#the goal was 50 but I ran out of ideas

[idfciluvsmut]

Hey everyone, I’ve got many ideas and wanted to see how thing go for me. Not exactly sure how to add cool font or anything fancy so forgive me. Thinking on Nerdy Migueeel MWAHHH.

PICTURES ARE NOT MINE!!

Nerdy Roomate Miguel. Who stares only at his feet instead of anything else when he asks you out with flowers from the shop a couple blocks far from campus.Along with stickers from a show he noticed you like as you watch it on repeat every chance you get, Learning a couple lines from how much he’s heard it.

Nerdy Roomate Miguel who gets beyond flustered when you accept and pull him down to kiss his cheek. Confessing you always found his shy nature cute despite him being so tall. And how you find it funny he works out just to hide his figure under vests and strictly color-coded outfits.

Nerdy Roommate Miguel who apologizes over and over again for getting hard at accidentally seeing your legs while you were shaving and he was brushing his teeth

And resulting in you later on in the day deciding seeing him be in charge instead of shy was your new goal.

Nerdy roommate Miguel who follows everything you say during your shared first time. You hadn’t been intimate or anything. Considering your love life has been as dead as 8-track for years. So you couldn’t help back from entering in a silk gown you bought to help your skin, and straddling Miguel until he’s a puppy man.

; “Y/N?! What are you doing-“ You ran your hands through his hair and perplexed his face with soft kisses. Miguel Calmed down and lowered his eyes lidded, His glasses sipping to his nose as you smiled gently and kissed him softly. Placing his hands on your hips, but due to his size a little more than just his fingerpads touched your rear. And he pulled back.

“A-are you sure princesa..? No quiero hacerte daño linda..”

You smiled at his care and looped your arms around his neck and nodded.

“yes Migs, I promise I’ll tell you if i dont like anything.”

Not much convincing was needed after you started to grind and he hesitantly brought his hands back to your hips, the same place that later ended his faint yet noticeable marks of his finger from his strong grip.

Nerdy Roomate Miguel! Who tells you over and over how you’ve cured wounds he didnt know ached. Kissing every part of you during soft and gentle sex.

Nerdy Roomate Miguel who came so hard just from bottoming out at the feel of your tight cunt around him. (Protection)Telling you how warm and moist your pussy feels and panting heavily as he finally starts to move. Missionary, Doggy and eating you out with;

“Like this?” “Is this okay..?” And muffled. “ Mmfgood..”

Nerdy Roommate Miguel who groans and Placed his mouth on your neck when you try to shift further from him as you wake up. He learned you quite like marks last night. You’re covered from your neck to thighs. Marks on your neck, Shoulders, breast, thighs and Especially your Tummy. Wrapping his arms tighter around your soft waist. Massaging the soft skin as he nuzzles into the hollow of your shoulder.

Bonus!!, he broke his glasses from when they fell off him during intimacy and the gown you wore lays in shattered, Ripped piece of light green satin scattered around the floor.

WHOOOOO OKAYOKAY ALMOST 50 PEOPLE HAVE LIKED THIS AND IF I WAS IN A ROOM WITH EVERYONE I’D PASS OUT. PLEASE COMMENT WHAT YOU WOULD TO SEEEE and what i can improve on! TANK YOU SO MUCH FOR READING !!

[writingquestionsanswered]

Hello,

I need your help. I am a young writer and I want to write a novel. I have written the plot, characters, outline, etc. and when I start writing, it goes well. Then afterwards I lose motivation in what I write. I have written over 10+ drafts with new characters, plots, and outline, but it seems impossible to pass 50 pages of writing. My novel is very similar to a very popular and beloved book and I look at the responses and everyone loves it. I feel like my book isn’t going to be good (writing and plot) and I am afraid to start writing again. I really want to write with motivation. I also write the same beginning and I try to change it but it’s a really essential thing for my plot but it’s really hard to write. What can I do?

Young Writer Struggling with First Novel

First, know that this popular and beloved book that's inspiring you isn't something a young, inexperienced writer sat down and instantly wrote. Most really popular and beloved books were written by writers who had some level of writing experience under their belts, whether it was years of writing complete stories, years voracious reading, years of writing-related education (school or self-taught), or years of industry-related reading and writing experience. And even then, they didn't sit down and type out a flawless first draft.

What you're going through right now is writing practice. Every single one of those 50-page drafts has made you a better writer. But, not being able to get past those first fifty pages tells me that there's something about your story that's not working. You may have a plot outlined in the sense that you've mapped out a bunch of things you want to happen, but if your story doesn't revolve around a conflict that's trying to be resolved, and if your story doesn't have some kind of structure or hit the important story milestones, you're probably losing momentum because your story engine ran out of gas.

So, it's important to spend time filling your brain with the necessary knowledge to help you understand how stories work... reading books and articles about writing, watching videos about writing, reading a variety of books, even watching movies and playing story-centric video games all can help your brain understand how to tell complete stories.

Here are some posts to get you started:

Guide: How to Turn Ideas into a Story Guide: Starting a New (Long Fiction) StoryGuide: Filling in the Story Between Known Events Guide: How to Outline a Plot Basic Story Structure Beginning a New Story How to Move a Story Forward Plot Driven vs Character Driven Stories Understanding Goals and Conflict 5 Reasons You Lost Interest in Your WIP, Plus Fixes! Guide: How to Rekindle Your Motivation to Write Have Plot, Can’t Write Concentrate on Quantity at First, Not Quality Advice for a Young (Very Young) Writer Things to Remember When You’re a Frustrated Young Writer…

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[bhaalbag]

ok hear me out i have a theory.

I was maybe 50/50 on it before, but after seeing this post that details Astarion's punishment for his first and only attempt of escaping from Cazador I'm almost certain: Origin Astarion's nightmare was him re-living a twisted memory of when he ran, and when he was caught.

At first, I thought the presence of sussur trees was just the devs trying to lend to dreamscape ambience; but combined with Astarion's knowledge of the tunnels that lead to the Underdark, (he had no idea about the underside of the palace, so I can only assume he means the sewers) I've been thinking differently. What if he tried to escape through there before?

It makes sense. It's in line with how Larian has written his story. After all, how poetically cruel would it be that after being plucked from Cazador's grasp, he's almost immediately taunted by dreams of his own failure to save himself? To be reminded that he'll never escape, not really, not in his heart or mind, until his tormentor is dead and further reinforce his character goals?

[lssugaluv]

What your Instagram looks like while dating…

What your Instagram looks like while dating Ran Haitani.

Tokyo Revengers x Fem character.

Bonten Tokyo Revengers. (Timeskip)

New instragram series.

My Masterlist: Lssugaluv's Masterlist.

Mini synopsis: Ran and yourself have been together for quite sometime. You two love to show each other off but are into the “secret partner” photo aesthetics. This is how your instagram looks like while dating Ran Haitani.

Contains: small bits of humor, lots of fluff, pictures are from Pinterest, not mine! Bits of cuss words…

Liked by sanooom01 and others.

Y/n: My love. <3

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Haitanirinnn: Awe. What a simp. @hran21

Sanooom01: @Haitanirinnn frfr 😩🤣

Hran21: Stfu yeah? @sanooom01 @haitanirinnn

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Y/n: Thanks to Rinnie for this. @haitanirinnn

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Kassshhi: okay, goals or whateva

Sanzuuu: I took this tf

Haitanirinnn: @ Sanzuuu okay Bitch, says the one that took 50 pics and none of them came out good

Sanzuuu: @haitanirinnn 🖕🏻

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Y/n: I love watching you sleep. @hran21

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Sanooom01: Tell his ass to get up y/n!

Y/n: @Sanooom01 shhhh, he’s sleeping. 🤫

Hran21: I got a nice ass back

Meanmochi1_: no gains @hran21

Hran21: you sure bout that bud? @meanmochi1_

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Y/n: no wonder he loves when I wear red lipstick

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Hran21: I love when you kiss me there and kiss me everywhere 😏

Y/n: @hran21 not here Ran 😅

Sanzuuu: keep it PG @hran21

Haitanirinnn: Damn you dog 🐕 @hran21

Hran21: 🖕🏻🖕🏻 @ sanzuuu @haitanirinnn

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Y/n: such a gentleman. ❤️

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Hran21: anything for you baby

Kaku20_: simp @hran21

Haitanirinnn: big simp @kaku21 @hran21

Sanzuuu: big ass simp @kaku21 @hran21 @haitanirinnn

Y/n: y’all already know 😜

Kokoshmoney: @hran21 DAMN even your girl confirmed that you’re a simp

Hran21: 🖕🏻🖕🏻🖕🏻 fuck y’all.

Hran21: besides you @y/n

Sanooom01: lmfao simp @hran21

After thought:

I was thinking of doing a pov of y/n’s Instagram and also a pov of “your boyfriends” instagram! I’m going to try to do that, then begin on working on other characters. 🥹

Please share, request characters, and like!

I got this idea from someone else who did something like this! I got inspired! I forgot the persons username! But hope you like this as much as I had fun making it.

P.s: my captions are a bit wack because I suck at making up captions 😩

[tanuki-02]

Progress Report

For 09.16.23 to 07.08.24

I plan on doing these progress reports weekly. Perhaps with the occasional post in between if I feel like I have some huge improvement within that day.

But for this first progrep, I'll try to detail as much as possible my learning from the day I started until now as I write this post.

For a little more info, I'm a 2nd year university student who is already fluent in 2 languages. I'd say my strong point is memorization which is incredibly helpful.

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— GOAL

Initially, I wanted to learn Japanese because of manga. Yes, I know fanlations exist and I can go buy physical English copies. However, English versions are waaaay more expensive and a lot of the manga I read have very slow fanlations or they've stopped translating it completely.

This brings me to my next point; I wanted to learn how to READ Japanese first and foremost. I hardly cared about other skills (but now I do understand their importance to the holistic learning of it all).

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— September '23 to November '23

I went into this language learning journey blindly. I had no idea where to start. But all I knew was that: 1.) Du*lingo is not your best option, 2.) DON'T use romaji to learn, 3.) Start kanji as early as you can. Looking back on it, I feel like these 3 points are important and I still do believe them now.

So, I went ahead and learned hiragana and katakana in less than 2 days. It was quite easy (although, katakana still does make my head spin sometimes).

After that, I went ahead and started with vocabs and kanji. Basically, I searched up vocab & kanji lists for the N5 level. After I found some good practice/list PDFs, I printed them out and used them as my main study material.

What I would do is to memorize them on my own accord (reading over and over again then, checking if I remember—rinse and repeat). I would say this worked out well for the first couple of months. The N5 lists had around 800 vocabs and 60 kanji which were pretty easy to memorize. I had this down in about a month. The following N4 lists had around an additional 800 vocab and 120 kanji. This one took me 2 months, but I'd say the mastery isn't as great as the N5.

With that in mind and the additional 4000 vocabs and 300 kanji that N3 offered, I started to doubt my method. It was then that I really began to search the web of an efficient way to learn this language.

It was then I discovered TheMoeWay and Anki.

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— December '23 to June '24

Plenty of people recommended TheMoeWay, so I had to check it out. It has a guide for the first 30 days of learning, but I ignored that because I was way past 30 days at this point. I read everything else and learned about spaced repetition systems (SRS); that's basically what Anki is.

It recommends to start with the N5 Tango Deck first and I did that. I began on December 6, 2023 and finished it on March 28, 2023. To consider it finished, all cards should be matured.

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This deck was VERY easy for me at this point because the prior months of inefficient reviewing that I did. If I'm not mistaken, I did about 100 cards per day which explains why I was so fast.

I had to move on to N4 Tango Deck once I ran out of "New" cards in the first deck. So, at some point, I was doing both decks simultaneously. I began this one on January 17, 2024 and finished it on June 15, 2024.

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Admittedly, this deck was a lot tougher than the last one for me at the time. I had to lower the daily card count to 50 (which is still a lot). But I can say after finishing both tango decks—vocabulary, kanji retention, and grammar—all improve drastically. These two decks are super duper helpful in the beginning and I would totally recommend them.

After accomplishing both decks, TheMoeWay says for you to create a mining deck of your own. So, as I was about to go through the N4 Tango Deck, I was deliberating whether or not I'd go through with what is recommended or go for something else.

I think making a mining deck would boost your skill by a huge margin, but I opted for the Core 2k/6k Japanese Vocabulary Deck which I learned from Livakivi on YouTube.

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— Current; July '24

I decided to take on the Core 2k/6k while I was doing the N4 Tango (This also explains why I did fewer cards 'cuz I was trying to balance both). I started this one on January 14, 2024 and I'm still getting through it little by little. By that I mean I'm not even halfway done haha.

This is what my progress looks like so far:

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I'm doing 20 new cards per day while it's still summer break from university. Although, I'll definitely have to lower it once the semester starts. Maybe I'll go back to 10 or something.

Anyway, I found that by doing this, my retention for words and how they are spelled in hiragana have improved so much. Sometimes I can easily read random sentences on Japanese websites or books. Moreover, after doing this for some time, I found that my reading got a lot better (duh, you know more words). I can easily pass the N5 and N4 tests on the official JLPT website. The N3 tests... not so much just yet.

This brings me to my next point: I am lacking in grammar and reading comprehension. To remedy this, I've tried immersing a bit through reading news on NHK or random stories on Tadoku Graded Readers (honestly, boring, but I have to). I tried reading manga, but I'd skip so many speech bubbles that it made no sense anyway.

At the moment, I'm doing an Anki deck related to grammar, another one based on Tae Kim's guide, and a third one for listening comprehension (because my listening skills are also doodoo).

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TL;DR

I'd say I'm around the higher N4 level or maybe a very low N3. For my level, I'd say I'm pretty good at reading... everything else not so much. I barely do output so writing and speaking are non-existent skills for me and listening is something I only started now.

[lackoftrumpets]

The TTRPGs I played in 2023: Part 2

Near the end of November, I asked for recommendations on one page TTRPGs I should play for a event I ran. The goal was to play a TTRPG for about 40-50 minutes before swapping to something new. While I sadly didn't get around to playing all of the recommendations, I still appreciate all of the games people showed me. Reading new game is something I enjoy doing, so I still had fun even if they didn't make it to the table.

Before I go into each TTRPG individually, there was a common running theme between playing all of the games that I feel like I should say. As much as I enjoy the concept and writing one page and other extremely small TTRPGs, I will admit that playing them was a rough experience. Working with that small amount of mechanics and concepts was something me and the table were not used to and I'm not sure if these kind of games are something I will play more of later. Whenever I got excited by a mechanic is one of these games, I always felt like I wanted something more. I think these types of games are great thought experiments for game design, but I can understand why these type of games haven't gotten much traction in the mainstream (with a few exceptions). However, don't let my thoughts discourage you from writing these type of games. I still love making them because its a fun challenge to see how much content you can cram into such a small space. This was something that most of these games did fairly well, so lets move onto that. If you want to check out any of these games or their authors, I have everything linked on this post.

Rollers of the Lost Artifact by JayBlnk6

This was the starting game and it left a good first impression. In this game players are archeologists looking for special artifacts. The simple skill system was nice, but what I really loved was the inventory system. Each item size has a certain shape and you have to fit it into a 3x3 square. I always love inventory systems that force you to play a Tetris (turning a mundane thing into something fun), and this game did a good job fitting it into a smaller system. Since we were playing multiple games at once, the players didn't get to sell the artifact, but I still appreciate the rules where players get a choice on what they wish to do with it.

Rats in Space by Jay Writes

I think the title of this game explains itself. The players are rats in space looking for a special piece of cheese. The theming of this game was a lot of fun to play with. The morale system was also an interesting addition to the d6 system I've seen a lot of one page games (including my own) use. It was fun to see the players start to panic as their moral system got lower because of a large streak of bad rolls. I also really liked the d6 table for determining one last consequence when the cheese is found. The players thought they finally found it, but then realized they had one last obstacle to conquer (that being the horrible smell in the room).

Rough Beginnings by @tornioduva

This was the most unique game I played that night and despite some odd moments, I had a lot of fun with it! The players are simple group of adventurers, but there is a small element of mystery to it. They each have a secret personality trait and one of them is secretly try to sabotage the rest of the group. I love the creative ideas this game had, but it was a bit of an awkward play. In order for the adventurers to escape, the GM needs to roll a 9 from a 2d6 on the scenario table. The first round, I rolled a 9 for the first scenario. The second round, I rolled a 9 after the players went through about 15 scenarios, the majority of them being the players getting HP for succeeding. I love the concept of this game and I think it inspired me to make my own deception based TTRPG, but it was rather clunky. I have no issue with that at the end of the day. I love playing games that take risks and try new things!

By String and Song by @efangamez

I've enjoyed participating in game jams run and reading some games by efangamez before, so when somebody at the game community mentioned one of their one page games but couldn't remember the name, I knew where to find it. While the game they were recommending was Barbaria, I ultimately ended up going with this game because bards seemed like more fun to play and most of the games in this series seemed like they were reskins of each other. I feel kind of bad saying this, but the game just felt like one page D&D 5e. It's a d20 game which seems to be rare for one page TTRPGs and the way everything was written with Skill Checks and attacking seemed to invoke that game. I guess if you wanted to introduce smaller games to people who have only played D&D I guess this could be a good starting point, but I think most people would just ask to go back to D&D. If I had to guess, most of my negative feelings about this game likely come from me just being burnt out of D&D. It was written well and the enemy descriptions were flavorful, but I don't ever see myself going back to play this.

Honey Heist by gshowitt

Whenever I hear one page TTRPGs discussed, this game always seems to be recommended. After playing it, I can see why. The concept of being normal bears trying to break into a convention was already an instant sell. I loved the idea of the balance of trying to keep your bear and criminal parts from not taking over. It was one of the most interesting ideas for a fail state I've seen in a game. This the game we played for the least amount of time because it was near the end of the meeting and we were all tired, but the random animal chaos mixed in with surprisingly intricate criminal planning made for a fun mix.

[sohypothetically]

Post 5: Girls Night Out

The stats:

2 years from first published to complete

300,000 words

8 couples (10 if you include Hayffie)

2 main OCs (original characters)

29 pages of outline

So many euphemisms

So much food

So much research

So much research

The fic changed my perception of Gale completely

First person

So, so much smut

Mr. Mellark lives!

If there's one criticism... it might be verbs. Or maybe that the first part feels a little too "crack fic" and ambles too much.

This fic changed my life. It changed how I felt about the fandom, my place in it, and my writing.

Blurb:

Contemporary A/U. Johanna Mason copes with a breakup the only way she knows how: going on a man-hunt. She brings her roommate Katniss Everdeen with her and the rest is frat party history. Rated M for explicit language, sexual innuendo, and general snarkiness. Written for Prompts in Panem Places Challenge, Prompt: Frat House. (Ships: Jo/other, Everlark, Gadge, Odesta)Rated: Fiction M - English - Humor/Romance 

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A03

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For more about the genesis of this fic, read the Tolkien Food Blog description below the cut.

I'm going to apologize because I'm pretty sure my Anon response earlier sounded like sour grapes. Boohoo that I wasn't in the inner circle and that I wasn't regarded as one of the top 50 Everlark authors. So what?

I mention it because I think it's important to understand my headspace when I talk about this next fi. Where it came from and where it led me.

So it was March of 2013. I'm on the periphery of a fandom that was so freaking talented. HGRomance, Atetheredmind, Court81981, Dustwriter, Amelia_Day, DandelionSunset, Fnurfnur, Misshoneywell, Peetasbunmyoven, Annieoakley1, hutchhitched, jhutchmyanchor, Everlark_Pearl, JLaLa, Monroeslittle, Sponsormusings, Xerxia, pookieh, louezem, bleedtoloveher, katnissdoesnotfollowback, streetlightlove, famousfremus... the list of phenomenal Everlarkers went on for days.

We would regularly have something called "Prompts in Panem". (You can check this out at promptsinpanem.tumblr.com.) These were, well, what they sound like. Pre-A03 fic exchanges based on prompts. It ran for a week, with each day having a new prompt. Everlark only. They prompts would release maybe a week in advance? I don't remember how long, but I know that it was a Bacchanalian festival where we would gorge ourselves on all things Everlark. Creative. Full of pressure. The goal was to put out something that people would read and comment on. It was all about buzz. (To be clear, I miss these.)

At the same time, I was reading other bits and pieces outside of Everlark. Whiskeysnarker, who wrote the best Johanna Mason. Hawtsee, one of the best Gadgers. I beta'd for an Odesta author.

PIP started and I knew that there was nothing I had in my quiver that wasn't going to be done 100 times better by every other author in the fandom. I didn't have an angle, and I wanted one. I wanted something that would make for interesting reading. I had no ideas.

So I did what every writer does when experiencing a doubt-spiral. I poured myself a glass of wine. And one glass became two. I cried. Then I got mad, sort of like Katniss when she shoots the apple in the pig's mouth in THG. And I heard a voice in my head berating me stridently for my pity party. That voice became the voice of Johanna Mason for GNO. And let me tell you, she doesn't suffer fools. And she has opinions.

Everlark through the eyes of another? And that person is Johanna? And it starts at a frat party? Hell, yeah.

It was only ever supposed to be a one shot. And then honeylime08 made a comment about wanting more.

The rest is history.

[aliothbuzzsawshark]

why do you think Luke would be a better protagonist? I’m curious. Tbh I’m much the same but I wanna hear your take

Luke is like. An amazing idea for a Yugioh protagonist, or at least the more *dumb* Protags. (Judai, Yuma, Yuya) From his personality, goals, cards, and what he means to the themes of Sevens

     Luke has the personality of a typical shounen anime protagonist. He’s kind, energetic, optimistic, brave, and has a very clear goal. However he has flaws that make him not too perfect or too annoying (both in being to great or too bad) Yuga never really seems like he cares about stuff. He does, but he’s not expressive or puts lots of effort into what he does. Luke meanwhile, puts 1,000% perfect of his everything into what he does. You can tell Wehen he cares, what he’s doing, and most importantly, wouldn’t hide his plans from the audience like Yuga. Both aren’t extremely optimistic, but Luke is a a lot more than Yuga 50% of the time. Luke thinks either everything will work or nothing at all, creating comedy for the audience and a certain surprise to what he’ll do. Meanwhile Yuga will look at a situation, go “oh I know what’s gonna happen here and I’ll fix it” for so many episodes it hurts.

    Furthermore, Yuga’s goal is trying to stop something (Rush Duels getting deleted), not gain. Having a goal of stopping something can cause the audience to get bored. Of course there is exceptions (Yuma and Zexal are pretty good examples of that) but Sevens isn’t one. All but 2 out of 7 antagonists aren’t against Yuga because of Rush Duels (thank you Roa and Swirly) and that is so, so repetitive. Meanwhile, Luke’s goal is gaining the King Of Duels Title, and likely also trying to stop rush duels. This creates a balance between stopping and gaining.

     Luke’s deck is very yugioh. I don’t know how else to describe it. Dragias are really cool dragons and that’s like 35% of all yugioh cards. They even change throughout the series, like how Utopia has various versions to show time and characters. “Yuga’s deck also is very yugioh” Not really. Besides the Sevens Roads he just has spellcasters, and they call back to Yugi/Atem. Luke has dragons, which are as Yugioh as you can get. The most known card is BEWD, not Dark Magician. (Not trying to hate on Dark Magician btw, bewd is just more recognizable)

     Sevens is about going against tradition. Tell me, dear reader, what Yuga does to show this past the first episode. Luke, Tatsuhisa Kamijo, is still somehow better at showing this than Yuga. He stands up with breaking tradition about every time, (every time I can find of, but it’s Sevens so probably not every single time) even with his own family. When he ran the school, he broke the rules and created it how he thought people would like. Whenever he gets ANY position of power, he changes it so people would like it. It’s just that he’s Luke, and he “assumes” people would like him. His entire relationship with his family is about breaking the family tradition and then not supporting him. Comparing to Yuga Ohdo, Luke does everything Yuga could’ve done, but didn’t. Yuga creates the Make Your Own Duel Thingy, but that’s more a plot device than an actual action of breaking the mold for people. Even then, it’s way to late to do it right at the last arc to be anything more than a plot device.

     So uh. Yeah. Is that good? Do you want more? I can keep going

[alanxietatem]

Anons or mutuals, you can send me three numbers and I will answer my curious data!!! 👀

1.The meaning behind my url:

2. A picture of me:

3. How many tattoos i have and what they are:

4. Last time i cried and why:

5. Piercings i have:

6. Favorite bands:

7. Biggest turn offs:

8. Top 5 (insert subject):

9. Tattoos i want:

10. Biggest turn ons:

11. Age:

12. Ideas of a perfect date:

13. Life goal:

14. Any fetish that makes me horny:

15. Relationship status:

16. Favorite movie:

17. A fact about my life:

18. Phobia:

19. Middle name:

20. Height:

21. Are you a virgin?

22. What’s your shoe size?

23. What’s your sexual orientation?

24. Do you smoke, drink, or take any drugs?

25. Someone you miss:

26. What’s one thing you regret?

27. First celebrity you think of when someone says attractive & hot:

28. Favorite ice cream?

29. One insecurity:

30. What my last text message says:

31. Have you ever taken a picture naked?

32. Have you ever painted your room?

33. Have you ever kissed a member of the same sex?

34. Have you ever slept naked?

35. Have you ever danced in front of your mirror?

36. Have you ever had a crush?

37. Have you ever been dumped?

38. Have you ever stole money from a friend?

39. Have you ever gotten in a car with people you just met?

40. Have you ever been in a fist fight?

41. Have you ever snuck out of your house?

42. Have you ever had feelings for someone who didn’t have them back?

43. Have you ever been arrested?

44. Have you ever made out with a stranger?

45. Have you ever met up with a member of the opposite sex somewhere?

46. Have you ever left your house without telling your parents?

47. Have you ever had a crush on your neighbor?

48. Have you ever ditched school to do something more fun?

49. Have you ever slept in a bed with a member of the same sex?

50. Have you ever seen someone die?

51. Have you ever been on a plane?

52. Have you ever kissed a picture?

53. Have you ever slept in until 3?

54. Have you ever loved someone or miss someone right now?

55. Have you ever laid on your back and watched cloud shapes go by?

56. Have you ever made a snow angel?

57. Have you ever played dress up?

58. Have you ever cheated while playing a game?

59. Have you ever been lonely?

60. Have you ever fallen asleep at work/school?

61. Have you ever been to a club?

62. Have you ever felt an earthquake?

63. Have you ever touched a snake?

64. Have you ever ran a red light?

65. Have you ever been suspended from school?

66. Have you ever had detention?

67. Have you ever been in a car accident?

68. Have you ever hated the way you look?

69. Have you ever witnessed a crime?

70. Have you ever pole danced?

71. Have you ever been lost?

72. Have you ever been to the opposite side of the country?

73. Have you ever felt like dying?

74. Have you ever cried yourself to sleep?

75. Have you ever sang karaoke?

76. Have you ever done something you told yourself you wouldn’t?

77. Have you ever laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose?

78. Have you ever slept with someone at least 5 years older or younger?

79. Have you ever kissed in the rain?

80. Have you ever sang in the shower?

81. Have you ever made out in a park?

82. Have you ever dream that you married someone?

83. Have you ever sat on a roof top?

84. Have you ever brushed your teeth?

85. Have you ever been too scared to watch scary movies alone?

86. Have you ever been pushed into a pool with all your clothes on?

87. Have you ever been told you’re hot by a complete stranger?

88. Have you ever broken a bone?

89. Have you ever been easily amused?

90. Have you ever laughed so hard you cried?

91. Have you ever mooned/flashed someone?

92. Have you ever cheated on a test?

93. Have you ever forgotten someone’s name?

94. Have you ever met someone who didn’t seem real?

95. Give us one thing about you that no one knows.

[because-she-goes]

the garden

warnings: some swearing & angry nora. Enjoy!

Nora walked out of the grey, new york sky scraper and was immediately hit by the chill in the air, but blinded by the sun. A freezing cold March morning in Manhattan. However, Nora was acting like it was August. Positively beaming and walking down the busy sidewalk with a bounce in her step, she couldn’t wait to call Matty with the news. Nora, being the incredible woman she is, had just sold one of her more intricate pieces to a buyer from The Whitney Museum for just under $85,000. An absolutely ridiculous number for Nora to wrap her head around, but a minuscule number in comparison to the art world where her colleagues have sold pieces for $30 million before even having their morning coffee.

The Whitney being a place Nora has revered for years, making it a life-goal in college to have a piece in their modern art section one day. A true pinch me moment. The piece she had sold was quite bold and brash, which the buyer liked about it - needing something to stick out among their hundreds of dazzling works. She had painted it after Matty had told her about the band being invited to play SNL. She had been inspired by the longevity of the television program and the art it produced, New York and artists like Rothko, Pollack, Kline. Remembering her teachers using the term “Abstract Expressionism” to describe what she was going for. However, she remembered halfway through that abstract expressionism was more 50s-60s than the time period she was interested in. Leaning more into postmodernism (a word she taught Matty), she looked to the works of Baldessari where dots were placed on people’s face in photographs. She took the idea of the dots and ran with it, using her thickest brush and dipping it into contrasting colors, she placed huge dots in sections of the piece - covering some spots and leaving others blank or revealing the splatters underneath. An ode to the New York art scene with a dash of California. It had taken her weeks to figure everything out and research it all.

The work had been sitting in her studio, waiting to find a home for months. At this point, she was just waiting for the wire transfer to go through and be confirmed by her bank - then she’d celebrate and officially tell Matty the news, not wanting to get ahead of herself incase the deal fell through. Walking down W 15th and turning onto 10th, she makes her way to the Starbucks Reserve to get an 11am pick me up, she orders the hazelnut latte and gets Matty one of their specials, a whiskey-barrel aged coldbrew. Taking the two coffees to go and hailing a cab, she makes her way back uptown to her apartment in Hell’s Kitchen. One of the greatest financial decisions she has ever made was taking the money from her first sale and putting it towards buying a New York apartment back in 2016, before the price for everything sky rocketed. Not having to worry about rent anymore was a blessing in and of itself.

Swiping in to her building and saying hi to her doorman Bennie, she makes her way up to her home. Opening the door, she sees Matty at their kitchen table with his headphones blaring a demo George had sent him, she remembers that at this point its 6pm in London. Kissing the crown of his head and handing him the cold brew, she goes to check her bank account not expecting anything just yet. To her shock, there it is already. Talk about a new york minute! She excitedly runs out to Matty and rips the headphones off his head like a child wanting their parent’s attention immediately.

“Hey, I was working on something?-“

“And now you’re not! Guess what, baby!”

“What?” He asks almost begrudgingly.

“I sold that painting today! The SNL one I made way back in December is going to the Whitney, they just wired me the money!!” She is practically screaming at this point, not caring which of her neighbors hear her.

“Wait, baby you did? Oh my god thats fantastic, Muffin! I am so proud of you!” Exclaiming as he remembers when he first heard about her art from Adam at a party. He had shown up late to Carly’s birthday party after going out for drinks with Nora. Adam jokingly asked if he was on a date, Matty proudly said yes. Carly and Adam asked for her name and they nearly dropped dead when he said it. Adam had been a massive fan of Nora’s since way before she met Matty, astonished he was able to land someone like her - someone who may as well be his twin they were so alike.

“Thank You, Handsome! And guess what team is in town…”

“Oh brother, not the Knicks and Lakers again…”

“You are too good sometimes, ya know that?”

“Unfortunately.” He remarks blandly, he hates basketball. He never understood what was so interesting about guys running up and down a court putting a ball in a hoop, but he watched the Knicks since Nora loved them. She could rattle off any piece of their history without even hesitating. She had been to the garden more times than Matty could even count. Her father is a huge Knicks fan and when he found out he was having a daughter, he put a little pink Knicks ball in her nursery.

Quickly saving half her earnings and setting it aside before she forgot, she logged into her MSG account and got her usual. Floor seats, next to the home bench, in the corner. Best seats in the house. Matty still looking like someone had spilled hot soup on him, Nora decides to cheer him up a bit. She has a single connection at the garden and knows that Matty has always wanted to go in through the VIP entrance, not the performers one or the general admission lines. 5 hours until tip off, plenty of time to text Marco and see what strings he could pull.

“Baby, I’m gonna shower….” she says over her shoulder while walking to their en suite bathroom.

At that, Matty’s mood is totally turned around and the man is falling over himself to get to her before she shuts the door. “Right behind you, gorgeous!”

— 2 hours later —

In her Brunson jersey and a pair of Matty’s baggy jeans, she steps out of their bedroom. Taking a last look at her makeup, she applies a final coat of mascara and a swoosh of blush. Checking her teeth for lipstick and deciding she is ok, she waits for Matty.

In his Randle jersey she bought for him last year and sweatpants, he steps out. Fixing his hair and spraying on the cologne Nora loves. Lavender, mint and a little hint of smoke fills the air around him. She inhales and sighs, relaxing at just his scent.

“Ready to go, Handsome?” She asks, grabbing their house keys, her wallet and phone from the tray at the door.

“I guess, do you want me to drive?”

“Sure.” They walk down to the parking deck hand in hand, her body buzzing like a live wire with anticipation of tip off.

She gets a text from Marco, “All set, Boss. Just wave your ID when you get there and I’ll walk you guys in.” She sends back the little smile emoji.

New York was surprisingly pretty empty tonight, everyone must be home watching she thinks. Matty pulls up the artists entrance without issue.

“Keep going, we are going a different way.” She instructs, pointing towards the next entrance by the corner - more secluded and less opportunity for paparazzi to get their picture.

“What have you done now, Gorgeous?”

“Me? Oh nothing, just nothing at all!” She can’t even look him in the eye, he’d know whats going on right away.

He pulls into the private area and shows security his and Nora’s ID, both having to provide birth date confirmation.

“April the 8th, 1989”

“June 16th, 1992”

They get the okay to enter, see Marco and they’re escorted up to the floor seats. Matty looking like a child seeing Disney for the first time. This entrance has a full bar, private club and even a small portrait gallery of all the celebrities who have been to the garden over the decades.

Tip off and the first quarter happens before Matty can even process everything. Nora however is on her feet, yelling and berating the Knicks bench to get a move on and “pass the damn ball!” He laughs, how could someone so sweet and unassuming as her be the person in front of him - geminis man! He shakes his head lightly.

Half time is a blur and before they can even scarf down their hot dogs and fries, it is the 4th quarter. Knicks are up by 5 with 6 minutes left. Matty and Nora now both being the most obnoxious ridiculous sports fans in the building, yelling and high-fiving people around them whenever another point is scored. Nora can’t believe the sight before her, thee Matty Healy yelling at RJ Barrett to get his shit together while his mouth is full of concession stand food and cracker jack. She has never loved him more, she thinks.

4 minutes left, tie game. They are fuming. Nora is practically in a trance watching the game, refusing to acknowledge anyone around her. Matty not even paying attention to the score, just fully enjoying seeing her so worked up over a silly basketball game.

He then gets an idea….

“Hey Sunflower… I’m a little thirsty. Do you mind grabbing me a Fanta?” He yells in her direction, eyes still glued to the game.

“What? Now? Theres not even 5 minutes left, Handsome, this’ll be over any second!” She promises, trying to appease him and get him to just be patient.

“Yeah, I want one before they close - for the ride home ya know? My throat feels like razors from all the salty food you Americans eat!”

“Oh for fucks sake, Matty! Fine, I’ll go!” Running up the stairs as quick as she can and bolting to the concession stand closest to her spot.

“One Fanta, ASAP pronto hurry!” She rushes out to the poor teenager working. Eyes watching the monitor above him.

Randle hits a 3, the Knicks up again!

She rejoices, still waiting impatiently for the damn soda. I mean my god how long does it take to hold a squirt gun to a cup!!

“That’ll be $2.75 ma’am…” the teenager turns back around to her holding the precious soda. She throws a $5 at the kid and sprints back to Matty.

“Here you go, honey!” She shoves it towards him. He takes one sip, looks at her and says one of the most enraging things she has ever heard…

“It’s Diet! Who orders a diet Fanta, this is vile holy shit!” He proclaims.

Smoke comes out of her ears. She grabs the cup roughly and marches back to the kid.

“Fucking diet Fanta, you moron! Who would want a diet Fanta!!” The poor kid looks at her and shrugs, grabbing another cup and different squirt gun filling the vessel with soda at a snail’s pace.

Nora checks the monitor again. 1 minute left. Tied. Brunson steals, goes towards the basket and just as he scores, the kid hands her the new soda. Forgetting to pay she turns to the seats and out rushes the crowd hooting and hollering. Defeated, she her shoulders and head drop. She sees Matty emerge, hands him the soda and they go back to the car in complete, deafening silence.

Trying to get back into her good graces, he pulls out a stuffed Knicks bear from behind him. It is adorable, impossibly cute. Softening, Nora wipes a tear inching down her cheek at his thoughtfulness and wraps her arms around his neck. Holding him tightly to her and never wanting to let go.

“Congratulations on the sale again, baby. Tomorrow we celebrate for real… fancy dinner, shopping, art museum the whole nine yards. Pulling out all the stops for you, my little artiste!” He says into her ear, voice dripping in pride.

She kisses his cheek in agreement and thanks, settling back in her seat with a rosy flush to her cheeks. Holding onto the bear, she doesn’t imagine another place where she’d rather be than with Matty celebrating.

[autistic-ranpo]

RANPOE WATCHER AU??? PLEASE TELL ME ABOUT IT OMG

HIHIHIHI

so it started a while ago as a bfu au, and then when they started watcher my brain just kinda filed (FILED???) the au away (no reason, just kinda ran its course). the when ghost files s1 dropped, it immediately rebooted my entire brain lmao.

poe is ryan, but less confident overall, and way more anxious. hes still incredibly scared of ghosts/haunted buildings, which is why he brings karl in with him

ranpo is shane, and they act exactly the same. ranpo walks into haunted locations and starts pulling backstories out of his ass, but they turn out to always be right. hes solved so many cold cases and he is developing an ego. its his goal to make up the weirdest ones and its so funny to him when theyre right. literally such an ass i love him

their dynamic stays mostly the same except they are actually dating. its a running bit with them to pretend they have partners outside of work tho (dazai comes in once, kisses ranpo, hands him lunch then leaves).

louisa, yosano, and tanizaki work at watcher as well, with musitarou as the company’s third co-founder (steven but more unhinged. of course he does the bartending segment on too many spirits. come on now)

the others pop in as guests on their shows (atsushi is a regular on puppet history, and akutagawa has had his fair share of cameos on ghost files)

mystery files is pretty much the same, but poe chooses really morbid and deeply intriguing cases, and ranpo just chooses batshit bananas cases. anytime im feeling sad i imagine ranpoe as the airshock scene. because its amazingly funny.

i drew some art for it a while back (its probably in my art tag somewhere) but it was a while ago and not that good, i really need to draw more lmao

poe is a firm believer in aliens having visited earth, and eventually he just brings them up in however many cases he can just to piss off ranpo.

mushitarou also runs dish granted, except he doesnt know how to cook (he has a 13 hour panic then pulls something out of his ass, 50/50 chance its edible)

yosano runs pretty historic fight me

they run top five beatdown pretty much the same, except its just the same people (mostly chuuya and dazai) over and over again in increasingly ridiculous costumes (they also have insanely strong opinions and chuuya has had to be escorted out for almost throwing hands w ranpo (ranpo deserved it tho))

puppet history started off as a joke idea from poe but ranpo got super invested and poe decided to go along w it bc ranpo was having so much fun

i feel like theres more but this is probably longer than u wanted it to be already

anyways. THEM!

[koolcece22]

Drider Miguel

so in the discord I'm in we make Sona and a variant of Miguel. this is one of the Miguel I made.

so this earth-295 Miguel who Drider (the lower half of his body is that of a spider. Also he like 9ft tall) I made a short story on how he was turned into it. hope you enjoy

(TW: body horror, cannibalism, and child get really hurt. don't read if you are triggered by this !!!!)

it has been many months since Miguel quit Alchemax. It's more like he ran away as they essentially had him as a prisoner in the company. His work on gene splice and Bioengineering was useful for Alchemax, mainly to create a more addictive Rapture drug for King Pin Dana who has an open market for the drug. She and Tyler try to run the city by making people addicted. Miguel didn’t want any part of it as his goal was to help cure his daughter from an Autoimmune syndrome that had been with her plaguing her since she was a baby.

He went into hiding with his daughter as he continued his testing on a cure. He was one step closer to one, as he tested with a number of animals. weirdly enough spiders were the most compatible on the test of the genes. He was almost done setting up the last of the testing before he and his daughter heard an explosion upstairs. Miguel checked the cameras that his brother set up in the hideout and saw that Alchemax goons busted in and had the house surrounded. 

They were nowhere for him or Gabriella to hide. The only place he thought of hiding was the testing pod. Wasn’t the greatest idea, but his options were small. Both he and his daughter hide just as the goon breaks into the basement. They scan around and look at his paper and computer work. Starting to steal data from the computer probably to give to Dana or Tylor. Gabriella whimper trying not to make to much noise but having to hold her breath with not well develop lungs made it harder. A cough split out and one of the goons heard her and at the same time, another goon hit a button that activated the machine that Miguel and Gabriella were in. seeing the machine was about to close on them. Miguel only had enough time to push his daughter out of it before it was completely close.

“Hey! There they are. Stop the machine!”

“I can’t! I’m trying to override it but nothing working!” the goon shouted trying to figure out how to spot him he made the machine go full power with 50% spider DNA still in the system. Miguel never went up to more than 5% he doesn’t know what 50% will do to him. He saw the light glowing brighter and brighter. As he was hit with a ray of gene-spicing energy. He can feel every adom being torn apart and reformed. He screamed in pain wishing for death as it felt forever.

Gabriella could only cry trying to get her father out of the machine as he heard him scream in pain one of the goons grabbed her pulling her away from the machine as they were ordered to bring her in. 

“Shit he shocking dead. Shock! What we do know?!”

“We still got the data and the brat. Let bring her and-”

The screams stop as the machine finishes the process. It opened up with a bellow of smoke coming out of the machine as everyone heard a thud. They saw Miguel weakly crawling from his machine but something was wrong. His skin had a blueish tone to it and he looked very clammy. He was breathing hard and there seemed to be blood coming from his legs. Gabriella tries to help her father but the goon pushes her down and walks over to Miguel.

“He looks like a dead man. Let put out of your -” Before he could finish his sentence a  Spider's leg shot out from Miguel's bleeding leg stabbing the goon in the chest. The goon stumbled back from being stabbed and fell down as comrades watched and stared in shock.

Miguel was processing what was going on his body felt very tight. Like he is suffocating him. He tried to focus on something or someone as he heard a sickly wet rip. He looked down on his leg and saw more skin was me torn from his body as more spider legs came out. He screams in pain as he can feel new bones made where his legs and lower back are. He can feel his body being pulled, stretched, and torn apart even more. He felt like the inside were on fire and his heartbeat was pumping faster than it had ever had before. He looked at his hands as talons tore on the tips of his fingers and the skin around his arm painfully ripped off from him with a sloppy wet noise similar to a wet towel. His new arms were twice as big and his skin was blue with some red blide-like spike coming from the side of the forearms. 

Miguel hugged his body now ripped as many skins off as he could. Feeling the need felt so tight and small. More sickly rip was heard as his legs were replaced by a huge spider's abdomen and spinnerets that were the same color as his arm with a spider-like symbol on his back. He ripped the last of his old skin which was his head and back. His back has spikes going down his spine and his face now has eight red glowing eyes. His teeth fell out to replace with fangs and now chelicerae around his jaws. 

Miguel weakly got up still hazed by his transformation unaware of how monstrous he truly became. Gabriella was shocked and scared of what happened to her father, before she could say anything she saw the goon that her father stabbed earlier weakly trying to get up as he aimed his gun at Miguel. Gabilla saw this and without thinking ran as fast as she could toward him. Miguel saw his daughter run towards as a shot rang out in the room. To Miguel, everything went slow-motion as he saw his daughter, his own flesh and blood collapse on to the floor. Gabilla was shot in the back. 

Miguel rushes to her, trying to pick up and being careful with the new talons he has. She was so much smaller now in his arm. 

“Gabi? Gabi?!” Miguel said checking on her to see if she was breathing or not. I was slow and painful. 

“What the shock is that freak?!” more goons rushed into the basement seeing the 9ft spider creature in front of them. They had the guns pointed at it scared what it might do. 

But Miguel didn’t care. All he cared about was that his daughter was hurt.

They hurt her.

They hurt his spiderling. 

THEY WERE GOING TO PAY.

Everything became blurry to Miguel, the next thing that happened was there was a gunshot all around the room. There were ten men there but they were being torn apart. Some of their insides were drained when Miguel bit into them. The one goon who has the memory card. His leg was injured during the kill frenzy. He managed to almost make it to the upstairs door till he was dragged back down. The last thing Goon saw was red eyes that looked down on his prey.

[studentofthesport]

So just a little about me! (Updated!)

- I am a collegiate female (nonbinary) runner and hoping to someday be a coach!

- I have been running for 9 years!

- Senior in college, English Major 📚

- favorite running shoes: Saucony endorphin speed 2! Spikes: Nike Dragonfly XC, (super shoes dragonflies as well)

- highest mileage peak during track was 70 miles 🤯🤯🤯, most weeks were about 65-68 tho. Probably getting up to 75 this summer and fall 🥴, my longest long run is still from cross in 2023 tho and was 14.42 :))

- highest mileage peak in cc preseason 2023: 61 miles!!, typical load for the season was about 59-65, During post szn’ I had some weeks at 65 and a few a little below and am at about 60 right now, highest mileage during cc 2023 peak: 65, typically 60-65

- highest mileage track 2023 peak: 58, typically 47-53

- highest mileage peak cc 2022: 52 miles, typical load 40-49

- mileage 2021 cc peak: 41, typically 35-39

- mileage track 2022 peak: 45, typically 39-43

- mileage !goal! peak for track 2023: 55! Mostly 45-53

- mileage goal reached!! I got up to 58 mpw!

- PRs (updated) (you can ignore this, but just to give an idea of the level that I am competing at to understand where I might come from when talking about different runners or books or training!!) (from track freshman and sophomore years): 5k: 16:30, 10k: 34:34, 1500m: 4:41 *1500 from freshman year*. (Ran during summer preseason workouts): 3k: 9:43, 5k (somehow during a fartlek): 17:08, workout paces: easy run: 6:35-7:15, tempo: high 5s and low 6s, 1k interval: 3:12, 1k repeat: 3:03-07

~ Update on: goals that seem reasonable for track this year based off workouts this past cross season!:

~ By the end of this past track season (2024) I was in shape to run around 16:15 5k and 34:20 or lower 10k and if I focused on the 1500 for a few weeks probably around a 4:22 or so. Was in great shape by the end of the season but didn’t perform as well as I would have liked at nationals.

~ By the end of track season 2023 I was most likely in shape to run 4:50s or faster pace (mile pace) for a 1500, for the 5k I was in shape to run in about 16:30s but I was focusing on the 10k and only ran it once at the beginning of outdoor! 3k I’m not sure what shape I was in but probably somewhere between 9:30s-50 but I never got to run it this year. For 10k I was in shape to run 34:40s or a little faster but I did not race well when running it again at the end of the season. I also did fall on a rock right before indoor conference and had to sit a week out and that negatively impacted all of my running and times for awhile. (I had to get stitches on my kneecap but nothing was damaged outside of needing stitches!)

~ I also had transferred in the spring semester and am loving my new school, team, and coaches!

~ As far as cross country, my team just made nationals and I ran a new PR in the 20:40s ish! (6k)

Current song I’m listening to 🎵:

[mysteryman-17]

Due to the sheer length (plus wanting to preserve the format,) you can find the accompanying dialogue for this post on Google Drive.

Time’s End is an AHIT/Undertale crossover AU of sorts, taking place in the aftermath of a timeline where you lose the final boss fight against Mustache Girl. You can find the write-up here! In addition to the AO3 link being updated with lots of new material, you can also find the write-ups for the Neutral Endings and TimeWarp Route requirements over on Google Docs! The incredible art in the thumbnail was made by @asterofthedeepforest. Be sure to support his Ko-fi and/or commission him! I commissioned this music track from Nick. Be sure to check out his YouTube as well!

Motifs:

Adventure's End (Mario & Luigi Dream Team, sample of 0:00-0:10)

Death Wish

Collapsing Time Rift

Main Theme/Title Screen

Your Contract Has Expired

Original

SO! Definitely will be having more tracks for this AU coming down the line, updates included, but let's be real folks. This is DEFINITELY the track a lot of you were looking forward to the most (especially in my SC audience.) Well, thanks to Nick's incredible talents, it's now a reality at long last -- and at a really convenient time too! Not only is the OST account on SC close to breaching 50 followers -- thank you all for your support by the way! -- but A Hat In Time, one of the two games this AU is based around, will be 5 years old on October 5th!! So ye, consider the timing of this release an early treat for both occasions! ;) Anyhow, I'm incredibly pleased with how the track turned out. There was a somewhat different idea pitched initially (hence why the Adventure's End sample is there,) but Nick took the notes and ran with them in a MUCH better direction for the piece, while still being fitting for what I had in mind for the AU. It was really nice working with Nick, and I'll definitely be using his services again, should they be available. Anyhow, I hope you guys enjoy the track! (P.S. Just a quick note: I put together the motif list for this post using notes I sent Nick, so it might be slightly inaccurate on my part.)

You can also listen to this track in high quality on the AU’s SoundCloud here! Due to their length, the character blurbs are underneath the Read More.

Bow Kid is still Frisk... but that hardly matters anymore. The bright and cheerful, yet nervous Bow that first landed on the planet is gone. Her original desire of going home has long been forgotten, and only one goal drives this emotionless shell of her former self forward: finish what she started. Hat Kid takes Sans' place. With Bow's killing spree pushing everything to the brink, Hat Kid realizes that she just can’t stand back and watch time and space be torn asunder. As much as she doesn't want to do it deep down, she signs a new contract with Snatcher, selling her soul in exchange for WAY more power. Harriet is deadset on protecting what's left of this timeline and correcting the cataclysm Bow Kid caused, not wanting a repeat of her failure to with Mustache Girl before, and she doesn't care how much of herself she has to give up to accomplish this goal. Snatcher is in a (heavily expanded) Napstablook role. Given that you have killed off everyone that Snatcher could have possibly roped into working for him, and maybe a part of him that he won't acknowledge caring for Hat Kid, he offers his "contractually obligated BFF" direct assistance in addition to the power boost. As far as he's concerned now, Bow's contract expired a long time ago, and it's time to make her head pop off like all the other contractors before her.

[oflgtfol]

Re; work situation, u absolutely aren't being weird or anything, that's sussy af

thank you all for the input and i also have found another update since i made that post!

so let me summarize why i dislike this man beyond this potential sexism or however else you'd label these bad vibes:

- he fired our replenishment manager. for reasons i cannot fully disclose bc A. im not supposed to know about it (im friends w the other managers so they told me anyway) B. i dont know much about it (as only the SM has the full picture and even my friend managers barely know anything) and C. trying to maintain some semblance of privacy. but she is indeed getting an attorney over it so its like serious

- (RM was the 30s year old woman who helped serve as a middleman between us early 20s women and the 50 yo male SM. additionally she literally ran the store, super responsible for keeping us neat and timely and organized. when she was fired we all said the store would fall apart without her - and guess what! it did. the store has been a fucking mess since only one month after she left)

- he never hired a new RM. instead he made the new full time assistant manager (22 year old woman) take on replenishment duties on top of her actual role-specific duties and refused to share the burden by taking on additional duties as well, taking serious advantage of her

- full time ASM almost dies from a stress related health emergency due to being overworked. SM shows no sympathy or concern for her. when ASM puts in her two weeks he declines it and is only worried about who will cover him for his vacation. because he declined her 2 weeks she just resigned immediately and good for her because she almost fucking died. so now we are down an RM and an ASM and only have two part time closing managers and the full time FM (who really only should be doing framing duties and nothing else) (and prior to this SM coming to our store we used to have a full time RM, ASM, FM, as well as 3-4 part time managers, 2-3 of which closed at night exclusively and 1-2 of which worked mostly mornings or were flexible between mornings and nights. so we’ve already been short on managers for like, all of 2023 - hence why the idea of me becoming a manager was brought up around christmas/new years, to become another part time manager. but i was never given an offer and that role was never filled!)

- being down all these managers finally pushes him to hire new ones

- he hires a new guy, and already has ambitious goals of making him the new RM... within five days of working here. that guy in the break room is now in the running for this position. after only being here for five days.

- and now today ive learned. SM is also going to hire… another man….. to replace the ASM. which is what i just found out after making that other post. like come on. this is weird right

so like hes already been a shitty person what with everything going on these past 2 months and even his condescending attitude overall for this entire duration here, but now the extra layer of bringing in all these men in general, but specifically to replace the hard working, responsible, overworked, and overall well liked female managers, with random ass men who none of us ever met before, especially after pushing out said female managers one way or the other (direct firing, and almost indirectly killing), its just like. Again the pushing out of those managers was already bad enough but now the fact theyre being replaced with these random ass men, like, its already bad enough that the dynamic in this store is changing due to these well liked managers leaving, but then to go as far as to change the dynamic by bringing in all these men into a long, looooong time female-dominated store, its just. Like. aegh

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Nanwum Schemin'

I finished my August writing challenge tonight, and I'm pleased to say that I managed to hit 20,000 words and that's actually enough to cover this year's Christmas special. I tried this last year, but I only wrote 15k in September, and Red Christmas ended up being 32k long, so I wound up writing more than half of it in December anyway. This time, I took that into account, which is why I used August instead. I figured if Blue Christmas ran long, I'd be able to use September to finish it off, but it looks like I managed to fit the entire plot in 20k, so that's satisfying. I need a little more to finish the ending, and there's some stuff I'll want to add and take out, but overall, I have a working first draft that I can have ready for AO3 without much trouble.

I still have to figure out what the hell Yellow Christmas will be about. I saved that one for last, since yellow is the Luffa color, but I think I've used up all the good fanfic AU tropes by now, so I'm gonna have to get creative. But that's a problem for 2024, and I'm here to talk about the fall of 2023.

Concerning the Apocrypha Liveblog, I plan on wrapping up some loose ends in September. Super Dragon Ball Heroes episode 50 came out last week, so I can write about how the Aeos arc (we won!). I also want to knock out the DBS movies, and I think the DBS Manga will probably be done with their Super Hero adaptation, so I'm penciling that in as well. Whatever's left over I can deal with in October or later.

November is NanoWriMo season, and this will be my 7th entry in the event. I don't count my ill-fated attempt in 2003, since I never logged it with the website, and I had no idea what I was doing and flamed out by the second or third day. But I've been doing these since 2017 and I've been racking up wins ever since. I'm feeling confident at the moment, so I'm going to try to set some goals for myself, which I'll put under the cut.

Looking back at my past runs, I've had some good years and some difficult ones where I didn't reach the 50k goal until Day 29 or 30. I always find it more satisfying to finish early if I can. My preference is to have things wrapped up by Day 20, so I can write more stuff in the overrun, or start editing and posting, or just slack off for the next ten days. It's always enjoyable, so I think I need to make this a priority.

For a number of years, my objective was to boost word count and reach certain milestones in the Luffa storyline, but I passed one million words last year, and this year I've nearly finished the Xenoverse 1 adaptation, so things are a little different. I think I can afford to think about how to improve productivity, rather than how to hit certain plot points. So we'll aim for that.

Currently, my earliest win date is Day 17, which I pulled off back in 2021. So I'm going to try to hit 50k on or before Day 16. Here's how.

This month, I learned I can get more done by breaking up my large word goals in to 500 word chunks. To finish by Day 16, I'll need to average about 3000 words a day, which is something I've always struggled to do consistently, but now, I think I can make that work. The idea is to devote six hours across a day, where I write 500 words in each of those hours. It really seemed to help me out this month, so it's time to see if that technique can push me further.

One other thing I want to try is to break my personal record for one-day writing totals. Currently, that stands at 7023 words. So I've chosen three days where I can attempt to do that. I'd like to do more than jut hit 7024, though. 9001 would be pretty sweet for the meme value, but it sounds really daunting.

The important thing here is that I give myself permission to fail. If I can't maintain 3k per day, that's fine, because even falling short of that goal still makes good progress. If I can't make it to 7k or beyond, that's fine too, because wherever I land, it's still a lot of progress. And if I'm not done by Day 16 it's fine, because I'll have two weeks left.

But I think I can do this. The rewards would be sweet. AEW Full Gear is on the 18th, and it'd be pretty great to just have a lazy Saturday where I watch that instead of writing. NJPW will probably run their World Tag League shows between November 15 and December 15, so I'd have the whole second half of November freed up. And mostly, I like the precedent it would set if I could consistently land 3k in six hours or less. I feel like that's something I need to prove to myself.

If this is going to work, I need to do some solid plotting in October so I'm ready. I do reasonably well with "they fight" as a prompt, but if I have a list of spots and story beats to work with, that would cut down on the indecision that usually holds me back.