#i knew immediately that I'd be obsessed with him unfortunately

[nightmare-foundation]

God I never should've been introduced to Arcane or League of Legends. I'm seriously debating making my blog Swain themed because I'm already very attached to him

[bendyartistic]

Be Aware of alexbstudios. (Part 2) TW: uh.. slur, sui mention.

Recently I've been requested by some people to make another awareness post about Alex, and what has been going on since I made my last callout. So.. let's take a look. I'm gonna be honest I have been paying little to no attention to him at all since my post up until this point, didn't think I'd have to.

Ever since I made it, Alex has been talking about me a lot more, and it feels much more obsessive in a way. I think it's funny but also pretty weird considering some of the things he's said about me. Eugh.

Anyways let's get to the stuff from after my callout to the present. This is just a rundown of everything, and there is some stuff I skipped since I didn't feel it was worth mentioning. Once my post had been made, a lot of people went over and said stuff to him (Though I didn't encourage that behavior, I only wanted to make my post so people knew about him, I'm not covering those unless it's important in this.) Little afterwards he made this... post. Erh, are you stalking me and other people?? ALSO don't say the r slur man, like what.

I find it really creepy that he has this list, and has notes along with them about why/who they are. Also why'd he spell my partners name like that? 💀 Next a little after that he reblogged someone's art and introduction saying this. (I don't want to really @ people in this, nor get anyone involved unless they asked to be.)

I still don't understand how Alex views me, but saying this in a reblog no less is so strange. Reblogging another post, saying this with it...

You're right Alex, I didn't need you in my life, yet here we are. Unfortunately. Besides that, no, 12 year old's should NOT be on Tumblr at all, even with restrictions, said restriction should be having the app blocked from their device.

I'm just gonna.. move on from that. Alex reblogged an art post, where he proceeded to @ over 50 people, myself included, saying "surely you can see the problem". I can't fit the entire thing sadly. I don't get what the point in these posts are honestly, besides annoy everyone. He's done it before as well. He got into a small bit of beef with a handful of folk not too long ago, which I got @'ed in at some point I think, didn't really pay much attention to it. Basically the original post is someone talking about art supplies and asking what one's other people use, which I personally think was a very neat post. Alex comes around though for some reason going off on nonsense. Hello? Who invited you!? (Again, censoring names cuz I don't want to get ppl involved.)

I'm honestly kind of wondering why he even showed up. He pretty soon after made this dumb post as if it could have some effect on the situation.. uh?

I guess mark your calendars guys for this date, where we have to immediately forget everything and forgive him! /j And there's this response he gave to an anon responding to his ✨patience✨ post.

Dunno, so far it hasn't because he's still talking about it, so clearly he hasn't gotten over it enough to let it blow over.

He's giving me those like.. stupid sigma edit vibes sometimes. Y'know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Also I'm not sure what to say about this really, but it's pretty funny.

Context for this next one: You and the person on your lockscreen fight god..? That's a weird one.

Wdym racist though? 🤨 Genuinely kinda curious about that. Btw wouldn't that make you like.. 9?? On a different note, I saw him previously talk about this "friend" he has going to a mental hospital, but I know nothing about it, nor do I really want to, however reblogging on an art post saying this feels off. Think the emotes are what do it.

Don't joke about mental hospitals at all, I shouldn't have to explain why. I'm going to move on from all the short stuff now because I do wanna start talking instead of making short joking comments.

Alex made this post, and so it begins with him talking about me again, eh?

Alex, you're already doomed. I can't put it any other way but from what I've seen maybe only 1 or 2 people even like you. The rest either hate you or want to avoid you at all cost, and I don't blame them at all considering you act like a fool and make everyone uncomfortable.

For my thoughts on you? I don't like you, never did. I just have to put up with you because this is the internet, and you'll probably never truly leave me alone like I once hoped. It's a shame honestly that you cannot follow a simple request from anyone. Don't think I don't know about your planned "response post" you're making, I'm still waiting for it. I don't know what good it's gonna do you though. Personally I don't care if you make one, I'd just read it to see the stuff you make up in it lol. (Edit: He decided to stop working on it after seeing this post lol.)

Enough of my rambling, I should continue with this so I can stop talking about him sooner. Regrettably I had to actually look up what this was about, I felt.. iffy reading it.

Saying gyatt right afterwards wasn't funny. At all. I'm quite upset now. There was absolutely no reason for that.

I was gonna be reasonable and say something genuine but I don't feel like it anymore, this ruined my mood. All I have to say is as much as I dislike you, don't actually do that. Sadly moving to the next nonsensical thing, he made a poll post asking this. (It's still ongoing btw)

Are people like.. forced into giving a reason? Like if I for example chose Bendy, am I immediately supposed to state my reasons? What if I don't want to, are we being held at gunpoint? What's up with that? I'm too lazy to interact with the post, I don't really feel like it anyways even if I wasn't lazy. Which one would you choose though lol I'm going to be serious now again cause this last thing is really just.. what the fuck. Palestine related 🍉, someone asking for help came to Alex, and this was his response to it...

MY GOD Alex. Did you really have to respond to that in this immature, insensitive fucking manner? Could it have not been in one of your stupid rambling posts. It should've been. I'm sorry to the person and I'm sorry I had to read it. You're pretty sick honestly. You need help.

That's it. I'm done.

In conclusion:

Alex is still the same and is still never going to change probably. He still shouldn't be here and I believe he really should get off now more than ever. If not I fear what else he might do next.

All I can really tell you folks is please, DNI with Alex, just leave him alone and block him. You're again not obligated to, but I am suggesting it if you want to be left alone by him. And hey, maybe you'll make it onto his dumb creepy list too, who knows. Alright, I'm finished, I stayed up way too late for this... I'm tired. Cya.

Reblogs are much appreciated, it helps spread the word, thanks.

[dereks-unrelenting-heart]

Top 5 SFTH Ships

I joined a new fandom on Tumblr and want to contribute, how on Earth should I do that? Oh, I know- *starts making top 5 lists*

This one's for the ships I like most from the entirety of the SFTH Youtube channel (I don't have Patreon unfortunately), which means both longform and shortform videos are in play. If any of these ships has a ship name that I'm unaware of, please let me know!

5. Bubbamiah (Inside The Mysterious Cube)

If this ship wasn’t in my top 5, I think the entire SFTH fandom would hunt me for sport, so for my own safety here it is- But I do actually love them and I have very complicated feelings about Jeremiah’s death and rebirth. Do I think it’s really him? I have no clue and actively try not to think that hard about it :) That way they can live happily ever after in my mind like the death never happened.

4. Lesbian Vampires (Thirsty Vampires)

From here on out, there’s no particular order, I just need yall to know how much I love these two. I swear I've heard the human called Anna somewhere, and idk if that was a personal or common hc, but that's what I'm gonna call her- Anyway, they made my top five and they aren’t even from a longform story, so congrats to them for that. AU where Anna really was in love with Esmeralda and doesn’t kill her please 🙏

3. Egbert x Samantha (The Leftenmost Window)

I’ll be real, it's mainly for Luke/Egbert’s beautiful love confession. Also the absolute dismissiveness in Samantha’s voice when she’s pretending not to hear the Germans, Sam had such good delivery on those lines I swear- Everything from the drama to the confession to the 2 kisses at the end, they had everything needed to make a perfect love story.

2. DIWives (Clarissa’s DIY Wedding)

Tom realized the crowd wanted lesbians and immediately did everything in his power to make Amanda one of his gayest characters ever, and I respect him for that. “That’s just silly!” *immediately sets head platonically on bestie’s shoulder. I really think that if Amanda would've brought her feelings up before the wedding was about to happen, it could've gone so much better for her. They truly should’ve been endgame 😔

1. Ditch (The Unrelenting Aubergine)

My absolute number one, I love them I love them I love them- I knew I'd be obsessed with them from the moment Derek first called Titch ‘love’, but I think what really cemented their relationship as a fav (and this honestly also goes for Derek as a character) was when Titch went offstage and Derek paused to say, in complete admiration ‘I love you’. God they're sweet, I'm so glad they got the happy ending they deserved.

Next post will be a top 10 character list, then idk my signature move when I'm new to a fandom, queer headcanons? Just general headcanons maybe? Within a few days (hopefully), you'll find out

[moonsdrs]

I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT YOUR BEATLE GIRL REALITY i saw your post about wanting questions here i am

how did you and ringo meet?

also... the love story, how did that begin? friends first? immediately in love??

i would loveee to see some things that are like, "iconic" and entirely YOU in that reality !! what makes you YOU?

unfortunately, this opened a floodgate that could no longer be closed. bare with me, i wrote a fucking novel. my bad!

giggling and kicking my feet. twirling my hair and blushing as i recall the moment. a young guy sat behind a drum kit who hasn't yet cause my line of sight but the thrum of my heart matches that of his foot anyway. my right pointer finger clips down as another young man, paul would be his name, sings to the crowd of screaming girls. i pull my camera away, reach for a pencil and scribble notes about this moment, the atmosphere, the men in front of me. and i look up again to a pair of eyes staring right down at me.

i look away quickly, just a moment shared between a musician and audience member. a fleeting moment! right? and i click a photo of john next trying to avoid how my heart flutters and how my stomach flipped continously. the night raged on and me, just an american college student writing for a grade at cambridge, has fallen just as in love with the beatles as the locals around me.

i slipped away after the last song, grabbing a water from the gentleman at the bar. he scrunched his nose that i hadn't asked for something alcoholic but offered it anyway. i tilted the liquid down my throat, cooling myself from the warm atmosphere of bodies and energy around me. i scribbled something again, noting how even if the boys had finished, it felt it never truly did but was only a beginning.

tap. and i spin around startled a bit. and it's the eyes that were looking at me before. i blush and thank god that he can't notice it. i smile shyly, my heart thumping so hard i was sure if he looked at my chest he could see my skin pulsing. he introduced himself as richard first..never ringo of the beatles. i shook his hand and offered my own name, donyale. he smiled, his thick accent repeating it so well it sounded like honey dripping from his tongue. perhaps that's the moment i was truly done for.

richard's voice spoke to me again, offering a proper drink other than water and some dances in exchange for some conversation to get to know me better. i stuttered through a sad excuse to not. i have to catch the last train, which was true! but it's not for another hour or two and the station's not that far. but he charmed me, winked once, or maybe i imagined that part. next thing i knew, it was well past the time i wanted to leave..and should've left.

i checked the time by accident, jumping up and placing the shared cigarette better his fingers, stumbling to grab my camera from the back of the chair. he chuckled, steadying me to slow, i'd already missed the train whether i liked it or not. that night, around midnight or so he walked me back to his flat, his jacket placed on my shoulders at the touch of rare august wind. he smelled good and i willed his scent to still be on my skin even when i pulled it off. that's it. love at first sight. what grandma whispered about recalling when she met grandpa. these touches, glances, all felt like history repeating itself.

now: what makes you, you? well- me being me is what makes me. my confidence that quickly grew and will continue to grow even if the outlets try to say otherwise. my photos. my uplifting of girls all across the world. me playing that one specific ronettes vinyl over and over again. obsession with making brownies and licking the bowl clean. bubbles baths that smell of peaches and roses. dancing around the house to any vinyl rich has got going on. smacking rich's bum every time i pass him by. that's all me.

iconic things? my humor. faking a british accent for the media at first to the point it almost became a running joke so good they thought i was genuine. my no bs attitude, known for fixing a good glare at a fan going too far that makes them not even try what they had planned. me being rich's number one fan.

i could talk about this dr for hours, days, maybe even months if given the right moment.

[grimalkinmessor]

Fic Rec time because why not: Death Note Edition ✨

These are some of my favorite DN fanfics and I figured I'd share them with you :3 Even if you've probably already seen some of them.

I am also a multishipper so this going to LONG. Buckle in 🚀

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Five Days by Shadow_of_Quill

Rated M. Noncon Warning. Several instances throughout the week where people don't keep their hands to themselves around Light.

Despite the serious subject matter Light deals with it in a very Light™ way. This is the origin of a few of my angstier Light headcanons.

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This Is How I Disappear by TzviaAriella

Rated T. MCD Warning. After an international tribunal condemns nineteen-year-old Light Yagami to death, the Kira Task Force must come to terms with the fallout of the case–and with Light’s surprising last request.

I'm pretty sure everyone's read this one at some point. It's a classic. Everybody's GOTTA read this one at least once. Angsty but it's hhhhhhHHHHHH 🙏 So good.

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And This Is All There Ever Was by Min Daae

Rated T. MCD Warning. In which Light has confessed, in order to win.

This one is technically lawlight, but it feels very gen to me so I put it NEAR the lawlight list. I love Light being a spiteful shit and this is him being spiteful to the very end. This man will do anything to win.

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Lawlight

Polarity by Writeous

Rated T. Some people are born with soulmarks: small, colorful images tattooed onto your skin that represent the people who would prove most important in your life. By all accounts, soulbonds are supposed to be beautiful, something to be cherished and revered over the course of your life. Light Yagami grows up with a bold, typeface L on his hand and a soulmate that hates him.

I'm obsessed with this fic. OB. SESSED. It only has one chapter so far but I love the dynamic on this one. I love soulmate aus but specifically the grittier ones. It has a MCD warning but as of now it's not applicable yet. Highly recommend.

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Time Speaks by aSmallMoon333

Rated E. In his first life, L died in the arms of his greatest enemy.

In his brief second one, he died alone.

And in his third, too-long life, L died anticipating finally getting even with the man who'd won their game one too many times.

And Light Yagami? If he'd known this is what picking up the Death Note would bring....well, he'd probably still have done it anyway.

This fic? Superb. Spectacular. I reread it at LEAST once a month. It has lodged in my brain and rots everything else around it I am so obsessed. L and Light are so unhinged and in love and petty and I love them. MCD warning, obviously, but it doesn't stick. This was my first fic back into the DN fandom and honestly I think it should be everyone else's too 🙏 My friends tell me they're getting back into DN and I immediately recc them this fic.

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louder then bells by relic_crown

Rated M. No one has ever seen Light’s soul, but it haunts his dreams as a monster: eyes bloody as sunrise, feathers tasting of citrus and sharpie fumes, breath hot as summer and twice as brutal. At first, he thinks the notebook itself is his soulmate. Then he tells himself Misa can be enough.

L ruins everything. For the first time, someone sees Light’s soul, and through his eyes Light knows it must look monstrous – why else would L be hunting him over it?

A soulmate/His Dark Materials AU—can you tell I have a thing for soulmate AUs? I adore the vibes of this fic, from the mystery of Light's soul, to L's distinct creepiness, to how Light views Kira :) I cannot explain that last bit to you, you're just gonna have to read it.

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Slow to Boil by TrashKing

Rated E. L has loved Kira since he knew there was a Kira to love. Unfortunately for him Light Yagami doesn’t quite understand the whole process of being seduced so L will have to take the frog in the pot approach to taming this beast.

I have a kink for L having a Kira kink, and this is one of my favorites to read when I have my 'I Need L To Be Obsessed With Kira' cravings. Very fun read, highly recommend ✨

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The Many Forms of Blessings by TrashKing

Rated E. Light was taken in by Wammy House after he lost his family in the accident. Now eighteen he finds it’s a tradition at the house that the best of every generation meet the mysterious creature who lives in the catacombs under the estate; L. Light is reluctant and that unease proves well placed when it’s revealed the graduates L likes never leave the underground.

And THIS fic is the one I circle back to when I get my 'I Need L To Be Obsessed With Light' cravings :3 Dark and beautiful in that Beauty & The Beast/Leda & The Swan way. I really love Light's characterization in this fic, as well as the darker take on the Light Grows Up In Wammy's trope.

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Rabbit Holes by TrashKing

Rated M. L Lawliet, head programmer and engineer for W&W Cybernetics, arrives at Tokyo-3 to fix a malfunction that killed eight people. The problem is that 'malfunction' turns out to be a newly sentient super computer called Kira. L disconnects him from the rest of the installation to begin a historic interrogation, but Kira might not be as defanged as L believes.

If you can't tell by now I am trash for TrashKing's fics—I can't help it I'm straight up in love with their Light. I would recc literally all of their fics but we don't got time for that, there's over fifty. This fic is fluffy and funny and really interesting, and it was a super fun read! I liked the inclusion of Ryuk and Light's very wholesome and yet still very Light™ reactions to human experiences :)

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Into The Grey by Kratos_Aurion

Rated E. Light is a young, hot, reclusive Omega who follows all the rules and does it all right. Except when he's sneaking out to capture criminals as the vigilante only known as Kira. L will always and forever be the world's greatest detective, but the Alpha might have a little competition in the Kanto region of Japan.

In a world just barely free of Omega oppression, these two geniuses find themselves in a race against the clock and each other.

VIGILANTE 👏 LIGHT 👏 I love this little scheming bastard. I love the twists and turns this fic takes and the persistent aura of dread and danger. I also just like it when L and Light bicker and fight and they do that a lot in this fic. A lot. It's great. I can't explain what else I particularly like about this fic without spoiling it, so you're just gonna have to read it.

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Extrajudicial by Boo_Yeah

Rated M. L knows that Light Yagami is guilty. And he is forced to accept that he will never be able to prove it.

So, just this once, he decides to break his principles and go above the law. He kidnaps Light and takes him to Wammy's house.

He's sure that having the kids interact with a real-life mass murderer will be a very educational experience indeed.

Or: Light is Kira, L is sick of how easily manipulated the police are, and he secretly wants to see what will happen if he forces Light into a domestic situation with children just as intelligent as he is.

I am a person who really enjoys L Wins AU, so L yoinking Light from Japan just to hide him away in Wammy's to try and redeem (?) him all while Light kicks and screams is something that just speaks to me personally 🙏 L just wants to not kill his friend and Light just wants to continue to commit crimes, top tier story on God.

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Animal Games by tsukinoyagi

Rated T. Gone Girl AU. L has moved his lovely, vile, entirely batshit husband out of their beautiful Brooklyn brownstone into a Missouri suburb, then left him to his own devices. He is under the impression that this is going to end well.

This fic is beautifully written and it scratches that itch I have for malicious antagonism between established lawlight. These bitches are SO toxic and I love them. I really enjoyed the different perspectives just so you can see that both of them are unreliable narrators.

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Terraito

The Gods of The Godless by foreskinsmoothie

Rated E. Noncon Warning. Light was perfect. And now that he’s not, there’s just nothing left for him here, in this life.

After a night that ruined his life, left him crippled and spurred forth multiple failed suicide attempts, Light decides his best course of action is putting himself in the most dangerous situation he can think of and making grotesque gangsters do his dirty work. He slips into the sight of Ryuk, infamous for fucking male escorts, then killing them in a brutal blur. Or so those dark web message boards say.

Light’s fate is in Gods hands… or maybe a creature far crueler has plans for him.

I LOVE THIS FIC. I ADORE IT. It's dark and gritty, but as someone deranged about human (?) Ryuk and his and Light's dynamic, this fic is wonderful. The noncon is not between Ryuk and Light, but the descriptions are explicit so be aware of that. Both Light and Ryuk have my entire heart here no lie.

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Toes, Knuckles, Teeth by TrashKing

Rated E. Ryuk's always been good at bending rules. Shinigami aren't supposed to have sex with humans but, well, by his estimation Light is also a Shinigami.

This fic revolves in my brain at 3x microwave speeds, okay? I am studying this fic like it is the scrolls of old, alright? I hold unhinged amounts of feralness for this fic. It's a smutty little character study, and it has imprinted itself onto the back of my eyelids forever. This fic addresses every reason that I'm so obsessed with Ryuk and Light's relationship. SO GOOD 🔥

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Meronia

what doesn't kill me makes me want you more by neallo

Rated M. “Poor Near,” Mello says, stepping closer and pulling Near’s head back further, tilting her face up as Mello cages her against the wall. “How long have you liked me?”

Near’s heart is kicking against her ribcage so hard it almost hurts, and her ears are burning with embarrassment. She squeezes her eyes shut, unable to hold the blonde’s gaze. “Mello, I...” she tries to speak, hoarse.

“Has it been months?” Mello asks, her voice getting closer as Near feels her lean down. She braves a glimpse through her lashes and watches as Mello bends her head to brush her cheek against Near’s, putting her lips next to Near’s ear. “Years, maybe?” The older girl teases.

Near finds it in herself to squeak out a “yes,” and almost jumps at Mello’s sharp intake of breath.

“Years,” Mello marvels.

A Fem Meronia fic set in Wammy's era where Mello finds out that Near enjoys getting bullied by her—because Near has a MASSIVE crush on her. What more could you possibly want out of life? Amazing fic.

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The Archer Ensnared by jabbernatty

Rated E. Near has two goals: the first, to celebrate Mello’s birthday. The second- a secret. His methods for achieving these? Questionable.

THIS. FIC. THIS ONE. Near is my favorite levels of unhinged and this is so in character for me. I enjoy it a lot. If you haven't figured it out by now I enjoy romantic antagonism and problematic relationships and this fic has both 😍

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we will be better than i was by sahwen

Rated M. AU in which Mello swallows their pride and works alongside Near. Things aren't as different as one might expect.

Nonbinary Mello, domestic-edging meronia, and tragedy mixed in with funny shenanigans. The way this written is just,,,so pretty?? I'm in love with it. 10/10 it has everything.

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Matsulight

metempsychosis by palant1r

Rated M. MCD Warning. After the warehouse — it will always be "the warehouse" to him, a vague noun as a substitute for years of betrayal — Matsuda wakes up the next morning faced with a second chance. One day to fix everything, one day to build the January 28 he wants. And that day will repeat for as long as it takes to get things right.

He knows that he can't save everyone. But it would be nice if he could just save someone.

OR

Matsuda gets stuck in a time loop and the situation quickly gets worse.

This fic is a TRIP I tell you, but a very good one. Matsuda's characterization in this is so much fun. This fic is about the journey of grief and all the madness and moral contemplation that comes along with shooting the greatest mass murderer of all time who was also your best friend that you're in love with. Very good read.

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Alive by still_lycoris

Rated M. Light Yagami is a Shinigami. And Matsuda has found the Notebook ...

This is such an interesting idea, I really enjoyed it. Matsuda's moral struggle seems to be a persistent theme in matsulight fics but honestly that's half the fun. Good fic 👌

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Birthdaymassacre

A Secret Note by KeehlingOver

Rated E. What Mello left out of his writings on the Los Angeles BB Murder Cases.

Or, these edibles ain't shi--

This fic is so fucking funny holy shit. Whenever I need a pick-me-up I reread this fic. It's T4T bdaymassacre, what more could you want?

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Aggressive Top by ThePunkRanger

Rated E. Naomi Misora isn’t about to admit that the mysterious detective Ryuzaki sparked something in her, but when he insists that he’s an “aggressive top” she just can’t let it slide. So she does something entirely unprecedented, and invites him over to prove it.

What has she gotten herself into?

Naomi is sick of Ryuzaki's shit, and Beyond has reverse-psychology-ed his head between Naomi's legs 🙏 This one is unfinished but it left off on a cliffhanger that drives me FUCKIN' NUTS BRO. FIRE.

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Playing The Part by ThePunkRanger

Rated E. Someone is kidnapping members of Southern California’s BDSM community, and the world’s greatest detective is in the market for a reliable team to go undercover on his behalf.

It’s been two years since the arrest of Rue Ryuzaki, the serial killer behind the Los Angeles BB murder case, and Naomi Misora has been happy to live her life under the assumption that she’ll never have to see him again. Unfortunately, L has other ideas; ones that involve her pretending to be in a Pup/Handler relationship with the murderer she put behind bars.

I'll be real and say that I wasn't sure about this fic at first, but it's actually very wholesome?? And respectful of the kink community! There's some extra angst in the background with L's controlling tendencies (there are cameras in that hotel room. I feel it in my bones.) and his and B's rough history, but honestly I think that makes it even more interesting. Top tier fic. 👌

[loveislandthegame]

thoughts on todays volume ! this game wants me to be in a love triangle with kane and tunde so bad. as much as i like them both, i want ruby

first up is happily ever grafter ! i'd like a word with whoever wrote that sign, why tf are the f and t disconnected ?😭 anyways, ruby chose to dance for MC. we can't return the favour (for free) because my turn was for kane by default. i did a sincere speech for him, it was very sweet ! (and i figured that if MC messed up for "diamond scene purposes" it would be the least embarassing thing to fumble lol. it actually didn't go wrong tho)

once again, there’s a diamond option to cheat at a challenge. spoiler alert, it doesn’t even matter because you still lose. i would only recommend taking this scene if you want a turn with somebody else. interestingly enough, jace was an option. but it could mean nothing because ruby’s partner is too. i was curious about jace, but i didn’t want to hurt esme so i picked ruby

vida won, so she takes kane on a date. her talking about her job and horses was supposed to be boring, but i honestly thought it was more interesting than the majority of this season. silly conversations like that make the game feel more alive

vida gets a text that one of the girls is getting dumped. my immediate guess was that it’s gonna be her

we have to graft for our lives, and FB remembered the “walking around the villa by tapping on islander icons” thing, yay ! (side note, i miss seasons 1 and 2 so much that i’ve considered replaying the matchmaker versions. the horror.)

MC goes up to the treehouse with ruby, and she gives MC a massage. finally, an actual conversation in this villa ! (the screenshots are just paraphrasing, the scene is much longer) it's not the most earth-shattering dialogue but i'm just really happy to know something about a LI besides the fact that they're obsessed with MC

(and in classic FB fashion, there was a pronoun error in the "going all the way" scene)

i'm sick of callum ! FB, i would buy gems with actual money if you gave us the option to physically fight ruby's partner. esme is a real one (a bit of a tangent but i wish that she had more going on besides her relationship with jace. unfortunately FB is a bunch of lazy misogynists, so every woman is defined by the man she's with or wants to be with 🙃)

onto the dumping, callum votes for MC, and the rest of the guys vote for vida. “the woman was too stunned to speak” i guess 😭 i’m just gonna headcanon that she cussed him out and it got bleeped

like i predicted, vida got dumped. her diamond scene made me sad that we couldn’t actually be friends with her. anyways, she also revealed that jace kissed another girl during his first sleepover 👀

next up is a boy's choice recoupling ! kane chooses MC. another one of the very few positive things i can say about this season is that we haven't been stolen by a bombshell yet

after that is a chance to go in the hideaway ! you already know that special grade cursed object (the prop box) makes an appearance

nothing is sexier than spraying whipped cream all over your clothes... 😭

the following morning, jace and esme are fightinggg. thankfully, i already knew that he tries to throw MC under the bus, so i stayed out of it. i feel kinda bad tho, i would tell esme because idgaf if jace hates my MC, but i read that he basically tries to claim that MC said he should come clean because esme wouldn't mind that he cheated. this game is very selective on when we can call out islanders for straight up lying about MC, so i just decided not to risk it

i wonder if there will be consequences for knowing about it but not telling him to come clean/telling esme yourself. anyways, i would like to throw hands with jace too. why the hell would he say this ?😭 don't worry esme. as tiffany pollard once said, i'll be there for you, with open arms and legs

next volume is excess baggage, but also a dumping ? i can't tell if it's supposed to be one person or a couple. mind you, there’s only 4 couples. we don’t really need another dumping. maybe it will end up being anna and tunde, but i’m getting winning hearts flashbacks. imagine if the next volume is jace, ruby’s partner, & the guy you’re not with “dumping” MC, but we’re actually sent to casa…or another sleepover. the horror.

overall, i know i just said we don’t really need a dumping, but callum and jace need to get dumped immediately 😭 and PLEASE bring in some new islanders. at this rate, dominic will probably show up 2-3 seasons later like zeph and cassius

[raaorqtpbpdy]

A Little Chat

Jazz gets the chance to talk to the ghost boy before she knows he's her brother. When she talks to him after discovering the truth, their first conversation is still ringing in her mind.

For the prompts: What if Jazz had a conversation with Phantom before learning he was Danny? What does their next conversation look like when Jazz knows but Danny doesn't know she knows? [from atropos], and "What do you mean this isn't safe, I'm already dead" [from @princessfanonanona]

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[Warnings for mentions of violence and death]

Casper High was all abuzz about the upcoming school dance, but Jazz couldn't care less. Dancing had never been her thing, much less at school where all her peers could watch her embarrass herself. That didn't stop her from getting asked, by Dash Baxter when she was tutoring him, by her lab partner in the middle of chemistry class (gag), by Danny's friend Tucker, who was asking out every girl in school and getting turned down every time.

Jazz was honestly more preoccupied by her ongoing existential crisis about ghosts being real, and her annoyance at how insufferable her parents had been since the revelation. She was nothing if not curious and determined, though.

Her parents said a lot of things about ghosts with very little research or evidence to back their claims, but Jazz wasn't going to just hop on the bandwagon and believe everything they said. If she could, she was going to get a first-hand source on this ghost situation.

Unfortunately, not intending to go to the dance didn't exempt her from the teen-girl bonding nightmare that was helping her friends shop for their dresses. She knew she was only a part of their little group because she tutored them, and she had very little in common with any of them. But she also knew that it was good and healthy for her to socialize with people her own age, and even if she couldn't really relate to them, at least they were nice, and always tried to include her.

That didn't stop them from gently ribbing her about how unhelpful she was being when she said they looked fantastic in every dress they tried on.

Shopping got a lot more exciting, however, when a dragon showed up. Jazz went to check it out, claiming she had to go to the bathroom so the girls wouldn't try to stop her. They were too busy changing to notice the commotion outside the store.

Jazz ran to the second floor railing to get a good look at the ghost boy fighting some glowing blue dragon with a huge amulet around its neck. Jazz watched and waited for the immediate Danger to be over before calling out to him.

"Hey!" she shouted. "Ghost boy!"

The ghost swiveled around in mid-air until he saw her. She waved him over. He shook his head and gestured over his shoulder like he needed to be somewhere.

"Come on, I'll be quick!" she shouted, waving him over more insistently.

Slowly, almost hesitantly, the ghost boy floated over to her.

"Can I help you, citizen?" he asked awkwardly

"Actually, yeah," she said. "I'm Jazz Fenton, you probably know of my parents. They have some very uh... opinionated views about ghosts, and I'm looking to learn more about ghosts from a first hand source. Could I trouble you for a moment of your time?"

"I uh... I don't know how much help I'd be," the boy replied. "To be honest, I'm kind of new to the whole 'being a ghost' thing."

"That's alright," she insisted. "If you don't mind, I still think I could learn a lot from talking to you."

"Uh... alright," he agreed, and settled himself cross-legged in the air just on the other side of the second-floor railing Jazz was still standing at.

This area of the mall had pretty much been cleared out when the dragon showed up, so the two of them were alone, even in the middle of a public place.

"Shoot," he said.

"Okay." Jazz considered for a moment what her first question should be before asking, "Do ghosts have obsessions that motivate all their actions, yea or nay?"

He hummed thoughtfully. "Sort of? Maybe? I don't really know. From what I've been able to get, it seems like ghosts have more of a tendency to be obsessive than humans do, but even ghosts with obsessions aren't motivated one hundred percent solely by those obsessions."

"So would you say that ghosts have free will?" Jazz asked.

"Yes, absolutely we do." There was no hesitation in that answer, no hint of doubt.

"I think I can guess the answer, but do you think ghosts are inherently evil?"

To her surprise, the ghost boy paused before answering, titling his head from side to side like he wasn't really sure what to say.

"Well... I'm not," he answered cautiously. "I haven't met too many friendly ghosts so far, but we're definitely not inherently evil."

"Why do you fight other ghosts?" Jazz asked. "Not that I'm not grateful, but... ever since you showed up, I've been curious about that."

"Why?" he repeated. 

He looked perplexed, although Jazz couldn't tell if it was because he didn't know the answer, or because he didn't know why she was even asking because it seemed so obvious to him.

"Well who else is gonna do it?" he asked. That answer did nothing to clear up Jazz's uncertainty. "I can't very well let them just cause chaos around here. They could seriously hurt people."

"What about you?" Jazz asked.

"What about me?"

"I just mean, couldn't they hurt you, too?" she asked. "I saw how you got tossed around by that dragon, and the lunch lady a little while ago. This whole situation, you fighting off ghosts ten times your size to protect humans you barely know... this just doesn't seem safe."

The ghost boy huffed a soft laugh. "What do you mean this isn't safe?" he asked. "I'm already dead, what else can they do to me?"

Jazz frowned, her brows furrowing.

"You still bleed," she said. "I've seen it. You bleed green, but you still bleed."

"So what, I bleed," the ghost boy shrugged, though his expression took on a melancholy tone. "So do you. You're telling me if you saw someone in danger, even if you didn't know them, you wouldn't try to help?"

Jazz didn't really know. Her self-preservation was strong, but so was her compassion. She would have to make that decision in the moment, not standing in a mall across from a boy her brother's age... who had died. 

Her brother had almost died, too, once, not that long ago. If she had been there... if she'd had the chance to save him from the pain of that accident at the cost of her own safety, would she have?

"Do you help others because no one helped you when you were dying?" she asked. 

Even as it left her mouth she could hear how rude and personal the question sounded, but it was out there now... and she wanted to know.

The ghost boy shook his head. "No one could have helped me," he said. "Even if they were there, even if they wanted to. There was no saving me. It would have just ended with two ghosts instead of one." 

She opened her mouth to ask a follow up question, but was interrupted when one of her friends appeared.

"Jazz! There you are!" Marci called out. "Oh my gosh, if you needed a break from dress-shopping, you could have just said so. You didn't have to disappear on a bathroom break for twenty minutes."

"Yeah, we were actually starting to get worried about you," Jenna added. "We heard there was some kinda ghost dragon somewhere in the mall a little bit ago. We thought you might've gotten hurt."

"I'm fine, I promise," Jazz told them. "I actually left to get a closer look, but I made sure to stay a safe distance away. I've just been talking to—" Jazz cut herself off when she turned and saw that the ghost boy was gone.

"Talking to who?" Marci asked, looking at the empty air.

"To whom," Jazz corrected absently. She shook her head. "Never mind. Did you girls pick out dresses you liked?"

"Marci did," Jenna said. "So far, I haven't found anything that speaks to me, ya know? I think I've decided on the color though, I want a pretty sunset orange, like a pink-ish, dark-ish color, maybe with glitter, you know?"

"That's a bold choice," Jazz commented. She didn't know much about fashion, but she did know she didn't see a lot of people walking around in orange most of the time.

"I'm a bold girl," Jenna agreed with a laugh. "I found one orange dress, but the shape made me look like a traffic cone, it was awful!"

Jazz snickered at that mental image and Jenna and Marci laughed with her.

"Come on, there's a couple more stores we can check out to see if they have something you like," Marci suggested. "And obviously we gotta stop at the bookstore, too. We can't leave our main girl Jazz without her lit fix."

Jazz laughed again and followed them toward the next store.

—

Ever since Jazz found out the ghost boy was her brother, she couldn't stop thinking about it. She'd decided immediately to wait until he was ready to tell her before bringing it up, but that didn't stop it from being on her mind all the time. She wanted to protect him but there weren't a lot of ways she could do that.

She nearly freaked out on him when they started doing ghost drills at school, and couldn't exactly explain why without taking away his chance to tell her his secret on his own. Luckily, she managed to change the subject and get away without giving herself away, but it was a close call.

She didn't expect to ever get the chance to talk to Danny as the ghost boy again before he told her it was him, because frankly, he did his best to avoid humans as much as possible in his ghost form, most of all his family.

A lot happened. Danny had a million dollar bounty on his head, everyone at school got sick with ghost flu, then a bunch of teenagers had to save all the adults in town (and, embarrassingly, Jazz) when they got kidnapped by ghosts using hypnotic music.

Then the town was sucked into the Ghost Zone, and the only thing protecting them all from a tyrannical ghost king was Fenton Works' ghost shield. And Danny planned to go fight the king himself. He hadn't said it yet, but she could tell by the grim look on his face when he went outside. Jazz followed subtly, but the time she got outside he was already in ghost form, staring up at the green sky.

"Hey, ghost boy, long time, no see," she said.

"Uh... what?" he said. "I don't... oh... right, yeah. Guess it has... been a while."

"You're gonna try to fight the ghost king, aren't you?" she guessed. "Please don't. Amity Park needs you, and if you go fight him... he could destroy you. I know you think you're invincible but this isn't safe."

Danny huffed out a bitter chuckle. "What do you mean its not safe? I'm already dead," he responded, just the same way as he had the last time she told him that.

But this time she knew it wasn't true, not completely.

She remembered the last time she spoke to him as the ghost boy, how he told her that no one could have saved him when he died. She remembered hearing him screaming in the basement from all the way up on the second floor and wondered if it was true. Sam and Tucker had been with him, and she knew they would have helped if they could have.

"You're right about one thing, though," he said after a moment. "Amity Park needs me. I can't flake out on them now."

With that, he flew off to god knew where, to fight the ghost king, or his skeleton army, or the Fright Knight. She just hoped he'd be okay. He was her baby brother, and she didn't think she could handle losing him for good.

He didn't deserve any of this.

[tactician]

as you probably know, the most recent pokemon games feature pretty significant pokedex cuts due to the sheer magnitude of pokemon that are now available to us. this means that some pokemon are simply not featured in certain mainline games, which adds a unique element to a lot of pokemon's ribbon master journeys. re: my experience with reides, working around unobtainable ribbons wasn't exactly a new experience - after all, there were no available shadow horseas/seadras/kingdras in pokemon colosseum or pokemon xd, so i knew that my kingdra wouldn't be able to get the national ribbon (granted to purified shadow pokemon) - but it still was something i had to consider and plot out carefully as i brought him up towards the more recent generations. for example, reides was unable to get the hisui ribbon (granted for taking a photo with your pokemon in the region's photo studio), as the horsea line was not featured in legends arceus... and, for a long time, i figured that he wouldn't be able to get any of the ribbons (and marks!) featured in scarlet and violet.

but then... the dlc happened. the glorious, glorious dlc.

the horsea line was re-introduced into the pokedex when indigo disk - the second batch of dlc for scarlet and violet - dropped. needless to say, i was EXTREMELY hype about this. in my previous post, i mentioned not being sure if reides would be able to join me in this current generation of pokemon. i wondered if i'd have to brave the long, long queues of pokemon shield in order to get the master rank ribbon on him and make him a true ribbon master... but fortune smiled down on me, and reides was miraculously granted access to generation 9 of the pokemon games.

before i get into reides' journey through paldea, kitakami and unova, here's a quick reminder you can find each part of reides' ribbon master journey here on my personal website, or here in my ribbon master tag on this tumblr! it spans from my childhood copy of emerald version to my... uh... adulthood (lmao) copy of scarlet version... so it's quite the sizeable read! to everyone who's stuck by me for this whole challenge and expressed support for my lovely kingdra: thank you so much! and for anyone new to the reides saga: welcome, and i hope you enjoy my posts about him!

with that handled... it's time to cover a brand new generation of ribbons and marks!

as a big pokemon fan, i tend to play new games and dlc the very moment that i can. in the current era of #gaming, that means obsessively checking for game updates on the night of dlc releases. as i mashed that + button on my pro controller to check for updates to my copy of scarlet, i felt especially nervous. thanks to people being mischievous and sneaking alleged leaks around on twitter, i knew that the horsea line was supposedly being introduced into the game... but i'm extremely skeptical by nature. (can you believe that some people go on the internet and lie?!?!) i didn't want to believe that reides' ribbon master journey would continue until i saw a little horsea (or seadra... or kingdra...) swimming around in a digital body of water myself. once my game finally updated, i sprinted over to blueberry academy as SOON as i could and began running around the terarium in search of a horsea. i found one swimming around in a lake almost immediately.

when i tell y'all... the scream i scrumpt... LMFAO. joking aside, it felt like i could finally breathe again. i was SO READY to plop reides into my file and get right to grabbing the ribbons and marks that were added for gen9. unfortunately, gamefreak had other plans for me, and pokemon home was under maintenance. after falling dramatically to my knees, i busied myself with getting the rest of my team for the dlc ready. this included grinding out the necessary bp to unlock wild starters in the terarium, then embarking on a shiny hunt for my fav starter pokemon of all time - totodile! after hours and hours of looking around, i managed to catch one successfully in a love ball and named him barge. along with the rest of my indigo disk team, barge would go on to be close friends with reides. anyway, after a lengthy maintenance, pokemon home was eventually ready to go. i leapt right in, retrieving reides and plopping him into my party. i'm a huge fan of the updated pokemon models in scarlet, so i was hype to see the one that they gave shiny kingdra. i was NOT disappointed in the slightest!

LOOK AT HOW GORGEOUS HE IS. the tiny scale details... the glossy shine... my god. as much as i liked the sleekness of the models in gen8, i like the more realistic ones that gen9 introduced a whole lot more. the devs did a phenomenal job; kingdra looks absolutely majestic. with my full indigo disk team now present in my copy of scarlet, i had to take a group shot and treat everyone to a sandwich!

reides met five new pals: bane the weezing, grunge the krookodile, bento the snorlax, axe the haxorus, and, of course, barge the feraligatr! i shiny hunted for all of them myself, as i really enjoyed doing the same for my kitakami team during my teal mask playthrough.

i wasn't quite ready to take on the indigo disk plotline, though. my first order of business was grabbing a ribbon for reides - namely, the paldea champion ribbon! i hopped on a plane and flew back to paldea, signing up for a spot in the academy ace tournament.

i really love the vibes of the academy ace tournament; everyone is so passionate about the battles, and the music is an absolute JAM. i was especially happy about reides' first experience as a competitor in it, too, because my fav character in the game just-so-happened to show up for it!

that's right: arven - the man, the myth, the legend - challenged me and reides to a battle.

shoutout to him holding his pokeball upside down. just one more reason as to why he's truly one of the best pokemon characters. (btw, as happy was i was to see arven, i always feel so bad to fight his mabosstiff. that's my FRIEND!!!!!!)

anyway, after sweeping his way through everyone in the academy ace tournament, reides was granted the paldea champion ribbon for his efforts.

after nabbing that ribbon, i decided that i should really get a move on with the indigo disk's actual plot, as i wanted to avoid spoilers and also REALLY wanted to know what happened next in the plot. i was pretty invested in the hooks that teal mask introduced and was especially worried about kieran. (just why did teal mask's plot force us to lie to that poor kid, btw?! just thinking about it gets me so annoyed. i'd go through an 'evil' arc too if i was in his shoes, i'll tell you that.) even though it's not really relevant to reides' ribbon master quest, i figured i'd share some photos of his storyline adventure, too.

(btw, i'm writing this post in feb 2024, which means that indigo disk has been Around for around 2 months and thus the spoiler embargo is pretty much lifted - but, still: be warned that there are some spoilers for indigo disk beyond this point!)

the battles in indigo disk ended up being pretty tough; i was glad that i put time aside to train up my team properly. we managed to take on the blueberry elite four and kieran and ultimately Prevailed - even if the battles were quite close, at times! i was kinda sad that there was no ribbon associated with beating all of them - it would've been nice to finally get some form of an unovan ribbon on my ribbon master - and i was also pretty shocked that the dlc didn't introduce a battle tower. regardless, even if reides didn't get a ribbon for his performance in the battles, it was still awesome to include him in them, and i had a whole lot of fun.

i also brought reides along for the Shenanigans following the blueberry academy plotline.

luckily for me, briar, carmine and kieran were chill with waiting in the underdepths of area zero while i took reides on a bit of a photoshoot. it was just so pretty down there!! how could i resist!!

anyway, silly little wanderings aside, it was really cool to have reides involved in the big showdown against terapagos. i was especially happy when kieran snapped out of his funk and i got to battle alongside him. his hydrapple even used dragon cheer, powering reides up during the battle. it made the whole experience feel all the more significant.

with everything all sorted out, i ended up being really happy with the indigo disk's overall plot. i definitely liked it a lot more than teal mask's narrative and was really pleased that we could become proper friends with kieran once more. (i still wish that we could've apologized for lying to him, though.)

now that i was safe from indigo disk spoilers and emboldened with love for pokemon as a whole, i decided to pick up my ribbon-collecting in earnest once more... though the next ribbon on my list was not actually a ribbon. it was a mark! introduced in gen8, marks are basically the same as ribbons. i think of them as little stickers on pokemon, haha. the first one that i set my sights on was the gourmand mark, which has a chance of being randomly given to your pokemon after eating a meal with them! these meals can be the store-bought ones or the ones that you make yourself via the picnic system.

frankly, i have no idea WHEN reides got this mark, as i went sort of crazy with buying lots of different meals. (i really like the food art in this game, okay!!) it definitely didn't take long for one of these meals to really strike his fancy, though. he got the gourmand mark very quickly and also got the title 'reides the gourmet' along with it!

i then decided that i'd try to get the other two marks on reides in one fell swoop. the first of these marks was the itemfinder mark, which your pokemon has a chance of getting when they pick up an item in the overworld. to get this mark, you have to make use of the let's go feature, which allows your pokemon to walk alongside you. the second of these marks was the partner mark, which... can be quite the ordeal. your pokemon basically has a 1/100 chance to get this mark with every 10k steps that you take. additionally, your pokemon also has to be friendly towards you in order for them to have a chance at getting this mark. since both of these marks rely on random chance, i knew that i could get really unlucky and end up going off on one hell of a grind for them... but i decided to just take it one step at a time. instead of focusing on getting the marks to trigger, i wanted to wander around and enjoy the sights around the various regions of the game. after all, i was lucky to even HAVE reides in this generation - and these marks gave me the perfect excuse to take lots of photos with him, too!

i was especially happy to take some photos of him with aske, my shiny gallade who joined me for my teal mask journey. as you guys know, reides the kingdra is named after a character that i play in a dnd campaign. similarly, aske is named after another character in that campaign; he's reides' boyfriend!

i also enjoyed roaming around *as* reides while using the new synchro machine, too! i'm not sure if items that you pick up count towards the itemfinder mark in this mode, but i'd like to think that they do.

thanks to my casual approach to getting these marks, i actually have no idea how long they took for me to get on reides. one day, i just happened to check and they were BOTH there, so i guess the 'grind' truly ended up being completely painless. in the following screenshot, i'm hovering over the partner mark, but you can see the itemfinder one at the end of the row above it, too.

with the marks now handled, i had one more ribbon to get on reides before he could become a true ribbon master. this ribbon was the one that i was the most nervous about by FAR. the master rank ribbon is granted to your pokemon once you emerge victorious in one (1) online battle against another player... but the catch here is that the battle has to be in the master rank. for me, it meant climbing from the beginner rank all the way up there.

naturally, i procrastinated with this ribbon a whole lot. i took reides along for the (amazing) epilogue when it dropped in january, taking more pictures with him and making more memories... all the while wondering just when i'd get around to tackling the Final Ribbon.

as it turns out, i didn't actually end up procrastinating on it all that long. my friend cody visited me a few days after the epilogue dropped, and my other friend blee stayed over at my house for his visit, too. both of them knew about reides the kingdra and we decided that we'd tackle operation: final ribbon acquisition together, with blee spearheading it as someone very well-versed in vgc. over the course of a few days, we managed to get up to master rank - running into a bunch of really interesting teams and occurences during the climb of legend. (special shoutout to a dedenne who kept trying to spam nuzzle on pokemon who were completely immune to it, but who successfully spread the glory of Cheek Pouch via entrainment onto us all.) i learnt a truly crazy amount of stuff about the competitive world of pokemon and really enjoyed all of the different rental teams that we tried out.

upon arriving in the master ball tier, we had to switch gears, though, as we couldn't use rental teams anymore and, instead, had to build one from scratch so that reides could be included in it. i ended up building this portland regional finals team as per blee's recommendation, though we swapped out raging bolt for reides, himself. since it was my own team and not a rental one, we gave nicknames to each team member.

my entei is one that i got in an event years and years ago (they're shiny and in a cherish ball), so i couldn't nickname them... but just know that they are 'flamberge' in spirit. o7 reides also got an electric tera type (and tera blast as part of his moveset) for fun, as his namesake is associated with storms.

it was a lot of fun making this team!!! the very specific ev-spreads that some of the pokemon required gave me a newfound appreciation for all of the feathers that i happened to pick up while wandering the terarium... not to mention all of the mochi that i collected while oustin' ogres in kitakami.

once the team was all built, it was time to get the final W in order to secure the ribbon at long last. we could all breathe a whole lot easier, as when you rank up to another ball tier, you can't "demote" to a lower one - so falling back into the ultra ball tier wasn't a concern. victory didn't evade us for long, either!

after a REALLY fun battle against someone named alex, operation: final ribbon was finally complete.

reides - along with the rest of the team who helped clutch out the victory - got the much-coveted master rank ribbon.

upon getting this ribbon, it finally happened.

reides the kingdra officially became a ribbon master.

a journey that began back in october 2023 finally came to a close. with his 91 total ribbons (since his two golden memory ribbons have 48 ribbons in total within them), reides now has each and every single ribbon that he can possibly attain from his origin game of emerald version to the current pokemon generation.

i'm sure that all of my posts speak for themselves in terms of the sheer amount of effort that i put into this challenge. there were many times that i thought i hit a "roadblock," be it in the form of a gruelling grind or worries over not being able to access something due to hardware restrictions. in the end, however, reides was able to rise above all of the challenges. i got sooo much help and support from friends over the course of this whole challenge, so i have to give a BIG shoutout to every single one of y'all! and, of course, i have to extend thanks to all of the people who posted about their ribbon mastery experiences online, as i definitely couldn't have guided reides to this point without them. i'm hoping that the posts that i made about reides' journey can serve as a guide of sorts to anyone who wants to pick up the challenge for their pokemon, too!

at any rate, reides is my very first ribbon master and i definitely plan on keeping his ribbon collection up-to-date in future generations of pokemon. i say it time and time again, but the ribbon master challenge is amazing because it gets you interacting with aspects of the pokemon games that you may have never even thought of trying out. you form a true emotional bond with your pokemon, and it's just... so very fantastic. you make so many memories!!! so while there might not be an update to the reides saga until those generations are out and about, i'm already excited to keep on hunting for ribbons and am hoping that the horsea line is included in every single game going forward! because, quite frankly... it's what reides deserves. >:)

before i Sign Off on this post, however, i wanted to share something i bought to celebrate reides; namely, a custom shiny kingdra diorama from nerdidecor on etsy.

ISN'T IT SO CUTE!!!!! i put it right on my desk next to my pc so that i can always have a little reminder of my amazing ribbon master with me. i'm hoping to get more shiny kingdra stuff in the future, too!

either way, thank you all so much again for keeping up with me and my beloved kingdra! i'm already looking forward to being able to write up another one of these posts in the future! until then, reides is definitely going to enjoy a nice vacation from ribbon hunting. rest assured that i will be taking the very best care of him!!! :D

[bluelolblue]

Helloooo :3 For Cyrus and Marcus:

16 - What makes them like someone instantly?

20 - What was your first thought in creating them?

28 - What are some recurring motifs in their dreams?

YAYAY YIPPEE thank youuu!! :3

Cyrus

16. What makes them like someone instantly?

I'd say Cyrus really likes calm people. He is constantly surrounded by louder men who he has to command with, he has to be loud most of the time as well, and that all can be so exhausting even if he doesn't show it. He actually enjoys company of someone quiet and calm, it makes him feel safe. Ig it's kinda like a good charm or vibe from that person that he can feel and emphasize with!

20. What was your first thought in creating them?

Ommgggg I was like 15?? When I thought of him HEHEH. So, I was obsessed with Skyrim and I was actually always playing with khjaiits who could turn into werewolves (of course ehehe). And I realized that I don't have human ocs lmao, I always had some kind of an animal or anthropomorphic oc. Sooo, I associate Skyrim with winter, snow, so I was like "Hmm, yes white hair could be cool!" I like the title of a general, like a knight! I like that a lot. I love werewolves so why not make a white hair general who can turn into a snowy white werewolf! White werewolves aren't that common to see in my opinion and this whole idea for a general to be cursed and has to hide the fact he's a werewolf is something I thought was really interesting and here he is till today! :D

28. What are some recurring motifs in their dreams?

He literally has nightmares of being hunted down while in werewolf form by people and the injuries in those dreams (everything actually) feels so real. Oh, and definitely moon, sometimes things from his past (childhood) and a very uncomfortable lonely feeling. So, he often feels dreams, a lot of the time it's about death and being attacked and just really weird vibe. So... he can't even rest while sleeping 😞

Marcus

16. What makes them like someone instantly?

Similar to Cyrus, calm energy from a person, BUT ALSO he likes when a person is clever and I mean in a way that they know how to use words. That unique charm, that clever, well spoken vibe. That's how he ended up befriending Ak'kir (actually important khjaiit character that I didn't even introduced yet OOPS), cuz Ak'kir knew his way with words and that immediately interested Marcus.

20. What was your first thought in creating them?

Same age when I made Cyrus and here the idea was that I wanna make a vampire character but my own version because I kinda don't like how vampires work and look in Skyrim. And I always had this mysterious looking vibe for a vampire. Black longer hair, dark pretty aesthetic, that hat lmao to protect from the sun (I call it "cowboy hat" but it's not really a cowboy hat lmao). And ofc... werewolf x vampire is a popular ship dynamic and I love it and I was like "YES they will go from enemies to lovers!!"

28. What are some recurring motifs in their dreams?

Ooo Marcus is a bit tricky. I mean yeah also disturbing dreams unfortunately, especially since he's a vampire and all of the things he had seen while being in Lord Harkon's clan. Eughh he just can't get rid of the picture of dead people... it's like so disgusting to him because of the way how it was handled. Like, he doesn't have a problem with seeing people dying, but there's something so eerie about... a pile of corpses that make him so uncomfortable. And he has nightmares about that.

Ask game

[malleablemusic]

the queen is dead - the smiths

i’ve never listened to the smiths, and have tried to avoid them my entire life as much as i can. i successfully avoided watching 500 days of dummer for 23 years before giving in and deciding i should experience it in order to form my own opinion without any preconceived notions. it’s safe to say i was not surprised by how much i disliked the film, which definitely doesn’t make me feel better about branching out now, but hopefully the smiths will not disappoint. as a disclaimer, these opinions are a practice in separating the art from the artist- i still hate morrissey as a human being. here are my notes:

the queen is dead: 3.3/5 stars

"oh, has the world changed or have i changed?" this hit harder than i expected it to

his voice is so unique and special, and i love that he acknowledges that with the line "she said, 'eh, i know, and you cannot sing'" and then to follow this up with a joke about his piano skills being worse is unfortunately iconic of him

obsessed with the voice cracks he allows himself to sing, specifically on "were" in the line "i swear to god i never knew what drugs were" because it adds such a youthful vulnerability

i love how he compares the inconvenience of his hair being messed up by the rain to "love, law, and poverty"

overall, i think the lyrics are fire, but i don't love the beat. the drums are very cool, but it's lacking in guitar/bass

frankly, mr. shankly: 3.6/5 stars

groovy fun beat that i enjoyed immediately

the way that he sings "fulfilled" and "mentally ill" to rhyme them scratches my brain

"flatulent pain in the ass" is an epic insult that i will now be adding to my vocabulary

i know it's over: 2.9/5 stars

soothing beat and singing voice

"loud loutish lover treat her kindly, though she needs you more than she loves you" felt like a slap to the face and made me gasp out loud

morrissey is so good at dragging himself, "then why are you on your own tonight?" ok ouch

"it takes guts to be gentle and kind" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

beautiful lyrics but didn't stun or wow me, unfortunately boring

never had no one ever: 2/5 stars

wait was he 20 when he wrote this??

we get it morrissey, you are alone

this was very whiny and not in a hot way

cemetery gates: 3.8/5 stars

love the guitar so much

love the simplicity of this lyric, "they were born, and then they lived, and then they died / seems so unfair, i want to cry"

"'you say 'ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn' and you claim these words as your own" trying very hard not to be a misandrist here but it is so unrealistic for a man to have this experience and not the other way around LMAO

bigmouth strikes again: 4.3/5 stars

immediate banger

"sweetness i was only joking when i said I'd like to smash every tooth in your head" and "when i said by rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed" HUH???? what did he sayyyyyy

"and now I know how joan of arc felt" probably the best lyric I've ever heard, once again not sure a man could ever know what she felt but sure ok

obsessed with the high pitched echoing voice in the background

the boy with the thorn in his side: 2.6/5 stars

"behind the hatred there lies a plundering desire for love" i think in this song morrissey really gives himself away in that he confuses love for acceptance. he doesn't seem to wish to be loved by someone and acutally love them in return

hard to empathize with this song not gonna lie

i like the little scatting thing he does in the second half of the song

vicar in a tutu: 1.6/5 stars

in the least chronically online social justice warrior way possible i don't love how this song is just a big joke on how funny it would be if a man wore a typically feminine piece of clothing

dumb and stupid and not funny or entertaining (though i do love a good jab at the church)

there is a light that never goes out: 4.3/5 stars

another banger

the kind of song i want to scream out my car windows while speeding down a highway

is that a flute or recorder in the background? either way, so fun!

quintessential angst teen experience of driving around in your car

some girls are bigger than others: .1/5 stars

the opposite of going out with a bang

following a banger with a FLOP

the title made me flinch

what is the point of this song?? so so lame

didn't even want to finish the song, it just repeats the one stupid lyric "some girls are bigger than others"

overall, i did not hate the album as much as i anticipated! a few bangers to add to the playlist, but definitely a few flops. this album gets a 3.4/5 from me!

[himejoblr]

i haven't posted oc's in a while LOL,,,, sorry for that hahwjdawndfd

anyweyzzzzzzzzzzzzz,, meet ryuuzaki mato (竜崎 マト) and uruwashi hazuki (雲類鷲 晴月) !! (he/she for mato, any prns for hazuki)

“these two never go a day without plotting something together, but no one in seishou's soccer club can deny that their presence somehow keeps the entire team sane.”

rambling under the cut!! if ure in the inablr disc server then uve probably seen some of this

first of all, i'd like to say that i used picrews as references for them, but i only made slight changes for mato (the og skin color was too dull.... </3)

okay so. mato. he's genderfluid, bisexual, and uses he/she pronouns (already stated that on the top of the post)! she prefers being called by her given name rather than her surname (take into account the name order in japan)

and yes, they're both managers! i figured i wanted to make male manager ocs, and these two were the result,, i KNOW mato looks like a girl but let him (and ME) be plz :3c

((also also they R dating. but they do not know that yet))

she isn't usually seen wearing the prescribed blazer for seishou, but i like to think that they (seishou) aren't too strict with the school dress code. although that was the case, mato still promised she'd (mostly) wear vests or cardigans that had similar colors to the blazer. at first, she was a bit nervous about going to school with a yellow cardigan, but seishou allowed it, so she's safe!!! wow!!!!!!!! also whether he wears a skirt or pants to school depends on his mood

my guy is obsessed with vests and cardigans so everyone just kinda immediately associates those clothes to him whenever they come across them. some examples of how his casual outfits usually look like: these pins. might have slight modifications depending on how diligent i am

now, about his past, why he wears an eyepatch, and how his sister died........

a random fact about her is that she owns a toy piano from her unfortunately deceased older sister, and has a youtube channel dedicated to making covers with it, occasionally accompanying them with a xylophone and/or her voice. figure one: final duet.

ah wait. before i talk abt his past, i wanna talk abt etymologies!!!!!

first of all, the ryuu in her surname 竜崎 (first kanji/character) is from 竜座 (ryuuza), which means draco constellation! this is supposed to be in line w how they name seishou characters (aka they name them after constellations). as for mato, i just took that from the first two syllables of matoro juka's surname and wrote it in katakana LMAO

his sister, ryuuzaki yostuha (name not final), died at 15 years old, which is basically fresh outta junior high (bc she was turning 16 that year). apparently, she had a stalker who had been planning to kill her since 2 years ago, and they murdered her on her birthday. mato was 9 at the time.

mato's initial reaction was shock and denial, since yknow. yotsuha's his sister. and she's one of his closest... friends? relatives? ever.

it's been 3 years since yotsuha's death, and mato's now in junior high. he noticed how his parents' attention suddenly turned to him, and how they started giving him so much affection the same way they did to yotsuha, and it kinda irked him a bit. she knew? she should be grateful since her parents actually "care" about her now, but on second thought, it's probably because they're coping with losing their eldest daughter.

okay NOW on why she's wearing an eyepatch. in her last few days of being a first year in seishou, same stalker who killed yotsuha suddenly showed up on her way home and attempted murdering her too, but only ended up stabbing her right eye. stalker ended up retreating but got arrested later lolz

and Finally. the general gist of his past as of now is that he grew up being neglected by his parents until his sister died and all the attention and affection they gave to her suddenly turned to him. then on one fine day, stalker who murdered older sister pulled a funny and stabbed his eye. okay that's it

next up, uruwashi hazuki! they're also genderfluid, unlabeled sexuality (still not sure about this) and they use any prns (stated already at the top of the post but yk)!

she basically wears the girls' seishou uniform Except:

she wears those tight shorts or whatever theyre called (whatever terumi wears in her og zeus uniform)

her blazer is unbuttoned and the polo? shirt is untucked on one side (usually the left)

as for his casual outfit.... well, the picrew i used just clearly depicts his usual casual outfit lol

a random fact about him is that he tends to collect a lot of space-related stuff, especially if it's something connected to constellations, stars, and the moon. i mean. moon is literally in his name (月(tsuki/zuki) = moon)

for etymologies, the washi in her surname 雲類鷲 (third kanji/character) comes from 鷲座/わし座 (washiza), which means aquila/eagle constellation!!! same thing as a while ago, and also i wanted to give her a moon typa motif so i put 月 in her name HAKALSJAH (also fyi i took her surname from uruwashi karuta ayakashi akashi 😭😭😭😭😭)

as for their past, i'm still thinking about it. for now, it's just something along the lines of being raised by a seemingly ordinary family in a broken village.

i plan to expand that idea maybe by around the end of the week since moratorium is this week which means i'll get really busy... 💔

anyways, i'm glad i still had the time to write this! i'd like to remind you again that half (if not more or less) of the info i jotted down in this post aren't completely finalized yet, and are therefore subject to change in the not-so distant future!

if you reached this part of the post, then thanks for reading, and i hope you enjoyed me rambling about my sillies!! cya!!!

[landofsamurai]

Being a Vice Commander is Hell

@jiraipink

During this trip, all Kamui has done is talk to that damn earth girl. At the very least, Abuto was harassed by him a lot less. But usually he'd make everyone do a lot of sparring, given his obsession with strength, and wanting everyone to follow that ideal.

But no. Since the minute the girl came onboard, ALL the commander's attention was on her. It was as if no one else existed They were also really touchy feely with each other. Hugging, hand holding, cheek kissing. . . .

Not to mention he was pretty sure he heard Kamui call her cute and beautiful about a million times.

Yet were only best friends. They were both idiots actually. Especially after making everyone else witness this disaster.

When they finally did part from each other, it was only when Namida had went to the bathroom. Although, when that happened Kamui looked over at him. Abuto immediately looked away, noticeably sweating since he knew what was about to happen.

''A-b-u-t-o ~!'' His commander said his name with such a cheery sing-song tone it genuinely gave Abuto chills down to his core. The vice commander looked over at Kamui with a look of dread.

''What is it? Finally stopped flirting with that earth girl?'' Abuto questioned, though he noticed the smile immediately dropping from Kamui's expression which was never good.

''What did you two talk about when you bumped into her on earth?'' He got right to the point, not even acknowledging what Abuto said.

''Are you afraid of me stealing your girl or something?'' Abuto questioned with a quirk brow.

''Answer the question.''

An annoyed sigh breathed past the vice commander's lips, ''I happened to encounter her during an errand I was running, saw you two talking, and when she was alone I warned her you was too dangerous to be around.''

Kamui looked at him skeptically, ''Errand? The hell kind of business would you have to take care of on Earth anyway?''

A silence persisted between the two, just staring at each other.

A forced, and very pissed off smile was back on Kamui's face. ''Abuto, you know I hate liars. Are you trying to make me more mad?''

Kamui was unfortunately really good at seeing through lies, which Abuto absoutely hated. So there was no choice but to be honest. ''Me and the other guys were curious on what you were always doing when we came to earth, since we figured out it wasn't solely just to see your sister. So one day I followed you, and that's when I saw you and that girl.''

Kamui was quiet after hearing that, his sapphire gaze looking up at Abuto.

Abuto was currently counting the seconds. . . . .

1.... 2....3....4.....5.....

P U N C H

There it was, he felt Kamui's fist collide into his face. A feeling he's grown pretty accustomed to. At the very least, he only staggered back instead of completely falling to the ground this time around.

''I don't want you alone with her again, ever. If you go against what I say, I'll seriously kill you.'' The murderous intent behind those blue eyes managed to instill unease into Abuto.

''During this trip, I want her all to myself. You and no one else is going to ruin that for me. She's my best friend. And only mine. I don't care how dangerous you think I am.''

What was this character type? Oh yeah, a yandere. Except, the yandere in question didn't realize he was crazily in love with his so called best friend.

Abuto clutched his now swollen cheek, ''As if I'd be stupid enough to try anything with a girl you're fawning over.''

Anyone would have to be insane to do something like that. But this girl was insane as well for involving herself with someone like this.

The biggest idiot wasn't Kamui.

It was Namida.

[theoccasionalthoughtaboutlife]

Wow. It's been six years since I've needed to vent bad enough to post here.

I'm...in a really scary headspace right now after admitting a few things to myself. I could kill myself right now and there's not a single person it would be life altering for. I think (hope) a few people would be hurt, or feel sad maybe. But...I don't think it would be life altering for any of them.

My ride or die has a husband and kids, and over the past two years we barely talk anyway. I'd drop everything for her in a heartbeat, but I know she wouldn't do the same. Hell, my goddamn apartment burned down last year, and I don't think I even got an "oh my god, are you okay?" Message from her even though she definitely knew within hours of it happening.

I was really close with her parents, but that relationship fractured when COVID hit and we had...very, different views. We still talk but we're definitely not nearly as close or as social as we used to be with each other. I know I'm not their number one.

A good friend from work, who turned close friend outside of work, moved three hours away, and while I'd drop a lot to help her, and I try to go visit as much as I can, I know I'm not her number one.

My two best friends from university...one has a guy that she's down bad for, and he has a baby. She does everything with them, and she does a lot with his friends. The other best friend and I have just naturally drifted as we work at different spots. They're still super close with each other since they work at the same spot. Same room even. There have been multiple times over the last year where they've both done the "what do you mean you didn't know XYZ happened? Oh yea, I told her on the way to work but forgot to tell you. Sorry!" Thing. They just...both have their lives, and I'm not a priority. I have to admit some fault on that one in that I've not done my best to maintain the friendship either.

My mother has put an absolute loon of a friend over me several times recently. That friend was worth more than my comfort, or even really hearing me out. I'm... conflicted, on if I'm a priority to her, because I think I am, but at the same time, she's chosen this friend over me several times now when it comes to my comfort. And thinking back to my teenage years, she did a lot of selfish things that definitely didn't put me as a priority. It almost feels like I'm the priority when she literally doesn't have someone else in her life to be able to prioritize, if that makes sense. It's a pattern when I think about it.

My best friend, or at least, the woman I've considered my best friend, is unfortunately someone I met through work. We went from being super involved in each other's lives several months ago, to now she even ignores work related texts that I send her. And the worst part is I don't even think she's doing it intentionally. She's just so obsessed with this fucking guy that everything else seems to come second now. And it's making me question every aspect of our friendship. I've always been the one to suggest/ask if we can do something. To reach out. To check in with her and make sure she's okay. And when shit happens to me? I...she's never no been there for me necessarily, and she has reached out to me when things were bad and been there for me, but I almost feel like I've needed to initiate? Like, I need to /say/ something is wrong for her to check in? But I also feel like that's unfair to say because I feel like I'm just catastrophizing right now and only thinking of the negatives due to my headspace. She's just always with this guy, she responds to him immediately, she prioritizes hanging out with him and communicating with him, and I've just....been forgotten. Which feels really fucking pathetic to say. It's gotten to the point where I almost did an AITAH Reddit post asking if I'd be the asshole to just give up on the friendship without even trying to fight for her. Like, it's already to the point where I'm sending myself. I've not messaged her at least 8 times over the last two weeks about things where I usually wouldn't hesitate to message her. I just...I'm definitely not her priority, and it really fucking sucks to have another friendship go down the drain because she prioritized a romantic relationship over a friendship. This one...it fucking stings. She was...is...important. In a lot of ways. She was my new ride or die. I guess it only went one way.

Even my cat. He acts much more affectionate with my mother than myself. I don't know what effect my death would have on him, but for a long time, he's been my last tether. Admitting to myself that he's more affectionate with mother than myself was...a not good realization.

There are other people I could comment on. My aunt and cousin. My best friend from college. Other friends. I'm just...to tired to continue listing off the people I'm not a priority to. The people who my death may (hopefully) make them sad, but it's not going to be one of those life altering moments.

Life itself is...hard, right now has been for a long while. And those connections where the things making it worth living. Or at least, the tethers to force myself to keep going. I've really scared myself tonight with the headspace I've sunk into by realizing that those relationships are not as important to them as they are to me.

I'm not going to do it tonight. Not anytime soon. I don't think. But tonight's reflections have put some things into perspective for me, and I've got a lot to think about over the coming weeks on how I'm going to proceed.

[ice-and-lightning-a]

( 7/9/16 for the munday thingie )

@aluckiicoin || munday meme

7. What drew you to writing your current character(s)?

Yanqing was first. I began playing HSR due to images I'd seen of the Xianzhou Luofu and the characters there. I watched Jing Yuan's trailer and liked Yanqing. I saw his trailer and liked him even more, so checked out his wikia and then he was "born" in my head. Why Yanqing? I guess I felt a connection to the whole prodigy child and he has a very neurodivergent obsession with swords and swordplay. I like his way of being generally mature, until you mention swords and he just rambles off. The mix of confidence and fear. The need to prove himself as well as his fixation of helping Jing Yuan and being useful to him.

Arlan took a moment, since we don't see him much. I did like him from the beginning, but not until I got more info about him from chats and Asta did I check him up (since I didn't have him then). As I read his wikia page, he began speaking to me. I love his how he seems to gentle and shy, until he starts fighting, in which case he's brutal and uses a sword taller than himself. I was attracted to his loyalty and mysterious background.

Moze was attachment at first sight. So much with him clicked with myself. He's one of three muses (OCs not counting) that just clicked with me immediately. We share a few things, like mysophobia, actually liking to clean and organise, being quiet and generally choosing not to speak. Unfortunately, I can't turn into a shadow.

9. How would you describe your aesthetic?

90s trash panda? Tbh, I don't think I have an aesthetic.

16. What is your favorite band/music genre?

My favourite band is probably Linkin Park, however, my fevourite genre is actually classical and "modernised traditional instrument". You know when you use traditional instruments, but mixed with modern music. Many Luofu soundtracks has this, like Heaven and Earth as a Chessboard. Though Samudrartha is still one of my absolute favourite songs. It's so beautiful it hurts. And that was before I knew the lyrics and the scene it's used for.

[blorboconfessions]

hey infodump excerpt incom-

"Doctor" Trayaurus •Mods•: See above, all of the above! And get me all of your villager buff mods on the double •Background•: It's a little sad, innit? Hatched from an egg in the very same lab he owns today, lived with his mum until a witch kidnapped her when he was only a baby, he grew up in a wet cardboard box all alone.

CRAZINESS BLOCK! He couldn't have been more than 12 when she was abducted.. just a little kid. Barely knew how to make his own sandwiches, and he was immediately thrown into needing to take care of himself in Every Way. Forced to grow up too fast!! And it wasn't her fault, and it wasn't his fault? It's just unfair!!! That's why he holds onto "childish" fancies, because he lost so much time. That's why he dislikes his little cousin, because he's Jealous. Obsessively getting high scores in skateboard vidya... cramming insane volumes of cookies into a food processor... He's a little-- I definitely am interrupting the sentence here!! You haven't seen the end of it! Trust me. Please CRAZINESS BLOCK END!

Took on the science in her place, but he was lonely.. until Dan showed up. The rest is best.

•Looks•: Taking the Tray Mii + Enchanted Crystal into account, he seems to be slightly lighter than the average villager? But for me personally, the key word there is •slightly•, somewhere between that and the default Villager skin. I do jive with the bushy brows and grumpy vibe, though. And of course, he's gotta have the mad scientist lab coat. Lmao he Actually has blond hair? I thought that was just one of three Danaurus fans I've found making something up! But it's real... Maybe not now, maybe not tomorrow, but at some point I'm giving him prosthetic robot arm surgery. I think he'd look epic, plus he'd love to have them •Personality•: Another man of •relatively• few words, but surprisingly amicable when he does speak! He's also surprisingly dedicated to Fucked-up Science though, unfortunately for his assistant! He's a gamer. I headcanon him to have other somewhat "childish" interests that he has no shame for, and good for him. •Story•: We love the episodic status quo here. I'm going to find a way to dismantle it temporarily, just you watch, but for now? Weird dude pushes his bestie into a machine that turns him into a pixie, then they go get ice cream. Is nice. hmmm october 2022 i wrote all this down, along with other minecraft character bios, OC and not. fun stuff!! and i'm just posting it here like sending out dandelion seeds x] F/O friday, you say? I'd date him, he's cute with it <<< minecraft villager lover in general >>> so mod: take care of yourself <3

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[yanderes-galore]

Well… I’ve seen the slasher ones, so I’ll go with classic Michael M. :)

I’m kinda curious if you’d write some short concept on some punishment with your prompt 36? Lol thank you I kinda started to fancy this boogeyman >:)

Since Michael Myers doesn't talk, instead I'm going to theme the short around the prompt instead of having the character quote the prompt.

Yandere! Michael Myers Prompt 36

"I'd hate to hurt you but... if you keep this up I might have to."

Pairing: Romantic

Possible Trigger Warnings: Gender-Neutral Darling, Stalking, Power dynamic, Threats, Manipulation, Obsession, Breaking and entering, Murder.

All of his victims struggled. It was pleasant to watch them struggle and scream as he watched the life leave their eyes. He was always so creative with the ways he could end them.

He didn't like it when you struggled, however. No, you were different. You made the boogeyman feel different.

Your presence filled the same void murder had. You were a way to tame the beast for at least a short while. As a result, he pursued you.

He followed you for hours. It could have even been days before Halloween began. It was like you were the most fascinating person he's ever seen. You were his newest obsession and he'd do anything to see you.

He used to just be content with watching. Soaking in your appearance and everything you did. You were only living your life, unaware of the lurking danger nearby.

He was silent. The only noises coming from him being heavy breathing behind the mask. No one ever saw him coming.

The boogeyman must strike at some point, unfortunately. He can not go long without watching someone fall victim to his hands. Yet... he also liked watching you.

This was when you'd start noticing disappearances. Murders often happened around you. The worst part being... they were all people you recognized.

Your fear would grow and grow the more you noticed familiar faces being targetted. All of which murdered in grotesque ways. Whoever did this must have been pretty passionate in the crime-

You stopped watching the news at some point. Dreading the idea of learning about a new murder of someone else you knew. You'd rather be blissfully ignorant....

You began to isolate yourself in fear that you'd cause more death. This new behavior only encouraged the boogeyman to close in on you. He went from watching at a distance, to being right outside your window.

It was cute when you first spotted him outside your window. Your face contorted in a scream while you ran away from him. It only made him more eager to break your window.

You couldn't get far. Michael was skilled in hunting down his victims, no matter where they went. He was motivated to find you.

He could wait no longer to have you.

As he cornered you, screams of 'No' came from you. No matter how much you tried to change his mind, he would not change his goal. Your cowering only encouraged him.

While he did enjoy your fear, your struggling was not as welcome as it usually is. With others, he loved it when they struggled. With you... it only annoyed him.

He tried to restrain you with his strength but it only made you push against him more. Even though he was much stronger than you, you still never gave up. It was cute, albeit irritating.

He didn't entirely want to hurt you... yet, it looked like he'd have to. The knife he wields threatens to trace across your skin if you move anymore. You immediately freeze when the cold metal grazes against you.

Michael could stare at the fear in your eyes forever.... He was enamoured by you. You were weaker than him, maybe that's why he enjoyed you so much.

He liked things weaker than himself...

Which meant he liked you.

He didn't care if you cried. He didn't even care if you cursed at him. He just cared about you staying still.

As long as you stayed still, he didn't need to hurt you.

He just wanted to hold you and look at you.

What happens after he's had his fill is up to him.