I was tagged by @leafy-m ! Thank you so much this was actually really fun (and made me realize just how much stuff i have written)
rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories. (If you have less than 20, just list them all!) See if there are any patterns. Choose your favourite opening line. Tag some people to play the next round!
1- Sometimes the best place to be when looking for new sights, or a wandering witch, is lost. ( The Wandering Witch )
2- The warm night cast a dark blanket around the edge of town in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains, only broken by the flickering lights of fireflies, and the headlights of an old—but reliable—pickup truck. (Chasing Leads)
3- Early in the morning, when the sky bled a deep purple and faded into red as the suns approached the horizon, a sandstorm hit. (The Sea, Chapter 15 of Pieces, Places and Spaces)
4- “Did you know, a thousand years ago, these mountains were completely dead?” (Team Rose Gold (revamp))
5- Beeping from the holochron interrupted Fennec’s second meal for the third time in an hour. (wip, tbobf chpt 5 and 6 rewrite)
7- All the wind whipping up sand all around his hovel couldn’t deafen the excited little shrieks of the boy climbing up the cliff for afternoon drinks. (WIP, deep dive into Luke Skywalker)
8- Tiny rocks slid and tumbled down into the pool far below Din’s feet. (And There Were Stars)
9- Luke drops all of his shopping bags to the ground almost in time to the apartment door clicking shut. (I Want It All)
10- When a modified, untagged N-1 starship hailed them from heart knows where, Bo-Katan didn’t know what to think. (Hand Holding, chapter 14 of Pieces, Places and Spaces)
11- The darksaber is haunted. (Pieces, Places and Spaces)
12- In Boba’s room, near the back of the palace, music played. (Pieces, Places and Spaces)
13- Despite what others were led to believe, Din did not use the Darksaber.
14- Their footsteps echoed in the dark stone ruins.
15- “Ok that does not make any sense.”
16- Waves of a hazy warmth pulled Din deeper into blissful quiet.
17- There was barely a knock at Luke’s door before it opened.
18- “So. This does it for you?”
19- Paz Vizsla had found his way to Fett’s palace, which meant Din was up against a wall the second they were alone. (its good to see you again)
20- It starts off as fatigue (The Favored Mand’alor)
Trends – uhhh well tis mostly star wars (Din Djarin, beLOVED) and things I haven’t finished and original stuff :0
Also predominantly either very short sentences that are supposed to grab attention or longer, more descriptive ones.
Favorite line – uhhhhh I love 2 4 and 7 <3 <3
Thank you so much again! For the next round I’ll tag @soulswimmrand @thechaospilot (No pressure) and anyone else who wants to do it :0
9: I have found that the Blues cause me to relax and get into the creative mood, but when it comes to spell casting time, I work in quite.
10: The Red Wood Forest, mountains, anywhere close to my family and friends
11: I am open about my beliefs. I don’t think I should have to hide who I am.
12: My extended family (grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins) have shunned me and said that I am a demon. It took my mom 6 months to even talk to me again. Thankfully my dad and siblings don’t care about that stuff and my sister even asks me for spells. Some coworkers and random people tell me I’m going to hell and to stay away from their pets and children when they see my pentagrams.
13: My daily witchy things I do is drinking tea and placing energies into my cooking. When I am with my nieces I always place a protection rune on them.
14: I love love love working at night. I feel like it works better with my magics and with my god/desses. Even more so if I can go to the woods or the beach.
15: I work 50/50. I have a wonderful friend that I do all main Sabbaths and maybe half the full moons with but I do most of my spell work alone.
Not every day, but some days after school Miya would help Shadow at the flowershop. Initially, he hadn’t planned for it to become a fairly common thing. He’d just wanted to bother Shadow. Poke fun at him, maybe talk to that manager he’d seemed to like so much. But when he went, an older lady had assumed he worked there and didn’t even ask if he didn’t before she shoved two flowers at him and asked for his opinion. It’d thrown him off enough he actually answered. Then the manager- Arisa, he eventually learned- shoved a bouquet into his hands and he could only blink as she shoved him toward someone at the counter, apparently deciding he would be an employee that day. Later he had learned Shadow’d called in sick and she was alone. Telling her that he was Shadow’s little sibling the first time he’d come here bit him in a way he hadn’t expected, since she seemed to think he’d been sent to take Shadow’s place. (Of course, he didn’t correct her. Not that he’d really had a chance to. It was busier than he’d expect a flowershop of all things to be. She’d paid him a little after, though. Which was nice.) After that he’d just kinda… started ending up there. More and more. The flowers smelled nice and it was a nice escape from school and the professional side of skating. Especially when he was busy. And when it was empty, it was fun to heelie around the shop with the shoes he’d convinced Kojiro to get him, making random bouquets. One of which he was even able to bring home. (It was his favourite- pink carnations and white lilies and ferns and lilacs and pink hyacinth.) It was… nice. More nice than he’d ever thought it’d be, though he’d admit he hadn’t exactly expected to end up here the first time he snuck over with Reki and Langa to bug Shadow into taking them to the onsen. Or any of the other times he came over to bother Shadow. Whether alone or not. What could he say, Shadow was fun to make fun of.
“Okay you little runt,” Shadow came toward him, a large bucket of flowers in hand, “move over.”
“Isn’t there a magic word you’re supposed to use?” Miya asked. When Shadow only glared at him and moved past anyway, grumbling something about cats and always being underfoot as he went, Miya stuck his tongue out. Even without the ‘please’ he rolled enough out of the way so Shadow wouldn’t trip. If a mess was made, they’d have to clean it up. Something he learned after an unfortunate accident almost had Arisa revoke his heelie rights. Thankfully his pleading face did wonders, even if it never fazed Kaoru. He followed Shadow outside, where the older skater filled the bucket with water. There was a low, wooden fence out here that really felt like it separated the back area from the outside world. A vine traveled up it, dotted with small yellow flowers. The shop didn’t really use them. Most of what they sold were bouquets or singular flowers and they weren’t really suited for either. But they fit the atmosphere of a flower shop. Sometimes Miya would catch Shadow taking care of them. Especially after dealing with especially trying customers. Or sometimes the day after a beef that went badly. About the second time Miya caught him, he figured Arisa put them there specifically for that reason. Next to the fence was a wooden box, which Miya rested his feet on when he jumped up to sit on the fence.
Shadow looked at him from the corner of his eye. “Shop is almost closing. Do you… need me to take you home?”
Every day Miya worked there, Shadow would ask that. And every time, he’d get the same answer.
“Nah, I have my skateboard.”
There was silence, filled only by the hose in the bucket. Before Shadow could ask a second time just to make sure- something that also happened everytime. The things Miya learned about Shadow. The blackmail . If he ever had the desire to, he could probably do some serious harm to Shadow’s S reputation. … He wouldn’t . Because he at least sorta cared about Shadow. But he could- a small, almost pitiful noise filled the air. A noise that immediately had Miya’s ears peaked. Was that-? It came again.
Mr-oow.
He turned to Shadow. “Did you hear that?” The look Shadow gave him, half worried and half concerned was all the answer he needed. He jumped down, making a meowing noise of his own in the hopes the cat would answer. It did, with the slightest delay. In a call and response, Miya kept it up until he found the cat. Bright blue eyes looked up at him from a bush. A small mouth opened wide. Me-roow? With a delighted gasp, Miya lifted the kitten from the bush. Dirt clung to short black fur and its toe beans. The hose turned off and Shadow walked up behind him.
“Oh no, we are not keeping a cat.”
Miya turned on his heel to look up at the older skater. “You’re right,” he smirked and held the kitten out to him. “ Youare.”
“What?-”
“I can’t keep it,” Miya interrupted him. “Much as I’d love to, Joe’s allergic. I’d never get it in the door.”
“Then we’ll take it to an animal shelter!”
“And leave it to fend for itself??” Miya gasped, all fake dramatic and half fake anger, as he pulled the kitten close to his chest. This was the closest he’s gotten to actually owning a cat. He was not passing up this opportunity. “Who knows what kind of people might adopt it! If it even does manage to get adopted. I can’t leave this kitten’s fate up to chance.” And he pulled out his best pleading eyes, even jutting his lower lip out in a pout.
“Why don’t you just use those on your dad?” Shadow mumbled quietly before he sighed. “Alright, alright, I’ll take the fuzzball. Just put that away already.”
Miya lit up pleasantly, just barely keeping his smile from being too smug. “Thanks, Shadow!”
“Yeah, yeah, you little monster,” Shadow said with a flat look.
Luckily they didn’t have to worry about the kitten in the shop. Arisa took one look at it and cooed. “Are you gonna take care of it?”
“Dad’s allergic so big brother said he would!” Miya quickly nodded. No backing out now.
“That’s so sweet.” Arisa smiled and petted the kitten between its ears. It let out a loud purr as she did. Miya smiled as its little chest rumbled beneath his fingertips.
For once, at the end of their shift, Miya let Shadow drive him home. After they did some shopping and stopped by Shadow’s apartment, in that order.
(“Do we even need all this stuff?”
“Of course! Have you never taken care of a cat before?”
“Have you?”
“My dad’s allergic to cats, it doesn’t count. Plus I’ve done a lot of research.”)
Shadow grumbled on his way up the two flights of stairs, carrying the litter and cat food (canned and dry). After he got this stuff inside he’d head back down for the scratching post, fluffy bed, and cat toys. Because there was no way he was going to be stupid enough to try this in two trips. In front of him, Miya jumped up the stairs carrying only the cat and the keys he’d filched. So far the kitten seemed content in Miya’s arms. It just laid there and purred. Every so often Miya would scratch between its ears and the purring would briefly increase in volume. When he unlocked and opened the door he turned slightly so the kitten could get a look at Shadow’s apartment. “This is where you’ll be living,” he said and bright blue eyes slowly blinked open. They looked around the apartment from his arms as Miya toed out of his shoes. This was actually the first time Miya’d been there, too. The apartment was smaller than his- a one bedroom-one bathroom compared to the two bedroom-two bathroom he lived in- though Miya assumed that was because Shadow lived alone. Of course that meant he’d need less space. There was a small balcony, too. Dark orange curtains were open, allowing light to enter the apartment.
“Thanks for the help.” There was a thud as something hit the ground. Probably the litter.
“Of course,” Miya said, not even looking back at Shadow. Something had caught his eye. A rectangular box outside on the floor of the balcony. Miya tilted his head and went to check it out.
It was wooden and full of dirt, with two very green, leafy plants. One of them was basically a bush and curled at least partly around a short metal stick that stuck up close to where it came out of the dirt. He was pretty sure it was a tomato plant. The second was close to the ground. This one he didn’t recognize. Both plants had very similar yellow flowers, though. Miya knelt next to it. There was a green watering can with white flowers painted onto it next to it that made Miya snort, but he didn’t touch it. “You grow vegetables?”
“Yeah, what about it?”
“I just didn’t expect you to be that much of a gardener.”
“I have plants at the store,” Shadow said.
“Yeah, but I figured those were just to impress Arisa. Guess that explains why none of them have died,” Miya said.
“What do you mean by that, you little brat?” Shadow grumbled. Miya ignored it.
“So what kind are they?”
“What?” The glass door slid open further.
Miya poked at one of the leaves on the assumed tomato plant since it was closest to him. It was sort of fuzzy. The kitten shifted in his arms and he adjusted his hold so it couldn’t jump out. “What kind of vegetables are they?”
“They’re tomatoes,” Shadow said from much closer than before. Miya looked up to see Shadow’s jaw. When Shadow moved, he looked down again to see him point at the second plant. “And these are zucchini.”
“Neat,” Miya said. So he was right. He moved the kitten closer so it could sniff at the flowers. As it did it opened its mouth to bite at a petal. Before it could, Shadow grabbed it and set it inside.
Despite not helping him bring anything in, Miya does help Shadow set everything up. Of course. He needed to make sure everything would be good for the kitten. And needed to make sure Shadow knew how to take care of a kitten- though, out of the group he definitely trusted Shadow the most with this. By the time Miya is ready to go, the kitten is sniffing around Shadow’s apartment and being generally nosy. Miya can understand.
“Are you sure you don’t want me to take you home?” Shadow asked.
“I’mfine . I have my skateboard,” Miya held it up as if to say ‘see?’ and Shadow rolled his eyes, with his arms crossed.
“Alright, fine. I’ll see you tomorrow?”
“See you at work, big brother!” Miya chirped and left out the door before Shadow could even protest. He thought about possible kitten names on his way home.
With the resurgence of Percy Jackson, I’m thinking of making a uquiz about whichrealistic godly parent you’d get (meaning no option to be fathered by Zeus, Poseiden, or Hades, and an rare option to not be a demigod at all) because I think we all need that.
Behold, the realistic godly parent quiz! And behold, apparently I’m the daughter of the God of sleep. How fitting.
[Alt text: The figure presents a comic with 9 panels. In the comic, a red-faced, hard-scrabble old farmer with gnarled hands speaks to an unseen protagonist; speech bubbles appear above the images in every panel. Panel 1: “All right you transient cowpoke scum…” Image is the farmer. Panel 2: “Wages are $40 a week.” Image is a close-up on the farmer. Panel 3: “Room and board included.” Image is similar to panel 2. Panel 4: “No dickin around. No slackin off. No Tom Foolery, ya hear?” Image is a pull-away shot revealing the farmhouse and wind turbine. Panel 5: “There will be no interaction of any kind with any of my daughters. Y’understan?” Image pulls back to the farmer. Panel 6: “If I should find out that any of my girls have been exposed to any of your course deviant sexual behavior, I will kill you.” Image is an extreme close-up of the farmer’s increasingly reddening face and hands so gnarled as to almost be tentacles. Panel 7: “I don’t want you anywhere near my,” then in bold, “Ellie May.” The image presents a sexually mature woman holding a pail of fresh milk and wearing overalls that reveal ample cleavage and cut off at the top of the legs. Panel 8: “No where near my,” then in bold large print, “Suzie May.” The image presents a different sexually mature woman, facing away from the viewer, also in cut-off overalls, which hug tightly around her very large, round butt, and standing beside a rooster. Panel 9: “Not a single word to my girl,” then in bold large print, Anna May.” The image presents a sexually mature woman with pink hair, cat ears, large eyes, orange skin, perfunctory wings, and an elaborate, skimpy outfit, holding an over-sized sword.]
I recently commissioned @knightingaleforce for this piece of art that like. Is based on an oc but also. Let’s be real. It’s basically me. Anyway I lose it everytime I look at it I am just Absolutely THRILLED.
Look at me being bad at bingo with the ? marks lol. The pairing in question is Emilio/Bruno - Emilio is @seanettlles‘s OC. He is a baker and also everything good in this world
Ahh thank you for tagging me @seidenbros!! This was fun.
The Hozier square is sort of vaguely circled because, while I’ve never used a Hozier lyric as a title, I’ve used so many Amazing Devil lyrics that I thought it kind of counts.
you had locked yourself in your room, telling the brothers not to bother you for awhile. They chose to do as you requested, but as the hours turned to days with no sign of you leaving they began to get worried. eventually after almost a week Levi decided to come check on you, convincing himself that it wasnt because he liked you or anything. he was just a bit worried. As he knocked on the door and opened it he saw you sitting at a sewing machine. Your room was a mess of papers containing images of Ruri~Chan and some other design templates, all that resembled Ruri-Chan’s outfit. You noticed who walked in and you got a bit mad since it was supposed to be a surprise for his birthday, but now the suprise was ruined. Levi’s face was tinged red and he couldn’t seem to form any words, his mind just running miles a minute as he imagined how you would look in it and certain…..other things……. When he finally speaks, he tells you that even putting the thought into this was good enough, emphasizing that he couldn’t wait to see it all finished and you in it down the line. Come his birthday you looked far better than he could have ever imagined. And as for the rest of the day, you could probably use your imagination.
