Riddle's Traffictober
This tag belongs to the Additional Tags Category.
Parent tags (more general):
This tag has not been marked common and can't be filtered on (yet).
Works which have used it as a tag:
Pages Navigation
-
No One Likes the Opening Band by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP, Empires SMP
01 Oct 2023
Tags
Summary
His memories are swirled with conflicting bits and bobs. Since Scar and BadTime are almost perfectly identical underneath their mob hybrid traits, it’s no surprise he’d mix them up. He's confused.
“Pig, he’s a smoking hot catboy!”
Or that. Sniff’s fingers upturn, clenching at the air.
“And I’m pretty sure I dated him! Or- or Scar, anyway. Oh, we definitely lived together. Two seasons. I definitely remember that. Oh my goodness; if he does one ‘Nya paw,’ I’m done for. What’ll I do!?”
Professional camera account sports get real competitive, especially when you’re the only team in the league with 4 cams and 1 player-born. No one ever thought they’d see the day Etho let a cam into his life. And, well... He didn't. Turns out, he just brought a friend.
AKA - More PiglinMyNose and SnifferMyFeet fluff because I live for the "ancient camera account boy takes his newbie friend under his wing" dynamic and I love them, your honor.
Series
- Part 75 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 1 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 30 of ⭐ Personal Faves
- Part 14 of ⚓ Paper Boats [Etho & Joel]
-
Tags
Summary
Scott glides his other hand down Pearl's leg, cradling her foot with both. He lifts her ankle, tugging off the front bit of skin. It slides like silk beneath his fingers. He doesn't linger his touch against the raw blue code of her exposed inner foot. He turns instead to the other leg, repeating the gesture over there.
"I don't mind, Scott," Pearl says again. "You've just been murdered in that. I'm fine with it. Skinless around you; skinless both."
Quickened heartbeats. Scott guides her second foot free from skin. "Thank you. I'll be fine. You lie down, Pearl. I'll get this washed." Washing would be nice right now. He needs a minute. He's been murdered in the kitchen and he needs to walk away before he's sick all over the floor.
Scott was only borrowing Pearl's green life when he died. They've not discussed their boundaries yet. Joel threw things into chaos by killing him in cold boogeyman blood. Scott cannot look at Pearl as they calm down together. He tries not to, anyway, because he's afraid (so afraid) of the words that might slip between his lips.
"Can I have another one?"
Series
- Part 18 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 2 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 5 of 🎵 Harmony in A Major [Admin Scott]
-
Tags
Summary
“… I’m gonna need a clock from you. To seal this deal.”
“Okay! Yeah, yeah…” He crosses his arms. He tries to smile… Not that Bdubs notices, still squinting through the flames inside the bottom furnace. His heart beats once. He feels it in the thumb pressed against his chest. He’s not wearing any armor. Impulse clears his throat. Twice. “I’m not making that mistake again.”
It beats again. He feels it in his shaking knees. It beats a third time.
“What do I get?”
AKA - The one where Bdubs eats worms and Impulse is tasked to make a clock.
Series
- Part 3 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 1 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 1 of 🍹 Roundabout [Misc. MCYT]
-
That Old Familiar Tweet, Tweet, Tweet by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
05 Oct 2023
Tags
Summary
“Hi, Grian!” Get down here, waffle-head.
Robert makes an attempt on the flitty piece of bamboo. Scar yanks it away. He doesn’t really like pandas even on a good day… You know, he just can’t get a good read on their body language. He’s been telling himself to treat them like cats. Like Jellie: slow, patient, and normally letting them make the first move. Treats help, too.
Grian spits the wooden pegs into the cup of his hand. “Scar, what are you doing?”
Scar made his way around the entire server. Everyone else seems to be touching their soulmate late at night, even if it's just the brush of hand on hand. But Grian crafts their bedframes out of different types of wood, like they aren't supposed to match. He sets them up 5 blocks apart.
Series
- Part 29 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 5 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 6 of ☀️ Blue Desert Sun [Scar & Grian]
- Part 2 of ⚓ Paper Boats [Etho & Joel]
- Part 16 of 👁️🗨️ Parallel Park [Watcher Grian]
-
Shack Up Like It’s Summer 2022 by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
06 Oct 2023
Tags
Summary
Tango scampers along the ranch’s outer wall every morning when the sun strikes 23k. He just can’t wait for the 0 tick reset like a normal person. Jimmy can feel the strain in his own legs- in muscles he didn’t even know he had. It’s literally like being soulmates with a squirrel.
AKA - Territorial blaze hybrid Tango patrols Team Rancher turf every morning. Jimmy, who prefers sleeping in, tolerates the sore arms and legs as best he can.
Series
- Part 35 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 12 of 💡 Nightlight [MCYT Cuddles]
- Part 6 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 31 of ⭐ Personal Faves
-
Tags
Summary
Their breaths swirl, steamy with water vapor. You can see your breath in the Nether, but it leaves you in a warm gas instead of a frosty chill. As Martyn eases Pearl’s hair behind her hood, his legs begin to shake. The shield hanging from his left wrist bonks against his knees.
He pokes Pearl’s hair into her hood, folding the cloth around it. He sort of tucks it beneath the neck of her armor. “Is that okay?”
“That’s fine.”
Martyn and Pearl spend 9 long days trekking the server in search of their soulmates. They even duck inside the Nether. The inability to sleep down there does not remove their exhaustion… or the longing for safety, rest, and maybe cuddles.
Scott and Cleo notice.
Series
- Part 27 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 7 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 8 of 💡 Nightlight [MCYT Cuddles]
- Part 2 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
-
Tags
Summary
"Do you think it's Cleo?" he asks, reaching behind him for another golden carrot slice.
"Is what Cleo?" BigB murmurs without opening his eyes.
"Your secret admirer." Ren shifts more than he meant to. He really didn't mean to jostle. He's just big and heavy and a bit hot and he needs to thrust at least one leg out the side of the sheets. He tugs the blankets higher anyway, over his bare chest. BigB grunts as the motion nearly knocks him off. "Look, I'm not mad, dude… just as long as you promise to stay honest with me. But like, Cleo's not living with her actual soulmate…" Pause. "And she's kinda your ex-wife."
BigB rubs itch-relieving salve on Ren to keep his soulmate from scratching at their shared spiracles. Which, y'know... Moth hybrids use to breathe. While BigB fusses over him, Ren can't help but wonder about his soulmate's secret admirer. Are there signs he's overlooking? Has BigB snuck out? Or is he just being paranoid?
[ Title credit - this Tumblr post by novastardoughnut because I’m in love with their alt BigB/Ren ship name ]
Series
- Part 37 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 8 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 15 of 💡 Nightlight [MCYT Cuddles]
- Part 32 of ⭐ Personal Faves
-
Tags
Summary
Scar doesn't even twitch. What's Grian going to do? Putter around and huff and gasp and set his hands to his hips, shaking his head? Maybe flutter his wings a few times? Scar's not afraid of him. Grian can't touch him. With a sword or otherwise. Scar presses his hand on the end of the bed again, like he's forcing a cookie cutter into a cardboard puzzle.
"Grian… I can't feel the blanket."
"Get out of my room." Grian's words snap like fireworks. Wow. Rude.
It’s not like there’s a Red Lives 101 course you can take to learn more about this curse (and Scar would probably zone out even if there was). He doesn’t know much. Just that the colors are all weird, his hand doesn't seem like his own, and he can’t even feel the texture of the wool blankets on Grian’s bed.
Series
- Part 13 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 9 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 3 of ☀️ Blue Desert Sun [Scar & Grian]
- Part 10 of 👁️🗨️ Parallel Park [Watcher Grian]
-
Tags
Summary
"Punch me," Joel says again. He mimes two swings at Etho, neither connecting, and hops around on his toes. "Come on. Maybe that will help. Y'know, like… Like maybe you can reset the aggro so it's right here, and we'll deal with it like that and it'll go away. It's better than treating me like a chew toy while I sleep. At least this way, I'm putting up a fair fight."
Well. He has a point. So Etho does. He reels back his arm and slams Joel in the chin as hard as he possibly can. Joel fumbles backwards, yelping, and crashes on the deck. Etho jerks away, clutching his face. Ow. Ow. Ow.
Joel took my hearts- Bite him- Bite him-
Etho is a fox hybrid who aggros on people who cause him damage.
During Double Life, Joel and Etho are soulbound. And Joel causes Etho a lot of damage.
The mob-strengthening full moon doesn’t help.
Series
- Part 40 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 10 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 33 of ⭐ Personal Faves
- Part 16 of 💡 Nightlight [MCYT Cuddles]
- Part 4 of ⚓ Paper Boats [Etho & Joel]
- Part 22 of 👁️🗨️ Parallel Park [Watcher Grian]
-
Scary Stories For Young Fox Hybrids by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
13 Oct 2023
Tags
Summary
“Hey, Uncle Skizz! I think I found soul juice!”
The voice belongs to Scar, who went around the edge of the building back towards the town and street. Skizz, hiking up his pack, goes to join him. Scar’s standing to one side, holding his pant legs up from his paws again. He looks at Skizz, then at the gravel.
There’s a distinct gap in the wooden wall, singed black, like a creeper exploded right beside it. Skizz’s eyes trail down to Scar’s feet. Spattered purple globs paint the grass, like modern art made from lollipop spirals. Gunpowder glints on nearby sapling leaves.
Uh…
Happy Friday the 13th! Enjoy a sneak peek at a [dark] Life series AU I'm working on where I attempt to smoosh all the season mechanics and roleplay into one coherent timeline.
❤️ Today’s Story - To give Cleo a weekend alone, Skizz brings Bdubs and Scar with him on what would normally be a Solo Skizz resource-scavenging trip. They didn't expect the wounded phantom hybrid lurking in an abandoned game show studio.
Series
- Part 13 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 15 of 👁️ Neighborhood Watch AU
- Part 10 of 🕙 Rotting Ladders [Cleo, Etho, & Clockers]
- Part 17 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 3 of 💠 Cornflower Waltz [NW - Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 14 of 👁️🗨️ Parallel Park [Watcher Grian]
-
Tags
Summary
He yelps again just as Scar's stone pickaxe comes swinging down at his head. Joel whips up his own pick and catches Scar's by the crook. He wins. Scar's goes twirling in the air, straight into the lava. Plunk! Sickening, grabby, goopy, glurpy…
"SCAR!"
Scar's face twists in shock, his eyes twin campfires of ghostly green. His hand gropes empty air, but he recovers like a swerving minecart nearly tipping off a track. In a whip of white sparks, his hoe's in hand instead.
AKA - Two wizard boogeymen duel above a lava pool: the dramatization (with an exploration of boogeyman thoughts and pec envy on the side).
Series
- Part 17 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 11 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
-
Tags
Summary
Bdubs stands before the mirror, craning his neck to see his reflected back. His fingers trace along his skin. Impulse watches from the bed, face half-buried in his folded arms. If his tail were out, it would be ticking back and forth, counting out the seconds before Bdubs asks him why he never fixed that scar behind his right shoulder.
“I like it,” Bdubs says, prodding the old gash with one finger. It’s white, glowing faintly. “I’ve got a clock from you and you’ve got this from me.”
In that moment, Impulse wishes he could kill on green.
Just me, my husband, and the screeching agony of being unable to rip him to shreds #violently. Newlyweds are allowed a few fantasies, right?
Series
- Part 28 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 12 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 34 of ⭐ Personal Faves
-
Walking on Cluckshroom Shells by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
14 Oct 2023
Tags
Summary
"I just left something here when BigB and I broke up. I want it back."
"What is it?" He can't help himself. He's bored and curious, hands sliding up just so he can tuck them in his pockets. His jumper's rumpled, he realizes a second later, and takes more satisfaction than he maybe should in the way it makes Cleo falter. They've got the spare key, but he's got BigB. He's got his man wrapped tight around his little finger.
"Something… for the museum."
An impatient itch sidles up his back. "If you don't mind me here, I'll stay. If it's all right with BigB."
Cleo's eyes trail down to the blinking green screen of his wrist-comm. "That's fine. I don't mind if you stay, but you look like you're about to summon phantom hybrids."
Grian grits his teeth. She's right. He can't argue with that.
It wouldn’t be a goofy slice of life rom-com without the stereotypical slipping out of roleplay and blowing up over your partner’s ex (/jk). We’re all friends here, but does that friend really need to have OP powers and the spare key to your portal room?
Series
- Part 36 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 14 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 35 of ⭐ Personal Faves
- Part 10 of ☀️ Blue Desert Sun [Scar & Grian]
- Part 7 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 20 of 👁️🗨️ Parallel Park [Watcher Grian]
- Part 7 of 🦴 Bones to Pick [Phantom Flock]
-
Tags
Summary
He's only on his green life thanks to Pearl. Or on her green life, maybe. It snuggles inside of him almost crookedly, as if it doesn't fit. It wasn't meant to be his life. It's floppy around him at the shoulders and imaginary hem, like he's walking through the cottage in one of Pearl's midnight-colored hoodies and nothing else except his own slippers.
I'm okay with that, actually.
If there were such a thing as soulmates, maybe it would feel like this.
It's hard to maintain consistent #cozy cottagecore vibes when the local scam artist of a wizard keeps rummaging through your bird feeder. Scott and Pearl cuddle anyway.
Series
- Part 21 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 15 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 2 of 💡 Nightlight [MCYT Cuddles]
- Part 7 of 🎵 Harmony in A Major [Admin Scott]
-
Tags
Summary
There wasn’t time to, like, run down to a skin designer and get a proper Gem-sized skin tailor-made. Gem flaps out the one HumanCleo brought her, holding it up and trying to get a good view despite the low lantern light. The zombie skin doesn’t look as creepy up close as she’d worried over, so that’s something...
Gem gets dressed in a skin that's not her own for a death game she doesn't even know how to play.
(Title is a reference to Gem’s self-doubt, not anyone’s opinions of Gem <3)
Series
- Part 56 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 16 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
-
Tags
Summary
All of this Martyn combined together, swirled on a stick. He presented it to Ren with a sheepish shrug, like maybe this made up for coming home with nothing else that afternoon. Ren studied the treat with a curious tilt to his head.
"What is it?"
"Caramel apple!"
"Did you craft this?"
Martyn, humming, rocked forward on his toes. "I believe you mean 'I'm all alooooooone… Asking: How do I craft this again?'"
"… What?"
A shrieking, distinctly phantom-like cackle. Martyn threw back his head, clapping one hand to his chest. "Aw, no! Stake through my middle heart, boss! Come on. I'll get the kitchen sword and we'll share. Dude, I'm about to blow your mind. I really am."
A quick Dogwarts-based character study of Martyn "guy who constantly wanders around" InTheLittleWood and Ren "I came home and BigB wasn't there so I joined a singles support group" thedog, and how they click.
Series
- Part 11 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 17 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
-
Tags
Summary
"Why can't we ever small talk like a nice family when you come over?" Martyn grumbles, and gives the glass of binary code another lousy swish.
"Excuse you," his mother mutters back. They all fall silent as Impulse sets the bowl of salad-like soul bits on the table and finally takes his seat at the head of the table. She makes a waving motion that greenlights everyone to partake of the feast. Hands lunge forward. As they scramble to serve themselves, she says, "So tell me about this Netty girl you've been seeing."
"Martyn ate her," Bdubs says, dumping out a clump of soul salad, and Martyn almost spits his drink. "Ask him about Cleo. They're doing some kind of roleplay thing on Double Life. He had the cat ears out and everything."
Can’t stop thinking about Double Life Ep 2 and Ren refusing to join Martyn in the Deep Dark unless he gets confirmation that his date with Martyn’s mom is still on and Martyn just grumbles about how his mom needs a man, not a boy.
Can’t stop thinking about how everyone in the Pixels Imperfect universe hatched from an egg laid by a dragon.
Series
- Part 33 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 18 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 5 of 💔 Zombiewoodn't [One-Sided Martyn/Cleo]
- Part 36 of ⭐ Personal Faves
- Part 6 of 🦴 Bones to Pick [Phantom Flock]
-
For Sale: Bird Wings (Never Worn) by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
10 Feb 2024
Tags
Summary
“You… let your son live in your house when he’s Red? Isn’t that dangerous?”
“He’s harmless,” Mr. Rancher assures him, lifting his mud-colored mug. Grian stares first at him, then at Skizz, and then at the cross-armed boy sitting at the end of the table. Tango’s heels are up on display. His glowing eyes narrow to a squint. Grian slides his eyes to Mr. Rancher again. He doesn’t unclench his arms from around his torso.
“Can I switch seats?”
When Grian Ties’g was 16, the last Totem of Undying in the known world swapped his soul with the Grian one universe to the left… sparing him a perma-death, but at what cost?
An overwhelmed Grian Xelqua - who did not sign up for this, thank you very much - jolts awake in a world where Red Names are no joke and stealing someone’s life is fair play.
And a very Red Tango now has a sword at his throat. ❤️
Series
- Part 8 of 👁️ Neighborhood Watch AU
- Part 20 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 4 of 👁️🗨️ Parallel Park [Watcher Grian]
- Part 19 of ☀️ Blue Desert Sun [Scar & Grian]
-
Tags
Summary
The stress zings through his head at maximum pain. He lurches back, heaving, with slobber just leaking gooeyness all over his shaking wrist.
"I got her! Impulse, I got her!" The thrum of a kill is arching through every last, tucked-away line of his code. His entire body's screaming with it. It numbs the pain (minor though it was while dancing on Red life). The dogs are barking, but someone's whistling in the distance and they're- they're all confused. Is it Impulse? Is he luring them away with whistles and maybe a bit of meat?
"… Impulse?"
A dramatized retelling of Bdubs' axe misclick on Impulse during their Double Life finale fight with Pearl.
Series
- Part 48 of 🚥 Pixels Imperfect AU
- Part 21 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023
- Part 37 of ⭐ Personal Faves
-
The Children of Dust and Ashes by FountainPenguin
Fandoms: 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series
22 Oct 2023
Tags
Summary
"Hm. That doesn't look like cherry wood."
"Thanks! I didn't make it today, see. It's dark oak. It was a gift from my dad when he went to-"
Without waiting for an answer, Impulse rips the enchanted axe from Scott's hands. He spins on his heel and hurls it as far down the cliff as he can. Scott's mouth drops like a swooping phantom. He can hear the axe click off a rock, spin through the air, and plonk into the pond at the base of the hill.
Then Impulse turns his head. Campfire light plays off his cheeks and nose. The flare of an ancient soul spirals pink across his pale green eyes. His own axe - totally wooden, totally pink - comes to rest at the base of Scott's neck. There's a bizarrely relaxed air about him when he says, "Here! Use this one. It's prettier anyway, don't you think?"
The memories of the ancients are restless, as any Secretkeeper could tell you. They tail their descendants across the land. Some days, you feel the graze of vengeance prickle up your spine, or you feel like the phantom screeching for everyone to sleep.
Other days, your bandmate gets possessed by the spirit of some long-dead builder who really, really liked cherry wood.
Series
- Part 1 of 👁️ Neighborhood Watch AU
- Part 22 of 🎃 Riddle's Traffictober 2023