#this is what we call progress

[verfound]

MINIFIC: Oct. 23: Day 10: Full Moon (MLB, Lukanette, DLM AU)

Continuing from Ch8-9. Let's see if I can stay caught up. 😂

For @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers October Minific Challenge 2023.

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To Feel Alive Again: Ch10: Full Moon

“That won’t work, you know.”

Marinette jumped at the voice, and that was probably the proof of his words right there.  She tried to scowl at Luka, but she found her face didn’t want to cooperate.  She turned away instead, tipping her head back against the chair she had brought up to the roof a few hours ago and glaring at the moon.

It had no right to be so pretty, she thought as she took another long drink from the bottle in her hand.  The world wasn’t pretty.  It didn’t deserve pretty things like that full moon above her when it had such ugliness inside.

“At least share,” Luka sighed as he dropped to the roof beside her, plucking the bottle from her fingers and taking a swig.

“No one invited you,” she bit, snatching the bottle back.  Luka coughed as some of the alcohol went down the wrong pipe, and she smirked as she tipped the bottle back.  The lip was wet from…well, his lips.  Gross.  “I only share with people I invite.  This was a solo party.”

“Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s bad form to drink alone?” he asked, taking the bottle back.  She glared at him, and he lifted an unimpressed eyebrow in turn.

…she probably looked like a grumpy kitten to him.  He was condescending like that.  The asshole.

“Stop checking up on me,” she said, turning away with a huff and slumping back in her chair.  She pulled the blanket she’d brought up tighter around her shoulders.  It was an indulgence she had gotten with her first post-death paycheck: a thick, pink, Sherpa-lined throw that was sinfully soft and kept her entirely too warm.

She loved it.

“I’m not…” he started.  She shot him a Look, and he sighed as he leaned back on his hands and looked up at the moon.  She tried to ignore the way it lit up his eyes, making them shimmer in its soft glow.  “Ok.  Fine.  I’m checking up on you.  But I’m checking up on you because I wanted to, not because Mendeleiev is making me.”

…huh.  That was new.

“…why?” she asked, glancing over at him.

“Because she’s a bitch and dealt you a shitty hand,” he said.  His fingers tapped at the roof, and when he glanced over at her he offered her a small smile.  “…and I missed you.  And when Fred told me what happened, I started to worry.”

“Softie,” she chided, and he sighed as he looked back up at the moon.

“I’m afraid you might be right,” he said.  He was still smiling.  “Tell the others and I’ll kill you.”

“Isn’t that going to be a little hard?” she asked, nudging his knee with her foot.  “We’re already dead, Luka.”

“I’m pretty determined,” he said casually.  “I’ll find a way.  Even if it’s locking you in my closet until I finally get my own lights.”

“Asshole,” she giggled.  A comfortable silence settled between them, where they just watched the moon and pretended they could see the stars beyond the city lights.  It was nice, she couldn’t help but think.  She was finding Luka was nice.  Or, at the least, he wasn’t as prickly as she had initially thought.

She was starting to drift off, the exhaustion of the past few days meeting the quiet comfort Luka’s presence offered to lull her towards the sleep she desperately needed.  She might have missed his question, if he hadn’t nudged his knee back against her foot.  Her lips twitched with a smile as she looked at the roof before her, where their limbs were barely touching.  Where they were stretched out like the old friends they might have been another lifetime ago, had she been born a few years sooner or he had been born a few years later and they had both lived past the brief spark of twenty-something.

“He would have liked you,” Juleka had said.

She was starting to think she would have liked him, too.  Back before he was dead.

“Are you ok?” he asked, his voice soft in the quiet night.

She blinked tired eyes at the moon and thought of Abby Rousseau, the little girl who had been senselessly snuffed out even sooner than they had been.  She thought of the undead man beside her and the quiet comfort his presence brought.  Of Fred, downstairs, worrying over her like the papa he was because he couldn’t worry over his own little girl anymore and she no longer had a papa to worry about her, either.  Of Théo and even fucking Mendeleiev, their merry little band of reapers slipping through life on the periphery.  They didn’t have much anymore, but at least they still had each other.

She supposed that had to count for something.

It had to be enough.

“…no,” she answered.  Her hand slipped out of the blanket and reached for his, and she smiled when he threaded his fingers through hers and squeezed.  “But I think I will be.  Thanks, Luka.”

“Any time, Marinette.”

#miraculous ladybug #luka couffaine #marinette dupain-cheng #lukanette #endgame lukanette #lukanette endgame #lbsc october minifics 2023 #to feel alive again #ml fic #ver fic #dlm lukanette au #dead like me au #this is what we call progress #reapers can't get drunk #mason tries his damnedest but their metabolism is too high #if anyone needed the lore behind him saying that won't work #I don't think I actually stated that here 😂

[mccoalminer]

Alison Bechdel

#alison Bechdel #dykes to watch out for #ive been thinking about this image a lot partly because that right there is what we like to call a shared experience #but also because of the god damn gender of this dyke in particular #dtwof holds a special place in my heart because as a comic strip about queer/butch experiences it feels like a rare insight into how wlw #felt in the 80s-00s and especially over that progression. its not about traumaposting or sending a message #it was just dykes going and not to play into a cliche here but i think thats beautiful #just lesbians living their lives #i always think of it like if the f.r.i.e.n.d.s. cast was replaced by a group of gay ppl living politically charged lives #only without making the gay ppl the butt of the joke lol #ive forgotten what i was trying to sau with these tags but basically these two lil panels feel like a lot like home to me #gender #oh no i used the dreaded quotation marks in my tags and it has ruined the order of the tags #the 8th tag was supposed to say something like 'its just dykes going 'this reminds me of a dyke i know' ...' #7th tag not 8th i cant count #the point is #i tried

[exilethegame]

Finally tackling the rewrite + port today... <33

#yeehaw bby this is what we call progress #pheo talks

[wellthatschaotic]

whenever i see someone who is like "yes but [x] isnt as oppressed as [y]!!" or "[x] is widely accepted now!!" as a way to like. disregard queer people's experiences. i'm just like. have you been outside? have you been in the real world?

#im just. #infighting is so dumb #'you're tme so you can't talk about-' first of all. we're not tme. transmasc =/= tme. honestly tme is a dumbass label anyway and has just #become a 'progressive' way to ask for agab #what do you think a boy/masc person in a dress reads as to transphobes. you think theyre gonna apologize if i say #'actually im transmasc not transfemme' #thats not how that works- #every time we try to correct our pronouns we get stopped because it's 'inappropriate' and 'uncomfortable' #same with every time we try to explain our gender #and yet there are still people online trying to judge if a complete stranger is 'queer enough' to count #(and if they're 'not' the reaction is like. death threats for some reason??) #and im always like. GO OUTSIDE. PLEASE. #the queerphobe on the bus does not ask for your labels before calling you slurs. the bully harassing you will not stop and apologize if you #try to say 'i'm not [x] actually im [y]' #they do not care. they are full of hate and they have already decided on a target. #also? you have no right to a stranger's labels and life experiences #trying to demand that is already creepy. especially since your goal is to see if they're worthy of respect #ok rant over i think. just. ahhghh

[flowery-king]

HES IN MY BRAINN GAH

bonus furry form ideas for him and his brubber:

That Soleb drawing pokin out on the right was drawn by this bitch @wackulart mwah

#i feel oh so powerful rn yall cant even look at me with judgeful ehes #ill shoot you down bAM #anyway #monster hunter AU #compiled all of them #might as well #fgarart #he calls me cat and speaks to me in spanish i aM DEAD #hm whats that? do we have a ship name? you're insane #... #it's a work in progress #edit: new tag #werewife tag

[kreachvera]

my son he has 73 diseases and turned evil .

pwab au zappa. pwabba if you will

#the circumstances of the ghosts stays the same in dis au #i think that his thought progression on Oh God Why Is This Happening To Me stayed the same as well #but instead of seeking out just Faust #he tries to find anyone who can understand this and help him #ofc he did this canonly as well but to various superstition from the results #so!!! #cue: an experienced doctor with 10(+?) years of paranormal research under his belt #crow at least has like. scientce to explain it #even if he’s totes wrong about some parts of S-Ko (looks at the PEAB entry that calls her a mental parasite) #but ah well. #ofc crow would have to be less of a freak. or else we get a repeat of her interaction with zappa in his route. erm…. #crow if he was actually helpful would be soooo beneficial to . everyone….. oh well there are other doctors #(love u faust) #anyways this isn’t an au on what i think should’ve happened or whatnot. just a fun what if #…..and me being mentally ill.. #also.. head/chief of paranormal operations has a pretty sick ring to it #again. not 100% happy on this design. might rework it sometime #he’s cute though. i can stuff him into a sock #and smash him on the floor #smiles #guilty gear #zappa guilty gear #s ko guilty gear #crow kuruwaba #robdesigns #robart #thoughtz #ignore that ive forgotten the zippers on his sleeves for like. all the images. they’re there #whimpers

[brittanaotp]

From "that's my girl"

to "that's my wife"

#brittana #santana lopez #brittany s pierce #This is what we call ✨progress✨

[badassindistress]

~🌺🌼⚘Squashed Flower Stays⚘🌼🌺~

This summer I followed a workshop on natural fabric dying or tataki zomé, or as I like to call it Squashed Flower Dyeing with a Hammer!

And me being who I am, I decided to immediately graduate from test strips into making fabric for stays.

The technique of this is that flowers naturally have pigments. If you place a fresh flower on some cotton or linen, sandwich it between some more linen and smash it with a big rubber mallet, those pigments get squashed in your fabric. You get a coloured squash print of a flower or leaf:

Then you wash your fabric in iron sulfate (your fabric goes yellow and your print goes black) white vinegar (your colours stay, reds go pink) or alun/aluin (your colours fix but go more purple).

The sad thing is, the colours fade very quickly. The fresher your leaf, the brighter the mark, but even the vibrant colours fade when they come into contact with the sun :(

Anyway, it turned out very interesting and was great fun to do for an afternoon:

Stay tuned for the turning it into stays part!

(Link here when I get to that)

#i was too busy hammering to actually take a picture of the mallet #my stays kept colour the best #i pre-treated the fabric in alun and afterwards put it in vinegar and did not wash it after #and ironing to fix it #a talia original #talia's adventures in dressmaking #excerpts from my life #sewing progress #squashed flower stays #the technique is Japanese #searching for it will probably give you the exact how to's #natural dyeing #this was hard on the hands #we all got blisters #great to experiment with though #sunflowers worked great at the start but faded terribly #grapevine actually kept it's colour #it's fascinating #i just found out that the English call it 'pounding flowers' so #make of that what you will

[emmaspolaroid]

putting Ayshe and Norman in a small space together and locking the door

#studying them under a microscope rn #what happens when they’re stuck on a group project except the rest of the group couldn’t actually come #no Ray to mediate no girlfriends for either of them and no strategy! just the two of them and vibes #if Norman walks away without a hand-shaped bruise on his face i think we can call it progress

[pyr0cue]

Man I try not to get involved in online trans discourse because it’s so fucking stupid. But something about watching a 16 year old nonbinary kid be beaten to death by cis girls while people debate what kind of trans person has it “the worst” is just. So tiring. We are so focused on debating the validity and morality of different genders while children are being beaten and left to die by their peers and adults who are supposed to protect them. Does anyone else feel like they are going insane.

#idk maybe it was someone threatening to stab me for being trans #or maybe it was watching the people who called me and my trans friends slurs physically attempt and succeed to harm us #get no consequences not only from adults but my peers #or maybe it was watching my friend literally be abused by their parents out of identifying as trans #or being told I was addressing transphobia too emotionally #all while supposedly living in a progressive state #but I truly and honestly do not care whether you think nonbinary people are less oppressed #than binary trans people or not. truly and honestly I do not care #because I have seen in my incredibly short life so much violence directed at any trans person #regardless of the direction they transitioned #because newsflash. transphobes don’t care if you amab or afab they think you don’t deserve to live no matter what #THIS TURNED KIND OF INTO A VENT #but guys WHAT are we doinggg. what are we doing. #vent

[icejello]

Okay svsss fandom give me your thoughts

So i was thinking about that scene where sqq jokingly asks the system if it ever worked with the harry potter franchise before and got inspired to write a harry potter au for svsss. The characters that would be involved are bingqiu and moshang but i can't figure out what Hogwarts house they would be in so do tell me your ideas.

How the story would go?

Basically the system malfunctions and suddenly transmigrated the 4 of them into the Harry Potter world. They can only escape if they help protect Harry and figure out who's the evil person trying to kill him (it's going to be centered in book 1). The problem? None of them knows about Harry Potter and so they're in a panic trying to solve who the evil person is without realizing Harry practically could not be killed because of the prophecy.

#svsss #bingqiu #moshang #harry Potter au #does this makes sense? i hope it does #will i be able to finish it fast? probably not seeing as i have 2 other wips that are still uh in progress #but i want to write them panicking in Hogwarts so bad #binghe and mobei would be the confused ones like what just happened??? what is this system??? #while qinghua and qingqiu are losing their mind yelling at the system #cue a very confused binghe going 'shizun? what just happened? do yk what this system is???' #cue mobei just staring at qinghua hard bcs he can see that qinghua seems to know what the system is and wants explanation #cue cumplane panicking about two things #1) how tf are they gonna figure out and save the kid by the end of the school term #2) how tf are they gonna explain to lbh and mbj about the system without outing themselves #they won't be part of the first years there #I'm gonna make them get isekai'd into some random made up senior students bcs i think it would be funnier #bcs then we also see them trying to figure out how to fit in their new character #also cue a confused lbh and mbj questioning the language that they're hearing for the first time #but for some reason understand it #does lbh stop calling sqq shizun? no and it complicates matters for sqq to explain to ppl who thought it was his nickname and calls him that #would sqq and sqh ever read harry potter? idk tbh but i think of them as someone who mainly reads only webnovels here so take that

[cakebatteronabrickwall]

One of these days Roman's gonna have a massive epiphany on why he enjoyed being the special little guy for Eduard, Mencken and Matsson so much

#the dots are connecting it's only a matter of time #and say it with me that's what we call progress #eduard provoked the most insanity i will die on that hill #makes 100% sense why he never appeared again but imagine he had #what ever became of the football club... #succession #succession season 4 #roman roy #hbo succession #lukas matsson #jeryd mencken

[hanzajesthanza]

it kind of bothers me that witcher fans don’t really unite under sapkowski’s name like other fans of fantasy authors do (e.g. “tolkien fans”).

in practically any other fandom of fantasy books, save for the particularly rancid authors known for their disappointing and shameful behavior or views (e.g. jk r*wling), it’s just regular business to say the author’s name. but sapkowski’s name is treated like a dirty word in the witcher fandom, for really no good reason…

it must be asked — what is stopping us from doing so?! why don’t we call ourselves sapkowski fans. it would be much easier than saying “i’m a fan of the witcher, but only the books, i don’t consider the various adaptations canon, etc. etc.” … “half a hundred words, when three are enough!!”

#i was just thinking about this today. can we call ourselves andrzej sapkowski fans beginning now or what #note that i said GOOD reason #meaning that it’s not like sapkowski is a conservative #the witcher books #txt #like sapkowski has done and said stuff that i dont approve of or like #the alcoholism at cons for instance hem hem (though ive also heard that type of behavior was standard) #he’s said a few cringey things about women and lesbians but nothing worse than your typical old guy would #specifically i’m referring to the ‘i dont hate women i - he he he - positively love them!’ which is actually just everybodys granddad lmao #and the ‘i dont know about why my characters are lesbians - though i can be sure im not one’ #that kind of stuff just makes me shake my head and laugh #but its not like he has done heinous shit like some of these authors running around loose out here #i mean i think it’s mitigated in part that he’s a private person with no twitter account #i also disgaree with his points from there is no gold in gray mountains but i also dont know enough abt what hes talking about to understand #understand FULLY at least. i understand some but not all. i think i understand just enough to disagree #but he has expressed a lot of progressive points which also come through in his series #what i mean is: hes not a terrible person. so why do people act like he is #ALSO i think if we united under his name then there would be more inter-series fans #ive always wondered where the fans of the hussite trilogy are (online). is there an online fanbase? #and if we do that then we can get more and better translations hopefully #like theres still no official translations for a ton of his short stories

[pocima]

I have plenty of foul things to say about every single one of the disgusting pigs that made Karina feel even slightly remorseful because of her romantic relationship and dating life. May all of the “fans” that felt like she owed them to stay single to fulfill their fantasies with her and the boundary-crossing demented shipper “fans” that forced a completely imaginary personality on her live miserable lives with not a single moment of happiness or coping through their so-called favorite people. May SM face their downfall in the near future and may the humanoids of Dispatch fall off the face of earth.

#.txt #are you NUTS? AN APOLOGY LETTER? FOR DATING SOMEONE? WHEN YOU HAVE A NOW CONFIRMED SEX OFFENDER REDEBUTING? #what “trust”? MENDING WHAT “TRUST”? #when these so-called “MYs” and K-pop stans were harassing HER and making HER the butt of sick jokes for days? #we will never progress as a fandom and K-pop will never progress as an industry. these cycles keep repeating but the fans have amnesia! #I have no hope for this “community” whatsoever. go to hell. #however I hope the apology was forced by that company and she actually couldn’t care less.

[2fortred]

artblock has pretty much cratered my motivation again so here’s a HEAVY wip of a cookie quartet :3

#8 hours of progress so far- nothing is done but we ball #my art #slushie art #cookie run #cookie run ovenbreak #cookie run kingdom #cr wizard cookie #cr gingerbright #cr gingerbrave #cr strawberry cookie #cookie run art #cookie run fanart #cookie run gijinka #is that what they’re called here? It’s been a couple years lol #also NO this is not going to be a cookie run blog I’m still madly in love with the TF2 men #I’m just hashtag multitasking

[doodlboy]

Turning the obey me men into my ocs they don't belong to solmare anymore

#fuck solmare #nightbringer sucks ass #“oh instead of just giving players what they want and giving characters routes and more screentime” #“we'll just fuck everyone over and start from the beginning and erase any progress or character development we gave them in the base game” #“let's make satan get over his daddy issues arc with lucifer for the billionth fucking time and then we'll just keep doing it bc why not” #“let's give beel and asmo 0 character development or screen time so anyone who enjoys them has to spend a goddamn fortune-” #“-just to read fucking scraps we give them in devilgram” #“lets make the only canonical poc in the main 7 constantly get berated and called a greedy scumbag by his own family” #i fucking hate solmare #i only consume obey me through me making MY versions of the cast and thru other peoples fan work bc at least they give a shit #sorry but also not sorry I'm pissed off at this stupid ass greedy game company #hypmic doesn't have this problem bc the characters actually have motives and shit. solmare is just fuckin lazy #obey me #obey me nightbringer #elliot rambles