#sigh anyway

[graciehart]

— washington irving

[ja3yun]

someone stealing my work on wattpad is crazy and disrespectful enough but it annoys me more the fact that they probably never listened to TO1 a day in their life but they didn't bother to change the opening lines 😭

also btw this person has been stealing like, LOTS of content and translating it so just a heads up to my fellow writers

[rozeliyawashereyall]

I fucked around, I found out, and I came out with an AU that wouldn't make the slightest of sense in the actual universe of where the series take place

But do indulge me, cringe AUs are addictively fun to make.

Thanks to @weltthejellyfish , @lightdragon789 , and @astralbulldragon13 for writing like, 98% of everything, would be clueless about my own AU without you 🙏

Anywho chat. Casino AU.

The casino is kind of like?? A haunted house?? Or at least the concept of it. Yeah human owned places are scattered publicly, but halfblood owned ones are in more secluded and secretive places—no human was allowed into said places, only those who are like, an altruist for halfbloods, and even they have very limited access.

Bug getting into the casino would be very difficult, they'd have to first find out where the casino even is, find it and pretend to be an ally and after that slowly work their way up and face some pretty hard challenges

The casino is a family business that was bustling at first but Cercie caught wind of it and started hunting down every family member until it was only bodie left. With only Bodie running the business, he finds a college graduate, Marco, and decides to hire him as a dealer. A few years later and he finds a kid abandoned by his step parents, Timmy, and the rest is history.

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The descriptions of the three in the drawings:

-​Swamp of Fortune was a family business run by the Willowroots, but after Cercei caught wind of it she started hunting down every family member until it was only Bodie left. Stressed and paranoid about his safety, he closed the casino down and resulted to alcohol for a few years before meeting Marco, a shady college graduate who's determined to help he guy out of his slump. One thing lead to another and now the casino is both getting popular again and is under watch by the government for alleged suspicious practices.

-​Marco Palustris Cydarki dropped out of college after his involvement with dangerous people led to concerns for his safety. While he majored in computer science, his real talent lies in the arts. After dropping out, he found refuge with Bodie, an older man who just happens to own a casino, one that has a history of questionable purchases and suspicious rumors. Marco has been assisting him in various capacities since being taken in. Whether Bodie's influence is protective or manipulative remains to be seen, but Marco has stuck around, likely owing something to his benefactor.

-​Timmy’s life has been a mix of captivity and survival. Born under Cercie Fain’s control, his parents faked his death, cutting off his dragon wings to pass him off as a regular gator half-blood. After being auctioned off, he was raised by Elizabeth Wheat on a half-blood farm until Cercie’s men took him. He later escaped, and found himself stranded and injured in the city, where Bodie found him and became a father figure for the guy. Since then, he's grown into a mini-manager at the casino, following in Bodie’s footsteps as a floor supervisor. Despite being the smallest his presence is larger than life.

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These little guys personalities are a mix of OG and BM. So more sadistically playful, hence the neutral/hate relationship Marco and Timmy have with bug in this AU. Timmy and Marco probably see Bug as just a new pet, but with them getting more popular around the casino and climbing up— they could turn from a pet to a threat to the two. When it’s revealed that they’re a cop, they probably do some very… thorough interrogation to make sure they are actually on the casino’s side. Then maybe Bug offers to be a Triple Agent. They're lucky Bodie likes them around, I fear they would NOT survive if he didn't enjoy their company, they'd be torn apart if it wasnt for him...he may have used that to his advantage..but Bodie’s just so sweet, they’d never suspect anything..

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Crimes👍

​Money laundering

​Bootlegging

​Illegal gambling

​Probably murder ngl

​Loan sharking

​Labor racketeering

​stock manipulation

​Tax fraud

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Stupid stuff:

​They'd only start calling bug, well, bug, because they were caught in their trap, and they have a habit of playing with their food. After they start using Bug as a double agent they start throwing in other nicknames—First it was just bug but then it'd turn into more playful variations of it (IE: Waterbug, Sugarbug, Bedbug, etc) The day Bodie calls them Sugar Bug, they are caught so off guard

​Bodie gifted Bug a pair of butterfly earrings as a welcome gift, only for the earrings to turn out to be a tracking device/listening ddevice.

​Timmy would drink like five cocktails and get black out drunk because they don’t taste like alcohol. Mudslide would be his favorite though. I can picture Marco drinking red wine, he'd would like mulled wine or wassail during winter. Bodie is either whiskey, or bourbon, but during business meetings, they all drink Willowroot family recipe Moonshine

​Bodie still drinks but has cut back. He only drinks half a bottle compared to the two a day he used to drink.

Bug's aim is so fucking bad bro, it's storm trooper level bad

More stupid stuff but timeline version, kinda, idk actually:

-Bug was tasked to locate the casino, gets chased and almost mauled by a halfblood before Bodie intervenes and helps Bug from dying.

- I'd imagine when Bug is recovering and is eager to work to repay Bodie back. He asks Timmy to keep watch of Bug and kind of assesses Bug to see if they could work at the casino and the two talk from there

-Then Bodie and Timmy along with Bug, go out on a walk, talking about taxe evasion, casinos, and mafias, all that fun jazz. But they stumble upon Tony and Sparkie trying to track down any rogue halfbloods. prompt them to relay it to Cercie that Bug found the casino and she sends the hunters to bug, just to tell them to get every secret they can find and report back to them. Which Bug is very hesitant on doing. Not only because they’ve helped them and shown they aren’t the monsters their people painted them as... also because these gator folk could kill them very easily.

Like the end of episode 3 or maybe when Marco comes in with info on Bug (that maybe Bodie asked Marco to do a background check or interrogate Bug idk man) and that’s when they ask Bug to be a double agent

-It’s been a few months (maybe) and Bug is stressing but pulling through being a double agent in relaying info to both sides. But also getting closer to the bois as they treated them slightly better then Cercie and her people did. Which results in Bug confiding in Bodie and being accepted into their lives.

Idk what to do with the rest bro you figure it out.

Last stupid stuff I promise

Okay I'm done now

Yippee @capitalmaudios @magebunkshelf @dayspriteofficial

[gojoest]

you know how in shoujo manga when the female character dresses up super cute and the male character goes all silent and doesn’t even look at her just takes her hand and drags her away like “i don’t want anyone to see you like this” with a big blush on his face hidden by his bangs or something and that is something satoru would do too like “you trying to make me kill innocent ppl that have laid their eyes on you now”

[maharellasa]

I actually have conflicted feelings about the spoilers, it's a constant switch between "AAAAHHH WE'RE GETTING TO SEE THAT" and a sort of disappointment because I wish I could see that in-game without knowing it would happen you see my problem

[clockwork-carstairs]

speaking my truth that the city of bones movie deserved better ✊ i remember watching it as a kid back in 2014 and people can say what they want but they NAILED the ya urban fantasy vibes in that film, plus some of the clary and jace moments were just so sweet………no matter what there will always always be something so nostalgic and dreamy about it to me

[talesfromthecrypts]

Sam Reid as Finlay in The Railway Man (2013)

[flor4de4amor]

chat lemme over share again before i go take my nap bc i just got home

so i was walking home, as girls in the world do. n everytime i walk home literally every jobless man in my town in sitting in front of the liquor store. BUT TODAY, the most finest of fine mascs was there w them niggas n i was like walking so i wouldn’t have to interact w all them. bc i have a long commute n im just very oh so very tired. anyway she was looking at me n was like, “can yall move, pretty girl tryna get home rn.” i literally died inside n was smiling blushing so hard.

[sunderberry]

More of my "Valentino owns Husk's soul" AU. Husk is not having a good time.

[lushinart]

[mischas]

I just saw on reddit that Josh apparently said in the podcast that Ryan's bio father was never physically abusive... even though it's mentioned several times- both in S3 and in the season you will never watch (as you should)- that he was. Why am I not surprised 🙄

Mm I heard that, I think. And I think there's something in the book about the character adequately serving ~time~ and that being enough. JS is impervious to criticism or self-reflection so of course he's in denial about that in particular. He's very controlled about what he'll admit to even now about his missteps and mistakes. It blows my mind.

And since I'm on the topic

He says in the book that he could tell the core four was over the show based off 301 beach dailies and it's like bro did we watch the same footage? They're all having fun! M/B are revitalized! The core four had literally hung out publicly that summer prior to filming for the first time in over a year! JS was aware that things had calmed down somehow. And let's say the editors picked what looked best for that montage, they probably did... that's the actors' business! It doesn't mean you as head writer and faux showrunner can also stop giving a shit. Maybe they want to perform good storytelling! 224 is insanely good and sets up such good dynamics moving forward and 301 is an entire season's worth of story in 43 minutes. JS blaming the network for s3 grinds my gears. They could've seen from 304 that Johnny wasn't gonna work and that Charlotte was meaningless. Jesus......

[raidenloml]

cant wait to get home to play a niche square enix game with 27 fanfics on ao3 for my friend i am genuinely so excited already have a favourite character i know nothing about (hes the only one ive seen period havent even looked at the steam page)

[eremin0109]

Nah but it's so funny to me how Kiryu ugly sobs and screams his lungs out and cradles Tachibana so close in his arms and refuses to part with him even as his sister comes close to hold him during his death scene but with Yumi (who's supposed to be the love of his life apparently lmao) he doesn't even shed a single tear when she dies like ?????? Sir????

[alonsolobotomy]

everyday i wake up with the primal urge to drive something. brother i dont even have my drivers permit yet i can barely parallel park

[texasinnersmile]

when i was a kid and i’d watch the simpsons or other cartoons and i’d identify with characters like mrs krabappel being lonely and jaded and eternally single in a job she hated and i’d be like ‘that’s gonna be me when i’m older’ which is incredibly sad but also lowkey hilarious. how did nobody pick up on what a depressed child i was

[stabbyfoxandrew]

my laptop loves updating right when i have lots of writing to do

it also loves taking for fucking ever to do so