#harold isn't that tiny

[wheredidalltheusersgo]

Can't believe I never posted this justharold art for you guys 💔

[alonetimelover]

pairing: Harry Styles x booktuber!reader

summary: The internet speculates about whether Harry and YN are together. She admits to some hidden feelings to her best friend. He still cannot use his IG and buys any book that she recommends. Finally, something happens. But is it about them?

a/n: Second part of the booktuber!reader in celebration of 1000 of you following my little messy blog. i hope you enjoy it! love ya!

part 1 taglist

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harryupdates

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harryupdates HARRY and YN via her best friend's IG story.

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hArrysbtch THEY ARE SO CUTE I LOVE THEM

hArrysbtch also, that best friend of yn is really putting them in the spotlight, isn't she?

⤷ harrysmoustache that's what i said! wasn't she also the one with them in italy???

⤷ hArrysbtch you think she shared those photos?

⤷ harrysmoustache yeah, it's all connecting nicely

harrysmylife i mean... that can be a couple but best friends as well. like, i sit like this with my male best friend

harrysfan39 his dimples...

harrysfan87 she's so beautiful... has anybody said it already?

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CELEBRITY GOSSIP

HARRY STYLES, BOOKS, AND LOVE FROM A YOUTUBE VIDEO

If you are wondering if this article's title is stating that Harry Styles is a taken man, you would be correct. Starting with the simple YouTube video posted by the channel of the name ynrecommends and ending with a yacht vacation near the coast of Italy and burning romance.

But let's start at the beginning. The booktuber from ynrecommends (YN YSN) did a little video of reading books that Harry Styles recommended during his interviews and so on. Because of the Harries (name of Styles' fandom), the video skyrocketed and gained hundreds of thousands of views in a matter of a few days. That's probably how our heartbreaker found the video, leaving a little comment and not forgetting to flirt with the author (we love it!). You could say the story of them began right in front of our eyes.

It was a few months ago, and throughout them, there were multiple crumbs left by the couple. Joined bookshop travels, appearances in YN's vlogs and other videos, and of course, THAT vacation on Harry's yacht.

As our source that is very close to both of them says 'the romance started late in their time of knowing each other, because of their both overflowing schedules and fear of ruining the friendship.' What is more, we didn't only get the words but also photos that clearly confirm the romance between the rock star of our generation and the indie booktuber despite YN's claims of 'being single and very happy with it.'

Is that how you are with your 'friends'?

What do you think is true, our sources claims or YN's words?

Source 74%

YN's words 26%

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Text messages between YN and her best friend

ynn🧠 my lovely, favourite best friend, i have a little, tiny question bestie🫦 i'm your only best friend maybe besides Harold...🙄 ynn🧠 yeah yeah, i know you like him, don't hide it buuuuut, back to my question... bestie🫦 yes yes, what's up? ynn🧠 i'm not accusing you of anything, i just wanna ask if you send somebody the photo album from italy? bestie🫦 remember that ig account we did in uni? i thought it would be a nice idea to turn it into a little photo diary. i put some of the photos there. i told you on the boat, like a week ago. why? ynn🧠 i forgot about it, im so sorry! but someone from that account must have seen those photos and sold them to that gossip magazine... whole internet thinks im harry's girlfriend. i got like 50 dms asking how much i paid him to be with me bestie🫦 fuck im so sorry, sweetheart! i totally didn't think about it. tbh, i kinda forgot he was famous while being there with you two ynn🧠 yeah, i forget about it whenever i see him and don't be sorry, baby! it's not your fault some of those people will do anything to gain even a little bit of money i only asked because harry's manager needed to know if any of our photos were hacked or somethin' bestie🫦 was harry mad about the article? ynn🧠 he said that after years of having bullshit having written about him, he got used to it. but i can see that it bothers him that he can't have a moment for himself bestie🫦 fuck, im gonna bake him some good cake as an apology ynn🧠 it's not your fault!!!! harry knows it bestie🫦 okay, but im baking something anyway and btw, that article isn't so far from the truth, is it? ynn🧠 what do you mean? bestie🫦 oh, come on! you two act like a couple whenever you're together! there must be something there ynn🧠 ... there's not, really. we never talked about it but just fell to that closeness as friends. you know how touchy i am with people that im comfortable with, he's the same. it just looks like we're a couple, but no bestie🫦 but you want more, don't you? ynn🧠 i value him too much as a friend to think about it

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yourinstagram

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yourinstagram first day on this fancy boat, and i was crawling (freaking scared to fall into the water) and in the last few days, i was swinging myself on this little hammock, crazy days, crazy

thank you harrystyles for putting it up for me, love ya my bff

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harrystyles You ditched me for those books

⤷ yourinstagram they are literally my job

⤷ harrystyles You took 30 books with yourself. A seond suitcase just for them.

⤷ yourinstagram blah blah blah you took two guitars

⤷ harrystyles That's literally my job.

⤷ yourinstagram yeah, that's what i said

harryupdates brave move, yn

hArrysbtch i'm waiting (impatiently) for the next video

⤷ yourinstagram it's coming, it's coming. a little vid of italians recommending me their favourite books!

harrysmoustache not the little explaination of that on ephoto from that article 'i was crawling, cause i'm scared'

⤷ harrysmylife subtle but to the point

stylebabie 'my bff' i know she is cackling behind that little screen

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harrystyles

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harrystyles momento magico in italia

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yourinstagram thankfully that photo was taken before me almost drawning

⤷ harrystyles i rescued you

⤷ yourinstagram if by rescue you mean laugh, panic and then dive and almost make me drown again, then yes, you did rescue me

jeffazzof Harry.

⤷ harrystyles Jeffrey.

⤷ jeffazzof Check the account.

⤷ harrystyles Oh.

hArrysbtch hsdfUHFJHLVBRIAP what the fuck ehat the fuck

hArrysbtch i am so confused right now

harrysmoustache you guys are playing with us

harryupdates wrong account, harry!

annetwist Bellissima 😍

harrysmylife the flower, the EARRINGS, yn, the cat... i cannot.... this man is a menace to the society

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hArrysbtch

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hArrysbtch this video was worth the wait! yn is one of the best and realest youtuber out there. plus, harry filmed this episode for her so it's even better

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harryupdates I loved it too! the little moments of them interacting behind the camera kept in the video were absolute gems!!!

⤷ hArrysbtch YES!!! it was so funny and wholesome

harrysmoustache harry's little 'i think you'd like this shot' during a moment when yn is walking down the alley.... soooo cute i love them

stylesbabie this is my first video of hers that i watched and i am so mad at myself. this is the best booktuber channel i've ever come across

harrysmylife yn interacting with Harry's italian friends, having harry translate the recommendations from people on the street and him just hyping her up... just so freaking cute

harrymylove i don't care if they are together or just friends, i just enjoy watching them be together, like, next to each other. it's so refreshing and lovely

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londonboyharry

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londonboyharry this is what I saw while walking around the park near my hotel in italy... Harry literally made yn stop mid-sentance and said 'wait, i need to take a photo of you.' i- i was melting and couldn't believe my eyes and ears

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hArrysbtch he is so boyfriend

hArrysbtch like, he must be, come on

harrysmoustache i say i don't care if they are together or not. but i do. i so do. i want them together more than i want myself to find a partner

harrysmylife BEST FRIEND/COUPLE ON EARTH

harrysfan88 i love that we're all confused about them

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yourbestfriend

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yourbestfriend put those two in a room with books and that's what you get...

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yourinstagram i was just looking through the atlas, come on

harrystyles And I was actually reading, not faking like some of us.

⤷ yourinstagram oh fuck off

⤷ harrystyles This is not so treat people with kindness of you.

hArrysbtch i love the fits so much

harrysmoustache this si so frustraiting

⤷ harrysfan49 why are you so obsessed with them? leave them be

⤷ harrysmoustache i just want to know if i can call them the best couple on the planet

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harryupdates

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harryupdates HARRY with a fan today in London!

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hArrysbtch he's so cute

hArrysbtch wait, yn wore that t-shirt in her latest vlog

⤷ harrysmoustache sharing clothes????

harrysmylife he looks so cute, i want to put him in my pocket

stylesbabie the cardigan is back, guys

harrysfan87 i am the one who met him!

⤷ harryupdates how was it?

⤷ harrysfan87 magical! he stopped after walking out of the bookstore when i walked up to him. he had a bag full of books. i asked him what he was buying and he said 'oh, ehmm, i have crime and punishment, hamnet, emma and some Sally Rooney here'

⤷ hArrysbtch that guy is just buying anything yn recommends...

⤷ stylesbabie but none of it was in her italian vlog?

⤷ hArrysbtch yes, but those are the books from her 'summer to autumn reads' video

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yourinstagram

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yourinstagram story in two acts... 🏡📚

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harrystyles Scandalous.

⤷ yourinstagram Forgot you have sensitive eyes after a bad night sleep.

⤷ harrystyles I slept very well last night, thank you.

yourbestfriend 👀

⤷ yourinstagram 🫣

hArrysbtch WTFSAJFHOAUW no way

hArrysbtch this is confirmation, isn't it?

⤷ harrysmoustache i think so

⤷ harrysmylife but... we don't know if that really is harry

harrysmoustache she bold and she sexy

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jeffazzof Congratulations, YN.

⤷ harrystyles thanks jeff!!!!

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⤷ yourinstagram thanks jeff!!!

⤷ harrysmoustache girl, we saw that!

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a/n: do we think yn and harry finally got together?

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[brf-rumortrackinganon]

"The only time Meghan was “mobbed” by paparazzi as Diana and Kate were was at the February 2019 baby shower in New York City when they camped out outside her hotel. That was the only time they cared about her to that extent, and many people suspect the paparazzi and media were only there in the first place was because Meghan had specifically called them to be there."

I know this to be fact. One of the pro-Meghan blogs even posted about having insider daily updates about Meghan's itinerary, timing of exits and returns to the hotel, whivh restaurants in NYC Meghan and her friends would visit and exact time of their bookings. The blog received updates on her clothing and even which friends she would be hanging out with. 

That blogger aside, a PR friend of mine here in the UK whose firm works like Sunshine Sachs to astroturf the media was receiving daily emails from Markle's hollywood team with details above with instructions to astroturf UK media. - i don't feel guilty revealing this now though i won't reveal which firm did this. 

The funniest thing is that the hotel has special entrances for celebrities to avoid the paps, and Meghan refused to use them. Later DM made a FOIA request to state dept and obtained notes therein of Narkle refusing to use the side entrances and the discreet pap avoiding entrances. 

If you look at the pictures, there is a press pen at the entrance being used by Markle which isn't something you see for other bigger celebrities. 

Also, Natalie Portman was at the hotel at the same time and only got papped/ published once.

The resulting Markle photos and videos are very interesting because they are closesly cropped so that you see the bank of paps squeezed into the press pen which hives impression of Markle being swarmed, but in real time as it was happening, videos and photos showing wider angle revealee that there weren't that many paps - a tiny fraction of the number who used to swarm Suri Cruise and Katie Holmes, but also there were hardly any public interested in the melee caused by the show Markle put on for the paps. This is a Markle specialty when she's controlling the media narrative.

Harold almost ruined it though because he carried out an event at a soup kitchen type charity called Fit and Fed and the Sussex Royal IG account published his pictures with a caption about alleviating food poverty as his wife was astroturfing the Media with her expensive lifestyle babyshower. 

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/celebrity/latest/a26407401/prince-harry-fit-and-fed-london-visit/

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Good for you that you can confirm this but until I see and confirm the receipts for myself, it’s still speculation. Nothing against you, anon. It’s just the good ol’ “trust but verify” internet policy.

I do remember the website getting advance details. Everyone was using it for their stories about the weekend.

[kiragecko]

What's your favourite period of Batfamily dynamics?

What's the one that you're most interested about exploring through fanfic? Reading the comics for? Reinterpreting, so that it Actually Works?

This poll isn't interested in which period is best written. It wants the one that gets you passionate - either excited or furious - in a way that makes you want to go back to it over and over. (You don't even need to have READ the comics. Choose the period that makes the most interesting fanfic.)

It also isn't about which events were most interesting. It cares more about the relationships (including relationships with outside teams), how they changed over time, and which dynamics were most compelling to you.

Here are our challengers!

The Golden Age (1939 - 1960) - Alfred is a bumbling fool, Bruce murders people in the (very) early issues, Bruce and Dick need no motivation beyond 'it's the right thing to do' and 'we're AWESOME' (and why would they?) [22 years]

The Silver Age (1960 - 1980) - Dick gets fun Teen Titans friends, Bruce goes on space/time travel adventures, Alfred still didn't raise Bruce, and now we have BABS [21 years]

Early - Mid 80s (1980 - 1986) - Dick gets to be oh so melodramatic with his new angsty Titans friends in New York, Bruce says 'Chum' and 'Lad' as he ruffles tiny Jason's hair, Alfred raised Bruce and is his awesome self, Babs continues to be able to do anything, and they're an actual family [7 years]

Late 80s - Early 90s (1986-1992) - The Dark Knight Returns heralds a dark new era, Babs is crippled, and Jason dies. Tim is a new type of Robin - one who supports Batman. Babs rebuilds herself, no child needed. Dick and Bruce try, but mostly fail, to communicate. Alfred becomes the heart of a family that doesn't know it's a family. [7 years]

The 90s (1992 - 1999) - Dick and Tim are brothers. Oracle rejoins the Batfamily, while continuing her separate life. Dick moves from New York to Blüdhaven, closer to the Bats than the Titans. Bruce has 2 sons, even though neither realize he thinks that way. Steph arrives, and exists on the edges, only connected to the family through Tim. A variety of other people come and go through their lives - Jean-Paul, Helena Bertinelli, Harold, Sasha Bordeaux, etc. [8 years]

Early 2000s (1999 - 2003) - The family grows. Cass continues Babs' legacy, and Steph finally gets a friend. Babs and Alfred are in some ways joint centres of the family. Alfred and Bruce fight about how to raise kids. Dick and Tim get even closer. Tim starts Young Justice, and Dick is back with his oldest friends. [5 years]

Mid 2000s (2003 - 2007) - The era of death. Donna dies, Dick's team disbands, and Tim's team renames themselves the Teen Titans. Bad idea, many teens die, including most of Tim's friends. Steph dies. Tim and Cass get close, until Cass is brainwashed and kills a lot of people. Many, many people around Dick are murdered, and eventually Blüdhaven is exploded. Jason is back from the dead, and exuberantly contributing to the murders. Dick is furious with Jason, Jason is violent towards Tim, and Tim is far less forgiving than fanon pretends. Babs gets colder, Alfred gets older, and Bruce shuts down. [5 years]

Late 2000s (2007 - 2011) - The era of grief. Bruce, Dick, and Tim take a year long cruise to recover. Cass and Steph eventually return. But the scars run deep. Everyone's relationships are shaky. Babs leaves Gotham. Jason has a different motivation every arc. Tim is trying to clone people and being head-hunted by Ra's al Ghul. Damian shows up and topples the already unsteady situation. Bruce dies. Cass leaves. Tim fights with Dick and goes off to prove Bruce is alive. Damian and Steph both rebuild themselves in the ashes, while Dick tries to hope for a better future. [5 years]

New 52 (2012 - 2016) - The universe is rebooted. Jason has friends now! Dick spends some time as a secret agent. Damian continues his preboot growth. Tim ... exists. Steph and Cass don't. Babs is Batgirl again. Most of the past no longer exists. [5 years]

Rebirth (2016 - 2023) - Comics slowly bring in previous continuity. Alfred dies, Damian runs away from home, both Steph and Cass are back and being Batgirl, Tim is back with Young Justice for a while. Jason reintegrates with the Batfamily on and off. Bruce gets worse and worse at parenting. (I know this should be split up, but I haven't read ANY of these comics) [8 years]

[trashboatprince]

Okay, it's been about an hour, and I've collected my thoughts on what happened with Fourteen and Fifteen.

Spoilers under the cut:

Let's face it, it's A LOT that happened in that moment.

I was geared up for Fourteen to leave, though I had been so curious as to why they had the face of Ten, I figured Fifteen might be able to explain. But when nothing happened, I realized that it's like, wait a sec...

Wait a fucking sec...

And the pulling really solidified that we were getting something new.

Let's remember that The Doctor is now canonically a fucking mystery, that we have no idea what they really are. (Personally, I still think that they are The Other, but the Timeless Child can be included in that since The Other is still a massive mystery himself). So, the idea of the mythological bi-generation is a possibility with them.

Fifteen was talking about it, getting so excited about how there are, technically, two of the Doctor now. That it's a Time Lord myth, but myths tend to usually have a grain of truth to them. It's possible this is something that The Other/Timeless Child could do. We don't know, the lore is already a fucking pain to keep track of, but let's humor this idea for a moment.

I'm already seeing shit on twitter about how it's stupid, a cope out, basically a way to keep David in the series.

Well, here's the thing. He'll always be in the series. Because he played the Doctor. Just like all the other actors who have played the Doctor.

However, we now have this idea about how Ncuti isn't even playing the real Doctor, he's playing a clone.

No.

Not true.

Fourteen is the split-off from the Doctor, not Fifteen. Fifteen even says 'I'm me. I think I'm really, really me. Oh, I am completely me!', meaning that this is the regeneration, this new face IS the new Doctor.

Fourteen later says 'I'm a post bi-generation'. Fourteen is different, still the Doctor, but not our new Doctor, not the one that will continue the adventures through time and space.

This is quite possibly be like the meta-crisis, a blip in the regeneration process, a billion-in-one-chance of something interesting happening. We know Time Lords can change gender, race, age, and even whole species while staying as the same person, a Time Lord, so the possibility of splitting from a regeneration into your actual new one... well... I wouldn't say it's impossible, more like an improbability that happened anyway.

I fucking love it.

Why did Fourteen have that face? Maybe it's just a tiny bit of kindness from a vast, cruel universe, saying 'you deserve a break. You have much to do, but maybe this piece of you can rest. Just this once.'

I dunno, whatever the fuck happened will probably be explained in more canon. RTD has set up a whole number of interesting plots, and considering his track record with Nine and Ten, we will get answers. Bad Wolf, YANA, the missing planets, Donna Noble, Harold Saxon, all of these had answers, and the specials set up new questions.

I am excited to see what comes,

[writerofadream]

Fortune favors the Bold ⛓

TDI!Duncan x Juvie Bestfriend! Reader ⛓

Chapter Eleven: Shoot me (Do it)

(I skipped 'Up the Creek' because it mostly focused on the Screaming Gophers, and when it did mention the Killer Bass Duncan barely was in it)

All you know about today's challenge is that you are going to make it as dramatic as possible, is what you told yourself. Today was friday, and you were going to be on your medicine. So today's story will be told from Duncan's point of view.

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Duncan always thought the way her body processed her meds was interesting, because her mood always changed right away.

He watched as Chris handed her the two tiny pills and she swallowed them quickly. Your teammates were looking at you both confused. Suddenly her body did this strange little shudder and she broke out into a smile.

"Today's challenge is all about survival." Chris explained. "We're going hunting." The man smiled cheerfully holding up a gun. "That's more like it." Duncan smirked and gave his (girl-) friend a fist bump.

"Isn't that a paintball gun?" Harold asked. "Why yes, Harold. It is." Chris shot him rather quickly. "So we're not killing anything." Bridgette asked sounding dissapointed.

"No. This is the first ever paintball dear game ever. So finish up breaky and I'll give out teams in the woods." Chris pointed at Owen who had finished off his teams can of beans.

When all of you guys finally got into the woods and Chris announced the game. There'd be 'hunters' and there'd be deer. Each team would be split of both. Duncan, Y/N, DJ, Courtney, and Sadie were deer.

Duncan complained but quickly shut up when she looked at him in his costume and giggled. "Looking cute, bambi." Her fingers booped him on the nose. "Cute to you, mean to anyone else." Duncan muttered a blush forming on his pale face as he pulled her in by the waist.

Chris gave the deers five minutes to hide from the hunters.

So everyone dispersed quickly.

Duncan had a realization as he and you both trudged through the woods. Chris had done this type of challenge on friday just to put the team at a disadvantage. Chris wanted her to be high as the clouds so she'd freak Duncan out.

But Duncan didn't scare easily.

"Hey, darling?" He asked as they both silently walked by a pond in the woods looking for any hunter. "What's up, cutie?" Her eyes flickered to look at him.

He didn't like it when she took her meds because he didn't know what was real and what was fake. But he wanted you to take your meds because you looked at peace for once.

"Real or not real: there's something between us?" He muttered. She gave him this smile and he wanted to hit her. "Whatever between us is realer then the sun shining on a sunday morning, baby." Her teeth shined as she laughed.

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The day progressed pretty calmly to say the least which Duncan was thankful for. Almost no one shot at them, only Owen tried a few times but luckily for Duncan, his girl and him were a scary duo.

He and his girl sat on the grass, your back leaning against his chest as his arms slithered around your stomach.

Her voice was coming out but he wasn't even listening to the words, he was listening to the sound. Her voice sounded like a song he'd listen to every day if he could.

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It tooks about two hours until he felt her body relax. Since everyone at camp was so loud he was keeping track of who was in the lead. So far, it looked like you guys were going to win... by a lot.

Duncan smiled to himself as he gently layed your head onto the grass. He remembered the first time he had played a game with guns, accept it was real guns.

Russian roulette was always fun.

Four years ago

Duncan was thirteen. He had been diagnosed with paranoia, anxiety, as well as DDD. He certainly was an interesting boy to say the least. The first juvie center he stayed at didn't give him his meds, so he acted insane.

"Alright new-blood, let's see if you've got what it takes." James threw the gun to the young boy who put it against his head without flinching. He clicked a bullet without blinking.

"My dad started me on russia roulette when I was five, try harder." Duncan smiled.

The game ended, the killer bass had won and Heather lost her shit on Beth. Duncan noticed that her meds were wearing off once he saw how drained she was acting.

She was quiet, and she nearly collapsed on her bunk when the team had finally returned back to the cabins. Courtney must've noticed the worried glance Duncan had given the girls side of the cabin because she whispered.

"We'll watch over her." She smiled kindly.

So that night, Courtney had directed a tired Y/N into the bathroom to change and wash your face, as Bridgette layed you on her cot putting a trash can beside you in case your body reacted poorly from your new change in your meds schedule.

Which it did.

The cameras caught Sadie holding your hair back as you dry heaved into the can. (#girlsprotectgirls was already trending on X)

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"I hope you know how obvious you are, man." Geoff grumbled as he watched Duncan smoke from the window. Duncan smirked flipping the boy off. "I have no idea what your talking about." Duncan smiled.

[savingthegeneration]

My sister and I finished Glass Rose today! I believe I got ending 3 which is the good but not perfect ending. I'm grateful I got a decent ending though. If I got a bad/open-ended ending I can't guarantee I'd pick the game back up ever again. I got some thoughts that I'm going to put under the cut. Just a little mini review.

I have a couple of problems with Glass Rose and I think it's biggest problem is that it tries too hard to be a game. The game is full of gameplay mechanics that were unnecessary or clunky. From the time limit in each chapter, to having to catch butterflies for your health, or even walking around the mansion.

The game could have been more efficient if they changed a few things. I found a lot of the characters useless and unnecessary to the plot. (Like seriously, what was the point of the cat??? Or Emmy?? Or Emi?) Also, I didn't really love Takashi as a character. I would have loved for him to have a little bit more personality. He was a little too chill with the residents thinking he was a member of the family the whole time. Some internal dialogue would've gone a long way in making me care about Takashi as a character. Also, I kinda wish Takashi was related to the family in some way. It wasn't enough that his friend, Emi Katagiri had a tiny connection to the family. Honestly, Emi should have been the main character if Takashi isn't going to be related to anyone.

I was very upset when I first started Glass Rose and was made aware of the time limit for each chapter. Granted, it was never an issue my entire playthrough, but it did deter me from exploring the mansion or finding any of Denemon's notes. Now that I have finished the game though, I imagine getting those notes would be easier the second time around now that I have a better idea of the layout of the mansion. I believe they set the game this way because the story is very streamlined, but if you cut out player exploration, you may as well just make the game a visual novel. The thing that makes point and click adventure games fun games is the adventure part, and they effectively removed that from the game.

The pre-rendered backgrounds are beautiful but the point and click nature of the game and the constantly changing camera angles made it very easy for me to get turned around. Also every time you walked into a room or hallway, a giant sign would show up letting you know where you were. While not a terrible design, it did seem to last a few seconds longer than it should and it got annoying in the latter half of the game. They could have saved the player some time if it had a similar gameplay style to either Ace Attorney, Jake Hunter, or even J.B. Harold. It deserved to be a visual novel but they sure tried their darnedest to make sure it wasn't.

If I had a PAL-based PS2, I would like to try and play the game with a mouse! I think that's a really cool idea. I can only think of one other PS2 title that let you plug in a mouse. Which is Resident Evil: Dead Aim, I believe. I wonder if the game would have played a little better with a mouse or if gameplay would be pretty similar either way. I'm not sure if the emulator I used could make that work, but it's not like I have a mouse lying around either. I can't help but feel like maybe the mouse would have been useful during the suspense events the game has.

So finally, is this game worth owning/playing? For me, it's probably worth playing if you're a Cing fan and enjoy the premise of the story. I think this story is some of Rika Suzuki's weakest work, but that might be because of the gameplay too. I was invested in this game when I was younger so I had an interest from the start, but I did need my sister's enthusiasm for the story to help me through the latter half of the game. I did a brief glance of some UK copies and they range from anywhere between $30.00 to hundreds of dollars. So unless you want to add to your Cing collection or just like physical copies, this may be a miss. Or you could emulate it like I did. I didn't say that.

Anyway, I may come back and reorganize this better, but for now enjoy my word vomit.

[pbandjesse]

I just got done my ceramics class. And I have such a nice time. I used almost all of my clay. Literally had like three little teeny tiny pieces the size of a quarter left. I gave them to Sandy because she had a reclaim bag right there and I just feel really nice right now. I am very excited to go home though because I'm so tired.

I didn't sleep well again last night but it's really just because I can't breathe. I wake up in the morning and I can't breathe out of my nose and I just feel so tired. I don't know what I can do to make myself breathe better at night. I'm either too hot or it's too dry. Ridiculous.

So because of that I let myself sleep an extra hour. And I did benefit from that greatly. Wednesdays are great because I can do that. And I just tried to not cry. James left a little bit before I got up for real. They had laid it with me for a little while but honestly I was just not in a good spot and I was just really frustrated.

But they left and I pulled myself together. I got dressed and I felt pretty good. My hair is very dirty and my head is itchy but it looked nice. And I just pulled myself together and I left and I went to work.

I was still thinking about the house a lot. And I I'm still thinking about it now. But I tried to put it out of my head and think about other stuff because focusing on and isn't going to help me much.

So I got to camp and I got to work on fixing some of the things on the schedule. Cuz that is just going to be a project I'm going to continuously tinker with for the next 3 months. I worked on starting to write down the lessons and ideas I have for the new programs that we're trying to develop. It was a good time.

But very quickly I became very bored. They're just wasn't enough for me to do today. But it was also way too cold outside to do anything. On my drive in it started to flurry which was so nice and it was so pretty. But I left my gloves at home and so being outside was too painful. Thankfully I have an extra sweatshirt in the car so I was able to layer later in the day when it got doing colder. But I did not want to be out in the world doing much. I wanted to stay in the office where it was at least warm.

I was very distracted this morning though I was just thinking about the house and I was working on lesson plans and I was playing on my phone and eventually I walked up to the art building and I did put some stuff away and I spray painted a pallet easel box I have that someone had poorly painted. So I would go up there twice to do a couple coats. And then I put away all the stuff that we got from the attic. But then my hands hurt really bad so I went back to the office.

I was so bored that I just was eating all day. Just trying to keep myself awake. I had my lunch early and I just tried to have a nice day because it was very difficult when I was so bored.

Eventually I would go up to arts and crafts and get some of my beating stuff and brought that down to work on just to have something to do.. periodically Heather would have something for me to change your ad on the schedule so I kept fussing with that and working on my lesson plans. And eventually we got an email from Harold about the house.

Apparently the current owner, seller, got a home inspection done in September. I guess in preparation for putting a house in the market. And there are issues. A lot of issues. It's hard though because there are two codes essentially there's orange and there is red. And the orange ones are kind of all over the place. Like some are stuff that is concerning to me and stuff that I'm just like oh well like that's fine. Like for instance some of the orange ones are about the length of the handrails. And then others are about the gutters touching electrical wires. And this has issues. It will need work if we get this one. Some of it bigger than others. But honestly I don't know if it dissuades me from this particular house. I'm going to kind of lean on our realtor on this one and kind of take his advice at this point because any home inspection we get is going to have these problems because we're looking at houses that are old. But even the house is that are old but flipped are not flipped well so they're also going to have issues. So it's really hard to know how much money it's going to take to fix any of these places. And like yesterday I watched a TikTok about someone who just bought a brand new house and it's leaking all over the place and it's just got water coming from every pipe essentially and they've had to replace the entire flooring and so many things have gone wrong. And honestly I think that's probably going to be the case in any place we end up. They're all going to have the potential for catastrophe. And you got to hope that it's not going to happen and be proactive and I think that's one of the things that's nice about the home inspection because now at least we know and we can start attacking those problems. I just need to believe in myself that I wouldn't take on something that I don't think I can handle either by fixing it myself or financially.

But honestly getting that home inspection just made me more stressed because now I don't know what the right answer is. There's so many things I like about this house but I still think I want to see the couple more. I am more secure in what my overall budget is though and what I'm comfortable with taking out lone wise. I don't want to be stupid about it but it is not a buyer's market and I am also being realistic about that. It's really hard to know what the right call is in the end

I just focused on my beating though and tried to finish out the day. Chris would come up from his house to have a meeting with Alexi and me him and Heather talked a little bit. I told him he's going to be leaving a program and he was like haha and I'm like apparently you were supposed to do it beforehand so I'm going to make you do it this year and I think it will be good for everybody. I hope that I can actually make that happen. And I chatted with Heather after he went into his meeting and we talked about enthusiasm and getting people on board with stuff and the things that we hope to do and it was really nice.

Me and Heather were also laughing because earlier in the day I had found someone had posted two of our badges / awards on eBay for like 40 and $50 a piece. that is hilarious. Which one of our people are doing that because that is so funny. What I think happened is something we donated had a patch on it and it ended up in somebody's hands that thought it was worth something and was vintage and put it online. But these things are modern and it was really funny to see.

But it was time for me to go. And annoyingly I wasn't really hungry anymore but I knew that I should eat something where I was not going to make it through my class. I said goodbye to everyone and decided to drive out to cockeysville to go get Taco Bell. But you didn't really make my stomach feel amazing. I accidentally got two different potato products. But it was okay. I ate my car and watched a video and then I went to my class.

And it was a really nice class. We only have one more after this and I'm really glad I took this class but I still don't think I really like throwing on a wheel and if I did a ceramics again I would just want to be a handworking class. They do have other types of classes at the millville and so I'm going to look into those because I think I would still enjoy taking something. Periodically but weekly I think might be a little bit much for me right now. I'm just a little stretched thin.

I started the class by finishing waxing the bottoms of all of my fire pieces to get ready to be dipped. I chose a couple colors I haven't done before and when I have. I am really excited to see how they come out and I really hope they come out well. And then I trimmed the pieces I made last week. I decided I really liked the rough texture so I left a lot of that natural roughness to them and I think that they will come out very interestingly in the end. And then it was time to start working on my Christmas ornaments!

I really like to doing the Christmas ornaments with cookie cutters. I thought I would enjoy the temporary tattoo underglazes more but it just didn't do anything for me. Like I made a couple that I think will be nice gifts but I really enjoyed making the cookie ones and then I wanted to paint them like actual cookies. My favorite ones I made look like the Little Debbie's Christmas tree cakes. And I'm really hoping they come out nice because I just think that they were a really good idea and I am very excited about them.

I still had some clay left so I rolled that out and I cut a whole bunch more cookies and I did drop a wooden tray on the ground of some of them and squished them so I had to start those again. But it was fine. I talked to Lindsey about finishing them next week since I'm going to have stuff to glaze but that's not going to take very long and I want to have something to work on so I have a few pieces that I'm going to let continue to dry in the next week I'll under glaze them and then she said even though the class is over we can come back and do clear dip places on all of our pieces if we need to. Very very nice of her.

I didn't have much clean up because I never turned the wheel on and so I was able to pick up pretty quickly and now I'm on my way home. It's very cold outside and I kept my clay covered sweatshirt on under my jacket. But I'll be home soon and I'm going to wash my hair and try to sleep better tonight. Fingers crossed. Tomorrow me and Sarah are hoping to go up to the art building to do some crafts but we'll see what happens. It's so cold up there I can't really see us being very comfortable doing that but we will see. I just hope it's a good day. And I hope that we get to see some houses tomorrow. Maybe it'll give me a little bit more clarity.

I hope that you all sleep well tonight. Be safe out there. Until next time. Wash your hands.

[larabiatasstuff]

Part three 🖤

" Can I ask you something? " " You can ask me anything. " he said." What are these buttons for? " I asked pointing at the dashboard." Hahaha you're curious huh? This one is for the ice cream truck song. Go ahead, push it." I did, and a melody started playing." The other two are more fun. It's actually a good thing you ask in case you have to use them in a fight. The small one is for the gatling gun on the side and the big one is for my special laughing missiles. Believe me Y/N they're real fun. Speaking of the gatling gun I need a few parts for an upgrade. Can you check the map? There must be a huge junkyard somewhere. " He said pointing at the glove box. I opened it, took the map and tried to figure out where we are." Okay we're on highway 64 if we stay here.... Umm you have to take the exit in approximately 50 miles to highway 61 and another 20 miles to reach the junkyard. " " Perfect, thank you Y/N. What would I do without you.". "Well I guess you'd ask Harold." he shook his head "It seems you can't take compliments very well tiny Y/N, don't worry we will work on that." he said "Are you starting this again? I'm not tiny, my height is properly for a woman my age. Not everybody is a giant like you Sweet Tooth."he chuckled " I'm just joking Y/N. Hey since we have some time to pass let me show you my favorite songs of the silver haired god ." "Ooohh yes that would be great." Sweet Tooth turned on the radio and started talking about the music and started singing. It was really fun to be around him and I could tell that he had fun as well. After a little more than an hour we arrived at the junkyard. Sweet Tooth drove through the broken gate and parked in the middle of broken cars and huges piles of scrap. "There we are. You wanna wait here?" he asked "If you tell me what we're looking for I can help. We're faster together." "You're probably right, okay we're looking for something like this." he said holding a rusty object in his hands. "Alright, let's go then." I said about to open the door. "Don't go too far Y/N, okay?" "Okay." with that I jumped out of the truck and started walking around. I opened the hoods of cars and even rummaged through some boxes full of scrap. "No way, if that isn't my favorite clown!" came a male voice from behind. "Hahaha who would have thought that we meet again." Sweet Tooth answered. I walked in the direction and saw a man and a woman talking to him. "Ooohhh who's that pretty lady? Is she your girlfriend? John Doe, nice to meet you." the man said shaking my hand, smiling at me. "She's my Y/N, I mean she... This is my friend Y/N." Sweet Tooth said. "Hi I'm Quiet. What are you guys doing here?" the woman introduced herself.

Part four🖤

[susandsnell]

Coco ilu PLEASE drop the queer reading of Bunnicula essay 😭 hope ur having a good day, i am dying at the thought of (chester??) the cat looking at that tiny bunny sucking the red off an apple like 'i know what u are..'

!!!! I love you too, anon, omg, thank you so much for sending me such a delightful question! Had a surprisingly decent day as well, so I hope you had a great one too!

Thanks so much for asking me about Bunnicula - I read it in about second grade, after my 'introduction' to Dracula beyond pop culture was Dead and Loving It the year prior (and seeing Bela Lugosi clips on the old movies channels here and there), and this was a much more digestible, less terrifying experience of vampires for baby Coco.

First off, the "I know what you are" memes are funny, but genuinely, I think Chester the cat and Harold the dog were such an old married couple. They're not quite as acrid as Statler and Waldorf or as affectionate as Timon and Pumbaa, but the way they snark at each other, affectionately disparage one another's literary tastes, and tease about various neuroses, as well as playing Holmes and Watson for the mystery of the story speaks for itself! That Chester is the one who needs to overcome his prejudice of outsiders is an interesting wrinkle to this, but he's working on it through therapy and, literally, as the text says, "finding himself". I mean, if this isn't a gay cat unpacking his internalized issues and respectability politics with the help of the zanier Bunnicula and the more self-assured Harold, I don't know what is.

Next, there's Bunnicula himself; an homage to tropes of both classic vampire films and the trashy television fare of the mid-20th century, which is already historically very popular with queer people for many reasons - camp factor, the affinity many of the LGBTQ+ community towards horror, and especially how easily identifiable the vampire in particular is as a queer figure. The core message of the story is that of accepting and celebrating the differences of others; Bunnicula is indeed a vampire, but, being a vampire rabbit, only sucks the life out of vegetables and is therefore harmless - it's Chester's judgment of him making him an outsider that's the issue. (Sidenote that the concept is cute + funny + kid-friendly enough that it sidesteps the usual lame cop-out that is the vegetarian vampire.) The vampire as an outsider - and hence queer - is an age-old reading. Further, while there's definitely space for queer narratives of feeling like a monster and/or imperfect/toxic stories aimed at teenagers and adults, the vampire as specifically oppressed and in a work aimed at kids works uniquely well in this context since Bunnicula's harmlessness allows him to sidestep the usual conundrums of monster-posing-genuine-threat-as-stand-in-for-oppressed group (looking at you, Zootopia.). (Added addendum that while I mentioned narratives for kids having to exist in a simpler moral universe here, this 1:1 is an issue I have with many 'vampire as a stand-in for queer people' narratives -- True Blood/Southern Vampire Mysteries ran into it frequently, although otoh I found the latest Interview With The Vampire TV show to handle it with better nuance. It's tricky territory, to say the least)

The meta-narrative to this can't be ignored. The author, James Howe, came out as gay decades after writing this with his late first wife, Debbie, and has expressed many times that though he was closeted/uncertain at the time of writing the original novel, he on reflection must have subconsciously imbued it with themes of being a horror-loving, artistic, bullied outsider that reflected his own childhood experiences. Likewise, he's noted that Debbie, who was Jewish and had similar tastes and experiences, was probably doing the same. Since coming out, James Howe has engaged in extensive anti-bullying and equality-focused advocacy work, and has since made his priority incorporating themes of compassion towards the outsider in all his writings for kids - his later works have even featured canon gay characters. From what I've read, these themes have persisted through the rest of the Bunnicula series (though I think I only ever read the first book).

All this to say: Chester and Harold are married, Bunnicula is their flamboyant housemate.

[wooglebear]

My first CU OC that isn't for the Roleswap AU or ACIT.

This is Tilly Smith. She appears in my conceptual sequel to the First Epic Movie.

She's basically Melvinborg's right-hand man. Yes, Melvinborg shows up in this hypothetical sequel and he's the main antagonist.

I'd describe her as a "teenage" version of Dawn Bellwether (Zootopia), since this version of Melvinborg is basically a cyborg Evelyn Deavor.

Tilly's hairband is mostly so Melvinborg doesn’t accidentally erase himself from the timeline by fucking with the past. Things get really dicey when you directly tamper with your own past, so Tilly's hairband helps him a) not get erased just by existing near melvin and b) helps him circumnavigate paradoxes so he can actually do things.

Some notes for this version of Melvinborg.

the tetocu verse and the film universe are two different beasts, so this is melvinborg’s deal in this sequel.

Melvinborg realizes in the future ‘oh shit I never got into eliteanati’. So he goes back into the past and meets Melvin at the back of the school one day. They strike a deal that if Melvin can help Tilly hide under the guise of a normal student, Melvinborg will send Melvin to Eliteanati. The first act of the movie sees Melvinborg use his Vil Endenemys disguise while George and Harold attempt to uncover the mystery of the new "superintendent". Consider Vil Endenemys the Madame Frou Frou to Melvinborg's Snatcher.

He'd want to make sure that an alternate timeline where his younger self gets into his dream school becomes the main timeline- or what he sees as a Better Timeline - and try to set up the parameters for its existence but it goes sideways in some way.

Melvinborg is so dead-set on eliteanati that it actively shoots him in the foot.

During the first act of the movie, George and Harold are trying to run for class president. George wants to be class president, while Harold wants to be it too. They tell Melvin about all the changes they'll make to the class when they're class president, much to Melvin's disgust. To the horror of the boys and relief of Melvin, an annoyed Krupp vetoes the votes in favor of getting the new girl Tilly to be the class president instead.

During her facade, Tilly acts all calm and collected, sweet, gracious, and knows just the right words to say in almost any given situation. Even if she's a bit of a stalker.

But when she reveals her true nature… dear lord.

Turns out her nice nature is Fake As Hell, her purple eyes are contact lenses, and she is a teen who is completely full of herself and horrible as fuck.

Did I say "teen"? It's revealed that Tilly is actually 25 and lied about her age to everyone. She trades her salmon jacket for a white lab coat.

She reveals this nature by basically recreating this scene from TS3 (don't worry, there won't be an incinerator, or a dump):

Don't worry. Melvinborg will get his comeuppance and Tilly is going to get Exactly what she deserves... however, what I envision as what she deserves may differ from what happened to Poopypants in the first movie.

At the end of the movie George's like "I don't know which villain was worse, the Professor or Tilly." and Harold's like, "Probably Poopypants because him being alive and not in prison scares the hell out of me. At least he's tiny."

[bucklemonster2]

4 POEMS: ENGLISH

ENGLISH

4 NEW POEMS

I will post these poems as one message,

or else I will sp'am Tumblr : p (Dutch version also on my page/account)

The poems can be very dark though.

4.22 Mystery Man of The Other Side

Poem by Emilia Sameyn

07/11/2023

He seems to Know it all,

Hated by Many, Yet he Lives far away

Loved by Some In another Time

Does he Love himself?

He is Young, yet Wise

In his Nightly Shed He Plays

The Erotic Mind

Full of Radiation Like an Instrument

He makes Weapons of Future

In his Brain Sensual Molten Metal Dreams

Billions of Formulas

They Invaded his Life

In his own Body And Trapped Him

Does he Speak in Lies? Or Twisted Truth?

Yet within his Mind

He is Free

He is the Mystery

The Mystery Man of The Other Side

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4.23 Crying like an Adult

Poem by Emilia Sameyn

08/11/2023

Warning: mention of addi'ction, cigar'ettes, alc'ohol, existential fea'r, dea'th,

ablei'sm, autism, demo'ns, brea'sts

Little Baa Baa Sheep

Lost in The Big City,

Full of Loud Noises

And Bright Lights

Does The Little Auti Baby

Need some Choco Loco

To Sooth her Little Mental Cramps? Does The Little Adult need a Nap?

Oh Little Adult Baby Boo Boo

Are You Crying Like a Grown Up Once Again? "waaah waaaaah!!"

"my degree is useless!!"

"where is tv show? i need my tv show to soothe me!!"

Cute Little Adult Woman

Why are You having these Crocodile Tears? "waaah waah!!"

"i'm just one tiny grain of sand!!"

"in a desert of billions!!"

Aw Do You Need a Little Cigarette? A Demons T'it, Suc'king Some Milky Smoke of Death? "waaah waaah!!"

"i'm afraid of the eternal void!!"

"the older i am!!"

"the faster time goes to pass!!"

Aw Little Grown Up Baby, Need some Wine to Soothe that Mental Boo Boo?

F*Cking Autist, This is The Real Life!

A Dark World of Sensory Overload

The Eternal Dance of Drama

A Roller-KillerCoaster Into The Void of Death!

The Demiurge Dystopia!

"The Earth is Shaking

But the Rocks are Dancing!"

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4.24 Gnarly Gnashing Grown-ups

Poem by Emilia Sameyn

09/11/2023

Warning: mention of child assa'ult, sui'cide, ad'diction

Some Sick Adults

Should never Been Born

Creepy Grown-Up Creatures

Ordinary on the Outside

Insidious Inside

When a F*cked Up Fantasy Isn't enough for Them

They think it's Young Love

We Scream from Thousand Roof Tops For Thousand Times: To Young to Consent!

But They just won't Listen

They think it's a Deserved P'edo-Punishment

Tying Up Little Louise

A Wretched Relation Pathetic Putrid Parents

Menacing Men Even, Wicked Women

Putting Weights on Her

Thinking its Temporary on her Body

But Its Forever in Her Mind

Messed up Military Man

How many Little Lives

Need to End

By their own Big Hands? Taking 'Forrget Fentanyl'

And 'Bye-Bye BadDream Booze'

Gnarly Gnashing Grown-Ups

Tall Demons Should not Raise

Little Angels

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4.25 Su'icide Schrodinger Sto'ner

Poem by Emilia Sameyn

10/11/2023

Warning: mention of su'icide, we"ed

Hippie Harold

Has a Friend

Yet She's Neither Here or There

Dead or Alive She's Just Another

Sui'cide Schrodinger Sto'ner

What Should Harold Do?

No Response,

No Answer, Time To Call

Nothing At All

She's Just Another

Sui'cide Schrodinger Sto'ner

Should he Call The Police?

Worried like a Horror Movie

Not Drunk, Nor Sober Not Insane, Nor Sane

Dead or Alive? No Idea!

She's Just Another

Sui'cide Schrodinger Sto'ner

Just Another Ambulance Call

And Another Welfare Check

Lucky Day, She's Okay

Another Darn Day

She's Just Another

Sui'cide Sto'ner

Just Another Sto'ner

[marthajonesuk]

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Well, have you missed me?

Of course, you've probably not noticed I've been away. Time travel's funny like that. But, yeah, we've just spent a few weeks trapped in 1969! Which, to be fair, was more cheery than 1913.

It all started when we, yet again, arrived in 2007. I'm not sure why we keep going back there but I'm seriously hoping it's not because that's when Rose was from. Anyway, we landed in the grounds of this old house called Wester Drumlins. It was pretty cool actually. The kind of place Mum used to drag us to when we were kids. And in the garden, there were these statues. Only, they weren't statues. They were aliens of some sort. The Doctor said they're called Weeping Angels. Of course, he only realised that AFTER they'd zapped us back to 1969 – leaving the TARDIS behind. So, yeah, that's where we've been. The Swinging Sixties. Rock on!

Bless him, he had a bit of a panic about being separated from the TARDIS but I calmed him down. Told him we'd be fine. And, for once, I honestly knew that we would because we had this folder telling us what we needed to do. It was all this information compiled by this woman called Sally who lived in 2007. And she compiled it based on what we'd told her – in our future but her past. Time travel... it can seriously mess with your mind!! I asked the Doctor to explain it all to me but he started babbling on about timey-wimey devices so I stuck a banana in his mouth.

So, really, it was a case of the Doctor setting up all this stuff for Sally while I... lived, I guess. We got ourselves a little flat. Tiny little place that makes mine back home look like a palace. Oh and before you ask, he stayed on the sofa! Of course, to pay for it all, I had to get a job. In a shop. Now, there's nothing wrong with working in a shop. It beats being a maid anyway but it's a bit of a step down from being a nearly-Doctor. It was a bit of a laugh really. Got on great with the other girls although it was a shock to suddenly realise that they were the same age as my mum! So, yeah, days were spent in the shop and evenings either out with the girls or staying in and watching telly with the Doctor. Oh, now that's funny. You should have seen him, sitting watching the telly eating his dinner off a tray. He looked so uncomfortable. And I know it's cruel and wrong to laugh at that but him all hunched up on this tiny sofa, his gangly legs sticking out while he ate his beans and watched Coronation Street... it was like the most alien thing I think I've seen yet. Oh, and one night, we watched the Eurovision concert! Lulu was one of the winners with Boom Bang-a-Bang which was weird. Not her winning but the whole fact that only a few weeks ago we were at the 2007 Eurovision. It really brought home how all this time travel thing is just all a bit mental. In 1913, seeing Tim as a young kid then seeing him again in 2008 as an old man. Working with girls my age who are really my mum's age. Going from the 2007 Eurovision to watching the 1969 Eurovision. Being in the year where Harold Saxon was born but coming from the year where he's standing for Prime Minister. It's a bit like... everything's linked. Time isn't this linear thing that we think it is. Like there's, I dunno, some kind of pattern. Or something. I guess I'm just seeing the bigger picture. Hark at me getting all profound!

But yeah, ignoring all the head-messing madness of time travel, it's been fun. It's just been nice to spend some time with the Doctor where we're not running around fighting off alien invaders or whatever. We've just had time to sit and watch a bit of telly, eat normal food that kind of thing. You know, like normal friends do.

But it's also good to be off again. Not sure where we're heading. He's mentioned something about topping-up but I'm guessing he doesn't mean his mobile.

So, I'll speak to you soon from whatever year we next end up in! Rock on!

[kiragecko]

I need help!

I'm trying to divide Batfamily history into 10 periods (so I can do a poll), but I can't get lower than 11, even while flattening out the nu52 a lot.

What would you guys suggest combining?

The Golden Age (1939 - 1960) - Alfred is a bumbling fool, Bruce murders people in the (very) early issues, Bruce and Dick have no motivation beyond 'it's the right thing to do' and 'we're AWESOME' (what more do you need?) [22 years]

The Silver Age (1960 - 1980) - Dick gets fun Teen Titans friends, Bruce goes on space/time travel adventures, Alfred still didn't raise Bruce, and now we have BABS [21 years]

Early - Mid 80s (1980 - 1986) - Dick gets to be oh so melodramatic with his new angsty Titans friends in New York, Bruce says 'Chum' and 'Lad' as he ruffles tiny Jason's hair, Alfred raised Bruce and is his awesome self, Babs continues to be able to do anything [7 years]

Late 80s (1986-1989) - The Dark Knight Returns heralds a dark new era, Dick isn't talking to Bruce, Babs is crippled, Jason dies, and Bruce spirals [4 years]

Early 90s (1989 - 1994) - Tim is a new type of Robin - one who supports Batman. Babs rebuilds herself, no child needed. Dick and Bruce try, but mostly fail to communicate. Dick's Titans get Extreme, and the results aren't great. Steph is Tim's very angry girlfriend. Alfred becomes the heart of a family that isn't quite a family, yet. [6 years]

Mid - Late 90s (1994 - 1999) - Dick and Tim are brothers. Oracle rejoins the Batfamily, while continuing her separate life. Dick moves from New York to Blüdhaven, closer to the Bats than the Titans. Bruce has 2 sons, even though neither realize he thinks that way. Steph continues to survive on the edges, not fully accepted. A variety of other people come and go through their lives - Jean-Paul, Helena Bertinelli, Harold, Sasha Bordeaux, etc. [6 years]

Early 2000s (1999 - 2003) - The family grows. Cass continues Babs' legacy, and Steph finally gets a friend. Babs and Alfred are in some ways joint centres of the family. Alfred and Bruce fight about how to raise kids. Dick and Tim get even closer. Tim starts Young Justice, and Dick is back with his oldest friends. [5 years]

Mid 2000s (2003 - 2007) - The era of death. Donna dies, Dick's team disbands, and Tim's team renames themselves the Teen Titans. Bad idea, many teens die, including most of Tim's friends. Steph dies. Cass gets brainwashed and kills a lot of people. Many, many people around Dick are murdered, and eventually Blüdhaven is exploded. Jason is back from the dead, and exuberantly contributing to the murders. Babs gets colder, Alfred gets older, and Bruce shuts down. [5 years]

Late 2000s (2007 - 2011) - The era of grief. Bruce, Dick, and Tim take a year long cruise to recover. Cass and Steph eventually return. But the scars run deep. Babs leaves Gotham. Jason has a different motivation every arc. Tim is trying to clone people and being head-hunted by Ra's al Ghul. Damian shows up and topples the already unsteady situation. Bruce dies. Cass leaves. Tim fights with Dick and goes off to prove Bruce is alive. Damian and Steph both rebuild themselves in the ashes, while Dick tries to hope for a better future. [5 years]

New 52 (2012 - 2016) - The universe is rebooted. Jason has friends now! Dick spends some time as a secret agent. Damian continues his preboot growth. Tim ... exists. Steph and Cass don't. Babs is Batgirl again. Most of the past no longer exists. [5 years]

Rebirth (2016 - 2023) - Comics slowly bring in previous continuity. Alfred dies, Damian runs away from home, both Steph and Cass are back and being Batgirl, Tim is back with Young Justice for a while. Jason reintegrates with the Batfamily on and off. Bruce gets worse and worse at parenting. (And probably lots of stuff I missed.) [8 years]

[aeide-thea]

i don't know quite when or why responding to even the most low-stakes messages became such a trial for me, like, literally people send me totally innocuous cordial shit and i'm like, oh no there's no way to phrase a friendly thumbs-up that isn't Banal, guess i'll just... not reply & stew in my own bottled-up shame instead! it's so stupid and unhelpful! i don't go around giving other people's responses the hairy eyeball on account of insufficiently original phrasing or whatever, this is not a real standard, why the fuck did i coin it and why am i applying it to myself! anyway i'm working at chipping away at my message backlog but it's stupidly emotionally grueling lol

[thunderheadfred]

❄️Todoroki HC's🔥

Aged-up pro hero Shouto. NSFW under the cut. Minors do not interact.

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General

Might as well be tied with Bakugou for the #1 pro hero spot; they seem to pass the crown back and forth every other year. Everyone knows about their intense frenemies uber-rivalry. Well. Everyone but Shouto.

He's asked to speak at a lot of charity events. If he has time to prepare (and hire a speech writer) he is capable of stirring crowds to standing ovations. But if caught unawares... he gets cornered into hilarious on-the-spot interviews. He's been memed. Mercilessly.

He's an OP character, but unfortunately he rolled -500 in fashion sense. Eventually he wises up and hires a stylist. When he finally cuts his hair a slightly different and even more flattering way, it's a national event. People faint in the street.

Does god-awful sleight-of-hand magic tricks when he meets young fans, even though nobody asked him to. The second-hand embarrassment is palpable. But he keeps doing it. God, why does he keep doing it?

Has hovering arm syndrome in every fan photo.

Super into pop music. Not a fan of any particular group or artist, couldn't tell you the name of a single song. But every time he turns up the volume on the radio it's like... really? THIS? Probably pumps that shit through his hero agency to keep up morale. Has no idea what you mean when you tell him his music taste doesn't match his personality.

Similarly, he enjoys brainless romantic comedies and old silent movies. Doesn't laugh at jokes but loses it over physical comedy. Thinks Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd are the funniest people who ever walked the earth.

He's long and limber. Runs practically a hundred miles every day just to "relax." Doesn't even get sweaty doing it. A filthy yoga addict. He'll probably live to be 200 years old.

He can regulate his body temperature for quirk use but in everyday life he's always half a degree outside the Goldilocks zone. It drives him quietly insane; he has an epic love-hate relationship with his thermostat.

Has a therapy animal pet. Doesn't matter if it's a dog or a cat or a bird or an iguana or a teeny tiny rodent. It's the best-behaved animal in the country and speaks more languages than you. It has its own room and an instagram account with millions of followers.

Lives in a traditional Japanese estate that doubles as a national treasure. Probably has government-appointed snipers at the gate, and he's just like, "don't worry about it." You are afraid to touch anything. Fuck, don't even look at anything, just to be safe.

Has an outstanding personal chef who only gets to cook five things unless (thank fuck!!) company comes over. Impossibly picky eater. He rotates between a few "safe" foods and suspiciously side-eyes everything else. If you cook something unfamiliar for him it will be the most awkward meal of your life, because he'd never tell you he doesn't like it. But oh lord, just look at his face.

This clashes directly with his love of traveling. Frequently uses his hero earnings to visit exotic foreign locales over long weekends... but rarely tries the food.

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Dating

A grey-ace demisexual disaster. You could count the number of people he's been attracted to on one hand. He falls madly in love every time and always gets his heart smashed to pieces when his crush can't magically intuit the meaning of his frigid longing glances and generically courteous romantic gestures.

Which is stupid, because he gets propositioned constantly. He can't walk out the door without being flirted with. People keep slipping him their phone numbers and he always directs them to his agency like a moron. It's a good thing he will never understand how attractive he is because that's the only thing keeping him from total world domination.

Conventional attractiveness does not compute. Shouto doesn't have a type, doesn't care that he's an eleven whilst you are merely mortal. He will fall for your personality above all else.

Probably falls head over heels because your schedules overlap in a completely ordinary way and he witnesses you doing something endearing or brave or most likely: utterly mundane.

Pick a favorite, because you're his favorite coworker, or his favorite barista, or his favorite random bystander in line at the grocery store. You made him smile once; then he spent the next three months daydreaming about your future together before you accidentally stomped on his foot, initiating your first real conversation.

He's big on healthy communication. HUGE. He goes to therapy and it shows. Will talk through literally everything to the point of delirium. Sometimes his dedication to resolving every issue right away can get overwhelming; sometimes you just need some frickin time alone. But it pays off, because the two of you have practically never have a "real fight." There's just no way for bad vibes to fester.

STILL, his family wasn't exactly... erm... verbally or emotionally supportive, shall we say. For that reason, he might not give you all the compliments you deserve, because it simply doesn't occur to him to do so. He assumes you know how he feels. If you're self-conscious or insecure in the relationship, it might take him a while to notice. But when he figures it out (or even better, when you tell him directly) he will make it up to you with enthusiasm.

Will take you on lavish dates. Spoils you rotten without actually intending to. He's clueless about money. If you wanted a sugar daddy, you just hit the fucking jackpot. But if the word valet makes you uncomfortable, perhaps suggest some romantic picnics instead. He can still go all out with the food and five-star location without making you see cartoon dollar signs.

Chronic Insomniac. Stays up too late watching YouTube every night. His viewing history is an incomprehensible blur of k-pop music videos, serial killer icebergs, and super girly crafty ASMR channels. When he's watching a video, he is unreachable. Please call back later and try again.

He's disgustingly cute when he sleeps. Doesn't snore, but drools. Sometimes the drool freezes and leaves frost trails on his face in the morning. Still sleeps with the giant stuffed cat pillow that his mother gave him when he was like, zero. He'll inadvertently suffocate you with it, and you will welcome death with open arms because awwwwww!!!!!

The first time he tells you he loves you will be after your traditional Japanese shinto wedding. You won't hear it again until you start a family. Honestly, it's a good thing he doesn't say it often and is always holding you when it happens. It's a knee-buckler.

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Icy-Hot

I don't even need to say it. Shouto is as old-fashioned as they come. You will never open another door or pull out another chair for yourself as long as you live. He will ask before he holds your hand. He will ask before he kisses you. He will stop and check in if you so much as breathe funny during sex.

If you don't orgasm at exactly the same time while staring into one another's eyes, he'll consider himself a failed lover. God forbid you want him to pound you into the futon... cause you are going to have to present that scenario to him in writing first.

Physical intimacy rarely leads to sex. He loves cuddling, craves physical affection. He'll sprawl all over you and turn into goo while you hold him close. He's an amazing, astounding, phenomenally good kisser. And that's... nice and all... but sometimes you have to grab his face and say, "Shouto, I'm horny," before he's like so that's why you're currently dry-humping me?

Even if he isn't technically a virgin the first time (or the millionth time) you sleep together, you won't know the difference. He's a blushing violet. Every. Fucking. Time. This doesn't mean he's a bad lay, oh no. But there's always ten minutes of confused bumbling before he hits his stride and remembers oh yeah, I DO know how to fuck good.

Absolutely silent during sex. Focused. Intense. Sometimes you have to push him a little to make any kind of noise at all, just so you know you're pleasing him (oh don't worry, you are).

His cock is Just Right. Not to big or too small. Perfectly proportioned and symmetrical. Somehow pretty. Like a fucking factory prototype. It truly is not fair.

Gets handsy and restless at night, even if you both have work the next day. Seems to crave sex at three in the morning. You've given him more than one exhausted handjob.

Gets offended if you don't cum. Will go down on you for hours. Of course he uses his quirk to tease you. He doesn't typically use it during actual intercourse, but he's all about foreplay, and he'll use every tool in his arsenal.

His sex drive is completely fucking unpredictable. Sometimes he's all over you, other times he's an icy slab. His line of work leaves him busy and stressed on a near-constant basis, so you can't entirely blame his personality for this one. Just give him some time and help him take care of his basic needs. He'll come back around soon enough.