#more than unfinished refs its just like

[biffjerky]

doodle dump of unfinished references & misc oc stuff :3

[nugatorysheep]

Wip Title Game

Tagged by @novantinuum

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs

I am not tagging 50 million people so @extranuts @flaretheskywing @dragonuva @roseetube post some WIP titles cowards

I have several docs that are just meant to be informative that I'm not listing because there's not much to talk about with them, and a TON of unfinished art that is like pre 2022 that will def not get done ever so its been yeeted into my Untouchables folder and also isn't listed here lmao

For convenience, I've taken out any duplicate files that are the same thing but in a different format

As you can see I have three brands of naming conventions for my files: Objective, Boring Name that just Is What It Is, Song Title and/or Lyric, and Shit Post Cause I Was Tired

Lord help me I have SO many WIPS

(Non-Informational) Writing Wips:

Bad End FOM Fic Beguiler of Wills Burning despair does ache Chapter 9: What does it matter how my heart breaks Drabbles Druidbreak Ficlet FOM WIP Doc Glimpses of life denial WIP IDK what to call this but yeah IEOE stuff idk Intermission XXX: Separate Ways Intermission XXX - Last moments of pure recall Intermission XXX - Look in my eyes she still holds the power Intermission XXX - The way ahead feels lonely Intermission XXX - Loss of want back there Pit AU - Editing Prism R&C Soundtrack Breakdown Six Forty Seven Slug it out Tell Me Something Good

Art Wips (I have a million of these):

[shoves hand in abdomen for the symbolism or some shit].clip ask.psd Axel Sketches.clip baneful bunker.png beat up boys.clip Beyond Bliss Gems Lineup.clip Bliss rose stuff for later.clip break the bank.clip chompers.png Connverse dump.clip Cupid dump.clip Druid x Sven x Sonny.clip Dryad sketches.clip EINF Steven.clip evil boi.clip evil leo doodles.clip Eye contact.clip Fab fly floret.clip failure 01.clip Frame of Mind Sketchbook.clip Fusion Chart.clip gay as fuck to be a test subject. what are you testing, your capacity for homosexual desires.clip (this is one long ass title lol) goober.clip Haven't you noticed I'm a star.clip He can say it cause i said so.clip he yeeteth and yoinknth away.clip HEARTBREAK SPINEL REF.clip homie rolled a nat one on genetics fr.clip HONEY REF.clip i am so fucking hungry bro imma make noodles 1.png (there's 4 it's a comic) I have made a new boy.clip Illustration (2).clip Illustration (3).clip Illustration.clip Illustration2 (2).clip Illustration2.clip Inner Demons.clip it triggered his flight or fight response.clip Karma Sketchbook.clip lazer_eyes-3A4E6.clip Lemme tell you what it's like to be a Zero.clip Loss Dot Jaypeg.png me.clip Mermay HB.clip mermay.clip MINOTUAR MAN.clip mirror_gem_designs.clip ML Stevonnie.clip munchmunch.clip Nova Artfight 2.clip Now that it's raining more than ever.clip old man lizard.clip oops all pain lol.clip open arms.clip Pasture crew.clip rare dizzy art.clip Real.mdp Ref wips.clip Sarkhan's Dragonfire.clip Save a horse ride a cowboy.clip Say that again i dare you.clip Screenshot 2023-09-23 001021.png Senkywenky.clip SFW Sketchbook.clip ShatteredStar.clip Show off those guns.clip Slugman the second coming.clip Snaps and snarls.clip so what's the point of holding tight onto my feet.clip Soap.clip some mtg quote.clip Space faggot.clip spongebob window meme.clip Starnheim_Unleashed.psd STEVEN ON LION.clip SU AU Battle Cuts.clip SUDF page redraw.clip Suneater.clip SUTREK.clip Take A Breath.clip Talking to Myself Redraw 1.clip (there are several of these it's a comic) THE SUN IS GETTING LOW.clip THERE IS NO MANA IN THIS AIR.clip they love each other.clip this was supposed to be shoes idk what happened.png Throwing boys at the wall to see what sticks.clip Tourmaline.clip Tower of boys.clip Trolls bullshit.clip tumblr bait purple rabbit man but the lame version [springtrap did it better].clip uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh shit idk.clip Union of Love.clip wahho.clip Welcome to the grid user.clip Welcome to the grid user.png Will you be satified.clip wip 02.clip You're MINE.clip zoo doodles.clip ZOOLOGY GEMS REF TWO.clip

[writerofstuff]

Hi, I'm one of your feral commenters on your fic "The Case of Richard Rowland" (spectacular work btw), just wanted to give you an update on the possible comic I mentioned in my ch 7 comment;

I'm 85% done thumbnailing the whole chapter (and dying about it) , it's the first first draft if you will.

I knew it was gonna be so so difficult, for many reasons, one of them being that I know absolutely nothing about comics, I don't even read any except manga.

Unsurprisingly, it's even more difficult than I thought, especially since I'm trying to adapt the animation I imagined of your chapter into a medium that is, imo, much more limiting.

Rn I'm just putting everything down, bit like brainstorming really, once that's done I'll dive into research and ref gathering on how to make comics, then I'll refine what I have, make another thumbnail, and then I'll draw a first sketch w/o colors.

If you want (it's completely fine if you're not interested), I wouldn't mind showing you the first sketch once I have it, since idk if I'll be capable of finishing the whole thing lol

(plz don't get your hopes up too high, I draw once every 84 years and I never manage to finish a single piece :')), additionally, this will be my first comic, so it's not gonna be state of the art;;;)

I hope it's alright that I contacted you about this, I'm abysmal at online social interaction so I apologize if this is awkward/uncomfortable, I assure you I'm not going to harass you about my project;; just letting you know I was serious;;;

Hope you're doing good and having a nice time :)

Oh my god.

Please know that I would love to so see the first sketch of your comic. It would be my absolute honour. My mind is honestly blown; it doesn't matter whether your art is finished or unfinished or half-finished. Just the fact that you thought of it? That you started planning it? It already means everything.

If you are comfortable sharing, I would love to see your art, in any and all its forms. And please do not hesitate to contact me here or at ao3 for anything at all - I am always up for a conversation! This is honestly the best thing I have ever woken up to. This means a lot.

All the very very best for your project! I am not a professional artist, but I have read a lot of manga and also handdrawn a couple of comics in my own time, so if there is any way I could help, I am all here! Thank you so much for putting in such effort for my small messy fic on ao3 - I honestly cannot wrap my head around it, except that this is the best thing ever. Thank you.

I hope you are having a lovely time too! Please take care, and have a great day!

♡

[ask-spoilt-pizza-au]

First up, Pepperman and The Vigilante!

(( Why both at once? Cause they're constantly together anyway, it'd be a shame to split them apart.

More or less I wanted to lean into the personalities they have already, but to crank em up a bit.

They're two of the five strongest creations in the tower, as well as close friends of P. his leads them both to be rather simply manipulated by him, especially given how gradual it was.

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Pepperman is a loud and proud figure, constantly boasting about his mastery of the arts and his determination and perseverance to never half-ass any of his creations was there for everyone to see.

Thus, P started taking advantage of that.

P would constantly commission Pepperman. At first it was in reasonable quantities, maybe a painting every so often, maybe a little statuette here and there. But the amount and speed that P started demanding became absurd.

Pepperman deep down could tell that he was accepting more work than he can handle, but his pride wouldn't listen. He kept staying up longer and longer to finish the pieces, to the point where if you were to ask, he probably wouldn't even remember the last time he painted or even sketched for himself. Or when he last slept.

That's the state our protagonists would hind him in; very very overworked.

Rather unfinished first encounter with Pepperman^ (Check alt text if anything is hard to understand)

And here's a bunch of miscellaneous art of him (explanations in alt):

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Vigilante is a serious and gruff fellow who puts his farm and the people he cares about before himself. He used to be a Vigilante until he got promoted to the Sheriff not too long ago. Now he just wears the name cause he's used to it. No outlaw can escape his wrath, as he's very handy with a gun and loves practicing using it in sparring matches.

This is where P ruins that for him.

P used to just have fun little matches with Vigi, fighting fair and often allowing him to win as just a thanks for spending time with him. But, as time went on, it became relentless.

P would constantly attempt to catch Vigi off-guard to "test his reflexes", not quite to the point of keeping him awake, but rather just making him paranoid and fearful of each minute he's awake. His hand was constantly on the trigger of his gun to feel at least a little in control. And P doesn't go easy on him either. He's left actual dents and errors in the cheese, wounds that shouldn't even be possible.

But Vigilante doesn't know how to stop it. If he were to say stop, he'd be angering his boss and more importantly friend. He cares about the time they've spent together, but knows at the same time that this is becoming far too much for him to handle.

And that's how you meet him, high-strung, worried about disappointing P.

I never finished the intro to him, but it would've taken place not along after Pepperman's. In fact, in the same room, like, canonically like ten minutes apart. He'd go in there to discuss about getting ready for P's big event and just casually reveal to Peppibow about them being a clone, which would lead to quite a bit of tension as well as the proper in color introduction to P.

Misc art of Vigi:

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Their relationship would be up in the air. They were gonna be written as friends, but could be read as whatever the reader wants.

Vigilante would often drag Phil (as he calls Pepperman, since it's his real name), to Noisette's Cafe as a way to relax whenever he was pushing himself too hard.

Pepperman would be there to hear Vigi discuss his situation and give advice, which more or less fell on deaf ears, but were appreciated nonetheless.

They've been friends as long as they can remember, to the point that they can't even remember ever meeting, just that they always knew eachother.

Comic of Vigilante pulling Phil away from his work to take a break^ (I was gonna originally make a better digital version but haven't gotten to it)

First refs of them^

Bonus info:

Pepperman's final design doesn't have a bow, since its colors would've been decided by askers. Thus it would've been added after the votes were in.

Vigi was originally gonna have a cheese pattern bow that would work similar to the patterns do in Chowder.

All of Fun Farm is Vigilante's farm.

Pepperman would be on the spectrum.

I forgot that Pepperman's small form exited while making him, so he has nothing to do with that.

Vigilante was planned to die in one of the drafts after revealing to Peppibow that they're a clone, as P had specifically told Vigi and the other bosses not to do that, and thus gets angered. P would pop his hand through a portal, crush the life out of him and then drag him away, leaving Pepperman and everyone else in the room horrified. And that was one of planned introductions to P. I decided against it, as Vigi didn't really do anything to deserve that fate and plus it would've been rather anti-climactic in general.

[ruiimellowww]

Okay HI hello 👋👋

I saw ur art about Sun & Moon through a reblog and I am such a simp for those two omg so here's a rant :33

(Also if you're not comfy with this pls ignore this rant then, and I am so sry if that is the case!! Will stop immediately if you tell me to /srs)

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CAN I JUST SAY I am sosososososo in love with your desgin for the dca cuz holy shit I have never seen anything hotter. O.O LIKEEE THE HUMANOID VERSION??!?!!?? UGH soooo goooodd 🥵🥵 I love the designs and the- the little EARRINGS as well?!??! Omg sooooo cutee aaaaaa 💞💞

and-and omigosh UR ART IS SO GOOD AS WELL!?!? I straight up just wanna munch it. I am eating ur art fr. In LOVE with ur artstyle it's so yummy 😍

Anywhoooo I also scrolled through your dca tag aND *GASP* ECLIPSE?????? 😍😍AND I?? WANNA??? BE ENVELOPED????? BY HIMM??? (I feel like mans would give THE BEST cuddles on the planet!!!)

HOLLLYYYY SHITTTT thE SIZEEEEEEE

Big tall omigoshhhhhhHHH M- my brain- my heart my- mY EVERYThIng is mELTING! ! ! ! ! Literally his size just does something to me I cannot comprehend why omigosh

(*lays in a puddle on the floor*)

I can imagine sosososo many different scenarios where that height could be used aaaaa >~< <333 ;P

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Omg if you have any HCs (and *wanna* share, ofc.) about him (Or about Sun & Moon) I'd love to listen to you ramble about them??? <333

So curious about ur HCs & would absolutely love any crumbs about the dca ksskksskkdkdjdks ❤️😂

Uhm uhm first off, thank you so much I can't rlly put into words how sweet this is and I totally don't mind the rambles because me too. And also because its been YEARS since I last used Tumblr or did anything answering Ask is a bit tough for me.. MmMM

Although I don't have many HC at the moment.. I can however give you a little insight I have regarding my Human DCA :]

Moondrop (Moon) and Sundrop

- when I first designed Moon (after the game came out) he had a much wilder look to him, especially the face because I was really into the idea of him being simply insane hence the red.

- later when i got back to his design and adding colours I thought that it would be fun to make it Blue and white themed, which I actually didn't see a lot back then

- he wasn't supposed to look human even as a Humanoid, I liked to think that Sun & Moon simply had a renovated body. They are just as much Animatronics as they had always been, robotic parts and everything but with a bit of twist

- So then onto Sun.. the thing is its sad to say but I never explored much with Sun's design back then as much as I did with Moon, so I can't provide a good reference

- although I had a rough idea of how sun would look like I never quite liked the way I drew him, so he's always somewhat been stuck in this unfinished stage

- Then there was eclipse, who was my absolute FAVORITE at that time, I don't think I loved a character MORE THAN ECLIPSE EVER when I was drawing him out

- yes!! It was very much inspired by the 3D render shown here as the ref, though I did make some changes of my own to the design as well

- I had a lot in my head when I was drawing him, but the one thing that I loved most about this design still to thisq day is rhe face. The way I him to look back then was sort of a mix between my Sun and Moon designs, only leaning more towards Sun in colours and Moon in appearance with the crazed look in his eyes

The height was just a funny little thing I thought of, cuz imagine this giant fkn ahh robot just comes in here and picks you up 💀 god I would piss myself

Cough..

So in regards to the new design, I did kind of get rid of the animatronic feel to him that I had done with the DCA and his old design, all of them now look a whole lot more Human which is what I intended for

Eclipse has a few scars around his body; right forearm, left side of his torso that leads all the way up to his chest. Plus a bit of his face that is burnt which you can't exactly see because of the Black spots

Overall I like my newer designs quite a lot and has also changed a lot, this is probably the most insight you'll get out of me abt my art 😭😭 cuz I don't usually ramble this much otherwise

I might come up with some head canons at a later date, but they'll be fun thats for sure ;)

[aranciadotcom]

since i posted screenshots of that one sb fanfic (if you've seen that post, i'm so sorry 💀), the thought has lingered in my head to share some fics that are actually enjoyable to read:

(unfinished)

when i first saw this ff, i thought it wasn't really going to be all that good but BOY WAS I WRONG-

it was really fun to read and it felt like an episode of sb but extended and not in the typical sb formula! the last update was from april of last year, sadly...

oh... and the kids get kidnapped x

(finished (?))

one of the fanfics that i would read again and again is definitely this one! this also felt like an episode of sb too (if you minus the shipping stuff but i don't mind it). i won't blurt out too much information about this one, though... ^^"

(the ff is also on fanfiction .net as well)

the ezekiel ff - finished

the two lilith ffs - active, has slow updates

(edit: i'm so sorry but i forgot to say that the ezekiel fanfic has themes of bullying and s*xual harassment so if you're sensitive with these themes and the depiction of them, then i'd advise you to not read it. the author does leave warnings for their work, though it's best for you to read those first before you get on w/ the ff)

these three ffs are from the same person! the concept of them was really unique in the sense that they'd also include drawings too so it felt like reading a webtoon rather than your typical ff on wattpad

all two (or three in this case) are from the author's vision of what a future season 6 would be like. compared to the canon reimagined episodes, it includes even more mature themes and the kids are now in their late teens!

(the last one is a continuation of the second ff, if you were wondering)

(finished)

this could possibly be the oldest sb ff there is since it's from 2009. this time, it's not based off reimagined, but classic instead (given the fact that reim. didn't officially release its first season until 2011)

(finished)

gizmo, would you stop taking pictures of yourself? your owner's going to jail /ref

(just kidding, giz doesn't actually appear in the fic)

but i'm not joking when i say that chris gets arrested in this ff. there's also a homophobic woman that got chris arrested in the first place and joy gets ptsd yayyy 🎉 /hj

the only part i wasn't keen on was when the two animals came in but that's abt it /spoiler (?)

(there's also two pages, if you're wondering)

(unfinished)

this one was pretty great too! you'd probably realise that most of the fics regarding the kids also age them up to be teenagers

the ff is a continuation of the actual series, but the kids are now in high school and basically, chris gets withdrawal symptoms bc joy moved to another state

(the reason why i started this on the 2nd chapter is bc that's when the fanfiction actually starts)

(finished)

as you might've noticed, the ff is in russian. you might have to turn on translate so you get a rough understanding of what's going on

basically chris and joy are now celestial beings and they take care of these two children who they've known through the children's parents

[themand0lorian]

FLUFFTOBER DAY 16-OVERHEARD CONFESSIONS

FLUFFTOBER MASTERLIST

Summary: The "Nanny Cam" Frankie installed suddenly becomes more valuable than he thought it would.

Pairing: Frankie Morales x F!Reader (no Y/N)

Rating:  PG 

Words: ~1500 (AO3)

Tags: friends to lovers, nanny cam but not creepy, mentions of alcohol and food, spoilers for the movie Tangled I guess?

Notes: Takes place after TF!

Frankie scoffed when his mom first gave him the “Nanny Cam.” A little camera hung in the corner of the room, not at all hidden—it recorded daily, allowed him to save video clips or speak through the camera if he was away. He assumed the name came from nervous parents checking in on the kid down the street as they watched their little goblins during a rushed date night, hoping they were actually caring for their child rather than sucking face in the living room. He had no reason for that—he trusted his babysitter inherently.

You had been his neighbor for years; ever since Izzy’s mom left and he moved into the ramshackle fixer-upper next door. Izzy, just turning two, had wandered over to your backyard while Frankie painted her bedroom—how she got the front door open, he’ll never know—and after several panicked screams of her name, he found her sitting in the dirt with you, planting impatiens in the flowerboxes that lined your front porch. You were teaching her how plants take root, dirt smeared across each of your faces, and for the first time in a long time—Frankie felt calm.

It had started as a few emergencies—a fever he didn’t know what to do with, a panicked night-before-Halloween when her costume remained unfinished, a call from Santi about his dad’s passing. You had calmed him each time; offering to watch Izzy while he worked, while he travelled—or, in the case of the fever, slept for the first time in days. What had started as an occasional ask turned into more, you offering to watch his little bug even when the world didn’t feel like it was ending. When he needed a break, when he had a date or a guys night or when he just needed some time alone.

Still, he had installed the camera—at his mother’s behest—never really connecting to it. Until the summer.

Izzy was quiet, like her father. She said a few words here and there, clearly understood more than she let on—doctors were throwing around words Frankie wasn’t prepared to hear. Then, one day on the couch, Moana playing on tv while she snuggled into his chest, her little voice piped up.

“I love you, Daddy.”

After she went to sleep, Frankie went on the camera app, found the timestamp, and saved the video; he finally understood the purpose of the Nanny Cam.

Since then, Frankie checked in on her occasionally when he was out. When he missed her, when he worried about her, when civilian life felt like too much—he would check the camera, see her napping or playing or running from her abuela—and his heartrate would calm, he could get back to work. His girl was okay.

You were there tonight—insisting Frankie go to the bar with the boys, watch the game. Frankie, go enjoy yourself—no, don’t come home at halftime. Catch up with your friends, we’ll be fine here. It’s a girls night. Izzy wants to talk about boys. He had blanched at that, heart still not back to its resting rate even after you told him you were kidding—she was five now, and making up for every word she missed when she was young, a chatterbox like no other. Relax, Frankie—I’m kidding. There will be no boy talk, unless it’s about her daddy.

The bar was loud—too loud, Frankie’s tailbone ached from the “trendy” metal barstools. The beer was flat, the food was greasy—he was too old for this. Benny and Will were enthralled with the game, arguing over the ref’s latest call, Santi was in the corner smirking at a girl across her table, his only beer sat unfinished on the bottlecap bartop. It all felt like too much—too stale, too overwhelming, too everything.

His feet carried him to the bathroom before he knew where they were going; locked in a stall, he pulled out his phone, opening the Nanny Cam. If his girls—no, girl—was okay, he could be okay, too.

The truth was, he wanted to know you were okay, too. He would watch protectively over your home, waiting for your bedroom light to turn off before he went to bed. He collected your mail when you needed it, installed a new lock when the old one stuck. He felt weird about it, at first—but one day, when you told him you felt safe with him as your neighbor, he vowed to continue as long as you lived there. He wasn’t ready to admit his growing feelings for you—the way your smile lit up his life, the way you cared for Izzy, the way your laugh carried over the backyard fence. His heart raced when you were around, but it wasn’t for the same reasons it was now.

When the image of his living room loaded, he found you laying on the couch, Izzy laying overtop of you and the fluffy blanket from her room over you both. An empty bowl with dredges of popcorn sat on the coffee table; Tangled was playing on the TV, but he could tell Izzy was fighting sleep by the way she said your name.

“Why did Eugene cut Rapunzel’s hair? It was magic.” The scene on the screen doesn’t match her question; she’s seen the movie so many times, it doesn’t matter that Rapunzel and Eugene were only setting off the lanterns. For a moment, he wonders why she’s never asked him this question, in all their rewatches—he supposes there are some questions best suited for girls night.

“He wanted to protect her from the evil witch,” you soothe, a hand running over her own short chestnut curls. Frankie felt like he was spying, but he couldn’t look away. You knew the camera was there—knew he could check in on his daughter at any time, and were fine with it when he told you. He needed a few more moments of his daughter’s childlike wonder to calm his nerves.

“Why?”

“Because that’s how he shows her he loves her. By protecting her. Like when your daddy says you can’t climb too high in the big tree outside. He’s showing you he loves you by protecting you.” Izzy sighs, lamenting the height she’s allowed in the tree.

“He likes to protect you, too,” she hums, and Frankie’s eyes widen a bit.

“No, he doesn’t—"

“Yes, he does!” Izzy interrupts. “Does that mean he loves you, too?”

“Maybe,” you reply, the girl’s eyes drooping closed. “I hope so—I certainly love him, too,” you whisper into her hair.

Frankie throws open the stall before even closing the camera app, startling to find Santi standing there with a smirk. He’s about to open his mouth with an excuse to leave, but Santi speaks first.

“Go get her, Fish.”

Frankie’s home by the time Eugene cuts Rapunzel’s hair; the sound of the door opening muffled by the evil mother’s screams as she falls out of the tower. You must have carried Izzy to bed while he was driving, because you’re sitting on the couch alone now, watching the end of the movie; you startle when Frankie calls your name, brushing away stray tears.

��Are you crying?”

“It’s a good movie, Frankie,” you chuckle, standing from the couch. “She was his new dream--wait, is the game over? It’s early.”

“No—uh, no, it wasn’t. I just—” Frankie moves closer to you, the two of you only illuminated by the ending of the movie. “I—I checked in on the Nanny Cam.”

“Oh? Izzy was fine—I know she was up a little late, but the movie had just started—” “No, not—I wasn’t checking on you,” he corrects, and your shoulders visibly relax. “I—I heard what you told her. About protecting the ones you love.” Your eyes widen, and you begin to stutter an apology, hoping he didn’t hear what you said once Izzy fell asleep.

“I’m sorry, Frankie—she asked, I should’ve told her to ask you—”

“No, I—It’s not that,” he replies. “She was right.” “About what?” Your eyes widen as he steps even closer, staring up at him in awe.

“I do protect you.” His hands snake to your hips, pausing before pulling you closer. “Because I love you.”

“Frankie, I—I love you too.” With that, he finally pulls you to him, your hands easily thrown over his broad shoulders as your lips connect in perfect symphony. In the background, the credits play an instrumental version of I See the Light, and it's true—you were his new dream, and he was yours.

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[maeve-of-winter]

not at all here to change ur mind about Kent and chara because we know chara to be a softy off the ice and taking pictures of pigeons to post on social media of course he’s there for this hurt but feral blonde kitten coming into the league lost and hurt

Aw, it makes me so happy to think that other people ship Kentara! Lol, yes, Kent is the feral kitten, and Chara is the gentle giant who takes care of him and lets him cry on his shoulder in Boston when Kent's visits to Samwell end in disaster.

Also, please have this unfinished Kent/Chara WIP:

Everyone in the League knew the story of Kent Parson and Jack Zimmermann. Between Zimmermann being the son of a hockey legend and an award-winning actress, the two of them being rumored to be lovers, and the two of them slated to be top draft picks of their year, culminating in Parson actually being the top draft pick, it was a story that had the hockey world spellbound for weeks. Personally, Zdeno found the fixation on the Zimmermanns’ and Parson’s pain to be both invasive and morbid. Every time he caught a glimpse on TV of some TMZ gossipmonger staking out the Aces prospect camp hotel and then badgering Parson with questions about his feelings on Zimmermann’s condition, he was flooded by renewed disgust.

The Bruins had the dubious privilege of being more familiar with the Parson-Zimmermann saga than anyone else; one of their first-year players for the season was Jordan Caron, who’d played on Parson and Zimmermann’s line in Juniors. The more gossipy of the Bruins (read: Marchy) took full advantage of this connection to attempt to scrounge up details that the press had left uncovered.

“What was he like?” Marchy asked as they stripped off their gear after practice. “Was he, like, an obvious cokehead? Coming to practice high, stuff like that?”

Caron shrugged, and even watching from the corner of his eye, Zdeno could spot the obvious discomfort on his face. “No, nothing like that. He was just an intense guy, you know? He really wasn’t like anyone who you thought would be using. Between them, Parson was the guy who liked to party. I mean, if I’d heard that one of the two of them overdosed without knowing who. . .”

Marchy and several of the younger guys continued to pester Caron with questions, but only until the end of that practice, when Chara firmly told them to knock it off, and they immediately obliged.

Whatever the gossip about Parson, whatever anyone had to say about what he did back in Juniors, no one could deny that he was a phenomenal player on the ice. It wasn’t just that he was good with the puck, either. It wasn’t just that he could score and make it look boring because it came so easily to him. He had speed. During the Olympics, Chara always made a point of watching the speed skaters, following their movements during each event and talking to them later to ask them about their techniques, hoping to improve his own skills. Chara was always conscious of needing to improve himself, always ready to give credit where it was due, so he would readily volunteer that seeing Parson effortlessly outskate any of his opponents was nothing short of incredible

It was utterly astounding to watch. In Zdeno’s experience, first-year players often needed extra help to improve their skating, struggling to catch up to the more stringent demands of the League. But Parson? He was a regular ghost out on the ice, disappearing into the corner of your eye just as you finally thought you’d pinpointed him. It was a good talent for him to possess, given that his size and scoring record made him a prime target for any rival team’s enforcers. Very rarely, however, did any of them catch up to him.

But Parson could catch up to Chara, no question.

It happened near the end of the third period of a particularly rigorous game, with the Bruins leading by one point but the Aces trying their damnedest to bring it into overtime. With Thomas starting to fade on blocking the shots and the Aces’ offense never slowing, Chara was fully expecting them to succeed.

Just as he was steeling himself for the possibility, suddenly, one of the Aces slammed into him at full speed, knocking him against the boards. As Chara fought to keep his balance and also fully realize that, yes, one of the Aces had actually attempted to board him, he vaguely registered that the same player had simply dropped to the ice in a heap. Steadying himself on his skates, Chara glanced down to find that it was Parson, the Aces’s new star and first year player, coughing and convulsing on the ice, seemingly struggling to stand.

Even though it was Parson who came at him, guilt instantly flooded through Chara as he saw the condition of the other player, and cold dread churned in his stomach as Parson let out a hacking cough, dark blood surging out from his throat to splatter across the ice.

Chara didn’t hesitate for a moment before signalling for a ref to halt play at the first opportunity.

It wasn’t until the end of the game, after the Bruins just barely scraped out a win over the Aces, that Chara fully understood what had happened. Parson had lost one of his skate blades mid-stride and, unable to control his direction any longer, plowed straight into Chara. The impact had knocked the wind right out of him and left him with a bloody nose. He’d fallen to the ice, barely able to wheeze in breath, while blood from his nose dripped down his throat as he tried and failed to stand up and locate his missing blade.

Parson somehow found him that night at the bar where the Bruins were celebrating their victory and apologized, backwards snapback hat on his head in all its glory. (It was just beginning to be recognized as his trademark.)

“I’m sorry about what happened during the game,” Parson told him, looking at him directly with an unflinching gaze. “It really was an accident. I really wasn’t trying to hurt you.”

Chara stifled a snort at the idea of Parson, who stood nearly a foot shorter than him and easily weighed at least fifty pounds less, deliberately headhunting him on the ice. He’d either have to be incredibly stupid or a complete goon, and he’d seen the way Parson played and knew he was neither.

“No need to apologize,” he told Parson, hoping that his accent didn’t obscure the sincerity in his voice. “What happens on the ice is fine to leave on the ice. We know this time was an accident and not a dirty play.”

“Thanks.” Parson’s lips tugged up a little bit, like he might smile, and suddenly Chara found himself overcome by the distinct desire to see it out in full force. Thinking back, he wasn’t sure he’d ever seen Parson offer up anything in interviews but a cocky smirk.

“You should let me buy you a drink, though,” Chara continued, letting a playful warmth flood his tone. “To show you I understand your apology.”

Parson laughed and ducked his head slightly, and Chara got his wish fulfilled as he glimpsed a small smile playing across his mouth. Combined with the faint pink tinge in his cheeks, it was, Chara decided, a very good look for him.

[dannyphantom-rewrite]

Character ref for; Jack, Maddie and Jazz,

Art by @gally-hin / @gally-hin-phantom

Okay so first off; in terms of Actual redesign, I didn't change a whole lot. I'm actually very fond of Jack and Maddie's design's, my only real issue was with their proportions. Like...look as a lady person who is also thiCC I do not have a fucking wasp thin waist and I'm sure I'm not the only one, lmao. As for Jack? Godamnit he looked like a brick on toothpicks. Just Let him be a fucking Bara man! Anyway of course I asked Gally to do this one bc they're fucking great at drawing different body types

I also cannot and will not take credit for Jazz's outfit. I didn't have any issue with her canon clothes aside from them being a bit plain, so what she's wearing here was literally pulled straight off of her original concept art, which I will link here.

Anyway, getting to the Actual character lore now, let's start with

Maddie Fenton

-Full name is Madeline (I haven't decided on a maiden name yet)

-Born and raised on a farm in Arkansas, had a southern accent that she trained herself out of in college bc it was just one more reason for people not to take her seriously. Still sometimes uses "y'all" completely unironically bc old habits die hard.

-She has a really big family, and they're proud of her accomplishments but feel like she's wasting her talent studying ghosts, because really, up until the Fenton portal was up and running there wasn't even any solid proof they existed. Her sister Alicia is the one outlier there, and even if she doesn't understand, it she completely supports her.

-She majored in engineering and minored in psychology at Wisconsin EDU. Her, Jack and Vlad were all in the same engineering class, and that's where they met.

-Maddie is particularly interested in how ghosts think, analysing their behavior, their motives. Not only that, but they aren't just dead people with unfinished business, they've built an entire culture in the Ghost Zone that is completely seperate from humanity, and she wants to understand all of it.

-skilled marksman and 9th degree black belt, (which is. The highest fucking level there is holy shit? I looked it up after I saw it on her wiki page.)

Jack Fenton

-He's from Minnesota (Amity park is in Illinois and him and Maddie didn't move there until after they got married) 

-okay, "but why minnesota specifically" you ask? Because. I crave. Foot ball discourse. 

-minnesota vikings vs green bay packers guys do you UNDERSTAND WHERE IM GOING WITH THIS 

-The funny thing is that Jack only watches football casually while Vlad is a fucking die hard so when these two got together to see a game it was like....

-Jack: Here to chill and have a good time.

-Vlad: Primed and ready to start a fist fight at any given moment.

-I am never not going to be salty about how Canon Jack was portrayed like a complete moron 99% percent of the time. Like no...theres a difference between Actual Stupid and ADHD induced dumbass-ery.

-Am I saying Jack Fenton has ADHD? Yes. why? Because I also have ADHD and I have always vibed So Hard with his Character.

-Jack is loud and easily excited about things that interest him. He's impulsive and fidgety and yeah, a bit absent minded. He has a mouth that clearly runs so much faster than his head. His train of thought doesn't get derailed so much as it stops and takes several different detours on the way to it's final destination.

-and that's only the tip of the iceberg, really, I'd need an entire essay to get into this completely, but I just really relate.

-Jacks skill-set / interests regarding ghosts vary a bit from Maddie's, most notably in the sense that he doesn't believe that they're static entities already set in their ways, completely incapable of change.

-Jack majored in engineering and minored in Biology at Wisconsin EDU.

-Jack's work with tech is a bit hit or miss. He definitely HAS the engineering skills, but the intrest isn't always there and he's constantly jumping back and forth between different projects. He tends to focus on the concept work and schematics and leave most of the assembly to Maddie as a result. It's an arrangement that works well for them, and has drastically decreased the number of unintentional explosions in the lab.

-A lot of Jack's work tends to revolve around ghostly biology and Ectoplasm, figuring out how ghosts are made, what makes them tick, what the hell Ectoplasm Actually Is, how it's used as an energy source, ect.

-and yes, that does also mean he handles the dissections.

-See that facial scar? Yeah, that's not actually there at the start of the series rewrite but it's very important for plot reasons so I had to include it. Can't say much more on the subject because SPOILERs owo.

Jasmine Fenton

-Jazz is a 18 years old, and a senior at Casper high.

-Which means she prepping to go away to college and won't be around to keep an eye on Danny.

-Obviously that doesn't mean I'm just writing her out of the story, oh no. Know why? Because she's also gonna go to Wisconsin EDU. ya know who else is in Wisconsin? Fuckin' Vlad.

-Jazz is autistic, Although she passes for neurotypical in part due to symptoms being completely over looked in girls due to gender stereotyping and also the fact that she doesn't have any special interests that are considered " "too weird.""

- Her hyperfixation with psychology started at a young age in an effort to better understand people, and social/emotional cues and all that.

-Jazz is well liked at school but she's not popular or apart of any specific group or clique. She's very kind and compassionate to people, and just about everyone knows her, but you'd be hard pressed to find someone who actually Considered her a friend. Except maybe Spike.

-I'm gonna have to give spike his own Character ref at some point, but he's this scary looking goth kid that's been held back twice. He's actually super sweet, just really fuckin' quiet and anxious. Him and jazz kinda ended up gravitating towards each other. She might do most of the talking, but they look out for each other.

-its not like jazz doesn't try to socialize, but it's difficult and she's found it much easier and less stressful to just. Keep to herself and let her interactions with her peers stay shallow and superficial. Sure, it's lonely sometimes but it's better than constantly worrying about saying the wrong thing or making some other misstep.

-One of Jazz's other special interests is football, and it's not so much the players or the game as it is the strategy of it? Started out as one of those things you do to bond with your dad, and she ended up getting really into it.

-She absolutley winds up getting into stupidly intense discussions with Vlad about it, too, lmao.

-Her and Danny probably bonded over SBNation bc that shit has both sentient satellites and ridiculously complex football mechanics.

-She's completely oblivious to the fact, but Dash has a massive crush on her bc holy shit this girl understands football (hey bud your toxic masculinity is showing put that shit away)

-I mentioned that Danny was in Cheer for a bit in middle school so it makes sense that she'd also be pushed into doing some kind of extracurricular activity.....so.....she was in a martial arts class for a bit thanks to Maddie and has a good grasp on self defense.

I think that's everything? I feel like I'm leaving things out tho? Idk if I did I'll come back and add on to this later and also pls don't hesitate to ask questions bc it really helps me flesh things out better.

[seeminglyseph]

trying very hard to focus on just about anything but now my head feels like there’s something I’m missing or putting off but I don’t think that there is. except I definitely need to eat, but other than that I’m bleh. putting together villain/hero image ideas.

in general I wish there was more smut available to find that had a focus on the top. sitting here like ‘is there a tag for suits? why isn’t there a tag for suits? fucking yaoi knows the appeal of a daddy who doesn’t bother taking off the suit to fuck?’

anyway I still need a name for my supervillain. look for some back seat of the limo and some bondage refs that aren’t like ‘look how tight we tied the rope around her tits, they’re turning purple and look about to burst’ and like that specific kink seems to come up all the time and like jeez can we do ‘dark’ porn that’s not set in someone’s unfinished basement covered in fluids?

general idea so far involves kyle opening a limo door to find villain sitting inside and then he gets ordered inside and vaguely interrogated and stripped, road head both for fun and to..... keep kyle from making sense of the directions their going so when they get out in a basement it marks him as totally lost. kyle is instructed to follow without looking at or interacting with anybody, who all seem pretty blase about the naked superhero being led around their secret office building style... place that villain conducts business in.

typical ‘clean him and bring him to me’ scene where two goons scrub kyle down, pheromones wear off a bit in the water and it becomes a struggle but that’s why two goons were sent and eventually kyle’s clean up. brought back to villain he’s back to being influenced by the villain’s power, and villain does some more thorough looking over, dunno the whole scene yet but he tries to finger kyle who panics and uses his power burning the skin on the villain’s fingers and earning a punishment. which I think will probably be an unreasonable number of lashings with a belt or something.

villain’s definitely a villain and not like.... ‘enemies to lovers’ it’s like ‘kidnapped and mind controled, manipulated by bad bdsm’ or whatever. sometimes you need bad bdsm that knows its bad bdsm. no you shouldn’t use kink out of the bedroom in real life but villain is the sort who is a sadist in a bad way and gets off on having power over people I guess. kyle is kind of a target of opportunity since he charged into the limo, but he’s also physically weak and emotionally insecure making him a pretty great victim for someone looking for that sort of thing.

I need to get my head to stop spinning so I can focus on something. I feel so sick and tired, why does having a body take so much upkeep? ugh.

[digitalvalkerie]

Happy holidays from me and my friends, and we have some christmassy pics from yours truly.

We have a Secret Santa Pic for my sis (that I was SO lucky to get, because I can nearly read her mind i know her so well. And apparently she cried cause she liked it so much with makes me happily rub my gay little hands together ehuhuhuhu~) I designed for her a ponysona and cutiemark, which she said she very much loved. I had to sneak around, asking what her current sona looked like because she didnt have a ref, but i managed to lie my ass off and tell her i was just asking for her secret santa. ... guess it wasn’t a like though lmao

Then we have a quick sketch of myself and two of my best friends, Doru the Drony, and Meghan the... meghan lol shes a fuzzy skullbird. These two can make me cry with feels when they feel like it lmao, and its really hard to figure out what to get/make for them because I think they deserve something special, more so than the previous year, because theyre awesome.

and finally an unfinished lineart pic of myself and Shadow. I miss my babe, real bad, especially this time of year. But I know we’ll be back together one day.

any how, lets make this upcoming year a good one. Happy Holidays to everyone! and Happy New Year while were at it!

[thecreaturecodex]

Spectral Creeper

“13 Nights THE CREEPER” © deviantArt user Grimbro, accessed at his page here

[Jeepers, it’s the Creeper!

April Fools, everyone. This week, we’ll be covering commissions from @glarnboudin, who requested a variety of monsters from different incarnations of Scooby-Doo. Honestly, I was kicking myself that I’d never thought to do Scooby-Doo monsters before: as a young child who loved monsters but was a huge coward, Scooby-Doo was an excellent training-wheels way for me to get my creature fix.

The Creeper is perhaps one of the most iconic monsters from the original Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? series. He regularly appears in spin-offs, reboots, even a State Farm commercial. I’ve seen him referred to as a take on Frankenstein’s Monster, but I think he’s more a melange of multiple hulking brute killers from B-horror movies. The name is derived from Rondo Hatton’s character from House of Horrors and The Brute Man, and I feel like his look owes more to Lon Chaney Jr. in Indestructible Man than it does to Frankenstein]

Spectral Creeper This muscular humanoid is hunched over, with a dull, dead gaze and hands clenched. His skin tone is a gray-green, and he has clearly been dead for some time.

Spectral creepers are the reanimated corpses of cat burglars, pickpockets, and other non-violent thieves. Typically, a spectral creeper forms when one of these criminals dies with unfinished business—with a major heist planned, but not executed. If the creeper achieves this goal post-mortem, it continues with even bigger and bolder heists. A spectral creeper is never satisfied with the wealth they have, accumulating riches upon riches. A few creepers will even allow their treasures to be reclaimed just so they can steal them a second time.

A spectral creeper is most notable for its ability to pass through locked doors, solid walls. It can empty chests or lockboxes without opening them by reaching through their sides. They cannot do this endlessly, however. Most spectral creepers still carry thieves’ tools to help them disarm traps or open locks in case of emergencies or to assist their minions. Spectral creepers are also skilled in disguises, and may masquerade as the living in order to case a target or evade detection. Regardless of whether or not the spectral creeper was violent in life, all of them are willing to kill in pursuit of a mission. Their fists are heavy and their grip tight, but they still cannot resist rifling through the pockets of their victims even as they crush them.

Spectral Creeper              CR 4 XP 1,200 LE Medium undead Init +5; Senses darkvision 60 ft., Perception +6 Defense AC 16, touch 11, flat-footed 15 (+1 Dex, +5 natural) hp 37 (5d8+15) Fort +4, Ref +1, Will +4 DR 5/magic Defensive Abilities undead traits Offense Speed 30 ft. Melee slam +6 (1d6+4 plus grab) Special Attacks constrict (1d6+4), snatch and grab Statistics Str 16, Dex 13, Con -, Int 10, Wis 11, Cha 16 Base Atk +3; CMB +6 (+10 grappling and steal); CMD 17 (19 vs. steal) Feats Deft Hands, Greater Steal (B), Improved Initiative, Improved Steal (B), Power Attack Skills Climb +14, Disable Device +10, Perception +7, Sleight of Hand +11, Stealth +8; Racial Modifiers +4 Climb, +4 Disable Device, +4 Sleight of Hand Languages Common SQ pass through Ecology Environment any land or underground Organization solitary, gang (2-4) or guild (1-4 plus 1-10 skulking carcasses) Treasure double standard Special Abilities Pass Through (Su) As a swift action, a spectral creeper can choose to pass through a solid object as if it were not there. It can move through an object, or reach into a closed container and remove its contents, but it cannot remain embedded in a wall or door. It may not move through lead-lined containers in this fashion. A spectral creeper may use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 plus its Charisma modifier (6/day for an average creeper). This is a teleportation effect. Snatch and Grab (Ex) Whenever a spectral creeper makes a combat maneuver check to maintain a grapple, it may also attempt a CMB check to steal from its opponent as a free action. A spectral creeper gains Improved Steal and Greater Steal as bonus feats.

[bountyofbeads]

Obama Moves Off Political Sidelines, Earlier Than He Expected https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/20/us/politics/obama-2020-candidates.html

Obama Moves Off Political Sidelines, Earlier Than He Expected

By Glenn Thrush | Published Nov. 20, 2019, 1:18 p.m. ET | New York Times | Posted November 20, 2019 |

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama had a plan of sorts for the 2020 presidential primaries, according to several allies and advisers: Stay out of the way, offer advice when asked, promote voting rights, finish a new memoir — then jump back into politics after Democrats picked their nominee.

Things haven’t worked out like that.

After three years of largely steering clear of divisive internal Democratic fights, Mr. Obama is increasingly moving off the political sidelines and trying to play a new role: elder statesman for a party grappling with its post-Obama identity. Associates describe a former president impelled by his belief that the diverse electorate he once unified is being split by “Medicare for all” and immigration proposals — ideas that he thinks could alienate moderate voters in the 2020 election.

From appearances before party donors to conversations with activists and lawmakers, Mr. Obama is going public with a message for his fellow Democrats he had previously made in private to allies and a handful of friendly journalists: Focus on defeating President Trump, ditch the ideological purity and the “cancel” culture, or face the abyss.

He is expected to amplify these concerns about the 2020 race on Thursday at an event with party donors in San Francisco, an aide said, giving him a fresh chance to reflect on Wednesday night’s Democratic debate in Atlanta. (Several of those interviewed for this article spoke on condition of anonymity to describe his private views.)

“What’s happening is he’s seeing the campaign move to a different stage, and he’s reacting to it,” said David Axelrod, a longtime Obama adviser. “He sees himself as a ref, not a player. What he’s saying is, ‘Hey, let’s not put so much passion into the intramurals that we forget to show up for the actual game.’”

Mr. Obama made that point in the bluntest possible terms last week to an audience of Democratic donors who had expected him to offer reassurances about the strength of the Democratic field and the durability of the party’s leading moderate, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

After praising the field and suggesting any of them could defeat Mr. Trump, he issued a warning that appeared aimed at Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, the two leading liberals in the 2020 race, who have proposed far-reaching changes to the American economy and health care and education systems.

“The average American doesn’t think that we have to completely tear down the system and remake it,” said Mr. Obama, appearing onstage at the annual meeting of the progressive Democracy Alliance in Washington with Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia Senate candidate. “There are a lot of persuadable voters and there are a lot of Democrats out there who they just want to see things make sense. They just don’t want to see crazy stuff.”

Mr. Obama voiced similar concerns two weeks earlier, calling on young Democrats to move past “woke” culture, which he sees as an impediment to creating a coalition that includes moderates, independents and Republicans who don’t share their opinions on some issues. “That’s not activism,” he said during an event for the Obama Foundation in Chicago, that was disparaged by some critics as paternalistic. “That’s not bringing about change.”

Mr. Obama is hardly undertaking a full-on intervention, and modulating criticism with statements of reassurance: He is not calling out Democrats by name, and by all accounts he has chosen not to get involved behind the scenes in playing favorites among the candidates.

Yet Mr. Obama, who foreshadowed his public warnings in a closed-door pep talk for newly-elected House Democrats last spring, is clearly trying to make the case for a moderate and inclusive brand of politics — a message that helped him win in traditionally Republican states like Indiana and North Carolina in 2008. It is a viewpoint reflected in findings by a recent New York Times/Siena College poll of six battleground states showing that Democratic primary voters prefer  candidates who pursue moderate, as opposed to liberal, policy goals.

“He’s trying to set a tone,” said Robert Wolf, a friend of Mr. Obama and former chairman of UBS Americas, a part of the global investment firm. “He cares first about electability, whatever is second is a very distant second.”

Mr. Obama’s coming remarks on Thursday will be part of an onstage interview with Thomas E. Perez, the Democratic National Committee chairman, at a fund-raising event in California. He has no plans to speak about the 2020 race for the rest of the year, according to the Obama aide who described his plans for Thursday.

The former president’s comments also reflect his own policy legacy, which has come in for modest questioning and criticism at times by some Democrats in the debates and on the campaign trail. (One friend said Mr. Obama had brushed off debate criticisms, joking that the eventual winner will “come back to me when they need me.”)

Mr. Obama was initially reluctant to attack Mr. Trump after he left the Oval Office, in part because he wanted to embrace the informal practice adopted by his predecessor, George W. Bush, of not attacking a presidential successor, former aides said. But he was also concerned that going after Mr. Trump would play into Republicans’ hands by prompting a backlash, they added.

By the 2018 midterms, Mr. Obama abandoned that reticence and campaigned aggressively against Mr. Trump, emboldened by the president’s halfhearted response to his attacks.

He also offered vague praise for the large-scale health care policy that Mr. Sanders and Ms. Warren are now championing. “Democrats aren’t just running on good old ideas like a higher minimum wage, but they’re running on new ideas like Medicare for all,” he said in a speech at the University of Illinois in September of 2018.

The big difference now is Mr. Obama’s willingness to publicly criticize others in his party, however indirectly, something he had avoided.

Katie Hill, a spokeswoman for Mr. Obama, said that he was not targeting Mr. Sanders or Ms. Warren in his remarks last week, and that his public declarations in support of the Democratic field and a diversity of opinions are the core of his message.

“Since leaving office, President Obama has worked to stay out of the political fray in part to let other, new voices in the Democratic Party rise up,” Ms. Hill said on Wednesday. “Just like in 2018, he’ll be out on the campaign trail next fall working hard for whoever our nominee is.”

But Mr. Obama made it clear in his remarks to the Democracy Alliance that he sees the Medicare for all plan as a threat to the party among moderate voters, many of whom fear they will lose their private health coverage — giving them an excuse to support Mr. Trump in 2020.

Mr. Sanders, responding to Mr. Obama’s remarks last weekend, said: “I’m not tearing down the system. We’re fighting for justice.” Ms. Warren did not push back, and said she was “grateful” for Mr. Obama’s passage of the Affordable Care Act. But some on the party’s left, including Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota were less accommodating, tweeting out the hashtag “#TooFarLeft” in disapproval.

Mr. Obama has also quietly expressed concerns, as have many other Democrats, about the performance of his former vice president, Mr. Biden, especially in the debates, according to two Democrats with knowledge of the interactions.

His unfinished book, a memoir spanning his eight years in office, is also weighing heavily on Mr. Obama, who sees it as his principal legacy project, a literary bookend to his highly-regarded 1995 autobiography “Dreams From My Father.”

The former president, a meticulous writer and chronic procrastinator, has blown through several self-imposed deadlines — he told Ms. Abrams it was “a pain” — and no one quite knows when it will be finished, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.

The process of reliving his presidency day by day, writing in longhand and revising it with his speechwriter Cody Keenan, has put him in a reflective and, at times, feisty mood, associates say, making him more willing to express his thoughts to a wider audience.

Mr. Obama has taken great care not to express his opinions about particular candidates — at least in earshot of anyone who will leak them — and has told people around him that he wants to avoid even the slightest perception that he is “thumbing the scale” for any candidate, as he did by tacitly backing Hillary Clinton’s primary campaign in 2016.

He has, nonetheless, offered personal support to Mr. Biden but has been careful to cast his efforts in personal, not political terms. Earlier this year, he described his motivation, telling Mr. Biden’s brain trust that he did not want to see Mr. Biden “embarrass himself.”

Mr. Obama’s relationship with Ms. Warren and Mr. Sanders has been more distant, but cordial. Both reached out to Mr. Obama shortly after they announced their candidacies earlier this year, and he offered each a bit of individualized advice, counseling Mr. Sanders to espouse “mainstream” ideas, a person close to the Vermont senator said. He urged Ms. Warren to embrace party “unity,” according to two people close to the Massachusetts senator.

He has a deeper connection to former Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, a close friend who has served on his foundation’s board, and discussed the possibility of a campaign with Mr. Patrick last year, people close to both men said. But he now believes Mr. Patrick’s entrance into the race last week came too late, these people say.

Mr. Obama is acutely aware of timing when it comes to his own actions. His appearance at the conference was intended to reassure nervous donors that he had confidence in the ultimate outcome of the 2020 election. He added his warning to an outline of his remarks only a few days before the conference, a person involved in the planning said.

“There are a lot of people who have been wanting him to get out there and mix it up more with Trump,” said Gara LaMarche, president of the Democracy Alliance. “People miss his voice. Even people in the room who didn’t necessarily agree with what he had to say were happy to have him back in the fray.”

[hazyheel]

NJPW Destruction in Kagoshima 2019 Review

This was still very much a New Japan B show, but it was better that Beppu. The workrate was faster overall, and the wrestlers seemed to care a bit more. And the two main events were done by guys who wrestle at speeds that should get them pulled over. Two very exciting main events that determine the future of the company, plus a sneaky important development on the undercard that I certainly didn’t expect. Here is my full review of Destruction in Kagoshima.

Clark Connors vs. Yuya Uemura in the 2019 Young Lions Cup: Connors started things off by taking Uemura to the mat and tying his opponent in knots. Uemura was able to reverse out of the holds, but Connors quickly heated things up with a chop instead of a clean break. Uemura then took advantage of his strength and took Connors down with some amateur wrestling as well. The two then exchanged chops back and forth that only got heavier as they got more and more mad. Connors eventually as able to lock in a Boston Crab, but Uemura got to the ropes, which prompted Connors to start taking pot shots at Uemrua. Uemura then fought back with a huge palm strike right to the face. The two then exchanged shot after shot with each other, neither man going down, until Uemura hit a deep arm drag, a double underhook belly to belly suplex, and then locked in a Boston Crab for a tense sequence. No matter how many times Connors tried to get to the ropes, Uemura would pull him back into the middle and even sat down in it. Connors had no choice but to tap out. Uemura: 2, Connors: 6.

After the match, the two were very tense. Connor’s offered a handshake, but Uemura refused. 

Grade: B. I’m always skeptical of these one on one Young Lion matches, given the limited movesets of all of them, but the crowd really comes alive for them and they share a raw intensity that is always cool to see. Connors is probably one of my favorites in the Young Lion cup, he really impressed me on both dates. Uemura impressed me a lot as well, and this was the first time that I can remember seeing him for any long length of time. He was really good, and this was a fun match. Happy to see Uemura get the win.

Michael Richards vs. Ren Narita in the 2019 Young Lions Cup: The two started out on the mat, with Narita being aggressive as usual while Richards just seemed quite angry that Narita was on the attack. Narita maintained control in the early portions of this match, and Richards couldn’t do anything about it. Richards eventually got out of it with a back suplex, but he looked exhausted as he did. He started to toss Narita around the ring with suplexes and power moves, eventually locking in a half crab for a short submission sequence. Narita tried to match his power, but Richards was just too big for some of Narita’s power moves. However, Narita won quickly after catching Richards with the Belly to Belly with a bridge. Narita: 8, Richards: 2.

Grade: C. Richards did not impress me all that much here, although I am a fan of Narita. This match just lacked the back and forth and the drama of the opener, plus the crowd kinda used all their energy on that first one. Just not a little too slow for me, and Richards didn’t seem like the right opponent. Narita was the right winner though. 

Alex Coughlin, Karl Fredericks, Manabu Nakanishi & Toa Henare vs. Ryusuke Taguchi, Shota Umino, Yota Tsuji & Yuji Nagata: Coughlin and Tsuji started things out, and Tsuji immedaitely charged across the ring. The two just rung each other’s bells with strikes immediately, but Umino and Fredericks quickly tagged in. The picked things up with some high speed striking and grappling. Henare then came in, and nailed a huge vertical suplex, but Taguchi borke up the pin. Coughlin then tagged in, and took a pot shot at Tsuji on the apron, who then wasted no time in breaking up a pin. Nakanishi’s team then beat down Umino until he got the hot tag to Taguchi. Taguchi beat down the entire team with hip attacks, until he tagged in Nagata to take down Nakanishi. The two exchanged blows in the middle, ending with Nagata hitting the exploder. He then locked in an armbar, but Nakanishi’s team all ran in to break it up. The two tagged out, and Tsuji came out to battled Henare and showed his strength. Tsuji then locked him in a Boston crab, and Coughlin started to chop him to break it up, but Tsuji didn’t move. Coughlin hit the ropes, but Tsuji nailed him with a spear as he came off of them. Tsuji and Henare then squared off with huge strikes and chops, ending with a huge headbutt and a spinebuster for a near fall. Henare then hit Toa Bottom for the win.

Grade: B-. I was into this match. The young lions were absolutely pissed at each other, and blended well with the veterans that they shared the ring with. Taguchi seemed slightly more into this match than he did last night, although he wasn’t too involved. Henare picked up a win when he needed one, which was good to see, and I was very pleased with it. 

SHO, Tomohiro Ishii, YOH & Yoshi-Hashi vs. Bad Luck Fale, Chase Owens, Tama Tonga & Tonga Loa: BULLET CLUB vs. CHAOS, with the faces storming the fort right as they started up. Roppongi 3k took down Owens quickly, only for Fale to take down everyone with clotheslines. Bullet Club then took control and beat down Sho. Eventually Loa was able to goad Ishii into the ring, but quickly dropped him with a dropkick. Ishii tagged in Hashi, who went on a tear, and then the newfound teammates started to lay into the Guerrillas after their unfinished business from last night, However, Fale was able to take them both down and Yoh tagged in and Roppongi 3k took on the competition. The Guerrillas thaen took down Sho and went to give Yoh the Magic Killer, but Sho speared Loa and then Yoh wrapped Tama in a small package for the shock win!

After the match, Tama beat down Yoh and gave him a Magic Killer. 

Grade: B-. Another fun and exciting match with a genuine shocking outcome. The match was a lot of action, and everyone got their hits in. There may be a Roppongi 3k vs. Guerrillas of Destiny match in the future, if only for a quick foray into the heavyweight division. Ishii and Hashi looked good as a team as well, although I’m unsure of how much they will continue to team after losing their tag team titles match. This was quite enjoyable, and had an interesting winner. I wonder if this may mean a new match for King of Pro Wrestling.

DOUKI, Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Zack Sabre Jr vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi, Jushin Thunder Liger, Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma. This is a bit more promotion for the eventual Suzuki vs. Liger match, as well as some fallout from the British Heavyweight Championship match last night. Naturally Suzuki-Gun attacked before the bell, and Suzuki picked up right where he left off. Honma started out and hit the Kokeshi quickly, before he tagged out to Tana and Sabre tagged in. The two traded strikes and submissions, with Sabre getting control after Suzuki planted a boot in Tana’s face. Suzuki then dragged Ligeri into the crowd and buried him underneath chairs and the barricade. Suzuki and Liger nearly came to blows with chairs, but Liger backed off. Back in the ring, Kanemaru started to work over Tanahashi. Suzuki tagged in to assault the arm, but Liger ran right in and took Suzuki down, only for Suzuki to follow Liger to the outside and continue the brawl. Suzuki beat Tana a bit more, before tagging in Douki and distracting the ref and allowing Douki to beat Tana with his pipe. The faces beat down Tanahashi a bit until Makabe got the hot tag and took the fight to Suzuki. Liger finally got to tag in, and he beat the crap out of Suzuki, who took the punishment with little care. He tagged in Douki, but Douki immdiately ate offense from all of the faces and had to kick out of a pinfall attempt. Liger then went for a brainbuster, but Suzuki ran in and went for the mask, but Liger shook him off. Suzuki then grabbed a chair, nailing the ref with it and beating down Liger for the DQ. 

After the match, Suzuki continued to beat Liger down, but even as the Young Lions ran in and tried to stop him, Suzuki stole Liger’s mask. He looked like he was going to walk away, but he called for the mic. He didn’t say much, but just said that he would beat Suzuki in a straight up match one of these days. 

Grade: C+. The match was pretty good, with a lot of fun action from the extras in the match, and an important development for Suzuki and Liger. That feud is still really fun and heats up every time they stand across from each other. Suzuki is still sadistic as ever and is looking great. The DQ makes me think that they may have a No DQ match at Wrestle Kingdom, but it is too early to tell. I;m gonna have to stay tuned to see, because I think its interesting. 

BUSHI, Shingo Takagi & SANADA vs. Rocky Romero, Hirooki Goto, and Kazuchika Okada. Before the match, Okada tried to check the ref for weapons, which was awesome. Takagi and Goto started the match and destroyed each other with chops and lariats, with Goto ending up getting the advantage before tagging in Rocky. Rocky held control for a while until Takagi caught him out of a rana and held him for a low dropkick from Sanada. LIJ then worked over Rocky, with Sanada locking in the paradise lock, which Kevin Kelly flipped out about due to Rocky getting locked in the lock during last year’s G1. At one point, Takagi looked to be giving Rocky a sliding lariat, but instead he ran across the ring to attack Goto and beat him down on the outside a bit. Rocky then barely made the tag to Okada, who took everyone out before dueling with Sanada. the two fought back and forth for a bit and teased their finishers, ending with both men on the mat. Soon afterwards, Goto and Takagi once again annihilated each other with incredibly hard lariats, with Goto taking down Takagi. Okada nailed Sanada with a tombstone, but Bushi stopped him before the Rainmaker. Okada then hit Bushi with a dropkick, an elbow drop and then the Rainmaker for the win. 

Grade: B+. Pretty good stuff that only got more exciting as it went. Takagi and Goto look like they are ready to kill each other, Rocky looks so happy to be wrestling regularly again, and the feud between Okada and Sanada is getting more interesting. Okada struggled to hit Sanada with the tombstone, so hitting him here was a big deal. I though that the action was fast and hard hitting enough to satisfy any tag team wrestling fan. Good stuff. 

Jay White & Yujiro Takahashi vs. EVIL & Tetsuya Naito: Gedo accompanied his BULLET CLUB guys to the ring. Of course, White and Naito were extremely disingenuous and annoyingly polite to one another. Naito even let White hold the IC title before the match. As Naito and Evil were posing, Bullet Club attacked, but LIJ saw it coming and kicked them in the guts and started the match up. Naito and Evil both beat him down with strikes over the course of the match, until Gedo held Naito’s foot before a slingshot dropkick and allowed White to hang up Naito by his hair on the top rope. They then brawled into the crowd and Naito literally had to sprint back into the ring from the seats to make it. Naito was beat down a bit more in the ring with some vicious striking and power moves from White. Evil got the hot tag, destroying both members of the Bullet Club team and looking great while doing it. Takahashi came in soon after White took control back. Bullet club hit a nice Bladebuster into a low dropkick, but Naito slid in to break it up at the last second. Things started to break down after that as the two illegal men started to brawl, and Naito took both his opponents down so Evil can recover. Evil then hit Everything is Evil to Takahashi and won the match. 

After the match, White beat down Evil, and Naito nearly hit the Destino, but White just sat down. He tried to give Naito the LIJ salute, with Naito forcing White to stand, but White ended up nailing a low blow instead. 

Grade: B. Not as good as their match last night, but still very entertaining and fun. Naito and White are only getting more hostile for each other, and I’m really excited for the eventual confrontation. Evil looked great too, keeping him strong for whatever he ends up doing next. Takahashi was only really here to be pinned, but he looked good too. If these preview tags are this good, then imagine the singles bout. I’m off the walls excited for it. 

The Birds of Prey vs. El Phantasmo & Taiji Ishimori for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championships:  Will Ospreay immediately asked for Phantasmo, who came in and attacked Robbie Eagles on the apron. The faces quickly fought back into things with a pair of splashes to the outside. They then worked over Ishimori’s arm with a series of quick tags, until Ishimori hit some of his signature offense on Eagles and started to beat him down. The crowd hated everything that Phantasmo did. He was over like rover as a heel. At one point, Eagles slipped out of a neckbreaker to nail a shot to the knee and a lariat to the back of the head Ospreay then got a hot tag and spiked Phantasmo on the top of his head with a DDT. Phantasmo and Ospreay continued to fight, with a series of counters ending in a simple slap to Ospreay. We saw some awesome tag team moves, like an assisted lung blower from Ishimori, followed by a Best Moonsault ever to Ospreay’s back. Ospreay and Eagles then hit an awesome Monkey flip into a kick, a low dropkick and a standing shooting star press from Ospreay, getting a near fall as Eagles nailed a suicide dive to Phantasmo. Another awesome spot saw Ishimori on Phantasmo’s shoulders, but Ospreay rolled away and allowed Eagles to give Ishimori a rough looking rana off of his shoulders. As Bullet Club rolled out, the Birds of Prey soared over the top ropes in criss crossing tope con hilos in an incredible move. They went for Red Wing, but Ishimori and Phantasmo fought out. Phantasmo tried for a double sunset flip powerbomb, but they flipped out of it and nailed Phantasmo with some combination offense. Ospreay then caught Ishimori out of a rana, and the Birds hit a powerbomb/ neckbreaker combo, but Phantasmo broke it up. Ishimori and Eagles dueled in the ring, with Ishimori hitting a desperate poison rana. The two then fought a bit, but Ospreay slid through a picked the leg, allowing Eagles to double stomp it, while Ospreay continued to keep Phantasmo busy. Eagles then nailed the springboard dropkick to the knee, and locked in the Ron Miller Special for a submission sequence. Ishimori tried to fight out, but Ospreay nailed a 450 and allowed Eagles to reapply. Ospreay wrapped Phantasmo up in an ocotopus to stop him from breaking things up, but eventually Phantasmo drove Ospreay into Eagles with a Death Valley Driver. Phantasmo then came in and toyed with Eagles and told him that he wasn’t good enough for Bullet Club or Chaos, which fired Eagles up as he beat Phantasmo down in the corner. Phantasmo countered out of it, nailing a springboard splash, a lionsault, a suicide dive to Ospreay, and then a Springboard moonsault over the barricade to Ospreay, but Eagles got the knees up when Phantasmo went for another springboard splash. Eagles nailed a series of kicks and a sliced bread into a DDT for a near fall. Eagles hit the 450 onto the leg, but Phantasmo pushed him off into the ropes, where Ishimori hit him with one of the belts, allowing Phantasmo to roll up Eagles, but Eagles still kicked out. Ishimori then hit a high knee to start a spinning Neckbreaker from Phantasmo, but Ospreay broke up the pin. They then gave Ospreay an assisted Bloody Cross, followed by a Bloody Cross and CR2 to Eagels to give the champs the win.

Grade: A-. This match started a little slow, but they picked things up in an incredible way. All of these guys hit awesome moves, and sold their asses off. It looked like it could go either way at any point, and I was convinced on a couple of those near falls. They flew around at incredible speeds and hit awesome tag team combinations. I loved this match, they really killed it out there. This made me all the more excited for the Ospreay vs. Phantasmo match later this week. Eagles and Ishimori are badass and awesome too, and I hope to see more of them later on. Great stuff here, match of the night.

Kota Ibushi vs. KENTA for the Tokyo Dome Match Rights Certificate: before the match started, Kenta gave Ibushi a superkick right in the face, and then nailed him in the head with the briefcase before smashing it. Red Shoes was running around trying to make sure Ibushi was good enough to compete, while Kenta stood in his corner in just absolute fury. He wanted to start the match, and waiting didn’t seem to be an option. The match eventually started, and Kenta nailed a psycho knee for a near fall right away. Kenta then flung Ibushi around ringside as the fans booed like crazy, and was ready to let him get counted out. Ibushi made it back in, but Kenta just threw him back out and kicked him over the barricade. Kenta followed up with a DDT on the floor, which really worried Red Shoes. Ibushi made it back again, but Kenta caught him with a draping DDT and a near fall. Kenta continued the disrespect by kicking Ibushi in the face as he was draped in the corner, which fired up Ibushi a bit to get some offense, but was put back down quickly. Ibushi finally started to get some offense, hitting a powerslam into a moonsault for a near fall. Ibushi then hit Kenta with a plancha, but kinda got hung up on the top rope, and ended up nailing Kenta in the head with his knee, but it looked like he was okay. The two then traded strikes back and forth, eventually transitioning into kicks and palm strikes, only to take each other out with stereo high kicks. Ibushi then tried for a moonsault out of the corner, but Kenta swept his leg and started to assault the knee and ankle. He even dropped Ibushi knee first on the English announce table and took out their feed for just a second. Kenta continued to assault the leg and knee in the middle of the ring. Kenta taunted Ibushi just a bit, allowing him to get some slaps in before he nailed a dragonscrew leg whip and locked in a heel hook. Any time that Ibushi started to fire up, Kenta would attack the knee right back. Ibushi went for a high kick in the corner, and followed up with a delayed dropkick, but Kenta picked the leg and started to apply the heel hook once more for a short sequence. Ibushi started to just power through the leg injury by nailing his strikes whenever he could, eventually forcing the ref to the ground. Ibushi was about to hit a bomaye, but Kenta dog piled the ref. The Guerrillas of Destiny then ran down, but Ibushi took them down with a double flip kick. He then hit Kenta with the bomaye, but GOD pulled Red Shoes out. GOD nailed Ibushi with a magic killer, and were going to give him the super powerbomb, but Ishii and Yoshi Hashi ran out to make the save. Ishii gave Loa a vertical drop brainbuster off the top to take him out, while Hashi hit Tama with Karma, and then the four all abandoned the ring. The two competitors started to fight once more by drilling each other with strike after strike. Kenta then hit the Kamagoye, but Ibushi kicked out! Kenta went for the Go to Sleep, but Ibushi caught his knee, nailed a high knee, and hit a Kamagoye of his own, but now Kenta kicked out! So Ibushi just pulled him up and hit another for the win. 

After the match, Evil came out and confronted Ibushi. He named himself the next challenger. 

Grade: A-. Another great match out of these guys, but I think it just barely qualifies as a great. It was really slow and didn’t really showcase either guy until the last few minutes. They showed more cheating and limb work than a hard hitting shooter match like it should have been. But after Ibushi started to come back and actually hit some of his slaps and kicks, it picked up. There was certainly a lot of tension, and the crowd was firmly behind Ibushi. I could’ve done without the interference and the serious injury angle, but I doubt this is their last match. They will probably have a hard hitting spectacle at some point, and I am waiting for it. This was still great and the right guy won. Just be careful not to ruin Bullet Club by doing these shenanigans all the time. 

Overall Grade: B

Pros: Connors vs. Uemura; 6-man tag; lij vs. bullet club; birds of prey vs. bullet club; main event

Cons: richards vs. narita

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Fic recommendations!

A little different kind of fic rec post, these are my favourite fics that sit on ao3 unfinished and have not been update in a long time. So now you can suffer with me.

Hat Trick by fairwinds09 

Scott unwinds with beer, hockey, and chirping at the refs. It's Patrick's job to keep him from doing anything else.

(A look at the possibilities inherent in the iconic moment that spawned an internet's worth of proud Canadian memes.)

A true classic taking place in Pyeongchang, with real life moments, all told through Chiddy’s POV

BALANCE! by Golden_Ticket

Once she is left completely to her own devices she takes the book back into her hands, runs her fingers over the waxy cover and looks at her face on there. She’s photographed from the waist up, holding both her palms to the sky like a Justice statue with a high ponytail, on each palm a set of figurines that have been well photoshopped in later (getting that right had taken quite a few reworks by the graphic design department of her publisher). On her left, the figurines are a little family on a mountain of furniture and pots, bowls and baby-bottles while on the right, it’s books and clothes, calculators, pens and shoes. Above it says “BALANCE” and in the sub-line: “A totally subjective guide to figuring out life”. Underneath that is her ‘new’ name Tessa Virtue-Moir. She had debated going just by Virtue for her authordom but somehow that hadn’t felt right.

Pretty much any unfinished fic by Golden_Ticket can fit on this list, as she’s one of my favourite writers in the fandom. The above fic I particularly love because it’s so real. Also feat cute VM kids! I’ve read the first 3 chapters more than I’m willing to admit.

Love Blossoms: Conversations from the Womb by watchmechooseyou

Dad-to-be bonds with his baby.

The cutest idea for a fic. Fluff, fluff and more fluff! I’m such a sucker for Dad!Scott

The Thin Ice by OnlySkyAboveMe

‘Dr Grey looked up from her clipboard when she heard a young, frantic voice asking for help. She thought her years of experience in medicine would have stopped her from ever being surprised by the sorts of things that came in through those ER doors.’

OR

The TS/Grey’s Anatomy crossover that I doubt anyone asked for.

A Grey’s/VM crossover? Ambitious AF, and everything I’ve ever needed

Raise Hell by Mector

Something did happen during the last Stars on Ice show in Vancouver but not exactly what the fans hoped for... the world ended instead.

or

The zombie AU nobody asked for and you didn't know you wanted.

Honestly, every fandom needs a zombie AU, and it’s heartbreaking that this one remains unfinished. This is another one I find myself reading again and again

On a night just like us (A Spare Keys Epilogue- Plus) by Evaleigh77

A multi-part epilogue (and then some) to Spare Keys.

Everyone has read Spare Keys, right? If not, stop what you’re doing right now and go read it! In the epilogue we get a glimpse into the life of VM post-Spare Keys, and while it’s not always sunshine and happiness, it’s beautiful, but I’ll always want more of this universe.

No matter what, we’re in this together, part 2 by @tutu_22 (aka @moonriver2220

The continuing saga...Life after marriage. The road is rocky and it's not a straight path, as they had hoped. As they deserved. This can be read on its own, but you may wish to start with Part 1 of the series.

The cutest little VM family (with their dog, too!). I almost consider these guys the OG VM fic family. @moonriver2220 contributes so much great fic to the fandom, but this little family of hers will always be my fave!

the definition of devotion by virtuemoirlike (katya_kool)

You don't really know what you would do for someone until you have to.

This one is probably not everyone’s cup of tea, but if you’re like me and love action/mystery I’m sure you’ll love this one. Especially if you need another reason to make Marina a bad guy. 2 chapters up of this, but we were robbed of seeing badass, hero Scott. 

with a can full of gas and a handful of matches by limned

For the first couple of months, it isn’t a problem. Scott’s so exhausted from getting back into competition shape that he usually falls directly into bed after supper and doesn’t think about sex at all.

The ultimate blue balls of fics. This one is so good, and just so crazy it might actually be believable. Unfortunately it cuts off right before the climax (pun intended)

BONUS

The very first VM fic I ever subscribed to, back in summer 2016

The Story of Us

A short story centering around the lives of canadian ice dancers (and married couple) Tessa Virtue, Scott Moir, Kaitlyn Weaver, and Andrew Poje.

VM kiddos! Weapo kiddos! Chiddy kiddos! It’s everything the way we wish it could be. With a small enough cliff hanger to keep us wondering.

PSA: I know fic writing isn’t easy, and authors can lose motivation or interest or simply not have time. If your fic is on here, I don’t mean to call you out, but just know, if you ever comeback to them, you’ll be welcomed with open arms, and excited reviews!

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