#i feel like this is the first time I've ever felt the limits of clip studio paint so clearly...

[birdmenmanga]

anyways just to show off. I think it looks pretty rad on my particular phone

Merry Tanabemas @riboku!! Here's what's intended to be a phone wallpaper of Saqr (obviously you don't need to use it in that way if you don't want)

It's my first time drawing Saqr and also my first time drawing someone with their nominal bird (shocking??) and I had a lot of fun! I hope you like it!

[hairpinturnn]

i don't have any words for a long sappy new year's eve post (< he said. and then couldn't stop talking) just know you guys fucking rock oh my god. motogpblr is the best place on earth and i am not kidding all of you are so endlessly creative and kind i can't thank you for this community enough waaaauh this feels like homee thank you for welcoming me into your dashes and bearing with my endless yapping and losing of the plot and thank you for blessing the world with your amazing fics and gifs and art and aus and tag essays. please keep sharing your stuff and in that regards i wish everyone no insecurities about their thoughts or what they share next year, no writer's or art blocks, loving what you come up with and lots of juice to do what you want:) otherwise generally health and happiness and love and good times next year, yall deserve so much of them. god also this whole season and marc especially, his butterfly out of the chrysalis season will keep me going for the rest of my life, i'm so proud of him. anyways besides the endless beauty and poetry on here yall are also soo sweet thank you for being so welcoming and informative and helpful? people are constantly sharing what they find on here and answer any questions and are ready to talk back and forth in the tags or asks and etc and it's just so. nice of you all?

anyways x2 aawwwuhgh here's to more beautiful friendship mutualship bonding next year, an absolute KILLER season incoming and collective dash insanity. happy new yearrrrrr, i hope everyone achieves their resolutions and this year will be good for them!!

actually i have more to say. this is not my first time at the rodeo of passionate online communities but this is special. the other times it happened were all on twitter and it was either short conversations clipped by word limits that didn't allow the connection to run that deep or tight knit friend groups but this is a whole place of people daily pouring out their souls over these bike guys, you know? again the endless thought and beauty emerging out of all of this.. the gresini wins this year, following them felt almost like following mcr's swarm tour (a way longer history with the band makes matching that insanity a tall order but i didn't think anything would come close to it at all), with everyone's collective freaking out and again passion, passion, passion endlessly. i really don't know how to explain it all you feel ittt

also i started fucking writing accidentally on here in the tags? which never ever happened to me before, i've always felt useless with my words besides clinical academic essays, and somehow (i'm really giving all the credit to the people on here!!) yall are pulling fiction out of me. even if it's bad even if it's in small snippets, baby steps, you know? which has been a really transformative expirience because there's literally nothing better in the world than going off back and forth with tag essays. OH ALSO FUCK THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR LOVING MY ARTT WHAT THE HELL i'm so glad it resonated and that i can do whatever i want and some people will still connect to it🥲 i've been losing a bit of my spirit in making art for lesser known fandoms but everyone's comments breathed life into me like nothingg else. i still go back to read things left on some of my stuff, which sounds extremely vain but it's just that wow this is what you think? i made something that brought out those emotions in you and you're taking time to let me know about it and connect with me back? what the fuck🥲

anyways i know i have been on motogpblr for like 2 seconds but let me be a sap, this is still a life changing expirience, i love all of you so baddd billion heart emoji and happy new year again🫶

[ashenlavellan]

A Kudos Post to my favorite ME LIs

this will be a condensed post of my appreciation for ALL of my favorite Mass Effect (including Andromeda) Romances - please keep in mind that this is my opinion/favorites and I may not have one of your romances listed. Please be respectful of that ^.^

Kaidan Alenko - The Sentinel Biotic

I've said it before and I'll say it again - he's by-far one of the most sympathetic, but he's also willing to stand his ground against stuff that contradicts his morals. I thoroughly appreciate that he's supportive, but he's not always a yes-man - whether or not he's romanced.

Also, I've mentioned it before, but chronic migraines are no fucking joke - the cause of them being his implants/biotics too? This man deserves an award.

Liara T'Soni - The Asari Scientist / Shadow Broker

By far, one of my all-time favorite Bioware romances. Her personality and her thoughtfulness always melts my heart and even if she's not romanced, I genuinely believe that she's also a platonic soulmate. Some people may not like her for the hero/savior-complex she has in ME1, but she mellows out in the later games and it feels like she's on equal-footing later on.

Her VA is also one of my all-time favorite actresses - Ali Hillis, who also plays as Lightning (Claire) Farron from FFXIII and recently, Lace Harding from DA: Inquisition / Veilguard.

Garrus Vakarian - The Archangel of Omega

My first ever romance and what initially led me to playing the trilogy. The initial awkwardness of an interspecies liaison, which led to a flirty yet playful interaction - then we find ourselves head-over-heels for this scarred turian.

If not romanced, I genuinely believe that Garrus could also be a platonic soulmate - whether it's FemShep/BroShep. The relationship and understanding feels so... real.

Thane Krios - The Drell Assassin

This romance broke my heart and soul; his troubled life with the loss of his deceased ex-wife and the discord between himself and his son felt like so much for him to bear. Especially for an entire decade. Now, when I initially romanced him, I was merely intrigued by his personality and how he dealt with everything - knowing he had limited time.

Progressing through the story led me to the realization that he was merely getting by, but the second he finds love once more? He's devastated at the prospect that he's found his other half, but with so little time and knowing that she'll be left alone...

I was devastated and pathetically sobbed when he died; especially when watching the clips that were left behind during the Citadel DLC.

Reyes Vidal - The Charlatan of Kadara

By far, one of the most intriguing romances of ME: Andromeda and it felt like there’s a lot of chemistry between him and [preferred] Ryder - regardless if he’s romanced or not. He’s got a flair for the dramatics yet he’s terrified of losing what has become cherished to him, at the cost of his lies.

His personality and voice certainly drew me in during my first play-through - I genuinely thought there would be a game where I found none of the romances appealing, but then this shady bastard appeared and winked.

[yoshizora]

another small batch of game reviews. this time i played through Princess Peach Showtime, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, and Pikmin 4!

Princess Peach Showtime: 5/10

unfortunately i am not the target audience for this game! i am no longer a child! the concept is cute as hell but DAMN is this game numbingly simple. the simplicity isn't necessarily a bad thing; i can see this being a great entry to video games for younger children because there's nothing terribly complex going on, but it does mean that it's not fun for OLD PEOPLE like me.

phantom thief peach was probably my fave. the detective levels were the worst. i thought patisserie peach was also neat. sword, kung fu, and superhero all felt somewhat redundant to one another. there were a lot of neat concepts in there and the levels were short enough that it never got outright boring, but it also means that imho this game isn't worth 60USD and only has that price tag because of the nintendo/mario brand name (i didn't buy it, it was just a library loan). i could see this being a Barbie game, honestly. it's not a bad thing ftr!

somehow, Yoshi's Crafted World is more challenging and complex than this game.

Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze: 6/10

i'm sorry if i'm committing some kind of blasphemy by admitting i didn't fully enjoy dkctf but......... yeah.... full disclaimer, the only other DK came i've ever played was the one with the bongos on gamecube lol.

the level designs and music were both impeccable and i love the vibrant atmosphere, but the controls?? look, maybe DK games are just slippery by tradition but i wouldn't know that, i only know how to play bongos, man. i had heard that this is a hard game but the difficulty feels contrived from slippery, unreliable controls rather than the actual platforming.

to compare; celeste has tight controls but a high difficulty because of how precise your movements need to be, and hk's path of pain is difficult for the same reasons, while tropical freeze feels difficult because sometimes donkey kong will slip on an invisible banana and clip an enemy by his toe and get hurt and fuckin die even if you meant for him to jump away out of a roll, which he does not, because he gives no fucks.

there are clear distinctions between challenges that are difficult in a fun way and challenges that are difficult in a frustrating way, and unfortunately dktf ended up being the latter for me. skill issue!

Pikmin 4: 9/10

oatchi.

since i only have pikmin 3 under my belt for comparison... 4 is definitely easier and more forgiving imo, even when it comes to the big bosses. it's not a bad thing! sometimes i don't want pikmin to die!! i love the abundance of treasures and olimar's side story and the dandori challenges, buuuut i wish enemies would respawn in the overworlds and not just the caves. it does make returning to grab remaining treasures a lot easier, but it also means there's 0 reason to revisit an area once you 100% it, which is kind of a bummer.

i also did NOT like how much tutorial and beginning exposition there was, so i knock a point off for that. everyone pls stop talking i just want to go out and throw pikmin at things.

at first i didn't really like how you're limited to 3 pikmin types, but i kind of got used to it after a while. i also wish there were more dandori battle options like with customizable pikmin teams, but i thought the gathering challenges to have more replay value anyway. the endgame dandori challenges are hellish but excellent!!! that's what i'm talking about when i talk about challenges that are difficult but fun!!! i want more dandori!!!!!!

[inthedayswhenlandswerefew]

which of your fics could you see making the best full length movie or novel? aside from the hotd references and context they are all such beautiful standalone stories in their own right.

I always visualise a really haunting trailer for 1968. Starting with a snippet of Aegon and Io’s beach conversation…. “If he loses on Tuesday, I can leave him.” or “I feel like you could kill me if you wanted to” or “Do you wish you could go back to when you hated me?”

then music kicks in. National Anthem or Sometime Around Midnight. And it’s constant camera flashes and brief moments from the story. Aemond screaming with a bloody eye, Aegon with his guitar, Io being chased through the maze, Greek statues, Io and Aemond waving to a crowd, Mimi’s coffin, Io dancing, Cosmo chasing one of the dogs, Aemond on TV, Aegon spinning on his boat, someone screaming for an ambulance in the rain, Io being wheeled on a hospital gurney, Someone driving through the desert in an open top car, Io sinking in the bathtub, Aegon on stage. Constant cuts to news reports and TV screenings.

The final clip is just a rat scurrying around with a voice in the background saying; “I don’t think she knows about Alys.”

(Or it’s Aegon whistling the opening notes of Here’s To The State and turning around to get punched in the face.)

anyway that vision has been haunting me so I had to share it. Love you!!

Ohhhh this is so cinematic, I can picture everything!!! I ADORE it!!! 😍😍

If 1968 was a movie, I imagine an opening montage ft. Olivia Rodrigo's All-American Bitch, alternating between scenes of Io on the campaign trail (shaking hands, Jackie Kennedy chic, praying demurely in Greek Orthodox churches) and flashbacks of her in college (smoking weed, going to parties, skipping class, having a boyfriend, student teaching), setting up the difference between her past/true and present/manufactured self. Then a fade to black and the sound of gunshots, then we go to the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach.

I've always felt that North To The Future translates most easily into an original novel (and maybe a limited Netflix or HBO series a la Sharp Objects?? 🤩). I do actually really want to novelize and self-publish NTTF, but between a full-time job and keeping up with my latest fic series, I haven't gotten around to it yet. But someday!!!

It is interesting that you mention 1968, because recently I've been thinking about that story's potential as an original novel as well. I feel some pressure to choose the right fic if I decide to novelize one of them, as since they're all HOTD fics originally, a lot of the characterizations and dynamics repeat, and I don't think I could publish multiple without seriously overhauling them to the point where they would lose whatever made them so beloved to begin with.

I'll let y'all know in advance if I am ever about to self-publish a story that started as a fic, as I'd have to remove the series from Tumblr and AO3 first, and I'd want to give readers notice so they could download a personal copy for themselves if they want it 🥰💜

[waugh-bao]

Seeing stuff about the new album makes my stomach flutter in a bad way. I don't really know why. It could be that I don't want them to have a new album without Charlie or without Charlie on all the tracks. I thought that list that said (with Watt) were the tracks that Charlie played on and they just forgot the s on his name and I was like 'that's it?'. And then I'm afraid some of the songs are going to be about Charlie and it'll be really sad. Or maybe its just the idea that they will be promoting a new album without Charlie there to stand silently in the background. Its almost like I want to avoid any news about it because it makes me sad rather than happy to hear Charlie on new songs.

Then you post that Mick clip and that is the closest I've heard Mick get to losing it (with the exception of maybe the St. Louis show) and now I'm all bummed. And I keep telling myself its ridiculous. One, I don't even know Charlie and two, he was 80! He had a good life, a happy life and if he was still with us the loss of Shirley would have devastated him (as I'm sure his passing did not help with her health at all). I don't know. Maybe I'm just PMS-ing. lol Maybe I just need to go look at my favorite Charlie pics again.

To be honest, I’ve felt the same way through most of this. I think a lot about how many years Keith spent insisting that Charlie was the Stones and that they could never go on without him, and, while I fully understand why they’ve ended up making the choices they have (evidently with Charlie’s blessing) it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Especially when it provokes all the commentary (which I stand by calling musically ignorant) about how Charlie was old and tired and broken down and they sound so much better and more energetic with Steve. (I’ll refrain from going chapter and verse again about fundamental differences between styles of drumming and why his cymbal work and his chemistry with Mick in particular doesn’t even touch Charlie’s). Keith sort of unintentionally predicted the future in 2013:

As far as the new album, yeah. I don’t really feel I’m looking forward to it so much as holding my breath in anticipation and anxiety to see how much Charlie will be on it and how much will be about him. It’s hard to accept that this is the last we’ll ever hear of him, at least until they sell their catalogue/someone decides it’s time to start putting out collections of unreleased songs and first attempts. It’s also kind of disappointing that they’ve been working on this album since 2012/3, but, because of various issues, including personal ones, it wasn’t until Charlie died that they found the urgency to finish it. And because of that he’s missing from half, or possibly more. At the end of the day that’s not really anyone’s fault, just a sad fact of being human and flawed with limited time.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being sad, either. 80 is a very good number, and Charlie lived a wonderful, fulfilling life full of love and kindness, but he also had something left to give and his death cut that short. But, although I suspect Shirley’s passing had a lot to do with losing him, by the same token I doubt he would have survived more than a handful of months if she had gone first. He just wasn’t made to live without her. So maybe that was for the best, at least for him?

Either way, happy Charlie pictures are always good therapy.

[itsbansheebitch]

I appreciate the research you did for this. You went over it so respectfully as well :). My sister has OCD and I have OCD tendencies (some of the symptoms of OCD, but not enough for a diagnosis/not enough of a problem in daily life to qualify as a diagnosis.)

I'd like to add some more examples if that would be alright?

Danny:

Danny could certainly experience some OCD symptoms if he felt unsafe in his own home. Some examples of how this could effect him include (but are not limited to):

Cleaning OCD symptoms. There are many types of OCD & many ways that OCD can manifest in daily life. Cleaning OCD is probably the most well known type, including compulsions (the C is OCD) such as vigorous and/or repetitive hand washing (which can be extremely dangerous if you have diabetes), cleaning his room/the house past the point of exhaustion. When you are dealing with a cleaning compulsion, EVERYTHING looks like it needs to be cleaned. He would find a way to dust every corner, wash every dish by hand, and vacuum every carpet until he felt safer. It's not really about cleaning (unless he has worries about chemical spills) and more about feeling safe in your home/environment.

Checking locks. He could get compulsions to check locks, especially if he had time to process how dangerous the GIW could be.

Checking expiration dates on food, feeling anxious about food/eating. This could definitely be a problem stemming from food coming alive. This would probably take more of an Anxiety form instead of OCD, but it's not impossible by any means.

Having trouble during video games. This might sound weird, but personally I've had trouble not having an organized inventory in games. For example, when I play Minecraft, I NEED to have my first inventory bar in order of Sword, Pickaxe, Ax, Shovel, Hoe, Food, and Torches. If I don't have things placed in a certain way when I'm playing games, we have an issue. I have genuinely had to talk myself down from panic attacks before when my inventory is a mess. Again, it's about your perception of a situation, not the ACTUAL situation. For another example of OCD manifesting in gaming, I NEED my chests organized, no matter what game I'm playing. When I saw in sdv you could color code your chests, I lost my mind lmao. I've heard some MC youtubers have issues with making their torches symmetrical. I think there are some clips of that on YT if you'd like to see it in action.

Checking grades online CONSTANTLY. When I was in high school and covid hit, we checked our grades online. I was having a rough time (like Danny might form the ya know, ghost fighting, and getting chased thing) so I was CONSTANTLY checking my grades, Even when I had checked them less than an hour ago and I KNEW it wasn't great, I checked again anyway.

Being clean (body). If he has trouble processing the cloning situation, he might experience some issues with Cleaning OCD. This can take forms of washing hands or even taking several showers per day. This would be more based on feeling, not how clean his body ACTUALLY is. This can have MANY negative effects including, but not limited to, rashes, dry hands (skin falling off if you have diabetes), a scalp stripped of it's natural oils, and sometimes dandruff.

Jazz:

As an older sister, she probably took on a lot of "parental roles" and had to be depended on by Danny, especially if time got away from their parents while they were in the lab. Some examples of how this could effect her in terms of OCD could include:

Meal planning & Making A LOT of lists (Even if they were in a secure situation later and Danny is old enough to take care of himself, she still might fall back on old habits since they bring comfort and certainty.)

Checking locks (If she had any sort of paranoia about the GIW or their parents if this is reveal gone wrong situation, she might get into loops of checking locks, even if she already did so five minutes ago.) This could be triggered if Danny ever got hurt or someone gave him a weird look at the store.

Checking stove tops. If she was ever anxious about the experiments in the lab or Danny's safety when it comes to the lab (like if she was worried they were going to burn the house down one of these days) she might check stove tops. Although it is obviously a different scale, it's, again, more about feeling safe rather than the actual situation. If this was a problem she might also

Extra:

It can be frustrating when people have certain reactions to your OCD (or OCD tendencies). Classic reactions include:

"It's not that big of a deal." / "Why are you throwing a fit over this?"

This reaction if something OCD and Anxiety have in common. Often times, if someone hasn't seen/been exposed to/knows about OCD (or anxiety), they might be tempted to understand why [insert situation and reaction here] is such a big deal. I wrote the question in a more harsh way, but there ARE kind ways that you can ask this, such as:

"What part of [situation] is bothering you? Is there any way I can help?"

This opens up the conversation to ACTUALLY understanding what set someone off. I usually don't have severe reactions unless I'm having a bad day, but my sister ALWAYS makes lists. If it's clear that someone wants to understand and help you, it doesn't really matter what their word choice is. Just knowing that they INTEND to at least understand, is incredible.

A lot of parents have OCD and their kids learn from them. Not like it's contagious, but more of a "mom checks the locks, so I should too." Recent studies have shown that if you treat an anxious parent's anxiety, the kids anxiety (symptoms) will ALSO decrease as if they were the one taking medication/getting therapy.

This could mean that if Jack and Maddie were struggling with anxiety (maybe from ghost attacks or Danny's grades?) they could be accidentally effecting Jazz and Danny. If there was a reveal gone wrong situation and they were adopted by another family (The Waynes, The Kents, The Allens, etc) then they might see those symptoms decrease, however, they might still experience a similar level of anxiety if they were anxious about their new home or they had new parents/siblings who struggled with anxiety. This of course, wouldn't be their fault, but it is best to treat this sort of thing as soon as possible.

One of the main differences between OCD and OCD tendencies, is that when you have OCD, you struggle more with saying "no" when you get a compulsion. Since I just have the tendencies, I have more minor symptoms and can get out of compulsions easier (although if I'm having a bad day, I have a harder time doing so). This is probably the main line in the sand between diagnosed OCD and just having tendencies.

You can write either as long as you pick one a stick with it. Keep in mind that everyone's OCD is different and there are many types and reactions you can find online. Not to mention, people can go through different types of therapy to get a better hold on their symtoms and get better at handling Obsessions and Compulsions.

I'd also like to note that there are 2 main types of reactions to a trigger. A trigger for Jazz or Danny could include:

Seeing the GIW on the news

A nightmare

Getting food/drink spilled on them (by themselves or others)

Feeling insecure in their place in the house (might want to "earn their keep" at a new house)

There are many kinds of triggers so don't feel limited by this list. Sometimes they don't really look like they have anything to do with past trauma.

The main 2 types of reactions to a trigger include

Obsessive reaction

Compulsive reaction

Obsessive Reactions include:

"I HAVE to meal plan" [because I still feel like a parent figure to Danny]

Intrusive thoughts

Repetitive behaviors/urges

Compulsive Reactions include:

"I HAVE to organize my inventory in game" [because the house/my life is a mess and I have to have SOMETHING under control/organized]

Behaviors done in response to an obsession. They are done to soothe anxiety/distress. They might also be done if you're scared of something bad happening.

Although these are the main 2 reactions, there are many individual reactions (like checking stove tops, turning light switches on and off, checking locks) that fit into these two reactions. Keep in mind that some reactions can count as BOTH since Compulsions are a reaction from Obsessions.

Another point I'd like to hit is Moral OCD, also known as Religious OCD. Often times, people with OCD can have reactions that have themes centering around sin, religion, morals, and their ability to adhere to them. I think the "technical term" for it is Scrupulosity OCD.

Scrupulosity OCD can be incredibly debilitating. They may have fears around living to their god's rules, being genuinely terrified of sinning, or hurting others. Some people with Scrupulosity OCD have reoccurring ideas, which center around them thinking they are a bad person, or if they aren't supervised, they'll hurt someone. Keep in mind that the compulsion here isn't to hurt people, but instead a reoccurring fear that they MIGHT hurt someone. People who struggle with Scrupulosity OCD might have compulsions where they do everything in their power to NOT harm people. Some people with Scrupulosity OCD have fears centered around hurting children, so they will refuse to go to family/holiday dinners, refuse to have children, refuse to drive/walk a route that requires them to pass by a school, etc.

People with Scrupulosity OCD are NOT dangerous (and if they are, it's NOT because of OCD). If anything, they will fight tooth and nail so that they are NOT a danger to others (especially children, if that's where their fears go). Having Scrupulosity OCD is especially terrifying since if you don't know it's a thing, you just have extreme fears that you could hurt someone or that you're dangerous. Some people have extreme fears that they could be a pedo even if they have never had those kinds of thoughts in their LIFE. They just have a irrational fear of being one.

Someone might experience this kind of fear if they have had a traumatic experience with it. If they were attacked as a child, they might be afraid that they will continue that cycle. If someone was abused, they might have a fear of becoming a child abuser.

The main problem with Scrupulosity OCD is that people that have it might fear that if they talk to a therapist/mental health professional/friend/family they'll be arrested/locked up/etc because these fears are SO insidious that talking about them can feel like confessing a crime, even if you LITERALLY haven't done ANYTHING????

With Scrupulosity OCD, the main fear is confirming that you ARE a bad person or that you HAVE hurt people. For some people, going to talk to a professional about it acts as that confirmation, especially if you get a dumbass therapist who visibly freaks out. This also makes it the (as far as I know) most stigmatized type of OCD.

One example relating to your prompt could be Bruce Wayne. He might have fears related to another kid dying (especially after Jason), himself dying and leaving the kids (from his own parents' death), etc. You can see from the example that Bruce having OCD wouldn't make him dangerous (being Batman would) and that his fears come from trauma, even if in different circumstances they might be considered irrational fears.

A different example could be Jack and/or Maddie. I've seen some AUs where Jack takes the reveal better than Maddie. Because of this, Jack might have fears related to hurting Danny. This could cause him to isolate himself. If they both took it well, they might both have fears around hurting Danny (and maybe Jazz as well) and isolate themselves or even think about giving them to someone else/sending them to a relative's house/getting them to move out early so they won't get hurt. Even if they are determined to support their kids, OCD could cause them to isolate themselves anyway.

Another thing to consider is that if Jazz, Danny, or any of the bats had mental health issues (like OCD) they would be able to afford treatment. If being an ectobiologist doesn't pay well, Jazz and Danny might have been low-income and had to deal with mental health issues on their own (especially if their parents were absent). If they were to all of a sudden have access to regular treatment, they would:

Be able to manage their symptoms better

Have an overall high quality of life

Gain coping mechanisms to work through anxiety

Help with stress management

Not nearly as much bottling up emotions. (although they would probably still struggle with finding the right words and being emotionally vulnerable. Especially Danny, who has had this massive secret AND would be socially conditioned to not be emotional/vulnerable since he's a boy.)

Keep in mind that I'm not an expert by any means and most of this is based of person experience, observation, and the most basic resarch possible. Hope this all helps! Great prompt btw!

(And no, it wasn't stereotypical or offensive. Although Cleaning OCD is the most well known type and you portrayed the symptoms and how they manifest in daily life REALLY well. It was pretty impressive ngl. Better than most representation online, tbh. There's not really any decent mainstream rep of OCD, so it's really nice to see that people like you that want to rep it in fics are really looking into this stuff. I really appreciate it.)

Ok so I've read that OCD, can be a by product of trauma.

So what if Danny doesn't relize he is deeply traumatized by the events that happened in his early childhood. By that I mean with all the weapons and chemicals spills around his house and of course his untimely death.

He noticed that his home has no order whatsoever and that's what made it dangerous to live in. He only found comfort in his own room because it was the only space the could truly control, and make sure it was safe.

He started associating organization and cleanliness with safety and security. He has underling fear of coming into contact with contaminants, and that it will bring his whole world to collapse if he does indeed come into contact with one.

So lets say that a revel gone wrong, and Dannys put into foster care and then handed into the Wayne family.

At this point the Bats know that Danny used to be phantom, because lets be real they would immediately figure it out. Yet Danny has no clue they are the bats. He just believes they are a really big family with too much money to know what to do with it.

So Danny someone who has no clue he has OCD but presents most if not all the characteristics.

For instance:

Danny subbing the same spot on the rug for hours trying to get rid of it. Because in his mind if that spot stays bad things will happen.

On another instance he is seen organizing and reorganizing his shelf on a very specified order and continuously going back until he is satisfied.

When he goes to eat he always asks if the food was washed and cleaned properly multiple times.

He always counts if all his cleaning supplies he keeps are there in the morning.

He has a very strict schedule in which he doesn't break and refuses to break, especially his cleaning schedule.

Now the Bats are completely aware of this, and instead of making feel bad about it they help him and reassure him every time.

Examples:

Danny found that in the living room the rug was too dirty, because of the constant influx of people bringing in dirt with them. Of course Alfred always cleans it, but Danny needs to make sure himself. So one of the siblings would help him clean the rug his way, as Danny does it in a very specific way.

Another example is when Danny started cleaning during a movie night because of all the popcorn that was dropped on the floor. The rest just stopped the movie and helped him clean the area, and then resumed the movie careful not to spill more popcorn.

At one point the family was concerned because Danny was moving into a more dangerous zone of the compulsions, such as scrubbing his hands raw because he accidentally touch something 'dirty' without his special gloves.

So they made Bruce ask him if he wanted to go to a therapist and possibly a psychiatrist for his OCD. And Danny just said he didn't have OCD he just wanted things to be clean and organized like everyone else.

in the end he was convinced to go to a therapist so he could learn to manage living with OCD, but he was endlessly happy that he had people to fall back to that didn't judge him, and instead helped him out.

note:

(I just want to say that I don't have OCD myself but a lot of my family members do have it, and ive seen how it affects their daily lives. And I wanted to bring to light that people can't control their obsessions/compulsions but they can learn to manage it so they can live calmer with less anxiety. So I hope I made it as realistic as possible and didn't sound stereotypical or offensive)

[one-time-i-dreamt]

not a dream

I feel really angry. Long rant ahead, mentions of death, child death specifically, unsafe driving, entitledness, a horrible legal system, and much more. This will be a highly frustrating read to you. Skip ahead if you don't want to be bummed out.

A clip of a guy committing a traffic violation (overtaking cars in a traffic jam using a lane that's only meant for stopping in case of emergencies) on a bridge here in Croatia went viral here recently. Somebody recorded him and uploaded it to a popular car group.

After it went viral, it was uncovered that he was fined for doing the same thing at the same place two weeks before this, so he's clearly a repeat offender and hasn't learned anything even after being hit with a fine.

I wish that was the worst thing about this story, but it's not.

After people dug out more information about the driver, they discovered that in 2019, he killed a 15 year old girl while speeding on a motorcycle that he legally wasn't allowed to own nor drive.

He was only 16 at the time and could legally only drive motorcycles that fell into A1 category (power up to 15KS), and the motorcycle he was driving was a sports motorcycle KTM Duke 390 (43.5 KS). He only just got his license for the starter motorcycle to begin with.

He was speeding 117km/h in an area where the speed limit was 50km/h and hit the young girl while she was crossing the road on a pedestrian (zebra) crossing. She was walking home with two girlfriends after attending the first concert that she was allowed to go to only with friends in her whole life.

How great must that night have felt for them before tragedy struck.

His victim flew horrifying 50 meters and died on impact, while the 18 year old female passenger on his motorcycle was hospitalized with serious injuries and was fighting for her life and was in a serious condition but managed to pull through.

He was 16 and a half at the time of the accident he caused and a news site managed to find an ad he left months before that, when he was barely 16, trying to sell his motorcycle because it "didn't suit him" but it was "brand new, a month old".

This was all in 2019. In 2021, he was finally tried in court and received a sentence of 3 years and 10 months in a juvenile prison, but his sentence was reduced after his lawyers put in an appeal.

He made an impact statement and said that he too was affected by the accident and that it changed his life both physically and psychologically and that he's suffering due to it because he has become an outcast in his town as a consequence.

His lawyer allegedly fought the verdict on grounds of psychological instability and disability, and won. I don't know if the culprit ever served any time. He's 19 now and got a BMW for his birthday from his parents. The same parents that bought him a motorcycle he was too young to handle.

Their little monster is an adult now.

He hasn't learned anything. He's reckless and doesn't care about others. He hasn't showed that he is sorry. He wasn't punished nor held responsible. He's only been thinking about himself in all of this.

How it impacted HIM. What it did to HIM. HIS health, HIS social life. He's driving his birthday present BMW around and still repeatedly breaking the law, and he's alive and he's free.

And 15 year old Magdalena Šimić is still dead because of him.

I've learned of this story because of a post that Magdalena's mother, Sandra wrote, that somebody I know shared. I was horrified, sad and angry for the family, but I can't even begin to imagine how they feel in all of this.

Powerless? Broken? Enraged? They're still waiting for some kind of justice for their daughter. A justice that won't come until things change. How is it that this guy is allowed to have a driver's license? That he's completely avoided jail time?

A crime like this should not go unpunished and the parents of the culprit who bought him the murder weapon and allowed him to use it should be punished as well.

-Matea

[espresshadow]

Got some thoughts about the new Pokémon games under the cut because this got kinda obnoxiously long. Some spoilers but I'm only about 20% in, no new pokémon mentioned.

You can feel the desperation in Scarlet and Violet.

These games make me so, so mad because they're so ambitious and fun to play. They really did nail making it fun. The core gameplay loop has clearly had a lot of thought and work put into it. There's passion and love obvious in this game. And yet it REALLY, REALLY needed another fucking year in the oven.

This is one of the most unpolished games I've ever played. The performance issues, even on a physical copy of the game playing in docked mode, can make the game borderline unplayable. I have yet to encounter a single gameplay bug, but the visual bugs are neverending and unavoidable. Pokémon clip into the ground regularly. I've found sections of terrain textured wrong in really obvious ways. Any time you're in a non-fixed camera battle, the camera WILL clip into the ground. It's genuinely awful. This is unacceptable for a $60 flagship franchise game.

Those things are, like... bad. For sure. But I also keep running into gameplay and story beats and areas that feel like placeholders, and that's the most egregious thing to me.

Most of the shops that fill the world are just a generic blue background and flavor text. The bug gym test (literally the first one) consists of a ball rolling game wholly unconnected from anything and then you fight the gym leader, who is cute and runs a patisserie, but after her fight you can't visit her shop still and it feels weirdly disjointed from everything else. It feels like connective tissue was planned but there was no time. The TM crafting system also feels frankly unfinished, like there was meant to be more depth to it. There are just... lots of things in the game that feel like placeholders because the people working on them had more ambitious ideas but they weren't sure if there would be time to implement them. I'm about 25% in to the game and this feeling keeps getting stronger.

And it makes me SO MAD. Sword and Shield were, like... fine. They ran okay, they had some pop-in issues but overall the experience felt pretty polished. It was just completely unambitious in a lot of ways. Coming off the heels of the fantastic gen 7 and as the first console Pokémon game, the best thing you could say about them was... decently fun. Inoffensive. More of the same.

The best thing you can say about Scarlet and Violet is that it's REALLY FUCKING FUN. I regularly find myself yelling in delight as shit keeps spontaneously happening. There's so many good choices here. There are a couple baffling decisions (what's with the fuckin uniforms, guys? why would you do this?) but mostly the bad stuff is all things you can absolutely tell were done that way because there was no time to do anything better. You can feel that sense permeating the entire game. The disappointment, the concession, the desperation.

We're getting to the limit of what original Switch hardware can handle. Normally these are the conditions under which the Gamefreak devs flourish. The second generation or set of games on any given console are always leaps and bounds better than the first. Think of Gen 5 vs Gen 4, or Gen 7 vs Gen 6. I'm a Sinnoh apologist but Unova and Alola are some of the best and most polished experiences Pokémon has to offer PERIOD. GF is wringing everything they fucking can out of these consoles because they've learned from the last games how to do that.

GF had Sword and Shield, Let's Go, AND Legends Arceus as experience working with the Switch going into Gen 9. This should have been the best looking fucking game on the goddamn Switch. WE KNOW these developers are capable of this.

The game is bad because GF was crunched.

That's the end of it. The management of GF and Pokémon Company all deserve to be fired, blacklisted, and their severance packages distributed among the employees who nearly killed themselves to get this game out. This is their fault.

This is a post about the games so obviously I'm focusing on the impact this has had on them but I also want to be clear that if the choice was between a new pokémon game never releasing again and GF employees getting crunched, I'd pick the first in a heartbeat. No product or work of art could ever be worth this human suffering inflicted to make it. We can make games without crunch, though! They could have just... given it another year! Two years! That would have been far preferable to this.

I don't have a good closer for this. I think people are quickly becoming aware that the crunch is to blame and calls for GF to unionize are getting louder as the labor movement overall gains steam in the US, but I don’t believe for a heartbeat that it'll happen. I want it to— all labor deserves dignity and representation. It's a snowball's chance in hell at the moment, though.

I think the best outcome here is that the same loud + angry dexit gamers catch on that crunch and bad working conditions caused this and start throwing their weight at improving those working conditions. If major game journalist sites start mentioning crunch in every article about the game, if major community figures start talking about it, maybe something good could come out of it.

Probably not, though, and we'll see the cycle repeat two years from now.

[seelestia]

guess who's back with limited days of internet for this week :''D

I'm back my dear authorrrr ! (temporarily for different intervals of each week lmao)

I'm back home and ngl I haven't felt as homesick as I thought I would've been, the only things i really missed was the aircon and some good internet fr :D

BUT- I've also missed tumblr! (also to any readers of my impostor au who also know me as Lia's anon- no, chapter 3 is not done yet but I have been writing it so pls be patient :''D)

So how's tumblr been without my presence? I assume it was pretty sad and barren ;D /j

I have been able to access a little bit of tiktok and YouTube and I've been watching may videos about Tighnari actually, and I really love his character! Especially his VA, mans matches his character so much (I love that clip with them and aether's VA mimicking each others voicelines)

SO! my question for you my dear author iiiiisssss- !

How are you? :D

oh- and also, how do you feel about Tighnari as a character both as a writer and as a player? :3 - Ever so sincerely yours, 👹✨ anon <3 (i've missed u Lia !)

JAEEEE, YOU'RE BACK !! or somewhat back, if not for the limited internet <//3 but still, i'm vv happy, either way! ;D

i'm glad you got thru the whole thing, altho it seems it didn't turn out as bad as you initially thought~ kinda natural to miss being in a room full of chilly air and ofc, to be in a place with good signal and internet! 🤧

the last one is so relatable since i just got back from my mini vacay and we were up in the mountains so i had to move my phone around to catch the smallest tiniest bar of signal <//3 but it was chilly up there too and i got to eat lots of strawberries so i was satisfied, hehe~

life on tumblr is as lively as ever, but it hasn't been the same without your presence and questions in my inbox :( i see you've been entertaining yourself with content about our local sassy fox botanist lately! personally, i try to steer away from the VA's (aside from appreciating their works) since that part of the fandom can be a bit overwhelming and controversial for me — but i've seen the clips from zach's stream on tiktok and yeah, i agree, elliot's sense of humor does match tighnari's !! the sassiness and i remember coming across this tiktok before tighnari was released, help??? 😭 (/lh)

for the first question... *drumrolls* i am doing good, hehe! as i mentioned, i got back from a mini vacay with my family which was smth i needed after the exams, so i'd say my days have been great 🫂 wbu??? other than the limited internet and lack of air conditioners, how was the new place? i hope it wasn't too bad and i'm glad you're back home now <3

aha, what a coincidence~ i finally got to write tighnari thru my newest post and it was an enjoyable experience! his sense of humor resonates with mine and he's like a stern but secretly affectionate tsundere, so i get a good chuckle when i write him. i also like his passion in botany and how he goes about his work too (with the nags and whatnot)! 10/10 would start a heated debate with him and get smacked on the forehead 🤌 (/j)

meanwhile as a player, i think his playstyle is pretty cool! his e skill confuses enemies and lessens his arrow's charging time which, as someone who has ganyu, is nice~ i didn't pull for him in this patch since he'll be a standard character in v3.1 anyway, so i opted for the former geo archon instead!

i know i said this many times already, but i'm vv, super glad to hear from you again! i hope your day is good, jae because you definitely made mine just by being here <3

[tussive]

So I haven't really kept up with this as much as my initial post may have suggested, I mean, I still have used several of these sites multiple times, but I've not had any good conversations really on any of them beyond that first one. Anyway! My point is that things may have changed, I'm not going to research it more. I just have access to two new sites, so this list now felt incomplete.

phori: So, as I said, the site is now open. They did do a waiting list and invites and stuff I believe, so it's possible that if you don't have an account you may not be able to get one at the moment. Actually I should just go test that myself. I feel like the registration and sign in process is not as streamlined as they should be for such a product. It just feels out of place to have to work with blocky, shit registrations in something that is marketing itself as being cool and chic, y'know? I also thought they had a typo on their sign in page, which I was totally going to use as justification for not like their site really but now I can't fucking do that so I guess lemme try talking to a few more people. Now I have to figure out which of the dozen accounts that I still actually have (2/3 are gmail accounts) and then see if it asks for my password or asks you to set one up. It's super annoying though because there's no log in button that early on, so the only way to not just have to play through the beginning of the site is to clear the cookies and restart the browser and that's waytoo much of a pain in the ass thing to ask to me to do. C"mon. Be reasonable. Y'know it's fucking stupid but I do kind of like the aesthetic of things. It's unpolished, it needs work, but I'm not mad about it.

Okay I'm sorry I'm violently high. The AI chat bot thing is dumb, but that's probably just because I'm an old. That's actually another thing, we gotta get some fucking people over 15 on these sites. Omegle was a perfectly fine website, it had its flaws but i loved Omegle. They've added some type of currency system and gave everyone 200 Cred, but I don't think there's really much you can actually spend Cred on at the moment. I guess those types of things can happen with early access, but again I'd feel dishonest if I didn't mention it.a

randoo: This is a more basic Omegle clone, but they did shift things up in some attempt at least. tbh I think this place may be lit if it weren't made so cheaply and it really dedicated itself to what it was doing. Even without shared interests, I'm not matching with anyone. There is a counter, but it says <`1K and I feel like that can't be accurate. It does have a limit of 5 interests, which is annoying but honestly like you don't need more than 5 tags. You just don't really lol. But apparently this site supports voice clips and sending images? Maybe even other file types? Oh and they claim to have options of filtering strangers by sex, age and time zone. The fact that this site does not seem to ever provide you with a match, regardless of shared interests or not, makings me thnk that this site just is not working whatsoever right now.

Okay thanks!!!! 💋💋💋🤗

I'm just going to go ahead and rate all of the text chat Omegle-like services that I can find.

ChitChat.gg: So far, the best. It still leaves a lot to be desired in the number of people you're connecting to, but I've been seeing it mentioned a lot as one of the main alternatives now and I suspect the userbase will grow at least some. This one has profiles/usernames/avatars/etc, which I don't love but I do understand why they would need to implement that. But one nice thing about this, you have access to your chatlogs from previous chats saved. There's a gender filter option but you have to pay for their premium service which is $4.99 or $8.99. There are some other perks to signing up for it, the ability to send pictures or videos, unlimited chat history and increased interest slots (I don't see the limit on interests listed anywhere and I have quite a few [at least 12?] so it can't be that low. To be honest once this site wins the race and becomes the main text Omegle alternative site, I'd consider paying for the premium just for the unlimited chat history tbh.

Emerald Chat: This is the primary alternative that I'm seeing mentioned. It also has a lot of the same functionality as ChatChat.gg, the infinite timer option for connecting with someone with a shared interest over a stranger, the profile/username/avatar, but while this does maintain a chat history, it doesn't appear you're able to actually read your previous chats. They also have a gender filter option available via a premium service, however theirs is $5.89. It also comes with the ability to send pictures, but not videos and also a mention of "more freedom," whatever that means. Oh yes, they also do have a video chat option as well as a group text chat option, which is interesting. So I mean both ChitChat.gg and Emerald Chat are pretty similar but each have their own thing as well. Aside from the userbase seemingly being bigger on ChitChat.gg (or maybe that's just where the people I share interests are going lol) I don't necessarily think either one of them is better than the alternative. I'd go ChitChat.gg, but that's just my personal preference there.

OPAL: So the previous two aren't amazing in terms of usability, but this one still feels a bit unpolished. Same thing as before, account/username/avatar. Oh, I counted this time (I'm using the same interests on each site as long as I'm able to) and I'm currently using 29 interests, so no limit is obviously preferable but a limit that high isn't bad at all imo for ChitChat.gg. Anyway, back to OPAL. Okay so this one is a bit different. Rather than matching with a stranger, you are given various profiles of people who are I guess also waiting to chat. There are also group chats, which just seem to be based on basic chatroom subjects like Music or Philosophy. I did see someone say while I was checking the site out that it isn't an Omegle ripoff, it's more of a Discord ripoff and I think that's probably more accurate. Or some kind of weird middle ground between the two. There does appear to be a limit on the number of profiles you're able to view for potential convos and I believe it was 15. Once you hit it, you can't go back and see how many it actually showed until the timer runs out. But it's around 15 options. There seem to be an incredible small amount of people on here for what it's worth. Basically everyone I saw in the chats, I saw their profile for the one on one chats.

Phori: So there's not much about this one at all, just that it's in the early stages and you currently can sign up to be part of the early access. There's also this Google Docs you can fill out for some additional stuff, if you just want to sign up for the early access you can just put your email address in on the main site. Here's the Google Docs link though if anyone would like it. It all seems great, they pine for the glory days of Omegle when you were still able to connect to another human person and then just chat with them for a bit. But that's what everyone wants, being able to identify that literally every person who wants a new Omegle wants that isn't a skill. The main website kinda gives off a dating app vibe, like some Tinder shit or something, so that does concern me some also. But I did sign up for the early access and will definitely give this a try when it's available to the public.

OmegleMe!: This one is more like classic Omegle. This seems to be an almost total clone of Omegle, text chat, video chat, shared interests, the design is all the same, it has Omegle in the name lol. It's just trying to be the new Omegle, which is fine. Omegle had problems but there wasn't anything inherently wrong with the core of the site imo. But the issue here is it lists active users and there are only 29 of them at the moment.

Randm.Chat: This one seems nice. It's purely text based, no fucking shitty ass video chatting taking up space. It seems to be well moderated and like it may have a decent sized userbase. It looks like on Google the website was first indexed in October of 2022, so it is probably around like a year old so probably a fair amount more established than a lot of these other options, which are almost entirely all brand new. They also call their site 'Randm Chat' one time and then 'Randm.Chat' another time and that bothers me a great deal lol. It also mentions that the chats are moderated/monitored by staff, which is kind of cool and probably helps keep people from jacking off so much. Oh, one other thing. There's seemingly no place to list interests on this and it seems to imply that it just pairs you with a random stranger and you're left to your own devices. But when you're actually chatting with a stranger, there's a gear icon in the corner and if you click on that the only option it brings up is a text box with the question, "What topics would you like to talk about?" so there does seem to be some shared interest related element at play somewhere, I just can't figure it out right now because I've been chatting with just one person from here this whole time and I don't want to accidentally disconnect while I'm fucking around.

Dismegle: This one feels more committal than the others for some reason. I'm pretty high and don't feel equipped to handle reviewing this one right now. I joined the server and it immediately put me in a chat with just another Discord user. Terrifying! I left immediately. I'll come back around to this but I don't think I like it.

OmegleWeb: This is another Omegle clone, exact same basic features as Omegle and OmegleMe! and this time the active users are at least in the triple digits, 141. So a step in the right direction but still an area that needs work if the site's going to be usable.

Omegleee: Yet another Omegle clone, this one so new it only has interests as a planned feature and there was only 1 active user online lmao. They mention future enhancements that would improve on the original's design such as random group video chat. So at some point this one may stand out but it's simply too new to do so at the moment.

Omeglenow: So this one very much went for the Omegle clone thing, but they did change up the layout a tiny bit. Honestly though it looks worse now lmao. But they do currently have 3282 active users at the moment, which is by far the most of any site that listed it's number of active users.

Ralae: Another straight up clone, but made uglier, this time with an an average active userbase of approximately 150-200ish. So, pretty unremarkable, I'm running out of things to say but these are becoming a lot more of the same thing over and over again than I expected. But we carry on.

Actually I lied. It would appear that I've run out of text options, all of the remaining alternatives I could find were video chat sites. Disgusting. I'm still too afraid of Dismegle to try it also, so I'll update that sometime later but yeah. Long story short, ChitChat.gg is probably the way to go for the time being. Though I have actually been talking to someone on Randm.Chat since I wrote my thoughts on it and that's pretty impressive these days so maybe that one is also worth looking more into.

[kamosweasley]

Not that damn song again (George Weasley x Reader)

Description : It's Christmas time so a cute fluffy fic about it sounds right. And I'm a simp for George (and Christmas songs), I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

Words count : 2.5K

Author note's : lyrics from All I want for Christmas by Mariah Carey are in italics.

Tag list : @memekingofwwiii

It's terribly cliché but you can't lie, you love Christmas. There is no better time of year, with snow, hot chocolate, big sweaters, cinnamon cookies and decorations everywhere, how not to love it ? You don't understand people who prefer summer with its sweltering heat and sunburn and all those damn mosquitoes. But unfortunately for you, your boyfriend is a man of the second category whereas you are a woman of the first category. Which makes some things a bit complicated, like you grumbling when he wants to pull you out in the July sun or like him not being able to stand the Christmas carols that you play over and over again from the first of November.

“Not that damn song again …” he mumbles, hiding his face in his hands. “Darling I love you, but if you play this song one more time ...”

“Come on Georgie, it’s Christmas time ! Listening to Christmas songs is essential to my mental health right now. It's either that or stuff myself with cinnamon cookies with the delicious icing and not fit into my favorite sweaters anymore. You really don't like it ?”, coming to give him a back hug with puppy eyes. He never resists you with those eyes, he loves to see them disappear to give way to a big smile.

“I'm sorry my love, but at the end of the fiftieth listening of your playlist I started to hate Santa Claus and the sound of the bells.”

You're both sitting on his bed, he's finishing his potion homework but he's not getting very far with you in the same room listening to the same songs for over a month. He hates it because he loves you with all his heart, but he's starting to wish he could go deaf so he can't stand those melodies which haunt him even in his sleep. He would love it as much as you do, but the more the days go by, the more he understands this will never be the case. And he doesn't want to put limits on how you enjoy this time, he knows how much it means to you.

You put your hands under his sweater to warm your hands, the contact of your cold skin on his abdo makes him startle as you let out a giggle.

“Sorry, my hands are cold and I know that your mother's sweaters keep me warm so I took advantage of it …”

“I know darling, it's absolutely not to satisfy your wandering hands.” he says as he turns his head to kiss you, “I'm going to ask my mother to knit you some mittens, since it's very warm.”

“Good idea, I'm freezing to death right now.” George begins to turn around with a grin on his face, ready to warm you up in his own way but you haven’t noticed his purpose, “I'm going to go make hot chocolate in the kitchen, do you want some too ? I can bring you a cup, I make the best hot chocolate you've ever tasted. No offense to your mom who must make really good ones too, but mine is better.”

You often take him by surprise, changing the subject or not noticing how the situation is turning out and he always found it charming. You make him think of Luna a little bit, on another level but just as clueless as her sometimes. Your boyfriend smiles at you, returning to his potion homework. “Anything to please you darling.”

“You'll see, it's fabulous! I have a secret ingredient, if you're nice I might tell you what it is.” you put on one of his sweaters that you take from his suitcase before you wink at him and leave the room. He should take advantage of the silence of your absence to finish his damn homework in a hurry but he can't concentrate. Potion is boring and he really loves it when you wear one of his sweaters, it's way too big for you and that's what makes you so adorable. And you will come to spend a few days at the Burrow, meet his parents as his girlfriend and receive your own sweater knitted by Molly. He hopes that you will continue to steal from him even if you have your own.

“Here it is ! Taste it and tell me.” you say while putting the cup in his hand. You already know what he’ll say of course, everybody loves your hot chocolate, there is no reason for your boyfriend not to do the same. He thanks you before taking a sip of the hot drink, ready for a chocolate too sweet with some spice in it. And it is, but he has to admit that it is particularly good. He nods his head before he smiles at you. “You're right, it's the best I've ever tasted.” He puts his cup on the bedside table and returns to his parchment.

“So why don't you keep drinking it ? It doesn't look like the best hot chocolate you've ever tasted.” You're sure George didn't lie to you, but you still hoped he would act on his words. When he tells you it's the best hot chocolate he's ever had in his hands, you wish he wouldn't let go of the cup until he's finished it. Maybe you have a misplaced ego but this chocolate is your personal pride and you want your boyfriend to treat it well.

He runs a hand through his hair, not even taking his eyes off his homework. “I've never been a big fan of hot chocolate or Christmas cookies and certainly not of all those bell-filled songs. I’m sorry darling but I never liked any of this.” You melt before his eyes, he is sincerely sorry he doesn't like what makes you so happy and you think it's too cute.

"I'm just not a Christmas person. It's good because we saw family and have presents but still don't get what you found in this period.” You come and join him on the bed, sitting in a suit in front of him. “It’s simple. Let it snow, Jingle Bell Rock, All I Want For Christmas, it’s all about a magical time.” In his eyes you can tell that he doesn't understand at all what you're talking about, which is amazing when you consider how much time he spent listening to all those songs. “We are wizards. Our whole life is magical, I'm not sure I understand you on that point.” You grab a roll of parchment and hold it as if it were a microphone, looking at him with a glim in your eyes.

The best thing you can do to help him understand is to show him. You’re not a good singer, at least George never complains about it, perhaps because he tries very hard to keep his mind upright since he doesn’t like your playlist. It's unlikely you'll be able to change his mind, but a little a capella karaoke should put a smile on his face.

“I don’t want a lot for Christmas, there is just one thing I need. I don’t care about the present, underneath the Christmas tree.” While keeping your fake microphone close to your mouth, you point at your boyfriend with the same expression as Mariah Carey in the clip. “I just want you for my own, more than you could ever know ! Make my wish come true, all I want for Christmas is you !”

As it is impossible to sing Mariah Carey without playing the diva, you give it your all and when you see George's smile, you do it well. It must be your acting more than the words of love that make him smile like that, it's like he's trying to restrain himself from laughing.

“'Cause I just want you here tonight, holding on to me so tight.” On all fours you come and sit between his legs, facing him. He puts his cold hands on your hips passing them under the elastic of your jogging, a smirk on his lips. You shiver from the sudden cold on your skin but don't stop singing, your face getting closer and closer to his. “What more can I do ? Baby, all I want for Christmas is you ! You, baby.”

He's right in front of you. Your noses are touching, your eyes are immersed in each other and you melt like snow in the sun at the intensity of this moment. Damn you love him.

The hunger in his eyes devours you before his lips reach yours. A passionate, fiery, kiss that will get you high. Your head empties itself of all words and thoughts, your hands naturally place themselves in his hair and behind your closed eyes you imagine his smile, his eyes shining with mischief, his hand holding yours and all those little things that make you fall for him. Over and over again.

Gasping for air, the kiss is stopped. You're almost dizzy, head spinning with butterflies messing around in the belly. Liking George Weasley drives you crazy, there's no telling, you've never felt that way about anyone else. Before him you'd never been that high, you'd never had a simple kiss that made you tremble, you'd never dreamed of spending the rest of your life with someone. George Weasley is the kind of man you should treasure, marry and have as a father to your children. For the simple reason that he will be wonderful in all these roles, with him everyday life will never be boring, he will always have the words to make you laugh or smile. He will give love like no one else to his children, an exemplary father who will take care of his children as if they were the greatest wonders in this world.

You have no doubt about it, your boyfriend will offer a wonderful life to the woman he chooses. That's why you're not going to let him go. Your lover.

You suddenly open your eyes as you feel yourself tilted to the side with George, he's still holding you against him and you land softly on the comforter and pillows. You're lying against each other and George slips one of his legs between yours so that they get tangled up. “Now we’re good darling.” He kisses your forehead and plays with a strand of your hair, it's so peaceful. “I haven't finished the song.” You feel his mouth smiling against your forehead. “Who cares ? Certainly not me, I heard what I needed to hear. I think I understand now.”

“Do you ?”

“Yes, but I still hate Christmas songs.”

You lean on your forearm to look down on him, looking pouty. “C’mon ! You’re overreacting, this song is brand new. It's only been out for a month, you can't already hate it.” He grabs you by the shoulders and applies pressure to force you to lie down, not softened by your pouty air. “You listen to it all the time and if not, you sing it. Believe me, one month is enough to get sick of it.”

After being a diva a few minutes before, you're having fun being a diva again because after all, you can't talk about Mariah like that. And you can't help but defend the honor of your favorite Christmas songs. With a burning gaze, fists on your hips and a somewhat condescending tone, you fight back. “It’s Mariah Carey so it will be a massive hit, I’m sure of it. And at least, I’m sure you will think of me every time you’ll hear this song for the rest of your life.” Smiling at you, he adopts the same facial expression and flutters his eyes saying to you in a sweet voice: “The only way I'm going to hear this song again is from you. It's a Muggle song, no one is going to know it among wizards.”

Rolling on yourself to be flat on your stomach, half on George given the proximity that the bed offers you, you give him a charming wink as you rest your chin on your hands.

“That’s what I’m saying. At the end of each year you will hear this song many, many, many times and you will think of that moment when I sang it to you in your dorm at Hogwarts. You will see the scene again as you hear me singing it from the other side of our house. Because we're going to spend our whole lives together.” Since you're already half on top of him, he has no problem placing you on top of him, kissing both your cheeks and your forehead as you go by, making you giggle. “You’re a genius. You really thought of everything.”

You mess his hair before wedging your head in his neck, breathing in his scent. You smile against his throat and you know him well enough to know that it makes him smile back. “How could I want to live without you ? You know how to make yourself indispensable Georgie, it's almost annoying.” You love it when he runs his hand through your hair, it's the most relaxing thing ever. His other hand traces back and forth in your back, making you a little sleepy. This man knows how to deal with you. “Because you thought you were the only one who thought of everything? I would never let you go.”

If you could stop time and stay like this forever, you would do it without hesitation. You're comfortable in a bed, just the two of you, your hearts are beating at the same rhythm and you're in love. Then it smells like hot chocolate and you've managed to make him smile to a Christmas song. You never want to forget this moment. “Fine by me Georgie.”

You can't resist the temptation to hum Last Christmas, but George's caresses make you fall asleep little by little. You stop before the end of the song and in a few minutes you fall asleep on him. He kisses the top of your head, finding you absolutely adorable. You always manage to fall asleep quickly when you are being tickled, which makes him very tender and amuses him a lot. He often teases you about it, it always annoys you and he finds it even cuter.

Feeling your body rise slightly to the rhythm of your breathing, he starts humming the end of Last Christmas. He takes advantage of you being asleep, so you won't be able to talk to him about it someday. Continuing to run his hand through your hair and humming Christmas music, he smiles as he looks up at the ceiling. You are with him, alone and calm, in perfect harmony and he always liked to feel the beat of your heart when you cuddle. It's that kind of perfect moment. And he wishes it would never end.

[boneshine]

Alright, here's the story prompt I've got for you to work with: We've got a Jakoby always getting dinged up on the job, so he's gotta come home and get cleaned up by his worrisome, poor partner that just can't help but but express the concern with endless kisses, hugs, and touches. But you know, one night, the soft touches just aren't enough to express all that pent up love ya need to get out, ya know? Yeah that's right, some smut! Breeding kink, and perhaps some of that good overstimulation

My first request! This was so much fun– I loved “Bright”, and Nick Jakoby is the most precious character in it! I’m all for showing this Orc the love he deserves. Extremely NSFW. Enjoy!“To Protect and Service”

You knew he washome when you heard the door click open and a heavy thud of his uniform baghitting the floor.

“Shit.”

The muttered growlmade your lips twitch in a smile as you rubbed your face into the pillow, as ifgetting the last of his old scent before his new one would soon fill the bed.It was all that you had most nights, especially now with his new shift hours. Itseemed rare that you both were on the same schedule, what with you working daysand him often working straight into the early morning hours. It was onlymidnight now, but you hadn’t been able to sleep.

Yes, he was a cop,and it was a career that was dangerous even for an Orc, and you couldn’t helpbut worry.

But you’d nevertell him to quit.

A break occasionally, though, wouldn’t killhim…

You pretended tobe asleep, your back to the door, when you heard him attempt (unsuccessfully)to make his way quietly down the hall to where your bedroom was.

Poor guy didn’thave a stealthy bone in his body.

You heard himcreak the door open, pausing if he thought it’d wake you up, and then trudge inas sneakily as he could before he made it to the closet.

When you knew hewasn’t looking, you slowly peered over your shoulder, watching him undress ashe sluggishly slipped off his civilian shirt, the muscles defining his broadback prominent even in the dimness of the room.

Feeling a tingleof heat hit the center of your core, you were reminded of your own sleepwear,which was just a plain white shirt. One of his. They were the perfect fit foryour frame, which was almost tiny in comparison, the fabric just barelyclipping the edge of your knees when you stood. It was too warm for regularsleepwear in the summer, and therefore you didn’t have pants, either.

It wasn’t as if heminded. He commented once in a while (in his own words) how it was sexy to seeyou wear his clothes. Wearing his scent. It made him proud in the most Orkishway.

There was a slighttwinge to his movements as he looked down to unbuckle his pants, and yourogling paused as you felt your stomach sink.

“Nick?”

He paused andlooked over his shoulder to spot you. Even in the dark, you could see hisyellow eyes, tired and darting away guiltily. “Oh. Sorry to wake you, sweetie.”

“I wasn’t asleep,”you answered, sitting up.

He gave a grunt ashe walked over, sitting down heavily on the edge of the bed to try and pry hisshoes off.

“You’re hurt.”Even with your limited senses as a human, there was no mistaking the scent ofblood wafting from his chin. As you leaned in, a hand grazing over theprominent cut that started at his jawline and etched down near his throat, youfrowned. Even with his mottled skin, you noticed darker variations lining hisface. Bruises.

His eyes caughtyour frown and he looked away to let you keep inspecting. “Just a human with adagger we caught tryin’ to steal from a store. Jacked up on some fairy dust, madehim kinda feral. It’s nothin’ to worry about,” he rumbled.

“I’ll be the judgeof that.”

Compared to whathe’s been through on other nights, this was just a mild inconvenience to anOrc. To you? It was always unacceptable. After a minute longer of inspecting, youpressed a hand to his shoulder carefully, pushing it slightly to make him standup again. You hated to move him after he just sat down, but those wounds neededto be taken care of.

“Come on,” youcoaxed. He sighed and bit back a wince from standing. “I’ll take care of that.”

“It’s notnecessary—”

You pressed a kissto his ear to shut him up.

“There’s morewhere that came from if you keep talking back to me, Officer.”

He ducked his headand you knew there was a smile on his face as he followed you to the bathroom.“Nicest threat I’ve had all night.”

–

Lavender filledthe room from the scented oil perpetually heated in the bathroom. Nick’s, notyours. It was calming, he said, his favorite smell—besides you, of course,which he would then frantically try to backtrack because he assumed that theway he said it was offensive because it had implied that you had a prominentscent and humans didn’t really have a badsmell to them, although some did— “but,but not you, no, never you”.

He sat on the edgeof the tub as you cleaned his face, taking care to work delicately around thecut on his throat with the alcohol swab. The tiny nubs of his filed tusksflinched slightly as he tightened his lip to hide a grunt.

“You don’t have totough it out, you know,” you reminded him as you wiped off the dried blood,“That cut’s a couple of inches deep. I could stick my finger down it if Iwanted.”

He looked at youas if you were seriously considering it. “Please don’t,” he managed out.

The chuckle thatescaped you couldn’t be helped.

“I would never.”

Nick wouldn’tbother to go to the hospital without probable cause, and he didn’t considersomething like this worth the time to treat—so a bandage would have to do. Evennow, with the blood cleaned away from the wound, you could tell it was slowlyworking back together. He was so resilient; it was truly incredible.

“What?”

You drew your gazeaway from his throat back up to his face, which looked puzzled. The dope didn’trealize how much you loved him, and it hurt to know this despite how you hadbeen married for almost two years now.

“You have somethingon your face.”

“On my face? Well,yeah. Um, maybe some bruises, a cut I know for sure—”

“More like alook.”

“A look?” Helooked even more confused, if it was possible. “What-What-What’s the look?”

You smiled. “An‘Orc who needs a lot more conjugal love’ type face.”

His ears twitched,eyes widening as his confusion gave away to realization, and his nostrilsflared as he wafted through the haze of lavender and rubbing alcohol tosuddenly smell your own scent, sweet and growing with a very intentional muskof arousal. Spicy. Warm. Wanting. Those were some very clear pheromones you hadbeen creeping out, and he was an idiot for not noticing sooner.

“Oh,” was all hesaid.

“Careful with thedirty talk, Romeo,” you teased and gently pressed a kiss to his rough lips,which pressed back eagerly. You pulled away and placed a hand on his cheek todraw his attention back. “But seriously, if you’re too tired, we don’t haveto—"

“No, no!” Nick wasquick to respond, his thick fingers pressed down on your hand to keep them onhis face, to enjoy the warmth from your soft skin, “I’m not too tired, absolutelynot.”

“Good.” Yourthighs clenched together as the heat began to grow between your legs,encouraged by his enthusiasm. He deserved to have a night where it all focusedon him. “You won’t have to worry. I’ll be doing all the work anyway.”

–

You were straddlinghis powerful, trembling form, his pants off, his thick cock hard and waitingimpatiently between you both, and you, being the world’s biggest tease, werestill wearing his shirt. Your panties dangled on your finger as you let themdrop to the floor, covered in your slick dampness. By the way his chest roseand fell, and his teeth were bared in hunger as he fought his dwindlingself-control, it was obvious he could smell just how wet and ready you were forhim.

He was on his back;told to stay and let you do all the work.

It was against hisgood-guy nature, his romantic side telling him to lay you down and worship youbecause he never understood how someone as perfect and beautiful as you wouldever want to waste your time with someone like him—and after a few well-placedbites on the tips of his ears and his neck (minding the wound), he quicklyrelented.

As far as you wereconcerned, tonight was all about Nick Jakoby.

You grinned as yougave him what he wanted, shirt bunched up in your hands as you slipped it overyour head, baring your naked body to his eyes. Yep, no bra. The look on hisface was worth it every time.

Leaning over, deftlyavoiding his desperate length, you kissed him deeply, letting him wrap his strongarms around you as he held you close.

Although he waslying down, his tongue was certainly dominant, filling your mouth and twistingalongside yours in the heat of the moment. It was longer than a human’s, slightlyrougher, and hotter. You sucked on it lightly to make him groan, parting with awet noise to bite at his lower lip with your teeth, then drawing it back in tocontinue kissing.

All the while,your legs were adjusting as you scooted up, settling around his hips, a handreaching down to suddenly grasp his throbbing cock.

He broke the kisswith a startled gasp, head falling into the pillows as he whined. “Fu-u-uck…”

With a chuckle,you stood back up, pumping him a few times before you lined him up with your eagerpussy, watching his mouth drop open in pleasure as you slid down slowly andtook him into yourself.

It always took aminute to get used to that girth. Orcs and humans were different in many ways,and that part was no exception.

His thick hands scrambledat the sheets for a moment before they rested their rightful place on your hips,tightening his grip as you began to bounce. He forced his eyes open to watchyou, staring up at you through the pleasure as if you were some angel that haddescended from the heavens right on top of his dick.

Warmth filling youfrom his cock and his look, you ran your hands across the ones gripping yourhips affectionately before they slid forward and pressed onto his chest,allowing more leverage as you pumped yourself harder on him.

He was hitting all the right spots, your moans fillingthe room shamelessly. And according to his muffled curses and groans, you werehitting all his right spots, too.

“That good, honey?”you panted out playfully.

“Oh, gods, yes,” he moaned.

“How good?”

“So… So, so, sogood,” he gritted out. A raspy bark of Orkish slipped through his wordsmomentarily, and your body trembled as you understood it through your nightswith Nick before. Hot. Tight. Fill youup.

That encouragedyou, and you spread your thighs wider to slip him all the way down to the basedespite the burn, a gasp punched out of you and him. Your arms lifted from hischest to reach back and grip the mattress behind you, nails digging in at the obscenesquelch as your body tried to contain the thickness, harder slaps filling theroom from your bodies colliding.

“F-Fuck… Yes… Oh…Fill m-me… Put a baby in me, Nick,” you begged as you rode him. “Fill me up,please, breed me.”

You both knew thatit was just talk, a fantasy, that an Orc and a human couldn’t actually producea child, that you were on birth control just in case because this was a magicalrealm where nothing was impossible, and he wasn’t ready to bring a life intothis world.

But damn if it didn’tbring out the Orc in him.

His head dug backinto the pillows, the growl that escaped his throat almost stilling you fromthe fierceness behind it. There was an alpha in the room now, and he had justbeen playing along with you taking charge.

Nick’s eyes slidopen, the orange-yellow glow shining like demon fire in the darkness.

“Breeding-slut! I’ll fill you up until youburst,” he commanded outin Orkish.

Your pussy clenchedhard and he growled at your wide-eyed stare, the scent only confirming that youloved being talked to like this.

His grip bruisedyour hips as he suddenly lifted you off like you were nothing, Orc strength be blessed– and began to jackhammer up into you with enough force to bounce you like a fleshlight.

The reaction wasimmediate. Your gasp so sweet. “Oh, fuck,Nick–!” you gasped out, going limp for a moment.

The rumble in hischest grew at your submission, although he was much more focused on the hot,gripping slickness of your pussy around his cock. He knew you wouldn’t fightback. This night was all for him, wasn’t it? You knew how to take care of himlike a real mate to an Orc. Let him take what he wants. Earn it.

He earned you.

The heatsurrounding you, the hard and deep thrusts that shook you to your core, thepossessive growls that echoed in your ears… It was so much to take in.

Your half-liddedeyes fluttered open and looked down at the beastly, beautiful mate that heldyou in his grip. Pounding all the sense from your mind.

Would soon fillyou up until you, for all intents and purposes, could very much be bred like areal Orc-bitch.

Your climax hitsuddenly, fiercely, your choked cry dying in the air as you stiffened andgripped him like your body was afraid he would slip out.

His cock still wasrock-hard inside of you, his thrusts slowing just for the moment to relish thesqueezing and the new wetness that encased him. He showed mercy until your bodyrelaxed through the pulses, and he was back to work again.

Your body joltedat the new thrusts, gasps escaping your throat as your voice rose in volume.

Oh, it felt so GOOD!

“N-Nick, no, ahhhnnn… ! Mmm-no! Can’t…again… !” you pleaded out,although you knew that if you really wanted him to stop, he would. The factthat he knew to keep going only made you squirm harder against him. You couldn’tremember anything except his name, your fingers digging uselessly into hischest as you fought against his grip, the rawness inside only sparking anincredibly delicious pain that grew with each hard thrust. “Nick—Nick, fuck, f-fuck,oh… oh, fuck! FUCK! Nick—NICK!”

Somehow, you cameagain, feeling your climax gush through and coat his cock, slicken your thighs,collect underneath into the sheets.

The scent of yoursecond round of pleasure filled his nose, made his teeth grit and he slammedyou down a final time, feeling his cock pulse wetly inside of you, his thickload filling you past capacity, trickles of hot seed slipping out as hecontinued to throb. His hand shakily rested on your stomach, a pleasednoise escaping him as he felt the slight swell with each shot of his load.

You were deadweight by the time you slid off him, the ache filling you making you hum as youimmediately snuggled into his side. His arm wrapped around you automatically. Theslight graze of his tusk poked you as he pressed a kiss to your cheek.

He breathed outfor a moment.

“… That was good,right? For… For you?”

Your body shookfor a moment, startling him, and then your laughter reached his ears seconds later.He watched as you used the last of your strength to reach up and draw his headdown for a deep kiss that let him know that he did nothing short of fucking youinto blissful oblivion.

“You’reincredible, Nick.”

His chest swelledwith pride at satisfying his mate, his heart warmed by how lucky he was to bewith you.

“Not nearly asincredible as you are, sweetie.”

[ambivartence]

Hi! Secret Santa again! I can only imagine how hard ur speed paints are to make gifs with how much you have to shrink them for tumblrs terrible limits and even remembering to record the timelapse, I always say I’m going to record myself making things so people can see the process, but I never think about it until I’m at least halfway done lol.  

Oml the all in Lino in the cop/detective look is SO amazing,  he really seems to be able to pull off any concept and not make them seem over the top or silly. When he’s in all pastels and wearing a beret it doesn’t feel like someone forced him into a “cute” outfit, and when he’s doing the almost costume outfits like cops, or vampires they also just seem to suit him completely. He’s really one of those people that because he is so confident in himself nothing feels silly or out of place. 

Thunderous has definitely been my favorite era for Minho specifically. I think the  modernized more traditional outfits really work well with him, and having changbin shout his name before his part every stage felt really special. Over all I think thunderous, backdoor, and maniac have been my favorite eras. I feel like ever since gods menu that the boys have become a lot more confident and their stage presence and just how they act on skz talkers and things has felt more comfortable. Those concepts also just have felt like they really suited all of the members to me, plus im just a big fan of their more “noise” title tracks they seem to have more fun when performing really signature sounding skz songs. But I also don’t think there’s an era I haven’t really enjoyed, like some part of every comeback has at least been something I’ve really enjoyed. Especially when like with thunderous they promote a b-side that is so different from the title track, I feel like it really shows their colors well.

I also see that you’re into a few other groups other than nct like tbz and ateez! I love both of them so much, it made watching kingdom extra fun, getting to see how they both interacted with skz, and seeing that they were all friends! I know I got into tbz right after they debuted but it took me a few months to really come around to liking ateez (though now I don’t know whyyyy lmao) how did u get into them and nct?

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Yes!!!! their noise music is really chefs kiss for me too hahaha also i do love how they promoted thunderous and the view together that was a really fun contrast <3

I've been super multi these days! every time i get into a new group that was in kingdom or road to kingdom i go back and rewatch their clips and interactions hehe. I got into nct first thru superm (which I got into bc of baekhyun), and i think i kinda realized that it's really fun to stan a LOT of people, so i began getting into other groups like skz. i found atz bc of mutuals on my dash during kingdom but got into them more only recently after seeing them at kcon in august and then on tour in november!! so kinda like u, it took a bit to really get into them properly^^; and for tbz i was convinced by @chanstopher and @lonelystreetlight aka two partners in crime to check them out earlier this year, so i started from their predebut show boyz flower snack and then rewatched all their rtk and kingdom stages and then the rest was history LOL

sometimes i feel bad that since i follow so many groups that i don't follow skz's content as closely anymore as i used to. but on the flipside, i like how content creators on here make it easier for me to see all the best parts of their stuff, whether it's gifsets of stages or funny moments in skz code or just good looks in skz talker <3 also being multi means it's extra fun when the kidz have fun interactions with their besties in other groups like the darlingz friend group skz changbin + atz wooyoung + txt yeonjun + tbz haknyeon + crvt serim + gncd tag etc etc (the fact that i stan all these groups 💀) or also chan is just friends with everyone in the industry haha (i love his interactions w ab6ix during isac this year 🥺)

[bobgoesw00t]

Top 10 Video Games of All Time: bobgoesw00t Edition (Part 03)

I realized yesterday that if I’m gonna get the rest of this list posted by the end of the year that I need to step it up and post one every other day (with the exception of my top pick as I’ll be spending that afternoon with my family at our Christmas/Wintersday/Holiday party...as long as none of us get COVID within the next two weeks...but if that doesn’t happen, I’ll be back on the 27th with that post), SO HERE WE GO NUMBER 08 GOES TO:

Now I know a lot of people will tell you this is one of the worst entries in the franchise but let's all be honest, that award probably goes to Halo 5 Guardians. While Halo 5 has PERFECT gameplay IMO, it's campaign is a load of crap (with the exception of the opening cutscene which is FUCKING PHENOMENAL), War Zone is super one sided 99% of the time unless it's War Zone Turbo or War Zone Firefight and it's inclusion of loot boxes without any system to increase the drop rate of rarer items is a load of bullshit. But that's not what I'm here to talk about, I'm here to talk about Halo 4.

The first time I watched the Prologue upon booting up the campaign, I literally thought I was watching a live action cutscene and I continued to think that for a longest time. The one thing this game has going for it to be honest is how GORGEOUS it is and the team at 343 pushed the Xbox 360 to it's limits in order to get the game to look that good. The story was the most emotional one we had gotten at the time of release and seeing John struggle with completing his mission of saving humanity while not wanting to let go of Cortana is heartbreaking and it stabs me in the feels EVERY DAMN TIME!!!

While most people detest Spartan Ops (while loving the gorgeous cutscenes at the start of every episode), I was one of the minority in loving it. Having a series of bit-sized campaign missions to play each week while using my custom loadouts (one of my favorite gameplay features which I'll go over in a bit) was a good way to keep me coming back to play the game and it kept the multiplayer from getting too boring for me.

Speaking of which, I KICKED ASS in the multiplayer when the game launched and I think that's been some of the most fun I've ever had in Halo multiplayer. The fact that each of the guns felt good to use and they all sounded like they packed a punch (ESPECIALLY the DMR! The Halo Reach version of that gun is good in the campaign and Firefight but it totally sucks in the multiplayer IMO and it lacks the OOMPH the Halo 4 and 5 versions have that let you know it's a beast) is awesome. Hell, the Halo 4 Magnum is my favorite version of the weapon as it took everything about the previous pistols/magnums and melded them into a great sidearm. And the game's Assault Rifle is good as well to be honest, not just from an audio perspective but it has a good clip size, max ammo count, fate of fire (without feeling like a pea shooter like in Reach and Infinite at times), and it has decent range.

Gonna talk about gameplay real quickly before I give the score and the two honorable mentions for this entry and all I have to say is THANK GOD 343 GOT RID OF SPRINT AS AN ARMOR ABILITY!!!!!!! That's one of my BIGGEST criticisms with Halo Reach, Sprinting is locked behind an ARMOR ABILITY when literally every other First Person Shooter at the time had Sprint as a default ability that can be used at any point. The other Armor Abilities in Reach are great (Drop Shield will SAVE YOUR ASS in the campaign on harder difficulties) but I still can't get behind Sprint being something that needs to be swapped out for other options. Halo 4 also has some good abilities, with my personal favorite being the Thruster Pack as it's basically the games version of Evade from Reach and it has many uses outside of the obvious "dodge out of the way". Also LOOOOVE that they FINALLY let us use custom loadouts outside of private matches, something I was HIGHLY disappointed in when Reach came out cause in the previews and stuff before it came out, Bungie had said we could make Custom Loadouts but didn't specify that it was exclusive to private matches.

Overall, Halo 4 ended up being everything I wanted it to be and more, and it continues to be my favorite entry in the franchise, but Halo Infinite is a VERY close second for not only addressing the problems Halo 5 had, but also for bringing in an open world setting and giving me the one thing I never knew I needed in a Halo game...A GOD DAMN MOTHER FUCKING GRAPPLING HOOK!!!!! So I have to give Halo 4 the same score I gave it ten years ago:

A 5 out of 5

Honorable Mentions this week are:

Halo Infinite: Only fitting that I include my second favorite entry in the franchise.

Star Wars Battlefront II (2005): While the 2017 game is in a stable place now and is a lot of fun, matches can tend to be super one sided for me and nothing will ever beat my memories of spending hours playing Mos Eisley Hero Assault on my computer, abusing Aayla Secura's Force Pull from on top of the ship half buried in the ground and WAILING ON THE POOR SUCKER THAT WAS UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE MY PRAY xD

Also, I should mention that you'll be seeing a trend with the games that I've picked as my favorite video games of all time xP

[moonlightcrossfire]

HOW I GOT MYSELF TOGETHER ?

HOW I DECIDED TO GET MYSELF TOGETHER?

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16

Hey guys! I know it's been a quite while I haven't posted anything here, it's just I've been through extreme moment of indecisiveness and doubt with plenty plenty plenty of breakdowns, hesitation and fear.

Fear of what? Of not being able to get myself together and make everything move through the correct path. If you're a huge procrastinator, a reluctant soul that has that hidden glow that's afraid to step outside, hope this helps you and be your sign to get your shit together.

Don't you ever get that feeling in your insides that makes you feel strange? Makes you feel there's something wrong? Or most likely, can it be a sign that'll push you to change your life?

I got that feeling that twirled my insides and let guilt build through me and sneak into my blood, it was screaming that I was wasting my time and indeed I was. Then, I automatically smiled and I felt clips of my future self flashing in front of my eyes, I realised back then that I didn't want to be that girl who spends her day in her sweatpants watching TikToks or scrolling through Instagram watching people reach places when I know I can reach the same places, does it make sense?

PSA: Sweatpants will always be the greatest piece of clothing ever made for women.

When I got that vibe, I knew my energy wouldn't lie to me. My mood changed real quick, from depressed and doubtful to someone who's sure of what she wants to do and where does she want to reach.

In a night full of stars, here's how I decided to change the way I lived:

1. Wake up early everyday, even on weekends.

All those who know me know that I run to my bed as soon as the clock says 9:00 PM, sometimes 8:30. They'd be like, "What makes you go to bed so damn early?" "The night is still in its beginning, at its finest, why would you want to sleep now?" Etc etc.. and my answer would be that I'm exhausted or I don't like staying up late, boring answers I know, it's just the way it is. However, it's been scientifically proven that sleeping early and waking up early increase your life's longevity, and sleeping for less than six hours will make you susceptible to illnesses. The health benefits of sleeping early are endless, do your research! The point is, waking up early doesn't only have you ready the day with positive energy but it makes you more organised if you're a busy person occupied with school, career, hobbies or interests. Take advantage of sleeping early!

2. To Do lists are your new best friends.

The best timings to write your to-do lists are either before you go to bed or after you wake up. To Do lists are known for keeping you on track, it helps you plan your day and accomplish things you postponed to go out with your friends or ignoring what you gotta do to finish another episode of your favourite show and end up forgetting what you have to do. Get a journal or a planner and take it EVERYWHERE you go, jot down reminders, appointments, chores, anything that won't make you forget your duties. By doing that, you'll feel responsibility has grown to be a part of your existence, neatness and organisation as well. Personally, in my To Do list I writ down tasks that I believe I can finish in a day. For example, doing homework, writing a new chapter for the new project I'm writing, make character maps, take pictures for my VSCO, write excerpts to post on MoonlightCrossfire, etc etc. When I write my first to do list I tried my hardest not to procrastinate, it was quite difficult not to procrastinate but I accomplished 70% of what I wouldn't have done if I was on my phone all the time. So, start writing your first To Do list right now!

3. Read affirmations, pray, set goals.

I've heard that reading affirmation boosts your mood to a certain extent. I believe it's what law of attraction is about. For who doesn't know what Law of Attraction is, it's the law which uses the power of the mind to translate our thoughts and turn them into reality. Specifically talking, if you think positively, the positive things will come to life. Reading affirmations such as calling yourself beautiful or believing you can do whatever you want to do or striving to love yourself more and being grateful for whatever God has given to you will make you see thing from a bright perspective. Try calling yourself beautiful in front of the mirror, our conscience will hug you and warmth will contaminate your skin.

Praying for a beautiful day or a better life or a respectful job or a happier self by means making your relationship with God a genuine relationship even if you aren't religious will turn your tables. Whenever you get the chance to pray, do it for yourself before anyone else.

Setting goals whether they're near goals or future ones will make you feel more stimulated by clinging more to them as passion eventually strengthens, that's when you know that you should never give up on things you find your peace of mind into and unleashes your true self to.

4. Focus on your education.

I'm an average student, my grades are like rollercoaster, I reach high highs and get unfortunate grades, it's pretty normal. I maintain a good score by giving my best to subjects I love and find myself flexible in studying such as literary subjects, as for scientific subjects however I don't mind a passing grade. When you study the subjects you love and feel like shining in them, you'll study them with so much effort yet so relaxed because you are aware of your abilities in these subjects. On the other hand, the subjects that you feel like you study them for the sake of passing, you need to build a mentality that you know passing these classes will bring you closer to achieve your dreams. You have to know that the path to reach your dream life will be full of thorns and and barriers to reach the sunshine and butterflies.

5. Eating healthy + moving more.

Sleeping early isn't enough for a drastic life change if you sleep with a mouth full of chocolate or a bag of chips or a burger. I'm NOT saying you should kill your evil cravings, but try to do a little bit of swapping. Pinterest is full of recipes and swaps that will statist your craving and at the same time revives you instead of slowly killing you. I've realised that a little bit late and I felt something blocking my throats that I won't eat as much McDonald's as I used to, but we have to let go of things that makes us happy sometimes. (McDonald's is the love of my life :/) Healthy food isn't as bad as people make it look like, we convince ourselves that they're not flavourful to run back to fast food and satisfactory foods.

If you're a lazy person like I am that moves from a couch to another and considers it a workout, you might want to read this. Doing chores will have move automatically and as you move you are helping your body become more flexible, you burn calories and you feel lightweight. At school or work or stuff, try to walk as much as you can, it keeps you alive.

Last but foremost, when I write my to do list, I write a water tracking list that makes sure I drink 8-10 cups of water a day. Water is your life saviour, it keeps you hydrated, helps you lose weight, keeps you in the bathroom so you won't get involved with bullshit and drama + it clears your skin. Who said detox water isn't recommended as well? Water with lemon and mint is my favourite water detox combination, you can add pomegranates too!

6. Limit distractions and use of electronics.

Your series can wait, your friends can wait, your lover can wait, your family can wait but your future doesn't wait for you. Why? Because you chase your future, it is not your future that chases you. It is preferable to limit the use of electronics while working or studying. I'm teaching myself to get used to not be on my phone a lot, I'm teaching myself to focus without looking at my phone and surrender to surf social media, I'm teaching myself to resist it. You should learn resistance, too. Try to use your electronics when you're 100% done with all your tasks on your to do list, you won't have anything to carry on your shoulder and you can check your friends' posts and stories or watch some celebrity tea.

7. DON'T KILL THE VIBE, CREATE PLAYLISTS!

Ever since I downloaded Spotify I made different playlists for different moods and I honestly love them all and vibe to them with my heart like I can't explain how I am passionate about my music taste. The fact that people make fun of the music I listen to because I don't listen to what they're used to listen to, not because the music I listen to makes me superior, it's just a matter of taste. When you listen to music you love, your happiness hormones boost your body, mind and soul. When your body, mind and soul are full, your creativity becomes limitless. I listen to music pretty much all the time specially when I'm writing, it gets me in the mood and I get so inspired by the stories every song holds. If you're a lover of music, you're forever young.

To sum up this blogpost, planning your life out and finding yourself and getting your shit together are major keys to reach your purpose. It will make your life much easier, enjoyable, satisfactory and pleasurable. Who doesn't want that? Then, learn to live your life the way you want to live it. They say you only live once, right? Live by this motto.