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faeryarchives · 3 months

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its you, it always has been you

summary: it was right then and there that he knew, he had fallen in love recent works: don't lose me, not yet & stay with me (leona kingscholar x gn!reader) & heartslabyul with a furina-like female reader!

* ˚ ✦ you're always on my mind, even out of sight: he always wonder when did it actually start? sometimes in the middle of the day, his thoughts would randomly travel back to you - are you taking care of yourself? oh look, he found a patch of (favorite flowers) in the hidden area of the botanical garden + wondering if you would like it if he give you a bouquet 💐 everything reminds you of him and he is getting frustrated why does everything goes back to you until he saw you from the distance admiring the sunset with grim and that is when he knew "no wonder you're always on my mind, even when you're out of sight' (girl i was wondering why it sounds familiar it's doppio's debut line) 🤍

— riddle rosehearts, cater diamond, LEONA KINGSCHOLAR, azul ashengrotto, vil schoenheit

* ˚ ✦ the world looks so dull without you: at first, it was not really noticeable but when you start to get busier day by day, his world gradually lost it's color (not literally) he didn't know why but there was something very important missing and yet he try to distract himself + thinking everything will go back to normal → he was so wrong and everything felt wrong 🤬 he tried going back to the root of all this and he noticed that everything happened when you spend less and less time with him so he tried the theory out and went out to see you and voila !! it was like he was feeling everything at once and the realization sink in + not spending another minute to waste and went on to spend time with you with his heart so full and beating rapidly against his chest from joy 🤩

— ACE TRAPPOLA, ruggie bucchi, floyd leech, kalim al asim, rook hunt, idia shroud, silver

* ˚ ✦ i can't imagine you with someone else: he doesn't like the feeling he gets when you get close with others and he hated himself for that 😿 it's an ugly feeling to have and he treats you as a friend + he has no reason to feel selfish right? they tried hiding it to themselves yet to no one's surprised - the more they bury the thought the more it grew and they finally come to terms with it when he realized it's not that he doesn't want you to have other friends, but he can't imagine you being in a relationship with someone else. he know that he is not the perfect person you want to have but won't you give him just one chance? 🥺

— deuce spade, trey clover, jack howl, jade leech, epel felmier, SEBEK ZIGVOLT

* ˚ ✦ all of the above in order: this man will go stages of grief for aloooong time i tell you 😭 their first stage is thinking about you all the time along with denial → they may be too smart for their own good but really dumb when it comes to acknowledging their own feelings 🧍🏻‍♀️second stage ofc they would realize the empty space you left behind temporarily and how their world seems to be incomplete + like the colors just vanished in thin air and they would start to recognize the fact that maybe it's okay to have feelings for you? nothing is stoping them from admiring you right? 🧐 but no is still no! maybe you are just close friends and he misses your company that's all! 👩🏻‍⚖️ third one is the same → they believe some people do not deserve your attention at all and made them very sad at one point because they can't stand the image of you with someone else 😔 last stage is acceptance and it just came on a random day of you two hanging out - hearing your usual stories and laughter light a bulb inside of his head and he finally accepted the fact that he had already fallen in love with you. 🫵

— JAMIL VIPER malleus draconia, lilia vanrouge

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the-moon-files · 3 months

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The Chain being Down Bad🐕‍🦺™️ for Your Voice lol (Masc!Reader)

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@peepthatbish once again, our lovely muse peep (name twins!!) Has come to bless me, and hopefully i did that gorgeous idea justice, and dw im not done writing them all out yet :)

<333

Sun: Masculine Reader (he/him)

Orbit: Headcanons-ish

Stars: a dash of everybody <3

(except rare ones like Fierce/Koridai/Courage/Sage/etc.)

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Comets & Meteors: Content Warnings: fluff & Trigger Warnings: none known.

Please comment if i missed any. /gen

Ok but like

Ur voice is absolutely iconic to them

(Like the fairy fountain theme or the appearance of the Master sword, its unimaginable to them for your to not sound like that)

And its not only the heroes of Hyrule, but anyone else who could hear you

Well it helps that it used to be ur only sort of external sign of presence to outsiders

(the Links could also somewhat "feel" you in their own chests sometimes, like when u were stressed over a boss, or sad over a cutscene)

The only others who usually hear you are mostly things like the Great Fairies, the Deku Tree, other weird ass beings that know way too much (Fierce Deity)

So needless to say, when u first crash landed thru a portal into Wild's Hyrule (ur latest Zelda game you've played u guess thats why)

And the Chain had seen u in the distance, met up with you to try and help what they thought was some poor guy who accidentally fell thru Hylia's portals

But as they heard u stutter thru an introduction, instead they knew immediately it was you

Sky and Twi seriously teared up, Hyrule/Wild/Four/Wind all attacked you with a hug and excited shrieking, Legend and Wars were just gaping in shock, and Time was just staring at you

It took you a minute to pinpoint who was from what game, but as soon as you figured it out u literally jaw dropped at Time/Wild/Twi/etc.

(The ones that look different from their in game model or way better irl than graphics could ever capture)

U also may have screamed. A very manly scream. Not high pitched at all. You didnt make Legend cover his ears or the four that tackled u scramble off in fear, what- haha

(U cant blame urself, u were in literal shock, bc that's ALL the LINKS??!! Like u needed a shock blanket like rescue/ambulances gives ppl)

After calming down, it wasnt even an outright discussion or decision u could rlly choose,

They were basically kidnapping u along for the ride, also u were there for them (in pretty voice alone but still) for all their adventures,

So u even suggesting leaving u behind bc u couldnt keep up as well as them had them looking at you like they never even considered it

(And also making them individually go thru the 5 stages of grief: 😨😟😡😭🥺🙏🙏 they were all outright begging u, in their own ways, deadass by the end of it)

So as u travel, you get to understand the full impact of Your Voice, or the Guide's Voice™️.

If anyone has a nightmare, what would normally take another hero poking them with a stick and dodging the reflex punch, or them waking up unable to go back to sleep after having the nightmare, etc.

U quickly realized only took you talking to comfort them, with no reflex punch when they woke up, if they woke up, sometimes u were so good at it the nightmare just cleared ended according to their face

In your first battle against the shadow, along with lots of black-blooded monsters, u realized how much more confidently every Link fought as soon as you were speaking from behind them

They got even better and less stressed abt fighting when u managed to crack a few jokes or go toe to toe verbally with the Shadow lol

Legend outright guffawed when you pulled a dumb "sigh... well i guess... maybe... ur mom." joke in response to his villain monologue, like wiping a tear and everything, saying "u used to say that all the time after dumb long evil speeches, its a fucking classic" 💀

Literally will have them asking you to make more jokes bc it makes them feel better in tense situations/battles (most to least frequently: Sky, Wild, Hyrule, Wind, Twi, Time, Wars, Legend, Four) but they love it equally

Okay but,

U have Definitely. Sent chills down their spines when u get into lower ranges lol

U dont understand why everyone needs to talk to you so bad first thing in the morning,

or alternatively why they keep wanting you to go on a rant abt ur fav book/tv show/thing either???

U are always the last for story time at the campfire every night, and unlike the others, they refuse to let you take a night off, u have to say smth every night??

It amazes u they like ur voice so much, huh, Wild/Twi/Wars/Four/Hyrule must all be getting a little too close to the fire, theyre faces are looking a little red/pink

(Legend and Time just look rlly pleased/happy to be here, they only ever look a little overheated when u specifically look at them while ur talking/or tell a story abt them, and they usually are always the ones asking u another question to prompt u to keep going forever)

Wars may or may not have a life changing moment he told u abt ur voice on his adventures where Cia was like, "Ah Link... let me get a good look at you..."

Link: 😰🤢🥲

You: "... and girl, I am only looking at your tiddies right now."

If Wars had smth to drink right then he wouldve spit-taked.

It was like the one time he was caught so genuinely off-guard, and u just made him suddenly feel 10x more comfortable facing her, he literally couldnt keep his knight trained composure together, he had to lean on his knees he was crying with laughter

That was the first Cia heard of you too and she literally audibly gasped lmao

It was like all of a sudden Wars and Cia had been in on a joke no one else could hear around them (Shiek/Zelda is confused to this day by that)

And there are countless moments like this from each of their adventures where u did this, u cant help but feel mildly embarassed when u hear it at first

But then seeing how much ur voice and comments meant to them and how happy it made them u can help but want to talk more and more and more

Youve never felt more comfortable talking to this many people in ur entire life,

Bc u can literally see their elf ears twitching cutely when they pick up ur voice

BEST BELIEEEVVEEEE

u arent getting out of singing to them.

Yeah, sorry, theyve heard u sing ur fav songs while gaming too many times, they need to hear u sing irl, Now.

Most of them ignore or sort of passively enjoy bards/musicians on their journeys, but as soon as u so much as hum-

Its like they're all clambering to get closer to hear u, but also not make u aware thats what theyre doing, so they end up just:

Four/Legend/Hyrule trying to hide behind various (upside down) books, behind plants that're not that bushy, or one memorable time, when u sang "Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy" quietly to urself, a bard's tune got close and reminded u of it,

and Four fully threw his hammer on his toes bc he was so shocked/lovestruck, he completely missed the anvil and just threw it at the ground/his feet LMAO

Time and Wars, cheeky strategists they are, immediately fall back behind u wherever u are, so u cant see them, but they can still hear u lol

(Theyre the only ones youve not caught actively listening/straining to come closer to hear u... bc theyre behind u lol)

Wild/Sky/Twi all fully whip their heads around fast enough to crack it, then clumsily try to recover so u wont stop

Wild/Sky just fully accidentally like fall into lakes/ponds trying to stay just out of range or even (they both tried it once, and never again after u got onto them) got on a rooftop

And fell. When u got quieter they tried to get closer and- yep.

(Idiots were fine and smiling when u came to check on them)

Twilight.

Twilight's the worst ngl.

Just fully stares in awe at you until u stop out of embarassment, and has had the audacity multiple times to pop up as Wolfie and just happily listen like you havent also been thru the adventure that literally made him a werewolf

Wind is a cutie, he always joins in, esp when he recognizes the song, and since they can somehow remember the songs u sang while gaming, it will never not be a core memory for you to sing "Drunken Sailor" back to back with "I LOVE YOU HOE" by ODETARI (ft.9lives)

with Wind Waker Link.

You nearly died when you heard him singing the chorus, like literally right after drunken sailor 💀

(Its catchy u got it stuck in ur head from tiktok audios)

(Wind absolutely makes fun of the others for being in love with ur voice, like he'll trick u into ranting abt smth late at night when ur voice is husky or ur just low energy atm, and then from behind you just mouth at the rest of them, sitting looking up at you like ur an angel,

G A Y Y Y Y 🫵🫵🫵 )

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Sorry to anyone whose sent in stuff to my mailbox! I promise ill answer u tomorrow!!

Im acc running another blog for a diff fandom and i got busy today :/

BUT THANK U SM AND I LOVE YOU TO ANYONE WHO SENT STUFF IN !! <3333

Like, i would write a fic for u tysm for showing me ur interest bc it feels like tumbleweeds are blowing thru LU fandom when i check the tags 💀

Which isnt awful! I just like hearing feedback from ppl or just talking abt LU and stuff :)

Peace out,

🌙

#linked universe x reader #lu x reader #male reader #lu x male reader #link x reader #linked universe reader #linked universe male reader #loz link x reader #jfc is that all of them yet #lu imagines #now?#yeah sure thatll be all the tags #well i should #peepthatbish's catalogue!!#thats the tag now for them giving me all these gorgeous gorgeous male reader ideas #ngl i feel like i cant emphasize that reader is masc enough? maybe thats just the trans in me speaking 💀

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silvery-orchid · 10 months

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i cant describe how down bad I am for your writing of neuvillette. The unbalanced power dynamic??? THE WAY HE MAKES THE READER LISTEN TO HIM REJECT THE WOMEN? THE TEA!! I love the flour in the reader’s hair, man goes through all 5 stages of grief,, your writing of him is so immaculate ahhh. please spare us just another crumb of your thoughts on yan! neuvillette

Omg my first ask on this blog and its about yan! Neuvillette. Thank you so much 🥺🥺. I can't wait to get more info on him so that i can actually shape up one shots and have them be accurate but,,,many,,plently,,too many thoughts and scenarios are tumbling round like a golf ball in my mind and here are some of them: (some are nsfw)

Imagine that he is indeed khaenri'an. Now imagine that he was your lover before he was forced into the curse. Imagine that somehow (istaroth) freezed you in time until you woke up again so many years later. You end up in fontaine and meet him again and how wonderful that is. But what you dont know is that your lover has changed so much that his tight hugs and new jewelry and new clothes and new clingly behaviour are indicative of not just him missing you - its him wanting to own you. But he tells you of all the horrors he went thought while you were forturnate enough to not see those. (Yes, you being fortunate is his manipulation tactic.) So how can you blame him for being more possessive now when he loves you so? He makes it seem like you have independence but you can't find a job anywhere, you have no documents on you so you cant find a place to live and you dont have enough mora to even try. But he has all of it. And he loves you. So you have to trust him when he says working for him and fulfilling all of his wants will help you.

Regardless of his origin, I think Neuvillette would want his darling to get pregnant as soon as he kidnapped them. It would help with your bonding and he will own his darling in a way nobody else ever has. But you are in cahoots with a nice pharmacist woman who gives you different blends and pills to ensure you never do. Uhm good luck when he finds out. Scurrying to him or from him wont help much.

I also love the thought of Neuvillette getting corrupted himself from how innocent a darling is but sexually,,,morally,,,corrupted swoons...(stealing your possessions so you dont notice kind of thing.)

Neuvillette who orchestrated your trial when you have fate in the justice system and locked you up in a cage just to have you only do things for him.

More of forced marriage with him!! More!! You were sold for a collaboration as collateral and you hate him. You hate him so much. But hes so good in bed that you rile him up on purpose!! It becomes like you enjoy all of his punishments and only when he refuses to punish you once for flirting with another man is when you tear up and realize the physical pleasure he gives u has deeply effected your mental state. (I need to fuck this man can you feel that?) I like to think hed force you to fuck the man you flirted with too but as he watches just to prove how horrible sex is with someone that isnt him,,,can i get a TATTA PIC NEUVILLETTE PLEASE.

#asks.#yandere genshin x reader #yandere neuvillette #yan neuvillette #genshin neuvillette #neuvillette x reader #genshin yandere

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bubblystinkfreak · 1 year

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Have you ever thought about making a webtoon ur style is super unique!!

Actually I have been working on two of them recently! (Another reason why I’ve been so inactive 😭)

The one I’ve have the most work done for is this one: 5 stages of grief

TW// death

It’s about a girl who’s “bestfriend” was killed in a freak accident and her finally realizing how much of an asshole she is. Due to her ego and horrible personality, she tries to not only act like she doesn’t care but also refuses to even acknowledge his death and how it happened. This causes her best friend to come back and pay her a little visit one last time, allowing her to finally go through the 5 stages of grief.

Um here’s a little part of the comic with absolutely no context <3

Ok here’s the other one. Surprisingly the story for this one is completely planned out I just haven’t finished drawing the panels for it but uh here’s the little cover thing and description <3

When two recent high school graduates apply for their dream college and horribly fail the entrance exam, they get the help of their childhood friend, Neo, to create their own underground business themselves. Can these broke losers achieve their dream of becoming the most influential villainous business, while also balancing their college life? Bruh idk, read to find out!

BUT YEAH THANKS FOR ASKING, idk if I’ll ever finish these but idk a girl can dream ✌️🥺

#webtoon #webcomic #1o1 ask

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headingalaxys-spicy · 2 years

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Yandere Alpha America rejecting his Omega s/o only to later realize that he loves them? 🥺

✨Oh it’s you again. Heyyyyyyy 👋Hope you like this one ✨

“I’ve told you no y/n. Now. GET. LOST.” The last word rang through her ears like a drum. And you couldn’t help but scurry away with the tiny shred of dignity that you had left. For thenext couple of months you wandered aimlessly through your life. You were on autopilot. Perhaps things were meant to be this way and that was alright. You got out of bed each day and did your job with a smile. Besides you didn’t have to worry about the needs of an Alpha or even a Beta as a mate or really just anyone. So you started to do more things for yourself which gave you satisfaction.

That language you’ve always been telling yourself you wanted to learn you did it! You reached C2 fluency.

Learning Computer programming by golly you did it!

Baked the cake recipe you found on Pinterest? YUMMY!

Those 10K puzzle you tapped and put up in your room. A masterpiece.

That artbook or sport that you’ve been meaning to keep up on now you’re a pro. And life sucks a little less for you.

These were the things along with a huge spell of depression, eating ice cream, and staying up late at night crying over Alfred eventually got you through the 7 stages of grief of not attaining your lover. He became a fragment in your mind and heart.

However, the same thing can’t be said for the Alpha that is slow to come to realization sometimes. Since the day that he rejected you he started off fine. He went about his life as normal. He went on numeros dates with a wide spectrum of Alpha’s , Beta’s, and Omega’s that all left him disinterested. None of them had that sparkle and warmth that he was looking for.

‘Alfred! Alfred! I know that you want for lunch! You had a look on your face that read that you need protein and carbs to survive the long day you probably have ahead of you with all of those new Alpha peackeeper’s that need your assistance and-’

He simply turned and walked away. Ignoring your offering of food that he later regretted because he had back to back meetings that he had to attend to so he didn’t get a morsel of food until 9pm when he got back to his flat.

He reminsces on all of the times that he sometimes accepted your offerings like when you brought him a supercharged 6 shot vanilla latte extra hot, after he’d been up all-night partying even though he knew full well he had to be at work the next day. And it was a latte he’d order in such a crazy schedule that he lived on. You cared for him.

It’s like his body had been hit by a boulder and his heart fell into a pit of acid.

He immedaetly grabbed his phone and scope out all of your social media profiles. He wanted to see a lot of mopey posts about wanting to find love, of you posting cryptic break-up songs, something that read as he was still on your mind and leaving a crater in your heart.

The sandy blonde gripped his hair follicles tighter as the frustration in his stomach continued to simmer. He had gotten to the very first posts of your Instagram feeling empty.

“Pffft.” He rolled his frigid blues across the screen one more time before he set his phone down.

“I know I’m right to have rejected her she seems too carless.” He says to no one in particular. He gets up to pop open a can of Cola and dumps some Captain Morgen in it to calm his nerves as he ordered some McDonalds off Uber Eats and sat in his apartment in silence and in darkness and only a sliver of the summer sunlight being able to break though his blackout curtains.

Daily he begins to keep up with all of the activities you do. Even if you only posted to Tiktok about how you were staying home and having your favorite hot beverage while doing one of your hobbies that made you happy. And that’s all that mattered to you.

That was all that mattered to you.

Those blue orbs glassy, just wanting you to care about him. You were wagging your cute tail in your latest video hours later showcasing your dedication to your craft. Your cute smile your excitement in your voice was like a sweet melody. He wanted and needed more of you. Your social media would be satiate him for so long.

It was time to put in an R2P.

He had to have you in his arms.

#hetalia #hetalia fandom #hws #hws america #headingalaxys writes stuff #headingalaxys #alfred f jones #yandere hetalia #hetalia headcanons #hetalia fanfic writers #hetalia fanfiction writers #hetalia omegaverse #yandere x reader #yandere america x reader #yandere america #headingalaxys spicy writes #headingalaxys spicy

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bleakbluejay · 1 year

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I wanna rant a little, I guess, about the moment I realized I was obsessed with the Mandalorian.

It was actually the 2nd to last episode of season 2. I mean I really liked the show up until that point, certainly, but that episode, where Din, Cara, Migs, Fennec, and Boba all go to the refinery so they can figure out where Grogu is, it stuck with me in my little brain and exploded and bloomed.

Specifically when Din decided he had to take his helmet off if he was going to save Grogu's life. The hesitance at first, letting the scanner try his helmet first. The determination, next, of letting it scan him so he can get it over with before anyone noticed. It's very resolute.

Then... the panic.

The absolute panic and fear freezing him when Valin Hess begins asking questions. This guy can't move, he can't talk. He can just stare with wide-eyed terror, speechless, and what little he can say isn't right. The increased panic as he realizes he's failing, he's failing this social interaction, he's failing Grogu, and he's failing himself, and he freezes. It looks like he's fighting back tears, almost, like he's moments away from breaking.

Which is the same way I handle panic and anxiety attacks. As an autistic person, my fear/anxiety response is just freezing, going nonverbal/semiverbal, and hoping that the stressor will just go away. I very, very rarely see this in fiction, and especially rarely under the exact circumstances being portrayed. I went from merely loving this character to thinking this is me, he is me. And that empathy link got intensely established.

I kept thinking about how traumatic this entire situation must be for him. How stressful the circumstances. How he, someone relatively zealous, forsake one of the most important tenets of his faith, showing his face to other living things, and there's nothing he could do about it. For the first time in easily 20-30 years, he was seen. He was vulnerable. There was no durasteel, no beskar, no protective shell separating him from the hard world outside or prying eyes or judgement or failure. Suddenly, his facial expressions mattered, facial expressions he didn't need to worry about mirroring or faking in decades if ever. And they didn't just matter the way they matter to a ND person like me in regular social situations. This was life-or-death.

I remember about two years in quarantine and masking during COVID took me soooo far back in terms of how well I "mask" my autism around allistics. I barely do it at all, now, and I have trouble forcing myself to. It made me very insecure of my face and expressions because I couldn't do them right anymore. That was just two years. What could 20-30 years do?

So I sat there, suddenly extremely connected, heart-to-heart with that tin man, metaphorical spear through my chest as I watched all the stages of grief pass over his face during that scene, and my whole brain chemistry was being altered. I finished the episode, finished the season, finished Book of Boba Fett, and then rewatched the Mandalorian, with this new perspective. Then I rewatched it again. And again. And every time I felt more and more connected to the guy. His tenderness, his gentleness, his strength, his courage, his love, his light, his fear. He became my favorite fictional character, and in so, so short a period of time. In just two weeks. And all sparked by Pedro Pascal's fucking 🥺 face.

(And of course, Din isn't canonically autistic but yes he is <3 I said so and I know everything.)

#eli talks #anyway din djarin is very autistic and so am i and so are we #we are twins #i see a character have the same traits as me #or react to love or fear the same way as me #i stick onto them like those lil fuckin floaters from subnautica #din djarin #the mandalorian #mando

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wispon · 2 years

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New follow but give me more sonic

Lore i think i sent that too early im too tired rn

HAH no worries, i can give both!! as for lore, hmm...

the echidnas' "god of destruction" who wiped them out, leading to knuckles being the last of his kind, is actually just a chao (a cute little digital pet from a side part of that game) who was mutated by the master emerald and got stuck on the "anger" stage of grief when the echidnas killed its friends to get the chaos emeralds

one of the playable characters in sa1 is one of eggman's robots who realizes that he should free the birds powering himself and his brothers, and his story ends with him self destructing alone with no one knowing what he did except for the birds he freed

a few people pointed this out in the notes of that shadow post, but in sonic battle it's revealed that shadow was specifically designed to have maria's soul so that he would never become a danger or a weapon 🥺 gerald did that boy so dirty after maria's death

metal sonic has an obsession with proving he's "the real sonic", which in some canons is a result of him being made with sonic's memories (not canon to the games (unfortunately?)). from his point of view he is actually sonic and just woke up in a robot body one day with a doppelganger having taken over his life

a personal fave is in the fun hoverboarding spinoff game, the rival team is revealed to be descended from genies who lived on a floating island and were struck down to earth for being thieves. in the sequel, it's revealed that they weren't genies but actually extremely advanced aliens who were stuck living on their spaceship because it was damaged and couldn't leave the gravitational pull of the earth. the people on earth just had like no frame of reference for them or their technology and assumed they were magical wish-granting beings. the tradition of wishing on stars comes from them wishing that debris they saw falling through earth's atmosphere was parts of their ship's engine so they could leave

a plot point in sonic 06 involves shadow being stranded hundreds of years in the future, so rouge gives a chaos emerald to their robot friend to hold onto and he does Just That For Two Hundred Years until it's time to give it to shadow to help him get home

the game where sonic gets isekaied to camelot and has a sword is about accepting the inevitability of death

#if anyone has anything else please add jgdfklgdfjl these are just some of my faves out of context #my posts #sth

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hollyhomburg · 2 years

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hi li!! i'm sorry to bother but i was high and reading old bily asks🥺and🥺 i can't wait to read hobi falling in love with mc🥺🥺🥺 like- your writing is so beautiful that i'm so excited to know how you'll write the "oh, i guess i'm in love with this person, i guess this is my person too" kind of realization🥺and with this couple that is so complex but yet so enchanting🥺🥺i'm sorry, i'm just very very soft for them atm🤧

you say this, but hobi realizing he loves the m/c nearly causes that boy a nervous break down 😂 like this is deadass his internal monologue- he goes through the 5 stages of grief for her and namjoon has to drag him back from his little temper tantrum

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thebaepatricia · 8 months

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Book Review • Maybe Next Time by Cesca Major 📝💖🥺⌛️

Maybe Next Time by Cesca Major Genre: Magical realism, Literary fiction, Adult romance ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5/5)

One Day meets��Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming and emotionally poignant novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate.

It is an ordinary Monday and harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the door as usual. Preoccupied with work and her ever growing to-do list, she fails to notice her lovely husband Dan seems bereft, her son can barely meet her eye, and her daughter won't go near her. Even the dog seems sad.

She is far too busy, buried deep in her phone; social media alerts pinging; clients messaging with "emergencies"; keeping track of a dozen WhatsApp groups about the kids' sports, school, playdates, all of it. Her whole day is frantic--what else is new--and as she rushes back through the door for dinner, Dan is still upset. They fight, and he walks out, desolate, dragging their poor dog around the block. Just as she realizes it is their anniversary and she has forgotten, again, she hears the screech of brakes.

Dan is dead.

The next day Emma wakes up... and Dan is alive. And it's Monday again.

And again. And again.

Emma tries desperately to change the course of fate by doing different things each time she wakes up: leaving WhatsApp, telling her boss where to get off, writing to Dan, listening to her kids, reaching out to forgotten friends, getting drunk and buying out Prada. But will Emma have the chance to find herself again, remember what she likes about her job, reconnect with her children, love her husband? Will this be enough to change the fate they seem destined for?

A moving "What if" story of what it is to be a woman in the modern world--never feeling we're getting it quite right--about learning to slow down and appreciate life that is sure to resonate with women's fiction readers.

Book Review

Maybe Next Time is an emotional, moving, heartwarming, and reflective novel. Emma and Dan's marriage/relationship is a rare one. Seldom you would see a love so pure and genuine that, despite their differences and life's challenges, they would continue to choose each other over and over again.

Over Dan's multiple deaths, Emma underwent all stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance - and they were all called for. Putting myself in Emma's shoes, I wouldn't also know how to keep going on with my Mondays either knowing my husband will die that very evening - and that I would have to go through it again and again, indefinitely.

I can understand Emma's drive to be constantly preoccupied - I suffer from that, too. So in between listening to the audiobook, I would ask myself, am I being present enough? Am I making conscious effort to take care of myself? To cover tasks for the benefit of long-term goals? Or am I just driven by temporary and short-lived wins, to say that I'm productive or have achieved something while neglecting bigger and more important things?

Objectively, I believe Emma's character is not likable but she's not despicable either - she simply does her best be it for work or for her family. However, once she accepted her tentative fate and embraced the "curse" of repeating her days as a "gift," I appreciated how she worked on improving things little by little, even when she had to do it again the next day. And she would always come up with ways to see things at a better light. She couldn't control the days, but she could control how to spend them. As my own Dan would say, she's "moving the needle."

Novel Dan is a side character in the story, but he made a huge impact through the letters he wrote to Emma yearly on their date-versary. And surprisingly, his is the biggest plot twist in the novel.

The ending was a bit confounding (and a small part of me hated Dan for it). It was also a massive cliffhanger, but I LOVED it.

Had I not been in the dining area, I would have bawled listening to Dan's last letter to Emma. It was exactly what I needed to hear at the moment. I knew right then and there I found another well-deserving 5-star read and a hidden gem.

Personal relevance/takeaway:

Just like Emma, I tend to preoccupy myself with tasks, even with non-urgent ones, just so I could fill up my time and pretend to be productive. A lot of times, it doesn't go well for me. When I push myself too much, I end up burnt out, disoriented, high-strung, and in need of rest - STAT.

But in life, it's better to have a life you don't need a break from. To give yourself breaks regularly enough so you don't get filled to the brim and burst over the most trivial things.

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❛ love is pointless in the long run . ❜ || from Beth, who DOESN'T mean that but she's got this tough guy persona to keep up 🥺♥️

💜 50 Dialogue Prompts // ACCEPTING 💜

"Nuh-uh," Piper was quick to shake her head at that, tossing aside the now-empty wrapper of the granola bar she'd been scarfing down into the nearby trashcan. "Sorry, Stripes, but that's where I'm gonna have to disagree."

Rook had a way of instilling a lot of feelings in someone once they'd been there long enough, and not many of those feelings were good. Loss, dread, grief, hopelessness, torment, anxiety, numbness. It was like a dark, colorless spectrum one tended to move through over time, like some warped perception of the stages of grief. The stages of desensitization she called it. It came on slowly, but before you knew it, you could be navigating through the daily grind on autopilot and not even realize that you felt nothing anymore.

For Piper, it came and went. She'd learned to cope with the loss of humanity she found herself slowly falling into as a Privateer, and she found ways to reclaim pieces of that lost sense of self. She'd never be nearly as whole as she'd been before coming here, but she still found some small comfort in reminding herself that she'd never be as depraved and corrupt as some other people here assuming she wasn't already.

"This place fuckin' sucks, I'll give it that. Give it enough time and it'll break you like a wild horse gettin' wrangled. But don't let it convince you that every part of living is hell." She sat back, crossing one leg over the other. "Love - the pure kind anyway - is important. It has a purpose. It makes us stronger, gives us drive, gives us something to live for and look forward to. Love is what keeps us together and keeps us alive. N' I can guarantee ya, Beth, you're still here because someone loves ya. Even if ya don't know it. N' vice versa; someone out there is alive because you loved them enough."

It was spoken sincerely and matter-of-factly. Like it was just something that the badge-bun had realized a long time ago to be true. Mostly because it was. After all, Piper wasn't here for fun or just because - she was here because she loved her family. So much so, she was willing to sacrifice her health, her sanity, and even her life just so they'd be able to get by comfortably. Their love was the cornerstone of her strength, her patience, her compassion, her determination. Maybe it was unhealthy to rely so much on others as a motivation to live, but whatever -- it's what was getting her through life here on Rook.

"What you're sayin' there? That sounds a lot more like the product of a broken heart. N' not just a regular broken heart either, it sounds like whoever got to you last did a real number on ya." A pause. "Ya wanna talk about it?"

#{ open your eyes : ask }#{ we will rock you : mutual }#unrxlypirxte #{ the private privateer : piper }#{ pressure pushing down on me : far cry }

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