#the alliteration of the letter s

[singingcicadas]

Decepticons literally be like:

We hate Starscream. We hate Soundwave. We hate Shockwave. We hate the DJD. We hate our commanding officers. They're all creepy corrupt assholes who cares nothing about us or our cause. Selfish bastards, the lot of them.

Interviewer: Then how do you feel about Megatron?

Decepticons: Oh we love Megatron. He's our beacon to freedom and supremacy. The one true hero. We'd do anything for him. Of course he cares about us! It's only Everyone Else in charge who doesn't.

[outlying-hyppocrate]

just searched up "vivisection table" and. i'd gladly throw myself onto one of those

[lactoseintolerentswag]

Big Mama's Dialogue

I've heard a few people lament on how Big Mama is difficult to write because of how she speaks, so I thought I'd share my tips and tricks.

I start out by writing what I intend for her to say without the flowery language added on. For example:

"I look nice in the new jacket I bought."

Doesn't sound like Big Mama at all, but it'll help you have a place to start so you don't have to be intimidated by scrolling through thesaurus.

Now, Big M has a tendency to do the following:

Use outdated American slang (anywhere from the 1920's to the 60's)

Apply alliterations (using the same letter at the beginning of a word to the adjacent/close word)

Use adverbs, so describing words with the end suffix -ly (i.e. softly, mysteriously, quickly)

Sprinkle in a few made-up words

So let's take the base sentence I provided an shape it to Big M's standards.

Resources for American slang:

Instead of word vomiting out all the outdated American slang I know, I'm going to link some resources/websites you all can look at and come back to. She mostly uses 20's slang, so the links are centered around that.

1920's slang PDF, alphabetically organized!!!

List of slang phrases originating from the 1920's to the 2010's

Short list of slang flapper's from the 1920's used

So let's edit our base sentence a little, now it's:

"This new jacket I bought is the cat's meow."

Adding the next layer:

I did mention that Big Mama tended to use both alliterations and adverbs in copious amounts, but don't feel pressured to use both at once in a sentence. If it fits, it fits. If it doesn't, some trimming might be useful. This is why having a base sentence is important, so the intention behind the dialogue isn't lost under all the additions you're adding. So with that in mind, I'm going to alter our example:

"This new jazzy jacket I just bought is the cat's meow."

The last part:

I save the "fake words" part for last, because beginning with them can make your sentences clunky or not make sense. This part really relies on your personal touch or the context and tone of the situation at hand. The example I gave make Big Mama sound like she's preening about her looks, so I'm going to lean into that.

"This newsie-woozie jazzy jackety I just bought is the cat's meow! Grr!"

And for comparison, here's where we started.

"I look nice in the new jacket I bought."

And well, that's it!!! Hope it was helpful to those that needed it!!!

[myceliacrochet]

U.S. Senate is voting Wed Nov. 13th on whether to continue sending aid to Israel!!!!

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🌸🩷🍄Contact Your Reps for Gaza to Enter!!!🍄🩷🌸

Those who are not in the U.S. are welcome to participate too and contact your own representatives.

Here are some examples of my art

🩷🌸🍄How to Enter🍄🩷🌸

1. Contact Your Representative(s) by Nov. 13th.

Here are some links that will lead you through it:

US (USPCR); call

US (USPCR): email

US (Jewish Voice for Peace): call

UK: letter

Australia: email

Canada: email

2. Let Me Know.

Lmk how many representatives you contacted and how many times each. You can just dm or comment me the tally, or you can send me screenshots as you make the calls/letters/emails. Honor system

3. Win an Art!

Lmk what you want me to make and you will get a digital copy.

🩷🌸🍄FAQs🍄🌸🩷

How Many Tickets Can I Get?

As many times as you contacted your own representative (doesn't have to be a senator, but preferably so) starting on Nov. 10.

So if you called the White House twice, your governor 1 time, once senator twice, another senator twice, and your district rep once, you would get 8 tickets.

Yes, you can contact them more than once in a day, and you will get as many tickets as the number of times you contacted. Flood 'em.

Do I Call, Send a Letter/Postcard, or Email? Do I Use My Own Words or a Script?

That's up to you! Some of the links in Step #1 have tips, scripts, and form letters. Just do it.

Who are Basma and Shorouq from the Pictures?

They're Palestinians and I love them! Check out their stories here and here, they need emergency funds.

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[smittenbypoetry]

Poetry Game!

September 2024 Edition:

The rules are as follows: write an eleven line poem. Each respective line includes, but, unless stated, is not limited to the following in order:

A day of the week

The word: skin

Any herb

Any weather phenomenon

A word starting with the letter 'Q'

(A reference to) Persephone

Any childhood game, or toy

Free line, use however you like

Rhymes with line 11

Alliteration(s)

Must be: "We're all mad, here."

Excited to see what everybody will come up with, and, of course, how this one will turn out. Let the magic commence.

Have fun!

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Tag your poem #smittenbypoetrygame, and I will reblog it here. Be sure to use one of the first five tags to do this, else there’s a chance it won’t show up when I search for it. If I haven’t reblogged your poem within 24 hours, please send me a message and I’ll add it to the queue.

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

Update the oc now rails masterson and archer bc my bf pointed out archer would absolutely fuck a giant plane robot who looks like a dragon. Keep winning tfa humans.

Another w for the interspecies squad and another hernia for sentinel prime

He's just a funny lil guy your honor.

Alliteration sound good and s is one of the most commonly used letters in English. 'twas inevitable methinks

[theromaboo]

Guys, I've found it. My favourite Roman name.

Look at that alliteration! And the entire full name has only six unique letters: L, U, C, I, S, and N, which makes it feel so clean! This dude is the only Roman with a fortunate name.

[outlanderanatomy]

2024 SiWC – Diana Gabaldon “Endings”

Hallo the house!!! 😉

Greetings Diana fans! 🤗

Friday, October 26, was the first day of 2024 Surrey International Writers’ Conference (SiWC) in British Columbia. This is a wonderful gathering of seasoned writers and budding authors.

This is my fourth SiWC over the years. I attend to report on the events and see Diana. I do not plan on becoming a professional writer.

This post is about Diana’s SiWC workshop on Oct. 25, titled “Endings.”

Now, no need to panic. Diana’s presentation was not about the end of the Outlander book series –  not yet, anyway!!! 😱  

It was about how to write endings to all aspects of story telling including those of sentences, paragraphs, conversations, chapters, books, etc.

I found it extremely informative and I wager most in the room felt the same. Diana remains a fountain of imagination and information. 🤩

Diana entered the room with her favorite beverage in hand! 😄

Understand, these workshops are 1.5 hours long wherein she is the only speaker.  I suspect this wee “pick-me-up” helps her stand (mostly) still, essentially immobile and focussed while being pummeled with attendees’ queries! 😎

Unfortunately, I had some technical difficulties with this video recording so it is divided into three segments. 🙄

The first video is the introduction. She tells attendees that she is not going to teach the mechanics of how to write their stories but rather how to write about what happens in a way that keeps readers turning the page. 📖

She began by telling us she recently reread James Clavell’s 1975 book, Shogun. She selected this book because Clavell is a highly regarded author.

Upon opening the book, she immediately read both the first and the last sentences! She didn’t do this to spoil the book but for a scholarly reason: she is now writing what she expects will be the final Outlander book and she is putting serious thought into that last sentence of her epic book series. She is researching good examples. Hankies out! 😥

In the next segment, she talks more about Shogun. She considers its last sentence to be an excellent ending to this classic novel so listen to her read it.

In this third and final video segment, she talks about Shakespeare’s tragedy, “Romeo and Juliette.” Starting to weep, she explains that this story was not about crime or political power but about “Juliette and her Romeo. It is about love.” 🥰

She points out and explains that there are four types of book and chapter endings:

Resolution of conflict

Food for thought

Cliff hangers

Echos (e.g. epilogues)

She encourages writers to include pauses in their sentences, to use short sharp sentences in conversations, and try not to shake people out of the story with anything that might distract from the tale.

If your work presents a question, answer it rather quickly to keep readers engaged. (Now, I could make an issue here because upon occasion, Outlander readers have to wait 10 years and two or more books to get answers, but I won’t!) 😂

Question: Are your characters ever influenced by the show’s characters or do you keep them separate? Do you like the show’s characters better? No, she never confuses the two sets of characters and she likes hers best because she writes better dialogue. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Question: How do you decide what your characters will say? Her answer is she never tells her characters anything – they tell her what they will say, think, and do.

Question: Are you conscious of alliteration when you write? She said she was when first writing but incorporates it automatically now. Sometimes she goes back and grooms the alliteration if needed (alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words – e.g. the sweet birds sang softly).

This video segment stops when she begins reading an excerpt from book 10. It is an intimate exchange between Jamie and William! ❣️

She asked me specifically to remove this part before posting, so I have. I am very sorry that I cannot share it because it is tender, moving and poignant.😢

I feel sure she will share this as daily lines when she is ready. 💙

I hope you enjoyed Diana’s one person workshop. These are always worthwhile and I considerate it a privilege to attend them. 

The deeply grateful,

Outlander Anatomist

[starfieldcanvas]

how do you recommend coming up with a tumblr url?

First off, I strongly advise against fandom-based names unless the creator is dead and their work is something you've felt strongly attached to for the last twenty years, because fandoms change, creators turn out to be asshats, and it's a pain to have to change your URL because your hyperfixation passed or because associating with a fandom makes everyone think you're Schrodinger's bigot. (Shoutout to poor @luny0 💜) And of course it's also very confusing for your followers when you change names!

Second, be aware people will likely nickname you based on your URL — even if your internet name is in your bio like mine — and you can't predict exactly how they'll do it. @pilferingapples has an excellent username but didn't anticipate that it would be universally shortened to "Pilf." It took me forever to realize that @shitpostingfromthebarricade was called Barri, not as in a fem version of 'Barry' like Bari Weiss, but as in "Barricade." My friend @fleetingeternities (rest in peace🕊️) had a lovely name but also went by Flee, for short. So... think about that the same way you'd think about what your baby's initials would spell.

Third, I suggest thinking about how clear the starts and ends of each word in your username are. If a word later n the username starts with a vowel, will it get erroneously linked to the previous letter, or vice versa? It took me years to realize that @nurselofwyr 's username was Nurse Lofwyr and not Nursel of Wyr. Did I know what Nursel meant? No, but people have some pretty bizarre fandom and fantasy names on this hellsite. Users will go on trying to string letters together unless there's a hard stop, so if you want a username where the words might run together unhelpfully, consider hyphenating.

Just a little snippet of an idea, enough to give a vibe or a mental image, is great. Something whimsical, evocative, or downright silly. These things are easiest to achieve by pairing two words that can be imagined together but wouldn't normally go together or wouldn't go together in that grammatical format, e.g. starfishwhisper/ambient-color/marchbloom/goose-destroyer, genderflexing/hamsterwheeling/meme-foraging, frequentlykneecapped/rarelymarried/veryverily, etc. Or stack a few together, e.g. bigbadbandwidth, stabby-old-tabby, godawfulgayghost. Bonus if you get some alliteration or slant rhyme going.

Snapping a few out-of-context words from a quote is solid too: live-in-infamy, delenda-est, among-mad-people, rarely-make-history. They're not word for word quotes, so it's easier for them to morph into a collection of sounds that represent a person. I do know a lot of people have usernames that are full lines of poetry or song lyrics, but my personal opinion is that these tend to flow best as usernames when they're cut off before they get to full sentences. It's always a bit odd to address someone by a name with a pronoun inside it; that's how you get "ME SAW WHO!"

Unless you are on Tumblr for professional reasons, do not use your legal or professional name!

Obviously you always have the option to go with a fake proper noun, fantasy-name style — "larkacyn" or "devossa," or I dunno, "altseven" or "priov" if you're feeling more scifi — but I feel like if you had one of those you wanted to use, you wouldn't have sent this ask.

And of course...all the truly top tier usernames are puns. If you're really committed to getting a fandom name, bury it in a pun, like @owlmylove or like my ao3 username.

(All examples made up of the top of my head unless they're tagged users. You are welcome to any of my nonsense)

[natsuki208]

Clear and Sunny! - Behind the Scenes ☀️

During preparations for the school festival at Attack! Junior High, Reiner, Annie and Bertholdt have a secret meeting to discuss their next move.

———

It’s a clear and sunny day for the students of Attack! Junior High. Most importantly… IT’S SCHOOL FESTIVAL TIME!!

All the young males and females of every classroom must show off their artistic skills and create two fun activities per class for everyone to participate. Whether it’s a cafe, games, food stalls, etc. the students have to make them themselves.

Year 1 Class 4 in particular have their hands full this year, since there are not enough of them to run two things at once, so some of them have to pull off double duty. Or even more so… because three of the classmates are planning to sneak out somewhere before the festival starts.

The coast is clear for now, but will soon be rampaged by hard working students, so they all have to cram into a small area where no one will bother looking in - Reiner, Annie and Bertholdt are not amused by it though.

“Is… is this really the best idea you had for a hiding spot?” Bertholdt questions his friend’s level of thinking.

“Sorry, man. I know is squished but everywhere else in this place is used up for festival preparations, so there’s limited choices for us.” Reiner responds regretfully (heh, alliteration).

“The school gym closet, maybe?” Annie harshly advices. “Somehow smells less than the janitor’s closet.”

“I said I’m sorry! Anyway, we all know why we have to hide in the first place so let’s just cut to the chase.”

“It reeks of booze in here…”

“ANNIE!”

A sudden outburst grabs their full attention now. Which shouldn’t be at all surprising from the loud-mouthed jock but somehow it is. Two out of three remain quiet, as the said jock can continue.

“Ahem. Okay. So we’ve been here at Attack! Junior High for seven months now, and yet we still have more than little intel about the hidden truths that our own school requires.”

“That is true.” Bertholdt mutters softly.

“All we managed to dig up was that the rumours of a hidden rebellious club here turned out to be true.”

“Yeah.”

“Even so, they seem to have no idea about this mighty power called ‘The Founder’.”

“Sadly.”

“D-Do you mind? I’m trying to summarise here.” Reiner irritatingly calls out Bertholdt’s muttering.

The tall boy is stunned but apologises. “S-Sorry.”

It seems like they finished, so it’s time for the quiet, blonde girl to speak up.

“Well, while you two were busy with things like the Test of Courage and running for student council president, I did my own digging after stating I had cram school to attend. Except the last time I almost got caught.”

“The last time, huh?” Reiner questions.

It wasn’t Annie’s fault that she had to write love letters for a pure titan about a horse-faced narcissist which nearly blew her cover to her classmates, but all of that is besides the point.

“Let’s just cut our losses and take what we have back to Marley Acadamy; at this point I bet they’ll be happy to hear anything.”

Bertholdt opens his mouth as to agree but shuts it, as to not repeat what he just did. Reiner on the other hand, isn’t so easily convinced.

“No.” He responds. “After seven months? They’d be expecting more than just a few scraps of information.”

“Alright, asshole. Do you have a plan?”

Once again, Reiner gets irritated but now with Annie’s snarkiness. He keeps his cool though and gives her and Bertholdt a reasonable answer.

“Yes. Once the festival gets going, Bertholdt and I will keep a watch over the food stalls, and once the time is right, you’ll lead a horde of titans to take them away back to their side of the school. It’s the best chance we have into forcing answers about The Founder.”

All three share eye contact with one another, inner thinking about how this plan of his will turn out, for once it actually sounds pretty solid especially when it’s from Reiner himself.

“It also means going against your friends.” Annie reassures the blonde brute. “You’re willing to risk that?”

Reiner walks closer, almost standing face-to-face with her. “I keep telling you: the students here aren’t our friends, they’re devils. That’s what we’ve been taught. Our schools have been rivals for generations, and so we must continue this tradition. We’ve been sent here to lure out its greatest power and use it against them. Then we’ll be seen as lesser devils by everyone at-”

“I’m gonna puke.” Annie angrily interrupts. “Could you please move your face away from mine?”

What a way to cut off interesting lore, Annie. Anyway, Reiner backs away as she demanded, with a grouchy frown nonetheless. Seems that all three have come to an agreement… if not for the one small hole in the plan coming to mind.

Annie gives in first. “Unfortunately for you, I have to ‘investigate’ some of the cafes with Hitch during most of the festival. It’s annoying for you, but you two will still have to wait.”

“It’s alright, Annie.” Bertholdt finally speaks. “We all still have to participate in the frstival or else-”

“Hold on.” Reiner interrupts this time. “You can always back out and inform her you have other businesses to take care of. The sooner we do this the better.”

“Says the guy who wanted to see the maid cafe, probably to see Christa working there.”

A bright red blush spreads right from Reiner's cheeks to his ears, either from embarrassment or frustration.

“Th-This is not about Christa!”

Both Annie and Bertholdt aren’t easily convinced this time, so poor blushing Reiner will have to compromise on the situation.

“Okay, fine! How about we do what we want for the festival first, and before the tension rises, we THEN carry out the plan to have the titans steal the food stalls. Alright?”

The other two both nod in agreement, however, Annie shows signs of doubt in her eyes. Bertholdt is willing to go along with anything as long as it can end their mission much quicker.

As soon as everything’s been sorted out, the sounds of footsteps and distant chatter outside gets closer and closer. Reiner opens the door slightly, just above an inch, to peek and hear the sound of people their age coming to hang up signs and banners - what perfect timing. Before anyone can notice, all three of them exit the janitor room one by one and head in the opposite direction of the potential witnesses.

Annie goes down one hallway which leads to the student council room, as Reiner and Bertholdt go down another one which will bring back to their classroom. One more conversation is shared between the two boys at this moment.

“Bertholdt.” Says Reiner. The taller boy shifts his eyes towards his friend.

“If any of this gets foiled in the slightest, and the teachers need to call the principal, you know what to do.”

Bertholdt nods softly. “Yeah, I know.”

~

Would this plan go well? Who knows. But if you seen the actual episode, you know it already.

[presumenothing]

assorted translation notes on the novel opening sprinkled with peanut gallery comments (or possibly vice versa, idk):

yes that is a cluedo reference in the case title i couldn't stop myself and i'm not sorry

"…of the sixth month": not july, because this is in lunar calendar

"lucky pattern lotus parlour": ok i spent like at least One Whole Minute considering whether or not to talk myself out of this one. still didn't, still not sorry, alliteration funny

"bingshan town": could also be pingshan, flip a coin

anyway li lianhua arriving in their main street with his wholeass house like. it's Free Real Estate

"town god/local shrine": original term here is 土地庙 for the record. anyway who's gonna write the crackfic where li lianhua wakes up one morning in some random town to find that the locals have set up an entire shrine offering right outside complete with massive incense burner and all

wait hang on li lianhua was spring cleaning for TEN DAYS STRAIGHT??

"surname Li, named Lianhua": if anyone has come up with a better way of rendering 姓李，叫莲花 please tell me because i haven't

pov you're swiping through tinder when suddenly one of the profiles is just like Jianghu's #1 Most Very Mystery every biodata field is We Just Don't Know, Man and the pic is a badly circled cryptid sighting (idk i don't use tinder)

(li lianhua voice) "excuse you i didn't do two things i just did the same thing twice. technically speaking"

"lifelong learner": well Actually what the results for 皓首穷经 kept insisting on giving me was "hoary head" but i didn't go with that, so there but for the grace of me goeth you, shi wenjue

im sorry but the true utter crack au where he picked 李乌龟 instead (because yknow. turtle. house and all) and we are forced to live with the consequences

yunhe my dude you should've just bought a roomba instead of wasting your money on that incense and letter paper

"precious softwood": specifically nanmu, which (to collective unsurprise) was also used for shipbuilding, among other things

just........ the sheer over-the-top hercule poirot short story energy of this entire intro part, really

"king of hell": none other than 阎罗王 ofc

"a sound of dismay": he straight up "aiya"s here. i just could not figure out how to work it in for the life of me

"dust and sawdust": curse this stupid language that made both of these words contain dust this sounds So Awful

it has been 0 days since li lianhua last said "ah" (the counter never moves past zero)

toss em eggs, bystanders, we believe in you

(cheng yunhe walking in) you live like this??

"could only work with what he had, dead or otherwise": the original actually invokes 死马当活马医 (a saying which Literally means "treat a dead horse as a live one"), blast the english language for not having an equivalent

fang duobing's intro paragraphs? 10/10 sheer hilarity no notes

....why is "commit robbery"" up there on the list next to "plant crops"

"melancholic young master": 多愁公子 (he's got 99 worries and somehow li lianhua is all 100 of them)

how HAS fang duobing known li lianhua for literally just as long as he's been in the jianghu tho

ok three crackfic proposals in one post is a bit much even for me but. the one where li lianhua keeps accidentally digging up non-dead people/lost treasure/unmentionable secrets when actually he just wanted to borrow some onions for tonight's soup. honest

(this may possibly just be canon)

aaaand fifty taels, welp

[aropride]

thought of a somewhat catchy name for an art account but then i realized that the alliteration i used (creative, catchy) was also with the letter S (i was in speech therapy but every once in a while. i Stumble. stutter, even. ssstammer... i dont have any more s words. sorry

[dewdr0pz-alt]

i was doing the writers truth or dare ask game thingy with the emojis lmao im sorry for not explaining that, i thought ud know haha

stg i wasnt just sending random emojis im far greater than doing something like that

- 🪱

oh my stars!! hello 🪱 anon!

ohhhh shit mb, lemme redo that

🐚: do you like or dislike surprises?

i like surprise when i'm not told about it! if somebody tells me "i have a surprise for you" & refuses to tell me what it is, i hate it.

☁️: what made you choose your username?

i have a difficult time remembering things, & alliterations (a phrase or sentence with repeated letters or sounds) help me remember, so that's why i picked haunted-headset. i also like paranormal things!

🌸: do you have any pets? if you do, post some pictures of them

unfortunately, i don't, but my dad's gf, my grandparents, & my step-grandparents do! & my cousins :)

🐝: tag your biggest supporter(s) and say one nice thing about them

@lil-stormcloud. i don't think there's one post of mine that they've not liked or read. they have always been there for me & supported me through everything <3

[rosaacicularis]

okay if you guys hadn’t noticed, my “short little one-shots <3” series on ao3 has a theme where the titles are two words and an alliteration. my plan is to make 26 of them with all the different letters of the alphabet <3 so if y’all wanted to give me some alliterative ideas? <3

we currently have, c - canopy confessions, h - heavy hearts, m - morose mornings, p - precious promises, and s - saccharine sweet

[residentdormouse]

Seeing Stars (And Other Shapes) Word Tag Game

Profuse apologies @mrsmungus for the delay in this. In true sharing is caring fashion, my children had given me their stomach bug, and I was down and out for a few days. Finally starting to get caught up.

My Words: Circle, Square, Triangle, Heart, Star

Since we’ve covered the alphabet, our colors and shapes, we should probably start on our counting.

Your Words: One, Two, Three, Four, Five (substituting up as needed)

As Always, this remains an -Open Tag- for anybody looking to join, although unlike our alliteration train, this is traveling an unclear path moving forward. What’s next? Who knows. Seeing our pattern, my three year old may advise better than I... 🤣

Circle:

(One of the only times I go for Flagg’s perspective. Wasn’t a place I wanted to linger long, let’s be honest 😂)

The cell didn't leave much room to maneuver. So many steps had been taken to avoid this in his lifetime. Years dedicated to its prevention. He would not be caged or taken advantage of. Never again.

But now the walking dude could barely pace a circle in his new found space.

The cubes around him held a variety of creatures. Things he himself had never seen before. And then there were things he recognized with little doubt.

Flagg glared at the same sentinels he had trusted. Slavers in some of the others. Prior residents of his New Vegas. His self-created paradise. A flash of red hit his eyes at just the mention of the place. His realm and his folly.

Once more, his fist smashed against the glass, obstructing his view of the creatures. Because there was no question now; they were like him. They were something more. Something under all that, a connection just outside his grasp. Beyond his current knowledge. A connection of crimson and destruction.

Square:

The TV was already turned off, the portable music player and headphones he wore were now resting on the table, and the last thing left was to throw a blanket over the small child. Once everything around him was peaceful and squared away, she went into the kitchen to grab a bottle of water for herself.

"How was Lloyd?"

'He said they know about him. Who he was.'

The idea threw her for a second. Hell, she barely knew who Lloyd was, and she came here with him. For people here to already know… And how exactly did he find all this out…

"Is he sure? How does—?"

'Max.'

Three letters, but it said all it needed to. She knew Max just as long as Lloyd, and while his past in Vegas was more threatening in appearance, the girl, one who by all logic should be a savior-hero type, seemed to be more of a menace than anybody else she knew. Well, practically everyone else. But her interactions with their nightmare man were limited in comparison to the others, and Harold… well, he had his own problems too.

Triangle: (Shape)

(I got nothing. No triangles in this world. Maybe I should go write some Gravity Falls stuff real quick. Replaced it with ‘Shape’ since there seems to be no other actual simple shapes listed that I can find at least…)

The closer the figure came, the more irregularities she picked up on. The sagging skin, eyes that had just the slightest red shine to them. Eyes like she saw in her nightmares.

The pair of them continued to backpedal slowly, their sight never leaving the prowling shape. A small amount of distance was placed between them, until she backed into something solid. Solid, but not static. Pliable. Only slightly, but it moved as she hit against it, and the thought made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up.

Her breath caught in her chest as she turned around to see another figure, the red shine taking over dead looking eyes, coarse hair poking out around its eye sockets. She didn’t have time to process anything further.

Heart:

"You own a cabin?" Scribbling started on a blank page.

"I don't think, just in my head."

"What's all in this cabin?"

"Lots of books, some pictures. Hey! I think Glen painted this one." Instinctively, his smile reflected the one shining on her face, but otherwise, Glen remained silent.

"So we're after Trips, then?" Disappointed with the development, Stan muttered it more to himself, but still turned to Glen for confirmation, "...you met her after Trips, right?" Nodding affirmatively only prompted Stan to close his notebook and sink back on the couch. "I'm not really sure what to try next. I was hoping something there would work."

Looking back at Hayden, his heart sank. Was this really it? He was hoping to give her some answers by the end of this. Would be a lie to say he wasn't damn curious himself, but that was secondary. He wanted her to know, even if it didn’t help them. Especially if it didn’t help them. Once she knew what was there, she may be able to let it go. Or they could begin actively dealing with it. Either way, it had to be better than the purgatory she kept herself in. Whatever they found, though, he believed what she told him before: regardless of what was found, she wanted this life here with him. And he was coming to realize he wanted it just as much.

But he also knew, until they tried everything, she wasn't going to give up on this.

"Hey, Stan, do you mind if I give it a shot…?"

Star:

(A bit longer, but I love writing Harold and Glen bickering. Non-canon fun time.)

"Well, that metaphor leaves a bigger question. If that fucker was just the knife, who exactly stabbed us in the first place."

Max gave a sly smile as she checked in on him. "Oh, gold star for you sweetheart. Truly." The two shared an unspoken exchange of expressions that neither Hayden nor Glen could miss, but it faded shortly after it appeared. “While I’d love to delve into the shit show that your world is clearly immersed in, I’m still waiting for some clarification here myself. And to be honest, think I’ve been pretty damn patient about it to this point. So spill.”

Glen felt Hayden turn her attention to him as well. “If everything’s falling apart regardless, I think I’d like to know it all too…”

His other free hand went over to fall on hers. “Yeah, yeah. Of course.”

A smile was sent her way, the only gesture that he could give at this point. It seemed to be enough though. Her shoulders released the tension that had built up, and he could see a new calm taking over her features.

His train of thought was derailed as a pizza combo flew in front of his vision. “Hey! What’d I say about that shit!” Another shot back and bounced off Hayden’s head. “Story time. Start talking.”

Harold grumbled as he turned back around in his seat. “Like he really needs the extra prompting… Give Bateman the floor, and he’ll pontificate until your eyes roll back in your skull and your soul shrivels up and dies…”

Unable to hold it back, a light chuckle at the commentary escaped him. “Fuck you too, Harold.”

[sayruq]

Hello. I did not understand what Blind Items about Sophie and Joe? Please explain. I'm talking about what you reblogged, I hope I didn't confuse you, English is not my native language.

I can't remember the exact post (I reblogged too many) but a blind item is basically a piece of gossip but the details that can identify the person(s) involved are hidden eg names, age, what show/movie/group they're in etc

So once you read 'diminutive alliterate boy bander' you start thinking about boy band members who are short and who names start with the same letter