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[stevenrogered]

Jonathan Bailey wins Best Supporting Actor in a Limited series for Fellow Travelers at the 2024 Critics Choice Awards

[freshbaked-bread]

marvel were COWARDS!!!!!!! for not giving this old man a tail

[bamsara]

When did you get arson? Like how old is a living fire hazard and how was it still working

He's over 6-7 years old, which given the daily use I put him in is pretty decent. Also the guy said yesterday that it might not be the thermal paste that gone out (Arson was clean, so it's not dust or debri blocking fans) but the silicone inside it had melted/degraded over time. I'll hopefully find out his prognosis later today (and im kinda hoping the guy can see if heat damaged the keys too badly if it's repairable or not so I can still properly write on him)

[foldingfittedsheets]

Anxious. I have to get up and pack soon to go on my week long work training trip. I don’t have a laptop so I can’t work on any of my art projects or comics while I’m gone.

My beloved has very graciously said I can take the Switch with me even though we’re both playing TotK but I’m like. Is that all I can do? A week without getting to zone out into art projects in a foreign environment? Without my wife and kitties? Boof.

[erinwantstowrite]

i also love bruce’s expression in the last panel of the friendsgiving comic :,) like it def looks like he’s trying not to cry but it also looks like he’s having yet another hard-hitting moment of “oh this is REALLY the son of my son” despite already knowing this bc petey is such a little cuddlebug (like dick)

peter being a cuddlebug is so important to me... (enough so that i plan for steph to call him that as her nickname for him) like they barely manage to escape dick sometimes, how in the world are they gonna say no to peter when he wants to hug??? they can't. ever. i hope to have some moments where it shows peter is truly comfortable with all of them (i.e. peter flops onto a couch with tim and they take a nap, peter hangs off of jason's shoulders ((advantages of being spider-man)), chilling with duke with his feet on duke's lap, etc. not even damian will be spared. bruce, too) i'm a big fan of platonic cuddling and it's just too cute to pass up on

[sorryimananti-romantic]

The Leaders | chapter 6 teaser

“Oh, dear,” Seonghwa pulled you closer, prompting you to settle on your knees instead of keeping them upright as a barrier between you two. “Tell me you said something he deserved to hear.”

“I did,” you sniffed. “I told him not to come after me or mine ever again unless he wants to start a war he can never win.”

A smirk creeped up the underboss’ lips, sending a stirring of nerves to your stomach. “Me or mine, huh?”

“I had to say something–”

“You did well,” Seonghwa said, cupping your face and wiping your eyes, nodding in acknowledgement. “You did so well, love. And I’m glad you stayed strong. You don’t ever have to break in front of your father anymore. You can break in front of me, in front of any of us but– never him.”

You looked at Seonghwa, truly looked at him. His eyes glinted with a million unsaid things, but even in the dim light of the lamp, you could tell that they held admiration and something like pride. Something you always wished to see in someone’s eyes when they looked at you.

“Why do you cry, love?” He asked, wiping the tears that threatened to roll down your cheeks. You didn’t even realise that you were crying silently now.

“I don’t know,” you told him. “Seonghwa– can I really break in front of you?”

Something unreadable flickered across Seonghwa’s face. “You can. With me, or Hongjoong, or any of us, you can be yourself. We’re here– I’m here for you. You never have to feel alone again.”

You tightened your lips, stifling a sob. Seonghwa only smiled, scooting closer to plant a kiss on your forehead. You let out a shaky breath and then went still as he kissed your cheek. 

“Won’t you look at me?”

The deep timbre of his voice sounded inside your skull. You kept your eyes shut and he wiped the remnants of the tears away from your lashes before kissing both your eyelids, his soft lips like feathers of an angel's wing shielding you from everything that hurt you. Your hands tangled in his shirt as he continued to pepper light kisses all over your face, the sound of his breath making your heart flutter uncontrollably. However, he stopped right when he kissed near your mouth, his hands almost shaking as he cradled your jaw and pulled back to gauge your reaction.

“Look at me.”

“I’m scared,” you opened your eyes and your gaze stuck on his plump lips. “I don’t understand why you all want me. I don’t understand why we’re here, like this.”

He only smiled in answer. “Is it too much?”

“That’s the thing,” you scoffed in disbelief. “I don’t think it is.”

[lyss-butterscotch]

so i just thought about a cute dynamic with your iterator AU

so, the slugcats objectively have more experience in surviving and traversing this world, so they might start treating the iterators as little siblings or pups and generally being protective of them

like, survivor might treat moon as if they were their sibling and gourmand would definitely treat her as a pup.

you ever seen those pictures of tired parents with hyperactive toddlers on a leash? that would probably be the relationship between hunter and NSH

pebbles is arti's adoptive pup. that's just how it is, i dont make the rules

Edit : Sorry for the janky writing my fancy word braincell isn't working rn

[rainybyday]

My Skyfallers List - PKMN LA edition

To all my Pokemon fans out there, I have just played Pokemon Legends Arcues (completely) and Scarlet this year. Let me tell you I had brain rot for weeks that I've started to read all the Skyfaller au's (au's in Legends Arcues where a person other than Dawn/Lucas and Ingo fell into Hisui) and I have read a LOT.

So I made a list, I hope you enjoy this as much as I did.

(Also if a tag has it, i will say it so its not spoilers!)

Hisui's icy fangs and arms by The_Akai_Hebi

Status: Ongoing, updated Jan 2025

Silver is our next Skyfaller, and part of an au with Lance as his dad and the makeshift family that comes alongside him. Only, it's hard to trust people fully after a life like his, so being dropped in Hisui? Not the best thing to end an argument with your crush.

skipping stones on the sands of time by spaceyFeline

Status: Ongoing, updated Aug 2022

Steven Stones! Another Champion whom got stuck in Hisui and taken in by the Diamond clan. With an added twist of original characters and both expected and unexpected things that come with being a Hoenn Champion in Old Sinnoh.

Pearls are Stones too, right? by KitkatKK2

Status: Ongoing, updated Sep 2022

Steven Stones again! This time it's a back-and-forth of both Steven and the modern characters in Hoenn pov when Steven disappeared, a short read but no less entertaining.

there's blood on your lies by HopeStoryteller

Status: Ongoing, continuous updates

A Cynthia story plot where Cynthia is the main protag! Its my first Skyfaller story I read and I still love it today, with no regrets, the start of my brain rot and- just read it you'll understand.

Sins of the Past (Self) by CuratorOfFluff

Status: Ongoing, updated Oct 2024

This is a Cynthia-is-Volo fic where Cynthia travels back to save Dawn from her past self when she was still known as Volo. It's cute as fuck (but also guilty immortal so :/ )

Faller Cynthia by solarsnapp

Status: Complete

Cynthia but as a 15-year-old with all the insecurities of a teenager who was hit by life pretty hard. She has a very rocky trip but it gets better! Maybe...

Series: She Cometh and She Returneth

Pledge to Thyself by littlev123

Status: Ongoing, updated Feb 2025

Riley's first encounter with Mew, the guardian of aura itself, had led to him being taken by Arcues to the past. But in a place like Hisui, his aura abilities would not be taken kindly by many.

A letter to my ghost by NellBo_o

Status: Ongoing, updated Apr 2023

Changing it up, it's N from Unova! It's about a younger N (a bit ferial) who found his way to Hisui and is under Ingo's and both clan's care!

The Rifts in Truth by CavernOfDragons

Status: Ongoing, updated Sep 2024

Another N from Unova story where it changes pov's a lot with many characters from modern Unova and Hisui. Featuring N living with a bunch of Hisuian Zoroarks, Ingo gaining some memories, and Emmet taking care of a crying Zoroark who was left behind.

Have you heard this joke before? Two Unovans are sent to Hisui... by ToriiStorii

Status: Complete

Not a fic but a series of fics that complete a whole story of Ingo and Rosa, our Black and White 2 protag, going through their adventures in Hisui together.

Do you Point and Call with those Hands? by OffColorDarkrai

Status: Complete

Technically a Skyfaller au since Elesa is shown to be in Hisui, but it's mostly a fic about Emmet and Ingo being menaces who can speak Pokemon. Go figure.

Birds of a Feather by hallowed-vessels (hatterenehostel)

Status: Complete

Sabi finds a girl who is way too happy hugging a Gible of all things. Iris loves the baby dragons.

Ferality by shuppetry

Status: Ongoing, updated Dec 2024

Emmet, Emmet, Emmet, Emmet, Emmet! Emmet is here and roaming in the Icelands before a duo of Skyfallers goes out to find out the mystery of the lone man in the land of ice.

don't let yourself go hungry now by swiftishere

Status: Complete

A short story about Emmet and the Zoroark who reluctantly agreed to keep him when one of her Zorua's wanted to keep him. Pokemon adoption anyone?

Give Not In To Sorrow by Hare_Brained_Scheme

Status: Complete

Emmet and his Zoroark family! Except, not many people take too kindly to people who share their face in the Icelands, so when Emmet was left to the Pearl Clan to heal from his fall, kindness is not the first thing he will wake up to.

The Fallen Lady and Her Warden by ExtremeExhaustion

Status: Complete???

Emmet is his Lady's Zoroark official (unofficial) Warden who happens to see a new skyfaller who is way too young to be placed in danger at all. Who let this little child out in the wild on her own, Emmet needs names.

The Man behind the Illusion by HHHDontWorryAboutIt

Status: Complete

Part of a series where Emmet is dropped in Hisui to find his brother, but everyone knows of Ingo's encounter with Zoroarks who turns into a man in white paired with a large smile. They are not eager for him to meet his brother.

Series: That's the Newest Warden of the Pearl Clan!

The Warden, The Girl, & The Fox by Elithesia_Autem_Danguarde

Status: Complete

Akari finds a man in the Icelands covered in face paint and fake fur with his Zoroark pack and decides that he is friend shaped. Also, Ingo is dealing with amnesia until he is not.

Warden's Twins by Areherthewarlock

Status: Complete

Volo brought both Ingo and Akira to Hisui, but what no else expected was that he also brought the younger version of the twins, Ingo and Emmt, into Hisui as well. People don't mind them, but the family resemblances may have caused confusion.

Series: Warden's Twins

First Impressions by Oxirito

Status: Complete

Where a young Emmet is thrown in Hisui with the older version of his brother.

Series: Young Emmet in Hisui Au

Devil's Train by IDs_Fantasy

Status: Ongoing, updated Jul 2022

Emmet saw his brother in a space-time distortion, fell from the sky, caused Lucas to have mind-blowing revelations, turned into a child, and threatened Giratina. Not in that order.

Trick or Trap? (You mean Treat?) by Canisleepnow9

Status: Ongoing, updated Jul 2022

Emmet and Ingo both fell at the same time but were found by different people. Emmet was found with an empty train, a few Joltics, and a small Zoura pup whose fur is not one you would find in Hisui.

The Smiling Warden by blank_witch

Status: Ongoing, updated May 2024

Emmet is found alone with the Zoroarks of the Iceland and interacts with the few people who walk into the land of malice and snow.

Welcome to Sinnoh's Temple by Maternal_Macrophage

Status: Complete

Emmet is our protag and the only one to fall from the sky, and though he may be good with Pokemon, there are repercussions from being the only Skyfaller in Hisui. And Hisui is not kind.

Series: Welcome to Snnoh's Temple

Onward and Upward by koidefender

Status: Complete???

Emmet is in the past but not in Hisui as he travels through regions without any memories and picks a whole team of Pokémon along the way.

Reflecting The Same Light by Elithesia_Autem_Danguarde

Status: Ongoing, updated Jan 2025

Emmet found his way into Hisui with his memories but thinks it's best to keep that fact to himself, and was later accepted into the Diamond Clan. But it turns out everyone also thinks it's best to keep the fact a man with his face also fell in Hisui a while ago too.

Through the Fire and Fury, You Will Come Home by ToriiStorii

Status: Complete

Emmet is the one to fall from the sky instead of Ingo, and that changes things when the youngest brother is taken instead of the eldest. Siblings will always protect one another.

I Told You So by Maternal_Macrophage

Status: Ongoing, updated Aug 2023

Emmet fell from the sky before Sabi became a Warden, changing the positions they both held in the clan and their small family of two.

Series: I Told You So

Next Stop: Hisui by CuzReasons

Status: Complet

Emmet found his way to Hisui and was helped by Akira to reunite with his brother. Now its time to find a way to bring Ingo's memories back to him.

Series: Next Stop: Hisui

The Rift That Tears Us Apart by Shinx25

Status: Ongoing, updated Jan 2025

Emmt found himself in Hisui and was told by a tiny child that Ingo is here! Unfortunately, things will never be easy for the brothers to meet.

There was always four skyfallers (Two of them never meant to happen) by The_Embodiment_of_chaot1c_energy

Status: Ongoing, updated Jul 2023

When both sets of twins are skyfallen, just not in the same space.

three of cups by paopuleaf

Status: Ongoing, updated Feb 2022

Emmet is the protag in PLA and it changes things.

Identity Theft by finnshavocado

Status: Complete

The title says it all, no commentary, it's fun.

Authority of the King by Kiwikipedia

Status: Complete

Nanu, the local authority of Alola, is now in Hisui. Well, not for long since this is near the end of the game where Volo reveals his true colors, luckily Nanu got his memories back and will not take Volo's bullshit.

Lost on the road of life by Kayuri (gifted to HopeStoryteller)

Status: Complete

Leon and Hop! Two brother are trapped in Hisui and on their first day in new lands they meet a very, very familiar face.

When Darkness Falls by SilverPurity

Status: Ongoing, updated May 2022

Piers was taken by a rift that appeared during the Eternatus battle, dropped into Hisui with no memory, and left his sister and freinds behind. While Piers is stuck in the past, Marnie is left alone without her brother.

Whispers of a Different Tomorrow by LunaLitten

Status: Ongoing, updated Jun 2023

Arven boy! After the events of Area Zero, his three friends help him journey through time to find his mom again, except there might be an issue of using a time machine that can only travel a human into the past but not back...

The Long Way Home by No_Moon

Status: Complet

Something went wrong on the day our Paldean friend battled the AI Professor, now all four of them are in the past in a land called Hisui.

Anime:

Blast to the Past by MelonSalts, VocicesWithFear

Status: Ongoing, updated Jan 2023

TEAM ROCKET! Or James at least is now in Hisui as our protag who is off to complete the Pokedex because people are scared of Pokemon!? Meanwhile, Jessie has to team up with our anime Unova trio to find her partner in crime back.

Series: Blast to the Past (James in PLA AU)

Manga:

Chapter Hisui by 4thClover

Status: Ongoing, updated Dec 2023

The manga version of Lucas, Diamond from Pokémon Special Adventures, is now trapped in Hisui after a battle gone wrong. While he tries to go through the bizarre ways people view Pokémon (and himself), Platinum and Pearl are struggling after their trio became a pair.

Reversed Skyfallers:

Lost in the city by Bekksasaurus

Status: Ongoing, updated Jan 2024

Irida finds herself lost in a big city with a familiar face helping her up.

Lost, Watward Pearl by MaddyHatty, TheBreklayer

Status: Ongoing, updated Oct 2024

Irida is in present-day Unova and is helped by many descendants of her clan and rival clan to find a way home, but the more time she spends in modern Unova, its becomes hard when she starts to learn about this new time.

girl lost in space by willowsinthenight

Status: Ongoing, updated Dec 2024

Little Irida finds herself lost and alone in a place foreign to her, even when she has no memories. But a kind man adopted her who goes by the name of Ingo.

Times are Changing by AsleepBySeven

Status: Ongoing, updated Sep 2024

After the events of PLA, everything went back to normal. But with when meeting legends you are gifted 'Blessings' by your god. This is a story of how Adaman and Irida found out what was their blessings.

Rei in Nimbasa by PikoBlaster

Status: Ongoing, updated Oct 2024

Rei the assistant of Professor Laventon and not the resident Skyfaller, goes into a space-time distortion and finds himself with two people with matching coats and a city of lights.

Doubled and Halved by Anonyomous

Status: Ongoing, updated Dec 2024

Arvens finds himself in a realm that has no laws of logic with blood on his hands and a fractured memory. He also finds a man in white just like him in this bizarre space of distortion.

When they're home:

How to cope after time travelling... again by AceTrainerRilthi

Status: Complete

Ingo and Dawn find themselves back in the present and after a while, meet each other again. Except the story line for Black and White is just beginning.

Series: How to survive Team Plasma

Getting the Return Ticket Home by mycat

Status: Complete

Ingo finds himself in Area Zero and Arven finds Ingo in one of the most dangerous places in Paldea.

The Performance Princess Becomes a Battle Queen by MysticLanternLight

Status: Ongoing, updated Jan 2025

Ingo and Dawn find their way back to their time but with a twist. It's the Anime version of Dawn.

Drayton's Uncles Ingo and Emmet by HHHDontWorryAboutIt

Status: Complete

Drayton holds a special bond with his Uncles Ingo and Emmet, but he was left behind when one of his Uncles disappeared.

recollection, retrospection, recognition by ApatheticRobots

Status: Complete

Ingo retains his memories, it changes things, makes guilt all the more harder to ignore.

Special Mentions:

In Tandem by yautjan

Status: Ongoing, updated Jul 2022

Arceus meet the twins in a dream to help their chosen child: Ingo to Dawn as Akira and Emmet to Lucas. Both sets of twins travel around the region to stop two doomsday plots all while beckoning a family to their chosen twin.

Freighthopping by Raynavan

Status: Complete

Ingo would sometimes find himself in the small pockets of distortions from time to time, and in those space-time areas he would meet people who know him verrrrrry well.

Wisdom of the Wardens by VsSocialAnxiety

Status: Ongoing, updated Jan 2025

Hisui endded and Sinnoh was named after the last of the ten Wardens died, but the Almighty did not like that one bit. After many years buried in cold soil, all ten Wardens wake up again in Modern Sinnoh.

Uncoupled by FangFury

Status: Complete

The pov of people who first meet the new Warden of the Highlands, Warden Ingo.

Immortality Is Hard On The Mind by entity9silvergen

Status: Complete

Volo is an immortal, and being immortal means your memory isn't the best of things, nor is your mental and emotional state. Sometimes he gets feelings of pokemon, places, and even people. And this Ingo person makes him very happy to see him and talk about trains.

Under Snow is Ice and Rock by oofins_Mcgoofins

Status: Ongoing, updated Aug 2023

A 'Hisuian Snow' Au is about Alec staying with Zoura instead of leaving with his father and the changes that come with it.

[leclercskiesahead]

“If you woke up as your teammate one morning, what would be the first thing you would do as him?”

“I know what you would do, which is postpone the alarm. You are such a sleepy guy…”

…

His alarm rings and he blindly reaches for his phone out of habit, brain not even fully awake.

His hand doesn’t find the phone immediately as the ringtone begins to annoy him in his dream, and he grabs desperately to turn it off.

“Mate.”

He must have rolled to one side in his sleep. The bedstand feels further than he remembers, his hand smacking the softness of the sheets and pillows instead.

“Oi, cabron.”

Carlos sounds a bit strange in his dream. And dares to smack his hand before grabbing it.

Oh, they must have swapped sides during the night somehow. No wonder he can’t reach his phone. He must have been grabbing Carlos’ face.

Charles groans as he wrestles his hand from Carlos’ grip. It doesn’t take much of a fight since they are both barely awake, and as soon as it is free he throws his arm over his eyes.

His hairy arm.

Hadn’t he shaved recently? Or maybe it was his hair getting too long.

“Mate, what the fuck.”

Carlos’ voice - the speech is like Carlos’ but the voice doesn’t quite sound like his, not as deep and accent garbled with something else - is what makes Charles finally blink open his eyes.

What the fuck indeed.

Charles jerks up and barely catches himself with his arm - a very tan, very hairy arm - as he stares at his own body sitting up next to him.

They had not switched places during the night. Or they had. Kind of. Not really.

“Fuck,” Charles echoes, voice deeper than he’s ever been able to reach. He slowly feels himself down, the body that is so familiar to him yet unfamiliar from this perspective.

“Mate…” he mutters, and looks up again. He is — Carlos, in his body, is staring at him, at Charles, in Carlos’ body. Carlos’ body that Charles - as Carlos - had just ran his hands over. Oh. Charles realised how it looked.

Carlos - because even wearing Charles’ face and having Charles’ voice, he is still Carlos - holds his gaze. And somehow Carlos still manages to put the force of his deep dark stare behind Charles’ lighter eyes. Charles watches, entrapped, as Carlos’ - his - hand slowly trails down, past the loose blanket that falls aside, and carefully wraps around his cock.

Oh, is that how he looks when…

Carlos - as Charles - blinks and also turns to stare at the length in his fist. He pauses and frowns.

“If I wank now am I giving you or myself a wank?”

Leave it to Carlos to think about these things and make them both have a crisis.

Fortunately, Charles doesn’t think much. Especially not this early in the morning. His - Carlos’ - hands move before he knows it, grabbing his own and Carlos’ - or Carlos’ and his own - members.

“Now it doesn’t matter,” he says.

It never does when their bodies are pressed so close he loses all sense of where he ends and Carlos begins anyway.

[oodnam]

[thebreakfastgenie]

I have a very old kindle fire and it's starting to show its age in terms of not staying charged (and also isn't compatible with libby even though it's supposed to be). I'm not looking to replace it yet but when I do I was planning to go back to the paperwhite type e-reader with the e-ink screen and minimal extra features. I would now prefer to get one from a company other than Amazon. Does anyone have any recommendations? I would be using it primarily for library books, not purchased books.

[khainovo]

i may have an unhealthy obsession with an unreleased character.

[percevall]

Today I give you, Girls. Throné & Castti from Octopath Traveler being soft :))

Sorry for the crappy phone quality, I might scan it later and edit it. Edit: uploaded the scanned version, I'm not sure if I prefer that one or not but oh well.

Just in case someone actually enjoyed that version sfgfds.

[spiderin-space]

Even after they both ascend, some things never change 😩😩

[theprincessandthepie]

LOOK AT HERRRRRRR <3333333

[friendlyneighbourhoodelf]

codywan on tatooine. something something the loss of boundaries as allowing them to explore their relationship. but this as accompanied by greater loss. you know