#i was thinking of doing a complete fresh restart

[sinsofsinister]

I opened League for the first time since 2013 and it took so long to find which account was the old one i used bc i had an NA and EU West account and in my adventure I discovered that my EUW account got stolen and permabanned for cheating bc I absolutely did not play and win four matches in a row in December of 2023

[eyepatchdate]

so far smtiv is like the only one that's really fun to replay on new game plus because of how armor works in that game, even at 99 if you fuck up you CAN get killed.

[bloomzone]

2025 #8 The Power of 3: Divide Your Year, Reclaim Your Time

Happy New Year—it’s 1st January, and 2025 is finally here woooooaaaaah. A blank slate, full of possibility. But this isn’t about resolutions. This is about creating a system—a life strategy that works every single day, not just for a few weeks in January. (This is my mindset rn !)

✒️..That’s why today, we’re talking about the 3-3-3-3 Method. Your year isn’t one overwhelming block of time. It’s not a marathon you burn out on halfway through(trust me). It’s a cycle of seasons—each three months long—designed for you to grow, adjust, and conquer in stages.

[You don’t need to control 12 months at once. You need to master each quarter.]

Why 3-3-3-3 Works

The biggest mistake people make is thinking success is linear. It’s not . Life happens in phases. When you divide your year into 3-month blocks, you give yourself permission to focus, recalibrate, and restart four times a year.

[Three months is long enough to see results but short enough to stay motivated.]

Four separate quarters means you have four fresh starts. No wasted time, no excuses.This structure keeps you accountable, productive, and adaptable.

Breaking Down the Year

Let’s go quarter by quarter !!

Q1: The Groundwork (January-March)

This is your foundation. These three months are about clarity and direction. You’re building the systems and habits that will carry you through the rest of the year.

Set specific, actionable goals for Q1—just three.

Focus on discipline, not motivation. Build habits that align with your goals.

Start small, but be consistent. Every day you show up, you’re stacking bricks.

Your mantra for Q1? “Brick by brick, I’m building my future.”

Q2: Growth Season (April-June)

This is where the seeds you planted in Q1 start to sprout. Now it’s time to double down.

Push yourself harder. Challenge the systems you built.

Evaluate: Are your habits working? If not, adjust them.

Stay consistent—this is the quarter where most people quit.

Your mantra for Q2? “I don’t stop when I’m tired; I stop when I’m done.”

Q3: The Grind (July-September)

This is the toughest quarter—it’s hot, it’s long, and the novelty of the year has worn off. But this is also where champions are made.

Stay focused on execution. Don’t lose sight of your goals pleaaaase I know u can do it

Keep your pace steady. This isn’t about speed; it’s about endurance.

Reflect: What’s worked so far this year? What hasn’t? Cuz we are not perfect!!!

Your mantra for Q3? “I thrive in the grind. I grow in the struggle.”

Q4: The Finish Line (October-December)

This isn’t the time to coast. These last three months are your chance to finish strong.

Tie up loose ends. Complete what you started.

Celebrate your wins, but don’t get complacent.

Plan for the next year. Use what you’ve learned to set bigger goals for 2026.

Your mantra for Q4? “I finish what I start. I don’t quit—ever.”

Tasks (ideas) for Each Quarter

1. Q1: Build Your Base

Identify three goals.

Break them into daily and weekly tasks.

Track your progress daily.

2. Q2: Expand Your Reach

Push your comfort zone.

Evaluate and adjust your systems.

Focus on consistency, not perfection.

3. Q3: Commit to the Grind

Keep going, even when it feels tough.

Reflect monthly: What’s working? What isn’t?

Stay disciplined, no matter what.

4. Q4: Reflect and Rebuild

Finish strong—don’t leave anything undone.

Celebrate, but use failures as lessons. FAILURES ARE TEACHERS !

Set the stage for a powerful 2026.

1st January: it's a Now or Never

It’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of a new year. But here’s the truth: excitement fades. Discipline doesn’t. If you want this year to be different, you have to act differently.Today isn’t about January 1st being special. It’s about what you do with every day after this. Divide your year. Build your plan. And most importantly—execute.Because when December 31st comes around, and the world is reflecting on what they’ve lost or didn’t achieve, you’ll stand tall knowing you didn’t waste a single season. You didn’t just live through 2025—you mastered it.

one quarter at the tiiiiiime!!

@bloomzone 📇

[simplyanjuta]

Trait Based Sim Bust Thumbnails

This mod is an alternative to "No Macabre Pose in UI" - pick one.

A few people wondered if I can make a mod similar to "Trait Based Portrait Thumbnails" but for in-game UI thumbnails.

Here's why I didn't want to do this initially:

The pose that is used for the UI is used all over the game, in the household panel (neutral/fine mood), relationship panel, sim picker menu, main menu etc. Overriding one overrides the others.

A trait based pose where the moods go doesn't make quite sense since (emotional) personality traits and moods overlap and this could be confusing: A hotheaded sim would look angry in his default/"fine" state, a gloomy sim sad, a romantic sim flirty.

Another issue I see is that trait based poses in general are somewhat of a spoiler. Normally you need to discover a sims personality, here you see it at a glance. I think this is particularly bad for the relationship panel. (And this is one of the reasons why I think that the macabre pose is silly and a weird choice.)

Anyways I figured I could do an option that is a bit more subtle and still accomplishes a similar goal:

I made three personality dimensions: One for traits associated with positive emotion (cheerful, good etc.), one for traits accociated with negative emotion (gloomy, mean etc.) and a neutral for in-between.

For the positive and negative emotional dimensions I made two new poses that go along with it. One is a bit more smiley than the default, the other one more of a straight face. I left EAs default pose for all other traits in-between. (The traits I assigned are displayed in the cover picture above.)

This mod will work for adults (teen-elder) and kids (for traits that are shared by kids and adults).

Download:

SimFileShare

Changelog:

January 18th, 2025: EA updated the outgoing trait to exclude the awkward trait. I updated the file correspondingly.

December 8th, 2024: Updated the mod for the new trait Grouch that was added with patch 1.111.102 for the Cozy Celebrations Event (the trait will be only available to you if and when you complete(d) the respective part of the event, I just added in the references; besides Grouch will also use the pose for the negative emotion).

Notes:

This mod is an override of the file 81112DE1AD5B55F6/MoodUI_Thumbnails and conflicts with "No Macabre Pose in UI". It's an alternative to this mod. Pick the mod you prefer and remove the other one.

However, this mod can be used alongside "Trait Based Portrait Thumbnails". Both mods include trait overrides that partially overlap but it doesn't matter in this case since the overlapping files are identical. (I thought about splitting these mods into modules such that the trait file would be standalone but figured this would be unneccessarily confusing.)

Same as "Trait Based Portrait Thumbnails", this mod might conflict with other mods overriding the same traits, though.

Behaviour: I tested this a bit and it seems that, unlike for "Trait Based Portrait Thumbnails", for in-game UI thumbnails the game will randomly choose which pose to apply when there are multiple matching traits. In general, the game will prioritize poses I have assigned to the positive/negative emotional traits and only use the default pose when there are none. However, when using this mod alongside "Trait Based Portrait Thumbnails", which has some additional trait overrides, it can happen that, for whatever reason, these extra traits get prioritized and therefore the default pose will be picked instead. I didn't find a way to do anything about this.

Current game bug (not a mod issue):

It seems that the game currently is regenerating thumbnails each time you restart the game, even when the thumbnails already exist in the file localthumbcache, thus unneccessarily slowing down the game and bloating up this file. I tested this with no mods, with basegame only, in a fresh save, with the thumbnail config file reset to factory settings and it's still happening. Also added my findings to this bug report. If you noticed the same issue, please hit "me too".

If EA ever fixes the issue:

You might need to delete the file localthumbcache to let the game generate new thumbnails, otherwise you only see the changes when the game decides to update the thumbnails next time the sim changes.

[mamasuellen-blog]

It is Aziraphale who protects first.

Many claim that it is Crowley who helps or saves Aziraphale the most, but from the beginning what happens is different. Aziraphale is the first to start and in all other restarts of this journey he does the same. The essence of Aziraphale is love, that love that was always shared for Crowley, and that would later be completely and exclusively for Crowley. That is, Aziraphale's love means Crowley.

I'm not excluding what Crowley did for Aziraphale, as the two are ready at any time for acts of love, affection and protection. Furthermore, I will not exclude the fact that they both also love Planet Earth and protect it, but above all, they protect each other, as they are each other's world.

Before the Beginning: Aziraphale is the first to help and warn Crowley to avoid any problems with Heaven. Crowley listened to his advice and thanked him for his help. Crowley is aware that he can count on Aziraphale.

Fresh start in Eden: Aziraphale is the one who starts to protect Crowley from getting wet and maybe it's because of their past in heaven and all the stories we don't know yet that Crowley leans so easily towards Aziraphale, who doesn't think twice and makes a gesture of care, affection and protects it from the first rain on Earth.

Fresh start in s03: Aziraphale takes the initial step to change their situation. He has faith, perseverance and will do his best to achieve everything Crowley deserves, after all, Aziraphale went to heaven for Crowley, to protect him, save him and get him freedom. That's what love is, it's care, it's thinking about who you love and fighting to see them smiling and Aziraphale wants that for Crowley. He wants to see you smiling along with him. And it will be.

[fawfulydoo]

I love your adult Dib design so much and I adore how it’s a love-letter to the early internet. Can you talk a little about him like… what you imagine for him lore wise? I can’t really articulate it right, just like… what do you imagine he’s up to? :3

Also, would you be comfortable with fan art of him with your credit? I’m sorry if this was,,/,,/,/, a loaded ask your art just means a lot to me and i appreciate it a lot :,) 🫶

AAAH YAY THANK YOU!!! And of course!! I have some ideas for what lead him to that point and what he'd currently up to. (AND YES FANART WOULD BE AWESOME!!!)

I imagine what happens to him over the years is that he begins to distance himself from his current situation and goes and finds people who actually want him around and appreciate his presence/have shared interests. I'd imagine he'd find people like this on internet forums. When he graduates highschool and finally gets to have a chance at restarting his reputation and having a fresh start at adulthood.

I'd imagine he starts out working some bullshit jobs that just get him by comfortably and not really anything in relation to science or anything as this is just like, REALLY boring to him. This would give him enough time to himself to indulge in his interest in paranormal studies and such. In the current day (to him) he's 22 and working as a bartender. I don't exactly know why I picked that job, but he enjoys it and he appreciates the tips. He finds working jobs completely separate to his interests is a lot better for him in the long run (very relatable to me as a neurodivergent person) and is overall VERY much happier and less stressed than he was as a child.

I would imagine at some point he'd probably pay ZIM a visit, as he sometimes wonders what he's up to. I thought of a little storyline in which they regain contact and it's a little different now, as it's like 10 years later, and highlights their differences in their perceptions of time. I don't really know if i'd actually write this though because idk what i'd really do with it.

That's about it though! If i think of anything else I'll add it later in a reblog. Ty again for the ask!!

[charmwitch]

Radiant Dawn Play Through 01

I beat Radiant Dawn (FIrst Playthrough) yesterday.

Notes: A-Rank with IkeSoren transferred from PoR. THis file was to set up a completely fresh NewGame+ with my own stat boosters from PoR. I will be playing NewGame+ on stream.

Radiant Dawn is kind of a mess, but I think it's even more of a mess on your first playthrough, which is probably the only playthrough people are ever going to do. I'm thankful for save states from GameFAQs, but I wanted to challenge myself this year.

(This is all based on the US Version of the game.)

Hard Mode is worthless and while in Japanese there was an extended script in Hard Mode, I would not wish that on anyone. I'm never doing hard mode in this game.

The English version lets you class change at level 20. Note, the Japanese version does not. You need master crowns for anyone you want to take to the end.

The English version has special weapons for the Dawn Brigade (that are canon in FEH which is incredibly funny) but the JP version does not. I can not imagine playing these games without the boosted weapons for The DB.

The second half of Radiant Dawn, without Pelleas, without a conclusion to Izuka, without the conversations about the Branded and the weight they have on the world is absolutely pale. I really think they should have just asked you if you wanted to replay from the point you have to kill Pelleas, rather than having to restart all over. There are no script differences before this point.

Not knowing the true identity of the Prince of Daien is wild. It's such an empty area. The biggest difference is that Almedha is depressed and listless for the rest of the game. We don't get a conclusion for her, she is just unhappy and her whole life was one mistake after the other.

If you don't deply the BK, you don't get Ike's memories back. It's weird.

Lehran dying is so funny to me because bitch deserves it but also I think it's WAY funnier for him to go "Zelgius is waiting..." and in new game+ Micaiah goes "PSYCHE!!!!" and doesn't let him die. Zelgius is STILL waiting, like, 700+ years later.

On that note, Yune being like "oh, Lehran I'm sorry. I understand having hatred for both the Laguz and Beorc. I was too callous" is so funny. Everyone has hatred in their heart in this game, but knowing to grow out of it is what matters.

I understand this game came out in 2005 and like, replaying the game was a thing, I guess? But in order to get Soren's special conversation, even if you transfered files, requiring TWO playthroughs because gay boys can't have anything is so funny.

I am glad there's still some paired endings, but the game really needed more conversations between characters.

Give Soren boss convos in Endgame.

Anyway, here's some screenshots from my run.

Ilyana about to fuck up PEEPAW!!

My top 3. I have NO idea how Nephenee became queen of the battlefield, but you go girl.

If you don't save Lehran/newgame+, Ike and Soren swap places. (I do not know if Ranulf takes Soren's spot here, or if his portrait stays near Skrimirs if you A-Rank them.)

Me being absolutely mad I can't talk to my little guy:

Ike about to fuck up a bird.

Also, interesting. Is Lehran the first laguz to use weapons?

And finally, here are Ike and Soren's capped out stats.

That's the power of love, baby.

[judes-hoe]

Little Late ~ KM7

Parrings~ Kylian Mbappé x reader

Summary ~ Kylian is coming in late to your almost 4 year old daughters life, and wants to restart

Warnings ~ a little angsty, will have happy ending cause I can’t do sad endings😭.

A/N~ idk were this idea came from buttt hope you enjoy it I don’t think I have a lot of Kylian lovers that read my blog

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It’s been 4 years since you and Kylian broke up, you now live in a small 2 bedroom 1 bedroom apartment with your soon to be 4 year old daughter. You’ve been posting your daughter on instagram and Snapchat.

It was around 1pm, making your daughter some lunch because she just woke up from a nap. You hear a knock at your door you furrow your eyebrows, you quickly plate the Mac and cheese for your daughter and give it to her with some juice. “Here baby eat up, I’m gonna go get the door.” You told her setting the plate in front of her at the small dining table. “Ok mama,” Savannah said eating her food.

You walk over to the door and open it slowly, you see someone you don’t expect. “Tell me she’s mine please, I need to know,” Kylian said with pleading eyes. “She’s yours..” you said quietly. “Can I see her?” He asked. “Kylian…” you said with a soft voice. “Please, knowing I have a daughter now is…I can’t explain..” he said. “Fine follow me..” you said letting him in.

You walk over to the dining table and see Savannah is half way done with her food. “Savannah, baby, I want you to meet someone..this is your dada..” you said softly. “Dada?” She asked. “Mhm..dada this is dada..” you said. “Hi baby..” Kylian said keeping his distance not wanting to scare her. You could see the scared and confused look in her eyes. “Sweetie finish eating, Kylian let’s go talk..” you said taking Kylian to the couch.

“H-how…w-when?” He asked. “The night we had a fight and broke up, I was gonna tell you but I didn’t..I still should’ve told you though..” you said softly. “How old is she?” He asked again. “She’ll be 4 in a few months,” you told him. “I’m sorry for everything, you didn’t deserve going through that alone…” he said guilty. “Well I’ll allow you to see her and be apart of her life now..” you told him. “Really?” He asked. All you did was nod your head, you look down in your lap and speak again. “She knows your her dad, I made sure to show her pictures of you and the both of us together and sometimes we’d sit and watch you play if you had a match” you told him quietly.

He was a little shocked to say. “So she knows who I am and doesn’t think I’m a complete stranger..good..” he said quietly. Kylian looked at you and watched as you still had your head hung low. He lifts your head up with his hand under your chin. “mon amour, I miss you a lot and still love you and regret everything..” he said as he moved his face closer. “I miss you too Kylian, I still love you also..” you said and looked down at kid lips. “Kiss me mom bébè..” he said.

You lean in a give him a kiss, he holds your face and rubs his thumb against your cheek. “I’m willing to start fresh again with you and be part of my daughter’s life..” he said pulling away and looking at you. “I’m willing to restart also..” you said looking at him.

You and Kylian talk a little more before your daughter walks up over to you crawling into your lap. “You need something baby..” you ask her. “That dada?” Savannah asked. “Yeah that’s dada..” you said. “Can I hold her?” Kylian asked. You nod your head and tell Savannah to go over to him. She gets off your lap and walks over to his lap climbing in it. “Dada!” She said excitedly. You can’t help but smile at them. “Hi mom bébè, I promise to make up for my absence time with you” he whispered but you heard him and it made you happy that your restarting with him and he’ll make up for his absence in your daughters life.

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[thefirstknife]

I know it may not be the most popular of opinions, but for me the "hard reset" and lack of content would actually be the *appeal* of a Destiny 3. Give us a brand new major story arc, give us new characters (the old could feature but focus attention on new ones), have us create an entirely new Guardian--total reset. (They could have new races, too--playable Hive Guardians! Okay yes I just wanna have a playable Eliksni Guardian that would be so fun). Current D2 content is... Honestly kind of overwhelming. Sometimes. Fresh slate with less content that the build back up would appeal to me a lot. I know they're not interested in doing so at this time, and I respect their preference to keep supporting D2 instead (especially given how many players WOULD throw a fit over the hard reset and lack of content), but I've definitely put in a lot of thought to what a D3 would mean and the big "negatives" are huge draws for me. (Especially if they kept the D1 and D2 servers online so people would have all that content at the ready to go back and play)

I totally understand that! The concept of there being D3 is really interesting and I think it's really neat to talk about possibilities!

There's definitely some appeal in this for me as well, but I think that unfortunately most of the other issues would vastly overshadow this feeling of getting to start fresh. I'm not too bothered with a lack of content overall but I don't think a lot of people truly understand how much of a lack it would be. We're so used to so much stuff to the point of it being overwhelming, but a full restart would be quite the shock.

I think some middle ground would be nice, but even when they did that (in BL, after initial vaulting), people were.... very mad. A lot of people were fine as well, and it's hard to judge because of the very vocal fans and content creators, but to this day people are still seething about how "bad" BL was because of all the stuff that was removed, despite the fact that a lot of stuff was also added.

If you've not been there during release of D1 and D2, it's hard to really imagine what the game looked like and played like, but these are completely unimaginable differences. I can't speak for D1, but vanilla D2 in comparison with even just a year after is an entirely different game. Basically, it would be a gigantic risk to do this, on top of splitting the community, and hope that maybe this time around people will accept a lack of content with the promise that in a few years there will be more. On paper it sounds reasonable, because it is, but unfortunately gamers aren't reasonable. We're currently witnessing this as well with people absolutely losing their minds about the possibility that for the next year or two or whatever we'll have smaller updates. This is very strange coming from these people because if we truly want D3 and for it to launch better than vanilla D1 and vanilla D2, then we'd have to let the devs work on that for years and not be occupied making constant huge updates for D2. More under:

Also! I know we would all love other playable races and that's definitely a big dream, but it will never happen as long as there's pvp in the game. Because of the hitboxes in pvp. As in, if they made playable Eliksni and Hive, they would be bigger than normal Guardians and it would not be possible to integrate them into pvp because of the natural disadvantage of having a bigger hitbox. Maybe if they did it in a way that genuinely just did not allow them into pvp modes, but that would be strange. The hitbox issue would also be a problem elsewhere too, even in pve. This is the most basic problem with this idea and a very difficult one to solve when the game is a first person shooter at its core. Other playable characters would be such a cool thing in Destiny though.

In a way, a lot of what we want can be done in the current game if the devs had time to work on a lot of fundamental changes and updates to the base game. It's just really difficult to do. They would probably need a dedicated year or more to do this, during which we wouldn't be able to get many updates. And this is less requirements than making a new game from scratch and risk a lot in the process.

I'm also wondering if both D1 and D2 could be kept around if they added a D3 as well. I feel like one of the old games would probably be shut down. This is definitely not possible with the reduced workforce, so unless they expand the studio again in the future, I don't think, realistically, we could get any of the positives with D3.

It's a discussion worth having for sure. Unfortunately it's dominated by the weird gamer bros and I genuinely don't think they understand anything about video games. There's this idea that "D3 would fix everything" and I simply don't understand what they're talking about because the same people are also the ones crying about content droughts, sunsetting, hit-and-miss features and activities and so on. And launching a brand new game would contain absolutely everything these people complain about every day. I've seen them also saying stuff like "I'd be okay with D3 if they don't make us repeat collecting everything again." And like. That's exactly what will happen. Do they think items will just be in their vault? No, we'll have missions again to re-earn the same exotics for the 5th time, just spaced out by years and then they'll be mad about how nothing new is being made and they're just reusing assets or whatever.

They could always just do a complete and total fresh start: nothing old is ever returned. No armour, no weapons, nothing. But people underestimate how much they'd miss their old builds and old options, and how new ones might end up not clicking with them all that much, but this time they wouldn't have anything old to fall back to. You know when a new weapon or exotic armour releases and they're brand new concepts? And they end up not really being something you connect to? You try it out, go "eh" and return to your old stuff? Imagine that but without the ability to go back to the old stuff. The idea of it is is exciting, but in execution it doesn't really work most of the time.

There's a lot of interesting angles when considering a potential new game, but I feel like at the end of the day, it's too big of an endeavour with a lot of very real risks that makes the whole thing not worth the effort. If anything, to make D3 into this perfect dream game right from the start, they would 100% need to just work on that for the next 5 years and we'd have to accept even fewer updates (if any) to D2 in the meantime. Otherwise we'll be in the same situation as with D2 launch and I know a lot of people don't remember or weren't there, but vanilla D2 was actually for real a time when Destiny almost died.

It's definitely something cool to speculate about, I just wish the weird gamers out there weren't completely hijacking this option while also doing everything in their power to tell devs that they have zero patience to wait for a good product, and that they can't survive 3 days without new content. Because that's just reinforcing the inherent risks with making a new game, on top of all the other risks involved and the potential that people will just not be willing to move away from what they've been collecting for years.

[zeldas-dagger]

Look at me like that - Zelink ❦

Thought this was cute (hope it is) I adore these 2 so much (If you couldn't tell I'm going through tloz brainrot bcos I restarted botw & totk)

(Already uploaded on ao3 under bloodlustngore)

(gif not mine)

Summary: Link loves Zelda' smile and laugh, so much that he gets flustered.

❤️Fluff❤️

Zelda wanted to go out of the castle for a bit, something about fresh air and also not to mention the fact she was stressed from all the pressure of trying to awaken her power. Link, of course, accompanied her, the blonde princess didn't protest about that, in fact she had wanted him to come along anyway. Zelda had gotten used to Link, she was annoyed by him at first but she does like him. Possibly a lot more than she thought she could.

Zelda was propped up against a large tree trunk, a book in her hand which contained some things she had been researching on. The Sheikah slate beside her. It was likely that she would find something out here that she wanted to take a photo of to research on, especially different spieces or insects. Link was a few inches away from her, his sword in hand as he practised swinging it. Not that the Hylian hero needed to practice, he was an extremely skilled swordsman. Princess Zelda found herself glancing at Link a few times, completely and utterly distracted, watching as he practiced sword movements. Zelda couldn't help but smile at him every now and then. But this time Link had caught her eyes as he turned to look behind him, the princess smiled and Link turned away, blush on his face.

To that Zelda chuckled, only increasing the blush on the heroes face. The blonde princess thought it adorable. Whenever she smiled at him or laughed. Link' instant reaction was to be flustered and Zelda loved to tease him with it a lot now. Although she couldn't talk, there had been a few times when the silent hero had smiled back at her, her reaction being the same. Zelda let out a sigh, stood up and put the book she was using down. Sheikah slate in hand, she tapped Link on the shoulder and the hero put away his sword and turned to her. He was still blushing like an idiot and Zelda couldn't help herself. She put the sheikah slate on photo mode and captured a picture of Link' flustered features. Link instantly let out a surprised gasp and reached for the sheikah slate, which Zelda moved behind her. "I'm keeping that for myself" she chuckled.

"You look so adorable" Zelda added, teasing Link.

Link walked closer to her and tried to take the slate again, but Zelda turned around and this time had it in front of her. What she didn't expect was Link to wrap his arms around her waist, trying to grab it again. Zelda let out a gasp but then laughed as Link had effortlessly lifted her up a little (she is canonically taller than Link). "Put me down!" She exclaimed, laughing.

Link protested letting out a groan to express that he wanted her to delete that photo. "I won't delete it! It's mine for safe keeping! Unless you want me to show the others, put me down!" Zelda added, teasing him. The princess loved getting these reactions out of Link, she found herself doing it often. The threat she made was clear, so Link put her down. The two of them looked at each other and started in a fit of laughter. Putting the Sheikah slate in her pocket, Zelda placed her hand on Link' arm, still laughing.

Through their fit of laughter, Zelda smiled at Link and she swore Link smiled back. The blonde loved Link' smile, it was a rare sight but one of her favourite things, she felt lucky to be able to see the heroes smile. And the way he looks at her, despite the fact he shows no emotion on his features...Zelda swore she could see him look at her the way she looks at him, with admiration (sometimes annoyance) but also love...she couldn't love Link, could she?

Either way she found herself liking Link way too much.

After calming down, Zelda cleared her throat. Gaining the attention of Link. Zelda didn't think twice about her next actions, but she practically tackled Link into the grass, catching him off guard. He let out a 'yelp' and Zelda couldn't help but laugh again, giving him that smile that he loves so much. She lay beside him in the grass as the two of them look up to the sky, it looked like it would rain soon, and besides Zelda should be back at the castle. "Do you ever think about who you would be if you weren't a knight?" Zelda asked, turning to Link. The blonde looked back at her, but he didn't speak a word. "I suppose you hadn't, there' no need. And also, you still owe me a bow lesson. I'd probably give father a heart attack, but I would like to learn." Zelda added. Link kept his eyes on her as the princess spoke, giving his full atention.

He was happy, seeing Zelda like this, nerding out about different things, talking about lessons on weapons she wanted him to teach her. Link never showed much emotion, but when it came to Zelda and they were alone, he allowed himself to express it a little more.

After all, he found himself falling for the princess Zelda, he shouldn't but he can't stop. Whilst Zelda talked about things shes passionate about, having Link' full attention as they lay on the ground underneath the tree, everything seemed calm. That was until it started to pour down with rain around Hyrule, thunder had come. Zelda and Link both shot up from where they lay, going over to the horses that grazed. "I guess thats our sign to head back." Zelda sighed, cursing at the rain for ruining it.

But nothing was going to stop her from doing something first, not even heavy rain nor thunder. Before she and Link mounted their horses, she grabbed the heroes hand, yanked him back towards her, Link almost faltered out of shock.

Zelda leaned closer and placed a kiss to Link' cheek, the blonde hero tried to hide the fact that made him flustered again, Zelda giggled a little at that. "Thank you for accompanying me Link, even if it' your duty. Today was lovely." No words about the kiss on the cheek was exchanged after that, they rode back to Hyrule Castle, but it was likely Link would never forget that.

Atleast he hoped he would never forget.

He never wanted to forget Zelda' smile, nor laugh or her voice and the way she nerded out about her passions, she was so beautiful, so strong and courageous (and stubborn) but Link found himself loving every part of the Princess Zelda.

[jamieanovels]

well........lol........updates? i guess?

So. I know I've pretty much dropped off the face of the planet on this account and then attempted to come back a couple of times and then absolutely failed to be active. No guarantees this time either LOL. But I figured I'd at least put up a post to explain what the hell I've been doing for the past.....I don't know actually....year maybe? Year and a half? Time is fake.

Anyway here's the update overview:

I finished Tea Cow

I queried Tea Cow and it kicked my ass

I'm working on a new thing lol

More detail under the cut if you're curious, haha! But the moral of the story here is, I'm incredibly grateful to anyone who's still around here, and hope I can stay active enough that I can reconnect with y'all and/or make new friends~

Tea Cow is done! Yeah. I actually finished it LOL. Multiple times. It's had three drafts now. I had it beta read multiple times (thank you to the lovely people I found on here who volunteered to read it—I owe y'all my life!) and edited it a bunch of times. It's basically unrecognizable from the original draft, but much stronger, and I'm very proud of it.

I queried Tea Cow! It's been about ~3 months since I started querying at the end of May. I received a couple requests which was very exciting, but ultimately most agents passed. I'm waiting for some responses to still come in, but ultimately I think I'm going to have to shelve this project for now—if just for my sanity. But I'm still very proud of it!

I'm working on a new WIP, with the tentative moniker AppleJuice. I have no idea if I'm going to stick to it, but it's helping me through this tail end of the querying process and making it a little bit more bearable to get through all these rejections. Partly why I'm trying to revive this account is I'm hoping to post more of this project once I'm farther along!

I have no idea if any of my mutuals are still around on here, and I've unfortunately completely lost track of my tag list, so I'm sort of considering this a fresh start (think that time that I restarted 3ish years ago with Tea Cow, lmao). I hope if anyone is still here, or if anyone is interested, y'all can swing by and say hi :)

--Jamie <3

[pocketmania]

Yay requests are open!!

💀🎃☁️

Skiddad x male reader who is Skid's older brother, but instead of chosing to live with Lila and pretend his father is dead, reader actually knows the truth and decided to help Skiddad with the cult and such. Reader is very stoic and logical, respects Skiddad a lot and is also very strong physically (not mentally though.) Also, reader is the youngest member of the cult.

You can also add two other members of the cult (Bob and Ignacio) but this is completely an optional since you just came back! Have a nice day/night!

- 🎬 anon

Aaa thank you for requesting 🎬 anon! Honestly, a spooky month fic right now is great for the changing seasons (at least where I am)

I think I'm gonna have the reader go on a Lil mission with skidad if that's alright! ^^

I hope you have a great day/night, too! Thank you again

Now onto the thingy

‎‎‧₊˚✧[ My Dear Dad ]✧˚₊‧

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(💀🎃☁️) - spooky month fluff

(reader type) - male / AMAB

(‼️ warnings) - none

﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌

‧₊˚ ⋅ 𓐐𓎩 ‧₊˚ ⋅

- - - - - - -

The picture on your desk seemed to stare at you. You stared back at it, of course.

It was a picture of your family. You, your mom, your brother, and, of course, your dad. Your mom and brother's faces seemed to be faded, even though you hadn't touched the picture in forever.

You couldn't stop thinking about them, about how they were doing, about what they were doing. You could've thought about them forever.. had someone not knocked on your door.

"—Come in!" You stuttered, regaining your focus. The door creaked open to reveal your dad. He was holding plastic bags, a robe, and matches.

"Ah, hello, father." You greeted, spinning your chair around to face him properly. You never called him anything else but 'father'. 'Dad' seemed too informal.

He greeted you back, made his way over to you, and handed you your robe. Fresh from the dryer. "Would you like to go out and help me get rid of some evidence?" He inquired as he leaned in and smiled.

Your face lit up a bit when he said the word 'help'. Getting to spend time with your father was something you'd never pass up.

"Ignacio usually does the evidence-destroying, but he set himself on fire last time, and he's still recovering."

You nodded to signal you understood. You got up from your seat to put your robe on.

"Ready to go?" Father put his hood on.

"Of course." You mimicked him and put yours on as well.

- - - - - - -

You both peered into the window of the police station. Those meddlesome cops were apparently off to the mayor's office for some meeting. Which was the perfect time to destroy their hard work.

Your dad snuck in through the window and helped you inside. You made sure to cover all the cameras, just to be thorough. From there, you found the desk full of evidence and clues about your little.. organization. It had been restarted here since the previous evidence was at the smoker cop's house.

"Seems as though they've stepped up their game." Your father admitted as he couldn't help but admire their work. You admired with him and had to agree it was impressive. They were efficient.

But not as efficient as the both of you.

As fast as you arrived, you began to pick apart their findings, talking with one another to decide which ones to burn.

In the end, you decided that you'd toy with them a bit and leave them only unimportant bits of what they had.

You shoved all the evidence that was to burn in your plastic baggies and made your great escape through the same window.

This time, instead of burning the evidence where it was, you burned it in front of the mansion. That way, you could make sure it didn't get out of hand like it did last time.

As you drizzled the gasoline onto the pictures and notes, you looked to your dad. "Father?" You began, putting the bottle down and reaching for the matches. "This was fun. I enjoy doing things like this with you."

Your father handed you the matches but didn't look at you. He just smiled. "And I too, (Y/N). You've grown quite a bit since you've joined our cult. So strong-willed and yet so young."

You lit the matches and tossed them onto the police work. "I'm proud of you." He said to you, placing a hand on your shoulder and pulling you in. You smiled a smile as big as your pinkie. That.. meant a lot to you. "Thank you, father."

You leaned into his small embrace, watching the fire burn. The night seemed still, like it was watching you. But you didn't care. All you cared for was your dear old dad and nothing more.

You were glad you chose to live with him, instead.

- - - - - - -

‧₊˚ ⋅ 𓐐𓎩 ‧₊˚ ⋅

[taiturner]

NEW YEARS CLEAN-UP 🎊

rules: unburden yourself from the abandoned WIPS collecting dust in your folder and share 5 gifs, then tag five people. (tagged by @yenvengerberg, thank you i feel like i can do something useful with these things now 💖)

tagging with no pressure of course: @wyllhalsin, @capinejghafa, @cardvngreenbriar, @seance, @ayoedebiris, @ughmerlin, @craintheodora, @lottiemilfews, @natscatorrcio (yeah miles i'm tagging you to be funny i know what you did with those psds)

these are all from projects that i have in a folder titled "on the bench" that i want to pretend i'll come back to, but.... some of these have been benched for so long and they're no longer fresh in my head so i fear they'll be abandoned forever. should also be mentioned that a lot of projects on the bench are literally just me making all the typography first and then losing inspo when i actually wanted to gif things.... usually by the time i do start, i change my mind about the type anyway. i also have so many abandoned gifs from other gifsets i've already posted but i'm not even sure where to begin searching so... here are some things!

one of the many gifs i already created for a prompt from @yellowjacketsoctober to put the show in a different genre. ironically, a prompt that i came up with for the event specifically to make this gifset but didn't even complete. i spent so many hours and so many days trying to gif this entire arc for these three with the intent to make it a heist drama set but after so long i realized i was just giffing exactly what happened in the show and it started to feel pointless. but at least here's a preview of something that i'll never finish. my trio of all time, can they commit more crimes together please! (should also be said that this folder is 44gb because i already saved all the caps + because these psds are so heavy... new years clean up for real)

i don't know what it is about lydia that makes it so hard for me to finish any set for her, but every time i try i seem to always lose the drive eventually (probably because twd in general just feels really uninteresting for me to blend, for some reason). from a 2022 spotify wrapped meme, i'm pretty sure i restarted this specific gifset so many different times, unhappy with the colors and the blends and the text and everything -- which is why there are two very different examples here. my girl of all time though i will finish something for her eventually (and maybe even this one, because this song is still so good for her).

one of the many gifs that were abandoned by my scream vi set for favorite slasher in october. when tumblr first changed the image upload limit to 30, i promised myself to never take advantage of that too much, but i severely underestimated how many moments i would want to include for this movie and i made so many other gifs for this set but ultimately cut them so i could try to tone it down - 18 gifs in this set still feels like a lot but i spent so much time on this set that it was hard to part with many more. anyway here's sam being the hottest final girl in the world and correct about everything.

i don't know how long this has been on the bench but it was definitely a project i started way before season 2 even aired. i think i just got stuck and wasn't sure where to go with it, but anyway her!

extra spoiler for @wyllhalsin but this was supposed to be a pride edit in june for one of my favorite lgbt characters of all time. this show's camera movements nearly makes it impossible to blend anything so i lost the drive, but i will come back for felix someday (and for coty, obviously this set was for him).

[hoshiseon-digiarc]

hi friends, hope everyone is doing well!

so as you all can see i’ve been pretty inactive as of lately. truthfully i’ve had no motivation to write and don’t think I’ll be able to for a while. i have so much going on in my personal life, it’s all just a bit too much for me right now. i was seriously debating on how I was going to move forward with my accounts here and i was honestly really close to just deleting them. but i was talked off the metaphorical ledge and i now have a better idea of how to go about it (everyone say thank u cat & maya). i think i really just need a restart so…

firstly, i’ll be going on a hiatus so i will be logged out unless i’m working on reconstructing my account. if you’d like to reach me i’m on twitter (@/urwonnly) and discord (@/k1zavrse, dm me and i’ll add you).

ACCOUNTS

moving forward i am converting hoshiseon into a digital archive of sorts. so the entire account will be under construction and only my writing posts will be kept up. i’ll also be changing the user and unfollowing everyone, starting this account completely fresh.

and @urwonnly will be my new main account. if you’d like to send asks, see my posts, and possibly my writing when i come back from hiatus then you can catch me there! this account is enhypen & riize centric so all writing will be for those groups but of course i’ll answer asks and may still do short writings for the other groups i like. (ateez are still my day ones i promise lol)

OTHER UPDATES

desire series will also be on a hiatus until i decide what to do with it. once i have the time, energy, and motivation i may continue writing it bc i really do love that story. if i start it back up, it will be posted to a new account :]

not many people follow me there but my personal acc (@kkvras) is probably going to be converted as well. i’m thinking of making that a strictly reblog account but i haven’t completely decided on that.

tagging mutuals so you all are aware of the change: @agustdiv1ne @angelwonie @beamtori @cha0thicpisces @desirehorizon @hoshologies @owlbeforesunset @planetdream @togeqii @wuahae @a1sh1teruu @jaehunnyy @sungbeam @halaqueen @moonhoures @tohokuu @seonghwaddict @taesankisser @nebulousbrainsoup @kwanisms-replies @kwanisms @yourlocaljonghoe

thank you guys so much for making this a fun and safe space for me, i really appreciate all the friends i’ve made here. i srsly L word you all <3 any of you feel free to reach out anytime, sending love 🫂

[billybob598]

Ok so a couple thoughts on the USA and just other big teams that got knocked out.

Definitely not what we expected from the US but why did we expect that? Think about it, this a young team where most of the starters and subs were all at there first World Cup. I think this needed to happen to the US. they needed to not be the best anymore and for the next couple years just completely start over. The old generation is starting to leave so it's time to get a clean slate with these new young players. Basically, restart the program. Morgan, Rapinoe, Ertz, and O'hara are among those who are probably done. There were some amazing younger players that shined this tournament (Naomi Girma, Emily Fox, even Sophia Smith though not as well as expected). Its good for the US to just restart with a new team and a new coach *cough cough fire Vlatko. This team needs to spend more time on the field together. Remember Japan won in 2011 and the US came back with 2 world cup wins in a row, so I'm guessing in 4 years when these players are a little more experienced and have played with each other more they will be a really good team.

Now, my point that they need a fresh start with young players and a new manager is exactly what some teams have already done or need to do as well. Take England. They brought in Sarina a new manager and she just completely did the team over. Leah williamson as the new captain, Beth Mead on the squad, younger players like Russo, Toone and LJ getting minutes and shining. And then they won the Euros. See I think the US certainly have the talent they just need to build off of it.

Ok so Canada. I think same thing. Sinclair and Schmidt and Chapman are all probably on the way out. Now we got younger players, Huitema, Olivia Smith, Riviere, Grosso. I like Bev priestmann a lot, but I think if we want to see a new Canada team that utilizes the young and up and coming players we might need a new coach. Definitely a disappointment of a world cup from canada.

Germany and Brazil are pretty much the same. Brazil is losing one of the best players of all time, someone who has been the centre of that team for like 2 decades. They have such amazing players, Geyse being the young player that comes to my mind. Piano Sundhage I'm thinking is gone. and now it's just about again, getting the younger players time to shine alongside each other. And Germany. Oh Germany. Again, they have such amazing young players, Obi (who is arguably the best young player in the world rn), Brand, and Sydney Lohmann. I don't want to say Popp will retire because let's be honest that woman could play forever. But, the old generation is on it's way out and the new generation has to be shown the same kind of love. When you have such amazing young talent you have to take the future seriously and not just try to hold onto the past. I think that goes for all the team aforementioned.

Anyways that's it from me. Hope you enjoyed my Ted talk

[thaleleah]

Part 2 of the Review

He sits while you work, stare on your face as you free his own from the scruff. 

Don't mind me. I'm just picturing him staring at her like this: 😍

This time he talks even though the straight razor is pressed directly under his jaw. “You can take your veil off. I reckon it's just makin’ you hotter,”

He's really testing his luck, isn't he? 😂

When things get hard or tensions get too high at the clinic and things seem like they’re turning for the worst, Sister Maria likes to invoke a practice that she calls ‘ de nuevo ’.

“It means ‘again’,” She had told you. “Restart. Do over. Start new. When life gets too hard and there seems to be no end in sight. Grita ‘de nuevo!’ and start again with fresh eyes and an open heart,”

“De nuevo,” You whisper, and then you start again.

I love how she still seeks comfort in her Sisters who she's clearly very close with. Despite the fact that there's a fair distance between them she doesn't forget what they taught her and seeks out their guidance. 🥲

But that line of thinking doesn’t matter right now because it's not just that he said your name - it’s how he said it.

Your name, called in what you can only assume is a moan of pain.

Readers: *giggle nervously* We're in danger. 😁

Billy’s not in pain as you had thought. 

He’s… touching himself. Naked body, fully naked this time, stretched out on bed with his hand between his legs. His thighs look like they’re trembling, toned tummy tensing and sucking in slightly as his face twists in response to what he’s doing to himself.

I swear, the more I'm reading it the more convinced I am that he did this to her on purpose. He wanted her to walk in on him. Maybe he thought that this kind of shock therapy would work on her. 😂

“And what about you?” He asks, buttoning his newly fresh pants at his waist.

“What about me?”

“Women have needs too. Do your needs ever get met?”

Your jaw drops. “Excuse me?”

He shrugs on his shirt, completely unfazed. “Your needs. When you feel it. Do they ever get met?”

Me throughout this entire exchange:

👁️👄👁️

He’s alive - Jesus is alive in the picture, head moving around and eyes looking and seeing everything.

Seeing you.

And he’s angry.

The normally relaxed and serene expression on his face has been replaced by one of fury. His brows pull together, eyes narrowing as he watches Billy claim you, lips pulling up in a snarl when your arms wrap tighter around Billy’s neck in fear. Billy takes your grip as passion and thrusts into you harder, moaning into your ear as your body is flooded with wave after wave of pleasure. But you can’t tear your eyes from the picture, can’t help but whimper as you stare wide eyed at the angry, holy being who is cutting you down with the immeasurable weight of his judgment.

When I tell you I screamed when I read this for the first time. 🙈

You're talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before-

"WAKE UP!” Jesus yells, and his voice is booming in your ears, so loud you think your eardrums might burst. “WAKE UP!”

Your body jerks awake in the same way that it jerks after having a dream where you’re falling off a cliff.

And you can only imagine how loud my gasp was when I realised this was a dream sequence.

You can’t sleep with Billy in the same bed anymore. Sam is due to make another trip into the neighboring town today and promised that he would stop by on his way. It would be better if he could see that you are both sleeping in separate spaces like you should be. Sam is a sweetheart - he would never judge you for anything, even less of something that you had to do for your own health and he is the last person that would ever accuse you of doing something inappropriate. But the laws of society and need for modesty should still be followed which means sleeping on the floor again is a must.

Billy doesn’t like the idea.

Of course he doesn't like the idea. He hoped he was making some progress. 💀

The idea of her slipping away from his fingers... he clearly doesn't like it.

Billy sighs, eyes rolling up towards the ceiling in irritation. “I do think it’s necessary for you to sleep in the bed, y/n,”

“Stop,”

The word cuts from your vocal cords like ice. You can’t believe it. Again. He did it again!

“Why did you say my name like that?” You ask. “You’re dropping my earned title. That’s the second time you’ve done it.”

Third, but you don’t want to think about the other time he’s said it. “Why?”

“Just an accident,”

An obvious sign that he's getting too comfortable. 😬

“Sam!” You shout in relief. “Thank the Lord! It’s so good to see you,”

Behind you, Billy relaxes his stance a bit, lowering his gun down but keeping it cocked and you nod your head at it, wordlessly telling him to replace the hammer and put it down, but he won’t acknowledge you.

Not him trying to act like he's the man of the house. Boy, put the gun down. No time for a pissing contest. 😂

“Sister y/n,” He greets, clasping your hands in his and you return the gesture, squeezing his hands between yours in friendly affection. “It’s good to see you too.”

A loud clatter sounds as Billy tosses his gun back onto the floor, the metal striking roughly against the wooden boards. Sam lets go of your hands to turn his attention to Billy, tipping his hat at him respectfully.

Once again, him making a loud noise to make them pull away from each other will never stop being funny to me. 💀

“How are they?” You ask Sam. You don’t need to clarify, he knows who you’re asking about.

“They miss you. Sister Catherine holds everything together like she always does, but she always makes for all of us to pray together for you. And Billy, of course.” He says, nodding to Billy. “Praying for Billy’s quick recovery and for you to return home safe. Sister Ann is biting the sides of her fingers more than ever now. I stop her whenever I see her doing it, but she’s bled quite a few times from it already. Sister Maria was out sick for two days after you left. Sick with worry is what Sister Catherine said, but she is up and well now although she does still worry.”

I love how you're still bringing the Sisters back somehow (even through brief mentions) It's so touching to see how much they care for one another. ♥️

And they are clearly a huge part of our nun's life.

"Billy’s right, I should get moving if I’m gonna make it back to town before dark. Thank you for the offer though, Sister y/n. I know if you cooked it, it must be mighty good.”

Reluctantly, you nod. “I’ll walk you out then,”

Billy makes his way back to the bedroom as you walk Sam out.

This pouty mf won't even say a polite goodbye to him. He's so done. 😂

Your mouth falls open in horror.

Billy’s on his stomach, upper body cradled between your open thighs as his hands curl around each one of them to keep them spread. His mouth is pressed against your core, wetness glistening off his face with each movement as he drags his tongue through your folds.

And you swear when those beautiful blue eyes you’ve come to know these past few weeks flick up to stare at you from beneath his dark lashes, you don’t see that same kind and caring man just in need of guidance and faith that you’ve come to associate them with.

Instead, you think you might be looking at the Devil.

He really said: "I'm tired of playing games. Time to level up in terms of our relationship." 😏

I absolutely cannot wait for Part 4. ♥️😊

Don't mind me. I'm just picturing him staring at her like this: 😍

One million percent! Straight up heart eyes with absolutely zero blinking.

He's really testing his luck, isn't he? 😂

He's getting soooooo comfortable, but he should have known that this would have been a no go lol. Like... how inappropriate, Billy, what were you thinking

I swear, the more I'm reading it the more convinced I am that he did this to her on purpose. He wanted her to walk in on him. Maybe he thought that this kind of shock therapy would work on her. 😂

Shock therapy 😂

It's totally possible he did it on purpose. This man has no shame. He got a little to excited during bath time and said "fuck it, i l LIVE for the danger" lmaooooo

Me throughout this entire exchange: 👁️👄👁️

No cause the fucking audacity he has lollll

When I tell you I screamed when I read this for the first time. 🙈 You're talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before-

IM SO HAPPY YOU COMMENTED ON THIS Omggggg this was the scene I was most excited for people to read. Thank you so much for saying this 🧡

I feel like this would be the ultimate nightmare for her. To be seduced and sinning and caught sinning and verbally yelled at by someone so holy and righteous oh my fucking gosh can you imagine??? Like your own thoughts and knowing of right and wrong and following the Bible and God to the best of your ability and knowing when you fail is one thing, but to visually be judged and disgraced by someone so holy would be so horrifying.

Not him trying to act like he's the man of the house. Boy, put the gun down. No time for a pissing contest. 😂

Bruh 😂

I love how you're still bringing the Sisters back somehow (even through brief mentions) It's so touching to see how much they care for one another. ♥️

Yessss her Sisters are her entire world (besides God of course). The people that bring out the best in her and encourage her to be the best version of herself. I think they're the only people in the world that she's ever felt safe enough around to fully be herself

He really said: "I'm tired of playing games. Time to level up in terms of our relationship." 😏

Again, its just absolutely insane to me cause the AUDACITY, I swear. 😭

Thank you again so much for taking the time to write all this out for me, hun. I really do appreciate it so much and it makes me so happy. I had been in the middle of shopping at Target yesterday when you sent it and I had to pull my cart off to the side to read it cause I was so impatient lol.