#YOU WERE MY FAM | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

jtl-fics · 1 year

Text

Fluent Freshman - Part 07

The thing about Nicky knowing that FF knows Russian and therefore understands every single excruciatingly sweet, ear-reddingly spicy, or shockingly mundane thing that Andrew and Neil say to one another is that he is objectively the 3rd worst person to know this secret.

First place is, of course, Andrew Minyard the man who has now asked him about his family 3 times in the last week and a half. FF doesn’t really care if Andrew goes after the majority of his ‘family’ since it’s just his step brothers and step dad but Andrew might go after his Grandma too so he just says “We don’t talk” every time it comes up and deletes his entire chat history with his grandma that way Andrew won’t know how close they are. If that means that Andrew thinks that no one would look for him if he happened to disappear into a shallow grave FF doesn’t know. He’s already doomed so the least he can do is save his gran.

Second place is, of course, Captain Neil. Captain has mentioned quite a few times that a lot of people stay with friends or people they’re close with over Thanksgiving break. It’s meaner than Captain Neil usually would be off of the Court reminding FF that he has friends but none close enough who would want to spend a holiday with him. He plans to go see his Gran for Thanksgiving and she plans to feed him a truly ridiculous amount of food. It’s the same plan he’s had pretty much every year since he was 13.

Third place is Nicky Hemmick. Nicky is a very nice guy who got him a paperboy to hyperventilate into a couple times and would absolutely never intentionally OUT somebody and compromise their safety! Nicky’s talked with FF about some of his background so FF has full confidence that it’s never going to be something that Nicky intentionally outs to anyone. But there are two main reasons why Nicky is the third worst person to find out about this secret.

The first reason is that Nicky Hemmick just unabashedly loves gossip. FF has heard that with the graduation of the girls the previous year had gone Allison Reynolds who had multiple running bets on multiple teammates and a whole cache of gossip. Now Nicky has access to the ultimate accidental gossip magnet in the man who no one notices, who knows any language the Foxes speak and is too awkward to get up and leave when they start talking.

Nicky will never tell another soul his secret but he also HAS to know what Neil and Andrew are saying to one another and when Nicky lies to cover for him the charge is one free conversation translation.

He’s absolutely hooked on getting translations the since the first time he had asked what Andrew and Neil are hissing at one another one morning practice.

FF translated it awkwardly feeling like a creep and like he’s invading their privacy but Nicky had helped him eat the four slavic letter flashcards he had made up to help a friend study the language when Captain Neil and Andrew had come back early from a weekend alone in Columbia.

Nicky had even assured him afterwards that the ink was probably non-toxic and given him floss so he could get the flashcard wedged between his molars out.

So….

“Andrew’s mad that Captain Neil skipped breakfast because they’re working to make him eat something for every meal. Captain Neil’s mad because Andrew’s the one that kept him in bed so long that he didn’t have time to make anything.”

Nicky squeals in delight

The second reason, which is just compounded by the first, is the fact that Nicky had promised not to tell another Soul. However Nicky Hemmick, the romantic that he is, believes that he and his Fiancé Erik share one soul since they are soulmates. Therefore Nicky Hemmic had barely even registered FF’s tears of gratitude before he was calling Erik to tell him about FF.

The sheer number of close calls that have happened because Nicky HAS to tell Erik about something Andrew and Neil said to one another or something someone else is saying is the reason FF started getting ulcers.

Watching Nicky talk to Erik about him knowing Russian is like watching a member of the three stooges walk through a construction site blindfolded. FF nearly kills himself stopping Nicky from outing him numerous times and at the end Nicky’s smiling, unscathed and unaware of the sheer number of close calls he had sauntered through.

FF can’t wait to go home and bury his face in his grandma’s lap, stress eat two apple pies, and tell her about how he thinks he might just become an electrician or a plumber or an underwater welder because one of his language professors wants him to come and speak to a lower level class (a gen-ed with over a hundred people in it) about the usefulness of LATIN for all their majors since they can parse the meaning via root word and he had panicked and said ’Sure’.

***

The thing about being the only person on the team that knows that FF speaks Russian and is riddled with social anxiety is that it’s absolutely hilarious most of the time.

Every once in a while he has to step in to help the guy.

So sometimes he’ll eat flashcards. Sometimes he’ll distract his cousin with a salacious comment so FF can escape a dangerous conversation with his drunk friend. Sometimes he pushes FF to go talk to Abby about his tummy troubles. Sometimes he’ll hand over one of the brown paper bags he keeps in his backpack nowadays so FF can wheeze into it and sometimes he’ll assure his cousin that FF’s passing out after he offered to teach him how to use a knife was probably because of his stomach ulcers not because FF is terrified of Andrew stabbing him.

Nicky is the only member of the Foxes that FF regularly seeks out on his own to hang out with and Nicky just loves how hard Andrew and Neil are trying not to be jealous about it.

“I want to ask Smith if he wants to come spend Thanksgiving Break with us.” Andrew says out of the blue a week before the aforementioned break when it’s just Aaron, Neil, Nicky and himself in Nicky’s dorm room.

Nicky thinks about FF talking about going back to his hometown in Washington State and how he waxed poetic about spending Thanksgiving Break with his Grandma and how he was going to eat his weight in pie and Macaroni and Cheese.

“He’s planning on going and seeing his grandma. He won’t shut up about it.” Nicky says still glad that FF has a family member like his grandma.

Everyone else in the room look at him.

“He won’t shut up about it?” Aaron asks with an eyebrow raised. Aaron likes FF just fine and appreciates how FF has helped Katelyn start to grasp the fundamentals of the German language so quickly so she can understand what’s being said. “So what he said it twice?” He continues.

Nicky remembers FF’s ability for catastrophizing every conversation with the Foxes into one where it comes out that he speaks Russian and Andrew stabs him. As far as the other Foxes are concerned he’s a man of few words.

“He’s been talking about it all month. If I hear about his grandma’s apple pie recipe one more time I might demand he sneak a slice back for me through TSA.” Nicky loves stoking the flames, especially when the fire is harmless. He watches Aaron shrug and the skin around both Neil and Andrew’s mouths tightens. “You can ask him, the worst he can say is No.” Nicky shrugs.

Nicky is there when Andrew does ask him and he can see the prolonged internal scream of terror on the utterly blank face (or maybe he just imagines it.) and in a way Nicky is a little sad when FF shakes his head and says “No, I have plans with my Grandma.” In an utterly blank voice that means he has functionally blue-screened before turning and walking towards the nearest door so he can reboot in solitude.

“The offer stands if you change your mind.” Neil says and Nicky is impressed with the seemingly very casual thumbs up FF gives as he power walks away.

A little less than a week later Nicky finds Andrew next to FF and FF looking down at a cancelled flight notification after coming in from a truly monumental storm.

Andrew offers Thanksgiving in Columbia again.

Nicky tries to stop it from happening he can see that FF is a little lost in his disappointment over not being able to see his grandma and not thinking clearly but before he can snap him out of it.

“Sure.”

Per your requests:

@i-have-three-feelings @blep-23 @dreamerking27 @andreilsmyreligion @belodensetdust @rainbowpineapplebottle @yarn-ace @iwouldlikesometea @lily-s-world @obscureshipsandchips @booklover242

#Fluent Freshman AU #Andrew internally: I was able to help out someone. Bee's gonna be proud.#FF: HE WAITED UNTIL I WAS AT MY WEAKEST TO ENSNARE ME. I'M GOING TO WAKE UP IN A REVERSE BEAR TRAP.#FF spends the next 12 hours watching Saw movies to prepare himself mentally on escaping from any and all torture devices #Nicky: Can't you just reschedule your flight?#FF: No it was the only day she could borrow a car to pick me up from the airport #FF: Any other day my step fam would find out that I was back in the state :(#Nicky not fully up to date on the Step situation: And that's bad?#FF: And that's bad.#FF: Please cremate me so that my granny doesn't have to see my mangled remains #FF: Give her my ashes and let her know my last thoughts were of her.#Nicky: I really gotta find you a girlfriend.#Fluent Freshman #Nicky Hemmick #Andrew Minyard #Neil Josten #AFTG #AFTG AU #AFTG Shitpost #AFTG OC #AFTG Fic #My Fics #FF - Pt. 07

520 notes · View notes

kapreday · 1 year

Text

I’ve finally figured out the Hollywood Chrises

Chris Pine, with his joy in the D&D movie, has cemented himself as the character actor Chris. He’s actually the natural successor to the Harrison Ford leading role energy because he relaxes into each character with a natural charm. Chris Evans is the leading role Chris. He’s the big name, acting chops, and the classic Tumblr Dorito manshape that will bring people to the movies for a fun time and a pretty face. He and Pine are what Hollywood keeps trying to make Chris Pratt be by himself. Chris Hemsworth is unfortunately too Australian for any hollywood chris-type other than Chris Himbosworth. Big, strong, a little dumb, a man inexplicably beloved by lesbians. Chris Pratt is just a shitbag.

#Back On My Bullshit #hollywood chrises #chris pratt #chris hemsworth #chris evans #chris pine #dungeons and dragons movie #d&d movie #look i used to live near lake stevens i could tell you some shit the locals were familiar with about him and his fam

616 notes · View notes

midnight-els · 4 months

Text

For All Mankind | Margo & JSC/MCSC Welcomes

3x05 - Seven Minutes of Terror 4x07 - Crossing the Line

#have I mentioned this show makes me insane #they are doing this ON PURPOSE and it is stunning yet devestating #someone be good to margo please I'm begging you #were the plane clips strictly necessary for the narrative of this? No.#but it's my gifset and I'll include any and all planes I want to #for all mankind #fam spoilers #cw: flashing gif #lenara catiche #eli hobson #margo madison #my gifs

70 notes · View notes

darth-sonny · 1 year

Text

big news fellas

#reason: i had no idea what the actual fuck to make kirby #i've been jumping back n forth between boy or girl #the they/them pronouns were meant to be a temporary thing #then it became permanent #boy? girl? nah fam. none #go you funky little tater tot #live your life with your gender of ''what the fuck??''#tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #my art #sonny draws #prime leo au #kirby tag

242 notes · View notes

givemewallywestorgivemedeath · 5 months

Text

Growing up in an extremely ultra religious, cult-like family was a mindfuck for multiple reasons but that doesn't stop unfortunately, even when you escape. For example, see: The overwhelming feeling of boiling hatred and shame for who you used to be.

The angry hatred for the past person I used to be, the version of myself that mindlessly parroted my family's beliefs and listened to their every command, constantly simmered under my skin and invaded my every thought. I was embarrassed of what I used to be- even as I made friends of different ethnicities and faiths, as I listened and explored new ideas and worlds that I never knew existed, as I started the first LGBTQ+ club at my school and volunteered with kids who deserved so much more- there was always a little voice in the back of my head.

"They would hate you if they knew what you were. They would hate the horrendous teachings that were seared into your mind, the things that you used to say and believe. You are nothing but a pretender."

And it is true that my beliefs were bigoted in all the worst ways. It is true that I believed truly heart-wrenching things without a second thought and judged others in such harsh and unfair ways. I told myself that there was no coming back from that, not really. There was nothing I could do to ever make up for it.

Then I remembered that the person who said those things wore velcro light up sneakers and collected finger puppets that the librarians handed out as awards for reading picture books. The person that held signs at pro-life rallies and anti-LGBTQ+ protests had a cherished sticker book and hunted minnows in the creek after school and adored their puffle on club penguin and was really into greek mythology and had skinned knees from climbing trees at recess and knew every Disney song by heart and was absolutely terrified of the dark.

That person was a child.

I was a child.

It took a really long time. Years and years of reflection and distance, but I've decided that I can't hate the past version of myself anymore. I feel pity and remorse, I feel anger- I feel so much fury and violent rage- at what my childhood was and I grieve what could- no, should- have been, but I no longer resent who I was.

I'm not ashamed.

I am so, so, so unbelievably proud of that little kid. For being brave enough to leave the comfort and safety of what I was told was right. For not being afraid to be wrong. For seeking out information and knowledge in a culture that praised ignorance. For questioning everything, relentlessly.

I am by no means a perfect person, I never have been and I never will, but I am proud of myself in every iteration that has ever existed because I know that I have never stopped trying to understand and learn and grow, and I never will.

If you have ever been in a similar situation and feel similar things, first of all: My condolences on your lost childhood. Second of all: Please be nice to that past version of yourself and recognize all the hard work they did to make you who you are today. That person was a survivor and an inspiration. They deserve nothing but love.

#started anti depressants recently. kinda had an epiphany. i can't hate who i was. if i met me now i wouldn't blame that tiny child #for their rancid beliefs or for being dragged to protests. because thats a CHILD. i HAVE met kids in that position and i feel nothing but #pity and anger on their behalf. so why am i holding that version of myself to a higher standard?#i could not have known what i know now at 6 or 8 or 10. the same way that i could not have written a college level essay at that age #but i did what i could. in my own 8 y/o way. i believed in love and humanity and happiness. i was just misguided in the 'hows' of it all #and i am so so so so so proud. of every single microscopic step that i took. every question i asked. every thought that i hid and protected #and pondered secretly at night until new ideas and doubts bloomed like a dandelion through the pavement #and I'm so proud that i chased that doubt. that i asked why why why why until their ears bled and their voices were raw #until their answers stopped adding up. until i sought knowledge elsewhere with a mind dehydrated and malnourished and begging for knowledge #in any form i could get. i just. if i could hug that kid? if i could right now reach out and give that terrified and lonely child a hug?#i would. a million times over.#anyway sorry for the intense personal rant I'm just going through it rn and I'm like.... actually feeling alright #its wild. did you guys know about this??? anti depressants make you NOT depressed??? shits insane fam #irl #personal

73 notes · View notes

theblorboscalledtheturtles · 6 months

Text

The 2012 boys would love Vine. Cursed edit under the cut hehe

#tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #turtlepost #memes #tmnt memes #vine #vines #hey billy vine #it is wednesday my dudes #2012 mikey #2012 leo #2012 raph #epcot ball vine #2012 donnie #i thought you were bae turns out you're just fam #tmnt 2012

60 notes · View notes

seeminglydark · 4 months

Text

the best part of Holiday is everyone leaving. stripping pieces of meat off something every time you walk by the kitchen and stuffing it in your face. partner and i are currently spinning in circles in the living room freestyle rapping about all the things we can once again freely do in OUR HOUSE cuz fam has left while the cat is racing zoomies up and down the stairs screaming with delight and brother, it is a beautiful thing.

we love to have you, and we love to see you go.

#holiday posting #it was actually nice #but even nicer to have my house back #thinking about that one christmas we picked up his brother to drive to see fam #and we were beatboxing the Neverhood soundtrack #and we get there and brother looks at the others and he says #you have no idea what i have just been through

51 notes · View notes

cinna-bunnie · 23 days

Text

thinking about older women

#hey auntie 👉🏾👈🏾#some of them b dancing on that line and i am looking respectfully (⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠) ♡⁠#many such cases... giggling at how often w how many ppl aksjak family friends.. or it be ur own family 💀💕#someone's mom would joke about snatching me up like 😭😶‍🌫️ ma'am first of all .. would #and the touchy prima (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠) ♡⁠ yes please put ur hands on me i am so comfortable with physical contact (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠) let me hold ur hand ♡#🚶🏾‍♀️ being hot is nice sometimes #the forbidden fruit... hey tía (⁠´⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠.̫⁠ ⁠.⁠ ⁠`⁠) 👉🏾👈🏾💕#some of the exchanges I've had were so 😵‍💫😵‍💫 ma'am.. i got a lil crush on u.#← not my actual family. i do not have one. engaging in one from this perspective is a lil different yfm 🚶🏾‍♀️u don't have to get it #or maybe u do idk im zooted rn and feeling rly gay abt aunties and older women in general okay 😩💕#i need to go sweet talk someone's tía i know she's looking beautiful tonight 🚶🏾‍♀️ i see u girl. i love ur hair your nails are beautiful #i love your color coordination you have such good fashion sense (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠) ♡⁠#ur earrings are so pretty i love your necklace i love your bracelets (⁠｡⁠ﾉ⁠ω⁠＼⁠｡⁠) lemme go help y'all cook or I'll make the drinks whateve #let's talk.. ♡⁠#Lupe... what are you up to these days 😩💕 my favorite. a family friend #i kinda see family friends as family too sorta bc my fam was p small when i did have one so a friend would be a basically auntie #but also not.. technically. so ╮⁠(⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠)⁠╭ idk. they r tías 2 me though and i love them.#they r so nicey 2 me ｡⁠:ﾟ⁠(⁠;⁠´⁠∩⁠`⁠;⁠)ﾟ⁠:⁠｡ ♡⁠#she wanted me to say her name n talk to her in Spanish a lil bit and she ate it up 😵‍💫 (⁠｡⁠ﾉ⁠ω⁠＼⁠｡⁠) ♡⁠ she loved the way i say her name #i had such a crush on her omfg. low-key but not but yeah but respectfully..

15 notes · View notes

msfcatlover · 10 months

Text

Me, trying to figure out my Reverse!Robins’ Teen Titans teams, digging through wikis and seeing anything described as “ambiguous” or “never given in canon”:

57 notes · View notes

discourseposter · 2 months

Text

Wanting my dad dead is not enough for real

#he got mad because i called him on his vacation because i needed help with something hugely important like not to exaggerate it was pretty #much life or death. and he got mad and said I'm gonna hand up on you and my mom was like nooo don't say that to our daughter and i was like.#ok screw you! and i hung up. my cousins were there with me so he left once again in evidence that he's an asshole in front of my mom's fam #which. they know but a reminder never hurts

12 notes · View notes

ace-and-ranty · 6 months

Text

I saw a couple comments that the scenes with Alanna's family felt like filler until you realize they were investigating Lan, and I 100% went.

Must things "happen" in a show? Is it not enough for there to be beautiful people?

#WoT #Wheel of Time #this is half humorous in that: they were unironically some of my favorite scenes I just loved hanging out with Alanna's fam #didn't notice at all the plot wasn't moving.#Plot? Who is she? I'm watching my beautiful polyamorous friends :)#on the other hand I also do actually appreciate them for character building #cause yeah those scenes DO set up plot points later on (Alanna and friends join the Rand Band!)#but it is also character building time y'know?#you gotta sit a bit with Lan in his post-Moiraine funk #or their reunion won't hit half as hard #and you also gotta take the time to establish the character dynamics of the OT3

19 notes · View notes

todayisafridaynight · 10 months

Note

nishiki with a goatee and long(er) hair

ah :) thank you :)

#snap chats #much love fam but... you can post these... you dont have to run them by my inbox its ok...#i feel like those pet owners where their cat will bring them dead birds and like Oh Thank You :) Now What #anyway stop sending me these stop giving these men facial hair they were not meant to have any !!!!#looks ILLEGAL bro dont even look like nishiki he looks like russel brand ☠️☠️

38 notes · View notes

rexscanonwife · 5 days

Text

Urgghh closing shift today 😤 to be fair I really don't hate closing, it's nice to turn my brain off for a while and just do some cleaning

HOWEVER...yall remember that fucking. Live action ppg show that got canceled the CW was gonna make? 😂 well I decided to try reading the leaked script and my partner and I didn't even get through THREE PAGES of that shit

#jane journals #self insert talk #sorta sjfkgg im gonna talk about my fam #but HOW DO YOU GET ALL THIS SHIT WRONGGG #i mean similarly to the 2016 reboot too they worked on like a BASIC understanding of the show thru cultural osmosis #theres very little love for the source in it 🙄🙄#like even in just the intro. the narrator is there at least which is more than i can say for 2016 (at least in a significant way)#but HE DOESNT DO HIS 'THE CITY OF TOWNSVILLE...' THING #also?? right away it gets wrong who has the ice breath 😂😂 its BLOSSOM who can do ice breath and they make it BUBBLES instead #why? cause shes blue? or did they just not KNOW #they were like eh one of them has it doesnt matter who #also THEY TRIED TO GIVE UTONIUM A FIRST NAME.......#AND OF ALL THE NAMES THEY COULD HAVE CHOSEN #THEY WENT WITH /DRAKE?????/#FUCKING DRAKE #my partner made a 'you used to call me on the hotline' joke 😂😂#and OH MOJO JOJO IS A GUY?? A HUMAN LAB ASSISTANT TO “”DRAKE“”??#what were they tryna do a spiderman-esque fusing of dna?#we'll never know cause rightfully this thing was put down like a lame horse

8 notes · View notes

soldier-poet-king · 2 months

Text

started another bg3 playthru bc i Am Sad TM, draconic bloodline dwarf street-urchin sorcerer bc i am making this as Sad as possible for a gale romance <3 i probably will not actually play it for a bit, but i was cooking in the character creator for like 3 hrs

#WE LOVE TO SUFFER!!!!#what's one lonely autistic mage without another lonely autistic mage #now with two different flavours of childhood isolation and grooming!#two different kinds of magical lack of control over appearance and powers!#two different kinds of visible markings of your magic that you cannot erase!#anyway her name is euphrosyne which is a misnomer #but abandoned as a kid and growing up an urchin bc she looks Like That #draconic blood?? in MY good dwarven family?? (her bio fam was clearly awful)#raised partially in a tiefling orphanage. the outcasts and misfits of it al #so she gets a virtue name. like tieflings #and is now like. clerk at a shop. very boring. just trying to stay out of ppls way. so lonely. doesnt rlly understand her magic #sees it largely as a curse #AND THEN. WHAM. HERE. HAVE THIS SWEETHEART WIZARD.#YALL ARE GONNA LOVE /AND/ HATE EACH OTHER #her dream guardian looks like the tiefling woman who was sort of her mom #i want at least one pc to trust the dream guardian. at least until much later in the game #my first tav and my durge were both suspicious mfs #euphrosyne is just. a little bitter and world weary. but kindhearted in a way the others werent

9 notes · View notes

spilledmilkfkdies · 1 month

Note

What do you think the Wizards of the Black Circle did after the trial? Just because there’s almost a day between when they escape and when we see them again; what were they doing? Did they mourn Duman? Were they on Omega that whole time? (Also, whose bright idea was it to go hide out on a prison planet when they’re wanted criminals? If it was Ogron, feels like he kinda dropped the ball).

I'm gonna be so honest rn, I have no idea what's going on in the last couple episodes. The moment Nabu closes the casual hell void the Black Circle opened up and the wizards just kinda?? Leave?? So did I, apparently. Mentally.

It took me so long to realize they even went to Omega, like child me straight up assumed that was attached to Morgana's castle. Staircase in her basement straight to it idk- Because with WHAT energy did they locate themselves to a whole other planet outside of their dimension?? From Earth to Magix took them like a whole ass portal, which maybe we just didn't see them do this time, but again, with what energy did they do that. Whores. Don't even get me started on why, I'm gonna pop something important in my eyes.

But speaking of child me!! Idk why, but I VIVIDLY remembered the wizards mentioning Duman's death in Omega and was so confused when I rewatched and that didn't happen. I fully gaslit my slightly older self into thinking the wizards were more interesting than they were, if that wasn't a sign of things to come, I don't know what is.

Even as I'm typing this rn, I can physically FEEL the "Am I sure it didn't happen??" thoughts return, I need professional intervention (yeah I could just watch the episodes again but I don't wanna)

So what do I think they did? Talk about Duman. In Omega. Apparently. No, but the way I usually imagine it, it's pretty quick? In a "We don't have time for this now." sort of way- Let's add a little bit of denial and extra stress so it doesn't feel like they (Ogron specifically) don't care. I might write it out fully at some point. Maybe it'll stop tormenting me.

#unless i find out that I got it from someone else's fic back in the day #accidentally ofc but #i would explode #powerful wizard activities #did i answer the question #idk fam the whole thing is so foggy to me #my bad #winx club #winx season 4 #winx villains #wizards of the black circle #winx ogron #winx duman #just them because they were named ig #answered ask #SEE I TOLD YOU I'D GET TO IT #i try my very best!!

15 notes · View notes