#like an etchasketch

[sophieswundergarten]

I really want to see Curtain and S. Q. incorporated into the Benedict household, but, like, in that kind of way that would happen if your weird uncle that you hardly ever see moved in.

He just shows up with all of his suitcases and conscripts Rhonda to help him carry them into the first bedroom he can find situated farthest from the main house. He rarely comes out, and if anyone knocks he will not answer until they have opened the door, at which point he will become very annoyed and ask what they want in an irate tone. One day (an indeterminate amount of time after he moves himself in) Kate drops down into his room via the air vent and S. Q. is just. There.

Kate, being Kate, just waves at him and then turns to ask Curtain her question (if he'll teach her how to do magic tricks). Curtain shoos her out immediately, avoiding comment on whether or not he knows magic, and she goes, passing Reynie in the hall.

"Oh hey, when did S. Q. move in?"

And Reynie's like "S. Q.??? What do you mean he's 'moved in'?? Since when???"

Kate shrugs "I don't know, that's why I was asking you. Anyways, do you know where Constance has been keeping the glitter?"

Reynie directs her to the appropriate place (a stash in the hallway linen cupboard, one in the bottom left section of the spice rack, and under Constance's bed), and runs off to find Mr. Benedict.

Now. You must understand, that for the purpose of this wildly contrived scenario, the kids all forgot to mention that S. Q. is legally Curtain's son. They barely even said his name, partly because Reynie felt so terrible about their whole relationship, and partly because there were so many things going on. So, when Reynie gets to Mr. Benedict's study, he's like "Mr. Benedict, why didn't you tell us S. Q. is living here too?"

Mr. Benedict: "S. Q.? Isn't that the boy from the Institute? What do you mean he's living here? Of course, he's welcome, but I would like to know why, before taking any more children into my home."

Reynie: "I don't know, Kate just passed me in the hall and said he's living here now. I think he's in Dr. Curtain's room."

This makes Mr. Benedict even more confused and a little bit worried, since he knows how little Curtain likes children in general, and hurries to his room.

Mr. Benedict, knocking: "Nathaniel, the children seem to think you have brought a child from the Institute with you. Could you please open the door so we can talk about this?"

Curtain, as Mr. Benedict is the only one he'll open the door for: "Of course I brought S. Q., he's my son. What about it?"

Mr. Benedict, clutching onto the doorframe with all his might and striving to stay in a standing position: "Oh, your son?"

Curtain: "Hm, yes. S. Q., come here, meet your uncle."

Mr. Benedict is on the floor before the poor boy even crossed the room.

Curtain, staring dispassionately down at his brother: Oh, drat. I guess we'll have to wait for him to wake up. [looks over at S. Q.] I hope you know you've made him very happy. Now lets see if he can stay awake through a proper introduction."

When Mr. Benedict wakes up, he is completely overjoyed and just vibrating on the spot about the whole situation and S. Q. kind of. Awkwardly smiles at him? And Mr. Benedict's down again.

Curtain, sighing and this time just nudging him with a shoe: "Honestly, S. Q., why did you do that? I mean, I know you can't help it, but could you, I don't know, maybe try not looking at him? If this keeps happening I'm never going to get anything done."

This time, when Mr. Benedict gets up, he takes a couple of slow, deep breaths and smiles at S. Q. as calmly as he can.

Mr. Benedict: "I'm sorry about that, my dear boy, I am just terribly excited to meet you. Would you be alright if I hugged you?"

And, of course, S. Q. says yes very shyly, and then Curtain has to catch him when Mr. Benedict nearly falls asleep again.

[icedhotcocoa]

the mercs discover the true meaning of christmas: BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF EACH OTHER!!!

details under the cut

[flockofteeth]

having a terrible short term memory really adds a special something to eating knock off jelly bellies where some taste okay and some taste truly terrible. 50 first bites

[opportunity-strikes]

truly wild to me that i can be part of a friend group for almost a year and my brain still says ‘they are friends of your friend’ instead of ‘they are your friends’

like hey excuse me?? whats going on up there you little pink fuck?

[uldahstreetrat]

a non comprehensive list of lore details about Anais cause im tipsy

she is an unsundered ancient but not an ascian

prior to the sundering she held the seat of Deudalaphon as a member of the Convocation of Fourteen

Hermes was her kinda-sorta-boyfriend ?? - there was a lot of mutual pining but nothing had the chance to really happen

her memory is fucked, in part due to what happened during EW in Ktisis Hyperboreia

she helped Venat bring about the sundering but to what degree she's never been certain, the sundering took her already messed up memory and shook it like an etchasketch

towards the end of the Allagan Empire she was the leader of a cell of rebels fighting against the Empire - this was really the final time prior to MSQ that she was actively fighting against ascian plots

during 1.0 she was running around with our 1.0 wol, Kerrich, and a young doman white mage named Rei - at this time Anais was possessing the dead body of an elezen woman who had been her friend about 100 years prior

from ARR through post ShB Anais is possessing Rei's dead body - who passed in Dalamud's fall, this was mostly out of grief and an unwillingness to let her kindness disappear from the world entirely

she gets her own non possessed living body during post ShB, they were able to make this for her using some tech confiscated from Garlean outposts in Ala Mhigo

currently she is boning Gaius Baelsar

[gakupo7]

Calm down Woody, we're your friends... Shut up Buzz, I'll kill you. Sorry, Pal, but can't we make amends? Shut up, Slink, I'm gonna kill you. Why can't we just talk it out? ...Not this time Bo. Woody Oh Woody, where have you been ? Too late Andy, In killing you slow. What if I was lost forever? I was Sid's to keep. He prod me and kicked me and googoo and stitched me. Turned me into a freak. I'll be downright angry! Where was Andy? You left me to die in a diaaatch. Where was Mr. Potato Head Slinky and Rex, EtchaSketch and Bo Beep, what a witch! Think I'm gonna be crazy

Alone in the dark

Sid's favorite plaything he pulls me apart. Puts me back together again with some twine like a monster... A sheriff cowboy Frankenstein I remember the days, we stay up and play. You bumble and trade as you left me astray. But now Woody is loose I've got one thing to say... I'm coming for you and you're all gonna pay.

(bowing and everyone cheers and clapping) thank you. Thanykyou... I remembered this from memory. Yup, I'm so smart, I know. For having listened to it 1 million times

(All the hateful comments from EvilWoody not directed to my dear friend, Real guy named Andy)

[dazespritefairy]

I drew a new Splatoon 3 card for this month. Happy Pride. (My hand hurts this was like trying to draw on a really cramped EtchaSketch)

[apoorconductor]

Waiting for the indie horror game that uses any form of technology other than VHS tapes to tell its story

No this isn't a diss on Amanda the Adventurer lmao, it's just a thought I had

Flash drives? Film rolls and projectors? Punch cards maybe? A Morse transceiver for the dead spirit to send electrical impulses through? Hell, an EtchaSketch?

I like the idea of a ghost's voice lingering in the quiet timeslots of the radio waves, shifting frequencies every few nights to make sure Zeus's harpies can't catch em

[system-processing-12]

Shaking my brain like an etchasketch to get rid of bad thoughts ™️.

Also doing it to switch who's fronting👌.

Ngl we have two tics that are this. One is snapping neck fast enough to the side to cause whiplash. The other is jutting our chin up like we're defying a nobleman. Sometimes we get stuck in that position tho.

[amazingetchman]

What did you think of the season finale of The LAST OF US. Do you save humanity or someone you love? Why isn’t it the choice of the person who is asked to make the sacrifice of her life for the cause? Like and follow to see my The Last Of Us On Etch A Sketch series. #amazingetchman #etchasketch #spinmaster #pedropascal #joel #ellie @bellaramsey @ashleythejohnson @pascalispunk @hbomax @hbo @hbomaxmade @clmazin @druckmann @spinmaster @spinmastergames @mightymojotoys #spinmaster #videogames #playstation #worldsfastest #etchuproductions #getetched (at Hollywood, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp0irCiP7By/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[leopoldainter]

Would you use an etchasketch if it only worked tin the sun?

So start off with

Something like

Hey hello

Hi people I've lost

My contact it is

See through and

If you have word on your phone use size 12 font they are about yay big in that Times New Roman

You heard that's a panic

Atip the check checks next reel seizes blue checkmark fields inhajcent these daise

Because bla bla bla its not impossible to smoke meth just somewhere closer to crkwsrts violdngcr est gone my empty cup I brought

Sometimes when yheze things happen... well ti. Hortons are the red partycup great after glow but right Way am definitely punching our own face mostly my own bad

Of

May2 all try sats without seminar

I'm so sorry but that's simply not how it's done

You get your basic round floor fan and just talk into it. That's effect. I don't know what the hell that was. We Are Sided With Alex Jones Getawatru k shoe left alone

After our school we do desk chores in gee bee it's all one ward.

Worse is when at forevermore even marges sees frame score come flip a night cap.

Masterpiece web8nar!

It's not her hands she's wondering song stay it's clubmed. Sounds for youth twice as nice.

There's a dance to make easy to forget they said that's Hitler

So managentrf reast.fully a sly

Effective lips tipping for american indoor windless fire keeper elephant trunk in for the win

Smile it issues it's scud compass

-lovely kitty clause

She's struggling to speak because herskull eas separated without by knight. Simple we all have one

No it's fair. The corpus collusion technified in group was cut forcing imediat terrior fail boston terrier looks like a puppy to me.

Will she ever remember my name

I don't know that

Now do the chickendance

DRUMLIMEAIDEdendum.pocketbook.

Heck ya I was hoping for an anthropologist. Have you been drinking

Yes I have

Come with me

M.Baily, naziRezident..

Thensome scenes with dresses jackets on an outside stair

Chance to recorder with beachsands extra tempo elevator send trick baby doctors knowbout.

What made you think the button would put a fire out.

Call then with anyold phone.

None of mine are yours.

Because

Lady your quite

Please hold fore demand

That went well alright. The end.

See he acts like it's a business pitch but he's park by the wrong side of the sidewalk. Is there a manager or is the matinee of the essay guess station I know you are but what am I which is the most tedious part of the entire series I was hoping for a structured "knows best" go to ykno

Nope I saw arrested development take out a chaperone with Cia training or great Dane just

No

Dancing

That is easy

[inkedintothepaper]

If I shake my phone it will undo my text like an etchasketch

[icedhotcocoa]

@ssawboness (gets down on one knee) anything for a mutual

[pokkiheart]

Just wanna be shaken like an etchasketch until I can make new thoughts. Is that anything.

[nny11writes]

WiP Wednesdays - Oh How the Fics Change!

So sometimes I write a fic or outline, then shake my brain like an etchasketch and completely redo it from basically the ground up. The first offering in my soon to be created “Self Indulgent Shit” collection is the HtQY Vampire AU fic. It’s will be SIS because I am real doubtful anyone is interested based on reactions to hints.

Too bad, y’all get to suffer it further!

Here’s my favorite quotes from the original outline that I’m no longer using for WiP Wednesday. Doing this in part to share but in part to remind folks that writing is super funny and not always the forward progress we think it will be. This may not add to a final word count but it was critical to getting there :)

See turns out the Horde is something of a Vampire pyramid scheme.

Catra kills Weaver, Hordak kills Prime, everyone waits to see which of them will kill the other first (spoiler: Entrapta says nope)

Scorpia goes with Catra (and so do her hands)

Glimmer is exhausted and her brain basically takes this all in and goes “We’ll panic later okay?” And she agrees to the terms.

“Undead perks ‘n all.”

Good news, Glimmer has passed her bisexual check today!

This whole fucking section:

Melog is a demon summoned into the world by some seancers who didn’t know wtf they were doing let alone how to send them back. They took the form of a horse since humans were hard but horses less so. They eventually feel a pull of power and think it’s a portal. It’s not, it’s a vampire who they really like. Catra doesn’t realize for a long ass time why her horse was so cheap or so fucking weird, but one night Melog gets tired of her being a dummy (in their humble opinion) and they transform into a demon horse with flames for hair, a deep red glowing hide, and even some demonic scrawl to be a lil shit. Catra finally gets the hint and Melog starts chatting with her.

“You could talk…this whole time!?”

“Yes.”

“.......and you just let me buy you and said nothing while I treated you like a horse!?!?”

(Proudly) “Yes! I am a horse.”

“YOU ARE A DEMON FROM HELL!”

“Yes. And now I am a horse!”

[ellakindtwritingprompts]

Splurchase: Etch-a-sketch

Description

Functionality: not very functional realistically, for entertainment essentially, but can be used to create drawings

Brand image/appeal: there's really only one brand of etchasketch so it is on brand, they are very well known and many people had them as children, so it feels very nostalgic.

Packaging/color scheme: The thing itself is bright red, and so is the packing it is in, with some added yellow for contrast. It is in a plastic package with cardboard baking like many things are. The bright colors make it very appealing and make it clear it is for entertainment, and is not very serious.

Surrounding

Comparative stance from other products: it was set apart from the other toys and games in the board game section of target, on an end shelf of its own. It stuck out a lot and they did a good job making sure it was extremely visible with placement and colors.

Signs: the only thing on the display box was the logo, and the price, very small.

Accessibility 1: Target, it is in a plaza about 6 minutes from my house very conveniently located with a Taco Bell, Home Depot, micheals, and five below in the same plaza.

Accessibility 2: near the games and toys, in a convenient place where everyone would see it at the end of an isle.

Preferences

Favorite stores: my favorite stores include target and micheals, or at least my most frequented stores.

Time spent shopping: I spend maybe an hour or two shopping every week for various things.

Etsy vs amazon: Etsy defiantly, I try not to buy from amazon because of the generally low quality of items and how they treat workers, Etsy may be more expensive but is worth it for the handmade aspect.

Splurge vs. thrift: I usually end up spending more money on new items, since thrifting takes much longer and is harder to find exactly what you need.

Time spent in store: I like to spend maybe half an hour in a store, more than that feels like a waste of time and less feels like I didn't see everything they had to offer.

Upbringing: I was raised in the suburbs close to the city.