#tag: mel’s babbling

[locktobre]

"delancy was raised by an abusive mother": a true statement. this is explicitly confirmed in the novelization, which says that delancy is afraid of her mother.

"delancy is an insufferable cunt for 85% of the movie and makes blair's life a living hell for no reason except blair is poor": also a true statement. these are coexistent statements. people that have been abused can also be horrible. being a victim of abuse does not absolve you of abusing others. you stupid fuck

[babblingfishes]

Me: peppino as a tumblr sexyman? i dunno about sexy but yeah i guess i could write pizza tower fic if i wanted to. maybe just scraps in my drafts.

Me two days later imposing my hells upon the local roleplay server:

[lets-steal-an-archive]

mood: everything is hopeless bullshit

[lottiesboy]

nothing’s gonna hurt you, baby

pairing: cg!melissa schemmenti x little!reader

summary: after having a nightmare, your mama gives you some comfort.

tags: sfw, fluff, h/c, age regression, mama!melissa, reader regresses to 1-2 years, crying, bottle feeding, melissa calls you bambino :( since my last mel fic got a lot of love, here’s another one :3

bambino ~ “baby” or “child” in italian

"wake up, sweetie." melissa shook you awake gently, seeing the tears on your face. "mama heard you all the way from her room. were you having a nightmare?"

you nodded, spitting your paci out and reaching for you mama to pick you up. you were still crying, little scared whimpers slipping from your lips. "c'mere, bambino. i know." she sat down on the edge of your baby bed, pulling you into her lap.

"ma, scary." you hiccuped, hiding into melissa's neck. you were gripping into her eagles hoodie, scared to let her go. "i know, sweetie. it was just a scary dream. mama's right here, sweet baby."

it took you a while to calm down, melissa walking with you in her arms to the kitchen to make you a bottle. "mama bed." you babbled, your head resting on melissa's shoulder as she screwed the nipple onto your bottle.

"yes, you can sleep in mama's bed, bambino." she chuckled, patting your bottom as she walked back to her bedroom. "such a brave little baby. mama's got your baba."

she laid you down, propping your head up on one of her pillows. "open up, sweets." you latched onto the bottle almost immediately, making melissa coo a couple praises. "good job, bambino." she rubbed your tummy, watching your eyes get heavier by the second.

she took the bottle out of your mouth, replacing it with another one of your pacis. "go back to sleep, hon. mama's gonna be right here." she put the blanket over you hearing your breathing even out and watching you go back into a peaceful sleep.

[grumpycakes]

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#5

Bad Kids

After the disappearance of her childhood best friend, Ran's life snowballs out of control. She's charged with assault, forced to transfer schools, and put on probation while trying to finish out her last year of school. Disaffected with the structures that have failed her, Ran takes matters into her own hands while she searches for answers to what happened to Shinichi. A Persona 5 AU. - Had the absolute pleasure to work on this piece for @professionally-sarcastic !!! A really awesome sounding fic of Detective Conan in a Persona5 AU!

It was really fun and cool to work on a complex piece for the first time in a while!

264 notes - Posted May 11, 2022

#4

05.04.2022

Kazuha is behind the camera telling them to smile

Boba for the Birthday Boy!!!

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329 notes - Posted May 5, 2022

#3

Happy Birthday

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When the baddies took till SOMEONE'S BIRTHDAY to subdue. And it looks like the birthday boy might not have even realized what day it was.

A birthday present for @scifigrl47 months late, and weeks before Cap's. so i TRUST AND BELIEVE Y'ALL ARE GONNA REBLOG THIS IN A FEW WEEKS TOO please?

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358 notes - Posted June 14, 2022

#2

Aftercase

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The whole investigation your smart boyfriend kept being a genius and cool af and it’s finally over so you can kiss him SO DAMN HARD

415 notes - Posted April 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

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[classicalbughead]

Can I beat within your heart? (Can I bleed within your love?)

Valentine’s Day Bughead AU

Read on AO3 here

Valentine’s day was one of Jughead Jones’ least favorite holidays. Every year the chocolate heart-shaped cakes and red roses appeared out of nowhere and wanted him to buy them. Jughead didn’t understand why everyone was making such a big deal out of Valentine’s day. If you had a partner, shouldn’t you appreciate each other every day? So what made the 14th of February so special?

Jughead had spent the whole day inside, avoiding canoodling couples and salesmen, who just wanted to get rid of their stuff. It had been a pretty quiet day so far - Archie and he had spent all morning battling each other in various video games and now they were watching their third Hitchcock movie from the marathon Jughead had suggested. When the microwaves told them with a few beeps that their popcorn was ready, Archie got up looking at the clock.

“Ronnie will be here in half an hour, I should get dressed,” Archie noted putting the popcorn into a bowl. Jughead sighed and put the movie on pause.

“I still don’t understand why you agreed to this, Arch,” Jughead grumbled also getting up and running his hand through his dark hair that was sticking out in all directions.

“Look, Jug,” Archie began, “Veronica thought it would be fun for us to go on a double-date and Betty just got a new boyfriend…I know you aren’t a huge fan of Valentine’s day or romance for that matter, but it’s just one evening.”

“Well, I guess I’ll have to finish that movie marathon without you then, Archibald,” Jughead concluded and took the bowl of popcorn.

***

Exactly half an hour later there was a loud knock on the door. Archie, who had sat uncomfortably in his seat ever since he had put on his suit, almost fell off the chair trying to get to the door. Jughead almost couldn’t hold back his laughter when Archie finally managed to reach the door and open it.

“Archiekins!” Veronica exclaimed throwing her arms around her boyfriend’s neck. Jughead turned his attention to the TV again so he didn’t have to hear what Veronica and Archie were doing on the doorstep. Though, when Veronica mentioned her blonde roommate Jughead quickly forgot the TV again.

“Betty’s date…he kind of stood her up,” Veronica just explained as she sat down next to Jughead on the sofa.

“Oh that’s…I’m sorry,” Archie conceded and scratched his neck nervously, “So…I guess it’s just you and me then?” Veronica nodded.

“That is if you don’t want to tag along, Jug? We still have reservations for four people.”

“Thank you, Veronica, but I wouldn’t want to be a third wheel,” Jughead declared, “Besides, I still have half an hour left of Vertigo.”

Veronica looked at him with her you-are-kinda-weird-look but shrugged, grabbed her jacket and her boyfriend’s hand.

“Bye, Jug. We’ll be back….later,” Archie informed him before closing the door. Jughead grinned and leaned back on the couch.

He didn’t want to know what those two had in mind for tonight. After all, the walls in their apartment were pretty thin. Maybe they would go back to Veronica’s place. Poor Betty though. His thoughts drifted to the blonde girl that lived just a few blocks away. He had always liked Betty. She was a kind and gentle woman, who was incredibly good at baking, as much as Jughead could tell from the few times he and Archie had visited Veronica in her apartment. But why would anyone stand her up? On Valentine’s day?

“What an idiot,” Jughead muttered but the thought of Betty sitting in her apartment all alone on Valentine’s day, probably crying, didn’t leave his head.

After a few more minutes, when the end credits of Vertigo rolled over the screen, Jughead got up. It wasn’t fair that a girl like Betty had gotten stood up on Valentine’s day. But what could he do? Jughead took a deep breath and gathered his thoughts. He was going to go ever there. He rushed to his bedroom and grabbed his favorite flannel. Before he left his apartment he picked up Psycho from the top of his little Hitchcock pile.

The streets were crowded with couples who were holding hands, but Jughead deliberately ignored them as he headed towards one of the many stores that sold those little chocolate hearts. He bought a handful and also decided to get Betty a single red rose. Even though he hates Valentine’s day it didn’t mean Betty would have to pass on the typical Valentine’s day presents.

When he finally reached Betty’s apartment it was already dark outside. He took a deep breath and knocked. After a few seconds, he could hear quiet steps approaching the door. When the door opened Jugheads eyes fell on a ponytail-less Betty Cooper. His heart nearly broke as he saw her like that. Her eyes were all puffy and she was wearing sweatpants and an oversized sweater.

“Jug? What are you doing here?” she asked quietly. The sound of her voice made him want to hug her.

“I just came by because…well, Veronica told me what happened and I didn’t want you to be alone on Valentine’s day. Also…,” he stuttered.

“What?” Betty whispered.

“I have something for you. I just thought that you shouldn’t miss out on Valentine’s just because some jerk stood you up,” he admitted handing here the rose and the chocolates. Betty’s face brightened up and she took her presents and Jughead suddenly was very glad that he had been the one who had made her happy.

“Oh, Jug…You didn’t have to,” she protested. Jughead just smiled at her.

“Do you want to come in?” she proposed and took a step back.

“I was kind of counting on it. I brought Psycho…I figured we could be alone together?” he suggested waving with the movie in his hand. Betty nodded and followed him to her sofa.

“Thank you for coming, Juggie,” Betty murmured as she wrapped herself in a blanket next to Jughead on the sofa.

“No problem, Betts. I just thought it wasn’t fair to you. Getting stood up on Valentine’s…that guy is a jerk and he doesn’t deserve you,” Jughead growled.

“Yeah, you’re right,” Betty agreed, robbed closer to him and let her head fall onto his shoulder, “Let’s watch the movie.”

When Jughead hit play his hand was on Betty’s knee and he could feel her breath against his neck. Maybe Valentine’s day wasn’t so bad after all

Huge thanks to the amazing, the irreplaceable, the one and only @wonderrful for beta-ing this. Love you, Sim <3 And happy Valentine’s day to all of you :)

[infernalyearning]

sleeping in the same bed/room as Vinny, Riz, and Pro sounds fun until i remember they all probably wake up between 5-7am

[beingabadass]

bcsslady replied to your post: Ahh! Where did you all come from??  Well either...

hi. I’m Demi. Shout more about Rhodey.

Hi Demi! It’s super nice to meet you. 

I can definitely do that! Let’s see.. Did you know that one of my favorite headcanons is Rhodey’s friendship with Pepper? Imagine if you will, the two going out for a drink or maybe catching a lunch together and just sitting down and decompressing and talking about all the wild shit Tony has put them throuhg lately, with that certain.. air in their voice of like ‘200% with Tony’s shit, but like also they still completely love him’ 

Think about the two just chilling and gossiping and having sweet ass brunches. Think about the two of them hanging out together during all those charity events that Tony decided to bail on. Rhodey swooping in to dance with Pepper to give her a break from the never ending reporters harassing her. 

All the things. Thank you for coming to my Pepper and Rhodey are Bffs ted talk. 

[lets-steal-an-archive]

If you clicked that "a link to the full amendment text on the official CT.gov site" link it takes you...here?

Here's the source of those caps: https://www.cga.ct.gov/2022/amd/H/pdf/2022HB-05506-R00HC-AMD.pdf

Here's the abortion protection law (FOR CONNECTICUT RESIDENTS) that Lamont signed: https://cga.ct.gov/2022/ACT/PA/PDF/2022PA-00019-R00HB-05414-PA.PDF ⤵️⤵️⤵️

https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1524224285082066953?t=AW-7wEu820f0TP0xImVRMg&s=19

Just me crying in the bathroom so I don't wake my partners with this, fuck.

So to sum up: CT and DC have passed laws making it illegal to extradite someone to another state if they are being charged in that other state for crimes pertaining to abortion or trans health care, and makes it legal to sue and get your money back if you are targeted by a TX-style "bounty" law. DC also includes "crimes" of consensual adult sex, gay and interracial marriage and cohabitation and providing or using contraception.

This is, as the thread explains, basically legal interstate warfare. CT and DC's laws bar compliance with such laws.

This is, on one hand, kind of terrifying, because this is where we are now. It's going to get worse long before it gets better.

On the other hand... holy shit, someone fucking did something.

Someone fucking did something real.

[locktobre]

thinking about how princess anneliese as a character is immediately established as a girl who is frankly sick of being told what to do all day every day but she both knows and upholds her duties to her kingdom, and her character arc includes finding a way to balance her own wants and desires with said duties;

thinking about how princess tori as a character is immediately established as a girl who is bored with her life to the point of causing trouble at every opportunity but she loves her sisters and is passionate about keira's music, and her character arc includes learning to actually start caring about her kingdom and her position in it;

thinking about how princess amelia is immediately established as a character who wants... something. she doesn't know what she's missing, but she knows she wants it. she wants to find herself? i guess? she doesn't appear to have any hobbies or interests. she doesn't appear to care about being a princess, or the fact that she is about to be the reigning queen of not one but TWO kingdoms. she professes to be upset that no one knows who she really is, but who IS she? why don't they tell us? why don't they show us? why does she disappear entirely for most of the movie and come back at the end only to use her new title of queen to start a vlog? like bro what the fuck happened how could they disrespect the legacy of barbie princesses like this

[lets-steal-an-archive]

[youtuberswoahh88k]

hmmm

[grumpycakes]

lol I’ve seen a handful of artists post about how the tags copying ticks them off cause they tag their stuff “my art” or variations of, so ppl are accidentally reblogging it w it tagged as theirs

And then there’s me, who’s used “melart” for this exact reason since I joined in 2010

Y’all all named ur queues something cute but didn’t FOR YOUR ART???!!!?

Anyway, it’s also hella fun to see the other group of Mels that post in that tag

No disrespect but also can’t relate

[classicalbughead]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Bughead

Betty moved to New York to fulfill her dream and be a journalist. The week before Christmas she stumbles upon Jughead Jones, an author.

Riverdale AU where Jughead never lived in Riverdale. All the other stuff has still happened.

This is my Secret Santa Bughead fanfiction for @wonderrful

Merry Christmas, love <3 And also this is one of my second Bughead fanfic so…It isn’t that good

Read on AO3 here

[locktobre]

I saw your Barbie posts related to accents, languages and nationalities and hae some thoughts:

Hadley from Charm School not speaking English as her mother tongue. She's played by Teresa, so she comes from a Latin American country. She is Latina, like Isla coming from Japan.

I just consider Mariposa Spain and they speak Spanish. Shimmervale, on the other hand, I view as Malta. Fairytopia, Portugal so they speak Portuguese. Island Princess, they speak Italian etc, Meribella is Monaco so French.

And Kira apparently is Vietnamese, Nia from Western Fun was Native American, and Miko was Native Hawaiian, as I saw an ask about why we didn't get other races.

Now an explanation that is needed: Fairy Secret. Why is Taylor British and why is Zane Italian, and in Mermaid Tale why does the lipstick fish have a Hungarian accent? She talks like Zsa Zsa Gabor??? What? And yes why isn't Summer Aussie, as well as why did Blaine never appear in a movie when Barbie wasn;t dating Ken, and why didn't Christie, Lea, and Kayla appaear? I mean Kira only had 2 dolls in the 2000s before being completely cut, so her I get.

Sat on this for awhile trying to decide if I wanted to be nice answering, and I decided that I do not want to be nice. I haven't talked about Barbie in months, really, so I have no idea what posts you're referring to. There are literally over 7,700 posts in my Barbie tag from the past 10 years so speaking vaguely about something not recent is of no help to me. But whatever, I'm going to deal with this and then turn off my ask again.

I tried searching my blog to see what the hell you're talking about so maybe I'm right, maybe I'm not, whatever.

Re: this post?

Hadley from Charm School not speaking English as her mother tongue. She's played by Teresa, so she comes from a Latin American country. She is Latina, like Isla coming from Japan.

A couple things here:

I don't really account for who "plays" the characters in the movies in my headcanons, because I have everyone existing alongside Barbie herself, so it doesn't matter. My most recent headcanon for Hadley had her coming from Johanistan (although that would most likely mean English is still not her first language).

Isla does not come from Japan. Nowhere in the movie is it said that she comes from Japan (her kingdom is never mentioned, in fact). That is your headcanon, it's not canon, and therefore has no bearing on anything.

Re: this post?

I just consider Mariposa Spain and they speak Spanish. Shimmervale, on the other hand, I view as Malta. Fairytopia, Portugal so they speak Portuguese. Island Princess, they speak Italian etc, Meribella is Monaco so French.

God where to begin here.

First of all, assuming I found the right post, you completely missed the fucking point of what I was saying. Fairytopia (which encompasses Flutterfield and Shimmervale, they are not separate, they are pieces of a whole) DOES NOT HAVE SPAIN. THEREFORE THEY CAN'T SPEAK SPANISH. That was the point I was making! Are you kidding me here? The point of that post was speculating what you might call a language analogous to Spanish, without Spain existing. Since it's spoken in Flutterfield, the language could be called Flutter, and therefore Marabella and Carlos have Flutter accents. Something like that. That was my point.

Secondly, Island Princess and Popstar have nothing at all to do with Fairytopia or, again, what I was saying. Irrelevant.

No idea what this is referring to, and I'm not going to bother looking this time bc I've ranted about Mattel's racism plenty of times.

And Kira apparently is Vietnamese, Nia from Western Fun was Native American, and Miko was Native Hawaiian, as I saw an ask about why we didn't get other races.

Those are old dolls from lines that haven't existed in decades, they're fully fucking irrelevant. There's a nameless horde of diverse Fashionistas these days, and that's great, I'm glad that ppl have them, but there is still a severe lack of diversity in the animated media that is appalling, and yes still even though Barbie "Brooklyn" Roberts exists now. I mean, for god's sake, the current universe started in 2018 and it took until 2021 for Barbie "Malibu" Roberts to have a second Black friend, and even that only happened bc of the BLM protests of May 2020. Like. Are you fucking kidding me? THAT'S what it took to expand Malibu's social circle? GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK. Mattel is racist and ppl have articulated it better than me, but it's just a fact. (This is when I decided to be mean btw. The unmitigated gall to try and defend Mattel to me... Shut the fuck up.)

And now, the last inanity:

Now an explanation that is needed: Fairy Secret. Why is Taylor British and why is Zane Italian, and in Mermaid Tale why does the lipstick fish have a Hungarian accent? She talks like Zsa Zsa Gabor??? What? And yes why isn't Summer Aussie, as well as why did Blaine never appear in a movie when Barbie wasn;t dating Ken, and why didn't Christie, Lea, and Kayla appaear? I mean Kira only had 2 dolls in the 2000s before being completely cut, so her I get.

Let's break this down.

So, you have no problem saying that Flutterfield is Spain, even tho Fairytopia is not Earth and has no known contact with Earth at all... but somehow the characters of Gloss Angeles, whose MAIN PLOT is about their connection with Earth, confuses you? What? WHAT? Why can't Taylor be British? Why can't Zane be Italian? What are you TALKING about?

Never really cared about what accent the lipstick fish had, but again, Mermaid Tale takes place on Earth. She could pick it up. Or it's some kind of fish accent. Who even cares?

The only animated depiction of Summer thus far has been Life in the Dreamhouse, and since Blaine didn't exist there, they might have retconned the fact that she's supposed to be Australian. Or maybe they forgot.

Barbie didn't date Blaine in the movies bc she stopped dating, period. There hasn't been a romantic arc in a Barbie movie since 2015 (longer since there's been a good one), and before Epic Road Trip, Barbie as herself's last romance... was Ken in Fairy Secret. And then she was a teenager and nobody was allowed to date for whatever reason. There was no reason for Blaine to be there lmfao. Also who even cares about Blaine? He sucks.

Christie, Lea, and Kayla have been dead for years so of course they're not going to appear in anything?? It was a miracle to see Christie in animated form in 2015 when she had already been dead for 10 full years at that point, but she was super whitewashed so like they couldn't even do that right lmfao.

Anyway you probably won't read this bc I'm blocking you as soon as I post this. Get well soon and never bother me again.

[lets-steal-an-archive]

"Every ordinary person around my age has a secret self from before the crash, one who dared to dream of more than a life of necessities reclassified as luxuries. There are marriages that never happened, children never born, chances never taken, because the struggle to hang on to what you have is so great that it hurts your heart to hope for more. You can't afford the literal cost, and you can't afford the psychic cost. In the postemployment economy, a generation learned to manage its expectations.

The rage, though — that stays with you."

— Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump