#my jali stuff

[anisohtropy]

the kavetham brainrot is real, I have multiple foreign language tests this week and I’m starting two new courses but instead I’ve been researching architectural styles of the middle east, north africa, and southeast asia to be able to write this akademiya era fic because Kaveh is a genius and a passionate prodigy and I refuse to not write him as such.

after multiple hours of research and a lot of reading, I am now extremely angry and disappointed about how genshin dropped the ball with indo-islamic architecture in the rainforest, it could’ve been so colorful and beautiful and connected to real architecture. but it’s so orientalist in game. ironically the desert is better in terms of architectural adhesion to real cultures. pls ask me about it im going crazy

[punkscowardschampions]

Jali Pt.2

Ali: [we still haven’t said anything with words of any coherency, which is unusual because can usually never shut your mouth but that’s the level of !! today folks, can take his lead and be tracing your name on him with the intensity you’ve been STARING with for the last however long]

Johnny: [we stan, this boy most of all because there’s no clearer indication of the levels of !! than this hence he’s gotta just put his all into absolutely killing them both and it not remotely be about limited time and only because of y’all’s insane emotions, but you’re welcome it isn’t going to take long with the state they are in]

Ali: [today is all about insanely intense quickies, clearly, nothing else will do]

Johnny: [it’s the mood and again we stan, btw I vote that we should add in an epic first by saying that when they are done and he’s gotta go and get ready fr he sneaks her into his actual caravan because doesn’t wanna leave her in theirs alone when they have limited time to spend together and it would be easy-ish because half the site are down the pub]

Ali: [the way we will be GIDDY about this, calm down girl, unlike you, we are a curious cat and will be looking around with all the wide-eyed wonder because lowkey thought we’d never be allowed in here, excuse us]

Johnny: [ngl gal I thought that too but it tracks for this mood and this moment that he doesn’t wanna be separated from her hence keeping her in his line of sight wherever she’s wandering about this caravan and regardless of the fact he’s meant to be getting ready and does have every intention of doing so lol, eventually I’m sure, impatiently dragging her into his bedroom with an affectionate oh you kind of face like you can’t possibly have any more you wanna be nosy at in this living room and kitchen moment even though there is definitely more she wants to see but he’s that sort of bear, going to his wardrobe to pick out something nice for once which is giving when he dressed her respectably so obvs remembering and LOOKING at her]

Ali: [allowing yourself to be dragged with a grin like okay, okay, I’m sorry because don’t wanna actually be nosy to the point of making him regret this decision, hence we were only looking, not touching, and the way we so gently perch at the end of his bed like y’all didn’t defile Ro’s together as well as your own, stroking this duvet like it’s a soft animal because remembering Halloween when he brought it over for y’all, resisting/getting distracted from burying your face in it to smell him by how adorable he looks putting his nice clothes on, getting up like do you need help, as if that’s the reason for the LOOK and not what we all know it really is, straightening his collar for him, whether it’s necessary or not, constantly checking him out blatantly]

Johnny: [letting her straighten his collar for him purely for the vibes even though he’d normally resist stuff like that, likewise going to put his hair back up and tidy cos we all know it got fucked up by that quickie but then letting her do it for the same reason, living for the domestic husband and wife energy of this, even though those efforts will be ruined instantly by the way he’s pushing her onto his bed fully and rolling her up in the duvet cos read her mind there and they haven’t had a playfight moment in too long]

Ali: [with how much we are luxuriating in running our fingers through your hair, I’d be amazed if we’d even got it back up before you pushed us onto this bed so that’s okay, snapping his hairband ‘round our wrist for the now as we attempt to free ourself from this duvet like my boo of a morning]

Johnny: [LOL there’s no way she’ll be as grumpy as me or able to free herself because he’s doing his being a weighted blanket lying on her thing rn and if he had his way forever, having the most fun pinning her to this bed and then doing his intense af double handhold too + pinging this hairband on her wrist playfully after that, gently at first but obvs getting more extra about how hard he’s pulling it and it’s therefore snapping back, and as he’s getting more extra, pulling the key and lowkey choking her as per wth his other hand]

Ali: [when the first thing you say is now CHOKED out of you in such an extra way that only feels appropriate by this point, even if it wasn’t your intention, or you who’s making the decision to sound like that right now because it’s all down to him and what he’s doing ‘shall I wait here?’ as a true question and not a veiled suggestion, because he obviously has to arrive at this party first, she does not need to be here yet]

Johnny: [how fitting, well played boo, the NOD as he THINKING about her waiting in his bed because couldn’t be more about it so his eyes have never been darker or more intense, no notes]

Ali: [not you two here THINKING about it this insanely yet silently, kissing him almost in a thank you type way, how you would on the cheek if someone got you a present but it’s on his mouth and naturally far more indecent, taking both the hands you’re still holding and putting them around your waist]

Johnny: [the lack of words exchanged are sending me honestly, god bless you both, just here having a lil makeout sesh on his bed like they have nowhere to be because she’s never been on it before and it cannot be overstated how much it’s KILLING him that she is]

Ali: [you deserve it lads, said like you’re being forced to do something horrific aka be at a party together but not together, it could be worse but you still hate it so enjoy this moment because you’re both dying about it, even if she’s trying to conceal that somewhat because we wanna stay and not ruin it]

Johnny: [I’m torn between letting y’all hook up on his bed rn because who knows when you’ll get the chance again, if ever, or being really really mean and making him leave because peeps are coming back for this party]

Ali: [hmm, let’s be mean, gives some spice to the party but not too much because you have, twice, so lmao]

Johnny: [okay then sir, you gotta leave, but obvs do your extra af wife style cheek kiss that turns into a really dramatic final kiss before you do]

Ali: [let him go, on your best behaviour here, only allowing yourself to linger within this final kiss, no pulling him back or anything]

Johnny: [mhmm, real best behaviour, I’m not even gonna let him message her once he’s left, just be THINKING of her in your bed until you see her enter this party and can shoot her the first LOOK of the night across it]

Ali: [trying not to return the LOOK instantly because best behaviour includes being sneaky and showing him how well you do it more than anything else, obviously we sneakily are though; be giving Bartley whatever birthday gift you’ve got him with a hug whether it’s just a bottle or something more depending if you found anything suitable, undoubtedly saying hi to Ronan too as they’ve both been at the pub with Johnny]

Johnny: [it’s okay gal you’re not in love with him like Carly is, nobody’s expecting you to go in with a really feelsy gift, teenage boys are usually very uninspiring tbf, what’s important here is the blatant jealousy that she gets to hug his brother openly but not him, we can’t even talk about how closely he’s watching Ronan for his every reaction during that quick af convo as well, unsubtle antics but he cannot help it remotely, catch him taking these lads off for lads lads lads drinks like shots or whatever or a smoke or something purely to get them, especially Ronan lbr, away from Alison]

Ali: [you can’t complain or blame Johnny for being obvious there, the vibe between you and Ronan is honestly that unfinished and blatant on his end so you lads go lad it up and we can find Carly and see how she is tonight]

Johnny: [at least she’ll be in a good mood because she’ll have already snuck this boy her gift and it was well received, so glad, cali deserve to just be blatant girls in love, there isn’t enough of that without angst, but we all know this boy will be watching her as unsubtly when she’s with Carly too because he hates her and thinks she’s the worst influence on planet earth, so feel his eyes on you at all times tbh Alison]

Ali: [y’all did kinda bring this on yourselves ladies by picking these boys who you cannot simply date but I’ll let you live about it, amuse yourselves by comparing your modest church girl lewks girls, here trying not to be distracted by this boy and thus not listening]

Johnny: [me here just knowing this boy is gonna get the drunkest he ever has (excluding the cheating messy convo) because they were at the pub for however long and now he has nothing else to do because Ali is the only person he actually wants to interact with at this party, soz everyone, and he cannot, and that is so dangerous, y’all are welcome we’re not blowing this all up and getting you caught tonight]

Ali: [the way we’re trying to get your attention to come see us by the fire so y’all can poke it and chit-chat without it being sussy, here like hello]

Johnny: [he absolutely shouldn’t be that close to her because he has no chill and self control ever but he absolutely will come over because he has no chill and self control ever lol, it’s a good way to highlight that he’s drunker than he usually is at these kind of functions whereby he’s usually the most sober one]

Ali: [handing him a stick or whatever because you are soberer than you usually are to match the energy of your outfit, nodding at him as a question, like you good? Whilst giving a slight check over look up and down]

Johnny: [playfully poke her with this stick before he starts prodding the fire with it in the way you would if you’d not seen her outfit before and are amused like check you out in your different vibe tonight because nobody will bat an eyelid at this (not that any of these lads are nosy enough as we’ve discussed many a time) but really so you can nod back without it being as serious and intense as we know it is, turning to the fire but LOOKING back at her in a subtle corner of his eye/side on manner]

Ali: [do a little fake prayer hands moment like yep, I’m a whole new girl ‘saved’ with a wink because this can all be bants, it’s a party, lads, however the smile with it is a more genuine response to his nod]

Johnny: [that cliche of sitting close enough that his free hand can touch hers while they are both by their sides because I can and I want to and their legs are also close enough to be, all without drawing attention or suspicion]

Ali: [it has to be done, live a little, I dare yous, not you going red because you’re touching his hand, the fire is warm so you can but you’re 😳 and we all know it]

Johnny: [he knows and he will be nudging her leg with his about it so she knows he knows because love to see it even though his poker face is firmly in place rn]

Ali: [giving him a little but more obvious shove back like oi, you; naturally SQUEEZING his arm when you shove him]

Johnny: [standing up and doing his hands up gesture he did when he entered the caravan on halloween for that throwback like I’m so soz but really he just wants to be able to stand this close and basically over her for the EYE CONTACT nobody else can see because he has his back to any of y’all who are also around this fire]

Ali: [having to really focus on maintaining somewhat of a poker face here, though we are BITING our lip, simply unavoidable when the memory has been evoked and he’s standing over you like THAT, asking him to get you a drink purely because you need a moment away from him or you think you might do something rn]

Johnny: [do go and find her the girliest drink on offer at this party, which it amuses me to imagine was probably brought by the girl Moses is kissing in those pics because not a fan of either of you lol, but not before he’s leant in SO close as if he simply needs to in order to hear said drink order over the music playing and it isn’t just because he wants his ear and the whole angled side of his face to be within almost touching distance of her mouth]

Ali: [just stealing from this gal shamelessly, love that for you, soz sis for all the reasons but not at all soz for the way we are saying ‘PLEASE’ in this boys ear right now because it’s a must, along with the innocent 😇 look after like thanks, bye]

Johnny: [mhmm, god knows what he is bringing back but we gotta for the cliche LINGERING hand touch as he passes her this drink soz random girl I don’t make the rules]

Ali: [the ‘thank you’ won’t hit as hard because we don’t get to be in your ear and extra with it but giving you a quick knowing look over this drink because manners]

Johnny: [giving her a look back which means thank me later because we all know it’s only a matter of time before they sneak off from this party for the first time]

Ali: [raising a brow in a maybe I will fashion as if there’s any question over it, before someone demands you actually socialise and thus it’s a tbc as you fake the wave back over your shoulder is casual]

Johnny: [go back to staring daggers at whoever that is sir whether it’s Carly or Ronan or someone else entirely because you’re already bored of this party and the socialising you were made to do however long you lasted at the pub, I can definitely imagine you just fleeing to go and mess with your bike or something else that needs fixing despite the fancy clothes you’re wearing rn]

Ali: [it’s a good thing you’re a serious boy so no one is clocking any of this hehe, the way we would HATE losing eyes on you even though we need no guesses to know where you’re going and to do what, will let you have it though because we love you and know you will always love tinkering a million times more than any party, when the vibe of the music has changed a bit later though, gonna message you]

Ali: Everyone’s dancing now, come dance?

Ali: I miss you

Johnny: [LOL everyone is used to him just scowling and leaving, god bless, I love you sir]

Johnny: You come to me

Ali: Now?

Johnny: I’ll let you help [whatever he’s doing, we don’t claim to know or understand]

Ali: I’m glad I dressed for the occasion 😏

Johnny: For being stood there handing us [whatever piss easy tool they joked about last time he said this]

Johnny: you’re learning

Ali: I’ll have learnt how to fully strip and reassemble your bike before you learn how to ask nicely for my help

Johnny: I don’t need your help, I’ve need of you

Ali: False pretences, shocking

Johnny: More shocking you’re not already here

Ali: I’d thought we’d last ‘til [a clearly ambitious time lmao]

Johnny: To prove what to who?

Ali: To earn my invite back, not related and automatically entered 

Johnny: Birthday boy isn’t troubling himself where you go or who with, there’s too many other people about who’ve drinks with his name on

Ali: Yeah, by this point, you’re right

Ali: Just telling you why I were trying

Johnny: I’m proud of you, that’s what you want me to tell you

Ali: No, I don’t expect you to be for this

Ali: in general, of course that’s what I wanna hear

Johnny: No? Why, you’ve not disgraced yourself or shown me up

Ali: I couldn’t show you up, no one knows

Johnny: I know

Ali: What do you know?

Johnny: You could, you would’ve when I 1st met you

Ali: Maybe

Ali: but you don’t deserve that now

Johnny: Maybe I’ll dance, as you’ve earnt yourself 1

Ali: 😁

Johnny: [do come back, adorably dishevelled from your antics, I’m picturing his shirt buttoned slightly wrong/one missed cos he took it off to not get it covered in oil and has hurriedly put it back on and a smudge of something on his cheek or nose or wherever where he’s rubbed with his hands before he cleaned them, it’s an impeccable vibe to arrive over to her with wherever she’s dancing, gonna say it’s with Carly cos she knows and thus will let you steal this girl without making a big !!? of it how somebody else would]

Ali: [it’s giving the gifs of y’all bebopping we have and we love to see it, can dance with each other without DANCING with each other, like it’s nbd when everyone is just jumping about like this, of course we are shamelessly using the chaos and the crowd to sneak actual meaningful touching and moments here because who knows, no one; can fully just laugh and wipe his face for him, ‘cos that could be taking the piss and not the lingering oh you heart eyes it actually is]

Johnny: [mhmm, though we should say Ronan is looking because of course he is and it gives foreshadowing of that gif where jali are kissing and he’s watching and lurking, like if he’s keeping an eye on y’all from now on/doesn’t necessarily think much of this but sees another moment another time at another party or whatever and is like oh, just sowing seeds despite how careful y’all are being tonight cos again we love to, catch him taking something from her hair real or imagined e.g bday confetti from balloons or party poppers with the same laugh but actual lingering heart eyes and touch happening]

Ali: [agreed, like you’re not peeping on purpose yet you’re just watching Alison ‘cos duh but it’s all gonna add up for you eventually; right now we’re oblivious to any and all of it because we’re having too much fun purposefully crashing into him the way you can when you’re dancing this kinda way, obviously we’re interacting with other peeps still enough that it’s not blatant but we’re only totally accidentally pressing against you when we’re not looking where we’re throwing our booty mhmm]

Johnny: [soz not soz everyone they are having a moment and are FULLY in it, making the most of every second they can dance like this and how far they can take it without it being blatant, they need it because it’s as close to dancing together in front of anyone as they are allowed and he’s for once drunk enough that he isn’t paranoid and stressed about everything he’s doing or saying and can actually have fun with it]

Ali: [yup, everyone is dancing with everyone on the face of it but also if everyone else wasn’t busy with their own agendas of who they wanna dance with really, you would see that we’re dancing together more than we are not, actually so happy about it, don’t mind us]

Johnny: [mhmm, catch Carly trying to pull the same move with Bartley and Ronan trying it with Alison, nobody is subtle and I stan, hence it escaping everyone’s notice that he doesn’t usually dance and this is the longest he has ever, if anyone did we’re just in the party spirit for his lil bro’s bday]

Ali: [me like you’re welcome that he’s actually happy right now people, the obliviousness of these boys never fails to send me but it couldn’t be realer lmao; but obviously the way these two particular boys are both trying to dance with you right now could make this awkward and we’re slipping out after too many near misses in our more sober mind, go get yourself another drink, gal]

Johnny: [poor Alison, so in demand always, this boy is 1000% following her before Ronan can because Carly will be intercepting him with a dance cockblock even if it makes Bartley mad/think she wants to get with Ronan/makes Ronan think she wants to get with him again because that’s the sort of friend she is, letting jali have a moment wherever these drinks are, so he’ll be taking her elbow and steering her into a corner where people aren’t whether she managed to grab a drink or not, hiding behind his real annoyance about Ronan as the reason because everyone knows he’s anti it and has been public about that, if y’all see the scowl he’s giving you can believe he’s just telling her off about it without trying to ruin the party and nothing else is going on]

Ali: [again, pure luck that it looks like you’re having a go and not just following her because you wanna but we’re taking it ‘cos we can’t shoo you away, we just can’t, saying you managed to grab a drink so you can pass it to him, pressing it into his chest like it’s a peace offering]

Johnny: [taking a drink from it and passing it back purely so their lips can touch via said drink because they can’t any other way rn, standing with his arms folded over his chest where it just was, again, looking like he’s cross and having a go cos nobody can tell over the music but he’s actually holding himself together and reining himself in so that he doesn’t touch her rn in a way they can’t style out and what he actually says is ‘now come on, with me’ like I’ll storm off in one direction and you in another but really we’ll find each other at the caravan or wherever]

Ali: [nodding, giving you’re listening to him but not engaging with this conversation to anyone watching if they were but also it’s all we are capable of now realising people could be, letting him go first, obviously, so you give it a minute without giving it long enough that anyone else can come follow you]

Johnny: [me deciding right this minute that they should be allowed the hookup in his caravan in his bed that they were denied earlier (because he’s drunk and extra enough to allow this) so waiting for her there and grabbing her literally while she’s walking past to go to theirs and pulling her in, kissing her the second his door is closed, against it with so much !! like it’s the first time or been years instead of hours since they did]

Ali: [as per trying not to scream as you are grabbed but where you’re being pulled into makes you MOAN, thankfully into this kiss so it’s not as deafening as it could be in the comparative silence of this caravan, ending up clutching at his shirt because intentions of fixing his buttons via taking it off right now but you’re too distracted by this kiss]

Johnny: [he is always lowkey kidnapping her lol, I’d scream if I could, shamelessly this boy is doing a non-stop makeout sesh until he can THROW her onto his bed with even more !! though so it won’t matter how much noise she makes or what kind because swallowing them all here with how dramatic we’re being, only stopping when she lands on said bed so he can STARE at her there and really take a moment to relive when she was waiting there before and all he could do was THINK about it]

Ali: [when we’re both here THINKING about it, maintaining the eye contact whilst you wrap this duvet around yourself how it was when you were just here waiting, like you’re recreating it exactly for him]

Johnny: [he’ll be here maintaining the intense af eye contact and giving her hair BIG strokes so it fans out all over his pillow while she’s wrapping herself up]

Ali: [biting your lip yet again to stifle another big NOISE, reaching both your hands out to hold the sides of his face, stroking him in a similar loving fashion because ‘I missed you so much’]

Johnny: [running his thumb over her bottom lip like no thank you don’t stifle any noise ever which true there is a loud party going on but we all know he’d be like that even if there wasn’t, holding her face exactly the same way she was/still is his ‘how much?’ because needs to know despite it being blatant and mutual, very obviously meaning tell me what you were thinking about/doing while you were waiting before]

Ali: [when your eyes widening is a LOUD reaction because so giant, so blue, excuse us ‘I didn’t move’ shaking your head in his hands/covering him with your hair he’d just nicely laid out there, because don’t want you to think we were actually having a snoop/behaving is the theme of the evening so of course we stayed put, wrapping our legs around him how you might’ve the duvet though with !! because not saying it wasn’t tough, like]

Johnny: [a genuine smile at her genuine good behaviour because it is the theme of the night and he loves to see it, looking at her like a proud father as he does his own nod, deciding in this moment that she’s therefore earned another dance the way they could not when everyone is around using the music y’all can still hear from this party, however faintly, so pulling her up with him as her legs are still wrapped around him at this point ‘they’re all dancing still’ as explanation ‘I’ll let you move again now’ love that we’re here like children jumping on a bed because hasn’t yet moved off it to the floor and that the duvet is giving wedding veil on her outfit because she’s wrapped in it]

Ali: [such a pure and joyous moment for you two, don’t mind me feeling emotional about it, pushing him lower by using his shoulders to push ourselves higher when we jump, ‘cos we don’t want you to hit your head on the ceiling and also we’re trying to be taller than you here, are inevitably going to slip on our duvet train and veil because we’re clumsy and it is slippery underfoot, just laughing the most]

Johnny: [don’t worry gal he will catch you and turn it into a hot move like he’s dipping and twirling her and therefore this dancing into an adorable slow dance regardless of what music is playing rn and how much it doesn’t go, full intentions of it being the ballroom style vibes of your first one but it isn’t gonna be cos it’s instead a v romantic and suggestive slow dance because gotta be that close and have your bodies pressed that tightly together rn obvs]

Ali: [so sorry that no one reaches these romantic heights with you again bestie, peaking so soon, here pressing your whole face into his neck because you can’t deal and maybe if you focus on breathing him in your heart will stop trying to thud out your chest]

Johnny: [which is why I’m so buzzing he’s coming back and y’all get a second chance to be a couple even if it does take years and the circumstances are less than ideal, we still love to see it, here and now just savour this dance you couldn’t have earlier, always behaving as if they’ve got all the time in the world when actually they’ve sneaked away from a party where she at least will be missed]

Ali: [mhmm, it’s a nice ‘ending’ not that that’s where the story is ending but you know, it’s happy for both of you ultimately; pressing our lips against your pulse point, humming whatever song is playing, however right you’re getting it because you aren’t listening properly, it’s all so background in comparison to this moment]

Johnny: [I really like that the only other person who gets this kind of later in life circle back is your brother with Meena, that’s so accidentally meaningful of us, I could write an essay, but ANYWAY, focusing on the here and now, this boy is making such a quiet but !! noise about it, like it hasn’t quite clicked how alone they are and how loud he could be if he wanted rn]

Ali: [my boo says in this essay I will- lmao, wuv you miss; doing a little giggle about it because it’s cute and so is he, giving him an equally as little kiss in the same spot ‘I like dancing with you, however we have to do it’ because also appreciated the moment that couldn’t be a full moment by the fire just now and we want you to know that]

Johnny: [I can’t even express how THRILLED I am that Tomeena and Jali are having kids at the same time, love that for you all, literally me needing to make him pull her hair and into a kiss because the way I nearly wrote ILY then and sir you aren’t drunk enough for that so kiss her and hush]

Ali: [it’s nice, considering Ali starts really young and the drama all that is, for sure; I was going to say it too, I’m allowed but lmao, we’re all on the same page here, push him down onto this bed again, miss, so you can make out properly]

Johnny: [y’all are due a really !! makeout sesh because it has been a minute, he will be taking his shirt off without pausing said makeout so that her name is exposed because gotta have the reminder it’s there now that they are alone and that’s sinking in]

Ali: [touching his chest with one hand, rubbing the material of his shirt between your finger and thumb with the other, as if you’re wondering at how such a thin layer stops everyone seeing this, ‘cos you are, even if none of this thought process is being verbalised or shown beyond that and the way we’re kissing you so possessively like we’re not alone and you got something to prove here]

Johnny: [catch this boy pulling her underwear down to expose the initials on her booty cheek and giving special and extra attention to his last because he’s thinking about how much he wants to marry her and that is how he’s showing that along with matching the energy with how he’s kissing her back]

Ali: [doing a more insistent and loud kinda noise into this kiss and his mouth about this because any reminder that mark is still there is so wanted because beyond staring at our own booty in pics or a mirror, that one is not as accessible to us, plus it just feels good obvs, swinging the key to the front of this chain to play with it right now]

Johnny: [seeing her do that with the key and fighting a literal war with himself internally over whether he should give her a key to this caravan too or not because obviously he should not but he really wants to in this moment, kissing her with all the !! conflict inside of him e.g like he holds her personally responsible for causing it, which is giving the energy of their first kiss ever]

Ali: [when you were having your own, far more casual in comparison but still very real, internal debate, over what I must now absolutely have you do in response to this extra energy, which is yank this key off your neck so you can carve your own initials into him right now but of course they aren’t your initials but AOS, by the logic of how y’all were making out right there, going to say this is landing in the hip/stomach area, ‘cos no forethought is being put into it we’re just coming at you]

Johnny: [when you’re about it enough just thinking it’s her actual initials when she’s doing the A but LORD when he realises it isn’t and can’t be a M she’s doing next, the UNHOLY reaction cannot be overstated, verbally in how loudly he’s MOANING and it’s the most dramatic string of swearwords he’s ever spoken, like on par with calling Moses the c word in the group chat, and physically with how !! he’s moving about this, it’ll be a miracle if the thrust of his hips doesn’t knock the key from her hand mid letter]

Ali: [that S is going to be shaky as all hell because your reaction paired with how it’s going to have us is making it damn near impossible to finish but we must, even as we’re burying our head into your chest with the !! of it killing us so we’re not even looking ourself at this point, simply too much and we love it]

Johnny: [this boy dying so hard about every second of this that he has to pull her head to look at her handiwork as soon as it’s done because need the wide eyed reaction + whatever else she’ll do in response even if it ends his life, the way his breathing has never been this insane before, it’s wilder than the time he came home from work on his lunch break and they were being feral because overwhelmed isn’t the word truly]

Ali: [pacing between looking at what you just did and making EYE CONTACT with him, whilst you don’t breathe at all like you’re taking it in turns and it’s all his right now, speedily and erratically doing a love heart around this as the !! punctuation that is fitting for how you’re both DYING]

Johnny: [SO overwhelmed and unable to cope that he unthinkingly bites her arse cheek so that his initials there are inside of it, when you probably thought he was gonna hit you there again instead when he manoeuvres this gal to do that but then there’s that happening purely fuelled by how !! they both are]

Ali: [oh the GASP that was just going to be an intake of breath you desperately needed but was more a scream in reverse somehow, sounding absolutely insane which matches how you feel, the choked sob because that would hurt but also that only feels appropriate and thus you are INTO it, not staying remotely still laid across his lap like this]

Johnny: [when you’re equally as surprised you did that but as into it, hence there’s 0 hesitation in how he’s then immediately eating her out from this angle like he knows damn well how turned on she was by that but the only possible way he can check is by sticking his tongue deep inside of her, just feral behaviour]

Ali: [so glad there’s a party going on out there because even if our face is somewhat in these sheets and pillows with the angle, we are NOT being subtle or quiet about how what is being done to us and by who, dropping his name like it’s going out of style right now because all we can think about, soz]

Johnny: [saved by the party backdrop yet again because he is likewise giving absolutely no fucks about where they are or how loud they are being, all this boy cares about is doing the absolute most and that includes with how his hands are all over his initials and the bite mark he just did while his tongue is fucking her as hard as it possibly can]

Ali: [y’all are welcome that it’s often the atmosphere right now because lord knows you need it, the visual of how your dress must be bunched up all around you also is sending me in the best way, keeping that bridal fantasy alive here]

Johnny: [I love that he hasn’t had a single thought to remove it and nor will he once he inevitably can’t take any more after what would feel like forever of him just killing her over and over like this and initiates a hookup with her on this bed on all fours so he can still keep the same energy and extraness with these initials with how he’s touching and staring at them]

Ali: [we all know why and we respect it, the dress is not coming off honeys, not tonight, the way you’re going to be able to feel your handiwork when you’re clapping back on him is going to make you lose it so much in such a blatant way, only making you do more in response]

Johnny: [god bless, I love how blatant we’re being about this wedding fantasy, similarly how blatant this boy is being about how much he likes everything she’s doing and how her new handiwork hurts in the best way, gotta once again dramatically pull her hair and her head back about this so her back is the most arched it can be, everyone’s living their best lives, not me just this minute deciding that he should drop his first ever ILY during this hookup to parallel when she did and he had his freakout, oh how far we’ve come, but we’ll let y’all get to the point of almost being done before he blurts that out so it’s really similar, not yet lads, but it’s gonna happen xoxo]

Ali: [y’all are on the same page about all of this, hence whilst we’re in this insane position we’re doing the most to try and make eye contact with you because the only thing wrong with this position is that we can’t because must be STARING at you at all times obviously, really gotta work for that ILY that you have no idea about yet but I do lol]

Johnny: [they absolutely are and he will be contorting himself forward while she is herself back to try and make that eye contact happen because it’s a flaw and he’s a boy that probably only has a mirror in his bathroom so y’all can’t even use that move rn soz, saying ‘I feel like I’m in your stomach and could put a baby right in from here’ while y’all are still in this position though cos it’s a new and wild one for you clearly, not how anatomy works but I respect what you’re trying to say and the fantasy being continued + how his voice sounds when he does say this]

Ali: [good thing y’all are young and this isn’t going to do you an injury because we’re getting like a gymnast up in here because it’s only pushing him further inside you so that in itself would be enough incentive, without the added bonus of catching his eye when you do and losing it more, can’t even get started on your pregnancy fantasy because that’s much easier achieved and y’all both know it and are doing NOTHING to not let it happen ‘you have to’ said like it’s your job but also said like we NEED you to rn immediately]

Johnny: [it’s a miracle she isn’t preggo already the way y’all are carrying on but you can be tamed we know that, you’re clearly both so into it and end up having lots of kids in the near future for a reason, LOSING it over the fleeting eye contact y’all manage to get hence his ‘it has to be me’ sounds even more indecent for that reason as well as it always being his echoed line from day 1, doing the MOST ofc to make that happen rn immediately as if she doesn’t have a party to get back to]

Ali: [using the secret lingo word for daddy because how else can you heartily agree, along with your big nods for emphasis, your own hands going under this massive dress to grope at his name on your chest hard, trying to keep yourself from losing it because you do have a party to get back to but you don’t want to be anywhere but right here now, also, in this vein, collapsing forward from your arched af position, thus putting some space between y’all like you’re gonna slow down when you can already tell you don’t want to because the 🥺 noise you make about losing him inside you for this moment, like you didn’t do it]

Johnny: [the boy immediately pulling her via this floaty af dress (don’t rip it please because he’s giving no fucks about the fact he could and might in this moment) to pull her into a new position whereby they can make all the EYE CONTACT they want but are still fucking as deeply as possible and don’t have to lose this pregnancy fantasy because ofc he is, STARING at her so dramatically, making such a similar but more boy coded noise as they are back at it again at krispy kreme because y’all are both clearly so close now, how could you not be]

Ali: [at least that’s a very real possibility with where you are and the fucks you don’t give, as long as you’re not flashing everyone at the party after lol, not that we care when we’ve got to act like he cannot be close enough for our liking, back to holding his head but the way we’re pulling it to ours, forehead to forehead is again painful by this point, only looking away to look down at how hard he’s thrusting inside of you right now because you gotta ‘you’re-’ no words no notes, just dying]

Johnny: [my boo says such destruction cannot be tied specifically to him and she’s so right for that, in which case, go ahead and rip it a little bit sir, likewise if she’s wearing any earrings rn she’s deffo losing at least one in this bed for him to find later with how hard he’s likewise grabbing both sides of her face, and there will be her hair all over these sheets for the same reason, torn between kissing her and his current need to say extra af things so saying all his secret lingo words for wife and mother etc into her mouth, the ILY is coming, we all know it is]

Ali: [we’re always into a little bit of destruction, lbr, it’s only furthering this and how violently y’all are going at it but with ALL the love too, the way we are SUCKING your tongue into our open mouth, hot from how the only way you can breathe is by panting out with every thrust into you, not caring if we crash our teeth together or bite you or ourself or you bite us whilst you’re attempting to still talk, however hard we’re making it because we need to inhale your words and let them live inside of us, moving your hands from the side of his face, with no warning and GRIPPING his hips in the same fashion but of course that’s where your initials are so you are DIGGING your nails in that side]

Johnny: [what a mood what a moment, yet again so thankful for this party because how LOUD he MOANS her name when she digs her nails into those initials the entire site would know what’s up, here not at all casually moving like he’s convulsing about it, I can 100% imagine her ending up with a full black eye from an involuntary headbutt or whatever, soz Thomas, you will be worried again]

Ali: [soz to you boy and anyone else who thinks she’s in some kind of domestic violence situation, at least she would tell you the truth, even if that’s not exactly what you want to hear as her brother lmao; we can’t help that we LOVE everything about this boy and this situation right now, throwing his name back with the same energy like it’s the answer to the question her name was, here trying to hold this boy in place like that isn’t what’s killing him and you know it]

Johnny: [DYING about it obvs hence I gotta have him throw his ILY out even if you wanna pretend later it’s because you were dying/drunk/sorry you gave her a black eye/all of the above, we all know he means it and not just in this moment]

Ali: [we all know this is making you cum instantly girl, and how, at least you can’t talk about it because you are gonna be DEAD, RIP]

Johnny: [mhmm, both of you just here DEAD, trying to even slightly recover somehow as per, this boy STARING at the initials she did because he couldn’t look at them properly before when he was too busy fucking her senseless, touching them for the first time himself because it doesn’t feel real that any of that happened]

Ali: [we’ll be here lying on the cold hard ground, okay actually this bed, which we also still can’t believe, like none of this can be real but it is, patting our eye gently and wincing because ow that’s gonna hurt but it’s something to tether us to the now and attempts at getting back up which feel impossible]

Johnny: [only really realising about her eye when you see her wince because that’s how out of it and !! he was in the moment and it didn’t even register, pulling her to him and cradling her head as gently now as they were being rough and feral about it before, looking at it seriously because it’s probably already swelling a bit, so then obviously, going to get something for her to put on it whether that’s the frozen peas wrapped in a tea towel cliche or whatever it is, and so gently pressing said random frozen item a teenage boy fending for himself would have, to her eye, I like to imagine it’s something fun like ice cream/lollies because he is so serious and nobody would expect it and a shoutout to his little nieces and nephews for sure]

Ali: [just smiling up at him because of course you are not bothered, however much it hurts and is going to look gnarly, how could that possibly be a priority now, eyeing up whatever sweet treat is going on our eye in a sec ‘I get one if I’m good, yeah?’]

Johnny: [a smile back as he takes one of these sweet treats and hands it to her, the implication being she has already been very good because true, immediately and even more gently then putting the cold box or whatever back on her eye]

Ali: [just here having this lolly so casually, snuggling against him and offering him licks because he’s gonna be so dehydrated by this point with how much alcohol he’s had and the sesh y’all just did]

Johnny: [share that lolly lads, how cute and wholesome of you, literally here holding this cold thing to her eye until the others start to melt and he has to run and put it back, once again, no fucks given to the party going on or how long y’all have been away from it]

Ali: [whilst he’s doing his freezer run, let yourself into his bathroom to have a look in the mirror, because in fairness you need to assess if this is can go back to the party okay or if you need to stay away, shrugging as you come back out ‘plenty I coulda run into in the dark that weren’t your head’ like we’ll be alright]

Johnny: [his own shrug with such an affectionate face because it’s known how clumsy she is so yeah that tracks, holding his arms out for her to walk into like he’s gotta guide her back safely as he walks over to her, literally putting her feet on his and stepping for them both like she’s a tiny bub and cannot be trusted]

Ali: [just having the best time doing this, shamelessly and unapologetically, giving him such big heart eyes because you don’t have to look where you’re going remotely ‘where are we going?’]

Johnny: [same, he’ll be loling and smiling the entire time that they are going for a wander through this caravan ‘I want to show you what I’ve been busy with when you’re not about to distract us’ cos we know this boy he’s always making something, so lead her over to wherever you’ve been doing that which is probably your overcrowded kitchen table and find whatever it is, feelsy ideas are welcome, because it should defs be related to the new life they’re saving up to run away and start/the baby/wedding they wanna have, but whatever it is it’s unfinished cos clearly a big project unlike when he made her a tiny friend so it’s a piece of said thing that she’d be able to guess because she knows things]

Ali: [tickling his neck like me, distracting? How dare you lol, finally hopping off his feets but keeping hold of his hand like you’ve got to stay close, I’m trying to think what this could be and I’m not sure so we’ll placehold it for now but obviously it’s feelsy as hell and pairing that with the ILY we haven’t even touched on because we don’t want it being taken back, yeah, we’re having emotions about it, your turn to throw yourself into a makeout to not say anything extra]

Johnny: [it matters less what it is and more that it signifies he genuinely is once again planning for their future and it’s a big project to tide him over until they leave/with the vibe of when it’s done we’re going to go, so she has an even realer timescale on when that might be based on the progress of this, I’m having emotions too gal truly cos clearly y’all aren’t leaving as soon as you think you are and it isn’t gonna go to plan when you eventually do, right now y’all know none of that though and he’s sitting her on this table amongst all his clutter to make the makeout even more extra]

Ali: [mhmm, exactly girl, exactly, you both know exactly what this is saying and what it means and that’s why you’re here making out like you’ve got time to do it all again ad infinitum because you just have to, they way we’re trying to say ILY but it’s just sounds approximate of the words and not quite the actual words because you’re so overwhelmed here and of course, never stopping to try and verbalise anything]

Johnny: [the vibes are once again immaculate and we love it for you both, this boy here behaving like y’all have the time or are remotely recovered enough for him to fuck her on this table because so in love rn, god knows the mess and noise you’re creating with what is falling off said table atm]

Ali: [us protecting whatever the project is though like must not break it, moving it out of y’alls way with such care and gentleness, like you aren’t still kissing him so hungrily because feelings have never been higher]

Johnny: [holding onto it/a piece of it that he helps her move throughout this makeout sesh even if it does turn into a full hookup like she did the key when it nearly fused to her palm cos gotta have that parallel excuse me] 

Ali: [my boo says I know what I want, thank you, even if we have to stop you at a makeout, still a vibe, as is the way we’re still holding your other hand about it]

Johnny: [this boy eventually sitting down at one of the chairs at this table like okay then leave me to finish my project because he knows unlike him she wants to go back to this party and shooing her off like she’s distracting him from what he wants to be doing is the only way to verbalise that it’s okay/he knows she can’t just stay here all night without peeps wondering where the hell she’s gone]

Ali: [still pouting like but- because we don’t want to leave you, sitting on his lap side-saddle for lack of a better term like hey, putting our arms around his neck to give him a goodbye kiss about it]

Johnny: [putting everything into this goodbye kiss obvs, then turning it into an extra af cheek kiss how he do and then moving up to kiss her injured eye better, less extra about it and very gentle actually]

Ali: [just staying here and having a soft little snuggle for a moment, as you psych yourself up to go back to the party ‘will you come back at all?’]

Johnny: [‘maybe’ because it’s the only acceptable answer as the answer they always give each other and truly he isn’t ruling it out if he misses her that much he needs to see her so it’s an honest one too]

Ali: [smiling at the maybe because it is your answer and thus the best response, getting up like okay, okay, I’ll go, sorting out your dress and seeing it’s ripped like don’t get distracted but ultimately getting a little distracted lol ‘check me over’ like come on, am I acceptable to leave or not]

Johnny: [doing the most LINGERING look up and down of her that he has ever done because she has given him full permission to and we really wanna savour this moment while she’s still here in front of us, giving her hair SUCH a big stroke like he’s fixing it but really he just wants to, literally getting up so he can walk round her and STARE from every angle, picking up her dress and doing an intake of breath at the ripped part of it which is supposed to be like a tut but is much more like a GASP obvs because remembering how and when that happened]

Ali: [here blushing so hard like you had no way of forseeing this and preparing for how it’d make you feel, following his hand with your head as if it’s tied to it via your hair ‘I can probably pin it’ so quietly because we’re all thinking about it and are not okay]

Johnny: [twirling her like he did when they were dancing, a proper ballroom style move because if he looks at her any harder he won’t let her leave, shaking his head like no don’t leave it but barely so it matches how quietly she said it because likewise THINKING hard about it still and we love the destruction sis] 

Ali: [making a happy lil noise and trying to pretend it’s just that and the !! isn’t also there and blatant, nodding back, holding the rip against our body, like we’re seeing what’s exposed and if it’s acceptable, LOOKING at him as a ?]

Johnny: [stealing one of her big nods from her because it’s beyond acceptable to him that she’s going to have that reminder and nobody else is gonna know what happened, putting the key back on her because she yanked it off earlier to be feral with it and not only does she need it back around her neck before she can leave but also he needs to pull it more gently for a sec and hold it to verbalise how much he loves this and the dress being their secret]

Ali: [would not could not leave without this chain, tis so important, as is the way we’re just resting our forehead against yours as all this is silently communicated between y’all before we’re finally making to head out this door and back out to this party]

Johnny: [this boy watching her go like she’s leaving to go to war instead of rejoin the festivities it’s so dramatic, no notes]

Ali: [the drama of you likewise just standing outside this van for ages before you really go back, oh lads, never change]

Johnny: [shall we leave this here as it’s a good stopping point and if we want when we come back to y’all it gives us the option to go from when she rejoins the party and do more chat and stuff if we want or to not and go from a new dawn and a new day?]

Ali: [I’m with you girly pops, will post this now, go us]

[khorren]

The way I handle rev legends is that you can either research a ton about them and learn how to channel their mist echoes (you still need to have the innate mist magic understanding, joe average just cant read some books), or if you’re powerful enough or interesting enough they come to you through the mists. In Aoife’s case it was a bit of everything. Interesting is not always a good thing as many echoes can just devour your mind and leave you for dead or possess you for happy fun demon times. For my three revs Aoife has the most fleshed out experiences with Echoes, she has the canon ones. Kensi’s magic is more based on Ritualist magic, so her echoes are more Ritualist related with some warrior figures thrown in. Not really explored Faebrynn’s echoes yet, she’s new to the rev scene but she has a very strong connection with Ventari. But now I want to play with Kensi’s rit echoes. Hmmm.

Ventari and Jalis came to her very young and kept the Mallyx echo away from doing damage. She learned to control it over time. I have a whole blarb about that already.

Glint was …. Interesting. She first started hearing the Glint echo after leaving her lair in season 2. While she gave kind words Aoife was absolutely terrified. She had just killed one elder dragon, and there was a plan in motion to attack a second, so having a dragon in her mind was just…. Yeah. No. No thank you. She tried her best to ignore Glint, and wouldn’t focus on any dragon magic that came her way so it just sort of …. Leaked out of her. A strange aura mostly, sometimes it was tangible magic that was dripping. To onlookers it looked absolutely horrifying but it caused her no harm other than a strange tingle. It wasn’t until she saw Rytlock using this dragon magic that she thought “huh, maybe it’s not bad?” She observed him all through the jungle adventures and managed to get a little bit of information out of him about his time in the Mists, but he didn’t understand it all himself, still a work in progress. She got a handle of the magic once Aurene was around, and as she trained Aurene she got better control of her own dragon magic from Glint.

This would majorly backfire on her later in Icebrood Saga when she thought she was channeling an echo of Jormag. Hoping to understand its power and what it wanted, she let the echo creep in, thinking she was in control. It wasn’t an echo, it was actually Jormag. Woops. She almost got corrupted but Dragon’s Watch and Sebastian saved her.

Kalla and the Alliance I’ve not really explored with her yet. But I love her Glint/dragon stuff.

People with revenant characters!!! I am curious if any of your characters have custom legends in their story/lore. If you dont have custom legends i want to hear about your characters relationship to and ways of using the ones that are canon.

My own examples:

Tryphon my pirate captain charr often calls on legendary pirates from the past. Originally i had a name of one from in game but i can no longer remember who they were or what i searched to find them lol.

Also because Im mean and i like putting my mental health onto him he has one spirit that talks to him that is a leak and link from his ptsd.

The only canon one he has is Ventari due to his close ties with sylvari. This is to boost his healing abilities for his crew

Melanthios, my formerly ash legion charr, in the same warband as crucita(quints dame) who awoke blind and unsure of where he was DOES call on kalla for arrows. He knows the general location of people from sound and smell and vibrations but arrows made of the mists and from the mists take their aim through kalla.

His other legends are from charr history as well. Bathea havocbringer helping him guide his weapons, Heirophant Burntsoul much to his disgust being used for his healing magic(as he was part monk classed), and the first Ash Legion Imperator, cub of the Khan Ur to help him with stealth, honed in from the time humans took ascalon.

I also like to imagine that these characters have retained some of their old magic and both are ironically gaurdians originally but with two different ways of using that magic. Tryphon healed others while Melanthios bound others.

[millslawrence]

But we were something, don’t you think so?

Did this little jali moodboard way before season 3, originally for the Twitter fam!

[iheartgarrus]

N7 Month Day 10: Galaxy

(AO3 Link - Catching up is my plan for today! Please enjoy some silly Jali fluff. Not to be taken too seriously. 😉)

Tali eyed James carefully, arms crossed over her chest as she considered his 'proposal'. "Are you sure?" she asked. "It's a pretty big step."

"I mean, yeah." He looked back down at his omni-tool screen, running his character around in circles just to have something to do with his hands. "Thought it could be fun, sharing a town. Plus we wouldn't have to go back and forth to trade stuff."

"Hm." Tali pulled her game up as well. "Maybe. And I don't suppose this is just because I have all the best villagers?"

She was putting up a good front, but he'd spent enough time with her by now to hear that hint of a smile in her voice. He smirked, nerves melting away. "You kidding? I'd be giving up Raenix. People pay real credits for him."

She shook her head. "I have a hack - you can bring him with you."

James's eyes widened and his head snapped back up. "No shit? That's… Wait a minute. Does that mean you're in?"

Tali giggled quietly, and he felt that same little flutter in his heart that he always did when he heard that sound. "Yeah, I'm in, James. You can move into my Galaxy Crossing village."

[walpurga-nacht-academy]

MONARCHIA DORM - BIRTHDAY VENUE

SCENE I

PUPPET: [Upon this blessed day, we bring to you an offering that seeks to satisfy your whims. On behalf of us, servants, we present to you the one which the fates considered worthy: LEONA KINGSCHOLAR.]

LEONA: Tch- what a pain.

DIANA: Leona Kingscholar. Welcome.

LEONA: Diana, huh. That's why the damn thing insisted I had to come today. I figured that might be the case.

DIANA: Mm. I'm honoured that it was you they chose. Dad would be happy too. He always admired the royal family.

LEONA: ......

DIANA: ......

LEONA: ......

DIANA: .....

LEONA: ... You say that but your expression doesn't change one bit, heh. You have the same dead-eyed stare you always do. Who would know if you're lying or not?

DIANA: You've always been good at looking through people's intentions, however. I doubt this actually poses a question for you at all.

LEONA: Tch. Still sharp, huh? Nevermind that. Let's just get this over with. It was a pain in the neck getting all the way out here just to interview you, you know? Better not waste my time.

Here.

DIANA: Hm? Ah, I see...

LEONA: That's all you have to say, huh? Thought you would know a little bit about this sort of stuff since Ruggie says that you're into singing.

DIANA: Mm. The animals enjoy it when I play songs for them. It's very soothing. This kora looks like it's finely made so I'm certain that they'll enjoy it when I play it for them.

LEONA: Huh, is that so... So you can even play this sort of thing?

DIANA: Mm. My mother studied under a jali for a few years, so he ended up learning the craft. She taught it to us as well when we were younger, and we ended up picking up on a lot of things thanks to it.

LEONA: She did, huh... That's rather bold of her. It explains a few things in the end.

The royal family used to have a jali back in the day as well. An old remanent from the days of the King of Beasts, but nowadays the position isn't what it used to be. There's less and less of them each generation, aren't there? Wonder why, hm?

DIANA: People always fear the truth, but that's not something they can change. Living one's life in accordance with your own beliefs... That's the sort of lesson my parents taught me. That's why I always want to stay true to myself. No matter what.

Leona. Thank you.

LEONA: Hah, seeing you bow your head like that never gets old.

DIANA: You are the second prince of the country. I must show you the proper respect, as part of your pack.

LEONA: That again, huh. Well, whatever, I don't mind as we keep it moving. There are still a bunch of questions I need to ask you, it seems.

DIANA: Very well. In that case, I will make sure to visit your dorm whenever I can and play you a few songs on the kora as a sign of my gratitude.

LEONA: Oy, don't do unnecessary things. It's a hassle having you visit and start scolding me during that time.

DIANA: Kings must listen even to things they don't wish to, otherwise they cannot govern. Isn't that so?

LEONA: Tch. Let's just get this over with already.

SCENE II

PUPPET: [Shall I proceed with the game?]

LEONA: I don't have all day to waste on this, so make it quick.

PUPPET: [Understood. I shall now proceed to ask a question that Diana Arrow will answer and which Leona Kingscholar will be tasked to interpret.]

LEONA: Interpret? What is the point of that? This woman always speaks her mind so there's nothing hidden behind her words. Get on with the next game.

DIANA: Leona.

LEONA: Huh? What is it?

DIANA: The puppet worked hard to put all this together. We should try our best to play along for its entertainment.

LEONA: Hah? You want to do its whims just like that? Aren't we supposed to be the ones entertained by it? Don't make me do work that's not part of the requirements.

DIANA: This is for the sake of the party. We must comply with it.

LEONA: Tch.

DIANA: Please go ahead. What's the question?

PUPPET: [You are in an old, abandoned building where no human has set foot for years and have discovered a staircase leading underground. As you descend you hear all manner of sounds. How do you proceed?]

DIANA: What sort of sounds are they?

PUPPET: [Moaning and weeping.]

DIANA: In that case, I would go check to see if they're hurt.

LEONA: Hah? Are you serious?

DIANA: Mm. If the sounds are loud enough for me to hear them so clearly, it must mean the other person is in trouble. If it's a human, they might have gotten lost and stumbled across wild animals and disturbed their peace. If it's an animal, they might have been hurt by another or by poachers. Whatever it is, I should make sure that things aren't dire enough for anybody to be hurt.

LEONA: Huh? So you want to play at being a good samaritan, hm? What a noble goal.

DIANA: There is no need for condescension. The balance between civilization and nature is a fickle one. Humans will hurt animals for little reason at all. It's my job to make sure that they are not mistreated in any way. If the animals are in pain, I have to make sure to evacuate the humans who disturbed them immediately before they do any more harm.

LEONA: Hah, I see. So you will prioritize animals over humans in that case, huh?

DIANA: If it's necessary. In any case, someone must be hurt so I will have to act according to my instincts and values. Isn't that something we all do?

LEONA: Is that so? In that case, perhaps someone's instinct is just to ignore the sound and move on. After all, nothing good can come out of investigating strange sounds, isn't that so? What do you make of that?

DIANA: That's their nature. One cannot ask more from them if they do not wish to give.

LEONA: Tch. Just the sort of answer I would expect out of you. I knew this was pointless. Let's just move on with it.

DIANA: If that's what you desire.

LEONA: Hmph. Straightforward women like you are difficult to deal with. I wonder how that octopunk does it, hm?

DIANA: I doubt Azul would appreciate you tormenting him like that.

LEONA: Heh.

SCENE III

PUPPET: [Please proceed to the last part of the interview.]

LEONA: What an annoying thing.

“If you were stuck on a deserted island with somebody, who would you want it to be?”

DIANA: Rosalia.

LEONA: ... Hah? That pipsqueak?

DIANA: Mm. She said that always wanted to try and escape from a deserted island as a test of 'wildness' so I think this would be an experience that she would enjoy.

LEONA: Are you planning on babysitting her while there? Treating it like some sort of family vacation?

DIANA: No, we would learn some survival techniques that might come in handy for her one day and help her built-up muscle. She said she's started exercising in order to achieve that, but so far she seems to be taking it too lightly.

LEONA: Hmph. She keeps showing up to Savanaclaw to go running with Jack every time she visits.

DIANA: Mm. I noticed that. But true exercise should be more focused on discipline rather than romance. Jack is her mate so he can't bring himself to be too harsh with her. I understand.

LEONA: And you're saying that you'll make for a better training partner.

DIANA: I would make sure to keep her on schedule without coddling her. The deserted island would make for a good training ground, given the rough terrain, limited distractions and enough free time for her to learn all she needs before we leave.

LEONA: So you're not worried at all about being stranded, huh?

DIANA: As a child, I used to spend a lot of time alone in the wilds. They're like my second home. And it's the sort of place that suits me most. Even if I end up on a deserted island I would be able to leave eventually. If I so choose.

LEONA: If you so choose, huh? Heh. So it's all for that pipsqueak's sake. Hmph, this sort of sentimentality...

DIANA: I enjoy looking after my little sisters and brothers too. It would be nice to develop that sort of relationship with Rosalia as well. She's always looking for an opportunity to hang around me.

LEONA: What a pain. But with that, the puppet should have its answer, right?

[*]

PUPPET: [Congratulations. The interview portion has been completed. Please proceed to the last event of the celebrations. A bottle has already been prepared for you.]

LEONA: Heh, it's finally time for the big finale, huh? Let's make it a memorable one.

DIANA: Mm. Then if you would, Leona.

LEONA: I know. Then, Happy Birthday, Diana.

You don't look too bad soaking wet like this either, hah.

[champagne pops]

[thatsweetbobbyfacetho]

Incaendium, SKAM, and The Watcher for KK/CK, Cagney & Lacey for non-CK

Incaendium, as you know, is my Witch AU fic which was inspired by the Secret Circle book series. Its probably one of my hardest fics to write mostly becuase I have to balance the witch stuff as well as multiple character deaths in the story. I do enjoy that it has Jali and Bonny in it though ❤

Johnny caressed the others face, “You have nothing to worry about. I don’t have to be an oracle to know that you feel the same draw to each other that I do.”

SKAM obviously was inspired by the SKAM series. I thought it would be fun to write one with the CK teens and various OCs. I started writing it one way and then watched SKAM España and decided to do a re-write. It's been in a bit of limbo as I've been distracted by other things.

He scoffed, “Oh and those drinks you have with your friends are completely legal, right?”

“Drinking is different,” Sam protested.

“It’s really not,” Miguel argued. “But I didn’t come over to weigh out the pros and cons of alcohol and pot.”

“Oh you didn’t?” Sam couldn’t help a giggle as she leaned up to kiss him.

The Watcher is an AU inspired by The Watcher in the Woods, one of my favorite live action Disney movies. I put it on hold to finish Incaendium but you can see how that's been working 🤣

“Anthony, slow down so you don’t run into anything!”

“If we stay here, I want this bedroom!” She could hear her brother call from down the hall.

Following the sound of his voice, she entered into a large bedroom. All of the furniture seemed just as old as the house itself, though hadn’t Mrs. Mills said that it had been in her family since it had been built? It only made sense that furniture had been handed down as well, but it did add to the creepiness of the place.

“Oh, of course, the largest room for you I suppose?” Sam teased her brother.

Anthony shrugged, “There is one almost as big just through the bathroom, you can have that one.”

Sam walked over to the bathroom, and just as her brother had said, it opened up into another room.

For the Cagney and Lacey fic not much has been actually written but there was a fair amount brainstormed for it lol. Basically it was the good ol' trope of long lost Daughter. Isbecki has a daughter he never knew about but she hunted down her dad. And then Lacey basically helping him navigate parenthood. Of course there was going to be a romance between the daughter and Harvey Jr. too 🤣🤣

[sea-and-storm]

OOC;

I can finally see the light at the end of the Qulaan tribe lore dump rework tunnel. All I’ve got left are write-ups for a handful of rituals and celebrations then going through everything with a fine tooth comb one last time for proofreading. 

And then I’m good to move it to its own domain and shill like mad, showing it off like any proud parent shows off pictures of their kids to anyone with a pulse.

I may or may not be really proud of how it is turning out.

BUT MOST OF ALL, I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO BEING ABLE TO.. YOU KNOW.. ACTUALLY ROLEPLAY. 

[khorren]

Aoife progress

I’ve been slacking with the journals recently as I’ve just felt kinda uninspired, but I’ll pick them up here eventually.

Aoife is now done with Season 2 Living World. I carried on with the whole “if you go into a zone, you map it” thing. As such the only maps I didn’t visit on my journey to this point were Queensdale, Fireheart Rise, Caledon, and Fields of Ruin. I should go knock out Southsun too as that’s technically a Living Story 1 map, and probably should have done it with my season 1 recap video re-watch.

But anyway. We’re at 97 hours with minimal AFK-ing. I’m 75 points shy of maxing Herald and have 36 left I can grab in core Tyria. Was running core stuff throughout. Mostly Jalis/Shiro. Pretty much everything died with Phase Travesal and Unrelenting Assault and then mush buttons. If I needed an extra heal when fleeing pop to Jalis and heal up. Whee.

On to Heart of Thorns! I think I’ll go map first before doing the story though. I want to get Herald squared away so I have some fun skills to play with as I go through the story.

[intern-seraph]

Two can play at this game! 63 on the prompt list gimme gimme

Aw heck-

this is leaving off on a suggestive note enjay

63. It only counts if someone finds out about it.

Braham finds Alfswen at the forge, pumping the bellows with her foot as she pounds away at a red-hot piece of deldrimor steel. He watches, entranced by how her honeysuckle skin glows gold in the firelight. She raises one gloved hand to her forehead and wipes away dew with the back. Though she works the forge with skill, he can still see her labored breath and the way she winces as she raises her hammer.

“Hey, Alf, you sure you should be doing this when you’re injured?” he asks, sidling up beside her.

She jolts, body going rigid for a moment. Her head whips around to face him and she scowls. “Don’t… scare me like that!” she hisses. Her shoulders relax and she returns to pounding the metal flat. “And I’m perfectly capable of smithing right now.”

“You’re still healing up! What if you tear again?”

She dodges him as he tries to poke at the bandages wound around her abdomen. He huffs out a sigh of defeat. Alfswen manages to jab him in the side with her elbow. “A little tearing never hurt anybody. I’ve survived worse. And besides, little injuries like that don’t really matter. It only counts if someone finds out about it.”

“Well I’d know.”

“Right, right, it only counts if you find out about it and act like I’ve been shot again.” She shakes her head with a quiet puff of laughter. Her tone mellows as she returns to her work. “I need new armor, anyways. Bangar fucking ruined my last good set, pompous bastard. Haven’t worked the forge in some time, and I’m stuck in here for a good while, so it all works out.”

“Fine, fine, I give. Just… don’t overdo it, ‘kay? Really don’t wanna have to explain to Jhavi or Crecia or Rytlock or whatever that you managed to rip yourself in half while making boots.”

“Hmph. You’re thinking too hard about this. Next time you get a horrible injury, I get to be the mother hen.”

“Wh-hey! I’m not a mother hen!”

“You totally are!” She moves around him and submerges the metal in a vat of water. Steam hisses up from the surface, fogging the air.

“Where did you learn how to do this stuff, anyways?” he asks.

“Jalis taught me.”

“Who?”

“King Jalis Ironhammer. A dwarf.”

“Wait, wait, wait, aren’t dwarves extinct?”

She shrugs one shoulder. “Ghosts, remember? Anyways, he started teaching me as soon as I could lift a hammer. So, ever since I awoke.” She grabs another sheet of metal from her stockpile and sets it on a curved mold. As she hammers it into the proper shape, he can’t help but stare at the way her bark shifts and arcs at the command of the taut muscles beneath, the way her eyes narrow in deep concentration and turn into shimmering silver slits, the span of exposed skin at her back, where neither her bandages nor her yak-leather apron cover her up. A dangerous move in most parts of Tyria nowadays, with a Commander-shaped target painted on her forehead. Here, though, it’s safe enough and warm enough to bare such vulnerabilities.

(He wants to touch her there, he realizes. He wants to feel her solidity and living flesh beneath his palms and just to hold her, but now is not the time. There will be time later, he reminds himself. Time to lie down in their shared nook and explore this new and unfamiliar relationship and the relief of being here and alive and okay.)

Braham settles for hovering over her shoulder, watching her work in enthralled silence. She works the metal like an instrument, hands gliding across the glimmering plane with a chisel to carve only the most intricate designs. There’s a delicacy to her movements that he’s never seen before. These skilled hands, hands that have crushed bone and sculpted steel.

(He wonders, briefly, what else they’re capable of.)

[punkscowardschampions]

Jali

Johnny: What went on with your sister, the one who wouldn’t eat?

Ali: Do you mean what help did she get?

Johnny: I don’t know, maybe I mean that

Ali: Or how did she end up like that, I don’t want to waste time not answering the question you want answered, is all

Johnny: Did she get seen to or no?

Ali: Not properly, no

Ali: It’s like addiction, when the person don’t want it, it’s hard to make anything stick

Johnny: But she’s yet to go to her grave

Ali: She has times when she’s almost healthy, again, like she’s relapsed the other times but yeah, she’s alive

Ali: What’s happened?

Johnny: Too much for writing here

Ali: Are you okay, where you are, I mean?

Johnny: No

Ali: You don’t want to talk about it with anyone else in your life though

Ali: Say as much or as little as you want here, it’s not going anywhere

Johnny: I’m not to, he’s all but thrown me out for what I’m not to do, none of it’s my place, sure, where am I to go then?

Ali: Your parents?

Johnny: It’s for my sisters to busy themselves with and his word’s final, so

Ali: You’ve a right to know if something is wrong with your mammy, surely

Ali: making it hush-hush isn’t going to help anyone feel safe that it’s being handled 

Johnny: I know that it is

Ali: but not what, and if more needs to be done

Johnny: There’s nothing to be done, only the caring for her

Ali: I’m so sorry

Johnny: She’s a want of me or she’d not ask [whichever sister is in charge], it’s not right I’m kept from where there’s need

Ali: Of course she does, you’re her son

Ali: You’re going to need to make your excuses when you’re at work, if your da finds out after so be it but you have to see her

Johnny: It’s not her deathbed, that’s how I’ve made it sound

Ali: You’re still allowed to care

Johnny: About her, not for

Ali: You trust your sisters, don’t you

Johnny: They’ve nursed more babies and elders than I’ll ever

Ali: You’re still worried, I would be too

Johnny: My mammy’s neither and she’s both

Ali: It’s like, head stuff only or head and physical?

Johnny: I haven’t school enough for how doctors speak and my sisters, they’ve less themselves

Johnny: How am I to be sure we’re handling this as it is to be?

Ali: Sorry for my ignorance but there has to be times where you go hospital and defer to the doctors, when you know you know when those times are, yeah?

Ali: Is it that your mammy can’t say or the call needs making for her?

Johnny: He thinks he can pray her back to herself

Ali: Right

Ali: They’re your parents and that’s your da but I think a part of growing up is having to step in

Ali: they can be like one person, if she’s not able to give say so then he might be just as incapable, even if he’s saying different now

Johnny: They’ve always been one, that’s what proper marriage makes of you

Ali: Mine are the same

Johnny: He’s a hand, she’s the other

Johnny: she was

Ali: People lash out when they’re scared, he’s the most to lose

Ali: but what if there’s a fix or at least something to help? You have to find out, don’t you

Johnny: He’s the law I follow

Johnny: He’ll take my head off or I’ll have to his to away her out from under his roof, she’s only to leave in a box, for the ground

Ali: What about your sisters?

Ali: Talk to them more, see what their thinking of it all is

Ali: they can talk to him in a way you can’t, man to man, father and daughter is different

Johnny: I’ve no uses even there then

Ali: That’s not what I meant

Ali: If I’m making you feel worse whilst trying to be helpful then I’ll stop

Johnny: It’s not you, you can’t be a help where none’s to be found

Ali: There isn’t a worse feeling, that much I do know

Johnny: All I’ve done and I’m still being punished

Ali: Is your mother a good woman?

Johnny: She’s practically sainted

Ali: There then, he isn’t going to get you through her

Johnny: He already has

Johnny: God or my daddy, I’m not son enough for either

Ali: Johnny

Johnny: People don’t need burying to be lost to you, you’re the last who needs telling that score

Ali: I know that people who do everything they’re meant, keep their heads down and work hard get overlooked 

Ali: and more to do and less thanks for their troubles, it’s fucked, no one said it weren’t but

Johnny: What’s it for if he’s not proud and she’s not herself?

Ali: I don’t know

Ali: You have to be, on both counts

Johnny: She don’t know us now and I don’t want to

Ali: She’ll remember, she asked for you

Johnny: I can’t lose her yet

Ali: It’s not her deathbed, you said

Ali: there’s time, I’m not saying enough but you’re both still here 

Johnny: It should be me if it’s anyone

Ali: None of us get the say

Johnny: I’ve memories I can’t rid myself of hard as I try and she’s none she’s allowed to keep, God’s had that say and he’s proper proud of himself

Ali: You taking on the blame for her illness, what is that going to do 

Johnny: I used to say I’d a good head on good shoulders, least I can do is let them be weighed down as it’s shown itself to not be true

Ali: Awful things happen to good people every day

Ali: this world isn’t promised, only the next, isn’t that the point

Johnny: This world’s what I’ve made of it by breaking every promise, my word’s no good and nor am I

Ali: You are

Ali: you’re not bad, not all bad

Johnny: You would say that

Johnny: I’m of her and she’s of me, her oldest boy and I failed her, more than she’s to know of ‘cause I never owned up the way she’d have me do

Johnny: it’s important and it’s connected, it has to be so

Ali: There’s no deal to be made with the universe 

Ali: does that terrify you more than the idea of you fucking up every turn

Johnny: If I’m not to fix this, it’s all dark

Ali: Of course

Ali: that’s your mammy

Johnny: I’d fuck up the rest of my days to give her more but nobody’ll let me

Ali: I know

Johnny: All you know of her is [the haircut story + the dancing story and whatever others came after, but the point being heartbreakingly few because y’all didn’t get to be introduced how he would’ve wanted]

Ali: I wish I knew more, she sounds great

Johnny: She’s the reason I’ve any good in us at all

Ali: That won’t go away, nothing can change all memories, they’re still there

Johnny: The boy feels the same about you, it was there in his speaking

Ali: I hope so

Ali: that’s all any of us want for anyone we care about, that they know it, they’re happy and healthy for as much of the time as we’re given

Johnny: How’s he?

Ali: She had a brother, few years younger, so he’s looking after him

Ali: I don’t know if it’s the same as being well but under the circumstances, and when I would do the same thing… 

Johnny: Doing right’s near as well to some of us as we’re to get

Ali: If we’re wrong, I never learnt any different

Johnny: I’ve yet to myself either

Ali: We weren’t opposites, even if we came from different worlds

Johnny: I remember what we were

Ali: Yeah

Ali: This is shit, your ma is too young for this to happen

Johnny: Life is extremes, told you then

Ali: I don’t remember disagreeing but I wouldn’t now if I did then

Johnny: You didn’t

Ali: I’m sorry, that this low is so low

Johnny: I shouldn’t have come to you with it, it isn’t yours

Ali: No, it’s okay

Ali: I won’t say I’m glad or anything weird but you should be able to vent

Johnny: If I’d sense I’d be drinking the problem into another like my brother is

Ali: You could, 5 o’clock somewhere

Johnny: It’s never been how I handle trouble, only brings more

Ali: You’re not wrong

Ali: isn’t my preferred method either, everyone has the family members that have it down to too fine an art to want to replicate, I guess

Johnny: We’ve all of us our demons

Ali: I’ve never met a person who doesn’t

Ali: I don’t think you can get very far without 

Johnny: Even my mammy must

Ali: Definitely

Ali: but she’s a good one so you don’t know

Johnny: Told myself you weren’t to know

Ali: Why?

Johnny: It isn’t your business 

Ali: I’m not about to show up

Johnny: I mean, I was of the mind to leave you alone

Ali: You can go back to that when you’re ready

Johnny: I wasn’t ever ready to put you aside

Ali: You managed, we both did

Johnny: Managing for the now’s what I know

Ali: Survival mode

Johnny: Am I to?

Ali: Yes

Johnny: How?

Ali: You just will

Ali: because people will need you

Johnny: They always need and take, this’ll be no different

Ali: Who’s going to look after you

Johnny: I look after

Ali: I remember

Johnny: I only had peace with you, it’s as true as when first I said it

Ali: Couldn’t you replace me?

Johnny: No

Ali: I can’t be mad

Ali: It was never the same

Johnny: You didn’t marry, you said you wouldn’t anyone else

Ali: God, who would I

Johnny: By god, not my cousin or I’d have had to involve myself

Ali: Maybe if I’d dated him first but I stopped trying to get your attention a long time ago

Johnny: Always were a smart girl

Ali: I can take the hint [however many years] gives, there’s stubborn and then there’s that

Johnny: But you can’t a compliment [however many years] on, no? 

Ali: Said like you didn’t think I thought myself the greatest thing since sliced bread

Johnny: A compliment from me

Ali: Do I remember what that looks like…

Johnny: You’re not to have memory loss, it isn’t catching

Ali: Ah, no, not for shit craic’s sake

Johnny: Thanks a million

Ali: If you’re going to say no, then just, don’t say anything

Ali: but you’ll talk to me, if you need to again?

Johnny: What’s left to be said?

Ali: Whatever you’d be slurring if you decided to fix it with a bottle

Johnny: I’m too old for carry on of that sort

Ali: What does that mean

Johnny: Once is to be ashamed of, what would twice be?

Ali: Heaven forbid you accept the bare minimum 

Ali: it’s not as if anything can help, it’s just listening

Johnny: From you there’s no just anything

Ali: Rude

Johnny: You don’t do the bare minimum

Ali: I could remind myself of all the shit things you’ve done, if I feel myself getting carried away

Johnny: List’s longer than your arm

Ali: Your arm, maybe

Johnny: The length of you, even if that little girl grew some

Ali: I don’t think I have

Ali: When I did the kids’ height in the door jamb, they used to ask why I wasn’t growing

Johnny: [tell her that your tallest daughter, because I’m not gonna look up each of their heights but at least one of y’all has to be taller than Dakota I’m sure, was/is already the height of her depending on ages rn and heights, we know what I’m trying to say, their mother is tall]

Ali: It’s so unfair

Johnny: What have you the need to reach?

Ali: Shall I make you that list?

Johnny: The boy’s near my height, tell him he’s to help you

Ali: He does

Johnny: There’s your fairness then

Ali: At least the [however old Junior is rn] hasn’t overtaken me yet, yeah

Johnny: [me so beyond tempted to make your youngest roughly the same age just cos we can so tell her that]

Ali: I didn’t know you had any that young too

Johnny: Only the one, the rest are that bit older

Ali: Yeah, I thought so, timings-wise

Johnny: Yeah

Ali: Until you have more anyway

Johnny: Maybe

Ali: I’m done, almost definitely 

Johnny: You could sound more definite, like

Ali: I shouldn’t need to tell you that when you say never again is when the man upstairs steps in

Johnny: Right, never say never

Ali: Who knows what life is going to throw at you, certainly not me, track record is anything to go by

Johnny: If I’d know it was to be my mammy not living to the old age hers did I’d have behaved different

Ali: Hey, she’s still here, different but not gone

Johnny: For the now

Ali: You don’t know different there either

Ali: People can live for years with things like this, you might be surprised

Johnny: But what life’s it?

Ali: I know

Ali: but, she might not know the difference, at that point, d’you know what I mean

Ali: it’ll be worse on yous

Johnny: It’s hard to reckon on worse, tempting my man Jesus there though I am

Ali: Thank fuck I didn’t promise I could cheer you up about this

Johnny: Tall order for somebody I’ve not seen for years

Ali: Old habits

Johnny: You should be old enough to have kicked it

Ali: Says you, having talked at length about how you’ve not changed at all

Johnny: You’re to be better than me

Ali: Sorry to disappoint 

Johnny: Proves you’ve got yourself new habits to put with the old

Ali: Not how I remember it

Johnny: How I can

Ali: I won’t begrudge you remembering the good 

Johnny: We only ended bad, what don’t?

Ali: Maybe there’s truth in that

Johnny: ‘Course there is

Ali: I can’t believe that only things that don’t end are good though

Ali: I’ve only a handful of those compared to all the things I’ve lost

Johnny: Everything ends

Ali: On earth, sure

Johnny: That’s where I am and needed, as you said

Ali: You and me both, boy

Johnny: The rest’s for him to know and us to find out

Ali: I can tell you have a [the age of his youngest because so childish of a phrase lol]

Johnny: She asks plenty of questions

Ali: Junior is a lot like Ronan

Ali: by which I mean he goes with the flow

Johnny: For the little lad’s sake I hope he’s more sense

Ali: Who needs sense at that age, there’s fun to be had

Johnny: You would say that

Ali: Come on, life is hard enough, isn’t it

Johnny: For those who don’t make it no easier on themselves

Ali: You think that’s Ro?

Johnny: He’s among ‘em, him and Moses both

Ali: Where is he now?

Johnny: [lord knows but fill her in on the basic deets]

Ali: Somehow surprising and unsurprising at the same time?

Johnny: [also give her some tea about their dad that’s come out since she’s been on the scene just for fun, because he was a wrong ‘un as well and that’s what we’re giving with this, like we’re very unsurprised]

Ali: Ah, [naming him as if he was a good friend]

Johnny: As da’s in law go, he’s sent to try us, like

Ali: I bet

Johnny: Helps not to be living [whatever the OG site was called because he definitely took his wife and moved to a different one that’s still nearby, you can’t tell me he didn’t flee the scene of the crime]

Ali: It’s a lot of new families now, most moved on

Johnny: We’ve talked of returning, be nearer my mammy

Ali: That makes sense

Ali: Pros and cons, like

Johnny: I’d have it so she comes to us but my da’ll not

Ali: They’re very settled, I do see his point there

Johnny: [Another of his sisters] reckons familiar surroundings are what’s needed if she’s to remember things

Ali: Having all her things around is possible anywhere but yeah, a big change could take time to adjust to

Ali: You might have to put up with your father-in-law, for time being

Johnny: Whatever’s best for her

Ali: Yeah, that’s your priority right now

Johnny: We’ll soon settle back ourselves

Ali: There’s a ‘van where yours used to be

Johnny: Yeah?

Ali: Last I saw, yep

Johnny: Go on, you can’t tell me there’s a ‘van and nothing about it

Ali: [tell him the deets you know because had such a normal reaction about it, clearly]

Johnny: [here asking questions etc like she’ll magically have more info to give because likewise not okay about this or the the idea of returning actually]

Ali: You don’t need a tour, it’s still mostly the same, the bare bones anyway

Johnny: How much are you there?

Ali: Oh, not enough to bother you

Ali: Just dropping and picking up the boy, that’s all

Johnny: I’ll be seeing him

Ali: Just Junior

Johnny: Unless you and his da have others

Ali: I meant, there’s no need for my Edie to be there

Johnny: If she’s need of anything, you’ll know where I am

Ali: Thanks

Ali: I shouldn’t need to bother you with anything

Johnny: She’s [however old she is now, because we’re saying basically grown in his gypsy eyes]

Ali: Yeah, she was close to Una too, the girl who passed

Ali: So Django keeps an eye on her as well

Johnny: I’ll have money for her, the same, tell her to come for it

Ali: That’s one thing that really isn’t your responsibility 

Johnny: Moses isn’t responsible

Johnny: the girl’s family, I’ve a duty to her with the rest

Ali: I know how you feel, about it all

Ali: They’re provided for, I assure you

Johnny: Tell her to come, Ali

Ali: I will extend the offer, okay?

Johnny: Good

Ali: I appreciate it, whatever the outcome

Johnny: She’ll appreciate [the amount], she takes it, but as she’s yours she’ll not be told

Ali: As long as you won’t be put out if she takes it

Ali: She’s lots of projects and plans always

Johnny: I wouldn’t offer, it weren’t already hers put by

Ali: Joking, I know you

Ali: or, know that about you

Johnny: She wasn’t a girl she could have a car herself too

Ali: I’ll get her one, I’ve some birthdays before then

Johnny: You’re best to teach her to drive before Moses

Ali: No kidding, I’d not let him drive her anywhere, nevermind teach her his habits

Johnny: Might well be banned before she’s old enough, but when’s that stopped him?

Ali: Rules don’t apply, in fairness but no

Johnny: Living by nothing but his own shouldn’t at the age he is

Ali: You tried

Johnny: You said it, I’m not his daddy, I couldn’t be

Ali: Unfortunate his is who he is, not everyone is lucky

Johnny: Apple don’t fall far

Ali: None of us do

Johnny: Asked, he’d call himself fortunate

Johnny: maybe he’s the one who’s right and I’m in the wrong

Ali: Are you happy?

Johnny: I don’t know, I’ve things to be happy about

Ali: I’d say if you are majority of the time, then that’s something to be proud of

Johnny: And if you’re not?

Ali: Room for improvement?

Johnny: Something like that then

Ali: What do I know, right

Johnny: Are you no happy yourself?

Ali: I asked you like it was an easy question

Johnny: It’s yeah or a no, can’t get much easier than questions of that sort

Ali: Where was your yeah or no answer

Johnny: Where’s yours?

Ali: Sometimes not answering is answering, like

Johnny: True enough

Ali: Is it okay to say that talking to you has been

Johnny: Been what?

Ali: Okay

Ali: or, a more definite word, I don’t know

Johnny: It’s just us here

Ali: Until I say something to upset you and then it’s just me

Johnny: Come on, Ali

Ali: Sorry, sorry

Johnny: I came to you

Ali: I know

Ali: I’m glad you did

Johnny: It’s not ‘cause I didn’t know who else to, I wanted to

Ali: I want to talk to you too

Johnny: I’ve more deleted messages to you than sent ones to anybody

Ali: When was the last one you deleted?

Johnny: Last night

Ali: I’ve never had anyone I couldn’t talk to that was still here, it made me… I don’t even know how to describe what it did to me

Johnny: I weren’t still there, not for you

Ali: But 

Ali: you weren’t gone enough

Johnny: I should’ve done more, one way or the other

Johnny: gone further or stayed closer

Ali: It’s been [however long, giving we’ve done well to last this long/also how has it been this long]

Johnny: Ask us when my first deleted message was

Ali: Tell me

Johnny: [I can’t be specific here because we don’t know the full tea but it’s giving IMMEDIATELY after y’all ended]

Ali: I never stopped

Ali: even when I really should, especially then

Johnny: We never did have the proper knowing how

Ali: I can’t pretend I wanted it

Johnny: Neither of us wanted what happened

Ali: Was it my fault, do you think that?

Johnny: It was mine, I’ve told you

Ali: You were better than me

Johnny: I weren’t nothing, you could’ve done better, you should

Ali: I can’t

Johnny: You would’ve, but you was a little girl and I fucked your life

Ali: I did that myself

Johnny: I did it to you first

Ali: A lot of things

Ali: but you didn’t screw me up any worse than I did you

Johnny: Don’t start none of that, there’s no worse than putting a baby in your pal and letting it kill her

Ali: She didn’t kill herself, I know that

Johnny: Her acting up lead to her death sure enough as gorja girls taking other pills

Johnny: not passing how your sister did don’t mean she’d no mind herself

Ali: She wouldn’t leave me, she knew I was there for her, we’re all each other had 

Johnny: So then where’s she?

Ali: It was an accident 

Johnny: Consequence, there’s no accidents 

Ali: There are though

Johnny: We’re not to agree

Ali: It’s not important now

Johnny: It’s done, true

Ali: A long time done, whatever did or didn’t happen, it’s all over

Johnny: Yeah

Ali: You can’t take personal responsibility for every bad thing that befalls every person you ever know

Johnny: I take responsibility on when it’s mine to

Ali: And when it’s not

Johnny: I’ll not

Ali: Another time we’ll not agree

Johnny: Old habits

Ali: I don’t know how to be anyone else

Johnny: I’d never ask it of you

Ali: We did once

Johnny: No

Ali: I wanted to be who you needed, you know I believed I could be, don’t you

Johnny: We was our most ourselves with each other, that’s what I needed and you gave

Ali: I just didn’t want it to end, I guess

Johnny: It weren’t meant to

Ali: No, it wasn’t

Johnny: Blame you’ll let us take, will you?

Ali: I should have known better

Ali: Known you’d always go back

Johnny: It wasn’t say I had, I should’ve known

Ali: I made you feel differently

Johnny: You were an escape from the pressure I wanted one from

Johnny: I asked God for you

Ali: Must be why he’s angry, you threw me away

Johnny: I was after keeping you, that’s what fucked everything

Ali: Says you, you can’t suppose to know what he’s thinking or wanting

Johnny: It’s said by the elders too, a girl like you’s a rite of passage not a wife

Ali: And here you are all grown up, mission accomplished, right

Johnny: You’d have me grow up like Moses or Ronan, barely at all

Ali: So they’re my fault now?

Johnny: The fault’s their own, it’s their culture and traditions they’ve forsaken not yous, you’ve none

Ali: Not everyone in a culture lives as one being, there’s room for differences

Johnny: Loads of room being between difference and disgrace

Ali: Sure

Ali: Ronan isn’t

Johnny: In some ways he’s worse

Ali: Because he bothers to see his gorja child?

Johnny: For fathering a child with the same gorja his brother already had

Ali: I’d be his before I’d ever be Moses’

Johnny: He’d time enough for the learning you’d never be his

Ali: Never say never

Johnny: I’ll say it there

Ali: Well

Johnny: What’ve you to say?

Ali: It’s not your say, is it

Johnny: It’s not for you to lie you want him

Ali: We’re better friends, always have been

Johnny: We never could agree on how many you were to have

Ali: I didn’t have need for as many when I had you

Johnny: I had need for nothing

Ali: Yeah

Ali: It was good, wasn’t it

Johnny: What it was don’t matter any more

Ali: Maybe not to you

Johnny: You still take everything too far

Ali: If you’ve had enough, the trip down memory lane can stop

Johnny: Last I touched a drop of drink would be when you let Moses touch you

Johnny: [tell her about how your grandma who I’ve said before was like the medicine lady had to do a DIY gypsy stomach pump because you literally gave yourself alcohol poisoning basically about the baby Edie of it all, like girl if you want a trip down memory lane let’s fucking go]

Ali: But I had to just be okay with it

Ali: I had to just disappear without complaint whilst you married his sister

Johnny: You didn’t have to have his child, Ali

Ali: I did what I had to do, just like you

Ali: You can be happy with your choices, you don’t have to be of mine

Johnny: You did what’d hurt me

Johnny: he’s blood to me, they both are, what choice have I?

Ali: Do you think I wasn’t hurt? Is there a world that exists to you where every choice I made didn’t leave me with scars?

Johnny: There’s one where I didn’t rub mine in your face

Ali: You don’t know, how he got into my head

Johnny: I warned you about him, you don’t listen

Ali: He talked like you

Ali: but I could have him, so I did

Johnny: We’re not the 2, or 3, of us interchangeable 

Ali: No shit

Ali: If either was even a close second, they’d still be with me now

Johnny: There you went collecting us all just as I said

Ali: I wasn’t giving you one-way loyalty, not then

Johnny: Did you have my brother?

Ali: No, I did not

Johnny: Did you try it on with him?

Ali: No, actually

Ali: Because he liked Carly and even with her gone, I wouldn’t do that

Johnny: You’ll give her loyalty but not us

Ali: You had say in breaking my heart

Ali: that’s how it felt, she didn’t mean to leave me

Johnny: She kept the baby, why’d that not?

Ali: That was an accident too, her life and head were a mess from day one

Johnny: And what of my head? But you’d punish me

Ali: Did I ever say I was proud of every decision I made? No, because I’m not

Johnny: It was the same accident

Ali: It makes me want to get in that state myself, hearing about you like that, even now

Johnny: I couldn’t let you, even now

Ali: I want to say sorry, like it can mean anything

Johnny: But you know there’s no use nor sense

Ali: Is it better to you if it was just to hurt you, or that I was so fucked mentally that I believed him

Ali: I don’t know, I go back and forth myself

Johnny: Either way I’m after killing him

Ali: Someone will, one of these days

Johnny: Am I to be comforted by that?

Ali: No, he’s still your family

Ali: it’s just that news of it wouldn’t surprise me

Johnny: It should be me or nobody at all

Ali: You’re not to ruin your life over him and what I did

Johnny: You reckon it isn’t? 

Ali: You’ve a family, a wife, what you wanted

Johnny: I was told to marry her so’s one of ‘em could be respectable and live decent

Johnny: all it did was mean her brothers could do as they want, keep with the carry on held to no account and they have

Johnny: the only sacrifice is mine, always

Ali: You’re the scapegoat, they can’t be told, you can

Johnny: And now I can’t lay a hand on him neither, to this day still

Ali: I should have seen, that all he wanted was to hurt you

Johnny: A shared want of yous both

Ali: Not that much

Ali: I didn’t think he’d hurt family like that

Johnny: Moses cares for Moses

Ali: No one became more aware of that than me

Johnny: She’s a good girl despite the hole in him, I hear

Ali: A credit to herself

Johnny: And you

Ali: I should have picked better daddys for them, her especially 

Ali: you weren’t wrong

Johnny: I’d have picked different myself, had I say

Ali: Having you play matchmaker would’ve sent me over the edge, fair to say

Johnny: Well, I meant for me but can’t say I wouldn’t for you

Ali: Oh, that does make slightly more sense

Johnny: Too late the now

Ali: Anything made different, all of us would be

Ali: some things really aren’t choices and if they were, I’d still choose my kids how they are

Johnny: There then, you must be happy enough

Ali: With them, of course, however it came about, I brought them here, what a complete evil bitch I’d be not to love them

Johnny: I’ve nothing to say of that, turning your back’s not meant to be an option of anyone but here Moses and I are

Ali: Men seem to do it all the time, yous aren’t alone

Johnny: You said I’d become a different man than him, little were you to know

Ali: It was meant to be different, we all were

Johnny: For you, for me it was meant to be how it is

Ali: You weren’t meant to do what you did to Carly

Johnny: And she weren’t to be living there, how far back are we to go?

Ali: I wasn’t making a point, I’m saying that you shouldn’t have no kid with a gorja girl, if we’re to be brutally honest

Johnny: I know that, I was talking of the rest being as it should, like

Ali: Are you waiting for me to say I’m happy for you?

Johnny: I stopped waiting for you a long while ago, don’t worry yourself

Ali: I’d be happy for you if you could say you were

Johnny: I’m not after you being happy for me, on you go

Ali: No, I’m not

Johnny: We’ve talked enough

Ali: That’s it then

Ali: See you in another, what, [again being so exact with when you last spoke]

Johnny: You was bang on when you said we’ve even less need to see each other

Ali: Right, fine

Ali: I hope you sort everything out with your mammy

[chainofbeing]

Having recovered from his injuries, Adam goes to Dhara Jamina in the hopes that he will learn more about the foe he is pursuing. Unaware of what truly awaits him.

Narration and Inspiration-Besides-Death : David M. Sledge

Eikal: Erik Smith

Captain Anktares: Frances Gillard

Announcement: George Pritchard

Adam Delta 5, and Sound Design: Cai Gwilym Pritchard

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[a deep voiced narrator speaks, the sounds of a creaking old wooden building]

It was immediately unsettling. Ghost had woken up and felt a sense of unease in their stomach but couldn't quite piece together what they were experiencing. it was only as they clunked down the hardwood stairs and persuaded the rehydration machine to actually work that they understood what was wrong. the sound of the waves had disappeared. instead of the ordinary rush of waves flinging themselves upon the scattering of unmoving and unwavering rocks there was a suffocating, deafening silence. It created a pressure in their ears which was worse than the static of thousands upon millions upon billions of water droplets falling. They had gotten used to that, they had accepted it as a daily occurrence, as anyone would do cope with monotony. They threw on their coat and swung open the lighthouse door, 

[the sound of a town can be heard lightly, wind and birds too]

 they could already feel the surface of their body begin to freeze. Ghost was 6-ft tall and fell into the third gender category of Malgaric. They had a great pair of glowing green eyes, their body criss-crossed with glowing lines of a similar colour in majestic patterns. Hovering around their head were decorations which adorned them as was customary for the Malgaric. Around their head silver horns hovered lightly above their temples and crescents followed their ears as they moved, bobbing up and down with each step. Their full name was "Ghost-of-Sunken-Dawn" however they found that their life was made much easier if they introduced themselves simply as Ghost. their full name is on their plaque of course, hung up by their sheriff's certificate and above their medals in service to the army.

Obviously they were not pondering their family name as they were charging down the semi frozen hill, their mind was preoccupied with the momentous task of trying to comprehend the unfathomable physics defying event that was taking place in front of them. Stood close to the edge of the cliff, puffer jacket zipped up to avoid the cold, Ghost stared deeply into the still wave and slowly began to feel a haze creep into their mind,

[the soft drone, permeated with shattering glass that plays forward and backward can be heard]

It toed the line between a physical and mental sensation, the strangely familiar haze seeped across their whole body as they felt themselves caught in the grip of something far greater and more complex than they could ever hope to understand. And as the birds cawed and the wind blew they felt a pulse travel from their stomach and ooze outwards to the rest of their body, a repeating pattern of four beats, and as the haze travelled outwards, ambling its way to their throat the pulses evolved, becoming incrementally more word-like, mutating from its true form into a shape far more cohesive with the reality around it. And as the haze enveloped Ghost completely, the pulses, now in the form of words, escaped their mouth and they spoke them out loud 

“Ovig Nadal!” 

and with that, Ghost was lost entirely 

[the hum of a ship interior, new and clean adam now speaks]

I stand and stare into the mirror inspecting the scar on my abdomen, the diamond shape a lighter tone then the rest of my skin. I take a moment to stare at the other scars, all manner of bumps and shapes covering my body, never quite having healed properly. I follow the trail of past fights and battles, a history of my conflicts etched into my body, my gaze eventually landing on my eyes, run through with matching lines. I stare at myself 

“you’re still human” 

I say, my warped voice and dark eyes tell a different story. All the Arcanists and scientists of the galaxy cannot explain why I look like this, my immortality is a punishment, for what I did in Eden, for learning what I did in Eden. Whatever that was. Perhaps my aberration is part of that punishment as well. “You are more than Eden,” I tell myself. 

That one I refuse to believe without any help. 

I head downstairs and In the lift, an announcement pings overhead “Could operative Adam Delta 5 please make his way to the quartermaster,” I go down an extra floor and enter the Inventory, rows and rows of shelves with all manner of equipment and supplies, there’s a row of tills each with a visored quartermaster behind it.

[the sound of an office, some light talking and typing]

 Waiting for me is what I imagine to be the captain of the ship, before she can introduce herself I interrupt her

 “I thought hospital ships didn’t have quartermasters?” the captain, a Veatorian, looks me up and down

“I am Captain Anktares, nice to meet you.” she says, annoyed but unsurprised “Recently the council felt it necessary to..” she pauses to search for the right word “elevate, certain facilities at risk to certain threats, this ship was in the way of something or other, beyond my paygrade unfortunately,”

“It’s only been a few weeks, yet you’ve already built an inventory,”

“And a fighter craft docking station in the hangar. what can I say?” she smirks “we’re Veatorians, we get things done,” 

“Careful, or you’ll start to sound like that Arestophsis Hand lot” I say half joking

she smiles tersely but says nothing and gestures to the quartermaster tills

“the council have issued you a fighter craft and a spear”

“A spear? What is this, the second dark ages?”

“It’s a very nice spear,” she reassures me. I look at her incredulously. “It’s extendable!”

[the sound of a hangar, maintenance on ships, clanging of metal, all reverberating around the space]

The fighter craft is so new it doesn't even have a name yet, the designation code is blank too. The chair screens and most surfaces are still wrapped in plastic and it hasn't been changed from the standard issue council blue and grey. I look back at the minimal storage space behind me, a bed, a few shelves of supplies and leaning against the wall, my new spear. I didn't want to admit it in front of the captain but it is a nice spear. Fully extended it reaches around 2 metres but right now it’s a nice manageable 70cm. I name the ship and the Ehedydd make its first spaceflight. It’s been a while since I’ve sat in a new ship so the lack of noise from the engine is a real surprise. 

[the engine spins up and goes silent before activating and entering the widening field]

The Ehedydd was fitted with a WFC drive so the journey should only take about an hour or two. Which gives me some time to have a look at my mission brief. I hate military procedure, all the needless jargon and detail only helps to confuse things. From what I could decipher there was a recently established colony on a small planet, just big enough to be qualified as such, by the name of  Dhāra jamīna. There wasn't a huge amount of space for the usual mega city to be constructed, due to most of the land being raised up to 7 miles above sea level, so instead most of the major settlements in the continent in question are towns with populations of around 30,000 each, each with their own sheriff. Also known as an administrative fucking nightmare. What had drawn my investigation here was the fact that the  7 mile tall waves that battered the cliffs holding up the small towns of Dhāra jamīna had stopped. They had not frozen, but had simply, paused. To add to this, there was a sheriff who was reported to be acting very strangely. An old Insistoris who was living there said it was similar to demonic possession but wrong, somehow. Sounds like what I’m looking for. The fact that he was still alive and hadn’t died or even transformed like Aiek Tubalcain meant he could be spoken to, and maybe, if i was lucky, he would speak back. 

 Dhāra jamīna is so new that it doesn't even have an Orbit to Land Transference Station, OLTraS for short, so instead I just transfer my clearance codes and go to land on a small pad at the edge of town. As I fly over the vast ocean I look into it, it’s stillness is unsettling and it amplifies the already quite strong anxiety I feel chasing after this thing. 

[the sound of a town in the distance, wind and birds]

standing at the edge of the landing pad is a Vint and a Malgaric, joint mayors of the town, the name of which I've forgotten. I take me spear and affix it to my hip 

“Welcome to Jalis,” the Vint says, offering both of his hands, I take them and we bow together, he has to bow his long spined neck quite a bit in order to match my level “I am Eikal, mayor of this small community”

“Joint mayor” the Malgaric reminds him, irritation apparent in his voice

[his voice is slightly robotic and gruff]

“I am Inspiration-Besides-Death, however for your ease of communication you may refer to me as Inspiration” in the dusk his blue light is just starting to illuminate the black soil grass at his feet.

“I thank you both,” I reply. Both mayors seem visibly uncomfortable speaking in Human, however I am physically incapable of speaking in Malgaric and my Vint is about 450 years outdated and I don’t want to seem like a weirdo. They lead me through the town,

[the town is quiet, some conversations can be heard through the walls of houses, somewhere someone is using a drill]

 the two mayors seem intent on outpacing each other, gradually getting faster and faster until I have to start jogging in order to keep up with the two who are considerably taller than me. The people seem, understandably, anxious. They were expecting a quiet life in a new colony away from the overcrowded societies of their people. It’s late in the day so most people are resting or attending to prayers. Religion has no place in the Council of Nimonea, it's not actively discouraged, but provisions aren’t really made to preserve or protect it either, it's one of the more major issues most species within the council have. Unusually for most council towns, the houses here are 2-3 stories high most likely to make up for the lack of sprawling land on which to build. The whole town is only about a mile wide. We reach the detainment building and pause outside. Eikal turns to me “I must warn you, the manifestation is quite…disturbing,”

“I have not witnessed anything quite like this, even in my military days,” Inspiration chimes in. Eikal shoots him a look, “did you not identify my assessment to be adequate?” Inspiration looks back at him, his expression unwavering “I have said my piece,”. As they argue I look off at the edge of the island at a wave, unmoving and unwavering, like a painting. 

[the ambience of a quiet office, some machines beep, overall though it is quite silent]

We enter the dimly lit building and find ourselves in an oval shaped room, the Vint draws a small tablet from within his robes and presses a few keys. The room elaborately rotates and shifts until we are face to face with the sheriff separated only by glass. They sat on a curved bench, their legs crossed. I can only tell this because the green light that covers their body pulses in beats of four, providing more illumination by which to get a sense of the room. “Why aren’t they moving?” I ask. They go to answer at the same time

“Well-”

“Well-”

They stare each other and Eikal takes advantage of the pause to speak before Inspiration can

“We placed them in a stasis field, for their own wellness you understand”  

“Why is it so dark in there?” Eikal and Inspiration turn to each other, a mild panic on their faces

“Apologies, we misplaced our realisation-” Eikal pauses and translates in his head before trying again “We forgot the humans light requirements, allow me to attend to your needs,” with a few more key presses the whole building lights up. With my newfound visibility I see what Eikal meant by ‘for their own health’ Ghost’s fingers are scratched and worn and the entire back wall of the cell has been etched into with that symbol that has brought me so much dread. Surrounding it are adornments which trace around its edges, criss cross around each other, play off of one anothers curves and angles, all centred, but never interacting with, that symbol in the middle.

[millslawrence]

Favorite Fanfics: The Past or the Future by StrikeLikeACobraKai

Ali thought that she and Johnny would be together forever, but life had different ideas.

When they see each other again after thirty-four years, Ali wonders why it feels like no time has passed, and why she still wants exactly the same thing as she always did. Some things are just meant to be.

aka: After the date at Golf N' Stuff, this is what really happened. Written post Cobra Kai Season 3. Shortform writing.

Rated T // Finished, 3/3 Chapters // Canon // Adult Jali

[iheartgarrus]

A, G, P 💜

What lovely letter choices! ;)

A. If you could rec a piece of music to accompany one of your fics, what would you pick? Why?

I feel like I have more of these for some of my WIPs, but I'll take the easy way on this one and say "Glitter in the Air" by P!nk for "The Walk Before the Run" (and really for any future Jali stuff for.. a while). If you haven't seen the video of her performing that song at the Grammys, that's your homework right now.

G. Where do you think you grew the most this year?

That's kind of a tough one because the way I grew the most is that.. I really started writing again at all. I did post a couple of short pieces last fall, but I feel like I didn't really get moving again until this past spring, thanks to some really lovely, supportive communities. So my growth was just in realizing that I could still do this.

P. What are your pet peeves in other people’s work?

I try to give other writers a lot of grace whenever possible, because we all have our strengths and weaknesses. But I think the thing that gets me the most is when character/place names are spelled wrong - an occasional typo is understandable, but I honestly won't even click on a fic if "Shepard" is misspelled in the summary. It looks very careless to me - especially when it's right there in the tags! (And since it's such a common one, PSA that it's Kaidan, not Kaiden. 😉)

End of the Year Writing Meme

[heyitsjali-blog1]

Yep. I’m done with Tumblr. Not because I post NSFW content, but because this is hurting friends of mine who are artists. Tumblr was a platform that helped artists make extra money and now they have to find other social outlets or build their own website.  You can find me in the following places: 

The Crystal Datacenter RP Discord server -- I’m in there hanging out. I lurk and check on events, but you can peek in the member list and find Jali lurking among them.  Instagram -- I post a mix of real life and FFXIV stuff. 

My own Discord server. -- Very heavy leaning towards FFXIV but video games in general are discussed. There is a section for artists to post their own art. Commission info is also welcomed there. 

Snapchat -- Same as Instagram. A mix of FFXIV and real life stuff.  My own website -- Videos, community stuff. Pretty much what I do anywhoo.

[loudsoulgentlemen]

Sunday Word

Jesus Our Lord. Lord JESUS! The Shepherd. The King. The Lamb. The Lion.

***

Jesus Take The Wheel!

What Are You Gonna Be Doing?

I'll Take Her Back.

***

What If You Dont Make It As Mfalme?

I'll Always Be Mfalme.

***

How Many?

EIGHT!

Okay. One Two Three Four...

10!

I Ate.

9.

***

Jesus.

Your Kingdom Will Knoow No End!

In The Arms Of My Father

For He Gives Me Vocation

***

Why Aren't You Dancing?

Why Aren't You Shimmering?

You Always Told Me You Like Me Shimmering.. Blushing

...

NEXT!

***

I Am Out Of Wine..

Kiss A Woman, They Always Have Wine!

***

Hey JeSUS!

*Cockoling

Why Did The Barber Stop Giveing Hair Cuts?

BEcause! It Was Sheer Illusion! HAhaha ! Good One Huh!?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Truly The Youngest Of Us Is Most ALive!

Cheers!

***

The Future Looks BRight.

Did You Agree To Be You Are Captain?

The Kids Need A Model

And I Am FearLess.

Much Made In Heaven.

The Lord.

***

Why Every 3 4 Years The Teachers Are Happy?

Thats When You Find Out If Your A Teacher. :)

**

Mfalme Ana Juli Kana.

Na Heshimika.

***

Kiumbe Ki Kubwa KiBAAAyAAAA? Lakini Kiumbe Kikubwa Ndio Kina MApenzi Na Kina Jali.

Mfalme Ka Bla Au Baada Ya Kiumbe Kikubwa.

***

If We Live In The Forrest They Wont Follow Us

Made A Fire

We Should Make A SMokeless Fire

There Is No Such Thing As a SMokeless Fire.

They Wont Follow Us AnyWay, This Is The Jungle. Aya Yai

***

When You Climbed Your First Tree What Did You Think?

How Long Will I Be Doing This?

***

The Waterfall Is Warm!

I Know Why. Hehe

***

Did You Think You'd Like My Water?

I Like EveryThing You Like. :)

***

When Did You Become King?

The Day I Became A Man.

***

A King Looks Really Lonely.

Wait For The Birds To Fly My Precious.

Festival After Festival. New Business. Set Orders. Vacation!

***

Ceremony?

Yes Please. They Are Actually All My Friends.

Young Master Nazareth?

Lets Try Down Between Blue For The Theme.

It Will Be Done.

***

I Want A Party.

How Many Are Coming?

I Can Have The Party!?

O.o

MARIA! I THOUGHT YOU SAID THE BOY WAS SMART!

You've Been Away For A While. His Just Playing.

See. In A Perfect World I Am God. "I Can Have The Party?". Doesn't Exist. Doesnt Bother Me. But I Am Your Dad. Giving You A Perfect World My Young Love. Ofcourse You Can Have Your Party.

His Not Normal.

*HE ARGUES! *AND ALWAYS IS RIGHT! O.O !

***

What Do You Want To Do With The World?

Play.

Serious DAddy.

Now.

PlayFul Daddy.

It HAppens. Other Side Of The Spectrum. Either Way Your Still My Dad! :)

***

Whens Your Fun Time?

Any Chance We Get.

Is That What You Were Asking.

***

Jesus Kneeling Down Praying.

BABA.

Nime Fanya Kazi

Hadi Wana Niita Mfalme.

Baba Kweli Nime Fika?

*Holding On For That Forth With Joy In His Life From Heaven

***

Nchi Yangu Kubwa!

No It Aint!

Chill Just Go Along.

Nchi Yangu Kubwa.

Tume Kubali Biashara Yenu.

*Shaking Hands

Usi Wapeleke Kwa Mbo Kubwa, Wata Pigwa.

Japan.

***

When Is The Sun Going to STOP Being So Brutal?

Give It Joy. It's Watching.

Huh?

Happens All The Time. Shrugging His Shoulders Preparing To Walk Away.

***

Yo JeSuS! You Found Me

Come HEre!

Let Me Show You SomeThing

This Is My New Baby MaMa.

Wife.

BABY MAMA! SHE GOT A TONGUE ON HER!

How Did You Find Me?

I Flew With The Angels. 3 Minutes Dad. Who Gave Them Permission?

The Ship Would Take 2 To 3 Months. We Were On Our Way Here AnyWay. What's Alittle Je'sus?

Okay. Boy You Did Not Find This Place On Your Own!

WHO WOULDNT!

YOU TO BE OLD YOUNG LOVED ONE

I AM OLD! O..O !

***

He Was On The Bank Staring At The WAter.

Every One Pisses In The Water If It Makes You Feel Better.

No, It Dont.

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JESUS! MARUANAN FOR LUNCH BREAKFAST AND DINNER?

Very Productive. Very Productive.

You Look Tired.

Show Me A Plant!

It Exists!

Blowing Kisses

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What Would You Do If You Were Free The Whole Day For The Rest Of Your Life.

Hobbies And Drugs.

New Stuff Keeps Popping Up You Just Have To Wait :) GENIUS!

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Why Do You Believe God Cares?

HE Made The World.

And He Sent Me. .. ...

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Have You Ever Wondered Kama Kuna Wana Wake Wabaya!?

Bikra Sio Mbaya. Bikra Mwanaume!

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Tuki Endelea Ku Kua.

TunaOngeZeKa FaRaJa Na MaTuMaInI SAnA!

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Kuji Ficha!? Kwa NiNi?

Nchi Yangu Kwani HaiWeZi?

Kuji Tenga Akili Na Sio AKili. Lini Tuna Rudi?

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Theres A Reason I Dont Attack Them They Have More Money!

In Every Level, Superior. I've Done It BEfore.

It's Not Just Your Money You Might Be Losing. ;)

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All HAil The LOrd For WithOut Him We Stand On Edge And Know Not Who Rescues Us. IT IS THE LORD! IT IS THE LORD I TELL YOU!

Chim. Chim.

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Sanila. We HOld On FOrever Because That's What We Truly Believe We Deserve. A Bunch Of Cool Kids Who Grew Up Quick, Took Control And Shephered The Lost. Still Doing It. And Are Still Doing It!

Things Are Happening. We Are Moving Forward. Together. Great Ideas. Great Synergy. A Few UnCompatable. A Prayer For A Few Compatable.

Dates Are Really Annoying! Could Use The Back Up From Emma. No JOke SAnila! Things Can GET CRAZY! But Bigger, And Better.

How Was The Trip?

They HAppy?

Daddy Is Just Waiting On A Few Things In Prayer. And Family And Friends.

Family Cant Kill You.

Friends Cant Kill You.

Those Are Really Our Lives.

WE ARE RICH!

WE NEVER HAVE TO SEE MUCK. EVER AGAIN. AND YET, WE ARE REALLY COOL PEOPLE. PLAYING DICE AND DRINKING LOCAL SPIRITS. BEEN THERE TOO. :) HAHAHA! WELCOME TO ISM. :)

SUPERIOUR LEADERS!

SUPERIOUR FRIENDS!

SUPERIOUR KINGS!

SUPERIOUR KNIGHTS!

SUPERIOUR QUEENS!

ISM.

FUNNY KINDA STORY THIS ONE. HAHAHA!