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Félix: kidnapping is a love language Kagami: you have no social skills, idiot
*two weeks later*
Félix: okay, so when Marinette's at her most vulnerable, I'll gaslight her into thinking I'm her boyfriend, so she'll follow me into an abandoned building where we can put her in an altered mental state and present to her my family's life story in the imaginable most cryptic play of theater she has ever seen, which will reveal to her our horrible secret and the fact that her abusive father-in-law is also her arch-nemesis Kagami: you're so big brained, bae 🥰
#I LOVE THEM BUT GOD THAT WAS THE LEAST SELF-EXPLANATORY WAY TO GO ABOUT THIS#fucking theater kids /lh#miraculous ladybug#ml spoilers#ml representation#ml representation spoilers#maybe they do team up nicely with Marinette because can ever be simple sfdgdfhgjfhg#I'm so pumped for the final ohmygodddd#also did you know I wrote a story in highschool where the son of the villain revealed his family's true nature to the MC#in a cryptic fairy tale. where he assigned his father as the evil prince who moved into the king's family and married the pricess#who ended up comatose and waiting for revival?#the moral of the story is we're all insane here and I cannot believe I literally wrote 30k about this#and not have the gall to diss on feligami they are the MVPs fgdhjdfhgfjgk#also props for being so much more useful going about this whole thing than Luka <3
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Breakfast Trio ft 춘식
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[Closeups and general yapping under the cut]
(Check first post for headcanons first lol)
For Breakfast Trio, since they originated from Egg Island I wanted to slightly alter the base design that I usually go with with the other eggs (large plantigrade feet, long snouts & droopy ears) and went with thin digitigrade legs, large frills, round muzzles & no external ears
Additional comments regarding each individual designs :
I had pretty clear views in my head of how I wanted Sunny and Pepito to look, however I completely winged Em' as I went. "Oh I guess we're doing cobra now, alright"
As for 춘식, I looked up gats and from there I ended up with a very abundant canvas filled with references and videos of how to properly wear a hanbok and before I knew it I had a 춘식. Happy birth 🎉
And since 춘식 was brought up to the island by the Fed, I gave him the original dragon base that I gave the others.
Yes 춘식 is the youngest, yet I drew him the tallest of the bunch. Yes I'm going with that take. (I don't make the rules, that's how youngest child privileges work /j)
#geniunely cannot believe I uploaded the first part over a year ago whats up with time anyway#muy chiquito muy bonito cariño pepito#my art#qsmp sunny#qsmp pepito#qsmp empanada#qsmp chunsik#I adore how in my first post that I posted before Purg happened I wrote :#“I have a feeling whatever will happen to the eggs it'll make me want to scrap this and completely re-work on my designs again”#and nevermind lmao I ended up hating on everything that has ever happened after that so much that I just stuck to my designs out of spite#“Encapsulated Granulated Genome System” - r i g h t#tell me you use chatgpt without telling me you use chatgpt#mcyt#qsmp
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i'm sheltered by your heart (make-believing we're together)
But he had an upcoming conference and gala in LA, and he needed a respectable date to it- he was the head of a blossoming firm, and he couldn’t show up alone. The other lawyers would eat him alive, especially the older ones with wives and families and million dollar homes. Which is how he found himself on the Gemini Escorts website, scrolling through the applicants one by one, trying to determine if he could really stoop low enough to hire someone to accompany him to LA for the long weekend. Then, he stumbles on her profile. A fiery redhead, the profile for Rowena claims that for a small fortune she’ll spend a week with him and positively bewitch him. The headshots she’s chosen are stunning, and all he can focus on is creamy skin and freckles and red gold curls that remind him of firelight. There’s something about her grin, all cocky and gleaming and bright, that makes interest tug in his gut.
or, a Sam/Rowena Pretty Woman-inspired AU
#samwena#rowena macleod#sam winchester#spn fic#otp: dibs on samuel#i...cannot believe how much i wrote today i feel a little insane#but also i'm like. incredibly deeply insanely proud of how this turned out#so pls enjoy <3
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I decided to go through my old warm-up notebooks from my honours english class and in one of the warm-up prompts, I said I wanted my superpower to be "controlling the effects of [my] puberty," and I'm glad to say that I've gotten that superpower. It took a very long time, but that's a superpower I can check off my list
#trans#transgender#lgbt#lgbtq#ftm#mtf#nonbinary#ngl though i felt my very soul wince while reading some of them (including that)#in my old self's defense: i was incredibly dysphoric and had Many Unresolved Issues#i also wasn't really masking in that class and didn't know i should probably not be honest with my notebook#my teacher said that she'd only grade warm-ups we wanted graded and she'd only *potentially* read others 'for fun'#also i always didn't like the 'what superpower would YOU want?' question because. it just annoyed me to know it's impossible to have#(besides the puberty superpower lmao)#as much as i believe in being kind to your past self/selves that doesn't mean i'm not cringing about it 😭#just so long as you don't turn the cringe into self-hatred i suppose#you cannot hate yourself into being better♡♡#WAIT I JUST REMEMBERED THAT IN ONE OF THE WARM-UPS I WROTE ABOUT A LESBIAN ROBOT#NEVER MIND I'M DONE CRINGING#man i should make that into a proper short story like. what a concept
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Re:Kinder Fun Facts of the day☺️!!! Have you ever wondered who talks the most from the main cast in Re:Kinder?? Well, I did😊. Today I'll be answering this question with some graphs and as a bonus telling you what words each character uses the most! I will warn you, this will be a bit long and I don't know how to be less verbose so, yeah!!!
First, I've made some basic rules as to what I counted regarding how much the characters speak. Not all lines really count as speaking, after all.
Any of the incoherent screaming lines don't count. There's a lot of screaming since the characters die a lot (as expected for a horror RPG game), but I don't really count that as speaking unless they're saying proper words. In that same vein, I didn't really count any of the panting or sniffing and such that are conveyed through words. Again, I don't really see that as a character actively speaking their thoughts!
If I cannot tell who a line belongs to, I will not give it to anyone. This happens for certain lines, so I felt this rule was important.
I won't be counting repetitions of the same line if it's on a variation of the same scene. This may sound a bit strange, but when a character dies, the game goes on to the same next scene it would regardless (unless the scene that follows it is an ending), with variations and new lines here and there to account for the dead character, but a lot will be reused and placed in the exact same beats it normally would have been in originally. So, this rule is here for that. Oh, and also the scenes with bits of Yuuichi's backstory that appear in Shunsuke's head won't be counted twice, because some appear twice line by line.
Of course, the "..." lines won't count. I am so sorry Aya!!!!😞
Now that the ground rules have been set, there's just one thing I want to mention. Though I will count all the total lines for Takumi and Yuuichi like any other character, I just want to mention that first I will have two separate counts for them! Takumi | Takumiel and Yuuichi | Yuuichi's Heart respectively.
Takumiel is separate because I was curious about how much Takumi spoke as an archangel compared to when he was alive. Yuuichi's Heart is because he speaks so much he feels notable enough to be given his own division, even if he and Yuuichi at the end of the day are one person
(I count the silly mind telepathy where Shunsuke is being directly spoken to [and being told things normal Yuu would avoid saying at that point] and the comical theater as Yuuichi's Heart. I clarify in case one assumes he only starts being counted the moment he's directly labelled as Yuuichi's Heart. Any line that can't be distinguished between Yuuichi's Heart and Yuuichi will be given to Yuuichi by default.)
With nothing else to be clarified let's get to the numbers!!!😊😊
First, the line counts with Takumiel and Yuuichi's Heart counted individually!! Here are the rankings:
Shunsuke (With a lead of 535 lines over second place!!)
Yuuichi
Rei
Yuuichi's Heart
Hiroto
Ryou
Sayaka
Aya
Takumi
Takumiel
You may be thinking— woah, does Shunsuke really speak that much?! You could say that, for a good chunk of those lines are from how he describes interactable points around the map and his inner thoughts, so they aren't all exactly said out loud. The benefit of being the protagonist, I suppose ww
Funny enough, Yuuichi's Heart has almost as many lines as Yuuichi does for not having that much time in the game, being on the higher end between the characters that don't get the benefit of being a protagonist (lol)!
Admittedly I had expected for Rei and Hiroto to have a more similar amount of lines given their nearly equal amount of presence, but for what it is Rei surpassed Hiroto by 51 lines! I also had expected for Takumiel to speak a little bit more than Takumi but turns out the opposite is true.
While the lack of lines of Takumi and Takumiel are to be expected due to their short time on the game, what stands out is Aya not even reaching triple digits between her other peers who are in there for most of the game. This is because a good chunk of Aya's lines in game are silence!^^" And thus weren't counted. If ellipses were a word, she surely would have reached triple digits, but unfortunately they're not.
Now the line count with combined sums of Takumi | Takumiel and Yuuichi | Yuuichi's Heart!!!
In here, the ranking isn't affected, with Yuuichi remaining second place and Takumi being last place. But the disparity of everyone's numbers compared to Takumi's feels a bit more clear to see when Takumiel isn't individually counted.
With Yuuichi's line counts combined, Shunsuke remains 318 lines ahead of him, but it also means Yuuichi has a 59% the amount of Shunsuke's lines; and impressive feat for someone who doesn't get the benefit of being the point of view for everything you press... Although he does also have an upper hand over everyone by essentially being the plot of this game ww
But maybe line counts do not suffice to tell how much a character speaks. Yes, Shunsuke has a bunch of lines from everything he interacts with, but is it really reliable to say he speaks all that much in all those lines? A good chunk of those could easily have 3 words each! So with this in mind, let's do a word count.
Even in a word count, Shunsuke has the lead, having a lead of 2,247 words over second place. But we'll see about that when we combine Yuuichi's numbers. Anyway, here's the ranking!
Shunsuke
Yuuichi's Heart
Yuuichi
Rei
Hiroto
Ryou
Sayaka
Aya
Takumi
Takumiel
This time, Yuuichi's Heart is the one at second place!!! It's pretty funny that he speaks more than his physical counterpart ww. I genuinely didnt think he'd out yap himself that way when I chose to count for him individually 😭!!! He has a lead of 63 words over himself, but a lead nonetheless.
In here, Rei and Hiroto are more even than in the line counts, with the difference seeming more minimal when put into words. But it also showcases that despite Rei having more lines than Yuuichi's Heart in the line count, those only get to have a bit over half of the amount of words he talks (To be fair he does get to infodump a lot in his section of the game).
And here's the combined word count!!! Suddenly Shunsuke's lead is only by a mere 55 words! So Yuuichi speaks about as much as he does with 318 less lines.
I must admit that I genuinely did not expect it to be that close. When I chose to count the lines for when you interact with things for Shunsuke, I thought he was granted to speak an absurd amount more than anyone else. But turns out that Yuuichi speaks about the same amount out loud when most of Shunsuke's are his own thoughts ww. But it does make sense! He is still the plot of this game.
So, after all those charts, here's the average/middle point of lines and words for characters to have, because why not, it's fun.
Average Line Count (YH and Takumiel counted individually): 197 lines
Average Line Count (When combined): 247 lines
Average Word Count (YH and Takumiel counted individually): 1,333 words
Average Word Count (When combined): 1,666 words
So there it is. That's how much the characters in Re:Kinder speak!
But wait!!! I am not done. I will share with you an additional fun fact... Did you ever want to know what word each of these characters said the most?! This one will be quicker, I do promise.
When it came to counting these words I did not count stop words, that being common words that are used all the time by everyone in English. "I, you, me, the, to, a, my, your, yes, no"... Words like that! Otherwise everyone would have one of those as their most said word and it'd be rather boring to look at. With that said, here are the words these characters say the most!
Shunsuke: Yuuichi - said 40 times! (this genuinely confused me so much im sorry he uses interjections so much I had expected it to be something like "huh" or "um" but no i dont know how this passed by me as i was rounding up all the lines he says or proofreading or writing all of those lines WHAT?!?! its been two days and it still takes me out)
Ryou: Shunsuke - Said 14 times
Sayaka: Murderer - Said 7 times (All in one sentence!)
Takumi | Takumiel (counted in one for how little he speaks.): Takumiel - Said 3 times (That name is so important, he said it thrice.)
Aya: Sorry - Said 5 times
Rei: Hell, gonna, look, Yuuchi - said 8 times (Most of the repeated words she says are stop words for she doesn't tend to speak about the same things repeatedly.)
Hiroto: Shunsuke - Said 17 times
Yuuichi (separate from YH): Problem - Said 17 times
Yuuichi's Heart: Mama - Said 24 times
Yuuichi (Overall): Mama - Said 31 times
So that is finally it. That is the fun fact of today.😊😊 Use this to woe your friends at parties!!!
I am aware Mami speaks about enough to be counted in, but this is pretty time consuming to do and I'm not sure anyone is invested on her enough to count her in. But if there's enough curiosity regarding that, I'll try counting her in. But for now this suffices.☺️ Thanks for reading!
#re:kinder#rekinder#not art#fun fact!!!#i talk!!!#ive been at this for... two days how yall doing😊#ive thought of doing this since when i started by transcript of rekinder but i wasnt ready to do that after finishing that beast of a scrip#so here it is later than i anticipated! it is more time-consuming than i thought considering i have the benefit of the transcript#so when i was getting to doing mami i was already tired ww 😭 love her but this is just a silly bonus thing i throw out#so im not as ready to spend more than the several hours i already spent than with other funny silly proyects#i have more things i want to work on more😊!!! and also the semester is ending soon ww#ANYWAYYY#THIS WAS FUN THOUGH!!!#originally i wasnt going to count the things you can interact with for shunsuke but they are so obviously said by him i just had to#I WAS GOING TO IGNORE IT BUT THEN MY CONSCIOUSNESS TOLD ME... NO.... YOURE ROBBING HIM OF PERFECTLY FINE LINES!!!! 💔💔#so now his numbers are absurdly high#i still cant believe he said yuuichi more than huh i cannot believe that . like. he says huh 5 times less BUT STILL#i really wrote a whole transcript proofread it for 30+ hours then went back to do a line count for several more hours#and didnt notice the protagonist of this game said the name of my favorite character a million times#I NOTICED A “HUH” MORE THAN A NAME COME ONBRUEJWJFNNW#i dont really make any comments regarding ryou or sayaka in here as much because their numbers are exactly as i had expected#about the same amount not too much... its nothing groundbreaking to make a comment out just saying#if anyone is curious yuu says vamos cantar only 6 times#no one's most said word is particularly surprising to me after shunsuke but i did have a stroke seeing problem pop up for yuu#the document i was writing all of this info in before doing this post was very tidy and organized very well articulated until thay happened#i was perfectly expecting him to mention one of his parents the most overall but when separated from Yuuichi’s heart i did not knwo what#so when problem popped up my gut reaction was thinking that i wasnt making it to the end of the document no one speak to me i felt#IT . IT MAKES SENSE but it isnt fun💔#i wasnt even going to count yuuichis heart most said word until he out yapped himself admittedly#I SEPARATED HIM FROM USUAL YUU FOR THE LOLS I DIDNT THINK HE'D SPEAK THAT MUCH
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when you get home from work, your boyfriend already knows it was a bad day—never mind the countless texts he received detailing your every misfortune; the sullen, defeated look on your face and your refusal to talk to him says plenty as you trudge through the door.
you disappear to shower, and he doesn’t follow you, doesn’t pry. he knows when to keep his distance, when to give you space. a shower will allow you to slough off some of the day’s irritation and (hopefully) give you a clearer mind.
or not.
as you emerge from the bathroom in your loungewear, you’re just as grumpy. instead of asking about dinner, you flop down on the couch, wet hair practically dripping onto the cushions. you stare at the ceiling.
he doesn’t say anything—he just sidles up next to you, placing a large, calloused palm on your thigh. his touch grounds you in an indescribable way. you look at him for the first time since you arrived home, and simply state, “my tummy hurts.”
the blunt way you put it, lips slightly pouting like a petulant child’s, has him stifling a chuckle. but he knows laughing will only make you more upset. instead, he murmurs, “i’m sorry.”
his next movement is a habit at this point: he lifts the hem of your shirt and places a gentle hand on your stomach, applying the slightest pressure. the warmth from his palm soothes you; he presses a kiss to your temple. “what do you need?” he asks.
you finally smile—barely, just a peek of sunshine. “nothing,” you whisper.
you have all that you need.
#insert anyone#this is very stoic man to me (all my faves pretty much)#very kento#but also zoro#and kakashi#i cannot believe i wrote this it’s disgusting get it away from me#this goes out to all the ibs babies#zoro <3#kento <3#kakashi <3
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guts is legitimately a perfect album and i cannot stress enough how FEW albums i describe as absolutely perfect. this isnt just me loving a new album. it is genuinely a phenomenal piece of art that perfectly encapsulates girlhood and anger and growing up. this girl has such an insanely bright future.
#she deserves album of the year so bad#AND SHE WROTE LIKE ALMOST ALL OF THESE ALL ON HER OWN#ON APPLE MUSIC IT SAYS THE WRITERS AND THERES ONLY LIKE ONE THAT HAS ANOTHER NAME BESIDES HER OWN#the end of teenage dream just made me SOB#i did not think sour was a perfect album i loved it but god i cannot believ how much BETTER this one is#olivia rodrigo
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Gallaghercest: A Primer (4738 words) by Snickfic Fandom: Oasis (Band) Relationships: Liam Gallagher/Noel Gallagher Characters: Liam Gallagher (Oasis), Noel Gallagher Additional Tags: Meta, Ship Manifesto, Sibling Incest, 中文翻译 | Translation in Chinese Summary: If you are into: - Fucked-up codependent sibling relationships with optional incest - Larger-than-life, endlessly quotable trainwreck people - 90s Britpop nostalgia - Fandoms with years and years of canon material to get lost in - Old-school fandom chock-full of messy ship dynamics, underage, and unnegotiated kink THEN HAVE I GOT A SHIP FOR YOU.
I just realized a bit ago that none of the photos in my gcest primer were displaying on AO3 anymore. D: So I rehosted them, and now hopefully they're all visible. I guess lmk if something looks weird?
#Cannot believe I wrote this almost five years ago#kind of outdated now#so much has happened!!#but god the photos and gifs still get to me ;__;#gallaghercest
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it is a singular few minutes after midnight but that means its the 7th and that means that me and ally have been dating for a year .!!!!!!
#my art#i wrote a long thing on twitter but ill try to summarize ..#umm. first and foremost i love him with the power of every sun possibly imaginable and the genuine joy i feel about him is unmatched to any#known feeling currently documented.#oum.. ill also be honest and say this is probably the first healthy relationship ive been in like. ever. and its still surreal to me even#after a year#very genuinely i feel so safe + loved with him. he listens to me talk about the most nonsensical things and he never makes me feel like im#talking to a brick wall. we talk abt whatever and its so nice.#we've talked abt stuff we like and gotten each other into stuff that we weren't already into !!!#like im crying rn bc i have so much love in my heart for him !!!#he means so so much to me . i still cannot believe its been a year .!!!!#im so happy ive gotten to spend the past year with him and i hope i get to spend even more years with him 🥺
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having a silly little oneshot that's less than 5k words about to hit 10k kudos is crazy. wattpad era me could never have even dreamed of such a thing, i love you all so much
#i absolutely ADORE this fandom y'all are the best and i missss the days i would write a fic a week 😭#but also like huge huuuge thank you to everyone that's read liked and commented on that fic i appreciate it so much bc this is WILD#9-1-1#buddie#911 abc#ao3#anyways 7 more kudos and this fic will have 10k that is insane i actually cannot believe that#when i wrote it i would've NEVER expected it to get so much love! i was happy enough with the 100 kudos it had at the start 😭😭
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i think it fucks immensely that bk moon went out of his way to 1) establish rakiel wished to live a long life and eventually pass away of old age, 2) have him very briefly envy an immortal being only to be told very clearly to be careful what he wishes for by that very same person because living forever isn't all it's cracked up to be, 3) make the main antagonist be another immortal being who is so desperate to die he's willing to destroy the universe just to finally rest and 4) have said antagonist psychologically torture rakiel with the threat of making him live for a thousand years as everyone he loves and knows eventually grows old and dies and becomes nothing but forgotten memories.
only to then end the novel by making rakiel also immortal
like. god. it's so fucking good i love it. i'm not being sarcastic i genuinely think it fucks and it's one of the best ways bk moon could've wrapped up the plot.
it's a happy ending by all means but it has consequences and through the entire novel we've been shown and told over and over again just how heavy the consequences are and/or will be on rakiel.
he got his happy ending but it was at a price and by the last time we see him he's only just starting to pay for it.
it's great i love it
#i talk a lot <3#cpsm#cpsm spoilers#rakiel magentano#i also think it's funny that this puts bk moon in the very awkward position when it comes to his 'romance' with adeline#because either rakiel allows her to remain human and sees her grow old and eventually die just like acheros threatened him with#(and like he will do with absolutely everyone he loves anyway <3)#or he keeps her alive and frozen in time just like acheros wanted to do with him forcing her to be cut off from the world#in most ways that matter and see the people she loves grow old and die. again. just like acheros threatened to do with him :)#like. either way. the situations sucks for them <33#i do think it's cheap if he can make her immortal without it being a big deal. because. why wouldn't it be.#it would be absolutely broken if absolutes can just. make people immortal for funsies whenever they want. that would be bad writing.#but again i also think it's cheap that he made alicia an angel for no other reason than bc someone needed to remind us lloyd is married#to a woman actually. like. she doesn't even do anything why did you ruin the absolute tragedy that is being an immortal being surrounded#by very mortal humans just to make awful 'my wife is annoying' jokes. i hate you.#sigh. it's lose/lose when it comes to women with this man and his choices.#either they're fridged to make his male characters sad or they become the butt of misogynistic jokes. i cannot fucking win.#ANYWAY. do i think any of this was on purpose? maybe idk i certainly hope so and want to believe it is because otherwise it would be#too much of a coincidence but like. this is also the man who wrote a character very explicitly and clearly wishing to live a quiet life#with his family in his middle-of-nowhere estate where nothing ever happens with no contact at all with royalty and court#so he can laze about and do absolutely nothing. and then married him to a queen who cannot stand lazy people and squeezes the last bit#of talent of everyone around her. and he saw nothing wrong with this. so like. i genuinely cannot tell with this man sometimes 🙃🙃
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Efri thinks she’s found the library.
“Woah,” she says, letting the door swing shut behind her. (Loudly. The doors here are so heavy.) Her voice echoes off the stone walls. She feels like she’s stepped into some story, like an exaggerated version of what a mage’s college would be.
It’s not that she’s never heard of a library before or anything. She understands them, conceptually. But the most books she’s ever seen at once was the small set of shelves in Rorik’s manor, and even that blew her away the first time – all the pretty bindings and close-written words. This is –
The College library is something else. It’s a lot bigger than a set of shelves.
Winding, narrow hallways bend and squiggle around like a set of earthworms trying to squish together to make a solid shape with no gaps, and every single wall is lined with books. Each shelf is like a rainbow of covers and colours. Half the spines are thick as at least two fingers put together and written over with words she can’t read. Efri has to bring Sissel here. She’d lose her mind.
“Woah,” she says again, and steps further in to look at the books on the shelves. All the bindings in blacks and blues and browns. One has the title written down the spine in gold lettering that shines. She brings up a hand to touch it.
“What are you doing?” someone demands. Efri stops. She looks.
It’s a grumpy-looking orc man in a bright yellow tunic, glaring at her much fiercer than seems necessary for the crime of looking at books in a library. He looks like he might be old – his hair’s white enough that his beard’s the same colour as his sharp sticking-out teeth, and he’s wrinkly. Efri wrinkles her nose and tells him, “I’m looking at the books.”
“Wash your hands first,” he barks, turning his much-too-angry glare on Efri’s hovering arms. “You look like the sort of person to have grubby fingers.”
It’s true, but Efri is offended anyway. She wipes her palms hard against her orange wool skirt. (The skirt is grey at the hem from playing in dirty snow. It does not make her any cleaner.)
“Who’re you?” she asks the rude man. “I haven’t met you yet.”
He does not stop scowling. Maybe he’s perpetually angry. Maybe he just has an unfortunate face. But he says, “I’m the Arcaeneum archivist. Urag gro-Shub.”
The Arcaeneum, that’s what the library’s called. Very fancy name. (Sissel will love it. And has Kazari been here yet? They might like it too. She’s pretty sure they can read, though probably not these fiddly little paper books.) “What’s an archivist?”
“I maintain the library.” The archivist Urag gro-Shub might be grumpy and not very nice but at least he didn’t do the thing where he sighed all annoyed at Efri’s question. “I choose when and to whom the books are lent, and I ensure they are not damaged. Hundreds of years have gone into assembling this collection, and it’s going to stay pristine.”
“Is that book hundreds of years old?” Efri asks, pointing to the showy tome with the writing in gold.
Urag barely glances at it, dark eyes flashing in the vague direction of her pointing finger and flashing back again. “No. That’s historical fiction written in 185. That copy was made within these last ten years.”
“You didn’t even look at it,” Efri says.
“Bejewelled Tragedy. Four hundred pages. Horrendously inaccurate. Frankly, it wasn’t worth acquiring in the first place. Feel free to look for yourself.”
Efri will take his word for it.
“This section is for the books that are up for purchase,” he tells her, gesturing. “The worthwhile ones – and the old ones, if those are what you’re looking for – are further in.”
Efri squints down the passages again, their bright lights and cosy winding walls. She can’t tell where this section ends and the next one starts. She feels like if she went any further into the library she’d get lost. She says, “Thanks. I’m Efri, by the way.”
“I know. You’re that kid who showed up.”
“One of,” Efri corrects.
Urag keeps talking, rolling right past like he didn’t hear her. “Don’t know why in the name of all that’s been called holy they let you in. You’d think this would be a step too far, even –” he huffs and snaps his jaw shut, tusks digging into his moustache. He says, “At any rate. You’re here now, and you’re subject to the same rules as everyone else. You treat these books as careful as if they were your own firstborn children, understand? And if there’s something you want to find – or especially take out of the Arcaeneum – you come talk to me.”
Efri nods obediently. What time would it be right now? The lecture Sissel went to was almost two hours, and it’s definitely only been about one. She asks, “Are there any books with pictures?”
She’s not sure if it’s just the shape of his mouth or if he’s sneering. Urag says, “That depends. Are you going to respect the books enough to try to read the words too?”
“That depends,” Efri retorts, nettled. (She gets that he’s protective of the collection, but there’s no need to be rude about it.) “Are your books going to teach me how to read?”
Urag stares.
“You can’t read,” he replies, sounding vaguely offended, as though she, at six years of age, had refused to attend the village school for the express purpose of spiting him four years later.
Efri pulls a book out of the shelf without looking at it, ignoring the way he huffs. There’s nothing embossed on the spine or the cover, but there’s a title scribbled on the first page. “That’s a B,” she says, pointing to the first letter of the first word, and then stops, squinting. Switches her focus to a different word. “That one says off.”
“Of,” Urag corrects over her shoulder.
Efri shrugs. She snaps the book shut and slips it back into its place on the shelf. “I can read a bit,” she says. “I know my letters and that. The books here are just big.”
And given that she’d failed to correctly identify of, even small stories might be a bit beyond her skill level.
Urag is quiet. Efri looks back at him, mostly expecting him to still be looking affronted, as though she’d stolen food out of his mouth and thrown it at a wall – instead he looks oddly, blankly thoughtful.
“We don’t have anything suitable for early readers,” he says, tapping his fingers against his leg. “That might be an oversight.”
Efri really doesn’t think it is. “It’s a big fancy library, right? I think it’s normal to just collect the big fancy books.” All the ones that are hundreds of years old, or about magic or important things, or both.
Urag’s knuckles rap against a buckle on his belt. He says, “No! First misconception. A worthwhile collection archives all the work on its focus possible. The Arcaeneum is a collection of knowledge in every form. Therefore, we have as many books as we can access, on all sorts of topics. Half of them aren’t even good!”
“You sell the bad ones,” Efri says, trying to follow.
“Some of them. If they’re wholly without merit. Mostly I sell duplicates. Or works no-one has ever used. There’s things to be learned from everything – if not now, later. I’ll think on it.”
He looks back at Efri, looking a bit like he might have forgot she was there. “Regardless. Do you need anything, or can I get back to work?”
He’s still all rude and prickly. Efri bristles a bit. “I wasn’t keeping you,” she says, flicking her eyes again over the strange and wandering walls.
Urag sighs again like he’s got any right to be annoyed with her, but then he asks, “Would you like a tour of the Arcaeneum?”
“Do you want to give it?”
“You’ve already distracted me,” he says. Adds less irritably, “And I enjoy a chance to show off the collection. Long as you don’t interrupt me.”
“I’m going to interrupt you,” Efri informs him. She doesn’t like to be told what to do.
She lets him show her the library.
#I need to post more of efri in winterhold... it's sooo much fun#I'm slowly making my way through the story still. figuring out mzulft rn#this piece I wrote a while ago but I like it#urag is going I cannot BELIEVE we don't have any early reader books. this is a grave archival oversight!!#and efri is going ok man.#(he is very earnest about this. he wants the arcaeneum to have Everything in it. the idea that it doesn't is not to be borne)#after this scene ends efri is appropriately impressed by the library contents#and urag makes her a shitty little booklet made of stitched-together scrap paper to help her learn to read#(man cannot interact with children for the life of him but he is very invested in literacy)#oc tag#efri#the elder scrolls#skyrim#tes#tesblr#fay writes#my writing#urag gro shub#college of winterhold#arcaeneum#microfic
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Beauty and the Beast AU
Chapter: 1
Ship: Suki/Yue
Ultimate chapters: 5, posts on Fridays
Word Count: 1.6k (20k when finished)
Summary: [Suki’s panic seems strange, almost unnecessary in the calmness the woman exhibits. The library is cold, its high ceilings and walls of books swallowing the heat, but she is curled up cosy and content. Suki pushes on, unwilling to forget her mission. “I came back to rescue you.”]
The old abandoned castle hides the most beautiful woman Suki has ever met, and a terrible Beast
Happy birthday @ambykinns! Much thanks to @unacaritafeliz for beta reading
#beauty and the beast#yueki#yue#suki#sokka#trans yue#lesbian suki#trans sokka#yue wears a headscarf#yue has chronic fatigue#atla#aleck writes#suki as belle#yue as both beauty and beast#trust me okay#i've mixed it up a bit#it got sooo out of hand writing#cannot believe i wrote 20k#had so much fun writing this#atla fanfic#princess yue#yue atla#suki atla#yueki atla#yueki avatar#fanfic
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POV: you have fucked up big time
#i cannot describe how much the dlc was Worth It for me just to dress the boys up in custom haoris#look how multicoloured they are#ryoma sakamoto#nagakura shinpachi#okita souji#hijikata toushizo#cant believe we have continued the yakuza tradition of introducing a final ideological bad guy for the last chapter#it shocks me every time with how clumsy it is lmaooo#esp since they gave him the face of exactly that same character from yk1!!!!!!#dude who is suddenly the Big Bad who ive heard about like once#this one i dont think i even saw before the last cutscene?? i think he was namedropped in the first chapter maybe?????#and you dont even fight him! he just shows up to yell about how much he is selling out japan to britain lmao#bonkers choice thank you Like A Dragon :)#also its SO weird how removed from the plot haruka was#like both literally by only existing in her own lil map and surrounded by her own minigames#but also how i unlocked all her cutscenes and they were sooo sweet and it was clear how important ryoma and her were to each other#and then shes not mentioned ever in the plot? like even at the end when hes run off with oryo to live a lil covert life???#did u not take haruka with u?? or live together with her????#ryoma haruka and oryo having a peaceful life together would have been so neat? u wrote urself a nuclear family and then abandoned the kid??#did they add all the haruka content rly late and not have time to tie it in at all#bc it seemed rly polished#secondlastlife#yakuza
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I am posting the most insane thing I’ve ever written tonight.
I am both ashamed of myself and not ashamed at all.
#jayvik#it’s jayvik but not? you’ll see#that feeling when you love a character so much you double him#and then you take a trope and you flip it on its head#this fic is fucking wild I cannot believe I wrote it#sleep deprivation and brainrot do crazy things
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I seriously cannot portray accurately how insufferable kaoru is and how that makes him so good. They asked what his hobby was and he really said all that. The melodrama. Let’s destroy him

#thoughts#imas#and of course he’s a MAGICIAN as well#I really cannot stand him but also I love him so much#he reminds me of the bios I wrote for my edgy roleplay OCs as a kid#and like you’ll read his commus after enjoying other 315 commus#and they’re just sooooo fucking mopey and just seeped in the vibes of a hospital soap opera#always something to bemoan. always neesan to remember. everyone else is talking about loving their friends and being an idol in their commu#and then kaoru is just here sitting alone on park benches and complaining to terminally ill children and BROODING#I cannot believe him. he’s my oshi
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