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So, I've realized that I need to set up some rules for my own mental health for questions and requests. Honestly, I should have done this before, lol
Please note that none of these are directed at any specific person. But as I get more popular, I've come to realize that having some hard rules in place will make everything easier.
So, without further ado—
I won't answer any nsfw requests/questions that involve a child. Omega and Ahsoka fall into a weird place for me where I regard them both as teenagers and, therefore, untouchable.
I won't answer questions/requests with dub-con or non-con. That's for my own mental health, as I need time to process that kind of stuff in a way that doesn't send me spiraling.
I don't write cheating. I've tried it before and I just couldn't do it.
I won't write clone shipping. I'm not going to judge you if this is something that you enjoy. Different strokes for different folks, but I have my reasons for being unable to write it.
I won't write Master/Padawan relationships as anything other than familial. I have many of the same reasons for this rule as I do the clone shipping rule.
I will delete anything that comes into my inbox with these topics. Ideally, I'd be able to send you a message informing you of why I'm refusing your equest, though that's not always possible.
Thank you for your time!
❤️ vod'ika
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I’m not asking this in a rude or way but I wanted to ask what the deal was with the Gale manbun mod. Like it’s become so widely used in fan content and I just don’t get it. It’s not sexier (imo) in any way than his regular hair but it seems to add more sex appeal or general appeal to some.
Maybe it’s just because I think it looks a little silly and I loathe the label of “manbun”. It seems that some people also seem to view it as an improvement over his actual hairstyle. (Not saying you do)
I don’t mind alternative hairstyles but I just don’t understand how this one became so prolific.
i don't like the term "manbun" at all. there are some connotations there that i don't have the spoons to go into rn, but i really don't like it. i have never used that term myself. i've never seen any of my mutuals, people i follow, or followers use it either - and neither has the author of the mod: they've titled it gale's wizardly updo and it's exactly that.
i think it's a very beautiful mod that enhances the character design.
i also didn't install it because it's "sexier" or popular (iirc i installed then back when it was just released). personally, i like it because it makes his hair make sense. the sideswept parts keep his hair out of his face during battle and casting, the ends of the hair have to go somewhere, so a bun it is. i think it's a very classy hairstyle and one that suits gale a lot.
it's the only appearance-altering mod for companions that i like, with the other exception being the mod that gives karlach her facial scars back.
i guess it's just a matter of different strokes for different folks...
#overall i do view it as an improvement to his vanilla hair but i do like both#ch: gale dekarios#vg: baldur's gate 3#series: baldur's gate#text: asks
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We gotta get back to pride and prejudice elizabeth bennet hopeless girl who is mean and sucks type romantic leads
So true
'I've proven myself as his one true intellectual rival 🥺' is over
'My disinterest has confused him into loving me 💀' is in
#replies#but different strokes for different folks#me though ? I think we need to start topping the sadmen frankly its the only way forward for humanity
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Might be TMI, and I do totally agree that some discussion around NNN does give off bad vibes, but I do NNN as a fun edging challenge! Not that I last longer any than a week each year, but *blows raspberry*
It gives me an excuse to give long-term edging/denial a try, since I do enjoy that sort of thing, but without the proper constraints my adhd brain says "instant gratification. NOW" kfkcdkdm
“Not sure such a thing as TMI exists ‘round here. That’s definitely what I was gettin’ at in terms of it bein’ a fun couple’s challenge for sure! Granted that edgin’ can be fun solo too, but havin’ another person to be accountable to n’ lookin’ forward to ups the ante a little, least in my humble opinion.”
“Can’t say I specifically got the same reason to be impatient as you do, but I s’pose a touch of hypersexuality’ll still get the job done same as ADHD will. Still, a week ain’t bad! Well, not if you’re asking me specifically, n’ this ask was directed at me, so I’m gonna pretend y’all asked me that too.
All in all, sounds like you’re doin’ it right by just havin’ fun with it. That’s more important than whether y’all last a month or not.”
#asks#anon#a splash of#lemon#also yes I’m standin by just a touch of hypersexuality n not more n that#I personally don’t think a whole month is necessary to get edged well n good#but different strokes for different folks
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I'm watching Hell's Kitchen and all I can think is, how has there not been just a full season of people with degradation kinks. Like, if I really enjoyed being degraded that is where I'd wanna go. I mean you get amazing insults, be on tv, and a chance of getting a good job. Sounds like a good deal.
#hells kitchen#joke#degrade kink#gordon ramsay#he has some creative insults#i think people with the kink would enjoy ut#it sounds like my worst nightmare#but different strokes for different folks#but really its a joke#thats not how kink works#but would be funny
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watching a playthrough of silent hill 2 and have been trying for a few hours to describe why the original pyramid head is capable of scaring me and making me genuinely unsettled but all modern iterations fail to do so and i believe the answer is: the grime
bazinga its more than that but i personally find it a big part. in dead by daylight and the movies and even in the remake he's kinda hosed down clean but in sh2 he is so covered in grime rust dirt etc, it's a little difficult to tell his arms are naked, and that it's skin....
there's also the fact that the way he carries himself is kinda different too. especially his big knife. he is actively struggling to carry it, it makes him slow. even with his spear he kinda... walks to you calm and sluggish.
i feel like most modern iterations are too sharp, clean, strong, confident meanwhile the original is just this... human shaped thing that is coming towards you with this big knife n stuff.... idk, he really is more of a creature or beast more than a slasher! or guy.
#t#sh2#i dunno. i like him when hes a soggy moldy little beasty#but different strokes for different folks
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me reading a fanfic where the character is packing 9/10+ inches: THATS TOO MUCH COCK
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Fluent Freshman - Part 45
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Renee Walker stands next to two of her best friends in the entire world holding up a hand drawn sign. There's an, admittedly crudely drawn, Fox on the sign that Allison had made up.
Renee had seen it and smiled from across the airport as she made her way over to where Dan and Allison were standing waiting for everyone to come. The team had managed to coordinate their flights to land all within about two hours of one another and Allison had exactly zero desire to go back and forth from the airport so her driver was waiting out at a nearby cellphone lot to come and get them once everyone was there.
"Is it nice having a driver again?" Dan asks Allison.
"I sometimes miss driving around in my car but it's a lot easier to do my makeup with him driving." she says with a shrug as they continue to catch up. Renee is holding up the sign since Allison had complained that she had lost so much of the muscle she had previously had.
"Yeah, New York City seems like a major pain in the ass to drive in too." Dan agrees as her phone buzzes. She pulls out her phone and looks at it before a huge smile fills her face, one that means she's talking to Matt, "Oh! They just landed!" Dan says confirming Renee's suspicions.
Allison looks at her watch, "Wow, 20 minutes early. They must have gotten through boarding quickly." she comments.
"Or some good tailwind." Renee offers.
"When are Neil and Andrew due up?" Dan asks looking at Renee who smiles back at her friend.
"Andrew said they're going to take a break halfway here so they'll be here tomorrow morning." Renee says.
"Get it Neil." Allison nods and it had been a wonderful thing last year to watch Andrew and Allison make peace with one another. Their mutual desire to dress Neil up a bridge towards....maybe not friendship but camaraderie.
It warms Renee's heart to see her friends get along.
"The plane got tailwind, Neil's getting tail." Dan jokes.
"I'm looking forward to meeting the new kid that I've heard about." Renee says gently moving the topic on from their friends getting together. It didn't bother her at all, but she knew that Andrew would prefer no one talk about what he and Neil got up to.
"Oh! Yeah, uh..." Dan visibly buffers.
"Dan, you're the only one of us that's met the kid. His name's Smith." Allison says with eyebrows raised in judgement.
"Look, when Coach and I went to recruit the kid my brain was like 90% on the fact that I needed to go to my interview." Dan defends herself.
"So he wasn't that memorable for you?" Allison asks.
"Yeah, I'm surprised that he's getting along so well with the guys." Dan says. "Getting stabbed over Thanksgiving feels more like a Neil move than the quiet kid Coach and I met." she adds.
That had been an interesting phone call from Andrew. Renee hadn't even realized that she had become Natalie describing the best way to get rid of the body until Andrew had clarified that it'd been an accident and Smith was alive. Renee had been a little ashamed.
She was excited to meet the kid who Andrew had spoken to her about. Glad that their strange found family was growing just a little bit bigger.
They wait around continuing to talk about plans for the break together. Allison wants to go shopping and she wants to do it once Neil and Andrew are back. Dan wants to skate at the Rockefeller center. Renee would love it if they could do Christmas Eve Mass.
They're sure that Kevin is going to want to check out an Exy game. They're mostly sure that Matt will want to check out the LEGO store in downtown manhattan and that Aaron will be as excited for that as Matt is but pretending not to be. Nicky wants to catch a drag show and has made it clear that he will be going regardless of what anyone else wants to do.
Andrew and Neil will probably just want to be alone when they have the chance though Neil had expressed some prior interest in the EXITES superstore and Andrew will more than likely enjoy the day Allison has planned to go shopping since she wants to update Neil's wardrobe.
The new kid, Smith, will be a mystery, but they're more than willing to be flexible.
Eventually they hear the tell-tale sign of most of the boy's arrival. "Babe!" comes from across the airport and Dan's head shoots up and spots the sight of Matt Boyd approaching his arms out wide almost clotheslining four different families on his way to Dan.
Dan is not much better as she rushes to him arms as wide.
They embrace like they always do whenever they have to spend time apart from one another and Renee knows that part of the reason that Dan took her job as assistant coach where she did is that the Washington State Congress Team had been looking at Matt the year prior to scout him.
She looks beyond the passionate reunion and sees Kevin, Aaron, and Nicky. She frowns brows furrowing...
Weren't they going to bring-
Nicky throws his arm out and it wraps around a kid she hadn't even realized was there. She blinks startled by his sudden appearance and blank expression as Nicky was pointing them out. He points to her and he can see her name on his lips she gives a wave and a smile.
Smith nods back in greeting.
He seems quite nice.
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Renee is at the end of her proverbial rope.
This kid is a threat and she doesn't understand how she's the only person who can see it.
Being a threat isn't really an issue when you're a Fox. It's almost a given that there's some part of you that can be dangerous when backed into a corner but no one seems to be treating him like a threat.
She watches as Nicky and Matt throw their arms around him. As Kevin pushes smoothie after smoothie into his hands as he blankly sips. As Andrew and Neil sit with him quietly. As Dan pinches his cheeks. As Aaron ribs him for being bad at MarioKart.
She can't feel anything from him, no joy, no anger, nothing.
She can't even track him.
Renee has always prided herself on her ability to keep track of those around her. Spacial awareness was incredibly important when you're in a fight and it had always been one of her strongest points. She always knew where she was in relation to everyone else.
Except Smith.
The kid had given her no shortage of heart attacks as he appeared and disappeared seemingly at random.
She had finally gotten Andrew alone to ask, "Smith's quiet, non-intrusive." Andrew says with a shrug.
There's just something about him that makes the hair on the back of Renee's neck stand on edge and she hates feeling like she's the only one. She hates it even more that there's no real evidence that there's something amiss with this newest Fox.
So she settles in to watch.
They're out shopping and Allison is doing her best to get Neil a proper wardrobe with Andrew's considerable help, AKA nodding in approval when Neil comes out. She's not skimping on any of them but Neil is her main focus.
"Smith, what's a color you like?" Allison asks as she's looking at hoodies.
"I like purple." Smith answers and Renee barely manges to stop herself from flinching as his voice comes from right next to her.
"Pass." Andrew says as Neil comes out in a charmingly orange sweatshirt.
"I like it!" Neil argues.
"You have 10 sweatshirts that are that exact shade of orange." Andrew dismisses. "Try the blue one." he says pushing Neil back into the dressing room.
"Which one?" Neil asks.
Andrew sighs dramatically in a way that lets Renee know that he's doing exactly what he wants to be doing, "I'll show you." he says going into the dressing room with Neil.
"I still don't know how it took Baltimore for me to realize they were together." Nicky says as he's holding up two different purple sweatshirts to Smith's body. "You look good in a more purpley purple." Nicky says putting the more indigo colored sweatshirt back on the rack.
"Pants are coming up next, I'll get a lay of the land. I know everyone else's but Smith what's your height?" Allison asks.
"Five feet, nine inches." Smith answers as Nicky pushes him towards the dressing room. "Nicky it's a sweatshirt, I can put it on out here." Smith says.
"I know but I need an excuse to go back there and make sure Neil and Andrew aren't defiling a dressing room." Nicky says with a grin that implies he'd be more happy if they were.
"Gross." Aaron says as he takes a picture of himself to send to Katelyn to approve of the new outfit that Allison was pushing for him to get. "Wait," he pauses turning to where Allison was looking through various men's pants, "you know our heights? Like you've memorized them?" he asks.
"Yeah." Allison says looking at a pair of black slacks. "Everyone's measurements." she says nodding to herself.
"Even bust sizes?" he asks, voice not as quiet as he likely thinks it is.
"You're such a boy." Allison laughs not even looking up from the very different rack.
"How much longer are we going to be here?" Kevin asks with a sigh.
"Well, at least the time that it took you to ask that longer. We'll be done when we're done Kevin." Dan says long having given up on stopping Allison when the woman is on a spree.
"She knows that EXITES closes at 5 PM right?" Kevin asks.
"More importantly," Matt leans in, "that the LEGO store closes at 8 PM right?" Matt asks.
"How is that more important? The LEGO store is open later?" Kevin asks.
"Because we're not going to EXITES today, but we are going to the LEGO store." Matt says.
"If we don't spend the whole day here we can do both-"
"We're not going to EXITES today Kevin." Dan says with a sigh.
"But-"
"We're not going to EXITES today Kevin." Renee says with an apologetic smile.
"But-"
"Kevin, we're not going to EXITES today. Just sit down and let me find pants that'll make your pin-up days look tame in comparison." Allison says.
"That's not what those posters were!" Kevin argues with a blush on his face.
"Sure." Allison dismisses
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Renee is quite happy with the sundresses she found even if they won't do her any good here in New York City during the Christmas break. Their next stop on their shopping day is over to the LEGO store where Matt makes no attempt to hide his enthusiasm as Aaron very valiantly does try to pretend like he's not utterly entranced by the sets and builds.
Renee thinks it's all very charming.
"We could have gone to EXITES." Kevin says with a frown as he looks at a build of an Exy racquet. "Can you take my picture with this?" he asks but he's not quite looking at Renee.
"Sure." Smith says from beside her, where he had apparently been.
"Thanks Smiths." Kevin says and stands next to the Exy racquet of LEGOs and crosses his arms and leans back.
"Kevin, stop posing like this will be for the cover of a Forbes Magazine." Andrew says with a sigh as he comes to stand on Renee's other side.
"Shut up, it's a picture for me!" Kevin says and continues to stand with his arms crossed.
"Oh, can you get a picture of me next Smith?" Neil asks coming up eyes shining in excitement as he looks at the racquet.
"Sure. As an apology for letting Nicky-"
"Don't talk about it." Neil and Andrew say at the same time.
Kevin gets his picture and then Andrew hands his phone to Smith for Neil's since Neil had broken the lens on his camera ages ago.
They wander around and Kevin finds a set to build the National Court that he grabs without a second thought. Neil and Andrew find a little LEGO man of Kevin that they buy as their 'preferred Kevin'. Kevin of course threatens to buy their LEGO figures once they have them and refer to them as his 'preferred Andrew and Neil'. A threat that neither of them comment on but Renee does buy the little Jean Moreau she finds. She'll paint it Trojan colors and send it over to him as a little gift.
As she continues to browse with her purchase in hand she hears Nicky, "Smithy, if you like it you should get it!" Nicky insists.
"Is it the price?" Allison asks.
"Yeah, I don't want to spend that much." Smith says with a nod expression still worryingly blank.
"When's your birthday? It can just be an early or a late present from me." Allison asks.
"March 1st, but really I'm fine not getting it." Smith shakes his head. "It's not that I'd like it just my little brother liked trains." he says and Renee watches Nicky's face turn from joyful teasing to intense determination.
"We're getting this set." Nicky says grabbing it and marching over to the counter even as Smith followed after him.
Interesting.
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They finish off their day with some ice skating.
Matt, Aaron, Andrew, and Kevin all fall into the 'challenged' category.
They get on the ice and all four immediately fall. Renee stifles her laughter as Andrew and Aaron scowl. "Are you okay?" Smith asks and Renee almost loses her balance as he skates by her.
"Why the fuck are you good at skating?" Aaron asks scowling even as he takes Smith hand. Renee skates over and offers a hand to Kevin as Matt and Andrew are being helped up by their respective partners.
"Oh," Allison says skating by, "have you been up to Canada or something often?" she asks.
"I've been to Canada a few times. It's more that there was a rink I would go to every once in a while." Smith answers before turning back to Aaron, "I can help you keep balanced." he says offering his other hand.
"Smith, I don't want to hold your hand. That's kind of gay." Aaron huffs letting go of Smith's hand only to immediately beef it again when he tried to move forward.
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Skating was fun even if Aaron kept blushing as Smith helped him skate since he never really got his 'ice legs'. The rest of them all more or less skated on their own by the end or, in the case of Andrew and Matt, seemed fine to keep skating while holding on.
Renee was warming herself by the fireplace in Allison's home enjoying some hot chocolate as Allison took a seat next to her. There was a lot of commotion in the kitchen as the team was working to make dinner together. Renee had excused herself after Smith had startled her while she had a knife in hand and she'd almost stabbed him on instinct.
She's just relieved that no one seemed to notice the near murder.
"You okay? You seemed tense in there." Allison asks.
Well, almost no one.
"Yes, I'm fine." she smiles and hopes that Allison will believe it.
Allison looks at her and Renee does have the benefit that Allison is slightly drunk since she was told firmly not to help with the cooking since she'd paid for the majority of the day.
"I'm glad I got you alone, there's something I want to hear your opinion on." Allison says deciding, apparently, to let it go for now.
Renee relaxes smiling at her friend, "What's that?" she asks wondering what purchase or thing unpurchased Allison was regretting.
Allison looks at Renee, expression utterly serious. "Don't you think there's something...weird about this kid?" she asks.
Renee straightens up glad that Allison had also felt like something was off with the kid that her friends had brought along. "What do you mean?" she asks wanting to hear what Allison thought.
"Look, he seems really nice. I mean a little too nice to be a Fox to be honest but I mean I guess you're a Fox as well so..." Allison rambles slightly taking another sip of her wine.
"Yes, go on." Renee nods.
"Yeah, he seems nice and Matt said he's got his own stuff even if he didn't wanna go into what that stuff was." Allison continues and it's a good thing Allison is drinking white wine considering the white carpet and her gesticulations. "But...it's just.. okay you can't make fun of me. Even though this is about to sound crazy." Allison says.
"I would never do something like that." Renee swears.
"Promise me." Allison says expression grave as she lifts up a pinky.
Renee smiles despite herself and hooks her pinky with Allison's, "I promise to not make fun of you." she swears other hand over her cross.
"I think he's Justin Bieber."
MASTERPOST FOR ALL PARTS OF FLUENT FRESHMAN AU
#Fluent Freshman AU#I would like to thank Emry#Since I was talking with them about commissioning a pic of Smith#I searched 'bland white guy' and Justin Bieber popped up#and it has been my head canon.... EVER SINCE#So now you all have to deal with the fact that Smith is almost identical to JB#He's got the hair#he's 5 foot 9#Born 3/1#Brown hair#brown eyes#Smith just completely lacks JB's stage presence / confidence / rizz and it mostly renders him very distinguishable#Nicky absolutely bought that train lego set for Smith#and is like 'this summer you and me are gonna fucking build this for your brother'#Andrew and Neil were also like 3 hours later than they said they were going to be#due to late check out reasons#Kevin may have looked for a Riko figure out of habit but didn't find one#Neil and Andrew may have also looked for a Riko figure but they wanted to burn it#different strokes for different folks i suppose#Renee got some nice paints to do her little project for Jean#She's heard from Jeremy that he's recovering from the meatball head injury quite nicely#Jean keeps saying to stop calling it that#Jeremy: “but you almost bled Bechemel all over the place.”#Jean: “For the love of god stop saying that. I was concussed from the meatball.”
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hey! if you struggle with chores and other tasks for executive dysfunction reasons, i just found out about a tool that may be very helpful for you:
goblin.tools is an AI tool that takes nearly any task (laundry, excercising, making dinner, almost anything) and breaks it down into smaller, less overwhelming steps for you.
my therapist just showed it to me and my relief was so immediate and immense that all my anxiety just Left my body. i highly reccomend trying it if you struggle with breaking down tasks into smaller steps like i do
#and of course don't sweat if it soesn't work for you! different strokes for different folks and all#executive dysfunction#adhd#actually adhd#neurodivergent#cedar speaks#ok 2 rb#mental health
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ya'll are weak. Imogen is into laudnas nails and there's plenty of ways to get someone off without using the tips of your fingers (for penetration), just saying.
also let's not act like pulling or biting them off ain't a Mood too, woman regenerates overnight.
#this is sort of a shit post#but also my actual feelings#imodna#how many times have I defended long nailed femmes by now idk#maybe it's the transmasc experience speaking#nsft#incase you forgot this is an adults blog somehow#People really like broadcasting that they don't know shit#or aren't aware of different strokes for different folks...
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So I saw a screenshot of Ralph without his hat (for his wedding outfit + I think a DLC outfit didn't have it?) and honestly. There's a reason he wears it. It's unfair if he doesn't. Olive Town really is just "hot bisexuals in your area" and they would thrive if they advertised it as such.
#sos pioneers of olive town#ralph#jack#i will never not love jack ok i have been playing again and i cant help it#once i unlock giant bear carvings to craft i make him the happiest man on the planet#its just something i have to do ok i love jack a lot#i do still really enjoy bringing ralph soup to the woods like a loser and handing it over while he eats lunch#but the point im trying to make is i cant stop loving jack and it really hinders my desire to romance others lmao#also i was googling some refs of ralph after i found the wedding ss because it was a lil cut off and i wanted the full look#and i saw a lot of questions like is poot worth it or comments about how its incredibly avg for a game#or how its not as great as past installments and im like ........... but the cast is so endearing to me#again its different strokes for different folks and not everyone will love the same farming sim as i will but still#dont be mean to my olive town babies......#the fact there are so many cutscenes in there of families interacting and moms being mom friends and gossip buddies#the fact there are so many cutscenes just about how these people live their lives is so wholesome to me#like sure the farmer is featured in the heart events#but there are so many where you arent the center ! youre just a bystander to like#a bro putting his younger bros motorcycle in the museum and the museum owner being mad theres a motorcycle in the museum#while then having multiple other people show up like YO SICK BIKE YOU GUYS HAVE THIS STUFF IN THE MUSEUM#while the younger bro is beaming cause thats his baby he loves his motorcycle and you better love it too#like its just so fascinating to exist in the town but not be the entire reason everyone keeps on going about their lives#yeah you interact and befriend them and you do tasks to help develop the island but it doesnt feel like thats why people like you#which is really important to me bc i feel like i have to do things to make people like me#i have to have a reason to interact with people irl or its just me being in their way#and poot lets me just live alongside people peacefully and talk to lil harvest sprites that hand me food and rocks and logs#anyway that is SO MUCH propaganda for a story of seasons game that no one asked for thanks gnight
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#it's fine not to enjoy a fic or think it's overrated#happens to everyone. different strokes for different folks.#but ending your bookmark with “my time felt wasted”?#a permanent note that is sure to drive other readers away and make the author feel like shit?#seriously. going around leaving that kind of “feedback” just makes things worse for everyone in the fandom.#you are responsible for what you read. if you don't enjoy it then use the fucking back button.#or at the very least have the decency to make your bookmark private if you have to bookmark for some reason#not yr#but definitely yr#vent post#what a fun and motivating start to my day huh.
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not to be a hater but if feel like if u asked her to eat pussy she'd start crying and trembling and throwing up
#yes i know not everything is for me and different strokes for different folks#but i'm gonna be a hater dawg fuck this let's be adults and have nasty dyke sex#my post
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Mew and Nick will team up! Book already revealed that, in yet another interview. Mew goes to Nick for "assistance." And now we can assume it's both because he'll know Nick is the source of the truth, and for use of Nick's tech and skills in his plans. Maybe even mostly just out of empathy and solidarity.
So that'll be satisfying. IMO, at least. I never saw Mew as sanctimonious at all, so I'm rooting for him. Just my feeling, to each their own.
Alas, not my hopes.
I want Mew to go down with the rest of his friends. But, eh, I accept what the show gives me.
The way Mew talks about Ray and looks at Boston... not my favorite.
I am definitely a little sad that he won't be the mastermind I want him to be. I definitely was hoping for him to be more manipulative than just the base level the show has shown us.
But whatever.
I will say, anon, that I understand that these actor interviews are public and everywhere... but I don't tend to seek out spoilers or look for them aside from the very basics and would really like to avoid them if possible.
I don't follow actors, I don't look for behind the scenes stuff until after the show is out... I know nothing other than what the show tells me and the occasionally glimpses on here. And I get why people get excited and want those!
But now I'm a bit disappointed because all of this means that the characters really are as straightforward as I knew the show would be and that the depth and twists I'm looking (me, specifically) are less likely to be there.
I wanted Mew to be a manipulative character trying to get Top because he could and because it made him feel better about himself and would 'prove' that his choices were the right ones to keep him versus Boston's method. I wanted Mew to be using Ray's feelings towards him to keep the money in their friendship group and to be able to use him for projects and such. I want Mew to be a mastermind, a virgin using his sex appeal in order to get the unobtainable. It was so good. It was something we never see!
But now it's probably just the more basic story... I mean, I still think the friendships are going to fall entirely apart because Mew does look down on his friends for casual sex and heavy drinking and hides it behind fake concern but that's just to be expected for this type of show.
I want Mew and Boston to be opposite sides of the same coin, to both be manipulators using the people around them but in very different ways. I still want that so badly. Will it happen? I dunno. But I want it.
But, obviously, everyone is going to have different views of the characters and different wishes for the show! Especially a mess like this one, where everyone is morally gray and real.
Except Boston. Who just wants that dick and will stop at nothing to get it. He is morally, orally and generally a... dick.
#asked and answered#only friends the series#only friends series#different strokes for different folks
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Hello! A question for one of the best DN historians in the platform 😛 so, for all of us who like L/OC romances there's just such a cute dating sim from spiraling trap, and although I don't consider it as necessarily canon (more like part of the extended universe, headcanon as you will) I think it's an interesting start towards a more "realistic" romance with him, if you want to write fanfiction. I don't know if you played it, but L goes from neutral polite/blunt, to interested to feeling the MC gives him peace. I found that phrasing particularly curious because it not only further humanises L but also speaks of how burdened he is, even beyond what we see in canon. How do you think a relationship with him would go, based on this premise? It's good food for thought, at least 🙂 thank you!
Hi, thanks for the sweet and polite ask!
I've never played that game myself, but it does sound like a cute scenario for L. I think it does make sense that in order for L to end up romantically interested and involved with someone he might need to first realize that maybe he would indeed prefer having a partner and someone to share his everyday life with on that level in the first place. Because I'm not sure it's something he would normally be prioritizing or believing that he wants or needs...
My own interpretation of L is almost entirely based on his manga self. I think that manga!L is aloof from others not just for his own protection, but also somewhat because he's secretly fairly arrogant about finding most other people quite boring and not relatable, and would also think it's too difficult to maintain an intimate relationship with most people. I think he's very stubborn, very driven, and also has been a bit spoiled and sheltered, and is not accustomed to navigating typical everyday social situations because of how unusual and often isolated and secretive his life has probably been. And I think he'd likely be a fairly difficult personality for many people to date, either because he's not willing to make the compromises and sacrifices and do the usual expected gestures that might be required for it, or because he logically can't see the point in himself dating people most of the time – I think he would be the type to think or to tell himself that he was not like other people who constantly need companionship in this way, almost looking down on anybody else who does. He definitely defaults to feeling superior about his differences from most people rather than inferior to them most times, I think. Though I'm not sure exactly how explicitly self-aware about that all or vocal about it he would be? I think generally L usually is content just to focus on what interests and entertains him the most, which is being a detective, and that to some degree this is just because it's the only thing he's genuinely actually cared a lot about focusing on before. But also maybe because he's never known anything different and might not feel as cocky about his abilities to navigate something like a romance or a longterm relationship very effortlessly, either (and he probably only really likes doing things he already knows he's good at).
I don't know if he'd actually consider himself terribly "burdened" by his position as L ordinarily, since in canon he says he is doing it because he wants to (whether or not maybe Watari sort of molded him into that role when he was a child as well). So I think the only time he'd start feeling really burdened is if he was getting way in over his head and feeling like he was losing control and losing face and failing, like during some of his darker moments of the Kira case (which I am sure was definitely by far the hardest case he ever had, and also the furthest he ever pushed himself to solve one). In that case I can certainly see him maybe finding someone who managed to comfort and help him in some way during that hard time attractive or enjoyable to have around, and to start thinking about things more like whether or not he would actually enjoy having an everyday partner in that specific way.
I don't really know how to extrapolate on it much further than that, because I don't know what the specific scenario is, and I am not normally an LxOC shipper or LxReader shipper myself. I have never actually read any fics like that before or anything. But hopefully some of this rambling was helpful a bit maybe, haha!
#im the kind of shipper who is mostly only interested in shipping the characters with each other or wtv#just different strokes for different folks#but i hope you have fun with whatever you make#l lawliet#ask#anon#p
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