#nestris

[orange-juice-speaks]

As a fan of competitive NES Tetris, I will say this is a good history! GameScout is a community icon and always a reliable source on the subject of NES Tetris.

But I will say no one really knows if Thor actually did pull off level 30 or ACTUALLY hypertapped because no video of it exists and he never participated in the Classic Tetris World Championships (CTWC) iirc. I'd give that credit to Joesph Saelee since he had video evidence. And Joesph Saelee was only 16. By far the youngest competitor in CTWC 2018, as well as being one of the earliest hypertappers; he dethroned 5x champion Jonas Neubauer, so he solidified hypertapping as a legitimate playstyle and was also really the reason so many young players came into the game and innovated it further--they saw themselves in him.

This is in no way to discredit the accomplishments of Jonas Neubauer! Be a 5-time champion in ANYTHING and you will be a legend to its fans. In fact, Joseph Saelee has even said that watching Jonas play is the reason he started playing.

Sidenote: A month or so before his untimely passing in January 2021, Jonas released a video on YouTube teaching Tetris to a fairly well-known Guitar Hero player, who said there had to have been a faster way of playing than tapping every input. This brief flicker of his attempting a new way of playing after this statement is sometimes considered an early version of rolling, which wouldn't have happened without Jonas.

BUT I DIGRESS. How did Joseph Saelee discover the CTWC to begin with?

Boom, Tetris for Jeff.

Jeff was an unlikely candidate to go far in CTWC 2016, but he made it all the way to the finals against, you guessed it, Jonas Neubauer. This was a huge underdog story.

Now, fun thing about the CTWC and other similar tournaments of Tetris is, it has live commentary. One of the quirks of this commentary that someone noticed was the tendency to say "Boom, Tetris for __!" Since Jeff was the big story of that year, someone made a compilation, in the meme-embroiled style of 2016 YouTube, of every time "Boom, Tetris for Jeff" was called by a commentator. To date, it has nearly 800k views, which is quite viral for the subject, especially in the era when maxing out, or reaching the built in scorecap, was rare among elite players.

ALL THIS TO SAY, a real argument can be made that we owe this massive gaming moment that has been covered in the New York Times to a humble 2016 shitpost that I will provide below.

Boy, I wish Jonas could see how much people who never cared about Tetris before this moment could see how far the game has come.

So apparently the pro-Tetris scene is exploding right now because a 13 year old nerd just reached the game's true killscreen for the first time ever

[tremendodude]

Colored a little test animation I did for ArtFight, featuring Ivy and Merida from @melonparfait and @thatchner's Trinity Saga messing with my own little fairy Clarke.

[keatxu]

this ctwc was the most disappointing thing i've ever seen since the time all puyo puyo tetris top games were just 4-widing and stalling for 30 minutes at a time

[silver-tongues-blog]

Just got back from the ATG expo and watching the tetris tournament. it was amazing to see the pro players. also met a lot of cool people. met blue scuti, doge nestris and pixel andy. They were all really chill. also met some of the OG activision devs and the voice actress for peach from the super mario bros super show. all in all it was really fun.

[toskarintetris]

I'd like to point out a historical inaccuracy in one of your posts: while NES-style Tetris (known in modern times as Classic Score Attack) is not played as a contact sport and thus does not make use of T-Spins as a fighting style, the technique is a niche but important part of high-level strategy and has been since its inception.

i get why you would say this to me but i didn't say tspins are not used in nestris... take it up with fr, perhaps

[xaviaaaaaaaaa]

What's your highest score (and preferred version) of Tetris? And if you have one, your best time (and difficulty) of Minesweeper

Mild Tetris infodumping time!! :D

TL;DR: I prefer TETR.IO, where my sprint PB is 25.612 (811th global as of writing), Blitz PB is ~435K (not top 1K also just a lot of SDPC looping). I also do not have any best times in minesweeper (yet :3)

ngl i'm realizing most of what I put here is unrelated to the ask but uh um uh

The vast majority of the time, I am playing either on Jstris or TETR.IO. Both of which aren't technically "Tetris" and are unofficial browser-based clients.

Within both of these I normally only play sprint / 40 Lines (very self-explanatory, clear 40 lines as fast as possible). Most of the time I'll just constantly play sprint without really thinking about it while I listen to a YouTube video or go through an album or smth. Unfortunately tetrio doesn't keep track of my total completed sprints but jstris does, and the number has climbed to be just a little high (3,148 as of right now). There are also other modes but they range from slightly to vastly less popular and I've played 40L by far the most sooooooo-

My PB is 25.465 seconds which is very good according to this graph :3

(Jayson is my other name ignore that part)

Also also also fun story my PBs in 3 of the 4 sprint categories on jstris I got within a few hours (I got a 100L pb on that day but improved it later 😔)

Also this is even more unrelated but I feel like mentioning; tetrio and jstris play largely similarly but with minor differences to DAS and finesse but I've had someone try to die on the hill that tetrio finesse is better which is rather silly of them in my imo

uh um there is Blitz mode on tetrio which i don't play often cause it requires too much mental attention and also a lil bit of luck and also also lots of SDPC DPC looping which is really cool and satisfying but also ngl kinda lame but

(replayed at 2x speed cause 2 minutes is a long time)

Occasionally, I play the default mode on Tetris.com. This is an offical client and generally far more popular. Unfortunately I don't have my high scores saved cause i just switched to a new PC build but my best is around ~700K. I pulled it up while writing since it's been a while and did pretty decent but I really struggle with instadrop gravity

Also worth noting is Tetris 99 since it's what got me into tetis in the first place. I have ~700 hours according to my Switch profile and played around 3,000 games (mostly in 2020). Not really much of highscore to point at with this one except one time I won 10 games in a row which is neat.

(I couldn't find the screencap from the 10 games in a row bit but I did find this which is way funnier)

nowadays I absolutely can not be bothered to play this game cause I've gotten to a point where it is boring and slow and uninteresting and if i want to play a long stressful multiplayer tetis i will go to Tetra-League instead.

I played a bit of PPT and PPT2 but never really got into it, I think my highest rating was around 11 or 12K on PPT.

also I've recently tried playing the mobile app and it is awful and frustrating and terrible and bad and lags a whole lot. my highscore there is like 1.3 million which would've put me far and away in first place in my city, but for some reason it decided that I lived in New Jersey that day so instead I was like 30th.

I got into NEStris at one point and I'm pretty sure my best was a little over 300k but i never put that much practice into it.

most of this was entirely unrelated to the ask but I really felt like ranting :3

[lazuliquetzal]

@tavina-writes said: okay but now you have me curious! I haven’t been in the YoI fandom for YEARS but please tell me about the competitive classic tetris au

ADSKFLJKF

okay if you're familiar with the competitive NEStris scene, I first got into it in 2018 so that's the meta that I'm working off of here: i.e., no rolling, DAS is still relevant, level 29 is still the killscreen. if that made no sense to you, don't worry about it. it's fine.

Some actual NEStris context that is important in terms of gameplay:

CTWC stands for Classic Tetris World Championships.

NEStris, or Classic Tetris, is a fundamentally different game when compared to modern (hard drop) Tetris. The stacking strategies in NEStris are less complex since there are less tucks/spins you can pull off. However, it is generally considered to be a more brutal game than modern Tetris due to the way the pieces lock onto the stack as soon as they touch and the Extremely Unforgiving randomization.

DAS (delayed auto-shift) used to be the most widespread method of using the controller. It's also the most accessible way of using the controller.

Hypertapping is a different method of maneuvering pieces -- basically, you're tapping the controller faster than the programmed DAS can move a piece. It is also a very physically taxing way to play.

YOI time: We've got five-time CTWC champion Viktor Nikiforov who is getting real depressed about being at the top. Yuuri, meanwhile, is a modern Tetris certified Grandmaster (which is a Real Thing, respect the grandmasters), but he's also secretly a Classic Tetris nerd. Unfortunately, the first time he joins the CTWC, he chokes and has two embarrassingly early top-outs in the round of 8 before ever getting to play his inspiration and idol, Viktor.

But during the post-competition afterparty, they all head over to Christophe's place and Yuuri absolutely BRUTALIZES Viktor's world record ass in NEStris while he's completely sloshed. It's off-stream and it happened in Christophe's garage when nobody's conveniently watching, so there's no proof. Then he seduces Viktor. Also Yuuri completely forgets about it because he's so drunk.

Anyway it's basically the same plot as the show except with Tetris lmao.

Some other random details that I may or may not make sense to everyone:

Viktor is a hypertapper. That's why some people hate his guts, because they think he's just tapping his way to victory into covering his mediocre stacking strats. These people are wrong, of course, because even though hypertapping gives you a speed advantage, you still need absolutely rock-solid stacking fundamentals in order to be able to achieve maxout pace-- *Yuuri gets hit in the face with a brick to shut up his Viktor speech*

Yuuri is an absolute GOD at tucks and spins. He has never missed an I-spin in his life. Sometimes he'll set up an I-spin on level 27 just to boost his confidence in the endgame.

Yuuri's also a DAS player, and he does center-well setups sometimes. If you've ever seen suitogreentea play... yeah. Good stuff.

Yurio is a roller. Rolling wasn't around in 2018, but now I've decided. Yurio is a roller and he is going to DOMINATE the future--

[nelliesnellie]

Time passes, but apparently my fixation on Tetris doesn't. It's time to update my Tetris journal.

Progress is being made. Or is it? I'm at least getting increasingly better at the GameBoy version. It's harder to get higher scores than on the NES, so I'm prouder of my 422K pb there than the nestris 500k. I'm crawling my way towards top 50 in the GB Tetris discord – the closest thing I know of to official rankings. I'm currently ranked 63rd. It's pretty cool.

The problem is, in spite of my developing preference for the GameBoy version, I still wanna get good at NES Tetris. But I feel like I'm stagnating, still struggling to play lvl 18 effectively, let alone 19.

Nestris objectives to work on:

Getting better at DAS (skill stops, wall charges, etc.)

Maintaining the right headspace (not overdoing it until I turn into a zombie, maintaining focus, etc.)

Stacking for DAS style NES play, instead of letting my GB hypertapping instincts kick in too much.

[vanillacapricorn]

Nestri *really* pissed off her denizen, but... yeah oof.

also bonus points if you recognise where i grabbed that derse image from :0

[yanny-77]

#if I can’t have Azris, give me Nestris

Kinda wish this scene had been a villain origin story.

[444names]

swedish forenames BUT excluding "a"

Belin Belly Celilie Celkevig Cellie Cenry Cento Coleo Coleon Colie Colix Corid Corik Corikto Corneodor Ebbel Ebbelicto Ebbeliv Ebbelixte Ebbellie Ebben Ebbente Eddielip Eddielly Eddith Edielin Edvid Edvik Edvikton Edvilder Edvinne Edvirie Edvis Elicornes Elicto Elilli Elince Elines Elinne Elinovin Elinus Elisef Elive Eliverid Elivid Elivinder Elken Elker Elkevinn Elleo Ellex Ellin Ellip Ellis Elliv Ellivis Ellykke Ellykken Elmer Eltenteon Elteo Elter Eltor Elvid Elvig Elvikton Elvinel Elvinus Emedvicor Emelin Emelke Emels Emilgo Emilgot Emilheon Emilie Emiloui Emilte Emilton Emiltor Emineo Emines Eminus Emiot Emiri Estin Felie Felilder Felin Felis Felker Felle Fellex Fellin Fellio Felly Fellykken Fellykker Felvin Felvines Filder Filgo Filhed Filie Filineo Filis Filiv Filly Filoken Filoui Filte Filteo Filton Fredie Fredvigge Grikton Guste Guster Heddiel Hedie Hedithent Heditheon Hedviggo Hedvin Helio Helte Helvine Heodor Heodorne Hilde Hilder Hilgo Hilgot Hilheo Hilie Hilin Hillie Hillielle Hillin Hillykke Hilovin Hilovines Hilton Hugotte Hugottor Hugus Huguster Incelis Incen Incento Ingri Innes Irikton Iveri Iverik Ivillykke Ivinn Ivinor Joelie Joelken Joelly Joelvid Jolex Jolie Joliotton Jolleon Julice Julie Julillex Julilli Julin Julince Juline Julines Julio Julis Julisef Juliv Julix Julixte Junice Junicto Junictor Junie Junilin Kenry Kevid Kevig Keviggo Kevincen Lente Lento Leodor Leodorne Leodornes Liceli Licen Licob Licolliot Licto Licton Lielin Lielleo Lincel Linde Linel Lines Linne Linor Linust Liotto Lisef Lisel Liver Livig Livik Livil Livilie Livin Livisel Lixtel Loken Lokenry Loker Lokeviggo Lover Lovid Lovigge Loviktor Lovilhen Lovine Lovinn Ludvid Ludvik Ludvin Lunicob Lunictor Lunie Lunilin Meddielm Medie Meditheo Medvigrid Melie Melin Melinde Meline Melip Melivis Melke Melkenteo Melle Melleo Melly Melte Meltorik Melvingri Milde Milgo Milgot Milhente Milheo Milheodor Milis Millin Millis Milly Mince Minder Mindrid Mineliv Mingrik Minus Minuster Minustrid Miottor Mirid Molicton Molie Molielie Molin Moline Molinelip Molis Mollio Nelin Neline Nellen Nellenry Nellent Nester Nestrie Nicolie Nicorik Nicton Nielin Nilgo Nilivin Nilly Niloke Noelie Noelin Noelinus Noeliot Noelis Noelkevin Noellen Noels Norid Noriktor Norne Norneo Nornes Nover Novid Novig Noviggo Novil Novilip Novin Olils Olince Olines Oliot Oliotte Olixte Osebbelis Osellip Ottelle Otter Otton Ottor Ottorneo Sebbe Selie Selin Selip Selle Selliver Sellykker Siggo Siggot Signelken Signeo Signeon Signes Sigri Sigrie Sigrik Sigrikton Simillin Similteli Simin Simineon Siminn Simio Simohn Simoleon Simoli Simollis Simolly Sirid Sirie Sirikton Sixte Sixteo Sixter Sofil Sofilde Sofilgo Sofilo Stilde Stilli Stilly Stilovig Stinelly Strid Strie Sverik Thelie Theliot Thelliv Thenry Theon Tilgo Tilgot Tilgotton Tililde Tilinn Tilio Tilip Tilix Tille Tilly Tiloke Tilokevid Tilte Tinder Tineo Tingrid Tinor Tinus Verie Veris Vicel Vigge Viggot Vigne Vigneo Vikto Vikton Viktorne Viktornes Vilgo Vilise Vilixter Villie Vilmellip Vincels Vincente Vincentor Vinel Vineo Vines Vinove Vinus Vinuster Visef Wilde Wilder Wilgo Wilheo Wilie Wilin Wilis Wilivinn Wille Willen Willeo Willeon Willie Wilmelie Wilte Wilter

[dorothea-jpg]

A Ghost!.. Girl?

Characters Used/Mentioned:

Koba Harkess (TV Head)

Nestrys Aja (Naga)

Jade Graves (Death Witch)

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Koba wasn't sure if he was shaking in anger or fear. The abandoned house he was stuck in was horrible, there were bugs crawling around everywhere, the room he was in was creaky and it was dark! He should've known Nestrys would pull a mean-spirited prank on him like this... Koba didn't mean to break his stupid baseball bat! He just fell on it and it snapped! A complete accident!

Nestrys seemed fine, he didn't really react... until now. Koba felt so stupid, of course, Nestrys would plan revenge for someone who broke his belongings even though it was just a silly accident.

And now Koba was here, trapped inside this creepy old abandoned building at around 1 AM. 

Koba sighed as he sat himself down on the dusty stairs. Should he just stay there for the night? Maybe make Nestrys feel guilty and worried when his brother didn't return? Ha, that would serve him right. It was his fault Koba was in the house in the first place!

That was it, Koba had made up his mind! He was going to toughen up and stay the night in this terrifying old house. Koba made his way up the stairs and swallowed any remaining fear that occupied his heart. He tried not to pay attention to the creaking of the old wood or the squealing of the resident rats. 

He entered an abandoned bedroom that was covered in dust but he checked the bed and it seemed fine. He just hoped he wouldn't get eaten by any spiders.

Koba spent a little more time awake before he decided he should try and sleep. He did just that! For a little while at least before he started hearing creaking noises, the ones that he was making when he was walking around. His facial screen flickered on due to his horror, he didn't want to die! At least not in a place like this! He should definitely leave...

But, he didn't.

He wanted to get Nestrys back for the cruel prank he played on him in the first place, but was he willing to get axe murdered over it? Ugh, It wasn't fair! Nestrys was the one who deserved to get axe murdered right now instead of Koba!

Koba stayed still in the old bed motionless and frozen in fear until he decided to do what he always screamed at horror movie characters for. He was going to investigate... 

He slowly reached for his phone that sat by his side and cautiously stood up from the dirty old bed. Why did he decide to grab his phone when he has a literal facial screen for light? Simple, he was going to quickly call an ambulance in case he got axe murdered. 

Koba carefully tiptoed toward the area where the creaking was coming from and what he saw had the colour draining from his hypothetical face. It was a girl, white as snow wearing some sort of historical dress. Koba's generated eyes widened at what he was gawking at. Now, Koba was already pretty paranoid, seeing this was only making it worse so he decided he would run away and forget whatever revenge plan he had for Nestrys.

Koba took a step backwards...

*CreEeEeEaAaAaAak*

Koba felt his heart stop as the pale entity stopped its movements and sharply turned around to face the boy. Koba and the entity kept eye contact until its head tilted in the most terrifying way possible.

Koba attempted to scream but all that escaped his mouth were bleeps and bloops. The petrified boy sprinted out of the abandoned house without a second thought.

The 'entity' furrowed her eyebrows in confusion but shook her head and ultimately decided to continue to play with the woodlice she had found crawling around in a start piece of wood.

[mercurycities]

It’s so cool to see new videos about NES tetris break 1 million views!

[finalfrontierpioneer]

2020 Fic Recs

Okay, I did a fic rec list last year for 2019, and nobody asked for this, but you know what, I’m gonna do another one. Really the only thing I wanna look back on about 2020 is the fic- bc damn there were some good ones!

Same as last year, these are fics that were completed in 2020. (So no in-progress fics here)

So here goes, 20 fic recs for 2020, in no particular order! And full disclosure, these are all totally different ratings/pairings/whatever.

I tried to tag all the authors who had tumblrs, but i probably missed some, and some of them aren’t actually working but hey! the username is there!

Some stucky bc of course

Sharpened Claws by tragicama (Explicit)

Steve Rogers has a unique talent of getting himself into danger. As one of New York City’s best homicide detectives, it isn’t easy to ignore the constant call of trouble and gore. At least, that’s what he tries to tell his overprotective and brooding boyfriend, Bucky Barnes, even if he knows it might be a lie.

Bucky is dangerous, gorgeous. . .and a werewolf. As the Alpha of New York City, he is easily considered the most powerful being in the world. But when Bucky begins to lose his control over his shift, he slowly becomes aware of a bond that sends him reeling, and one he’d never thought possible.

But everything is not as it seems. After a homicide case unleashes a sequence of events that neither Steve nor Bucky are prepared for, they soon find themselves entangled with a danger that threatens to rip them apart. With the help of Steve’s partner and best friend, Sam, Bucky and Steve navigate a dark web of pack politics, masquerade balls, and a crash course in what it means to be a pack, even as a greater danger looms. And one that might succeed in ripping them apart.

These Happy Gilded Years by crinklefries @spacerenegades, nalonzoo (Teen)

Steve Rogers, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and mostly happy disposition, had lived twenty-three years in the world with very little to distress or vex him.

( Steve is wealthy and and charming, with good humor and good temper, doted upon by his mother and the highest of New York Society, with no one to ever criticize or say the word no to him. Well, other than Bucky. But he doesn't count.

He is also warm and friendly and has a talent for matchmaking. Or so he thinks. Actually, he's kind of terrible at it.

Importantly, Steve will definitely never fall in love or marry, himself. He tells everyone this, repeatedly. Well anyway, we'll see about that. )

Jane Austen's Emma, but a little gayer, set in 1890s Gilded Era New York City

Demon Seed by SucculentHyena (Mature)

[Transcript 00:11:48]

MS: You were with him the most throughout the course of events, both before and after. Your account could shed light on something we may have missed.

JB: What difference will that make?

MS: It could make all the difference. Captain Rogers’ case is unprecedented, he’s the most intact victim we’ve ever recovered-

JB: [laughing] You call that intact?

A Noble Steed by alby_mangroves @albymangroves or @artgroves, leveragehunters (Teen)

"You say the Warhorse showed up last night," Sam said in tones of profound doubt.

"Yeah," Steve replied.

"The Warhorse. The Warhorse of legend. Daelland's Warhorse."

"The same as the one on the back of the transit card, yes."

"And he appeared in your living room?"

Steve eyed the Warhorse, very large and very black and giving him a dubious look out of his strange grey eyes. "He's standing in it right now."

"Uh huh," Sam said.

"Hey, I'm not any happier about it than you are."

* * *

Steve's mom had left Daelland long before he was born, following her heart to New York, but she'd raised him on stories of its famous Warhorse. Before she died, he'd promised he'd go back and learn the country she'd come from.

That was why he was in Daelland. Not so Daelland's legendary Warhorse could appear in his living room. But planned or not that's what had happened—now Steve had to figure out what to do about it.

a hat, a horse (a Hyundai), and the will to ride by elkane @elkane, synonym4life @synonym-for-life (Explicit)

After Steve and Bucky rescue their pals from the Raft prison, they decide to dig deeper into Zemo’s involvement in the UN headquarters’ bombing which sends them on a backpacking trip across select European countries. Steve and Bucky believe this is a story about their mission. Scott Lang and Sam Wilson, who join them halfway through, believe it’s a story about their Eurotrip (and they’re probably right). This writer, however, has been waiting to tell you that the fic’s true mission is Steve and Bucky missioning towards missionary.

Follow them on their journey across Europe in tiny cars, packed subway trains and even on skis as they tumble down the Swiss Alps (in a fun way this time!), all the while reigniting untold feelings of the past through inappropriate sexual encounters and terrible communication skills.

someday at christmas (there’ll be no wars) by stevebuckiest @stevebuckyinc (not rated)

A mission on Christmas. Not even on Christmas, technically. A mission after Christmas which means he and Steve and the Howlies will be trekking through the tundra towards possible death on what used to be Bucky’s favorite day of the year. Jesus Christ.

(alternatively: bucky and steve try to make the best of a shitty situation)

the cabin by natalie_nebula (Explicit)

It felt like he… It felt like they were always so close. Everything seemed like it was under control. He remembers hearing Wanda’s voice, seeing a flash of red out of the corner of his eye. He remembers yelling something back at her, telling her to stop, to not come any closer. He remembers a bright flash, then a boom, and ringing in his ears. He remembers a black blur, and hands on his back, around his waist, then—darkness…

After the explosion in Lagos, Steve wakes up in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, and all he knows is that Bucky's the one who brought him there. While Sam, Nat, and the other Avengers try to figure out what happened to their friend, Steve takes the time away to heal—both his relationship with Bucky, and with himself. My cozy, romantic, and introspective Civil War rewrite.

Every Feeling by Nestri (Explicit)

Steve completely surprises Bucky with a visit, scent thick with heat. The Alpha keeps his hands to himself until Steve makes it clear he doesn't want him to.

Halbarry!

A Speedster and a Space Cop get into a Car by ChocolateTeapots @chocolateteapotsvis (Teen)

Hal and Barry embark on their most perilous mission yet: picking Wally up from the airport.

For Halbarry Week, Day 3: First Times “And you just called me Barry, genius”

Crosswind by Cinderstrato (Explicit)

Hal had collected plenty of regrets over the years. What was the weight of one more?

Just A Mark by the_butler @the-butler-fanstuff (Mature)

“What a nerd.”

Barry had been haunted by these words all his life, seeing as they were his soulmate’s mark. It came out during puberty, just like everyone else’s, but by then he was already well on the way to being a ‘nerd’ so to speak. He wasn’t just some guy claiming to be nerd because he was into Dungeons and Dragons or anime, oh no. He was a bona fide science nerd- went to interstate science fairs and competitions even.

—————(Originally a one-shot, now continued)——————

Barry Allen was working at the forensics lab of Central City PD when it waltzes the new transfer from Coast City, Detective Hal Jordan, not just into the lab but also into his life. There’s the matter of them being soulmates- but Barry is unconvinced. Science tells him there’s a likely chance that they’re just platonic soulmates, so Hal suggests an experiment of sorts: they go on three dates, and then decide whether or not they’re just platonic, or something more.

Tired by ceelolights @ceeloilights (Gen)

Hal comes home to Barry still working late into the night.

Last but most certainly not least, Jeronica:

The long way round to heaven by Bearfacedcheek (Mature)

“This could screw everything up. Jesus why couldn’t you just, fucking not?”

“I did just fucking not Jughead,” she retorts hotly. “I’ve been not for months. No one was ever supposed to know, least of all you. So, don’t blame me for what you saw when you invaded a private moment.”

“Oh, my bad Veronica,” sarcasm, his most comfortable armour, wraps itself around his words. “Did my near-death experience compromised your privacy? I’m sorry that my spirit took an astral fucking walk out of my almost corpse and y-”

“Don’t,” she gasps. Her hand flies to her mouth and it trembles visibly as she draws it away. “Don’t say that. Jesus Jughead we almost lost you.”

sadder, badder, cooler by thefudge @thefudge (Teen)

AU. Just who is Veronica's mysterious new husband? (based on season 5 spoilers)

all i’ll ever need is you by whatacoolkid @whatacoolkid (Teen)

jughead and veronica but make it ✨christmas✨

destined to be forgotten by bothromeoandjuliet @kindnessinpain2000 (Teen)

There are plenty of broken things in Riverdale - broken families, broken trust, broken hearts - but in the middle stands the two most broken things of all, Veronica Lodge and Forsythe 'Jughead' Jones.

(Jughead and Veronica learn about the Barchie kiss - this is the aftermath)

I Really (Don’t) Know What I Want by Bella_Dahlia @bella-dahlia (Mature)

There were many potential disasters to befall an average weirdo high school student; when one had an active imagination and a love for John Hughes films, as Jughead Jones did, you sort of assumed you had foresaw the possibilities. Plus, after solving a sordid murder and joining a gang, he really thought he gone through his fair share of teenaged trauma.

Having to fake a relationship to save his best friend from dedicating his life to a mafia and getting punched repeatedly in the process definitely had not crossed his mind before now.

——————————————

Or, Jughead and Veronica don’t really know what they’ve gotten themselves into.

all the lovers with no time for me by Krewlak (Mature)

jeroncia goes to stonewall. that's it. that's the fic.

call it what you want to by an_expensive_imagination (Teen)

“First things first,” Veronica says, reaching up to slide the ever-present gray beanie off his head, “no beanies in college.”

And here’s a one off random spideypool:

Shooting For Your Heart by X_Gon_Give_It (Teen)

“In my defense, I didn’t expect you to get hurt.”

“And I didn’t expect to be run out of town, yet here we are.”

He went suddenly stiff, “Wait...you were run out of town?”

“As if you didn’t know,” Peter grumbled, but when he looked up he did a double-take at Wade's confused expression. “Almighty, you really don’t know, do you?” he snapped the drawer shut, “Well, after that little fiasco by Two-Stone Canyon, a little rumor spread that me and you were in cahoots. The rumor got some ground and it turned the whole town against me. I was run out before I could defend my case. Why'dya think I was out there the other night to begin with?”

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When Peter Parker, a deputy known as Webslinger, gets accused of working with the West's deadliest outlaw he finds himself on the run from the people he once trusted. In an effort to prove his innocence, he finds himself captured by the very outlaw tarnishing his name.

[stony-ao3-feed]

Beautiful Baby Blues

Read it on AO3

by Nestri

Steve enjoys how the dress feels. Steve does not enjoy the way it looks. He just wants to be beautiful. Like any other omega.

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Inspired by Am I Pretty Enough? by DepressingGreenie

Words: 1475, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, Tony Stark

Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark

Additional Tags: Alpha Tony Stark, Omega Steve Rogers, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Costume Kink, Crossdressing, Insecure Steve Rogers, Established Relationship, Post-Avengers (2012), Masturbation

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[lazuliquetzal]

PLEASE TELL US MORE ABOUT THE YURI ON ICE CLASSIC TETRIS AU

HI HELLO finally i have time to Type Things.

Idk what else to cover about it, it's more of a vibe than an actual story? let me know if you have any specific questions!!

some of the backstory is that a lot of public opinion is that Yuuri is NOT very good, especially after his performance in the previous year's CTWC. Yuuri would be a big name in hard drop Tetris, but again--NEStris play is very different. Skill translates, but it's not one-to-one. So I feel like, the fact that this Famous Tetris Player rolls into the CTWC would probably look like some guy expecting to crush skulls in the NEStris scene getting hit in the head with a 60+ I piece drought. Everyone's nice about it, but no one really thinks he has what it takes to beat Viktor Nikiforov.

But actually, NEStris is Yuuri's one true love, and the main reason why he got really good at hard drop was because when he first started playing Tetris, the first one he got was TGM2.

Viktor wouldn't go off and become Yuuri's Tetris Coach, because that's not a thing, and if it is, oh my god what. But he'd probably be toying with the idea of stepping down from competitive play and then, you know, Yuuri gets two back-to-back maxouts in Christophe Giacometti's garage. Instead of the coach thing, it'd probably be a competitive hiatus where he essentially just. Starts showing up in Yuuri's streams and everyone loses their minds because, "viktor, WHY are you in Japan??"

Yurio is a hypertapper at first, but he starts toying with the idea of rolling when he and Yuuri have a little exhibition match at the Japan qualifiers (yuri, why are YOU in japan??)