#helix-enterprises117

[for-the-writing-artist]

List 5 things that make you happy, then send this question to the last 10 people who liked/reblogged one of your posts.

Hey, how are you? Thanks for leaving this ask ─ I'll probably make it longer than it should be.

Talented musicians. It just fills me with hope, knowing the levels of talent a person can achieve. Can I ramble? I'm going to ramble, sorry.

I can't explain, but when I realize how cohesively these two solos were played, and one must imagine there is no sheet music! that this was done live, and it will never be done the same way again ─ I'm blown away by the sheer talent of the man. (solos one, two).

2. Accents. Just a little something I've always had an interest in. (You know the works; Scottish, Irish, British, midwestern, southern, etc.)

3. Clear skies. Blue skies. Sunny days.

4. Letters. Exquisite penmanship. Just the act of written communication existing as a whole. Stamps, wax seals, the whole shebang.

5. Ice cream! And all the different ways you can eat it. :D

[ageless-aislynn]

Frank and Brad are apparently my two dads now... 👀😂

@sarnakhwritesthings @ghostslillady @frienah @officialnighttime @jemmalynette @emmaswanned @swiftzeldas and anybody else who sees this and would like to do it! *boops your nose politely* 🤗💖

last fictional character in ur camera roll just adopted u

(Yes I did do this only because I want him to adopt me. Fuck off)

tags: @cryptidwithaninternetconnection @reggie-the-inferi @gingerbreadeel24 @pickupstyx

and whoever the fuck sees this

[ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask]

Rules: Shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist and post the first 10 songs, then tag 10 friends to do the same!

Thanks to @valhelos for the tag! I always love picking up new music from you.

My Hometown - Bruce Springsteen

A Dustland Fairytale - The Killers

Everyone's Dying (Grandma's Drunk Again) - Roe Kapara

The Strawberry Roan - Marty Robbins

Johnny B. - The Hooters (named after an instrument, not the chain)

Mr. Brightside - The Killers

The Freshmen - The Verve Pipe

When You Were Young - The Killers

People C'Mon - Delta Spirit

Magdalene - The 502s

Tagging @caffeineyum, @ageless-aislynn, @thefinaljediknight, @makowrites, @helix-enterprises117

@authortobenamedlater, @genesisgrey, @threshergm, @reading-by-the-pale-moonlight, @dudewhynotthis

[ageless-aislynn]

Tag nine people you want to get to know better

Tagged by the ever-awesome @sarnakhwritesthings Thanks so much! 😎👍

Favorite color: Cherry red, forest green, royal purple and, honestly, I'm a rainbow kinda gal, lol

Currently reading: I'm hoping to get to the Mass Effect: The Complete Comics compilation, it looks awesome!

Last song: "It Was Always You" - Maroon 5 (Yes, I'm still obsessing over this Mshenko vid, lol)

Last movie: Blade Runner 2049

Last series: 68 Whiskey (vid still in progress 😎👍)

Sweet, Savory, Salty: All of the above, please and thank you! 😂😉

Craving: Well, after that last question, now I'd like some pizza with a chocolate brownie for dessert, lol!

Tea/Coffee: Coffee but I do enjoy a nice cuppa as well. 😉

Currently working on: Definitely not a Kaidan x oc fic that I'm never going to show anybody so it's a total waste of time. 👀👀👀😬😬😬 Okay, so my theory is that at least if I'm writing at all, that's a step closer to getting my Halo and Flash WIPs done, right? 🤞😖🤞

Absolutely, positively no pressure tags: @outofpuddle @swiftzeldas @androidtrashfire @ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask @helix-enterprises117

@threshergm @coleishere @authorjones @ferusaurelius

[authortobenamedlater]

Halo: Awakening Prologue

Remember how I said I would start January 1? Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals. Here’s the prologue a week early.

@stitchlingbelle @genesisgrey @lpmurphy @helix-enterprises117 @ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask

@ageless-aislynn @dustbunnyteeth13 @mrtobenamedlater

Tag list opt-in post here for those interested.

Now, why are you reading fanfic on Christmas Day. Go open presents and drink egg nog. After you reblog and leave comments of course.

[ageless-aislynn]

@mrtobenamedlater *gigglesnort* That would be accurate about the running start, lol! 6 foot, very cool! I've never got a clue about these sorts of things, lol! 🤷‍♀️😎

@ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask Wow, 6'2" sounds Spartan-sized to me! 😂😎

@helix-enterprises117 I would still have to look up to talk to you if we were on level ground 'cause I'm 4' 11 1/2" (and I alllllways claim that 1/2 and inch, very important when you're fun-sized, lol). 😎👍

my secret agenda is getting my mutuals to to reblog and tell me how tall they think i am, and everyone is motivated by continuing a chain muahahahaha

[genesisgrey]

WiP Ask Game

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Tag as many people as you have wips. people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

@ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask tagged me. Thanks!!

There's not enough people on tumblr, let alone that I know to match my WiPs. Let's stick with recent WiPs.

Halfway Home - Halo

Zeta Halo: Survival Stories - Halo (shock!)

Spartan Ops - Halo

Love in Hopeless Space - Halo

Green and Gold: Mission on Huitzilopochtli - Halo

Flower and the Blind Master - Original

Sniper School - Cold - mindfulness - Halo

Bedside Manner - DC Comics

The Golden Lord - Original

Untitled - DC Comics

7 Days: Mandatory Leave - Halo

Cafe Sparta - Halo

Closing Time - Halo

One Minute - Halo

It's a Lot - Halo

Thorkii Temp - Thor Movie-verse-ish

Emerald Cove Adventure - Halo

Ever After - Halo TV Series

A Spartan Holiday - Halo

The Hong Kong Job - Fast and Furious

Grace Never Saw it Coming - Halo

Never Was - Halo

And a million more files called Untitled, because I am bad at naming my stories. I'm actually shocked this many have file names.

Also I just remembered my first title for In Her Orbit was Kisses and Near Misses, which I now have to recycle.

I apologize to everyone that's being asked a second (or more) time. I'm sending this to everyone I on my friend list. Feel free to respond with a WiP that's something other than fiction, too!

@ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask @authortobenamedlater @ginneke @lpmurphy @mrtobenamedlater @helix-enterprises117 @ageless-aislynn @poisonheadcrabsalesman @threshergm

[for-the-writing-artist]

Tagged by @helix-enterprises117! (Thanks! :)

Rules: Choose 4 of your favorite characters from 4 pieces of media, and let Tumblr decide which one most suits your vibe.

Tagging @from-the-working-classman, @thornbushrose, @i-love-books-because-reasons and @sharpestsatire ─ but no pressure! Anyone is welcome to join.

[ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask]

WIP ask game

I got tagged be the inestimably wonderful @valhelos, who apparently deemed it fit to call me out on the ephemerality of my writing today. So, uh... thanks for that 😅

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Tag as many people as you have wips. people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

I have... SO many WIPs in my folder. Actually, I have 10 different WIPs folders. I also have a serious problem, but let's not worry about that now. So anyway. Here we go.

Stomeroni Is A Ridiculous Name - (Star Wars sequels)

She's Dead Now - RvB

Spies AU - RvB

Vampire Mommy - Halo/Monsters AU (don't judge me I name things ironically sometimes)

Scooby-Doo - Guess

Poor Sucker - An AU of a book that hasn't even been published yet (yes, I have problems we've already acknowledged this let's move on)

Kids - Halo

Human - Halo

Course Correction - Halo

The Spartan and the 17th - Halo

Serenity - Halo/Firefly crossover/AU

Ringworlds and Reclaimers - Halo/DnD AU

Spy Story - Artemis Fowl

The Mudman - Artemis Fowl

Promotion - Artemis Fowl

So that's.... fifteen WIPs. Sorry for everyone that I'm about to spam with this. I love you all.

@weeinterpreter, @authortobenamedlater, @helix-enterprises117, @morganas-pendragons, @genesisgrey

@mrtobenamedlater, @makowrites, @ageless-aislynn (vids count too if that's what you're doing), @thefinaljediknight, @commanderauri

@neveroutoftime, @call-me-jelli, @dudewhynotthis, @lpmurphy, @threshergm

[ageless-aislynn]

Ooo, I love hearing behind the scenes info like this, very cool! 😎👍

I did also really enjoy picturing Chief, Johnson and the Arbiter in a Nu-Metal band! 😂

Other names for my AU that I scrapped.

Halo Reborn - Too generic. And I like generic.

Halo Resurgence - Too vague, but it does fit the idea of it being "A new and unique retelling of Halo". Still, I could do better.

Halo Nexus - Sounds cool, but makes zero damn sense.

Halo Resurgent - I returned to 'Resurgence' but altered the tense to see if it worked. It didn't.

Halo Extreme & Halo Overdrive - They sound like the name of Shovelware sports-based Halo spin-off games. Nope.

Neo Halo - Halo is already sci-fi, "Neo" is redundant.

Ultimate Halo - Derivative of Ultimate Marvel for obvious reasons.

Nu-Halo - Why is Halo a Nu-Metal Band? No.

Finally

Halo Reloaded - HEY WAIT. I like this one; it's cool, it fits the idea/concept of my AU being a 'fanmade reboot and retelling' without being too vague or derivative, AND it makes sense since Halo is an FPS and 'Reloaded' adds to the 'military & gun-motif' of the genre. Let's use this one!

@thefinaljediknight, @ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask, @authortobenamedlater, @mrtobenamedlater, @empresskadia.

@jellotherelol, @kindlythevoid, @killer-orca-cosplay, @threshergm.

@caffeineyum, @ageless-aislynn, @t65flyer, @for-the-writing-artist.

[ageless-aislynn]

Game: Add 10 gifs from your favorite shows and tag 10 people.

Tagged by the ever-awesome @jemmalynette Thanks, hon! 💖💖💖

Halo

2. The Flash

3. Doctor Who

4. Star Trek (all of them)

5. Beauty and the Beast (1987)

6. Xena: Warrior Princess

7. Star Wars animated and live action (all of them)

8. Terra Nova

9. Dark Matter (2015)

10. Elementary

(I always associate this song with them, what can I say? Pardon the SUPER COMPRESSED potato quality, that was how I rolled back in 2012, lol!)

Anyway, that was fun! I tried to pick from both older and newer shows and they're in random order.

No pressure tags: @latetotheparty-again @helix-enterprises117 @ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask @authortobenamedlater @mrtobenamedlater @inthatfandom @time-converges @street-of-mercy @misstommykinard @wonderwafles

and anybody else who'd like to do this! *boops your nose politely* 💖💖💖

[authortobenamedlater]

Halo: Awakening ch7 (New Beginnings)

Can't get the link to insert properly so here is the new chapter.

Shortish chapter wrapping up E2! We've done two whole episodes!

@mrtobenamedlater @stitchlingbelle @genesisgrey @lpmurphy @helix-enterprises117

@ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask @ageless-aislynn @dustbunnyteeth13 @threshergm @imutrt

Tag list opt-in or -out here.

[ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask]

Okay! Backstory for this one so that it makes some semblance of sense. This is a universe that @helix-enterprises117 and I came up with while shooting the breeze a bit ago, and it takes some groundwork, so here goes. First off - Bruce is quite a bit younger (30s-ish?) and he started fighting crime because after losing his parents he renounced his wealth and went soul-searching and crap and then came back later (fairly standard Batman origin, just a smaller age gap between him and his various teammates). Also, significantly, Jim Gordon is a bad guy. They still call him The Commissioner, but that's because he is a mafia boss who owns most of the GCPD. Dick Grayson has a slightly more Red Hood vibe, and he came back to Gotham specifically to kill Gordon because he is the one who got Dick's parents killed. The problem with that is that when he got to Gotham he started working for Gordon to get close enough to kill him and that resulted in him meeting Gordon's untouched aspiring-lawyer goody-two-shoes daughter, Barbara. Naturally they fell in love because that's just how I do. Eventually Dick (who has been working as a thug under the name Nightwing while secretly sabotaging all of The Commissioner's dastardly plans) runs into Batman. At first they fight, then they really learn to hate each other, but all the same they end up working together because Babs guilt-trips Dick into being a wholly good person again and drop the edginess. Also he calls Babs Cinnamon. And... I think that brings us up to speed. Anyway. If you've made it through all of that, here's the story!

Moniker

Dick Grayson was tired. No… tired didn’t quite cut it. He had cuts that were still weeping blood. Bruises had claimed ninety percent of the real estate known as his skin. He got dizzy just standing up - not that you would notice. Dick Grayson’s version of dizzy still managed to make the average person look like they were operating on a 0.5 blood-alcohol level. No… Dick wasn’t tired. He was exhausted. The kind of exhaustion that ran bone-deep. The kind that made you want to curl up in the safety and comfort of your bed and seriously consider the possibility of never climbing back out. Only… he didn’t have a safe, comfortable bed. He didn’t have much of a bed to speak of, in all honesty. He barely had an apartment. He’d decided he didn’t need one when he came back to Gotham - he was there for one reason, and one reason only. To get on the good side of The Commissioner… and then to put a bullet in his head.

Naturally, that hadn’t gone according to plan. No… Dick had to go and fall in love with the man’s daughter. Then he had to get guilt-tripped into trying to do some good in the world instead of just killing off the bad against which he had a particular vendetta.

That was how the former-hitman-turned-vigilante found himself sneaking through the window of what was probably the most well-secured, highly fortified apartment in all of Gotham. Even if Barbara had cut ties with her father’s criminal enterprise, that certainly didn’t mean that the old man didn’t find ways to keep eyes on her. Luckily for Dick, he was simply better than the Commissioner’s guys.

He made it into her bedroom silently. She wasn’t home, he knew - she had an advanced literature analysis lecture on Thursdays from 7:00 to 8:30. Usually he would wait for her to leave the lecture hall, take her to dinner, and generally go about pretending he wasn’t pathetically in love with her. Tonight… he just didn’t have it in him. He needed her.

Dick didn’t bother turning on the lights; he knew her apartment by feel at this point. Practically by smell. He made his way into her bathroom and grabbed the first-aid kit from the mirror, but saw that she had run out of ACE bandages - correction: he had already used all of them. He just shrugged it off, knowing that she kept a second first-aid kit in her bedroom closet. 

He made his way back, taking one misstep on the way. One of the so-called Penguin’s goons had gotten a particularly good hit on his back with a two-by-four earlier, and he was fairly certain he had a light concussion. Oh well. Cinnamon would chew him out for it later, and he would let her because even angry her voice was his favorite sound in the world.

Dick finally succumbed to the need for sight when it came to going through Babs’s closet so he flipped the switch before turning to fumble around blindly on the top shelf. Finally his fingers found purchase on the first aid kit, and he pulled it out roughly - only to bring a second object crashing down with it. It was a book, he confirmed with a cursory glance. It had fallen open when it hit the ground but he could see a glittery pink hardcover and a pink ribbon that he presumed was supposed to keep it shut. Watermarks of kittens on unicorns adorned the pages and everything inside was written in Cinnamon’s personal looping style. 

It was a diary. Nightwing bent down to grab it and put it back. He snuck into her apartment and helped himself to her medical supplies, but he wasn’t some peeping tom and he certainly wasn’t going to start rifling through her diary. They were her private thoughts, and he respected that. But then he saw the way she signed the entry, and his outstretched hand suddenly stopped.

Love, Mrs. Batman

Dick gingerly picked the book up, trying to be careful not to bleed on the pages, and stared at the offending letters. It wasn’t like he was expecting her to sign her name Barbara Grayson or something, but signing it as Mrs. Batman? It was concerning to say the least, and to his battered mind it bordered on insulting given the fact that he hated his partner-in-crimefighting and that she was supposed to be in love with the other vigilante out on the streets fighting for Gotham’s security and peace.

He was so busy staring at the three offending words - and just concussed enough - that he didn’t hear the sound of the front door opening. He didn’t hear her walk through the apartment, he didn’t even realize she was coming near until he saw the hallway light flick on and her shadow fell across her bedroom floor.

“Well, to what do I owe the pleasure?” she asked, her rich voice playful and flirtatious. “A tall, dark, masked stranger in my bedroom, eh? I didn’t know you were into that kind of game, but I can’t say I’m-” She trailed off when her eyes took in the extent of the injuries he had taken, and she quickly stepped forward and reached out for him. The flirtatious note dropped from her voice and she spoke urgently when she asked, “Dick, what happened?��

Dick, for his part, grunted something noncommittal. He felt a guilty warmth bleed into his cheeks as he realized he was standing there holding her diary of all things, and yet somehow there was a small corner of his mind that wanted to demand the story behind the moniker she had given herself.

He didn’t have the time to decide what he would even say if he did let himself ask her about it before Cinnamon was talking again. “Baby, you’re bleeding,” she said, pushing him toward her desk chair. “You have the medical kit in your hand, what are you…” She trailed off again when she noticed the book he was holding in his other hand. “Is that… is that my diary?”

Dick looked at her with a slightly dazed expression. “I wasn’t snooping,” he tried to defend himself, his words slower and slightly more slurred than usual. “It just… it fell open. And…” He fell to an uncomfortable, guilty silence as he realized that he could do no more than shrug embarrassedly and hope that Babs was willing to forgive this particular infraction.

“And you… decided to read it?” she asked, posting her hands on her hips and arching one perfect, crimson eyebrow as she stared down at him. “I guess I shouldn’t be surprised when my crime-fighting detective boyfriend looks through my things, but I certainly wasn’t expecting it.” The bemused smirk curling the corners of her lips flattened slightly when she noticed the strange expression on his face and she crouched low enough to bring her eyes level with his to ask, “What’s the matter?”

Nightwing didn’t have an answer for her that didn’t sound jealous and accusatory, so he just shrugged again. Babs looked him over with concern in her beautiful green eyes that he wouldn’t mind getting lost in for the rest of his life, then dropped her gaze to the open page. “Dick, what’s… oh.”

When Barbara Gordon blushed, she didn’t turn pink. She turned bright red, a color so vibrant that she nearly matched her hair. Right now she was a shade slightly redder than her usual, even.

“Okay, I think I see what’s happening here,” she said bashfully, absentmindedly running her hand through his hair still damp with rain water. “And I just want to say - before you start thinking something stupid - that I wrote in this journal when I was fifteen and it’s been lost wherever you found it pretty much since then.”

Dick cocked his head to one side, both to express confusion and to lean into her hand like some kind of ridiculous touch-starved puppy. “I’m not… I just…” He took a deep breath and resigned himself to the fact that he wasn’t getting out of this without sounding like a jealous teenager. “Do you… do you have some kind of feelings for him?”

Cinnamon’s mouth dropped open for a moment as she listened to his question… then she laughed. She laughed hard enough that her shoulders started shaking, hard enough that even he started chuckling in spite of his concern.

“Wingnut, light of my life, you big beautiful dummy,” she said, carding her fingers through his hair again. “No, I don’t have feelings for him. I used to have a crush on him, sure… but that was before I met him.” She leaned close enough to bump her forehead playfully against his. “What’s the matter, Nightwing?” she asked playfully. “Are you jealous? That’s a new color on you, Boy Wonder. You’ve never been jealous of the guys I actually did date, but now you're getting defensive over one I didn't?”

Dick screwed his face into a mock scowl to hide the almost embarrassing sense of relief he felt. “Well first, you never signed your diary with the names of your ex boyfriends,” he fired back almost petulantly. “And second, none of those idiots were the living legend of Gotham.” It was a flimsy defense at best. Mostly he just hated Bruce and the thought of the love of his life having feelings for the man was enough to make him shrivel up inside like a slug in a salt shaker.

Babs laughed again, pressing her lips to his forehead in a sweet, lingering kiss. “Don’t worry, handsome - I promise that you’re the only superhero I have eyes for.”

Nightwing tipped his head back enough to catch her lips with his own and pressed a kiss against them that was passionate enough to make his head spin a little bit, concussion or no concussion. “So…” he said with a tone that was dazed as much from that kiss as it was from the piece of wood that had collided with the back of his skull, “does that mean you sign your diary as Mrs. Nightwing these days?” “I’m not dignifying that question with an answer,” Cinnamon shot back. “Now shut up and let me wrap these up before you start bleeding on my carpet.” Her emerald eyes sparkled playfully when they met hers when she added, “And if you’re good and let me do this without interrupting anymore, you might manage to persuade me to prove to you that you’re the only broody nightstalker I want in my diary… or in my bedroom.”

Nightwing pantomimed locking his lips, then threw away the imaginary key.

[ageless-aislynn]

List your 10 favorite characters from 10 different Fandoms, then tag 10 people!

Tagged by the ever-awesome @sarnakhwritesthings Thanks so much! 💖

I decided to do video game fandoms, just to change things up a bit. In alphabetical order by fandom just 'cause. 😉

Karlach, Baldur's Gate 3 (Wait, did I just sneak Astarion into here? Yes, yes, I did. Please anticipate that I will stretch the whole 10 favs from 10 different fandoms as faaaaaar as I can. 🤷‍♀️😂)

Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (And there's Sergeant John "Soap" MacTavish, funny how that worked out, hm? 😇)

Frank West, Dead Rising (Also starring Ms. Leah Stein... 💖)

Kara, Detroit: Become Human (With bonus Alice and Luther, filling out my precious little android family! I also want to note that technically Connor and Hank along with Markus, Simon and North all tied for this spot. But I thought it might be pressing it just a bit too much to have 8 people all crammed into the "1 character" spot. See? Restraint, I has it! *coughcough* 😂😉)

Nyx Ulric, Final Fantasy XV: Kingsglaive (Yeah, so technically Kingsglaive is a movie not a game but it's in support of a game so that's close enough for me. Also, hello to the lovely Lunafreya Nox Fleuret. *waves Lunyx shipper flag liek woah*)

Master Chief John-117, Halo (And Cortana, my bestest girl! *smushes her together into a happily ever after with John* That's totally how they ended up in the video game series, don't let anybody tell you differently! *fist thump* 😇😉)

The Ryder twins, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Sara Ryder x Reyes Vidal is liiiiiiife to me! And I didn't have a Scott Ryder x Gil Brodie GIF so I just went full on and linked you to the vid I made. No, no, it was my pleasure, really. 😇😇😇😉 Sara x Vetra Nyx and Scott x Cora Harper also belong here. You know, in the 1 single character ONLY spot. *nodnods in I do what I want, Thor* 😂🤷‍♀️)

Quiet, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (Hello, Mr. Snake, sir, you're looking very well and TOTES not shippy here in this spot on my list, ahem! 😁😉)

Lady Alcina Dimitrescu, Resident Evil: Village (Wow, Karl Heisenberg, how completely unexpected of you to be in this GIF, too! *shocked Pikachu face* 😂😉)

Cal Kestis, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order/Survivor (Merrin, my love! *sighs in fangirly shipperliness* "Shipperliness" is totally a word, too. Add it to your vocabulary today and impress all your friends! 😊😉)

No pressure tags: @officialnighttime @ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask @helix-enterprises117 @jemmalynette @ghostslillady

@morganas-pendragons @jellotherelol @fandomdancer @authorjones @thefuzzybat and anybody else who might like to do this! *boops your nose politely* 🤗💖

[authortobenamedlater]

Remember how I said Sunday? Yeah, I decided this is good enough. Or I just got impatient.

More shooting and killing and action, now featuring characters we care about.

I’ll be back on my bi-weekly schedule for the 29th.

@mrtobenamedlater @stitchlingbelle @genesisgrey @lpmurphy @helix-enterprises117

@ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask @ageless-aislynn @dustbunnyteeth13 @threshergm @imutrt

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[helix-enterprises117]

Already put this on the Discord, but...

Have a new John.