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stupidlovergirl · 1 year

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TL;DR He's HOT! In which you get caught gushing about how into them you are, by them

Feat. Lucifer, Mammon, Leviathan,Satan, Asmodeus, Beelzebub, Belphegor Dateables Version not edited

"What do I like about Lucifer?" you repeat back. "What is there not to like? He has a pretty good fashion sense, a mature vibe also-" you kept rambling, naming qualities you like about the eldest demon, from his physical qualities to his personality.

He honestly couldn't believe his ears. He had just come to drop off some documents and ask questions. He didn't suspect that you and Diavolo would be talking about him, much less what you supposedly liked about him. The list must be quite great, as you have barely taken a breath and kept chattering off things.

"To sum it up, Lucifer is one the hottest men I've met. Mature with the just right amount of playfulness. Not to mention easy on the eyes" you finish, love sick look in your eyes

He stopped and waited before appearing a little while after. Diavolo could tell he heard, by the smug smirk he wore. You felt awkward, I mean you were literally JUST singing the man's praises. Giving the documents to Diavolo, Lucifer chatted a little before saying goodbye.

You immediately got called to his office after you came home. Man literally started quoting what you said as you rotted away in the chair in front of his desk. Don't worry, he's just having his fun before he tells you the feeling is mutual.

Mammon catches you talking to Asmo about him on one of your spa days. He didn’t mean to eavesdrop! Honest! You were just kinda loud and he could hear all that you were saying about him through the door.

“Have you SEEN his eyes Asmo? They are the prettiest shade of blue! Ugh, and his hair is so freaking soft. I have never been so in love. He can rob me blind as long as he just keeps smiling. I am so down bad. AND ANOTHER THING-!” you said, going on another tangent.

Mammon is blushing sooo bad. He is so pumped you like him back! As you should, he IS your first man!!! He has no preservation instincts, so he yells in victory, fistpumping the air. Asmo gets on to him and they have an argument about how he needed to learn to stop that. You, on the other hand, are trying to hide.

Mammon kidnaps you (against all of Asmo's protest) and tells you that you should feel that way about him! He is the Great Mammon after all, your first man! He also stutters out that he likes you too.

Leviathan does not know how the stars aligned, but he heard you and Beel talking in the kitchen. Well, you were talking as Beel scarfed down the entirety of the fridge and pantry. (He's hoping that his rainbow pizza is a survivor).

"He is just so dreamy, Beel. I don't know how he doesn't see it. His sunset eyes, his devotion to his games? Ugh, and when he goes on his nerd rants? Be still my beating heart!!" You exclaim dramatically.

Through a muffled mouth of food, he hears his younger brother reply

"Just tell him. I'm pretty sure he likes you back"

"He's like a wild animal! Can't approach him to fast or he will run away!! Ugh, but I wanna kiss him so baddd"

He squeaks at that comment, quite loudly. The two of you come out of the kitchen, but Levi is GONE. He might have given away someone who was listening in, but he will not get caught.

Later in the week, he invites for an anime marathon, and makes it very obvious he knows. Just tell him there, he'll freak out, but accept anyways.

Honestly, it was your fault for talking about Satan in a library, especially quite close to the mystery novels.

He was looking for a novel, when he heard you and Mammon talking. He recalls that earlier in the week you two got in trouble for low quiz scores, so you must have been forced to stay here for so many hours.

"Ugh, he is so cute. I love him sooo much. He is so cute when he plays with the cats in the street. He looks so at peace and comfy I lose my mind. Not to mention, his ability to remember things? Iconic. He is the only reason I pass history. I have never felt this way before! I think Satan is, like, my perfect match."

"Good for you. Did you find a cheat sheet online?" Mammon replies boredly.

"I don't think Lucifer would appreciate you not even attempting the work, Mammon" Satan replies, startling both of you.

"Satan!" the both of you yell, in shock.

"H-how long have you been there?" You ask nervously. Oh, how cute is all Satan can think.

"Long enough"

He ignores it till Mammon and you finish your work, with his help of course. He tells you the feeling is mutual, and that he appreciates all the compliments.

Asmo was running late. It was usual, beauty takes time you know! It's also tasteful to be fashionably late, keeping suspense up. He does feel a little bad, as it is Solomon and you kept waiting. It was a cute new café that he had seen all over Devilgram, and just knew that the three of you had to go together.

He was about to yell out for you two, but he saw you passionately talking about something so he decided not to.

"He is just so pretty, Sol. Do you ever think he would be into me? He is completely out of my league, but maybe there's a small chance?? I could be, like, his funny little significant other who hypes him up!! I think Asmo would appreciate that, don't you?"

Solomon, who had noticed Asmo approaching, just shrugged.

"I dunno, you ask him" is all he says, pointing at the object of your affections with a smirk.

Asmo is soooo happy!!!!! You and him are gonna be the prettiest couple to ever exist, and he tells you that right then and there. He announces that you're dating right on the spot, as you and he both obviously want to. You three have a good day out, and when you go home, Asmo spoils you as you both talk about how the other one is prettier.

Beel had just gotten out of a shower after a workout. He, you, and Belphie had a movie night planned. Aka, Beel gets snacks, Belphie sleeps through the entire thing, and you get to see something you have wanted to for a little bit while hanging out with the twins. It was a perfect win-win -win for all three of you. You and Belphie we're doing prep(you were while Belphegor slept the whole time) for when he came back in their room. So, when he heard you giggling in their room, Beel couldn't help but smile.

"He is so perfect, Belph! He cares so deeply for everyone, and is so kind. I dunno if I ever met such a sweetheart before. I think I should go for it, but I don't know. I figure I should ask you how he feels since he is your twin"

"Go for it" is all Belphegor replies with, sleep obvious in his words. He hears you laugh again, and then decides to open the door.

You look a little pale, and Belphie looks a little smug. He probably heard him coming down the hall, with his better hearing.

"Hey! So I thought-"

"You really feel that way?" Beel ask.

"Oh! You, uh, heard that. Yeah, I really do"

Ecstatic, he smiled so big when you said you were serious. Puppy boyfriend aquired baybee!!!!!!! You two watch the movie while holding hands and cuddling as best you could. Belphie appreciates you two being together but he's not giving up the best cuddle spot to indulge you two.

Belphie, Satan, and you had a scheduled Anti-Lucifer League meeting. The plan was to move everything in Lucifer's office half an inch to irk him. Belphegor had fallen asleep, so he came in a little later than you two.

"He is so cute when he sleeps Satan! He literally acts like a cat! When he snuggles his head into my stomach I lose my mind!!! I might be reading into it too hard, but I think he might also like me back? Maybe I'm delusional, but it seems like it! I like Belphie so much, he makes me crazy"

"Criminally insane, crazy does not fully describe how in deep you are" Satan replies boredly, like he had heard this rant time and time again.

Belphie, is of course, happy. You like him! Him! Oh man, this is such a good day. He obviously acts like he doesn't know anything when he enters the room. You look awkward, and Satan is tired. After a day or two, he brings it up. He wanted to make you feel like he hadn't heard you. He makes fun of you for being so down bad, but accepts your feelings and tells you he feels the same. He might not show it, but he is also so into you it almost hurts.

#obey me x reader #lucifer x reader #mammon x reader #leviathan x reader #satan x reader #asmodeus x reader #beelzebub x reader #belphegor x reader #obswd x reader #obey me x you #lucifer x you #mammon x you #leviathan x you #satan x you #asmodeus x you #beelzebub x you #belphegor x you #i will get better at tags. one of these days #bunny's.game.collection

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millenialfanfictionaddiction · 1 year

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Being Seijoh’s Manager

Bookworm Manager

Seijoh x GN! Manager (they/them pronouns)

Warnings: swearing (probably, actually idk)

AN: this is an anon request.

Honestly I think this team is a perfect fit for a manager who loves to read!

They give a certain vibe of class and distinction 😌

And idk if you read romance, action, manga, smut, fantasy, non-fiction, etc

Readers have a certain amount of grace to me

And of course, our precious Yn is the number #1 most graceful 💅

You attend Seijoh and you just happen to be a first year

You never really bothered anyone, never really stood out but you had friends and were a typical student

Perks of being a wallflower 😏

Prepare for book puns and I won’t apologize!

Anyways, you were a typical student who just happened to have class with our favorite aloof wing spiker, Kunimi

Kunimi actually really enjoyed you because you were nice, sweet and pleasant

You never caused drama and while you did have you noise in a book a lot, he’d rather have that than someone gushing over his Senpai 🙄

I totally feel like Kunimi would like reading too so he would probably ask you about your reads, which you happily share

You probably were constantly tired, like him, only you were tired because you stayed up all night reading 😅

During a normal practice, Mattsun and Makki were again teasing Oikawa for being the reason they couldn’t have nice things

Aka a manager

“I can’t help that everyone likes me!” Oikawa whines

“Shut up Shittykawa nobody likes you!” Iwaizumi shouts

Suddenly Kunimi looks over and you appear in the doorway of the gym, eyes locked in a book and holding his math book

He looks at you questionably, which prompts Kindaichi, Yahaba, Watari and Kyotani to do the same thing

He runs past his arguing seniors towards you and greets you kindly

“Hello Yn, did you bring this for me?” He asks as you snap from you book, a wide, adorable smile greeting him

“Yes! I was headed out and I noticed you forgot it so I figured I’d swing by!”

By now, the seniors have noticed you and annoyingkawa is on the move 🙄

“Well hello there and who might you be?” He says but you say nothing

Oikawa clears his throat and tries again, “hello there cutie-chan!”

Again, nothing

Kunimi is holding it together by a thread, Makki and Mattsun are too stunned to speak and Iwaizumi is hella impressed!

“You know it’s rude to ignore you seniors!” Oikawa growled

You snap from your book, eyes locking with his, “oh I’m sorry, this is just a really interesting part, nothing against you personally but it’s kind of important so I’ll be on my way.”

Makki and Mattsun BUST out laughing

Kindaichi, Yahaba, and Watari just stare

Kyotani and Iwa are in awe of your ability to ignore THE Oikawa

“I’ll see you in class tomorrow Akira,” you say, waving at him and walking away

Immediately, Iwa runs up to Kunimi and asks, “does Yn need a club??”

And that, my dear, is how you became the Seijoh’s new manager 🥰

Now at first, you weren’t really super excited about volleyball

I mean, you originally said yes because you needed a club and well, Kunimi was your friend

However you found one perk to the sport

In the form of reading Sports Mangas 😍

Surprisingly it was an excellent way to learn the sport as well as combine it with your love of reading

Even if Manga wasn’t your first choice, you definitely found it easier to learn thought reading gs alternative means

Mainly loserkawa 🙄 who took it upon himself to try and educate you on the sport

It’s literally Lord of the Flies up in here!

“Shittykawa leave Yn alone!!” Iwa shouts as you stand next to Kunimi and Kindaichi

“I’m teaching Yn-Chan the fine art of serving!” Oikawa shouted back

“Umm thanks Oikawa but I think I got it. I read a manga last night and I got the basics down,” you says as Oikawa puts up his hand

“Why read Yn-Chan when you can learn from the greatest?!” He says, tossing up the balls

And slamming it right into the net

You 👉🏻😐

Kunimi and Kindaichi 👉🏻🙄

Makki and Mattsun 👉🏻🤣🤣

Iwaizumi 👉🏻🧑🏻‍🦱🤛🏻

Oikawa 👉🏻 💀

Thankfully your knowledge of volleyball, from reading, you were able to help the boys come up with new skills and tactics to win!

Unfortunately, the skills and tactics didn’t match up against Karasuno, who apparently had developed their own skills

The third years were broken, the second years so upset and the first years disappointed

You couldn’t help but feel awful, like you failed them

On the bus ride home, everyone was quiet as you sat

You wanted to cheer them up but you didn’t know how

Then it came to you, you pulled out your book from your bag

Let’s just say it was one of your new favorites and you began to read out loud to the bus

The boys slowly looked up, listening to your soothing voice as you recited lines perfectly

The entire bus seemed to calm down, the tension disappearing as you continued to read

Once back at school, you stopped reading and prepared to get off the bus

“Wait Yn what happens next?” Kindaichi asks as Kunimi nods

“Come on YN, you can’t really just leave us hanging with that!” Yahaba groaned

“Anyone can see the hero is going to end up victorious as always!” Oikawa chimes in as Iwa smacks him in the back of the head

“Shittykawa shit up!” Iwa said as Mattsun and Makki helped you unload the gear

“You’ll finish reading the story right Yn?” Makki asks as you smile

Of course you will 🥰

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threewaywithdelusion · 5 months

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Flirting with Danger (Robin & Eddie & Steve snippet)

“Hey, Eddie? Why do you flirt with Steve so much?”

Eddie froze. Eddie was always in motion, so it was strange to see him still. Eddie thought he ran, but that wasn’t true. He deflected, he made himself larger than life, turned parts of himself that he was confident about into a target. Unless he was really, really afraid. Then he froze.

Robin understood his other habits. She babbled when she was nervous. She preferred being teased for talking too much or for being a klutz than the other things she was worried people noticed about her.

But Robin had never used outrageously flirting with Steve as a tactic. She’d made fun of him, sure, but it had been hilarious watching The Hair strike out with literally every single girl who’d ever walked into Scoops Ahoy.

What Eddie was doing was different.

Robin forged on, her mouth running ahead of her brain, as usual. “Cause, like, I get it. He’s pretty and all and he makes some really funny faces when you do that. But he doesn’t really reciprocate so I would have stopped by now if I were you, but who knows, I’ve never even been on a date so maybe my problem is that I give in early. Oh my god. Maybe you’re actually doing this right.”

Eddie raised his hands in a wide gesture. “Woah, Buckley, chill. And lower your voice.”

Robin looked around. They were still alone, the only ones in Steve’s living room. But she understood why Eddie was afraid of this conversation being overheard, even if she thought anyone with eyeballs must have realized he was hitting on Steve by now. Except maybe Mike Wheeler, who was blind to just about everything, and Dustin, who was still determined to set Steve up with either Robin or Nancy, and Lucas, who was still distracted with his girlfriend’s recovery.

Okay, maybe not everyone had noticed.

“Sorry,” Robin said. “But come on, you can tell me.”

Eddie looked around again, then leaned in dramatically. “Okay, this is going to sound stupid, but. I don’t know how well you knew Steve a few years ago.”

“Not well. We had Mrs. Click’s class together two years ago, but besides that our paths never really crossed.”

“Yeah,” Eddie said. “Well Steve and I didn’t exactly run in the same circles, but we ran in overlapping ones. I was a junior when he was a sophomore, and then we were seniors together. And I’ve been dealing to the basketball jocks for years, so I saw him around at parties and shit. And he was… very different than he is now.”

“You don’t have to tell me that Steve was an asshole. I know that.” Robin eyed Eddie, confused on what this had to do with all the flirting. Was Eddie just irresistibly into people who did hardcore self-improvement? “He knows that too, by the way.”

“I guess,” Eddie said. “I mean, he seems to. But that kind of evolution? It’s basically unbelievable, right. Like, if I wrote some DnD campaign where someone started out as a villain like that and turned into the hero, no one would buy it.”

Robin was taken aback.

Hold up. This wasn’t lovestruck gushing. The only person allowed to insult Steve like that was Robin. Maybe Dustin on a good day.

“He wasn’t a villain,” Robin said heatedly. “He was an asshole and an idiot, but he was no worse than every other jock who goes to our school and he was a hell of a lot better than a lot of them, even then.”

Eddie’s face turned dark. “You didn’t hear the shit he said.”

No, she hadn’t. She’d overheard sometimes, when he’d called some kid or another a freak or a nerd, but she’d had no reason to hang around Steve back when they’d both been in high school. She was thankful for that sometimes. She knew Steve was different now and that he regretted the things he’d said and done in the past. But it was easier to forgive him when she didn’t know exactly what he was guilty of.

“He can’t have been worse than Billy Hargrove. Or Jason Carver.”

Eddie scoffed. “Yeah, cause being better than Billy Hargrove or the guy who convinced the whole town I was in a satanic cult and then tried to murder me is a real selling point. What a high bar.”

He leaned in closer to her. “He was a bully, Robin. He made life awful for kids like me. Like those kids in there.” He jabbed a finger at the kitchen, where Steve was teaching The Party how to cook. “The nerds, the geeks, the outcasts, the queers. And I guess you and I and those kids are proof that he doesn’t care about the bullshit high school social hierarchy anymore. But there are some things people still hold against you out here in the real world.”

Robin scoffed. “So you’re trying to prove that Steve — Steve who fights monsters from another dimension off with a baseball bat and babysits a bunch of fifteen-year-old nerds — is still the guy you knew?” Robin fought to keep her volume down when she wanted to scream. “Cause Steve is the best person I know. He’s brave and selfless and so fucking kind, like good from the bottom of his soul, and he’s a little vain and a little slow but he isn’t anything worse than that. And fuck you for thinking that kind of thing about my best friend.”

Eddie shook his head slowly. “I’m not denying he’s good to you, Robin. But in this little group, our fucking lives depend on each other. So excuse me for trying to find out if he’s good to people like me.”

Robin only had time to blink before Eddie continued.

“I know flirting with him is insane and maybe a little suicidal. But I just want to know how far I can push him before he snaps. If he’s gonna say some shit or hit someone for acting queer, I’d rather it be me than W- one of those kids. And I’d rather know before I’m trusting him to have my back in a fight against a monster that preys on our fucking fears and traumas.”

Robin stared at Eddie for a long moment. She couldn’t believe that she and Steve had both been wrong. Eddie hadn’t been genuinely flirting with Steve, but he also hadn’t been using Steve as a safe option. Hell, Steve had been so far off it would have been laughable if it wasn’t so sad.

Robin remembered when she’d come out to Steve, stinking of vomit and high out of her mind and just as afraid as she’d been in the secret Russian bunker.

She understood why Eddie was afraid. She probably would have been too, if she didn’t know Steve like she did. If the drugs hadn’t loosened her tongue and allowed her to tell Steve a secret she’d never shared with anyone else.

There was only one thing she could think to do.

“Steve!” Robin called.

A moment later Steve came running through the doorway, a kitchen knife in his hand. He visibly relaxed when he saw that Robin and Eddie were just sitting on the couch and not being attacked by monsters from the Upside Down.

“Robin! How many times have we talked about this? If you just scream for me, I’m going to assume something is trying to eat you.”

Robin snorted. “You say that, but you called me in a panic when you ran out of hairspray before a date and you started with the words ‘Robin, this is an emergency. I need your help.’”

Steve dragged a hand over his mouth. “I- okay, I did. But-“

“Anyway,” Robin cut him off. “I wanted to tell you earlier, but all your little ducklings were crowded around you learning how to use a stove.”

“Tell me what?” Steve asked.

Robin grinned. She pulled a little slip of paper from her pocket and waved it out towards Steve. “Vickie’s digits.”

Steve’s eyebrows shot up in a slightly offensive look of shock. “Holy shit, Robin, you actually managed to get her number?”

He shot a glance at Eddie, probably wondering why Robin was choosing to have this conversation in front of Eddie Munson.

Robin ignored the look and smirked. “Vickie was complaining about how she hasn’t seen a movie in ages, since the mall burned down. I told her that I work at the video store and that my very platonic best friend has a giant tv we could borrow if she wanted the full experience. And that we could make popcorn and eat candy and do all the things teenagers are supposed to do in movie theaters. And she said ‘everything?” all suggestive and I almost died! And I told her everything, so I need to steal your house and I need you not to be in it.”

Steve sputtered. “You totally stole my line. Oh my god. You said you didn’t want my dating advice, and then you stole my exact pickup line! And my house!”

Robin rolled her eyes. “What’s yours is mine, Dingus. Even your cheesy pickup lines.”

Steve grinned, looking proud.

Robin beamed back at him. She loved that she could go to Steve, that he was her biggest cheerleader when it came to her love life. That he had never once, from the moment he had learned she was gay, made her feel strange or freakish or different for liking girls. She’d tested him, maybe, a little. In the beginning. When she’d started with innocuous little comments about Molly Ringwald looking generally pretty in the Breakfast Club or the cute girl at Family Video having a nice smile. Steve hadn’t blinked, which had given her the courage to say more, to comment on actress’s collarbones or chests or thighs, to talk about her crushes growing up, to call dibs on customers and be pleasantly surprised when Steve refused to flirt with the girls Robin had chosen, even if they were hopelessly straight and even if they flirted with him first.

Robin had never trusted anyone the way she trusted Steve, with every part of herself, knowing that there was nothing she could show him that would make him love her less.

Eddie was staring between them, dark eyes wide in shock and disbelief.

“Wait,” Eddie said, waving his arms wildly. He pointed at Robin. “You are a lesbian?”

Robin nodded. “Yep! 100% all into the ladies.”

She knew Eddie was safe. There had been rumors about him being gay for years and she’d just watched him spend the past several weeks flirting with Steve Harrington of all people. He’d all but just told her he was queer. But it was still terrifying. She’d only ever told Steve, and she’d been high on Russian truth serum then.

Robin’s heart was pounding so hard she could hear it in her ears. Her hands were trembling.

Steve, bless his head of beautiful hair, realized at that moment that Eddie hadn’t already known about Robin. He walked closer very quickly, putting himself between Robin and Eddie as best as he could while he was standing and they were both sitting on the couch.

It was a sweet gesture, especially from a man who had lost every fight he’d ever been in.

“And you,” Eddie said, swinging to point his finger at Steve, jabbing it into his stomach, “knew about this?”

Robin could only see the side of Steve’s face, but he was watching Eddie with a hard look. “If you have a problem, you and I can take this outside.”

Eddie’s jaw dropped. He looked from Steve, to Robin, then back to Steve.

Steve didn’t move.

“Holy shit,” Eddie said, more to himself than anything.

Steve tensed.

“I don’t have a problem,” Eddie said, leaning back against the couch in an artful slouch. He turned to look at Robin, trying to hide his wide-eyed surprise behind a casual look. “Damn Robin, good for you, finding love in the apocalypse. While the rest of us suffer the woes of portals to hell and the perils of monster attacks, you’ve actually gone and found yourself true love.”

Robin smiled. “Or a movie date. You know. One of the two.”

Steve was looking between the two of them, his brow furrowed in that adorable look of confusion that he got sometimes.

“I don’t understand anything that just happened here,” he said.

Robin snorted. She was about to tell Steve that he should mind his business when Eddie said, still in that fake-casual tone, “I’m gay.”

Steve blinked, his eyebrows raising slightly. He looked taken aback. “Um, yeah.” He glanced at Robin, then back to Eddie. “I know I’m not the sharpest bulb in the box, but I’m really good at reading people. Especially when they’re flirting. Flirting is my specialty. You were really obvious, man.”

Eddie’s dark eyes were wide as he watched Steve.

Steve pushed his hair back nervously. “Was I not supposed to know that?”

Slowly, a grin grew on Eddie’s face. “No, that makes sense. I was just making sure we were on the same page.”

Steve started frowning again. “About…? Oh. Wait. Is this- are you trying to ask me out? Because, I’m flattered dude, but I’m not- I mean. I like girls. A girl. Who doesn’t like me back, but, you know, the heart wants what it wants and all that shit.”

Eddie shot Robin an incredulous look. She gave him a close-lipped smile and a nod.

Yeah, dude. Her best friend was awesome.

“No, Steve,” Eddie said. “I’m not trying to ask you out. The last person I wanted to date got murdered by a super-powered psychopath right in front of me and it was quite traumatizing, so I think I’m taking a break from all that dating-slash-falling-in-love stuff for a while.”

Steve’s face scrunched up as he thought for a long moment. “Patrick?”

Robin snorted, feeling hopelessly fond.

Eddie looked stupefied. “Chrissy, Steve. Remember Chrissy? Who was beautiful and sweet and not actually trying to murder me for starting a cult?”

“But… Chrissy’s a girl?”

“I like both, man,” Eddie said.

“Oh,” Steve said. Then a second later, “That’s a thing?”

Eddie laughed. He had a look in his eye, like he still couldn’t quite believe Steve was taking this so well but he was grateful for every second of it.

“Like Bowie,” Robin tried to explain. “He likes both.”

Eddie snapped his fingers and pointed at Robin. “Exactly. Bowie’s metal as fuck.”

Steve looked like he was about to say something when Dustin’s voice came from the kitchen “Steve! Come tell Mike he’s doing it wrong!”

“I’m not doing it wrong! The pasta’s supposed to look like that.”

“No pasta is ever supposed to look like that,” Erica’s voice sounded loudly over the rest. “What? Just the facts!”

“My mom’s pasta looks like that.” That was Will.

Then Dustin again. “Thanks for proving my point, dude. Steve!”

Steve was smiling softly as the kids all roared for his approval.

“Go help your kids, Dingus,” Robin said. “And know that I’m not eating anything made by Mike or Dustin.”

“Yeah, yeah,” Steve said. “I’ll make you something else. Eddie?”

Eddie grinned. “Nah man, I’m with you. It’s our job to eat whatever the little shits made and pretend it’s good, right?”

Steve grimaced. “Yeah.”

He left, muttering about being the goddamn babysitter under his breath.

Robin turned to Eddie, eyebrows up, expectant.

“Alright, fine! I believe I owe the Lady my apologies,” Eddie said. “I didn’t mean to malign your best friend’s honor and besmirch his good name.”

#stranger things #stranger things fanfiction #mia writes fanfiction #robin buckley #Eddie munson #Steve harrington

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thecarnivorousmuffinmeta · 1 year

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Please release the Carlisle cut. (Aka the meta on his gift)

@therealvinelle, I give up on you.

For a version presented by Aro to a disbelieving Carlisle, see Aro's rambly speech from chapter 7 of Nebuchadnezzar's Dream by @therealvinelle

Canon

Per canon, Carlisle's not gifted.

Gifts are extremely rare and the Cullen coven already is extremely gifted for a variety of reasons (namely Jasper and Alice showing up because Alice was drawn specifically to the Cullens)

You have Edward, Alice, and Jasper. Bella being gifted herself is very unusual to the point that Edward thinks he's broken before he finally accepts that Bella herself may have a gift.

There's no blatantly obvious implication that Carlisle is gifted, no offhand mention like even Siobhan's probably gift that's mildly terrifying, and Edward who is our expert on vampires and Cullens never brings anything up.

Carlilse just gets his "goodness" amplified the way Rosalie gets her "pigheadedness"/"beauty" amplified (per Edward, but let's just go along with it here).

The trouble is, if you look at this series entirely too deeply (which this blog does) then there's a lot of things that don't add up.

The Dots Just Aren't Connecting!

Vampires are terrifying to humans.

This is repeated throughout the series. Bella learns this as early as Twilight as Edward informs her how unusual it is she isn't on an instinctual level terrified of him ("Wow, vampires so hot, much wow" is Bella's response to this).

The Cullens are isolated at school because of this, Edward is never approached without Bella because of it (and is very surprised at the hyperventilating waitresses in the Italian restaurant), and people just instinctually don't like them.

Except for Carlisle.

Carlisle is extremely well thought of by nearly everyone in the series. Charlie introduces him to Bella as this spectacular family man, despite adopting all these teenagers, who is a literal saint and can't understand why Billy finds him strange.

He works at the hospital where, from what he can see, he's well liked by the staff and the towns people. People go to him as a doctor, this terrifying marble statue of a man, and talk to him about how they have a sinus infection today or ask him to take out their stitches.

Aro gushes about Carlisle for an entire chapter in New Moon when he's supposed to be deciding whether or not he's killing Edward, Bella, and Alice. "Have I mentioned Carlisle?" Aro asks intead.

James, Laurent, and Victoria initially have a weirdly swell time talking to the Cullens despite James being a serial killer who hunts women for sport.

Carlisle has friends from dozens of cultures across the globe, who all gladly eat people. They think he's a little crazy, but they all show up to defend his possibly immortal child granddaughter that his son made by porking a human.

What the fuck?!

Edward even notes this in canon, that he believes that Carlisle, being so immune to blood, somehow radiates this to the humans so they feel at peace. Otherwise, Carlisle's amplified feature as a vampire his inner 'goodness' whatever that is, so humans and vampires all know they can trust him instinctually.

Regardless, something weird is going on with Carlisle that isn't with the rest of the gang.

It Gets Weirder

Carlisle survives to the present day.

Carlisle, for three hundred years, was a lone nomad who walked all over the place, in other vampires territory, where they had no idea he's not after their livestock, and when he does meet them tells him all about his groovy cardboard diet they have to try.

Nobody kills him.

Nobody suspects him of foul play, of being up to something, and kills him. Nobody gets annoyed with him and kills him.

Not only that, they befriend him.

Amun, a fallen god persecuted by the Volturi who lives on the run, befriends this weird guy WHO LIVED IN FUCKING VOLTERRA. Carlisle gets to see Benjamin, whom Amun is hiding from the Volturi, and has Benjamin show up as part of Carlisle's "not army" of witnesses to defend his mutant granddaughter produced when his progeny porked a human.

Liam at least puts up with Carlisle, if not outright likes him, when Carlisle is from England in the 17th century and Liam is very very Irish and still despises the English.

The Amazonian women leave their lands, which they've never done, to defend mutant hybrid baby.

Alistair, while he does initially live, is a paranoid wracked hermit who leaves his forest, nearly makes himself an enemy of Volterra, and was willing to stay until he wigged out that Bella was going behind everyone's back and thought they were going to lose the fight.

Carlisle isn't just well liked he's--he's the hero of a shonen manga who in the last chapter gathers all the weird one-off characters together that he's befirended through the power of peace no jutsu so they can make a giant tree and save the universe.

Only, Twilight is a shojou manga starring Bella so Bella never realized the shonen anime prequel ever happened.

"Wow these people so nice" - Bella in Breaking Dawn.

And, of course, the fact that Carlisle lived in Volterra for at least 20 years, while very young, presumably bringing nothing to the table, and appears to have had an open invitation to return/left on very amicable terms.

This also isn't even getting to the fact that the Cullens got to sit down and make a treaty at all with the Quileute tribe or that any of the negotiations in Eclipse happened at all.

The Theory: Something's Going on Here

The gift, at its base, is that Carlisle is likable and persuasive. He has no compulsion, he can't make you do anything you really wouldn't want to do (hence the diet failing all the time), but generally you can't help but like him/want to trust him and at least give him a chance to speak his mind.

Rosalie should despise Carlisle, given he's the one that forced this life on her: she doesn't.

Edward took years to leave the diet/family versus immediately, and even then, oddly never resented Carlisle for what he is and became.

The only one who's not weird about Carlisle in some way is Bella, which makes sense, as she's likely immune. She finds Carlisle hot, but generally doesn't care about what he says or give him much time of day. Edward's blathering on, meanwhile, about how his dad is amazing and sexy Jesus. "Wow, he swam to France" Bella says.

This is a surprisingly powerful gift in that it means, well, Carlisle can do things like gather an army of "witnesses" in just a month's time to stand against the superpower of the vampire world. He can hold a position as a doctor. He can make treaties with the Quileute tribe. He can get people to talk to each other, slow down, and listen to him when they should absolutely not be bothering with it.

He can't make them do whatever he wants, read the diet, but he's capable of quite a bit.

Why Hasn't He Figured it Out?

Why would he? This is just how the world works for him.

To Carlisle, people are always reasonable in the end and willing to hear him out, we can all get along if we just try and everyone's good deep down.

It would never naturally occur to him that it's odd people are so nice to him or that they even are being nice to him.

Why Hasn't Anyone Else Figured it Out?

Well, you have characters like Edward who realize something is up, but it's written off.

This is just because Carlisle's so amazing. Edward never realizes that maybe it's because there's something actually up with Carlisle beyond that.

It's easy to see it as just being the way that Carlisle Cullen is. Of course everyone makes nice with him.

As a result, to @therealvinelle and I, it very much seems like a gift that is canon but is also unacknowledged/unknown to every character and not too surprising for being that way.

TLDR

Carlisle's gift is that people like him.

#twilight #twilight meta #twilight headcanon #twilight renaissance #carlisle cullen #meta #headcanon #opinion #thegreatspacehobo

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First time doing this an I have no idea what I'm doing but can we see the I.M.P crew (Blitz, Moxxie, Millie, and Loona) reacting to the reader doing some kickass karate moves like breaking multiple people's body's and not breaking a sweat or something, I just like karate now.

Their reaction to their S/O doing Bad ass Karate

Blitzø

Youd be out for a few drinks, the two of you hanging out, drinking, throwing darts. Just having some fun together.

And it'd be as you retrieved your darts, that some assclown barged into you.

Youd try and play it off, but the asshole would demand an apology and when you bluntly refused, the assclown's friends crowded you.

And seeing this, youd go off.

Youd kick the individual shit out of each of them.

Of course, as things tend to do in Hell, devolved into a bloodbath, you effortlessly using your skills to tear them apart.

At the end you stood amidst a room of bloody bodies, the few survivors releasing the occasional moan or groan.

Blitzø just stood there, staring at you in awe the entire time.

When you were finished, he totally gushed over you, the Imp thinking you were the collest thing ever.

Blitzø will absolutely bug you to no end untill you showed him some of your moves. The Imp actually listening and taking the lessons seriously.

Of course he'd never be as good as you, but he would pick up a few moves. And the day he finally used a move, he'd run to you, proudly telling you about it.

The Imp oh so proud of himself, taking your lessons very seriously.

Moxxie

You and Mox would be at a music store, Moxxies lil guitar having broken a string, the two of you there to get a replacement.

Youd be fiddling with a rather nice looking guitar, Moxxie playing a few cords for you.

Of course some demons can't handle good music, so it was only a matter of time before some jack hole came up, demanding you stop.

Now, neither of you were the confrontational type, so you were happy to just handle your buisness and leave.

But the demon asshole made sure to tell you he was happy to see you stop playing, and well, after he insulted him one last time, you snapped, kicking the demons ass.

You left him an inch from death, the demon splayed out at your feet, his teeth sprinkled across the shop floor.

Cleaning your knuckles, you gave Mox a big ole smooch, your thespian utterly love struck.

And the shop owner was quick with tending to your needs, so you were out of there right quick.

Then you and Mox went home, your Imp playing you a ballad, showering you in adoration. Making sure you knew how much he loved you.

Millie

When Millie discovered your abilities, seeing you utterly demolish a gang of Sinners single handedly, she fell in love all over again.

She swooned over you, wanting to see your moves. And you of course obliged, showing her a few moves, your lady Imp picking them up quite well.

Youd go on to teach her a fair bit And Millie would pick it up pretty well. She was already a very physically adept fighter, so she could pick up the basics right quick.

Now she wasn't as good as you, she was always too heavy handed, but she was still extremely capable and as much as she loved your lessons, Millie was particularly fond of your sparing matches.

The way you'd tussle and pull and throw. Bodies grinding against each other, the two of you all huffing and puffing.

And then the fun began, you often getting hands on experience with just how capable your Imp S/O really was.

Loona

When Loona first saw your ability, she thought it was the most bad ass thing ever.

And she was sure to tell you as much.

But...

Well, with the knowledge of your fighting ability, she began using you as a threat. And I mean she used your constantly.

Did someone disrespect her?

"Hey, My S/O can kick your ass!"

Did someone overcharge her tab at a bar?

"Hey watch it, my S/O will kick your ass!"

Was Moxxie just on her nerves for some reason.

"Watch it fucker, my S/O can kick your ass!"

The funiest part was, well, Loona was probably more capable in a fight. The girl literally working as an assassin for multiple years.

Of course you'd never fight Moxxie, that would mean picking a fight with Millie, and that was the furthest thing from a good idea.

That's not to say you didn't kick ass for her, because you certainly did.

But you made sure Loona didn't have a say in who's ass you kicked. Although you probably would have to put your foot down eventually, telling her you weren't just a bodyguard for her to use as a threat.

And even though she'd be huffy about it, she'd concede, promising to tune it down. You and Loona sharing a tender moment when you fought together.

#helluva boss #headcanon #x reader #helluva boss headcanon #helluva boss x reader #blitzo x reader #helluva boss blitzø #blitzo #helluva boss blitzo #millie x reader #helluva boss millie #millie #helluva boss moxxie #moxxie x reader #moxxie #loona #helluva boss loona #loona x reader

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mias-back-from-the-dead · 7 months

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caught up to wwdits season five and oh my GOD

The turn to Everything Is Genuine with Guillermo's story clicking into place is fucking chefs kiss mua mua

(writing under the cut is mostly me spoilerly-gushing rather than any actual deep analysis)

Cuz like. there's the show-long trend of Nandor constantly pushing Guillermo away from vampirism has been treated as joke, framed as a joke the entire time, exacerbated with a wild amount of emphasis on how Nandor is characterized as a bit of a dummy in social interactions. Every time Guillermo gets closer to either a) Nandor and the other housemates or b) Belonging in Vampirism/being taken seriously as a threat he gets knocked back in one vicious way or another.

And so a lot of the energy in the fandom for the last few seasons has been "lol what if this is like that old romance drama trope where one party's actively putting distance and being cruel because it's what they think will be kinder in the long run for the other party, wouldn't that be so juicy? very regency drama! its way too sappy to be canon, Nandor's not playing the long game, they're OBVIOUSLY gonna play it off as a goof forever but let's play in this space :)"

but no

no that's ACTUALLY what's been fucking going on, at least for the last few years or so in-show!!!!! Nandor CAN'T keep pushing and insisting that he doesn't belong in the dynamic of the house anymore, especially in season 4 with all the bonding done co-parenting with Laszlo and weird family night stuff with Nadja. The group can cut off Guillermo mid-conversation all they want (probably out of rote habit) but literally everyone (except maybe colin? if he never gets his child-season memories back that is) would fucking take a stake for the guy. In Nandor's case literally.

Guillermo's gotten too close to them all so Nandor CAN'T keep running excuses for not turning Guillermo (forced diner comedy voice: haha wouldn't it be sooooo funny if you were a vampire? :)) other than the ACTUAL reason, which is that he's considered vampirism to be a curse for some time now, and KNOWS Guillermo would be miserable with it.

and he was right

Too much time elapsed between his late season 3 descent into "brutal vampire-hunter ready to murder Nandor if needs must" and the time of his turning. He gained and lost a boyfriend, he reconnected with his family, was at Nandor's side for an incredibly human journey of desperately trying to seek happiness via marriage.

The shampoo scene is SUCH a good depiction of it, overhearing all that just confirms Nandor's suspicions of what Guillermo needs. Sure, he knows that Guillermo likes the ceremony and pathos of his little made-up induction, but he knows he NEEDS a real choice to make. One that he's been hoping for (please do not bear the same curse as me, I know you would hate killing innocents) and dreading (does it make me a worse monster if I wanted you to revel in the blood in order to stay by my side), but under all his posturing he knows Guillermo's choice as easily as he would his own.

No more dismissiveness, no more pretending to forget serious things about Guillermo to push him away. He remembers the words spoken from Guillermo over a decade ago, the place where they first met, where he grew up and who his family is.

He knows Guillermo's choice.

I'm just. I'm just frothing at the fucking mouth about this because no amount of cutting Guillermo off mid-sentence is going to put that rabbit back in the fucking hat for season 6. There was still a decent bet on Nandor not turning Guillermo for bullshit and/or comedy reasons if their weird season 3 elopement thing went off without a hitch. For him to mayyybe seem he might not care, or not want to turn him due to purely selfish reasons (like when CEOs sabotage secretaries to keep them by his side).

There's NO way they're gonna sell that he doesn't care anymore and I'm SO FUCKING CURIOUS to see how that shakes out now.

#also what was with the helsing beard anyone know more info on that #what we do in the shadows #wwdits #wwdits season 5 #wwdits spoilers #nandor the relentless #guillermo de la cruz

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YOOO IT'S HERE THE FIC i MADE at least chapter 1 anyways

read it on A03

here's a smol preview

“Sera! Sera! Sera!” Lucifer flew circles around the sleeping seraphim. “It’s today! Come on come onnnnn!” he tugged at her. The cloud she was laying on fluttered with his commotion.

“Luci…” she groaned, “it’s not for another few hours.”

“Don’t you want to get good seats?”

Sera glared at him playfully through her locks, “Lucifer, we’re literally the highest ranking angels, nobody is going to take our seats.”

“Alriiiiiight…” Lucifer landed on the floor and started taking extremely slow steps towards an archway. “I’m going to go get some cloudflakes by myself then.”

Sera’s eyes shot open.

“Maybe they’ll even run out, I am really excited after all. I could probably eat the whole stock.”

“You wouldn’t,” Sera finally sat up in the bed now.

Lucifer grinned at her, and flared his wings open to take off as fast as he could.

Sera opened her wings and took off first, rushing past him.

“Now that’s what I’m talking about!” Lucifer jumped in the air after her, pumping his wings as fast as he could to catch up to her.

The two rushed through and around heaven, disturbing the cloud formations, and making some other angels stumble as they rushed past. The morning breeze was fresh and crisp on their faces. As Lucifer got closer to Sera, she started doing corkscrews to throw him off. He quickly followed suit, not being deterred at all.

The two danced around each other as they raced towards the stall with the flakes that Sera loved.

Sera could see it in the distance, the two were closing in.

“You know, Sera,” Lucifer showed up next to her, laying on his back in the air, hands behind his head as if flying this fast was effortless even though his wings were flapping so fast they were all but a blur, “you would fly faster if you were closer to my size,” he teased.

“Hey!” Sera exclaimed as he took off in front of her and she tried flapping her wings harder to catch up, but it was in vain. In spite of her best efforts he beat her to the stall, and the cherub there handed him the largest tray of the cloud flakes.

Lucifer took a handful, and then passed the tray over to her, “Hey, second place isn’t so bad,” he winked at her.

Sera was out of breath, “You stinker!” she took the tray from him, “I knew you weren’t going to eat all of them, you would never!”

Lucifer shrugged, and ate one of the flakes he had, “But I couUuld!” he said singsong. He then flapped his wings in order to fly up and kiss her forehead.

“Cheeky,” Sera rolled her eyes at him before reaching with her hand, cupping the back of his head and pulling him into a full on kiss. “There was literally no reason for us to get up this early.”

Arms still wrapped around her shoulders, Lucifer raised an eyebrow at her, “I refuse to believe that you could sleep in and not even be the least bit excited,”

Gadreel, the cherub, looked up from his stall, “Gee golly, is today the day you’re going to put the humans you’ve worked so hard on into Eden?”

Lucifer nodded enthusiastically while Sera quite calmly affirmed, “Yes it is.”

Lucifer flew down to Gadreel, “It’s going to be so amazing! I can’t wait for the humans to see it! I hope they love it!”

Gadreel nodded, “I can’t wait to see it! You all created so many cool things for Eden.”

“Can you imagine all the things that could happen?” Lucifer gushed, “They’re going to grow and learn and love and see the world and-,” out of sheer excitement his wings started fluttering so fast he nearly shot straight into the sky.

Sera caught him by the leg, “Tone it down, Luci,” she laughed, “You’re going to launch yourself into space again.”

He took a breath and calmed his flapping before turning to defend himself, “That only happened once!”

“Because now I catch you before it can happen again,” Sera booped his nose.

“Pfft, I had it under control.” He denied, returning to the floor.

Sera rolled her eyes.

A trumpet fanfare played suddenly, and golden rays of light peeked over a few clouds overhead and danced in the sky. All the angels stopped to look at it. They were relaying messages and announcements.

“Looks like we’re being summoned,” Sera noted.

“MmHmm,” Lucifer was hovering next to her face, wiggling his eyebrows smugly at her. “I knew we needed to get up early. I told you-,”

Sera shoved his face to the side, “You had no idea they were going to call for a last minute meeting.”

“It’s in thirty minutes though, you would have missed it if you were still sleeping,” he rubbed it in. “Most likely it’s just last minute resource checking.”

Gadreel just laughed at their antics, “I’ll see you both later at the grand introduction.”

Lucifer spun around, “Absolutely!”

“We’ll see you there, Gadreel,” Sera waved. She looked at Lucifer, “We should get going.”

He flared his wings excitedly, “Race?”

“No.”

Lucifer pouted, “You’re no fun.”

Sera patted down her hair and began walking towards the council hall, “I’m in no rush to mess up my hair again before an important meeting.” She told him. “We’re the seraphim! Don’t we have to make a good impression?”

Walking after her, Lucifer waved her off, “We can do what we want. Our wings do all the impressing for us,” he flapped his to make a point. He was then immediately proven correct.

There were gasps over to Sera’s right and she saw some angels gasping and pointing at them. They must have been new and were just seeing them for the first time. Sera bowed her head at them politely and then elbowed Lucifer and gestured her head towards them.

The second Lucifer turned his head to see, the new angels blushed, turned away and immediately started giggling, stealing glances at him every few seconds.

“Hello!” he greeted, waving his whole arm instead of just his hand. Before Sera could even think to stop him, he immediately flew over to them.

“Lucifer,” Sera followed after him.

“Ahhhhah so you ARE Lucifer and Sera!” one of them squealed.

Lucifer squinted at them for a second. His eyes grew big and round when he realized these were new angels. “Holy heaven! Are you new?!” He flew around them, giving them, looking them over. “You’re both so cute!”

Sera rolled her eyes. Lucifer always did have a soft spot for the cherubs.

The two little cherubs both squealed in delight, “Thank youuuu.”

“Has anyone shown you around yet?” Lucifer asked them.

“Luci,” Sera put a hand on his shoulder.

“No not yet,” another one of them answered.

“Well hey! Let me give you a quick tour!”

Both of them squealed again.

“Luci, we’ve got somewhere to be,” Sera reminded him.

He jumped up into the air, gesturing for the cherubs to follow him, “Relax Sera! We’ve still got,” he paused to count really fast, “Twenty-eight minutes!”

“We’ve got to be there before that…”

“It’s fine!” he waved it off, “The tour will be ten minutes max!”

Sera crossed her arms, “For you maybe, don’t forget no one else can fly as fast as you.”

“Fine, fifteen to twenty, it’s fine!” Lucifer was entirely unconcerned, “I’ll see you there!” he took off with the two cherubs in tow.

Sera shook her head exasperated. She couldn’t believe he was supposed to be the high seraphim. His bubbly, bouncy, energetic personality wasn’t bad per say but it was very unprofessional most of the time. She knew he could hold it together in court meetings, having been the defacto overseer and announcer several times, but whenever they were out of meetings…

“I’ll go make sure the doors don’t close on you…” Sera muttered, knowing full well he couldn’t hear her.

She knew Lucifer preferred flying through heaven as fast as he could, as if he was always in a hurry. She quite enjoyed walking through at her leisure, taking in the sights, watching the sun’s rays dance on the clouds and bounce off different colors, seeing the other angels go about their days… Part of her was worried that once she started taking more of the seraphim duties to lighten Lucifer’s load, she wouldn’t be able to see this more.

Lighten the load… heh. Maybe that’s why Lucifer always rushed everywhere. To get everything done and still have time for himself.

Arriving at the courthouse, she spotted another angel there. This one was a member of the court, albeit a bit more animalistic with his bug head, one of the more lower ranking members.

“Greetings Hutriel,” she called out to him.

Hutriel turned to look at her. “Hello, Sera,” he said politely before raising an eyebrow, “Where’s your little boy toy?”

Sera glared at him and even opened some extra eyes for emphasis, “You forget your place Hutriel.”

He raised up his hands innocently, “I know I know, you’re both the same rank, and he’s actually older than you even though he acts like a child... Just never seen the two of you separate is all. He didn’t get lost again did he?”

Sera kept her glaring, “He’s on his way and you better watch your attitude. His compassion and wonder are great qualities of his that quite frankly you seem to lack.”

It was Hutriel’s turn to glare at Sera. “Remind me, didn’t he get taken off the Eden project, demoted to exclusively overseeing it and not allowed to make anything for it because of his behavior?” he retaliated.

“And how exactly did you come across this information? As far as I was aware, it wasn’t disclosed to anyone lower than seraphim. Did you eavesdrop?” Sera asked him innocently.

Hutriel shifted his gaze.

The doors behind Sera began to slowly close. Time had run out. Was Lucifer going to be late again or-

A white/silver/blonde blur suddenly rushed through the door and past Sera. The speed was such that it spun Hutriel around at least three times. She turned to look and saw none other than Lucifer wobbling, trying to stick the landing. Once he regained his balance, he slicked back his hair and did some finger guns at her, “ON TIME!” he grinned wildly.

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The first chapter is 18k words I'm not putting all of it here

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#lucifer morningstar #lucifer #hazbin hotel #fan fiction #EYYYYYY IT'S HERE #chapter 2 is called Eden #o btw according to some tools it takes over an hour to read chapter 1 #have fun!

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Reposters, read this to understand me

What's crazy about the reposters that disrespect my wishes to give me an ounce of credit, practically run their accounts on my stuff, and continue to do so maliciously even after I ask them (before one specific person gets mad, this has happened multiple times) -

is that my videos on my YouTube channel like my cutscene compilations and stuff are free to use. I don't watermark my videos like that and never plan to. You're allowed to use the footage for your own stuff as much as you want (credit is appreciated but not required, as I've said to those who asked first to use it in their videos)

And you can screenshot it to high heaven, make edits out of it, whatever you want. So long as you don't just straight up reupload the entire video for the same purpose I already uploaded it of course. I recorded the footage and played through the games again to get it when theatre mode isn't available,

but it's an effort I don't mind being used transformatively after I've uploaded it, I'm happy to know it's useful. That's the point of my channel being a collection and archive. I never liked people slapping watermarks just on top of recorded cutscenes when there's not even personal gameplay in it because they didn't animate them themself (unlike how gif making and edits and such is a lot more personalized and wouldn't exist at all without that creative effort)

Even though a lot of effort goes into the compiling and editing, if you want to take screenshots and clips from my YouTube videos for any reason, you can. It's an archive and that's the point. The end product is identical to the official product, compiling aside, therefore I don't feel protective ownership, unless someone reuploaded my entire video as a copy with no changes or other purpose

But my blog isn't an archive. It's a personalized expression of my passion that my YouTube account isn't (aside from the long ass gushing descriptions on there lol), my gifs, screenshots, upscales, edits, compilations, collages, etc are not for people to just steal and practically run their account on with no credit. It makes me feel used and taken for granted

But here's the thing, I actually don't mind the odd screenshot or gif being used by people every now and then- especially if they don't know it's mine. Official Sega accs have used my gifs. Popular meme accounts have used them. I've just recently seen an artist you all love that hates my guts and blocked me use my Lost World Eggman CG "if you insist" gif on Twitter and I bet she didn't know it was me that made it.

(It was this one, just before I added this watermark)

And does it make me angry? No

I can always tell when people use images and gifs that have been on my blog from the frames and duration of the gif to the exact dimensions of a crop in an image. Then some people even take edits where I've made the arrangement myself from erasing backgrounds, upscaling, and compiling or have even drawn on it and so it's not even subtle and literally did not exist before I made it

But I know it's not always malicious and sometimes it might just be useful and a one off- or it's at least being used transformatively, for the sake of evidence or analysis of their own, or has interesting commentary, or something like that. I don't mind this. But if you're practically just remaking my exact posts or reposting my images without any transformative efforts and commentary at all, it becomes a problem

Especially when you run an account where it's practically just all my stuff back to back, with no commentary, or commentary where you're repeating things I've said or trying to talk like me because that's creepily happened before on Instagram while they were reposting my stuff. I know that if you do that then you're just visiting my blog and grabbing every image I post. I don't want to run your account for you

A lot of effort goes into what I make. people act like it doesn't matter if it isn't art but it does to me. I put a lot of effort into recording my own footage and compiling it, then turning them into gifs, making edits, taking screenshots etc. I have constant chronic pain and fatigue too to the point I've had fainting attacks when it becomes too overwhelming. And still I give what I make my all for my blog

It feels like a slap in the face when people download and repost knowingly and spitefully when I politely ask them to stop. I put my heart and soul into what I create and it hurts to see it taken for granted, especially when I don't get an ounce of credit and they get more traction and praise for the things I myself created. You think making it yourself is too much effort compared to stealing? Well try having chronic pain and fatigue and still making it yourself

If you're wondering what makes taking stuff from my blog different to my videos, it's because the final product of the stuff on my blog is more personalized and very different to the official product. The gifs, edits, upscales, compiling, and transformative efforts in my work is vastly different to me just recording cutscenes and slapping my watermark on the whole video

And that's the reason why I don't want the stuff on my blog to be taken and mass reposted, compared to my videos where you can screenshot and clip as much as you want because that's why they're there. Choosing to steal everything I personalized like that on my blog when you could literally just go to my videos and screenshot them as much as you want bothers me

Because then it seems like total laziness to me. Because they already take a lot of work to record and compile, yet I'll allow you to screenshot and clip them without watermarks and credit, but you'd rather just take them from my blog because you can't even be bothered to take screenshots or make gifs- when I do all of the above myself- and with chronic pain and fatigue making it extra effort

I deeply regret that I didn't watermark the contents of my blog from the start but I'm going out of my way to change that since people don't respect when I ask them not to repost

And to those who have just happened to use my images or gifs unintentionally a couple of times or you just had them on hand, I don't mind because I know you didn't do it maliciously. They're also free to save for personal use off the internet, I just don't want everything I ever make being reposted like some people do on purpose so they can practically run their whole account on me

But here malicious reposters, if you need content so bad, screenshot/gif/make edits/whatever you want out of these videos yourself. Because at least then you actually did part of it yourself and have something to be proud of instead of using my blog to run your account-

even when even at that it's using some of my efforts in my game recording and video editing/compiling :P

#my post

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smallchaoscryptid · 7 months

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hello! I hope you’re doing well! I’m here to gush a bit about how hyped up your TMA/QSMP au has got me. I’m losing my mind in the best way possible, especially about Jaiden’s alignment with the End- I feel like her story especially was so so clever. do you have any other headcanons you’d like to share, or character alignments? I totally get if not (for the sake of not spoiling future fics) but I just wanted to let you know your fics are 10/10 and I’m full of thoughts about them

(So, I'm finally at my keyboard and can type this all out.)

First, the stuff that doesn't contain spoilers. All my fics for statements 001 to 005 are written along with one or two oddballs for after that. I also have ideas for a few more than that. I am posting them out of order to try and give the TMA vibes of the statements not being listened to in order by the reader that they were recorded. (I don't know if I'll be able to keep it up forever, but I want to try to keep them out of order.)

There isn't exactly an overarching plot to the series as of right now and I don't know if there ever will be (Other than Cellbit becoming more entangled with The Eye). I also don't have a fic that is going to be the final fic of the series. It might be a series that I just randomly write for and then one day stop. (I am also open to ideas from people about characters and entity interactions that they would want to see but no promises that I'd write anything.)

Whenever I want to post a new one, I ask my brother to give me a number and then I post that fic. It's also something I just randomly when I want to write but don't want to work on my like bigger fics (The Android AU, The Ghost Rom-Com, or The Hunger Games Inspired AU).

(Spoilers lie under the read more.)

Headcanons/Fun Facts:

Any statement Cellbit makes while Roier is around never goes correctly, he always misses some part of it. (Like how in Statement 002- Itsy Bitsy Spider Cellbit doesn't say "End Statement.")

Cellbit is aligned with The Eye, but he is not the archivist because I can't see him having a more structured job like being the archivist would kind of entail.

The only reason Roier wasn't killed with his friends is the fact that he hasn't killed any of the spiders and because of that The Web grew fond of him and gives him gifts.

Jaiden's thing with The End was just kind of me being like what is the worst entity that Jaiden could come in contact with, and I was looking over the entities and saw that The End can affect dreams and I just got the idea of the bird bones. (After her visit with Cellbit to make her statement, the dreams disappear.)

Jaiden's bird bones are actually from Phil's crows because the crows are more like ghosts than living animals.

The thing that replaced Juanaflippa actually doesn't plan to hurt Charlie, she just wants his love.

Character + Entity Alignments

So Cellbit is obviously aligned with The Eye but in the past, he also had a run in with The Hunt (Which is where like his serial killer past ties in. I have plans to write a fic about that but I'm not entirely sure how or when.)

Roier has his whole thing with The Web but after Cellbit starts his investigation Roier gets contact with some of the others. (It's because of his proximity to Cellbit.)

Wilbur is tied to The Buried. He gets trapped in a train (Think Limbo but without him being replaced by Ghostbur.) but after he gets out he makes a statement with Cellbit and then gets trapped in the train again.

Philza and Missa are both aligned with The End and to each other.

Felps gets taken by The Burried and is like literally buried in a cementary and Cellbit has to find him but since I'm not confident in how Felps talks and like how he acts I don't know if or when I'll write that fic.

#literally feel free to ask me about any of my fics theres so much to all of them #even the posted ones have little facts that i never flushed out in them for like it not being important #i hope yall enjoy hearing about the tma au #william whispers

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shima-draws · 2 years

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Please tell us more about your Izuku and Inuko AU!! Especially me since I haven’t watched Bee and Puppycat 💖

OMG YES OF COURSE thanks for giving me the opportunity to gush

Also well this is obvious but this does contain spoilers for BAPC even in an AU context so if you haven’t seen it and don’t want spoilers. Stop reading now :’)

BASICALLY it’s about Izuku, who is currently 22 and cannot hold down a job to save his life. This causes issues with him being able to pay rent on his apartment, so he’s kinda desperate for work. All of this changes when he suddenly encounters a strange puppy? Cat? Both?, who Izuku decides to take home with him after the puppycat literally fell out of the sky and bonked him on the head lmao

After Izuku fixes him up, he laments about his inability to get rent money. The puppycat (Todoroki, or Inuko, as he’s referred to in this AU), who is shown to be more than just a brainless pet, reveals that he’s connected with an agency that gives people temporary work—so basically, one day jobs that don’t require actual full time commitment in exchange for pay. Even more of a shock, he’s able to transport himself and Izuku to a place where they can get temporary work. This in turn leads them to doing many different kinds of jobs on various planets. Imagine like, Super Mario Galaxy-esque planets for this. They’re usually pretty small, have a breathable atmosphere, and host a bunch of different talking creatures. Izuku and Inuko take on a variety of jobs and help out tons of aliens, pretty much!

As far as I can tell with what’s been established within the BAPC universe, magic isn’t an out of place thing and the residents of the island that all the characters inhabit are used to weird things happening around them. Of course a lot of them question it if it’s especially weird, but most of them don’t bat an eye at Inuko’s appearance, or that he’s smarter than your average pet. It’s basically a world where magic, technology, and space travel are familiar, at least to the people living on the island.

Anyway, as things progress we learn several things:

Inuko can talk, but only Izuku (and some aliens) can understand him,

Inuko actually has a very tragic past—he was originally a space prince, but abandoned his kingdom and became an outlaw. He fell in love with the Space King’s daughter (different kingdom. Not his own lol) and agreed to run away with her, but she betrayed him and led him into a trap by the Space King and his warlocks. The device meant to capture him malfunctioned and transformed him into the puppycat we all know and love so much before he escaped. Inuko has told this story as more of a fairy tale to Izuku, who isn’t aware that it’s all true and accurate, so he doesn’t know Inuko’s true name is Shouto and that he’s a prince/outlaw,

Izuku is regarded as very immature despite his age (not in the manner of him acting like a child but him just being kind of ignorant about responsibility and taking on more adult points of view) but there’s actually a deeper reason for this,

Izuku’s apartment is basically more of a triplex that he shares with two other families, one of which he grew up closely with. (I haven’t yet decided who each character is within the family yet.) Izuku is especially close to Rody, and they both kind of have a crush on each other?,

Izuku’s father is not present, but is shown to have been very close with him when Izuku was younger. It’s also stated several times that he’s a brilliant inventor. Izuku has a lot of strange magical contraptions in his apartment (and around the island) that were most likely invented by his father. Izuku’s mother is never mentioned,

During several of their temp jobs, Izuku and Inuko are attacked by enormous black hands with no visible body attached to them. They are later revealed to be connected to the warlocks responsible for Inuko’s transformation, who have been hunting Inuko down since his escape,

During a battle with several of these hands, Izuku is torn apart and is revealed to be part cyborg, made up of an assortment of robotic parts. Izuku was aware of this beforehand, but Inuko and Rody were not, so it came as a shock to them. Things start to make more sense: Why Izuku lacks the maturity he should have at his age (if that age is even accurate), the connection he has to his father (who created him), and the bizarre amount of strength he possesses. This event actually draws him and Inuko closer together, as Inuko realizes that they’re both outcasts and don’t really fit in anywhere.

That’s the gist of it!! Feel free to ask me more questions about stuff if you’re confused or just want to know more :D

#Shima answers questions #Long post #Izuku and Inuko #BNHA #Tododeku #Todoroki Shouto #Midoriya Izuku #Rody Soul #MHA #Shima’s AUs

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valentinesparda · 4 months

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eep omg so super duper cool to see another ai.tsf self shipper!! i love u date fans u warm my heart. please use this as an excuse to dump info about your insert lore or your feelings on the game(s) themselves especially with info you havent shared before!! donut be shy. have a great new year too!!!!!!!! :)

AAAAGH HI HELLO BOUNCING AROUND YOU LIKE A PUPPY!!!! i only know three other people who like ai !! date fans are almost always the coolest and funniest people you've ever met and know what they want in a man (wet and pathetic forever) and i respect the date fans. I'm not tooting my own horn btw I'm saying this for the people that will be reading this ask lol date fans are so silly. this is date btw for anyone who doesn't know what the fuck im rambling about

gushing about the game is basically impossible without spoiling everything because the mystery is REALLY SILLY but also really well written and laid out over time. the characters in the game are very lovable and I guess pretty realistically written, not from a realism standpoint but in how they react to any given thing in the storyline. they're varied and fun and have a lot of personality to each of them, and I would literally fucking kill for any of the main cast given the chance.

and the sequel!! the sequel is a little weak and a bit slippery and not as well put together in comparison to the first one, but it's still just as charming and you don't necessarily have to play the first game to understand what's going on - there are vague references to the lore in the first game, but it doesn't detract from the fact that this IS a new cast of characters, and i really appreciate the fact!! there's a lot going for it in terms of charm and personality, and the new characters seem to be a bit less whimsical and more grounded than in the first game (fucking looking at you tokiko shigure. holy shit)

i feel like I never do anything justice gushing about it because I will always forget something and then be like "fuck I forgor" and rush to add details so I'm just gonna leave my gushing about it at that lol

ANYWAYS!! UM. talking about my self insert under the cut :3

so. juniper is my self insert, they're from america and they moved to japan for reasons I haven't decided upon yet but they get a job at a local flower shop run by a very brash old lady whose family never come visit her and it turns out it's because she's in the middle of a yakuza turf war. the kumakura family bought out the basement space of her shop and had her under their thumb. juniper was just stupid enough to get involved in hopes to help the woman who keeps them fed, but there's no way to do that. juniper unfortunately has no choice but to cross paths with these men, but one in particular is more kind than the others, and has bought flowers from them on occasion - a specific type of iris :3c

the old woman dies shortly before the events of the first game and they've taken charge of the flower shop, and they've been meeting date upon happenstance every so often. because of the eventual discovery of the kumakura gang being affiliated with several suspects in the cyclops killings, juniper has become entangled in the case, and date actually has his reasons to suspect that jun has something to do with the case, which leads him to having to psynch with them at some point!! but they have a few other ties to the lore that could be considered heavy spoilers :)

juniper is besties with pewter!! he is their only friend for very specific reasons, and they spend time out drinking when he isn't on the job. they talk very vaguely about their crush on date and it takes pewter a whole long while to figure out that they're both talking about the other when he has to be subjected to it. he initially thinks "wow this is just like my doujins" when jun is first talking about meeting a very beautiful man at the flower shop who keeps coming around and they meet at strange times, and then it devolves into pewter going from that and happy for them to "oh you're fucking joking, THAT GUY??" when he learns it's been date the whole time

anyways. coughs. juniper has a big dumb crush on date but they go against most of his Types; i mean on top of not being a Busty Older Woman, they are a tiny nonbinary thembo and they're a bit of a punk; they've had some of their mentor's brash personality rub off on them, but they generally are fairly kind to people that come around, they just have to keep up that hard exterior to be seen as a big enough threat to the kumakura gang (moma has a bit of a crush on them but that would never come to fruition in the same way that the iris thing never did - mostly because jun is too stupid to notice that he likes them)

date likes them because of their pretty face and kind heart hidden behind their hard exterior - they're very tired of having to hold up a strong personality all the time for their safety, and simply want to make people happy with their flowers. they're sweet and a little clumsy and are kind of similar to iris and hitomi in several ways, but they're a little more um. rough around the edges and awkward i guess? not to mention their japanese still isn't completely perfect despite having lived in japan for as long as they have (over 6 years). so he finds it all endearing in a weird way but it does take a bit before he has the "ogh fuck" moment, because he's a bit superficial underneath it all

jun is suuuuper supportive of iris and is also a big fan of a-set !! they want to meet her in person at some point - and they do!! mizuki is like their adoptive daughter and eventually they do take on a parental role for her, specifically in the 6 years that date goes missing between games. ota is okay, jun and ota do not get along very well and most of that has to do with them competing for otaku of the group

umm that's about all I can wrack my brain for right now but umm thank you for sending me this ask and happy new year to you!! 💙💜💙💜

#asks #self: ai #si: juniper #sorry this is so long i got excited 😭😭 im also trying to distract myself from the massive amounts of fireworks going off

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bleachbleachbleach · 2 years

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I feel like there was another scene -- I think it was in one of the movies? Where Hitsugaya and Mayuri seemed to have a weird rivalry thing going on, which cracked me up then, and your post about the bount arc cracks me up now; im gonna have to go and rewatch that episode at least 😂 it's like the anime staff decided these two NEED to beef and I support them for it

Oh gosh, I am RACKING my brain to remember this movie scene. Normally my brain is a steel trap for inconsequential blorbo scenes and I simply forget everything else, but I got nothin'--clearly once we're done with our anime rewatch we'll have to do yet another movie rewatch!

In the meantime, I'm taking this ask as an opportunity to GUSH AT LENGTH about one of my favorite scenes in the entire anime, my second-favorite captain's meeting, a scene that involves stellar moments for Mayuri, Hitsugaya, Kyouraku, AND includes bonus Byakuya????? Made for me.

Top Scenes: That One Meeting Where Mayuri Hates Hitsugaya Specifically For Some and/or No Reason

Okay, to set the stage a little: At some earlier point, Hitsugaya gets put in charge of some kind of Bount operation. This is separate from Renji already having been sent to Karakura, and Rukia also having been sent to Karakura on yet another separate detail.

By "in charge" I mean he delegates this to a slate of officers, which he carefully chose according to the parameters "Matsumoto and whoever was around, I guess": So it's Matsumoto, Yumichika, Hisagi, and Kira. Of these, Yumichika dis-invites himself, and Hisagi and Kira definitely should not have been deployed to the Living World, because they have no captains and definitely have shambles they probably should be unshambling, but whatever.

Through no real fault of the VC’s own and all the fault of "this is not at all the level of response this mission required," the Bounts find their way to Soul Society. The Bounts, who are very efficient, go CLEAR TO KUSAJISHI to foment an uprising.

Matsumoto reports back to Hitsugaya, and Hitsugaya, in the absolute weirdest possible way, recruits Renji to this Bount-finding agenda. (Hisagi and Kira go back home to do some unshambling, I assume.) Lots of very entertaining bullshit happens, Byakuya out-weirds Hitsugaya because heaven forbid he ever be upstaged in that regard, there's a lot of running and very little accomplishing, and the Bounts literally just walk into the Seireitei.

So, in perfect fairness, if Hitsugaya's charge was to keep that from happening, he legitimately did a horrible job and Mayuri's speaking truths here:

It's a true critique, but is it a fair critique? Probably not, because this never should have been just Hitsugaya's job in the first place. That's absurd! But that's also how the Gotei works, so sure, I'll throw my vote in with Mayuri.

Buy why does he bring it up at all?

Mayuri

Not that he's alone in this sentiment, but I feel like Mayuri is the pinnacle of "let's keep this meeting moving so we can all get out of here." He hates all of these people and spending time with them is unstimulating and pointless. From that maybe you'd think he'd constantly be calling out his colleagues' failings, but what does that really do but extend the meeting? So I think it's fascinating (read: hilarious) that he goes out of his way to criticize Hitsugaya here, especially since he does so by comparing Hitsugaya's failure to Soi Fon's success.

Criticizing Hitsugaya is important enough to him that he's willing to implicitly praise Soi Fon in the process!! And even though they're poisonbuds, Mayuri's gotta hate Soi Fon, too. She's too straightforward and down-to-business, and has no curiosity for the sake of curiosity. So his hatred of Hitsugaya here is on some entirely different level here. And for what? The crime of being square?? (Yes.)

I don't think it actually has anything to do with Hitsugaya having failed this Bount task. These guys barely cared the Seireitei got invaded last week; they don't seem to care all that much more now. Plus, Mayuri's already had his fill of Bount shenanigans and is one of the reasons the Bount made it to Soul Society in the first place. He knows this. He knows that this accusation could easily be turned back on him (and it is). BUT IT'S STILL WORTH IT, JUST FOR A SHOT AT PUBLICLY HATING HITSUGAYA.

It's so worth it that the meeting legitimately moves on and Byakuya offers a slate of extremely useful feedback with regard to Kariya's abilities, blah blah.

But Mayuri don't care:

LOOK AT HIM. LOOK AT THAT LITTLE FINGER. HE'S BENDING FORWARD JUST SO HE CAN LOOM OVER HITSUGAYA.

THERE'S JUST

A WHOLE

THING

HAPPENING HERE.

Maybe Mayuri dislikes Hitsugaya because Hitsugaya is the designated "tensai" of the Gotei and Mayuri feels threatened by that, but I don't personally buy that. I've seen people discuss Hitsugaya being a "genius" as a translation for "tensai," and associating the genius with like, MENSA shit or whatever. But "tensai" is more about talent for/potential in some specific thing, not just IQ or book-smarts. I don't think Hitsugaya would particularly excel at labwork in the 12th. I mean, he'd probably be very hirable. But Hitsugaya's actual talent happens to be strong interpersonal skills when it comes to one (1) ice dragon and, concomitantly, being a quick study of developing and controlling large quantities of reiatsu. Which are very impressive but not impressive (or threatening) to Mayuri, because why would he care about any of that? He would not. (I personally think Hitsugaya gets more interesting to Mayuri post-TYBW, because wtf is up with that bankai, but this is the Bount Arc, baybeeeee!)

Idk, I guess I have difficulty believing that Mayuri gives enough of a shit about Hitsugaya to hate him specifically, which is why I find this scene so entertaining. Because he clearly does hate him specifically. It's just that there's no reason here, no set of proofs and measures. HE JUST HATES HIM. XDD And I am very satisfied by this.

Like, I'm 100% on board with the idea that Mayuri hates Hitsugaya specifically because they have to stand next to each other in these meetings, and repeated proximity in the context of meetings Mayuri detests just rubbed off on whatever object happened to be closest, and that object was Hitsugaya. Love it, no notes.

Hitsugaya

Hitsugaya, for his part, doesn't actually disagree with Mayuri's critique:

This is one of the things I really enjoy about Hitsugaya: He tends to be straightforward about his failings, but in a very self-possessed way. He doesn't try to defend himself here, but also isn't self-flagellating about it. He's just like, this is an objective assessment and I'll own that. He's not going to wallow--just take the L and move forward. (Whether this holds for Hinamori/Aizen-related things, ymmv, but that's inescapably personal.)

He's consistent about this through the arc, too--Matsumoto apologies to him for the way the Advance-Advance Team mission went, and he tells her that since he's the one who deployed them, any blame is his, not hers.

But back to this scene: His affect is in diametric opposition to Mayuri's here--Mayuri hyperpersonalizes the critique, but while Hitsugaya might respect Mayuri's talents and intel, but it's not like Mayuri's personal opinions are worth anything to him. Because Mayuri's opinion of him doesn't matter, Hitsugaya doesn't take this personally. He doesn't respond to Mayuri--just to Yamamoto.

I mean, he definitely looks annoyed by Mayuri:

But tbh I think that's more because he finds Mayuri generally irritating, and he--like everyone else at this meeting, EVEN KOMAMURA, YAMAMOTO'S #1 FAN, LOOK AT HIS FACE--doesn't want to be at this meeting any longer than he has to be, not because Mayuri has personally insulted him in any way that matters.

On the other hand, the second bonkers thing about this meeting is that Yamamoto either 1) agrees that Hitsugaya fucked this shit up, and needs to be fired from this project, or 2) has decided that it should not have been relegated to the docket of one single Gotei captain to begin with--but admitting this shows weakness so he cannot.

Whatever the reason, Hitsugaya is relieved of his duties, and this part does perhaps upset him in ways that Mayuri didn't. He's definitely surprised by it.

But after this, he also... doesn't seem to meaningfully change the way he's been working the Bount issue? Because even though Yamamoto says every division is going to work solo, from there on out, Hitsugaya is still somehow in charge of dealing with an attack on the 7th (because Komamura is guarding Yamamoto for some reason); is actively getting intel from/collaborating with Renji and Isane; and at some point is like, "shit, I didn't ever give the 11th any orders" because Zaraki's not around. Even though he is not in charge of any of those divisions or any of those people and explicitly got fired from having to be in that role! And, one assumes, is still vaguely in charge of the 5th because he's been doing their paperwork and Hinamori isn't even mentioned in this arc. Because orders or no orders, SOMEONE's gotta do it.

Kyouraku

Kyouraku spends this whole arc poking Mayuri with a stick, and I'm here for it. I just think Kyouraku always has such an interesting affect--playful, but in an aloof way, and in this case certainly not a loving way. I feel like he definitely interacts with Mayuri the way a much older entity would see Mayuri's whole yappy dog routine here:

I like Kyouraku for a lot of reasons that I won't enumerate in detail here, but he's always very generous toward Hitsugaya, and I have fondness for him for that.

Like, Kyouraku is old as dirt and has seen and done some shit, and Hitsugaya is very much not, and has also seen and done comparatively little. But from the vantage point of his thousands of years, Mayuri and Hitsugaya still come across very differently, and this shows in the way he treats them.

Kyouraku still gets bemused and/or a little jaded-aloof by some of Hitsugaya's life choices (I'm thinking about the scene at the beginning of the reigai arc where Hitsugaya is super mad about Matsumoto failing to report in on time, and Kyouraku and Ukitake are just like "lololol"), but he regularly calls Hitsugaya by his title, even though there is absolutely no reason whatsoever why he would need to, and he steps to Mayuri here. I just think he's neat.

#i did not remotely try to keep this brief #i'm posting it at midnight on a friday so what does it matter? XD #but the tl;dr version is 'i love that mayuri hates hitsugaya specifically for some reason'#and my favorite version of his story is the one where mayuri hates hitsugaya specifically for NO reason #hitsugaya doesn't value mayuri's opinions anyway #also kyouraku can be a very nice man #hitsugaya toushirou #kurotsuchi mayuri #kyouraku shunsui #bount arc #bleach anime #asks #no brain just bleach

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jeremy-ken-anderson · 5 months

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Community Teaching of Game Features

One of the wildest contradictions of game development comes from the question of how much to tutorialize and how to go about it.

For games with relatively simple controls like Megaman X, you can do the fancy invisible tutorial of its prologue level where it quietly teaches you individual concepts, only moving on - literally only allowing YOU to move on - when you've mastered them. Basic l/r movement? Starts you in a basic screen with nothing. Shooting? Enemy too big to jump over. Jumping? Bottomless pits. Wall-jumping? Pit that DOES have a bottom that you have to wall-jump back out of. Hollow Knight also does this beautifully. Both games have several videos, with Arin Hanson's Sequelitis vid probably being the most famous.

But back when I was playing Pokemon Emerald, I looked up how you get some of the pokemon I hadn't found yet and...there was no way to expect a person to discover the information about how they could be found in game. And when I shared this complaint with my friend with a PHD in Japanese media studies - a literal Pokemon Professor, as she bragged when she first got said degree - she said that the way I'd discovered where they were was probably the way I was supposed to. Gamefreak wants people to share wikis and talk on the playground about the Mew under the truck (it isn't) and make guides and videos about how to get all the Cursed Beasts in Scarlet/Violet and so on.

And I saw a video series from a while ago where Razbuten shared his wife's experience with learning the vocabulary of games later in life (than childhood; I'm pretty sure she's a good deal younger than I am). And something struck me during that explanation: He talked about how many of the lessons he'd probably learned from message boards, guides, or just having someone tell him "you can push b to run in Mario," but here he was trying to have her learn the same lessons in a vacuum. To his credit, one of his conclusions on the same video is, "Don't do that."

But it left me wondering: How much effort should a developer spend on teaching new players? Part of why tutorials trend toward kind of low-effort is because a game can reasonably expect that 80%+ of its audience already knows almost everything about its control scheme, if said scheme is following conventions of the genre - be that mouse-aim on a shooter, the function of HUD compasses with quest markers, or something as seemingly obvious as "press A to jump." Of the remaining 20%, 80% of them can be expected to pick up the controls of the individual game swiftly because they're relatively familiar with games in general. So in terms of True N00bs who need to be taught how to traverse a game, any game, in your tutorial? That's like 4% of your audience. Is it worth tutorializing heavily in a way that some of them won't even read and which might reduce the fun of the first level (that is, the level roughly all of your players are guaranteed to play)? It makes sense that so many tutorials end up feeling so low-effort. And on the other end, if you want one that's glorious and teaches everything while never getting in the way of great players, how much money and dev time has to go into making a masterful experience like the one that Arin Hanson gushes over in his Sequelitis video? Is that worth having one less level in your game? Two? What's the cutoff?

My suspicion is that some studios see the 4% and opt to go low-effort, and others do their best to elegantly include something that at least somewhat gives totally new players a handle on the situation.

The two bits of Secret Sauce I've taken away from this and would offer to fellow devs:

The Safe Zone. Hollow Knight has platforming areas with few or no enemies and with no penalty for falling. Super Mario 64 has the lawn in front of the palace where you can just mess around with the controls and explore.

Fun Controls. One of the things that has helped maintain Nintendo's place at or near the top of the industry for so long is that the movement style for its characters is just fun. Mario in Super Mario 64 is fun to run around the palace lawn in spite of there being no objectives there! This in turn gives incentive for players to experiment with the system and discover moves for themselves.

Blarg, this is neat but got far afield from the point.

The point was that even basic controls of your game can be community-taught, and that will usually be better than you can teach them because it can be responsive to the individual queries the player has. I've experienced the same when trying to figure out how to write a rulebook for a board game. You need one person in the community of people who plays your board game to be able to learn the game from your rulebook, if that. It's possible they'll learn from videos online anyway.

At that point, the value of having your rulebook be effective as a guidebook, a set of examples, and a place to find answers to frequently asked questions quickly gets bumped up over having it be a straightforward how-to tutorial. Doesn't necessarily change how much you write but rather changes the style of what you write, possibly even the format.

#game dev #game design

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frankensteinsdead · 2 years

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#1 Ultimate pyrotechnician/ yoimiya!reader

Ft: hajime hinata, Maki Harukawa, tenko chabashira

Hajime:

Honestly didn’t care about your talent at first, he think it’s better then nothing, but it’s not that cool. Or so he thought After he met you he thought of it more of an art instead. He still thought it was a weird talent tho.

But there was an event for school, that needed fireworks and if corse you were that someone. Hajime expected you to be even more hyped when you saw them

But when you were watching them he could see a whole different person. He watched you, you were just so quiet how could he not?

When he saw this side of you, he almost instantly fell in love. Seeing you love something like that, made him want to be loved the same way.

Probably confessed in a ding dong ditch kinda way. He rung you door bell, left a Bouquet of flowers, with a note on top. Literally could not be there to watch you reject him (you didn’t)

You decided that yeah! You would date him! But you wanted to wait till you saw him in person to tell him. But hajime was worried cause you haven’t said anything. No text no call he expected you be blowing up his Dms by now

You would mostly have carnival and arcade dates, I just can’t see quite, calm dates 😭.

Maki:

At first, literally couldn’t care less. She thought you were annoying because of how energetic you were. But you were still nice to her so at least you weren’t energetic and mean L̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶k̶o̶k̶i̶c̶h̶i̶

She could tell that we’re a good person, you never left anyone out, not even kokichi! she likes that you respect her boundaries when it comes to socializing. You’ve even talked so she didn’t have to! When she told you she’s never seen a firework show you almost died

When she first saw you watching fireworks she was kinda worried. You weren’t talking at all! She thought kokichi finally broke you. But right after the firework show, you came running towards her. You asked her if she enjoyed it, and as always you got a nod as an answer.

You started gushing about how much you worked on it, to make it special for her. It being her first time after all ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). She blushed just a ｌｉｔｔｌｅ. Blinked and you would have missed it. She said her signature “do you wanna die?” Line. But it was a lot less threatening when she was blushing.

Either you would have to confess or Kaito would say it on accident.

Kaito walk’s in on you and maki talking (it’s just you talking) “ oh hey dudes! Oh, sorry are you guys on a date? I didn’t mean to interru-“

“Do you wanna die?”

ICE COLD STARE. She was actually planning Kaitos funeral. “ h-huh? Why are you embarrassed about being an a date with your partner?” “Their not-“ you decided it was time to take control of the situation. “Their not gonna waist a date with maki! So shoo” he started to walk out while laughing “Alright, alright! Have a nice time love birds!”

You know that maki sprite where she’s playing with her hair while blushing? That’s what she’s like right now “thanks for getting him off my back…” you gave her a closed eyed smile “while that was a reason I did that! I didn’t lie about what I said” she looked at you confused “we should go on a date!”…..

“ Do you wan-“

Prob a movie date, nice and chill for the first few dates, then you both do something more social, like a art class together!

Tenko:

(Reader in this just for tenko will be non-man, not sorry)

Already loved you from the get go, but the fact the you match her energy?? Literally gone. Yes she loves himiko, but she’s always quiet and never talks to her. But you, not only talk to her you hang out with her a lot! Like a lot a lot. To the point people just assumed y’all were dating.

She wishes! I like to think Tenko is scared of fireworks. So you never pushed her to go to a show, but yet every time you do a show she’s there talking to you. And every time she does this your heart melts a little bit more. But sadly you thought she was doing this a friend. I mean she’s like this with all non-men right?

Right..?

WRONG. She was head over heels in love with you. Like she would sell her soul for you to merely ｇｌａｎｃｅ at her. When she sees you so quiet while watching fireworks? Silence… she just watching the love of her life watch fireworks, yet it’s the highlight oh her WEEK. You decided you needed to confess. Even if she didn’t like you back she would still be friends with you, right? Yeah, yeah…

Maybe??? Whatever it’s better then keeping this secret

You were waiting patiently for her to get to your usual spot in the field, on your picnic blanket. “HEY S/O!!” You wiped you head so fast even the trees got whiplash. “You waved her over “Tenko hey! How are you?” She hurriedly sat down gasping for air “yeah… sorry…. I *huff* got mixed up in homework, I’m sorry! I hope I don’t miss anything!”

You giggled at her attempt to breath “it’s fine, Don’t worry! Oh by the way I have a surprise!” You could see the sparkle in her eyes “REALLY??? What is it?!” You gave her a mischievous smile “silly! You have to wait!”

She pouted for a second, then was back to her happy self “that’s fine! No matter what you give me I will LOVE it” When the fireworks started so did your anxiety levels, how is she gonna react??? Before you could ever think of the possibility’s you’re “surprise” arrived in the sky for all to se was a firework that says “I LOVE YOU TENKO” you looked at her- does she has a bloody nose!? Before you could try and help her she immediately hugged you.

She squealed at the top of her lungs, she could be the new Ariana??? “OMG, OMG I LOVE YOU SO MUCH S/O” absolutely adorable. You definitely do cáfe dates she loves sweets! Instead of introducing you to her “parents” she introduced you to her ikedo ( i hope i didn’t Butcher that )teacher!

#maki x reader #maki harukawa x reader #maki harukawa #tenko #tenko chabashira #tenko x reader #hajime hinata #hajime #hajime x reader #danganronpa x reader #Danganronpa #headcanon #danganronpa headers

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Moar violence asks (7, 14, 21, 22) and Bluebonnet + Feilan asks (3, 9, 16, 17). Feel free to ignore/trim if some/most are too open-ended or annoying.

Violence Asks:

7) what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

RWBY: I can't say I truly hate any RWBY characters (even the ones who are utterly repulsive as human beings are at least decent as characters), much less because of the way the fandom acts about them, but there are certainly characters I like less than I ordinarily would for this reasons. I like Ironwood less because his stans are obnoxious and somehow think his plan would've worked (Team RWBY was right to fight and wrong to evacuate later and I will die on this hill) and that Team RWBY are the villains of the show, I like Jaune less because the Jaune harem people are incredibly fucking weird, I like Taiyang less because people keep insisting that his advice to Yang didn't suck and that Yang's disability arc was written well, I like Sun less because Black Sun shippers are annoying, and I like Blake and Yang less because Bumbleby shippers are annoying, there are so goddamn many of them that even a vocal minority is difficult to escape, and the worst of them will excuse any flaws in the show's writing or criticism thereof because the sapphics kissed and then buy out merch made by a company named after a homophobic slur.

Arknights: I don't like Platinum, and every time I see someone ship her with Nearl or Blemishine, I like her a little less.

Fate: I already hated Emiya Shirou but the way the Fate Stay Night fanbase gushes over him makes me want to run him over with a bulldozer. I also can't stand Waver or Iskandar after a former friend talked them up for years, they never once lived up to his hype, and then he tried to convince me that AI art was a victimless crime.

College Football: I already hated Baylor because of its athletics department's numerous scandals, but their fans are shitty self-centered entitled asshats on top of being mostly Evangelicals. They will forgive anything if the money sports win.

I absolutely despise Penn State for the same reason (scandals) but their fans are fucking horrendous and keep insisting that the head coach involved was a great guy, actually, and that their program didn't deserve the death penalty.

I was actually fond of LSU until they played Texas at DKR and then their players faked cramping/injuries because they were getting gassed and the coach whined about the visitor's locker room being too hot. Then two of their most recent coaches turned out to either have committed or enabled sexual assault, so there's that.

Georgia fans got significantly more obnoxious after they won a national championship, but they were barking at kids even before that, so they've pretty much always sucked.

Iowa state fans were actually tolerable until they had one good season and Texas/OU announced they were changing conferences from the Big 12 to the SEC, at which point they decided to be the whiniest and most annoying of the Hateful 8 despite mediocrity literally being the height of their program's accomplishments.

The Boys: Homelander and Soldier Boy are shitty people and good characters, but every time I see right-wing dipshits idolizing either of them or the newest batch of reader x fanfiction, I hate them both a little more.

14) that one thing you see in fics all the time

I mostly read RWBY fic when I read fic at all, but there's a list of annoying bullshit a mile long and about half of it comes from Coeur Al'Aran. Most of the rest is fanon that gained too much steam, but I really don't want to go into all of it right now.

21) part of canon you think is overhyped

RWBY: Volume 8 was dogshit and I don't understand why people enjoy it.

Bumbleby is overhyped to hell and back as a supposedly-amazing slowburn when I'd give it a B at best in terms of execution. Like very other fucking plotline in RWBY, it suffers from a persistent refusal to align resources and scope, prioritize specific elements of the show, or give anything major the time and focus it deserves. It's fine, though - the fanbase will fill in the blanks with headcanon and then claim that means the writing (that doesn't exist) is brilliant and anyone who thinks otherwise just lacks media literacy, just like they do every other time RWBY's writing fails.

Salem honestly sucks as a villain and simultaneously feels underwhelming and insurmountable at the same time because the writers dropped the ball on Volume 8 so Ironwood and Cinder could be the main villains for some fucking reason.

Arknights: The sociopolitical commentary isn't nearly as deep or incisive as tumblr likes to pretend and frequently fails to grow beyond "capitalism/imperialism/bigotry/Western society bad" like congrats you've identified and portrayed a problem but your solutions frequently either suck or don't exist

The prose is average and also 50% of it is unnecessary. Being obscure is not the same as being good.

Fate Grand Order: All of Lostbelt 5 was overhyped as shit to be honest

Elden Ring in general is overrated as hell and suffers from most of the Standard FromSoft Flaws, but that's more a consequence of the frankly absurd amount of hype it got rather than it being a bad game.

College Football: TCU had one good season with a bunch of Covid super-seniors, I doubt they'll have more than 8 wins this season. Sonny Dykes isn't the next Nick Saban until he actually manages to replicate this level of success consistently.

22) your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

Chapter 7 tells us that Dobermann is afraid of heights and Nearl is a goober who puts too much power into her Arts sometimes.

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OC Asks:

3) What’s something pointless/petty/unimportant that IRRATIONALLY ANNOYS THE HELL out of your OC?

Bluebonnet hates the sound of dripping water it drives her insane.

Feilan 1 absolutely hates it when people beat around the bush and try to play/manipulate him instead of just being forthright about what they want, which is a direct response to several flirtatious women trying to use sex appeal and wheedling to get him to do their bidding

Feilan 2 gets agitated during sparring/combat because his parents have a very active sex life and aren't really careful about hiding it from their children and the various grunts and gasps and shit people make while fighting sound too much like sex noises to him. He's walked in on too much kinky middle-aged fornication to not have hangups about physical intimacy.

Feilan 3 does not like it when people grab him by the wrist. That is a Yang and Ruby zone only.

Feilan 4 hates sushi to the point where being around it forces him to fight not to be violently ill because raw animal protein of any kind reminds him of the way Team RWBY was when he first met them and the fact that he spent a good semester facing the very real threat of becoming food.

9) What would cause your OC to choose to do something petty/pointlessly cruel?

Bluebonnet is generally very sweet and friendly even to people who aren't particularly pleasant, but her inability to Pull Bitches is a sore spot for her. Make fun of her for it and she'll get real nasty, real quick. Also, don't prank her, because she will escalate (though she will be appropriately horrified if she accidentally goes too far).

Feilan: Alcohol is the big one, especially for Feilan 1, and especially if he's drinking because something bad happened to him recently. He has a bad habit of taking out his stress on the closest available target and can get real mean when he's drunk.

Hurt someone he specifically cares about or just innocent people in general and Feilan has no issues with visiting retribution upon you in kind. Do not attack Beacon Academy. It will not end well for you.

On a more lighthearted note, antagonize him or act like a dick and he will respond in kind.

For Feilan 1 in particular, you can add being General James Ironwood or anyone associated with General James Ironwood to the list. Feilan 1 and Jimmy do not like each other at all for a variety of reasons, and Feilan tends to be at his pettiest when dealing with Ironwood and his military. This has bitten him in the ass at least once.

16) How strong or weak is your OC’s Impulse control? What’s the worst thing that happened because of their impulsivity or inability to be so?

Bluebonnet is not impulsive in high-stakes situations like combat (she's a very good soldier/Huntress/leader when the situation calls for it) but is otherwise the embodiment of "fuck it we ball" in social in social situations (she will, for example, happily go on a bar crawl the night before midterms if her friends rope her into hijinks). Bluebonnet lives for Shenanigans and her grades in school suffered for it.

Feilan is not particularly impulsive at all. His stupid decisions are mostly carefully considered and planned out in advance, and normally he can't be impulsive if he wants to survive. The main thing that makes him impulsive is the presence and attention of attractive women.

17) How does your OC sabotage themselves?

Bluebonnet sees or hears something, thinks "this seems fun!", and then later realizes that it was not, in fact, fun (or that it was fun but also a terrible idea). She mostly has her shit together otherwise, but the big way she screws herself over is via her love life. She's chronically dateless and easily infatuated, and those two things combine to make her very frustrated and prone to tunnel visioning on whatever she thinks will result in a relationship. She will do almost anything she's asked if someone pretty smiles at her and desperately needs a friend around to knock some sense into her at all times.

Feilan gets it into his head that he wants to be a Huntsman despite having no training at age 17 and all his problems arise from there. He starts his stories by finding a way to get into Beacon anyway, but those ways aren't strictly legal and are often very dangerous. The main conflict up until the Battle of Beacon typically involves him trying not to blow his cover. Feilan, stop lying to people. It will be healthier for you in the long run.

#bluebonnet's so fucking bi dude #ask game #bluebonnet mckiernan #feilan varg

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