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astrologydayz · 26 days

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MERCURY IN HOUSES - SYNASTRY🧡

MERCURY IN PARTNERS 1ST HOUSE = house person can be very attracted 2/interested in the Mercury persons mind/voice/language/the way they speak/articulate themselves🗣️. They can also be very attracted 2 Mercury persons hands/fingers - or notice them very quickly! House person feels understood on a very special level here - Mercury is always a step "ahead" in knowing what the house person does next/Mercury sees right through the house persons reactions🫶🏼 - why they react the way they do, & why they have the worldview that they have - mercury doesn't judge, or criticise but listens, understands, &gives their advice/opinion if needed🧡. House person can become more mindful, but also more expressive, more talkative/vocal, or much more social in life because of the Mercury person<33. Conflicting aspects can show issues because house person can feel criticised/judged here/issues bc Mercury can't understand the house persons way of seeing/doing things.

MERCURY IN PARTNERS 2ND HOUSE = something about the way the Mercury person communicates, makes the house person feel so fucking comfortable, & secure🔒<33. House person can find much value in the way the Mercury persons communicates/find much value in their mind/mentality here. Mercury can hype the 2nd house up a lot - always being in their corner2, & being very vocal about it<33 - which adds even more security 2 the house person. House person can be very trusting of the Mercury person here - always listening, & taking their advice, when it comes 2 their income - finances/self worth/values/material possessions - they can also talk about/discuss those things a whole lot together in general❤️. Conflicting aspects can show arguments/conflicts over money/arguments because Mercury can make the house person insecure/issues bc Mercury can be 2 into giving their advice/opinion, when it ain't needed.

MERCURY IN PARTNERS 3RD HOUSE = These two can talk 4 daaaaays, & they would not get bored🗣️ - trust😭. Mercury person can make the house person smarter/more knowledgable on certain topics, or in certain interests they both have😍<33. These two are the ones still talking in a moment where they're really supposed 2 shut up😭😭🤣😻😻. House person feels understood on a mental/intellectual level here<33. The Mercury person could also talk a whole lot 2 the house persons siblings/cousins - or that can be something that these two talk about/discuss a lot - house persons siblings/cousins. Conflicting aspects can show issues between them, because they can argue a whole lot/issues because they can't find mental peace together.

MERCURY IN PARTNERS 4TH HOUSE = Mercury person can be very interested in the house persons childhood/upbringing/family/or family history here - always asking questions<33 - It could also be something that these two talk about a lot in general<33. If house person has any childhood trauma/family trauma = mercury can help them with REALLY talking through it/help them come 2 a place of "acceptance"❤️‍🩹. Mercury person could also talk a lot 2 the house persons mom/family members. House person feels heard, & listened2 when they run into any family issues/home issues - Mercury can also give them advice here, when it comes 2 what's the best thing2 to do in those types of situations🫶🏼<33. Conflicting aspects can show miscommunications/arguments over/because of house persons family/issues because house person can feel pressured 2 talk about the things they wanna keep 2 themselves.

MERCURY IN PARTNERS 5TH HOUSE = house person can find the Mercury persons humour 2 be the best ever here - house person can laugh, & be entertained by them 24/7😍🥰<33. These two could be the ones always having their own fun when they're at a party/out having fun with friends - inside jokes can also be a very big thing between them😘. People can also feel kinda left out when they're with em, like they can't really catch up2them😭😂. Mercury person can show a big interest in the house persons meaning of romance/fun/their way of being creative/in their self expression, in the house persons kid/s🧡<33 - or those topics are something they can talk about/discuss together a lot<33. Sex could also be something they talk about/discuss a lot together💋<33 Conflicting aspects can show them having two different kind of humours - house person can get offended/arguments, or miscommunications over/because of kids/issues bc conflicts can arise when one, or both is out enjoying themselves/having fun.

MERCURY IN PARTNERS 6TH HOUSE = these two can be in contact all day, everyday<33. House persons everyday life could have gotten a lot more interesting/exciting when the Mercury person came into the picture🥰 - Mercury person can get the house person out more/get them 2 be more vocal/mindful in their everyday life❤️/or help them communicate more clearly when it comes 2 their work - coworkers<33. Mercury can be very interested in the house persons everyday life/routine/health here🫶🏼 - or they could talk a lot about those things together<33. Mercury person could also want 2 give the house person their advice/opinion on those things a lot<33. Conflicting aspects can show arguments/conflicts in their daily life together/arguments, or conflicts over petty/small things.

MERCURY IN PARTNERS 7TH HOUSE = the way the Mercury persons mind works/the way they communicate - with others, & in general is just what the house person search 4 in a marriage💍/stabile partner🔒<33. Mercury person can help the house person with communicating better/more clearly in their relationships - when/if house person runs into any arguments with others - Mercury can also help them with how 2 properly solve them, & help put things into perspective🫶🏼. House persons important relationships/partnerships/business deals/contracts could also be something the Mercury person is very interested in/interested in giving advice on💅🏽<33 - or those things can be something these two discuss/talk about a lot. Conflicting aspects can show arguments/conflicts bc of/over house persons relationships/arguments because house person can feel like their wants/needs doesn't matter 2 the Mercury person/issues bc they got two different ideas of where their connection is supposed 2 go.

MERCURY IN PARTNERS 8TH HOUSE = if house person has any obsession issues/traumas💔 that they need 2 work through = mercury can put things into perceptive 4 the house person, & help them start their transformation/rebirth at last - House person could have been avoiding change, before the Mercury person came along, & sat things straight/told them wassup🗣️. Mercury is interested in all the things the house person wants 2 escape from/keep 2themselves forever. House person can feel very close 2 Mercury here, bc they talk about everything together - Mercury person could know the house persons darkest secrets💜<33. Oral sex/handjobs/fingering can be/feel very transformative 4 the house person here/or it can be something they're really into with Mercury here, bc of the intimacy they bring with it💋<33 - Dirty talk from Mercury could also be something that really gets the house person going. Conflicting aspects can show issues between them because of secrets/lies/issues because one can be way more taboo/darker focused/minded than the other. MERCURY IN PARTNERS 9TH HOUSE = Mercury is very interested in the house persons philosophy/"journey" in life/very interested in where they've travelled2, or want 2 travel 2✈️🌍/interested in their beliefs/religious views/higher thoughts/or in their education📚 - these things can also be something they talk about/discuss a whole lot together<33. If house person is gunning after a higher education = Mercury can help them read up on their shit/help them with studying📖 - kinda like a teacher, & a student = Mercury being the teacher, & house person being the student here. House person can look up 2 the Mercury person, & trust their judgment/guidance on a whole lot in life<33. Conflicting aspects can show arguments over/bc of in laws/issues bc house person can feel like Mercury is always trying 2 "one up them" - like "they always know better"/conflicts bc they got too different beliefs.

MERCURY IN PARTNERS 10TH HOUSE = Mercury can make the house person more expressive/vocal/mindful in public/make them more mindful/vocal in/about their career here🗣️<33. Mercury can also be very interested in the house persons worldly goals/social status/career, & can help them make future career plans - guide/advice them 2 what the "wisest"/best moves 4 them 2 take 2 move upwards are💅🏽 - Mercury person being the house persons "professional advisor" here kinda energy<33. Mercury can talk the house person up a whole lot 2 others🫶🏼😻 - up their reputation a whole lot/or even defend their reputation/career if needed🗣️<33. Conflicting aspects can show arguments over/because of house persons reputation/career choices/issues because Mercury can talk/gossip a whole lot about the house. MERCURY IN PARTNERS 11TH HOUSE = Mercury can be very interested in the house persons community/social media/humanitarian goals/social circle - network/dreams here - or it's something they can talk about/discuss a whole🫶🏼<33. Mercury could also interest the house person with a new cause worth fighting for together💋<33. House person, & Mercury person can be seen out networking together a lot🤝/they can be seen out being vocal about the causes they fight for✊🏽/are interested in together<33. If they don't have the same friend group = house persons friend group/social circle can see the Mercury person as humorous, talkative, vocal, & very expressive here<33. Conflicting aspects can show arguments/miscommunications because of the house persons friends, or arguments over them/arguments because of the house persons dreams/social media. MERCURY IN PARTNERS 12TH HOUSE = these two can have a telepathic connection🫶🏼 - House person could also receive messages from/about the mercury person in their dreams here😴<33. Mercury can read the house person like an open book📖 - they could ask the house person many many questions, but really already know the answer 2 each one😘. These two can talk a whole lot about their addictions - or past ones/their fears/phobias, spirituality - their spiritual beliefs, spiritual connections/bonds♾️. Mercury person can bring light 2 the house persons subconscious habits/mind, & it's either really really appreciated💋, or really not so much🙂‍↔️ - look at aspects. Conflicting aspects can show issues because Mercury can seem questionable/worrisome 2 the house person/issues because house person can feel distressed/troubled when Mercury is around them.

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cleolinda · 8 months

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The Scariest Movie I Ever Saw in a Theater: The Ring

I'll tell you up front that the story I'm going to tell you is about "The Ring (2002)," in the sense that it is about The Ring in the year 2002.

See, I don't know what The Scariest Movie Ever is. A quick google says that the consensus is The Exorcist (I haven't seen it, because I never felt like scheduling a day to freak myself the entire fuck out). But horror is specific, and not just to a person, but to a time and place, even. When I saw The Shining as a teenager in a well-lit living room with other people, I didn't even really flinch, but I bet it would play very differently to me now. I don’t think The Ring is at the top of anyone’s list, but twenty years ago, I had a personal interest in it—at the time, I was running a dinky little Geocities site devoted to movie news. Links curated and compiled from all the other, bigger sites I followed—basically, it was the linkspam format I have used on multiple platforms, including here on Sundays. And so, as someone who followed theatrical releases pretty closely for two or three years, I saw the trailer for The Ring, and I immediately knew it was going to be huge.

To locate you in time, this was just after three self-satirizing Scream movies and the Overcomplicated Serial Killer films of the '90s. The Ring was something completely different: chill aqua-blue color grading a good 5-6 years before Twilight; a mournful Hans Zimmer score; no jokes, no quips; and a slow, inexorable sense of doom. Grief, even, given that the movie begins with the death of the main character's niece. What immediately struck me about the first trailer was 1) the melancholy of it, and 2) how much it doesn't explain. Onscreen, you get the title cards,

THERE IS A VIDEOTAPE IF YOU WATCH IT SEVEN DAYS LATER YOU DIE

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Concise! Understandable! A woman (Naomi Watts) is freaking out upon discovering that her young son has just watched it! Admirable job setting up the premise and the stakes of this entire movie in thirty seconds flat, without even any dialogue. That's all you need to know, and thus, the remaining minute of the trailer can do whatever it wants, and what it wants to do is be fucking weird. Echoing voices, TV static, a closeup of a horse's eye, ladders, a girl with dark hair, people reacting to things we don't see, drippy doorknobs, rain. Characters don't give us the whole plot in convenient soundbites of dialogue (like they do in a later trailer); we just hear lines, overlapping, murmured out of context—

did you see it in your head? she talks to you... leading you somewhere... showing you the horses... you saw it. did you see it in your head? she shows me things. Everyone suffers.

That you saw it has lived in my head ever since, and not once have I charged it rent. But the "best" part is Naomi Watts screaming at the end, because you don't hear her voice; you only hear this heartless telephonic beeeeeeep. It's 2002 and I'm watching this trailer, thinking, I have no idea what the fuck I just saw. This is going to be huge.

And it was, to the tune of $249 million on a $48M budget.

At risk of recapping what you might already know, Ringu, aka Ring, is a media franchise that spiraled out from a trio of Koji Suzuki novels into Hideo Nakata's film Ringu (1998), a landmark of Japanese horror, plus several other movies, some TV series, many comics, and even a couple of video games. The overarching story is about a murdered girl/vengeful ghost named Sadako Yamamura whose rage and pain have created a cursed video tape, you watch it and you die unless you pass the tape around like a virus, seven daaaaays, etc.

The "ring" in question is the rim of a well. Keep that well in mind.

The movie I saw is the U.S. remake, which itself had two sequels. (The iconic Sadako is now named Samara Morgan. Keep her in mind, too.) Director Gore Verbinski moved from The Ring to Pirates of the the Caribbean (!), and so Hideo Nakata himself would direct The Ring Two. I... honestly have only seen the first one. And I was right, it was huge, and it kicked off the American J-Horror Remake genre, for better or worse. But what gets forgotten about The Ring is its marketing campaign, which I followed pretty closely for my doofy little news site.

It was inspired.

The story of The Ring is partly the story of the sea change in the media landscape—how we watch movies. And the story of its marketing is a picture of the very last years before social media changed the wilderness of the internet into something that feels so big, like a billion people could see anything we say, and yet so small—only a tame handful of places to say it, owned by three or four companies, and corraled by algorithms.

Back around 1997-1998 or so, I worked at a video store (Movie Gallery, where the hits were there then, guaranteed) for about a year and a half. By the time I left, we had started adding DVDs to the VHS tapes on the shelves, but we hadn't replaced the entire stock. Video stores might have transitioned fully to DVD by 2002, I'm not sure, but people still commonly had both VCRs and DVD players in their homes. And I remember that The Ring was sold in both formats when it eventually hit home video. Which is to say—you know the analog horror genre today? Marble Hornets, Local 58, The Mandela Catalogue?

Analog horror is commonly characterized by low-fidelity graphics, cryptic messages, and visual styles reminiscent of late 20th-century television and analog recordings. This is done to match the setting, as analog horror works are typically set between the 1960s and 1990s. The name "analog horror" comes from the genre's aesthetic incorporation of elements related to analog electronics, such as analog television and VHS, the latter being an analog method of recording video.

Okay, but this is just what home media was like, and 2002 was at the very tail end of that—boxy black VHS tapes that degraded with time and reuse were just how we lived. At the same time, I'd been using CDs for music since about 1991, and all our software installs came on CD-ROM discs; a "mixtape" by that time had shifted to mean a rewriteable CD rather than a cassette tape. In college, I—well, I'll plead the Fifth as to whether I downloaded mp3s via Napster, but I was also taping Mystery Science Theater 3000 on VHS over the weekends. It was Every Format Everywhere, All At Once, and we kept half a dozen kinds of players around for them. Here in 2023, we stream and download everything invisibly, unless we choose to engage in format nostalgia. (I've already run into the problem of Apple Music deleting songs I really liked, due to this or that licensing issue, because I was really only renting them.) The year The Ring hit theaters was the edge of a last shimmering gasp of physical media where iTunes had only come into being the year before, and iridescent discs were still mostly what we used, but cassettes, both video and audio, were still viable. And so, people did not think it was terribly weird when they started finding unlabeled VHS tapes on their windshields.

Movieweb, quoting TikTok user astro_nina:

"Their marketing strategy was essentially 'let's get this tape viewed by as many people as possible without these people being aware of what this is, sort of raising intrigue," she says. One way they achieved this was by airing the tape, which allegedly marks its viewers for death within seven days, as a commercial with no context. The video would air between late-night programming "with no words, no mention of a movie, for like a month...so people would run into it and it would just go on to the next thing, and people would be like, 'what the f--k is this?'"

I remember seeing the Cursed Video as an unexplained ad at least twice, by the way. That TikTok also indicates that DreamWorks straight-up sent copies of the tape to Hot Topic stores, as well as planting them under actual movie theater seats. While running my movie site, I heard at least one story of someone finding a tape on the sink counter of a restroom at a club. Did the marketing department actually plant tapes in bathrooms—or did a freaked-out recipient leave it there, hoping to dodge the "curse"?

(I haven't embedded the Cursed Video here, by the way—but I could have. If you'd like to see the American take on it, you can watch both the full version and the shorter variant that appeared in the movie itself. A text description of what the fuck you're even looking at is here [content note for both: blood, insects, animal death, body horror, and suicide by falling]. The original version from the Japanese film is shorter, and it's eerie rather than gruesome.)

BUT WAIT, THERE WAS MORE: DreamWorks had something of an alternate-reality campaign going with a handful of in-character websites. This was only a year after Warner Bros. ran the groundbreaking "The Beast" ARG for A.I.: Artificial Intelligence: "Ultimately, fifty websites with a total of about one thousand pages were created for the [A.I.] game." (I lurked in the Cloudmakers Yahoo group.) Marketing for The Ring did not go anywhere that in depth, nor did it need to; it was both a smaller film and a smaller story. I saw at least two “personal” websites (seemingly amateur and a little tacky, like my own), but the one I particularly remember was about someone who owned/trained horses? I'm not sure if it was meant to be the actual Anna Morgan character—Samara's mother—or maybe someone who had noticed that the Morgans' horses were disturbed? I'm not even sure anyone even remembers this but me. Reddit users dug up a few other archived websites, but they're about Sadako, the curse and/or videotape; they aren't as subtle or character-oriented as the site I remember. (Honestly, I wonder if weird shit like "What Scares Me" or "SEVEN DAYS TO LIVE" were made by fans rather than a marketing department, but who knows.)

[The “About” page from Seven Days to Live on the Internet Archive.]

[The entirety of An Open Letter on the Internet Archive. “UPDATE” is a now-blank pop-up. I would bet $5 that it was originally a pop-up of the cursed video.]

I need to point out here that Facebook did not exist in 2002. It would not exist for another two years, and Twitter wouldn't exist until 2006. Even MySpace was not a thing until the next year. I didn't start my Livejournal until October of 2003. What we had, for the most part, were independent forums and blogs. We also had Creepy Internet Fiction like "The Dionaea House" and "Ted the Caver"; their use of the blog format, of people out there seemingly living their lives until something fucked up went down, gave the stories the shape of reality. And it helped that these blogs had comment sections, sure—sometimes more story unfolded there—but for the most part, an author could "abandon" a blog, and you'd just find the story there via word of mouth. Like the Ring blogs I remember, it wouldn't seem strange if no one replied to you, whereas today, you'd have to hire a writer to sit on Twitter, or Reddit, or even Tumblr, and interact with people in character. Could you do something like The Ring's mysterious, weird-ass blogs today? Would anyone even notice?

So: It's 2002, my head is full of Alternate Reality and eerie images and you saw it, and I'm hype as hell to go out and see The Ring. I'm perfectly happy to go see movies by myself, so I went in the early afternoon (best time to get a good seat). The movie ended up being a sleeper hit, and the first weekend, the public was still sleeping on it, so there were only 7-8 other people in that theater, grouped in maybe two clusters. I was off in my own little pool of darkness in the upper right quadrant. Functionally, once the lights went down, I was alone.

Despite some middling reviews at the time, The Ring is something of a horror classic nowadays. If you want a scary movie this Spooky Season, check out The Ring. Or don't, because it nearly killed me.

We're at the last, I don't know, third of the movie? And Our Heroine has tracked down the origin of the Cursed Videotape to some creepy mountain motel or whatever. SPOILER, it turns out that it was built over the Cursed Well (everything in this movie is cursed) that Our Villain was thrown into—that's why Sadako/Samara is a vengeful wet murder ghost crawling out of TVs now. While investigating this decrepit hotel room, intrepid journalist Rachel and her, who is it, her ex-husband? her kid's dad, idk, discover the well under the creaky old floorboards. And then, wouldn't you know it,

NAOMI WATTS FALLS INTO THE WELL

NAOMI WATTS FALLS INTO THE FUCKING WELL

THAT'S WHERE SAMARA'S BODY IS

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[The rather slapstick moment when Rachel falls into the well. Does not include what actually happens next.]

I go absolutely rigid in my seat. Naomi Watts is splashing around this dark-ass death swamp of a well and I know, with as much certainty as I have ever known anything in my life, that Samara is about to pop up in all her pasty, waterlogged glory. All the sad creepy dread, all the desperation to figure out what the fuck all that shit on the tape was and stop Samara from killing Rachel's son, all the horrible contorted victim faces, all the alternate reality I’ve been soaking in, it has all come to this. I have to leave the theater. I cannot be having with this. I have to be gone from this place. My legs do not work. I cannot feel them. I am frozen. I want nothing more in this life or any other to get up and leave this cavernous pitch-black room, and I cannot. I start praying for death. I want you to understand that I am not trying to be flippant or humorous. This is genuinely what went through my head. I was too scared to even think, "You know, you could just pray to pass out or for motion to return to your limbs or something." No, I sat there in The Ring thinking, Please for the love of all mercy just let me cease being.

You know that scene in Mulholland Drive (also starring Naomi Watts)? Winkie's diner and the EXCRUCIATING tension? It was a little like that, except I wasn't watching it, I was experiencing it, and Samara was my dirt monster out behind the diner.

Except that the jump scare didn't actually happen. I mean, yes, Rachel finds Samara's body down there, but—I don't remember exactly, please don't make me go watch it again to tell you what actually happens. It's played more sympathetically on Rachel's part, as I recall, and she and her ex get Samara's body out so that she (Samara) can have a proper burial.

And then it turns out that this is not the end of the movie. It turns out that Rachel has Fucked Up.

I think I was relatively okay through the rest of it, although the climax is Samara emerging from a TV in her full glitching swampy glory to scare [SPOILER] to death. I don't recall praying for death twice. There's a point when you're so exhausted from fear chemicals that you're like, yeah, this might as well happen. Bring it, Soggy. I did have a hard time prying myself out of that seat afterwards, though, and my mom says that when I got home, I had the classic thousand-yard stare. How was the movie?

"It was great," I said, and I meant it.

I've seen things that were objectively scarier (I watched much of The Haunting of Hill House from behind a pillow, to be honest), and it's not like I've never experienced fear in real life. But I respect when a movie that can make me feel so intensely, and there's something weirdly precious about the way horror is a safe roller coaster, as it's often been said. So I love telling the story about The Time The Ring Nearly Killed Me—a movie that actually made my body stop working—and I love thinking of how embedded in a specific time and place that movie was for me. The last gasp of VHS when the Cursed Videotape still seemed plausible; the way the internet was still wild and weird and free; where I was in my life, keeping up so avidly with all the movie news, and finding myself in such a little pool of darkness early one afternoon. It's the scariest movie I saw in a theater; that's the alchemy of circumstance.

#the ring #ringu #horror #first look on patreon #movies #long post #spooky season #halloween everyday #long post is long #gifs

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felassan · 6 months

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post from Dragon Age: Dreadwolf developer Luke B. (Game Systems Director for Dragon Age) on the unofficial BioWare forum:

"Hype! As someone who has been working on 'the next dragon age' since the beginning of 2016 I am beyond excited! What I'm really looking forward to, on top of seeing everyone's reactions to the game, is when we're allowed to talk about the specifics - hit me up a little after the launch and I will talk mechanics and math for daaaaays. Until then I'll be mostly radio silent...but if you harass the community managers enough they'll hopefully get me in front of a camera earlier 😉" [source]

#dragon age: dreadwolf #dragon age 4 #the dread wolf rises #da4 #dragon age #bioware #video games

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albonium · 2 years

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what a day 🥲

#what a daaaaay #it was SHIT #one of our colleague wasn't here today during the previous shift so there was only one person #and she left us a lot of work #then we had even more samples #then i made one tiny mistake that meant i hate to throw a whole batch of samples away #and start over #then one of the device malfunctionned and i lost one sample #we had soooo many things to do and our boss calles us to tell us some of it was urgent urgent #then there was an emergency on something and i had to do it but it's not supposed to be my job #bc the person that should be doing this is on a loooong sick leave #they didn't give me all the information so i had to hunt it down #then i did the thing #i was supposed to tell the result to the chief of the plant (???? idk what's the name)#but couldn't fine him #and production on that part was fully stopped and time was ticking and 💸💸💸#aaaaah i hate when people are like this #ok then he asked me if the result was good or not #BUT #as i said im not the person supposed to do these #so i legally can't say if it's ok or not #not to dox myself or anything but it's improtant safety pieces of something and we can't just fuck around with it #i made him check himself bc i don't have time for this lol #anywaaaay WHAT A DAY #almost had a full breakdown in my car lol #alex and liam what a day dot mp4

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cloudninetonine · 4 months

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Imagine Guide appeared with acrylics on. Like it’s the prettiest set, probably got it done recently, and it’s def something that looks so slay. And the Chain just thinks it’s their natural nail length but painted (I personally have my nails at full short 😗✌️ anything longer and it feels like I can’t function)

SO IMAGINE THE REACTION WHEN A NAIL FALLS. Like Guide is just “oh” and picks up their acrylic nail all casually but the boys are HORRIFIED. Bc!!! That’s your nail!!! Nails shouldn’t fall off like that!!! You should be bleeding and in agony!! Why aren’t you??

Like thank god it’s FAKE but the panic must have been amusing and sweet. Like thank you for worrying but also that’s so funny that it popped off. It just means there’s no nail glue… UNLESS GUIDE HAS SOME??

It’d be super funny if Dink appeared and he sees that their acrylic is GONE. Just on the floor all bedazzled. I’m sure he’d get gruesome with it but it’d be more fun if he’s a normal person and gets squeamish at nail injury stuff— I know I fuckin’ do.

But also also! FINGER GUARDS?? Have you SEEN finger nail guards?? Those are like fashionable weapons. Just sharp metals and Guide can scratch a bitch with it. Anyways TEEHEE this all started because I have acrylics on and one popped off 🫶 HAVE A GOOD DAAAAAY

I've always wanted to get my nails done and this is just furthering this want ANYWAY-

THE BOYS CRINGING IN PAIN SEEING PLAYER'S NAIL POP OFF BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT HURTS AND IT CONFUSES THEM AT PLAYER'S REACTION. LIKE SERIOUSLY!? NO REACTION!? Until Player raises a brow and shows off their perfectly fine nail.

"What?"

"Do your species have...two sets of nails?"

"No? This are fake nails- like decorative."

Silence

ALSO DINK BEING SQUEAMISH IPUFYGFPIV HAT'S BE SO FUNNY TO ME

"I'm going to tear out your heart- ewwwwwwww." OFDOUU

ALSO FINGERNAIL GUARDS ARE SO FUCKING COOL FOR REAL!!!

#cloud answers #pumpkincitrus

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dairy-farmer · 30 days

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Sneaking back iiiin~☆ After a period of being away o/

D-Lister Otome Powers POG? I think SO! CONSIDER:

Tim, out on patrol, things have been... tense. He's gotten Bruce back from the timeline, but it hasn't FIXED anything. Things were said. He spiraled. Trust was betrayed. He doesn't... he doesn't feel like he HAS a home anymore.

Dick feels betrayed and worried TOO. He needed Tim's support. Instead he broke down, went rouge, and nearly DIED. Didn't explain ANYTHING. Now he's drifting away from the family.

Bruce is barely recovered. His family is in pieces around him and he's pretty sure it's his fault.

So... Patrol is... Professional. Tense. Like it has been for days.

Red Robin is checking out some minor disturbance. Discovers clues that it's some INCREDIBLY naive or foolish out-of-towner who thinks they can "make a name for themselves" in America's crime capital. Idiot is going to get himself killed.

But why target a minor gaming company?

No matter, RR can handle it. He's tired, patrols nearly over. Should be quick.

The days after weeks of hurt and hypertense emotions have left him exhausted. Making mistakes he would normally NEVER make. Like going after an unknown alone. No matter how small they SEEM.

You could always be wrong.

And that KILLS.

Batman trained him better then that. Bruce, catches his plan, too late. Is blocks away. Can hear, through Tim's comms, the most terrifying sort of confidence in that opponents voice. Not fool hardy overconfidence. Not arrogance. But "I have a nasty trick that I KNOW you can't counter". Tim. Tim, get out of there! TIM!

Red Robin does not respond.

And Tim? Wakes up with a splitting headache. Too... honestly? What looks A LOT frilly, hyper feminine version of one of Drake Manor's guest rooms. But with "personal touches" added to make it LOOK like someone supposedly lives here. Too generic though. And too artfully placed. It looks like a movie set.

Where the fuck is h-*DING!*

Then a blue screen like some of the holographic screens he's seen before, pops up. "Welcome to ☆~Knights In Gotham~☆! Complete the game or be trapped forever~♡!" It reads in cutesy font.

Well that ONE way to get him out of bed. But unfortunately, it takes less then 15 minutes to confirm that he is, indeed, not in his native reality. MIGHT be drugged or hypnotized. He'll have to test. But the whole new reproductive set, suggest otherwise.

So he pokes around. Speed runs his emotional "I'm trapped, might never see my family again. No. No! I WILL escape!" Character arc/mental breakdown in the shower. Finds some pants.

Figures out what sort of game this is. It's an Otome game. Dating. Based on? His FAMILY. Fffffuck his life.

Okay, should be TOO bad right? People never get their personalities right in fan stuff. Thanks to the Bats being Cryptids. So Tim can just pretend they're other people, right?

Wrong.

The game world he quickly realizes, is using HIS knowledge to fill in the blanks of the massively unfinished framework. This assholes Meta powers? Can only trap him IN here. He's not in control of it. NO ONE IS. Oh, that's so much worse.

Outside? Bruce has BatDad'd panic beat downed the Otome Meta. Where is his BABY BOY!? He can't answer you unconscious, Bruce. Thankfully, Dick is observant. There us a computer on. With Tim on it. He puts two and two together. They are able to keep the power on and transfer the computer to the cave.

Meanwhile? Tim is staring down a Bruce in FULL Brucie Mask. Debating with himself. Because on ONE hand? Childhood wet dreams: Get? But on the OTHER, baggage for daaaaays. And there us no guarantee this isn't a PG title. So like? Bruce would DEFINITELY be the hardest Route, wouldn't he?

He has no idea what he's doing.

He doesn't PLAY these type of games.

He figures, since demon child DOESNT have a reason to hate him here? Probably the safest bet. Especially since he won't feel as bad manipulating a version of him. It should be fine right?

Wrong. He doesn't play these sort of games. Is unaware of how they work and what's at stake. He bungles it. Doesn't play to the troupes, gets his first Bad End. He knew just a touch TOO much, too soon, too openly. Damian's character became convinced he was either a Rouge or an Assassin. But! He got all those "heart event" thingies! Tim mentally protests!

Which is why it doesn't just cut to black, a sudden attack from behind, "Game Over".

No, Tim wakes up behind bars. In a bunker. Nicer then a prison cell, but only just. Because Damian LOVES him. But can not allow him to continue his criminal ways. So he's going to rehabilitate him. By force if necessary. And he knows, because he is not a fool, that Tim does not truely love him. But?

He can fix that too.

They have time.

Outside? Actual Damian is horrified. His feelings towards Drake are... complexe. But this?! Absolutely not! He lunges forward. Dick is trying desperately to hit the Restart. It's not working. Damian hits it HARDER. It works immediately. (They later realize only the "Route" target can restart the game)

Tim wakes up in the starting room.

This time he fuckin LOOKS UP Otome Games on a computer.

Takes a bracing shot of whiskey, because this IS Drake Manor and he knows where his parents hid the good stuff, and tries again. Gets the Neutral End. Fuck! Okay, tries AGAIN. Gets shot, Game Over. Oh god damn it!

He keeps going.

Nothing seems to be WORKING. He's getting stressed. Lonely, desperate, hopelessness trying to set in. He just... just wants to feel WARM you know? Reassured. Held. Knows he's not thinking clearly, but...

So he goes after "Brucie". He KNOWS Bruce. Knows how he picks his one night stands. Knows how to dress up just enough, just OFF enough, to not be suspicious. It's a bad idea. He knows it as he gets dressed. As he arrives. Flirts. Charms and drinks, but not too much. Let's himself be tucked under Bruce's arm. Led away.

Kon always said he was great with his mouth. From the way "Brucie" tenses, like iron under the sild of his suit, holding himself back from grabbing and being rougher then his reputation would allow? He'd say Bruce agrees. Tim certainly puts his all into it. Let's himself lose himself to the rhythm of movement. The scent of Bruce's cologne. The slide over his tounge.

Stolen moments though, aren't enough to get to everything Bruce wants.

The party ends too soon. And Tim leaves with the other guests.

Only to find himself FIRMLY in Bruce's route. The man showing up everywhere. Stealing kisses. Hands disappearing under clothes. Bruce, as he tends too, obsessed. In love. Overwhelming. Tim finally, FINALLY get a Good End.

He also gets fucked, in his bed, within an inch of incoherence, by Batman.

Yet the Game does not release him. Because it did not say "complete A Route" the realse conditions were Complete the GAME. So now Tim has to "win" the others.

All while they watch.

Because THEY are the only ones who can start a new route. Bruce absolutely could have hit that restart once the Good End popped up. Yet... he let the scene play out. Sat, alone, having sent the others to bed... and watched his son get fucked by a version of himself. Watched his son gasp and whimper, cry out and sob, in pleasure.

They each get to watch. As Tim bonds with "them". Spends time with "them".

Eventually, Tim manages the secret Harem Ending. Stumbles free into the waiting arms of his family. They rejoince. But the question remains~! What will they do know? After so long, thinking darkly that they could "do better"? That TIM deserved better then the touch of imposters? That is the question we ask! As I run out of steam and need to sleep! Thoughts?

-🐼🐼🐼

tim's family watching as he works through all their "routes" 👀👀👀👀

#answered asks #asks #anonymous

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justallihere · 22 days

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I've been thinking about this chapter and the last chapter for daaaaays and here's why I think it hit SO GOOD for me. It's so rare to see a pair where one is ready to say I love you, the second isn't but isn't uncomfortable hearing it. There's no expectation of reciprocity from Xaden, his love has no strings. He's not saying it to hear it back, he's saying it because he wants her to hear it, and she's asking not out of insecurity or as a lead up to saying it as well, but because she needs to hear it. I don't think there's enough appreciation that there's effectively three parts of love in a pair relationship- the love one person has for the second, the love the second person has for the first, and the love they have together - and all three are different and important and often come at different times. Ahhhhh I just really really love the level of security that's implicit in the relationship that there's no angst over Xaden bring ready to say I love you but Violet isn't.

Thank you! 🫶🏻

I like Xaden as a character because when he’s with Violet he’s both the most selfish he ever is and also the most selfless. He freely admits that everything he does for her he does just as much for himself, because he loves her and needs to take care of her just as much as she needs it. So when he’s saying he loves her, it’s about her and for her, yes absolutely, because he’d never deny her anything, but he also is just like. This is how I feel and I like telling you how I feel. It’s not really anything more complicated than that. And there is so much trust there because she trusts that he means it and he trusts that if it isn’t what she needs she’ll tell him

#storm in the quiet

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jukipptx · 7 months

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hello! i'm a new follower so i don't know if you'd do these kind of requests but if u do could i request what it's like dating idol!haechan as an idol urself please? thank u so much and i rly love reading ur stuff 💙 they make me happy HAHA

Welcome 🤗 thanks for the follow 🩷🩷 I’m so glad that I could make you happy 😭😭😭 so so so glad 🩷🩷🩷 I tried 😭 hope you like it 🎀🩷 caps are on because I’m too lazy and too tired to take them out I’m sorry 🥶🥶🥶

REQUESTS are open 🎀🩷

- It kinda happened suddenly??? Like you guys were really good friends and one day Haechan kissed you??? And when you were surprised he got so offended and he was like “weren’t we dating already?”

- He appears in your dorm in the middle of the night and freaks everyone out. The first time he came, one of your members was like “I think someone broke in our dorm.” Then he emerged from the darkness in his pjs and started to bow 90 degrees and apologize. He pretended to leave in front of your member, but then came back and spent the night with you.

- He brings you flowers and drinks for you and your members to the changing rooms during promotions. Sometimes he leaves them as a surprise, sometimes he straight up knocks on the door and brings them in himself. You can’t even see his head of how many flowers he’s brought 😭😭😭

- Your relationship is still a secret, but he makes it ooooh so obvious, it’s like he’s rebelling and wants everyone to know already. You normally just hang out in each others dorms, but when you do have to go out to the store of for coffee or something, they make you both cover up and Haechan’s manager follows along. Haechan is the one that arranges your cover up, and it consists in his brown fleece jacket and his beige fluffy bucket hat… ok Haechan, no one will notice this way 🙄🙄🙄

- He brings you to his practices when he knows he’s gonna be there all day. Sometimes you can’t show up because you’re busy too, but when you’re free you go to show support and bring snacks. His members don’t like it when you come because Haechan is soooooo distracted by you. You could just be napping or on your phone and he will be staring at you shamelessly. Taeyong would be calling him out aaaaall daaaaay looooong.

- Backstage in music shows, he kisses you out of nowhere, fearing absolutely nothing. His manager has scolded him multiple times for doing this, but he won’t stop. You could be walking with your members on the hallway, getting ready for the stage, and all of a sudden two hands will come out of a changing room and snatch you in it. He will kiss you quickly, making you squeal and praying that it’s him and not some weirdo, then he will throw you out again into the hall.

- I love Haechan, he’s so weird and he’s never embarrassed 😭😭😭😭😭 should I do this for the other members???🥶🥶🥶

#nct dream #7dream #nct #nct dream fluff #nct dream headcanons #nct dream reactions #nct dream timestamps #nct dream x reader #nct fic #nct fluff #nct haechan #nct dream haechan #lee haechan

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giggly-squiggily · 6 months

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Almost caught me off guard with that last call! But I asked what your least popular fandoms were for a reason, and I saw Black Clover in bold, so brace yourself for an unpopular request!

Lee!Finral! He is precious and deserves all the love ❤️❤️❤️ I know he’s pretty scared/insecure about a lot of things, so maybe some kind of cheer up fic with him? Ler can be whoever you want!

If you’re up for it of course. If not there’s no pressure!

Thanks in advance and have an awesome daaaaay! 🥳

AHHHH! My absolute BABY! God I love Finral- any and all chances to write for him make my heart so happy! I've gotcha covered! You have an amazing day yourself and keep being fabulous!

Cloud 9 (Taglist peeps):

@duckymcdoorknob (Ayo it's your husband :3), @rachi-roo @injusthere07

The castle was strangely quiet when Finral came back.

Not that he was complaining- today had been a fairly bad one. From his mission filled with unexpected twists and turns to an unfortunate encounter with a snobby mage that sent him flying into the canal, he was feeling less than stellar in that moment.

As he began pulling his damp shirt away from him, he heard it. A faint giggle. Pausing, he turned back to find nothing.

Then he heard another, this one farther out but still within his radius. “Hello?” Finral called, goosebumps spreading across his skin for an entirely new reason. The base was old, and while Captain Yami never confirmed any ghost sightings, he didn’t disprove them either. “Who’s there?”

“Ooooo~” Something crooned from behind, making him straighten with a yelp. Footsteps followed, seeming to run towards him.

“Stay back!” Finral backed away, hands coming up to protect himself. “I’m warning you- I- I have a book!” His grimoire raised, glowing beside him. “I’ll- I’ll use magic on you! Stay aw-”

Hands grabbed his shoulders. Finral screamed.

“Pfft- Geahahhahahahaha! Fin- pffffft! Finral, that was amazing!” Asta cackled, falling back on his butt as he laughed and laughed, rolling around on the floor. On Finral’s other side, Luck was holding his belly, kicking his feet as he giggled like a child.

“Oohohoh my GOD! Finral- you should be in a horror movie!” Magna cried, tears of mirth streaming down his face as he hung onto the wall, barely getting the words out between wheezy howls. “That was AMAZING!”

Finral looked at all of them, a hand pressed against his beating heart as he took in his surroundings. No ghosts- just these idiots. He felt relieved.

For five seconds. Then he was pissed.

“You absolute BUFFOONS!” He raged, too mad to feel embarrassed about his scream. The insult had the opposite effect- making the three laugh harder. “What the hell is wrong with you? Why are you acting like ghosts?”

“Oohohohow! Ow my behehehehlly!” Asta cried, giggling so hard tears leaked. Luck had rolled onto his side, coughing around his giggles. “I huhuhuhurt!”

“Ahahhahasta, brhehehathe!” Magna snickered, eyes twinkling as he met Finral’s glare. “We’re sorry, Fin! It was too funny to pass up!” He walked over, throwing an arm around his shoulders. “You looked so scared-huh? What’s that smell? You fell into the canal or something?” He leaned down, sniffing his shirt. “Yep.”

“G-Get off me! You’re all terrible.” Finral backed away, crossing his arms and glaring at the floor. “What did I expect? This day was destined to suck.”

“Finral…” The laughter died down as the three took in their friend’s mood, sharing looks of concern. “Hey, we’re sorry- really. We didn’t think you’d be this mad.” Luck got up, gently wrapping his arms around the other. “I don’t think you smell that bad!”

“We’re sorry, Finral. Forgive us?” Asta hugged his other side, giving him his best puppy eyed expression. Luck quickly followed suit, matching perfectly and doubling the effect.

“Ugh, you guys- oh not you too!” Finral couldn’t fight down a laugh when Magna joined in, sticking out his lower lip. “Fine, you’re forgiven.” He shook his head, ruffling the younger boy’s hair as he sighed. “This time. Do that a second time and I’m never talking to any of you ever again!”

“Oh no! Finral, don’t say that!” Luck cried, squeezing him some and unintentionally tickling. “We love you too much!”

“Don’t stop speaking to us!” Asta agreed, squeezing as well.

“I woohon’t if you don’t scahare me again!” Finral tried to argue, but his voice was broken up by giggles and laughs. Magna, who had been watching from the sidelines, grinned.

“Boys- he’s ticklish.” He called. Finral gaped. “Get em.”

“No! No, don’t you da-ahahahhahahahre!” Finral yelped, shooting upward as twenty fingers attacked his torso all at once. Luck massaged along his middle ribs while Asta put all his efforts into his belly and waist. “Nohohohoho, dohohooohohn’t! Stahahhahap it!”

“Promise you’re gonna keep speaking to us!” Luck cried, scribbling up and down his ribs with reckless abandon. “Promise!”

“Yeah, yeah! Promise!” Asta cheered, leaning in and nuzzling Finral’s hip with his nose as he squeezed, earning a short squeal. “Tell us you love us!”

“Ahehahahahaha! Gehahaha-whahhaahha! Finral tried to step back- losing his footing and tumbling over. Luck and Asta were undeterred, falling with him as they resumed their antics. “Mahahhahahgma hehehehhehehelp!”

“Yeah! Magna, help us tickle him!” Luck agreed, sitting on Finral’s hips as he pressed into his highest ribs.

“It’s fun! He makes funny noises!” Asta agreed, flopping across the older mage’s legs as he squeezed and pinched his knees. “Come on!”

“Mahahhagma, Mahhahahhagma, plehahahahahse!!” Finral tried to reason with the fire mage as he came around, kneeling above him with a devious grin. “Hhahahahve mehehehehercy!”

“Hm…nope!” He grabbed his hands, pulling them up and above his head. “Get his pits, Luck! He’ll scream!”

“Wait! Wahahait wait wahahaAHHAHAHHAHAHHIT!” And scream Finral did. Not too unlike his terrified scream, the spacial mage flailed about beneath his teammates as Luck pressed into his armpits, wiggling and scribbling. “NOHOHOHOT THEHEHEHHHERE! EHEHAHHA!”

“Oooo, he’s so ticklish here! Coochie coochie coo!” Luck sang, giggling like a child at the reaction. Magna and Asta’s snickers were quick to join in, lost in the sound of Finral’s laughing fit. They could do this forever!

“AH!” Luck yelped when strings shot out, knitting into his clothes and pulling him up like a puppet. “Oh no! I’ve been puppeteered!” He laughed as he was pulled up and into the air, hanging about.

“Give him a second to breathe, Luck.” Vanessa laughed as she walked up. “What are you boy’s doing to him?”

“Just messing around. We were gonna stop eventually.” Magna grinned, helping said man sit up. Luck was pretending to fly, striking superhero poses above them. “Weren’t we, Lucky Strike?” He reached up, wiggling fingers into Luck’s belly and earning a squeal.

“Let me down, I’m gonna get him!” Luck cried, fighting back the best he could. Vanessa laughed, bringing them closer to her as their game continued, raising and lowering Luck as she went.

“Are you feeling better, Mr. Finral?” Asta asked, regaining the older mage’s attention. “You seemed really upset earlier.”

“You know…I do, actually.” Finral nodded, reaching out and patting Asta’s head. “Thanks for cheering me up. I needed it.”

“Does that mean we get to tickle you more often?” Asta grinned, earning a light shove.

“Only if I get to tickle you back. Speaking of…” He raised wiggling fingers, jerking his chin to the dynamic duo. “Shall we get revenge?”

Asta didn’t hesitate for a second.

Thanks for reading!

#black clover #tickle #tickle fic #fluff #finral roulacase #magna swing #luck voltia #asta #the boys being dorks lols #I love them your honor klajekjrajkerjka

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