#tad 3 countdown

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List of words for the computer:

LONG POST- more under the cut

STANFORD- Pulls up a file on Stanford Pines, written by an unknown scientist. It discusses his extra finger and praises his intelligence, as well as calling him the “next evolution in the human species”.

BILL CIPHER- Takes you to the Wikipedia page for the Eye of Providence. Also took me to a Sesame Street video about a Jazzy Triangle and a Square. Not sure what prompted the change.

STANLEY PINES: Takes you to a list of EBay listings for brass knuckles.

FIDDLEFORD: Takes you to the music video for Cotton Eye Joe by Rednex.

SHERMIE: Nothing. I sure do wish we got some lore about Grandpa Pines.

GRAVITY FALLS: The text on the computer reads “never heard of it” and the red light on the bottom turns green.

ALEX HIRSCH: Leads to Google Images for “flannel”. Huh.

WEIRDMAGEDDON: Pulls up an article from the Gravity Falls Gossiper about how nothing happened at all and there was no apocalypse.

DISNEY: Screen reads “rat.gif censored for your protection”

SOOS: Leads to a page of writing from Soos himself, referencing many things (including Tad Strange being gay and madly in love with Woodpecker Guy. Love wins!!!)

DIPPER: Leads to a creepy yellow parchment with a message from Bill Cipher himself trying to trick Dipper into blinding himself by staring at the sun for 13 hours straight! Silly! (Also if you keep clicking on it, the page gets darker and blurrier until it implies we've gone blind)

MABEL: Causes stickers to appear on every available surface. Clicking it enough times leads to message “lab now fully Mabelized”.

WENDY: Leads to a note from Wendy that mentions a way to ward off evil triangles written in the bottom corner of the book.

GIDEON: Makes a web recording of Gideon scatting play. It ends with “I love you forever Mabel”. Please shut the fuck up you little creep.

TAD STRANGE: Plays a video of bread with smooth jazz in the background.

TOBY DETERMINED: Leads to a Google search for a restraining order. Holyyyyy shittttttt

WHO ARE YOU: “I could ask you the same question”

SEASON 3: “Season Two”. I guess that’s that lol

This was about all I could find. Please reblog with anything else you can discover! Thank you, fellow Gravity Falls enjoyers!

And make sure to give some love to all the wonderful folks down in the comments! Many of these answers and tips come from what they've found. I can't list everyone, unfortunately- I didn't expect this post to get popular- but, to everyone who's helped out, THANK YOU.

FURTHER EDITS:

BLIND EYE: Pulls up an optometrist’s eye exam. Each line reads “WKHBOOVHH”. Too lazy to translate atm.

PIÑATA: Bill Cipher getting beaten to death /hj

MASON: A note from Dipper listing several anagrams of Gravity Falls characters’ names. You can check in the comments for the answers.

AXOLOTL: “You ask alotl questions”. Thanks for the pun, Alex, but I’m kind of losing my mind rn

MYSTERY SHACK: Leads to a Google search for Confusion Hill, the real-life Mystery Shack!

MYSTERY: “?”

MONSTER: Leads to several YouTube videos for “There’s a Monster at the End of this Book.”

VALLIS CINERIS: Leads to an analog-horror-esque video of Baby Bill and his parents, who have been blotted out by static, and a voice repeating “WHY DID YOU DO IT” over and over again until you stop the video.

PORTAL: “Portal.exe has been deleted. I bet you could build a new one.”

GIFFANY: You need to put it in multiple times. Several warnings about breaching firewall, followed by a message from GIFFANY saying “SOOS! I still love you!” or smth like that, and then GIFFANY herself briefly appearing onscreen. Trying again after that summons her more. Also lets you download some ZIP files.

DORITO: Summons an image of a spinning Dorito, followed by the most cursed image of Bill Cipher I have ever seen.

GOD: A short video of an axolotl in a tank with a Bill Cipher statue plays. This is Alex’s axolotl, shown in the Book of Bill countdown.

REALITY: “Is an illusion”

FILBRICK: “I’m not impressed”

CARYN: “I knew you were gonna write that”

GLASS SHARD BEACH: Leads to an image of the New Jersey Hell Hole.

ANY CUSS WORD: Pulls up a paper reading “NOT S&P APPROVED. WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT WITH SOAP” with an image of soap below.

MATPAT: Leads to a video of MatPat next to a conspiracy board, holding the Book of Bill. He tells us we’re on our own.

BABBA: Plays an audio recording of Dipper singing BABBA. Not Disco Girl, a different song.

CRAZ: Leads to the Jem and the Holograms theme.

XYLER: See above.

AD ASTRA PER ASPERA: Shows us two new journal pages from Ford and Mabel, studying the Cipher statue. They’re definitely worth the read, I teared up looking at them.

ANSWER: “Question”

QUESTION: “Answer”

SEASON ONE: “Season -1: Antigravity Falls”

SEASON TWO: “Season 1” …maybe scratch what I said about Season 3. Or don’t. Things are starting to damage my brain.

CURSED (got from @slimslamflimflam decoding the candle! Thanks!): Shows two pages talking about the dangers of drawing triangles, with the bottom of the second page showing several drawings of Bill and the words “HE IS COMING, RUN”

THE UNIVERSE: “Hologram”

RIZZ: “Life privileges revoked. Now releasing poison gas.” This response is repeated if you type in SKIBIDI or FORTNITE.

BABY: Shows an ultrasound of a fetus Bill Cipher, captioned “Look at what’s growing inside you! See you in nine months, papa!”

JOURNAL 3: “The Journal for Me”

PACIFICA: Leads to a note from Pacifica calling Bill Cipher “ick” and telling us to follow her on social media under “Platinum Paz”

PLATINUM PAZ: Pulls up an image of Northwest Manor with the llama symbol overlaid and a ��NW” logo beneath. There's also a short story beneath!

LOVE: Leads to an audiobook of “The Love Triangle”. Need to read later.

BLENDIN: “The time agent lost and presumed incompetent”. Uh…?

SCARY: Leads to another audiobook of a cheesy Goosebumps-esque horror novel written by Bill himself, apparently.

DIVORCE: Shows you the logo of the bar Bill went to after his fight with Ford… Billford bitter exes confirmed

ROBBIE: Leads to the cringiest messages ever. He’s such a failure I love him

CONSPIRACY: Leads to a video of a man losing his mind over the countdown counting up. I feel so seen. (I have been informed that his name is Charlie Day, he's an actor from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and that one meme, he had a quote on the back of the Book of Bill, thanks to everyone who explained that to me, I'm sorry, I'm uncultured)

RAT: “Thurburt’s number?”

BLANCHIN: Leads to a YouTube video on how to blanch vegetables.

TJ ECKLEBURG: “Never mention that name again.”

NOTHING: “Something”

SOMETHING: “Nothing”

BURNSIDE: “Burned inside.” Well… at least we know what happened…

WADDLES: Leads to the pig placement network!

THERAPRISM: Pulls up a sign from the theraprism regarding an emergency situation. The code reads "THE OLD ONE".

SHAPE: Pulls up an article on Plato, triangles, and Ancient Greece. This article is presumably written by Bill.

LLIB and BILL: THIS leads to the Sesame Street video every time.

WEIRD: Shows a video of a frightened Weird Al panicking about being trapped in a computer. Sorry, man...

CLONE: Pulls up an image of Paper Jam Dipper, a warning about not getting him too close to liquids, and an option to print.

TRIANGLE: ")" or "Tri harder."

THEYLLSEE: "Is seeing believing?"

DEER TEETH: "For you, kid!"

LIFE: "Life: 72% complete. Now loading: death."

DEATH: "Life's goth cousin."

PINES: "A good family tree."

OWL TROWEL: A slab of hieroglyphs, translating to an ancient ad for an owl trowel.

SCALENE: "Life form not found." EUCLID has the same outcome.

WELL WELL WELL BEING: Some assorted notes from Bill's Theraprism file. These include his greatest love and fear, his art therapy notes, and notes on his phobias. Three clicks is required to read them all.

BOO BERRY: Offers a poem on the meaning of life! Wow! I feel so enlightened!

LOVE YA BRO: Shows us a doodle from Stan of one of his and Ford's Sea Grunks adventures, and another code on the back. It translates to "Kings of New Jersey." I've been told it lets you download the code as a font.

SORRY: Reveals the repaired Backupsmore photo, with a note from Fiddleford about his and Ford's growing friendship. Fiddauthor fans, we are eating well tonight!

HORROR: Pulls up an image and report on The Always Garden, which is essentially a cheap Italian restaurant hidden in the backrooms.

HOLOGRAM: "Universe."

NAITSUAF: Pulls up a page that looks like it would be from the Book of Bill, in which Bill tries to convince us to sell us his soul. Clicking "ARE YOU READY?" pulls up a contract where we can sell our soul to Bill (with an alarming amount of coded fine print. Will need to translate later). You can print this document out, back out, or sign it right there on the web. Hitting "SIGN" causes the words "PLEASURE DOING BUSINESS WITH YOU!" to appear, and the document to close. In other words, I no longer have a soul.

IMSTILLONYOURMIND: Plays a recording of the ocean, with Stan faintly talking in the background. Poor Ford ain't quite over the divorce yet...

HOTXOLOTL: Pulls up a "MOST WANTED" doc on the henchmaniacs.

SEVENEYES: Pulls up a faded polaroid of The Oracle with text on the back that reads "LEAVE HIM. Escape to dimension *blurred out*. It's against the rules but it's the only reality where you'll be safe from him." The code at the bottom (once again decoded by the powerhouse that is @slimslamflimflam) reads "Set a course for Dimension: R34LITY." Is another Cipher Hunt in the makes? Only time will tell, hehehe.

JUST FIT IN: Plays an old commercial with a few moments of speech in the glitches at the end.

EVEN HIS LIES ARE LIES: Shows a transcript from a therapy session at the Theraprism. Bill discusses his relationship with Ford and cuts off the session when someone brings up his parents.

NOT A PHASE: Shows a Google search for "black hair dye stained an entire bathroom."

PAPER IS BOOK SKIN: Instantly downloads a page of fleshy pink paper with the word "ENJOY" written on it!

SHAVE YOUR GRANDMA: Pulls up a few more pages about the human life cycle.

LIES: Pulls up an image of "The Game of Lies" board game, with a long stretch of text from (I assume) Bill, ending with "LIE UNTIL YOU ARE NOT LYING ANYMORE." Someone has some issues...

SAY BAAAA: Pulls up a neat little rhyme about being Bill Cipher's obedient flock of sheep. The code at the end translates to "Black Sheep."

ONE EYED KING: Plays a video of a hypnotist's spiral, with Bill proclaiming "YOU WANT TO PLEDGE YOUR SOUL TO BILL CIPHER" in the background. There is also morse code that translates to "NAITSUAF", leading to a previous discovery- the soul contract.

TANTRUM: Pulls up a transcript of a spat between Bill and Time Baby.

TITANS BLOOD: "HOOT HOOT! Password please!"

CURSE WITTEBANE: Pulls up an image of a Bill Cipher ouija board.

FORDTRAMARINE: Pulls up several rejected files from Ford trying to convince us Fordtramarine exists.

SUCK IT MERLIN: Pulls up a tapestry of Bill riding a unicorn. The code at the top reads "DAY MARE VS NIGHTMARE."

HEY NERD: Plays a commercial advertising things such as a Bill Cipher calendar, the Scrubba-Bill, a severed hand, and the entire Cygnus-XIII galaxy. Half of the image can be found in the Book of Bill.

DESTRUCTION IS THE FORM OF CREATION: Pulls up a frantic page of notes from post-portal-shit Fiddleford. A sticky note at the bottom has a code that reads "Unreality."

RUBBERHOSE: Plays "The World is Small Ever After for All."

IRREGULAR: Shows us Bill's mugshot in color. The code below reads "No prison or attention span can hold him."

UNREALITY: Offers a guide by Bill on how to become immortal.

GUN: "Oh yes oh yes oh yes they both."

ABUELITA: Leads to a video on vacuuming the walls.

YES: "What's McGucket's favorite soda?"

NO: "Your loss..."

REPEATEDLY CLICKING STAN: This stuff deserves a section of its own, away from the OG Stan stuff. It takes you through several Ebay listings on various Stan-ish items until you get to a page written by Bill about Stan's secret shames. "Ex-wives" further confirms our theory on Stan and Eda's relationship, as well as revealing many other bits of lore. "Fears" is somewhat goofy to be honest. "Secret Shames" reveals that Stan is a fanfiction writer and that his mother is the only member of his family who truly loves him outside of Ford and the kids. "Unreported Crimes" is somewhat goofy as well. "Failed Products" basically confirms that Stan is that world's Alex. "Lowest Moments" is genuinely depressing, and "Darkest Thought". Well. I'm not spoiling it lol. And the bit on "How He Beat Me" causes Bill to get more and more frantic/angry the more you click it! Comedy GOLD!

DIPPY FRESH: Leads to a Reddit post of the Burger King Kids Club.

MEOW: Leads to a TikTok of a man playing the Gravity Falls theme on that cap keyboard.

HELP ME: Pulls up another video of Alex's axolotl and the tiny statue. Rip Bill ig :/

R34LITY: Pulls up several photos of the henchmaniacs in live-action, captioned "They found a new home."

JOURNAL 1: "The journal of fun."

JOURNAL 2: "The journal for you."

FBI: "Your webcam is on. We are watching."

BURNED INSIDE: Shows an image of a charred Oregon Parks badge and nametag on the ground.

HECTORING: Plays a silly little country song!

OROBOROUS: Pulls up two journal pages about Fiddleford buying Ford an axolotl to keep him company, and Bill subsequently telling Ford to get rid of him. There's also some code on the first page that reads "CHONKY BOY." Ford, you wonderful dork.

[fraeuleintaka]

AAIC Allies & Adversaries Trailer

This is the 67th post in the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection Countdown: 14 days left until release!

Today's topic: the Allies & Adversaries Trailer for the Investigations Collection!

A full new trailer has been released for the Investigations Collection titled "Allies & Adversaries Trailer" which not only introduces said allies and adversaries (or some of them) but also teases the story of both games in an epic way.

For Investigations 1 we of course get introduced to Kay and Shi-Long, our main new ally and main adversary, with these nice little focus images (including the ever present chess pattern, of course).

The way I1's story is teased is pretty vague to avoid any too specific spoilers but they use several of the later in-game images as epic teasers (that fire visual from I1-5 is one of my absolute favourites from the whole of AA) and I love how the text references some plot points without directly stating them (the "key to the present" meaning the Yatagarasu's key plus the significance of who the three people in the image are). If I wasn't already beyond hyped to replay this game again, this would definitely do it!

For Investigations 2 our adversaries, Sebastian (Eustace) and Justine (Verity), don't get these focus images sadly though they're still introduced with a confrontational line each. In the allies category I would've expected to see Ray (Eddie) mentioned but he doesn't show up at all in the trailer. Something interesting I noticed here though is how Sebastian's name tag for when he talks is "Eustace", his first name, whereas it was "Debeste", his last name, in the fan translation. Miles does call him "Prosecutor Debeste" up until the end of case 3 but I always thought "Sebastian" would be more fitting for his name tag since Miles switches to his first name for the rest of the game and it wouldn't lead to Sebastian's father having his first name in the name tag, when Sebastian doesn't, as to not be confused with his son. I don't know if the official localisation will have Blaise (Excelsius) go by "Winner" in his name tag but I do like that they switched to Sebastian's first name for his. Hopefully Miles' change in how he addresses him is kept intact as I adore how it shows how Miles starts to recognize that Sebastian is not that different from how he used to be.

I2's story gets a lot more focus instead of any individual characters and they aren't nearly as vague about it as they were with I1. Most of the central story questions and general obstacles get teased - again in a pretty epic way! I especially love the way the IS-7 incident is brought in with its connection to DL-6. That means you already know a lot more details from this trailer but since I2's story is so meaty anyway I don't think it's a bad thing. There's still so much more to discover!

And one thing the trailer revealed specifically is the new name of the organisation standing in Miles' way which Justine is a part of and which was called "Prosecutorial Investigation Committee (PIC)" in the fan translation: Committee for Prosecutorial Excellence (CPE). That will definitely take some getting used to from me but it sounds nicely imposing and powerful. I like the focus on specifically investigating any wrongdoings from prosecutors in the fan translated name but depending on how they describe the purpose of this committee being responsible for prosecutors doing the most "excellent" work they can might be more fitting. It sounds a tad too similar to the quest for "perfection" of the von Karmas for my taste if I'm being honest, but I'll have to see how they use it in the game to solidify my opinion.

Apart from that we also got a first listen to Justine's new voice in English and in German since the trailer has also been released in German!

I love these coloured backgrounds for the voice clips, yellow for Shi-Long and purple for Justine, they look so good! Justine's voice clip stays "Overruled" as expected and her new voice is notably deeper than her fan voice was. But I like it, it sounds effortlessly commanding with a calm authority that really fits her. I get the criticism that it sounds too old but I see that more as a problem with her age in the game simply being too young because Justine sounding as old as she does actually makes more sense.

In German she says "Abgelehnt!" which is exactly what I predicted way back when! It sounds good, I don't have any issues with it, looking forward to hearing it in context. Her German voice is a bit higher than her English counterpart though still mature and authoritative and it even has a little more oomph behind it, she says it more forcefully which I love. Really like the German voice clips so far!

Since I have the opportunity with the German trailer version I wanted to compare a few lines directly with the new German translation. We get Kay's introductory line where she calls herself "the Great Thief Yatagarasu" or in German "Yatagarasu, die Meisterdiebin". I love "Meisterdiebin" as the choice here (literally "master thief"), it's a great title and has a lot more oomph than any version of "Der große Dieb" or whatever would have! I also kinda love that the German line specifies her as female, she doesn't say "Ich bin der Meisterdieb Yatagarasu" but instead loses the article before Yatagarasu and then characterizes Yatagarasu and herself as "Meisterdiebin". I do wonder how they're going to do that with her father allegedly being the previous Yatagarasu and the confusion around who the Yatagarasu is but they could probably switch it around between "Meisterdieb" and "Meisterdiebin" however they need it. (Side note, the HD chibi sprite of Miles being tied to a post is as glorious as I expected it to be!)

We also get a line from Shi-Long antagonizing Miles, showing his disdain for prosecutors in general and Miles specifically. I adore Shi-Long's habit of calling Miles some variation of "pretty boy" several times (he really does it an, let's say, interesting amount of times...), it's so deliciously specific! And I'm heartbroken to report that at least for this line they removed the "pretty" connotation from the German version 😭 He calls him "Schnösel" instead which doesn't have an exact English equivalent but means something like a snob, a vain conceited person (often rich but not necessarily) who's only concerned with himself. It does fit the general meaning of the line in that Shi-Long insults Miles' excessive poshness and how he's unfit to be at a crime scene but I hate to lose the specific additional connotations of "pretty boy" in this context. Though to the translators' credit I'm also struggling to come up with a more fitting alternative. The direct translation "hübscher Junge" doesn't have the same connotations as the English version at all and would result in Shi-Long basically calling Miles too good-looking to work. (100% full-on flirting, I'm not kidding here. It would still sound somewhat condescending but it wouldn't be the insult it's supposed to be.) The only similar option I can think of is "Schönling" and I think that'd work pretty well. It keeps the "pretty" connotation (schön = pretty) while also keeping the insult. I would've preferred that to what they went with. I still have hope for Shi-Long's other lines though (as I said, he says this several times and in ways that are a lot harder to remove the playful tone of), let's see what the German translation does with those!

Moving on, we of course also get the German name of the PIC: Komitee für ausgezeichnete Staatsanwaltsarbeit (KAS?), pretty much a direct translation of the new English name. I like it, no criticisms that I don't already have for the English version.

Finally, the trailer closes with a great amount of different scenes from the games all floating over the screen. There's too many to talk about all of them so I only want to comment on three specifically:

First, the one of Little Thief projecting the Haunted House looks awesome! Especially the Little Thief version of Miles' chibi sprite, even if you can only see part of it, is so cute. Chibi Shi-Long looks like he's trying very hard to look unimpressed.

Second, there's the scene of Miles and Shi-Long exchanging business cards (looking forward to seeing the evidence icon of Shi-Long's in more detail!) and it really looks like the HD animation includes the cards this time! Yay! (The things I get excited about with this game 😄)

Third, there's a scene of Sebastian using his new name as a pun! It might not be representative of all the ways he's going to do that but it shows at least one instance of it. In English he says: "I'm not just ANY rookie! I am a winning rookie!" and in German: "Das will aber nicht viel heißen! Schließlich bin ich ein Winner!" I'm not gonna lie, I vastly prefer the German version here 😅 The English one just sounds kind of... dumb? Which isn't necessarily unusual for Sebastian but it's not even really funny? Whereas the German one uses the double meaning of "Ich bin ein Winner" = "I'm a winner" and "I'm a member of the family Winner". It's still Sebastian-level of cringe but at least it sounds like he tried! Oh I can already tell I'm going to struggle with all of these little differences...

And one last point: The music chosen for the trailer is amazing! It's the arranged versions of I1's Objection theme (for most of it) and I1's Pursuit theme (for the last bit). Very sneaky to tease them like this, I can't wait to hear the other arrangements and the full versions. They sound epic!

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For Day 29 of Carry on Countdown 23, Cherry @carryon-countdown

Basil and Simon share a picnic in the park

Rated T for language & vague reference to shit childhoods.

This is the final of the Nurse/Lawyer AU. Enjoy~ 🖤 [Part 1][Part 2][Part 3][Part 4]

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“Why cherry scones?” Basil asks, his head on my lap, my spare hand running through his long, dark hair while the other reaches into our picnic basket and cracks off another bit of scone to feed him, and then myself.

I hum and press a kiss to the point of his widow’s peak. “It’s not that complicated, they’re just good.”

He reaches up to stroke a hand soft over the side of my neck and I lean into the touch instinctively. “No nostalgia?”

He doesn’t say it, but I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me that he’s noticed a bit how I’ll get just a tad bit weepy when I’m making them. I suppose it shouldn’t surprise me that he’s noticed how much it means to me that he always gets ingredients for more of them whenever he does the grocery shopping. “I suppose,” I admit, tugging at a stray strand of his hair, “There’s a little nostalgia.”

Baz’s hands are so soft against my neck, so gentle and soothing, he looks so soft like this. We don’t do this sort of thing often. I work too much, he works too much. Days spent in local parks having picnics and lingering just aren’t exactly in the cards for us, but we’ve been making more time for them. He’s taken me on a beach day recently too, but this one was my idea.

“Tell me about it?” Baz asks as I tug on that stray strand of hair again, soothing over it immediately after. “If you want to.”

I nod, still thinking about the sentiment of the park a little bit. It’s a park I used to frequent with Penny, back when she’d been living in the UK too. Baz knows that part, I’d told him that much when I’d planned our little date. When we’d first gotten here, we’d even snapped a couple of selfies that I could send over her way. Or well, really I’d done the snapping of selfies. Baz just sort of quirked his lips for them. He looked nice though. Baz always looked nice in our photos.

Baz also doesn’t send texts like “our old haunting grounds!! I miss you!!” to anyone, really.

He texts a bit like an old man. No emoji, proper punctuation, very little by way of abbreviations or shorthand. I think he mostly uses voice-to-text, which makes sense. His hands are always busy. I kind of think it’s cute.

“Simon?”

Right, we were talking.

“You know how Pen and I used to come here?” I start, and he nods, not really needing the reminder from just this morning. “We used to come here with stolen scones from the boarding school kitchens. I just used to shovel armfulls into my back and ditch and end up all over with them. It was sort of all I ate back then, but honestly… it was the first food I really liked in my childhood.”

Baz knows about my childhood, about how I bounced from foster to foster, from group home to group home. My non-existent concept of family, my struggle with deep relationships and trustworthy adults. Somehow I kept running into the problematic sort in my childhood. But Baz knows all that already. I don’t need to get into it.

He pokes at my chin gently before leaning up slightly to get his own bit of scone, feeding me another bite back. “Who taught you to make them?”

“Ahh…” I think I can feel myself flushing, “I sort of… shilled together the recipe a little bit at a time. I made a lot of mistakes. I may have destroyed at least three baking sheets in the process.”

“Simon,” Baz sounds utterly disbelieving. He looks it too. I have to laugh about it. He should know by know what a danger I can be to common household objects. “Simon Snow, you did not bullshit together a recipe when google exists.”

“I did,” I nod down at him, as disappointed as he is about it. “I did and I had access to google in the school library and I ignored it in favour of ruining Cook Pritchard’s life.”

“You’re terrible,” Baz snorts out. He also leans up to kiss me again, cupping my cheek soft. He’s so full of affection for me. He doesn’t have to say it when he kisses me like that. He says it anyway. “I love you, menace to society that you are.”

I love how he can say something like that, call me something like that, and sound so impossibly fond. “I know you do,” I answer, grinning back at him and leaning back on my elbows. He chases me down for another soft kiss and I lean back again, avoiding him, making him chase me more, making him chase me all the way down until I’m lying fully on the grass and he’s leaning above me and holding my hands and kissing me silly.

I’m laughing through all of it, twisting our hands together and squeezing my fingers over his. I lean up and chase him down for more kisses before he can pull back, before he can get us water or more sour cherry scones or anything else. I love catching him in fits of kissing like this, dragging him back for more and more until we both forget anything else.

I could live off his smile, I think, when he’s kissing me silly like this. He still makes me so bloody giddy and it’s been well over a year and I spend all my free time with him. Everyone says that’ll change, that I’ll get tired of him around all the time. Coworkers, old classmates, old foster siblings and people I knew from therapy and group homes, basically everyone but Pen, but I think they’re sodding insane. They probably think I’m insane for thinking it’s not going to change, but I know myself. I know all I need is that silly bloody smile, that gorgeous bloody laugh, those sweet, bloody tender kisses…

“Tell me more of your favourite foods,” Baz asks between my laughter and his kisses.

I’m a little caught off guard. I’d forgotten we were talking still again, but I just grin up at him. “Anything you make me is my favourite food.”

“That’s cheating, love,” Baz snorts out another laugh, “You have to give a real answer, or else I’m just going to cook for me forever.”

“I like whatever you cook for you,” I shrug under him, chasing down another soft, silly little kiss, a little giddy-drunk-stupid on his affections, “That’s plenty real enough, I think.”

He hums back at me, nipping soft over my lips. “You’ll have to give a real answer sooner or later, Simon, or else we’ll be serving basilla and fattah at our wedding.”

“Okay but I actually do love your fattah.” And I do. I love all his home cooking, but the casual wedding talk is new. Distracing. I can’t help but drift back to it. “You want to marry me?”

He laughs. Of course he bloody laughs. As if it were obvious.

“More than anything.”

He says it so bloody confidently, and I know one day he’s going to ask, and one day I’m going to say yes. I’m not even going to have time to figure out my own plan. He’s already got it all figured out, but I don’t mind. I like that he’s got our lives planned out like this, I like that I can trust him with me like this.

No, more than like it, I love it. “We’re going to have to have cherries in the cake then. That’s my only demand.”

“As if I wasn’t already planning on it.” Baz’s so bloody smug about it, smirking down at me.

I shove a scone in his mouth and shove him over just to wipe that look off his face. “You’re such a bloody prick.”

Unfortunately, he’s still just as smug. “You love this bloody prick.”

“Unfortunately,” I groan back. I can’t commit though. I’m already kissing him bloody stupid all over again. “Unfortunately, I’m going to marry this bloody prick.”

[sylvarantii]

Jesus Christ, just when I thought Raven Chaser couldn't be topped!

Detective Conan Movie 20: The Darkest Nightmare is EXACTLY the sort of watch I would direct anyone to that would like something that's not only fills the craving for more Black Organization content, but is a really good watch if you love Akai and Amuro.

Such an exciting watch and a very good "what if" scenario should the "NOC" list get released to the organization.

This is probably going to sound weird, but I actually have really adored Gin from the very beginning, so not only getting more screen time of him, but getting to see him being his malicious and sadistic self was simply delightful!

And honest to god, if you thought Irish was an interesting addition, I think you'll really love Curaçao. She just gets a lot of development from the movie and I am forever disappointed that she's never going to be a canon character or have her story expanded on since she's just a one off character from the movie.

I just have so many emotions about this movie, but simply saying, I just loved it. I loved it and I fully push giving it a watch if you're a fan of the series. It is one I sincerely emphasize not to skip out on!

Anyway, once again I'm being obvious here with my ratings, but you know, oh well.

1.) The Darkest Nightmare (20th Movie)

2.) The Raven Chaser (13th Movie)

3.) The Fourteenth Target (2nd Movie)

4.) The Lost Ship in the Sky (14th Movie)

5.) The Time Bombed Skyscraper (1st Movie)

6.) Magician of the Silver Sky (8th Movie)

7.) Captured in Her Eyes (4th Movie)

8.) Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (7th Movie)/Lupin the III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie

9.) Quarter of Silence (15th Movie)

10.) The Phantom of Baker Street (6th Movie)

11.) Sunflowers of Inferno (19th Movie)

12.) Countdown to Heaven (5th Movie)

13.) Strategy Above the Depths (9th Movie)

14.) The Private Eyes' Requiem (10th Movie)

15.) Full Score of Fear (12th Movie)

16.) The Eleventh Striker (16th Movie)

17.) The Wizard of the Last Century (3rd Movie)

18.) Dimensional Sniper (18th Movie)

19.) Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure (11th Movie)

20.) Private Eye in the Distant Sea (17th Movie)

I admit, I struggled a little. I loved Raven Chaser and kinda wanted to keep it at number 1, but in the end, I know in my heart, I did like The Darkest Nightmare just a tad more, so oh well.

Both are great movies though and both deserve high praise. They were EXTREMELY well done.

And once again, I am thanking the movies at least for bringing back characters from the organization that are just never seen anymore in the original series. Kir, Chianti and Korn are just so great to see. God I really missed Kir in particular. I wonder if she'll ever return in the main series again.

The pessimistic part of me says most likely not, but we'll see.

[iloveyoucountdown]

Sorry if this is a tad angsty for the countdown :3

nono!! it’s fine! poor mappi though,, free her!

[cromcrux]

Seems like things have been a tad dour of late. Let's lighten it up with my personal favorite Himbos (and Shimbos), ranked.

These things normally countdown to the aces slot, so I'll do that too.

10. First off, Sir Percidal from Wakfu. He's only just nice enough to make this list, he really comes into his full Himbo glory in the second season when he is joined by his Shimbo daughters.

9. Elely, Percidal's boisterous Shimbo daughter. She may be young, but there is no intelligence there, only wisdom, love, and violence.

8. We don't see a lot of Ruby in Steven Universe, but we see enough to know not all Ruby's are shimbos. However, Garnet's Ruby half definitely is. She makes the list for her solo song Ruby Rider.

7. Micheal Kelso wasn't always the best person and perhaps sometimes fell out of being a proper Himbo, but he still makes the list for his complete inability to understand anyone with a reasonable shred of intelligence.

6. Possibly the newest Himbo on my list: Kirishima, if ever there was a more positive character with fewer braincells, I'm not sure I know of him.

5. Another Shimbo for my list has to be Scorpia.

4. Any Himbo list lacking Kronk would be a crime. He's probably the first to come to mind for a lot of people.

3. Leon Orcrot is the perfect kind of Himbo to tease (which is probably why Count D is always doing it). He does grow up a little through the story, but I almost wonder if that ends up making him even more of a Himbo?

2. George of the Jungle has got to be one of my favorite himbos, not the least because I prefer a sleeker body type, he's also one of the more genuinely sweet himbos~

1. It's probably just nostalgia, but The Tick is my favorite Himbo. I grew up with the cartoon, but the live action is truly delightful and Patrick Warburton does a fantastic job with the incorrigible lunk.

[themculibrary]

Fluff Masterlist

part two

About Damn Time (ao3) - Almaren bucky/tony T, Tk

Summary: So maybe Tony had developed a massive crush on his neighbor ever since the guy had moved in five months ago. They guy was obviously dating his blonde Adonis of a roommate, so Tony's crush was totally pointless... right?

Branches of Pine (ao3) - 27dragons bucky/tony T, 8k

Summary: It's Bucky's first holiday season with the Avengers, and he's determined to enjoy it, from the big Thanksgiving parade to the New Year's countdown. He's still dealing with his PTSD, but his new friends are there to help him with that. He's also dealing with a crush the size of those giant parade balloons, but his new friends are going to help him with that, too... whether he wants them to or not!

Cat Parenting (and Other Meet-Cutes) (ao3) - singingwithoutwords (orphan_account) bucky/tony T, 6k

Summary: Of all the ways Bucky could have finally gotten a chance to speak to his crush, why did it have to be his cat getting Tony's cat pregnant?

Earth's Cuddliest Heroes (ao3) - laireshi steve/tony G, 2k

Summary: This is not how Tony imagined his first cuddle session with Captain America would go.

Help, We've Been Body Swapped! (ao3) - roe87 steve/bucky M, 2k

Summary: Bucky and Steve get zapped by a random magician, and end up stuck in each other's bodies.

Awkwardness and bickering follow.

It's the Little Things in Life (ao3) - NarutoRox bucky/tony T, 4k

Summary: Though Barnes had been living in the tower for almost six months now, things between him and Tony were still a bit awkward.

Which is why Tony is a tad confused when Barnes starts leaving him strange little gifts.

Long Way Up (ao3) - calicotales bucky/clint T, 3k

Summary: “Then Clint sees Bucky reach over with his left hand a little and the door starts to close. Oh. Hell. No.”

My Heart is Yours (ao3) - starspangledsprocket steve/tony G, 2k

Summary: Steve is determined, above all else, to win Tony's heart. Even if it means using old fashioned methods.

Ned Leed’s field trip to Stark Industries (ao3) - Drake_DiAngelo G, 15k

Summary: Your generic Field Trip trope, but slightly different because it’s Ned centric and hopefully everyone stays in character.

Also, Peter is absolutely everywhere they go but they never quite manage to actually see him. (Or realize its him) They did see Spiderman though, so that’s nice.

no one id rather be stuck with (ao3) - achillightning bruce/thor G, 4k

Summary: Whilst on a diplomatic meeting with government officials, Thor and Bruce get stuck in the building elevator.

Petnames (ao3) - itsallAvengers bucky/tony T, 4k

Summary: One time.

Bucky said it one time. And now Tony isn't letting him live it down. But hey, two can play at that game.

*3-month long game of gay chicken ensues*

quaranteens (ao3) - blueh T, 6k

Summary: Or: a day in the life of the quarantined high school spider-kid, as seen through the eyes of his first-period chemistry class.

The Baby-Sitter Experiment (ao3) - nightwalker steve/tony G, 4k

Summary: Steve and Tony volunteer to babysit. Fluff ensues.

the best kinds of love (ao3) - searchingforstars pepper/tony G, 5k

Summary: “C’mon, Mo. I just need you to work with me. How about you drink this and I’ll get you a square of chocolate afterwards, does that sound good?”

Another shake of the head.

“It’s berry flavoured! It’ll be just like the raspberry Jell-O Mom makes. You love that!”

“Nuh-uh. It’s different.”

It’s that exact moment that Peter lets a quiet sigh rush out between his gritted teeth and considers - only very briefly, but still - picking up his phone and calling Pepper or Tony.

–

or, a flu-ridden Morgan crashes Peter and Ned’s date night.

The Counselors Are In (ao3) - valdomarx steve/tony T, 2k

Summary: Steve and Tony from Avengers Assemble open a counseling service for all the other Steves and Tonys from across the multiverse. God knows they need it.

The Newlywed Exercise (ao3) - avengersasssemble steve/tony N/R, 2k

Summary: Fury orders the team to play The Newlywed Game to test their knowledge of their teammates, with Natasha playing the hostess. May the best couple win?

Three Little Words (ao3) - izazov steve/tony G, 832

Summary: As it turned out, making the first Iron Man suit in a cave out of a box of scraps was less challenging than saying 'I love you'.

Winter Wooer (ao3) - salytierra bucky/tony M, 8k

Summary: Winter may not be the most pleasant guy to live or share your body with, but he isn't nearly as destructive as everybody expected him to be either. He likes to brood in the corners, watch British TV, and freak people out. And Tony. He really, really likes Tony Stark. There's just one problem – Bucky's pretty sure he doesn't feel the same way about the guy.

The only thing you need to know about this story is that no matter how much you like winteriron, you'll never ship them as much as Steve ships them here.

[loverintranslations]

『♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡Takeuchi Akari-san♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♪*ﾟ』Makino Maria (23.06.21)

❤️💙Takeuchi Akari-san❤️💙

ANGERME CONCERT 2023 BIG LOVE

Takeuchi Akari FINAL LIVE

「Angerme Yori Ai wo Komete」

2023.6.21🎤Yokohama Arena

Takeuchi Akari-san was really cute 💖💖

Takeuchi-san was cute smiling the whoーle time💕

Takeuchi-san looked super beautiful in her dress ❤️💙

Takeuchi-san's singing、I loved it ❤️ But not just her singing、her dancing too 💙💙💙

I love Takeuchi Akari-san ❤️💙❤️💙

At today's stage、Takeuchi-san told us that she would continue singing and dancing、which made Maria super happy ❤️💙

I'll be waiting 🐰��Maria

Takeuchi-san said 「Bye bye See you later 」🎤 On stage。

Maria waved Bye bye too 🐰💕

❤️💙Memories with Takeuchi Akari-san❤️💙

2012.11.23

Right after I'd joined the Kenshuusei、I met Takeuchi-san for the first time❤️

I greeted my Kenshuusei senpai 「Good morning」。

To Takeuchi-san Maria got to say、

「Happy birthday」❤️💙

It was Takeuchi-san's birthday so I definitely wanted to tell her、but I was super nervous。

I bumped into Takeuchi-san on our way home、

「Hey、you're the girl who wished me a happy birthdayー」

Takeuchi-san waved me over、

And Maria was super duper happy🐰💕

At the Nama Tamago show！we performed 『Yattaru Chan』❤️

I had Takeuchi Akari-san's part 💕💕 Her lines and her dance part❤️

I was super happy and I watched lots of footage of Takeuchi-san to help me practice 💖

※I met up with a friend recently、and they said 「When Maria was in middle school、you showed me your Yattaru Chan dance ☺️」❣️❣️Maria was surprised because I didn't remember that at all😂。

Soon after I joined Morning Musume。、

When choosing our bentos at a Hello Con RH･･･。

Takeuchi-san appeared ✨✨✨

「Takeuchi-san、please choose yours first」

As I said this、

「Maria-chan take your favourite one okay！」

Takeuchi-san said this to me ❤️

I、want to become a senpai like Takeuchi-san❣️。Seriously。

Super cool and kind Takeuchi-san ❤️

🎶2015.2.15 Blog🎶

Today、I was able to take a photo with Angerme's Takeuchi Akari-san。

Takeuchi-san invited me out、saying 「Let's go to a high school baseball match！」！⚾️💕

Maria、didn't know anything about high school baseball、so Takeuchi-san told me lots！

🎶2016.11.1 Blog 🎶

BS SkyPa！-san

『HAPPY MONDAY BASEBALL』

Yesterday was the final episode。

❤️Angerme's Takeuchi Akari-san❤️

⚾Tadーa⚾

She wore Maria's uniform T-shirt ❤️

How amazing ✨✨✨

Takeuchi-san is so cute 💕💕💕

When Fighters won Number One in Japan、Takeuchi-san sent me a message

Saying ｢Congrats✨｣。

Thank you for everything Takeuchi-san 💕

🎶2017.8.20 Blog 🎶

During a certain song at Hello Con、there's a part where Takeuchi-san's dance is super cool☺️

I've wanted to tell that to Takeuchi-san for ages ❣️❣️

Today、I was able to tell Takeuchi-san

｢I'll keep working hard！｣

Was Takeuchi-san's reply ❤️

Maria、was lovestruck💕💕

｢Your costume is cute｣

Maria was wearing the Morning Musume｡'17 costume、

Which Takeuchi-san noticed 💗

Maria、really wanted to talk to Takeuchi-san、

So being able to talk to her、made me super happy ✨

Takeuchi-san、thank you very much🎶

🎶2018.2.24 Blog🎶

💌Takeuchi-san、please take a photo with me during Hello Con (Hiroshima Performance)！！💌

Maria sent her this message ☺️

I received a present from Takeuchi-san

Maria's dress todayis cute 💗

Mature but cute 💕💕💕

「Let's arrange a time to go and watch baseball together again！」

Takeuchi-san invited me out again today 🎶

Maria was super happy ❣️❣️

I'm super duper excited ☺️

✨COUNTDOWN JAPAN22/23✨

🎶2022.12.29 Blog 🎶

I got to see Takeuchi Akari-san 🌈

But I'll talk about that another time 😭💗💗💗🦊❄️

To be continued

On my way home Takeuchi-san told me 「Maria-chan！You were super cool！And cute！」❤️

Maria replied 「Thank you very much Takeuchi-san！I love you❤️」。

When Takeuchi Akari-san's graduation was announced、Maria couldn't tell Takeuchi-san that I was sad、but instead I told her 「I love you❤️」。Takeuchi-san replied 「See ya tomorrow！！」🫶💕

･･･etc etc。

❤️Takeuchi Akari-san💙

Congratulations on your graduation🌈

From here on I think your life is full of happy things and fun things 💙💙💙

I love you ❤️❤️❤️

BIG BOSS❤️

From Makino Maria

Take a look at MariaSta 🐰Makino Maria's Instagram okay ❤️

🍀Makino Maria🍀

[lookninjas]

What's weirdest here is that they immediately went back to Journey (3.9%) -- "Give Up the Funk"

Tina's First Threesome (7.9%) -- "3"

If the Cheerios love anything, it's causing lots and lots of property damage. (13.2%) -- "Bust Your Windows"

Not how I wanted to find out about the Saturday Night Fever sequel. (1.3%) -- "Far From Over"

I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the puppets. (25%) -- "The Fox"

No, Quinn was making an Annea Lockwood reference. clipping would get it. (5.3%) -- -- "It's Not Unusual"

I still think "sex riot" was stretching it just a tad. (17.1%) -- "Toxic"

Man, when I take P-Ephed, I just feel like I'm dying. (1.3%) -- "Halo/Walking On Sunshine"

The worst part is that I associate this song with Crispin Glover, so. (2.6%) -- "Ben"

Wait. How many performances looked like this from outside? HOW MANY? (22.4%) -- "The Final Countdown"

Also, can I just say really quickly that transitioning from Rachel's high note in "Halo/Walking on Sunshine" into "Ben" might be the funniest transition I've ever made?

Anyway, that's that! See you on Thursday for songs for gay Gen X-ers (and older Millenials).

So here we go! Pick a song based on a bad description -- all songs are... choices that Glee made. (I'm not complaining, really; the weird shit was the best part of that show.) Vote, reblog, go crazy. Literally go crazy. If you sit in the back corner of the choir room, you can...

Anyway. Also, this is just a one-day poll, so please really do reblog so it gets a good amount of answers. I'll post the song titles and a playlist when it's over with.

[araminakilla]

Day 26: I think I had a helluva revelation 💀🤝🏼🦉

That's it. That's the post.

[bronzebluemind]

also didn’t think people would stick with the countdown, so thanksss :)

[kendelias]

THE MINKUS TRIPLETS: GUS, FARKLE, AND CARRINGTON (@randomestfandoms-ocs)

In the recesses of the girl’s bathroom of Abigail Adams High School, in the third stall from the left, on the front door is etched in red ink: DON’T MESS WITH THE MINKUS SIBLINGS. There are rumors as to who put it there - Isadora Smackle, Gus’s fiercely loyal best friend, for instance; Maya Hart, after she got into a fight with all three of them so loud that it’s said to have shaken the school grounds; or maybe even Carrington herself. No one really knows for sure, though they do know this: the message rings true.

[tmntxthings]

Hey there! You already know I love love LOVE your writing. I never really have ideas to make requests but I feel like you’d really make this one special 🥺 Whenever you can get to it, I’d love a sort of Rise Leo x female insomniac reader type thing.

I’m an incredibly light and anxious sleeper and being woken up by the littlest thing at 3 AM like a phone notification or noise/talking right outside my door–or literally just not being able to stay asleep–and then not being able to fall back asleep no matter what despite being exhausted is the most frustrating thing… And when I say frustrating I really do sometimes mean like, tears in my eyes, pull my hair out, feeling the most untapped anger at a whole night of sleep being ruined by one lil thing, lol

I was wondering how you think Leo would help coax a restless sleeper back to a peaceful slumber with him? Ig it doesn’t hurt he’s such an insomniac too 😂

Ultimately however you want to do this is up to you of course! Thanks for inspiring a fellow writer 😄💚

Dreamscape

author’s note: i recently couldn’t fall asleep so this was pretty fun to write <3 i hope you enjoy

warnings: fluff, insomnia, crack, established relationship, unedited

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And then, after sweeping her off of her feet, portaling us both into the lair, I’ll place her back down. Dip my totally unnecessary yet necessary sunglasses for heart fluttering effects and then pull back the curtain to my humble abode. Then-

“Whatcha writing?” Michelangelo was a tad too close and Leonardo had been so consumed in said writing that he hadn’t heard his little brother approach. “What writing?!” Leo squawked as he crumbled up the paper as fast as possible. He was up standing and leaning against his desk, desperately trying to seem nonchalant. Mikey gave him a once over, one brow bone raising.

“Okay you got me. I was journaling my thoughts like you suggested!” Leo spoke quietly, and lied smoothly. There was no way he was letting any of his brothers, yes even darling Angelo, know that he was planning a sleepover. No one could know. “Really?!” Mikey beamed, happy to hear his advice being followed. “Really really!” Leo cheesed, a smidge of guilt finding its way in as Mikey gave him a thumbs up and encouraged him to continue. “If you ever want to take it to the next step just let me know! We can talk about what you write down if you feel comfortable!!” With that Mikey departed, a skip in his step.

Leo counted down to five, then to ten just to be safe. And wouldn’t you know it at second seven Mikey peered his head through the curtains. “Yes?” Leo said, it was his turn to raise a brow bone. “Pizza later? We gotta do the rock-paper-scissors ritual to see who has to go pick it up.” Leo replied swiftly, “I’ll be there just uh- shoot me a text or something. I might be too concentrated on my writing again!~” with that Mikey gave a tiny salute and disappeared behind the curtain once more.

Another ten second countdown and Leo finally allowed himself to crash into his chair. “Too close…” he murmured to himself as he shook his head. His fist unfurled and a ball of paper revealed itself. He uncrumbled it as best he could, smoothing it out with his hand until the crinkles were bearable. “Now where was I?” Pencil in his three fingered hand, he tapped his chin with the eraser as he read over what was already written. For the life of him he couldn’t continue the thought and it frustrated him so much that the paper was crumbled and thrown into the trash bin next to his desk.

Screw it! He was better coming up with stuff on the fly anyways. What was the point in micromanaging like someone he knew when the unexpected was bound to happen. After tidying up his room, reading a comic or two, eating a slice or four from the pizza he didn’t have to go pick up (Leo losing? Hah unheard of!), he finally got the text he had been waiting all night for.

I think I’m ready! Portal in on the roof <3 -Y/n💙

Already there ;3 -LeontheGreatest

You had been in the middle of typing back a snarky reply when you saw a blue flash from your peripheral. You stopped typing and put your phone away as you turned to see him, in a grand pose of course. “Your portal awaits!” He smiled. “Well hiya Lee, nice to see you too, how was your day?” You mused as you strolled his way, being taken by complete surprise as he lifted you up, sleepover bag and all, bridal style. “Oh Y/n, we know each other too well for such pleasantries! But if I must, Hi beautiful~ how boring was your day without me?” Leo walked into the portal and the next second he was back in his room. Ack?! It was supposed to portal him right outside of his room!

He suppressed a groan, somewhat dismayed that he couldn’t do his grand reveal like he had thought up. “Just as you said, it dragged by! You can put me down now you goof!” You laughed, taking in his room for the first time in person. “Yeah I had a whole, outfit and grand entrance planned but tada! Welcome to my humble abode.” He gave you jazz hands. “Your portal entrance was grand enough” you smiled sweetly, he couldn’t let go of all the theatrics for even a moment!

He was giving you a detailed room tour, though you had to remind him he didn’t have to show you every single comic he had collected since mutation. The two of you settled onto his bed, talking more in depth about the day or anything else that crossed both your minds. The night carried on like usual, the only difference being that this sleepover was at his place instead of yours. Movie after movie, silly jokes, tiktok showcasing, shared snacks. It was perfect. Leo let out a yawn and a minute later you caught it too. “Should we call it a night?” He asked already reaching over to flick off the strung up lights. “We can try, I don’t know if I’ll be able to sleep just yet,” you sighed and Leo gave you a knowing nod.

He knew it took you quite some time to fall asleep, and then be able to stay that way was an even harder challenge. He could relate, he probably had a sleeping disorder with how irregular he passed out. “No harm in trying, come here,” he opened up his arms for you to snuggle up under the covers with him. Once situated he was pressing soft kisses into your temple, murmuring how happy he was that you came over, saying how pretty you were, he considered himself a lucky turtle. As sweet as he was being, it didn’t help your case with trying to sleep, you were a blushing mess, heart pounding at his sugary words.

You turned in his embrace, and he looked down into your eyes. “Leo!” You half whined, and he chuckled kissing your lips this time before saying, “Right right, sleep time!” His chin nuzzled the top of your head as you pressed a cheek into his plastron. It wasn’t complete silence since you were so close you could hear every breath he took, but the steady rhythm helped you relax and you slipped into a light sleep.

You woke up an hour later, surprised to have fallen asleep so quickly, but the astonishment was dashed when you realized quite quickly you weren’t falling back asleep. It was getting kind of stuffy pressed against Leo now so you tried to pull away without waking him. You stuck one leg out of the covers trying to cool down. You turned so you were lying on your back. Then you tried your stomach. Nothing was working and you felt time dragging on. The night had been perfect and why did your insomnia have to come and ruin it?!

You took in a deep breath, trying not to get too frustrated as you tried other remedies. Breathing in and out deeply. Letting your thoughts wander. Coming up with random scenarios. Trying to remember fuzzy dreams. Counting sheep for pete’s sake! Your breathing hitched as you looked over to Leo, you didn’t want to wake him, but maybe it was just better to go home. No! You shook your head and the hot tears started to fall. You covered your mouth with a shaky hand, blinking rapidly to get rid of the tears.

“Y/n?” Leo murmured, feeling the empty space where you had been cuddled next to him. You didn’t think you were ready to talk yet, in fact you were pretty certain you’d sob out his name. His eyes opened at your silence, and then he was quickly sitting up when he saw your body shake from quietly crying. “What’s wrong hermano?” His hands went out petting your hair and then rubbing those salty tears away. “Sorry Leo I’m just so frustrated,” you managed to get out. The tears didn’t seem like they were stopping despite his efforts.

He waited for you to explain, not wanting to assume. Leo hoped he hadn’t woken you somehow. “I was sleeping just fine but, n-now I can’t get back to sleep. I tried everything, I even took melatonin before coming here!” You blew out a breath. Utterly exhausted having gotten so worked up emotionally yet sleep still evaded you. “Lemme help, I got you to sleep before didn’t I?” Your eyes were big and glassy, the tears subsiding finally. You nodded and wondered what he would try, you really had tried everything!

“Do you wanna cuddle or is it too hot?” He asked gently, not wanting to crowd you since you had moved away. “It’s a little hot,” you confessed meekly, so instead of pulling you to him, Leo reached out his hand, finding yours and started to rub his thumb over the top soothingly. It felt nice, you closed your eyes wondering if this might work. But it didn’t stop there, Leo started to sing, he had a beautiful voice, you always thought it was quite funny he wanted to be the guitarist in the band with his brothers.

The words melted into him just humming. You gravitated just a tad closer to Leo, getting comfortable once more, his thumb still rubbing shapes into your skin. It didn’t happen instantly but you fell asleep and Leo couldn’t help his smile. Twice in one night, he was on a roll! Maybe he could be your new melatonin. His thumb spelled out, i-love-you before he finally drew his hand back. He hoped you would be able to sleep throughout the rest of the night, but even if you woke up again, or multiple times more, he’d help you go back to sleep. <3

[writers-ex]

Yuna x you theme park date, fluff prompt/idea

i literally love you lily this is so soft <3 let's try a fall carnival bc its fall and i'm pretty sure there are mini carnivals out there where people make cute memories from uwu enjoy~

if you had one goal it would be to win your girlfriend a stuffed animal at the carnival the one she always talked about and pointed at everytime you would passby. after saving some money you eagerly countdown the days until it opened and you both had a free day. "don't we look like the cutest girlfriends ever~ i can't wait to show you off this time button." (shit i'm soft for this nickname now T_T) rolling your eyes you let yuna drag you inside the fall themed event. "what should we do first? get some pumpkin pie, play in the bumper cars, go on the ferris wheel-" putting a finger to her lips you shake your head and smile.

"nope! i'm going to do the thing i've always watned to do for you~" cupping her face you place a light peck on her lips before drawing her attention to the infamous game yuna's eyes widen as she looks at you.

"button…you're-you're going to get it finally? my dream teddy? are you serious? is that why you've been practicing your pitching skills with ryujin unnie all this time?" nodding yuna pecks your lips back and smiles. "you know…even if you don't get it its fine i'll always love you…just a tad a less." in a teasing voice she escapes your grip and rushes over to the stall. following after her you pay the worker for some balls and warm up your hands. taking a look at your excited girlfriend you hope and wish that all those weeks of practice would be worth it to see her beaming with pride. closing your eyes you take a deep breath, aim for the already rigged tin cans and throw the ball with all your might…

"…kill me…please yuna just do it, i'm tired of living."

"button it's just a teddy bear. it's not worth all of your savings, i could buy the bear off amazon or something-"

"nooooo i wanted to be the one to win and hand it to you, i'm your girlfriend and i had one job-" cupping your face in her hands she makes you look at her straight in the eye with a serious look.

"button, listen to the words that ar going to come out of my mouth right now- i didn't fall in love with your pitching skills i fell for the annoyingly stubborn girl with the pretty eyes that can match my stubborness and keep me in check." blinking you take a look into her geunine eyes and feel a smile slowly grow on your face. "so stop being so negative and lets go eat some candy apples and crash your stress away with some bumper cars ok?" giving her a small nod yuna's serious face turns upside down, taking your hand she starts dragging you toward the food booths and together

enjoying your time together you feed each other candy apples and enjoy a very sweet kiss while waiting in line for the bumper cars. yuna shows you no mercy as you crash multiple times against each other with you almost losing your phone as she literally rear ends you while you try to record her having a good time to upload to SNS. taking a bathroom break yuna runs off leaving you alone for a few minutes, looking around the fairly crowded carnival you spot the same booth from before and feeling the last of your funds in you pocket. debating you decide to give it one last try and either the worker was showing you pity from spending an hour there earlier or you got some ryujin like strength but you manage to knock out all the tins and win the prize your girlfriend wanted. beaming with joy you quickly rush back to where you had left her and hide the toy behind your back the best you could.

"hey button i-" pausing her steps she sees some fur stick out from behind you. "um…what is-OMG BUTTON YOU DIDN'T!!!" covering her mouth yuna squeals as you reveal the stuffed teddy and hold it out for her.

"i did!! yuna my love, my angel, my spoiled princess i got you the teddy! who's the best-umph!" unable to finish your sentence yuna engufls both you and the toy in a big hug and messy lip lock laughing the whole time. pulling away you hold her waist as she hugs the bear.

"button oh my gosh you're amazing!! you're the best girlfriend ever~ this day just got 3000% times more better!! i love you so much right now!" kissing your lips once more her squeals get louder drawing the attention of the crowd around you. too excited to care you spin her around smiling.

"i love you even more yuna, but now….shall we find our new child a sibling~?”

“BUTTON!!!”

[sylvarantii]

Another pleasant surprise! It's good to see that even with a movie that was the follow up to The Raven Chaser, this one turned out to be an enjoyable watch!

Detective Conan Movie 14: The Lost Ship in the Sky is one I wasn't really expecting much out of. I didn't go into it thinking it'd be bad, I just didn't think it'd be as great as it was.

Perhaps I'm a little twisted in saying this, but I love when the stakes are raised, especially in the movies. This is kind of like what I wanted The Private Eyes' Requiem to be in a way. It didn't have all of the "fluff" and parts that made that movie sort of uneventful.

I feel like the writing team did a very good job at keeping the story going and keeping it entertaining through out which I've noticed seems like something that can be a tad difficult with the other movies.

But really, a movie about a terrorist group that is threatening to unleash a deadly virus is a very interesting turn to take for these sort of movies.

I will admit, I do think the terrorist group was written a tad flat since they feel more like the background antagonists while other events are happening, but it's really a small nitpick as far as I'm concerned.

Kaito Kid was very delightful in this movie. I admit, it's heavily making me want to watch the Magic Kaito series (even though I'd like to hold off until I get caught up on Detective Conan admittedly).

And me, forever being a Ran fangirl loved her involvement. Yeah, it wasn't anything as cool as previous movies, but you know, her being the first to figure out who Kaito Kid was, well, I just really enjoyed that angle.

And I loved even more that people were under the assumption that Shinichi is Kid. That was perhaps my favorite and a sort of gag I would've actually loved to have happened in the series. I really didn't want that to be cleared up anytime right away, but the movies are supposed to be non canon, so oh well. It was a funny scenario and I'm just glad the idea was played with in this movie since it's been stated before that Kid and Shinichi look alike.

Also, while a small part, I did enjoy Heiji and Kazuha's involvement in the movie. Satoshi, the little boy that's with Kazuha, is a welcome addition in my opinion. I like him. Too bad this seems to be his only appearance apart from an OVA that was released to go over the events after the movie.

Anyway, on to the rankings!

1.) The Raven Chaser (13th Movie)

2.) The Fourteenth Target (2nd Movie)

3.) The Lost Ship in the Sky (14th Movie)

4.) The Time Bombed Skyscraper (1st Movie)

5.) Magician of the Silver Sky (8th Movie)

6.) Captured in Her Eyes (4th Movie)

7.) Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (7th Movie)

8.) The Phantom of Baker Street (6th Movie)

9.) Countdown to Heaven (5th Movie)

10.) Strategy Above the Depths (9th Movie)

11.) The Private Eyes' Requiem (10th Movie)

12.) Full Score of Fear (12th Movie)

13.) The Wizard of the Last Century (3rd Movie)

14.) Jolly Roger in the Deep Azure (11th Movie)

I really feel like this movie deserves a high spot for its pacing alone. It felt like I was watching a movie the whole time instead of some series' special episodes.

Liked the plot and I liked the resolution. Overall, I'm happy to sing this movie's praises. It did very well and was an enjoyable watch.

[robertjacobsugdens]

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