool of himself in front of his dearest friends and tried to leave (failling miserably) and we all know both of our bois are so fricking touch starved at this point and here is where the smut makes it's presentation. (idk much about that so u can just wite it however you'd like, but reader should be the bottom oh yes hahah)

ik its a large request so if its too much just ignore me haha 😭.

A tender touch🌺

Xie Lian & Hua Cheng x m!reader

Warnings: nsfw, 18+, novel and donghua spoilers, little bit violence, breeding, m!sex

A/N: I’m not the best when it comes to smut, especially when it’s threesome so warning, this is really cringe🥲 but I hope you like it

The floor of the temple was icy, freezing, just like the atmosphere which surrounded them. Fear seeped through y/n, who was kneeling on the cold ground, before the altar of a temple on which Xie Lian was chained on. He didn’t know if he was more afraid of the creature, the monster with white half crying-smiling mask or this thing hurting Xie Lian - his prince, his best friend, his beloved. The latter. In his hand, was the little ghostfire who tried to keep them out of the temple and warn them. y/n felt pity for it.

He bowed down, his forehead touching the ground. ‘’Please. I beg you. Take me. Have mercy on His Highness. Whatever you plan to do, please take me instead of him.’’ y/n straightened himself a little and looked with teary eyes towards the white clothed creature, pleading, ‘’I beg you… punish me for whatever he has done,’’ he whispered desperately. ‘’Y/N! STOP IT! I FORBID YOU TO SAY ANOTHER WORD. YOU WILL NOT SACRIFICE YOURSELF FOR ME!’’ Xie Lian screamed. The creature laughed out loud, slowly moving towards yn, like a predator. ‘’DON’T YOU DARE TOUCH HIM, YOU FUCKER. LEAVE HIM OUT OF THIS.’’ The Crown Prince screamed but to no avail, the creature ignored him. y/n gulped as he got closer. ‘’My my, are you a brave one,’’ he stopped right in front of him and crouched down to be on the same eye level, the little ghost still in his hand, ‘’and so stupid. Willing to give your life for someone else's sins and choices.’’

y/n eyes widened slightly after the realization. He whispered to the mask in front of him, ‘’kill me instead then.’’ The little fire started to glow even more, little sounds coming from it. ‘’Oh I will. Let’s see what face His Highness will make after it.’’ The next second Fang Xin pierced through y/n.

y/n looked at the ground, in shame and sadness. He didn’t dare to look His Highness in the eyes, or even San Lang, who he knew was actually Hua Cheng. ‘’I don’t understand…how?’’ The Crown Prince was in shock, in disbelief. Xie Lian saw his best friend being killed in front of his eyes by White No-Face. Same as Xie Lian, Hua Cheng felt some kind of betrayal and hurt, he - being a little pitiful and weak ghostfire - also was in that temple and saw everything. If he really somehow survived, why didn’t he come looking for His Highness? It has been 800 years…

‘’Tell me, how are you here? What happened to you?’’ Xie Lian asked, his earlier shock turning into a sadness. y/n looked at San Lang then Xie Lian. ‘’Did you really think he would have let me die? That easily? My life was worse than hell, a constant torture after that night.’’ He looked away from them, towards the darkness of the cave. All hidden and locked up memories coming back to him. ‘’He did that only to torment and manipulate you. And me.’’ Xie Lian let out a sight he realized he was holding. Hua Cheng’s eyes were full of sorrow. They looked at each other then back to y/n.

He looked at Xie Lian, ‘’I’m sorry, Your Highness. After that, I didn’t dare to show my face anymore. Not like the monster would have let me. I was afraid. I hated myself for I couldn’t save you in the end. I blame myself till this day. You had to go through so much because I was too weak to protect you.’’ Hua Cheng’s dead heart warmed in that moment. After all, he felt the exact same way. He blamed himself for not protecting the two when they needed it the most. But he is here now, and he will protect them for eternity, from now on.

‘’Can you forgive me, Your Highness? I understand if you don’t want to or-’’ Xie Lian gave a sad smile and moved closer to y/n. ‘’There is nothing to forgive. You did nothing wrong. It was never your fault, it was White No-Face who did this. I just wish you hadn't been there. I’m sorry you had to go through this, because of me.’’ The prince leaned closer and hugged his former friend. It took the man by surprise but gladly accepted it. The warmth of his best friend being so foreign to him. He locked eyes with San Lang who looked at him with sadness. y/n gave him a sweet smile of reassurance, for which the Ghost King smiled back.

After that the three stuck together the whole mission. y/n and San Lang got to know each other more, surprisingly they clicked immediately. Hua Cheng and Xie Lian still didn’t know how y/n survived that night. He wasn’t a god, neither a ghost so what was he? But they understood that it was not their business if y/n didn’t want to tell them.

Currently, everyone was looking for the Banyue Fern to use as an antidote for the scorpion-tailed snake’s venom. Unfortunately, y/n had strayed too far from the others. He realized it when he found flowers that shouldn’t be growing in a desert. They were bright, colorful and smelled so nicely. They were tempting. They were so very familiar…

NO! The land of the tender! They were the tender flowers that contained strong aphrodisiacs. The moment he realized he backed off. Thank the heavens that these flowers didn’t speak or he would have surely done something he couldn’t even imagine. He ran back to the others, hoping that the aphrodisiac didn’t make it to his system.

After all the hell was over and the mission completed, Earth Master Ming Yi and Wind Master Shi Qingxuan came to take Pei Xiu back to heaven realm. The gods exchanged a few words. Beside Hua Cheng, y/n felt ill. His body temperature had risen after the tender flowers. He was sweating and his knees felt weak. He holds one hand in front of his lower face to hide his reddened face and to seal his mouth. Hua Cheng turned to him, concerned, ‘’y/n? Is everything alright? You seem… sick.’’ Only thing he could do was nod his head and turn away from him.

With every passing second he could feel more sweat forming on his skin, he wanted to let out sounds he thought he could never form. He felt a painful pulsing between his legs. Seeing Xie Lian and Hua Cheng next to him didn’t help, it made it all worse. Slowly, he started to back off but Hua Cheng grabbed his forearm before he could escape. Xie Lian walked over to them. ‘’y/n, what’s wrong?’’ He walked to him and put his palm on his forehead to feel his temperature. ‘’You are burning! You must have a fewer.’’ Feeling his prince’s touch he put his hand over his mouth even harder. He let out weird noises that neither of the two understood. y/n shook his head. ‘’Gege, we have to get him somewhere else. I don’t think it’s sickness.’’

The two brought y/n to an old empty house of Banyue. They put him on the floor, making him sit against a wall. Only sound that was heard was y/n’s constant breathing. With shaky hands he tried to open his robe. ‘’Y-you two… you h-have to leave.’’ Xie Lian was first to react. He crouched down in front of him, ‘’we will not. Tell us what happened?’’

He helped y/n and tore the robe’s front open so he could get some cold air. His fingers brushed against y/n’s hot skin which made him let out a little whine. Xie Lian’s breath stuck, but he didn’t back off. ‘’T-the flowers, t-tender…’’ the arousal he felt made it hard to talk. San Lang came next to Xie Lian and put his hand on y/n’s chest, feeling his fast heartbeat. y/n wrapped his fingers around San Lang’s wrist, not wanting him to pull away.

‘’That’s what I thought,’’ Hua Cheng whispered, mostly to himself. ‘’Please…’’ y/n’s other hand made it to his hard erection. His hand was quickly replaced with Xie Lian’s, ‘’you helped us today so well, it’s only fair if we help you now.’’ The prince and the Ghost King gave a knowing smile to each other. Hua Cheng tore the whole robe to shreds, freeing the whole body beneath it free to the cold air of Banyue. Xie Lian leaned in and kissed his old friend, his- no- their beloved.

His tongue taking the lead and exploring every corner he could find. His fingers ran delicately over y/n soft pink nipples. The man didn’t see the point to hold back anymore and let out all the sounds that were stuck in his throat. Hua Cheng also leaned closer and wrapped his fingers around y/n’s precum leaking cock. He slightly pressed on to the pink tip which made y/n whine against Xie Lian’s mouth.

‘’Don’t worry, love. We will take good care of you,’’ whispered Hua Cheng. Xie Lian leaned back, a string of saliva connecting the two. ‘’Have I ever told you how beautiful you are, y/n?’’ Xie Lian said while taking off his white robe. Hua Cheng followed and his red clothing was thrown somewhere he could care less. This time Xie Lian took y/n's pulsing cock and started slowly moving his hand up and down. San Lang latched his mouth onto y/n’s sensitive nipple, kissing and teasing it. y/n moaned their names, feeling himself nearing. ‘’X-Xie Lian…nghh San L-Lang, I’m g-gonna cum.’’ Xie Lian’s other hand played with y/n’s smooth hair, ’’cum for us, dear.’’ He came without a second thought.

The Crown Prince gave him a sweet, loving smile, pecked his darling’s soft lips and started moving towards his abdomen, leaving butterfly kisses behind. He took all of y/n in his mouth, swallowing his cum in the process. With his experience in sword swallowing in the past it wasn’t very hard. He had no gag reflex.

While Xie Lian was busy with y/n’s cock, San Lang used his own precum and saliva as a lube and smeared it on his own hard cock. y/n felt his second orgasm coming. In ecstasy he grabbed Xie Lian’s hair, not wanting him to pull away. ‘’Y-your Highness…mm,’’ The prince started to run his fingers gently across y/n’s body. Being so hot, bothered and sensitive, this act threw him over the edge again and he came deep into Xie Lian’s mouth. ‘’Xie Lian…’’ he breathed out a whisper, barely hearable. ‘’Such a good boy, aren’t you? So good for us,’’ Hua Cheng teased with his low voice. The man beneath let out a desperate whine, knowing what’s coming next. The black haired king leaned closer, giving him a gentle kiss on his forehead and lips. ‘’I’ll try to be gentle.’’ Xie Lian went to y/n’s neck and started to suck marks into his skin.

San Lang positioned himself in front of y/n’s unprepared entrance and slowly entered. Feeling soft and thigh walls around him he let out a grunt, entering inch by inch. y/n let out loud cries from the pain. Tears started to drip down from the corners of his eyes. Xie Lian shushed him, assuring that everything was alright. He kissed the tears away and started to abuse his mouth with his tongue again. When Hua Cheng was finally all in, and confirmed that y/n wasn’t uncomfortable anymore, he started moving his hips. At the beginning it was slow and gentle, as time went by he started to speed up. Rocking in and out like an animal in heat.

He pulled y/n’s legs more towards him to hit that one spot that surely made his darling lose it. y/n grabbed onto Xie Lian to steady himself. ‘’Gods y/n…’’ San Lang moaned, feeling his peak coming. He pressed y/n into a mating position, to look him into his beautiful tear stained eyes while he cums deep into his gore. y/n screamed, feeling overstimulated. ‘’S-San L-Lang… p-please,’’ with a few more pumps he came inside.

After a few moments he pulled out, panting. Feeling himself coming down from his high. He watched how some of his seed tried to come out of y/n. He pushed it back inside with his fingers, smiling, feeling some kind of pride. ‘’You are so beautiful like this. Now my beloved…’’ Xie Lian moved away from his side and placed himself on top of y/n. He already knew that it was going to be a long night.

[heresiae]

Someone explain it to me because my little knowledge of history and, clearly, some context ignorance, are not helping the joke

[five-and-dimes]

✨💖Positivity chain! List 5 to 10 things that make you smile and explain why! Then send this to others to let them know they make you smile✨💖

Aaah thank you!

Critters! I love all animals, but I am fond of Little Guys. I grew up with pet rats- I've had eight over my life so far- and I had a hedgehog too. I love Big Dogs, and want one very badly someday, but I've never been in a situation where I can properly care for one. But Little Guys? I can fill my home with Little Guys and give them proper care while they give me cuddles and joy 😊 I have a lack of Little Guys currently, because I'm moving soon and didn't want to subject them to that, but once I move I will definitely be acquiring more Little Guys (I want to get rats again- truly I love them so much and think they make fantastic pets 💕)

Drawing- it might not seem like it for how little I get done, but I do love art and drawing! I'm trying to be more productive lately, and focus more on finishing the bigger projects as opposed to trying to force myself to just bust out "content". I love comic art and my dream is to publish graphic novels! So just being able to sit down and chip away at a story, even if I'm not showing it at fisrt... I love it!

Bad movies- Listen, I have a lot of fun being A Hater in a non-harmful way. I have no desire to go on tumblr and hate on anything publicly. I never want to ruin someone else's joy! But I LOVE hanging out at home with my roommate and watching silly goofy bad movies and laughing at how ridiculous they are. Or watching movies we personally don't like and going on long rants tearing it apart that last longer than the movie. Good movies are great, but I tend to lean towards fun in this economy. Bad monster movies especially are *chef's kiss*

Tattoos! I love everything about them! I love seeing other people's body art, I love designing my own (I only have one tattoo designed by someone else), I love designing tattoos for fictional characters, I love watching ridiculous over-dramatic tattoo shows, all of it! I would love to learn to tattoo someday, but my current brain makes me too anxious to do something permanent to someone else lol, so for now I appreciate from the other side of the needle.

Snow! I saw snow for the first time when I was 24-years-old and I lost my absolute SHIT. I shit you not, I had been convinced that snowflake shapes were made up for artistic purposes. Like, someone made it up to make snow more interesting for Christmas cards and paper cutouts. And then I held them in my hand and stared for like half an hour and my entire worldview changed. Even after all this time I still feel so much wonder and glee whenever it snows. Shoveling the driveway is my favorite chore.

And of course, my friends- both irl and online- never fail to make me smile, including you, @gabessquishytum! You, @cuubism, @seiya-starsniper, @pellaaearien, and @valeriianz - I appreciate you allowing me to harass you over dms and discord 😘💕

[moldybonessmell]

Genshin 5.1 Story Review

_SPOILERS_

Ngl the fisrt half of the archon quest was SO BAD. I was like "Genshin just returned to its original boring ass storytelling well that's upsetting" Because the first natlan quest was quite good.

In the first half we got a boring ass date with untasteful milf Citlani instead of getting to see more Ororon who end up being relevant to the story??? Like I did not care about him at all because we barely got any glimpse into his story so I couldn't feel bad for him or anything.

But we did get a date with yet another waifu, right?😃 Genshin marketing is lame af. I said it. We all know why this episode was added.

It feels like the first boring half was what the story was originally looking like before it got scrapped and reworked.

The second half tho IS SO GOOD new gameplay, good storytelling and amazing looking fights!

I'm glad genshin is working on its storytelling with natlan but the first half of the archon quest was a whiplash fr my expectations were high after the 5.0 quest and I was actually looking to play a story for once but it wnd up being a ride for sure😃

All in all, first half is 3/10, second half is 10/10.

[moonllita]

Few tips if you wanna start commission as an artist

Hi, I'm making this article to maybe help some new artists that want to open their commissions and have some questions or need some tips! That can apply to new artist or even more experienced one. I have more than 10 years of experience in commissions, but I do not assume I know everything, feel free to comment your tips! I will update this article if needed.

Take note english is not my main language I'm sorry about the mistakes!

Let's start!

Make it easy for clients to contact you

It's better to be in multiple platform to be able to reach the most possible people you can. Make it easy for potential client to reach you, that can be on social media, email etc. At the same time, you have to take extra time to keep it up with all those platforms so I mostly keep myself with only 3-4, that's plenty enough. Also you need to know that depending of what do you draw some social media can be better than an other one.

Send the payment before starting

You always should ask at least one payment before starting anything. That can be half/half or full payment, feel free to settup the best for you and your client. Never draw anything for free, including free sketches etc.

Send previews of your work before the final

It's important for client to have a follow of the work you are making for them. It's can be a sketch or any wips, it's mostly to be sure you are in the good direction and not to start everything again at the end. This is also why I recommend to get your fisrt payment before sending previews. It's also help to keep a confiance with clients and make they feel sure about what a are your making. Always contact them if they have any issues, like delay or any complications. Just be honest at the end!

Write your conditions

A tip that I don't see a lot of artists doing, take a few time to write all your conditions in a picture with your commissions, google drive or other and send it to the client before they commission you. It can be conditions like about refund, nfts, AI art utilisation and commercial conditions etc. This is more to protect you at the end, even if the client doesn't read it you can use it to defend yourself if something bad happen. Just think about the worst and a way to protect you in any case possible.

Make your portfolio (your arts) visible and easy to access

The first thing you need it's to show to people what you can do, so make it easy for they to have access to your work. That can be with a commission post that you plug on the top or your social media, that can be a artist portfolio etc. Just take an extra care that your work is easy access for people and also represent what you want to sell to people.

Plug yourself

It's rare that if you are a new artist, people won't reach you for commissions most of the time. You have to go and see the opportunities youself. That can be as simple than just sharing your arts and plug your commissions in the post. You can also check some group, or communities when they look for an artist and plug yourself directly.

How to settup your price

They have no best way to settup your price, but if I can help I have maybe few tips you can take. The best thing is to think about time versus money, how much you are ok to draw for someone else? Take note this is your free time that you use for someone else. It's also important to know your speed. I love to set my price at 20$/h but it's maybe not possible to you. It's also depend of the demand, if you have a larger followers base your commission will fill faster because you have more client and your commission will be always full, better to rise the price to slow down the demand. Also you can compare yourself a bit to other artist in the same art style or range, but it's important to know that most people set their price pretty low in the art community. Feel free to go with what you feel, if you are not motivated to draw maybe its a problem that your price is too low! It also depend if you want to do it fulltime or it's only on part time and you are not stressed to have commission or not.

Discounts

It's not a obligation but you can make special discounts on your commission to make people more welling to commission you. That can be special day discount (Black Friday exemple) but also if you like to draw certain things (like 10% discount on certain characters on franchises). It can make you have more commissions that you like to draw , it's a win-win!

Conclusion

Hope this help some artists here, I made commissions for years now and I feel I didn't see everything yet. Thank you for reading!

[cokowiii]

Can you talk about ur old oc's a lil bit :3??/nf

What was ur really fav one???

Which one of them was the fisrt you have drawn???

Do you ship any of ur oc's???

Which one of them were ur fav/fun to draw???

Are they like ALL humans or somthin or is there some are half and a half X3?????

A LOT OF QUESTIONS UHHHH

My firsts are my faves since they’ve grown and changed with me(cheesy blah blah I know)

They’re all human lookin but different things yuh. I do have some of them shipped and the funnest ones to draw were the twins 🫶

This the 5 goobers had a special place in my cold dead heart

[pxper-cranes]

Meddling Kids Redesigns

It took a while, but I finally finished all four designs of the main gang. There are still some tings I would change if I were to redesign them again, just by seeing all the other ones on tumblr.

I'll do some headcannons here, and maybe draw them again with plot ideas for a fictionalised series I would make with them.

Fist of all, they would start out as high schoolers, then go into univertity after. either way they would all be adults when the film starts

None of these guys are cishet or neurotypical sorry slays but you cant tell me otherwise

Thirdly, these guys are FRIENDS. they CARE about each other. some have been besties for years others were hard and fast ride or dies but they all really care for one another

They would initially start out unmasking people in monster costumes, but there would definitely be an overarching plot that is defiantly supernatural. by midway through season two, the monsters of the week would be real more often than not, and the gang has to turn to more spooky ways of dealing with them

Aight so

FRED

This man HAS to be nice, and reasonably stupid. He was a himbo Blueprint and we must make sure he stays that way

I want to make him into theatre tech and stuff, which he uses to debunk the monsters and point out all the techniques in the 80s horror movies he likes to watch with the gang.

I'd also say he was a prolific camper and scoutgoer as a child, and intends to work as a camp counsellor once he graduates for a little while

because of this hes pretty much a survival expert and gets pretty intense whenever they find themselves in the woods.

while he is strange himself he still is a leader for the group, and plans a lot of their moves on cases.

He and Daphne start the show dating and they are madly in love with each other, and are the bestest of friends. Fred is the more puttogether in the group though, and regularly has to stop daphne from comitting crimes like breaking and entering or simply trying to beat the monster over the head with a bat

DAPHNE

This version of Daphen would just be a pretty unhinged girlboss. she is the part of the gang who is just itching for a fight half the time, so shes been designated team muscle.

Her family is extremely rich, and while they don't really like her pastimes of going out and solving mysteries, but those funds are the thing keeping the gang going, and funding their trips, as well as bail when they get caught investigating some abandoned house or something.

She is really into fashion, specifically 70s style clothes, and spends a lot of time at home making her own clothes and things for others.

alongside that she is really into journalism, so much so that she practically runs the school newsletter when in high school, and runs it through her brilliant people skills. she intends to go to university to do a media and communications degree.

but shes also regularly unhinged and the fisrt one in the gang who would get into a brawl with a monster if given the chance. shes like a black belt in karate at least, and can definitely ride a motorbike.

I think she would encourage Fred's traps in their cases but if she was left alone she would just use a crowbar to solve her problems.

VELMA

This Velma is a todal dork. she is such a nerd its funny, bun in a way ehre the audience laughs with her. let her talk endlessly about her academic interests and cut back to everyone else dumbfounded.

Also my version of Velma isn't mean in any way. While she can be dry, witty or packed with smart comebacks, she is rarely intentionally cruel.

She doesn't believe in the supernatural at the beginning of the series, but she desperately wants to believe in everything. Cryptids, monsters, aliens etc (She was one of the kids that cried when they made Pluto not a planet anymore)

because of her eagerness to investigate she is practically uncarable, and more interested in anything spooky than she is frightful, which could be used for some good gags, especially since she never realises that she is ever out of her element

Velma brings out the nerdier side of all her friends too. she gets Fred talking about traps and survival skills, Daphne on about fashion and law, and Shaggy talking about food and films.

SHAGGY & SCOOB

Scooby doo is Shaggy's assistance dog, and that's how he is allowed to go wherever the gang does.

I've got some lore ideas about how he talks and stuff, which is basically the same as mystery inc plus some inspiration from the Magnus Archives but I'll probably talk about it another time.

I was thinking it might be funny if he talked kinda like puppycat from Bee and Puppycat, but that's just a thought, all I'm going to say is that's not a normal dog.

Shaggy also comes from a wealthier family but nowhere near as rich as Daphne. His parents really tried to shelter him as a kid after something happened in his childhood (IDK what but it was spooky) and ever since he's craved the independence that he gets with the gang

He has been friends with everyone the longest. I assume he went to a summer camp with Fred when they were little, met Velma at some kind of convention and lived close to Daphne.

He has tons of random skills and knowledge about pretty much anything. hes a trivia god and there could e a running gag that he went to a bunch of summer camps too, but for weird and niche things. he's also the kind to binge read wikipedia articles at 3am

I think we would be really into films, specifically horror and pulp films from the 70s - 90s. He probably has an interesting relationship with horror, scaring easily but still doing it for the thrill.

He also implores that in their mysteries, pointing out a bunch of the technical clues with Fred. He probably really likes mystery solving because it gives him that reassurance and control when they finally unmask them. I'm sure he starts to crack a little once they start going up against real monsters.

Hes also a really good cook and makes great playlists.

[bitterlemonade-1]

I HAVE NO FRIENDS SO HEAR ME RAMBLE ABOUT MY 80S TDI AU

so like im bored and i have like 0 people to talk about my au about to. so im just gonna write this and let yall who are interested in my au to read about it. but anyway today im gonna talk about trent and justin, there my favorite so i have to, duh. and its 1987 and the fisrt part takes place in California where trent lives and the second half is Hawaii where justin is living.

so trent is having a VERY hard time getting over his break up with gwen. ( in my au gwen was an awful gf, only cause i HATE gwen.... hehe gwen hater 4 life). realizing all she did was ridicule, make fun of, shame him, and telling him his ocd is wrong. so she cheats and breaks up with trent. he pretty much starts losing hope in himself. not thinking hes worthy of anyone love or anything again. one day his work send him off to a work project in hawaii. he remembered an old friend of his lived there (it was justin) . he deiced to stop by his house to maybe open there friendship again after the few years thats passes. to his surprise justin was bit of a celeb there for his modeling. so pretty much justin take trent around hawaii showing him around, and trent works on his project for his work for a few days. the entire time trent keeps eyeing justin, but always feeling horrible cause hes still dealing with his breakup.

justin fr takes trent to a gay club one night, trent not knowing justin was gay. he paniced and fled the club. cause trent himself was bi but not ready to come out. justin runs after him, apologizing to trent for all that. but like trent just went for it kissing justin. that same night they F U C K E D. well ya know trent then remembers he has only a few days of his trips left, feeling scared again. being alone again after finding someone who makes him feel so much lighter and doesn't harass him about his traits. so he decided to tell justin everything about gwen and his ocd. bla bla nothing to interesting just justin comforting a depressed trent.

on trents last night in hawaii, hes takes justin to a hill that justin showed him days earlier. trent asks justin if he could star gaze with him, something him and gwen did that always made him feel free. the two laid in the grass staring into the night sky looking at the stars together, holding each other. and well......... thats all you get of the story MWAHAHA really thought you where gonna get the whole story?!?!? NO NOT YET. anyway look out for the art for the story!!! coming soon

[platonic-pals-punchout]

Preliminary Polls: Pokemon (Multimedia)

Ingo & Emmet:

Alright alright, LISTEN. First of all they are identical twins. They're the opposite of the other and complete eachother (example : Ingo always has a frown while Emmet smiles, Ingo is eloquent and talkative whereas Emmet is very direct and blunt) (also they are dressed in black and white like the games they are in and I find it awesome). They are shown to care for eachother deeply : Well fisrt of all they work together But mist importantly, in the mobile game Masters EX they have SO MANY lines where they talk about the other it's adorable. They are together in all special events and there is one in particular where Emmet does everything to help his brother achieve one of his ideas (which is technically building a small battle Subway from a remaining mine). On a side note, they are the embodiment of autism and I love them for that

Ash Ketchum & Pikachu:

Ash and Pikachu have spent decades together fighting everyone from little kids to literal deities after Ash saved Pikachu from a bunch of angry pidgies, so they're basically the unstoppable force half of "unstoppable force meets immovable object". And frankly? I have yet to hear an immovable object in your list of submissions.

[joyfultearsandsweetmemories]

yk what

TOYKO GHOUL HYPERFIXATION BACK AND RUNNING

OH GOD I LOVE OWING FHE FISRT BOX SET

I love reading it like half of the time I'm just looking at the scenes

Manga is so dyslexia friendly :)

[epicfranb]

haven't watched sausage's empires in a long time so now im catching up and gotta say he's quickly climbing up my blorbo ranks rn.... i reaaaaly don't like the direction he took his story, i hate the "evil version" type of plot/character and this evil sausage (sounds funny lol) isn't intersting to me at all (haven't watched s1) BUT instaed of being sad abt it im remembering the beginning of the season where i was so excited about Sanctuary, from the building style to sausage's character and his story, to the amount of detail he puts into EVERYTHING-- i had so much thoughts about what kind of story he was crafting, like, if Sanctuary is so vibrant and colorful and naturey, why is its outpost on the bridge a sword that doesn't have all that color and playfulnes to it? i would expect weapons of Sanctuary to be all vibrant and ornate and beatiful, but instead they look cold and serious? like, a staff of sanctuary is something that i would expect his weapons to look like, and they ARE beatiful, but not in the way that i'd expect. Throughout earlier episodes, wasn't Sausage being hunted by someone? i assumed the king from that kingdom he ran from sent assasins after him or something, given Sausage seems important? i thought that king was going to be the villain somehow, but maybe that was also just a refernce to s1??? (i wouldn't know) there was that whole thing about abusing the magic of nature for your own selfish goals, which Sausage vowed to never do, but so far it didn't really lead to anything or wasn't even mentioned?... idk maybe im misremembering things and should rewatch the earlier episodes (and wacth s1 lol)

anyway just my thoughts. at fisrt when i started watching him i did just because i wanted to keep up with what was happening. there was even a point where i was hoping to keep up with every emp member (i watch a half of them i think). and even tho i did enjoy his videos and the lore and the character he played, i was always under that pressure to make sure i watch and remember everything so i just didn't have time to properly enjoy it!!! now i dont pressure myself to keep up with everything (whcih happened after i realized i physically cannot keep up with all the tcg matches, even tho i wnated to) and i find that im able to enjoy he videos so much more!!! like, recetnly i watched a scar video and it felt like watching s7 again, back when i first got into hc!!! it was so nice, and now? even tho i don't enjoy the story that sausage is doing i do still enjoy him as a creator and his character and it's so fun and i can view him in a new light of like,, just being this illy goofy guy, a little feral but infinitely kind and compassionate !!!

just enjoying stuff with no pressure is nice. i still have so much to watch but im taking it slowly

[sofiadragon]

Why is planning a trip to Disney World with my Mother in Law, who has stage 4 cancer and must take all the grandbabies to Disney before she's too sick, more work and stress than when I was a regional manager opening a new store location.

Disney Genie+ is the worst idea anyone has ever conceived. This mix of first-come fisrt-served and gambling mechanics is absolute insanity. Stare at your phone all day rather than get immersed? We don't need another reason to be looking down instead of interacting with our families on vacation. People who pay for and game this system win short wait times on rides. People who don't get much, much longer waits to accommodate the gamblers. Defunctland made a video about fast passes that says everything I could want to say far better than I can ever say it. Why yes I will just ride the merry-go-round 47 times, that little AI dot has life figured out.

I wish those magic bands ran off a local park-specific infrastructure connection instead of a bluetooth connection to a phone app. Not wifi to the internet but to a LAN. No phone connection needed, they really don't need to be on the internet. Tag into a lightning lane using a kiosk or tap point, it vibrates when it is your turn. Let the phone be optional once you start your day unless you need to change your plans. Don't make the magic band vibrate the whole time the fireworks are going off, like an insistent toddler saying "look at me! Look at me!" when we all want to be looking up. Oh, I hope they "fix" that before we go.

But the mad planning for reservations at the character restaurants and special events/activities 60 days before the vacation is the actual worst. Look, I'll take first come first serve, I'll get up at the crack of dawn for my family that's fine, but let me put in a ranked choice for what I want to do that day and all the other days of my trip before it goes live and give me one of them if possible. Maybe 3 choices per day in a ranked list, (#1 dinner with Snow White on any day, #2 build a lightasber the day we go to Hollywood studios, etc.) and then you get one of those assigned by an AI between midnight and 7am Florida time before things go live. People who put something down as their #1 get first crack at that thing, with some random lottery thrown in. Then it's a free for all race for every other thing you want to reserve based on who has the fastest internet if you want more. Give people with slower connections half a chance at getting to see Snow White (only 1 dinner service per day for my kid's favorite character, with a VERY swanky and pricy prix fix menu) and then if you really didn't want that third string choice or if things changed since you set it up, you cancel and try to get something else in that t-60 days scramble. At least everyone will get something automatically off their planning list, and as people change their plans something might open up you can squeeze into (just like they already do, because some people grab 3 sit down meals a day and cancel the ones they decide not to go to the week or day before.)

It's ten days until my MIL and I wake up at dark o'clock to have a digital black friday stampede through the reservation procedure. I need some fairies on my side to get this done.

[annbobko]

Greetings to all my friends and foes and froes!

Huh, done with serious part, lets get some fun! First I have to confess that my greeting isn't mine( Its free translation of my forever favourite greeting of one of Ukrainian YouTube creators I follow. He is super iconic when destroying this ussr culture heritage and confronting pro-ruzzian media persons. Also his community (me included) are fighting one old crazy lady who instead of some peaseful knitting decided to share her anti-lgbtq pro-religeous views. So we established Homodox Church of Ukraine (instead of Orthodox Church) and that is the only religion I am ready to profess. So if you are with us say "Glory to LGBT! Death to family values!"

Stand up. I can't say much about it except that this is what keeps me sane this days and that Ukrainian stand up comedians I watch are the best people in the world with the most active civil position and the most humanitarian views. I brought you one of my favourite jokes by Anna Kochegura in my non-professional translation: "Nietzsche once said that the woman was the second God's mistake... The fisrt must've been the Nietzsche"

Media. The only tv I enjoy is Toronto TV) That`s youtube news channel with just coolest team in the world. This guys are new style Ukrainian journalists who were fighting ruzzian propaganda and inhumane ideologies for literally all their careers. They post about news, culture and many more. They have second channel in English so you are weclome to enjoy) Ukrainian Toronto Television - YouTube

P. S. Just to make it clear - they are not the only sourse of news I follow cause I am not a ruzzian to blindly believe everything you are told without fact-checking)

Books. Finally, my favourite part) I am absolutely stunned with talent of Ukrainian authors and how easy they are about it. I mean this people write like the coolest stories in the world and take it like no big deal. I will never get used to how easily I can communicate with my favourite authors. I basically can write them on Instagram - and they will read, answer and thank me for reading them. I understand why this happens - because Ukrainian book market is pretty small and private - but considering the level of excellence of this works I just can't believe this people walk the same ground with me and I can meet them somewhere at the market. I found every book I ever wanted on Ukrainian book market and at some point got a little bit carried away to find myself out with 0 UAH on the card and about 250 books to read)

We have like supercool non-fiction publisher Vikhola. I bought almost all of their books) Now I know about paleontology, botanics, psychology, animal psychology, artificial insemination and many many more. Also in my library there are books about spies, space exploring, life of doctors, exploring Antarctica, escape from North Korea, some books about everyday life, other cultures, fantasy, love stories, biographies, thrillers, manchva and something else I can't even remember) Some books are brilliant translations but I believe more than half of my collection to be written by Ukrainians.

I read several books at the time. First is absolutely stunning fantasy about the shadow side of our sities where is magic and forever lasting confrontation of dark and light mages. Sounds pretty basic but lore of this world is hella interesting and complicated with detailed magic system (there are mages, witches and alchemists - each group has its unique way to access Power), political system of different countries and supercharismatic characters. I can distinguish every character just by the manner of speaking and am absolutely in love with every one of them. They are more alive than some real humans and I am 100% involved in their lives. Author of this fascinating trilogy is Natalia Matolinets. She is soon publishing in English for the first time. Her short story will appear in Tales&Feathers Magazines. I am thrilled for her and wish all the luck with publishing her books for the English readers one day)

Second book I am reading now is very big. It's like HUGE. That is the first book of The New Dark Ages tetralogy by Ukrainian author Max Kidruk. The book is 904 pages and the rest of the series are planned to be as big) It weights 1,5 kg! Yeah, I bought this one in paper because ebook will come later and I am eager to read this precious. It tells us about humankind in 22nd century with global climat change on Earth and rebellions at the colonies on Mars. It is basically GoT in space. And all of its aspects are super science accurate. Also Max fills his books with additions such as detailed maps, lists of charachters, schemes and even little apps. This is just exceptional sci-fi book!

And the third one I am reading is pretty basic nonfic for book lovers - How To Read Literature Like A Professor. It is nothing but great and definitely enriches my reading experiences.

Movies. I am not a film fan but moden Ukrainian films are just pure art. I encourage you to watch Pamfir and other Ukrainian films if possible. It will sure be interesting and impressive experience.