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@a-very-fond-farewell / a-very-fond-farewell.tumblr.com

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humble_prompt_machine (= on AO3); main @e-nord
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[niki/they-them; ADULT] this is a sideblog. minors dni.
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EVILIVE/THE AUDITORS/Beyond Evil/The Devil Judge/winter begonia/woh/lotr/mp100/fma

just a heads up: my tablet has been biting the dust since October and I had to delete all superfluous apps from there (so that I can continue to use the notes app at the very least)

you might see me coming here only once a month or so fow a while, since I cannot buy another device and my phone is almost full, so there’s no space for the tumblr app as things stand. I downloaded it on my phone just to write this post and the previous one bc desktop mode on a phone is not fun to work with. after posting this I’ll disinstall the app and go MIA for a while and I’ll check once a month for new messages and so on.

I’m sorry for the inconvenience but I don’t have the money for that kind of purchase rn. I’ll check your messages when I will be able to, in the meantime be safe and kind ok?

- Niki out

edit: if we are moots or friends dm me for other socials

Evilive is such an interesting entrance in the I Can Make Them Worse genre for me because yeah it's about the violence, it's about being your true horrible self but also it's also quite literal about having power and a big bag of cash. Here's a whole speech about how I am going to free your heart and your spirit but also have a mercedes and I'm redoing your whole guardrobe

i almost forgot to post about this shiwang agenda from three-body universe's weibo acccount. so right before the new year, three-body universe posted two year-in-review videos for wang miao and shi qiang, and they are just filled with shiwang agenda, especially shi qiang's (after all, 80% of what he does in season 1 is just being miaomiao's emotional support turkey bodyguard).

this is the shiwang part from wang miao's year-in-review.

and shi qiang's year-in-review is really flooded with shiwang agenda:

last but not least, I FREAKING CAN'T BELIEVE THEY PUT THIS IN THE VIDEO. THIS IS NOTHING BUT PURE ROMANCE. THIS IS ROMANCE AT ITS BEST:

they really down right put miaomiao's crying face in there, and tell us that is a unique and beautiful sight that shi qiang wants to look at for the entire night. I CAN'T...this is the kind of shit that you put in a love letter!!! I REALLY CAN'T!!!

whoever's running the three body universe weibo account, i love you!

if i ever become a showrunner i will actually do the fake series finalle followed by the true ending where the popular gay ship is confirmed just so i can forever poison fandom with the idea that it can happen for real and then they will truly never let that hope go for all other subsequent shows they watch henceforth. just for the sake of making the world a worse place

Someone in Glasgow please go see this for me pls. I will be there in spirit 🙏

Brief report from the flute accompaniment:

It went well! At least 100 people attended, families dogs a solid portion of Glasgow's trans community. There was a really lovely atmosphere, nice weather and a very cheerful celebratory vibe.

After short speeches from the ballhaver and the large dyke (my wife), the ballhaver was given a chupa chup and blindfolded (execution style). The balls were then duly kicked; it made a surprisingly loud dull thumping sound. She fell to the ground to loud cheers and there was a moment of silence while Taps played on the flute. The large dyke wore solovair urban hikers.

Account from the Large Dyke.

Arrived early to find the crowd already gathering, so the kick got off to a prompt start. Following some introductions from everybody and some cheery folk music from our flautist (my wife!) we got on with the kick.

I think we got good contact, the top of my boot making a good solid noise on impact. Very good atmosphere all round, people stayed to chat for a while. Were it not January it would have been an excellent opportunity for a picnic.

10/10 queer event, would happily kick anybody in the balls in the name of community.

Account from the ball haver

7am: the pressure is getting to me; I wake up and drink half a bottle of diet iron bru from my bedside table; roll out of bed, and psych myself up in the mirror - "you can do this my little pogchamp" I say to myself over and over until I decend into a stupor.

8am: I play an hour of Okami on steam to replenish my chi levels

9am: I look at my balls for a while

10am: I spend 20 or so minutes trying to decide what to wear before realising it's the subartic in midwinter and I'm going to have to dress for -2C° regardless of what I choose and opt of my trusty black Schott thermal padded winter flight jacket and a pair of loose, warm Uniqlo trousers to give my testicles room to breathe.

11am: crashing out, texting my friends to arange a substitute kickee, an understudy, anybody so I can just become one with the crowd and not go through with it

12am: the homies have arrived, I'm drinking redbush tea in a small cafe by the park; god is in his heaven and all is right with the world

12.15: "you must be here to watch me get kicked in the balls?"

12.40: a circle emerges, from within the circle a palpable energy focuses like a lens down unto me and I feel like I'm gonna pee my pants a little

12.50: cheers begin, several complete families with dogs arrive - more friends appear and assort themselves into a gathering of 'real heads' ready to watch my groin be dessicated by the firm lace of a women for woman woman with a foot loosed through the gates of war as Augustus saw fit the dispatch and return of his troops from far corners through the blessings of Janus.

12.55: I think I left the stove on

1pm: Short introductions are made, grace is shown, beautiful flute music accompanies the gathering

1.03pm: what is left of my dignity disappears up my inguinal canal; I fall to the ground and languish a moment. I can feel it more in my lower chest than I can in my groin but the humour and adrenaline lift me and I'm laughing on my feet again soon. I kneel for the last post.

There’s something cosmically beautiful about bookbinding fanfiction. Not the bookbinding of fanfiction for monetary gain (which is undoubtedly morally wrong) but rather bookbinding as a gift for someone you love. Or simply bookbinding for the sake of having the story in a tangible form. After all, doesn’t it deserve a place on your bookshelf, too?

But that isn’t the beautiful part. It is this: the melding of something new with something as old as language itself. Fanfiction (at least compared with bookbinding) is a strikingly new phenomenon. Modern fanfiction has only been around for a few generations. Bookbinding, on the other hand? It can be traced back to 2nd century India. It’s a dying art — one that’s been reborn in order to immortalize freely written words.

Even better: the scribes in India who first invented the process of bookbinding used it to create religious texts. In a way, aren’t we doing the same? Fanfiction isn’t a religion, of course, but if you love a story enough to bind it, isn’t that a form of reverence in itself? Isn’t it holy?

Yes. You make it so. The needle and the thread, the newly creased paper, the hardly dried ink … your fingers consecrate it. And as you slip the book onto the shelf, you make it a temple.

And isn’t that just lovely?

Someone should bookbind My Immortal

Renegade Bookbinding Guild members have bound My Immortal many times, individually and together!

Several members got together and collectively created a properly deranged typeset, with each chapter formatted in new and differently wrong or insane ways, and then we shared it and created binds using it as a base.

and I'm certain there are more!

Happy birthday, @a-very-fond-farewell! I figured you would enjoy seeing Mr. Abyss in a silly apron ;)

And Ga On be like: "DON'T MIND IF I DO"

... possibly connected to Who Holds the Devil, I guess, since Yo Han is cooking? The future we're all longing for, or something. Especially Ga On since he finally gets to bury his nose against Yo Han's neck like he's always wanted. That boy.

Which AO3 Tag Are You?

Thanks to @andromeda-xyz @eiluned and @theelderdemon (kinda!) for the tags!

So this was what i initially got but I was super torn on some answers, so i did it again and got this:

I dunno. I think I'm definitely the first one, and occasionally the second one!

I'll tag @dread-red-queen @himluv @beemot @silurisanguine @trash-nerd @tarasmom @badwolf626 @this-is-such-a-bad-decision @zombiefishgirl @heroofshield @drakanja @julie-spirit-finn @woundedsoul12 and anyone else who wants to do it. Idk i feel like everyone has been tagged a million times 😆 I'm so bad at tumblr.

LMAO, could not be me but okay (the whump i put my characters through though...this is where that tag comes into play)

tagging: @nineninepetals @clawbehavior @hyperbolicgrinch @theotherwhybietoldmeso and anyone else who wants to play

it's always the sweetest girlies who write the angstiest H/C fics

I got 'idiots in love', which describes me and my OTP imo. tagging with no pressure to play but much interest in your answers @godotismissingx @fr-wiwiw @bellarkeandclintashaandsuch @mid-n0vember @thedeviljudges @technitango @itsza

kinda wishing i'm something else but not even surprised lmao. i'm either very soft domestic or porny tsk tsk

thanks for the tag babe!

I don't usually reblog these but then I took the actual quiz and, WELL.

That's actually pretty dang accurate. The number of times I've written a fic with the sole purpose of fixing what I think is a mistake is... yeah.

Slow burn could no doubt also apply (as many of my readers can attest to) but the slow burn is usually just a side effect of me wanting to fix the problem so meticulously that I end up needing a minimum of 20k.

So yeah. You got me there 😆

I tag: @a-very-fond-farewell, @miss-ingno, @imafriendlydalek, and anyone else who wants to do it!

yep.. that’s me :)

thank u for the tag! (and please make sure to rest some dear ;—;)

tagging some fellow writers here just for fun : @thepointlessmasterpiece ; @zenyteehee ; @antiqua-lugar ; @fismoll7secinv (whether you are currently posting or not, you are all writers at heart so you deserve some praise and fun too 💕)

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