#i think i'm gonna redo the basement

[fooltofancy]

do i turn my apartment into a greenhouse OR do i completely redo the basement in my estate IDK i'm suffering

[ratatatastic]

"...I think they said—the one day we went back to the rink—I think we had to sign—our owners had to sign every champagne bottle and I think they said there was over 160 champagne bottles? That were—and like obviously not—" "Like empties you mean? Yeah, just like—" "Empties! Like just spraying everywhere!" ... "Our locker room had, obviously, booze and water and champagne up to, like, my ankles. Our room probably, like, I think the floor had to have—you should ask those guys but I think they would—I would assume they would have to take that floor out and completely fix it up." "Yep. Redo it." "Like it was—yeah, it was crazy. We had staff, management—their kids—coaching, our families just packed in there. Yeah it was, you know, smoke—you can't even see the person beside ya 'cuz cigar smoke all over the place." "You're just walking around in a flooded basement." "I'm like going into the hallway, ripping our security guys that we had into the locker room to, like, just pour a load of beer on, like, you know? Everyone in the arena was involved. Yeah, that was a super, super, cool moment. You know, I'm curious to see how much that room costs to fix up." "Yeah, we'll find out!"

Empty Netters | 8.26.24 (x)(x)

"And Anton, you talked about getting ready for next season in practise already. We see you on Instagram practising with HIFK there—back home in Finland. What was it like the first time you put the skates back on after winning the Stanley Cup? Did it feel different? Did, kind-of, the magic come rushing back a little bit there?" "Kind-of... kind-of... it was actually a little weird because all of our gear was, like, soaked in champagne and beers and—you know, after Game 7, like, we still had part of our gears on us. I have to say there was a lot of champagne floating on the floor in the locker room. So I was kind-of worried about my gear if it's gonna make back for the first time around next season but it felt actually pretty good. I would've thought it would have felt worse putting the skates on again but since we played so many games the past two seasons...we're kind-of used to playing—it's weird to not play.

Territory Talk | 8.26.24 (x)

[babiebom]

Fetishes/Kinks I think the family has

A/N: Only for Johnny, Sissy, Nubbins, and Bubba<3(sorry Drayton stans) I don't usually write these things, but I feel like I want people to know that I do infact take requests that are similar as long as it's not full on smut. This obsession has gotten completely out of control.

Tw: sexual content. Dubcon, cnc etc. It's kinks for a family that murders...it's not gonna be normal that's for sure

Genre: headcanons?

Wc: maybe 3 or 4 kinks/fetishes per person and 2+ bullet points per kink/fetish?

Bubba(leatherface)

Praise Kink(receiving)

I think this is canon. I watched the second movie and I'm pretty sure he has one?

He likes being called a good boy he likes it when you tell him he's been good literally his favorite thing

Tell him he is doing a good uob and behaving and he will finish on the spot ngl

Thesauromania

This is the collecting and arousal to womens clothing including and usually underwear

I feel like Bubba is the type to steal panties and bras to use and smell. If they have a victim that's a woman that he thinks is particularly attracted to odds are he is going to steal their underwear and keep it in a little drawer that he has in the basement.

He doesn't get caught because he is usually the one that has to butcher and cut up the victims so no one really notices or cares enough to notice that the underwear is gone when keeping or getting rid of the clothes

bDSm

I feel like Bubba is submissive and would like a partner that is more dominant

I think he would prefer a gentle dom though, someone that praises and takes care of him, especially because he doesn't know what he's doing. He wants to feel wanted and cared for, so I think this fits

I also think that because of his personality he wouldn't really like being the dom. He gets told what to do all the time. It's the only thing he knows, him taking charge would just give him anxiety, he needs to be told what to do...maybe in a more sweet manner though.

Nubbins(hitchhiker)

Knife play

He would love to cut up his partner. He loves his little knife with all his heart so incorporating it into sex would be a given

He would try not to go too deep but yknow sometimes things happen...isn't trying to kill though

Or maybe he is idk

Would also be okay with his partner cutting him. I don't think he has any specific reasons he just enjoys it.

Photography

I think he would like to take pictures of his significant other or fling while doing the do, before, and after

He already likes taking pictures of things that he has an interest or attraction to

Like dead animals and bodies the sunset flowers he is probably a real good photographer if I'm being honest

So he would probably want his significant other to pose a certain way while doing certain things so he could take pictures

Would show off the pictures to anyone that will look at them and probably doesn't understand when people are either mortified or upset that he's shown them. He thinks it's pretty why don't they?

Johnny

Does get off to the pictures...he can't help it.

Belonephilia

Sexual arousal to sharp objects

He definitely has a sexual attraction to needles knives and other sharp things

If his partner isn't up for getting poked and cut he would let them do it to him

Or at least run it over skin or something

He just needs something to be around and it doesn't matter if it's given or received he enjoys either.

Marking

He 100 percent likes marking up not only partners but probably anyone he sleeps with

Like everyone has to know that they belong to him and they will know that by the amount of marks that litter their body

There are bite marks, hickeys, scratches, cuts, bruises. This man will do any and everything in order to mark his partner

Wants the marks to last a WHILE would prefer them to last forever but does like marking them up so he's okay with having to redo them.

Hematolagnia

The sexual arousal to blood

This man HIGHKEY gets off on making his partner bleed and seeing victims bleed/licking up their blood

Wouldn't drink blood in a cup but would cut his partner or bite them to the point of them bleeding then lick or suck on the spot

Man is low key a vampire

Dacryphilia

The sexual arousal to crying/tears

Would 100 percent be the type that his entire goal while fucking is to make his partner cry

He doesn't care if they're crying because it's too much, too good, or they are simply overwhelmed he WANTS those tears and he's going to get them one way or another

And since he is a serial killer(the closest person to one in the family) I feel like he gets off on his victims crying like

No it's not gonna make him feel bad if you cry it's just gonna make him hard.

It's the quickest way to NOT surviving imo.

Odaxelagnia

An obsession with biting and or being bitten

It has been in almost every kink of his so far.

I don't think it goes as far as an oral fixation it is literally just him liking to bite people

He likes the feeling of their skin on his teeth

Likes the feeling of the skin breaking from him biting down

And it gives him a chance to mark his partner up AND gives him a chance to taste their blood so it's like a 3 for 1 special

His long-term partner would probably have a scar from how deeply he bites. Like Bella from twilight and the little scar she got from James :)

Sissy

Wax play

I feel like she would be the type of person to want to drip hot wax on her partners. Would definitely do it unexpectedly while they're tied up and be like "it's okay darlin' it's only gonna sting for a sec"

Likes to make pictures with the wax because she thinks it's pretty especially on whoever her partner is.

Bdsm

Would like bondage tbh

Like tying her partner up is something she would enjoy

"You don't have'ta worry 'bout nothin' sugar. Just let me take care of ya"

Also pairs with the next kink and the wax play this woman likes taking control in a gentle way like it's not the taking control that is what she likes, she just likes taking care of her partner

Ties the ropes in pretty ways.

Blindfolding

Likes to blindfold her partner and take away their senses so all they can feel is her

She wants them to be focused on nothing more than her and the pleasure she is giving them

You don't need to be able to see or move to feel pleasure, so she's taking those away so you have less things to worry about

Also likes the element of surprise that it brings

Body Painting

I think she paints?

Im not sure but I feel like she does

And i think she would like to paint on her partner. Maybe with their cum idk I just feel like she would enjoy it, find it calming

Would use the painting as foreplay, gets her significant other riled up with her painting it would make everything more sensitive

[dangerously-human]

FIRST PREGNANCY, GEORGE BABYFIC, LAUNDRY AND TAXES, TORTURE BUT MARRIED 💕😍💖🙏🤲🩷

Your selections are, shall we say, unsurprising. XD Half of these I have snippets for, half are still in the conceptual/outlining stage.

First pregnancy (My Heart Walked into the World): This is from a future chapter where Lucy and Lockwood are sparring in the basement and Lockwood has an "oh this is real real, I'm actually gonna be a dad" moment.

From this angle, the swell of her belly was more apparent; in another month, if she pulled the same move, it would be prodding him in the face. Not that they’d be keeping up with sparring then — or maybe they would; the pregnancy manuals weren’t exactly written with active agents in mind. He’d have to brush up on some of the chapters toward the back of the book later. Suddenly, it was difficult to drag his gaze away from that new shape. There really was a tiny person growing in there, a person he and Lucy had made together. It was incredible and unfathomable and frankly a little bit bizarre, and it was really, actually happening. Contrary to what George might tease, Lockwood hadn’t spent much time imagining this — had assumed, maybe, that if he lived long enough, he’d eventually have children, because that was what adults did. The time before his parents died was foggy at best, so it was hard to guess at his childhood dreams; but as far back as he could remember, to little Anthony Lockwood, the options for adults were either dad or DEPRAC agent, probably, and the latter sounded terribly boring. But that was the future, and before he was ten, the future had let him down too many times to be trusted, so it didn’t bear thinking about in much detail. And then came Lucy. And somewhere along the way, even when she was still Lucy Carlyle, the vision had crystallized. Not so much the when, but the whether. And now that hazy someday was here, and Lockwood was maybe forgetting a little how to breathe.

George-centric babyfic: This one's a little tricky only because I originally started it before I had any intention of writing the first pregnancy fic, and there's a good bit of information (mainly about our faves' futures, but also about life and culture during the Problem) I was trying to convey that makes more sense there than here. In actuality I think this will be a good thing: this fic was turning into a lot of infodumping and needs to find its own identity instead. But it's going to take some rewrites, and, well. Redoing things is never my favorite. But I'm very attached to this fic; it plays a lot on George and Lucy's friendship, which is always one of my favorite things to write, and it's also sort of the foundation of the Restore the Years 'verse, in that I kept daydreaming this scene and invented seven Lockwood children to justify it and started establishing headcanons and then went, hmm, maybe I should actually flesh out how we got here. 20+ works later...

Right, so. This one does feed quite a bit off of that post that's like, we all know George lives with Lucy and Lockwood until at least their third child (this is #4), and Lockwood gets all sad puppy eyes when he says he's moving out and Flo tries to extricate him from the Lockwood commune, etc etc. My take on that:

“It’s not about that, Lockwood. You know I love Ivy, and the twins, even if I am convinced they conspired to steal all my beakers last week.” “They’re all of eight months old, George, they’re not conspiring on anything,” I said, punctuating my statement with a hefty eyeroll. “Their worst crime is mouthing salt bombs. That, or using those fancy new teeth to bite their sister.” “Nonetheless, my point stands that it’s not about the kids. As I was saying, Flo’s finally getting less antsy indoors, and I think it’s high time we started our lives together properly.” Lockwood frowned. “Now, don’t feel like you need to rush into anything—” George snorted. “Oh, yes, moving in together two years into marriage, that’s really a scandalously condensed timeline.”

Laundry and taxes: Still in the planning stage. This is the Locklyle proposal from Lockwood's POV (Lucy's POV being Where O Grave). Lockwood buys the ring (as we saw in Here's a Safe Place to Lay Your Heart Down), and then takes to carrying it with him everywhere as he tries to figure out the perfect way to propose. Everything he comes up with either doesn't suit Lucy, doesn't work out, or gets vetoed by Kipps. Eventually he's just doing laundry in the basement with Lucy and can't wait another second, and pulls out the ring from his pocket. My nickname for the story comes from that quote from Everything Everywhere All at Once (which I really need to actually watch!) about, like, "I would have liked just doing laundry and taxes with you," and my fondness for the way accepting a mundane life together is actually a really important part of the development of Lockwood's romance with Lucy, and the way the necklace of devotion symbolizes all that.

Torture but married: Basically the Winkman interrogation scene but what if they were married. I actually haven't fully decided who's in which role in this scene, although they both get beat up, so I'll be happy either way, lol. Lockwood and Lucy are doing some undercover investigation work related to their mission on the Other Side, and one of them (probably Lockwood) gets captured and mid-interrogation, the other (probably Lucy) intervenes to rescue him, also gets whammied a little in the process, there's lots of worry for each other, and the comfort and wound tending we were denied in the show episode. Also there's a line in there where he's pleading for his captors to let him go and he's like, "I have a wife and child and child at home, please," and because the entire point of this fic was for me to get to write a "that's my wife!" scene for Lockwood, eventually he gets to go, "yeah, actually that's my wife who's currently making problems for you, the baby's at home with the nanny though" and then they get to cuddle Ivy when they get home because I never got over that scene in The Peacekeeper Wars of a bloodied, nearly dead John cradling his newborn son with Aeryn looking on.

[bomberqueen17]

more stories

ok since telling myself stories of how my day was gonna go worked yesterday i'm gonna do it again today

i did get... a lot of what i wanted to do yesterday done, but i could have done more and just plain didn't. so.

i do have a photo of paint colors behind the cut.

I went to the hardware store and they don't do little sample paint pots. I had to buy a $6 quart of paint in order for them to mix it. I'd grabbed a handful of paint chips, and picked one at random for them, and it's a color I love and think is gorgeous and also almost immediately realized that I super Do Not Want on my kitchen wall, but it was too late to stop the guy so. now i have a quart of this beautiful Sandhill Crane color. (It's PL266, for the record, by Pratt and Lambert.)

I painted a swatch of it inside the basement hallway, which adjoins the kitchen and is going to need redoing anyway.

And then I used some of it to paint a "floor cloth" shelf liner, which is drying now and I plan to sew a backing to and then install today.

[Image caption/description: a chunk of white canvas mottled with a deep blue-green color. I got this effect by priming it and then letting the primer only partially dry before I went at it with the final color, because I wanted a mottled effect. I then went and added a second layer of color when the first layer wasn't entirely dry either, not just out of impatience but because this is what I was going for. I'm then going to sew the hem on an old sewing machine I'm reasonably confident can handle the paint-stiffened fabric; I'm backing it with an old sheet. And then it will be done. I'm not coating it in polyurethane because this is a temporary/low traffic kind of solution.]

And here's the color, swatched, on the wall:

[image description/caption: The background, to the left, is my kitchen, with the stainless steel fridge and grayish cabinets, the floor still covered in taped-down cardboard. The foreground, to the right, is my basement hallway, formerly blue, now bordered in white primer where they replaced the plaster with drywall and fixed the doorway. And in the middle is the swatch of Pratt & Lambert's "Sandhill Crane", which is a blue/green kind of teal color, rather dark but vivid.]

It's not the color I want. it's too... well it's just a little muddy somehow, IDK. It's beautiful and I want to look at it at lot, but I don't want a big expanse of it anywhere. And it's too dark I think. I want bold and vivid but I want it to reflect into the space and change the grays, I don't want it to absorb light into itself.

So here's all the swatches I grabbed, which all look really dark too. The vertical ones are what I'm thinking for main colors, the horizontal for accent colors. The two ones that are the gradient paint chips are because there was literally not a single shade of scarlet or orange in the single-color chips, and because I liked the green one.

I was standing there in the aisle with my scribbled list of colors, confronted by the fact that the paint chips aisle is not organized by any criteria I can understand. It's not like a color wheel. THey don't even put similar colors together. So when I say, "i'm looking for like an ultramarine blue", there's no such thing, I have to take my idea of what I think ultramarine looks like, and I pick up the chip and it's called "soft lavender" or something and i'm like wtf this isn't purple, and it's not, but. wtf.

All of these are too dark and not bright enough, and I have to go back and try again, but I was just trying to get something to start with. I should pair the accent colors with the mains I was thinking of them with. But whatever, it's a start; if nothing else it's something for Dude to disagree with.

So today I need to go out I think. I'm going to measure the cabinets and look at what I'm putting in them, and then go to Homegoods and see if they have any discount shelf rack spacer things, and then find if anyone has any shelf liners in stock. The idea of getting colorful fun ones is great, but those are not sold anywhere, so that idea isn't going to work. I can have gray, white, beige, and if I order online I can have patterns of gray, white, and beige. I'm not going to buy stick-on wallpaper because the point is to not damage the shelves, not to coat the shelves in adhesive that will strip the finish if I decide to remove them.

So I'm just going to go to Target and buy whatever they have, for the shelves I can't see anyway.

I am going to make liners for the lazy susan cupboard, still. but that's how i'm getting started.

so: get the cat off me. Change clothes. Put another load of laundry in, that'll be two down out of the four I probably have built up to do. Put away the dry laundry from yesterday, it should be dry by now.

Go over to the house. Measure specifically which cabinets you want racks and bins for, and compile a coherent list of those.

Go to Homegoods. (please, god, get there before ten am. ugh.) Look for racks/bins/baskets only to fit specifically the dimensions on your list. Don't buy anything else unless it's specifically suited to your needs.

Go to Target. Buy an under-sink liner, you already know which ones they carry. Note what you did and did not get. Go home, order online for whatever they did not have in stock. Buy shelf liners if they have them and Homegoods didn't.

Lunch.

Finish the shelf liner and install the microwave, so you can feel like you're accomplishing something. Install shelf liners in shelves. Begin to move dishes over into the kitchen cupboards Jim said were ready to be used. (Uppers, not lowers, as lowers still have countertop guys to contend with.)

Perhaps find fabric and other materials for the turny-cupboard shelf liners? Cut those out? See how it's going. Play that by ear.

Come home and make dinner.

Oh yeah I was trying to get a chapter update up this morning. I'm like, so close, but it needs another editing pass and I just don't have time.

[simmingnate]

"Hey, Toto? I don't think we're in Sulani any more! There's no place like home, and there's no place like Oasis Springs for some red hot heat, and those desert winds have blown in more than just some dust! That's right, we're back where it all began for another episode of…"

"… Johnny Wants a Wife!"

(The theme tune plays! You turn up the volume… you hear it echoing all around! You look out the window and see your neighbours come bursting from their homes onto the street, grinning and dancing to the beloved music that fills your souls with joy!)

"I can't wait to get out of the tropical heat of Sulani and into the even more oppressive heat of Oasis Springs! But seriously, it will be great to show the ladies where I'm from, especially since the winner is contractually obliged to move in with me here for at least a year."

Johnny and the final four arrive in Oasis Springs, and Johnny leads the tour. The first (and only) stop… his beloved trailer!

"Well, ladies, feast your eyes on this beauty!"

But while Johnny is super happy to see his home again, the ladies' reactions aren't all as positive…

"Johnny's home is cute! I see great potential. A few plants there, an extension here, a woman's touch - mine specifically - would do wonders. And I do enjoy a challenge! I was always redoing the barn on my family's farm, the cows loved my use of textures and colour."

"Hey, I only just graduated, this place looks like a palace compared to my student accommodation! And have you seen the price of decent properties in San Myshuno? Oasis Springs is up-and-coming, and I'm ready to get in on the ground floor. Well, this is more like the basement."

"Is this a joke? I signed that contract thinking Johnny at least lived in a real house, and by REAL HOUSE I mean one that CANNOT be PICKED UP and MOVED! Does he think I'm some sort of country bumpkin?! Because I'm not! I couldn't survive a year in Podunk Springs!"

"Uh, that Zest Fortune I was fantasising about is gonna have to stretch quite a bit further than I originally expected… and usually Tits is the one doing the unexpected stretching, if you know what I mean!"

[nikz-artea]

Okay, so I'm gonna post my theories before Ephemeral airs.

First of all, I'm positive this episode will have a time-related Miraculous Holder, Bunnix probably, appear to redo or fix the timeline.

This will have two timelines like in Chat Blanc.

In one of the timelines, where Adrien went alone in the press conference, the questioning of Ladybug's Guardianship will happen and Adrien will reveal his identity to her.

Gabriel plans on Akumatizing Adrien. Since Adrien is kinda used to disappointments and rarely gets angry, he has control on his emotions. Knowing this, Gabriel deliberately lures him to their basement and use his Mother's body to shock him enough that he will lose control of his emotions and then Akumatize him. It's obvious Gabriel is luring Adrien because he didn't move until he sees his son watching him. Also, before he pushes the hidden buttons on his wife's portrait, he is glancing back to make sure Adrien is behind him. And most of all, the guy has an Akuma stored in his staff in preparation for a quick Akumatization. I'm still unsure as to why he would Akumatize his son but I think he either: a.) Figured out Adrien is Chat Noir b.) Saw his son transform in his room, or c.) Knew Ladybug cares a lot about Adrien. Or maybe it is Nathalie who figures it all out.

Gabriel unifies the three Miraculous, Cat, Peacock and Butterfly, and goes to fight Ladybug in the movie theater. Since she's alone fighting against Shadow Noir Moth (?) and Ephemeral, it's clear that she'll lose. She uses her Lucky Charm, which isn't showed anywhere in the trailer or spoilers so I'm guessing it's kind of a clue to what she shall do or who to contact. But it's clear they're too much for her. Ladybug types desperately in her Bug phone while running then detransforms, either by Ephemeral's power or because her time has run out, and lands on the steps. Judging from her enemies' actions, they know she's outnumbered. They don't even bother chasing her while she runs. And since she used her ultimate power, it is only a matter of time before she detransforms.

Now, Bunnix appears on the other timeline, the one where they are fighting the Akumatized Lollipop person, and asks both Ladybug and Chat Noir for help. It will explain why they resurface in the sewer looking so shock and terrified. If they're the duo in that timeline, they won't be surprised at the number of Akumatized villains.

Gabriel uses the earrings to create something massive it has to be in space? (I have no idea what I'm talking about at this point.) However, the Ladybug and Chat Noir in another timeline transforms into Astro Chat and Cosmo Bug to ruin his plan.

After the fight, Ladybug and Chat Noir goes back to their own timelines to correct what is wrong. And since the reveal doesn't happen in the other timeline, the iconic Umbrella scene will. And because Chat is becoming more and more like himself with Ladybug, the line between Chat Noir and Adrien blurs and she sees their similarities.

I think, the reason Marinette can't see Chat in Adrien is because of his flirty, easygoing attitude whereas the latter is more reserve. Since Adrien vows to be more like himself to Ladybug, his flirting lessen and he doesn't hide behind jokes.

And before anyone comes at me complaining that Adrien's 'real self' is Chat Noir and that he's flirty and a jokester, may I remind you that Adrien, himself, refers to Chat Noir as a role he always play whenever he's with Ladybug. If you want to see the real Adrien, then Oblivio is the closest representation of him because when their memories are erased, all of his insecurities and fears also disappeared leaving him.

That's all folks! I'm so excited for the episode!