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welcometothejianghu · 5 months

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Welcome to another round of W2 Tells You What You Should See, where W2 (me) tries to sell you (you) on something you should be watching. Today's choice: 少年歌行/The Blood of Youth

The Blood of Youth is a 2022 live-action adaptation of the tale of a deposed, disabled, and incredibly cunty prince who's on his way back to settle the score with his asshole father, and the rag-tag band of weirdos he accumulates along the way, including Spear Girl, Bad Monk, and Fire Puppy (pictured above).

I hope you like shounen anime, because this is the most shounen anime something is allowed to be without actually being based on something running weekly in Shounen Jump. What if Nirvana in Fire were also Naruto? It would be the Blood of Youth.

This show is an underrated gem of action-packed fun that not nearly enough people in English-speaking fandom have seen. In an attempt to correct that -- and ahead of an announced second season and prequel in progress -- I'm here with five reasons you should try it out.

1. Zero thoughts head empty

You do not have to pay an enormous amount of attention to this show to understand what's going on. The show itself does not always know what's going on. It got distracted by a shiny object over there, and now we're all gearing up to go punch the shiny object. We'll get back to the main plot when we're done with the punching.

It has a million billion plot threads going on at any given moment. Bad guys roll in from sects you've never heard of before, using superpowers with stupid names, only to get kicked into next week. There's approximately eleventy thousand characters -- so many, in fact, that I ran into problems several times while making this rec post, because there aren't readily available photos of everyone I want to talk about. Just look at the DramaWiki cast list. See how it goes on for like fifty screens? That's a little what the show feels like.

Except I'm not saying that like it's a bad thing, because the show knows it's doing this, and it acts accordingly. It telegraphs pretty well who's important and who isn't (and then it goes out of its way to color-code the latter, which is handy). What you're left with is absolutely a manga-style plot, complete with training arcs and semi-relevant sidequests, all working up to the final boss match.

It is an extremely self-aware show. On multiple occasions, something would happen, I would crack a joke about it, and then a beat later the show itself would make the exact same joke. I wouldn't call it an outright comedy, but it's still very funny, and on purpose. It has no illusions about being some kind of profound, meaningful epic. Mostly it's just here for a good time.

Yet this lightheartedness is what makes the powerful emotional parts really powerful by contrast. The show is not stupid; it's just goofing around most of the time. When it knuckles down, it can be devastating. And you know what? It does wind up being profound and meaningful about some stuff. How about that.

So yeah, if you're up for something that bops merrily right along and only occasionally rips your heart out, here you go!

2. Putting the poly in polycule

Bisexuals, rejoice! It's representin' time!

Here you go, I made a relationship chart of about 40% of the show's potential and canonical ships. I could have included so many more, but I only had so much space on the image, so I had to leave out some amazing ones, like the sword hedgehog who's real into this one cougar who could easily wipe the floor with him, or the rich nerd who thinks he has a chance with the aforementioned hot butch, or the fancy MILF who cheated on the emperor with a dreamy jianghu man and is trying not to cheat on him again with a different, slightly less dreamy jianghu man. See? There's just so much.

I would also say these are not exclusive ships. They are extremely inclusive ships. I am a fan of most (though admittedly not all) of the pairings listed here, and in fact of many of the three-and-more-somes indicated by these lines. They're such a cuddle puddle of shared intense feelings that it's hard to imagine anyone getting more than mildly jealous. Moreover, the potential for romance does not get in the way of hetero friendships; a boy and a girl who are each dating other people can go do adventures together, and (mostly) nobody gets weird about it, which is nice. If anything, what makes the overall dynamic so polycule-like is how equally friends and love interests get treated, meaning that it's not difficult to see a lot of crossover potential between those two categories.

If you're like me, you're hesitant about canonical romance, especially when it's straight, mostly because so many straight love stories wind up being tiresome, gross, and/or skull-poundingly boring. You will then be pleasantly surprised by how the canon pairings with members of the main cast are not like this at all!

Xiao Se and Sikong Qianluo are the main textual romance, and golly gee, they're just cute as heck. As the chart above indicates, I like interpreting them as two Kinsey 6's who have found their single exceptions, Mulder-and-Scully-style. Maybe one of the best things about their relationship is that it gets sidelined all the time for the plot. They're not so busy being in love that they forget to get shit done. Then they get a bit of downtime and get to go on a date, and you're like, aww, those sweet gay disaster babies are gonna do a little bit of heterosexuality. Just precious.

Tang Lian and Fairy Rui are right up there with the cuteness. She's a sex-positive dancing beauty who wants to ride that pretty boy like she stole him, and he's a shy sword boy so tightly bottled up that he'll explode if he sees a bare ankle. Avoiding spoilers, I will simply say that this is a pairing of two relatively soft people, until a bad thing happens to one of them and the other hardens up about it. If that's your jam, they're here for you.

Lei Wujie and Ye Ruoye are probably the most magical and the most practical of the bunch. They have a beautiful, super-dreamy, really horny sword-dance meet-cute, complete with its own pop song ... and then that's it, they're basically just together. She likes him, he likes her, good for them. In-laws aside, it's a refreshingly low-drama situation. Besides, I always love it when the hypercompetent woman gets the sweet, devoted himbo who'd do anything for her. Ruoye's had a hard life, and she deserves someone who can dick her down good at night and make her a nourishing breakfast the next morning.

And then there is, of course, The Ship:

Xiao Se and Wuxin are canonical, textual soulmates. The show treats their dynamic as more important than any other. It's so important, in fact, that the show has to sideline Wuxin for huge parts of the drama, lest everything get too damn gay. They each get a boyfriend catch on the other. They both do fairly reckless things when the other is in trouble. They are the secret hidden happy ending to the series. They share the kind of ride-or-die relationship built on mutually being the hugest bitches in any given room. Whether or not you think this is romance, it is extremely romantic, and the series agrees as much as it can, all things considered.

And if none of those flavors of love float your boat? Well, have you considered ... eunuchs?

3. She likes e4e

So I'm on record as being real into eunuch characters, right? Well, if you're with me on that, you are in for a treat here, because these are some absolutely buck-wild eunuchs.

There's five main ones, and I can't even begin to scratch the surface of what's going there. Like, really, I don't even think I understood all of what was happening with them. They're kind of the bad guys, but then they're kind of the good guys, but then some of them are the bad guys, but then they're just working for the bad guys, but then they screw over the bad guys, and ... it's just a lot, okay? It's a lot, and it's all happening with this bunch of catty bitches.

Also, you would not believe the difficult time I had finding any images for this section. I guess for some reason, fandom isn't way into a bunch of canonically dickless color-coordinated middle-aged men in weird hats? Whatever, man, they are missing out. If, however, you have the good sense to be into the intense and complicated (semi-romantic??) relationships among colleagues who also professionally just happen to be missing their external genitalia, buddy, strap in (and maybe strap on, depending).

Don't let me oversell how much these guys are in the show. They're not. They're vaguely important at points throughout, and they become incredibly important near the end, but they're hardly main characters. They're mostly back at the palace, doing their various schemes and looking absolutely fantastic.

So if they're such a minor part of the story, why do they get their own selling point? Well, I think their presence is a good example of two specific things about the show:

Specific thing the first: It's so queer -- not gay, but queer. Thinking back to my last selling point, you will notice how many of those straight pairings may look normie on the outside, but once you get down to it are not playing by cishet rules. (For instance, I've seen a lot of people read Tang Lian's resistance to sexual advances as asexuality, which, sure!) Likewise, there are lots of incredibly important, intimate relationships that don't conform to standard romantic pair dynamics. Add to that a lot of bodies with unusual characteristics and conditions, and you've got the makings of plenty of delightful non-normative love stories.

Specific thing the second: There are so many things going on with so many side characters that there's a kink here for everyone. Don't care for eunuchs? How about slinky villains with mind-control powers? Devoted servants who would do anything for their masters? Former bad guys who owe life-debts to the good guys who saved them? Bonded pairs traipsing around the jianghu together? Sons nursing legitimate grudges against the men who killed their fathers? Alcoholic widowers with incredibly slutty necklines? Mysterious cross-dressers with unconvincing moustaches? Vengeful brides? Martial siblings? Murderous royals? Guilt-ridden half-siblings? Boring star-crossed lovers? All these and more! It's a smorgasbord of rarepair fuel!

Also, I just love these toxic drama queens. It's like if RuPaul's Drag Race had the authority to have you executed.

4. The most intriguing outfits I've ever seen in anything (and yes, I'm including Winter Begonia)

Time for a fashion show!

The asymmetrical fits, the detailed embroidery on everything, the brilliant colors -- everybody just looks so good. And yet everything still looks ... eh, I don't know if "practical" is the word I want, but at least wearable. Nobody's dragging ten-foot trains of fabric behind them or wrapped in eighty floofy layers of gauze (except Rui, but she's special). Their outfits are strange and elaborate, but they don't defy physics.

What's truly stunning is how often they get new outfits. Xiao Se alone changes clothes about once every other episode, and more if he's getting a flashback. He is the fashion plate of the whole series, and every look he serves is pitch-perfect.

They're not outright color-coded, but the main characters do have certain colors associated with them -- which is extra-fun when you watch those colors bleeding into their friends' clothes as their relationships get stronger. I also think -- and I'm willing to be proven wrong on this point, but I think I'm right -- that they recycle some characters' outfits into parts of other characters' outfits. On more than one occasion, I'd swear that Lei Wujie shows up wearing the left half of something Xiao Se was wearing a few episodes back (tailored to fit him, of course, because that dumb ponytail boy is tall).

Where I think the costume design gets massive points, though, is that the costumes are themselves adaptations.

Before the live-action series, there was a 2018 3D animated donghua. I have never watched the latter, but apparently the drama is intensely faithful to the animated visuals, to the point where some fights are shot-for-shot remakes.

Of course, you can do a lot more with unreal clothing and bodies in animation -- and you can show a lot more skin, at least according to Chinese content laws. The live-action costumers chose to preserve about as many of the appearance beats from the donghua as they could manage, while still accepting the limitations of real-life bodies and materials. You can see some side-by-side comparisons here. The live-action outfits manage to be instantly recognizable without being slavishly devoted recreating to their inspirations.

So if you're sick and tired of dreary, ill-lit shows with bland palettes, this vibrant, colorful drama may be just the thing for you. It's a rainbow from start to finish.

5. Actually a good central plot?

Despite all the wacky delightful shounen nonsense that this show has -- and it has a lot -- the core of the whole narrative, which is Xiao Se's story, is surprisingly great and cohesive.

The short version is this: Xiao Se used to be Xiao Chuhe, sixth prince and somewhat heir apparent. Then he and his jerk-ass dad had a falling-out that resulted in the prince's having his martial arts abilities all but taken from him. He's been living the life of a very well-dressed innkeeper for several years, trying to avoid all of that palace garbage. But now his jerk-ass dad is dying, which means that a lot of horrible decisions are finally having unfortunate consequences for everyone, and Xiao Se's got to get back in there to make sure everything does not go to shit and land someone terrible on the throne -- even if it has to mean taking it himself.

His central conflict is between what he used to be and what he's become. Does he miss being Xiao Chuhe, high-ranked martial artist and future emperor? Or is he happier being Xiao Se, long-suffering nobody who can barely run a business, much less hold his own in a fight? What would he be willing to do to get back what he's lost? What are his obligations to himself versus his obligations to everyone else? How much is he responsible for his father's bullshit? And why has he wound up having to babysit this stupid Fire Puppy?

It's okay, they're best friends now. Lei Wujie decided.

No spoilers, but I liked Xiao Se's ending a lot. I feel it's very true to the character and shows a real understanding of who he is and what he values. And really, at the end of the day, sometimes all you need for a happy ending is your girlfriend, your girlfriend's girlfriend, your girlfriend's girlfriend's boyfriend who's also your boyfriend, your other boyfriend, his girlfriend, and your long-distance for-real soulmate.

Feel like giving the youths a try?

You can find them on YouTube or on Viki. But be absolutely sure that no matter where you watch it, you make sure to go watch the epilogue as well. (And if you get real into the story, well, here's a link to information about all the other adaptations.)

You are also welcome for how I did not spend this post going off for five hundred years on how much I love Wuxin and his funky relationship to Buddhism. I figured that's way too niche of a selling point for most people, and might indeed have even been counterproductive. But know that I could have.

Also, I'm very happy about the announcement of a second season, because that's going to mean Liu Xueyi has to shave his head again, and he looks unbearably good with a shaved head.

Oh yeah, did I forget to mention the whole motorcycle photoshoot?

In case you hadn't noticed, the whole cast is stupidly hot. Hachi machi.

#the blood of youth #少年歌行 #bloody youths #i made this #rec post #the party is a polycule #LeiDHD

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utilitycaster · 6 months

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Unpopular opinion: parts of the cr fandom are really dismissive/ reductive of Travis’s characters. It feels like it’s due to Travis being seen as THE cis het man of the group, and by extension his characters must be heteronormative and bad, despite the fact that you could have queer interpretations of his characters. At the very least, Travis’s characters explore masculinity and the different ways it might look. It’s like the people who are all “ew men are gross and shitty” and act like that’s an absolutely normal reaction to a man just existing.

So this is another one in that I agree with the initial statement, but I'm actually not sure re: the reasoning why. I think it's possible but I could not tell you for sure.

I used to, again, think this was people carrying through Campaign 1 elements well beyond the point where C1 had ended, and so Grog having an intelligence of 6 was being applied to Travis; and this definitely does come through to an extent when people treat Fjord (objectively as smart as Beau without her circlet) as stupid or act shocked that Chetney is the brains of Bells Hells or that he can play a Cerrit, Fjord, or Nathaniel. However, again, I think this is one of those opinions that pops up among people who weren't around for Campaign 1 (or early enough in C2 to be exposed to it regularly) so I don't know if that's the case anymore. It could still be - it could be that Approved Fandom Opinions get passed down even when the logic behind them has long since been lost; that's a really common thing in institutional memory. But I can't say for sure.

I also have in the past credited it to, as you said, people assuming his characters are the cishet guys and then writing them off. That's still possible - I've seen both Fjord and Chetney called "token straight" despite considerable evidence of bisexuality, and they also paradoxically are both commonly headcanoned as trans while still getting called "token straight," which sort of ties into a post I would need to find from someone else from quite some time ago about which cast members are granted agency by the fandom in their choices vs. which are assumed to be the victims of circumstance. And I do think that there are people in fandom who have decided men are icky or whatever, and I used to think this came from a place of bigotry and a slide towards t*rf ideology but I now do genuinely think it's just idiots who don't grant interiority to characters outside their own limited understanding.

But I think it's also useful to consider a few things, most of which I've brought up before:

Travis is extremely offline. He is not here to entertain your headcanons; he has been politely but openly dismissive of some (imo, really fucking dumb) fanon/fan theories. I think the cast frequently talks about how it's their table, and I think that's valid and correct, but Travis is one of the players who lives it the most. He is playing this game with his friends, and he'd like it to be a good story, but if you don't like it, he is not here to make you like it. I think that really fucks with the parasocial connections some people desire with the cast.

Travis's characters tend to examine masculinity as a performance but also the general performance of the self, and the fact that you cannot in the end control how you are perceived entirely, and I think that really unsettles people who have equated presentation with reality and are again, looking for external validation of the self.

Travis can play it big but he's often extremely subtle, especially with his more serious characters, and he's not as easily quotable out of context as some others at the table. I think because he is a lot more naturalistic than dramatic at times (Chetney notwithstanding) and isn't as pithy and quotable in his characters as many of Taliesin's PCs are, and a lot of the strength is in the delivery, he gets overlooked despite being very good with words on the fly.

And finally: this would be a whole post on its own but people are still very foolishly wed to this idea that pressing the big red button in D&D is Wild and Chaotic and haha Big ADHD Man when it's actually how you play D&D if you're not a coward; the button is where the story is stored, and a lot of Travis's strength is that he is extremely good at understanding what the GM wants and supporting it with sufficient grace that it's only visible if you know what you're fucking doing.

#answered #Anonymous #in the end although it's frustrating the fandom often sells him short #every gm is like this man is the greatest player i've ever had so who's really right in the end #anyway. watch candela chapter 2.#opinions rating ask meme

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fandomsandfeminism · 2 years

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So, this is going to be a little meandering and all over the place. But I'm trying to express this...web of thoughts I've been having lately around this issue of queer, and labels, and the way we talk about our history and the way the community conceptualized itself in this very digital age. And it's still kind of half formed, so...let's see.

So. OK.

One thing I see a lot online, especially with people who are just now coming out, is a sort of...overfixation on increasingly niche labels. Im not saying that having a very specific or newer label is bad, to be clear. Labels are rhetorical tools, use what is useful. They help with visibility and discussing specific issues. No issues there.

But watching people quibble over bi vs pan vs omni vs abro or non-binary vs genderqueer vs demigender vs genderfluid vs agender vs xenogender vs bigender vs gnc. Asexual or gray ace or demisexual or queerplatonic. And whether they are a biromantic lesbian demigirl or bisexual greyaromantic genderuid. And it's always just a little exhausting, ya know? Again, if those labels are meaningful and useful, that's great, but I see people *agonizing* over which they "really" are. Like if they pick the wrong word to describe themselves, they are coming out the wrong way, like they are wrong about themselves if they can't find the exact correct word on an FAQ list of lgbt vocabulary.

And how I think that relates to the way people talk about our CURRENT labels as though these labels have always been there and like the people described by these labels now have no common experiences with other labels. Like lesbians and bisexual women have absolutely nothing in common. Like butches and trans men have no shared history. As though trans women and drag queens have always been completely separate and unconnected groups. As though ace folks and nonbinary folks are somehow new to the scene, and not community members who were always here and just didn't have a separate label until more recently.

I *remember* watching the community make the switch from transvestite and transsexual, to differentiating between transsexuals and transgender, to basically just using transgender/trans. Those labels are not stagnant. None of our labels are some ingrained biological unchanging objective truth. Labels are rhetorical shortcuts to summarize this facet of our identity and lives and experiences- but they are just words.

And maybe this connects to the way people get really...weird about historical figures too. Like whether Sappho was a lesbian or bisexual, as though either of those words would have had any meaning to her. About whether Shakespeare was gay or bi, like he would have conceptualized his own identity that way. About what modern label Dr. James Barry would have used for himself if anyone could travel back in time and ask him.

And then I think about why queer feels so much more affirming, so much more a place of strength, than LGBT+. Not that LGBT as a label is bad, and I honestly probably prefer it for allies and outsiders to use. But as a community label- Queer, to me, says that all our experiences are queer experiences. Queer can be many things, but they are all queer. Regardless of how many genders or which specific genders you like, whether you have a romantic and or sexual attraction to whatever collection of genders, whatever thing your gender is doing today- all of it, ALL of it, once you step outside that cis, straight mainstream sexuality and gender norm- is queer. Equally queer.

Lgbt+ feels like we are still keeping all those labels separate, little boxes all lined up next to each other- different but a coalition. And while that isn't bad, I also think it isn't totally true.

[A caveat here, that there are times when more specific labels are very helpful. We don't want any specific kind of queer experience to be overshadowed or erased, and having more specific labels facilitates those discussions. Again, I'm not saying that we should eliminate or erase our more specific labels.]

But I think imagining our community as a collection of wholly separate groups that are just allied together, instead of one group that we are all equally in, can make it far too easy for exclusionists to sneak up and say "well ___ isn't REALLY lgbt. THEY aren't REALLY one of us. ___ dont belong."

If we take all the labels off all the crayons- red and pink and purple and blue and teal and green are not hard and fast divisions. They are artificial distinctions we have made- all of them are light, all of them the rainbow.

Anyway. I just think that, while everyone should use whatever labels bring them joy and are useful for them, we might be better off if more folks were ok with ALSO accepting the vast ambiguity of being queer.

#queer thoughts #queer rambling #maybe Im off here or missing some nuance #but Im bi AND queer #Im bi and genderqueer AND queer #and I think theres strength and beauty in seeing our diverse experience and saying YEAH all of us are in this together

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capacityfornirvana · 8 days

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I agree they’ll try to navigate buddie very differently from now on and they’ll try to let people down very very gently. why do you think it’s happening right now? What changed? Did the get tired? Was buddie a possibility but now it’s not anymore? Is it because Tommy is more supported than previous partner and they’re not afraid to lose support of a subset of fans? I do think it’s the last one. Online fandom was 90% buddie shippers before bucktommy. But now I think it’s a 65% buddie 25% bucktommy shippers (but the number is growing) and 10% everything else

I believe it's all of the above, with the exception of Buck and Eddie evolving from something viable to something no longer considered.

As brief as my time has been in this fandom, I have to be honest, I have never gotten the sense that Buck and Eddie was ever actually a viable pairing. I tried to see it. I tried hard, and I would have been more than happy, had I felt it. But I just couldn't. I think the intention was always to portray them as platonic friends turned brothers. Personally, I think Eddie making Buck Christopher's godfather, however you want to view that gesture, was proof of that. I don't think that narrative choice was to show that Eddie subconsciously saw Buck as a potential romantic partner who could fill in as a second father to Christopher. I think it was to emphasize how much Eddie trusted Buck with his son, to show that Eddie could see how much Buck loves his son, and he was so touched by that, so much so that he would trust Buck to raise his son, should he ever die young. And even if Buck couldn't do that, for whatever reason, I think it was important for Eddie to let Buck know that his best friend valued him that much, because Eddie is an amazing friend who wants Buck to know how genuinely important he is to other people. He knows that Buck has always had a low opinion of himself, and any good friend would want to chip away at that mentality. This is all just my interpretation, mind you, but man, I feel pretty confident about it. I know that confidence means absolutely zilch, but hey.

As for why they're starting to make their intentions clearer, I do think the catalyst was the rampant toxicity, in addition to what I said before about the desire to maintain respect for Buck and his bisexuality. Because I'll tell you what, the toxicity from these shippers spread fast and far, to the point where I am seeing people who haven't even seen 9-1-1 talk about Buck, his bisexuality, and the harassment from Buddie shippers. When I picked up on that, I knew the shift was going to come quickly, assuming my assumption about Buck and Eddie only being friends was correct. Granted, I didn't predict Jennifer Love Hewitt being so, uh, direct about it, and for Ryan Guzman to throw out the heterosexual label. But hey, life comes at us fast.

I'm not going to say if Tommy is here to stay or not. I have no way of knowing that. When it comes to shows of this nature, a lot can change extremely fast. But I feel it in my bones that they are, at the very least, strongly considering it.

#911 abc #bucktommy #i hope this all makes sense. super distracted at the moment.#anonymous #ask #text

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moralesmilesanhour · 7 months

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lil' baby crush

summary: gwen pays miles a visit and gets him to go to one(1) college party. wc: ~1400 a/n: this isn't canon-compliant in that gwen is gay and miles is bisexual here. he's like the 'damn nobody want u fr' 'im sayin like!' image. enjoy!

Miles sighed and sunk down into his chair, the blue light from his laptop illuminating his face. He was currently the only one occupying the shared dorm room, working on an essay that wasn’t due until next month while his roommate was out doing…whatever he was doing.

Partying, probably.

Despite what he’d often told his parents to explain his sudden disappearances, Miles didn’t really do parties.

He’d had a taste of them in the form of school dances at Brooklyn Middle: you get there, maybe talk to your friends a little, then stand around trying to figure out how, when, and for how long to dance while the same ten songs rattle your eardrums.

If he wanted to blast his ears with music for several hours straight, he figured that’s what his trusty bass-boosted headphones at home were for. No complex social ballet required. Even better, he could choose the playlist.

But it sure made for some boring-ass Friday nights.

Miles got up and rolled his shoulders, fully prepared to go lie in bed for another hour, when he caught a familiar golden light flash across his window. He grinned to himself, wondering which member of what Hobie had affectionately called ‘the Spider-band’ had swung by for a visit.

Tap, tap, tap.

Gwen’s white mask appeared in the frame. She waved as Miles padded over to the window and pushed it open wide enough for her to climb through. Just as her muddy converses were about to touch the floor, he raised an eyebrow.

“Gwanda, you know better.”

“Right, forgot about that,” Gwen laughed, kicking them off. “Old habits, y’know?”

Miles shook his head and grinned.

“So, how’s the thing with MJ going?”

Gwen removed her mask, revealing shoulder-length blonde hair. It fell in choppy layers, and she had replaced the soft pink dye at the tips with a fiery orange.

"Well, it's…going."

Miles crossed his arms.

"Gwen…You did talk to her, right?"

"Y-yeah! I spoke to her," Gwen gnawed at her bottom lip before mumbling, "Once. On the subway."

"Absolutely tragic," he exclaimed dramatically as he fell back on his bed. "My best friend has absolutely no game!"

"Oh, you're one to talk! You think I forgot about 'the shoulder touch'?"

Miles sat straight up.

"I thought we agreed to never speak of that again."

"Just saying," Gwen hopped off of the window sill and sat at Miles' desk. "Enough about me, though. How's campus life? You get wasted at any parties yet?"

Miles shrugged.

"I got invited to one nearby that's supposed to be tonight, but I stayed back. No club meetings this week, either, so…"

Her eyes widened.

"So you're just sitting here?"

"I'm being productive," he corrected, pointing to his laptop. "See? I'm half-way done with that essay, I could probably turn it in a week early."

"Miles."

"What? I'm chilling, Gwen, seriously! Just me and my, uh…" Miles glanced at his bookshelf. "...crossword puzzles."

Gwen stood resolutely, already having made a decision in her head.

"Pick an outfit, we're going to that party."

"Whoah, whoah, wait, hold on–"

Miles hopped to his feet as she threw open his closet and began rummaging through it.

"Since when do you wear sweater vests?"

She held up several hangers with sweater vests of various colors.

"I wanted to look distinguished…?"

"Nerd," she snorted. "Oh, this bomber jacket looks sick! Feel like going out with it?"

Miles laughed, "Something tells me I don't have much of a choice."

"Correct," Gwen smirked, tossing the jacket at him. "I’m gonna have to borrow one of these hoodies."

After a twenty-minute walk (Miles didn’t want to risk swinging), the two stopped in front of a run-down apartment building. Loud music and spinning lights from mini disco balls spilled out of the windows.

"This is it," Miles breathed. "If my first party sucks or gets raided by the cops, I'm never speaking to you again."

"Never know until you try," Gwen replied. "Shall we?"

The place was already packed. There was a lively beer pong game happening in the kitchen, while a pack of students were strung along the walls in the living room puffing clouds of marijuana smoke into the air. The group in the middle of the room, of course, was dancing. Or something that closely resembled dancing.

Miles glanced across the room, scanning the sea of swaying bodies when he noticed one lounging on the couch.

The figure was staring down into a red solo cup, a full head of blonde, ear-length dreads obscuring half of his face until he looked up.

In a devastating miscalculation, Miles let himself stare a little longer until he realized that their eyes had met. He froze, as if the stranger’s dark eyes kept him in place.

Gwen followed his line of vision. She’d seen that look on Miles’ face before: once when they first met at Visions, and again when Hobie had invited them to a concert and she’d caught Miles ogling the bassist.

She grinned and clapped him on the shoulder.

"I'll be by the speakers. Go get 'em, tiger."

Despite his sneakers feeling like they were made of concrete, he took a step forward, then another, keeping his eyes on his target all the while.

The other boy tilted his head in amusement.

"Um," Miles began, "I-Is this spot taken?"

"Well, I'm sitting in it, so…"

Real smooth, Miles.

"No! I mean, like, next to you–"

The boy’s eyes became crescent moons as he burst into laughter.

"Relax, I know what you meant. Spot's free," he gestured towards the empty area on the couch to his right.

"O-oh, cool. Thanks," Miles laughed awkwardly. The couch sank beneath him when he sat down.

How the fuck do you flirt with dudes?

He could barely fumble his way through flirting with women, riding almost entirely on them finding his utter lack of game endearing. Now here he was, glancing back and forth between the stranger and a wall.

"Yo, you want a drink?" The boy asked, snapping Miles out of his thoughts. "You look like you need one."

He was probably right.

"Sure, I don't mind."

He rose to his feet, revealing more of his outfit: an oversized black tee layered over a white shirt, with a red kilt draped over a pair of dark wash jeans. A real Jaden Smith type, it seemed. But maybe Miles was into that.

It wasn't long before he returned with a second solo cup, which he pushed into Miles' hand.

"So," he asked with a grunt as he sat, "Why you not dancin'?"

Miles snorted, and shook his head.

"I don't dance. Was never too good at it."

"Ah, but is the point of dancing to be good at it?"

"Don't get philosophical with me now, I'm a STEM major," Miles grinned, then took a sip of whatever was in his cup.

He tried his best to hide his disdain for the brown liquid, but the grimace on his face made it evident. "I didn't catch your name, by the way."

"Call me TJ."

"That's a cute name–I mean, a nice name," Miles winced at himself. "A very…normal name."

TJ laughed, revealing a gap-toothed smile that made Miles' chest swell. "Thanks. Yours?"

"Miles. Miles Morales."

"I think your name's cuter. Bonus points for alliteration."

Miles felt heat rushing up to his ears and cheeks. He hadn't had enough to drink for him to blame it on that.

"So, why aren't you dancing?" He asked, changing the subject.

TJ shrugged.

"I prefer to people-watch."

"Oh, so when you do it, it's 'people-watching'," Miles made air quotes with his fingers. "I see how you move."

"And yet here you are, talking to me anyway. No idea why you chose me to sit next to, by the way. It's hella empty seats."

Miles bit his lip.

"I…didn't come over here just to find a seat, actually."

TJ raised a bleached eyebrow.

"So what did you come here for? Clearly not to get high, your pupils look normal."

Miles took a deep breath, his heartbeat louder in his ears than the music.

"You, um…You're…"

Holy shit, just say something!

"Do you like boys? I'm not asking for a friend."

Oh my god. Not like that.

TJ blinked, then a smirk began to spread across his face as he came to a realization.

"Why, yes. Yes I do. You wanna get outta here? I know a place with actual food."

Miles let out a breathy laugh.

"You have no idea how relieved I am to hear that."

"I think I have some idea. You're sweating."

Before he could respond, Miles felt his phone vibrate in his jacket. It was Gwen.

-gwanda: finally!!

-gwanda: if u don’t get his number im gonna be so mad at u. be back by midnight!!

He rolled his eyes.

-miles: ok mom

Miles shut off his phone and rose to his feet, as TJ had already done. He took a deep breath.

“Shall we?”

#can i even tag this as a gen fic #miles morales fic #miles morales headcanons #gwen stacy headcanons #atsvplatonic #miles morales x reader #atsv fic #miles morales x oc

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total-drama-atlas · 1 year

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Character Headcanons

this is just sexuality and gender hcs lol but here we go! I'm going to go in first elimination order in their debut season, except for the new cast (because i haven't finished the season yet, so I dont want to spoil it for myself) which will be in the order that i remember them, then the hosts.

Ezekiel: I think he's cishet. just the homeschool stereotype and all that. but maybe he discovers something about himself between meeting alejandro and going completely feral

Eva: she's a butch lesbian. i personally think she's cis, but i could see transfem eva

Noah: gay trans man. i mean have you guys even seen his character

justin: I think he's aroace. again, i personally think justin is cis, but i could see him being trans

katie: trans lesbian. i just know it okay

tyler: he's bi. he absolutely had a crush on alejandro. you can't change my mind. i also think he's cis but again, i could see him being transmasc

izzy: shes transfem. of course. and i think she's a lesbian, but i could see her being bi or pan. assuming she's lesbian, her relationship with owen could either be just strategy or comphet. you decide

cody: have you seen the way that boy dresses? trans man bisexual disaster.

beth: personally, i think she gives cishet vibes, but i could see her possibly being bi and/or transfem.

sadie: obviously lesbian. she and katie are in love. of course. and idk if she's cis or trans. i could see either. but I think she is also trans. t4t

courtney: as much as i love duncney... i think courtney is lesbian. i think she has extreme comphet and she doesn't realize her sexuality until wt, and then doesn't come to terms with it and accept herself until all stars. but i think she's cis

harold: transfem harold is canon. to me. idk their sexuality tho. i could see them as omni or pan tho.

trent: bisexual trent is so real guys. again, i personally think he's cis, but I could see transmasc trent

bridgette: i could see her as transfem, but I also could see her as cis. also she gives me pan vibes but I can also see her being straight. idrk

lindsay: shes pan. i just know it okay. i personally see her as cis, but again, i could see transfem lindsay. or transmasc lindsay.

DJ: cis, aroace. he's just a really sweet guy

geoff: cis, bisexual. i just know it okay

leshawna: cis, bisexual. i just. i just know it okay

duncan: cis bisexual. he'll call you a slur tho

heather: transfem lesbian. trust me guys. i could also see her being ace tho

gwen: transfem bi. i just know

owen: cis bi. he is canonically bi btw. he had a crush on justin. it was played as a joke but. that's just what happened

blaineley: i could see her as straight or queer honestly. i personally think she's cishet.

sierra: transfem. for sure. and i think she's a lesbian with comphet. just like heather and courtney.

alejandro: I think he's cis, but i could see him being trans. also he's bi. trust me. but i mean i could see him being gay. it's plausible.

staci: she doesn't have enough screen time for me to tell. she has like. ten minutes total. but shes trans

dakota: transfem pansexual. i just know it okay

B: i think they're nb, or at the least a trans man. i mean. his deadname is a traditionally feminine name.. it lines up. they're not cis i can tell you that much. anyway i think he's aroace

dawn: genderqueer panromantic ace. just trust me okay

sam: he gives me cishet vibes, but also i could easily see him being bi or pan.

Brick: i feel like he's cis but I also like the idea of him experimenting with gender nonconformity. and as much as i like jo x brick as a ship, i also think brick is probably gay. or bi with a heavy male preference

anne maria: transfem anne maria is canon. to me. anyway she's very much bi.

mike: i feel like he's cis but i could see him as trans, and i think he's pan. i'm also treating his alters like separate characters, though i know very little about multiple personality disorder, so idk if that's exactly how that works (feel free to correct me in replies)

vito: i hc him to be cis but idk. also he's pan. if vito finds you hot, it doesn't matter what you've got going on.

Svetlana: transfem lesbian. trust me okay

chester: cishet ally.

mal: look i like the queer hcs for mal. y'all are so real for that. but i think he's cishet and homophobic and transphobic

manitoba: trans manitoba is real. to me. also he's pan. trust me y'all

jo: trans butch lesbian

scott: cis gay man

zoey: she could be either cis or trans. i think she's transfem. and also she's pan. i don't think an explanation is necessary

cameron: she was very sheltered, so i doubt she would have been exposed to LGBTQ+ stuff so she wouldn't know it at first.. but I think cam would be transfem. bc i saw a post where someone said that it would be funny if cameron realized she was trans because lightning kept calling her a "girl" and that was her awakening lol. anyway she's ace

lightning: cis gay man

beardo: he gets like ten minutes of screen time and he doesn't really talk.. cis bi

leonard: cis gay. i just know it

amy: cishet +homo/transphobic (i'll explain in a minute)

rodney: he's cis, okay. and pan. i just know it

sammy: shes transfem lesbian. trust me. That's why Amy hates her sm. it lines up with real experiences that I know people have

ella: she's bi. i just know it. but i'm not sure what their gender situation is.. but she uses she/they pronouns

Topher: cis gay man. just look at him i mean

dave: cishet. undecided on his opinion of queer people. (he decides he's an ally when he finds out sky is queer but he then declares himself homophobic when she rejects him) he would call you a slur

scarlett: transfem lesbian.

max: transmasc gay.

jasmine: transfem bi

sugar: cis lesbian

shawn: transmasc pan. i just know it okay

sky: transfem bi/pan. i just know it okay. also that's why dave decided he's homophobic and transphobic now

Tammy: trans lesbian. trust me okay

Pete: cis gay. also he's married to gerry

Gerry: cis gay. also he's married to pete

Ellody: trans lesbian. also she's dating mary

Mary: cis lesbian. also she's dating ellody

laurie: cis bisexual. also she's dating miles

miles: trans lesbian. also she's dating laurie

tom: cis gay

jen: cis lesbian

kelly: cishet ally

taylor: cishet homophobe

jay: major cishet vibes. but idk he might learn some things. once he's actually esposed to the outside world

mickey: see jay.

lorenzo: cishet. i didn't really care for the stepbros team so i haven't really put much though into it

chet: cishet. see lorenzo

rock: nonbinary bisexual. also he's dating spud

spud: trans gay man. also he's dating rock

dwayne: cishet homophobe

junior: he's like. 11. i'm not saying you can't have figured our your sexuality and gender at that age. but junior definitely hasnt

ennui: trans bi man. canonically dating crimson (and i'm keeping taht)

crimson: trans bi woman. canonically dating ennui (and Im keeping it taht way)

stephanie: cis bi woman. i just know it.

ryan: cishet ally

devin: cis bi man

carrie: cishet ally (she's a HUGE ally okay)

kitty: cis lesbian

emma: cis lesbian

josee: transfem lesbian

jacques: trans gay man

macarthur: trans butch lesbian. also she's dating sanders

sanders: cis lesbian. also she's dating macarthur

brody: cis pansexual. just trust me okay

axel: trans butch lesbian. also she's in love with nichelle

nichelle: cis femme lesbian. also she's in love with axel

emma: cis lesbian with extreme comphet

chase: cis bi man with lots of internalized homophobia. anyway he's in love with ripper

ripper: cis bi man. also he's in love with chase. (i don't like ripper or chase. they're perfect for each other tho)

wayne: cishet ally (he's canonically an ally!!)

raj: cis gay. also bowraj for life

bowie: cis gay. also bowraj for life

i need to make another block of text bc i reached the character limit lmao

scary girl/lauren: transfem lesbian. i just know it

zee: nonbinary pansexual. trust me

julia: cis lesbian. but she'll call you a slur. she's dating MK

damien: i think he's a cishet ally. but i could see him as bi

caleb: cis aroace. no i will not elaborate

millie: transfem lesbian

priya: cis lesbian

MK: nonbinary lesbian. they're dating julia

The host with the most, chris mclean: trans gay man. he'll call you a slur tho. he's married to chef

Chef Hatchet: cis gay man. he's married to chris

Don: cis gay man. he hates chris's guts.

that's every character. anyway next week it's going to be a tierlist of all the characters <3

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transmascpetewentz · 6 months

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A Short Guide To Writing Gay Trans Men

So a few disclaimers before I start:

I'm not going to talk about anything sex-related here because 1) people have made other guides and google is your friend & 2) I'm not very comfortable with it.

I am just one person, and due to the fact that I am white and thin and perisex, I will definitely have blind spots. If you want more information about intersections that don't apply to me, ask someone who it does apply to!

I did get lots of messages from trans guys giving me advice on this, but nonetheless I do not speak for absolutely everyone.

There will be very little info here on how to accurately write medical transitions because that's not something I've experienced. Google is your best friend on this one.

This is not a complete post. I will keep adding to it as time goes on. If you're seeing this post reblogged by someone else, click on the original to see if I've made any additions or corrections before you send me that anon hate and/or comment telling me to kill myself.

What Not To Do

When there is a trans male character written by a cis person, especially a cis man, there's a very solid chance that he is going to check off at least 9 of the following boxes:

Thin

White

Able-bodied

Neurotypical or LSN neurodivergent

Binary

No nuance given to his identity and expression

Sexuality not specified or elaborated on

A cis person's love interest

2 dimensional transmasc stereotype

Usually small and feminine, but not actually femme

Gay transmasc characters written by cis people are very difficult to find because cis authors will often not specify the sexuality of the trans man dating a cis man or elaborate on his connection to the MLM community. This is because many cis authors believe that writing a gay trans man is just writing a woman but switching one of the genders. This is, of course, not true, and there must be more care taken to provide nuance and create a more accurate (and non-dysphoria-inducing) representation.

Moving Past The White Twink Stereotype

This is one of the most basic bars to clear for a cis person writing a gay trans man, and yet so many continue to fail at this very simple task. Ask yourself: is your gay transmasc character a white, hairless, thin person? If the answer is yes, that's not inherently a bad thing, though it may be good to reflect on why you want to create a character like this if this is the only type of transmasc representation you write.

The biggest thing you need to do here is to give him a set of defining traits. Not physical traits, not even gender expression traits. Just personality. What kind of person is he? How does he cope with the transphobia in this world (unless you're writing a fantasy universe without transphobia)? How does he act towards strangers? How does he approach people of different genders? What is his outlook on cis people? Once you have the basics, it's time to think about his physical appearance & expression and how that has impacted his life and his personality.

You also want to avoid the trope where a gay trans man's personality is undeveloped and he is treated as an object for cis men to help them advance their character arcs. It's fine for trans men to serve a purpose like that in the story, but they need to be their own individual humans.

Writing Sexuality

If your trans male characters date men, and I cannot reiterate this enough, make them be open about their homosexuality or bisexuality. Give them a sexual orientation and make them be proud of it. Of course, not every gay trans man is going to identify heavily with a masc/fem role in gay male relationships, but you should seriously consider whether or not your character would.

Additionally, don't follow the flawed line of logic of "trans man -> vagina -> bottom -> fem/femme." It's fine to make your gay trans male characters fem but please, I swear to god please give them a good reason for being so. If you do make your character femme, be very cautious to use language that doesn't trigger actual trans men's dysphoria. Don't constantly point out the character's physical features that may be associated with femininity unless you're making a point either about his dysphoria or about how society treats him or maybe about how he comes to accept his body. However, please be extremely careful with the last one as this trope has been used in so many transphobic portrayals.

Have your gay trans male character exist in gay spaces with other gay men (both cis and trans). Have him be open about being a gay man specifically. Give him cis gay male friends. Give him trans gay male friends. Don't allow your reader to ignore the fact that he is very much a gay man.

Dysphoria

For the love of all things good, please do not write your gay trans male character's dysphoria as "from the day I was born, I knew I was born in the wrong body. I have had no internalized shame or guilting into making me doubt my transness, and it was obvious that I was not a woman." That's not how anyone's dysphoria works, even if they did know from a young age that they were born in the wrong body.

For gay trans men specifically, most of us end up realizing we're trans around either age 12 or age 20. This doesn't mean he has to be exactly that age, but that's generally the safest age to have your character's egg crack. Of course, you can sprinkle in signs that he's trans since he was a young child, but I know a lot of gay trans men and I have yet to meet one who has known since birth and has had no doubt in his mind about it. However you can and should write older gay trans men, even some who find out they're trans in their 40s or older. Representation of older trans people is seriously lacking compared to how many there are.

Don't make your character the stereotype of a straight trans man who doesn't face the specific intersection of being trans and gay. Facing this intersection does affect something even as personal as dysphoria. Many of us will have self-doubt, believe that we're disgusting fetishists of gay men, or simply exist as women in gay spaces for a time. You also have to take into account gay beauty standards & your character's upbringing to figure out what they're likely to be most dysphoric about.

hi :3

That's it for now. I'll keep adding to this post as I get feedback and suggestions. If you want more advice, feel free to send me an ask. When I get enough asks about things, I'll make an FAQ post answering some of them.

#wentz.txt #transmasc #writeblr #long post #extremely long post

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bengiyo · 7 months

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Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.....Thanks....

10 Favorite Characters

You asked a broad question, so I hope you’re okay with answers outside of my daily posting. I post a lot about BL on here, but this list is a mild reminder that I am Black. As I’m putting this list together, I’m recognizing a common thread of ruthlessness in these characters that I will have to unpack at some point.

Omar Little (The Wire)

Omar is one of my favorite characters of all time because he was the first sympathetic gay character I ever watched on TV with my dad. As I got older, my dad decided I was old enough and wanted me to watch what he considered to be one of the greatest shows ever made (NOTE: He is correct). I was obsessed with Omar because of his strict code and how gentle and loving he was with his boyfriends. It was amazing to me that we had this powerful gay character in the middle of a modern Greek tragedy and he is one of the most compelling characters ever created in American television.

Ender Wiggin (Ender’s Game)

One of the sad thing about growing up queer is the people who wrote a lot of your formative works hate queer people. Orson Scott Card was my first major disappointment in this regard. In the 7th grade, I discovered this book in our school library and ended up reading it and the related books multiple times throughout my adolescence. I was a weird kid who was too smart for my own good. In middle school I struggled with feeling out of place because I was relatively new compared to most of these kids, and my family had me on a specific life track that meant that I had to perform at a high level constantly. I connected with Ender’s isolation and his brilliance. I also connected to his ruthlessness.

Marco (Animorphs)

Animorphs is a pretty dark series for a bunch of elementary school kids to read, but that was K. A. Applegate’s point. War is horrible, and should be avoided. Reading this series is a reading the perspective of child soldiers. There was something about the way Marco always masked with jokes, but was quietly the most ruthless member of their group that means he’s always the one I remember first. There were also the ways he commented on Ax and Jake that just didn’t read straight, and I’ve been relieved that Applegate and the ghost writers have acknowledged the fan read on Marco’s bisexuality. I just love how from appearances at the end of the series Marco is actually okay after all the war, but he absolutely is not.

Benjamin Sisko (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

He was our first Black captain in Star Trek and I will love him forever. He’s also from New Orleans and cooks our food. He’s a devoted father, which was something Avery Brooks requested for the role to make sure we had a positive depiction of Black fatherhood on TV in the 90s. He has an understated spirituality to him. He has grit from facing the ugly side of maintaining a utopia and has an incredible temper that he holds most of the time. He’s a nerd about baseball. He cares about his people and holds firm as their commander. This isn’t a committee for him. He can be so brutal. I love him.

Ghost Dog (Ghost Dog)

Ghost Dog (1999) is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I’ve always loved the version of masculinity Forest Whitaker put into this character. He has a sense of style and flair, and also follows a strict code of conduct. His adherence to his way earned him the respect of everyone in his community, and gangsters in his neighborhood show him admiration and respect. I loved his friendship with Raymond, in which neither knows what the other is saying and yet they are actually on the same page constantly.

Raymond Holt (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

Yes, this show is copaganda, but I love Raymond Holt so much. I love that Andre Braugher played the Straight Man role in a comedy as a politically out gay man who has such a serious exterior. Holt was so gay in so many ways and I am obsessed with him. He is so deep into his niche interests (like me) and yet he was actually such a great mentor figure to everyone under him. I loved that he and his husband were so devoted to each other but were never depicted as the perfect couple. I love that he has a petty beef with another colleague. He’s just an incredible character.

Kiram Kir-zaki (Lord of the White Hell)

Kiram is the first time I ever realized how deep the programming in speculative fiction to read the protagonist as a white man with brown hair and brown eyes. Kiram is a dark-skinned Haldiim youth with curly gold hair and light eyes. It took me three readings of this book to perceive Kiram properly, and it’s something that has shaken me for a long time. Kiram is brilliant, snarky, and too gay for his own good. He’s also not stupid. I love reading a smart gay character who generally cannot hide who he is doing the work to blend in to a homophobic setting. Ginn Hale also writes gay sex better than some gay male authors.

Kakei Shiro (What Did You Eat Yesterday?)

Honestly, when am I ever not thinking about this man? I love how, even if he can’t immediately give Kenji everything he might want, he gives Kenji all that he can. He couldn’t say he loved Kenji for a long time, but you could feel the love in his cooking. I’m so happy to have this man and his partner back on my screen again. It is just so hard to be gay. I am so relieved that many of the folks reading my posts didn’t suffer The Knowing, because I know that Shiro and I will never be able to get away from what it did to us.

Chiron (Moonlight)

The terrible intersection of poverty, race, and sexuality has never been better exemplified for me than in this film that has no white people in it. There are just so many fewer choices for us, especially if you can’t hide who you are. I love Chiron so much because we see so much of what he was forced to be pushed onto him. There’s something heartbreaking and beautiful that as an adult he resembles Juan, and that he never got over Kevin. I find it hard to explain why Chiron means so much to me, but I’m black and gay so I don’t always feel like I have to.

Max (Black Sails)

I love Max because she consistently chose to not be cruel when so many others would have. She is not accumulating power for her own ego or to punish those who wronged her. She holds power as a facilitator. History doesn’t remember the facilitators who keep the lights on and make sure the bread gets made every day, but you notice their absence within two days when they’re gone. Max is also funny to me because she and Flint almost never encounter each other, but have caused the other so much grief.

Thank you for the ask!

#answered #black sails #what did you eat yesterday?#star trek #deep space 9 #moonlight #animorphs #lord of the white hell #ginn hale #ender's game #ghost dog #brooklyn nine nine #the wire

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greenlikethesea · 4 months

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i also have to ask about no bitches Eddie

omg no bitches eddie is so fun. @sparklyslug and i were really tickled by this joseph quinn interview in which he thinks that eddie has no game whatsoever and that a lot of his "scores" are really swing-and-a-miss. there's pining! everyone's bisexual (except robin!)! it's just a delight. here's an excerpt!

Okay, so Steve’s being dramatic. He knows it. It’s not like they don’t have anything in common. They’ve been bonding over music, the apparent key to Eddie’s heart. Sworn to an oath of secrecy, Eddie has begrudgingly admitted to enjoying Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, which made Steve want to pull over and run a victory lap around his car. Steve can admit that Rob Halford’s voice is next level. And there’s…other stuff. A remarkable amount of crossover when you grow up parallel to someone else, even if your paths only converge when disaster strikes. Shared memories in common spaces, a lot of “I didn’t know you were there when that happened,” dual sides of the same coin. Being a background character in someone’s story, even if Steve wasn’t always the nicest one. For all that they have discussed, romance isn’t a thing. Eddie’s made assumptions based on Steve’s (greatly exaggerated) past history, and Steve…well, Steve hasn’t corrected him, or elaborated. As for Eddie, Steve hasn’t been quite sure how to ask. He doesn’t know how you bring up this kind of thing. Hey Eddie, I know we’ve been hanging out a lot. I was wondering, do you like to fuck dudes? Absolutely not. And anyway, now he has his answer. Or rather, he’s had it for the past week or so, but it’s staring him in the face. He’s been pretending to look at the new releases for the past few minutes, just to give them some time alone together, but there are only so many times he can gaze into Whitney Houston’s bright eyes (as beautiful as they are) before he admits that he’s just delaying the inevitable. Okay, Steve. You got this. Go on.

#asks #thank you for asking!

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Papa Joe having to visit school

Joe rushes into the administrative building, ready to learn what the hell happened when he sees Sofia sitting outside, head bowed.

"Mi todo, what happened?" He kneels in front of her so she'll look at him.

"I didn't start it, papa. They were calling me names. I didn't want them to do that. So I punched them. Lo siento." Tears slipped down her cheeks as she tried her best not to look at him.

He was about to ask what names she'd been called when the principal's assistant opened the door. "Mr. Velasco, come inside, your wife is waiting with the principal." For fear of bursting out in rage in front of his daughter, he didn't correct the woman. Instead, he kissed the top of Sofia's head, then got up and followed the woman inside.

You could see the anger in his eyes as soon as you looked at him. "Where are the kids who started this?!" He asked, glaring at the principal.

"I'm sorry? You must've had this all mixed up. Your daughter is the one who punched those kids."

Joe didn't bother to sit down, opting to stand by the door and look at the two of you. "Did you ever stop to wonder why she did it? Of course not.

You were just as confused as the principal was. "Joe--"

"They called her names. I want to know what else they've done because my daughter's first response is never violence. I've taught her better than that!"

At this, you got out of your chair too, "names?! What names?!" You demanded to know.

"It does not matter. What matters is we do not condone violence at this school Mrs. and Mr. Velasco--"

"What. Names?!" You asked again, sure that your anger was now equal to your best friend's anger.

The principal started scribbling on a piece of paper, stammering about how it should not be repeated, then handed it to you. As soon as you read it you wanted to tear it up before Joe could see it, knowing it would blow up if he saw it.

"The names, y/n, let me see the names!" Joe stated through gritted teeth.

You didn't want to show it, simply putting it in your pocket and turning to the principal. "Either punish those kids or face a lawsuit--your call sir."

"You can--"

"What she did was just the tip of the iceberg, and I absolutely can. Because what they have done to her could very well be considered a hate crime, and you covering them and punishing our daughter just makes you complicit."

It was Joe's turn to be surprised.

"So how long were you planning on punishing her?"

"Tw--two weeks--suspensions--"

"No. Try again." You grab your phone, ready to call a favor at the Hate Crimes unit.

"One week--"

Shaking your head you started dialing the number, keeping eye contact with him.

"After school detention--two days--" "That's better." You locked your phone and put it in your pocket, "And if I hear anything about the other kids not being punished, or if anything like this happens again, you know what will happen."

He nodded his head, fear in his eyes.

~~~

Leaving the office you went straight to Sofia, picking her up and hugging her tightly. "I'm so sorry I got angry, baby. I should've listened to your first. Forgive me."

As soon as she was in your arms she started to cry, hugging you tightly. Joe coming over to hug the two of you as well.

"How about we go get Javi as well, then we can go for ice cream and ice your hand a little too." You suggested.

The little girl nodded at that, hugging you again. "Papa, will you stay too?"

"I'll make some calls and then I'll be here with you all."

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YES!!!!!! BISEXUAL LEON!!!! TRANS ALLY LEON!!!!!!! GENDER FUCKERY!!!!!!!!!!! i ENCOURAGE u to write so much everything. we need more trans reader x leon content its not even funny. i am absolutely here in support!!!

im just gonna be full cringe on main here but!! i literally think ab being w (re2) leon when i was still an egg, and him being supportive of me when im questioning it and when i come out and being so protective and supportive and <3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3<3 i love thinking ab him helping me w starting hrt w both researching who to go to to start it and actually doing it <3<3 (im obsessed w leon and i know hes literally the biggest ally ever. me n him are literally perfect bi4bi :3333) i want him to proudly show me off to his friends and coworkers!!! get weird looks cause we queer as fuck!!! and proud!!!

ok im done HAHSBAHDSBNS 🐕

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BISEXUAL LEON IS SUCH A TRANS ALLY. HE WOULD RESEARCH ALL UR DOCTORS APPOINTMENTS WITH YOU. HE WOULD LITERALLY OFFER TO ADMINISTER YOUR DOSE.

I'm so happy re2 Leon brought you peace in those moments <3 Gender is so fucked. Yeah being trans is great, but everything else that comes with it HURTS. Sometimes you just want to sit next to Leon on a big comfy couch talking about your gender, yanno?

I think Leon would be so thrilled to finally have someone take him up on his dinner offer, he would want to show them off. He'd want to know if you were comfortable with it, and whether you were comfortable with going by your correct name/pronouns among his coworkers. He'd be more than happy to show you off to those around him, and would love the fact that you're trans- because it's you.

Thank you for your support and your message! I definitely want to write a leon queerfic. Actually I want to write many. I want one where they're feeling dysphoric, and a history of his bisexuality! I definitely headcanon Leon as bisexual/pansexual, he's just such a friend of Dorothy. That man/nonbinary entity is queer your honor

#aaaaaaaaaa #They r queer #queer thoughts #bisexual #pansexual #leon s kennedy #leon kennedy x reader #leon kennedy x trans! reader #leon kennedy #transgender #Projecting onto my favorite characters? It's more likely than you'd think #so yes Leon's queer af #We have decreed it so

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justa-moth · 11 months

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jrwi riptide crew gender and sexuality headcanons bc these bitches gay !

So I have just recently gotten into JRWI because I’ve been meaning to watch it, so while I technically have not watched past like episode 10, I have willingly ingested so many spoilers that I might as well have seen the whole thing. So here’s my list of queer headcanons for the main three with little to no explaination!

Chip: - trans man - he/him - bisexual, that man fucks around and does indeed find out - honorable mention, this mf got adhd

Gillion: - nonbinary in some capacity? i cant settle on how specifically, but hes got an nb vibe about him - any pronouns honestly, like i feel like he’s a mainly he/they kinda guy, but he’d be chill without whatever pronouns you throw at him - asexual (though im pretty sure thats already canon) - in terms of roamntic i have zero idea where to place this lovely little man so I am absolutely willing to hear ppl out on this one - honorable mention number 2, gillion is absolutely auDHD

Jay: - trans women - she/her - also bisexual

And also as a general thing to note they are absolutely in a polycule. It’s mainly Fish N Chips, but Jay does occasionally kiss them as a treat.

edit: to those of you saying Jay is canonical bi i have never been happier to be corrected in my life this is amazing news double edit: i am absolutely going to agree with the masses and say arospec man liker gillion on this thank you

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What do you think Bucky's pronouns are? What about Natasha's and Steve's? Anyone else? I sometimes think Natasha would use they/she and Bucky might be hesitant to use any other than he/him because he's never thought about it before, but I also think he'd be affirmed by a they.

I'll be honest, I didn't think I had super strong opinions on this but then I started writing this out lmao

So my quick disclaimer here is whenever I write Bucky I write him as a Cis Bisexual man. I've never thought much about his gender identity honestly, but I choose to think that he was into girls but also had feelings for Steve and that takes more importance to me personally (the self indulgent self-insert OC I paired him with is Nonbinary though ((and I'm NB myself)) so it's not like he doesn't know anything about it, just his Bisexuality is what's come up so far in what I've written) but tbh if someone referred to him as "they" I don't think he would correct them. I've also seen a lot of fics where when Bucky is in Winter Soldier mode he thinks of himself as "it", which I do think is really interesting but not something he actively chose. That's not to say it/It's pronouns aren't valid, they ABSOLUTELY are, but in this case I think it would stem more from HYDRA beating into him that he's an object or a machine and not a person rather than any preference on Bucky's part. I do think there's an argument to be made though for Bucky actively choosing to refer to himself using he/it or even he/it/they in his head for those 2 years before CW where he's on the run since he's not really the Winter Soldier and not really Bucky but a super secret third thing that's in between the two.

And some quick drive by ones:

Most of the rest of the Avengers I could see being he/theys and she/theys respectively, or just not caring about pronouns

Steve is the Token Cis Avenger™️ in my mind I can't explain it but he just gives off that vibe imo. He's not het though.

like tbh I don't think Thor cares what pronouns you use for him (1500 years is way too long to be cis). I think Valkyrie is in a similar camp, but prefers She/They.

Yelena strikes me as someone who would be cool with She/They, same with most of the women on the Thunderbolts lineup tbh

I feel like Kate would be She/Her, but if someone used "they" for her she wouldn't stop them y'know?

I don't have many thoughts on the Eternals in general, but Sprite is a She/They nonbinary I will not take criticism on this subject. Tbh I think most of them are He and She/Theys for the same reasoning as Thor, but I think some of them are like what I said for Bucky where like they won't correct you if you use 'they'. Ikaris is their Token CisHet™️

I love the headcanon that Holland!Peter is a transman, and I could see him and MJ being He/They She/They solidarity

The entire lineup of X-Men '97 is made up of He/Theys and She/Theys except for Morph who is canonically(!!) They/them. Jean Grey and Scott are their Token CisHets™️ and are good sports about it. You cannot look at Rogue, Gambit, Jubilee, and Storm's designs specifically and tell me they're cis. Not possible.

Shuri gives She/They energy imo

Carol is a She/They lesbian, is dating Valkyrie, and her marriage to the prince on Aladna is a Lavender Marriage. Fight me.

Stephen is the Token CisHet Avenger™️

Loki and Sylvie both use all pronouns, but prefer he/they/xe and she/xe respectively

The Alien superheroes like Nebula, Gamora, Groot, etc. I feel probably have like semi-complicated relationship with human gender so I feel like they probably don't put to much thought into pronouns

These are my sort of knee jerk reaction responses!

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RimWorld: Anomaly Part 2

I have another story to tell.

Spoilers below for a couple entities and a couple mechanics from, I'd say mid to late game?

A looong time ago, I got a call from a nearby colony begging to drop something near me with a reward for accepting the delivery. I'm down to clown, and it was a pretty good reward, so I said sure, why not?

That's not alarming at all. It says I can bring it to a holding platform to learn more, so-

Oh.

Great. Anyways so this motherfucker is an agent of pain, even moreso than this neat ball that I've found a few times now.

In the mean time, I have another obelisk to poke a-

-aaaand there goes Johnston's arm.

And stomach.

A few things happened after that. First we had to fight the darkness, then we had to avoid red rain so that we wouldn't fight each other, and we sent the mad ball out a couple of times, and things were actually going pretty good for a while, until the Revenant escaped containment.

So, it is no joke when one of these things gets free. First off, its like the other baby sightstealer thing except it doesn't automatically uncloak to attack. It leaves smears on the ground to indicate where its gone, but unless you have some kind of splash damage weapon like grenades or launchers, you can't reveal it or do damage to it because it is truly invisible.

Cue me panicking and building a couple EMP launchers and grenades, juust to have handy.

Another thing that happens is when it attacks and hypnotizes people, it drops a chunk of its own flesh? And you can study it to learn how to hunt and fight it.

First one gave me a longer trail to follow. Second one let my colonists hear it when its nearby. Third one finally decloaked it once we got near it.

But that meant that three colonists were downed to its hypnosis.

Wish I had screenshot this moment, but when you finally kill it (it takes a LOT of damage before going down, and I had brought basically everybody out to hunt it, so be ready with all of your best pawns), it destabilizes into a pile of revenant goop and returns to its spine only form. Which you can recapture, and it reforms again basically right away. Giant pain in my ass, but apparently regardless of the fact it regenerates it released all four of my colonists from hypnosis.

... I wish the story ended there. The story does not end there.

Time passed. Checking my logs, I killed the revenant on the 8th of Jugust, 5504. We had a third new obelisk show up the next day and are studying it.

And suddenly Johnston's fighting herself. Wait, what?

Its actually wild how much of an exact copy hostile Johnston is. Here's original Johnston:

And here's copy Johnston:

They have the same tattoos, the same favourite colour, the same fleshy biomass arm and stomach, they're even both showing up as married to the same man - the only differences are that one of them is naked and not part of my faction.

Check it out - copy Johnston's even got the same mood modifiers. Honeymoon phase, turned down by a different guy, likes her bedroom and thinks the dining room is impressive? Just absolutely bonkers to think of. This Johnston has never even seen the dining room!

Fun little notification - both were injured enough in their fight that they were both downed, and they both got back up at the same time, putting this on my screen:

So, what to do with a violent duplicate out here to steal your man? I did the only rational thing that I could think of.

I took her prisoner and recruited her.

I've got a kind of ranching-focused colony right now so another pair of hands to milk, shear, and look after animals isn't bad, you know? Copy Johnston still thinks she's married to Lorell, but if I click on Johnston from his social tab at least it goes to the correct Johnston. So at least he knows which side of his bread's buttered.

Not that this dude hasn't married, dated, or hooked up with 1/3rd of the colony. Bisexual highmates in a pro-polyamorous colony are wild.

I kind of wish there was more to the mood modifiers for copy Johnston. Like, she's got a high opinion of Lorell because of modifiers original Johnston had when she was copied, including a modifier to her opinion of him because they had done some lovin' recently? That's messed up, right? Wouldn't it mess her up too, emotionally? I have to wonder.

Also, is Johnston still looking like a word to y'all or no?

Twinsies! Seriously, its SO uncanny.

I keep looking for differences or signs that she's not quite human, or that recruiting her is going to come back to bite me in some horrible way later down the line, but so far so good.

Anyhoo, I don't think I have enough space left in the post to talk more on the Revenant or the trials it put me through, so I'll save that for part 3?

Also, I didn't honestly expect the last one to get notes like it did (not a ton, but better than my posts normally do), but if anyone's invested I'd be down to introduce more of my colonists and tell some other stories that I think up? Let me know what you think!

#rimworld #anomaly #anomaly spoilers #tw: body horror #tw: hypnosis #homewrecking #technically??#also if someone wanted to add image IDs for screen readers I would love you forever #I'm screen clipping the text boxes but they're so narrow I actually can't add alt text #the button for it overlaps with the one to delete it lmao #also I'm bad at describing things and have no spoons

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You Belong with Me: Part 3

Adrian Chase/Vigilante x Reader (Smut)

[Part 1] [Part 2] [Masterlist] [Crossposted to AO3]

Summary: Christopher Smith can have some pretty dumb ideas sometimes regarding dating and romance. For his latest ploy, he's trying to get your attention and drags Adrian Chase into playing the ultimate wingman.

Rating: Explicit 18+

Author Note: Afab reader with gender neutral pronouns since this is smut. Part 3 of 3 is here! -talks like the DragonBall Z recap announcer- What will Reader's reaction be when they learn of Chris' plan? Will Chris step aside when he sees that Adrian and Reader are crazy about each other? Or is everything just too messed up now to fix? And why is Eagley suddenly afraid of the half blind neighborhood cat? Let's find out now in the series finale of You Belong with Me!

CW: Smut (kissing, fingering, pnv, oral [f recieving], light choking, light Dom/sub behavior); Christopher Smith is Bisexual in canon.

Word Count: 5,074

While Adrian was explaining, you quietly listened.

Unable to sit still, he paced the length of your living room as he talked. He tried not look at you as he spoke, nervous about what he would see, but the few glances in your direction showed your expression to be unreadable. That made him very nervous since you always had such an open expression to him before this.

It took him awhile to get through it all since he decided to go all the way back to the beginning. The beginning for him was how speechless he was the first time he saw you at the video store. That led to him telling you how he figured you were out of his league, but while he never bothered to pursue you, he never stopped feeling it. And then that led to him telling you about Chris suddenly getting interested in you out of nowhere and conning him into going along with the plan.

The plan. That was the part he most dreaded telling you about. He didn’t want you to think that this was all a joke to him, which is why he started his explanation from where he did. Maybe if you knew he liked you already it would soften the blow. You took the news gracefully enough. Adrian shot a nervous look over at you once while explaining the plan and you seemed more surprised than anything else.

Finally, Adrian was finished and stopped pacing. He stood there, staring at the ground as if he were awaiting your judgement.

The room was silent outside of the tv in the background.

And continued to stay silent.

Adrian dared to look up at you just then. Rather than see a face full of anger or hurt or tears like he expected, you looked completely baffled. Your mouth was slightly agape, and your head was cocked to one side. He waited until you finally looked back over at him.

“Rewind a sec,” you finally said, holding up a finger like you were interrupting him. “How was you dating me supposed to get me closer to Chris?”

“Right?” Adrian exclaimed, feeling a little less crazy about his thoughts on the matter. “I still can’t fucking figure that part out either!”

“It seems completely counterproductive,” you said, and he nodded in agreement. “Like, we’re getting closer in the process, and liking each other more as time goes on.”

“Exactly!” Adrian said.

The two of you caught each other’s eye and Adrian swallowed heavily when you held his gaze. It was only for a moment though before you looked down at the floor.

“I guess that explains why you don’t want to have sex with me then,” you said after another period of silence. “I was really starting to wonder about that.”

“No, I DO want to have sex with you,” Adrian was quick to correct you. “That’s just why I HAVEN’T had sex with you.”

“I see,” you said, then you got quiet for a moment. “Was it real? Between us, I mean, since you asked me out. It felt like it was, but now I don-“

Adrian was shaking his head rapidly.

“Absolutely!” he exclaimed, cutting you off. “I swear, the only thing screwy about any of this is why I asked you when I did. I swear, I’ve wanted to for a while, I just…figured there was no point. You’re so amazing I thought there was no way you’d be interested in me. You are way out of my league. But I did, I meant everything I said, and I wouldn’t change a thi-“

He cut himself off right then, a thought occurring to him that he had to stop and think on for a few seconds.

“Actually, I take that back,” he said. “If I could change something, I would’ve boned you the first night. Literally the only thing I would change. I love getting to be so close to you and I’d do it all over again in a fucking heartbeat just for that reason alone. You are absolutely amazing, Y/N, and I want you to be with me, not Chris.”

That wasn’t quite how he had planned to say it. He hadn’t actually thought of how to say it yet, but he’d wanted to be more eloquent with it. It’s not every day he tells someone he likes them in this particular way.

He almost looked away from you in embarrassment, but swallowed heavily instead, forcing himself to keep his gaze focused on you. He was glad he did when a deep blush came to your face at his words, along with your heart stopping smile.

“I’m already with you, you know,” you said, an almost incredulous look on your face. “I said yes to you, not Chris.”

It suddenly clicked.

Your words finally seemed to hammer the point home and he realized the biggest thing he had missed these past few weeks.

Adrian looked at you for a moment then come back over to where you were sitting on the couch. Leaning down towards you as if to kiss you, he fully intended to pick up where he left off.

This time, however, you brought one hand up to place it in the middle of his chest. He gently came to a stop with his lips were just inches from yours. He looked down at you, confused. You smiled up at him.

“I think you should work this out with Chris first,” you said softly, your voice making him shiver. “I don’t want to be the cause of a broken friendship. I’d rather step aside completely than let that happen again.”

Adrian whimpered, gently pushing forward against your hand a little. You allowed him to come a bit closer, letting his lips press against yours for a moment before you softly pushed him back.

“Work this out with Chris,” you repeated, your tone firmer but still soft. “Then let me know what he says. Okay?”

After gazing down into your eyes for a moment, Adrian realized how serious you were. He wouldn’t be able to budge you on this. You could be stubborn as hell when you wanted to be, but at the same time, he knew you were right. He nodded and leaned forward just enough to kiss your forehead before leaving.

Once Adrian hopped into his car, he headed straight for Chris’ place. Even though he absolutely hated confrontations about emotions and emotional topics, this seemed like one of those conversations that was better had in person.

It was already a half hour drive from your place to Chris’ in good traffic on a normal day, but Adrian managed to also hit traffic from some sort of event letting out. He didn’t keep up with sports to know what was actually going on, he just knew whatever it was had to be a home game to get this many cars leaving from one area simultaneously.

A little over two hours had passed since he left your place when he arrived at the trailer. It was a little before 10pm, which was way later than he had planned to get there. He made his way to the door and knocked. It took a few moments, but the door finally opened.

Adrian was more than a little shocked when it was Amber, not Chris, who opened the door. It was pretty obvious why she was there. She wasn’t wearing much, just a short, silky robe that was open in the front, with a matching pair of panties underneath it.

“Hey Ade,” she said, her face lighting up in a smile. She’d known about his secret identity for a few months now. “You’re just in time, we’re just getting started. Want to join?”

“Er, no, thanks,” Adrian said, blinking rapidly. “I really need to talk to Chris though. It’s pretty urgent. Could you send him out here for a minute, please?”

“Oh yeah, sure, let me go unlock him,” Amber said, disappearing back into the trailer.

While Adrian waited, he paced in the yard, his shock at seeing Amber quickly turning into anger. By the time Chris got outside, clad only in his briefs with a pair of handcuffs dangling from one wrist, Adrian had gotten himself quite worked up. While that wasn’t hard for him to do on a normal day, he was even easier to wind up tonight.

“What the shit, dude?” Adrian demanded, stalking back over to the porch as soon as his friend stepped outside and shut the front door. “You’re over here fucking Amber while you’ve got me over at Y/N’s place cozying up to them for you? That’s fucked up, even for you!”

Chris stared at Adrian for a long moment then shook his head.

“No, actually,” Chris said with an amused tone. “I’m over here fucking Amber while I’ve got you over at Y/N’s place cozying up to them for YOU.”

Now it was Adrian’s turn to stare at Chris.

“What?” he finally asked, all of his anger instantly replaced with confusion.

Chris chuckled and shook his head.

“Since when have I ever needed help getting laid?” Chris asked. “Think about it for a minute.”

Adrian thought about it for a minute.

And still didn’t get it.

“What?” he repeated, even more confused now.

Chris let out an exasperated sigh.

“Dude, I told you to ask Y/N out because you will do literally anything I ask you to do,” Chris said. “It was obvious you weren’t going to do it for yourself, so I had to make it sound like you were doing it for me instead. I knew I could get you to finally ask them out that way…like you should have done months ago.”

The pieces started clicking into place in Adrian’s head. His mouth dropped open as he stared at Chris.

Chris chuckled again and clapped his very shocked friend on the back.

“I think you’ve got someone you need to be getting back to,” Chris said, then went back inside the trailer, closing the door behind him.

It took a few minutes for Adrian’s legs to start working again. When they did, he scrambled back to the Sebring to haul ass as fast as he could back to your place without breaking any traffic laws. He knew with hitting leftover game traffic, plus the typical Saturday night traffic, he was looking at another two hours back to your place even if he tried to take back roads.

While it only ended up being an hour and a half, it was the longest hour and a half of Adrian’s life.

It was nearly midnight when he parked the Sebring back in front of your house. He got out of his car, then hesitated after he shut the door. He couldn’t see any lights on inside your home, but knew you often watched tv in your bedroom while trying to settle down at night, he just couldn’t see that particular window since it was at the back of the house. The thought occurred to him then that you might actually be asleep. Sure, it was the weekend, but you might have gone to bed early. Your sleeping habits were almost as bad as his were. A bit of guilt started to gnaw his brain at the idea of waking you up. Maybe it would be a better idea to come back tomorrow?

No, he couldn’t. More than that, he wouldn’t.

It was selfish, he knew, but Adrian decided he was done waiting. He had been patient enough these past few weeks. He went straight to your front door and started ringing the bell.

It didn’t take long for you to open the door, which confirmed you were still awake and watching tv. You looked a bit surprised at seeing him but smiled brightly. His heart skipped several beats as he looked you over. You had changed clothes into what looked like your actual sleepwear, which amounted to a baggy t shirt and pajama pants. It showed way less and hid your figure even more than your everyday clothes. They turned him on just as much though, if not more. Now it would be more like unwrapping you, as if you were some sort of present or reward for all his good behavior.

“Hey, you,” you said as you leaned against the open door. “I didn’t expect to see you so soon.”

“I talked to Chris,” Adrian said, exhaling the words in an excited rush.

You blinked a few times.

“Already?” you asked, and he nodded. “How did it go?”

While he had every intention of telling you everything Chris said, Adrian was all talked out now. His very hyper focused brain suddenly shut off and he really didn’t feel any need to turn it back on. It was thoughts of you he had been hyper fixating on and now you were standing right in front of him.

He took a step closer to where you were standing in the half open doorway, now just a few inches in front of you. A little bit of a blush came to his cheeks, which made him look slightly bashful as he looked down into your eyes. You returned his gaze for a few moments before one side of your mouth quirked up in a smile. You stepped aside to let him in.

Adrian was at least polite enough to wait until the door was closed.

As you were turning around to face him after locking the door, he caught your wrist in his hand and pulled you to him. It was a little rougher than he meant it to be. You ended up stumbling and falling against his chest, but his arms were already coming up to wrap around you.

“Sorry,” he briefly muttered, but not giving you the chance to reply before kissing you.

This was a kiss unlike any you’d gotten from Adrian before. Even the most heated moments before paled in comparison to this. As you moaned softly into his mouth and pulled at the front of his shirt to bring him closer, he suddenly realized exactly how much he had been holding himself back with you.

It didn’t take long before you were undressing him, your fingers pulling down the zipper of his sweater. He quickly shed it, letting it drop to the floor, then raised his arms so you could pull his shirt off. His hands dropped back down to grip your waist as his shirt joined the sweater on the floor.

Adrian started to pull at the shirt you had on, but then paused for a moment, thinking. Before you could ask him what was wrong, he had swept you up into his arms and was now carrying you further into the house. While Adrian had never been this far inside your home before, your bedroom was easy to find since the rest of your house was dark. He just followed the light of the tv until he reached his destination.

He walked you straight over to the bed before dropping you down on it. Before you could have the chance to move, he grabbed one leg of your pajama bottoms in each hand and he quickly pulled them off, followed soon by your shirt. Even though you had changed into different night clothes, you hadn’t put on a bra or underwear, leaving you laying naked before him.

A moment was all he could stand to pause and admire the view before he was on top of you, kissing you deeply. But Adrian didn’t stay on your lips for long since he was already well acquainted with them. Now it was time to explore the rest of your body.

Making his way downwards, your hands trailing over his body as he went, he softly kissed and nipped down the center of your neck to your chest, only stopping to make a detour at your tits. He spent several long moments with one of your nipples, taking it into his mouth and deeply sucking. A soft moan came from you, and he felt your legs slightly squeeze hips. One of your hands came up to grip the back of his head, fingers tangling in his hair, and it made him shiver. Adrian bit at your nipple a little rougher than he meant to, pulling a gasped yelp from you. He didn’t have time to even think about apologizing, your hips lifted to grind against him, indicating you liked it. He swirled his tongue around your nipple one more time then took it back into his mouth, sucking on it one last time before pulling his head away. He dove immediately to your other nipple, repeating the entire process as you squirmed underneath him, including the rough bite. The first time may have been an accident, the second time he just wanted to hear you yelp again.

When Adrian was finally able to pull himself away from your tits, both nipples were hard and extremely sensitive. He could tell just by the way they were both flushed a deeper color than when he started. It made him want to dive back down to them, suck them and play with them until you were begging him to eat you out. But his cock didn’t have that kind of patience right now. It was hard and throbbing inside his jeans, desperate for some kind of touch, but Adrian wanted to taste you first. However, he did reach down with one hand to undo his belt and his pants. That compromise did release some of the tightness, and he groaned against the skin above your bellybutton in a small bit of relief as a result.

Once he kissed down the rest of your body, Adrian’s lips grazed just above your clit, so close you could feel his warm breath on it before he pulled away. A loud whimper left you and he quickly shushed you as he got off the bed and onto his knees next to it. Taking ahold of your legs, he pulled you to the edge of the bed, so your ass was almost hanging over. Once you were in the position he wanted, Adrian dove right in.

He licked a stripe up the full length of your slit with the flat of his tongue, like he was licking an ice cream cone. Your hips arched up to his mouth, a gasping moan leaving your lips, which only encouraged him to do it again. This time, he added more force with his tongue and slid it between your outer folds. Adrian teased his tongue directly against your entrance, his hands sliding under your thighs and around to press your hips firmly to the bed. He could hear you gasping and moaning, you were squirming against him as he dragged his tongue upwards to rub over your clit.

“Oh f-fuck!” you gasped, one of your hands gripping at the back of his head, the other gripping into one of his firearms.

While Adrian desperately wanted to see what you looked like right now, he was afraid he wouldn’t be able to do anything but fuck you if he dared even a glance at your face. The beautiful sounds you were making and the way you tasted made it hard enough as it was.

Deciding not to drag out foreplay, his lips and tongue went right to work on clit. Alternating between swirling his tongue around it and sucking, you were soon crying out loud enough he was glad you didn’t live in an apartment. He wouldn’t have wanted to gag you or muffle this in any way.

He kept a tight grip on you with one hand as he brought the other back down to between your legs. He wrapped his lips around your clit again, sucking roughly as he slid his middle finger inside of you. Your thighs shook around his head as you moaned, your inner walls soaked and offering no resistance to him. As he started fingering you, he slipped in a second finger and then curved them upwards ever so slightly to hit deep inside where you’re the most sensitive.

Between Adrian’s fingers thrusting against your g spot and his tongue dancing over your clit, it wasn’t long before you had clamped around his fingers, and you were writhing in his grip.

“Shit shit shit, fuck fuck fuck,” you cried as you came, your fingers digging into his scalp and his arm hard.

Adrian slowed his movements and pulled away from your clit when you started to twitch and whimper at his touch but continued to work his fingers in and out of you through your orgasm. At this point, he finally raised his head to take a good look at you, making your now limp hand slide down from the back of his head to his shoulder.

You were absolutely wrecked, with your back halfway arched off the bed towards the ceiling, head thrown back. Your chest with heaving with each breath you took, your hips still twitching against his grip. Adrian watched you, slowing down the thrusting of his fingers even more. As he slowed to a stop, you were finally settling back on the bed, and he could see your face again. When he slid his fingers out of you, you whimpered softly and bit your lip. You didn’t want him to stop, but Adrian had other things in mind now.

As soon as he removed his hands from you, he started to work on getting out of his remaining clothing. You opened your eyes, your lust blown gaze meeting his for a moment before you quickly scooted backwards up the bed until you could reach into your nightstand. Right as a now naked Adrian was climbing back on top of you, you grabbed a condom out of the box you always kept handy. Sitting back on his knees, Adrian took it from you and quickly rolled it onto his hard length before getting into position between your legs.

As he started to lean back down over you, he paused before sitting back on his heels again. Swooping an arm under one of your legs, he gently lifted it over his shoulder. This made him have to reposition himself, but now he had a better angle. Adrian grasped the shaft of his cock in his hand and teased the head right at your entrance before pressing into you.

You threw your head back in a scream of pleasure. He could feel your walls clenching around him as he let your body get used to him. He slowly slid into you until he bottomed out. After he felt you start to relax around him, Adrian leaned his body over yours, one hand on the pillow next to your head to hold himself up. He began with a slow, shallow thrusting of his hips and built up to a steady speed, hugging your leg tightly against his chest. From this angle, he could both could fuck you deeply and look into your eyes while he did it. Granted, you weren’t always keeping your eyes open, but the steady stream of those beautiful sounds leaving your lips made up for that.

When you started to arch your hips upwards towards his, Adrian stopped briefly to sit back on his heels. He pulled you with him by your hips, both keep himself inside you and to pull your ass up higher up on his thighs, tilting them up higher. Holding your leg to his chest once again, he pulled his hips back slightly before leaning back over you, sinking his cock back into you with a firm thrust.

You cried out and Adrian groaned deeply at the same time as he felt himself bottom out inside you to his full limit now. Your cunt twitched around him, having to adjust again to that extra bit of depth moving your hips closer gave him. Once he felt you relax again, he resumed his slow, steady pace. He slid all but the head of his cock out of you, then right back in, picking up speed as your moans grew louder.

Quite suddenly, a mood overtook Adrian, and he acted on a sudden impulse before he could think too much about it.

Adrian slid his hand down from where it had been gripping your thigh to rest around your throat.

“Tell me that you’re mine,” he grunted harshly, slowing his thrusts to let you speak.

Your eyes fluttered open from halfway closed, gazing up at him with a slightly confused, fucked out expression.

“W-what?” you asked softly through your moans.

Adrian added a little bit of pressure to his fingers, pressing them very slightly into the sides of your throat. It wasn’t enough to hurt, but it was just enough to give you a slight tingling feeling at the top of your head as the blood to your brain was temporarily slowed. He waited a second before letting up to really let a bit of lightheadedness set in, then let go right as he thrust into you with his hardest thrust yet. You gasped and cried out loudly, one hand coming up to grip at his forearm.

As soon as you gripped onto his arm, Adrian paused everything, even his thrusting. He wasn’t sure if you were about to push his hand away or not, and so he gave you the opportunity if that’s what you were intending.

Instead of pushing him away though, you tilted your head back further and your hand slid down to cover his. He relaxed to let you guide him to a better position around your throat. Adrian applied a little bit of pressure to it again, testing this new position. This time he didn’t thrust, just held himself in you and watched your reaction. Your lips parted slightly in a soft gasp; your eyes fluttered shut. Now that he was holding still, Adrian could feel you tighten around his cock when he squeezed down on your throat.

Definitely something to remember for later, he noticed as he released his hold again.

Adrian waited until you opened your eyes and looked up at him before repeating his statement.

“Tell me,” he said, pausing to apply pressure on your throat for emphasis then quickly released it once you clenched around him again. “That you are mine.”

The soft gasps and whimpers that left your lips every time he squeezed your throat made him shiver, and this time was no exception. A tremble of your own ran through your body at that point, he could feel your legs shaking as you squeezed your eyes shut. Deep inside you, he could feel how close you to your orgasm you were. You tightened around him again but didn’t relax afterwards this time.

Finally, after a moment, you opened your eyes and gazed up into his.

“I’m yours, Adrian,” you said, voice quiet but with a needy twinge.

No sooner had the words left your lips and Adrian’s were on yours in a bruising kiss. He let your leg slide down from his shoulder to around his waist before slamming his cock into you. He rocked his hard length into you deep and hard, making you scream his name and clutch onto him. Adrian could feel your nails digging into his back, which only spurred him on and made him go faster.

“Cum for me,” he panted, feeling your cunt spasm around him as he spoke. “F-fuck, that’s it, cum.”

Right after the words left his mouth, you threw your head back in a scream. Adrian groaned deeply as you clamped down around his cock. He tried to fuck you through your orgasm, he really did, but was soon over the edge himself. Without thinking about what he was doing, his teeth latched onto your shoulder as he came, making you cry out and tighten even more around him as his balls unloaded into the condom.

It took a moment before you were both still, his body and yours twitching and shaking with the intensity of your orgasms. It was a few moments before either of you could move, but finally Adrian slid out of you and shifted so he was lying next to you. Despite moving, neither of you let go of one another, arms wrapped tightly around each other as if afraid one of you would jump up and run. Clearly neither of you wanted that.

After a while, once you both had the chance to settle down and rest, you looked up at him.

“I’m still curious,” you said, as Adrian traced designs on your shoulder with his fingertips. “What exactly did Chris say?”

Thankfully, you were both just odd enough in the head that the timing of this question wasn’t weird.

Adrian explained everything that happened from the time he left your house earlier to when he came back, sparing no detail, no matter how insignificant.

When he was done, he looked down at you to find you were looking at him with an expression of confusion similar to the one you had after the explained everything to you earlier.

“Rewind a sec,” you said, holding up a finger again like you were interrupting him. “Chris had you ask me out to get us together, not me and him?”

“Right,” Adrian said, burrowing closer to you, if that was even possible.

“Okay, that does make a lot more sense,” you said, but then you buried your face in Adrian’s chest and groaned in dismay.

“Hey, what’s wrong?” he asked, alarmed. “Are you okay? Did I hurt you?”

“No no, nothing like that,” you said, looking back up at him with an exaggerated look of dismay on your face. “I just realized, this part may be over, but now I get to put up with lots of weird ideas by the two of you.”

“How do you mean?” Adrian asked, confused. “We won’t be hanging out with him anymore to get the two of you together.”

“Yeah, but like Chris said,” you said. “you always want whoever you’re dating to be friends with him too, so we’re going to be hanging out a lot with him regardless of the intention.”

Adrian had to hand it to both you and Chris. The two of you had him pegged.

And that’s why he thought of you both as his two best friends.

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