#retreat au

[auideas]

i'm trying to write a modern setting au, but am having trouble thinking of things they can do for scene ideas. my own life is pretty monotonous - work, grocery shopping, occasionally a club or bar. do you have any ideas for interesting things friends can do in a basic, normal modern setting? or at least, things that may help me come up with ideas? thanks for all of your hard work <3

Love this! It can be hard to think of things to do with friends normally, let alone what to have your characters do when anything is possible. We'd recommend looking online for things to do with friends -- weirdly enough, some of the best things we've been able to find were in short clips on TikTok that detail possible events and experiences. Here are some of our favorites we've been able to find:

Go to a bookshop with a group, pair up, then each person selects three books: the first is one that the person would like the other to read because they love it and they feel like it embodies their personality and reading tastes, the second encapsulates the taste of their partner that they think they'll absolutely love, and the third book is the same so the partners can buddy read

Create a blended Spotify playlist with the group, press shuffle, then try to guess whose song it is; if you get it wrong, < insert penalty here >

Have a rainbow picnic in the park where each person brings an item of each color in the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, etc.)

Have a fake family dinner wherein everyone is given a character (ones you'd normally find at a family dinner like a nerdy uncle, a rebellious teen, etc.) a month in advance -- they then have to arrive dressed and completely immersed in their randomly assigned character; their backstories can be prepared by a single person in advance or it can be left up to each individual to develop on their own. What's important to remember is to print out a family tree and post it on the wall so everyone can remember one another's relations -- it would be weird if you forgot your own grandfather, right?

Go on an annual retreat wherein your group focuses on solely celebrating one another through activities, like talking, cooking, singing, dancing, etc. -- it's a practice of grounding and presence, but it can also be a great exercise to see how your characters would choose to interact in a setting that purposely doesn't have a structure aside from, well, avoiding a structure

Host a presentation night wherein each member of the group has to present where they think the group should go on their annual vacation (extra points for locations that seem impossible yet are actually possible, like walking to Mount Doom or standing in the field on the Windows Desktop image)

Invite everyone over for a pasta dinner party in which everyone needs to bring a different sauce (the host makes all the pasta) -- the best one wins overall and the worst one has to be the host next time

Have a movie night, but make it immersive! Have the group go to one friend's place -- there, a selection of movies on streaming services should be available, a concession stand should have candy and popcorn, and the host can even have a flashlight during the movie to shine in people's faces if they get too rowdy

If you'd like more, send us a message; now, get to writing!

-- Admin M x

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[tangledinink]

Donnie is okay!!!!!! He’s safe!!! Now they just need to bring him home and help him recover from whatever magical residue stuff lingers. Please say he’s gonna remember everything when he wakes up!

(P.S. where is Odette? And Odile? Surely they don’t just disappear?)

odile was made to hunt odette, and no other reason. the magick that created her dictated that so long as odette still lived, so must she.

now, it's time for both of them to rest.

credit to @dryad-druid for inspiration for odile's black swan/ballerina form.

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(the next 20+ pages are already up on patreon!)

#swanatello #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #tmnt #tmnt 2018 #tmnt 2k18 #rottmnt au #rottmnt comic #rottmnt fanart #rottmnt oc #swan lake #comics #fidgetwing #donniesona #i know a lot of you were expecting odile to reappear with a bang #but shes exiting with a whisper #i think she and odette deserve a graceful retreat #their mom is waiting for them

[2hoothoots]

impromptu dungeon meshi posting because i think the new orc lady is really cute

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #leed dungeon meshi #semi-regular exercise of dipping my toe into other fandoms before retreating back into au brainrot hell

[majickth]

So dark, no moon, no stars, no stars No sound, just hearts and walls of art

in which Grian goes to a small town and finds that things aren't as the seem.

#i love small mysterious mountain towns #anyways au where grian is a failed journalist who gets invited by pearl to stay in her small town as a retreat #only to end up working for a shady tourist trap owner who may or may not be also in cahoots with some shady corporation #and befriends someone who is definitely not a vampire and is just conincidentally tall pale and always drinking red juice #and maybe accidentally summon a demon (but its okay hes chill) #hermitcraft #hermitblr #hermitcraft fanart #mcyt #mcytblr #mcyt fanart #grian #grian fanart #hermitcraft au #majickthart #hermits hollow au

[impcarcass]

Detective Sun

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Ugh it took me a million years to even start on these refs but!! Here’s Sun!!

My basic and vague description for this au is: you, y/n, are a shadow demon who sets out to find a more effective way to disperse your Dream Eaters. Dream Eaters are a species of imp you created that take bad thoughts and dreams, eat them, and supply whomever they protect with new ones. But in order to do this, you need a vessel.

You find one. A human. But he had just got hired at a detective’s office. Chaos ensues. (More info will come as I post more about it uwa) ALSO FEEL FREE TO ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS AU!! MY ASKBOX IS OPEN!!

Closeups vvv

#fnaf #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf security breach #sundrop #fnaf sun #demons n detectives au #fnaf au #fnaf dca au #dca au #dca art #Imp draws #fnaf security breach au #daycare attendant #detective!sun #dca fandom #dca fanart #time to retreat into my cave for the next century #enjoy

[ripplerain]

you pissed her off

#spider-letty au #scarlet koito #pokespe scarlet #dexholder scarlet #trainer scarlet #spidops scarlet #ai turo #ai turo has no choice but to retreat #scarlet then deals with the aftermath of the fight #her injuries and red power taking toll on her body #she passes out somewhere in an alley #this is where we enter nemona taking care of scarlet #pokespe #pokemon special #pokemon adventures #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon sv #pokemon

[worldsewage]

whats the homerun lore behind king salmonids?

The salmonid life cycle suggests that to reach heaven, beyond the bipedal form, is to return to the swimming form (the one they had as fry ) called “Runners”, they undergo this change by traveling long distances in saltwater, these forms allow them to cross the ocean to have children. Their energy is used up completely in the transformation, and they die shortly after having children.

Their religion states that salmonids will be reincarnated and reincarnated over and over until they die as a Running Salmonids, dying in a Homerun as a runner allows you to reach “ heaven.”

King Salmonids are runners who underwent the transformation, yet did not die.

#the text translates: A CYCLE DISTURBED DOES NOT END. IT STOPS MOVING #my art #homerun au #asks #salmonids #I think most king salmonids don’t die during the battles. they retreat. they’re too hardy… you fight the same single king salmon #girls night

[satsuha]

ageswap au made by @tenretsuzan on twitter! there's a brief explanation beneath the readmore

your name is hikari ku, age 30. you were banished from your home nation of ku at a young age and led a failed rebellion against your treacherous brother, laid low by a harsh betrayal.

"even if it means harnessing this darkness... i will see my country freed from war."

marred by scars left by your once erstwhile friends and plagued by a darkness that grows uncontrollable, you grasp onto the small hope that you may one day reclaim your nation once more...

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your name is temenos mistral, age 21. you led a peaceful life in flamechurch until one day your brother disappears after leaving you with an ominous message about the church.

"roi... what could have led someone like you down a path like this?"

despite your father's protests, you follow after his footsteps in hopes of uncovering his whereabouts, as well as the church's secrets that forced his departure...

#satsuhart #temehika #octo2 #their goals are still the same it's just at different times #if you think about it hikari's rebellion would realistically take at least a few years lol #but this is after he tries to fight mugen but ends up being betrayed by both ritsu and rai mei and has to retreat to find another way #being alone and significantly less hopeful about his situation he starts leaning into his shadow more and more #temenos' is just a matter of... what if he went after roi immediately instead of choosing to stay #tldr its the 'im gonna fuck that old man' temehika au (30 isnt old but 21y/o teme thinks it is) #yeah teme looks the same but whatever. the light has not left his eyes #also fun(?) fact the english ingame descriptions of each char removed the ages #i can get why because saying 'you are x and you are a 21 year old warrior' sounds a little awkward in eng #but its also like. why i wonder if this is the reason people are way more weird about some of the ages #bc they werent told anytime within the game #meanwhile any jp player immediately going 30 YEARS OLD? 20? 18??? yeah u know who im talking about

[maskyartist]

i KNOW i said i'd draw putt putt branch but i cant control the vibe and the vibe rn is feral clay

he vaguely remembers floyd. vaguely. he knows floyd was...there. at some point when his mind was whole. but he cant see where he'd be. a lot of his past memories were pushed away to make room for survival instinct, so his memories mostly consist of good ones with (Sp)Bruce and the night he left, the argument with JD mostly

floyd's kinda be pushed to the back of his mind, so its like meeting someone new. Clay smells death on him. Decay. But he stands and talks like a living creature.

Floyd confuses Clay. He calls him Pink. He'll remember his name eventually.

#masky says #trolls dreamworks #feral putt putts au #putt putt trolls #trolls clay #trolls floyd #finally doodled floyd! :D idk i like his gay lil vibe #hes so twinkish its ridiculous #i wanna put him under a microscope #clay's very curious about floyd he lingers around him a lot #his reactions and existence confuses him...he smells like death but hes living. baffles his mind #meanwhile floyd's trying to handle this being his big brother now. the same big brother who read to him every night #who taught him math and basic science. the things he needed to know. who taught him fun facts. #is now an animal and knows less then he does. its like a nightmare. its terrifying to see someone you love reduced to nothing #hes pushy on clay's recovery i think. he wants him to get better. makes him push himself too far #but he just wants normalcy again. he wants clay back to himself so he can feel normal #he wants to meet his REAL big brother not this monster who has his face #meanwhile clay's just watching. learning. trying to figure him out. put faces to memories #its hard when his instinct for when things get too hard is to retreat into viva #bury his face in her shoulder hide in her pelt he just shields himself from the world with viva #and she lets him she protects him always and forever they're each others half to a whole #did yall know im obsessed with my own au? :D

[nightyelean]

So umm

EDIT, UM I FORGOT THEIR HAT WHOOP. I KNEW SOMETHING WAS MISSING

So. Let me ramble my thoughts.

In this au (Y/N) is just a silly human, in this space ship working. In the first ship they start their job in, they meet Sun and Moon!! :0 Silly animatronics, right? All of them enjoy each others company.

Weirdly, everyone in the spaceship dies and they have to be transferred to another ship😞 How lucky though! The celestial duo seemed to be transferred into the same ship too!!

And well, the same happens in that one too and they end up getting transferred again. And then the next one. And the next one again. Weird. At least they’re still alive and they still have their two friends 🤷

Sun and Moon are not actually animatronics. They’re some, i dunno, aliens. Creatures. Things. Their screen face is a mask and under it… ehh yeah. They bitey.

#this is all for now #my art #fnaf sb #fnaf security breach #fnaf sundrop #fnaf moon x reader #fnaf sun x reader #fnaf moondrop #fanfic #fnaf reader #among us au #IM SORRY #i think #i dunno #bahejdjend #sun also has some another set of rays #you can see them retreating back in the first one #moon also has some ray-like stuff but theyre so tiny #and well #he likes his hat more #silly #and yes i gave them tails #bcuz #because i say so

[r0semultiverse]

Imagine if having devil fruit powers in One Piece got you the label of “fruity.” They needed a name/label to call people who have devil fruit powers so they just start saying you’re fruity. If you’re strong as fuck with your devil fruit powers? That’s fruity as Hell!

#imagine an AU where Oda called it that in one piece & it aged so funny #like bro I don’t think you should say that but this is hilarious keep going #this is a silly post btw don’t go getting all serious on me like how dare you say that #I’m gay & trans calm yourself down xD #just imagine how funny that would be though #Nami warning an enemy that Luffy is very fruity #HES WHAT?? guys I think we should retreat they’ve got a fruity power user 😂 #chopper brook hell even Robin is fruity! half our crew are fruity! #Bon Clay just looks at the camera with a knowing smile in the anime #if someone draws this concept I’m going to lose my mind omg please #one piece #mine #op

[tangledinink]

hi! i desperately need to see swannie & splinter. give that boy his dad!

It took Splinter longer than he'd care to admit to gather up enough courage to go visit Swanatello at the lake. The idea of his child not only failing to recognize him but also rejecting him and driving him away was absolutely terrifying to him. But after a couple weeks, he found that he wanted to see Donnie much more than he was afraid.

Donnie doesn't remember him all the time. But he did on that first visit. Splinter is the only one that Donnie always recognizes right away. He either recognizes him or he doesn't-- there's never any hesitation or cloudiness when it's his dad. When he is able to recognize him, he recognizes him beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Donnie was so hideously overexcited that first visit that Splinter had to sit with him for a while just to settle him back down. Donnie didn't realize, on this particular day, that anything was wrong with his situation-- but he did know who his Dad was, and could recognize that it felt like he hadn't seen him in a while.

(Barry, on the other hand, Donnie has never once recognized nor met with anything less than complete and utter hostility on any of his visits.)

Also--

It hasn't really come up. Part of this is because when Splinter visits, he'll often sing so that Donnie has music to dance to. Donnie doesn't want to tell him that he already hears music for fear that he'll stop-- so he never mentions it.

#this is the first time after swannie came to visit the lair in the temporary retreat comic that splinter has seen him #after this he visits swannie regularly #also! swannie is 17 when he becomes the lake guardian #swanatello #rottmnt #rottmnt donatello #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt splinter #rottmnt au #donniesona #risesona #rise donnie #rise donatello #rise splinter #tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rise of the tmnt #tmnt 2018 #rottmnt fanart #fidgetwing #rottmnt comic

[cuteidiot]

last episode of beau was 2day......

hangs up do not disturb sign & lowers myself in2 sensory deprivation tank

#miss u already beau #u r so special #the other version of this wldve been me retreating back in2 a cave on all 4s #miraculous ladybug #bakery enemies au #beau

[good-beanswrites]

Just wanted to plant an idea if you wanted a bit of fuel: Mahiru asking Yuno to come to her cell before everything goes down.

Edit: I forgot the ask didn't say it but this is part of Kyanako's incredible Order Of Attack AU!

Didn't mean for this to become a mini Mappi study but here we are ✨ Thank you for the request! I fully intended to write them hanging out, but it's more right before they hang out lol. Went a bit on-the-nose with foreshadowing, but isn't that the fun part? It has become Emotional Over Mahiru Hour...

I kept things vague, but TW for mentioning her boyfriend's state of potential self-harm

Mahiru tried not to act superstitious, she really did. As much as she loved the idea of little luck charms, or avoided easy signs of misfortune, it was easier to keep quiet about such ridiculous things.

Maybe catching a bride’s bouquet meant no guarantees; maybe there was no real harm in stepping underneath ladders, maybe a coin tossed into a fountain had no real magic to its wish. However, the one thing she knew for sure held power was a lucky presence. Being in the right place at the right time could alter everything. And today was the right time for something. There was this waiting in the air. The prison had been holding its breath. Mahiru knew it was time to release it all.

“You must be so lonely, why don’t you let big sis Mahiru keep you company?” She beamed at Amane.

She often recalled the good fortune that she and a certain young man had crossed paths on the university terrace. She used to laugh with him about the wonderful coincidence of bumping into each other outside of the bakery, then the convenience store. 

Though she’d never spoken about it to him, she was also grateful for many occasions where she walked in on him at the precise moment to talk him out of something reckless. She always told him that they’d do everything together. He didn’t need to be alone anymore. 

“I wish to be alone. I need peace of mind to think.” Amane turned away from the cell door.

It was a good thing, too. Mahiru’s smile wasn’t as convincing as she said, “o-oh. Of course.”

She made her way around the panopticon, hearing Fuuta pace his cell in anticipation. He must have felt it too, this holding of breath. 

Or perhaps not. He turned down her offer for a bit of company, including a few more colorful words than Amane had. Mahiru just apologized for bothering him and headed back to her cell. She wasn’t sure where Mikoto was at this hour, but she didn’t feel like smiling through a third rejection.

She shook her head back and forth. She wished the motion could rattle the voices inside, she wished she could shake them all away. With her arms secured in place she could no longer cover her ears. She used to hum to keep them at bay, but lately they’d been too loud to stifle. They just kept on talking.

Their words told her the two were right. Nobody needed her company. No – nobody wanted it. Being together hadn’t helped her boyfriend. In fact, being together had been the very thing that got him killed. No wonder Amane and Fuuta wanted to avoid her. 

So then, this was for the best. She would rather deal with the brief sting of refusal than stumble in one day to find them hurt… or worse. As much as she tried to avoid the superstition of it all, the voices reminded her that her very presence could mean life or death. 

“Mappi, are you alright?” Mahiru hadn’t realized a tear had slipped down her cheek until she hurried to swipe it away in front of Yuno. 

“Hah, I’m fine! Just fine.” It was impossible to fool her, Mahiru had learned, but that never stopped her from trying. 

At least she always spoke tactfully. “Rough morning?”

Mahiru shifted her arms in her uniform, making a small sound of agreement.

“Can I do anything to help? What if I stay with you for a bit? I can do your hair, and…”

The voices were right. Amane and Fuuta knew it, too. Presences did hold power, and Mahiru’s was cursed.

But she would sound foolish admitting such a fear to Yuno. She'd heard plenty from the voices about how stupid and airheaded she was, there was no use in getting the same lecture from someone as grounded as her.

Mahiru managed a weak protest, unable to explain her real reasoning. Yuno was insistent. She didn’t give much of a choice. Could she feel the strangeness of the prison, as well? 

At last, Mahiru allowed her shoulders to sag. Yuno was lucky. And kind. Having her nearby would do her good. Amane and Fuuta would be alright. Mahiru had tried spending more time with them after verdicts were announced. Now, she made a mental note to pull back. If her love couldn’t save anyone, at least she could spare them from her curse. They would be safe. 

“Yes. Please stay. The truth is... I don't want to be alone.”

#milgram #mahiru shiina #yuno kashiki #amane and fuuta mentioned #i dont know how well this all fits in with your vision of the au but i had a ton of fun with this lmao sorry 😂 #oh hey if anyone knows any japanese superstitions like those in the beginning lmk #i was trying to research them but i kept getting lucky symbols/words - not necessarily actions like that #anyway thank you so much for this!! it was a really interesting moment to capture >:0 #drabbles that take me way too long to combine my three brain cells but im really pleased with the end result #i had a lot of Mahiru Thoughts but it took a bit of fiddling to make them fit together #the superstitiousness - the focus on one's presence - the parallels with his bf - what she's dealing with from the voices #im glad it came together semi-smoothly in the end asdfsd #i didnt mean for mahiru t break the fourth wall or anything -- #i always saw her as a master at picking up on social changes/cues so she can tell when things are most tense/kotoko is fully prepared #but she doesnt consciously know it -- she just knows that things feel Off #not only do the attacks confirm mahirus fear that shes cursed - but yunos involvement confirms her belief that shes extra lucky #i wonder if shed still end up spending all her time with yuno now that she thought she was such a protective person... #i couldnt articulate it right since the end was wrapping up so nicely - but mahiru starts to wonder if most people are fine being left alon #and *shes* the odd one out for craving company #then she feels isolated because by getting what she wants shes dooming someone else #i mean... if everyone you try to get close to starts getting hurt... wouldnt you worry about the same...? #AHAHAHAHA hope you enjoyed 🙃 #*posts this then retreats back into the void for a bit* #drabbles

[cerealmonster15]

cayjay on the brain

#twisted wonderland #twst #cater Diamond #Jade leech #cayjay #idk what their actual ship name is. I think it’s jeikei or something but whatever !!! #this one goes out to the doodle of them I posted last night and then accidentally marked as mature lol HAUNTED #something to confuse me 12 hours later …. #cereal tries to draw #retreating into my rarepair cave #it’s me and like 2 other people on a good day 🤝 #I don’t remember the actual height difference #just that cater is the same height as azul and that Jade is Huge #anyway ya inspired by the doodle I found in my sketchbook but then I just kept doodling them #there was specific context to that doodle but I’d have to talk about more AUs and I get embarrased TEEHEE #no aus here tho just. interactions #maybe some first year encounters #Jade: cater Diamond… second year of heartslabyul… hailing from the shaftlands… friend of riddle and trey… #cater: omg it’s that guy that hovers around riddle- or wait is that his brother idk #but caycay is also a people person #so I think after a few meetings he’d probs remmeber Jade and Floyd p fast #especially bc they’re BOTHERING RIDDLE lol #anyway. my lunch break agenda is to show you my silly sandbox of blorbo scenarios #I think skateboarding would stress Jade out #not as much as flying but I think he would be bad at it LOL #all unbalanced and tall lololol heeheheheheee #ok. bye. 🚶

[kaeviche]

Nobody look at me I am embarrassed 

Y’all can blame @hijacksecrets​ for putting this into my brain it wouldn’t LEAVE ME BE

#hijack #httyd #rotg #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #jack frost #Vampire au #tw: blood #the SHAME I felt drawing this #fun fact this is the first kiss I've ever drawn <3 #anyway I'm gonna go retreat into my corner now #myart