#PLUS THE RED STUFF ON THE CLIFF I-

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2.07 The Usual Suspects

-Sam being interrogated about Dean is so so good because we get to see Sam being told that his brother is a scumbag criminal and the way he reacts by rolling his eyes like he’s heard this before. It’s almost like seeing a teenage version of Sam. The detective keeps telling him to throw Dean under the bus and the whole time he’s just giving attitude and plotting how to help Dean and work the case. He keeps looking out the window. Some of his reactions are raw and some are fake and some are both and his mind is running through his options assessing what to do and how to get out of this.

When confronted with the cliff notes on his and Dean’s life, Sam runs the gamut of emotion from sad and grief-stricken about Jessica to defending Dean and acting all scandalized to being a smartass, to whatever the hell this is when she says “it’s not your fault he’s your brother, we can’t pick our family”

The double meaning here. The not meeting her eyes, the tension on his face, the disdain. It’s giving Bitch don’t I fucking know it, yet I would choose him a thousand times and every time I would be a little bit miserable. “It’s not your fault he’s your brother, we can’t pick our [soul mates]” is probably what God tells him in his most comforting dreams.

-So the detective’s theory is what? That after a shared sordid serial killer childhood Sam escaped the life and then Dean murdered Sam’s girlfriend in a house fire to lure him back in and make him his crime wife?

Because I mean yeah I would read that AU. That fits their vibe pretty nicely.

-She says “Dean’s a bad guy….his life is over, yours doesn’t have to be” and Sam looks at her like that’s the dumbest thing he has ever heard.

She doesn’t know that they become sickly and depressed when they’re apart like a pair of bonded sewer kittens.

When she tells him he can get on with his life and Dean’s as good as gone you can almost see him tuning her out and calculating how to lie about this.

-Sam starts on his cover story, using his trademark Sweet-Innocent face. He relies on his charms and on appearing helpless to manipulate people into doing what he wants. He would’ve learned to do this when he was a child as a survival skill, and I can just imagine how well this complemented Dean’s tough but earnest seduction thing. Acting sweet and helpless when you’re actually savvy and resourceful is a trope commonly used in female characters. These traits (innocence, sweetness, feigned helplessness) are associated with women gaining/utilizing agency in the ways available to them.

Because narratively, Sam is the girl. It’s stuff like this, plus the way he’s depicted as Dean’s tempting damsel in distress in other episodes. It increases the sexual tension between Sam and Dean when they rely on these archetypes because we know what it means when two leads are masculine and feminine, when they need each other and the plot hinges on their conflict. It means they’re the love interests.

-Dean makes a joke about Sam being Scully, and Sam’s like I’m not Scully you’re Scully, and Dean says “No I’m Mulder. You’re a red headed woman.” Really spelling it out.

Dean is smirking and making prolonged eye contact and just— he’s flirting. There’s a Bruce Springsteen song titled “Red Headed Woman” about how “it takes a red headed woman to get a dirty job done.” I have no idea if this is what Dean’s referencing or if it’s just a Scully reference but it’s a very specific thing to say and Sam is brunette. The song is very suggestive.

-Dean HATES waiting around while Sam works. Within seconds he becomes insufferable and has to leave to go do something, flirting with Sam again on his way out.

-“Sam’s story matches Dean’s to the last detail” they didn’t even SEE each other before talking to police! They’re just so connected that they tell the same exact story. Then they both work on the case in their separate interrogation rooms using different methods and arrive at the same conclusion at the same time. They also make the same joke about their public defender.

-I keep seeing this post about who knew Dean better, Sam or Castiel, and I just want to point out that these two are so in sync they can essentially read each others minds.

-We have an outsider perspective on their lives and relationship a few times this episode, and the detectives comment more than once on how weirdly connected the brothers are. Like, Dean communicates to Sam via movie reference to escape and Sam is already all over that, he’s been assessing how to climb out the window since his first scene.

-Dean tells the detective to go to Sam so that Sam can save her life, giving her their info on “how we find each other when we’re separated.” That’s very practical. It’s also true that when they aren’t together they are obsessed with finding each other and making sure they know exactly where the other is at all times. They must have felt so untethered when Sam was at Stanford. I’m imagining Sam going on a little trip over spring break and feeling like he’s forgetting something really important and starting to panic only to realize it’s just that Dean won’t know where he is.

#samdean #supernatural #spn meta #sam and dean #wincest #spn 2x07

[mysterious-gizem]

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Warning/s: (???)

Prompt given by: @kayla-crazy-stuffs

Taglist: @da3dm, @gt-mcyt

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"Let's get this vacation going!" Sapnap whooped as he closed the car trunk, now looking at Karl. "You're just lucky I could bring a plus one into this trip," He chuckled, "The agency still expects me to take photos of the wildlife and landscape there." He implied.

Sapnap rolled his eyes as he and Karl hopped into the car. The shorter brunette turned on the engine and shortly after started driving. The entire car ride was filled with jokes and casual conversations between the two until they arrived at their beachfront hotel.

The two began to unload the trunk and settle themselves into the hotel.

"Yo Karl, there's this place down by the board walk we can go diving," Sapnap began while snickering. "Apparently, there's been sightings of sea monsters there~" He chuckled, Karl rolled his eyes at his friend's antics.

"There's a coral reef there, right? I can take some photographs there for work." The taller smiled as he grabbed his camera, "Alright then, let's go!" The shorter brunette cheered as he walked to leave the hotel room.

The duo were now standing on a boat in their diving gear with a worker, "Those oxygen tanks will last around forty-five minutes, so come back after you're done exploring. I'll be here on the boat waiting for you guys!" The man explained as he made sure the oxygen tanks were fine.

Sapnap was the first to fall into the ocean with Karl following shortly after, fish swam around minding their own business as the two human's gazed in awe at the reef in front of them. The taller was pulling out his camera and taking a few professional and goofy photos.

Sapnap was playing around watching the small sea creatures crawling and swimming around. Even mentally snickering to himself as he toyed around with the fishes.

Thirty minutes in Karl signalled for Sapnap to follow him to the surface which the other nodded to, once the two resurfaced the taller was the first to hop back onto the boat however Sapnap stayed in the water.

"Sap? Are you still staying in the water?" Karl asked as the worker listened quietly, "There's still a few minutes left. Can yall just come back for me?" Karl turned to look at the guy who gave him a nod. "Alright then." Karl said as he sat himself on the boat.

"Sir, just remember if, in any case, your oxygen tank is low and I'm not here yet, swim to the surface and wait for me." The worker informed the brunette. Sapnap nodded as he watched the boat drive away before he dived back down.

What surprised Sapnap was a cliff just at the edge of the coral reef that he didn't notice before. He curiously swam closer as he inspected the cliff. He was captivated by the beauty of the ocean life around him that he didn't notice time flying by.

He suddenly noticed a beeping red light and a timer on the side, two minutes, Sapnap panicked as he quickly tried swimming up, but he was quickly pulled back. He scrambled to look what was holding him back. Seaweed was wrapped around his leg with rocks, keeping him from moving.

The brunette rushed to pull his legs, yet it seemed to only tighten the hold. He started to breathe heavily, which only worsened his situation. He could feel his oxygen diminish as he vision fogged up. He was on the verge of passing out before hearing movement in the water. Sapnap gasped as he lost his strength and gave in to passing out.

Sapnap gasped as he coughed out water, the salty liquid burning his eyes. He blinked as he stared around, noticing the dark room(cave?). Only being illuminated with algae. A loud guttural humm caught his attention as he snapped his head to the side, seeing a huge silhouette.

"I've never seen a human up this close. You guys are small!" The creature announced as he brought an arm closer; which startled the brunette. "Oh- sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." The other said.

Sapnap was quiet he was scanning the creature up and down—was this seriously a mermaid- or merman?—Sapnap trembled as he made eye contact with the man.

"Oh! I'm Dream, what about you?" The creature grinned, showing those sharp pearly white teeth. He was unsure whether or not he should answer, yet he stuttered a quick response, "Sapnap..." He mumbled. The creature excitedly grinned, still seemingly astonished at the human in front of him.

"Sap—nap? Seems like an odd name for a human, but it's cool!" The male answered, "Uhm- where—where are we?" Sapnap asked seemingly out of breath, "We're in an underwater cave! I saw you tangled up in some seaweed, and it looked like you needed help, so I plucked you off the seaweed and brought you here." He explained. Sapnap noticed the unusual wording when the creature said 'plucked' instead of untangle, yet when he looked down on his leg, he still saw part of the seaweed wrapped around his leg.

Sapnap nodded as he began to shift his seating to a more comfortable position, now more calm than he was formally. "C-Can you bring me up to the uhm- boardwalk?" The human was hesitant to ask, not wanting to anger the sea creature.

The look on the mermans face looked...disappointed? With a solemn sigh, the creature spoke, "Sure- I suppose I can't really keep you..." Suddenly, Sapnap got picked up with a hand, now having a clear reminder on their size differences. The creature seemed to still as the human scrambled to try to escape, his instincts to tell him to run, run, RUN.

"Woahh~ you fit on my palm!" He said with a grin once again, showing those bright sharp teeth, Sapnap watched the maw that seemed to get closer and closer...

"Oh uhm, yea, you're gonna have to hold your breath so I can bring you up." He told the brunette with a nod. Sapnap's breath shook as he took a deep breath and shut his eyes. He suddenly felt the water slap his face and the grip on himself getting tighter.

It's like earlier...

He chest felt strained, the oxygen in his lungs slowly diminishing, his anxiety was skyrocketing as he felt himself rushing around the water. He hoped he was close to the surface, but for now, his focus was on keeping his mouth and eyes shut.

Suddenly, he felt the world shift and no longer felt water beside his face. He gasped as he felt the tightness in his chest disappear, and he rolled onto the ground. He coughed and spat out water that managed to enter his mouth.

Sapnap turned to look at the creature, his full body almost submerged except for their head, "I have to go- human's aren't even supposed to see me, I hope we see each other again, Sapnap" Dream whispered as he quickly dissappeared under the water.

"Damn, that really just happened?"

Sapnap sighed as he brushed himself, picking himself up to return to the hotel. The sun was setting behind him as it began to hide itself.

Bonus:

"Sapnap!? Oh my god- where have you been!" Karl questioned as he ran to hug the shorter, "Multiple boat's and divers came looking for you!" The taller rambled but the words blurred together in Sapnap's mind as he collapsed onto his bed.

He mumbled a small reply, "...'m f'ne Karl..."

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Yoo, I'm sorry if it's not what you expected. Honestly, I was thinking of making Sap the mer, but bricks short fic made me change my mind😭

#g/t #giant/tiny #gt #mcyt gt #mcyt g/t #writing #dsmp g/t #giant!dream #mer!dream #tiny!sapnap #not proofread

[aardvaark]

omitb season 3 finale spoilers under the cut!

first of, SAZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!! nooooooo!!!

second of all, finale went down fairly similarly to what i assumed except for the red herring thing, but donna and cliff with their mother-son protective relationship was mostly what i expected, so that’s cool.

the ending is main thing now, really. i feel like a major thing is going to be, did the shooter mean to kill sazz or charles? it seems pretty likely that they assumed it was charles… i mean, the apartment was dark and i think we all had a moment of "NOOO CHARLES" there. however, it might not be wise to immediately discount sazz as the target. we don’t know her life! maybe she’s done some dodgy stuff, maybe she’s got enemies… she does visit the prison a lot, maybe people are moving stuff in and out and they think she knows, or she’s involved, or who knows what. another thing is the angle. someone else in the apartment complex perhaps? on the other side? lastly, it seemed like sazz was writing something or drawing something in her own blood. it might be fully-finished OR half-finished when we see it next, and it’s important to remember the angle at which she’s writing it, plus the fact that she can’t really see it from where she is so it could be a bit wrong or off. i hope she’s not writing "charles" with that first semi circle!

#omitb #only murders in the building #omitb s3 #omitb spoilers #omitb finale #omitb season 3 #wren speaks

[chronotsr]

Pre-G1 Modules, part 4B - The Judge's Guild Roundup Completed

Oh. Oh we're still doing this? It won't end? Gods. At least we made it to 1978. Anyway, happy eclipse to every. Reminder: the people who run Judge's Guild now are full-on nazis, do not buy their books. Go hug your loved ones instead.

The Thieves of Fortress Badabaskor (1978)

Maybe I was too hard on the Prince Valiant-ass artstyle. It looks very proud for a bandit fortress, don't you think? The full color version that comes out later is even nicer -- it's the one you find on google images first. Anyway. Fort Badboybaskaur was founded by ''The Emperor of Glorious Doomfire''. It truly was the era of so-bad-its-good naming! The fort was built so that if raiding happened, the many small villages could congregate there for safety. Only, it turns out there was a red dragon underneath. And then that got resealed. And then an evil demigod took over. And then bandits took that over.

I read this section like five times and for the life of me I cannot find a prophesy here. They just kind of say it because it sounds cool. The prose in this hand out is, really really rough, it's a lot of proper nouns and moral history tropes -- empire becoming successful and spawning evil religion yada yada yada. The proper noun addiction is strong with this one, we get quite a few undefined proper nouns here. He's another classic: "Zanaaphic the All-King of the Spirit Universe". I have so many questions! None of which will be answered. "Angall of the Perpetual Void" Wow! Those are some neat nouns! The net effect, however, is there was a really skilled evil wizard who got confronted by a god, beat him, and by defeating him became a four-armed dragon-skinned bat-winged magical null. He does up to 16 pips of damage with his silly flails!

So the cover image is lying a little bit about the fortress. In both of the presented maps, there is no cool rampart that you have to slowly siege, there are mountains both in front and behind the fortress, and there are way more than three turrets. I am actually a little fond of this keep layout-wise, it's less cramped than the Keep on the Borderlands is. Naturally, it sits at the foot of Mount Deception.

It's a nice little fortress, no? I would recommend getting a modern copy of the map if it wasn't for the ownership sucking ass in an extreme way. Plus, having dungeons under your keep on the borderlands seems like a great idea, actually. Or, shit, having a rival keep on a rival borderlands sounds kinda rad. Anyway, the room by room is pretty rote. The exterior rooms are mostly just services you'd give to anyone walking in, but the real juicy stuff is all kept inside the mountain walls. We've got your usual suspects. Guard captain, bossman, bossman's terrible wife (and the wife is legally required to be evil because male writers), pawnbroker, human trafficker, tavernsssssss, gemcutter, blacksmith, et c. Some of the names are okay, "Hole in the Hill Inn" run by ogres was really funny to me, I would change them to hill giants to complete the joke.

The dungeon has an interesting conceit where there are some generic "alternate rooms" in the back of the book that come with a blank room number that you can swap if you dislike the default room contents. I'm really in favor of this mindset. I have thought for a while that it'd be kind of nice for adventure books to be shipped in some sort of editable capacity? Like if I wanna do open heart surgery on a floor of a dungeon, but I like the other 4 floors, it'd be nice to keep it in the original format instead of having the adventure book and then some loose-leaf with the changes penciled in. Tragically, the alt rooms are overwhelmingly just monsters in a room, with the outlier being a wererats with a little kidnapping scheme.

Underneath the fortress there are five levels, one is actually above ground level and in the cliff face behind the keep, and the third level leads to the surface via caves. Neat! I'm kind of imagining Gerudo Fortress here on a lot of levels. Here's a quick skim of the best contents:

There appears to be a little rat treasure hoard where the rats have to pay their dues to their little rat kings? What's going on here is kind of unclear to me, but I can't help but imagine one of the guards trained the rats to hide money in the walls for him and the ten rats with silver formation are a kind of animal-passcode.

A chest trapped with some sort of reverse truth serum -- it removes your ability to speak, see, or hear for a week if you open it without permission. Naturally, the chest is decorated with the three wise monkeys 🙈🙉🙊 (and a mysterious fourth monkey the text implies nothing about, maybe it's Sezaru? Curse of erectile dysfunction!)

The alarm system seems to be gong-based

Oh, I don't like this beholder at all. Ewwww! But also, why is this drawing here? There's no beholders in here? Is this some kind of silly trap for snooping players? In fact, most of the monster illustrations are…kind of just random monsters.

The treasury is booby-trapped to hell and back. We have a standard guillotine trap disarmed with a tile puzzle on the wall, a hell-hound guard dog, and the most prominent magical item is a necklace of strangulation. Rough break! Just go ahead and put all of the treasure on pressure plates with flame jets at that point.

A reverse gravity pit-trap -- you pull a book, you fall through a hole in the ceiling and then it traps you in the ceiling. It's just a pit trap at the end of the day, but way vivid!

A chair made of a dragon's arms and horn that will animate and attack you if you try to pry gems off it or attack anyone

Two wizards are having a battle over who gets to own a trained lizard that can sing and carry heavy loads. I understand guys. That lizard is worth it.

Under a sarcophagus is written "If you can read this, you're too close", as well as some explosive runes

The treasure hoard of a lost king, if you attempt to steal it, will turn into a treasure construct shaped like the king. Awesome!

"A similar cabinet on the north wall is labeled "For Future Imperialists". In the top drawer is a Gem of Brightness, the second is a pair of Bracers of Defenselessness, and in the bottom drawer is a pouch of Dust of Sneezing and Choking." I would fully lean in, make it a Cursed Gem of Brightness that you can't turn off, and put the Bracers in the top drawer if the goal is to prank an evil character into hurting themselves.

A reverse-vampire giant lizardfolk that consumes the unlife from undead. So, Tomb of the Lizard King got beat to the vampire-lizardfolk punch, I guess?

Large swaths of this dungeon genuinely feel randomly generated. The worst parts are about half of floor 2, 3, and about half of floors 4 and 5. It just feels like padding to me. And in true Judge's Guild fashion, there are treasure stores in the temple that are "instantly max your character" amounts of loot. Now I get that shares are a thing and you gotta pay your hirelings, but still, 1.5M gold represents like, even if you're a party of 10 you're still looking at instantly maxing a thief, shooting a fighter to level 8, and shooting a wizard to level 9. And there's no way you were at 0xp when you smuggled that statue out, that's going to be an instant max for just about anyone. The big reveal that I…guess you could conceivably puzzle out? Is that the dragons were nearby because they were minions of a dragon-king entombed under this fortress before it was built. A cool idea, that desperately needs more foreshadowing. The love clearly went into making those tombs cool, so if I was going to rip anything off from this module that'd probably be my second port of call.

Gen Con IX Dungeons (1978)

What a name, right? How come Tsojconth got a name and these dungeons didn't? Blatant favoritism. Well actually one of the two dungeons may as well be called the Halls of Grsk. And, wow, everything about the design notes are ominous. "Simplicity would be the prime requisite". So….does that mean this adventure is boring on purpose, Bob?

The adventure is split into two bits, the player-side info and the gm-side info, which…okay. Sure. The titular dungeon is set in the "Celtic mythos", whatever the fuck that means (Bob, the Celtic cultures covered almost all of Europe and parts of Asia. That phrase is meaningless!). TL;DR the old king's wizard went evil and killed the king, left no one to rule, and then went nuts and much later summoned a bunch of demons to protect his loot now that he's old and dying. The local wizard, Framschamsnaggle (seriously?) bullies you into raiding his tomb to get a staff back. There's a dragon in there and you were handed a teleportation amulet that will zip you out as soon as you get your hands on the staff.

Oh. Oh that's not good. That's a very not good dungeon layout. That's a very bad dungeon layout. And the contents are, as bad. I wonder if it was considered bad at the con itself? I couldn't find a single remarkable thing in this whole dungeon. It is neither weird, nor funny, nor clever, nor interesting. It's 30 random dungeon rooms in a row, with a rare trap that is practically randomized also.

The sole joy I can find in this module is this illustration, which looks like a shitpost.

The second round of the tournament (1st round eliminates) is set in a completely different place, which is more properly called the Halls of Grsk. Almost all of this area is also just, save or suck traps and monsters. There is one trap that's kind of classic and okay -- picking up the giant ruby locks all exits, many red herrings, room starts heating up like an oven. The solution is to smash the ruby, which instantly kills the heating element. It's not amazing (how are you supposed to guess it's a ruby? It behaves like a pressure plate trap but the ruby itself is contact-activated) but it's the least bad thing in here. The portal-that-eats-you prank in particular grinds my gears, the game communicates every possible thing to say it kills you, and by blind faith you go through and is the best solution. Picking up the fake secret item instantly kills you, because fuck you. The fakeout trap's sole hint is "why are there two normal doors on the north wall?" which, it's a points-based dungeon, they're going to assume it's for extra points. Also, the whole dungeon is a massive straight line in disguise. It's a wreck.

Actually, the whole scenario feels like a worse "Tomb of the Lizard King" in a lot of ways, down to the silly rhyme on the last page that gives you a critical clue about how to kill the undead baddie. In a sense it's also like Tomb of Horrors in that way, I guess, but the vibes are a lot more like Tomb of the Lizard King.

Damn it Bob, you made it boring on purpose.

Citadel of Fire (1978)

This is truly one of the dungeon covers of all time.

Is… is that The Golem? I hope Rabbi Loew is available. Or, maybe it's good that he's not in the module, because obviously this construct's creator is going to be evil in this module.

This is the least least imaginative of the Judge's Guild modules in this series. It is, simply a wizard's tower. If you have ever in your life read a wizard's tower module, you've read this one. The JG staples of constant slavery mentions continues with slave girls being in every single damn room of the towers. There's, not really much plot to go on either. There are wizards, the hill is good for magic, they are aligned with the goblins, go chop 'em up.

Sigh. Here's the memorable bits.

Nearly out the gate, we get one of those paragraphs that you would hope would be so obviously bad to the writers that they would second guess the decision. Why the actual hell did you stat out some 200 nearly identical goblins manually?

What is that and when do I get a bestiary entry for them? That's not a joke, the module never mentions what this is and now I want this Weresalazzle in my adventures.

The vague allusion to "Shabast", which are apparently a species of people who are intelligent clouds? But only sometimes.

A variety of pens for animals the wizards are working on, which include an Irish deer, a jackalwere, a baby lammasu, a giant slug named Skippy, some orcs, man-eating apes, an elephant, and a hydra

For…some reason there's a tavern on the 2nd floor of a dungeon. In the lightest defense of the module, at least the 2F has a surface access and no pre-programmed encounters between here and the tavern (random monsters thoooo). The owner sleeps with a new person every night, highly critical detail.

?????????????????????

OK so many rooms later there's a pyrohydra with a toothache. Mystery solved, that's why there's a magical dentist!

I hesitate to complain, but after multiple dungeons with 100k+ gold rewards, this dungeon's treasury having roughly 11,000 gold in it feels like an anticlimax. The fact that it's protected by that pyrohydra and electrified locks adds insult to injury.

This is a joke, right? That's your final floor? Anyway, this is just The Demon Floor. There is more treasure here than upstairs, which is a little strange given that the demon serves the wizard and not the other way around.

So on the whole, deeply shit. In conclusion, Early Judge's Guild leaves a lot to be desired. Next time we will -- wait, am I free? There's no more pre-G1 modules? I get to finally do TSR shit and leave this mire?

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS (edit: I was half-right -- there was one more pre-G1 module, but it was TSR!)

#0e #chronotsr #dnd #dungeons and dragons #tsr #ttrpg

[rainofthetwilight]

Ethan Walker HCS!

as I promised in JJ's hc post, baby boy ethan's here!

(this time theyre not all are really connected to the lore post, but they may be confusing; so check it out if you haven't!)

he seems shy at first, but he's pretty chill if you leave a good impression on him

when he's shy, he speaks really quietly and only Jenna can understand him (and Lloyd, of course)

he may not have so much trauma now, but *looks at his older self* ohoho he will

when he was born, everyone had spoiled him so much, and Jenna kept playing with him at every chance she got!

he loves collecting pebbles! sometimes he'll go out to the monastery courtyard and just collect some of those pebbles he finds on the ground

with how he never left the monastery before, he can't imagine how big the world actually is, and he doesn't quite understand it, until he went to the crossroads for the first time

during those 5 years, Lloyd was practically his father figure since he had no one else, he knew he was his uncle of course but his mind couldn't process the fact that his actual father was Jay, never even knowing him (atleast properly)

he also has a big obsession for animals, he hated how he never saw them in real life but loved learning about them and watching documentries! (It bores Jenna to death)

his favourite animals are cheetahs, he always calls Jenna a 'cheetah' because of how fast she is

plus, whenever Lloyd goes to the crossroads to get some stuff, he sometimes brings him an animal plush when he could, so he has a literal collection of them

he also has little animal minifugures and ninja minifigures, too!

his room's walls' were also painted by Jenna! there's some landscapes too and alot of animals

unlike Jenna, he doesn't have that big of an intrest in drawing, but he does have a secret intrest in writing

he loves to embroider too!

he also only learns to draw for the purpose of drawing animals

he'll come out as bi in the future, continuing the chain of The Bi Walkers™

he hogs the TV from Jenna and tells her to use her phone instead, he loves to play videogames on it (and will soon become a master)

he usually watches Jenna and Lloyd when they train, most of the time it's out of boredom

when Jenna tells him about her time at school, he doesn't really like the idea of school because of the amount of people, he prefers studying with Lloyd

he didn't really like Kai at first, but he didn't say anything and made an attempt to spend time with him

same thing with Zane, but he was so amazed when se saw him for the first time and would ask him to make him some small sculptures

he loves books! he borrowed alot of of them from the team and Lloyd would get him his own books, too

he secretly prefers the romance ones, and will have collections of that genre in the future

unlike Jenna, he isn't that afraid of blood

he's actually a bit afraid of water, the first time he went to a pool he screamed and did not want to go in

he got used to it after a while and became a somewhat good swimmer, but still got an uneasy feeling whenever he's around it

that was also one of the reasons why he couldn't control his powers

he, Finn, and Noah's usual movie on their movie nights is a sappy Cliff Gordon romance movie, they never get bored of it lmao

he loves being carried!! he always asks either Jenna or Lloyd to carry him, and when his 5 new siblings came along Noah was carrying him almost all the time and he loved it, throw him in the air and he'll laugh like crazy (baby boy 😭)

another point added to the 'touch starved jayling' chart, he LOVES hugs and would never give up the chance to hug someone! he loves getting a whole lot of kisses too

he loves to help in the kitchen whenever he could from his love of cooking, and is extremely obsessed with muffins

his favourite colour isn't red or blue either, he really really loves orange for some reason, the clothes he's wearing is just clothing borrowed from Jenna's old ones!

he also stole that smile pin from Jenna, which was originally Jay's

he also took that headband when he one time snuck into Nya's locked room, his fringes annoy him alot so he wears it almost all the time, Nya was suprised when she saw him wearing it

is very inquisitive and curious, he'll never shut up if he has a question or notices something

he hates seeing someone distressed, and tries to comfort them the best he could

he's that sibling that would listen to your rants without ever getting bored, he loves listening to people rant, and would gladly listen to you if you need to talk about something

he knows about Jenna's PTSD, he doesn't know the full backstory but knows that whenever she needs alone time, he needs to leave her alone

when they reunited with Nya, he was still a bit wary of her and left Jenna to spend most of his time with her, but he quickly got used to having her around

Jay wasn't the smoothest thing either, Ethan did not want to be around him because he already had a bad impression on him

is obviously the baby of the siblings, literally no one can hate this little guy

he was afraid of Kaida too, and he didn't like the way she and Jenna fought, he'd always get scared when they did

he was also afraid of Kaida, Quinn and Tessa of taking Jenna's place as his older sister, he didn't understand that they were all his sisters

but once he did, he was pretty close to Kaida especially!

he, Kaida and Noah share their immense love for animals, and Noah always reads him his animal books along with Kaida

he also tags along Tessa and Noah when they watch animal planet

he absolutely loves hoodies and jackets, and when he saw all the sisters with their aviator jackets he so badly wanted one too

he doesn't really like pranks and thinks theyre rude, he'd only tag along if they're harmless

Jenna and Kaida taught him how to use insults, no regrets lmao

Quinn loves him to death, she loves borrowing his headband!

Kaida also teaches him how to use a gun, he literally gets so excited when she does

Tessa also uses him as a benchpress, he's so small she can literally benchpress him with one hand

there's never a time you won't find Noah carrying him or having him on his shoulders when they spend time together

he becomes the best cook out of his siblings, 10/10s every single time

in the future, he volunteers in orphanages, animal farms and schools while JJ became an actress!

he also becomes one of the tall siblings, maxing at 5'8 oh boy

his future partner is Tyra Karmakar (old oc), he has a taste for women that could kick his ass lmao

and there we go! I might add on to this too if I get anymore ideas, but finally here's some more info about our sunshine boy!!

#ninjago #ninjago au #ninjago oc #oc: ethan walker #combined au #tessa walker #kaida walker #oc: jenna walker #noah walker #oc: quinn smith-walker #oc: finn smith-walker #early family au #dad jay au #levi's headcannons #levi's beloved mutual(s) <3 #oc: tyra karmakar #ninjago nya #ethan unlike jenna doesnt have so much lore *yet* #he has more lore in the future than in dragons rising! #me and my friend always focused on his older self tbh #because w/ him being born after crystallized my boy is not so traumatized *yet* #trust me tho in the atypb rewrite I'll explore him more!

[voicesinthedarkness]

Reaching Out For Your Hand

Natasha’s vision fades in slowly. She’s floating in the air, looking down at a cliff made of some kind of purple stone.

On the cliff, two people stand with their foreheads touching. A man, his dirty blond hair styled in a long mohawk with a bow and two katana on his back, and a woman in some kind of black tactical suit, her braided red hair dyed blond at the end.

Natasha’s view soars closer, landing next to them. They don’t appear to notice her. “Okay,” the man says as he pulls away suddenly, and she nods, taking in a breath. “You win,” he continues, and smiles.

Then he swipes her legs out from beneath her, pinning her to the ground. “Tell my family I love them,” he says in a rushed voice. She makes a motion too fast for Natasha to see, grabbing him and bodily thrusting him off of her. “You tell ‘em yourself,” she pants, now on her feet and… pointing her fist at him? Something glows blue from a thick black bracelet around her wrist, and Natasha realizes she has something similar to her own Widow’s Bites.

A blue bolt shoots from the bracelet, electrifying the man, and the woman runs to the cliff as the man struggles up and aims a bow slightly to the left of her. An arrow fires, setting off a small explosion and throwing the woman to the ground. She grunts in pain, almost glaring up at the man as he tosses his bow aside and runs to the cliff, getting one last look at her face before he jumps. She soars after him, catching him and sending some kind of grappling hook up at the cliff wall as Natasha’s view follows them down. The hook catches, sending the two slamming into the cliff, and the woman slips. The man manages to catch her, and they hang there precariously, Natasha’s vision landing just beside them. “Damn you,” the man gasps, fighting to grab the woman with his other hand, but has to take hold of the cord so as to keep some weight off of it. He looks back down at her, making a pleading sound. “Let me go,” she whispers. “No,” he says, shaking his head. “No, please no.” She looks up at him. “It’s okay,” she breathes, and Natasha can tell she’s just barely holding back tears. “Please,” he says again, also about to cry. She pushes off from the wall, reaching up for him as she falls. “No!” he shouts, looking away before she hits the ground and sort of rocking himself.

He looks again after a moment, and Natasha follows his gaze, to the woman’s body splayed on the ground, red around her head, except it isn’t her hair, because that was in a braid.

“Natasha,” the man cries, the sound echoing around them, and finally Natasha understands.

She shoots up in bed, screaming, black wings flapping wildly. Clint’s there immediately, turning on a lamp, the soft light flashing off the red-gold edging of Natasha’s feathers. “I died in my dreams,” she pants. “What’s that supposed to mean?” Clint says, confused. “Got lost in the fire… I died in my dreams,” she repeats, not really understanding what she’s saying. “Reaching out for your hand,” she continues. “My fatal desire.” She flops back against her pillow, releasing a sigh. “It was just a dream,” Clint comforts her, running a silvery purple wing along the top of hers. “Yeah,” she answers softly. He begins to get up, but she grabs his hand, surprising him. “Stay,” she asks, and he does.

— — —

i have officially broken into little pieces ಥ_ಥ

Sorry if wings are “cringe” or whatever. I don’t really keep track of that stuff, because it’s exhausting and could change from day to day. Plus, as an Autistic Emotionally Ineptᵀᴹ person, wings are sooo expressive and help me to draw the line between one world and another.

I hope you like it @fckumoffat! I am also sorry that it ended up being so short (I forgot the ideas I’d had when I first answered your ask, I love having ADHD), so if I ever do add to this, I’ll make sure to tag you :)

#black widow #mcu black widow #hawkeye #mcu hawkeye #natasha romanoff #mcu natasha romanoff #clint barton #mcu clint barton #avengers #mcu avengers #endgame #marvel #my stories #clintasha fanfiction #tw death #tw major character death #requested

[acaplaya-musings]

Voiceplay Visuals: My Mother Told Me

This video was released on the 24th of April, 2021, and currently sits at a very-impressive 6.7 million views! It features Jose Rosario Jr (in his first collabration with Voiceplay (on a full-length video at least)), who for a few years performed with Rockapella! (Rockapella is an acapella group who have been around for over 35 years, they were part of the OG Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego show, and they were a bit of an inspiration to Voiceplay (originally 4:2:Five) in their early days).

I wasn't actually sure whether or not this video would give me a lot of moments to point out/talk about (it's been a while since the last time I watched it), but it's obviously a big production (epic, even), and I will undoubtedly be talking about its "sister video", Valhalla Calling, when I eventually get around to it, so long story short, I'm doing this. Let's go!

Each vocalist got filmed separately for this one, each with their own backdrop (and then were all spliced together for "group shots" in the video), so each member gets their own picture when I'm talking about them in this post!

Jose is wearing some textured blanket-looking thing, plus a plain brown shirt/tunic, and he's got a pair of blueish lines on his face that almost look a little bit like scars. He's standing in front of a sort of desert plains landscape, maybe with some large red mountains/rock formations?

Oh yeah and also it's a little hard to see, but just at the neckline of Jose's shirt, underneath his beard, there's a cool viking(?) symbol on his neck that also shows up in Valhalla Calling (and on the merch for that video too)!

Eli appears to have a bit of dirt and grime on his skin (which would be intentional of course), as well as some cool-looking tattoos (even on his head!) (fake ones for the video of course), and some very heavy eye makeup. He's standing in front of some grass, rocky cliffs (possibly with water down below?), and sea mist

(Also Eli is credited with "virtual production" on this one, so I guess all these greenscreen backgrounds were his doing? Massive shoutout to Eli!)

J has the same symbol on his forehead that Jose had on his neck/chest, as well as some white powder-looking makeup stuff on his cheeks. No clue what kind of top/shirt that is, but I like the big fur coat, and cool arm cuff things as well! He's standing in front of a frozen (or partially-frozen) lake, with snow-covered mountains/rock formations behind it.

(Fun fact: Geoff re-used a few costume pieces from My Mother Told Me when filming the videos for his covers of Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold and I See Fire!

Layne has got a makeup design to Eli, with similiar tattoos on his face, and a bit of extra dirt/grime as well. He's got fur trimmings(?) on his shoulders like Eli, but it looks more like the fur that J is wearing. He's standing in front of wide open plains I guess? I'm not sure, I can't make out a ton of detail.

I think Layne's outfit might be my favourite one of this video; it seems the most complex, like it has the most going on with it, and I like the patterned cuff design thing on his right arm!

And I haven't forgotten Geoff, of course I haven't forgotten Geoff, and seriously oh my god

I'm honestly not sure if I could give a good description of Geoff's outfit even if I tried, but it works! (Also wait I literally only just realised that, once more, he's the only one in the video with exposed shoulders (well, one exposed shoulder, but still!))

This honestly might be one of Geoff's most terrifying looks of any Voiceplay video so far, if not the most terrifying. Vampire!Geoff in This Is Halloween was "scary" in the "yes please give me more of it" (i.e. hot) way. Oogie Boogie!Geoff in Oogie Boogie's Song was just theatrical and entertaining. Mr Hyde!Geoff in Kidnap The Sandy Claws was (to me at least) just a little bit strange and hard to wrap my head around. But Geoff here? This is "makes you want to move very quickly in the opposite direction" scary!

(So like well done to Rick Underwood on the makeup (but in regards to everyone else as well))

Jose, J, Eli, and Layne all got cool aesthetic landscapes as their backdrops. Geoff got darkness and STUFF ON FIRE (...yeah that checks out 😆)

Even the fingernails!!! Even the fingernails look like they've got grime on them! (Also, Geoff at his least-terrifying moment of the video)

Aaaand we're back to "time to run away very fast" mode!

(Also yes Geoff's tattoos and makeup are very cool as well)

Not that Geoff is the only one in this video that I wouldn't wanna pick a fight with!

Jose is credited with "additional acting direction" in the description, so I guess he maybe camw up with/directed some of these kind of moves?

Oh hey Geoff has that symbol on him as well! I wonder if Layne and Eli have got it somewhere on them too?

Wait hang on what is Eli holding?

A better shot of Layne's face tattoos and the cool sleeve thing!

Geoff doing a similar hand movement to the one he did in Bang! (which was my previous post actually), after he had just done a bit of an impressive bass-vocal-run (or something like that), except this time it's after holding a quite low note (a subharmonic I think?) for like 6 seconds.

Oh I think Eli was holding his cape?

Yes I can see the tattoo, thank you Jose! 😂

Also did Geoff do a bit of hair colouration for this video? Because yes he's got a bit of grey in his hair now, but not that much grey, and it's not always that noticeable (though personally I do love the grey streak he often has in his bangs, it's rather fetching if I do say so myself <3)

Run fast, and run far!

And that's the video! Man, can you believe these are the same dudes (well except Jose) that did the Aca Top 10 videos, being all silly and fooling around? Acting skills were freaking on point here! Everyone crushed it!

It's a great arrangement as well (shoutout to Layne!). The song is actually just one single verse, which here is sung like 5 or 6 times over, but you barely even notice it (if at all) because the whole production is just so mind-blowingly good!

I also wanted to do this video because I'll be skipping over You're My Best Friend and Man In The Mirror, so this'll be the last video I'm doing where J is actually a part of the group. It was of course very sad that he left Voiceplay, but he's come back as a guest artist in like 6 full-length videos now (not even counting the minis), and hopefully he might one day return to Voiceplay full-time, once he's done with his stint in the US Navy band!

#hvoiceplay #acapella #my mother told me #geoff castellucci #eli jacobson #layne stein #j none #jose rosario jr #acaplaya analysis #voiceplay visuals

[alucohc]

Happy Valentine's Day! Let's Speedrun CBT to Celebrate

here's the route that I used to kick astarion in the balls in three seconds flat (source: just trust me dude) without using any major glitches

please note that i'm doing this run on balanced difficulty. if you for some reason wanted to do this on tactician, you'll need to pick up extra explosives. you can run the gameplay sections in explorer if you really want to, but you'll need to make sure to set it back to balanced whenever you need to multiclass

first up we have character creation. technically speaking a githyanki wizard is more optimal, but i went with a dragonborn sorcerer bc they have infinitely more rizz

look upon my technicolor sons and weep

anyway, you'll want to be a brass or red dragonborn for the fire resistance (just trust me for now). for your cantrips, take friends, minor illusion, mage hand, and fire bolt. for spells you'll want to take two of enhance leap, feather fall, and fog cloud, and then you'll pick the draconic ancestry that gives you the third. take the soldier background for the proficiencies (sorry durge enjoyers, less sceleritas = more time save) and then max your str and cha scores, putting the +2 into str and the +1 into cha. set your dex to 14, your int to 10, and everything else to 8. finally, take proficiency in persuasion and arcana (these should be the default selections).

the nautiloid section is pretty standard for a nmg speedrun; bunnyhop your way through, kill the imps in the lae'zel room as fast as possible, prep dashes before the zhalk room, etc etc. two things to note: 1) transfer lae'zel's stuff to your tav and yeet her off the side of the ship, and 2) triple dash (ie dash, enter turn-based mode, dash, enter combat, and dash again) before the zhalk room if you want to loot the mindflayers. you don't strictly need to loot them, but it will affect your invis potion routing in act 1.

once on the beach, you're going to jump your way to the wreckage and up the cliff face to avoid the intellect devourer fight. make your way over to astarion's spawn point, making sure to kill and loot the midflayer on the way (ideally you get a speed potion here, but it's not strictly necessary—more of a failsafe against fuckwuckies of your own design). recruit our beloved vampling and immediately ungroup him.

now bunnyhop your way towards the grove and up the cliff where the harper cache is. you're aiming for this bush (see below) to skip the grove fight cutscene trigger, but since we won't be returning to the grove, it doesn't really matter whether or not the fight actually starts or magically resolves on its own. jump up to the skeleton with the guidance amulet and then back down to where astarion's drained boar will appear.

now you're going to take two long rests without using camp supplies. on the first rest, thank astarion for offering to keep watch, and on the second, pick the death option that tickles your fancy. while at camp, grab the mask of the shapeshifter and the potion of hill giant strength from your camp chest. if you do not have access to these items, you will either need to route your way into the blighted village and goblin camp without being spotted (technically this is the optimal way, but i don't care to learn the pathing, plus free xp) or talk your way in and pick up the potion from derryth later on.

anyway, leave camp, examine the boar, and enter the blighted village disguised as a drow. once you've unlocked the waypoint, teleport astarion there, and have him pick up the antidote from the apothecary's house.

you'll have noticed that you've finally made it to level 2. take a level in barbarian for yourself, and save astarion's level in case you need to reroll a shop.

briefly group back up with astarion and bring him over to the barn that grukkoh and buthir are getting it on in. let him open the door. put that barbarian level to good use by intimidating grukkoh into not fighting you lol.

note that you can grab the boots from the windmill basement at this point for some added safety in the gith fight later. otherwise, ungroup yourself from astarion and jump your way over to waukeen's rest. grab the waypoint before entering through the roof. break the broken door with fire bolt (from a distance so you don't get thunderdomed onto the ground floor) and then quickly enter the room with the hamarhraft chest, grab the chest, and get the fuck out of dodge. if you didn't loot the mindflayers aboard the nautiloid, you may wish to save florrick, but it's not strictly necessary.

go back to the blighted village and start heading south. tell auntie ethel that none of this shit is your problem so she does her own dirty work. keep heading towards the waypoint very importantly: make sure you pass the arcana check to break the illusion. once you have the waypoint you can go back to the blighted village.

from here you have to options: take a long rest and do the rest of act 1 bloodless or be very careful not to accidentally start a conversation with astarion. you need the approval you get from the bite scene.

either way, drink the elixir of hill giant strength (if you have it) and make your way to the goblin camp disguised as a drow. get branded by priestess gut and lure her to her chambers. in the meantime, level up again, this time taking a rogue level for expertise in athletics and persuasion. then go and sell your extraneous belongings to roah. with luck she'll have two invis potions (if so, buy them both) (and maybe a speed potion), but it's likely she'll only have one and you'll have to buy a second from derryth.

now, you'll want to head into priestess gut's chambers. lure her over to the chasm with minor illusion and either push (if she's close enough to the edge) or throw her in. grab the key before heading into the room with all the explosives. pick them up and send them to camp.

if you passed the check to see the secret tunnel into the defiled temple, disguise yourself as a small race and use it. otherwise use the key and stealth past polma.

grab the selunite outpost waypoint. if you don't need to worry about shop rerolls, send astarion there. have him take a level of cleric (subclass doesn't matter) with devotion to elistraee. cast feather fall and enhance leap on him (or you if you need the rerolls (or are just stubborn lol)) before grabbing phalar aluve and jumping to the myconid colony.

your dialogue choice at the colony doesn't matter, just don't provoke them. send your other character there once the waypoint is unlocked.

within the myconid colony you need to grab the boots of speed, the boots of stormy clamor, your second invis potion, and the speed potion (and the hill giant strength potion if you don't have that). if rerolling the shops: give astarion a second level in rogue and a level in cleric. give thulla the antidote you picked up from the apothecary's house. then speak with blurg and have him bring omeluum over. decline any help. have astarion cast guidance on himself and cast fog cloud over blurg and omeluum with your beefy BALLCRUSHER tav. have astarion try to pickpocket the boots from omeluum until he succeeds. immediately send him elsewhere.

now you're going to head over to the beach waypoint. stay on top of the planks before reaching the waypoint so you don't have to deal with gekh and co. once you reach the waypoint, stealth, jump to the closer dock, jump to the second dock, and board the ship. use the [branded] dialogue option to enter grymforge.

once inside grymforge, beeline to sergeant thrinn. wait for the scrying eye to fuck off, and then yeet her into the lava. the ideal case is that she dies immediately, in which case you drink an invis potion, loot her body, and move as far away from your ghost as possible. if she doesn't immediately die, move towards the rubble and then onto the ledge before drinking the invis potion. there are two npcs in this fight who will use detecting presence this turn, and those are drar, who cannot reach this position (though obviously if dalthar goes before you it doesn't matter all that much) and mind master dunnol (but only if he's right by the lava when the fight starts). once combat is over, grab your spoils and leave the area.

take two (or three if you've yet to see the bite scene) don't bother with camp supplies; you should get a free full rest from the dream visitor cutscene. group up with astarion and grab two smokepowder and two firewire barrels before you teleport to the riverside teahouse waypoint.

take a moment to relax and harass some ""sheep"" (say baa at them twice). you earned it.

now have astarion cast sanctuary on both himself and you. you may wish to make a safety save in case things go south here.

confront gandrel, and let astarion choose violence. best case scenario: gandrel runs around like a chicken with its head cut off and you can place the barrels safely around him before detonating them. if, however, he's hellbent on using special arrows, you can reload and pickpocket them off of him before starting the fight.

you should, at this point, have 40 approval with astarion. talk to him and agree to fuck him later. long rest and do the do. don't bother with camp supplies, even if you got your ass handed to you by gandrel.

come morning, ungroup yourself and go to waukeen's rest. from here, make your way to githyanki patrol. make sure you take the upper path. ignore all the warnings, and (while in stealth (and with feather fall active)) jump from the far end of the gate onto the path to mountain pass region behind qudenos. ignore another warning and proceed.

during the forced long rest, respec both yourself and astarion to full sorcerers with your original stat spread and cantrips. keep your original bloodline, but give astarion white. take enhance leap, feather fall, and a third first level spell that you'll swap out for knock. take invisibility as well. your metamagic choices don't matter apart from needing subtle spell on astarion and twinned spell on one of you.

before leaving camp in the morning, grab one smokepowder and two firewine barrels. disguise yourself as a gith, jump to esther, steal the bag behind her, initiate trade with her, sell her her backpack back to her, put the graceful cloth and the periapt of wound closure (and also all her gold) in it, and then barrelmancy her to death. reap your spoils.

now jump to the creche. seriously don't even bother with the lift; jumping across the chasm is like half a minute faster. use the side entrance to get in. don't bother with knock on this door bc the dc 10 check is pretty free with the graceful cloth and guidance.

once inside, make your way to the inquisitor's chambers by utilizing the [githyanki] dialogue options. DO NOT TALK TO THE INQUISITOR. instead, cast fog cloud on the elegant chest to the left of the entrance and use the cover to yoink the gloves of belligerent skies.

at level 4, take whatever cantrips and enhance ability (on you) and chromatic orb (on astarion). give yourself the magic initiate wizard feat for the longstrider spell and give astarion an asi.

head back to the trielta crags waypoint, cast invisibility on yourself, and jump to act 2.

once inside the shadowcursed lands, you're going to grab a torch and then proceed to ignore the convoy. instead, jump your way to the ambush site. make yourself known to the convoy and convince them to give you the moonlantern and fuck off.

now head to moonrise, making sure the now-dead convoy doesn't spot you as you approach. teleport astarion in at the waypoint and regroup. go to straight to araj and make astarion bite her. if you still don't have the speed potion, check araj's stock. ungroup and have him buy ne'er misser from roah. equip him with ne'er misser, the boots of speed, the periapt of wound closure, and phalar aluve.

send astarion's twink ass over to the mausoleum. make sure you sneak past (technically over—you should jump directly over his head) raphael so you don't trigger his deal. go through the mausoleum, take the elevator to the sharran temple, and take the mushroom path to the left of the light puzzle.

at the bottom of the mushroom path (read: cloaker room) there's a locked door. cut this down with phalar aluve. keep heading straight until you enter balthazar's antechamber. here, you should make a detour to unlock the gauntler of shar waypoint. go back into the antechamber and use knock on the door to the right. grab the callous glow ring and send it over to your tav. make sure to re-enter sneak mode. cast knock on balthazar's door using subtle spell. then, jump over the reconstituted marksmen's sight lines so that you're in front of the door. dash, enter turn-based mode, dash again, and then open the door (and quickly un-crouch so you actually enter the battle).

on your first turn you want to get out of melee raneg of any of balthazar's goons, send at least four magic missiles right at balthazar's face, and then light as many of the candles around the room as you can.

pass turn and swap back over to your beefcake. teleport to the moonrise towers waypoint, head to the left of the front entrance and jump up onto the scaffolding. climb up the ladder, and you should be met with two doors. use knock on the one on the right. enter, lockpick the chest at the foot of the bed (dc 14 is pretty free with guidance and cat's grace), read the letter, yoink the cape for extra drip, and teleport back to the waypoint.

it should be astarion's turn again by now. with any luck, he took a hit to the face and is on death's door. if not, make sure to provoke an opportunity attack as you bring him just beyond the stone door that separates the antechamber from the waypoint. use chromatic orb to make a damaging surface, and step on it.

pass turn and switch back to tav. go through the main entrance and straight into the ketheric cutscene. don't try to save minthara, and let the goblins die. loot fezzerk's body for a bomb. at this point astarion should be down for the count, but if he's not, send the bomb over to him and have him throw it at his feet to speed up the process.

bring your tav down into the prison to where minthara is being held. cast minor illusion to lure one of the questioners away. then cast fog cloud on minthara. speak to her as if you helped her and offer to sneak her out (big shoutout to delph for this strat). throw an invis potion at her and leave through the docks exit. have her jump to her freedom and then tell her where to find your camp.

in the meantime, head back up to where z'rell is and get balthazar's bedroom key from her. unlock the door connecting it to the inside of the tower and use the lever to unlock the exit to the outside.

now head back to camp. drop the hamarhraft chest on the ground and use knock to ope it. speak with minthara and have her join your party. respec her at withers to have two monk levels (stats don't really matter here) and four rogue levels with the mobile feat. equip her with the ring of absolute force, the callous glow ring, the gloves of belligerent skies, the boots of stormy clamor, and hamarhraft.

now you'll send your tav to the gauntlet of shar. path over to where nessa is waiting for you. instead of following her, jump through the broken stairway to the door that leads to the verge of shadows (this one is finicky but i promise it's doable). create a second level spell slot using sorcery points and then cast knock on the door to unlock it. grab the waypoint and head back to camp.

once both balthazar and astarion are dead-dead, revive astarion at withers and take two long rests. only use camp supplies for one of them. make sure on the second rest you pick dialogue options 1 then 3 (then mash 1) so you don't accidentally break up with astarion.

now head to the verge of shadows and progress the plot. dame aylin gives people who said "fuck shar's trials" a buttload of timesave and doesn't make you prommy not to kill her. free her and go to moonrise towers.

at moonrise towers let jaheira know that you're not there to kill her. do not add her into your party. do not go through the front door either bc jaheira quite likes dying in this fight. instead, go back to that scaffolding you used to break into ketheric's room earlier. go through the left door into balthazar's room this time.

while in here, cast longstrider on minthara and invisibility on all your party members (one of your sorcerers will need to use twinned spell). make sure that the boots of speed and phalar aluve are equipped to your tav. go straight to the rooftop.

on the rooftop, use the [persuasion] option to talk ketheric down. once combat starts, stand next to minthara and use your tav to throw your potion of speed so that you're both in the splash zone. activate the shriek and stand so that sussy baka is inside it. with minthara, step of the wind: dash, cunning action: dash, dash, and dash. focus down sussy first, then the necromites, then ketheric and his war hound. make sure whoever's getting stomped is also actively being shrieked.

ketheric likes to not take stomp damage, so aylin will likely end the phase. in the event that she does this while you are frightened, quicksave and quickload bc for some reason, this status is quasi-infinite and won't tick down if ketheric isn't nearby.

level yourself and astarion up to level 6. take haste on one of you and fly on the other. have astarion swap out chromatic orb for daylight.

jump down into sphincterland. run over and purge zevlor so we don't have to deal with his artful nude later and then beeline for the boss arena. you don't need to use the tentacles of relaxation but you can if you want some safety. if you don't use them, take a short rest so you can use shriek again.

inside the boss arena, you're going to cast haste and enhance leap on minthara. use shriek and then immediately set up a triple dash with minthara. dash with yourself while in turn-based mode. and trigger ketheric's dialogue. persuade him to give up. you may wish to make a safety save.

once phase three starts, move yourself into position, have minthara jump over to aylin to free her, and jump myrkul to death with your remaining movement. make sure you grab ketheric's armor after the battle.

upon returning to moonrise towers, recruit jaheira into your party, jump over the aylin/isobel cutscene trigger, and make your way to act 3. don't bother talking to minthara; it's more convenient if she's not in the party for the gith fight.

at the pre-gith camp, give the potion of everlasting vigor to jaheira (have her drink it), alongside ketheric's armor and shield, phalar aluve, and either the boots of speed or the speedy lightfeet if you grabbed them.

respec jaheira as 6 champion fighter (17 str and 16 dex necessary) with the alert and athlete (str +1) feats. take a level of rogue for athletics expertise and a level of war cleric. prepare sanctuary. long rest.

generally what will happen here is that jaheira will be first up in initiative. you'll jump up between the two goth on the upper level and dash to the portal. if, for some reason, your tav goes first, feel free to style on everyone by casting enhance leap on yourself and jumping to the portal.

inside the astral prism, you're going to cast fog cloud on the ledge to the right of the ongoing fight, stealth everyone, jump them inside the cloud, and sneak them over to the skull. here, you want to cast fly and haste on jaheira and sanctuary on yourself and astarion. prep dashes if you desire, but you really don't need to. start the fight and yeet the gith into the beautiful void of space.

long rest. enter rivington. jump as fast as you can out of rivington. fuck rivington.

once in the lower city, switch over to astarion. give him reaper's embrace while you're at it. jump over to the lower city central wall waypoint, ascend the tower, DO NOT PROVOKE THE CHARMED GUARDS, and enter the vampire den.

beeline to the lower level. upcast a third level armor of agathys, don reaper's embrace, and use ne'er misser to delete the door that necrotic energy is leaking out of. read the dictionary (ideally without dying) and head over to the kennel. doff your armor.

switch over to your tav. send them to camp. grab two smokepowder and two firewine barrels from your chest and send them over to astarion. recruit minthara.

have astarion cocoon godey in explosives (it's what he deserves). retreat to safety and nuke that motherfucker. grab the signet ring off his twice-dead corpse.

head now to the ballroom door. unlock it. cast invisibility on yourself and proceed to the dais. descend.

now that the waypoint is unlocked, bring the rest of the party in. make a detour to grab (and read) the black mass scroll (just mash 2 through the dialogue). sneak past sebastian's dialogue and into the ritual chambers.

here, you'll equip jaheira with the boots of speed and reaper's embrace. cast haste, enhance leap, longstrider, daylight, and sanctuary on minthara. have jaheira use shriek and then sneak over to cazador to start combat with a surprise round. MINTHARA AND JAHEIRA ARE THE ONLY TWO PARTY MEMBERS WHO SHOULD BE IN COMBAT.

this is the easy part. just goombastomp everyone to death.

once everyone's dead, ascend astarion and then sneak out of the dungeon by jumping to the room below vellioth's chamber. use knock on the door and ascend to the sewers.

long rest. just keep yes, and?ing astarion until he tells you to get on your knees.

reap the fruits of your labors.

pov: you romanced some guy called THE CASTRATOR

#bg3 #long post #no seriously heed the warning #i've written shorter research papers

[captain-of-silvenar]

Based on @thana-topsy's OC asks, I'll answer some of them with as my Skyrim Dragonborn, Yera!

Which areas of Skyrim do they find most beautiful and most dangerous?

"Call me bias, but I think Whiterun and Riften are my top two for most beautiful places. The plains of Whiterun have ample space for hunting, and the way the wind blows over the grass is novel and refreshing. Riften, so I've been told, has beautiful trees that turn the most amazing shades of reds and oranges in the autumn. Pity I can't see them, but hearing the leaves rustle reminds me of home. There's also the lake here with plenty of fish, so I eat them when we're out of meat in the house. "The most dangerous I would argue would be The Reach. There are lots of steep cliffs and mountainous areas, and while I love a good hike that stuff is dangerous if I'm not careful. Not to mention all the hostile locals there, out in the mountains and in the city! I'm never going back there again, not if my life depends on it."

What are their religious affiliations, and how does their worship (or lack thereof) affect their day-to-day life?

"Y'ffre is the only God I actively worship in my day-to-day life. As with most Bosmer, our relationship with Them is unique to everyone and everyone has their own interpretations of the Green Pact. I personally try and keep from harming any plant life while I'm in Skyrim. It's difficult, and I know that this is not Valenwood but it still bothers me, you know? Plus I try to keep my diet the same. Also incredibly difficult, but there are plenty of wild game to hunt and no one really appreciates a good fish these days. I just wish I could keep with one of the most important ones, but not killing in self defense is... the most difficult thing to keep in Skyrim. The bandit problem alone made me have to compromise. It's a really pity to be honest."

Would they be able to live off the land if they were lost in the wilds of Skyrim? How skilled are they at foraging and hunting?

"Oh uh... I don't think I would be able to survive for very long in Skyrim off the land. At least alone. I would have to rely mostly on traps and hope that something is there for me to eat. I could hunt with my bow but can you imagine trying to hunt while blind? I'd need an aid for that. Foraging is out of the question, I never bothered learning any of the plant life in Skyrim so I can't do that even in the most dire of situations. So it's a very solid no, but wouldn't that be nice..."

What is their opinion on Skyrim's "bandit problem"?

"By Y'ffre's hairy ballsack, why are there so many of them?!"

Do they believe in snow/sky whales?

"The what now?"

What is their favorite kind of food that can only be found in Skyrim?

"Mammoth stew and cheese! Especially the cheese, you can't get this specific kind anywhere else in the world but in Skyrim. I don't get why people are so particular when I mention it, every time I've had some mammoth cheese it's been the best so far. And the mammoths here, when you can hunt one down, are fatty from the winters and reduce splendidly in a slow stew. Reminds me of the one my dad makes back at home, but the mammoths there are a bit more lean. And no cheese."

Do they believe the old nordic tales about the Dragonborn? If they are Dragonborn how has their experience differed?

"I didn't in the beginning. Funny, considering I'm the Dragonborn. But you have to understand I came to Skyrim to run away from the Thalmor. I wasn't even supposed to stay in Skyrim. Plus I didn't even want the title, I tried running away from that as well. But... circumstances changed, and I've now dedicated myself to this country as a Hero of Legend. And I'm fine with that. I'm happy with it and I've done a lot of work to help out these people, regardless if they can't believe a Bosmer can be a Dragonborn. It doesn't matter; I'm here and I'm here to stay and protect. Don't need the people's approval to do that."

How are they with money? Do they hoard, or do they spend until their pockets are empty and they have to find work again? Have they saved for any houses?

"I have so much of it. I have literal bags of it, it's ridiculous. Lydia has to help me count the coins into bags to put into a safe. A safe! I have a safe in my house to keep my money out of sight, it's so funny. Between cave diving, dungeon crawling, and work sometimes as a Dragonborn I have enough money for a house in every Hold if I really wanted to. But nah, I keep most of it for extreme emergencies and for Lydia to use for whatever. I don't really ask for much luxuries, it's not that useful to me. Except for those really nice boots... or that nice waterproof backpack. Hey Lydia, can we go shopping before we head out again? I want to check Balimund for some new stuff. No, I promise it's for good things this time. That last one had a purpose, I swear-"

Can they read?

"In a vague sense. I have this really sticky ink from home that if you write with it, it leaves a raised surface when dried. But it's hard to get from Valenwood to Skyrim, and I have to focus really hard to write. I don't let anyone use it, you have to write slow with it. There are some braille books in Skyrim, but books were never really that important at home nor do they seem that important in Skyrim unless you're a scholar. Not to say I hate them, but I prefer someone reading them out to me."

#yera oakvine #bosmer #tes #skyrim #shadytext #answered ask

[hotforharrysheart]

Coachella Virgin Part 1

The bedroom was dark except for the light from your laptop. Earbuds in, you were totally engrossed in an old episode of Dateline where a man convicted for pushing his wife off a cliff was being interviewed. He was about to make his confession when you felt the hand on your shoulder.

“Ahhh!!” you shrieked your body jumping and knocking the laptop over onto a pillow. “What the hell, Harry, you scared the shit outta me!” you say grabbing your chest.

“Jesus, babe, why do ya always watch tha’ kinda stuff alone in the dark?!” He says shaking his head and leaning down to kiss your forehead.

“I’m thinking about this story for my first podcast. It’s eerily interesting!” You look at your laptop, “Geez it’s late”

Harry takes his shoes off with a thud and crawls into bed next to you propped up against the headboard. You close the laptop and move to sit between his legs.

“How did your meeting go?” You whisper when he wraps his arms around your waist.

“Went well…the outfit ‘m gonna wear is sorted an’ ready…I’m looking forward ta it, gonna be a lot of people there.”

“I’m excited for you, H. You’re gonna kill it.”

Kissing behind your ear he whispers, “Come to LA wi’ me, love. Ya can come to rehearsal an’ then ride up wi’ me ta La Quinta.”

Turning your head to look at him you see his green eyes searching yours.

"H, you're gonna be so busy....and I have nothing to wear...it’s not like I’ve ever been to something like that…” you say, fidgeting with the end of your T-shirt.

“Here’s my phone. Text, Lambert,” he says casually.

Stunned, you look him straight in the eyes, “Harry, he’ll be dressing everyone. He won’t have time for me.” You draw you fingers up to your mouth and say, "Plus, I can’t just text Lambert!”

He sighs and grabs his phone and shoots a quick text and says, "Baby, I don' jus’ want ya there, I need ya there...."

You sigh.

“C’mere,” he says wrapping his arms tightly around you and pulling your fingers from your mouth. “Wish ya wouldn’t do tha’, ya’ll ruin ya polish…”

"So, what would you like me to wear?" You ask.

His eyebrows go up.

Turning to him you question, "By the way what are YOU wearing?"

"First of all, ya’ll have ta wait ta see wha’ I wear, when ya get there, ‘s a secret, an’ second, don't ever ask me wha’ I wan’ ya ta wear, because it makes me hard thinkin’ abou’ it.”

His phone beeps, just as you’re about to argue.

“’S Lambert. Here’s ya choices,” he says, kissing down your throat.

Scrolling through, "H, these are kinda revealing, do you think I can pull it off?"

“’Course ya can. An’ then I’ll pull it off,” he says, smirking.

"Harry!" you say squirming on his lap. You whisper in his ear, "I can feel you poking me in the bum, think you better settle down!"

“Can’ help it, love. Know what ya do ta me…’n I missed ya today…” he says kissing down your neck and nibbling his way back up.

"What do you think about this gold beaded with the pale pink?" You say, resting your head back against his shoulder.

“Love the pink but I’d like ya ta have different lingerie under there. I’ll get Alessandro ta send some over…maybe like the red set?”

“Umm, Harry that set barely covers my ass, hard no!” You say, giggling.

He kisses you deeply maintaining eye contact, "I really love ya in as little as possible..."

A blush creeps up on your cheeks down to your chest, “You really do, don’t you?”

"I love ya babe an’ I want ya ta feel sexy tha’ night, because when ya feel sexy…mmm, it makes me crazy."

“You make me feel sexy, H.” you pant.

"Wha’ are ya wearing under this?" He says trying to pull up your shirt. He's smirking at your expression as you move to straddle him.

“Well, mister, I have nothing on under this shirt, but you have rehearsals to get to early in the morning, you need to rest..." you say, wrapping your arms around his neck.

“Hmmm…I think I need ta rehearse something else first…” he says, while threading his fingers in your hair.

"You don't think you better save up that energy?" You say, rolling your hips into his.

"Fuck, love,” he groans looking down where your hips meet. “Got enough energy fo’ both. Don’ I?” He says with a smile.

You shiver and goosebumps break out all over your body. “You DO know how to make things last."

Harry runs his hands up your thighs to your bum and pulls you closer. “Wan’ you.” He mutters against your lips. “Wan’ ya s’bad. Tell me baby, do ya wan’ me, too?”

Running your hands through his hair you touch your forehead to his. “Jesus, H..."

"Take this off fo’ me." He states in a low voice.

You cross your arms, grabbing the bottom of the shirt and twist it off over your head and throw it to the side.

His fingers draw light circles on your lower back causing you to shiver. You lean forward to gently place a light kiss on his raspberry-colored lips. He moves his hands to the sides of your neck and slants his head in order to take the kiss deeper.

“Open fo’ me.” He says, tracing the seam of your lips with his tongue. His tongue dives in and his kiss become ravenous. “How do ya wan’ me babe?" He pants against your lips while his thumbs stroke your cheeks. He pulls your head down and kisses his way to your ear, "How do ya wan’ my cock? Fast? Slow? Here? On the chair? On the floor? However, wherever, anything ya want. Tell me how ya want me ta take ya…”

You moan against his lips.

"Can smell ya, know tha’ ya wan’ me,” he whispers before sucking on your earlobe.

Your eyes flutter. “I…oh god…just like this. Want to ride you just like this. Slow. I want to really feel you, H.” You can feel your wet pussy rubbing against the zipper on his trousers. You know you’re making a wet spot on them.

His hands run down your chest to cup your breasts as his mouth kisses it’s way down your neck and collarbone.

You feel him smile against the swell of your breast when he mutters in his deep raspy voice, the one that comes naturally to him when he’s really turned on, "My baby wants it slow an’ easy, huh?" His mouth is working his way to your hard nipple. His hands have worked their way down and are rubbing circles on the cheeks of your bum.

“Yes. Want you so bad, H. Wanna touch you, taste you, smell you…hear you…it’s all so, so good.”

Pulling up on your bum, "Up, please."

You huff loudly.

“Just fo’ a minute, baby….s’I can get these trousers off."

“The shirt too.” You demand. Standing, you can't help but do whatever you can to get him stripped at lightning speed, stealing kisses among the buttons and zippers. “H, you’re so beautiful,” you whisper looking him up and down.

He gives you a full dimpled smile and actually blushes. “C'mere," he says as he moves to the bed, pulling you to him and onto his lap. “God, ya feel s’good, love. Ya s’soft… can’ stop touching ya.”

Sliding your hands up his arms, over his biceps to settle on his shoulders, you kiss his lips and then kiss down his neck. “Might want to tell the band you’re gonna be late in the morning. This rehearsal might run over,” you mutter, scraping your teeth against his sharp jaw. Your hand slides down his chest and stomach until you reach his happy trail.

His nostrils flair as you grab his cock.

“Might have to rehearse more than one position,” you say, positioning him at your entrance.

"Fuckin' hell, babe,” he groans. “Ya ready fo’ me?"

You don’t answer, you simply push your hips forward until he enters you.

His head falls back and your mouth opens in a silent sigh, "I love how that feels.... the first time you slide in, it’s like I can feel you through my whole body,” you moan, grinding down farther on him so he's as deep as you can take him.

Bodies so close your nipples are brushing his chest.

“Touch me here." You grab his hands and move them to your breasts. “Tell me…tell me how much you love them,” you whisper.

He groans cupping your breasts and lightly pinching your nipples. He leans forward to kiss your lips and then down farther to kiss one nipple. “Sweetheart, love ev'ry damn thing ‘bout this body, an’ these tits, my tits....mmmm…s’good," he says thrusting his hips slightly causing you to let out a squeaky moan. Pressing his forehead to yours he whispers, "These tits are amazing, someday I want ya ta let me fuck ‘em."

You gasp. “Y-yeah?”

"Baby, did ya jus’ get wetter?” he says against your lips. “Does tha’ excite my girl?"

Rolling your hips, you tell him, “everything about fucking you excites me, H. I want it…I want it all.” You lean forward to whisper in his ear, "I want you to teach me how to please you in ways I’ve never experienced, I want you to show me how to please you in all ways.”

His head falls back. “Jesus fuc-king Christ babe…shit.”

You raise up a little and then grind back down on him. “I'm so wet for you H, and you’re so fucking hard.” You kiss his mouth. “Mmm… How can you be so hard and feel so gentle to me all at the same time?” You pull his fingers to your clit. “Tell me how much you love your cunt.”

"I dream about my cunt an’ our spot, sometimes someone will be talkin’ ta me abou’ something an’ I'll kinda space out reminiscing the feel, the taste, the smell, the sounds when it’s really wet…”

You involuntarily clench down on him.

"Hmm…do tha’ again, darling," he says rolling his head back. "Squeeze me." He licks his lips. “Yeah, it's kinna embarrassing ta look down an’ hope tha’ no one notices wha’ I'm spaced out abou’."

You moan.

"God, babe, I love tha’ this cunt gets wetter when I talk dirty ta ya,” he whispers as he licks your lips. He kisses you deeply, licking into your mouth and sucking your bottom lip. “I love how it holds me tight, like the snuggest hug ever." Reaching down to grasp your thighs, “I love these legs that cradle me while I make love to ya…when I fuck ya…” He looks down in between you and he can see you moving over his dick. And how wet his dick is.

You notice him looking and run your hands through his hair.

His mouth drops open. “Holy fuck babe.”

He takes your hand and slides your fingers down to where you’re joined, "Can ya feel tha’? ‘M s’deep when ya sat like this." Guiding your hips up and down, he searches your eyes, "How’s tha’ feel?"

Your mouth drops open, “Feels so good.”

"Rub ya clit, love," he says, kissing your forehead.

Your fingers move slowly on your clit and you shiver, clenching down on him. “H-harry.... h-help me....." you say with a whine, cupping your breasts with your head to the side.

"Wha’ do ya need, huh?"

"Touch me.”

“I am touching ya.” He smirks. “Use ya words, love.”

You huff and look down at your tits. “Want you to...to....bite them.”

“Bite where?” But he’s gulping.

In barely a whisper you say, “suck them and bite my nipples."

He thrusts up hard.

“Ahh-ah...Jesus, Harry…did you just get harder?” you say, searching his face.

He’s panting. “Fuck, yes! How hard, baby, hmmm? How hard do ya wan’ me ta bite them?”

“Bite them hard, H! Really just…bite them hard!” You hold them up to him like an offering.

Taking both in his hands and moves his mouth to the right one and begins to kiss and suck the tip into a pointed end.

You look down just in time to see those beautiful white teeth of his bite at your nipple as his lips close around them

“Ahhh! Oh my fucking god!!!” You sob out along with a loud moan.

He pops off, "Was tha’ good? Babe, did I do it righ’?”

You’re panting, head thrown back. “God, that was so fucking good. I..holy shit.”

He’s smirking in awe..."Makes me s’fuckin’ hard when ya tell me how ta please ya.” He repeats the same action on your other tit and you feel like you might explode. He groans as he feels you get wetter. He pushes you off his lap. “Lay back, love.”

You nod. “Ok.”

He moves to hover over you and kiss you sucking your tongue into his own mouth. He then kisses down your body.

“H…w-what…w-what’re you doing?”

"Jesus, I gotta have a taste...I need ta taste ya cream on my tongue"

Your eyes go wide, "But I'm so wet?"

He groans. “Mmmm - Exactly”

"And you've been inside me."

"An tha’ makes ya wetter knowin’ tha’ doesn't it?" He grins. “Tha’ I wanna taste ya wi’ a little mix of me in there, fuck tha’s sexy innit?”

You blush and shyly nod your head

“I’m dripping for you, Harry.”

He smirks. “Lemme help ya wi’ tha’.”

You can't help it, your fingers go straight to your mouth in nervous anticipation.

Just as he's about to kiss your cunt, he slowly reaches up and pulls your hand away from your mouth, "Tsk, Tsk, Tsk, babe.”

He keeps your hand in his, threading your fingers together. Maintaining deep eye contact, he licks a long, deep stripe through your soaked slit from your entrance to the hood of your clit.

Your back arches sharply and your eyes close. You’re so sensitive and swollen, you know it won’t take long for him to make you come undone.

"Keep ya eyes on me, ok?"

Your chest is heaving. “H…”

"Wan' ya ta cum on my tongue an’ look into my eyes knowing it's me tha’s making ya feel s’good.”

You nod. You watch as he licks another long stripe up your slit, first softly and then a second harder one causing your hips to jerk up.

He moves his hand to hold you down and then sucks your swollen clit into his mouth. You cry out and can’t keep your eyes open.

He pops off.

“No! Why’d you stop?”

"Where are ya eyes supposed ta be?"

“On yours,” you pant.

"Who's makin’ it feel good?" he demands.

You roll your head to the side.

He bites his lip in anticipation…then smacks your clit. “I said, who’s makin’ ya feel good?” He asks again.

“Ahhhh! Fuck! Oh my god, Harry…You are!”

"Tha’s right, this is my cunt, now let me taste it properly, with ya eyes on me,” he says sternly.

"Harry, I'm so sensitive!"

"Good, I like you like tha’."

Groaning, “Please! Need you to do something!”

“Eyes on me, please.” He smirks, and with that incredible tongue of his, he licks deeply into your pussy.

Your legs fall apart wider and your hips buck up. You squeeze his fingers when he latches on to your clit and begins to circle it with a pointed tongue.

He pops off, then goes back in, circles, pops off, then goes back in again.

Mouth open, you’re trying to hold in the shriek that's deep in your chest. “Ungh...Ha-Har…f-feel so fucking good..." you moan in a breathy voice.

His beautiful green eyes have turned black with lust and determination. “Need ta hear ya....need ta see ya cum...please...love" he says in between popping off and back on, his lips glistening with your juices.

"Harry, I-I-I need to close my eyes! I have to! I’m sorry! I have to!”

With dilated, lust-filled eyes, he pops off, "No. You. Look. At. Me. Cum fo’ me, please, I need to see it in ya eyes.”

“Oh Fuck-oh Fuck-oh fuck!”

His mouth suctions back to your clit and you can feel your release exploding through your body.

“There she is….good girl,” he praises against your cunt, “My good girl.”

You’re panting desperately trying to catch your breath.

He moves up your body to rest on his elbows, face to face. He’s brushing your hair out of your face on either side laying soft kisses on your cheeks. “Jus’ breathe, darling, please, jus’ breathe…did s’good fo’ me. Just wish I could capture tha’ moment ya eyes change when ya cum. Jesus, I can be such a selfish bastard when it comes to ya orgasms…” he mutters to himself. “Ya body dances fo’ me, ya voice sings an’ ya eyes show me ya soul…it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen,” he says smiling down at you. “Ya ok?” He kisses your lips and ruts his hips into yours. “Need ya, darlin. ‘M so hard.”

Running your hands through the curls hanging down in his face, “I’m yours Harry, take me."

"Ya sure ya ok, baby?"

Hands grabbing at his biceps. “Yes, H, I’m good! So good! I’ll…cum again. Cum a-again for you! I want you inside me. Now.”

He sits back on his knees between your legs. You attempt to sit up with him and he shakes his head, “No stay there.”

Grinning he looks proudly at you. “Babe, ya so fucked out, ain't cha? Never seen ya so...’s like ya outta ya body or summat.” Lust turns his accent thick and deep. “Ya eyes are all glassy.”

You giggle. “I just…I…Harry, what you do to me. Just…God.”

“Wha’ do I do ta ya baby?” he says, smirking.

“You make me crazy with desire and love and…it’s intense. I…can’t get enough.” You smile shyly. “You’ve well and truly ruined me, Styles,” you say with a girlish giggle.

He throws his head back with a laugh, “Ya ruined me too, love.” Suddenly, he grabs you under your knees and pulls you onto his thighs so that your bum is propped up and your pussy is perfectly aligned with his cock. He runs his finger tips down your chest from collarbones, over your breasts, and down to your luscious thighs, "Need ta fuck ya like this, 'm s’hard...can ya open wider fo’ me...maybe I can just slide in like this.”

You gasp as he pulls you closer.

“Wrap ya legs around me babe…yeah, jus’ like tha’,” he says, just as you open your legs wider and put your feet next to his bum. His hands slide to your waist. Panting he says, “put me in babe.”

You reach to put him in.

Bangs hanging on his forehead, eyes nearly black with lust, so hard he feels like he’s on fire. “Unnngh…God Damn, when ya come hard like tha’, ya s’tight after...relax, love, let me in, babe." He's watching intently as his cock slowly disappears inside you.

You can't help but smile seeing the pleasure on his face, "So good, Harry… you always feel so good inside me.” You arch your back and your eyes roll back.

He lets out a loud groan as he bottoms out. Blowing out a puff of air, “Jesus fuck, love. Ya have no idea how good this feels.” With his right hand he brushes down your arched body between your breasts down to your tummy. "So fuckin' beautiful."

You squeeze your pussy tight on him and make eye contact to see his response.

“Fuck! Don’! I’ll cum! I’ll fuckin’ cum!” he pleads. His hands move to your waist, biceps flexing, he’s moving you on him. In deep…pulling almost all the way out before pressing back in - setting a steady pace.

Your fingers reach for his forearm. “Harder....H, please, fuck me harder."

"Touch yourself an I'll fuck ya harder," he says, panting.

Tit's bouncing, you slide your hands down to your sensitive swollen clit and gasp at how good it feels.

"Tha's it babe. Fuck me, tha’ feels s’good...keep goin'"

"D-don't stop Harry, please.”

Watching himself going in and out, “God…ya should see yaself like this, baby. Wish I had a camera.”

He feels you gush at his words. “Fuck!”

"Oooo, Harry right there....Oh my god, that's..."

"Tha’s our spot innit?"

You roll your head, "mmmm...yeeessss....." You can't help but smile blissfully.

His eyes follow your head, and he smiles proudly, "I got ya, love." He starts moving you on his dick faster. “God, ya tits…unghhh! Ya close, love? Please tell me ya close!”

“Can't hold it anymore, when you hit that spot...I just can’t hold it, please cum with me Harry, please, please.."

He pumps three more times deeply and falls forward onto his hands. His body he stiffens as he lets out a groan an octave lower than his normal voice.

Emptying himself inside you, you sing out a string of sighed air and repeated sounds...with a final muttered, "Harry..." spoken like a whisper of amazement and devotion.

He rests his head on your sternum, panting heavily.

Your hands go to the back of his head and your fingers comb through his hair.

He shifts just a little bit and your back arches.

“Sorry,” he pants out.

“S’ok. Just really sensitive.”

He wraps his arms around your waist and squeezes you tight.

"My god Harry...will it always be like this?"

He looks up, resting his chin on the back of his hand, "I believe it’ll only get better. Our shared joys an’ experiences will only make us grow an’ open even more wi’ each other."

You smile at him, brushing back his hair. “You should write that down. This is so much better than I ever imagined, and I imagined it really, really good. I’m so proud of you, Harry.”

He smiles and kisses your tummy.

"Thank ya, love. Shall we see what Alessandro might have that would go with the pink n gold?"

“Mmmm….Ok, let’s see if I can move….”

#Coachella virgin part 1 #harry smut #harry styles smut #original content #harry styles fanfiction #friends to lovers

[h-worksrambles]

In your opinion, Which furry vn protagonists would be friends and which ones would actually despise each other

Ooo, this is an interesting question. Quick disclaimer of which furry VNs I’ve currently read:

-All of Echo Project’s stuff (WIPs included).

-Remember the Flowers

-Dawntide

-Some of Burrows

So if I don’t mention a particular protagonist then please bear with me.

-Alex from Glory Hounds is prone to being somewhat neurotic and extremely self deprecating. I feel like he and Chase from Echo would be mutually enablers whose conversions would turn into pessimistic, self pity parties. They wouldn’t especially like or dislike each other. But there would be shared commiserations over every minor grievance all round.

-Marco from Adastra and Cyrus from Remember The Flowers are both talented, friendly academics who’ve seen some shit after being stranded in a strange new land. They’d likely jokingly share stories in a competition about who had it worse. But under the irony, they’d appreciate being able to confide about their similar experiences. Plus, given some of the similarities between Amicus and Aaron, I feel like they’d have a good laugh about their similar taste in men.

-Scipio from Khemia and Samuel from The Smoke Room would likely hate each other if they met. Sam would think Skip is a stuffy rich smartass (kind of like how he initially reacted to Cliff). While Skip would find Sam obstinate and uncouth (and I feel like there’d be a bit of class snobbery). However, get them into therapy together and I feel like making a few mutual breakthroughs might actually make for a solid friendship and knowing both of them, they’d probably end up hooking up at some point in that case, let’s be frank.

-I think Chase and Grey from Burrows would both struggle forming lasting friendships with any of these guys for a lot of the same reasons. They’re both relatively chill people to talk to one on one, but they’re both too selfish and in their own heads, and tend to screw up their friendships by…overstepping boundaries if you catch my drift. By the same token, they would absolutely despise each other because of a classic case of ‘I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.’ Bonus points if Chase can see all of Mark’s red flags and points them out at length to Grey, who does to Chase for Leo, unaware of their hypocrisy for failing to see the warning signs of their own respective former partners.

-I’ll finish with the three Echoverse protags because the existence of the modern AU means that this triple meet up could actually happen. Aside from a similar ‘they’d all be best buds in therapy’ element, I do think Sam and Chase would appreciate Cam’s talent for music. Though it’s anyone’s guess how they’d convince him to sing/play for them. Cam might consider inviting either of them on a double date with him and Devon (which also doubles as way to have Dev with him to make ice breaking less awkward) . Sam, choosing which, if any of his boyfriends to invite, decides that inviting Murdoch (who may or may noy be high at that given time) along to meet Cam might not be the most sensitive move, and that Will might be a bit too prickly towards strangers. So he settles on inviting either Nik, who is just touched to see a happy, loving couple like Cam and Dev, or Cliff, in which case they and Dev spend the whole evening talking past each other infodumping and loving every minute of it. Who does Chase bring? Well depends on the route I guess. But, for one, I think Kudzu could relate to a lot of Devon and Cameron’s experiences and would get along very well with them. It’d take some time, but I could see a cute little friendship forming here.

Thanks for this. I admit I’m not the best at coming up with headcanons but this was a fun little mental exercise. I hope I came up with decent stuff. And I’ve honestly been hoping to get some asks about Echo or other furry VNs. So this was doubly appreciated. Please don’t hesitate to send and others my way! Thanks again!

#headcanons #echo vn #the smoke room vn #arches vn #adastra vn #khemia vn #remember the flowers #burrows #glory hounds vn #headcanon

[mjdrawings]

After the Final Battle - Chapter 1 Page 1

Soo... here it is! This comic has had a bumpy ride and I'm glad to finally have the first page in posteable conditions after two-ish years of work and two other editions I wasn't satisfied with.

The comic will feature Ethan (Nicknamed Gold), Kris and Silver the day after the "cannonical" final battle of the johto games, hence the name.

It is based on an old Pokemon theory that caught my attention at the time, which I won't mention because spoilers I know the backgrounds are sloppy, I didn't draw them while working on paper and I regret it, making something like that from scrath isn't fun So... one down, 49 plus a pending epilogue to go, this is going to be FUN

(sorry for the tiny font, I'm still working on something that's both legible and doesn't take half a frame)

Some facts and headcannons that will matter later but I'll put out now -Kris lives in blackthorn, next to the move deleter -Kris is the kid of two Search and Rescue officers, and as such, knows her stuff about the wilderness and first aid -Also she climbs mountains as a hobby, the bag slung on her back is mostly climbing equipment -Lyra DOES exist, she just has the same role as if the player chose Ethan in the remakes (and won't make an appearance until the latter part of the epilogue, if I upload that at all) -Ethan's nickname is Gold, he'll be called that throughout the whole comic for convenience -Ethan is both the leader of the group and an impulsive idiot, Kris mostly hangs with him to keep him alive -By this point, Silver isn't official friends with the other two, but is on friendly enough terms to go along with them most of the time -Silver's homeless, he sleeps wherever he won't be bothered -Red being on Mount Silver is a legend of sorts, almost every experienced trainer knows about it -The whole Johto-to-Kanto journey took about a year and a half, Ethan's been training for this battle for four months, so it's been almost two years since Ethan and Kris got their starters and Silver stole his, and about FIVE years since the Kanto games -The ledge Red stands on is a VERY steep cliff that leads to a valley -Ethan, in a way, "plays" (Heart)Gold edition, he climbed the Tin tower and caught Ho-oh -Kris "plays" Crystal edition, she went with Ethan to the Tin tower, but only got to the ground floor before battling (and catching) Suicune -Kris' Vulpix is kind of the "baby" of the group, kind of like Togepi in the anime, but actually good in battle, his name is Moxy and he's a very good boy

Yeah, as this list may imply, I've put a LOT of thought into this

Now that I've infodumped enough and if you'll excuse me, I have 49 pages to trace, color and shade waiting in my cave, hopefully I'll come out with more next week

#pokemon #Comic #Fancomic #kris pokemon #ethan pokemon #silver pokemon #After the final Battle #pokemon comic

[laurelindebear]

Top 5 video games?

For a second I thought, 'Oh this will be easy!' and then I realised, wait, do I need to distinguish between all the main-series Pokemon games?? Halp! But I'll do my best:

Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: This was the first Elder Scrolls game I played so it was my introduction to the series and its (utterly bonkers) lore, and to Bethesda games in general. I love how different it is from standard 'medieval-Europe' fantasy worlds and I love that I can play as an awesome dinosaur-lizard lady. I also love the guar. <3 I do not love cliff racers, which are pure swooping evil bastards, but at least you can mod them out. I haven't replayed it in a few years but nostalgia keeps it at number 1.

Pokemon X: It's honestly a toss-up between X, Red/Blue, and Platinum; I got Red waaay back in 1999 or 2000 (Mr Bear got Blue) and played it every day on the bus to and from work in the months before our wedding. Platinum was the one that got me really back into it after not getting a GBA or the first generation DS. But I'm giving it to X because I really enjoyed playing it, because I still think Mega Evolutions have been the best generational gimmick to date, and because it was the first one to introduce more character creation which I think is great. (Bonus for what remains of being a Francophile after living in the UK for 20+ years.)

World of Warcraft: Outing myself as a basic bench here, but I think I have to hand it to WoW for the sheer amount of hours I've pumped in and the fact I owe so many of my closest friends to it. Once upon a time I would have put Lord of the Rings Online in this place, but I've retired from LOTRO (my kin basically dried up and the game systems are - is Byzantine the word I want? - hella complicated, anyway) and WoW has sucked me back in yet again with friendship, dragons, and a Pokemon-lite minigame.

Animal Crossing New Horizons: aka 'The Pandemic Game'. I loved Wild World, and I loved New Leaf even more, so of course I love New Horizons - I even got the Happy Home Paradise DLC. Plus it's the game that led to me meeting you, @ricochetoconnell! So now it's on the list forever. ❤

The Sims 3: I have spent a silly number of hours playing this and designing houses, patterns, furniture, characters, gardens, etc. I don't even want to think how much I've spent in total across expansions and Store content (although I did get some stuff free with points or when they were doing specials.) Also I make my blorbos and then make them kiss. I should check out 4 at some point; the lack of create-a-style put me off but I've seen people making stunning builds in it.

Runner-up: Stardew Valley - what's not to love about that game??

#gaming #asks #sleepover asks #top 5 videogames #morrowind #pokemon x #world of warcraft #acnh #the sims 3 #stardew valley

[thegirl20]

Just to reiterate, Slap, I don’t need a plus one, I need a stand in.

(On my skim through the series, this little bit of dialogue stuck with me and niggled at my brain until I did something with it. So here’s a wee ficlety thing.)

----

It’s ridiculous, all this fuss over nothing. It’s only because she’s heading out the door that they’re doing this. Prizes before pasture. Absolute nonsense.

The thought of having to hear someone read out a paragraph of nauseating rubbish written by some poor admin assistant who’s never met her in their life fills her with dread. Not to mention having to get up and smile graciously while the Chief Con hands her a stupid certificate that might as well say ‘Well done for not driving off a cliff’ on it while people clap. And not just ‘people’. People she knows. Folk she’s worked with her whole life.

And bloody Rachel Bailey.

She’s pictured it; meeting Rachel at the do. All done up to the nines, hanging on Will Pemberton’s arm like an accessory. All tall and charismatic and gorgeous. She can’t bear the thought of the two of them sitting at a wobbly table, eating mediocre vol-au-vents, whispering to each other about her. Laughing at her, like everybody else will be.

Her mind’s made up. She’s not going. They’ve just picked up this job anyway, so the likelihood of her being able to get away for a whole evening is very low. There’s a tiny, spiteful part of her that thinks about not letting Rachel go either, but she shakes her head and rids herself of that notion. 

Without giving it much thought, she brings up the phone thingie on her dashboard console and hits Julie’s number, clearing her throat. The line’s engaged. She hangs up without leaving a message, knowing that Julie will call her when she sees the missed call. 

Stopping at a red light, she taps her fingers on the steering wheel, jumping a little when the phone rings. Sure enough, it’s Julie. 

“Hiya Slap,” Gill says, pulling out of the junction when the light goes green. 

“This is a surprise,” Julie says. “I’ve not heard from you in weeks.”

“Yeah, well, been busy, haven’t I?” Gill lies, shifting in her seat. “Listen, what you up to tomorrow evening?”

“Nothing to speak of,” Julie says. “Why? Are you going to grant me the honour of spending time in your dazzling company?”

“Not this time,” Gill says, guilt dripping into her stomach. “I need someone to go to that stupid do and pick up my-” She can’t say ‘award’, it feels too stupid. “To pick up that thing they’ve foisted on me.”

“Your commendation for bravery, you mean?” Julie sounds amused. “Why can’t you go? Be a shame to miss out on a chance to shake the Chief Con’s hand and listen to him go on about how brilliant you are. Not to mention the buffet.”

Gill rolls her eyes. “We’ve picked up a job this morning and I can’t see me getting away at this rate, so, you know…” She trails off, highly aware that Julie will know this is rubbish.

“Gill,” Julie says, and Gill braces herself for a lecture. “You know nobody would blink an eye at you taking a couple of hours away from the office for this.”

Keeping her eyes on the road, Gill shakes her head. “Can you go or not?”

“I can, but I’m not going to. You need to go,” Julie says. “They’re acknowledging what you went through and celeb-”

“Acknowledging that I was daft enough to leave my car unlocked and stupid enough not to notice someone hiding in the backseat.” Gill sighs. “Yeah, that’s exactly what I want to be remembered for.”

“For God’s sake, Gill, can you not just take it for what it is?” Julie sounds exasperated now. Like any minute she might stop the friend stuff, pull rank and order Gill to attend.

“And what’s that?” 

“Recognition that, on that day in particular, you were bloody brave.”

Gill twists her neck to the side. Sometimes she can still feel that belt around her neck. She can see the blood running down Helen’s arm. It doesn’t feel like something to be celebrated. 

“You know I hate all that rubbish,” Gill tries again. “Two hours of people spouting trite drivel and handing out prizes for not being dead yet.”

“Why don’t you take someone with you? Enjoy the evening?” Julie pushes. “I think we both know there’s someone you’d like to go with.”

Gill grits her teeth.She should never have told Julie about this. Her tongue had been loosened by too much wine and she’d confessed the secret she’d kept close to her chest for literally years.

“No.”

“Come on, you stubborn cow.” Julie clicks her tongue and Gill can feel the roll of her eyes down the phoneline. “I know you’re a stickler for propriety and all that, but you’re on the road to retirement. Nobody would grudge you this.”

“She’s already going to the thing,” Gill says. “The do. Whatever.”

“Oh?” She can hear Julie’s confusion. “I hadn’t heard she was up for anything…and she’s definitely not old enough for a long service-”

“She’s going with Will Pemberton,” Gill says. “He has been around long enough for a long service award. And she’s going with him.” 

Saying it out loud brings back the hurt she’d felt when she’d figured out what was going on. Not that it took much figuring out. It had been more painful than she’d thought it might be. Rachel had been with plenty of blokes before and Gill had coped with it. But there’s something about this one that cuts deep. Will Pemberton isn’t like the others. He’s where Gill should be. Would be, if she hadn’t let that shag bandit ex-husband bugger up her career path. Maybe even higher.

Worse than that, he’s a nice guy. A good guy. The kind of person Rachel might actually settle down with. 

“Oh, I see.” There’s a pause. “That’s why you’re trying to get out of going. Gill, I’m s-”

“Don’t, Slap,” Gill warns. “I can’t take you pitying me.”

“I don’t, love,” Julie says. “It’s just…I’ve seen the way she looks at you and if you’d only ask her-”

“Don’t start all this bollocks again,” Gill says. “It’s embarrassing enough as it is without you rubbing salt in the wound.” There’s silence for longer than she’d like on the other end of the phone. “Well?”

“You need to go to the ceremony,” Julie says, finally. “You can’t hide yourself away, crying into your pillow like a daft teenager because the girl you fancy has got a boyfriend. I won’t let you.”

Gill sighs. “You are not helping in the slightest.”

“I’ll come with you if you like, but you need to get up on that stage and accept the praise you’re due.”

Turning into a side street, Gill is relieved to see the police tape up ahead. And not so happy to see the crowd that’s gathered at it.

“Listen, Slap, I’ve just pulled up at the scene, so I’ve got to go. I’ll talk to you later.”

“Fine,” Julie says, not sounding like she means it. “Meantime, I’ll look out my best party frock and tell my wife I’m going out for the evening with my bit on the side.”

The irritation that flares briefly in Gill’s chest is tempered by affection for this idiot she’s lucky enough to call her friend. Still, she won’t allow herself to be browbeat. “Just to reiterate, Slap, I don’t need a plus one, I need a stand in.”

“I’ve told you, you’re going,” Julie says, firmly.

“Yeah, well, think about it. Ta ta.” 

She hangs up before Julie can say anything else. The worst of it is, she knows Julie’s right and she knows she’ll end up at this bloody do, no matter how much she protests. 

#gill murray #julie dodson #gill x rachel #scott and bailey #fic by me

[stevviefox]

✨2022 Writing Year In Review✨

I was tagged by @birdkeeperklink  Thank you!!

1. Number of stories posted to AO3: Technically 3.  The current one has 3 connected parts

2. Word count posted for the year: Rites, Writings, and Ris: 1,977,213 words plus a few for the Appendix and Glossary.

3. Fandoms I wrote for: The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings (with a late adoption of Aziraphale and Crowley from Good Omens )

4. Pairings: Ori/Dwalin, Thorin/Bilbo, Dori/Balin, Nori/Bofur, Gimli/Legolas, Kili/Tauriel, Fili./Sigrid, Bard/Thranduil, Crowley/Aziraphale and many many others.

5. Story with the most:Kudos:Bookmarks,Comments: Rites, Writings and Ris - Hits:                  79,051                  Kudos:                  1,334                  Comment Threads:                  1,364                  Bookmarks:                  202

6. Work I’m most proud of (and why):  Rites, Writings, and Ris:  I’m having so much fun with it!  Honestly, It’s coming up on the seventh year I and my co-author @dollypegs-blog have been writing this dwarf soap opera and we both love to hear in our comments that we made someone laugh their ass off or something touched them or they love a new original character.  Hell, we both shamelessly admit we’ve taken suggestions from readers (we do try and credit everyone whether in the main story or in the Appendix), we’ve put in ‘red herrings’ to tease certain readers and purposely ended a chapter with a cliff-hanger.  WE actually do that a lot as, well, it’s a soap opera, it’s the law.

7. Work I’m least proud of (and why): “Mermaid’s dream.” It’s just kinda dumb.  I consider deleting it every now and then..

8. Share or describe a favorite review you received:  Heeheehee, Of course the favorites are from Rites, Writings and Ris and from  some of our regular commenters Vacation Please, Reb, Blistering Typhoons, Sparklingburgundy to start.  We’ve had wonderful conversations with them about the plot or the characters or the really bad puns.

Honestly the one that made both of us laugh like absolute loons was way back at chapter 100 when we were informed “...You're grounded.“   We still giggle over that one.

9. A time when writing was really, really hard:  This fluctuates, but is mostly when both of us have shit going on in real life that we can’t actually sit and write.  Usually when we’re talking, (and neither of us can shut up!) we’re bouncing ideas off one another and the stuff just grows.  The very worst time was back in January of 2019, when my younger sister, who was Dolly’s wife of over 30 years, passed from cancer.

10. A scene or character you wrote that surprised you:  The Tiny Castle and Violet.  They came out of absolutely nothing and then the whole of Sauron’s wardrobe just exploded outwards.

11. A favorite excerpt of your writing:  <<.It was Sauron’s diary.  It was about five inches by seven inches, soft pink in color to match the decor, with a sort of lock on an attached strip of cover, to keep it closed.  The key to the lock was looped through the strip by a matching pink ribbon.“Should I?  Dare I?” Galadriel asked.  “Ha!  Of course I should!”Galadriel practically squeaked as she unlocked it, and started to read.  She hiccuped, fell back into the desk chair, and screamed with laughter.  Violet smiled her odd, gaping smile.“Did you read the passage where he was in crisis?” she asked.  “H-he l-l-lost control of h-h-his hair!” Galadriel cried.>>

From “Rites, Writings ,and Ris,” Chapter 312 The Royal Tour Part 76.

12. How did you grow as a writer this year:  No idea.  Maybe my penchant for goofiness exploded....more than usual...?

13. How do you hope to grow next year:  I really just hope that the readers stick around and that we can continue to make them laugh.  I mean even if we just had one reader, I’d still write but then idea of making a good number of people laugh and give then something to look forward to is fun.

14. Who was your greatest positive influence this year as a writer (could be another writer or beta or cheerleader or muse etc etc): Duh, my co-author!!!

15. Anything from your real life show up in your writing this year:  If it did, we’d tell you in the Appendix, if not, we’re not telling.  ;)

16. Any new wisdom you can share with other writers:  Write what you like and have fun with it.

17. Any projects you’re looking forward to starting (or finishing) in the new year:  Eventually we’d like to actually publish a ‘real’ book.  We have a complete one that needs editing and both of us have other ideas sitting in the wings.

18. Tag some writers whose answers you’d like to read.

Sheesh!  So many!!  But just because ‘I’m-like-that’  @dollypegs-blog    And... hey, let’s go with anyone who sees this and writes consider yourself tagged!!!

#tag game #year in review #writing #ao3 #archive of our own

[thegracelessfaceless]

Cw: self ship content (Sal Fisher x Grace H.), playlist links, so many songs), I write this while a lot of stressful stuff was happening. If there are typos I'll get to them

Playlist here! (YouTube Music app)

Buckle up buttercup, Sal and I have a lot to say on this subject!

Sal was somewhat of an odd bird, growing up, very sheltered and isolated until the move

So before Nockfell, he didn't really listen to a lot of music

He heard what was on the radio when Henry played it, songs that were popular enough to be on TV, and that's pretty much it

Henry likes contemporary, blues, and jazz

Diane liked pop music from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dire Straits, and Chicago

Sal honestly thought modern music sucked, and he only liked some of Henry's music, mostly the blues

So he didn't pay much attention to music

And then he moved to Addison's and met Larry, who played him Sanitys Fall almost immediately and...

It was love 💘

Sal and Larry were listening to Metallica's Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) when Sal's prosthetic broke Larry's nose

For those of you who didn't click the link, Anesthesia is a bass solo from Metallica's Kill Em All album

What makes headbanging to this song interesting, at least if you do it the way its writer, Cliff Burton does (and Sal and Larry were) is: Cliff headbangs to this song at quarter speed, and then speeds up when the song transitions

So Sal and Larry were in Larry's room, headbanging... hard, and on tempo for the song

When the song transitions to the faster part, Sal just lets loose

He kind of forgets that he had to make a quick repair to his one of his prosthetic's straps at school with Mrs. Packerton's stapler

And his prosthetic just comes flying off on a downbeat, sailing across the room and colliding with Larry's schnoz

We all know the rest, this is the first time Larry saw Sal without his prosthetic, and they had a good cry afterwards

Sal: I still can't believe you didn't look away... everyone looks away at least at first 🥺

Larry, hugging Sal: Bro... 🥺 you're fine dude, you look fine. Don't cry, dude, you're gonna make me cry

Sal, muttering,: I love you so much, bro

Larry: 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 bro!!! I love you too. You're my brother from another mother, my bestie from another teste

Back to music, sorry, I get distracted

Sal's other music buddies are Chug, Robert and Ash

These are who he got his other music types from, other than metal

Chug kept him current on the alt rock scene

Robert introduced him to punk

And Ash covered the more obscure, indy stuff

So Nirvana, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Audioslave/Soundgarden, Stabbing Westward, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, etc...

That all came from Chug (he's got more interests than food and Maple, guys)

Flaming Lips, Talking Heads, The Pixies, Veruca Salt, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones etc, that's alllll Ash

Robert contributed The Misfits (all iterations), Danzig, The Clash, Black Flag, NOFX, Rollins Band, and the like

An addition to Sal's musical tastes?

He likes folksy sounding stuff, leftovers from his moms influence he thinks

So, and please be kind and bear in mind, Sal was a 90s kid (so that's why all these old bands, I'm 45 chronologically, our realities are seperated by 13 years... Sals my other old man :3)

Sal thinks Diane would love the new folk music, bands he likes like Beck, Cake, Blues Traveller, etc

Honestly, Sal just listens to what he thinks sounds good, sounds he's collected that he likes

Fun fact: Sal was in high school choir at Nockfell, the whole 3.5 years there (Sal graduated a semester early)

Unfortunately he had two things working against him

Sal's voice: while lovely to the ear, it was already deep and raspy from damage to his vocal chords and throat when he was attacked.

Plus he had to take testosterone in order to reach normal growth benchmarks, so his voice did some crazy things

And choir was first period, when Sal's voice was still waking up (it takes until around 11:30am)

His prosthetic muffled his voice

So between being muffled and trying to be quiet so his voice didn't crack

Sal really didn't get loud enough to contribute to the overall sound of the choir

But Sal still had fun and learned how to read music

He also applied what he learned to his guitar and bass lessons with Larry

Bonus fun fact: Travis was in choir with Sal, that's where they grew their friendship (if you guys want Sal and Travis friendship in choir hcs, leave 🎼 in the comments!)

Sal has a great singing voice, still, as an adult

It sounds a little like Gavin Rossdale from Bush (this is our song, Sal sounds great when he sings it and he's taught me to play it on bass)

When playing his instruments:

Sal has had varying luck with instruments

He excels at stringed instruments

Instruments in order of success: ✅✅ bass guitar, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, harmonica, keyboard/piano/synth, drum machine, actual drums, ocarina, melodica, accordion, woodwinds/flutes, brass instruments🚫🚫🚫

Larry taught Sal bass guitar first

He leaned a ton of Metallica, Mötorhead, Sanitys Fall, and when Sal got really good, Larry taught him some Death songs, which are notoriously hard

But Larry was considerate of Sal's music taste and also noticed Sal learned songs he liked or knew faster

So Larry worked with Todd and printed pages upon pages of bass tabs for a slew of songs that weren't metal, but were 100% Sal

Tabs for Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, Green Day, Korn... if it was 90s rock, Sal probably had tabs for it, either originally, or as additions

Sal got one of those extra wide binders and keeps them all in there in protective plastic sleeves, still has it to this day.

You have to open it a specific way, it's so full, or all the rings pop open and plastic covered pages go everywhere

Once Sal was proficient in bass playing,

Larry started teaching Sal rhythm

That process was quick and painless

Sal picked it up very quickly, equating rhythm lines to basslines with an extra string

So then they moved on to lead, Larry teaching Sal random riffs and solos

Sal is just naturally musically inclined

He took to it all like a fish to water

Larry had an ocarina in his room on his shelf. I don't know how many of you noticed it in game

Sal is a fidgeter

If it's something musical that Sal can mess with, you can bet he's going to

Sal had pretty good luck with the ocarina

He'd tried other instruments that required him to blow in them like clarinets, recorders, flutes, and horns... it didn't go great

Sal will never be Kenny G or Chuck Mangione or even the meme dad playing trombone while someone slams an oven door

But Sal figured out that if he plays Larry's ocarina upside down, the instrument actually covers his cheek hole enough to make a good seal so he can blow into the instrument and play.

This sparked Sal's curiosity

What other instruments could Sal teach himself?

As it turns out, he taught himself harmonica

He kinda just... shoves it into his cheek hole and cups his hands over it all, moving it from side to side to create the notes he wants to play

Sal is pretty smug about his harmonica playing

He rivals a lot of famous bluesmen now and he's completely self taught

Though sometimes I want to throw his harmonica out the window 😅

Sal's words on playing the harmonica: "Sometimes you suck and sometimes you blow. You just gotta time it right"

If he tells you this, and his prosthetic is off, you'll get to see his grin, self satisfied and a little crooked.

Sometimes Sal does vocals for his band he shares with Larry and Robert, One Eye Sally, only a few songs

A couple of them are folk songs, where he plays his harmonica

Sal used to turn his back to the crowd during gigs for his harmonica solos because he has to push his prosthetic up, then he just goes ham like this

But nowadays, Sal will perform without his prosthetic, he's become comfortable with who he is and doesn't care if people see his face (well you think I'm both pretty and handsome, shouldn't that be all that matters?)

Influences for the songs Sal does the vocals for are: Beck, Cake, Blues Traveler, Kenny Wayne Shepard, and Shawn Mullins

When Sal sings...

He's such a crooner!

Sal has a rich, deep, raspy bass baritone singing voice

And since he actually paid attention in choir, man can he use it

At first, Sal can be a little shy about his singing

I remember the first time I heard him sing, he thought I couldn't hear

Sal and I work in the same building, at a dispensary

He plays his playlist at work, since it's eclectic and relaxing. Then we play it in the car, and our speakers at home pick his music up as soon as Sal gets in range

We were sitting on the couch, unwinding right after work, and Sal was singing "Amber" by 311 ,quietly singing along to the song as it drifted out of the speaker system

He was pleasantly surprised when I hugged him from behind, nestling my ear up to his upper back, so I could hear better

In fact he teared up a little

Sal regularly sings me to sleep

The songs he usually sings to me are "Asleep" by The Smiths or "Chewing Cotton Wool" by The Japanese House

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