Best Friends & Orange Cassidy vs Miro & Kip Sabian and Penelope Ford Feud (Oct 2020 - Mar 2021)

Hey, I finally finished putting this together! (its just tv stuff, i missed any twitter tweets)

I've supplied (brief) summaries, hyperlinks, and timestamps for each show, mostly to fite/triller where you can directly watch them if you have an AEW+ sub. If you don't, I tried to include some youtube/twitter alternative links where applicable. I've also left the bilibili video ids from before I got fite/triller, they're in blue.

(My advice: feel free to skip straight to Jan 06 2021.)

It's a looooong post, so its under this readmore. You can also find it as a separate page on my tumblr here. if i end up hosting it anywhere else i'll edit the original post and put a link here as well maybe

Since AO3 is down until who knows when, I wanted to reupload my favorite fic that I’ve written in a second location— Mike Wheeler Hates Cigarettes

Written depiction of smoking under the cut

Wow it's so great how I would have nested bullet lists and then Tumblr completely changes my formatting and acts as if they're not nested bullet lists

also this feature has been around for some time (i think it came with the new editor that rolled out a few years ago?) but i love that even if you edit a post in html, you can now also use the preview tab as a rich text editor at the same time. i hate to say it but [tumblr] kind of popped off with that one i fear

You configure the fic

You post the fic

Ao3: let's mess everything you just did

Ultramarine Hymn

Summary: Vowing to grant her wish, Lloyd embarks on a new journey with Colette.

Fandom: Tales of Symphonia Characters: Colette Brunel, Lloyd Irving, Sheena Fujibayashi, Genis Sage, Presea Combatir, Noishe, Dirk, Martel Yggdrasill Relationships: Colette Brunel/Lloyd Irving Rating: G Word Count: 5205 Mirror Link: AO3 Original Post Date: 10/08/2023

Notes: This is set after The Celestial Fox. It's a fluffy fic that let me slip in a bunch more lore I missed from the original. Title from Ultramarine Hymn by Eve.

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Verse 1: Sheena

After the night when Colette had carried him through the skies, bringing him so close to the stars that he could have reached out and brushed his fingers against their never-ending brilliance, Lloyd had vowed to grant the wish she had entrusted to him with everything that he had. They would travel this vast world together, seeking out its every hidden corner. Along the way, he would point out every detail he had learned from his own journey, his heart never failing to swell in his chest at the bright smile that graced her face each time he did so. An endless deluge of curious questions would spill from her mouth, and he would answer every single one as best he could as she attentively hung on to his every word.

like, the amount of desire i have to make or post gifs in the new editor is

fun fact if we want to post literally anything now we have to use the html editor because the newer one is much like our hearing; it has a processing disorder

horizon zero dawn | aloy 19/?

In the TFP season 2 episode Crossfire, there's this scene where Megatron fights an Insecticon in an ambush set up by Airachnid, as arranged by an absent Starscream. Absent Starscream also invited all the Autobots, presumably in the hope of all of them killing each other so he could show up 3 hours late with starbucks and go 'ohh nooo what a shaaaame'.

Anyway, Megatron defeats the insecticon despite Airachnid disabling his weapons. But at the end he falls at Optimus Prime's feet and he looks up at Optimus from the floor like: "Oh... It would seem I'm unarmed and at your mercy. So tell me, Optimus... do you intend to take me alive or end this here and now?"

And to me, this is such a fun character moment for their relationship and for Megatron in particular. This is after all the s1 finale fallout with Orion Pax and the resurgence of all this tremendous history between the two characters, and Megatron has looked up, spotted Optimus, and found the exact way to make being at his mercy the worst possible experience—for Optimus.

He presents Optimus with two choices he doesn't want: kill him now or take him prisoner (with a third option (let him go?) entirely unvoiced and a whole bunch of options in between that go unmentioned—because he is also just constructing the options he'll permit Optimus. From his knees. Never change, Megs). He's just taking the opportunity to ensure that whatever happens next is going to make both of them feel wretched, and it's going to be Optimus's fault. Because wasn't Optimus in charge here?

Anyway I love that Megatron is like... There's a small but not impossible chance that he might be about to die: Optimus has seemed resolved to kill him before, or any one of these other Autobots could lose patience with this gazillion year old war and blow his shiny head off without orders.

So he's like: I might be about to die, but I'm gonna die twisting the knife in Optimus's guts.

And I think that's beautiful. *wipes a tear*

tumblr rich text editor i am going to *rip you to shreds* if you don't stop fucking with my formatting THANKS

I hate how AO3 keeps putting spaces between italicized words and punctuation. I do not have the time to go through the whole chapter and get those fixed and it throws off the whole thing enough to annoy the fuck out of me. Like, bro, come on.

day 5 of this fucking migraine, but i'm finishing the february romance roundup post if it kills me

Limbus Ao3 writers help a guy out how does one write <like this> without the html turning the <> into an html tag and sending it into the shadow realm

happy halloween!! :D you get a tool that you can use to generate the html you can use in tumblr posts for gradient text like this!

My @neveralarchbot fic is coming to an AO3 near you this week (with permission from the bot maker, of course). Here's a preview.

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[Extract taken from PCMag, December 1985.]

Researchers at the University of M***** were confused last Friday when they received their first message mocking the Decepticons—apparently from nowhere.

"Imagine Starscream answering lonely hearts ads so he can scam people," read the electronic message, which was delivered to over 500 researchers and support staff who have access to the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANet). This cutting-edge technology is used by the United States Department of Defense in research and development applications.