#not literally paid dust lol but like

[chryblossomjjk]

imagine jk gets no love and it’s so sick like it sounds so dramatic but i remember exactly where i was when i stumbled upon that fic😭 it changed my life seriously

LMAO NAUR THIS IS SO SWEET PLS!!!! i generally think one shot couples get paid dust bc like readers don’t spend as much time with them or form a connection like they would a longer story couple but like… imagine jk is god tier bf n i love him dearly ur so right 😭💗

[fingertipsmp3]

Took the day off to clean my room and now I have NO clothes

[jennifersdaemon]

nvm lol watching people shit on Demetri for showing signs of anger/dismissiveness after Eli, his closest friend, literally broke his arm, humiliated him and completely violated his trust gets me so rattled. And don’t get me wrong, I do like Eli’s character!!! he’s had great development, but the fact that Demetri forgave him in the first place is impressive, let alone supporting him for six entire seasons and getting paid DUST for it. It’s absolutely justifiable that he’s still holding on to that anger, because as far as we’ve seen, they haven’t even had a talk abt how damaging Eli’s behaviour was?? Like brother 😭 Demetri has every right to go apeshit this season and I’ll stand on that :)

In conclusion, Demetri, get behind me <3

[derangedanomaly]

so, what if you do a Comedian reader x Classic, Nightmare, Cross, Dust, and Killer?

(You can add horror if you want, I just would've guessed he'd be delusional to the jokes the reader makes)

AU SANSES X COMEDIAN READER

(Classic, Nightmare, Cross, Dust, Killer)

Classic:

Oh, looks like Sans found his soulmate!

The first time you told him a joke, he swore that he fell in love. Even more when you told him more.

There's never a dull moment between you two! Always cracking up jokes. (Papyrus might be going a little crazy from your puns 💀)

Is going on all of your comedy shows. Every. single. one. Don't worry, he wouldn't miss this, EVER. In return for him going on your shows, you're going to his! :)

Slowly, but surely, becomes your fan. He has your jokes memorized at this point.

No matter how much he's heard your jokes, he'll always laugh.

You give each other tips for jokes. (Each one more ridiculous, but you guys find it funny 💀)

Well, what else can I say? You're just two cuties.

Nightmare:

Rolls his eyes at your jokes. Is really not all that impressed...

Nightmare's more of a fan of dark humor, so the right way to get to him, is by telling him a dark joke.

Trust me, it'll take EVERYTHING in him to not laugh at that joke.

You decided to take on the challenge. Beginning your plan to make the king of darkness laugh.

You send many dark jokes his way, which cracked him up. But he was still holding back.

After this, he got curious and decided to go to see your comedy show. It wasn't really for him, since he doesn't share the same sense of humor, but it wasn't that bad. (Bro's actually complimenting you? 😯)

From this day forward, he'll be going to your shows undercover. (Doesn't want to get caught lacking 💀)

Cross:

Bros a lil emo, so he'll probably act like your puns are not growing on him. (They are)

You once offered to take him to see your comedy show. He denied. 🙄

After you left to your show, Cross literally LEAPED from the couch and ran to see your show! He just needed to know if your jokes are as hilarious on stage as it is in real life.

He can't lie...but he laughed his ass off over there.

He immediately paid for the next show, with you not finding out he was even there!

He can't let you know that he's really not all that mysterious! That would be embarrassing.. ;)

Loves your puns! But you'll never find out.

Killer:

He's that one type of monster to yell; "LMAO, LMFAO, LOL" out loud. His cringe ass always gets you💀🙏🏻

He'll be so proud of you! Look at you, running your own shows, bringing people joy. He's so supportive.

"YOU SEE THAT HUMAN UP THERE!? THAT'S MY HUMAN!"

You would often find yourself embarrassed on stage cause of him...

The first time he found out about you having a show, he immediately wanted to see! (Even after you denied him multiple times)

He never stops encouraging you after that. It's always one praise after another. (I need him in my life bro 😭)

Is willing to punch someone just for you, so if there would be someone creepy, trying to get a feel of you, he won't hesitate to kill him.

Dust:

He's probably the one that encouraged you to start your own show.

Look, maybe he's a little emo...but he's not that big of an emo to not at least let out laughs at your jokes.

Out of all the bad sanses, Dust is probably the one that's the most closest to his original self. (Classic) So it's not a big surprise when he starts saying his own jokes back to you.

He was the one that also helped you make your dream into reality. (Since it was his idea.)

Truly proud of you when you're on stage. Also compliments you, but not as much as Killer. Look, he doesn't wanna embarrass you. 🤷‍♀️

"Hey, you see that human up there, on the stage? The star of the show??" "Uhm...yeah?" "Heh.. that's my partner.." Cue the scene of Dust looking up at you, with a dorky look on his face. "WHAT?!"

Your fans were never the same after that. You and Dust became the targets of what's called, shipping.

Not like Dust wasn't enjoying the thought of you two being a thing ;)

[luminouslywriting]

hello, how are you feeling? Your Band of Brothers headcanons are amazing so I was wondering if you could do a headcanon of "how the guys would react if they were in a company-wide meeting and as soon as the reader walks in, they fall over", I feel like it would be a good idea Hahaha. Thank you very much for your attention on this request, I understand if you can't do it but I hope so.💕

Hey Nonny!! I'm doing much better today :) thank you for asking! How are you sweetheart? Sorry this has taken so long to get to! Hopefully you enjoy!

Cut for length, more under the cut, short paragraph form:

Dick Winters:

-This man is so embarrassed but he's doing his best to move on with the meeting and pretends like nothing happened. He really will just straight up have this moment haunt him though because he did NOT need to oust his crush on you that publicly to his men. An oomph moment for sure.

Lewis Nixon:

-Can easily play it off for kicks and giggles? He blames it on being tipsy and then just attempts to move on because he doesn't like people staring at him for too long, especially in his embarrassing moments. He also adds some light flirting into the conversation later.

Ronald Speirs:

-Literally doesn't fall over?? I'm sorry, but there's just no way that this man would do that unless he was intentionally tripped (and then someone is surely getting murdered haha).

Buck Compton:

-Slightly embarrassed but has his friends dust him off and plays it off with a joke about something more embarrassing from his college days. It unfortunately lives rent-free in his head though and now he's realizing that you saw that and you'll likely remember it forever. Oof for sure.

Carwood Lipton:

-Quickly gets back up and doesn't make a big deal about it. But on the inside? Oh this man is suppressing a major blush and is just trying to focus on the meeting at hand. If anyone ever brings it up to him in the future, he has a face of exasperation and has likely heard all of the jokes about it already.

Joe Liebgott:

-No one is surprised??? Like that man fell over so quickly when you walked in and they were all just *smh fr*. But he just tries to catch your attention and catch your eye during the meeting so he can figure out what you thought of the entire thing/if you'll ever give him a chance lol. The answer is yes, but he should just ask you himself.

Donald Malarkey:

-Gets teased relentlessly by his friends but he's lowkey too lovesick to care?? He's also just silently hoping that you didn't see him completely fall over because that was an accident and he was just leaning a little too far as he tried to watch you walk in. That's his bad, but hopefully you missed that.

Eugene Roe:

-Not a single person says anything. Not a single person even acts like they saw it. This man's embarrassing moment lives in only his own brain because not a single person thought it was because of you. And that's their medic who they respect the hell out of. He's slightly mortified and grumbling, but he'll get over it.

Bill Guarnere:

-Gets teased lightly by some close friends but he's out here with a death glare for anyone that tries to bring it up in general. He was also embarrassed and quickly got up. He shut up and paid attention during the meeting....but he also snuck looks over at you to make sure that you didn't see it haha.

Joe Toye:

-Not a single person dares to tease this man about it. He's ready to throw hands and bring up their embarrassing moments if they try. But there are a few people that might mention your name and your reaction to get a light level of blush on this man's face. Oops?

George Luz:

-Immediately shaded by everyone he's ever joked about. Immediately makes a joke to make everyone laugh and keep the situation light-hearted. And if you laugh at the joke? His fall was well worth it to see your smile or laugh haha.

[things-arent-what-they-seem66]

Morning or evening! Depending on where you are lol

I've got an au for you! I'm at work at the moment, so I'm sorry if this is all over the place lol

We're over the drama and moving on lol

So this is an official ask about our new fluffydemon!Adam au! My names literally suck so please change it if you think of something better. It's so early where I am, my brain is lowkey fried- but I'm trying 💀

So, it takes place after Adam dies in episode 8 (I think that's the last episode?) And he respawns in Hell, but in another Ring. I've never seen Halluva Boss, so I'm not sure which Ring would be better? Lust, Greed or Wrath? Maybe Lust? Or Wrath. Adam as pretty angry for a while (not that it matters to the story 🤷).

I don't know if Helluva or Hazbin have actually shown demons in an episode? I personally wouldn't count sinners as demons, even though I've heard them be referred to as demons. But for this, demons aren't really a thing, so Adam would be the first Demon.

He's not technically Hellborn. He can't die of old age like a Hellborn, but if he gets hurt and dies, he will come back after regenerating, like a sinner.

So, I guess you could say he's a mixture of Hellborn and sinner, and because of that, he can travel between Rings.

He's definitely made a name for himself in Lust and Greed (I know there's other Rings, I just don't have any ideas for them? If you do, please add them in! It'll be super interesting!)

His first big thing was being a singer/ performer in Greed, doing some shows for Mammon, where he got extremely popular. He even started doing some work for Ozzy- we both know what type of work 👀

I'm thinking where our rp picks up with be 10-15 years after he died in Hell, so you know, a good chunk of time. Adam is really popular in a few different Rings, but this'll be his first time back in Pride.

He's doing sex work for his manager back in Lust, who got him a temporary contract with Val- it's only ment to be six months but Val being Val basically manipulates Adam, and makes him dependent on him. So he actually manages to get Adam into a full contract.

I'm adding bits of another au I've told you about, just because their basically the same thing. So this one will be merging with the fliffywhore!au- where Adam is basically like Angel Dust. So, I'll attach some screenshots of my ask to help the story along (and to stop my thumb from cramping 💀)

Now, I'm a tad suspicious as to why my screenshots where so recent in my gallery so I have a feeling I might have already sent them to you? Actually, now that I'm really thinking about it, I sent this to you not long ago... well. My memory is completely shot 💀

ANYWAY. This is the official story guideline, ignore everything else I've ever sent to you 😅

I'm definitely not embarrassed 💀

Feel free to start us off for a rp if you'd like- it can be from any point that interests you! If you'd like me to start one, just shout out lol

I'd love to hear any ideas you have for this one, i think I've included some of the ideas we discussed a few days ago, so yeah 😝

His manager down in Lust is going to be pissed, but there are just so many more clients here and Adam was going to be making double the money.

A little longer with this Val guy couldn't hurt.

Val: You won't regret it. What's another six months?

Adam looked at the contract carefully, he knew people were shady and would word things very carefully to get exactly what they want.

Adam: Only six more months?

Val: Yes! I promise you'll do great you already have.~

Adam wrinkled his nose, this guy was gross but he paid well. He signed his name in the contract.

Worst thing he could have done.

[mideop]

Because there hasn’t been a lot of posts today (I was too busy partying lol) Have some.. ★Dust!Goldie fun facts★

(I apologise in advance, this has a lot of dumb ranting ALSO - I refer to Dust!goldie as both Dust (his nickname/codename) and Goldie!)

• Goldie, after waking up/being revived, waited in the back rooms for roughly another 7 months until he heard Freddy and the others getting their Christmas presents, and they didn’t bring one for him, thats when he realised he wasn't getting let out. Thats also when he learnt to teleport! He wished to be out the backrooms so badly, it actually happened! (Was rather jarring for him at the time.)

∙ Dust cant actually eat anything, no one can clean out his stomach hatch because no one that can clean it knows he exists! (He is very sad about this fact.)

∙ Mike knows Goldie exists, he isnt paid enough to care.

∙ One time, one of the animatronics found an old Golden Freddy plush, and brought it to Freddy. Freddy just played it off as a special edition recolour of himself and took it to “throw it away.” He kept that plush and hid it away in a drawer. He could barely look at it.

∙ Animatronics have to have limited amounts of tears right? They cant cry forever, they'd run out of water eventually! That happened to Goldie, he physically can’t cry because he’s out of tears. He cried so much he can’t anymore. (Ignore that one comic where Mari gives him a gift and he tears up, that was just for special effect 😅)

• Where does Dust charge? How does he get energy to stay alive? Well, the same way he solves all problems in this AU, theft. He steals the charge boxes. And implants them himself. Hey, he’s gotta do what he’s gotta do to survive! • Dust is actually kinda scared of Freddy - I mean the dude literally almost left him to die (at least from his perspective) , even though he's seen how remorseful Freddy is and how depressed he is, that knowledge he could literally kill you if he wanted is gonna make you wary of the guy, if Freddy did ever spot him I feel like it would go like this :

"Wowwieee omg im sorry for almost leaving you to die uh you still shouldnt have killed that child though. So happy your still alive you wanna go play tetris or something?"

"AHHHH-PLEASE DON’T KILL ME-“

• Goldie in this AU never really got his stomach/mouth cleaned after the bite, he was just straight away thrown into the backrooms. There’s still traces of blood in his mouth that he can taste but he can’t eat anything to distract himself from it. Moths/butterflies (I can’t remember if it was moths or butterflies that are attracted to dead bodies, but it was one of them) are attracted to him because of the blood still remaining inside of him.

Might edit and add some more later!

[demonkinguwu]

FANFICTION PROGRESS

This is an update since I'm back in a mental space where I can start writing again. [A bit of my personal thoughts at the end] I am continuing all of my current fics, none will be abandoned but some will be on a long hiatus before I get to them, so I'm sorry for the delay on those, but I'll most likely fix the aus they are based on. Now for the statuses of those:

The Witch Bride and The Groom Ghost: I will most definitely be finishing this one in the next coming year, I have been plotting it out and have all the chapter drafts finished. However, I will most likely be moving the chapter upload from once a week to once every two weeks due to the chapter length [boy they are long jdsknf] and my work schedule picking up. Art will added later on.

Subcon Waltz: This will most likely take a while for me to revisit, mostly because I am plotting out the chapters and reworking most of it, no drafts have been done as of yet but I have a pretty good idea of where the story is headed. Plus this has been a story I've been wanting to get back to since it's been in the works for so long, it's a nice mix of the fairytale tropes, horror, and that good old Subcon dark humor lol. I really come to love it :>

How To Be a Loving Family: This is definitely one that will take me the longest to get back to work with due to the amount of rework that I'll do with the AU. A lot of it going to change from what I had in mind but it's for the sake of feeling comfortable with it. That said, once again, the current chapters will be reworked a little at a later point once I have a clear idea of the reworked AU.

I'm also working on 2 new fics not yet to be announced but they're being worked on behind the scenes on occasion. Thank you so much for sticking with me on these, your kudos and comments are appreciated!

A bit of a personal journey with writing these fics

Last year hit me pretty hard, I experienced big-time burnout. I wasn't really capable of doing much that I felt I like doing artwise, especially with writing. I only did doodles on discord but aside from the occasional post, not much else.

Back then, rereading my old writing, my old rps from the old servers I was in, I just cringed at how bad I was. I don't consider myself a good writer, heck even now I'm so-so on my writing, but reading back on my old stuff, man I feel like I kissed a lemon dkjnfddf I was pretty bad and writing felt off to me since then. I did still do private oneshots but I couldn't get back to writing these series. The thing about the Hat Mom AU and the Subcon Waltz AU fics being felt in the dust was that I wasn't as invested in A hat in time much, it was just a mix of my hyperfixation on the series dying off, the fics not being ironed and plotted out properly [Literally didn't plan a thing on Subcon Waltz and just winged it out impluse] and the fandom drama had drained me [Yeah, remember the whole Vanessa hating asks I got? Yeah those certainly didn't help with my mood at the time]

The only reason I got back into writing at all was due to how invested I grew in TGOGM but it didn't have that many fics at the time so I decided to throw my hat into the ring with my own au. By then I learned how to properly plan out chapters and writing and remembered I was just doing this for fun, I wasn't being paid to do this so I could take my time with this.

Eventually, I applied this mindset to my other fics and aus once I got back into ahit, these are my aus/fics, I can rewrite them if I don't like them. So that's what I'm doing right now, just taking the hammer, smashing stuff and just fixing them into something I like. Because at the end of the day, I'm not really a popular artist nor have a grand story everyone is invested in, I'm just a silly little creator with my own silly ideas that I choose to share with the world. If they like it, then poggers!!! I will cry and sob for weeks over a nice comment dkjnfds If not, well, I like this, and maybe one day someone else will too :>

I know this is long but I just needed to share my thoughts out there alongside telling you guys they're not dead, they're just being fixed with the hammer lol :> If you read this far, thank you for reading this madness fdnjf I'll try to get these to a place a like while taking my time in doing so uwu

[pitynostars]

honestly, feeling very mixed. the giggle kind of felt like there was a lot of fuss for not a lot of actual things really happening. i also really really don't know how i feel about the bigeneration thing it just kind of seems so....pointless to me? like whyyyyyyy did we need fourteen to stick around and get his own weird little happily ever after just like how we had fucking tentoo get his own weird little happily ever after AND YOU KNOW WHAT BOTHERS ME ABOUT THIS. WHY DO DONNA AND ROSE GET THEIR OWN DOCTOR FOREVER AFTER AND ONCE AGAIN MARTHA IS PAID FUCKING DUST BY THIS SHOW.

i also had this other theory of my own that i really liked that ultimately didn't come to pass, but it was that as 13 was regenerating, she really did regenerate straight into 15 (in this case he'd be 14) and the adventures with donna was all in the doctor's mind, trying to give them a sense of closure about the whole thing. and based on the spoiler of the hug which i saw in someone's profile pic (and because i assumed the doctor wouldn't fucking BIGENERATE) i thought oh that could be a moment where like gatwa's doctor has realized that it's all a big regeneration dream and then he wakes up after. idk why i'm so dedicated to this idea but i was having a really good time with it in my head :(

re: bigeneration LOL i got behind it after the giggle because people in fandom were acting like it was the reason for a clean slate etc. with gatwa becoming basically The First Doctor of Disney!Who but honestly i don't buy it at all lol... the first ep of this new reboot is Star Beast (on Iplayer AND Disney lol). thats gonna be the first ep people see if they wanna give dr who a go. they should have kept the 3 60th specials as their own separate thing imo. and then Church on ruby road came around and this whole therapy/healing shtick which was apparently the whole point of bigeneration seems pointless because when we meet gatwa now he's already reverted to the same issues as normal (in rtds writing lol)

LITERALLY again martha not even a MENTION lmao. fucking rose obvs got a shoutout. but not martha (or yaz) hm m......

omg in your au what if the dr comes out of it and THINKS it's all happened in their mind but actually its part of the toymaker Manipulating and really gatwa has been sort of in dream stasis and actually donna is trying to crack him out of it.... GORL.

[evermoredeluxe]

i have to get some thoughts out about the inner circle members and the dynamics between them (mainly ACOSF)

- first of all, i do think that the IC members can be self-righteous and think they know better always. and it doesn’t help that feyre’s love-driven mate perspective makes people mad about rhys not taking more responsibility and always being the hero.

- amren gets too much of a pass on things. i get that they love her and need her (esp because of the powers she had and the knowledge she has), but ffs you don’t always know better. sometimes power is not the only answer. also, love her, but should’ve remained dead oops

- on one hand, there’s an argument that the IC is being graceful to nesta (re: alcoholism, paying rent, etc), but on the other hand, they could be more understanding imo. elain is given endless grace and babied whereas nesta is not. i don’t like that rhys and amren viewed nesta as a weapon and something that needs to be trained so that they can use her. i get why they used elain to convince her to use her powers, but then rhys going on this thing about nesta having a choice… you damn well know it’s not a choice. in order to do something right in an extraordinary circumstance like war, it’s understood that you may do wrong by a person. i can understand that they don’t have many options, but then just be gray characters, don’t force that “we’re always perfect” bullshit.

- i actually am not upset by feyre not including nesta’s painting. sister dynamics can be harsh and weird. even in book 1, feyre hated them for not helping her, but still talked about how she loved them. she tried to include nesta in decorating, invited her to solstice and did other things, but when you’re being spat at by your own sister, you will do spiteful things in return to feel good. she still included a perfect room for her in the house despite being mad.

- i also think that feyre herself was tryna juggle being high lady and pregnant and felt pressured to “control” nesta due to that. inexpected a clash between being high lady and a sister. i don’t think it can be denied that nesta being an alcoholic, abusing NC’s money and being a bitch didn’t hurt feyre. and it can be forgotten that despite all her bravery, feyre is still young. i can get why she thought being with the priestesses would be healing for a person with trauma and how training can help you channel that anger and energy. so she forced that on nesta. so it’s complicated (which makes sense because that’s how it is irl too)

- i think cassian is stuck too much between choosing his family of 500 years vs choosing nesta. i think he’s not perfect at it, hence why all these complains about not being a good mate. but i think it’s realistic that he struggles with this because it’s natural it’ll take time for him to sort out his dynamics. his family always has a list of grievances about nesta to prove they’re right about her being terrible, and while some are unfair, he can’t always outrightly deny them. rhys and feyre were different because feyre is high lady, and has a streak for caring and being a savior (whereas nesta is not like that) and rhys is the high lord

- it’s funny for me to see feyre whackings about her destroying lives of the spring court common people, and what will she do for illyria, but… she literally became a high lady 1-2 years ago and she’s processing her own trauma and is dying with a kid, i get why she isn’t doing shit lol. i agree with the spring court thing (also, what of alis?!), but it’s been established that it takes centuries for change in illyria because of immorality. feyre is paid dust by illyrians, and rhys and cassian are already seen trying to implement changes so yeah.

- unpopular: i think the thing with nesta giving back the power to the cauldron in exchange for saving feyre made sense because so much of the theme around the books has been the cauldron hunting for its power back, and all of ACOSF was about how “like calls to like” (like nesta, i was tired of that sentence lmfao). i also think that people forget that genuinely bad things are happening to the IC, but SJM just saves them and that makes people mad i think lol

[cherienymphe]

My sister has a married (separated but they’re still pretending they’re together for the kids) man over and she’s gone an fucking waited for us all to go to sleep and she’s in the living room with him. It’s the second time she’s done this.

I want to cry. I know that sounds so ducking stupid because it’s none of my business but I literally haven’t sat on my sofa for months because of when she has him over the first time. I don’t want to sit on a sofa where they probably fucked. And like, I get up at the middle of the night for cereal most nights but I literally can’t now because they’re down there.

All I wanted to do is sleep but I can’t because there’s a man in my house who I’ve only met ONCE. It’s genuinely making me want to go and sleep in a hotel. I want to leave. I was trying to be a cockblocker and I was in the kitchen for ages pretending I couldn’t sleep, and she was just there watching me, texting him and laughing. (I know that’s bad, but tbf I was thirsty)

He’s a fucking scumbag (I pretend I find him okay but reality I fucking hate him). I know I need to work on myself because this is probably jealousy or some shit. Like I know this isn’t healthy for me. It’s not like any of what I’m typing right now my sister knows. She thinks I either 1. don’t know, or 2. that i’m fine with it.

She’s 35. She hasn’t got kids or a husband and I understand he’s the first person to be obsessed with her for years, but he’s already done the kids and marriage thing for 12 years so… Is he really looking for that again? I doubt it. I just don’t like that he’s making her wait, like you’re either with your wife or you’re not.

But at the end of the day it is NONE of my business. It’s just making me feel sick right now and I was planning on having a nice sleep but I have this problem where I literally cannot fall asleep when there’s other people in my house.

I know I sound deranged but she’s my only reason for living some days and when she’s ignoring me to text him constantly it’s literally so fucking soul sucking. I should probably move out but leaving my mom and my sister together is just recipe for trouble and if I moved out my mother would literally be homeless because she can’t pay for rent on her own. I’m the youngest (20) and always wanted to travel but I’m scared of leaving because I’m scared of coming back and being alone for the rest of my life. I don’t want my family to break apart.

Anyways, my GAWD that’s long. I’ll leave this here if you want to read it. I know you’re not a therapist lol so you don’t have to reply. Just had to rant because I haven’t got anyone to talk to. Okay, I’m going to either read gothic fiction or watch Buffy to distract me 💜

Hey I don't think you're wrong to be bothered by some strange man being in your house at all hours of the night. I get that everyone's family is different, but I wasn't raised in an environment like that so I too would be bothered. Yes, she has just as much right to the space as anyone else, but it's not solely her house. You have a right to feel comfortable too.

As for your sister, you have to let her make her own decisions/mistakes. While I personally don't think it's wrong for separated couples to see other people, it's almost always a recipe for mess when no one has officially filed for divorce. Are the chances pretty great that he and his wife will reconcile and leave your sister in the dust or maybe even a dirty little secret? Yeah probably but that's her problem not yours lol. Especially since she's way old enough to not be so dumb.

As for you...babes you're 20! I understand the pressure to make sure your family is alright, but you're telling me that if you leave and live your life, your fuckass 35 y/o sister can't keep the bills paid and help your mom out? At 20 y/o, I just don't think that's your responsibility. That's supposed to come when you're older and borderline decrepit and you have to help your mom to the bathroom in her old age 😭

I won't flat out tell you what to do bc it's your life and you're the one who has to live with your decisions but if I was in your shoes...ain't no way

[cheryls-blossomed]

I’m a huge Iris fan. And I’m worried about her role in the series finale. I feel like she’s not going to get any screen time and her concluding character arc will be nonexistent. She’s the female lead of the show and is being paid dust in favor of supporting characters. Lol, I guess this isn’t really a question just more of a mini rant. Thank you for reading this.

Of course, nonnie! Feel free to rant anytime. And I totally share in your worries. Present Iris was not in one single scene in 9x12; like we had time for so much support staff bullshit in the episode, apparently, but not one scene to check up on Iris who is literally in labor.

I really don’t expect Iris to be in the episode much, which is insane to even say because it’s the series finale and she’s the leading lady, but then I remember what show we’re talking about… And while I’m so over this show at this point, it still burns that the leading lady may only be in a couple of scenes in the final episode of the whole show. I’m going to be honest: I expect Iris to be in labor for almost the whole episode, and for her to give birth after the final battle, so… I expect only a few Iris scenes and it’s already infuriating. Would love to be wrong, but it just feels like that’s the way things are heading. Hoping for at least a scene or two which showcases Iris’s POV. It’s just so frustrating to see this show kind of whimper over the finish line, in general, but it’s beyond infuriating that Iris was never given her due and was never going to be given her due, despite all the advocacy from her fans for almost a whole decade and despite how much she means to so many people.

At this point, I’m just holding out hope for the Tornado Twins, because what else is there to say.

[justafoxhound]

Falloutober 2023: 5. This Thing Called Defeat

A late falloutober. Rework of an earlier thing to fit the prompt 'This thing called defeat'. To go with pt 2 Terminal and pt3 Civilisation. I think it fits Tali's interminable drive to keep on truckin lol

This thing called defeat was supposed to feel heavier, Talia thought. But she was still moving, wasn’t she? It wasn’t over. It wasn’t defeat until you were dead. Or maybe it was only once you stopped that you notice, when you can’t get going again. Maybe she’d got herself into a really deep hole… But until the dust settled there was no way to know. Right now, she had a plan, she had momentum. If it was carrying her down a slippery slope, for now she was experiencing the thrill of the ride.

Maybe that’s why she did it. A desperate person wouldn’t give away clean water in this contaminated nuclear hellscape, would they? She’d find more, she didn’t need it, she repeated. For a brief time after being locked out of her vault she’d envisioned a slow death, and found little more hope amongst the people of Megaton- a literal hole in the ground carved by a dud nuke built up into a town. If there had been a helping hand amongst the rocks from which she emerged, she’d have taken it. If she could do something to prove she was not defeated, she would.

“Kid, I didn’t sign on with you to play fuckin’ Santa Claus out here.”

Talia could feel hard eyes on her back as she stormed ahead of her temporary (hopefully) companion, leaving the thirsty beggar in the humming Megaton dirt.

“You pull any of that shit again and I’m gone.”

She stopped in her tracks and turned about to face the man growling after her. “Excuse me?”

“You fuckin’ heard me,” Jericho barked, jabbing the air with the bottle of purified water he’d just yanked from the beggar’s grasp. “In fact, if you’re gonna make me repeat myself like you’re some kinda moron, I’m outta here as well.”

Talia blinked in astonishment. “Jesus Christ, are you for real? I paid you didn’t I? You’re gonna bail over a sip of water?”

His permanent scowl grew harsher. “Listen, you stuck up vault bitch. You only paid me half. You fuck around givin’ away useful stuff like this, waste my time, bore me, and I’ll take my half back to Moriarty’s. Got no problem getting drunk instead of babysittin’ you.”

Talia’s stomach lurched. This was the precipice of defeat she had so far kept out of sight, out of mind, but she was in danger of tripping. “You’ll get your other half,” she stammered. “I promised, didn’t I? Jericho, come on.” She urged him to continue with her away from town. She couldn’t make this trip alone. Wouldn’t, now that she’d given him every cap she had after begging Mr. Burke for an advance on the compensation he was offering for his job. And after she’d taken his money, there was no backing out of that one. He’d made that very clear.

“The caps are yours,” she continued, “But we have to get to Tenpenny Tower to get paid.”

Jericho glared from a few paces away, gaze burning with a paradoxical iciness. “And if this turns out to be a fuckin’ merry-go-round? Whole thing’s fucked up. I hope you’ll still be feelin’ so charitable if we find out this is as bullshit as it sounds, ‘cause I’m gonna be real pissed.”

Talia smothered her vertigo, checked for the weight of her pistol at her belt. This was almost definitely not a good idea. But neither was taking her chances alone. She’d seen the claw marks on some of the town’s livetsock- it turned out not all of the vault’s stories about mutants were exaggeration.

“No way,” she declared. “There’s more people involved in this. And when I tell them this guy is expecting us, we’ll get straight into that tower, I swear.”

Jericho sniffed and produced another cigarette from somewhere. She’d only known him a short while but a cigarette seemed to be as much a part of his features as his crooked nose or the wrinkles that might be attributed to a life in the harsh sun, scowling, or age, she couldn’t tell which. “Yeah? This guy, Burke, he for real?”

Talia nodded profusely. “He had five hundred caps in his pocket to give me. And he’s from Tenpenny Tower so surely he’s good for more, and he wants the job done.” She put up a convincing argument, partly to reassure herself. The well dressed visitor had offered her one thousand caps for a simple, if extreme, job. She still wasn’t completely sure it wasn’t just his strange idea of a sick joke. People on the surface were different, and he wasn’t like anybody else she’d encountered in the town.

Jericho seemed to finish his thought, losing the animal intensity that had briefly sharpened his gaze. “Yeah, I seen him around. Had plenty to spend every day. Alright, let’s get goin’ before I change my mind.”

Talia nodded and hurried to match her mercenary’s quick pace, albeit keeping well out of arm’s reach. The old, grizzled, wasteland tough guy hadn’t given her a second glance in Moriarty’s saloon. But she wondered if he hadn’t heard some of her conversation with Mr. Burke, because as soon as she approached him with a proposition that he escort her across the wasteland he’d hit her quickly with a steep price of exactly one thousand caps. He’d seemed pretty surprised when she actually ponied up half that.

She breathed a little easier once they got on the move. She didn't doubt he’d walk away with her caps and leave her in more of a mess than she already was, or worse, so she resolved to keep quiet and just reach the tower. But if she had to coddle him to keep him happy, she would. She’d pinned all hope of living beyond a week on Mr. Burke’s bizarre offer, but she had to reach him first. Burke had promised her access to a better life, and his appearance suggested it was out there. But she knew very little about the surface and so worked with what she found. That was one hard bastard who wasn’t afraid to leave the Megaton walls named Jericho.

“The fuck you givin’ this away for anyway? Won’t do him any good.” Jericho interrupted her thoughts, stashing the water bottle in his belt.

“I was just gonna give him a sip. I thought I was gonna die of thirst when I got out the vault.”

“There’s a lot more’ll get you if you’re so fuckin’ generous to everyone you meet. I knew a guy… Well, I heard o’ this time some do-gooder woman tries to help some sorry lookin’ bum like that out on the road. She takes him to where she’s stayin’. Food, beds, her people fix him up. Next day his crew rolls up on the place. Good food, equipment, women- there’s a reason Megaton got these walls, kid. You think they let her off easy ‘cause she took pity on him?”

“...No?”

“Right. If anythin’ they thought she was a dumb fuck. Myself included.”

Talia’s mouth was suddenly very dry. She didn’t ask what happened. The annoyance in his voice let her know his warning was sincere, even if it was barbed. “Okay… Point taken,” she croaked.

They continued for a few minutes in silence, and no less than five feet apart.

“Can I have the water please?” she asked.

“No. Not to waste it on dead men,” Jericho answered brusquely.

“I’m- I’m thirsty. Anyway, I swiped it from Moriarty fair and square.”

His tone shifted abruptly to one of curious entertainment. “No shit? What was he chargin’ ya?”

“Um, what was it… like, thirty caps?”

Jericho snorted. “Man, he don’t do nothin’ for a fair price. I mean, I never do anythin’ for free, but I never seen him get his hands dirty. It’s gotta get boring if you ask me. You lift anything stronger?”

Talia shook her head uncertainly, mumbling an apology.

“Shit.” Jericho tossed the water her way. “First bottle of booze you see is mine.”

She agreed, hiding her relief at not fumbling the catch. From what she’d learned about people who needed alcohol, it was better that he got just enough of what he wanted. Too much and they could be a menace, too little and they just weren’t there. She needed him to stick around and live up to the reputation peddled by the Megaton townspeople- the part of it about being a bad-ass and a great shot, anyway.

The nuclear desert stretched ahead of them. Little interrupted the view to Tenpenny Tower in the distance but the blackened limbs of sickly trees and a greenish haze. She supposed if this was her world, drink would be a reasonable distraction, much as it had been for some in the ever-shrinking vault. But no, there had to be more than this on the surface; Strange as Mr. Burke seemed, he was brimming with a disgust for Megaton and the surroundings that Talia could appreciate. Clearly, the tower to which he’d invited her was a world apart from the one she had been forced into. A whole new future existed out there, and she was going to reach it. She had always longed for it, always been told she was to stay put, stay quiet, stay compliant and safe in the vault, until she was betrayed by her own father who left without her.

But she pushed this from her mind. Regardless how it happened, that she was out on her ass with no supplies, she was out, like she’d always wanted. And she was still moving, still breathing. Despite his efforts, she was not doing dirty work for Colin Moriarty on a slippery promise of information on her dad, not locked into some one sided contract like his other staff or ignoring reality at his bar like many of his patrons- perhaps even Jericho, had he answered her differently a few hours ago. She could see how being stuck in this place would feel like defeat.

But for Talia, it drove her to look for a way out. As unclear as Burke’s reasons were for being so kind while apparently so cruel, and as broke as she was after hiring Jericho to keep her alive, she did have a way out. She’d lost friends, family, and any illusions about herself in her journey to wherever she was headed- and that was steered almost completely by three men of questionable sanity- but she wouldn’t call it defeat. Chasing a bottle dangled by the likes of Moriarty for the rest of your life; living a life of doomed monotony in the vault; perishing in the wasteland pursuing her father’s shadow: that was something she’d call defeat.

[liliallowed]

Y/N seems like a soft affectionate puppy and I feel like they would be clingy because of how easily they got attached to Dust. They are kinda like Yashiro Nene from TBHK, bubbly and dosn't think ahead and is kinda stupid and maybe cute, and their partner commits the most hanis crimes possible and they are like "He was having a bad day :("

The hero complex they have is also pretty interesting. I like the character we are represented by!

I know we technically Y/N, but I still have headcanons!

They seemed to get attached to Crimson and Dust very fast, and felt liked they owed Dust everything just because they messed up once, so I feel like they were probably a lonely person. People must not have paid any attention to them at all, because they got the littlest attention from two psychos and fell to their knees for them both. Maybe they were even ostracized from society because it seems like they have no friends and family to go to and no one is looking for them when they are kidnapped. It seems like they only have Dust and Crimson, and must have some sort of abandonment issues because they seem almost willing to die to sans to stay by his side.

When you think about them too long they are kinda tragic. They are throwing themself into an endless hell just to be loved and have affection while thinking they can completely fix everything with their flimsy morals. They seem so desperate to prove that they are good person, it seems to be the only thing that keeps them going.

Idk I'm thinking too hard

why do you think crimson likes them? they relate to that. but kinda... want to have a part to play.

keep in mind crimson only stepped in when y/n was literally on the brink of death. we don't want another emotionally dead vessel in our hands do we? no, y/n HAS to fight back. they'll help them stand their ground.

they stepped in ONLY when y/n was in legit danger. not before it when the two of them were all lovey dovey.

call them a hypocrite but seeing someone similar to them be able to get so emotionally close to dust when they have a clean slate gives them a sense of catharsis.

kinda like living the dream through watching this dumbass goody two shoes win over their rival.

they're envious and extremely jealous but seeing them have a shot? it's kinda fun for them.

like exploring a (what if I wasn't evil and didn't have bad blood with him) scenario through y/n.

they do project quite a bit on y/n. but sometimes y/ns choices genuinely gives crimson a headache.

as for why dust fell for them? it's not that he particularly LIKED y/n over anyone else or there was a special soul mate excuse. (I don't do soul mates lol)

he basically saw the as a wet cat/puppy that just followed him after he used them for his selfish benifit... and then he felt guilty for it.

so he gave them a small chance then was surprised how ATTACHED this human had become. he was slightly concerned. he knew this wasn't normal.

though it had been so long SO LONG that someone real talked to him or someone that wasn't trying to stab him would just... sit there.

one thing about loneliness is that you never really notice how much you were struggling with it until you have company.

then you realize: oh shit I am actually touch starved.

(comes from personal experience lmao)

[ki-flor]

I’m truly one of Byler tumblr’s weakest soldiers. It only takes one singular tweet about how mike is obsessed with el so it doesn’t matter like he literally loves her and paid Will dust he literally doesn’t like Will he never called him blah blah blah and I’m like oh… he literally doesn’t even care about Will that’s crazy omg. Like am I weird he’s literally 14 what if it’s just wishful thinking

Homotron 5000 did not tell Will "Hawkins is not the same without you" for you to be acting this way 🤨

All jokes aside it's not weak to think rationally lol. Most bylers have been there at some point whether we like to admit it or not. Though the example of the tweet you gave is definitely the last thing you should be doubting yourself over because we know it's not true 😭 Mike cares about Will a lot and mlvns will die trying to prove that he doesn't.

[fiadh-doodles]

Thank you for the Legacy spoilers, now I'm even more interested in buying the game to see how it progresses to that point.

Okay anon lol, idk if this the person I was just arguing with or the Absolute weirdo who just followed me or one of the many folks I replied that copy & paste message to, I'm just gonna say this:

Y'all wanna pay $60 for a badly made game to rp a literal neo natzi(the lead dev)'s wet dream & expect no criticism or backlash for it. Make it make sense cuz from where I stand, y'all can't have a moral back bone without it crumbling to dust the second some not even mediocre entertainment pops up.

If y'all wanna play this game soooooo bad with all it's glitches, bad ui, & general dog shitness of it on a technical level, go ahead. But I'm still gonna make fun of y'all & remind y'all that you're doing all this instead of listening to marginalized voices.

If y'all wanna play a game made by a dev team(who've already been paid) that was so homophobic they refused to include any queer people nor relationships besides a trans woman with an unlisted va that gives her a masculine voice, & is named Sir Ona Ryan, aka he she ryan, go ahead. But I'm still gonna make fun of y'all & remind y'all that you're doing all this instead of listening to trans people about not putting money in the pocket of the world's most influential terf that will be used to create real-world, material harm against trans people.

If y'all wanna play the game where you literally play on the side of the slave masters to squash a slave revolt, go ahead. But I'm still gonna make fun of y'all & remind y'all that you're fucking racist.

If y'all wanna play antisemitism:the game, where one of jewish caricature "goblin artifacts" is a literal shofar, & the description of said shofar makes reference to a real life pogrom in 1612 germany, & is then desrcibed as having a non-kosher cheese shoved into it to silence it, go ahead. But I'm still gonna make fun of y'all & remind y'all that you're doing all this instead of listening to jewish people begging people, especially with the world-wide rise of antisemitism, to stand by them.

Like, there is nothing I can do or say to stop bigots from being bigots over something as nonsense as "nostalgia" & paying out the ass for a broken, bigoted game. But I'll sure as be shitty to y'all & make y'all uncomfortable with y'all's blatantly bigoted desicions.

Fuck Harry Potter. Fuck JKR. Fuck TERFs. Fuck Radfems. Fuck Gender Criticals. Fuck Racists. Fuck Antisemites. Fuck Transpbobes.

Fuck you, play Wizard101