#got a VibeTM

[xofemeraldstars]

INCHRESTING 👀

[vintageghoststories]

Okok so woe.begone community I’ve decided to go to you guys [who r certainly unbiased] on whether or not i should register/continue listening to it .

[vixlenxe]

I'm not saying he could pass for a Jupiter, but he could pass for a Jupiter.

[astranauticus]

wooo thanks for the tag! using my try not to go insane at work playlist bc thats 90% of what i listen to these days

愚公移山 - Ice Paper

MIRROR - Ado

yattyattawa - syudou

Odo - Ado

Sleepwalk - natori

MIRROR... again? somehow?

SHANTI - wotaku (vivid bad squard ver.)

食人梦 - Vast & Hazy

Sarushibai - natori

Villain - teniwoha (Ado cover)

no pressure tags hmm @dreadark @biscuitcrow and anyone else who wants to

🤍 Shuffle Playlist Game 🤍

tagged by @swamp-satyr

Rules: you can tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to. Put a playlist on shuffle, list the first 10 songs and then tag people!

I’m using my liked playlist on spotify for this one, which is like 2k songs

1. to death - The OBGMS

2. Forward to Death - Dead Kennedys

3. 1999 She - Deaton Chris Anthony

4. Angels we have heard on high - Chanticleer

5. Pitch the Baby - Cocteau Twins

6. Exit Only - Fugazi

7. That Sedative - Bad Waitress

8. The Static Age - Green Day

9. Dark Entries - Bauhaus

10. I Dropped Out - And The Kids

I tag…….anyone who wants to do it. coward response I know I'm just scared of tagging someone who doesn't want to do it. what if they kill me with hammers. edit: apparently this post ended up tagging people anyway??? embarrassing.....well you know who you are

[coffinsister]

Ashley is the only one who thinks the commercial feels incestuous. Andrew is yelling that its perfectly normal and fits their dynamic perfectly. He yells this casually resting a hand on her ass while a hickey heals on his neck

That's so fucking funny to me what

She's leaning against him her head resting on his chest and making little figures against him and just going heyyy isn't this kinda odd? They have a VibeTM don't they, Andrew

Andrew on the other hand is just red and looking to the side super irritatedly telling her to stop making everything weird and about incest, Ashley please

This all happens like 20 minutes after they are done having sex he's got his hand on her ass she's covered in bites and hickeys all over her chest and he can still feel the burning of her clawing at his back and biting his neck as she finished

They both think this is a pretty normal Friday afternoon

[tang-wei]

The Hurricane Wars (sfw) Headcanons

I can't get these two idiots out of my head - someone please talk to me about this book!!!

Alaric's got a sweet tooth (that's canon ig) but Talaysn will chew chillies for fun and say it's not spicy (it's the Nenvare blood in her)

Alaric cooking = frying an egg

Talaysn cooking = boiling water for instant noodles

Alaric's favourite weapon is the scythe and that's because at age 14 he had an emo phase and a jet-black scythe made of shadows is the coolest thing ever

In a moment of brevity where they are not really trying to kill each other, Talaysn asks Alaric why he's got a farming tool for his weapon and Alaric is offended

Likes mint chocolate = Alaric, Khaede

Thinks mint chocolates are basically toothpaste = Talaysn (she will never turn down food though!), Sevarim

Alaric's favourite color is red. He'd wear red robes except his dad thought red was not the night empire VibeTM and decreed black robes for all

Sevarim's pansexsual

Sevarim has rizz but does not know what to do when people start rizzing back. Will probably reboot with the windows shut down sound in his head tbh

[prettysymbiosis]

I’ve been trying to get these thoughts out for days but basically I feel like the unifying theory of s16 (as I see it) is a conscious exploration of the dichotomy between sunny as a classically bold and brash pee pee poo poo comedy and sunny as a thoughtful, nuanced and subtle show about flawed people and also about itself, at times (by that I mean the meta isn’t always about macdennis or the other characters but about sunny itself - win an award, clip show, big mo, etc). the trailer actually captures this dichotomy well through the dialogue clips and animations, as well as the pinned comment which said “get ready for a whole lot of subtlety.” it’s still so baffling to me that sunny can simultaneously read as one of the most loud, obnoxious, unsubtle shows ever on television, OR it can be so subtle and allegorical in the writing of later seasons that most viewers would think people like us are crazy for reading so much into it even though we’re really not. this kind of self-reflective flavor is another product of the rewatch/podcast project which has been almost universally agreed to have had a very positive effect on the writing.

anyway having said that, I want to just share my notes on the first two episodes without trying to edit them too much. I’m bolding the points that I personally haven’t seen anyone else mention yet and putting a 😎 next to ones that evoke a Classic Sunny VibeTM because that’s important to the experiment of this season.

the gang inflates

macden fun/domestic/DUMB again 😎

something something never committing to the couch when it was absurd not to and it ended up costing them so much macdennis blah blah

dennis hanging up on dee was so funny to me oops 😎

and the WHOLE dee (as a character and specifically the female character) thing about being minimized to an absurd degree. I like to think the bog was a turning point for dee and the show is gonna do better by her now hopefully by recognizing her plight in a more serious way, like the way the guys have been doing?

are mac and dennis…… you know…… like for real??? as many have said, it could totally be revealed kind of retroactively to undercut the shock and be like “honestly we’re surprised you didn’t notice sooner” I feel like that is something rcg would do. suggestive clues:

“I don’t wanna talk to you about–” “a TON”

or is dennis like well that’s news to me jealous vibes??

“I figured you were man” ??

“I’m getting a little concerned about our nut”

“you truly have no reason to be sleeping with frank”

they specifically put a lil reaction shot of dennis after mac says “that’s a lotta blowin” a la the lil grin in gets romantic and, well, I just think that’s a choice that was made

“it’s not homophobic” is that so?????

when mac is like “you think we got rid of our furniture too soon/that the business plan won’t work” it’s kinda like no it’s not the committing to what they have, it’s that mac still has big denial problems and dennis can’t work with that… maybe? but so does dennis tbh

in a show-meta sense it’s like, we should be less worried about whether the gay gay-ass love story will alienate people and more worried about how these characters are too ridiculous to even let the love story play out effectively. they need mental health days if we are ever to have nice things

it’s possible mac denying his reaction to the allergy has to do with his body dysmorphia?

also it occurred to me that maybe part of why rob is clean-shaven this season is so they could do those prosthetics more easily?

those handprints though…. I hate everything

oh also just the bed scene. its existence

the zoomed in neck touch of course

“I’m not going to do it!” “..okay” dennis keepin his cool :)

mac’s shirt! COOLER HEADS PREVAIL

just the sheer silliness of inflatable furniture - is there some metaphor here lol?

in a general sense could inflates be taken to mean flanderizes? also maybe it’s just implied but I noticed I hadn’t actually seen anyone mention inflation as a sexual kink and like, that was part of the intention right? if so, 😎

charlie “uhhhhhhhh… yep.” poor charlie :( he doesn’t want to live in a maze (like a rat)

“well then you’re just like being a predator” :( so here for charlie calling out bullshit with frank and mrs. mac and even his own mom so far in these first two eps

charlie just giving up and yelling in frustration which is kinda what bonnie does in ep2 (and ep3 based on trailer)

the gross horny male objectifying thing 😎

rob put his whole pussy into this episode

charlie saying “I don’t get why he doesn’t take me seriously” and dee saying “that’s gotta be maddening” 🙃

cats in the alley my loves 😎

gluing dee a pillow on the wall <3

“consider it an offering” “of war??” this says so much. must everything be a conflict?

charlie’s hair looks so crazy and good in the sleepover scene and also he’s so smart

charlie asks frank to “return everything to the status quo” by the end of the episode, sitcom style. full reset, no progression. except charlie is asking that frank not endlessly take advantage of the fact that mac and den can’t figure their shit out, not totally push dee out just because it’s easy, not make light of the trauma charlie has from what happened to him. all that stuff IS the status quo! so what is he really asking for? this is one of the bits of writing that I think is also about the show as a show, and how they’ve approached these dynamics forever. 

it’s funny that people are saying this season is such a return to form because it is, but it’s also so much more self-aware of what that form is/was and how deeper elements can coexist within it. they’re really walking with a foot in both worlds here and they’re doing it well. love this for them and for us, the people who know what it’s always sunny in philadelphia is REALLY about

“we’ll take you to the hospital, and they’ll have nuts. and you can– you can die there.” hahahah

[milftigress]

guesstimating where coast city would be in California based on solely Hal’s vibes and Hal’s vibes alone (op is a cali native, LA/valley girl born n raised heheh) based on this ask by soup but specifically the tags bc it got me thinking and I’ve always felt like hal was more a socal girlie than like middle/norcal

saurrrr i have 3 places in mind: -san diego -santa barbara -santa cruz/bay area (in order of most to least likely)

san diego- out of these three areas I think san diego is most likely, like there’s beaches there’s military bases theres two major universities (UCSD and USD) theres like a whole strip of lgbt bars/restaurants! THERES SAN DIEGO ZOO (<-not relevant to the post just remembered it’s there :)) I can’t explain it but EYE see hal as a very socal dude and what’s more than “I grew up by the beach and my dad was a test pilot for the military” than san diego? *help is ferris air even considered like military or does it even supply to the military??? idk idk idk ahdhhedhxbd

santa cruz/bay area- sometimes I feel like hal could pass as a bay area boy like… I can’t explain it there’s just a VibeTM esp when I’ve read fics and I just feel like coast city could be in the bay or in/near santa cruz plus there’s the pier!! (<- also not that relevant but I’ve been and it’s a fun time! and totally could see it as a Jordan family summer vacation spot)

santa barbara- college town, beach within walking distance, restaurants and bars EVERYWHERE, super relaxed vibe ALSO HAS A ZOO (<-smaller than LA or SD zoo but I’ve been and it’s cute and fun!) but it’s last place bc I don’t think hal nor coast city gives off the bougie af energy than SB gives off in general/as a whole but it was the first option that came to mind before I really thought about the likelihood and the VibesTM

[the-ace-with-spades]

Ive got the VibeTM so I'm going to shave my hair

[thequiver]

I think the anon from yesterday miiiiight be thinking of David but mixing some stuff up? I have no idea if that's what it is, but here's my theory. Now, I haven't read his comics either so I can't explain exactly what I think they're thinking about. But a lot of what they said reminds of The VibeTM I got from some of your posts.

- The "expected to be bad because of his powers" bit is pretty self explanatory.

- I think the friends they mention are the New Mutants. I vaguely remember one story about David trying to help the X-Men and them (or one of them?) trusting David while other people assume the worst.

- That same story arc might be the one where he "joins" the bad guys? Cause there's something about him helping the X-Men in some other plane with psychic stuff even though they're thinking he's trying to fuck with them? LIKE I SAID I don't know what I'm talking about either.

- You've talked a lot about Charles being an ass to him

- I thiiiiink you've talked about how he had a thousand reasons to go bad, that everyone expects that of him, but he didn't

So yeah. I might be totally wrong but anon did say it was probably David or Kevin, so I hope they see this

Oh shit I forgot about the X-Men Disassembled arc that COULD go along with what anon was looking for?

Anon if you’re reading these even if it’s not David, please read David

He’s my special boy and I love seeing new people come to love him too

[aidenwaites]

Tagged by @smallvillecrows !!

Rules: Post three pictures or images you feel relate to a character. They can be faceclaims, famous artworks, photos, or anything you think fits the VibeTM.

Charlie Reimes:

Alex Prescott:

William West:

(Source for the handmade tarot deck)

Tagging: whoever wants to tbh!!! All my mutuals who regularly post about their OC's have already been tagged so if you've got them but don't normally post about them: go wild!! And tag me if you do so I can see it!!

[speedwalkingtheplanes]

Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus characters as D&D classes and races because I can’t sleep part 2

Part 1

I already did an intro in the last one, and frankly, I haven’t slept in 24 hours so I just don’t want to go through the whole shebang again. Just scroll down for the stuff.

Reyna Ramírez-Arellano: Human Samurai Fighter. I honestly wanted to make Reyna a ghostslayer blood hunter because she’s got the poltergeist patricide backstory, and she just fits The VibeTM, but I already established no hombrew, and if I make one exception then I’m going to start making more. So fighter seemed like the best choice, given her incredible battle prowess, as well as her mother being Bellona. Samurai because they get some roleplay abilities, which work great with her role as praetor of the Twelfth Legion. Samurai are very wisdom focused, and have strong willpower, which we see Reyna have. As for human, I simply don’t think any other race suits her that well. Maybe she could be an elf, but again, that’s just based on vibes, and I’ve been awake too long to judge the vibes of anything. Maybe I’ll edit this later.

Charles Beckendorf: Goliath Forge Cleric. I guess this one is going to have fewer multiclasses. Beckendorf’s race was a bit tricky to pin down at first, but he’s described as being absolutely huge, and Percy at one point says that he makes monsters cry for their mommies, so there ended up being no other choice but a goliath. He’s also one of our few clerics, as he doesn’t really have the finesse that artificers do, but he absolutely does have the brute force of a forge cleric. Proficiency in heavy armor, the ability to make any armor or weapon magical, and being able to just straight-up create non-magical items. He had to have been lower than level 17 though, as that grants you immunity to fire, and...well. Sorry.

Selina Beauregard: Eladrin Archfey Warlock/Whispers Bard. I think many children of Aphrodite would end up as warlock/bard multiclasses, and I think the subclass split would be relatively even across archfey, great old one, glamour, and eloquence. Silena, however, gets the college of whispers, considering that she acted as a spy for Kronos during the second Titanomachy. Honestly, I don’t think she always was, and may have been college of glamour even after Luke convinced her to be a spy, only switching to the college of whispers following Beckendorf’s death. 

Will Solace: Protector Aasimar Divine Soul Sorcerer. I didn’t want to make another aasimar, but unless I just made him human, nothing else fit. Sure, he doesn’t fly, but the healing hands ability that aasimar get, plus the light cantrip seem like they fit him better than human ever could. I had also considered making him a cleric, but the obvious domains, light and life, don’t fit him particularly well either. Life clerics favor heavy armor and martial weapons, something we never see Will using, and light is very fire-magic focused, something that also doesn’t really fit well. At the end of the day, Will is a healer, and a damn good one at that, with little in the way of true combat abilities. Thus, the divine soul sorcerer is perfect for him, allowing him to take any cleric spell he wants without having to force him into a domain that may not fit, and leaving him a backline caster rather than a frontline bruiser.

Rachel Elizabeth Dare: Githerazi Aberrant Mind Sorcerer/Divination Wizard. This is the first subclass overlap we’ve had that wasn’t intentional, but aberrant mind just doesn’t tell the future like a diviner does. Githerazi are inherently psionic, something that happens to Rachel as the series progressed, both with her clear sight and her becoming the oracle. While telling the future is certainly one of her primary abilities, I like the idea that the oracle has to be able to see into people’s minds to properly create prophecies, and so giving her psionics both through her race and class seemed appropriate, along with the foresight that is the school of divination.

Ethan Nakamura: Shadar-Kai Arcane Trickster Rogue. Ignore my previous statement where I said I shouldn’t be judging characters by vibes on this little sleep, because Ethan is all vibes, and not anything else. So let’s talk about this. Shadar-Kai live in the shadowfell, acting at the behest of the Raven Queen and existing between the states of life and death, a perpetual limbo. We don’t see a massive amount of Ethan, but I think this fits him incredibly well. He is trapped between a life he can’t have with the demigods at Camp Half-Blood, and a life he can’t have in the mortal world. In this case, the Raven Queen could be a stand-in for Nemesis or Kronos, but I like the idea of Nemesis better, given that she took his eye. As for his class, I know that we never saw him perform magic, but it’s the “trickster” bit of arcane trickster that does it for me. He’s no stranger to deceit and backstabbing, things the arcane trickster excels at. And the trickery domain doesn’t really work, considering its focus on stealth rather than manipulation.

Calypso: High Elf Abjuration Wizard. Calypso was difficult to figure out. High elf seemed like it fit more than well enough, due to her long lifespan and some inherent magical ability. Her class, on the other hand, took me a while. We know she can cast unseen servant, so she must be a bard, a warlock, or a wizard. I ended up making her an abjurer, but I don’t think she is because she wants to be. The island of Ogygia is naturally warded, and someone living there for a very long time would likely come to understand the wards and how they work. However, I also think she studies the school of abjuration as a defense mechanism. Heroes come to Ogygia, but ultimately, they can never stay, and she is constantly hurt by it. Perhaps the wards, shields, and countermagic of an aburer is the kind of thing that one would want so they could protect themselves not from physical pain, but from the emotional wounds that carve much deeper. I could also see her being a genie warlock, and the entire island is her vessel. That’d be sick as hell.

Gleeson Hedge: Satyr Beast Barbarian/Drunken Master Monk. This one isn’t as sad as the others, and was also a lot easier to come up with. Just like Grover, he’s a satyr because he’s a satyr. And of course he’s a barbarian and a monk, given how often he screams, “Die!” and his fascination with mixed martial arts. It’s his sublasses that were a bit trickier, but not too terribly tricky. I was going to make him a berserker and an open hand, and while I do think those both fit, beast and drunken master add so much more flavor to him then just the base “take what the class does and make them do it better” subclasses. (Not that there’s anything wrong with those, of course. Several characters in part one have subclasses like that, and they are cool as shit.)

Chiron: Centaur Hunter Ranger/Ancients Paladin. As with Hedge and Grover, race is very easy. Chiron is centaur, which makes Chiron centaur. Perhaps best centaur. God, I’m tired. His class spread is interesting, though. He is absolutely a ranger, but nothing but hunter seems to fit him at all. He is a skilled healer and bowman, and also has a very high wisdom. No real tricks, no gimmicks, just straight goodness. But I also couldn’t shake that he feels like a paladin to me, his oath being that he would continue to train heroes until they no longer needed him. I think ancients fits him the best, given that he made this oath millenia ago to the gods, as well as his connection to nature. However, I could see arguments for devotion and redemption, seeing as how he has devoted his life to this cause, and he wants to learn from his mistakes and not lose any more heroes.

Octavian: Baalzebul Tiefling Eloquence Bard. To quote Mordenkainen’s Tome Of Foes, “Baalzebul...excels at corrupting those whose minor sins can be transformed into acts of damnation. Tieflings linked to this archdevil can corrupt others both physically and psychically.” Yeah, that sounds a hell of a lot like our resident fandom punching bag, Octavian. He is the perfect evil eloquence bard we’ve been looking for, as he is an expert talker and neogtiator, and was instrumental in getting Camp Jupiter to wage war on Camp Half-Blood with the fervor and zeal that they did. Plus, bards have access to some alright divination spells that he can use to perform his duties as augur (except augury, unfortunately). I don’t have more to say about his race or class, but did anyone else notice that he’s never given a last name? What’s up with that? Why don’t we know it? What does his family have to hide?

Zoë Nightshade: Wood Elf Horizon Walker Ranger/Stars Druid. Zoë is a wood elf due to her past as one of the Hesperides, she and her sisters guarding the golden apples. I couldn’t not make her a ranger, though I wasn’t going to make her a horizon walker at first. Due to the apples also being guarded by Ladon, I was going to have her be a drakewarden, but thought it was inappropriate for how she is presented in the series. (This may be another case of “was the other subclass at one point, but is this one by the end of their story,” in this case becoming a horizon walker when she joins Artemis’ hunt.) Horizon walkers guard the world from the threats they don’t even know about, the ones that may bring harm through terrible magic to those with no way to combat it. This seems like a great description of what we see of Artemis’ hunt, as we see with them hunting Thorn, and Zoë insisting that she accompany Artemis to hunt the ophiotaurus. As for the circle of stars...

Anyway, that’s going to be it for this one! As far as just PJO/HoO goes, I think I’ve hit most of the characters that matter (I won’t do Tyson until/unless there comes a playable cyclops race, because I can’t bear to just make him a goliath), but let me know if there’s any others you’d like to see, or if you disagree with my decisions! I’d love to know where you’d differ. See you on the flip side!

[small-angry-turtle]

TMA fears and jewellry: The Lonely 1/15

I recently got a new job at jewellry shop and Im playing a game with myself. What products have The vibeTM or Avatars would wear. If you've Seen this on Facebook, congrats, you found me.

Started with the Lonely bc I don't wanna start with the Eye.

Everyone Can see you but you're still lonely.

Lovely is white or silver.

I think that if Avatar of the Lonely would wear ANY kind of jewellry, it would be simple.

This is either a mist from the Lonely or a nice Web from the Mother of Puppets. Someone in a FB group thinks this is a Corruption feeding on the person.

Bonus: Elias wears these when he has a date with Peter.

Feel free to get inspired!

[astudyinfreewill]

Jus scrolling by & your blog def has a vibeTM. Like a good vibe, it's very comfortable & idk it reminds me of sitting in an open field looking up at stars in the night sky. Also, your trc content is choiceee :)). If you have time, could you pls recommend some good trc fics ?

aw, thank you, that’s such a sweet thing to say!! 🥺💖💖💖

...alas, you have discovered my WeaknessTM... i am super bad at fic recs. this is because i consume fics every once in a while, with great voracity, staying up until 4 to finish them, and then promptly forget to bookmark. so I’M SORRY to all the authors whose amazing fics i read and then did not keep track of 😩

still, i believe i can give you some pointers. i am lucky enough to have super talented friends, so actually most of this list will be authors rather than specific fics, but i’ll throw in some fics as well!! (note: ratings cover the entire spectrum from General Audiences to Explicit). so without further ado: 

i adore anything and everything by @harvardparrish (York on AO3). seriously, i’m in love with kelly’s writing -- it’s so poetic and still so in character for these dumbass boys <3

i also wholeheartedly recommend @deerlovelylily. here on their AO3 you can find cute bluedam friendship moments AND pynch kids!fic... she has the RANGE darling!!

would you like some quality Yearning?? look no further than @bleachersmp3 and her AO3!!!

got a good amount of time on your hands?? want to read A LOT of super cute fluff?? here’s a link to @emmerrr‘s AO3 page!

do you enjoy AUs?? neat!! @adamparrishcryingclub (aka renlybaratheon on AO3) is the queen of them!!!

but not all great fic has to live on AO3, and this is why I’m linking you to @sulkybbarnes‘ pynch fic tag!

speaking of treasure troves of fanfic, shinealightonme has several - and i do mean SEVERAL - really excellent trc fics. a veritable feast!

and now for some single fics: 

wonderterror weekend and son of the nuclear a-bomb by nimmieamee have some of the best trc-writing i’ve ever seen -- in the sense that it feels almost exactly like maggie’s writing, so much so that i have repeatedly misremembered things in these fics as being canon

homesick and he is exactly the poem, by momebie, are two complementary pieces from ronan’s and adam’s respective povs, and i absolutely loved them 

roses on parade and roses in between my thighs were two of the very first fics i read in trc fandom (maybe the first? who knows lol). i think the author went by jamesina, but the AO3 account has since been orphaned.

i hope this helps!! and if you feel like giving my own trc fic a try, this is my AO3 (i go by starsandgutters there) and this is my writing tag! 😊

[chubsonthemoon]

tagged by @storybookprincess!! (thank you!!) here are some of my fave fics I’ve written! tbh this was kinda difficult; I am very aware that nothing I write is neither perfect nor very polished (it wouldn’t be even remotely fun for me if I tried to do that), but mostly everything I’ve written I’ve written for the sole audience members of me myself and I (and also sometimes a friend :3), so these are some of my more recent faves. under a cut because this got kinda long, whoopsie!

tagging! @superish, @dodici12, and @owletstarlet! <3

Letters from Heaven: haikyuu!!, kagehina, 60k

this fic was written for last year’s kghn big bang and it was so fun! It’s the longest thing I’ve written yet, and boy oh boy it was such a challenge to juggle a bunch of different things that I hadn’t done on this kind of scale before, like longer character arcs and, especially given that this is a violet evergarden AU, describing things in a way that fits with kyoani’s style and VibeTM. My last longer fic, thy kingdom come, was about half this length and almost made the list simply because of how bonkers it was (like I hadn’t written at all that year and suddenly signed up for a big bang and then had to take a month long break in the middle because of school stuff, and then boom I ended up writing the latter half of it a few days before the deadline LOL), but anyway. It’s not perfect (nothing is!) but it’s chock full of recurring metaphors and long-winded descriptions about the sky and pining out the wazoo (basically: all wildly self-indulgent things catered to me and me alone) and I love it all the same. (also bajillion thanks to janine for this one heh she is to blame for most of my kghn madness)

over the edge (of all our knowings): hunter x hunter, killugon, 13k

okay this one almost went to my other killugon fic again bc everything I write is so self-indulgent but!! this fic is probably one of the few fics that I set out to write very intentionally? that sounds weird, hmm how to explain. I tend to write fic mostly to let out Emotions but tbh it’s so much easier and way more fun for me to do that through reading other people’s works--less work for me to read abt my faves than to write them, after all! so most of what’s on my profile before this fic is exactly that: I sat down at like one in the morning with my notebook and fever-dream scribbled out a oneshot that I spent maybe the next two or three days typing up, reading over once, and then yeeting it up onto the archive. but not with this fic! I had already written my Vent fic for the boys in question, but my goals with this fic were more deliberately geared towards examining and changing up my approach to writing: 1) I really wanted to explore gon after the world tree and what his healing might look like, but gon is Really Hard for me to write (the boy is so!! ARGHSLKDFJ). So: deeply inhabiting unfamiliar character pov practice. Asking myself, after every single line of dialogue and event and inner monologue, how this character would react and why. How will this impact their next action? How will it impact their relationship with this other character? How about this? and this? and so on and so forth 2) I wanted to find a balance with my metaphors on both a sentence by sentence and an overarching basis (I tend to just go for the first--I can’t help it I love purple-y prose jslkdfj). 3) Time!! I also went a lot slower with this one. Every night for over a month, writing a little bit at a time in my notebook. And I found that going slower...is actually really nice? Takes a lot of the stress away. tldr; this fic was basically one long exercise in me examining my writing (also ngl my creative writing professor’s feedback on my work for class really kickstarted this LOL) and boy oh boy was it satisfying to see it posted when I finished. I learned a lot! Also I got some of the kindest comments that made me tear up, which was so wonderful. god this got long okay moving on.

your heart, bright heart: natsume yuujinchou, tanunatsu & gen, 7k

after over a year of quarantine I’ve read more fic than I ever have in my LIFE and I have figured some stuff out about what makes me go absolutely bonkers, writing-wise. this fic was an attempt, after several months of reading literally hundreds of fics across dozens of fandoms and relationships and pairings (like geeze! hxh, run with the wind, hq, yuri on ice, the great pretender, ouran highschool host club, snk, mdzs, final fantasy xv, and yes natsuyuu too LOL), an attempt at making myself go bonkers, if you will. and I still can’t quite put my finger on what it IS but I know it has something to do with the naming of things. like an author will Name a Thing, very specifically, whether it is an action or a character thought or something very simple about the environment--and that something speaks volumes about the character and their relationships and the core themes of the series and it’s like. it’s like there’s a moment of understanding between that character and the reader, an oh! I know what that means. it’s wonderful and I’m butchering the explanation here but anyway. I still have no idea how to do this myself yet but goddammit I’m gonna get there one day. This fic was my first attempt in the Naming of Things. idk if there are any oh! moments in it myself, but natsuyuu is the perfect series for the kind of quiet that I think you need for those small moments. 

holy SHIT this got long uh. if you’ve made it this far--thank you?? this was also useful for me to articulate what the hell I’m doing in hamsterland. Recently a visiting poet came to one of my classes at university and talked about language-making as a physical art. Language has a physical existence, she said; it leaves the body and enters another and causes a physical reaction in both speaker and listener. She talked about how writers are creators of physical things, and how writing is mostly thinking before the creating. The physicality of language. To say it made me lose my marbles is an understatement!! tldr; there’s so much inspiration everywhere, and I wanna write more!!! So I’m gonna!!

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CLOSED (for now)

All right, all right, ALL RIGHT. PEOPLE. For the first time, I am taking requestsssss (so, let’s see if this goes well or not lol). @aphxsia‘s taking requests, @dot-writes is taking requests, everyone is taking them and I just felt a tad left out, y’know? I’ve chopped up a bunch of other prompt lists to throw together this lovely prompt list below at the suggestion of Dot. My general idea is: send me a character, and one prompt from the “dialogue” side as well as one prompt from the “context” side (or more if you have more that fit together in an idea, I suppose. But I need one of each to get a VibeTM) and Iiiiii’ll do my best to make it work within a character x OFC/Reader sorta thing. Oh, and send me an album era for added flair, if you’d like. Deets below the cut.

 I’ll write for:

-          The boys of Fall Out Boy

-          The boys of Panic! At the Disco (we’re talkin’ Ryan and Jon days)

-          The boys of The 1975

-          And, if you’re incredibly ambitious, also willing to give Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low a whirl

 Rules:

-          Can’t do smut (sorry, it’s just awkward and clunky for me to write and nobody wants that)

-          Won’t write characters under 18

-          Won’t write slash

-          I just kind of reserve the right to be like “I dunno what to do with this, sorry” (But I’ve curated this prompt list, so I should be okay lol)

-          I’ll get around to them when I get around to them - I’ll be writing them around The Radio Station being posted as well, so you won’t be starved for content.

  Dialogue:

·         “You’re not in love with them, are you?”

·         “I could literally strangle you right now and no one would stop me.”

·         “It’s not as bad as it looks.” - “You’re not very convincing.”

·         “You need to relax.” - “Relaxing is for the weak.”

·         “How long has it been since you’ve slept?” - “A week?”

·         “How the fuck are you still alive?” - “It’s a special talent of mine.”

·         “Can you please just listen to me for once?”

·         “I think this is a bad idea.” - “You think all of my plans are bad ideas.”

·         “You should really listen to me more.”

·         “Do I even want to know?”

·         “You have the cutest smile I’ve ever seen.”

·         “Just take care of yourself, okay?”

·         “Please don’t use cheesy pickup lines on me.”

·         “I like it when you’re romantic.”

·         “I’m going to be pissed if we get murdered.”

·         “How could I resist?”

·         “I’m sorry, I don’t speak dumbass.” - “Real mature.”

·         “You’re worth every scratch.”

·         “I could name about 110 things I love about you.” - “That’s oddly specific.”

·         “We can raise hell together.”

·         “Partners?”

·         “Don’t get too cocky now.”

·         “Fuck me.” - “Really?” - “No.”

·         “I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic.”

·         “Do you trust me?” - “Should I?”

·         “Do you have any idea on how frustrating you can really be?”

·         “I really, really want to kiss you right now.”

·         “I think we got off on the wrong foot.” - “You think so?”

·         “I don’t think that cancels out.” - “It does in my book.”

·         “You’re being dramatic.” - “I’m not being shit!”

·         “Take a break.” - “I don’t need it.” - “You look like a fucking zombie.”

·         “Then we’ll leave. Just you and me.”

·         “Do you need help? - “No… yes.”

·         “I hate you.” - “I love you too.”

·         “You have something in your hair, umm… Do you want me to get it out?”

·         “It’s nice that your voice was the first thing I heard today.”

·         “No, like…. It’s just, I can’t believe you’re actually wearing my clothes.”

·         “Would it be too cliche if we matched clothes a little?”

·         “My friends get so annoyed by how much I talk about how sometimes.”

·         “Wanna, like– I mean, if you’re not busy… We could get lunch? Or even just coffee if you don’t have a lot of time?”

·         “Quit smiling at me, I can’t stop messing up my sentences when you look at me like that.”

·         “What are you smiling about?”

·         “What’s in it for me?”

·         “Could you say that again?” “Were you not listening?” “No I was, I just like hearing your voice.”

·         “You’re an idiot.” “But you love me.”

·         “Is that my shirt?” “You mean our shirt?”

·         “You come here often?” “Well considering I work here, yes.”

·         “Are you blushing?”

·         “Your hair is really soft.”

·         “You’re really warm.”

·         “You owe me.” “Fine, whatever you like.”

·         “I love you.” “Tell me that when you’re sober.” 

·         “I wasn’t lying when I told you that I loved you.”

·         “It’s pouring rain why are you here?”

·         “Is that blood?” “Yes, but that doesn’t matter right now, what does matter is-” “You are literally bleeding.”

·         “Cheers, I’ll drink to that.” “You drink to everything.” “Cheers!”

·         “Why is there a deer in the room?” 

·         “Is that vodka? At 7 in the morning?”

·         “Wake me up when it’s over.” 

·         “Why is arson always your first answer?”

·         “Are you flirting with me?”

·         “Are they really ‘just a friend’?”

·         “Is there a reason you never say my first name?”

·         “Shh… listen… that’s the sound of me falling in love with you.”

·         “I have to tell you something really important and if I don’t tell you now, I won’t get the chance.”

·         “Whatever he’s saying, he’s lying!”

·         “I play a mean air guitar, if that’s what you’re asking.”

·         “I thought you knew?”

·         “We can, y’know, go together? If that’s a thing you’d like.”

 Context:

·         I remembered it was Valentine’s Day late on my way from work and the only place still open was McDonald’s, is bringing you a cheeseburger acceptable?

·         I accidentally punched you in the face when I was too overexcited about something

·         The library’s pretty empty save for you and me and, OH that couple making out loudly in the shelves somewhere

·         You’re overdue on this book and I want it so I’m tracking you the fuck down

·         You give me a different fake name every time you come into this coffee shop and I just want to know your real name because you’re cute but here I am scrawling “batman” onto your stupid cappuccino

·         We live in the same block of flats but haven’t ever talked and Sunday morning we were both doing the walk of shame and had to stand in the lift together

·         “My shower’s broken but I’ve got a date tonight could I possibly use your shower please?” “Oh sure (neighbour that I’ve been crushing on for the past six months) of course you can use my shower to get ready for your date (fuck fuck fuck)”

·         You’ve got a date tonight and you asked for advice on what to wear but I’m so in love with you and damn you look good in the outfit I picked out for you

·         It’s my high school reunion and I need a hot date so I can rub it in the faces of the people who hated me

·         There’s a person who won’t stop bugging me will you pretend to be my partner so that they’ll fuck off?

·         I wanted to go on the Ferris wheel but there has to be two people to a cart come on random person let’s go – oh, wait, are we stuck at the top? Fuck

·         It started to snow and I’m the only one of our friends who would go outside with you – I soon found out why none of the others would go out in the snow with you when you shoved a handful of snow down my back and declared snow war

·         It’s nowhere near Christmas it’s literally still November would you calm down about Christmas wait no why are you getting the tree out – no, stop, please stop

·         You were waving at your friend behind me but I got confused and waved back at you and now I’m dying of embarrassment but you think it’s cute

·         I’m a waiter at this wedding and you’re a drunk guest who will not stop hitting on me please I’m trying to work no I can’t dance with you omg let me find you some water

·         You’re pretending to be your friend’s lover for the sake of the friend’s family. But, I’m their sibling. And I know you’re not dating.

·         You had an assigned seat next to them at a wedding for a mutual friend.

·         You accidentally sprayed them with yogurt when you opened the lid the wrong way.

·         They mistook your bowling ball for theirs in the shared ball return.

·         They caught you when you slipped on ice and nearly fell over.

·         Accidentally stepping on their heel in a crowded room.

·         Tripping while getting into your seat in the theatre and spilling your popcorn on them.

·         Accidentally opening a door on their face.

·         They cover the small amount of change you are short on for a purchase.

·         They see your ice cream drop to the ground and buy you a new one.

·         You walk out of a dressing room asking if the outfit suits you, but it’s not your friend waiting outside the room like you thought.

·         Sharing an umbrella at a bus stop as it rains.

·         You help catch their dog when the leash slips from their hand.

·         Texting the incorrect number but continuing the conversation.

·         Getting paired up on an amusement park that requires even numbered riders.

·         A friend of a friend needs a place to crash because they got evicted

·         You’re so sunburnt you can’t even more, do you need help?

·         I admit that sleeping on the beach wasn’t the smartest idea but someone buried me in sand please help me

·         I met you last night when you were drunkenly patting my dog in my backyard at 3am and when I asked you what the hell you were doing, you slurred something about dogs being great and then you threw up on my feet. Fifteen minutes later you were passed out on my couch so that’s why you’re here right now. What the fuck is your name.

·         I always see you eat breakfast on the train and you always offer me some

·         I’m waiting for the train and the only open seat is on a bench next to you. Okay, sure, I’ll sit down next to the very cute person and I JUST SPILLED MY DRINK ALL OVER YOU I’M SO SORRY.

·         I don’t know you, but I fall asleep on the train every ride home and you always wake me up because we have the same stop, but we’ve never actually talked. Then one day you’re the one falling asleep and I got so excited for my comeuppance I made us get off at the wrong stop.

·         My cat steals underwear and I come home to find you chasing my cat to get your underwear back.

·         We’re always making stupid bets like ‘bet you can’t drink this whole bottle of BBQ sauce’ but then you did and now you’re sick and I feel really bad. Let me look after you

·         Did you actually just blue shell me on our date you fucker

·         I beat you at Mario Kart and now I’ve been banished to the couch for the night

·         I’m calling to cancel our date because I’m actually in the ER right now, sorry. I mean… sure? I guess you can come down here but- okay…

·         I asked a staff member and they said you’ve been coming to the pound every day to play with the dog I’m taking home today and that’s why you’re getting weirdly emotional

·         It’s my turn to open up the café today and you were sleeping under one of the tables when I came in, and I don’t know what to say so I’m just awkwardly sweeping around you

·         I’m drunk on public transport and you’re high and we both keep looking at each other knowingly.

·         You’re mowing your lawn at 5am and that is completely unacceptable and I’m going over to your house to yell at you about how unacceptable that is.

·         It’s like 3am and my roommate locked me out of the house and I forgot my keys and I’m really drunk and please take pity on me and let me crash at your place for the night o’neighbour of mine

·         We decided it would be fun to go camping and now it’s raining and we can’t figure out how to set up the tent.

·         I know it’s probably poor taste to ask you out during your relative’s funeral but I don’t know if I’ll ever see you again, so…

·         It’s raining. I’m walking home in this downpour and have no umbrella. I’ve taken shelter on a random porch in the hopes that the rain will let up, but the door behind me had just opened

·         You’ve got a big, lush pool and I overheard you say you were going out of town, so I snuck over to use it but you came home early

·         You’re having a BBQ in your backyard and it smelled really good so I crashed the party

·         Not trying to make a scene here, but you took the last pool floatie and I want it

·         This is a big beach, why do you have to build that sandcastle right next to me?

·         You tried to grab the exact Halloween costume I want and it’s the last one and I want it.

·         I pranked the wrong person on accident, I’m so sorry I thought this was my friend’s car.

·         We just wanted to do one of these awful, fake ghost hunting shows but now shit is happening and we don’t know what to do.

·         I tried to take a shortcut and ended up stuck in this damn fence and you just happen to pass by and after poking fun at me for a million years you finally help me.

·         Two strangers locked inside the store at 3am together.

·         I accidentally broke your nose in a moshpit, sorry.

·         You’re the bastard who keeps parking in my spot so I retaliated by keying your car and you caught me

·         This is a long plane ride. You’re stuck next to me, and apparently afraid of flying.