#150 things to do when you're bored

[thestrawberrygirly]

150 things to do when you're bored 🧸🍰🍓

make a journal and write down about your dreams.

try baking a cake.

draw sanrio characters.

learn choreo of the song 'war of hormones' by bts.

stream bts songs or your favorite band's songs.

clean your room.

play any cute mobile games like Purrfect Tale, Resonance of Ocean, Resortopia, Sumikkogurashi Farm, Rhythm Hive, HelloKittyWorld2 Sanrio Kawaii and more. (these are available on android)

plant some trees.

watch any ghibli studio movie.

declutter your phone.

watch some aesthetic japan vlogs.

read a book.

do some skincare.

make a playlist on spotify about the songs you would like to play if you owned a cute café.

write a book about your dream world.

do pilates.

try coquette aesthetic makeup.

start crocheting.

go for a bicycle ride.

have picnic with friends or alone.

watch youtube videos.

go stargazing.

try skateboarding.

go for a walk and observe the beautiful nature and then journal about it.

try cooking with your partner or friends

make a youtube channel.

start a side hustle.

start blogging.

read your favorite blogs.

listen a podcast.

write a song about your favorite person.

make music on bandlab.

write down goals you want to achieve.

learn new language.

re-organise your closet.

take a day off from social media.

take a nap.

organise your pinterest boards.

write a poem.

write a letter to yourself.

make a cute diy necklace.

invent a cute game to play with your friends.

learn to count in another language.

look through a cookbook and try something new.

water the plants.

pray.

try meditating for 5 minutes.

read my blogs :) <3

draw cute doodles.

make cute things out of air dry clay.

create cute diy stickers.

bake cookies in cute fun shapes.

build a blanket fort and read a book inside while eating snacks.

create a scrapbook of favorite memories.

paint rocks with colorful cute designs.

make cute bracelets for your bestfriend.

write a cute story about fairies.

make homemade popsicles with fruit juice.

watch the sunset or sunrise and take a moment to appreciate the beauty of nature.

go for a nature walk and collect interesting leaves or stones.

have a movie marathon with your favorite films.

have a fashion show with clothes from your closet.

design and decorate your own phone case.

create a memory jar filled with notes of happy moments.

design and paint your own ceramic plant pots.

learn about law of attraction.

do research about the history of something of your interest like 'how it was invented?', 'who started it?'.

create your own font.

play an old online game.

try a coloring app.

work on your wish list.

paint your nails.

take a bubble bath.

start a garden.

make your own short movie with your phone.

complete a puzzle.

write about the most beautiful dream you have ever saw.

organize your house.

make a smoothie.

put an appreciation message on a balloon and let it go.

complete a challenge like 30 day self care challenge, 30 day writing challenge and more.

visit a local art gallery.

watch a lecture or TED talk.

read a self-help book.

read a book on astronomy.

click aesthetic pictures of nature.

make your phone look aesthetic.

give your bedroom a makeover on ghibli studio aesthetic.

create a toothpick tower.

practice writing from your non dominate hand.

write about what a day in your dream life looks like.

take out your pet for a walk.

make something wearable for your pet.

learn about how to beat procrastination.

make a little plushie out of your old socks.

learn a new skill.

make a cute website in carrd.co.

write down 10 things you're grateful for.

sit by a river.

visit a local bakery.

walk around a lake.

scroll on pinterest about nature.

walk in the rain.

watch classic films.

watch fashion shows on youtube.

get a haircut.

drink water, take care of yourself <3

read some beauty tips.

watch ballet videos.

write a quote on moon.

say yes to everything for a day.

read some interesting articles.

watch your comfort movie.

write a fiction story.

make your own calendar.

have an indoor picnic with your partner.

write a list of things you will do with your bestie.

crochet something for your loved one or yourself.

learn graphic designing.

write 10 beautiful things about yourself.

make paper stars.

explore interesting websites.

explore your neighborhood.

make a yummy snack.

make hwachae.

try origami.

write a list of your favorite songs explaining why you love it.

watch run bts.

read some manga.

make strawberry cake.

watch conan gray's old vlogs <3

watch onegai my melody :D

design and launch a cute social media challenge to spread positivity and creativity online.

host a themed dinner party with your friends where everyone dresses up and brings a dish from a different culture.

have a spa day at home complete with homemade facemasks, bath bombs, and soothing music.

design a pretty jewellery.

draw your dream house.

try out guided meditation videos (you will find in youtube).

learn about a new culture.

make homemade jam.

do a random act of kindness.

research and plan a future trip.

try a new type of workout video.

research and practice self-defense techniques.

try a new type of creative writing (screenwriting, playwriting, etc.).

try a new type of DIY beauty product (lip balm, body scrub, etc.).

watch a documentary.

learn about constellations and stargaze.

practice calligraphy.

do a riddle.

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#150 things to do when you're bored #jnquette #self care #self healing #self love #self worth #loablr #wonyoungism #pink pilates princess #studyblr

[sunshineyuuji]

Surprising Facts (pt.2)

IkeVamp suitors with an s/o who randomly says interesting facts (pt.2)

Characters: Vlad, Theodorus Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh

Warnings: first grade English (lol), ooc suitors?, gn!reader/fem!reader

Notes: Guys, I got another request OMG! I'm jumping like a child who sees something they like (／⩾ ω＼). So @vanadeyeira asked me if I could make this prompt with Vlad, Theo, and Vicent and who am I to deny? So here I am writing this at 5:30 am (Nov 16) and God knows when I'll finish lol. Anyhow, hope you enjoy! (Update: I finished this today at 10:00 am lol)

Vlad

Vlad has been alive for centuries, darling, so he knows quite a lot.

But like Le Comte, he's not fully aware of things from the modern era so you might as well surprise him with "modern" facts.

"The Vatican City is the smallest country in the world."

"Vatican City?"

"You'll know in... a few years, hehe."

He's not surprised you know so much. Actually, he's happy!

Just... try to keep the creepy facts for yourself.

"There are around 150 bodies of dead hikers on Mount Everest and they're used as landmarks."

"Interesting way to use a body..."

Could gladly hear you all day telling him random facts and also explaining. He just loves listening to you.

Especially when talking about flowers.

"Is this... a gardenia?" You asked, looking at the flowers Vlad gifted you.

"It sure is." Vlad smiled at you.

You looked at the flowers with a smile and carefully picked them up.

"Did you know that gardenias mean love, purity, and refinement?"

Vlad chuckled softly and kissed your hand.

"I do, that's why I chose to gift you them."

Theodorus Van Gogh

"Did you know women can lactate without being pregnant?"

"You're getting on my last nerve, hondje."

Now what's with the random information?

Why are you telling him that? He didn't ask, so why are you telling him?

He doesn't get annoyed over the fact you know stuff, he's annoyed because you say it out of nowhere and he can't expect what you'll say.

“Did you know that buttermilk doesn’t contain any butter?”

“Ok, that’s it. Get out.”

There was a period of time where you stopped telling him the random information you know.

He got genuinely worried and rushed into your room.

You explained it was because you knew it annoyed him so you decided to stop.

“...You’re way too silly, hondje.”

It may catch him off guard, but it’s you who’s telling him. How can he say no to you?

Even if he says it annoys him, he secretly hears and tries to remember everything you say.

Vincent Van Gogh

"You know, neuroscientists say that love is as strong as illegal drugs."

"Oh? Well then, guess I'm always high for you."

He either chuckles or asks more about what you're talking about.

Loves hearing you talk. That little sparkle in your eyes and the excitement you have when explaining is adorable to him.

Though he's always interested in what you say, he shows way more interest when you talk to him about art facts.

"Apparently, studying and pursuing art is closely linked to improved reading and math skills."

"Huh, really? That sure is interesting... I wonder how people associate reading and math with art."

Getting a little more romantic, he sits you on his lap while you continue to tell him about random things you know about art and other stuff.

"I could listen to you all day, sunshine. I can never get bored when I'm around you."

#headcanons #cybird ikemen #cybird otome #ikemen series #otome game #ikemen vampire #ikemen vampire headcanons #ikevamp #ikemen games #ikemen vampire x reader #ikevamp hcs #ikevamp headcanons #ikevamp theo #ikevamp vlad #ikevamp vincent #my wiritng #ikemen vincent #ikemen theo #ikemen vlad

[weird-bookworm]

ᴇʟᴅᴇʀ ʙʀᴏᴛʜᴇʀ!ꜱᴇᴠᴇɴᴛᴇᴇɴ

HYUNG LINE MAKNAE LINE

a/n: i am writing this purely because all an irl friend of mine can talk about nowadays is how shua would be as an elder brother

pairing: elder brother!svt x fem!reader

genre: headcanons, fluff, crack, comfort

word count: around 150 each? imma say 1050-ish in total

warnings: reader is implied to be straight, mentioned alcohol and clubbing, excessive use of ™, excessive simping, me thinking i'm good at this 💀 (we're getting there lol)

ᴄʜᴏɪ ꜱᴇᴜɴɢᴄʜᴇᴏʟ

more of a dad than a brother

wayyy too overprotective

a kid at heart, bless him 🤭

chaotic asf

will not let you date. ever

expect him to go all out to scare potential dates away

as in, movie-level dramatic

no cooperation, will tattle to your parents

cuddle bear!!

as protective as he is, he probably introduced alcohol to you (or so he thinks)

"you are now an adult" "i've been an adult for 3 yea—" "YOU are an adult now, i will show you what alcohol is" "...cheol wtf 😃"

does not care about the fact that you've "known" alcohol for 3 years already

just know you're gonna take forever to meet his friends

gatekeeps you from them

they've known about you for a long time so they treat you normally after you pester him enough to introduce you

but they go all flirty when he's around, just to annoy him <3

and ofc you play along lol

pouty babie

ʏᴏᴏɴ ᴊᴇᴏɴɢʜᴀɴ

a menace 😃

do not trust

mischievous af

i feel like he'll be the kind of brother to take you clubbing

as in, have fun but imma be there just in case

pretends to be your bf to ward off creeps lol

"i won't tell if you won't" when it concerns your parents

helps you sneak out at night as long as he can keep full tabs on your whereabouts

your therapist

silently holds you when you cry 🥺

then does some shit to make you laugh

Always cheats in games

annoying asf

likes to whine for attention when he's bored

aka full on pouts and doe eyes and long drawn cries of your name because "i'm boreddddddd"

acts the same when you're trying to study

probably doesn't care if you're dating

but only if he approves and you're happy and safe

ʜᴏɴɢ ᴊɪꜱᴏᴏ

weirdly protective

will randomly barge in your room to tickle you

hangs out with your friends as if they're his, not yours

the Bane of Your Existence 😩

but also your comfort person

one minute he's teasing the hell out of you

and another he's holding you tight in his arms as you rant about your day

will listen to it all too

no interruptions

says shit, then goes "i love you" before you can get a word out

partner-in-crime for Everything

goody two shoes in front of your parents though 🙄

his life's goal is to make you cringe at any given moment

will cross boundaries to make it happen

starts flexing (his muscles) in front of your friends to embarrass you

willingly drives you around

teases you with the fact that every. single. one. of your friends has a crush on him

pretends to be clueless

really isn't

he just loves you a lot ok?

ᴡᴇɴ ᴊᴜɴʜᴜɪ

a goof

hyperactive, practically bounces around the house

forever giggling at everything remotely amusing thing you do

acts like a younger sibling

most adorable

roams around the house like a ghost in broad daylight

likes to yell randomly

it scares you shitless

every. single. time.

a tease

talking to a cute guy? *eyebrow raise* going on a date? *eyebrow raise* talking on the phone? *eyebrow raise*

(it was just your mother 😭)

is often found asleep on the couch

creeps your friends out with the way he sleeps 💀

strangely wise

like, you'd expect the goofball to be a himbo

always has good advice

ᴋᴡᴏɴ ꜱᴏᴏɴʏᴏᴜɴɢ

hyperactive puppy

(he would prefer tiger but when have you ever listened to him?)

you are sick of choosing tiger themed gifts for his birthday and as celebratory gifts for his endless achievements

(you're proud of him, really, but seriously?)

you're even sicker of getting tiger themed gifts for your birthdays

you can never bring yourself to throw them out though 😔

forever doing adorably weird shit

you can't tell if he likes it when you squish his cheeks anymore, you do it so often

in the mood for teasing? call him a hamster

hell bent on annoying the hell out of you

rambles non-stop when he's excited

comes to your room later to quietly thank you for listening anyway 🥺

stands behind your parents when they're scolding you

and makes faces to make you laugh

a lightweight drunk

so you're basically stuck dealing with a toddler who's constantly trying to kiss you

always goes pouty when you threaten to murder him

ᴊᴇᴏɴ ᴡᴏɴᴡᴏᴏ

on the more quieter side

often games all night

and you join him because why not

only ever yells while gaming

you guys have a very Chill dynamic

annoys you— not too often— by using the biggest, most nerdiest words ever

in casual conversations no less 🙄

secretly Fond™

you'll find cute notes everywhere in the house if you're sad or stressed

only and only you can hug him (...and maybe mingyu, who can so no to him?)

silent comfy hangouts

sometimes very very loud and very very dramatic

pretends to be cool when you introduce your bf to him

he is not cool

i'm talking stinky side eyes when you're not looking and total hostile cat behaviour 😅

just know he's scaring the poor guy away

ʟᴇᴇ ᴊɪʜᴏᴏɴ

spends more time in his studio than he does home

workaholic

worries you by never sleeping

when he does sleep though

sleepy kitty 🥺

you're gonna spend at least 15 minutes just trynna get him up

cares quietly

has his crazy moments

you're somehow taller than him? excuse me? he's older and has more testosterone, what do you mean?

gets so annoyed when they strangers treat you like his elder sister

ofc you're busy laughing at his -_-

extreme kitten mannerisms

he doesn't know though

so you and his friends have a good laugh every time he does something remotely cat-like

and ofc you have special access to his studio 😁

because he may not admit it but he's just really fond of you

so he spoils you as much as his budget allows

#sky writes!! #svt #caratsland #seventeen #svt headcanons #seventeen headcanons #fluff #soft #cute #hyung line #svt hyung line #seventeen hyung line #scoups #seungcheol #choi seungcheol #jeonghan #yoon jeonghan #joshua #joshua hong #hong jisoo #jun #junhui #wen junhui #moon junhwi #hoshi #soonyoung #kwon soonyoung #wonwoo #jeon wonwoo #woozi

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

what do you like about cars?

I think you knew, upon asking this, that I could only ever have answered with either an ironic one-liner or a dozen-part novel. And unfortunately, this is already the second line, so novel it is. So then, without any further ado than the literal half year that’s gone by since this was asked, let's go.

1. Engineering matters

At the end of last year (aka when I started writing this, yikes) my dear old iPhone 6S moved on to a new home because it simply wasn't keeping up with me anymore. (And again, I was using an iPhone 6S in 2023. If I say a phone is too slow, it's too slow.) I had plenty of criteria for the replacement: a smallish screen not overboard on resolution, ideally a physical media control button and/or vibration toggle, repairability, a FUCKING AUX JACK... Something like the Sony Xperia 10, whose only real issue is marketing so trash you've only just now learned Sony never stopped making phones.

And yet...

This fancy wallpapers-sporting foldable is a Motorola RAZR 5G, a phone whose too-big screen already broke (though at the edge due to adhesive issues) and those who dared try warn repairing it will be as hard as phone repairs get. Why the fuck did I buy this? Well, because it has something more important than the aux jack, proper sizing, and good cameras: it made me go “That’s so cool!”, and when’s the last time a phone made you say that? It's the cusp of a new technology, and whether it becomes the future of phones, a future of phones, or just a weird footnote, it is an island of interesting in a sea of boring. And sadly, even this island is rapidly sinking. The drive for new form factors has already boiled down to the same two phones and their evolution is sinking into the usual millimetric proportion tweaking, camera rearranging, touchscreen expanding, case material switching, fingerprint sensor moving, and spec improvements not even manufacturers can come up with use cases for. I mean, seriously, how does the iPhone 15 differ from a software-updated iPhone X (which is apparently not pronounced "x", so I guess the iPhone Twitter)? Nothing is new. Nothing is tackled differently. The user experience does not differ. And why should it, when iPhone users will get a new one out of habit anyway and many are so tech illiterate moving a button could hospitalize them? Five generation newer and 150% faster are numbers you basically have to trust, because they don't make a difference that matters.

But in cars? 150% faster will matter alright. Even just looking at it. Cars are a visceral experience to even witness, let alone ride in or drive, and the frantic engineering pursuits for performance and overall capability actually have impactful real world implications beyond "some pockets will bulge 1mm less". And their engineering involves so many fields that there’s always a breakthrough going on somewhere - which leads to another reason their engineering is so interesting: there’s simply so much of it that anyone interested in engineering will find something for them, no matter their level or sector of expertise! Interested in mechanics? Well, obviously you’ll have a field day! Aerodynamics? Don't even get me started! Electronics? You're getting more goods by the year! It spread from engine management to safety assists to infotainment to ergonomic adjustments to even suspension and aerodynamics! Sound design? Even just working on the way engines sound is a profession of its own, let alone making these barrels of metal and glass propelling themselves at triple digit speeds through hundreds of explosions a second things you can comfortably have a conversation in - and that's not even mentioning horns and chimes! Hi-Fi? We’ve spent most of a century trying to get concert hall sound from a tiny tin can where everyone sits off-center and everything bumps and shakes around and you have maybe room for two components* a third the normal size and speakers can only be in a handful of places you wouldn’t want them which may well be the next room over**!

And this is just engineering.

*Like everything in the car world, there are exceptions to that

**For those unfamiliar, subwoofers, the speakers dedicated to, indeed, sub-bass, due to their frequent humongousness are often installed in the trunk.

#stay tuned for part 2! #sony phones *are* great btw #they are sold in actual colors and they're full of cool features #their aux jack can double as a stereo input!!!

[olderthannetfic]

How I would do 2023 ship stats

You know, normally, I don't bother to do much with top AO3 ships stats. That's partly because someone already does it and partly because I think they're stupid stats that just lead to people gloating about their blorbos "winning". But I do routinely have a look at what's new and popular when I'm doing things like making a dance party playlist for Escapade Con, just so I know what fans might be getting into lately. I have to say, collecting these is not hard. It's not even particularly time consuming.

Doing it super efficiently would be easier with a script, yes, but most fandom stats aren't actually collected with scripts, and if you're only looking for the top 100 ships, you can more or less do that by hand. How I would set about it for you, the random fan who's curious but not curious enough to learn to code, would be to log into AO3 and then find tags where you can see the sidebar. They should be tags that encompass the whole archive and that are mandatory and unique… in other words, ratings.

Since every AO3 work must have one and only one rating, you can just check these five and get a good sense of what's on there. There are some minor wrinkles to iron out, but it's a good preliminary research step.

The way you want to do it is to start with a spreadsheet. Open up your ratings URLs (and also paste them in the spreadsheet for convenience—google sheets will make clickable links). Copy all the sidebar top ships into a list. Filter out all of these ships. Copy the next set, etc. After a while, you'll have a good list that's longer than 100 ships but that most likely contains everything really popular. (Filter for things posted/updated/whatever in the past year if that's the data you're after. Filter for f/f or whatever topic you're interested in if that's the question you're asking instead.)

Use your spreadsheet to generate the actual links for each of these ships. AO3 URLs are predictable: you can generate them from knowing the exact spelling of the tag and the normal format of this type of URL. (There are a bunch of standard spreadsheet functions that can be used to get rid of the work count numbers you've copied from AO3 to get just the pure ship tags. I'd use things like =right() and =left().)

Open the links. Copy the work totals back to your spreadsheet. Voilà!

One drawback of this method is, obviously, that it's boring and tedious, but if you didn't like boring and tedious, why were you collecting fandom stats anyway?

A more important drawback is that in using exclude filters, it's possible you could miss a ship. If the posting patterns are just right, there might be something that has its numbers reduced by excluding other ships that should be on your list. You could have a similar issue if the ships on your list are mostly one rating (so higher in those searches) and some other slightly larger overall ship is spread more evenly. I would try to ameliorate this problem by looking at the sizes of the smallest ships you're covering. They will likely be bigger than the entire fandom section for most fandoms. Taking another look at the bigger fandoms that could be hiding a small-end-of-big ship can help double-check that you haven't missed anything. Grabbing the top 130 or 150 ships in some search while only looking for the top 100 will likely find most of the edge stuff too.

Add any ships that look like they should be double checked to your spreadsheet. Add their work totals. Re-sort your list.

Another thing to consider is that AO3 keeps track of the most recent update date on fics. That's what's easy to search by. If you're only interested in when a work was first posted, easy manual filtering isn't the way to go… However, if the objective is to see which ship tags were active in a given year, most recent update date is the relevant piece of data anyway.

You're not going to recreate centreoftheselights' exact analysis unless you collect data year to year, but you can come up with something pretty similar that answers a similar question, and you don't need to be a programmer to do it.

In the end, accept that some data require hard collection methods that a site doesn't easily offer you and you might have to scrape multiple times a year with a script if you want to know that particular thing… or you might have to randomly sample and hand-count as with FFN shipping stats. (Yes, I've done it. It can be done. It's just annoying.)

So when you're setting out to look at some stats question, the big first step is to decide what you're even asking and why and whether you're just wimping out and going with what's easy to collect instead of what you actually want to know.

...now I'm kind of curious. Maybe I'll go pull some 2023 numbers.

[uvexar]

Dragon Discourse is back to 5e social media and I've realized that dragons form a really fascinating vertical slice of all the problems with the system. Not just technical problems, but problems in the culture of the game.

Dragons in 5e D&D are big sacks of hit points with deadly breath weapons. Large dragons have a Frightful Presence, which is like a fight-or-flight response effect triggered on everyone close enough to it. The largest get to slap people with their wings and knock them over with their tails. The most powerful dragons have Legendary Actions, giving them extra attacks on other people's turns, and if you fight them in their lair, their lair has effects too. A burst of fire might come out of a crack in a red dragon's cave, for instance.

It's not a bad setup. But the problem comes when dragons have to intersect with the rest of the game.

If you play a dragon like an intelligent creature (which you should - "intelligence" meaning not totally brain-dead), its abilities suggest a monster that outside of its lair will *never* let go of its areal advantage. It will fly down, use its fire breath on the player characters, then fly away until it recharges. This wouldn't be bad, except that 5e as a system encourages characters builds around specific aspects of combat. In this situation, melee-only characters are going to have to suck it up and use a bow, which they wouldn't be as optimized for, but which would still be effective.

But 5e as a culture? HATES this kind of scenario. You might be wondering, why is a tabletop game encouraging closing off an entire area of combat for the sake of optimization? The answer is, it isn't; however, the culture of 5e suggests that when a character specializes in something, they should be expected to be doing that thing *all the time* and *nothing else.* Players will get upset if they encounter a monster that hard-counters their focused character build!

This isn't necessarily their fault, of course. 5e is incredibly glued to the 2D grid/battlemap, only surpassed by 4e in that respect. Its range increments in all areas (weapons, spell areas, movement speeds) are set up for a space no wider than 150 feet or so across, and that's honestly being generous. And because streaming is absolutely enamored with rich territory maps and VTTs, and streaming is a cornerstone of 5e as a product, very few players have any reason to expect a battle with a vertical component larger than 30 feet. (Anything larger is increasingly abstract and hard to render on a grid map.) As a result, players are able to comfortably design builds that are "melee-only."

Dragons break the whole paradigm of 2D, VTT-focused combat in half. So what happens when you play a dragon intelligently in 5e? Simple: Players get frustrated, and characters die.

An analogy here that I think is appropriate is, imagine if enemies just inside your load range in Skyrim could spray fire at you with a 20% chance of nearly killing you. That wouldn't be fun! 5e doesn't have a literal load range, of course, but *effectively* it does.

There are three ways you can run a dragon in 5e. The first is to give it a death wish. Make it land like a Skyrim dragon at half health, or hell just treat it like a big dinosaur that can do some long jumps. What you're left with is a bag of hit points with no brain that can't fly. And that's a pretty easy fight - worse, it's *boring.*

The second way is to homebrew the shit out of it. 4e has this over 5e in terms of dragons: they escape the trap of the grid's event horizon by having a lot of cool abilities they can use. You can add a bunch of these cool abilities to a dragon in 5e, and it almost makes it a good fight! Except now you're fixing an issue with the game on your own time, in ways that are explicitly counter to the game's actual monster design paradigms. You are stapling 4e onto 5e. Which is fine until the contradictions become overwhelming.

The third way, of course, is to play it intelligently. How are players expected to respond to a real life dragon?

In myth and legend, heroes never meet dragons on even turf. Even Saint George, the classic knight on a lance facing down a fiery serpent, actually pacifies the dragon with the Cross in the story. So if a group of PCs wants to kill a dragon, they have to use every tool at their disposal. Find allies, place traps, seek it out in its lair where it has nowhere else to run, and keep it from getting airborne.

This is proactive play. And this is where the last and biggest issue with 5e comes in: *5e actively discourages proactive play.*

This is a problem both cultural and mechanical. Mechanically, 5e's adventure design is extremely reactive and railroad-y, almost scripted in some cases (Descent into Avernus comes to mind). Culturally, the fantasy games most often played by people nowadays are *incredibly* reactive and railroad-y, because that's how video games are programmed! Dragon Age and the Witcher and World of Warcraft and *especially* Skyrim aren't designed for you to be proactive, to build your own goals, or find your own solution to problems.

What this means is that very few players, unless they came up in an older game tradition (or are a horrible revanchist like me), expect the solution to a combat encounter to be found outside of that very combat encounter. And if they have no other choice? It's frustrating! The game isn't giving them the tools to succeed! *They haven't been taught to think this way.*

(This goes for DMs too - the game encourages DMs to design adventures and encounters in a video-game fashion, mechanically and culturally. So of course a dragon in that paradigm, using the 5e rules, is going to suck.)

What's the solution? Well, other than homebrewing (which let's be honest means you should just play 4e), the solution is a hard uphill battle against cultural and mechanical biases. So honestly the easiest way to play a dragon in 5e is to not play it at all.

And that sucks.

#dnd #dragon #5e #ttrpg

[millepara]

for fun yesterday I did a lot of experimenting with coords and tags to see what gives the best score. starting with the conclusion abstract:

the Brilliant Prince cyalume is equally effective as the usual green Twinkle Ribbon SCR for grinding.

BUT if you're creating a promise, you're very slightly better off with the TR SCR because it's more likely to get filled, as not everyone has the BP CR. (this was not something I tested for, but something I inadvertently found out in the course of experimenting.)

details and numbers below 📝 📈 📊 (extremely boring and long)

various disclaimers: I'm 100% sure all of this is on twitter already, but I don't use and thus can't see anything on there. mega thanks to Idollandhero Hayami for being my only source for what's going on over there and making me realize that this was even something to check out, and for Luna's post pointing out the BP cyalume was a viable green coord alternative. I shan't tag you bc I don't want to even accidentally make someone read this post.

also, don't pay attention to the reward amounts when I joined others' promises, bc at those times I was focusing solely on coord bonuses and not the rhythm game. the score bonuses are the same amount whether creating or joining a promise, but joining takes less time. a lower score just means I was playing OPEN DREAM LAND according to the beat map in my head rather than the mistaken one in the game lol

background 🧬

your score is composed of:

base score. what you get from the rhythm game

rank bonus. silver rank is +1000 iine (bronze +500?)

heart bonus. max is rainbow x3 +3000 iine (rainbow +1000, gold +800, silver +500)

assigned coord bonus. premium pripara rare is +10000 iine (idk what others are)

hashtag bonuses. 5 gold tags gives you, in order, +1500, +150, +300, +450, and +600 iine. 4 gold tags removes the final +600 and +1 silver tag is only +500, so 5 gold tags is best (i.e. 5 gold = 3000 vs 4 gold + 1 silver = 2900)

I always use the green TR SCR without paying attention to the numbers, so I wanted to verify if/how worn coords affect your bonuses, and if wearing all parts of a coord or having the same tag multiple times (like the BP CR) do. these are things that were true in the arcade game, so maybe they matter here too? ...is what I wondered.

experimental procedure 🧪

the TR SCR has 2 gold tags, with no gold tag on the shoes. but changing them to the BP CR ones, adding a 3rd gold tag, gives the same 5 gold tag bonus as above, in the same order. (tags in the coord being worn are marked with a ⭐︎.)

this is true no matter what order the tags themselves are in. above the unworn #今日もあまってまーす (from the Dressy Ruby coord) gave 1500, below the worn #gold did.

wearing the full TR SCR gave the exact same bonuses as well, despite having only two gold tags on the coord:

finally, wearing the full BP CR (worn gold tags are #cyalume coord x3 and #prince for a total of 4) was... exactly the same!

and in all of these, the assigned coord bonus was the same +10000 too.

last was to confirm that they give equal rewards when creating a promise. I did Chaotic Hurricane for both of these, and both have a perfect score, so all rainbow hearts, all x3 on appeals and making drama, and full cyalume change bonus.

the same! this is also the same as the max score with the green SCR before the Dark Nightmare tag was removed, btw.

conclusion 🔬

the coord you wear does not affect the tag bonuses at all. they are entirely determined by the tags you own. wearing or owning more items with the same tag also doesn't matter. basically, as long as you do a promise with 5 gold tags you own, you get the maximum tag bonus.

the coord you wear is only relevant to the assigned coord bonus, which is the same for the BP CR and the green coord. I guess there are paid or gacha coords that give that bonus too, but the rarer a coord is, the less likely you are to fill a promise with it as the assigned coord. it's best to create a promise with easily-available coords and tags.

future research 👁️

I do have an unsolved mystery. both of the above had a base score of 14175,

but the first time I tried creating a promise I got a base score of 14170, despite having what I thought was a perfect score. all the bonuses were the same, and the rewards were only 1 iine and 1 i$ less

so in terms of grinding, it super does not matter. but it does matter when my goal is trying to figure out score mechanics. now I probably just got a x2 on the appeals or making drama without noticing, but I was watching pretty hard. and I'm pretty sure a miss there knocks off more than 5 points? I had photo evidence of getting all rainbow hearts and I got a full cyalume bonus as always, so...???

the other option is that... your team's coords matter?? this seems incorrect, but the only difference in that first promise was that one idol had different shoes and accessory. all the ones I did after (not just the 2 pictured) had 5/6 or 6/6 coord items assembled, so it's literally the only difference I could think of?? I really genuinely think I just missed a note though. the way to check this would be to screen-record lives, miss notes in a variety of ways, and see how that affects the score, but... even I have my limits.

also: songs. I'm interested to see definitively what song is best, but I'm putting this off until OPEN DREAM LAND's untenable beat map is fixed. it is definitely a better choice than Chaotic Hurricane, which I always use, but I'm afraid of accidentally memorizing the wrong rhythm. and personally I would do anything to avoid hearing Cool Star, so idk if it's better than Chaotic Hurricane or not. I think a couple paid songs are better also, but it's so difficult to fill those promises that it's best not to rank up with them.

last, I wonder about the red+black VIP coords because they seem like idol land's version of Mystery Rares (which were v high-scoring), but... I don't have one. and even if it was significantly higher, it would be impossible to fill that promise, so it couldn't possibly matter.

🗝️

if you read all this, congratulations and forgive me. if you have any questions, let me know. I think I explained everything badly and maybe I assumed everyone knows stuff that maybe they don't? not to mention that I've made and joined promises so many times now that maybe I can help with something other than what's here too.

#milk idol diary #milk special interest diary #idol land pripara #if theres a typo in here no there isnt

[mika-ayumi]

DATING HEADCANNONS

Leo edition

warning: slight cussing

Ok so as we know. This turtle can be smooth as fuck but around you? He tried to be at least 150 times more smooth(8 times outta 10 in doesn't work but he is trying)

He always try's to show off around you. If you are in the lair and he's training he's like " Y/N! WANNA SEE SOMETHING COOL?" And you end up watching him train for a few hours.

He will most definitely use the most cheesiest pick up lines on you. " Hey uh y/n" Yeah leo?" "Was that you just smiling at me or was that the sun coming out?" and everytime he would wink at you thus making you flustered and making his heart melt.

He loves to cuddle you. Especially when he's tired or sore from a mission or training. He just want to be held.

He has used his portals to give you hugs before. You could text him at school about how days been bad so far. And he will wait till lunch and use his ōdachi to make a portal and hug you. (You were walking to vending machine when it happened it scared the shit out of you)

If you have pet that is his child now. He will come over and see this husky on your couch and just goes " THAT IS MY KID". Will use your pet if it is laying on him as an excuse not move.

Dates with him are never dull or boring. You to could be chilling and.cuddling and somehow funny something funny

You and Leo could look at each other and just start laughing. And it confused the others at times

You both call each other the random things. One day you are sweetheart next day you are poptart.

Has tried to cook for you and failed. He almost set your kitchen on fire but Eh.

Always try's to protect you in fights(if you do fight with them) and gets a bit protective when you're hurt and gets hella worried.

You have seen every single Jupiter Jim at least 30 times. You gave him the box set of the movies as gift and he cried. He was so happy.

Ok this isn't dating headcannon but, i feel like when splinter found out any of his sons were dating someone he'd just go "I was wrong. I can marry them off" and laugh.

#rise leo #rise of tmnt #rottmnt leonardo #leonardo hamato #dating headcanons #headcannons #tmnt 2018 #tmnt #tmnt headcanons

[ticklepinions]

Do You Know the Muffin Man? 

A/N: I love domestic stuff. Join the boys as they do cute things :). I will return with the og chapters i swear i just have so many side ideas. This may just be my personal favourite. I hope you enjoy :)

Tagging @happyandticklish and @veryblushyswitch who helped me indirectly with their HCs. And @magic-125 for inspiring the fic after showing me their baking skills.

Word Count: ~1700

"Who puts raisins in a muffin? That's a bloody crime!" Charlie exclaimed, his face contorted with disgust. 

"Have you lost your mind!? They're the best thing since sliced bread" Tao snapped back. 

It was a late Friday night, the gang was currently on a video call.

"Come on Nick, back me up on this one" 

Nick was resting his head on Charlie's lap being lulled to sleep by Charlie's hand softly running through his hair. He let out a sleepy mumble. 

"Wow. You guys are so boring that you made Nick fall asleep" Elle chirped, rolling her eyes playfully. 

"Because he's a simpleton, what would a rugby lad know about muffin making?"

"Hey- my rugby lad knows plenty about muffin making"

Tao scoffs. 

"Oh puh-lease. Baking competition. We'll be in teams-"

"We, meaning you four, I'm hanging out with my nan today, byeee" with that Isaac hurriedly hung up. He knew perfectly well he was not hanging out with his nan; although he made a mental note to pay a visit to the cemetery later. 

"Well that settles it, me and Elle against you and rugby boy over there"

"I don't recall agreeing to this- Besides, Tao do you even know how to make muffins" Elle said. 

"Do you know the muffin man? Yeah that's what I thought"

Cue another eye roll from Elle. 

"Good luck Spring, you're gonna need it, Elle come to my place in 5, bring your best muffin making attitude"

Click. The call ended and the sound of Nick's soft snoring filled Charlie's room. Now Charlie wasn't the most competitive person, but there was no way he was planning on losing. 

"Nicholas"

A sleepy grumble that sounded like "5 more minutes".

Charlie rolled his eyes and let out an exasperated sigh. He decided that the best idea was to call his mom, she had to have a good muffin recipe. Even though it was a girls night for her, he was sure she wouldn't mind the interruption. 

"Hi mum, this is super important" 

His mom told him about the recipe and Charlie was left frantically searching for a pen and paper to write it down. A pen he managed to get without disturbing the sleeping boy in his lap. In his panic, Charlie lifted up Nick's hoodie, revealing the bare skin and began scribbling away. 

"2 and a half cups of flour… 150 mils of milk…" Charlie spoke to himself, repeating the recipe.

Unfortunately the pen writing on Nick's back proved to be a slightly bad idea. Nick slowly started waking up with panicked giggles.

"Chahar- cHAHARLIE- I'm UP. I'M UP-"

"Lovely, now shh- no not you mum. Yes Nick is okay-"

Nick flipped himself over much to Charlie's dismay who was halfway through the recipe. Nick didn't know where Charlie got the strength of nine gorillas on steroids, but the nerd managed to pin Nick with his legs. He used one hand to cover Nick's mouth while the other continued writing the rest of the recipe on Nick's tummy. Nick practically screamed into Charlie's hand as he writhed beneath the boy. 

"Okay thanks mum, bye-. Love you too- m'kay bye-"

Charlie swiftly got off of Nick and pulled him to the kitchen. 

"So all of that happened when I was asleep"

"Yeah and you owe me because you didn't back me up"

"Well I told you I would've fallen asleep with you playing with my hair" Nick said, sheepishly scratching the back of his head. 

"But that doesn't explain why you vandalised my body"

"I couldn't find a paper," Charlie quipped. 

Charlie gave Nick a quick kiss and threw him an apron. 

"Time to get our Martha Stewart on"

Nick chuckled. This was their first time baking together. Nick fondly watched Charlie fumble over collecting the needed utensils; even when he was mildly stressed he was cute. The way his eyebrows furrowed and how his lips moved as he quietly muttered to himself was extremely endearing. 

"Lift up your hoodie for a sec I need to check the recipe" 

"What's the magic word" Nick smirked.

"Please"

Nick removed his apron, and his hoodie… And the shirt underneath. Charlie audibly gasped as he gawked at his boyfriend's body. 

"I figured this would be easier" Nick giggled at the blushing face looking at him. 

"Shut up" Charlie playfully hit his chest, his hand stationed on the bare skin for 5 seconds too long before retracting. 

"I can put my shirt back on if it's too distracting"

"Shut up Nelson" Charlie took a quick glance at his back, trailing his fingers across it as he read the ingredients. 

It was about 5 minutes of mixing and pouring until they needed the second half of the recipe. 

"I can barely read it! If only someone kept still while I was trying to write," Charlie teased, poking Nick's tummy for emphasis. 

"Hehehey- Watch it, I could have spilled this all over you" Nick giggled, holding a bowl of flour.

"You better not get any in my hair Nick."

He really did try his hardest. Charlie's fingers just glided way to close to his belly button and it caused the lad to flinch.

"Nick!" a healthy coating of flour fell onto Charlie's hair. 

Nick tried to stifle his laughter and apologize but he burst into a fit of giggles.

"I can't believe you've done this."

Nick's laughter rose as he clutched his tummy, having to set the bowl on the counter.  

Charlie smiled, a playful giddiness surging through his body. 

"I'm covered in flour and you're laughing?"

Nick fell to the floor, the scene before him had him in stitches. Charlie couldn't help laughing along. How could he not? Nick's laughter was contagious.

"I'll give you something to laugh about."

With that, Charlie reached into the bowl and got a fistful of flour, promptly throwing it at Nick.

"Haha hey-" 

Now it was Charlie's turn to laugh. Not for long though, Nick quickly got up and chased Charlie around the kitchen island. The boys giggled as they launched flour at each other, so entranced in their chase they didn't notice Tori watching their fiasco unfold. 

Nick eventually snatched Charlie by the waist, rubbing his cheek against Charlie's. 

"Why are we like this?" Charlie sighed happily, resting his smooshed cheek against Nick's face.

"I've been wondering the same thing" said Tori, making her presence known. She took a casual sip from her straw before shaking her head and going back upstairs.

Nick and Charlie blushed. 

"How long had she-"

"It's better not to ask… We should probably clean up," Charlie said, looking at the mess they made. 

It didn't take that long with both of them helping out and the muffins were baking in the oven in no time. They sat on the couch as they waited.

Charlie was curled up against Nick, who had wrapped him in a blanket. 

"You still have some flour left on you, here let me get it-" Nick gently cupped Charlie's face and kissed his lips. 

Charlie's eyes widened then softly closed as he returned the kiss. 

"That was very cringey Nelson" 

"You love me~" Nick teased, playfully nibbling Charlie's neck.

The boy squealed, unable to pull away. Things only got worse when Nick rubbed his stubble on Charlie's neck. 

"Nick, stop" Charlie whined.

"I'm just trying to love my lil stud muffin"

"Shut up" Charlie groaned.

Moments like these made Charlie regret loving Nick's rugby arms. Fortunately, he could still reach Nick's thighs and gave them several squeezes.

Nick gasped, instinctively clutching Charlie even tighter against himself. He soon roared with laughter as Charlie's deft fingers wiggled under each thigh. 

Out of desperation he launched himself off of the couch, only to be straddled by Charlie. 

"And this is for putting flour in my hair!" 

Nick's thighs were poked and squished and squeezed. He kicked his legs wildly trying to knock Charlie off.

"Weeee~" Charlie giggled as he held tightly onto Nick's flailing legs. 

"No, no, no Char please not the calves not th-AHEHEHEHEHE"

Charlie tickled Nick's calves despite his playful protests not to. He would live to regret it though as he felt Nick wrap a hand around his ankle. 

The laughter subsided as both boys stared at each other apprehensively. 

Nick's signature smile dawned on his face. 

"Are… Are your feet ticklish?" he asked, taking deep breaths. 

Charlie replied with a gentle blush and pleading eyes. Nick curiously swiped a few fingers across the socked soles, which immediately tried to retract once touched. Nick wrapped them in a headlock and started digging his fingers along both of them. Charlie fell and arched his back letting out the loudest cackle Nick ever heard. 

Charlie's laugh soon became silent the closer Nick's teasing fingers got to his toes. 

"Looks like I found your weak spot Char~" Nick said with a grin. 

Looking back, he saw Charlie with laughing tears streaming down his face as the boy curled up in on himself. His shoulder bounced up and down, signalling he was laughing quite hard. 

"Is- is this too much?"

Charlie couldn't really verbally respond but he shook his head and promptly covered his face in embarrassment. Nick cooed at the adorable reaction, using his nails to softly dig under Charlie's toes. The boy's laughter returned with sputtered snorts and begging.

"Nihihick I swear-"

"Swearing isn't nice Charles, you know better"

With a battle cry, Charlie managed to latch his fingers onto Nick's sides pinching up and down. The rugby lad had no other choice but to let go of Charlie's feet to protect himself. 

The boys both fought to gain the upper hand. They found themselves staring at each other face to face. Their hands rested on each other's sides.

"Give up already," Charlie said breathlessly.

"Nuh uh you started this"

"I did not!"

"Did too!"

"Nicholas!"

"Charles!"

Bright laughter filled the house once more as the boys tickled each other's sides. Charlie's laugh was much lighter and hiccupy and Nick's laugh was more hearty with a few snorts interspersed. The boys looked at each other, both thinking about how cute the other looked. This went on for a couple minutes, the oven clock dinging them back to reality. 

"Carry me" Charlie panted, flopping onto Nick's chest.

Nick picked Charlie up bridal style and sat him on the counter. Charlie knew he made muffins, but he couldn't help sneaking a peek at Nick's buns, giggling to himself. 

"They smell delicious!" exclaimed Nick, as he set the muffins down to cool. 

"Tao's going to flip when he loses" Charlie extended his arms, hugging Nick tightly. 

"Now put your shirt back on-"

#twordpinion #tword fic #heartstopper tword content #heartstopper fic #heartstopper tword fic #heartstopper

[safetycar-restart]

okay. camboy!charles. but combine it with boypussy!charles.

his viewers LOVE him. so do you. he shares a secret, that is his little hole that drips and clenches when he gets praised, with you.

you've done a lot of shit with him on his channel, but like we've established before, he never lets you get in the frame. you're his, he's yours.

due to popular request, you decided to use a fuck machine (is that what it's called???) with him, one that speeds up based on the tips he receives (you've already tested it before!). charles has always wanted to use it on stream, he loves being used as a literal fleshlight, and he's been begging you to try this for ages. like the good boy he is, charles started out his stream by saying hello to all his viewers, showing off his pretty little body before moving on.

charles is laying on the bed in front of the camera, on his back, in a pretty black skirt and a white crop top, his beautiful big eyes looking up at you for instructions. his whole body is in frame, his pretty pussy visible underneath his skirt in this position. his knees are bent and the machine is set right in front of him. there's a towel below him, both of you knowing he'll make a huge mess.

you start out by fingering charles to get him worked and opened up for you. he's already whimpering and squirming around, so you really don't know how big a mess he'll be later. he's already begging, asking you if he can cum and leaning into your chest. you go easy on him for now, letting him cum, and he's already a soaking mess.

after he cums, you ask him if he's ready to use the machine. he's nodding so fast, it's concerning. the dildo on the machine is centered right at his entrance, and one push of a button is all it takes for the fun to start. as soon as the dildo enters him, charles starts whining loudly, even though the pace is slow, since you don't want to overwhelm him.

"it's all up to you guys, he's yours." you gently adress the viewers. charles quickly gets bored of the slow speed of the machine, whining out to you and asking you to go faster. "i can only turn it up a bit, the rest is up to the viewers, lovely." and he whines. he is relieved as you turn up the speed a bit, though. charles lets out a pathetic moan once the machine speeds up tremendously, somebody leaving behind a 50 dollar tip. he's whimpering and moaning loudly, squirming around and biting at the collar of his shirt. it's an awfully sinful, yet beautiful sight to see.

the pace is kept up for a good two or three minutes, charles squirming around, though not quite able to get off of the machine. he doesn't want to, anyway.

the pace keeps on switching between slow and fast every few minutes, charles never being able to see it coming. few minutes later, somebody leaves a whopping 150 dollar tip (fantasy land oof), so you can only imagine how suprised charles must have been. his skirt is lifted up, he's squirming around, whining with tears rolling down his cheeks as you praise him and run your hands through his hair. at that moment, charles squirts as the machine is still fucking him at a hilariously fast pace. his orgasm goes on for about 30-ish seconds, absolutely soaking the towel and even the sheets. you let him ride out his orgasm before turning the machine off, deciding he's had enough. you know his limits.

his pussy is soaked, oversensitive, and charles flinches and cries out at every slight touch, seeing how you've barely touched his clit. you praise him and wipe his tears away, before you bid your goodbyes to the viewers and turning off the camera. you're quick to put it away, since charles doesn't like the camera lingering on him once he finishes his stream. the poor thing is still out of breath, and you can hear him panting from the bathroom, next to the running water above the bathtub. while his bath bomb dissolves, you clean him with a rag, and getting rid of his soaked clothes. you carry him to the bath and quickly change the sheets so you can be with him. you get in to the bath behind him and praise him while washing his hair, telling him how good he's been and how you're so proud of him. he's a smiley, fucked out mess, and he just can't wait to fall asleep in your arms after earning an amazing amount of money. not that he cares, but he doesn't mind it either. he just cares about being with you.

- 📓

YOU DIDNT WARN US THAT IT WOULD BE BOYPUSSY? You know we need at least 3-5 working days to prepare for boypussy?!?!?! Anyway, I am obsessed. This is showstopping oh my god. 📓 anon you are the queen of this entire fucking blog I am losing my mind over this.

I love that camboy!charles is so protective of you, and he’s actually quite possessive too? You’re his. No one else’s. No one gets to see you on camera, ever.

But having said that, he always feels so my better when you help him during his cam sessions, both because he feels safer and because everything always feels more intense when you’re there.

Charles is SO excited to try the fuck machine on stream!! He actually didn’t even buy it for camming, he bought it just because he’s always wanted one and he finally had the money for one. You fully supported his purchase, telling him that he deserved it.

And he loves it so much. He only ever uses it when you have the control though? He’ll never use it just to masturbate when you aren’t there, because he gets fucked dumb so hard so that he actually can’t even remember how to use the control to the machine.

So yeah, the fuck machine is a definite success. Which means that of course he wants to try it live!! But only if you’re with him. He knows he’ll get fucked silly and he won’t be able to handle the responsibility of thanking everyone and ending the live and looking after himself when it’s done. He needs you with him both to control the machine, and to allow himself to really let go because he knows you’re there to help.

Of course he greets his viewers when he starts!! He’s a good boy! (Actually I think his camboy act might be that he’s a very naughty little boy, which is hilarious because it couldn’t be further from the truth but his viewers eat it up). Anyway, good or bad, he always greets them and shows of his outfit and asks how everyone’s week has been.

Maybe you have Charles sitting between your legs? So his head is against your shoulder/chest and your head is just out of the frame?

You choose this position because you know the viewers go crazy when you’re on screen and also because you know this will take a lot out of Charles and you want him to be between your arms while it happens. Charles is overjoyed by the position.

He spreads his legs like a good boy, letting you toy with his pussy and slowly stretch him out. He’s about to get fucked hard, so you know to have to do a good job of stretching him.

The whole time you’re doing that, you just chat to his viewers? You don’t even acknowledge Charles, just chat to viewers like you don’t have three fingers in his pussy and a thumb on his clit. Charles adores how small he feels right then, like he’s just your plaything.

He starts to beg to cum very quickly. The whole situation is so intense and he cums so hard. The moment he’s come done from his high, he’s whining and begging for the fucking machine, trying to wriggle his hips down further to get closer to it.

So you quickly readjust everything and get the machine in place and then it’s just going slowly until someone tips enough.

Charles begs so beautifully for them to speed it up? Except he doesn’t beg them, he begs you because he’s your sub and he can’t beg his viewers when you’re in the room.

But that’s okay, you make sure his viewers feel involved, asking for their opinion and reminding Charles that you don’t have control over the machine.

And him squirting? He absolutely loses it, soaking the towels and sheets and sobbing into your chest, losing all control of his body as his orgasm wrecks him.

By the end of it, he’s crying out just from the feeing of you removing the dildo.

His viewers want to keep going, of course. Some even tipping more money and asking for you to put the machine back on. But you won’t do that. You know your darling and he’s reached his limit now.

You know he had hoped to cam for longer, but you also know that he didn’t expect to squirt so hard that he nearly blacked out in your arms. He’s done now. You make that decision for him.

So you thank everyone and quickly shut everything off.

The moment the sexual aspect is finished, you both want the viewers gone. They’re welcome to watch Charles get fucked by the machine, but they don’t get to watch Charles crying softly as you clean him, pulling you down for a cuddle and slurring his words as he asks if he was good. That’s just for you and for Charles, no amount of money can get the viewers this.

He’s completely out of it throughout the whole aftercare procedure, but he squeaks and smiles when you rejoin him in the bathroom, humming happily when you get in with him and start to wash his hair. You no longer worry about how little he speaks during aftercare. You know now that it’s a sign of how comfortable he feels.

He has to be carried to bed after the bath, and then he just curls up in bed with you for a very well deserved nap.

#camboy!au #camboy!charles #cl #sub!charles #nsfw. #f!reader #📓

[jthume]

Boring Writers Stuff

People ask full-time writers what we do during the day. The short answer is check our podcast on our website for the complete answer (link in bio). We've done 150 episodes on the complex monster called being a creative literary artist. The longer answer starts with the business side of writing. It's is a time suck and it happens every day. There's lot of overhead going to releasing and managing our catalog on five platforms, plus there's always the joy/wonder of doing social media (ugh).

But the actual writing still needs to be done. You can't have a book publishing company without new books.

The graph shows my progress over the last month on Maggie Book 3 (red) and the Space Epic (blue). I'm averaging about 1100 total words per day. The three gaps are a sick day, Christmas, & NY Day (but I promise I was working on the business side on those days, even when I was sick).

The "1100 WPD" thing bugs me, but there's no getting around the need to actually have something to write about. That's why you see stretches of blue (Space Epic) versus red (Mag B3) because I was inspired to work on blue those days. It probably won't last. I can see a blue wall coming up, so when that happens, blue will stop and I'll work on red.

If I push myself, I can do 2k words in about three hours, but that doesn't happen often. I'm glad when I hit 1100 words for the day because that leaves the rest of the day for the business and Real Life. To be honest, though, there are days when the boulder called "writing" that I'm pushing up the hill seems to get heavier as I get closer to the top, so I try to stay focused on the page in front of me and not think too deeply about what I'm doing.

If you're a writer, what are your thoughts on this? Feel free to post replies, questions, and such. Take care of you and have a wonderful 2024.

www.carsonhume.com

#podcast #writers #writing #amwriting #writers of tumblr #new book

[feline17ff]

I posted 3,859 times in 2022

My comments are in pink

That's 1,670 more posts than 2021!

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*tips my hat* m'bloggers 🎩

I tagged 3,784 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

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Longest Tag: 139 characters

#and what does the first passage say about maddie? how can she *not* know she's a character in a book? (she can hear the narrator after all)

I wonder if the tags and links are working for me to find this post

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Sparrow: Babygirl, I know video game lore you wouldn't even care about

Ramona: Babyboy, I know true crime facts you should be scared about

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88 notes - Posted January 18, 2022

#4

Hey, just a heads up, archive.org needs your help!

I mostly use openlibrary.org which is already AWESOME. They're part of archive.org and an actual legal digital library - AND INTERNATIONAL

Right now (till 31st Dec 2022), archive.org has matching campaign that will TRIPLE the impact of each donation

Do donate! And then borrow a book from this library, or watch an old Film Noir movie!

Donate and, if you'd like, let other users know how archive.org has helped you! Or how you've helped it!

Mine's below! 💖

I found out about it during my Hero Academia phase so cleaned up and create pages for the mangas

And then, some time later, there were borrowable books for them! 🤩

I've watched 12 Angry Men — my first, and as of yet only, black and white movie.

I've read Freakonomics in its entirety thanks to it. I was so obsessed with the book I even read it on my phone in a very user unfriendly way because I still don't know what app works with archive.org.

For an assignment, I borrowed What You Must Think of Me: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager's Experience with Social Anxiety Disorder. It's actually not that long or boring. Unlike what books my classmates chose.

150 notes - Posted December 4, 2022

#3

How do you think the "main" crew (Apple, Raven, Cerise, Briar, Ashlynn, etc) would react to being able to hear the Narrators?- Narrator Headcanon Anon

How indeed, lol

Apple: *Very concerned about what this means but trying to remain polite as ever*

Raven:"...WHAT? Huh. Cool."

Cerise: "Wait, they know all our secrets?" *pulls hood closer. But I would love if when she's alone she just talks with someone other than family with her ears out

Briar: "OMG, that's ridonculous!"

Ashlynn: *sweet about it and tells them about the next shoe sale*

Blondie: "You're reporters just like me! Know of any juicy news happening around Ever After?"

Dexter: *existential crisis aka the thinking maths meme* "I'm so confused. I-I-I don't feel so good."

Daring: "The more the merrier, more awesome viewers for awesome Daring Charming" *winks and finger guns at the camera where the narrators are*

Hunter: "Uhhh, cool, cool" *concerned they'll spill the beans about the gift he's working on for Ashlynn*

Lizzie: "Well, of course they exist! Just because you can't hear someone doesn't mean they're not there."

Alistair, Bunny, Chase, even Courtly: *Agree with Lizzie*

Also, everyone who isn't a Wonderlandian, and I mean EVERYONE, would be wondering what other "mad" or Wonderlandian things they were wrong about

167 notes - Posted February 5, 2022

I think this is the post that started my friendship with Narrator Headcanon Anon iirc 🥰🥰🥰

#2

The kind of friendship these 3 would have:

Sparrow: *crying after spilling something on his new Nikes*

Humphrey: get me baking soda, vinegar, and a toothbrush, stat!

Alistair: *with tears in his eyes and consoling a sobbing Sparrow* I'm here bro, we'll get through this together

Based on a post I can't find "whoever thinks only girls are obsessed with shoes has never met a teenage boy"

221 notes - Posted February 4, 2022

I really love this 😂🥰

My #1 post of 2022

Writers be like:

Angst, my beloved

263 notes - Posted January 16, 2022

Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

Lol. You writers and your beloved.

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #narrator headcanon anon

[thecoolertails]

did anyone else play ultimate tag as a kid? it's like normal tag but every player is '"it" and when you're tagged you sit down and can't tag anyone, until the person who tagged you got tagged and then you can get back in the game. there were a few years in elementary school where during every recess almost everyone out there (it was kind of a small school, probably between 100-150 in the whole thing and there were two different recesses so it was probably around 40-60 kids?) would play one big game of ultimate tag together in the field.

people would make alliances with their friends to not tag each other, get each other up when they were down, and work together to tag other players. some kids opposed this and thought it went against the spirit of the game but most people did it (because usually you're not going to want to tag your friends anyway and obviously you're going to want to hang out with them during recess -- also, it really didn't offer an unfair advantage, and the best players were all lone wolves). obviously some kids were faster and better at the game and would get more people down than others, but this was balanced out by the fact that the more people a single player has tagged, the bigger a target they became for the other remaining players on the field. the goal of that was in part to get their friends back in the game, but also for the glory of being the one to take them down.

cheering for people to tag the person who tagged you gave you something to do while you were waiting to get back in, but other than that you'd still usually just be hanging out with your friends in the grass and watching the game which was still fun. and if you got bored you could always just go do something else. since most people were playing ultimate tag, it usually meant that the swings and structures weren't crowded (side note: god i miss swings. swinging was so fun)

since it was recess rather than gym class and the game was self-governed, and each player was the one holding themselves accountable for following the rules, there would occasionally be cheaters who would get up when the one who tagged them still hadn't been tagged, but this really didn't happen that often. i can only remember like, one kid ever doing that, and i feel like she didn't keep playing the game for very long because people aren't going to want to go after someone who isn't playing by the rules, and if someone's supposed to be down and tags you the general response was to just keep playing because their tagging is invalid by nature of the game anyway.

there were other game fads (like kickball) but none of them were as widely played together by so many of the kids as ultimate tag was. idk how common kickball is as a game but if you don't know it, it's basically baseball but instead of using a baseball and a bat it's a dodgeball and your foot. the main problem with kickball is that it had a higher skill and learning curve, and it was a LOT more competitive. the fact that you had to rely on your teammates being good at the game to win made the atmosphere a lot more negative and a lot less fun. another fad was four-square, but the problem with that was only four kids are actually able to play at a time, while everyone else waits in line.

the best thing about ultimate tag is it wasn't about winning at all. the only way you could feasibly "win" ultimate tag would be if one person managed to tag every single other participant in the game, which just never happened. doing that wasn't even the goal, anyway. the goal was just to play the game. there was no limit on the amount of players so people weren't excluded based on popularity or skill, and being out wasn't so bad because for all you know, you could get back in at any moment -- rather than having to just stand around and wait for your turn. nobody had a reason to care if you were bad at it, either. and even if you were, you could still have fun. plus, less people would be targeting you if you had gotten less people down, so it kind of had a natural scaling difficulty.

idk. it was a good game

#im just reminiscing #my posts #let's all play ultimate tag together

[ave-atque-vale-herondale]

also (same anon as before) tell me how you felt about qoaad!! any predictions for twp?

if you haven’t, i recommend reading the novella books:

- the bane chronicles is fun especially if you like magnus.

- tftsa was so cute i loved her (read nothing but shadows before you read tlh)!!

- ghosts of the shadow market is definitely super important for world building for tlh and twp, so i strongly recommend reading it before them (it could be a little boring at times, i admit. but jessa is adorable). read cast long shadows and every exquisite thing before you read tlh. the rest is a lot of world building for kit’s background and jessa.

- OH OH also read the tec series if you haven’t (it follows malec) and i think it’ll eventually connect to twp.

- i believe cassie has these short stories about the tlh cast set before chain of gold. i remember reading them every month on her newsletter before the book came out. i think you can find them on her website? they’re not super important but they do get referenced once in a while in tlh

you probably know all of this and i probably mansplained (can you do that if you’re a girl?) everything 😭 but it’s better to be safe than sorry!! i hope you had fun reading everything and def let me know if you have any questions!

I'm gonna do my best to answer this in a comprehensive manner (let's see how long that lasts lol). You're my fave! (feel free to pop into my messages if you ever wanna chat or anything)

Okay I'm gonna start by saying that I had a strange relationship w TDA. I mentioned some of this in my initial post but I'm just gonna go through everything for continuity sake, if you will. Last summer I intended to finish the 3 series before my semester started. I got through all of TMI and TID but finished only LM and 150-ish pages of LoS. I waited till this summer to pick back up. I remember feeling bitter when I started LM because it was strange to have a modern-set book that didn't focus on my fave TMI gang (I watched the CoB movie religiously when I was younger and, before I knew better, watched the show weekly). It took me a while for Emma to grow on me and I initially had a hard time keeping track of all of the Blackthorns because there were so many of them. What kept me going were all of the connections to Mr. Poe (yes, I just called him that. deal with it.) I've started rambling so let me summarize this portion by saying that TDA didn't snatch me up until mid-LoS. okay, onward.

QoAaD was so reminiscent of CoHF and I loved it very much. WARNING SPOILERS FOR ANYONE WHO MAY READ THIS FOR SOME UNGODLY REASON. I appreciate the importance of the Thule portion and know the book would be shit without it, but, despite it still being fantastical, the apocalyptic vibe was not my fave. It was nice to get Livvy back for a bit (can I just say how shocking it was to have her death right after Robert? cause I feel like cc v rarely kills important characters so I thought Robert was fulfilling the death requirement yk?) and I LOVE to hate Sebastian. I'm gonna say something crazy here. I love Kit and Kieran more than I love a majority of the Blackthorns. Kit has been my fave character from this trilogy and I am not ashamed to admit it. The entire Ty Livvy spell shit was crazy because I completely felt Kit and wasn't angry at him for not outright saying that it was a bad idea, especially given the situation. I just can't believe cc had me expecting them to be fully in love with each other by then end, ONLY FOR THEM TO NOT EVEN BE ON SPEAKING TERMS (yes I know I need to be up to date w SoBH, I just need business day or two to marinate in my TDA emotions). The battle was epic, Julien's meeting was genius, Kieran is a great king, and the Malec wedding nearly had me sobbing. I'm gonna stop here w my thoughts on QoAaD cause it's getting out of hand. I am so sorry I am typing you up a full essay.

Predictions:

watch cc give us a 3rd plot that gets crazy because of some questionable heavenly fire incident (I mean, technically all three series plots that I've read have involved it if you count Jace's affect on Jem).

I'm super worried about a main character death because I think it would shatter me but it's also probably necessary? idk I dont wanna think about it

I also feel like something crazy is gonna happen to Aline and Helen because although they were literally exiled, nothing too traumatic happened to them in the main line of the story that the reader got to directly experience

not a prediction but truly me BEGGING ON MY KNEES for Jace and Kit content. I need them to be drama Herondales together. Also, Jace literally told him to come to him for personal advice so Jace helping Kit deal w his relationship w/feelings for Ty would be ideal (I really don't know how that would happen but let a person dream)

Final Segment:

Don't worry about mansplaining, youre good bae. I'm in the loop but I'm also not at the same time, if that makes any sense at all (there goes my promise of writing in a comprehensive manner). The only reason I haven't purchased the novellas is solely because it's more efficient for me to purchase a box set of a trilogy. (I do have the Codex and The Denizens of the Downworld books though). CC has done her best to make her world make sense but that woman writes up a storm and no matter what I'm always behind lol.

#wren answers #tda #the shadowhunter chronicles #tsc #tmi #the mortal instruments #the dark artifices #1st anon #I hope you don't hate me for writing so much in response #I have absolutely no one to discuss any of this with

[saintsir4n]

1. Just another girl on the mta

'PERHAPS killing them all will be the solution, it's not like anyone would remember them if they died,' Winnie typed, eyes narrowing at her screen as her fingers hammered down, attempting to block the daily breakfast lecture from her mother. "Are you done?"

Margaux snarled, "Do not interrupt me."

"I was only going to say you're running late," she motioned to the door where her father stood sandwiched between his security guards, impatiently tapping his watch as if that made any difference. "I mean...what example would that set?"

Margaux and Luc each exchanged a silent look before the former rose from her chair, flattening out her pencil skirt and plucking up her bag.

"I expect you to be home after tennis practice, not galavanting through the streets like a commoner," Margaux stared at her daughter, who used her fingers to tear a croissant in half. "A $150 on a manicure and you're using your hands to eat?" Winnie snorted and made a bigger mess. "Winifred!"

"You're running late," she replied in a bored tone, eyes dragging up to see her unimpressed father, "You should go, text me the rest of your daily speech. Actually don't bother, I have it memorized. 'Be better, don't dither, never show weakness, don't bake in the sun or you'll look like a super negro.' Is that all?" She glanced at her mother, only to see her lips pursing together. "All the main talking points right?"

Margaux remained quiet, although her ire was apparent.

As she neared her husband, she didn't bother to turn back, only to leave the room, without some much as a goodbye.

The door slammed shut, only adding to the coldness wafting through the home.

Luc shot his daughter a knowing look, one she didn't care for.

"Be safe."

And that was the last thing Winifred heard before she too left the large spread on the table, only having a small portion, to meet her daily requirements.

She rose from her seat, patted out her pleated skirt, adjusted her venom-like necklace that threatened to crawl over her cropped sweatshirt and grabbed her phone.

Her security guard Caesar collected her things and followed her out of the room, murmuring a few words to the staff as they exited the vast estate and headed towards the car.

Winifred's phone rang as she hopped in the back, "What?"

"The Castaways are at the front and you've left me stranded," a voice whined. "Seeing them attempt to take pictures is making my eyes water and my shades are only doing enough to conceal that. Hurry up."

"Ginny, I just left," Winifred then instructed her driver to go after as soon as Caesar joined her. "Take pictures of those fake woke twats while you're at it. Our fans do love a good persecution."

"Likewise, now hurry." Her friend demanded, but when she didn't receive a response she sighed, "Please!"

"Oh quit whining, you sound so... low class. I'll see you in 10," Winifred hung up before she heard a rebuttal. Caesar handed over her signature dark Louis V shades. "Was I too harsh?" She asked, with her soulless voice.

"No, Miss Dubois," Caesar replied, staring ahead.

A faux smile graced her face, before she stared out the window, seeing the New York sites, the same sites that often rendered her bored and uninspired.

Pulling up to school made no difference to her already tedious mood. Once the door floor opened, she got out, took her bag and nodded at her security guard who posted at the bottom of the lengthy stairs. Caesar was a gift from her father. He was large in stature, intimidating with vacant eyes and a bald head. All he knew were black suits, sunglasses and how to comply with his employers.

He reminded her of her dad, but only more pale and submissive.

"Finally," She turned to see her blonde friend, who sauntered over, coffee in hand and a live stream on show, which meant Winifred's smile had to be in full effect, "My partner in crime is here, thanks for leaving me hanging," the pair waved to the screen, watching the comments flood through. Crowds of students either waved as they walked passed or murmured their distaste for them. "Post covid and masks off."

A laugh threatened to break passed Winifred's lips because she knew her blonde and occasionally whatless friend never wore a mask, not once, unless it was made out of diamonds.

"We're back, prepare for one hell of a year," Winifred beamed at the screen as they reached their final step and made it to the courtyard where the snakes gathered near, "Goodbye our swirls."

"And remember just because we're friends and have riches and fortune, does not mean we're not discriminated against. Black and white makes a swirl, but —"

"— Our union makes bigots hurl," Winifred finished their tagline before the live stream ended.

The pair snickered to themselves before Ginny readjusted her navy shades that so effortlessly matched her blazer and boots to match. The blonde's style went with her close confidants' black and purple. They never clashed.

Their smiles found the scowls of those who opposed them, they gathered in their group of seven all either glaring or staring with indifference.

But Winnie and Ginny lowered their glasses to eye them, scanning their outfits head-to-toe before glancing at each other as harsh laughter escaped them.

The blonde tugged Winnie's arm, "Let's go, their poor attempt at a fashion show is burning a hole through my phone and I can't miss performative history."

"Then show me!" Winnie insisted, pushing past a small woman whom she recognised as their teacher, "Watch it!" She shook her head at Miss Keller, whose mouth hung open, "It's rude to stare."

"It's like she hasn't seen an interracial friendship before," Ginny commented, voice getting louder with each word as they strutted the halls.

"For shame!" Winnie exclaimed, gaining more attention from the study body who turned to the teacher in question, "For shame!" She snapped her head towards Ginny, "I need to wash my bag, I would hate for whatever run-of-the-mill stench she has to taint it."

Ginny wordlessly nodded in disgust.

___

"Have you heard?" Ginny had the biggest shit-eating grin on her face as she neared their notorious courtyard table.

Winnie didn't look up from her phone, "What?"

"WhoLian has a long-lost sister. Apparently, she crawled out from Buffalo or Baboon and landed here. Yay," the blonde showed off Julian's Instagram account from her finsta account.

Winnie finally glanced up to see the sister duo. She noticed the similarities or lack thereof. Dark curls flowed down her back where Julian had none. The girl in question couldn't have been older than 15, her wide eyes showed an innocence which Julian lost years ago.

"Interesting," She spoke up, as Ginny sat down opposite her, laughing, "Long lost sister, God I would hate one."

"It sounds cute," the blonde shrugged, pulling out a mirror to check her makeup.

"You'd have to split your inheritance," Winnie pointed out, picking up her phone and typing away.

Ginny gagged at the thought, "Never mind."

The pair noticed a couple more students wearing sunglasses around just resting at the top of their noses similar to them throughout the day.

Some would say they were more influential than others, which was why they continued to be pondered by various brands.

"Look," Winnie held up Zoya's Instagram account @alottazee "Cute tag, she doesn't want to get noticed." Her ring-clad fingers scrolled through her page for her friend to see. "How 2016. That'll change." she paused, landing on the most recent post she took with Julian which was now filled with thousands of comments. "How long before she gets ruined?"

Ginny reapplied her lipstick, "A month tops."

"Please, a day is all it takes," Winnie tutted, "Manhattan is vicious, but playing with us, is like a civil war that never ends."

"I love it when you talk dirty," Ginny gushed, then recieved a playful glare.

"Speaking of dirty, how's Max?"

"He's not dirty," Ginny pouted.

"Just not clean right?" Winnie snarkily replied,  "He asked for you in homeroom," she almost cackled at the look on the blonde's face, "Sickening I know. He needs to keep that type of PDA to a minimum."

Ginny groaned, "He should've just texted me."

"Would you have responded?"

"Not until the end of the day," Ginny then asked, "What about you?"

"What about me?" Winnie typed away at her phone, making plans and adding to her already packed calendar, feeling eyes on her, "What, only I'm allowed to stare not you, spit it out."

"I know you're getting your panties in a twist. You're cranky when someone is swimming between your thighs."

"Suppose I am," Winnie said, cracking a smile, "But don't worry about that. I've got a plan."

"You always do. Now, tomorrow I want to think we should sit on the MET steps," Ginny proposed, much to her friend's surprise.

They always sat in the middle of the courtyard, where everyone could see them and they could see everyone else. Remaining close but out of reach was their goal and they succeeded every day. Their followers on all of their socials, but joint and separate accounts knew that about them.

An inanimate object is worthless until it takes the right people to make it priceless and that was their table.  

"For torture?" Winnie guessed her friend's train of thought.

Ginny wore her signature grin, "And our pleasure."

"Isn't that always the way?"

"The best way, so let's intimidate Wholian's crew all while I eye fuck Max and you get high off your ego," a Versace platform mule collided with Ginny's leg, "Ow, you bitch," the blonde huffed, "You know I'm right."

___

Winifred let out a deep groan when she swung her racket. 1 p.m Mondays to Thursdays: Tennis practice. No, she wasn't a prodigy nor did she want to go pro, she needed a release, like Ginny said but a non-sexual one. Sure she hooked up with people but during the day she wanted to focus on other things. Her rage simmered between classes and a harsh hit of a small yellow ball allowed her to let it all out.

So she stood their face as hard as a rock and straightened her hair brushed up in a tight bun, to prevent her natural kinks from forming. Mom would hate that. Caesar stood off to the side, leaning against the wired fence of the court. 

"Again," Winnie demanded of her sweaty opponent who lost for the second time. "Hurry up."

But just as the ball boy rushed the court, her opposition grabbed her things and left, not wanting to be subjected to such embarrassment.

"Pathetic," Winnie mumbled, eying the player in distaste.

"Should I find another player for you, Miss Dubois?" The ball boy squeaked when her dangerous eyes fell on him.

He wanted to disappear at that moment.

"No, my parents built this court for the school so I could play against the wind," sarcasm laced her tone, "Find me someone else." Her racket flung from her hand as he fled the court, leaving her to grab a towel and wipe her face.

Other students rarely wanted to play against her, in fear of her temper. She, Of course never understood why they believed she had a temper. She didn't have one if she had anything to say and when she did she pulled the race card and dangled it in their faces until they appeared on the court with the little hope they had of beating her before she hit it out of them.

A small student walking past the cages caught her attention, a rather familiar face, curly hair and an expression too enthusiastic in her opinion. Zoya Lott: Julian's half-sister.

When she felt eyes on her she turned, seeing the older teen whose smile went wide and her hand waved along with the gentle breeze.

Zoya had no choice but to wave back as she walked even shooting her an awkward smile.

But she missed the darkened gaze of Winnie and that was her first mistake.

___

Winnie didn't show up to Dumbo Hall after school, not because her parents told her to stay at home because of some business meeting they were in, she preferred her bedroom over socialising most days.

So Ginny went to scope out the scene for her.

Winnie just made her way out of her ensuite, into her bedroom, to be greeted by her Tibetan mastiff, she tentatively combed her hands through his brown fur, making him pant and whine.

"Mommy's busy Abaddon, go play," she bopped her head over to his space in her room. He had a whole 8-foot wide section to entertain himself. A frown appeared on his face to which she blinked rapidly, "I have to neglect you for now until you cause trouble because that's what mothers do."

She hopped onto her satin sheets whilst he begrudgingly went away.

She spent the last hour waiting for updates from Ginny, all whilst stalking Zoya Lott, trying to find out intricate details about her past.

(WinnerD: @gossipgirl tagged you in a post.)

"The fuck?" she scrunched up her face when she tapped on it.

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Hello, followers. Gossip Girl here, your one and only source for the truth behind the scandalous lives of New York's elite. Been a minute. Did you miss me? I know I've missed you. Though you're probably going to wish I stayed away when I'm done because I can see you. Not the you you've oh-so-carefully curated, the real you. The one hiding just outside the edge of frame. Well, it's time to reframe that picture. You've gotten away with everything a little too long. Now that I'm back, I'm gonna feature your finstas, surface those subtweets, and crack your caches. You can't hide from me. Never could. And to prove it, there's a big secret amongst the ruling class at Constance Billard. And as you will soon come to know, no good secret goes unpublished. Watch this space. Or don't. You'll hear about it soon enough either way. Till then, xoxo gossip girl.

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Winnie murmured a quick, "Interesting," just as her phone started ringing, she quickly answered, "I've just seen the post. How old."

Ginny's face scrunched, "Odd?"

"No old. Why not use Twitter for some gossip blog? Insta's a little outdated don't you think? Not for us of course, but the anonymous warrior might as well use myspace and sing a song."

"I'll admit, I followed them."

"Why?" Winnie thought she was so idiotic at times.

"Seems funny."

"Are you drunk? I want you to remain sober," she hissed down the line.

"I will."

"And stay away from community dick, he's riddled with infections and I don't need your mouth to be full when I'm trying to stay in touch.."

"Oh please the only brain I give is information, he does the work, so stop being bossy, it's getting old." Ginny retorted, winking at the boy in question who stood talking to his little group of friends.

"Keep your phone on. I want to know more about this Gossip bitch," Winnie snapped,  "if they claim to expose secrets and lies. I want to be the first to know."

"We will."

Winnie rolled her eyes, "Bye."

After hanging up she questioned her friendship with Ginny. Yes, they were mutually using the other but even if she liked the blonde's companionship, she knew it would only last until high school was over.

"To block or not to block," her fingers ran over the block icon of the gossip blog before something else came to mind.

She needed another opinion, someone she had somewhat mutual respect for.

Winnie

Are you blocking gossipgirl?

From: Luna

If I were your friend I would say yes.

But as an enemy... let's see how it

plays out.

Winnie simply smiled, it wasn't genuine or happy, it was just a mask. Her followers were tagging her in posts, asking whether to indulge in the new fantastic that was now the talk of the city, but she waited until the time was right to respond.

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(@slitherWin tweeted.)

A geriatric who uses an Instagram account to blog about teenagers is simply criminal. But that's just my humble opinion. Real bitches use Twitter fingers when at war, not using Shakespearean rhetoric to resurrect an archaic method of mayhem. Do better or do nothing at all.

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Winnie chuckled to herself, before calling over Abaddon and giving him some limited attention.

"Let's get some sleep," she ruffled his fur, "I'm the main agent of chaos in this city. There can't be two."

___

The next day Winnie woke up to the usual amount of notifications. A couple of thousand was the norm, especially when she collectively had 20 million followers across her platforms. It seemed that gossipgirl heeded her advice and joined Twitter. Big mistake. Twitter was her playground, to which she had been kicked off a few times before her parents threatened to sue the founders.

Sure you could send DM's on Twitter, pictures of such, but they played their hand by listening to a 17-year-old girl, which posed the question. Was this anonymous blogger their age or not?

Now sitting in computer science she was on autopilot, listening in when she had to and ensuring that the boy next to her was taking notes. She used her witt and thick eyelash extensions to get ahead, but her Disney-like features were the biggest contender. His fingers were working overtime as he wrote whatever Mr Glassberg said.

Her shades were off, but AirPods stayed in.

Yawn, she rolled her eyes at his dull voice, it was almost as bland as Aki and Audrey's chemistry.

She heard there was a new potential couple on the rise, Zoya and Obie. Yuck, but Winnie assumed he had gotten bored of Julian, but the latest gossipgirl tweets had her wondering, when was she going to find her match.

From: M

Call me.

Winnie

No.

Her phone vibrated obnoxiously loud and against her better judgement she picked up.

"Why do you mean no?" the de haan teen exclaimed, extremely frustrated by her lack of compliance.

"Why are you calling, it's daytime," Winnie replied with indifference, uncaring if it distracted the classroom.

"Have you not seen what you've done? It's goodbye Instagram and hello Twitter fingers. You potentially made this thing more dangerous."

"I'm aware of my influence," Winnie replied, now getting the attention of her teacher.

Mr Glassberg cleared his throat, "Are we interrupting you, Miss Dubois?"

She cocked her head to the side, "Yes, but I suppose I could always go to the library that my father had built to study?"

Her teacher had no rebuttal and went back to his meek ways.

"Now I'm in trouble, so that means you are too," Winnie said a little quieter.

"Oh, how fun."

"It's not," she shut off her phone and falsely smiled at the boy next to her.

___

"Why the hell would I go to some fashion show that I'm not walking in? No, the better question is, why would you?" Winnie questioned, sitting against her headboard whilst her friend played with Abaddon who was cautious about the attention he received.

The heiress messed around with some Photoshops, ignoring the dozens of notifications popping up on her screen.

Ginny cast her a glare, "I'm not going so drop the tone. Be nice for once, I have a migraine, do you want our followers to know we're fighting? Better yet, do you want gossipgirl?"

"She hasn't tweeted at me yet," Winnie didn't know whether to take that as a triumph or defeat.

"She will. And when she does the gloves are off. The fashion show might be the focus of the night but with us not in attendance means we have power."

"We need to keep it that way."

"We will," Ginny exclaimed, settling down the floor, beaming up the furry friend who was gradually warming to her.

Winnie rolled her eyes, knowing that Abaddon would expect this type of attention now and she couldn't have that, well not for too long.

"Can I remind you that cunts like Pippa Sykes and Bianca Breer also won't be attending the show?"

Ginny scowled at their names, "When did you care about those two? They're below us. Hell, they're even below Calloway."

"I like to know what people are doing," Winnie explained, picking up her phone, "and what Calloway is doing is walking in a show that will barely get enough buzz. Plus the girl wouldn't know how to walk if Yasmeen Ghauri kicked her up the ass." 

"So you know how to walk?" Ginny dared to ask the question, but was ignored, "Hello?"

"I heard your senseless question. Of course, I know how to fucking walk!"

Ginny didn't bat an eye at her outburst, "Maybe you should've stolen her moment then."

"Too easy. I want a challenge. Plant seeds. A D-list fashion show won't do that." Winnie finally locked eyes with her for the first time since she arrived, "Now come here."

Ginny folded her arms in defiance, "Say please."

"Now."

Relecuntantly the blonde rose from the soft bedroom floor and made her way over to the spoilt Dubois heiress who plastered on a smile and instantly mirrored her expression before Winnie's phone captured their faux joy with a flash.

"Again," Winnie demanded until 10 pictures later and a soft airbrush they were ready to post.

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Not even a minute went by before their phones lit up with a knowing Twitter notification.

Ginny squealed.

"Mmmm and there it is," Winnie smirked.

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(@gossipgirl just tweeted)

Spotted or do my eyes deceive me? Dubois Heiress Winnie and her trusted sidekick Ginny were not in attendance at the Jeremy O'Harris fashion show, why could that be? Scared to be upstaged by JC or do they simply not care? I thought they were at war but clearly, the sibling rivalry is more firey than we all thought. Stealing the light may be not something Z intended to do, but she's unaware of her sister's Callo ways. Is this new IT girl gonna last or will she be thrown to the sinning lions that are feening for pure blood? We will just have to wait and see, until then followers, let the chaos commence, xoxo gossipgirl.

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Safe to say the vibe at Constance St Judes was changing, when Winnie and Ginny walked up the stairs, they snapped their concealed gazes to the opposition hanging by the balcony with a variation of stares.

They then walked passed unaware that their rivals shot the same looks at Zoya who awkwardly walked into the school.

The duo made their way up the first flight of stairs, Ginny made sure to state her opinion about elevators and why the school so separately needed one, but it fell on deaf ears. Winnie was doing her usual, typing away on her phone.

"Are you ever gonna tell me who you're always texting, I know all the gays and the theys at this school so just say."

"No," Winnie waved her off, "You have statistics in 5, you should go."

"I'm not a dog."

Winnie hummed and went on her way, scoping out the rooms that were empty and successfully finding one that surprisingly didn't make her want to throw up her breakfast.

Minutes went by after she sent a final text to the one she desired at that moment. She hated waiting, it showed weakness and disrespect. So she gritted her teeth and clenched her fist, but just as her nails were about to slice into her skin, the door inched open, revealing an alluring face.

Monet rose a brow at her viscous glare as she shut the door and neared the table she was sitting on.

"I thought you said I was in trouble. You've ghosted me all of yesterday. Radio silence after the fashion show, colour shocked me," she gasped dramatically and settled her manicured hands on Winnie's bare legs.

Winnie snorted, "My my, you sound needy."

"Not needy, intrigued. You'd rather spend time with your blonde beard than with me."

Winnie rolled her eyes at her obvious jealousy, "So so needy."

"Take that back," all amusement escaped Monet's tone.

"Shan't, because now it's my turn to be in charge, you're in trouble didn't you know," Winnie snaked her arms around Monet's neck and tugged her closer, "I was waiting 20 minutes for you, I could've tripped and gotten sepsis from the dust floating around so stop complaining."

"Make it quick, I can't miss English lit."

"Why, when I can just perform an original sonnet with my tongue that will put all the poets to shame?"

A giggle escaped Monet when Winnie's lips trailed against her neck and hands caressed her body.

Besides, why have English when they can study biology?

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a/n:

winnie is a bitch. she's awful and i wanted her to be that way because that's how the rich students of gossip girl should be. rude and entitled, not preaching to us about social inequalities and stuff that some relate to but it didn't need to be yelled at us. throughout the reboot, i felt like i was being talked down to when that shouldn't be the case. i understand that social media plays a big role in most shows nowadays but i do think there are ways to combat that. so gossipgirl will be ruthless because winnie will enable her to be that way. winnie and ginny are friends for fame but you'll see more of their dynamic.

you can call this a love story if you like. the more you see winnie the more you'll understand her. she isn't going to change she'll just be fleshed out. characters like luna and monet should've gotten that chance. also, you'll see winnie interact with more of the main cast.

i'm gonna make up so many random classes just because they sound snobby btw. but overall what did you think of the first chapter?

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