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[ventismacchiato]

HI OKAY so question if any of the cast in swy went to college/uni or took classes on the side? like scara or did he and everyone else js poured everything into being an idol does that make sense

omg ok this is fun lemme think.

i hc childes family is actually super rich and he didn’t wanna follow in that so scara was like become an idol with me as a joke and childe was like ok! but i hc he took business colleges classes while being an idol in case it didn’t work out

i feel like scara probably also studied business cus of ei and maybe music production while being a trainee, i don’t think he’d study anything academic in this au while being an idol tbh

yn would be whatever u want

yk how zhanghao from zb1 studied geoscience which is so random 😭 i def think aether or lumine studied smth crazy like that pre debut

for venti hmm hc he probably studied other languages, he probably learned russian and japanese just so he could shit talk with the other group members and become the translator of the group in the early days idk that’s cute

fischl wud probably be a literature nerd based on her actual character, and like how lily from nmixx does those book club livestreams i def think she also would talk about books she’s read and analyzed

i’m blanking on yoimiya, her dad owns a firework store in game right so i rlly have no clue what she wud study if anything at all

also blanking on kazuha and xiao. kazuha also gives me literature vibes cus he likes writing poems, which is also related to songwriting so i feel like he would just focus on music and probably learn how to play more instruments. give me ideas on xiao anyone

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Gouda Girl

1.3K / Modern AU Din Djarin x fem!reader

Summary: On a lazy Sunday afternoon, Din learns a few things about the Netherlands, and you learn a little something too.

Warnings: None - fluff! Bad puns! Established relationship, nicknames (pretty bird, pretty girl, baby).

A/N: This is for @happypedrohours' Charcuterie Board Challenge – I chose 1A and got Din and Gouda!  I legitimately tried to play around with ways that 'Grogu' could be mispronounced as 'Gouda' before settling on a kind of cheat and writing the story in the Safest with You universe with Modern!Din 🫣  (You don't have to read SwY - just know it's a modern au! If you do read SwY - here's a little fluff before we embark on some angst in the series 🫣) If there are any Dutch people reading this, I love you please don't be offended if I got anything wrong, and shout out to Mr. 604 who did in fact go to school in Rotterdam! Please see #happypedrohours for all the other wonderful works!

Orange divider by @saradika-graphics; all moodboard pics are from Pinterest, but I suspect the top and bottom Pedros are from the same source/edit. I’m sorry I didn’t have more info to go on but if you recognize your work, pls let me know so I can credit you properly 🥰

“Hey pretty bird, do you know it’s not actually pronounced ‘Goo-dah’?

“Yup.  It’s pronounced ‘How-duh’.”  You add a little roughness from the back of your throat over the H.

“How did you know that?” The truth is, Din is hardly ever surprised by the things you know – you’re generally a fountain of information; what he can't usually guess is how you come to know the things you know.

“The Dutch pronounce their hard Gs with an H-like sound.”

The two of you have very tentatively been talking about taking a trip to Europe, and a lazy Sunday with no definitive plans but to stay in seems as good a time as any to do some casual trip research.  You’re on opposite ends of your couch, you lazing on one end, one knee propped up against which you balance your sudoku book - twirling your pencil as you study the numbers in the grids.  Din’s extended his long legs on the L-shape end of the sectional, with his laptop open on his lap.  Alfredo the dog stretches out in between the two of you, his furry snoot and one of his paws curling over your calf.  Din was just reading an article entitled “10 Things You Didn’t Know About The Netherlands,” but apparently the proper pronunciation of Gouda, the Netherland’s most popular cheese, was something you knew.  Hmmm, he realizes that you didn’t exactly answer his question. 

“Do you… speak Dutch?”

“Ik doe niet. (I do not)” you grin playfully, still not looking up from your puzzle.  You don’t actually speak Dutch, but like a lot of other languages, you know a random phrase or two.

Din scrolls slowly through the listicle and picks a few that he thinks are the harder ones:

“Do you know what the iconic windmills are used for?”

“To pump water from the land.  A quarter of the Netherlands is below sea level.”

“Why is the national Dutch colour orange?”

“The Dutch royal family is from the House of Orange.”

Din smiles - looks like his smart, pretty bird knows all of these.  He’s now super curious just how familiar you are with Holland, and he knows the exact question to ask to get some additional insight. Pulling up a new web search, he asks, “What would you say are some common Dutch foods?”

“Stroopwafels, bitterballen… and kapsalon?” You look wistful at the memory of these dishes, clearly having actually tried them.

Clickity click click tap tap tap.  After a few seconds, Din’s eyes widen at his screen, “Oh wow, that does look delicious.”

Ok, this is fun, thinks Din – he’s not trying to stump you, he’s happy learning new things about this country and you.  And even though you haven’t actually looked up, he can tell by the way the corners of your mouth are curving and the shine of your eyes, though they remain focused on your puzzle, that you’re having fun too.

Click clack clickedy clack.  Din’s quiet for a few minutes while he reads.  Apparently not satisfied, he enters another search and reads through the new results before throwing out, “Do you know what they call peanut butter in the Netherlands?”

“Pindakaas,” you grin, “it translates to Peanut Cheese.”

“Do you know why?”

You do, “They can’t call it Pindaboter because only things that are actually butter can be called butter.”

Din scrolls, thoughtfully, “Do you know that the Dutch are the tallest people on Earth?”

“I think it has something to do with all the dairy in their diet? The Netherlands has the 3rd highest per capita milk consumption in the world.”  The truth is your knowledge of random Dutch facts is super limited, but by some hilarious coincidence Din is asking you the exact few things you know.  You can’t help but continue to tease him – he’s looking at you with a mixture of wonder and suspicion.

“Did you used to date a Dutch hockey player or something?”

“Don’t be silly, everyone knows that the Dutch winter sport of choice is speed skating.”

Again, it didn’t actually answer his question; Din’s sure that by now you’re just playing around, but he can’t help but picture you with some impossibly tall blonde with thick tree trunk thighs named Jan or Piet or whatever.  Involuntarily, he makes a face as he looks back down at his laptop, typing stoically.

You giggle - you’re out of facts and you want to give you big, pouting boyfriend a hug.  You and Din don’t have any secrets about your respective past relationships, and moreover, Din isn’t prone to jealousy or insecurity, but you feel the strong urge to reassure him nonetheless.  Putting your sudoku down, you hold out your arms, “Come here, baby.”

Din closes his laptop and wedges it against the back cushions before crawling over to your side of the couch; careful not to disturb Al, he comes to a rest between your legs, laying his head against your chest as you run your fingers through his soft curls, lightly scratching your nails against his scalp, “My firm sponsors an MBA program at Erasmus in Rotterdam, and I visited one year with my boss to give a talk.”

“Oh cool,” Din mumbles against your chest, “did you have fun?”

“I did!  We were given a lot of tours and did a few orientations with the students – that’s where I picked up a few Dutch facts and a little bit of nederlands.  It’s really such a lovely place - we should go together, Din.”

“We should, pretty girl,” and after a pause, “so, no 6’8” blonde speed skating paramours?”

“No, baby, I find that these days I only have a thing for brown haired boxers,” your eyes full of love when they meet the soft brown pair that peer up at you.  Then suddenly, those same eyes crinkle in mischief,

“What you’re saying is you’re my gouda girl?”

It takes you a beat before you get the good girl pun and you groan, but Din’s not done yet,

“And that I’m the only one who gets to stroop your waffle?”

You roll your eyes hard and attempt to push Din off, “Omigod, stahhhp.” You giggle as he settles more of his weight on you.

“Hang on, I almost had a good one for ‘bitterballen’ – it was right there.  Boter give me a minute.”

You shriek in laughter as Din lifts up and peppers your neck and face with a flurry of butterfly kisses before he gets off the couch.  Once he’s rounded to the other side, he leans over the back and peers down at you, still with a shit-eating grin on his face, “I’m going to get dinner started.  You gouda with that, pretty bird?”

Din narrowly dodges the swat of your book before chuckling all the way to the kitchen.  He’s ducked into the fridge, pulling out ingredients when you remember something, “Oh!  Can we do something new with the potatoes tonight?  I saw this recipe that I think you might like – and we can use up that dill we have.”

You phone is just out of reach on the coffee table and Al’s snoozing head has your lower half pinned down; you reach over by your feet to grab Din’s laptop so you can find the recipe you were looking at earlier.

Opening up the search engine, you click into the search bar and snicker at all the most recent searches:

Netherlands hockey team

hard little known facts about the Netherlands

Random facts about the Netherlands

How to spell capsulon Dutch food

common dutch foods

travelling to the Netherlands

2 week trip Europe best places to go

But when you get to the oldest recent search, you let out a little gasp that you hope Din doesn’t hear from the kitchen and your eyes widen to the size of saucers:

romantic European proposals

[supitsgdo]

Book review: Loathe to Love You by Ali Hazelwood

Rating:

Under One Roof - 4⭐

Stuck With You - 3⭐

Below Zero - 4⭐

Loathe to Love You is a combination of 3 short stories by Ali Hazelwood: Under One Roof; Stuck With You; Below Zero.

I enjoyed the stories, they are funny and cute. My favourite was Below Zero just because it involves space and astronomy stuff. But is the fourth time reading something from Ali (and I bet the Love on the Brain happens the same) and it's kinda the same tropes, the type of guy never changes (tall, big, a mountain, a wall, a bit repetitive with the synonyms). And I was hoping for a bit of diversity I guess. So I can recommend you this when you are a looking for that kind of stuff, but since I read the books at the same time, it got a little boring, but cute nonetheless.

🌶️chaps: (UOR) 13, (BZ) 8, 12, (SWY) 2, 9

[dominiquewritesthings]

5 Reasons You Should Write an Episode Short Story

Writing short stories may not be something that comes up often when checking the trending page of Episode, but they are essential.

1. Short stories are replayable - If you include multiple endings for your story, you get the benefit of readers re-reading your story to see different endings. It is essential that each story is unique from the other, so the reader doesn't get FOMO during the time of re-reading. That being said, it's an incredible opportunity. 

2. Some people prefer shorter works of art - Some people love shorter works so they can read more books and Episode stories without feeling burnt out. I tend to be this kind of person when it comes to episodes, so it could be a missed market by only writing longer stories.

3. You can focus on characterization - Your readers feeling connected to your story is extremely important and difficult to do in a short story. You have fewer chapters to explore dynamics, fewer jokes to tell, less time to appropriately explore the emotional depth, etc. This is why characterization seems more impactful since every line of dialogue is crucial to the overarching plot and theme. 

4. Every plot point is critically important, making each chapter meaningful - In a short story, there are very few filler scenes or chapters. Keeping the idea of having a shorter work of art, means that every line of dialogue or anything must have intention behind it. Your readers will appreciate this style of writing as it's different from typical Episode writing. Not only that, but it may help you in the future by being more intentional with writing longer-form stories, as this is challenging. 

5. Fewer chapters means less stress - With this idea, you can write the chapters all at once and slowly release them or release them all at once. The choice is yours! When releasing SWY: The Other Half of Me, I didn't start advertising the story until I completely finished all 8 chapters. Then, I advertised it and released it with 3 chapters, with 1 chapter every week. This kept consistency for my audience as they knew something was coming out every week, and kept me stress-free as I could work on this story at my own pace, and work on others while I was releasing chapters every week. 

Of course, writing short stories are not for everyone, but I implore authors thinking of writing short stories to try it out! You never know, you may fall in love as I did.

[four-teeny-babies]

new friend n some cool colouring <3

went out with a friend today an managed to get the colouring book for cash

i'm really happy cause normally i can't buy things with my card without my mother taking them away :c

but i got some colouring books today!!!!

(and swy for bad grammar an stuff. too tired to fix it today.

[greerbaiting]

14 and 18 for the fic ask thing?

14. which season/book/movie do you prefer to write for? 

I’m not really sure how to apply this for The Bridge (which is really all I write about) so I’m gonna go with canon point and I like doing stuff that’s outside of canon in terms of timeline so that I don’t have to worry too much about plot. 

18. a detail you’re really proud of putting in one of your fics

It’s badly written, but the crest in Safe With You was really fun to design and I’m pleased with how it turned out. There’s also a lot of foreshadowing in SWY which I’m usually shit at sooooo (but I can’t tell you what that foreshadowing is yet though ;)) 

[four-teeny-babies]

food-problems mention

swy!!!!

papa helped me regress today cause i was having problems getting in all my meals today

but he's gone now because i had my meal

so i'm gonna do more colouring to keep myself from getting lonely

come say hi if you like!!!! swy if i get too wrapped up in colouring to answer tho c:

(these colouring books are not gonna last but shhhh)

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