#I love the taffy dolls so much

[sourtomatola]

Taking Candy for a fool chapter 10

You looked down into the dark room where three giant gift boxes sat.

“E-eclipse, I don’t think that’s a good idea, they said Marionette reacted weird to them the other day…” Sun frowned.

Eclipse waved his hand before making the friend’s sign to you.

He shook his head and took you hand, bringing you into the room where the taffy creatures resided. He tapped on the puppet’s box rhythmically. The puppet popped out cheerfully and waved at you.

You waved back nervously, seeing the second box of the marionette peeking out at you, like they did the other day.

You anxiously looked between Eclipse and the peeking golden eyes. Eclipse smiled and said they liked you. You found that a little hard to believe, but they haven’t attacked you yet, so you supposed it was a good sign. When you and the marionette locked eyes, they quickly hid away again. Which was surprising consider the last time you two locked eyes, they came out and stared at you unabashedly.

“they’re shy, but they like you.” Eclipse signed.

While you were staring at the box, soft sticky arms came around and hugged you from behind. You yelped in shock as a tacky feeling pillow closed around you.

You face flushed at the feeling of gooey taffy hugging you and you resisted flinching when the puppet mask came down and looked at you in the eyes. “H-hey there…p-puppet…” You said nervously.

Puppet, to your surprise, began to sing softly. At least, you think that was what was happening. You heard another voice from somewhere and looked back to see Marionette peeking out again. They were singing softly as well.

You a deep dark feeling filled you when the Nightmarionne’s box stirred. It wasn’t’ like the other day, with a jolt and bump here and there though. It was a slowly moving as the lid bloomed open like a deadly flower. Out sprouted black and white stripped tentacle’s, smooth and thin, shimmering with smooth chewy sugar.

A whimpered slipped out of your mouth but Eclipse quickly stifled it with his hand. You flashed your eyes to him in shock, but he soon silently explained.

“Don’t interrupt the lullaby, it’s what’s keeping them nice.” He motioned out and pointed to Nightmarionne.

You watched anxiously as Nightmarionne showed themselves, tentacles and sharp hardened bits of taffy fingertips formed dangerous claws that waved in a dance to the lullaby the other taffy being’s sang. His monochrome mask decoration matching the other doll’s, but he was gangly, sharp, with tiny razor teeth in his gaping mouth.

You stood motionless as you watched the soft gentle dance and song of the taffy puppets.

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#taking candy for a fool #ha ha what time is it #I'm so tired #fnaf moon #moondrop #fnaf sun #sundrop #fnaf nightmarionne #fnaf eclipse #art #my art #comic #I love the taffy dolls so much #almost done writing all of this out #I think I've only got one more to write #I wrote 7 pages yesterday

[dollsorwhatever]

Pony Updates lol

I've slowed down a lot when it comes to my pony collection, but recently took a detour from my dolls to get a couple new ones! Love Petal was one of my grails and one of the more expensive ponies I needed to complete my Sugarberry Army, but I finally found one in excellent condition for a somewhat-low price!!

I'm only missing...I think twelve Sugarberry Pose ponies now (ironically including Sugarberry herself lol), not including the Sippin Soda Ponies because I hate that gimmick lol (and Taffy because I am not paying all that for such a boring pony when Mummy Meadowsweet exists) The day HQG1C or Basic Fun start making Sugarberry pose repros is the day I go absolutely insane, I love this pose so much lol (and for anyone wondering why my ponies seem to be floating in mid-air, they're all standing on the shell of an old, heavily damaged Barbie TRU display case that I got a couple years ago because I have absolutely no space for ponies atm lol) And!! These!!

Takara Baby clones by HQG1C! Absolutely lost my mind when these started popping up on Instagram and luckily didn't miss the official pre-order on Clippers Sail. Sadly they do have poly hair, but given the low price and the fact that the HQG1C project is very small and they have to keep cost in mind when making ponies I'm not usually that upset when they occasionally use poly (I am incredibly happy when they do nylon though). Luckily it holds a curl very well! The proportions aren't identical to an authentic Takara Baby (I think they probably used a fakie to create this mold) but they are so so so cute and probably the closest I'll get to owning any Takara ponies in the near future so I'm happy lol I also have the grey variant, but she's currently bald because I hated the yellow hair and don't feel like rehairing her at the moment lol

#my little pony #takara my little pony #love petal #flower fantasy ponies #hqg1c

[the-trans-folk-witch]

The Green Devil of the Ozarks: The little green fairy of... moonshine?

It was 2005. I was with my grandfather in an old shop similar to "dick's 5 and 10" outside of Branson, Missouri. This is where The Green Devil caught my eye.

My grandfather frequented little old fashioned stores like this. He loved collecting all kinds of gadgets. Old movie posters, salt water taffy, and soda parlor paraphenalia. It was heaven on earth to him in this little corner of the world that was stuck in an older Ozark time. His house wasn't too dissimilar to a crackerbarrel gift shop. All kinds of wooden toys and dolls. He loved his little knickknacks. But on that day he found it. A copy of an old French absynthe poster with "the little green fairy" smirking at the viewer. He had to have it. It was being sold for $8! frame included! If only the seller knew the true value of it. Or how it's mere existence was breaking so many copyright laws.

Maurin Quina, as it's named, is a French apéritif advertisement painted by Leonetto Cappiello in 1906. The drink was made illegal soon after its creation. But this poster is now being reused today. It was not well known in the US at all back then. Not even in the 2000's. but my grandfather being a moonshiner, absynthe fan, and art history drop out, knew all about it.

My grandfather was not as religious as the rest of my family. But he sure prayed to God when he was trying to avoid the law. He was selling homemade moonshine without any sort of license or proper knowledge of sanitary practices. It was an arte form he learned from his father that I never had the pleasure of learning.

He decided to hang this new poster up in his storm cellar where he kept his aging bottles of various liquors. Over time it developed A life of its own. My grandfather would kiss his hand and place it on the poster of the little green fairy after every jar was sealed or sales were made. I Don't think he saw this as devil worship so much as just a simple good luck ritual. Not too disimilar to his high school basketball team kissing the image of their mascot before a game. He always practiced these superstitions even though he didn't seem to really believe in them.

Fast forward to today. I'm an Ozark trad witch. So of course I now work with this image as if it is the devil himself. He is a devil that rules spring and summer. Drunkenness, poison, lunacy, fairies, and nature. He is associated with law breaking, alcohol, healing, harming, and fertility. With Easter coming up He is on my mind heavily. A time I feed him red dyed eggs symbolizing the blood of christ and the blood of good Christians. I feed him this with intentions of causing those which share the eucharist to lust. Poisoning the church so to speak. I attend mass in spirit form and dip my blessed turkey wish bone down in the communion wine. The turkey is symbolic of love in the Ozarks. And the wishbone is horned like the stang, and my devil. Midnight mass on Easter is filled with drunkenness and sex. Those consuming this spiritually poisoned wine are consumed with lust for others in the church. An orgy ensues in the great house of God. Only for all members to awaken Easter morning with no memory of the incestuous rituals performed with their brothers and sisters in christ. To do such things in the house of God and not confess them (due to not remembering) is damanble. This is my goal as a witch. To bring the witches Sabbath to the church and to pervert the souls of good men.

By turkey wand and lustful stang I complete my work in the devils name.

A call to the Green Devil:

"Envy is his name. Drunkeness and poisoning are his arte. He is Lord of the little people and plants alike; come little green fairy and bring your lust and your lunacy. Green devil rise from the roots below like a serpent. Green devil come down from the tree tops like a booger in the night who takes its flight. Join me in this witching hour oh beast of the green and hear my call to the wild. By my witches flame may it be so."

Look out for a post on the black and red devils later this year. Our horned one changes with the seasons

#folk witchcraft #traditional witchcraft #transgender witches #beginner witch #folk catholicism #ozark magic #animism #santa muerte #folkloric witchcraft #witchcraft #ozark witchcraft #ozark howler #green devil #man in black #green magic #plant magic #green path #crooked path #theistic satanism #the boogeyman #satanism #satan #hail satan #booger dog #witchfather

[wolfcubjim]

Some thoughts/small things I notice while watching Coraline (started like 15 mins into movie, lmao)

The other mother doesn't eat during the first other world dinner

I love Coralines moon and star turning lamp

If coraline had those cutters any higher up then oofers for Mr. B

One of the doggies' nose is red while the others are black

I love Spink and Forcible's fish lamp

Love that they added the cat climbing the tree in the backround, also that cat has great balance to stay on Wybie's back while he's biking away

"I bet he's hungry as a pumpkin," haha

It's so cool but still very sad that throughout Coraline's adventures in the other world, you can see the eyes of the ghost children

Back to unserious, the decals on Mr. B's jacket sleeves look like dicks xD

Cora's mom is pretty harsh when we first meet her but she trys a little, it won't do much but she tried ig

Why do all the indoor lights stay on at the other world??

Also, I love the cat, he's so great

The standing cutout of the guy in the boat, his eyes follow Miss Spink (I'm guessing which is which, pls correct me if wrong)

They really gave Miss Forcible jiggle physics

I haven't pointed it out cause most people already know about the portraits of the other kids behind Coraline in the dining room, but I also love that behind the other father and other mother in the dining room, there are animal skulls with horns

Also, I love that you can see the Detroit zoo snow globe in the background, and it's already fogged/iced up, at least during the other mothers' first transformation scene

Love that the stars on Coralines sweater glow in the dark a little bit

Love that other Wybie uses the chicken oven glove from the other kitchen as a mask xD

The cat in the burning of the doll of her parents' scene is half her size

The food the other mother cooks makes me so hungry omg, it looks so good

The hint for her parents is literally just to use her eyes /s

Poor Other father, at least he helps Coraline

The change is other Mr. B's voice is terrifying when he says "not even that anymore"

Coraline has great aim, first with her hat landing on the mosquitos now with the taffy looking thing that would've hit

I love the slow peeling of the wallpaper as coraline passes throught the house

So funny that her parents don't wonder why she's covered in cobwebs

Each of the dead children has different halos

The ending is always very nice, whether she's still in the other world (as theorized) or not, it's still great

But that still begs the question, are there pocket portals around the real world for the cat to 'teleport' through, or is the other world still around? I personally think that the cat still has portals to get around the real world, it shows him doing something similar in the other world when he sticks his head through the tree and comes out the other end when he shouldn't have been able; I think it's something like that, just in the real world

#coraline #mini theory #11/10; great movie

[mzannthropy]

🎄🎄🎄Merry Maudmas 🎄🎄🎄

The Josephs' Christmas

In the Joseph household, the month of December passes in planning and scheming. They're a poor family and so the buying of Christmas gifts always involves most complicated mathematical calculations ("How can I get a ten-cent present for Emmy and a fifteen-cent one for Jimmy out of eighteen cents?"). Luckily, the oldest, Mollie, who is fourteen, is there to help out at any time, with anything. Mollie, a true representation of an eldest daughter is, as the author literally puts it, weighed down under an avalanche of responsibility (Luisa Madrigal says hi). There are in total eight Joseph children, the youngest is four year old Lennie. They live in a little log house on the prairie, so we can add another location to our little Christmas stories collection.

This Christmas, things are harder--the crops failed in the summer and the family have been struggling, but that doesn't mean they get discouraged. The planning and scheming is still going on, even if the presents are the tiniest of knick-knacks. On Christmas Eve, heavy snow starts falling. After the kids go to bed, Mr and Mrs Joseph sit in front of the fire. Mr Joseph bemoans that they couldn't get better presents for the children, especially a "real live doll" for little Maggie. To which his wife says next year will be better, and she has at least made a big plateful of taffy. And then, there's a knock on the door.

On the doorstep are two snowed-up figures--Mr Ralston, a wealthy merchant, and his wife. They ask for a shelter for the night, as they're unable to continue with their journey in this weather. They're on their way to town, to spend Christmas with Mr Ralston's brother and his family. Mrs Ralston is carrying a big basket, full of presents and snacks for their nephews and nieces.

I think you can all see where this is going. The Ralstons, seeing how poor the Josephs are and how feeble their presents to each other are, decide to empty the basket and leave everything to the little Josephs. They put it on the table next to the other presents and cover it with a tablecloth. They hope they can get out in the morning before anyone notices. And they do.

The Joseph children are overjoyed with their gifts (and little Maggie gets exactly the doll she wanted), but they have as much love for their original presents. And as Ted says about his mother's taffy:

It was just as good as the candy in the box and had more 'chew' to it besides.

This one might be a bit of a cliche but I don't it against the writer. Everyone's allowed to indulge at Christmas. This is the second appearance of a Christmas basket--I wonder if this was inspired by one from LMM's real life?

#l.m. montgomery #lmmblogging #merry maudmas #christmas #mypost

[holding-monsters-hands]

IM SO SORRY AM I LIKE. SPAMMING YOU CUS YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL ME TO STOP but i have another question DISREGARD THE FACT THAT THEY ARE MADE OF WOOD what are the dummies’ (yk including the doll) (gb) favorite drinks, foods and candy!!!???!! i love random hcs UGH!!!!! i take anything i can get but pls tell me if this is getting overwhelming obvi u never have to do any of these right away always take ur time ;;;;3;;;;; BAH I NEED TO STOP WORRYING

NONO OMG I LOVE THESE REQUESTS! request as much as you want! <3

also it’s given me the inspiration to possibly create a goosebumps discord server for anyone that’s interested!

The dummies (& doll)’s favorite snacks and treats

Slappy is like a little raccoon you’d find in your trash, except it’s in your old halloween candy bag! He most certainly has a huge sweet tooth, from sour to sweet candies, chocolate, and soda! I feel like he’d enjoy coke despite the fact it fucks up his insides every time- he also loves caramel! mostly so he can make you or jimmy suffer trying to get it out.

Snappy gives me a vibe that he’s a sweet & savory kind of guy, like he enjoys cheetos and kit kats! mostly because he enjoys the crunchy texture, but he also likes any drink with carbonation! even seltzer!

I feel like mr.wood would be a good blend of savory and sweet! however he might lean a bit more on the savory side, though he won’t pass on any sugar!

Mary ellen also enjoys sweets! but like, fancy stuff such as tiramisu, eclairs, cannolis, cake- you name it! she also would enjoy tea and maybe even boba, just imagine the boba dates with this pretty girl!

Dennis likes savory stuff mainly! but he won’t say no to sweets, though he prefers cheesy stuff like nachos, doritos, cheetos, you name it! his favorite sweet however is cake, chocolate or bday flavor! and his favorite drink probably lands on slushies or sprite.

Rocky likes the simple things in life, you’d probably see him eat a bag of potato chips or popcorn, and as for sweets- he enjoys saltwater taffy and caramel! he always feels bad afterwards though because it gets stuck inside him, also he seems like a root beer kinda guy!

Goldie probably has more of a savory taste, but similar to dennis- she won’t say no to sweets! though I feel like she eats sparingly as a little personal reward, she’s basically pavloving herself with m&ms and soda.

#goosebumps #slappy the dummy #snappy the dummy #mary ellen the doll #dennis the dummy #rocky the dummy #goldie the dummy #mr wood #wally wood

[bracketsoffear]

Anti-Sumire propaganda: I agree that her story is extremely Stranger-themed, but she is not an Avatar because she is not really spreading fear by impersonating Kasumi. It is disturbing for the audience and the people around her, but it's more because of the obvious mental issues her delusion represents and the lengths Maruki (who meddled with her mind to make her think she was Kasumi to "fix" her grief) went to to "help" her, which is more Spiral than Stranger. I'm pretty sure it's obvious to everyone who actually knew Kasumi that Sumire is NOT Kasumi, so the way they act towards her is informed by the impression that she's a mentally fragile young woman in the middle of a breakdown; meanwhile, the Phantom Thieves never knew Kasumi, so discovering Sumire's true identity isn't exactly like uncovering an imposter for them, and the focus is on Sumire's need to overcome her grief and self-esteem issues. Arguably Maruki is the true Avatar here, as he caused this whole situation and created a false utopia where everyone acts weirdly and dead people are alive that is clearly super creepy for those in the know, and that's perhaps more Spiral.

Pro-Other Mother propaganda: she is very Web, but the way she manipulates is extremely Stranger. The image of people who look human except for button eyes is very Uncanny Valley, especially when you realize she wants to do the same to Coraline. All of the Others are twisted parodies of their real counterparts who initially act like "the real one but better," but soon turn out to be monstrous fakes (a bloated pumpkin, taffy monsters, a mass of rats); this culminates in the Other Mother, who looked like Coraline's real mother but turns out to be something humanoid but very very not human--she's too stretched out, she has needles for hands, and her skin seems to be like porcelain (and porcelain dolls are quite Stranger). Similarly, her Other World is beautiful and bright and enticing, full of MUSICAL delights (Other Father's piano number, Other Spink and Forcible's THEATRE, Other Bobinsky's mice CARNIVAL), but it's all fake when you look beneath the surface. She presents herself as an unnerving but loving guardian to lure children in (like a much more competent Anglerfish), then turns out to be a predator--but even then she's still acting like a parody of a mother (dragging Coraline into "time out" by her ear until she learns to "behave"). It's kind of a Jonah situation, now that I think about it--Jonah's manipulation of everyone around him would seem to make him Web, but he's Eye because he accomplishes this through his vast knowledge, which would indicate that Other Mother is Stranger because her manipulation is accomplished through imitation and the uncanny.

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#Stranger Poll #character propaganda #asks

[jillvalcntines-archive]

late summer gothic aesthetics

i was tagged by @morvaris​ and honestly THANK YOU so much!! I love those things were you can explore your ocs to the SMALLEST detail! <3 thank you!!

tagging: @chocobothis​ @aelyosos​ @arklay​ @swordcoasts​​ & everyone who wants to explore their ocs as well!! <3

rules: bold what applies to your ocs/their aesthetic, italicize what sort of or somewhat applies, strike through what doesn’t/never applies

road-trip burnout >> bloodshot eyes, flickering neon motel signs, aviator sunglasses, magic 8 balls, recurrent dreams of gray aliens, beaded curtains, dusty denim and incense smoke, sepia desert vistas, playlists of 1960s rock songs, coded messages in television static, comets in the night sky, fake ids, gas station snacks, jesus bobble heads, split lips, patchouli, paranoia between friends

southern cemetery >> magnolia blossoms, chipping white porch swings, spanish moss, suffocating humidity, faded photographs of lacy weddings, tire tracks in mud, mausoleum angels, family trees, the yellow-green eyes of alligators, repressed childhood memories bubbling to the surface, broken porcelain dolls, legs covered with mosquito bites, blood promises, crucifixes and barbed wire

inter dimensional park ranger >> the yellow eye shine of an unseen animal, circling turkey vultures, unnatural fluctuations in the passage of time, daddy long legs in rotting logs, distorted backwards speech through a walkie talkie, unexplainable antler shrines, coniferous mountain horizons, star-like bonfire sparks whirling in an indigo night, nests of infant barn owls, claw marks in tent fabric

haunted boardwalk >> rickety ferris wheels, carnival lights through fog, saltwater taffy and tarot card readings, childhood best-friends, thunderstorms over the sea, tear-streaked face paint, chipping animatronics partially submerged in brackish water, ill-fated games of truth or dare, vintage circus posters boasting mermaids and wolf men, underwater caves marked with a skull and crossbones

#misc: tag games #oc: carmen lopez #gosh I loved this soo much! #never thought that carmen would fit so well into the southern gothic horror <3 #but she does! #especially the southern cemetery

[littlewalken]

Nov 30

Starting to believe Ziggy Stardust was some sort of fabulous virus released upon the human race and it spreads like the one in The Ring via the video of Starman on Top of The Pops so be sure to have it on your phone, even as a gif, during holiday gatherings this year and let it just play. The part where Bowie points at the camera is preferred if you can only do a gif.

Labyrinth will suffice to introduce youngins to Bowie. Do not give children more fabulousness than they can handle.

And my doll peeps, if you know of anyone who makes doll sized Ziggy Stardust wigs let me know. I'd like one for the twins.

Yeah, you either understand spending good money on an official replica goblin king necklace for a doll or you don't.

And his twin Taffy wants everyone to see this shirt, it was cut from a person sized shirt with a collar that laced up the front.

So if you have some old punk and goth stuff that you've worn out or can't fit any more remake them for a big ass ball jointed doll.

The twins are Dollzone Recall heads, from the 1st anniversary photo contest, on 70cm "ogre toe" (I think) bodies.

Taffy is much happier with brown eyes and loves his shark hat and I almost forgot about that particular wig, they have the most. Someone on the doll board made him the shark hat <3

I need to get their clothes out and see if he can do a Teddy look or if I have to make him something.

something something The twins' head caps are irritatingly small and they don't look quite right bald something something

They fit newborn baby socks.

I wish when Converse makes shoe keychains they'd make matching pairs because us doll people would buy them and carry around our dolls in them and that would be great advertising.

I'm so mad the 'conversation' sneakers Shi Shi, Xavier, and Jibriel shared are falling apart.

[shipbite59]

No More Lonely Nights With Sex Dolls

real sex doll Furthermore, it seems easier for women to find an organic male partner than it is for men to find an organic female partner. Women, by and large, are more selective than men are, and don't seem to have as much of a need to purchase a Doll as a single, open-minded bloke would. Dad, on the other hand, to this day categorically refuses to talk about Sidore, Dolls, Gynoids, etc. He's never come out and said it, but he wishes that I were more conventional and acted like everyone else. I wouldn't say that me being an iDollator has driven a wedge into our relationship, as the wedge was already there long before Sidore entered my life. I once told him, half-jokingly, that his attitude is no way to treat his daughter-in-law, but as the man has no sense of humor, he didn't think much of that statement. By paying full attention to all of your wishes, your love doll will satisfy all your emotional and physical needs. You are drawn to this impression, and not the person you really are. The sex doll lets you make whatever you want; there is no deception, no terrible sorrow; you get what you make, which saves them great heartache. Self-imposed isolation and failure to hunt emotional support – Loneliness is fearful as a result of you're feeling isolated from others or alone while you’re encircled by others. These love dolls are made of silicone or TPE, which are said to be very useful materials to give the same sensation as touching real skin. Getting a real sex doll means curbing both of the problems. Dolls are a one-time investment and do not have many demands like real people. One such modern and interesting pleasure tools are sex dolls. While their moment of existence goes back to the 1600s, the sex dolls became more realistic and lifelike in the 21st century. It can give people who lack the skills to build healthy relationships or the experience of having sex more options. In addition to the name of the realistic real doll, the names of sex dolls, adult sex dolls, silicone real custom sex doll, and simulation dolls are often used. Silicone dolls are also commonly used names, which is because early artificial lover dolls were made of silicone, so the simulation of dolls is equivalent to silicone real dolls. Today, TPE has become a common raw material for doll making on the market, but there are still many consumers who cannot distinguish between TPE and silicone. So many consumers have bought TPE full size sex doll, but he thought what he bought was the so-called silicone real life sex dolls. Given that the deleterious effects of loneliness are being recognized and identified, what is to be done? In our opinion, love dolls, high-quality, silicone or TPE sex dolls, can provide a great substitute for the emotional support and physical fulfillment that sometimes can make a real difference. Anyone who owns the sex doll is exploring the mind-blowing journey and treat them as their girlfriend. For those who can’t find the right one or don’t waste time to date, sex doll is your best partner which can last 10 years and more. Friendship is very much required, regardless of age or sex. However, we all want to be with someone doesn’t undermine the fact that we are humans and always make mistakes. But then, even though we know that humans can hurt us, we can’t eradicate the need for companionship. They are available in different sizes and wights due to your needs. You can choose from height 18cm to 59cm, from weighing 0.75kgto 7.5kg. For some a sex doll is great company and fullfills them in ways they haven’t felt before. RealDolls cost thousands of dollars and come in all shapes and sizes. Mills and Taffy are celebrating their two-year anniversary. In June 2014, Mills had her delivered from a company called Abyss Creations in San Marcos, California. SWAGGER is North America’s premier digital first Modern Men’s Luxury Lifestyle Publication. The rising go-to resource for the ambitious, successful and influential gentlemen of today. It can lead to unhappy marriages or relationships resulting in dissatisfaction and loneliness. People with anxiety and depression tend to have a low sex drive as well. Nearly two decades later, my visit as a reporter to the RealDoll headquarters felt like a personal pilgrimage. So Mark, who hasn’t dated seriously in years tried to be patient. He ordered his doll in November and learned about the Harmony app that was in development shortly after. Abyss would prefer to keep customers out of uncanny valley territory.

#Sex Dolls Help Their Owners Forget How Alone They Actually Are

[honeypirate]

How do you feel about kissing?

Featuring the haikyuu boys! Just some of them though lmao

Asking your best friend (Noya, Asahi, Ushijima, Tendou, Kuroo, Bokuto) how they feel about kissing

Reader is fem

Noya

His head was on your stomach as you played with his hair laying in the sunshine during lunch. A thing you normally did in the summertime for the last how many years you’ve known him. “Noya” you say softly, watching the clouds go by. He has his eyes closed but he responds “whats up?” he says sleepily and you twist his blonde patch around your finger “how do you feel about kissing?” you ask and his eyes pop open, staring up at the sky before he sits up and turns around to look at you “do you wanna kiss me?” he asks seriously and your cheeks flush, you cover your cheeks with your hands as you turn away slightly “maybe” you whisper and he laughs “OH BOY Tanaka is NOT going to believe this!” he says with a clap and you scowl at him making him chuckle “no no no, because he thought i’d have to confess to you first! He didnt think you felt the same! Now come, come here pretty girl. come here my girl let me kiss you finally! my pretty girl!” he starts to crawl over to you and you giggle trying to stand to run but he lunges and pushes you gently to your back on the sun warmed grass getouas he smiles down at you “I feel like kissing you, to answer your question” he says and then his lips are pressed to yours, kissing you like it’s the last time he’ll ever be able to.

Asahi

You clear your throat, the sound drowned out by screaming from within the gym, Hinata and Kageyama going at it again. You took Asahi outside for some air after practice ended and were now sitting on the steps to the club house looking at the stars for a moment. “So, uhm” you lean back on your elbows on a higher step “Asahi?” you ask and he hums in response “what do you think about… kissing?” you ask and he tenses. Holding his breath as he debates if he heard you right, when he turns to make eye contact he realizes he did in fact hear you right. “In general? Or.. or” he clears his throat “or with you?” his palms begin to sweat and he rubs them against his shorts. You laugh awkwardly “can i choose.. Both?” you ask quietly as you sit up straight again,

“W-well.” he takes a shaky breath “in general, i find kissing to be gross if i have to say watch someone else make out at school. B-b-but with you,” his voice gets softer “i think i’d really enjoy that” he turns to look at you and you brush your fingers across his cheek that was warm from practice and from blushing. “I think i would really enjoy kissing you too” he laughs softly, shaky from his nerves as he reaches out to cup your cheek, leaning in and closing the distance, softly pressing his lips to yours. He goes to pull away a little too soon for you liking so you whine and and lean with him, smashing your lips to his again as you try to memorize the feeling of his soft lips against yours.

Wakatoshi

“Can i ask you something Ushi?” you ask as you walk him to practice in the early morning. He’s been your best friend and neighbor for years so when you went to the same high school and had practice in the morning, it made sense that you traveled together, plus he said he wanted to make sure you were safe on the train. “You know you can ask me anything.” he states and you laugh awkwardly “yes i guess you're right” you stop when you reach his gym and he looks down at you, straight faced as always. You take a deep breath and steel your nerves “how do you feel about.. Kissing?” you ask and he stares at you for a few moments, blinking and not saying anything. You figured he was thinking so you just waited, “I think that kissing is fine in a relationship but i wouldnt know much since i havent kissed anyone before. Ask Tendou he’ll know more about it” he turns to go get Tendou but before he can bring him back to talk to you, you were gone. Ran off to your own volleyball practice feeling like a complete failure.

“Oh you poor innocent boy. She was asking you that..” Tendou grabs Ushijma by his cheeks and leans in close “BECAUSE SHE WANTS TO KISS YOU” he drops his face and laughs “she was asking, how do you feel about kissing HER?” Ushijima is silent for several minutes until at last he mutters out an “oh.”

You wait by the gate like always, your practice always getting out earlier than his. You’re messing around on your phone, setting a new ringtone, when he appears beside you. “Do you want to kiss me?” he asks and you gasp, chucking your phone into the air. “Ushijima!” you shout and he catches your phone from the air “do you?” you feel your face flush as he hands you back your phone “why do you ask?” your voice a few octaves higher from being nervous. “Tendou said you asked me about kissing earlier because you want to kiss me” he says and you laugh awkwardly, rocking on your toes as you scratch behind your neck “if i say he’s right will that ruin our friendship?” you ask as you look at his feet and he responds by cupping your cheeks and leaning down close “I’m gonna kiss you now” he says and waits for you to accept or reject him and you gasp and nod in his hands, eyes fluttering closed as his soft warm lips press against yours, sending fireworks down your spine.

Tendou

2am runs to the 24 hr gas station were a regular occurrence. You held a cherry laffy taffy in one hand and a blue slush in the other, the colors turning your tongue purple. Tendou had an apple sucker in his mouth and a cherry slushy in his hand. You finish your candy by the time you reach the park and you throw the wrapper in the trash by the entrance. You pick up your skateboard and hold it under your arm as you two walk to the top of the hill.

You sit on the bench at the top and he sits beside you, your board on the ground under your feet as you roll it softly side to side. Tendou kicks your feet and scoots closer, his thigh pressing into yours as he puts his feet beside yours, rocking side to side with you as you sit. You lean into him and sigh, your tongue was numb from your slush and your fingers were frozen, he wrapped one of his arms around you and you shivered into his warmth.

This all was normal, it happened all the time. But it still made your heart feel special, god how you wanted to kiss him.

“Satori?” you ask softly and he hums “whats up doll?” he responds over the straw he’s chewing “how do you feel about kissing?” you ask as you use the end of the straw to spoon some slush in your mouth. His head turns swiftly to look at yours and you act cool, eating your slush and being totally normal. He leans in slowly, getting closer to your face with a serious expression trying to make you break but you were used to this, you knew him. You gasped when his frozen tongue licks a stripe up your cheek “ugh you child! I should kick you off my bench!” he laughs and wraps both of his arms around you and rocks side to side “no wait don’t kick me off! Im sorry! I’ll answer your question if you answer mine!” you groan “fine! What’s your question? Just stop shaking me!” he laughs and relaxes his hold, looking down at you with a goofy grin “are you asking me this because you want me to kiss you?” he asks seriously but the little grin he had made you worry he was going to make fun of you.

your eyes grow wide and you clear your throat, suddenly self conscious and feeling stupid “I!- uh maybe yeah I was but sheesh” you try and scoot away from him, laughing awkwardly “that was stupid huh yeah. Stupid” you mumble but he wont let you scoot away “hey” he says softly and you pause to look up at him, his goofiness gone and replaced by softness you rarely got to see “you’re not stupid, pretty girl. You’re very smart.” he says and cups your cheek “i like kissing. I havent kissed anyone in a very long time” he coughs “Second grade” coughs again and you laugh, remembering that day in second grade when your best friend at the time dared him to kiss her so he kissed you instead. “I’ve been waiting, hoping, you'd want to kiss me again” he whispers as his face comes closer to yours, you hold your breath as he leans down, almost 100%, leaving just a sliver of space between you.

“You like me. How embarrassing for you” you tease and make him laugh “i love you. How embarrassing is that?” he mumbles, his lips barely brushing yours and you sigh “as embarrassing as me loving you” you say and his lips crash against yours, his tongue tasted like cherries and it mixed with your berry perfectly.

Kuroo

“KuRRooOoo” you yell sing as you walk into the empty gym, “Y/N” He shouts back as he exits the supply closet, having just finished cleaning up, the rest of the boys already in the showers.”walk me home?” you ask with a smile and he nods “of course, meet me by the gates in ten minutes” you nod and wink at him before leaving the gym, heading back to the class room you were studying in to gather your things.

“There you are beautiful” he says when he walks up and you kick your feet on the side of the wall “can you help me down hot stuff?” you ask and he nods, coming over with his hands out.

You were just friends, that's what you said when anyone asked. She’s just a friend! Is what Kuroo tried to convince Kenma. You just call each other nice things! It’s normal. But when he places his hands on your thighs, slowly running them up until they land on your hips, you think it’s a hint about his deeper feelings.

“Hop down” he says and you blush with a grin not moving. you instead move your knees farther apart, wrapping them around his waist. He raises his eyebrows and you grab his hands, moving them back down to your thighs so you can softly runs your fingers against his “how do you feel,,, about kissing?” you ask and cock your head, your hair falling over your shoulder as you looked up at him with innocent eyes.

“How do I? Feel?” he asks and you chuckles “how do i feel about kissing?” he asks again, you laugh out loud before cupping his cheeks and looking him in the eye, bringing his face close “Tetsuro” you whisper demandingly “answer” he blushes and swallows, his popular guy persona draining from his bones “i like kissing. I like you” he whispers out quickly with a nervous chuckle and you beam at him, your smile spreading as you wrap your arms around his neck “i like you too” you whisper and give him a small peck causing him to gasp before he chuckles and wraps his arms around your waist, the wall the perfect height to lean in and press his lips to yours, feeling his smile against your lips as you kiss him back.

Bokuto

“Hey Bo! How do you feel about kissing?” you asked as you leaned over to his desk “kissing is great why?” you booped his nose “just curious” you went back to your desk beside him and he looked at you for a long moment, why did you ask him that?

The rest of the day passed by slower than ever for Bokuto, he sat inside his head, overthinking why you asked him about kissing and at the end of the day, the end of a terrible practice, he had convinced himself that you wanted to kiss someone else and he’d never get to kiss you himself.

“baby Bo what happened?” you ask as you walk up to him in the hallway, he was holding the straps of his backpack as he looked to the ground “nothing. I’m fine” he said quietly, avoiding your eyes. You walk up to him and take his hands, wrapping them around your waist as you pulled him into a hug “tell me Kou” you whispered and he sighed into your hold “long day, shitty practice, just too in my head today” he whispers and you run your fingers through his still damp from his shower hair. “What happened to put you in your head? You were so shiny this morning” you ask and rub circles on his back, the people in the hallway have all but disappeared now, heading home like you will be soon.

“You’ll think im dumb” he whispers and you shake your head “never Kou, I promise.” he sighs and stands up from your hug and sighs again, rubbing his face with his hands “i thought your question about kissing means you want to kiss a lot of people” you take a beat to think of why that could make him sad and you smile softly, taking his hands in yours “and why did that make you sad?” you ask in a hushed tone and his cheeks flush “i dont want you to want to kiss everyone but me” he mumbles out with furrowed brows and a pout. You laugh and cup his cheeks “oh Kou, i ONLY want to kiss you” you say and watch as his eyes go from confusion to recognition to bright and bubbly bokuto again “HEY HEY HEY” he shouts and you laugh “i knew i had it in me” he says slightly cockily and you keep laughing as you hug him, burying your face in his chest. “I don't want to make you sad Bo, talk to me if you ever get sad because of me okay?” you cup his cheeks seriously and he nods “from now on, i promise” he says before he leans down and presses his lips to yours

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[sourtomatola]

Taking candy for a fool Part 13

Now you understood the silence. As you stare mournfully at Eclipse’s body, that was so carelessly crucified, you looked to your friends who also stared up. Sun heaved a sob, having no more drops to cry. Moon looked similarly in despair, not being able to speak.

You glanced around to the other Candy creatures. They looked on sadly, but no one looked as devastated as Sun and Moon did. You briefly wondered if the taffy doll’s had known, and wondered how they would react. They seemed good friends with Eclipse.

You looked back at the boys. “They just…they just…like that?” your voice broke.

“He…He wouldn’t let them harvest. He wouldn’t drink the syrup to heal. He just…he said death would be better so…” Moon closed his eyes in pain before turning his head.

“Is there no way we could…m-maybe fix him? You guys are part robot.” You asked, clinging to a hopeful idea.

Sun shook his head and pointed to the empty chest cavity. “That box…we all have one. It’s what makes us who we are. They can’t be reused, so they just…”

“Took it. Destroyed it or threw it away…We don’t know for sure really…” Sun lowered his head.

They turned away, heading back to their rooms. You understood their feelings. No one would want to stare at the crucified corpse of someone they loved. You watched them go into their room and crumple onto the floor, next to the hole they used to place their feeding tubes to share with Eclipse. To help him heal little by little. They stared at the hole, seeming to hope to see his red finger’s peek through one last time.

You stared at the poor candy beings. Your heart was completely broken for them. They already went thought so much every night, how much more could they take?

You knew security was tight in this factory, but in this moment, you felt the righteous urge to try something.

“If I could get you boy’s anything, sneak something in somehow, what would you want? What would help you the most?” You asked, fierce determination showing in your eyes.

Sun looked at you, first in shock. His eyes were shades darker, tired from his mourning consuming his energy. The little Sun’s in his lolly’s faded and gloomy. Moon’s red M&M eyes held a dimmer shade, but when you asked that with righteous fury in your expression, those chocolate candy’s grew brighter.

You nodded and started to think. How could you get fruit through security? What’s a place they don’t search? Then you realized Moon’s odd wording. “Flourish?”

“Think of a strawberry plant,” Sun started. “It either spreads branches out, or it gives fruit. We are only fed enough to produce fruit. Living, but not…thriving.” He said sadly.

“Fruit and natural sugars will help us. They will make us flourish.” Moon said gravelly.

Their eyes shown with a vengeful light, but at this point, you could only desire to push it forward.

“I will find a way.” You promised. “For now…I have to hide. The Harvesters said they’d be back soon, but I will come back again, and I swear to you I will bring gifts in somehow.” You told them and took each of their hands in yours. You gave their candy shelled finger’s a gentle kiss, like the one Eclipse left you in his final parting, and you left to hide for the night.

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[phoenixstartedthefire]

Coraline analysis

Okay so I may be obsessed with Coraline and fallen down a rabbit hole of the lore behind it and I find it super interesting and very cool. I’ve seen and heard a lot of theories about it and I wanted to talk about it. Most of these theories aren’t my original ideas. This will mostly be a mix of other theories I’ve seen that I like the most/make the most sense. Because some of them are just completely outlandish and make no sense. This will probably be a multiple part thing and I’ll probably add onto it as I delve deeper into the universe and have more thoughts. Don’t take these as facts as they are only theories. I just think it’s cool to delve deeper into the meaning behind these things. I would also be happy to hear some of your thoughts as well! Also trigger warning because I will be discussing death in parts of this so don’t feel pressured to read this if that makes you uncomfortable. That being said, get ready for some extreme over analyzing and a very unnecessary essay that I started at 4am. But if you follow me, you should know that I do that quite a lot. Essays are fun when you actually care about the subject.

Okay the first thing I wanna discuss is the idea of three universes of sorts. In which Coraline never returns to the real world. We know of the existence of the real world and the other world but what about the existence of a third world that you enter once you go return through the door? I’ve seen the third world called a limbo so that’s what I’m going to calling it as to be as clear as possible. In this limbo, the other mother still controls but doesn’t directly intervene as she does in the other world. We know that the doll that Coraline gets in the beginning is a spy for the other mother so she can see what’s wrong with Coraline’s life and manipulate the other world to solve those problems. But Coraline didn’t have the doll with her when she went clothes shopping with her real mother so how would the other mother know that she wanted interesting clothes? Also consider that Coraline never interacts with her neighbors until after she enters the other world for the first time. I believe that once she enters the other world and travels back through the door, she enters a limbo of sorts where the other mother can see her at all times. She only needed the doll in the beginning. And at the end, we see Coraline’s ideal world. Where her parents are loving and spend time doing things with her and her neighbors are eccentric but overall lovable. They pretty much do a complete 180 from the beginning of the movie. What caused the change of heart from her parents? They aren’t as perfect as they seemed in the other world. They’re just flawed enough to seem believable while still making her want to stay in the limbo. I hope that makes sense.

Now for the reason the other mother wants children in the first place. The film makes you believe that she eats the children after she sews buttons in their eyes but that’s not true. She doesn’t eat them in the physical sense but feeds on their souls. The reason she tries to lure them in by being their ‘mother’ is because she feeds on the love they feel. And that’s why the other mother is fine with Coraline staying in the limbo. Her ‘real’ mother doesn’t exist there but Coraline still believes she does and loves her like a child would love a mother. And the reason she doesn’t lure adults in is because they a) have more common sense and b) don’t rely as much on feelings like that. They’ve outgrown them for the most part. I’m not saying that adults can’t love their parents. But they don’t feel the same love for them that they did as a child. She of course would rather Coraline stay in the other world with her because it’s easier to feed on her that way but she is still content with her staying in the limbo place and puts up a big fight to make Coraline believe she’s going back to the real world and she can’t feed off her anymore.

I also want to discuss the button eyes. I think the main reason for them is so Coraline thinks she can tell the other world from the real world. There’s a point in the movie where the other mother poses as Coraline’s real mother with normal eyes so we know she’s capable of producing people with normal eyes. It’s all a trick. Now I don’t think that other than the trick the buttons are useless. We’ve established that the doll Coraline is given is a spy and uses the button eyes as a look into the real world. But once they’re in the other world, the buttons are just used as a trick so Coraline thinks she can distinguish the real world from the other world. 

Now for my second theory that’s pretty much confirmed if you actually pay attention to the movie but still a theory technically. That the well is another portal to the other world. Wybie says in the beginning that the well is so deep that if you fall down it that you’ll see a sky full of stars. It’s always night in the other world. Also the well is surrounded by mushrooms in a circle. There’s a belief from some people outside of the Coraline world that a formation of mushrooms in a circle is supposed to be an entrance into a magical world. It also has a negative connotation that it’s an evil magical world and it’s referred to as a fairy circle. So the other mother doesn’t actually die/get defeated in the end. Coraline essentially gives the key back to her. This theory is probably the most plausible one supported by the movie and general common sense that I’ll talk about here.

My next theory is about the other mother. I have a lot of those. The idea that she has complete control over everyone in the other world. Even the ghost children. Now you’re probably thinking, “but the other father, Wybie and the ghost children warn her about the other mother and help Coraline”. That’s kind of the point. The other mother is very smart and cunning. If she didn’t want that idea put into Coraline’s head that she was evil, why would she deliberately put her in the mirror with the ghost children? Why would she not stop Wybie from letting Coraline escape? And if you accept those, it’s extremely likely that the father was also under her complete control. She purposefully made it seem like they had free will so Coraline would trust them. Coraline would think that if the other mother controlled them, it wouldn’t make sense for them to rebel against her. The other father gave Coraline one of the eyes but we all know that even if she fullfilled the rules of the game, the other mother wouldn’t let her go.

I also think that the cat is under her control for the most part as well. I don’t think she fabricated him as she did with all of the other people but I think he serves as a sort of double agent, more so than the other father and other wybie. As with the mice but I won’t get into that now. The cat is there to trick Coraline into thinking the other mother has limitations to her powers. He takes her across the world and shows her that the pink palace is all she can make. But if you accept the limbo theory, you know that she can also fabricate the town/shop Coraline and her mother go into and the well which she seemed incapable of making in the other world. It makes the other mother seem less powerful and more easily beatable even though she had a grasp on Coraline as soon as she entered the other world. He is also the one to show Coraline the mirror with her parents in it and the doll of her parents to lure her back in the other world. He says that the other mother tries to keep him out of the other world but we never see this happen. There are a lot of theories about who the cat is. A lot of people think she might have been a human at some point. Which I’ll discuss in my next point.

Now I want to discuss the bowls of taffy that Miss Spink and Forcible show Coraline when they give her the seeing eye thing(I don’t know a better term for it). There are three bowls and all have different dates. 1921, 1936, and 1960. These are the dates the ghost children were taken. The pioneer girl in 1921, the boy in 1936, and Wybie’s grandma’s sister in 1960. Now a lot of people believe that there must have been another child between 1936 and 1960. That’s where the cat comes in. A lot of people believe that the cat was the fourth child but the other mother couldn’t successfully feed on him for some reason. So she turned him into some sort of spy. Some people speculate that it was Wybie’s great grandfather since we know his grandmother grew up in the pink palace and it would explain why the cat is so close to Wybie. He’s protecting him. I’m not sure where I stand on this as it makes the timeline a bit messy but I think it’s interesting nonetheless. 

Wybie says that his grandmother won’t let families with kids move into the pink palace. So why would she let the Jones family live there? I think the most plausible and most easily understandable theory I’ve seen is that she’s protecting Wybie. He is around the age that her sister went missing and while I don’t think the grandma knows about the other world, I think she does know that there’s more to it than her sister running away. So she was willing to let another child, Coraline, be taken if it meant that Wybie was safe. 

Now for the origins of the other mother. Some theorize that she’s a fairy, of course not in the traditional sense with wings and a magic wand, and that she created the other world. Others believe that she was once human and discovered the other world. The human theory is the one I find the most interesting. We know that the pink palace was built around 150 years ago when the movie takes place. It was confirmed that the story takes place in Ashland, Oregon and we can assume that the town was settled around 150 years ago. A lot of people believe that the other mother was the original owner of the house. It would explain why the garden is in the shape of her face which later takes the characteristics of Coraline. She was obviously very wealthy. Some believe that picture of the ‘boring blue boy’ that Coraline finds in the study is a picture of the other mother’s son. Some believe that he died and the other mother either was called to the well by some magic of the other world, accidently fell in the well, or purposefully jumped in the well. And we’ve established that the well is a portal into the other world. And the reason she lures kids in by pretending to be their mother is in part because she is trying to replace her dead son. She discovered the other world and took it over.

And now for the parents. The other mother seemingly ‘captured’ Coraline’s parents. Yet the parents have no recollection of it. And while her parents seem a bit neglectful, it’s unlikely that they would write the ‘help us’ message on the mirror. They wouldn’t put their 10/11 year old daughter in danger on purpose like that. She made it seem like she kidnapped the parents to give Coraline more incentive to go back to the other world. And again, if we accept the limbo theory, the snow on the parents’ clothing when they return would’ve been put there by the other mother to make it seem like she really did kidnap them. If she can control the limbo word, she would have been able to do that. 

Okay, that’s it for now. I have a lot more theories but this is very long already. I hope this was comprehensible. A lot of these are very complicated but I did my best to explain them. 

#coraline #movie analysis #coraline jones #wybie lovat #film theory #tw// death #other mother #coraline analysis

[rataltouille]

HOUSE PLANTS, UPDATE 7

[novel intro can be found here]

HEY ACTUALLY I FINISHED THIS BOOK!

i don't want to get too sentimental [watch me proceed to get sentimental] but this book means a lot to me and i really could NOT have done it without the support of the wonderful folks on writeblr. the writing community is kind of the reason i even started this novel so it means a lot to me that i’ve met so many of y’all here. this is my first ever novel and i’m so glad i was able to make it so far! here are the final stats:

TOTAL WORD COUNT: 81,049 words.

STARTED: april 17, 2020

FINISHED: january 28, 2021

AVERAGE CHAPTERWISE WC: 3242

NUMBER OF CHAPTERS: 25

NUMBER OF TIMES LILITH SNAPS: 2

NUMBER OF TIMES LILITH SUFFERS: you know it’s too much to count.

the last month of writing this novel was so mixed. like before i hit the 70k mark i’d just been slogging through the novel, feeling uninspired and bored of the story. and then january hit and i was like. wait a minute. my deadline to finish it was the 31st of january. and so i basically startled myself into drafting again and then hit another wc milestone and that motivated me?? so much??? like i remember that drafting the penultimate chapter took me a pretty long time but it was so enjoyable because i was genuinely liking what i was writing and that hadn't been happening for the past few months. and then i wrote the entirety of the last chapter [it’s a vignette so it’s pretty short] for an hour until 1 am in my bed with the lights off and boom. it was such an experience. what makes it even more fun is that i’d drafted 75% of the book in my bed with the lights off at 1 am so this was such a nice full circle moment.

i’m also a little insane from all that lack of sleep but it’s okay we don't talk about that.

excerpts:

chapter twenty-one

this one’s a mix of the weirdest and most broad emotions. there’s a funeral in town, willow’s acting shadier than usual, lilith and juniper finally kiss, etc. etc. literally a rollercoaster. also it’s important that you guys know they kissed in a graveyard. nothing’s more romantic than that amirite.

Residual— that’s how we all felt. Just shells that wash away right before they touch land. We lingered like sleep at dawn, like medicine rimming the lip of cough syrup bottles, like fingerprints on fresh glass. There wasn't a permanence in the way we persisted, because eventually, one leaves their nest. They untether from the source in pursuit of the world. How would a dead girl do that? She won’t reside on the fringes of life like a bad dream.

god this prose is so depressing. even i’m getting sad over it and i’m literally an emotionless husk of a person. hey but the description slaps so enjoy.

also if you’ve noticed i’ve been sharing excerpts less and less in the updates despite the chapters being longer on length [these chapters average at like. 5k words] and that’s because i’m finding it harder to share stuff that doesn’t need context / isn't spoilery.

chapter twenty-two

ah yes the angstiest chapter, probably. something happens to willow that lilith blames herself for and this kicks off the final cluster of events that lead to the climax. i love this chapter because lilith gets angry [but at the wrong person aka herself] and we get to see this side of her she always tries to hide!! another thing that happens is that her garden withers so that’s a fun trip

My garden could have been a fallen kingdom. The ferns were rotting from under the flap, their spores gone. Gardenia blooms had split with their petals discarded like an evening gown all around the pots. The mint had binary fissioned and lay in shreds, the jasmine wilted and spread. All of them like war dolls, casualties of my ignorance, beyond saving.

poor garden :/

chapter twenty-three

this chapter. exists i guess. ISDNJSDUH i sound so disillusioned but essentially this chapter was supposed to end on a the ✨big reveal✨ that the book has been leading up to but then something. happened. and i had to move that into the next chapter and so nothing actually happens in this one! like it’s all important things and we’re setting up tension but overall it’s the least eventful of the final story arc.

We stepped together into our house; it had been abandoned for a day but was the exact same. Dust hadn't suddenly piled up in the threshold, sticking to our soles. The air hadn't musted over in the house’s grieving for its sole occupants. The bathtub was still filled. The water skimmed the floor, and I’d decided. I’d stay with you for the whole week, the fortnight, the month, the year. I’d stay inside with you, because me leaving the house, me choosing to spend any second of my life without caring for you, was a mistake. I’d always seen you as fragile, quiet like moth wings and just as delicate. Maybe I’d needed to feel I was protector just as much as I thought you needed me.

i really like this excerpt because it’s very simple and light in terms of prose but also the implications and that purposeful telling at the end really stick with me. exposing lilith since 2k20.

As morning rose the next day, like a curtain lifting, the sun picked itself up from the horizon, shattering cloudlines in a bright, orange glow. The skies got clearer by the hour as summer sauntered in again. Already the habits of my grounding were kicking in; my circadian rhythm bounded to my outside, too, as I instinctively scheduled and compartmentalized my daily life. First, wake up, check on you. Finish chores while making sure you’re alright. School, eaten with worry, but you're capable and you’ll call if you need help. Home, count your pulse as you inevitably slumped in plush sleep— at the coffee table, at the bathtub, in Aunt Hailey’s chair (rare), in your bedroom (rarer). You’d wake for dinner and read until the lights begin to dim and your eyesight tripped. You’d doze off for the rest of the night. Your internal clock was more functional, more efficient, than mine.

obligatory rhythmic everyday life excerpt that's reminiscent of 2020.

chapter twenty-four

THE PENULTIMATE CHAPTER! THE LONGEST CHAPTER!! THE ONE WHERE SHIT GOES DOWN!!! [can you tell it’s my fave chapter]

this took me two whole weeks to draft [it’s around 7.2k words] but it was so enjoyable the whole time!! there’s something so satisfying about making the quiet character, the one who never express anger, finally snap. so satisfying. lilith is actually pretty feral in this and we all stan. it also has a lot of simpler yet more sharp prose? if you know me you know that repetition is literally my favourite device ever. i overuse repetition it’s actually insane. and this one has a lot of that, but in a way that isn't annoying, and i really enjoyed writing it!!

I’d never been in your bathtub before. You haunted the room and it was always yours; I didn’t consider running the tap for myself. Maybe your going out prompted me this time. The water was so high it sloshed over the lip of the tub. The floor was slick like eels’ skin. My skin was blue with cold; the chill gummed my cheeks and ears and I shivered. My reflection stared at me in hatred, the features warped and pulled like taffy. I half-floated, a ghost in liminal space, and the walls were choked with water lines and flower patterns. With my body invaded by alien frost, with the ceiling low and cruel and ready to crush, I cowered. How did you do this every day? Did the clothes make the difference?

lilith’s going through it again ft. willow’s bathtub.

after this it’s a lot of incredibly spoilery stuff!! like the prose slaps but it’s too many spoilers to share. but have another description of the heaviness of midnight because i’m obsessed with that aesthetic

The lock clicked behind me. Silence descended like birdsong and I was paralysed, stuck at the two half-stairs that led to the outer path, stuck at the threshold of no return. My body shook. All around me was nighttime, gooey and heavy. I was unfurling, like a rose, step after step, pushing past the gate and onto the road. The wind was so cold it frosted my tears.

btw the chapter does not end on lilith crying she kind of has a girlboss moment and snaps massively [i mean after all she’s been through she deserves it] and then the main story aka the fictive past ends.

chapter twenty-five

the final chapter, which also happens to be a vignette chapter and is thus set in the fictive present! it’s very short and is only one tiny scene but it really ends on the perfect tonal quality for the novel. i can't share any excerpts because it really is very short so! have this iconic screenshot i took as soon as i finished the draft instead:

[also if you were wondering yes i did type the entire novel [and basically everything i write] on my ipad because i don't own a laptop]

and that really is it! this was such an incredible journey and i’m so excited to share more of my newer writing and upcoming projects with y’all. it feels so weird that this really is the last time i’ll be making official posts about this novel. truly the end of an era.

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tumblr is being. really really annoying and wont let me edit on the browser so i’ve got the 50 mentions per post mobile thing to deal with. the rest of the taglist will be tagged in a reblog!

#writeblr #am writing #crabappletracking #wtwcommunity #atlastracking #ofcolourtracking #house plants #house plants update #everybody say “goodbye house plants” as i yeet willow off a good somewhere #just ignore how i’ve actually finished the book and this update is a month late please and thank you <3

[musubiki]

Queen, you are so big brain, ugh I love your mind.....🥺🥺🥺 Catears and Mochi are otp....

Does Lime ever feel like he might get caught if he shows too much concern or worry for Mochi to where she is just like, "bro??? Who are you and why do you care."

And there is that cute...angry confession scene...ugh sorry for all the asks, I just love your ocs so much and your taste in troupes is what I adore and live for.

waah thank you!!! im super duper happy when people ask about my ocs cuz i can talk about them a lot!! 😭😭

and HE DOES!! sometimes she calls him out on “why do you give a shit? why not just try to kill me like everyone else?” and he has to pause and remind himself oh shit, shes right once again, gotta be more cold. but its HARD FOR HIM!!! CUZ HE LOVES HER SO MUCH AND HES SO CONCERNED ABOUT HER SAFETY ITS DIFFICULT TO JUST TRY TO TURN IT OFF!!!!!!!!

and actually...theres not!! he never willingly tells her. its more like a scene where somehow, someone reveals mochis identity as the cat witch to the WHOLE Underground. and shes up shits creek with a small paddle, surrounded in an unfamiliar realm with hundreds of magical beings ALL TRAINED FIGHTERS who now want her dead, and limes not there (or at least not to her knowledge), and when the big fight starts, cat-ears defends her. at first shes like why?? but what the hell its an extra pair of hands so she doesnt waste time questioning it!! only when the situation gets really dire, that he pulls out the thunderbat to fight and shes like. wait. 

because either 1) he somehow mimicked the thunderbat, stole it from lime, or somehow had an identical weapon, or 2) this IS lime. and the dots just slowly connect in her head regarding how he acted towards her and all the excuses he made not to come with her to the Underground. anyway, lime with the thunderbat is damn near unstoppable (especially with taffy there for the water + electricity duo, which he is), so they make it out of there fine!!! 

but post-fight, lime is yelling at taffy and coco (still disguised as cat-ears), shouting something about doing a better job protecting their witch, and coco shouts back something snarky about how she cant believe he did this blah blah blah, meanwhile mochi is standing there listening in silence. finally taffy clears his throat LOUDLY and kind of nod nods toward mochi, hint hint, shes standing right there. coco does that meme of the monkey doll looking away and backs up. this aint her problem no more, limes on his own. 

so they stand in silence for a bit, and mochi just softly says “...lime?” and hes ALSO quiet for a bit, and through that aforementioned scratchy coarse fucked up voice he has as cat-ears he says “hi moch.”

and then she SLAPS him again sending his helmet spinning, and of course his reaction is “OW HEY WHAT THE FUCK!!” and he rips his helmet off, and for some reason seeing his FACE, confirmed, for real under there, she SLAPS HIM AGAIN!!! its a lot of (i cant believe he LIED TO ME and ACTED SO COLD TO ME and was DOING ALL THIS DANGEROUS STUFF BEHIND MY BACK) and she lowkey had big crocodile tears swelling up, stomps off quietly, and lime goes  after her with the whole “wait WAIT MOCHI I CAN EXPLAIN-”, also yelling back at taffy and coco to clean up the big mess they left behind (and by clean up i mean go take mochis hundreds of memory spell tags and wipe the memories of everyone down there to keep mochis identity hidden)

LONG POST THAT I PROBABLY TALKED A LOT ABOUT BEFORE A FEW TIMES BUT I LIKE THIS SCENE IN PARTICULAR!!!!!!!

#mochi and cat-ears is chefs kiss actually #god i love the whole....secret identity lime... #cat-ears isnt like a different personality for him or anything #he act like lime as cat-ears to everyone else but mochi because she would know if he did #bpp #anyway. love them v much #my favorite scene is 1. him pulling out the thunderbat and it being like. oh... #and 2. when she says his name softly and yeah its him. he says hi softly back and it immedately descends into comedic violence again #THANKS FOR SENDING THESE ASKS I LOVE TALKING ABOUT MY OCS!!!! #since ill never get around to drawing all this stuff

[partybees]

pulchritudinous | midori takamine x gender neautral! reader

because this boy deserves so much appreciation 😩

to put it simply, you are quite the extravagant photographer. always making sure every project of yours turns out to be a masterpiece and giving your fans a spectacular delivery. from posters, to photo cards. from being hired to take pictures of a baby shower or wedding, you can do it all. hence, you take your job very seriously. pleasing your clients is a wonderful feeling but so is being proud of yourself.

“what will it be this time, i wonder?” you ponder to your photography assistant. the younger girl walking ahead of you, hastily going through the documents of your next project. “it’ll be an idol group that calls themselves ryuseitai. a bunch of heroes they claim to be.” she responded. you clapped your hands. a rush wave of giddiness filled you up. “that’s right! that’s right!”

as a fan of idols, (ryuseitai especially) you are delighted to the point where there are stars in your eyes. in fact, you’re charmed by midori takamine out of the bunch. his effort into being an idol catches your eyes. that goes without saying, his pure embarrassment that television catches every once in a while is endearing to you.

“i’ll be checking up on them now. bring over their presents!”

“yes, of course!” thus, your assistance jogged off. you hummed contentedly as you made your way to the dressing room. ID hanging from your neck and work outfit bringing out your most beautiful features.

“i’m here!” you sang as you knocked on the dressing room in your favorite ryuseitai song rhythm. you heard a familiar shriek in the room and that made you enter nonchalantly. perhaps it was the impulse you felt because the shriek had came from your favorite hero.

the dressing room had no one but midori. he seemed a bit frightened, sitting alone in one of the chairs and in front of the large enormous vanity.

“ah! midori takamine!...it’s just you right now?”

“uh ....y-yeah, the others said they wanted to check out the cafeteria of this agency.” he replied. “you must be y/n l/n...i heard so much about you.”

you paused. he had already been dressed up. face with light makeup, ivory clothes complimented him and his precious eyes if somebody were to ask you. oh, he looks even handsomer in person. “uhm.” you gulp. nobody knew why, but you would always like those that aren’t...so eccentric like you. some even kept on telling you that you should be with people of your own kind, whatever that meant.

“...l-l/n?!...what’s wrong..?!” midori kept backing away his upper body as you had gradually leaned in closer and closer to take in his breathtaking features. “my, oh my. you are....” you whispered before standing back up straight and smiling elatedly. “so beautiful! i can’t wake to work with you!”

“huh?...thank you very much?” midori couldn’t respond any other way. to be complimented by a well-known photographer, how exactly is he supposed to react? apart from the rising blush he has on his face, midori could only muster a small smile.

“excuse me. y/n, are you in here?” your assistant’s voice made you perk up all excitedly. “yes! come in, come in!” you opened the door only for her but for the other two staff members following behind her. midori’s eyebrows rose. they’re totally acting like they own this place or something: he thought. he hummed upon seeing five gift boxes being placed on a nearby table.

“i’m sure you already heard of this from the rumors but, my boss has a habit of giving gifts for their clients.” your assistant explained plainly. she smiled reassuringly at midori, who seemed a bit confused. “they have done research on you the most, takamine.” her words made him feel flattered. he had thought that y/n would be more interested in his boisterous leader, or the true oddball of the bunch, kanata but instead, you’re telling him he catches your eye the most? impossible.

“okayyy. out you go. thank you for the help! appreciate it lots!” you passive aggressively told your assistant and the staff members, lightly shooing them off. all things considered, it’d be so embarrassing for midori to figure out the fact you’re intrigued in him. your assistant chuckled. “alright. we’re going. this way, you two.” she led the staff members down the hallway. you close the door hastily.

“okay, why don’t you try opening your gift? i’d love to see your reaction.” you suggest. since he is the only one here, you’d like to take advantage of the situation. the more you can know about midori, after all. “you didn’t have buy us gifts.” he scratched his cheek sheepishly. his breath hitched when you slammed your hands on the table that held the presents.

“nonsense. this is my way of showing my adoration for you boys. you see, i’m a huge fan of ryuseitai just like my little cousin. he was actually the one who introduced me to your music one late night.” you shortly elucidated. proudly, in fact. midori didn’t feel like he was cut out to deal with this type of person. “re-really? i didn’t see that coming but thank-” “of course! now, open up! here, this one is yours.” you slid the fern box to him. he sighed, a little annoyed that you cut him off before he could thank you.

although, when he opened the box. his eyes lit up and his mouth opened into a large grin. “oh wow!” he picked up the plushie of what seemed to be a hybrid between a cat, dog or maybe a raccoon. whatever it was, he already has an attachment to it. he lifted it up into the air to admire the gamboge zigzag patterns and the magenta fabric. it’s cute doe eyes and rosy cheeks are adorable features to it, he didn’t think he has seen anything like this before.

“thank you so much! i’ll treasure this!”

y/n couldn’t see his smile too well. the doll was in the way. “do you like it?” they asked patiently.

“like it? no, no, no!” midori shook his head fervently. “i love it! it’s a pleasure to be working with you, y/n!” he smiled. this smile was more jovial than the others. it felt like your brain stopped working by now.

...

“...right! yes!” you checked your watch, cheeks dusted in a taffy shade. midori is too giddy to have notice as you step back to the door of the dressing room. “well, i- i hope the others love their gifts just as much as you do!” you giggle. midori looked your way with a small frown, holding his new adorable possession close to him. “what? leaving already?”

it was like an arrow of warmth shoot right through your heart when he said that. you giggle nervously once more. “yep, i have to check on the equipment and get my camera ready so excuse me. bye bye, midori!” thats when you ran out the room and shut the door close. midori smiled shyly and looked down at his plushie. perhaps meeting you like this wasn’t so bad as the rumors interpret you to be. in fact, he would like to run into you like this in the future of destiny wants. you started to look cute in his eyes right about now.

#ensemble stars x reader #enstars x reader #ensemble stars #ensemble stars imagines #midori takamine #enstars