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Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

MCU

The Umbrella Academy

9-1-1

Nevermoor

something to say (1,038 words)- mog comes out to Jupiter.

The literal worst outcome was him joyfully declaring to all the hotel staff: "Mog has a GIRLFRIEND!". Very humiliating, but she had faced much worse.

That being said, her nerves seemed more reasonable.

Wunsoc in All it’s Glory (812 words) - Jack hated Morrigan because of her choice to become affiliated with the Wundrous Society, which had cost him so much in life

Ever since Jack's parents were killed on their work for the Wundrous Society, he has had a deep distrust for all those affiliated with the organisation (with the sole exception of his Uncle Jove)

Jupiter meets Squall (1,350 words) - Jupiter had never actually seen Squall, so when he walked into the hotel, Jupiter only saw an ordinary guest

Burning (5,378 words) - Squall protected Morrigan by using up the Wunder that she couldn’t. What if he hadn’t been able to?

Cursed (844 words) - what did happen to those other children? How did Jupiter save them?

Now she saw how naïve she had been. What was she thinking, going around trusting people? She was born on Eventide, after all. Cursed children didn’t get that kind of luxury.

Blipped (series) (14,484 words) - what if the blip from the Avengers took place in Nevermoor? (No knowledge of marvel needed)

Lam kept shaking in Morrigan's arms, until Morrigan's arms weren't there anymore. She could hear Hawthorne shouting and out of the corner of her eye, she saw that she wasn't the only one crumbling out of existence. Cadence reached out for Morrigan and then-

Marvel

Sighs, Smiles and Scares (4,675 words) - after a nightmare, Sam calls Bucky in the middle of the night. Things go south from here

To hell with it. He called.

The phone rang three times before Bucky picked up.

"Hello?" came his bewildered partner's voice.

Sam let out a breath he hadn't realised he'd been holding.

"Sam?" Bucky asked hesitantly, like he still wasn’t all that sure how his phone worked. "Is that you?"

"I- Bucky," he gasped.

I Just- (1,112 words) - Bucky and Sam air out their insecurities

Bucky gazed at Sam. He was probably right. Sam could have talked Karli down. That was the type of person Sam was, amazing and brilliant. A world war brewing, and if Sam Wilson had gotten another five minutes, everything could've been turned around.

But Bucky had been too scared.

Remember Me (579 words) - Loki makes a deal for Mobius’ memories

Mobius was racing through the corridors without a second's hesitation. Loki, what did you do now? The Time-Keepers wouldn’t have just handed over Mobius' memories because Loki asked politely. They would've made a deal with him. Taken something from Loki.

Bucky Barnes. International man of mystery with a staring problem (2,122 words) - Walker sees red and decides that Sam needs a taste of it too

The panic that seared through him was one that reminded him of how he had felt when Riley died. But Bucky wasn't dead. Not yet, and not ever if Sam got a say in it.

The Umbrella Academy

A Peaceful Way To Go (13,192 words) - Diego and Viktor grow up, together and separately.

Fourteen years old, Diego Hargreeves sees something he wasn't meant to see while hiding in Sir Reginald Hargreeves' office. He struggles to deal with that secret for the rest of his life.

Bathtubs (644 words) - Viktor is triggered back home in 2019, but his brother is around, thankfully

"Viktor? I'm gonna move you, okay? We're..." he glanced at the tub. Something about it had upset Viktor. "We're gonna go into the kitchen. Is that alright?"

never made it as a wise man (couldn’t cut it as a poor man stealing) (2,509 words) - AU where the Commission took advantage of Viktor’s amnesia. And hired him.

"I'm just doing my job, idiot. Can you stop asking all of these questions?"

"When did you find the time to get a job interview?"

"Stop talking to me like you know me," Viktor snapped.

Diego halted. That hurt.

9-1-1

We’ll meet again (848 words) - Chimney decides to check in with Buck after a short phone call with Hen.

there goes my miracle (walking away, walking away) (1,495 words) - Buck and Eddie are trapped and running out of air

Buck pursed his lips and nodded. He kept quiet for all of thirty seconds before standing up and saying, "Yeah, that ain't gonna work for me." He slumped down next to Eddie. "You got a watch?"

Eddie showed him his wrist. "It's been about forty minutes."

Shit. A shaky breath escaped Eddie, and without thinking, Buck wrapped him in his embrace.

Other fandoms

Summer (1,721 words) - The Rosewood Chronicles by Connie Glynn

Jamie stared at her, at her hard expression, which was so unlike what he had grown used to, the soft, happy face of Lottie Pumpkin. She had changed. She had been hurt so badly that she didn’t want to risk getting hurt again. And he was partly to blame.

All The Little Moments (945 words) - Once & Future by AR Capetta and Cori McCarthy

Just a collection of moments that I wanted to write from the Once & Future duology by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy. (Lots of Val and Merlin because I'm a sucker for them)

Code (348 words) - Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Butler died. Artemis went dark

Visiting Hours (2,754 words) - Septimus Heap by Angie Sage

5 times Alther visited the Heaps + the 1st time he visited

[nevermoorcentral]

[ID: An edited screenshot of a Tumblr post. The first part reads: "people who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on." The second part reads: "FUCK this post and happy birthday cadence blackburn." End ID]

[send-up-my-heart-to-you-deactiv]

i dont think anything compares to the joy of getting asks on tumblr or getting comments on ao3

its like, wow. human communication thru the internet. except it feels personal. but yknow, in a nice way, not in an invasive way

its like, you CLICKED on MY account and read thru MY posts and cared enough to leave me a personal message. smth so cute abt that

[roachpatrol]

one of the nice things about heterosexuals i never see talked about on here is that they haven’t already heard all your gay jokes yet. i just really appreciate having a new audience sometimes for my completely automatic responses to phrases like ‘i’ll be straight with you’. so, shoutout to all the innocent hets out there who have a genuine giggle over lame quips that a fellow queer would groan and hit me for. ilu guys. 

[andisupreme]

I recently no scoped my coworker when she asked me “What’s in the closet, anyway?” and I automatically said “me”. She lost her mind. Full cackling in the middle of the store. I never thought I’d see the day that joke would work but here I was, blessed with an unexperienced heterosexual. It was transcendent. 

[team-lionheart7]

I once had a girl working on a display where I work, and she commented, “I thought this would be straighter when I got done with it.” And I said, “my mother thought the same thing about me”, and everyone around us lost it. It was a blessed moment.

[puppybearuniverse]

I knew a kid who saw my “Let’s get something straight: I’m not” bracelet and ended up laughing about it all day and telling anyone who would listen

[pinktwink]

I told a coworker that changing the music I picked would be homophobic and she lost her shit like it was the funniest thing ever

[thelilnan]

i used to offhandedly say stuff to my customers on campus like “unfortunately i’m very gay” and it always took them by surprise. they loved it.

[bloodydelirium-deactivated20190]

I was visiting a (straight) friend recently and when he was making me breakfast he made me extra toast. I, of course, upon seeing this went ‘fuck yeah gay rights’ and he lost it. Should have seen his fave when I pulled the opposite joke, the ‘this is homophobia’ at any inconvenience. Was amazing.

[chloe-bourgeois-is-big-gay]

I was in class one time and we were talking about allergies and someone turned around to me and asked “how allergic are you to nuts?”

My friend says, “obviously not enough if she’s bi.” the class lost it.

[grifalinas]

Once I was tidying up the stockroom at work and my coworker was all “you straight back here?” My response of “not even a little, but the stockroom is clean” made her lose it

[iprayforangels-deactivated20220]

I complained to my mom that it sucks that the first gender is free but after that you have to pay for them and she lost her goddamn mind 

[miriamistrans]

I was talking to a co-worker about engine-swapping cars, specifically putting a Ford Barra in to a Miata. He said “Not sure where you’re planning on putting the tranny” (short for transmission) and I pointed at myself and said “well obviously I’d put the tranny in the driver’s seat”. The look on his face was somewhere between “am I allowed to laugh?” and “are they allowed to call themselves slurs?”

[the-real-seebs]

There’s a common thread through all of this which is that people’s coworkers are enjoying this and reacting positively and let me tell you, I did not grow up expecting to see the world be like that.

[amvs]

can’t use the internet without adblock because it’s so crowded that it’s unusable can’t read important breaking news without a subscription can’t get a streaming service without them eventually adding commercials can’t watch youtube videos without 30 ads can’t search up things on google without seeing a shit ton of sponsored results can’t answer unknown numbers because everything is a scam call can’t use essential app features without a 30 dollar subscription per month can’t watch a music video without product placement. is anyone else tired

[guzmandiaz]

christopher is old enough for regular sleepovers and late nights hanging out with his friends but he’s still happy to hang out with buck and that just. chris is past the age of making buck hand drawn cards calling them bffs but that’s still his buck. buck is the only other adult in christopher’s life who chooses him. he’s not eddie’s son to buck. he’s christopher. buck jumped into a tsunami trying to go after him. chris ran to buck when he was upset about eddie dating ana. they held each other when eddie got shot. they go to the zoo together. they bake together. they have nights just the two of them. there’s no way chris didn’t have someone’s house he could go to, but eddie said he was gonna take him to buck’s and christopher didn’t suggest an alternative because he loves him. it’s so special. he’s out of the arts n crafts phase, maybe, but pizza and movies and buck getting tagged on christopher’s insta story next to string of emojis buck doesn’t know how to decipher but that ends in two hearts, well. that’s pretty good, too.

[bicrowav-e]

[google search history]

what to do with drunken sailor

how to deal with drunken sailor

how to deal with drunken sailor early morning

[brainstatic]

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

[embervoices]

If the solution to your problems sounds like “we need a blank slate” it’s a lie. There are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is “burn it all down and let God/fate/history sort it out”.

That’s not problem solving. It’s barely catharsis, in practice. It doesn’t just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates.

Put the apocalypse down, and back away slowly.

Real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to “us good, them evil; kill them.”

[punkrorschach]

[flower-crow]

[image transcript:

Voting as Fire Extinguisher

When the haunted house catches fire: a moment of indecision.

The house was, after all, built on bones, and blood, and bad intentions.

Everyone who enters the house feels that overwhelming dread, the evil that perhaps only fire can purge.

It’s tempting to just let it burn.

And then I remember:

there are children inside.

—Kyle Tran Myhre. end id]

[ghostlycoyote0]

“Average person is beaten up by a 13-year-old three times a year” factoid actually just statistical error. Vaurien Scapegrace, who gets beaten up by Valkyrie Cain multiple times a week, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[aerodaltonimperial]

so back when i was teaching, one of the things i learned to look for were the "mood makers", as i liked to call them, of the classes. there were always 2 or 3 per class, and it was easy to find them in the first few days. you got those kids on your side, and it was a ripple effect with the rest of the students - they would all follow. so winning those kids over was huge when it came to how the year would play out. and from time to time, whenever the class was sort of faltering - middle of winter, of a big project, burn-out high - i would lean back in on those mood makers again to turn things around.

one particular class, when we had a big multi-month group project happening, were just... really struggling with getting their shit together lol. they were supposed to be practicing their presentations (english speaking class) and they were doing pretty much anything but, and their presentations were supposed to start the next class day. they were also PANICKING as i started giving out some feedback - which was NOT GREAT - as they were running through the lines they were supposed to be remembering. after realizing all of them needed so much extra work, i decided we needed to have a turn-around, so i invited one of the mood makers up to the front. i held out a cup to him, with two papers inside.

"one of them," i said, "says tuesday, and if you draw that, presentations go as planned. but one of them says thursday, and if you choose that one, everyone gets extra time to practice."

everyone was like OH SHIT. OKAY. THIS IS IT. and this mood maker, he was a big personality (they usually are) so i knew he'd really ham this up, and he did. we made a huge deal, with drum-rolls and everything, of him picking one out of the cup. he opened it up the paper and announced THURSDAY to a round of huge cheers. he was the class hero. everyone had TONS of motivation to work super hard on this gifted extra day, and really put the time in. their presentations were great. morale SOARED.

the plot twist was that both papers said thursday, because they all needed the extra time. my forever teacher advice: find creative ways to make things happen so that you get the buy-in from the class.

[tami-taylors-hair]

I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money. 

“A scam” people are fucking wild.  

[dragginage]

This happened to me, too. A woman had used WIC for the majority of her stuff (which I say from personal experience is such a long and embarrassing process) and to buy the remainder of her groceries, which included diapers and wipes, she used a card, and it got declined. I bought the other $30 of her groceries because hey, I’ve been there, and now I’m not. She was extremely emotional and began to cry and even hugged me. My mom called me on the drive home and could tell I had been crying myself, asked what was wrong, and when I told her what happened, she berated me for being “duped.” I couldn’t believe she could be so disappointed in one of her children for doing something- nice? Is that the hill you want to die on? Getting mad about people needing groceries?

[systlin]

I once paid for a woman’s bill at the vet…it wasn’t a big one, but she was trying to pay for some medication for her dog, and her card was declined. And her lip started trembling, and she says “I don’t get paid until Tuesday, would he be ok until then?” 

So I just told them to add the $20 something onto my bill, and I thought she was going to break down crying right there.

And I don’t care if it was a scam or not. Just do nice things for people sometimes. 

[flurrin]

Do good recklessly.

[solarpunk-gnome]

I think “Do good recklessly” would be fantastic word art to hang on one’s wall. Artistic people, go!

[7faerielights]

So this has happened to me but from the other side. Several years ago when my oldest was around three or so, I had my debit card decline at Walmart. It wasn’t a scam or a mistake, I was genuinely broke. Out of money. I checked my bank and discovered I had something like 7 dollars left to my name and a hungry kid and nothing to eat at home. So I sat there trying to come up with the best way to stretch that tiny amount of money to feed my kid. Not even to feed me. I can live on popcorn or something if I have to but my kid was three and he had to eat. So there I am trying really hard not to cry while I slowly take things out of my basket to get it down to under 7 bucks, when a lady tapped me on the shoulder. I looked up and she smiled at me and started putting the things back in my cart. I opened my mouth to tell her that I didn’t have the money for them but she stopped me right away and said “Don’t worry about it. It’s gonna be fine.” Then she handed the cashier her credit card and said “Ring up all of it.” My kid got to eat because of her. I got to eat because of her. I had laundry soap and deodorant because of her. She could’ve just ignored me silently struggling in that line. She could’ve decided I was a scam and gone home feeling good about avoiding being duped. But instead she chose to help me and she saved us. So maybe the person struggling in front of you is trying to put one over on you or maybe they are just sad and broke and trying to figure out what to do. You get to decide which you want to believe and what you want to do. But I’ll tell y’all, no one has ever been more beautiful to me than that lady in that line who saved me and my baby. Be like her. Be beautiful.

[29-pieces]

Do good recklessly

[lightningchaserarts]

DO BETTER. BE BETTER. STRIVE TO BE BETTER.

DO GOOD RECKLESSLY

[averagemarvelbitch]

One time, my dad and I were living the grocery store and there was a guy outside asking for money to buy some stuff to take home for his kids. It was around Christmas time. My dad asked him if he could give him groceries instead of money, and the guy immediately said yes, so my dad gave him one of everything we bought (meat, rice, some chocolates, milk, oil). At that time, my dad hadn’t gotten his paycheck because the company he worked for was going through a tough time, but he didn’t care, he saw an opportunity to help someone and he did.

Another time, my dad gave 50 bucks to a guy who said he needed to buy medicine for his kids. I told my dad he was probably going to spend the money on alcohol or something, but my dad said that “whether he was lying or not says something about HIS character, but hearing someone in need and choosing not to help when I have the means to says something about mine”.

I never forget that.

[tisfan]

“whether he was lying or not says something about HIS character, but hearing someone in need and choosing not to help when I have the means to says something about mine”

louder, for the people in the back

[imfemalewarrior]

Part of being a Warrior is doing good recklessly. 

-FemaleWarrior, She/They 

[kendermouse]

About a decade ago, I was trying to figure out how to put together a holiday meal for my little household, with only $7 to my name. We were joking around about it and stuff, because it’s better to laugh than cry, and this very nice older lady noticed us, and said it looked like we were having fun. I laughed, and told her what we were doing, and she insisted, then and there, on giving us $20 to help us out. We tried telling her we’d be fine, but she would not take no for an answer. It’s not the first time a stranger’s kindness has helped me during a rough time, but every time it’s happened, it’s made such a huge difference. If I refused to help out in turn when I can just because the person in need MIGHT be a scammer, it would feel like spitting on the kindness that was shown to me.

[coughloop]

Hi stephanie,

I hope this email finds you, as the search and rescue team is otherwise completely out of ideas

[grison-in-space]

I got an email like this once. It turned out my apartment had burned down while I was working in a rural Costa Rican resort town and had turned off my cell phone altogether, so my landlords had not been able to reach me to verify that I (and my dog) were alive.

I do not recommend the experience, but I did receive the email. Eventually.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[anumberofcatschilling]

[Image ID: a tweet that reads, "walking around without a bag freaks me out. imagine having no inventory slots. couldn't be me." /. End ID]

[daystobestholliday]

There are 257 days until HALLOWEEN

[timidsketch]

It's still so strange to me how apparently taboo it is to like a post on someone's Instagram from a month ago when there are posts still circulating on Tumblr from 1550 BCE

[roolsilver]

If he didn't want it circulating in 2022 he should have sold better copper

[beeistrying]

everything klaus does is so intricately and vitally intertwined with every single major plot point in the show and yet he is always on some bizarre side quest. simultaneously the most and least plot involved character.

[girlnephew]

[myalgicpierrot]

[ID: A graphic titled “Avoid using anti-wetland language.” It has two columns for “Instead of… Say this” and provides the following examples;

You're getting bogged down in the details. / You're frolicking in nutrient-dense mud.

Let's not muck about. / Let's not disturb the marshland.

They're dragging my name through mud! / I'm journeying through soggy terrain.

I'm swamped. / I'm immersed in nature.

/End ID.]