#sallyalavidze

[triflingshadows]

Giveaway piece 1 of 2, Serafina Aguilar from the game Speaker for @sallyalavidze!

[sydmarch]

I feel like it's only fair to let you know that you singlehandedly sold me on the concept of sexyman Garte. will vote for him at every chance I get & can't wait for the hilarity of Gartesweep until he's inevitably beaten by Kim 😔✊

YES!! my garteposting efforts have paid off

[mindblindbard]

hi jo :D how would you describe the ROs voices?

Sally: Emphatic and effusive, tone and volume indicative of her mood. Bright and energetic with undercurrents of restrained laughter, as if she's in on some grand joke of which no one else is aware.

Gray: Gentle yet gravelly, with posh pronunciation suitable to recording audio books. Gray's voice is warm and welcoming, deepening to the lowest registers when he's serious.

Kent/Kenna: Melodic and rich, the voice of a singer. Despite K's deliberate effort to keep their voice flat and collected, there's still a natural musicality to what few words they speak.

Glitch: Smooth and soft, the remnant of a Southern drawl fading their "t"s and blurring the pauses between words. There's a sort of rhythmic sway to their words, each sentence spoken to a different beat.

Rosy: Sharp and authoritative, a voice that demands others listen. Harshly unemotive, but saved from grating abrasiveness by an underlying husky note.

[parkerlyn]

YOU REALLY SAID "I'M GONNA GIVE THE OISEIN LOVERS EVERYTHING THEY WANT" HUH. killed me and brought me back to life in rapid succession. so much delicious food. I was giggling like a dumbass but also suffering. also the journal! and the fancy new illustrations! and "Entwined" which has me both like 🥺 and 🤔, and the fact that we can apparently [redacted] other [redacted] & that part when we [redacted] Oisein out of [redacted] and. hhggh I'm foaming at the mouth over this entire update, thank you

🥺❤️ haha yeah this update was a bit Oisein heavy but hopefully y’all enjoyed the [redacted] with all the ROs… 👀

Thank you for the sweet message!! ❤️

[kajasartspace]

Mind Blind squad summer trip 🏖

It’s been snowing pretty heavily in Poland so I felt in a mood to escape into a warm beach, at least in my imagination, haha

Mind Blind and it’s characters belong to @mindblindbard

[sev-lawless]

Me every time after I read a Mind Blind update :

[dwead-piwate-meggers]

Catching Colds and Feelings

A superhero catches a cold. A meddlesome brother attempts to play matchmaker. And Ellie Wiseman can’t resist a challenge.

Inspired by a number of @mindblindbard​‘s answers to reader questions and some in-game text.

Very Pre-Relationship F!Button/Grayson Black approx. wc: 79 rating: t, for Gray’s language warnings: none

Read it on Ao3 or below

Chapter 3 (Chapter 1, Chapter 2)

Nick Wiseman’s phone, 9:42 am

Contact: Salome Alavidze

Gray’s got a cold. I had to send him home. [shocked face emoji][pondering emoji] OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS! Care package delivery? But how to make sure they actually talk... MAKE SURE HE NAPS! [eyebrow waggle.gif] Not thinking about that! Also, not helpful. TOTALLY HELPFUL! HE PROBABLY NEEDS TO, BUT WON’T! MAKE IT A CHALLENGE! TELL HER YOU BELIEVE IN HER! … You’re a genius. And a little scary. [preening.gif] I TRY!

[smalltowndetective]

Words Held Back

This isn’t long and I’m sorry about that, but I have this small thing that I wrote for something I realized I was missing in Lev’s route home for Sally mancers, and so I had to write it haha!

(I do promise I write these two without being strictly related to book events haha!)

Ao3 Link

Title: Words Held Back

Pairing: Sally and Andrew

Words: 750

Summary: Words can be held back, feelings aren't as easily held back though, and sometimes, it slips through in the silence

The lump in Andrew’s throat had only gotten worse as the hours had went on.

               He wanted to give in to it, let the sob that was building up finally come to the surface, but he could not. He should not.

               Hold it together.

               Everyone needs you strong.

               With Nick in a coma, it had felt as though there was a part of his life ripped from the seams, and it was slowly starting to become more then he could bear.      

               And in the absence of someone who took care of everyone, gave up apart of his life in order to become his guardian (something that he still had guilt from), it had almost become like he had to be that person for everyone else.

               You have to keep smiling, always look to the positives

               Keep people hopeful, because they need it.

               No matter how much you want to break.

               Like Nick would do.

               And during the whole ride home with Lev he had tried to continue this sense of hope. Try his best to make Sally smile, try to even provide Lev with some comfort, despite not being as close to him as he was in the past.

               It was late when they got back to Nick’s house, and with Sally in tow, who was half asleep, needing to lead her out of her car as the two of them stumbled to the guest bedroom in the almost complete darkness.

               He focused all he could on moving forward, that he would get her to the guest bed and then go back to his room, but he was not expecting her to fall completely asleep leaning against his arm, and it surprised him just how much he found the sight comforting, as it felt normal. Not like the past few hours had happened at all.

               Trying his best to repress a chuckle, he gently moved to move his arm under her legs and his other arm behind her back in order to carry her bridal style, her head leaning against his shoulder, her curly red hair tickling the side of his neck.

               But he failed to realize that having her this close to him in this way would make his heart race, the still persisting crush even after all of these years never dying at all, and Andrew was suddenly thankful that Sally was such a deep sleeper, because otherwise she might have been awoken by the way that his heart felt as though it might rocket out of his ribs.

               He knew that his face had turned red at the very least, but he tried to ignore it as he came to the guest bedroom, laying her on top on the bed, and grabbing one of her spare blankets to loosely tuck her in.

               And seeing that a section of her hair had managed to fall into her face, he tenderly pushed it away, and he turned to leave, already wanting to crash himself.

               Murmured words stopped him though.

               “Love you Andrew”

               That was enough to knock the breath out of him, even though he knew how she meant it. Platonically, as the way that both had same it to each other over the long years of their friendship, with the feelings that he had long kept hidden inside locked in his chest.

               Of course, perhaps she did know how he felt, since she could sense his emotions after all. But admitting that there was something there at all was an anvil that could flattened everything that the past thirteen years had built up, and where would he be without it?

               Even more alone than he felt now.

               Being her friend is enough.

               It doesn’t have to be more than that.

               But yet…

               Regardless of all it all, he still said those words in return, even though he knew that it fell on deaf ears.

               “I love you too- and I always will”

               No matter what happened, they would always ring true, he was sure of it. They had been together from the start of this, and they would end that way to.

               With one last smile, he left the room to go to his own, having expected that it would take forever to fall asleep with so much on his mind, but the day had proved more draining them he realized, and it actually did not take him long at all.

               But no amount of sleep would be able to prepare him for what happened that next morning.