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wolffyluna @ 2026-05-15T16:12:00

2026-05-15T06:13:31Z

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wolffyluna @ 2026-04-13T20:05:00

2026-04-13T10:06:11Z

I'm trying out the Gideon Method with both my writing and craft projects. The short version is: you have five 'slots' for works in progress. You work for about 12 hours on one project, and then you got to the next project in the queue for about 12 hours, rinse and repeat. Once a project is done, it's slot is opened and you can add a new project to the rotation.

I'm not sure how well it will work with writing compared to crafts? With writing you're much more likely to go "wait, what was I doing with this one again?" But it seems worth an experiment.

Behold, my current Gideon queue:

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wolffyluna @ 2026-04-01T18:39:00

2026-04-01T07:42:06Z

I'm not dead!

Things have been... busy. My life is at least less on fire than last time I updated (though I did have a day that featured both [REDACTED FOR GROSS] and me managing to glue wood to my phone screen. So.)

But mostly I have been busy doing Minecraft Youtube Battleship! I had a lot of fun and may have made. Too many things. Like, an amount of things that may have a visible affect on my ao3 statistic 0.0.

I'm also preparing with my mother to go to a local music and arts event and busk Wuji. Despite my mother being a literal professional musician, it looks like, terrifyingly, I'm going to be the one playing the melody. I will walk the single plank bridge into the night sounding like we know what we are doing.

And after that I am planning to be Well Behaved and sort out the Pile of Original Writing that I'm underneath. Maybe even sort out getting a short story into a paying market.

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wolffyluna @ 2026-03-03T18:20:00

2026-03-03T08:32:40Z

I have had. A week. Or, well. Ten days.

Now, a bunch of what happened in that ten day span was supremely frustrating, but also, supremely doxxing. Needless to say, it ended up with me working 24 days instead of 21 in a row, and also my suitcase being. stuck at my workplace.

But I have, also, had something not doxxing happen, and it's funny because it's a very "how the hell did you DO THAT?" injury. You see, I injured myself with that most dangerous of crafts: spinning yarn.

( injury details )

Anyway, I have also had good things happen. I have discovered sweet potato slump. (Excuse the shorts link, the recipe is in the description box.) A slump is a type of dessert that is like a crumble in that it has a layer of fruit, and then a layer of something on top, but in a slump's case, the layer on top is cakey.

I knew that sweet potato in desserts was a thing. But with this recipe, I have been converted. Sweet potato cooked in spiced syrup is so so good, it's soft and warm and sweet but still has that complexity of sweet potato without the spices or sugar overpowering it. And by baking it still with it's syrup, you make this spiced sauce that goes so well with the cakey layer on top. And it's so simple too! It's a solid 'it's saturday, I want dessert, but I don't want to spend all day making dessert' dish.

(WickdConfections has a whole series of historical African American dessert recipes that this slump is a part of. I haven't tried any of her other recipes, but I definitely am going to try some of the other simple ones, because goodness is this a good recipe.)

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NSFW General Exchange Letter

2026-02-25T05:31:00Z

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SFW General Exchange Letter

2026-02-25T05:28:59Z

( General and Art Likes )

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SPECIESQUEST!

2026-02-07T10:17:10Z

Starting this January, I have been playing G. Ray's SpeciesQuest. It is a asynchronous online competition to go out and See Species. People pick a reasonable taxonomic group, and try to see the largest percentage of species in that taxa in that area (local%), or they they try and find the largest number of species in that taxa everywhere (Total Species.)

I have decided to go for Total Species in both Bird and Butterflies.

I have had, let's say, extemely limited success with the butterflies. But the birds? Oh boy, the birds. I fear I have caught the bug. I'll be a full on twitcher by the end of the year if I don't stop myself.

Though I can't regret it, because it seems to be doing good things with my brain. I'm much more attune to movement now, and I keep getting little jolts of "!" every time I see a bird, even if it's one I have seen many times before. (It at the least, makes up for all the moments of "drat!" when I am too slow or unable to photograph a new one :P. Petition for new birds to stop showing up at work or when I am driving.) I think that little regular moment of 'yay, a galah!' is good for me.

But the more dramatic to me personally is how it's changed the way I interact with the soundscape. I'm learning new bird calls, but I'm also learning ones that it turns out I already subconsciously knew but weren't paying attention to. And like that little bit of dopamine at seeing a common bird in flight, it's nice to step outside and immediately go "oh, that's a magpie lark call. Yay, I like magpie larks!"

Anyway. Next time I'm off work, I'm going to the Big Bookstore to buy a field guide, and I'm hoping they have one that covers both the region I live and the region I work. (I have been using Merlin, which is very helpful... but it also keeps going "We only know ~30% of the birds in your area :(" )

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Point of Vampire

2026-01-12T21:43:13Z

I have recently got very into Vampires SMP. It is a linked series of Minecraft Let's Plays of several players all playing a modded version of minecraft. (The 'SMP' in the name stands for 'survival multiplayer' which translates to 'on a multiplayer server where you can die and have to gather resources.) The modifications: vampires exist and have access to powers that the 'human' players do not have, including the ability to turn humans, and there is a capture the flag like mechanic about claiming beacons for the vampire or human teams.

But what makes this most interesting are that all of the players are roleplaying, and that the game very quickly becomes a social deception and deduction game-- one made even More So, because at the beginning, most of the characters do not believe vampires are real.

Now, roleplay combining with social deduction is fun enough, but there is another reason that Vampires SMP has got it's claws into me so much: the way point of view works. Because each player creates and edits their own videos, and these videos are all in first person. If the player did not see it, the camera and the viewers don't know about it. (Only adding to this is the fact that players will often edit conversations they have, so two videos of the same conversation can be slightly different.) This leads to people doing soliloquies to their audience. To people having conversations where from one point of view you know they are a vampire, and from the other you have no idea that they are lying. It leads to, in one case, someone giving a dramatic speech thinking it worked because the other characters only went "so, they were lying, right?" after they left.

But even better, is the way that, at least for me, you end up seeing things through that character's eyes and ~agreeing with them? Which makes it interesting to then watch those same scenes from other people's perspectives. Is this person reckless and jumping the gun, or full of reasonable paranoia and intense emotion. Is this person in a revolving door of loyalty, or do they keep getting driven away from people.

It's fun!

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Candy Hearts 2026

2026-01-06T21:38:40Z

Hello, person who is assigned to me or considering making a treat! No matter what you make, I'm probably going to really like it, but I know it's much easier to come up with an idea if you've got some guidance.

Length of prompts is not related to how much I like any character or group, and more related to how much I can ramble about them off the top of my head. Also, feel free to do whatever you want. If for example, I mention wanting fluff for a character, but you have an angsty idea you really want to do, go for it!

My ao3 account and my tumblr are both wolffyluna, if you want to have a look at them to get ideas.

Notes for Pinch Hitters

Heaven Will Be Mine is a visual novel that takes about 6 hours to play through all the routes.

Sha Po Lang is a novel, that in print takes up five volumes, to give a sense of the size of it.

Vampires SMP is a multi creator youtube series, and you would only need to see one creator’s POV to have enough information to write fic. Each series is around eight episodes of 40-120 minutes long.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a computer rpg that takes about 80 hours to play.

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Likes:

General Likes
Art Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs

Fandoms:

Baldur’s Gate 3
Heaven Will Be Mine
Original Works
Sha Po Lang - priest
Vampires SMP

( Likes and DNWS )

( Baldur’s Gate 3 )

( Heaven Will Be Mine )

( Original Works )

( Sha Po Lang - priest )

( Vampires SMP )

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Yuletide 2026 Round Up

2026-01-01T21:36:56Z

I made some things for it!

pistachios (1545 words) by WolffyLuna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Csevet Aisava & Deret Beshelar
Characters: Csevet Aisava, Deret Beshelar
Additional Tags: Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Aftermath of trauma, Set After Winternight, Csevet-centric, Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault, Referenced violence, Referenced Death, Missing Scene
Summary:

After the attempted assassination, Csevet cannot sleep. He meets Beshelar in the kitchens of the Alcethmeret.

The Promise (1222 words) by WolffyLuna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Oathsworn (Actual Play Podcast)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Dorado the Adamant & Nabain Palisade
Characters: Dorado the Adamant, Nabain Palisade
Additional Tags: and the absence of Serikali, Post canon, Missing Scene, Dialogue Heavy, Major Spoilers
Summary:

“Did you ever speak to Serikali?” Dorado asked.
“Not as often as I would have liked.” The broken promise settled over his shoulders like a yoke. But even under that weight, he still could carry curiosity. Dorado was direct: if she changed topic, there had to be a reason.

silver peonies (2460 words) by WolffyLuna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 苍兰诀 | Love Between Fairy and Devil (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Dongfang Qingcang/Xiao Lanhua
Characters: Dongfang Qingcang, Xiao Lanhua (Love Between Fairy and Devil)
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Fluff with feelings, Trans Female Character, Makeover, dongfang qingcang is bad at feelings
Summary:

Lanhua cocked her head. “Do you want to be human again?”
“No. It’s—” The feeling scurried away from the light of scrutiny. “I want to be a different person. But not too different.” She threw out a random suggestion. “Like myself, but a woman.”
Xiao Lanhua lit up, eyes sparkling.
Qingcang recognised that expression from experience. She waved a hand again. “It was just an example.”

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wolffyluna @ 2026-01-02T08:16:00

2026-01-01T21:19:43Z

Everyone should praise me for my FIVE FIGURE DONATION to the Against Malaria Foundation, even though it was VERY SCARY.

The sensible context is that I had miscalculated my charity budget and made it too low, and I decided to 'pay back the shortfall.'

The slightly less sensible context is that I read a lot of Medieval history in 2025. And something that came up, both in majority Christian cultures and majority Muslim cultures, was that the standard response to any good news was 'give a donation to charity.' A baby was born? Charity donation. Found a commentary on Aristotle that finally explained it properly? Charity donation.

Apart from the, uh, exciting bits at the end, I have had a pretty good 2025. And I wanted to properly honour that. And you know what? I think the various Medieval people are right, a good response to good things happening to you is to give to charity.

... Also, assuming I have done my back of the envelope maths right, I have now gone over to a whole Negative Moist Von Lipwig.

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State of the Original Fiction, January 2026

2026-01-01T21:16:23Z

Thread of Duty: (aka the Cavalry General and Embroidery Mage arranged marriage romance.) Finished, except for cover, formatting, and acknowledgements. I mean, I could edit it again? But also, I can move forward. ...even if that would require working out what to do with it. (Insert combined rant about both Amazon and itch.io.)

Survival Showdown: (aka VR streamers in not-a-death-game.) I thiiiiiink it's had it's second draft? But I'd need to check. So the first step is 'reconstruct where I was up to with it, and go forward from there.' Also, then work out what I'm going to do with it. (See above rant.)

Sapphic Steppe Atrocities: (which needs a more descriptive name.) I have got an editorial letter back, and need to go do some chunky edits to the thing. The next step is to go and do research on the Central Asian Steppe (short chain of logic gets me here) and research on [deep sigh] early modern Japan and World War 1, even though I don't want to do either (a longer chain of logic gets me here.)

Emperor/Favourite: partway through outlining.

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CURSED

2025-12-28T04:35:44Z

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wolffyluna @ 2025-12-21T10:16:00

2025-12-21T00:19:12Z

Hi. How are your days going? Yesterday, I experienced an hour long surprise hike feat. 31C and humidity + having to psychologically manipulate some cows.

*So. Picture this. Before work, we realise that two of us need to to Mining Town in the morning, while two of us need to go into the office (which is in the middle of a cattle station). But we only have one work car.

... one of my coworkers does have a personal car, which he is willing to let us borrow.

So. The coworker who owns the personal car + another guy drive into town... with the work car. Me and my other coworker take the personal car. It's an old rattley thing with no clearance, but it is technically a four wheel drive, so it should be fine on the dirt station tracks? Right?

We turn off the highway, and start driving down the tracks. Within 5 minutes, we mysteriously lose power steering. A minute later, the check engine light comes on. During that minute as we try and work out what was going on, my coworker goes "FUCK LOOK AT THE ENGINE TEMPERATURE GAUGE." We stop and get out.

Belt? On the ground. A worrying mix of radiator fluid and oil? Also on the ground. Bonnet? Gently smoking.

We are currently in the middle of a dirt track, in the middle of nowhere. The weather can best be described as "the inside of Satan's swampy butt cheeks." It's going to take a couple hours for our coworkers to get to Mining Town and back. We have no phone reception. We have limited water and no air condititioning.

But we have some water, and our office has A/C and a phone, and it is, technically, walking distance.

So we spend an hour wading 7km through the more humid parts of the Devil.

But we are on a cattle station. There are cows. Now, these cows are appropriately afraid of cars: they'll get out of the way but they won't panic. They are inappropriately afraid of people on foot: we are talking full on galloping away from us PANIC, the earth shaking under their hooves.

Now. Flight is fine. We're going to have a problem if any of them choose fight.

My goal: get the cows to run away from us while we were still as far from them as possible... without freaking them out so much some decided to run in the wrong direction. With their horns down.

Now, I don't know much about cows, but I do know about horses. And horses and cows are basically the same [citation needed.] How would I manipulate a horse to get them to run far, far away?

I stood up very, very straight. I picked a cow in the herd to stare at dead in the eyes. And I thought thoughts like "mmmm, steak tartare," and "you know, it's always been a dream of mine to rip a still beating heart out of a rib cage as I watch the life leave my victim's eyes, but I've just never had a chance to."

Which worked way better than it should have? So we reached the office, without dying of a heat stroke, cow, or coworker avenging his car.

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wolffyluna @ 2025-12-21T09:52:00

2025-12-20T23:56:30Z

So, this past few weeks has been cursed, both work wise (fire, nearly falling off a cliff, CLOSER FIRE, vehicle breakdown) and in the world generally (eg the antisemitic terror attack in Australia. Which. I don't really have words for other than 'tragic' and 'I really wish it hadn't happened.').

But! Today I shall see family, and the Northern Hemisphere can take some of their daylight back, and hopefully things will improve.

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wolffyluna @ 2025-12-04T18:19:00

2025-12-04T08:19:49Z

Before I forget: If I am incommunicado, or something odd happens to my account on December 10th, do not worry! I will be alive (...inshallah?), just potentially fighting Australia's incoming under-16 social media ban.

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wolffyluna @ 2025-11-23T15:26:00

2025-11-23T04:27:56Z

Funeral yesterday. It went. As well as feasibly possible. Which without going into content warnable details, did feature me becoming both surprise gemstone appraiser and surprise pallbearer.

The body has now kept the score in record time, which is unfortunate because i wanted to go to the zoo :( [My neck and shoulder has just. Imploded on itself.]

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wolffyluna @ 2025-11-20T07:31:00

2025-11-19T21:31:55Z

Horrible news: “CPR” by Cupcakke is the right BPM to do CPR to.

Imagine: your beloved collapses in a public place.

“Don’t worry!” A stranger says. “I know CPR. I’ll start it, while you go find an AED.”

You rush back with an AED to find the stranger flushed and sweaty, doing compressions while singing under their breath “🎵 I save dick by giving it CPR, I save dick by giving it CPR, let’s watch porn on the VCR🎵”

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wolffyluna @ 2025-11-20T07:26:00

2025-11-19T21:27:56Z

When I was visiting San Francisco, I discovered that it is noticeably cheaper to buy English translated danmei in the US than in Australia. What would I do with such purchasing power? Simple: I would by the first volumes of a few series (Yuwu, Disabled Tyrant’s Pet Palm Fish, Qian Jin Jiu and Guardian.) That way, I could sample a bunch of series, find out which I liked, and thus rationalise my TBR list a bit.

It was a brilliant plan! With just one flaw: I have become this Gru meme.

This didn’t rationalise my TBR! It made it worse!

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wolffyluna @ 2025-11-04T20:08:00

2025-11-04T10:09:15Z

I've been trying to cut back on my Youtube Shorts habit. Mostly because it's a time suck and, like, I have plenty of relaxing time sucks that are more consistently enjoyable than shorts? (Sometimes the algorithm smiles upon me, sometimes it has no taste, but 'me, choosing what podcasts to download' usually has taste.)

But I now have a new reason to stop using it. Because for some reason it decided I really wanted to see a livestream of graphic! most likely real! violence!

And look. It's one thing for a time suck to be inconsistently enjoyable. It's rather another to be inconsistently enjoyable and randomly serving me graphic violence that gets instantly seared into the back of my eyeballs. It's a real 'you only need one fleck of shit in an ice cream sundae to mean you should stop going to that ice cream store.'

Relatedly: do people have recommendations for vegetarian and vegan recipe bloggers and youtubers? Bonus points if they mostly make things that were originally intended to be vegetarian/vegan, instead of making variants of usually meat containing dishes.

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Inktober!

2025-11-04T08:59:34Z

Hello, yes, I definitely did not lose track of the weeks, that was someone else.

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wolffyluna @ 2025-11-02T20:16:00

2025-11-02T10:18:07Z

Some of you may remember the fact that months ago I got my bike stolen from my apartment's garage. I have not replaced it, because unfortunately I have been trapped in a cycle of indecision by The Dilemma.

You see, I could replace it with either another manual bike, or I could get an electric bike.

Advantages of a manual bike: I know I can use them, they are cheaper.

Disadvantages: ...I am surrounded by Fuck Off Hills, and there are some routes I would go by bike regularly if it were not for those hills.

Advantages of an ebike: presumably could get up those Fuck Off Hills?

Disadvantages: ...I don't actually know for sure that they could? Also, I would not keep this one in the garage (see: what happened to the last one, that didn't even have an expensive battery in it), so I need to know if I could lift the thing up the stairs to my apartment.

So, to make this decision, I need to know whether it can get up hills, and if I can Even Lift It Bro.

Of course, because this is a nested dilemma, there are two ways to do this.

My city has some of those app share electric bikes. They are expensive but less so than option 2. I couldn't take one up my apartment stairs, but I could experimentally lift it? Also, there's a bit of a 'scooters, scooters everywhere, but not a bike to drink' situation which might make finding one. tricky.My local ebike store also rents them. I could try the type of bike I'd like to buy, and even lift it up stairs! Store it in a convenient place instead of having to search for it! But of course, there is a catch. Even the special 'we are letting you rent this for a shorter time than usual because we think you might buy it' rate is... about 1/10th the cost of buying a new ebike.

Do people have any advice for escaping this dilemma?

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Alphabet Meme

2025-10-28T20:31:34Z

Inspired by Shadaras and Tavina!

Rules: How many letters of the alphabet have you used for starting a fic title? One fic per line, ‘A’ and 'The’ do not count for 'a’ and ’t’. Post your score out of 26 at the end, along with your total fic count.

Fics are chosen arbitrarily based mostly on which ones are my personal favourites, make me feel nostalgia, or having something funny going on with their title.

A: Again (Warhammer 40k, Aug 2013 1.4k) [also, shoutout to the three fics I have with titles that start with 'and']

B: base desires (Dungeon Meshi, April 2025, 2.6k)

C: C2h (Tian Guan Ci Fu, October 2024, 3k) [chosen because that is possibly my nerdiest title ever XD]

D: the devil in the details (Baldur's Gate 3, August 2024, 600 words)

E: except for hunger (Tian Guan Ci Fu, September 2024 1.8k) [winner of a game of fandom mafia :3c]

F: A Fermi Estimation of Devil Possession Prevalence (We Know the Devil, December 2023, 7k)

G: Gods and Goddesses: Selected Art from the Capital Museum Collection (Tian Guan Ci Fu, October 2025, 500 words)

H: hai gynaikes, tois idiois andrasin hos to kyrio (Dream SMP, September 2023, 1.3k) [chosen because I think the contrast between the title and fandom is a little funny]

I: it deepens like a coastal shelf (Mo Dao Zu Shi, March 2021, 22k)

J: just a sunrise away (Love Between Fairy and Devil, July 2025, 1.2k)

K: koel's call (Nirvana in Fire, October 2021, 5.4k)

L: lay aside disguise (Imperial Coroner, May 2022, 7.5k)

M: most heat related deaths occur not far from this sign (Baldur's Gate 3, February 2024, 1.2k)

N: not lost in the giving (Tian Guan Ci Fu, January 2025, 5.8k)

O: Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Qi Ye, October 2022, 6.2k)

P: predatory intent (Silmarillion, March 2019, 2.2k)

R: rare and sweet as cherry wine (Warhammer 40k, August 2023, 1k) [Not to be confused with Rare and Sweet as Cherry Wine, a tgcf fic I also wrote :P]

S: A Shattered Angel & A Broken Fist (Warhammer 40k, August 2013, 9.7k) [because I legally have to include my first fic on ao3]

T: take your maiden-hearted ideals (Baldurs' Gate 3, September 2024, 5.2k)

U: The Undiscovered Country (Guild Wars 2, June 2015, 4k)

V: vessel (Original Works, August 2025, 2.5k)

W: Whiskey in the Jar (Dragon Age, November 2018, 5.4k.)

X: Xisumavoid's Base (Hermitcraft, January 2021, it's art but I'm going to count it!)

Y: Yield to Pressure (Nirvana in Fire, February 2022, 1.7k)

Z: The Zugzwang Machine (Baldur's Gate 3, April 2025, 1.4k)

Total: 25/26. I'm proud of that! I only need to write a fic with a title that starts with Q and I will have collected the whole set!

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Inktober Week 2

2025-10-18T01:58:03Z

( animal drawings under the cut )

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Yuletide 2025 Letter

2025-10-15T23:29:26Z

My ao3 account and my tumblr are both wolffyluna, if you want to have a look at them to get ideas.

Notes for Pinch Hitters

Heaven Will Be Mine is a visual novel that takes about 6 hours to play through all the routes. Sha Po Lang is a novel, that in print takes up five volumes to give a sense of the size of it. Oathsworn is a podcast that is about 80 hours long, but also has free transcripts.

Contents

Likes:

General Likes
Art Likes
Smut Likes
DNWs

Fandoms:

Heaven Will Be Mine
Oathsworn
Sha Po Lang - priest

( Likes and DNWS )

( Heaven Will Be Mine )

( Oathsworn )

( Sha Po Lang - priest )

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