#POP's PLACE
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Friends Forever 🏳️🌈
This is a very special prequel to Pop’s Place. I had planned to orignally post this during Pride Month, and honestly got side tracked. I did have good intentions. I’m not writing about something I’ve personally been through here by any means, but I truly believe, this is how anyone who has went through this, deserves to be treated, by their family and loved ones. And just so we’re clear, Family is not always the people you are related to by blood, but also those that come to your aide when you truly need them, and that is okay, because you are not bound to them by genetics. They. Chose. You. That’s a powerful thing.
This also has a prompt for @choicesficwriterscreations nice event: Here, let’s share a blanket.
The Series: Pre Pop’s Place
The Pairings: None, but we have some adorable soulmates known as Mia and Daniel
Word Count: 1775
Warnings and Ratings: Anxiety over coming out to friends or family, Profanity; Teen
Summary: Daniel decides its time come out to his “family.”
Original Post: 10/10/22 at 11:40PM EST.
A/N: Special thanks to @angelasscribbles that preread this for me, and offered some advice on some parts, and then I turned around and wrote 500+ more words. LOL. Thank you for pre-reading this one. I really wanted to hope you all enjoy this.
A/N2: I know that the acutal coming out conversation that the story tells is Daniel coming out to Mia’s family, but this is an situation I know well. Friends can feel like family and you can worry what they think and how they will perceive you, and in this situation Daniel really cares about how the Jones family will now see him. Pops in particular. My character Pops has a gruff exterior, but underneath that, he is genuinely a big teddy bear.
Mia as a child before she met him was a shy and quiet girl. Her Pops was her best friend. She followed Pops around everywhere he went. A few weeks before school was starting, new neighbors were moving next door. Tell me you’re nosy without telling you we’re nosy? Pops decided that was the perfect time to be out in the yard watering the plants, while trying to be incognito watching the new family move in and Mia was out on the swing set curious big brown eyes watching the new family. Mia’s interest was piqued when a little boy with dark brown hair jumped out of the car cradling a white teddy bear in his arms and that little boy looked incredibly sad.
Mia in that moment decided to smile and wave at the little boy.
His expression completely changed as he smiled and waved back. Pops decided to take Mia over to the neighbor’s house and introduce themselves.
“I’m Kelvin Jones, but everyone calls me Pops, this is Mia, Gloria my wife is in the house making some sweet tea. We’ll be grilling a little bit later, y’all are welcome to come by, sit a spell and eat with us.”
Pops reached out to shake hands with them.
“Well Pops, I’m Richard everyone calls me Rich, and this is my wife Kathy, and this one here looking mad with the world is Daniel. Yes, we’d love to have dinner with y’all. We haven’t made it to the grocery yet, and probably won’t until tomorrow sometime. We really appreciate your kindness.”
And that’s how the Stephenson’s and the Jones’s became friends. Mia and Daniel were inseparable from day one.
After dinner both families wound up inside the Jones’s home. Pops liked to keep the house cool because South Carolina in the summer could be a scorcher. So Gloria had many little throw blankets around to cuddle up under.
Mia could tell that Daniel was cold.
“Here, let’s share a blanket.”
“Yes please!” Daniel exclaimed. Both children curled up under the blanket watching the movie on television.
“Our Daniel is so quiet, we were worried he wouldn’t make any friends.” Kathy Stephenson told Gloria. “So he spends a lot of time with me.”
“That’s Mia too. She’s Pop’s little shadow. Look at them, they look like the best of friends already. It looks like somehow in a day, both our prayers were answered.”
Kathy nodded, looking towards the couch where both were whispering secrets to each other and laughing.
“It’s like they’ve known each other their entire lives.”
“That’s how any good friendship begins. Thank you for your hospitality to us.”
“I second that, and Pops, you are quite the chef! You saved us from having to go out to eat somewhere. You should have your own restaurant.” Rich Stephenson remarked.
“That’s my dream, it just hasn’t happened for me yet.”
“It will.”
Rich Stephenson was right.
“Uh oh, do you see their faces?
This one wants something. What is it Mia?”
“Oh yes, and look who’s trailing behind her, they are already thick as thieves.”
“Can Daniel sleep over tonight? They don’t have cable yet, and there’s a Harry Potter Movie marathon on tonight, and he hasn’t seen all the movies yet.”
“We just moved in, Daniel. You haven’t even slept in your own bed yet?”
“It will still be there tomorrow.” Daniel confirmed.
Pops laughed out loud.
“He’s welcome to stay, if you all don’t mind, I'll fall asleep during those movies anyway. Gives Mia someone to watch them with. And y’all come over for breakfast in the morning since you’ve not had a chance to go to the grocery store yet.”
“We can’t thank you enough for your hospitality, and I promise we plan to have you all over for dinner when we’re settled in.”
“We’ll definitely take you up on that.”
Daniel slept over at the Jones’s house the first night they moved into their new house. Over the coming years, there were endless sleepovers, between the houses, and endless dinners between the families. Both families were even on the pickup lists for each other’s kids, and Mia and Daniel were best friends, and stayed that way up through their teen years.
Eleven Years Later
Mia paced nervously in the living room while she constantly checked her cell phone.
“Mia, would you get somewhere and sit down! Why are you fidgety?”
She wanted to answer. She really did, but she couldn’t. It was because it wasn’t her news to tell. Her best friend Daniel had come out to her, to which she honestly was not surprised, it was a huge step for him on his journey of self acceptance, and tonight, he was telling his parents.
The Stephenson’s seemed like very open minded people. But you just never know, and that little bit of doubt had her nervous for her friend, but in that moment when speaking to him as he made up his mind, she reassured him. What if she had done the wrong thing? She had essentially known them since she was five. She knew them like she knew her own parents, at least she thought she did.
Pops glanced up from the television.
“Mia. SIT DOWN.”
Mia sat down on the couch. She nervously picked at the pink glitter polish on her nails. When her phone rang she jumped. It was Daniel; she ran quickly to her bedroom.
“Daniel, is everything okay?”
All she heard from Daniel was sobbing on the other end.
“Daniel… say something please. You can stay with us if you need to. It’s alright. Fuck them!!! It’s going to be okay! I promise.”
Daniel finally composed himself a little more to finally be able to speak.
“Mia, it’s alright. I’m alright. What I know now is that I have the best parents in the world Mia. My mom said she has known for years, and my Dad said he was proud of me for having the courage to tell them who I am. They told me they love me, and they would be there for me always. They even want us to go participate in the Pride to be Alive 5k in a few weeks.”
“How do you feel about that?”
“It’s embarrassing, but it’s great that they want to be here for me, that they want to be a part of this journey with me. They just want me to be happy with me. Finally I can be."
“That’s so great Daniel.”
“I know you were worried, sorry I scared you there for a few moments. But thanks for offering me a place to stay without even batting an eye.”
“We’re family Daniel. We look out for each other.”
“That being said, I want to talk to Pops next. Do you think he’ll be okay right?”
“Pops loves you. You’re my best friend. Pops will be fine.”
“Pops is like a man’s man. My dad is nothing like Pops. Honestly, what do you think? Please be totally honest with me Mia.”
Mia thought for a few moments. Pops, her Pops, loved everyone and he was social with everybody. Black, white, green, or purple, it didn’t matter, Pops could get along with anyone and loved everyone, and Everyone loved Pops.
“He’ll be okay, Daniel. Pops loves you. You’re my best friend. Our families are close.”
“Can I come over for dinner tomorrow?”
“Um yes, is it because you want to talk to him, or is this because it’s fried chicken night?”
“A little bit of both. Everyone’s in a good mood when Pops makes his special fried chicken.”
The next night Daniel was over to dinner with the family.
Pops smiled. “Good thing I made extra, since you are having Daniel over.”
“Pops now you know, you always make extra because that’s how you do. Nobody is walking away from this house starving. Ever!”
Pops let out a deep belly laugh. “Exactly. Help yourselves. There’s plenty for seconds and thirds if you want it.”
Dinner was going well, but Daniel had fallen silent. Mia tried to keep the conversation lighthearted and going, but she was worried about Daniel. He looked nervous and incredibly uncomfortable.
“You don’t have to do this tonight if you’re not ready, Daniel.” She whispered to him.
Pops seemed to have picked up on Daniel’s mood and offered a kind ear to listen.
“Now Daniel, I’m used to you being more talkative than this. Is something bothering you Son?”
Daniel still was silent.
“You can talk to us.”
Daniel looked up from his plate to Pop’s concerned face.
“We’re family. We might not look like it. The oven just happened to break when it was cooking you.”
Daniel laughed. “Hey now I get a pretty impressive tan in the summer.” Daniel held out his arm showing his barely tanned skin.
Gloria laughed. “Mmmmhum, you keep telling yourself that, baby.”
Everyone laughed at the table, before the laughter stopped Daniel said the words as if he couldn’t contain them anymore.
“I’m gay.”
“Can you pass the mashed potatoes?” Pops asked simply.
Surprised, Daniel complied, there was silence for a few more moments.
“Did ....you hear what I said?” Daniel inquired, his voice sounding afraid, almost insecure and stammering.
Pops swallowed the mouthful of green beans he was chewing on.
“Yes, and I think I speak for the table when I say that doesn’t matter to me one bit. I call you Son, because that is who you are to me, and I love you just as you are. You never have to be afraid of who you are, or that I’m going to love you less because of who you love.”
Mia took Daniel’s hand.
“Exactly Pops.”
“And the feeling I get is that you were most worried about how I would respond. And for that I’m sorry. I have never wanted to make you feel that you couldn’t tell me something important about your life, about yourself. I want you to know, you’re my son. And nothing you could say could make me love you less.”
Pops got up from the head of the table to stand beside Daniel; Daniel also stood. The two hugged.
“It’s alright.” Pops gently consoled Daniel. “I’m so very proud of you Daniel.”
“Thank you Pops.”
“No, don’t thank me for this. This is how a parent should react when their child tells them something very important about themselves. They should respond with unconditional love. And you, Daniel Eugene Stephenson, are loved.”
“Than…..”
“Nuh uh uh uh!!!! What did I just say Son?!?! Let’s finish eating! The food’s gonna get cold.”
“Okay Pops.”
From that moment on for the rest of dinner, Daniel was his happy, joking, talkative self. His real self and he was glowing with sheer joy.
#bebepac writes#pop's place#prequel#trr Daniel#trr mia#friends forever#pride#choices fanfiction#trr fandom#choices fic writers creations
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I love yuri memes, but at this point it feels like half the time the joke is just "romance between queer men is shallow and meaningless," and I'm being expected to laugh at it when I'm the butt of said joke
#discourse#no actually#you Can't replace 'yaoi' with 'men who love men' and have it read the same#one is a genre that's well known for being fetishistic and often times in poor quality#(which doesn't make everything that falls under that label meaningless but Does justify it's place in pop culture)#the other is gay people#I hope this helps
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modern steddie au where steve is a pop star that is known for writing slightly gender ambiguous lyrics but dates new ladies monthly and eddie is a music reviewer on youtube that breaks down all of steve’s queerest songs to prove that he could actually have a chance with him. like just imagine eddie fighting for his life in the comments against all of steve’s fans debating whether him saying “he” during a live performance was intentional or just a bad recording.
and then when it comes out that yes, steve is queer and yes, he knows about eddie and hell yes, he would go on a date with him, eddie's comments explode with people still arguing about the validity of it all. but then after a few months, eddie and steve break the internet with a simple 5 minute youtube vid confirming that they are indeed seriously dating and steve has to keep reminding eddie to wipe the smugness off his face and to stop saying “told ya so” to the viewers.
#this kinda popped off a bit on twt so i figured i should put it here too to keep everything in one place#my writing#steddie#steddie headcanon#steddie drabble#modern steddie / pop star steddie aus my absolute beloved
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danmarch 🐉💎
#honkai star rail#dan heng#march 7th#danmarch#fanart#hsr#what else do i tag. i have no idea#anyway. im breaking my VERY LONG oc art streak to post my one(1) contribution to star rail#i care them very much#ive been playing this game so religiously and they have not left my team#tragic past(emo) vs tragic past(girly pop)#theres NO WAY with marchs very teenage girl mind that she does not have a crush on the hot cool mysterious yet caring dragon guy#who stays in the room right next to her#and the fact that he teases her so much........#the whole ass belabog quest he throws in little harmless march roasts every so often#he fucking CARE her#i bets shes like a filipino mom with that camera. every oppertunity (picture!!!!)#and dan heng gets dragged into it#he is honing his photography skills against his will#any nice place? shes like (lemme pose can you get a photo of me?)#dan heng just sighs#they bond over silently judging stelle rummaging through the garbage#cast each other that best friend glance as half her body is sticking out of a trash bin#i like to think you see them hanging out on the train together#with dan heng reading some obscure 8th century book on civilization pattern and development#and march is humming and putting stickers and aesthetic shit in her scrapbook#taping a piece of antimatter legion loot in the middle of a page#and with bubbly handwriting (we beat some bad guys today!!! <333 so fun!!)
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Sleep Token January 2023 Singles
#Sleep Token#Music#Artwork#Chokehold#The Summoning#Granite#Aqua Regia#I think Granite is my favorite artwork so far but they all are amazing#Alt Metal#Post Metal#Art Pop#Vessel#This Place Will Become Your Tomb#Sundowning#Take Me Back To Eden
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i burned the bridges thoroughly but still everyone's trusting me again
and i should be relieved but it happened so suddenly
(and i know in my heart i haven't earned this,
but everyone acts like my concern isn't a problem
like nothing is wrong with my very involvement)
but i know how the song ends (x)
#i've forgotten far too often why i even recognize these faces / that don't have names placed with them / inside my hazy brain /#but then / there's too much to begin to touch on here#SASASAP ASS LYRICS. this whole song could be a siffrin (of any flavour) postcanon song should you quietly ignore the chorus#miraloop#in stars and time#in stars and time spoilers#isat#isat spoilers#isat loop#isat mirabelle#isat fanart#lucabyteart#this drawing has been sat in my wips for like 2 weeks+ which is unusual for me. finished it up for the miraloop qpr people since they seem#to be popping off recently. all that aside. HOMESTUCK BEYOND CANON BLAST. BE REMINDED HOW BANGIN THIS ALBUM IS.#this is what the loop GUILT facial expression doodle page was for btw . trying to figure this out. the original caption was gonna be more#along the lines of 'I hate that I'm so cruel. i hate being this way' but it was much too blunt. but secrets live in the tags so
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TWINSSS ✨✨
They're very much my new hyperfixation and it's definitely gonna stay with me for YEARS ☠️☠️😭 and i damn well made an edit for velvet cause she's my favorite out of the two
#trolls 3#velvet trolls#veneer trolls#I love mean women It's written in the scrolls#LIKE I LOVE THEM BOTH EVEN IF VELVET GOT ME IN ON THE FIRST PLACE#but i also love how much of a cool twin brother veneer is and not as mean as his sister#mean bitches for life tho#They're both 1980 - 2000s pop girlies 😩#breaking dishes fit vel so much idk
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#zero critical thinking skills in this fandom I’m afraid#too many of yall are celebrity worshippers who want tay to interact with her public persona as much as possible#just so that you can consume as much pop culture news as possible#please find other things to be interested in#you don’t have to know every detail of her relationship#y’all hate introverts too and it’s so obvious#your praise her when she valued her privacy and now you look back on that and say she was in jail?#taylor swift#taylorswift#ts#the tortured poets department#ttpd#joe alwyn#swifties#yall need to learn to not place value on superficial Hollywood celebrity gossip
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Deleted my last post because the crypticness wasn't helping anyone.
The photos were leaked. Not official. So I deleted the post because I personally don't want to share that content.
(There's other personal layers to it too that I won't get into it. But it's nothing that concerns the fandom or anything that people should worry about)
#911bts talks#i dont want this to become a discoursed mess#i shouldve looked deeper before posting#ive seen some photos pop up from random sites or random places that it takes me a minute to find#and i assumed when i shouldn't have that it was the same here#anyways
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#mononoke 2007#mononoke 2024#poll#or he'll just suddenly be in there#no method no explanation he'll just pop up inside#which actually *is* how he usually shows up places in mononoke so it's probably the real most likely method
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Believix fairy Danny, fairy of the realms balance! Prompt
Danny is just trying to scout a good city to set up as a base in but he keeps getting sidetracked. He keeps needing to save people and helping!
It's not his fault for saving that little boy from the fire or that cat rescue needed help getting all those cats out.
"Danny you cannot keep doing this! Sam exasperatedly yelled at him over the com link. Danny involuntarily wincing slightly.
"Well what was i supposed to do, not save those poor cats? I couldn't just not save them!"
"Danny do you have fairy dust for a brain! The justice League is looking for you The Batman wants you in for questioning you!"
* Damian was the "little boy" Danny saved. Said little boy is still railing from having been saved by a fairy. With big fairy wings and fairy dust fluttering in the wind.
Believix fairy Danny, fairy of the realms balance! Witch Sam who switched to be a, Specialists Sam & Tucker!
#Winx fairy X#dpxdc#danny fenton#Winx fairy Danny#Jl are confused about the fairy boy that keeps popping up randomly#Danny is flying around trying to find a good place to buckle down in#Danny is the first fairy to live in that dimension in 3000 year's#Sam and tucker are specialists#Sam was a witch but switched to the red fountain last year#prompt#believix#Damian was the “little boy” Danny saved#Said little boy is still railing from having been saved by a fairy#Winx club x Dp x Dc#winx club
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aptx!kaito au in which Shinichi doesn't know aptx exists and feels insane that his leading theory is "a six year old is the mastermind behind Kaitou Kid"
#no I don't know how this would logically work I just thought it'd be funny#and yes this would fuck up countless meetings and character arcs but consider: the CHAOS#this au is a gift to me from me bc ch1120 is making me pop a vein and I needed a pick-me-up <3#Shinichi humbling arc but it's because he keeps getting outsmarted by (what he thinks is) a literal 6 yo#(given that he never ran into the org and doesn't know shrinking is possible plus Kaito is much better at acting like a normal child)#and KID gets to bully Shinichi. as a treat#pls don't look at the drawing too closely ajdhhdhd tis just a dood in this cheap little notebook I got as a handout#somehow I find it easier to draw in places other than my sketchbook... less pressure to do it well and fill up all the blank space I guess#kuroba kaito#kaitou kid#kid the phantom thief#kudou shinichi#jimmy kudo#does anyone even call him that anymore it's so cursed. JIMMY#dcmk#detective conan#magic kaito#detco#idk what to call this au...#kinda want it to have something to do w the 'the truly impossible' sherlock quote hmmm#redefining the improbable AU#maybe?#shrunken!kaito#aptx!kaito
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TOM TIME TOM TIME TOM TIME!!!
Shifting in this AU is horrific, especially for 3rd generation Hellhounds like Tom
Edd/Matt/Tom/Tord
Individuals below
#eddsworld#ew Stay AU#eddsworld au#ew tom#ew monster tom#dandraws#UAHDUHSUH#I like to think Tom bruises a lot when he shifts#cause man his bones and muscles are popping out of place
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it was inevitable as the tides, but it has come to my attention now that if i talk about how sexy Thrax was without specifying "thrax from cinematic masterpiece Osmosis Jones released in 2001" a lot of people get really confused bc they don't know who that is bc they're officially a generation removed from me at this point
rather than go "ugh kids these days" (like cmon don't be That Guy) or "ugh no i feel old" (I don't! guess I'm built different) i will ever so happily inform so a whole new batch of people can enjoy a something very unique and special to my heart that kicks fucking ass and hope they enjoy it too
and that a something is Osmosis Jones. especially the villain of Osmosis Jones. his name his Thrax. he is an lethal virus that is never fully identified (it's implied he is the Red Death, from the Edgar Allen Poe story, but real); other viruses don't recognize him, and he's so reliably stealthy and lethal he possibly hasn't even been properly discovered by science yet. he also only gets more lethal and dangerous as he infects new people, treating how fast he can kill his current host with fever as a PR he has to beat every time until he can cook your brain to death SO quickly after infection that he will go down in history as the single most dangerous illness known to humans.
so yeah take a look and appreciate what set the bar for my villainfucker sleeper code. they don't make em quite like this anymore. content warning for bright orange body horror. legit plays out like a scene in a horror movie.
youtube
stupid sexy virus
#osmosis jones#thrax#sporadic warbling#the other thing you should know about this movie if you never even heard of it#is while MOST of it is animated#the human the plot takes place inside of/framing device is live action and that part of the movie is like Eh...#bill murry eats an hard boiled egg off the ground after it was spat out of a zoo animal's mouth (this is how Thrax gets into his body btw)#he projectile vomits bad oysters at one point and there's a snapshot photo of this bc a kid had a camera at just the right time#you have to see physical/traditional FX zit pop in extreme close up like this movie is Gross#i love it#Youtube
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You know who Vivzie reminds me of?
Rebornica. Like a lot.
I used to be a huge Rebornica fan during the Rebornica era (until all the shit went down) and I'm gonna be honest Viv reminds me a LOT of rebornica, especially the way they write couples and mlm men. Her fans also remind me a lot of Rebornica fans in the way they meatride her and will shut down anyone who criticizes her. IDK just thoughts.
#Rebornica to Vivzie Pop. War never changes#vivziepop critical#anti vivziepop#vivziepop criticism#rebornica#anti helluva boss#helluva boss critical#I mean the reason specific tags exist in the first place is if you post anything even remotely negative on the mains her fans will rip you#to shreds lol#helluva boss criticism#helluva boss critique#hazbin critical#hazbin hotel critical#hazbin hotel criticism#hazbin hotel critique
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Put that lil guy in a mosh pit
...he'll be fine
#(this was the first picture that popped up when i googled ‘mosh pit’ and i couldn’t resist)#eddie munson#stranger things#joseph quinn#mosh pit#moshing#b&w#eddie in places
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