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So I'm waiting a fic about jayvik because interacting with jayvik fans has been like wearing an oxygen mask in this moment of my life

If you're into modern AU, scientific competition, slowest of burns, friends to enemies to friends to lovers, petty lab wars, soul mate shit, then i will leave you the link :)

I leave you with some screenshots of fluffy moments because God knows we need those in this economy.

Please feel free to interact if you feel so inclined. Makes my day every time.

A Comprehensive Guide to Archive of Our Own Filters

It’s complicated, I know. I’ve been using the website for years and there’s still stuff I don’t understand! I thought it’d be a nice idea to add a little guide for the filters on here for all those who need it. Enjoy!

What is Archive of Our Own?

Archive of Our Own, called Ao3 for short, is an “archive for transformative fanworks, like fanfiction, fanart, fan videos, and podfic.” (Official Statement on the website.) It’s a place where fans can find and enjoy work from the others within their own fandom, as well as upload their own work!

What are Filters?

On Ao3, Filters allow users to narrow down their searches so that they can find the specific things they’re looking for. BUT, the Filtering system — as well as the tagging system — on Ao3 can get a little complicated.

That’s what this guide is for, so continue on!

Understanding Filters

After selecting a fandom to search in, you’ll see the following image, slightly varied depending on if you’re on desktop or mobile:

(I’m on mobile and I used the Naruto fandom as an example.)

Upon clicking the Filters button, you’ll see a number of choices and drop-down menus:

I’ll be going over these in order!

What is Sort By?

The first option you see is the Sort By menu. Upon clicking the drop-down menu, there are nine things to choose from. What Sort By allows you to do, is choose the order you want your search results to appear in. If, for example, you want the longest fanfics with a bunch of words to appear first, you would click the Word Count option.

If you want the most recently updated fanfics to appear first, you would click the Date Updated option. If you want the fanfics to appear in an alphabetical order (A-Z), you would either click Title or Author.

NOTE: 

Numerical Order — Word Count, Hits, Kudos, Comments, Bookmarks.

Alphabetical Order — Author, Title.

Chronological Order — Date Posted, Date Updated.

Include or Exclude?

After Sort By, there are two sections: Include and Exclude.

If there are tags you want to see, make sure to select them under the Include section.

BUT, if there are tags you do NOT want to see, select them under the Exclude section.

What are Ratings?

Content ratings are used for games, TV shows, and movies. They rate how suitable the work is for its audience, and Ao3 does the same.

Ratings are as follows from most widely suitable to least suitable:

General Audiences - E for everyone can read it!

Teen and Up Audiences - 15 and up, leave the children behind.

Mature - 18 and up, sorry teens, adults only!

Explicit - Even some of the adults left the room. 🤐

Not Rated - In limbo, the author decided not to use a rating.

What are Warnings?

Warnings are assigned to works that contain triggering content that can make readers upset or uncomfortable.

Ao3 Warnings are as follows:

Major Character Death - If a work includes an important character death that doesn’t happen in the source material.

Graphic Depictions of Violence - If a work includes gruesome scenes, blood, murder, death, torture, or fighting.

Underage - If a work includes minors participating in illegal acts, specifically regarding sex.

Rape/Non-Con - If a work includes scenes where non-consensual sex takes place.

No Archive Warnings Apply - None of the above warnings are included in the work.

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings - For one reason or another, the creator does not disclose the warnings in the tags, or the warnings just don’t apply.

What are the Categories?

Ao3 Categories allow you to pick the relationship dynamics you wish to search for, or exclude from your search. They are as follows:

M/M - Two male characters in a relationship.

F/F - Two female characters in a relationship.

F/M - One female character and one male character in a relationship.

Multi - More than one kind of relationship and/or a relationship with more than two people.

Other - A relationship that’s not covered by the above categories.

Gen - Fics that aren’t primarily about shipping or explore different types of character relationships.

What are the Fandoms?

Obviously, fandoms are the different fan communities for pieces of entertainment media (musicians, games, tv, anime, etc.) Since you usually select the Fandom you want before filtering, this might confuse you, but it does have a purpose.

The Fandoms section allows you to choose other fandoms within the one you’re searching for. This is for crossover fanfics, or fics that take inspiration and story elements from more than one source material.

When you click the Fandoms tab, it shows you the top ten most used fandom tags under the fandom you’ve already picked. My example fandom was Naruto, so Naruto is the first fandom that shows up.

What are Characters?

The Characters tab shows you the characters in the source material of the fandom you’re looking in. It shows the top ten most used character tags within your search and the amount of fics that they are tagged for in parenthesis.

Select their names to include/exclude different characters.

What are Relationships?

Under the Relationships tab, it shows you the top ten most used relationship tags for the characters within your fandom. The relationships might include characters from other fandoms as well as the commonly written Blank Character/Reader or Blank Character/Original Character fanfics, if that’s what you’re looking for.

Select any of them to include/exclude from your search.

What are Additional Tags?

When you click Additional Tags, it shows the top ten most used tags in general for your fandom that don’t apply to the prior sections. Here, you’ll probably find the Alternate Universe tags, the Angst tag, the Fluff tag, and other common subjects found in your fandom’s fanfiction community.

Other Tags To Include/Exclude?

If the tag you’re looking for couldn’t be found in the previous options, then type it into the Other Tags search bar and you’ll likely find it. If it's a common tag, then it’ll show in an autofill selection pop-up underneath the search bar. If it doesn’t show up there, then you can still type it in yourself and see if you can find any fanfics that fit your search.

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Now, after all that, there’s still a few more things to tackle, and that would be the More Options section. Under More Options, there are miscellaneous things you can choose to further refine your search.

Crossovers?

We talked about crossovers earlier! Under this section, you can choose one of three options: Include Crossovers, Exclude Crossovers, and Show Only Crossovers.

Include Crossovers allows crossover fanfics into your search, Exclude Crossovers removes crossover fanfics from your search, and Show Only Crossovers is for if you’re only searching for crossover fanfics.

What is Completion Status?

Completion Status is how much of a work is finished. Here, you have three options: All Works, Complete Works Only, and Works in Progress only.

All Works includes both complete and incomplete works in your search. Complete Works Only filters out any works that are not finished. Works in Progress Only filters out any works that are finished.

What is Word Count?

Under Word Count, you can decide how long you want the fanfics in your search results to be. Depending on the amount of words you specify, it will filter out any fanfics that do not fit into your range.

There are two search bars. The first search bar is labelled From. The second is labelled To.

If you put a number in the From search bar, your search results will only show you fanfics with a word count that is equal to and more than the number you searched for.

If you put a number in the To search bar, your search results will only show you fanfics with a word count that is equal to and less than the number you searched for.

Putting numbers in both search bars will give you fanfics with a word count that falls between the two numbers.

What is Date Updated?

Under Date Updated, you can search for works that were updated within a specific time period.

Like the Word Count tab, there is a From search bar and a To search bar. Clicking on either of these search bars should cause a mini calendar to pop up, where you can select the date that you want to specify.

If, for some reason, that does not happen, then the date format should look like this: YYYY-MM-DD.

If you put a date in the From search bar, your search results will only show you fanfics that have been updated on that date and afterwards.

If you put a date in the To search bar, your search results will only show you fanfics that have been updated on that date and previous.

Putting dates in both search bars will give you fanfics that have been updated within the time span you have searched for.

What is Search Within Results?

The Search Within Results search bar allows you to further specify what you want. Here, after you select all your tags, any thing you put in this search bar will be found in the title or summary of your search results. You can search for specific authors or specific phrases, if you want. NOTE: all the stories you search for will have all the tags you selected.

There’s a small blue question mark next to where it says Search Within Results, and that gives you instructions on how to use special characters/symbols to include or exclude which words you’d like or would not like to find.

What is Language?

After choosing all the different tags and all of that, you have your last selection option. Here, you’ll see a drop-down menu where you can choose one language that you want all of your search results to be in.

Anddd… done!

When you’re ready, click the Sort and Filter button and your search results will pop up!

I hope A Comprehensive Guide to Ao3 Filters has been helpful for anyone confused about the filters and search options. If you’ve got anymore questions, don’t be afraid to ask.

ℋ𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 ℛℯ𝒶𝒹𝒾𝓃ℊ!

Taxomin, out! ⭐️

I'm trying to find a fiction I read about a year or 2 ago on Ao3.

It was a Batman fanfic where all the Robins(and maybe all batfam not sure) and Alfred were blaming Bruce for them being Robins.

After a bit Bruce snaps and basically say he never wanted the kid to be Robins. Bruce just wanted to be there for Dick cause Bruce saw his parents die in front of him to, took Jason in cause Bruce didn't want him to be fighting to survive, he brought Tim in cause he found out about Batman and was being neglected, and he expected Damian cause he wasn't going to turn away his son. Bruce didn't want them to be Robins but thought if he didn't make them sidekicks they would just follow him in to danger but with the training and end up hurt or dead so at least as sidekicks they'll be prepared. He just want to do the responsible thing.

After saying that everyone kinda goes quiet and the kids all goes " oh damn we made him make us, it's our fault we're fuck up" and they feel guilty and now Bruce is sad and emotionally drained but then I think they all apologize to Bruce

“You got your power from All Might, didn’t you,” Bakugo said softly. He stared at Midoriya as if daring him to challenge what he said.

Midoriya blinked at him. So, this was what Bakugo had wanted to talk about. It seemed stupid for them to come all the way out here. The two of them stood in ground beta in the dead of night, past curfew. If Midoriya had known that this was what it was about, he wouldn’t have come at all.

Too late now.

Ever since the camping incident, Bakugo had been feeling confused, bewildered, a little angry, confuzzled, tricked, fooled, bamboozled, and unhinged. Things just weren’t making sense to him. It was like he had woken up that morning to find that his dad had an anger problem and his mother had become the sweetest creature on earth. Or gravity had shifted so that he could walk on the ceiling.

Why had Izuku saved him? It didn’t make sense. Midoriya didn’t even like him, didn’t even acknowledge his presence when they were standing in the same room. Sure, Midoriya had saved him before, but that was different. This time he was inviting himself to a world of pain. Bakugo had been scared, but if he could do it all over again, he would have had Midoriya stay. The kid had broken arms for goodness' sake.

Have you read multi-chapter fanfic and you kudos it cus it's good but then the author posts something that ruins it and you're all like "I need that kudos back, thanks"

I guess the thing is I have been betrayed by fanfics, and I wish I had the power to take my kudos back

Hello everyone! So I kinda just wanted to talk about this book I have been reading for the past couple of days and I just wanted to say that I absolutely fell in love with it! I honestly don't even have the right words to describe how much I love it! Like the story and the lore is just so interesting, it's also interesting how they depict the lore and the story in the actual game that might or could happen later on in the future, even if it is just an Au they came up with. It also gives us some ideas as to why Red wanted people for his little experiment or whatever he is trying to do or accomplish. It's just so interesting how they picture everything. Oh! and before I forget the story is also on wattpad if anyone wants to read it on there instead. As much as I would like to talk more about it, It's hard to find the right words to even describe anything. I do highly recommend that you read it yourself, buuuuut I do have to say that the story does contain a lot of gore and other sensitive topics that may trigger some people so please be careful before you start reading(I know the book already gives you warnings n stuff but just wanted to give some people a heads up). Please support this person on their other social medias like tiktok, Instagram, etc. Anyways have a good day, night, or afternoon! Love you all! 

For those of you who want to lock all of your works with all the silly AI scraping of AO3 (which AO3 is recommending you lock your works, as stated in this post)

Here is a quick and easy guide of how to edit ALL of your works at once.

From your Dashboard click on “edit works” on the far right. This will bring up all of your works that you can select.

Select all the works you want to edit, then hit “Edit” at the bottom right.

Scroll to nearly the bottom of the page where you find “Visibility” and select “only show to registered users” and then update at the bottom.

That’s it, all of your works have now been locked without having to go in and edit each fic individually.

I hope this helps!

Quick question!

Should I kill this minor character's mom?

Why I should: good character development, creates conflict with her friend who thinks the people that killed her mom were pretty legit

Why I shouldn't: it will make me have to write MORE, it will create conflict, it was in the original plan but I'm kinda just not feeling it anymore

GUYS IK I HAVENT POSTED ON HERE IN LITERALLY FOREVER BUTTTT I POSTED THE FIRST CHAPTER OF A JEFF THE KILLER FIC ON AO3 IF TOU WANNA SUPPORT ME THEREEEE <333 IM GONNA POST THE FIRST CHAPTER ON HERE WHEN THE SECOND CHAPTERS DONE BUT UNTIL THEN MY AO3 USER IS gerardwaysnumber1fan

Moments Chapter 4: Yoaki

Ao3 Link

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(I've failed this challenge but whatever, I'm going to keep going.)

Warning for kinda Unhappy Ending

Donnie had always known he and his brothers weren’t human. Anyone could have known that. Humans had five fingers on each hand; humans had skin without scales, humans had a body temperature of 36.5–37.5 °C.  

He and his brothers were not human.

When he had seen the hidden city for the first time, Donnie’s first thoughts had been: Oh me gosh! Oh me gosh! Oh me gosh!  

His second thought was: Wow! Wow! Wow!  

I had taken twenty or thirty thoughts before he had made the shocking realization.  

The people who lived there were like them.  

Yoaki. That was what the people in that city called themselves. That’s what he and his brothers were. The discovery had made Donnie start wiggling in place and flapping one of his hands. He had a name now, a label, a name for the “what” they were, to go along with the “who” they were.  

He felt the relief and excitement of a missing piece slotting into place, intensified by the fact that his family wasn’t a mystery anymore.  

They weren’t different anymore, they were just yoaki.

-

The first time Donnie questioned that theory was when Draxum revealed he had created them.  

Created. Made.  

The words carried an implication behind it. An implication that their existence wasn’t entirely natural. That they weren't born from the biological processes that were normally used to create life.  

But Donnie had put it aside. It was just the villain being dramatic. Besides, maybe yoaki reproduction was different than humans. Maybe yoaki were made instead of born.  

That must be it. After all, they were yoaki.  

-  

Donnie’s discovery regarding his and his brothers’ identity was next called into doubt on their second visit to Run of the Mill. When Mikey had chirped at Raph gratefully Raph had caved under Mikey’s puppy eyes and had ordered ice cream for the table. The waiter, some kind of snake yoaki, had startled at the chirp and stared at Mikey for a long second. Then had seemed to come back to themself and asked Raph to repeat the order.  

It had reminded Donnie of the early days with April, how she had to get used to how they acted. How she had walked in on them in a turtle pile and given them a look with a furrowed brow. How she had seen their old heat lamps and asked about what they were for and then had looked at them with pity when they said that they needed them for the winter months. How she had wrinkled her nose when she learned they lived in the sewer.  

April didn’t do that anymore. She had ended up with her own reserved spot in the turtle pile, she didn’t show pity or worry when they were resting under the heat lamps, and she had gone swimming with them in the sewer tunnels. Donnie didn’t feel “other” with her anymore. But the look on that waiter’s face had brought back all those memories, and Donnie felt himself sink into the booth, trying to hide.  

The others hadn’t noticed the waiter’s look, of course they didn’t, they never did.

-

Donnie had convinced himself that it didn’t matter. One weird look wasn’t enough to disprove his theory.  

His brothers and him were still yoaki.

-

The next challenge to his theory came from his father when he had told them about the lab and their creation, about how they had started as just tiny turtles, and how they had been made to be weapons.  

Donnie had sat and thought back through every memory he had, his life flashing before his eyes.  

He remembered Raph’s insane strength and the way he went Savage when left alone for too long.  

He remembered how Mikey would curl up in his shell and not come out for ages if he was scared, how he would stop talking mid-sentence to stare intently with a single-minded purpose at anything that moved.  

He remembered how Leo would always subtly check everyone’s pulses seemingly at random, and how he could sit underwater for minutes at a time and never come up for air.  

Donnie remembered how he would grit his teeth to push back the urge to just bite whatever was annoying him, how he could smell like a bloodhound if he wanted, and how he would-  

No.  

No. No. This didn’t mean that they weren’t yoaki. They were just turtles that turned into yoaki. They had to be.  

There was nothing else they could be.

-

The last thing that completely destroyed Donnie’s hope came from Baron Draxum.  

He had been doing his best to connect with Barry, at least for Mikey’s sake, and it had actually been going well. The two had found common ground in the realm of science. Donnie would almost say that he had been having fun with his...  

With Draxum.  

Then, Donnie just had to be an idiot and open his mouth.  

“So, why did you want turtle yoaki for your army? And why couldn’t you just find some in the hidden city?”  

Barry didn’t look up from where he was reading over Donnie’s blueprints for the Turtle Tank as he answered.  

“Well, for starters I didn’t make yoaki. Second, I-”  

The rest of the words turned into white noise in Donnie’s nonexistent ears. (Tympanum. His mind said.)  

“Yes, we are.” He said cutting off Barry, causing him to look up from his reading with a frown.  

“You are what?”  

“We’re yoaki. Me and my brothers. You’re wrong.” Donnie tried to sound confident and glare down the Baron, but he could feel his resolve cracking. Draxum looked back over his glasses with annoyed confusion.  

“I made you; I know what you are. And you’re not yoaki.”  

Donnie felt himself brake at the words.  

“Then what are we!?” He snarled at Draxum. The alchemist leaned back, surprised at the sudden change in Donnie’s tone. “What are we?! Because we’re not human! And despite how we act sometimes, we’re not animals either! So, tell me! WHAT ARE WE?!”  

Donnie was heaving and shaking staring down at the floor with wet eyes. He then slumped and fell into his chair, trying to calm himself.  

“You’re mutants.” Donnie looked up at Barry, who was looking at him with a look that Donnie couldn’t read.  

“That word doesn’t mean anything,” Donnie said, defeated. “It’s just another name for freaks.” The hope that he and his brothers could be anything more than accidents of nature and science dying in his chest.  

After a second the Baron leaned back with a huff and gazed at the ceiling.  

“I’m not going to try and challenge that idea; it seems to be buried too deep in your subconscious.” He closed his eyes and let out a slow breath. “And I am sorry I don’t have a better answer to your questions. Somethings are just mysteries.”  

“I don’t want to be a mystery,” Donnie whispered. Barry didn’t respond.  

The two just sat in silence for a few minutes, the alchemist not knowing what to say, and the turtle not able to force the words out, then Draxum turned to his creation and took him in.  

“Do you wish for me to leave?” He asked, and Donnie nodded. “Shall I fetch your brothers for you?” Donnie shook his head, he needed to be alone to think. To accept this information. Draxum just nodded.  

“Try to talk to your family about this. They may be able to help you.”  

Don just curled up more and watched Barry walk away.  

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Thank you for reading. Let me know if there is anything I should work on.

Thank you to @sariphantom for hosting the Rise August Challenge, which this is inspired by.

@nickelodeon Please save Rise.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THIS IS SOOO GOOODDDD , SOOO NICEWWEW , WELL WRITTEN, I LOBE ITTTTTTT , THANKYOUUUUUU FOR MAKING THIS!!!!! IT MADE MY DAY 😭😭😭😭😭😭🗣🗣🗣🗣💫💫💫💫💫💖💖

PLEASE GUYSSS , DO ANY OF YOU HAVE OR GONNA WRITE FANFIC OVER THIS CUTE GUY, I AM IN DIRE NEED 😭😭I CANT FIND ANY FANFICS ,AAAAJHJJJHHHHH

My oc story is now available on AO3, read here you need to have an account to see it. I'll be posting it on both tumblr and ao3 from now on

AO3 Was scraped for generative AI

Perhaps this is already common knowledge on this app, but I have yet to see anything about it in my feed. If you are unaware, an AI tech company called HuggingFace recently had a user by the name of nyuuzyou scrape our beloved AO3.

This scrape included over 63 MILLION fanfics written by the hard working, passionate, and incredible people of every fandom. The scrape was conducted with the intent of using the data to generate AI fanfiction and fiction. If you have a fanfic on AO3 that has an ID between 1-63 200 000, and is publicly accessible (not restricted to registered users), then your work was scraped and used in the process.

AO3 admins are currently searching for solutions and some kind of retributions. Until then, make sure to limit your works to registered users and show the real writers that you value their time and contribution to fandom.

More about it here

sigh both my fics got scraped by the ai thing 🥀

Dear god, today I got a notification from tumblr that this blog is two years old…

That just feels so wrong. Maybe because I only started being on here regularly in mid November of last year (I got pulled in by wanting to know peoples thoughts on the new MCR stuff, shout-out to all those fuckers, now I’m addicted to this app) and only made my first reblog a little over a year ago. That’s not even accounting for how recent my first original post is.

But uhhhhh yeah the passage of time is freaky. May this blog last many years more and to anyone reading this, check me out on ao3; a single kudos can change a life and I desperately need inspiration to pick my longfic back up.

Happy most of the way through Passover to those who celebrate and keep trucking transgenders! Remember that the song of hope never stops singing, even if you can’t hear the tune!

girl help i have a pairing and a meet-cute but no damn plot

Happy birthday to AO3 🎂🎉

Bound by Interlocks AU

Let me explain the AU;

Eberwolf, the esteemed leader of the Beast Keeping coven, carries a clandestine secret hidden beneath their gloves. They conceal Interlocks, revealing their true identity as a Palisman whose owner is none other than Evelyn Clawthorne—an ancestor to Eda and Lilith. Tragedy struck when Evelyn and Eberwolf were forcibly separated during a fierce encounter with the Emperor's Coven's scouts.

Seeking solace within the depths of the ancient woods, Eberwolf's path crossed with that of the former Golden Guard—a figure also known as Darius's mentor. Recognizing the significance of Eberwolf's hidden nature, the former Golden Guard offered them shelter within the ranks of the Emperor's Coven. It remained a guarded secret, known only to Darius's mentor, that Eberwolf was, in fact, a Palisman.

I will explain this in a story featured on; Archive of our own!!

guys i’m going insane im trying to post a new chapter to my fic and it’s not showing up at the top of any of the tags like it normally does 😭😭 i cleared my cache and im not posting between 12am-5am UTC time and the date of publication is right and idk what else to do 😭 i feel like ppl aren’t gonna realize there’s a new chapter unless it’s at the top 😭 does anyone know what i can do to fix this

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NEED HELP FINDING A JORI FIC

it was on ao3 and it was a few chapters i think. tori found out that jade worked at an old movie theatre and jade started inviting tori up to where jade plays the movies and they’d sit in there together and maybe they had takeout? and kissed up there? that’s all i remember

if anyone knows what it’s called or who it was written by, please let me know!!

an emoji free scroll thru jade’s instagram because canva hates me and makes the emojis look ugly… also lets ignore the fact that the second to last pic literally looks nothing like them please pretend for me i forgot the pics were gonna end up big when i made the other pic of the entire feed oops 🫣

but you guys should read my story on ao3!! the link is in my bio and i swear it’s good!!!!!!!!!

some jade and tori instagrams for your day!!! these instagrams are based on the jade and tori i wrote for a fanfic of mine (i put the link in the comments) and i really wanted a way to visualize the characters with where i think they’d be in the months following them deciding to be a couple/the end of the story 🤭🤭 so i guess this is an epilogue of sorts

planning on also making a “scrolling through” for each of their feeds so we can see captions and comments &&& some story posts from each of them with more cute pics and friends and all that good stuff… really just a glimpse into what i think their lives would be like

if you’re intrigued by the random names in the “followed by,” you should check out my fic 😏 although they really only show up in the last chapter but the rest of it is really good i promiseeee

i’m not really that active on here but i thought i would post a link to my jori fic ive been working on for the past few weeks!! the last chapter will hopefully be up in a few days 🥲 y’all should check it out if you’re interested 🫶🏻🫶🏻

-This was said for like 1000 times and I'll say it for the 1001th time again-

imagine using profic site co-founded by wincest shipper & writer and then go nuts over its own target audience for using it to the point you start death threatening and suibaiting people

so i wrote something and i just finished it :)

A03 readers when they find the most well crafted fic to ever grace their eyes, only to find out it was written in like 1862

listen I don’t discriminate... friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, enemies to friends to lovers, friends to enemies to lovers, as long as it ends in lovers i’m down with it all babey

Chapter 7 of Skyborn is out!! Check it out here<3~

Guys I'm back with the progress~!! This fic has finna reached 500+ hits and 30+ kudos!! (Yea IK i'd post whenever either the criterias were fulfilled, but I don't wanna spam) ☆*: .｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆ Thanks for the support guys~~ I luvved the comments yall left and made sure to answer em all!! Next post on progress: Either when it reaches 40 kudos or 750 hits

If ya already haven't checked it out b4 here's the link!!