❝ PANEM ET CIRCCENSES ❞. . . is a Latin phrase that translates to "Bread and Circuses". It is a metaphor for superficial appeasement, or when a government provides entertainment and food to placate public discontent. in which. . . In the heart of ancient Rome, Aquila, an enslaved girl, catches the eye of those who play the deadliest games of power. Lust, love, and betrayal twist around her like chains, and in a city built on secrets, trusting the wrong person could cost her everything. ───── STATUS; on-going ─ slow updates. ───── gladiator II x oc. ─── unedited! ─ written 12 - 25 - 24. © celestebride

just because she's a pogue doesn't mean she can't be the coolest, hottest chick in the outer banks. ───── STATUS; on-going ─ slow updates. ───── outer banks x oc. ─ written, 8 - 3 - 24. © celestebride

❝ Everyday that dawns, you slip away a little more. The distant stare, the apathetic eyes. Your love is as dead as the roses in the trash. Your heart is an abyss that I'm lost in forever. Belladonna drew me in. The poison kept me there. ❞ Dionysia Belladonna was a performer, a magician, a dancer ─ she was many things, but she never fancied herself a fighter. When her best friend of as long as she can remember, Lucy Gray Baird, gets reaped for the 10th annual Hunger Games, she finds herself screaming ─ "I volunteer ─ I, volunteer as tribute." ───── STATUS; on-going ─ slow updates. ───── the hunger games (tbosas) x oc. (based on book + movie) ─ written, 12 - 8 - 23. © celestebride

❝ whatever the hell our souls are made of, they're the same. villains, heroes ─ doesn't matter what labels we give ourselves and other people; at the end of the day it doesn't change the fact that we're weak, that we're human. ❞ In a world where people only saw things in black and white, Jennie Sato didn't have an easy life; with a powerful quirk that can do both good and evil, a lot of pressure and judgment was placed onto her at a young age. Her home life wasn't good and it wasn't long before she got herself involved in activities that she couldn't drag herself out of ─ she was forced to grow up too fast and never had the childhood that most kids took for granted. Now, as she starts having to make more decisions about what she wants do with her future, and see if she can drag herself out of the deep hole that she's dug herself into. She realizes that she has to chose ─ villains? or heroes? good? or evil? life? or death? OR in which a young girl with a smoking addiction is fed up with society's way of thinking. ───── STATUS; on-going ─ slow updates. ───── my hero academia x oc. ─ written, 3 - 28 - 23. ─ impressive ranks: #1 in mha, #1 in bnha © celestebride

───── the third heir sequel. ─── takes place during the comic timeline; though a lot is made up. ❝ there is freedom in not belonging, you know. ❞ ───── STATUS; on-going ─ EXTREMELY slow updates. ───── atla x oc. ─ written, 12 - 24 - 2022. © celestebride