#i might revamp them one day and post or make a whole new one who knows asjhdsfdsf

[littlecafe]

seeing likes popping up on my old playlist posts every now and then made me realize it’s been so long since i’ve posted a new one omg i should make a new one soon

if anyone has ideas for playlists they’d like to see feel free to message them to me 😇

[imrinababy]

Day 8 of Crona’s April CAS Challenge!

I hope this posts on time + I’ve skipped a few days bc my sims didn’t come out the way I’ve wanted them to with the stuff I have but I was really looking forward to this day. I was debating on making a brand new pair of twin sims but I also wanted to bring back a set of twins that I grew really fond of. I decided to revamp them & give them a whole new life so here we go!

𝙽𝚢𝚕𝚊 [𝚜𝚑𝚎/𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢] & 𝙻𝚢𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚊𝚢 𝙱𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚛 [𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚜]

Coming from a line of fairy elves that are more physically superior than humans (have an easier time doing physical activities than regular humans such as being able to run longer distances without tiring, climb and swim for hours without breaking much of a sweat, stronger naturally in general, etc) Nyla is someone who easily fits the bill.

You’ll always find her in the smallest, tightest & girliest little dresses with heels to match (and yes, she’s always ready to party) so you might think she’s always just got off the latest catwalk, too busy to care for the average person but it’s actually quite the opposite. Nyla has a huge passion for her little plants.

Most people actually stumble across Nyla crouched down and poking at dirt. People often come up to her with concern as it’s an odd site to see someone all dolled up & playing in the dirt but, if you were to ask her if she’s okay, she’s passionately tell you about the plant she’s trying to save at the moment.

Nyla loves the outdoors. She gets sad if she’s cooped up for too long. Her favorite color is purple and she has an obsession with butterflies. You’ll usually find her tending her garden, in greenhouses checking out the latest plants, in fields watching the butterflies or letting loose and enjoying a party.

She has a good heart and is very outgoing. She also enjoys being physically active and loves involving herself in charity work. She can hide her wings if needed but she takes pride in them and enjoys having them on full display. Overall, she loves being able to be out there in the world, waiting to stumble on her next adventure & Lyndsay…

“Can we go home yet?” is something you’d commonly hear out of the younger sister’s mouth. If it wasn’t for how my Nyla mentioned her sister, you probably wouldn’t realize that Nyla had a sister at all. A twin sister at that.

Although their species have a physical advantage over humans, you wouldn’t really be able to tell that observing Lyndsay. Lyndsay never really preformed well doing physical activities and much prefers to stay inside. She’s a geek and really good when it comes to tech stuff. She’s a huge gamer and does all her stuff online so she doesn’t have a real reason to get out much but when she does, you’d probably hear her grumbling about how she “has an event to grind” or how she “should have stayed home anyways.”

She hates wearing heeled anything (minus her favorite boots) and hates wearing anything too revealing. You’d usually find her in a baggy hoodie and cargo pants at home lounging around. You wouldn’t think these two were related by how polar opposite they were but they’re twin sisters for a reason.

Although the two are insanely different, they value each other like no other. Where one lacks in an area, the other makes up for it. They’re one killer team and no matter their differences, they always know that they have each other at the end. They have immense love for each other and know each other’s strengths/ weaknesses so they always know how to boost each other up in situations. Wherever one goes, the other is always soon to follow. You can’t separate these two little peas in a pod. They’ll always find a way to get back to each other.

[laylabahiti]

HSHQTASK059: FAREWELL SEE YOU LATER!

when did you join ? what made you join ? what do you remember from the plotlines that were current at the time ? where were you in life when you joined and where are you now ?

i joined september 2016 when this was vikrp! i was a junior in college and had been writing indie rp for a minute before that kinda died down, so i took a peek at the tags. vikrp/haisociety/highsociety had the pairs aspect to it back then, so i fulfilled someone's jade thirlwall wc but they went inactive like right after i was accepted asjdfka. i believe the revamp to haisociety happened in december/january, truly a time to be alive. i started as a junior back then and i'm ending as a junior in my second bachelor's degree💀, a homeowner, and within the next couple years, i'll be married and have a kid*. *tbd when we're both done with school and onto other careers

which characters have you written over the years ?

layla, cameron (early days), tobias (early days), katalina, gabriel, mikolas, alaina, dmitri, juliana, ettore, emerson, tamiko, kaira

what is your favourite plotline that you've been part of ?

too many to choose from! tbh the aslan/layla/olivier triangle was fun just because of the silly ic drama it caused. i'm pretty sure it was during haisociety when i messaged e about layla/olivier, because layla has the "he helped me, i love him" mentality and we just went with it askdfa, not really planning anything or knowing what would come of it. also love the egypt plotline and anytime those siblings interacted. and the early days of barbie and layla's friendship, how barbie pretty much took layla under her wing and got her out of her shell.

what about other people's plotlines ?

definitely the chaos of england and the murder mystery event. if i remember any more i'll edit this jaksdf

who is your favourite character from the ones you've played ? why ? what made you love them ? what made them so fun to write ?

no surprise here but layla. in the early days, layla was meek to the point she hardly spoke, took everything literally, and asked too many questions. she developed her voice and learned to be a little selfish in the later years, but she's still a crier.

if you could relive a plotline, which would it be ?

the greek invasion. it might have been one of the most well-constructed events i have been a part of. i remember traveling during it and writing replies on my phone just so i didn't miss out. every character was affected one way or another, and that event was a turning point in layla's personality.

is there a plotline that you'd edit now if you could ?

i wouldn't necessarily say edit, but it'd be interesting to see how things would've panned out if layla kissed olivier back and still felt guilty enough to tell aslan.

what's a plotline you wish you would have been able to finish before closing or just write more of ?

egypt<3 getting to see amon's coronation and both of them trying to rectify the family's image. life got way too chaotic over the past year, but i love mine and lina's headcanons

what is your favourite ooc memory ?

late 2018, someone kept sending rude/hateful anons to muns and the main, and everyone banded together to keep hshq alive and well. i submitted a whole essay to the main with my comments not thinking the admins would actually post it and they DID, 2018 was an interesting time here. also in the early days when we started listing how all characters were connected and making full circles of connections, simpler times.

where can others find you if they want to get in touch ?

you can always reach me on discord! i'm in the hshq server so feel free to add me or message anytime. i have a few socials if you want those as well - if this is farewell, you've earned my real name ajkdlfj. tbh this is probably my tumblr exit, i don't have much time or mental capacity to write full threads and join something new, but this blog will remain.

what else would you like to say ?

hshq is truly the only reason i've stuck around tumblr this long. almost 8 years of my life has been spent communicating with you all! in some of my worst moments, i was able to turn to hshq and escape reality for a bit. i feel like i'm missing a lot but trying to dig up memories from 8 years ago is difficult lol.

[superaznchick]

i had a whole rant typed out like 2 days ago that i made while emotional but it will rot in my drafts forever now because i have now spent the required amount of time in the timeout corner and properly digested my emotions to come back and make a fresh new post

idk what corporate girly out there slaving in front of a laptop needs to hear this AGAIN, because i certainly have heard this before but subconsciously dismissed it because Surely That Won't Happen To I, but it DID so i am now yelling at you from the other side

DONT FUCKING TRUST YOUR MANAGER!!!!!!!!! the nuance here is that YES they can be nice, and they can 100% be the best person ever, and they might not even consciously manipulate you. but you are never safe from subconscious manipulation or just straight up incompetence.

if your manager does their job well, it means you are manipulated. BUT if they do their job BAD, you STILL get manipulated!! this is because even if they are incompetent, you will always end up bridging the gap for their incompetence and it will weigh you down and you will NEVER get credit for your work. in fact, you are in danger on both ends of the spectrum - if you manager is good, they'll take credit for your work. if your manager is bad, they'll STILL take credit for your work AND make you suffer for it because they won't even have the skills at least get you the reward you deserve.

ive spent the last 3 years under my do-nothing manager always giving him the benefit of the doubt, "oh he's just a silly lil guy this is his first management job he doesnt know what hes doing" type shit, and i have nothing but stress and resentment to show for it.

i have LITERALLY been DOING HIS JOB FOR HIM. i revamped our meetings, i put sprint processes in place, i drew our team scope/borders and weighed in on who should staff projects. and on TOP of that i did tech lead and regular ic work. i was doing both my job and at least 50% of his because im not a fucking manager and theres only so much i can do.

but all this time my actual skill set as an engineer is deteriorating because ive been begging for mentorshop/coaching since day one i joined the team, which is 100% the manager's job to coach and level up their engineers, but these needs were completely ignored in favor of me trying to get this dumb fucking team together because my manager literally does nothing. he doesn't do his fucking job, and he gets away with it because he has high soft skill!!!! his boss likes him!!! so he will not be punished!!!!!!

i on the other hand am severely punished because i have revealed my hand as a do-all "superstar", im the one that gets 3 projects with the same deadline that i have to do all by myself, im the one thats expected to do all my work and more AND i am the one that takes the brunt of flack when external teams are ultimately disappointed that the deadlines are not met. i get no protection from any of this shit because my manager is fucking incompetent and refuses to step up. whether he consciously or subconsciously does this DOES NOT MATTER!!!! you will ALWAYS eat it at the bottom line!!!

treat your manager like your enemy, never trust them. size them up in your first few 1:1s to see how much they can do for you in terms of your career. if they are NOT delivering results within the first 2-3 months, CLOCK OUT!!!!!! decenter work from your life, shut the laptop at 5pm sharp, put in your bare minimum to not get canned and turn your brain off from all work problems. sometimes the corporate grind is worth it but ONLY if you have someone competent managing you and they are smart enough to recognize that engineers under them need reward and respect to be retained. if they won't or can't retain you, just let it happen!!!! dont overextend yourself it's never worth it

obv im yelling this from my jail cell as a software engineer so idk how much of this is applicable to other fields, but that's my two cents. i have spent way too much time being upset and angry these last few weeks to not vent about it. if this applies to you, pls save yourself the heartache and learn the skill of decentering work for when it comes in handy. im not advocating for indiscriminate quiet quitting bc that can actually be harmful to your financials, but the art of quiet quitting should still be mastered for when the appropriate time arises. use your discretion

[heatherwitch]

Hello Mouse. Do you know of any magical help I can use to support my housekeeping? I'm able to keep my home clean more or less but the every day clutter situation is getting out of hand. Think used mugs on surfaces, some plastic wrappers on the floors, single socks etc. Most of the time I'm too exhausted (and prob too depressed) to do anything and if there is any energy I tend to clean the kitchen and the bathroom instead of tidying. Obvs I know it's not a matter of magic and stuff gets done by itself, but I'd appreciate any magical support. I can't pay someone to help me and I'm too embarrassed to ask someone I know to help me. Plus I need an ongoing solution not a one time only deal.

Hello! I completely understand what you’re going through, I’ve been there and continue to be going through it to varying extents.

To me the mindset that’s helped the most is “do what you can, when you can” and “do it now for your future self because you don’t know when you’ll feel worse” that second one might seem a bit negative but I think of it as a gift to my future self regardless of whether my health is better or worse. And it’s true, my health is unpredictable but having a system where I do everything as it comes up really sets me up for success when I’m struggling mentally or physically and I’m often still able to manage most of it then because it’s become such a habit. Anyways I talk about that more and how it looks in my life in the first post I linked.

The first post linked talks about how I personally deal with keeping my house clean + tidy (which I may revamp because I have a different lifestyle + home now) and the second has a whole section on cleaning/cleansing and other home-related magic :)

Also I know how embarrassing it can feel to have your living space be a mess but I think it really just shows how much you’re going through. If you were at a friends and saw a mess, would you think harshly of them or would you feel compassion for them? I try to hold that compassion for myself when I’m cleaning, especially after I let things get out of hand. I made it through that point in my life and did what I had to, and I’m proud of getting through it, and I’m proud of myself for being able to pick the pieces back up after. And it’s okay if that cycle repeats forever because I’ve made it through before and I’ll see myself on the other side with love and compassion for the person who got me through. It took me a long time to get to that point but I’d encourage you to start trying to think of it that way, it gets easier with time ❤️

[theyellowroseofsodor]

Welcome to The Yellow Rose of Sodor

Hello all, all hello! Welcome to the official tumblr for The Yellow Rose of Sodor, a work of fiction created by yours truly (Kamiko!). Although you won’t find much art here to begin with, as I am but a humble writer and my skills with the artistic pen are so-so, here there will be fun prompts and asks for the characters of the series. I will try my utmost to keep up with everything and no one will be OOC to the absolute best of my abilities. Here you can also ask Camille (my OC and lead female for the fic) and the other members of the steam team questions as well! 

Let me premise with I am a young adult (cries in turning 30 this year) and there will be some adult content here. I will not be posting anything graphic or considered NSFW, nor will anything like that be given a dignified response in the asks. I will be treating these characters just like how I would want to be treated. That means any questions about their more intimate relationship will be met with the following statement: “Epic and private” 

With that out of the way, I hope you enjoy your stay and feel free to stop by anytime! 

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A few questions I felt might be asked: 

Who’s my favorite character(s)?  Gordon and Henry are my top two. But I also love Donald, Douglas, Edward, James, and Paxton.

What got you into this fandom?  Funny story! I LOVED Thomas as a kid and my dad worked and retired from Union Pacific many years ago, growing up, I was around trains. Trains are awesome. I LOVE them, they are such an awesome symbol of our history and are just pretty freaking cool machines/engines. So, when I had kids of my own, I introduced them to Thomas, discovered it had gotten a CGI revamp while I was off being a preteen/teenager/young adult and I was like “WHOA! This is freaking exciting and cool!” So, I came back!  

How come you like Gordon so much?  Well.... that’s a whole question with a big honking answer that I currently don’t have the time to answer. I think it’s because Gordon has the most story and the most to offer, besides his charming personality and voice (they had no right to make him that attractive). Thomas is just a cheeky character and yes, the show is named after him, but all we know are his adventures that happen day-to-day. Gordon, we know, has a family and he’s lost a lot of that family. He has a brother that’s younger and famous and Gordon kind of has to live in that shadow and also get over his own jealousy. Technically, he was a prototype and wasn’t supposed to really stay on the line, yet here he is. He’s literally the symbol of strength and endurance. He’s here when he really shouldn’t and despite all odds is still rocking it. (That is until he was destroyed via All Engine’s Go along with everything else good in the world) 

What universe will you be focusing on?  So, from my basic understanding (I’m pretty new back in this fandom) there’s the original TV show that used the models, there’s the books, and there’s the CGI era. I really like the original TV show but I’m also living for the CGI era. I love the books too and I will be pulling from all three, but technically I’m mainly sticking with CGI. 

How does the magic/shifting work?  In my headcanon world, the magic to shift between engine and human was given by Lady to all the engines as she saw that many were being scrapped for no good reason as ‘better’ engines were being built. I couldn’t imagine, as a God, watching creations you love and cherish be thrown away, disposed of, torn apart, and burned (possibly alive), and not stepping in. So, that’s what I’ve done.  Newer engines have the ability to shapeshift and it comes just as naturally as foals/calves/kids/etc with the ability to stand and run within hours. The older ones, like the Steam Team, had to learn on their own and it originally happened one morning without them even realizing it had happened and scared the crap out of em. Now, they do it easily and when they want. 

Do the engines have rights? Can they vote? Do they earn wages?  So, I don’t want to get political in my fanfic (there’s enough drama in the world now that I really don’t want that in something I enjoy). Engines still have that deep rooted desire to be “really useful”. They want to work, they enjoy working! Getting involved in human political issues is just something they would rather stay out of. I like to think they coexist with the rest of us just like the other creatures we share this world with. If I’m being honest though, I think whatever rights an engine has, has to do with where they’re working and where in the world they are, just like everyone else. As for Sodor and the engines in this world, Sir Topham Hatt takes very good care of his engines and they’re treated like people.   As for the wages question, again, they’re still engines and don’t really understand the concept or want to understand the concept of money. They understand it for humans but they’re happy just existing. That doesn’t mean that they can’t have cool things. You’ll notice each engine has a cell phone and that’s just part of the times! It’s easier to keep up with one another on an island that way and helps out a lot. Camille has a Nintendo Switch and the others get the gaming console from Sir Topham Hatt and the others for Christmas.  Think of them like dogs but not in a rude way. They exist with us but are on a higher plane of happiness. 

Why do you have them written so young?  As long as an engine is cared for and not neglected they will look young. It’s LOTR elf rules with a small twist. They can live forever and not age. Also, have you watched the show? Edward is over 100 at this point and he still looks like he’s in his 20s/30s. Plus, there’s hints throughout the show of them acting like young adults/teenagers. Like the episode “Pouty James” where he’s called a “young steam engine” by Sir Topham Hatt much like a parent would say to their teenager “Young man” when they’re in trouble. He’s also said “steam engines these days” just like “teenagers these days”. 

Can engines get married? Are Gordon and Camille gonna get married?  Again, depends on where they’re living and if the people accept that sort of thing. Most engines just straight up don’t care. If they love another engine and want to dedicate their life to that engine, then by golly they’re gonna say they’re married or whathaveyou whether the human population likes it or not.  As for Gordon and Camille you’ll have just have to read to find out 😉 

Do they bleed/what happens when they get hurt?  I’m with @asktrio516 on this and I think that they would bleed like us, seeing as they have the ability to cry or taste, etc, but it would be a darker blood.  Injuries in their human form will translate to their engine form as well. Some injuries may be healed easier in their human form depending on part availability or how busy things are and vice versa. A serious injury in their human form may be much smaller in their engine form, or easier fixed. Just depends. 

How do they shapeshift without being naked next?  Mystique rules! They can shift the clothing onto themselves. Also anything like a cell phone or a watch or memento will also disappear with the magic dust when they shift into engines and reappear when human. Because magic, don’t ask me to explain further. 

Will there be art here?  Maybe eventually. I mean, I did buy an iPad and I'm still waiting for it. Alaska shipping is so slow. So, when it gets here and I start practicing maybe I'll be brave enough to post. 

Fanfiction List

To read the Yellow Rose of Sodor you can either go here or read it on here as I post (which will be slower, but hey, it'll all get here eventually)

The Yellow Rose of Sodor:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

The Yellow Rose of Sodor Shorts (coming soon)

[fischlcatgirl]

Cassie's Works Masterpost (Updated 9/14/24)

Hello, fans of my writing and also most likely fans of the genshin impact character childe tartaglia ajax whatever whatever. and also haters. hello haters.

For many years I have employed the classic tumblr dot com tactic of just kind of posting about my works and their progress whenever I thought of them. But no more!

Fics will be ordered by how soon I think I'm going to finish them, but I make no promises. Such is the life of a guy who has a new idea every few days.

If a fic you liked the premise of was on this list and has disappeared, you can ask me about it! Probably I've just deprioritized it..... it's just on the backburner in my mind.

Works In Progress:

Like Liquor, Drink Venom - PERFUME PETTICOAT TWO. THIS TIME IN second person. I know I said third person but it's second person again. The young man who was once Ajax and can never be human again, through the years. Revamped with even more headcannons. May feature transfemme Childe... though that is yet to be revealed even to myself. 2k/4-5k.

Lethe - A 3rd person Lynette pov, concerning what might have happened if the twins (but not Freminet!) drank the bottled flames at the end of Arlecchino's story quest and are trying to be regular magicians. It doesn't go very well for them! 3.5/6-8k.

Derail This Train of Thought - 3rd person, switching focus between Kaveh and Nahida. No Traveller Au in Sumeru, starts midway through the Sumeru Archon Quest. Things are not good. Focus on a Kaveh and Nahida friendship, Kaveh's sense of pride and how it connects to his self-worth, and also Nahida's different roles and very splintered sense of self because of the whole bubble thing. 18k/25-30k.

aiya, that's one kind of burnout! - We have all asked ourselves "what is Hu Tao actually doing when she uses her skill? Why does she take damage?" and this fic is here to answer that question. SHE IS BURNING HER VERY SOUL. ITS BAD. Kind of a mystery where starts in medias res and that first scene informs the others... Hu Tao and Zhongli as dual protagonists trying to stop a threat to Liyue masquerading as none other than Rex Lapis himself. 2k/?? maybe 8kish. idrk yet.

Ces't la Vie - Furina grows bored with everyday life and finds herself restlessly wandering the streets of Fontaine, where she meets with a wandering bard who is particularly interested in avoiding the Iudex. A conversation about freedom between a caged bird and one only recently released. Planning stage, but it'll probably be around 2-3k? Experienced a setback in that I completely changed the premise of this fic.

A Waking Life of Looking Backwards - Furina and Wanderer travelling and healing fic. There will be friendship. there will be angst. you may have seen me talking about a fic called archonatomy before, and that one has been kind of consumed by this one after i realized it was kind of hard to contrive reasons all of the other archons would come to fontaine. so now furina is going to them and also it's not the focus of the fic. 1k/10-15k.

POV You are Kaveh - A text adventure game where. Well. POV you are Kaveh, shortly after finishing work on the Palace of Alcazarzaray. Will feature 5 different planned endings, only 1.5 of which are remotely canon compliant, so. It'll be a minute. Demo soon?

Archon War 2 - Working title. Celestia takes the power of the archons and offers it to whichever Vision wielder is the last one standing of each element. So much slaughter. So much horror. Still in the planning phase and set to be approx. 50 chapters so. It's going to be a while on this one folks.

Completed Fics:

Puppetstrings - Ei looks at all the stuff she has control over and goes hey. Whats this little guy doing in here so she investigates (uses Scara to go talk to Nahida). Hurt/comfort. Nahida and Scara are both REALLY BAD at being friends with anyone and they both hurt each other but they are. Trying. 4k.

Storm's Wake - Miko character study post-cataclysm through canon. Some Eimiko in there but really it's just about Miko being kind of terrible in a women's wrongs sort of way. 2k.

Fisherman's Son - Childe character study, 2nd person pov Childe, set a little bit before and then through his time in the Abyss. He dies a thousand little deaths. Yippee!! 4.5k.

In Absentia (Of?) - Some of Nahida's thoughts on her role post-Rukkadevata erasure. 0.5k.

Grand Finale - Kind of Lisa-Centric fic about a threat to Teyvat. A little bit of mystery. A little bit of hurt. Written 100% just for fun. 8.5k.

Gods and Monsters - Zhongchi but they're bad for each other. A little meeting in Liyue Harbor post-Liyue but pre-Fontaine Archon Quest. Big time resentment from Childe. 2k.

Eye of God - Keqing recieves her Vision but horror style. She has a bad time, but still technically canon compliant. 1k.

Perfume Petticoat - 2nd person rotating pov Childe character study. Maybe the best fic I've ever written, in my own opinion. Covers his climb out of the Abyss through his imprisonment in the Fortress of Meropide, though the Fortress part isn't quite canon compliant anymore. Angst. Mild gore. Childe stuff, you know. 8k.

Greener Grass - Barbatos Character study. Venti Anarchonism, if you read that part, so interactions between him and all of the members of the Mondstadt cast except for Mika, who wasn't out when I started writing, and forgot to put in when he was. Focus on the difference between his place as an Archon and his place as a god. 5k.

Fics on Hiatus (womp womp):

Go For Broke - Zhongli wishes himself into a world where he isn't an Archon, and things are worse there. The main issue here is that while the idea is interesting to me in theory, in practice it's not very exciting. 3.5k/?. I have no idea how long this would be if I ever finished it.

A Dog and Oni Show - Kokomi makes Gorou take a break, and to show how well he can take a break, Gorou decides to fake date Itto. This fic is technically entirely plotted out I have the beats but the thing is that it just isn't very good. I wrote it because I thought it would appeal to people and the title I came up with is a real banger but it's just. It's bad. Sorry everyone. 3.5k/19-20k, were I ever to finish it.

If you think I've spoken before about some idea and it's not on here, I probably just forgot to put it on. Send me a message or an ask and I'll fix that! Also you can just. You can always ask me what's going on with my fics. I love to talk about them. That's part of why I made this post it's really just one big excuse to talk about them and then to keep talking about them when I edit it. Yippee!

PATCH NOTES 9/14/24:

Major changes to the description of "C'est la Vie".

Added to the word count of "Derail This Train of Thought", "Like Liquor, Drink Venom", and "Lethe".

Moved "Like Liquor, Drink Venom" above "Lethe".

[pricklepicklepie]

It might be hard to ask for faves… so who is the oc you’ve had the longest?

OH EVAN, thank you bless you i love you. Let's open this can of worms together -

(forgive me, this got LONG. I mean LONG. It should be a simple answer but NO)

So, my oldest OCs, I didn't even post yesterday. This is a group of some of my oldest. I'm sure there are older ones, but these are the ones I remember/have images of. Lucis is probably the oldest with Katey being the second. There were piles more with this crew. Pretty much anytime I drew anything that wasn't transformers fanart, I added them to this "world". Which was nothing special, none of these guys ever had solid backstories or even interests or jobs. They were just designs that I returned to. Zoi and Lucis eventually got a little more developed (but not a lot lol) and got pushed into my "second gen" OCs. I don't really draw these guys anymore accept occasionally or when I want to make something new, sometimes I revamp an old OC and insert them into whatever story I'm making. Here are some of their more recent designs. I think these are all I've drawn of them in like, ten years or more lol.

Eventually, I made Zoi an office worker who plays bass in a band with Lucis and another OC, Elliot. SPEAKING OF ELLIOT

Elliot is kind of my oldest OC with a 'story'. SORT OF. First, I had all those loose OCs, not in a story, not doing anything. Then one day I make Elliot and Adrien and I decide they're going to be in this angels and demons type story where Elliot dies and comes back to life and they encounter evil angels, etc etc. Joel was a villain, Lucy was like, 'the girl', lol.

This whole plot didn't stick and I eventually just made Adrien human and now they sort of exist in a nebulous, melancholy, dreamy, sorta real-world setting. Elliot is roommates with Zoi and Lucis and the three of them are in a band. Adrien is a guy who just happens to be at their show. Some of my other OCs are in the background of this world, but I don't really think about them lol.

Here's kind of the transition period between the original, fantasy-type story, and the normal world story.

This was late in high school/college that I started calling Elliot's story Elliot's Sword. And it was going to be like Elliot going into a fantasy world from the real world and becoming a god-like figure. But after college, I made them the normal, real-world story. Here are some drawings from the modern era of Elliot and Adrien

It's hard for me to even find drawings of them bc I don't draw them so much, which is a shame! I really like the way they had become. I want to do a story with them where they meet at a show (or reunite since they went to college together) and Elliot eventually helps Adrien through the loss of his Grandmother who is his family's matriarch. And this brings up a lot of feelings for Elliot about his mother who died when he was a child. And together, they sort of explore this half-waking/half-dreaming world of grief. I had this idea that Elliot is like, a dream hopper and goes into people's dreams. And it's a story I really want to write one day, but ALAS. time will tell.

The Oldest Oc I posted about last night, is Puck! OOOHH BOY DO I LOVE PUCK. BUCKLE IN.

These are some of my first drawings of Puck, along with Richard and some other OCs in her setting. I made Puck for a character design class in college. I think my Junior year. She and Richard were basically Fallout rip-off OCs - they came from a post-apocalyptic world with Puck from the country and Richard from a large settlement. They were kind of 'Prince and the Pauper'. And I had this whole thing where they meet, dislike each other at first, have to work together to rebuild Puck's hometown, grow to love each other, adopt a girl named Tommy and raise her in the town, and eventually, Richard does something to betray Puck's trust when they're in their late 50s and they spend the rest of their lives in this bitter divorce arc. Here are some comic pages I made for various college assignments. This was a story I called The Town of Shilo.

Their story now is a little different than it used to be. Now, the idea is Puck comes to this large, sci-fi-ish city and meets Richard and all these other people and helps them maintain their little community by keeping robotic police off their turf. Puck's mother and sister are the CEOs of this large pharmaceutical-turned-weapons company, (though she has been sort of cut off from them and is their unknowing test subject, so she's not involved in whatever they've been up to). And Richard is the son of some politian and is trying to play double agent and use what he finds out from his nepotism job to inform his friends. There is SO MUCH MORE to it that I need to write down and nail down. But that is the basic idea.

These are all the OCs I think about who aren't DnD related. So I kind of have two worlds (elliot's and puck's) that I revisit from time to time and fuss with. The thing is, I never write anything down and never try to world-build or nail anything down. I just draw them with non-specific ideas in mind lol, which definitely has to change. With DnD ocs, it's just so much easier to make a quick guy who has a flaw and then his story is just figuring out that flaw and you get to do that with your friends and it's EASY. But I have a hard time getting back into my other OCs bc I can never settle on a story for them. But I do have dreams of making comics of them, so who knows, hopefully soon I will actually build out their worlds and be able to be more specific about what they can do/what happens to them. lol. BUT I UH NEVER GET TO TALK ABOUT THEM REALLY SO I SORTA TOOK THIS CHANCE TO SAY EVERYTHING EVER ABOUT THEM. HOPE THAT'S ALRIGHT??

tldr: I have this OC, Lucis, who is probably my oldest Oc who I don't draw anymore LOL

[docholligay]

Eurovision Rehearsals Quick Takes: Day Two

Everything I said in the first post also is true in the second, and once again, these are in running order!

Israel: I knew she was going to bring a whole-ass set, and I was not disappointed. The dancing looks insane. This is basically what I assumed would happen when she was announced.

Azerbaijan: I feel real bad for these kids, as I think there are years, and honestly, even in the other semi, where this might qualfiy, but it won’t here. It’s just these floppy haired Azerbaijani boys in their 70s costumes. This is closer to the kind of music I would like to hear show up more, so it extra bums me out.

Czechia: This sounded better than I expected! It might actually be fine! Depends on the night of course, but it sounds like they have backing vocalists. I do not particularly get the outfit choice, but they have what looks like some reasonably solid choreography.

The Netherlands: So, this actually does require a bunch of story. These two have been doing HORRIBLY. So badly that dutch tv has been making fun of them. So badly that we had an interview about it and Mia said she can “Sing it in the studio”. I think this song has been a top betrayal for me. So, they changed the song so these two can sing it. First of all: Let me skate a revolutionary idea called “Sending people who can sing the song.” Secondly, as @relevantbunny put it, “I can't say I'm pleased with the revamp version which basically takes all the things I liked about the song and throws them in a black hole.” Anyway, i hate the new version, the staging looks good and if it qualifies I am going to scream. They do not deserve it. I DEFENDED YOUR ASSES.

Finland: This is winning the semi. The staging is fucking exceptional, you can tell Finland sees they have a chance at a win and they are going to aim for it. Can he sing it? No, but that literally does not affect who will televote for this thing.

WE’RE NOW IN SEMI 2

Denmark: his vocals seem a little shaky, but my lord that’s a fun set. I hate this song, but it stands a decent chance of qualifying and the set is A game shit.

Armenia: Boy do I wish I liked her song better. I saw a version of her singing “Amar Pelos Dois” and it was gorgeous. Her voice is incredible. The staging for this does not really do anything for me, and it’s actually the first thing that’s made me think her placement in the semi might REALLY be a problem for her.

Romania: Theodor. Theodor please. He’s wearing a bright yellow short suit with pikachu socks, the staging is over the top in a very tacky and not even fun way, it all seems very confusing. He is actually EIGHTEEN, by the way, not twenty, so all of this is even slightly more tragic and he has the song with one of the biggest ranges, especially if you don’t count Norway’s stupid whistle note. If he had twink vibes and were more stereotypically attractive he’d be safe, but he’s not, so he needs to stop acting like such a dweebus and he will not. I really do hope he grows and comes back with a better song and package.

Belgium: This continues to be “Your gay dad reflects on the 90s” and I am not complaining. He has someone vogue on stage! This is cute and I feel like my mom will vote for him.

Cyprus: A couple rough transitions here in the notes, I don’t know whether or not I think he’ll get it together because I don’t have many live performances to go off of. He’s giving Poland 2022 with the effects, so I hope it comes off different the night off.

COME BACK TOMORROW FOR THE REST OF SEMI 2

[brucethewannabebard]

A new approach

So anyone who stumbles across this blog of mine will be quick to notice that during the majority of its active existence I have been, and so far still am, going through a lot emotionally. So I figured I would take this time to make a post talking about the purpose of everything I put here, as well as to outline what is next for me. I don't actually think anyone will find it or care, but I am the type to do things like this for posterity's sake.

So I write what I write here to have an outlet for the emotions I feel. As such everything I have posted has been rough draft, stream of consciousness raw feelings. Any attempt as structure or pattern evolved naturally as I wrote and I have done little to no editing on any of these posts. Certainly I haven't gone so far as to revamp or polish any of them. Mostly cause I didn't have a point too. These post will continue as long as I have feelings and thoughts that cry out for expression and escape. But it is now part of a bigger project.

You see as part of my desperate plan to heal a hurt that very well may never go away I am currently working to do the craziest thing I have ever done. I am planning to build a raft, and thru-boat the Mississippi River. I will start up in Minnesota and float down to New Orleans. This in itself is an experience that other have done and continue to do. To make it a bit more me, I am planning to hunt and fish the whole way down and live off the land for the entire trip. I have done a fair share of these activities in the past, and always do them as humanely and respectfully as possible. I do not hunt for fun, and try to use as much of the animal as possible. This means for approximately 60 days I will be living solely off of my ability to catch or gather food.

I plan fully to keep writing and keep a journal as I do this. It is unclear as of now if I will be doing this trip alone, or if I will have a traveling companion. I got to thinking that the adventure might make a good travel story, maybe for a blog or memoir or something. I now plan to interconnect it with my writings here. I am now writing out the tragic events that led me to where I am now, as well as what motivated me to give this venture a try. Assuming the trip is at least relatively interesting I will then combine it with the tragedy of my life over the last 5 years, and use my semi poetic therapy posts on here to tie together things thematically.

The end result should be what I hope is a moderately interesting and insightful read, but more importantly I am hopeful that by framing everything into a project like this I can gain some kind of closure or clarity on things and maybe find a way to move forward with my life.

I will almost certainly not do anything in regards to publishing said work, as I am generally a private person when it comes to my personal life. Plus while this trip is likely to be interesting, having not done it yet I am going to guess that it will be less eventful than when Huck Finn went down the river. As such, I am sure it would in the end be a boring read. But I do think it is important I take the trip, that I chronicle the journey, and that I write out the story of love and loss that broke me.

So if I have no intention to publish it, and indeed not even the knowledge of what level of interesting the trip is yet, why am I writing this out? Well to put simply, I have a million and one reasons to not bother with this plan. I can just say it is too hard to do, make excuses. The things I have done my whole life. In which case I will continue life in mediocrity always wondering what would have happened if I really took a leap and did something a bit irresponsible. So this post stands as a way of putting out some kind of promise. Like maybe the idea that someone else can see this makes it not just and idea but some kind of mission I must deliver on. So if you took the time to read this, thank you. The knowledge that someone might see this is going to be what gives me the courage to follow this through.

I plan to build the boat at the start of 2024, and complete the trip in the spring. This is my promise to myself, and anyone else who may stumble across this, that I will do something exciting for once. That I will take the time to do something worth doing for once, and hopefully find the pieces of myself that I lost over the last half decade. So if you are seeing this some time later in the year, or after the trip should have been completed, and by some miracle you are curious about how it went or is going, feel free to ask. I have let myself down for so many years, that the thought of failing others might be what I need to keep going, at least for now.

[spiritateababy]

Story Time With Spirit - The Lounge

Way back when I still had the ability to model decent stuff in ROBLOX, and when I still couldn't draw hands, I fell in love with a hip new combat game at the time- RIOT. RIOT (which will always be spelled all caps from now on) was a game I had fun playing and grinding, although replaying it makes me say otherwise. The movement is clunky, the momentum system feels off, and basic movement feels way too heavy for what it is. Complaining about the game wouldn't do us any good now, so we'll save the complaining for later.

To begin, we'll talk about the origin of what I contributed to RIOT. Way back when I first played RIOT, I felt the need to contribute to something to the game, and this need turned into motivation. For the following 2-4 days, I built the Lounge with some input from a friend of mine (Strafley, thanks bud!) and some of my own little ideas. The whole idea was that the Lounge would be a safe zone ingame (which didn't happen) that was a run-down video store turned club. AS an addition, Madness Combat was canon in RIOT, so with this in mind I made a DJ booth for Tricky, where, lore-wise, he had literally never performed because he had been too caught up fighting Hank in the main series. Another addition to the Lounge's canon was that it was illegally dealing firearms (this was mostly a joke, since gun suggestions were basically outlawed in RIOT) and that the Lounge was a front for something bigger. I had also given Strafely a plaque dedicated to him in the Lounge as a way of saying my thanks for his input. Within a few days I had a nice little concept area and submitted it to the game's server.

I know my folks from RIOT might read this, and I'll advise you now, if you don't want to hear about the person who got the Lounge into RIOT, scroll down to the next paragraph and avoid reading. As for you, reader, we will now discuss the person who got the Lounge into the game. Now, I wasn't too familiar with Slwynx up until they were actively helping out with building in RIOT. However, the day after I posted the submission for the Lounge Slwynx and I talked about getting it into the game, we found an empty spot in the game and figured that we'd put the Lounge there. The update released a couple of days later, and the Lounge was in the game. I was pretty happy, it even got a compliment from one of the devs. But let's go back to Slwynx for a bit...to my knowledge, Slwynx wasn't a very good person. I haven't been told the specifics directly but whenever they're brought up in conversation the reaction is either disgust or very colorful comments about them. I won't get into it further, but all I know, is that they're probably a pervert or something along those lines (RIOT folks who dared to read, correct me if i'm wrong) and it's something we'd all rather leave in the past.

RIOT, after the whole thing I talked about, was now going through a big map update. The whole map would be revamped and would be given entirely new environments and a new layout. Originally, the game's creator invited me to work on it, but because of school I didn't accept.

Due to some words from my dear friend Marcy, I think I should've taken that opportunity.

The update releases around December, and I'm curious about the update. Months before the update released, a teaser with the Lounge had been posted, I hadn't been directly asked about rebuilding the Lounge, yet from the teaser, I could tell it was a completely new building. So, the day arrives and I play the update. I look all around to find the Lounge, and eventually, I find this thing.

So I'd like to complain a little before we advance our story. So firstly, the colors had been inverted, the colors I had chosen for the exterior were now on the interior and vice versa, the run down look of the Lounge was barely noticeable, with a lot of exterior details missing (graffiti, posters, whatnot) and there was a long stretch of blank wall where I would've put a longer window or display for the original video store, the basic sign was changed for a basic red neon sign. and for some fucking reason, SOMEONE thought it was a good idea to stick a giant radio tower into the top of the building. The interior missed the point entirely. The place was clean, and there were only 2 shelves, there was now a dance floor for some reason, there were a hideous set of "basket ball machines" which had the most basic modeling imaginable, and lots of arcade machines, for some reason. And insultingly, the plaque I had made for Strafley had been replaced with a sort of parody that felt insulting in a way, replacing Strafley's little doodles with a bullshit inside joke.

New Lounge v. Old Lounge

New Plaque v. Old Plaque

Yeah, fuck them for this one. Pissed me off a bit, but I hid it by saying "eh it's kinda weird", the rebuild of the Lounge actually made me make one of my own, which the game's owner would later ask to use in a later update.

The final complaint. Here goes.

New Lounge, no longer have screenshots of what it looked like ingame, so here's the model in a game of mine.

The preferred new Lounge gets added into an update which basically reverted RIOT back to its roots, the old map is back because everyone hated the old one. I remade Tricky's DJ booth and the basketball machines, sadly forgot to bring back the plaque I made for Strafley, but I'm there now, standing behind a bar-table.

This update comes out, and this time, my player model is replaced by someone else. No idea why, but now someone else is behind the bar table in the building I built. I don't really care, atleast I'm in the cre- no. No I'm not. The game's credits have been outdated by this point and another one of the devs (who happens to be a good friend of mine) goes out of their way to add me to the credits, how sweet, thank you Crimin!

RIOT is now dead. Barely enough players to sustain it and the creator tries to say it's the communities fault it fell apart, when in reality it was lack of updates or care toward the game. The only major update since the game died was reverting the map to the one everyone hated, after the map had been changed to Crossroads for some reason.

As for me? I'm doing just fine. I'm glad I was in RIOT though, I met people there that I love talking to now, although they may not think the same of me. I'm just glad it lasted.

Alright, no more things, goodnight!

[ectonurites]

When did Kon change his look?

Mmm okay so I know I had thrown together an image that went over the basics of Kon's looks a WHILE ago but I don't feel like digging to find that and it was very quick anyways, so lets do something a little more comprehensive.

1993 - Reign of the Supermen & Early Days:

(Adventures of Superman #500)

So Kon starts out with his iconic jacket look- the suit underneath is what the Cadmus scientists had him in, and he gets the first jacket from the Newsboy Legion when they helped him escape. The initial jacket was a plain one, but during the course of Reign of the Supermen he gets the more familiar one (well he gets many of these he can go through LMAO) with the gold 'S' on the back. This is also what he wears for the first big chunk of his solo comic!

1994-2000 Temporary looks:

(Cover of Superboy Vol. 4 #0, #51, #60, #74, Cover of #76)

Before his next like, more longterm major costume change, there's a few temporary looks that I think are worth mentioning. He has X-Ray glasses (since that's a power he lacks) before he loses them on a mission. When he gets stranded in the Wild Lands for a bit he has a whole Kamandi thing going on. For Hyper-Tension! he dons the jacket that an alternate reality version of himself had died in for travelling through Hypertime. During Sins of Youth he gets temporarily turned into an adult and thus has a slightly altered look. After Sins of Youth he temporarily lost his powers and wore a T-shirt look with a shield and Legion flight ring until he got them back.

2001ish - Superboy #83

(Superboy Vol. 4 #83 + Cover of #89)

At the start of Kelly's run on his solo, Kon goes through a lowkey identity crisis and with the help of a civillian named Bianca he re-learns how to be cool... and a new outfit comes along with it! This design does have a jacket, but he gets drawn pretty often without it in various appearances.

2003 - Teen Titans era

(Cover of Teen Titans Vol. 3 #2)

After Graduation Day when Geoff Johns attacked the Core Four moved onto the Teen Titans, Kon gets the T-shirt as his main look for the rest of the 2000s up to the reboot

2003-2019 Temporary looks:

(Teen Titans Vol. 3 #16, Cover of #25, Young Justice (2019) #3)

Before his next longterm costume change, we see Kon in a more classic Superman-ish suit when he spent time in the future with the Legion of Super-Heroes. Then the unfortunate 'Lex takes over Kon and makes him shave his head' situation... occurs. In YJ 2019 Flashbacks we also see Kon mix some previous looks by wearing the T-shirt and a leather jacket together.

(I am purposefully skipping New 52 Kon here because he is a separate character.)

2019 - Post-Flashpoint/Young Justice

(Young Justice (2019) #1)

When Kon gets brought back into existing he's in a revamped version of his original look! Leather jacket but now with spikes and MORE patches <3

Now?

So there was the whole fakeout thing with Suicide Squad 2021 where who we thought was Kon back in the T-Shirt look was actually Match who believed he was Kon... we later got the reveal and saw Kon was in fact still in his punk look:

(Suicide Squad 2021 Annual)

We haven't really seen him since then, but we have some covers for upcoming stuff that makes his current costume uhhhh... uncertain.

(Upcoming covers for Suicide Squad (2021) #13 and Justice League (2018) #75)

Kon might be in a T-Shirt during the War for Earth-3 crossover? Or it might not even be him on this cover because the solicits don't actually mention him by name- we have to wait and see! He's also on a cover for Death of the Justice League which comes out after that, in the jacket look, so uhhhh 🤷‍♂️. We really don't know what the deal is at this exact moment, he could very well just be alternating depending on his mood for all we know. Also covers lie sometimes so either one of these could just be wrong.

[koolfrogz]

Misconceptions Regarding MCC14

Recently there have been a load of misconceptions regarding many of the controversies that happened this MCC, especially on Twitter and Tiktok, so I thought I would make a giant post detailing these and why they are wrong so I can scroll through my dash in peace.

1. Hbomb purposely abused a glitch in HITW that got Illumina and Mefs banned from MCC on the practice server. 

This one can easily be broken down into three components: 1. Misinformation about the glitch itself 2. Misinformation about the Mefs and Illumina incident 3. When does abusing a glitch count as cheating?

Firstly, the glitch Hbomb used is actually very common in HITW and has been around since the game was first introduced. The devs know about it and have not made any complaints about it because the usage of the glitch itself is heavily luck based (depending on the ping of the player) and does not guarantee a win to any player who does get it. Take for example PearlescentMoon who has used the glitch repeatedly throughout many competitions (i.e MCC 11), yet has not gained any significant advantage through it because, again, there is still an element of skill required to use it. This glitch is not only known by the devs, but has been used before in HITW. It is not something new that Hbomb exploited as a means of getting ahead.

Secondly, the Illumina and Mefs situation is not at all comparable to the Hbomb one. Illumina and Mefs were using a completely different glitch which did guarantee a win to the player because it allowed the player to afk on the platform and allow the blocks to pass through them. They were not banned for exploiting this glitch, but rather reprimanded by Scott and the devs for not reporting it to them sooner. Mefs and Illumina are still allowed in MCC and only didn’t compete this time because the teams had already been formed.

Finally, in regards to the idea of cheating itself when using such a glitch, the idea that what Hbomb did counts as cheating is absurd considering past MCCs and the various glitches which have been abused as well. I’ve seen a lot of people mention the infamous Wilbur Glitch and I think its a perfect example. The Wilbur Glitch is from the game Rocket Spleef which was not played this MCC but certainly will be in the future. The glitch involves the player becoming stuck in a block and seemingly floating in the air allowing them to basically secure a win without admin intervention. This glitch is much more OP than the glitch Hbomb used, and we have even seen admins purposefully try to kill players for using it (i.e Philza MCC11). However, even when players have purposefully attempted to get it (Wilbur, Phil, Quackity, etc.), I have never seen the fandom react so negatively as to accuse them of cheating. It is not fair to accuse Hbomb of cheating when he abuses a glitch which has been in the game for ages and not do the same with your favourite creators who do a much more busted glitch as well. Personally, I don’t consider either of these cheating, but that’s my opinion.

2. They removed Parkour Warrior because Dream was too good. That’s not fair.

Okay, this one is very simple as its just not true. This falls under the assumption that Dream was the only player to finish Parkour Warrior which is not true (PeteZahHutt completed the course twice and was the first to ever complete it in MCC 6). While the reason the Parkour Warrior map was destroyed in MCC 11 is said to be that EpicLandlord destroyed it because “he was annoyed at how good Dream was at it”, this is mainly a joke (think of the Ranboo being banned from MCC situation, while Ranboo isn’t in MCC there’s no actual beef and he’s not actually banned.) Secondly, if you weren’t around for Parkour Warrior when it was still in MCC, or have only ever seen Dream or Pete’s POV, you might not know, but Parkour Warrior was a miserable game mode (think Build Mart/Bingo but ten times worse because there was no chance to improve your placement other than just being good at Parkour). The game was 10 minutes of pure rage and frustration from competitors, which while entertaining at times, wasn’t the best for content when only two POVs in the entire competition were deemed watchable. This also wasn’t good for a competition because it meant that only two teams at most were progressing (and by a large amount) due to one player while the rest lagged behind. It gave the teams which had Pete and Dream a huge advantage and made the game unfun and unfair to everyone else, so they revamped the game (to Parkour Tag) to make it an even playing field where everyone had a chance to win (in the spirit of MCC). 

3. Scott had an unfair advantage in the competition and should be removed from the Dev Team or the Participants List.

This one is slightly more nuanced and may not have a definitive answer. Yes, Scott does have a slight advantage due to being a part of the dev team in every MCC. However, this MCC was definitely an outlier in that fact. Scott has been known to share info and tips with his teammates in past MCCs, but it has not truly impacted their performance on a significant level because the players knew a majority of the information anyways (the game rules, maps, etc). This MCC was unfair because Scott had a bigger advantage than originally assumed (it doesn’t mean he did it with malicious intent, it just means there was a severe oversight when designing the maps and explaining the rules to players). Also, the idea that Scott was guaranteed a win because he was part of the Dev Team is ridiculous and untrue. 

Scott has always been treated on the same level as any other player and has not been giving special privileges because he helped work on the tournament. Take for example MCC 8. Scott was teamed with Tommy, Philza, and Wilbur, and they were doing very well! Then came (wait for it), Ace Race. Scott experienced a glitch which allowed him to remain with his Elytra activated for half the course and allowed him to skip over multiple checkpoints and placed him in first. However, by skipping over these checkpoints the game corrected his placement and put him in last. This was seen as not fair at the time and the Red Rabbits did complain, to which Noxite responded that there was nothing they could do and Scott would just have to finish the round as normal. This glitch severely impacted the Red Rabbits standings and possibly led to them not being able to compete in Dodgebolt that MCC. Yet, Scott was never treated differently than any other player throughout the glitch despite being a part of the Dev Team.

For the next MCC, I certainly think that Scott should be allowed to play as normal. I truly believe this MCC was a fluke, and although I too felt a little salty seeing my favourite go from 2nd to 30th, I believe that it is not worth getting up in arms about it because at the end of the day there is a whole season of competitions where any team has a chance to win. 

4. They should have restarted the round and allowed the participants to retry the map.

While I too would have loved to see a rematch for Ace Rae, I would like to say that I, and probably many of the people playing, knew that it wasn’t going to happen. Noxcrew is very strict about the way MCC is run, it’s why I think it works so well. However, this means that they will not budge on these rules even in the face of something such as this competition’s Ace Race debacle. In the entire time of MCC, Noxcrew have only once ever restarted a round. This was in MCC 7 during Battle Box after there were server issues causing extreme lag for everyone (and Wilbur and Magistrex blew up their own teammates). It was unlikely that they were going to restart the round due to the mistake, and honestly, it might’ve caused more trouble than good to reset the points and the entire round of Ace Race. 

5. The Spirit of MCC

This last one is more of a general statement than a misconception, but I would like to say that I have seen a lot of newer fans confused and upset about this MCC’s outcome. However, I would like to remind everyone that at the end of the day MCC is a for-fun tournament which brings MCYTs of every background to compete and have fun. Yes, there is an element of competitiveness as it is a competition, but it goes against the very spirit of the competitions to be toxic and rude in spite of not winning or placing lower than you expected. At the end of the day, it is a MC tournament that has no monetary prize other than a golden coin. It is immature to slander, spread misinformation, or send death threats and harassment over such a tournament and I wish shame upon anyone who’s first reaction to not winning or their team not winning was to do such a thing. MCC is a brilliant tournament that has changed the game for how MC Competitions have been done, and it is disheartening to see the hard work Noxcrew and Scott have done be disrespected as such. I hope next MCC the fandom can come together and make this the lovely fandom event it once was. 

[tarotwitchy]

{pick-a-card readings}

💟 ALL CREDITS BELONG TO THE CREATORS OF THESE IMAGES!

What is it that your higher-self and spirit guides want you to know about your current challenges? What are the things you have to do in order to surpass them? This reading can serve as a guidance tool in whatever purpose they may serve.

❌ Please do not plagiarize my work, or post it elsewhere without my permission and credits. Thank you! ❌

Pile 1

8 of Swords • The Wheel of Fortune • Ace of Cups • 6 of Swords • LUNAR

There's this longing that you feel deep within your spirit and psyche that you can't really identify. This could be you wanting to be free and liberated, or perhaps you're in a stable point in your life (relationship, career, home life, family life, etc.) but feel as if you're stuck instead of safe and comforted. There is a feeling of restlessness just waiting to burst out of you at any time, and you worry that it might affect the people and circumstances around you. It's as if you're thirsty for a certain type of beverage you can't find within your home — and nothing else can quench that thirst but that specific drink alone.

Compromise is the first word that I heard for this pile. I understand that you have responsibilities and people/jobs to look after and be in charge with. But you cannot neglect yourself for the sake of other people and situations who won't matter when you're on your death bed. You have to find the balance between personal freedom and personal accountability. It's about time you draw the line between what people can and cannot tell you to do and/or feel.

If this is about romantic relationships, perhaps you have been feeling smothered by the relationship itself, or by your partner. We humans have great instincts that have been buried by logic and cerebral functions. Instead of attempting to rationalize your feelings of restriction, listen to you gut. What is it trying to tell you? What is it that your instincts are trying to guide you to do in this situation? It's all a matter of listening to oneself and compromising. If this is about a job, weigh the pros and the cons. If this career is too important for you to let go, then be firm about your boundaries and limitations. Set aside "me time" that is solely for you and you alone. At the end of the day, you have to let your hair down and feel the wind go through its strands.

Pile 2

Death • King of Wands • Queen of Pentacles • 3 of Pentacles • NORTH NODE

The Death card is what's standing out in this whole spread — and for a good reason. It is very apparent that something has to end in your life in order to make way for the new. It could be your current living situation, your unfulfilling job, your monotonous routine, your unhealthy relationships (whether romantic, platonic, or familial), or even a habit or behavior that's no longer serving you. Something has to give. You cannot keep holding on to those which does not help you any longer. This reading, to me, feels necessary. It's not an easy message to relay, but it's something that has to be said.

I believe you already know what I'm pertaining to. Only you would be able to know what aspect of your life needs to be revamped; or to be completely uprooted, even. The advice for you, Pile 2, is to not be afraid of change. Do not be afraid of the unknown ahead. You have absolutely every tool and inborn abilities to adapt and make it out of the unpleasantries of changing one's life. When people are given the advice to change, most would not even entertain the idea because it is too daunting for them to comprehend the endless possibilities. But for you, you are given the strength and the capability to get what you desire in life. You aren't meant to be stuck in a situation you don't want to be in. All you have to do is to focus on the endgoal. Do not be daunted by the hurdles because you have what it takes to demolish them.

Another important point to remember is that it's not a sign of weakness nor it is a reflection of your personal shortcomings to ask for help when you need help. It doesn't make you look incapable or lacking in any way. It is natural for us to ask for assistance when we're faced with a challenge that's difficult to overcome. As the saying goes, "two brains are better than one." Sometimes, another person's perspective can provide you a different angle to which you can tackle your current dilemmas. Let other people give you a helping-hand. Not only would it alleviate your problems, but also open your social circle to those who have your best interest at heart.

Pile 3

King of Pentacles • The Hierophant • King of Wands • Ace of Wands • SOLAR

The very first thing I heard from this spread is to breathe. Believe it or not, this is the very first time I've been sent into a trance while reading my tarot cards, in spite of reading tarot for years. There was a word I was able to make out while I was in that state of being immobile. And that word is overwhelmed. And with this, I'd say do not be. Your challenges nowadays have piled up on top of the other, and you have been backed up in a corner feeling so overwhelmed and overpowered. You may even feel helpless and just... hopeless. There may also have been instances when you just want to throw the towel in.

Your adversaries feel immovable and untouchable. It's as if feeling like you're an ant, and your challenges are the shoe that can overpower you anytime. But you don't give yourself enough credit, Pile 3. After all these obstacles, burdens, and hurdles, you're still standing on your feet. You're still here. You really have to put more faith in yourself! It may seem like fake bravado to you, but other people can actually see the capabilities of your resilient power. It's only a matter of being able to harness that inner power into tackling your adversaries. Right now, your inner power is scattered within you. And like an army, it is useless and defeatable if it's not in proper formation. But if you gather your inner power, you'll be as impenetrable as those Roman Infantry Tactics.

It's easier said than done, I am well aware of that. But one sure-fire way to accomplish this is to compartmentalize. Organize the most important thing you have to finish off right now. If you have to literally list this down on pen and paper, you may do so. It's better to see your adversaries and challenges in a "to-do list" to actually visualize the enemy. You have to use you inner power to tackle your problems one by one in a focused, laser-like way. You can't afford to multitask right now, lest be overwhelmed again and be back to square one. So you'd be better off doing one think at a time. And lastly, having faith in yourself is the fuel to keep on going when things look grim and hopeless. Don't give up. You'll thank yourself a hundredfold once you actually defeated your challenges.

Pile 4

10 of Cups • 8 of Pentacles • 9 of Swords • 5 of Wands • PLUTONIAN

You cannot allow other people to dissuade you from doing what your want to do! You have great ambition and big dreams, and that is very much amazing. But you can't let people walk all over you, or tell you that you can't achieve them, or remain quiet when they deliberately sabotage all your hard work. I feel a very strong sense of internalized anger and frustration right now as I'm reading this pile. I believe these feelings belong to you. You want to be happy and successfully reach all the goals you have set up for yourself. It's just that the people around you are making it impossible to do so. Especially if the people holding you back are your loved ones.

You are a very hardworking person. That is something no one can take away from you. Even if you think you're not, you actually are! The people around you have diminished and invalidate your hardworking skills too much that, over time, you started to believe them. Please, I implore you. Do what you must do to prove them all wrong. You are a powerhouse in your community, your environment, and within your circle. People are afraid to see others thrive because of the fear of getting left behind. This "crab mentality" is what keeps people with great potential in the dark; completely undiscovered and hidden from the world. Do not be inhibited by people who don't share your vision, and those who don't have the same intellectual and emotional depth as you have. They aren't meant to pioneer something great in this lifetime, and that's okay. But to let these people pigeonhole you along with them is not okay.

This Plutonian energy that was drawn for your reading is a calling. It's an advice, yes. But it's more like the Universe's thumbs-up for you. The Universe is giving you the permission to accomplish those you're meant to accomplish. It's the permission to travel to places you've always wanted to see with your own eyes. It's the permission to achieve all the things you've listed down on your bucket list. You are being cramped in a situation where your larger-than-life energy is being contained by those who cannot comprehend your greatness. You have to fight for your dreams and ambitions in this lifetime. You have the Universe's permission to do so.

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[nanatsumu]

HIGH SCHOOL!SUKUNA x F!READER

thinking about bad boy itadori sukuna who all the kids at school try to steer clear from because they know he’s bad news and if you get involved with him then you’re bound to be tied with bad luck for as long as he lives. well, that is everyone except for the president of the student council who so happens to be his childhood best friend turned lover.

this is mostly written for my own self indulgence and to project my fantasies of having a boyfriend onto sukuna but feel free to treat this as any other headcanon! ps i am pretty sure canon sukuna would kill a baby at any given situation, but this is going to be a revamped version of sukuna written by yours truly ;) and its a high school au so sukuna won’t be a complete menace to society and will actually have a heart heh

also i didn’t realize how long this was going to be??? this is kind of all over place too because i just wanted to throw all of my thoughts onto this post so there might be some plot holes in this LOL

i feel like sukuna would be the type of bad boy who isn’t necessarily a bad boy but everyone at school just paints him as some kind of delinquent because of all the tattoos and piercings he has.

he actually shows up to school more often than you think he would (but that’s only because you’re in most of his classes so long story short: you’re his only motivation for attending class)

“forgets” to bring his work books to class more than usual (in reality he does this on purpose so he has an excuse to be near you) so he requests to sit next to you the entire class period so he can share with you for the meantime but whenever the teachers not looking he’ll go back to admiring your face.

his older twin brother, itadori yuji, is very fond of you since you three grew up together and you both had your chances of being a victim to his antics!

exhibit a: in middle school when you and yuji were watching tv together, the show you two were watching would keep switching to some wrestling match broadcasting on a sports channel and no matter how many times you turned the tv on and off, it just would not stop. but it wasn’t until you heard snickering from the kitchen that you realized sukuna had a spare remote and was the mastermind behind the whole thing.

exhibit b: sukuna and yuji’s mom was the owner of a bakery so every now and then she would have either one of the twins come deliver freshly baked pastries to your household! oh how wrong was she to trust her youngest. sukuna was now a freshman in high school, and by now you would’ve thought that sukuna would have grown out of his childish phase, but WRONG! sukuna was still a menace in your life even past childhood. so when you bit into one of the macaroons, instead of being hit with the overwhelming taste of [favorite flavor], all you could feel was the burning sensation of wasabi kicking into your tastebuds.

yeah after the whole wasabi macaroon freak accident, you stopped accepting everything sukuna offered to you and opted to only eating pastries out of the boxes that yuji delivered to you. (sukuna eventually caught onto this and was just TEENSY bit upset but he would rather down a whole tube of wasabi than to tell you upfront)

now, how did you two even end up dating??? oh boy now that is a story

you see, yours and sukuna’s dynamic growing up was similar to that of tom and jerry’s— you being jerry and sukuna being 10x worse than tom of course

but it wasn’t until a confession after school behind the cherry blossom tree that was known for bringing good luck to successful confessions that sukuna finally realized that maybe he really did like you just a little lot bit

sukuna overheard the boy who was planning on confessing to you talking to his friend group about how “sweet and caring” you are (although sukuna could argue otherwise, you were a little brat. *LIKE HELLO?!&:&:& YOU WEREN’T THE ONE WHO ATE A MACAROON FILLED WASABI**) and obviously his ears perked up at the mention of your name. he grew up with you after all so naturally he would be interested in a conversation that revolved around you.

but then the boys started going on about how “you looked like an easy catch” and how “your body was bangin’!” yeah no, that’s where he drew the line. sure sukuna was an ass and talked shit about you most of the time (in his defense it wasn’t like he was doing it behind your back) but if he ever caught someone else talking about you like that then he would be sure to give them a hard time.

he hid behind one of the bushes near the cherry blossom tree while the boy was professing his love for you. funnily enough, for a moment sukuna forgot why he was originally there because he was too busy trying to stifle a laugh as he watched the boy stumble over his words.

“okay shows over” sukuna thought as the confession was reaching its conclusion, but just as he was about to step in and give the poor boy a piece of his mind, he stopped in his tracks when he heard you roaring with laughter.

“did you really think that i wouldn’t hear about what you and your friends said about me earlier? you’re really pathetic if you think any girl would be easy enough to fall to her knees for you because news flash! you’re a disgusting pig and you deserve to rot in hell for speaking about a girl’s worth like that.”

“it’s kind of sad too, i thought you were a nice boy and i probably would have given you a chance but it seems like you’re even worse than scum! damn it, to think there was somebody out there who’s even worse than sukuna.”

of course sukuna was not pleased to hear that last bit, but he did have a proud grin forming on his face as he watched the boy run away, flustered from your rejection and the embarrassment he was put through.

“sukuna i know you’re hiding behind the bush.”

“huh? i came here way before you got here, there’s no way you could have seen me.” he said as he stood up to his full height.

“well, your laughter isn’t exactly the quietest, plus i can spot that hair of yours from a mile away.”

lets just say, sukuna was glad you didn’t ask him what he was doing there because he wasn’t sure if he could spare the embarrassment of telling you that he was planning on ruining the confession.

after that whole fiasco happened, sukuna started to feel(!&:&::&) things

like he started to notice how you styled your hair differently one day and how you switched to a new perfume that smelled like spearmint (was that weird? for sukuna probably not. he just excuses it as being highly observant)

you weren’t dumb either, you had a feeling sukuna was there that day of the confession because he too had overheard the conversation between the boy and his friends as well (you knew he was prideful and if you brought it up then he probably would’ve denied it)

so from there on out it was just mutual pining at the point except... well.... not really??

i feel like it was just an unspoken agreement between you two that you guys were “together” but not “together together” because he started to treat you differently than he would before. like for example, he’d carry your bag for you whenever you guys would walk home (yuji was confused by this at first because if anything, it would have made more sense to see sukuna make you carry HIS bag, but he eventually caught on to sukuna’s feelings for you because they were twin brothers after all), he started walking you to class more often even though his class was all the way on the other side of the school (you asked him why but he just shrugged and said he was just “killing time” so that he wouldn’t have to go to class and then you ended up scolding him), and there was also that one time you miraculously found a $20 bill in your backpack after mentioning to sukuna that there was this cute top you saw at the mall the other day but didn’t have enough money at the time to purchase it (you asked him about this but he said it was probably yuji, but you didn’t want to pry any further since you wanted to cherish the fact that sukuna cared that much)

but eventually you got sick of this whole push and pull game that you physically had to tug the collar of his school uniform and pull him in for a kiss (he was visibly shocked at this because he never would’ve imagined you as the assertive type. not that he was complaining though)

“oya? didn’t think you liked me this much kitten.” he said laughing while you rolled your eyes.

“as if, i got tired of you being a wuss so one of us had to wear the pants in the relationship.” you snorted, causing him to irk.

to be honest, your relationship with him is smooth sailing because you both were pretty chill people and you didn’t have to worry about him sneaking behind your back to see other girls because 1. literally all the girls at school are terrified of him and 2. he knew what you were capable of doing to him if you were to ever catch him cheating on you so he wants to stay on your good side

jealous and possessive don’t exist in his dictionary because he is the epitome of those two words. remember what i said about how your relationship is smooth sailing? i kinda lied.

he’s easily jealous like for example: when you were in english class and the teacher had you guys jot down some notes, you realized you forgot to ask for your pencil back when you lent it to your friend last period.

so you asked sukuna to borrow a pencil but instead of giving you a pencil, he called you an idiot for being so forgetful.

this makes you mad so you turn to your male classmate since he was sitting on your opposite side and ask him for a pencil instead.

sukuna was practically fuming the entire class period and once the day ended and you two were back at your place, he made sure to mark you real good. (oh he also went out to buy a pack of mechanical pencils to sneak into your backpack so that next time you forget your pencils, you’ll have 10 extra pencils sitting in your backpack as backup)

he’s not a big fan of pda in public, but on the chances he will show some of it, the most he will do is wrap an arm around your shoulder or waist whenever some dude is trying to hit on you.

BUT IN PRIVATE? better buckle up because your in for a ride wink wink

really likes putting hickeys on you to a fault! but will never put any visible ones on your neck because he doesn’t want your parents to view him as some kind of animal (but he has nothing to worry about because your parents really like him and are grateful for the fact that he’s very loyal to you, and you guys grew up together so it’s only natural that your parents are accepting of him since they already know he has a good heart underneath that tough facade of his)

oh, and yuji starts learning how to knock whenever you come over (or shuts himself in his room for the meantime if he thinks it’s unsafe to step out of his room) because chances are, you’re probably making out with sukuna in his room or smth.

now onto the spicy stuff

when you and sukuna first started dating, the first thing you told him was that you weren’t ready to have sex yet because you were nervous and sukuna understood and told you that he was willing to wait for whenever you were ready.

but when you were ready though, it was kind of spontaneous and you weren’t even wearing a matching pair of bra and underwear that day

you two were chilling in your room watching some stupid (according to sukuna) animal documentary when suddenly you felt his hand on your thigh

dating sukuna and all, it was normal for him to have his hands on some part of your body (whether it be your thigh or your waist) while you two were in bed.

but you were feeling a bit bolder HORNEE than usual so you began to leave a hot trail of kisses starting from his jaw all the way down to his neck.

sukuna obviously got the memo but before those kisses could escalate into something more daring, he asked you once more if you were completely sure you wanted to do it and once you gave him the green light, he was quick to tug his shirt over his head and pounce on you.

he started getting really into it though and accidentally bit your thigh which made you loose your high and scold him for it, but he let out a hearty laugh and muttered a quick apology before getting back into business

sike i lied, remember what i said about it being spontaneous? yeah, you technically didn’t loose your virginity to him that day because after he finished prepping you, you both came to a realization that you didn’t have a condom.

oh well, there’s always next time!

i think sukuna is a sucker for pet names: his favorite thing to call you is either kitten or princess and that’s it LOL he finds calling you baby or babe is a bit too cheesy for him

but he likes it when you call him baby or babe ;)

date nights consist of either staying in and cuddling in his room, going out for a walk at night (but very very late though. there’s still lamp posts that guide your way through the streets but it gives you the heebie jeebies to be out walking outside so late. sukuna always reminds you that nothing bad will happen as long as he’s right by your side), or just spending time with you and your families.

but if you’re really down to do it, he’ll probably initiate a make out session that’ll lead to y’all fucking one way or another (he only ever does it if he is 100% sure that you’re feeling it because he knows you get easily embarrassed if he asks you straight up)

(this part is mainly written for me because i love the idea of sukuna being over at family functions, but it can be applied as part of the general hc heh) if you took him to any of your family functions as your plus one for the first time, all the aunts and uncles would be a bit wary of him at first due to all of the tattoos and piercings he has (sukuna swears he has never felt so self conscious before) but after they strike up a conversation with him and find out that he’s actually a good guy who knows what he wants to do in the future and is very loyal to you, they start to like him more.

your little cousins adore him and love it when he comes over because sukuna is a very tall high schooler which makes him the perfect candidate as a monkey bar

so when you noticed that all the little ones started to climb on his body and mess around with his hair, you were quick to react because you knew your boyfriend was easily irritable which prompted you to think he hated kids

but there was nothing to worry about because when you saw him playing around with them and even crack a smile, you felt your heart grow fuzzy at the sight and you knew right then and there that you wanted to stick by sukuna’s side for the rest of your life

and in the unfortunate circumstances that sukuna is too busy to make it to one of your functions, the first thing everyone asks is “where’s your boyfriend?” or “where’s ‘kuna? i wanna play with him!”

so you have to facetime him and let him know that everyone is wondering where he is (your phone is dead by the end of the night because after the adults get their turn at saying hi to your boyfriend, the kids snatch your phone and end up talking to him for the rest of the night)

but in conclusion, everyone is waiting for the day he gets on one knee to propose to you and your parents are itching to get to get call sukuna their son-in-law :))

also don’t forget that your parents want two grandchildren: one boy and one girl!

[the28thofseptemberr]

helloooo!! i didn't do a fic rec last month because i was so busy with my exams and barely had time to read, so this month's post is going to comprise of mostly fics i've read in june but also some i've read in may.

thank you to all of the incredible writers, please go support them!! and remember to read all of the tags and possible warnings before reading the fic! here is the list of fics (mostly below the cut):

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•° — led by your beating heart by @missandrogyny 29.4k | E | famous harry/non-famous louis

Nick leans over. "Oh," he says, his voice smug. "Who is that?"

Harry just blinks at his phone. "Um," he manages to stammer out.

"Who's that, Harry?" Nick asks again, but this time he raises his eyebrows and smirks. Harry knows Nick is just teasing, and that he's not really looking for new Harry Styles gossip, but, um. He might have found something. Accidentally.

Harry opens his mouth to speak, but all that comes out is another 'um'. He really needs to work on translating his thoughts into words. But then it probably wouldn't be any help right now, would it? His mind is as blank as a newly erased etch-a-sketch.

"Oh," Nick says again, this time gleefully, seemingly having picked up on Harry's distress. "Looks like we've got a story here! Are you going to call or delete her number?"

Her number. So Nick thinks it's a girl. Well, Harry can't blame him: 'Lou' is kind of an androgynous nickname. His stylist's name is Lou.

But this Lou, well, Louis, he's kind of, really, really not a girl. He's really pretty though, which, is something.

(Or: AU where Harry's in One Direction, Louis isn't, and they reconnect over a game of 'Call or Delete'.)

note: this was so funny and cute and well written, and everyone was characterized so perfectly!! i adored the chemistry between louis and harry, this fic kept me smiling for the whole time while i was reading <3

•° — sounds like love to me by @neondiamond 14.6k | G | kid fic

“Do you want to hear the heartbeat?”

Louis watches as Harry’s face falls with the realization that this is one of those things he won’t be able to experience. For a second, Louis considers saying no, to show Harry they’re truly on the same boat through all of this. But he nods in the end, reaching over for Harry’s hand as the doctor flips a switch. Noise fills the room then, and it takes a few seconds for the sound to become clear enough for Louis to make out the baby’s fast heartbeat.

“It’s really fast,” he voices his thoughts out loud as he uses his thumb to tap against the back of Harry’s hand, replicating the rapid rhythm of the baby’s heartbeat. It takes the younger man a little while to figure out what Louis’ doing, but a huge grin breaks out on his face as soon as he does.

“Is that them?” He signs with the other hand, his own eyes starting to tear up when Louis nods.

OR: Harry is deaf, Louis is pregnant. They figure it out.

note: i'm not a fan of mpreg or kid fics in general, but i stumbled across the fic post for this on my dash and the summary sounded really intriguing to me, so i had a go at reading and it did not disappoint!! it was really sweet and fluffy but also so touching and heartbreaking in some parts. plus, i really enjoyed how harry and louis worked together and supported each other.

•° — this restless dream by @afirethatcannotdie 5.6k | NR | first meetings

“Hiii, I called earlier about the dogs?” he asks, taking a few steps closer to the desk where Louis is standing. He’s taller than Louis, with a dimple when he smiles and bright green eyes. There's a cute eagerness about his whole presence. “Do you have any puppies?” He’s a bit like a puppy himself, actually.

AU. Louis works at an animal shelter and Harry wants a puppy. Things don't go quite according to plan.

note: this was so so adorable and soft, especially since i have a soft spot for h&l with pets. i also have a soft spot for h&l being oblivious lovesick idiots and this was perfect!!

•° — all i see is you, lately by @runaway-train-works 2k | G | first meetings

Harry noticed him for the first time three months ago. He couldn’t not, really, what with the man being so pretty and all, and Harry remembers it well because it was three days before his birthday and he had joked to himself that seeing someone so gorgeous for three days on the trot must be an early present from the Gods.

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The one where Harry has a crush on a fellow commuter.

note: this one was quite short but so sweet and perfect and lovely!!

•° — the things i'd do to wake up next to you by orphan_account 36.1k | M | amnesia fic

AU. Harry wakes up to a pregnant Louis Tomlinson and a wedding band on his finger.

note: this fic was incredible, i'm always up for an amnesia fic and this one was heart-breaking and realistic but also sweet and fluffy as well :)

•° — this glorious mess by theweightofmywords 14.2k | M | post-breakup

His head lolls to the side, and his eyes float open to focus on what used to be his bedside table.

It’s empty now, devoid of the framed photo of the two of them. And Louis knows that he has no right to feel hurt, but somehow, this only confirms what this really is.

“This is the last time,” he cries, his voice breaking both from pleasure and pain.

“I know, baby,” Harry breathes, burying his face in Louis neck.

note: this is the third mpreg-centric fic i've read this month and... i don't even like mpreg?? but god the premise of this fic intrigued me so much, and it was lovely and emotional and beautifully written.

•° — BLAH BLAH BLAH there's a moment you know (you're f*cked) by @mercurial-madhouse 3.2k | M | spy au

Anyone impulsive enough to betray their country is either foolish or overly-confident. Louis’s too cunning for the former. So his inflated ego tips precariously close to the edge between pride and hubris. In sum: He may be an expert, (as proven by the .32-cal Beretta Alleycat Harry found strapped to his back) but ex-agent Louis Tomlinson will explode like a busted bullet misfiring in a broken gunbarrel if Harry can find his trigger.

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Or, the spy AU in which Harry thinks he's prepared to meet Louis only to find he's not.

note: the banter and tension in this fic was so good and so fun!! i need moreee

•° — every lonely place by @ham-palpert 38k | E | time travel/alternate lives fic

Facing the fact that he’s been prioritizing his career over his relationship, Harry proposes to his longtime boyfriend Louis on a whim. But when yet another work emergency takes precedence over their plans, Louis decides he’s had enough. Harry goes to bed drunk and alone, and when he wakes, he finds himself in an entirely different world. Over and over again, Harry visits a lifetime he’s once lived, across time and dimensions. And wherever there’s a Harry Styles, there’s a Louis Tomlinson.

note: this was such a unique fic! and such an emotional one too, love the message it sends and the character arc and development was so good

•° — tick-tock by bubblegumclouds 6k | G | soulmate au

When Louis was born to Jay Tomlinson with a tiny 2 years on his clock, it starts the most beautiful love story. Even if things are missed, fate finds a way to make it work.

note: this was just so, so cute and fluffy and sweet! i loved it

•° — baby baby, you're a caramel macchiato by @missandrogyny 3.2k | T | coffee shop au

So, yeah, Harry doesn't think it's that far of a stretch to call himself a good barista. There are some particularly bad ones, and some particularly good ones, and, with his work ethic, his skill, and his charm, he'd probably be lumped in with the latter group.

note: this was so lovely, and i especially really loved the little section talking about louis' name and how it suits him!

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•° — one shines brighter by @afirethatcannotdie 11.8k | T | wedding fic

“Hi, baby. You doing anything fun today?” Harry shrugs. “Dunno. Thought I’d see how I was feeling before making any plans.” “You wanna get married?” Louis asks. Harry’s face breaks into a smile, and he nods. Louis’ lips are just brushing Harry’s when Gemma appears in the hallway. “You two are in so much trouble.” Harry's wedding was never supposed to be the happiest day of his life. No, that was going to be the day after, when he finally got to start his marriage. Unfortunately his family (and Louis) have other ideas.

Featuring a pair of moms who only want the best for their kids, meddling sisters with too much time on their hands, and a groom who gets caught up in the fairytale.

note: i adore this fic!! it's so so so adorable and so soft and well written, and you can feel how in love h&l are with each other. so so good!

my own fics

•° — under your bed in new york 33.4k | T | exes to lovers

"We know you're still in love with Harry."

Louis' nostrils flared up. "I'm not—"

"Louis."

"I'm not!"

there are many things louis likes to tell himself. we broke up for a reason. it's been so many years. and of course, the classic: i’ve definitely moved on from him. but when he suddenly finds harry back in his life after three years, louis realizes he might be a little less moved on than he thought.

au; spilling coffee onto an ex, being set up on dates, and having a nosy puppy might be all louis needs to find love again

note: i didn't actually write or publish this one this month, but i did edit, revamp and make a fic post for it this month so i thought i'd put it in here anyway. reblog the fic post here!