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In celebration of Silver's birthday, I wanted to draw one of my favorite moments ✨🌰🧚🏻‍♀️

This scene really left an impression on me. never fails in making me tear up too. 🥲💕 found family of it allll 💕

Still version:

warning: some of these lines are excessively cheesy and also nsfw.

riddle - i want to study you like you're my notes and do you like you're my homework.

trey - are you a pastry because i'd like to fill you. ;)

cater - heeeyyy heeyyy wanna be more than /j? ;D we can be /srs instead. <3

ace - i'm in love with you.

deuce - can i take you out? on a date. not to kill you. i would never. you're really cool and i think we should go out like best buds do. you and me together. a date. for best buds. a best buds date.

leona - bed's empty. come warm it. don't make me wait.

ruggie - starving rn. lemme feast between your legs.

jack - can we be lifelong mates?

azul - you must be my glasses because i can't see clearly without you.

jade - mushrooms double in size every day. may i show you a special species that does the same whenever i look at you? :)

floyd - life's hard. essay's hard. dick's hard. :/

kalim - just so you know, i don't need to use oasis maker on you to get you soaked. :3

jamil - you'd look pretty wearing a collar with my name on it.

vil - you would look very beautiful tangled in my sheets. shall we make this opinion of mine a fact tonight?

rook - let me inside, mon amour. in more ways than one, of course. <3

epel - you're the apple of my eye... (the follow-up text: that was so corny. can we just fuck instead?)

idia - jk but not rly but jk wannawatchthisnewshowtogetherinmyroomjustthetwoofuspleasesayyes

malleus - child of man, allow me to bestow upon you a most glorious gift: my surname.

lilia - if you'll allow it, i would love nothing more than to give you a delightful green gown.

silver - would you be willing to sleep beside me tonight? i'd like to meet you in my dreams.

sebek - HUMAN. YOU ARE OKAY.......FOR A HUMAN. VERY OKAY. YES.

rollo - i yearn to kiss you and taste sweetness on your lips, and in return you can taste the sin on mine.

neige - you're really so cute!!! i wanna be more than friends. :D keep this a secret, though. don't tell (name)!

che'nya - you're purrfect in everything, but nothing is nyat bad either. lemme come over and prove it. ;3c

fellow - are you in the market for a husband? i know a great candidate. i'll introduce you free of charge! it's on me! (the follow-up when you ask if it's him: no, i'm talking about hellow fonest.)

skully: it would honor me so if you could be the sally to my jack. (and then in a string of various messages: please please please please please please plEASE PLEASE PLEASEEEEE)

Trey - was drunk and it was probably a dare, he'll be really embarrassed about it and blush deep red and hide his face, but he's also chuckling. He wasn't kidding, yknow.

Cater - tipsy and will add a thousand "jk!!"s the next morning. He doesn't want to ruin anything, we know this to be true of cater, he likes a status quo that he can blend into. But if, yknow,,,, youre /srs about it,,,,,, jk unless 👀

Ace - was so drunk and if the hangover wasn't bad enough, he wakes up to see that message and oml he wants to crawl in a hole and die it's so embarassing he doesn't even want to see your response.... throws his phone across the room and will be avoiding you for a while. You're gonna have to chase him down lmao.

Deuce - drunk but thinks he played it pretty cool. Is certain you have no idea about his burning crush on you. Even though when you confront him about the best buds date he continues to stumble over his words and blush madly.

Leona - stone cold sober. And is mad if you made him wait.

Ruggie - was drunk but is shameless about it and will try to guilt trip you into letting him feast

Jack - was drunk and is embarrassed, but mostly because that is not how he'd like to ask you to be his lifelong mate! He wanted to do it in person, and a lot more personal... let him do over?

Azul - was drunk and is so embarrassed by the cheesy pick up line. He's finding his octopot to hide in while he comes up with all sorts of different contracts to make sure you never tell anyone. (Tho if youre like me youre just gonna kiss him when he tries to get you to sign and NDA teehee)

Jade - tbh this is a 50/50 he could be drunk or just tipsy or stone cold sober but he would not need liquid courage to send that shit. When you confront him about it he'll just ask, "well, do you?" :)

Floyd - stone cold sober, honestly just trying to work on his essay when all he can imagine is slipping into you 😔 please help him this is lowkey your fault

Kalim - was drunk. "Whoa, I wrote that??" Is honestly just impressed with himself and wants you to get him drunk again so he can see what other "suave" stuff he can say 😭

Jamil - doesn't matter if he was or not because he'll claim he was drunk (which like.... wtf happened that JAMIL allowed himself to get drunk???) and will probably just try to gaslight you about the whole thing. While also being like... well, you would. (He is secretly very embarrassed and just trying to play it off, show the man some mercy)

Vil - was a lil wine drunk, but is only embarrassed if it made you uncomfortable. Otherwise he stands by it (even if you are a spudling)

Rook - was sober and was making direct eye contact with you from outside your window. He wrote the message while smiling and waving at you. You thought you were drunk.

Epel - just a lil of meemaw's specialty cider that he snuck when Vil wasn't paying attention,,,,, (Rook allowed it because it was interesting). He's gonna be red as an apple the next day. But he'll be very happy if the response is positive

Idia - he was planning to ask you all day and kept putting it off by saying "im not ready yet," getting himself drunker each time, just to have enough courage to send that. It was almost immediately proceeded by so many "jk jk jk jk jk pleasedonthateme"s and tbh if you responded affirmatively he'd probably pass out. He's probably gonna be drinking more if you do agree for the same reason he was drinking in the first place 😭

Malleus - he was drunk but he stands by it. You gave him a nickname, now hes giving a surname. He believes it to be incredibly fair and benevolent of him. And also please say yes

Lilia - :) (doesn't matter cuz he was serious about it.)

Silver - sober, no drinks necessary, was just genuinely asking

Sebek - was sooo drunk and he honestly cannot BELIEVE he was so cavalier as to say that to you!!!!! How embarrassing... such a moment of weakness! HUMAN! YOU MUST NOT TELL ANYONE!!

Rollo - miscalculated how much wine he was having and let himself get drunk, and now he's so embarassed. He really is feeling the part of the lowly sinner... please forgive him. Or better yet, forget it ever happened.

Neige - was so drunk, and like riddle, he was drunk on barely anything. Maybe a beer. Or half of one. Hes a lil bit embarassed, but no more than some pink cheeks while looking up at you through his lashes.

Che'nya - another one that feels really 50/50, but hes not gonna be ashamed about it at all.

Fellow - drunk and will play it off as a joke... but also of you're not gonna take him seriously, maybe he should've charged! Humph. Hes contradicting himself and won't commit to either side (not until he knows which way to play it to win your heart or soothe his wounded one...)

Skully - another one who was probably drunk on barely anything (and/or someone spiked the Halloween punch!) and he'll be sobbing in the toilet when you find him, mourning your love. He won't even realize you're, yknow... you, and will be confessing even more of his feelings for you at you. Then he's gonna pass out curled around you. And, yes, he will be scandalized when he wakes up in a bed with you (even though you're both fully clothed).

Swing - sober and so so desperate please just respond to Mr. Swing

Sorry that the apostrophes are like nonexistent my autocorrect is GARBAGE and im too tired to go back and fix em all. Also my spelling and autocorrect in general are pretty bad so yeah there are mistakes but uhhhhhh,,,,,,,, I was drunk or something idk I post so rarely anyway dont come for me 😭

VS how the fandom treats Ace:

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!

It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.

I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?

How many relationships? How much writing?

You may think this won't happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.

You spout off one yo mama joke, not even a full roast just "your ma" like "no you" levels of flippancy, in heartslabyul and you instantly draw so much aggro that they kill you on sight

You can speed run pre overblot Riddle crashout by shooting "your mama" joke at him when he starts going off about you and adeuce's behavior. You think ace made him mad with his goading?? A single "your mother" type joke is the emotional equivalent of curb stomping a land mine in that situation

His squeezes had to be smaller. Subtler. A light tug on your sleeve when you start to walk away. He holds the fabric gently between his thumb and the knuckle of his index finger. You could easily pull away if you wanted to, but his gaze will follow.

He decorates you with objects. Wrapping streamers from a party you're cleaning up around your shoulder. Tying a long strip of receipt paper from the lounge register around your waist. Blindfolding you with a sweaty sock after practice to see how mad you get.

He hooks his foot around your leg when you sit at the same table, no matter who else might be present. Jade was once quite irked after Floyd reached past his leg, kicking it aside and getting dirt on his pants, just to tap your ankle. You have to be careful when it's just the two of you because he'll gradually tangle his leg around you, more and more, until you've got a merman practically sitting in your lap, binding you to the chair.

You hear him running up behind you in the halls, sneakers thudding against the stone, just to stop at the last second and hook his arm around yours. He barely touches you. Simply links his arm around your elbow and continues on his way to class. You might get dragged to his classroom if the bell is about to ring.

The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixate–neurochemical signaling (I hope I’m using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)…people like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply. 

significantly: the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady “return on investment”–and this return has to start fairly quickly. because again, we don’t have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual “low batteries” in that regard.

that doesn’t mean these stories are “simple,” or that they lack complexity or value–only that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low “upfront cost.” these stories are only “easy” to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readers–they are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).

the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with this world and these characters. that–combined with the shorter average length of fics–means that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. that’s not a bad thing! and maybe it’s something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.

I can pick a hurt comfort or a slow burn or an angst with a happy ending.

I can remove the tags I don’t want to see, I can check word count,check if it’s finished and it’s so much easier than books

I know these characters and I see them in my mind so they can pull me on journey into a world I love, unless it’s au universes

You were married off to the king as a young noble woman. The arrangement was rather rushed in your opinion, not that anyone asked for it. The king only needed a show queen, a quiet but present symbol for the kingdom and you suited well enough for that.

He didn’t need a wife for pleasure, he had plenty mistresses for that and he seemed to be in no rush for a successor. You suspected it was because he had no intent to hand over power to anyone else anytime soon. Although, that's just what you assumed, others never blamed him for it. You were always the target of the hushed whispers and silent accusations of infertility, unruliness or even infidelity when it came to the subject of an heir.

The people's gossip aside, it was an easy marriage. You didn’t have to share a bed with a man you didn’t love and you didn’t have to raise his children. Many more deserving women would kill for such a life, which only made you feel worse about the utter discontent you felt. It was the loneliness, mostly. Such a privileged life and yet not a single companion in the world to share it with.

The king and his advisers only speak to you when they need you to make an appearance as queen. Their orders always dripping with condescension and near mockery. They’ve made you smile and wave for hours, waltz until your feet blister and recite a holy text’s worth of pompous poetry, but this most recent ploy was particularly concerning.

You sit on your throne next to your husband, hands in your lap, staring at the colourful figure in front of you. The bells on his ridiculous hat jingle as he bows his head so low they almost touch the marble floor. Quiet chuckles emit from the nobility crowding the massive ballroom and the unease in your stomach only builds.

....This is Halloween!