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[sunmoonjune]

moonie moonie moonie, just read chp 13 and literally like several paragraphs in, i was screaming and tearing up. i also took like 2-3 breaks in between reading bc that was intense. not intense in the bad way but in the way where your writing was just resonating in me and i felt whatever you wrote that Ateez and Bug were feeling.

the first part with Ateez back in their home, i was hurting for the members who were awake and knew that Bug had left and Wooyoung had gone after her. and then San was worrying incessantly over Bug, couldn't find her and instantly thought that he wasn't able to protect her, that she got hurt even with his efforts, AND I WAS SCREAMING NO out loud. and then how Hongjoong was telling himself he had to go back to being a leader, to someone who had everything under control for them but he couldn't bc he was concerned for the two that's not within his sight, and then Seonghwa had to be the one to reveal to San that Bug had LEFT. my hand was covering my mouth most of the time throughout the rest of the story starting when San tried to get up and go find Wooyoung and Bug. not to mention Yeosang also beating himself up over the fact that he didn't tell anyone to go after Bug. BUT IT WASN'T HIS FAULT ofc their main priority would be on San, he was gravely injured and needed medical attention. Yeosang, you were exhausted after tending to him, it's not your fault, it's none of yours 😭

and San saying that Bug was theirs even if she didn't know it quite yet JDHHSHDGGS (i screamed there again btw) and that they would wait however long it takes???? that she just needed to come back???? that's a love confession that's what it is

WOOSAN Wooyoung being San's first love 😭❤️ (another scream) i love them so much

now on to Bug. i was literally scared with her. your writing made me shiver in anticipation when she was face to face with the warg and how she didn't want to die in the hands (or jaws) of it. and when she ran further into the forest so that she wouldn't lead it to Ateez's camp, saying that she wouldn't let them get hurt bc of her again HHHHHHHH honey, please nooo, it wasn't your fault. San did what he did bc he wanted to protect you, it was his own decision

:D WOOYOUNG TO THE RESCUEEEE he literally was running for his life to go find Bug. HE CALLED HER BUG and caught up with her and just in time too 😫 BUG WEAKLY PUSHING WOOYOUNG SO HE COULD GO AND LEAVE HER BEHIND BC SHE DIDN'T WANT HIM TO DIE FOR HER.

"Not without you." AAAAAAAAHHHHH hear that Bug? you're so cared for, so loved. Ateez is back at camp waiting for you to return HOME with Wooyoung.

‘S’gonna be okay, Bug,’ he wishes he could say. ‘Don’t be scared, I've got you now.’ welcome to the club Wooyoung, the others have already made themselves comfortable ;D

i'm so glad Wooyoung was there for her, reassuring her that he wasn't hurt, assuring her that San's okay and alive, PROMISING HER THROUGH HER OWN LANGUAGE. they all learnt her own language to communicate with her!!! Bug they care about you so much and i cannot wait for the moment you realize that you are worth all their efforts.

Wooyoung strongly telling her it's not her fault. Bug needed to hear that. and yk who else needs to hear that it's not their fault? the rest of Ateez 😤 Bug now also knows they're not mad at her! ofc they're not honey, never.

ON TO THE SOFT AND SWEET MOMENTS BETWEEN WOOYOUNG AND BUG :)))))) she said 'Woo' and he heard her!!!! she called his name!!!! and when they hugged, she melted into him, relaxed against him bc she felt safe!!!! Wooyoung made her thoughts disappear, made her mind quiet 🤧 if that's not a sign then idk what it is. HE CALLS HER BABY 😫❤️

Wooyoung literally being the winner in this chapter alone. he got his name called by her, she relaxed in his hug, and he's the one carrying her back to their home 🤭👀

now, my favorite part in this chapter: "And in Wooyoung’s scarred but gentle hands, a single flame roars behind his concealed grasp. Held close to his chest and protected by his careful fingers, the flicker of orange heat has never extinguished – never wavered. Despite everything, Wooyoung has kept the match safe. The little fire warms his hands and maintains its tiny bit of radiant heat. Wooyoung has shielded it from wind and shadow, ensuring that not even the cold wisp of darkness would smother the flame. Wooyoung has held his match tightly: his own tiny piece of your heart and soul. 

In Wooyoung’s hands, his match will relight the others – he will guide the flame to seven more matches, reigniting the fire that once protected your slowly growing heart. Wooyoung’s strong hands will guide you out of the fog, deliver your heart back to your soul, and bring your body back home."

wow this was long 😅

THIS COMMENT <3333

I want to engrave this into my eyes omfg I never want to forget it,,, I love you so much omg <33

they were so worried!! the guilt was overwhelming D: and sannie was trying so hard to go after them :')) he loves woo and bug SO MUCH <33 and hongjoong :(( he was trying so hard to be strong because he's their leader and he didn't want them to see him scared DD: seonghwa knew too :')) he stepped forward to help joongie explain so their leader could take a moment to grieve <33 Yeosang too was devastated :(( it could never be his fault for not being able to step forward! he was understandably busy making sure san was going to be okay,,, he was the only one who could sew him back up and heal him :'))

sannie's bug <33 she is theirs even if she doesn't know it :')) they love her SO MUCH,, now they just have to allow her the time to come to realize it herself <3

and yes!! woo is absolutely san's first love!! before they met the rest of ateez, woosan were much like yunbug :'( they were all each other had for a long time <3 there will be much more of their story soon too!!!

bug's pov!! even if she didn't know it, she was protecting ateez on instinct :')) even in her panic she knew she would never let anything happen to her boys <33

WOOYOUNG OUR BELOVED <3333 he came just in time!! and he was indeed running for his life,, he knew their bug was in danger so he was sprinting!! and our poor bug couldn't stand to watch someone else get hurt for her DD: she just wanted to keep woo safe <33

they've got her now <33 hehe I'm in tears omfg

and woo is truly the star of this chapter fr :')) he was there for her when he desperately needed someone! and they all learned her language to speak to her <33

HER FIRST NON-YUNHO HUG!!! she didn't even know why she loved being held so much :')) she melted into woo's arms so quick and didn't want him to let go <333 BABY!!! his baby fr I'm sobbing

and those last paragraphs!!! <3333 I spent so so long on those! literally most of that last scene was structured around including those paragraphs! the call back to her heart in their hands is def going to be a reoccurring theme :DD but wooyoung truly saved the day! not only did he kill the warg and find her, but he kept a piece of her soul safe in his hands <33 :')) and it will be his hands that guide her home and allow the others to relit their own little flames <3

omg omg truly truly thank you for such a sweet comment!! it's things like this that give me the motivation to keep writing! I swear I have reread this ask over and over again cause it made me so so happy <33 I actually had to put my phone down cause I was blushing so hard it fr almost brought me to tears

I love you so much my dear <33

[cor-lapis]

Boycotting Genshin

I don't feel comfortable playing through Natlan and doing quest summaries + other fanart for the region. Unless something changes, I will be boycotting the game, since I don't want to support this level of insensitivity. I would encourage anyone reading this to do the same/go F2P/sign the below petition.

Here's all the designs/edits I've found for the Natlan characters so far which aim to portray the characters more accurately to their inspirations, along with other resources:

Mauvika: xxxiiv (Tumblr)

Chasca: artbymanyy (Twitter) NGreentail (Twitter) Fanart of NGreentail's design by FantaMiix (Twitter)

Xilonen: idkwhatevs1 (Twitter) inebyoonei (Twitter)

Kinich: chururira2da3 (Twitter) pam0537 (Twitter)

Mualani: mikrys_art (Twitter) fremelleCEO (Twitter)

Kachina: With Mualani and Kinich by kattkeyy (Twitter) With Mualani and Kinich by TioFarofeiro (Twitter) With Mualani and Kinich by foogie_boogie (Twitter) With Mualani and Kinich by eleiwitch (Tumblr) fruberry01 (Twitter)

Olorun: foogie_boogie (Twitter)

Citlali: NGreentail (Twitter) beubeubbu (Twitter)

OC: keadeharaaa (Twitter)

Notes on inspirations for in-game designs: DailyNatlanBR (Twitter)

Guide to complaint emails to Hoyoverse: sakura_branches (Twitter)

[tennessoui]

it’s like baby gorl there’s no way I, the author who wrote the fic you’re commenting on and who is the intended audience for this comment, am gonna agree with you 😿🙏 some things can just stay on your chest 🙏

[me-beef]

A collection of Fell art I don't think I've ever posted before. This is all art I've made in the last year, those first pics being done in January/February-ish? It's been fun to see how much my art has developed since then :)

So, something I'm sure I've mentioned before, I have RSD- or rejection sensitive dysphoria. For the last decade or so, it's controlled a large portion of my life and has dictated a lot of what I've been able to do. It used to be a lot worse- like, eating-lunch-alone-in-the-bathroom-everyday-at-school-because-I'd-have-a-panic-attack-if-I-tried-to-go-into-the-cafeteria type of bad. Or, having-a-panic-attack-because-a-girl-complimented-my-socks-and-I-was-CERTAIN-she-was-actually-implying-I-was-a-stupid-idiot-loser-baby type of bad. It's made it really hard to make friends and maintain relationships, because a part of my brain truly believes the people around me don't want me there, or that it's better for me to be quiet and out of the way than to risk doing something "wrong" and drawing the ire of everyone around me.

It was something that I was really ashamed of for the longest time. I didn't understand what I was feeling or why I acted the way that I did, I just wanted everyone around me to be happy and I felt like I was doing everything wrong and making everything worse just by being present in any given situation.

So- what ended up working for me? How did I start moving forward?

Years of counseling and therapy? Yeah. Medication? That too.

But do you want to know what really ended up changing my life this year?

I made a character to conceptualize and encapsulate all of my anxieties and traumas, took my condition, and made it her superpower.

Some bits about her character:

In a ⋆˙⟡dramatic⋆˙⟡ and ⋆˙⟡tragic⋆˙⟡ childhood event, Fell's heart was fused with a star.

It sounds like a magical-girl dream- but for Fell, it's only ever been a curse.

Whenever her emotions flare, she has an uncontrollable surge of magic. Sometimes, that wild magic can scare or even hurt the people around her. She's become terrified of her own emotions- and that fear only exacerbate her "curse".

So, she isolates herself- not out of a fear of others, but out of a fear of hurting those around her.

When I was a kid, there weren't really any characters out there that I felt like I could truly identify with. Sure, I've seen social anxiety addressed in media throughout my life, but nothing that I felt really captured the full complexities of what I was experiencing in my day-to-day. Plus, I feel like those characters rarely got to be the heroes of the story.

So, all that to say, Fell is the hero that I wish I had gotten to have as a kid.

Starlight Saga (working title), or Legends of ZahKol, is the story and world that I built around the lessons I've learned in my journey of overcoming my anxiety and RSD. I can't give that to my past self, but my dream is to one day share it with the world- for other people out there like me, to help them and give them hope and let them know how strong they really are for fighting day in and day out. That these parts of yourself don't mean you're broken or damaged or wrong- these are tied to the most resilient, most beautiful parts of who you are.

[sacchiri]

Hellsing 2002 calendar illustration.

Ein wunderliche und erschröckliche Hystori von einem großen Wüttrich genant Dracole wayda Der do so ganz unkristenliche marrter hat angelegt die mensche, als mit spissen als auch die leut zu Tod geslyffen

A wondrous and frightening story about a great berserk called Dracula the voivode who inflicted such unchristian tortures such as with stakes and also dragged people to death

[ganondoodle]

okay, bc i have seen this argument alot now (and it also seems to be the view point of aonuma himself..) is that "zelda cant do everything link does bc whats the point then"

and i take personal offense on that bc its a stupid argument (in. my. very. personal. opinion.- not judging people for liking it. its a ME thing)

whats the point? its that its her. its still a different character, different in story, background, personality, but i WANT to play zelda and she can do everything link does, why does she have to be so restricted and be bend over backwards to find some new way to make her 'useful' when link gets to do basically everything no questions asked (the only thing thats hers is like .. sealing power and sacrificial maiden, which i find a little underwhelming to say the least), if theres no point to it why are there always modders that model swap link with someone else, and in that case it has even less impact bc its an artificial model swap with no changes to the story (which can and should still be different when its the vanilla game with a different protagonist... its still a different character), clearly theres joy in just the model being a different one- and that isnt even to mention the story possibilities, since, again, its stil a different character

if we ever (never ... i know who we are talking about here) get to play as ganondorf i want to him to be just as versatile and active as link is, if we got a point and click adventure game for him instead bc 'whats the point' id be disappointed too- you can find any sort of excuse/explanation for zelda to be singled out but the fact remains it tracks with how female characters are often treated, and that hits a very sore spot for me

i guess i am unfortunately one of those annoying people that want to see female characters be treated exactly the same as male characters, possibly bc i am myself afab but identify as agender and have a deeply personal dislike for anything 'traditional' feminine bc i cannot and never will be able to truly live as myself in real life, it influences all of my work, my work is as just as much as my opinion on this, very personal

and in line with my point about modding, i see theres joy in just beign able to play as her even if its like this, i get that, i also get it for the creative aspect (though that mechanic worries me even more for the future bc it really seems to be the path now that -freedom = good, linear anything = bad-) it is a different idea and its not like i cant see that value- im not trying be "right" either, just bc i have that opinion doesnt mean i need everyone to agree, its a very personal thing, if you like it good for you! not for me though, and i think both of that is equally valid

i just personally wish she was allowed to be just like link, fight just like him but be different bc its still her and not him in the end- to be physically/playstyle like jsut like him, but you know ... as her, i dont think shed stop being zelda if she could wield a sword just like him

i dont really know how to get my point/feelings across, i dont want to step too much into personal stuff nor spam people with something that ultimately doesnt interest me alot, im just saddened by it really

(EDIT: bc i forgot to add this on here again; this isnt as much of a problem as it might sound like here, just the main topic i wanted to talk about; why im so uninterested in it is MAINLY bc i dont trust them to write anything interesting/care about lore anymore after totk, im always on the more pessimistic side that thinks its most likely worse than id hope and i know even the past games arent perfect or super interestingly written, but now its much more just a general distrust, together with everything like the price ... im just much less hopeful and cant get excited until i see more of it, like im waiting for the game to get out and reveal that its just as much of a mess and money i regret spending- kind of fear)

[nipuni]

Does anyone here want to send me some Phantom of the Opera related art requests? something you would like to see me draw, or maybe an outfit to put on some character or a pose? I’m doing studies these days and I thought it would make it more fun this way 😊

[lucabyte]

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[icewindandboringhorror]

I occasionally wish to reach out to old friends/acquaintances I haven't spoken to since high school/some other even earlier time in my life, but I have SOOO little social energy even for required tasks (like making dr phone calls or etc), I never have any leftover for extra ones, and it would be very odd to message someone I haven't spoken to in like 5 years out of the blue but then take 4 entire months to respond back lol.. My natural curiosity with nostalgia/collecting details of the past/etc. (literally if I were born a little earlier I would definitely do scrapbooking or something lol) is very strong, but, alas, not strong enough to beat out the Social Issues Demons apparently

[thegrantwater]

new fic alert!!! new fic alert!!!

finally posting something after almost another year long hiatus from writing. i got a little more in depth about where i've been and what it's been like to write this in the end notes of the fic, so if you're curious go there, but i'll definitely be posting about it on here soon. so in the meantime....

we fill the gaps (you and me make three) chapter 1 is posted on my ao3! i've been dropping little hints about it for months, and my story for last years sqsn was the main driving point behind this fic (and yes the title for both fics comes from the same song, in my mind strange birds is a predecessor or sort of outline to this). the intro of strange birds was actually ripped straight from the draft for this, because i started rewriting season 1 almost two years ago and at the time had written some pre-henry-curse regina analysis to tie into it. this first chapter covers the events of s1e1 to about s1e19, and the rest of s1 up to the curse breaking will be chapter 2. consider its length both a treat and a warning that this is going to take a while.

love you guys <3

[duckiefishie]

Did you know that I have a YouTube? Well guess what? You do now, I have a YouTube, here's my most recent video plz watch it

[weezerlvr228]

rivers if he was absorbed by poisonous gas but didn’t care too much

[not-poignant]

Good day! A genuine question. Do you really won't think about comment like " WOW!!! Thank you for this chapter! " from a person who usually writes more in-depth commentaries as something like " they didn't llke it enough for the extra sentence or two " ?

Hi anon!

So, everyone's human. Even the people who love to leave longer comments get tired sometimes, or have other things going on in their life.

And I'd rather those people leave a shorter comment or an emoji, than like, feel guilty about not leaving long comments, or just vanish into thin air (at which point I just assume they've stopped reading, because I have literally no evidence otherwise unless they're sending replies or something else). Though obviously people can stop commenting too!

There are some people who leave me three hearts (or around 3 hearts) every chapter they read. I take them as little extra kudos, or just a little sign of appreciation. It's someone going 'I'm here, I like this.' And I reply with little hearts as a little sign of appreciation to go 'I'm here too, thank you, I see you.'

That's special to me.

I love love love long meaty comments that I can sink my teeth into, but I love all my commenters, anon.

But even the people who love leaving long comments get tired, get stressed out, can't think of words, have nothing to say because they're speechless, and then it's like well, I hope they feel comfortable enough to just leave a 💜💜💜 - and if they can't, they can't.

If people don't like my fic, anon, they stop reading! They don't leave comments, they stop leaving comments and they disappear (which is why when a regular commenter vanishes, that's when I think they don't like the chapter/s or story anymore, which is fair, and they don't have to, but sometimes it can make me a little sad).

But yeah the sign of a person who doesn't like to read a story is a person who isn't there to read the story at all! Not someone who only has the energy or will to leave a sentence or two! Some of those people don't speak English as a first language, and still practicing, some are really tired, some genuinely don't have much to say, some are embarrassed because it was a sex scene, etc. There's lots of reasons!

Everyone who's ever left a long comment doesn't need my permission, but certainly has it to leave extremely tiny comments when it's all they can manage / and they want to leave something! Honestly, putting pressure on yourself to leave long comments every single time can actually stress people out to the point that they stop reading fics when they know they can't comment like that, I've been in that position myself and that's not...what we're going for.

I want people to enjoy the story first, because like...that's...what I want the most. :)

(For folks wondering, this is - I think - in reference to this post I reblogged earlier today).

[heartbeetz]

Ngl I'm literally not even bothered when customers at work think I'm a chick. It's just funny. Like ok. You CAN see the facial hair and my rainbow flag pin. I know you can. So I just think about the steps they're taking in going "this person has a beard, but also a ponytail... hmm... I'm gonna go with she..." and I'm instantly over it. Trans women with facial hair this one's for you. We can split the difference.

[whalesforhands]

PLSSSS 😭😭 UPDATE FASTER 😭😭😭

i’m starting to think u all take my biweekly/monthly updates for granted

[itsalwaysdark]

i like overthink everything now it makes me feel so dumb. i used 2 be able to just talk 2 ppl but nowadays every single thing im like Is that actually going to make them hate me. Yes probably. and then i just dont respond which makes ppl hate me. this is how it is