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[floral-hex]

I broke 2 mugs today while moving 😔 one with an alligator that says “later gator” and an arkansas/missouri railroad mug I got a couple of summers back. My poor babies…

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[nelkey]

It's really late right now, so I'll make a reblog with the proper explanation tomorrow, but google still has to respect privacy laws so no, they can't do that. Plus I live in Europe and we have even more specific privacy laws against that like the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), which would not allow that.

Hey guys! Since ao3 is down and we're all craving fics, would anybody want to join a shared drive folder and upload their downloaded ao3 fics to it with folders divided by fandoms/ships/gen etc for anyone to read?

But please, anyone who uses it has to go give kudos and thank the writers in the comments after the attacks are over, we can get through this!

[whyse7vn]

Us -

[ot7 x reader]

AGUST DUI 🛴🔥

7 participants - 7 online

———————————

tae: ok raise your hand if you think yoongi should of died in the crash

namjoon: why would you say that?

tae: jungkook raise your hand

jk: ok

tae: not in real life the emoji please

jk: ok sorry

wait how did you know i raised my hand in real life??

tae: just do it

jk: like nike LOL

tae: i’m going to skin you alive

jk: sorry

🙋🏻‍♀️

tae: why are you a woman

jk: gender is a construction

hobi: construct

jk: control

hobi: we are not playing a game

i am correcting you

jk: oh

tae: connecticut

hobi: stop

tae: i wanted to play :(

hobi: it wasn’t a game can you read

jk: omg i know someone from connecticut

i think

jin: you have no friends don’t lie jungkook

jk: no i swear i do

tae: he does

hobi: don’t act like you know

tae: i know

hobi: who is jungkooks friend then?

tae: jungkook tell this idiot ☠️

hobi: i’m asking YOU to tell me

jk: i don’t know who it is

but i know

i’m going to go insane who is it ohmygod

y/n: jaehyun lmao

hobi: oh

jin: yikes

jk: i’m sorry

tae: how dare she lmao like she didn’t just cook my first born alive by saying that name

jk: she typed it btw

tae: that’s not the point jungkook

i’m throwing up

jk: ur right me too

i’m sorry i’m sorry i’m sorry

y/n: ???

don’t be sorry

jk: >.<

yoongi: lol

jin: tf he laughing at?

yoongi: we’re always talking about jaehyun for some reason

hobi: be fr

yoongi: …

y/n: shouldn’t you be dead from the crash or something

tae: IM SAYING LIKE

jk: maybe he’s still drunk

hobi: LMAOOOO

yoongi: i did not crash

namjoon: he just fell over guys

yoongi: right

jin: ofc the bitch with no license is defending the other bitch with no licence

y/n: typical 🙄

yoongi: why do you know he’s from connecticut

y/n: what????

namjoon: uh??

jin: wasn’t he JUST complaining about how much we talk about you know who…

hobi: kook was right this man is still off the juiceeeee

ha juice by shinee

i’m so funny wow

tae: if we think about it wtf is connecticut

what the fuck is that srsly

i hate that

what does that mean

america is so strange

another white thing i don’t get

i hate white people

jin: ur borderline white

tae: wtf is wrong with you never say shit like that again

ur borderline old

ur borderline dying

AND ur paler than me

like wtf

this poc erasure

someone get him

jk: connecticut more like connectiYUCK 🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢

EWWUUUUUU 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

hell on earth

yoongi: what

namjoon: ?

yoongi: are we talking about again

i just lost my train of thought

hobi: choo choo

y/n: chuu chuu

namjoon: jaehyun…

jk: 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤢🤢

tae: AND we are talking about poc erasure if you even care

you probably don’t

because you’re a racist

just like your father namjoon

jk: yoongi is older than namjoon

btw

tae: ok???

maybe i wasn’t even talking to yoongi

jk: ok i’m sorry

tae: it’s ok son

hobi: who the fuck were you talking to then?

tae: well yoongi but like maybe i wasn’t at the same time yk?

y/n: shut up

jk: yes

y/n: ?

tae: ok raise ur hand if you think hoseok is being unnecessarily mean to kim taehyung the 3rd today

namjoon: anyways

yoongi are you ok??

yoongi: yeah sorry my head is just all over the place rn

forget everything i said

hobi: is this due to your alcohol consumption

or is it your age getting to you LOL

since your old

older than namjoon

jk: older than namjoon

jin: jungkook is 27 btw

y/n: 23 forever

jin: that’s almost 30 yk?

hobi: at least it’s not 31

yk…

like you

jin: ok

jk: ok !!!!

namjoon: yeah i don’t know what you wanted to get out of that one…

jin: kys

ALL of you

hobi: ❤️

jk: love is love

y/n: awoman

jk: awoman

tae: if you all loved me you would send me a stack

hobi: notice how no money is being sent to your account

take that into consideration

tae: how about you consider my fist in you face

ok i take that back

hobi: don’t

y/n: bryson tiller

tae: why not :(

you didn’t even know what i was gonna say hobi >.<

hobi: namjoon tell him to shut up

namjoon: tae please

tae: yeah ok 😔

cuz you know i do NOT want the smoke

he might do me like he did jaehyun 😭🙏🏼

hobi: will you STOP bringing that up

tae: will you send me a STACK?

hobi: no

tae: then NO

namjoon: both of you stop

also where is jimin??

physically i mean

like do any of you know?

yoongi: y/n’s house i think

y/n: no he’s not??

tae: woah

jk: btw that is also my house yoongi

so y/n AND jungkook’s house

yoongi: y/n and jungkook’s house then

y/n: he’s not here

yoongi: but he was

y/n: how do you even know that??

yoongi: i just do

y/n: ok ????

yoongi: ok

jk: ok \ ^0^ /

tae: wait

jk: JIMIN WAS IN OUR HOUSE ?????

jin: keep up ohmugod

jk: LIKE PHYSICALLY IN OUR HOUSE

WHERE I SLEEP AT NIGHT???

y/n: he wasn’t in my room no

if that’s what ur asking

jk: BUT HE WAS HERE???

AFTER HE WAS SO MEAN SO EVIL?!

y/n: it’s been weeks i was gonna talk to him at some point ig

hobi: communication is key!

not key from shinee btw

jk: WHEN DID HE COME????

WHY DID HE COME????

y/n: he came a few weeks ago

august 6th ? i think

to talk about everything and apologise

jk: you let him in?

tae: LIKE…

y/n: yes

jk: and where was i?

y/n: it was a wednesday so ur boxing class?

jk: i’ve been staying back for those classes

so he came late right?

y/n: yeah

jk: did you invite him?

y/n: no he kinda just showed up

jk: and you still let him in??

y/n: yes jungkook

jk: why didn’t you tell me??

y/n: i wasn’t trying to keep it a secret or anything it just a lot

like a lot seriously

i wanted to give both me and jimin some time to process it all before we brought it all back to you guys

but i was going to tell you

all of you

jk: yeah but like it’s been weeks…

namjoon: to be fair i also did talk to

jimin and didn’t tell anyone

jk: namjoon

jin: also did that

hobi: u all know i talked to him so…

jk: guys???

i’m confused like what he said was wrong but you’re all still talking to him

like everything’s ok???

namjoon: he apologised to her kook

jk: FUCK HIS APOLOGY?????

tae you get it right?? you didn’t speak to him right??

tae: no i get it

i get you

i understand fully

but i won’t lie to you

i DID speak to him

on the phone

only for 5 minutes tho

i counted

i just wanted to make sure he didn’t yk like kill himself or something…

you know jimin is weak like that

not calling people who commit suicide weak but like calling jimin weak cuz that’s what he is

jk: TAE?????????????

tae: SORRY SUICIDE IS REAL YK?

AND LIKE IT DOESNT TAKE AWAY FROM THE FACT THAT I STILL WANT TO PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE

i was just

uh

checking?

namjoon: you can say you were worried about him you know that

jk: SHUT UP???£/8/8/8,&&:&,

NO HE CAN’T

YOU ALL HAVE NO BACK BONE /£2&/&&:&:

NO LOYALTY

HE BASICALLY CALLED Y/N A WHORE AND YOUR ALL FRIENDS WITH HIM AGAIN??????

LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED?????

tae: NO I’M MAD IM STILL SO FUCKING MAD THE FUCK????

FUCK JIMIN I MEAN IT

jk: you are a liar

LIKE

guys what£/£/&/&:&:

i thought you guys were better than this ???

i thought you all cared

jin: don’t be stupid

of course we care

jk: then act like it????

y/n tell them

y/n: jungkook

jk: tell them

in fact

jk added jimin to “AGUST DUI🛴🔥”

jk: tell ALL of them

y/n: jungkook please

jk: y/n seriously

jimin: hey

jk: shut the fuck up

tae: dude

i know ur upset and angry but doing this rn isn’t gonna solve anything

namjoon: he’s right jungkook

ur acting on emotion and not thinking properly right now

jk: IM not thinking properly???

was jimin thinking properly when he called her a slut and then ran away like a bitch?? was he????

namjoon: obviously not jungkook

hobi: but they’ve talked it out and he’s said sorry

jk: HIS SORRY DOESN’T MEAN SHIT

WHAT DO YOU GUYS NOT UNDERSTAND?

his fucking sorry means nothing

him saying sorry doesn’t take back the words he said

or any of the hurt he caused

namjoon: jungkook like she told us they’ve talked about it and he’s apologised

i not sure what more you want

jk: I WANT YOU GUYS NOT TO MOVE ON SO FUCKING FAST??

I WANT YOU GUYS TO AT LEAST TELL HIM HOW FUCKED UP THAT ALL WAS

BOTH PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY

he should be walking around eggshells around us rn

you guys should be giving him a hard time

not wondering where he is or whether he’s depressed or not

and you wanna know something?

after it all happened she cried for hours

hours

i have genuinely never seen her so upset

she told me not to tell anyone but i have to so guys can fucking understand

and the fact that we didn’t even know that her and jimin spoke???

does that not bother you all?????

the fact that she was “so fine” and “okay” about the whole situation but didn’t tell us that they had supposedly ‘made up’

tae: she said that she was planning on telling us

jk: yeah but she didn’t did she? it’s been weeks

she said they spoke august 6th right?

we are quite literally in a whole new month

and you ALL should know that when she doesn’t tell us things it’s because she’s upset

you should KNOW her

and how she deals with things

you all claim to care but i’m yet to see how

you know i was really excited about this

we were all you know realising

and coming to terms with this

us

i thought that we felt the same

but this has shown me that you guys don’t even feel a quarter of what i do for her

and you probably never will

the way that you all just took her word for her being fine and okay about the whole situation without actually genuinely checking in with her is insane and the way you all rushed to make sure jimin was ok was even crazier

i just

whatever

bye

—

as you can probably tell this was supposed to be released last month but i tried to adjust it as much as i could

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#happytimessoon >.<

[callsign-rogueone]

a brief history of Navarre - x.r.

Xaden Riorson x marked!partner!reader (gn) Midterm week at Basgiath has you wanting to pull an all-nighter to study, but Xaden won’t let you. requested as part of my Valentine’s day celly 💕 (gonna be posting these well into March, oops) words: 745 🏷: no book spoilers and no triggers, just X taking care of his partner. established relationship between reader and Xaden. the reader wears one of Xaden’s shirts, but there is no description of how it fits on them (we bigger / taller girls are tired of reading that [character]’s clothes are soo oversized and long on us!) shoutout to the people who put a full timeline of the continent’s history online bc I was too lazy to find it all in my copy lol

“I’m calling it a night,” Xaden announces, closing his textbook. “Gonna go shower.”

You hum in acknowledgement, pen between your teeth as you read the same page for the fifth time tonight, still trying to cram six hundred years of history into your brain. You’ve been sitting on his floor for hours, and the lines of text are starting to blur together, words starting to look misspelled and foreign, losing their meaning with repetition.

You spent too much time reviewing the first fifty decades. You still have nearly another hundred years to cover, from 530 to present. 

It has not escaped your notice that the book reduces the Tyrrish revolution to an afterthought, at the end of the text. The belittling words they’d chosen to describe your parents’ valiant effort had nearly been enough for Xaden to light the entire volume on fire, but he’d settled for ripping that page out of his copy and letting Sgaeyl torch it.

You’d left it in yours as a reminder that these people are not on your side, nor will they ever be. 

The running water stops, Xaden stepping back into the room a moment later. “You’re still studying?” He asks, rubbing at his hair with a towel. “You must be really into that book if you aren’t checking me out right now. I’m literally dripping.” 

He’s a little offended that you don’t even look up as you answer. 

“This is important, Xay. It’s a third of our final grade.”

He dries his hands on his pants, taking the book from your hands easily -- your grip on it has loosened with your exhaustion.

You protest, but he shushes you. “Why did Poromiel not unite with Navarre after the great war?”

It takes you a moment to respond, pushing through the sleepy fog to find the answer. “Religious differences”, you reply tiredly. “And their king did not want to share his throne with Navarre’s.”

“Good. When was the second Cygni Incursion?”

“328.”

“And the second Krovlan uprising?”

“434.”

He shuts the book, gathering your notes into a neat stack. “You know this stuff, darling. You’re going to pass this exam with flying colors and set the curve for the whole class, but only if you get some sleep.”

Materials now confiscated, you have nowhere to look except up at him, and your resolve immediately starts to crumble.

He’s ready for bed, dressed only in a pair of black sweatpants that drape across his hips and cover the muscle of his legs, but every other inch of skin is exposed; the relic swirling up his muscled arm, the definition of his chest and stomach, the broad expanse of his shoulders…

You’re too tired to jump his bones right now, but it would be nice to stop, to cuddle up with him, to fall asleep in his arms. Your schedules are packed with classes, studying, training, his wingleader duties, and your responsibility for the younger marked ones. It’s been nearly a week since you’ve been able to hold him for more than five minutes. His skin is always so warm against yours, and his mattress is certainly more comfortable than the hardwood floor… 

You hesitate, still eyeing the book in his hands. “I don’t know…”

“Yes, you do. C’mere.”

You sigh, letting him pull you up from the floor. Your muscles sing in relief as you stand, your back aching from being hunched over for hours. You relax into him, resting your eyes for a minute.

“Go brush your teeth,” he encourages.

You don’t want to move from his arms, but three years of dating the boy has taught you that he won’t yield on matters of your health. You sigh, heading to the bathroom.

When you get back, he’s packing everything into your bag for tomorrow — or today, rather. You’d started studying after dinner, and now it’s well after midnight. 

He helps you out of the day-old clothes and into one of his shirts and a clean pair of underwear -- you keep a few days of necessities here for moments like these. 

You curl into his side, pulling the blankets overtop of you, and the swirling thoughts are replaced with the easy contentment that comes with being held by your partner.

“You’re going to do great,” he whispers, smoothing a hand over your back. “Just get some rest, okay?”

You don’t respond, already lulled to sleep by the steadiness of his heartbeat and the warmth of his arms around you.

[erikahenningsen]

Random Regina headcanons because I have time to kill

Regina didn’t just keep the rainbow pin. She’s kept all of her mementos from her friendship with Janis, including assorted drawings and handmade jewelry and silly things like goofy bobbleheads from vacations Janis took with her family. They’re mostly in a bin hidden in her closet with specifically ordered items stacked on top of it so she’ll know if someone (her mom) went through it.

After the bus, Regina had to start dressing more for comfort. She’d previously rather have died than wear athletic shoes to do anything other than work out but as a coping mechanism she online shops for sneakers and soon her sneaker game becomes legendary. There’s an anonymously run Instagram account documenting her sneaker collection.

Hates animals, especially your ugly dog. WILL yell at you if you let your dog jump on her. (“He’s friendly? Well I’m not.”) After months of relentless asking she finally goes with Cady to the zoo. Regina complains the whole time but secretly she finds Cady’s excitement endearing. She takes one (1) photo with Cady in front of the lions and she looks so over it that it becomes a group chat meme.

When she turns 18, Regina gets a small tattoo of a butterfly over one of her surgery scars that Janis designs. If anyone asks Regina will say she just thinks it’s pretty but to her it symbolizes her metamorphosis/personal transformation after the bus.

Regina needs glasses but she absolutely will not wear them in front of another human being, even if it means she’s squinting at the board in class, because she thinks she looks bad in them. Cady starts wearing her glasses to school to show Regina she’s being ridiculous, but it has the unfortunate (for Regina) effect of making Cady hotter, somehow.

She gets into long-distance running for not entirely healthy reasons and starts doing 5Ks and half marathons, but it actually ends up encouraging her to eat more as she’s training and it becomes a weirdly healing experience. Everyone makes signs to cheer Regina on which she gets emotional about—except for Damian’s relentless Forrest Gump jokes, which she finds SO annoying.

Regina loves reading, and she reads even more while she’s in the hospital/recovering. She loves classic literature especially and Shakespeare, which she bonds with Damian over, and Janis nonchalantly gives her a queer YA novel that Regina pretends she doesn’t want but reads in one night. She secretly buys a bunch more. (I Kissed Shara Wheeler hits a little too close to home.)

As Regina heals her relationship with her body and starts letting go of some of her fears of judgment she starts experimenting more with her appearance, wearing jeans for the first time in years (big for her!), not wearing makeup every day, even cutting her hair a bit shorter and dyeing some of it pink (Janis helps).

[mmoxie]

played some ATLYSS, the game where everyone is a stacked furry

it reminds me in the most wonderful way of old mmos like Dream of Mirror Online and FLYFF, but also of Mario 64 and PSO and Smash in terms of controls

what I really love is the repeatable quests and the grinding- there's a day/night cycle and everything respawns reliably, and since the lower level quests are between you and the main quest, you can just bonk everything between you and your goal on the way there and back

it means you're pretty much always playing and always progressing in some small way

im tempted when i get paid to snag the patreon version with multiplayer enabled because i love the idea of mmo gameplay but only with a lobby of people you already like lol

i played as Thick Hellboy, an Imp that I set up for melee combat, and had a blast exploring the first several subzones- and the first boss, who is resummonable for rematches and a second chance at her drops!

i had a spherical block on right click with a stamina wheel, very similar to smash bros, and using it strategically while watching enemy animations made combat feel really engaging- there are some early boars with a charge attack that really train your block timing!

the customization has a lot of sliders and some pretty remarkable ones at that- it's my first time seeing a functional snoot slider, changing your character's face to be more or less furry-proportioned. incredible stuff.

anyway, it cost me 0.00 to try it via itch and i played for like 4 hours straight and had a blast the whole time, gonna play more today after work too

would recommend as someone who went in blind, lured by the siren song of big ol tiddies

those are there too- my god are they ever

but I'm staying for the rest of the game, which is just fantastic. A+, would recommend, esp if you already enjoy the old mmo gameplay loop!

[cortosis-ct]

The Bad Batch and their jobs (Modern AU)

In my headcanon they all started out as soldiers. After getting out and accidentally acquisiting Omega, they desperately need money and take any jobs they can get. Eventually, everyone finds something they actually like.

Hunter:

Retail sales associate aka Walmart slave and getting yelled at by Karens all day. He's also doing freelance cleaning jobs, the grosser the better the payment. Think hoarder apartments with fifty cats or scat orgy hotel room cleanup.

He works hard on getting his record cleaned up and eventually secures a job at the fire station. He becomes a firefighter and will eventually be a lieutenant and later captain.

Tech:

Fast food worker which means lots of being yelled at by hangry people who are unhappy with the way their BigMac was stacked. He takes any extra shift he can get.

After several failed rounds of applications, he hacks into a big company's system and puts his name on top of the candidate list. He ends up supervisor for some bank insurance IT stuff with lots of numbers.

Wrecker: Miner. It's hard work and long hours in the dark. He actually earns the most of all of them but that's because it's fucking dangerous and depressing.

The leading instructor for the demolition expert trainees blows up. Wrecker, having had professional training in the military and lots of experience at not getting blown up (again), is their best take so he becomes their new instructor for the new hires.

Crosshair: Nobody is really willing to hire him so he's an unlicensed taxi driver most nights. (He hates everything about it.) He also signed up as a freelance roadkill collector job in Hunter's name and takes the calls when he doesn't have passengers.

He meets railroaders when cleaning up railkill one night. When smoking he mentions how much he hates being a taxi driver and the railroaders recruit him for their company. He becomes a traindriver and finally doesn't have to interact with his passengers.

Echo: They call it online sales associate marketer and customer service advisor. He calls it tele-scam-marketer. Many people yelling at him but at least he can work from home.

At a parent-teacher conference of Omega's school he helps another parent with a technology problem. He's like: "I tried to get rid of that problem for hours and you did it within five minutes. You gotta be a master software engineer." and Echo's like "I get payed to get yelled at as a telemarketer". Turns out the guy is an HR associate at an IT company and gets Echo a proper job.

[liesmyth]

Your jock posting is always super helpful, but I’ve got a question! I’ve been doing couch to 5k for awhile, probably the third time over the course of my life, because I need more cardio and running is the easiest to fit into my schedule because I can just put on shoes and go out the door, you know? I can do 20 minutes of sustained jogging, I just hate every minute. I’ve read about how your pace is supposed to be something that you can sustain a conversation during, but I don’t think there’s a pace slow enough that isn’t a walk where I could do that. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks for your time!

hi hi hi I'm glad I could help! The short answer is that you're fine to keep doing what you're doing, actually! the much longer answer is below

So, you're correct that "conversational pace" is ideally supposed to be your ideal easy run / jog pace, but it's really not uncommon for beginners to not really have an "easy" pace because you feel extremely out of breath even if you're going as slow as you think you possibly can.

Short digression. "Conversational pace" doesn't mean that you should be able to recite poetry fluently — if you can burst out a short sentence or do a decent sing-along to your playlist, that's okay. If all you can do is grunt and say "yes" or "no", even when jogging very slowly, then yeah, you want to be able to eventually build an aerobic base where you can jog and have enough breath left to communicate. It just means that you have a goal to work towards.

Anyway. One thing to keep in mind is that "you shouldn't run any harder than X" is a rule of thumb that's geared towards runners who want to optimise their efforts, whether that's a hobby runner who wants to get faster or an athlete who's stacking up easy miles to rest for the quality workouts. But it's not, like, a hard limit. For most people, there aren't negative consequences to doing high-intensity cardio for 20 minutes a few times a week. If you were training for a 10k and needed to hit a certain (higher) mileage, then the fact that you finish all your runs feeling very out of breath might have been more of a concern, because it would be less sustainable. But if you want to keep training at your current volume, you don't HAVE to change it up if you don't want to. Genuinely, the best exercise is the kind of exercise that's convenient to you, so you can keep doing it consistently. If you keep running those 20 mins every few times a week at the same speed, it will eventually gets easier in terms of effort. Once it starts to feel easier, congrats, you're done! Keep on doing those 20 minutes but enjoy being able to breathe better. Maybe you'll hate it a little less, but even if you don't it'll still be short and convenient, which is what most people want in a workout 💪

IF you want to change it up a bit, you could try doing some intervals. Jog then walk until you catch your breath then start again. Jog then walk briskly. Jog faster then slower. Whichever feels more fun or rewarding to you. You can lengthen the C25k schedule for your purposes if you want to fit in longer walking breaks.

(Another common recommendation you might see online is to go slower. yes. even slower. I KNOW; you're probably thinking "I might as well just walk. I'm going slower than if I was walking." But, actually, the mechanics of running and walking are different enough that it could be worthwhile to condition your body for running if you jog at a glacial pace vs. if you were walking briskly going faster. HOWEVER. In your case. I think it's not really worth it, especially because jogging slow as hell can be quite frustrating and your objective is to make it as painless as possible. So I'm bringing this up for completion's sake in case you want to give it a go but I wouldn't recommend it.)

I hope this helps!

[keplercryptids]

for my new ttrpg campaign, Choir (scifi, multi-system, set in a homebrewed universe based on the machineries of empire books' setting), we've been playing a bunch of worldbuilding games in preparation, including one- or two-shots for each PC to play out specific moments from their backstories. (for more general campaign info, see this post!)

anyway, i thought i'd write up brief summaries as to how these backstory games have gone, because they've been a blast and i highly recommend doing this for a campaign that'll involve deep character exploration.

1. Love Triangle in a Death Cult Regency

PC: Idona Noci (they/he)

TTRPG: Good Society, "a collaborative regency rpg that seeks to capture the heart, and the countenance, of Jane Austen’s work."

Backstory situation: How teenage Noci chose duty over love.

Present-campaign Noci is a trained torturer and professional indoctrinator, but they were just a teen once who had to choose between an arranged marriage or a continued relationship with a lower-class boyfriend. We played out one week set 25 years pre-campaign to show how Noci chose marriage and responsibility over love. The setting was a space station that floods with time-keeping tides, set during a week-long celebration of the faction's revered saints. Good Society was such a fun vehicle to play out the intricacies of a death cult space society, and the two-shot was honestly so moving???? i have not stopped thinking about it???? A++++.

2. Chase Through Space

PC: Moment's Pallor (she/zie)

TTRPG: HOUNDs, "a dice-stacking roleplaying game about the bond between a mech pilot and their robot companion."

Backstory situation: How Pallor was caught trying to run away with a stolen, sentient spaceship.

Present-day Pallor is a coder, a scientist, has already been executed once, and doesn't understand why it didn't stick. We changed HOUNDs to be about a computer coder/hacker and a sentient space-moth that had been harnessed and augmented into a ship. Five years prior to the campaign, Pallor connected to said moth, realized that it was sentient, liberated it and tried to escape the empire. Zie was caught and executed for this, then brought back to life under mysterious experimental means. HOUNDs was so much fun and did a great job ramping up the tension of the chase and allowing touching, calm moments too. (We play online, and used Tabletop Simulator on steam for the dice-stacking, which worked very well!) I love this mothgirl and i can't wait until zie can be with hir moth again wahhhh.

3. Divorce Negotiations

PC: Attra Rose (she/her)

TTRPG System: A Long Night in the Mech Bay, "A TTRPG about Relationships Reforged in Conflict."

Backstory situation: Rose and her wife (an NPC) negotiate a divorce while reminiscing about their relationship.

One year before the campaign starts, Rose got divorced (but they will be on the same crew once the campaign starts, oops). We used an albeit incredibly hacked version of LNitMB to play out the seven years of Rose and Han's relationship, from meeting up until and through the divorce negotiations. This was mostly accomplished by completely rewriting all the questions so that they were specific to this couple, and reversing which kinds of questions were asked first, so that it started with happy memories before we entered The Agonies. We also added NPC opportunities and setting description stuff so that the other two players could contribute, but the basic framework was still really useful for this kind of exploration, and I love the idea of starting a brand-new campaign with scar tokens lollllll. anyway i am unwell and having a GREAT time.

[cowabungacarl420]

So, what's TMNT: Aftermath?

TMNT: Aftermath is my TMNT iteration! It exists mostly in my brain right now, but the goal is to make more posts about it and maybe eventually make some short comics or fics around it. General plot summary and character bios under the cut!

What happens when your entire life leads up to one battle, and then before you know it it's over? You're 18, your entire life stretches out ahead of you, and you realize you have absolutely no plan from here. The Shredder has been defeated. Now what? It's just you and the aftermath.

Characters

Splinter - A year after the final battle, Splinter developed a series of tumors and became mostly bed-bound. He is aware that he likely doesn't have much time left. In theory, he should be at peace. He lived long enough to watch his sons triumph over the odds and defeat the man threatening their lives. So why does he feel so much regret?

Leonardo - Leonardo often wakes up in a cold sweat. He delivered the killing blow in the final battle, and while it's something he knows he should be proud of, there's something about beheading someone that fundamentally changes who you are as a person. To soothe his guilt, Leo dedicates most of his time to meditation and caring for his ailing father.

Michelangelo - Mikey sustained a serious leg injury in the final battle. He tried to hide it, but eventually it became clear that he just couldn't continue training. And hey, he didn't see the point anyway. The Shredder was dead, right? Why should he keep practicing stupid moves and waking up early for meditation? Mikey's life is his, and he's going to do what he damn well pleases with it. Like, uhh.... Okay, maybe he left without much of a solid plan. But he has a hut on the beach front to crash in. And a group of late night partiers have been nice to him. Maybe they could be his new family.

Raphael - With Splinter unwell and Mikey quitting, ninja training screeched to a halt. Raphael is full of energy and resentment, and he has no idea what to do with it all. He befriended Casey by chance in his early teen years, and now Raph spends most of his time in his bedroom, smoking weed and talking about the kind of vigilantes they want to be.

Donatello - When things in his family life seem unstable, Donnie turns to the comforting structure of academia. Donatello has enrolled in online college! And while his robotics course is great, he can't help but feel envious of his classmates. Long nights alone, staring at their social media pages and contemplating what life would be like if he could go out and participate. Some nights, he can't resist trailing his classmates from a distance. Just to observe.

Casey - Casey and Raphael met when they were 13. Maybe it was because he was a feisty kid who didn't admit to being scared of anything, maybe it was because Raphael seemed more scared of him, but Casey didn't run off. Instead, that was the start of a bizarre but rewarding friendship between the two. Unfortunately, being friends with a giant humanoid reptile doesn't automatically make your life interesting. Casey stacks shelves at a grocery store 3 days a week, and spends the other 4 smoking weed with Raph, and discussing what their lives would look like if they actually had meaning. Did you know that the world of ice hockey is actually very competitive? It's disheartening.

Karai - It's weird seeing your dad get beheaded in front of you. Even weirder when you kind of think he deserves it. Once the Shredder died, the Foot Clan fell apart without much ceremony. Some members went off to form their own small-time petty crime rings, but not Karai. She got an apartment, and tried to figure out what her life could be when 'accessory to a war criminal' was no longer a viable career path. It's also decidedly more difficult to put that life behind you when the guy who beheaded your dad keeps trying to invite you over for tea so you can bury the hatchet. You're 90% sure he's just lonely.

April - April O'Neil saw patterns where no one else did. Some would argue she saw patterns where there were none. But god damn it, she knew what she saw on that rooftop. And no amount of being called a crackpot conspiracy theorist would stop her from getting to the bottom of figuring out who those weird looking green guys were. She WILL expose the truth this time, no matter what it takes.

[inkwell-passion]

The Breaking Point

'Fires Erupt in Ithaca' the headline of the most recent issue of 'Golden Sun' News. That's what fills my eyes, everything else getting lost in my tunnel vision. I thought I won. They died, what do you mean the Fires started?

I failed her. The 108 vultures, wanting to obtain her company….her employees. I didn't keep them safe.

My eyes scan the article, trying to figure out how many casualties there were, when my eyes catch, '20 dead, another 21 injured'.

My mind flashes back to the operation, it was only a few weeks ago.

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Agent Maelstrom and Agent 'Barn Owl' would be sat in the car, checking their weapons, Agent Maelstrom would be carrying an SMG in his right hand, and a stun baton in his left, the SMG was of his own modification, utilizing Caseless ammunition, a suggestion from Agent 'Barn Owl'.

"Ready Little Wolf?" Agent 'Barn Owl' asks, chambering a round into her 'Spear of the Heavens', a unique Sniper Rifle commissioned by the Agent from Hephaestus' Hammer.

"I've always thought myself more of a Fox." Agent Maelstrom quips, a playful smile on his face that quickly hides itself away upon seeing Agent 'Barn Owl's unamused look.

"You rely on a pack, an Alpha, thus you are a Wolf. Show your independence and maybe you'll be a Fox." Barn Owl informs, before checking the window. "Open the door, this is our stop."

"What do you mean Open the door? we're still going 60!" Maelstrom whisper shouts.

"you got training for this." Barn Owl responds, before diving out of her side of the car, Maelstrom following suit due to having no alternative.

Maelstrom measures up the building, giving a confused look to Barn Owl. "Why are we striking a business on your home turf?" The Building itself was grand, as if compensating for something, windows liter every floor providing ample angles for a sharpshooter to make their mark.

"This Business is trying to annex your mother's Company, A Law Firm specializing in Domestic Affairs." Barn Owl explains, before continuing. "They plan to sell it for parts once they have it, destroying all the good she's down for her people, and her employees."

Maelstrom's anger flares as he chambers a round into his SMG. "Keep me covered." Maelstrom would stack up on the door, watching as Barn Owl moves to a nearby Parking Garage.

"IRIS Comms Link Online? Do you Read Me Maelstrom?"

"Five By Five Barn Owl."

"Reading 8 in the main lobby, can you take them out on your own?" Barn Owl requests.

Maelstrom would breach the main door, peppering the receptionists with rounds from his 'Wolf Bite' SMG. "DOWN ON THE GROUND" He barks sparking the shock baton to intimidate the Civilians, who comply easily.

The Receptionists, as they are bleeding out, manage to hit the silent alarm.

"Little Wolf, I'm hearing comms chatter, you've got incoming." Barn Owl informs Maelstrom, who quickly knocks a table on its side, before ducking behind the receptionist's desk.

"So why'd you knock the table on its side?" Barn Owl asks, a slight amused tone in her voice.

"Draw their attention, they're gonna think I'm over there, and not here." Maelstrom elaborates, getting rewarded with a soft chuckle from Athena. "I know I chose the right kid."

"I'm not a kid!" Maelstrom audibly pouts.

"Hey Little Wolf, You've got incoming, 5 of them, well armored carrying Shotguns." Barn Owl returns to the problem at hand.

Maelstrom waits for them to round the corner, smirking as they take the bait and start pumping rounds into the decoy table, allowing Maelstrom to leap the counter and choke one out using his shock baton to put pressure.

The other 4 turn to face him as they start firing at his direction, Maelstrom lifting the one he is choking out to take the majority of the abuse, dropping him when they're reloading. and taking the shotgun from the corpo's corpse, firing at the center of mass and dropping two of the armored juggernauts.

This leaves Maelstrom open for the other two to surround him, Maelstrom starts analyzing the environment for a possible solution. Right before the one behind him pulls the trigger, Maelstrom feels as if everything around him slows down, a Sniper shot ringing out as he watches the man behind him drop like a back of hammers.

"Need some help?" Barn Owl remarks with an audible smirk. "Hey, the guy in front of you, wrestle the shotgun from him and get it under his jaw."

"What the hell do you mean wrestle it from him?" Maelstrom barks. "He'll shoot me before I even get close."

"Not right now, your thoughts and movements are much quicker." Barn Owl informs

"How'd you manage that?! Did you drug me?" Maelstrom nearly whimpers.

"Don't worry about it, quick do it."

Maelstrom dives to close the distance, the Juggernaut seemingly moving in slow motion, as Maelstrom grabs the 'Uppercut' Shotgun, wrestling it from the juggernaut and putting it under his jaw, decorating the ceiling with grey matter.

Maelstrom's temporal perception returns to normal as a line of infantry start running down the hall from the elevator, a single file line. Maelstrom smirks, and links into Barn Owl's Scope Camera, waiting for her to line the shot up, and at the last second, he would dive back under the receptionist's desk.

The Sniper rings out once again as the line of Infantry fall, painting the halls red with specks of white.

"Hallway clear, get in that elevator, we need to wipe that server network." Barn Owl orders.

"Why not just wipe the entire building? We're doing pretty good" Maelstrom inquires

"That might bite us in the ass later, families will demand reparations, raids could start." Barn Owl responds.

"Bullshit, they'll never know we're connected." Maelstrom asserts, leaping out of the Receptionists desk and running down the hall, taking a handgun, ammo, and a plate carrier from the infantry, before sliding into the elevator.

While in the elevator, Maelstrom would discard his suit jacket if but for a moment to get the plate carrier on, before sliding his suit jacket back on, getting the helmet he also nabbed from the Infantry over his head.

"You didn't mention they would be this heavily armored" Maelstrom mentions.

"I didn't expect you to go in guns blazing." Barn Owl barks.

"It was the quickest way!" Maelstrom defends

"The quickest way is also often the least useful!" Barn Owl growls.

The elevator opens up to reveal an advanced firing line of six infantry, three on one knee, and three standing above them.

Maelstrom curses under his breath as he walks out of the elevator putting his hands up. "Alright, Alright you got me." He says calmly, a relaxed smile on his face.

"Maelstrom what are you doing?" Barn Owl Chastises.

Maelstrom doesn't respond.

"KNEES ON THE GROUND." The officer orders, and Maelstrom complies, a twinkling spark in his eyes that is hidden behind the helmet.

"Take his helmet off" the Officer orders one of the infantry, a Security guard that has the name tag 'Jenny R. S.' who complies with the order though not without Maelstrom shuffling a bit.

"Y'know you guys impress me" Maelstrom begins, smirking as his messy white hair frames his face.

"KEEP THAT TRAP SHUT" The Officer barks.

"if you say so" Maelstrom concedes, the glow in his emerald eyes at a full bright.

"Why do you have an Olympian Glow?" The Officer demands.

"Why do you watch the mouth and not the hands?" Maelstrom asks, before rolling his hand and revealing the hand grenade he snatched from the Security guard, pulling the pin with his teeth and tossing it, and diving into the elevator as it opens its doors once more, from reinforcements trying to intercept, Maelstrom uses the handgun he stole to pop them in the head as he hides behind the door of the elevator, feeling the rumble of the hand grenade detonating.

The rest of the rise up the building went smoothly, and Maelstrom cleared both the data and the building, before repelling down and meeting up with Barn Owl.

"You're a dumbass." Barn Owl reprimands, before smiling softly. "Good work today."

Maelstrom grins at her. "Thanks!"

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My fists tremble in rage, it swells inside me. I should have listened to her, we just needed that data, but I wanted to take the easy route. And what of Odysseus, where was he as I was defending Mom's Legacy from those vultures.

Something clicks.

"Why do I care what he thinks? He's an old man lost in the past." My voice flies free from my lips to open air.

"I'm done living in his shadow. Done trying to live up to his expectations, I'm my own person" I reassure to myself.

I'd message Athena, 'Hey, I'd like to ramp up my training. Make Me Bleed'

All she responds with is an Owl emoji.

I would walk out of my office and head to the sparring grounds, calling for Seraphim-076 to meet me there.