#the other one will return eventually

[skyward-floored]

Whumptober 2024 Masterlist

Here's the list of fics so far this year, I'll try and keep this updated as I go! And as always, you can read all of these on ao3.

Day 1 - (Race against the clock, panic attack) feat. Wild & Twilight

Day 2 - (Role reversal) feat. Wind & Legend

Day 3 - ((bloody) fingerprints) feat. Warriors & Time

Day 4 - (Hallucinations, “You’re still alive in my head”) feat. Wild, Sky, Twilight and Warriors

Day 5 - (Sunburn, heatstroke) feat. Four & Hyrule

Day 6 - (Healed wrong, “it’s not my blood”) feat. Legend

Day 7 - (Only for emergencies, magic with a cost) feat. Time & Legend

Day 8 - (sleep deprivation, forced to stay awake) feat. Sky & Warriors

Day 9 - (Broken window) feat. Wind & others

Day 10 - (Passing out from pain) feat. Hyrule

Day 11 - (Seeing double) feat. Wild & ...Wild

Day 12 - ("Just a little more", (starvation)) feat. Warriors and Sky continuation of day 8

Day 13 - (Multiple whumpees (familial curse)) feat. Twilight & everyone

Day 14 - (Shivering (left for dead)) feat Hyrule & Wild

Day 15 - (Moment of clarity (childhood trauma)) - feat. Wind & Four

Day 16 - (Swamp, "No, I can't feel anything") feat. Hyrule & Time (+ others)

Day 17 - (Venom, “we had a good run”) feat. Sky, Twilight, & Warriors

Day 18 - (Revenge) feat. Legend & everyone continuation of day 10

Day 19 - (Blood trail, abandoned cabin) feat. Four, Wild, & the Colors

Day 20 - (Emotional angst, Shoulder to Cry On, Giving Permission to Die, “It’s not your fault.”) feat. Time, Malon, & Epona

Day 21 - (Spirit possession) feat. Wind & Sky

Day 22 - (Bleeding through bandages, "oh that's not good") feat. Time & Twilight

Day 23 - (Forced choice, secrets revealed, (public display)) feat. Warriors & Legend

Day 24 - (Equipment failure) feat. Four & the colors (Vio)

Day 25 - (Surgery) feat. Wild & Time

Day 26 - (Nightmare, regret) feat. Legend & Hyrule (everyone) continuation of days 10 and 18

Day 27 - (Voiceless, "I have no mouth and I must scream") feat. Wind + others

Day 28 (No-holds-barred beatdown, exposure, used as bait) feat. Twilight & everyone continuation of day 13

Day 29 (Fatigue, “Who said you could rest?”) feat. Warriors & Legend continuation of day 23

Day 30 (Recovery) feat. Twilight & everyone continuation of days 13 and 28

Day 31 (Making amends) feat. Time, Hyrule, Wild and Time

[strawberri-draws]

shuichi posting

[feroluce]

Massive 4.2 Genshin Impact archon quest spoilers concerning Furina and her identity ahoy, but I kind of like the idea that like. After everything is said and done, when Neuvilette goes to Furina to tell her everything he saw, at the end of it he holds out his cupped hands and water condenses in them into a bubble.

Neuvilette tells her this was a gift, from Focalors. She had wanted to apologize. She knows she asked Furina to do something horrible. She knows she put her through the worst levels of hell and never even got to personally thank her after it all. With her execution, Furina's curse is broken, but she was forced to play a role for 500 years. 500 years. And that's. Something that is going to take a very very long time to unravel and work through. Years, at least.

So now, Focalors wanted to make her an offer. Longevity, not as a curse this time, but a blessing. Furina will not be immortal. But she will be able to take back the 500 years she lost and then some. She'll have plenty of time to rest, and then to heal, and then to do whatever she'd like. She can wander all of Teyvat by foot if that's what she wants, she'll have the time. She can go see every stage opera ever made. She can leave Fontaine for a generation or two or three and come back when she can start anew, when none of the humans will personally remember her.

She will have time to figure out who she is and what she wants to do. She can finally unearth all the things she buried over the last five centuries.

It's her choice, though. Neuvilette supports her either way. They find a pretty little bottle to put the water bubble in together, because Furina doesn't want to drink it just yet, she wants to think about it first. She's still going to leave for a while. Neuvilette supports that, too. But she takes the bottle with her, carefully wrapped up in cloth, and that's enough for him, just to know that she has the freedom of choice in her own life for perhaps the first time ever.

[mrsoharaa]

"Remember...we need to keep this completely professional and strictly discreet"

He declares firmly as he readjust the gizmo on his right hand, digitalizing his suit onto his glistening, perfect body. Watching the freshly embroidered markings that you engraved onto his beautiful, broaden back, fade from your lingering sight. Shifting up on your bed as you gently pull the crinkled sheets up to your bare, heaving chest. Slowly, watching his head tilt to the side to capture your longing stare.

"Nothing more then this will happen between us...I just want you to know that" he clarifies with a heavy sigh, fixing his posture as he opens up a portal in the midst of your dim lit room. Taking a final, shorten glimpse back at you, noting the distraught, broken look settling upon your face, before vanishing within the glowing inter dimensional circle.

"...Yeah, nothing..."

[mangobeast]

i feel like i don’t show enough appreciation to all the people who support me (and maybe i whine too much about the things that upset me), so i just want everyone to know that i adore you and i read the tags and the comments, and i really do appreciate every single nice thing anyone has ever said to me. i’m just so overwhelmed and it started getting to me!! i’m having a nice break though, i’m working on some zine stuff that i’m very proud of and cooking up some other ideas along the way and will be back to posting art soon 💗

[quinn-pop]

shoutout to that one mtdd confession comic i drew last year that i never posted because uhh

it was unscripted so the ideas were pretty disjointed and it showed a lot. anyway:

[thatonecrookedsmile]

From the depths of the studio - where darkness prevails and the voices of the puddles grow louder - a message is echoed to the rest of the world. A promise filled with hatred and,at the same time,with conviction. Words coming from someone who was more than confident that their blasphemy would come true.

A message that is directed to one creature,and one creature only...

"I will become the very being You never could be"

----- "A Promise Sent from Below" - Return to the Studio AU.

Oh hey, I have an AU, I forgot about that (lie)

I've had a similar idea in my head for a month now. It wasn't possible to do it last month, but no problem. May would make more sense. I did something with this little guy for 414 last year, and I wanted to do something with him again. April 14th of this year would not be possible, but May 14th or 15th? Oh yes. These dates are better because it was between these two (actually it was the 14th I think, but I consider both dates) days that I created this guy above! Consider this drawing a celebration made for…well, me. Of course, he wasn't created with the design above in mind. His original, main design is quite different from this alternative (and less original) iteration. The drawing above shows his current situation in the "current" moments of the RTTS AU.

His creation, which dates back to 2020, was the result of some Bendy-related thoughts of mine intersecting on the day. These being about new things in canon lore that came out at the time (plus speculation about this new information), a theory that at the time I started to understand better (which maybe based on the drawing, you probably know which theory I'm talking about ) and a funny bug found in one of the games (do you remember Ghost Bendy by any chance?) And then,boom. I created Atlas. I remember at the time I was thinking of other names for him because Atlas was just a codename that I had in mind to refer to him while I thought of a definitive name for the guy. But the codename ended up sticking. Plus, Atlas is a cool name and I wanted to give an OC that name.

Even though some details changed over time, I think I eventually managed to solidify his place in the AU. Not that his story is 100% thought out and completed. Hell, my AUs that I have are still not 100% thought out either, so what to expect from their characters. But I think that, currently, I have at least decided on the general idea of his place and purpose in RTTS, and I am happy with what I have come up with.

I don't know when the next time will be that I will show him again. In general, showing things from my AUs is not and probably will never be my strong point lol. But I'd like to draw him again eventually. So uhhhhhhhhhhh, one day. When that "one day" will be, it's up to you to decide

Happy Birthday Atlas. You and your other 2 alternative versions are cool to think about. Here's to another 4 years of chaos for you. 🙌

I can't believe it's been 4 years now, damn.

[sweetandglovelyart]

I started making Slowed + Reverb edits of Kirby soundtracks on my YouTube channel, and I made this very dinky one for today… 🤭

[e-adlirez]

Trolls Band Together musical reading

Hiiiiiiiii so guess who got ratgrabbed and yanked down into the abyss yesterday as of the time I'm very impulsively writing this--

I went in not expecting much but a couple minutes in they were able to win me over with the plot and the surprisingly strong moral core despite the very simple narrative

And I dunno why (prolly because uh spoilers that I'll get into in a bit) but I wound up reading the movie through a musical lens, which is what this post is about :D

So if you haven't seen Trolls Band Together and don't think you want to (either because you're not optimistic due to the past two films or because you're by some chance a Disney elitist who's somehow trying to trick us into thinking Wish is somehow better than this banger), MAJOR SPOILERS for Trolls Band Together, you have been warned :]

Aight so the main reason I wound up with the music-based reading on first watch is because of the mention of the Perfect Family Harmony, which is what the protagonist boyband BroZone is trying really hard to hit, and I just so happen to be into music (I play drums :]) and just so happened to have been practicing harmonizing in recent times so I guess it lined up just enough for me to look at the film in a musical light, which was a lot of fun :3

Now, the plot of TBT is a very simple one: it's a big "hey guys how about we work together" kind of narrative, which we've seen before in every group-related franchise ever. However, the one thing that I found extremely fascinating was the fact that this story wasn't just being told by narrative, but by music. Specifically BroZone's harmonies and how they develop throughout the film :]

(Fair warning I'm not gonna be able to go Howard Ho levels of detailed, I don't even know how to distinguish chords by ear :'D I'm just gonna be talking about what I hear)

During the intro sequence, we see that John Dory (who I might end up calling JD for simplicity in this essay) has this thing about the Perfect Family Harmony (the PFH) and is trying to get his band to hit it. Obviously, his tactic for this is perfection and pushing his brothers to be perfect for the sake of hitting the PFH on their tour debut, and insisting that he takes the lead, which none of his brothers agree to while knowing that JD is not gonna be hearing any of their protests. This part is very important, because I'm sure that all musicians would know from rehearsals, if the group can't agree on whose lead to follow and wind up not listening to each other, the result is absolute chaos. Not literally as chaotic as BroZone's stage malfunction, but it do sound like that when none of the parts are working together :D

However uh, there's one thing I also want to point out with both BroZone's tour debut and when BroZone has their first full rehearsal together. When they sing their songs, the harmonies are very subdued and very simple, which is particularly shown in Perfect. There are very little facets to the harmonies, to the point where at any given bar in the performance, the line between backing vocals and main vocalists is extremely clear. The backing vocals even sound distinctly softer than whoever's leading at any given point, minus when the boys are singing in unison. Speaking of which, I could be wrong, but I think the parts in the song are like two at most and on occasion it's just the boys singing in unison? More musically attuned readers are free to correct me on that front, but that's what it sounds like to me.

Anyway the main point is, the brothers are forced to maintain these very fixed and restricting harmonies that more or less sound the same, and of course they are-- JD (if he composed the songs) wrote them and he insists that his brothers follow them to the letter, meaning they can't improvise or go beyond what we hear in the film. Granted it's prolly because of their specific genre of music and the fact that the boys are supposed to be teens at eldest and literally a baby at youngest, but the harmonies don't ever diverge or serve to give the song more layers. They remain exactly the same, more or less perfectly in unison, and even during their first group rehearsal with the band back together in (almost) full (could be wrong can't really relisten to that part of the movie rn), their harmonies are perfectly in unison but lacking in dimension, just like how they were during their disastrous concert.

In these, it is very clear that JD hasn't changed a single bit since the last his brothers saw him. He's still obsessed with the idea that he's the leader (even though a BroZone superfan like Poppy remembers him better as "the old one" and it even took her a bit to remember his part in the band), even though in reality, he's kinda nothing without the other members of the band. Which kiiiinddddaaaaaa shows seeing in Perfect his voice sounds very similar to Clay (I bet if I listened to the soundtrack first I wouldn't have been able to pick out JD's voice), and even his part in the PFH is the same as Floyd's.

As I mentioned earlier, due to the circumstances behind this extremely impulsive rant, I can't really check BroZone's first rehearsal after reuniting rn, but I bet it would've been the same case, because what I DO remember about that scene is that JD was being the same old JD, and everyone was trying to tell him that they've changed since they last saw him (contrast to him not changing a bit because he's trying to maintain that illusion of perfection he's been chasing this whole time). From what I remember, anyway, their harmonies were basically in the same boat as Perfect: clear, subdued, restrained against the singers' will to follow a lead vocalist at all times.

Now, we're gonna shift our gaze from the brothers for a second and take a look at the twins Velvet and Veneer. Yes they are iconic and yes their songs are iconic, but one thing I wanna point out is that when I first listened to Mount Rageous on the soundtrack, I had a really hard time picking out Andrew Rannell's voice because it was backing vocals-ing so hard that it was near impossible to not hear Brianna Mazzola's extremely dominant vocals (no hate to either, Brianna Mazzola SLAYED as Velvet), and the comments section of the video I was listening to for the soundtrack seemed to share my sentiments about wanting to hear more of Andrew Rannell, but hear me out:

We know from the film that Veneer is the nicer sibling. He's a material gworl with a heart and he genuinely doesn't like hurting Floyd, especially when you listen to how they address each other and converse with each other in the film. Now, seeing just how much on speaking terms Floyd and Veneer are on, how conflicted Veneer feels about keeping Floyd hostage and torturing him, and how Veneer is always worried about Floyd's health... it would make sense for Veneer to use Floyd's music essence or talents very sparingly, wouldn't it? With that, compare him to his diva sister Velvet, who squanders Floyd's essence even for dress rehearsals, and always sings for the back row and flexes as many riffs and runs and belts any and all opportunities she gets (hence why she CARRIES Mount Rageous). Makes Andrew Rannell's more subdued and in-the-background performance as Veneer more deliberate, doesn't it? :3 (Still wanna hear his voice more tho, it'd be nice to hear what Veneer can do on his own)

Something something the Veneer siblings are direct foils of BroZone something something Velvet is a direct foil for JD and Veneer is a direct foil to Floyd something something Rageous Twins-Floyd angst anyway back to the thesis of this thing--

Now, you'd think that JD keeps up his perfection shtick all the time, but he very obviously doesn't and it is shown first in his jam session with SpBruce and Branch in Bruce's family restaurant-cafe-lazy Susan thing, through the harmonies. At first I thought it was just because their voices had clearly matured since their childhood (which it partially is), but the other reason is the fact that their harmonies are so much fuller than they were in Perfect. They even give Pentatonix vibes in their little vocalizing bit, that's how full and multifaceted their harmonies are in the song; and the main reason is because in that jam session, everyone's in it just for fun, therefore everyone is free to add their little bit of vocal flavor into the song.

If you listen to JD and Bruce's harmonies in the chorus, you'll find that they sound more full and multilayered than ever in such a way that they didn't need five entire band members to pull off. And most importantly, the line between the leading vocals and the backing vocals are a little blurrier in the sense that leading and backing vocals for the most part are on the same volume, and they opt to sing a multilayered unison for when Poppy joins in, who is also adding her own mezzosoprano piece to the song and is given the room to do so. Everyone is given the room to do so-- Bruce's bass and Branch's tenor in particular get to shine while JD provides support with his baritone-- and of course they're given room for every single one of them to shine, because this isn't a concert, it's just a fun little jam sesh that also serves as a bet to showcase BroZone to Bruce's kids. It's ironic how the one time JD doesn't feel the need to be perfect, is the time you can really see why BroZone is such a good boyband that everyone fell in love with during their time.

Now, I did mention BroZone's first rehearsal (and I don't have much else to say about the rehearsal besides the fact that JD's obstinance means that they're doing a repeat of the tour debut), so I'll talk instead about the next time they manage to work (or in this case, sing) in harmony: A Better Place and its iconic pre-chorus.

Now, first of all I will mention the moment prior where the group has that little heart-to-heart about the PFH and how they don't need to be perfect to hit it, they just need to be together. While this is a very cheesy line, it's actually very true if you think about it from a technical musical perspective: when you're singing, you technically don't need to be perfect to sound good, and the same goes for if you're singing in a group. The most important thing about singing in a group is that you're all together, you're all on the same page, and you're all in agreement on who's going to take the lead for everyone to base their singing off of; and they have all three of those things. All of BroZone is together and able to communicate with each other, and they're all on the same page because they're all agreeing to follow Branch's lead. Ignore for a second the poeticism of Bitty B now taking up The Leader position in the vocals, the fact that the group was able to agree on who'll lead and who the others will listen to is not only a good showcase of what having a good team and leader is like, but also what it takes for a group to be able to sing together and not sound like a house of people trying to sing Happy Birthday. (It's also an achievement with this bunch but I digress.)

In A Better Place, we get to hear everyone put their own bits of harmonies into the song: we get to hear Clay's beautiful vocalizations in the pre-chorus and the chorus, Anna Kendrick joining in with her soprano is always a treat for the eardrums, Camila Cabello's improvisations are very tasteful, the LAYERS that make the pre-chorus so addicting to listen to, we even get to hear Crimp adding a bit of ukulele and it's very cute and she looks so happy you guys <:], Floyd's little vocalization at the end sounds heavenly even though the poor man hardly had anything left in him Lord bless him-- and under all of this, Branch's voice still sounds prominent enough to act as a baseline that doesn't overpower but ties all the other voices together, like a concertmaster of an orchestra being the one to set the pitch and make sure that everyone is on the same page. Everyone is listening to each other, everyone is adding their own flavor to the song, and everyone is in harmony.

Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk :3 if you managed to stick it out to the end then uh holy crap I commend you soldier, your brainrot must be as severe as the Trolls tag on Tumblr made yourselves out to be :D /j

[tennessoui]

ohhh "summer falling through our fingers again" for the fic title prompt

oof ok ok but this is giving me like wild parent trap vibes but make it gffa, so rots almost happens but Padmé still dies and anakin takes his babies and leaves the order to become some small town mechanic on some small planet, grieving and fully committing to his children and being their father

But it’s so painful to talk about his wife that he doesn’t for years and years.

the twins grow up and don’t ask much about their mother because they see how much it hurts their father to talk about it. but they also notice that the one time he seems happiest is in the summer when obi-wan visits and stays with them for a few months a year

and anakin never bothered to tell the twins who obi-wan is to him or what their past relationship is, but obi-wan treats them all so nicely and well and they’re obviously closer than friends and their father gets so sad for weeks after obi-wan leaves

so the twins, through schoolyard input and too much holo exposure, decide that obviously obi-wan is their third parent and anakin is in love with him and obi-wan should be in love with him too because then he could stay with them all the time instead of just the summer and they could be a family and anakin would be happier all the time — so they start trying to parent trap them into getting back together, unaware that anakin and obi-wan were never together in the first place.

for their parts, anakin probably has always been at least a lil bit in love with obi-wan. and obi-wan, who is still a Jedi, finds himself feeling less and less enamored with the Jedi way every time he leaves anakin’s side at the end of the summer.

neither of them really knows what to make of the town’s sea of younglings trying to get them to kiss in increasingly obvious ways as the summer wanes into autumn though.

Send me a made-up fic title, and I’ll tell you what I would write for it

[heepthecheep]

The Guardians of Ga'Hoole's various plots are already wild, but The Wolves of the Beyond is just... bizarre

[wolfsplosion]

Star Wars character tier list idea: who would be the best to partake in weed with

[reynaruina]

Love the ponytail au, but hypothetically, what if zim had a bad day? Would dib even care? Like if zim broke down, would he make it about himself, or genuinely try to help zim, cuz that has me thinking FR, is this a one sided care???

So far? Yeah, kinda. Of course Dib would care if Zim broke down, but it would take him so long to find out about it because Zim is already hiding all the pain trying to help Dib causes him, and even if he did it'll take him longer still to believe it's not some sort of trap. He's seemingly permanently stuck in this state where he's in love with the person he trusts the least, at least consciously (subconsciously he knows he can trust Zim, if he didn't he wouldn't be around anymore). And even still, once he figured everything out, he wouldn't know what to do or how to help Zim at all. It'd be very messy.

[padawanduck]

watching Mr "i'm gonna run healthcare like a business" made me mad as a child who understood that he sucked and was in opposition to the main characters

But as an adult. who has seen and experienced the way the for profit healthcare industry has destroyed lives. And has heard stories of what happens in real life when a hospital gets bought out and the way everything is worse for patients and doctors.

I understand so much more why he sucks. And i want to break things with hammers.