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[ronearoundblindly]

Sneak Peek 💜💚💜

frat boy! Ari Levinson x college student!Reader

At a party with your boyfriend when things aren't going well between you, your old classmate--the notorious jock and man-whore, Ari--catches you in a weak moment...

Warnings for drinking/partying but not much else in this bit. (That might be a terrible summary for this excerpt but I made there too much going on to explain succinctly. My bad.) WC 720

The compulsion to be kind and quiet continues as you follow him out, tucking your hands under your arms so Billy won’t try to hold your hand, but it doesn’t matter. He walks ahead of you a few feet to keep up with his friends on the walk down the road to the Kappa house.

The two-story, plantation-style home is packed to the gills, making it hard to maneuver farther in than the front door, and of course, the first person you recognize is a brother of the fraternity living there.

Ari Levinson stands halfway up the staircase overlooking the crowd like a king surveying his domain, hair grown long and a beard worthy of his fifth-year undergrad status. He’s wearing a button-up linen shirt as if he just walked in from the beach, perpetually sun-kissed skin glowing, the carefree blue fabric matching his eyes.

Asshole.

He probably showed up to his own damn house, cocked his head, and smirked.

“Y’all having a party?” he probably asked, chill as fuck.

Idiot…probably. You don’t know what happened to him after Women’s Studies two years ago, but you can’t imagine he got better. Nothing changes.

His queen-for-the-day leans into his ear, her top half covered only by a red bandana and not much below that hidden by a miniskirt.

What sluts. Both of them. They deserve each other.

He’s so sexy though.

His smile is bright while he doesn’t spill the contents of his red Solo cup on anyone below him on the stairs. Seems his drunk coordination has improved since your freshman year at the very least.

“Babe,” you hear yelled close to your ear, “take it!”

Billy shoves one of two cups he’s carrying into your hands and shouts for you to follow him. He wants to play beer pong in one of back rooms downstairs with no room to stand and watch. There are no chairs, but Billy asks if want to play with him. In no reality would he think you’d answer ‘yes’ in this chaos, but then again, he hasn’t noticed you won’t take a sip of the drink you didn’t see poured either.

You yell back that you’re going to find a seat somewhere. Billy gets pulled off for the next partnered game.

The only open spot that isn’t a squeeze beside couples going at it in public is a bench underneath the cutout of the staircase. You took a detour to dump your cup in crowded kitchen’s sink and sit alone for a while, people-watching, wondering vaguely about the king and queen above you on the steps.

Parties…are not all that fun when you don’t feel safe.

You’re not sure how much time passes before a light blue linen shirt invades your view.

“Thirsty?” Ari asks casually, offering the only cup he carries.

You wave it off with a ‘no, thank you’ even though that should be sketchier than your boyfriend getting you a drink.

Ari takes a huge gulp and shuffles his broad body onto the too-short edge of the bench beside you. He seems careful not to touch you or invade your space, the barest graze of a short-sleeve cuff brushing the skin of your upper arm.

Again, Ari tilts the cup toward you. “Jack and coke,” he shrugs, lifting his eyebrows, “mostly coke though. I’ve been here a while. You’re basically late.”

He wouldn’t drug himself with anything, you imagine, and worst case, Ari’s already much drunker than you.

You pluck the half-full Solo from his hand and take a small sip. He’s right about one thing; you can’t smell or taste any alcohol.

Ari smiles softly.

“Where’s what’s-his-face?” He scans the hall. “Probably getting you something better, huh?”

You can’t help but frown and sigh as Ari takes another swig of soda, his pink lips nearly hidden beneath the hair of his beard, but you remember they are quite plump.

“Where’s your girlfriend?” you throw back, and keep your guess silent. Perhaps knuckle deep in the toilet?

Ari contemplates for a moment. “Flying with the pigs,” he settles on.

“What?”

He repeats himself, and then, seeing your confusion, he leans closer to clarify, “she doesn’t exist. I don’t have a girlfriend.”

Poor bandana girl. That’s a little harsh to be fobbed off so soon.

“So—”Ari elbows you gently “—how you been, smartie-pants?”

A/N: I cannot express to you the sheer amount of internal screaming I have done while writing this. He's...he's too...uhhhh my gawdddddd. He's too beautiful.

[Main Masterlist; Ko-Fi]

[apt502-if]

ANDI SHARMA [SECRET RO]

Andi is not only your close friend but also your anchor, a confidant you can lean on through everything. Friendly and humorous, Andi is a walking green flag...aside from the fact that their job always has them traveling. Their constant disappearances and sporadic absence makes it hard for them to make any meaningful relationships, both platonic and romantic. Andi hasn't had much in the latter department...not that they're looking. They need someone who understands them. A person they believe is hard to find.

Also Rainn's best friend, Andi is now stuck in the middle of your breakup. Forced to play pacemaker and both sides. Andi doesn't want to but they don't really have a choice,do they? Better not to do anything to make things more complicated. Not that there would be any reason to. Right?

Don't date your best friend. Especially not your best friend who also happens to be your ex's best best friend. That is an easy rule. It should be an easy rule.

Andi has light brown skin, brown eyes and thick black hair. f!A's hair is wavy and falls down their back while m!A's hair is floppy and cut short just above their ears. Their style is loose and comfortable and slightly bohemian.

[childrenofcain-if]

i have two good news and one bad news. the good news are:

alby has started on looking through chapter two and coding it.

i’m almost done with chapter three as i only have to finish the branching in D’s route.

now for the bad news: my fever has gotten worse alongside my health. i’m trying to get the last few scenes done but i have a lot of plot points to check off and not enough energy. i’ll probably take a complete break from writing for a day or two and be on tumblr for the time being.

D’s route is turning out to be very dramatic and i’m happy since that’s what i had in mind from the beginning. their scenes are my favourite right now and i had so much fun writing them. here’s a little sneak peek into it:

the word count right now for chapter three is 150k.

[night-market-if]

Chapter Three Public Release

The time has come! The public release for chapter three! Dive back into the Night Market and journey through a few new places, meet some characters, and discover more about your RO's.

Reach the new chapter here

And don't forget to join Patreon. This month we will be focusing on post chapter stories. :)

🪷✨🪷✨ If you want to support me 🪷 ✨🪷✨ 

🌿 Free Demo 🌿Book 1 Steam🌿Book 1 Itch.io🌿🌿 Patreon 🌿Discord🌿FAQS🌿

[ghastlyaffairs]

for something as trivial and simple those feelings sure are hard to get rid of

also made a gif a version for fun + alt version with no tears under the cut

the gif is in very low resolution...this is a feature (i could make it bigger but that would require saving each frame individually and than glueing it all together. also i feel like low resolution suits it better. aesthetically and fits the mood)

[thelonelyshore-if]

How would each ro act after the first morning after waking up next to mc?

I was so thoroughly obsessed with this prompt that I just kept writing as I was working on Beck's answer. And then I realized I wanted to just like...write drabbles for each of the ROs. So I'm going to do that. Sorry that it isn't all at once, Nonnie, but I love this prompt and wanted to really write something out for each. I hope you still enjoy! <3

Beck- drabble here!

Croft- drabble here!

Jay- wip

Perri- wip

Ravi- wip

Yasmin- wip

[gaydonweaver]

this would do numbers. somewhere

[herotome]

Devlog #147

Hi-ho, Wudge here. Early devlog because I postponed last week!

Here's a wip of Myster's hero outfit:

I haven't quite narrowed down a color scheme yet, and his helmet tassel should probably billow out a bit more...

..... I'm really doing everything in my power to delay a proper face reveal as long as possible l o l, since he takes a while before he shows up in-person in-game.

Because the first time you meet him, you might see something like--!

DUNDUN!!!

I coded my first chatroom scene using Nighten's renpy phone asset!

It's technically a placeholder, because the end result should look and function more like this concept art -

But having the chat conversation be functional and on screen, even if it doesn't encapsulate the full scope of what I envisioned, helped me make some progress in small areas such as...

Drawing custom emotes for Griffin (and only Griffin):

(... I wanna draw more emotes for the other characters but I dont have any good ideas yet lol)

And character profile pictures!!!

I'm gonna take an extra moment to talk about how I DREW GRIFFIN IN A PICREW STYLE... I didn't just make an avatar on picrew, okay?!! I drew it by hand!!!!! Behold:

All the layers! You can see where I took some shortcuts like, not fully drawing out the cup bc most of it was gonna be covered by the hand haha.

I also coded in a function to resize and crop the MC's picture in-engine so -

I don't have to waste time manually making lil pfps for the base MC set (or for any future MC designs)

YOUR custom uploaded MC image will be automatically resized for you!!! (Though you might have to reposition your image if it's not centered... Or maybe it wont make a difference bc you used a picture of fried chicken or potatoes for your MC.)

It's been a blast to work on this, I really enjoyed making images for it. Each icon is about 100x100 pixels or smaller, so it feels really low pressure, fast, and fun.

... Oh, right.

I also did some writing and editing!

And I got to a point where MC can see Gemini, the former leader/Ms Hiatus herself, in an online video.

... I've gotta put her in a square and customize the textbox to make it clearer, though, that she hasn't shown up in person or anything. Haha.

Stay safe and keep warm,

Wudge.

[tosahobi-if]

How does the ROs kiss? :D

jinwol kisses in a graceless manner. he's never really kissed anyone before, so as much as he'd like to be more experienced, he has more bite than finesse. think clacking teeth and bumping noses. but i personally think his fumbling manner is endearing! but on the flip side he's a fast learner, and even if he can't pick something up quickly he'll try again and again until he's satisfied.

yul likes to let the mc set the pace at first before ramping up the intensity and taking over – they're the type of person to pull the mc closer, pull away and bite their lip, start kissing their neck. i think they're a very "my way" kind of person once they have the green light in romance. they know what they want and they'll do what they want (and you'll enjoy it too^^)

iseul is a really passionate kisser! i think she kind of gears up before each act of intimacy like she's going into battle dhfhdh so she comes out swinging and knocks it out of the park. the type to kiss with her full body. presses the mc into her, and has roaming hands – hand in their hair, hand on their neck, hand cupping their face – she wants to feel them as closely as possible hehe

xst can stomach fucking easier than kissing, but at the same they're one of the more classically romantic ros. slow, deep kisses, or intensely passionate ones that make you feel like the two of you are melting together. (i like to think that they're confident in the fact that they're more experienced than the mc to make them feel incredible, but they have a habit of briefly squeezing their eyes tightly shut whenever they're nervous.)

[ros-sauce]

assorted low effort nightcords

[vendetta-if]

Halloween + 5K Followers Celebration! 🎃🎉

Hey guys 👋 First of all, I want to say thank you so much for all the support you guys have shown me and my story so far 🥰 Around a year since the demo first came out, we finally broke 5K followers milestone here 😊💖

For this special occasion, since it's still around Halloween, I have now released the Vendetta Halloween Interactive Side Story Special to the public. It's a wholesome little story with little MC, little Ash, and little Rin, along with the usual gang (Viktor, Cara, Takashi, and Luka) 😆

I'll link the now-public Patreon post talking more about the Halloween Interactive Side Story, which also contain the link to the side story, at the end of this post 😁 Feel free to send asks about it too if you'd like 🤗

If you guys enjoy it, please do consider supporting me on Patreon or Ko-Fi. I just released a side story today and the side story and spicy side story ideas request for November are still open. And after that, polls would be held to vote on the ideas 😉A spicy side story is coming soon as well! So, a lot of stuff coming 💖

[Halloween Interactive Side Story]

[Patreon] | [Ko-Fi]

[ronearoundblindly]

In honour of writing 16 fics totalling more than 20,000 words in February so far, I'm gonna...take a nap.

The only VDay request left is Ari Levinson and a kiss out of Envy (sry @brandycranby, you drew the short straw 😬). It will in no way be done by midnight because it's FRATBOY!ari. Spoiler alert: don't write frat boy Ari and expect to have brain power afterwards, he's...too much man.

Teaser plot below the cut:

Like imagine jock Ari who had his typical fun freshman year and then tried so hard to rehab his image and be taken seriously. He has no interest in the girls throwing themselves at the idiot athlete because he's desperate for conversation and genuine affection. He's seen you around for years, always thinking you're too good for him, until he gets a chance at tonight's party at the fraternity house.

Meanwhile, you have been disillusioned of the whole college experience. You get pressure and judgment from all sides: be more social, be less social, have more fun, spend more time studying, focus on school, focus on finding a job for after. The boy you've been seeing is great on paper, and you...just don't feel it. The comfort and trust and spark are just not there. You think he's on the cusp of dumping you because you won't put out.

There's...an incident at the party, and after a short conversation in the hall, you've ended up in Ari's bedroom, in the dark, fighting what can only be described as a blaze of chemistry.

It's for all the wrong reasons though. You and Ari both want validation for polar opposite reasons, and you are both convinced this is a fleeting moment to take advantage of. Does anyone communicate these days? Is there a foundation to build on?

Or will you two simply go up in smoke when the fire dies?

Valentine's Fics of 2024

Anyway. Nap now.

[chimsartblog]

[childrenofcain-if]

THE UPDATE FOR THE DEMO IS NOW LIVE!

what you can expect in this update comprising both chapter two and three:

get an exclusive invite to the illustrious house of styx.

meet the ROs.

try not to burn down the kitchenette with V.

share a tension-filled dance with C.

go on a swim with D.

do some outfit picking with your chosen RO.

who is that blond(e) stranger in the RE4 costume, and why do they look so familiar?

get choked by an RO for all the wrong reasons (and no, it won’t be kinky. repent for your sins!).

get a glimpse into what exactly is... w̵̢͈̱̻͋̔̾̎͌̋̓̏̚͝r̶̭͈̯͊͛̂̕o̷̧̝̤͇͚͚̓͌̒̈́̏̕̕ņ̴̨̬͚͓̫̱̞̘̰͊́̓̅̈̋͠͝ġ̵̨̺̪̳̘̠ up with you.

there may be some errors with pronouns and other stuff popping up, but you can send them to me on discord so we can promptly correct them. beta testers will be desperately needed for the next update so i’ll open the volunteering forms once chapter four is complete! also, it’s important that you start a new game because new variables has been added which might cause you to get stuck in certain areas!

huge shout-out to my talented big sib, @albywritesfiction, for the massive help in coding everything!

PLAY IT HERE!

[l3viat8an]

It’s that time I gotta clean out my camera roll again so here’s some out of context obey me :)

[whatlovelybones-if]

detective kaufmann finishes their cigarette with one last drawn-out drag. they let the embers brush against the edges of their fingers, singeing the almost-healed scabs of burnt skin. for all it’s worth, they don’t react to the pain; instead, they just drop the cigarette and crush it beneath their shoes.

running their fingers through their light blonde-hair, the detective turns to the constable who is watching them a little warily. hiding behind that wariness, however, was a hint of respect for this tall, young detective in their white button-up and an overcoat.

“any additional information i should know about the crime scene we just examined?” the green-eyed detective asks, their tone losing its usual playfulness.

the constable hesitated before taking out a plastic bag with a piece of paper inside. “just this. it was found in the front pocket of the victim’s polo shirt. the people who got the parcel confirmed that they don’t recognise the man or the handwriting.”

the detective opens the bag and carefully fishes the paper out with their gloved hands. aside from noticing that it must have been a post-it note from the colour and type of paper, there was nothing extraordinary about it.

they turn it over. even though detective kaufmann knew that the note wasn’t intended for them, it still makes their hackles rise in slight alarm. they purse their lips as their suspicious gaze falls on the people who received the ‘package’.

the detective always trusted their instincts and this time, their gut told them that something was amiss here; there was something that these people weren’t being honest about. because written in blood-red ink, there were four chilling, yet puzzling words:

are you afraid yet?