#moon 452

[pikaclan]

Moon 452

Season: Leaf-fall

Ceremonies

Newly-made apprentice, Fringepaw, touches noses with their new mentor, Jumblewisp

Budpaw sits excitedly beside Braveplume as the meeting ends, and hopes they'll be doing something exciting like battle training first. Their claws are itching to tear at something

Births

Oddflight has been waiting eagerly to meet their offspring. At Snapmuzzle's invitation, they crawl into the nursery, purring and joining Snapmuzzle in licking their litter of 2 kits clean

Kestrelkit (female) and Goatkit (female) are born!

Scorchbud has been impatient for the end of Wisteriaflare's pregnancy, and when they hear Wisteriaflare has gone into labor, they drop what they're doing and sprint for the nursery, where Wisteriaflare is bringing a litter of 4 kits into the world

Blotchkit (male), Brindlekit (female), Elderkit (male), and Brushkit (male) are born!

Misc

Fadedflake was seen chasing a rogue off the territory

Health

Starlingstar's whitecough is gone Mulberrydust's infection abated Cinderrip recovered from whtiecough Cinnamonbreeze got a running nose

Patrols

While searching for some specific herbs, Gingerhorn is startled by weird sounds and whispers on the wind. They follow the sounds to find a struggling queen with newborn kits. Gingerhorn helps while Pigeondart sprints back to camp

Dropletblotch (female), Ramkit (male), and Lyrekit (female) join the Clan

A gang of rogues jump out from a tumble of rocks! They are coordinated and use the patrol's shock against them

Vineflicker and Myrtledazzle died

The patrol hears desperate screams from a nearby lake and rescue an old cat from a Twoleg.

Aloebelly (femlae) joins the Clan. She is fixed

[luvdsc]

TIFU by getting hit by a car over labubus that i was trying to get for the girl i like.

a broken arm is temporary. labubus (and winning your affection) are forever.

pairing :: lee donghyuck x reader genre :: comedy, fluff ⋮ friends to lovers au word count :: 4,751 words warnings :: haechan gets hit by a car but it's not graphic playlist :: the cutest pair (regina song) ⋆ buy me presents (sabrina carpenter) ⋆ buzz (niki) ⋆ soft spot (keshi) ⋆ everything i want (beabadoobee) author’s note :: happy new year, honey bees !!! here's another f2l fic, like is anyone surprised at this point? happy 4 year friendversary (plus 4 days) to moon and me, it'll be 5 years on april fool's with lana, and luvdsc officially turns 6 on the 8th !! ily all sm and thank you so so much for all the support and love these past 6 years, honey bees ᥫ᭡ ↳ part of a nonsense christmas: reddit edition collaboration series.

i. if you were a wise man, (you wouldn’t put your life on the line for bug eyed dolls)

r/TIFU

u/ifyouseekamy-yn3435 • 1d

TIFU by getting hit by a car over labubus that I was trying to get for the girl I like

I (24M) was trying to rush to be first in line at the Popmart grand opening and arrived at 11 PM the night before. The girl I like is really into Labubu and Dimoo, and the new store will be fully stocked, first come first serve. I got in line and was fifth in waiting to get into the store. But before that, I had to sit in my car until midnight when people started lining up outside the mall entrance. It got too rowdy though, so the security guard yelled for everyone to go back to the parking structure. Obviously, people slowly inched their way back to the entrance again after pretending to leave, so I made sure to nab a spot by hiding in the bushes closest to the mall doors. Finally at 8 AM, they let us inside and I sprinted into the mall past almost everyone else. I secured the goods (have a seat set, exciting macaron set, wings of fortune, happy halloween party, fall in wild, flip with me) and happily made it out. This was going to be the best Christmas present for the girl I like, and therefore increase my chances of her saying yes to a date. But there was someone driving at way more than 15mph in the mall parking lot and with no care for stop signs and pedestrian walkways. So they ran over a few orange cones before coming to a stop after hitting the biggest speed bump aka me. Now I’m left with a broken arm, a couple bruised ribs, and hopped up on pain meds in the hospital on Christmas day with nothing else to do except post on reddit

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farts-and-minecrafts205 • 16h did you secure the goods tho ??? are they ok ??

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ifyouseekamy-yn3435 • 13h Yes right when I saw the car coming, I made sure to lovingly cradle the labubus in my arms. I didn’t let them hit the ground even after I was in the fetal position in the middle of the parking lot and my ribs acted like their airbags ➥ Reply ⥣ 1.7k ⥥

smoothkriminal423 • 12h thank god the resale prices would go down if they got scratched

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ifyouseekamy-yn3435  • 3h gtfo of here fake ass mj stan ➥ Reply ⥣ 452 ⥥

T1NF01LH4T323 • 1h when you got hit, did you go hee hee or goofy’s chuckle ➥ Reply ⥣ 1.1k ⥥

0rgasm-d0n0r813  • 9h can I have the labubus she doesn’t want

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pissrevolver1122 • 3h reselling labubus here!!! pm for prices 

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ii. baby you would drop, every other ho ho ho, and put me on top

Lee Donghyuck is down bad.

Actually, let’s circle back to that. He is utterly, horrifically, astronomically down bad. There is no other way to describe the situation unfolding in front of him right now because why is he letting you sit at his desk in front of his prestige, top of the art gaming set up, complete with the comfiest gaming chair, matching keyboard with rainbow lighting and teddy bear keycaps, and a personally customized Acer Predator Orion 7000 PC with a miniature arcane Jinx figurine inside it?

Meanwhile, he is seated on the edge of his bed, precariously balancing your MacBook covered in Sailor Moon and Nanami stickers on his knees and fighting for his life as he dodges attacks from Samira and Leona, quickly putting up a shield on his Lulu. Sure, it was stupid to play as Lulu when he’s in the dragon lane, but in his defense, he wanted to try a new AP setup and thought Mark would be a better support than this, what with the obscene amount of money he spent on all those Seraphine skins. If Mark had spent even half the amount of hours as the amount of dollars he blew on those skins, he would be doing better than 0:3:0 within the first five minutes of the game.

“Mark, dude, are you trying to lose on purpose or have you always been naturally gifted at sucking ass?” Donghyuck grits out between his teeth, his fingers moving across the keyboard at top speed, not even sure if his friend can hear him through his wired Apple earphones since he has so graciously let you borrow his top tier headphones, too (Maybe it’s for the better though. He has a permanent dent in his hair on the top of his head because of them).

You don’t even need the headphones. He has turned off the voice chat option for you because you didn’t need to be hearing the absolute scum that comes from the average league player anyway (Not that you would. Mark has been getting the brunt of it from the rest of the team, himself included). But he wanted to give you the full gamer experience, and you look so cute, perched at his desk and attentively scanning the map, his headphones resting on your head so nicely.

All he gets is radio silence from Mark before he sees K/DA Seraphine inching away towards the middle lane. “Are you kidding me? Y/N, can you move to my lane? Mark is too butt hurt to continue dying in the bot lane, I guess.”

“Yes, do I just follow you around?” you ask, carefully guiding your Ahri towards Haechan’s Lulu, careful to check the upper left map view to make sure no one from the enemy team is lurking around you. You stop briefly to admire her animations, her red nine tails swirling around her, making her look ethereal. “This skin is so pretty, thanks for getting it for me, Hyuck.”

“Oh, sure, anytime,” Donghyuck says as casually as possible, completely ignoring the fact that his wallet is now five hundred dollars lighter, all thanks to one Signature Immortalized Legend skin for Ahri. Even he doesn’t have that skin. But what else was he supposed to do? Not buy it for you after you mentioned liking it after he set up League of Legends on your laptop for you to try a few hours ago (nevermind the fact that he’s the one playing on your MacBook now instead)? You chose Ahri because you wanted to play a pretty champ, and of course, he was going to make sure you get the prettiest skin to go with her.

“Oh my god, did you see that?” you gasp excitedly after you hit E and the orbs from Ahri’s second skill swirl and hit Leona, effectively stealing Donghyuck’s kill. “I got her!”

“Yes, you did, congrats, that’s amazing,” Donghyuck struggles to maintain a happy tone, schooling his expression into a peaceful one with much concentration, but it’s alright. It’s perfectly fine. He’s fine. It’s not like he needed an eighth kill to get the legendary title. He can just go for Samira instead. “Can you aim at Samira and hit W please?”

You carefully follow his instructions, and Ahri’s charm move hits Samira perfectly with the heart, pulling the enemy towards your Ahri and Haechan’s Lulu. With a victorious cry, he takes out the enemy and secures the legendary title.

“You’re doing really well,” he compliments you, and your cheeks grow warm as you click at the screen, pretending to focus even more on taking down the opponent’s turret as you answer sheepishly. “Thank you, it’s really fun.”

“Maybe you can play support next time instead of Mark,” he muses, a satisfactory grin appearing on his face when the two of you finally take down the first turret of the game. “That bastard just stands around and looks pretty. He practically feeds the other team.”

He can hear faint cursing in his headphones from the bastard in question, but he ignores it, opting to focus on the sound of your giggling that makes his heart skip a beat and his cheeks take on a rosy hue.

“Mm, you really think so, Hyuck? I think it’s just all beginner’s luck right now,” you laugh softly, maneuvering Ahri around and following his champ towards the mid lane. “Plus, you’re hard carrying us.”

Your borrowed laptop almost slips off of his lap as your words register in his mind, the soft lilt in your voice making his stomach do cartwheels and somersaults that would even impress Simone Biles. Donghyuck very nearly lets out a high pitched giggle before he remembers to get a goddamn grip on himself and hastily clears his throat. “Nah, I think the jungle is doing really well, too. And you’re keeping up with us.”

“Yeah?” Your eyes light up, and he swears they’re even prettier and sparkle more than the one house that goes out all on the Christmas light decorations at the end of the street. “Maybe we can play together more then.”

He swallows hard, eyes zeroing on the screen in front of him so he wouldn’t seem as eager as he really is secretly. “Sure, that sounds great.”

“Great, it’s a date,” you say lightly, and Donghyuck immediately stops breathing and promptly drops the laptop onto the carpeted floor, his Lulu getting instantly KOed in the game while Mark swears loudly in his earphones.

ii. spend your cookie dough, dough, dough, spend it on my heart

It’s times like these that Donghyuck really has to sit and think hard about what the actual fuck he is doing with his life. It’s not like he has anything else to do anyway. He’s sitting in the nearly empty mall parking lot at 11 PM, preparing to camp out in front of the entrance just to make sure he’d be one of the first people to enter Popmart and buy all those Labubus you’ve mentioned that you’ve been wanting.

He’s tried for months now, obsessively refreshing the Popmart app on his phone and iPad in addition to refreshing the website on his computer at 10 PM sharp on Thursdays in hopes of snagging just one of them for you. He’s even made a whole account, added his credit card in for fast payments, and watched those stupid 24/7 TikTok lives from the Popmart accounts just in case they release any on there as well. All he ended up with was no Labubus and two hundred thirty dollars short because he discovered that they had a K/DA figurine collaboration and obviously, he immediately bought the whole set. 

But his prayers were answered in a convoluted way because news dropped that a new Popmart was opening nearby on December 24th, which meant it would be fully stocked with all the Labubus you want, and he’d be damned if he let this opportunity pass. It was both a curse and a blessing. What kind of corporate devil chooses their grand opening to be on Christmas Eve? So that leads to his current predicament: sitting in his car, about to brave the cold for the next 10 hours outside for some dumb dolls and fighting through the last minute Christmas shoppers during the hours after that.

Donghyuck puts on a couple more extra layers, including a giant Canada Goose jacket for good measure, and stuffs his pockets with an external battery charger, some power bars, and a water bottle. Finally, he makes peace with the fact that this is what his life has come down to, that he really is this down bad for you, and he gets out of his car, shuffling over to the entrance and standing in line with all the other men who are probably there to get Labubus for their girlfriends and wives. They all give each other the nod in solidarity, and so begins the wait.

He sits with his back against the wall, huddled up in his puffer jacket and pulling out his phone to play Wild Rift to pass the time. If one game averages between 15 - 30 minutes, then he only needs to play 20 - 40 games. That’s not so bad, he reasons with himself, tapping the screen idly while he waits for the matchmaking to complete. He can do this.

By 5 AM, there’s a large crowd of people waiting, the noise level going up and some shoving going on. He quickly steels himself and stays firmly planted in his spot. He will be getting those damn dolls, no matter what. When the security guard comes out to break up the rowdy crowd, he quickly slips behind the nearby bushes lining the mall, taking advantage of the commotion. Once again, he settles down in the dirt, hunched over and playing his game, dignity lost but his place in line still in sight. Donghyuck really hopes no one he knows sees him here.

At 8 AM, one of the Popmart store managers takes pity on the growing crowd (who returned less than an hour later after the security guard got tired of monitoring them) and opens the mall doors. He quickly pops out of the bushes, no doubt scaring a couple people but he couldn’t care less at this point, and sprints into the mall, beelining it to the figurine store and securing his spot as fifth in line. He hastily brushes off the dirt clinging to the seat of his pants and any twigs in his hair before waiting impatiently.

Finally, by 9 AM, Donghyuck has secured the goods at last, clutching onto four large bags filled with two full sets of Labubu blind boxes, two of the larger dolls, and three special plush keychains (he ignores the email notification from his bank asking if he had made this purchase). Strutting with his head held high, he would do a hair flip if his hands weren’t so occupied with carrying out half the store’s supply of Labubus. He proudly walks through the mall with his long coveted purchases, feeling even more triumphant than when he reached grandmaster in League and ranked in the top 200 for Master Yi.

Unfortunately, Lady Luck always gets to have the last laugh because Donghyuck barely makes it out the door before he finds himself lying flat across the crosswalk pavement. A loud yelp escapes from his lips as he instinctively grips onto his shopping bags, curling around them protectively as pain shoots up around his ribcage and forearm. He wants to laugh or cry or maybe do both simultaneously.

This has to be a joke. All that work, all that humiliation, just to be bested by someone’s god awful, hideous Cybertruck. He’s about to become the modern day Scrooge because all the ghosts must have come together to put up an even bigger middle finger salute to him since he just had to get hit with that fugly monstrosity to top it all off.

God damn it all, where the fuck was Edward Cullen when Donghyuck needed him the most?

The universe really didn’t want him to get those ugly dolls. He should have taken the L in defeat and read all the foreshadowing signs when he couldn’t get them every time he tried before that because now the universe is out of balance, and he had to pay for it. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction after all. Man plans, god laughs.

Jokes on the big man upstairs though because his Labubus are all still nestled safely in his arms in (hopefully) pristine condition, and they’d have to be pried from his cold, dead hands (which honestly, might be soon). Is this how Emily felt in “Devil Wears Prada” when she got hit by a taxi and all those Hermes scarves went flying (correction: floating) around her? He glances down just to see the fall in wild Labubu pendant smirking back at him mockingly, still in its perfect packaging and in his shaking clutches. He desperately wants to punch its smug little face, but his arm is unfortunately twisted in an unnatural position at the moment.

Donghyuck is knocked out of his stupor when he hears the sounds of the driver quickly clambering out from their seat, hurrying towards him and kneeling down, asking if he’s okay. Someone else is asking him if he wants them to call someone, and he faintly registers the excruciating pain in his ribs and the way he landed on his arm. Clenching his teeth, he closes his eyes before managing to croak out feebly:

“Are all the Labubus okay?”

iii. if you’re not gonna race here from the north pole to beverly hills the hospital, just to keep my stocking filled

When you wake up extremely late past noon on Christmas morning, you definitely do not expect the huge flurry of texts and missed calls on your phone. And more importantly, you most definitely do not expect to find out that Donghyuck is in the hospital. With your heart dropping to your stomach, you hastily get dressed and  grab your keys, entering the hospital address Renjun texted you into your Apple Maps as you rush to your car.

Making a quick detour to the bakery he likes, you get a couple slices of Mont Blanc for him before continuing on the route to the hospital. You haphazardly park your car before hurriedly speed walking through the automatic entrance doors, clutching tightly onto the box of baked goods as you get into the elevator and finally reach his room.

“Hyuck?” you say tentatively, knocking on the door and peering inside, relief filling you instantly when you see him seated upright in the hospital bed, awake and pouting. Along with all the balloons and flowers his friends must’ve dropped off earlier, there’s an unusually large pile of Popmart bags in the corner of his room, but you don’t question it at the moment. His heart rate spikes on the monitor, and you look at it in concern before his loud sigh brings your focus back to him.

“What took you so long?” Donghyuck huffs dramatically, trying to cross his arms over his chest as best he could with one arm in a cast. “I texted you this morning, didn’t I?”

“I just woke up like 45 minutes ago and rushed here,” you defend yourself lightly, dropping the cake box on the stand next to him, and his eyes instantly light up before he remembers that he’s supposed to be upset and turns his nose at you slightly.

“It’s 3 PM, what do you mean you just woke up? You forgot about me, didn’t you?” he huffs softly, peeking over at the cake for a split second and then resumes pouting at you, his lower lip jutting out slightly. 

“I, uh, I stayed up late, trying to catch up on my game,” you avoid eye contact, cheeks growing warmer as you try to excuse yourself, tripping over your words in haste. “There’s this Touring in Love event going on right now and I wanted to get the limited four star card for Zayne, so I had to get more game currency in the event store, not to mention, I needed to get more gems to pull on the current five star banner because I lost my pity to the Sylus card a—” 

“Is this that otome game you’re into?” Donghyuck interrupts, and your face feels like a burning furnace now.

“Yes.”

“I can’t believe it. I lost to a bunch of pixels,” he sighs a second time, flopping back against his pillows gingerly to not aggravate his bruised ribs but to also emphasize his sulkiness further. “You were too busy visiting your AI generated boyfriend in the hospital, instead of visiting  me.”

“I was asleep!” you protest lightly before picking up the cake again and holding up your peace offering, “The second I woke up and saw the texts, I drove over here. I even got you your favorite cake.”

“I sat here, cold, alone, and in pain, for hours,” he fake sniffles, unabashedly eyeing the cake for a third time before refocusing back on you.

“You’re acting like a real Rafayel right now.”

Donghyuck sulks even more. “He’s not even your favorite in the game.”

“Yes, my favorite works at the hospital, not makes the hospital work,” you tease softly, and he huffs slightly, puffing out his cheeks and making himself look even cuter (though you’re not going to tell him that and make his ego even bigger than it already is). 

“Wow, you’re bullying a gravely injured person on Christmas too. You’re cruel. I can’t even do anything, except lie here motionlessly on my deathbed,” he sighs once again, closing his eyes before opening one of them to peek at you and quickly shutting it again once he confirms he has your full undivided attention.

“Renjun texted me literally fifteen minutes ago that he just left your room, and you were asking him to bring you your iPad to do all the dailies for your games,” you deadpan, pulling the chair to the spot next to his bed and settling down in it.

“Renjun is a snitch,” he mutters, relaxing against his pillows and accepting the cake after you open the box and place it on the tray attached to his bed. He takes a bite of the sweet goodness, humming slightly in content. 

“So, your type is quiet, serious guys who work at hospitals?” Donghyuck says casually, scooping up another bite of the cake, and you nearly choke, fumbling over your words. 

“W-Well, yeah, I guess, but it’s just a game. And um, he’s quite pretty.” You clear your throat slightly giving him a mischievous smile. “Why? Are you interested?”

“In you? Yeah, I thought I made myself pretty obvious all the time,” he states matter-of-factly, almost as if he’s reading off today’s news headlines or the weather, and you choke for real this time, coughing slightly.

“Anyway,” Donghyuck continues, taking another bite of his cake after handing you a water bottle which you quickly accept and sip, calming down your throat. “Do you think you can maybe go for a Rafayel guy in the near possible future? More specifically, one minute into the future?” He gives you a small smirk, batting his eyelashes at you. “I’m also pretty enough, aren’t I? Once I’m out of this hospital gown and in my usual clothes, I’d be even prettier.”

You laugh softly, tilting your head slightly as you look at him, hiding your smile. “I guess I could be convinced. Why one minute though?”

“Because I’m about to ask you out,” he answers immediately.

Your cheeks grow exponentially warmer once again, and you swallow nervously before masking it with a confident expression, teasing him, “Then go on. Ask me out.”

Donghyuck’s cheeks turn a rosy color as the realization of what he’s about to do finally kicks in (and perhaps, the pain medication has started to wear off slightly, so the post clarity is hitting him). Once again, the monitor shows a spike in his heart rate, and he curses it internally when he sees you glancing at it with a knowing smile. It’s an even worse snitch than Renjun. He clears his throat, sitting up as straight as he possibly can in this state, “Will you, Y/N, go out with me and be the very first person to sign my cast?”

You giggle before nodding, sending him a giddy smile as your heart thumps loudly in your chest, an explicable warm feeling spreading throughout your body and kicking up butterflies in your stomach. “Yes, I’ll go out with you.”

He immediately lights up, beaming at you. “Yeah? Wanna seal it with a kiss? I would if I could.”

Another peal of laughter bubbles up in your throat, but you oblige, leaning in and pressing your lips against his gently, the faint taste of caramel lingering on his lips. The kiss is sweet and smooth, fitting for him, and the loud beeping from his heart monitor increases almost immediately, much to his chagrin. You laugh softly against his lips at the sound, making his cheeks flush even redder if possible, and give him another soft kiss before pulling away.

“We should stop before we alert the nurses,” you tease softly, and he stammers, unable to come up with a smartass response for once in his life.

Your face is still warm as you busy yourself with uncapping the sharpie pen on the table next to him and work on signing his cast, writing your name out in pretty loopy cursive and a get well soon message, dotting any i’s with cute hearts that mirror the ones in Donghyuck’s eyes as he gazes at you.

“Didn’t the guys visit you? Why didn’t they sign your cast?”

“I wanted you to be the first one. Girlfriend privileges, and all that,” he answers lightly, and your heart skips a beat at your new title. You wonder if you’ll get used to it.

“Oh, really? I’m honored.”

“You should be,” Donghyuck says with a confident nod, and you can’t help but laugh, leaning in and pressing another kiss against his cheek. His cheeks turn crimson, and you notice, prompting you to leave another soft kiss against them and causing them to become an even embarrassingly darker shade of red as he stutters slightly, rendered speechless.

Yeah, you definitely can get used to these girlfriend privileges.

.

“So you won the real life boyfriend pity with me, right?” 

“Don’t push your luck.”

iv. well i know somebody who will

r/TIFU

u/ifyouseekamy-yn3435 • 9h

(UPDATE) TIFU by getting hit by a car over labubus that I was trying to get for the girl I like

First off, let me get this straight - I am not reselling any of the Labubus so stop pming me about that. I already gave them to her.

Ok now for the actual update. She visited me at the hospital and insisted that she’d drive me home when I got discharged. She’s really nice and brought me my favorite food. She’s also been bringing me meals everyday and we’re having dates at my place until my arm is fully healed. We have another date later today and we’re gonna watch Tangled and bake cookies. She also got me into blind boxes so now I have another crippling addiction and a shelf in my room just for Dimoos. We have matching Labubus on our bags, and she dressed them up in matching outfits too. She made me install a car seat thing on my AC in my car too so now my Labubu son can sit there when I start driving again. Oh and she has a whole pc setup now to play league and a new game, Infinity Nikki and I started playing it with her too. The graphics are very pretty. I feel like a pretty princess in my full flutter storm set ଘ(*ᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚ ⭒ Wish me luck on the upcoming banners pls I’m saving up for the lunar new year set since she said the franchise usually goes all out for it. So yeah that’s it. We’re dating now! Happy new year to everyone except zayne from love and deepspace /:

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farts-and-minecrafts205 • 9h TIFU by asking him about his date and I was stuck on the phone for three hours

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pissrevolver1122 • 8h fr OP became even more insufferable after finally scoring a date ➥ Reply ⥣ 809 ⥥

ifyouseekamy-yn3435 • 3h you're just jealous that the only affection you can get is by pretending to be a discord kitten ➥ Reply ⥣ 967 ⥥

mark-mywords-802 • 2h R U UWUKITTENBB69 ??!???! I BOUGHT U SO MANY AKALI SKINS ➥ Reply ⥣ 231 ⥥

John-Doe209 • 3h so is this a pity date or..? maybe she’s looking for a sugar daddy?

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ifyouseekamy-yn3435 • 1h SHUT UP SHE LOVES ME ➥ Reply ⥣ ⥥ -204

demure-and-mindfull-of-nanami626 • 2h what did zayne do to you???

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ifyouseekamy-yn3435 • 1h I got hit by a car for you and I still have to compete with that dude 😃 ➥ Reply ⥣ 153 ⥥ 

[kestrelteens]

Holidays are approaching and when I stumbled upon this cute set by TheClutterCat I was thrilled 'cause there's never enough clutter, especially winter holidays themed 🎄

Sooo, there's a bunch of items, everything is very low poly and there is no texture bigger than 512x512 since we don't want our texture memories to get overwhelmed during these cosy-wintery-Sims playing days ⛄️

Everything's compressed, there's a collection file as well! The items list and poly counts are under the cut, enjoy! ♥

download (sfs) // alt download (mediaifre)

This set consists of:

3 wise men 1 (608 polys, 4 swatches)

3 wise men 2 (240 polys, 4 swatches)

3 wise men 3 (452 polys, 4 swatches)

advent candles (688 polys, 6 swatches)

big gift pile (628 polys, 6 swatches)

candle arch lamp (functional, 1056 polys, 5 swatches)

freezer bunny snow globe (730 polys, 3 swatches)

gingerbread house (978 polys, 4 swatches)

gingerbread house doormat (not pictured, 308 polys, 5 swatches)

ho ho horse frame (590 polys, 7 swatches)

holy moly cowplant (740 polys, 4 swatches)

holywood (616 polys, 3 swatches)

moon candelabra (578 polys, 3 swatches)

big mr nutcracker (887 polys, 4 swatches)

mr smoky (858 polys, 4 swatches)

oranges tray (160 polys, 4 swatches)

reindeer (900 polys, 7 swatches)

small gift pile (396 polys, 4 swatches)

small mr nutcracker (831 polys, 4 swatches)

snowflake jar (112 polys, 5 swatches)

winterfest cookie jar (144 polys, 7 swatches)

winterfest friends rug (272 polys, 7 swatches)

winter greens (944 polys, 6 swatches)

8 wallpapers

[2for1bagels]

Wrenwolf Rainbow Week - Violet🟣

Sabine Wren x Shin Hati

452 words

The crackling of dry wood sings from the campfire a few feet away from Shin, it's warm notes lonely on the gentle Peridian breeze aside from the occational howl over the horizon as the flame's glow outshines the moon above.

Examining the helmet in her hands, turning it around so as to look into its visior, a soft smile graces her lips. Looking up and across to the other side of the fire, she speaks just a little louder than the wood sparks.

"It is formidable... But I still think I prefer you without it on."

Sabine smiles at the words, lowering the macrobinoculars and looking over the shoulder back at Shin from where she is stood facing the darkness.

"I bet you say that to all the girls on Peridia."

"Only you. And I would say the same on Coruscant."

The red that fills the Mandalorian's cheeks is unavoidable as her smile grows tenfold, turning back to continue scanning the horizon to not let the dark Jedi's power over her become too visible in the soft glowing light.

Her smile slipping into a sad one, Shin stands from her seat on the log nearby the fire and makes her way around the dancing flames to the other woman, coming to stand a step away, still holding onto the Mandalorian helmet.

"We will find him... We will. But not this late."

Sabine let's out a heavy sigh, but doesn't stop scanning the horizon for a few moments more, until she knows no one is heading their way. Finally giving up for the night, she looks down for a moment and flexes her hands, sore from holding the viewers up to her eyes.

"Here..." Shin speaks, before ducking to place the helmet on the floor, raising only to take the viewers as well and placing them next to the metal of the armour, the warm light of the fire illuminating the violet of the piece.

Standing to close the gap between the both of them, taking Sabine's hands in her own, she begins to massage them gently. The shorter woman watches, letting her turn each over to work on the knuckles too in silence, the slightly calloused skin showing the wear and tear of surviving on the mostly desolate planet.

"I really need to find him..." She admits quietly, holding down the block in her throat in fear of tears welling in her eyes.

Shin looks up from her work and smiles softly.

"You will. You've already found me, haven't you?"

Sabine nods, letting a little of the tears trickle down her face as the smile easily returns to her lips, pushing forward to press them against them against the white-haired girl's.

[mrsniallhoran505]

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[alienatedtsuki]

Hello there! You can call me Tsuki or 月, which translates to "moon" in Japanese. Feel free to use any pronouns you're comfortable with, as I'm good with any. I am in my early twenties, INFJ I'm fluent in 4 languages, currently honing my Japanese(5th language) to perfection. I ship NaruSasu/SasuNaru wholeheartedly.

Why did I start this blog with sns fanfiction? I currently have 452 fanfics downloaded in my sns folder. I've read all of them. It is only logical I share my thoughts and recommend some of them. This is the list of the best sns fanfiction I have ever read. (There is one post with Shisui/Naruto and Itachi/Naruto – "If life gives you other Uchiha, make it work", but that's it) Enjoy, dear 🍅🍥 fans! Right now we have such posts as:

Best of the best (single fic/author per post):

Best codependency series "Hopeless Wanderer" by dawnstruck [1]

Biggest, healthiest(they visit a therapist!), mostly SasuNaru, modern AU fanfiction [1]

"Kizunaverse" by YoungAndOverIntelligent [1]

Best of Domestic | Slice of Life | Farm AU [1]

Best short NaruSasu/SasuNaru Fanfiction [1]

Smut Recommendations:

Dom!Naruto/Sub!Sasuke [Kinktober 2023 Part I] [1]

Best of Kitty Play [NaruSasu] [1]

Best of A/B/O NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Oh, how useful are these shadow clones [1]

Best of Modern AU [4]

Recurring posts:

Redefining the normal | Post Chapter 698/699, NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1 2 3]

Valley of the End is truly the End [1]

After the Timeskip [1]

Naruto, take the wheel [1]

NaruSasu/SasuNaru, but they are smol (genin and younger) [1 2 3]

Child Neglect, NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Best of Modern AU [1 2 3 4]

Best of Office AU NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Best of Time Travel AU [1]

Best of "5 + 1 things" [1]

Best of oblivious Sasuke, NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Domestic NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Kyuubi | Nine-tails | Kurama Appreciation Post [1]

When Heroes Turn Writers, NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

[ryttu3k]

Trans Rights Readathon book list! I've gone through my ridiculous TBR and pulled out… pretty sure everything that qualifies. I've also included a few recs for books with trans writers, protags/major characters, or both!

On TBR, owned

Aoki, Ryka - Light from Uncommon Stars (SFF, 372 pages)

Lake, Joss - Future Feeling (SFF, 294 pages)

Lemberg, RB - The Unbalancing (fantasy, 244 pages - hard copy)

Polydoros, Aden - The City Beautiful (YA fantasy, 462 pages)

Quills, Coffee - Blasted Research (SF, 288 pages)

Wilkes, Ally - All The White Spaces (horror, 358 pages)

On TBR, not owned

Angus, Callum - A Natural History of Transition (collection, 200 pages)

Candon, Emma Mieko - The Archive Undying (SF, 482 pages)

Dawson, Juno - Her Majesty's Royal Coven (fantasy, 452 pages)

Edgmon, HE - The Witch King (YA fantasy, 432 pages)

Fellman, Isaac - Dead Collections (fantasy romance, 256 pages)

Kelly, Anita - Love and Other Disasters (romance, 371 pages)

Lamb, Sacha - When The Angels Left The Old Country (YA fantasy, 400 pages)

Lukens, FT - In Deeper Waters (YA fantasy, 307 pages)

Mandelo, Lee - Summer Sons (gothic horror, 372 pages)

McLemore, Anna-Marie - Lakelore (YA fantasy, 289 pages)

McQuiston, Casey - One Last Stop (fantasy romance, 422 pages)

Pulley, Natasha - The Mars House (SF, 469 pages)

St Hogan, Carter - One or Several Deserts (collection, 206 pages)

Thomas, Morgan - Manywhere (collection, 209 pages)

Ones I've already read and am nudging others towards

Chambers, Becky - Monk & Robot

Chant, Austin - Peter Darling

Cipri, Nino - Finna; Defekt

Drayden, Nicky - The Prey of Gods

Hess, Al - World Running Down

Künsken, Derek - The House of Styx

Jamnia, Naseem - The Bruising of Qilwa

Jarboe, Julian K - Everyone On The Moon Is Essential Personnel

Lavery, Daniel M - Something That May Shock And Discredit You (part essays, part memoir. Originally published as Daniel Mallory Ortberg)

Lee, Yoon Ha - Phoenix Extravagant

Lemberg, RB - The Four Profound Weaves (one of the only stories I've read with older trans characters)

Kalsulke, Calvin - Several People Are Typing

Maxwell, Everina - Winter's Orbit

Stinzi, John Elizabeth - My Volcano (completely bonkers (complementary))

Sylver, RoAnna - Chameleon Moon series; Stake Sauce series

Tingle, Chuck - Camp Damascus (one of my top three books of last year!)

White, Andrew Joseph - Hell Followed With Us (one of my other top three books of last year!); The Spirit Bares Its Fangs

[mel0dielynn]

My Heart 🩵

A HuaLian fanfic.

My works! My Front Page!

Word count: 452

Hua Cheng was supposed to be asleep. How could he though? His beloved was sleeping so soundly next to him. How could he sleep when after 800+ years of being Xie Lian's most devoted follower, and his one true love, actually confess his love back to him?

It seemed impossible, but here his highness was, sleeping ever so soundly next to him after admitting the truth that he reciprocated his feelings towards the oh-so hopelessly-in-love Ghost King. How could His highness, the crowned Price of Xianle ever love this pathetic and disgusting man?

As if sensing this dread from the man lying next to him, Xie Lian stirred in his sleep and turned over, facing his stressed lover. Hua Cheng did not notice this, as he thought that it was just Xie Lian turning over in his sleep.

Xie Lian only worried about his lover. Hua Cheng treated himself so unfairly and only belittled his own mind. Xie Lian knew that Hua Cheng was a strong man that deserved the world and more, and he tried to prove that everyday that he had with his Ghost King.

"My heart, what has you so troubled?" Xie Lian whispered into the darkness, only the light of the moon and stars shone through the holes in his shrine.

Hua Cheng looked over at Xie Lian and only thought that he had troubled him. "I'm sorry, Gege." If there had been more light, Xie Lian would have saw the tears starting to form.

"Don't apologize, my dear," still whispering, Xie Lian reached out into the darkness and started messing with Hua Cheng's long strands of hair. "I know not of what goes on in your beautiful, yet dark mind, but whatever it is," he took a long breath and shuffled closer. "Whatever troubles you, my heart, know that I am here for you, and that won't change. If you think you are not worth my love and praise, it is I who is unworthy of yours. However, I will make all your sorrows go away."

Hua Cheng was taken aback by this. Never, in all of his time -and that has been a long, long time- has he been told such beautiful words. "But.. Gege..." and this has started the tears to form only faster. He was a Ghost King, one of the strongest, yet here he was, on the verge of tears from the smallest form of love.

"There are no buts, my heart." Xie Lian sat up and leaned over to his lover. "Now, let me cast your worries away." And he leaned down, tucked his hair behind his ear, and gave him a soft and tender kiss.

[justalittlerandomartist]

New ask... Sailor Moon this time. What planet would represent you as a Sailor Senshi/Guardian/Scout (depending on the version you watched)

Dwarf Planets and Exoplanets are OK if you know them (I mean one of the outer Senshi is technically represented by a dwarf planet)

i would be sailor Kepler 452-B

[onepiecebdays]

august 15th - tsukimi

debut chapter: 448 (cover story)

recent chapter: 452 (cover story)

age at death: unknown

affiliation: moon

bounty: none

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.21

452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. 1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed. 1613 – Mikhail I is unanimously elected Tsar by a national assembly, beginning the Romanov dynasty of Imperial Russia. 1797 – A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists. 1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales. 1808 – Without a previous declaration of war, Russian troops cross the border to Sweden at Abborfors in eastern Finland, thus beginning the Finnish War, in which Sweden will lose the eastern half of the country (i.e. Finland) to Russia. 1828 – Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah. 1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine. 1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto. 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory. 1866 – Lucy Hobbs Taylor becomes the first American woman to graduate from dental school. 1874 – The Oakland Daily Tribune publishes its first edition. 1878 – The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut. 1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated. 1896 – An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing. 1913 – Ioannina is incorporated into the Greek state after the Balkan Wars. 1916 – World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins. 1918 – The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo. 1919 – German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany. 1921 – Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia adopts the country's first constitution. 1921 – Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup. 1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue. 1929 – In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA troops. 1934 – Augusto Sandino is executed. 1937 – The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War. 1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japanese kamikaze planes sink the escort carrier USS Bismarck Sea and damage the USS Saratoga. 1945 – World War II: the Brazilian Expeditionary Force defeat the German forces in the Battle of Monte Castello on the Italian front. 1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first "instant camera", the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America. 1948 – NASCAR is incorporated. 1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free". 1952 – The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). 1958 – The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom. 1965 – Malcolm X is gunned down while giving a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. 1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. 1972 – United States President Richard Nixon visits China to normalize Sino-American relations. 1972 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. 1973 – Over the Sinai Desert, Israeli fighter aircraft shoot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 jet killing 108 people. 1974 – The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt. 1975 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are sentenced to prison. 1994 – Aldrich Ames is arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for selling national secrets to the Soviet Union in Arlington County, Virginia. 1995 – Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon. 2013 – At least 17 people are killed and 119 injured following several bombings in the Indian city of Hyderabad. 2022 – In the Russo-Ukrainian crisis Russian President Vladimir Putin declares the Luhansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic as independent from Ukraine, and moves troops into the region. The action is condemned by the United Nations.

[richarddoi]

Fan Fiction:

RK-666: A Stormtrooper with Attitude

Chapter 1: The Mission Briefing

The hangar bay of the Imperial Star Destroyer Ruthless is bustling with activity. Stormtroopers assemble in neat rows, listening to the monotonous drone of Lieutenant Varlek as he outlines their next mission: securing a Rebel outpost on the forest moon of Keloris.

Amid the sea of white armor, RK-666 leans against a crate, his helmet tucked under one arm. His armor is scuffed and marked with scratches that he refuses to buff out.

VARLEK: “You will engage swiftly and without hesitation. Failure is not an option. Do I make myself clear?”

The troopers respond in unison: “Yes, sir!”

RK-666 (muttering): “Crystal clear, Lieutenant Boring. Wouldn’t want to interrupt your riveting TED Talk.”

The trooper next to him, RK-452, elbows him sharply.

RK-452: “Shut up, Sixes. Do you want to scrub reactor cores again?”

RK-666: “I’d rather clean reactor sludge than listen to another one of his pep talks. At least the sludge doesn’t pretend to be motivational.”

Varlek’s gaze snaps to RK-666, who immediately straightens up and pretends to look attentive.

VARLEK: “RK-666, is there a problem?”

RK-666: “No problem, sir. Just mentally preparing to inspire fear and loyalty in the hearts of the Rebel scum.”

Varlek glares but moves on. RK-452 shakes his head.

RK-452: “You’re gonna get yourself decommissioned one day.”

RK-666: “And miss all this fun? Not a chance.”

Chapter 2: The Infiltration

The stormtrooper squad deploys to Keloris, trudging through dense foliage under a canopy of stars. The Rebel outpost lies ahead, illuminated by scattered floodlights.

RK-666 holds his blaster casually, scanning the trees.

RK-666: “You know, for a forest moon, this place smells like wet bantha. Bet the Rebels’ secret weapon is bad hygiene.”

RK-452: “Focus, Sixes. You’re on point.”

RK-666: “Oh, joy. The Empire’s finest meat shield, reporting for duty.”

The squad creeps closer, and RK-666 spots a pair of Rebel sentries near the perimeter. He signals to the others and takes aim.

RK-666: (whispering) “Hey, you think they’ll surrender if I offer them better dental coverage?”

RK-452: “Just stun them, Sixes.”

RK-666 fires, hitting both sentries with precise shots. As the bodies hit the ground, he blows an imaginary puff of smoke from his blaster barrel.

RK-666: “Another happy customer.”

Chapter 3: The Rebel Counterattack

Inside the outpost, the squad encounters heavier resistance. Blaster fire fills the air as Rebels defend their stronghold. RK-666 dives behind cover next to RK-452.

RK-666: “Remind me again why we don’t get hazard pay?”

RK-452: “Because we’re expendable. Now shut up and cover me!”

RK-666 leans out, firing a burst that forces a Rebel to duck back into cover.

RK-666: “You know, if the Rebels spent half as much time practicing their aim as they do making inspirational speeches, we’d be toast.”

A grenade lands nearby. RK-666 snatches it up and tosses it back toward the Rebels, where it explodes in a fiery burst.

RK-666: “See? Recycling is good for the environment.”

Chapter 4: The Escape

With the outpost in flames and the mission technically a success, the squad regroups at the extraction point. Rebel reinforcements are closing in, and the team hurries aboard a waiting transport.

As the ship lifts off, RK-666 leans back in his seat, his helmet resting on his lap. RK-452 glares at him.

RK-452: “You’re unbelievable, you know that?”

RK-666: “You’re welcome.”

The transport enters hyperspace, leaving the burning forest moon behind. Despite his antics, RK-666 glances out the viewport, his sardonic expression softening for a moment.

RK-666: (to himself) “Another day in paradise.”

[novanhistorian]

An Apéritif

Since the thing I’ve been on-and-off teasing is taking a while (optimistic finish time is early November, and I’ve been at it since early August), I’ve decided to release the introduction to an earlier work. The said introduction, intended to provide historical context, covers about 70% of total Scientian history, and thus about 60% of the subject matter of the thing I’ve been teasing.

To quote my past self:

The absolute minimum context you need is that the characters are members of a species called novanity, novans were created by human scientists who then left the planet, and that planet is called Terranovo.

This is one of two things I’m releasing from the project, the other being the Miniature Encyclopedia.

Stuff below the cut is about 1.5k words.

A Short History of the Novan Imperium.

Narrative stops on 12 January 452 (7 September 3435 by a calendar no longer in non-religious use).

First off, humanity managed to survive climate change and reverse its effects to some extent. They still decided to try their hand at terraforming a very promising exoplanet in a nearby (relatively speaking) solar system, and the United Nations put out a call for interested scientists. The “New Eden Project,” as it was colloquially called in English, was very successful in recruiting, and often whole families came along. I would love to give you details of how they got there in the record time they did, but the information seems to have been specifically taken in the Departure a few centuries down the line. After arriving, however they managed it, the humans settled Terra Nova’s moon with the intent to use it as a base of operations for their terraforming efforts. Those got started promptly enough, but they would take several hundred years. In that time humanity found many ways to amuse itself, like creating species for the new world to supplement those they had brought with them. One doctoral student got very carried away and created the first novanoid, which was drafted using a somewhat buggy supercomputer to simulate and predict the result of her design and thus died when she actually attempted to clone it. She gave up, but the Academy (essentially the executive and legislative branches of government, formed of illustrious scientists) found out and took over. After several decades they had success and the first novan was born. From that point forward creation of novans became more and more frequent until following the instructions to build and customize one’s own became a common capstone project for those pursuing doctorates in genetic engineering (and those poor souls who made a new kind of conifer or whatnot were considered to be hopelessly outclassed). This continued even after Terra Nova was fully terraformed and settlement started, though primarily on the Moon because that was where the obscenely complicated infrastructure it took to make a person was.

The novans as of our story do not have many records of this period, since much of it was destroyed in the Departure, the Moon—where most of the surviving records were—was rendered uninhabitable in the Devastation, and society went to the dogs for two hundred years after that.

Speaking of, the Departure happened. No one left behind knows why, but over the course of a week the Academy, still a dictatorial government even after all these centuries, shut down all nonessential systems and copied and destroyed as much information deemed important as it could. Most humans and tapped novans do not seem to have been aware beforehand of the purpose of the summons they received. It is unclear whether it was made known to them that refusal meant their summary execution or if they were just shot. Nevertheless, at the end of that week every human on the moon, on the planet, and (formerly) in the various mining fleets of the asteroid belt set off in the same direction. Only five ships were ever seen again, and that was as wreckage, clearly destroyed by the others for turning back.

A society with only thirty-seven percent of its population remaining (on average; the Moon was hit much harder than Terra Nova and the Belt) will either band together or collapse, and the novans proved the latter kind. The planet, still mostly a frontier with few established cities, broke apart into warring states with obscure and ever-changing borders. The Moon had two terrifying years of anarchy and mob rule before turning things around, semi-democratically electing a government, and becoming one of the most stable non-theocracies in the solar system. (The theocracies were outwardly “stable” due primarily to internal repression, or else due to being very lucky in who fell into their leadership roles early on.) It was seen as a leader by the rest of the survivors, both for its status as the center of pre-Departure society and government and for its togetherness in the aftermath.

The asteroid belt imploded. There is no other word for it. They lived on spaceships, under no real regulations even before the Departure took seventy percent of their population and a hundred percent of their government. The mining companies that survived with most of their boards intact became unstable pseudo-states, dependent on trade with the Moon (and through them Terra Nova) for the goods they needed to survive, which they never got enough of. As companies do, they wanted product and cared zero whits about what that meant for their employee-citizens. As dictators do, they wanted the good life and extracted it from their subjects brutally. Eight hundred years later, at the time of another major project in the Imperium Novel, they still occasionally find ghost ships from this period, their crews dead of overwork, system failures, simple starvation, or—most commonly—a combination of the three.

That is the environment that spawned the perpetrators of the Devastation. I have covered this in more detail elsewhere, but in short the Devastation was the destruction of every dome-city on the Moon by a combination of nuclear bombing and suicide-bomber-induced reactor failures.

Then there were about two hundred more years of the War Era as defined by historians. (Some argue that what is termed the Wars of Tidying Up is indistinguishable from what is termed the War Era save by its position on one side or the other of the official establishment of the Novan Imperium.) Forty or so years out from its end, several of the states came together in a coalition, with the goal of conquering or recruiting the others and creating the first unified government since the human days. It took them a few decades, but they slowly assimilated the whole of the main continent (omitting Lazer’ and Nowhere, nations on the smaller outlying continents). This accomplished, they declared the Year of Fortifying the Peace—later designated the year zero of a new dating system—and at the end officially established the Novan Imperium. There then followed another forty years of trying to get Nowhere and Lazer’ to crumble, which they eventually did.

Then there were three or four hundred years, depending on which historian one asks, of relative stability. These saw the government transition into a more democratic one less overwhelmingly controlled by the twenty-five states who either were cofounders of the coalition or had joined up voluntarily and the cadet program—initially planned to run for twenty years as a way of raising the last generation of war orphans, but far outlasting that time—come to increasing societal prominence. (This has its payoff in the Second Civil War of 744 to 750 or thenabouts.) The Imperium had been divided shortly after its creation into three main administrative regions (with later-added auxiliaries for Nowhere and Lazer’) which answered to a central government. The tensions that led to the First Civil War were just as much within the divisions as they were between them—no allowance had been made for cultural differences and ancient enmities in the north-to-south-divided regions, so Vesica Montium was expected to come to concord on every itty-bitty decision with its ancient enemies Putiya Nakaram and Shattered Rock, so long as that decision passed through the parliament. (Each region had a parliament; the country as a whole had a senate, which was basically the same thing under a different name.) When they had managed to quell their internal disputes, the regions turned to their neighbors for a fight—and more often than not they got it. This is why Mr. Sen. Telkes (Heleno being a state in the Western Administrative Region) insults Sabro (Central Administrative Region) so much and seems surprised to find someone he thinks is another Helenan there.

The Imperium also expanded off-planet and subjugated the warring companies of the asteroid belt, which by this time had become the Mining Belt in common parlance. They were not granted statehood—statehood meaning, here, what California has within the United States—but were instead made into tributary states with the Imperium as suzerain. This meant regulations, however spottily enforced, and a diminution if not an end in the continuous feuds and more importantly shortages that had plagued Belter life for generations, but was seen as a grave insult by many. The Imperium’s rather chauvinistic attitude toward the Belt and its inhabitants contributed to this, as did their perceived hypocrisy in critiquing the Belter company-state structure while their own corporations ran wild with their private armies and created a full-bore aristocracy (this being the riĉuloj).

Before the civil war officially broke out, there was a decade in which tensions became so thick they could be and were cut by a stray dueling-sword. [Here I started talking about the actual project.]

[danihodgs]

Getting back into listening to podcasts 💖