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leupagus · 4 months

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Guys I Might Have Three Nickels

I've been watching "Agatha Christie's Marple" for the past few days and it's pretty good! Marple adaptations all tend to have a better caliber of actors than a lot of bog-standard mystery shows (looking at you, "Madame Blanc"), and while Joan Hickson's Marple is right up there with David Suchet's Poirot and Jeremy Brett's Holmes as "literally can never be beaten, these are the best anyone's done it," both Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie do a fantastic job as Miss Marple.

Then I got to "The Secret of Chimneys," Season 5 episode 2

and guys

Guys

So there's a murder of a viscount, like there is, and this detective Finch rolls up and immediately spots Miss Marple (in her NIGHTIE! standing at the window like some kind of hussy, honestly Jane) and doffs his cap to her with that little smile that makes you go, "huh."

At this point I've watched a couple dozen Miss Marple episodes where she goes through detectives like wildfire and this guy's supposed to be a "*guru*" so I'm expecting some battle of the egos or something and like, Stephen Dillane is great! But bleh, I might have to skip this one.

Then my dude asks Miss Marple to SHOW HIM THE BODY, with a pleased little smile at her as she goes "uhhhhhhhh but my knitting?" (He even does that thing where you use someone's honorific and wait for them to give you their name, and that's when I was like "ohhh this bitch knows exactly who she is.") What follows is what I can only describe as a meet-cute in the secret passageway where the viscount was shot (and in fact the body is STILL THERE) and where Miss Marple literally asks the police equivalent of "is there a Mrs Finch" and he looks at her like this:

At which point I'm like "ohhh my dude not only knows who she is, he deliberately came here without a sergeant so he could draft her," and sure enough he just starts...handing her pieces of evidence like "hey babe can you decipher this note for me thanks love you" while Miss Marple is like, "this approval and camaraderie coming from a cop... not sure if want."

Next is a series of romantic strolls through the gardens while they discuss murder, during which Finch reveals his undying love I mean his research into Miss Marple and the "dozen case files" of her previous exploits that he's collected like some deranged fanboy. Miss Marple responds to this by BLUSHING LIKE A SCHOOLGIRL and stammering about how pish tosh it's nothing really, and I couldn't find a gif of it but he's staring at her like this:

Yeah I bet u r tempted

He also makes a half-hearted attempt at negging her "amateur sleuth" status, only to then immediately assure her that he makes like, so much money being a big fancy detective and can keep her in all the yarn and garden seed she could ever desire.

There's also a late-night tryst at the compost pile right after Finch has been (mildly) poisoned and Miss Marple is like "men are so weak" as she roots through the garbage for clues.

Not how he wanted their first date to go D:

The next morning there's another murder which: bummer, but also allows the two of them to read love letters together and for Finch to give Miss Marple the following look as she explains how secret assignations among lovers can "quicken the ardor":

Miss Marple then goes onto solve the murders and btw hands over the priceless diamond that's been literally missing for two literal decades that she found in her spare time. The entire scene features Finch looking at her like this:

After the dust settles, Finch and Miss Marple have a lovely moment where he calls himself "another one of your casualties," then super casually mentions that he's probably going to have to go on assignment to use the diamond in a daring international espionage case and I can't decide if he's asking Miss Marple to go with him or simply trying to show her that he is cool and smart and would make an excellent wife, but either way the episode ends with her turning him down and Jane, we need to talk about your priorities.

Anyway I've already written 2K about the subsequent 10-year epistolary romance these two have following this episode because I make poor choices.

#agatha christie's marple #miss marple #julia mckenzie #stephen dillane #special thanks to introvertedpedant for their exceptional gifs #anyway yeah I fully did the 'haha what if I jokingly shipped them' and then 30 minutes later was like 'oh no'#miss marple rhymes with parple #seriously though what's the explanation for these choice #other than dillane reading through the script and saying to mckenzie #'ok so I'm gonna play him like SO SO down bad for you is that cool'#and mckenzie saying 'you jump I jump jack'

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shakespeareinnit · 3 months

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15 february 2024 》 obsessed with pb&j and Five Guys shakes lately🥤

definite character development in terms of productivity, getting more and more done every day 🙌 50/10 pomodoro study sessions seem to really suit me, i can’t believe i've never tried pomodoro before! also been going to the gym more, which is great!

despite all this, everything just feels very bleh. not into anything. hate everyone and everything. would like to disappear off the face of the planet. many other depression clichés.

need to keep at it and not give up though! 😬 been watching Superstore to cheer myself up 💙 i also desperately need to fix my sleep schedule, which is probably very connected to my awful mood these past few days. so... onwards and ahead! (very grumpily, but even so. let's do this.)

#mine #uni diaries #studyblr #studyspiration #bujo #bullet journal #study blog #studyspo #student life #university #study motivation

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gyuswhore · 1 year

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it’s the karina requester again from before 🤭 i really really loved the karina fic and it’s been on my mind for a while 😵‍💫 if the drabble game is still ongoing then could you do another fic of her confessing to fem!reader? just overall really fluffy please? 🫶 (it doesn’t have to be a part two to the other one but it would be nice 😔)

hiii im so happy you liked that one, hope you enjoy this one just the same <3

this can be read as a standalone, but I continued it from the first ask!

also im really sorry I took my sweet time with this, I've been vv distracted lately :(((

lawyer!karina x femlawyer!reader

masterlist

part 1 | part 2

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You aren't entirely sure why you agreed to this considering you can barely utter a sentence around her. But alas, you sit in front of her at a restaurant table, trying not to stare for too long.

It was jarring when she had asked you to dinner, to what seemed like a casual meal between co-workers, but one that you accepted without thinking.

"Have you opened the Maher files yet?" you ask quietly, trying to fill in the silence.

"Let's not talk about work here, that's bleh" she responds, placing a bit of meat in your plate, "try that it's really good"

You slowly pick up your utensils and bring it to you mouth, giving her a nod of approval as you chewed.

"Did you finish painting that wall in your living room yet?" she asks out of the blue.

You didn't know she remembered that.

"Uh, yeah I did. Had to get some help though, but it finished up pretty nice"

"Why didn't you ask me? I love painting walls, it's so therapeutic" she exclaims.

"Oh", you respond, "I didn't know. I need to repaint the lobby too actually-"

"Perfect", she cuts you off, "don't ask anyone else. I'll help you"

Before you can refute she starts again, "Do you wanna get ice cream after this? I know such a good place down the road. They're family owned too, their stuff is the best"

The smile she has on her face as she rambles about her favourite ice cream place is enough to make you heart swoon for the 20th time that night. She was so effortless, and it was enough to have you doing cartwheels.

"Sure"

After Karina was satisfied with your stuffing of food, drinks and dessert, she proposed a walk in the nearby park.

"It's mostly empty around this time. No annoying children, I promise"

And so you oblige, once again, because god forbid you ever say no to anything this girl says.

"There's a reason I asked to hang out with you tonight" she starts, halting her steps as you do the same to face her.

Your heart sank.

Oh.

This wasn't because she wanted to get closer. This was for a favour.

"I need to talk to you about something, and it's kinda serious." she continues.

"I'm not sure if this is out of the blue or not but, I was kind of hoping you'd realise and maybe say something"

She stops for a minute, and looks up from her shoes.

You had no idea where this was going.

"I really like you, Y/n"

#aespa #aespa fluff #aespa scenarios #aespa x reader #karina #karina fluff #karina x reader #karina imagines #karina scenarios #aespa imagines #em.writes #em.anon

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janiedean · 5 months

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god hello some news ig?

... yeah HI *waves*

so, I've been crap at keeping up with social media lately and I miss hanging out on here and I'm planning to keep up at least this month but i'mma just give a small update here sooo

dunno if it was obvious from my last post but I moved out of parents' and going in between feeling proud of myself for not fucking up dinner to crying over how much I suck when I manage to burn pre-made soup but hey the place is still not a complete mess so that's a win

I worked two jobs last year which completely sapped 90% of my force of will to do anything

rn I'm sticking with one which is sadly not exactly earning me atm so I'm trying to get the whole thing going decently but I have to hang on a bit more and then it might hopefully meanwhile I'll settle for scraping by but I could do worse

(I can't say what it is specifically as much as I'd like because it's a thing I actually enjoy doing but it's extremely niche and if I said what it is I'd end up giving doxxing fodder and I'm still paranoid but I can share on dm) (let's just say it's the good kind of retail)

the highlight of my last month for good or bad was watching all of attack on titan in one week and let's just say it was a decision™️

let's say that I'm mentally in a very bleh place but not being with the parents all the time has tbf helped some so hopefully I'll dig myself out asap also because I'd like to y'know be active again

(tbf there was a thing that has happened... entirely too long ago at this point and don't I wish I could get over it but a hello of a long time later I came to terms with the fact that it yeeted me straight into crap coping mechanisms that I thought I had gotten over ten years ago (thought being the key word) and I really don't wanna air dirty laundry also bc I really should move on but when I'm like this I feel like I'm bothering most people with my mere presence and I tend to self-isolate and tbh right now is worse than it was fifteen years ago but eh I'll get over it but like if I show up then I disappear for three weeks then show up again it's... that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

anyway hello people I missed you all I swear I'll be more present this next year hoping it's not 90% crap as this one was T_T

#1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #about me #personal for ts #i aaam being a complete mess atm tbf #i mean not as bad as 2021-22 but eeeh #but like in between the getting covid getting this close to break a foot a couple months ago and other stuff i've been just like #mentally exhausted #also i'm avoiding most socials because i know when i'm like this i don't need to possibly see any kinda stupid take on anything #but anyway hello hope y'all have been well

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prowerprojects · 7 months

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Mind if I drop two? Both for Tails.

🫂 (Any friendship barring Sonic)

🧸(Can be before meeting Sonic, or after but both still figuring out their boundaries pre-Adventure)

Of course I don't mind! Thank you! Ask game

🫂

Oh, I have a few.

First thing that comes to mind, I don't think Tails and Cream are especially close friends at the moment, they have more of a "friend of a friend" type of relationship, however, I could definitely see them reconnecting and becoming really close when they're older. It's hard to find someone else who can relate to their childhood experiences in a similar way and it would do both of them a lot of good when trying to reflect on them.

After Sonic, I think Amy is Tails's closest friend (even if it's not necessary mutual. Amy is a very social person). He also tends to get a bit protective over her, even if he obviously knows that she can take care of herself (this one is probably mutual though). And it's not just physical safety, they both get really mad when the other gets overlooked. I really like how in some games (like Adventure and Battle) they live pretty close to each other, so I imagine they help each other with domestic issues. They probably go shopping together. Imagine the core four fighting Eggman and Amy and Tails keep talking about upcoming sales djcjxxjmd. I also like to imagine that when they were little Amy had taught a lot if basic necessary stuff that she had learned from her parents to Tails, you know, how to sew on a button, how to cook simple meals, how to use a broom, etc. (On another note, Tails is probably the biggest Sonamy shipper out there, but a lot of it maybe comes from being worried that she would stop hanging out with him if she ever got over Sonic. This is not rational and he tries not to think about it, but it still gnaws at him a bit)

I also like to imagine Tails being friends with Big. Tails just comes down to his place to hang out most of the time, Big doesn't really mind. Big doesn't know anything about Tails being an engineer or whatever, he just sees a kid living by himself so he tries to be a cool older cousin-type and does his best to keep an eye on Tails.

🧸

I've been making up a lot of headcanons about Tails's family lately, but here's one: when he met Sonic andnstarted traveling with him, he actually run away from home. He used to live with his uncle and his family back then, and it wasn't really great for him (I actually headcanon that those foxes from the Origins cutscene are his cousins). So he didn't think twice about leaving them. (They just assumed he died during Eggman's invasion). Sonic had no idea that Tails had living relatives until years later.

I actually might have posted about this before, so here's another one:

For Sonic and Tails's early days. There was a lot of awkwardness at first, I think. Neither of them had a close friend before, and they had to figure out how to frienship on the go. Sonic is a very free person, who always did whatever he wanted to do, and Taills was so starstruck that he was willing to drop everything if Sonic had asked him to. Not great! Luckily Sonic isn't some kind of jerk who would have taken advantage of that. (Luckily they worked it out somehow and by Adventure Tails was already the one dragging Sonic around and nagging at him for not staying on track, haha.)

But those things, combined with Tails's smarts and whatnot led to Sonic kind of overlooking the fact that Tails was really young at the time. (I do think he tends to "coddle" him more nowadays, comparatively) And maybe there was a bit of denial, too. Sonic wanted them to just be two friends hanging out, he didn't want to be responsible for a child's safety. But of course he knew subconsciously that he'd have to take on a bit of responsibility over Tails, since even disregarding the age, Tails still wasn't as strong or fast as him and he was his fan which gave Sonic some authority (bleh!) over him.

It was a very complicated matter for Sonic to figure out, but a necessary one, without it he wouldn't be out there giving speeches about the superpower of teamwork nowadays.

Whoops this one kind of shifted to Sonic's pov a bit. I do think their early days were more of a period of growth for Sonic, though Tails did become more comfortable around Sonic and wasn't scared that Sonic would just abandon him somewhere like his mom anymore (She had a good reason for leaving him with her brother and she was gonna come back for him but. She died)

Back in the early days Tails used to love hearing stories about Sonic's previous adventures and constantly begged him to tell more. At some point Sonic just started making things up because he run out of stories and Tails wouldn't believe him, haha. He didn't know about that until he was reading a book and realized that he already knew that story. But Sonic putting on his storytelling voice always reminds Tails of when he was little.

#tails #blue blur #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #amy rose #miles tails prower #tails the fox #sonic & tails #big the cat #cream the rabbit #cream & cheese #project.txt #project.ask #the friendship section turned into a tails & team rose special

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aerynwrites · 7 months

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hello! I'm happy your requests are open! Hope you're doing well <3 I've been having a lot of self esteem issues lately. I feel gross, my hips are wide, my booty is big. Bleh. If it's alright, can I please request a fem Tav feeling unworthy, just not good enough for Gale? Like she loves him, but since he was with a Goddess she just feels she's not enough for him? Thank you <3

Hello friend! First of all thank you for seem this and second and most importantly -

Please please don’t let your inner self image issues get you down. I’ve also dealt with really negative self esteem issues (still do!) and I just want you to know that you ARE worthy and you are amazing!!

I just finished writing this oneshot for Gale and it will be posted next week ❤️ (if you’d like a little sneak peak please DM and I’m happy to share!)

#don’t let those inner demons win my friend!!#you’re body is beautiful just the way it is #plus we all know Gale is an ass man and he’d love you okay???#anon ask #ask box #Tw:self image #Gale ask

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spicyraeman · 5 months

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Well interacting with you makes my week too! **aggressive friendly fist bump**

I hope your holidays are going well 😁

Wolfheart is ending me. Can I pet that dawg? CAN I PET THAT DAWG? (https://vt.tiktok.com/ZGeN9U7kG/)

I love seeing the hairy SH art! PCOS / trans / wolf girlie, I stan all versions I see. We're not cowards here! The new band drawings are fire, still making my heartrate go jglcbxlw. And seeing the growth? Honestly it's magic to me, I think it's perfect then it becomes even more perfect and I'm just how?? How possible?

Veteran'zel, Baby'zel, Beam'zel, Horny'zel, Rat'zel, all I do is love'zel! The cheetah/dog doodle + wet rat'zel made me hiccup from laughter, we were blessed.

Buddy, Karlach's got her tail docked like the gith children, that's why! See, problem fixed **insert Flex Tape meme**

Also for Lae'zel's accent : yes, she would have such a harsh accent! As a foreign speaker, the pronunciation isn't always intuitive and is sometimes paradoxal. She probably never used some sounds, and it's hard to guess a lot of them. It's so inconsistent. I lack air in the middle of my sentences because of the tonal accentuations differences. Languages are crazy man. Lae'zel would have a stroke, struggling to say "library" with Gale correcting her.

I've been upgraded to bestie? Careful, I feel like the most specialest goblin in town now 😎

I also wanted to share with you my recent victory : I passed my exams with unexpectedly high grades! It's been 10 years since I succeeded in anything school related, I feel strangely proud and hopeful. I attribute this partly to the intense hyperfixation for BG3. I can come back to this fandom and get comfort when I feel burned out and in need of motivation. Thank you for being part of it and sharing your blorbos with us. Good soup for our cold starving souls. So yeah, you and your art matter even if you find it bleh sometimes and you doubt yourself.

I wanted to be brief but I'm incapable of shortening shit even if my life depended on it. Violently dumping my brain in your ask like I'm late on garbage collecting day. Sorry not sorry for the awkward emotional stuff. Take care of yourself, bestie ✌️

🫀🚑

Sry for answering these “backwards”, I just needed to get the conlang stuff out first before all my good braincells shut down lol

hope the holidays are going well on your end as well :]

To pet a werewolf truly is the dream isn’t it, wereshart is prob my fav hc for her it just fits so well. I've been trying really hard lately to figure out how to draw her recently bc despite the art disparity her and lae’zel are neck in neck at being my fav characters. Seeing the growth in the bass drawing really gave me that boost of confidence that I'm at least slightly getting there lol

I truly do love Lae’zel in every form, but wet rat’zel rotates in my mind more than it should, sadly its not a hc I could ever commit to considering I can’t even remember Karlach’s canon tail lmaoo I really should just hc that karlach got her tail docked at this point, that or I need to make a checklist for her so I can go through and make sure ive got all her bits when I draw her

Also Ive already posted my big rambling mess about Gith accents but yeah harsh accent lae'zel best lae'zel, it just makes sense

But yoooo big gratz on the exams! Def something to be proud of!! I can agree this fandom really is a huge motivator, I haven’t had this much drive to do anything I've been doing recently in years. Glad I could help provide a lil comfort spot full of blorbo soup for the soul lol

Dw about shortening shit as you’ve prob seen i’m prone to rambling and also every emotion I experience is awkward so that's just par for the course here.

Hope life treats you well till the next ask, peace ✌️

#asks #again sry for answering backward #I just got sucked back into the conlang fixation

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mrmallard · 21 days

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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers.

Thanks for the ask game!

A lot of these are probably gonna seem kind of "base", or like highly specific.

1: Getting lunch at work

I don't always get lunch at work because I'm either about to be super late, or because I've been spending too much money and I need to try and cut back to make rent. Lately it hasn't been as much of a problem. Either way, getting lunch at work always makes me happy.

We can order in from a local cafe/restaurant, and every day has its own associated special. My favorite special is on Wednesday - it's a chicken burger with chips (fries) for $13. The burger has half of a chicken schnitzel on it, which is cut in half again to make two burger-sized patties, as well as mayo and lettuce. Eating is a general pleasure whether I'm at work or not, but getting to sit down and eat well after working my ass off for like three hours straight is a real highlight of my work day.

2: Video games

I've always been super into games, and even as I've gotten older games have probably been the most influential media in my life. I'm able to take a step back and acknowledge real life; I'm not exactly well-adjusted, but I'm not living in a fantasy world either y'know.

I could cite at least thirty games here. I love Tetris. Life is Strange fucking rules. I've been playing Runescape on and off for almost twenty whole-ass years of my life. Minecraft has gotten me through some of the toughest years of my life. Turn-based RPGs were a fairly late-stage thing I got into as a teenager - my favorite games growing up were like Jak and Daxter, and eventually Sonic the Hedgehog - but now it's probably one of my favorite genres, and I am certifiably Not Normal about Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest.

It's probably bad that I don't have a more sociable hobby, but man - video games are the best. I love video games.

3: Final Fantasy in particular

Look I'm really deep in the Final Fantasy mines rn so I'm just gonna vent.

I'd dabbled in RPGs before, with the PS2 pack-in demo disc including a demo for Dark Cloud and with me eventually owning both a Harry Potter game and Pokemon Yellow and Crystal on the Game Boy Color. I'd also tried to emulate Chrono Trigger, but keyboard controls and general impatience left me feeling kinda bleh about the whole thing.

Final Fantasy was beyond my scope as a kid, and I actually wouldn't come into direct contact with a Final Fantasy game until high school. I lent a friend of mine Tekken Advance - which is a 2D sprite-based port of Tekken 3 for the GBA, with mixed results - and he lent me Final Fantasy X in return.

I did not like Final Fantasy X. At all.

I grew up on Jak and Daxter, and Ratchet and Clank. I grew up on Pokemon and - of all games - Rocket Slime on the DS. The shortcomings of the Game Boy Pokemon games were whatever, because they were Game Boy games - they still had their own flow and charm, while FFX felt dated and stiff.

FFX came out around the same time as Jak and Daxter, and that game runs circles around it! Real-time shadows, 60fps, dynamic character animations etc. Ratchet and Clank was the same. Of course, it wouldn't come out until way later that Naughty Dog games were basically freaks of nature, with the first Crash Bandicoot going so far as to overclock the PS1 to run properly, and both the Jak games and RnC - which used the same engine as Jak and Daxter, and proprietary code from the games as well - being borderline un-emulatable for a good while, because the tech was so cutting edge and unlike anything else on the market that any support for those games would have to be tailor-made for how they ran.

But that's the comparison I had. It's the early 2010's, and FFX fails to impress even among its own contemporary releases. That's how I felt.

Time passes. I get really bummed out at one point, and there's nothing that I want to play. I just want to sit there and play a game at a steady pace, and I don't want that game to ask very much of me - I want to make progress without the active gameplay that a Jak and Daxter would ask of me.

And then I remember that jank-ass PS2 launch title that I basically forced my way through until I gave up. I'd given it back to my friend years ago, and I went down to the game store and bought my own copy. Worst case scenario, I wasted a few bucks on a game I would continue to dislike - but I was listless and bummed out, and I wanted something to play.

I bought FFX-2 before I even finished the first game. Playing FFX again just hooked me in for good.

I played Final Fantasy 5. I played a bunch of FF1's GBA remake. I tried to emulate FF6 and FF8 (the latter after demolishing Kingdom Hearts 1), but like Chrono Trigger, something just didn't feel right and I couldn't progress. I end up playing FF13 and its sequel, I watch playthroughs of 7 and 9 (though I did play a significant portion of 9), and I get into spinoffs like World of Final Fantasy.

Today, I'm knee-deep in Final Fantasy at most points of the day.

I appreciate the games on their individual merits, but I really love the connective tissue. I'm a huge FF5 guy, and Gilgamesh on the Big Bridge is one of the huge, hallmark moments of that game - his appearances in later games, starting with FF8, create an organic sort of expanded universe through the Void that was introduced in the same game.

I like that Final Fantasy 5 and Final Fantasy 13 are ridiculously at odds with each other concerning their approach to game design. I like how FFX is this beautiful game based on like southeast Asian culture, and how FF8, in comparison, has you fighting fucking dinosaurs with a big sword that has a revolver barrel on it. Final Fantasy is a ridiculous, endlessly robust franchise, and I love it dearly.

4: Songs with wordy lyrics

This one's as honed-in and esoteric as possible. I love a song that goes crazy with the wording in the verses.

I don't have any screenshots on this phone, because I've made endlessly detailed posts about this before, but I'll offer some examples.

The champion of this type of songwriting has got to be Dar Williams, with her song Iowa being absolutely packed with lyrics. At one point, between verses, she manages to squeeze in a little interjection that adds so much flavour to what she was already saying - it's like "once I had everything, I gave it up / for a corner of the driveway in the woods I've never felt / and for you, I've come this far across the tracks / ten miles above the limit and with no seatbelt (and I'd do it again)". All the verses in that song are that wordy, but that "and I'd do it again" is EXTRA EFFORT between this verse and the next part of the song, and it's just such an awesome song that she gave 110% on.

But even smaller lyrics that get unexpectedly wordy in an offbeat way are very pleasant to hear in a song that might not be super wordy in the long run. Idylls of the King by the Mountain Goats is this huge, grand, romantic song (in an album about two people basically stuck circling the drain and pulling each other down with them, which is arguably most famous for being the album with No Children on it) with structure like "this place, with its old plantations / these roads, heading out towards the sea" and "your eyes, twin volcanoes / bad ideas, dancing around in there" - very effective, emotionally evocative lyricism, sure, but the second verse busts out this line:

"and I dreamed of vultures, in the trees around our house / and cicadas, and locusts, and the shrieking of innumerable gibbons"

And the WAY he sings "the shrieking of innumerable gibbons" just SCRATCHES AN ITCH IN MY BRAIN in a way that's super hard to describe.

Maria Mena also has songs that do this, though I won't touch them due to subject matter. Overall, wordy lyrics in songs make me very happy.

5: Hawaiian shirts

I'm not always a very outgoing or cheerful person in real life, but Hawaiian shirts help me to make up the deficit. They're bright and outgoing, communicating a laidback sort of vibe, and they're very open and breezy which is great for ease of movement. Hawaiian shirts make up a significant portion of my wardrobe, and I really relish the opportunity to get more because even the act of throwing one on and buttoning it up - or god forbid, taking a buttoned up shirt I've worn before and just sliding into it - honestly makes me feel so good. Not a lot of clothes fit me, but my stable of Hawaiian shirts never lets me down. In the words of a great philosopher: they're comfy and easy to wear.

#thank you for the ask!!

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crush3dmary · 6 months

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20 questions writer meme

I stole this. Feel free to steal it too if you want.

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

364,141

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Yugioh DM and Tales of! Mostly Symphonia and formerly Crestoria (rip).

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Darling Lagomorph (crestoria) at 155 Weltschmerz (symphonia) at 133 Philosophy of a Knife (ygodm) at 94 Fear's Ascent (crestoria) at 83 Have You Seen Me? (crestoria) at 78

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I really struggle with this to be honest, if I get a really long comment or someone saying the fic was really impactful I try to respond but honestly I usually just leave it and reply elsewhere if I know the author unless someone is actually asking something/wants more info about something. This is basically just because I'm busy but also in part due to my old dA fame (bleh) getting me in the bad habit of never replying to anything.

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Probably In the arms of the heretic (ygodm) that fic really means a lot to me though and I think because of the premise it worked.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I'd have to say Absurdities and Echoes (symphonia) poor Zelos deserves it after everything else I put him through in that series. Sorry about your ring finger.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I've gotten a couple rude comments but it's basically been curbed ever since I turned off guest comments on my works. You can say it with accountability or not at all. Most recently I got a moralizing comment from someone about Ryou being 16 in Philosophy because of the smut that kind of had implications I didn't like but that's about it.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I used to write a lot of crestoria smut on my alt account (IYKYK) but I will sometimes include it as a framing device to develop character relationships. There's quite a bit of smut in Philosophy for example because loneliness and isolation are such big themes for Ryou and Bakura, but generally if I post something with smut to my main account it's because it's relevant to the story or develops the character relationships.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I have a proper Symphonia/Crestoria crossover in the works that's a continuation of TOC game canon, but I've been at a standstill with my Tales works lately so it's pretty far off from being posted unfortunately. But I hope you guys give a chance once it's up, because the lore is SUPER cool.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

A certain someone who knows who they are has either plagiarized or bastardized lines from some of my popular crestoria works but other than that no.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Not yet but it would be cool!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yes! Charles and I did a collab PITY // PIETY earlier this year and it absolutely slaps! Luisa and I are also working on an art/fic collab right now that I hoe to have posted by the end of the year but we'll see... sometimes life has other plans.

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Zelloyd's gotta take the cake for this one sorry fam. When it's been your otp for 15 years nothing can ever top it. But for yugioh it's a tie between thief/tender/angst I like any combo of those three.

15. What's a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

I try to finish everything I start, but I've got a couple Tales WIPs that I'm having trouble finding the spark for. It's not that I don't think they'll ever be finished, but it might be a while until they see the light of day.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I think I really succeed when it comes to imagery and descriptive prose, plus getting inside characters' heads. I want to make people feel things with my work. I think the reason Philosophy and Darling Lagomorph are some of my best and most popular is because they're an opportunity for me to show off those strengths where I excel most.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

World building. I hate doing infodumps but I really struggle to include lore in ways that don't come off that way. This is a big reason I've never made the dive into original fiction (for now, I'm in the planning stages for my first novel. Stay tuned.)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

The only time I've ever done it is when writing Yuna from Crestoria because she includes random french in canon too. I also did a french title for the latest chapter of Philosophy which was kind of fun. I think it's something you can swing if you're prepared to do your research but if not, avoid avoid avoid.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Tales of Symphonia. The things I put Zelos through, man. If you think I'm bad now you should have seen me at 14.

20. Favorite fic you've written?

If I had to choose just one probably Philosophy of a Knife, because like I said earlier, I get to combine all of my strengths into something I feel really proud of. I think I picked the perfect time in my "writing career", so to speak, to work on it because I feel like the writing style is very cohesive and it seems to have resonated with a lot of people so far, which makes me very happy. I hope you guys continue to enjoy my work going forward!

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Hi Leanne! Happy Monday and it's been a couple of weeks 💖 Amongst the 2024 fantasy releases I'm looking forward to reading (to name a few):

Goddess of the River by Vaishnavi Patel

A Feather So Black by Lyra Selene

Faebound by Saara El-Arifi

And I'm also intrigued about the premise of Darker By Four by June CL Tan!

I don't really have much luck enjoying ebooks lately, but I've recently picked up a copy of The Circus Train by Amita Parikh and really enjoyed it! How about you? What's your favourite read of the 2024 so far?

P.S. Your take on Guts and The Good Witch is perfectly valid!! Astrologically they're just not very compatible to earth dominants (bc too much fire / water)

P.P.S. Ahh I'm glad you've enjoyed Laufey's Letter to My 13 Year Old Self — I highly recommend the entirety of Bewitched: it's a very soothing and comforting record (and instrumentally it's a very Earth sign album to me) 💖

thank you for that list, i just added goddess of the river to my tbr - i remember kaikeyi is by the same author and i loved it. and same, darker by four is one of my most anticipated reads and i hope it lives up to expectations! i'm going to stalk your tbr, i trust your taste 100% <3

so far this year, i've enjoyed:

the fox wife by yangsze choo (i think you might like this one - check it out)

clytemnestra by costanza casati (i also think you'd like this??)

the tainted cup by robert jackson bennett

daughter of the bone forest by jasmine skye

root magic by eden royce

and yes haha guts is just way too loud for me and the good witch is so bleh, idk!!

#antoniosvivaldi #ask

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breezypunk · 8 months

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could I get 9 & 10 for Vaughn beloved?

Thanks, choomie! <3

Questions here

9. Do you have a specific lyric or quote which you associate with your OC?

"Pieces of broken man Is what I've been But I will make it out Swam into the shallow end To breathe again."

I will make it - The Veer Union

The Veer Union is my favorite band, I associate many songs and lyrics with Vaughn, and Vaughn & Goro's shippy song is also from them. I also use the lead singer's voice as Vaughn's singing voice claim. An amazing band that I cherish greatly for all the Vaughn inspiration. These lyrics scream Vaughn.

10. What's an AU that would be interesting to explore with your OC?

OF COURSE MY ZOMBIE AU! Lol, that's my current obsession, and I've been concocting all this lore lately. I love fun AU's I can throw my blorbo's into and make their life hell xD

But in all seriousness, I'd also love to explore my Vampire AU more as well, I've been neglecting it a little. A lot of people are really into the zombie au, as well as me of course, but I love Vampire Vaughn & Goro. I have some lore on that too that I wanna eventually put out there.

I also kind of want to explore the Bodyguard AU I made about Goro like.. a year and a half ago, where Vaughn is an Arasaka intern, and Goro's Saburo's bodyguard (duh), and they kind of just make heart eyes at each other all over the building whenever they come into contact, I made a photostory of chapter 1 a year ago and never released, and it's too late now the quality is bleh, I don't want it to see the light of day, lol! Basically it goes from protecting Saburo, Yori & Michiko, to protecting Vaughn from Saburo & Yori. ;p

I'll remake the photostory one year later, my skills kind of improved since..

#cyberpunk 2077 #oc: vaughn leblanc #goro takemura #oc meme asks #thankie! <3 #now i really wanna recreate bodyguard au anjaknd

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shanie-the-komania-toyaddict · 21 days

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Hiii Shanie! (is that what I should call you? 🤔) I'm the guest from ao3 that sent you that long ass comment 😆😅

Just wanted to start of by saying how extremely sweet it was of you to do this and also how much I appreciated you taking the time out not once but twice to write back! Tbh yes my dumbass did not realise what "noodle incident" meant till you explained it so thank you for that 😊 clearly I'm a bit new to all of this. 😅

Honestly I'm extremely late to the party. I discovered zowens only a little after they won their tag titles last year. I had no idea who they were before that. I took a break from wrestling for about 13 years and only got back into it by accident because of Sami, then Kevin, then zowens. I was switching channels and stubbled upon zowens who happened to be on screen at the time.

So I've had to go back and do a bit of digging and now and then I'll find something that everyone already knew about yearsss ago 🙄😂 and I'll get all excited over it, but everyone else has already been there done that 😂 (also absolutely no one I know likes wrestling or really even knows about it 😭)

I know I've missed out on a LOT with these two (their "glory days") 😭 and I get only glimpses of the past here and there, but I guess as they say better late than never 😁 So I'm enjoying your stories so so much. It's pretty incredible the way you write and the journey you take us on through it.

🐨

PS. the draft this week..zowens..😌

Hello again, nonnie!

Glad you could make it!

I was hoping to hear from you. This mess of business with AO3. Bleh. Hope they get it straightened out soon.

First off, don’t feel bad for not knowing what “noodle incident” meant. I don’t know if a ton of people do these days. TV Tropes as a website has sort of fallen into obscurity in the past decade or so and that’s where I got the term from. Looking it up, the definition on the site (found HERE) apparently comes from Calvin and Hobbes. Of note: The way I use the term isn’t exactly correct because I have explained the pneumonia incident a little, and will do so in upcoming writing more, but I use the term improperly anyway because it makes sense to me.

Regardless, stay tuned for more info about the pneumonia incident! I will warn you though, the current story it’s being written into, “Never Say Goodbye”, is VERY dark. I’m probably going to have to up the rating on it. I use my writing as therapy and I’m going through some stuff right now, so this is how it is manifesting. Hope this doesn’t make you or anyone else hate me, but just know that writing it is helping me cope with my pain and getting me to a better place.

So yeah. Forgive me.

Second, don’t feel bad about just discovering Zowens in 2023. Some of the best people just discovered Zowens in 2023! I don’t know how much of last year you’ve managed to see but there is a fair amount of stuff just between summer of 2022 and fall of 2023 that is epic. If you haven’t gotten to explore it yet, I recommend starting HERE. It’s an episode of The KO Show from back in May of 2022 that planted the seeds of the entire Zowens storyline that would go on to them becoming tag champions. That said, as another video reference, that episode of the KO Show would actually be followed up on in August 2022 to properly start the storyline... in a post-show segment after Smackdown in Montreal. Finding video of that post-show segment can be difficult, but HERE is a fan video that has most of the encounter, minus the section that involved Matt Riddle (and the Zowens hug he spurs on)

Really though, if I had to offer some key highlights, just in WWE, I’d recommend the last ten minutes or so of NXT’s R-Evolution PPV, their match at Battleground 2016 (DEFINITELY Key viewing), The very end of Hell In A Cell 2017 (and the Zowens segment from the next episode of Smackdown), the 10/31/2020 episode of Talking Smack, The leadup and immediate aftermath of their WrestleMania 37 match, the clips I linked above from May and August 2022, Royal Rumble 2023 main event (OMG THAT), and most of all, the ENTIRTY of the 3/17/23 episode of Smackdown which, telling you now, as a Zowens shipper was like a friggin fever dream the night it happened. Cannot understate how that was some Joker Origin Story stuff that night, but the payoff was AMAZING.

All that said? Like Kevin said at WrestleMania 37. They met, at this point, almost 22 years ago, and the journey has been nuts. If you want a good, easy-to-absorb rundown of those 22 years or so, I highly recommend Mithen’s substack Ring the Bell. It has so much information that starts from the beginning and goes step by step along the path. They’re writing a book too! Keep an eye out for that.

Anyway, it’s great to see you here and if you need any more tips about how to dig further into the story, let me know. I know you said “Their glory days” but the truth is, in their own words, they’re “Destined to do this forever” and the glory days aren’t over yet. The story has been going on for over 2 decades but it hasn’t ended yet and I don’t believe it ever will. The Sami and Kevin show, and by extension, The Kevin Steen and El Generico show, will never end.

Over 20 years and counting. Long live Zowens/Steenerico

Enjoy the ride.

#ask #koala anon #long post

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Autumns desires

Part three

Warnings: smut, teasing, p in v, oral, unprotected sex, fingering, lose virginity

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Saturday, all three sit at the table and eat breakfast. It's still raining outside. Colin sits next to Marg and can't take his hands and mouth off her. He touches her hair, kisses her neck and hands.

- Colin, I can't eat, you're disturbing me! Move away! - laughs Marg and tries to move away from him, but he moves closer to her again.

- I want you and I can't help it. Don't push me away from you! - Colin also laughs and kisses Marg on the lips while purring loudly.

- You are disgusting, I will have indigestion because of you! Bleh, go to the bedroom! - Roby also started laughing at them and throws a piece of bread at them.

- Relax Roby, I have to go to the police station for two hours. You'll get some rest from us - says Marg sipping coffee.

- Colin and you what will you do? - asks Roby.

- I’ve no plans, but I think I'm decking out the documents I have in the car. It's become a bit of a mess there over the last while - said Colin.

- And you Roby what are your plans for today? - Marg asks.

- I don't have any plans, but I think I'll think of some good dinner for us - replied Roby picking up the dirty plates from the table and went to the kitchen.

- So when you come back, can I fuck you again? - Colin whispered in Marg's ear.

- Colin! You did it twice yesterday! - she laughed

- Two times too few. I think I fell in love with your sweet and tasty pussy. I'm still hungry! - He grabbed her thigh and moved his hand towards the sweet spot.

- Colin I beg you, I can't even think about it now! I have to go to the police station! - she tried to get out of his embrace.

- Okay, now I'll give you a break, but when you come back.... - kissed her deeply on the lips - I want you anywhere in this house and more than once! I am incredibly hungry Marg - saying this he licked his lips.

Marg looked at him with wide-open eyes and wondered what happened to this shy and innocent Colin, who lived only with work and practically lived in the police station.

- I can't wait! I like this new Colin! - She bit her lip, kissed him lightly on the lips and got up from the table.

Colin sat at the table for a while longer drinking coffee and watching the rain fall through the window.

- Can I pick up your dishes now? - asked Roby.

- Ah yes, yes... thank you. I've been thinking… I've been thinking too much lately. I guess it isn’t works too well for me - he tilted his head and covered his face with his hands.

- Are you all right? I thought you were having fun and feeling good. I thought Marg chased away all the intrusive work-related thoughts? - She smiled at him pleasantly.

- That's true, but it only works for a while. When I am with you I feel better. When I'm left alone, the thoughts return. On Monday I return to reality. I hope someday we will go somewhere for the weekend, again - he said with a devilish smile.

- Saturday has just begun, and tomorrow we have time until evening. We still have a lot of fun ahead of us - Roby reciprocated the smile.

- Really? What are your plans for me? It's very interesting - Colin tapped his finger on his lips.

- I have no idea. For now, do what you had planned for now. Then we'll think about what we'll do next - Roby pick up the plates and went to the kitchen.

- Thank you Roby! - shouted Colin after her and got up from the table with a sigh.

An hour later…

Colin spread out all the documents on the dining room table and tried to put everything together. He couldn't concentrate. Something was distracting him. It was the smell coming from the kitchen. Roby was baking a cake. There was the smell of baked apples.

- Roby! You want to kill me with these smells! - he shouted toward the kitchen.

- Did you say something? - Roby leans her head out of the kitchen.

- Yes, come here, help me if you can.

- Okay, I have an hour before the cake is baked.

- Perfect! Please start from that side and we'll meet in the middle - Colin walked to the other side of the table and started arranging the documents.

- So Colin? Lately I've been thinking about something that was very pleasant all the time, and I almost couldn't fall asleep because of it, because I kept thinking about it.

- Did you? What was that?

- Our kisses by the fireplace, yesterday....

Colin took his eyes off the documents and looked at Roby.

- Those kisses... those kisses that were supposed to silence me because I talked so much instead of focusing on pleasure? - He said with a raised eyebrow.

- Exactly those. They were very pleasant...

- I agree. I remember everything perfectly - saying this, he began to move closer to Roby.

- Really? - Roby parted her lips.

- Really - he kissed her gently, stroking her cheeks. She purred softly into his mouth.

- I didn't expect this.

- What do you feel like doing Roby? - Colin did not take his eyes off her lips.

- I... I... have no experience....

- Excuse me? I don't understand - he looked into her eyes again.

- Never before...

- Are you a virgin?

- Yes... - Roby lowered her gaze to the ground.

Colin looked at her for a moment and thought....

- Do you want to change that?

- What do you mean?

- I want to help you. I want to show you how pleasurable sex can be. It's really an amazing feeling. For a while you don't think about anything at all. You are in paradise and you feel like screaming and jumping for joy. And the orgasm... it's indescribable.

- I know what an orgasm is and what it feels like. It's not that bad with me. You know perfectly well what I did yesterday in the bathtub.

- Yes I know, but orgasm with yourself and with someone is a very big difference. I want to show you that. Once you try it you will want more and more - He kissed her again, this time harder - See what you are doing to me - Colin grabbed Roby's hand and put it on his bulge in his pants.

Roby swallowed her saliva loudly. She tightened her hand on Colin's cock. She looked at his face, his eyes were closed.

- So Roby? Can I give you pleasure? May I take care of you? Will you let me? - he whispered and opened his eyes.

- Yes - she whispered.

Colin started kissing her and slowly headed closer to the table. He leaned her against the edge and began to unbutton her pants. Roby clung tighter to Colin's lips and hugged his neck to be closer to him. This time he was the one who purred into her mouth when he put his hand inside Roby's panties.

- You're already wet... for me... - he began to slide down her pants along with her panties.

Roby watched all this with her lips parted and her eyes wide open. She couldn't believe what was about to happen.

- Please sit down on the table - Colin knelt in front of her - I want to make you more relaxed and even wetter. I want to taste you.

Roby did as Colin asked.

- Now spread out your legs for me - he started kissing the inner side of her thighs.

- Colin.... - she moaned.

- Hush, you'll be happy, I promise - Colin began to gently kiss the pink petals of her pussy. He licked, sucked and purred with pleasure - wow you taste very good and you are so wet. I like that, very much.

- Colin... this is incredibly pleasurable... you're good at this, I want more... - she moaned loudly and grabbed him tightly by the hair pulling his head closer to her pussy.

- Yes, I know. Marg already told me that - he laughed, but Roby hit him on the head - ouch, sorry, I have to start thinking before I say something - Colin put one finger in Roby's hot entrance and started to move it slowly. He inserted it and took it out. He added another finger to stretch her more. Roby moaned loudly and began to pull out of Colin's grasp, but he held her tight.

- Oh God, I think I'm about to come! Don't stop! Colin! - she almost screamed by holding tightly to his hair and the edge of the table.

- Yes Roby, come on my lips and fingers, I want it! Do it, now! - Colin sucked on her sweet button and started licking it.

- Colin! - Roby shouted loudly. Exhausted, she lay down on the table and breathed heavily.

Colin stood up with a smile and leaned over and kissed her on the lips.

- I think you liked it. Shall we continue? - Colin started kissing Roby's neck, unbuttoning her blouse. He reached her bra and tilted it slightly to start kissing and licking her nipples.

- You want to torture me, oh mamma mia! Now you can do whatever you want with me! I am yours! Colin! OMG!

Colin began to unbutton his pants and slid them down his legs along with his panties. He began gently sliding his dick close to the entrance to paradise.

- Roby, are you ready? I can't wait to be deep inside you. If you feel any discomfort, tell me and I'll stop.

- Colin I want you, do it! I want to feel you! Now!

He began to slowly slide inside. Colin looked deep into Roby's eyes, his lips parted and a blissful expression on his face.

- Oh you are pleasantly tight, hot... How do you feel? Is everything okay? - he leaned in to kiss her before she had time to answer his questions.

- Colin, is better than I expected! Deeper! - Roby pulled him closer to her and kissed him while moaning into his mouth.

He slid in at his full length. He began to move slowly forward and backward. He closed his eyes. He snuggled up to Roby moving harder and harder inside her. He kissed her neck while listening to her loud moans.

- OMG... harder! I think I'm about to come! Again! - she drove her nails into Colin's back moaning louder and louder into his ear.

- Yes! Yes Roby! Come! Come for me again! I want to feel it baby! - he kissed her deeply on the lips. They both moaned loudly.

Roby come again this time on his dick. Colin finished deep inside her. He cuddled his face into her neck, breathing hard. Roby hugged him.

- Colin, thank you - she whispered in his ear while kissing him on the cheek.

- For what? - Colin raised his head to look at her.

- For showing me what paradise is - she kissed him gently.

- I... No problem, it was a pleasure for both of us. I recommend myself for the future - he laughed, gave Roby a kiss on the cheek and stood up - I'll go get some towels.

- No, don't go. I need to wash up. I'll go upstairs and take a shower.

Colin went to the kitchen to bring himself to order. Standing at the sink, he saw through the window that Marg had just returned.

- Fuck - he cursed under his breath and poured himself a glass of water for inconspicuousness. He leaned against the kitchen counter and drank the water as if nothing ever happened.

Marg knotted into the house, took off her coat and headed for the kitchen.

- Oh hi Colin! What’s up? - She smiled at him and took a yogurt out of the refrigerator.

- Cool, everything is cool - he said with a glass to his lips looking at the wall in front of him.

- Okay? What's that smell? Is something burning? - Marg looked at the oven.

- Oh shit, Roby’s cake! - Colin quickly took it out of the oven - oh it's not so bad - sniffed it and put it on the counter.

- Where is Roby? - asked Marg with a raised eyebrow.

- She went to the bathroom and asked me to watch the cake - Colin grunted and sipped water again.

- Okay? But you are acting strangely. Are you sure you're okay? - Marg asked walking closer to him and looking at him.

- Of course, why do you ask? - Colin tried to withstand Marg's gaze.

- You were supposed to arrange documents. Do you always sweat so much at them? - she continued to ask him questions.

- I... I... failed to finish what I had planned - he scratched his head, but did not look away from Marg's face.

- What do you mean? What happened?

- I... - he interrupted, because Roby suddenly entered the kitchen.

- Oh hi Marg! It's good that you're here already, I'll be making dinner soon - Roby hugged Marg while looking with big eyes at Colin and saying silently "Did you tell her?" Colin shook his head in denial.

- I don't know, but both of you are acting strangely. Can you tell me what happened? - Marg crossed her arms over her chest and waited for an answer.

- I’m no longer a virgin - Roby said.

-Yes that's right. I just fucked her - confirmed Colin, refilling his glass with water.

- Aha - said Marg and left the kitchen - You did it on the table?! - she shouted from the living room.

Colin and Roby came into the living room.

- You could have gone to the bedroom! Colin it was her first time, you could have been more romantic! - said Marg picking up the documents from the floor.

- Somehow it worked out that we didn't even think about it - said Colin helping Marg picking up the documents.

- Well, I'll go make dinner - said Roby and went to the kitchen.

Marg immediately grabbed Colin by the shirt and pulled him close.

- I thought about you during the time I was at work. I thought about what we did yesterday and how you behaved at breakfast this morning. I know you are not mine. I know there were no declarations, but it's a strange feeling when you fuck me first and then her - Marg let go of Colin and sat down in a chair at the table.

Colin stood shocked and looked at her not knowing what to say.

- Marg... I have no idea what to say to you. After all, yesterday was a threesome and today you feel bad about it? I think, I don’t understand something - said Colin and sat down next to Marg on a chair.

- I know it's pathetic. I just need to put it together in my head - Marg got up and went to help Roby with dinner leaving Colin alone with his thoughts.

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Part one

Part two

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the-stove-is-divorced · 1 month

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OHHHH Congratulations for 100 subscribers!!! That's awesome!!❤❤❤

If it's allowed to ask about any of your fics, then what are your plans for all the time in the world or do you already have drafts for future chapters? I'm always fascinated by de-aged!Bruce fics and your foundation for the plot is something I've never seen before!! Would you like to share a quick peek into the future of that storyline?👀👀

Oh yay tysm, genuinely. (´꒳`)♡ And yes ofc!!! I'm happy to!!!

I will preface and admit literally anything I plan for any fic is 110% subject to change, especially if it doesn't feel right anymore or doesn't fit with how the story's progressing since I only write stories as I go. But with that being said, YEAH I OFC I WILL.

So as of this moment, the big plan is to jump around at different points in Bruce's life, around 4-7 different stages so it's not gonna stay stuck to his current rlly young age! (´꒳`)ゞ Bruce should jump in age in about 1-2 chapters, but entirely dependent on how the next chapter goes and that hasn't been finalized yet, much to my own internal agony, bleh. It's been such a pain in the ass to get right and the inner perfectionist in me is not helping, so it's taking longer than I want to. At the same time, I can also admit haven't decided if the next jump should be around 11-13 years old or more compellingly around 17 years old. I also wanna be careful not to make Alfred too perfect? He has the bias of hindsight in his favor, and is the main (and so far only) narrator, so I wanna get some clear contradictions in here.

Oh, and for the story's logic, the magic that de-aged him is unwinding in big ol' chunks, and won't come undone all at once, hence skipping forward! It will be 17 years old, either 18-19, either 20-21, and either 21-22 years old, with maybe an extra 13 years old so the switch from 9 to 17 isn't too jarring, if that makes sense. Plus, debating a bonus point around his late 20's/early 30's. And while I don't have a big ol' plot, as I write as I go, but there are moments I want to include if I'm able!

For example, 21 year old Bruce looks just like how old Bruce was when he took in Dick (but Dick misunderstands, Bruce was 23 when he took in 13 year old Dick), so I want to include a scene where Dick is so relieved there's finally a Bruce he understands is here, but he's still wrong. Dick might go in for a much needed hug, a beaming smile, but Bruce gives Dick a Brucie smile. Dick still a complete and utter stranger to him. The crushing plummet of hope after the first real sign of relief, being teased with the first fleeting glimpse of Bruce he knew to work around, how to behave around, only for him to treat him like a complete stranger and pull out Brucie mask on him? Horrible. I can't wait to write it.

If I'm feeling really angsty (which I probably will be), that late 20's/early 30's is Bruce before Jason died, and he's so much happier. There's a tension not found within him, a kind of wariness that hasn't been ingrained just yet, a joking, lighter tone he's more willing to display so openly. He's excited to see how his sons have grown, he wants to know what college Jason went to, what careers, he wants to know what Dick ended up doing, he's so hopeful he didn't fuck them up trying to raise them like he was so scared he would. They don't have it in their hearts to tell them what happened, I think they lie, or Alfred pointedly won't them say anything. He saw his son grieving once and he wants to savor this joy, this hope, this happiness that was buried when Jason died. He'd be furious if they revealed a damn thing right now.

But I do have chart to keep my idea for my personal understanding of Bruce's development, which I'll share below! It's not complete, and like anything, subject to change, especially at the 7-8, 9-10, and 11-13 yr old marks. But it's a general idea to keep my thoughts in order.

I hope that was satisfactory! Unfortunately, I don't have a finalized version of the next chapter done, so I can't share a sneaky peak of it (currently debating between a POV switch or continuing with Alfred) but I hope all my yapping makes up for it. TYSM for asking and showing interest. Still amazes me people like my stuff. (//▽//)

#batman batman batman #asks #TYSM FOR ASKINGGGG #i love talking about fics and processes and stuff I just keep forgetting to and yapping my friend's ear off instead smh #anyways batman brainot strong I MADE A CHART FOR THIS MF #WHAT DO THEY PUT IN THIS CHARACTER TO MAKE IT SO COMPELLING #also yes i am so normal about de-aged fics being character studies #so normallllllllll

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