#or take the easy a class that'll be just for fun

[gothethite]

Tired of people going 'all goth fashion is super easy to diy and everyone should do that instead' because like... yes a lot of it is but some very much not. So some thoughts on how much I'd recommend diying various goth fashion stuff as someone who does a lot of it:

Simple jewellery is definitely much better to diy and particularly chains and stuff. I remember going to dangerfield one time and they had a chain with a bat ornament on in for 20 dollars 🤣 ... you can get a bunch of chain from the hardware store pretty cheaply and the exact same bat pendant on it I had got like 20 off etsy for 5 dollars. It usually doesn't take that long and extra tools e.g. pliers are helpful but not necessary - 10/10 absolutely recommend for all goths or other people interested in gothic fashion

Same thing goes for distressed clothing/fishnet shirts there are tons of tutorials for that kind of stuff, and it generally doesn't require that much time, experience or materials 10/10

Minor clothing modifications e.g. some tailoring, adding/removing parts, mending damaged old clothing, changing buttons - this is something that is really useful in everyday life, usually doesn't take that long and is very useful for turning normal clothing into more spooky stuff 9/10

Designs on clothes or patches: if you get some fabric paint, screen printing ink, bleach or even acrylic you can paint designs onto clothing pretty easily. Personally I like dilute screen printing ink as it gives the nicest surface, but it can be a bit of a pain to use as you have to do a lot of layers, and it doesn't colour the fabric intuitively in the way that fabric paint or acrylic do 8/10 - would recommend very strongly to anyone who enjoys art, and recommend trying at least once to people who don't enjoy art as much (you can always make stencils), but it does take a long time and you need some materials. Also, for patches particularly for small bands it can be better to order them from the band to support the artist, but also lots of bands don't have patches or merch or international shipping to some countries makes it not accessible

Embroidery: often looks really good and professional in a way that painted designs don't, takes absolutely ages. 7/10 - would recommend very highly for people who enjoy textile stuff and maybe trying a bit for everyone but yeah if you don't enjoy it it's a pain

Smaller articles of clothing: I've made some waistcoats and shirts and stuff which have been pretty fun and it's really good to be able to do specific designs you wouldn't be able to buy (e.g. my skeleton one) and get stuff to fit right. They were all hand sewn and took a pretty long time (however you can also do it while listening to online classes or whatever), + a bit of time to learn techniques and stuff. Definitely a cheaper than buying them 6.5/10 - do it if you enjoy textile art stuff but will probably be a really painful experience if you don't and you're hand sewing. Also useful if you've got sizing or dimensions that mean you just... can't buy stuff that'll fit which is how I got into sewing

More complex sewing: I've made 2 (well, finished one and 98% of the way through another) long spooky coats and one cape with really complicated edges and embroidery and stuff. Coat 1 was entirely by hand out of not great fabric and took absolutely ages but was definitely vastly cheaper than buying it from the store, and it fit well and everything. With the cape, I got repetitive strain injury in my thumb that still is a bit of a problem 3 years later! With the final coat it was mostly by machine and then touching some stuff up by hand e.g. edges of the lining, making the eyelets and stuff, but it still took ages. Also, something I never see people talking about with diy goth clothing is how hard it is to get the materials - there were only 3 black brocade fabrics available in my city - One was really bad quality and I tried to make a shirt out of it, but it kept falling apart. One was 150 dollars a meter. The one I ended up using was really nice and reasonably priced, but I got the last 2.5 meters of it so it almost wasn't an option. So when people talk about diying clothing being cheaper it can actually not be that much because a clothing business can get fabrics in bulk + unless your city is really big there are probably not many options, so there's also shipping costs if you then need to order fabric. Out of curiosity I compared how much the coat cost in terms of materials to the price of a similar looking coat off dracula clothing which is a pretty well known and apparently quality materials and ethically made goth fashion shop and it came out a bit cheaper but not massively so (not counting shipping...) so 3.5/10 - fun to do if you enjoy textile art as a hobby, not even vaguely a practical alternative to buying a coat

And then there's other stuff like more complicated jewellery making and leather work which idk much about

[dokoni-mo]

So your wonderful sketches have sparked the fluff part of my brain with an idea!

What if bunny was an artist or simply liked doodling and they had a sketchbook. So maybe one day they left their sketchbook on the counter. And because Peepaw willy is nosy as fuck, he looks through it, and finds sketches of himself. Kinda a lot of sketches of him.

He’ll probably bring it up with his dear bunny, because they’re simply so cute to him. How sweet of them to doodle him💜. But personally i think this would be a disaster for three reasons.

1. Inflates his ego

2. Inflates his ego

3. Inflates his ego

Thoughts??

CHERRY ADLFKJAJKFF;A YOU CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THISSS /LH

warnings: age-gap relationship (reader 20 will almost 40), sensual touching, will likes to snoop lol, he's also obsessive, and VERY egotistical, sir kink, sexual themes, teasing, dom/sub undertones, allusions to corruption kink, not proofread IMSORRY

It depends on what you mean by a disaster tbh,, Like yes of course it's gonna inflate his ego to holy hell LMFAOO like just the thought of you sitting there on your own? Thinking of him so much that you draw him a bit of an embarrassing amount of times? Oh my god he is over the moon

You're not ever gonna share this information though. It's embarrassing, at least to you, so you'd never show him on your own. You'd show him some of the other things you draw, but never those ones. But you underestimate how nosy Will is. Especially when it comes to his bunny. He wants to know every single little thing about you, and he knows there's pages in that sketchbook he hasn't seen.

So when you leave your backpack unattended to whilst you're in the shower, of course he's gonna rummage through there. How could he not? When it's so easy? Besides, he's learning more about you. And, in turn, that'll help him take care of you better. Why wouldn't you like that?

He pours through your bag and digs out all your books and papers, reading over them all. He finds your handwriting cute, and some of your essays are actually interesting to him. He even finds some of the notes you pass back and forth to Michael during class.

He throws those away.

But oh what do we have here? Your sketchbook that you keep so heavily guarded. Why do you feel the need to hide things from him, little bun? Don't you trust him?

Shifting through the pages though, he quickly learns why you didn't share all the pages. Your art is somewhat stylized, but he can tell what those sketches are of.

Of him.

Pages and pages of him.

Oh bunny. Weren't you supposed to be focused on your lessons? Why are you doodling him in the margins of your notes then, hm? Did sir really occupy your mind that much? Oh sweetie, if you missed him that much, you were always welcome to come to his office. Just because you weren't in his bed didn't mean the two of you couldn't have some fun, not at all. Sir knows plenty of fun games he could show you there. You know you're always welcome, too.

Before he can delve too deep in his fantasies of you, you snatch the sketchbook out of his hands and slam it shut, your face beet-red. You had snuck up behind him after your shower, him too lost in his filthy thoughts to pay enough attention.

"What are you doing?" You ask him, feverishly with your sweet little eyes wide open.

He can't help but smirk as he steps closer to you, causing you to lean up against the kitchen counter with your sketchbook behind your back, "You know exactly what I'm doing, little bunny."

"I-It's not fair to look through my things like that... That's mean."

William chuckled as he placed each of his arms on the counter, pinning you in place as he leaned in close.

"Oh, sweet thing. You should know by now that sir doesn't ever play fair. Tell me," he said, only loud enough for you to hear, "When did you draw all those, hm?"

"I... " you trailed off, your gaze falling to the floor. William was quick to remedy this, using his large, strong hand to point your chin back up at him. His grey, lust-filled eyes staring into your timid ones.

"Answer me, bunny. Use your words like I taught you to."

Your face as getting hotter by the second, "It was... While I was bored doing homework..."

The brit tutted, "But that's when you should be paying attention to your studies, is it not?"

"Y-Yes... It is, sir."

William's other hand found its home on your waist, "But what were you doing instead, little one?"

He already knew the answer. He just wanted to hear you say it.

You bit the inside of your cheek, "I was... I was thinking about you. And that I missed you, sir..."

The older man let out a low groan from the back of his throat, a wash of pleasure rolling down his spine. Oh you just loved him that much, didn't you bunny? He just made you feel that good, didn't he? Where that's all you could ever think about? Only him? Precious rabbit. If only you knew just how much he thought of you.

William's thumb pressed against your bottom lip as he studied your face, the tightness in his pants becoming hard to ignore.

"Oh, bunny," he cooed, "whatever will I do with you? I'm not sure whether if its appropriate to punish you or reward you."

The brit's thumb slid across on your lips as you spoke.

"Th-that's for you to decide, sir."

His smirk depended at your words, the pressure in his pants too hard to ignore now.

Perhaps you could help with that, wouldn't you?

"I suppose it is, isn't it? Good bunny. On your knees, little one. Now."

[stressed-depressed-andobsessed]

So um...

DANGANRONPA NON-DESPAIR AU

Everything is normal except Hamilton is smushed in here somehow?

So basically the idea is that class 78 has to do something for an upcoming school festival right? Sayaka suggests doing a musical, Leon agrees because he thinks this is about to be a Shakespeare situation where he can kiss her as the lead role. Asuhina is excited because musicals include dancing and singing and having so so so so so much fun together! Yay! Sakura agrees after seeing how happy this makes Hina.

Toko says this is a dumb idea that'll just end up with all the work being dumped on her (since she's the Ultimate writer so she'll have experience with developing plot) and the brainless bimbo popstar (Since she's the Ultimate idol so she'll have experience with music). Byakuya agrees with her (which she goes crazy about for a quick second) since now everyone can sing and dance like Maizono-san wastes her time doing.

Kiyotaka interjects here and happily (and loudly) says that this is a great opportunity to learn a new skill. He says they should do it. Mondo cuts in hesitantly, not wanting to go against his bro, but also kinda seeing the Toko chick and the Douchebag's point. The can't just write a whole new musical and learn the lines and dance moves in a month and a half.

Hifumi suggests that they use a story that currently exists, he has many amazing doujins already made and ready for re-enacting. Celeste giggles quietly before building on his suggestion. Maybe they shouldn't use something from a book, but an actual musical so they didn't have to go through the hassle of converting the stories to song. Something historic and memorable.

Yasuhiro shivers, stammering through a plea that the musical isn't too horrific. Horror musicals carry bad vibes and usually means that all of the planning will go wrong. Junko takes that moment to sneak up behind him and shake him, giggling when he jumps out of his seat in surprise. She rests against the chair he was previously sitting in, adding that the musical can't be all rainbows and lollipops. There has to be some despair sadness in it to captivate the audience.

Chihiro, who had been tapping away at their tablet since the beginning of the class meeting, pipes up that they might have found a musical that satisfies everyone and has characters that could fit some of their classmates. They flip the tablet over, showcasing the golden background with a single black star and a silhouette pointing up to everyone else.

Everyone could've guessed that the idol immediately knew the musical despite the absence of a title. When she started beaming, not one person even bat an eye. What no one expected was the Ultimate Biker Gang leader jerking out of his chair, unintentionally slamming his hands on the table with eyes that shown almost as bright as Taka's when hes determined, and shouting the title loud enough to make the tablet holding Tech Wiz flinch.

Hamilton

It took some explaining from a hopeful Sayaka, proud Chihiro, and flustered Mondo, but everyone seemed satisfied (or just dismissive in Byakuya and Mukuro's case) about preforming Hamilton. It was historical, information, enjoyable, well-written, and easy enough to learn for a bunch of Ultimates!

Now they just needed to figure out who's taking what role.

[basedkikuenjoyer]

I wanted to take a brief pause after VII, just to talk about hallmarks of Dragon Quest as a series. Because we are leaving the era where these games are a driving force in developing the JRPG genre. Like...I know when I do the final ranking I'm going to put II much higher than most. Because I earnestly feel II is one of those very special games that developed so many things that became ubiquitous you take it for granted. This does not mean VIII, IX, and XI are bad by any stretch. I'd compare it to The Simpsons; your purpose has changed in a world full of imitators. What was revolutionary is not comforting and timeless.

Sadly this does mean we'll lose a few elements that didn't translate into the next generation. Eventually the designers behind the series started following norms competitors innovated. So before we go on to VIII and it's massive legacy, a few favorite hallmarks I didn't get to cover:

One of the most iconic features here since the first that's just as fun in XI. Metal Slimes. So many have tried this and none work as well as the original. Rare version of a weak enemy that nets massive experience. The catch? They're quick to flee and while they have only 3-4 HP their defense is maxed out. Enough you might do 1 damage on a hit. Then later games introduce different, stronger varieties. If you need to grind, the metal slime family always feels like a fun little mini-game to shorten it. And the developers are smart about where their hotspots are usually. If you see one in a new area, it's worth it to try and bag a few first pass.

Dungeon Philosophy. I hate this has fallen by the wayside in favor of following Final Fantasy's style. Early on, you had to approach dungeons like an old school D&D module. You're not doing it first try. It's all part of the fun baked into what happens on a loss. You just go back to the last King/Priest you saved at and lose half your money. The dungeons are designed around this, if it's a tower you can just hop off and go back to town. But you'll have to make a few runs at the labyrinth to figure everything out and learn the optimal path. Especially with...

Random encounters having some teeth to them. This has diminished over time but game design in general has gotten easier so I don't fault DQ for it. But in those early ones, yeah random encounters can be brutal. You need to consider spells like sleep or fog that'll spare you some hits cheaply. If you flee and fail you lose a turn like a lot of RPGs but not every monster will go so it's more viable sometimes. All together, simple but tight design. A dungeon in early Dragon Quest feels like a real challenge of balancing resources like MP. This is why I love III so much, the class system plus peak design philosophy makes everything work so well as a total package. Your party comp will determine which parts are hard or easy.

Decisions on equipment. This is subtle but very cool in practice. Unlike a lot of JRPGs, in these early Dragon Quest games you're going to have to grind a lot to get every new piece of equipment you can buy immediately. Which will feel even worse if something is rendered obsolete with a dungeon treasure. You're not expected to. When you first get to town you decide what felt like it needed to be bolstered the most, then go on and start taking on the dungeon expecting to need a few trips. When you're ready to leave, decide if you want to polish it off here or try your luck with a headstart on the next town. Later games have replaced this with a crafting element I like, so it's more of a lateral move.

[atmymercy]

Hi Tea!💗 how are you this lovely Friday? 🥰😘 I’d love to participate in the oracle giveaway please! 😊

Can I get like a fun, simple, “hint” message from my guides on what they want me to know about my FS? Thank you!

(By “hint” I mean like a clue or something I’ll have to decode but will be able to figure out, but I know deep down! I really hope this makes sense!😅 But if you want a diff question that’s okay too! Haha I just wanted to try something fun and different! They love to give me puzzles anyway lol🙄 but it’s fine cuz I lowkey like solving them! 😉 I am the main thinker after all🙂‍↕️)

For why I’m excited for fall, one of my class labs will be at my city’s zoo, and I’ll get to study some animals there! And I’ll also be helping take care of dogs and (a lotttt of) cats at the animal shelter where I volunteer more now, because I’m done training! I’ll also be volunteering to take care of a kitty at a pet store in my neighbourhood 🤗🥳💗

hello golden! my friday has been lovely so far! i even have a wedding to go to tomorrow! so i'm excited! how about your friday? and ofc, you get in here, honey! lol

omg! that's such a fucking exciting fall for you! and i'm so excited for you now! eee! i bet that'll be so much fun! and like hard work but like good hard work! eee! i'm so proud of you, honey! look at you! all that training paying off! omg! you'll have to tell me about the training you went through! i'm so curious now!

for you, i got the motherwort (reversed), cacao, & rue.

well first off we have to discuss how i immediately heard "oh, you want to thrown a lifeline, eh?" and it's like they all started giggling because it's like they do know how much you want signs and hints from them! it's too cute! like it's a fun game to them too! so your hint is your mother is probably not going like your fs at the beginning because of how protective they are over you! in a way, your mother is going to feel almost replaced by your fs so it's like the "moving along" of the path and it won't be easy on her. she is not going to feel 'honored' in the connection you choose for yourself. i think because your fs will protect you in ways your mother couldn't and it'll feel like a knock against her 'nurturing'. i'm not sure how this is a 'fun' hint in your spirit guide's books but this is what they brought up! lol have fun with your hint!

hope you enjoyed it! please give feedback or buy me a coffee/tip when you can! if you want to explore this further, please also consider a private read. also thank you for sharing with me!♡

love & light!

-tea

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[slytherinshua]

He's just precious. I definitely need to watch some of his live performances! I love it when artists really get into the music. Yechan is quite fun to watch, he seems to get quite into it. And Wonsang!! I love it when he is making faces while playing bass (generally I'm reacting the same way to his parts ahaha)

People are honestly so tough to deal with sometimes lol. I'd become a recluse if I could ahaha. I was talking about this with my brother once, when I finally have enough money to move out (not anytime soon 😭) I NEED to live with someone else. Partly for safety, but also because if I don't I'll become a hermit and never leave ahaha (also because I despise cooking and there is a very real possibility that I'll just starve instead lol). I'm glad you enjoy talking to me, I do too! (Feel free to message me anytime too!)

That's exciting, I hope it goes well!! Are you working towards grades or anything? Or do you just go along with music that you want to learn? Lessons on zoom seems interesting, online classes were hard enough sometimes so music lessons must have been something else. It is literally so hard to find motivation to practice! Like I want to be better, but I don't want to practice ahaha. Although I use to really have to practice because my mum taught me for a while so she'd definitely know if I didn't 😭

Oh wow you were so close to them!! I'd probably forget to how to pose as well, although I can't really pose in general without it being awkward lol. That's really cute that he was telling you what he was going to do

i remember my favourite hyunsang song (or maybe favourite song of all time in general) is snowflake and i watched the live of it and there's this one part where he looks back at his band/orchestra behind him and just smiles so widely before he goes up onto the lifted platform to do his guitar solo AND IDK IT MADE ME EMO CAUSE I NEVER SEE THAT BIG SMILE FROM HIM HES SO CUTE (here if u wanna see it btw)

yechan is always so mesmerizing to watch he gets SO into the music and playing you just can't take your eyes off of him!! wonsang always has fun with it and dances, smiles so wide, or focuses really hard when hes doing hard parts on the bass i just love him i could talk about him all day

yeah and its pretty bad i don't have like any interaction irl its all online and im kinda thankful for that because its a lot easier to deal with interactions online than in person its a lot less stressful 😭😭 but i never go outside i swear 😭😭 i feel like i would get so lonely if i was living alone even though i don't tend to think of myself as someone who needs in person social interaction... but i think it would build up and hit hard if i no longer had people around me to talk to even a little every day like my family.... hehe i will its so fun to talk to you ^^

rn i do plan to take another music exam probably grade 6 since that'll be the easiest to do. i need it for a high school credit so we'll see how it goes. i've done grade 3 and grade 5 in the past and got first class honors both times i think but it's still extremely stressful i think i cried both times lmao 😭😭 technically im more grade 8 or 9 piano but i don't want to do a higher level when i don't need to and haven't been playing for a year so we'll see how grade 6 stuff goes.... online lessons for piano were interesting for sure 😭😭 it was harder to do stuff like ear training and having the teacher not like exactly there with you made it harder to progress... i also forgot abt my piano lesson times a lot and would oversleep 💀 i really lost motivation to practice around the same time i was getting burned out because of school idk... back in 2020 i was so motivated with piano i would practice so much and that's actually why after i finished my grade 5 exam i progressed like 3 levels right after. i remember getting the grade 6-7 books but all the pieces were so easy in them all of sudden just cause of how much i practiced lol. but now i think i'm gonna struggle a bit to pick things back up before it gets easy again. damn having your mom as your teacher must've been hard but also nice in a way i assume?? i remember my mom used to bribe me with stuff to get me to practice, and one time i wanted to quit and she would not let me which was good cause i would've regretted it so hard but at the time i was not happy that i couldn't quit 😭😭

i remembered a pose for the second pic we took but for the first one my mind was just so blank, party cause i didn't know we were gonna do group photo immediately and also cause sangyeop was RIGHT there talking to ME. like he literally told me to sit i prob would've been fine if he hadn't spoken but like he did so ITS HIS FAULT FR 😭 i wanted to follow the pose he said he was gonna do and i did for the second pic since he said a heart pose but like damn my brain didn't want to understand what a flower pose was....

[dogsongy]

Good Boy~ (19)

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Chapter 19

Summary: Miyeon opens a dog cafe with her 5 dogs and two handsome young men happen to come in on opening day.

Pairing: Yunho x reader (named Miyeon) x Mingi

Genre: fluff for the most part (with a little bit of angst)

A quiet groan left Miyeon’s lips as the professor went over the syllabus of the class. Her brown haired friend turned to her while flipping his pen a couple of times. “This class is going to bore me to death, Yeosang.” She whispered towards him. In response he shrugged. “I dunno, it seems like it's going to be an easy A for me.” He leans back and smirks. “Maybe not too much for you.” Miyeon lightly elbows his side. “Yeah right I have trouble getting you to make a social media presence for us at the cafe.” 

“Well you said I can’t shitpost so it's hard to think of something.” 

“Saying that we will draw doge on peoples lattes is not a good business move”

“Whatever”

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That Friday Miyeon had her laptop set up by the cash register around 1:30 pm. The lunch rush was not as bad as it usually is, maybe because everyone was working hard towards the weekend. She had an online English class around this time and the 4 other employees seemed to be busy with other engagements such as clubs, sports and other classes. A familiar orange haired boy also introduced himself to be in her class so she was glad to see at least one familiar face. The cafe itself is mostly empty with a couple of customers drinking coffee and working on various projects on their devices. The dogs were littered around the cafe as well except Yuo who was lying in one of the dog beds behind the counter and near Miyeon. 

Luckily the rest of the day was also pretty quiet. Customers came in to order coffees and sat quietly using the cafe as a peaceful workplace where they could even pet a dog if they got too stressed. Three pm came around surprisingly fast and Miyeon closed the shop by herself after her class ended around 2:30. She then continued with her day by showering and leashing her dogs up for a nice walk. Things were going pretty smoothly as she made sure her dogs were well trained and in life when it came to walk etiquette. Eventually they circle back to head back towards the cafe. 

“Hey! funny seeing you here.” A voice calls out to Miyeon. She turns around to look at the voice and is greeted by none other than Yunho. 

“Yunho!” She grins at the tall man jogging over to approach her. He bends down towards all the excited dogs. Even Yuo seemed a little comfortable with his presence. “What are you doing around here?” Once the dogs calm down he stands up straight. 

“I was just taking a walk around the park when I noticed you walking the puppies so I had to at least say hi.” He lets out a small chuckle as they begin to walk and talk due to the restless dogs. “Ah well I'm a little hard to miss but I'm glad to see you.”

“Likewise!”

After a slight pause in the conversation Yunho takes a deep breath. “Hey, I have a question for you.” His whole bright demeanor seemed to change to a more shy tone.

“Sure, ask away.” She glanced up at his nervous figure. He was playing with his fingers one second then fixed his hair with them the next. 

“I was wondering if maybe you wanted to see that new spiderman movie sometime…. I mean it's ok if you don't want to-”

“That sounds like fun! When were you thinking?”

“How about tonight at 7:30? I checked the show and they're practically every hour.” The redhead smiles softly at her feeling slightly relieved.

“Yea I could do that!”

“Awesome I'll pick you up from the cafe if that's no problem for you.”

“Yeah that'll be great I’ll see you then Yunho!” Miyeon’s cheeks flushed as she waved to the guy that just asked her on a date.

[softsky-daily]

11/4/2023

I think they call this a mackerel sky. If I vaguely remember my middle school science class, my teacher used to say this would signify rain coming soon.

Positive thing: Language Table was fun, and I got caught up with my mom.

My brain feels like egg yolks. I always forget there are situations that still bring up a strong trauma response in me, even after all this time working on stuff like that. My mind just turns into jelly and I can feel myself glaze over and block out all my senses. The awareness helps but recovering still takes a while. I took it as easy as I could the rest of the day, so I think by tomorrow I'll be feeling better. Especially since I couldn't sleep in today either.

My mom called earlier too and was as chipper as ever. She's doing well at her new nursing program which is always good to hear. I think she's set to graduate and be home by summer next year, so that'll be exciting.

There's a manga I have my eyes on called ヨコハマ買い出し紀行 (Yokohama Shopping Log). I was trying to figure out where to buy it in Japanese and I think I found a potential place to buy it digitally but I got distracted before I could see if it would actually work. Buying things that are technically non-US-only can be so tricky sometimes. The main issue is if they take American credit cards or PayPal which is not usually the case. Anyway, the manga has a really cool watercolor-y looking style and the premise sounds interesting. It's about a peaceful post-apocalyptic Earth where the main character who's a robot runs a coffee shop. Apparently it takes a lot of painstaking detail into the lives of its characters and some chapters are dedicated to very small everyday things like preparing a cup of coffee. I always enjoy down-to-earth stories like that, that force you to slow down and pull your attention towards ordinary things in life. Hopefully when I try to figure it out tomorrow I can buy it with no issues.

[damoselcastel]

Fates Rev route, Kid Unit planning

aka Eugenics for Revelation Lunatic run

@kradeelav was talking about Rev run units, and it got me noodling on how one could potentially go about talking a lunatic run. In particular, I think the mechanical bonuses brought from support ranks could help with bad statlines. But these particular posts will have to do with planning out kid units for this specific route and difficulty.

Part 1: Concentrated Royalty

Because you've got a limited deployment number, and you want to keep using their parents. So we'll plan to 'keep it in the family' for getting Kid Units, and try to get some ideal outcomes therein.

Corrin/Azura

Because what is Revelation without surprise kissing cousins, and it lets Shigure be a dragon. This is a easy option because of how early a player can make it happen, though arguably Kana and Shigure may be more valuable with different mothers/fathers (that'll be for some other planner to explore)

Xander/Hinoka

Although a bit mismatched on stat focuses will result in a decent Siegbert who can be made better with the right class. Out of the resulting kids, Sieg is the best option to backpack especially on a female character.

Ryouma/Elise

Went with this as Basara gives Shiro a native magic class outlet (and we know Ryouma has a thing for blondes). Although if you REALLY want to magically focus this boy, create a Rhajat to S rank him and partner seal him to Onmyoji for those highest magic caps.

Leo/Sakura

THE royal magic dad/magic mom ideal, self contained in that Sakura passes Onmyoji on to Forrest for best magic caps. For fun A+ Shigure and S rank Nina to cover Staff class options, but those classes are non-ideal to be clear.

Takumi/Camilla

Camilla is AMAZING and so is any kid she mothers, but Kiragi can concentrate her physical bulk just as well as his cousin. For fun, S rank the boy to Soliel to give him access to Bow Knight for him to make mom proud in a Nohrian Bow class (nuking shurikens is also a big bonus).

It's also recommended you have all the royal cousins A+ each other for battle bonus stats, although going with Siegbert/f!Kana S rank takes best advantage of Seig's personal skill. Between that and their married parents, you'll have bonus stats all over the place.

in part 2, Maximum Dragon Vein, we explore completely different Kid Unit options

[mouthfulloftoothpasterry]

The granny squares are pretty easy, they're pretty easy stitches it's just a lot of steps but I watched the tutorial for it by play hooky with me on YouTube of course. I finished my first last night and it came out kinda huge. But the messenger bag sounds so cute!

And yeah I'm just glad the professors I'm gonna have seem cool, I think that'll make it easier. Gary's also working on his general ed and we wanted to try and take a class together and he was thinking astronomy cause one of his friends took it and supposedly it was easy but when I looked at the professors, they didn't have great reviews 😭😭

Another thing is I've kinda had baby fever the past few nights and I was telling Gary about it and I'm so glad he really likes talking about it so I don't feel crazy. But ugh sometimes baby fever is just thinking about doing mundane things and it's still so cute to think of

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I’ll have to learn how to make those granny squares!!

But omg not baby fever again 😭😭 girl you must be ovulating or smth!! 😭 hopefully you guys can find a class that doesn’t have a shitty professor though!! Astronomy does sound fun so it’s sad that the professor had bad reviews

[coristophanes]

Well this post certainly isn't going to go in the direction I had thought my first post would go when I made this account a few days ago but I told myself that this account for just kinda posting whatever comes to mind; Like a journal of sorts.

I doubt anyone will end up reading this but if you do, I do know that this could be posted privately, but my brain tells me that if it's private there's no point in writing it at all when I could just keep it in. Also I don't know how tumblr is supposed to work but I don't really care. Wow this mobile formatting bothers me. I also don't think I used the semicolon right but I care even less about that.

I'm gonna be talking about mental health and suicide so trigger warnings or whatever.

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So uh how to start. In my experience, whenever people talk about suicide or whenever it's protrayed in media, it's always a lingering thing, you know? It's always talked about like this monster looming over a person and all it takes is one particularly bad day for it to get close enough to get you. It builds and it lingers and it just always hurts. For so many that's just how it is I'm sure.

I've had my share of suicidal thoughts, they've never gone further than that but they happen. But I feel like my experience is different than the lingering monster. At least I think it is but I'm not really sure, which is part of why I feel the need to write it out. My suicidal thoughts aren't lingering, they're reactive. They happen in response to things that upset me, even just minorly.

I struggle greatly with self worth. Its not that I feel inadequate but more that I feel purposeless? I guess? I'm capable of so much, I know that I am, but I'm unable to use that. I've tried furthering my education, developing a career, going to the gym, taking care of myself better. I can never manage. It starts out strong but lose focus. School in particular was tough because the littlest fuck ups snowball. All it took was a single missed assignment to cause a domino effect leading to me literally missing 80% of all my classes and classwork.

I don't really know where I'm going with this but I think I got off topic. The littlest mistake, embarrassment, bad memory, anything, is enough to pop into my head the idea of "it would be so easy to just do ___ and have it all be over with." And then it's gone. Either I push it out or or it just leaves and I don't think about it until the next time. The thing that spurred all this on in particular is that I've spent too much money recently. Was laying in bed, thought about my spending and then just "this sucks, I suppose I could just end it." Only reason I'm thinking about it now is because I've chosen to think about it because you know... Probably not a healthy mindset to have.

But when I got to writing the first part of this post I started thinking "is this really different from the looming monster metaphor" (not my best work). Sure it's not inherently the direct nono thoughts always looming over me, but those triggering thoughts absolutely are. I find myself always needing some kind of distraction lest the thoughts creep in. I watch so much Netflix and YouTube and tiktok, etc, just to keep the thoughts from rearing their ugly lil heads. Even as we speak, or I guess as I write, I'm rewatching suits on Netflix in a little popout window on my phone (if your curious where I am, Mike just got arrested for being a fraud). Notably, I don't typically listen to music because I'm still able to empty my head when I listen to music, leaving it open for the thoughts I don't wanna deal with.

Honestly I don't know where to go with all this at this point. I'm kinda out of thoughts to write down. Uhh might see Oppenheimer next week, that'll be fun. Maybe barbie too, idk about that one though, kinda harkens back to the spending problem.

Harkens? Did I use that right? I'm gonna assume I did. I probably didn't but who cares, whats gonna happen? The nonexistent reader gonna make imaginary funny of me for harkening wrong? I think not.

This was never the intent of this account. I thought I was gonna be funny and just kinda post random 'quirky' thoughts but uhhh I do think there's gonna be more of these in the future because it felt good to get this off my chest.

Future Topics you can look forward to [or dread]:

- My emotions [or lack thereof]

- My relationship and why I think it's struggling [spoiler alert: I might be aro but I have no idea]

- Why I randomly changed from round to square brackets [I didn't feel like fixing them once I noticed]

- quirky silly goofy Minecraft Roleplay Server trauma (trauma might be a little strong but the hyperbole makes it funny.)

- Cheese probably. Idk why or when but cheese is important to me and I'm gonna discuss it eventually.

- the fact I think I have ADHD or some other neurodivegency (but you'll never catch me telling someone because I despise self diagnosis)

- hyperfixation of the week

- the fact that I accidentally went back to round brackets

- the fact that this list is way too long now but I don't really care to delete any of them but like whatever? Nobody is reading this. Probably. Like I said idk how tumblr works.

Uhhh anyway bye.

Sike I realized my about me section isn't actually made yet so breif background info I should probably put at the top but uhh fuck you.

Cori, 22, Agender(ish), Use any pronouns but if you ask me which ones I use I'll tell you they/them otherwise you'll end up using exclusively he/him and I don't want that because that is incorrect, sorry. Canadian... If that's relevant. I like purple. Big fan of Satyrs. Love D&D. Not straight but don't ask me what I am or I might have to kill you (I don't know). Fun fact: approximately 65% of the crushes I had while in pre-post-secondary school ended up realizing they're actually various flavours of transmasc (one's actually Triple A but don't worry about it).

None of this is relevant, but my episode of suits ended so I'm just kinda rambling until I can find a good point to stop typing, otherwise return of the bad thoughts. I hope tumblr posts don't have a word limit (looking at you twitter [or should I say 'X'] {I shouldn't say X, X is stupid})

Wait this is already and incoherent disaster I can just stop now.

K byeeeeeee

[derealfeelz]

Lightroom/Digital Marketing (Kodoku's Lilacs, The Life of a Flowstar, No. 8)

I believe I may have stated before that I like photography and taking pictures with my Canon camera. Before I start part of this post, this is not some sponsor I'm being paid for lol (I wish tho). It's basically of an app that I recently got and had fun using. If you know of Adobe, you most likely know of their flash player (RIP), but they got other stuff as programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, and the one I use, Lightroom!

Lightroom is a program where you can edit on how you feel on a picture, not like Photoshop tho. Think of the photo editing software that you have on your phone in the photo gallery. It's basically that, but it has more stuff and can keep a high resolution photo, high resolution. Best part is that it's free on mobile (Idk about PC tho) and it's very easy to use!

Now that I'm done writing about what the app is about when I can write it on the description on Play Store (If the owners of that put the above paragraph on their description for Lightroom, they at least better hire me lol), I'll talk about where I learned it at, a class called Digital Marketing, aka my favorite class. The first three semesters were just about businesses and how to operate them, Photoshop, that kind of stuff. The semester I'll talk about is my favorite semester of the class and it revolves around photography. What's cool is that the school let me bring my camera, so I didn't have to use others and get confused, there was other brands like Sony there.

The most I've learned from the class are adjusting the settings on your camera in manual mode, knowing how to use Lightroom, and my most favorite, light painting. If you don't know what light painting is: Basically you're in the dark, someone has a glowstick that they use to run around with for the picture (With the light present), and you adjust your camera settings so it doesn't catch anything beyond the dark and glowstick, and the picture takes seconds to take, like 6 seconds. You also got to stay still if you want to be in it, otherwise the picture will look like a mess. Do it right, and the picture can look pretty cool! I have a couple of pictures of me taken with light painting, one of them was me "hitting the griddy" lol, it was fun though, I already miss it.

We also went outside and took pictures of plants and other stuff whilst adjusting our settings, figuring out what makes the picture look good. If the colors or brightness doesn't look like what we want, we use the program I mentioned earlier, Lightroom. Once we did all of that, we put them in a Google slides and then submitted them into Google Classroom (There were different sessions for seperate assignments, like light painting). Luckily, we had semester tests and I somehow missed too many days for that class (Fuck AMI lol), and it was what I basically explained and it was easy! I hope I can get that class again next year, or at least that part of the class, it's really the only class that can benefit me on the future.

Idk if I'll share pictures of me in the future, that'll depend on whether I get comfortable with the app. I hope that maybe I got you interested in photography, as it's an easy thing to do, and it could make alot of money, although the stuff required is expensive lol. I have nothing else to say, and I hope yall have a goodnight!

Sincerely, Kodoku.

[uozlulu]

15-20 for the fic writing meme

Thanks for the questions, anon <3!

15. What’s your favorite AU that you’ve written?

I have two.

I wrote a Captain America (MCU) fic called If No One Else Will where Steve joins the Monuments Men in order to do something to help on the European front. Bucky tags along and the fic picks up when Hydra kidnaps Bucky and then Steve has to save the day as a tiny guy without any super serum. It's one of my favorites because I got to put the fact I grew up learning about World War II to good use and it was fun to come up with stuff like giving Steve his shield without him being a beefcake. I also learned a lot about the state of stuff like asthma in the 1940's when it was considered psycho-somatic.

I wrote a self-indulgent Black Clover/Boruto crossover when the Black Clover movie was first announced. I called it The Land Across the Sea. I started with the concept of Yami visiting his homeland as a potential movie plot, got the final scene pretty much in full immediately, and then chose to make it a Boruto crossover so Naruto and Yami could be somewhat friends from childhood. It was an easy write and I enjoy it. It's a little weak in places but it was fun to imagine how it might go and do some fun things like promoting Noelle and Asta to vice captain for different squads.

16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?

I want to write a BnHA/MHA AU in which Class A and Aizawa have to go back in time to Yagi's high school days to save him from a villain kind of a la Tenchi in Love. I've written quite a bit of it but when I got to Midoriya and Nana interacting in the past it got a bit difficult so I set it aside and haven't picked it back up yet. Also we now kind of know of Tohru's quirk works and this particular AU hinged on her having a different quirk, but that'll just make it even more AU if I ever write it.

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

The most recent one in this vein I wrote was an Interview with the Vampire (AMC) Armand/Louis/Daniel fic The Mortal and the Vampires based loosely on a dark retelling of the fairytale Beauty and the Beast in which potentially canonical events lead to an eventual confrontation between the polycule and one of the penthouse servants who has come to realize they'll never be offered immortality. It was based on a conversation I'd had with another fic author about how Armand having to let Daniel go kind of reminded me of how the Beast has to let Beauty go in the story.

Right now I don't have any highly specific AUs like that rattling through my head. If they're that specific and clear to me, I always end up writing them. Another recent-ish in this vein was my Black Clover AU And There Was Still Hope that explored some manga spoilers about Yuno in a universe in which he didn't receive the Wind grimoire.

18. If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it involve?

I'm not sure if I have any fics right now that I've got any sequel ideas for. I haven't had any sequel requests either, so I'm not sure.

19. If you wrote a spin-off of [insert fic], what would it involve?

I'm not sure if I'd call it a "spin off," but I do kind of want to take my IwtV (AMC) fic Dream a Memory of Me and retool it and give it a better ending. I don't think I'll ever get around to it, but the more I learn and remember of Vampire Chronicles, the more that first fic of mine makes me cringe a bit. That said, it's not terrible, just could be better.

20. If you wrote a prequel to [insert fic], what would it involve?

I'm not really sure because I don't really have any fics I've got prequel ideas for or requests for.

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Send me some numbers to my ask box and I'll answer questions about fics

[niallsblckgirlfriend]

I need a language for school,,, should I do Arabic or German??

[barbiewritesstuff]

My Little Girl

 

-- Something new, I hope you like it :) --

 

“Gotta hold on easy as I let you go

Gonna tell how much I love you

Though you think you already know”

 

“Mav, I’m pregnant”

That’s all Charley had said on the phone call.

    And to be honest, that’s all she had to say to get him to speed down to where she lived. He had attended all scans, all appointments, been there for every babygrow bought, attended every parenting class and read every baby book.

He had nearly fainted when the doctor said it was a girl. 

The first girl in five generations of Mitchells. 

 

 

“I remember I thought you looked like an angel

Wrapped in pink, so soft and warm

You've had me wrapped around your finger

Since the day you were born”

 

He had nearly fainted twice during your birth, once when Charley went into labour and when they put you in his arms. It was a good thing he had been sitting next to Carol, her expert eyes spotting the first signs of his predicament and scooping you out of his embrace. 

Mav had needed to spend less than ten minutes in your presence to know you had him wrapped around your finger. 

You didn’t coo, you didn’t smile, you just looked and that was enough

 

“You're beautiful, baby, from the outside in

Chase your dreams, but always know the road

That'll lead you home again

Go on, take on this whole world

But to me you know you'll always be

My little girl”

 

Then, when Charley left and he only had weekends with you he tried to cram as much fun and love in the 48 hours the courts had granted him. He saw you grow, Saturday by Saturday and Sunday by Sunday, from a quiet little baby to a headstrong little girl. 

And he heard you grow  weekday night phone call by weekday night phone call from young girl to young lady, with a head full of dreams and big plans for the future. 

 

 

“When you were in trouble, that crooked little smile

Could melt my heart of stone

Now look at you, I've turned around

And you've almost grown”

 

When you went off to college, Mav swore it was worse than his first heartbreak. He cried for the first time since your birth and Carole had had to hold him. She had gone through the same thing with Bradley a few years ago and he could feel her gently shaking, trying to hold in her laughter. 

When the tears finally stopped the heartache didn’t dull. Mav knew you were just having fun, and he had once berated his mother for doing what he did now, but he couldn’t deny waiting by the phone hoping you would call. 

“You’re worse than Goose was” Carol had laughed “Nick waited by the phone for the whole night when Brad went to his first sleepover”

 

 

“Sometimes you're asleep, I whisper, I love you

In the moonlight at your door

As I walk away, I hear you say

Daddy, love you more”

 

For your birthday each year he’d take you for dinner and a sunset. You’d open your presents in the car (books, always books. You got it from your mother’s side, the Mitchells could never sit still long enough) and point out constellations over some terrible supermarket chocolate cake that you insisted on buying every time regardless of how many times Mav tried to tell you he was willing to buy you a nice one. 

And the one year you were gone for your birthday, Pete had sat underneath the night sky by himself hoping you could feel how much he missed you and hear the I love Yous he was whispering to the stars.

 

 

“You're beautiful, baby, from the outside in

Chase your dreams, but always know the road

That'll lead you home again

Go on, take on this whole world

But to me you know you'll always be

My little girl”

 

Pete had never been prouder when you graduated.

Although they had stopped getting along a long time ago, he gripped Charley’s hand hard during your Valedictorian speech. He cried right through it, and through dinner too and even though Carol was no longer there to cheer you on in life, he had been so happy when you had kept her a seat.

 

“Someday, some boy will come and ask me for your hand

But I won't say yes to him unless I know

He's the half that makes you whole

He has a poet's soul

And the heart of a man's man”

I know he'll say that he's in love

But between you and me

He won't be good enough”

 

You introduced him to your boyfriends and Mav had to bite his tongue. None of them were good enough for someone like you. Someone so kind and gentle, someone so precious to him. 

Some of them asked if they could marry you but he had refused. You had argued and fought but fate had proved him right. 

And then Rooster asked and it felt like the clouds parted after a heavy storm. 

The Bradshaw Mitchell squad reunited again.

 

 

"You're beautiful, baby, from the outside in (outside in)

Chase your dreams, but always know the road

That'll lead you home again

Go on, take on this whole world

But to me you know you'll always be

My little girl”

Maverick stood proudly by your side, marching down the aisle in your gorgeous wedding dress to the melody of an old Sinatra song. You held your head high but beneath the veil, tears glistened on your cheeks. Rooster was crying at the sight of you and Maverick had never been happier to hear you say I do.

[violetvulpini]

Hey! What was it like to study animation? What’s it like to be an illustrator? (Very vague questions (TM) I apologise)

Also tmnt 2003 is my fav I would love to see anything you make of the green bois

No need to apologize, they're good questions! My animation classes were very sink-or-swim, we were given an assignment and then just set loose to figure it out lol. I did not have a great sleep schedule during college cuz I would just be working on that stuff 24/7. I love animating! I just hate adobe, those programs take every opportunity to screw with you. I recently got CSP Pro so hopefully that'll make things a bit smoother, though!!

As for being an illustrator, right now I work on commissions and contracts, which means half of my job is just self-promo and looking for the next opening. I kinda suck at that, so I'm still working on it lol, but the actual drawing part is radical! For me, drawing is like one of the few things I can multitask on, so it's pretty easy to actually get the work itself done, when I can land a client. And it's fun! That said, I'm aiming for a career as a storyboarder, so fingers crossed on that one!

2003 is SO good, excellent taste. Here are some Raphs n Dons from when I finally got a bit of a handle on the art style!

One HC I'm very attached to is that Raph got a crack in his shell from the final showdown with Ch'rell, so I always draw him with a prosthetic! Maybe I'll color that little ref sometime, who knows