#theres also some other stuff i couldn't find a way to add

[s-aprua]

//kaveh character story spoilers

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tldr: kaveh has so much angst and I love him for that. babygirl is suffering (I am suffering with him) (also some sucrose parallels bc I'm sucrose's no.1 fan and also some flavors of haikaveh angst)

Foreword

this is honestly just the word dump I threw together bc I couldn't sleep, thinking about angsty kaveh art and how he may now be my second fav character

what's not to love about a man so filled with angst, so riddled with guilt and unable to escape the ghosts of his past? who believes everyone can reach the same heights if they work together, but unable to let others see his own weaknesses? who hates loneliness, but would suffer through it for the happiness of others? wishing to attain the pinnacle of his craft, even if he has to give up everything to see it through? a man who wishes to love everyone around him, but is unable to accept any for himself?

Idealism

ok this is the sucrose part and it is kinda a stretch but I like both of them very much and my target audience is always me, I do what I want

kaveh designs with practicality and artistry in mind, unwilling to give either up, to the point that when he finally gets to create something that he can go all out on both fronts on, he is willing to give up his home to see it through (even then he still owes dori for helping him find the project). when he works with others, he tries to help others keep up because there shouldn't be a gap between "geniuses" and those who aren't, even of it means more work for himself. sucrose is so intent on bioalchemy because of a childhood promise to reach a mythical domain from a fairytale with her ex-friends, both of which have moved on (one literally never returns to mondstadt, one breaking off their friendship after a domestic tragedy). regardless, she still works to achieve the paradise they wished to see as the only way she can make good on that promise. even now she hopes beyond hope that if she can create the wonderland from that fairytale, her friends will return. neither of them have accepted their reality; kaveh's idealism alone isn't enough to fund the construction of a palace, carrying extra burdens wasn't enough to bridge the gap between alhaitham and him and their fellow researchers; sucrose's friends are unlikely to return if she is even able to create that paradise in the first place

(bonus: not gonna type an essay for this one, but there's just something about the way they have lost people but don't let others know it hurt them; kaveh pretending it was fine when his mom left, sucrose never mentioning her friends or the wonderland to anyone)

Alhaitham

I have been typing on mobile and frankly the word vomit and angst have quite thoroughly rotted my brain, sorry if this no longer makes sense

god these two are so. the whole opposites thing they have going on. yes ok shipping them is cool, I get it (roommates, bickering like they're married, opposites attract, etc) but like. imagine this. they both care about each other, ever since their akademiya days, but they express it differently; kaveh with his whole "I wanna help people unconditionally, but if you help me, I will return the favor even if I suffer for it" vs alhaitham with his "I don't care what other people think, I do what I want (and I want you to stop making yourself suffer, why won't you let me just help you)" (ok yeah I made that last part up, pretty sure that wasn't quite how it went) and because of this and on account of how stubborn they both are, neither of them are able to ever see eye to eye again. they eventually come to tolerate each other but they'll never be able to be what they once were; after all, their relationship as built on a foundation of sand. kaveh's mom had just left him, and he had heard about a genius new student; maybe someone who could fill a bit of the loneliness in him. they were perpendicular lines, different from the start, only intersecting once, and bount to drift down different paths

opposites angst aside though, an alternate flavor of angst: alhaitham tries to show care/affection for kaveh, but kaveh with his paranoia of abandonment and fear of loving and getting hurt again, rejects him (if anyone has heard 'namonaki kanjyou' by usotsuki, yea).

that's all I have for that one I am tired and the brainrot is getting harder to fight off

#and I'm home #see you tomorrow #rambles #genshin #genshin impact #genshin kaveh #kaveh #sucrose #alhaitham #i was supposed to do stuff today #but instead i have been going sketch delete repeat #needed to get this out even if getting it out doesnt help #theres also some other stuff i couldn't find a way to add #namely the 2 madoka character songs #the kyoko and sayaka one literally titled #and the madoka one #where she fake smiles as she waves goodbye (idk i wasn't paying attention to the lyrics) #also again apologies for any spelling or formatting things i am on moblie and have typed for an hour

[ironunderstands]

Its only westerners who think like this. I blame it on christianity.

Many asian religions and local gods are pretty benevolent. Not all ofc but there so many its not uncommon for some that would act like any of the archons weve met so far

But christanity has one god. And hes a mean fucker. Tbf the way most christians practice christianity is way scarier than it was meant to be. I sure hope you dont get alot of discourse from me saying this.

But yeah alot of how westerners view the archons is rooted in their own religious experiences and american centrism. (A little unrelated but it makes me so mad when i read a fanfic containing worship and such for zhongli... And its christian worship rituals instead of, at least, a little bit how chinese people would do it.)

Also this fandom is full of children that takes jokes too far and literally so you end up with a lot of people mischaracterizing them. Not even to mention the decline in media literacy and reading in general in american children.

Theres alot of problems and you cant really point it out to these people because they take it as an attack on their headcanons, themselves, and things in their life they couldn't really control since they are/were children. A lot of people are just plain unwilling to learn or be more open minded. Some dont even realize their narrow mindedness and when its pointed out to them they might become embarrassed and try to shut it out and defend themselves from a perceived threat on them or their intelligence and stuff like that.

Just something ive noticed from almost a decade in different fandoms.

Oh you are 100% right on this. I don’t even know what I could add, this is just correct. Also I did feel like it is Christianity, but most Christian’s (especially in America where I’m from) are extremely defensive about their religion and any and all criticism just feeds into their massive persecution complex (which is funny as the religion is a dominant part of mainstream American culture). However it would be unfair to Christians to blame them for the source of this misconception, especially because you mentioned other reasons that really have nothing to do with it. Also you can’t really blame young children for simplifying things, even if I admittedly find it super annoying anyways (mischaracterization is a bitch regardless of who does it)

#genshin impact #Archons #zhongli #venti #raiden shogun

[intergalacticaquarium]

more terrible no good headcanons for eddie disaster dreamboat munson

I said that if anybody made him too cool I'd have to add more and that's exactly what I'm gonna do babes because I had to scroll for way to long to find him making spagetti-os

(posting again bc it wasn't showing in the tag)

(first post)

-genuinely doesn't know what those stains are. Didn't even know it was stained bc he's had the same fitted sheet on it with one corner tugged off for 8 months and forgot about them since last time

-throws away Tupperware if the stuff in it is too gross

-he's pretty sure that green sour candy counts as a vegetable so he does eat at least 3 a day.

-just. Doesn't ever throw things away. Stupid shit like the backs of band aids and paper straw wrappers and napkins and hooooo boy this has turned into a callout post about myself

-sometimes horseflies fly into his hair and get stuck and he can hear them buzzing around and doesn't necessarily so anything about it right away until it stops

-no room for legs in the front seat of his car that space is reserved for old fast food bags

-buys new underwear instead of doing laundry

-hey why do I keep writing genuinely embarrassing things that I literally do irl. Is this really worth putting myself and the 4 huge bags of laundry I have in my tiny car and all my band aid wrappers on blast. Next I'm gonna write that every surface in eddies house is covered in stacks of hobbies and papers that feel like a goddamn archeological dig every time I clean

-psych he does that too

- ok things that I don't also do so that I don't start having a crisis that makes me a tidier person:

-feeds a family of raccoons that live in an abandoned hunting cabin in the woods

-one time he let one live in his closet for a bit and hoped Wayne wouldn't notice (this may explain some of the stains)

-this boy spills. Everything. He's a hand talker and it doesn't matter if he's holding something.

-the hand talking is also terrifying when in a car he is driving

-never drinks water ever and it stresses ppl out

-every single time he sees somebody he knows in public he will try and sneak up on them to scare them

-wears shoes inside bc he broke glass on the carpet months ago and he doesn't want to vacuum.

-the only place he has to actually sit and do anything I his room is his bed because everything else is covered in stuff

-everything is covered in stuff but every drawer he has is empty

-theres one category of things he owns that is organized absolutely meticulously and idk what it is but he's very proud of it and when he says he's "cleaning his room" it means organizing like band tees alphabetically or sorting minifig painting supplies and everything else stays trashed

-it's a perm and he did it himself in his bathroom 100%

-hair dye stains all over the bathroom from an ill advised look a while back. and maybe a few more times

-doesnt have a compulsive habit to bite his nails he does it bc he can never find the damn fingernail clippers

-notes and doodles. All over his arms

- yknow how when u were in school by the last day you'd have like one pencil and nothing else and u kept a hold of it bc you couldn't find any others?

- eddies been at that point since about half way thru his first senior year. He has one pencil and it is a stub (it is a d.a.r.e. pencil and he does find it funny) with no eraser and it's not sharp and it had a million bite marks on it

-has little stoner burn holes in all his clothes all his sheets his matress his sheets and the seats on his car bc he needs to be more careful and is gonna end up starting a fire someday

-wait that last one was a me thing

-maybe this is how I can embrace my flaws. make eddie do em too. it's cute when he's disgusting

-I no longer have improve myself at all

-puts random food in his pockets for later even though it will get linty. Gonna go ahead and say that I don't do this.

-isn't actually that good at guitar it turns out

-I gotta stop myself now because I know they'll just keep comin but add any you can think of or dm me because every time he gets worse he gets more of my love so like 2 give him a hug reblog 2 spray him with a hose

#eddie munson x reader #stranger things #stranger things x reader #stranger things fanfiction #stranger things fic #my writing #eddie munson #eddie munson x oc #eddie munson fanfiction #eddie tag

[cursezoroark]

playing desolation, and by the time I post this I will have Caught up to Desolation! This is my own opinion and review on the game! For the record I've only played Rejuv and now Desolation of the entire series. In terms of pokemon fangames i have played ep 1 of Flux , Gaia, and Unbound. Disclaimer and TLDR: the game is Very good as I expected I had fun :] . The devs worked their ass off and the fact this game is free and has this much shown effort is so awesome. when ep 7 comes out i Will be reviewing once again. It wont be for more than a year though given the recent dev update. either way!

Pros:

I love the spritework sort of thing for the dialogue, when important characters come on. It's very pretty!

the credits system is gen p interesting. motivator for getting exclusive pokemon and items and even the capsules + mints, which imo is much better than the AP system that was in rejuv. its more easier to achieve and more incentive.

also HELL YEAH sidequests! I loved the tidbits of main lore u get from certain ones, and certain choices. Inch resting!

The difficulty still makes me work Hard to think but doesn't kill me with a bajillion reset and planning so that's all fair and good 👍 the only one I had to rlly drive home for was Jarred. Jesus fucking Christ. i had valerie flashbacks from rejuv but its worse cause it was a DOUBLE BATTLE.

the SPARKLES. lifesaver for me who loves the shiny sprite reworks in this game. i have a beautiful shiny greninja, umbreon, hydreigon, and vikavolt. Vikavolt is my favorite shiny i love whoever reworked that. Jade is so so pretty :]

the music is KILLER. Vs Shiv and Vs Nova is Good. Very Good. honestly the ost choices here rock. one of the best ost selections i enjoyed it very much.

interesting story! I can sort of peel bits of it off and it'll probably come back later to haunt me. Act 3 REALLY ramps up stuff so it did sweep a good amount of confusion I’ve had since the beginning. Act 3 was great. I miss Tristan. Nova's character is Great when it reaches a certain plot point.

I love the rangers bases, and the sidequest lore does build up nicely on the side. its starting to interfere with the main story too which hmmmmmmm hm hm hm. i will wonder about that.

Criticisms/ personal nitpicks:

i mentioned this above but i wish the ui for sidequests was a bit more clear. Like location wise, where to go, and all that. Icons above characters would rlly help me distinguish things.also PLEASE add flashing settings and shaking sets automatically to the options board pls pls pls.

I hope there will be more featured fields in the future. I did mention this was the more lax difficulty ive been through involving fields, and i watched playthroughs of reborn and played rejuv myself. (idk if theres more games with the field system but do let me know its literally one of my fav things). Like it went from oh God to oh ok to hmm to Oh God like a cycle. Though I think that’s just on my team balancing rlly

Please..... more TM versatility. While it does allow me to get creative with my team choices, it also limits what I can actually do. My TM pool is so low and i want to get creative so bad :']]]. The TM shop at Sunshell was a huge improvement though. very stingy though at lvl 65-70s though.

i Do Not like the maps for specifically silver forest and blackview. Its either very cluttering and makes me walk in Direct Circles, or leaves me very lost when im searching for a specific area. I do get the "open area" aspect of Silver mountain though, and it was easier once I got all the bridges down but still yk? but i literally couldn't find the move relearner Anywhere in blackview. it took me forever.

I wish i had more time to spend with some of the characters (Scarlett particularly) so i could rlly grow attached. I do understand that these are mostly main plot points blasting off from each other, but i just wish I could have had more interactions with the characters? More funny dialogue, more MC options to talk and affect relationship values, yk? I do anticipate an arc for a particular someone coming up though. so we'll see. the plot did do a rlly good job at the ceilia leaders though I adore All of them.

some of the language i winced at. idk if its just me so ill leave this one in the air. i dont know how to feel because im muddled.

In a way, because the plot blasts off one another, the room for me to acknowledge the changes in characters or their relationship between each other was a bit small. Like Connor and Scarlett, I think I only got like two cutscenes or tidbits of their entire growing friendship, so it didn't rlly hit me when The Scene Happened. Either way I do like themboth thumbs up.

SPOILERS THOUGHTS DO NOT READ IF U HAVENT PLAYED OR DO NOT WANT TO KNOW:

I ADORE Cecilia’s leaders. I’ve seen complaints how we seem to be Stuck There for some time and. Yeah I can sorta agree with that. Despite being Rlly Huge it also makes me Yearn for the Routes yk? either I love them all I Adore them dearly. Garrett is my favorite he got to me. Reeve and Rosetta and Aaron are all so very charming in their dynamics and gym leader squabbles.

Waldenhall is a Great Character in his introduction holy shit what an impact this guy had. also artem's sprite made me laugh so hard because their (idk their gender) portrait is just staring straight at the camera whats up w that.

Conclusion:

Should you play this game? YES. its quality is amazing, the artwork is insane, the gameplay is so good for pokemon fans who enjoy a good challenge, and want to get into some existential crises. In general, this series is So Far the easiest in the reborn deso rejuv trio. but it doesn't by far make it bad, or a cakewalk for players. Have a good ol time with it. My criticisms are my own nitpicks, but i rlly admire how much effort devs put into their fangames, by semblance of story, custom art, custom maps, etc. appreciate them lots and lots more. This game in particular weighs your choices a lot more, so you rlly have to snoop around for a particular result that you want. all in all lots of good fun!

Hope to review this again in Ep 7! and here's a goodbye from my Current Team :]

#talk #jj reviews #pokemon desolation

[ducknotinarow]

[RaphYvonne] ❛ we can order pizza, watch a movie, whatever you want. ❜

| Muse Interaction

Raph fell back on to his bed a moment heavily sigh leaving him as he let his beak hang a little and pout. There was a lot of after math to deal with and maybe Raph was making a bigger deal out of all this stuff then he should or needed to but like was it him overthinking about it all? He had some damage to his eye over all it was fine but sometimes his vision would blur and he near lost his sight. Leo said over all he was fine Donnie also seconded on that statement. Leo just instructed that he used some eye drops to help when ever the vision issues begin. After about two weeks he would still need the drops just need to do them once a day. Seemed like something he was going to add to his daily routine. Not to mention the other uh well thing going on. Casey.

Raph had been a tad curious why they didn't make any mention about him like he had the others. Leo was his master, and teacher it seemed. He also held Mikey and Donnie in some high regard. Seemed Raph died pretty early on in the war timeline? world? or whatever Casey came from to warn them. That wasn't what was getting to him he sort of wish it did seeing how he likely could have died when he saved Leo. Taking a hit for one of his brothers never put fear in him though. One of them getting hurt? no that put fear into him and he always acted on that fear by acting like some sort of shield. No it was the fact he had a son? Look that didn't bother him it didn't it's just kind of odd to suddenly find you have this kid who looks to you for well like everything? He sighed again.

"Von I need you I dunno what to do 'bout all this." As if her ears were burning he heard the ringtone for his girlfriend go off suddenly. He fished it out and answered right away. "Hey." Maybe it was the tone in his voice but she seemed to catch on something was wrong. That did bring a smile to his beak. He couldn't really voice all that was going on in his head to anyone else lately. He didn't want Casey to get the wrong idea he was still finding his foot with them. His brothers? maybe but ehh he was still adjusting to not being the leader anymore. He felt like they all were still working on that. "I just got a lot on my head, heh for once ya know? My brain isn' used to thoughts." it was meant as a joke. So she offer the usual cure for when he needed a break, to hide away with her.

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Yvoones place was always a nice little safe havean for him. Mostly because Yvonne was someone he could openly speak with, it was a major part of the friendship that bloomed into a crush on her. And she still offered that to him even now. It was just nice to have one thing in hus life. Just stay the same.

Large green fringers easily held around one of her small, slender hands as he stroked over the back of her knuckles.

"Its just I dunno I feel bad Von. 'Ike I'm just meant to be just adjusting to everything and be fine with how things are. It's just a lot at once. With Leo finally being serious about his role that's sloved but...where dose that leave me now on the team? And then there's the whole casey thing? I know that look on his face. It's how I looked at pop's as a kid, or Lou Jitsu before learning that was also my pop I mean course." He grinds his teeth a little chewing over his thoughts and worries. Soon sighing as he slumps back on the couch a moment. "Maybe I just need a break? Can I hide with you for a bit?" He asks he knows he never has to ask her that it was more out of courtesy that he was.

❛ we can order pizza, watch a movie, whatever you want. ❜

He smiled softly and nodded as if she could see that needing to shake his head sitting up now. "Ya know yeah I think that be good Von. You pick the movie and I'll go up to run of the mill on my way over. Theres portals near Hueso's place won't take long? " Bright smile on his beak as he push against the mattress and sprung up to his feet quick to get out of the lair before anyone noticed he was leaving.

Raph getting up to his feet nit fully letting go of her hand. There was a fear he hadn't asked about yet but knowing what he did about Casey? What happened to Yvoone? It was always in his mind but he was worried about that answer. He doubts a break up happened. Knows damn well he never would cheated on her. Ya sperm donation is a thing but would that be what happened? He's not sure he just knows deep down Yvoone one of many deaths wasn't she?

In part it had a lot todo with his struggles with Casey as well. He wants to be there for Vasey 100% but is that him turning his back on Yvoone? With a lot of his other concerns and worries worked out he now could see this one that's been buried deep in the back of his mind. Slowly he works his fingers to let go of her. Raoh didn't know what laws timeliness held. They fixed the future he knows that but also? Dose the mean somethings never happen or will they still happen in different ways?

"I'll be back!" Leaning down to press his beak to the her forehead to place a quick peck to her.

Will Raph still lose you?

Was his thought. It's a silly and dumb worry in part he knows he just overwhelming himself a little at best. But that worry is there seeded in him. If he choose Yvoone is that turning his back on his son? Maybe? Maybe they liked to meet each other? It was like a light blue appeared over his head a moment. That might help! But pizza and movie first he can work thst out next

#muse| hamato rapheal #madamkezzie #aflockofffeathers #[ ones trash is anothers treasure aflockoffeathers] #[rise verse] #muse interactions #ic reply #stay qeued #(( I just been missing these dorks and it didn't say what verse so i picked uwu))

[spaceyjonessims]

Spacey Occult Generation Challenge

Hey Simmers!

My name is Spacey and basically I wanted try my hand at creating a challenge. This will revolve around the different occults and just trying to get as many gameplay elements as possible! Click below if that interests you.

Disclaimer; I have tried to do research as best I could and I couldn't find a challenge that was specific to what I wanted, if theres a challenge like this already out there please KINDLY let me know and I'll give proper credit.

Disclaimer 2; this challenge WILL require use of all occults so make sure you have those packs at minimum. I will add additional things if you have the other packs.

Disclaimer 3; I use a lot of Mods, I wouldn't recommend using them to create hybrid babies or even MCC for forcing the pregnancy. But hey, its your game! But yeah for story purposes use mods to your hearts desire!

Okay, onto the good stuff!

Game Options: Have Autonomy on full and lifestyle set to long. (You want enough time to complete your goals!)

Getting Started:

Start your sim out as a Young Adult HUMAN via Story Mode. This will determine the amount of money you have, randomize your traits and get you started in a career! Also choosing your aspiration! (this helps with your backstory creation!) The gender/pronouns/sexual orientation do not matter! (If you end up in a same sex relationship go into cas after using the cas.fulleditmode cheat and create one of your partners as able to get pregnant or able to become pregnant under custom gender settings) There are mods to do surrogacy, I'm not sure if they work with occults, but if that's how you prefer to do this challenge go for it! I just wanted to give a no mod option.

Moving in:

Unless you rolled a location aspiration you may choose whatever lot you'd like! Just keep in mind; your family will live there for the next generations to come! If you want to bulldoze the lot and start fresh go for it, if you just want to redecorate do that too! This is your story, just no money cheats. Get that bread homie. Each lot as the generations grow on should have a family grave yard as well, so keep that in mind when deciding your lot. I personally would recommend something 50X40 Minimum.

Gameplay Rulez:

The general mission of this challenge is having at least one of each occult type in your family tree! For the most part there is no particular order which the occults need to be. The first Generation sim (your starter Sim) is a human; and the second Generation sim will be an Alien. IF your starter sim is a male; do everything possible to get your male sim abducted and pregnant. If you cannot but halfway through adulthood you may proceed through normal ways of trying to acquire a child. All subsequent generations can be whichever occult you'd like.

Feel free to mod different Hybrid babies into extending generations. For some extra pazazzy gameplay download this mod and have your last generation be a ghost! (There are other ways you can simulate ghosts being your last generation, there's a way to modify children in CAS so if you'd like to woohoo with a ghost and then use MCC to cheat a baby with a ghost by all means.)

Picking the next generations heir is as easy as the sim must be a different occult as the previous generation. you may have multiple children at a time. Standard chances are 50/50% between different occults. So if the first child is the same as the previous generation you'll have to try again.

Keeping the heir of all generations in the family home is a requirement, maybe a basement or attic/garage apartment? Siblings of the heir may leave when they become young adult ages. (that way if something happens to the heir there can possibly be a replacement) Somewhere on the lot you must start a family grave yard. Stray family members who were removed from lot should be added to the graveyard as well. Get friendship up with them and ask them to join your household. You will get their urn in your inventory, add it to the graveyard.

Each generation's heir should have a different career path (extra rules regarding this with extra packs below) In their young adulthood they should each get their own aspiration. Get some variety in there! Randomize their traits (or not, idc). When they become an adult, change their aspiration to 'Successful lineage'.

Pack Amendments:

Cats and Dogs - Have pets all you please, be aware though.. the more pets, the less space for kids.

Get to work - If you have get to work and choose one of these careers, you must follow your heir to work.

University - Your heir must go to university as a young adult out of high school. This is why I have lifetime set to long. They must live at home. They must also go to the pier, and have a full teenage experience. Swap days on who you focus on.

High School Years (Not yet released) if you plan on purchasing this pack. - If you plan on having this pack, without having get to work, you must attend high school with the future heir as a teenager. If you have get to work, alternate the days you attend with the heir and the future heir. (building stories for both of them is essential!)

Wedding stories- If your heir gets married they should throw a big wedding! OR small intimate gathering, or heck elope and enjoy some cake and enjoy a honeymoon! No two weddings have to be the same.

Jungle Adventure/Batuu/Outdoor Retreat/Snowy Escape/Sulani- Each generation must take a vacation with the whole crew at least once! pick your favorite destination!

Get Together/City Living/Cottage Living- Go to as many of these little events as you can without interrupting work or school.

Get Famous - Someone in your family should be a celebrity at some point! (maybe they can move to Del Sol Valley, if they're not your heir, set their story to continue on in life and watch their rise to stardom!)

Seasons - It doesn't matter what season you start in, but try to celebrate lots of holidays! Make those memories. They don't have to be the best holidays, but make them count. Add or remove as many holidays as you want.

Stuff Packs - Honestly there's so many to list, but things like if you have Bowling stuff build a bowling alley in one of your worlds and go on some bowling nights/dates. Throw fun parties with luxury party. If you have laundry day have a washer/dryer or clothes line and bin! Utilize backyard and kitchen stuff if you have it! Keep the family rodent living on with each generation if you have My First Pets. Maybe your sim will commune with the dead with the Paranormal stuff pack. Get your grannies earnin' some extra dough with Nifty Knitting. Consider a butler if you're rich enough.

Additional Notes:

There's no rewards or points system really. Just want people to enjoy exploring their gameplay to the fullest extent. I would love to see your stories so pleeeease use posts with the hashtag #SpaceyOccultChallenge Tag me in all socials below! I plan on starting mine this week so be on the lookout for my #. Please tag me in your super awesome lots to add. I'm starting mine out using this save file and will be building my world over the next few weeks. (I have basically all the packs with the exception of a few kits) Also tag me in your cool sims families to add to my world! Can't wait to see where this goes.

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[sarahdraws-sometimes]

I finally made my first Hollow Knight oc <:).

This is the Soul Hunter! This character is inspired by Bloodborne (hence the very obvious reference in the dialogue and character's title), I couldn't help myself since It's my favorite game in the Soulsborne series.

But aaaanyway, um, here he is. The Soul Hunter travels from kingdom to kingdom, and he hunts the souls of any creature he finds. For many years he's been "harvesting" souls from innocent bugs. After so many years of collecting, he goes 'slightly' mad and becomes 'soul hungry', and begins collecting soul beyond his original reason to. What he hunted their souls for originally, I don't know yet! Maybe he needs them to stay alive, I dunno, I just created him like two days ago so uhh u know how it is...

He arrives in Hallownest long after it has fallen into ruin, knowing nothing of it's past.

As he travels and discovers a bit about Hallownests past, the soul hunter becomes very fascinated with the infected bugs, rather than seeing them as something to be avoided, and feared of. After all, he's never seen a thing quite like the infection, even after his several years of hollowing out thriving worlds of their souls. He begins to sympathize with those infected, and becomes obsessed with trying to figure out what the infection really is. Of course, he has no way of knowing exactly what it is, or where it came from, however he recognizes those infected as people, too. Due to this, he begins to develop rotten feelings towards those who are not infected, and those who refer to the plagued as beasts.

After murdering dozens of bugs himself, he starts to get infected. While slowly turning into another slave of the Radiance, he loses his absolute mind and starts question his entire morals and.. 'Lifestyle'. Based on his own conclusions, those plagued are just as human (- or- i guess, insect?) as those not. His over analyzing of the infection and where it came from put him in an extreme state of guilt and regret. Mourning for those he had slaughtered caused him to go in a frenzy, and thinking so hard about the infection's origins had gotten him infected himself. Once infected, he hunted primarily the uninfected, and at this point, he wasn't even murdering for their soul. He hunted others who seemed fit of the title "soul hunter". So I guess he ends up being a soul hunter hunter? I dunno. He just hates himself help

I would see the Soul Hunter as a boss who fights the knight while partly infected (like what we see with Myla), where he criticizes the knight for murdering so many innocent bugs, while ignoring the fact that he's gone on a genocidal frenzy for years. His morals clash and contradict eachother so uh, hmm. It's not a bad character if I'm self aware of it!!!! /sarcasm

Very edgy! Yeah, I know.

But if it takes inspiration from the Bloodborne lore then I guess theres no way to not make it edgy.

Personality wise, well. I have no idea yet! He's cold blooded for sure, an over analyzer, and that's really all I know. I assume he would be observant too, but I have to round it all out. While getting infected I think madness changes him quite a bit so I still got a lot to think about.

Course, I know more of his actual character than his design, so his appearance is a bit vague rn, but I will work on it whenever I get the motivation.

And he is still a major WIP so like, please please gimme feedback. I know soul kinda fucks up the average bug like we see with Soul Master so um, any suggestions on what I could add to make him more realistic in the world of Hollow Knight, like what the soul does to him exactly n stuff would be super helpful.. ty... And also I'd just love to hear. Ideas. Thanks.,,,!

Some extra data before I finallly actually post this...

His species is a Dinoponera Gigantea ant.

He weilds a scythe and axe, and uses both weapons well.

He is very swift moving, his combat style obviously simillar to that of Bloodborne combat.

I know hes a mess but I'm still figuring shit out! Tee hee

#YES HE IS BASICALLY DJURA #I JUST LOVE DJURA SO MUCH I COULDNT HELP MYSELF #I think. Also just because Djura refers to the hunters dream alot #and since dreaming is also important in hollow knight u know... his lines about dreaming can be copy and pasted into more garbage posts #with ease<3 #sorry for rambling #please help i know its bad LOL #hollow knight #fanart #hk #hollow knight oc #my art #oc #soul hunter

[phoneybeatlemania]

Hi, I'm the anon who asked about Paul and ADHD. I know I've seen some asks on Tumblr about it, but of course I can't find them now. I'll keep looking. However, I've found a libreddit page (don't know what that is) where people speculate he might be on the spectrum (can't link it here), and also on the blog Hey Dullblog, under the "Get Back Halftime Report" comments, if you search ADHD there are several people who speculate he might have it.

I couldn't find the libreddit page, but I found the comments on Hey Dullblog (x) - here are some of them:

[Paul] obviously has ADHD or something like that because he can’t stop fidgeting for a minute, and you can tell by the way he speaks that his thoughts are jumping all over the place as well. Again, he’s like that in interviews and it does make him difficult to watch. I have no doubt that he’s difficult to be around, and I’m not at all surprised that he got on everyone’s nerves – people like that always do, and through no fault of their own. I can well imagine the stuff that was edited out of HDYS. (Elizabeth, November 29, 2021 at 9:19 am)

My spouse thought his behavior seemed stimulant fueled, namely cocaine. I always thought this was his heavy alcohol/pot period and some of his circular reasoning and refusal to drop various subjects do say to me that something more was going on, either substance use or mental health issues/neurodivergence (could be a lot of things from OCD to ADHd to anxiety) But I was surprised by how restless and kinetic he is. As someone with ADHD, I see some of that in both Paul and John, whereas George and Ringo seem neurotypical. I think it’s significant that their early period was stimulant heavy, too. (Fox, November 29, 2021 at 9:53 am)

...stimulants could’ve calmed Paul’s ADHD — I have a friend who has it, and she says, “How can you tell if someone has ADHD? When they ask, ‘What’s the big deal about cocaine?'” (Because stimulants, like Ritalin for example, actually help ADHD’ers focus and get calm.) (Michael Gerber, November 29, 2021 at 9:57 pm)

To be honest, Pauls behaviour overall doesn't jump out as being symptomatic of ADHD to me - I feel like it could be better explained by other diagnosis’s or sources, such as anxiety, drug usage, autism, and even just the general characteristics of his personality. 

Like, “Elizabeth” points out that in interviews his speech and behaviour will seem “fidgety”* and “all over the place” - and potentially, yes, ADHD is an explanation for this, im not dismissing it entirely. But also, to me it feels as though it has more to do with Pauls somewhat “performative” personality, if that makes sense? Or its a nervous/awkward thing; or a difficulty in being emotively articulate; or the influence of drugs and alcohol. Point is, I think that there are other potential explanations to consider there.

(*I picked up on Paul having shaky-leg-syndrome in Get Back btw, and like solidarity sister lol - but just throwing it out there because it often is related to anxiety).

Again though, im just pretty indifferent to most of this debate because I know im out of my depth here in discussing things like autism or ADHD. To me, he didn't seem that symptomatic of ADD/ADHD, because I dont recall him doing things like interrupting people, having a lot of difficulty concentrating, being disorganised etc. (okay ill admit I still haven't watched GB sober so I dont remember it that well - but I vaguely remember it) - and I understand that ADD/ADHD will present itself differently in each individual, but im just saying, its not the impression I got from him. But as always, if you think theres a strong case for a diagnosis there, then im sending you my girl power, and go for it. :)

#Elizabeth seems like an asshole tho #im just saying #pauls psyche #asks #anon #adhd #neurodivergency

[shyrose57]

Brothers AU re-send cause 1. I'm not positive the first one sent. And 2. I decided I wanted to add somethings.

Some requests have been, "Please stop destroying the trees, tell the blond one to stop barely avoiding my eyes (Jackie. And later Grievous and Cletus)." And a piece of advice was too not talk so loudly during the night or else it may attract not so friendly enderman. 

They do! They mention off-handedly how they were concerned about Ranbobs height and ask them if he'd grown any taller since they rescued him. They are relieved to hear he did grow a few inches, but hearing he didn't grow anymore just heighten their concerns.

He does, and he's very mixed about it. He didn't want anyone to see the terrible stuff he's done, or find his journal. But he's relieved because Benjamin saw it, he can talk to him about it now and get some stuff off his chest. He's torn between not making Benjamin relive the memories of what he saw, and asking for help himself. 

Oh he'd be devastated, and its likely he'll lash out at Ranbob.

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Reim was his favorite person without a doubt, well, besides from his family. 

They can enchant most things! The only things they can't do is stuff like food, water, potions, and bowls and cups etc. They typically make them very specific, as making them to broad could end up doing more damage than any possible benefits. Over grown. Theres a lot of plants in the windows that aren't properly trimmed so they've grown over the windows and litter the wall. But it surprisingly doesn't look bad, it adds to the feel and work well. Theres shelves with the basic enchantments like protection and fire aspect around the walls, along with a free-for-use grinder and anvil. Theres also a enchantment table but that one is pay to use because it's hard to get in the world. They found it because Spellbound did a mix of things, they treated them like royalty and they all despise being treated that way. The CEO actually hates them and always bad-mouthed them, no matter if they where nearby or not. Then they either where denied the enchantments they wanted, or the ones they wanted where so expensive they couldn't afford them. Talisman isn't any of this. The Gladiators are treated like regular people, they are loved by the owner, they get almost every enchantment they may want, and all the enchantments are pretty fairly priced. Minnow loves them and is kind. She is always glad to see them and happily partakes in conversation with them and listens to them.

Another world building: Because the Gladiators are well known by nearby kingdoms, it isn't uncommon for other Kingdoms champions to come challenge them. The Kingdom that most commonly does this is Vusan Empire. And Porkius despises this kingdom which can put the Gladiators under more pressure to succeed.

Oryx is somehow nervous but loud. He isn't afraid to share his thoughts but it depends on who he's talking too. Raq- Leader, Jack- Main tracker, Oryx- hunter, no special role, Mark- Trapper, and Mat- hunter, no special role. 

Ran+Raq= Fisticuffs, trapping, using bows, basically anything is fair game between the two. Ran fucking hates Raq.

Ran+Jack= Covering his tracks, using monster blood and destruction Creepers make when they explode to cover his tracks most of the time. He also often retraces his steps to make it seem like he just disappeared. When fighting its mostly swords they fight with. Ran respects Jacks skills bit still dislikes him.

Ran+Oryx= Ran actually trips Oryx a lot and then pins him to the ground one way or another. He doesn't consider Oryx worth any massive energy output from him. Ran is neutral with Oryx. 

Ran+Mark= Rans favorite thing to do is to use Marks traps against him and lead him into his own traps. And he also infuriates Mark as when he does get caught he's always able to easily escape. Ran considers their fights a game though makes sure to never underestimate him. 

Ran+Mat= Exact same as Oryx but he puts more effort into defeating him because Mat is more familiar and more advanced with fighting than Oryx. 

Ran never sees it. He believes it burnt and forgets about it. Its Benjamin that finds it and quickly hides it from everyone else's view once he realizes what it is. Only Watson gets to see it and he also refuses to tell anyone what it was and keeps information about its existence hidden. 

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Tip of the Iceberg 

Ponk notices his hesitation and brothers Bad about it. Though he refuses to let Ponk win and continues to deny it. Ponk eventually lets it go but keeps a close eye on Bad. He eventually gets away, but his escape only angers the Egg more and then shit gets bad.

That's their goal! Be as well rounded and have as little weaknesses as possible to make them more efficient fighters. 

Honestly Karl forced some people into rooms cause they kept fighting, other times it just came from conversations and formed while they were all training or studying toghere. 

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Brothers AU

He feels like he has children with how much he has to keep his fighters in check. 

He was supposed to be but even he goes fuck it and joins in on the chaos every now and again. Everytime he joins the others celebrate and whatever they do is noticeably worse when Watson is there with em surprisingly. 

If they could adopt Salem they would and would make them the groups 5th up and coming fighter. 

Yes! Even though the brothers are on edge with each other. That doesn't mean Ran doesnt play the little brother pranks and doesn't mean Ranbob doesn't cover for him. It doesn't mean Ranbob doesn't get to pull his big brother card and chastise Ran at special times. Doesnt mean the two don't team up to pull a prank on everyone at times. Doesnt mean the two don't seek comfort in each other during special and especially bad nights for each other. 

Bit of fluff: When the brothers first started to truly forgive eachother and get more comfortable with eachother again. Ran accidentally called Ranbob Bobby. He immediately got teased for this and since Charles used to call him Bobby, he starts to mess with Ran about how he coined the nickname and Ran isnt allowed to use it. But it's all done jokingly. And whenever Ran later calls his brother Bobby or anything of the sort, he just gets teasing looks and a few jabs. In addition to this Ranbob is noticeably happier and when Jackie asks why, he says how because Ran is calling him nicknames again he feels like any harsh feelings remaining have truly faded and it feels almost like a fresh start for them. And the nicknames help show their relationship and their healing is going in the right direction.

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The kitty gets named Dominic and is completely black, its orange-green eyes are also so bright if the light is just right his eyes will shine and scare the shit out of everyone. Dominic can often be found riding Rans shoulders, (when still incredibly small) alseep in one of Ranbobs shirt pockets, or running around chasing a toy.

Also ALMOST COMPLETELY REDONE FROM FUTURE TO PAST LETS GO. Instead it takes place within Brothers AU (but spikes off into its own AU) because it makes it sadder. 

It separates into its own au around the time where Ranbob gets kidnapped (near end of the story), instead Raq manages to take the whole group sort of hostage with him holding Ranbob by a knife to the throat. He leads them to a nearby cliff. Here's a twist: there's a portal (or at least Raq thinks it is) at the bottom of the cliff that is just a massive swirl, looking like a whirlpool but just really bright for some reason He, made from water. So he figures either way whoever lands there is gone. No one else notices this.

He forces the group by the edge of the cliff and starts negotiations. Jackie looks over the edge to spot the whirlpool and shouts in surprise, causing Ran to look back as well. Its at this moment Raq takes his change and rushes forward, shoving Ran off the cliff. As one of the main differences between this and the main Brothers AU, Raq is trying to kill Ran, NOT capture him. 

Ran plummets down, watching as his friends look over the edge and scream and reach after him. But then he disappears into the portal. He reappears a fair distance from the Artic Commute, but he appears at the cloud line, falling fast. But he surprisingly only gets a minor concussion and is knocked immediately unconscious upon landing. Though I suppose the concussion isn't minor if he stays there not waking up for 2 days. 

Over this time snow piles up on top of him, almost burying him. At the end of the two days Ranboo stumbles upon him, almost tripping over him, he knocks the snow off to find an enderman under it all with burns starting to sizzle and bloody snow under him. He panics and calls Phil, who soon arrives and helps Ranboo take him to Phil and Techno's home. They clean him off, wrap his head, give him clean and not soaked through clothes, and convince Techno to give him his bed. They also discover at this time he has a fever. So now Ran sleeps in a bed covered head to toe in thick fur and someone checking in on him often. 

Sorry this is so late! Time is a void and I exist outside of it ^.^

Stop destroying the trees as in 'stop cutting them down', or stop destroying the trees as in 'stop setting them on fire'? Have they ever had any encounters with unfriendly endermen? Why would they be unfriendly? How are they dealt with?

How tall was Ranbob supposed to be? Would he be taller than Ran if things had been different? Was Ran surprised to see him so short(have I asked this before?)?

Poor Ranbob. At least he does end up getting help tho, that's nice.

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Talismen sounds like a nice little shop, and Minnow sounds lovely! Why does Spellbound's CEO not like them-and why aren't they worried about bad-mouthing the gladiators if they're in earshot, considering their prestige?

What's the Vusan Empire like? Who's it's champion(s)? What other kingdoms often challenge them? Why does Porkius not like them?

The hunting team sounds pretty interesting. Oryx is my favorite now. I love him.

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Tip of the Iceberg:

Oh no, poor Bad. What happens?

Karl, locking two random people in a room together: Time to be best friends!

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Brothers AU:

Sometimes a family is a tired emperor, his four gladiators/children, the random people they adopt, and the estranged family member who shows up a few years later after being possessed with four fishermen in tow, and is almost immediately murdered, and I think that's beautiful.

You may be surprised, but I'm certainly not.

I love them so much. Ranbob just being like 'maybe tone it down a bit' sometimes, and Ran listens, but also yeah, he's probably dunked the shorter members of their group into the lake like a basketball, and he's probably gonna do it again, and he's probably not even going to be caught.

Awww, that's so sweet.

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I would die for Dominic.

Future To Past AU:

YEEEESSS!!! I'm excited to see it!!

What changed this fate? What led to Raq using Ranbob as a hostage? What were these negotiations? What happens to Ranbob when Raq shoves Ran off?

How does the Arctic gang feel about finding Ran, especially in his condition? How long does it take him to wake up? Who checks in on him the most often?

And how are the gang back in Ran's time reacting to his disappearance?

#Brothers AU #Tip Of The Iceberg AU #From Future To Past AU #dream smp #dream smp au

[resident-beekeeper]

This is a continuation of this post, because that was getting far too long so I thought I'd split it up.

When it gets to autumn it's time to get honey and wax.

Early autumn mind, so the bees have plenty of time to build up depleted stores ready for winter.

Geralt puts bee escapes in the hives they're collecting from (basically 1 way gate things that gets all the bees out of a super so they aren't there when you take it away), but obviously not in all of them because not all the colonies are strong enough to give honey.

Of course Jaskier insists upon helping Geralt carry the supers into their house because there are quite a lot of them.

Only it turns out that honey is very heavy and he doesn't have the upper body strength to lift a super and then carry it any distance. So Geralt takes it off his hands.

In his defence he did try very hard to lift a full super. Definitely gets points for effort, if nothing else.

The kitchen then gets covered in cardboard and sheets are hung up to cover the door frames. It is also thoroughly cleaned so the honey is free of bacteria and stuff.

Now it's time for spinning.

Geralt is old fashioned in his beekeeping and so has a hand powered centrifuge. Which means that he needs to spend a while spinning the honey round and round to get it out of the wax. It's pretty hard work and his muscles look very good.

This is the best picture I could find on the internet of a centrifuge. Mine is a little different and has a lid to help avoid spillages but its currently underneath a lot of stuff because I won't need it for several months. Anyway Geralt would spin the handle that's on the side.

Jaskier is on holding the centrifuge steady duty because he's strong enough for that, and not trusted with a knife. It also gives him a chance to look at Geralt's muscles but shhh.

Yennefer for some reason is trusted with a knife, so she's cutting the caps off the cells. (Honey gets little wax lid things put on it by bees to preserve it, called caps. This needs cutting off so that the centrifuge gets it out properly. A hot knife is best to cut through wax because it melts ot a bit.)

Ciri is in charge of giving Yennefer the honeycomb to cut the caps off, removing the wax that had been spun from the centrifuge from its wooden frames and giving hot water to Yennefer to heat up her knife.

Which sound like a lot but it doesn't take much to move around frames, and the hot water only needs replacing every 15 minutes or so. So it's only 1 proper job really.

This makes it sound a lot calmer than it was. It was highly highly chaotic.

For one thing, honey gets fucking everywhere and is very sticky. But it's also surprisingly slippery when theres above a certain amount in 1 place.

Jaskier keeps eating bits of honeycomb with honey in which slowly makes him feel sick from all the sweetness. But also now hes got beeswax in his mouth and nowhere to put it. And if you chew beeswax for long enough it gets all crumbly.

Ciri, Geralt, and Yennefer's hair gets honey and small bits of wax in it even though its tied back. None of them can go outside in case bees or wasps find them and follow them back inside to where all the honey is.

When all of the honey has been spun, and then transferred into a settling bin (a smaller tub that you put honey in to let bits of wax rise to the top so its easier to get them out of the honey) it's time to deal with the sticky wax.

Geralt and Ciri normally make beeswax candles together, but the wax needs to not have any honey in it otherwise it smells of burnt sugar when it burns and smokes a bit.

So they need to separate out the honey and wax by melting it. (Wax is hydrophobic and less dense than honey so it rises to the top and when it solidifies you can take it off in blocks. This often needs to happen twice.)

They all gather up the wax that Ciri got out of the frames and squash it into some metal dishes that Geralt has for wax melting. (I do not have this sort of thing, but I figured Geralt probably would. Instead I use dishes that are also used for food which are always a massive pain to clean.)

They then get put into the oven which is on very low, and left for a while. Geralt takes them out when the wax has melted because it's a lot of hot liquid that really needs to not be spilled especially because wax is very hard to get off stuff.

There's lots of metal wires in the wax that need taking out with great care, so of course Jaskier underestimates how hot the melted wax actually is, reaches into the wax to get the wires out, and promptly burns himself.

Ciri takes out the wire with a fork so that she doesn't burn herself.

She also takes out the wax that hasn't melted, which is bad for making candles with. (I have no idea why there is wax like that but there always is. Its generally a different colour too.)

Once its cooled down, Ciri takes the wax and cleans it. (Theres always gunk inbetween the honey and wax when it separates.)

Every year as a treat, Geralt lets Ciri choose one extra candle mould when she makes candles. At this point she has about 10, because she started off with more than 1 anyway.

This year she decides on a light house because she doesn't have many tall candle moulds.

Jaskier gets wind of this and decides he wants to get Geralt one. So he gets the THORNE catalogue and looks at the candle moulds. (THORNE is a supplier of bee stuff. There's so much stuff you can buy from them, including a bee suit with knee pads built into it. They sell candle moulds too, along with wicks.)

There are a lot of potential candles for Jaskier to choose from.

He's very tempted by the 'lovers' one because he is giving it to Geralt.

But then he turns the page and sees a candle that has been censored for the magazine.

And it is called '50 shades of wax'. So of course Jaskier has to get it because hes almost certain Geralt's reaction will be priceless. (This particular candle is one that I saw in a THORNE catalogue. I have no idea how many people would ever want to buy it, especially because you couldn't see what was going on because it had a red box covering most of it that said '18+' on it.)

He orders it separately from Ciri's though, because it needs to be a surprise and also he doesn't want to explain to Ciri why he got it for her dad.

When it arrives he shows it to Geralt just before they're about to go to bed.

Geralt isn't really aware of books that have come out even slightly recently, unless it's something that Ciri likes.

So when he sees what it's called, and especially without knowing what it looks like (it's a solid mould and a relatively complicated design so it's difficult to see what it is) hes just really confused.

Because of course you can dye wax so that it's different colours, but those aren't really shades?

And beeswax does come in slightly different colours, but that's normally impurities in the wax, rather than the wax itself being a different shade.

So Geralt just looks at it in confusion for a long time.

Jaskier eventually puts him out of his misery by explaining why it's called that, and roughly what it will look like.

But by this point the mood Jaskier was hoping for has well and truly been spoiled.

But at least he got a laugh out of it, if not how he was expecting to.

That's probably enough for now? I'm definitely gonna add more. They still need to feed the bees and actually make candles. Among other stuff.

(@jaskierisanangel because someone wanted to be tagged so they could see more? Which is wild to me but also makes me so happy)

#the witcher #geralt #jaskier #yennefer #ciri #geraskier #bees #beekeeping #this was once again mostly a ramble about bees #the witcher au #if anyone want to know about bees #i will talk about them to pretty much anyone

[vanillamilkcloud]

UNDER THE TREE || RM

pairing: Single Dad! RM x Baker! Reader

word count: 2,497

tags: fluff, some cookies were burnt, flour got in some spots, theres hot cocoa, domestic as hell, christmas obviously.

summary: after a visit to their favorite baker, Namjoon cant wrap presents for his boys. so with snagging your number some previous hours ago he decides to call for some help.

Kids were always hard, no matter what anyone did to try and help. Especially having two and also being a single dad. Though Namjoon had a way with the two that almost everyone wished they had with their kids. He had coaxed the boys into waking up this morning only to have them instantly asking about going to the bakery. It had become a sort of routine, once a week he’d show up at the door and instantly Hoseok would babble about everything he wanted while Yoongi pointed to things while hiding behind Namjoon’s leg. 

And that was exactly your situation right now. Covered in flour, and some frosting on your cheek, standing behind the counter of the store.

“I want this and this and a cake pop and cake!” Hoseok giggled happily, his gloved hands pressed against the glass happily. Namjoon looked at you apologetically before glancing at what his son wanted.

“Cookie, you know you cant have all of that-” The blonde male had only started to speak before he saw you walking around the counter, handing the 4 year old a cake pop. At 8am, might you add. His baby voice was too hard to resist giving the sweets to him.

“Says who?” You gave an equal smile to the toddler’s as he squealed.

“Thank you noona!” He had already devoured the sweet in a happy fit of giggles. You couldn’t help but giggle at the bits of chocolate around his mouth. For a moment you had thought you heard Yoongi speak, only to be correct as he held his arms up. Namjoon chuckled softly. 

“Sugar, what are you doing?”

“I want up.” He murmured, taking his chance to hide behind you now. You shrugged then picked up the small boy. Yoongi had instantly nuzzled into your chest, his little cheeks red from the cold. It made you frown though you knew you couldn’t help it.

“Can I give them mini mugs of hot cocoa Joonie?” You asked, fluttering your eyes in that way you knew would make Namjoon give into you. He let out a small groan as you looked absolutely perfect to him right now, and like the kids were actually both of yours. But Namjoon hadn’t had the courage to ask you yet to see if this relationship could actually.. be something. He had to think about plenty of other things right now besides having his bed warm again, and the boys having a mom finally.

“Do you even have mini mugs?”

You grinned happily before nodding, walking behind the counter with Yoongi in your arms and Hoseok trailing behind you. It was a bit hard to lean downward before pulling out two baby mugs and some straws. You put them on the counter carefully. “I got them just for these two little dudes. Just make sure to bring them when you guys come.”

Yoongi made grabby hands at one of them, so you let him take the cup. His eyes held a type of curiousity you hadn’t ever actually seen in him. The boy was generally shy and quiet but you seemed to understand now how Namjoon managed to know what he wanted constantly. It was rather cute in your eyes as you could catch Hoseok almost drooling over all the pastries behind the glass, and then whining as he wanted up too. You couldnt carry the both of them though. 

Namjoon on the other hand, was more than happy with his open fawning over you. You were such an angel with the boys and it made him more than happy with his trips. Hoseok was more than ready to expose his dad though.

“Daddy staring!” He giggled brightly, looking up to his dad through the glass. It caused a chain reaction as Yoongi was more than happy to join in. “Does dada like noona?” 

A bright blush covered the male’s cheek in an instant. He was quick to recover though as you couldnt help but to laugh while filling up the two mugs, hanging mini candy canes off the edge. “No, I dont like _____ Sugar.” Namjoon replied.

“Not what Uncle Jinnie said!”

Namjoon facepalmed, shaking his head with a groan. He’d need to have a serious talk with that man later. “Uncle Jinnie tricked you okay? What do you want for breakfast?”

That seemed to change the topics easily, you placing the hot chocolates in Namjoon’s hands to cool off before letting the boys point while behind the glass. Both of them seemed rather happy to have your candy cane donuts, the one treat youd serve only on Christmas Eve and Christmas. Namjoon had asked for his usual strawberry bagel with cream cheese, so then you were free to go back to the kitchen once more. 

“Byebye noona!!” The boys called out, making you grin. 

“Youll see me next week, this isnt bye babies!” You replied. Namjoon couldnt help but laugh as the two were instantly excited all over again. Except, he came here to do something too, so he came up to the window to your kitchen quickly.

“Wait, ___,” The blonde seemed shy, but you couldn’t help but to smile at him.

“Did you forget something?” 

He gave you a nod, and you looked at him curiously. “I forgot your number, can you give it to me again?”

The words that fell out of his mouth made you laugh, as you had essentially walked into him saying that yet you still felt dumbfounded. How was he that smooth? "Mm, give me your phone then, I'll put it in." 

Namjoon complied with the words as he was smiling happily; a few of the customers in the store seemed to only cheer for him. You wanted to run away from the situation but you couldn't deny him like that! On Christmas Eve either, you had no hope. Within a few moments you handed the phone back with a bit of flour over the case.

"Oh lord, I'm sorry. I didnt mean to get flour on it."

"Don't be," Namjoon grinned. "Im used to you leaving flour prints on what you touch by now."

He gave you a wave, and went back to his kids. You hummed softly as you went into the back of the store before finding yourself trying to quietly squeal. Namjoon had actually asked you for your number! What you didn't know was that everyone had actually heard your little squeal, and it couldnt help but make everyone laugh as you fawned over your crush. Everyone knew for ages that you both had a thing for each other and now it seemed to get somewhere.

After a long day at work, and perhaps burning a few things in your distraction, you’ve finally made it home. The call of your bed seems almost instantly heeded. But there’s other things you need to do.

Namjoon, on the other hand, is struggling to wrap presents. He had taken quite some time just to wrap simple box shapes and now this gift wrapping thing seemed impossible to him. There was blankets and stuffed animals to be wrapped still, along with pillows and bed sheets that Hoseok had wanted because of them being PJ Mask themed. It was also an issue of he didn’t happen to have enough paper to finish wrapping anything. The blonde combed a hand through his hair with a soft groan; He couldn’t leave the house to get any extra paper because then nobody was home with the boys. The male also didn’t want to leave them with anyone, so he scrolled through his phone contacts, clicking your name with a soft hum.

“Hello?” You asked, clearly a bit tired so Namjoon was almost tempted to hang up then and there.

“Hey _____.” He chuckled softly as he once again couldnt figure out how to wrap the damned elephant plushie.

“Oh, hi Joonie! What’s up?”

“I, um, well. I can’t wrap the kids presents so I thought you might be able to help. I don’t happen to have any paper or that left either, and I cant leave to get any.” Namjoon sighed softly as he tossed the paper in the trash once again, leaning against the sofa as he sat on the floor. “I swear I’ll pay you back for it, I just didn’t know who else to call.”

You giggled through the line, pretending to think in silence. It was almost audible how nervous he was. “I can come help. Can you text me your address then?”

“Yeah I can, thank you so much.”

The line went dead after that, as Namjoon sent you their address. He took the opportunity to go check on the boys. It had to be quick because Yoongi was a light sleeper unless Hoseok happened to move into his bed. Namjoon was certain those two would be inseperable later on, so he never bothered to seperate them. He opened the door quietly after making sure the hall light was off, only to chuckle as the boys were indeed under one blanket. With similar quietness he shut the door once again before walking to the kitchen and starting to brew a pot of coffee. The father didn’t happen to have any more hot chocolate either right now, as much as he knew you had a preference for the drink.

Namjoon let his thoughts wonder about you as he drew two mugs out of the cabinet, and not mini ones this time. The house was quiet besides the gentle christmas songs playing on the radio. Gingerbread had filled the air as hours ago the boys insisted to make gingerbread men for Santa, even left out with the milk on a plate with their notes. They were such precious things to him, the father felt a bit sad to realize that this is what their mother had decide to miss out on. But he also was happy because she wasn’t the type of woman to enjoy this type of stuff. She’d simply go about her business as she please. It was like a household housing two seperate families. 

The knock on the door pulled Namjoon out of his mind, and he quickly answered it before you could knock again. Snow had covered your hat, the bits of your hair that decided to peek out under it, and on your shoulders. He was quick to let you in, even taking the bags of gift wrap and tape and perhaps a gift for each of the boys.

“Thank you so much-” He smiled warmly, rubbing his temples as he sat the bags on the sofa. You shook your head at him.

“Don’t thank me you dork. I’m more than happy to help you with anything.” The words were perhaps a bit more implying than what either of you cared to admit, but Namjoon was still happy none the less. Once you were free of your extra layers you took out the rolls of gift wrap and tape. You also made sure to put your gifts under the tree too.

Namjoon watched as you didnt bother to speak in your focus now. He couldn’t help but to admire your small form in his living room, almost expertly wrapping each thing he had struggled with. You simply didn’t want him to notice the bright blush on your cheeks. It made you excited to actually be here as much as it didn’t feel the same without the boys. You had spent so much time around them as a group that you felt shy when you both were alone.

“Here���s some coffee, since the boys drank all the hot chocolate.” Namjoon’s voice made you squeak, and he couldnt help but laugh brightly. His grin made his dimples show; you wanted to kiss him right there but you knew better.

“Thank you.” You whispered. The girly girl in you was practically squealing with how close he was. A yawn passed Namjoon’s lips as your hands held the elephant plushie that he didn’t have patience for only about an hour ago. He looked tired, but he didn’t want to have you leave. Your fingers worked in a quick motion to wrap it like a giant candy. WIth the use of scissors you even made the ends all pointy. 

“Ill put them under, you can stay the night if you want.” Namjoon hummed, watching you look up at him curiously. The face you held seemed to depict that you were nervous to him. “I won’t do anything, at least right now.”

“What do you mean right now?” You looked more puzzled now. Namjoon facepalmed as he realized the words slipped before he had stopped it.

“Um, well, you see.” He started off, once again making you chuckle. You couldn’t read him often but this seemed to be one of the rare moments you could. Kim Namjoon was embarrassed and he couldnt change the topic. Hoseok and Yoongi were often his way of avoiding conversations like these with you. But they were fast asleep. “Consider it your Christmas present, but I’ve liked you for quite some time now. The boys even like you too. It means the damn world to me because I love those two to death and they almost always get excited as soon as I mention you.”

You couldn’t help but to blush with his confession, but it made you grin none the less. “Are we sure that isn’t because I give them sugar every time they come?” 

Both of you exchanged a bright laugh at the words. The boys were only 4 and 5, of course sugar could buy their hearts in an instant. Namjoon couldn't help but to smile at you in such a pure adoration.

“No, because they dont touch much of the pastries we have unless we make them ourselves, or we got them from you.” The father replied. “And also, I’ve known you’ve liked me for awhile.”

This was your turn to groan. “Since when!” You whined, rubbing your temple with your fingers.

“The squeal when you gave me your number. I had just gotten up to leave with the boys when I heard it.” 

You pouted softly, knowing that was probably the most obvious of times that you definetely had something for him. This you couldn’t try to deny either. “Okay fine, perhaps I’ve liked you for awhile now too.”

Namjoon smiled brightly, pulling you into a hug. There was something different about this though. It felt much more warm and loving than when he would be forced to hug you because of his kids. Only when you yawned did he realize you really needed to go to sleep, so he picked you up without a warning. The simple action made your heart swell as you realized this was probably one of the best things to happen just in time for the holidays.

#try 2 to post this #namjoon #namjoon imagine #bts x reader #bts #bts fanfic #bts rm #we love domestic relationships #whole shit load of fluff

[scoupssolo]

Hi dreamy!! This is the same anon who talked about eyeing bang chan due to his nerdy self to thinking about maybe being a fan and asking for some recommend blogs. Welp I am back to say I'm fully a fan, day of the comeback. Skz said you are going in DEEP and deep I am now lol.

I couldn't help it, I tried so hard to fight back in not adding ANOTHER group but let's be honest, I am a trashcan for fandoms soo. It all started with those youtube videos of watching simply just chan videos because ngl, he captured my heart 🥺 but then it became other members, then youtube guides and then here I am as a 3 day stay lol. While I am still new to the group and am still getting to know everyone (I got the names very quick. Took me a day hehe) and now I am going through their past songs and such. I know I shouldn't compare but stray kids REALLY remind me of our 13 beans! Like their performances like omg it is such svt vibes to me! Like for example, in thunderous we see similar aspects that i think we would see svt do in their choreography (like the part where they use their arms as a "laugh" omg I screamed because genius to the little details!) That is what drew me in personally, that and their rap line REALLY reminds me of monsta x (like changbin is visually like changkyun but has the rap style of jooheon and han has the amazing skill of rapping and doing high notes that can clear my skin like jooheon)

I also can't help but get this feeling that stray kids are special? It clicked to me very early with this and it happened with one of their mnet performances. You know, the one where ment surprised the boys with messages from the fans? For some weird reason, I cried hsjajdjs like I am not one to cry so easily but also I shouldn't be getting emotional for them because I am a NEW fan, yet I did tear up. That moment I think to me at least, sort of showed they have a special like bond with their fans! That there is just this love and respect between the two and it very much reminded me of when seventeen had a similar situation for mnet and their comeback as well! Svt were the only group to make me cry for anything so if someone like stray kids got me crying less than 24 hours as a fan, I think they might be just a special group.

Ok this ask is getting too long (I am not sure if it will send oof) but basically I thought I would give a lil update especially since you were very kind to answer my asks related to skz so thank you for doing that! Thank you for the recommendations once again, am going to go through everything one by one (also not me struggling to find your skz blog for a whole minute before I found it lol which yes I did follow which means I also slightly exposed myself as who I am under anon cx) and yeah, I apologize for the bother with and wish me luck as a newbie stay :D

omg im going to reply under the read more because your ask is so long <3

Ok ok so YES im sooo glad you love them!!! I adore skz so much theyre definitely something very special! Thunderous is SOOO amazing such a good era to become a stay hehe I'm so glad I could help you out 🥰

I get what you mean about not wanting to add ANOTHER group to the groups you follow, I do it constantly and every single time I'm like ok LAST group I get this into lol it never works.

I also agree that they're very like seventeen! They have such a visible family bond, the way the joke and bicker reminds me so much of how svt act with each other. Lots of teasing and jokes but theres also so much love and admiration for each other under all of it. Like svt i think they really love hyping each other up and supporting each other even if theyre also calling each other names and pranking each other. Ah it makes me so happy you said that about their choreo because I think skz is a group that comes closest to svt when it comes to clever choreo. I think theyre one of the few groups i think could really pull off covering svt (they covered adore u once but that was forever ago i want more 😔)

AND about jisung and changbin ABSOLUTELY theyre very like jooheon and CHangkyun, the way they can play off each other and the way their sounds work together. its so good! skz are like the love child of svt and mx lol

Their fanmeet UGH i cried so much lmao the way they were genuinely surprised by the fans asfjndi like thats one thing that reallllly reminds me of svt. Jeongin Lix and Jisung crying just makes me think of DK every time they do stuff like that hehe and Minho teasing Jisung about it is very like Jeonghan 🤧 I think it's really easy to adore skz because of how genuine threallykky seem, like svt they just feel different to me, special.

as for following me, the odds of me figuring it our are slim im not very good sleuthing aiozxdfg BUT I'm happy to be here for you to scream about skz anytime you want anon or not 💖

#drm.ask #skzanon

[catherinemay]

Little Corn Island Anecdotes

There are no cars or motorbikes on the island but there are a few bikes. The common way to alert walkers that bikes are coming is to make a ringing sound with the voice. 

A small boat brings people and supplies to the island once a day, sometimes twice and sometimes not at all. The cargo boat comes on Saturday but it hasn't been for 2 weeks due to bad weather conditions so this Saturday, islanders are particularly excited to see it coming in from over the horizon. Big corn gets first pick of the supplies and have also experienced some shortages recently so little corn don't really know how much of their orders will arrive. The wheel barrows arrive from all over and clutter the jetty and the island energy picks up all across. Yesterday the island went down to only fresh food that they themselves have available here - that's spinach, bananas, eggs and of course fish. They were desperate for vegetables especially tomatoes and fruit too especially mangos. The shop shelves, grocers baskets and fruit ladys trays were bare. When the boat arrived, the barrows (1 man) and carts (3-4 men) went into overdrive. The cargo was dispersed across the island as if worker ants had done the training. Some barrows had a mix of things inside probably going to one property, others had a whole load of one thing in, probably doing multiple small drop offs. Vegetables, rice, soft drinks, sanitary towels, flip flops, and and and... we even saw a foosball table. Several hours of the afternoon, into the evening and night they shifted stuff and were still working when we went to bed with the boat being reload too. We don't know what time they worked until but in the morning it was gone and the shops and stalls were piled high.

Pictured below - one of the island's 3 churches from which very loud wailing singing and dodgy keyboard music comes; restocked micro shop; restocked fruit stall; gap-year bar.

One cargo boat brought a pig. Instead of unloading the pig on the dock which would cause carnage, they usually throw it overboard to swim to shore. Unfortubsyely, since bad weather had delayed journey and the boat had arrived after dark and when then a pig was released to the water it decided to make a bid for freedom. Despite attempts by islanders to find it by torch light, it managed to evade the humans until next morning when it was found roaming the other side of the island.

The shack is a kind of, well, a shack and it caught out attention immediately. No happy hour signs, burger offers, wifi promise. Just a shack. It does amazing breakfasts - whole fish, fish scrambled eggs, coconut French bread, lovely coffee and fresh juices. (The shack is pictured below - bottom left).

In the water beneath the shack young children hurl themself into the water, chase each other, shout and holler at each other in deep Creole and entertain themselves with incredible energy. Cook puts two small breakfasts on the bench beach side and a boy and girl come to eat. The boy in particular doesn't want to miss out on play and shouts to his friend to come eat too. "Brin mi nuther food fo dylan", "no, dat your brefast" comes the reply from cook, "Ok brin nuther fork", fork was delivered and the two boys shared the meal at lightening speed. Cook tells us that since their father went on a fishing trip and never came back, he watches over them a bit while they play and gives them a meal here and there to help out. Their older brother, a feet shuffling, baggy shorts wearing teenager is less lively but helps out in the kitchen. We are told the boat just to the side is his.

We talked fishing at the cabin agreeing on a trip. The little boy from the water started chirping and we didn't understand what he said but cook responded back "no, no, nobady go fishin", he then talks to us again in his mellow tone, "he love fishin, he wan know who go fishin, he wan come with we". After a bit of negotiation we booked a trip for the next day with Samir, the teen lad and his inherited boat, Captain Jackie (or at least captain until the lad comes of age) and little 5 year old, junior Papo who wants to be called captain Willie for now like his dad. It was agreed that we were going in HIS panga (boat). "What fish would you like to catch?" We asked Papo. "Any fis, I eat any fis", "cept a poopoo fis", he adds. "What's a poopoo fish?" We ask, genuinely wondering. "Is da one da dog drop off end ov de dock".

On the 'busy' strip of the island with at least 4 bars aimed at transiant traffic and divers (gap-year bar) and another 4 or 5 local eateries, a parakeet travels up and down just for fun. Theres a few parakeets here but one goes up and down the strip repeatedly. He doesnt fly though, he travels by shoulders of whoever's going. 

A man makes simple wristbands with perhaps one bead on by working the knots down a thread connected on one end to a mental raining and the other end to his belt loop on. He sells them in a small table on the side of the walkway covering with a cloth when he goes to lunch. 

Theres loads of fish on menus and we had some lovely lobster too plus some mexican tacos one day and chicken frito another day. The coconut curry was a particular favourite served out of someone's front kitchen in the middle of the island, it was cheap too since it wasn't beach front.

We became familiar to the kids, Papo and his 10 year old sister Dana and after a few days they wanted to know why we didnt swim in their spot. They wanted to know if we could in fact swim and they required proof. We were challenged to swim to the pontoon to which we replied maybe tomorrow. Next day, when we went to the shack for a beer, they came bounding down the beach expectant of our swim. Math was in jeans but I had bikini underneath so off we went. There were a couple of races to and from a boat which I didnt know I was part of but lost. There was a ceremonial diving down to collect sand, some kind of proof we were here ritual like it didnt count unless you picked up sand. There was also diving and jumping from the pontoon and all kinds of challenges. Next day in the midday heat they caught us again. "Too hot for us right now" we said but agreed to go later at the same time as yesterday. "What time yesterday?", "at sunset", "What time sunset?", "about 4 o clock", "what time now"...they went on until certain of the appointment. At 4 o'clock we arrived, met them and swam out. After some frantic swimming from Babo, he dipped his mask in the water for a few moments, popped up again gasping and repeated this several times. He was not drowning he was in awe of Math still walking his way over to the pontoon, at least a quarter way there, he just couldn't believe after all the effort his was making, "he not swimin, he wokin". 

One walk took us across the island to the more secluded, independent digs and then North around the rural side. We walked jungle, scrambled rocks, waded and swam to get around - a really fun mission.

Another walk took us south passing by the infamous Norweegen gardener, a French style irrigated allotment system and pick your own veg business. The locals live around this end with beautiful gardens somewhere ballamced between maintained and natural. During this walk we lost the path for sometime and went a bit rogue but came across two completely secluded beach coves. 

We went snorkelling with Samir and his boat (different Captain borrowed this time). We visited 3 unique and very specific spots carefully picked out by Samir who commanded Captain to go exactly where he wanted. He came out of himself a bit more this trip mocking his Captain's efforts at social media "De older genration, hey and da facebook". 2 nurse sharks, several fat eagle rays, a star fish, sea urchins, a tame parrot fish and a whole load of other tropical fish and beautiful coral. We had strapmarks from the intense sun even though we returned before 10am. 

Fishing trip pictured below. We shared the Dutch guys barracuda but sadly Math's two very big King Fish were ones wot got away.

We realised that our landlady could help with onward travel plans and started to bombarded her with lots of questions anout options. She started to make enquiries on our behalf but she stopped us dead in our questioning and assertively said "look, lemi stir mi gumbo pot an I ge bac to you" after making all kinds of enquiries she produced what was essentially a travel fact sheet for us to use.

24 cows on the island when we arrived, 23 23 when we left. Orders places from across island on slaughter day apparently and it disappears quickly after being butchered.

Gap-Year Bar - definition - has at least 3 of the following 'qualities': wifi, takes card, hanging douchebag quotes, a theme, happy hour, menu in dollars, theme nights.