#taking place over the holidays

[stoshasaurus]

I am utterly ASTOUNDED by ao3’s complete and utter lack of slice-of-life genyatta. I’m FLABBERGHASTED, really.

anyway, would anyone be interested in some slice-of-life Genyattra? (I think that’s a good ship name for Genji x Zenyatta x Ramattra, right?)

#overwatch #fanfiction #writing #I talk #yea I’m writing Genyattra fanfiction #slice of life #taking place over the holidays #because we love zen in a cute lil sweater

[tunemyart]

Literally: what.

#ms word ai wants it to just say “thank”? that makes it... clearer somehow? #my work made us all install grammarly and let me tell you how often it makes my job harder #ai doesn't know shit okay #next question: do i start posting cabenson holiday fic tomorrow since it takes place over this upcoming weekend in real time dates #or wait until i have more of it together?

[son1c]

its a hallmark "city person comes to small town and learns the true meaning of christmas and love" movie to brainwashed sonic when he meets shadow. to shadow,its a psychological horror. and i think tgats what christmas is all about..(it probably takes place in like may)

the silent hill type fog that rolls in after sundown certainly doesn't help matters, either

#anonymous #it takes place whenever u want..................... (i was honestly thinking over the holidays though bc #it'd be fun for it to be Festival Time(TM) lol) #snowpoint sonic

[jankwritten]

I know it's not plausible nor does it make sense with canon, but I just WANT there to be more fics of PJO characters experiencing snow for the first time. Like maybe Jason and Percy are out on a quest and it starts snowing overnight and Jason doesn't know WHAT is going on because he can feel it in the way he can feel the rain, but it's different too, it makes him feel chillier, makes him want to lay down and stare up and up at it.

Or maybe it's Will, who lived in Texas his whole life and then at camp, never seeing snow because he's always back home in Texas by the time Chiron lets some snow in for the campers to mess around in. One day it's too dangerous to let any campers go home at their normal time, and after speaking with his mom Will decides he wants to stay with his friends in New York all year (he's probably just graduated from school so he's taking a gap year or something, and he wants to hang out with Nico and Piper and all his other friends) and Chiron announces one night near the very end of November that there is a forecast for snow the next day, and that the borders will be adjusted to let it in. Will is so excited he barely gets to sleep because he's never SEEN snow before. He wakes his cabin up early enough that they're all grumpy about it (there's only like 2 other Apollo kids there with him but still) but they all go out and throw snowballs at each other and Will isn't dressed right, his hands are so cold they hurt but he's having the TIME OF HIS LIFE.

Nico who has only ever had bad memories of the snow - he first met Percy in the snow which led to him losing Bianca, the snow nearly killed him when he was on the run all alone, so forth and so forth - wakes up to snow in Camp Half-Blood and he's instantly not in the mood. He doesn't have gloves or a hat or a scarf or anything, so he just tries to layer on his thickest shirt and sweater and trudges to the dining pavilion, ignoring all of the kids around him screaming and laughing and having fun. He's miserable about it, and is going to just spend the day in his cabin with the doors and windows locked shut. What he doesn't anticipate is Jason and Will running up to his cabin and, first, throwing snowballs at his windows like assholes, until he stomps over and yanks open the door to yell at them. Then he doesn't expect them handing him orange and purple gloves, hat, a sweater, and even socks, which apparently they had both been saving just for him. They don't let him make excuses, they just drag him out the second he's dressed. At first he's snappish and a dick about it, even though now he's not even cold with all his bundled up layers, but then as the day goes and Will stuffs a snowball DIRECTLY into Jason's face and Connor Stoll starts selling Styrofoam cups of hot chocolate, two for a drachma, and Annabeth makes snow angels with a group of the younger kids who couldn't go home this year, he, ironically, starts to melt a little bit. Will definitely doesn't expect the snowball he gets to the face, from Nico's glove.

Piper who's from the beach, from Malibu, who's seen snow, but not really the kind you can play in, just the thinnest little dusting that makes things a little prettier. She hated snow because of it, because it always felt fucking contrived, like it was just there to make the place more appealing to tourists, so when she hears that Chiron is going to let snow into CHB she just rolls her eyes and throws her hands up and wonders what's even the fucking point of it, why even bother making everything pretty here when there aren't even tourists to impress?? But then she gets up the next day and she's only got one sibling staying year round so they sort of silently agree to spend the day together, and there's fun breakfast being served at the dining pavilion and Chiron has let everybody get out of their classes for the day so they can mess around in the snow. There are already kids out ice skating on the lake even though Percy keeps telling them it's not totally safe yet. Camp, for once, is full of kids running around and screaming because they're having fun, and something clicks for her and she goes oh. Okay, maybe I do get it. She hangs out with her sibling all day, and Leo and Jason when she can catch up with them, but her favorite thing is catching those little snowflakes on the fuzzy parts of her gloves and watching them dissolve, examining each little individual structure until it disappears.

#pjo #percy jackson #i'm having a lot of thoughts and love for the snow okay dont judge me #jason grace #hoo #nico di angelo #leo valdez #annabeth chase #piper mclean #percy jackson and the olympians #pjato #camp half-blood looks SO pretty in the snow you can't tell me otherwise #the Apollo cabin doesn't get any snow on it because it's too warm so Will asks somebody to take pictures of the other cabins #so he can send them to his mom #Piper buys hot cocoa from connor even though she doesn't trust that it's not laced with something and gives the other one to Leo #who is feeling melancholy 'cause he misses his mom the most at this time of year #(she also mercilessly tries to set Leo up with her sibling because Leo keeps blushing every time he looks at them) #Nico and Will and Jason end up having to sit in the infirmary because they DID very nearly catch hypothermia #but it's okay because they're all three huddled together and they're still sort of giggling about getting to be kids again anyway #Percy and Annabeth share hot cocoa because of course they do and Percy invites Annabeth to come over to his place for the holidays #because 'if you think it's pretty here just wait until you see ma's backyard i'm so serious' #definitely not because he wants to run around with Annabeth and Estelle and his mom and Paul and Mrs. O'Leary and be a family for once #guys i'm so fucking unwell about this it's not even funny

[shummthechumm]

even though it's not true, i love the mlp timeline theory and it's variations. the idea of every generation being connected is pretty fun to think about!

my personal timeline is g1 > g3 > g2 > g4 > g1.5(?)/mlp tales > g5 . you can even fit gen 0 (my pretty pony) inbetween g2 and g4, maybe even around the g1 point if you really wanted.

g1 is first because humans, g3 is next because while no humans show up there are still holidays like christmas and valentines day, g2 because many important figures in g4's universe are named after ponies from this gen, then g4.

mlp tales is interesting because you have an semi-isolated town of earth ponies who are shocked to see pegasi/unicorns/alicorns--as if they didn't know they existed. if we go by what g5 has shown up so far, this could very well be a generation of ponies who were born waaay after the events of fim. ponies with wings and horns are myths to them.

they have "modern" technology (mostly 80s-90s tech due to the time period this show was created), and the only other mlp media containing anything like that besides equestria girls IS a new generation. this could very well take place 30-ish years before the events of g5. there was also an episode about "settler ponies" founding their town so take from that what you will.

after that its just g5 hehe. we're still learning about the events transpiring in between ANG and FiM so who knows!

fun fact i actually have characters inspired by the "pretty pony" gen that predate the birth of equestria, and who have strange variations of magic that dies out by the time g4 comes around. its a way to explore pre-equestria mlp while also repurposing ponies i like from pre g4 media hehe

#mlp tales is a very interesting piece of mlp history tbh #im very fond of the idea of it taking place just before ANG #mlp #shummy screaming into the void #g3 is kind of wonky timeline wise but the human holidays thing is what inclines me to place it right after g1 #while there are holidays like it in g4 we could chalk that up to tradition shifting over time -- esp since we get a canon history lesson on #hearths warming #and stuff

[princeanxious]

The world really decided to give me a special on 'all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth' and I'm salty abt it xD

Merr Christmas and Happ Holidays yall💕

#luka rambles #why has my sleep schedule been shit? because tooth pain! #i got to see a dentist just before they closed and guess what! no cavities! none! so-why pain?? #i got lotsa work done on them a little over a year 1/2 ago and apparently ive been really good abt keeping them in good shape!! #so again-why pain?well apparently when u have fillings too close to the root they get traumatized overtime and that can lead to infection! #& ive got the lovely combo of weak teeth and long curved strong roots. aka will likely be prone to extractions that will always be complex #so guess who gets root canals on one front tooth and the one to the left of it despite no cavities just after christmas? #and also they fucked up the perscriptions so that i thankfully have antibiotics but unfortunately no pain meds #so. guess who got like 2 hours of sleep before being woken up this morning to Pain. that took 2 hours to back calm down so i could sleep. #and then only got another two hours of sleep bc yknow it fckn chrismers and we had to wake up to get on the road!! #i have had a collective 8 hours of sleep in about 2 days and i get to go right back to work and will not have a day off till thursday #i am. Very Tired. is it any wonder i got an infection my body couldnt handle in the first place? w/ holiday stress to boot #i asked for a galaxy comforter for chrismas and i rly hope i get one bc i will be so ready to take the biggest nap

[rexscanonwife]

This is me rn

#jane journals #vent #FUCK the dmv everywhere #i tried to go yesterday and came ALL the way out here just to find it closes for columbus day #WHICH ISNT EVEN A REAL HOLIDAY WTF #and the buses around here are KINDA SHIT so i just took the HOUR AND A HALF walk home #i come back today and its PACKED #i wait WELL over 45 minutes to be called and now i cant take the test for ANOTHER 45 #IM FUCKING PISSED I HATE THIS #ughhh and if i dont pass i dont know what ill do ill blow this whole fucking place up #im not havi g a good time dont mind me #if anyone has anything niceys to say to me id appreciate it tho...

[punk-in-metal-detector]

Y'all I was so looking forward to getting new ear piercings after a year of wanting to get them but not being able to because I was in such environments where I would risk infection and now I finally wouldn't be risking that and I even started to sleep on the other side than I want to get pierced and all that, I have even chosen some piercing studios and I literally wanted to try to get an appointment this week if possible and if not just asap but I just realized I can't get them because I need to wear my headphones for prolonged time periods every day I am so heartbroken T-T

#tbh still tempted to get at least a second earlobe piercing #because my headphones don't really touch it or at least I can wear them in a way where they don't touch it #and if I clean the headphones and the piercing regularly it should be fine right T-T #like the last thing I want to deal with during first semester is an infected piercing but also I have already waited for so long #idk should I get it after the semster ends and before exams begin? I probably won't need to wear headphones as much then and won't wear ski #helmet either because it will be too early for ski slopes to open #and hopefully it would heal over Christmas holidays before exams #god I don't know #(also when I say environments where I would risk infection I mean liek a very dusty place or wearing a helmet #not like climbing through the sewers or not being able to take a shower just so you know)

[finnth3fish]

the black “i had all and then most of you, some a now none of you” brothers

#having all of eachother as little kids #having most of eachother when sirius goes to hogwarts but he still tries to write reg #then he stops writing #reg sees james start to take his place #but they still have some of eachother over holidays #reg goes into slytherin and realizes that he has to be the perfect heir #because sirius cannot #and this causes him to be withdrawn from sirius and resent him #they still share a family and a last name #until they don’t #until sirius gets burned off the tapestry #and reg has to take his place #that’s when reg rlly starts to hate sirius #that is until #he’s at the bottom of the lake #claws at his neck #and without thinking about it #the name he screams into the abyss of the lake #is sirius’s. #regulus black #sirus black #brothers #black brothers #sad thoughts

[savage-rhi]

💙

#the death of a loved one has had me isolating like a mad lad #ive been grumpy and i have little tolerance for bullshit #so I haven't said much to people #its not you its totally me #I love and appreciate you #I'm rebooting my brain the best I can #after being sick for 4 weeks and dealing with Life (tm) #when I say little tolerance for bullshit I mean its been hard dealing with daily crap #such as anons telling me to go kill myself over fanfic I wrote #and people poking fun at my expense #normally I can roll with the punches and most crap like this doesn't get me down #and I'm in a place of vulnerability at the moment so everything is heightened #writing has been the last thing on my mind as of late #and I'm trying to naturally come back into it #when I'm not so scrambled and emotionally drained #I love you and thank you for coming to my ted talk debrief #please take care of yourself over the holidays

[mothmvn]

im chronically anemic and in the last few months have had recurring insomnia while still waking up, without any alarms, at 8 in the morning. what i wouldn't give for a 3 day ride in a sleeper train to feel well-rested again

#typed as the sleepy tries to take me over in a car ride from temporary shitty small town back to big city for holidays #best sleep ever in a sleeper train i s2g.... activates the baby instincts..... sleeper train with no destination pls...... #they barely exist on this continent :-( take me home longhaul railways to the place i belong #personal

[mieczyhale]

steve and bucky would celebrate christmas and hanukkah both once they’re finally together and safe again

they love and respect each other, for one thing, and for another.. well, they kind of used to celebrate together as kids - in their own way.

back when they were kids, it wasn’t just steve and sarah spending christmas together. i mean it was, until steve met bucky - bucky with his two parents and his siblings, who quickly inserts himself into steve’s life as if he’d always been there and that includes dropping in for holidays - even if he himself doesn’t celebrate.

a freezing cold evening, steve and sarah bundled up together on the couch (steve significantly the most bundled of course) and they have a tiny tree sitting in the corner - a reject tree, really, that someone had thrown out because of its size and its broken branches (steve’s never identified with a tree before).  bucky and steve had come across it one afternoon on their way home from school. bucky had carried it back to the apartment and stuck it in a flower pot (the plant inside was dead anyway) to keep it standing. 

he had kept an eye out for broken or tossed aside things, pretty things, that he could add to the rogers christmas tree. steve says he doesnt have to of course, the first time he brings in a pocketful of slightly crumpled paper stars, but bucky simply replies “i know” and starts placing them randomly on the little tree. he knows he doesn’t have to, but he wants to. because steve deserves nice things, because steve and his mom both deserve nice things, and bucky is just a kid himself - there isn’t much he can offer, he thinks - but he can do this. 

so steve and sarah have this little tree, decorated with little odds and ends bucky had found over the last two weeks, and for all the sarah works she can’t afford to get her son much - not after buying all the things he needs. she feels a bit bad she could only get him one small gift, but it’s a feeling that passes quickly with how steve’s little face lights up and he thanks her so happily for the stuffed rabbit he clutches close, tells her he loves it, tells her he loves her. she thanks god for giving her the sweetest little boy, and for letting her keep him another year.

there’s a knock on the front door before it opens a little, just enough that bucky pops his head in and asks if he can come in. normally he’d wait after knocking, he did have manners, but it’s so incredibly cold out and he doesn’t want to make the family inside move if they’ve gotten comfortable. steve is even more at risk on nights like this, any warmth he can get even more essential, so just this once he opens the door before getting an answer (he does wait for permission before actually coming in though. he’s not rude)

sarah questions why he’s there, though assures him that it’s not that she minds - bucky is steve’s best friend, and while a little mischievous at times he quickly wormed his way into her heart too - but she worries for the weather (he’s all layered up), if his mother knows where he is (she does). 

bucky holds out two items, almost shy, apologizes that they arent wrapped, he hoped that wasn’t too important to the holiday.

the first thing sarah does, unable to stop herself from smiling, is assure him that wrapping presents is never necessary. the important part is the thought, and the love behind the gift, she says as she takes the gifts from him. one obviously for her, and the other for steve who makes grabby hands until she passes it over with a laugh. bucky stands there, hands folded, bouncing a little on his feet.

he didn’t really have money, so buying anything was out of the question, but he’d gone to his mother for ideas and she’d been a big help. steve and bucky’s moms got along like a house on fire when they ended up in the same room, chatting and laughing like they too had been friends forever. so bucky’s mom goes to her little jewelry box and after a moment pulls out a simple, but pretty, necklace. sarah had complimented her on it before and while she did love it, she thought perhaps sarah would love it more.  inspired by his mom, and finding himself loving the idea of giving steve something of his, bucky picked out his warmest sweater to give the other boy. 

and it was still okay with him. this moment hadn’t changed that somehow, but it did make him feel like he was a part of something else now - something new. to him. something important. not the holiday, not the religion behind it, but these people. this little family. who had welcomed him in and accepted him the first time they met him, who didn’t have a mean bone anywhere between them, who talked about love and their religion because it was a part of them but asked him questions about his own so genuinely, who listened to him no matter what he was saying. 

he watched now as they both took in their gifts with bright smiles, and perhaps teary eyes, and felt warm in a way he hadn’t since leaving his own house. 

his family didn’t celebrate christmas, and that had always been okay with him. they had their own holidays and he loved them. 

sarah who remembered what foods he couldn’t eat and offered him hugs when he was sad, steve who couldn’t get out of bed some days but whose laugh was like sunshine and who wanted to hold his hand while bucky read to him

bucky watched sarah clasp the necklace around her neck carefully, watched steve pull the fluffy sweater over his head - his hair sticking up all over the place afterwards, and the warm feeling stayed. as sarah invited him to stay a bit, to take her spot on the couch and she’d make them all hot cocoa, as he helped steve fix the blankets back over them both, as steve curled up next to him and thanked him - voice soft but eyes intense - and as bucky lightly bonked their heads together like cats, full of some kind of emotion he didn’t know what to do with. but it was good. the warmth grew, and it was good, and bucky hoped he’d helped his best friend have the best christmas he could.

#sdlsdfsdfj this is so fucking all over the place #and i got off track a lot i think #but i had a single Thought and was like 'oh that's cute' and then started typing and then word vomit happened and- #y eah #i didn't write about hanukkah at all because i don't know enough about it tbh and i don't wanna look like even more of an ass #but i DO FIRMLY BELIEVE that they'd celebrate both holidays together #they are a happy interfaith couple thank u very much and nobody is taking that away from me or them #mymcuposts #maison speaks #stucky

[dgitalgrl]

i brought in the feral cat we’ve been taking care of :3

#well it’s semi-feral now he only likes my family #temperatures are dropping so i want to make sure he has a warm place to sleep over the holidays #and if possible i’ll take him to the vet to get him checked out

[plushie-lovey]

My datemate's birthday is coming up, and he's hoping for it he can get all of his stuff from his parent's place (and in turn a visit from his mom, since she hasn't seen him in what will be a full year and four days on his bday). Out of everything he's excited to have his favorite stuffed animal to cuddle with again, a 3ft tall emperor penguin who's called Penguin (recently named Cuddles. But we still just refer to him as Penguin). I bought Penguin for him in a goodwill for like $4 about 2 years ago, and it's been my love's favorite thing ever since. He says Penguin is the perfect firmness for cuddling, as he likes a stiff stuffed animal. He really misses holding him. So I hope his mom comes thru and brings all his stuff. But at the very least, Penguin.

#my mom and I picked my datemate up last year on valentines day and ge hasn't been back to his family's place since #it was my mom's idea. my datemate used to stay over for like a full month each visit #n only stat away for 2 weeks. 3 tops. because we'd miss each other a lot #so around Halloween sge said to him ''why don't you just move in at this point'' #so once he left after the holiday season (he stayed from mid November to mid January that visit) he packed all his stuff #n then we went to get him February 14th #but our car was small so we couldn't get most of his stuff here. so his fam agreed to keep it til we get a storage unit #which we now have #the reason my datemate didn't bring penguin originally is because he thought he'd get a chance to in a couple months #but a year has gone by with no opportunity for him to go home to get his things. between everyone working n stuff #but now that he's taking a vacation for his birthday there's an opportunity present #viti shoosh

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

...i wonder if the fact that i'm drawing a blank on books i want for christmas is an indicator of ~Depression~ lmao

#text #personal #books #reading #depression #listen usually i have them all over the place right #lists and lists and lists #and at holidays i just. compile the lists. #but. i dont uh. have any lists really. not this year #i....i cant really think of anything else i want either tbh #this. this is probably not gr8 lol #(gift giving is my Love Language okay this is. not normal. for me.) #maybe ill take advantage of it and Not bloom my tbr #but....i love opening books........

[bigfishthemusical]

also be aware I am jumping right into voyager now that I’ve finished ds9 👍

#was planning on taking a mini break to watch some other things but then I remembered that this is the one that voyager is the one my parents #used to watch religiously and well I need something normal and fun to talk to them about over the holidays when I’m at their place. #also I’m gonna try to get around to tos at the same time as well. 👍