Lights! Camera! Action! by SL_22, was updated today, with 9/? Chapters released! It is Not Rated and Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, with additional tags "Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Deviates From Canon, Homophobia, Falling In Love, Hurt/Comfort, Flashbacks, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, Idiots in Love, Humor, all people, overtime, Office, Friends to Enemies, Enemies to Lovers"
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ELLIS IS MY FAVOURITE CHARACTER NOW, SORRY GUYS I'M IN LOVE WITH HER/p/j And now that Scarab's ire was released on her, he can talk to Prismo <3 And someone please let this bug man go home and sleep he's ill :[
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Breaking Routine, by ineedlemonade, was updated today, with 2/6 Chapters released! It has a rating of Mature and Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, with additional tags "Existential Angst, Suicidal Thoughts, Angst, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Attempt at Humor, Not Beta Read, Sequel, Mental Health Issues, Violent Thoughts, Developing Relationship, Complicated Relationships, Exactly What It Says on the Tin, Introspection, Forced Proximity, Unreliable Narrator, Slow Burn, 100 Years Off Screen + Additional Simmering, Trans Male Character"
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Prismo knows exactly what he's doing with the character creation programme, and it's making me go teehee >:] They're both so dumb in their own ways <3/silly Scarab's only reprieve is taking care of Old Man Prismo and even then it's short-lived </3 sorry bug boy, better get used to it/j
Corsica gives her sister a ride to school every morning. Her much younger sister. The baby, Ant. The surprise. When they first learned that their mother was pregnant again, Ajax (visiting home) had kicked Prospero (about to graduate) under the table and asked if their mother was losing her edge in tactics, not seeing that coming. Prospero had choked on his protein shake and Ulysses had tried to smother his own laughter behind his hand, and Corsica had really just been staring open-mouthed at her parents as they made the announcement.
It’s a routine, something the Jones’ are good at. Wake up at 4:30 AM, begin the workout routine, shower, eat breakfast, do some light sparring—verbal or physical, depends on the day—go to work. Corsica still lives at the compound because it’s easiest while she works at the Academy. She did her time under the Council of Chosen, and now she teaches some next generations of adventurers. Fighters.
Breaking the routine is immediately noticeable followed by thorough investigation. Antiope usually found an alternate way home from her classes, knowing Corsica often had meetings or staff duties to attend to after school. Her baby sister was often more reserved in the evenings than the rest of her siblings had been. Well, she was a brat for sure, but she could get away with it in the evenings more. Sometimes Corsica got home from work and didn’t see Ant til the next morning.
Ant doesn’t come down one morning.
Ant doesn’t come down at 4:30. Or 4:45. Or 4:50. Corsica is biting her lip as she stretches, splitting her attention between the stairs and their father, who’s complaining about missing his workout buddy loudly, pointedly.
She volunteers to go drag Antiope out of bed. Might as well get this over with. Ant knows the routine by now, and knows she actually enjoys it some mornings, and doesn’t want her baby sister to get read the lecture from their mom about the importance of physical fitness again. Corsica knows it by heart. She could say it backwards, probably.
She punches up the stairs, making noise and overall being a horrible example of her style of fighting as she comes up to Ant’s room.
And finds it empty. Bed unmade but cold, unused. Her pajamas still thrown in the corner by the little rug in front of her desk. The mirror at the opposite end of the room reflects the same thing she’s seeing: empty, unoccupied space.
Corsica checks the other rooms, just to be sure. Ajax’s and Prospero’s and Ulysses’ old rooms, which are now mostly additional recreation/work space, or set up for their mother’s tactical puzzles.
Nothing. She heads back down, asks if Ant was spending the night elsewhere, if their parents had just forgotten.
Hector stops running on the treadmill and hops off, pulling a sweat towel from around his neck and dabbing at his face, reading the look in Corsica’s eyes. Athena purses her lips, thinking. She orders another quick, thorough search of the compound. They all return with nothing, no sign or notice of Antiope.
Corsica calls the police. The detective who meets her—a goblin woman—asks all sorts of questions. Corsica was the last of their family who was with her. Dropped her off at school, didn’t give her a ride home. Didn’t see her come home. At school—which school? Aguefort Adventuring Academy.
Corsica suddenly remembers the girl from her junior class. The half-orc, the girl who hasn’t returned to classes since she noticed her absence. It may mean nothing. But two fighter students, in the same year at Aguefort go missing? The detective voices the same thought that crosses Corsica’s mind. She promises to do everything she can to find Antiope. She leaves.
Corsica calls her brothers on the way to work that day, driving solo for the first time in three years. From whatever corner of Solace they’re in, they listen, they look. They try to gather any scrap of information that may be related to where Ant went and who is responsible.
For seventeen months they are unsuccessful.
In the sixteenth month Corsica is pulled into one of the “cameras” on the property of the school. It’s a palimpsest in disguise. She is captured and held and unable to leave. She is captured along with every other teacher in the school, it seems. All of the competent staff, anyway. The former adventurers, the ones who could do something if a threat arose.
When she’s released from the palimpsest she sprints to the noise, the flashing lights and thunderous roars coming from the gymnasium. She sees her baby sister Antiope, at least six inches taller than she remembered last, her clothes all stretched and too short for her limbs. She’s firing arrows and her aim is wonky and the bow seems too short for her reach, but her sister is alive and she pulls her crystal from her pocket and group calls her family to get to Aguefort right now and the Jones’ all find a way to Aguefort in the next hour. But Corsica hugs Antiope first, and apologizes, for her and for the rest of the family.
Antiope hugs her back but doesn’t talk much. The next morning she comes down earlier than routine and finds Corsica in her room, still getting ready, and asks to be dropped off at the mall later to get new clothes.
In the light of day she can really see all seventeen months stolen from her baby sister. How angled and unsure of her new height Antiope looks. How her spatial awareness is the most off it’s been since Ant was a kid. Since around the first time she got a growth spurt.
That morning she lends Antiope some of her own gear. It’s not a perfect fit, but it will work until they get something better.
Their parents offer to give her the option of summer school to make up on the training Antiope lost to being out of time, and she refuses. She sticks to the routine. Corsica starts offering rides home after school as well. Ant refuses, but her eyes are hiding something as she says no.
In the seventeen months Antiope was gone, their parent’s didn’t touch her room except to tidy it in anticipation of her return. To come back to something orderly would be a relief, surely. To come back to routine.
But Corsica did notice her parents act a little…different, in the time that Antiope was gone. A more noticeable version of empty-nest behavior than she’d seen from them before. Not that they didn’t care or weren’t looking, but they had no kids to currently raise. Their habits shifted accordingly.
And when Ant came back, they didn’t revert back to the old routine. They kept going as is and Ant had to adapt to the new way. Corsica saw something growing in her little sister, the baby, the brat, Ant, that she had only occasional glimpses of before.
When Ant’s temper flares and she gets into staring matches with their mother over breakfast, when she says things that are wild and disrespectful and unimaginable, she’s sweating just imagining saying that to their mother, she sees that her baby sister isn’t the same girl they lost a couple years ago. She is, age wise, nineteen and going into her senior year. She will be twenty by the end of it. She is a teenager who lost seventeen months of life in suspended animation, body growing without her mind present. She is someone completely new and relentlessly familiar wrapped into one.
Corsica gives her a ride to school. She gives her advice. But she doesn’t break routine.
Chapter 3 of my Irkenswap fanfic is out today! It’s been a long time since it was updated due to some complications, but I’m very happy to release it finally! This is the art I did for this chapter. We get to see more of Gaz, and a few out other characters are introduced, too. :D
I hope you’ll consider reading my story, and maybe sharing it if you enjoy it! ^^
Yesterday was a long day for puppies. Tristan went back to bed after Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy took him out first thing this morning, instead of playing as they usually do. We thought it might just be a tired day.
Nope. As soon as Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy left, there's the young man, awake and ready for ALL THE MISCHIEF. Get up and play, now, or Tristan will steal *everything* and hide it all in inventive places!
A new work, A Cold Hand Against A Burning Shell by maxypoo, was published today, with 1/1 Chapters released! It has a rating of General Audiences and No Archive Warnings Apply, with additional tags "Sickfic, Fever, How Do I Tag, character study kind of?, this is my first fic, uhhh so, Sick Scarab, Comfort, Nursing back to health kind of, Roomates, Post-Canon, Faintness, Weakness, no beta read"
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Becoming Friends, by Somebody_Random123, was updated today, with 4/6 Chapters released! It has a rating of General Audiences and No Archive Warnings Apply, with additional tags "Pre-Relationship, Post-Canon, Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Enemies to Friends, The enemies part is one-sided, cough cough Scarab, Not Beta Read, How Do I Tag, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Implied/Referenced Torture, but very slight mention, Is it considered torture?"
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Chasing Stars, by time_woods, was updated today, with 3/? Chapters released! It has a rating of Teen And Up Audiences and No Archive Warnings Apply, with additional tags "Adventure Time AU, chasing stars au, this is like enemies to lovers but one sided enemies and lovers but they dont have a lable for it, neither of them like each other in the begining btw, Sīdus is joke flirter but then it becomes/ gen, this is prismos and scarabs therapy, they colab on the main fic, i put other cause neither of these mfs are cis, they both genderqueer in some way, some of that cosmic gore again, carma has knee problems and its totally not cause im projecting"
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Seraphyllic, by DrakianDH, was updated today, with 19/20 Chapters released! It has a rating of Teen And Up Audiences and Graphic Depictions Of Violence, and Major CHaracter Death, with additional tags "scarab the god auditor - Freeform, prismo the wishmaster - Freeform, Priscrab, ProhibitedWish, Scrabby, no beta we get turned to legos like the lich, Adventure & Romance, Story within a Story, Eventual Happy Ending, Maybe - Freeform, Author Is Sleep Deprived, The Author Regrets Nothing, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, You gotta work for the comfort, begining poem important, each chapter a word, prepare, Angst with a Happy Ending, Everyone Needs A Hug, Sad with a Happy Ending, How Do I Tag, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, I'm Bad At Tagging, I'm SorryI Will Go Down With This Ship, I Made Myself Cry, What Was I Thinking?, I Don't Even Know, Love"
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A new work, Breaking Routine by ineedlemonade, was published today, with 1/5 Chapters released! It has a rating of Mature and Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, with additional tags "Existential Angst, Suicidal Thoughts, Angst, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Attempt at Humor, Not Beta Read, Sequel, Mental Health Issues, Violent Thoughts, Developing Relationship, Complicated Relationships, Exactly What It Says on the Tin, Introspection, Forced Proximity, Unreliable Narrator"
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A new work, Distraction by Sh1pp1ng_Gr3ml1n, was published today, with 1/1 Chapters released! It is Not Rated and Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, with additional tags "ProhibitedWish, Prismo x scarab, Smut, Fluff, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Fluff and Angst, Fluff and Smut, Trauma, past trauma, Domestic Fluff, Established Relationship, wholesome smut, smut but they love eachother, Explicit Consent, Communication, consent and communication, because consent is fucking important, we prioritize consent and communication here, it is the SEXIEST thing, Bug anatomy, Scarab is a hermaphrodite, he’s got a dick AND a pussy, FUCK YEA, Alien Biology, Alien Sex, Prismo is a goddamn tease, Cuddling, Aftercare, slick, Fingering, Vaginal Fingering, Cunnilingus, Oral Sex, Rough Oral Sex, antennae pulling, Praise Kink, Tentacle Sex, Tentacle Dick, Size Difference, I’ve never written smut before, but I like how this turned out, it was fun, hope you enjoy the read, Overstimulation, Dirty Talk, Enthusiastic Consent"
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A new work, Loving Those Hips by phoenixash234flames, was published today, with 1/1 Chapters released! It has a rating of Explicit and No Archive Warnings Apply, with additional tags "Face-Sitting, Hand Jobs"
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Sans Soleil, by Cosmic_Rainstorm, was updated today, with 3/? Chapters released! It has a rating of Mature and Graphic Depictions Of Violence, with additional tags "Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse, Blood and Injury, Minor Character Death, Grief/Mourning, Slow Burn, Idiots in Love, Angst, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Scarab has PTSD, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, babys first fic, No beta we die like Jake, Human AU, Kinda, As in Prismos hair will always be pink and idc, Broken Bones, Scarab has Chronic Pain, Swearing, smoking weed, Survivors Guilt, Mentions of Suicide, Mental Abuse, self worth issues, Coming Out, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Depression, Mental Breakdown"
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