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christabelq · 6 months

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As any Tank Girl fans out there will know, our gal can often be seen wearing customised army helmets. They’re a super fun accessory, so I decided a few months back to have a go at making one. I started off by picking out a couple of ones I liked in the comics (see above for an example) and worked out a design. There were a lot of sticky out bits, so I had a feeling putting it together was going to be easier said than done, but I’ve never let that stop me before and didn’t this time. I could have taken the easy route and bought a plastic helmet, which would have been soooo simple to attach things to, but me being me, I decided to go with something authentic, namely (and I quote) a ‘genuine vintage Bulgarian army M72 steel combat helmet’ which was going cheap on good ol’ ebay 👍👍. I was totally expecting to have to drill holes in this for some of the attachments, but as luck would have it, there were some readymade ones 😊. These are the other bits I used…

1 x plastic creature head – I was looking for something which resembled the head on the attached reference picture and stumbled on something perfect while rummaging through a box of random toys in a thrift store.

1 x neodymium magnet – Used to fix the creature head onto the front of the helmet.

1 x dart – To stick in one of the holes. My only complaint here was I had to buy a pack of 3 and don’t know what to do with the other 2. Maybe I can use them in some future cosplay project.

1 x wooden rod + craft feathers + 1 x plastic wall plug – Used to make an arrow to poke in another of the holes. I had to make my own arrow, as none of the ones I saw for sale would have fit.

1 x kitchen fork – Another thrift store find which looked like it would be a good stand-in for the knife in the picture if I chopped the top off.

Some straps and buckles from an old bag – Stitched together to make a carrying strap for the helmet (which I needed to hang things off).

3 x old bullets for decoration

Some bits of leather to make a bandolier type thing to hold the bullets.

1 x old cigarette box for decoration.

1 x gun keyring – This was an impulse thrift store buy, which wasn’t in the original design, but I thought would be another good decoration (there were actually so many impulse buys like this I couldn’t use them all and ended up making a Tank Girl baseball cap for the overflow – more about that another time).

One of my old teddy bears (Flapjack) to hang from the knife (really a kitchen fork) handle.

1 x old white shoelace to make a hangman’s noose for my teddy (poor Flapjack 🎻).

Acrylic paint and brushes - I’m sure y’all can guess what these were for.

1x target sticker – I bought this in a craft store, because it looked just like the target on the helmet in the picture and I wanted to save myself a tricky painting job.

It took me a while to get all of that together (as you can imagine), but eventually I was ready to go. I eased myself in gently by sticking on the target sticker. Then I did the painting bits. I seem to be getting better at this, as I managed to get through it with no major screw-ups😊. I left the paint to dry for a day and sprayed on some fixative to protect it. It seems to be doing the job, though I have no clue how long it will last.

I made my arrow from the bits mentioned above and sawed off the top of the kitchen fork to make my stand-in knife. Then I worked out how I was going to attach everything. As I said, I used a magnet for the creature head. I stuck the arrow into one of the holes and the dart into another with a plastic bung on the other side to hold it in place. For the knife, I pushed a long screw through the last hole and screwed it into the top of the handle. You can see the screw from some angles, but it was the best I could come up with and it does the job.

I hung Flapjack from the knife handle, clipped on the carry strap with its various decorations and that’s pretty much it. It’s not a bad take on the Tank Girl originals if I do say so myself, though it takes some getting used to. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve bashed one of the sticky out bits on something when I’ve been walking around. Also it’s heavier at the back, so it has a tendency to slip off. As always, this isn’t a proper tutorial, but maybe it will be helpful if anyone out there is thinking of making their own Tank Girl helmet. Have fun if you do. I’m on Ko-fi if anyone is feeling generous and wants to support me in my cosplay adventures… ༻ko-fi.com/christabelq༺ It’s always super-appreciated. Bye for now. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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preservationofnormalcy · 4 months

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OOC: hey folks! Just wanted to give an ooc message. It’s a little late for new year’s, but still.

Thank you for following this little project. I’ve been consistently blown away by the following I have here. Thank you for supporting me both with likes, reblogs, and fun tags, but with merch as well. It means so much to me. I have like 300 asks in my inbox and so many of them made me laugh when I got them, or made my mind go crazy with ideas. I’ve developed a lot of this setting in large part due to submissions making me think about it.

I’m on the last day of a week long PTO I booked. I got a lot of stuff done behind the scenes, a couple projects I’m keeping secret for now but I hope you’ll see before too long. I also adjusted (hopefully for the final time) the button designs (including all the poster styles that weren’t available before), and did some writing. I wish I’d been able to sit down and just queue dozens of asks but alas - life and time don’t stop when you’re on vacation. Thank you all for your patience, and I hope someday I can do this full time (along with some other OPN-related things) so I can have a faster turnaround on that stuff. Going forward I might be a bit more choosy simply due to the amount.

I have a lot of ideas for things I want to do with this project and I hope I get to do even half of them. We’ve hinted at one of them already. I’m really excited for the future of this, and I hope you will be too.

As a final note, soon I’ll be adjusting the prices of the stuff in the shop. The stickers and buttons may increase in price by about 50 cents a piece, but sticker shipping cost will decrease. That may be in the next few days. Check out the ko-fi for prints of my posters, stickers, or buttons, or to just send good vibes.

Thank you all for your support and love. Reading tags is my favorite thing in the world currently. Over the rest of today, please feel free to send me any ooc asks you like (or reply to this post) about the setting or requesting something you’d like to see - more about a certain topic, or the interview for a certain poster, whatever. I’ll try and get to them sooner rather than later.

Finally - thank you so much to my co-writer for helping and being a sounding board. I appreciate you.

#ooc post #meta #love you all

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taavisplushies · 8 months

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zayn and kato! my prime shiba plushies :3

zayn is a piebald husky (white) and kato is an agouti husky (black)!

more about prime shiba below!

prime shiba is a small business focusing on dogs/wolves! they have plushies, stickers, keychains and more.

of course, the plushies are my favorite product! the 2 i have are very soft and well made! they’re both 15in, so they’re perfect for hugs!

what i love about prime shiba is that the plushies are unique! for instance, they have plushies of unique breeds i’ve never heard of (kai ken, thai bangkaew, etc), and also plushies of common breeds that have unique fur patterns, like the 2 huskies i have.

since the business is small, prices are expensive… but they’re not super high! $45 for a 15in high quality plush! i think that’s a good price, because i’ve seen smaller plushies go for more!

ALSO there are sales sometimes! AND if you live in the US, free shipping for plushies!!! anyway, there’s a sale rn! the older plushies have higher discounts than the newer plushies and preorders.

prime shiba makes plushies ranging from 15in to 30in! good sizes for cuddling!

unfortunately prime shiba does not have a lot of followers. on instagram, they have less than 2k :( i hope one day they can become big and famous!

these plushies below are my favorites…

quil my beloved… there has been multiple versions of them! blue eyes, brown eyes, and then this one which is i think bigger than the previous ones.

i love the design!! unfortunately i just don’t have room for such a big plush (or the money lol). i’m hoping one day a smaller version of quil is made… i would buy that so quick!!!

shikoku ken plushie!!! i think their name is haku, but im not 100% sure. sometimes the owner doesn’t put the names on the listing and idk why….

anyway i think this fella is so cute!!! maybe one day i’ll get them if they are on a big sale! i like them but i don’t like them enough to spend a lot on them yknow? like it’s a want, not a need lol

okay this fella has a simple design but the color is so pretty!!! love you nike… but again, i don’t like em enough to spend a lot on them!

falcon!!! love this design, and idk if you can see but there’s little freckles on their muzzle!!!

if i had the money, i definitely would snatch this fella up, even without a big sale!

okay last 2!

embry looks so sweet!! she’s a need tbh. i hope i’ll be able to get her someday.

quest my beloved…! this photo doesn’t do him justice. he’s so cute! i think i preordered him a few months ago when he was on sale for $30 but i can’t remember for sure. i’ll just have to wait for december and see if he shows up lol

OH I FORGOT ATLAS!!!

i can’t add any more photos but he’s a bluish grey and white border collie and super cute :3 another one i’d like to get someday… even if it means spending a lot lol

#not sponsored btw #just showing my love for an underrated brand #support small business #!!!#zayn #kato #plushies #plush #dog #safeplush #plushblr #oops im rambling

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galdra-studios · 8 months

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Hi everyone

Summer is coming to a close and in our office we are spending the last sunny days slowly but steadily making progress on the next Arcadia Fallen game.

We've been doing a lot of editing work on the script this month, which is one of those things that are a little hard to show, but on the graphical side of things—!

Elias got his first sprite polished this month! We’ve been changing his design quite a few times but finally decided on this look. The initial pitch was something along the lines of: “A medical student who wears alt fashion.” Can you still see it?

In case you missed it last month. We’ve opened up an online store where you can buy merchandise for Arcadia Fallen. There’s stickers and enamel pins, and the incredible fabulous Mime plushie who makes for an amazing desk buddy^^

Usually all of our work is digital so it’s been very satisfying fulfilling orders putting physical items in a box and sending it off. It adds to the joy when kind souls take pictures of their plushie's new home and share them with us, so thank you very much for that!

The apartment across our street has acquired a new owner. A big golden forest cat who’s made his home in the windowsill. Every day he naps in the spot that’s right in line of sight for my work desk, as if to taunt us puny humans, who can’t spend our days sleeping. When he isn't snoozing he’s keenly observing the streets; a lion on the prowl clearly, and sometimes he stares at me with the grave judgment only cats possess.

“Shouldn’t you get back to writing?” it feels like he says. I think I’ve gotten a strict new boss xD

Thank you so much for following our journey! And we’ll see you in October for another DevLog!

Cheers!

-The Galdra Team

#arcadia fallen #indiedev #visual novel #vndev #vn development #indiegame #galdra studios

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degenrcy · 10 months

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only i can hurt you (chapter one)

direct ao3 link! i realized i never posted this here but im getting a lot of attention from my last one sooooooooooooo yeah lol

you and shigaraki have a lot in common, thank god the 2 most miserable people are together.

warnings: very abusive relationship, eating disorders, mutual mutilation (self harm teehee) enabling

you curled up at the top of the bed, watching the tv so hard you were starting to make out the lines and the rgb of whatever lame show you were watching. it was quite late, shigaraki clicking away at his keyboard. his game was on its last hour of comp, and you didn't give a fuck about your rank anymore. shigaraki would always be better than you.

"there's no point." you muttered, pulling out your phone for the millionth time to mindlessly scroll another social media feed. being poor villains sucked.

"shut up bitch." he said back. not loud, not a shout, not even angry. a common phrase told to you, by everyone in here including your boyfriend. you couldn't even roll your eyes anymore.

"you'll always be just barely good, tomu. you know that?" you moved your eyes to his form, hunched over grossly at his cheap desk. duct tape wrapped around the arm rests, his leg bouncing, trash surrounding him. "so i don't get what's the point in you playing so much."

"better than being with you, that's what."

you scoffed. "fuck you."

"i'll fuck you up after this game."

shigaraki was right. he wasn't shy to beat you every now and then, every so often, every chance he got. bruising your wrists and throat, slapping you raw, choking you unconscious, slashing your thighs or upper body while holding you down with his weight.

"i'll kill you." you spat before wrapping up in the blanket. that wasn't to say you didn't get your fair share either, screwing with him emotionally was your form of revenge. he was physical, and you were mean. "and then you can face the family you murdered once and for all."

he only sighed, a last glance catching him shaking his head. whatever. you were going to look at the much more attractive people on tiktok. you wish you were as pretty and skinny as all these girls, but shigaraki doesn't fail to mention how disgusting you are with all the scarring and how he's ruined you for anyone else. he tells you to leave all the time, even kicks you out in the streets, only for you to come back a few hours later with teary eyes and a regretful grimace. he mocks you all the time for it and does a stupid voice impression that could only be you.

because of this, you starve yourself. starve for him, for shigaraki tomura. you feel serene and feminine and beautiful when he brushes along your ribs. when he wraps his fingers around your wrist and slowly trails up your arm to your elbow, squishing the bit of upper arm fat. "you need to get rid of this too." he would whisper, a pinky dangerously close to your flesh.

you nod weakly, placing a hand on top of his. "i'm trying... it's been two days since i've ate, you know."

he smiles. a forehead kiss. "let's make it three."

he wasn't entirely cruel. he would inadvertently starve with you, staying up for days playing video games or go on long trips with only a few granola bars or juice packs. but even when he did eat, there would be no difference. he knew that too, flaunting his warm pizza in your face and chewing disgustingly loud. guzzling down soda. eating chocolate or other sweets. your eye twitched, suddenly opening the side table and pulling out a special box.

"oh!" shigaraki exclaimed with a mouthful of disgusting food.

you opened it up, taking out your designated box cutter, fit with cute stickers and pink tape barely holding it together. you guys get rough sometimes, and sometimes things break.

with clenched teeth and teary eyes you dug the blade into your wrist. dragging- slowly, slowly. then ripped it away from you, causing a deep gash and the white layer of skin breaking through, seeping blood. a small moan escaped your lips. shigaraki swiveled around in his chair to watch you move down the small open spaces on your arm, leaning forward everytime you made a pained noise. flicking his wide eyes over when you started rummaging around the box for the small rag.

he stood up and grabbed your arm before you could wipe it all away. all the precious blood, from inside you, warm and wet and delicious.

"i'll clean it for you." he said ever so softly. your lips wavered as he ran his tongue from the inside of your elbow slowly down your forearm, lapping it all up. you told him to clean his mouth before moving up to the fresh wounds, you didn't want all that gross food grease and fat particles getting into your blood stream.

he continued licking, using his thumbs to spread open the bigger ones, making you wince. "you're so cute." he grinned, fingertip dragging lightly down the slits.

"ah, you're so dirty... and gross..." your arm felt weak, body shaking. but it felt so good. another moan, louder, as he squeezed your skin together to make the blood come out again. he kissed you, irony and with adoration.

"do it to me." he panted between sloppy kisses, occupied with palming himself through his pj pants and holding up your arm. you did as told, rolling up his sleeves for him and pushing him back on the bed. a moment to appreciate his pale and bony arms, purple and blue branches of veins scattering all over and god you wanted him to bleed out.

a shiver of excitement shot through his back as the tip of the blade pierced skin. a slight twitch of his hips when you started to slowly move- a shaky moan and eyes to the back of the head when the familiar sting and pain formed at the base of his wrist.

"you have such pretty veins, tomu... i wanna pull them out. think i could pull them out? i'm sure overhaul could put you back together." you whispered into his ear, slashing a couple more times. he grinded into you, holding the small of your back. his fingers felt up your protruding spine, making you arch into him more.

"what else?"

"i want to kill myself, for you, tomu." you kissed his jaw. "maybe i'd kill you first, then myself."

"you wanna leave me that bad?" he gripped your hip, thumbing the bone and holding it in his hand. you shook your head, bringing his wrist to your lips, reddening them with his own blood. you rolled your hips against his, flicking your tongue against his cuts.

"i wanna bring you with me, to whatever hell we'll end up in."

"god you're edgy, huh. give me that."

he got on top of you now, pulling up your shirt and ordering you to hold it. you twitched as he started carving into the skin of your stomach and the space between your ribs. you could feel the familiar shape of a heart, right on your chest. he groped your tits, then smacked you across the face. then again. and again. and again, until you finally let out that sweet sob he wanted to hear.

"keep crying," he gripped your jaw, turning your head around forcefully. he lifted it up, placing the box cutter against your throat. "don't move, or else i'll end up killing you. or do, doesn't matter to me."

you whimpered pathetically as he did a quick slice on your throat, not deep enough to potentially put you in danger, but enough to bleed. if there wasn't any blood, it wasn't worth it. so you kept crying. he cut you all over, frail skin even more ruined now. just how he liked you.

"you know you're never gonna leave, right?" shigaraki sat on the edge of the bed, wrapping up his arms. you were panting next to him, bleeding into the sheets. your body felt numb and lifeless and like nothing else mattered except him. nothing did, actually.

"don't leave me, tomu!" you cried out when you felt the bed shift with him standing up. he laughed.

"i won't."

#shigaraki tomura/reader #shigaraki/reader #tw.abuse #tw.enabling #tw.ed #shigaraki tomura dark fic #tw.self harm

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toads-treasures · 10 months

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Fifteen questions for fifteen mutuals!

(It will probably not be fifteen I am too scared to tag too many people)

I was tagged by @galaxycunt weeks ago, and I finally got around to answering.

Tagging @hereforthehaunts @cactme @plasticdodecagon @iwanttobecomeavoid @mars-colony no pressure tho!

Also, feel free to skip any questions you don’t wanna answer.

1. Are you named after anyone?

My great grandpa Tora. But he went by Tory. He was apparently a grumpy ol sonofabitch according to my dad, but it was also his idea to name me after him so 🤷‍♀️

2. When was the last time you cried?

Prolly like two days ago but I don’t know for sure for sure. I cry all the time. I think this time I was crying in frustration at packing for my last camping trip lol

3. Do you have kids?

Nope, and I don’t know if I want any tbh. It would really cut into my time of being the Weird/Fun Aunt who lets my nieces and nephews stay up too late and helps them dye their hair

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Not nearly as much as I did when I was younger. We call that Growth 😌 but sometimes I can’t help myself

5. What sports do you play/have you played?

Ha. I am so uncoordinated I don’t play any sports. I played tennis for one year in high school and hated it. I’ve gone rock climbing once and really enjoyed it even though I was scared shitless, so I’d really like to get back into that. I’ve also been kind of wanting to play tennis again just for funsies with my husband and not actually pay attention to any rules or anything and just have fun.

6. What’s the first thing you notice about other people?

I think height? Because I’m pretty tall and if someone is taller than I am I definitely notice

7. Eye color?

Hazel is the least pretentious way to describe it. Or green…ish.

8. Scary movie or happy endings?

Why not both? I will say I like things to end happily, because I need to have some semblance of hope in the world lol, but also bittersweet endings will stick with me for the rest of my life.

9. Any special talents?

I am freaky good with names and faces. I will remember people who I had one college class with but never actually personally interacted with them. I can also like, trifold my tongue so it looks like a clover.

10. Where were you born?

Ha nice try fbi. Just kidding, it’s just a small town (like, less than a thousand people) in southern Utah and I highly doubt anyone would know the name or where it was, but if perchance they do, it probably means I know them in real life and I’d rather not risk it.

11. Free space

Ummmmm I love hiking and camping, and I’d love to get into photography and videography to be like a nature photographer, I think that would be cool. But I’m also Very Bad at taking pictures. I always forget to take them, or I frame it really bad or the lighting is really bad, I’ve got a lot to learn with that hobby lol. Also I wish I could just wear my crunchy/granolaey/outfits all the time business casual my absolute beloathed

12. Do you have any pets?

No 😔 I want one, either a cat or a dog, but honestly I have so much anxiety around it because there’s this CREATURE in my HOUSE and it needs me to live! And what if it eats my plants and what if my plants are toxic and what if it chews a hole in the floor or the door and we get kicked out and and and (you get the idea).

13. How tall are you?

5’10” 😎 my husband insists I’m 5’9” but he’s wrong

14. Favorite subject in school?

I’m still recovering from the god complex that being in English class gave me so, we’ll leave it at that.

15. Dream job?

I do not dream of labor, but I have a few ideas of what would be preferable than being a receptionist for the rest of my life lol. I’d like to open an online sticker/print shop and just draw and design cute silly stationary and stickers. I’ve also always dreamed of being an author, but seeing as how I can’t finish any of my wips that will probably remain a dream lol.

#toad rambles #I had to stop myself from rambling a few times with this lol

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divisionten · 1 year

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Artemis Fowl Escape Room

Note: this was originally posted to Kotaku, but a number of my old articles there were destroyed after they purged whole sections of the site.

I’ve been very good friends with one of my former classmates for almost 20 years. He’s a massive Artemis Fowl fan (as am I, though I didn’t grow up with it like he did) so, when I found a signed copy of the book for his Christmas gift, I knew I couldn’t just give it to him. He’d have to be Artemis... and steal it.

NOTE: I paid for it. Please don’t steal books, and support your favorite artists. :D

Not just steal it, steal it from his own past self. Artemis Fowl follows the Doctor Who school of wibbly wobbly timey wimey... stuff.

BUDGET AND MATERIALS

First and foremost, I had just over a week to figure out

a) my budget and

b) how the puzzles would flow from one to another

Budget wise, I wanted to spend less than $50, which meant I needed to get creative with props. I own a Cricut, so I could make some very professional looking custom textiles, stickers and cards/paper items, and had a massive amount of sticker vinyl already on hand. I work for an electronics company, and do hobbyist Arduino, so I also already have lots of wire, batteries, some modules, and a few completed robots I could cannibalize. Lastly, I also have a large stock of cosplay items (wigs, costumes, fabric, foam) lying around. I know most people wouldn’t have this on hand, but if you’re planning on making an escape room, look at what YOU already have. Maybe you have power tools, or maybe you’re good at designing quick websites. You probably also have more than eight days to come up with an entire escape room game too, but the idea came to me AFTER I found his gift.

Lower Elements Police shirts for my friend’s wife, my friend, and myself of Wing Commander Vinyáya, Extremely Irritating Human Fowl, and Captain Short. Materials cost for all three was between $15 and $25- I have leftover heat vinyl i can use on another project, and a cool new shirt for myself to boot.

As far as things that lock, all I have is a locking mailbox, and a small key locker (like the kind used by some AirBnB to store a key outside a house). None of the doors within my house lock. So, I knew I’d definitely use the mailbox and key locker SOMEHOW, but I also needed something big and safe enough to hold the book.

Like... a safe. I bought an extremely cheap one on Amazon for $12.

I also spent another $8 on some concentric stacking boxes to start the hunt.

From there, my puzzle flow began writing itself. “Artemis” would need to do two things-

Find the location of the safe.

Discover the safe combo.

I’m already building a full jumpsuit out of scuba neoprene and copious amounts of cursing, but for now, this’ll do. Also, yes, I’m aware I wrote it in English and not Gnomish. Sue me.

Since things tend to go in threes, I split the puzzles into three quest lines, and started filling in the blanks with puzzles.

Lastly, to sweeten the deal, I decided to raid my cosplay drawers (and my heat transfer materials) to make an EXTREMELY low budget Holly Short cosplay (homemade shirt for me, plus my Kino goggles, Elena Fisher thigh pouch, my exercise armband, 13th doctor boots, Dipper/Hiccup wig, and some cheap elf ears), plus shirts for my friend and his wife, above.

The last thing I did was convince another very close friend (and actor) to call in as tactical support (aka the escape room hint helpline) as the Artemis Fowl books’ equivalent of Q, a very condescending centaur named Foaly. I sent him the full set of puzzles I’d written with solutions (and changed his name in my caller ID), so he could berate “Artemis” and offer hints or solutions should my friend get stuck.

START OF THE HUNT: Open concentric boxes, and get scolded by Artemis Fowl

I set up three boxes, each smaller than the other, with 3 codes (Gnomish, Centurian, and the Eternity Code) on the inside lid of of each box, nested in each other and wrapped.

The smallest box contains only an invitation to begin the game.

-To Myself:

It has come to my attention that there may be an issue. If you’ve gotten this, that means you’ve lost your memory- and, by extension, MY memory.

For safekeeping of my own mind, I’ve taken great pains to hide pieces of my own memories with friends and various acquaintances. Do yourself a favor and find the original document the People wrote on me those years ago. You’ll know it when you see it.

I hope.

You’re me, which means you’re too smart for me to wish you good luck. Just go and find the high school bags of three of our former friends. They should point you in the right direction.

- A. Fowl Jr.

There’s also a sheet of instructions.

Holly:

I hope this finds you in good health. I’m worried. I’ve had my mind wiped before, and it probably will again in the future. I don’t think you’ll be the ones who do it- you learned last time I’m a bit too smart for you.

In case someone more... unsavory, like that maniac pixie does something to me, I leave instructions on how to help jog my memory.

· In the residence with the People’s files, I’ll leave two clue trials. There will be three clues leading to the location of the People’s file. These will be tied with gold ribbon. And three more, with green, on the actual combination to said safe. Only I will be smart enough to put that information together, and I’ll need all six total to have enough to remember both the location and combination.

· Foaly and you will be indispensable. Please help where you can.

· If a door is closed or locked, unless a clue I’ve left behind specifically says to open it, it can stay closed. The same can be said for drawers and closets. You know me. I don’t like getting my hands dirty more than necessary.

· On that note, if a clue requires any sort of brute force, it’s wrong. I can’t assume Butler will be there to assist. You have my express permission to smack me upside the head of this and remind me I’m a planner; physical activity is hardly my strength.

· I may have seeded the internet (very well, I HAVE seeded it) with my own history lest I forget something like Butler’s first name or other personal information. Remind me to look up things online should I need to be reminded of family history.

· Everything needed to get my memory back is located on-site, but it may not all be indoors.

Thank you, Holly. I trust you to hold this until needed. I only hope that day never comes.

A.F. ii

The next three quests could be done in any order, and involve searching three bags I use for cosplay. I picked characters my friend was familiar with, so, while I do own a really nice Kaede backpack from Danganronpa v3, I didn’t use it, as my friend has only played the first game.

PERSONA 5 QUESTLINE: First combo lock clue/safe clue

The FIRST of THREE clues to the safe and lock starts with searching JOKER’s bag. A note from the Phantom Thieves is contained within, with the following text:

Hey, Dullahan (still your code name, right? Skull mentioned you might have had a change of heart). Been a while. You asked us to steal your heart for safekeeping, so we did. We only took a piece, though, so just follow the trail and you’ll be just fine; check the pillowcases; Mona’s always whining I need more sleep. Oh yeah, the first piece of it is in the Recon officer’s hands. Maybe they’re willing to TRADE for it? You might want to POKE them about it. Gotta GO- we’ve got more work to do. Sakurai invited me to some kind of tournament. -Joker

Trade Pokémon in Pokemon Go

I have a Pokémon to trade, an Unown. It’s an X, named MarksTheSpot.

Crack Joker’s cipher

Inside the pillowcase is a dossier, with a puzzle:

xM fW qF xO zJ kO xN cC lR jK xA gR xC xA gH oO eE xS xE rF wV xD oR eE fR oO xT fV eE xH oO rF jG xE tB kE iN oW xH aA xO oM kK oO xU gU oD oR xS qA aV oF nE xE tT oR xW uG oD wE xA nU wE rD nU cC xY nE oF xT fV xO wI kE rD xO jE xE kR fV iN xA oT iF rT xS nV rS xY aE nE oE iF nE xT nG mE oW xO uN eD jR uT xL kX hT nB xO eE qA xO nN jU xT nR kE xW cX bB oS cD nE eF xH sV dE xO eB bR xM jW qN dE kX vY xA iW bE xK dD wB jE xE iW oW xS eW aH cR iF xT lE xH dS lW nO iS xE fF xI jE kR xR yY uR fG xH nE rR xA xL uB uG oK pQ bR xL xM jE bR xA sI aQ zX xS sS bJ iR yG xT wI bU qR xE uD kR xR xL aY zU iJ vR rH xO aN eT xC gW cO lW qI xK rD uG xK kE rD xE oN nF oL wC xY uH uE oG xC qE xO jR fF xM rU gG oN xB wN oF xO oB qJ yB xT iX eQ kW sO sS hE iS xH oK lE xR kR iE fF xE wR qI uH xE iD fS xZ mU sT yE xE uV hY xR jR kN xO gO aN dQ nE xE rD aD xS iG zZ oW nT sS iE xA rR kR xN dR oO xD yX fR oO xA wE oF nU vR xO sE vR xN kR kZ xE

Finding only the letters with an X before them [X “MarksTheSpot”, remember?] leaves:

M O N A C A S E D T H E H O U S E W A Y T O O E A S Y T O L O O T W H O M A K E S T H E I R H A L L M A S T E R L O C K K E Y C O M B O T H R E E Z E R O E S A N D A O N E

Or:

Mona cased the house. Way too easy to loot. Who makes their hall masterlock key combo three zeroes and a one?

The Hall Keypad

Putting 0001 into the hall keypad will slide open a small lock containing a key to the mailbox outside as well as a folded-up paper.

First Safe Combo Clue (in Gnomish):

The paper contains the following

THE LARGEST SAFE NUMBER IS EVEN

The Mailbox

The mailbox contains the first safe location clue:

TO FIND THE SAFE/ THAT YOU MUST CRACK/ ASSEMBLE TWO MORE PAPERS/ AND SEARCH THE LOWEST RACK

Joker’s puzzle line has been completed.

DANGANRONPA QUESTLINE: Second combo lock clue/safe clue

The SECOND of THREE clues to the safe and lock starts with searching MAKOTO’s bag. A note from him is contained within, with the following text:

I HOPE THIS BAG MADE IT OUT OKAY. I THINK STICKING IN A DEACTIVATED MONOKUMA HELPED… WELL, MOSTLY DEACTIVATED. YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK ITS INSIDES, JUST TO BE SURE. AND… UM… DON’T BLOW UP.

“Deactivate” Monokuma

I’m not that easy to get rid of, kiddo. You n’ me. One round. Who’s a better liar, do you think? I want to know… All About You.

A homemade plush Monokuma is in the bag (who also opens his mouth and talks, when squeezed), unzipping the rear compartment is a piece of paper punctured with a You Don’t Know Jack pin and the above message.

The Mysterious Fourth Player

There’s a Jackbox pin attached to the note, signaling to play the Jackbox game All About You.

The three of us log in, and it won’t be streamed on twitch. But a fourth player joins, named MONOKUMA (it’s my friend who is playing Foaly, as I discreetly gave him the room code). He answers as normal (or like Monokuma might), but when it comes to the one-truth-one-lie section he lists the following:

Truth: An alien left you a snack in the fridge.

Lie: Artemis will never regain his memory.

This will lead “Artemis” to search the refrigerator, where a Tardis confection will be waiting.

The Doctor’s Orders

Breaking open the candy TARDIS will have a hastily scrawled note by the Doctor.

I’ve done lots of travel in my day… lots. Grab my screwdriver off the bookshelf (the OLDER one), and go find my old friend Ford’s journal. I know it’s still there. And check out the inside of the back. It’s exposure to the Chameleon Circuit should translate language, but it won’t crack codes in your own. One’s translated then, and the other… well you wrote that code, so good luck.

Using the 10th doctor’s sonic screwdriver on the last page of Gravity Falls’ Journal 3 (two references my friend IMMEDIATELY groked) will reveal a black light message:

The Eternity Code

The Eternity Code (written by Artemis in the third novel) is blocks of lines to make letters. If its too hard to read with the sonic/invisible ink, “Artemis” can peel off the tape and find a printout underneath, which may be a little easier to navigate.

THE SAFE COMBINATION HAS NO DUPLICATE NUMBERS

And folded up with it is an “old newsprint article”

Root’s Obituary

IN MEMORY.

Today, thousands gathered to witness Commander Root’s recycling ceremony. The man, a maverick who knew exactly how to take risks, was well known for clanking through Police Plaza hallways, barking orders, louder than a crack of dynamite. From a humble beginning in Haven’s western suburbia all the way to L. E. P. chief commander, the man never did anything halfway, and has been put to rest, having taken in an incredibly lengthy list of most wanted criminals.

He will be sorely missed.

(The bolded words are all board games on my living room shelf rack).

Makoto’s puzzle line has been completed.

RATCHET AND CLANK QUESTLINE: Third combo lock clue/safe clue

The THIRD of THREE clues to the safe and lock starts with searching RATCHET’S bag. A note from him is contained within, with the following text:

Not much I can do from another galaxy, but Clank hacked your computer and left you a fairy hologram, you’ll need some infrared goggles to read it. There’s also some weird folder on your desktop, might be worth a look.

Sorry pal, but you’re on your own this time.

This will lead “Artemis” to check the computer.

Hacking Back

Two users on the computer, myself and... Artemis. There’s some notes taped to the monitor that might help.

“Give it up, Foaly. I know you know my password.” and “you can always click the hint, but it’s the family motto...”

The hint lists “Gold is Power”, and the password is Aurum Est Postas, the Fowl family motto and Artemis’s own computer password (until he later changes it to Centaur in Book 6).

There’s only two things of note when logging in as Artemis, and they lead into finding the final combo lock clue and safe location clue.

For Emergency Use Only

Not-so hidden among the wafers, wire, magnifying lenses, and sensors is a pair of ‘infrared’ goggles (Also other than the ‘infrared’ goggles, the rest of the items are all real tech, plus my magnification ring, as I’m legally blind and loathe to carry a larger magnifying glass)

The Final Safe Code Clue

Wearing the goggles, ‘Artemis’ will now be able to read the image, which is in Centurian.

THE NUMBERS ADD TO TEN AND ARE ORDERED FROM SMALLEST TO LARGEST.

The Mysterious Computer Folder

There was something else Ratchet said was on the computer, wasn’t there?

Leads on Finding..../the Safe seems a good place to start.

Opening the folder is five photographs of people in nón lá (leaf hat), otherwise known as Vietnamese conical straw hats.

I did a semester abroad in Sapa, Vietnam, so not only did I take the photos, I also just so happen to have my own nón lá hanging up in my bedroom (I lost my baseball cap the first week I moved there, and my host mother insisted I get one to protect myself from the sun).

If you’re at all familiar, the Artemis Fowl series begins with Artemis tracking down a fairy begging on the streets of Ho Chi Minh city, so the hat’s my little nod to that.

Searching the hat leads to a simple note...

Face where Man acquires sustenance and it is sinister.

Face where Fairy acquires sustenance and it is right.

It’s wrapped in a gold bow, like the other two safe location clues.

Ratchet’s (and Foaly’s :D) puzzle line has been completed.

All minor puzzles are complete; it’s now time to find and open the safe..

FIGURING OUT THE SAFE LOCATION:

Clue one tells you its on the bottom rack.

Clue two tells you a bunch of board games.

And clue three says its on the left (sinister) when looking at where humans get food, or on the right on where fairies get food.

Its inside that rightmost cube on the bottom, since we are facing the backyard from this view, with the kitchen behind.

FIGURING OUT THE COMBO

THE LARGEST SAFE NUMBER IS EVEN

THE SAFE COMBINATION HAS NO DUPLICATE NUMBERS

THE NUMBERS ADD TO TEN AND ARE ORDERED FROM SMALLEST TO LARGEST.

From here, we know the third digit must be even, as it’s the largest number. The dials only go from 0-9, so the third digit must be 2,4,6, or 8. The numbers must add to ten, with no duplicates, so the third number cannot be 8. It also can’t be 2 (1,1,2 is invalid).

So the third number must be 4 or 6.

But even the next largest numbers (2 and 3) only add to 9 with 4. (2, 3,4) so 4 cannot be the final digit.

The last digit must be 6.

If 6 is the last digit, the other two numbers must add to 4 to make 10. There are only two valid combinations to make this possible (without violating the no duplicate rule)

The combo is either 0, 4, 6

1, 3, 6

(the combo is 1, 3, 6).

With this information, Artemis can find and open the safe.

When he does, a folded note saying STOP! is inside. It contains the following.

You’ve come quite close, me, congratulations are in order.

But there is one final test for you, my old friend. Through these trials, you might have jogged a hair of your-my-OUR memory. I hope you have, because if you’ve done this wrong, this box is set to blow.

Under your old L.E.P. contractor’s shirt are two identically sized items. One of them is the files the People wrote on you so many years ago. The other… is a block of C4. Don’t bother pulling at them, but touch the spines all you like so long as you don’t yank it out. They’re designed to be identical, but only one is meant for you.

Foaly, Captain Short, and Wing Commander Vinyáya can’t help you here.

Think on it, and, when you’re sure you know the answer, pull it out and rip it open.

Diffuse the Safe Bomb

WARNING! THIS WILL SPOIL THE FINAL PUZZLE.

I’ll wait.

Waiting.

Last chance to try and figure this one out yourself.

Good? Good.

And here is where I pull an Artemis Fowl myself, and I play the biggest con-slash-bluff of the hunt.

There are two books inside, both wrapped, with wires coming out of the paper (they don’t actually lead anywhere). No matter which one “Artemis” takes, there is a signed copy of Artemis Fowl inside (the other copy is mine), plus the home-made shirt. Neither “Foaly” nor I will help him; he’s welcome to hem and haw at his old clues all he wishes. It’s entirely up to his gut on this one. There is no wrong answer.

Merry Christmas, old friend.

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scottyartz · 7 months

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Verse of the Week James 4:7

Y’know just because I and other Christians are Christians doesn’t mean we’re exempt from temptation. As a artist in the culture I partake in, I definitely fall into it a lot and lately, I’ve been taking bigger strides to live for Christ better! The Spirit is willing but the flesh is so weak so I encourage everyone to do your best to abstain from anything that will make you lose your way and ask God to hep guide you. For if we were perfect, we wouldn’t need Christ’s sacrifice. Only living in him can we live the best we can!

”Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

New Items on sale in the online store!

Some of you may be familiar with my chubby trucker bunny, Indiana. I decided to finally make some merch with her! If you wanna rock with Indiana, head on over to my store to be the first to grab her! I only have 25 in stock for each product! I also renewed some other products in my store, specifically the Isabelle sticker group and the RougexJuri poster which now has a new awesome variant!

Art of week! I decided officially that I will give you all Bi-weekly updates with these posts. Like I said in the previous update, most of the time, I’m not that active in a week so I will give you guys more art in 2 week intervals! My favorite piece here is definitely the giant bear illustration which is actually a redraw of an older picture I did a few years ago and requested by my patron, and friend, Calvin! The beer bunny design, like said above, is a new sticker and keychain that you can purchase from the store! Next update, I’ll reveal the subscriber to get a free sketch from last month!

Commission Info

Commissions will be open again next weekend, Saturday, September 23rd on national Rabbit day!

Stream commissions start the following week on Tuesday, Sep 26th to Thursday on the 28th! But I might do a commission stream or 2 next week!

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eurynomeart · 5 months

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Happy Thanksgiving and late Halloween! I’ve thankfully come back from the dead. 🎃🧟🦃

This is an older piece I made last month featuring my pumpkin head oc, Poncho. I forgot to post on Halloween, so better late than never I guess. I’ve been trying to get past some art block after wrapping up Art Fight from this year, and got two part time jobs as well to try and make ends meet. So needless to say, a lot has been going on and it’s part of the reason why I’ve kinda vanished for the last few months. I’m slowly getting back into a rhythm though, and I’ve decided to do a few art events through discord as well to keep myself drawing as well. I’ve slowly been making content that I’m excited to share, and I’ve also been doing a lot of crocheting as well that I might post too. Either way, I’m more than thankful to be getting back into drawing again, and for you guys to still be here despite me once again falling off the face of the earth.💙

If you like my style and my work, my commissions are open! Just dm me for more information, comment below, or check the link in my bio. Or go to my Redbubble where you can find my designs and pieces as stickers, pins, hats, and the like! If cash is tight and you still want to support, just remember to like, save, share, and maybe even follow along for some fun art. Hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day!

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dailyrandomwriter · 7 months

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Day 416

One of the things I’ve learned from doing a journal this month is that I don’t really have time to decorate other pages that aren’t my daily pages. And even then, sometimes I might not have the time or the inclination to decorate a daily page.

But! I still wanted my pages to have some decoration, because one of the fun things about using a bullet journal is that, if designed to your own tastes, flipping through a bullet journal can be exciting, or just fun. So I decided, I would decorate all my collection pages, and put a few decorating highlights onto my daily log pages, while still leaving enough room to do more decorating if I feel like it.

It was a lot of work, and it’s great that I have the week off, otherwise I wouldn’t have managed it in two days.

Granted, I wouldn’t recommend sitting down and doing that for two days straight, but I was really excited for this.

The other thing I’ve learned is why stationary companies sell rolls of tape that are on average 5 meters long. See, a lot of the tape I own are image tapes. Instead of having stickers on a sticker sheet that is already cut out for you, shops sell rolls of tape that have all sorts of fun images that you cut out yourself. However, a whole roll of tape can be as small as 200 cm (2 meters) to as large as 10,000 cm (10 meters!). And each roll of tape can have a cycle that is anywhere between 30 cm to 100 cm. This means at the very least you’d get 5 repeats, and at the time I wondered, why on earth would you need 5 repeats?

It turns out if the cycle is long enough, you want 5 repeats so you can decorate the whole month in the exact same theme. Still haven't finished the Halloween tape I got last month but I did get through a good portion.

#washi tape #stationary #this is the reason why people sell sample tapes on Etsy because they have too much

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Reflection of the day 18/04/22 - 21/04/22: Project Pictoplasma

This Monday I had to show the formative feedback I had written over the weekend. Where I had put all the positive and negative points of my performance during this semester.

The feedback from the teacher was very positive, saying that I was doing well so far. But that I could explore my techniques a little more, going beyond paper or digital.

He also asked me what area of illustration I would like to work on. I wasn't sure what to answer because I'm still thinking about what to do. Maybe working on the editorial side would be something interesting.

couldn't stay in the afternoon because I wasn't feeling very well, so I had to go back to my house and keep doing my things there.

On Tuesday, I managed to finish the air giant character, which I've been working on for a few weeks. She is the most different character among all of the work, having a very different appearance from the others, and a very different use of colors as well.

It was done with a lot of calm and patience, and I arrived at a result that I consider satisfactory.

With hair that looks like a cloud, tattoos that cover her entire body, and a tornado for legs. I managed to overemphasize that she was from the air element.

Something I learned from one of my colleagues was that I could fill in the black lines with color using a tool in Procreate.

It was a way of giving more life to the drawing. Removing all the black lines and replacing them with vibrant blue lines, which gave the drawing a shape.

I really liked the final design, but I feel that it doesn't match what Pictofolio is all about. It's a design that's far from minimalist, and I feel like I got a little too carried away making this design.

But speaking of the live that will be on May 3th. I need to get ready to make the stickers and finish my poster so I can send it to print.

Today I dedicated myself specifically to finalizing the poster. He has gone through a lot of changes over the last few days. And I mainly changed the design of the air giant on the poster, which was different from the one in the drawing. But the most important thing was to find a subtitle for the poster. The first time was "Giants Rules", which seemed like a good name, but very simple. Then I changed it to "Giants Odyssey", which didn't make any sense since there is no odyssey in this story, I just put it in a strong name. And my last idea, and the one I ended up using, was "Giants Tales", where it seemed to be a simple but sonorous title. The truth is that I was out of ideas to create a title, so I ended up using this name because it was the only one that seemed to be really good.

The fact is that my poster is finished, having a good composition with all the characters together, and the title of the universe also having a good space on the poster.

I was satisfied with the result, I just need to make the stickers now and print on Thursday.

On Wednesday I started making stickers for the fair. I had never made stickers and this would be my first attempt at doing so. And I made some drawings in my sketchbook, focusing mainly on the characters' faces, wanting to make stickers with the characters in funny situations.

I wanted to make three different stickers with three characters of my choice. The first would be the foerest Giant with a bird on his head, and him looking scared, to give that humorous touch. The second would be the Lava giant, making a funny face, and a lava-colored background. And the third sticker, would be the robot, which my idea was to do it with a short circuit.

The three designs had interesting ideas and cool designs, for the little time I had. They would be a big size for a sticker, 7.5cm wide and 10cm high. I'll try to make thirteen of each, and poster would also make thirteen pieces. I won't do much more than that because I don't think I'll be able to sell much, and also because I'm aware that it's going to be expensive to make all this

On Thursday I took all my files made in Photoshop and Procreate and had them printed on a graphic here in my city. I decided to print it myself because as I'm not in São Paulo, I had to act as quickly as possible, so as not to have problems later on.

The prints were made on matte photographic paper, where it seems to look much better than glossy, and also because it would be cheaper, but that doesn't mean the print would look any worse.

What I have to do now is wait until next week when they're ready, and in the meantime, I'm going to get ready to buy sculpting materials. Because since I'm going to have readingweek, I'm going to dedicate myself to building a doll of one of my pictofolio characters with plastina and then painting it. I'd like to try something different, and since I have time, I'll take the chance.

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funny little thing called love

Fandom: Sanders Sides Characters: Logan, Virgil Rating: Teen & up Relationships: Analogical Warnings: Mention of roadkill Word count: 2186

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Summary: Logan and Virgil each come to an important realization, albeit at different times than each other.

Notes: Day 2 of @analogicalweek 2022! This is for the prompt “crushes.” The first scene is early in the second year of college, the second scene is early in the third year of college. The second scene also takes place during confiding over cuddles, one of my analogical week pieces for last year, but you shouldn’t need to read that to enjoy this—it’ll just add some context for what’s going on in the background plot.

“Fuck,” Virgil mumbled under his breath, running his hands through his hair and staring at the big bold letters reading “CHANGE OF MAJOR APPLICATION FORM” on his computer screen.

He could do it. He could do it; he knew he could. The requirements to transfer into the Graphic Design major were much more relaxed than the requirements for new applicants. He’d asked Remus to look over his portfolio a couple weeks ago—Remus was an Art major, but took Graphic Design classes for some of his electives, and there was a lot of overlap between the two majors in general, the classes were in the same building and everything—and Remus had said his work was good, better than some they’d seen in their classes. He should have no problem getting into the program, if he submitted the form he’d just filled out.

But he’d worked so hard to get into Computer Engineering. His parents had been so proud. Logan had been so excited to find out that most of their electives overlapped, too—and Virgil had looked forward to getting to take classes with his friend, who was an Engineering major planning to do a concentration in Computer Science.

He wasn’t sure which was worse: disappointing his parents, or the way the excitement would fade off Logan’s face when he found out.

…Maybe it would be easier to just grit his teeth and power through it. It was only, what, three more years? And he’d barely scraped through his first year as it was, the stress putting his anxiety into overdrive and wrecking his sleep schedule along with his grades? That was sustainable, right?

Ha. Right.

“Fuck,” he repeated under his breath, even more emphatically this time.

“Is something wrong?”

Virgil jumped, slamming his computer shut and sending his chair skidding back a few inches, his pulse skyrocketing. “Jesus fucking christ, L!”

“Apologies,” Logan, who seemed nearly as startled at this reaction as Virgil was at his appearance, and sounded somewhat alarmed to boot, said. “I did not mean to sneak up on you.”

Virgil pinched the bridge of his nose. “Yeah, I know. You’re quiet.”

“Apologies,” Logan repeated. “It is on accident.” He pulled out a chair and sat opposite Virgil at the little study table.

“We should get you a bell,” Virgil said with a snort.

Logan made an expression that would more or less be appropriate if stepping in roadkill. “It would make noise,” he protested.

“I—yeah, that’s the point—never mind, L, it was a joke.” Virgil waved it away.

Logan shrugged. “Alright.” He pulled out his laptop, glancing at Virgil’s own, still sitting shut tight on the table, covered in scratched and faded stickers. “What were you doing? You seemed upset.”

Virgil cringed. This had been exactly what he was afraid of.

Logan blinked, taking in his expression. “You—you do not have to share, of course,” he added hastily. “I just—was wondering if I could help. I’m sorry if I overstepped.”

For some inexplicable reason, the sweet earnesty on Logan’s face and in his voice made Virgil’s cheeks warm up and his stomach squirm pleasantly inside him. “No, you’re good,” he assured Logan. “That’s—really nice of you.” He cleared his throat. “Uh. But yeah, I’ve just—” He awkwardly half laughed. “Been stressing out over something, I guess. I mean, I know I do that a lot. But something specific.”

Logan tilted his head to the side. “I am listening.”

Virgil bit his lip, warring with himself. “I—” He gulped. “I want to change my major,” he blurted.

Logan blinked. “Oh,” he said, sounding a little confused. “Is that all?”

“I—” Virgil floundered for a moment, not having expected this. “I guess?”

Logan winced. “I’m sorry, I think that came out wrong. I just meant—you seemed really worried, I was scared it was going to be something bad.”

“Oh.” Virgil let out a relieved sigh. “No, just me freaking out like usual. Sorry.”

Logan frowned. “Having anxiety is not something you need to compensate for or deprecate yourself over, you know. I don’t mind. None of our friends do. It would be kind of awful of us if we did.”

“Remus gives me shit for it sometimes,” Virgil said under his breath.

Logan folded his arms. “That is because, pardon me for saying it, but because Remus is something of an asshole.”

That startled a chuckle out of Virgil. “I mean, you’re not wrong,” he admitted.

“However,” Logan added thoughtfully, “I suspect that he means it merely as playful ribbing, albeit in very poor taste. I imagine if they learned they had genuinely distressed you, he would course correct.”

“Huh.” Virgil considered this. “I’ll think about it.”

“I could also tell him for you, if you don’t want to confront them yourself,” Logan offered. “I have been irritated about it for some time now. I could be very firm and assertive about it. I would be very happy to.”

“I’m starting to think you just want an excuse to fight Remus,” Virgil deadpanned, internally examining the soft thrill that had run through his chest at the offer and feeling very nervous about what that thrill meant.

Logan shrugged. “Maybe.” He drew in a breath, clearly refocusing. “Let me know. But what major do you want to switch into? Do you know yet?”

Virgil relaxed a little at the curious, non-judgmental tone. “Uh—Graphic Design, actually,” he admitted, chewing lightly on a thumbnail. “I’ve kind of been doing it as a hobby since high school. I like it a lot. And just—I think it would be less stressful. More, like, survivable. You know?”

Logan made an interested noise. “I didn’t know you do design.” He shifted his chair closer to Virgil’s. “May I see? If you’re comfortable.”

Virgil’s chest did the little thrill again, and he stifled a grin. “I—sure,” he found himself agreeing, slightly flustered, and he opened his laptop, pulling up one of the portfolio pieces he was proudest of. “I made this for a, like, local mini concert some of my friends put together back home in senior year,” he explained as Logan examined the poster intently.

“This is beautiful, Virgil,” he said, sincere and quiet and delighted, eyes fixed on the screen.

Virgil’s heart did a whole entire flip in his chest, giddy happiness rushing through his system and cheeks going very warm indeed.

Oh.

Ohhhhh boy.

Fuck.

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Crushing on a close friend was more or less Virgil’s actual worst nightmare. This was the last thing he needed. And this was too much for him to keep pushing to the back of his mind and denying to himself any longer.

He shot a glance at Logan, who was still examining the poster. His lips were just barely parted, his face perfectly clean-shaven just like always, dark brown eyes gleaming and focused behind his glasses.

Well, he’d always been just unreasonably hot, but this was just excessive. Could Virgil’s stupid heart chill out?

“Thanks,” he mumbled, realizing it had been an awkward pause since Logan had spoken.

“I mean it,” Logan said at once, smiling. “I think you’d be very good at this. Does it make you happy?”

“Yeah,” Virgil breathed, not sure he was actually talking about graphic design at all as he fixated on Logan’s smile.

“Good!” Logan’s smile widened. “I am very happy for you, then. I think you should do it.”

“Cool,” Virgil said weakly. He didn’t deserve a friend so unrestrainedly supportive as Logan. He absolutely didn’t. But he would also rather do anything than lose a friendship as amazing as this one.

He scooted his chair an inch or two farther away from Logan and resolved to bury this crush deep, deep down for as long as it took to kill it off.

***

Logan awoke slowly, warm and mostly comfortable, though the waistband of his jeans was digging into his skin. His eyelids blocked out the sunlight, and there was a warm pair of arms wrapped around him, and he could just feel a slow, steady pulse against his cheek.

Wait.

Logan opened his eyes.

This wasn’t his room in the apartment he shared with Roman and Janus—this was Virgil’s dorm. A place where, admittedly, Logan spent a great deal more time than anyone other than Virgil himself did, but not a place he had ever woken up in. He was laying on Virgil’s bed, pressed against Virgil’s side with Virgil’s arm around him, the two of them haphazardly covered in a blanket. His head was resting on Virgil’s shoulder, Virgil’s hand limp against his hair where he had been stroking it last night.

Last night. That was right; that was why he was here. They’d been planning to hang out and study, like they usually did on Wednesday evenings this term since they were both free, but Virgil had been so upset. Rightfully so. Logan hoped he’d been able to help at least a little. Virgil had seemed to appreciate his advice and presence. And his offer to cuddle, an offer he still could hardly believe he’d found the courage to actually make. Particularly after he’d accidentally blurted a semi-confession to his feelings and Virgil had just—ignored it.

But Logan knew Virgil, and he was almost certain it had not been a negative ignore, just an anxious one. (Almost.)

Regardless, the cuddling had been very nice, even if now he was all stiff and the waistband of his jeans was digging uncomfortably into his skin after a night’s sleep. He wondered if he ought to feel bad about that—perhaps enjoying the opportunity to be held by Virgil was akin to taking advantage of his emotionally distressed state? But he could not find it in himself to be sorry for it. Virgil’s body curled against his was so warm, and the skin of his neck where Logan’s forehead rested against it was so soft, and the feel of his arm curled around Logan was so safe, and Logan—

Oh.

Logan loved Virgil.

Oh, wow.

Logan had known he liked Virgil for a while now; he’d realized it right before finals last year, and since getting back for the new school year he had been assessing, trying to figure out if his affections would be welcomed by Virgil before he brought it up. But this warm, safe, home, belong feeling in his chest? This was way more than a simple crush.

Logan couldn’t remember ever feeling this way about a boy before.

Logan was very still, examining the feeling in his chest from every angle and slowly, tentatively, beginning to allow himself to sink into it.

Well. Okay. So, he—he loved Virgil.

What was he going to do about it?

Logan shifted, wiggling his arm around at an uncomfortable angle until he could dig his phone out of his back pocket with the arm that was not currently trapped underneath himself. Virgil shifted slightly, but did not awaken, arm curling slightly closer around Logan before he sighed and relaxed again, his breaths evening back out. His hair fanned out over the pillow and his lips were parted and he looked so peaceful and Logan’s heart was warm and fluttery in his chest at just the sight of him.

He bit his lip and dragged his eyes away from Virgil’s face long enough to unlock his phone and pull up his notes app. Carefully, using the thumb of his hand, he pecked out the date—October 16. Beneath it, key by key, he typed: I love Virgil Storm. Very much. He hesitated a moment more, thumb hovering above the keyboard, but, well, that did encompass all the major points. He could elaborate later, should he be so inclined. He shut his phone off and dropped it on the mattress, wrapping his arm around Virgil and snuggling a little closer.

Virgil was beautiful. Logan had been aware of this, of course, but he was struck anew with the knowledge of it as he gazed up at him. His dark thick hair and smooth tan skin, a few shades darker than Logan’s, the chipped black polish on his nails that he kept clipped short so he couldn’t bite them, the soft curve of his lips, the tiny smudges of black eye makeup gathered at the corners of his lids where he hadn’t quite cleaned it all away, the faint stubble along his soft jawline—every aspect of him was so simply perfect that it took Logan’s breath away.

In the back of his mind, he began to script words that he could use to comfort and reassure Virgil when he awoke and would no doubt apologize for the accidental, but very welcome, sleepover. But for the most part, Logan simply relaxed, feeling profoundly and utterly content. He was warm, and he was being held by the most perfect boy in the whole world, and he was almost certain Virgil liked him back, and really, what reason did he have to do anything other than smile and cherish this moment?

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