#lux-pain edits

[jisuto]

[neoflames]

You guys ever think about your OCs parents a lot or is it just me. Anyways !!! Lux and Amber’s mom Eladora. Wearing a shirt that says ‘I ❤️ women who kill their abusive husbands’. You go girl Eddie deserved all of that shit !

[greatpoetryfun]

I’m dying

I just got a better idea for my next fic chapter and now I have to rewrite half of it lolololol fuck me

[stxr-bxy]

Getting into the goth subculture

ok just to clarify, nobody asked for this but i’m making it anyway

here are some great influences for the goth music subcultures

i’ve been hyperfixated on pretty much every one except metal and grunge at one point or another so i think i’m pretty qualified to make this statement.

also some of these artists are problematic so please do your research before you promote them! also i don’t support any of their actions, they just have good music that’s very influential to the scene.

anyways…let’s get started

- siouxsie and the banshees are a really great band to start out and they’re one of the most popular goth bands. they have about 12 albums and 2 compilations. they had many members at different times but notable members are siouxsie sioux (lead vocals), jon klein (guitar), steven severin (bass + keyboards), budgie (drums), and martin mccarrick (keyboard + strings)

- another great goth band is bauhaus, they are one of the pioneers of gothic rock and are often credited with making the first goth song. they have five studio albums. members include daniel ash (guitars + saxophone + lead vocals + backing vocals), peter murphy (lead vocals + backing vocals + guitar + keyboards + melodica + congas), kevin haskins (drums + keyboards + piano + backing vocals), and david j (bass + keyboards + percussion + lead vocals + backing vocals).

- another great band to start off with is the cramps (i recommend their album psychedelic jungle). many people think of the cramps as more psychobilly or punk-ish but they are also considered gothabilly and have gothic elements. they have at least 8 (i’m not sure) studio albums, 2 EPs, 2 live albums, and 4 compilations. members include, Lux interior (lead vocals + harmonica + percussion), Poison Ivy (lead guitar + rhythm guitar + bass), Slim Chance (bass), and Nick Knox (drums + percussion)

in order for a band to be goth they must play either gothic rock, post-punk, ethereal wave, cold wave, dark wave, death rock, visual kei, gothic pop, gothic metal, gothic symphonic metal or another gothic subgenre.

some more goth bands include…

- the cure (post-punk)

- sisters of mercy

- christian death (death rock)

- she wants revenge (gothic rock)

- alien sex fiend

- sex gang children

- lebanon hanover

- type o negative (gothic metal)

- o.children

- joy division

- london after midnight

- bat nouveau

- horror vacui

- the danse society

- strawberry switchblade (gothic pop/synth pop)

- depeche mode

- cocteau twins

- switchblade symphony

- fields of the nephilium

- twin tribes

- the march violets

- xmal deutschland

- clan of xymox

- pink turns blue

- rosetta stone

- plastique noir

- mephisto walz

- corpus delicti

- 13th chime

- specimen

- skeletal family

- molchat doma

- drab majesty

- altar de fey

- inkubus sukkubus

- strawberry switchblade

- the birthday massacre

- killing joke

- this cold night

- japan

- the birthday party

- paralysed age

- the scary bitches

- scarlet’s remains

- mareux

- she past away

- bloody dead and sexy

- rose garden funeral party

- mephisto walz

- this cold night

- cold cave

and more!

edit: just a note. you do not need to dress goth to be goth. goth fashion is optional. if you choose to dress goth but don’t listen to goth music you are just alt. the only way to be goth is to agree with the beliefs behind it and listen to the music (you can also listen to other genres in addition to goth).

some beliefs of the gothic/alt community are:

- there is beauty in darkness, pain/sadness, and the macabre

- rejection of conservatism

- rejection of conformity

- anti-war

- anti-racist

- anti-fascist

- anti-authoritarian

- pro-LGBTQ

- pro-choice

- anti-capitalism

- and other leftist or anarchistic beliefs

also…

if you agree with the beliefs but nothing else you are just a leftist/anarchist

if you listen to the music or dress goth but don’t agree with the beliefs you’re not alt and/or you are considered a “poser”. right-wingers cannot be alt because they contradict eachother.

if you listen to goth music you are goth

if you agree with everything you are goth

[consumeroflemoans]

An Incessant Curiosity

Liam x William

Ikemen Villains

1.1k words

Warning for suggestive content, quite a lot of choking, almost but not quite self harm, and like half the fic being a description of a downward mental spiral

Apologies in advance for anything out of character. I haven’t played through William’s route yet and don’t have the best grasp on his character. Also I sped wrote this in three hours and did not edit it at all ✨

@rou-luxe this is all your fault /pos

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The first time it happened was an accident. A fluke. In the midst of a mission a fit took ahold. He leaned closer into the barrel of a gun, pleading with those gleaming eyes for his enemy to take a shot. That was until his attacker was abruptly shoved aside.

A pale hand hooked into his collar and dragged him forward, physically stealing his breath away. A cool voice had murmured, “Stay.” in such a firm tone, he was forced to obey. The rest of the fight after that was a blur. Sure, he’d been under the influence of William’s power before, but something that time felt different.

He couldn’t let it go.

One hand aimlessly traced the curvature of the pristine wood making the table he sat at, his head resting on the on the hard surface. Voices spoke clearly around him, but his mind wavered too much to capture any of them. He was curious. Far too curious. It’s almost like he’s cursed with it, ha. He mentally laughed at the thought, but only a sigh spilled from his lips.

If only he could recall the memory clearer, then he would have his answer. It was over in hardly a second, far too soon for his mind to register. His hand abandoned the wood to rest against the collar innocently wrapped around his neck. That choking feeling. He’d never felt anything like it before. A finger slipped into the loop, ready to tug, but he forced it away. No. There were far too many around. They would stop him before he could sate that growing curiosity.

His free hand dug into his thigh, the sudden pain distracting his drifting mind. It would have to do.

“Liam.” That clear, cool voice spoke again. His eyes snapped up, meeting the blood red ones towards the head of the table.

A small, knowing smile stretched across that hauntingly beautiful face. Wait- beautiful? “Are you with us now?” That voice spoke once more, now with a charming tease built into it.

Liam blinked as if he had just woken up. His mind was swimming with far more questions than answers. “Yeah, I’m listening. What’s going on this time?” He asked, an easy smile sliding back on his face.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Liam stared blankly at the ceiling, the darkness creating odd distortions in his vision. Curiosity itched at the back of his mind once more. What would it feel like to be choked again? What if he was tugged around once more by that collar? What time even was it? What if William used his power on him in a different context? Why was he so fascinated by William in particular?

He could at least answer one of those questions.

Liam’s head swiveled to the side until his eyes met the small digital clock resting at his bedside. The numbers glowed a soft red. 2:33 am. He lingered in that position, staring at the clock until the 3 flicked to a 4.

A sigh dragged from his throat as he turned back to the ceiling. Red. Like William’s eyes. Dragging him in, taunting him, goading him to learn more before abruptly stopping him with a single command.

Liam grit his teeth and swung his legs out of bed. He couldn’t stay like this any longer. He had to do something. Something stupid. Something reckless. Anything to get his mind off the curiosity gripping him to his bones.

A finger absentmindedly drifted to his collar, tugging on it as he swept out of his room. The pressure on his throat felt good. It felt new. But William had done it harder. It’s not enough.

His finger hooked into the loop in the center and he swiftly spun the collar so that the metal bit rested on the back of his neck. He tugged once more, hard, and reflexively gagged at the sudden pressure on his throat. Better. But still not enough.

Digging his fingernails into the palm of his hand he took a breath, readying himself to tug again. He yanked with all his strength only for a cool hand to stop all his movements in one place.

“I knew something was up.” A low voice murmured in Liam’s ear. William guided his hand down, his chest lightly pressing against Liam’s back.

And Liam let him.

He was curious about this too, after all.

He was gently spun, those beautiful eyes boring into his own as if he could drag out all of his secrets one by one.

“I know you typically indulge your curiosities with Alfons.” The hand holding Liam’s intertwined their fingers. “But I’m sure this one I can satisfy.” That deep voice lowering into a playful purr.

A shiver shot up Liam’s spine and he could only nod in response. How was he even supposed to react to a blatant flirtatious act? Especially when he couldn’t for the life of him figure out what William wanted? He had to know.

He was swept away to William’s room, his heart pounding rather incessantly despite this not being new for either of them. He’d been in his room plenty of times before. This wasn’t different. It couldn’t be different.

“Now.” That voice spoke once they were safely trapped inside. One pale hand slowly turned the lock and the sound reverberated through Liam’s skull. “What is it you’re curious about?”

The question was innocent enough, but Liam was sure he knew. He had to. Otherwise…

“Why are you asking if you already know?” He dared to look at those red eyes, his hand twitching in William’s hold as it attempted to do something- anything.

“Perhaps I want to hear you say it for myself.” Came the infuriating response. Lips curled into a playful grin as the other man stepped closer.

Liam licked his lips, his throat dry. It was all so much and yet he craved more. It was new. It was fascinating.

“I want you to grab me like that again.” The words spilled out so fast, that William had the gall to blink in surprise. “And choke me.” He admitted the second part in a smaller voice, embarrassed by the request.

Liam could feel the chuckle against his chest as William stepped forward, pressing their bodies together. His finger hooked into Liam’s collar just like it had before, tugging him closer so he could feel the leather digging deliciously into his skin.

“Don’t worry precious little kitty, just say the word and I’ll indulge any of your curiosities.” The temptatious whisper echoed through Liam’s bones, encouraging him to tilt his head up just enough to brush their lips.

He could explore emotions or reasoning later. He would no doubt have quite a lot to unpack when it comes to how William makes it feel.

But now, as their mouths finally slot together in a heated passion, his mind wandered once more. How did William’s hand feel here? His mouth there? What could he do with his teeth? Or even his…

Lucky for Liam, William would be right there to satisfy every passing curiosity that drifted through his mind.

[dwreader]

interior design insp/references dubai edition

Just like with Louis's wardrobe in Dubai I feel like there's a lot of misconception about the design of the penthouse and what it's meant to represent. First of all, dark modern was and still is super popular design style amongst the wealthy!! It's a very popular way to style large open spaces (like a penthouse apartment). Light and airy designs are usually intended to reflect more natural light to make your rooms look bigger but when you already have a MASSIVE space that's kind of unnecessary. Also it doesn't need to be said that these are vampires so enhancing natural light with bright wall colors/furniture is utterly irrelevant and quite frankly counterproductive to them. You would rarely see a very dark design in a tiny apartment though, that's why its popular mainly among the super wealthy in their mega penthouses or modernist mansions.

Black furniture also screams lux because it's a PAIN in the ass to maintain like lint, dust, grime, etc gets everywhere constantly so by purchasing black furniture you're pretty much announcing to your guests that you have a maid who cleans for you cause your rich ass sure as hell isn't dusting that shit every day.

While the overall aesthetic of Dubai I would say is highly modern, there are interesting touches that suggest a couple that has collected items through time. In the first screenshot, you see Daniel and Louis sitting in the ultra modern living space while Armand is off to the side at his very mid-century chair, a very early hint that he's maybe from a different time.

Looking at this shot, you can see as many as 4 different design styles in a single frame. The table is clearly ornate traditional, the chair (which looks like rattan or bamboo) is more mid-century/boho and the japanese garden, and finally a little pink modern organic henri dejeant lamp. It's such a perfect representation of how long Loumand have been alive and together cause its normal for couples to accumulate different pieces over the course of their lives together and try to fit them in even though they don't exactly match the current designs. But this is what happens when you've been together for 75 years!

It's also interesting to see how the design choices of the penthouse evolved because an earlier visualization had a green mario bellini couch instead of a dark grey/black. The bellini couch was a 70's design that made a huge comeback in the last couple years, which is like the WHOLE 2nd interview like someone from the 70s who has entered the picture again after a long absence. However, I bet they probably pulled back on the bellini couch cause it was becoming overdone although it is still mega expensive (comes in at around $20k) but it's kind of become one of those ughh not that shit again kind of item.

[literary-illuminati]

Book Review 44 – The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal

Alright, first full novel I’ve read entirely due to it getting a Hugo nomination. In retrospect that fact that there was absolutely no wait list for it at the library was perhaps a sign I should have paid attention to. I’m not sure it’s a bad book, exactly, but my god is it just chock full of little things that grated on me (which more or less tracks with my very vague memories of casually perusing The Calculating Stars when it first came out, so probably just a sign Kowal’s not for me, really.)

The story’s set in a fairly grounded space age future, on an ultra-lux cruise liner taking its passengers from Earth to Mars in speed and style. Tesla Crane, heiress, celebrity, and generally incredibly famous and unfathomably wealthy, has booked one of the nicest suites in the earth-gravity section of the ship under a false name to enjoy some anonymity on her much anticipated honeymoon cruise. Things of course take a drastic turn as a woman is murdered outside their sweet, and her spouse is framed for the crime. The shipboard security is obstructive and suspicious, bodies keep piling up, and it’s largely up to Tesla to solve the murder and clear his good name.

So first off – this is largely a style thing that grates on me far more than it should, and it probably effects my overall reading experience to an entirely unjustified degree, but – the standard etiquette in the story’s future is for everyone to use the gender neutral Mx. Using gendered terms like wife, husband, sir, m’am, or similar is also called out as being somewhere between archaic and offensively retrograde. Also, it is totally standard courtesy to list someone’s pronouns in any case where you’d their full name. In which case what is the point of taking so much care to be gender neutral of everything else. (In a sense this actually inspired worldbuilding, insofar as it’s exactly the sort of stupid language games high aristocracy or its equivalent tends to love, but the reading experience kind of grated).

The society’s generally very consciously progressive in a way that kind of calls attention to itself. It really wasn’t a surprise to see in the acknowledgement’s section that all the mentions of courtesy masks being a thing were edited in as covid happened. This is all mostly just background noise though, as far as narrative focus the only things that really occupy the story’s attention are its portrayal of disability and its bizarre class politics.

So, a key point of her backstory is that some years before the story, a lab disaster (during a demonstration of a personal assistance mech, which is actually some incredibly bitter dramatic irony I’m surprised the story doesn’t call any attention to?) killed six people and left Tesla with permanent spinal damage, chronic pain, and PTSD. Medical science doesn’t seem to have made many innovations on a cane or breathing exercises as far as mobility aids and PTSD treatment goes, but it does provide the absolutely incredible wish fulfillment device of a switch in your brain that lets you turn your pain sensitivity up or down at will. Tesla’s disability is a recurring thing throughout the book and generally the portrayal seemed fine to me? A couple conversations that bled into ‘giving the reader an important message’ territory, but only slightly and hardly the worst in the book.

The book’s attitude to class and wealth though, woof. Like, okay, the story is clearly a bit of a pastiche, a sanguine attitude to vast inequality and social hierarchy are necessary for the whole fantasy to work, but my god in that case please stop calling attention to it. The book so badly wants to simultaneously be progressive and have Tesla’s life be as maximally glamorous and exalted as possible that it gets twisted into this incredibly awkward spirals showing that she’s a good hyper-elite oligarch which really only call attention to the issue without doing anything to resolve it. Her internal monologue including some variation of the line ‘normally I hate just using money as a bludgeon to get what I want, but” happens a few too many times for it to not make un less likeable than an aristocrat who owns it.

Like, this is potentially uncharitable, but the book seems to take it as read that I find the idea of demanding to speak to a manager and having them grovel and apologize for how I’ve been disrespect far more alluring than I do? Not being that customer is a subject Tesla ruminates on at some length, and at the same time calling up her high priced lawyer and threatening to bury the whole cruise line in lawsuits while they rush to provide apology gifts is definitely portrayed as this thrilling power fantasy. It all left me actively rooting against her, at least a bit.

The actual mystery itself honestly wasn’t much to write home about – a bit confused, red herring introduced blatantly and too late, the obviously suspicious and personally unlikable character was the villain – but in a similar vein it did seem…telling, that the guy who’d been positioned as the unlikable asshole oligarch in opposition to Crane was secretly a murderous gold-digging imposter all along! Also, the fact that this was proven by a photo showing the oligarch to have been a dog guy, and the imposter being quite literally the only character in the entire book who didn’t adore Tesla’s emotional support dog. Like, c’mon.

Speaking of the dog – the book had a few recurring beats which I’m sure I’m supposed to have found funny or endearing but just overstayed their welcome with me several times over. The entire cast’s brains leaking out whenever they saw Tesla’s westie like it was some sort of platonic ideal of canine cuteness was one of them, along with like, Tesla and her spouse making out at a moment’s notice because a plot point meant that their encrypted tele-chat required skin-to-skin contact, and the book doubling as a cocktail guide. All things that if I’d liked the book I could have easily overlooked, but as is were just extra straws on the proverbial camel’s back.

Anyway, yeah, didn’t work for me.

[thecleverqueer]

Today’s “Ahsoka Being Gay” moment is from S4:E14 “A Friend in Need.”

I did this one because I HATE absolutely f*^%ing LOATHE this arc. It’s so misogynistic that it is painful. It’s basically a “shit-on-Ahsoka” fest with Lux Bonteri somehow winning her affection by completely disrespecting and sexually assaulting her, then canonically becoming her “love interest” afterwards which I think is total bullshit.

Though, oddly, in perfect Ahsoka fashion, somehow she has more on-screen chemistry with the village girl Tryla than Lux:

Case in point…

The side-eyed death stare that basically all but says, “ you stupid f*^%er” out loud as they speed towards Death Watch’s camp (this is, of course, after Lux stunned Ahsoka knocking her unconscious, stole her ship, and hid her lightsabers leaving her defenseless as he went to meet up with this known terrorist cell).

Then, there’s the unwanted kiss (aka the sexual assault)… it starts with a shocked WTF look, then a desperate wiggle to try and escape his grip, then this…

She pushes him off after about 3 seconds, and SHE’S PISSED (amongst what is doubtlessly a flood of other negative emotions)! She should have kicked his nuts so hard that he had to swallow them to get them even remotely back into the right place again. Missed opportunity. The writers and animators failed her miserably there. Well, as if they didn’t fail her through this whole stupid “love story” arc in general.

Edit/ side-note: Quite frankly, it’s excruciating to watch as this is 1,000% not okay or entertaining in any way in any Galaxy. Like, it causes me to physically recoil. It’s that bad.

“Careful not to choke on your stupidity.” -Ahsoka to Lux as he sits there acting like he’s totally okay with her being his subservient broodmare.

Yeah, so I hear you, but I don’t buy what you’re selling me. At all. This was probably some dumb, half-baked idea Lucas had that Filoni probably had to skate around, then figure a way out of for Ahsoka’s sake. Enter poor Steela. RIP.

Also, to hell with Lux and this dumb Luxsoka idea. Luxsoka is the literal worst. If he did have her attention, he squandered it because he’s a piece of shit… Barriss, Trace Martez and Bo-Katan picked it up and ran with it for sure though. And, I bet she leaned into their kisses without being mortified and disgusted, sad or pissed because they asked first. Consent is everything.

[hazardmemetic]

— STARTERS from SOPHE LUX’S album WAKING THE MYSTICS

Edited for usability, change pronouns/wording as needed.

Target Market

"I'm the target market." "There is no danger." "I could be the savior." "Always wanted something to live for." "It's gonna be my day, no one's gonna take it away from me." "No one's gonna take it away from me!" "I got the right look." "Pain is pleasure's cushion."

Lonely Girl

"I was a witch in my time of Descartes." "Fought for my soul, but they tried to tear it apart." "Who does she think she is?" "I am a virgin, and I am a whore." "I am a saint and a sinner galore." "I am the inventor of my own tradition." "I know the key and the form of your heart." "I know how to make you tremble and groan."

Marie Antoinette Robot 2073 (A Rock Opera)

"And who would now create such harm?" "What a bonney-bon need." "Sometimes I'm tired of being a serf." "Sometimes I wish the doll on the shelf lead existence, breathed." "Did you know that it was me?" "She's having a crisis." "She's having a crisis about being." "And when the darkness comes to me, it's a star to count on." "You can write it out to make your way back home." "When I look in the mirror, it's empty." "It's just an infinity winking back at me." "You might say I'm a fool to feel this way." "They're making moves in my brain, they say." "They're pretend I know my history."

Time of Light

"It was the time of light." "We'll be loved through thick and thin." "What's outside is just a reflection of what's within." "So dance the night away, my dear." "My cup's already overflowing." "Oh, yes, it is." "I am just waiting for my soul to be restored."

Little Soldier of Time

"Pierce the vortex of your mind, and see what images arise." "You're burning up inside." "My thoughts of you are spinning 'round." "You broke the bronco of my heart." "The past explodes and burns." "Love is a dangerous game." "I guess that love of the self is the only love you can trust." "Deep in my heart, there is a line of keys."

President

"You're going to light your soul on fire." "The world will blossom with your love." "You sparkling little dove!" "I believe in a world where you are president." "Everything would be so divine." "You turn the water right into wine." "Tell the people how to see the beauty of a thousand dreams." "Pointless wars based on the expert of democracy." "We have no answers, no solutions, no possibilities." "Cast my ballot for a new day and eternal spring."

God Doesn't Take American Express

"I dreamed the Statue of Liberty fell over." "Any move you make creates danger." "It takes a lot of hard work to be saved." "Come take a trip outside of your mind." "It's got a way of treating you so, so unkind." "Got a big surprise waiting here, just for you." "Your dreams are coming true." "Bring back the feeling inside my brain." "The eye that is hidden feeds off the stranger." "God doesn't take American Express no more." "How you ever going to make it home again?" "Oh, my love." "How you ever going to fill that emptiness deep inside?" "What a challenge it'll be." "You'll go down in history."

String Theory

"Freedom can mean a lot of things." "Fly your way into the sea, baby." "The key to creation's in your heart." "You know it is." "She speaks to her many dreams, but her words sew too slow." "You know, they put on quite the show."

Lou Salome

"In the past they called me Lou Salome." "Found myself on fire in the pursuit of philosophy." "For me, wisdom was my ecstasy." "There's a light shadow now, clear out on the water." "History and we live on the invisible wings of your legacy." "Hey [NAME], what are we to do without you?" "You could see the dragons." "You could see the angels." "All of life is poetry."

Electra 33

"And isn't it for you that I'm still waiting here?" "And isn't it for you that I'm still alive?" "And isn't it for you that I parted the veil to the other side?" "It's all over now, love." "I don't need you to feed me anymore." "I've got my own medicine now." "I killed the dragon with its terrible teeth." "Find a way to break the spell." "But I broke the hook that she tried to put in me." "There's no going back now."

Girl of Your Tomorrow

"In the times of old, we used to dream about her." "You know it's true, my love." "She'll soon be here." "She's the girl of your tomorrow." "She'll see you through." "Cry to cleanse the body of your fears." "You know that I'll be here for you." "She is your morning girl." "Baddest little girl in the whole wide world."

Fill Me Up With Grace

"Fill me up with grace, 'cause I'm falling." "I've buried my crown." "Fill me up with tears and Jesus." "I could use some healing." "I found the reason today to be living." "I saw the answer." "And you have stayed my heart with the blood of a thousand rose petals."

[lndslorepuzzler]

Under Deepspace 01: To Begin, pt 01-09

01: Deepspace Hunter: FMC goes through the graduation ceremony for Deepspace Hunters; she meets her coworker Tara. Her Evol is unstable due to a childhood injury/Wanderer attack, though it is recognized as Anhaunsen Class, Resonance. This isn't a surprise to her.

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02: Mysterious Light: FMC and Tara go into the abandoned research base to inspect an abnormal Metaflux explosion. FMC encounters Shen Xinghui, who appears to be injured. The two of them fend off a Wanderer, during which a collar of blue/red light appears and disappears around Shen Xinghui's neck.

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03: COMBAT

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04: Heart Towards Resonance: FMC and Shen Xinghui defeat the Wanderer; Shen Xinghui destroys the protocore. FMC wants to leave; Shen Xinghui says they've been trapped in the space. FMC determines that the Wanderers are Luminivores. She speculates that the situation could be a trap set specifically for Shen Xinghui, or that he might be bait instead of prey. ("I'm just a normal hunter. You don't need to look too deeply into it," he says like a lying liar who lies.) In order to defeat/escape the Luminivores, Shen Xinghui and FMC resonate; this involves putting her hand over his heart.

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05: Light Fades: FMC and Shen Xinghui defeat all the Wanderers. FMC realizes she's never experienced an Evol Resonance so strong before. Shen Xinghui asks FMC not to mention him to anyone and shortly thereafter vanishes into thin air. She notes that Shen Xinghui being in the research base likely wasn't a coincidence.

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06: UNICORNS: Upon arriving back at the headquarters, FMC and other recruits are debriefed by Jenna, and are assigned to their departments. Tara goes to Data Analysis under Andrew, and FMC is assigned to Alpha Team under Jenna. They go out to eat in Azure Square. Tara explains how she looks up to Jenna for saving her. FMC flashes back to fourteen years ago, remembers sprinting through the ruined streets, a sharp pain moving into/through her heart. There is a makeshift shelter in sight, and a tiny seedling breaking through the soil. FMC is accosted by a small child (Lucas) who wants her help with something; he offers to give her a full set of Super Hunters AR cards, complete with the limited edition Hunter Lux.

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07: Ripples: Lucas wants FMC to catch a fish for him, but runs off after he gets caught for cheating. Qi Yu appears, and says the fish will only survive a week on land. He's carrying a pamphlet about Hat Island, which is closed due to Wanderer activity. He catches the fish, which he says is a real Flammula from Lemurian legend. FMC gives him the fish to take home, saying she hopes it survives longer with him. Qi Yu leaves before FMC can finish her sentence about Whitesand Bay and at 6:15pm, FMC realizes she's late for her doctor's appointment.

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08: Doctor: FMC goes to Akso Hospital for her check-in with Li Shen. The two of them bicker about her being ten seconds from a no-show; FMC asks if he really needs to be that precise ("I can't believe you're just sitting there and counting down. What are you, a ticking time bomb or something?") FMC speculates that his "vacation" was actually a trip to the Arctic to work on a secret project; Li Shen tells her not to be nosy. He checks her heart; she hopes he hasn't noticed anything is off. They banter a bit, but things end amicably.

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09: Rainfall Curtain: At home, FMC contemplates her first day as a Deepspace Hunter. She gets a call from Caleb, her childhood friend who is a member of the Deepspace Aviation Administration. She tells him not to jinx himself. FMC looks out into the rain and sees a gigantic, quasi-mechanical looking red eye staring back at her. It vanishes in an instant.

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1. It's especially interesting that FMC refers to Li Shen as a 'ticking time bomb,' especially in regards to what we find out re: his Evol, and his desire to be able to stop himself 'when (he) becomes a threat to her.' 2. The eye FMC sees in 09 is almost identical to the eye seen in The Nest, and is the colors associated with Qin Che.

[fraugremlin]

Sims 4 Save + Mod Folder

Sul Sul! I have been working on this save file for a while now, however because I will be primarily playing Sims 3 and will not be purcahsing anymore content for sims 4, I have decided to release this prematurily. It is not complete; some households not having family trees or lore implications, incomplete lore edits, unfinished stories or lore, un-edited lots or worlds and so on. Willowcreek is the only complete world. Regardless, maybe someone else will enjoy the work i have done so far or will pick up where i left off.

Game Additions:

Willowcreek: World edit done by me (crumplebottom house is Gallery). Bella is still missing with Mortimer on his death bed. Cassandra Goth is struggling to pick back up her life after her divorce with Don Lothario. The Goth manor is Haunted and packed with relatives ready for haunting fun. Agnes is somehow still kicking (but not Swinging. Cottage Living not included) Library equipped with Books. Added a Cat-Cafe :)

Oasis Springs: Restored Landgraab family tree between Johnny Zest and Landgraabs. Restored Caliente and Lothario homes from Sims 2. Dina Caliente is a Widow to Michael Bachelor. Includes Bowling Alley and old church/wedding venue (pride flags included bc its not that kinda church)

San Myshuno: Spice Market District edited and includes a nightclub. Two Vampirs and a Vampire club added to mimic "Late Night" Sims 3 and reference "Vampire: The Masquerade" Incomplete lore/plotline following the Vampires "Goth" (Ventrue Ref.) and "Pleasant"(Malkavian Ref.)

Glimmerbrook: Full world Edit via Gallery. All Spellcasters edited. L. Faba facelifted and made to be fae-like. Morgyn is still faithfully non-bionary and given a fae-like facelife. Wardrobe edited to be more androgynes. New Family added with ancient bloodline (?) and incomplete lore/plotline.

Moonwood Mill: Full world Edit via Gallery. Library Equipped with Books.

Britechester: Full world Edit via me. Dorms are now gender-restricted and include a Kitchenette. The on campus houses now function as club restricted unisex dorms. Library equipped with course books and skill books along with large computer lab. central houses are more european (despite the awfully hideous building gaps and huge empty space bc EA employees have never seen pictures of european towns or cities before. Windenburg has the same painful issue) Angela and Lillith Pleasant have no family tree but have been visually restored.

Windenburg: World edit done by me and Gallery. Living spaces have been massively shrunk and space has been conserved. The entire island has been bulldozed with a "shell" lot as decor and the ruins being left alone. Houses are small and there are no "kitchens and separate dinning rooms" because thats a waste of space utility. Includes a Restaurant and Reading-Cafe. Missing the ability to have Lüften. Very Sadg. very cringe.

StrangerVille: World edit done by me and Gallery. Bella II says hello.

PACK LIST:

EXPANSIONS; Get Together, Discover University, Get Famous, Get to Work, City Living, Cats and Dogs, Seasons, High School Years

GAME PACKS; Werewolves, Vampires, Realm of Magic, Parenthood, Dine Out, Spa Day, Outdoor Retreat, Strangerville, Jungle Adventure STUFF PACKS; Laundry Day, Backyard Stuff, Toddler Stuff, Bowling Night, Luxury Stuff, Paranormal Stuff

KITS; Goth Galore, Grunge Revival, Greenhouse Haven, Desert Luxe, Blooming Rooms, Incheon Arrivals, Carnival Streetware, Fashion Street, Moonlight chic, Little Campers. IMPORTANT: Mods and Packs are needed or the save file may break/look rough. Mods are organized/catagorized for easier integration and conflict Resolution. Please check the files properly while installing. If you use MCCC, remove my version as it may not share your settings.

Let me know if there are any problems :)

[jisuto]

[clickerflight]

Pretty Screams

Okay, I fell to the temptation and at the bottom of this post I'm tagging everyone who was screaming for someone to write this. Hopefully this is all legible. I was exhausted while editing this.

Content warnings my beloved: stalker whumper, actor whumpee, knife violence, kidnapping, creepy creepy whumper, mentioned eye whump (not described at all), lots and lots of cuts, whumper does die (let me know if I missed anything I am so tired)

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“Hey, thanks, Lux,” Jayden said, shifting his cup into his other hand so he could dig his keys out of his pocket. 

“No problem,” Lux said in the earbuds Jayden had in. “I’ll get back to you on Friday and let you know when the audition is set for. Oh, and I don’t want to freak you out, but do you remember the fan who got backstage at your interview?”

“Yeah,” Jayden said, a little uneasily. “What about him?”

“He’s been sending some pretty messed up fanmail,” Lux said. “I put in a couple reports with the police and we’re trying to get a restraining order, just in case, so if the police call you about that, that’s what’s going on.”

“Ah, gotcha. Thanks, man. I don’t know what I’d do without you,” Jayden said as he stepped into his apartment, kicking off his shoes by the door and closing and locking it behind him. 

“Absolutely. Wanna get dinner tonight?”

“Naw, I’m good,” Jayden said, thinking about his bed. “I’m going to bed early.”

“Sounds good. Talk to ya later.”

“See ya.”

Jayden tapped his earbud to hang up and set down his coffee on the table. He shrugged off his coat, hanging it on a chair to take care of later. He idly wondered about the horror movie he would be auditioning for. It was a little early to take another project after the last one, but he was really getting into the flow of them now, and after two horror movie projects, his screams were starting to become somewhat iconic and his work made him a shoe in for such projects. 

He considered how he would be told to change his screams this time, to keep it from being too similar to his previous work as he opened his fridge, looking to see what he had to eat before he went to bed. 

He finished off some leftovers, taking a moment to hang up his coat before dumping out the rest of his coffee and throwing the cup away. 

Now, all that was left was taking a shower and going to bed. 

He walked into his room, glancing towards his bed before making his way to his bathroom. Before he made it all the way, he stopped and turned. 

His closet door was closed. He never closed that door. 

He frowned. Did he close it without thinking? He stepped forward to open it, and looked around inside. His clothes and shoes were all where they were meant to be. It looked like he had just closed it without noticing. 

He shrugged to himself and turned toward the bathroom again, stepping in and turning on the bath faucet to let it warm up. He needed to move to a nicer place. 

He pulled his shirt off and turned to toss it into the laundry basket when a horrified jolt slammed through his body. There was a man standing in his bathroom doorway, holding a knife and eyeing him with a lazy smile on his face. 

Jayden didn’t think. He grabbed something off of the counter behind him and threw it at the man as hard as he could, leaping forward as the man flinched back to try and get past him and to his phone or at least out of his apartment. Jayden didn’t get far, though, as the man lunged and tackled him from behind. 

Jayden hit the ground, his head hitting off the floor making him dizzy, though he didn’t stop trying to get away. The man growled as he wrestled with Jayden on the scratchy carpet. 

Jayden yelped as his arms were wrenched behind himself, and he heard the zip ties before the sharp plastic bit into his wrists. The man grabbed his hair and wrenched Jaden’s head back, sending pain shooting down Jayden’s spine. 

The man, wearing gloves and a thick leather jacket, picked his knife back up and pressed it to Jayden’s throat, panting and grinning down at the actor. 

“It’s about time we met,” the man said in a rough voice. His breath smelled like smoke and alcohol. “I’m your most-” he brushed the knife up towards Jayden’s chin making the actor shiver- “devoted fan.”

“O-okay,” Jaden said as quietly and carefully as possible, shaking as he tried not to move too much against the knife. “Okay. What d-do you want?”

“Gilbert. You can call me Gilbert,” the man said with an almost charming smile. “Your performance…. It did something to me, you know? I saw your first movie and your screams, ahhh, they were beautiful. Can you imagine my excitement when I found out you were in another movie? I was the first one in the theater. You were even better there. And I knew, I knew I needed to meet you in person.

“Course, that didn’t go too well when I tried. I almost managed to make it to you at the interviews, but they stopped me. As if they had the right.”

Jayden couldn’t breathe. The angle his head was held at forced him to arch his back and made it harder to breath, and each new word entering into his ears was like a paralytic slowly shutting his lungs down by amping up his adrenaline and fear. 

“But now. Now we have all of the time in the world. Soundproof walls are one of the perks in this apartment, right?”

Jayden gasped for air, eyes fluttering as Gilbert pulled his head back farther, his spine screaming in pain as the man whispered, “I can’t wait to hear you scream for me.”

……………………

There was a sound on the stairs, and Jayden knew what to do now. Gilbert liked him to make sounds, no matter the kind.

 After beating him around for a couple of hours, Gilbert had packed him up, muttering about going somewhere more private. Private turned out to be an old farmhouse outside of the city. Jayden had spent what felt like hours tied to a chair, being flayed alive just so Gilbert could hear him scream. 

Jayden lifted his head, a broken sob bursting from his lips. 

Gilbert hummed as he reached the bottom of the stairs. “Awwww, did you miss me?” he purred. 

“Please,” Jayden gasped. “Please, please, please, please, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, Please. No more, please, no more.”

“Ohhhhh, are you tired?” Gilbert asked, examining his paring knife as he watched Jayden bleed and sob in the splintery chair he was tied to. “I let you have a couple of hours, didn’t I? Wasn’t that merciful.”

“Y-yes,” Jayden said quickly. “Yes, please, please, not yet.”

Gilbert laughed and grabbed the tag he’d left on a piece of duct tape he’d put over one of the cuts on his chest before leaving earlier. 

“You’re an actor, I’m sure you can put on another performance for me,” Gilbert said with a smile before ripping the tape off of the wound. 

Jayden’s vision went white, and he screamed. His throat seemed to tear with the same pain that radiated through every fiber of his body. 

He gasped for air, sobbing without any restraint. Gilbert grabbed his face and forced him to make eye contact. “That was beautiful,” Gilbert said, teeth bared in what was supposed to be a smile, but Jayden could only see as a set of weapons. He shivered and flinched, waiting for those teeth to bury themselves in his throat. 

“Let’s see if you can do that again,” Gilbert said softly, the paring knife in his hand slicing into Jayden’s shoulder. 

Jayden couldn’t stop screaming. 

…………………………

Gilbert stood behind Jayden, looking over the bloody lines drawn over his back and shoulders. He glanced down at Jayden’s phone where a series of texts and missed calls were steadily amassing. 

“Here, let me borrow your thumb for a moment,” he said to the unconscious man in the chair as he manipulated Jayden’s thumb to open the phone. 

He read through the messages from a guy named Lux, and quickly identifies that this was Jayden’s agent. 

He rubbed his hand over his forehead,  enjoying the sensation of the blood smearing over his face. He smiled down at Jayden. “Looks like your agent is worried about you. You should answer him, you know.”

Jayden shuddered, having woken up as Gilbert was looking through all of the texts. 

“You know what. I’ll let him know you’re here. At a friend’s house,” Gilbert chuckled, typing out a message. “I doubt that he’ll scream as well as you, but he could be fun. I have a few murder fantasies I’ve been meaning to play out. Not on you, of course, you’re going to keep singing for me until you give out.”

“No,” Jayden breathed. “No, please……leave him out of this.”

“Too late,” Gilbert said, pressing send on the text, “‘Hey man, sorry about that. I’m hanging out with a friend right now. I’m at the farmhouse on Jade lane on the east side of the city. Why don’t you come down around 5 and we can go get dinner?’ Sound like you?”

Jayden wailed as much as his body would allow, and Gilbert ruffled the actor’s blood soaked hair. “I’ll take that as a yes. Now, why don’t you show me how you get ready for your performances, and I might make your friend’s death quick?”

…………………………..

Lux got out of his car, looking up at the farmhouse. He wrinkled his nose, a little surprised by how rundown it looked. He couldn’t really imagine Jayden being here. He looked at the address again and, sure enough, he was in the right place. 

He shrugged to himself and walked up the drive to the door. 

He knocked on the door and waited for a moment, checking his knuckles to make sure he didn’t pick up any splinters. 

He listened to the sounds of movement and then the door opened. A tall man smiled at him, hidden slightly behind the door. 

“You here for Jayden?” he asked cheerfully. 

“Yeah,” Lux said, trying to figure out how he knew this guy. He seemed familiar. “Can you get him for me?”

“Yeah. Here, you can step in while I grab him,” the man said, stepping back to let Lux in. Lux came in and closed the door and the man smiled. “He’s downstairs. Give me a moment.”

He disappeared into the house and Lux stood looking around the living room. It was dusty and littered with food wrappers. Jayden was a generally tidy person and preferred to have tidy friends, so none of this was adding up. Lux knew everything about Jayden so the fact that he didn’t know about his friend that lived this far from the city was starting to weigh uneasily on him. 

He glanced over into an open office space and glimpsed a poster for one of Jayden’s horror movies. He stared at it for a moment, realization dawning on him slowly, like the light of a train coming into focus while caught on the tracks. 

He jerked around, running after the man. He slid to a stop in the kitchen, horrified by the bloodied knives on the table. Lux could hear people down the stairs, so he picked up the longest knife he could and tried to get down the stairs as quietly as possible. 

“He’ll be coming,” Jayden’s stalker said softly. “How about you make him come quicker?”

A sound pierced the air, a sound that Lux almost couldn’t register. It was nothing like Jayden’s horror screams. It was ragged and strained, but still filled with an immeasurable amount of suffering. Not at all like the artistic imaginings of pain and horror.

Lux reached the bottom of the stairs and the stalker wiped off his knife, standing over a shuddering Jayden. 

“He’ll be here soon, now,” the man said, delighted. “He was standing in the front room like a good dog. I think I’ve decided I’m going to see if I can shove a PVC pipe through his chest and keep the core cut for a souveni-”

Lux yelled, seeing red as he charged. 

He felt the knife scrap against rib bones and heard the man’s gurgles and death rattle, and then he fell to the floor, staring into nothing. 

Lux looked at the body for a moment, shaking. He looked at Jayden, but all he found was a bleeding creature, gasping for breath. Lux turned and held his stomach, blinking quickly. He shook his head, trying to get a hold of himself and he stumbled to the back of the chair. He struggled with the twine before giving up, picking up the knife the stalker had dropped and cutting the twine free, though it stuck to Jayden’s wrists, trapped in the grooves that were now rubbed into his best friend’s wrists. 

Jayden wailed as Lux touched him, and Lux was quick to say, “Hey, hey, Jayden, It’s me. It’s Lux. Okay?”

Jayden blinked, though he didn’t seem to really be aware of what was happening, or maybe he couldn’t see Lux with how much blood was in his eyes.

“Alright, hold on, man. Hold on.”

Lux dialed for the police as quickly as he could, holding pressure on the biggest wounds he could see, though wondering if it would be useless. There was just so much blood on Jayden, the stalker, and the floor.

…………………………………..

Massive tissue damage, three surgeries for slashed ligaments, surgery for damage to his right eye, permanent damage to his vocal chords, and severe PTSD. Where did that leave Jayden?

Jayden sat in a hospital bed with Lux by his side. Lux hadn’t left since this all started, which Jayden was extremely glad for. He didn’t want to be alone. He didn’t think he could ever allow himself to be alone again.

(But he would have to. He knew he would have to, but that was a struggle for a different day.)

“You can still act,” Lux assured him. “I can find you other roles. Not horror, probably. We could sell books and then you wouldn’t have to worry about money while you get back on your feet.”

Jayden closed his unbandaged eye. “Could….. Could you just do it? I can’t.”

Lux was silent for a moment, and a gentle hand rested on Jayden’s shoulder. “Okay. I’ll take care of it, man. You’ll get through this. You got into the film industry. This’ll be a walk in the park in comparison to that, right?”

Jayden looked at Lux, who gave him an encouraging smile. Getting through it all seemed impossible, but maybe it wasn’t. 

“Okay. Thanks, Lux. I don’t know what I’d do without you.”

“Absolutely.” 

@whumpsday @bees-andbees @happy-little-sadist

Neat. Hope you enjoyed.

*cartwheels into my pillow nest*

POV Whumper loved whumpee in their role as whumpee in a horror movie. They introduce themself as whumpee's #1 fan.

And they want to hear those pretty screams again.

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⸰ ✩ * ⋆ ENDLESS LIST OF FAVORITE VIDEO GAMES  •   [ 2 / ?? ]

► LUX PAIN: 2009  ››  “Even if you can make someone forget about an important encounter, you can't erase the memory. However far you go, however much time passes, your memory will last.”

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See the new art I'm making on Instagram, photos I don’t post here and poems. Also see my new Artist Page.

My entry for “Gray-Card Top 5″ 2021 edition as seen on Lux Lit.

Many statues atop buildings in Arts District, Downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 1/16/21.

The month of March gets a little crazy in North Carolina. The blossoms are blissful!

The piano at The Mad Bean in Madison, North Carolina on 1/20/21. That can says, "Piano Tuna" on it, I kid you not! Dope coffeehouse in tiny town! 

6th And Vine - Wine Bar and Restaurant with reflections and architectural elements in downtown Winston-Salem, NC 1/16/21. It was a freezing, windy day and this beautiful place was closed due to COVID.

Boneyard Beach at Botany Bay, Edisto Island, South Carolina on Jan 9, 2021. These trees died because erosion caused saltwater to come inland and now it's a surreal place of beauty and pain.

[funnuraba]

Just posting this to keep track of what LJ content I’ve archived using my Wayback Machine method. I’ll be coming back to edit it regularly. All of these are only the most recent 400 posts, so a lot of the “glory years” may be missed for fandoms that were active in the very early 2000s. I’m trying to prioritize a) substantive text posts like meta and fanfiction, and b) smaller fandoms or fandoms that have faded over time and don’t have much migrated on AO3, but that’s inherently limited by what I know existed, so don’t hesitate to pitch in for your own tiny fandoms!

(One problem I’ve just noticed is that, when using the old Memories format https://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=USERNAME : you have to remember to archive THAT url itself when you’re done, not just the folders! Otherwise there’s no archived path leading people to the folders! I think I’ve missed doing this on a few communities.)

FANDOM SPECIFIC:

the full main communities for Noein, Lux-Pain, & Fantastic Children and up to skip=400 for the Konjiki no Gash (konjiki) and Gankutsuou (gankutsuou) communities

I’m pretty sure I got every entry of the_daily_maou (KKM newsletter comm), so any surviving links in those posts as of 2021 should be preserved

Most of the entries on the Prince of Tennis newsletter community (bringtheballs), so most of the outgoing links to fics and discussion should be preserved

A number of gift exchanges in PoT fandom (don’t remember them all but should be listed in the PoT category on Fanlore)

The discussion tags in the princesstutu and kyou_kara_maou communities (note: these comms had a TON of tags on every page, drowning out the WBM’s ability to grab post links, so a lot of posts may not be preserved in full)

The fic tag, discussion tag, and up to skip=400 in the Samurai Deeper Kyo community love_deeper

tsukimineshrine, a CCS fanfic community with some episode discussions, both up to skip=400 and the Memories section; legal_scribbles, a Legal Drug drabble community

whistlefans and whistle-boyluv (Whistle!), greenwoodfans (Here is Greenwood), gardenofmaidens and talesoflillian (Maria-sama ga Miteru), bk-iroha (Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohanihoheto), windandtrees (Kaze to Ki no Uta), terra-e (Terra e...), ghost-100 (drabble community for Eerie Queerie), nabari (Nabari no Ou), hagio_keiko (Hagio Moto/Keiko Takemiya works), kimitoboku-fan (Kimi to Boku), amatsuki-manga (Amatsuki), clampfiction, clamp100, tsubasa100, hitsuzen-100, trc-altlove, clamp-canon, mk-rayearth (CLAMP), iy-unsung-heros (Inuyasha), hemuloki (Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok), moribito (Seirei no Moribito), skip-beat (Skip Beat), witchhuntrrobin, confraria (Witch Hunter Robin), pm-kurogane (Peacemaker Kurogane), psohdrabble (Pet Shop of Horrors), tokyobabylon, togakushishrine (Tokyo Babylon/X), gun_grave (Gungrave), fma_yuri, fma_rare, fma-fiction (FMA), yamifics (Yami no Matsuei), redcrayonclub, goatsisters (Rule of Rose), maihime, shizu-to-natsu, shizunatsu, akiraxtakumi, chiexaoi, shesnutsnow (Mai Hime), crescent---moon (Crescent Moon), yorusoi, asterisk-plus (Bleach), queershinobi100 (Naruto), gamerz-heaven (Gamerz Heaven), love-tactics (Tactics), erementargerad (Elemental Gelade), ariamanga (Aria), baccano (Baccano!), gravi-odd-love (Gravitation), etogunslinger (Et Cetera), wolfsrain (Wolf’s Rain)

iserlohn, the English-language comm for Legend of the Galactic Heroes; there’s also a much bigger Russian-language one that I didn’t get but that’s still accessible for anyone in RU

some of the kh_drabble community; however not all since after a while I felt like I needed to prioritize smaller fandoms. I tried to save links in the Memories with the largest number of fanfics inside, but the archived content will be scattered and I can’t guarantee anything

The Memories>Browse All section of mc_recs (Yami no Matsuei fanfic rec account)

Memories of the iy_no_kakera challenge community for Inuyasha, 100bullets (Trigun), hitsuzen-100 (xxxholic)

utenadrabbles (up to skip=400 only so about 2/5 of the total posts)

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Multifandom (always skip=400, and the Memories if they had a lot)

contrelamontre, temps-mort, ame-soeur, yaoi-challenge, yuri-challenge, 20-inkspots, 101-kisses, 30-romances, 30-flowers, 30_wounds, older-not-dead, over_look, fanfic50, unusual-liasons, yuridrabbles, tentinyfandoms, smallfandomyaoi, fic-on-demand, try_this_fic, and rarelitslash (rarelitslash’s memories only, since something in the layout kept the main community's links hidden from WBM), 30kisses (different from 30_kisses; got the Memories, minus the alpha-zeta ones, but the fills should be there under the ship names); 31-days/31-days-exchnge (Memories by month not fandom)

(note on yaoi-challenge: there were a TON of tags on the sidebar, so I did my best with the masterlists, but I think a lot got skipped)

Some of 30_kisses, but it was a huge community and I don’t remember exactly how much of it I got. I believe up to skip=400, and then I also used some links from 30_updates, which acted as a digest for everything posted there

The Memories of fanfic100, minus the HP ones because (closes eyes) there were... a lot and it’s one of the most well-documented fandoms of all time. I also did a skip=400, but it seems like the Memories were no longer updated after a certain point (replaced by tags), so there’s definitely some amount missing. 

profiles for a bunch of different themed challenge communities

The communities listed in the Static Shock Fanlore page

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Most of these were only up to skip=400, since that’s where LJ stops showing you full pages and just gives you individual entries. I can’t control which links WBM decides are important, so if you want to find entries in the archived versions of these communities, some individual posts won’t have the normal clean URL preserved, and you won’t get anything by clicking on the post’s title. You may have to click the comments link, the reply link, or one of the LJ-cut links to find which version WBM decided to grab and archive. I hope that most of the posts were at least archived in some form.

Again, I can’t make any guarantees here; one typical problem I ran into is that in rarelitslash, many people would post in the community with a link to the actual fic, which was posted elsewhere. So if I’m saving links from the Memories, the only archived content would be that post in rarelitslash, not the fic itself. I just couldn’t put in the effort it would take to individually save content on that scale, so in that case we’re left with just a tiny bit of information that the fic existed at some point.