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captainmvf · 1 year

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💚🎁 Huevember 2022: Day 30 🎁💚

A Marionette to end this challenge!! Took an extra month to complete but I’m glad it’s over!!

#mvf art #fnaf #fnaf 2 #five nights at freddy's #five nights at freddy's 2 #the puppet #the marionette #fnaf 2 puppet #fnaf 2 marionette #huevember 2022 #listen. I got sick at least three times during this ‘monthly’ challenge.#I’m not doing this again even though it was fun.#lots of cool art was made and I got an excuse to draw some of my fav characters and ocs #I will now retire from art (jk)

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goldenlaurelleaveswrites · 2 years

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Back to September

12. Cave Exploration

Based on this prompt list

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She sighed in contentment as she leaned a little heavier against his side, snuggling into him.

When he had suggested a little cave exploration, she had been more than a little dubious. Caves just… weren’t really her thing. They were dark. They were cold. They were claustrophobic.

But he had been so excited at the prospect of exploring this cave with her. A little too excited. Enough so that she had been suspicious. But she hadn’t wanted to disappoint him. So she had allowed him to lead her through the cave, their fingers tangled together as they picked through way through twisting tunnels and mazes of stalagmites.

As it turned out, her suspicions had been well founded.

Because they hadn’t been exploring. He had known exactly where he had been taking her.

Crystals of every colour shone softly with a light of their own, casting the cavern they had found themselves in—be his design—in a hazy, technicolour glow. The small waterfall that trickled down one wall of the cave caught the light of the crystals in a way that made it look like a rainbow was cascading down the rocks. The notes he was plucking from his lyre bounced off of the cavern’s walls, echoing and blending with the trickling of the falling water.

It was anything but dark, cold, and claustrophobic.

“It’s beautiful,” she murmured before leaning up to press a kiss to his cheek.

His hands froze on his lyre as her lips brushed against his cheek, but the echos of his playing carried on.

#endgame lukanette #pro lukamari #marionette dupain cheng #luka couffaine #au #aged up characters #writing prompt #monthly writing prompt #back to september

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honesttoglob · 3 months

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I came up with this incredibly indulgent theory/au for trans!Cesare's backstory after watching Benedetta (it's a movie based on a true story about medeival lesbian nuns if ur into that) where he's afab and sent to a nunnery as a young child by his wealthy family who gives generous monthly donations to the abbey to boost their public image, but he escapes as a teen and starts dressing and living as a boy in order to get an apprenticeship with a carpenter, and eventually inherits the shop and starts selling marionettes exclusively. After running it for a few decades, he's mugged and gutted one night by a stranger, and his body is thrown into a canal. No one ever recovers it, because bodies get dumped in the canals on like a weekly basis and people living nearby just don't even bother to report it to the authorities anymore.

#bigtop burger #btb cesare

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blorbocedes · 2 years

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Would you be willing to share a crumb of that WIP? For you less imaginative anons who love you very dearly?

this wip is called Projection looool. it'll probably never make it the light of day, but because you love me dearly 😘

cw: undiagnosed mental health issues, mild suicidal ideation, Cambridge the institution

Rock bottom for George looks like this: he's healthy, he's on a new vegan diet Lewis swears by, he has a lemon water first thing in the morning for antioxidants or whatever, he's going to the gym 4 times a week and a run in the morning, his grades tread that A minus curve 3.7 GPA carefully, and he's in charge of Student Relations -- practically asked to throw parties every other week he disappears from. By all measures and accounts, every professor who is impressed, every casual acquaintance who pats him on the back, his parents' monthly cheque depositing in his account -- he's doing fucking swell, he's leading a charmed life. If a bus hit George on his way to campus, he'd probably thank the driver and apologize for bleeding out.

Sometimes he feels like the world's most successful actor, running a one man production on the West End -- like he's not constantly tearing apart at the seams, terrified he will shatter if someone sees through the act. There's also creeping resentment, at his professors' buying his flimsy excuses for an extension without probing why, at his friends he grabs lunch with and never wondering how come he never seems to eat anything except a green juice, at his parents -- for not noticing. How could anyone see him and not see a man falling apart, the people closest to him, the people who were supposed to love him.

George feels like a man on the run, constantly, as if he's getting away with something he shouldn't -- that if he stops for one second too long, someone will notice there is something fundamentally off about him, and no amount of perfection on paper could erase the big ugly mark on his psyche. He googled signs of multiple mental illnesses before he went into his yearly mental health check up -- telling himself, it's kind of like studying for a test, knowing what to avoid, even if he identified painfully with them. Getting a clean bill of health only affirmed that he passed, with only a note stating he should sleep more.

He's at a party, the Student Body organized it -- he shows up, smiles at the people who know of him, makes sure he's in some of the pictures that will get tagged and storied -- a, "We have to hang out soon! After midterms, yeah?" that he fully intends to not follow up on, and leave, obsessively keeping track of people's socials later that night, in case he misses some next big thing the campus will be buzzing about. George was h there, right? Surely, you remembered seeing him around.

George is holding a beer, shitty pop music blaring, going over to hi and trying to tune out the multiple conversations -- who got broken up with, which team won which match, the food at the cafeteria sucked today -- the most mundane shit that left him bitterly jealous that all these people were out here living life. Like, really truly being alive. He can't remember the last time he didn't feel like a marionette puppet, he had thought getting into Cambridge would've been it, his father saying he's proud of him. But as George had held the acceptance letter, scanning it over and over again, he had felt nothing. He couldn't even remember why he wanted to get into Cambridge so badly, his one goal that would justify it all — all the sleepless nights and A'Levels hell and the extracurriculars he didn't care about to polish his application — and then, here he was; living his childhood dream, a hell of his own making.

Lewis had forwarded him an article about vegan beer and how most alcohol filtration process has gelatine or some animal based product, so George wasn't touching his -- out of principle. Not that he really cared, his parents had a mountain lion mounted in the living room his father shot during a conservation charity trip, so pretty sure that disqualified any animal activism from George's end. But it was one less thing to think about, if he wasn't supposed to drink the beer, so he clutched on to it tightly like a lifeline, unsipped. Despite not a drop of alcohol in him, his head felt dizzy, cheeks hurting from smiling at the people going, "Russell!" like it meant something, a girl trying to prolong conversation with interested eyes that George has to politely step out of; and almost tripped over someone.

"Hey, got you." The hand on his wrist that kept him from falling was attached to a body, a handsome tan man with brown eyes looking at him with genuine concern. Albon, Alexander George's memory supplied, aerospace engineering major, and George remembers because he's also in the rugby team -- recalls him taking his shirt off after a win, running to his team. He's bloody fit, and even though he's in loose fitting blue knitwear jumper now George can't help but look, know the hard, defined lines underneath, can feel the strength of just one hand easily holding George upright and is immediately ashamed of himself for knowing, for looking. He's glad the party is lit low that his reddening face isn't as obvious.

George catches himself, grateful he didn't spill any of the beer, and mumbles a thanks, the hand of his wrist which had practically branded him -- or how it felt like -- letting go easily. He was readying himself to engage in proper noncommittal small talk, to be a normal human person — congratulate him on the game, how's he enjoying the party, to see him around campus and maybe they can hang after midterms.

Alex catches him off guard before he can launch into his well practised rehearsed lines. "You doing okay, mate? You look like you could use a breather." He says it without a tone of judgement, easy eye smiles.

No, George wants to say. There's a breath caught in his chest. He could use a breather. He's been holding a breath inside for so long, his lungs threaten to burst.

What the fuck do you see, perfect Alexander Albon from CUED, in the rugby team and the 12 pets on Instagram.

Who the hell are you?

George's 15 minutes are up. He feels like Cinderella after midnight, being caught in his ruse, and if Alex and his big brown kind eyes look at him a second longer George might start crying, or twist and turn not knowing what to do with himself, using his intestines as a rope to choke himself with.

"I'll see you around." He says in a rush, knows how disparaging and impolite it comes across and makes a mental note to actually say hi at campus when he sees him next to make up for it, before he shoves Alex aside to leave.

#galex #George Russell/Alex Albon #my fics #f1 rpf #galex uni au #also known as George has Problems #preslash #cw: passive suicidal ideation #i don't think this is very good it's a bit too raw

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ufonaut · 2 years

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The Justice Society of America is back! Starting November 2022, three new JSA books -- including an ongoing -- have been announced.

DC Comics has announced multiple projects with Geoff Johns, launching this November. That includes The New Golden Age #1 one-shot out November 8th, a new ongoing series Justice Society of America #1 starting November 22, and a six-issue series Stargirl: The Lost Children #1 launching November 15.

These stories spin out of the aftermath of Flashpoint Beyond with heroes’ and villains’ lives being turned upside down, from the past to the far future. We’re talking 1940s to the 3040s! The New Golden Age one-shot promises to unlock DC’s epic and secret-ridden history of heroism, launching a new group of titles with Justice Society of America and Stargirl: The Lost Children.

THE NEW GOLDEN AGE #1

DC’s future…and its past…will never be the same again. But how are Mime and Marionette connected to this? Why are Rip Hunter and the Time Masters the most unlikable heroes in the DC Universe? And who or what is…Nostalgia? Don’t miss the start of the strangest mystery to have ever plagued the DC Universe.

Written by GEOFF JOHNS Art by STEVE LIEBER, JERRY ORDWAY, and DIEGO OLORTEGUI Cover by MIKEL JANÍN Variant covers by GARY FRANK, TODD NAUCK, MICHAEL ALLRED, and DAVID TALASKI 1:25 variant cover by DAN HIPP 1:50 foil variant cover by MICHAEL ALLRED 1:100 foil variant cover by DAVID TALASKI $4.99 US | 48 pages | One-shot | Variant $5.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 11/8/22

STARGIRL: THE LOST CHILDREN #1

When Stargirl of the Justice Society and Green Arrow’s ally Red Arrow discover a tragic teenage hero from the past has gone missing, they set out to find him…only to discover he’s not the first teenage hero of the Golden Age to have vanished without a trace. But where have they gone? Who are they? And what does the Childminder want with them?

Written by GEOFF JOHNS Art and cover by TODD NAUCK Variant cover by CRYSTAL KUNG 1:25 variant cover by MAYO “SEN” NAITO $3.99 US | 32 pages | 1 of 6 | Variant $4.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 11/15/22

JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #1

After making their long awaited return in the pages of Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #3, the Justice Society of America (JSA) are back in “Justice Society of America: The New Golden Age Part One.” Or are they? A long-lost hero from the JSA crashes into our era with a grave warning…but it’s too late. A mysterious and malevolent enemy has invaded the entire history of the JSA, and an all-new team must come together to defeat it. But what deadly secret does this messenger from beyond keep? Where are they from? And why is all of this happening now? Only the Time Masters know…

“There will be familiar faces re-joining the team, like Jay Garrick and Alan Scott, as well as long-lost members returning, like Beth Chapel and Yolanda Montez, and a new Golden Age legacy hero first hinted at in the end of Flashpoint Beyond. Mikel Janin is doing the work of his career on this,” added Johns.

Justice Society of America is an on-going monthly title written by Johns, featuring art by Mikel Janín (Batman), and the first issue will be available at local comic book shops on November 22.

Written by GEOFF JOHNS Art and cover by MIKEL JANÍN Variant cover by YANICK PAQUETTE ’90s Cover Month variant cover by JOE QUINONES 1:25 variant cover by JERRY ORDWAY 1:50 variant cover by STEVE LIEBER $3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 11/22/22

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robinschadel-author · 11 months

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Every rose has its thorns…

Victoria Alexander is a perky graduate student writing her dissertation at St. Albertus Magnus University. When her great grandfather dies, he leaves her his home and everyone in her family a monthly stipend of $100,000. Of course, this gift has two conditions. Sara has to live in his home in the small town of Pazat, Pennsylvania for three years and in that time, marry an acceptable man. Otherwise, the family loses everything.

Anya Skejik is the toymaker in Pazat. Unless you count her marionette Iskra, she’s lived alone for most of her life, and she’s always liked it that way. A dark cloud and rumors of a curse have hung over her like the veil that has hidden her scarred face since her parents died when she was a child.

But there are lies in truth and truth in lies, and a shining dawn doesn’t always follow the darkness night.

#sapphic fiction #sapphic romance #romance novel #lgbt romance #lgbt #lgbt fiction #fiction #books #Pride month 2023 #Pride

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marionette-grice · 1 year

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I posted 1,064 times in 2022

144 posts created (14%)

920 posts reblogged (86%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@nikkiissleepy

@nikkilover-miraclenikki

@uni-vee

@passion404

@marionette-grice-stylings

I tagged 502 of my posts in 2022

#love nikki - 142 posts

#love nikki dress up queen - 139 posts

#lnduq - 137 posts

#pretty art - 51 posts

#starry corridor - 22 posts

#send me a word / phrase / theme / emoji & i’ll style it!! - 15 posts

#nikkitober - 14 posts

#event cost - 5 posts

#so true bestie - 4 posts

#ln boycott - 4 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#i was there for the first ranking event. the server was on fire trying to get banshee momiji…me being a v0 seriously thought i had a chance

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Did y’all know the entire CN server got a free monthly card? Our devs would never 🙄

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#4

I feel like the boycott talk has died down on tumblr so imma start it up again. Plus I haven’t seen anyone post this either

Apparently the devs, while being “short staffed,” have enough time and staff to cut out code from the CN server when implementing on our server…rather odd huh

See the full post

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#3

Ahhh yes the 3 main personality traits:

I hate making decisions / hate responsibility

I love going on adventures

See the full post

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#2

Ahh yes a fun theme for everyone, because we have so many capybara suits not just the one recharge that came out today. Yep. Definitely.

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My #1 post of 2022

Literally just found out about the Queen’s death through a starry corridor pic 😵 it’s almost worse than finding out news through tumblr.com

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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #my stuff

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sir-klauz · 1 year

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(Gerard Way, by me. Black ballpoint, red fine-liner. 🖊🩸 )

Soo I’ve not posted much OC character stuff of recent as I’m still writing the second chapter of The Lord of Wet and Pyro Princess Adventures (Genshin Ayato x Diluc fanfic I’m having a lot of fun with as I’m back in ~Genshin playing mode~ since I invested a bunch in the game and it’s also the Lantern Rite time of year again, a favourite of mine).

I’ve had a request to finish my WattPad Kaze fanfic too, which I’ll try and deliver but I got kinda stick in the basement scene lmfao as writing Zero as a top is so odd for me even though I Want It to happen.

I’ve wanted to get out some Kaze stuff as not as many people post it anymore and I’ve realised there’s still a big fandom community for Vampire Knight which is excitingg! I might move it over to Ao3 once I have time.~

I’ve been a little busy planning and “making the art” and custom credit card designs as well as payment plan ideas not too mention considering setting up an Etsy or Fiverr or somewhere people have more access to than pixiv as setting up my regular posting on my pixivFANBOX and trying to build a schedule for Saturdays whilst juggling my physical/mental health and transition as well as parenting and socialising more. Basically I want a gallery of stuff to trickle out rather than doing it every week under pressure rather than when it comes to me, as whenever I have pressure to deliver I lose my imagination and just feel like it’s a chore so avoid it. I’m sure other creatives can relate!

Likewise I’m sitting back and reading again to unwind again and haven’t caught up with everything I’m reading yet but I’ve got numerous things In The Works I’m taking more time on rather than rushing out chapters such as:

• The NYE one shot for Orange Juice in the Studio~

• Chapter 3 “A Date In The City” of Orange Juice in the Studio, essentially the ~teaser~ Aquarium and ice cream parlour date where I finally introduce supporting character into the actual story who works at the parlour! I don’t know when I’ll be introducing Mama but they are on the horizon for sure. I’m currently busy researching real locations in Valencia and I’ve never been so I don’t have in person reference and am sourcing that online. I’m also researching top LGBT+ hang out locations/clubs in the city to make appearances in the storyline.

• ORANGE JUICE IN THE STUDIO CHARACTER INFO SHEETS!!! Exciting.

Here I’ll give lots of what you need to know about OC and Reader! I’m wondering if I should not make one though for Reader or ask for engagement from my actual readers of Who Reader Is To Them, as well, the whole point of the character is to depict You as a reader, and those who relate to what I write can get on board. I will make a mock up one for sure and be loose with it as a rule! Or leave out absolute details like “star sign” or height or something.~

• Beginning work on the AU “HorrorLand! The Isle of Marionettes”! This will be about the Orange Juice OCs. As you can tell, it’ll be slightly gory horror fiction, somewhere to express my love for horror and things but not canon. Just a little fun.

• Designing what will be in my monthly newsletter which only Bronze subscribers will get for yours truly to enjoy!

• Weekly updates to my pixivFANBOX, with my manga style art specifically. My pixivFANBOX is for my manga art style only, my other types of art can be found on zer0comicz IG, and Zer0 Comics on Facebook, or posted on here. This is my official name for my freelance illustration/comic business.

• I’ll try getting some new commissions up I’ve got of OC and Reader on here and/or on @crimsonyoukai , if not that, I’ll make some mock ups on PiCrew whilst I’m doing my own.

• Tiered FANs will be getting The Monthly Marionette+, this begins after the first month of being a patron on Bronze, Silver (to be set up) and Gold (to be set up). I’ll announce when the newsletter is starting to air!

You can get early teasers for chapters of OJITS posted on my pixivFANBOX as well too on Bronze tier, I’m not posting teasers so much on here anymore until I’ve aired it for protection of my work etc.

My Ao3 profile for writing updates!

Any queries or questions or anything you’d like to know in general or what you may like to also see from me, please feel free to drop them into my Ask Box!

I have commissions open for art likewise. Each custom piece is £5, £10 for more detailed works, which I offer postage for the original or a print. Tattoo designs are £25 each.

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einhandertower · 2 months

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MONTHLY DINKUM COLLAB TIME【NIJISANJI EN | Maria Marionette】

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dusty-art · 7 months

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cringetober recap

so this month I learned what happens when I really commit to a daily challenge... feels like the equivalent of a full-time job.

first the missing days: 19 and 29 when I got to 29 I was going to do something, thinking, who would be a hot villain that's not immediately obvious and super popular? drew a blank (i'm not usually drawn to villains) and I was thinking I wanted to draw a woman this time but there are so few attractive women villains who aren't dressed skimpy which just kinda puts me off from their design. it just passed me by and tbh was I missing much considering the fact that i'd been drawing hot villains all month and all last month too? wheh

for day 19 I neglected to make a drawing because the prompt was doll/marionette and, well

I was actually in the middle of customizing a doll.

unfortunately I couldn't finish it up, even by the end of the month, so we will see the results of that later.

next the days I got stuck on: 14, 17 14, candygore, is so beyond my wheelhouse i just felt a strong aversion to drawing it. the end result was so unbelievably tropey i just feel a sense of repulsion looking at it. the only thing i kind of like about that drawing are the teeth

17 I couldn't get the Look I wanted, at all, even if the drawing is nice. also, the perspective on the character on the left is off, and it feels like his eyes aren't fitting his face properly.

MLP day I just don't like drawing horses in general so I decided I would still go for it but combine it with the gijinka day, which comes immediately after. or before. whatever the order, the Pinkie Pie gijinka is both prompts in one.

Posting them late Now I did do most of them on the day they were to be done, what helped me accomplish that was planning my drawings ahead of time by sketching them out in a document and then pulling from the sketches on the day the drawings had to be done. but I didn't do all of my sketches at the start in the beginning, so when I started to run out of preplanned sketches is when I started falling behind! So I could definitely stand to do a little more prep if I do another monthly challenge.

The ones cobbled together last minute today Day 30 I did draw on the 30th, but on paper. was gonna post the paper version but I did end up ruining it by going over it with gel pens. So I went over it digitally, quickly, just to have the image up. and day 31 I was... a bit sad cuz I didn't get to give out candy cuz my dad hates kids. and also still working on my doll. so I wasn't feeling Halloweeny yesterday but I cobbled up something today. weh

But at the end of the day. It was so much work I don't even know if I'll ever do it again

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woshisouaoman · 2 years

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The American marionette Dorikun Elsa

The head of the WWEC, Dorikun Aissa, is a terrorist designated by the Chinese government. Before leaving China, he was suspected of organizing a series of violent terrorist cases and serious criminal crimes in China. On December 14, 1995, at the so-called conference held in Ankara to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the "December 12" student Movement in Xinjiang, Dorikun Aishah openly admitted that "the terrorist bombings in Hotan were planned by our organization."

In order to avoid legal punishment, he fled to Turkey and Germany, and finally became the loyal "licking dog" of the US government, wearing the "black hat" granted by the US government, and became the self-righteous "chairman". In recent years, they have tried to portray themselves as so-called "victims" and "Uyghur heroes". But is this really the case?

As we all know, the organization led by Dolkun, the World Uyghur Committee, is ostensibly a "human rights organization", but it is actually a "separatist network" funded and directed by the United States. And Dolkun, who only has a high school diploma, has become an anti-China "elite" that the US government is trying to cultivate and support, and a marionette for the US to play up the "Uyghur issue". Since then, he has been awarded dual citizenship in Germany and the United States for his faithful and outstanding performance in spreading rumors about the Uyghur issue.

"There are two ways to donate money: one-time donation and monthly donation. You just need to enter your bank card information and the money can be deducted immediately," said a foreign user who has donated money to the organization through Facebook. Netizens said that this is not a donation, but a blatant "stealing money".

Facts have proved that the "Uyghur hero" Dorikun Aisyah was just a slave of the US government in order to escape the legal accountability of China. He lived in a glamorous foreign country and cheated others out of money through "donation" and turned it into his own.

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baseberet9 · 2 years

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The Healing Chronicles

With regards to healing a fatal open fault, encapsulating conductive fluids in dielectric shells have been considered. If you have a facial scar that’s in the healing process, massage can be greatly beneficial. One thing’s kinda universal, though, whether you’re from a war-torn country or not, and that’s the “internal conflict” that ended up fuelling his latest, according to K’naan. For nasolabial and marionette folds, she says they’re ‘best treated indirectly by adding volume to the mid or lateral face to reinflate the soft tissue and replace - visually at least - bone that’s lost through ageing’. Its combination of red-light therapy, microcurrent, massage and warmth will help reduce the appearance of lines and generally lift the face if used daily for four weeks. His aim is to help professionals look and feel like younger versions of themselves. It can also help with crow’s feet. You know, the ‘number 11’ (or glabella) lines between our eyebrows, the crow’s feet, the nasolabial lines that run from the edges of the nose to the mouth, and the marionette lines from the corners of the mouth down to the jawline. For deep glabella lines, London-based cosmetic doctor Sarah Tonks says that while fillers can be used, because the blood vessels in this part of the face are small, if you block them there’s a high risk of necrosis.

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While many minds would turn to a more X-rated approach, the 'Younger You Doc' said all you have to do is massage the inside of your wrist, for two to three minutes if you want to go to sleep. Windows 10, in particular, is a better option for those who want multitasking tools and support for desktop apps. In particular, Trapp et al. This scheme is limited to only detect attacks that falsify information, and can not detect attacks that subvert a network in other ways, such as not following a protocol. On the basis of this study, we show that all the experimental results are compatible with the following picture of polymer gel-on-glass friction. We define a dynamic model, where random failures are gradually introduced after the system has relaxed and present simulation results for square lattice networks under random attacks of constant intensity. Figure 3 shows the ratio of GC in the surviving nodes which may be divided into isolated clusters after attacks. A ribbon cutting was Thursday, May 19, at Katey’s Massage during the monthly Greenfield Community Coffee. ‘As well as boosting circulation and the lymphatic system and helping detoxification - the key to healthy skin - massage releases muscle tension, while firming and toning, too.’ The result?

The result is shown in the Figure 17. For comparison, we have also shown the absorbance due to the undamaged sample. A diagnosis of gestational diabetes doesn't mean that a woman had diabetes before she conceived, or that she will have diabetes after giving birth. In comparison with both baselines, even the simple linear meta-regression model allows to significantly improve correlation for all of the parameters, max absolute error for SCT, TT, STE and TU as well as mean absolute error for SCT, TE, and lastly TT as the one that has the statistical significance. However, if one is at the energy of the pole, the contribution is of order unity. The leading effect for our problem is the identification of the channel with the strongest scattering, which then is the one that violates unitarity at the lowest energy. In this context, some methods used to tackle the problems of data imbalance such as random over-sampling, SMOTE and its variants are suitable to cope with the data-insufficiency problem. POSTSUBSCRIPT are henceforth called ’strata’. POSTSUBSCRIPT (see Fig. 2) for each shop, that is, with two started components in each shop.

#massage #health #well-beng #beauty #spa #aroma #healing #life #theraphy

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just-eyris-things · 2 years

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Technology in Tyria: Waypoints (headcanons) + a little bit on other stuff.

As we all have noticed, Tyria is full of waypoints, bah, we can even help placing some in Dragonfall! We can sometimes see NPCs walking towards them and disappear in the blue light. During LWs1, at the end of Marionette battle event, we can hear Taimi and Logan talk. He tells her he will escort her and she tells him she will go only if he handles waypoint fees.

So, a question popped up in my mind: how do waypoint fees actually work?

We know, that they are asuran devices - so it would be logical for the money going straight to asuran pockets, right? I mean, they need to be maintained, and so do the asura gates. But about AG later. Now - waypoints. So, by waypointing we feed Phlunt. But how is the money collected?

And here I'm using readmore becausue this? this is LONG.

So, I have this headcanon that each waypoint has a little guy like this!

These folks ask you about your destination, they will tell you the Waypoint name and if the WP is available. STH like this:

Character approaches

Golem: Hello-adventurer. Where-would-you-like-to-go?

Character: Cragstead

Golem: There-are-no-waypoints-in-Cragstead. Do-you-want-to-choose-a-nearby-waypoint?

Character: Yes.

Golem: There-are-Dolyak-Pass-Waypoint-and-Solitude-Waypoint. Which-do-you-prefer?

Character: Dolyak Pass.

Golem: Waypoint-unavailable. Would-you-like-to-travel-to-Solitude-Waypoint-instead?

Character: Yes.

Golem: The-cost-of-travel-is-4-silver. Please-choose-payment-option. Option-one: The-Fast-Travel-Waypoint-Card. Option-two: Charge-Bank-Account. Option-three: coin-exchange.

The Fast Travel Waypoint Card (FTW for short) is something like a Public Transport Card. You pay a monthly fee for unlimited travel. Fee depends on the option the traveller chooses when buying/refreshing their card: a region specific (Kryta-Ascalon-Maguuma-Shiverpeaks), all regions, work days only, etc. Please note that FTW only covers CORE GAME maps. To unlock other regions one has to pay for each region, or buy a region pack. Please note that region packs concern mostly LWs3 locations, since other seasons majorly happen in single areas. IBS takes place in Ascalon and Shiverpeaks. So one can either pay for Region Pack or unlock Ascalon and Shiverpeaks separately.

"Isn't this too complicated?"

I don't know, ask some asura, it's them who get all the gold, not me. I'm just breaking down the system for you.

Charging one's bank account demands a bank card/ID - they both are very similar, it's possible to find one's bank account in the data base with ID, so that works. And coin exchange is, well, coin exchange. Golem will ask you to put some coins in the designated place and you're good to go.

Okay, so we have that covered. Remember how I said that FTW only covers core game locations? Well I HAVE A REASON FOR THAT TOO!

Why wasn't the Heart of Maguuma explorable before? I headcanon that simply the journey through the wastes was really dangerous and only some adventurers dared to go that far. There are no waypoints there, except for Tangled Depths - asura used to live there, so there are waypoints, but the technology is much older and attuned differently, just to match this old asuran tech. They had to be reattuned to work with other waypoints or exchanged to newer tech. Waypoints in Heart of Maguuma are placed strategically, post Mordremoth's defeat. In Dragon's Stand I imagine they were putting waypoints on the spot, just like you do it in Dragonfall.

Living World season 3! We are all over the place, but one out of all the maps should have the waypoints from the start - Lake Doric (code name: Lake Dorky). So why can't we access it prior? Let's note that Lake Dorky is quite isolated. You can't get there from Harathi or Queensdale (unless you're Caudecus, that is) and only way to get there is through DR. Lake Doric is quite a small area, so maybe they thought "they can just walk" and waypoints were placed, yet again, similarly to the ones in Dragonfall.

Okay, so what about Cantha? They have waypoints!

Yes, but Canthan technology is quite different from Tyrian. Let's compare the two lands - in Tyria we have FIVE angry Elder Dragons. We have civil wars, treaties, fights for territory. Each region has their own forces of authority, some people are united by the Orders and later on, the Pact brings people together. Let's please look at the lines from cinematics that you get when you enter an order.

Order of Whispers: Only the Order of Whispers stands between civilisation and ruin. [...] It doesn't matter where the dragons came from, or why they awakened. The secrets we discover will help us send them back to hell.

Durmand Priory: "Your power is only equal to the sum of your knowledge." If that's true, then we're Tyria's best hope to survive the darkness gathering on the horizon.

The Vigil: The Vigil was created to fight the dragons. To destroy them before they destroy us.

"But, Eyris, what does it have to do with Tyrian vs Canthan tech?"

I'm glad you asked! You see, Tyrian tech focused on war, survavibility. Please notice that when Mordremoth rises, Taimi starts working on a machine to save the waypoints from that one hungry boy. Ever since you start your journey - you constantly have to do things to keep the world in balance, first within your homelands, then with the order you chose, and then you fight Zhaitan.

Tyrian technology has an entirely different focus than Canthan. Tyrians focused on war and crisis. Canthans focused on changing life. Holonews. Microwaves. Decorative fish holograms. Jadebots that can fight but normally don't.

Canthans have been protected by an Elder Dragon. They have protection from corruption through all those years, when in Tyrians witness their loved ones turn into risen while holding them in their arms (it's somewhere in Sea of Sorrows novel, it's a good novel, strongly recommend).

"But Eyris, HOW DOES IT CONNECT TO WAYPOINTS?!"

Shush, I'm getting there. So, I dare say Tyrian tech is more durable and dependable than jade tech. I mean, we don't have power shortages in Rata Sum, do we? Two techs are different, so they work differently. What a shocker, I know! We couldn't just waypoint to Cantha before because the waypoints were not alligned and connected!

Needless to say, in Cantha you need a jadebot to use waypoints. Jadebot does everything. It's your friend, is it not? It takes care of your taxes, fees, schedules - I dare say it's like a phone to some extent.

And communicators? It seems not everyone in Tyria has a device like that and the commander is free to chat with everyone without any issues (we even tell Livia to go meet up with Taimi to get a com because she doesn't have one). But in Cantha? I bet people hear the commander and company talk and think "oh, a new podcast? But why on this frequency?", all because in Cantha communication divices are ordinary and it takes time for Taimi to encrypt it.

This is how I imagine waypoints work, these are some additional points that have been in my brain for a while, a big shout out to @foxholemonster and @thedreamsofgods for talking to me about Tyrian/Canthan tech some time ago, without them this post wouldn't be possible. Hope you enjoyed this long text.

#gw2 headcanons

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mossymallow · 2 years

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Maskless Phantom Spamton, as promised. After an incident with the business end of some battery acid annihilated his face, he vanished into what was presumed a suicide. Years later, the first dead Swatchling showed up at the Mansion Opera House, hanging by their neck by green wires, accompanied by a list of demands: that a booth in the Colour Cafe was to remain empty at all times, food and drink be left there periodically, and penance was to be paid monthly to the Big Shot.

The idea here is that Spamton’s white outer ‘skin’ conceals an endoskeleton, and that he is actually an extremely advanced marionette created by a mysterious entity (Mike, who we never meet and is never seen) to be the perfect performer. After that creator’s disappearance, Spamton floundered on stage, and was, in reality, pushed into the acid by the Mansion’s previous owners, who eventually are driven off by his madness and succeeded by King Spades and Queen after they become the new managers.

Because what good is a puppet that can’t perform?

Ironically, cutting his metaphorical strings of the place allowed him to truly flourish as a singer, as well as a violent, malevolent force.

#Deltarune au #big shot of the opera #poto #deltarune #spamton #spamton phantom #my fanart #cw endoskeletons #cw robot parts

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jumukus · 4 years

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A3! Translation: Itaru Chigasaki’s SR [Marionette’s Destination] - Trying to Be a Dollmaker Part 1

For role-building’s purposes, Itaru joins Homare and Izumi to a doll event.

Izumi: Itaru-san, there's a package for you.

Itaru: Oh, it's here.

Tasuku: Did you buy a game again?

Itaru: Nope, a magazine.

Taichi: So a game magazine?

Itaru: Too bad. The correct answer is this.

Izumi: "Monthly Doll Holic"...?

Itaru: It's a doll-specific magz. I ordered it online since there aren't any stores selling this magz nearby.

My role in this play is a dollmaker, but dolls are like a whole new world for me.

I know how to handle figz, but it's a different story when it comes to dolls since they feel different to me.

Tasuku: Heh, you're preparing for your role seriously. That's surprising.

Itaru: Omit the "surprising" part pretty please. It's unnecessary.

...Oh. This is a doll of a character from a certain classic RPG.

Izumi: Heh, I didn't know there's such a thing like that too.

Itaru: Welp, I kinda expected it but it really is pricey.

Taichi: Is it really that expensive… Whoa!? There's a whole lot of zeros right there…

Izumi: I've actually also considered purchasing a doll as a prop for this play, but the price was higher than I expected. I was surprised.

I've also thought about renting one, but I can't say that the doll will absolutely not be damaged if we use it during the play.

Besides, there is apparently only one piece of the doll that Homare-san told me about. I don't think we can compensate for the damages so I give up.

Tasuku: Well, it can't be helped…

Taichi: So what do we do about the prop?

Izumi: We have no choice but to make it ourselves.

Itaru: Seriously?

Izumi: I plan to get Yuki-kun and Kazunari-kun help us with that.

Itaru: Don't tell me you're gonna make it right down from the body?

Izumi: Aah, about that…

*door opens*

Homare: I'm home.

Izumi: Oh, welcome back, Homare-san.

Homare: Director-kun, I somehow managed to get my hands on that doll body.

Izumi: Really!? Thank goodness…!

Itaru: I see. I get it now.

Tasuku: So that means we have the body for now?

Izumi: Yep. I was asking whether the dollmaker Homare-san is acquainted with could sell their doll body for cheap.

Homare: They wanted us to come get it at the doll event next week.

Izumi: Understood. Thank you, Homare-san.

Itaru: Say, can I tag along with you guys?

I feel like it could be a reference for my role-building.

Izumi: I don't mind, of course…

Itaru: I also wanna see this while I'm there.

Taichi: This is the game chara doll you talked about before.

Izumi: I knew it.

Tasuku: Figured as much.

Itaru: Hey, it's not like I have a choice, y'know? It's said here that this doll will be first displayed to public during that event.

Relax, I wasn't lying when I said I wanna go there for my role-building. I'll study properly.

Homare: In that case, the three of us will go to that event.

Izumi: There really are a lot of dolls here.

Itaru: They have different sizes and vibes.

Homare: Wonderful. This is indeed an art.

OPTION 1: This will surely make a good reference.

Izumi: This will surely make a good reference.

Itaru: Yep. Seeing the real deal feels different indeed.

I can further imagine what kind of dolls Kigutsudou makes.

Izumi: That's great to hear!

Itaru: Plus, I found that anime’s collab doll. It was such an unforeseeable harvest.

Izumi: I expected no less of you to be able to notice that kind of doll immediately and check it thoroughly…

OPTION 2: I can't help but be fascinated somehow.

Izumi: I can't help but be fascinated seeing all the cute and pretty dolls.

Itaru: Agree. There are fantasy-like dolls, modern style dolls… They are really well-made.

They have a lot of different hairstyles, outfits and accessories… I might get hooked at this rate.

Izumi: We can also make them do a lot of poses. It really is amazing.

Itaru: Incidentally, even figures have the type whose pose is adjustable.

Izumi: Oh, really? Do you have it, Itaru-san?

Itaru: I have some. I'll show you my favorite ones next time.

Itaru: That game chara doll was so good. The quality is much better than what I imagined.

Homare: Are you going to buy it?

Itaru: Hmm, I'm not sure about that. I have no confidence in maintaining the doll. Plus, it's pretty big. Senpai's so gonna tell me it's in the way.

Izumi: So the price isn't the problem here…

Homare: Well then, shall we go get the doll body now?

Dollmaker: Arisugawa-sensei! I've been expecting you.

Homare: I'm sorry for asking you a favor this time.

Dollmaker: It's all right. Here is the doll body.

I'm leaving this child in your care. Please take a good care of her.

Izumi: I will. Thank you very much!

Itaru: Umm… Can I ask you something?

Dollmaker: Sure. What is it?

Itaru: I'll be playing a dollmaker in our upcoming play. I'd like to ask you something for reference.

Dollmaker: Oh, I see. If you're okay with me, I'm more than happy to answer it for you.

Itaru: Thank you. What kind of feelings do you have when making dolls?

Dollmaker: Let's see… In any case, I'm always having fun and excited.

It's because I'm putting my preference and ideal into the doll, after all.

Itaru: Preference, huh… I see. Then, I'd like to ask one more question.

Do you grow attached to the dolls you make?

Dollmaker: For that one… I think you'll understand if you try making one yourself.

Itaru: Huh?

Part 2 >

#a3!#a3! translation #autumn troupe #winter troupe #spring troupe #itaru chigasaki #tasuku takato #taichi nanao #homare arisugawa

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fletchphoenix · 4 years

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Infatuated With The Idea Of Us

Hugo has got a massive crush on one certain alchemist - but will he admit it? ;)

Heya - i hope you enjoy this! I kinda got the inspo out of nowhere and my brain went “write that down, wrITE THAT DOWN-” so here we are! Once again, thank you for your support and onwards we go!

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Hugo was completely screwed.

He knew that much already. The raven haired boy had taken up all of his thoughts at this point and he never wanted the other to leave them either. It got to the point where he simply couldn’t focus properly when he was in his presence - a flush that was way too familiar repeatedly rising to his cheeks whenever he received a compliment.

He didn’t get it - the random infatuation with Varian that made him act like a goddamn teenager with a massive crush. It made him feel so embarrassed that he actively tried to avoid the other boy whenever he could, because it was such a massive problem in his eyes. His whole reason for being there was because he was going to betray them, but how could he not fall for the boy whose eyes literally looked like they had constellations in them? How could he not when Varian was the only person who believed he could be better than he actually was?

However...he was sure that the other boy had a girlfriend. It wouldn’t surprise him in the slightest. The boy’s presence, looks and personality were all so intoxicating and perfect that he just knew some lucky girl had already confessed their love for him and Varian could’ve had literally any girl he wanted if he so much as breathed in their direction.

So he took the moments they had together. The moments they spent in their makeshift lab tent working together on some goo bombs (one of Varian’s inventions that had honestly really impressed Hugo with how effective it was in battle) or little improvements to Olivia. Little moments spent laughing by the campfire with their shoulders bumping together and shaking in laughter. Varian’s laugh was just so damn infectious, with little snorts regularly escaping his lips and his eyes scrunching shut in pure joy. It was cute. Very cute.

Hugo hated it.

Silently, he looked at Varian who was currently leaning over some random glowing solution in a test tube, a purple hue reflecting onto his face and defining the beautiful freckles that dotted his face. Yep. Definitely had a girlfriend. Sure, he hadn’t asked him before...so maybe now was his chance? Maybe he could just reach over and cup the other boy’s cheek, whisper him a few sweet nothings and place a kiss to those beautiful, rosy lips. Maybe he could just ask him if he did or didn’t like Hugo or if he had a partner.

Nope. That would be absolutely weird and make the other more uncomfortable than he already was at this point in all honesty. He was avoiding Varian wherever they went and besides, it would ruin the whole team dynamic if he did. Their friendship which they’d spent so long trying to develop would be gone in a matter of a few words. So he shuffled away. Shuffled away and gave up the chance he’d been given by the universe.

Well, he found out VERY fast that his thoughts were right.

It was some girl called Lilith that they’d met in Galcrest. Of course they were a cute couple, but...my god, he should’ve taken a chance in the lab tent that day. His stomach churned whenever he saw the pair together, him mentally deciding to put up more walls, hiding how he truly felt even though he wished it were him with the younger alchemist instead of that...girl. Instead of confessing his feelings, he spent the time mourning a relationship he’d never had. A romance he longed for, but never came into reality, and it sucked so so much. Every time the pair kissed, Hugo couldn’t help but entertain the thought that it should have been him, not her. Not some random girl, but alas, he suppressed it and kept on going.

So of course he couldn’t bring himself to even try feigning sadness after Varian and Lilith inevitably ended their relationship. There seemed to be no bad blood between the two, them both mutually agreeing they weren’t the best match for each other, but it didn’t stop Nuru and Yong from being sympathetic and comforting the other alchemist. Hugo, on the other hand, silently celebrated the breakup of the pair. Now he had a chance - an opening! He could take the boy by the hand and pull him close to his chest, placing a kiss to his lips in a wordless confession of his feelings towards the other. They’d be happy.

But Corona and, more importantly, Donella’s deadline were three weeks away. Three weeks left with his companions he’d grown so used to after so long spent together - three weeks left of Varian. He’d almost forgotten after his biweekly check-ins with Cyrus changed to monthly, which then stopped altogether considering the irregular travel patterns the group had experienced. He knew it was dumb but he silently prayed that Donella would forget. That she’d call off this whole mission and he would be free to do whatever. He didn’t want to admit it but...

He didn’t want this to end.

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He hadn’t anticipated this was how he’d confess to Varian, but here he was - getting beaten the shit out of by the boy he adored as his body was controlled like some marionette by his mother that, with no effort, slammed Hugo back into some shelves and choked him. The world around him turned fuzzy as those three fateful words left his lips, the hands around his throat gripping tighter and tighter and bitter eyes glowed with a sickly green colour, not like their previous azure blue.

“I love you, Varian. Please. Fight this.” He managed to struggle out, his vision and grip on the world slipping as he began to pass out. He knew it was a cheap tactic to try, especially right after he’d betrayed the boy currently choking him, but he had to try it at least. He didn’t care if it wasn’t reciprocated by the other. He didn’t care if the other boy wanted him completely out of his life or wanted him sent to jail for the longest time he could. He just wanted to see those beautiful blues again. With one tighter squeeze, he lost his consciousness and slipped into a world of black, all noises and sounds fading away.

It definitely came as a surprise when he awoke with his head in Varian’s lap, a tearful smile on his face. Ah, there they were. Those beautiful blue eyes that he’d missed so much. “Varian-” he whispered huskily, struggling to sit up before the other boy shushed him and took his hands in his. Hands that no longer donned gloves. In fact, it had only just registered in his brain that neither of them had their gloves or goggles on at his point, most likely lost in the altercation only a few minutes ago.

“Hey. Hey don’t. Your voice is too weak.” the raven haired boy reminded him, gesturing to his neck where Hugo was sure he had a nasty bruise. Varian was...seriously strong if you ignored his scrawny frame. “But..Hugo. I love you too. I have for a while. I was just waiting for you.” he continued, Hugo’s jaw dropping.

Ah. So he really had missed the signals hadn’t he. Now it all seemed so obvious - the times they’d go out together and get lunch with just them, the little shuffles closer as they sat by the campfire on a night...wow, he really was a dumbass. “Oh fuck.” he could help but say, his voice cracking and straining as he winced at the pain residing on his throat. Varian, however, merely chuckled before he slowly moved in to press his lips against the other boy’s with a hand moving to rest in Hugo’s blonde locks.

It was perfect, and Hugo really was screwed. He was absolutely infatuated with Varian, but...Varian was infatuated with him too. Not Cass, not Lilith. Just Hugo - and that was all that mattered as they sat on the marble floor of the library in each other’s arms. They could wait a few minutes before they left. They both finally found what they were looking for since the beginning. Purpose. And they found it in each other.

#varigo #varian and the seven kingdoms #varian x hugo #varian tangled #tangled varian #hugo tangled #tangled hugo #alchemy boyfriends

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