#when I get to it I'll send photos :OOO

[samantha-and-her-chaotic-desires]

@hazbmymhotel here! My wife made this recipe for gluten free banana bread!

The DRY

3 cups oat flour (you can blend oats to make it!)

1 tsp salt

2 tsp baking soda

1 cup brown sugar, loosely packed

1 cup sugar

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The WET

2 bananas, mashed to hell

1 cup applesauce

4 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

1 lemon zested

2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice

1/2 cup maple syrup OR honey

(optional) 1/2 cup to 1 cup berries

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Instructions

Stir DRY all in Small bowl

Stir WET all in Big bowl

Add DRY into WET

Bake in 2 sprayed/oiled loaf pans OR 9x9 baking pan

BAKE for 60 Minutes at 350°F

(check with toothpick at 45 minutes to test if done)

YOOOOO I'm gonna be trying this soon 👀 THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!

[propertyofyoutube]

For those who haven’t read Our Time Is Now yet…. Here is a little sneak peak of one of my favourite parts of the book👀

CONTEXT: Kacey and Colby have very recently got back together and have booked an RV trip for all their friends. It was the morning they were headed on their holiday and whilst Kacey was making pancakes for the house, Colby had other ideas… 😉

WARNINGS: SMUT 18+, mostly foreplay hand stuff, but getting caught in act! Super cute!

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Kacey stood in the kitchen, making a cup of coffee. She thought for a moment before speaking out loud, "Ok Google, play Beast of Burden!" The music began to play, as she began to move her hips to the music. She reached into the cupboard and took out the ingredients to make some pancakes. She began to pour the flour and eggs into the bowl as she danced and she sang to the music. She was whisking the batter together, shaking her bum as she happily danced to her favourite song, when suddenly she heard a chuckle come from behind her. She turned to see Colby, stood there, shirtless, in a pair of shorts, his eyes covering her entire body. She stood in her panties and Colby's black silk shirt, just barely covering her breasts. He watched as she smirked at him, continuing to dance and whisk. "Take a picture, it will last longer." Kacey spoke sarcastically.

"Oh I think I'll do just that." Colby took out his phone and started snapping photos of his girl. Kacey danced around posing and then became extremely embarrassed, so quickly covered up her face as it turned red and an uncontrollable smile spread across it. "Baby! Don't hide your face, you're beautiful!" Colby shouted as he walked closer to her, still snapping away. As he became closer to her and took one last photo of her face extremely close up, he moved his phone quickly pulling her tight to him and kissing her deeply.

"You gonna put them in your spank bank?" She smirked as she bit her lip at him.

"Oh absolutely," he nodded before kissing her once more. Colby looked at the bowl of batter that Kacey placed on the island. "Ooo, what are you making?"

"Pancakes!" Kacey laughed, "we're going on holiday today! So I thought I'd make some nice breakfast for us all."

Colby smiled at her, "you're so sweet baby." Kacey looked away embarrassed and headed for the fridge. As she opened it up Colby appeared on the other side of the door.

"What shall we put on them?" She looked in and saw syrup, chocolate, freshly whipped cream in a bowl and some strawberries. She quickly scooped some cream out of the bowl with her finger, before she sucked it clean. Colby watched her every move, how she placed the cream covered finger into her mouth and her lips pursed completely surrounding it, before pulling it out clean and wet. He swallowed hard, as he felt his dick begin to harden in his shorts. "You want cream and strawberries?" She looked at him and noticed the seduction in his eyes as he ran them all over her face and then to her body. He bit his lip.

"I may have to try some of that cream first." He spoke. His voice low, sending trembles throughout Kacey's entire body. She put her finger back in the bowl before scooping some cream up. She turned to him, as he leaned on the door and pointed her finger in his direction. Colby smirked before taking Kacey's hand and placing her finger in his mouth, sucking it clean once more. Kacey let out a deep breath as she watched him intently, his eyes never leaving hers. She licked her lips and then bit her bottom one. The sight left Colby gagging for her. Suddenly he pushed his lips onto Kacey's hard as the kiss was heated and passionate immediately. Kacey wrapped her arms around his neck as his hands found her waist, pulling tight on his shirt that she wore. Colby then reached down slightly, "jump" he mumbled in her mouth, now out of breath. Kacey did as he said and he caught her instantly, her legs now wrapped around his waist as his hands gripped hard onto her ass. He walked them over to the island and placed Kacey down. The kiss was inseparable, the need for them to have each other now was indescribable. Colby found Kacey's neck and began to suck and bite as she let out moans trying to be quiet not to wake Sam and Charlie. Colby's hand gripped hard on her breasts as he moaned into her neck. Suddenly, Kacey reached down and slipped her hand into Colby shorts as she gripped his hard cock and began stroking it. Colby moaned deep as his lips made their way back to Kacey's. His hand then moved from her breast and reached under her shirt and into her panties as he found her clit immediately. He began to rub in fast circles as she moaned into his mouth, causing his body to vibrate. He quickly grabbed her hips and moved her towards the edge of the counter. She gasped at the sudden movement. She continued to stroke his dick at a fast pace as he suddenly entered her with 2 fingers.

"Fuck baby!" She moaned out.

"Oh shit." He moaned loudly.

Their movements quickened as they kissed deeply. Both of them breathing heavily and moaning into each others mouths.

"Fuck Colby, I'm close-" she choked out. Colby quickened his speed, both of them completely engrossed in each others love and passion.

Suddenly there was a cough in the doorway of the kitchen. Kacey and Colby both froze still out of breath, still touching each other. They both turned their head in the direction it came from, still not letting go. Sam and Charlie stood in the doorway, Charlie wide eyed trying not to laugh as Sam shook his head smirking. "Seriously guys!" He spoke, as Colby and Kacey began chuckling. They both slowly let go of each other, pulling their hands out of each others pants. "This is a communal area!" Sam shouted, laughing.

"Take this upstairs!" Charlie said, as she began to break down in laughter.

Colby and Kacey looked to each other, still desperate for one another's touch. She looked at him, her eyes begging for him as she bit her lip. "I think we'll do just that." Colby said as he picked up Kacey and she wrapped her legs around his waist. He headed for the doorway as they both laughed.

Sam and Charlie quickly moved out of the couples way. "Oh god!" Sam shouted.

"You might wanna turn that music up bro," Colby chuckled as Sam looked back at him, "this one's gonna be loud." Colby hurried up the stairs still holding Kacey as Sam turned to Charlie. Sam's mouth dropped wide open as Charlie covered hers with a hand. They both laughed and shrugged before heading into the kitchen.

"Ooo pancakes," Charlie laughed as she picked up Kacey's bowl and began to whisk.

"I am hungry, I think we should finish what they started." Sam smiled as he kissed Charlie on the cheek. Sam turned up the music up higher to muffle out the sounds of Kacey getting pounded by Colby as they danced around the kitchen, so much happiness and love. Making pancakes ready for their trip.

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AUTHORS NOTE: when reading the book, I highly recommend you read it chapter by chapter, as every part of the story holds information about each character to help with story arcs! AND play the songs along with reading, it truly makes the experience so much better!! We all have an Our Time Is Now playlist, so make sure to send me a picture of yours 😏🖤 thank you for all the support, and I hope you love it just as much as we do!!

[front-facing-pokemon]

I just found this blog so I'm jumping aboard the plushie bandwagon.

First we got Absol. (i feel like maybe i should've taken a closer-up picture but it's the face sooo)

Then a Wooloo

And, saving best for last, this Leafeon plush I own... of which I swear on my life is official merch.

I also have some more eeveelutions (plus an eevee and a few more) but: 1. I didn't want to send too many. 2. Eeveelutions are more popular so I wanted to give some other people the chance to submit their own. 3. I don't know where my Pikachu and Snivy plushies are cuz I own too many stuffed animals.

Only reason I submitted Leafeon was so I could show off this ~masterpiece~ of a plushie I own. And it's face isn't the only thing wrong with it too lol. Also I just noticed I accidentally had one of the ears hanging back but I'm too lazy to go take another photo but i hope this amuses you nonetheless.

ALRIGHT THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF YOU AS I'VE BEEN OUT WITH MY FAMILY FOR CHRISTMAS HUH

let's start with these guys. beautiful. wonderful. i do not believe that that leafeon is official merch. this statement is baffling to me. welcome to the front-facing pokémon family. i love the eyes on that absol and wooloo is one of my faves. i was rather obsessed with it when it first came out and have a whole wooloo tag on my main blog because of it. though i guess i cleared that whole thing out recently so i don't anymore

let's get the nose ratings out of the way:

↑ this is a lie. 10/10 chespin

it's very wide and also 10/10 you're being too harsh. merry day to you too

circular face indeed. did i already post this one? if i did you can have it again

clodsire be upon ye. clodsire fans this is your treat until gen 9

this is a trend now. i think tumblr just crunched this image to hell for some reason so here's what the text says:

"Felt like joining the others for front facing pokeplushies [images] I have more pokemon but its early morning and these are the plushies that are easy to access"

i have not but i imagine "a moment" has long passed by now. my apologies but apparently today was an important day or something? idk

YEAH it's super unbelievably fucked up. i think i kinda remember the circumstance being a bit dire so everyone else was more worried about either 1. protagonist getting stomped on brutally or 2. saving the world from kyurem / the bittercold. i was totally under the impression that he was dead in that moment but i guess the characters may have known that he would just come back? i seem to vaguely remember partner being surprised that he came back and being like "but we watched you die :OOO" but maybe i'm misremembering that. i do create a lot of pmd lore on my own time so i have a hard time telling the difference between canon and fanon sometimes

two a day makes the world go round! this blog started when i started college, paused for 80% of my college career and now has started back up and i just graduated college a week ago. i would say "how time flies" but it has been a very, very long year

i've said it before and i'll say it again: gen 6 is my favorite gen, so you'll be seeing lots of favor for this gen from me in the tags i'm sure. maybe gen 6 is my excuse to start doing other things here. like that stream i keep talking about

if they put meloetta as a little obscure puzzle thang in sv, i'm sure they'll do something for genesect. i hope. at least for keldeo probably. genesect i'm not sure is very popular, unfortunately, outside of the tumblr crowd. if the general public's opinion on genesect is favorable, then maybe

okay and then i tried to scroll down further in my screenshots for more asks and saw the wobbly will smith in a hospital bed Gimme a Hug, Man that i copied from the "i get a little bit genghis kanghis" post so that's it. to everyone who christmases: merry it. it is today. although it's basically over by now so! merry boxing day for tomorrow if i don't say anything tomorrow. but i probably will. now i'm gonna go queue up today's 'mons because i haven't done it yet today. see you all in a few weeks when those post

[dio-the-thot-exterminator]

whats the tumblr accounts of some of ur fav ocs like

I wanted to come up with actual usernames for them but some were taken and that's kinda awkward uhhhhhh

Becky Maurice

“You have tumblr? Ew grosss”

I love Becky but she wouldn't be caught dead on tumblr 

She's a Instagram tiktok girl sorryyy

If we are being sillay then she’d have a secret acc prlly one of those girly coquette blogs or a stan blog for cupcakke whaaaaaa

Definitely just something with aesthetic photos and gifs.

Also Becky does editing as a hobby so she might post some of her videos

If she were to interact/collab with someone it would be like those giant editing videos

(i guess this might be an instagram thing but when a lot of amv editors come together and slay)

She would only post edits that are relevant to the aesthetic and theme of her blog

also she'd delete asks and dms (if its not about collabing)   

Jia 

"What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my--"

I used an old photo i alr had oof

I don't even know but she would send a lot of hate anon

Like her whole blog is just her arguing with people.

She sends it off anon first but if someone stops replying or blocks her

She makes an another acc and goes on anon to terrorize people.

She's deff the person on live telling the opps to pull up and it's like 4 am

She got a job (a literal warrior princess) but she behave like she unemployed so she on here 24/7

I don't wanna say her blog would be like a thirst trap blog but...

if she's not arguing with ppl she's flexing on them and posting like insane workout videos.

Or sparring sessions.

or thirst traps but in a way to piss people off

She’d prlly post some sort of art too but the replies and reblogs are turned off cuz she fight with too many people hahhhhh

She’d also have to remake her blog so many times cuz she gets reported a lot

Jelly

"Actually now that i think about it she'd send anon hate too"

Jelly wouldn't use social media cuz she doesnt know what it is

But if she was stalking really liked someone she’d join.

Deff one of those accs that look like a bot

no header no pfp no posts no likes no titles or anythin

she just lurks 

or sends weird anon asks

Rurue 

"I draw her too damn much she doesn't need an image"

pink with glitter and its kinda tacky lookin with clashing colours

Her tumblr would be kinda a fandom blog?

About all her little shows that she fw

reblogging and likin everything hahaha hits the post limit everyday

she's one of the people that goes crazy in the tags

Rurue would post her fandom ocs awwww its gonna be so cute. 

Also just post images of her toys and little crafts then fucking randomly a image of her killing someone.

She gets away with it because people think it's a fake

She also doesn't know how to take good pictures so the victim is not identifiable

Octavia and Debbie

"Debbie doesn't look like that i was having trouble with her face so i covered one eye and yassified her..."

I'm grouping them together because they’d have very similar blogs.

(they are literally connected)

they are both kind of self loathing so they’d never post anything directly about themselves. 

ooo Becky would prlly find Debbie's blog and put her on blast -

"Uh look at the stupid shit debbie is posting on tumblr lets all make fun of her"

"Wait a minute becky…how’d you find that?”

“.......”

“What are YOU doing on tumblr???”  

The blogs would be a mix of like a rant vent #depression and like those early 2010 cringe like

The main difference is that debbie would be posting shit like this

and like those black and white images of crying anime girls.

Octavia would be reblogging historical art and photography etc etc

Ok thats it. Ahaha i spent to much time on this, sorry for typos <3 

[esta-elavaris]

So I don't know if you actually ever addressed this (my bad if you did) but what happened to the photo of Theodora's ex that she kept in her wallet? Did she keep it with all of the other photos? Did James ever find out it was a former lover of hers??

I'm just so curious because I remember in the end it said she was buried with the other photos and my first thought was "wait, what about the one with her ex?"

Also I don't have any gifs of James Norrington but I do have a gif of Jack Davenport looking rather surprised so I hope that'll do!

I love this thing of there now being a Davenport tax when people send me asks, what a time to be alive hhhh. Ooo okay so, being completely honest, if there was something I could change about the story it would be that. The whole thing ended up being a bit of a comedy of errors. I originally put that in there so it would spark the topic of Theo not being a virgin when the time came and James saw the photos, but then it ended up just not feeling right.

I think that would've provoked a much more intense response from him (the gif do be fitting), because then it's not a vague sort of concept of "I've slept with other people", adding "and this is one of them lol" and I didn't want to go down that path. I don't think he'd have been nasty about it, but certainly would've been more of a rude awakening to find out that way while literally looking at a portrait of one of the lads. I wanted that whole topic to be less of an argument and more of a discussion, even if it's strained, and I think the photo could've made all the difference there in the worst of ways - not least because she still had it, and it would've been easy to read into that incorrectly for James (and anybody in his position).

Also, his seeing the photo and questioning it then makes it less a thing of "Theo tells him of her own volition because she knew it might be an issue" and more of a "she was cornered and had to admit it", which I didn't want it to be either, because that's not Theo.

I intended to write a bit in a later chapter where she gets rid of the photo - burning it or discarding it into the sea - but then at some point or another I ended up certain that I had already written it as a throwaway line (bc I'd thought about doing it so often), I didn't want to accidentally do it twice, and turned out I hadn't, which I didn't realise until it was too late, so I accidentally didn't do it at all until it was too late.

I'm torn on whether I'll write a one-shot set during the DMC era where James finally sees the photo (I think it could be a funny thing for him to compare himself to the guy and be like "lmao I'm so much better, this is what a grown man looks like in her time? pah!" once they're more secure in their relationship), or just one where Theo gets rid of it, but yeah. Less a stylistic choice and more just an error on my part. I'm sorry!

But yeah, either way she wouldn't have had the photo on her when she was buried with them - she definitely got rid of it at some point, I've just yet to actually write that because I thought I already had 🙃

[khodorkovskaya]

03.07.23

two things today! well actually three, the third one being that i feel like a bad friend to nik. more specifically i feel bad about being a bad friend to nik. but that's not very interesting. so here are the two things i wanted to talk about today:

getting cockedblocked by dinosaur stickers

i had a dream about my groomer and i thought about what happened again and it's so funny and absurd so i wanted to tell you about him.

1. so i went to the stationery store today cos i needed to get envelopes and there was this hot guy in the queue. so i was like heuheuheuh. and he started talking to me! and i was like oh my god, is this actually happening? like im being approached by a hot person for the first time in my life and not some a weirdo.

oh also, side note, i couldn't stop myself from buying holographic dinosaur stickers too. like. holographic dinosaur stickers!!!

so anyway this guy starts talking to me and he tells me he's from sweden and his travelling around europe. and he's going to milan by train tomorrow and since there's no wifi, he decided to buy a little notebook to pass the time. and i was like ooo what are you gonna write in the notebook? and he was like poetry. and i was like thinking to myself like oh my god. a hot guy who's also a sensitive soul. wow.

and he asks me what im buying and so i show him the holographic dinosaur stickers like "yeah i love dinosaurs".

and then he goes to pay for his notebook and just... leaves.

without saying bye to me. nothing.

like was it the dinosaur stickers that turned him off?????

like come on!

so i stood there with my stickers like uhhhhhhh

so yeah, that was very funny.

if anyone catches a swedish looking guy called theodore in milan tmr, lmk! i have questions!!!

2. so i had a very sort of disturbing dream today. in the dream the guy who groomed me when i was 17 reached out to me like "hey whats up". and in my dream i was like oooooo im looking for a lover, right? how about we hook up? so i sent him a message like "heyyy" but then i remembered that he was into spanking so i was like ew no actually never mind. and then i woke up and felt sick.

and i thought about it today bc as silly as it sounds i still have this fear that one day i'll bump into him on the street. like we went on a date to this restaurant in the old town once and every time i pass by that restaurant im like shit what if he's there! which is ridiculous like he doesn't live there. and plus he's from a different city, so there really isn't a chance. and it's been many years but i sometimes still imagine scenarios of like accidentally meeting him and it sends shivers down my spine.

the last time he messaged me was when i was already with B. i think i even documented it on here cos receiving that message shook me to the core. i was like fuckkkk. i remember he invited me to his flat in lausanne or something. and i was like 😬😬😬

but yeah i was thinking about him today and how weird of a person he was. so i was 17 and he was like 50+. i told him that i was 18 but still like why would a 50 yr old pursue an 18 yr old. like why did he become this way? what was going on in his head? like

i remember when we were on our way to germany (yep, i went to literal germany with this man) he said, in all seriousness, that women mature faster than men and at 18 a girl already has everything figured out. like ??? i look at photos of myself at that age and i look like a child in makeup like those kids in toddlers&tiaras. and i remember him telling me that i had the perfect body and like yeahhhhh i had the body of a child but with breasts like what the fuck.

(omg so i wanted to find a pic of him to show you guys like his vibe. so i went on his facebook profile and he has a pic of him when he was younger and he looks exactly like nik...... this is so creepy. cos like me and my london bestie used to joke about how nik is gonna grow up to be this like weird 50 yr old who only hangs out with 25 year olds. and wow. okay.)

but anyway, to give you an idea of what the guy was like, so first of all he's from podgorica. and his last name is kočan. like as in cabbagehead. 💀💀💀

and he's this like typical old guy who goes clubbing type. like skinny jeans + some weird thin scarf + thick framed rectangular glasses. he has this like purposefully négligé beard and grey hair that's shaved on the sides. he has a basic tattoo on his shoulder that he got when he was younger and now regrets. and uhh yeah.

now that i've looked thru his facebook photos, he often appears in the bojack horseman outfit lol. like skinny jeans + jumper + blazer to the club combo.

he has a lot of friends. every photo he posts has so many comments like "love you [name]", "have a great time", "miss you", "let's hang out", etc. he's very social and people seem to love him.

and used to do ket a lot, tried to get me to do it too. and it's weird cos i remember when he'd kiss me he tasted like cinnamon. so now i have this weird like association. like ive never tried ket but whenever people mention it im like "oh, the cinnamon tasting drug". ive always assumed it tasted like cinnamon. even tho apparently it tasted like piss..? anyway.

he's a dentist of some sort...? and i don't remember whether he owns the club yacht or he's a shareholder or if he's just friends with the people who run it. but basically there's like this cruise on a yacht with techno music.

he has a daughter who's like 10 years older than me.

yeah. anyway. this is weird. like i wonder what he was thinking when he was pursing me. and he wanted to make out and touch me allllll the time. like a man in his 50s... with a presumed 18 year old... likeeeee. i just want to take a peek inside his head, you know? like it's so weird. does he realise how fucked up he is? what makes a person become this way?

wow okay i scrolled to the bottom of his facebook profile and his younger pictures look so much like my friend nik it's creepy af.

oh i almost forgot! he has a tiny penis! it was so small that the condom kept falling off. it was hilarious.

so um yeah! were you groomed as a minor? lemme know in the comments bellow! 😃😃😃😃😃😃

[gwen-tolios]

ooo, warnings on this one peeps. CW for suicide ideation, murder, light gore, and post-partum depression.

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You planned a murder-suicide.

You got through the murder part easily enough - bullet straight through your daughter's temple. You knew it was the safest way to do it. To save her from the threat outside of the family, a mercy compared to what her imposter-father would do to her. Death would be better than anything he would do. So you send her to Paradise before you, and before you can follow her there are hands on yours, the gun is wrenched away, and when it goes off it doesn't hit your brains. It hits your neck. You bleed, ready to die, but your imposter-husband has his hands on your neck.

You think he's going to choke you to death, a violent killing with his own hands, and you're grateful you've spared your daughter the same.

"It's okay, honey. It's okay." He says the same thing over and over. "I'll stop the bleeding. I promise."

You look across the nursery. Little Patience is there, against the wall with vacant eyes. Blood drips from her temple, and you imagine you hear her voice in your head. I'm waiting, Mommy. Why are you late? Did he get you? Did he stop you?

He doesn't even look into the corner. Doesn't notice the cooling body. And the paramedics who arrive to tape your neck don't notice either. No one sees her but you. "Patience," your murmur as you're rolled to the ambulance, "I'm coming."

They think it's a rambling of blood loss. Your imposter-husband tells you to not take anyone's hand and stay away from the light.

You're home two weeks later, with the diagnosis of 'psychotic break'. You thought your husband wasn't your husband and tried to kill yourself in an effort to escape some horrible plan he had for you he never had. A paranoid delusion, the doctors said. And you believed them. Believed them for two weeks. Until you walk into the nursery your first day home and there's Patience. She's two weeks dead, decaying, rotting. Flies and maggots have gotten to her. The nursery stinks, there are holes in her skin.

Your husband doesn't notice her, so you think she's a delusion but she smells and the flies buzz, and when you touch Patience's hand she's real. She's real, she's real, she's real and when you scream you go back to the psych ward. You never had a child, they tell you. You never killed her. But you did, you know you did. You killed her because your imposter-husband was going to hurt her, hurt you, but you had to be safe. Had to get away somehow, and death was the best option. Death for her. Death for you. But you failed in the latter so you try something else and whoops, it's death for him and you don't think there's something wrong with that until you're standing over his body in the bathtub and there's a knife in his gut.

You call 911 on yourself, but they don't see the body. They don't see either body, and you're left in a house where your forgotten daughter is decomposing, your husband's body is pruning, and the cops who show up make you a cup of tea and call your sister. She confirms you've never married.

But you have. There's a ring on your finger and a dead husband in the master suite. You never changed your name, so your driver's license is the same, and while you have tax records of filing as a couple you have a sneaking suspicion that if you tell the IRS they'll accuse you of fraud.

They can't be delusions. You can't hallucinate sound and touch and taste and smell and sight all at the same time. You can't be insane and see the bodies of your family. But maybe you are because you killed them. Maybe you are because no one else remembers them.

Or maybe it's something else. You force your sister to see your wedding album, or try to. She sees photos of a dude you dated she can't remember. Sees a magazine clipping of a dress you like. She sees but doesn't. She's never known you to be in a serious relationship in the past seven years. Never known your pregnancy cravings. Never known holding her niece.

Only you know, this made-up world in your head, but then you smell your daughter and stare at your husband and you know they're real. They're real and you killed them but the world has forgotten them and you have to remember as hard as you can because you're the only one who can.

You've killed them, worse, you made them disappear, and you want to disappear too, but you remember his hands on yours, his hands on your neck. It's okay, honey. It's okay. But it's not and you know that or maybe you don't. Maybe you should take your meds. But no, you hold your daughter's thumb bone and you press your fingers into the sludge surrounding your husband. They're real. It's the world that's gone crazy.

Your sister puts you in a ward and you ask about the house every day. The body in the nursery, the body in the tub. Did someone take them? Did someone clean? Where they buried?

"There was nothing there," she tells you, but you dream of them coming for you. Patience is waiting, has been waiting all this time, for you to join her somewhere safe. And it's not your imposter-husband who is the threat, he had been nothing but kind, it's the world. The world is the threat. And it's best to not be here anymore.

In a terrible accident, you kill someone in public. You frantically ask those around you for help but no one seems to even notice the body. You only then realize you have a horrible power. The people you kill are forgotten.

[thehitchhikerguide]

Season 2, Episode 8: Man at the Window

After that last episode, the bar had been set pretty low. I had some high hopes for this one since I saw that Michael Madsen was one of the guest stars. I'm guessing this was well before he took any phone call from QT.

This episode made me wonder about the screenwriters of The Hitchhiker - did they get THEIR ideas from spying on people? I say this because that is what this episode is about.

Our "hero" (played by Edward Albert, son of Green Acres star Eddie Albert), is first seen in a town square. I totally got a kick out of all the NYC references they make in this episode, when one look will tell you, this ain't NYC. He is seen with his motorcycle. He pulls something out.

A breast pump? No wait it's a recording device.

He's listening to this couple gripe about old age. Great, this is like a less interesting version of The Conversation. But then he picks up something else.

This woman with a black eye is on the phone with her lover. Sounds like someone is stepping out on someone, which is intriguing our main character. He follows her on his bike, completely oblivious to this guy...

The Hitchhiker doesn't attempt to get a ride, as I think it's pretty tough to hitchhike on a motorcycle. However I do see room on his seat.

Instead he lets us know that "Arthur Bradley Brown steals the words of others and uses them as they were his own. But what he doesn't hear are murmurs of danger, that could warn him of the violence that can pound with the human heart."

Arthur is able to follow this woman to an apartment.

He uses this window plunger to hear what is going on inside. Really? No one sees this in broad daylight?

We see this young woman's lover is...another woman! Wow 80s HBO, I'm impressed! Well I was until I found out this is how brave they were with this:

For a show that who's tagline always seem to be "look at these," I was pretty disappointed there was nothing steamy with this couple. This cuddle is as far as they go. That's the 80s for you.

Well there is the titular Man in the Window. Come on, they don't see this?

He is able to record them talking about the whole sorted affair and how Diane is married to a brutish cop, John. The other woman is Carla, a photography artist.

The snooping doesn't end here as he follows Diane back home to her husband.

Wow this guy is good, even at a cop's house he is able to be completely invisible while staying totally in sight.

Fine, it's okay to show the heterosexual sex, but not the women. Whatever 80s HBO.

Arthur takes this newly developing story to his agent who loves the writing because the conversations seem so real. Strange they didn't seem real when they were acted out, but okay. However, it doesn't have an ending. Even Hitchhiker episodes have those!

Instead of making one up, he decides to try to make one happen using this love triangle to his advantage. He starts by calling Michael Madsen and pretending to be his wife's lover.

He even tries to send flowers to Diane. She gets angry at Carla and Carla lets her know it wasn't her doing this.

Ooo back rubs. Steamy stuff. It's a little strange this woman has this naked photo of her girlfriend just facing out the window. Arthur uses this to take photo of just the cutout, instead of the women getting cozy on the couch.

He breaks into Diane and John's house. You'd think a cop would have better security than this.

He puts some device in the phone...I'll record everything!

He also places the picture of a picture on the bed. This triggers an argument with the couple where predictably, John beats on his wife while Arthur listens.

On further examination, John gets a clue to where the photo may have come from and gets the address of Carla, while still thinking Diane is having an affair with another man.

What ensues is a somewhat tame chase scene, where John, Arthur and Diane all speed towards Carla's place to warn her/save her.

I have to say there were some interesting camera angles on some of the transportation shots. I mean, this was directed by the same guy who directed Teen Wolf Too, so we are dealing with some expertise.

John puts his police siren on, but still manages to fall behind in the chase as he crashes into another car.

This give Arthur the advantage as he reaches Carla and scares the crap out of her by yelling at her, telling her not to be scared of him.

Diane comes over soon after and the two are reunited.

But realize they have no idea who this creepy guy screaming at them is.

Then John shows up with a gun and assumes Arthur to be the lover.

Arthur tells John that his wife is actually having an affair with a woman, and John pistol whips him. I'm not sure if this is because he doesn't believe him, or because he's mad his wife is a lesbian. Carla clocks John over the head with a bottle.

Cop sirens are heard as Arthur grabs the gun and in a very dazed state, stumbles out of the apartment.

The cops yell at him to drop the gun and instead he makes this stupid face.

And of course the cops start shooting at him like crazy.

And then:

Nothing.

It just ends with this freeze frame of him as you hear gun shots! I guess they had spent all their budget on that car crash (credit to that joke goes to my significant other). Ah well, it ends up being the most unintentionally funny ending ever. I was waiting for the Police Squad credit music to come on.

Oh wait, not over yet, I forgot about him. The Hitchhiker wanders in to tell us "Arthur Brown thought he could play people like instruments. He rearranged their lives like so many notes and used their emotions as chords. But then somebody came along that didn't appreciate Arthur's music...and put an end to Arthur's song."

Wouldn't that have made sense if he was actually a musician and not a wannabe John Travolta in Blow Out? This music analogy seems to be for a different episode, it doesn't seem to fit. All in all, an okay episode. I would have liked to see more Michael Madsen and more same-sex romance. Maybe we'll see it sometime on The Hitchhiker, but I won't hold my breath.

[reluctantjoe]

send me a character and I'll list... Elliot Ward, I know he's ur fav baynton blorbo!

as the show hasn't aired yet these answers will reflect the book. feel free to ask me this again when all six episodes have aired as my answers may have changed (my overall top baynton boy/blorbo is joe starling!! he will never leave my brain)

favorite thing about them

man is it bad that i couldn't think of anything? i should have probably given that answer about ariel. although his clear love for isobel is so sweet. i love how he still has all of the paintings she made even though she's passed. i hope we see some of those (especially the rainbow ones!!) in the adaptation. and i guess getting the first aid kit when he injuired andie?? go girl???

least favorite thing about them

murdering an innocent boy. sleeping with an underage girl twice. kidnapping a vunerable girl that wasn't even the one he thought she was. blackmailing. you know the basic and simple things

favorite line

"he swallowed a few more and then he started to struggle. i pinned him down and forced him to take more. when he started to get sleepy, i held him and i talked to him about oxford, about the amazing libraries, the formal hall dinners, how beautiful the city looked in spring. just so he would fall asleep thinking about something good. when he was unconscious, i put the bag around his head and held his hand as he died."

brOTP

i don't have one! he never really had friends in the book

OTP

him x isobel would have to be my (only) ship. even if we never see her and she's only a mention (fingers crossed for photos of them together in the adaptation!! wouldn't flashbacks of when she was alive be amazing though?)

nOTP

him x andie. need i say more

random headcanon

during his time in & after he was released from prison (if he was that is) he became severely depressed and also tried re-connecting with his daughters. after the trauma they went through after finding out what an awful man he was they refused. he spent the rest of his life guilt-ridden & alone

unpopular opinion

i do truly believe he felt guilty for sleeping with andie when he told pip. (and before then.) he should've been charged for it when he was arrested. hope he is in the show

song i associate with them

ooo i have so many!! in fact i have a spotify playlist especially for him. (plus one for elliot & andie!! feel free to follow my spotify - i have a ton of baynton boy playlists) but my top one would have to be gilded lily - cults

favorite picture of them

send me a character and i’ll list:

[jocosejoni]

HI ok I love ur stuff and ur stories and ur style of making comics and im looking to start making comics in the near future, do you have any advice or tips???? I hope u have a good day :] !!

!!! Ooo!! Get ready this is gonna be a lot! Maybe I'll put in random art???? to separate it????

So for advice:

Before you draw any pages or anything, have the story written! It doesn't have to be a book it can even just be a word doc w/ bullet points of what you want to happen. For CoD I have a general 5 point story thing (beginning, rising action, climax, falling action, and ending) with big things I want to happen under them that I end up building the chapters around.

Have your characters fully fleshed out too. Maybe your story doesn't have anyone get ice cream, but we all need to know what their favorite flavor is and why.

Find a style you like that's fast and easy and ideally doesn't do too much damage to your hands/wrists cause with comics you're gonna be drawing A LOT. Remember to take breaks to stretch your wrists/fingers/shoulders and to not look at a screen for a bit. And mental health breaks, they say "Comics will Break your Heart" and they mean it.

Lots of people say to start with short projects first and I think that's a good idea!!! you can always build on short stories if your heart desires, but also if you have a giant magnum opus idea that you think is perfect, just start it now! ALSO, also, if something happens and you gotta end it early its okay too, you can always reboot it! IF CARTOONS CAN HAVE A BILLION REBOOTS so can your comics.

Vintage 2013 Conner (technically CoD is a reboot of a comic I started in hs/early college that I had to end because a character I had based on a real person died in the comic and a few weeks after that page went up the real person died irl and I got SCARED.)

For Tips:

I love using all mediums. Sometimes its fun to experiment and use mediums specific to your story. Maybe you wanna do a mermaid comic, maybe try it in a watercolor style??? I normally use like a heavy ink style, but with CoD I wanted something sharper so I've been trying that.

Usually the flow with comics is Script, Thumbnails, Pencils at page size, inks, colors, and finally lettering. But after Scripting and Thumbnailing It can go in whatever order.

For lettering font choice is important! You want it to be legible and fit well with the tone of the story/dialogue. There's lots of good lettering info and free fonts for personal/self publishing use here: https://blambot.com/ They also have a scripting guide but there's been a newer guide floating around too that's trying to standardize scripts (cause if you start working with writers you'll find that EVERYONE is so different when they send you a script) https://www.oheysteenz.com/scs-template

I am inhumanly fast at comics usually, and that's because I like to cheat. I don't always do pencils. on digitally drawn comics I'll take a photo of the thumbnail and draw over it cause its just a general idea of where things need to go. On traditionally inked ones I do the same thing but I end up printing the thumbnail onto the Bristol paper.

Following sample is from apoppy chapter 2 and features traditional penciling which allows you to make fun notes like "less dick shapes" very accurate inks and to flesh out any drawing problems you might have.

For Drawing Print Comics:

In Clip Studio/photoshop/procreate, You want a canvas that's 300 DPI or higher sized appropriately for what size book you want to make. Regular size comics I make at 11x17 inches and size down for books to like 10 something by 6 something. Different printers have slightly different requirements and they all should have templates available. If you're coloring it export your image in CMYK, its gonna look weird on the webpage but don't worry.

For traditional drawing: 11x17 Bristol Board and ink. Some people swear by certain brands, I'm cheap and use a giant bottle of Speedball Ink and a brush or a set of fine tip pens like Faber Castell Pitt Pens or Microns. I like those because they're waterproof and I like to paint at random. Scanning should be done in full color at 300+ DPI but, that size is a challenge, I've had to scan in sections and piece it together digitally. It Sucks, but large flatbed scanners are hard to find. I haven't tried one of those kind that feeds the paper through tho.

I don't know much about the mobile format comics as far as pacing goes. I'm in the grandpa zone and think mobile format is making you do more work for nothin cause if a "normal" episode has like 60 panels you could equate that to print comics and say that it's 10, 6 panel pages or 6, 10 panel pages (which is a lot of panels you sorta don't wanna go over 10 if you don't have to but that's all up to you) and over the course of history webcomics have only ever posted like 1 page a week or more. anyone posting a page every day is wildin.

Oh oh oh also! Coloring!! everyone colors differently but i swear by making your own color palette. CoD started with a limited color palette and has been building over the years, and Apoppytheosis has a very very limited color palette and a rule for that comic was to not use any other colors. (any other colors seen were from another palette color doing something weird over the top of that layer) (This is the apoppytheosis color palette. Apoppy 2 is similar but more vibrant.)

Anyway I'm going rambly!! feel free to reach out if you got specific questions on pages or approaches to stuff!! I went to college for comics and I could talk about this all night.

[jeongjaebae]

ah my mental health just started to go down fast due to mostly personal problems ( • • ;) but i'm glad to say it's getting better ! the holiday was pretty decent for me, i did catch up on sleep ! mm, for christmas i didn't really do anything but for new years i'm go to a small gathering ! (which by the way, happy new years/eve!) i don't really do new years resolutions because i usually break them by the time janurary ends (｡･･｡) but i have a small one ! i have like 12,000 photos in my gallery (i blame all my biases) and i'm trying to delete at least up to 6,000! but gosh,,, i'm so sorry (??) at least we still have juyeon HAHA but no i haven't ! i'll check it out in a bit, but i've recently catches up on his photos on twt and gosh this man... (in a good way of course)

ah the video game isn't league (luckily... i've heard multiple stories of guys who played league as well BDJDBDJ) but it was valorant! and it was really fun ! i was trying to teach him how to balance and when he kind of got the hang of it, he still didn't want to let go of my hand saying he's still going to fall bdjdbdjx and he is a romantic ! he actually bought me a plushie after the ice skating saying as a thank you djdbdjdbdj. and thank you cherry ! <3

gosh, i hope you stay safe and healthy cherry ! oh really? what does your bias list look like atm ? i assume sangyeon is your number one as i see "send me sangyeon pics" HAHA but hmm slightly? although we haven't talked in a bit, i always checked up on your blog quickly ! just to see how you're doing ! but i didn't know you changed biases ! hmm, maverick was good ! but i prefer other cbs ! (changmins hair though,,,（♡0♡)) hmm my favorites would probably be nct's ok! as well and as i mentioned love on the floor ! but i like the recent songs groups have been coming up with ! i haven't been able to watch the mv's but i do try to listen to everyone's recent cb ! ooo birthday twins with san ? gosh i wish i share a birthday with a kpop idol i like, but my birthday is oct. 23 ! so it passed when we haven't talked djbdjdbd. my chart is decent ! (a little more water signs but it's mixed !) hmm, i tried listening the sticker album but i quite literally dont remember any song from that album dkdnxkcnc, sticker... is okay i suppose? the chorus got stuck in my head for a while though..

man, i was thinking since we haven't talked in a while i thought my messages would've been at least a little shorter but.... (⌒_⌒;) anyways ! i hope you have a great day cherry ♡ talk to you soon! (random last question hehe, what's your favorite color?) -🐿

ahhh happy new year bestie!!! ✨🎉🎆 was your gathering fun?? ohh it's good that your mental health is getting better and i hope everything continues to get better for you this year!! oh i totally feel you on the new years resolutions, i also have a hard time committing to them HAHA. BUT 12K PHOTOS?????? how... does your phone.... have the space omg. i have about 2k (although i usually keep it much lower... got lazy oops) and icloud is already pestering me every moment with the uPgrAde yOur stOrage 🙄 LOL but yes i hope you reach your goal especially if your biases look good all the time it's gotta be hard to decide what to delete :') YES the changmin twt pics!! omg they also started posting on ig a lot lately too so it just got that much harder at keeping up with their updates LOL

LMAOOO the league boy experience must be a universal thing then... :') idk much about valorant but from what i just read on wiki it sounds similar to league? dkm if that's wrong, the most i play is sstbz LMAO 🤡 ahHHH but your skating date sounds so cute!!! are you a skater? i used to do figure skating a loooong time ago but quit and now i haven't gone in years :(( but A PLUSHIE!!! aww that's so cute 🥺

ALDKJFK i totally forgot that i put 'send sangyeon pics' on my submissions button LOL. yeahh he's my number one rn but hyunjae and younghoon are up there too!! guess it's not that much of a change but rather.... ju slipping down the list.... :') omg ty for checking up on my blog tho 🥺 although i don't really post much on here besides the occasional fic but maybe i'll try to change that this year!! anyway what recent comebacks did you like!?! changmin's hair looks good but i saw someone say that it looks like a skunk and now i'm always reminded of that LMAO. ooh my bday is actually the day before san's buuut technically if you factor in time zones it's not that far apart hehe. ohhh so you're a scorpio then!! do you know your big three? i feel like you give off earthy vibes 🤔 oh and happy wayyy belated/early bday i guess HAHA. as for sticker... i'm gonna pretend it doesn't exist :') the chorus is okay i suppose but the flute thing is... 🙂

haha dw about the long messages!! i also ramble so much LOL. oh and my fave colour is pink!! totally not obvious with my old and current blog themes LOOL wbu? hope you have a great day/week too!!! esp if school is starting up again 😭 holiday season felt too short tbh ahhh but yeah pls stay safe and healthy!! <3

[zombiiesque]

A Month of Nocturne Alchemy Samples: Week One

Originally published 3/18/2019

Hey y'all. I'm going to open myself up for a little judgment here, and show you my sample box. Hah! I've got a thinner box, different than the ones I use to store my full bottles, the photo on the right is the top of it. Pretty decorated box, and I bought it years back to store my samples/decants. Well, I'm not the best at organizing it - they usually just get tossed in there, and whenever I do organize it, it never stays the way it's meant to. Ah well, I love my box. I've got a smaller box that's shaped like a little coffin, that I picked up from the Dollar Tree during Halloween one year. It holds overflow, when I have it, or the scents I'm trying to remember to work with at that moment. Unfortunately, with these little treasures, out of sight is out of mind, and also, I have a tendency to hoard stuff that I know is discontinued or won't be coming back - I'm looking at you, Plumeria Sapphire and Kiskah Kashmir. Sigh. I really should just wear them. My friend Siri says the late, wonderful, perfumer of Possets, Fabienne, told folks to wear them and enjoy, and so, I am trying to do this more. Another Tent member, Thyra, mentioned she was doing a "Mini March", using her samples and minis because they get neglected. Yes, I had been trying to do this myself for a while now, so it gave me the inspiration I needed to get started. I'm going to try to be on top of this, and post once a week my thoughts on the samples I've used. Week One, here we go!

Vanilla Pumpkin: Pumpkin Accord, Pumpkin skin, Black Fig, Nutmeg, Clove, NA Crystalline Vanilla Absolute, Bourbon Vanilla Absolute, French Vanilla, Tahitian Vanilla, Ember Vanilla, Ember Burning Woods accord. This is one of two from a Chris Raimo Kickstarter project, and my friend Ld was kind enough to send me samples of these! This is a little reminiscent of a favorite I've been hoarding. Bastet made a Crystalline Burning Jack, based off the PC Burning Jack, and gave it out with NAlloween orders a few years back. Absolutely adore that! This is a little like that, but with fig. The spice is tempered with the vanillas, and the pumpkin and fig are really good together. This feels so fall, it has me longing for cooler weather and for summer to be behind me already. The drydown is so cozy.

Incense Pumpkin: Pumpkin Accord, Pumpkin skin, Black Fig, Nutmeg, Clove, Butter accord, NA Kashmir Incense, Frankincense, Myrrh, Amber, Nag Champa Incense and Black Amber. Ooo. This is the second Chris Raimo pumpkin, and I really like this one, too. My first impression is of incense and buttery pumpkin. It doesn't end up significantly foodie, however. How do they make that work so well together? I don't have Pumpkin number 31, the OP pumpkin blend, but this makes me think of that. This is a little similar to Vanilla Pumpkin, but the incense is a little more intense, and I really like it. I've worn this a few times, and I forget what I have on, and have to huff my wrist, I find it enchanting. Not that it matters all that much to me, but this could be considered more of an evening scent than its sister. I don't mark this one as overwhelmingly nag champa, either. It's a more complex incense.

Night Thoughts: Gold Santalum, Santalum Absolute, Papyrus accord, Indian Teakwood Essence, Bay Rum, Kobalt and Crystalline with a touch of Japanese White Tangerine Skin. Okay, this is from my first year collecting NA! Some of my first decants, from Art of Love - I got this from Laura, my good friend. Miss you, lady. This one veers into masculine on me, but I think it would smell good on my fiance. Or folks who wear more obviously masculine scents well, I can't quite pull it off, but I can do unisex. I like it, I'll have to try it on him to see if it works. I amped the bay rum, and that's a great note on him - and the teak. But I honestly can't remember the last time I tried this, so I'm glad I did!

The Bower Garden: Black and Red Currant Essence, Dragon's Blood Resin, French Syrah Red Wine Accord, German Lilac, Egyptian Fig and Sandalwood Musk. This decant was actually a gift from my friend Adrienne! She loves fig as much as I do. I really enjoyed this one, I might have to hunt down a full bottle of this. The berry combined with the dragon's blood and sandalwood musk is just so me. And I always love how they do their wine notes. I feel like the lilac adds a wonderful freshness to this blend, I really like it - I love love love lilac, it's one of my favorite flowers, and I've never tried NA's lilac before - I honestly think I will have to try more, now. It's very realistic. All of the notes play beautifully together, and I'm a little swoony over this. It has a very spring feel, and the dragon's blood adds a good grounding note here, it's a tad spicy/incensey. Mmm. Total win. It might be my favorite this week.

Thoth: Nile Ozone, Papyrus, Cream of Strawberry accord, White Incense and Alexandrian Sea Salt accord. This is such a clean, bright scent. It's serene. It was a little powdery on me when I first tried it, but as you know, they change with age. This could be a staple scent for summer. Also, I find it to be very unisex, not overtly masculine nor feminine. I'd try it on Jody, but I'm not sure it's one he would go for, he usually goes for the darker stuff, but he likes these on me. I don't really notice the cream of strawberry, it's probably a supporting note. The incense is soft and not in your face, and provides a really nice balance to keep this from being too clean, if that makes sense I definitely want to upsize this. I bet it would be really awesome with a little Santalum White, too. A very beachy scent, it feels blue. This is from the PC, the Gods, Goddesses and Deity subcollection.

Pakhet Amber: Pakhet Amber is a perfume created from Amber Resin transformed over time in the Studio into a beautiful enhancing Royal Amber oil experience, Amber Resin imported from Alexandria and lit from the truest essential oil of Rare and Exotic Guiacwood and Crystal Benzoin and Crystal Frankincense. Using the base of the Amber described above the resin has been turned into a fossilized perfume resin from ancient recipes and then turned back into perfume oil diluting nothing only the use of Alchemy and inspiring this scent to be made and created for the Goddess Pakhet. Warrior, protector, and huntress. Pakhet Amber infuses rare spices of Blue Peppercorn, White Clove Bud, Virgin Nutmeg Shaving over the warmth of Ambers from Nepal and Egypt and sifted through Sapphire (Amber Musk) to create a spiced amber that changes over time on the skin. So Pakhet Amber is from the PC (Permanent Catalogue), in the Royal Amber section. This is honestly one of my favorite sections, a few years ago I did a good sized PC order with a bunch from this section. I avoided Pakhet Amber though, but someone sent me a sample, and I haven't worn it. Right out of the gate on me, this is all clove. I can wear spices on occasion, even clove - I have and love Polichenelle, also from the PC. But sometimes, I just amp the spice, and all I can smell - or anyone else for that matter - is that. Unfortunately, Pakhet Amber does just that on me. Bahhhh. I get sad when a fan favorite is something I can't do. The clove just went to powering out any of the other notes here. Skinistry is such a crazy thing! It will have to go to the gift pile, hopefully someone else will have better luck than I did with it. It sounds divine, and I really loved what I could smell in the vial. Sadface.

NA Purpose Oil: Strength: Sky Musk, Solar Amber, White Patchouli, Egyptian Dragon Blood Resin, Kobalt Vanilla Resin (Vanilla Orchid of Cairo), Bastet's Blue Incense Accord, Orange Zest and Lavender Buds. I have a full bottle of their Purpose Oil: Protection, and I just love it. It's very special. I haven't actually worn this Purpose Oil before, though. I've been meaning to test them all, so this is a good push for me to do that this month. This starts out with a dose of lavender, citrus, and amber burst. It's fresh, and the lavender feels a little herbal, and not too strong. Ooo, this is really a pretty combination. I've never smelled anything quite like this, it's appealing to me. The lavender is balancing out with the other notes as they appear, so it's still working for me. I love the musk here with the incense, it's so pretty with the lighter, brighter notes. For me, I think this is an excellent oil for Strength - it gives a breezy confidence. I like this quite a lot, I wasn't sure if it would work on me but it definitely does.

So, that wraps up this first week of samples. That was a great motivator, and I should honestly make myself wear them far more than I do, there are a lot of treasures in that box. Have a good Monday, folks!