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biolizardboils · 1 year ago

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so heads up! im popping a LOT of Prime Season 3 posts into the queue--they'll start coming out one week from now, on January 22nd! if you can see this post and haven't watched it yet, here's some tags to block: #prime spoilers, #sonic prime spoilers, #sonic prime s3 spoilers, #sonic prime season 3 spoilers.

got all that? great! here's my final unorganized little rambles about the show:

shoutout to Rusty Rose's Birdie, who only appears in the very first and very last eps for some reason 😭 her speech about it not being her power source came outta nowhere too, but i loved the message behind it

when everyone arrives at the Grim, just before the ep ends, Nine starts breathing heavily and it. instantly reminded me of Movie!Tails when the bar was calling them freaks. fuck. its a nice reminder of where Nine's coming from

speaking of Nine his poses getting more unhinged over time!! hell yeah

i love that the final fight(s) felt like a kid smashing 3 different Lego sets together, real Robot Pirate Island shit

i laughed a little too hard when the Grim's dome started closing in cus Nine's citadel-thing already reminded me of a thing that happened in Fortnite once, but hell naw they had to add The Storm too sdfghj

METAL BIG DESTROYED ME LJKHGFDV im SO glad i wasnt spoiled about it!!! a while in i started finding it creepy instead of funny, which is an added bonus

i was spoiled about the Advance flashback and its clashing sprites though. the utter whiplash of seeing that without warning mightve made me choke on my hot cheeto puffs. someone's already remade it btw, check it out

i fistpumped at the small reprise of "me beauty" gfhjk ill miss you so much Dread

we're four years into the 2020's and Sonic has nearly died an agonizingly slow death 3 times in 3 different continuities! and dare i say it was delicious every time >:)

unless Word of God says otherwise I'm gonna assume that the giant shadow at the end was The Return Of Metal Big lpoihgfds

So... Twitter, huh? My spoiler filters there had some leaks, and I saw some discussion out of context that... actually made me kinda scared to finish the show. But then I did, and had fun with it just like the other two seasons, and I remembered that Twitter gets high-strung about things that don't matter so much, and that giving it sway over how much I enjoy things is silly lol.

Yes, I think the last season could've been paced differently so it wasn't 5 episodes of the same Final Boss Fight. Yes, I think the writing switches jarringly between gearing for a young new audience and for a seasoned old one. Yes, I think the 2D flashbacks look and move worse than what fans constantly make for free. Yes, I think the final episode doesn't do nearly as much housekeeping as it should (does the Shatterverse still exist or not??). Yes, I think declaring the show is canon to the games or whatever they said probably wasn't the best idea. And yes, I think Black Rose should've had a shoulder-parrot!Birdie to match the other Amys. All valid critiques! All sensible things to think when you've been around the Sonic bush!

But I swear to god, people on Twitter act like these things spoil the whole package. Where's the nuance? Why does every opinion there become an absolute worth tearing others down for? Is it the character limit? I bet it's the character limit.

There's so much I love about this show that were infeasible for the Sonic brand just 3-4 years ago. Externalizing the characters' facets to explore them in-depth. Said exploration spanning multiple episodes instead of being one-and-done. The sheer amount of genuine Sonadow food (and I don't actively do shipping, so me adding it here should hold a lot of weight). The snappy, playful, yet blistering fight scenes that, dare I say, feel like a successful TV-budget Spider-Verse. It was all so much fun!

But I guess stuff like Green Hill being the gang's "home" is a big deal-breaker?? Like?? I thought that was silly too, but not worth ratio'ing people with Mickey Mouse Clubhouse over? Get well soon, I guess??

Rambling over, shout-out to the entire country of Canada for giving me the most fun I've had with a Sonic show since X! I'm gonna go figure out how to address all this as The End lol

#sonic prime #sonic the hedgehog #sonic prime season 3 #sonic prime s3 #prime spoilers #sonic prime spoilers #sonic prime s3 spoilers #sonic prime season 3 spoilers #sth #prime #me talking #boils watches #long

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alatismeni-theitsa · 1 year ago

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Hi Ive been reading your blog (is it called a blog I'm not sure anyway) for a while now and I have to just say well Thank You. I've learned so much about Greek Culture and Greek Mythology from you then from a lot of other (so called) Western experts.

I relate quite a bit to how you feel about the misrepresentation and disrespect that Greek culture and specifically mythology and folklore have faced. I myself have experienced it although no where nearly as much as you have.

I'm a Malaysian specifically a Malaysian Chinese diaspora so I didn't know much about my culture and traditions. But when learning about Greek Mythology it ignited an interest in me to learn about cultures, traditions and folklore from around the world including my own. Which lead to me stumbling upon some of the more unflattering takes on Chinese Mythology and it's figures. The Netflix Journey to The West basically whitewashed and changed the ideas, storylines, and culturally significant aspects of a variety of different characters and the book and folklore as a whole which infuriates me especially since Journey To The West is one of the most important literary works in Chinese culture and folklore. Which I also grew up learning about.

I'm a Christian although I feel no connection or care for the religion at all I only follow it or at least pretend I do because of my parents. I respect any who choose to follow it and the religion itself. But it isn't what I choose to follow.

I feel more of a connection and understanding with the old Greek religion and more and Ive been praying to the Olympians and other ancient Greek deities for a while now. I've been trying to approach it the same way I'd like a foreigner to approach my own culture and traditions and religion. I've no qualms with them following traditional Chinese deities as long as they're respectful and willing to learn.

I've been approaching Hellenistic Polytheism with that view and mindset in mind. And Im grateful to learn from your blog especially since you're Greek and I want to be respectful to your culture and traditions and since you grew up with and are from the culture itself have a much better understanding of it than most of the self dubbed experts who aren't from the culture itself and have no interest in respecting it or learning about it.

Your blog has helped me clear up my existing misconceptions and misunderstandings about Greek mythology and helped me learn how to be respectful of your culture while I practice the religion and learn more about it. And to avoid upsetting anyone.

In conclusion thank you and I hope you don't mind me learning about your culture and practice the religion.

Hello! Thank you for your patience as I took a while to get to this message. For asks, please know that I'm not ignoring you. I'm just drowning in errands and have minimal energy all the time (chronic illnesses are a bitch)

I appreciate this message so much and each time I see it in my inbox it brings me joy. You can see in my FAQ section that I, like the overwhelming majority of Greeks, take no issue with foreigners engaging in our culture and following our ancient religion.

My tag #ancient Greek religion and #greek tradition may provide you with more information on how the gods were and are viewed, and the continuation of ancient customs and religious views to this day.

It makes me so happy that someone from the other side of the world took an interest in my culture and they're trying their best to be respectful. Bonus points if the person is familiar with this type of disrespect and they are with us in this fight 😄 I didn't know about all the changes in the Journey to the West and I'm grateful to see the Chinese perspective (which I didn't have the chance to be exposed to, so far).

"I'm a Christian although I feel no connection or care for the religion at all I only follow it or at least pretend I do because of my parents." That's at least 50% of the Greeks and we would also add "we go to the afterparties of religious festivals because of the FOOD" 😂 (and the music, and the dance. We know how to partyyy)

Oh, one small thing! It might just be a random typo, but I see this all the time from different people, so it's worth clarifying that it's "Hellenic polytheism" and not "Hellenistic Polytheism". "Hellenistic" describes one of the eras of Greek history, while "Hellenic" is the Greek word for "Greek" and it's a fit term to describe the polytheism.

May you be well, and I'm here if you have any questions!

#answered #xenoi being awesome #xenoi are often awesome (<3) but I have like a tag for stuff I really like :D

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ladyloveandjustice · 9 months ago

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I've been wanting to add to this with my own additional yuri recs but haven't had time.

I tagged them in the original post but the first one I quoted was

Otherside Picnic by Iori Miyazawa

Science fiction/fantasy yuri about two college girls that travel to a mysterious world called the "otherside" and face mysterious beings and untold monsters, all while growing closer to each other.Both a novel series and manga (and anime, but it doesn't really get to the romance stuff), and novel 8 is genuinely some of the most romantic stuff I've ever read in my life.

Goodbye My Rose Garden by Dr. Pepperco

a Victorian yuri focused on literary ladies. A young Japanese woman travels to England seeking the author of her favorite book, only to be laughed at by the gatekeeping men at the publishing house. A noblewoman comes across her and takes her in as her maid to save her from being stranded without a home, but the noblewoman has a secret, and the two slowly start to long for each other. Lavish art, tons or romantic lines, explores the struggle Victorian women had to be taken seriously as both authors and readers, and explores the homophobia of the era a bit.

The Moon on a Rainy Night by Kuzushiro

A young woman meets a hard of hearing girl who was a pianist before she lost her hearing. Both of them are great characters, and I especially love that the series lets Kanon (the hoh girl) get angry about ableism and have messy emotions like a real teenager. The main character is also a wonderful mess of issues and there's this moment where she learns the Japanese sign for marriage involves a man and a woman and is just smacked with depression over heteronormativity that felt so real. The depth of her feelings is just beautifully done.

How Do We Relationship by Tamifull

An extremely sexy manga about two college age women navigating the messiness of relationships. A lot of y'all in the tags are complaining about yuri being chaste for some reason even though it's easy to find yuri with sex scenes, so if you want a not-erotica yuri about adult relationships with a lot of sex (with the bonus of having an artist that actually understands anatomy), this is your bag. There's also no self-questioning phase. It's grounded and I mean it when I say it's messy.

Pieta by Nanae Haruno

A suicidal girl in an abusive family situation meets another girl who formerly struggled with mental illness as well, and they might have a mysterious past connection. Obviously, this is heavy, and I'll also throw in a cw for attempted suicide. I cannot believe I forgot to include the above in my original post because these panels honestly reprogrammed my brain and I consider it to be one of the most romantic lines I've ever read. It just really connected with me as a youth who struggled with suicidal ideation. I dreamed of someone saying this about me. Not officially translated and likely never will be (it's short), but you can find it online.

Hanamonotagari by schwinn

Older woman yuri, and we mean it this time. After her husband's death, a woman starts discovering herself and bonds with another woman her age through makeup and gay literature. Sadly hasn't been picked up as an official release and was cancelled way before it should have been (there are three volumes though), but we need to keep bugging manga companies about it.

More under the cut! More!

She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat by Sakoami Yuzaki

A woman one loves to cook but doesn't have a huge appetite, only to find the woman next door to her does, so she cooks for her and they really start to bond over food and the trials of being working adults. Very grounded and sweet and very real, and yes, this is the one where the woman googles lesbian. It doesn't stop at that, but has the characters discuss different types of sexuality, including an asexual lesbian side character, and also explores cutting off toxic family members in a way not often seen in manga. It'll get ya in the heart. As a bonus, the author is outspoken about queer rights and even

The Guy She Was Interested Wasn't A Guy At All by Arai Sumiko

A web manga, don't let the weird title fool you, it's good. This follows a girl who dresses up in a mask and hoodie at a music shop, and one of her classmates falls for her, thinking she's a guy and being unaware she's the same girl as the one in her class (but don't worry, she clearly is into the classmate version of her too). They bond over music and there's suprisingly little "oh no I'm gay" angst considering the premise. The art is great and the characters are charming, and love for music infuses the whole thing.

And that's it for now! Seconding anonymocha's rec for Run Away with Me Girl. I'll be adding more to this later probably. Love a good rec chain.

twitter making me want to eat glass

Do ya'll seriously think lesbian stories don't say basic ass things like 'i can't stop thinking about you, i want you." Are you that up your own ass.

Do you think there are not pick up lines in yuri.???do you think they don't have ~poetic lines~ in wlw media???~ that are way better than this shit?

Apparently if some basic ass shonen said stuff like this you'd be acting like it's the height of poetry. Too bad it's actual wlw stories that aren't queerbaiting you. so it will get ignored.

#yuri #recs #how do we relationship #otherside picnic #the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all #hanamonogatari #the moon on a rainy night #goodbye my rose garden #she loves to cook and she loves to eat #pieta yuri #manga

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stoic-whumpee · 2 years ago

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I posted 1,065 times in 2022

That's 726 more posts than 2021!

266 posts created (25%)

799 posts reblogged (75%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 682 of my posts in 2022

Only 36% of my posts had no tags

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Longest Tag: 140 characters

#i'd make a list of what i'm interested in writing for but most of them heavily depends on the mood of that day and the alignment of the star

My Top Posts in 2022:

Prompt #90

Leader sent Whumpee on a mission that ended up getting Whumpee captured. The team blamed Leader for what happened, especially Teammate A who was close to Whumpee and who had protested Leader's decision. Leader was full of guilt, and they decided to come to the enemy and exchanged themself for Whumpee. Bonus point if Leader knew that the enemy's leader had always wanted them and they had finally gave in.

Leader now sat in a cell, all alone, knowing that they wouldn't be rescued. And they were fine with that.

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Prompt #79

Whumpee is framed for a crime they didn’t commit and was awaiting trial in the dungeon. When they got a visit from their team Leader, they were relieved to see someone who would help them prove their innocence.

Instead of asking Whumpee what happened, Leader glared at them and blamed them for causing more trouble. Whumpee understood that Leader wouldn’t believe them. They knew that they were now abandoned by the team and gave up on fighting for their freedom.

Bonus point if Whumpee had always been an outcast/troublemaker in the team, and now Leader said they had always expected Whumpee to “go rogue”.

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Prompt #95

A character who has been used and exploited too many times, who has been pushed into doing terrible things without another option. A character who every single choice they were forced to make made had led to more downfall, who is never offered a second chance. They don't believe they deserve a chance to be happy anymore.

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My #1 post of 2022

Prompt #112

Touch-starved whumpee who doesn’t know how to ask for comfort

- Whumpee who grows up being denied or ridiculed for their need of affection. Eventually, Whumpee learn to just stop asking because they will never get what they want and will most likely be punished for daring to ask.

- Whumpee who are wary of being open or vulnerable to their teammates because their guardians or the people they grow up with see vulnerability as a weakness. Whumpee has been so conditioned that they are not allowed to ask for comfort so they just close off and deal with it themself. And their teammates don’t know they are truly struggling because they have learned to conceal it so well.

- Whumpee who is taught to not be “selfish” (read: to not ask for anything), so they just don’t ask because they don’t want to bother their teammates.

- Whumpee who takes on the role of a caretaker and put their own needs for comfort aside so they can listen to teammate A’s family issues or be the big spoon because teammate B likes to be the small spoon. They see their touch starvation as something trivial themselves, because their teammates need their touch more and Whumpee can handle themself.

- Whumpee who just melts into someone embrace, soaking up all they can get. Whumpee who hides their disappointment and the feeling of emptiness when the arms inevitably let go and they are alone again.

- Whumpee who is too shy to ask, and is a bit closed off and by themself that people think they don’t like to be touch.

- Whumpee who is very selective about whose touch they want, but has to take any physical comfort they can get because they don’t have any other option.

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boltwrites · 3 years ago

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Best Laid Plans - Chapter 2

Fandom: Arcane Pairing: Vander / Reader, Silco / Reader Rating: M (Rating May Change) Tags: Pre-Uprising, Young Vander. Young Silco, Love Triangle (kinda)

Work Summary: Nothing about living in the undercity was easy - the work was back breaking, and the thick air of the mines coated your lung. You struggled just to survive another day, scrounging for food, money, freedom.

You didn't need to add further complications to your list of troubles, occupied as you were with freeing Zaun. But your old friends Vander and Silco had different ideas.

Chapter Summary: You, Vander and Silco head out to celebrate Vander's bonus with a few rounds of drinks.

A/N: Warning: this chapter contains heavy drinking, which is why the rating went up. It also has some nice Vander x reader content!

read from the start | read it on ao3 | or read more below

Your cheeks and core were pleasantly warmed as you sipped on cheap ale, leaned against a flimsy wooden table as Vander made loud conversation with a few men a couple seats over. He was carrying three more flagons of the stuff, looking only a little unsteady on his feet as he weaved through the pub.

Vander’s bonus was call for celebration – specifically, it called for spending some of his newly earned cash at the pubs, where you all could drink yourselves full and artificially induce some happiness. You had complained, of course, telling Vander and Silco that it would be irresponsible to waste the money you all would need for things like weapons and potentially spies to help plot out a route in order to eventually rise up against the topsiders.

But your protests were more a formality than something genuine. You wanted to celebrate just as much as they boys did, and you grinned as you watched them. Vander was telling some tall tale, having set the platter of drinks on the table as he gestured broadly with his hands, feigning some punches and the swinging of some large tool. The men gathered around him laughed raucously, one slapping the table so hard that all the drinks jumped. You couldn’t even hear what he was saying, yet you found yourself laughing along, shaking your head as you took another sip of your own drink.

Vander always had been fun to be around. He was the one that had initially befriended you, after all. As a child, it had been difficult to make friends. You had always been sickly, skinny from growing too fast, prone to illness due to your family’s poverty. You often found yourself stealing books to keep yourself company, as the other children tended to play games that were too rough, too intensive for your healing body. But Vander hadn’t cared. He had asked what you were reading, who you were, why you weren’t playing. After you told him, he brought Silco with him to sit and talk, then Benzo. Once you were well enough, they helped you regain your strength and you, in turn, taught them to read and write.

Even though Vander was the one who had approached you, it had been Silco who listened with rapt attention, hanging off of your every word as you sounded out new phrases, gaze trailing after your finger as you dragged it across the page. He was starved for knowledge as well as food, it seemed, always asking when you would teach him more.

Now his attention was fixed to the game of darts in front of him. Your angle of him was awkward – mostly of his back, as he hopelessly tried to brush his unruly hair out of his eyes. He readied his stance for his throw, tipping his shoulders back and squaring his hips. You rolled your eyes – Silco always took everything so seriously. He was an idealist to the core, always putting his all into everything he did. You didn’t understand it – you were the opposite, careful with every detail. You knew your limits well and you didn’t press them unless it was absolutely necessary. Silco urged forward with careless abandon, which was present even as he tossed his darts – too hard, too fast. A needless exertion of power that left him cursing as they didn’t land where he meant them to, as he tried to force the tools he was given instead of working with them.

You sighed, shaking your head as you took another sip, watching as Silco’s shoulders tensed in that tell-tale way. He was pissed, and you hoped he wouldn’t get himself into a bar fight while his eye was still healing. If he did, you doubted he would be able to labor come next workday.

“He looks like he’s having a wonderful time.”

You nearly jumped out of your skin as Vander threw the drinks down in front of you – he was wobbly and they shook as he carelessly leaned against the table with you, causing it to creak ominously.

You exhaled, trying to calm your racing heart. “I just fixed up that eye. You know how much time I’ve spent fixing that face?”

“Still couldn’t fix the nose,” Vander pointed out, sliding a new drink in front of you. You huffed, gulping down the last of your older drink before wrapping your hands around the new flagon.

“It was broken – actually, not so much broken as it was shattered. You try to fix something like that. You can’t. Don’t care how many medical books you read.” You wagged your finger at him, and Vander chuckled at the same line of conversation the two of you had revisited countless times over the years.

You sighed, looking out at Silco, who was now arguing with one of his opponents, gesturing wildly at the board as he most likely explained in minute detail why he was right and the other man was wrong.

“He needs to learn how to control his temper. He’s gonna get himself killed one of these days,” you shook your head, swirling the drink in your hand.

“Ain’t no chance of that,” Vander chuckled, leaning closer to you so the table wouldn’t creak. He was warm and smelled of the mines. “You know Silco. He’s a firecracker.”

You snorted, watching as the man Silco was arguing with walked away with a toss of a bill – likely Silco’s bet – as Silco flipped him off.

“He’s gonna give me a heart attack one of these days. I don’t think he understand just how dangerous some of the stunts he pulls are. Like today – fuck, that was scary.”

“Oh, he knows,” Vander assured you, and you frowned up at him, brows scrunched together in confusion. “He knows it’s dangerous. It’s caring about the danger – that’s what he’s struggling with. He thinks the cause is more important than anything, especially himself.”

“That’s idiotic,” you scoffed. “I don’t know how many times I’ve had to tell him he can’t rebuild the nation of Zaun if he’s fucking dead.”

Vander snorted, shrugging as Silco made his way over to their table, pouting even as he stumbled, almost tripping over his own feet.

“Did you see that cunt? Ugh, the patrons here have only gotten worse. If he hadn’t given me back my money…” Silco tightened his fist and you sighed, slapping a heavy hand on Silco’s shoulder. It was enough to catch him off-balance and he stumbled into the table. This time the creak was even louder than before.

“Calm down, tough guy,” you chided, and Vander snorted. That just made Silco’s pout worse as you passed him his flagon. “Have a drink, why don’t ya. Maybe stay away from the games for a little bit, hm?”

“But you saw that jackass-“

“We saw him, Silco. Trust us,” Vander replied, trying to keep from laughing at the obviously intoxicated man.

“Ridiculous!”

“Shh, come on now. We’re celebrating. Drink,” you tried to calm him, squeezing his shoulder until his shoulders finally relaxed. You even helped him wrap his hand around his drink so you knew he was serious about sipping it. “There you go.”

Silco only looked mildly embarrassed as he drank, shooting a glare at Vander as he chuckled behind his own flagon.

“Where’s Benzo?” he asked, trying to change the subject. He succeeded as you pursed your lips and tipped your head to the side as you considered the same. Vander shrugged.

“I think it’s almost time for another shipment. Quartermasters gotta work overtime to get that ready.” Vander offered up as explanation. You nodded, because that made sense.

Vander and Silco were traditional miners, but Benzo had managed to get himself a less intensive job as a quartermaster – he basically calculated the mine’s output for his specific shaft, then helped to organize shipments and determine profit. He had always been good with numbers and haggling, so the job made perfect sense. He wasn’t quartermaster of the shaft you and the other boys worked in, which was unfortunate as it meant he couldn’t give them undue bonuses, but at least it kept him out of trouble. Benzo could hold his own in a fight, but he much preferred this position.

“That’s idiotic. He should be here,” Silco insisted, taking a longer swig. Vander nodded.

“He should – but that shouldn’t stop us, yeah?” Vander grinned wide, and you smiled back, hip checking Silco when he didn’t perk up right away and almost sending him tumbling.

“Yeah, you’re right. He’ll show up eventually. What do you say we enjoy ourselves?” You were smiling wide now, and Vander seemed fully on board. Silco grumbled something into his beer before he nodded, a little bashful for some reason, before you hooked your arms with both of them, leading them to the dancefloor.

You stumbled to the door, fumbling with the handle as the world swam before you. Maybe you shouldn’t have drunk quite so much – you didn’t have the same level of tolerance as Vander, and you always seem to forget when you’re out with him.

Silco definitely forgot, because Vander had the man slung over his shoulder. He had left in the middle of a raucous drinking game to get himself another, but after a half an hour, you and Vander had found him passed out in an empty booth. That had signaled to you both that it was about time to head home. Benzo had never showed – which was odd, but you were sure he would be back at the house by morning.

Once you managed to get the door open, Vander stomped inside, Silco hanging like a ragdoll over his shoulder. You attempted to toe out of your boots, holding onto the wall for dear life as Vander clamored up the stairs to put Silco to bed.

“Night, lightweight!” You called to him, even though he couldn’t hear you. You chuckled to yourself even though you weren’t faring any better – stumbling into a table after you managed to get your shoes off, almost knocking it over. You had also left the door open, which you quickly remedied, closing it with a soft click before you devested yourself of your jacket, throwing it over the nearest chair.

Vander reappeared after a moment, chuckling to himself as he half-fell down the stairs. He could handle his liquor to an extent, but he was clearly smashed. His drunkenness only made you laugh along with him as he rounded the corner, almost falling into you and making you squeal in anticipation of being crushed under the much larger man.

“Ah, c’mon Goldie, you know I’m not that fucked,” Vander teased, his hand on your shoulder to steady himself. His hands were so big, and it always stunned you – large enough to practically engulf your shoulder, warm and firm against you.

You rolled your eyes, but ended up laughing. “Not as much as Silco, that’s for sure.”

Vander’s laugh was louder than it should be, and its richness hummed in your bones, even as Vander stumbled and pulled you with him towards the stairs.

“Oh, he’s gone. Out like a light,” Vander assured you, which just made you snort.

“He really needs to learn that he can’t outdrink you,” you teased. “Especially when you actually get yourself into a state.”

“Now when do I do that?” Vander asked, hooking an arm around your shoulders as he guided you upstairs.

“Tonight. You’re stumbling all over the place, you big oaf,” you teased, knocking your temple to his shoulder as he led you to the bedroom you shared with Benzo. You knew he wasn’t home – if he had been, he would have yelled at all of you for drunkenly clattering around the house.

Instead, Vander fumbled through the doorframe, chuckling as he went.

“Eh, you’re not wrong.” He admitted, flicking on the light switch and illuminating the dingy room. It was quant, no more than a set of bunk beds assembled with spare wood and two mismatched dressers you all had found on the street. However, there was a door to a small balcony, which Vander made a beeline for.

“It’s worth it. We deserve a night to lose ourselves, don’t you think? After all we’ve been though,” he hummed as he unlatched the door, and you followed him through it, leaning against his shoulder as he led you to the railing to look out at the city. Smog filtered through the skyline, muted lights desperately trying to cut through the grime. It wasn’t much, but it was your city, and you sighed at the sight of it.

“Yeah, maybe we do,” you replied. You indulged yourself by leaning heavily against Vander, letting yourself sink into the arm around your shoulders, the warm, broad chest under your cheek.

You weren’t in a relationship with him, Vander. At least, neither of you would call it that. Moments of weakness, you would say – it’s not like Vander would want anything serious with you. But every now and then, when he was lonely, and you were lonely… things tended to happen. Only a few times, dispersed over your teen and adult years, usually on nights like this when spirits were high and inhibitions were low.

You cherished them. Vander was everything you could want in a man – strong, stable, loving, honest. He was driven towards his cause, but he was honest and reasonable about it. He cared about those who were close to him, and you knew that if you were to spend the rest of your life with him, he would treat you like you were the sun.

But he wouldn’t choose you. You, after all, were damaged goods. You weren’t as strong as the others in the mines. You knew how to fight and defend yourself, for sure, but your childhood illness had left you with irreparable lung damage. No matter how hard you tried – and oh, how you had tried – you’d never be able to push yourself as hard as someone like Vander. In a place like the undercity, where survival was paramount… you doubted someone so perfect would want something serious with you.

That’s why you cherished the moments like these, where when you leaned against his chest and Vander tilted his head down to rest against your hair, sighing into your space as he held you.

“I can’t stop imagining it – this city as ours. Truly ours. What we could do – who we could be,” Vander whispered it like a secret, and you hummed back, your eyes slowly opening to take in the same sight.

“In Zaun, every child would know how to read,” you breathed, the wish you’d had for years. To allow your people to finally sit on the same platform as Piltover – to learn, to write, to express themselves in a way that was permanent. Vander nodded against your hair.

“In Zaun… I want to be someone. Someone important – I want a say in what we do. In who we are,” Vander asserted, and you wrapped your arms around his waist, squeezing gently.

“Like a politician, hm? Making the rules?”

“Maybe. Something like that. Topsider politicians… think they ruined that whole thing for me,” he chuckled low. “Leader sounds better. Someone who cares. Someone who protects us.”

You nodded. Vander always fell into that naturally – you weren’t surprised he would want to carry on that legacy.

“What do you think Benzo would do?” you asked, gazing across the expanse of muted lights and dilapidated buildings.

“Hmm, maybe he would be a trade master. He could barter with the topsiders for trading rights, get us a proper economy,” Vander hummed, brushing his fingers through your hair. You practically purred at his attention – your braid had come undone during the night, and fingers in your hair had always been a weakness.

“He would be good at that. He was always the best with numbers,” you murmured, feeling just a little sleepy as you leaned against Vander. The scent of soot and beer and something uniquely him comforted you, lulling you softly to sleep.

“What about Silco, hmm?” Vander asked, and you could tell just by the tone of his voice that he was smiling.

You blinked up at him, catching his eye just to grin and nuzzle against him.

“Hmm… I don’t know,” you consider it, thinking far too hard for your booze-addled brain to handle. “He’s got that sense of justice… I feel like he’d protect Zaun against anything.”

You were both silent for a moment, looking out across the city, before Vander broke the quiet with a soft word-

“Ah, so he’d be our warlord, yeah?”

You both burst into laughter, wobbling on your unsteady feet until Vander’s shoulder bumped into the wall and your hip hit the railing and you gripped at him for stability.

He grabbed your hand, pulling you back from the edge with a gentle chuckle, his laughter dissolving into a soft smile, his eyes kind fixed solely on you.

“Zaun is lucky to have you, you know. If you had to – you’d take all of those kids, one by one, and put books in their hands yourself. I know you would.”

Your breath caught in your throat, your heart stopped in your chest as he looked at you like that. His strong hands wrapped around yours, and you found yourself leaning towards him – his soft, kind gaze, tousled brown hair, warm and safe and caring and so, so sweet to you.

You were kissing him before you could even comprehend the steps it took you to get there. His lips tasted like cheap beer as he wrapped his arms around you – surrounding you in an embrace that made you feel more protected than anyone else. His short beard scratched against your cheeks, but you didn’t care – it sent a tingle down your spine as you snaked a hand up to cup his cheek, to encourage him to kiss you more, deeper, longer –

He complied, slipping his tongue past your lips. It wasn’t skilled – it never was, when you were both so far gone. It was messy, but there was meaning behind it – the comfort of someone who had been with you for so many years that they truly knew you, that cared for you.

His hands slid along your back, leaving goosebumps in their wake as he warmed you with just his touch. It was sleepy-sweet, touches and kisses that craved not passion or lust, but simply ached for closeness and understanding, comfort and rest.

When Vander fell into your bed, it was just that – to fall into your bed. You kissed lazily, both giggling as you joked about how he struggled to fit into your miniscule top bunk without breaking it. He managed it, though, pressing you close to his chest as he discarded his shirt and restrictive pants, and you did the same with your rough slacks.

You fell asleep like that – tangled in softness, between sweet drunken kisses and whispered promises for the future.

#vander x reader #vander x you #silco x reader #silco x you #arcane x reader #vander arcane #silco arcane

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yandere-sins · 3 years ago

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tbh as a transman like i don't mind reader inserts having certain genitalia? like as long as its disclosed somewhere bc reading it without some kind of tag can be a lil jarring. but like i prefer male readers but i understand a lot of people don't or they aren't male and feel weird imagining themselves as masculine. also sometimes its kinda nice because it lets me imagine that the character i love can see my body, a body that im ashamed of and i dislike and still love and desire me.

and now heres a list of terms transmen use for their downstairs thats less "gendered". even though i don't mind the having a vagina part seeing words like "clit" kinda does make me feel dysphoric.

- slit

- hole

- nub (for clit)

- button (also for clit)

- lower mouth

- i cannot properly explain to you why but cunt

- if you're writing trans male readers boycunt or boy pussy also works

- again for trans male readers specifically using words like cocklet, t-dick (even if your reader isnt on testosterone it feels validating), cock

- bonus hole

just a note I've noticed some trans guys are comfortable with words like womb and cervix? so don't cross that out of your vocabulary completely. idk if this is even helpful but i want reader inserts to be more accessible to people or even just more people to write trans male reader inserts!

if you or any of your followers have more questions ill get off anon and answer them in the lil messenger too

Thanks for reaching out with so much information and insight!

I have written for trans!characters/oc before and my commissioners were very clear and open about what they like and want, so I actually knew about a lot of those words already :D There are definitely options, and some are actually really cute imo, but to write completely genderneutral (which was the original issue) so that no one is left out, there are a lot of cuts to make regardless if some people are okay with varieties or the like. Everyone is okay with different things, and while that's completely valid, it just doesn't make it easier to serve everyone (':

It would help a lot if requesters could just add what kind of downstairs area they want/are comfortable with, because if there's no indication, I'll, of course, steer towards what is most comfortable for me. But as I always say, you can't tell people what to do anyway, so I don't bother advertising it much, but it would be good teamwork if requests were more specific. Some of your suggestions are very common I'd say, but like "lower mouth" I know is something people frown upon a bit so while it's good for you, it might not be for others and then those get offended again. That's how it always was and always will be. I am a huge overthinker and I research this topic every time I write smut, and most information sites agree there are some words that just ruin the mood and that just spikes my anxiety in return. Of course I can't please everyone but well, I try.

But thanks for your kind offer and ask! You stay awesome and I am sure there will always be some content that will suit one individual or another ^^

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i lied i changed the tag immediately. anywayyy maybe ill just start typing and see if inspo comes to me. i think itd be kind of funny if in this au ei and makoto arent even related, ei is just an actual android body double commissioned for makoto. i cant rmb, inazuma didnt know makoto existed right? did they just not know there was a handover 500 years ago... but yea thats gonna add a little identity crisis to the mix (remembers fontaine) wait... ok we'll get to there when we get there!! inazuma first

i suppose yae is just made for the shrine... everyone else that has like a normal job, just assume theyre made for their normal job ok. ittos is not a normal job tho. UNLESS... genius strat where they make a "gang leader" that is actually harmless and even plays with kids, but is capable of overpowering other gangs, thus. no actual criminal gangs!! we onto smth here. kuki wouldnt be needed tho but since she has that shrine story she can be one of those that had their purpose changed perhaps. how? well either its sentience or someone behind the scenes 🤷‍♀️ dont think abt it too deeply

who else... everyone else is kind of self explanatory i think. they just... do their jobs/help people they work alongside. i suppose kokomis different since shes in a position of power, and they have that family line jazz, so its kind of weird for her to be a commercial (celestia) android. maybe we can just assume technology is fairly advanced in this era so theyre not all commercial? people can just make their own. oh yeah this ties back into daydreams' original concept of like... broken down models being fixed up by readers... who knows, maybe people even make imitations. hm. maybe that should be neuvillette since hes an enemy of celestiaOkay i keep jumping to fontaine for some reason

should i keep it to one nation a reblog or just keep going. imma keep going. now how do we fit in rukkhadevatas whole thing... i also dont claim to be very knowledgeable about all the desert stuff (and havent finished the pari quest😭) but its probably also not celestia approved so maybe its also a separate faction? wait hold on. the forbidden knowledge can just be. a virus. and some buggy code is left in rukkhadevatas memory so nahida had to delete her loooool okay with how tech they made sumeru this fits really nicely.

im gonna say cynos bad jokes+tcg interest was not scripted at all cuz idk why theyd do that unless some engineer was like wouldnt it be funny. i mean thats also possible ig but like with kuki, sentience is an option... i think this entire au was (partially) inspired when i read smth (an anon on daydream's blog maybe?) about alhaitham and nahida being school guides or something. alhaitham proobably wouldnt be a teacher type i think he just helps them do admin and is fully aware the sages delegate a lot of work to the "scribe" bc they know hes an android. oooh but maybe they keep it quiet and not even everybody knows hes an android so hes like Lol if youre gonna masquerade me as a human you better treat me like one and give me time off and holiday pay etc. yeah thats funny

...i have no idea how to fit in his and kavehs roommate situation. it would be funny if kaveh wasnt an android and just had no idea (bonus angst when he finds out and is like uve been lying to me?!?!) though i did start this thinkihg vision holders would all be androids. WAIT WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE VISION HUNT DECREE. oh i guess its just "deactivate that mf" huh. no thats weird cuz yoimiya wouldnt be able to be "alive" for the coup... maybe it fr just disables their elemental powers. which could be connected to their ambitions who knows, that could be the original concept.

okay now weve got that squared away, back to sumeru. ill put kaveh on the backburnerWait. what if there was like a. make someone into an android a la nikke bc theyre dying or just because. and he did that but now hes broke bc of the payment for it. okayy maybe.

also im thinkin if usually the ppl in charge commission these droids (i mean that might spoil a lot of the rebellion plotlines) maybe celestia also just randomly releases models that werent commissioned... okay what i wanted to get at was, the sages wouldnt have commed nilou (unless they were more lenient on the arts in the past which is possible i just cant rmb) but if not i guess she can just be a random celestia release. who the fuck made layla

aaaand ive been avoiding the elephant in the room... scaramouche. i do love the idea of each of his forms being different models. ahhh it would be cool if ei actually did make him, not celestia. using her own knowledge and power but shes not perfect and neither is he (ok thats not why she deemed him unsuitable) (omg. it was bc he cried on birth and she was like ah hes too soft (human) HaHaHa that would be really Funny if it reminds her of makoto Lol)

so... kabukimono escapes his holding and tatarasuna happens... damn the whole irminsul-history-wipe thing doesnt really work here. unless, if we are still setting this in the original universe with magic and stuff, just with MORE androids, then i guess irminsul could exist. just that instead of being a corrupting Thing in rukkhadevata, the forbidden knowledge is a corrupting virus. 👍

back to scara. there isnt much to change here, he can absolutely still have his human crisis because none of the people he stayed with were vision holders so he never met a fellow android. and hes also different from fellow androids anyway since ei made him! wow! double whammy! anyway dottore

everything is just the same actually. like this doesnt change anything in the plot they still make that fuckass robot. okay is there anything else in sumeru im missing. oh right earlier i was like why would they make layla cuz i was like. they should not encourage sleeping in class. but it could be like, yk, relatable to students, but she still gets work done so yk no excuse (except that shes an android)!! i also know she has some identity issues but i havent done her hangout yet so... gonna leave it there, idk if itll affect this too much. faruzans just a teacher, etc etc, dori could be a plant or just commissioned/made by the black market lol

cyno and sethos' Thing... hmmmmmmm. i guess, instead of kids they just made two androids to be the host for the the soul of h. im trying to remember but all thats coming to mind is hamarhaft which is a weapon in bg3. quick google: hermanubis. yes. oooh so maybe cyno isnt commissioned by the sages at all! yeah okay that makes things make sense!

hmmmmm. collei. she didnt have a vision in the manga, right... perhaps dottores experiment is to "fix" eleazar patients by combining them/putting their brain into an android? yeah that sounds plausible (dottore fans dont gut me cuz i never read too deeply into his experiments)

that should be all outliers in sumeru? onto fontaiWAIT I FORGOT ABOUT KAZUHA. hm. hmmm. yk its possible that the inazuma clans comm their own androids, so like, the kamisatos... (i also think itd be an extra layer to ayakas angst if the public didnt know they were androids.) so maybe the kaedeharas made one on the last of their money lol. his friend is i really dont know he could be anything, all that matters is hes an android (had a vision) and was killed by ei (driving a sword through an android should probably fuck it up. especially if the sword is empowered by elemental magic and ei was part of the original archon lineup).

then he fucks off to explore the world. definitely not a commercial android. haha even though he and scara would be popular choices (not necessarily tgt) but i accidentally made them one of a kind so no you cant really go to the market and buy a scara android. though i suppose that does delve more into "genshin plot is just a story the company made to drive sales" rather than "genshin plot is happening right now".

baaaack to fontaine. oooh boy oh boy. to start, focalors was against celestia from the start, though i dont think itd be too bad to say they made her and she went r—wait i forgot, the previous hydro archon passed the title to her. side note what the fuck are oceanids in this au. androids lite. nah maybe they can still be oceanids. so the prev hydro archon (egaria? no its egeria) passed the title of archon to focalors. perhaps she did an ei and made her own droid? how does passing the archon title work with this though... unless archon isnt really assigned the androids, thats just what they called the initial lineup and those that still have that initial model treat them as gods. so egarias the commercial bot that went rogue. or something im looking at her wiki and the history is... um a lot more complicated im not even sure if she was part of the original archon lineup. okay thats not important. whats important is: what the fuck is furina???

furina is supposed to be part fontainian, so part oceanid... magic fuse an oceanid with a droid and bam...! but splits them in two... shit then the droid is the one hiding instead lol. but hey with all their pneuma ousia shit maybe it needs to be a droid converting all that energy! but normal fontainians are not immortal the way furina is/was sooo... idk we're mixing scifi and fantasy magic so theres probably something connecting the two of them to each other, some battery inside them, or maybe furinas like 1/4 droid while focalora is 1/4 oceanid. that could work.

WHAT THE FUCK IS NEUVILLETTE. clearly not made by celestia. lol since they stole the power from the dragons its just an old company that maybe pioneered this tech but celestia stole it!?!? i feel like i should be thinking about khaenriah here. but anyway. neuvillette canonically isnt pure dragon so maybe its like... the creators have lost some of their materials or process due to celestia so they cant make a proper dragon again. so they just make a humanoid also to masquerade under celestias gaze (spoiler: they aint even notice?)

so how does the transfer of power work... focalors kills herself, WHAT THE HELL IS THE WHALE DOING HERE, and gives up her "archon powers"... which, here, can be some kind of magical tech that neuvillette takes. bit more manual work perhaps but we ball

okay. the fatui. the tsaritsa (glances at wiki) isnt even the original cryo archon, but otherwise we dk much. but i think its prooobably fair to assume she makes the fatui. or does nikke shit like dottore was gonna do except like better. and delusions? just. fucked up versions of the elemental magic (visions) other bots have ORRR its just terrible for mortals since its not that bad for visionholders. spews toxic shit idk. REGARDLESS. okay obviously not all the fatui are from snezhnaya... maybe she makes the normal fatui army looool ok ignore ALL of this since we dont really know anything about her, i was just trying to figure out the house of hearth 😭😭😭

so. we have to remember the fontainian oceanid thing. hold on what the fuck then fontainians cant be androids here since theyre full human(ish). hmm. hmmmmm. alright, so, hm. fuck. i dug myself into a hole. OKAY. lets see. what if the fontainians are all actually a kind of oceanid-droid egeria made. its just that focalors has extra archon tech in her from egeria. so all fontainians have like (i was gonna say kill switch which im not sure is better than dissolving to water honestly) a latent ability to become magical (get visions) to make up for... celestia not giving them any because they were like what the fuck, egeria.

i mean its also possible celestia also sent normal androids there you just cant tell. and its not like everyones tested the primordial water, maybe they actually wont be affected (who would even want to risk it lol), you really just cant tell. like we can just say all the playable/important chars we know never touched primordial water (well obviously. cuz theyre. still alive)

pause i just saved this as a draft just in case i accidentally like close the app and i realised i DO have another draft talking about inazuma bots. and it had this crazy idea of the real ayato and ayaka dying so they made bots of them. but the other stuff i wrote there about ei is not as interesting as the one i wrote here tho so scrap that. i did have one interesting line about venti and zhongli not being their original prototype archon model anymore and ei still was because she just makes new models/upgrades. then its funny cuz im like yea rukkhadevata probably figured that out with the irminsul (nahida must be a new model) and fontaine has its own problem so its just. venti and zhongli. old ass men being the originals. WAIT WHAT IF VENTIS APPEARANCR WAS JUST THE NAMELESS BARD AND THEY NIKKEFIED HIM. what is a wind spirit. actual wind spirit or little ai lmao.......

ok so back to um, the HoH. arle only gets her vision after becoming the knave, right, she fights the whoever orphanage mom with her own blood powers first (wtf is that btw i feel like theres no explanation in game but ig it doesnt appear much in game either so its okay...?) maybe just a defective bot or smth... MOVING ON i just wanted to get to the trio siblings...

wow okay i wanted to get to them cuz i like them but now that im here im like... what could i say. theyre the "doing jobs" droids again. cant even say theyre fatui made bc of the fontainian thing and most of them are just normal people. sorry damn. damn i think the rest of the chars are also just "doing jobs" droids. oh well

i havent touched natlan at all so i cant say anything about them 🤷‍♀️ JESUS THIS WAS LONG AF WHATS WRONG WITH ME (the undiagnosed autism, my oomfs would say)

SHUT UP OMG i just looked at my drafts again, i had ANOTHER inazuma draft written where id alr come up w the idea of makoto being human. ah well. Wait this doesnt mesh with makoto also considered an archon before ei took over LETS WORRY ABT THAT LATER CUZ that short draft also had an extra concept for the kamisatos which is. parents couldnt conceive so they commed ayato and ayaka without telling the public theyre androids. so its either they start androids or replace humans... im thinking start because theres not really enough time between the familys deaths to make new models of them. unless their deaths were separate and earlier and somehow kept very hushed up... yeah no. they were always androids. WHEW NOW WE'RE DONE. I PROMISE. MAYBE

i simply think it is so fun to imagine a world where a company makes a bunch of androids to assist people and provide companionship so they give the androids stories and release them in certain themes or lines and those androids are the genshin characters. credit to @yandere-daydreams for the idea. i love it so much. yes we all want x character to be our boyfriend or girlfriend and we have sex with them yes but i think its fun to imagine their roles when theyre not being yandere...

also the read more is very long i just went off about my ideas for most of the mondstadt characters. nothing wrong with me

if this is set in teyvats world imagine amber being like a gliding instructor in mondstadt. good engineer too, maybe the first bot that can fix other bots/have intricate knowledge of them (because she made baron bunny).

for human injuries theres barbara and jean, but with different temperaments for different patients. or if we're still set in teyvat, then jean (and the rest of the favonius knights characters) are actually android assistants to the actual human knights. basically the androids replace vision holders??

but yeah kaeya would also be a knight assistant, noelles story is she trains super hard but still isnt a knight (because shes made to help actual trainees!). lisa of course manages the library. yeah sorry thats it. makes tea

and i had the idea (this is all stolen from my own twitter thread from *checks* last year? anyway) that they would tease the release of bots like diluc, rosaria and razor through voicelines from kaeya, barbara and lisa. really like the idea of razor originally being some sort of surveillance android for wolvendom/integrating with them in some way for research and sort of became a guide for people who get lost in wolvendom.

diona and diluc are two different types of bartenders, one is good against people who cant say no to a cute (angry) kitty and the others... are those require some intimidation.

VENTI. god, i think itd be cool if they had prototype models for the seven archons and actual venti bots now definitely play into the "broke bard who plays for alcohol" thing. but of course anyone with eyes knows that his original model was the barbatos android.

oh!! and bennett and fischl being adventurers buddies. bennett is "unlucky" but hes actually like, wired to be hypervigilant and take hits for you while he shrugs it off. and fischl comes with oz if you need some chuuni speech translated, but you can disable that if you want to go full rp with her.

*looks at my thread* oh yeah "Albedo is made for the alchemists in the Knights, and he was meant to be released with Klee, but there was a delay because his ai kept experimenting on its own copies (Flowerfell Albedo?)" ngl i didnt play the albedo event and never bothered to watch a video so i dont know the full extent of his lore here. oh right and i added "sucrose is made to keep an eye on him in the labs" lmao

klee is. i suppose made for the knights. a cute energetic girl to keep morale up, whos fireproof and thus able to scout dangerous areas/bomb them if you so wish.

oh yeah i wrote that the church was not happy about the rosaria bots being made so they relegated her to guarding dragonspine against foolish adventurers. as to why she keeps appearing in bars, well, uh. No comment — Celestia Inc.

the lawrence clan wanted in on this business and sponsored a representative of their family, but mondstadts opinion of them is less than friendly, so the knights compromise and make eula, a lawrence knight.

whew okay for some reason i was able to churn out a lot for mondstadt and then everyone else i was like uh yeah. they exist and do things similar to what they do in game like xiangling being a cook's aide. yep. idk why the mondstadt worldbuilding gripped me so hard like that.

also my last thought is that maybe the hilichurls are just the verryyy alpha version of their bots, the khaenri'ah line (i think daydream mentioned this) and maybe just broke down and went rogue/abandoned. so now they make better bots to fight them and keep people safe. go figure. earns them a ton of cash though. lol imagine if getting them was a lottery too....

#replies #genshin android au

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sparktober · 3 years ago

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Sparktober Bingo 2021!

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Instead of coming up with an Atlantis-specific list of prompts, I compiled a bunch of 2021 -tober prompt lists into one google doc here. (Links to original prompt lists are on the google doc.) Add in a list of Atlantis episodes and...

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VANILLA

CHOCOLATE

A/B/O; Soft; Anonymous Sex; Penetration with Object/s; Sleeping; Intercrural Sex; Restraints; In/Under Water; Group Sex; First Time; Possessive Behavior; Dry Humping / Grinding; Overstimulation; Roleplay; Rimming; Stretching / Fisting; Power Imbalance; Food Play; Fingering; Body Worship; Sex Work; Voyeurism / Exhibitionism; Safewords; Technology; Oral Sex; Omorashi / Wetting; Crying; Underwear / Lingerie; Friends with Benefits; Pain Kink; Dirty Talk; Trick or Treat; All trussed up and nowhere to go; Talking is overrated; Sticks and stones may break my bones...; Trust fall; I've got red in my ledger; Touch and go; My spidey-sense is tingling; Coughing up a lung; Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated; Oops, I did it again; Just keep swimming; It'll be fun, they said; That's gonna leave a mark; Under pressure; Feed a cold, starve a fever; On a need-to-know basis; Field care 101; The doctor is in; Just a scratch; Lost & found; That's where the blood's supposed to be; They made me do it; You break it, you buy it; One down, two to go; Hide & Seek; You will go down with this ship; “I'm fine, I prom...”; It's (not) just in your head; All work and no play; Digging your grave; Hurt & Comfort; “You have to let go.”; Garotte; Taunting; “Do you trust me?”; Betrayal; Bruises; Helplessness; Pneumothorax; Presumed Dead; Hospital; Adrift; Torture; “This is gonna suck.”; Crush injuries; Delirium; Recovery; “Please don't move.”; “Now smile for the camera.”; Bitten; Trunk; Bleeding through bandages; Cursed; Auction; Self-induced injuries to escape; Escape; Fallen; Passing out; “Good, you're finally awake.”; “You're still not dead?”; Major character death; Disaster zone; Barbed Wire; Choking; Insults; Taken Hostage; Misunderstanding; Touch Starved; Numbness; Exotic Illness; (Blind) Rage; Flare-Up; Drowning; Made To Watch; Burns; Beaten; Fever Dreams; Scars; Hemorrhage; Doctor Visit; Bleeding; Trapped Under Water; Pressure; Demon; Ransom; Flashback; Flight; Waterfall; Vertigo; Nightmares; Too Weak To Move; Left For Dead; Trauma; Bound; Gagged; “Who Did This To You?”; Pushed; Broken Nose; Hunger; Blindness; “Definitely Just A Cold”; Tears; Ice Chips; Dehydration; Begging; Cauterization; Force; Bees; Aftermath; Dread; Cpr; Stabbing; Solitary Confinement; Blood-Matted Hair; Obsession; Pursuit; Revenge; Hiding; Trap Door; Collapse; Panic; Overworked; Ghosts; Prisoner; Losing Control; Threats; Caning; Mercy; Forgotten; Head Injury; Screaming; Comfort; Self-Sacrifice; Trapped; Near-Death Experience; Regret; Tragedy; Battlefield; Anxiety; Gore; Petplay; Bimbofication; Panties & Lingerie; Bondage; Double Penetration in 2 Holes; Breeding; Humiliation; NTR; Incest; Emeto; Omorashi; Free Use; Crossdressing; Public; Three (or more) some; Daddy & Mommy; Double Penetration in 1 Hole; Distention & Cockbulge; Xenophilia; Shotgunning; Watersports; Pregnancy; Lactation; Waxplay; Grooming; Human Furniture; Feet; Prostituion; MacroMicro; Spanking; Cockwarming; Glory Hole; Somnophilia; Body Modification; Temperature Play; Leather; Size Difference; Sounding; Stockings; Tentacles; Medical Play; Stripping; Orgasm Denial; Master & slave; Scissoring; Titfucking; Frottage; Knifeplay; Formal Wear; Breathplay; Fisting; Pegging; Scat; Beastiality; Fucking Machine; Tickling; Boot Worship; Bukkake; Collaring; Foodplay; Non or dubcon; Feederism; Sensory Deprivation; Oviposition; Clone & Selfcest; Exhibitionism & Voyeurism; Impact Play; Sadomasochism; Bloodplay; Praise Kink; Body Swap; Sweat; Branding; Massage; Role Reversal; Armpit; Masturbation; Inflation; Sex Toys; Burnplay; Menophilia; Stuck in Wall; Deepthroating & Facesitting; Dacryphilia; Hate Sex

CANDY CORN

Birthday; Sick Day; Autumn; Candles; Plaid / Flannel; Leaf Piles; Sweaters; Baking; Cinnamon; Pumpkin Spice Latte; Carnival; Movie Night; Candy; Graveyard; Black Cats; Goosebumps; Pumpkin; Party; Monster; Ghosts; Witch; Vampire; Traditions; Magic; Mask; Haunted House; Trick; Treat; Costume; Monster Mash; Halloween

SPRINKLES

Rising Part 1; Rising Part 2; Hide and Seek; Thirty-Eight Minutes; Suspicion; Childhood's End; Poisoning the Well; Underground; Home; The Storm; The Eye; The Defiant One; Hot Zone; Sanctuary; Before I Sleep; The Brotherhood; Letters from Pegasus; The Gift; The Siege Part 1; The Siege Part 2; The Siege Part 3; The Intruder; Runner; Duet; Condemned; Trinity; Instinct; Conversion; Aurora; The Lost Boys; The Hive; Epiphany; Critical Mass; Grace Under Pressure; The Tower; The Long Goodbye; Coup d'Etat; Michael; Inferno; Allies; No Man's Land; Misbegotten; Irresistible; Sateda; Progeny; The Real World; Common Ground; McKay and Mrs. Miller; Phantoms; The Return Part 1; The Return Part 2; Echoes; Irresponsible; Tao of Rodney; The Game; The Ark; Sunday; Submersion; Vengeance; First Strike; Adrift; Lifeline; Reunion; Doppelganger; Travelers; Tabula Rasa; Missing; The Seer; Miller's Crossing; This Mortal Coil; Be All My Sins Remember'd; Spoils of War; Quarantine; Harmony; Outcast; Trio; Midway; The Kindred Part 1; The Kindred Part 2; The Last Man; Search and Rescue; The Seed; Broken Ties; The Daedalus Variations; Ghost in the Machine; The Shrine; Whispers; The Queen; Tracker; First Contact; The Lost Tribe; Outsiders; Inquisition; The Prodigal; Remnants; Brain Storm; Infection; Identity; Vegas; Enemy at the Gate; Ronon Dex; Teyla Emmagan; John Sheppard; Carson Beckett; Elizabeth Weir; Rodney McKay; Jennifer Keller; Samantha Carter; Aiden Ford; Radek Zelenka; Kate Heightmeyer; Evan Lorne; Laura Cadman; Kolya; Chuck; Peter Grodin; Steven Caldwell; Lantea; Ocean; Ancient(s); Richard Woolsey; Athosians; Daedalus; Wraith; Nanites; Asurans; Genii; DHD; SGC; Stargate; Earth; Antarctica; Ascension

TWIST

“I need you.”; “You have no proof.”; “I’ve waited for this.”; “Fine, I give up.”; “I’m not saying I told you so…”; “Didn’t we already have this conversation?”; “That could have gone better.”; “This is it, isn’t it?”; “There’s no right side to this.”; “It’s so quiet.”; “I swear, it’s not always like this.”; “You keep me safe.”; “The things you make me do…”; “Your information was wrong.”; “I like that in you.”; “Not this again.”; “I’m with you, you know that.”; “This was not part of the plan.”; “I feel strange.”; “That’s what I’m known for.”; “What did I say?”; “No promises.”; “This time, do what I say.”; “Is this supposed to impress me?”; “Do you know what time it is?”; “I’m sure this has never worked, ever.”; “You could have died!”; “I don’t have to explain myself.”; “Why are we whispering?”; “Don’t ruin this.”; “Take me with you.”; Crystal; Suit; Vessel; Knot; Raven; Spirit; Fan; Watch; Pressure; Pick; Sour; Stuck; Roof; Tick; Helmet; Compass; Collide; Moon; Loop; Sprout; Fuzzy; Open; Leak; Extinct; Splat; Connect; Spark; Crispy; Patch; Slither; Risk; Meet-Cute; Amnesia; Age Difference; Pining; Sick Fic; Fake Relationship; Accidental Meeting; Epistolary; Secret Identity; Historical AU; Nightmares; Monster Hunter; A/B/O; Reunion; Soulmates; At Pride; Angst; Seasons; Fix-It; Coffee Shop; Movie Plot AU; Kid Fic; Actor's Other Crossover Work; OT+; Getting Together; Only One Bed; Pirates; Making Up; Forbidden Relationship; Tattoos; Halloween; Prime Directive; Lower Decks / Background Characters; Away Mission; Ship's Bar; Aliens Made Them Do It; Observation Deck; Crew with Family; Holodeck; Science Crew; Character Survives; Headcanons; Diplomacy; Decontamination; Trek Crossover; Replicator; Worldbuilding; Redshirts; Sex / Love Potion; Medical Crew; Transporters; Medbay; Interspecies Relationship; Mirrorverse; Uniforms; Mutiny; Stranded on a Planet; Rec Room; Academy Era; Second Contact; Command Crew; Off-Duty; Soft; Anonymous Sex; Penetration with Object/s; Sleeping; Intercrural Sex; Restraints; In/Under Water; Group Sex; First Time; Possessive Behavior; Dry Humping / Grinding; Overstimulation; Roleplay; Rimming; Stretching / Fisting; Power Imbalance; Food Play; Fingering; Body Worship; Sex Work; Voyeurism / Exhibitionism; Safewords; Technology; Oral Sex; Omorashi / Wetting; Crying; Underwear / Lingerie; Friends with Benefits; Pain Kink; Dirty Talk; Trick or Treat; All trussed up and nowhere to go; Talking is overrated; Sticks and stones may break my bones...; Trust fall; I've got red in my ledger; Touch and go; My spidey-sense is tingling; Coughing up a lung; Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated; Oops, I did it again; Just keep swimming; It'll be fun, they said; That's gonna leave a mark; Under pressure; Feed a cold, starve a fever; On a need-to-know basis; Field care 101; The doctor is in; Just a scratch; Lost & found; That's where the blood's supposed to be; They made me do it; You break it, you buy it; One down, two to go; You will go down with this ship; “I'm fine, I prom...”; It's (not) just in your head; All work and no play; Digging your grave; Hurt & Comfort; “You have to let go.”; Garotte; Taunting; “Do you trust me?”; Betrayal; Bruises; Helplessness; Pneumothorax; Presumed Dead; Hospital; Adrift; Torture; “This is gonna suck.”; Crush injuries; Delirium; Recovery; “Please don't move.”; “Now smile for the camera.”; Bitten; Trunk; Bleeding through bandages; Cursed; Auction; Self-induced injuries to escape; Escape; Fallen; Passing out; “Good, you're finally awake.”; “You're still not dead?”; Major character death; Disaster zone; Barbed Wire; Choking; Insults; Taken Hostage; Misunderstanding; Touch Starved; Numbness; Exotic Illness; (Blind) Rage; Flare-Up; Drowning; Made To Watch; Burns; Beaten; Fever Dreams; Scars; Hemorrhage; Doctor Visit; Bleeding; Trapped Under Water; Demon; Ransom; Flashback; Flight; Waterfall; Vertigo; Too Weak To Move; Left For Dead; Trauma; Bound; Gagged; “Who Did This To You?”; Pushed; Broken Nose; Hunger; Blindness; “Definitely Just A Cold”; Tears; Ice Chips; Dehydration; Begging; Cauterization; Force; Bees; Aftermath; Dread; Cpr; Stabbing; Solitary Confinement; Blood-Matted Hair; Obsession; Pursuit; Revenge; Hiding; Trap Door; Collapse; Panic; Overworked; Ghosts; Prisoner; Losing Control; Threats; Caning; Mercy; Forgotten; Head Injury; Screaming; Comfort; Self-Sacrifice; Trapped; Near-Death Experience; Regret; Tragedy; Battlefield; Anxiety; Gore; Petplay; Bimbofication; Panties & Lingerie; Bondage; Double Penetration in 2 Holes; Breeding; Humiliation; NTR; Incest; Emeto; Omorashi; Free Use; Crossdressing; Public; Three (or more) some; Daddy & Mommy; Double Penetration in 1 Hole; Distention & Cockbulge; Xenophilia; Shotgunning; Watersports; Pregnancy; Lactation; Waxplay; Grooming; Human Furniture; Feet; Prostituion; MacroMicro; Spanking; Cockwarming; Glory Hole; Somnophilia; Body Modification; Temperature Play; Leather; Size Difference; Sounding; Stockings; Tentacles; Medical Play; Stripping; Orgasm Denial; Master & slave; Scissoring; Titfucking; Frottage; Knifeplay; Formal Wear; Breathplay; Fisting; Pegging; Scat; Beastiality; Fucking Machine; Tickling; Boot Worship; Bukkake; Collaring; Foodplay; Non or dubcon; Feederism; Sensory Deprivation; Oviposition; Clone & Selfcest; Exhibitionism & Voyeurism; Impact Play; Sadomasochism; Bloodplay; Praise Kink; Body Swap; Sweat; Branding; Massage; Role Reversal; Armpit; Masturbation; Inflation; Sex Toys; Burnplay; Menophilia; Stuck in Wall; Deepthroating & Facesitting; Dacryphilia; Hate Sex; Birthday; Sick Day; Autumn; Candles; Plaid / Flannel; Leaf Piles; Sweaters; Baking; Cinnamon; Pumpkin Spice Latte; Carnival; Movie Night; Candy; Graveyard; Black Cats; Goosebumps; Pumpkin; Party; Monster; Witch; Vampire; Traditions; Magic; Mask; Haunted House; Trick; Treat; Costume; Monster Mash; Rising Part 1; Rising Part 2; Hide and Seek; Thirty-Eight Minutes; Suspicion; Childhood's End; Poisoning the Well; Underground; Home; The Storm; The Eye; The Defiant One; Hot Zone; Sanctuary; Before I Sleep; The Brotherhood; Letters from Pegasus; The Gift; The Siege Part 1; The Siege Part 2; The Siege Part 3; The Intruder; Runner; Duet; Condemned; Trinity; Instinct; Conversion; Aurora; The Lost Boys; The Hive; Epiphany; Critical Mass; Grace Under Pressure; The Tower; The Long Goodbye; Coup d'Etat; Michael; Inferno; Allies; No Man's Land; Misbegotten; Irresistible; Sateda; Progeny; The Real World; Common Ground; McKay and Mrs. Miller; Phantoms; The Return Part 1; The Return Part 2; Echoes; Irresponsible; Tao of Rodney; The Game; The Ark; Sunday; Submersion; Vengeance; First Strike; Lifeline; Doppelganger; Travelers; Tabula Rasa; Missing; The Seer; Miller's Crossing; This Mortal Coil; Be All My Sins Remember'd; Spoils of War; Quarantine; Harmony; Outcast; Trio; Midway; The Kindred Part 1; The Kindred Part 2; The Last Man; Search and Rescue; The Seed; Broken Ties; The Daedalus Variations; Ghost in the Machine; The Shrine; Whispers; The Queen; Tracker; First Contact; The Lost Tribe; Outsiders; Inquisition; The Prodigal; Remnants; Brain Storm; Infection; Identity; Vegas; Enemy at the Gate; Ronon Dex; Teyla Emmagan; John Sheppard; Carson Beckett; Elizabeth Weir; Rodney McKay; Jennifer Keller; Samantha Carter; Aiden Ford; Radek Zelenka; Kate Heightmeyer; Evan Lorne; Laura Cadman; Kolya; Chuck; Peter Grodin; Steven Caldwell; Lantea; Ocean; Ancient(s); Richard Woolsey; Athosians; Daedalus; Wraith; Nanites; Asurans; Genii; DHD; SGC; Stargate; Earth; Antarctica; Ascension

#sparktober is coming #sparktober #sparktober bingo

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shelikescolds · 3 years ago

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Tag Game

Thanks for tagging me @coldsandfluff , this was really fun to think about! Her original post can be found here.

The game is such:

List your top three whump tropes and tag people.

Whoever gets tagged gets to say how they feel about your top three tropes.

After finishing that, they then list their top three tropes, and the tagging cycle goes on!

@coldsandfluff tropes:

1. A Very Important Person who shouldn’t care about someone’s cold, but does. Like a CEO, a doctor, a huge celebrity… Just someone who obviously has way more important things to care about than the sickie’s cold (because the sickie isn’t part of their inner circle, like an employee or an assistant), but turns out to be a very caring person and goes out of their way to make sure the sickie is well taken care of. And if they’re the grumpy type, they do it in a grumpy way and won’t acknowledge it, but you can totally tell they’re a sweetheart underneath it all. Love it.

Thoughts: I usually prefer writing and reading about characters with little to no power imbalance, but you really sold me on this one! I like the idea of someone important being smitten by someone’s personality/deeds and deciding that they need to make sure this beautiful soul is taken care of properly (and maybe catching feelings along the way). And if the sickie gets really happy or emotional because the person taking care of them is someone they admire? Sign me up! I think that’s absolutely adorable.

2. A cold that develops slowly. You get to witness every stages of a cold through the character. The scratchy throat they think is just dehydration. The nagging headache they ignore. The first few sneezes that are probably just from dust or something. As it progresses, the sickie realizes they’re sick, but they can still go about their business without people noticing; they still have about a day where they can hide it, maybe go to the bathroom to blow their noses, down a whole bottle of Dayquil, anything. But there’s always that one perceptive and ultra caring care-taker that puts all the little signs together and forces the sickie to slow down and rest.

Thoughts: I love this trope so much! It’s fine (and has the potential to be great) when a worse illness develops slowly, but colds and flus don’t have very high stakes and I prefer that most of the time. The slow addition of symptoms, the moment of realization and their reaction to it, and especially that perceptive caretaker that notices and jumps into action trying to take care of them (maybe even before the sickie knows themself) are all great.

3. The forehead feel from two people who have just met. I know this one is not for everyone; some people don’t like to be touched, let alone be touched by someone they barely know, but there’s something so endearing to me about two people who are just starting to get to know each other, for example on a first date, and one of them is running a fever but trying to hide it, and the other realizes it, hesitates for a second, then places their hand on the sickie’s forehead without a word. And then of course the delicious “You’re burning up,” or “Thought so,” or “You’re sick, aren’t you?” or “You feel a bit warm, let’s get you home,” or… I could go on forever. There’s just an added warmth for me when the person isn’t super close to the sickie, but cares just as much and is just as concerned as someone who is.

Thoughts: I like this trope a lot, too! Having the caretaker either grow to care for someone so quickly or just be the type to naturally slide into the role regardless of their relationship to the sickie are both wonderful. I usually prefer one of two extremes with this trope: the caretaker is embarrassed or hesitant to check the sickie’s forehead OR the caretaker is so worried or feels so comfortable around new people that they jump wholeheartedly into a caretaking role immediately.

My current favorite tropes:

1. Confessing love while sick and feverish. A sickie that is completely worn down and emotional finally cracking and allowing themselves to be vulnerable to the person taking care of them. I’m a sucker for when the feelings confessed are romantic, and the caretaker responds to a teary confession with sweet comfort and reassurance that they love them back, or a confused and playful “I thought we've already been dating...??”. BUT I also absolutely adore platonic confessions of love to the caretaker, especially if the caretaker was worried that the sickie didn’t really like them much before but after the sickie recovers they become close friends or have a new mutual respect and care for each other. Bonus points if the sickie and/or caretaker cries during this confession, it adds to that good good vulnerability.

2. A sickie trying to keep the people they care about away from them so they don’t get sick, too. I think I like this trope so much because it shows how much the sickie cares for the caretaker despite them being so weak and vulnerable. They may desperately crave the company, affection, or care because they feel so awful, but their deep care for the caretaker still shines through even while they’re out of it. Trying to temporarily shut them out, lie about how they’re feeling, putting on a brave face as a way to protect the caretaker from contagion or worry. The sickie can put up as much fuss and drag out the façade as long as they want, but this trope is only one of my favorites if the caretaker ends up taking care of the sickie at some point. Maybe they knew the whole time the sickie was lying because they know them so well, the sickie slips up and it all clicks into place for the caretaker, or the caretaker accidently stumbles upon the sickie when their walls are down when they think they’re alone or in the clear. Just!! The moment the sickie realizes that the caretaker is going to stay with them!! Temporary intense fear of contagion? Full-on sobbing, filled with a jumble of love for the caretaker, fear of making them miserable if they get sick too, relief that they don’t need to suffer alone anymore? Confused as they wake up from a fitful nap to be filled with a welcomed warmth seeing the caretaking making food in another room or watching tv with their hand on their leg? *chefs kiss* All of it. It’s the sickie allowing themself to be vulnerable and accept help and love after putting up a fight to protect a person or people they care about. Wonderful. 10/10 every time.

3. Reluctant caretaker and/or sickie. There are lots of different types of reluctant caretakers or sickie characters, but I prefer characters that are reluctant because they’re weary of contagion, unsure of how the other person feels about them or the situation, or are bad at expressing their feelings (like someone that pretends to be grumpy and reluctant but secretly eats it up and eventually starts to show their feelings as they get progressively more tired or out of it). I like that this kind of reluctance has the potential to add a little bit of tension? Drama? Possible small misunderstandings? I like when it leans more light-hearted, but it’s a pretty versatile trope and can absolutely lean more angsty or be added to slow-burn stuff. For me it’s about that allowing themselves to be vUlnEraBle with each other and working through whatever is causing the reluctance. Bumps along the road are great, but if the fic doesn’t end with at least the implication that things are going to be okay for the sickie and caretaker I won’t be into it all.

Okay, so I’m still getting my bearings after being on hiatus for quite a while, so I’m not sure who is currently active or not right now. 😭 I’m going to tag @gay-for-the-snz , @mochi0chi0chi , and @dylan-1117 , feel free to respond if this seems fun to you, but absolutely no pressure!

#tag game #sickfic prompts #whump prompts #shelikescoldswrites

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to-and-from-somebody · 3 years ago

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me when gender :O

Hello! We're a audhd, cluster b, UDD system that enjoys gender hoarding!

Some identities will be based around trauma, recovery, meat, blood, and other darker topics, and we will try to tag them all as "gender time got dark! tw tag" this in no way is meant to devalue these identities, but are simply tagged under an umbrella for anyone who wants to avoid these topics! Also, there is a tag for even darker topics (list under the cut), "I can't even see! tw tag", and because this tag is less common, we will likely also add more general tw tags, like "blood tw"

Emoji sign off tags for different headmates:

🌠 - Host, Aether, he/they/it/gold/bite/may/hem/horror/paranormal/rot/meat, masculine/neutral/null terms

🌷 - Co-Host, Emmy, she/her, +floral neos, feminine terms

💌 - He/They/She/Vamp/Bite/Thou/Thine/Thy/Coffin/Mourge/Doll/Vin/Vy, feminine/masculine/neutral terms

☎️ - She/They/Lilac/Lavender, feminine/null terms

🎻 - He/They/Wind/Cloud/Lyre/Play/Soar, masculine/neutral/feminine terms

🐑 - They/He/Blue/Baa/Bell/Tune/Beep/Boop/Ghost/Whim/Voca/Miku, all terms

🎭 - She/Boom/Pow/Blue/Pink/Build, all terms

🌾 - He/They/Sol/Gold, masculine/neutral terms

🪶 - She/He/They/It/Wing/Gold, masc/neutral/fem terms

🟥 - He/It/Rage/Break, null/neutral terms

‼️ - He/They/Pop/Whir/Code/Click/App/101/303/Type/Typo, all terms, masc lean

💬 - He/Dei/Ethereal/Halo, just He is also fine, masculine terms

🎬 - She/They/He/It, feminine/neutral/masculine terms

🌑 - She/Her, all terms

📺 - He/They, neutral/masculine terms

💥 - He/They/It/Blaze/King, masculine/null/neutral terms

🍵 - He/Him, masculine terms

☢️ - He/They, masculine/neutral terms

🥫 - He/Him, masculine/neutral terms

🌈 - It/They/That/Care/He, masculine/null terms

🍬 - It/They/She/Spin, all terms

🎠 - She/They/It, feminine/neutral terms

🎃 - He/It/They, masc/neutral/null terms

🌊 - He/They/It, all terms

🪁 - She/They/Bloom, all terms

🕹️ - They/He/It/Beep, all terms

More to be added, but this is who we know want to participate rn! If you're ever unsure as to who is fronting/how to address us, they/them and neutral terms will work just fine!

If something is a gender/other that fits the darker tags, it will be tagged as both!

Dni, byf, tags, + more info below:

#behold! Our stuff! gender tag - genders

#surprise! bonus stuff! not genders - not genders

#oho! little titles! pronoun tag - pronouns

#gender time got dark! tw tag - darker themes

#i can't even see! tw tag - darkest themes

#ooo! I love these things! fandom tag - fandom related identities

What the tw tag does not cover: liminality, vampires, ghosts, dolls, apocalyptic themes, dystopias, eldritch non horror, more to be added...

What the darker tw tag covers: blood, death, murder, medical stuff, injury, stalking, dead bodies, yandere themes, eldritch horror, bones, general mental illness, dead animals, more to be added...

What the darkest tw tag covers: paranoia, torture, sh, trauma, recovery from other things listed, mouth/eye/gruesome trauma, cannibalism, more to be added...

Nothing from the dark tags are meant to be glorified! They often are from perspectives of horror media or have to do with our intrusive thoughts, or other issues we have.

DNI: Bigots, uncritically engage w/ problematic media, anti m-spec gays/lesbians/straights, cringe/flop accs, participate in cringe/flop/cancel culture, ed/sh blogs, syscourse, terfs, transmeds, map/zoo/supporter, jk rowling supporter, proship, demonize mental disorders/use the term 'narc abuse', idk I'll add more later I forgot

BYF:

- We are very largely inclusive (I forgot the official term), and support all good faith identities, conflicting identities, etc., and wish all no contact paraphiles a great day

- We are also anarcho-communist

- We do not believe in judging an introject or system for their source(s)

- yo mistah white I'll finish this later bitch

If you want a new topic to be added to darker tags, send an ask/dm, and we'll include from then on, but will not retag older reblogs!

If you wish to reach us about anything (or maybe even be friends who knows) our main blog is @the-dumb-smart-friend

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xxxdragonfucker69xxx · 4 years ago

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@lyhoradka tagged me in that post about five bits of text from written media that are burned into your brain and, kindly, gave me a theme of places. i am going to annotate this because i am a bitch

1. holy places are dark places. the wisdom that we get in them is not thin and clear like water but thick and dark like blood. - cs lewis, till we have faces

im almost certain ive misremembered this one but its better this way. clive what the devil fuck were you trying to say with till we have faces. burn it down and start over with this. i have a sidenote about hope faith and love but thats beyond the scope of this discussion

2. night falls. the workers put down their tools and point to the sky. “there is the blueprint,” they say. invisible cities, italo calvino

again idr if its sky or stars. this is the description of thecla from invisible cities, kindly appointed to me by my good friend venus. this is not the strongest one but it is a strong one and its for Me and i remember it. inna thought i was going to make this whole post about haunted houses and this one is completely the opposite; i’ll consider it aspirational

3. walk to the east till you can walk no more. swim east until you pass the sunrise; swim east until you pass the stars; swim east until you come to the edge of the sky. there you will find yourself on the shores of a different land. even in that place, they shall know your name, and mine. - adel, kc danine/unlikely flowerings, jenna moran

sorry i cheated on this one bc i looked up the attribution and found my memory was wrong. but i cut it up to match what i thought. this one is actually a combo with

3a. the sea will be the color night behind glass. then, slowly, it becomes green: first rain-wet slate, then darkest jade. green as fresh emeralds. green as remembered rivers - the sun beneath the sea, sunless seas

again ive hashed the first part of that but green as remembered rivers lives in my head rent free. these two live under the heading “an exile in the uttermost east”

4. THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR. NO HIGHLY VALUED DEED IS REMEMBERED HERE. NOTHING OF VALUE IS STORED HERE.

the warning continues of course but the basis is here. the idea that we cannot produce something so horrifying and terrifying that it does not also fascinate us, as you might guess, fascinates me. nightmare and obsession are such close brothers

5. a woman drew her hair out tight/and fiddled in the violet light/and upside down in air were towers/tolling reminiscent bells that kept the hours/and voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.

in my head sean bean reads these lines in his civ vi voice. why did so much weird fiction pattern weird bits of worldbuilding after this bit. not that i am immune. voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhauuusted wells

BONUS CONTENT

so many things i wanted to add that werent written or that i didnt have memorized perfectly enough

1i. the, like, entire first half of to tundra by los camp, which i will reproduce below

meet me at st nicholas among the oaks behind the church that sway like pigtailed girls as summer wind whistles around your bare-shin knees and the forsythia leaves in the shade lay with me tickled by the feather reeds thats where the trees grow old under the ivys hold as you in my two arms equally safe from harm and in a hazy daydream our bodies married the stream and we broke down into pebbles and silt the water ran from the fields until the oceans we filled and found the seabed the comfiest quilt

there was more life in the weeds than in the few hundred seats that rose from transept to chancel to nave [...]

2i. prim leaves her father’s house. i won’t reproduce the whole story here but there’s a girl prim and her father is the god hansa and they live in a house of iron nails and one day her dad is killed and she has to go bury him and takes nothing but his corpse and a single iron nail. and she traipses all across creation and the void looking for somewhere to bury him but every time she tries his corpse shouts at her for being shit at it. and eventually she collapses, and drops the nail and it springs right up into the same exact house, and she imagines crawling in there with her fathers corpse to die next to him and freaks out and then

A pale face came before her and she was abruptly struck from her despair as though by a great hammer. A beautiful stranger had appeared, mild and tall, of milky flesh, spare in figure, but radiant in voice and visage. "I know you," said the stranger in a small voice, "you are Prim."

"I was Hansa's orphan, the slave, Prim," croaked Prim in response, "and now I am nobody, just a small dirty thing in great emptiness and here I will die."

"No," said the stranger, and the clarity and firmness of her voice and smile send a shock through Prim, "you are Prim, and Prim only, and Prim you shall be." And Prim there realized her tears had made a great pool and she was greeting her own reflection. And she fell into that murky pool and straight away it turned clear as crystal and Prim vomited forth a great black knot from very deep within her, and her body was scoured and lashed by the icy waters of that pool, and great draughts of poisonous filth and despondency were drawn in rushing gasps from her wounds, and her skin was sealed and her soiled trappings were purged and the caked illness and death was ripped away and she rose from that pool fresh and humming. Her back straightened and she scarcely thought on her father's corpse or the faintest echo of that iron house. That is how Prim left her father's house.

so basically abaddon scooped all of tsiy and every other haunted house writer in like five thousand words

3i. berenike

From my words you will have reached the conclusion that the real Berenice is a temporal succession of different cities, alternately just and unjust. But what I wanted to warn you about is something else: all the future Berenices are already present in this instant, wrapped one within the other, confined, crammed, inextricable.

4i. a ghost does not come to stand in the dark doorway of your room because it is an 18th century orphan girl named annie. a ghost comes to stand in the doorway of your room because the doorway is where things come to stand. - i am in eskew, david ward

the formats all fucked up now huh. this has influenced my thoughts on both psychogeo and necromancy. what a fucking guy. theres also the pope lick bridge one but

5i. i hope you will forgive me for including a bit from tsiy

I opened my eyes. I was kneeling at the base of a tree, at the top of a grassy hill, under starry night. Dad was standing a little ways back, head craned back to look at the tree. "What is this place to you?" he asked, looking around. The island came to an abrupt stop at the edges; it wasn't a floating island in space or anything, there just.....wasn't anything beyond the edge of it. Like looking past the edge of your own eyesight -- not the blackness of eyelids, but the colorless place beyond.

"I'll die here someday," I said, and meant it.

i really need to work on getting places and haunted places into the new draft. im slacking. but im also not allowed to go back and change anything rn or ill just never get anywhere

#visible cities #also sprach #christ this took a million years

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cobwebsandcathair · 5 years ago

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This or That: Fanfiction Edition

tagged by @omnishambolichologram - cheers!

I felt the need to link to a few of my absolute most favourite fics from various fandoms so ... that’s a thing that happened.

Slow burn or love at first sight: The burn makes the payoff that much greater, the slower the better. I want to be in physical pain by the time they kiss 100k words later.

Fake dating or secretly dating: I’ve recently read a couple of really good fake dating fics but I probably liked them so much because the fake dating turned into secretly dating. And apparently I have a thing for coming out scenes and/or others finding out.

“Oh no, there’s only one bed” or long distance correspondence: I mean, come on. Bonus points if they wake up accidentally cuddling and/or the whole thing was a setup by their friends to push them together. Long distance isn’t much fun, unless it’s a small part of something much longer.

Hurt/comfort or amnesia: Has to make up at least 90% of the stuff I read, probably because I’m drawn to cursed/disabled/mentally ill/fucked up characters in the first place. --The Golden Bird by pierrot_dreams, original, E (very, very E), currently 170k - take those tags seriously, because I guarantee you WILL be triggered

Enemies to lovers or best friends to lovers: Again, I’ve read some excellent ETL fics lately but the ‘enemy’ part is always based on miscommunication (hello my beloved #stupidboys tag). I don’t do actual enemies (fuck off Drarry). Give me more of that slow-burn, childhood-best-friends, one-sided-pining plzkthx. --And they were right in front of you the whole time by Ihavecoldhands, Evak, T, 18k

Mutual pining or domestic bliss: I feel kind of cheated if a fic ends without a bit of domestic bliss, but I rarely read things that are entirely that. Mutual pining, particularly when it’s third-person limited and the pining is clearly mutual but the narrator misinterprets it or thinks they’re imagining it.

Smut or fluff: If I read a smutty one-shot there’s a very high likelihood that fluff is also in the tags. I like smut as much as the next guy but if there’s no feelings involved then I’m just not interested. N’awws before phwoars. --Mondays at Sixteen by @folerdetdufoler, Evak, E, 163k - copious amounts of both smut AND fluff, what more could you want

Fantasy AU or modern AU: I’m super picky about fantasy and sci-fi in general because worldbuilding is of vital importance and it’s too often poorly done. I’m also not really a fan of real-world magic or supernatural elements in a fic if they’re not part of the canon (including Hogwarts AUs). Modern AUs are a pretty safe bet and some of them are AMAZING. --There Are No Gays in Football by Malu_3 (Grainne), Merthur, E, 213K --Keep the Key Within Reach by SpiritsFlame, Mercy, E, 62k --If You Look to Your Left, You Will See by unoriginal_liz, Thommy, E, 144k

Alternate universe or future fic: Future fic meaning a continuation of canon, or future as in set in the 24th-and-a-halfth Thentury? Either way, I’d pick AU. Especially when canon makes all AUs technically canon also (thank you Julie Andem).

Canon compliant/missing scenes or fix-it: I have TWO absolute-most-favourite fics to add here, one of each, so I can’t really choose between them. --Trauma Medicine by Kispexi2, Mal/Simon, E, 168k - missing scenes; very possibly the best fanfic I’ve ever read in my life --Grow In The Openings by mindabbles, Wolfstar, E, 33k - because the only acceptable post-Marauders Era fic is a fix-it fic

Reincarnation or character death: Not really a fan of either but FUCK character death. No. Just no. Unless that character happens to be a canonically-dead hologram, or a canonically-dead wizard who is then brought back to life.

One-shot or multi-chapter: I’ll go for either but the longer the better. 450k slow burn angst with a happy ending? Yes hello that is my name.

Time travel or isolated together: I’m up for both but the only example I can think of is that Hornblower epic in which Archie didn’t die but he and Horatio were beamed up to the Enterprise, Beverly saved his life, they hung out with Riker and Troi and then Picard married them. (In the unlikely event someone knows this fic, LINK PLEASE.)

High school romance or middle-aged romance: Some of my absolute favourite fics are the latter, but given that my two most beloved ships mostly take place in high school, I have to say the former. --In Case The Scene Gets Nasty by zarah5, Brendon Urie/Ryan Ross, E, 90k - I know people are squicky about RPF, and rightfully so, but this is hella AU and I shamelessly adore it

Arranged marriage or accidental marriage: Not a big fan of either, but the old What Happens In Vegas trope can be entertaining.

Sci-fi AU or magic AU: Really not into either; see above. HOWEVER, this is a good excuse to link to another favourite with supernatural elements which put me off reading it for ages, but god I’m glad I did. --Burning For Your Touch by cuteandtwisted, Evak, M, 257k

Neighbours or roommates: Both have potential for shenanigans and different forms of tension.

Body swap or gender-bend: I have fond memories of a few Wolfstar body swap fics back in the early 00s (and of course, Rimmer and Lister). I’m all for gender-bending if canonically cis characters are written as trans or non-binary.

Angst or crack: Never really got into crack, although there has been the odd one I’ve liked. I prefer to have my heart ripped out, shredded into tiny pieces and slowly put back together again.

Apocalyptic or mundane: Mundanity tends to make the stakes internal rather than external, with more potential for angst and whump, and that’s basically where I live. But if we’re talking post-apocalyptic, then I have to recommend: --Stars Fell On Alabama by saddle_tramp, original, E, 104K

I don’t know who to tag. If you’ve read this far, consider yourself tagged.

#tagged #fanfic #evak #wolfstar #merthur #mal/simon #horatio/archie #bandom #mercy #thommy #i put way more effort into this than required

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