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wandasaura · 1 month

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GOLD THATS IN YOUR EYES

summary — you’ve known natasha romanoff since she first defected to shield, but it’s taken you years to realize that you’ve loved her since then too

warning(s) — fluff, mentions of the ohio mission, hurt/comfort

prompt — finding excuses to be alone with each other x noticing their individual quirks

song — mood ring by kira kosarin

🌞⊹ ˚ . 18+, men/minors dni ⁺ 𓈒 ꒰🧺꒱ 🌷 ･ mommy maximoff ✧

Natasha Romanoff was not a very sociable person, in fact, she was quite the opposite. Most people would be surprised to learn that the infamous ex assassin was admittedly somewhat of an introverted homebody, preferring the chosen silence of isolation over bustling crowds where judgment ran wild. For a woman with such a bold way about her, she was admittedly rather soft. She was soft in the way she moved around the kitchen when nobody was around to watch her frolic through cabinets on the balls of her feet, arches deep and perfect, and heels exquisitely raised above the floorboards. She was soft in the way she spoke, too. Her words were always calculated, always direct, and blunt enough to be chalked up to dry humor, but if you listened closely, if you closed your eyes and let the weight of her spoken sentence weigh on your heart in the way she’d never intended for anybody to actually do, you’d notice the soft hitch to her tone that was endearingly Russian, and the way her nose twitched whenever she wasn’t sure how a comment would be received by the masses. Natasha Romanoff was a lot of things, but an arrogant agent was not one of them; not that she’d ever admit that.

You supposed that she felt a crippling need to assert herself as if she were in a position of calculated authority. Some could say that she was in a stance of power, having been deemed not only a level six agent but also an Avenger by time she was twenty-nine, yet even with the moniker of being the only reformed Black Widow to escape Dreykov’s grasp, Natasha was never the authoritarian she prided herself on being when others were around. Granted, you were never one to challenge the way she raised her chin when she was at the center of a room full of men, and you were never one to comment on how her shoulders squared defensively whenever someone took a step to close for comfort. She radiated confidence and certainty, but beneath all of the hurt that she had turned into defensiveness, she was merely a woman that had been wronged and burned by every bridge she’d ever dared to build. You saw her as such, she knew that you did, so maybe that was why she never tried to act that way with you. It was an unspoken mutual understanding that all bets were off when fate brought you two together.

Natasha Romanoff played a lot of games. She liked the challenge of breaking down her opponent before they had the chance to break her down themselves, but the second anyone got too close she pulled a mask over her features and her bleeding heart became a loaded gun. You’d never met someone so guarded in your life, and yet she placed all cards face up on the table whenever she got you alone. Natasha Romanoff was not the sick and twisted woman she allowed the general public to believe she was. She woke up screaming from nightmares bi-weekly, the rasp in her gravely tone not natural but consequential. She closed her eyes whenever she washed her hands in fear of the clear water becoming red with the blood of her innocent victims. She stepped only on the tiles that she knew were silent, scared to make ripples in the water and alert attention. People who didn’t know Natasha Romanoff would say she was something similar to the atrocities that occurred beneath the midnight sky, but you would say she was the shadow of sweet flowers that disappeared after sunset.

You noticed every miniscule detail there was to know about Natasha Romanoff, but you know that she noticed every detail about you as well. She noticed the way you avoid going out in the rain when it’s cold, and how none of your socks ever seem to match even on missions. She noticed how you migrate down to the kitchen in the ungodly hours of the morning just to bake pastries for the team to eat at breakfast, usually cinnamon rolls or blueberry muffins with a crumb coating that Wanda particularly is a fan of, but eventually, she’d unraveled that your little habit wasn’t merely because you wanted to be hospitable toward the people you fought alongside with when extraterrestrial disasters fell to earth, but rather because your mind needed something to focus on when the nightmares of human travesties became too paralyzing and suffocating to handle alone in the dark. The first time her attention to detail became apart was a gloomy day in November, the leaves not all fallen from trees but the air frigid enough to belong in a barren January day. At that point, you’d fallen into a routine of going out for a run through central park each morning, always returning with not only a coffee for yourself, but one for her as well, but with the downpour of raindrops the size of nickels, you’d chosen the lower level gym as your route that day. Natasha wasn’t much a fan of the rain, but she never minded freezing temperatures. She found you in the debriefing room that early afternoon, her hair sodden and crimped from pallets of rain that fell overhead, but in her hands were two cuts of still steaming coffee from your favorite little cafe. She’d tried to say that she was just in the area, but you knew that she had gone out of her way to assure that at least part of your morning remained unchanged throughout the storm.

Your relationship with Natasha had been an unspoken arrangement for as many months and years as you could remember, but recently things had changed. You’d always found yourself alone in a room, two friends existing within the same space naturally, but lately even that hadn’t felt so innocently charged, and you were as much at fault as Natasha was. The Russian lingered in the kitchen just to watch as you mixed together batter for muffins that Tony would eat half of, but you hung around in the lower level gym just to hand off a water bottle when she completed her workout. Any excuse either of you could grasp onto just to spend a few uninterrupted minutes together had been abused and properly overused, but there was no admission of feelings anywhere close to the tip of your tongue.

There were some days that passed, even now years later, where when you looked at her beneath the kitchen lights, or against the punching bags, you only ever saw the broken woman that Clint had brought in from the KGB. She’d been merely a shell of herself at that time, fiery red hair matted with knots and the blood of her targets, face smeared with dirt and gunpowder. You hadn’t been on base when she’d been dragged in wearing heavy metal shackles and dehumanizing cuffs, but Maria had filled you in on everything prevalent regarding Fury’s newest asset. It had taken you three weeks to run into her when you returned, traumatized from the loss of your team and spiraling into shallow thoughts of death and finality, but from the very first moment you’d never seen her as a threat, and she’d never seen you as the lucky survivor that walked away from a raid. Her eyes were soft, softer than the wings of a newly hatched butterfly, and when she stood beneath the sunlight on the deck of the helicarrier, accent thick and sweet like the spring breeze that carried pollen beneath its current, you’d seen the daintiest twinge of gold within the green of her eyes. Maybe it was at that moment that you’d known you wanted to spend your entire life at her side, or maybe that had come much later, but what you’d definitely realized in that first month of knowing her, was that she wasn’t as complete as she wanted everyone to assume she was. There was so much despair and longing beneath her mask of confidence and casualty, so many agonizing emotions that she’d never fully overcome. There were times where you wondered what could be missing from her life that even now, deemed a hero and residing amongst people that just wanted to do good by the world, but you always circled back to the heavy acknowledgement that aside from you and Clint, nobody truly knew Natasha Romanoff. She’d spent her entire life beneath the thumb of power hungry generals, and when she’d gotten a taste of freedom and self identification, she’d conformed to be the woman that everyone else wanted her to be.

Some days however, you saw someone entirely different beneath her eyes that still held specks of gold when the sun fell upon her the right way. You saw a woman that was confident albeit flawed, painfully witty although reserved enough to hide within the walls when she didn’t want to be seen fully. But sometimes when you looked at her, you saw a woman yearning to love in the fullest sense of the word, and that broke your heart the most. She had never been shown unconditional love, never been held softly yet tightly, never been allowed to love back. Natasha Romanoff had been taught that love was the greatest weakness any woman could surrender herself to, and yet she was finally at a point where she wanted to experience the tragedy of loving something temporary. Death was unavoidable, she’d learned that young, but love transpired through isolation even if it never felt entirely complete again. For the first time since you’d met Natasha, she wasn’t scared to submit herself to the experience of loving someone to a fault, even though it meant she could very well lose it all tomorrow. Even if it didn’t seem like it to others, you noticed the subtle ways that she made progress as the years progressed, and each time you looked at her and saw a willingness to explore emotions rather than suppress them, you wanted nothing more than to squeeze her tight and be the one to teach her how to love.

“Hi.” Your voice was soft, delicate as it filled the otherwise silent kitchen. You’d heard her sneak up behind you minutes ago, but only now did it feel like the right time to greet her. She was close, but too far, pressed against the island in the middle of the kitchen whilst you stood beside the sink, hands full of strawberries that Tony had asked you to turn into something delicious. You’d rolled your eyes at the billionaire who had made a habit of soliciting you for pastries, but here you found yourself in the kitchen anyways, trading hours of sleep for muffins that would be gone by the early afternoon. “Wanna help me?” You laid the freshly washed strawberries on a clean kitchen rag, falling into the process of patting them dry without much thought or intention. All of this came so naturally now; she came so naturally now.

“I, um, I could actually just go for a hug. If it’s not too much trouble for the busy, Chef.” Her voice was hoarse, scratchy and thick as it fell onto your ears. Without the running tap, you could hear the quiet hitch in her breathing, wheezing exhales falling out into the space between your warm and yearning bodies. Your eyebrows furrowed, hands abandoning the strawberries in an instance. In all the years that you had known Natasha Romanoff, in all the years that you had seen her in the aftermath of a nightmare, she had never asked for a hug. You could count on one hand the amount of times you’d ever hugged her, and they’d all been for your own selfish reasons. You spun around to face her, palms dragging across your pajama bottoms and riding the water that clung to your palms so you could embrace her fully.

You hadn’t spared her a single glance when she’d first entered, wanting to give her the chance and time to make herself known by her own judgment and comfortability, but now that your eyes traced the delicate shadows across her face, you could make out the unbridled tears brimming in her eyes. She was ghastly pale, a fitful sleep indicative by the deep bruising beneath her eyes. You’d never seen her so distressed, but for a single second you thought about how she’d chosen to seek you out instead of trailing down to the gym and bullying a punching bag like she’d gotten into the routine of doing.

“Can I touch you?” You asked carefully, not wanting to make any sudden movements and spook her back into her shell of isolation. This was progress, and selfishly you wanted any excuse to pull her in close and hold her tight. When she nodded, a weak and fragile incline of her head, you closed the gap between your bodies and melted into her chest. She held you protectively, like she’d needed to feel you to ensure that you were safe and real. A single hand reached up to cradle the back of your head, and her lips found a home on the crown of your head as she inhaled your scent deeply. “You know you can always ask for hugs. Not just because you had a nightmare, but whenever. I mean that.”

Natasha cleared her throat, though she simultaneously tightened her grip around your waist as if whatever she wanted to say would be enough to make you either run away or disappear entirely. You didn’t comment on it, letting her have the time she needed to get her thoughts in order. You grabbed onto her sleep shirt, tight fists bunching up the material and holding it possessively. Natasha felt the motions, felt the way the cotton shirt hugged her belly tighter now that most of the slack was taken up by your grip, and you smiled softly against her chest when you felt her breath out evenly. “Today’s the day we left Ohio.” She started, and immediately your head shot up to search her blue eyes. You’d heard little about Ohio, even littler about the little blonde haired sidekick Natasha found herself protecting for three years, but you knew that what had happened had ruined her. You knew that something as little as moving away was never as simple as it sounded for her. “It was spring break. I left without being able to tell anyone I wouldn’t be coming back. They- They ripped Yelena out of my arms. I– I will always come back for you. You’re the first place that has ever felt like home outside of Ohio. I just– I needed to tell you that I’ll always come back to you.”

“I will always come back for you.” You meant every word that you said, but you could see a cloud of disbelief hanging over Natasha’s gaze as she let your eyes meet again. There was something different about ehr now, something softer and smaller than you’d ever seen. It wasn’t unpleasant, but you couldn’t bear the thought of her so distraught, you especially couldn’t bear the thought of what she had looked like at only eleven. She’d been so young and the world had been so cruel, you just wanted her to know that she was loved, and she was cherished now. She wasn’t just another soldier anymore. “Nat, can I kiss you?”

She froze for a minute, arms slackening around your waist as she stared deep into your eyes, an onset of fresh tears threatening to fall from her own, but before you could withdraw your question, before you could backtrack and excuse your vulnerability as simply being exhaustion, she was pulling you impossibly close, settling both of her hands on your cheeks as she cupped your face and settled her forehead against yours. Her touch was familiar and foreign at the same time, a coming of age to all the daydreams you’d fallen into with her at the center of them all. You’d thought about this moment for months, thought about how her calloused palms would feel against every inch of your skin, her she was always cold but not uncomfortably so. Now, beneath the kitchen lights and her greenish-gold gaze, you realized that you’ve wanted her since the very first moment you met her. “I thought you’d never ask.” Her lips, still impressionable with sadness, curled upward into a smirk, but you didn’t waste a second to kiss it away and show her the truth about love and connection.

Natasha Romanoff had kissed more people then she could keep track of, but never had any of those intimate encounters come voluntarily. For so many years her life had been a means to the mission, but she was free now. Finally, she was entirely free. In so many ways, more than you could even contemplate, you were her first, and desperately you hoped that you would each be each other's last.

#natasha romanoff #natasha romanoff x reader #natasha romanoff x avenger!reader #natasha romanoff fluff #natasha romanoff comfort #natasha romanoff fic #natasha romanoff oneshot #collection: spring fling

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aviationgeek71 · 8 months

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Summer's Last Stand...

In a final burst of vivid beauty, wild flowers sing a lullaby to summer's ever dwindling hourglass sand... as autumn awakens to adorn her crown, ready to alter the colorful hues of the land...

Johnstown, Ohio. August 28, 2023.

By @aviationgeek71

#wild flowers #farm #old barn #my photography #my writing #original writing #original photographers #spilled ink

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viky-somebody · 1 year

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pretty cool fic list

dog at the door - fluffy_papaya (absolute fave. Red King)

I still Bleed When i Fall Down - Paranoid_Pug (MCC gets attacked by watcher hunters)

And The Universe Shifts - aayaptre (fandom history)

this is about a stuffed bird - Bee_4 (apocalypse, Mumbo and EX dynamic)

fixed and dilated - iamsolarflare (Hypno & xB special hybrid powers shenanigans)

Cause We Are Whole - ooFFFF (Tango becomes a robot and finds a new friend)

Nothing But Flowers - nho (Etho & myceluim resistance +nho references, sadly unfinished)

Still the Echoes Give Us Light - doctortrekkie (VERY good watcher grian series, HC + Traffic life series events.)

Eldritch Horror Keralis - MawoftheMagnetar (exactly what it says. but also oh so much more)

prometheus and the livewire - storm_warning (Ren the king is struggling. Doc is quiet and theres no news from him)

They say that the world was built for two - GardenerGulfie (Ren and Martyn keep meeting in different lives. also aromantic Ren pog)

Torchlight - Skelew (Ren is a god of a dead city stuck in the form of a torchlight and Martyn is his only follower)

the last days of the free angel of carrows - Bee_4 (Joe Hills and Zombie Cleo run a paranormal activity agency in a modern city. Cleo is a literal undead, Joe is a renowned angel, and together they get tied with a conspiracy against the city mayor.)

Lady Cleo, King Ren, and the Trials of The Midwest - storm_warning (Cleo and King Ren get teleported to Ohio)

Against The Clock - Leopardmask (Set in season 8, Evil X got possessed and the Horse Head Farms plus Wels and Jevin decide to deal with that) (Jevin is a slime & vex hybrid)

The Sky Weighs Heavy Tonight - MaoftheMagnetar (pilot au, set in a world with genetic mutations caused by a past war. gone emotional)

Joehills' Moderately Haunted House - zombiiehorse (Modern au, Joe buys a new house for a suspiciosly low price)

Monsters Splitting Hairs - Silverskye13 (Ren, Doc and Gem live in a village, forced to disguise as humans, bc of the history of the town) (great worldbuilding)

Lonesome Dreams - doctorletmebebrave (Jimmy Solidarity gets separated after the dragon fights and accepts a deal from the Listeners)

Lend Me A Hand - SolSearchingNights (Ponk sneaks onto hermitcraft and vents to Doc about their relationship with Sam)

Redstone and Skulk - Silverskye13 (Tango's helsmit Tanguish & Helsknight, delicious hels worlduilding)

Åttiofem - MawoftheMagnetar (Iskall has a terrible day getting kidnapped and finally discovers something about his past) (slight Stresskall shipping)

there are many downsides to being a marine biologist - donnerstag (modern day au with hybrids, Doc is a scientist studying a siren!Martyn whos been newly caught for their facility) (DOCMARTYN FISH YAOI LETS GO)

Ad Nauseam - mycelium_menace (Dawndragon) (Joe Hills is stuck in a timeloop. One day, a wild Cleo appears to shake him out of his apathy)

Black skies have changed into blue - GoodTimesWithScar (Oli Orionsound finds a wild Martyn, whos been reverse isekai'ed back from the datastream)

(i'll tend to the flames you can worship the) ashes - darubyprincxx (amazing post-rapture season 1 empires work. Fwhip and Gem survived and are on the run. They find a Pixlriffs, who's been missing for 8 years.)

misc., *mostly* smaller fics

Empires & others

Ghosts in the Sky - trafficpose (space au Martyn/Docm)

Kids in empires, what will they do? - Faffodill (Hermes, Michael and Grumbot messing around)

food IS a love language and i will fight you on this - darubyprincxx (Hermes overhears a discussion between his parents)

Empires Strike Back - Leopardmask (A retelling of the Hermempires crossover)

Count fWhip Fails a Blood Test - darubyprincxx (set in empires season 1)

survivorship bias - Bee_4 (Jimmy wakes up in a city of New Pixandria, after the season 1 Rapture, with little to no memory of who he was before)

Fuck Around and Find Out - Moonstone_Kat (Sheriff Jimmy wants to finally end all the jokes about him being a toy and decides to pull off the most elaborate prank on his friends)

hermitcraft

a not so calculated catch - vexberries (Mermaid Scar and a sceptic Cub, who does not believe in mermaids but gets a crush)

Four Hearts - PieOfDeath (Jlethubs valentines day fluff)

Wind Back The Clock - guy56 (Bdubs and Etho have existed in many worlds and timelines yet they still keep meeting each other)

Hermit City Heroes series - 2point5 (Superhero AU) (actually pretty long)

What's The Letter That Starts The Alphabet (Ayy!) - Darubyprincxx (Team STAR look at Rens Very Bad presentation)

Joe Hills, Joe Hills, Joe Hills - leopardmask (the guy gets possessed)

The Rising Moon, The Setting Sun (series) - Dillbug (Watcher Grian, worshipper Xisuma, runaway s9 Pearl + Bonus Drista)

We're not that different, you and I - swemae (grian and scar talk about vex magic)

cmon mumbo dont tell me youve never heard of a stable time loop - Sixteenthdays (Mumbo gets his soul back)

bad things come in small packages - kiwinatorwaffles (Jimmy is a Watcher and vouches for Grian to become one as well)

Found - sparxwrites (Grian saves Scar from the Boatem hole)

I lost the old, guess I need something new - SkyWillSomeTimesWrite (Grian needs glasses)

What Does It Mean To Truly Live? - Wrenny_Fang_03 (an okay Watcher Grian thing where Xisuma is also an ex-Watcher. not my thing tbh but it was alright)

A Dog's Nose - dontrollthedice (Ren asks about Etho and Beefs relationship)

Guys and Dolls - Leopardmask (cool Doll Grian concept)

Sticker War - darkleweather

Name-Calling is NOT supposed to suck this badly (One chapter with a cool concept. Grian hears everyone who says his true name)

Buddy System - (Ren & Grian in the End)

Healing Is a Four Letter Word - Hypno_cat (Grian is a cryptid, joins hc in secret and hides in the woods)

an observer in a land of none - jaysflight (vague fantasy, watcher Grian (Veld) and Scar) (really loved this)

Inversing Allocation - Interjection (5+1 watcher Grian stuff)

Following in Pandoras footsteps - Paranoid_Pug (Grian gets a surprise present)

send me a wave via subspace - FangirlOfPower (Joe is stuck and communicates with Cleo via voicemail)

When This World Is No More (The Moon is All We'll See) - Silverskye13 (Season 8 moon crush, sad)

To Convey a Certain Brilliance - Bee_4 (Joe dies repeatedly while trying to find hermits after the moon fell)

An Inhuman Waltz - MawoftheMagnetar (Jev stole one of Cleo's armor stands for unknown reasons)

It Takes Two to Tango - EyelessFog (Tango realizes he might be a system)

The Guppy Geiser's Miraculous Return - simplydm (the guppy geiser returns!)

Investigative Journalism - jaz_it_up (Pix and Sloy explore ruins of the season 8 world to find if anyone survived)

Heart Storm - Duchess_Of_Dumpsters (one cool chapter of Joe and Wels shipping)

The guy who conquers death- ooFFFF (Zedeath tries to hunt down Joe)

The Orange Promise - bloop_im_a_frog_now (Cub and Scar are forced to get engaged by Cub's rich parents)

dream smp~

passerine - blujamas, thcscus

His Curse of Binding - bari_astralis (greek mythology themed au with reincarnation into modern times. the events of the early dream smp seasons are ancient history) (cried my eyes out)

Incarnate Inchoate - underoriginal (Dream is sent to hermitcraft and is forced to rethink his life choices)

Up For a Fight? (Tommy escapes the server to live a life by a fighting arena, changes in a lot of ways) (some typos in the text)

Black Bird Fly - MollyPollyKinz (everybody has wings and magic powers and tommy is a kidnapped prince)

It Feels Like Murder (Dream finds Sams body in the prison)

something you can’t bottle up - doingthewritethings (Tommy is slowly dealing with trauma)

Watch Untill The End - Noem (Dsmp fic in czech, a small reimagining of how the server was created, tied in with Evo and Tekkit lore)

#fic recs #mcyt fics #fics i enjoyed ^^

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fibula-rasa · 1 year

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Would never describe myself as "a bright little patriot" but an all-black outfit with a grape-colored bag absolutely sounds like something I would wear

What are you wearing?

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Photoplay, December 1941

Be a bright little patriot and take your color cue from your state flower for the gayest-hued season that's ever dazzled America

BY MARIAN H. QUINN

Alabama…goldenrod

A bright gold wool furless coat with a taupe belt

Arizona…saguaro cactus

Be as draught-resistant and as showy in the Lasso boots on page 60* — maybe a pair of red ones

Arkansas…apple blossom

The apple-blossom pink and blue wool striped collars and cuffs on your wool dress

California…golden poppy

The gold buttons you'll wear on anything; maybe they'll be massive carved ones for your suit

Colorado…columbine

A purple crepe lining for your black day suit

Connecticut…mountain laurel

The new plaid combination — purple with mountain-laurel pink, navy blue and white

Delaware…peach blossom

A wool dress the color of peach blossoms under your dark coat.

Florida…orange blossom

A needlepoint purse worked in orange-blossom pattern

Georgia…cherokee rose

A simple white crepe dinner skirt; a sweater of yellow pailettes

Idaho…syringa

White or cream rayon slipper satin waltz dress; wear a black snood and black gloves with it

Illinois…wood violet

Violet silk stockings (honest!) with your violet evening dress

Indiana…zinnia

Be as vivid in a bright orange or red hat worn with black

Iowa…wild rose

Sequins forming a pattern of roses all over your evening bag

Kansas…sunflower

Bright woolen jacket of orange; matching orange gloves

Kentucky…goldenrod

Circular yoke of gold crocheted yarn topping a black wool

Louisiana…magnolia

Magnolia-pink rose on the big pillow muff of black lace you'll carry with your chemise dress

Maine…pine cone

New combination of pine-cone brown with baroque pink

Maryland…black-eyed susan

Smart suit: A black jacket with a yellow skirt

Massachusetts…mayflower

Interpret it broadly; be shipshape in a wine middy-top dress

Michigan…apple blossom

Pale pink crepe blouse; deeper pink jacket; black skirt

Minnesota…moccasin flower

Soft-soled moccasins of gold-trimmed white kid for dancing

Mississippi…magnolia

Pink velvet piping on your black dress

Missouri…hawthorn

A waist-length red velvet cape trimmed with jet for evening

Montana…bitterroot

A whole suit of peachy pink for the tea-dancing hour

Nebraska…goldenrod

The gold service insignia of your beau on the left-hand (nearest the heart) glove

Nevada…sagebrush

Sage-green shoes to go with a sage-green monotone costume

New Hampshire…purple lilac

Clogs of purple satin for your purple dance dress

New Jersey…violet

A purple felt hat with your dark blue wool suit

New Mexico…yucca

A creamy white dog collar of pearls to make you as imposing

New York…rose

Red-as-the-rose red with black; perhaps knitted red gloves

North Carolina…oxeye daisy

A snow-white angora felt cloche with a yellow grosgrain band

North Dakota…wild prairie rose

Belt with a buckle that's made of a cowhide prairie-wagon wheel

Ohio…scarlet carnation

Carnation-red wool jacket piped in black to wear with a black skirt

Oklahoma…mistletoe

The dress on page 63**; wear it and see what happens

Oregon…Oregon grape

A grape-colored suede bag, only contrast to an all-black outfit

Pennsylvania…mountain laurel

Pink brushed-wool hat for your dark suit

Rhode Island…violet

A violet plaid tweed coat

South Carolina…jessamine

Over your black dress wear a tight-waisted tunic of yellow wool

South Dakota…pasqueflower

A purple wool suit and its surefire accessory—a yellow sweater or blouse

Tennessee…iris

The lining of the black peplum on your black wool, a blue as deep as the iris

Texas…bluebonnet

Blue suede gloves, blue velvet bag as an accessory team

Utah…sego lily

The white and orange cockade of finely pleated ribbon on your red velour hat

Vermont…red clover

A clover-red corduroy dress

Virginia…dogwood

A creamy satin waistcoat to wear over a black-velvet skirt

Washington…rhododendron

Deep pink snakeskin gloves to match the belt on a black dress

W. Virginia…great rhododendron

Combine a pale pink with Dublin green in a jacket; wear it over a nut-brown dress

Wisconsin…violet

Dog collar of purple velvet on your beige dress

Wyoming…Indian paintbrush

A harlequin necklace; one side orange-red, one side green

*aforementioned boots for Arizona:

**aforementioned dress for Oklahoma:

#photoplay #film magazine #movie magazine #vintage style #vintage fashion #1940s #1941 #forties #40s #maureen o'hara #ootd #vintage inspiration

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talkwithawildekathryn · 3 months

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meet kathryn kitty wilde

auditioning with the song: karma by taylor swift

" lets go ladies we have to explain to these two again why flowers in the attic is not a love story to aspire to "

wait, is that KITTY WILDE? they kinda look a lot like RENEE RAPP, don’t they? i heard the NINE TEEN year old is known as the HBIC CHEERLEADER around mckinley. it seems like they auditioned to be in NEW DIRECTIONS which is so lame? people at campus have said they’re +HARDWORKING, but don’t be fooled since they’re also -MANIPULATIVE. rumor has it, you can find them at CHERIOS & DIGITLE MEDIA when they aren’t belting show tunes. their entire vibe revolves around SHORT FLOWY DRESSES, BIG PLATES OF WALFULS OVERFLOWING WITH SYRUP, & BEING FULED BY COFFEE but no one pays attention to that here in ohio.

LIST ABOUT 3+ HEADCANONS ABOUT YOUR CHOSEN CHARACTER!

During high school, Kitty and her parents had a large fight, mostly about her bisexuality and them catching her with one of her girl best friends making out in her room. This lead them to saying she would stay under their roof and live by their rules until the day of graduation. This lead Kitty to pick up two different after school jobs just to save up enough money to get a shitty studio apartment for after the fact. Now with college (that thankfully was paid for out of a trust her late grandmother left her as well as scholarships) she balances that with an almost full time job just to make ends meet.

Though Kitty doesn't like the fact people know this is she is a closeted musical lover. Reasons why she chose New Directions over the trouble tones, plus she would hope that she could get Rachel Berry to tone it down a notch or five.

She's a Gemini sun, Taurus Moon & Sagittarius rising, making her have two personalities but also hardworking thanks to the taurus moon and with being the Sagittarius rising she does look at the world more glass half full rather than half empty, even after the things that went down with her parents.

WANTED CONNECTIONS

—— PLATONIC CONNECTIONS. ❜

best friends.

role model.

childhood friends.

secret friends, aka friends who do not hang around in the public eye as their family or friends may not get along.

platonic soulmates.

positive influence.

—— ROMANTIC CONNECTIONS. ❜

flirtationship.

one night stand.

one sided romance.

friends with benefits.

exes on good terms.

exes on bad terms.

tinder match.

first love.

previously friendzoned.

summer romance.

experimented with their sexuality together.

—— NEGATIVE CONNECTIONS. ❜

enemies.

former (best) friends.

frenemies.

negative influence.

mutual jealousy.

competition.

—— MISCELLANEOUS. ❜

study buddies.

have mutual friends.

roommates.

have mutual friends but don’t get along.

co-workers.

participate in after school activities together.

team mates.

#wmacintro #just think of the fun things we could do { musings }

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Ohio Spring Wildflower Field Guide

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The Blaseball Zine Jam has BEGUN! Come join us in celebrating the love of Blaseball through creating things!! Open from July 23 to September 3! Check our blog for our carrd to view the itch. io page, join our discord server, and learn more!

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#wild pear tree #pear tree #trees #flowers #sky #clouds #downtown #spring #spring time #ohio #ohio is beautiful

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blazeball · 1 year

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who are these players that have fallen from the sky?... 2!

hello everyone! happy second fall ball! here's my first fall ball explainer, if you haven't seen it yet! basically, i will go team by team and explain the fallen players canon history; very little fanon will make it into this post. i will also be including star counts and last known modifications and items, even though those aspects may be changed or removed in blaseball gamma. lets get into it!

BOSTON FLOWERS

FALLEN: Zack Sanders (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Zack Sanders is a player with a lot of history! They joined the league as a pitcher for the Sunbeams in Season 1, and stayed with them the entirety of the Discipline Era. In the Season 15 Elections, they were traded to the Philly Pies in exchange for Elvis Figueroa as a result of a Sunbeams Will that had a 1% chance of happening. Whoops! Don't worry. In the Season 16 Elections, the Sunbeams used another Will to exchange pitchers again, but only after the Pies used one of their Wills to infuse Sanders' pitching ability. Pretty good! After that, there were no more shenanigans, and they stayed with the Sunbeams for the rest of the era. They have the Negative and Scattered modifications, and a Limestone Metaphorical Ambitious Socks, and 17.4 stars in total. Their overall K/BB is 10.11.

HOUSTON SPIES

FALLEN: Nanci Grackle (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Nanci Grackle is a player that has spent a majority of their time in the Shadows. They joined the league in Season 12 on the Atlantis Georgias when they descended, and didn't see active play until late in Season 20, when they were faxed out of the Shadows in exchange for Goobie Ballson. They soon after were swapped onto the lineup, and shortly after that, suffered an allergic reaction to a peanut that tanked their stars. The next season, they retreated to the Shadows, and stayed there for the rest of the Era. They have Ambitious Head Socks and 7.1 stars in total. Their overall BA is 0.202 and their overall K/BB is 1.

MEXICO CITY WILD WINGS

FALLEN: Enid Slumps (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Enid Slumps has never seen active play! With a name like that, that's a shame. Well, don't worry Enid. You will now! They have been in the Flowers' Shadows since Season 18. They have a Traitor Hot Helmet of Wisdom and 10 stars in total.

OHIO WORMS

FALLEN: Jacob Winner (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Like Zack Sanders, Jacob Winner is a very storied player that has been with the Hawai'i Fridays since Season 1. They joined as a pitcher, but early in Season 5 they were Reverb'd to the lineup in the first example of Reverb weather taking effect that we had seen! They stayed on the Fridays until Season 21, when they were Feedbacked to the Lovers in exchange for Percival Wheeler. In that season's Elections, they were swapped to the rotation. They have the Affinity for Crows, Idol Immune, Scattered, and Flippers modifications, a Charitable Jersey of Vanity, and 16.4 stars in total. Their overall BA is 0.205, and their overall K/BB is 4.72.

SEATTLE GARAGES

FALLEN: Timmy Vine (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Timmy Vine is another that has never seen active play. They've been in the New York Millennials Shadows since Season 1. There isn't much more to say about this guy! They have the Negative modification, a Cap, and 6 stars in total.

TOKYO LIFT

FALLEN: Barry Burkhard (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Barry Burkhard has been with the Dallas Steaks since Season 17, joining the league in their teams Shadows. They stayed there until Season 22, starting a trend for themself of entering and exiting the Shadows. Over the next two seasons, they did so eight times, ending Season 23 in the Shadows, and waiting until the middle of Season 24 to exit again. What a time to emerge, Barry! They have a Gravity Leg Helmet and 15 stars in total. Their overall BA is 0.208 and their overall K/BB is 0.9.

CANADA MOIST TALKERS

FALLEN: Russo Slugger (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Another player that has been in the Shadows since Season 1, but they didn't see active play until halfway through Season 24, when they joined the Jazz Hands' pitching rotation in exchange for Zippy DeShields. They saw a total of 4 games, and only won a single one of them. But hopefully they'll be better in this new era! They have 10.1 stars in total. Their overall K/BB is 0.5.

HAWAI'I FRIDAYS

FALLEN: Haruta Byrd (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Another player that hasn't seen much active play! Haruta Byrd has been in the Philly Pies' Shadows since Season 1, but only emerged from it in Season 23 as a lineup player. And they went back in there in early Season 24, right when things were getting chaotic. Good call! They have the Unstable modification, a Ring, and 11.4 stars in total. Their overall BA is 0.201.

PHILADELPHIA PIES

FALLEN: Thomas Marsh (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Thomas Marsh has... a very barebones wiki page. I'm not even sure when they emerged; they were born before the Expansion Era from what I can tell from the Before archiving tool, but I can't figure out much else. Except that they were in the Crabs' Shadows. And that they have 8.9 stars in total!

EDIT: I have been informed that Thomas Marsh is an OG Crab, joining the ILB in Season 1 in the Crabs' Shadows!

ATLANTIS GEORGIAS

FALLEN: Kit Ratoon (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: From one descension team to another! Kit Ratoon joined the league in the Ohio Worms' Shadows, and emerged from them in late Season 24. Whoof! Chaotic existence you've got there, Kit. They have a Holey Cape and 9.1 stars in total. They have a BA of 0.105.

UNLIMITED TACOS

FALLEN: Tot Best (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Like Russo Slugger, Tot Best is another player that has been with the league since Season 1 and emerged in Season 24, though they were in the Sunbeams Shadows instead of the Jazz Hands. Besties! Due to... well, Season 24 things, they only saw one game of active play, which they lost really badly. Poor guy. Hopefully this next era will be better for them! They have the Scattered modification and 9.5 stars in total. Their K/BB is 0.07.

SAN FRANCISCO LOVERS

FALLEN: Donia Dollie (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Just like Thomas Marsh, Donia Dollie also has the most barebones wiki page I've ever seen. They must have emerged before the Expansion Era. Oh well! They have 10.3 stars in total.

EDIT: I am told that Donia is a Season 1 or 2 Jazz Hands Shadow!

BALTIMORE CRABS

FALLEN: Gabriel Griffith (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Another player that has been with the league since Season 1! Gabriel Griffith has been... all over the place, honestly. They've been feedbacked and stolen and just passed around the league that, instead of providing a play-by-play, I'll just tell you the teams they've been on: Dallas Steaks, San Francisco Lovers, Hades Tigers, Hawai'i Fridays, Chicago Firefighters, and now the Baltimore Crabs. A hot commodity! They have the Negative and Scattered modifications, a Traveling Bat of Dexterity, and 25 stars in total. Their overall BA is 0.280, and their overall K/BB is 23.89.

HADES TIGERS

FALLEN: Zephyr McCloud (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Zephyr McCloud joined the ILB in Season 11, in the Dallas Steaks' Shadows. In the Season 14 Elections, the Steaks Foreshadowed them in exchange for Sam Scandal, because even then, Zephyr was a really good batter. 4.5 batting stars without any blessings or modifications! Really good luck for the Steaks. It was bad luck, though, when they were reverbed to the pitching rotation in Season 18. They weren't... a good pitcher. It was dire enough that they steaks had to Foreshadow them back to the Shadows and then Swap them to the lineup over the course of two Elections. It all worked, and they stayed put until Season 24, when they got hit by a pitch from Niq Nyong'o, becoming Observed and then Redacted. About an in-game week later, they popped out of the Secret Base at the Miami Dale's stadium, scored a run, and joined their team. I will say, there is nothing in their history section that explains how they got to have, fucking, 9.4 batting stars by the end of the Expansion Era. Gonna have to look at the Before archive for that I suppose, in my own time. This is getting long enough. They have the Attractor and Overperforming modifications, a Sharp Skate Shoes, and 24.1 stars in total. Their overall BA is 0.251, and their overall K/BB is 0.6.

EDIT: According to @.zayphora, Zephyr's extra stars are very likely due to their Attractor mod giving them "fake stars"

CORE MECHANICS

FALLEN: Chorby Short (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Chorby Short is a player that is loved by many, and also a character that has been through a LOT! I highly suggest that if you don't know anything about them, that you go through their wiki page. They are a delight. I love them. They have the Attractor, Friend of Crows, Homebody, Triple Threat, and Underperforming modifications, a Hard Shoes, and 29.4 stars in total. Their overall BA is 0.242, and their overall K/BB is 12.47.

NEW YORK MILLENNIALS

FALLEN: Jonathan Catalina (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Jonathan Catalina is a very recent player! They were a Postseason Birth for the Lovers in Season 23, and exited the Shadows during Night weather very shortly into Season 24. Eager to get out and going, even during the Turmoil of Season 24! How admirable. They have the Scattered modification and 15.5 stars in total. Their overall BA is 0.231.

CHARLESTON SHOE THIEVES

FALLEN: Oliver Loofah (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Oliver Loofah joined the ILB in Season 1, in the Seattle Garages' Shadows, and they stayed there until Season 14 when they joined the active lineup in exchange for Summers Pony as a result of a Foreshadow Will. In the following season, they were promptly Shelled by York Silk. In the season after that, they were Feedbacked to the Shoe Thieves and promptly pecked free. Isn't the sim beautiful sometimes? In the Season 20 Elections The Garages traded Terrell Bradley for them as a result of their Equivalent Exchange Will, and they stayed with the Garages for the rest of the Era! The Shoe Thieves and Garages seem to passing this player back and forth... rather funny. They have the Minimalist, Negative, and Subtractor modifications, a Head Shoes of Fourtitude +1, and 19.4 stars in total. Their overall BA is 0.242 and their overall K/BB is 0.34.

HELLMOUTH SUNBEAMS

FALLEN: London Simmons (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: London Simmons joined the ILB in the Moist Talkers' Shadows in Season 1, and despite getting a fair amount of buffs while in there, they did not see active play until Season 22, when they joined the active lineup via Voicemail. And, okay, having a bit of trouble here, because when I see the wiki, it says that they have only ever been on the Moist Talkers, but when I look at Blaseball Reference, it says that they have played a single inning in Season 22 and 23 for the Crabs. So I don't know what's going on there. If anyone does, I'd love to know! They have the Elsewhere modification, an Air Glove and Helmet, and 14.5 stars in total. Their overall BA is 0.303.

EDIT: So, apparently London played for the Crabs as a result of their (the Crabs) Carcinization mod. Its one that steals the other teams best player for the remainder of the game if they activate the Black Hole!

MIAMI DALE

FALLEN: Joe Voorhees (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Joe Voorhees was mostly around in the Discipline Era, specifically until Season 7. In short succession, they were traded from the Moist Talkers to the Shoe Thieves, had an allergic reaction to a peanut that absolutely tanked their stats, were traded to the Spies, were Feedbacked to the Sunbeams, and then they were Shadowed, until Season 16, when the Sunbeams decided to give them a chance again. The following season, they were Shelled by Jessica Telephone, and the Sunbeams Shadowed them during that seasons Elections. They have the Scattered and Shelled modifications, a Fire Eating Weird Bat, and 7 stars in total. Their overall BA is 0.208.

BRECKENRIDGE JAZZ HANDS

FALLEN: Erickson Sato (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Not much to say about Erickson Sato! They were in the Wild Wings' Shadows. That's it! That's all I know! And, of course, that they have 7.1 stars in total.

CHICAGO FIREFIGHTERS

FALLEN: Don Elliot (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Don Elliot was with the Miami Dale since Season 1, but despite that, surprisingly little has happened to them. They were Reverb'd from pitcher to batter in Season 5. They were targeted by an Umpire in Season 9, but didn't actually get incinerated. They were Foreshadowed in Season 16, briefly emerged from the Shadows due to Night weather in Season 24, and then swiftly retreated 4 days later. That's it! You know everything about Don Elliot now. Go forth, and share your knowledge with the world. But wait! They have the Scattered modification, a Bat, and 7.8 stars in total. Their overall BA is 0.206 and their overall K/BB is 6.35.

DALLAS STEAKS

FALLEN: Sandie Carver (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Sandie Carver joined the ILB in Season 1 as a player in the Breath Mints' Shadows, and only exited them in the Season 16 Elections. 15 days into Season 17, they were Feedbacked to the New York Millennials. What a bummer! They got a Literal Arm Cannon during the Season 23 Elections, an item previously only owned by the legendary Axel Trololol. They have the Negative and Triple Threat modifications, a Literal Arm Cannon, and 15.3 stars in total. Their overall K/BB is 5.48.

KANSAS CITY BREATH MINTS

FALLEN: Hatfield Suzuki (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Hatfield Suzuki joined in Season 1 in the Mills' Shadows, and was Foreshadowed out in the Season 12 Elections. They stayed on the Mills until Season 21, when they were recruited to the Hades Tigers as a result of the Double Negative blessing. They were randomly selected twice. During the ILB Semi-Centennial, they played for the Rising Stars. They have the Ego+, Negative, and Undefined modifications, a Skate Cap, and 21.7 stars in total. Their BA is 0.244.

YELLOWSTONE MAGIC

FALLEN: Axel Campbell (wiki / blaseball reference)

HISTORY: Axel Campbell joined the ILB in Season 1 in the Baltimore Crabs Shadows, and didn't emerge until Season 20. They spent the next four seasons entering and exiting the Shadows a total of 7 times, 4 of which was in Season 23. Axel Campbell is notable for having the fasted Shadow Fax in ILB history; exiting the Shadows, facing 4 players as pitcher, and entering the Shadows again, in 55 seconds. They have a Hearty Cool Rock Bat and 14.2 stars in total. Their overall BA is 0.255, and their overall K/BB is 2.7.

And that is it! As always, if I messed anything up please feel free to tell me! Much of this was written in a stupor. I'll do this again next week after the next fall, so stay tuned for that!

#blaseball #fall ball #quincy.txt #I WAS SUPPOSED TO GET THIS OUT YESTERDAY AUGHHHH. its fine. its out now #next fall cannot come soon enough

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