#there thaz works

[nordlichtgeschichten]

I feel I should get chattier on here and my brain is circling a story idea I've had a while ago, not sure if I ever mentioned it.

Basic idea of it is to have two stories that are semi-connected despite being a few centuries apart - One of a viking lady who's setting out on her very last voyage, and one of a young pirate who's at the very start of their adventures

Basically a general theme of ends and beginnings.

(Spoilers for the story:

The two characters never meet, but every now and then something - objects, later on places - from the Viking's story will pop up in the Pirate's story, until it becomes clear that the Viking not only ended up in the place the Pirate starts, but is in fact their ancestor)

Idk if I'll be able to pull this off in a way that's fun to read but I sure can try!!

[starpros-sunshine]

This one specifically I can never get over just. The atmosphere is so. It's the tenderness of it all. The way Eichi holds him the way Wataru is fully trusting Eichi to not lose him and keep him steady the way Eichi Looks at him the way they are fully in their own little world right now the way they are just having fun before the big show just. The tenderness and strangely intimate warmness of it all gets to me.

[her-canine-teeth]

THE QUEEN IS COMING OUT!

[allmyandroids]

thinking about him 💕

[keeps-ache]

i have been BETRAYED. i've been thrown to the grappling arms of damnation and i've found that the exit was merely a dim recollection of another place !!

[likelyscam]

🎧! I hope you have a good day!!

THANKS FOR THE ASK!! and i hope you have a great day too!<3

[bookshelfdreams]

hey babes remember this project

(yeah neither do I it's been months and months) (who wants to make a wool coat in the height of summer anyway)

But! The last weeks have been rainy and too cool for July/August, and reminded me that autumn is right around the corner and Christmas will be here sooner than I think.

I actually finished weaving sometime in spring, I don't remember when exactly; didn't make an occasion out of it. I made 3 lengths of fabric total

... which, as it turns out is Quite A Bit! Look at that stack :) You have no idea how satisfying it was to hold all that in my arms.

Return of the King for scale

Each of these is about 55cm wide, and 230cm long which is insane, considering that I started out with a 4.5m warp. Granted, about 40-50cm of that are wasted on the loom and another 10% or so loss has to be calculated in (because of course the warp doesn't stay straight, it goes around the weft which means it becomes shorter) AND the threads being wool they have a lot of stretch to them. But still, that's a lot of shrinking, for a fabric that's still loose enough to fray. No wonder clothing was valuable as fuck, it's not even the amount of work that goes into it, but the portion of that work that's essentially wasted. And if I had wanted to make a tight fabric, an actual broadcloth, I would have had to calculate in a lot more shrinking.

I finished this in the washing machine (I think 30°c with no spin cycle and no detergent? But I'm not sure about thaz, I forgot 59nwrite it down I think). Then I gave each piece a lanolin bath. I may have overdone it a little? Some of the wool feels a tiny bit - well not exactly greasy but soapy. Whatever. It does improve the wool's hydrophobic properties and makes it feel a little softer.

And all the pieces fit!

This was very satisfying

I did not, however, have enough of the lilac linen that I originally wanted to use for lining. So I bought another fabric, the only one I could find that I liked: A very, very lightweight brown linen.

The listing: This is very light and transparent! Me, opening the package:..... oh wow, I didn't know it would be this light and transparent

I hope it will work. There's only one way to find out.

That's all I have for now! I have cut out the front and back pieces, and now it's just sewing, sewing, sewing.

[currentlyinlaudnastiddies]

Carmilla stood infornt of the observation window, tired and worn.the last few days she barely slept-she was too caught up into work and she also felt a gnawing hunger startkng to form inside of her. She had tried a method- to rewind time and revitalize a destroyed planet-thats what she wnated to achieve. Thats what she wanted to achieve with her old himeplanet, terra. Her lost eye seemed to hurt even more as the remains of the planet came into view.

My home...i...rememrb walking through the streets...before the war of course...i loved long walks, i often didnt want to go home-because goinf hlme meant pain, being called a name thaz wasnt mine, beign looked at with disdain and disapp7ktment. Later i walked these streets with lorelei when we could- after a bomb raid, when it was clear...we would look if things wrre destroyed. We would hold hands among the ruins. Then..after her death and re-emergence..we also went on walks. But itbwas d..different. she grabbed my hand too tight....posessive.yet i took it. I was starved for love. I gave her more than she me...god...it hurts..

Her heart clenches at that and shes trembling, tears dwelling uä. No shr cant cry, she needs to try soemthing! The stuff she worked om, perfected! It has to work!!! Terra...moght enot be habitabke but atlesst she can vosist it...mabye evem malenit a project to reconstruct things form records and memories...make a proepr grvae for her lsot love ..and herself. She has plans she tells herself and grins. Then, she gets to work, blastign the remaisn woth her special formula rays- and waits. Theres sparks, tiny explosions, glitters and flahses! Bit as the nebuka smoke clears- nptihng happened. Notihng. Only ruins are left. Only ruins, fragments, detah, destruvtion!

Why...why didnt it work?!!! Why?! What went wrong??? Why..i...inworked so long..pelade...coem back to life...cole bacl togetehr...pelase..i wanan go hlme...visist it once again...or more like...my old house...it wanst really a home..i...why woudl yiu do that?!!!?!?!...why do you refuse? ....humans..and their war....you destroyed it!...i am hopeless..why did i even try it?

Shes in a spirla now, pacing as she mutters to herself, erratically. She eventually amnaged to get sole blood for ehrslef as she close to passing out. She drinks abit, to satisfy the worst- enoguh that she wotn die or faint but not enough. She ahs to keep on workigk, she tells herslef.

I will solve it! I will get behind what went wrogn!...i cant accpet fialure.m.i...i ahve to push mywelf!

But her joints say so otherwise, and she notices how her legs and knees hurt. And then the mental pain is back, and she jsut collapses onto zhe floor ifneötn of the windo, onto the cold metal floor, exhuaszed, tired and drained as sobs wreck her body.

[This is a open rp, any replies are welcome, please react otbit!

[eiderducksonofhumperdink]

New DuckTales (87) fanfic!

"Finally!" Yes, enthusiasm sounds different. "Ye're nah better than mah good-for-nothing nephew!" By the good-for-nothing nephew, Scrooge McDuck indeed refers to his nephew, Donald Fauntleroy Duck. By "no better" he means neither a relative nor a stranger. Launchpad McQuack, the best and worst pilot ever. "Late again!" "By two minutes," grumbles Launchpad, rolling his eyes. "Time is money," says the supposedly richest duck in the world firmly. Launchpad says nothing more. He doesn't like to argue. In this respect, he is clearly different from Donald. He is also late, but only half a minute, and is already ready to start polishing coins.

Launchpad sets off for his workplace. To take care of repairing the plane. Despite having crashed so many times, both pilot and plane are still safe and sound. The pelican has a few fans too. "Hi, Quack." "Ah, kids." Huey, Dewey and Louie, of course. Always ready for adventures. "Is something special going on?" asks Huey, the one with the red cap. "Not yet," says Launchpad , shrugging his shoulders. My plane has to be ready to take off soon. "It's a really cool thing," admits Dewey. "You can be proud of yourself." "Well," Launchpad smiles modestly. "I got here thanks to my parents. It was a tough school, my father was always pretty strict and even now he still doesn't seem to be happy with me." Louie laughs. "Well, of course your old man has every right to be disappointed if you keep crashing." Launchpad has to laugh too. "Well, I didn't hear that. I'm still in one piece." "You seem to be invulnerable somehow," admits Huey. "But now, brothers, we should let him work in peace."

Later, Launchpad has a break that isn't actually allowed, but if you forget to have your morning break... maybe you have to go now. "Oops! Excuse me!" "Typical men, well." The voice comes from a lady. An older one. "Oh, hello, Ms. Beakley." Bentina smiles. "Ah, Launchpad McQuack. You know, even at sixty, I'm still as busy as you." Launchpad laughs. "I know that from my parents. They're only in their late 50s, but well, even if math gives me a headache, even I know that it's not far off." "As my grandma always said, nobody gets any younger," Bentina giggles. "No, the reason I'm so busy is because everything here has to be in order. As you can see, your boss has an eye for money, but not for order." "I can understand that." "Not me! The villa can't look as if a tornado occured!" Launchpad grins. "Stop it! You sound like my mother!" "Your mother is absolutely right," Bentina insists, but she also laughs. "I'm not like that. How's your work going at the moment?" "Everything's as usual," Launchpad shrugs his shoulders. "A lot of work, but at least it's worth it." "Yes, I know, your airplane," Bentina replies. "Oh yes, Webby has a thing for that too." "A six-year-old girl?" says Launchpad, surprised. "That's impossible, she only plays with her dolls. I know her." "Thank God yes," Bentina sighs, "but the boys played baseball with her last weekend. She's getting bigger and bigger, she's already in first grade. She writes and reads very well." "I don't see it as that dramatic," grins Launchpad, "but doing math would kill me. Chickenpox isn't a nice thing, but when I had it for a week and missed two math tests, I been so thankful to the Lord thaz you wouldn't believe it!" "You're long past school," laughs Bentina. "Not as long as you, I hope," replies Launchpad.

Then he spots a picture when he squints into Bentina's room. The picture shows a young woman with blonde hair. She's smiling. "Do you know her?" asks Launchpad. Bentina is not laughing anymore, but starts look sad. "Yes, that was Wilma. She was my daughter. The daughter I had with William Vanderquack. Unfortunately, we didn't get married, therefore she took his last name while I kept mine. Unlike my younger sister Priscilla, who went on to become a Duck and went on to have five children, with Daisy being the youngest." Launchpad looks at the picture. Hmm, something looks familiar. Think, think about something... no, too much for the brain! Now he looks at Bentina again. "You said she WAS your daughter..." Bentina's eyes get wet. "Yes, but it was six years ago, almost seven..." Launchpad puts his hand on her shoulder. "Do you have any other children?" Bentina shakes her head silently. "You have Webby as your granddaughter," nods the pilot. "I have to say how well the little one is with animals, no fear... I'm not that scared either, as long as I don't have to think too much, but still, at that age, as a girl... respect. But who..."

He is interrupted. "Launchpad McQuack, where are you!? I'll shorten yer wages for yer damn laziness!" Uh oh! While Launchpad is rushing back, he asks Bentina one last question: "How's Webby in maths?"

[starpros-sunshine]

"Eichi charges the idols to stay in the starmony dorms he's so horrible" he is literally just doing business you think he's going to pay for all of that out of his own pocket why should he what reason would he have to pay for what other people do it's not like they can't just leave any day as seen with Shu and Izumi they live in entirely different countries and they're still fine why in the world shouldn't the idols pay rent????

"Oh but he pays them in scrip" I see the problem but, again, from a buisines perspective this is smart. This is a reasonable way to keep your business afloat. This makes sense when you're a CEO.

Where's your utilitarianism people where is your sense for how capitalism works you'll find a lot of the managing decisions at ES actually make a lot of sense and are pretty well implemented when you start seeing it through the "How do keep this a lucrative thing that makes money?"-lens.

[her-canine-teeth]

the boop gifs i have saved keep downloading at webps and im not bothered to figure out how to save them as gifs so imsgine i booped u like 20 times

BOOPING U BACKK 21 times

[sillyxaly]

hi hello talk to me about junmei :3

i prefer post-canon stuff but i will gladly take anything!! also. do you perchance know of any jun wu redemption fics because i could only find one on ao3 ;;

yes he’s a villain but. it’s fanfic! he comes with a complimentary sad backstory! he’s stuck under a mountain to think about his actions! he’s stuck there forever, he has plenty of time to reflect on his behavior

First up @witch-is-writing do you know?

I only remember ones that vaguely count as redemption really but in my defense I woke up a minute ago, saw "Junmei" and scurried to write this text. Also do tell me which fic you found so I can check if I read that pls :3

Jun Wu is just the personification of 'hurt people hurt people' for me and if you wish I may write an essay about that thazs vaguely structuered and more of a ramble. I do however very much consider mei nianqing to be important to his healing. I dont even call it a redemption arc but oh boy that man needs some Healing. Mnq does too and they really should do that together because their issues are so intertwined. I have so many loose thoughts about this right now oh ma god.

The path to Jun Wus redemption or healing will always lead through the vassal that stayed longer and the vassal that left in the end. The one man he couldn't kill in two thousand years. The one man who knew him before he put on one mask after the other.

And truly they have all the time in the world for that post-canon. Let nianqing (...nian...nyan....nya... Yeah i didnt sleep enough.) visit him in the mountain. Return day after day to make it stick a little. That hes there now. Bring tea, bring books to read, whatever really. They are both so incredibly hurt it makes me sick (positive) and it would be a journey. One thats hard and rocky. One where JW still falls back to lash out and bite because its what saved him for hundreds of years but MNQ stays now no matter how he growls.

Yes JW is just a rescue dog to me and I will never get that thought out of my head ever again but I have one and the similiarities of it are striking. Funnily enough that also means most people should just ignore him (for now). Let one person get closer for now, more than that would be too much and if he starts to feel cornered he will growl and then he will bite. Its an intricate play ot trial and error to figure out when to actually step back and give more space and when to take him by the scruff even if he tries to bite. So MNQ got a lot of work and figuring that out ahead because thats his rescue now (has always been really) and JW will always remain a little more at ease with him than the rest of the world.

At last those who caused the pain have died and after that, by all means, it was all a grasp for control because for as long as he has control he can never be hurt. I believe we all try to hold control over at least something in our lives and its natural to do so. We are all scared to be hurt. But nobody can control everything (much less forever) and he needs to learn to live with that fear and uninternalize the mask of anger that hides it.

No matter what he needs to feel safe first. Not ultimatly safe but at least safe to show that hes afraid. Safe enough to stop wearing a mask of stirkes to hide the vulnerabilty. He needs to be scared and he needs to be vulberable and it need to be safe and okay for once.

And who better to grant that safety than that started the whole tale of his demise and his crimes by telling our main character to the face that this man shone so much brighter than he ever did. A fact i will never get over. The contents of what MNQ tells XL and us is like: War crimes, attempted murder on me, wiping out the heavenly capital, bringing ruin to Multiple kingdoms and how does one start such a tale best? Logically by refering to the man in question as the sun. But thats not enough. He wasnt just any source of light. He outshone you and all of us and all the other gods which are now dead because he murdered them.

MNQ is crazy for that and I absolutly adore that and that is literally all it will ever take for me to ship this. You can not tell me that is not a subtle love confession?? JW attempted to murder him multiple times i don't think people normally talk about such a guy like that??

Uhhhhhhhhhh anyhow

*subtly slides discord link*

I also made this where witch is also inside and so far nobody else but uh yes in case you want that because I dont know how to tell people.

[ava-oficial]

my wish came true and i got hit by a car(that invi was driving)

Luckily since im a keyblade wielder only my leg ended up breaking

i should be fine in a week

sometimes i wish i could get hit by a car

[alan-becker-confessions]

HELLO IT IS I GREENIE ANON i have come back oncw again because green! also instead of sending an ask incredibly early ITS NORMAL TIMES NOW!!!anyway enough about me ITS GREEN TIMW!!!! I LOVE GREEN!!! DID U KNOW THAT?? i love green verry very much!! shes just so creature to me i need to examine her!! shes been PLAGUING my MIND like a virus!!! and viruses are often green! GREEN!!!! i lovee greenn!!! i love her so much that im working on an entire project that i barely have any experience in JUST SO I CAN BECOME HER!! (this can be referring to two things but im not tellin!!) ANYWAY YEEE i love greeniee did u know that YOU CAN HAVE GREEN IN UR PHONE?? THERS A SHIMEJI APP AND THERES A GREEN SHIMEJI!!! shes currently climbing the walls of my phone hehehe!!!! GREENIEEE i can drag her around n stuff!! but i keep accidentally clicking her while shes climbing and its making her fall!! i feel bad for her but also i dont but also i do i like to make her suffer sometimes :33 BUT LOVINGLY!! shes my little specimen <33 ALSO SHES WITH RED RN!! GREENRED!! actual confession, I LOVE REDGREEN/GREENRED!!! CHRISTMAS DUO!! i am a greenpurp truther BUT REDGREEN HOLDS A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART!!! idk why BUT THEM!!!! i love themmm another confession i also really love bluegreen, yellowgreen, and secgreen like WHY IS SHE SO SHIPPABLE!!! CRAZY!! shes too loveable hehe THAS WHY I LOVE HER!! GREENIEE!!!!!!i love greennieeee!!!!!! anyway yeah thaz it hehe always remember greenie <3

-greenie anon!!!

I think about you every time I obsess over my favorites, I feel the need to study your brain but like in a very good way

[fate-defiant]

See the thing is its not even the question of wether blue or green is a better color on him its that he doesnt look good in *bright* colors. More subdued shades look absolutely fantastic on him, thazs why he has so much black in his wardrobe. Its just that very unfortunately he is stuck in an early 2000s show aimed at tweens and is thus doomed to tacky shades that dont work with him.

[thephantomcasebook]

Are the show writers aware that the Blacks are not the underdogs of the story? These guys have more dragons and more houses on their side. The only issue is Rhaenyra's sex but she has that more or less covered by marrying Daemon who is viewed by the misogynistic lords as the true power behind team black.

On the opposite aisle there's the Greens with fewer dragons and fewer houses. They are led indirectly by the Queen Alicent and Otto. Only by grit, stubbornness and spite did the Greens pull a surprising twist in the end, wiping out Rhaenyra and Daemon not only physically but also from the histories of Targaryen Kings and Queens. Many people assume the greens are the top dogs because they have a male heir and tradition favors their side. But the show has given almost no indication of any of these being an advantage. In fact the characters and their cause is treated with outrage and scorn in the show writing itself...as if they're making a grave mistake of challenging Rhaenyra's claim.

So which is which with these writers? I for one don't see The Blacks as the underdogs of the story. But thaz just me.

The show was built up and pitched as "The Avengers" of ASoIaF - basically GRRM's favorite characters - coming together to fight the evil-doers.

Now, on the surface, GRRM's world and writing doesn't work that way. However, when you get a bunch of room temperature IQ HBO Executives who are agenda minded over story telling, you get the good progressives vs. bad conservatives narrative that is germinated through-out the show. And I know that for a fact because - a now fired - former executive from HBO admitted that personally at a party that "Progressive Agenda" in their content was mandated in the "Trump Era".

So, to be fair, The Greens didn't stand a chance of getting a fair shake from the get go. It was basically mandated by the Studio Heads of the time that the Greens had to be an allegory for Trump Supporting Catholics. It was actually a selling point to Sapochnik who felt so fucking strongly about American Politics that shit for brains had to make some artistic statement - or his wife did.

They've dog whistled the Greens being bad from the beginning, from Criston beating to death a gay man to trying to make Alicent look like a Hypocrite by actively skewering Aegon's character from the beginning to make her both a bad mother and Stockholm victim of her own ideology.

Cause let me tell you as a minority - who looks like Criston Cole/ Fabian Frankel could be my brother (I'm not kidding) - and who is Roman Catholic and staunchly in support of Trump, there is nothing that a privileged white progressive hates more than a conservative woman - especially if she's a minority.

Alicent is and remains a lightning rod for every sexist and bigoted progressive to take out their weird and creepy hatred of women on and still claim themselves virtuous because of their assured cultist beliefs, it's fucking strange.

Also, the other problem is that the Normie fandom has been trained by "Game of Thrones" to root for the people with silver hair and the traditional Red Three-Headed dragon on a sable field. while the book readers, who should know by now from "Fire and Blood" and especially "Dunk and Egg" that the Targaryens are the fucking worst - which is the whole point of Dunk teaching Egg to be better than his family throughout the series. The hardcore ASoIaF fandom read obsessively but don't question the narrative as a whole.

@duxbelisarius did a 12 part Military Breakdown of the conflict and all the inconsistencies. But still, your average GRRM fanboy will agree it's fucking stupid, but let GRRM's bias in the narrative dictate their point of view. And in the end they just crave the blood shed and darker elements. Which - to be fair - has always been a part of the fandom since I joined it in 2009 when I was 19.

There's just a ton of factors, but those are the big ones.

Studio/Showrunners political mandates in the "Trump Era"

"Game of Thrones" residual bias for the normie fandom

GRRM bias toward characters creating false sense virtuous protagonists.

And a near fandom wide conditioning of disliking institution supporting moral characters.

I could write an essay about it all after 14 years, but that's what I've got tonight/this morning