#okay it's giving in every universe

[floralembarrassment]

Hi this is the first time I’ve sent in a request but I’ve found a thread on twitter (by angelnikss) about the marauders and their job if they were muggles. She imagined that James would be a firefighter and Regulus a book critic. Can you please write something that regulus is scared when James goes to work (but he always comes back). Or that they live next to each other and they meet and fall in love? I really love your work! <3

Hi there! Thanks for sending a request and I'm glad you find some joy here! I took the creative liberties to make your request a one shot - with love!

Burned (1/1) (jegulus)

Regulus never really thought about James' job too much until nearly two years into their relationship. He had a great schedule and got to see Regulus often, and had a great group of friends whom he always worked really closely with. They moved into a big house together about a year and half in, and well.... that was that. James went to work and so did Regulus.

No, Regulus didn't think about James' job until he had to. Until James got hurt. Until James had called him from the hospital, told Regulus he was all burned up, and it was pretty bad so he would have to stay a few nights.

And then after James explained to Regulus what happened, after Regulus his golden brown skin seared and stretched and raw, after he saw his sun sleeping in a hospital looking so small, all Regulus could do was think about James' job.

About how dangerous it was. How he could get hurt any day. How these injuries aren't even the worst possibility. How he sends James' off with a kiss each morning and now is realizing he may never come back one night.

James came home one day and found Regulus crying in bed, curled in his side. Rushing over to him, he scooped Regulus into his arms and held him.

"What's wrong love?" James asked voice soothing as his hand rubbed circles on his back.

"I- it so afraid you're going to get hurt again..." Regulus mumbled into James' shoulder as he wiped his tears.

Regulus finished explaining and looked his watery grey eyes into James' honey brown ones. "I just keep thinking about you in that hospital bed and James I just- I can't have anything happen to you."

"Oh Reg," James said squeezing Regulus tighter. "You know I'm scared too," he said looking back at him.

"You are?"

"Yeah... I know you would figure it out but I'm not done loving you. I'll never be done loving you."

It didn't change the situation. James still went to work but it was helpful for them both know that the other was worried. And it made James act smarter on the job, think more clearly, and it allowed for Regulus to savour every moment as a precious one.

[pleasetakethis]

New ship unlocked: Agatha/Peggy No, I will not elaborate.

[dragonomatopoeia]

< guy who had to stop being an english instructor because the cruelties of usamerican academia crushed them into paste and they weren't allowed to help or support students in any meaningful way. lest they be fired from their position that paid less than a living wage

[doomzday-zone]

Post zero .......... uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasa *explodes*

[theygender]

I hate how coconut milk is becoming like THE milk replacement in health foods. Like bro what do I do if I'm lactose intolerant AND allergic to coconuts 😭 please just give me something I can eat

[gardenelfi]

middle school a struggle bc there was no freedom at all, like it's not allowed to take a break during class or facilitated to study in your own way like going over the material at home, and higher education is a struggle because there is way too much freedom, like unclear/very open assignments and no explanation about expectations regarding anything

[babygirlbdubs]

i hate!!! labels!!!!! i hate society's need to put every bit of the human experience into arbitrary, meaningless little boxes!!! i hate taking beautifully unique experiences and shoving them into categories that will never truly fit them!!! i hate taking people's identities and comforts and using them to invalidate their personhood and experiences!!! every single human being is impossibly unique and there will never be a single other person exactly like them and that's beautiful!!! why!!! do we have to break everything down and put it into boxes that are never perfectly the right shape!!!! we are all unique and that makes us all the same!!! let people express their personhood and define their experiences in ways that are unique to them!!!

[non-un-topo]

Spending hours trying to figure out why I feel so irritable and sensitive today and I’m only realizing now it might have something to do w being invited to a birthday party full of an entire family I’ve never met and like seven very small children and the person inviting me assuming I would love that. I want to support her bc I like her and she’s family now, but I cannot---I will not---go to another family event and be pushed into the kitchen doing dishes with the women or cooing over someone’s baby who just stares at me and whines when I try to mask and say hello.

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

Okay but what is this class?

So, within the film school were 3 areas of study, and you had to pick ONE to do:

Telecommunication law and policy.

Media Sciences (The academic studies. If they could show you something and put electrodes on your head to read your brain, they're happy)

Design and Production-- actually making shit. Scriptwriting, studio, field production, sound design, editing, etc.

I did a self-created hybrid major, bridging Media Sciences with Design and Production.

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Laid that ground information because I can only describe the classes from the way I approached them. The media psychology students got something totally different out of it and my brain just doesn't stop where theirs stopped.

If I mention the sex class, I'll end up writing that 100,000 word essay on how it is applied to LITA, so let's talk the horror one (my fav).

What the class does is get into physiologically, what happens to a person while watching horror? A lot of that is really obvious- you can become tense, anxious, your stress levels actually go DOWN overall (which is not how it feels in the moment), and you experience a rush of adrenaline.

Then you dig deeper. What is contributing to the tension? The human brain processes things at different speeds, sight is slower than sound. So sound mixing becomes both critical to creating a horror atmosphere, and also a cheat code. Anything becomes spooky if it SOUNDS spooky.

Monkey brain hear spooky, monkey brain no like spooky. Now it's dark. Monkey brain cannot see danger approach. Monkey brain fight or flight grow big.

Now, if you don't have a valve to bring the tension down (something scary, jump scares are the most lazy way), monkey brain get bored. Monkey brain start adapting to the adrenaline and your adrenal gland is like "Guys this party sucks".

And that's why M. Night Shamalan movies blow. Level tension. So at the end when he tries to ramp it up your brain has already gotten bored and gone home so it's just like "Who the fuck cares".

What else is in horror movies? Violence!

But guess what? Monkey brain feel things if they see gruesome stuff. Boy monkey brains especially.

But what's this? Girl monkey brains are different than boy monkey brains. Girl monkey brains have SO MANY MORE nerve endings (that equals empathy). You show gruesome to girl monkey brain, girl monkey brain is like "childbirth and periods are more gruesome than this" (girl monkey brain not the most feminist, the feminism comes from evolution and enlightenment).

But you show a girl monkey brain the FACE of someone in pain- the agony and the terror... That's going to slam into those nerve endings and activate Empathy Mode- and now you can imagine how that violence FEELS.

Know your demographic- based on your subject matter, the likely ratio of boy monkey brains to cater to vs girl monkey brains. Set your balance of violence and face shots to keep both on the same page with that tension you are rising and lowering.

And I did say I didn't want to get into the sex one because I don't want to rabbit hole, but sex and horror tend to walk hand in hand because they're such primal triggers.

That's the "monkey brain" theme up there. They are not speaking to you as a rational human person. They're speaking to the root code of your DNA (do not try to hijack my post to argue anti-feminist things because of monkey brain, I'm talking horror and sex).

They're poking at instinctive responses you do not consciously control on average.

So yeah

I created a hybrid major track for myself within the department (I love that my uni gave students the freedom to do that) to study media psychology and apply it not to research on the human condition, but to learn to basically brain wash and mind control my audiences.

To reach into the monkey brain and hypnotize them until they end up- as the video game design majors would say- in a flow-state where time stops existing. Just the story is left. Like a dream you don't realize you are dreaming.

... ... ... When my professor realized how I was mixing the two tracks, he started calling it the Super Villain Major.

I have no regrets.

[kideternity]

[Image ID: Two drawings of the spider-sona Oliver Octavius, owned by @oliveroctavius. Both are a redraw of a panel from “Spider-man: Funeral for an Octopus” issue two, where Spider-man is heroically standing on top of a pile of rubble, with one leg perched in front and one arm outstretched whilst the other has its fist raised- he's wearing the arm rig that belongs to Doc Ock, and has its four tentacles swirling around him- two stretched out in front, and two behind him. The first drawing is just the inks, and is purposely done in the style of how 90s comic books did shading/shadows. The second drawing is the fully coloured version- the rubble is light orange, the arm rig is dark grey with light grey highlights, and Oliver's costume is mostly dark red, with grey gloves and boots, with light teal eye lenses, a dusty blue diamond on his chest and on his pants where it meets the boots and a half circle on his hips, and then a dark purple stripe around that circle, a smaller diamond in the middle of the blue diamond, and a stripe pattern covering his arms and chest that are meant to represent spider legs. The same dark purple stripes are also on his mask, with two going down the middle with a space between, and then four more stripes- two respectively on each side underneath the eye lenses, and two respectively on each side above. The background is a simple yellow colour, with orange rays coming from behind Oliver, with a lime stripe on one side and a darker orange on the other. /End Image ID]

A fun illustration of @oliveroctavius’ spider-sona for him! I remembered about that time Peter very temporarily got the Doc Ock tentacles in ‘Funeral for an Octopus’, and Thought it would be fun to do a redraw with Oliver, especially in that same over the top 90s style. The original panel below, for anyone interested-

[unopenablebox]

jesus fucking christ it's good to have a contract though

[thefirstknife]

also to add on to your "destiny dying long live destiny"

its the Monday after a holiday weekend for the states. people are exhausted and probably going back to work or trying to down tune

also also its the holiday week where a new mainline Pokemon game just released. regardless of your opinions/the quality of it its still a brand new Pokemon game. thats gonna pull ppl from anywhere.

Yep! It's really interesting how November without an expansion in Destiny has been low two years in a row. And incidentally, both Novembers, there's been a Pokemon and Call of Duty release (on top of other major releases).

I know Aztecross said "don't tell me it's because it's Monday, it's Monday for other games too and there's 34 games above Destiny by player count." But it does matter. Those other games also probably have fewer players than they do when it's not post-holiday Monday.

And ofc, not all games are tied to seasonal cycles. People know there's nothing left to wrap up in Destiny so they moved to other games that they may have been neglecting during the Destiny pinnacle grind. I've neglected other games for Destiny this season and I've been catching up with them now that Destiny's season is ending and I have nothing left to do. If I have to choose what to play on a Monday before the new season, it won't be Destiny. Cringefail confession, but I spent this Monday catching up with levelling my battlepass in Overwatch. Yeah it's Monday, but I have things left to do in Overwatch and none in Destiny.

If Destiny is someone's primary game, they'll prioritise it in the first two months because of the pinnacle grind. I have to get my power level up so I can do GMs. I always prioritise Destiny first. So when I'm done, last month of the season, I play less because I have to go back and do stuff I neglected in other games. It's really simple. The fact that it's the final week of the season is crucial context.

And it's really hypocritical of these content creators to do this after they spent months farming negative attention and bad press for the game. Maybe fewer people are playing because you convinced them that the game is shit? They never seem to like taking credit for the negative, just the positive. You influence people's opinions! When you post the newest god tier build, everyone and their grandma copies it. When you shittalk the game for months, your fans listen to you. I don't know why that's difficult to understand.

There's obviously legitimate reasons for everyone to personally dislike the game! I have my gripes too, everyone does. I think we could have really important convos and feedback with Bungie about the issues we have. But this specific way of doing it? Constructing outrage by using "numbers" stripped of all context to "prove" that the game is objectively bad? It's sleazy. And it helps no one. Worst of all, it results in really awful online behaviour under the guise of anonymity and perceived justification: "bad devs ruin the game, we have the right to complain!"

Bungie knows the numbers better than any of us. If they're concerned, they will deal with it. And ofc, we'll see the numbers skyrocket in December. And then drop in January. And then skyrocket in February. And so on.

[introspectivememories]

tim and bernard give off major sasaki and miyano vibes

[skylilac]

i love talking to her but we are so bad at talking

[eclysia]

i have dialogue compiled. time to post more to the madame x + melia = maria corkboard

[triglycercule]

i come up with ideas based on the most random things because wdym i just rambled on about fucking fingers and decided,,,, heh,,,,, yeah. this is a good idea. well i mean i do think it IS a good idea but also like in hindsight and out of context i do think its totally fucking stupid. angel92 ahh post 💀💀💀

anyways i was thinking about mtt and fingers and which ones they would lose as a result of being with eachother but then that also means that i'd have to give specific meanings to the fingers (ughhhh,,,,,) ok lets see. pointer finger would represent precision and clear vision because you literally use it to specifically gesture to things. middle finger is like ughh vulgarity and hatred because its the middle finger. the ring finger (heh! i already spoke about this one because of the myth that its connected to the heart and also holds wedding rings) represents love and the pinkie represent promise (PINKIE PROMISE!) and the thumb represents basic functioning and interpretations (because the thumb helps us literally hold things and also thumbs up and down shows your view on things)

i think if i just tack this idea onto the other post about ring fingers then it would be kinda unrealted + plus too long SO ITS GOING HERE. all the mtt are missing ring fingers because i said so. dust is missing an index finger because if the trio break up he's the only one that wouldnt have anywhere/one to go. also he'd struggle to smoke and i think that horror would always complain about him smoking so it'd be like horror's still kinda there warding him off from smoking even though he's not there anymore. horror would lose his middle finger because he'd probably be the most agressive against kist in mttpoly and now without them there he's kinda chilled out. but also the agression and spark isnt there and now he's stuck in plain old boring regular horrortale again which isnt all that fun,,,, even if dust an killer sucked fighting was a way to pass time. but horror would never admit that. and i think killer could lose a thumb (ill be fr im just running out of fingers to use here. next thing yk i'll start talking about TOES) and then he'd struggle to hold knives normally now. he literally can't hurt others the way he hurt horror and dust (but also that could also mean that killer just has to come up with more creative ways to main. or also his reduced actions could result in him causing less trouble and therefore having less threats. depends on if killer wants to be a bit more knife happy or just chil,,,,,, you KNOW i gotta go with the knife happy idea mtt NEVER get a break and if they do i immediately forget about it)

dude imagine them with all these missing fingers 💀💀💀 that shit would lookd SO weird