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nerdofspades · 1 year

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Bruce looked at the pop-up on the Batcomputer's screen.

"Explain," he growled, glancing down at Tim.

"Not much to explain," Tim answered, pulling up lines of code. "It showed up ten seconds ago."

"I'm starting a full diagnostic," Barbara said, voice filtering through the speakers. "So far, I'm not seeing anything."

"And yet..." Time trailed off glancing at the window again. It had a video queued up to play and the words "IMPORTANT: PLEASE WATCH. DO NOT DELETE" in large text at the top.

"There's a new folder labeled 'a gift for Batman,'" Tim said. "Not something any of us made."

"Clearly."

"I'm still not finding any viruses, corrupted files, or spyware," Oracle said. "The new folder was programmed to stay in a hidden partition for a few days after it was placed. Then, obviously, the pop-up to catch our attention."

"Folder also has a text file named 'security notes,'" Tim said. "Maybe our new hacker is friendly?"

"It's starting to look like it," Oracle agreed. "The video is clean. It should be safe to watch."

Bruce sighed. "Then let's see what they've got for us."

-

The video opened with a dark room. The background hidden in shadows, while the foreground was well lit, letting them clearly see the tired teen in the center of the frame as he took a heavy swig from his mug before putting it down.

"Pulling up facial recognition."

He ran a hand through his messy black hair and then down his face, pinching his nose and hiding the bags under his blues eyes for a moment before he dropped his hand and finally looked at the camera.

"I really don't want to do this," he said, "but you need it." He glanced longingly off screen in the direction of the mug he'd put down.

"First of all, I think I should apologize for hacking you. Or asking my friend to, technically. I just. You need to know about this and I didn't know of another way to get it to you that would be secure.

"I did at least make him promise to make a record of how he got in so you can patch that.

"That out of the way... to business? I'm Danny Fenton, for the last year or so I have also been the hero Phantom in Amity Park. My parents are Jack and Maddie Fenton. They are ectobiologists and ghost hunters. While extremely biased and not actually that good at catching ghosts, their tech is easily the best in the business."

"That's a positive match."

"Running a search on Phantom."

"I- fucking shit." Danny put his head in his hands again, running them back through his hair before leaning back, almost collapsing into the chair.

"This kid has... gotten into some shit."

"Everyone knows you're the League's strategist, Batman. And. I'm strong enough. I can handle my problems, that's not what I'm worried about.

"It's been about a year and I've already been mind controlled once." Danny laughed. A dry, broken, almost desperate laugh. "And that was just some lowlife that wanted to rob jewelry stores. I'm still not worried about. It's not why I'm sending you this. The magic relic he used is broken and gone now."

"Well that explains one of his problems."

"The others?"

"An attempted kidnapping and fairly standard property damage. I want to see some footage of those fights before passing judgement."

"Even more standard given he doesn't seem to have a mentor. Batman, he was fourteen."

"No. I. I've seen a version of the future. One where I go mad. Where I snap. And the Justice League can't stop me.

"I don't know if I- he kills everyone. I don't know who, if anyone, makes it out. But it's not anyone that could really do much. I... I saw ten years after he- I snapped. Earth was little more than rubble and ash. Only one city was left holding out and it was about to fall- was falling when I got there.

"I've managed to change the time line. What broke him didn't happen here. But. I can't guarantee nothing ever could.

"So. Yeah. Next best thing is making sure you're prepared. All my powers. All my weaknesses. Everything I know of that could possibly hurt me. Schematics and blue prints for anything you could need to fight me, track me, keep me out, keep me contained. All nice and giftwrapped for your convenience.

"Uh... that's everything. Why is it always so awkward to end a video? Hopefully we never see each other? I guess? Pretty sure us actually meeting is gonna be a bad sign.

"You know what. I'm gonna turn this thing off now before I say something stupid."

-

"Batman, who's 'Phantom'?" Superman asked, glancing up from the Watchtower computer he was working at. "Aren't we supposed to vote on new members?"

Batman grunted. "He's not a member, just someone who understands the need for contingencies."

"You know what, I'm not gonna even ask."

"Probably for the best."

#dp x dc #bruce wayne #batman #danny phantom #dc #batman's contingincies #tim drake #barbara gordon

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coochiequeens · 1 year

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An update to an older story that’s goods news!

When Jenny Nguyen signed the lease to create her dream bar, she wasn’t sure it would stay open for more than a few months.

But earlier this month, 43-year-old Nguyen’s first-of-its-kind establishment in Portland, Oregon, celebrated its one-year anniversary. Aptly named The Sports Bra, it’s a sports bar where only women athletes appear on the TVs.

Business has been good, despite the niche business model and record inflation sending food and beverage prices soaring. The Sports Bra brought in $944,000 in revenue in the eight months it was open in 2022, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.

It was profitable in that first year of business, Nguyen adds.

“It turns out, it’s pretty universal — that feeling of being a women’s sports fan and going into a public place, like a sports bar, and having a difficult time finding a place to show a [women’s] game, especially when there are other men’s sports playing,” Nguyen says.

Initially, she wasn’t sure the idea would work at all. The vast majority of money and attention historically goes to men’s sports only — a big reason why The Sports Bra was reportedly the country’s first bar to only play women’s sports on TV.

It’s also not the kind of thing Nguyen would ordinarily do: She describes herself as “very cautious, risk averse.” But her obsession with women’s sports and frustration with its lack of representation on television screens drove her to empty her life savings — about $27,000 — and give it a try.

“Me, personally, I thought the idea was brilliant and that [it was] what the world needs,” Nguyen says. “But I had no idea that the world would want it. I just wanted to give it a shot.”

How The Sports Bra went from running joke to reality

Nguyen is a lifelong basketball fan who played the sport at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, before tearing her ACL. She’s also a longtime restaurant worker who spent three years as Reed College’s executive chef.

In 2018, Nguyen and a group of friends wanted to watch the NCAA women’s basketball championship game. They went to a mostly empty sports bar and still had to plead with a bartender to switch one of the smallest TVs — which played without sound — from a men’s sport to the women’s championship game, she recalls.

Together, they jumped up and down celebrating “one of the best games I’ve ever seen,” Nguyen says, as a buzzer-beating three-point shot sealed the championship title for Notre Dame. Afterward, she was struck by the normalcy of her situation.

″[We’d] gotten so used to watching a game like that in the way that we did,” she says, adding that they’d only find better viewing conditions “if we had our own place.”

Days later, she channeled her disappointment into a hypothetical: What would she name her bar? “The very first thing that came into my mind was The Sports Bra,” Nguyen says. “And once I thought it, I couldn’t un-think it, you know? It was catchy. I thought it was hilarious.”

For years, she joked about it. Then, the fallout from social justice movements like #MeToo and the country’s racial reckoning after George Floyd’s murder left her wanting to make a meaningful impact on the world and her community.

Nguyen, who came out as a lesbian at age 17, says she doesn’t always feel welcome at most traditional sports bars. The Sports Bra could help her, and anyone else who’d rarely felt accepted in other sports establishments, feel like she belonged.

“I thought about, if we can even get one kid in here and have them feel like they belong in sports, it’d be worth it,” she says.

Helping other women’s sports bars get started

At first, Nguyen had her savings, and $40,000 in loans cobbled together from friends and family. That would keep The Sports Bra afloat for three months, based on her cost estimates for labor, inventory and other overhead.

In February 2022, she launched a Kickstarter to raise $48,000 — enough money for an extra six-month financial cushion, to build up the sort of regular clientele any bar or restaurant needs to survive long-term.

To Nguyen’s surprise, the campaign raised more than $105,000 in just 30 days, thanks to a viral article in online food publication Eater. “At that moment, when I was looking at that Kickstarter graph, I thought to myself, ‘This might work,’” she says.

But the money, which came from around the country and world, was no guarantee of success. Actual people in Portland still needed to frequent the bar.

Today, there’s often a line out the door. Women’s basketball icons like Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi showed up, for an event sponsored by Buick, earlier this month. Ginny Gilder, co-owner of the WNBA’s Seattle Storm, has even waited in line to watch her team play on The Sports Bra’s TVs, Nguyen says.

That’s a far cry from the Kickstarter days, which Nguyen says only happened after she was denied business loans by multiple banks and small business associations. The denials commonly cited the high risk of a unique concept run by a first-time entrepreneur during a pandemic, she adds.

Even the bar’s core concept is a struggle: It’s hard to find enough women’s sporting events to fill up the televisions. Only about 5% of all TV sports coverage focuses on female athletes, according to a 2021 University of Southern California study.

Nguyen says she’s taken to reaching out directly to sports networks and streaming services, some of which have hooked her up with access to more women’s sports content. She also spends an inordinate amount of time “scouring” TV listings, a process she likens to “taking a machete and chopping through a jungle.”

But she’s no longer alone. Another bar specializing in women’s sports has opened in nearby Seattle, and Nguyen says she’s in touch with a handful of other prospective entrepreneurs asking her for advice on opening similar visions in other cities.

“I would love to have as many people experience the feeling people experience when they walk through these doors,” she says. “It feels very selfish to keep it to this one building that holds 40 people at a time.”

#USA #oregon #Portland #jenny nguyen #The Sports Bra #A sports bar for women and women’s sports #She was originally denied business loans

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dimlylittorch · 4 months

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first official post of my own thoughts bc I’ve decided to let myself be deranged on here..

the cod boys with a chubby partner who finally works up the nerve to attempt to send a nude!! this is so self indulgent y’all😭

PSA: !! I’m probably a horrible writer pls forgive me !!

My Masterlist🌱

Reader x John Price, Reader x Simon Ghost Riley, Reader x Johnny Soap MacTavish, Reader x Kyle Gaz Garrick

Random Headcanons: Edition 1

Warnings: NSFW

(mention of erections, nudes, inappropriate voice recordings, probably poor workplace behavior lmao)

Price

y’all have to be careful with our old man!! you might give him a heart attack :((

imagine he’s just in his office, bored out of his mind filling out his routine paperwork. Keeps dozing off, doesn’t feel like getting up to get more coffee. Practically praying for some kind of distraction or crisis to present itself. Suddenly he gets a text from you!! You know he gets bored at work so you try to send him little things that he’ll look at throughout the day, funny videos, a pretty tree you saw, etc.

But this time? Oh lord. He opens his messages from you and he sees your image with the blurred setting? With the caption ‘just in case you’re having a slow day.. don’t let anyone else see, okay?’

Of course our old man is scratching his beard, trying to guess what it is. He thinks on it for a moment, but ultimately gives up.. he opens it and goddamn. It’s your pretty little self perched on the bathroom counter of your shared apartment.. naked. Suddenly another text comes through, an apology. ‘I’m going to delete that- it looks really bad, I’m sorry’

He just about slips out of his chair with how fast he’s texting you ‘Don’t you dare.’

Ghost

Ghost? Ghost is a different story. You don’t have to worry about his heart- you have to worry about yours. The second you send him something like that? Sweetheart, there’s no stopping what he’ll do after the fact :]

He’s had a rough day, having to train some stupid ass recruits (his words, not mine). He’s already annoyed- someone took the last packet of tea from the kitchen area, he got caught on a nail turning a corner and his shirt ripped.. it’s not our baby’s day, y’all :((

He goes up onto the roof to get away from everything before he punches a whole in a wall- or in another person. He gets up top, sitting with his back to the ledge as he lights up a smoke. Grunting and grumbling to himself about everything that happened today, just thinking about being able to go home. Suddenly he gets a message from you. He sighs softly out of relief, and mumbles to himself ‘thank fuck.’

He opens the message, seeing a few little paragraphs about your day. You know he can’t text much during work, but you send him updates and he reads them at night whenever he can’t fall asleep. That way he still feels like he’s with you/talking to you while you get a good nights rest <3

He’s scrolling through the paragraphs, deciding to read a few to calm him down. He gets to the very top.. and he drops his smoke on himself., dropping his phone too. He quickly curses, brushing it off and stamping it out. He picks up his phone and.. the screen is broken. He’s so pissed off, poor baby. He manages to open his phone and see the picture through all of the cracks. He’s cursing to himself at how he can’t see the full picture. Suddenly he’s on his feet, heading down the stairs as fast as he can, ready to go home and make you recreate that photo..

Soap

We all know Soap is a menace. He probably sends you nudes (with your consent, of course) every few days. He’ll be trying on clothes and feeling himself? Who wouldn’t want to see a cute naked picture of him in the mirror. This definitely isn’t his first ball game, be sure of that ;)

Johnny has been having an alright day, mainly doing his duties nonchalantly, per usual. He manages to finish early and decides to hang out with some of the boys today, he knew you wouldn’t mind. Goes into the rec room where everyone was relaxing, playing pool, watching sports. He grabs a drink out of the mini fridge and kicks back on the couch, Ghost on his right, Alejandro on his left.

Between you and Johnny, you were definitely the more level headed one in the relationship. You knew that if you texted him throughout the day, he would get distracted and not get any work done, solely wanting to focus on you (just like a puppy, istg). He had texted you letting you know that he would be staying a little late today. You were always nice about it when he did that.. but today you felt a little needy, deciding to tease him a little.

He suddenly gets a text from you. Ghost and Ale, as nosy as ever, happen to be glancing at his phone screen when he opens his messages to a picture of a naked you on your knees, on your shared bed in front of a mirror, with the caption ‘that’s okay Johnny. just miss you, is all’. Johnny practically chokes on his drink, immediately slamming his phone against his chest, hoping Ghost and Ale didn’t see. He can already feel himself getting hard, and Ghost and Ale just chuckle. ‘Might want to get on home, Johnny’ they tease

Gaz

sweet, sweet baby Gaz. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wasn’t overly accustomed to sending nudes either!! In my mind he’s just the perfect gentleman, never initiating something like that unless you bring it up first :3

Gaz is outside, helping unload cargo from one of the trucks, just a usual shipment of supplies. He’s sweating his ass off, tired and ready for the day to end. He takes a break, sitting on a case of cargo for a moment and pulling out his phone. He sees a few messages from you and he smiles to himself, loving that you think of him throughout the day. He decides to go into the bathroom to get cleaned up. He walks in, grabbing a few paper towels to wipe some of his sweat off with as he opens his phone. First he sees a voice message, and he holds it up to his ear as he leans against a sink, ready to listen to his sweet love’s voice.

The audio recording starts to play. He immediately freezes, his body tensing as he listens to you. He could hear a faint buzz in the background, accompanied by your soft noises, clearly enjoying yourself. He’s frozen in place, barely comprehending what he’s listening to. The short voice recording ends and he just pulls his phone down from his ear, dumbfounded as he can already feel an erection growing. You send another text, a picture of you with a towel, cleaning yourself up. ‘I hope you’re having a good day <3’ is all you send with it. Let’s just say, he went into one of the bathroom stalls and didn’t come out for a little while, making sure to send you back a similar message. ‘My day is so much better now, baby’ he texts back with his own recording

I hope you guys liked this!! Please give me feedback, it would mean the world. Let me know if you want me to make a continuation of these, or do a part 2 with more characters!! Happy holidays <3

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fictoculus · 9 months

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౨ৎ a peek into their camera roll...

send a request!┊masterlist┊taglist applications

FEAT... itto

A/N... i'm planning to do this with more characters in the future, so lmk who's camera roll you'd like to see next!

✧ first and foremost, it wouldn't be itto's camera roll if it didn't have beetles! (he loves you more than beetles though, not to worry) there are beetles fighting, beetles on rocks, beetles on trees, beetles sleeping, beetles eating, even a beetle on his head, oh and a beetle on ushi. speaking of ushi, there are quite a few photos of him too, most of which when he's asleep or cheering itto on in his... courageous beetle battles.

✧ now that's over and done with, it's time to get to the more interesting photos, don't let him hear you say that though, you'll never hear the end of it.

✧ he has countless photos of you, probably hundreds, maybe even thousands, it's impossible to tell. initially, he had a folder named "my numero two-no", which he soon gave up on after returning home from your second date with 87 photos of you (and some of him too, his is numeru uno after all). let me share with you some of his favourites...

✧ a photo of him giving you a piggy back ride; his most prized possession. he misses you? he'll look at that photo. you're sad? well you're smiling now, because he's just sent you that photo. it's his home screen, his lock screen, his profile picture on almost every social media account he owns - the list goes on and on. shinobu is genuinely sick to death of that photo, and (mentally) retches every time she sees it.

✧ a photo he asked some passers-by to take of the two of you infront of the naganohara fireworks show, his right arm wrapped around your waist and pulling you close, his left hand holding up the peace sign. his smile is almost as bright as the fireworks themselves, lighting up your heart every time you look back on it. you're to the left of itto, also holding up the peace sign, but reaching up your other hand to hold his chin, squeezing his cheeks ever so slightly. he always says he looks silly, but you think he looks absolutely adorable and (of course) very, very handsome.

✧ last but not least, a series of photos showcasing the pair of you chasing each other around in an empty field. said photos were taken by genta (one of the arataki gang members), and not a single one of them is clear. scroll fast enough and it becomes a very blurry stop motion video of a beautiful couple chasing eachother lovingly through a romantic field of greenery... or atleast that's how genta put it. it was undeniably a complete mess, but the pair of you loved them nonetheless, and have laughed at them a hundred times over, itto's face mere moments before he loses his footing never failing to amuse you.

✧ anyone could tell from this man's camera roll alone that he absolutely adores you; the way his eyes shine whenever he scrolls onto a picture of you giving it away, whether you're beaming at the camera or pouting at itto, who was smirking back at you with a smug expression.

✧ there's a video that you don't even know about, but the oni finds himself watching over and over. it was taken, unsurprisingly, by the gang members from the perspective of a bush... can you see where this is going? once the camera is finally wiped clean and starts to focus, you come into frame, seemingly returning from a visit to the bathroom. it's crystal clear when and where this was recorded: yours and itto's first date. only after the 6 minute mark do things start to get interesting, the harsh muttering and whispered bickering silencing as itto leans over the table, inches away from your face but hesitating to get any closer... until you pull him in by the chin, pouring your entire heart out into this singular kiss. every time he watches it back, his heart skips a beat, remembering how you had been so gentle with him, yet showed him just how much you wanted him. it truly was a magical night.

thanks for reading ♡ want to read more? my requests are OPEN, so please feel free to let me know what you'd like me to write next!

#genshin #genshin headcanons #genshin x reader #itto #itto genshin #itto x reader #itto headcanons #itto fluff #fluff #genshin fluff #nb!reader #gn!reader #camera roll #itto camera roll #.typingptera

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nonsenseships · 2 months

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(Reverse)Harem AU Life, Dynamics & Other Stuff! Pt.1

So, I mentioned that I like to reality-base my selfshipping, right? When I'm doing AUs though, I tend to step away from that and get as over the top as my brain takes me! Walk with me. Waaaalk with me, babe.

NSFW somewhere

✕ACCOMMODATIONS✕

If you took a look at my roster, you'd see why I call this 'the heftiest harem'. That's many a' man for certain. For that reason, I felt there was no other choice than for me to set them up in the most prodigious lodging imaginable.

A disgustingly opulent 15br villa out in the middle of nowhere, to be exact.

Mine. Someone died and left it to me in their will. I never met them but I'm using their villa for debauchery! I hope they're proud of me. Anyway, I invited them to move in one by one to join the arrangement after some time of dating them individually. They're allowed to decline but it's my imagination, so why would they?

I have my own bedroom, of course. There are some guys that room together, some that sleep alone. There are some that I couldn't convince to move in full-time but do visit when the mood strikes or they're just dying to see me. OH! There is one spare room that doesn't belong to anyone but does have its use-- but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Roommates: Satoru/Suguru Simeon/Lucifer Takayuki/Masaharu (currently MIA) Reiji/Tokiya Barbatos/Diavolo Beelzebub/Mammon/Satan

Solo Sleepers: Osamu Masato Akira Natsuki Zayne Choso

Visitation Only: Pickles Saitama Charles

Although the villa's overall design is as above, each bedroom was later redesigned to reflect the tastes of the housemates. I wanted them all to be comfortable. Shared rooms were a bit trickier but I got the roommates to work together to come to an agreement on what they'd like or what they wouldn't like in their rooms before settling on a final design. In cases like Barbatos and Diavolos' though, Barb didn't mind what the room looked like so long as Diavolo was satisfied with it.. which is just like him.

Who gets to sleep with me? Generally, I sleep with the person I've spent the day with but sometimes, when dates are shorter, I just call up whoever if I'm not wanting to sleep alone. I can sleep wherever but generally speaking, unless I'm looking at someone who isn't opposed to sharing (ex, Satoru & Suguru) where I can sleep in their shared room together and there be little jealousy issues, I tend to prefer my room or that of the solo sleepers. Rarely do I sleep in shared rooms.

There is also the live room as a sleeping option but it also has other uses. Let's get into it. Shall we?

The Room is a perfectly normal bedroom, just as beautiful as anywhere else in the house except just a couple years ago, it underwent a bit of a redesign to appeal to a few more naughty... shall we say, curiosities? Some of the guys wondered often what it was that the other men did that made me want them. Why was I not satisfied with just one? Hypersexuality or simply being insatiable were not acceptable answers, apparently. That was when our resident weasel Mr. Yagami came up with the idea of watching me with the other guys. Somehow, over time, that idea transformed into outfitting one of the spare bedrooms with cameras that provide an optional live feed that could be watched from anywhere.

Here are a few important instructions:

◈Feeling like an exhibitionist? Enter the room, switch the key near the bed and you're in control of the live feed. Anyone with a screen, the stream's current wifi connection and the feed code can access the stream at any time. You can even set the system to record your session and auto-send to your device for safe keeping!

◈Feeling like a voyeur? Make sure you're connected to the secure, stream-only wifi, enter the code emailed to you (random each time someone switches the key) and tune in. You can save other people's sessions if they've set their session setting allowing people to do so. Screen recording is NOT permitted.

◈If you're ESPECIALLY proud of a session, you can burn your session on a dvd and store it in the library for later retrieval. Movie night anyone? Be sure to date and name it properly so that you know what you're looking for.

It cannot be stressed enough how optional and consensual The Room is. The housemates CHOOSE to take me there, they CHOOSE to turn on the feed and others CHOOSE to view it. Still, this has given rise to plenty of jealousy.

There are some frequent users of The Room, which is not always the same as the frequent viewers of The Feed. Then, there are some housemates that wouldn't touch either with a ten-foot pole and obviously, I would never attempt to persuade them.

✕RULES, EXPECTATIONS, ETC.✕

There is a lot that goes into making this arrangement work. Most of the established rules are sort of understood but unspoken. There are rules set for the boys as housemates but then there are also rules for us pertaining to our arrangement.

◈No favoritism. I'm not to show one partner favoritism over any of the others in any capacity. That's what I promised them before they moved in. Well, the lie detector determined that THAT was a lie. It's not something I do intentionally. It just happens.

◈Wait your turn. Time is scant with a roster this big and everyone's itching for their turn. I wish I could clone myself so that I could be with everyone at all times but alas... They all agreed, originally, to never interrupt anyone's date/alone time with me. A common courtesy. But still, it does happen from time to time. They just get antsy seeing someone else parading me around, I guess? I don't suppose The Room helps that at all.

◈If you break it, fix it. If you can't fix it, arrange for repairs to get done. There are a few handymen in the house, talk to them. Outside handyman invoices are the breaker's responsibility. Naturally occuring household damages, ie. appliance problems, plumbing issues, etc. comes from the allocated household funds. Anything else from your own pockets.

◈If you dirty it, clean it. There are cleaners that stop by once a week to help keep a handle on the tidiness of the villa because, well, there are 23 people filtering in and out of there. However, everyone is still expected to do their part in the meantime.

◈If you don't get The Job done, someone else can and will. 'Nuff said.

◈Grocery runs are twice a week. Everyone has to add what they need to the online checklist by the deadline and if you miss it- better luck next time.

◈Unless you're Beel, don't eat anyone else's stuff. If you are Beel, at least leave a little bit for the rightful owner.

◈Everyone (except Natsuki) is scheduled with at least 3-4 other housemates to cook breakfast and dinner daily. Everyone must complete their scheduled shift or submit a reasonable explanation as to why they cannot to Lucifer at least two days in advance. Outside plans and dates will be taken into account when the schedule is made monthly.

◈No physical fighting. Physical fights will result in suspension from the house for a period of time specified by me based on severity and reasoning.

Part 2.

#ns-reverse harem au #nonsenseships info

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ladynightlark · 3 months

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Hello! Me again! I have a question writing wise.

I was wondering how you try to always keep your characters...well, in character lol. Or rather, how do you keep their personalities the same or nearly the same as in canon. For me, when writing For This is All for My Sunshine, I'm always going to the show or Manga to try and study their characters, but I can't help but feel they still come out as OOC.

So, I'm wondering how you combat this problem?

Hi! Glad to hear from you again!

So, this is an interesting question because I think it’s definitely (in my opinion) one of the biggest challenges that come from writing role-swaps. And it makes sense, as one of the major indicators I think most readers rely on when deciding whether to follow a story is how well certain characters (especially Nezuko) who may not get a lot of development/screen time in canon are portrayed.

After all, Nezuko is her own person, and writing her to be a carbon copy of canon Tanjiro wouldn’t do her character complete justice.

This is definitely something I still struggle with (to the point that sometimes, it’s part of the reason I get so behind on updates lol), but like you mentioned in your questions, one of the first things I do is go to the manga and anime and do some research there. Just read/watch the character I’m studying, see how they interact in certain situations, and just overall see what are the biggest take-aways from their characters altogether.

But something else I do during my “researching” period is read other role-swap and character-focused fics for the characters I want to write for. I like to see how they view the character, and then based on that, I like to add my own headcanons and see what fits best.

I also like to look into tumblrs and authors that like to do posts and fics going into the character. There’s a lot of great demon slayer writers out there, and sometimes they like to post about their thoughts and how they came to them. Or share their favorite headcanons.

Same with TikTok and YouTube, there are definitely some creators that have such an in-depth look into some characters and provide a lot of insight into who they are and what they’re meant to represent in the KNY universe.

Another good source of info on lesser known characters are the handbooks and light novels. They have lots of little details about certain characters that may not have made their way into the manga/anime, especially on stuff about their past and even behaviors growing up.

I highly recommend checking out the Wiki as well from time to time, as you’ll often find a lot of these details compiled there, along with some information on character personality and fighting styles.

Finally, I like to focus on one or two major themes/ideas that the character is supposed to have. I may go to the manga or anime and look for supposed important moments/lines they have in the story, and write those down. So it’s something I can reference.

If I find myself particularly stuck, I’ll open up a document and just spend maybe 30 minutes or so just doing research and recording notes about the character there. So when I’m back to writing, I can have that doc open on the side and consult what I have.

Ultimately, it’s up to you to do your take on the character. I don’t think there’s any wrong way to go about portraying Nezuko and other characters, as long as they have something about them that makes them distinctly them.

You’re doing a great job with your fic, so don’t overthink how you write them! And nothing says you can’t go back and revise your work later on if you decide to change something about the character you’re writing.

I hope this helps! Feel free to send in more asks and whatnot about writing help if you or anyone reading this found these types of posts helpful!

Good luck with your story, and have an awesome day!

#kimetsu no yaiba #demon slayer #demon slayer fanfic #ask #ask me questions #writer's stuff #writing advice

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echo-bleu · 2 years

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a flower by any other name

A little fic I wrote for @jaskierswolf as a live-write piece in the Passiflora Discord. Geraskier, about 1.1K, modern AU, fluff, nonbinary Jaskier using they/them (and accidentally, both Jaskier and Geralt ended up autistic). On AO3.

"Geralt Geralt Geralt!"

“Hm?" Geralt rolls around, blinking awake from his nap, only to be assaulted by flailing arms and nearly mauled by a flying laptop. He sets the laptop aside and gently catches his partner's wrists with his other hand, pressing them against his chest until they settle down. "What's going on?"

"I think I found my name!"

Geralt blinks. They've been on a name hunt for what feels like an eternity now. The last pick was Dandelion, which stuck for long enough that Geralt had started to think that it would be definitive, but his partner has been oddly resistant to sharing it with anyone but Geralt. "Hm?"

"Jaskier!"

"Like the flower?"

"Yes! I was looking in the wrong language, but I know it's right, now. It's perfect. Exactly the name that fits me, can you see it?"

Geralt grunts pensively. Jaskier beams at him and claps their hands, freeing them from Geralt's grasp. They grab the laptop again and turn the screen toward Geralt, showing an overblown photograph of a buttercup.

"I like it," Geralt decides, repeating the sounds in his head. "It does fit you."

"Thank you!" Jaskier squeals. They launch themself at Geralt and the laptop almost flies across the room again. "Jaskier," they murmur in Geralt's neck.

"Jaskier," Geralt repeats. "Jaskier. It's a beautiful name."

"Do you want to tell everyone?" Geralt asks later, when he's standing in front of the stove watching over their dinner.

"Hm."

It's such an uncharacteristic reaction for Jaskier that Geralt whirls around to face them. They're staring at their unlit phone, deep in thought, absently playing with a fidget cube.

"Hm?" Geralt tries. Grunts are his way of communicating, not Jaskier's.

“I don't know," Jaskier mutters.

Geralt thinks it over, flipping the omelette and catching a mushroom before it falls off the pan. "Do you want them to call you Jaskier?"

"Yes," Jaskier responds immediately. But they don't add anything more, and they still look disheartened for some reason.

"Are you scared of how they'll react?"

"No! Yes. No. I don't know. I know they're fine with... me," they make a vague gesture toward their body, "and they gender me right and everything but..."

"But what?" Geralt prompts when Jaskier trails off.

"What if they don't like it?"

Geralt stays stumped for a moment, realizing that Jaskier had no such fear with him. As far as he can tell, they told him straight away. His chest aches with love.

He pulls the pan off the fire, transferring the omelette onto a plate, and he moves over to wrap his arms around Jaskier from behind.

"Do you want me to tell them?" he asks.

Jaskier breathes out slowly, releasing their pent-up energy into the hug. They bring an arm up to squeeze Geralt's hand just the way he likes it. "Would you?"

"For you? I'd do anything."

It takes Geralt about an hour to figure out how he wants to do it, which is far too long when he knows that Jaskier is anxiously waiting and trying to keep it all in. Finally, with a muttered "fuck it", he does something that he would never normally do: he lifts his phone and takes a selfie of both of them, hugging in front of his sloppy omelette.

Bon appétit from Jaskier and me, he captions the photo, adding the only buttercup sticker he can find in the app, and he sends it to the group chat.

Jaskier is the one who normally sends everyone random pictures through the day -- in fact, they created the group chat. It's made up of mostly Geralt's family (Ciri, of course, Ciri's mother Yennefer, Geralt's brothers and Vesemir) plus Jaskier's best friend Essi, since they don't talk to their own family. It's full of banter and encouragements, bits of recorded songs from Jaskier and Essi's band, regular kitty photo battles between Ciri and Lambert, with the occasional baby goat interruption thanks to Eskel, Vesemir's homecooking and Yen's fancy restaurant dishes. Geralt rarely participates properly, uncomfortable with the group setting. He knows Jaskier mainly created it for him, during the worst of his struggles with depression and PTSD, but he's content with opening the app a few times a day and reading through the messages, feeling the love.

OMFG IT'S SUCH A PRETTY NAME 🥺 is Ciri's immediate response. Then, I'm jealous now. Of course she'd be the one to get it first.

Congratulations Jaskier!! comes Yennefer's reaction. Jaskier and her have had a tumultous relationship, mostly owing to Geralt's own issues with her between their divorce and the moment he started dating Jaskier, but the hardships of the last couple years have brought them together in ways Geralt couldn't have imagined.

JASKIER!! so lovely 😭 comes from Essi. Geralt hears Jaskier's phone buzz one more time, and he knows she wrote them privately as well.

"She's asking if I'm only trying it out or if it's time to throw me a name reveal party," Jaskier laughs tearily.

"What do you think?" Geralt asks, finally digging into the omelette, one arm still around Jaskier's shoulders. It's almost cold, but he doesn't mind.

"I know it's the right one. I'm not sure about a party."

"You love parties."

More congratulations are coming from Eskel and Lambert, both enthusiastic and friendly but devoid of the usual level of banter -- they're both unsure how much joking is okay on the subject of Jaskier's gender, Geralt knows. Lambert has put his foot in his mouth more than once before he learned to navigate some of the finer points.

Jaskier stays silent for a beat more. "I don't know," they murmur.

Geralt's phone beeps again. Vesemir. Jakie piękne imię. Geralt squints at it, needing a second to understand, and he feels Jaskier melt against him. They let out a small sob and turn to bury their face in Geralt's neck.

Of course. Of course Jaskier was waiting for Vesemir's approval. Vesemir has been nothing but welcoming to them, if a little awkward and confused with pronouns on occasions, but Jaskier's overall experience with parental figure is less than stellar. Choosing a name in Vesemir's own mother tongue, announcing it, must have been nerve-wracking for them.

Geralt hugs them tightly, giving up on his omelette, and lets them sob into his shoulder. It's good crying. “I'll take the party," they laugh through their tears, sending dziękuję bardzo 💙 in response to Vesemir's message and an assortment of emojis to the others -- which goes to show how emotional they are, as they normally never shut up even in texts.

"I love you," Geralt whispers, already wondering where he can find bouquets of buttercup in the middle of the winter.

The Polish phrases translate to "what a beautiful name" and "thank you so much", huge thanks to Niko for helping me with that.

#the witcher #jaskier #geralt of rivia #geraskier #geraskier fanfic #nonbinary jaskier #echo's fanfiction

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theitalianscribe · 8 months

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Welcome To Dreamworld Idea Dump

So, like I said earlier, my thoughts have slowly become consumed by the web series, Welcome to Dreamworld by Rainbott.

For those of you who didn't find this post through the dreamworld tag and who follow me, the series is a hand-drawn, voice-acted series presented as a found footage expose on a company called Dreamworld Entertainment. The new mechanic of the place is recording his experience working at this indoor neon pop amusement park, and sending these recordings and other related media to the owner of the YouTube channel, Rainbott. The animatronics inside the building are haunted and we are along for the ride as our POV character, Wiatt Nicholson, explores the facility and figures out how to free all the souls trapped inside. If that sounds interesting, click or tap here to watch the series and join me in this fun madness, and when you are caught up, read more for a collection of my headcannons, favorite moments, and fanfiction ideas.

First, this is a clip of my favorite scene:

And speaking of that moment, these two clips have similar energy:

From The Most Underrated Game Ever by Jaiden Animations

And a longer version of my favorite exchange between Litho and Wiatt: https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxqxz2E0JfxWhZJN-xJwmtMNSARppOkmPk?si=IDNuPlkQVGmsau5K

I had this handful of ideas that culminate in a scene:

During midterm week in high school, Eric has a TV with Mario Kart set up for students to destress during lunch.

A sleep deprived Wiatt says something about electromagnetic screens being what makes it possible for the karts to drive on the ceiling.

This idea ends up being used so the animatronics can speed on the walls in some parts of the facility.

It is possible to buy shoes with detachable rollerblades from the skate park.

The movie Bolt exists in the Welcome to Dreamworld universe.

This all comes together to justify a scene I had in my head where Wiatt has to get somewhere really fast and Cheer pushes a pair of roller shoes into Wiatt's arms and then Ribbon Dancer gives Cheer and Wiatt a (jump) rope.

Wiatt hates every second of it, but he basically is dragged along the walls of the facility as high speeds while "I Need a Hero" from Shrek plays.

Wiatt's dad accepts his son when he comes out and when Wiatt tells him his name/gets it changed, he makes Wiatt a hat that says " I put the "I" in Watt"

(I have been holding in this pun for 3 days. Seriously. Wiatt spells his name like Watt for electricity and I is the second letter.

He is the second person perspective character, and thus the "eyes" of the viewer.

He also treats the animatronics like actual people and is fighting to give them back their old lives and later a sense of who they truly are.)

I have wondered if anyone is the type to play memes over the speakers and after a 3rd rewatch the answer is probably Oliver.

I want a happy ending/humane version of the animatronics where they are piloted remotely with a VR headset, microphone, and motion capture suit.

I want Oliver and Wiatt to be the tech support and for them to take turns so they can force each other and their loved ones to take a break if anyone gets in a state of hyper focus or needs to take regular breaks to prevent eye strain.

I want the system that shows Star is taking a break/having technical difficulties to be Ursa Major/Minor themed so there can be an, "exit pursued by bear" joke.

I want Wiatt and Oliver to have little robots either like the triplets or like Star Wars droids that they can pilot remotely to test out features or to be in multiple places at once. Definitely not there as excuses to be in the VR piloting areas with their loved ones. Totally…

I want there to be quiet rooms and therapy cuddles rooms with Twimblos for people who get sensory overload, or anxiety, or who need a quiet place to decompress.

I want them to have a YouTube channel where they mess around or make things. I want them to have little engineering/computer science projects that they do for fun in their free time. I want them to make a scale model of Glados from Portal and for someone (Oliver) to connect it to the support rails where the Star animatronic was last placed. Lewis is very unamused, but also wants to do some of Glados's monologues. (if Sara is redeemed and still works there, he could quote Portal 2 with the "You murdered me, fair is fair" type lines, assuming they ever get to a place where they can joke about it.)

I think Sara might be good with Physics and also can build Rube Goldberg machines. This girl has won domino sculpture/stacking contests. This headcannon is only a few seconds old, but you can pry it from my cold, dead hands and then try and try to erase it from my memory.

I also think Sara would have/make a long furby given the opportunity if every second of her life weren't consumed by the whole saving humanity by figuring out immortality.

If I had a nickel(son) for every time there was a forest fire in this series used as a coverup for a death, I would have two nickels. That isn’t a lot, but it is weird that it happened twice.

Someone in the YouTube comments said that Wiatt and Alison come from the same family tree. I don't know what video revealed this information or if it is even the case, but I hope it is because I have Ideas.

What if Litho had some claim to/strong influence over the bloodline Alison, Carlos, Owen, and Wiatt? There could be a dramatic moment where Litho realizes that Wiatt is related to Carlos/Winnie and thus that he can possess Wiatt or do whatever with his soul without killing him.

I forgot what the other ideas were. I need a nap. I think I had an idea for a fic where Wiatt gets possessed by Litho, ends up in the same place as Sara’s soul and the souls of other victims and is able to pull them out of oblivion. Maybe Nicholsons tend to have a more latent ability to collect/touch/manipulate souls and when Wiatt gets his body back he finds out that this ability has been heightened.

I also want to write an AU where Wiatt has similar abilities to Damien and he can see ghosts and people’s auras, but it is much fainter and not consistent so he just assumes he is having trouble with his eyes. Then when he finds out about it he needs to know EVERYTHING about this ability like why he has it, if his family knew, why no one said anything.

Here is a paste from discord of an idea I foisted upon my friend. If I am not lazy, I will edit it to be more concise and to not have Sara’s last name spelled wrong.

I had a vague idea for a nothing goes wrong au

Rather than get the money to start Dreamworld in a contest, the contest gives Oliver, Sara, and Lewis a full ride scholarship to some college

And the college has a good film program/whatever field Wiatt is interested in, so they all end up going

Or Wiatt doesn't meet them until they share a class in college

The trio get an apartment/house maybe

And they are saving up to make Dreamworld a reality

Also the area they are looking to buy is the same plot of land where the arcade was. It is the cheapest since there are rumors that the place is haunted and things keep going wrong for whoever buys the land

But this is all just setting the stage for silly au shinanigans

Wiatt has the slight ability to sense ghosts/vibe check. He has a kind of Spidey sense

But instead of avoid the thing, he wants to know why this sense was triggered.

He feels comfort in knowing about things, it gives him a sense of control in a situation where he has little control over what will go wrong.

As a result, he is constantly suspicious of Sara and it has evolved into a weird rivalry between the two.

One possible scene (note in this version Wiatt is roommates with Oliver and Lewis instead of Sara)

Wiatt: Kicks door down, "Covetman, you dusty bitch!"

Lewis, "Wiatt, Darling, she just got here. What could she possibly have done to earn your ire?"

Wiatt: "She used my parking spot!"

Oliver: ....

Sara: >:3

Lewis: "Wiatt... Darling... You don't drive."

Wiatt: "Well, she still should have asked!"

Also my friend and I had this conversation:

Friend — Yesterday at 8:31 PM

Hejdjfushshd I like the goofy setting

Also him being suspicious of Sara and finding comfort in his ability is A tier

Me— Yesterday at 8:35 PM

In the choose your own adventure video (the latest video on Rainbott's channel,) Wiatt has a Moment and I think I get him better

Like I think he is similar to Dipper in his thirst for knowledge

Friend— Yesterday at 8:56 PM

Oooo

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I have one other story idea in the college roommates au, but I think I will save it for a separate post.

#Welcome to Dreamworld #Icy scribes #Icy babbles #I was up until like six thinking about this series #now that my thoughts are mostly out there i am going to sleep

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khaotunq · 2 months

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some incredibly alluring people have tagged me in things. ro and pip @sollucets @boozles are way too hot for me to cope with, quite frankly.

people i’d like to get to know better

last song: i've been back on a The Vaccines kick, so I Can't Quit just finished and now it's If You Wanna

favorite color: green. everything that can vaguely be construed as green or vaguely green-ish is fair game. my entire flat is teal, duck egg, forest green, palm green, tropical plant prints, and also overloaded with actual plants. g r e e n.

currently watching: basically nothing, lmao. Cherry Magic TH, and I've given up on everything else. I did watch Love for Love's Sake the other day and I also watched Destiny Seeker and yelled at Chiara for half of it. She got a lot of voice notes/me recording my screen and rambling incoherently about it. She's a very patient woman and I think that's very sexy of her.

last movie: I don't really watch movies? I genuinely can't think of the last one I watched through.

sweet, spicy or savoury: Sweet if I had to pick one, I have such a sweet tooth, but I like all three a lot.

last thing you googled: dragon tea pearls, to check i hadn't invented them, for a fic i literally passingly mention them in.

relationship status: single and genuinely at peace with it.

current obsession: shokupan. i made a loaf the other day when i was sick and it's all i've been able to think about ever since. i'm considering trying to make shio pan. we'll see.

selfie/another picture you took: i posted a selfie last time i did this one and the last dozen photos in my phone are photos of my screen that i've been sending to chiara with commentary. instead, have a gif that'll appear as a bonus in an upcoming set:

idk anyone who hasn't done this but if you haven't and want to, say i tagged you and i'll not only not deny it, but i'll edit to put you here

#about jay #got tagged!

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threadsun · 1 year

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Content: reference to cheating, crying, non-sexual sex work (sad gfe video), idk if it counts as stalking but Ian is an anonymous client of his ex, sad voicemail, Ian x nb!OC, implication of polyamoury

I have a shit memory so if I got the year of the dance wrong, no I didn't

“Hey…” Zander stands in the doorway, hands pulled into the sleeves of his sweater. “Long time no see, huh?”

He waits, as if for an answer. But none comes. He smiles shakily, gnawing at his lower lip as his fingers tease over the cable knit wrist.

“I uh… I’ve missed you. A lot.” He finally manages to rasp out, voice hoarse and throat aching with tears longing to be shed. “More than I can say, really. More than… more than you can imagine. I know it’s been a while. I know I haven’t… I haven’t been here, really. For you. I should’ve picked up the phone. I should’ve– should’ve called. Texted. Left a message. Something.”

His eyes prickle with tears, throat tightening with every word. It's true. He should have called. Answered. Listened. Done more somehow. He blinks back tears, eyes refocusing. Right, he’d been speaking. He's meant to be saying more.

“I guess I just didn’t know what to say. I didn’t know how to tell you I still love you. I–I do. Still love you. I love us. I love what we were. What we could be. I love who I am when I’m with you. I love who–” his words catch in his throat, tears tracking eyeliner down his cheeks. “I love who you see when you look at me. I want to be them. I want to be that person who was so happy. Who was so in love. With you! Not just with anyone… With you.”

He swipes at the tears with his sleeve, sniffling softly. “Even after all this. After everything. It’s you that I want. It’s only ever been you.” And Nik, but he can't say that. Not right now. “I wanted that future we always talked about. The white wedding, the family, the love… I still want that.”

His gaze is earnest, loving, raw. “I love you. Ian…” It's more a breath than a name, barely audible. Zander doesn't even notice it slip out. “I love you.”

Zander holds the gaze for a moment longer before reaching out to stop the recording. She brushes away the remaining tears, trying to tell herself that she's just a very good actor.

Her nail tap at his screen as he considers watching the video back. Quality control, and all that. But she can't bring herself to. Her chest feels like there's a hole in it, leaking the air from her lungs in a cold vapour. She closes the video and sends it off to his client, along with a cheery little message thanking him for the request.

VDay98, a frequent client with some… interesting tastes. He's sweet enough, and generous as well. And a constant viewer of Z’s streams. The name always makes their heart flip a bit. Valentines Day of ‘98. When they and Nik had asked Ian out for the first time… That silly school dance.

She sees reminders of Ian everywhere, hard as she tries not to. Day is probably just the guy’s last name. And 98 is much more likely to be the year he was born than anything. Some rich younger guy who's lonely and likes the Authentic Girlfriend Experience™ that Kitty provides for the right price.

But it doesn't stop the image of Ian’s smile that day, in his ill-fitting suit as he fumbled with a corsage for each of them, from entering his mind every time.

They begin to pack away their equipment. That had been their last custom of the day. He can hear Jack and Nik chatting happily in the kitchen, the smell of dinner cooking bringing a slightly subdued smile to Z’s lips.

He is happy like this. Without Ian. With Nik and Jack and Bast and Pop, their own little family. He can't let the nostalgia wear him down. He can't let Nik make the same mistake twice.

It feels almost trance-like as it folds away its outfits, tossing some in the laundry basket and putting others back in their drawers. It cleans each toy it used methodically, then arranges them back on their shelves.

He's procrastinating. Wanting to sit with this sadness for a bit before he has to go back to pretending he hates Ian. Before he has to interact with the interminably cheerful Jack. Before he has to gather the social energy to be around anyone.

They set their LED lights back to green, turning off the main lights for a moment to check that the glow was the right intensity and shade for their next stream. It was going to be a night stream, all darkness and neon colours to give an air of mystery.

The room lights up with a blue glow, his phone buzzing from the bed. His heart drops, blood chilling in his veins. He knows who it is before he even sees the name.

He grabs his phone and slumps down in front of the bed, staring at Ian’s smiling picture as the phone continues to buzz. It rings off after a few more buzzes, and there's silence for a bit as the phone screen goes dark again.

The minutes tick by painfully slowly before there's a single little buzz. A voicemail. Zander stares at the notification silently, trying to will itself to have the strength not to listen. But… it isn't strong. Not right now.

There's a beep before that familiar soft, shaky voice begins to speak. “H-hey… I know it’s late. And… and you’re probably busy working… o-or something! Something… else. I don’t kn-know what you’re doing nowadays. Because we… we haven’t talked in so long. I mean, I’ve talked plenty but you… I get it, you don’t want to talk. And you don’t have to. I don’t… I don’t deserve your words. Or… or your kindness. Or anything from you, really. I know that.”

Zander swallows thickly, pressing its forehead to the edge of its phone and closing its eyes as it listens to Ian’s agitated ramblings. “You don’t… owe me anything. Your… your time, or your energy, or your words. But… I miss the sound of your voice. I miss…” His voice cracks.

“I miss the way you say my name. I keep… I keep thinking I hear it everywhere. That you’re there, saying my name. That you want to talk to me. I-I think I’m going crazy without you. Without both of you. And I know it’s my fault. I know I'm the one who fucked everything up. And I'm… I'm sorry. I'm sorry every single day."

"I just… I just want to talk. To you. Please, p-please. I need to talk to you. I need to explain. N-no, not… not explain. That's-that's not what I meant. There's… I know there's nothing to explain. N-nothing I can say to make this right. Nothing I can do to… to change what I did. But…but I p-promise. I promise, I regretted it the moment I–"

There's a pause. A choked breath. He can't force the words out. Zander listens to the uneven breathing coming through the phone as the voicemail continues to play. Finally, Ian's voice comes through once more. Pained, broken, desperate. "E-Even after all this. After everything. It’s you that I want. It’s only ever been you."

The voicemail beeps once more as the message ends, and Zander finds itself surrounded by silence once more. It hadn't noticed the tears, the held breath, the shaking hands. Not until it had nothing left to focus on. To ground itself.

It isn't sure how long it was adrift for. Floating aimlessly in its own head. But when it manages to return to earth, it pushes all thoughts aside and focuses on getting itself ready to face Nik and Jack.

He tucks his phone away and creeps to the bathroom, washing his face with warm water to soothe his swollen eyes. He takes a moment to freshen up before putting on a smile. Nik will see through it. They always do. And Jack's learning too. But this is one secret Zander has to keep. For Nik's sake. They can never know just how much he still loves Ian. How much he always will.

#swwsdj #something's wrong with sunny day jack #sdj x lads #sdj ian #zander #18+ only #sunshine

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wtheckzukasubs · 1 year

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“The Great Gatsby” (shinko) subs

Download the subs here: wtheckzukasubs.tumblr.com/shows

For now, they will only sync to the livestream version*, but I will reedit them to fit the one they show on Skystage. I just couldn’t wait and had lots of free time at work to kill my wrist these last two weeks.

(* Sorry for this slip up guys, I meant the version from the camera from when I was in the Tokyo Grand Theater for this shinko, which is on the exact day that they showed the livestream, and recorded this show, so if anyone else was also in there with a camera recording the show, they will sync to your fancam, okay? So, will this clarification calm down that who thinks they’re dumb enough not to know cellphones can record a screen??? Because only this underestimation of the company or a need some in the fandom have to bully, which only results in depriving others who don’t know Japanese of having some accessibility, under the pretense of being the protectors of the fandom, would explain the message I just got. Maybe I’ll make subs to all the fancams of shows I buy from now on and see what happens. Because my first thought when someone who never spoke to me sends me a message like they’re my friend was to just disappear with everything, but that would just leave people without a way to understand the plays. Even if my subs are the worst around, they are of the few one can still find in the web and download to use on their dvds/blurays/whatever-who-cares without having to socialize. You may be social butterflies, but some people just have nightmares having to talk to any strangers. I’ve gone hungry, lost, I’ve even gone sick when I could avoid it by talking to someone and I didn’t. It’s not because I understand them, it’s because I am them. There’s probably one or two persons with those fancams for this show, maybe none at all that care for watching it with subs, so I’m buying headache for no one but my own conscience. But be it. We’re way way way past that generation in the fandom, wanting to be the good guys who behaved, so we’d look good to the japanese fandom, that was the 2000′s, so update yourself or be more sincere in what you’re saying.)

(And now all my love for Ami has been trashed and I’m crying but maybe this person caught me at a bad time when I was actually all happy and wanting to be part of the fandom. And SLAP! I’m reminded of why I don’t. You may think it was a nice advice, but it wasn’t. It hurt. Who are you even??)

I’ve been following Ami since I thought she was young Masao in her hatsubutai photo and she keeps making me proud!

(It’s also hella funny when she’s between the tallest seito in current zuka in the first scene).

If you don’t know her but was a Daimon fan, please, discover this precious little thing!

Trigger warnings, same from the honkouen, and not limited to gun, war, death, white men being white men, racism, and so on. Those get very little screen time, except for the white men (though the actresses are neither, of course). Sorry, I should be bothered by a lot of things, but I laughed every time we got to the shirts scene, like... ugh. Considering all that, it’s amazing, but I still like and recommend this musical.

#takarazuka #tsukigumi #ayami sera #kiyora haryuu #Nanashiro Miyabi #ruou ria #Show Release

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tellthemeerkatsitsfine · 2 years

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Hey! Why (Defenestratte) here. Remembered you're keen on the John Oliver bits of the Horne Section TV Show, so wanted to send you this: https://www.chortle.co.uk/interviews/2022/10/24/51964/i%E2%80%99m_definitely_a_lot_odder_in_the_show_than_i_am_in_real_life

It's an interview with Alex Horne and does have a sneak peek on Mr Oliver's involvement in the show. Hope this is useful/fun for your interests!

Well shit. I am very interested in the mystery of why John Oliver is doing this show, and I have to love any mystery where every bit of information that shines light on the situation brings up more questions than answers. For example:

How did that work with John Oliver on the laptop calling in?

We had to be really clever with that, I had a day with him over Zoom and we had to record everything. We had to go through every script and lots of costume changes, we had to improvise quite a bit and then we had to fit round his bits in the room.

So, we had to pretend he was there, someone had to press play, that was really odd, but it worked. Hopefully I think when you’re watching it you presume that he’s actually there but he’s a man that doesn’t have much free time. He also nailed everything first time. We’re all so used to people being on Zoom now and you don’t really bat an eyelid, I think.

The main question this brings up is what is he going to be on the show? Before seeing this article, I assumed they'd come up with some reason for a fictionalized John Oliver to talk to the characters in the show over video chat, and that would be his role. Which I still think must be the case, because I'm not sure the alternative is technologically possible. This paragraph seems to suggest that the actor John Oliver filmed his parts over video call, but the character John Oliver will be physically in the room with them, like CGI. Which, as I said, I don't think can actually be done. But then why would the other actors have to pretend he's there? I guess what this means is just that it's hard to talk a screen that'll be playing pre-recorded footage, and pretend you're having a live conversation with the person on it. But it's worded in a way that implies they're all in front of green screens, pretending a tennis ball on a stick is John Oliver.

So that's an entirely new question for me, though it's one that will be answered as soon as the show starts on November 3rd. For the mystery I was wondering about before, of why he's there, this article offers: "It was quite a long process and I think now we’ve done it hopefully it’ll be easier in future, but we’ve got Big Zuu, Dr Ranj Singh, John Oliver who is in every episode and he’s enormous in America, he’s won a million Emmys! So that’s odd, he said yes straight away."

Thank you, Alex, that tells me nothing and leaves me more baffled than before. I am beginning to suspect that John Oliver agreed to do this just because he found my Tumblr blog, learned that someone has decided to become an historian on everything about his career that ties him to Britain, saw this person trying to put all the pieces together and find connections that make sense in an overall picture, and decided to fuck with me by doing the most inexplicable thing possible, that clashes with everything about his previous relationship with British media of any kind. That's my current working theory.

Anyway, thank you for the link, @defenestratte! I'd not seen this before, and I appreciate the baffling information. Really looking forward to November 3rd now, to see what this is about. Oh, and for anyone who wants to read the article without copy-pasting the URL, here's a link. It does contain a bunch of non-John-Oliver-related information about what the show is like, and to be honest some of it makes it sound less like the sort of thing I'll enjoy than the Guardian article from last week did. This article has a bit more focus on how it'll be a live music/variety show, which doesn't hugely appeal to me. I'm hoping the show will be more 30 Rock than TGS, you know? More Flight of the Conchords sitcom than just a filmed Flight of the Conchords gig. I mean I'd love to see a Flight of the Conchords concert, but I don't think that alone would make a good TV show.

Either way, I'm sure I'll enjoy the sitcom elements, and I do find Horne Section songs funny, and to be honest even if every other moment of it were shit I would still watch all six episodes just for the John Oliver mystery. Which I guess is the exact intention behind the move of attaching really famous guests to projects like this, and in this case it will 100% worked on me.

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comfortable-hobbit-hole · 2 years

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I bought a streaming pass to watch a Queen concert this week. It’s was a recording of their performance in London last month, the rescheduling from 2020 that I was meant to be at (fuck COVID).

In a very exciting turn of events the link came with ‘4 bonus videos’, including TWO OTHER COMPLETE CONCERTS!!!

I have now watched three Queen concerts in under 24 hours and am enjoying myself thoroughly.

Brace yourselves for another stream of consciousness Hobbit Watches episode!

I am developing an unhealthy appreciation for black and shiny outfits. Standouts so far include dragon scale gloves, long trench coats with pearlescent diamonds, sequinned waistcoats, glittery platforms. Uuuggghhh.

I would like to steal most of Adam Lambert’s jackets.

And somehow he’s wearing glittery (faux?) leather trousers. I don’t know how those fabrics are sticking together but some seamstress somewhere has made real life anime costume magic fabric and I WANT a pair.

I’m such a wallflower of a humanoid that I’d probably never wear any of these pretty things but even just to keep them in my wardrobe and sigh lovingly at they’d be so worth it.

Also I want Brian May’s shiny white shirt. I could look plain and corporate until the light hits me then GLINT! (I wonder if wearing silver sequins in a car could affect oncoming traffic in bright light? Anyone know?)

Clearly the overriding messages from this experience is that I REALLY need to find a way to glam up my wardrobe. If anyone has tips on how a short, curvy, not-Caucasian person can manage this please send them my way!

Other notes:

1) I still have an inbuilt and overpowering weakness for a man with sharp eyeliner and smirk.

2) Either Adam Lambert should never be allowed to use a fan unsupervised, or he should always be left unsupervised and viewers should be strongly advised not to watch while in public. I am undecided.

3) It’s been 49 years since Queen’s first album and this music is still SO GOOD.

4) It’s also all still deeply relatable. Sadly that also includes the protest songs and I’m deeply unimpressed that the world has barely changed in half a century. Youthful people - the right score for your frustration may have already been written. I would love to hear a March belting out Under Pressure at some point. And yes, The Show Must Go On does hit differently in the third year of a global pandemic. There may have been tears present.

4) There’s some incredible staging here but it’s just a band, lights, smoke, and occasional animations on a screen. No dance crew, acrobats, set changes etc. It’s really nice to see how engaging a group can be just on their own. FWIW I say this as someone who adores watching P!nk’s tours. The full production can be brilliant. And apparently so can doing it with just flashy flashies.

#Queen #adam lambert #queen + adam lambert #rhapsody tour #brian may #roger taylor #glam rock #guyliner #concert #beautiful recordings #seeking advice #seeking fashion advice #the hobbit watches tv #this hobbit has dreams #of owning and wearing other peoples stage outfits #the killer Queen routine made me blush #fun fact - I have a 100% strike rate for guys that register immediately for me as being attractive being queer #going right back to the kid in my class I had a love/hate academic competition crush on in year 1 #Joseph wherever you are these days I hope you’re doing well

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An encrypted message appears to have been sent in for the likes of Surge and Kit - how it managed to get through to Avalice is a bit of a mystery but it seemed that it was from a...somewhat familiar face.

"Greetings, Surge, Kit, and anyone else who may have encountered this message. This is General Shadow of the Guardian Unit of Nations. I trust that you are well, I have been taking some time to... reassess the situations that have been presented and I have caught wind of what has been happening in this new zone, Avalice." His words seemed to be genuine, not even a lick of malice or hatred behind him, even after the encounter he had with Surge.

"I have taken the time to completely wipe G.U.N's database of anything mentioning you two, any information that I have been able to send forward toward the imperial palace has been forwarded. With the abundance of Mobians having been shown in this zone I imagine that it must be a long process to become a member of such a thriving society."

"Consider yourselves officially off the record. I may come and visit this kingdom that you've found yourselves in but...consider it less business and more getting used to having a new world suddenly open up to you." He seemed to have more to say and a lot more on his mind but as the message started to come to a close he simply glanced to whomever might be watching.

"You are stronger than you think. I still keep that sentiment. So perhaps when the time is right, I would like to see if you can come to me and tell me all the adventures you have had - not as who you thought you were, but as Surge, or Kit, or whatever new names or identities you might go by. Needless to say, enjoy yourselves...It's what you've wanted for so long, do not miss that chance."

Unknown Caller? and why was her phone picking up from some unknown source? Fuck if this was another telemarketer she was gonna hunt them down and shove her boot up there ass! She sighed though she had no idea if the citizenship folks were gonna call her so she figured she had to pick it up. She flicked her thumbs across the screen and placed the Ohone to her ear.

" Hello? "

She cringed hearing his voice, how in the blue hell did he get her number anyway? Her immediate thought was to hang up and tell him to go fuck himself. But she bit her tongue best to hear him out and respond in a calm reasonable manner right? But the more he spoke the more she wanted to break her phone by jamming into his fucking eye socket! He was gonna ruin everything she'd been working toward!?! did this ass hole have any idea how hard she'd worked for this! the amount of bullshit she was gonna put up for it!

" YOU LISTEN TO ME YOU INSUFFERABLE ASSHOLE!?!? "

She yelled into her phone with the rage tinged in her voice it was clear she was pissed. No way beyond pissed she was furious at him!

" I just spent the last 3 days! workin' over this Reagent bitch! to get a chance at a normal fuckin' life! and how do you think she's gonna react if she gets all this shit from you and learns i LIED TO HER?!?! "

She barked into the phone!

" For once in my stupid short life i got a chance to move to some place new, where nobody knows my name... nobody gives a shit who surge is... my brother has a chance to be a normal fuckin' kid! and your response is to fuck me over by sending them a bunch of shit they don't need to know!? i swear to Gaia! you an sonic don't get it do you! "

She took a deep breath and was so close to putting her fist through a wall!

" What part of leave me alone don't you and sonic get--- i get it, you wanna help me. I understand that but if you really wanna help me Shadow... then just stop tryin' ta help so damn much! I got this sorted... i got a chance to start over... you get that right? No criminal record, no fucking starline, no eggman... if you really wanna help then take those files and BURN THEM! "

" I just wanna be left alone... i wanna forget... I wanna chance to rebuild what i lost... with what ever time i got left. Yer fuckin' that up ... I've already filed my papers... i just gotta wait ths shit out... you wanna help just don't send anything to the palace... you wanna check on me in a month make sure i'm being a good girl? be my guest just........ Please.... don't send those papers... the less they know about what i am the better... "

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As you're a lesbian and a Buffy fan I'm curious to hear your take on Willow's sexuality. I was a baby bi back in the 90s and I def related to her and I still see her as a bi character.

Thank you for sending this, I’ve been meaning to talk about it!! I have a lot of thoughts about it.

In short, I think she’s bi. I can tell that the writers sort of split her sexuality in two, and in the first half of the show wrote her as strictly straight, then in the second strictly gay. Putting them together, you get bisexual (I know bisexuality isn’t “half gay half straight”, what I mean is that she’s experienced attraction to both sexes).

I know she says that she’s gay, and makes jokes about not being into men (people argue this a lot and say “listen to what Willow says!”) but she clearly isn’t gay and is into men. She crushed on both Xander and Giles, was in love with Oz and very clearly enjoyed sex with him. I simply can’t relate to any of that as a lesbian. Even if you want to argue that these crushes were her feeling like she needed to force herself to like men… her reaction to these men either not being interested in her or breaking up with her would not be utter despair like she showed. It probably would’ve been a confusing sense of relief.

I understand and appreciate why the writers didn’t make her canonically bi… first of all, they didn’t want to make it seem like her same sex attraction was “just a college thing” and have her go back to dating men afterwards. Because at the time of recording Buffy, same sex relationships on screen were still taboo—if they let her be bisexual, it would be very easy for them to be told to put her back in a relationship with a man after Tara.

I guess this could’ve been avoided by not killing Tara off, though… but I did enjoy the dark Willow arc and on another note personally don’t agree with the claims that Tara’s death was an example of burying your gays. I think it was clearly done to be tragic and allow the writers to explore Willow’s dark side, not a way to just brush off that Willow was with a woman. Because her whole dark arc had to do with her love for Tara. Anyways…

Ideally, they would’ve just portrayed both homosexuality and bisexuality by giving Willow’s “I’m gay” lines to Tara and Kennedy, and letting Willow explicitly state that she’s into both men and women. But I can see how if they did this, it would open doors for higher ups to say “okay, now you have to give her a boyfriend” which wasn’t what they wanted for her. And then Kennedy wouldn’t have been in the picture. So I think that not making her bisexual was less of “we don’t understand bisexuals”, and more of “we want to ensure that this character only dates her own sex, and don’t want to give anyone a way out of this decision”.

So tbh if that was the case, I think they should’ve introduced a new character without a history of being attracted to the opposite sex to be their gay character. Because Willow clearly was not written in earlier seasons to be gay, which makes it really jarring to suddenly have her being all “uh, gay now!” (For those who haven’t watched the show, she literally says that. This isn’t me being vaguely homophobic, it’s her lol). I think both gay and bi viewers deserved better than to have had The Gay Character seem like she was only made gay because her name was pulled from a hat at the “who’s gonna be gay” board meeting.

We should’ve gotten to see her dealing with her sexuality from the start. We could’ve had Willow silently crushing on a girl—maybe Buffy, maybe Cordelia, maybe Faith— but doing what most young SSA girls do and hiding it. Or she could’ve been all “I’m not interested in dating, I’m focused on school” (which fits both her character, and the teen lesbian who’s “too mature” to be boy crazy but really she’s just gay), until Tara comes along.

What I’m trying to say is that I really wish they’d gone into the show knowing they wanted Willow to be gay. From what I’ve seen floating around, they originally thought Xander would be the gay one, and eventually changed their minds? (Which explains the storyline with Larry thinking he was gay after Xander helped him come out) Either way it sounds like they had it in their minds that they’d have a Gay One but just didn’t know who. They should’ve understood that they can’t just decide to make a character gay halfway through a show after making them appear straight. There’s little hints that should be thrown in that gay and bi audiences will pick up on.

The writer’s intentions were good… but they clearly didn’t understand how complex homosexuality is as an experience, and didn’t care to think a little harder about what it looks like to have a woman enjoy sex with a man then later call herself gay. I think it’s been said that if the show was written now, Willow would’ve been canonically bi. And I think she would’ve been then, too, if the writers hadn’t been worried about being bullied into giving her another male partner.

#asks #anon

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mochi-machi1 · 1 year

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Chapter 6

• Octavia pov

I sit down in my classroom now having a record of breaking the rules, Seeing the principal, and being proved innocent I sighed mentally exhausted from Going back and forth with the principal then I felt a hand on my head "Octavia...Are you...well?" Honestly no but I didn't wanna worry Ms. Minamasa "Yeah, I'm alright" she could tell I was lying or something "I think...you should....visit The nurse" of course I met the nurse and she seemed off and creepy to me but I decided to get up and go to the nurses to not Worry Ms. Minamasa any longer I reach the door and knock the door opens and I step in "oh my~ it's little miss Octavia" she smiled creepily "what brings you here?" I forgot to make an excuse "Ms.Minamasa Sent me here because I looked unwell" Ms.Hina looked at me "your presence does seem to be a little off of when we first met let me see if I can find anything to help" I nod and watch her walk into a different room while I just look around the room the room was White with Blue Sparkled here and there then i felt a sudden haze hit I fell back my legs weren't holding me up anymore but I didn't hit the floor instead I look up to see the principal's creepy smile then next to him was.....her....what was she doing here? Before I knew it I open my eyes to ms.hina looking down at me "it was a good thing Minamasa sent you here you fainted darling" I get up and rub my head what about the principal and.." she sighed "don't worry they didn't do anything to you I shew'd them off with my broom stick" I almost forgot she was a witch she gave me an elixir and I drank it "oh I almost forgot they're might me side affects" SHE TOLD ME AFTER I DRANK IT? "Why didn't you tell me?" She sighed "if I had told you before you drank you wouldn't have drank it" she had point "don't worry the elixir isn't anything bad infact you should recognize the ingredients for it" I looked and infact I did recognize the ingredients Frog leg, Purple powder, dry snake skale I've used all these in Ms.Himamata class "alright I just need to clock you in before I send you back to class then a flouting screen popped out if front of her "your last name is...Von Schattenwinter? Yes?" I nod "when me and your mother where your age Sadeya, Wouldn't stop talking about Xavier it was adorable I still have her feeling in a jar" I blinked "her feelings in a jar?" She smiled "ah, I forgot to tell you that sit down and I'll tell you about it besides the clocking in might take a while" I sat down

• chiaki Pov

I waved at Sadeya to call her over to my table she walked over and sat down she looked nervous "Sadeya~ your look distracted what's up?" She looked down quickly "okay so listen you know the principal's son?" I nod "I think I like him" I almost choked "you like Xav-!?" She quickly covered my mouth with her hand "yes, don't say it so loud" I nod "so I was thinking since your his sister" I sighed "you want me to introduce you to him don't you" she nodded "fine but I'm gonna need to steal some of your feelings so you can talk to him like a normal human being" she looked determined I sighed "we have to do it in a closed space where no one can interrupt us and I don't steal anyone else's feelings and don't cause mass-" she covered my mouth again I think she got the point later we went to a safe enclosed area and I did the ritual then we went to got see my brother "hey I'm home- and what the hell are you doing now?" It looked like there was multiple of him as he was working fast then he stopped as soon as he ran out of breath "oh hey Misa" I stare blankly at him "who's your friend?" I push Sadeya Infront of me "this is Sadeya she's an actor" she smiled and waved at him and judging on how the way his body language switched up to be more prober he instantly fell in love with her I wanted to vomit they started talking and I quietly snuck out of the room to dad with his arms on his hips "who is your brother talking to" I smile "Sadeya, Vondihide's daughter" he approved immediately as Vondihide was a good friend of My father's

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