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ffa07aa · 19 days

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hi!!! anyone interested in comms by me? I'm planning on opening up a couple of chibi slots in the near future (after... couple weeks? when i'll finish with my other commissions and study things....)

#aln's thoughts #idk about price. i've never done things like this on foreign platforms #payment will be via boosty btw.#upd not boosty but hipolink..... it not big difference idk

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hektor-world · 2 months

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لا بأس أن تكون حزينًا. أنت لست علي مايرام ، عندما تشعر أنك تنهار. لقد تعلمت الكثير عن كوني صديقًا لنفسي عندما كنت وحدي.

#hektor #merida

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kooahae · 3 months

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After Last Night: THE MISSING PICTURE

Pairing: best friend to lovers// established relationship, Jungkook X female reader

Summary: you’re missing the most important item you own and there’s only one place it could be, only if you’re timing was better…

A/N: This takes place AFTER the FIRST ALN chapter, you can catch up on the rest of it here ...

word count:3K+

Read the previous Drabble ( by date of release/ not in chronological order)

Warnings: cursing, arguing, cheating (not JK), a little angst, mentions of death, a little dive into why Jimin is the best big brother- sad upbringing, SEOJUN, toxic ex-partner, not a warning but my baby Oc stands up for herself!!! Not as much JK this time, but of course he is here and the next chapter is a flashback- so he will have more time. Lastly, the Jeons are good people :)

“And done.” You sigh as you finish putting your last sweater on a hanger. Smoothing the shoulders of it down and looking at the closet one last time. Jungkook has been helping you unpack, it feels just like when you first moved in and signed the lease together, except this time you are sharing his bedroom. He thinks it’s better this way- and he’s right. It is better waking up to him in the morning than knocking on his door. It’s nice waking up to someone who reciprocates your feelings.

Jimin and the boys were sweet enough to get everything from the house for you. According to your brother’s recap of events, It wasn’t pretty. The back and forth between him and your ex must have been a bit much, so you’re relieved you weren't there. However, You need to eventually drop off your copy of the key. You would tell him why you left, but he doesn’t deserve to act all oblivious. You’re enjoying being yourself. No patience for his bullshit- It's hard to believe you ever had time for it in the first place.

You’re back to the simple life. You've had the freedom to be with Jungkook whenever you want, without any arguments, or screaming. Most importantly, you feel valued. It's surprising how you never thought about the good times you missed out on. Regardless of everything, you couldn't be more grateful for your current situation.

you feel relieved.

Jungkook feels like home, not a house. That should say It all.

“Thanks for helping me unpack,” you say, flopping onto the bed next to Jungkook, who pulls you into his arms.

"Anything for you, my angel.”

You’re fucking whipped. He’s so dreamy.

“I love looking at you.” - and whenever he says stuff like this, You melt.

Jungkook is telling the truth. Only part of it though- he not only loves looking at you, but loves you entirely.

You push some of his hair back and kiss his forehead.

“You’re so sweet. Do you have any plans today?” You ask and he nods.

He did mention earlier he wanted to stop by the gym.

“ I promised some of the kids there that we would do the punching bag today, but I promise not to take long.” He comforts you as he runs his hands up and down your sides.

“Take as much time as you need, I’ll be here.”

“Okay. Give me one more kiss?”

He’s so cute- how could you tell him no? So you plant a kiss right on his lips, making sure not to get too carried away.

“Come on. Up you go. You have kids to go help out.” You say and he playfully rolls his eyes.

“You’re right, send me pictures while I’m gone if you and Bam do anything cute ”

He’s a simp too.

That reminds you though…

“Oh wait kookie, speaking of pictures …have you seen the picture of all of us anywhere while unpacking?”

“That one? No, I haven’t. Have you called your brother to see if he has it?” He asks you which makes you wonder why you didn’t start there in the first place. Jimin did go retrieve your things, so maybe he has it.

“I will, that’s a smart idea. Make sure to hydrate at the gym and I’ll see you when you get back.” You say as your lips connect for one more kiss and Jungkook makes his way to the door.

You need that picture. It’s the last one of everyone together.

So you pick up your phone and dial your brother’s number.

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“It’s about time my baby sister called me. Here I thought Kook was holding you hostage.”

“Haha Jimin, not funny.”

“Love you.”

“Love you, have you seen that picture of our families together? I searched every box and unpacked but I didn’t see it. “ you question him, hoping he has the answer you’re looking for.

“Actually no, I also didn’t see it in your house now that you say it. Hobi, Namjoon, and I went there but, that’s the one thing we never came across.“

Fuck.

You’re gonna have to go by the house. That is the last thing you want to do, but the last thing your heart can take is not having the last picture of you and your family together one last time.

Maybe you should call Jungkook? But you don’t want him to worry.

You look at the time on the clock.

Technically you do need to return the key anyway and at this hour… Seojun should be at the office.

It would be the perfect time to go search yourself.

So you feed Bam, Tidy up the little things, grab your keys, and make your way to your car.

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The car ride is silent and your stomach starts to ache. For some reason, you want to call Jungkook, but you also know you need to find it quietly and leave. Then you’ll never have to go back there.

You’ll never have to be in a space that makes your skin crawl again.

This is the last time.

This is the last time and you can do it because you’re going there for something that is rightfully yours.

Nothing else.

You finally arrive at your destination, You don’t see Seojun’s car which is a good thing and you don’t plan on being here long either.

You can do this.

So you approach the door to your old building. Your code still works too.

“Here goes.” You say to yourself as you finally step into the elevator.

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As you turn the key and step foot into your old apartment. You remove your shoes by the door and take a step forward into the living room.

Weird… The picture should have been on the coffee table if it wasn’t in your room.

So you go search there too.

After thirty minutes of damn near flipping the apartment upside down, you decide to check Seojun’s drawer when a voice stops you in your tracks. Burning your ears as you hear the footsteps get closer.

“Want to tell me why you’ve been avoiding me like the plague?”

No, you don’t. But you turn around to look at the disappointment that won’t stop demanding answers. You’re not even together anymore.

You’re met with a super smug Seojun. He looks like hell.

Good. you think to yourself.

“Seojun cut the bullshit, it’s been how many days and you called what 3 times?” You say crossing your arms over your chest.

“I mean I’ve been worried sick. I knew you’d come back for something though. Jimin couldn’t find everything right?” He says waving the picture you’ve been looking for all day in his hand.

“Give me that. Now.” You say, words becoming serious.

“Answer my question first baby.” He smiles but it’s condescending.

He’s such a piece of shit.

“I’m not your fucking baby. I want my photo. You know exactly what it means to me. So stop and give it to me.”

“What? Gonna call your brother or that new boy toy of yours. You think I don’t know. How long were you fucking before you decided to move out?”

“I said no more questions. Give me my damn photo.” you’re better than this. Better than him.

“Need Jimin to answer that for you? Treating your brother like a lapdog. Make him run your errands., confront your problems. You’re telling me to cut the bullshit, what about you?”

That’s enough. You’re not here to play his game.

“ You want answers? Fucking fine. I didn’t sleep with Jungkook at all while I was with you, because I’m not a piece of shit like you."

your tone has changed tremendously. From trying to be cordial to full-blown irritation.

“I’m a piece of shit? No. You are. Why did you have your brother come to break up with me for you? That’s the only reason I knew you were okay. That and fucking Jungkook’s social media story of him you and bam. I thought I told you to stop going over there."

He’s talking like he made you. Like he has control…

The audacity.

“My brother didn’t come to do shit! I hang out with whomever I want, You’re not my boyfriend anymore! There. Happy I’ve told you? Now fucking move, it’s not like we were even romantic with each other, we didn’t go on dates or spend time. Why are you acting like a bitch because someone doesn’t want you? I’m asking you nicely for something that belongs to me. Please give me my photo”

If there’s anything Seojun does well- it’s manipulating the situation.

You don’t want to give in and let him know he’s getting under your skin but at the same time…You have to stand up for yourself.

“Look at you. you’re only worked up because Jungkook is in it anyway.”

He’s such an asshole.

“You know why I want that picture. Stop it.” You say one last time

The photo in question is one of the last pictures you have of your family together before all the arguing. Times were rough and you remember at twelve years old, not understanding why it all came crashing down so fast.

Yes, you have your mom still, and she’s a great woman. You would never take that from her…but it’s not the same as someone being there every day and then only seeing them on the weekends - then barely seeing them at all. Words can barely explain how bad the fighting was but if you had to choose a few ways to describe it - always loud, always made you cry, always resorted to you and Jimin taking late night walks- way too young, just to get peace. Often resorted in you asking to stay with the Jeon’s in advance because you knew what you were coming home to.

When you were younger, It got to the point where Mrs.Jeon just simply gave you a key in case nights were too much. 1 month before Jimin’s 15th birthday- your mom had moved back in with your grandmother ‘just for peace’ and then one day she was getting remarried- She left Jimin and you had to stay with your dad. She stopped visiting as much, her calls were less frequent. It took a while for you and your mom to get back to having a healthy relationship, and although you guys get along now, it’s not perfect.

Other people in that picture went out of their way to make you feel like you were a part of something- part of a family. Mr. And Mrs. Jeon never hesitated to take care of you and Jimin. They helped you work through your feelings. Helped you not resent everyone and everything around you. They let you be a kid when they were around. So even though Jungkook is in the picture, it’s much deeper than him.

It’s also the last picture you took before your dad passed. He had gotten too sick, and before you knew it- Jimin had to become the man of the house. Your brother worked throughout high school just to make sure you never went without anything, he never wanted his sister to feel less than anyone because of something out of your control. It’s not your fault your mom and dad couldn’t see eye to eye, it’s not your fault your dad got sick, it’s not your fault that you didn’t have things as easy as others- Jimin made sure he did everything he could to make sure you knew, and even if for a slither of a second you weren’t having the greatest day; He would do anything you wanted just to see you smile. So yeah, It’s one of the last pictures before you and Jimin get your innocence stripped away from you, but it contains the people who uplifted you and have always treated you like family as well. It serves as a reminder to treat people kindly while they are here because you never know when you won’t have them anymore.

-And all this information Seojun knew. You trusted him with it. so his comment wasn’t fair.

“And you know why I want an answer…” he raises his voice.

“Shut up Seojun. Why are you trying to even hold a picture hostage? Why keep something to have me come back when you know you’re wrong?”

“I’ve never done anything to deserve this. ___ you could have come to me like an adult.”

“ An adult?! Be fucking serious with yourself … you wanna know why I left you?”

“That’s what im asking aren’t I?”

He keeps acting like you owe it to him. So you give him exactly what he wants.

You step closer. Face to face with the scum of a man you’re grateful you left behind.

“You really are pathetic. A fucking horrible liar.” The words fly from your mouth with zero hesitancy.

You uncross your arms and poke him in his chest as you continue.

“I deserved better. I deserved someone who feels like home and that’s exactly what Jungkook is. Everything you’re not.” You tell him. Not breaking eye contact. It’s your turn to make him feel small.

“Oh please, you’ll do anything to make people feel bad for you. You enjoy playing the victim. Just admit it.”

As if he has room?

“I’m not the one who forgot how to be honest, nor would I have treated you the way you treated me. Shit’s embarrassing. Admit that” you say not moving one bit

“What are you even talking about_____?”

“You think I didn’t know? You think you’re so fucking smart, don’t you? Let me humble you and make you feel as dumb as you made me look. I have defended every single thing you have ever done to me. Too scared to let people be disappointed in me. In you- because you were also their friend. I have spent countless nights wondering when you were coming home, cutting off people I love because I wanted to try to see you happy…"

He takes a deep breath. Almost as if he was hoping it would make you stop, but You’re not letting up.

"…You know how annoying it is to stroke that gigantic ass ego of yours? You think you have life figured out and get frustrated when everyone realizes it’s a facade. The only reason I even stayed with you is because I felt bad giving up on you. Proving that you aren't a good person isn’t in my character. You managed to do that all on your own. You were my friend too or did you forget that the moment you got your dick wet with your fucking assistant?!“ The words pour from your mouth, laced with venom.

You watch his mouth form an O shape and decide he still hasn’t had enough.

“_____”

“Shut up! You wanna know what else I think? You’ve always been jealous of Jungkook because he has all the love you wish you had organically and not just from me- from everyone. He doesn’t have to pretend to be a good person. He just is. I brought you lunch that day and saw her bent over on your desk. That’s when I chose myself. Not anyone else or you - but my fucking self!”

Seojun is still wide-eyed, in disbelief like he can’t believe someone is telling him about himself without lying to him. But that’s not your fault, you’re not his parent, and you’re damn sure not his girlfriend.

“____ I need to explain. So sit…so I can talk” He says reaching for your hand, Is he attempting damage control? Fuck that- he’s still not letting go of your picture.

You’ve had enough.

All the weight of your emotions find a place in your hand, as your palm reaches up, Delivering a loud smack across his face.

“I’m not a damn dog first of all. Don’t tell me to sit. Secondly, Don’t fucking touch me! if you haven’t noticed, It’s your turn to be told what to do. As far as Jungkook goes- keep his name out of your mouth. You and I both know that is not a fight you want. And before you start asking me more fucking questions, trying to play guilty. You’re the reason I left you. Even now, you won’t own up to half the shit you have done. You’re a bitch. A fucking terrible excuse for a man. The difference between you and me? I can admit the truth. I knew a while ago I didn’t love you in the way I should, but because I thought you were my friend, I kept trying.”

“You don’t mean that ___ “ he sighs and looks down at his feet

“The fucking nerve you have! Can’t even make eye contact. I don’t care for what you have to say because I’m choosing me over whatever your definition of ‘us’ was, I’m over this damn house, and especially over you!”

“Here…” he says sticking his hand out that holds the photo you’ve been asking about.

You take it in your hands and look at him one last time in the eye.

“If you ever try and hold anything of mine, grab me or even contact me again. I’ll make sure you deal with Jungkook since you seem to be more fascinated with him than me.”

It’s a promise - and a threat.

You push past him bumping his shoulder, making your exit . You mutter one last thing that he happens to catch, deflating his ego one final time.

“Such a fucking loser.” You scoff and throw the key to the once-shared apartment on the floor.

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“Your home! I got you dinn-“

Jungkook watches you sit straight on the floor and sees the picture in your hand. His angel looks …defeated. So instead of saying anything he just sits on the floor behind you. Holding you close. While your tears fall

“It’s okay baby. Breathe and talk to me.” He says softly

“I stood up for myself. These are happy tears” You try and smile at him but he knows you better than that.

Jungkook has put two and two together but just for clarification, he asks anyway.

“You went to Seojun’s? Did he hurt you?”

“H-He tried to hold my picture hostage” you confirm.

Jungkook’s jaw clenches but he knows this isn’t the time to be hostile. You need affection. so he continues stroking your hair and lets you turn your face in his chest as your tears fall.

“I’m sorry baby.” That is all he can manage to say before he feels his eyes get a little teary as well. Your dad was a great father to you and he knows how much you struggled with his death. He was there for it all. The tears, the pain. As for Jungkook- He still loved you. Even when you didn’t know how to process your emotions. Even if you lashed out at him. He’d never leave nor would he try and use it against you to make you stay. That’s what real love is. He remembers the day it felt like you got your life back. It’s been a while since he’s seen you look so upset.

He just rocks you back and forth until you calm down and you finally look up and say “Thank you.”

“You don’t have to thank me for anything baby. I love you. Im always here for you.” He says planting a kiss on your forehead

“That’s exactly why I am saying thank you.”

Jungkook’s heart feels like it’s beating out of his chest. You’re always so strong and kind. He’s the one who should be thanking you. So he just squeezes you a little tighter.

“Can I ask how it went?” He looks down at you and you exhale.

You start to ramble on about the encounter. Jungkook keeps his cool but he knows when he lays eyes on Seojun - there won’t be as much conversation as you had with him.

“I called him a bitch. Should have seen his face!” You say and your tone has a bit more enthusiasm. Jungkook can’t help but smile. He’s really glad you were able to stand up for yourself. Sad he wasn’t there to kick his ass but nevertheless...

“Sticking up for yourself, that’s my girl.” He says kissing your forehead.

You smile and turn to kiss him fully.

“ I almost forgot to tell you…I love you too.” You say. Locking eyes with him and kissing him once more

Jungkook scoops you up bridal style. Making Sure he grabs the family photo too.

“Let’s get washed up and watch some TV. Yeah?” He asks

“Yeah.”

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Jungkook showers first then lets you go relax and destress next.

Once you exit, You notice the picture is placed on the nightstand, on your side of the room.

Then you feel a warm embrace around you.

“Figured my angel should get to see her angel in the morning. I know he’d be proud of you.” He says kissing the top of your head.

“I hope so… "

You say and smile.

" …Thank you kookie, for everything.”

“Anytime baby.” He reassures you.

“You said we would cuddle.” You state, turning to looking him in the eye

Jungkook chuckles. You’re so cute. Just his type, just for him.

“Come here, you big baby.” He says smothering you in kisses, watching you giggle as he pulls you into his arms.

You’ve said it before and you’ll say it again- you’re really happy to be home and most importantly you’re happy that Jungkook is always here with you.

A perfect way to end your stressful day...

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smartycvnt · 6 months

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Remnant

Title: Remnant

Pairing: Thea Queen x Reader

Word Count: 736

Y/n was a long way from Star City. It had been years since she was forced out of there by the Queen family. The bitterness from having everything stolen from her had only grown in her time away. Y/n had tried her hardest to make things work, but there was always a dark cloud that loomed over her head.

She couldn't get close to anybody with the fear that they'd discover who she really was. Honesty was no longer an option. Y/n had to pretend to be someone else. Her world had been turned upside down because of something that she had no choice in. She wished that Thea would have killed her whenever Thea had the chance. And Y/n was going to make sure that Thea felt the exact same way by the time that Y/n had exacted her revenge.

Thea was easy enough to come by. Y/n had never really let her stray too far. At first, it had been an accident. Y/n and Thea had always been a lot alike, which made Y/n's hiding difficult. She had money, but couldn't risk Thea finding her in some city. What had first felt like a curse was turning out to be a blessing in disguise.

"I'll be fine. Have a good night!" Thea called out to one of her coworkers. Y/n waited for Thea to be completely alne before she stepped out of the shadows. "Who's there?"

"Thea Queen, you have failed this city," Y/n said as she pulled Thea into a chokehold. There was a red arrow pressing against her throat, the same one that Thea had shot Y/n with as Speedy.

"Y/n, what are you doing here?" Thea kept her voice calm, despite the fact that she knew Y/n could easily kill her. It had always been an afterthought for Thea, something that snuck its way up to the front of her brain on dark and lonely nights. Thea wasn't sure if she should have killed Y/n or just let her be. It was too late to do either of those things now, so Thea just had to accept her fate instead.

"I've been waiting for this day for a long time," Y/n said with a sinister smile. Thea wondered how many times Y/n had let the murder play out in her head. She wondered if what Thea did that night haunted Y/n in the same way that it haunted Thea. "You took everything from me and left me for dead."

"You were hurting people, Y/n." Thea knew that it had been indirect for Y/n. She was just easier to get to than the actual mastermind behind it all. Y/n had been his puppet and investor. He had used her money to take control of certain aspects of the city in an attempt to overthrow it into chaos. Star City was on the verge of anarchy, only to be taken over by a madman and the teenage girl he had manipulated.

"He made me do things that I'd never forgive myself for. I thought you'd help me escape, but instead, you tried to kill me. You and your brother aren't heroes, you're monsters," Y/n said as she pressed the tip of the arrow against Thea's throat. "Why didn't you kill me when you had the chance?"

"You know why," Thea answered. That wasn't good enough for Y/n, who pressed the tip against Thea's shoulder just hard enough to pierce through the skin. "I loved you! I couldn't kill you because I loved you!"

"That's not how you treat the person that you claim to love," Y/n said as she released Thea. Thea stumbled onto the ground and looked up just in time to see Y/n standing over her. Thea's heart was racing as she thought about what Y/n was going to do to her. Thea watched as Y/n pulled a knife out from behind her back. Y/n casually flung the knife at Thea, sticking it into her leg, just above the knee. It was the same place where the arrow had struck her years ago. Thea wouldn't die from the wound, but she'd be feeling it for a long time. Y/n was certain that Thea would never be able to forget about her after that.

#one shot #my writing #arrow x reader #arrow #arrowverse x reader #arrowerse #thea queen x reader #thea queen

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thebadbatch · 2 years

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Hunter x Fem!Reader

AlN: This was written for a new friend of mine who's absolutely lovely! I hope this is everything you were hoping for! ♡

Hidden Stress

Mission after mission. Bullet after bullet. That's all things seemed to be lately, not that you minded of course - you just needed a break. You were desperate for a break. Not only is your mind filled with the battle plan and trying to protect the batch, but it's also filled with your current worries and stress and it's beginning to overflow. You have no idea how much longer you can keep it together but… Maybe, just maybe after this mission you can find a place to cry alone and deal with these thoughts and feelings.

"Alright, Mesh'la!" Hunter's voice sounded around the corner, giving you time to rub your eyes and take some deep breaths in. Steady your breathing and clear your thoughts… It's not long until you can feel as much as you need to alone. "Are you ready? We better head down now before it gets too late."

"Yeah I'm finishing up! I'll meet you down at the ramp." Shoving whatever you decided that you wanted in your backpack, you stood up and dusted yourself off. This is going to be alright. This mission would be short and sweet - a 4 hour mission. A simple kill and retrieve. Rushing down to meet Hunter, you managed a strained smile before shoving on your helmet. Easy.

"Let's go then y/n!"

Hour One

Easy, scope out the area and keep an eye out for our target. Smiling slightly to yourself, you walked alongside Hunter who seemed rather excited to spend this time with you.

"Thank you again for coming with me on this mission, Mesh'la." He chuckled behind his helmet, moving along the alleyways beside you. "I know it's pretty boring and basic but it's nice to spend time with you without my brothers causing some kind of catastrophe. Tech can deal with that for now." You grinned before nudging him lightly with your shoulder.

"I love spending time with you, even if it was gardening or something I'd still want to do it with you." He hummed happily before double checking the coordinates. Thank goodness that conversation was over, honestly it was starting to make your heartbeat a little too quickly and it was getting difficult to suppress any tears. You couldn't let him know what was wrong though - he's the leader of the bad batch. He has enough to deal with…

"The target should be around here eventually, we can't bombard the actual building because it's filled with clankers." He sighed lightly, crouching behind the building with you. "Let's just wait here, yeah? Tech managed to hack the routine of them so in an hour or two - it should be out and ready for us to take." Nodding along, you smiled. This will be easy, three hours to go until you could finally feel and ease the numbness that was rapidly turning into pain.

Hour two

Just chatting with him was a little harder than you had originally expected. Yeah, you both spent so much time together but… His voice was always so soothing. His laugh was so lovely and it just made you want to pour your heart out to him. He'd listen, you know he'd listen. He'd prioritise you without a second thought over this mission and that was the problem. You couldn't let him do that… He's stressed enough, if anything you should be the one to comfort him right? Sighing lightly, you listened as the hiss of the nearby door sounded.

"Movement." You whispered, leaning across to peek at hopefully your target. Perfect. Hunter moved forward a little whilst crouched, nodding and smirking beneath his helmet.

"Alright, let's trail it for a bit - it should take us to another room where we can grab some information Sid wants." Nodding, you proceeded to follow after the larger droid with Hunter in tow. Everything is going to plan!

Hour three.

Yeah no, it didn't stay to plan much longer. Then again, when did it ever go to plan? It ended up being a pretty obvious trap but you just weren't thinking right now, another reason you needed that time alone to cry. Shooting another few droids down alongside Hunters bullets, you made your way to the control panel and shoved in the data stick you had been given to protect.

"Cover me!" Your voice sounded amongst the bullets as Hunter stood behind you, keeping you as safe as possible. However, he was a little too late to catch the droid on the side who had shot at you causing him to swear under his breath. The bullet grazed past your arm and you took it down with a quick shot to its head. That was nothing, it was just a small graze. So why were tears pooling to your eyes? Oh no. You can't break down here. This cannot happen right now! This may be a short mission, but it's equally as important as the others! Sniffling and trying to keep your emotions in check, you removed the data stick as quickly as you could and began to blast droids away to clear a path for you both. Ducking down into a corner to take a breather, you tried to hide the sniffles and hold the tears back. Not long to go… Hold it together…

"Y/n, are you alright? Let me check your arm." Those words alone seemed to make the dam break as you cried involuntarily. Panicking a little, he grabbed the medpack from his own gear and patched the light blaster wound upon your shoulder. "Hey ... Hey, it's alright now I've got you. It'll stop hurting soon, love, just hold on. Nearly there now." That's exactly what you had been telling yourself all along. Your crying didn't stop though, and that's when he knew it was something more… Hour four had just ticked by meaning the Havoc Marauder would be landing nearby for you both. Picking you up bridal style, he looked around and began to sprint toward the exit. "I've got you now… I'll get us there okay? Rely on me now Mesh'la." His voice softened a little, his heart breaking at the sound of your sobs. "Won't let anything happen to you." He stood true to his word as he carried you into the Havoc, giving Tech the data stick and carrying you to your bunk without another word. Laying you down gently, he laid beside you and held you closely to his chest in a protective manner. "What's going on, love?" Your sobs were now muffled by the pillow but luckily he could still make out what you were saying.

"Stressed n' tired n' Im not doing well." His fingertips found themselves in your hair, threading through in a comforting manner.

"Why didn't you come to me?" You hiccuped a little, turning around to hide your face against his chest instead.

"Didn't want to bother you, Hunter. You work so hard to keep us safe n' it's not fair of me." Gentle hushes left his lips as he rubbed your back.

"Oh y/n, i'm always here for you okay? I won't ever be too busy for you. You do the same for us, You're always working so hard and protecting us. We're a team, Mesh'la please always come to me. I won't ever push my Huntress away, understand?" Nodding lightly, your sobs slowly began to calm.

"Promise?"

"I promise you." Moving back a little so he could softly catch your tears with his thumb, he gave you a smile. "Let's fight these thoughts and feelings together Yeah? Now tell me, my sweet. What's on that beautiful mind of yours?"

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The KaBlammiest KaBlam! Retrospective: Season 1 Review (Comission by Cory Bryant)

Assume the crash position, hold on tight, take a breath for a new kind of cartoon show review. It's The KaBlammiest KaBlam! Retrospective. And now to take you inside and turn the pages.. your host jake!

Thanks me. So for those less familiar, KaBlam was a mid 90's nickelodeon variety show. Framed as a cartoon comic book, hosts and 90's kids, the everyman henry and the michevious june, would get up to various shenanigans while introducing various shorts.

The show was unique in that unlike other variety cartoons like Tiny Toons or Animaniacs (both bangers I need to review more of), KaBlam's shorts were all from diffrent creators, pilots that had been shopped to the network and instead of picking them up for a full series, became their own series within this series. There were also various pilots that didn't get a full segment that still aired on the show along with music videos and for this season french experimental shorts. It was something unlike anything else before or since, and it was truly wonderful.

Speaking of wonderful this is also the first review comissioned by someone in my day to day life. One of my best friends since 8th grade, the guy I see most films with and one of the sweetest persons you'll ever meet, Cory Bryant. Cory asked out of the blue if I could review KaBlam, I said

And here we are, with him having already paid in advance for four seasons worth of content. As for why.. he just thought it was neat and would make a good reivew.. and he was right. Like I said, KaBlam really ISN'T like anything else i've covered: it's essentially 6 diffrent shows in one with a few one offs thrown in. So while iv'e done full season reviews before KaBlam! is going to take a diffrent approach, and has been a bit of a challenge. But it's a challenge i'm more than happy to have taken up, so keep your heiner in the recliner as I turn the page and introduce or reintroduce ya'll to one of nick's most creative, intresting and hilarious shows.

The Secret Origin of KaBlam!

KaBlam came about because future Nick President, Herb Scanell, naturally getting tons of cartoon shorts pitched for his cartoon channel, wanted to try live action shorts with a cartoon sensiblity. One of these was Action League NOW!, a short about action figure superheroes getting ran over or crushed a LOT, and it was picked up to be ran on All That!, saturday night live for cool kids. ALN creator Robert Mittenhall wanted to do more with the shorts. Mittenhall had worked at nick for a while now as a story editor for the adventures of Pete and Pete, creator of sitcom Welcome Freshman and Co-Creator of Double Dare, and with the help of Pete and Pete co creators Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi, pitched a variety show to Nick: Various animated or semi live action shorts all done by diffrent studios

The only thing left was a wraparound, something to link them together, and with the team not having animation experince, they tapped artist Mark Marek. Marek wa sa long time animation fan, having gone to school for it after being insipired by Peanuts and Johnny Quest as a kid, and having done animation for Cindi Lauper and They Might Be Giants.

So while pitching ideas, he got the call back from Nick and thus KaBlam was fully formed, with Marek creating hosts Henry and June. Marek also kept the show allive by posting it and all in all is pretty damn awesome.

So with our main show in place, I can get to this reviews format: while I COULD go episode by episode and the shorts within, I decided instead to look at each major segment one at a time, as each short is essentially it's own show within KaBlam! with it's own creator/showrunner, art style and what have you, the Henry and June wraparounds included. There will also be an extra segment for one off or less seen segments.

So with that we have our first cartoon

Henry and June our are hosts.. and also our wraparound. For season 1 at least i'ts mostly unconnected nonsense. There's an episode or two with an ovearching plot, but for the most part it's just funny skits between each cartoon following two great characters: straight man henry and mischievous june. The segments as a whole aren't bad, though they do run into a problem: repetttion. There area LOT of skits that are just "June torments henry for little to no reason". A LOT, i'ts something I hope goes down as the series goes on and didn't really remember from both the first time I watched the show as a kid and binge watching a chunk of it with my niece a few years back, so hopefully it goes down. At the very least it looks like the first episode of season 2 directly adresses it, and while that dosen't guarantee the problem's gone it at least shows the creators recognize they might of leand on this joke too much

Otherwise it's just some fun nonsense, gets really weird with it and has a lot of fun with the format: our heroes are ostensibly in a comic book so we get fights over who turns the page, hanging on to panels and in probably my faviorite joke of the season, June deciding that if she never turns the page, the show never ends.. only to find out they just turn the lights out if they go over time. It's a good wraparound and outside of the Henry Torture Porn never really got old, and even some of that's funny it just depends on the bit. It's more ther'es SO DAMN MUCH OF IT. And so you see what I mean as we go thorugh the henry and june segments for the season, i'l lhave a Henry Abuse Count. Also I won't be going into each bit in detail as there are a LOT. I will for the other shows, but there's just so much here and so much of the show to cover as is.

The following are the titles for the episodes themselves.. or at least what fans use, using the slogan on the back of the comic each episode. Honestly I don't mind it as it's better than NO titles, especially on a show this loose and freeform. The titles aren't exactly descriptie, but they at least allow us to tell them apart. It's better than say, adapting an acclaimed manga and not giving us any titles or even a chapter 1. You didsapoitned me pluto.

Your Real Best Friend: Our heroes explain waht kablam is, June lets henry nearly get eaten by a spider, chuckimation is explained.. another day at the office really.

Henry Abuse Count: 1. June leaves Henry to nearly get eaten by a spider.

It's Flavorific: I remembered almost none of these bits. Only june creating a superhero with no weaknesses that beats up henry and June outright beating up henry for tricking her.

Henry Abuse Count: 3

Comics for Tomorrow Today: June wants to be a superheroine, and tries to leverage turning her eyes out and such. Henry gets jealous when she gets more marketable powers and we get a nice bit of her playing up his page turning prowess. Also the count dosen't go up one iota, so that's nice

Not Just For People Anymore: June gets lost trying to interview sniz and fondue, tasers henry for reasons I honestly forgot but it does not suprise me in the slightest, and they have the classic your side my side nonsense. June invites henry to join a party she throws. It's a nice ending

Henry Abuse Count: 4

All Purpose KaBlam!: June invents an automatic page turner that goes bonkers, tries to drop a tank on henry, and tries to cost him a golf game.

Henry Abuse Count: 7

What The Astronauts Drink: A rare one where all the shorts have a theme. SPACCCCEEEEEE. It's a fun one as our heroes get ready to journey into space. We also get June soiling herself because Gross Out

But thankfully only shows up twice this season.

KaBlam Gets Results!: This episode sure did happen. The only memorable part of this one is June pulling down henry's pants revealing he has boxers of richard nixon. She does this for every suprising shorts we're only going to count it once.

Henry Abuse Count: 8

You've Tried the Rest! Now Try the Best: A really fun set of wraparounds: Henry throws June down a volcano to cure her laughter.

June drops stuff on Henry she borrowed and naturally broke, and June ends the episode erasing everything including Henry's head. Huh so that's the secret origin of the headless body of agnew. All in all one of the best of the season

Henry Abuse Count: 10 June Abuse Count: 1

Untitled or Why June Refuses to Turn the Page: Another banger, with the opening and closing bits being the standouts: June hosts diffrent things other than the show she's doing like talk shows or beauty pagents, a beatufiully dumb gag, and then refuses to turn the page and gets blacked out as a result. A straight up classic

Henry Abuse Count: 11. She throws him a side to go ahead with her plan.

A Little Dab Will Do Ya: These bits really hti their stride towards the end, something I didn't realize till I started typing this. This one's also a classic, ending on my second faviorite bit of the season: June rips out a page, makes it into an airplane and we get a ride like the wind refrence deliveried by a Sasquatch. Pure magic.

Henry Abuse Count: 14. June makes henry into abstract art, has mr foot beat him up, and then Mr foot beats him up for accidently unclogging him. Mr Foot is a big foot or sasquatch and he's great.

Built for Speed; Other than a bit about the two's stunt doubles, I honestly forgot this set.

Comics of Champions: Our third of four wraparounds that have an overarching story. Thunder Girl from action league now is vistiing, Henry has a crush on her and June is a dick about it, making him swell up with embarassment.

Henry Abuse Count: 17, as June abuses Henry's blushing to make his head swell three times.

Resistance is Futile: We end the season on a fun award show spoof as they elect the Kablammiest cartoon. It has a lot of great bits including an overwrought music number and the payoff in which the winner, Flesh and Melt Man of Action League Now win a new car.. that as per the series standard, runs them over. An all timer to go out on.

So with that we can move on to something more groovy. Though if you liked the idea of the Kablammy awards stay tuned as i'll be having my own version at the end of the review. For now though...

Sniz and Fondue was created by indie comics creator Mike R. Brandon, who created the comic Puppy Action. A copy got into the hands of at the time Nick Head Linda Smesky who loved it and asked Brandon to make a pilot. The resulting short "Psyched for Snuppa" was well loved, but ultimately lost out to the better toon, Rocko's Modern Life pilot "Sucker for the Suck-0-Matic", creating a weird alternate reality where Rocko never made it to series and might of ended up on KaBlam! instead. Still Sniz and Fondue was super well loved, so it got picked up for KaBlam! instead.

The first season's animation was done at PitchiPoi animatoin.. which brandon hated for often being off model, and they switched companies for season 2. Me I think the animation looks good and if it looks this crisp off model, I can't wait to see how season 2 looks when we get there. Brandon also wanted to voice Fondue and have his best friend voice Snizz, but got vetoed on the latter and on the former at the time creators voicing things in their own tunes which execs were HEAVILY against it saying "you don't want to be that close to your own show"

Somehow they did, and while Brandon has nothing against the voice actors who played Sniz and Fondue, their simply not what he wanted. It's very clear both from a reddit ama I found with brandon (I was so happy to find something besides wikis and hopefully can find more as this goes on. ) It's very clear while he loves the project, kids animation just wasn't for him and despite being offered a full series order, left, with Spongebob Taking the spot he was offered. If I had a Nickle for every time Sniz and Fondue didn't become a recurring series so a key part of cartoons as a whole could, i'd have two nickles. Which isn't a lot but it's WEIRD it happened twice.

Sniz and Fondue follows Sniz, a hyperactive ferret with the accent of a 50's greaser and the impulse control of a hyperactive ferret and his best friend and roommate Fondue a mild tight ass who likes building models and wears a chefs hat because it looks neat. Their voiced by Rick Gomez, aka "endless' mike from Pete and Pete and Oscar Riba. The only two other recurring characters are Snuppa, played by John Andrew Walsh, a videographer and the chill dude in the apartment and the slightly more uptight Bianca, played by Monica Lee Bashforth, who gets annoyed at the two more often but is just as likely to enjoy the chaos.

The show is your pretty standard "Two guys hang out and get into shenanigans' sitcom, one of the first and certainly one of the first in animation, coming off as a 90s era regular show. Snuppa and Bianca show up as needed and from what i've read eventually get phased out as Brandon and crew realized they didn't really need them, though I think their fine.

What helps Sniz and Fondue work is while the two are oppisities to a point, Sniz being hyperactive and fairly stupid and Fondue being calmer and actually thinking things through, the show gets how to make a duo like this work: Fondue isn't immune to hyjinks and in seperate episodes becomes a fashion magnate or gets creepily obessed with the ventrioquist dummy Sniz made for him. There's never any of the real cliche conflcits you'd expect from the two, their just slightly diffrent, have enough intrests to bond them, enough diffrences to bring the laughs, and are on the same page more than not.

Sniz and Fondue is really charming and fun, while also, like most KaBlam! shorts being incredibly weird. It was one of my faviorites and kicks off the show more often than not, getting it started on the right track

Sniz and Fondue Season 1 episodes

A Toxic Tail: The first short and one of the weaker ones. This one is more on the usual end of this sort of squabble: Sniz keeps breaking into Fondue's room to jump on the bed, so Fondue buys a deadly scorpion to keep him out.

Yet while the plot is pretty bog standard there were hints at what i'd later love about these shorts: there's the weird Exotic Pets guy who sells Fondue the murder scorpion and the resolution: once the scorpion is scooped, Fondue decides to simply charge Sniz for jumping on his bed, complete with a velvet rope queue, and Sniz happily accepts. IT's one of the best things about these shorts: most endings are pretty positive and usually the two reconcile by the end, but in a way that's uniquely them.

Stuntbike Sniz: the short that sold me on these. Sniz buys a motorcycle and Fondue is against it as he dosen't want his best friend to get messed up. The short is mostly sniz doing hilaroiusly half assed ramp stunts that aren't much of a challenge but still result in him getting mildly injured, and Fondue shaking his head at it. Fondue would be grating.. if he wasn't trying to keep his best friend from horribly mangling himsef. That and even getting mangled, Sniz is happy with the attention. Also this has Sniz wax lyrical, saying the lyrics to "Your the inspiration".. and turns out this , to my delight wasn't a one off thing. This is still my faviorite of them but we get a LOT of random little musical refrence moments I love.

Mod Stylin: This one works for me in part because it's surprisingly down to earth: Sniz needs a LOT of hair gel to keep his mohawk up, so Snupa, to save money, buys him the cheap stuff instead. Problem is overdoing it makes his hair fall out. We also get a lot of fun stuff as Fondue tries to restore Sniz' hair, which itself is fun as it's the first time Fondue really gets to do weird shit and i'm here for it. My favorite hair restoration attempt is Fondue planting a flower on sniz's head and the seasons passing as we wait for it to grow. I love long time skip gags, so it's a personal thing. The ending, which has Fondue have his head sympathy shaved, is just adorable.

Fashionably Fondue: I love this one simply for taking a very common plot and making it feel unique. In this one Fondue decides to become a fashion mogul because most jeans can't fit sniz's tiny butt and stature, promising to make jeans that actually fit for him if he gets famous. Your probably expecting as I did that the episode would either have Fondue get self absorbed, go back on the promise but then fufill it in the end or fufilling it would end his career.

While it does go with option B, how it does it is neat. As is how Fondue becomes a fashion mogul in the first place as he throws one of his drawings in frustration, and it ping pongs hilariously via slapstick and bee gee's refrences till a fashion person gets it. Not only that but Fondue.. just does what he promised immeditely and rather than get laughed at or something for it, he fails.. but only because Sniz is GENUINELY the only customer.. and rather than be too bummed Fondue is happy Sniz has jeans that make his butt look good. You know, I try not to ship EVERYTHING that comes across my brain but the more I write on this series the more awesomely homoerotic it comes out, and i'm just fine with that.

Second Hand Sniz: This one honestly feels like a regular show script that got lost in time and wound up in 1996, toned down a bit as I could see this exact scenario happening with rigby. Sniz refuses to learn how to tell time, and so his roomates, fed up with his crap and him relying on them for the time (This was BEFORE everyone had 80 devices in their house that have a clock as a bonus feature, so you kinda had to back then). Does it make no sense they have no digital clocks in the mid 90's?

Even with a bunch of 20 somethings not having a lot of money they could still get one cheap.. or would just to shut Sniz up. But the antics that ensue from them writing "do not tell me the time" on his head, to Sniz deciding rather than learn to tell time to JUMP to the hot air balloon their in, ending up on a giant clock and learning the skill through trauma.. it's great. One of the best of season 1

Mr. Sniz's Wild Ride: Some aliens decide to take Sniz in as their mascot, and after some deliberation he accepts.. then regrets it when their annoyed they got exactly the hyperactive ferret they asked for. This one is okay but I do love the resolution that the aliens just shoot them out of the ship, as well as Fondue sneaking aboard to help Sniz. One of the weakest eps of season 1, but it's not TERRIBLE. It's just beige. Very beige.

Sneaky Clean: This is one of those episodes about GERMS kids shows did... and I GENUINELY had to check and make sure it wasn't just Hey Arnold that did this as that's the only one that came to mind, but it is a thing.

This one has a neat take as while it has the standard setup of "Character finds out germs are everywhere and takes it about as well as I took the cancelation of Close Enough", which is to say

Here Fondue just straight up builds a plastic germ free biosphere to live in. And spends it in his underwear because why not at this point. I haven't brought it up but under the characters skirts is tighty whiteys we see frequently because they did the research and kids think underwear is funny. Eventually Fondue realizes he's missing stuff, it's a heartwarming mostly naked ending.

The Borrowers: This one is okay but I do like the setup: Fondue borrows a quarter from what turns out to be a loan shark and our heroes try to escape the guy then try paying it off. I love how the loan sharks compound intrest is 300% a minute and how what sets off the plot, a call in radio contest, ends up solving it. I also like a bit abotu Fondue getting annoyed Sniz is stealing hotel towels. All in all it sure was average.

Dark Vator: At the Captain Sharpiro, the boys faviorite sci fi show, convention Sniz and Fondue get stuck in an elevator due to Sniz's hubris and Sniz of course thinks the best person to bring for help is the actor who plays captain sharpiro. You've seen this plot too. While Sniz and Fondue is fun, I didn't realize till reading it out how some plots are just.. things you've seen before. And would see again on Hey Arnold and done better because Hey Arnold is the best. Really gotta cover that show sometime. But i've still got a lot of kablam to cover so...

You Dummy: This one is just wholesome, then weird, then wholesome again: Fondue does some action figure theater for the roomies, and admits he wants to be a vintrioquist but dosen't have the bones for a puppet. Sniz makes him one in his unseen till now and possibly again workshop.

Then .. Fondue becomes obsessed with his puppet, despite being VERY bad at actually being a ventriloquist, Sniz feels bad and helps, and this causes fondue to spiral and Sniz to get jealous and nearly take a saw to the puppet. I do like how the climax is he just.. chips it slightly. And this still somehow makes it unusable. Once again I think of a show who did a similar plot slightly better, but for once i'ts not hey arnold but king of the hill. Granted in that one's case it both tapped into the hank bobby relationship well and had Dale Gribble obessed with murdering a dummy and put said dummy into a wood chipper while blindfolding it and mixing it in with two chairs and a tabogan before clorforming himself, so it's hard to compete. Still a great episode.

Making of a Supermodel: Okay THIS one is the weakest of season 1. It's the old "character wants to open toy, other character wants it mint in box, character opens thing anyway" thing. You've seen it before, they don't really do anything new or intresting with it here, and while Hey Arnold didn't do it better this time, Hey Arnold had higher standards than to do it at all.

Rage Against the Vending Machine: This one has a bit of a story. So for a good chunk of season 1, I used youtube since about a third of the season is missing from Parmount+ due to rights issues. I'll explain why later. So the thumbnail for this episode of KaBLam.. was what LOOKED like a naked Bianaca wearing a crown. So I was distracted not by the possibly naked woman, as while I am into many things the characters of this show aren't one of them, but more.. what the fuck was this episode about.

Turns out that wasn't bianca but a tiny naked man who makes novelties the guys go to complain to after not getting a plastic spider from one of those cool capsule things. Turns out, unsuprisingly, the very naked man is scamming people by not putting the spiders in and our heroes have to stop him from melting them all. THey also get bribed with their own vending machines full of nothing but spiders. Hopefullyt hey both took the bribe AND hauled his ass before the ftc. This one is fun though both for it's relatablity of wanting just ONE thing from one of those capusle machines and not getting it and the weird naked man. They just never adress that he's both tiny and naked and it makes it funny as a result.

War of the Super Geeks: Our finale and a really fun one. Sniz and Fondue fight over a prize inside a cereal box. Snuppa decides to turn this to his advantage by making them do a gauntlet that's doing chorse for him and bianca, making them brownies then doing their laundry, followed by a fight for their sick amusment. I not only like Snuppa turning this very stupid argument to his advantage, but also the fun of them: we have Fondue sabotaging snizz who has to scramble to buy store bought, Snizz and Fondue both giggling over Bianca's undies like the 12 year olds they are and the two deciding to share the toy and turn the whole mock trial thing Snuppa did to start this mess on the couple for their bs. A fun episode to close out a pretty solid season.

Action League Now! is probably the most famous of the KaBlam! shorts: It started on all that before here, got a burger king kids meal toy before eventually being repacakaged as it's own show after KaBlam! ended. If your not thinking of Henry and June when KaBlam! comes to mind, it's likely these guys. It's clear while Nick was Meh on KaBLam! after a while and kinda just.. gave up on it after the first season despite giving it three more, they LOVED Action League Now!

Action League Now! has a great setup: the characters are all action figures, whose world is integrated into ours: their soccer/football stadium is a game of fooseball, the couch is a canyon, and cars frequently run over our heroes as one of the most literal running gags i've ever seen. Action League Now! has a lot of clever world building and set design, using every part of the house and every household object possible to create it's world.. and mutilate it's characters.

Yeah Action League's other big hook is taking the hammer to it's main character.. and ceiling fan, rotating fan, waffle iron, lots of dropped objects, the same car over and over, and whatever else they can think up. How funny it is varies: when the show is being creative and using everything they can to attack our heroes, it's hilarious, comedy gold and great slapstick. But the show doe sfall back on "dropping things on them" or "running the characters over" at times , the same way. It just dosen't have the thrill of say, having Stinky Diver get eaten by a dog or melt man melted into a waffle. It's when the show puts some elbow grease into the slapstick and the world it's built that it's at it's best.

As for the in universe premise the setup is simple: The Action League are superheroes made up of random generic toys that a kid might have: The Flesh, a super strong, super naked and super dumb guy whose basically a stripped he man figure, Stinky Diver, an obnoxious asshole , diving expert and gi joe. Thunder Girl, she flies like thunder and is clearly a repurposed barbie style doll, and Meltman , a melted gi joe whose obnoxious as he is useless, and as a result gets most of the slapstick, which fills my heart with such joy. Suffer, suffer tiny melted man.

Helping them are the Chief, their boss and Bill, their lab guy. Well the Chief really just tells them to do stuff and berates them for being a cavelcade of Fuckups but someone has to.

The action leagues days are mostly spent opposing their arch enemy, the mayor, who has a unique weird raspy voice, kinda halfway to nixon, and is a delight as he comes up with various plans to kill our heroes and somehow hasn't been indicted.

Action League Now is not half bad. The animation style is unique, the cast, all from the radio show WDVE in Pittsburg is really dang good, my only real complaint is character wise the characters are mostly one gimmick. Stinky is an asshole who smells like one, The Flesh is stupid, Thunder Girl is constantly and rightfully shooting down melt man, and Melt Man sucks suprising no one. The show's creativity helps it along though ,as while most of the plots are stock, the sheer novelty keeps the show a humming and hopefully as we go we can see it evolve and really play with the brilliant setup it has here.

Road to Ruin: The Mayor drives around like an asshole and litters, fufilling his campaign promises but putting the world in jeapordy I guess Our heroes have to stop him and get hit by , run over by and generally futzed with by a car a lot. It was okay.

No Fly Zone: The Mayor squirts white Goo on thunder girl

This robs her of her powers just as the Mayor kidnaps some children to a bird house. This one was a lot of fun, from Thunder Girl trying to use ballons with Stinky naturally ruining it by harpooning her ballons, and the kids the mayor kidnaps because he has a quota of being an asshole to fufill by friday or his ass is on the line end up turning the tables.

The Wrath of Spotzilla: A two part adventure, and apparently the only two part short in Kablam! history. Granted every Action League Now! short is presented in two parts, but it's in the same episode. This is two diffrent shorts. Anyways an ancient moster, aka a cute doggo, is unleahsed and our heroes fail as usual. NOrmally if something has a dog in it it's automatically better and while Spotzilla dosen't hurt the episode they really dont 'do anything new in the "household animal is a threat to smaller creatures" concept. Or disaster movie parody. You wasted a dog Action League Now! Foreshame! Foreshame! Fore...

Nightmare on Memory Lane: This is a fun one: Meltman gets amnesia after he falls out a window, and needing a formula he stole from the mayor, the Action League tries to jog his memory.. by dropping things on top of him repeatedly while he reacts more bored than anything. IN other words this segment is pure comedy gold. Maybe it's the same reaction, maybe it's the carnage, maybe it's that I love to see meltman suffer.... we'll never know.

....

All of those things, it's all of those things.

Dog Day Afterschool: the mayor tries to shoot the Chiefs dog up into space.

So our heroes have to rescue him. As usual they fail kinda hard but he lands in the mayor's kitty pool hot tub so it's all good.. excep tfor the two women who were with him. I'm pretty sure they died as we never see them after the crash. People the Action League Have Murdered Somehow Count: 2

RoboFlesh: This is one of my faviorites of season 1, tied with one we'll get to soon. The Mayor decides to pull the old "evil clone" scheme, locking the flesh in a lunchbox with a deviled egg lure and debuting RoboFlesh... just as naked but with more bolts sticking out of his body, so .. sexier. And really RoboFlesh's deisgn is a major part of why I love this episode: jamming a bunch of screws into an action figure to make him an evil robot seems like something a kid would do, and as an added bonus NO ONE CAN TELL THEM APART. It's a classic evil twin joke sure, one is obvious.. but by making it THIS obvious, as well as having Robo Flesh have a robotic tin to his voice and you know, throw a cinderblock at the action league, it just ratchets it up. How they solve the dillema is also great.

Stinky Diver: I got this one. Hey stupid! The Flesh: Yes? Stinky Diver: That's him alright (Harpoons RoboFlesh into a blender)

IN the Belly of The Beast: The Mayor uses a vacum. This one dosen't suck, but it just may blow... it's average is what i'm saying. Good setup it just really doesn't use. It's also meltman centric. Though the rest of the team does mock him for trying ot be interim leader, so it at least has that.

Where Pidgeons Dare: My faviorite of the season, the premise is simple: the league has to guard the heirs to the queen of pidgeons. Instead of the mayor though the threat is our heroes are morons and the eggs keep getting destroyed. Also two kids steal one to throw it on the sidewalk while meltman tries to perform cpr. This one just has a LOT of good black comedy, and the ending twist, that they were somehow at the wrong nest, is great. As is meltman getting eaten by a snake.

Stink or Swim: Stinky has ptsd after his brother apparently drowned in a toilet. Everyone is a dick about him having ptsd. He manages to save everyone in the end. This one is alright.

Thunder and Lightning: The mayor dresses up as a new superheroine, lightning lady and upstages thunder girl. This one's okay, I do like how lightning lady uses various barbque related things to take out the boys, and how she smacks thunder girl with shrimp, but I have almost nothing else to say about this one. YOu've seen this plot before. Teen Titans did it better a decade later. Next.

Sinkhole of Doom; One of ALN's many pilots, Thundergirl has to rescue the mayor's hot son from a garbage disposal. Stinky Diver is a jealous douche. Thundergirl naturally chooses the mayor's son as unlike Meltman, his face is mangled but he still has a personality. And you know isn't meltman. A lot of great gags in this one, with both the use of the garbage disposal and most of our heroes getting caught on a ceiling fan.

Testimony of Terror: Another banger of a season finale, an obnoxious kid who was witness to the Mayor's crimes needs to be protected. Which crimes we don't know. Unfortunatley for our heroes the kid's abit of a monster and does creatively fucked up things from them, from putting stinky in a vcr which puts Stinky in the tv because science, to thunder girl getting bodied by a rotating fan, and of course my faviorite, meltman getting turned into a waffle. Naturally the kid also easily takes care of the mayor.. and then drops more shit on our heroes. Sounds like someone could easily win the recall election , eh kid. I mean it's clear the people of action league town lean right. Sociopathy is big in the party right now. not sure about 1993 but I like his chances. I don't really have a segue so...

Life With Loopy comes to us from Stephen Holman. Holman is an intensely weird and deeply fascinating man. Seriously I don't know what I was expecting on his KaBlam! wiki entry (Which by the by has been an invulable resource), but I wasn't expecting a performing artist who made short films, added live theater to them, and performed in venus across new york.

This does explain life with Loopy's unique style and blend of whatever styles holman could thrown in: Life with Loopy uses top motion puppets, but with flat magnetic heads to make expressions easier ot swap out. There's also live action charaters, hand puppets, and a general loose yet intreicatley built style I love about these shorts. They clearly took a lot of effort and Holman has my utter respect.

Life with Loopy came about because Holman pitched a diffrent short, meet the shrimpkins, to play between shows and during commericals, ala the adventures of pete and pete and ironically how Life with Loopy would be used later on Nicktoons. Nick wanted an animated segment with it and while Meet the Shrimpkins didn't go forward they loved said segment so much, Life with Loopy was added to KaBlam! and the rest is history.

Life With Loopy has a great setup: Larry, an 11 year old down to earth boy, relates the various misadventures of his sister Loopy, an energetic 7 year old. Each episode takes a problem a kid would have like not wanting to take a bath, loosing a goldfish or trying to get something from under the couch cushions and esclates it in glorious fashion: Loopy dosen't bathe for so long she grows a forest on her and becomes a national park, hearing the toilet leads to goldfish heaven leads to loopy traveling there, and the couch cushions lead to an underground world where various junk is smelted to power the earth's core. It's all insane, it's all insanely creative, and it's all wonderful. I dickered on if this was my faviorite or not.. but yeah, Life with Loopy is easily my favorite of the recurring segments, though Snizz and Fondue and the Off Beats both come close. But you just can't match this one for i'ts creatvitiy, unqiue style and heart. Loopy is endearing and relatable all at once and you can't help but root for her in whatever she's gotten into.

Hi-Fi Frankenstein: Larry is busy with a punk phase, calling people goobers while singing Beef Steak, great band name and as a nice touch the poster for Beefsteak is in the background of larry's room for the rest of the shorts, so Loopy does what any kid would do: she builds a robot out of an old stero. Robo-Larry is fine at first, but turns out to have gone all Ultron on the poor girl and wants to conquer the world for appliances. It's a great start for these shorts (not THE start but we'll get to that), a fun premise, and a sweet ending with Larry realizing how lonely his sister was and assuring her she's got him.

Trouble with Inflation: This one has another relatable premise: Loopy and Larry's easing going dad only gets mad at one thing. BILLS. BILLS BILLS BILLS. So Loopy wants to stop the mailman from delivering them. She tries being nice to the guy to stop delivering bills, then decides to just turn the house into a balloon. And in her defense while most mail carriers are just people trying to do thier job, this guy is a stone faced dick who just HAS to announce Loopy's dad got bills and creates a fucking sky bicycle.. which while impressive is still a dick move just to deliver a man bills.

The resolution is deeply sweet though: Loopy can't stop the bills, a fairly mature resolution.. so she just sends her dad a letter encouraging him and telling her she loves him instead.

Egghead: This one I remembered simply for it's unique puppet: Loopy is told, jokingly, that if she eats too many eggs, she'll become one. And sure enough this actually comes true and Larry, left babysitting loopy, has to keep a giant chicken from trying to hatch her. This one would be great enough for the egg puppet and utterly weird, even for this show, premise, but we also have a delightfully off exteriminator guy who can't help because there's a man sized giant mantis in his office he has to deal with.

Back To Nature: This one seemed pretty inocious for this show: Loopy refuses to bathe because "i'll just get dirty again" and in a rarity for this show her parents DO still try to get her to shower. Normally they just roll with whatever she's doing this week, which is adorable. They don't care if they end up in the sky, their daughter means well dang it. Her dad telling her she has to bathe as long as she's under his roof lead sto her camping outside and being declared a national park, easily my faviorite joke of this season of shorts. I had to pause for a moment because it's just.. so dang weird. And the fact THAT'S what gets her to bathe as the idea of tourists around her terrifies her? *chef's kiss*

Lunar Loopy: Another favorite of mine. Loopy wants to meet the man in the moon. We also get the first hint Larry has a scientific bent as he feels one isn't there due to science. Naturally he dosen't realize what show he's on and Loopy lassos luna to earth to prove her point. WE also get an utterly adorable moon dance party with the two. We also do have a man in the moon making shadowpuppets, a very weird man played byu the guy from the egghead short, now as an astronaut who got left behind by nasa and is greatful he can get off the moon, which loopy thankfully puts back before the earth is destroyed. A charming, wonderfully mellow short.

Goop on the Loose: Larry tries to figure out just the right goop for his hair while a can of mystery goop in the cabin turns into a gremlin. Loopy tries hunting it.. onlyf or the thing to abscond with her dad's wart. Also we get way too many shots of that wart. I do like the reveal the gremlin is made of wart remover.. and they got married in vegas. Good for them.

Goldfish Heaven: This one is the series actual pilot, with a slightly rougher style but I saw this one a lot as kid and love it dearly. So Loopy's goldfish dies and is flushe down the toilet. Being told this is goldfish heaven, she decides to travel there for closure, building an adorable goldfish suit. While a goldfish friend of her goldfish is a prick about it, her goldfish is fine with giving her closure and it's all very sweet. Also the design of goldfish heaven, essentially a giant fish tank is amazing as are the goldfish puppets. Great stuff.

Mother-Nature Bowl Off: Loopy's mom makes the mistake of telling her summer rain is just mother nature bowling, so Loopy goes ten rounds with her. I like the resolution: We know from the wraparound i'ts still raining so we assume Loopy looses.. but no she dosen't. Mother nature is just a sore looser. She's also kinda obnoxious making this my least favorite short of this batch, but it's still charming as usual. A meh life with loopy short is STILL a life with loopy short.

Mom's Mystery Casserole: Another faviorite of mine. Mom makes a weird cassarole every friday and after refusing to tell her kids what's in it, which I'm certain is against the Geneva Convention but whateves, Loopy sneaks into her moms cabinet and finds out it's fish sauce.. complete with a neat looking fish king inside. How she wins is also fun as the cans try to can her, only for Loopy to point out the fish sauce is terrible, the cans realize they have a bad rep and silence him

Revolutions Loopy Has Caused Count: 1

20,000 Leagues Under the Sofa: Larry looses his baseball in the cushions, and it turns out weird, cool looking molemen are smelting various things to power the earth's core. I just.. love the concept here.. as well as Loopy understandably shoving the ball in his face after he complains it's singed given she BARELY got it out from an incenerator. A solid end to a magical season

Promethus and Bob comes to us from Cote Zellers, who has a background in commericals, which tracks given P and B's short run times and simple premise: an alien came to earth in caveman times to teach a caveman how to do things from our modern society and presumibly his advaned one. He usually fails, often thanks to an asshole bastard butt monkey that's around. This is apparently his job.

Zellers pitched the idea to nick, though the original pitch was apparently much darker and involved Bob killing and eating promethus...

Yeah I didn't want to know that either but we're both stuck with that knoweldge. Nick liked the basic concept but asked him to tone it down.

Animation wise P and B is gorgeous, having beautiful claymation models with the two leads having just the best designs, Promethus having an emaciated, skinny look that feels utterly ailen while bob is more chonky and relatable. Like me. Monkey.. is a monkey.

P and B was amixed bag for me as the early shorts got pretty repettitive with only wheel standing out. However as I wrote this I found the later shorts.. are really damn funny. I enjoyed them at the time and it's clear Zellers realized they were getting sdamey and thus starts finding creative new ways to do the joke, with the presentation matching. This short went from a part of the episode I dreaded to a fun addition as anything else, and I look forward to seeing what these two doofuses have next.

Bowling: Okay admitely while i'm lukewarm on these shorts... even i'm not so stonehearted as to not love an alien teaching a caveman bowling. I'm not made of stone. I don't really remember this one but it gets a pass on the concept.

Wheel: This is a fun one as Prometheus instructs bob on the wheel and he naturally goofs on it. Clothes: Bob wears a vest.... it looks good on him and it's fun to see bob in a vest. That's all I got.

Music: Prometheus tries to teach Bob Music. This sure did happen.

Fishing: Prometheus teaches bob to fish. He eats for zero days.

Bridge: this is a fun one as it's less about "oh stupid caveman can't do people things", and more Prometheus simply mangles the lesson. He tries to teach Bob how to cross a bridge.. but uses a log, which isn't ideal for it and is less convent than bob just jumping to the other side. We also get a really fun bit of the two rolling on the long. Good stuff and what the series can be at it's best.

Shelter: This is another fun one as Promethus tries to teach bob to use a tent, wtih Bob trying to use shelter. Maybe I like these more than I thought. I love how both end up blowing away. The show really seems to work better when it's more character based, which yes both of them are silent but the puppets convey such energy and character.

Cooking: My second faviorite, Promethus tries to teach bob to cook.. and eventually gives up and just goofs around till his superior shows up and is an asshole about it. It's nice to both see WHY Prometheus is so uptight, he has to do this for work, and see him just.. have fun with bob instead of trying to force feed a lesson he's clearly not getting.

Kite: They fly a kite. That's about it.

Say it with me now They nervous, they nebbish, they small, and the Populars don't like 'em at all. But that's ok, life is sweet. They cool. They the Off-Beats...

The Off-Beats comes from Mo Willems who , out of the creators of these shorts is easily the most prollefic. He always loved animation, having drawn a cartoon a day while traveling the world, and making a successful name for himself on Seasame Street before making the Off-Beats for Nickelodeons. Starting out as "the Misfits" before the name was changed for legal reason, the Off-beats was originally a between commericals segment , something I remember as a kid, before becoming part of Ka-Blam!. Willems would go on to Cartoon Network making the short lived Sheep in the Big city, which I barely remember but do remember liking as a kid, and , to my shock, being the showrunner for Kids Next door's first four seasons. So yeah Mo was responsible for making one of my faviorite shows what it was, and then went on to do childrens books because he's a neat dude.

The Off Beats is essentially the early charlie brown specials mixed with some psychedelic minimalist backgrounds and some hope. It's not to say Peanuts lacks hope. As a huge fan of it, there's plenty of nice moments of kindness, camaraderie and snoopy's awkward teenage nephew

But the 60's era stuff Off-beats takes from had a nice heaping helping of

Charles Schultz did not pull punches at how cruel life, and especially kids would be: Charlie Brown rarely won, Linus was mocked for believing in the great pumpkin and patting birds on the head, Lucy once threw linus out for a period in the 70s, Peppermint Patty is deeply insecure. Even into the 90's there's a whole arc about Marcy's parents overly pressuring her. These kids went through it.

WIth the Off Beats while their still bullied by the populars, they have each other and have less brutal honesty with one another than the peanuts gang. Their just four pretty wholesome kids who happen to be kinda weird. WE have Betty Anne Bongo, a beatnik born thirty years too late (Played by Mischa Barton of all people), Tommy, a pretty mellow charlie brown looking kid who will snap at you at the drop of a hat. And he has a pretty sweet hat. Repunzil who has long hair, and the duo of August and September. August is a nerdy inventor kid who makes wacky inventions, and September is his dog, who replaces snoopy's whimsy and lack of awarness for anything going on with a dry wit and a desire to be left the hell alone, but a willigness to help in a pinch.

The Off Beats is a lot of fun. Granted as a peanuts fan, this is like catnip to me as it's a well done pastiche that gets what Schultz was going for but still makes it it's own, so i'm biased, but it's a well animated, charming mellow little piece unlike everything else. While the rest of the KaBlam! shorts are good, all of them have that manic 90's energy to them in some level. The Off-Beats is very much it's own weird thing and I wish it'd gotten it's own series, it's that good. it did get a valentine's special to add to my jumbly collection of KaBlam odds and ends I need to look at at some point after this retrosepctive, so that's nice.

The Robodog: September takes a day off so August decides to make hi m jealous with a robot dog that plays 4 ever. You can see where this is going

Okay not THAT far, but the dog does want to play and play an dplay, with August learning his lesson and September making the robot a ro-boy to play with. A charming if bizzare choice of start as it dosen't really.. introduce any other cast members of feature them.

Too Much Attention for September: This is a wholesome, fun little short. September just ants to take off a nap and blows off August to hang out in his flying machine. This ends up going badly as every other off beat gets getting in his face in teh way a kid would: betty anne wants him to "take it", Repunzil won't stop petting him and Tommy yells at him for not going bow wow. Thankfully his owner has a flying machine so we get a nice ending of September and August taking off into the sky.

Betty Anne's Glasses: The first one actually involving the populars. They cameo in Robodog but dont' really do anything there. Here their leader steals Betty Anne's glasses so we get hyjinks as they half assedly hide them. August also makes a device to find them but as it points out, is too chicken to actually confront the populars. Thankfully they all dress up like the president, easily my faviorite bit of the short as all September (making up the head) has to do is say he's from washington for them to buy it. The best of the best.

Surprising Shorts is any non main segment on KaBlam for season 1. I don't know if this holds for season 2 onward, but i'll likely be keeping the suprising shorts titlecard. These are the odds and ends, mostly pilots for shows. It's also one of the main reasons KaBlam is in copyright hell: see at least two shorts got picked up, one set, lava, was only leased out temproarily, and in general if an episode is missing from Paramount+ , it's usually due to one of these. Why they can't just edit the episode to remove the coming up things featuring them, I don't know.

Lava: A series of abstract shorts from french animator Fredrico Vitali. I.. don't have much to say about these. Their well animated but their also only 30 seconds and while this review has proven I love weird shit.. this is a bit much even for me with one short having a cat fly through space and then into the unvierse inside a dog's anus

Not bad, just not for me

Anemia and Iodine: My faviorite of these, it's a pilot for a story about two best friends: The chalky faced cat anemia and her.. whatever she is best friend iodine who along with Anemia's brother Dropsy go to an old house to find a cat ghost. Ther'es a really nice adam's family style quality with Anemia I love. The short oozes spooky charm, is fun and the twist ending of the cat they find being the ghost is all kinds of neat. The only thing I really don't like is Dropsy, who gets VERY grating despite the shorts runtime. Why Nick didn't pick this up, I really don't know.

Angela Anaconda: yes THAT angela anconda. This series getting picked up by Fox Kids is one of the main reasons you don't see it here. For those less familiar, Angela Anaconda is a slice of life sitcom using yearbook photos and clipart to tell the tales of her, angela and not nanette nanoir, Angela's smug arch enemy. I thought the series was fine as a kid, but these shorts ar ekinda rough> The art style isn't quite polished yet so it just looks offputting and it's mostly just Angela's habit of elaborate revnege fantasies on her enemies, from murdering nanette for getting her barred from the class picnic to fore marrying nanette to johnny abotti after Johnny picks nanette over her and gives her the valentine Angela made and okay maybe that last one's justifable homicide. Bobs Burgers would do this exact same plot better, but it's still not a bad pilot and gets the series across. Glad this one go tpicked up, not so glad nick apparently REALLY can't learn how to just edit these shorts out the way they did lava.

The Louie and Louie Show: This one has great leads, a chameleon named Louie (played by Jim Belushi) and Louie the hamster played by Billy West, who was nick's best boy at the time. It's a aweird duo but it works. the problem is the short.. just dosen't really work for me as the whole premise is the two want to be loved. That's it. The dog gets love but the family present just seems to neglect them and gets mad when , shockity shock, two neglected pets escape because they want attention. It's just way too mean spirited for me. Creator Gary Baseman WOULD go on to make Teachers Pet at least.. and also has a whole abstract art career so there's that.

So with that we've finally worked through the mountain of shorts for this season. But rather than leave it there i've decided in the spirit of the season finale for this season that for each of these reviews i'm proud to present

The Kablammy Awards

For these I'm picking the best short from each recurrnig series, the best of the various startling shorts, and the best short overall from the winners. It's just me.. which already makes it more reliable than the oscars. let's begin

Best Sniz and Fondue Short: Stuntbike Sniz. Second Hand Sniz was close, but this one just has so much goofy charm to it and that your the inspiration gag is an all timer.

Best Action League Now! Short: Testiomony of Terror just inches out Where Pidgeons dare. While I like WPD a lot.. Testimony of Terror just has so much clever carnage, a neat premise and a fun ending.

Best Life with Loopy Short: This was a hard one, with the Front Runners being Lunar Loopy, Mom's Mystery Cassarole and 20,000 Leagues under the sofa. But in the end I have to give it to Lunar Loopy for it's fun take on the " man in the moon, gorgeous visuals and wonderful little dance scene.

Prometheus and Bob: It's log , it's log it's big it's heavy it's wood. It's Log, it's Log it's better than bad it's good.

The Off-Beats: Betty-Ann's Glasses. All hail presdient September

Startling Shorts: Anemia and Iodine. It's not even close. None of the other shorts are horrible but none have this one's unique art style or charm.

Kablamiest Overall Short: It was down to Anemia and Iodine, Lunar Loopy and Betty Anne's glasses for this one but the winner issssss

Betty Anne's Glasses! Congrats. The president bit, as wellas how obviously bad the Populars are at hiding said glasses, wins this one the prize. Congrats off beats.

For now it's time to sign off kablmoids. There will be a look at season 2 next month, same kablam time, same kablam blog. Until next time, thanks for reading.

#kablam #nickelodeon #nicktoons #life with loopy #sniz and fondue #the off beats #Prometheus and bob #angela anaconda #henry and june #cartoons #90s #animated #variety

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pyshechkapushkova · 8 months

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Can anyone recall this one Catriona scene where Alan says one more goodbye to David? WELL, have anyone ever payed any attention to

“I have a tryst to keep,” I continued. “I am trysted with your cousin Charlie; I have passed my word.” “Braw trysts that you’ll can keep,” said Alan. “Ye’ll just mistryst aince and for a’ with the gentry in the bents. And what for?” he went on with an extreme threatening gravity. “Just tell me that, my mannie! Are ye to be speerited away like Lady Grange? Are they to drive a dirk in your inside and bury ye in the bents? Or is it to be the other way, and are they to bring ye in with James? Are they folk to be trustit? Would ye stick your head in the mouth of Sim Fraser and the ither Whigs?” he added with extraordinary bitterness. “Alan,” cried I, “they’re all rogues and liars, and I’m with ye there. The more reason there should be one decent man in such a land of thieves! My word is passed, and I’ll stick to it. I said long syne to your kinswoman that I would stumble at no risk. Do ye mind of that?—the night Red Colin fell, it was. No more I will, then. Here I stop. Prestongrange promised me my life: if he’s to be mansworn, here I’ll have to die.” “Aweel aweel,” said Alan.

SCENE?

And it is followed by Alan's attempt to get David with him and David's refusing, AND THE POINT IS THAT ALAN SILENTLY AGREES WITH HIM ANS SAYS NOTHING MORE

HE LITERALLY LEAVES HIS BEST (ONLY) FRIEND IN THE COUNTRY WHERE HE IS AN OUTLAW, MAKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH A GIRL WHO'S FATHER IS AN OUTLAW, BEING READY TO GET KILLED BY OUTLAWS WHO ARE PAYED BY LAWYERS

AND FOR HIM "No Aln I'll not go wth u I have a grlfrnd' IS WAY MORE SERIOUS THAN FACT THAT DAVID CAN DIE

FOR HIM DAVID'S DECISION MATTERS MORE

IT'S SUCH A HIGH DEGREE OF TRUST

...

And actually he is kinda ready for David's death, so probably all the time Davie didn't write to him he thought that he was dead because there was nobody to tell him it but David...

HE IS READY FOR HIS DEATH

HE IS READY FOR JAMES'S DEATH TOO

WAIT IT'S GETTING MORE SERIOUS THAN I THOUGHT

#nice thoughts during you morning cup of tea #at half past six in the morning #i'm really sad that catriona doesn't get any attention #my second favourite scene is the moment when david gives catriona flower idk why #MAYBE i'm overthinking and rls just got bored writing #похищенный стивенсон #русский фандом похищенного живите пжшки #kidnapped stevenson #alan breck stewart #david balfour #дэвид бэлфур #kidnapped rls #алан брек стюарт

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loveforpreserumsteve · 1 year

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Together Forever: "ALN" Story (Pre-Serum Omega!Steve and Alpha!Bucky Modern Domestic AU)

Six:

Lips on lips. Lips on jaws. Lips on necks. Kissing lower and lower, Steve felt weak in the knees, and it definitely wasn't because of his osteoarthritis.

Distracted by where Bucky's lips moved along his skin, Steve had even more difficulty with the dumb key card to their hotel room. Not that that stopped Bucky from torturing his husband in the sweetest of ways. But really why was it so fucking difficult to get into a hotel ro–

GREEN!

Pushing the door open to their honeymoon suite, Steve turned and pulled the alpha into the room. Instantly, Bucky kicked the door shut behind himself before pouncing on his husband. Forgetting all about his cane, Bucky wrapped Steve up in his arms and immediately started kissing the petite omega. Surprising a moan from Steve as the alpha hungrily kissed him.

"God, you're gorgeous," Bucky complimented, gazing affectionately and lustfully down at Steve.

Standing on his tiptoes, Steve kissed his husband. Even fifty years later, Steve couldn't help but feel all that excitement he had the first time they had stayed in a honeymoon suite.

When they pulled back from the kiss to catch their breath, they leaned forward to rest their foreheads against one another's. They only took a moment though before Bucky started pressing kisses to Steve's temple, along his jaw, and down the column of his neck. Nuzzling at the spot where the mating bite was hidden beneath Steve's shirt.

Wrapping his hand around the back of Steve's neck, Bucky passionately kissed him. Using the moan to his advantage as he licked into Steve's mouth. Steve was positive that he'd never get used to this. Never get used to Bucky's love and devotion to him. Damn near worshipping Steve. It might've been over fifty years since that fateful night, but every time that Bucky kissed him felt like the first time all over again.

Moving to the bed, the pair eased their way onto it, and subsequently onto the artificial gold rose petals. From there, they started to wrestle out of their suits. In between removing their items of clothing, they found time to giggle and share sweet kisses.

As Bucky started to remove his slacks, Steve noticed a flash of color and stopped him. Giving the alpha's chest a shove so the man would stand up straight. Once he did, a blush colored the alpha's face. Meanwhile Steve leaned back, ready for a show.

"C'mon now, honey," Steve encouraged, "Let me see what you're hiding."

Blushing a deep scarlet, Bucky hesitated, "You're not gonna laugh?"

"James Buchanan," Steve defended himself, "When – in the last fifty years – have I laughed at you in bed?"

"I'm sure I could think of a few times," Bucky feigned thought.

Playfully, Steve rolled his eyes and gestured for him to continue. The man was already half-dressed for fuck's sake, the least he could do was get on with it.

Switching up his tactic, Steve asked, "Please? For me? For your dear old, devoted husband?"

"Okay," Bucky caved. Amending, "But don't laugh. I was just trying to... spice things up."

And while they occasionally tried new things in the bedroom, they were easy to please, and didn't necessarily need that extra oomph to get off. However, when Bucky unzipped his slacks, revealing a sliver of delicate gold satin. Steve's heart started beating double time. He now understood why Bucky liked it when he wore lingerie. Because fuck, what a sight!

Emboldened by the lust overflowing throughout the bond and the way that Steve's arousal thickened the air around them, Bucky pulled his slacks down. Completely revealing the gold satin bikini panties, Bucky stood a little taller. Growing more confident in his decision to wear the lingerie as Steve stared hungrily at him.

Instantly, Steve got back to disrobing himself. So turned on was he that he felt as though just one touch from his mate could send him over the precipice. Before he could though, Steve reached forward to pull Bucky closer. Once the alpha's groin was eyelevel with Steve's face, the omega leaned forward.

Mouthing along the outline of the hard cock hidden beneath the confines of the gold satin panties, Steve enthusiastically teased his husband. Bucky tipped his head back as a guttural groan ripped through him.

Pleasure coursed through the bond from both ends, and Bucky moved back, just out of reach. Steve's brows furrowed, but Bucky explained, "I don't wanna come like this."

Biting back his grin, Steve watched as his mate pulled down the lingerie and kicked them to the side with the rest of their clothes. On his part, Steve slid back, moving to the center of the bed as he watched Bucky grab the bottle of apple flavored lube from their overnight bag and toss it onto the bed beside Steve.

Climbing over Steve's petite frame, Bucky made sure to kiss all of the skin that he could until they were face-to-face. Lingering, of course, along the hard length of Steve's erection. Doling out some of his own delicious form of payback. Not that Steve would complain. In fact, he wished that it had lasted longer.

"So incredible," Bucky said in all the awe and wonder of a newlywed. "So, so incredible. Don't know how a schmuck like me got lucky with a looker like you."

Steve shook his head, ready to deny the claim. But when he felt the slick tip of Bucky's finger circle his hole, he lost all thought. Moaning instead and pushing himself down to try and get the finger further. Bucky was a god damn tease and took a moment longer to draw out the act.

"God, I've never wanted anyone more than you," Bucky complimented, closing the gap between them so he could passionately kiss his husband. Because it didn't matter how old they were or what life threw their way, Bucky would still want Steve just as much as when they first got together. Maybe even more now than back then.

While Steve nibbled on Bucky's lower lip, the alpha circled the omega's puckered hole. Waiting until the furrowed muscle slackened enough to take the full length of his middle finger. Steve couldn't help but loudly moan as he shoved his head back into the pillow, arching up into his mate.

Bucky took his time opening Steve up. Really indulging on all of the sweet sounds that came out of his omega. First with one finger and then two. And after that, it didn't take much convincing on Steve's part to receive more with a third thick finger.

"C'mon," Steve whined, urging Bucky to hurry the fuck up and fuck him already. After all, they weren't getting any younger.

"Fifty years together and you're still just as impatient and just as bossy," Bucky joked, but did take a moment to slick his cock up.

Lining himself up with Steve's prepared hole, Bucky gave him a dopey grin. Steve couldn't help but return the grin before raising his head so he could slowly lick into the alpha's mouth. As Bucky tenderly pushed into his husband, Steve couldn't help but gasp at the feel of that hard cock entering him. Easily as taken by the sensation, Bucky rested his forehead against Steve's. Both men panting as Bucky bottomed out.

Taking a moment to just feel, their lips brushed along each other's. Steve let his hands slide down Bucky's back until he reached the man's bum. There, he grasped those cheeks that still got him going just looking at them, and gave them a squeeze. Silently requesting his husband to start moving. Thankfully, that was exactly what the older man did.

The pair rocked together with slow, deep thrusts. Making a point with each second of their love making because neither one could fully believe that they had each other. That they still had each other. That they would always have each other. Because not even death could tear them apart. Steve wouldn't let it.

Mouths practically glued together the entire time as they grunted and whimpered, moving in tandem. And while Bucky had stopped knotting as often as he did in his youth, he still felt the need to change his tactics. Grinding low and dirty while holding his weight on the prosthetic hand so he could slip his other between them to wrap around Steve's cock. There was only one goal on Bucky's sex-addled mind: make Steve come.

"Gon-gonna come," Steve babbled in his pleasure. "Fuck, gonna, gonna come."

Bucky's hand worked harder, faster. Pulling back enough to look down at his husband, Bucky affectionately kissed Steve's temple before nuzzling the crook of his neck. Just like he had all those years ago when he first gave that bond bite.

Fitting his teeth over the scar, Bucky gave the slightest of pressure. Only enough to push on the scent gland, causing Steve to gasp and come. While Steve's clear omega climax coated their torsos, his hole spasmed, milking Bucky's orgasm out of the alpha.

After taking a moment to lave at the long-ago created scar, Bucky kissed up the column of Steve's neck until he reached the omega's good ear. There, the alpha softly sang their song. And just like the first time they had sang it together, Steve couldn't help but join him.

"'Cause I know in my heart babe," Bucky started.

"Our love will never die," Steve finished.

Giggling, the two men pulled back so they could clean up the mess they made. Sharing kisses here and there as they got ready for bed. Climbing into bed under the clean crisp sheets, they settled the way they always did, spooning each other.

With Bucky's arm draped along Steve's midsection, Steve laced their fingers together, giving the alpha's hand a comforting squeeze. After feeling the kiss on the back of his neck, Steve turned his head, silently requesting a kiss to his lips. Bucky, just as always, was more than happy to oblige.

The night ended with a kiss.

The end

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thewiglesswonder · 2 years

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question 4 and 39 for your boys aln and rak please!

4 - First impression of each other? Was it love at first sight?

Hmm, this one’s a bit of a toughie: in the CofC universe, they met as children. While certainly not love at first sight, they got along well and were very quickly inseparable friends. As a little one, Rak thought his new friend was funny, very green, and seemed a little scared, but he was more than happy to help with that. Little Aln thought his new friend was sharp in the way that the edge of a big stack of papers was, very red, and who did the thing that not a lot of others did: listened to him.

39 - Who initiated the relationship? Who kissed who first? When did they realize they were in love?

Theirs was very much of an extremely gradual fall in love. Slowest friends to lovers route that could have been taken. They realized it around the same time, privately, independently after a series of especially sweet moments shared, sending each into their own “wait a minute-“ spiral. Rak confessed first, but Aln was the one who seized the collar of his robe and dragged him in for a kiss.

#I hardly ever get asks about my boys thank you so much!#asks #cofc #rakiem skairth #alnard seeks

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ffa07aa · 2 months

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didn't expected to people to like my cowboy-vampire ff7 au? hi? maybe if you have any questions and suggestions about it you can send me something in my ask... i would like to draw more of it but i'm too busy to do it rn 'cause of study and future market.... (but if you give me right ideas I WILL DRAW IT--)

fun fact btw. i saw people writing under my recent ff15 drawing that they would love to see them as stickers. indeed, they where drawn as a stickers and i also did this little keychains with main party charas :D but i can't sell my things overseas so. no stickers and charms for you :( but i will show photos of results hehe

#aln's thoughts #new hashtag for my shitposts... i hope i'm not afraid to post here anymore #my english grammar is so so bad. i'm really sorry if it's hard to understand me sometimes and i make basic mistakes.#i can read and translate texts and audios freely but speaking and writing makes me feel SICK #sorry once again haha

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thecrazyworldbuilder · 2 years

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Some onomastics idk

Had an idea of making an onomasticon made from the most frequent letters in English

Those would be EAOITNSHR

But I thought, "Hey, that's not much of a variation is it?"

So I looked up the most frequent bigrams and trigrams in English, extending the whole thing to this: The And Tha Ent Ing Ion Tio For Nde Has Nce Edt Tis Oft Sth Men Th He In Er An Re Nd At On Nt Ha Es St En Ed To It Ou Ea Hi Is Or Ti As Te Et Ng Of Al De Se Le Sa Si Ar Ve Ra Id Ur T N S H R E A O I

Then I thought "Why not make a list of all possible bigraphemic names? So to GenWord I went and with some magic I did the thing*

So here are all possible "names" consisting of maximum two graphemes shown above:

Ade Ah Aha Ahas Ahe Ahi Al Ale Alh Alhas Almen Aln Alnd Alng Alnt Alr Als Alst Alsth Alt Alth Altis Amen An Ance And Ande Andh Andhas Andmen Andn Andnd Andng Andnt Andr Ands Andst Andsth Andt Andth Andtis Ang Anh Anhas Anmen Ann Annd Anng Annt Anr Ans Anst Ansth Ant Anth Antis Ar Ara Are Arh Arhas Armen Arn Arnd Arng Arnt Arr Ars Arst Arsth Art Arth Artis As Asa Ase Ash Ashas Asi Asmen Asn Asnd Asng Asnt Asr Ass Asst Assth Ast Asth Astis At Ate Ath Atha Athas Athe Ati Atio Atis Atmen Atn Atnd Atng Atnt Ato Atr Ats Atst Atsth Att Atth Attis Ave De Eade Eah Eaha Eahas Eahe Eahi Eale Eamen Ean Eance Eand Eande Eang Eant Ear Eara Eare Eas Easa Ease Easi East Easth Eat Eate Eath Eatha Eathe Eati Eatio Eatis Eato Eave Ed Ede Edh Edhas Edmen Edn Ednd Edng Ednt Edr Eds Edst Edsth Edt Edth Edthas Edtis Edtmen Edtn Edtnd Edtng Edtnt Edtr Edts Edtst Edtsth Edtt Edtth Edttis Eh Eha Ehas Ehe Ehi Ele Emen En Ence End Ende Eng Enh Enhas Enmen Enn Ennd Enng Ennt Enr Ens Enst Ensth Ent Enth Enthas Entis Entmen Entn Entnd Entng Entnt Entr Ents Entst Entsth Entt Entth Enttis Er Era Ere Erh Erhas Ermen Ern Ernd Erng Ernt Err Ers Erst Ersth Ert Erth Ertis Es Esa Ese Esh Eshas Esi Esmen Esn Esnd Esng Esnt Esr Ess Esst Essth Est Esth Estis Et Ete Eth Etha Ethas Ethe Eti Etio Etis Etmen Etn Etnd Etng Etnt Eto Etr Ets Etst Etsth Ett Etth Ettis Eve Ha Hasa Hase Hasea Hasi Haso Hasou He Hea Hi Ho Hou Id Ide Idh Idhas Idmen Idn Idnd Idng Idnt Idr Ids Idst Idsth Idt Idth Idtis Ih Iha Ihas Ihe Ihi Ile Imen In Ince Ind Inde Ing Ingh Inghas Ingmen Ingn Ingnd Ingng Ingnt Ingr Ings Ingst Ingsth Ingt Ingth Ingtis Inh Inhas Inmen Inn Innd Inng Innt Inr Ins Inst Insth Int Inth Intis Ion Ionh Ionhas Ionmen Ionn Ionnd Ionng Ionnt Ionr Ions Ionst Ionsth Iont Ionth Iontis Ir Ira Ire Is Isa Ise Ish Ishas Isi Ismen Isn Isnd Isng Isnt Isr Iss Isst Issth Ist Isth Istis It Ite Ith Itha Ithas Ithe Iti Itio Itis Itmen Itn Itnd Itng Itnt Ito Itr Its Itst Itsth Itt Itth Ittis Ive Le Mena Mene Menea Meni Meno Menou Na Nce Nda Nde Ndea Ndi Ndo Ndou Ne Nea Nga Nge Ngea Ngi Ngo Ngou Ni No Nou Nta Nte Ntea Nti Nto Ntou Ode Of Ofh Ofhas Ofmen Ofn Ofnd Ofng Ofnt Ofr Ofs Ofst Ofsth Oft Ofth Ofthas Oftis Oftmen Oftn Oftnd Oftng Oftnt Oftr Ofts Oftst Oftsth Oftt Oftth Ofttis Oh Oha Ohas Ohe Ohi Ole Omen On Once Ond Onde Ong Onh Onhas Onmen Onn Onnd Onng Onnt Onr Ons Onst Onsth Ont Onth Ontis Or Ora Ore Orh Orhas Ormen Orn Ornd Orng Ornt Orr Ors Orst Orsth Ort Orth Ortis Os Osa Ose Osi Ost Osth Ot Ote Oth Otha Othe Oti Otio Otis Oto Oude Ouh Ouha Ouhas Ouhe Ouhi Oule Oumen Oun Ounce Ound Ounde Oung Ount Our Oura Oure Ous Ousa Ouse Ousi Oust Ousth Out Oute Outh Outha Outhe Outi Outio Outis Outo Ouve Ove Ra Re Rea Ri Ro Rou Sa Se Sea Si So Sou Sta Ste Stea Stha Sthe Sthea Sthi Stho Sthou Sti Sto Stou Ta Te Tea Tha The Thea Thi Tho Thou Ti Tio Tisa Tise Tisea Tisi Tiso Tisou To Tou Ur Urh Urhas Urmen Urn Urnd Urng Urnt Urr Urs Urst Ursth Urt Urth Urtis Ve

Some of them are quite unpronounceable but anyways.

Here's the GenWord settings for this:

--CATEGORIES-- A=eaoiOE B=tnshrHTSMтNнсг C=1234567890ЙЦУКЕНГШЩЗХЪФЫ D=ВАПРОЛДЖЭЯЧСМИТЬБЮю --REWRITE-- O||ou E||ea H||has T||tis S||sth M||men т||th N||nd н||nt с||st г||ng 1||and 2||ent 3||ing 4||ion 5||edt 6||oft 7||in 8||er 9||an 0||at Й||on Ц||es У||en К||ed Е||it Н||is Г||or Ш||as Щ||et З||of Х||al Ъ||ar Ф||id Ы||ur В||the А||tha П||tio Р||nde О||nce Л||he Д||re Ж||ha Э||to Я||hi Ч||ti С||te М||de И||se Т||le Ь||sa Б||si Ю||ve ю||ra --MONO--

--MID--

--INIT-- AB BA CB AD C D --FINAL--

--FLAGS-- 1 0 monoRare dropoffSlow --ADVANCED-- 10 50 750 30 ||

#onomastics #naming #names #fantasy names #name generator #onomasticon

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noahs-worldxd · 2 years

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‘ Wait what did she say?’ Momo thought.

“ you guys are not very good at whispering.” Todoroki spoke up walking out of the hallway. The next day Soto and Momo hug out. ‘ Ive never had a friend before, but.. With her it feels….. Different.’ Shoto though as she read jokes from a book out loud. Later that day momo knocked on Shoto’s door. No replie. She opened the door. Shoto was laying on his bed with now exsprshion staring at the ceiling.

“ Please leave.” He said. ‘ did i do something rong?’ Momo though to herself.

“ Totoroki, what happened.” she asked.

“ Please…. Leave.” he repeated.’ damn why did i say that? Thats the opposit of what i want.’ Shoto though. Momo shuffled her way out the door. Shoto placed a hand on his scar on his left side.

“ You did this, Endeavour, you bastard.” he said. Fro the next several day they did speack. Shot seemed he was not bothered, but he hated it.Shoto layed on his bed. His tie loosed and his jacket thrown on the floor. He managed to have one alone time with momo but they didnt say anything so she left him there like a fish gasping for air, wall water.’ Such a coward.’ He thought.Momo never left his mind.’ why is she so important to me?’ He thought. Hten it dawned on his. He slid down the halls down to moms room he knocked on the door. No reply. Before he could knock again the door swung open.

“ Can i help you?’ A tired Momo asked she had bags under her eyes, her hair was down.

“ UH…” ‘ what is this i never get nervous.’

“ My father called me and left me in a bad mood. Im sorry i got mad at you.” He appologized.

“ Oh… its ok Todoroki.” She smiled her tired face brightened.

“ Dont call me that.” He said.Momos eyes lit up. Her reaction was abol for him to crack a little smirk. Momo and Todoroki sat in her room. They talked about almost everything and anything.

“ Your hair is quite long.” She observed.” Do you ever put it up?’

“ No.” he answered. Momo slid off a hair tie from her wrist, and smiled.

“ Sure.” Stoto sighed. Assuming she was going to ask. Momo sat behind him and slid his hair back into a short, stubbed ponytail, Nock, nock. Moo jumped up and answered the door. She cracked open the door enough to poke her head out.

“ Oh hey, Mina.” Momo said brightly.

“ Hey, Mr, Azowaia wants all of us to meet in the common room.” Mina smiled.

“ Ok tell him ill be right there.” Momo said, closing the door. Shoto stood in the back of the room trying not to be seen.

“ Why are you back there?’ Momo asked.

“ I didn't want her to see me and think something was going on.” He said in his normal tone. The two walked out to the common room. Mr. Azowia announced on weekends that the students could leave the dorms and go around town, weather to visit family, shop,exa. But they had a curfew, 6:30. After the announcement Momo walked outside of the dorms. She stared at the concrete sidewalk. ‘ Why do you do this Momo? He’ll never like you your hideous, Fuckin bitch.’ She thought to herself. Scuffing her feet along the sidewalk. ‘ No wonder, you should have died a long time ago.’ Her breath hitched. She felt heaviness in her chest.’ Slut!’ Things shes been told filled her head.

“ Worthless, a waste of oxygen.” - Her dad.

“Why are you saying something?” - Middle school. Her feet met the wooden dock.salty wind blew in her face.

“ suiside was made for people like you.” Her mind.

“ She's an attention whore.” -Sister. Familiar footsteps snapped her from her thoughts. She had made it to the edge of the dock. Tears peeked from her eyes.

“Yaoyorozu!” Shoto ran up to her. “ what's wrong? You left very quickly.”

“ Todoroki… i just want to be alne.” Momo sighed.

“ I am sorry, i care about your boundaries so if-”

“ why would you care, Todoroki? Why would anybody?im worthless, and god for not-”

“ That is not at all true. You are inttelagent, caring, kind… very optimistic. I saw you, i saw how you plan your strategies flawless, you help everyone, Moo they all matter!” Shoto said. He had a diffrent emotion. It wasnt mad or sad. He couldnt quite place his finger on it. He didnt pay much mind how the words could of hit differently. He was once in her shoes.

“ Its not the roumors or anything, im doing what people have told me to do…” Momo said turning away with tears.Todoroki could tell she didnt want to do this but felt she had to. H egrabed a hold of her wrist.

“ Please…. Calm down. Dont do this.” He said calmly.

“ Why would I?... My own mother didnt want me!” Momo yelled with tears.

“.... Im sorry..” those where the only words he could say.

“ STOP APOLOGIZING!” Momo yelled, swinging her hand out of Shots grip. The water crashed against the wooden dock.

“ Please dont jump.” Todorokis voice sounded desperate.

“ Why-” Momo started.

“ Because i love you!” he blurted. It didnt seem fake. The pain overwhelmed him. He choked back tears. He had spent long painful nights to realize what he felt.

“ I can t left you go… even if your not mine…. Please… dont jump.” His voice hinched.

“I wont jump…” Momo said tears flowed. Shoto looked up at her with a smile. That smile quickly faded. Color drained from his face as he saw her falling figure.

“ MOMO!” Todorki ran to the end on the dock as her body splashing into the water. Thats when she relized: There where other options, Her problems had solushions, there where people who cared,peole could be hurt by her action, thats when she realized, she wanted to live.

#anime #writers #manga #my writing #momoxtodoroki #triger warning #bullying #this is depressing #suiside #fanfiction

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unhoax · 1 year

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being alne with my thoughts is hell

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bytez4life · 2 years

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Could you do domestic life fluff with Saiki K and a gn reader? Maybe married life as adults or something ^-^

mornings.

saiki x gn reader

tw; none

a/n; of course!, i hope you enjoy! + requests r open :)

wc; 271

damn it, what did i just put into the bowl?

the pink haired man frowned at the sight before him, the kitchen counter cluttered with various ingredients and tools. letting out a defeated sigh, he waved his hands to send everything to the right place.

he just wanted to make your morning special for once, as today was one of the rare days you both were free. he foolishly thought he could make pancakes on the first try, and now he was contemplating just buying food before you woke up.

his thoughts were interrupted by your humming, lifting his head to meet your face. giving him a tired smile, you walk behind him placing your chin on his shoulder.

"good morning darling, whatcha making?"

good morning, and pancakes.

"oo, that sounds good."

dipping your pinkie into the runny batter, you bring it to your lips before saiki could stop you.

wait love-

letting the batter sit on your tongue, your face scrunched up in a pained smile.

"ku, dear, i think you used salt instead of sugar."

i knew i missed something.

giggling under your breath, you grabbed his hand guiding him to sit at the dining table.

"don't worry about it, ill make breakfast today."

i just wanted to make your morning special...

"and i appreciate the effort love, but instead of the breakfast how about i let you make the dessert for dinner?" you smile at his now renewed energy.

coffee jelly it is.

you laugh and turn to grab a bowl from the cabinet, preparing to make another, hopefully less salty batch of pancakes.

"anything you want ku."

@BYTEZ4LIFE - do not plagerize/copy

aln: i have too many ideas and not enough time

#saiki kusuo #the disastrous life of saiki k.#male reader #gn reader #x reader #x gn reader #x male reader #saiki x reader #saiki k x male reader #saiki k x reader #bytez4life works

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loveforpreserumsteve · 1 year

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Together Forever: "ALN" Story (Pre-Serum Omega!Steve and Alpha!Bucky Modern Domestic AU)

Two:

Arriving at Howling Commandos, Steve felt the same jitters that he had on his wedding day. A mix of excitement and anxiousness. Thankfully no nausea nor morning sickness. Only the good stuff. Just like the memories.

"Mr. Barnes," the beta man smiled, holding the back passenger door open for Bucky, assisting the older man out of the town car.

"Thank you," Bucky returned the smile. With a firm grip on his cane, he rounded the Rolls-Royce so he could get the door for his husband. Mimicking the driver, Bucky held his hand out for Steve's, "Mr. Barnes."

Playfully, Steve rolled his eyes, but accepted his husband's hand. Grateful for him, because even with his bum hip and the many replacements that came with it, he was still sturdier than Steve. To show his appreciation, Steve stood on his tiptoes so he could give him a kiss.

"Golly gee, Mr. Barnes," Bucky teased, "That's one hell of a tip."

"You big goof," Steve affectionately swatted at his husband, but kept his grip on the alpha's arm as he guided them inside of the brewery.

For a moment, Steve was relieved that there wasn't an overwhelming amount of decorations covering the venue. However, that only lasted a moment. As soon as they were inside, they were bombarded with streamers, balloons, and even life-size cardboard cutouts of their wedding portraits. Should've known, he supposed. After all, Cori had a way of going above and beyond for those she loves. Especially once she made a name for herself and was able to shower those loved ones with the riches that came from being a successful actress.

As though she had stepped out of The Great Gatsby, the hostess correctly assumed, "Mr. and Mr. Barnes?"

Mutely, both men nodded following the flapper as she led them inside of the party. And if the men thought that the lobby was ostentatious, they definitely weren't prepared for the rest of dining hall. The black and gold art deco decorations were cranked up to eleven, and the men couldn't do anything but stand there for a moment, just taking it all in.

The eighty-plus year olds stood there, slack-jawed. Not even noticing that their loved ones had gathered at the entrance until Kit loudly greeted, "SURPRISE!"

"It's not a surprise party," Cori rolled her eyes, shoving her sibling.

"And a good thing too," Nevie's son, Arden commented, causing Ian's younger daughter, Ryker, to giggle.

Especially when Kit's youngest son, Parker added, "Yeah, a heart attack is the last thing we need."

Meanwhile, Dani and Finn's youngest kids rushed forward to hug their grandfathers. With all the energy of being ten year olds and dressed to the nines, the third set of Harris-Barnes twins called out excitedly. Eager to get to the men before their siblings or cousins could.

"Happy anniversary, pawpaw!" Billie grinned, being her mother's perfect mini-me.

"Thank you, sweetie," Steve smiled, being careful to not crush the feather hair piece, he kissed her freckled cheek. "Thank you very much."

The little girl beamed up at him with so much love, and Steve couldn't help but hold her tight for just a moment longer. After all, he knew how quickly time moved. Just look at how fast the past fifty years had gone by. It only led to the conclusion that the next twenty or so – optimistically speaking – were going to breeze right by.

"Pappy, can we have cake now?" Gus asked, gazing up at Bucky with all the love and mischief that only kids seemed to have.

"Augustus," Finn warned, quirking a brow that would put Sarah Rogers' Look to shame.

"But daddy, you said we could have cake!" The little boy argued.

One of his older brothers – Emmett, to be more exact – scooped him up and carried him further into the party space. But not before he, himself, could kiss his alpha grandfather a kiss on his weathered, wrinkly cheek.

Looking at everyone standing there, celebrating him and Bucky, and their love, made Steve teary-eyed. They had done this, he and Bucky. They had stood out there in the courtyard, all those years ago, and proclaimed their love for one another. They had chosen each other and created the life they have. But there was something about seeing all of their loved ones there that got to Steve.

Bucky pulled him closer, kissing the petite omega's temple. Pride flowed through the bond, mixing with the never ending love and affection. Into Steve's good ear, he said, "You did good, Stevie. You did real good."

Preening, Steve gazed up at his mate and shook his head. Correcting, "We. We did good."

The alpha's grin grew, crinkling up to his steel-blue eyes. All those crow's feet wrinkles being some of Steve's favorite. Hell, who was Steve kidding? All of Bucky's wrinkles were Steve's favorite because each one was a reminder that they had lived a long and happy life together. Just like Bucky had promised him all those years ago.

"Alright," Bitsy clapped her hands to gain their loved ones' attention. Deciding, "Let's give the happy couple some air."

Friends and family alike congratulated Steve and Bucky before going back to what they were doing before the guests of honor arrived. Not that Steve nor Bucky minded. Steve had never been the type who wanted to be the center of attention, and Bucky always tried to make his husband as comfortable as possible.

"Happy anniversary," Bitsy smiled, greeting her fathers and giving them each a kiss on their cheeks.

"Thank you, sweet pea," Steve grinned, rubbing over her back.

"How's it feel to be back?" Bucky asked. After a decade away, Steve imagined that things were going to be weird. Especially since she was now teaching at the first dance school that she was taught at.

"Weird," Bitsy admitted. "But good too. Didn't realize how lonely I was until I was around you weirdos again."

"Aww, you did miss us," Ollie mocked, pulling his younger sister in tight. He probably would've given her a noogie if they weren't at a soiree. Because even though they were in their early forties and early fifties, they were still siblings.

A bittersweet fondness rose to the surface of the bond. Steve knew that it was hard for Bucky. He remembered the pain that caked the lining of their bond after the passing of Becca. It hadn't been easy on any of the family members. But it had hit Bucky especially hard. After all, he had grown in the womb with her. He learned how to walk and talk and so many other countless things alongside her. And while she had lived a long and happy life, that didn't change the hurt. Sure, having Mandy and Tibby helped, but it wasn't the same.

It all reminded him of their girls and how difficult that first year apart from each other was. Yes, they had missed everyone, but not the same way that they missed each other.

To try and appease that dormant pain, Steve gave Bucky's mechanical prosthetic hand a squeeze. Sure, it wasn't the same as squeezing his flesh hand, but it still could feel the pressure, and the alpha could feel the tenderness through the gesture.

As the men made their way over to a table just for them, more of their loved ones congratulated them. Their in-laws, siblings, nieces, and nephews. Their children, their grandchildren, and even Kit's one year old granddaughter, Lily, reached out her chubby hands towards her great grandfathers. It ballooned Steve's heart and made him feel like he might float away from being loved so much.

"Hi, baby," Bucky smiled, bringing the chubby baby hand up so he could kiss the palm. Lily's grin grew, showing the few teeth that she had gained so far. Still holding her arms out, Bucky took her in his arms. Immediately, she tipped forward and nuzzled her face against his neck so she could scent the alpha, not that he minded. And with how her mom, Keaton, was smiling, Steve knew that she was melting at the sight just like he was.

Affectionately marking Lily's back, Bucky closed his eyes. No doubt remembering what it was like when their children were that little. No doubt remembering when their grandchildren were that little. And now this. Four generations of love.

How'd they get this lucky?

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