#the succession of us

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Short Story: The Big Chop

Summary:

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

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

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

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

read it now on Ao3!

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

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[ellas-purnell]

SUCCESSION 2.04 | Safe Room

[stil-lindigo]

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[mdawgswizzleinthehizzle]

I LOVE THEM. i need more pedro and kieran.

[jctko]

we used to have shiv roy

[ofswordsandpens]

I fear that "fire bending didn't come easy to zuko" and "zuko isn't a prodigy" (both true) has somehow snowballed into "zuko is a bad or at best average fire bender".... which simply isn't true, especially by the end of book 3

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

A lot of you underestimate how prevalent British bias is not only in F1 but across sports generally, and even in other industries.

Max saying he has the wrong passport in the paddock is an accurate statement. Do you think he, Seb, or Michael would've been half as vilified by the British media if they had a British passport instead? Would Fernando? Do you think Yuki would get half as much shit about his radio "conduct" if he was British? Because it's the British commentators who consistently have issues with it, and say shit like it's "unbecoming" for a driver to speak that way, ignoring that 1 it's not his first language and 2 IT WAS ENGLISH PEOPLE HE LEARNT THAT LANGUAGE FROM. Sometimes people misspeak, but Yuki has always taken accountability and apologised if he has and if he caused harm. Martin Brundle did not get nearly as much backlash from the media when he misspoke and called an Asian driver a slur while commentating. He also never apologised for it.

Alex, one of the four Brits on the grid but who drives under the Thai flag, has said that the commentators only call him British born when he does well. He was completely excluded from the Silverstone publicity about the home crowd heroes, whereas George, Lewis & Lando were heralded, not only on race weekend, but for weeks leading up to it.

Alex's statement also reminded me of this Richard Harris quote, "When I'm in trouble, I'm an Irishman. When I turn in a good performance, I'm an Englishman." Genuinely, if I took a shot every time a British organisation/person claimed a talented Irish person was actually a Brit, I'd have died from alcohol poisoning years ago.

Hell, I see George wearing the poppy pin this weekend in the lead up to remembrance Sunday. Do you know the amount of shit James McClean gets every year because he refuses to wear one? And he has very valid reasons for choosing not to wear it, yet he's torn to shreds every year by not only random people on the Internet or on the streets but by commentators and the media too.

Because of how this sport became mainstream and because no one challenged Bernie Eccleston's monopoly on broadcasting rights back in the day (people were given the opportunity to buy a share of the broadcasting rights; the idiots said no), this sport has prioritised the British voice/perspective for decades. I know the other broadcasts are just as biased for their home team/drivers, but the British one is the biggest one, as it's the main broadcast for better and more often for the worst. It's the broadcast with the most reach and influence. Their bias has to be challenged eventually if this sport ever hopes to properly expand and grow. The British bias is so difficult to miss once you start noticing it.

[shivblogger]

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WIP Excerpt

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

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

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

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

[ultravioletness]

gay knights and dames collages part two

[hajihiko]

[vaperarmand]

does any body remember when kendall roy said maybe the poison drips through. that was so crazy man. lines seemingly written for the community of web weaving posters on tumblr dot com yet done completely genuinely. like a dialogue wet dream. maybe the poison drips through……………

[strawberryicedcookies]

why are you still ‘trying’ to manifest in 2024 ??

um guys when the flip are you going to realize that its done. you already have it, you manifested your desire the second you decided it was yours 🌚. whatever is in your mind is the REAL reality, the 3D is based off of it. Whatever you posses in the real reality, will be forced to come about in the copy 🤷🏿‍♀️. You know the saying “every choice you made in your life lead you to where your at” or the ‘butterfly effect’?? think of it like that, you have decided that your desire is yours. you no longer desire it because you possess it. Now that you’ve made that decision, EVERY choice you make is bringing you closer to it.

manifestation is not a process, it was never a process. The law of assumption states that whatever you assume is true. it is a LAW. You assume that your sexy? BOOM just like that your sexy. Baby this aint nothing complicated, you assume and you keep it pushing. Thats why they say live like the person you want to become, and you’ll become them. If you assume your who you want to be and you live like it, the 3D has no choice but to obey that 🤷🏿‍♀️.

see guys loa!! we dont try to manifest. We just manifest 😛😛

LOVE YOU BABY STAY SAFE AND STAY SOFT

[giddlygoat]

i’ve seen people draw guck with a scar on his temple from the memory gun. i wanted to adopt that hc asap

[itsmetheabnormalone]

Rewatching Desolation of Smaug and had almost forgotten about Thorin being absolutely unhinged and bullying Smaug into firing up their forge WITHOUT WARNING HIS COMPANY

[the-witchhunter]

DP x DC worlds greatest detectives ramble

You ever just get a bit tired of the batfamily being dumb?

Sure I appreciate a good “Danny is weird and the Bats try to figure out his deal and draw wrong conclusions based on incomplete evidence” fic as much as the next guy, and I’m definitely not saying not to write them

But the thing is, they’re all really smart. It’s their whole thing, they’re a family of detectives that dress up in colorful costumes and fight crime, but detectives nonetheless

And I get it’s for humorous effect to have otherwise intelligent people be incredibly dumb about one thing, but it’d just be nice to see them be smart sometimes. Even in a fic where they’re drawing the wrong conclusions, it’d be nice to see them use their detective skills

Like build a case so solid Danny questions whether they’re actually right about him and if he’s just confused

Or just apply it to more conventional situations/crimes

Because frankly it’s funnier if you show they’re smart before having them do something really stupid

If you build them up a bit, then it’s funnier when they fall down.

“Where did he go? It’s like he vanished into thin air!?”

“Don’t be silly, see these scuff marks? Someone recently went down this way. The gravel here has been disturbed indicating this manhole cover has been moved recently. Now if we just prop this up…”

“…huh, is that…?”

“Killer Croc and not the twink we were just tracking?”

“Yeah, that”

“Yeah, that’s killer croc… hi Waylon”

*large scaly hand darts out and drags Bat in question down in the sewers while Danny watches invisibly*