DancingInTheSliverGlow

thank you for tagging me @zorua-adorable !

Last Song: anna sun by WALK THE MOON

Last Book: junji ito's lovesickness collection

Last Movie: descendants 3 lmao

Last Game: fire emblem: path of radiance

Last TV Show: alice in borderland

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: sweet 100%. i have such a sweet tooth it's a bit of a problem

Relationship: single and not planning on changing that any time soon

Favorite Color: purple 💜

Last Internet Search: fahrenheit to celsius

Last Song: listening to music rn actually, so Mutual Masturbation by Scene Queen!

Last Book: Ever After High, the Story Book of Legends 🔥 nostalgia reading yippee

Last Movie: I honestly can't remember. Probably the second Bridget Jones movie?

Last Game: Super Princess Peach (DS). Would've been LBP if my crt tv didn't crash on me

Last TV Show: Dogtanian and the three muskethounds 🗣️

Sweet/Spicy/Savoury: Savoury!

Relationship: insert lesbian flag here. gf :]

Favourite Colour: Purple!!! Exclusively because my favourite OC's favourite colour is purple

Last Internet Search: "heaven peep through the blanket of the dark" (exams..... 😣)

Gonna tag all my mutuals below the cut because honestly it's so satisfying to tag big bunches of people haha! Hopefully I don't miss anyone I'm so sorry if I do!!! And anyone else who wishes to can join as well ofc :3

Last Song: "Space Age Bachelor Man", but specifically Em Kase's.

Last Book: From Beirut to Jerusalem, by Thomas Friedman

Last Movie: ???

Last Game: A Let's Play of SDR2, from MaxofFewTrades.

Last TV Show: The latest Jeopardy episode last Friday.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Sweet, all the way!

Relationship: insert nebularomantic flag here

Favorite Color: A specific combination of blue and brown.

Last Internet Search: "danganronpa memory key" (JP Fangan)

Last Song: Well....I tend to listen to fanmade Pokemon tracks but for the last actual song I say Spitfire by the Prodigy, I'm not a listener to actual music tracks.

If you are looking for my actual music then its the Pokefighter Legends series as those are some good music.

Last Book: ???

Last Movie: Avatar the Way of Water, its a really good film and the graphics are out of this world. I really need to watch Sonic 3 at some point...

Last Game: Jurassic World Evolution. I'm trying to 100% this game, its not going well...

Last TV Show: The Masked Singer. I don't know why I watch it given I don't care about celebrity culture, but the costumes are sick.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Savory without question.

Favourite Colour: Red which is ironic given my sona doesn't have any red on her.

Last Internet Search: "Gumiho Mythology" for research material for something I'm drawing.

//Alright time to tag some people to do this then and I'll tag:

@spyrkle4 @laugtherhyena @poisonrozen @alizachan @tired-writer-in-progress @dragon-in-the-watery-bowl @xi-virtuous-vices @lorrikal @kaijulord @randdodraggo

Last Song: Sleep Well by CG5. Figured I'd finally get around to hearing the sorta-official theme for Poppy Playtime.

Last Book: Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Edition. I love the little commentary bits Watterson does.

Last Movie: I'm going to go with Turning Red. Really nice and fun, even if some scenes I have to skip for the sake of not dying from cringe.

Last Game: Mario Party Jamboree. I'm very much a casual gamer.

Last TV Show: Don't remember.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Savory, no doubt.

Favorite Color: Purple

Last Internet Search: Trying to get tickets for a local wrestling event to check out the sport for the first time.

Okay, 10 people to tag.

Last Song: You're the Best Around by Joe Esposito.

Last Book: Godzilla vs Kong novelization

Last Movie: Rogue One

Last Game: Mario & Luigi Brothership. Didn't get very far now that I think about it, I should pick it up again soon.

Last TV Show: My Hero Academia

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Savory is also really good.

Relationship: Currently single but hoping to change that

Favorite Color: Red

Last Internet Search: The Star Wars Wookiepedia page for a Gaderffii Stick.

Last Song: Clueless, by Beach Bunny. I haven't heard the song yet, but I was watching the Todd in the Shadows videos of best songs of 2024, and this recommendation hit the spot just with what little I could hear from his voice over.

Last Book: The subtle art of not giving a Fuck. I picked up because I have anxiety, RSD and other stuff that really makes me a worry wart, and so far? It has actually been helpful.

Last Movie: Glass Onion, I watched with my family and it was pretty enjoyable.

Last Game: Minecraft, but I had just been doing creative, and what I do is that I go to villages, make the paths walkable, and then left and do some more.

...Yes I know how this sounds, I am very autistic thank you very much.

Last TV Show: Beastars season 3! I finished with my cousin yesterday; I actually read the manga, so it was enjoyable seeing his reactions.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: That's a hard one, since when I cook I try to involve all three, but I guess Sweet. I have a sweet tooth.

Favorite Color: Blue, I guess? It is hard for me to think of a favourite.

Last Internet Search: How to donwload your amazon books with calibre.

This is a PSA for anyone else who has those because amazon is a bitch is and is about to stop us from downloading our things.

Now to tag 10 people.

Last book: The Two Towers, JRR Tolkien

Last movie: The Return of the King

Last game: Stardew Valley

Last TV show: (I honestly couldn't tell you, I don't watch a lot of TV)

Sweet/spicy/savory: depends on the day, but mostly sweet!

Favorite color: purple or dark green

Last internet search: starkist tuna class action lawsuit (don't ask)

Tagging ten people!

Last Song: Crazy Train Remix by Ozzy Osbourne (it's helping me imagine action scenes for fics I will never write)

Last Book: that wasn't a course-commanded textbook? 😭😭 uhhh either a Percy Jackson or Hunger Games excerpt, although I own both series.

Last Movie: Justice League 2017!! (Hello yes, I am a newborn DC fan now. maybe expect a small fanfic)

Last Game: Among Us

Last TV Show: some old show that's probably 1.5 times my age I have no idea the name of it, sorry XD before that... I watched the last episode of the Queen's Gambit? I think that was the last? It was a long time ago tho.

Sweet/Spicy/Savory: Sweet!

Favourite Colour: i don't have a fav but I'll go with green.

Last Internet Search: "why do people ship superman and batman so much reddit"

Finished reads-

Tower of God-

rip my ribcage open and devour what's truly yours by cuttlecuttlefishfish (@a-tired-corvid) - I loved this so much! This was such an interesting fantasy au. I loved the way all the characters were there and were intertwined with the story! And too sweet the two of them.

Red String of Fate by Mysweetland - I loved this one so much!! The fatefullness of it all! And great angst.

A Marriage of Desperation by DancingInTheSliverGlow(@dancinginthesliverglow )- NAH CAUSE I WAS THINKING OF THIS READING THIS PART. Really fun fic! Loved it <3

Heaven official's blessing-

My Crystallized Love, Tenderly Wrapped Around Your Wounds by Kida_K83- This is such a sweet idea and I really loved it !

9-1-1-

like a bolt out of the blue by fallingthorns (@fallingthorns)- I adore this fic. I have read it so many times and it slaps every time. It's just too sweet!!!

Break Glass in Case of Emergency by Beforeastorm (@beforeastorm) - This is hilarious. I loved this so much!!

We had Matching Wounds by Beforeastorm (@beforeastorm) - This was such an interesting take on Buck's parents and I really liked the viewpoint from Chris. This makes for a great story!

the distance to the stars by cloudydaisies- OH MY GOD. This was so good like. It was so sweet and I loved the relationship between the two of them. This is such a worth while read for the building chemistry and just the joy of it all. Like the quotes about distances and love had me on my knees. You will know it when you read it. Trust me. AND it is by the same person who wrote "ice cream before dinner"!!! Read it. Then go read "ice cream before dinner".

Anyway imagine an AU where after Luke's death in TLO, Hermes was supposed to guide his soul down to the underworld. But he just can't bring himself to do it. Hermes just can't. Because deep down he knows that this is his fault. That it was his fault that Luke grew to hate the gods and ended up dead from it. He abandoned Luke and May. He left his son alone, hiding behind a prophecy because he was too lazy to inept to put in true effort.

It's easy for one measly human soul to slip by in the chaos that Kronos' resurrection brought with it. Luke doesn't know any better- he's never been dead before. So when Hermes doesn't lead him towards the underworld but instead into one of his own domains- a safe little space even the other gods won't notice- he follows easily. Mortal souls are truly.... conscious so close after death. It's like a trance for them, a haze they only wake from one they reach their destination of the underworld. That's why they need guides like him afterall, lest there's the risk of them getting lost. Hermes isn't stupid of course. He knows he can't just keep Luke's soul outside the underworld like that- even if he hides him in his own domain sooner or later someone would notice a displaced soul. Luke needs a body. Luckily for Hermes he has plenty of other kids around. And hey! Don't look at him like that! He knows that what he is doing may not be the most.... moral of things. Sure, he may have ripped out the soul of one of his younger kids with blonde hair and blue eyes- and sure, that may have meant the death of the child. But it is for Luke.

It's for his and May's darling little baby boy- the boy whose blood soaks his hands. What more is the blood of another child of his on his hands?

WHY

HOW

It's not Hermes' fault Luke is dead. He did everything he could while not breaking the canon no-interference laws. he paid attention to Luke, he gave him gifts, he gave Luke a quest when Luke asked for one and the oracle didn't have anything for him, he sent demigods to help remind Luke of who he was and to stop his destructive path. was he a good father by mortal standards? fuck no. was he a good father by godly standards? yeah - one of the best actually.

After 3000 years of seeing the Fates ALWAYS getting their way whenever they want something, it makes sense how depressed and hopeless Hermes was when he found out through May's curse (also not Hermes' fault - he warned her and she didn't listen) that Luke was destined to die horribly.

Hermes doesn't kill one of his own children to get a body for Luke. As much as he loves Luke, he loves his other children too - watches him, if less intensely, he cheers for them silently at their chariot racing games, keeps track of them and sends them winged shoe gifts for birthdays etc.

However.

After the war ended, Hermes found a child with blue eyes and blond hair, dead. Maybe a mortal child. Thanatos had already reaped their soul and carried it to the underworld. the wound they died from was a mundane one - not sophisticated greek weapons, or poison from Tartarus - it was a stabbing that hit an artery.

it's child's play for Hermes to gather the body, fix the severed artery, replenish the blood. heal the tissues that started to deteriorate from oxygen loss and plop Luke's soul into it.

I don't have any more yet but if I do write this, I'm thinking it has to be a mortal's body. I don't think Hermes could tolerate implanting Luke into his own other dead child - he cares about the rest of them too. another demigod body wouldn't work because the godly parent would probably be furious about Hermes disrespecting their dead kid's body - unless they were seriously negligent. I suppose it could be a demititan, one that went back to their previous imprisonment or was 'killed' like hyperion. I like mortal better tho - it seems like a better choice for Hermes because mortals are generally let alone by the greek world & prophecies and that aspect would appeal to Hermes. a second life that the Fates don't tamper with and let Luke live peacefully.

Also thinking about writing this from Percy's pov? He's hanging out with Hermes and for awhile now he's known that something is up with his friend, but Percy doesn't know what and he knows that if Hermes won't tell him there's nothing Percy can do to force him. but eventually maybe during the solstice kid!Luke runs away and Percy gets a phone call from frantic May like "can u pls help my dead son in the body of a dead kid has run away and my godly ex-boyfriend isn't responding to my prayers" and Percy spends a good 10 minutes unpacking that (he knew Hermes was acting less miserable than he shouldve at Luke's dead based on the way Percy saw him acting in tlo) before calling blackjack and heading to Miami (I think that's where May lives - tho i imagine they move somewhere else in an attempt at a fresh start).