#they r so important to me ur honor.

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she's a quick little thing, whip smart and doubly sharp.   who wishes to know?   she asks him, and in that moment he almost pats himself on the back because now he knows he'd gotten that one right  ━  don't give them your true name, lest they hold that power over you. she's   A  STRANGE  ,  HYPNOTIZING   beauty, a beauty that's dangerous, sharp claws veiled by vanity and glamor. she's the kind of creature arlo could only ever dream of seeing, worrisome as her sudden appearance might be, the sort of thing he'd sing about in a shanty, write about in a poem. she flits closer to him on delicate wings,   akin  to  a  dragonfly's   , and his breath is damn near punched out of his lungs. don't answer that,   she tells him, a very faerie question indeed. intriguing that she might protect him from her own fae whims. curious, ever so curious.  he nods his head at her question, almost in a mock - bow to her. he doesn't want to offend her any, especially seeing as she's not trying to weasel a name out of him, nor any favors.   ❝ indeed – i read a lot. and i play music, too. a lot of song and poetry speak of the fairfolk, ❞   he explains, just shy of being struck silent in his awe.

her response is instantaneous as a bite,  as if the little fae was very prepared for such a question to slip from the prince’s lips.     “  who wishes to know?  ”     the question is given in return to his own,  a coy trick played between fair folk and mortal  —  but she would never play horribly if he were to give his name,  it was still much safer he not tell her.   keeley could figure it out for herself,  without his help.   with her eyes wide and slowly blinking,  her head tips to one side for a full ninety degrees;   the faerie looked much more like an night owl than a creature of fairytale stories, and that beautiful oddity only blossomed further as she grinned bright as sunlight and flitted over hurriedly closer to him on gossamer-thin wings.   it was just pure instinct to fly,  rather than walk.     “  oh no !   don’t answer that,  actually.   that was a silly question…   a very faerie question.   you know of us then, prince?  ”     how wonderfully curious.   she’s never met a mortal who knew of the fair folk,  though likely because they tended to stick to the forests,  and she was indeed a very long way from home right now.

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post JJK 0 movie+manga thoughts: Why isn't the main series about Them. :(((

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Private equity rips off its investors, too

I'm coming to DEFCON! TOMORROW (Aug 9), I'm emceeing the EFF POKER TOURNAMENT (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the BRICKED AND ABANDONED panel (5PM, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01). On SATURDAY (Aug 10), I'm giving a keynote called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification" (noon, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01).

It's amazing how many of the scams that have devastated our economy and everyday people owe their success to the fact that we assume that rich people know what they're doing, so if they're doing something, it must be real.

Think of how many people lost everything by gambling on junk bonds, exotic mortgage derivatives, cryptocurrency and web3, because they saw that the largest financial institutions in the world were going all-in on these weird, incomprehensible bets.

Then there are the people who are convinced that online advertising is built around a mind-control ray, because tech companies claim that's what they have ("I am an evil dopamine-loop-hacking wizard and I can sell anything to anyone!"), and because huge, sober blue-chip companies hand billions to these soi dissant svengalis. Sure, online ads are a swamp of clickfraud and garbage, but would these super smart captains of industry spend so much on online advertising if it didn't work super-well?

http://pluralistic.net/HowToDestroySurveillanceCapitalism

From our worms'-eye-view here on the ground, it's easy to assume that rich people and the people who sell them stuff are all on the same side. "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product," right? If Facebook is tormenting you with surveillance advertising, it must be doing so on behalf of the surveillance advertisers, for whom Mark Zuckerberg has bottomless reservoirs of honest, forthright impulses.

The reality is simultaneously weirder, and obvious in hindsight. The reason Zuck is tormenting you is that he's a remorseless sociopath who doesn't care who he hurts. He rips off everyone he can rip off, and that includes advertisers, who have seen steady price-hikes and lower-fidelity targeting, even as ad-fraud has skyrocketed while Facebook draws down its anti-fraud spending:

https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/

This is not to say that Facebook advertisers have your best interests at heart, that they aren't engaged in active deception in order to better themselves at your expense. Rather, it's to say that there's no honor among thieves, and Zuck is an equal-opportunity predator. Moreover, both Zuck and his advertisers are credulous dolts, so the mere fact that they are pouring money into something (advertisers: FB ads; Zuck: metaverse) it doesn't follow that these are real or important or the coming thing.

For me, the Ur-example of "rich people are dumb, even when it comes to money" is the private equity sector. I've written a lot about PE, and how destructive it is to the real economy, from Toys R Us to pet grooming:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/05/rugged-individuals/#misleading-by-analogy

How they killed Red Lobster:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/23/spineless/#invertebrates

And how they actually created the death panels that Sarah Palin warned us about (it's OK, though: these death panels are run by the efficient private sector, not government bureaucrats):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/26/death-panels/#what-the-heck-is-going-on-with-CMS

The devastating effect of private equity on the real economy is increasingly well understood, and a curious side-effect of this is that people assume that if PE is destroying their lives, they must be doing so on behalf of their investors, who are making bank.

But – like Zuck – PE bosses are just as happy to steal from their investors as they are to to steal from the workers and customers of the businesses they acquire on those investors' behalf. They swaddle this theft in performative complexity and specialized jargon, but when you strip all that away, you find more fraud.

All the misery that PE inflicts on workers, communities and customers are just a convincer in a Big Store con, a bid to make the scam seem credible. For a certain kind of investor, any economic activity that destroys communities and workers' livelihoods must be a good bet. This is the dynamic at work in the pitch of AI image-generator companies, who spend tens of billions on technology that there is no substantial market for:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/25/accountability-sinks/#work-harder-not-smarter

AI image generators represent a high-profile, extremely visible example of "a job that AI can do." Nevermind that AI illustration went from a novelty to a tired cliche in less than a year. Even if you think that AI illustrations are a perfect substitute for commercial illustrations, that still won't come anywhere near making AI companies a profit. Add up the entire wage bill for every commercial illustrator in the world, hand it to Open AI, and you're not even gonna cover the kombucha budget for Open AI's staff kitchens.

Hell, all the wages of every commercial illustrator that ever lived won't pay back even a fraction of the money the AI companies spent on image generators. The pauperization of an entire class of creative workers is just a canned demo, a way to fool investors into thinking that there is a whole universe of similarly situated workers whose wages can be diverted to AI companies. This is the logic of small-time spammers, scaled up to the scale of the entire S&P 500. Smalltime spammers looked at AI and thought, "OK, I can generate as much botshit as I want on demand for free. Science fiction magazines pay $0.10/word. So if I generate a billion words, I'll get $100 million." But that's not how any of that works: sf magazines don't buy botshit, and even if they did, the entire market for short fiction adds up to what Sam Altman spends on a single designer t-shirt. The point of destroying these beloved, useful things isn't to make a lot of money by taking their markets – it's to convince dopey, panicked rich people to give you lots of money you can steal, because they think you can do this to every market and they don't want to miss out on the opportunity of a lifetime:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/15/passive-income-brainworms/#four-hour-work-week

Take "divi recaps": after a private equity firm acquires a company (by borrowing money against its assets), it typically declares a "special dividend," emptying out the company's cash reserves and pocketing them. A "divi recap" is when PE then takes out another massive loan against the company's (remaining) assets and pockets that:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/17/divi-recaps/#graebers-ghost

All of this happens under an opaque cloud, thanks to the light-to-nonexistent disclosure rules for PE. A public company has to open its books for the SEC, its investors, and the world. PE is private – and so are its finances. It is absolutely routine for PE bosses to put their spouses, kids, and pals on the payroll and hand them millions for doing little to nothing, all at the expense of their investors:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/02/sec-set-to-lower-massive-boom-on-private-equity-industry.html

PE bosses charge huge fees to their investors – not merely the usual 2-and-20 (2% of the funds under management and 20% of any profits) – but also a wide variety of special one-off fees that pile to the sky. They also dip into their investors' funds to issue themselves massive loans that they use to make side-bets, without telling the investors about it:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/10/monopoly-begets-monopoly/#gary-gensler

PE investors are chickens ripe for the plucking: take "continuation funds," which allow PE bosses to soak the rich people and pension funds who supply them with billions:

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/mergers-and-acquisitions/matt-levines-money-stuff-buyout-funds-buy-from-themselves

Remember 2-and-20? 2% of all the money you manage, every year, and 20% of all the profits. You'd think that these would be somewhat zero sum, right? If you use some of your investors' cash to buy a company, and then sell off that company for a profit, you get the 20%, but now the pot of money you're managing has gone down by the amount you used to buy the company, and so your 2% carry goes down, too.

But what if you sell your portfolio companies to yourself, using your investors' own money? When you do that, you continue to hold the company on your PE firm's books, meaning you continue to get the 2% carry, and you can pocket 20% of the sale price as a "profit":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/20/continuation-fraud/#buyout-groups

This is straight-up fraud, wrapped up in so much jargon that it can successfully masquerade as "financial engineering" ("financial engineering" is really just a euphemism for "fraud"). PE bosses keep coming up with new, exotic ways to steal from their investors. The latest scam is "tax receivable agreements":

https://archive.ph/RczJ9

On its face, this is a tax scam. When a company goes public, early investors generally hold stock in the original partnership or LLC; this company ends up holding a ton of shares in the new, public company. When they sell those non-public shares in the LLC, this creates a (potentially gigantic) tax credit.

A TRA hustle involves tracking down these LLC shareholders and convincing them to sign off on dumping the LLC's shares, which generates a huge tax credit for the public company. The hustler offers to split these credits with the LLC holders.

All of this is especially attractive to PE bosses, who often take a company private, do a bunch of "financial engineering" and then take it public again, leaving the PE firm as the owner of those LLC shares that can be converted to a TRA and a huge windfall – which the PE bosses pocket, because they (not their investors) are holding those credits.

This scam is really doing big numbers. KKR – the monsters who killed Toys R Us – just diverted $650 million in TRA loot, prompting a lawsuit from Steamfitters union pension fund, which had handed these jerks millions of its members' money to gamble with:

https://archive.ph/kqQvI

This highlights another very weird aspect of the PE scam: they are absolutely dependent on pension funds. To add insult to injury, PE funds are notorious union-busters – they use union money to buy companies and destroy their unions:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/05/mr-gotcha/#no-ethical-consumption-under-capitalism

People who try to understand the PE business model often give up, because it seems to make no sense, leading many to assume that they're too unsophisticated to grasp the complex financials here. For example, PE is absolutely dependent on massive loans as a way of looting its businesses, but it also often defaults on those loans. Why do banks and investors keep making huge loans to PE deadbeats? Because – like the PE fund investors – they are credulous dolts.

The reason PE seems like a scam is that it is a scam. It is a fractal scam – every part of it is a scam. You might have heard about the "carried interest" tax loophole that allows PE bosses to avoid billions in taxes on the money they steal from their investors, creditors, workers and customers. Most people assume "carried interest" has something to do with "interest" on a loan. Nope: "carried interest" is a 16th century nautical tax rule designed for mercantalist sea-captains who had an "interest" in the cargo they "carried":

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/29/writers-must-be-paid/#carried-interest

But rich people and other "sophisticated investors" (like pension fund investment managers) are no smarter than the rest of us. They are herd animals. When they see other rich people piling into some scheme or asset class, they rush to join them, which makes the asset price go up, which makes them think they're smart (until the inevitable rug-pull). When one plute jumps off the Empire State Building, the rest of them jump, too.

Which is why there's more money flooding into PE than at any time in history, $2.62T in "dry powder," handed over to greedy, thieving PE bosses in a poker game where everyone is the sucker at the table:

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/2di1vzgjcmzovkcea8f0g/portfolio/private-equitys-dry-powder-mountain-reaches-record-height

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/08/sucker-at-the-table/#clucks-definance

[manias-wordcount]

um !! so ive totally been using ur page as my nightly routine teehee and like. sorry in advance if ur requests r clsoed , im new to tumblr so i seriously have no idea how to check😭😭

but i was thinking ;; could you please write a smut for totk link and fem reader ? in whichhh u both hide in a closet together in like the castle or smth.. and to calm u down he like lets u ride him HAJHAH

so embarrassed, but imagining the shakey breaths and sounds of his armour clanking against the wall as he thrusts upwar ds .....

i know im a slut but im only a girl !! i cant help it..!

- r 🍒

Hero's Duty (BOTW Link x Reader)

𝗔/𝗡: 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗼!

𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘃𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝘅, 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗽𝘂𝘀𝘀𝘆 𝗟𝗠𝗔𝗢

𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚? ⇒ 𝙈𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩

𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙧?

𝙗𝙪𝙮 𝙢𝙚 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙚?

He shouldn’t be doing this. He shouldn’t be giving in like this. He should be stronger than this. He shouldn’t be thinking like this. He shouldn’t be  wanting  this. He shouldn’t. He shouldn’t.  He shouldn’t. 

  But fate is a cruel mistress. And he can’t stand it when you squeeze your thighs together and look at him like he’s the only thing you’ll ever need.  He can’t stand it.

  Still, He’s supposed to be a knight. He’s supposed to be a hero. Disciplined and proper. Courageous and strong. Polite. Gallant. Respect. Dignified.  Honorable.  He’s supposed to be  all those things.  And he is! He swears, deep down inside he is. He knows he is.  Everyone  knows he is. He’s been congratulated by the king directly before. Called upon by him to take up arms and join the fight. And He serves Princess. He serves the people. He serves the kingdom. Hell, he’s even wearing some of his royal armor right now. He’s supposed to be a knight. He’s supposed to be a hero. He’s supposed to be  protecting you  right now.

  Not lifting up your dress and gripping your hips as he bounces your needy little hole down onto his cock over and over and over and over again. 

  It’s not what he should be doing. He has a mission. He has orders. He has a task to complete. Duty to fulfill. People to  protect.  People who  need  him. But your pussy feels so tight and so warm and so  wet  around his cock it’s amazing how he managed to last this long. But now that he started, he knows he can’t stop. He  won’t  stop. Not until he’s finished. Not until you’re  both  finished. 

  “ Ah….um, Link- Ah~”

  However long it takes. 

  “You like that, princess?” He murmurs lowly, blue eyes narrowing in on your face as your eyes cross and your mouth falls open into a lewd expression. You don’t respond- at least, you don’t respond with words to his question. But at this point, he’s not even sure if you would have been able to hear him over the sounds of your cute little whimpers and moans as he thursts his hips into you. Or maybe it’s the dirty sounds of your  soaking  wet little cunt taking in every single inch of his dick that keeps you from hearing the sound of your lover’s voice. He doesn’t know for certain, but the selfish,  selfish  part of him likes to think it’s a combination of the two. And the rational part of him? “You’re taking me so well pretty girl.  So well. ”

  The rational part of him  knows  it’s a little bit of both. Plus the fact that you always manage to get a little dick drunk when someone fucks you good and proper. And luckily for you, Link’s happy to play knight in shining armor to his needy little princess and her  perfectly tight little holes -

  Fuck,  you bring out the worst in him. But you know that don’t you? He swears it. He swears you do. He swears you  have to .  Goddesses,  he doesn’t even remember what he’s supposed to be doing right now. He knows it was supposed to be something important. Something only he could do. But then you started getting anxious. After every battle, after every fight- you still manage to worry about him. You still manage to fear that your powers and your efforts as his support won’t be good enough. 

  It’s cute how you worry. It’s cute how you care. But he had a job to do. And he needed you in good shape to do it. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t quell your nerves. Your silent shaking. Your quiet whimpers. And worst of all? Every promise that he’ll protect was starting to fall flat in your ears. Every comforting touch didn’t seem like it worked. Didn’t seem like it was  enough . But he had a job to do. A job that included your safekeeping and your safe return. So he did what any good knight would do. 

  He pulled you into the nearest closet he could find and got you nice and relaxed on his fingers before stuffing you nice and full with his cock. 

  Now your moans bounce off the walls like hymns in a church. Now his name falls off of your lips like deities in a prayer. Now you can be protected. Nurtured. Cared for. All by him. All for you. 

  And maybe there were better ways of taking care of you and your fears. Maybe an orgasm and a good dicking down isn’t exactly what you need in this moment. But your precious little pussy is taking his cock so effortlessly that he’s starting to feel less of a knight and more like a man. A man who can’t help but have wants. A man who can’t help but feel lust. A man who can’t help but need to  fuck  a pretty girl when he’s not supposed to and make excuses about it.

  And he’ll do it again the next chance he gets. He’ll do it all over again. 

  “ Mmm, Link I’m…I’m close…”

  Your whimper is quiet, but within the four walls of this closet, it could be the loudest thing in the world right now. Louder than the loud slap of his pelvis hitting against your skin. Louder than his armor groaning and creaking under all this movement. Louder than the sound of you get exactly what you asked for when you look at your hero to distract you- to  save you - from this moment of fear. 

  “ Oh, yeah baby? You’re getting close? ”

  But that’s the thing… he knows. He knows because you’ve been getting louder. He knows because you’ve been getting  tighter . He knows because every single time his gaze falls back to the spot where your bodies join, and his dick gets swallowed up by your  perfect little cunt  time after time, he feels his own core tightening up in a way he can only assume will leave you nice and full and  messy  until he gets the chance to clean you up later on. He  knows  you’re close. He  knows .

  “ Well, that’s too bad, princess.”  He grinds out, eyes narrowing into slits as his hands tighten his grip on your hips. And  goddesses,  how you whimper. Goddesses, how you  whine . But no matter how many times you beg him and you cry to him he doesn’t change up like he knows you want him to. He doesn’t shift his angle to hit deeper. He doesn’t speed up his thrusts to hit faster. He doesn’t cater to your every whim. He doesn’t listen to your heavenly cries when you beg him to let you reach euphoria with every single breath you take. At least, not this time. At least, not yet. 

  But fuck,  you bring out the worst in him. You bring out the absolute worst in him. You bring out the  man  in him. So it’s only fair. It’s only fair that he takes what’s his. It’s only fair that he calls the shots. That he makes the orders on this battlefield. That he fucks you how he wants to. That he fucks you how he needs to. 

  That he fucks you like he absolutely should.

  Because deep down in his mind, he’s still a knight. He’s still disciplined and proper. Courageous and strong. Polite. Gallant. Respect. Dignified.  Honorable.  He can learn to say no to you. He can learn not to give into your every want. To your every need. He can learn. He can do it. He’s your knight in shining armor. He’s your one and only hero. Your one and only  everything . So he can do it. He can do it. He can. 

  Can’t he?

[novaursa]

Hi. Saw ur reqs were open🎉 and I just want to say that I love ur fics.

I had a vague idea for a story but didn’t know what character it suited best, so I’ll leave the choice to you! Basically male!reader is in an arranged marriage with either Sansa Stark or Helaena Targaryen (perhaps a martell!r for Sansa or stark!r for helaena) and as a marriage gift, reader has a dress tailored for her (embroidered with direwolves for Sansa or bugs for helaena).

Idk just a sweet romance for either of my fav characters because they both deserve so much better than they got.

Warmed by the Sun

- Summary: You decide to honor your bride-to-be with a gift.

- Paring: (male) martell!reader/Sansa Stark

- Note: The reader is the brother of Trystane Martell.

- Rating: Mild 13+

- Tag(s): @sachaa-ff @alyssa-dayne @oxymakestheworldgoround @literaturedog

- A/N: ❤️

The wind bites sharply as it sweeps through the courtyards of Winterfell, the cold settling into your bones as you make your way through the keep. You are not used to this kind of chill; Dorne’s warmth is like a distant memory, but you’ve adapted, if only to be near her. The North may be a place of harsh winters, but you find it almost poetic that you’ll spend your life here, alongside Sansa Stark.

As you approach her chambers, a nervous energy grips you, your hands clutching the finely wrapped bundle. The wedding is fast approaching, and you’ve spent weeks ensuring that the dress you had made would be perfect—something that reflected her strength, her Stark pride, and, more than anything, the memory of her beloved direwolf, Lady.

You knock softly, and her voice calls you in. When you enter, Sansa stands near the hearth, her auburn hair catching the flicker of the flames. She greets you with a soft smile, the ice that Winterfell so often carries melting away when she sees you.

You step forward, bowing slightly, though the formality feels unnecessary now. "I’ve brought you something, my lady," you say, your voice warm, though the cold of the North tries to steal it from you.

Her eyes widen slightly, curiosity lighting them. “What is it?”

You present the bundle to her, unwrapping it carefully to reveal the dress. The deep, forest green fabric gleams in the firelight, embroidered with intricate silver threads forming the shape of direwolves. The wolves weave around the hem and neckline, their presence commanding yet graceful, a tribute to Lady, her fierce protector. You see her eyes soften, her fingers tracing the delicate stitching.

“It’s beautiful,” she breathes, her voice barely a whisper. “You had this made for me?”

You nod, your heart beating a little faster at the tenderness in her gaze. "It reminded me of you—strong, noble, and graceful. The wolves... they’re Lady, in a way. I thought you should have something that honors her, especially on such an important day."

Her hand lingers on the fabric, and then, without warning, she steps closer, her fingers brushing yours as she holds the dress between you. Her blue eyes meet yours, gratitude and affection mingling there. "No one has ever given me something so thoughtful," she says, her voice steady but with an edge of emotion.

You can’t help but smile, your hand moving to gently lift her chin. “You deserve more than I could ever give, Sansa,” you reply softly. “But I’ll spend the rest of my life trying.”

The sincerity in your words is met with a look that makes your chest tighten. She leans into the touch slightly, her gaze never leaving yours. “You are kind to me,” she whispers, a softness in her voice that feels rare for the North.

Your fingers, still at her chin, fall slowly to her cheek, your thumb grazing her skin. The fire crackles behind you, but the warmth you feel comes only from her presence. "Kindness is easy when it’s for you."

She blushes, a hint of color rising to her cheeks, and for a moment, you feel as though the cold of Winterfell is a distant memory. Her eyes flicker down to the dress again, and then back to you. “I will wear this proudly. For Lady... and for you.”

Your heart swells at her words, and you lean down just enough to kiss her forehead gently, lingering there as you breathe in the scent of her hair. She leans into the touch, and you can feel the quiet strength she possesses.

Pulling back, you smile at her, though your hand remains on her cheek. "You’ve made me feel at home here, Sansa. I hope I can do the same for you, as your husband."

Her hand moves to rest on top of yours, squeezing gently. "You already have," she says softly, her voice like a promise.

In that moment, the cold, the weight of Winterfell’s walls, and the looming future all seem to fall away. All that remains is her, and the quiet, steady rhythm of your shared breath.

[lostfracturess]

i literally stayed up all night reading s&c and OMG it is literally one of my fave pieces of writing ever, especially when it comes to gojo fanfic. the way you developed gojo as a doctor was still so canon accurate (which is a pet peeve of mine since ppl tend to avoid talking about his flaws)

SUCH amazing writing!!! i havent stayed up and binge read in such a long time, i finished all the chapters in one night LMAO

just 10/10, i can't wait for r&r!! take ur time and rest up, your health is more important than any fanfic <3

ahhhh thank you so much for your amazing message !! i'm seriously blushing and smiling so hard right now. you have no idea how much it means to me to get feedback like this <33

so happy you enjoy my take on gojo's character in this au. love a deeply flawed but lovable character :''))

& i'm so glad all that came through and you could really immerse yourself in the story to the point of an all-nighter binge !! that's the best compliment as a writer and just puts the biggest smile on my face <33

i'm so excited and honored that you're looking forward to r&r fic too. & don't worry, i'll definitely take care of myself while writing it :))

[melissa-titanium]

Wats ur n and uzi interpretation ? Do you see them as romantic? Platonic? QUEER-platonic? I must know! >:3

they r just Best Friends to me in every aspect. i can not see them as romantic honest to god. ROMANTIC ENZI ENJOYERS R BASED DO WHATEVER U WANT FOREVER i just cant see it. they help bring out the good in one another so strongly its so important. if you think about it , they're eachothers first friend and no matter what comes they r with eachother in life and death. best bros to the end. i think they play monster hunter together. ALSO IM HONORED YOU ASKED ME THIS i love explaining my interpretations on characters relationships

[cassyapper]

CANNOT believe you dropped another chapter of wwm/ta and I didn't notice ;-; it's gonna be my bedtime reading tonight hehe suffering

ANYWAY please feel free to ramble about Kak n Pol in the wwm/ta verse (if you so please of course no pressure)

IT'S OKAY ANON it's not like i post a lot aobut it when i post a new chapter so ur all good frankly im flattered u r reading it at all thakn you <3

but yes kak and pol in wwm/ta verse...there's still some stuff that is gonna go down so i can't do into detail but i do wanna say polnareff is sooo important kakyoin wouldve been dead before he turned 30 if not for polnareff. he would NOT have made it to rehab he wouldve been prideful to the day he died. and likewise polnareff wouldnt have been able to embrace the fact that his life is never going back to the before if not for avdol and kakyoin living. i think if one was gone he wouldve pulled self isolation moves like he did at the beginning of sdc and tus not been able to find new happiness at least not right away. so theyre just very important. kakyoin is literally his little brother and polnareff is not losing another sibling. ugh.

so kakyoin Thinking he's lost that oh it is so over for him. but at the same time...polnareff clearly wanted him to get better. i wonder how kakyoin will honor this wish as he lives on...

sorry i know this is vague and nothing frankly new but ugh. theyre so important to me. cries and throws myself against the wall

[sepal-sea]

helloooo <3

you don’t have to answer (i know how the pressure is w writing believe me) but ode to the mulberry tree is my fav fanfic of all time ever, and i was wondering if u were just taking or break or if u are abandoning it? i hate to pressure authors bc it feels so terrible but i just wanted to check in because ur brain is amazing and i loveeee to see into it. it’s literally an amazing work and i want to say how much it’s impacted this last year.

like genuinely i mean it. i salivate over that thing i think i’ve read it like 8 times now. ofc no pressure and i treasure what we have, but i figured it probably couldn’t hurt to ask. (if u need inspiration think of my virtual beautiful face shining w hopefulness & voracious need for more always :P but ofc in a very patent non-problematic understanding way)

but anyways hope u r well!! thank u !!

ahjgjsldfglk it's an honor to know my writing had an effect on someone! at the moment pretty much everything is on hiatus since I've been doing a lot of school-related writing and can't bring myself to spend my free time writing as well. so my motivation has just been thru the floor recently (opposite of thru the roof).

I'm still absolutely determined to finish ode to the mulberry tree in particular because I NEED to put that ending into the world. there's one chapter of ode already completed but I'm holding off on posting again until I think I can keep up a steady flow, plus I'm doing some plot reconfiguring cuz I made a decision in a previous chapter for the sake of drama that I now realize means I have to switch up a few events. I should hopefully have more free time for writing after january but at the moment it's like dragging a toddler kicking and screaming out of daycare except the toddler is my brain and the daycare is uhhh not writing I guess

It does actually motivate me to imagine your shining beautiful voracious face lmao. but seriously just knowing that its important to you makes writing feel less pointless. if you are who I think you are, every time you leave those lovely indepth comments full of so much care I feel like a boost of motivation yknow

[romqnticstylez]

Alright I'm not gonna hit anon,

I'm on book 3 and I'm barely halfway because I have no time to read. I love love love love love Amabeth because I mean, of course I do. But also Artemis is literally so cool.

Also OMG I feel you I have my SST exam tomorrow and political science is 😭😭

I've had "The Last Great American Dynasty" stuck in my head

So yeah, it's me, we *are* mutuals. Now I'm gonna have to try and not be too scared to keep bothering you since I'm off anon Lol

~Butterfly Anon 🦋

butterfly anon identity reveal REAL ?!?!? hallo gamer ong

nooo how dare ur life not give u time for important things. annabeth my beloved frfr artemis is very cool tru

real sst sucks. how was it tho 😭

W song. rn i have 'obsessed' stuck in my head........u could say im obsessed with obsessed............

pls keep ''bothering'' me u r so cool im honored to be setn asks by u🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[woozi]

yza henlo <3 i hope ur well and i know you're so busy and stuff but i was just wondering if you could explain how you make ur watermark look SO good, like it really just blows me away as much as your gifs. i know how make the watermark a shape and place it as a custom object. i guess i'm asking more about the coloring of it? maybe the thickness is the trick. hope i'm not bothering u haskjdf love u!

EZ MY BESTIE WHAT AN ABSOLUTE DELIGHT!!! HIIII 🥹 i'm overjoyed to see u in my notifs 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

ALSO NAURRR YOURE NEVER A BOTHER DONT EVER APOLOGIZE 😡😡😡 AND THANK U that is so nice of u 😔 hope you're doing much much better its what u deserve <333 and pls nxndjdjdj me n my little watermarks r honored, ure too kind 😭😭

foremost i make them as big as i could before turning them into shapes (the canvas i used was 2500x2500 iirc) which really helps w pixelation esp bc they final output isn't a vector!! also agreed on thickness! if you're going for more decorative ones, i usually use fonts that are on the thicker side as they tend to be more readable from afar. this is esp important to keep in mind bc resizing the final exported shape will be unavoidable since we're not using the same dimensions all the time, and we want them to show up regardless (of size, i.e: 540/268/144px)! aside from that, what i also do is just try to resize them differently as i'm making them just to check if they'll still be readable hehe. otherwise, if it's just plain text it's better to just retain a single size (i.e: a constant font size) based on my experience. this works best w thinner and simpler fonts in my case at least!

as for the coloring, i usually just use white blended as overlay especially if there already are lots of colors in the gif! otherwise, if they aren't visible that way, i use white -> blend it as difference -> double click the shape layer and go to gradient overlay -> choose hard light as the blending mode -> pick colors from the gif to use in the gradient, and that's pretty much it! (sorry i can't include screenshots rn 😭)

hope i was able to give you the answer u were looking for 🥹 if not, pls don't hesitate to shoot a question again any time <333

[thegempage]

I really liked ur fic and I wanted to do like a redraw thing cause it was so soft and cute and literally named the file”OUGH what a scene” because OUGH it’s so good and they r in love ur honor 💥💥💥

(this is an ask cause I wasn’t sure if your ok with fanart stuff and if ur not u can ignore it)

(And I added in the sandwich because I think he’s a sub guy)

[image description: digital fan art of Detective McQueen and Officer Dooley from The Darkside Detective. They are kissing against a desk, which McQueen is bracing himself on, and are holding hands. Dooley has one of his hands in McQueen's hair, showing off his painted nails. The image is romantically but dimly lit, and there are papers and an abandoned sandwich on the desk. end description]

from your other ask: (I feel like I should preface I meant Sub as in sandwich which I think is obvious but then remembered the second meaning after I sent the message, which is a funny coincidence)

(lmao i guessed you meant sandwich but both meanings work so you know jfklsafjdsaf)

HOLY SHIT THANK YOU??????

first: i adore fan art of my fics!! pls feel free to do so and tag me either here or twitter, i'd love to see it : D!!!

second: this is so cute holy shit. i am going to eat this art (affectionate), you got the Vibes™ down so well!! love the inclusion of the abandoned sandwich, as well, i didn't even think of that and it just adds a little something i think jfkldsafjds. also loving mcqueen's scruff (very important) and his jacket falling off of his shoulder (also very important)

they really are in love your honor 💙💙💙

[smoosnoom]

i am sos Sorry moon i forgot to send u compliments begging on my knees take me back </3 :[

daily compliment idk what so im just gonna say that : do u have 11 protons? because ur sodium cuteee (KIDDING I'LL GIVE U AN ACTUAL COMPLIMENT)

love is stored in the way u type actually. i love u using emoticons and when u use :] or :D my heart grows three sizes !!!! the way u use sosososos mamy commas and ellipses like...........wow,,,,,,,, and also a little Space before your full stop like . u r The Cutest ilysm 💖💖

NOOO sara omg its ok ! i wasnt even sure if u got my last ones so i was like I Guess This is My Fault .

HEELEPPPP wo w . i am so charmed thank u so much . actually i hated chemistry so ur rly giving me flahsbacks rn, but honors chem doesn't compare to the chemistry we have going on :) . that wasnt any better im so sorry

IM SO ????? HELLO oh my god . the way i cried a little because oh my god i did not know anyone noticed bc i loveee emoticons and ithink it is important to know How I Am Saying things . and also i always think a full stop is so like . intimidating . and i like using a space to make it Nicer . does thi s make sense do i sound insane . anyway ilysm

[jakeperalta]

bestie what r ur opinions on literati? and basically all of rory's other love interests?

ok so first off dean: honestly I really enjoyed him and rory in season one I thought they were sweet and it was a shame that some of his better traits (e.g. how he'd share and discuss books with rory) were dismissed later on. into s2-3 obviously it went downhill, I did feel a bit bad for him since rory was very blatantly stringing him along for months but still he just became so annoying and they clearly weren't right for each other. then I briefly had hope in s4 when he and rory started a bit of a friendship, I thought that could be a nice route for their dynamic, until the cheating happened which was just... yikes :/

honorable mention to tristan: I think his relationship with rory could've been fun to explore, although I don't have strong feelings either way

jess: I am not remotely a fan of this relationship :/ I honestly just didn't like him pretty much as soon as he showed up and felt like for the duration of their relationship he never proved me wrong, I don't think he treated rory well at all and as much as he did go on to have (off screen) character development I'm glad she never took him back

quick shoutout to marty djfkdnwnf he was just kinda there BUT his character is important for the fact that matt czuchry initially auditioned for marty so if there was no marty character then there might not be matt as logan so that's a win for me personally <3

then logan is self explanatory of course 🥰

[f1nalboys]

Fic authors self-rec! ✨ When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers.

bex u sent me this so long ago and im sorry but im answering now >:))) THIS IS HONESTLY SO TOUGH!!!! ive written a lot of stuff ive never posted (both self insert stuff as well as original stuff) and lots of those would make this list but, for the sake of this, ill be keeping it to just what ive posted on here!!!

ONE: its gonna have to be my first ever fic on this acc!!! its a stu x short!reader request and its not the best written thing but its what got me actually posting on this account instead of just reblogging stuff!!!! ive made some incredible friends since joining this fandom and :,)))) just nice to look back on it hehe

TWO: both of my car sex fics with ian (one and two)!!! first full length fic of him (and ur request no less!!!!!) and GOSH i just,,, love him? its a very him fic and scenario, u know?

THREE: the REAL number one fic is my ghostface!randy and ghostface!reader fic, Together? that is still in need of a part two! this was really the first 'dark' fic i wrote and being able to do that with my guy randy was so much fun! i think the dynamic between randy and the reader, seeing how fucked up and codependent it is, writing the nasty shit they got up too... chefs kiss fr!!!! part two needs to be written and someone has to bully me into it

FOUR: my self insert bo fic, flower fields! it means oh so much to me honestly, way more than anyone knows hehe. it was very healing to write just... a nice and good loving time? with this icky guy? and its def ooc but idc!!! hes my little butterfly ur honor

FIVE: COSTUME, MY ONE AND ONLY (full length) MICKEY FIC! again, dark and fucked up and oh so much fun to write!!!! he is my yucky icky princess >:3

BONUS NUMBER SIX AND SEVEN BC I CAN'T CHOSEEEEE: redamancy (my michael from tlb x reader fake dating fic that will be finsihed one day i swear) and simple pleasures (my randy meeks x billys gf!reader fic >:) hehe) are ym babies, my children, my long term fics that haunt me everyday! some of the chapters in these fics r my masterpieces fr

BONUS NUMBER EIGHT BECAUSE I CAN'T CONTROL MYSELF AND NO ONE CAN TELL ME WHAT TO DO: memory, my little sinclair bros childhood fic! this was at the height of my rewatch era the other week where i watched it all day everyday! their childhood is so interesting to me and writing this, a small and a seemingly not important moment in their lives was sooooo much fun!!! also fun fact, as i wrote this i was overwhelmed w love for the movie and messaged both brian van holt and damon herriman on insta just thanking them for their roles and for putting on a great preformance and giving us stuff to work with and,,,,??? they both answered and thanked me??? idk still mind blowing fr hehe

[scarredsands]

Pokémon Favourites!

FIRST GAME: yellow..... shoutout to the only two pokemon i had during my run, a high level 80's pikachu and a level 90+ pidgeot. we got all 8 badges somehow and then got stuck in victory road. also i thought the poison overworld effect was my character getting electrocuted and it scared me :)

FAVOURITE SPINOFF GAME: this is going to be SO out of left field but.... i really. REALLY liked pokemon trozei. i have always been such a sucker and sap for puzzle games, so a puzzle game w pokemon?? get me in there. also i really enjoyed the ranger games, something about making circles on the screen made my brain go brr, and they were just rly fun and unique games period!! (and ofc honorable mention to colo/xd but ive never beaten them so)

FAVOURITE EVIL TEAM: flare..... now i know ppl just see them and it's like omg their clothes are ugly wtf why do they care abt beauty??? but like. flare is SCARY. they spied on a whole entire region without anyone knowing. they have plainclothes agents EVERYWHERE listening in. they are so adhered to their goal and objective that people pay money to join. also the four scientist ladies??? PLEASE.

FAVOURITE TEAM LEADER: i really like lysandre for the reasons above. i think lysandre is just. such an interesting character? his goals are insane but there's this humanity he still has despite that. shedding tears that pokemon will not belong to his beautiful world. but ALSO i love cyrus. something about him staying behind in the distortion world was oddly harrowing to me as a kid.

FAVOURITE STARTER: PIPLUP PIPLUP PIPLUP

FAVOURITE BOX LEGENDARY: rayquaza once reigned supreme until origin giratina came knocking. rayquay still has a special place in my heart but like.... origin giratina? cmon now.

FAVOURITE POKEMON: my above answer may make this one obvious..... but outside of legendaries, i really like mimikyu :0 and also luxray, luxray kicks ass. and an honorable mention to empoleon!!!

FAVOURITE PROFESSOR: professor birch.... just this himbo dad of a professor and i love him so much.

FAVOURITE RIVAL: silver..... shoutout to younger me naming him ??? in crystal bc i thought that was just his name deadass.

FAVOURITE CHAMPION: cynthia of COURSE this is not even a question at all?? honorable mention to steven stone, him n cynthia r the powercouple otp living rent free in my brain for over a decade 

FAVOURITE CHARACTER (if not already covered): honestly i just think cynthia is one of my faves in general. typical expected answer but i just love her character, the way she actually plays a role in dppt and helps you along, and her team? it's all just iconic and she really is just a baddie. the cynthia jumpscare in undella forever making my heart race!!!!

FAVOURITE STORY: scvi.... if you asked me before last november, i would have picked platinum, but scvi made me ugly cry and i will never forget that story!!! 

FAVOURITE MUSIC: gen 3... hoenn specifically. the trumpets?? the vibes?? we love it.

FAVOURITE REGION OVERALL: sinnoh might be overrated and overhyped (save ur eyerolls/sideeyes @ me pls!!!!) but it will forever have a special place in my heart and is extremely important to me, and to my childhood overall. ill never forget my mom getting me and my brother diamond and pearl despite how tight money always was, and we just sat in the backseat on the carride home playing and showing each other stuff in the game, talking abt our starters, on that overcast april day..... diamond is my most played pokemon game with over 500 hours, and ive replayed platinum more times than i can count. i just love them and they'll forever be in my heart.