#the saga of proposal anon

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

UPDATE What's up, it's the proposal guy. You said you wanted to know how this turned out, so I figured I'd tell you. First some context though, because I'm mean and I wanna keep you in suspense longer.

1- I don't wanna doxx us so I'm not telling you where we live, but suffice to say, neither of us are American, and gay marriage has been legal here for less than five years. For both of us, this is the first relationship we've had where marriage was even an OPTION, and I think that's where we've been getting some of that whole 'this has to be a REAL proposal with EVERYTHING' idea.

2- I gotta figure out how to explain this properly. So, I'm pretty used to being the GUY guy in relationships? I was always the one who did the nice gestures, not the one they got done for. Before I met my dream guy, I didn't really notice or care that it was such a thing, I just assumed that's how shit worked. Also, I promised I wouldn't talk a lot about his stuff here, but his last boyfriend before me SUCKED. Anyway point here is, it turns out we both REALLY like feeling swept off our feet sometimes, and a big part of finding each other has been getting to feel special for once? That's a stupid sappy way of putting it the point here is I think all that's what morphed into "I need to be the one getting proposed to, also it has to be completely perfect", and then our Petty & Extra genes got involved.

So I'm sitting in bed thinking about all that up there, and watching all the comments coming in basically being like "Dude, you are BLOWING this" on repeat, and telling me to compromise, and I look up and see him flossing in the bathroom and making all these doofy faces at the mirror, and it's like a switch just flips in my brain, and I'm like "Oh, I'd rather he gets to have his perfect proposal than we both have an okay one". I'm gonna do it.

Morning rolls around, and while I'm 'out for my jog like normal' I hit up a pawn shop for a temp ring (the ring pop thing is cute but NOT HIM). I found one I was at least confident wouldn't get ruined the first time he got his hands greasy (he fixes old machines as a hobby it's hot as hell), got back home, and hid the box in the toe of my nasty ass workout shoes in the bedroom closet, since I figured he'd check there last.

He was still asleep, because he stays up late no matter what and then is SHOCKED he's tired the next day, so I called and booked a table at our usual anniversary spot. (Side note about the 'he picks bad restaurants' thing. This isn't an 'I like Greek, you like Chinese' situation, dude's just BAD at finding places. He either assumes pricey is tasty and I get to eat some overrated gourmet bullshit, or he'll try and find something hip and underground and risk giving us food poisoning again, and he REFUSES to give up and pick somewhere we've been before when it's his turn to plan date night. I'm obsessed with him <3.) Date was set, I'd propose on the 21st.

Some of you might have noticed this, but fun fact! It's currently the 16th.

Last night I'm doing dishes and he's been sent to our room for mug collection duty, and he's taking FOREVER, so I go check just in case he found the ring, because the man's a gift tracking BLOODHOUND. Turns out he hasn't, he's found my Angry Box.

I assume other people have an Angry Box? Basically, we had this huge messy fight right when we first moved in together, and I never wanna let it get that bad again, so I have this shoebox where I keep a bunch of our stuff I can look at if we're fighting and hopefully cool off. There's one of those photo booth roll things, letters we wrote when he moved back with his parents for COVID, the wine cork from our first date, shit like that. Anyway, he's just sitting on the floor staring at it, and I explain about the Angry Box, and then he! Proposes!!! Kind of.

He definitely didn't have anything prepared, because by 'propose' I mean 'ugly cried & rambled at me for several minutes before I figured out it WAS a proposal', but once I got on the same page it was amazing. I said yes, and he had to admit he didn't have a ring for me because he was CONVINCED he'd win and I'd do it, so I grabbed mine because, yeah, he was right. He was like "this is the ugliest ring I've ever seen" and I was like yeah well the plan is to replace it later and he went "No. You can pry this off my cold dead fingers. After I'm buried with it." So I guess it's not a temporary ring anymore.

I'm just gonna go ahead and skip to this morning. I pointed out we still have the reservation, and he said I should propose there anyway because "We can get a free dessert. They have those creme brulee shot glasses you like. And for love, or something" and I said ok deal, but that means you gotta get me a ring to keep it fair, and his eyes LIT UP. When I swung by his work for lunch he was still on the phone with a jeweler and he had a whole page of notes on three other ones. Pray for me.

OH PS: I was RIGHT that he'd been the one behind the cat biting me, but it wasn't about the proposal stuff, it's because I paid my baby sister three dollars to shout 'fuck you' every single time he enters a room she's in for (if you ask me, he should be madder at my sister for charging so little), and he did it by giving her a bunch of treats for biting his hands too, so now neither of us can pet our baby girl without oven mitts on. HOLY SHIT I love this man.

Oh my goddddddd I love everything about this <333 I awwww'd out loud on a voice call, like, six times while reading. You two are friggin perfect for each other and so obviously smitten with each other and I wish y'all all the happiness in the world

PS Are y'all planning to have a big wedding? If so oh boy I can't WAIT to get that one in the inbox

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[crazylittlejester]

I'm low-key obsessed with Twilight saga Wars, and I'm having thoughts™ about it.

Ok so Wars would be a) unnaturally strong for a human teenager, b) be pissed at Edward (or very annoyed at least), c) pretty trigger happy.

So I propose: let Wars fight Edward and win, multi times even. He found Edward staring at him at night and just casually fling him out the window so hard there's a dent in the pavement, and Wars dragging Edward into the woods by the collar because seriously he's been staring again it's time to beat him up.

They get into a brief fight every week, with Wars always winning, somehow. Edward has been cheating in fights with his power for a century he is sooo obsessed with someone beating him and he's chalking it all up to not being able to read Wars. He didn't really catch up on Wars' strength until Alice points it out, because he's a hundred years old dumb teenager and I love him for that.

I think eventually they might find some kind of grumpy friendship in the fights. Alice would love Wars just for handing Edwards ass, and Edward would hate Wars even more for that.

Also, the Italian Royal Vampire ™ with a name starting with V that I can't remember. They would be so interested in Wars in a really bad way. I mean they search for talented humans and turn them just to see if they have any powers, and if any news about Wars get to them they would definitely come for him.

i think its so fucking funny that this cursed ass au is what people are excited about and wanting more of from me, not my big hero 6 au, not my incredibly serious not at all crack series /srs, not even my own links meets au. The people have spoken and the people want ‘Twilight: Everything Is The Same Except LU Warriors Is Bella’, and also Swan Wars. Both of which I will deliver to you if you give me time to cook (And Mandarin Wars anon, i WILL post yours before i do these)

also you’re so right, the Volturi (i hope i spelled that right) are gonna be so interested in Wars if/when they discover his existence. I have a lot of ideas for how I want Warriors to be able to exist in this modern world, I want him to still have some abilities that he does in his HW game, and I’m probably gonna have to just test a few out to see how i like em

[zestialmorde]

The zestmilla angst saga (a small table of contents)

bc i know how irritating it can get to shift through ^^

colored by the last person in the thread or whoever answered the ask for the one offs (green for zestial purple for carmilla)

the kiss

the date proposal

Carmilla's best anon interactions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Zestials best anon interactions: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Zestials thread with spooky (same mun as carmilla... kinda a spinoff?)

the flowers

the meetup (conclusion)

@weapons-maker-carmilla thank you for the fun week-ish, you're always the best to get into shenanigans with.

bonus bad photoshop

[sl-vega]

✧the slay anon saga✧

synopsis: all the posts recounting my investigation of the true identity of the SLAY anon. is it a romance? a friendship? a future rivalry? who knows

SEASON 1

01-the start of it all

02-i will find you

03-attention all suspects

04-it would be so sexy tho

05-must be good with your hands

06-slaying and slutting

07-trust issues for the win

08-they got me

09-a lead

10-denial will do you no good

11-you ain't innocent

12-a break-...for now

13-trust issues for the win: part 2

14-fanart coming in hot

15-trust issues for the win: part 3

16-trust issues for the win: part 4

17-gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss

18-trust issues for the win: part 5

19-mlb or radio rebel?

20-fanart contest

21-og slay anon returns

22-fr fr slay anon returns

23-do you love me?

24-KISS KISS FALL IN LOVE

25-w rizz

26-slay was meant to be

27-the mask falls

28-KISS KISS FALL IN LOVE: part 2

29-first place goes to....

30-the true identity of fr fr slay

31-an ode to the og slay anon

32-THE GRAND REVEAL

SEASON 2

01-the legacy continues

02-to slay or not to slay

03-challenge accepted

04-bob-y count

05-surpassing the elders

06-training montage in the works

07-redemption arc lets gooooooo

08-betrayal but not really

09-audience appreciation

10-pleasing the og

11-let me show you how to slay

12-an ode to slay anon the third

13-evidence

14-GOTTEM

15-appreciation for the poet

16-(○~○')/

17-the slowburn ain't slowburning

18-you can be the sherlock to my watson

19-an ode the the slay anons

20-the most iconic detective duo

21-the game is afoot

22-BUSTED

23-oddly wholesome

24-reunion between the poet and king

25-i hereby announce

26-it's complicated

27-a proposal

28-the palace of evil

29-fucking great vocabulary

30-accidental reveal

31-case closed

32-the sin of stupidity

SEASON 3

01-oh god there's another

02-NEW FRIEND

03-potential leads?

04-the game is afoot! (season 3 edition)

05-they're after watson

06-preparing for greatness

07-washroom anyone?

08-oh god there's another: part 2

09-swearing to the g-man

10-putting in a good word

11-the fourth of the legacy

12-shoutout to watson

13-friend or foe?

14-the honest poet

15-technical warrant

16-loopholes be loopholing

17-remembering fr fr slay

18-equal footing

19-ultimate loyalty

20-RIVALRY ARC

21-rivals to lovers anyone?

22-historians called them rivals

23-flirting?

24-sex ed era

25-potential leads?:part 2

26-flirting

27-time for an interrogation

28-historian called them rivals:part 2

29-potential side ship?

30-inevitable disappointment

[blackbird-brewster]

20 Author Questions

Tagged by @danielleitloudernow TY!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Still accredited to my name? 135. Total works on AO3 that I've written (including Anon & Orphans) -- somewhere around 150?

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

1.1 MILLION!?!?!??! FUCKING WILD.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Criminal Minds (124). But also have some Thrilling Adventure Hour (4), Grey's (3), and a few other random fandoms where I've written one thing ever.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Caged (Kudos: 635)

The Disposition of Emily Prentiss (Kudos: 511)

I Won't Give Up (Kudos: 441)

A Series of Unfortunate Events (Kudos: 359)

i can't be wrong (to be craving you) (Kudos: 312) OMG I had no idea this fic had that many?!?!!

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I respond to every single comment I get!! Since I can't actually reach through the screen and hug every reader who leaves a comment, a reply is all I have!

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Hmmm, Angstiest ending specifically? I would say 'The Five Horsemen of the Silent Chasm'. (Ends in major character death)

Angstiest overall fic? DEF, DEF, DEF my Jemily saga -- i can't be wrong (to be craving you)

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I've written so much tooth-rotting fluff tbrh. Some cute shit that comes to mind:

Quiet Love (Jara Wedding Fluff!)

Always You (Temily proposal)

I Know a Place (Jara)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I get entitled comments sometimes. To which I always reply, because I think it's important for other readers to see how not to behave in a comment section. This recent interaction comes to mind:

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

OF COURSE I DO!!! Lately, I have been writing a lot of smut because menopause has turned me into a 24/7 horny gay. All my fics are Femslash and I also write F/F/F threesomes because I have multiple OT3s 😇

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I have written crossovers in the past! Two of my favourites are a TAH x Addams Family one : Beyond Belief: When Family Calls and a CM x Community crossover where Emily and Frankie Dart are estranged twins: Words Left Unsaid

11. Have you ever had a fiction stolen?

Not so much stolen, as I've seen parts of my own personal fanon lore being used in other fics sometimes. Which I find endearing. Me and @otahkoapisiakii have so many Jemily HCs that we often share the same background details in our fics and then, sometimes, readers see these things and mistakenly think they're canon.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yep! I've had a few fics translated into other languages. I think one was translated to Polish and another to Mandarin. Also, I think there's one in German somewhere too.

I LOVE when people ask to translate my works! It's such an honour.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

TONS. I think me and @otahkoapisiakii (Phoenix_falls on AO3) have about 6 or 7 we wrote together.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

That's an impossible question. My longest loved OTP will always be MSR. My most written OTP is JJ/Emily. My current favourite ships are JJ/Tara & Tara/Rebecca.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

When I retired from writing in 2015, I left behind a WIP (To Catch an Unsub). When I came back last year, I vowed to try and finish it. I re-wrote a lot of what had already been posted and managed a new chapter even -- but after nearly eight years, my writing style now is far different than when I started out in 2015. So I tied up the cliff-hanger and marked it as complete, because I know my heart isn't in it to continue that one.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I have a really good understanding of the characters, I know what makes them tick, their motives, their insecurities and I think that makes them feel more authentic in my works.

I'm also a very fast writer. Both physically (my typing speed is absurd), but also just being able to bang out 10k in a day when I have an idea.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

NUMBERS AND SELF-IMPOSED RULES! I used to have this thing (I still struggle with it, but less so now) where I'd be like 'Every one-shot or chapter can't be more than 4k words'. Or if it's a multi-chap fic it has to be at least x amount of words minimum.

When I started writing completely for myself, those rules stopped holding me back. Now, I write until I'm done writing. Thus why Fooled Around (and Fell in Love) - Part 3 is going to be around 200k long when it's done.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

If I use another language, it's usually French because I at least speak a bit of it and don't have to use Google translate or other horrible tools that butcher nuance.

I have a Spanish speaking character in Part 3 and that made me really have to dig out my limited Spanish speaking skills for her scenes. Which are probably grating to fluent speakers (apologies!)

I think the best thing you can do if you want to use a language you don't speak is to talk to people who do speak it. It helps make the dialogue more genuine.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Bones! During the WGA 2007 strike, I decided to fill the gap of TV hiatus with my own story. I wrote 'She Was My First' (Angela/Brennan) and posted it to LiveJournal (where I was in tons of Bones groups).

Since then, I ported it to AO3 around 2014. And now, it's the most read Angela/Brennan fic on there.

Fun Fact: Someone randomly leaving a comment on this fic last year was the reason I came back to writing!!

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

I get this question a lot and I think my answer always changes because I love different fics for different reasons. So here are some of my top ones:

Fic I Love Everything About: Fooled Around (and Fell in Love) (Series)

Fics I Consider to be My Most Important: Head Full of Doubt & Journey Through the Silent Chasm (Series)

Fic I'm Most Proud of Writing: i can't be wrong (to be craving you)

My Comfort Fic (the one I re-read the most): Between You & Me

TAG YOU'RE IT: (no pressure!) @storiesofsvu || @gaelic-symphony || @ellegreenawayslover || @tedwinisconfused || @jenny-from-the-bau || @unitchiefs-blackbirdphoenix

[generalfoxy21]

I have an interesting headcanon in regards to Mr. Dark. He’s always been considered an anomaly in some ways. He has a weird limbless body like Rayman yet there’s no account from anyone who made other thingamajigs.

Yet he has the ability to create a perfect replica of Rayman by the name of Raymesis which is odd among the Nymphs as the only ones to have that knowledge should be them.

It is very true my dear anon, truly Mr Dark is one of the most mysterious and unknown villains in Rayman, we really do not know anything about him, or his origins unlike other villains in the saga…….

As for Mr Dark within the Rayman universe, he must really also be a very unknown creature, he is a dark entity who for some reason seeks to riot and cause chaos by stealing the great proton for unknown purposes…..which for some reason managed to create a thingamajig with magic and dark energy, to be the evil copy of Rayman, I think that for Rayman's own world, much is really unknown about him and how he managed, for example, to create a thingamajig, or know where the big proton was.

I say that because in Rayman 3 it is understood that not everyone knows where the Great Proton is, nor how he managed to defeat Betilla, it is most likely that maybe he had some connection with the nymphs, maybe he was once a magician who swore to take care of the great proton or there will be something else there, so that he knows those things……well, we will never know at the end of the day……

I would always have liked to know a little more about the character, but hey, at least the fandom is here to propose interesting ideas about his origins and what he is…..

[goldeneyedgirl]

this is probably a dumb question but: how do you think the saga would have gone had victoria turned mike instead of riley? what do you think would have happened if it was revealed that bree or fred was/were related to jessica or something like that?

(or if angela really did turn out to be a witch?)

and also, how would you go about involving the humans of forks into all the supernatural stuff if you could rewrite the saga / have free rein?

and also also (i'm done now, i promise, this ask is all over the place, i am so sorry): tara x jacob? i ship it. please tell me more :-D

Ooof, Anon, great questions. Settle in, I've never been known for short answers.

mike.

So if Mike were changed instead of Riley, that's someone that Bella knows and theoretically cares about. That's a disappearance that affects her entire community - Bella works for Mike's family, she spends time with him, her other friends have known Mike for years. I can see Bella being concerned, but not overall worried or invested in Mike's fate too much. Bella comes across as very self-centered and I think that only Jessica or Angela could inspire her to really worry in this scenario. I can see some jokes being made about Edward not worrying about Mike anymore, and having that look very dark during the reveal.

I also think that Victoria would keep Mike a secret, and not let him roam as much as Riley, to have the maximum impact. Victoria got so close to Bella, she killed one of Bella's friends as part of her army. That's extremely scary and messed up.

There's a huge emotional arc of Mike disappearing without a trace, and then Bella coming face to face with him in the battle. And Mike is so confused - he's believed the whole time that he's saving Bella (because Victoria would use Mike's affection for Bella to her benefit) from the terrible, dangerous Cullens, and that he's met his soulmate in Victoria. That Victoria is really a good person who is looking out for Bella and only changed Mike because she loved him at first sight.

I like to think that Mike would have his moment, and turn on Victoria - maybe even help Edward and Jacob destroy Victoria. A nice little framing of the three boys who loved her protecting her. And Mike backing the fuck up away from Bella because he knows he's going to want to eat her if he gets too close.

As much as I think it would be cute and fun if Mike and Bree were allowed to live, and go off together as nomads with kind of a sibling dynamic (and great potential for their return in Breaking Dawn as witnesses; Mike has the advantage of testifying that no one suspects the Cullens of being anything except too rich and fucking weird), I think Jane would have executed both of them, and that Bella and Edward's choices would finally have a human price and a face to them - especially if Mike realized he was on death row and tells Bella to make sure his mom knows that he loved her.

I don't believe that Bella was written to reflect on this kind of thing much, but I do like the idea of Mike's death weighing on her and making her question everything that has happened since she moved to Forks, and Eclipse ending with Bella 'needing to think' rather than accepting Edward's proposal. She's the reason that Mike never graduated high school, why his family will never stop looking for him, why he never got to go to college or get married or have any of the things that Bella can still have.

And then you lead into Breaking Dawn with Bella finally accepting the proposal but asking to put off her change until after college (obviously Renesmee ruins that plan, but the sentiment is enough.) I would also hope that Bella chooses a boy's name of Edward Michael, to honour her friend.

It would be amazing fun, though, to have Mike and Bree return in Breaking Dawn to help Bella, considering each other family, and Mike meets Tanya and is just in awe of this gorgeous woman who actually seems interested in him? It might not be forever, but Mike kind of gets to make lemonade out of the lemons of Victoria changing him. Plus after all his time as a punchline, Mike actually makes friends with the Cullens? He and Emmett are both super enthusiastic about Cullen baseball and video games, he's stunned by how much Rose knows about cars, he gets to part ways with Edward as friends. Feels more fun, but it does lose a lot of the lessons his execution would have for Bella.

bree & fred.

To be frank, I don't think Bella would have cared if Bree or Fred were related to Jessica. I think she would have noticed Jessica's worried and unhappiness, and *maybe* made the connection when faced with them on the battlefield, but she wouldn't have been emotionally invested in them as people. Their execution would be sad, but I don't think it would fundamentally change Bella or her story.

angela.

I've never played with this headcanon much, but I am intrigued. I think that if Angela were a witch, it would be hinted at from Twilight - maybe James' hunt with Bella broke some kind of protective circle she and her family established around Forks. One that the Cullens didn't break because they genuinely mean no harm to the people, and because Carlisle arrived with the intentions of healing and helping.

I feel like Angela's relationship with the Pack could go either way - as an ally who provides healing and protection, as well insight, or as an enemy, someone tapping into powers and knowledge they have no business accessing.

She would definitely have some kind of rune to make sure that Edward doesn't hear anything she doesn't want heard. I think it would be SUPER fun if it were Angela who rocked up to the Cullens house to let them know there was an army being formed, and they needed to do something. Maybe spilling the beans that she's done a good amount of research and worked out exactly who Carlisle, Rose, Jasper, and Edward were, but she's never been able to pinpoint which era Esme, Alice, and Emmett were from, just to really stop the Cullens in their tracks.

During the Eclipse battle, Angela would be with Bella the entire time, creating any kind of protective circle and warding charms she could manage, and be zero-tolerance with Edward and Jacob's competitive nonsense - "Bella's a person, not an object to be fought over." She'd be sent back to the Res after the battle so that she didn't run into the Volturi.

Angela wouldn't end up imprinting on the Pack or anything; she'd go to college, maybe coming back for Breaking Dawn's confrontation during Winter Break (though she would definitely be facetiming during Bella's pregnancy with ideas, tips, and generally trying to convince Bella that the risk was insane and there was only so much that could be done). I think in that scenario, Angela would be the one entrusted with Renesmee, and that Jacob would be responsible for getting both of them away from the battle. Angela becomes a friend and ally to the whole family, and gets to live out her life with a foot in each world because she deserves good things.

humans in twilight.

If I had free reign over Twilight, Bella and Edward would be the B-plot, and Alice would be the protagonist learning about where she came from, and realising Aro wants her as a weapon. Or just a super self-indulgent human Alice/vampire Jasper moment. Or just ret-con a lot of it.

But I digress.

To integrate the classmates into Twilight more, I would let the Cullens have friends. No necessarily bffs, but maybe the Cullens sit at the same lunch table as Jessica and co, maybe Alice joins them sometimes and other times Edward summons her back to the family. Or maybe Rosalie is part of a study group for STEM, or Emmett had a part-time job down at Newtons (a GREAT opportunity for him and Bella to interact in the later books - I maintain that Emmett deserved a much larger role, and that New Moon needs a total overhaul to balance out Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. But that's a full TED talk on its own.)

Just something to integrate them more with their classmates. "The Cullens are kind of weird, but they're okay - Jasper Hale can fix any electronic, it's freaky, but he makes you pay. If you need any tutoring in the sciences, Rosalie Hale is terrifying but so good at it. Alice Cullen is so cute, every year she does the school musical's costumes by herself, and she teaches kiddie ballet classes at the rec center on Saturdays." Give these people some hobbies, some way of still being apart of human life beyond freakin' high school. Give them a reason for them to be accepted on the fringes of their classmates lives.

Have Bella be a little more pleasantly surprised how easily these people accept and want to make friends with her - maybe Tara's dad used to go fishing with Charlie, and she remembers playing with Tara when she was a kid. Maybe DJ Garret's older sister baby-sat Bella once or twice. Maybe Rachel and Rebecca Black text Bella welcoming her back to 'hell' and Bella spends four books trying to conceal what's going on because she doesn't think Rachel or Rebecca know anything.

Then start using them - specifically Jessica. She's a good foil to Bella because she's so outgoing, and Jessica is so fundamentally human that she can represent all the things that Bella is willing to give up. No gift, no trauma, just an ordinary girl in high school from a content family.

It's not Renee that James pretends to kidnap, he grabs Jessica when she shows up at the Swans to study with Bella; It's not Bella that's bitten, it's Jessica. Bella has to witness all this, and the Cullens are more invested because Jessica is fundamentally a nice person to them. Bella sees the horror of vampirism, but Jessica is convinced she just had a head injury.

Then New Moon happens and Emmett attacks Bella instead of Jasper and the Cullens leave. They let themselves get too close in Forks, it's become too much. They got too attached, and this is what happened. Maybe it's not realistic to live like humans anymore. Maybe they have to isolate themselves because of what they are. Make this a family choice, make everyone be leaving something behind - Carlisle, his work; Esme's social circle and maybe a business; friends, jobs, hobbies, just little human things they really wanted but can no longer justify.

Bella's depressed, but Jessica is getting more memories back, and her hand feels kind of weird and that scar looks like a human bite mark? The story isn't fitting together right. Why didn't anyone call the police over James? Why is Bella so depressed?

Jessica has a strong personality, and she definitely isn't going to let all this go... which results in her tracking Bella down at the Res to get some answers just in time to see Jacob transform. And OF COURSE Jessica tells her friends, who don't believe her until Jessica goes digging JUST in time to confront Bella with a full binder of evidence including the fact the Cullens owned the property back in the 1920s and Hoquaim Hospital happened to have a Doctor Carlisle Cullen working for them.

"I saw a guy turn into a giant wolf, Bella, nothing is off the table. Did you know a Rosalie Hale disappeared in New York State during the 1930s? She just vanished, and then her fiance was murdered in a locked room. The photos are blurry but I have copies."

By the time we get to Eclipse, Bella's trying SO HARD to protect her human friends from the Volturi by keeping them away from where Edward might hear their thoughts. Meeting Aro terrified and traumatized her; she's having nightmares. But Jessica has her friends convinced. She has Angela and Eric helping her comb records to find out where the other Cullens came from. It's pretty futile, since she only has two surnames to work from, but she does find a marriage certificate for an Esme Platt to a Carlisle Cullen from the 60s that she's certain is useful.

Eventually, Jessica decides she wants the full story. What do the Cullens want? What happened to her when that guy abducted her? So she gets her friends and goes to the Cullens for a confrontation. And Alice insists they tell them everything because that's how it has to go. There's no way around telling the truth now.

I'd mess with the timeline a lot to so that Bella has more time to develop her relationship with Edward, and so that the actual battle in Eclipse is the night of graduation - Alice's 'party' is just a cover. And Jessica and co want to help; the wolves and Cullens might be fighting and dismembering the newborns, but Mike has a whole camping store of weapons, there's a good likelihood of some of them having shooting skills, get them in the mix - first aid for wounded wolves, starting the pyres, holding some kind of line to warn the Cullens if any get past a certain point towards town. And then someone gets hurt - maybe Eric or Ben get attacked, maybe Nicole gets hurt bad enough she ends up paralyzed. Raise the stakes some more.

Then Breaking Dawn. Jessica hears that Bella is recovering from near-death after the wedding, and she and Angela go to visit Bella pregnant, wasting away. Jessica just rolls her eyes and is like "you really are gunning for Queen of Fucking Terrible Decisions, Swan. Move over, lets watch a movie." Jessica and Angela - maybe even Tara and Nicole - immediately start coming over to hang out with Bella, and help with the research into hybrids. I really find it bizarre that dhampir legends never came up in canon because vampire hybrids are based in actual mythology.

Then they all leave for college. Jessica definitely texts Bella 'Renesmee? What are you, Mormon?' when Ness is born, but it's friendly ribbing. The Cullens defend the presence of the humans to the Volturi by offering them this choice: either you have a dozen kids protecting their home, helping uphold the secrecy laws, and knowing that walking around at night is fucking dangerous in a new way, or you have an entire town slaughtered by newborns in the age of Facebook. Alice's visions of no one spilling the beans helps, but it solidifies to Aro that Carlisle cannot be trusted, that his compassion is also his biggest flaw. That if anyone should die for these humans, it should be the Cullens.

And then the last scene is spring break; Cullens vs the Pack baseball match, and the humans are back to watch and heckle. And Bella gets this one moment that if she has to leave it all behind, she's glad these are the memories and the people she gets to carry with her. The Cullens know that things have to change, that they cannot integrate themselves like this again, so that Forks will always be special to them. The end of an era.

Fade to black.

tara/jacob.

I think most of the rest of that verse is really from Alice's POV, so you don't get much from seeing Tara interacting with Jacob, but you get a lot of Tara having the biggest crush and freaking out that she's made a fool of herself in front of him. A lot of joking, a lot of girl-talk, a lot of "Bella. Look at me. Tell Jacob you are not interested and give him my number, you are a terrible wing-man. I will make a very convincing argument."

I do know that once Tara gets her guy, she gets to spend more time around at the Cullens asking all the questions she can think of (at least half of them are inappropriate), and she and Rose... they aren't friends, but they get along. Jacob is definitely frustrated that Tara likes the Cullens, and wishes she'd 'stay safe'. At that point, though, Alice has friends like a Real Girl (the document is actually called nofriendsforalice.pages) and Tara is laughing at Jacob, that he thinks manicures and pop music and gossip is dangerous.

The reveal is pretty fun, and the whole fic is really about female friendships and autonomy, and Jacob getting a girlfriend that isn't mystically ordained and just likes him for being him.

[character-profiles]

"Hello, I'm Mini! Welcome to the Mini-game Lobby. Is there anything I can do for you?"

Name: @mini-games

Preferred name: Mini

Gender: Cisgender Female

Pronouns: She/They (Preferred she/her)

Class: Exclam

Profession: Minigames NPC

Alignment: Neutral Good

History:

After having been trapped in the game through a means that is not quite death, Mini has lost all the memories of her past life and is struggling to gain them back. A task that is nigh impossible, since their memory files are being deleted and are also inaccessible. The deletion has since been remedied, thanks to CMD-Semicolon stopping the system's processes from deleting all of them. Some of the early events in which she played a larger part were the Sun Saga, the Interrobang War, the Gnome Armada, and the Creation of Statalus. In the Sun Saga, Mini had been the one to accidentally cause the sun to be extinguished by proposing that Nefarious shrink the sun to the size of an ant and shoot it with a water gun. After the sun died and Mini revealed themself, Mini had been attacked by the Ice People and had turned into one in the process. She was thawed out by Nefarious using an overpriced thawing machine he got from Status. Nefarious also gave Mini one of his cloaks, which she still wears to this day. In the Interrobang War, Tumblr user genderqueerjello, now known as Terro, made a comment on how the interrobang punctuation is cool and should be used more often. Status, however, did not like that and brought the rest of us into the drama. Mini fought for the side of interrobangs. The war ended when someone on the interrobang side drew Status some cool fanart, making him concede. The Gnome Armada came around because of the sun being extinguished and the return of the ice people. They were going to kill Nefarious and imprison Mini. They signed a peace treaty entailing the surveillance of Nefarious, and the research to cure Mini's remaining ice infection. And finally, the Creation of Statalus. Mini was one of the first people to confront Statalus once he gained his power. Shortly after, Terro angered Statalus leading to him being banned, essentially killing him. Terro's death had greatly saddened Mini. After which she didn't even want to try to reason with Statalus. She participated in both of the spells that injured Statalus, buying time for Prof to find the Command Console. Shortly after the second encantation, Prof managed to open up the dev's command console to the others, allowing Mini to bring back Terro using the example prompt given. Others who were banned were brought back after Statalus' death

Observations:

Mini is a very kind-hearted exclam, wishing to do whatever is good for the people around her, rarely putting herself first. She strives to be the best she can at all times, even when she's just shoving down her own feelings. However, if things are going in a way that she views as evil, with the exception of Nefarious, she may break any necessary laws in order to be back within her morals.

Miscellaneous Info:

Mini often feels left out, seeing as she doesn't have any special or cool power like most of her friends. They're an average guy(gender neutral). Also, she LOVES different types of insects, bugs, and arachnids. She thinks they're cute.

[Reference under the cut]

(An anon has given her a crown with a honeycomb-shaped gem in the middle, and unfortunately has no art yet.)

[where-theres-smoak-2]

Mal Oretsev from the Grisha trilogy, Tom Locke from the Forbidden game trilogy, and Raoul de Chagny from the Phantom of the Opera, or bland childhood loves / friends, mutually agree to take the heroine's heart instead of the morally complex antagonistic character that everyone loves, and also in love with the heroine.

I also like how the Darkling always calls Mal "the tracker" as if it were an insult, and that Julian on his side says Tom's name as if it were a big fat word...

We can understand them, they must have the nerves !

Literally, those they love prefer the boy who has as much "charisma as the entrails of a crushed dog"...

Thanks to Aaron Warner from the Saga Shatter Me, for this perfectly adequate quote, said to the bland guy, and which he, contrary to our right buddies above, managed to get the girl against the bland guy / childhood love.

(I'm the anon who proposed Forbidden Game the last time)

There does seem to be a trend with making the childhood friend a rather bland character and the heroine ending up with them, which it becomes increasingly more difficult to understand why she would choose them. See I am not against the childhood friends to lovers troupe when the friend to the heroine is interesting, and I also don't feel like a character has to necessarily be morally grey to be an interesting character, there are some characters that can be really interesting and still be a 'good guy' character, take Peeta Mellark for example I thought he was a really interesting character, he definitely wasn't bland, but he was also that 'good guy' stereotype. The problem is more and more we are seeing these scenarios where you've got the heroine stuck between a really interesting morally grey love interest on one side and then a plank of wood on the other, like if authors want people to invest in the 'good guy' love interest then they need put more effort into making those characters dynamic and interesting, the nice guy can have charisma and charm too that isn't reserved just for the villains. In my humble opinion.

[bloomingbutterflies]

°water anon thinks of your proposal, popping it's head out from under the water and staring at you°

Waaaatterrrrrr...

°water anon seems to have agreed to your proposal.°

oh thank god..

CEASE THEIR TOMFOOLERY

MY BLOG IS BECOMING NOTHING BUT SOIL ANON SAGA AT THIS POINT..

[tesl8n]

There used to be an Off Topic section of a forum that I used to post on, back before forums were killed by the modern internet. And one of the other posters on there was this straight poly guy, who posted a bunch of pickup artist stuff, and every year or so we would get into arguments about it.

There was one particular argument that stands out to me. One of the other posters was talking about how he had been on a couple dates with a girl, and she had said she wasn't yet ready for sex with him. The poster wasn't particularly worried about it, he was just kind of updating as the dates had been an ongoing saga.

PUA guy chimed in like "If a girl says that, then she's leading you on. She just wants attention. A girl who will eventually have sex will do so right away, or at least be constantly moving towards it." And I was like "Why would you project that onto her statement, why wouldn't you just take it at face value? She didn't say never, she said she wasn't ready yet. People move at different paces. I would feel really uncomfortable if someone took my words in the worst possible faith like that."

And it turned into like a 5 page flame fest, where every woman and queer man was like "hey, yeah, PUA guy. That was kinda weird." And every cishet man was like "well, PUA guy is usually right... he's had lots of sex...."

These situations aren't the same, I know, and I've kinda poisoned the well a little bit by associating the YTA voters with a misogynist. Anon is in fact proposing some level of leading someone on. They are suggesting that they'll lie about their feelings in a "fake it 'til you make it" kinda way. But... it doesn't feel fully like they're leading the other person on. Anon really does seem to want to have romantic feelings, to eventually be able to make it.

I don't know. Maybe I'm connecting dots that do not have an association. But, I'm genuinely a little concerned that we're seeing a bit of aphobia. And, like I said, I'm genuinely just not sure I understand what's wrong in this scenario, since it doesn't make sense to me that it's reasonable to expect your partner to immediately return your feelings exactly in kind in all areas. Why is it so different when it's an ace person doing it?

Okay, but like. For real. Surely people enter into relationships with different expectations and goals? Like, the whole thing about the first date is figuring out mutually what those expectations are, and whether they are compatable. And, apparently people disagree, but "I don't feel the same spark, but I like you and am willing to keep hanging out and see how my feelings develop" seems like an entirely uncontroversial position to take?

Plus, like, it cannot be that everyone enters into relationships already knowing exactly what they want out of it, and knowing those things will never change. That's an insane thing to propose. "I don't know if I want kids, but if my partner did I would be more interested" is a thing that no one takes as strange (FOR SOME UNFATHOMABLE REASON WHY ARE YOU HAVING KIDS IF YOU DON'T REALLY WANT THEM), but why is "I don't know if I want to have sex with you, but let's keep hanging and out and maybe I will at some point" a bad one? Like, take that at face value, not as a sneaky way to lead people on (a statement I hate, btw)

So like. "You have to disclose being ace/aro to a partner" as a rule seems like it ignores those two things? Like, yeah, talk about where you are and what you want as you know it, but if you're in a relationship specifically to try and figure out what you want and if you can enjoy being in a relationship, then you might not yet know where you are and what you want, so you might not be able to communicate it. But that doesn't make you a bad person in a relationship, right??

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

I am not the asshole, and I think this whole thing is stupid, but I was promised that if I sent my side of things to this blog I could pick the hotel for our honeymoon, and I am marrying a man who once tried to take me BACKPACKING of all things, so this ask has become a necessity. In light of that:

AITA (I'm NOT) for planning the seating for our wedding in a logical way?

I got engaged in June, apparently in part because of my partner writing in to this blog (I don't know how to find or link to his posts, but I'm the man who got the cat to bite him, if that rings any bells?). At any rate, for the past ten weeks, I've been in the beginning stages of planning our wedding with my fiance, whom I have been secretly attempting to remove from the planning process as much as possible. I have ALREADY been given a list of his must-haves, and I AM incorporating as many of them as our budget allows. This has NOTHING to do with the emotional side of the event, and EVERYTHING to do with the fact that this is an idiot with no real planning experience or taste who thinks he knows more than me.

For the most part, this has worked very well. I'm the one who's been collating all the contact information for things, so I just replaced all the emails for the tacky companies with false addresses, responded to his inquiries as the companies to say the date was already booked or the price was outside our budget, and let him filter his way to the ones I DO like on his own. I also made a fuss about being "willing to compromise" on the few things he's picked I'm completely fine with in the hopes I can use it to make him compromise later, and have been humming portions of the songs I want on the playlist in the hopes he'll think he came up with the idea to include them himself.

None of this is the real problem. The PROBLEM is that he is deliberately ruining my seating chart, by moving our horrible friend's seat when I'm not looking.

The man in question dated both of us at one point in our VERY early 20s (both ended BADLY), is generally the messiest person we know, and will almost certainly get sloppy drunk and try to make a speech IF he does make an appearance. I'm banking on the fact that he won't, because he's also ridiculously wealthy, and will almost certainly send us some very lavish gift in lieu of coming.

He is SUPPOSED to be sitting beside my fiances aunt, at the same table as his grandmother, his work friend, and her girlfriend, because all four of these women are stone cold terrors who I believe are more than capable of keeping him in line on the slim chance he does come. My fiance INSISTS they won't be able to have any fun if they're running interference all night, and keeps moving him to sit at the head table instead. You know, where WE are. I finally caught him switching the label magnets on my planning board last night, and confronted him.

I tried leveraging how much I've been compromising already, that he's almost certainly going to RSVP no, and that I shouldn't have to deal with him on our big night. My fiance said he knew about all the fake emailing and such, and told me, and I QUOTE: "Look, the mind game shit was hot when it was just about the colour scheme or whatever, but I actually care about this. So you can suffer with everybody else, or you can do the normal thing and not invite a guy you hate to our wedding, you weirdo."

I said that if I did that, it would take out half his groomsmen, he called me an asshole and said I should go explain this to "literally any rational adult" so they could tell me I was in the wrong, and now here we are.

Would you recommend calling my fiance's bluff, since he doesn't want the man sitting near us either? Or should I focus on ensuring he'll turn down the invitation no matter what, so the matter of where he WON'T be sitting can be a moot point?

What are these acronyms?

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[navigationsubs]

Hey real quick translation question so ik different characters in Japanese media will use different pronouns for characterization purposes I was wondering what pronouns in the mario super star game the characters use specifically prince peasley

Hi Anon!

That's a wonderful question- I will get back to it as soon as I can! I love looking into that sort of thing so I'm curious myself but I'm also a full time student with a full time job so I'll start looking into it once I get an opportunity.

(If I don't get back to you in like 2 weeks do you mind messaging me again? I don't want to forget about your request because it's very good and I want to find the answer, too.)

Thank you so much!

[mmmleckerlecker]

Lecker, you will make me the happiest prey alive if you marry me. ✨💍💖🥺🙏🏼

I confess, I cannot reach high shelves, but you can throw me at them and I can reach them from the air. I can also steal 200 goats for you, (all ethically sourced too).

A prey huh? Intriguing. Guess you’re not making it through that Praeduella, huh?

However the rest of this is quite enticing. Is you being unable to reach high shelves an inconvenience to me? Of course, but I’ve been surviving like this my whole life. Now THROWING you at the shelves sounds FAR MORE entertaining however. Also damn, a whole (ethically sourced) goat army?? Climbing up my trees and walls… I love goats. This is all very tempting…. Idk y’all 👀👀

[askhubertvonvestra]

Man Do yourself a favour and watch your S support because who in the world would propose without a Ring Except The Hubert von Vestra of course!I mean you're really cute when you're flustrated with shaky airy voice hupie who forgot his proposal speech as soon as he saw his SO aw did you really expect you'd be rejected you beautiful handsome mad man?Learn from your Alter Selves and make our Golden Knight Happy I'm sure you both would make a A Fine Pair of Husbands 😉❤️- gently pat him on the back-

My— what? If I was to make such an offer, I assure you that I would be prepared for what it entailed. The potential for rejection is simply a precaution, and it’s common knowledge that wartime makes luxuries such as jewelry more difficult to acquire. The right moment is more important than any speech or ring.

...Regardless, your support of our relationship is appreciated.

[sunshineistyping]

The Dandy Saga/Various Headcannons

Did I link these for my own enjoyment and extra insight into my Human Sun Stories? Yes. Am I going to keep updating it with any new questions I get about the Dandy Saga/Human!Sun or Moon storyline? Also yes.

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The Great Dandy Saga

First Thoughts

The Beggining

I raise you one more

So many names for one single Sunny man

Moon, You can’t escape the Dandy Saga.

Moonie Is SOFT

Moon and Gregory Interacting

Pretty last name perhaps?

Soft Moon Content

Gregory says no to feelings

Copying the Space Man

They’re 100% multilingual

Gregory hates feelings 🤢

Sun’s Tattoo

Sun’s S/O Doodles In Game Sun

Suns Outfit but add Spice

Hugging Human!Moon and Human!Sun

Sun is a very stressed man

Snickerdoodle The Snake

Mythology Lover Sun

Don’t Cry my Dandelion

FEEDING MY CHILDREN MOON CONTENT

Sun + Spicy Joke

FOR THE CULTURE

Moon + Stripper = Stripper AU

Moon rock

DIVORCE.

Daddy

Lectures out of love

Moons Tattoos

Human Moons Voice

Defense Mode (Normal Au)

Simps

Paddles and Whips

Other Shit I post

Roxannes Problems with Head Pats

You have other accounts 😦

Monster Fucker Content?????

You CHECKED?

Roxy Chooses You

Cute Monty content ft. ROXY

Night Guard is Tired and A Teen lol

How the Glamrocks know each other

Soft Gator Boy

Monty Thirst

M-Marriage?

Roxy’s Tattoos

Teen Vanessa is Tired ft. G. Freddy

Writer is soft for her followers

Where everyone works

My writing process

Favorite character to write for???

Would it freak them out? Idk actually

New phone, who dis? Ft. Material Gworl!

Just Canon tinGz

Gregory, who is your father?

How is everyone connected?

🐱 anon, you are so nice, thank you

☕️ anon, my beloved Lol

/Plat is a given!

I LOVE this Family your honor

IDK but they’re mixed

Monty do you like cats or dogs?

My Pronouns!

Security Breach Gang play DND

Writing tips

Freddy has a Mustache?

Their Music Tastes

Can they dance?

Chica Would Propose First

DJ MM

DJ MM’s Puppy + Connections to the gang

DJ MM is a bit of a bully

Ice Ice Baby

Random Moon and DJ MM HC’s

DJ MM VOICE CLAAAAIM

DJ SIMPS COME GET Y’ALL JUICE

DJ MM Spice

ROYAL AU

S/O Proposes to The Gang

S/O proposes to DJ MM

Dangerous S/O

S/O proposes to Burntrap

Weed Smokin

Burntrap HC’s

More Burntrap

Glamrock Bonnie

You Lied to Me but make it mean

You Lied to Me but make it Mean 2

The Gulls

Lord Farquaad

SHUT

Size kink with DJ MM

Monty + Heated Makeout

Mini/Random Fics

MUSIC MAN: Eyes

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