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ninadove · 9 months

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As a (very niche portion of the) fandom, our collective attention has been captured by how much Felix adores Kagami — which is true and good and beautiful and pure. But we’ve been sleeping on how much she loves him, and today, I want to shine a spotlight on her side of the most beautiful love story ever written.

Before we begin, let me get the obvious out of the way: yes, she did try to crush his skull with a chair in Pretension, and she was iconic for that.

HOWEVER.

This is only how their relationship started. What truly matters is how the story unfolds from then on.

And boy does it unfold fast. By the end of the episode, Felix has shaken Kagami’s worldview so much that she:

Stands up to her own friends and fellow heroes in an effort to not only protect him, but also ensure that he can keep the Peacock Miraculous;

Actively challenges her mother’s teaching that emotions (in this context, romantic love) are a weakness that should be eradicated from the face of the Earth;

Is planning secret dates with Felix, even though as far as she knows Tomoe has her amok (because you can’t tell me this little genius didn’t figure out the entire Sentilore in the sewers);

Trusts Felix with said amok despite his extensive criminal record, as illustrated by how quickly and firmly she takes his hand — with a little sigh if happiness, might I add. This is especially significant compared to previous instances of hand holding between the two, when he had to make all the effort while she remained completely limp.

And then Representation rolls around. And oh, boy.

Kagami instantly calms down from her TV-induced rage upon seeing her boyfriend on her balcony — a major improvement when you consider how big of a role anger and frustration play in her akumatisations.

Tangent 1:

Something similar happened in Ikari Gozen, when Mari protected Kagami from her mother, causing her to narrowly escape Hawkmoth’s influence. More on the Marigami-to-Feligami pipeline in another post, coming to your dash someday in the not-so-distant future.

Not only does Kagami instantly relax in Felix’s presence, but she laughs — something that previously only happened in the context of Adrigaminette, and we all know how that ended. Felix is the one to mend her heart and make her laugh again, for the second time since the dance.

Our two lovebirds proceed to straight up RUN AWAY INTO THE SUNSET. Kagami presumably spent the following 350 km (300 miles) cuddled up in Argos’ arms, admiring how handsome he looks in his glittery cosmic suit which we don’t get to see because budget.

Later on, they casually discuss Ladybug’s identity, while fireworks go off in the background. Let me rephrase this: Kagami trusted the person who stole the Miraculous with her best friend’s most burning secret, not because she wants to defeat Hawkmoth per say, but because Gabriel has been getting in the way of their make out sessions and she can’t have that.

Tangent 2:

Also coming to your dash in the not-so-distant future: an analysis of Kagami’s relationship to the concepts of truth and lies, and how dependent it is on what serves her and her loved ones in the moment.

Then, of course, the core of the episode: Kagami actively participates in the play, helping Felix tell his story in a way he feels comfortable with.

Tangent 3 (lots of ‘em today):

This part is extremely important to me, because I’ve seen So. Many. People. complain that the play could have been boiled down to two lines of conversation.

And like.

No???

Firstly, this is a show, not real life: we as an audience needed the confirmation to be as climactic as possible. If it hadn’t been, I can guarantee the exact same salters would be crying about the story’s “WaStEd PoTeNtIaL”.

But let’s delve into the real life implications of the Sentiplot for a second.

Abuse survivors do not owe you a brief, comfortable explanation of what they went through, neatly wrapped up with a pretty little bow.

The play is a beautiful illustration of how art can be cathartic and therapeutic, and I need you guys to understand that this sequence means something to many, many viewers — most of them children in similarly terrible situations. If I were to bet, I would say it very likely speaks to one or more members of the writing team on a personal level as well.

So you can pry these scenes from my cold, dead hands.

The kisses… All of them… During the firework show. As the sun rises to signify a new beginning. Disguised as Adrien’s parents. For context, this is the same girl who previously found a hand kiss to be too much for her broken heart to bear.

And of course, there’s the way she looks at him like he is her entire world, like she cannot understand how anyone could ever call him monstruous. Because Felix doesn’t get the monopoly of heart eyes.

Finally, in Recreation:

THE LIES CALLBACK. THE MIRACULOUS TEAM TOOK THE TIME AND MADE THE EFFORT TO PUT A LIES CALLBACK IN THE FREAKING FINALE. You guys know I’m insane about this scene already.

So what’s my point.

Because yes, I do have a point, apart from “KSSGDJDKSS Feligami SGDHDKLS 🥰🥰🥰🥰” (which, by the way, is a completely valid meta post in itself).

While we joke that Kagami is so far out of Felix’s league in every aspect — she doesn’t perceive him that way in the slightest. As far as she’s concerned, she has achieved every fourteen year old’s dream: dating the perfect cursed prince, tortured artist, evil-genius-on-a-redemption-arc combo.

She is just as enamoured with him as he is with her, and I think it’s beautiful. 🦚🐉

#In case you’re wondering if I’ll ever stop being insane about these two #The answer is: of course not. You guys should know me better than that by now #miraculous ladybug #felix graham de vanily #argos #kagami tsurugi #feligami #mlb spoilers #mlb recreation #random ramblings

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shima-draws · 3 months

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how did u get into sanlu/lusan ???! im ever so grateful u did bc oohohhoho my god, ur sanlu content FEEDS MEEE 🤞‼️

It’s funny you ask that bc I kinda already answered that with the last ask?? LOL

TLDR basically it’s become almost habit at this point to ship my favorite characters together (if they are compatible ofc) and Sanji and Luffy ended up becoming my favorites after watching OP for a bit so. It was inevitable 😂

I actually started out as a Zolu shipper (I still am just to a lesser degree now!) so really I think it began there—when I get into something I usually scour the AO3 tags for fics so I was on the hunt for some good Zolu writing. Zosan, being the most popular ship in the fandom (according to AO3 stats with over 10k fics. Holy shit) was also often included with Zolu fics making it a poly ship, so I was like oh hell yeah? I’m totally on board with that. So I got to see a lot of really fun dynamics with the three of them, and I started to get invested in the Sanlu side of things. As this was happening I was also watching OP at the same time and Sanji was quickly rocketing up my list of faves to take one of the top spots (Luffy had already become a favorite from the get go). And my brain was just like

so I was like okay alright. Considering. And then after that I was fucking DONE for. They got me in a vice grip and rotted my brain so thoroughly that I’m utterly ruined for any other Luffy or Sanji ships now. I can even pinpoint the EXACT date it happened bc I posted about it lmao here’s my “realizing Sanlu is the ship of all time” post from early December, the day my life changed forever /j

Anyway they just have a really good dynamic and me being the idiot I was decided not to blacklist spoiler tags so I kept seeing stuff about WCI and how it was THE Sanlu arc so that probably doomed me even further. An arc focusing on my favorite characters and their very not homoromantic relationship with each other? I started binging OP nonstop just so I could speedrun to WCI and this was back when I was on like. Episode 300 something. I was soooo impatient I was desperate to get to WCI as fast as possible so I could Suffer LMAO

So um yeah the Sanlu hyperfixation has me by the throat and doesn’t plan on letting me go anytime soon. Sorry for the rant. I can’t shut up about them Ever

#ALSO THANK YOU I am here to serve #I’ll feed all my Sanlu comrades who are in the trenches with me #I gotchu lads. You can count on me 🫡#OH AND ALSO YEAH OPLA. FUCKING. Literally made it canon the WAY Sanji looks at Luffy in OPLA. That is NOT heterosexual behavior #I think what really smacked me in the face about WCI #(I talked about this before too)#I saw a reel with WCI spoilers and Mary On A Cross was playing……#So that became THE Sanlu song for me. THE WCI song #Every time it comes on I’m like OHHH YEAH IT’S MY SANLU SONG!!!#Shima answers questions #Sanlu #Lusan #One Piece #Sanji #Luffy #dezr0

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rist-ix · 7 months

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I have a question for you what do you think of the quote unquote age gap between Bloom and Valtor?

I had to do alot of research to understand Bloom age when I started to like this ship better than Mr cheater. So here's a brief information dump:

Bloom is 16 in the first episode and its confirm her bday is December 10 (we don't know the the exact year when each girl was born only the fact Stella is the oldest by that logic Bloom is the second youngest out of the group) when we get to season 3 it is confirmed that the girls is in their 3rd semester so that makes Bloom 19 at point. Valtor's age we do not know however I'm going to say at most early 20s from what we know Valtor working with a younger Griffin before he got Popsicled.

Here comes the tricky part. In s4 the girls just finished their semester and graduated making them 20-21. Up until s5 where Nicklodeon had to reboot their age making them 16 again. Flashforward to s8 and that makes Bloom age 19 if you are following the reboot or 23 if you do not follow the reboot. Since we don't know how long Valtor been frozen his mental age is up for debate.

For me personally I don't see Sparxshipping as an Edward and Bella situation as Edward was aging naturally during his years while Valtor was frozen and couldn't age naturally but only mentally.

Okay okay first of all! Your Bloom math checks out and I just realized that I for some reason always thought Bloom is 18 in s3. Which is still possible, I think, I just dont know why I assumed that. Actually no, it works, if she is 16 in s1 she is 17 in s2 and 18 in s3, but we dont know a lot about how the school years work in Magix so I'm gonna jot her down as 18-19 for the remainder of this post.

Still dont know how I passed math btw.

Anyway. Valtor's age is where the real mystery is at. We've got two possibilities in my opinion.

1. He's pulling the ageless immortal card.

My personal go-to for fics and discussions. Love me some 300 year old mommy issues. He has too much practice being a messy bitch, there's no fixing this man folks.

Evidence: There's a flashback showing him with Griffin as a tween: she looks MUCH younger, he looks exactly the same. Unless he also stole the secret magic of the world's most potent anti aging cream, or Griffin's proximity to Faragonda just aged her by three more decades, he does not age.

2. He is the age he looks.

Which, in my humble opinion, would not put him anywhere near twenty. That is a grown man. He's not college age, unless you count college professors under that word. Even if I were good at guessing ages the very stylized art style would throw me for a loop, but im gonna say 40s, give or take. Look at Avalon, look at Codatorta, look at King Radius if u must. That is the age range we're looking at.

Evidence: I dont have any. We're ballin'. I guess it's never explicitly stated he's immortal, which you'd think would be big enough of a deal to mention. If u got something feel free to let me know.

That being said, the Winx Club Wiki page for the canon timeline (ha, good one) puts the time of Valtor's creation in a rough time frame from "Over 17 years before season 1" to "Under 100 years before season 6". So he could technically be anywhere from 17-97, though I'm not sure the upper limit is as reliable as the lower one, given the check-list format of the website. So make of that what you will.

Now that we've got the question of age out of the way, lets get to the age gap. I have no idea what the situation in twilight was to be honest, so I cant compare that.

Realistically, there's at least a decade between Bloom and Valtor. Possibly two decades and change. And that is just from visible age, we can add a few centuries on top of that if we're sticking with the immortal bit. I'm gonna be gonest, I dont think being frozen for 17 years will make a whole lot of difference here.

If you find that icky, which is fair, you can always change that for fics tho! Either turn him into a twenty year old or put Bloom in her milf-era, the options are endless. Personally, I think the age difference is half the fun though, and also the least of their issues. When you're off making out with the objectively worst person in history, wether he's too old for her isnt gonna rank very high on people's list of concerns.

#asks #sparxshipping #winx bloom #winx valtor #i think their very obvious gap in knowledge and experience is very intrinsic to their canon dynamic #Bloom being the underdog while Valtor is VERY convinced of his superiority kind of defines the ship for me #and it makes it so much more satisfying when Bloom does put him on his ass

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takaraphoenix · 1 year

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I’ve been meaning to make this post since season 1, but particularly with a book-based fandom as an exclusive show-watcher, it felt premature. After season 2 and the elements added to the narrative, I have an itching in my fingers.

What makes the Darkling, as a villain, so very compelling is the fact that his incredibly fucking valid motivation is just completely swept under the rug. And I mean completely.

I think there might be less appeal to him if there was more acknowledgement to the shit going on in this world, to be honest? I just find it completely impossible to actually root for the “good” guys because I don’t... see an argument made for what they stand.

It’s a tale as old as time, when it comes to storytelling.

You have a character and his motivation is that his people are being mistreated, abused and straight-up murdered by an oppressive force and he won’t stand for it anymore.

Now, here’s the problem with that. This does not read like a villain’s motivation. Not at all. So the author will sprinkle a good amount of murder and atrocities in there to show the audience that This Is The Bad Guy and the majority of the audience with then nod along with this. And, gotta say, really working well in this fandom, it’s baffling how much blind hatred I see for Aleksander based on all of the murder and atrocities but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone outside the people who like Aleksander bring up that what he actually stands for is right. So, that worked, I guess.

The bigger problem with these narratives however, the much, much bigger problem, is that usually, it creates a hero who doesn’t stand for anything. Because instead of giving the hero the same motivation - especially in cases where the hero comes from the same oppressed group, and they usually do - and making the hero find a better solution for this problem, a heroic solution, a no-murder-and-no-atrocities solution, the hero just... fights the villain.

The hero fights the villain to ensure the status quo, very often even directly in the name of the oppressive force. And that’s exactly what’s happening here and I’m not having a good time with that, fellas.

I love Nikolai as a character - would love him 300% more if he was just a pirate and not a prince. Because now he is just... the latest... in a long line of monarchs. And Alina aligns herself with the same bloodline that’s been oppressing Grisha for centuries. And Alina fights in their name and at their side. And Alina is now, in the aftermath, rebuilding... the status quo.

She wants Zoya to train the Grisha, back at the palace, so they can once again serve the royal family and work under the non-Grisha. She is actively helping Nikolai claim his family’s throne. Again, I like Nikolai as a character, and you could give me a whole list of book spoilers of what amazing changes he may make once he’s king or whatever, that doesn’t change the core premise of what he symbolizes and what system is being supported here.

If it were at least the narrative of her wanting the throne, her wanting active change. A Grisha on the throne, who would rule the people, would change the laws and the way her people are ruled, but instead, she’s playing side-piece to the exact same royal family and helping them stay in power and... what about that is satisfying?

What about that is worth rooting for? Why am I supposed to be on that side?

Everyone seems to have very personal feelings on that matter that really are about Aleksander, as a character, and are very specifically about the atrocities and murders that were written for this exact reason and I... really struggle with this.

It’s so lazy. I think the Grishaverse is a very interesting world with a whole lot of potential and the characters in it are absolutely amazing - this world does live off its characters alone, honestly. But the very core confrontation that we’re presented with is incredibly lazy and unsatisfactory.

I understand that Aleksander is supposed to be the villain. I understand you’re not going to have Alina join his side. But... Alina didn’t have to join the side of the monarchy either. Alina could have had her own side, she could have fought for genuine change and true freedom for the Grisha and that would have been a cause to get behind.

But as things stand? As things stand, I quite honestly rather support the guy who has seen centuries of oppression, enslavement and murder of their kind and wants to end it with all means rather than the side that fights for the status quo.

#Darkling #Aleksander Morozova #Alina Starkov #Shadow and Bone #Shadow and Bone Season 2 #I call this the Castellan Problem because I first noticed it in PJO :/

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gaym0m · 1 year

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something very self indulgent but <333 Ellie with a tattoo regular who wants to only get tattoos from her <333

*blast ‘Tattoo needles and safe arms’ playlist* 😌

Listen, as someone who’s a whore for tattoos but has exactly ONE tattoo. God I would sell my soul, my kidneys, my lungs my p— for a tattoo for Ellie 😭 This is gonna be indulgent but imma try to make it as real as possible.

Tattoos are expensive, you knew that, your friends knew that, fuck even your mom knew that. Of course, nine times out of ten the more a artist charged the better the quality would be unless they were an apprentice.

It had been years (almost twenty to be exact) since Ellie was an apprentice. She was beyond experienced with doing tattoos but she was kinda underground at the same time.

Her studio was in her apartment after all, so it’s not like you could just look her up on Google.

A friend of a friend stumbled upon her first, impressed with her quality and fair price, he posted about her (about a thousand times). Then the other friend went and just as her friend, she was impressed.

Of course you had a few (or one) tattoo, but you craved more (these are addictive I swear). So that friend quickly lead you to Ellie’s door step.

By the time of your appointment with her, you had already spoken through email multiple times and had a design ready to go.

Just like the last two, you were impressed by her skill. Her hands were gentle but steady, her demeanor caring and comforting (made so much sense when she let it slip that she was the single mother of three). Even though the tattoo was bigger than average, you could have sworn she didn’t do anything (she almost finished) because her presence alone calmed and excited you.

The hours ticked by so fast it felt like seconds once you had settled down and a easy flowing conversation started.

By the end the two of you decided one or two more sessions would be more than enough to finish off the tattoo. To say you were pleased would be an understatement, (to say you left her place after giving her an extra 300 would not).

After the second session the tattoo was finished but you weren’t. You couldn’t tell wether it was her or the tattoos themselves that brought you back every time (it was her) but you found yourself returning often. Either for new tattoos, or touch ups on your original tattoos.

The two of you became quite close, spending so many hours together does that to people. One time she made a joke that you were definitely going into debt for her skill, but you definitely were willing to go that far. Of course you couldn’t say anything, so you laughed it off and made some dramatic joke in return.

The night ended with your inside jokes, a new tattoo, and the same old warmth in your chest that the redhead always brought you.

I hope you liiiked 🥰🥰

#ellie evil dead rise #ellie evil dead rise x reader #ellie bixler #Ellie bixler x reader

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blackbird-brewster · 11 months

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CM Fanfiction on AO3

I'm a bit of a stats nerd, and I've been wanting to put this together for ages. The following are some statistics regarding Criminal Minds fanfiction of AO3. Do with this what you will, but if ever someone tries to tell me this fandom isn't misogynistic -- I will just point to this post.

I spent an abhorrent amount of time putting this together, hope it's interesting to other people. Please don't send me hate mail for my opinions.

Base Statistics

Total Fics Tagged Criminal Minds: 34,561

These stats were compiled by me on 20/06/23 via AO3's filtering system.

Note: These were taken at face value, meaning these numbers may not be exact. In order to get exact statistics, I'd have to stringently filter out things like mislabelled fics, spam, fics with multiple categories (to find pure slash, femslash fics), etc.

Tumblr will destroy the resolution of the graphs, just click to see full res :)

Fanfic statistics gathered from AO3, episode totals gathered from IMDB.

CM Fanfiction by Category

Most Popular Tag: Fluff (21.7%)

Fics Counted in This Statistic: *indeterminate due to crossover (multiple tags per each fic)

I honestly expected angst/whump/hurt/comfort to be first on this. I guess if you add up all the variations of those type of fics, they'd be top tag.

Obviously this one isn't ever going to be perfect, because tons of people either don't tag their fics, or they don't use the prescribed tags above. Still, I thought this was worth adding to the post.

For more stats please see my, [Tara Lewis Fic Stats Post]

#criminal minds #spencer reid #aaron hotchner #derek morgan #emily prenitss #jennifer jareau #penelope garcia #luke alvez #tara lewis #criminal minds fandom #criminal minds fanfiction #cm fanfiction #cm reference #master post #ao3 stats #cm commentary #cm meta

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dancerinthestorm · 2 months

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Fic Recs: A World in a Grain of Sand Edition.

I love epic tales in which authors slowly build up their worlds and characters. I love losing myself in works slowly outgrowing canon word count to the point of forgetting to go to bed at reasonable hours. However, I am in absolute awe of writers who manage the rare feat of conjuring the same level of immersion with just a short story or even a one shot.

This totally incomplete list of my all-time favorite short(-ish) stories is a tribute to all intrepid souls out there tackling this challenge.

If you aren't familiar with the fandoms yet I still recommend diving straight in. They can be read and enjoyed totally out of context and you might just come out the other end with a new fandom obsession 😉

„Ars Poetica“ (AO3) by Rhune

Helping out around the Devil May Cry you are perfectly content to leave center stage to the devil hunters and demons of your acquaintance. Until the day Dante returns from hell, his stand-offish brother in tow. Suddenly - and quite unnervingly - you find yourself sharing your once quiet existence in the background with none other than Vergil.

One achingly perfect installment full of poetry, searing stares and everyone’s favorite moody half demon.

Devil May Cry (post DMC5). Vergil x fem!Reader. Rated E. 16k words.

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„Coming up Roses“ by @eupheme

The new groundskeeper at Wayne Manor is unsure what to make of stoic, unapproachable Alfred Pennyworth. At least at first...

All the yearning and suppressed feels of a 300-page Jane Austen novel condensed into two gorgeous chapters about falling in love when you least expect it. Topped off with some seriously hot smut for good measure.

The Batman. Alfred Pennyworth x fem!Reader. Rated E. 10k words.

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„Posterity“ by @whats-rambled-rambled

Posterity. Tenet's operators. Always just a call away to back up your field agents while they flit back and forth through time. It's dangerous work. People die. So you don't get close. Until there's Neil.

I know, I know , 7 chapters with 31k words is putting A LOT of strain on the definition of „short stories“ but I just HAD to include this one. Reading it simply broke me. Absolutely gorgeous prose, two main characters you cannot help falling in love with and a story that keeps you guessing until the very end.

Tenet. Neil x GN!Reader. Rated M. 31k words.

Pro tip: If you are not ready for a 31k word commitment yet (fair enough!) go for „The Way Down“ instead: A hauntingly beautiful 3-parter Battinson!Bruce Wayne/GN!Reader. Rated T.

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"Three Weeks on the Nimrodel" by @from-the-coffee-shop-in-edoras

Haldir is quiet. Stoic. Solitary. Not the easiest person to be around for three weeks of guard duty up a solitary mallorn tree. He knows that and has made his peace with it. Until a so far unfamiliar fellow marchwarden comes along.

Do you know this moment of utter bliss when you come home after an absolutely rotten day and are finally able to snuggle up with a fluffy blanket, your favorite hot beverage and your comfort book/band/movie? This fic is that exact feeling distilled into 3000 words. Add a good helping of pure love for the more obscure corners of Middle Earth and two absolutely charming, introvert main characters et voila: utter contentment for you to come back to again and again and again whenever that fluffy blanket is out of reach.

Still not an Elves person. But I might have to fess up to being a Haldir person one of these days. This gem surely is another nail in my coffin 😅

Lord of the Rings. Haldir x GN!Reader. Rated G. 3k words.

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„Pinky promises & glow stars“ (AO3) by @softlyspector

Steven bumps into Marc’s childhood best friend in a coffee shop and decides that he wants to get to know her better. Marc decides that's a terrible idea.

Quiet and sad and sweet and absolutely beautiful.

Moon Knight. Marc Spector x Reader. Not rated on AO3. Think M to be on the safe side with everything the Moon Knight boys have been through. 10k words.

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As always: a huge thank you to all creators for your time and your passion and your talent. You guys are absolutely incredible and make this world a better place!

Something missing you say? Please feel free to shout your own recommendations at me in the comments!

#fic recs #dancerinthestorm reads #and makes it everyone elses problem #fics to treasure and re read for all eternity #virgil x reader #virgil sparda x reader #alfred pennyworth x reader #neil x reader #haldir x reader #bruce wayne x reader #battinson x reader #moon knight system x reader #marc spector x reader

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hillbillyoracle · 2 years

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Fuck Goals: Floor, Range, and Ceiling

Since my other Fuck Goals post resonated with so many people, I wanted to pass along another way of thinking about things I want to do repeatedly in a way that’s helped me - floor, range, and ceiling.

Floor

The floor is your bare minimum that “counts”. This should be just above what you’re currently doing and if what you’re currently doing is nothing, it better be small. When setting up any habit tracker (app or analog) the floor should be what you set up and what counts toward a streak.

Now I know what you might be thinking - “But that’s not what I actually want to do.” That’s fair, but you can’t build from none and you can’t build from some. So giving credit to doing just a little bit more is way more encouraging on days you feel like fucking crap, than doing what you set out to do. Some is so much better than none. Some deserves to count.

Range

A nice round number is not a good thing to shoot for in my opinion. A range is much more realistic and satisfying. You can indulge in the activity rather than being bound to it. It being just another task on your to do list can really make it less enjoyable to maintain over the long term. Most people who do repeated activities everyday aren’t doing it the exact same way each time and it’s nice to mimic that naturalness early on.

The range still needs to be realistic. Ideally it should be something you can hit more days than you don’t in a given week. If you can’t, then you’ll need to adjust it down.

Ceiling

Ceiling is the part I don’t see a lot of people talk about. I set my ceilings at a point where I know if I go much over that, I will super not want to do the activity again the next day. I have to have a cut off point or my own enthusiasm will burn me out harder than anything else. I want to leave off where I’m excited to pick up the activity again the next day, not when I did it for as long as I wanted and now I’ve lost my taste for it.

Sometimes this takes experimentation. If you set a floor and a range and then find yourself falling off of the wagon after you’ve been excitedly over doing it for a while - that’s an indication to set a ceiling lower than whatever the last day you were feeling good about it involved.

Example: Steps

I was bedbound on and off for a few years and when I was finally walking again, I had some painful muscle atrophy to contend with so I wanted to make walking a regular thing for me as much as possible. At the time I was getting about 300-500 steps a day. I lived in a rough neighborhood so I knew all my walking would likely need to be done inside if I was going to feel safe enough to do it regularly so I didn’t want to set too high a step goal since walking inside tends to take longer.

So I set my first floor at 1k steps a day and range within 2.5k - 3k. This was honestly a little ambitious but I consistently tried to over shoot it because my “actual” goal in my head was 10k steps. When I looked at days after when I was falling off - I’d usually gone over 5k so 5k became the ceiling.

And it stayed that way for many months. I’d fall off and adjust stuff downward but eventually I was consistently getting 1k steps and more days than not getting steps between 3k-5k.

I really resented my step goal being 1k honestly. I didn’t always look forward to tapping the 1k button on my habit tracker. But on hard days is when I started to appreciate immensely that I still got credit for something. Plus I knew I’d gone over on the days I had. I didn’t need micro validation from an app to tell me that was good.

Around that time we moved and I had a safer environment to walk in. So I bumped it up. I kept 1k as my floor but I made around 5k steps the range and 7k the ceiling. That was a bit of a rough transition and it involved me really having to experiment with routines to make that happen so I’m glad I didn’t raise my floor any during that time.

As I figured out my routines, I realize I was hitting 5k more days than I wasn’t so I bumped up my floor to 3k.

Now - about 14 months from when I started doing this seriously, 5k is my floor and 8k - 10k is my range. ~12k is my ceiling at the moment. I don’t know that I have much inclination to do more but the best part about it is that it’s designed for maintenance. 5k is what I can reliably do even on tough days and it will count, I won’t lose my thread. And that will motivate me to keep going indefinitely or at least it has so far.

I was sick the other day and had to drop down to 5k - before I would have just taken a day off and gotten thrown off but even when I’m having trouble I can get 5k now. It feels like a dream.

Conclusion

This doesn’t just apply to fitness habits though. Want to start a reading habit? 5 minutes floor, 20-30 minute range, 1 hour ceiling. Or whatever makes sense where you’re at. Wanna declutter your house? 5 minute floor, 15-20 range, 1 hour ceiling. You get the picture. Whatever it is you want to do, set these posts to keep you on the track. Adjust them up only based on what you’re actually getting done over 3-6 weeks at a time. Adjust them down as needed.

Oh and this can be used for decreasing behaviors too. Say you’re trying to reduce how much time you spend on social media. Maybe 15 minutes less per day is your floor. 1-2 hours less is your range, and 5 days without checking it is your ceiling.

Remember - something is so much better than nothing. Even very little steps in the direction you want to go will eventually get you closer to where you want to be. You got this!

#studyblr #adhd #autism #neurodivergent #goals #self improvment

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rolloollor · 8 months

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My thoughts on Rollo's card

I don't play the JP version so this is all from watching videos and reading what other people say. Get ready for rambling

First, kinda bummed that Rollo isn't actually in NRC and thus didn't interact with anyone else. I was hoping he'd meet Ortho at the least, but most of his vignette is just him talking to himself. I understand why this is and would rather have Rollo be playable and have a funky implementation than him remain an event character, but you know...

I was a bit nervous about how he would interact with other characters, though. Since I wrote a fanfic where he talked to Ortho already... if it went totally differently than what I imagined, I woulda felt bad. I was ready to accept that for a canon conversation. Mostly unfortunate, but a slight relief.

VP showed up and had a voice which is funny. I love that he wanted to have lunch with Rollo and he snubbed him. "Oh, I have to go, let's do it another time." Yeah, how often does he hear that? Man... and this the day after I post a chapter where he gets rejected hardcore, ugh, it's so good.

The fact that he eats the exact same lunch every day down to the precise amount of grapes is incredible, wow. I figured he mainly ate bread and grapes but like... to that level...

The gargoyles will never get official names which means I can keep using mine. Seeing them jump around was cute. He's a lot harsher to them than I had hoped, so I'll keep that in mind in the future...

The card art is amazing, both default and the groovy.

And he's officially Rollo Flamme, phew.

Rollo's in the handbell club... that's some churchboy nerd shit right there. Carol of the Bells is my favorite Christmas song, so now I can imagine Rollo ringing those bells whenever I hear it...

Also, cleaning is his hobby? Outside of VA jokes, what a fuckin dweeb. Him writing with a quill is pretty dang cute, too. But, again, what a nerd

His height is a bit disappointing since he's only 1cm taller than I am. I don't really wanna have to think about how tall Malleus is relative to me, but now it's inevitable

I'm glad that his eyes are green in the card art. I see all sorts of fanart where they give him blue eyes and it feels like the world is gaslighting me. They're green!!!!

It's good to know that he has parents and that they seem at least involved enough to be worried about him, though he doesn't talk to them like they're all that close

According to the flight lessons, the slits on Rollo's robe go up higher than I expected.... lewd... Makes me want to write something where Malleus slips his fingers under it in public...

He never says Malle's name, but he sure gets pissed off talking about him. This will sustain me

All in all, not perfect but I need him in the EN server ASAP. I have like 300+ rolls that I was gonna give to Masq Malle but I'll give 200 of them to Rollo if that's what it takes

#rollo flamme #twisted wonderland

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millepara · 9 months

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

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

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

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

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

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

background 🧬

your score is composed of:

base score. what you get from the rhythm game

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

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

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

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

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

experimental procedure 🧪

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

conclusion 🔬

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

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

future research 👁️

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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synobun · 4 months

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One of them tag games

So I wasn't actually tagged by @cour5t in this, but I was tagged by @rosewinterborn in a very similar game, so I'm stealing the first and pretending it's the second, since the second had a few questions that didn't apply to me x)

Last song: I'm gonna do the last song I've had on repeat for this!

Favorite color: I never know what to say for this. Black? Dark red? Dark purple? Dark green? That whole colour palette is the bomb dot com.

Last movie/show: The last movie I watched that was new was Nimona! It was fantastic, 10/10 lives up to the hype. The last show I finished was Reacher. It was okay.

Next on my watchlist: I've finally started watching Criminal Minds, but I'm already kind of burning out on it midway through season two. And there's still like 300 episodes left. Ridic. I should probably catch up on Foundation and For All Mankind. Next movie is the cartoon version of Mulan!

Last game: Prey! I did a replay of Doom 3 a while ago and mused that the horror story-game genre should be revived, and then on a whim I decided to play Prey without knowing anything about it. And it's the exact kind of game I was talking about. It's pretty good.

Last book: Rebirth of the Sigil by Peri Akman. It was disappointing. :/ Especially since I know what the author is otherwise capable of. I had the same thing happen with John Gwynne recently as well.

Sweet/savory/spicy: Savory, I think? I don't have an instinctive sense of what savory is. Google says it's a meaty taste, and I rely heavily on protein, so I guess that. I have a pretty low tolerance for sweetness despite liking sodas and such. I don't like most desserts or can only eat a tiny amount. Spicy is alright but my digestive system disagrees.

Relationship status: *vague gesturing*

Last thing I searched online: The hours for my pharmacy to see if it was too late to pick up my medication.

Current obsession: I am generally not an obsessive person when it comes to, like, interests and activities. But I am an obsessive person when it comes to thoughts and emotions. Lately I've been struggling a lot with thinking about eternity. It has not been fun. On a lighter note, I have also been thinking more regularly about writing. Perhaps someday that will translate into action!

Greatest flaw: How much time do you have? This is actually something I have difficulty answering, because the line between something forced upon me and something that is actually inherent to me is blurred a lot of the time.

I think I'd say how I behave when I'm spiraling mentally. I close off and disappear from almost everyone in my life. Occasionally I can keep up appearances with one group but not the rest, but by and large I become a ghost. When I am in a conversation during those cycles, it's crazy how badly I'm affected. I don't become cruel or mean toward others, but my speech becomes jilted, I can't make eye contact, and I am just devastatingly hateful against myself.

It's partly why I isolate, so that I don't have to expose others to that behaviour. It happens on a yearly basis though, and it can last for weeks at a time, so it has a pretty negative impact on my relationships. I also have no idea how to navigate being in one of those moods while part of a relationship where daily contact is an expectation. When I was part of a romantic relationship, instead of having one big prolonged dip, I would fade in and out of it. A couple weeks good, a couple days bad. Rinse and repeat. Awful. Terrible. Annoying. There's almost no predicting when it'll happen either.

Fic I’m currently reading: I rarely read fics because I have no patience for wading through wish fulfillment, horny writing, and "He would not fucking say that" fics, so there's only one that I vaguely keep up with. My friend has a Mass Effect fic, which can be found here. It focuses on femShep(/Kaidan) and Tali(/Garrus) and is post-ME3.

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I tag anyone who sees this and actually made it to the end, tbh. But for sake of poking, I tag @rosewinterborn with this variant, and also @deadlyessencewhispers, @tananaphone, @stupid-elf, @carrotblr, @atinydroid, @imtryingx, and, uh, uh... I don't know... let's see... @kkshowtunes, @d3viantvanguard, and @awritingcaitlin. I probably just tagged everyone who follows me. Anyway thanks bye

#tag game #in which i talk too much and reveal too much

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duckprintspress · 1 year

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Why Query Letters are Good Actually

Part One of a Two-part series of guest posts by Alec J. Marsh.

Hello, it’s me, Alec. I’m a new editor to Duck Prints Press and the resident corporate shill sellout. I love Duck Prints Press and their ethics (and will write an opinion piece soon on why they rock and you should submit to them). I also…. love traditional publishing.

I’m sorry! I know this makes me a trend-following sheep. I know it’s a hot take in the indie pub crowd. Traditional publishing absolutely has its flaws, and I could go on at length about them. I’m still aiming to get my novels traditionally published. I want to be able to find my book at a Barnes & Noble and be nominated for a Hugo. Sorry not sorry.

One of the worst parts of traditional publishing is the arcane hoops you have to jump through to participate. As anyone who has poked querying with a long, tentative stick knows, there are many requirements, and every agent’s website uses slightly different phrasing, and it’s a nightmare to navigate. It’s an extra nightmare if you’re neurodivergent and desperately seeking a clear, simple list of expectations. Unfortunately, the basic requirements are there for a reason. A GOOD reason. Learning the skills required to put together a good query package will serve you well, whether you want a ten-book deal with Tor, to sell hand-stapled zines at the local convention, or anything in between.

So let’s get into it!

The first thing you need in any submission process is a query letter. What is a query letter? In short, it’s a 3-5 paragraph essay about your book, yourself, and why a publisher should buy your work (and therefore why an agent should agree to represent you). You need to tell the agent the genre, the plot, and why this book is special. They are excruciating to write, because yes, you need to condense your book down to 300 words, maximum, and sell it at the same time.

But imagine, for a moment, that you’ve walked into Ye Olde Barnes & Noble. There, on the end cap, is a cool new fantasy book you’ve never heard of. The cover has a sword and a snake on it, and you like swords and snakes. But how is it different from the 20 other books with names like A Court of Swords and Snakes that have come out in the last five years? The first thing you do is pick the book up, turn to the back cover, and read.

You know what’s on the back cover?

Paragraph one: In a stunning tour de force, ACOSAS takes you through the glittering world of naga politics… (A teaser sentence)

Paragraph two: Princess Arya has always wanted to be a dancer. But when the evil northerners attack her kingdom… (A paragraph about the main character and the central conflict of the book)

Paragraph three: Alec J Marsh lives in the Pacific Northwest and has never seen a snake in the wild. (A biography of the author)

Guess what you just read? A query letter. In many cases, what’s in the blurb is actually pretty close to the exact query letter the author originally sent to their agent. Yes, really. Sometimes a query letter makes it from agent to editor to publicist to final copy.

They’re that important.

But Alec, I hear you say, I’m not planning to get trad published! Why do I need to do this? Well, indie and self-published people—you will need to write cover copy for your book. And you’ll almost certainly need to write it yourself. The good and the bad part of self-publishing is that you do everything yourself. Less meddling (good!), but less help (bad!). And here’s the hard truth: absolutely no one will spend a single one of their hard-earned dollars on “sex babes get pounded by space aliens” if the back cover says “lol I suck at summaries, I promise it’s good :)” It’s useless, and it’s disrespectful to the buyer’s time and money.

And that is why query letters are good, actually, for all writers, and are worth practicing how to create!

So go out there and sell your books, and you’ll accidentally write your query along the way.

In Installment Two…now that I’ve convinced you that you should write a query letter, I’ll go over how to actually, you know, do that. Coming soon!

#duck prints press #writing advice #publishing #query letters #resources #alec j. marsh

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ayyydra · 27 days

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In this day and age, it's crazy how many distractions there are.

Even as I'm writing this tumblr post, I'm thinking about how I could be using this exact same time to continue writing one of my fics, read a few pages out of a book, continue to work on my art/make messy sketches, watch One Piece, but instead, I'm choosing to write about how social media has negatively impacted my attention span when it comes to me wanting to create.

I went two whole weeks with being able to draw something for 15-30mins, to an hour maximum, each night for roughly 10-14 days. It felt REALLY good! It felt great giving myself permission to make mistakes in my sketches/studies and not overthink what I was drawing too much. I even got back to using pen out of all mediums, and then using a simple yellow highlighter.

Then I made the mistake of opening instagram after I hadn't opened it in a little while. So much information - good and bad - at my fingertips, so many art resources available, so many ways of doing things. I've managed to keep a pretty tight leash on twitter, since I know that's a place that will cause me to spiral in my thoughts (long story short, I can't look at too much art on there because then the comparison braincell kicks in, along with the constant 'why can't I create fast enough?' question is on repeat like a broken record). I have upwards of 300+ tumblr drafts of art and posts that I need (not really) to queue, which is also time I could put towards my art, reading, writing and watching One Piece/other shows. Getting back onto instagram is ultimately where I have faltered. I have definitely considered deleting the app, but it's also an app where I keep in touch with people IRL (and one online, here on tumblr, and if you are reading this post, HI <3). Life also came in the way of things, and I have been picking up more chores around the house since my parents have been away overseas, along with doing my best to manage my mental health. I haven't been able to take myself out on my little 'artist dates' where I would take myself to the library and focus on something creative, whether that be writing or drawing. An opportunity for some proper, uninterrupted 'me' time if you will.

It's normal that life gets in the way, I know, but trying to get back to that sweet spot and that flow is always difficult. And i know it takes a considerable amount of time for a habit to stick (If I recall correctly, upwards of six months or less? Something like that). Having a diary, writing lists and keeping a journal are all very useful for someone like me who has depression, it allows me to compartmentalise things and visualise what I have to do rather than just store it all in my brain and then get extremely overwhelmed. Juggling a full-time job, hobbies, exercise and cultural dancing is quite a lot, even though I have the tendency to downplay how much I do and almost always think I can do more (which is an expectation from family more so than me, I can only do what I can and I'm happy with that). I know I will get back to that point eventually (and I should try to draw/write something right after I finish this post and collect the cats for the night), but with all things, it'll take some time, planning and organisation.

It's SO EASY to scroll and watch videos, but always difficult to invest energy into the things we love, but we NEED to invest that energy to nurture the creative soul and to share such intimate parts of us in our art and writing.

#idk what to tag this post as but I have had so many lightbulb moments this year #the internet was such a different place only 10 years ago #and in the last ten years it's become just full of soul sucking social media websites

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slowdiived · 2 years

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10:36 (kurt kunkle/fem reader)

just a fluff with partying and drinking, nothing really serious.

this is my first tumblr fic i have posted, if anyone wants a part 2 just let me know! :) i already have it partially written!

kurt was never a guy that you thought you would spend your time with. he was a spree driver that had an obsession with wanting to be seen, an attention whore in the most simplest terms. he lives his entire life on social media, making hours and hours of content to just try to get recognition. you know it's a trauma thing, you've heard his stories from his childhood and just always tended to feel bad for him.

he was twenty-three and his mind resembled a trapped fifteen year old that just wanted a stable home life.

you didn't have the best life either and that was maybe why you felt so bad for kurt. you've related to him on different levels and for sure, your savior complex trickled out around him. the more time spent together, the more you fell for him and he fell for you.

you met him through bobby, a shitty child influencer. you had just moved to azusa in hopes of new opportunities that lie ahead of you. you were too poor to live in a city like la, so your shitty azusa apartment was good enough. you had made friends with some minor tik tokers that were impressed with your comedy videos you posted. you weren't anything special yet, excited to see where the influencing world could take you.

and one of the first la parties you found yourself at was hosted by bobbybasecamp.

you didn't like his content as it was just a mere rip off of jake paul with just as bad entitlement. it was embarrassing to you and the friends you were going with but you decided that it was just for a night to meet other people that were hopefully in the same boat as you.

when you were there, you noticed a guy on his phone that sat in the farthest empty corner he could. he was on a chair, hunched over and looked miserable. you had already gotten through a few drinks, the tipsy-ness turning into something more along the lines of 'i'm going to talk to anyone and everyone here' and that meant you were b-lining straight for the guy.

"hey," you sat opposite him on the end of the couch, smiling bright.

"h-hi?" he stammered out with confusion.

"my name is (y/n)," you brushed your hair out of your face and then shot a hand out for him to shake. "i like your hoodie, do you watch h3?"

he looked confused for a moment then smiled after you gave him a compliment on his color blocked teddy fresh hoodie. he shut his phone off and looked down at his lap in an almost anxious demeanor.

"oh yeah i do," he chirped up a bit. "my name is kurtsworld- i mean kurt, not kurtsworld."

you giggled and held your vape in your hands that rested between your thighs.

"is that your handle?" you gave him a soft smirk. "kurtsworld?"

"yeah, it's kurtworld96," he still stammered a bit, nervousness leaking from his voice. "that's my user on everything, you should follow me. i post cool stuff."

normally you would find this to be really annoying but you had heard the same exact words all night. influencer party etiquette was like following a template and filling in the blanks when it came time for your username.

you pull out your phone and look up at him with a quick glance. you typed his name into tik tok and asked him if the first user was him. he replied with a nod and you hit follow, noticing he only had about 300 followers. you thought it was weird but brushed it off. at least you made it 301.

he pulled out his phone and followed you back instantly.

"you have 50,000 followers?" he asked with excitement. "how did you do it?"

you lean your head into your arms to get closer to him.

"oh i just post comedy videos/skits," you replied nonchalantly. "nothing super special, one of my videos just hit the fyp and i've been climbing ever since."

god you sound pretentious and you hate it, hate having to explain.

"oh yeah," he smiled. "yeah i have fans too, i call them my kurties, they voted on a poll and that's how they got their name. wasn't my choice at all."

he just seemed so awkwardly tense and nervous but you found him alluring.

"how drunk are you?" you asked him.

"huh?" he asked, getting closer to you so he could hear you better.

you repeat yourself and he quickly shakes his head, "i don't drink."

you looked at him with a shocked expression. you placed a hand on his knee and giggled.

"so you don't drink and you hide in the corner of parties..." your eyes kept his locked. "do you know bobby like personally?"

he explained that he was bobby's babysitter, it was his side hustle next to spree driving. you nodded and tried to listen to him with the best of your abilities, but the alcohol had finally all settled and you could tell it was going to kick your ass. he offered to take you home and he did, you guys giggled on the car ride home.

from that day on, he commented under all your videos. you could post a shitty skit that bombed on the for you page that didn't mass over a thousand likes and he would have something nice to say under it.

kurtsworld96: You are so funny! 🤣✌️

kurtsworld96: Making me LOL!! 😹

kurtsworld96: That impression is so good! 😎✌️

it made you feel happy that he was willing to always comment on every video that you started doing the same. his content was... something else. shitty reviews, vlogs, sometimes he would try to make thirst traps but they were a bit cringe inducing. you understood he wanted to be famous and you couldn't really fault him for trying.

he then started dming you, spamming you with messages. you found it super weird at first but didn't want to be mean, so you answered pretty fast. he was weird in his conversations, always bringing up different ideas for content and you would tell him whether it was a good idea or not. he soon followed you on instagram where he moved the texting too, sending memes and reels. you were lonely since you had moved to a new state and had a clean start, so you never let him back down from spamming you like crazy.

he invited you to another party that bobby was hosting and you said yes, finding yourself getting picked up by the spree driver and bobby who was live streaming from his phone in the car. it was definitely awkward for you as you had to sit in the backseat alone.

"hey (y/n)!" kurt greeted as you put on your seatbelt, placing your bag on the opposite seat.

"hi," you said shyly, a little weirded out that bobby was there.

"hey i like your tik toks," the kid complimented as kurt took off. "didn't know kurt could actually pick up a funny chick."

you squinted and tilted your head in confusion. kurt looked at bobby and gave him a glare, bobby giggling.

"what dude?" he laughed. "you're like a total fucking loser and she is like fucking cool. weird to think that she would want to be near a creep like you."

before you could open your mouth to respond to bobby's shitty behavior, he had a donation come in through his stream.

"bobby based camp, w."

"don't say that stuff about me on your stream," kurt pleaded. "he is just kidding guys! make sure you follow me at kurtsworld96, i stream too and also i make con-"

"shut the fuck up, what have i told you about polluting the stream!?" bobby yelled like a toddler.

you were super anxious at the interaction you had witnessed. you wanted to chime in but you felt like you were frozen in second hand embarrassment from the two of them. you wanted to defend kurt and set the record straight that you guys were nothing more than acquaintances, but you didn't want to embarrass kurt or have bobby yell at you back. you just stayed silent the rest of the car ride, nodding at the casual questions kurt asked you.

once you got to the house, bobby went upstairs to his room to change and you sat on the couch with kurt. you still felt awkward and he started posting to his instagram story that he was about to throw a huge party with bobby.

soon people started filing in and you grabbed the first drink you could find that someone had left on the table, unopened. you chugged it the best you could, wanting to get tipsy to forget your anxious antics.

you avoided kurt a bit, still listening to his ramblings about something called ‘the lesson’ which you could care less about. you would interrupt to talk to different people which left kurt lingering in the background. he was getting antsy but you just felt nervous trying to talk to him.

"are you mad at me, (y/n)?" kurt asked as he tapped you on the shoulder.

you put your second drink down and swallowed down your sip. you shook your head.

"why would i be mad at you?" you asked with empathy filling your words.

he shrugged, "the whole car ride thing, you stopped like answering me."

you just explained that you felt bad but you aren't equipped for conflict. he told you about how bobby is just 'bossy' which you would say is one word to describe him.

you got progressively more drunk, drunker than the last party. more and more influencers filed in which meant more booze for you. you wished you could've bought stuff you actually liked but being nineteen doesn't really allow you to drink legally. kurt noticed you stumbling a little bit and slurring your words that he eventually cut you off.

in retaliation you started crying in front of him like a child that had gotten grounded for a week. he felt bad but he knew he would have to drive you home and he wasn't super comfortable with drunk people. he only had to be at these parties because bobby's mom worked saturday nights and the only way bobby could be allowed to party was if kurt was there. he was suppose to be monitoring everybody but he found it annoying quite fast.

"kurt! kurt! kurt!" you cried out, shaking his shoulders so you could get his attention.

"what?" he asked, his body stiff under your touch.

"go to the b-bathroom with me please?" you asked, commencing your drunk puppy dog eyes as a manipulation tactic.

"what? no," he said with wide eyes. "that's weird."

you pouted and kept shaking him.

"but i don't wanna pee alone!" you rang out, your words starting to sound sloppy.

kurt obliges because duh, he wants to be alone in a bathroom with a girl!?

you pulled down your pants and started peeing in the toilet. he covered his eyes as he shut the door and then turned round to face the wall opposite to you.

"thank you for inviiiting me kurtie," you giggled. "sorry i got so druuunk, i know you must hate me now."

he fidgeted with his blue shirt sleeves and scoffed.

"i don't hate you, (y/n)," he kept his gaze straight on the ground. "you are like a really good friend, i could never hate you."

even your drunk mind paused for a second as you wiped yourself with toilet paper. you two had only been talking for two weeks now, no way you're already a 'really good' friend. this guy had to be just as lonely or lonelier than you.

you thought back to the comments that bobby was making and your mind slurred the connection together. you pulled your pants up and flushed, kurt turning around. you went to the sink to wash your hands and he lingered to the side of you where the door sat.

"i should get- head out," he went to grab the door knob but with your newly dried hands you stopped him.

"no stay in here with me please," you cried out.

you two were very close to each other now, your fronts nearly pressed together. you looked up at him and he was staring daggers into you, his eyes scanning your face and his lips parted in confusion.

"uh, okay," he took his hand off the door knob and you smiled.

you pushed yourself onto the counter, trying to sit. you got up but you hit your head against the edge of the cabinet. you didn't cry but you did yell out and grab the top of your head.

"are you okay?" kurt quickly grabbed hold of your head gently.

you let go of the spot back he started digging through your hair.

"aw, you scraped up your head a bit," he let go of your head and you sat there teary eyed but still looked back up at him.

you started laughing to make yourself feel better.

"maybe it's time for me to go home, kurtie," you sighed and hopped back down. "i've embarrassed myself enough in one day."

he led you out of the party and texted bobby to tell him he will be back in about thirty minutes. you sat in the passenger seat and kept staring at kurt.

he noticed and blushed really hard.

"what- why are you looking at me?" he started stuttering again.

you just gave him a giggle and kept staring at him with no response, just a huge smile plastered on your face.

"what?" he looked over quickly and then kept his eyes on the road ahead of him.

after you two had been in the car for twenty minutes, you started talking again.

"you like me," you slurred out. "i figured it out in the bathroom, y-you liiike like me."

he laughed nervously and looked rapidly at his lap then the road. his cheeks were more than just red, they had to have been red hot. steam could've risen off of them.

"what? no."

"yeah huuuh, that's why you went to the bathroom with me and checked my head," you just kept your gaze on him. "you would be too awkward to just dooo that as a frieeeenddd."

he laughed again.

"i-well.. you.." he was freaking out and didn't know what words to use.

he then felt better as he approached your apartment building and parked his car.

"i am noot getting out yet," you pouted. "you have to admit you liiike meeee kurtie!"

he wanted you to get out so badly but also wanted to keep you around. he was embarrassed that you caught him because bobby wasn't being kind.

he would open his mouth but was too awkward to respond.

"kiss me, kurt," you blurted out, getting closer to him.

he shook his head immediately.

"no, that's wrong," he finally said a real sentence and it was in a serious tone you hadn't heard from him yet. "you're drunk (y/n), let me just get you inside and help you go to bed, okay?"

you giggled.

"you just proved that you like me!" you yelled as he got out of his seat, shutting his door behind him.

he then came over and opened your side, helping you out. you held onto his arm and he asked which one was your apartment. you told him the number and he led you up the stairs, your hands wrapped around his forearm. he helped you get your keys out and unlocked the door.

"are you gonna stay with me?" you ask as you start leading him to your room.

he just said "maybe."

he then took off your shoes and threw your fuzzy blanket over you.

you closed your eyes and immediately passed out, kurt leaving your apartment and getting back in his car, smiling at the fact that you wanted him to kiss you.

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Hi there! I know that this is really out of the blue but im asking for a favor or some help w/ my cats current medical needs. Please if you have an extra time to boost/share it for us so that we could get some traction or it could reach more people, it would definitely help a ton! I understand if its not okay, Im so sorry for taking some of your time and I wish you to be safe and healthy always, xx.(Please considering answering my ask privately or probably hit me a msg if its fine! 😭🙏

Hi! I will choose to not reblog it and I will give exactly the reason why so in case you are a genuine person you might get the problem and be able to address it and give a reason as to why you just have a blog that is just like any other scam asking for help.

You have posted the post about your cats on February 3rd

Nothing strange there.

Now your blog is very bare bones. It doesn't even have the custom Tumblr URL showing up. No theme. Just an icon, banner and description.

Again... Not that strange on it's own. But! You have archive disabled.

Which seemingly stops me from checking when your first post was created. But in the end that's not necessary because scrolling down a bit makes me able to find it easily. Too easily.

Posted on... February 3rd. The exact same day the post asking for help was created. In fact not even an hour before your asking for help post. And this is not a side blog. You sent me an ask after all.

You know how many scam financial aid stuff I get in my inbox? I reblogged stuff that ended up being a scam before. At this point I only reblog after doing a bit of a check.

Because you know, there are real people in need of help, people I will look and have old Tumblr blogs with posts of their own and clear interests. Not some reblogged posts of what's on the popular tags and suddenly a post asking for help.

Your blog looks like many scam blogs exploiting the kindness of people who want to help. Why would you have a need of making a whole new Tumblr account with a new email, reblogging some random posts before posting a post asking for monetary aid not even 20 minutes later?

And you only want people to answer to your ask privately. You don't want it to be known you asked for it. Because if I just reblogged your post it would seem more trust worthy. I reblogged a post from the source. "Maybe they even know the person" my followers might think. You even followed me because I will be so much more willing to reblog it if it means I get a new follower who's definitely interested on hearing me talk about Minecraft YouTubers on the daily.

And I'm sorry if you're telling the truth and I sound cruel (And I hope your cat gets well soon if that's the case) but... I don't feel well making my followers possibly giving money to a possible scam because I promoted it. You have to prove to be an actual blog, genuine person, for me to actual consider reblogging a post asking for money.

And in part I am answering this because your post seems ok. Believable. But I also know the ability of Tumblr scammers I have fallen for some beforehand. Because even though your cat pictures seem to have originated on your post that doesn't really change much because I could share a photo that I took of a cat last week, that was never on the internet, and do this

I am so sorry to have to ask for this but my cat, Plinko, had to go to the vet because he was breathing weird.

Now the doctor has said we need to do more tests and with possible medication it can be quite a lot of money.

I am asking for $300 for now but things might get worse. :(

So please if you can help (you don't have to) it would be really appreciated if you helped with the costs. 💜

Ca$happ: xxxxxxx

It's not difficult. The certificate you showed? Not difficult to make in Word. There's not a single signature from a veterinarian (which you could fake anyway), neither a stamp (more difficult to fake)

This logo is available online in a transparent format.

So is this one...

#ask #scams #to my followers: check the blogs asking for money

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