#other dog here is mae :)

[otherkin-confessional]

The literal best thing for species dysphoria for me was this cheap gas station beef jerky. I think the gas station owner dried it himself because it was incredibly tough and dry, most folks don't touch it. Thankfully for me however it's like a human safe version of a rawhide for dogs. It's strangely affirming to gnaw on some tough meat stick with all my might for nearly an hour.

Like chewy stim toys just never worked for me since I would tear them up and end up feeling super tempted to eat the plastic (dumb dog moment) and squeaky toys were too loud, but those beef jerky sticks are perfect. They're edible AND quiet

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[p0lyn3sian]

Slashers with a chef reader? Maybe they'll teach the slashers how to cook or bake? :)

OMGGG YESSS!!!

Slashers: Carrie, Chucky (Charles) & Tiffany, Sinclair Brothers, Thomas & Bubba, Norman, Billy & Stu, Billy Lenz & Brahms, The lost boys, Jason, and Michael!!!

Teaching slashers how to cook/bake!

Carrie:

Carrie's favorite thing to do is baking! For cooking not a lot actually, because she accidentally burnt the food she was making, almost cutting her fingers off for making the vegetables or meat, and a lot of messes everywhere!

But that's okay! After Carrie tells you why she doesn't love to cook as much as baking, you wanted to try and help her! So, first off you showed her how to cut properly, what temperature for certain food when it's ready, etc!

After a few days or so, she'll be like a cook in no time! She made Chicken Alfredo, Fried Rice, etc.. She's so happy that you taught her how to cook, and whenever you come to her house, she'll have some dishes for you to try! You'll also be giving her recipes that are easy for her to make, until she gets used to all the cooking! She is so grateful for you showing how to cook!!

Chucky (Charles) & Tiffany:

Chucky isn't really a cook or a baker, he just orders food... But for Tiffany she can cook and bake, but she thinks that some of her stuff is mostly bad.. That's why you are there at their house, showing how to cook and bake!

Tiffany is a fast learner doing things after what you do, but for Chucky he's just a slow learner (a really slow one). Tiffany hits Chucky with the wooden spoon on the head, telling him to do it or else.. So he had to, because he does not want to make his wife mad.

After teaching both of them cooking and baking for a few days, they've invited you to come again! They've made so much food, and a lot of sweets too! Tiffany gave you a big hug for helping her and Chucky learn to cook and bake more! Chucky just said thanks, but that's okay! You are so glad that these two wanted your help, and they're glad that you helped them too!

Sinclair brothers (Bo, Vincent, & Lester)

All three of them can't cook or bake.. So you taught them how to, of course! Bo doesn't want to bake, because he thinks it's only for the women so you had to throw a metal cooking spoon at him for that.. Vincent wants to do both and Lester just wants to do what you do!

So the first thing you did was baking! There were a few mistakes here and there for baking, like how Lester accidentally mixed some of the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients. After telling them why you don't mix dry ingredients with the wet ingredients, you guys then started baking different sweets! After baking all those sweets, you then moved into cooking, and again there were mistakes, so you had to teach them again.

After all the cooking and baking, there was a lot of food, and they hadn't been fed this well in a lot of years! They all said thanks and we're really happy that you wanted to help them cook and bake! Luckily while going to the store you remember about jonesy's food, so she ate too!

For the dog, people call the dog 'jonesy', and I think most of them said she's a female dog, unless I'm really wrong about the name and the gender, so please tell me if i made a mistake!

Thomas & Bubba:

These two wanted to learn how to bake, since their family are cooks but not much of bakers, except for Luda Mae! So you went to the grocery store that was a few miles down from their hometown, and got all the baking stuff they needed, even with the cooking since Drayton needed some seasonings and other stuff..

Once you arrive at home, you then start unpacking a lot of foods from the plastic bags! You told Mama (Luda) that you'll be coming back with a lot of stuff, and she was really confused as to why there's more baking instead of cooking ingredients. You then told her it was for Thomas and Bubba, that those two wanted to learn how to bake, and Mama wanted to help too since her boys wanted to learn! (She's so proud of them!!)

You and Mama taught them what to put in certain stuff, dry ingredients with dry ingredients and wet ingredients with wet ingredients, etc! Mama wanted pie for dessert, so you all made 4 big patches of apple pie! Making the pie was really fun with these two and especially funny, Thomas always tilted his head by the way he's confused with the stuff, and for Bubba he always shows you and Mama if he did the stuff right every few seconds or so. After all your hard work, you all sat down and ate drayton's famous roast dinner (ahem definitely not made from human meat 🌚, jkjk you already been eating human meat staying with these people). Then, you all ate the apple pie, and it was so good that Hoyt said who made these, and you answered it was Thomas and Bubba. Hoyt did a surprised face that these two baked the apple pie?? Which laughter then erupted around the table, just laughter and chattering filling the air of the Hewitt's home..

Norman:

Norman wanted to learn baking and cooking, just to help around your shared home! You asked him what he wanted to do first, and he wanted to do cooking first! Teaching him what to do with the cooking, you guys decided to do frying food! There were some hisses and ouches heard from Norman, but nothing too serious since he's getting used to the oil popping everywhere and going onto his skin.

So after all that frying, you guys went onto baking! Baking was really fun and also messy with Norman! You guys decided to make a chocolate cake for dessert after all your hard work! While the chocolate cake is being baked in the oven, you decide to turn up the radio to listen to some tunes. One of those tunes was playing Norman's favorite song, and he held out his hand for you to take, and so you did. Slow dancing to Norman's favorite tune for a little bit, until the cake was done!

Now dinner was set with all the frying foods you've done and the chocolate cake! Everything was beautiful to Norman, even with you he thought it was even more perfect than before! Both of you sat down from across from each other, and luckily you brought wine for this special occasion! And you popped open the cork and started pouring the wind into both your glasses. Just a nice romantic dinner with Norman..!

Billy & Stu:

These two mostly order out, which causes all their money to disappear almost everyday! You then talked to them about cooking and baking! Stu wanted to bake, since he loves sweets and for Billy he just doesn't want to do anything.. So you put Billy as the cook, he complained about it, but you ignored him for that.

Stu checked if all the stuff was measured correctly and ready to be mixed, and surprisingly everything he did was correct! He wanted to make brownies, and for Billy he needed lots of help from you! You then asked him what he would want for dinner tonight, and he looked through the recipe book that you bought, and pointed at Alfredo. You then told him to get out what the recipe book says and do it, and he got everything out. You then helped him with the cooking too, so that he doesn't burn down the Alfredo.

After everything was ready, Billy & Stu were ready to eat! You all sat down and started eating, Billy's Alfredo tasted really good which brought Stu almost eating the whole pot! And that's okay, you and Billy were full anyways, and after that Stu took out the brownies from the oven and gathered plates and cups for the milk. Stu then gave you and Billy brownies and a cup full of milk, and then started eating! Stu decided to make jokes and just laughter filling the air..

Billy Lenz & Brahms:

(decided to put these two together, since they're like a couple, attic rat and wall rat, wait whattt who said that??)

These two are like the biggest babies, whining for you to make food and sweets for them. You didn't have the energy to deal with all their baby attitudes, and grabbed both of them by the hands and dragged them downstairs to the kitchen. You then told them that they had to learn how to cook or bake.. Both of them looked at you and then at each other, and shook their heads telling you that they don't want to.. You forced them to.

They kinda hate for you to force both of them to help you with the cooking and baking. You had to pick baking, because it was kinda the easier one to do for both of them. You got the ingredients to make sour dough bread, and told them which ingredients need to be together or not together. Once those two were done, brahms put the sour dough bread into the oven.

Then those two wanted to cuddle right now, but you told them they had to wait until the bread is done. Then, the bread was done, it smelled heavenly for Billy and Brahms, and then you got the bread knife and started slicing the bread! (You didn't trust those two since they probably do something stupid with the bread knife 💀.) You gave each of them four slices of the sour dough bread, you walked to your chair and sat down and noticed that Billy and Brahms ate the four of their slices in just 5 seconds. They then dragged you upstairs after you ate your pieces of bread, just to cuddle with them..

The Lost Boys (David, Dwayne, Paul, & Marko):

You came up to your vampires and asked all of them if they wanted to learn cooking and/or baking! All of them chose baking since they really loved sweets, and they all wanted to try and make Twinkies! Luckily they had a box of Twinkies in their cave, and you grabbed the box from their secret hiding spot and looked at what you need for the ingredients.

Since they don't have a kitchen in their cave, you invited them to your house, but under one condition is that they all don't make a huge mess.. You all then arrived at your house and you gave all of your boys jobs just to make Twinkies. Paul and Dwayne are going to mix the ingredients and David and Marko are going to mold it into a Twinkie! (Or whichever shape they want!)

After making the Twinkies, you all then went to your couch and turned on a movie to watch as time passed by for the Twinkies to be done in the oven. Eventually it was done, and you then grabbed the pan from the oven using your kitchen glove and placed it onto the stove. You started counting how much there is for everyone and started splitting it up fairly. These vampires loved how it turned out, kinda crispy and warm after it was out of the oven! You all then bring your Twinkies and go over the couch and sit, you then unpaused the movie you all have been watching. Just snuggles and cuddles from your boys while watching a movie..

I literally don't know how to make Twinkies, so this was probably not really accurate at all..!

Jason Voorhees:

Jason asked you about teaching him about cooking and baking because he feels bad for you doing all the cooking! You were so glad he wanted you to teach him how to cook and bake, you then asked him what he wanted to cook and bake! Jason wanted to cook spaghetti with meatballs, and for dessert strawberry pie, because it reminds him of his mother's baking!

Luckily you two had enough ingredients to make spaghetti and strawberry pie! Jason wanted to do baking first, because his mother tells him that it takes longer than cooked foods! So you and Jason then worked on making strawberry pie, mixing in ingredients and you then put the pie into the oven. You and Jason then worked on making spaghetti with meatballs!

While the spaghetti and meatballs are cooking, the pie was done! Jason grabbed it out of the oven and placed it on top of the dish cloth, to let it cool down a little. Now the food was done, so you grabbed bowls and plates with forks and set them on the table, and Jason grabbed the food and the pie. You had some strawberries that were in the fridge and placed them on the pie, and sat down with Jason. Jason then took off his mask, and smiled at you, happy that he made food with you!

Michael:

You had to make Michael look at how you cook, baking is off the list because you have a feeling that he'll be eating the whole bag of sugar.. Michael didn't want to watch how you cook, he wanted to go out there and kill his victims! You told Michael that he'll have to learn to cook, because some days at your job they'll probably want you to work overtime. So, you decided to make the easiest one for him. Which is hotdogs..

You grabbed the pot from underneath the cupboards and poured in water from the sink and placed it on top of the boiling stove. You then grabbed sausages out of your fridge and plopped 6 sausages. You then explained to him that it'll only take about 4 to 6 minutes, since you already turned on the stove to the boiling point.

After the sausages were done, you then asked Michael to get the bread that was in the storage and put it on the table. And so he did, you then walked to the table and placed a dish cloth on the table, just to not burn the table. Since Michael is a picky eater, you got ketchup for him and other sauces that you like to put on your hotdogs. You then told him to grab a fork and stab at the sausage and place it on the bread. He did what you said, and you then told him to drizzle the ketchup in a straight line or in a squiggly line, and he drizzled into a squiggly line and he took off his mask and ate the hotdog. You then did the same to your hotdog and bit into it too, you asked Michael if he wanted to do this again. Michael didn't move a little, until he looked at you and nodded his head..!

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Sindarin words for fanfic writers

I used parf edhellen and a few other websites all listed at the bottom!

Includes: greetings & goodbyes/ questions/ commands/ terms of endermeant/ compliments/ insults/ family titles/ clothing/ body parts/ years & months/ numbers

Greetings/ goodbyes

Well met - Mae Govannan

Greetings - suilaid

My heart sings to see you. - Guren linna chen cened.

My pleasure to meet you. - Glassen na chen govaded.

Hail - Ai

Welcome - Nathla/Nathlo

A star shines upon/on the hour of our meeting - Êl síla erin lû e-govaned vîn

You are welcome here - Gi nathlam hí

Farewell. - Navaer.

I hope you have a good journey. - Harthon gerich lend vaer.

I hope useful winds will speed you on. – Harthon huil vaer chen horthatha.

Fair winds! - Suil vain!

I hope you will have kind seas. - Harthon gerithach aeair vilui.

I hope you will have a good hunt. - Harthon gerich rui vaer.

I hope the leaves of your tree of life will not wither. - Harthon i laiss en-Galadh e-Guil chîn ú-belithar.

I hope you will have green paths and a breeze behind your body. - Harthon gerithach raid gelin ar chwest adel thraw chîn.

I hope you will have paths green and golden. - Harthon gerithach raid gelin ar velthin.

Nothing will stop the weeping of my heart until our reunion. - Unad nuithatha i nîr e-guren nalú aderthad vîn.

I hope you will have sweet waters and joyous laughter until our next meeting. - Harthon gerithach nîn velui ar lalaith veren na-lû govaded vîn.

I hope you will have sweet dreams tonight. - Harthon gerithach elei velui nef fuin hen.

I hope to see you there. - Ennas harthon chen cened.

I hope to see you at this time. - Harthon chen cened na lû hen.

Questions

Do you speak elvish? - Pedig/Pedil edhellen?

Where are we? - Mi van me?

What are you doing? - Man ceril?

What did you do? - Man agorel?

When? - Na van?

Which one? - Man pen?

With what? - A van?

Who is leading? - Man tôg

Why? - Am man?

Why? (For what purpose?) - Am man theled?

Why not? - Avo garo am man theled?

Commands

Be gone - Ego

Run - nor-

Halt - Daro

Let’s go - Gwaem

Come near the fire - Tolo anin naur

Come with me - Tolo ar nin

Come, join us - Tolo, govano ven

Release me - Leithio nin

Save me - Edraith enni

Don’t be afraid - Av-'osto

Terms of endermeant

My sweet heart - Guren vell

My love - Meleth nîn, mil nîn, melethen, or milen.

My friend - Mellon nîn or Mellonen

My friends - Mellyn nîn or Mellynen

My Lord - Brannon nîn or Brannonen

My Lady - Brennil nîn or Brennilen

Foe of my foe - Coth o chothen

Friend of my friend - Mellon o mellonen

Little father (dwarf) - Adar dithen

Bearded one (dwarf) - masc. Fangon fem. Fangil

Mighty one - masc. Belegon fem. Belegil

Valiant one - masc. Gornon fem. Gornil

Ancient one - masc. Iauron fem. Iauril

Wise one - masc. Saelon fem. Saelil

Loyal one - masc. Sadron fem. Sadril

My champion - masc. Thalion nîn or Thalionen fem. Thaliel nîn or Thalielen

My beloved - masc. Melethron nîn or Melethronen fem. Melethril nîn or Melethrilen

Love of my life - Meleth e-Guilen

Lovely one - masc. Miluir fem. Miluis

Compliments (literal translations)

It is my joy to see you. - Glassen na chen cenin.

You did well. - Mae carnen

You have a heart like a lion. - Gerich ‘ûr sui raw.

You are a mighty and brave warrior. - Ech maethor veleg ar gornen. (Gornen constructed from the noun gorn “valour”)

You are an archer skilled and sharp-eyed. - Ech pengor vaen ar maecheneb. (Pengor in feminine form is Pengel)

You are as beautiful as a rainbow. - Ech vain sui ninniach.

Your radiance shines like the moon. - ‘Law chîn síla sui Ithil.

Your love glitters in your eyes. - Veleth chîn thilia mi chinech.

Your radiant eyes conquered my heart. - Chin gelair chîn orthernir guren.

Your beauty took my breath away. - Thîr vain chîn darn thulen.

Insults

Your head is empty. - Dhôl chîn nâ cofn or Dhôl chîn nâ lost.

Cowardly dog! - Hû ú-gaun!

Go kiss an orc! - Mítho orch!

I hate you! - Chen ú-vilin!

Listen to my laughter! - Lasto al lalaith nîn!

Much wind pours from your mouth. - Súlon 'wanna nîf chîn.

Son of snakes! - Lýgion!

You disgust me! - Chen fuion!

You’re ugly and your mother dresses you. - Thiach uanui ar naneth chîn chen hamma.

You are stupid. - Ech uchand.

Orc lover! - Orvelethron! Or feminine orvelethril!

You are hideous! - Thiach uanui!

Family titles

Father - Adar

Mother - Naneth/Emel

Parent - odhril

Child - hên

Daughter - sell

Son - ion/iond

Sister - Nîth/ Neth/ Nethel

Sister in law - bethres

Brother - Hanar

Brother in law - bethren

Sibling - hest

Half-brother - perhanar

Half-sister - pernîth/ perneth/ pernethel

Half-sibling - perhest

Pair of twins - Gwanûn

Grandmother - mam

Grandfather - dâd

Kin - rennas

Kinsman - gwanur

Family - nothlir/ nothrim/ nos

Clothing (I couldn’t find much for these)

Jewel - mîr

Jewellery - mîrith

Ring - corf

Necklace - sigil

Ringlet - laus/ loch

Crown - rî

To crown/ coronate - rìnada

Boot - saeb

Shoe - habad

Clothes - hammad

Body parts (also couldn’t find much for these)

Hair - findë

Face - thîr

Eyes - hen

Lips - pemp

Nose - nem

Body- Rhond

Years/Months/days

The month of January - Narwain

The month of February - nínui

The month of March - gwaeron

The month of April - gwirith

The month of may - lothron

The month of June - nórui

The month of July - cerveth

The month of august - urui

The month of September - ivanneth

The month of October - narbeleth

The month of November - hithui

The month of December - girithron

First age - mein andrann

Second age - edwen andrann

Third age - nail/nelui/neil andrann

Monday - orithil

Tuesday - orgaladh/orgaladhad

Wednesday - ormenel

Thursday - oraeron

Friday - orbelain

Saturday - orgilion

Sunday - oranor

Numbers

“There were two different number systems in use in Middle Earth; the duodecimal system (base 12) and the decimal system that we use today. Interestingly Tolkien tells us that although "in Common Eldarin the multiples of three, especially six and twelve, were considered especially important" the decimal system developed first - "and eventually beside the decimal numeration a complete duodecimal system was devised for calculations".

Although he goes on to say that "the special words for 12 (dozen), 18 and 144 (gross) were in general use" we don't have any record of what that special number for 18 might have been in any language. Tolkien further noted that "for general purposes the numeral names were decimal in origin". This is why the numbers for 20, 30 and so on mean 'two tens', 'three tens'.”

The numbers 13-19 are reconstructed from Quenya.

1 - min

2 - tâd

3 - neledh

4 - canad

5 - leben

6 - eneg

7 - odo/odog

8 - tolodh/toloth

9 - neder

10 - cae/caen/pae-

11 - Minib

12 - Ýneg

13 - Neleb

14 - Canab

15 - Leben

16 - Eneph

17 - Odoph

18 - Toloph

19 - Nederph

These then, are the deduced numbers 20 - 90 using Tolkien's later material. I suggest that these are for Sindarin as spoken by the Elves, and the original forms as written in the King's Letter are Gondorian Sindarin

20 - Taphaen

30 - Nelphaen

40 - Cambaen

50 - Lephaen

60 - Enephaen

70 - Odophaen

80 - Tolophaen

90 - Nederphaen

100 - Haran

Numbers like 33, 67, 82 etc. can be formed like this Nelphaen a neledh = Thirty and three (33) or Neledh a nelphaen = Three and thirty

Enephaen a odog = Sixty and seven (67) or Odog a enephaen = Seven and sixty

Tolophaen a dâd = Eighty and two (82) or Tâd a dolophaen = Two and eighty

For any number after 12 you just need to put -ui on the end to form the ordinal, e.g. nederphaenui = 90th

1st - Minui

2nd - Tadui

3rd - Nelui

4th - Canthui

5th- Lefnui

6th - Enchui

7th - Othui

8th - Tollui

9th - Nedrui

10th - Paenui

11th - Minibui

12th - Ýnegui

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🌙 Books for Arab American Heritage Month

🌙 April is Arab American Heritage Month, which celebrates the 3.7 million Arab Americans across the country. This is an opportunity to combat Anti-Arab bigotry by challenging stereotypes and prejudices.

✨ One of the best ways to do so is to read books ABOUT Arab Americans. To help, here are a few books for Arab American Heritage Month you can read, discuss, or add to your ever-growing TBR!

✨ Growing up, I didn't have books that represented my experiences as an Arab or Muslim American. My friends didn't have stories to read that could help them understand my perspective. With that in mind, I added children's books on the last slide, for the moms out there searching for diverse books--books that allow us to empathize and understand different perspectives and experiences.

❓QOTD Have you read any of these? What organizations or charities do you support and donate to?

[ Not all books are listed -- my original copy glitched, so I will try to update this when I have time. ]

🌙 A Woman Is No Man - Etaf Rum ✨ The Other Americans - Laila Lamami 🌙 You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat ✨ Grape Leaves - Gregory Orfalea and Sharif Elmusa 🌙 The Wrong End of the Telescope - Rabih Alameddine ✨ The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah 🌙 Martyr - Kaveh Akbar ✨ Between Two Moons - Aisha Abdel Gawad 🌙 Tasting the Sky - Ibtisam Barakat ✨ A Game for Swallows - Zeina Abirached 🌙 Love Is An Ex-Country - Randa Jarrar ✨ The Thirty Names of Night - Zeyn Joukhadar

🌙 I Was Their American Dream - Malaka Gharib ✨ A Country Called Amreeka - Alia Malek 🌙 A Theory of Birds - Zaina Alsous ✨ Against the Loveless World - Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Arab in America - Toufic El Rassi ✨ The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher 🌙 Sex and Lies - Leïla Slimani ✨ Loom - Thérèse Soukar Chehade 🌙 Birds of Paradise - Diana Abu-Jaber ✨ Come With Me - Noami Shihab Nye 🌙 Girls of Riyadh - Rajāʼ ʻAbd Allāh Ṣāniʻ ✨ How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? - Moustafa Bayoumi

🌙 Evil Eye - Etaf Rum ✨ The Girl Who Fell to Earth - Sophia Al-Maria 🌙 What Strange Paradise - Omar El Akaad ✨ Girls That Never Die - Safia Elhillo 🌙 Bahari - Dina Macki ✨ Life Without a Recipe - Diana Abu-Jaber 🌙 Egyptian Diary - Richard Platt ✨ Man O'War - Cory McCarthy 🌙 The Cave - Amani Ballour, MD ✨ The Map of Salt and Stars - Zeyn Joukhadar 🌙 They Called Me a Lioness - Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri ✨ Salt Houses - Hala Alyan

🌙 Arabiyya - Reem Assil ✨ Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Shubeik Lubeik - Deena Mohamed ✨ The Wrong End of the Telescope - Rabih Alameddine 🌙 Conditional Citizens - Laila Lamami ✨ An Unnecessary Woman - Rabih Alameddine 🌙 It Won't Always Be Like This - Malaka Gharib ✨ Proud - Ibtihaj Muhammad 🌙 The Land in Our Bones - Layla K Feghali ✨ Everything Comes Next - Naomi Shihab Nye 🌙 The Immortals of Tehran - Ali Araghi ✨ Starstruck - Sarafina El-Badry Nance

🌙 Our Women on the Ground - Various ✨ The Jasad Heir - Sara Hashem 🌙 Tell Me How You Really Feel - Aminah Mae Safi ✨ Surge - Etel Adnan 🌙 Here to Stay - Sara Farizan ✨ We Hunt the Flame - Hafsah Faisal 🌙 A Tempest of Tea - Hafsah Faizal ✨ The Bad Muslim Discount - Syed M. Masood 🌙 A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena ✨ Not the Girls You're Looking For - Aminah Mae Safi 🌙 All-American Muslim Girl - Nadine Jolie Courtney ✨ The Moon That Turns You Back - Hala Alyan

🌙 Ms. Marvel - Destined - Saladin Ahmed ✨ Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card - Sara Saedi 🌙 Internment - Samira Ahmed ✨ Stardust Thief - Chelsea Abdullah 🌙 Once Upon an Eid - Various ✨ Farah Rocks Fifth Grade - Susan Muaddi Darraj 🌙 Barakah Beats - Maleeha Siddiqui ✨ Amira's Picture Day - Reem Faruqi 🌙 The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman ✨ Lailah's Lunchbox - Reem Faruqi 🌙 In My Mosque - M.O. Yuksel ✨ Halal Hot Dogs - Susannah Aziz

🌙 The Proudest Blue - Ibtihaj Muhammad ✨ Silverworld - Diana Abu-Jaber 🌙 Other Words for Home - Jasmine Warga ✨ Time to Pray - Maha Addasi 🌙 Under My Hijab - Hena Khan ✨ Wishing Upon the Same Stars - Jacquetta Nammar Feldman 🌙 Amina's Voice - Hena Khan ✨ Yasmin the Recycler - Saadia Faruqi 🌙 The Shape of Thunder - Jasmine Warga ✨ Deep in the Sahara - Kelly Cunnane, Hoda Hadadi 🌙 The Turtle of Michigan - Naomi Shihab Nye ✨ Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria - George Jreije

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Tick Tick Boom... Camellia flowers ;; Desire, Passion, Polish, and Perfection

hq masterlist ; ...........

"For the record, this is self-destructive. For the record, I'm aware of that. For the record I've been picturing her body... draped over the sofa wearing nothing but her hat." - For the Record (36 Questions)

What is the definition of love? Both Kenma Kozume and you have been trying to figure that out for years. Because, well, how do you know if your feelings are desire, love, or just a crush? After a lost bet during a party in second year, you and your friends have been roped into performing a play to save your colleges dying theater program. Somehow you've gained the role of the the female lead while he has been put on lights. Will either of you figure out an answer to your question?

pairing : tech!kenma x actor!reader status : on going! taglist : open here ! -> starring : @fiannee @lcvemiyuki @walllflowerrrsss @theweirdfloatything @reds-mp3 @cannibalsrider @cryptictheseus @allyeen @yuminako @oyasumeii @bi-bi-papillon @rinheartshyunlix @nstosmmr @kagtobis @Intergalacticrory @causenessus @lyradia @lemurzsquad @from-mae @whykirbo @chizunata @just-coreee @kazunish

WARNING WARNING !! : language, mature, college/uni au, alcohol, implied 18+ activities, grammar mistakes, mental health mentions, spoilers probs, a lot of references, first smau be nice, childhood friends to lovers, misunderstandings.

Casting call ! : Gossip Roomies | Walk Em Like a Dog | Other Table Of Contents :

Prologue : the party Act i. -> Scene i. : the start of something new -> Scene ii. : bop to the top -> Scene iii. : what the world needs Act ii. -> Scene i. : Omigod you guys ! / girl shut up -> Scene ii. How far i'll go / Moana is NOT a disney princess -> Scene iii. Better Hold Tight / pack it up reki Act iii. Act iv.

[novasintheroom]

067. Told You (pt. 2/6)

♡ Pairing - Vash x Reader

♡ Word count - 1k

♡ Warnings - none

♡ Description: You see your sister for the first time in years.

Part of the 150 Bullets drabble series on AO3

Part 1 - Part 2 (you are here) - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

Her house sits against the walls of a small canyon, just outside Inepril. It’s a decrepit thing. Run-down, rusting. Sandstorms have long since stripped the light blue paint off the walls, and no one thought to repaint it. A squat metal fence surrounds the place, keeping in the two dogs that start barking when they see you come down the road.

There are people sitting on the porch. Two men lean against the railing, and a woman sits in a rocking chair – all in their fifties, now. They look at you, their conversation stopping when you halt in front of the gate. You hesitate, then push forward. Vash follows like a silent shadow behind.

“Can I help you?” One of the men calls out. He shields his eyes against the suns, then stumbles back in shock. “It’s – but you – “ The other man suddenly whips up a sawn-off shot-gun, and the woman stands from her seat.

You stiffen, and Vash subtly raises his hands. You reach for him strength, taking and intertwining your fingers with his. “I…I’m here to see her.”

“She don’t wanna see you,” the woman says, firm.

That’s when you pull out the envelope. You offer it out like a peace offering, hand shaking. “She sent this to me. Told me…she’s dying, and wanted me to visit.”

“Artie, you said that was for Dad!” The man with the gun turns a baleful eye on the other.

‘Artie’ shrugs, mouth opening and closing. “That’s what she said it was!”

The woman’s lips thin, and she suddenly turns, going into the house with an “I’ll just ask her quick.”

It leaves everyone in awkward, tense silence. You look down at the ground, at the dogs – big mixes of rottweilers and something hairy – sniffing around your shoes. If they had tails, you’re sure they would be tucked between their legs. Your sister never liked aggressive animals, just the appearance of them. And they know what you are.

The woman comes back out with a blank expression. “She says let ‘er in.”

“What?” The man with the gun looks between her and you.

She gives him a glare. “Says it’s one of her ‘dying wishes,’ and we need to let ‘er in. Put the gun down, Will.”

“Lils, what about – “

Lils waves a hand, ending the argument. “It’s her choice.” Then she looks at you, her eyes the same hazel as her mother’s, “But we don’t like it, just to make it clear.”

You nod, ignoring Vash muttering, “Trust us, it’s clear.” The two of you walk gingerly up the porch steps, opening the door yourselves and going in. There’s small whispering following you, and Lils comes in at your heels.

“Second bedroom, down the hall,” her monotone voice says.

They moved her from the top of the house to the bottom, then. You move quickly and quietly. The door is already open, and you see her in a small bed, adjusting the pillows behind her. You don’t allow yourself to stare, just walk in.

Dayvenie pauses at your entrance. Her eyes widen, and a shaky hand reaches for glasses on the nearby nightstand. When she puts them on, she gasps, a hand coming to her mouth. “You…you…!”

Lils nudges past Vash and comes to her mother’s side, sitting in a chair next to her bed. “Ma, you don’t have to see her. We can make her leave.”

But Dayvenie shakes her head after a moment. “No. It’s…no, it’s fine. It’s fine, Lillie Mae.”

Another awkward silence descends. Lils is obviously not leaving her mother alone with you. That’s fine, you think, your mind already putting on armor and heart hammering.

Before you can say anything, Dayvenie says, “You haven’t aged a bit. Not since I last saw you.” She pauses. “When was that? Fifty years ago?”

“Seventy.” You say. And you finally look at her. Her hair is white as snow, thin as the ice between you two. Someone has given her a haircut recently, but it still folds down to her shoulders, brushed neatly. Her skin has a gray quality to it, between the folds and wrinkles and liver spots. Eyes as gold as the desert sands with cataracts in each. She looks every bit her age. “How old are you now?”

Dayvenie chuckles an old lady laugh and looks to Lils. “What’s the answer to that? I lost track after sixty.”

Lils glares at you. “She’s ninety-eight.”

Dayvenie’s mouth twitches. “Which makes you…ah…a hundred and one?”

“Dunno,” you say quietly, “lost track after seventy.”

“And who’s your friend? You haven’t brought anyone by before.” She gestures to Vash, who is still hanging out in the doorway, unsure if he’s allowed to be here but unwilling to leave you alone with people so hateful toward you.

Your mouth thins. “I may have, if you’d let me.”

Ah, and there’s the ice between you two, cracking under your feet. Her eyes hold a sad quality to them now. “I told you why I couldn’t let you near.”

Gravel enters your voice. “No, actually, you didn’t. I’ve tried to understand over the years, but all I can come up with is that you couldn’t stand the thought of me being different.”

Dayvenie’s lips tremble. “Because you are! How could I explain to my kids, my neighbors, that you don’t age? That my big sister isn’t herself anymore?”

“But I am! I’ve always been myself!” You breathe out a sigh. Reign it in. This is a dying woman, after all. “Dayvenie, that was a coward’s answer, and you know it.”

Lils makes a move to stand, but Dayvenie lays a gentle hand on her daughter’s arm. “She’s right. You’re right.” She turns her eyes back to you. “It’s why I asked you to come. I’ve been thinking over the past few years, and realized I never let you tell me what happened to you. What really happened.”

Muscles tense, but you don’t move. You look to Vash, who gives you an unreadable look. You haven’t told anyone what happened to you almost ninety years ago. Not even him. “So what,” you finally say, “you want to make amends? Right when you’re dying?”

Her eyes flick back and forth. “Yes.”

Of course she does. Cowards always do when they’re faced with death. If it was just you, you’d march out the door. But Vash…Vash would think of you differently, wouldn’t he? He’s going to think differently of me anyway.

Finally, you untense. Fine. If this is what it takes…fine. You drop your bag to the floor unceremoniously and gesture for Vash to come in and do the same. There are no seats for either of you, and Lils doesn’t offer to bring any in. When Vash’s arm brushes yours, you cross your arms and look at your sister. “Where do you want me to start?”

She blinks a moment at Vash and says, “Just before it happened. With the steamroller.”

[waitmyturtles]

Last Twilight, episode 12: final reflections

Wow. It took me all of this past weekend to process this finale, notwithstanding the usual life craziness that has dogged me lately.

Let me preface this whole thing by saying that I'm confused by what I watched. I'd say that, overall -- I actually quite liked this series, and I especially, absolutely ADORED JimmySea, Namtan, and Mark, and their acting. JimmySea kicked major ass, and I really hope they get another big and complicated show to chew on.

I also want to say that between episodes 11 and 12, I felt that I saw uncharacteristic editing clunkiness from Aof Noppharnach and his team that left a lot of necessary emotional and ethical processing on the cutting room floor. I think that's what's ultimately making me feel uneasy about the process of watching this, but -- funnily enough, I'm not nearly as "angry" about the ending as I was with other bad shows that fell apart in their last quarter recently. It was obvious that MhokDay were going to get together.

But I needed to walk a few more steps with them on their journey to that end.

Before I got my eyes on the finale, a few reactions on social media, from Tumblr to Twitter gave me the case of the jibbles. Namely: that the story of Last Twilight would have worked better if Day had stayed blind through the end.

I wasn't really understanding how that construction could work without walking through some sort of ethical minefield.

Now that I've seen the finale -- especially that infamous 4/4 segment -- I understand better what those arguments were saying.

Yet, I'm still dogged by a kind of ethical confusion here. And maybe that was one of the points of this finale, another one of Aof Noppharnach's perhaps now-famous-or-infamous emotionally inconclusive endings.

To me, there are two ethical potholes that this show stumbled on:

1) The ethics WITHIN the fictional piece itself for a character to not depict the process of considering the various fates he might face vis à vis a potentially reversible impairment, and

2) The ethics of a REAL audience ultimately wanting a different outcome for a fictional character to NOT have an impairment reversed.

TL;DR — I don’t think Last Twilight spent enough time having Day consider the permanence or impermanence of the various fates he faced, including permanent blindness. I don’t think the characters, and as such, the audience, spent enough time understanding that a corneal transplant was always going to be Day’s endgame.

Last Twilight was marketed as a show focused on disability, on a man going blind in a society that prioritizes the able-bodied, and how he would adjust to his disability, and of course (this being GMMTV), his falling in love. As fans, we were prepared to receive a whole show about a character with a disability, not as a side pairing, à la Heart and Li Ming in Moonlight Chicken.

It so happened that Day's visual impairment was corneal deterioration -- a condition that could lead to permanent blindness, and thus qualify him for a corneal transplant.

What I'm struggling with is the crux of the ethical dilemma that this show was ALWAYS going to have to deal with: that a corneal impairment of the kind that Day experienced, in the prime of his life, could very well be reversed with surgery, a surgery that has tremendous success rates.

As such -- as we got that clarification in drips throughout the series -- this show was actually not ONLY going to be about the newfound adjustment of a recently-impaired man to an ableist society. It was ALWAYS going to have this door of ANOTHER major change, the reversal of the impairment, just slightly cracked open. I'm not sure that I, as a viewer, was fully prepared for this, even as Night and Mae Mhon spoke about "eye donations" as givens in the middle of the series. I believe the show needed to be much louder, earlier, about the "hope" that Day could "go back" to "living a normal life," instead of framing the high majority of the show around his adjustments to his impairment.

As we went through Day's adjustment to life outside of his room, I believe we needed to hear, FROM DAY HIMSELF, that a corneal transplant was a conclusion that HE believed in, that HE wanted. A failure of this series was that we unfortunately only heard that from his family members, leaving us to only ASSUME that the conclusion of the reversal of his impairment was ALSO Day's intention.

For a story that was very much about an individual's developing agency and self-advocacy: I believe I needed to hear from Day himself that he was good and ready for the final surgery. I only assume that was the case, as I saw his own body and mind in the hospital. But I believe, for dramatic success, that I could have used a basic, "I'm ready," from him, to make segment 4/4 more complete and contextual, against the story of adjustment and resilience we had so far seen before then.

And what a story of adjustment and resilience we had gotten, as Day had established a full career for himself, without Mhok next to him, during one of the time jumps of episode 12.

For my sake, as I process what I watched this weekend, I want to come to grips with what I thought were the major themes of this show, and see if I can come to some sort of sensible conclusion about what happened here.

This show was focused on:

1) the romance between Day and Mhok, 2) Mhok's caretaking and companionship being the lever to help Day out of his room and back into the world from which he had retreated after the onset of his visual impairment, 3) Day slowly learning how to function again in a society that prioritizes the able-bodied vis à vis his visual impairment, 4) Day learning how to self-advocate for himself in the face of those who condescend to him and/or keep him trapped in compassion bias postures,

and more that I'm sure I'm missing, but those are the themes that resonated the most with me.

I think the general feeling on Tumblr is that, save for the romance, that themes 3 and 4 were contradicted out of existence in the face of the sudden flip to the surgery of segment 4/4.

I think not hearing from Day himself that he was ready and willing for the surgery was a lost moment. I don't believe Day was ever acting as if he would choose anything else OTHER than surgery throughout the series. BUT, AT THE SAME TIME: what we had watched prior to 4/4 was his story of adjustment.

My biggest ethical concern here, vis à vis the audience reactions that I've read, is that NO ONE -- in fiction or in real life -- owes me a story of heroism. If there is an individual who has been impaired since birth, or is dealing with a degenerative condition later in their life, and has the opportunity to address or reverse the condition, who am I to say that that individual SHOULD NOT address their condition?

For me, this is huge. I believe this is a huge ethical dilemma that Last Twilight ultimately does not face. I wish this series had been much more centered, earlier on, about the utter REALITY that Day could have his condition reversed by surgery, in words he'd say himself, rather than assumptions made for him, on behalf of his family, who.... I presume were established to be some sort of legal conservators for him, as Mhon continued to be the one to receive eye donation text messages.

(I concede that I don't know if this is a more common set-up for disabled individuals in Thailand, as I would assume in the States, that Day himself would have been the one to receive that message directly.)

For this show to have seemed emotionally and artistically complete: I needed to hear from Day himself that surgery was an endgame that he was banking his hopes on. I also needed to understand, much more statistically clearly vis à vis the show, of the absolute risks that Day faced towards having permanent blindness for the rest of his life. Because the show ALSO needed to focus on the establishment of the romance between Mhok and Day, we missed out on the show taking time to explain to us, the viewers, of the absolute risks that Day faced in any of these scenarios -- and thus, we would have had MUCH more context into the nuances of the resilience that Day needed to establish for himself as he re-adjusted to society, with his numerous fates lying before him.

I'm going to borrow the words of @hallowpen in their final review here, to say that this show at the end needed much more "breathing room." I think @hallowpen is so right in saying it like this, because these two factors that I just laid out, geez -- the first 7/8ths of the series being about Day's social adjustment against the utter suddenness of the successful surgery and his sudden jump back to what's been translated as his "normal life" -- just clash so tonally. (I do wonder if we're getting as nuanced a translation on "normal" as we could be.)

I think this is about the most confused final review of a show that I've written. There is an ethical heaviness to all of this that's weighing on me, that I think I still need time to comb through.

I also feel that I simply do not know enough, by way of my lack of cultural competency into how Thai society approaches issues of public and private health, if Day’s unseen choice to get the surgery would have been a given among majority Thai audiences, AND that majority Thai audiences would not have asked for the kind of internal debates that I think the show could have used.

I feel thrilled that Day can see Poomjai/Mee, after making that wish in episode 11.

But I think, if this show was about a journey for someone to learn how to successfully advocate for his own agency -- that, at the very end, I needed to see that agency exercised, by him, to get to the part of the reversal of the impairment that I assumed he wanted.

Again: Day doesn't owe me his story of heroism. If fiction doesn't want to give me that, from a character with a recent impairment, I don't have the right to ask for it.

But the missing bits of artistry to get me, the viewer, to only an assumption, has led me to surprising ethical places, that will leave me wondering about what happened in this series for a long time.

[mirrorball-leclerc]

espresso with a side of depresso

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maejonesverstappen just wanted to put out a little song before coachella 🤎 espresso 4/11

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rhysjones i fear for my mental sanity every time you drop a new song.

estebanocon please no more songs with inuendos

↳ maejonesverstappen 🤭

↳ lancestroll we are so fucked.

user82 i too am also praying no more songs about max jones-verstappen's dick.

↳ user45 she has us all traumatized

isabellaperez what's the point in dropping music if i'm no longer around to terrorize jos?

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↳ isabellaperez THAT FACT IS IRRELEVANT!

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danieljonesricciardo as long as it's not another nonsense or nonsense christmas we'll be fine guys. so fine.

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lewis hamilton my blood pressure has suddenly skyrocketed. anyone want to tell me why?

alex albon why do you always have to assume it's our fault? lewis hamilton it's always you people

isabella perez mae's dropping a new song.

lewis hamilton that explains so much. please tell me there's no references to max's dick.

mae jones-verstappen i can't promise that.

george russell WHEN WILL THE TORTURE END??

daniel jones-ricciardo probably when they have children to embarrass.

charles leclerc if max keeps winning everything, that'll probably be soon.

rhys jones woah! gross! child here!!

lando norris that's the circle of life baby jones! well, maybe not soon.

logan sargeant i think she enjoys torturing us with mentions of max's dick in songs.

max jones-verstappen can we stop talking about my dick please?

zoya torres TELL YOUR WIFE TO STOP WRITING SONGS ABOUT IT!

mae jones-verstappen 🤭🤭

daphne jones-ricciardo oh she is so proud of herself.

rowan todd of course she is. it's like pierre making a tripod joke.

fernando alonso sebastian i am begging you, please come back. put these animals under control.

sebastian vettel aren't you the one extending his contract to become the oldest driver in f1 histroy?

lewis hamilton hey, i'm still here!!

sebastian vettel he's older!

isabella perez i'm still going to torture jos. he's not get away from me simply because i no longer work for red bull.

rhys jones THE TORTURE JOS VERSTAPPEN CLUB HAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED A NEW MEETING!!

max jones-verstappen stop torturing my father!

dulce perez but you two make it so easy for them

daphne jones-ricciardo children. all of you.

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user63 how the fuck did max verstappen end up with her?

isabellaperez oh wow. ditch the husband and marry me please!

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nataliaruiz woah, how did verstappen ever end up with you??

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user79 you're so pretty. i love you.

rhysjones how did you release a summer bop but daph is releasing the world's most depressing album?

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↳ isabellaperez like max's dick!

baileywinters you gorgeous, gorgeous girl.

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user61 it will always surprise me that daphne and mae are related. it's no surprise that mae's related to rhys but witch daphne's it's a shock.

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maxjonesverstappen1 woah. marry me??

↳ maejonesverstappen maxie, we're already married.

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maxjonesverstappen1 that smile 🥰

maxjonesverstappen1 i love you

↳ user42 max jones-verstappen, certified simp for his wife.

↳ user28 he's never beating the trophy husband allegation. this is why he and daniel get along so well, they were made to be trophy husbands.

user56 good thing your daddy made you get a boating license when you were 15.

coreyfogelmanis how did that man end up with you??

↳ maxjonesverstappen1 stop bullying me!!

↳ coreyfogelmanis oh as her best friend it is my job to bully you

user10 i have never been more in love with women than i am now.

dulceperez that's one pretty girl. marry me?

↳ maejonesverstappen i would rather not be chased down by a rabid leclerc

↳ arthur_leclerc i am not rabid mae!

↳ louis_graham you chased me through the streets of monaco with a rolling pin because you thought i had a crush on dulce.

↳ arthur_leclerc that's not true!!

freya vettel me? you? beautiful blonde babies?

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↳ maxjonesverstappen1 okay, mickschumacher come get your girlfriend before i block her.

↳ mickschumacher oh but this is so funny.

user06 SUMMER BOP RIGHT HERE!!

user17 oh mae jones-verstappen sure knows how to write a summer bop.

sebastian vettel why did you have to speak of honeybees that way?

mae jones-verstappen seb, please.

mick schumacher you might actually make him cry.

freya vettel he's definitely going to cry.

sebastian vettel i don't understand why we had to speak of honeybees that way?

rhys jones WHAT ABOUT THE NINTENDO? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO RUIN THAT FOR US TOO??

alex albon she ruined christmas now she's ruined honeybees and nintendos

mae jones-verstappen okay, now you two are being dramatic. i didn't ruin anything.

daphne jones-ricciardo how to you look sophie in the face? because it took me months to look grace in the face after i released dress.

penelope trevino it's a talent!

lando norris okay mayores, calm down

rowan todd and this is why i'm glad i never wrote a horny song about a french man.

bailey winters or me about a british man

pierre gasly wow imagine what it would be like if my girlfriend loved me.

rhys jones maybe she'd love you more if you stayed at red bull considering she's a red bull fan.

pierre gasly daniel, i swear to god, keep that kid away from me or i'll strangle him.

daniel jones-ricciardo okay, rhys, maybe we shouldn't attack the driver.

rhys jones he drives an alpine. i'll be safe.

logan sargeant lmao!

lance stroll who pissed off the pipsqueak?

arthur leclerc my guess is pierre.

pierre gasly all i said was percy jackson would get beat up by harry potter and now he's all pissy.

rhys jones BECAUSE YOU'RE LIKE YOU CROISSANT! PERCY GREW UP IN NEW YORK!! HARRY GREW UP IN FUCKING ENGLAND!

isabella perez yeah, i agree with rhys. there's no way harry beats percy.

charles leclerc but harry has a wand?

dulce perez and 9 times out of 10 he only uses expelliarmus.

logan sargeant have none of you read the percy jackson books? percy controls water, he 100% beats harry.

lewis hamilton this is just another way for you people to do the whole uk vs usa argument.

isabella perez WHAT'S A STICK GOING TO DO AGAINST A GLOCK?

fernando alonso i beg, please god give me strength to deal with these idiots

esteban ocon why are we having this argument?

rhys jones because i'm right and pierre is wrong. he just won't admit it.

mick schumacher i fear our brains need to be studied for science.

carlos sainz i think katniss beats them both.

rhys jones STOP CARLOS OR I WILL NOT HOLD BACK!!

daphne jones-ricciardo he's very passionate about this carlos. please don't make him attack you.

carlos sainz i retract my statement

rhys jones I'M RIGHT AND EVERYONE WHO DISAGREED WITH ME IS WRONG SO SHUT UP!

natalia ruiz never a dull moment with you people. never.

sebastian vettel i seriously question my life whenever someone sends a text that starts an argument in this group chat.

isabella perez YO NICO ROSBERG'S GOING TO BE IN CHINA!!

george russell BROCEDES REUNION INCOMING!!

rhys jones more like nico yapping about lewis

charles leclerc you can sit i my garage for the race weekend?

rhys jones LET'S GO!!!! A WIN IS A WIN BITCHES!!

max jones-verstappen traitor

daniel jones-ricciardo traitor

rhys jones I AM A TIFOSI FIRST AND BROTHER-IN-LAW SECOND!!

fernando alonso i don't have the strength to deal with this.

isabella perez remember to stream espresso!!

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¡leclerc-s speaks! i'm not going to lie, i've been watching grey's anatomy for the first time and that's why i haven't been posting much. but today's the day guys!! i also don't know how or why this devolved into what it did towards the end.

¡disclaimer! this is in no way making assumptions about the people involved in this story, this is all fake. it is a fanfiction please don't take any of what is said seriously. this is all for entertainment purposes and as a creative outlet for me. enjoy!

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𓄹 ⌗ OVA 002. ⠀⠀⠀⠀passenger princess

CONTENT. profanity, alcohol

001 | MASTERLIST | 003

⠀⠀⠀⠀"you're so insufferable, y'know?" izumi pulls up to the same hijiri-bashi bridge kaiser had stopped by. her brown locks flying through the wind as she approaches the german boy who peacefully drinks his pilsner silently as he listens to cars that pass by. kaiser scoffs at her retort, "really? then what are you doing here."

"wanted to watch you get drunk and fall off the bridge." she stands beside him, body leaning on the rails like he was. the boy rolls his eyes, taking a sip of his beer without even looking at her. "what a shitty friend you are."

"you've never acted like this with the other girls." the tokyo night breeze blows through both their bodies, refreshing them and even cause kaiser to sober up the slightest. "do you really like her this much?"

he glares at izumi, "who said i liked her?" with a deadpan expression izumi manages to spews out her words in disbelief, "you left the party after she posted a picture with shohei."

"my love life isn't any of your concern."

"it is from the moment you butted into mine, asshole."

"you're so fucking annoying."

"and you think you aren't."

it wasn't a rare sight to see the both of them upset and irritated at each other, if anything it was like as if they were cats and dogs. you think isagi and kaiser could argue, get stuck in a room with these two.

yet izumi couldn't help herself, "but thanks,"

"for what?" kaiser raises a brow in confusion, it's not often that izumi would show her appreciation vocally to him. in fact, he was actually weirded out with the stink face he pulled. he even thought he was starting to hear things until he saw the genuine smile on the australian's face.

"i heard you told tatsuya that i liked koalas, he gave me a plush of one on our first date." izumi playfully punches kaiser's shoulder midway as he takes a sip of his bottle, "you can be quite a gentleman when you want to be."

"don't go falling for me next—"

"shut the actual fuck up."

kaiser bursts out laughing at izumi's quick and sharp voice, instantly turning his flirtatious joke down in an instant. yet his laugher slowly fades when the phone in his hand lights up with a reminder notification to mae's earlier text from him.

"mae?" izumi peaks over trying to take a look at their conversation, yet to no avail for her since the two of them texted in only german. curious, "what did she say?"

"she congratulated me on tonight's win." kaiser sucks in a breath, looking at the most recent text— which was actually from almost half an hour ago. the bright screen illuminates his face and the the text was right in front of him, as if it was mocking his existence.

"you left her on read." izumi stated the oh so obvious, knocking kaiser out of his not so existential mid-life crisis. "i know." he exasperatedly says causing izumi to blankly snatch his phone. "what are you doing?!"

"replying danke to her because you wouldn't." izumi knew the basics of german, hell, she even knew the basics of common courtesy ( though that didn't apply to a few people ). she hands back his phone, staring at the irritated look on kaiser's face. "your read receipt is on, she probably thinks you're ignoring her since you haven't responded for over half an hour."

he sighs in defeat, giving izumi his signature smirk. "aren't you insightful." he can't help but acknowledge those facts, stuffing his phone in his pocket and running a hand through his hair to untangle it from the wind's doing. his other hand brings the bottle to his lips, downing the remainder of the alcohol.

"how many beers have you drank?" izumi eyes down the football player that smirks, throwing his bottle into the nearest recycling bin. "like seven?"

"yeah, you're not driving."

"i'm your passenger princess tonight?"

"i'll push you off this bridge, michael kaiser."

𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐌𝐘 𝐏𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝐍𝐎𝐖 !

⠀⠀⠀⠀￫ izumi knows basic german and majority swears because kaiser taught her.

⠀⠀⠀⠀￫ izumi and kaiser actually share locations for fun, majority of the pretty trust fund kids gc all share locations with each other. except for rin who only shares his location with aki.

⠀⠀⠀⠀￫ izumi doesn’t actually like to drink a lot, hence the reason why she was able to drive to kaiser.

REBLOGS ARE APPRECIATED !

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Info for writer in Thai series fandom: More language thingy

Swear words and metaphor

*Some words may have more meaning than what I mention.

ไอ้ Ai and อี ee = words to be added in front of other words (a name or swear word), showing contempt or closeness (in a rude way).

Ai is masculine and ee is feminine, but nobody actually cares at this point.

เหี้ย hia or เชี่ย shia = Varanus salvator

These two words are the same. Hia is an original, and shia is a word that is born from distorting the voice in order to reduce vulgarity. It's kind of like referring to an f-word with any other word starting with f. We also used many other words that mean "Varanus salvator" as a sensor version of the "hia" swear word. little crocodile or chicken eater, for example.

They can also be used to empathize by adding to the end one or two times, for example, "super cool" would be "cool hia hia".

Tbh, whenever I read in English and see the word "hia," I always think of this word before a word that means "older brother." And to make it worse, the placement of both of them in the sentence can be exactly the same. Sometimes it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize the writer intended it to be an older brother.

สารเลว saraleo = miscreant, bastard, swinish, vile, caitiff, rascally

If you are 2gether fan, this is the word Tine calls Sarawat.

There are many similar words, such as

rayam-ระยำ-wicked, disgusting, inauspicious

chanrai-จัญไร-vile, unfortunate, ruined, crush

chatchua-ชาติชั่ว-lowlife

เสือก sueak = to meddle in matters that are not their own; to meddle in other people's affairs

ห่า har = infectious disease (cholera), pestilential disease (plague), and the evil spirit responsible for disease epidemics. 

สัตว์ sus =animal

พ่อง pong=your father

แม่ง maeng =your mother

They are shorten from por(father)/mae(mother) mung(you)

ดอกทอง dok thong=whore

This word sounds like a golden flower, but it's just a coincidence as far as I know.

ส้นตีน son teen=heel=lowest point of your body

ควย kyua=cock

หี hee=vagina

สันดาน san dan=in-born traits

as in bad inborn traits. The "bad" is omitted on the assumption that everyone understands.

ตอแหล tor lear=liar, fake

-->sato (สตอ-Crudia chrysantha Schum)-->strawberry

เปรต pret=The hungry ghost, frequently described as a very tall monster with a needle-sized mouth. = tall(negative meaning) or a bad person

อ้อย oi=suger cane=อ่อย oi=attempt to entice something or someone to be caught (typically used by a woman seducing a man).

For example, a cane truck has overturned here.=Someone here is trying really hard to seduce someone.

งิ้ว ngiw=bombax anceps (thorn-covered tree)

In the story, when sinners go to hell, the adulterer must climb this tree naked.

Mark from Love Mechanics asks on Facebook how hurtful it would be to climb a ngiw tree after having sex with Vee, implying that he is at least interested in someone who is not single.

Gold fish=short memory

Tiger=flirtatious person who is good at getting who they want (typically a guy)

A tiger with faded stripes=old tiger=someone who used to be flirtatious but is no longer. 

Dog can be alot of things depent on the context but usually a bad things.

"Dog with a rotten head" means someone nobody wants to get close to or interact with.

If someone looks just like a dog, that means their current state is bad. Too drunk = like a dog. Crying too much = like a dog.

Giving someone dog food means making someone, usually your friends, a dog. Used when you complain about your love life to someone, ask them for advice and they tell you to leave your current partner since the partner is being awful to you, you say so! Then you turn around and reconcile with your partner. So now your friend is a bad guy whom your partner won't want you to associate with anymore because they incite you to be at odd witn your partner.

Temple's dog = low status, usually used for a low-status man who likes a high-status woman who would be called ดอกฟ้า(dokfha) which translates directly to "sky flower." Use something like, "You are a temple's dog yet want to pluck a sky flower, you should know your place!"

A dog that serves someone means someone who only cares about serving their boss (who is a bad person) and nothing else, like morals or other people. A lackey

Bird(quite a new slang) = Can't get what you want, typically means someone you want as a lover.

Phonix = immortal bird = repeatedly failing to get what you want *We do use phonix as a poetic expression too, not just for this meaning.

Buffalo = idiot/fool. 

You can say A is putting horns on B when A is cheating on B; this means A makes B an idiot for believing in A.

When you fail your exam, you might say that these days you eat grass instead of rice (like a buffalo).

There is a saying that goes like this: "One who remembers when they get hurt (and leaves or does something to not get hurt again) is a human; one who is willing to endure it is a buffalo." If you put up with something you shouldn't, you are a buffalo.

Pig

fat

weak/easy to win against

Fox

Cunning

Sedusing

catfish,termite=ugly

rhinoceros=Someone who tries to steal someone else's lover or just acts inappropriately in general according to the traditional feminine standard. Originally, it was only used to call women, but it is no longer the case.

barking deer=gay man

gibbon=woman

It was originally used by trans women to refer to cis women. can be seen as rude, but like many other words, many people don't actually take offense if it is used playfully. These two words, "barking deer" and "gibbon," are usually used together.

The reason why a character does not always know information stated in the subtitle

Gender of someone

The Thai language, for the most part, is gender-neutral. The she or he in the English subtitle usually has to be chosen by the translator.

Who/what the speaker is talking to/about

Many times, sentence structures in spoken language won't require a subject or object. I guess when that gets translated, it looks weird, so the translator has to pick something to add in. In a lot of situations where I am not sure how to address my interlocutor, I can simply avoid doing it, but when I'm writing in English like this, I have to pick something, right?

When

There are no tenses in Thai the way there are in English. We have words for determining whether something happened in the past, present, or future, but you can say something without using any of those and it will be just fine.

Rice

When someone asks if someone has eaten rice(ข้าว-khao) yet, the word rice usually means meal/food and not strictly rice. The word rice can mean food in general a lot of the time.

Polite words

There are a lot of words that mean the exact same thing but have a different degree of politeness. You may already have noticed it with the way there are so many words that mean you or I. You may also notice it when you watch alot of any Thai series. Like, how when a character says "eat" in the subtitle, there are some varied sounds, such as daek(แดก-rude), kin(กิน-common), than(ทาน-a bit more polite-shorten from rapprathan), rapprathan(รับประทาน-polite).

Meaning of polysyllabic words

Some polysyllabic words, when each syllable is separated, still have a meaning, but their meaning may not be consistent with the meaning of that polysyllabic word. So even when you recognize the meaning of each syllable, the meaning of the polysyllabic word you deduce from it may not be correct. I mean, if we look deeper, we should be able to make it make sense, but yeah.

For example, the word "witch" in Thai is mae mod(แม่มด). Mae means mother or something you can used to indicate that a word it is in refers to a woman and Mod means ant when it's a separate word, but when combined, they mean witch. Or for the word whose meaning is more similar to the words used to create it, the word khun nhu(คุณหนู), which means "young master/mistress." used for address the child of the boss, when sperate khun is a prefix to show politeness or respect, and nhu means mice or a word used for calling children. You can see that while some of the single-syllabic words are arguably related to the meaning of the polysyllabic word, some aint so much.

I hope this explanation doesn't make you more confused.😅 But if it is, do tell me. I will try to do better.

Thai alphabet

Our letters are named after words they used to spell. Like, both letters ญ and ย sound the same(yor), but the word woman (หญิง-ying) uses letter ญ and the word giant (ยักษ์-yak) uses letter ย, so letter ญ is named yor ying and letter ย is named yor yak.

Think of it like if A's full name is "A apple".

Index

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Tell me about them,,

HI MAE!!! 👋👋👋

HERE YOU GO!!! (OC tidbits under the cut)

Nithki (she/they)

My first ever DnD chracter

a Drow, i just haven't gotten the chance or urge to draw/paint her purple

In regular ol’ DnD lore she was actually a bard, but if I were to remake her now I’d probably do some rogue something or.. deep dive into college of swords stuff

Imma be real she has been severely neglected, her campaign was from when I was still in elementary school and even then we only lasted a couple of sessions, she's due for a revamp lmao. what's sticking for sure though is:

She's Amity's girlfriend, also works at the same cafe as her

Music enjoyer,,, piano prolly

Amity (she/her)

My second ever DnD character

Her Spotify Playlist, Pinterest Board

Darling amazing wonderful sunshine child

She's like if my optimism and faith that Everything Will Be Okay was cranked up to 100.

In DnD lore she's a cleric of Liira, The Joybringer, and enjoys organizing festivals and events and such. She focuses on planning activities and networking with vendors and special guests.

As a hobby/side-hustle, she offers divination services and advice (she likes using tarot cards, pendulums, and probably recently picked up a fascination with palm-reading).

She's got a good setup atm working at a small cafe. She helps out doing regular cafe stuff but has her own little room/curtained off area for divination stuff :) appointments and walk-ins :D

The campaign I played her in was home-brewed so she basically stayed the same, just minus the religious element

Plagued by visions sometimes. She tries to do good as much as she can and gets a little frantic sometimes avoiding misfortune she believes the universe is giving her signs abt

Ramsey 'Rawdog' Godwar (he/him)

My third (and current campaign) DnD character. The campaign is in the same home-brewed setting as Amity's campaign, but abt 1000 years in the past (iirc,,,,,,)

His Spotify Playlist, Pinterest Board

He started as a "fantasy flavoured Big Boss who eats potion ingredients raw" and he still does that but is also such a dog of a man now. and also doesn't restrict himself to eating potion ingredients (the suspicious glowing moss growing inside of the magical grotto we're chilling in right now doesn't taste great btw, if anyone was curious)

Autism

"Rawdog" because he WILL eat things raw. Not that he prefers eating stuff like that, dude just couldn't be bothered most of the time to prep stuff and/or light a fire.

The puncherrrrrr (usually steers clear of magic and enjoys melee combat)

Best Buddies with Swallow, the stars aligned when the military higher ups decided to try pairing them together and they've been inseparable ever since

Happy and loyal test subject to Swallow for all things alchemical (... happy and loyal for all other things too tbh)

Claustrophobic, prefers spending his time outside.

Not a huge talker

Substances™️ user (Ty Swallow for having weed and all drugs on hand 24/7) and you bet you're ass he's not being healthy abt it

Swallow (he/him)

NPC for Rawdog's sitch

His Spotify Playlist, Pinterest Board

I'm not gonna pretend to fight any otacon allegations because my ass is not subtle at all and you're all correct. Nerdy yapper x jock, but this time he’s more insane and i hope they make each other worse

The code name's definitely from the bird. I totally didn’t have Rawdog say in character “yeah one of my buddies is named Swallow, don’t know why he’s got that name” as a joke and refused to imagine a reality where I DIDN'T follow through and commit to the bit

An alchemist, a bit unhinged at times but hush it's fine whateverrrrrrr he's just a silyyy guyyyyy who's never done anything nefarious or dubious in his life evverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Provider of potion ingredients to Rawdog

Questionable morals at times. (Ex. Before getting paired up with Rawdog, dude would sneak ingredients into his past buddy's food anyways to see what would happen if they didn’t agree to test stuff out for him)

Struggling Bullied Nerd to Top In His Field pipeline, ego included, and now he's got a cool lap guard dog??? Living the dream.

He too also enjoys using substances™️

Gemma (she/her)

Backstory NPC for Rawdog as well!

Her Pinterest Board, there isn't much there but it exists

I'm still uh... in the process of fleshing things out with her but: she's a childhood friend to Rawdog, family friends yknow

The two haven’t been keeping in contact much since Rawdog deep-dived into military stuff, and Gemma got dragged away with school/magic stuff

The two of them briefly dated, ended on ok terms

She was supposed to be like EVA from mgs a bit, vibes are very different now but at the very least she is still the ethereal baddie that Rawdog severely fumbled

Mica (she/he) (God's Custodian)

My lil Custodian character, she's the protagonist for this worldbuilding/story/game concept thing I have on the back burner very much trying to embody the vibes from Hello Charlotte, a smidge of OFF, LotL/HnK, and some other things I can't remember off the top of my head rn. I hope one day it gets added to the list of rpg maker games made by lesbians that inflict psychic damage

Custodian in a research facility stationed in the dead body of a giant god, a la whale falls

Her Spotify Playlist

Doesn't have a soul probably. or maybe missing his heart, literally

Loves the monotony of work and wouldn’t dream of being anywhere else

Has a bucket with just a pile of tentacles and an eyeball in there, it's friendly and talks with him while he works

Mica, Viv, and a handful of the other human employees look suspiciously similar (there's some clone shit going on here)

"Viv", Vivianite (she/her) (God's Custodian)

Also works at the same research facility as Mica. I haven't fully settled on what job she has yet but, something custodial related as well maybe

Her Spotify Playlist

Has one-sided beef with Mica

Idk what organ she’s missing yet

attention-seeker, has a bit of an ego, and views herself as the queen bee of the staff

Either through intentional or accidental means, she has a bit of insight on the true goals/purpose of the research facility (which further inflates her ego lmao)

She kinda just does whatever she wants, wherever, whenever

Kevin (he/they) (Prev Hero AU)

You know him

my Sheikah OC for my Prev Hero Zelda AU (#prev hero au on my main blog if you wanna see stuff abt it)

A vampire, as all Sheikah are in my AU (lore and ‘mechanics’ wise it might be more fitting to call them dhampirs)

Comes from a long line of Sheikah who has worked as personal guards/security for the royal family

He's the son of that era's incarnation of Impa. He's taken over his mom’s role as Zelda’s bodyguard, and carries the title of “Impa” during the events of the AU since his mom just up and went MIA one day.

Something’s… going on between him and that era’s Link 🤨

Enjoys print-making and bookbinding in their free-time

Religious guilt and dealing with crazy expectations and a legacy to uphold, as every zelda au does <3

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Timestamps and covered events under the cut. Almost impossible to believe this is the finale! I've had such a good time with this game, man, even when it was a bad time. <3 Thank you all so, so much for hanging out as I stumbled through this experience!

0:10 - Introduction, discussion of decisions 5:43 - A list of demands 7:38 - A discussion of Varric 10:05 - Revisiting the chest in the Fade 15:40 - Talking with Taash, Emmrich, Neve 17:47 - I hope Lucanis was worried 29:10 - I had no idea Solas had done that 33:58 - Talking with Davrin & Assan, remembering Harding, final score 12-8-11 41:07 - Varric's door 44:17 - Lucanis 48:55 - Lucanis four more times 1:06:16 - Follow-up with Lucanis 1:09:59 - Beginning The Last Gambit 1:18:25 - Beginning the assault 1:26:17 - Thinking about the Davrin choice 1:31:20 - Finding Teia and Neve 1:35:15 - Finding Viper and Tarquin 1:35:55 - Rook meets Solas 1:41:32 - Hook, line, and sinker 1:45:33 - Solas talks to Davrin 1:46:55 - I love that we're fighting with him 1:51:36 - Solas talks to Lucanis 1:54:01 - Solas is 0-6, mortals are 6-0 1:59:38 - Reuniting with Bellara 2:00:35 - The biggest sad pup you ever did see 2:04:02 - Bellara is gone 2:08:15 - Bellara is safe(ish), Morrigan arrives, Taash arrives with Adahla and Dorian & Mae 2:11:54 - Priority: Earth 2:13:45 - Sleeping Demon 2:15:05 - Myrna loves Rook :), speaking with faction NPCs 2:20:50 - A secret about Viper 2:29:13 - Their friendship is so important 2:31:32 - I am a complete and utter idiot to have fallen for this 2:39:35 - Talking with Taash, Emmrich, Bellara, Neve, Davrin 2:47:51 - Talking with Lucanis :) 2:55:22 - Beginning The Dread Wolf Rises 3:10:58 - Take two 3:24:03 - Reuniting with Bellara (again) 3:27:42 - Reaching the throne room (this city was black when you got here) 3:34:40 - The Dread Wolf cannot save you (beginning the second stage) 3:36:16 - You are not my god 3:37:56 - The man is just as bloodied as the dog 3:40:53 - Mine is stronger than yours 3:42:06 - Death, Pride 3:45:42 - Those he has wronged 3:46:40 - An old friend 3:48:30 - Humbled at last 3:50:52 - Final freedom for Bellara, Varric's epilogue 3:55:09 - Credits begin, initial very scattered thoughts (blood magic saves the world) 4:01:04 - I need to see Adahla and Solas's first conversation after this 4:05:53 - Reviewing my five demands 4:10:18 - Really big zoomies 4:16:34 - Bellara, Solas tearing out the dragon's throat 4:17:23 - Thinking about Lucanis's final romance scene, Rook and Solas talking down the road 4:20:42 - Conjecturing what happens in other endings/import states 4:24:00 - Post-credit scene 4:29:16 - Rook & Lucanis 4:36:31 - Satisfied with my romance choice(s) 4:40:19 - When did I suspect Varric was dead? & thoughts on non-spoiled-ness 4:46:04 - Overall impressions 4:49:53 - Side NPC romances, difficulty settings 4:53:37 - Animations 4:55:41 - Hawke & Fenris receiving the news about Varric 4:57:13 - Best game vs. favorite game 5:07:43 - Rook absolutely gets lost in Lucanis's house (ideas for their future, Illario) 5:12:22 - Thoughts on various NPCs 5:14:19 - Emmrich would have been paste 5:16:40 - Veilguarding 5:18:48 - Alternate endings for Solas 5:21:08 - More thoughts on Rook & Lucanis's future 5:22:39 - Thoughts on the voice acting 5:24:39 - Final thoughts, wrap-up

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🌙 Books for Arab American Heritage Month 🌙

🌙 Good morning, bookish bats, and Eid Mubarak to those who are celebrating. Eid al-Fitr ("the feast of breaking the fast") marks the end of Ramadan, an Islamic holy month of fasting and sacrifice. April is also Arab American Heritage month, which celebrates the 3.7 million Arab Americans across the country. This is an opportunity to combat Anti-Arab bigotry by challenging stereotypes and prejudices.

✨ One of the best ways to do so is to read books ABOUT Arab Americans. To help, here are a few books for Arab American Heritage Month you can read, discuss, or add to your ever-growing TBR!

[ List under the cut. ]

✨ Growing up, I didn't have books that represented my experiences as an Arab or Muslim American. My friends didn't have stories to read that could help them understand my perspective. With that in mind, I added children's books on the last slide, for the moms out there searching for diverse books--books that allow us to empathize and understand different perspectives and experiences.

🌙 A Woman Is No Man - Etaf Rum ✨ The Other Americans - Laila Lamami 🌙 You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat ✨ Grape Leaves - Gregory Orfalea and Sharif Elmusa 🌙 The Wrong End of the Telescope - Rabih Alameddine ✨ The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah 🌙 Martyr - Kaveh Akbar ✨ Between Two Moons - Aisha Abdel Gawad 🌙 Tasting the Sky - Ibtisam Barakat ✨ A Game for Swallows - Zeina Abirached 🌙 Love Is An Ex-Country - Randa Jarrar ✨ The Thirty Names of Night - Zeyn Joukhadar

🌙 I Was Their American Dream - Malaka Gharib ✨ A Country Called Amreeka - Alia Malek 🌙 A Theory of Birds - Zaina Alsous ✨ Against the Loveless World - Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Arab in America - Toufic El Rassi ✨ The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher 🌙 Sex and Lies - Leïla Slimani ✨ Loom - Thérèse Soukar Chehade 🌙 Birds of Paradise - Diana Abu-Jaber ✨ Come With Me - Noami Shihab Nye 🌙 Girls of Riyadh - Rajāʼ ʻAbd Allāh Ṣāniʻ ✨ How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? - Moustafa Bayoumi

🌙 Evil Eye - Etaf Rum ✨ The Girl Who Fell to Earth - Sophia Al-Maria 🌙 What Strange Paradise - Omar El Akaad ✨ Girls That Never Die - Safia Elhillo 🌙 Bahari - Dina Macki ✨ Life Without a Recipe - Diana Abu-Jaber 🌙 Egyptian Diary - Richard Platt ✨ Man O'War - Cory McCarthy 🌙 The Cave - Amani Ballour, MD ✨ The Map of Salt and Stars - Zeyn Joukhadar 🌙 They Called Me a Lioness - Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri ✨ Salt Houses - Hala Alyan

🌙 Arabiyya - Reem Assil ✨ Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Shubeik Lubeik - Deena Mohamed ✨ The Wrong End of the Telescope - Rabih Alameddine 🌙 Conditional Citizens - Laila Lamami ✨ An Unnecessary Woman - Rabih Alameddine 🌙 It Won't Always Be Like This - Malaka Gharib ✨ Proud - Ibtihaj Muhammad 🌙 The Land in Our Bones - Layla K Feghali ✨ Everything Comes Next - Naomi Shihab Nye 🌙 The Immortals of Tehran - Ali Araghi ✨ Starstruck - Sarafina El-Badry Nance

🌙 Our Women on the Ground - Various ✨ The Jasad Heir - Sara Hashem 🌙 Tell Me How You Really Feel - Aminah Mae Safi ✨ Surge - Etel Adnan 🌙 Here to Stay - Sara Farizan ✨ We Hunt the Flame - Hafsah Faisal 🌙 A Tempest of Tea - Hafsah Faizal ✨ The Bad Muslim Discount - Syed M. Masood 🌙 A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena ✨ Not the Girls You're Looking For - Aminah Mae Safi 🌙 All-American Muslim Girl - Nadine Jolie Courtney ✨ The Moon That Turns You Back - Hala Alyan

🌙 Ms. Marvel - Destined - Saladin Ahmed ✨ Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card - Sara Saedi 🌙 Internment - Samira Ahmed ✨ Stardust Thief - Chelsea Abdullah 🌙 Once Upon an Eid - Various ✨ Farah Rocks Fifth Grade - Susan Muaddi Darraj 🌙 Barakah Beats - Maleeha Siddiqui ✨ Amira's Picture Day - Reem Faruqi 🌙 The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman ✨ Lailah's Lunchbox - Reem Faruqi 🌙 In My Mosque - M.O. Yuksel ✨ Halal Hot Dogs - Susannah Aziz

🌙 The Proudest Blue - Ibtihaj Muhammad ✨ Silverworld - Diana Abu-Jaber 🌙 Other Words for Home - Jasmine Warga ✨ Time to Pray - Maha Addasi 🌙 Under My Hijab - Hena Khan ✨ Wishing Upon the Same Stars - Jacquetta Nammar Feldman 🌙 Amina's Voice - Hena Khan ✨ Yasmin the Recycler - Saadia Faruqi 🌙 The Shape of Thunder - Jasmine Warga ✨ Deep in the Sahara - Kelly Cunnane, Hoda Hadadi 🌙 The Turtle of Michigan - Naomi Shihab Nye ✨ Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria - George Jreije

[repentulant]

(  laura  harrier  .  cis  woman  .  she  /  her  )      ⸻   maeve  reddings  ,  a  thirty  four  year  old  ,  has  survived  another  day  in  red  creek  where  they  have  lived  for  their  entire  life  .  the  MARIONETTE  is  known  for  being  altruistic  and  superstitious  and  is  often  associated  with  a  heart  that  is  likely  to  spill, dog - eared pages in a beloved book,  another  life  waiting  just  around  the  corner.  in  a  small  town  where  they  work  as  teacher  @  red  creek  k-12  word  travels  fast  .  it’s  hard  to  keep  a  secret  ,  and  it  looks  like  the  boogeyman  knows  that [ 𝙴 𝚁 𝚁 𝙾 𝚁 ] .

a pawn— no, a puppet to the reddings family dynasty. meet the marionette. maeve was born knowing the path her family carved out for her. she witnessed the passion behind her parents' eyes, their life's missions to make red creek the new heart of michigan. she committed the family success stories to heart. she was destined ( doomed ) to small town sainthood ; to give & give until nothing is left, then to push that boundary further. where others may have cracked under the pressure, maeve treated it like a warm embrace. she welcomed the hefty expectations of her family, treated them like a checklist to complete.

she had an entire childhood to pretend the weight of the world wasn't on their shoulders. despite this allowance, maeve still felt a necessity to sneak around. all of her fun was kept secret, tied to a tight - knit group of friends. if anyone were to ask questions, maeve was simply present for risk reduction. the family name has always come with familiarity. parental expectations aside, the community recognizes the emphasis behind it as well. the family that can & will fix it– even better, they'll package it into something shiny & new. another notion that she accepted with pride. she would be the picture - perfect daughter ; a shoulder to cry on, a patron saint, whatever another person needed.

although the burden of the family name was sidelined for her younger years, she had another more important duty to fulfill— being an older sister. her siblings grew up under her own watchful gaze, less expectant & more fond.

graduating high school, she realized they had been lead into a false, almost blithe approach to life. it was as if weights began to stack on her shoulders. the family legacy was on the line & she couldn't let it fade. ( even worse now, that the name DEAD CREEK looms above their heads. )

other notes:

maeve never left red creek. even when she pursued her degree, she applied for online courses that were available out the time & supplemented other credits by commuting to the nearby university. red creek simply calls to her — there's an uncomfortable ache in her chest whenever she leaves, even just for a weekend trip.

becoming a teacher was her way of continuing the reddings dynasty. social anxiety made pitching the rentals difficult, but here– she would carve herself a spot in the daily lives of red creek families, all from behind a 9th grade teacher's desk. during the beginning years of her career, she had trouble being seen as a teacher & not as a friend. she's truly mastered the art now– a beloved history teacher who is always willing to be a listening ear.

a chronic fixer. if there is a problem, maeve will find a solution. and if there isn't a problem, she's searching for one.

CHARACTER STATISTICS.

full name:  maeve  reddings.   /   nickname(s):  mae  (friends/family).   /   birthdate:  august  28,  1990 ( 34 ).   /   birthplace:  red  creek,  michigan.   /   zodiac signs:  virgo  sun,  sagittarius  moon,  scorpio  rising.   /   gender + pronouns:  cis woman + she&her.   /   orientation:  bisexual. faceclaim:  laura  harrier.   /   height:  5 ft,  9 in.   /   hair color:  black.   /   hair style:  just  passed  her  shoulders,  often  worn  like  this.   /   eye color:  brown.   /   tattoos + piercings:  yes,  see pinterest.   /   scars:  none. education level:  MAT.  /   occupation:  9th  grade  history  teacher  @  red  creek  k-12.   /   residence:  a  house  on  norwood  street,  notably  facing  the  price  home. positive traits:  altruistic,  well-mannered,  forgiving.   /   negative traits:  reclusive,  repressed,  -.   /   sociability:  moderate.   /   emotional stability:  moderate  to  high.   /   character study:  jane  (pride  &  prejudice),  beth  (little  women),  ann  (parks  &  rec),  jess  (new  girl),  jj  (criminal  minds) — NOTABLE CONNECTIONS: sabine reddings (sister).

[chrisevansonly]

𝐃𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤 - 𝐈𝐧 🐣

ʚheadcannon

ʚ chris evans x momma evans x arlie mae

ʚ no warnings

ʚ well i’ve listened and heard what you’ve been missing, so here’s a little check in with our little duck…i’m working on getting some more motivation to write for this au so all i ask is for a bit of patience but i see you all missing it ;)

Arlie Mae is now 6 years old and absolutely LOVING kindergarten, she’s making so many friends, helping her teachers and starting to gain some more independence!

Wesley is a year old now, he’s walking, running and of course saying a few words here and there, though he hasn’t started talking as much as they were hoping for his age so it’s something Momma and Chris are keeping an eye on!

Momma E is working from home part time as a lawyer still, she’s taking on cases every so often and working from home has made it a lot easier to manage the kids and now that Chris is home full time they have lots of time to spend together!

They now run a full time animal rescue and sanctuary at their home! They have a small group of staff who work at the barn and have some who stay in the apartment they have above the barn for overnight watch! Though they themselves are very hands on as well!

They have another dog now too, Dodger is still as energetic as ever, and now they have a cocker spaniel named Lucy, who Arlie absolutely adores!

Arlie horseback rides now during the week, she is OBSESSED with horses and loves her riding lessons coming home and saying “momma it was so fun!” “i jumped!” “we should get a pony!” and she’s been begging for her own pony, which is something you and Chris have been talking about recently.

Wesley goes to daycare, the same as Arlie three times a week to get some exposure to being around other kids and to get used to what it will be like eventually be like to go to school! Though he isn’t talking a bunch yet he is super expressive and adores painting just like his sister!

Wesley also loves anything with his dad, Chris takes him out for little father and son dates and he just loves it. He would rather spend all day everyday with his father than doing anything else!

All in all the family has been doing super well and loving the settled down life, there have been talks of maybe expanding their family but for now they’re enjoying the quietness of the country, and themselves.

🤍🐣

[rodolfoparras]

Dude it's so sad, because I know Mrs. Voorhees loved her son soo much and Jason loved her too, he literally hallucinates her during some of the movies and uses her voice to guide him.

In the second movie where Jason is the killer, one of the girls finds his cabin and finds Mrs. Voorhees decaying head and her bloody sweater and fucking put on the sweater to manipulate Jason into not killing her😞

In another movie, this boy was obsessed with Camp Crystal Lake and Jason's death, and when Jason was trying to kill him and his older sister, he shaved his head bald and shit to make Jason think he was seeing his younger self ☹️

Ik they do it to survive a serial killer 😭 but it's a little fucked up imo

With the Leatherface, he wears his mask because of his deformities and because he was so bullied during school. Luda Mae loved him and worried about him all the time.

"Taking the child as her own, she brought him back to the Hewitt residence and presented him to Mr. Hewitt who declared that it was the "ugliest damn thing" he had ever seen. Luda May thought that he was beautiful however. She named him Thomas and raised him as her own son."

With the meat factory, it was probably the only job he could get with his disabilities at the time, but he loved it too. Butchering was "all he was good at" because of his behavior as a kid where he'd capture, kill, and skin the hide off of small animals. When the factory closed, he refused to leave and winds up killing the manager because he tried forcing him out.

I love these two so much, especially Jason. My favorite Jason artist is dukesnukes on here, pleeeaaaase go check him out. He has a bunch of really cool ocs too and I think you'd enjoy. He has the best design for Jason imo, you should check his twt (dukes_nukes) out too 🫶🫶🫶

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Nooo that’s so heartbreaking :(( especially when she’s probably the only person that truly loved him genuinely ppl make way too cruel backstories to their characters 😭

I mean in a way I do understand why she did that bc she probably wanted to survive 😭 but I also see the wrong in tampering with what remains of his moms belongings and playing tricks on practically a heartbroken kid:(

Wait but where do they get this ideas from;!!33! I mean I guess I can understand wearing his moms shirt (even though realistically that’s a silly strategy ) but who thinks of shaving themselves bald in hopes of surviving a killer😭and it’s kind of sad bc obviously the dude has both mental and physical disabilities:( like it won’t take much to trick him

I have to admit I absolutely love stories where you have a couple, ones a grumpy old man who dislikes the accidentally adopted kid and the other is a woman who absolutely loves the kid idk it’s strangely comforting? Like the ppl she loves and trust repeatedly point out the flaws on the kid yet she’s like that’s okay I can love them anyway reminds me a lot of courage the cowardly dog I used to absolutely love the grandmas love for courage

Well you know what? If he loved working there bc he felt it was the only thing he was good at then I 100% am for him working there 😤

I will definitely check it out sugar bee thank you so for the tip!!!