#thanks for indulging me 🥰

[acacia-may]

If It Was A Hallmark Movie Game

Hi there, friends! I've had a draining week and am riddled with writer's block once again 🤦‍♀️, but I've been in a bit of a lovey-dovey mood recently (very odd for me lol) so I thought it might be fun to lean into that romanticism a bit and bring one of my favorite games to Tumblr just for the weekend to see what happens. It's called "If It Was A Hallmark Movie," and it's a game my sisters and I invented and usually play around the holidays but also periodically after we pick up some new ships/OTPs.

The rules are very simple: send me an ask with your favorite pairing (or a few if you can't decide) and I will make up the basics of Hallmark-style romance/Rom Com trope plot for them, basically what their love story would be "If It Was A Hallmark Movie." 😊 Is Character A a ruggedly handsome mountain man whose stoic mysteriousness will tear her away from her life in the city? Is Character B a high-powered executive who has given up love in favor of her career until she runs into a handsome stranger at the local coffee shop? Perhaps they are business rivals who are struggling with their attraction to each other while they each fight to run the best bakery in town? Possibilities are endless!

Please note that this game is usually designed for silly fluff and shenanigans so please don't take it too seriously or expect anything too inspired. 😅 That said, it has been known to lead to some fun discussions about whether certain characters give off "workaholic business man" or "ruggedly handsome mountain man" energy. 😂

I'll take requests for Canon Character Ships, CC x OC, and even CC x reader if you're into that, so please feel free to send in whatever pairings you'd like.

Thank you so much for indulging me for the moment and giving my game a try, friends! 🥰

[kaurwreck]

give me the skk song lore laoshi

ahhhhhhh!!!!!!

Wild Blue Yonder - The Amazing Devil

Wild Blue Yonder is a duet. In their verses, the vocalists are stubbornly contrarian, singing over each other as if trying to be heard while refusing to listen to the other. But their impish tone and fond familiarity seep through in their overlapping lyrics and feigned exasperation.

The playfully snippy inflections and parallel, reflective, overlapping language are very, very Dazai and Chuuya on their own. But I also read Chuuya in how Madeleine crows that she's stronger for no longer being filled with wonder and Dazai in how Joey accusatorily laments that Madeliene had convinced him he was younger and filled with wonder. It reminds me of how, in Fifteen, Dazai acts his age around Chuuya in a way he doesn't generally (playing video games, orchestrating a silly little party to hide his silly little sludge trap), and how bright and delighted Chuuya is when he fights.

In the build towards the pre-chorus, the vocalists begin singing in tandem, snipping in response to each other instead of at each other, their dialogue becoming transparent. They capitulate pouncing on each other, demurring that it's one last time, as if for nostalgia's sake.

(Like Dazai and Chuuya, snipping at each other as they approached Lovecraft and Steinbeck, even though they slotted together as if they'd never been apart, falling into familiar formations and stratagems.)

By the chorus, they're completely harmonized, playful, and childishly hiding in and with each other. They shed their pretense in this space they carved to revisit who they were when together, recalling fondly their idiosyncratic intimacy and how they clung to each other perhaps too tightly, admitting "I'd bruise you," "I'd bruise you too," as if they're saying "I love you," "I love you too."

This is how I imagine Dazai and Chuuya fall back into intimacy in the current canon timeline; first, pretentiously dismissive of the other, and then all at once playful and coltish.

Dazai and Chuuya's skittishness and destructiveness bely the safety, reprieve, spontaneity, and restlessness they find in each other. They can rest against the other; they can riot and run amok too. They're unfettered together, they tether each other. Their intimacy is in their polarity, and where their contradictions grate on each other, they also fill in what the other lacks.

[hollywoodsargeant]

my baby my baby say it with me BOYISH CHAPTER 5! it is 4 am i feel crazy. play my new game it’s called can you tell which scenes i wrote On Caffeine (hint: most of them are in italics)

+ here is a link to chapter 1 if you would prefer :)

[fujimiiiya]

A collab between me and Chottoitai (Alva) for choitaweek2024

Day 1: first reunion/first time making love

Rated E, Reincarnation AU/no curses/modern setting

Slutty!Yuji, inexperienced!Choso, slightly creepy 🩸, angst and fluff, eventual HE, smut in next ch

[pierogipete]

I want you to know that I spent most of last week pestering my friend to reread in a different life, and then drunkenly reread almost the whole series while rambling into my notes app about it. (Why drunken me didn't comment directly, I have no idea??) Which means that soon!! I will be on my third reread to finally start commenting on this beautiful and wonderful fic!

ahhhh!!! i’m so excited to read your comments :D 🥰🥰❤️

[coquelicoq]

first off, if you want to spend more time way overthinking r sounds, there's a GREAT doctoral thesis about r variation in standard dutch. "The Sociophonetics and Phonology of Dutch r" by Koen Sebregts. i still haven't read all of it, but spent most of a dinner talking at my mother and sister about it until they were like "please we are begging you to discuss this with literally anyone else". secondly, /ɥ/ :)

[shipping myself with french phonemes ask game]

you always know exactly what to recommend to me. if i were at that dinner you could talk to me about the sociophonetics and phonology of dutch r by koen sebregts as long as you wanted. rip to your mom and sister and any other bystanders but at least we would be happy!!

i was hoping someone would ask about /ɥ/...this sound has been shrouded in mystery for as long as i can remember. we're talking as early as when i learned to count to dix (because of huit). it was one of the sounds i could hear but could not for the life of me figure out how people were making. it's like we grew up across the street from each other, and she was a little older than me and so smart and pretty and carefree and i grew up just yearning. from afar. knowing that /ɥ/ didn't even know i existed.

so you'd think, what, unrequited pining? WRONG. this is ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP. didn't see that coming did you!!!! that's right, i can now pronounce the /ɥ/ sound. i can say it with my own mouth. and i do! i am saying this sound all over the place! we have ridden off into the sunset! we are on our honeymoon! it is happily ever after all up in here!!!

it's kind of interesting how this came about. i couldn't figure out how to make this sound until i learned how to identify and pronounce the /y/ sound, which makes sense given /ɥ/ is the semivocalic equivalent of /y/, but also makes no sense because then why could i identify /ɥ/ even before i could identify /y/? you'd think i would be able to hear both or neither, but not just one. and yet that is what happened. also, there was about a year between getting comfortable with /y/ and sealing the deal with /ɥ/. not sure what that was about either...like if you can make /y/ you can make /ɥ/, they're the same sound, they just occur in different environments...what would this trope be...ummm this is like if she were a superhero and i were dating her alter ego while also pining after the superhero. like babe i have good news for you! but also it's a little embarrassing after a year of dating to not be able to recognize someone when they take their glasses off.

in any case this is a very recent development, probably within the last year ish? it took me over two decades but i got there in the end. slow burn, happy ending. now if only i could figure out why word-final high vowels sound super aspirated sometimes, which is odd because aspiration is a consonant thing. (current theory is devoicing.) my beautiful wife /ɥ/ gives me the courage to be curious. if i can learn to make /ɥ/, i can learn to make anything. dreams do come true!!

[themoonunderstoodmydadjokes]

Bags are packed (mostly 🫣)

Road trip snacks secured 😎

Cold medicine taken 😷

Sleepy time incoming 😴😴

Bday trip starting in t-minus 12 hours 🥹🥹🥹🎉🎉🎉

[getawayfox]

May I ask you 75?

I just want to know more about Cedric (and if it comes with pictures, I won't complain 😅💚)

Eeeee! My darling Andy, you’re an enabler, I love it! 🤩 Pictures definitely included!

75: tell us about your pets!

Important information about Cedric: he has a little tent on the balcony where he goes camping (see bellow). He wakes me every morning around five and demands breakfast; I only indulge this behavior about 75% of the time😅 He always finds the highest place to be to give me a heart attack (top of the fridge, top of the door - see bellow). He follows me around and “helps” with everything - his favourite chore is to assist me when I water the plants by performing quality control on the water☺️

[acacia-may]

My Ship In 5 Minutes: Henry Legolant x Lorelei Swallow (OC)

[This template is mine (made in Canva), and the art of Lorelei is from an avatar maker/dress-up game by RoiWorld™️].

Song Link: “If My Heart Was A House” by Owl City (YouTube Link)

Since I've finally written a little bit about Henry Legolant and my OC, Lorelei Swallow (OC Profile Linked Here). I've decided to make a "My Ship in 5 Minutes" Meme for them. [Many thanks to @lyranova for the inspiration to do this💕]

If anyone is curious, you can read about how Henry and Lorelei met in the one-shot story "Lucky" (linked here), and Lorelei also appears in "A Family Where There Once Was None" (linked here) along with her and Henry's daughter, Summer! 🥰

[vacantgodling]

For Noh and Emerion:

🌹 Who's the flirty one and who gets shy and flustered?

🌸 Who is more likely to make the decisions in a high pressure situation? Does the other one like to follow their leadership?

THANK AHHHHHHH theMb

🌹 Who's the flirty one and who gets shy and flustered?

HILARIOUSLY it’s noh who’s the most forward and flirty. part of this has to do with the fact that he does have amnesia so a lot of the inhibitions he may have about pursuing emerion are out of the window… cuz he doesn’t remember them LMAO. emerion doesn’t get SHY (he likes to tell people but he’s a fucking liar actually) but he definitely is caught off guard by noh’s forwardness (such as the saucy excerpt — having a Super Soldier who’s killed for less get on their knees for you is kind of a Lot to take in LMAO)

🌸 Who is more likely to make the decisions in a high pressure situation? Does the other one like to follow their leadership?

the problem is both of them (bc of their positions — noh being a former JILL and emerion being the commander of a league of space pirates) are used to being the leader in high pressure situations. so they’re both likely to make a split second decision—depending on who makes it faster and the direness of the situation will sort of determine if the other one follows suit. noh doesn’t mind (bc again amnesia, but even before that, he had no issues deferring to amelia or any of his other friends if they had better ideas—they were all equal to one another ya feel) meanwhile emerion HAAAAATES following orders so whenever noh ends up in the control of a situation it pisses him off SO MUCH so he’s cursing and following after and wanting to strangle him 💀

[sobeautifullyobsessed]

"What kind of fanfic writer am i?"

Ur UwU and help me lol 🤧❤️

Honey, it must be true because someone else said the same!

UwU - fluff ☑️ tender stuff that's my wheelhouse! that and 'tender smut' (somebody called it 'worshipful smut' recently, and it didn't actually feel like a compliment & has since made me question if any of it is truly good/readable, and also theorize that's why I have so few readers😔- so thank you for reading my stuff! ) believes in true love I so, sooooo do. and I have to indulge in it in my fics, because the Man who was my own true love, well...let's just say our timing was incredibly off 🥺, and now I can only hope we find each other in the next incarnation.

help me - bad self esteem ☑️☑️ writes really good but doesn't believe it wellllll, until just recently I thought I was pretty damn good, and it was only lack of readership that made me feel otherwise. but now? well the comment I mentioned above has me shaken and doubting everything I had once believed. o gods we gotta get you a therapist o gods, PLEASE DO!

"What kind of fanfic writer am i?"

[isadora-greenhall]

gothcleats fr ship bingo!!! and rodie. if you wanna indulge me hehe

Shipping bingo

Yessssssssssssssssssssss hell yes hell yes okay okay my otp first:

GOTHCLEATS

Shock and horror I’m obsessed with this ship lol

and now yours 🥰

RODIE

I love them, your honour

[n7viper]

hello this is definitely not the same asker as before 8 18 25 34 37 48

wheee, I'm a few days late. thank you for your patience! :3 (oh god, I sound like I'm sending work emails now...)

(Destiny OC Questions)

8. How do they view their revival? Would they rather have stayed dead or be revived?

Very much “welp, I guess this is my life now” that eventually morphs into “what other choice is there? If I have these abilities, what else could I possibly be doing with them that is not protecting the people?” She sees some freelance lightbearers from time to time but she feels like she's most useful working with the vanguard and protecting the people of The Last City. When she feels most confident, she feels like this is what she was always meant to do. But when things are really stressful, when she gets in her own head about what she’s had to do, she’d rather someone else had been revived in her place. Anyone else could do what she’s done. Or do it better, even. I elaborated a little on this insecurity in this ask.

18. Do they remember much of their past life?

Answered here! tl;dr - she does not, and she'd very much prefer to leave it that way

25. If they had a unique exotic piece of gear, what would it be, and what would the flavor text be?

Surprisingly, this has been the thing hanging me up the most out of the questions I've been sent, haha. I’m not great at design. She most often wears St0mp-EE5 (mostly for my sake) but they do also boost her effectiveness in the field with increases to sprint speed and jump height. I could see her having a set of gauntlets similar in appearance to Oathkeeper but sort of arc (electricity) themed? The screenshot doesn't show it, but the dark purple parts of those gauntlets have a swirly animation. So Mae's arc gauntlets could have some funky crackling arc energy in them. As far as flavour text, idk, maybe this random dialogue I have lying around for her from a conversation with Crow -- "Who I was before is gone; this is my life now." (I forgot I had that when I answered #8 lol)

34. Guardian's least favorite weapon?

Generally, Mae hates grenade launchers. Especially the little special ammo ones. She can’t arc them to save her life, and she’s blown herself up with them a few too many times… No, I’m not answering that for myself at all, what do you mean?

37. How is their flying?

Straight up average. She’s not bad by any means, but she isn’t going to be doing any flashy maneuvers anytime soon.

48. Guardian's favorite food?

Gỏi cuốn - spring rolls! They're bright, refreshing, and filling. Peanut sauces are common for dipping, but she prefers nước chấm instead.

[p-clodius-pulcher]

Every time I get someone new to read the aeneid (I am a master of manipulation) they bring something to the table I’ve never considered it’s the best feeling in the world to be sent a texted message about the aeneid!!!!!!!

[badassindistress]

Emerald!!! We ARE friends! Also cider, in the most literal sense, but in a few months I'm visiting and then we can have actual tea! In the same room!!

We are friends!! <3 and soon we will be closeby friends!!!

Colour game

[riverswater]

you want to what him? 👀 <3

Umh 😔 hurt him 😔😔 badly ❣️💐💘💖🌷💝💕✨ and listen to all the pretty noises he can make....... Perhaps. Who said that.