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shiroganeryo · 3 months

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Hi there. So don't mind me, I was going through your dazatsu art a while ago (both you and your husband I think?) and also saw some of the captions. You said you two met when you were cosplaying dazatsu? I don't mean to sound stalkerish so please feel free to ignore me, but that is about the sweetest thing I have ever heard😭❤️ I would like to draw one of your cosplays as our favorite couple. You could send me a picture you like- paint over your faces if you don't feel comfortable or-

And again and I emphasize, feel free to straight up reject this or ignore it, because I know it's odd. Just wanted you to know how you warm my heart, and I love your artwork as well<3

Have a nice day or night

Hello there! First of all, don't worry about "sounding stalkerish", it's very sweet of you to drop by just to let me (and by extension, us) know about your thoughts! 😊 The thing is, it's not that we met when we were cosplaying; perhaps me saying we weren't a couple yet gave that impression, but since you asked, I might as well tell you the full story?

You may want to sit, it's a little long (though I'll do my best to be brief) 😅

We already knew each other, we had been acquaintances for a long while, actually! We met when we were 14/13 or so (we're 31/29 now, I'm the older one). We weren't really that close, but we were on friendly terms and all that.

I'll skip the very personal bits which includes (but is not limited to) us getting closer to each other and stupidly pining mutually, but the sequence of events that led to it is one (!) of the reasons why I tend to say we're a "dazatsucore" couple. Because:

He was into me > I noticed on the spot, and did nothing > I was into him > he didn't know because I hid the fact > leads to him blurting out a confession thinking he'd be turned down > I do not turn him down but ask for some time to think things through because I want to be sure of my feelings first > not too long after I have an answer.

By the way, everything I'm saying gets even better (and funnier) when you consider I'm the "Dazai" one, while he's the "Atsushi" in this.

Anyways, about the cosplay shenanigans you inquired about; back when we were getting closer to each other (2016ish), I had become interested in BSD but knew nothing about it; I knew he had watched it, asked what were his thoughts on it, he said it was nice, recommended it, etc. He then commented that he planned to cosplay Atsushi, showed me the character and shared his cosplay plans.

I had only watched the opening so far (the thing that led me to ask him if the anime was good), and Dazai was the one who had caught my eye the most, so I said, very offhandedly, that 'hey, I'd be down to go with you to the con, I do entertain the idea of cosplaying Dazai'.

He was like 'woah, really?! That would be so fun!' but also got extremely nervous on the spot. I obviously noticed. You see, my spouse isn't really the type of person who can hide his feelings very well + I'm good at reading through people. We've always been a funny match in that regard, ngl.

From a quick Google search I did to gather references for the outfit, I could tell the two characters were a somewhat popular pairing, so I made 2+2, I also already knew he had a crush on me and just did nothing about it, like I explained above. So he had gotten nervous that people could mistake us for a couple because the two characters are (were? sadly) a popular pairing.

Which I did know... And again, did nothing about because while my suggestion to cosplay together was sincere, having no intentions of manipulating him or anything, that did work in my favor as well so two birds, one stone.

In the meantime, what I told you above happened and we started dating. And, for obvious reasons, we decided to go ahead with the cosplay plans 😌 I've never posted a clear picture showing our faces because we're not the best photographers out there, but here's one of the least terrible ones:

The icing on the cake, that doesn't have much to do with us, but is still something we remember about fondly: we're Brazilian, and Brazil is a very big country. The anime con we were going to attend was the biggest in our country but also some good hours away (a 9 hour travel away to the capital, to be more precise), so we took a bus ride with some people headed there as well. It's common for people to make these "con attendees" group rides and they're always really fun experiences + very cost efficient.

One of the people we befriended on the ride was this girl who, coincidentally, was cosplaying as Chuuya. Since we're a queer couple (nb sapphics who go by he/him pronouns) we didn't know what amount of gay was okay in public, but this one girl knew we were a couple, 100% sure of it and it was genuinely beyond funny seeing her and her friends waiting on us to just do something, anything, that gave the answer away.

We kissed like... once, when they were nearby, and the reactions were priceless, ngl. The euphoric I KNEW IT faces.

Back then we weren't married yet, so no telling rings or anything, but this Chuuya had gotten the vibes somehow. When I asked her how she knew before we even did anything, she said, just like this: 'it's the way you look at each other 🥺'.

I need you to imagine Chuuya Nakahara saying this, with this expression. Makes it all 20x funnier. Also the reason why I usually write him as a wingman/enabler in my fics.

Oh, and about the "he had no idea I knew all along", I did tell him... last year 😂 We were reminiscing about things and he went on a tangent saying something along the lines of 'I feel kinda bad because it was selfish of me but I liked the idea of us being seen as a couple back then so I didn't tell you the characters were a popular ship'.

To which I replied: 'Oh, I knew, don't worry.'

Cue shocked Pikachu meme for my spouse's reaction. I then explained that I was fully aware of everything all along, and he was like 'thank GOD you decided to play along then because I had no idea how to charm anyone' 😂

It feels good to put our silly story out there, I had told this story only to one person in the fandom so far (I won't tag her, but Katsu can confirm we're two dumbasses in love) because I don't usually talk about personal stuff publicly like this unless on a whim but also because, like I said, it's a very long story even with skipped parts.

I hope this was fun to read, at least? 😅

As for what you asked about drawing us, I'll apologize, but neither of us understood exactly what you want to do. If you could elaborate more on it, we'd be grateful and could give a proper response! All in all, thank you for sending the ask, it was really lovely of you to stop by just to say that! 😊

#I'll need to tag the ship because of the cosplay picture inside the read more #but feel free to ignore all the babbling if you came here just for the ship tag #dazatsu #dazushi #cosplay #+ personal story because why not #but there's only so much exposition I can take at once so I'll probably be thinking about this for a while #please be nice to me I get antsy whenever I overshare but the world must know why we call ourselves dazatsucore #and also why this ship means so much to the two of us (besides being a really wholesome ship ofc!)#ask

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simlit · 3 months

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tagged by @izayoichan | (very unexpected, who could have foreseen!)

Who is the more romantic one? Do they wish their partner was more romantic?

Obviously we know the answer to this is Yehl. This is their major conflict; Taryn's lack of emotionality against Yehl's, perhaps, overemotional nature. Yehl constantly wishes Taryn was different in this aspect, and a lot of times, Taryn wishes he was different, himself.

What's something they can never agree on?

Sleeping indoors lmao

Who said 'I love you' first?

Again, we know this was Yehl (and only just recently, too!). Tbh, I'm more happy with the way it came about in the prose. It's more fitting.

Who is more likely to steal the other's clothes? What are their favorite items to steal?

Welp. Lmao I think every answer is just "Yehl". But well, it just wouldn't work the other way around now would it xD Tbf, there wouldn't be any clothes-swapping going on in canon, in Modern AU it's still pretty rare, because their styles are so very different and not really fit for sharing. But now and again after a night together, Yehl will put on Taryn's button up shirts and nothing else (Taryn's favorite ofc, ofc).

What are their favorite activities to do together?

*coughs* PG answer: Travel. This doesn't happen for a long time, Not till long after things have settled post original novel timeline. Then when Yeryn can finally be "together" in a domestic sense, before they build Lazu'Lei, and during that period before Zehel is born, they spend a lot of their time traveling, both for political reasons, but mostly so Yehl can see the world. Taryn promises to take him everywhere, and he's very committed to this promise.

Who is their biggest supporter (friend, family, etc)?

Valerian, their number one most devoted simp fan, and Judine. They get little support from the "other side" i.e. the dragonkin, and many still have reservations about their union even after the war. But Judine's friendship with Taryn persists. He is one of the few elves who never doubted Taryn's heart, and he has a good understanding of what he means to Yehl.

Which one is more kind-hearted and who angers easily first?

Both of these answers are, yet again, Yehl lol. The little paradox he is.

What is 'their song'? Officially or unofficially.

Bury Now | Crywolf

Who does what chores? Which chore do they both avoid?

Cop-out answer. Neither. Benefits of being a King and a Prince lol.

What’s their favorite “domestic bliss” moment? Do they cook/clean together? Do they like to go out shopping together?

They don't have many of these, but the most meaningful one is during Iphelia, the elven spring festival and biggest holiday for Yehl's people, Taryn always prepares him a traditional meal in accordance to elven Rules of Hunt. He does this by hand, it's the only time Taryn ever "cooks" or does anything related. I made a post about this once! Though they never eat together, Taryn always sits in on Yehl's mealtimes just to enjoy the closeness.

How do they silently show love or affection towards the other?

Yehl always stays close to Taryn. It's as much for his own sense of security as it is to show affection, as Yehl's past trauma dictates most of his actions. He feels a constant need for protection, so he'll gravitate to wherever Taryn is unless circumstance keeps them apart. Taryn is almost entirely non-verbal as far as how he shows love. Aside from the obvious, sex being his primary tool of communication, he actually does become very affectionate (somewhat surprising to me) over the course of the novel. Especially with the way he handles Yehl as his feelings for him begin to shift. These can be quite fleeting things, like brushing the small of Yehl's back as he passes him, or the way he begins to instinctively draw Yehl into his side, especially when around others. His defensiveness and need to protect, but also possessiveness comes out, and he'll often put an arm around Yehl and bring him close just to "secure" him, quite literally.

If they had a movie (or other fiction) couple equivalent, what couple would it be and why?

Hua Cheng and Xie Lian are the most equivalent. It's one of the things that drew me to TGCF, initially, because I actually didn't find it until some years after AoA, and immediately drew parallels between the nature of their relationship. Hua Cheng's legendary simping did inspire some of my rewriting with Taryn. I would say it is mostly their relationship dynamic, though. Not so much their personalities. Yehl is nothing like Lian (aside from maybe Lian's darker days during the Yong'an arc). But I do love to do this thing in the story where the wife (or "submissive" role) is far strong or more powerful than the dominant role. This is true for both Yeryn (Celaedian arc onward) and Naiven. This directly mirrors Hua Cheng and Xie Lian's dynamic. But honestly, HC is the superior simp. He'd never hurt XL. Taryn can't fucking relate.

What is the sweetest thing they've done for one another?

I'd say Taryn's is the above answer (the Iphelia breakfast). Yehl's isn't really a "thing", but something he said. Which is the line where he tells Taryn that he can never see his own mother again, but Taryn still can and that "he wants that for him". I think that singular line completely broke Taryn lmao, because it was the first time he ever realized Yehl had the capacity to love him as a person, and not just in a lustful or selfish way.

Which one is more likely to think Valentine's Day is lame?

Taryn, lmao. But he would never cuz that would upset His Highness.

How do they comfort each other?

Yehl knows that Taryn is his own worst enemy. So he will always try to get his mind away from whatever is bothering him, usually by asking him questions, trying to change the subject, or make Taryn think of something else. Because if he's mentally preoccupied with a different thought, then he can't beat himself up. For Taryn, he always comforts Yehl physically. He's still not great at understanding how to be "uplifting" otherwise lol. But most of the time Yehl really does just need to be held, so it works anyways.

What does a relaxing night in look like for them?

Sitting together in the quiet of a terrace overlooking the forest. Just listening to the sounds of night and being close. Talking idly about things that don't really matter, or saying nothing. Just enjoying the peace and tranquility of nature.

What is their favorite or most admired quality in the other?

For Yehl, it's Taryn's confidence. It's the thing he lacks most. Taryn is unafraid of most things, and faces them boldly, head on. Yehl wishes he was more like this. But he most loves Taryn's level-headed nature. For Taryn, it's Yehl's ability to accept his own flaws. His self-awareness, if you want to say that. That Yehl knows exactly who and what he is, and that he doesn't take his shortcomings out on others, but rather embraces them. Taryn always feels guilty for one thing or another, but never truly learns to make his peace with his flaws.

Which one apologizes first? How do they apologize?

Yehl. Sort of messily. He likes to apologize because things bother him, not necessarily because he did something wrong. Taryn is so unbothered by everything, so Yehl takes it upon himself to get upset over things he does or says on Taryn's behalf lmao. Even still he's reluctant about it lmao (so self-inflicted).

What's something seemingly innocent that the other does, says or wears that turns the other on?

Lmao the way I knew the answer to this the instant I read it. When Yehl calls Taryn "Your Majesty". Anytime Yehl addresses Taryn by his title or uses official/honorifics it's always, always to troll. Because he knows Taryn absolutely hates to be called by his title, and Yehl knows exactly what he's doing. Sometimes he does it specifically to piss Taryn off but these moments are few and far between. But to have Yehl say "Your Majesty" is the one way to ensure he'll be waking up unable to walk, because that shit gets Taryn.

What is their biggest regret in their relationship so far?

Yehl's death. Despite everything, and the fact that Taryn loves him unfailingly as Celaedian, he knows the burden the role brings, and all of the excess pain Yehl has to endure because of it. Even after Yehl "has his revenge", Taryn never ceases to feel that he, in some aspects, ruined Yehl's life. And, in some aspects, it is kind of true. As much as Yehl insists otherwise, the fact is he can't escape his life as Celaedian, and he can never go back to being "Yehl".

What is their favorite place to kiss their partner? Do either enjoy 'leaving a mark'?

For Yehl, Taryn's shoulders and arms. The place he holds his strength, and where he's most protected. For Taryn, similarly shoulders and neck, but stomach and thighs, too. The places where Yehl is most fragile and feminine. And yes, they both share a biting fetish. Taryn being the giver and Yehl being the receiver obvi. Taryn loves to mark Yehl, it all ties into his possessive dragon nature, but Yehl is more than happy to oblige him lol.

Which one is more adventurous in the bedroom? Which one has more experience?

Love this question, cuz I love expectation flips lmao. The answer to both is Yehl. Yehl was always the most experienced, having been pretty loose prior to meeting Taryn. He used sex as a way of spiting his father, but also attempting to fill a void inside him. By contrast, Taryn had never been with anyone before Yehl, and had to act entirely off of sheer animal instinct. Still, I wouldn't say either of them are crazy adventurous, they're very straight forward in the bedroom, and a lot of that has to do with Taryn's specific "kinks" i.e. Taryn having to be able to see Yehl's face during, and being the one to service (he doesn't enjoy Yehl to do so, Yehl must be worshipped everywhere, even in bed lmao).

Include one of your favorite moments between them!

Gosh this is so hard because I have so many lmao. I think I usually say when Taryn vows himself to Yehl, and it probably is my ~ultimate~ favorite moment. But the rewrite has had so many small scenes I just love between them. I'll say (again, probably not Valetine's appropriate cuz this scene hurts), towards the beginning of the prose during the monsoon, where they're sitting together on the chaise in Yehl's room and Yehl realizes he can't control Taryn. When Taryn tells him white is his favorite color, but he resents that it's "Yehl's color". The way that breaks Yehl entirely, as he begins to understand that he knows so little about Taryn, but that he deeply desires Taryn's attention. Idk why I just love the way it hurts so much and tells even more.

#jade babbles #ask game #I'll just go ahead and post it on its own #so I don't get cut off by wordcount or whatever #thank you for sending!

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bonefall · 11 months

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i just wanted to say i think it's really cool how you're making an effort to have an ecological basis for stuff in your AU! it's inspired me to try and make my own warriors-based project ecologically accurate and it has been both a blessing (got to learn a lot about my local ecology) and a curse (named a character badger only to discover i chose the One Region of the US where there are NO BADGERS)

BIG mood, every now and then I hit something that I think is going to make perfect sense, that is a total no-brainer, only to find out something WHACKY about this specific region of Northern England

Like the total and complete lack of chalk deposits. What do you MEAN THERE'S NO CHALK HERE?? I was going through geology and it was like, "btw there's no chalk and base clanmew won't have a word for it" LIKE

[ID: Simplified geologic map of the British Isles, with Better Bones' ecological region circled. There is No Chalk.]

Myrtle also drove me bonkers. "What do you MEAN this is the one part of England that has neither myrtle bushes nor bog myrtle???"

It's a blessing and a curse though, like you said, because I have learned so much about this area and why it's so special. It's beautiful to stumble into plot ideas and details based on conservation in this spot, I really wouldn't trade it for anything. (not even chalk)

#This is based on one of the Clanmew asks I'll be answering #Clanmew day is the 3rd btw #I think I will be responding to that person with a geological survey #welcome to bones' inbox where you ask 'what's the word for chalk' and he responds with 10 pages about northern english geology #bone babble

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breezy-cheezy · 5 months

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So like. I'm still finishing whumptober hahaha but I did wanna stretch my writing muscles a bit more? May or may not combine whumptober makeup work with these if I can hahaha

But I haven't really done any of these yet? Figured I might as well like. Hold it up to the tumblr void LOL. No guarantees....but any current fandom ideas are game:

One Piece

Twisted Wonderland

Final Fantasy 14

Trigun (Stampede or Maximum)

Crossovers between these or AUs are also welcome! 👍

#breezy babbles #bad things happen bingo #breezy writes #idk I do have ideas and wips but I keep intimidating myself out of them #brain weird #also school almost done so I'm just. vibin #I wanna get better at writing...regularly #come at me #I'll try to get to more asks in the meantime hhskjfdds #oh shoot and zine graphics jKHDLKFS #still this looked shiny again

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almea · 1 year

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My dream for the Bees kiss is still that it happens during a moment of (relative) downtime both so they can just bask in the moment without needing to go deal with Something Else immediately afterwards and so they can kiss more than once.

#Annie babbles about RWBY #I'm sure I'll love it even if they don't give me what I ask for #Because they've never missed with the Bees for me #I just want this so badly #Listen #I think about them looking into each other's eyes after they kiss and smiling before going for another kiss #And I feel like I'm going to lose my mind #It'd be such a contrast from the two kisses we've already gotten #I am once again begging them to end the episode after the kiss because they deserve that Emphasis

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asexualbookbird · 27 days

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🐹 for sure! You seem great and I do enjoy all your snarky book posts (and you are 1000% right about Nettle and Bone being amazing).

NETTLE & BONE, MY BELOVED,

using this as a soap box to tell more people to read Nettle & Bone by T Kingfisher you got your found family, your family family, your demon chickens, your bone dogs, your happily ever afters,

#bookbird babbles #ezra gets a letter #ask games #maybe ill reread nettle & bone #MAYBE I'LL PUT TOGETHER A READ A LONG

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happyk44 · 7 months

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pjo: is not fully accurate to the greek myths or portrayal of the gods, doesn't need to be since it's just a nice introduction to greek mythos but not seeking to be an educational book that people should be referencing in their essays, the only book(s) that could be considered educational and factual would be the greek myths/greek heroes books that percy narrates, but if you want to add something to pjo through fanon wikipedia and the theoi website as a check is probably fine, no one is expecting every fan of the pjoverse to have a PhD in ancient history/religion/mythos

me regardless: i need to check my hundreds of greek/roman mythos books to factcheck this thing i came across on wikipedia and is relevant to this ask just to make sure i'm not messing up a history/mythos thing even though this is related to pjo, where it doesn't really matter so why am i freaking out about it 🤷‍♂️

#shoutout to the person who sent me that neptune ask - i am answering it!! but i am also gonna go upstairs and grab some books lmao #happy's babblings #ah fuck it's raining. okay maybe i'll just give up on the books. or i'll wait. or i'll grab one of my aunt's jackets and head out to mine #also lmao when i was writing that hades and pomegrante tree thing i obsessively searched for info on menoetes #and even looked up a pdf copy of one of the REALLY OLD books that were sourced on theoi website to verify myself #but nah he's got like. zero info other than he exists and guards the cattle lmao and also fought herucles that one time

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blinkpen · 1 year

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i cant find if youve answered this before but what Sound does the mirage wheel make when turning, bc i always imagine it like a bullroarer for some reason

I haven't quite figured out the "mirage wheel beginning to spin/maining speed" sound, but that's not a bad one! I'd porbably want to commission a sound designer to make a unique sound for it, in case him and his weird little wheel are hashtag iconic or whatever in the future, having a distinct noise associated with him would be rad

I tend to imagine it when I hear anything fitting in the sound effect mixing of a song that already fits him, for example, in this song (which, btw, if zoetrope was the villain in the good but not great direct to video sequel of an animated movie, his villain song would like. Literally just be this. it's uncanny)

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you can hear this faint high pitched whirring noise that builds up and gets more noticeable as the song initiates its first crescendo to drop, to which i can easily imagine shots of his mirage wheel starting to spin and activate and then all the cool illusory shit pops off at the drop in the AMV that plays in my mind's eye when listening to this

#ask x #oc babble #zoetrope #my zoetrope playlist is pretty long but if i had to narrow selection #this one HAS to stay on the shortlist #the shifting in/out of a more feminine and more masculine voice/faintly hearing both voices layered at times is also very 👌 for him #OH there's another song that has an even better sound effect i have on my CLoA Overall PL #but i'll bring that one up another time

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paleinc · 13 days

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since WHEN can you NOT go from mail delivery to pharmacy pickup with kp

I got modafinil mailed ONCE and now I can't pick it up without a new prescription? fuck you. guess I will have to ration it next week while onboarding a new person while trying not to feel like a massive fuckup

#jayy babbles #i always do shit wrong. ALWAYS.#i've never had this problem with them before #fine i'll mail it and ask my doc for a new script.#even tho it was just renewed in feb #i'm going through it and extra bitchy bc hormones and pain

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incoherentbabblings · 7 months

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Hi!! Sorry if this comes off as super random or nonsensical, but I love your TimSteph meta ;_; I'm a huge fan of TimSteph's exes-to-lovers dynamic, and I was wondering for the sake of characterization: Do you think it works better as a "lost feelings & rekindled them" trope, or a "had lingering feelings all along" trope?

Thank you! And ohhhh! Good question! I can certainly see the merit in both. They are certainly not the same people at 19 that they were at 14, that's for sure.

Personally, I have always gone for the latter, in that the feelings never went away.

The reason I say that is for Tim outright stating at the end of his Robin run that he still loves her despite them well and truly being on the outs by that point,

Robin (1993) #182

The fact that in Red Robin he's at the very least still leering at her,

Red Robin #15

Or his frustration and disappointment in not being able to trust her and therefore implying that he very much wishes he could lean on her once more,

Red Robin #2

And then Steph is maybe a bit more vague - she says she doesn't know how she is supposed to feel about him - but her remembering their time together through a literal rose coloured filter plus the inference that he makes her weak in some way to me says there are still feelings that never quite go away.

Batgirl #8

That is my interpretation! At least. The good old 'not now' line Steph has in particular. Not right now. Someday. But not now.

Batgirl #8

Also the phrasing in the Gotham Gazette extra of saying Stephanie "is woven into the fabric of the city. Its passion and pain. Its... desires... and though she tried, she can't tear herself away from it. From him. Robin." and mentioning that she feels left behind by him, ergo tying Tim into Gotham which is definitely a metaphopr that crops up for these two that I totally haven't pulled out my ass in the past etc...

Gotham Gazette Batman Dead

Yeah. I think they both still had feelings. It was just mixed up a buckets of hurt that they had done to each other. It's how I tend to write them at least! I can definitely see where one would argue the opposite however.

#dc #tim drake #stephanie brown #timsteph meta #ask and i'll babble #timsteph #thank you for the ask!!#no alt text

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