#the big chop

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Short Story: The Big Chop

Summary:

Iffy has been wanting to do something about her chemical damaged hair for ages, now. Every time she decides to cut it and go natural, she always backs down, afraid of what other people might say.

Not this time. From now on she's only going to look like what she wants to look like.

A short story that takes place after The Succession of Us.

Iffy’s hands gripped tight on the vanity counter as she stared herself down in the mirror. Around her were all the products she used to straighten and tame her hair, to make it more palatable to the people she worked for, to fit in, to be treated better at school. She was sick of it. She frowned and turned her head this way and that, running her fingers through coarse, damaged hair. GerBear and D were right. It was time for the Big Chop. With a deep breath and one last squeeze on the counter, she picked up her phone and sent out a carbon copied message. Hey guys. I’m ready. You coming over?

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if you'd like, please also read The Succession of Us on Wattpad or Ao3! it's not absolutely necessary, but it's only four chapters and it will make the character dynamics make a lot more sense.

Current taglist: @abalonetea @only-book-lovers-left-alive @poore-choice-of-words @leadhelmetcosmonaut @jasperygrace @drippingmoon @athenswrites @magic-is-something-we-create @idreamonpaper @winterandwords @revenantlore

[evilmannodasmybabygirl]

i keep getting told my markings are cute .. (ノ*°▽°*) im to nervous to wear my short shorts outside but i bought some to show off my squares ! ignore my tail. im getting rid of it soon ^^ !

[fleshmonger]

Rotating Sandwich Mood Board

Rotating Sandwich Mood Board

[bigskycastle]

the covers i was allowed to do for the "a year in hyrule" planner project (preorders closed now)

[loudclan-clangen]

Loudclan - Moon 26

The last traces of winter are finally gone as spring fully takes over. The good weather brings about good moods for the cats of Loudclan, and Dogwoodpaw often finds herself the center of attention during training as her mentor becomes more insistent that she accept her warrior name early.

Dogwoodmoth has earned her warrior name. She is honored for her thoughtfulness.

Later that night, while her sister sits her vigil over the camp, Rosehippaw sneaks out to visit the Black Water Pool.

Rosehippaw returns to camp, shaken by the experience, and questions what legacy she will leave behind when she's gone.

[Probably should have split this into 2 parts cause it's so long but I was so excited to draw the second part I couldn't stand to wait! I love the healer kits so much I want nothing bad to happen to them ever unfortunately things are not looking good in that respect. In better news, however, Dogwoodmoth is named in honor of Mothtree! Several asks suggested this and I thought it was cuter than her original name of "Dogwoodmulch" so congrats and thank you if you were one of them!]

First Moon

Next Moon

[feloire]

[livwritesstuff]

Eddie is holed up in the office of his and Steve’s home working on some writing when he notices an odd kind of commotion coming from upstairs.

Now, he and Steve have three daughters under the age of ten, so commotion is pretty much a baseline for them, but it’s odd because it sounds like Steve might actually be involved this time, and that makes it especially weird because Eddie was pretty sure that Steve was taking the kids to see a movie to give Eddie a few hours to maybe hit that word count goal (he probably won't, but whatever).

It's just about odd enough for Eddie to go investigate further and, indeed, he finds a very much ticked-off Steve standing outside of their middle daughter Robbie’s closed bedroom door.

“What the hell is going on?” Eddie asks.

Steve rounds on him. 

“She’s driving me insane,” Steve says, “That kid is you in a seven-year-old’s body, and I’m going insane.”

“Wait, can you…” Ed shook his head, “What’s happening?”

“I thought it would be fun to take the girls to that new Nanny McPhee movie because they liked the first one, right?” he starts

“Sure.”

“The second – the second – I suggested it, Robbie starts ranting and raving. Ed, do you know what she said to me? 

“Oh god,” Eddie said warily, “What’d she say?”

“She said sequels aren’t passion projects, Papa. They’re just for money. Who the fuck do you think she learned that one from, Ed?”

And yeah, shit, that might be Eddie’s bad.

“Whatever,” Steve says before Eddie has a chance to respond, “So she doesn’t wanna go – that’s fine – but, shocker, the other two still want to go, and just as we’re walking out the door, Robbie demands that we wait for her because she actually does want to come and now,” Steve pauses to hold in a laugh as Robbie scutters out of her room in the direction of the bathroom, one shoe on and an earring half-in, “Now we’re gonna be so fuckin’ late because this one can’t just throw on a sweatshirt and get in the car.”

Eddie knows for a fact that Robbie had spent the entire weekend in the same pajamas she’d worn to bed on Friday night, but now she’s donned a denim dress with a red t-shirt and black tights underneath. She’s got black combat boots on her feet (just one at the moment, actually), and she’s wearing the leather jacket Eddie had found at a thrift shop in New York to complete the ensemble.

“Look at this kid,” Steve says, following Robbie into the bathroom and watching as she tried to fix her earring with one hand and her hair with the other, “Robbie, it’s August. It’s almost ninety degrees outside. Maybe think about ditching the leather.”

“I don’t care,” she fires back, “It’s about the look, Papa.”

“We’re going to a movie theater. It’ll be pitch black. Nobody will be looking at anything other than the movie. Let’s go.”

But Robbie is already pushing past him with a belligerent, “Outta my way. I gotta get another necklace.”

Steve manages to snag Robbie by the back of her jacket and swing her up into his arms.

“Yeah, I don’t think so,” he says as Robbie furiously tries to squirm out of his grip to no avail, “Oh, I’m Robbie and I’m four feet tall and I get up-in-arms about everything and I’m gonna wear a leather jacket in August even though I once got heat exhaustion at the mall and gave my dad a fuckin’ heart attack.”

Robbie is in giggling hysterics by the time Steve ends his onslaught of mockery and puts her down.

“What do you think?” Steve asks, “You ready to go?”

“Yeah,” she says, and then she asks, “Can you help me find my other shoe?”

“And now she’s asking me for shit,” Steve comments in disbelief as Robbie ducks back into her room. He looks at Eddie, “Seriously, you need to call Wayne and apologize for everything you must have put him through.”

“Alright.”

[theghostinyourwalls]

Sure he’s a scary psychopathic monster, but he’s MY scary psychopathic monster <3

[zarla-s]

I've been playing a lot of Palworld lately, it's so addictive! It scratches a certain itch for me perfectly, haha. These are the three that have stood out to me so far, which probably doesn't come as a huge surprise.

[patreon]

[bonetrousledbones]

yeah ok i'll jump on that trend

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WIP Excerpt

tagged by @oh-no-another-idea to share an excerpt from a WIP!

from a fic I'm working on for The Succession of Us called The Big Chop:

Iffy didn’t realize the razor had turned off until a big hand gently petted the top of her now bare head. She flinched. “Is it bad?” she asked in a wobbly voice. Nate moved his hand from her head to her cheek, and with his other hand signed, “You’re beautiful.” She turned to D, who was standing proudly with his hands on his hips, and GerBear, who was grinning brightly. “I know this is gonna sound weird,” D said, “but you have a really nice skull.” Iffy snorted. “What?” “You do!” D flapped his hands around for a few seconds, as if trying to whack the words he was looking for out of the air. “I just mean. When I shaved my head, there were divots and stuff. But you don’t have that. Your skin is so smooth and pretty.” A smirk pulled at Iffy’s mouth, and D threw his hands in the air. “Fine, don’t take my awesome compliment! Your skull is stupid! Is that better?”

@venomdoves @delusionisaplace @amaiguri @athenswrites @klywrites I'm tagging you to share an excerpt with writeblr!

[hakusins]

hakudean mini event! whitney in a crop top with waist showing requested by madrian !! @propertyofwhitney67 i was originally going to draw him wearing an actual crop top but i found this sunburn photoshoot and IT WAS JUST PERFECT FOR WHITNEY!! ofc, if you don't like it, pls PM me 🥺🫶 more than happy to change it because i took a lot of creative freedom with this request. thank you for the request!!

[clown-called-jangles]

THE GLASSES MAKE ME FOLD SO FAST.

[nightmaretour]

Daily reminder that fruit and veggies don't have to be "healthy" to be nutritious. Drink that fruit juice from concentrate. Eat that jam and nut butter. Use fruit and vegetables out of a can. Eat a dessert with fruit in it. Snack on salted nuts (in moderation) or dried fruit. Literally any way you can get fruit and vegetables into your body is better than none at all.

If fresh fruit and veg aren't available to you, take too much energy to eat or prepare, or if you just can't bring yourself to eat them, whatever way you can eat them is good enough.

[ravishingesmerald]

[incesthemes]

the fact that the supernatural showrunners were too cowardly to let sam and dean hunt in the bible belt means we were robbed of the potential for them to go to buc-ee's. they would love buc-ee's. cheap gas, clothes and supplies suitable for hunting, a huge variety of cheap food and snacks, the "best restroom in america" as voted in 2012, a whole damn wall of jerkey (sometimes many walls!), a million and one dessert options. it'd be like going to disney world after dealing with all the other horrifying gas stations they'd end up at on the road