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"Is Tumblr Blaze Worth It For Promoting My Indie Game?" - a Postmortem
Lately I've been thinking about marketing and promotion of my games and wanting to explore new avenues. Tumblr Blaze was one of those things I wanted to dip my toes into a bit to understand how it works and if it has potential for advertising my sort of stuff. Like as not, there's no point in making games if nobody actually plays them after all!
Conversely I have also heard bad things about Tumblr Blaze; that it's not very targeted, the reach is fairly limited, and people on this site generally hate anything that is Blazed to them.
I wanted to test all these waters a bit to see if it's something worth investing in, and share what I found for my own benefit and the benefit of others. Finding various info on topics like this for indie dev can be a pain, so why not share my findings?
The Plan and Goal
While Centauri Dark is still in development and is the thing I actually want to advertise more of right now, Bombing!! 2 is already out and is much more marketable with some cool art made by community members. I think as a first impression it tends to show well, so I decided to make my test post with that to get exposure to it and see how it goes.
My goal was mostly to see what a Blaze post does for advertising a launched indie game and how much "eyes on" it actually gets in terms of actual engagement.
Posting
From the outset I knew I wanted to make a post that 1) wasn't annoying to people just looking at the webbed site 2) featured a call to action of some kind I could measure 3) wouldn't break the bank.
Here's what I came up with:
The intention was to flash some cool looking art to grab their attention, explain what they're looking at, and then link the game a couple of times while mentioning "Buy or Wishlist" for good measure as a call to action.
Since Bombing!! 2 is such an art-forward game, I found the coolest art pieces made by community members that felt the most "Tumblr" to match the audience, and would also show off the range of art you could make in the game. I also wanted to make it personal, like me writing a message to whoever would read it instead of something that sounded like a standard ad. Generally I think it was a fairly reasonable little post that catches some interest and doesn't overstay too much of a welcome. What I think also helps is it's explicitly a "hey this might interest you" sort of framing (as opposed to a more "why am I even seeing this" sort of post you tend to get from Blaze sometimes).
I also think it's worth emphasizing that writing a posted explicitly intending to be Blazed was a much stronger approach than just Blazing some random post I had made for my own followers months ago, because I could align it to my promotional goals. It also assumed that random people on the Internet would be the ones seeing my post, and not the followers and friends who already know me and my work.
Blazing
As I looked into Blaze early on there was actually a few key things I wasn't fully aware of about the system.
It guarantees a minimum amount of views
It guarantees it will be Blazed for a minimum of 24 hours no matter how many views
You pay a single base rate for the whole campaign (great compared to some ads which tend to price based on views/engagement).
You can define an audience explicitly (some info that was floating around lead me to believe this wasn't the case).
Campaigns come in a few amounts:
I paid for the 2nd tier; $17 USD for a campaign, which amounts to $25 CDN. I wanted to go a little more into it than the lowest tier offered, since I figured the lowest wouldn't give me as much data as I would've liked and I wanted to know what to reasonably expect should I decide to do it again in the future.
Since Bombing!! 2 sells for ~$20USDI also figure if the Blaze campaign prompts at least two people to buy the game then the Blaze would have paid for itself.
Blaze lets you use tags to define which audiences you want to reach. Unfortunately it doesn't let you view that data after you've applied it, but the tags I chose were generally anyone who spoke English and has an interest in Digital Artist or Video Game circles.
The campaign ran for 24 Hours, starting yesterday and ending today.
The Results
I definitely noticed a sharp uptick in engagement during the campaign! It hit the target audience of ~7k around one hour into the campaign, after which point I noticed engagement take a sharp decline.
Here's the Blaze campaign analytics provided by Tumblr (which was also very helpful to have):
So it seems ~12.5k views from Blaze, ~370 likes, ~80 reblogs, 5 shares elsewhere. The post itself has ~520 notes, so I assume there's some reblogging and liking happening from beyond the Blaze campaign that isn't pictured here. The good thing is that despite having reached its 7k target after only 1 hour, it continued to circulate and be Blazed until 24 hours later. Eventually the post made it to ~12k views overall, which was nearly double the amount promised by the campaign - I attribute this mostly to a strong post/target audience/subject matter and I'm sure it's not standard.
Here's the general velocity of engagement around when the post was Blazed:
It jumped much more than I honestly expected, but you can tell Blaze seemed to put it in front of people's faces more than my regular posts do. You can see it drops off sharply as I hit the quoted amount as well, back down to the normal amount of engagement I get on Tumblr.
But this stuff isn't really what I was looking for; I was looking for sales and keeping an eye on 'conversions' - or how many users followed my call to action because of the post. Likes and stuff are fine and cool, but how many people bought or wishlisted the game on Steam as a result of seeing the post on Tumblr?
Tumblr and Blaze obviously have no way of telling me this, so I'm looking to Steam to show me changes there.
Here's what Steam shows me happened to the Bombing!! 2 views yesterday:
That's not nothing! This shows the last month's worth of traffic to the Bombing!! 2 page, and that number was at least double yesterday as it was regularly. It's very cool to know a number of people did actually click through to the game page in order to view the game from the Blaze post.
But the real REAL question is how many bought or wishlisted the game because of this post?
I'll start with Sales, on a graph of 1 month of data:
Flat line :( Which is fine though, as the game wasn't on Sale and was just reaching people for the first time. I didn't honestly expect any immediate sales from this, and was more focused on other engagement anyways. Honestly I would be surprised if someone saw the game on a Blaze post and bought it immediately. I mean it's good but it's probably not THAT good!
Now to Wishlists, which can be a good indicator of who might likely buy your game in the future. Basically if someone has added a game to their wishlist, there's reason to believe they might buy it in the future, which is good for your game.
Here's the Wishlists for Bombing!! 2 from the last month:
That's 23 Wishlists in one day! That's roughly ~18 Wishlists more than an average day!
It's hard to know if some of these are because of the post or just a statistical fluke. However, when compared to previous trends on the game page that's quite a noticeable difference. It means even if no one bought it now, they were interested enough to add it to their shortlist. Looking at it another way, if two people who Wishlisted decided to buy the game in the future the campaign will have paid for itself.
Conclusions
I think like any advertising if you go into it with a plan in mind and try to build something around a specific action, Blaze seems pretty worth it to me especially if I just want to get eyes on something. On top of the obvious data telling me people were interested in the game, there was a few folks who just plain complemented the game or acknowledged it 'was the first Blaze post they were actually interested in', which felt worth it in it's own qualitative sort of way.
I think having an idea of the message I wanted to send really helped, and I'm sure I'd happily do this again with a larger audience and another plan (and probably will do it for when Centauri Dark releases).
#gamedev#game dev#game development#indie games#indie game#gamedevelopment#indiegames#indiedev#indie dev#bombinggame#blog#blaze#tumblr blaze#game design#thoughts
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WDYM Anakin is Luke and Leia's dad
I dunno if this post will reach the Star Wars fandom but I hope it does because I'm sure you all will get a good laugh at me.
As of recent I have developed a good hiperfixation for Star Wars, the thing is I knew nothing. NOTHING about Star Wars besides the fact it had aliens and...a war...in space? And funny swords. And main character is Luke or something, I spent over 20 years ignoring anything about Star Wars and somehow missing most references out there.
And recently, literally less than a month ago I saw a gif and said to my partner "oh this guy this guy looks cool, this gif looks nice" and he said "Oh well, he's a good character."
And it all developed into me watching Clone Wars, the animated series you know and...and I was kinda blown away, on my opinion the show IS GREAT. And I love every character and their interactions, I love how much they focus on side characters, and they all seem very well written. I got hiperfixated really fast and saw Anakin and I was like "Omg, babygirl. He's a blorbo now."
And because of the show, this was super unexpected, but somehow I also got, really got, into the ship with Padmé because omg, cool woman. Literal happy squeaky noises of someone who was in a bad state and needed some good ol' distraction and comfort.
Now, like I said I knew nothing about Star Wars as a whole. And I still haven't watched the movies, besides the ocassional gif?
So imagine my shock, my surprise, my...bewilderment when I realized.
"Wait a minute, LUKE IS ANAKIN'S SON?! HOLY-"
Ladies, gentleman, and others, I think I came very late to this party and I don't even know how it took me so long.
Not only that, but because of this sudden love for the series, I went to my friends circle like "BESTIE, GUESS WHAT, I HAVE A NEW BLROBO AND A NEW FAV SHIP AND EEEP"
And my friends are like "omg that's amazing, what is it?"
I tell them, and of course they all know these characters and they all react like they know this very bad secret fact and I got told several times already "Please, don't watch the episodes 2 and 3 alone, it will hurt."
I feel like blissfully walking among rainbows and blue skies while everyone else know that my future is doomed. Somehow.
(Uncomfortable silence)
Not only that, but then I spent a whole deal of time thinking "Where the heck I have seen these guys" cus there was some fmailiarity I couldn't just point out and then one day I woke up, brushed my teeth and of all sudden I realized and it was such a shock.
Do you know how SURREAL is to get very into a character, and into a ship, and then realize they're the same from that super widespread meme that has been around for who knows how much time?
I swear I thought that meme was from some old medieval fantasy movies or something.
But alas, Star Wars now is EVERYWHERE. People do references to Star Wars ALL THE TIME and it's just now I'm catching them.
I got spoilers. From a meme. In a youtube review that had nothing to do with Star Wars hah. Everything is a spoiler, the world is an apparent spoiler. Now I'm here, trying to avoid spoilers from something everyone seems to know, even my family knows. It's so surreal and I wouldn't have it any other way 😂
Anyways, if you read until here, know that a wild ride still waits me, cuz I'm only starting Season 3 of Clone Wars and I don't plan to watch the movies until I finish the series.
And yes, I made this blog just to ramble freely about SW and draw stuff because it sparked my inspiration after a long art block.
Have this doodle I drew after watching the two first episodes, my offering for you reaching this far.
Note: Wouldn't Anakin and Padmé's ship name be Animé? Cuz that's hilarious.
#rambling#star wars#star wars fandom#anakin skywalker#darth vader#the clone wars#sw tcw#tcw#tcw fanart#clone wars
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What are your future plans for your channel btw? Although I like your content criticizing Lily, I think it’s best for you to move away from her because her time on the internet is a huge trash fire that never leads to anything good.
I’d personally really like to see you talk more about Hazbin Hotel or Steven Universe! Your streams are really fun and I love having them on the side while I work. :)
BOLD OF YOU TO ASSUME I HAVE A PLAN!
Much like I never actually intended to start a Steven Universe AU series I never actually intended to become a YouTuber in the first place.
Here's the story:
For years now I've been doing a stream weekly on Twitch where I just talk with chat while drawing. One day Hiding in Public/Private released a couple of great videos on old SU hate videos, including Lily's infamous "Steven Universe is Garbage and Here's Why".
Not too long after that Lily released "Was I Wrong About Steven Universe?" as a nakedly obvious response. I thought hey, wouldn't it be funny if one stream I just react to this video? Just for funsies? To see if Lily has actually changed her mind on anything?
What I didn't expect was I'd end up spending like half an hour explaining Shoujo Kakumei Utena of all things during that video reaction.
I was kinda impressed with my own recall of Utena despite not having watched it in full in over a decade. So I thought eh for funsies lemme cut down that part and slap it on my account. Which is the same account I've had since 2006. I've put videos up there just for my friends and small number of fans before, as you can see from this Minecraft video from 11 years ago I filmed and edited for my friend for her birthday.
And then that Utena video got 5k views. On my completely unestablished YouTube channel. And I was like... huh. I knew people are annoyed by Lily Orchard but damn.
By that point I had also already decided to react to Lily's video on the Steven Universe Movie the next stream. Cause obviously the SU movie is something pretty near and dear to me that I know very well. And Lily's video was SO BAD and had so many OUTRIGHT LIES in it I thought well hell, let's cut down the two SU reacts into a video too!
It'll probably get like 10k views tops.
And then I'll just fuck off back into the shadows whence I came.
And I suddenly found myself with 3,000 followers.
And I suddenly found myself monetized.
And that video just passed 200k views now. In 3 months.
So I was like... well shit. Now I have this new audience over here on YouTube. I should probably actually give them something. I mean the added revenue stream is nice but I'm not looking to become a career tuber. Mostly I felt like I owed it to this new audience I now have.
So I started doing my art stream on YouTube as well! And I also have been game streaming, if you haven't checked my Lives recently. I've been streaming I Wani Hug That Gator, of all things, while doing silly voices and we're all having a blast. I already wanted to get back into game steaming this year even before this giant explosion in attention.
So for now that's the only thing resembling a plan! I'm gonna keep art and game streaming and cutting videos from those streams. I'm not a video essayist. I can't write and perform a script, I'm just not good at it. But I am very good off the cuff which is why I'm a streamer. I can explain things when prompted. So hey, come to my Wednesday art streams (2pm EST) and poke me for art and writing advice! Or to pick my brain about Steven Universe and Hazbin. I thrive on chat interaction! And then those can be shorts and videos too.
I do plan to do at least 3 or 4 more Lily reacts in the future just because they're videos I think would be funny to react to. But after that? Who knows!
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The End Of Tora Steals Things: A GW2 Fan Comic/Novel
Hey! So with the end of Amulet Of Bolli having gone up on Dec. 23rd, 2023, it's time to talk bout something I've been putting off for awhile now.
You read the title, let's get into it: The End Of Tora Steals Things.
Amulet Of Bolli is the last story I will make for Tora Steals Things. That's it. There's no more. It's ending there as I move forward with Apocalypse Child (which launched on Dec. 21st at apocalypsechildcomic.com!).
So why is it ending?
Those of you who've watched my streams probably already knew this as I've been talking about it ending for awhile now. Hell, many of you may have figured out it was singing its swan song when I first announced Apocalypse Child, or changed the update schedule to once every two weeks, or changed it to a webnovel format... Many of you probably knew it was dying before I was willing to admit it myself.
Truthfully, I have roughly 16 or so stories left for Tora Steals Things, and I really wanted to make them all. TST means a lot to me: it taught me how to make comics and it brought me joy during some of the hardest moments of my life. I'm honestly so touched that so many people read and enjoyed it over the years. You guys made it worth it, you really did.
However, TST has long lived past its due date, and this last story proved that to me. Amulet Of Bolli Part Two took six months to write--six months where I had no time to edit past a first draft, could not build a decent buffer, and had no time to work on writing for Apoclaypse Child. Did it take less time than it would have as a comic? Yes, absolutely, but it still took far more time and energy than what it's currently worth. It exhausted me to my limit to make.
I don't know what else to say, really--I burned out on TST years ago but just kept pushing. I'm sad I couldn't complete it the way I wanted to, sure, but I can't tell you how relieved I am to finally allow myself to stop working on it.
For those last 16-ish stories, they're now available in written summaries as bonus material for the deluxe edition of the third and final e-book for Tora Steals Things. I hope that will satisfy those of you curious over where the story was gonna go, had I kept making it.
On that note, the last e-book collecting the last of the comics and prose for TST is out and available for purchase: Volume 3--Contract Complete which you can pick up here.
What's next?
As my focus moves onto Apocalypse Child, the Patreon for Tora Steals Things has been made to re-focus on that as well. I'm still keeping all the previous rewards for TST available on that Patreon. In the future, time-willing, I may collect those rewards to sell in digital bundles alongside the e-books so that those of you interested in just the Tora Steals Things sketch pages, scripts, thumbnails, and so forth, can just buy it instead of signing up for the Patreon. I'm also considering doing a live Q&A stream for the ending of TST near the end of the month. Might not do it. Depends on interest, really.
If this is something that interests you, I'll be sure to update this space or my twitter (@GriffinSBNorth) if and when anything happens.
All that said, I wanna just like, thank those of you who read my work all this time. Tora Steals Things was always a bit out there as a fan project and it means the world to me that so many of you loved my hot mess of a plant thief and all his friends.
Really, truly, thank you.
And please, feel free to ask me questions if you have any.
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The whole “Buddie buildup for seasons!” thing is so funny to me as someone who’s been watching from the start. The very moment Eddie appeared in the first ep of season 2 and talked to Buck (which was pretty charged and slightly negative) people started shipping them and demanding for them to get together based on chemistry alone, with no build up or backstory. It obviously continued as the show went on and more moments happened but as someone who shipped them back then they actually made MORE sense when the ship and chemistry was fresh imo, in seasons 2 and 3, and no one debated it as then. Now that Tommy appeared now suddenly it’s all “3939 seasons of buildup!”. Especially weird when there were some seasons where there was negative buildup for Buddie. Again, I used to ship them so it’s not like I’m against the idea but saying Buddie makes more sense than BuckTommy only because of madeup is BS.
warning: this is long!!
I actually came into the show with buddie goggles on. I think my first episode live was 4x4? It was either Future Tense or the episode RIGHT after Future Tense, idr which but I had a mutual or someone I followed on twitter who was really into the show & would share ppl's edits. Now I knew they weren't canon & even then I didn't need them to be (i like a good "queerbait" as the kids call it, tho i have arguments for what actually constitutes queerbait. I simply call it "shippable"). But as someone who went in knowing about their ship, I looked at EVERYTHING with those goggles on. So yeah I shipped them hardcore for those seasons. Then s6 happened and I packed my bags on that ship to ever actually happen in canon and resolved to watch the show a bit more casually season 7 onwards (and I would've done too had I not heard the rumors about bi Buck!! haha)
But I did start rewatching the series through the reactions of someone who did not have those goggles on a few months ago and it really shed some light on certain things. All that is to say, I do agree with you. If it was something that was ever gonna be done, during s2 & 3 makes the most sense. I think ppl forget that fanon is not the same as canon & things that work in fanfiction do not work in the actual canon world of the show. Now that Buck is bisexual, I do fully believe & adopt the headcanon that he had feelings for Eddie early on & just didn't realize it, but they developed fully into friendship.
I don't think they're going to make Eddie canonically queer too. I just don't. I'm not sure why I ever thought they might give both coming out stories (maybe it's because I watch a lot of Asian BL). Unfortunately, that is just not how network television works in America. The fact they made Buck queer 7 seasons in is already HUGE. I'm not gonna hang my hopes on what's probably an impossibility when I have this beautiful canon queer storyline happening on my screen already & I genuinely like Tommy & think he's the perfect LI for Buck.
I think here is what people need to realize too. Once again fanon =/= canon. There are no so many years of build-up. Unless and until they make buddie canon, those years of build-up do not exist because, currently, they're not trying to build anything up. Tim has said they aren't currently planning it, Ryan again and again has said how much Buck & Eddie's friendship means to him to see on television because you don't see male friendships portrayed that way (and you don't! especially not friendships between 2 "macho" men both in their 30s, 1 of whom is canonically queer. This too is an important storyline to tell).
People watch this show with buddie goggles feeling like they're owed these 2 to get together but that just isn't the case. Tim will tell the story he wants to tell & ppl viewing are signing up to watch THAT show. If you don't like that show, stick to fanon because that's something you can control.
And, one day, if they do decide to go in that direction (and I'm firmly in the camp they're not going to & if they do it's gonna be in the final season, but I truly think ABC wants 911 to be another Grey's Anatomy; something that can go on for 20 seasons so who even knows if these actors will want to stick around that long) it's not going to be the story of Buck & Eddie realizing they've had feelings for each other all this time. They won't be able to convince the GA of that. It'll be them falling in love for the first time on screen. But first they need to convince the GA that Eddie is whatever brand of queer they decide on (it's not going to be gay, I will say that right now. As much as I understand why people headcanon him as such & even agreed for a long time, that is not the reality within the show's canon. The show is not trying to lie to people about Eddie enjoying sex with women, they would make it more obvious for the people who don't sit online analyzing if that were the case. Personally I've started reading Eddie as aromantic but I know most ppl here would never be cool with that since it puts a damper on buddie too).
If people want to continue living in a delusional world where these things will for sure happen, then that's on them and is their right. Have fun with it! Fandom belongs to the fans. You can do anything here. But to get upset and angry because other fans might not agree, or the people in charge of the show don't go the direction you want? Well that's just silly. We are viewers (& also writers can NOT use the things fans say. They could get in serious trouble for that). You can be active in a fandom space, but at the end of the day, being a viewer is a passive job. The writers write the show, then they film it and put it out to the world & a viewer views it & enjoys the art that these hundreds upon thousands of people created.
And, also, there's a lot more passive viewers than there are active members of fandom. And people forget that. If every single hardcore shipper stopped watching right now, the views would hardly dip. They won't lose anything just because they decide not to make fandom's favorite ship canon.
#anon ask#not tagging this and hope it shows up nowhere lmao#either way im not budging on what i think so#ive seen way too many tv series to get how these things work#been in fandom way too long as well
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Chapter 18 of 21 Questions
better interface on wattpad + updated till chap 27
FLORIDA VERSUS TOUR SHOW (meeting)(plot is plotting)
Matt🍂
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Hey, here are the tickets
I hope you'll have a great time tomorrow :)
Thank you so much<3
I'll never forget this fr
I'll repay you one day
And thank your cousin also
You can repay me by not hating me when you discover the truth…
Unsent
No worries
And yeah, I'll tell her it did end up useful for someone else
I'll try to take good pics for her!
That's very nice of you, can't wait to see them if they're as good as those you take of the world
“Damn you're so adorable Lily”, Alex said as she was reading the texts above her friend's shoulder.
“Well, it's thanks to a fellow fan that we can see the triplets again, so anything for her now!”
“No but for real, that was so sweet of Matt's cousin to give them out”. Alex side hugged Lily to show appreciation. “I really can't wait to meet them again”.
“Yeah same”, Lily agreed.
Thinking back to how everything happened so quickly, Lily was glad to have been able to trust her online friend. She knew she had every right to be weary of this, but she also wanted it to be true – which she believed to be. She didn't know how she could ever repay the favour to Matt, but she was set on finding something for him one day. Maybe this is a good situation to write that letter for him, he deserved it already but now even more… Lily thought as she smiled at her idea. Although they had never talked about it, Lily suddenly wished to meet Matt. She felt like their friendship was getting to a point where they could actually enjoy each other's presence in real life – they had called a few more times since they played Fortnite together a couple months ago but had never facetimed. None of them knew what the other looked like, but them being friends was solely based on their personalities and common ground so it didn't matter much. However, Lily's wish for an eventual meeting would happen sooner than she'd ever expect thanks to someone who wasn't as impatient – and it could even be said it had already happened though none of them was aware of it.
A day later and the two best friends found themselves in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Completely off plan – they had indeed wanted to go back to Spring Hill today but fate had it otherwise, Alex and Lily were now on the Southeast Coast. The weather was lovely as the girls parked near the venue. They hadn’t gone to their hotel yet but Matt – Alex had learnt from Lily – had apparently been kind enough to book a room for them not far from where the venue was, “an apology for this last minute plan” Lily had said. Obviously, Lily had refused to let him pay so Matt had only put his card for a refundable deposit and Lily would pay for the room when she and Alex would leave the city. As it was Sunday, the girls had decided that they would stay until Tuesday at most – they had been gone for a week and although Lucas and Jade didn’t mind being alone at the café, Lily and Alex felt bad that they were leaving them for so long. They were also missing their cat a lot, but would never tell their friend that their fake child counted more.
This was now it, the final show of the Versus Tour where Alex and Lily would be once again part of the wonderful atmosphere that were the Sturniolo Triplets’ shows. They had arrived later than they did for the other shows as they didn’t have the small talk nor the group pictures included in their tickets. This didn’t bother the girls though as they were simply ecstatic at the idea of seeing Nick, Matt and Chris for the fourth time. They saw that not many people were left outside as most of them were already inside the venue for the extras that were happening before the show. When they approached the queue, Lily unlocked her phone to get the tickets ready to be scanned. This was the moment of truth: had Matt scammed her or not? Damn, I hope not because I like the kid… Lily thought as it was their turn to enter the venue. When the security guard scanned the tickets, he let out a confused face – though unnoticed by the girls with how quick he composed himself – until he confirmed the names on his list and knew that what he was seeing was not a mistake.
Indeed, the tickets that Matt – Laura actually – had custom made for Lily were not meant to exist because they had never sold any GA tickets with only the backstage pass as an extra. The security guard eventually let the girls enter and as he signalled to someone else to take his place to scan the next people, he quickly went inside through another door where he knew that he could find who he was looking for. Fortunately, he was able to find her rapidly enough. He called Laura who was overseeing that the group pictures were going well and told her about the two girls he had checked in a couple of minutes ago. Thanking the man before he went back outside, Laura waited until everyone had gotten their pictures taken – luckily it was almost the end – and as she walked the triplets to the stage where they would soon be on for their show, she notified them about the girls who had arrived. Hearing this, Matt let out a sigh of relief he never knew he was holding and his two brothers patted him on the back to comfort him. She’s here, Matt thought. I’m actually gonna meet her, damn… The stress started getting to him and he knew he wouldn’t be able to relax until he saw that she was here with his own eyes. When they arrived on the side of the stage, the triplets found a small space behind the curtains where they could look at the crowd without being noticed.
“Do we even know who we’re looking for?” Chris asked as he had no idea which team colour the girls were supporting today.
“Well, she’s Matt’s girl so probably blue.” Nick replied as he tried to recognize the girl with whom he had gotten along a few days prior.
“Not my girlfriend…” Matt mumbled. “And she doesn’t even know that she’s here for me so I actually can’t say who she’s rooting for today.”
“I mean– I think I had told her to come in orange last time we saw her but I guess we can each look for our team colours when we’re on stage”, Chris suggested. “We might see better with the lights above us.”
“Good idea, let’s not be too obvious though.” Nick warned. It was now time for them to go on stage and start the show so he gave the final instructions. “We’re mainly searching in the last rows because she had General Admission; a brunette with possibly animals painted on her face accompanied with a blonde girl who’s most certainly in orange as she supported Chris in my memories. And remember, BE. DIS–CREET.”
Matt and Chris nodded as they understood their task. They would never jeopardise their last show but it wouldn’t hurt to confirm that their guests were here as they were literally in front of the crowd where said guests were. Hugging each other, the triplets were now ready to go on stage for the last time of their tour. It had been such a wonderful experience for them and they had found a way to make this last show even more special thanks to the partners they had chosen. Indeed, as their family and friends were present, the triplets had invited three of them to share the stage with them and it was now time to get them on as they were being introduced after the popular vote had happened – Matt won again, what a surprise!
The three teammates were therefore the triplets’ brother Justin, their best friend Nathan – or Nate – and their friend Tril who had travelled with them for a couple of shows to sing at the end. Nick then announced that the three would each pull from a box a friendship bracelet based on one of the teams in order to decide who they were going to partner with. After they all took out a bracelet, Nick made them reveal at the same time and the result was Nathan on team blue with Matt, Tril on team orange with Chris and finally Justin on team purple with Nick.
As usual, the first game was the painting competition which Nate had won, thus granting a second point to Matt’s team blue sharks. The next game was called Saved by the Bell where the teams would answer trivia questions. From the age required to enter the Hunger Games – twelve years old – to the number of moons Mars had – two, the three teams had to answer several chaotic other questions such as the temperature at which water freezes – 0°C or 32°F for y’all weird Americans – or the number of elements in the Periodic Table – a hundred and eighteen. They were now playing the third game which was called We’re Playing Basketball and thanks to Tril, Chris’s team orange deers was now in the lead before the fourth and last game that was Jenga Showdown started. Matt and Nate were closely behind and the Jenga game that Matt had lost a handful would be decisive. Indeed, the loser would have five points removed from his score, which is why it was essential for Matt to not lose again.
Back to our two girls in the crowd, they had been enjoying every minute of this last show. Per Chris’s request, Lily had showed up with an orange tank top and deers drawn on her face by Alex, who was also wearing orange. Although Alex would be over the moon if Chris won this show and therefore the whole tour, Lily was actually awaiting his defeat as she was really curious regarding the tiebreaker that would decide the winner between Chris and Matt as Nick announced that he had a great one planned already. Only time would tell and it wouldn’t be too much waiting as the game finally began. The tension was slowly building in the venue along the Jenga tower. After what was unusually long compared to other shows, the tower eventually collapsed when it was Nate’s turn, thus making Matt’s team lose five out of his nine points. Matt’s loss thus meant Chris’s victory of not only the show but of the entire tour, which sent the crowd in a frenzy as everyone was screaming – one part was actually cheering on the youngest brother while the other was just screaming for fun as one does during a concert whenever the artist on stage does something as simple as breathing.
Now that the show was ending, each team received their medals and as the lights were on, Matt took that as an opportunity to check the crowd for a certain face. He tried to make his brain work its hardest ever and searched for a smiling brunette of whom he had a faint memory. As he stilled for a second, Matt thought he had seen her and when he tried to keep looking at the back of the venue for this particular person, he was nudged by his friend Nate who made him notice that he would end up seeming weird on stage. Nate and the two other teammates did know why Matt had spent a couple of times during the show simply watching the crowd – they had been notified along with the triplets’ parents about Matt’s chaotic plan – and so their role had been to prevent each of the triplets to creepingly stare at the fans too much. Finally, the coronation ceremony happened and Chris received the Versus Tour trophy before everyone left the stage for Tril’s last mini concert.
Unbeknownst to them, Alex and Lily were being observed by three similar-looking people who were watching the fans until they recognised those they were searching for. The show had been over for a little while and so the two girls were currently waiting in the queue leading to backstage as the tickets they had been given by Matt allowed them to meet the triplets after the show. Although they had been trusting Matt, they were still relieved to get the confirmation that they indeed had access backstage when they had first entered the venue a few hours earlier – though it was Laura who had notified the staff beforehand that those two specific girls had a “special treatment” due the ticket combo that wasn't supposed to exist.
As the girls were simply talking about the fact that Chris had won the show and therefore the tour – which Alex was over the moon about, her being a Chris girl, they didn't notice someone from security coming towards them. Exchanging a glance of uncertainty, Lily and Alex were surprised that the bodyguard was asking them to follow him somewhere else in the venue. Questions raised in the girls’ minds but they complied and went with the man. They didn’t understand at first and were just confused that they were being dragged out from the queue.
“What the fuck is happening?” Alex whispered to Lily as they were still walking in the corridors of the venue.
“I DON'T KNOW!” Lily whisper-yelled to Alex. “It's scaring me, like have we been scammed?”
“I hope not bro, they’ll probably give us an explanation.”
Lily agreed and a couple of minutes later, the two girls found themselves in a huge room with several couches and drinks on a table. They got told to stay here until someone would come back for them later. They both were so stressed and although they had snacks as well as beverages to pass the time, Lily and Alex were shitting themselves.
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Half an hour later and the girls were still alone in the room. While they had been wondering about what was going to happen to them – their assumptions were being killed or abducted, the actual backstage was close to being over. Due to confusion still being present, Alex had suggested the first good idea of the evening and told Lily to text Matt.
“Damn, we should've thought about that earlier. I hope bro has a good explanation!”
Matt🍂
Hey Matt, please can you tell me what's going on bc Alex and I have been waiting for so long. We don't know what's happening and it's kinda scary so if you could text me back and explain wtf your cousin was supposed to do at the show, that would be nice
Lily was hoping that although Matt wasn't the one initially going to the show, he could still give her an explanation as to what was going to happen to them. However, as soon as Lily hit ‘send’ on her text, she and Alex heard a notification sound in the same room. This clearly raised more confusion in the girls’ minds. They thought it was a coincidence but were still suspicious of the fact that someone's phone received a message right as Lily had sent hers. As if it couldn’t get worse, the door suddenly opened and three people casually walked in.
“Honestly, it's such a Matt thing to forget his phone on the other side of the venue.” The voice of a man could be heard. “Don't think we needed to immediately bring it to him though.”
“You have to understand him sweetie,” a woman replied to him. “He's really nervous about today even though we spent a while reassuring him before the show. And he might need it to text his friend. I don't know, it might be useful.”
A second man agreed with the woman while Alex and Lily were watching the scene with widened eyes. They couldn't believe what they were seeing: the triplets’ parents, Mary Lou and Jimmy, as well as their brother Justin were currently standing in front of them. As the woman noticed the girls, she stopped talking and nudged her husband then her oldest son to make them notice.
“Hi there!” Mary Lou said with the nicest tone. “You must be my son's friends, right?”
“Wha–” Lily was the first to reply as she had no idea what was going on.
Seeing their confusion, Justin quickly understood that the timing had been completely off.
“Mum, I think we might be early…”
“Oh god!” Mary Lou exclaimed in surprise. “He told us he would notify you before we arrived.”
“I'm sorry, but…” Alex took Lily's place in wanting to know the truth as the brunette was now lost. “Who was supposed to notify us of what?”
“OH MY GOD! WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING?” The voice of a young man yelled as he ran into the room and started rambling. “Dad came to get me. Damn, I leave you guys for an hour and you can't wait ten more minutes. Fuck, sorry I shouldn't curse at you and I know I said that thing about my phone but I was about to come get it and now–”
Matt stopped talking as he turned to face the two confused girls still sitting on the couch. His dad, Jimmy, had left his wife and first son to try finding Matt before the situation would get more chaotic than it already was. He had stumbled upon Matt, Nick and Chris who were coming back from backstage as the show was definitely over, which led to the middle triplet running to the room his dad was coming from as he started panicking as soon as Jimmy had explained what was happening a few corridors away.
“Hey,” Matt said to the girls with a soft voice to not frighten them. His gaze was mostly on Lily before he spotted his phone and unlocked it. “Oh, you texted. Sorry for the confusion, I swear I can explain everything.”
What the actual– the fuck he means? Lily wondered. I texted? Like– I'm so fucking lost… She tore her eyes away from Matt as she saw Chris, Nick and Jimmy entering the room then going to stand next to Matt who was trying to calm down.
“Ok so… I know you must both be very sceptical about everything but please listen to me.” Matt almost pleaded as he was scared of how Alex and Lily would react. “Hmm, well… Hi, I'm Matt.”
As he said his last sentence with a small wave, the girls were still not understanding.
“Yeah, we know that”. Lily replied with a nervous laugh. “That's why we came to see y'all I guess.”
“No yeah, sorry. I mean like– Matt, your Matt?” He sounded almost unsure as he saw that Lily was still not completely getting it. He then had an idea and went to his conversation with Lily to show her what he meant. “Wait a second…”
Matt quickly typed a message and sent it to Lily, which made her phone's screen light up.
Matt🍂
Hey, please don't hate me
Both Lily and Alex looked down to read the message, the latter almost having a light bulb appearing above her head.
“Oh fuck I should've known! I knew it!” Alex semi-shouted.
It's true that the blonde had had suspicions a couple of times when Lily had told her that she was texting a guy named Matt who liked Pokemon, Fortnite and had several brothers. They were probably a thousand guys on Earth like that but at that time, it had been the only Matt she could think about.
“Oh…” Lily finally knew what he meant. “Oh… I was absolutely not expecting that.”
“Yeah…” Matt was still afraid of what would happen next. “If that's ok, I just want to properly do introductions?”
Lily nodded as she and Matt were still holding eye contact for the past several minutes. When the girls both stood up and approached the Sturniolo family, Matt got even more nervous and Nick took that as his cue to take charge of the situation.
“Hey, Nicolas here but call me Nick! So we have Matt obviously and Chris who you both know, I mean we all met but let's reset everything. Then it should've been later but improv I guess so I want you guys to meet our mum Mary Lou, our dad Jimmy and our brother Justin.”
“Hi, I'm Alex.” The blonde said as she could feel her best friend was in a sort of shocked state. “This is Lily, my best friend and Matt's friend then?”
Everyone nodded and as an awkward silence was almost forming, Mary Lou let her bubbly personality shine to brighten the mood.
“Okay boys, why don't we just relax and enjoy the snack while getting to know those lovely ladies? Matt darling, go talk with your brothers as I take your nice friend with me. You guys will have all the time in the world later on.”
Mary Lou walked towards Lily and gently grabbed her arm to then go sit on another couch in the room, further away from everyone else. The rest of them scattered in the room as Chris decided to join Alex – they had gotten along well the few times they had seen each other – while the other brothers stood with their dad and chose to pour themselves some drinks.
While Alex was talking with Chris and reminiscing about their victory together, Lily found herself in a conversation with Mary Lou whom she thought was the sweetest woman ever. After Matt, well Nick in all honesty, had introduced her to his mum – a bold move from him to have her meet him AND his whole family at the same time, Mary Lou immediately shooed her son away as she wanted to properly get to know his new friend. This is why Matt was currently with his brothers Justin and Nick. The two oldest were discussing what they could do the next day around the city, which Matt was half listening to as he was stressed regarding what his mum and friend – friend? Acquaintance? More than that? Less? Yeah, friend is good – were talking about. However, as he dared to glance in their direction, Matt found Lily's eyes already on him. She quickly diverted her gaze back to Mary Lou but as she still felt observed, Lily looked back to Matt. They then shared a soft smile across the room and as if it was magic, both were suddenly feeling at ease and fell back to their respective conversation. They'd only had a two second interaction as the Matt and Lily they both knew, but it was like they were turning back into their usual selves when they would text each other.
“You do know you guys are kinda obvious, right?” Justin asked his younger brother.
“Wha– what do you mean?” Matt was confused, although he somehow already knew what this was about.
“Matt come on”, Nick sighed as he dragged out his brother's name's vowel. “I'm pretty sure you didn't listen to what we've been saying because you're only thinking about her.”
“And looking at her like a lost puppy”, Justin added. “She should be the one panicking, yet here you are.”
“I don't look at Lily like a lost puppy…” Matt mumbled. “Just making sure Mum isn't overwhelming her. Can't believe she gets to talk to her before me, she's my friend!”
“A friend who probably made her live the most stressful experience ever,” Nick retorted. “I think today was confusing for everyone so let her breathe for a minute and you can go talk to her after.”
Matt and Justin agreed with the blonde, then tried to trust their mum to make Lily feel better.
Speaking of the devil, the girl was actually enjoying her conversation with Mary Lou, who was telling her about Boston life.
“It sounds great, I hope to go there one day.”
“Maybe if my son keeps you in his life – which I would be glad about, you'll have the opportunity to travel there”. Mary Lou said as she put on her kindest smile.
“Yeah, I hope he does too.” Lily replied with some awkwardness in her voice. “It's still weird to me that he was the one I was texting this whole time, but I really want us to become friends in person now. Not that I want to take advantage of him simply because I know who he actually is of course, please don't think bad of me! But, I–”
“No worries my dear, if Matt trusted you enough to reveal himself to you, then I trust you as well”. The woman reassured the girl sitting next to her. “He's a good boy, so please take care of him.”
“I– yeah I will, I'll do my best to make this friendship work”.
The two exchanged a smile and kept talking about their respective lives: Mary Lou telling Lily about her and Jimmy while Lily told Mary Lou about the café she was working at with Alex.
They had been talking for a good dozen of minutes until Matt – who had been motivated by his brothers – finally decided to join them.
“Hi”, he waved again at Lily – seems like it was his current go-to move when feeling nervous. “Mum, I'm gonna steal her from you – if that's ok with you Lily obviously – because we need to talk now.”
Mary Lou kindly agreed and nudged Lily to stand up. As the girl was expecting the conversation to start now, she was actually surprised when Matt asked her to follow him outside. They both left the room under everyone’s curious stare and Matt took her elsewhere in the venue in order to be far enough for anyone who could walk by. When he found what seemed like a good spot, Matt looked back at Lily to silently ask her if it was ok. As she nodded, he opened the door and they were now on a balcony that was overlooking the parking lot behind the venue.
“Sorry, it looks kinda sketchy but I'll feel better with some fresh air.”
“No yeah, I get it.” Lily agreed with Matt. “I think I needed it too.”
“So…” Matt started as he was fidgeting while leaning on the railing.
“Yep…” Lily whispered as she was doing the same awkward movements.
None of them felt like holding eye contact as they were both extremely nervous. Knowing that he was responsible for all of this, Matt eventually started talking:
“Ok first, I have to apologise for everything. I put you in a very uncomfortable situation and it was a shit move.”
“It's okay… Well it was not completely ok but I understand where you come from so I can forgive you.” Lily smiled at Matt as she was feeling less awkward now that they were actually talking about it. “Never forgive you for not liking sushi though.”
“Damn,” Matt let out a laugh at that. “Can't believe you still hold that against me.”
“Yep, always I guess…” Lily chuckled too and let a now semi-comfortable silence start until she interrupted it with the most important question. “How long have you known?”
“Hmm?”
“Since when have you known it was me like– I was me?”
“Oh, well… when you posted those pictures,” Matt explained. “I was ninety-nine percent sure of you coming to our shows and the last percent was when I texted you.”
“Ok ok,” Lily nodded. “And your first reflex was to make me come to another one?”
“It seems weird but yeah actually,” Matt confirmed as he was actually surprised of himself being so honest. “I was a bit in denial at first because it felt crazy that the person I'm texting is literally a fan – although you are my friend first and foremost – but when I talked about it to Nick and Chris, the first thing that popped into my brain when we agreed that you were Lily was that I needed to meet you again, but properly this time.”
“I'm glad you thought that because I wanted us to eventually meet and I'm happy it's you.”
“Yeah?” Matt asked as he felt relieved that Lily wasn't hating him.
“Yeah, it's just sooner than expected but in a good way. I'm grateful for our friendship Matt.”
“I'm grateful for that too Lily.” Matt had a soft smile on his face. “You wanna meet my other friends/come see everyone else now?”
“Hmm,” Lily hesitated. “Can we stay here a bit longer? Just the two of us…?”
“Yeah, okay.” He agreed. “We can do that, fine by me.”
Basking in the silence, the two newly acquainted friends were enjoying this moment of peace. It would be the first one of many, but for now, it felt like a necessity to take their time as they were now slowly starting to navigate their friendship.
Thank you for reading. Votes and comments are always appreciated if you like this story :) The story is co-written w @/little_grapejuice on wattpad
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so, hey. I haven't updated you guys on the situation with Scott and Ethan in a while. it's been a very eventful 10 days.
You can see Ethan's updates here but I will be offering my own biased perspective and summary.
i'm sure my mother would want me to clarify that i did not advise anybody legally, nor did i tell anyone to bring a lawsuit, but. i did lay out my understanding of the law as it pertains to Ethan's case & tell anyone who would listen that i would have sued months ago
and uh as i provided ample sources and a laconic summary of the fair use doctrine and alternatives to federal court, i may have contributed to Ethan's decision to file with the CCB :3 which is (to be overly brief) like small claims court for copyright infringement specifically.
nobody has said so explicitly, so i do have some plausible deniability. but if by some grave miscarriage of justice Ethan were to lose a single one of these claims y'all Know I'd do my damnedest to recoup the man's losses anyway so i feel very comfortable in saying SPITE WORKS!!! THAT'S THE POWER OF SPITE-FUELED RESEARCH BABEY! THIS IS A WIN FOR CLARE!!
even the very worst case scenario for Ethan is a win anyway; the CCB's awards are capped at 30k, but since he's a much, much kinder person than I am he elected to pursue their "smaller claims" options, which further caps it at only 5k.
and let me tell you. the statutory damages alone would cost Scott upwards of $180,000 in federal court (not even counting the libel), so if he doesn't take this case (participation in a CCB case is voluntary for both parties) he is a fucking idiot. But I guess we kind of knew that already.
Let's see. So, Ethan started getting his copyrights registered last weekend (another benefit of the CCB; registrations can be filed concurrent to submitting your claims, though I don't think I told Ethan that) like right after my last post on the matter here. He submitted proof of his intent to bring legal action to YouTube, who can't actually apply strikes until a decision is reached, though those videos are sort of in purgatory.
Meanwhile, that allowed Scott to begin posting content again. He immediately abused that power. On the 23rd, Scott posted a fourth (4th!) defamatory video, whose thumbnail looked like this:
That action figure is his childhood OC, which he put into the MOTUC line. In addition to his literal, actual face. But don't worry, not his name! That was a DC Classics exclusive 🙃
For those of you that are unfamiliar: That's the license plate from Better Call Saul.
He made a bunch of really, painfully wrong assertions that I tried to write up again just now and bro I can't. It is fucking Cringe. I can't. He did claim he had a lawyer, which as I told him following the second defamatory Community Note, is grounds for him to fire that fucking lawyer.
Ethan did a second interview with Dad-At-Arms basically updating people on the situation, letting everyone know he was going to take things to court. That went up the 24th.
On the 25th, Scott posted another Community Note, this time doing a little victory lap, concluding, "So much content coming to ya! It is great to be on the air again!" and resuming his regularly scheduled posting for the remained of the week.
Then along came Monday.
Every single one of Scott's videos was privated, including the advertisements for his consulting firm and stupid bullshit AI comic.
Well--come to find out, he emailed Ethan right around when everything went dark saying he was "truly" and "sincerely" sorry for everything, and "never meant to create a fight" between them and that it was "never intentional".
"To make things right I am going to halt any videos and take down what I have. I hope this will make it right and restore your site to its full capacity."
Which like, alright, I try to be a little more level-headed in spaces these creeps might see, since they're already fucking wilding about every other aspect of my identity and personality. But the fucking BALLS on this guy!! The fucking audacity!!!!! MONTHS of claiming he was being BLACKMAILED and HARASSED, giving Ethan's identity to one of the biggest pieces of shit I've ever seen in the fandom (and that is saying something) and then his thousands of subscribers?? Telling those people really really obviously fake bullshit to make himself seem like the super reasonable victim and not the perpetrator of--ballpark, 'cause I don't know who may have granted him permission--five to ten thousand copyright infringements?
And "to make things right"!!!!! Right for whom, Scott!!!
I've been assuming he finally talked to a lawyer, because even with receiving notice of Ethan's intent to take him to court, I just don't believe we'd see this complete a 180 in him without the advice of counsel. Whom I do not envy right now, he's shot himself in the foot at every fucking opportunity. I doubt they told him to private everything, since a jury at least might construe that as hiding evidence (there are no juries CCB proceedings) but he's a big fucking idiot. Of course he'd panic and try to hide everything.
Case in point, this morning he unprivated everything. And then just unlisted it. Presumably because he realized he'd broken his embeds across every website out there, including his own (not that that ever got him to fix his LinkedIn button...). He did delete all of the Community Notes about Ethan though, just for good measure :) Still absolutely no public word from him since last week.
I have receipts on all the libel saved in multiple locations, but I do appreciate him un-privating some of his videos for me. Gonna make documenting those much easier 😏
i had a second post up on the forums but it's being weird about copy/pasting into tumblr, I'll see about that tomorrow ig. And I'm working on a third summarizing my case law research. HUGE win for me today in that the finding which most directly contradicted my arguments was actually reverse on appeal in 2022 so I'm sitting real pretty, citation-wise. Very smug, very petty. Feeling absolutely great.
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oh man this music is fucking wild!! was that a big deep laugh? :D this is the happiest i have felt in months
it's literally like 'dun dun DUN' this is awesome
Audio sounds like it's coming from inside da computer. That's fun.
NO SUCH THING AS BONES (i knew big milk wasn't to be trusted)
fuck me everyone is so british. I forgot that listening to this podcast means being subjected to a thousand different accents that all sound like they come from Narnia.
Ugggh six in the morning goodbye party? This workplace is already worse than the Institute.
Colin's already fucking desperate to escape <3 there's always one. Good luck buddy.
There's too many voices to keep track of! I'm already getting Alice and Gwen confused.
They're going to the pub?? Didn't they just say it was six in the morning? Aren't they at work?
YOOO I WAS RIGHT WE ARE IN DA COMPUTER. Haha it turn itself on like a tape recorder. 💅 girlboss behaviour.
Oh I wonder why they can't do their paperwork online?? Probably not because of spooky reasons.
Wow a personal computer! High tech. Freddie lives inside. :D
Woah wait wtf?? Freddie is spyware??
Yeah Sam what about GDPR? Shut up and read this private email that an ancient computer program no one understands somehow found and stole for us.
Um?? Do they have a big alphabetised folder of Fucked Shit The Entities Do???
So many numbers are happening so quickly. Good luck transcribers/wiki editors.
Oh hang on 'All night every night', they work nights!! That's why the party was first thing in the morning and they all went to the pub afterward!! I'm so good at listening to podcasts.
MARTI N VOICE MATRIN VIOCE WMATIN VOICE!!! HE LIVE IN DA COMPUTER!!
Started about a year ago 👀
Haha gotta listen while he reads the email. This is normal :)
LOL they just ignore it and get coffee. Big mood, that's exactly what I would do if I was at work and my computer was fucking around.
NORRIS CHESTER AND AUGUSTUS
That's not their names :)
Also the stupidest fucking names ever. Alice rules.
Martin voice 🥰🥺😭🥰🥺😭🥰😭🥺 Martin my beloved. I hope he's okay inside da computer. Wonder if Colin smashing it with a hammer would crack him outta there??
Oh no my love for Martin made me forget that the horrors are back.
Hmm his voice is getting less computer and more Martin? Good thing??
Ugh why do we always have to start with Stranger statements? I hate the Stranger. Also Sam was wrong this is definitely dolls comma human skin not dolls comma watching.
Girl there is something in your garden gtfo of there.
Hurray we survived our first horror!! H definitely didn't.
Gwen is right this isn't zombies. Also three pages of subclassification for zombies? The archives couldn't even figure out how to put their dates in the right order.
Love how few fucks Alice gives. This job doesn't matter!! Welcome to the team!!
Ooooh Gwen's is trouble...
Oh shit she's gunning for the boss's job! Second girlboss moment of the episode!
Lol get pranked Sam. Alice set you the fuck up.
Sounds like a webcam is watching them?
Colin is my favourite character so far.
Sounds like Lena's deliberately hiring people who do a shit job (and Gwen's mad about it). Wonder what Lena's up to.
Tragic backstory time already? (Nope, false alarm)
Who needs sleep when you can have creepy monotomous data entry?
JON VOICE JON VOIEC JON CVOICE !!! 🥰🥺😭🥺🥰😭🥰😭😭 (i missed him)
Magnus Institute ruins you say???
'Anyone know what the deal is with the Magnus Institute?' Nope, never heard of it.
Oh I'm loving the new format of statements. Really scratches that 'found footage' itch.
For some unknown reason, I've been feeling really paranoid ever since escaping this evil eye building (that reminds me of an old asylum) full of strange shit that I couldn't take photos of.
CLEARLY WHAT USED TO BE A MASSIVE LIBRARY OR ARCHIVE IN THE BASEMENT
All the paper is gone? Graham Folger has been here.
Oh the removed image and then hearing the comments about it is so good!! Jonny's done it again lol. This is why I love found footage as a horror device.
Hmmm sounds like we're at the pub now. And we got that dial up noise? What are we listening from right now?
YO SAM AND ALICE EXES
It's good to establish right from the beginning that one of our protagonists is a noodle-armed weakling. The fandom would have done that work on our own I'm sure, but having canon backup is always gratifying.
Uh oh Colin's losing his mind.
Ominous music time!!!
THE MAGNUS PROTOCOL IS A PODCAST MOTHERFUCKERS.
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UPCOMING WORKS? PLEASE? IF THERE AREN'T ANY, IT'S OKAY TOO!
uhh, there are both upcoming works and upcoming updates! i have sneak peeks for each one! but here they are:
少年A （jjk ft. male!reader; possibly megumi/reader）
In a remote village in Sapporo, a thirteen-year-old first year student in an unnamed junior high school allegedly killed three classmates known to bully his best friend who they had driven to suicide. (Or, none of that is true.)
少年A (or: Boy A) was initially made as an OC out of nowhere. i shared him to a few friends before i realized that the set-up of him being nameless and just being called 'Boy A' was perfect for a reader-insert. and before i knew it, i was already writing everything down and it was really, really fun. the term 「少年A」 is something akin to 'John Doe' and it's mostly a name used to minors involved in a crime. there are lots of criminal 「少年A」 in japan so if you want to read about them, i'd give you a big trigger warning because the most well-known 「少年A」 was involved a horrific case.
2. among dawn flowers (the face of god), an extra chapter
i always get notifications about comments concerning dawn flowers and i've read all of them. thank you for your very kind words! they make me feel very happy every time i read them :D i'll be replying to them soon. but the most common comment is about gojō's... well, reaction to everything and what he truly felt for the main character, and there were a couple of misunderstandings in the comments too. i would normally just leave the misunderstandings be to let people have their own interpretation but i've been getting lots of comments and DMs about dawn flowers all the time, so this extra chapter happened. it has the following AUs too:
zen'in naoya marries tengai-san instead
tengai-san survives
tōji snatches up tengai-san (not at all romantic but a found family of sorts because their dynamics are really interesting! because they're the people who neither needs the least!)
and idk, maybe some more? i'll be reading through the comments again!
3. kirigakure-centric naruto fic
“Kirigakure didn’t need help. They needed salvation.”
No one knows anything about the Mizukage. Only that she’s kind. She likes to smile. She likes seafood like every other Mizu-born. And that there’s something inexplicably wrong with her. There’s something wrong with the Mizukage whom the Kiri-nin call a ‘god’.
—or, Wataru Wataru was never really a powerhouse, in this life or the last, but she’s resourceful. She knows cults, pyramid schemes, and corrupt politicians like the back of her hand, so of course, she becomes the Mizukage and becomes a god along the way.
it's highlighted because it's undergoing editing... but yes, the mizukage cultist fic that i was talking about a month ago. it currently has four chapters in my drafts. i'm testing the waters on whether or not i can maintain it. so far, i have everything planned... like the timeline... it's too detailed.
4. shintō pjo fic
Beyond the eastern seas, Sen'no Hyōran wages a one-man war. (Or, if all she needs is the Golden Fleece, if all she needs is to steal that damned thing, then she will. Those Greeks standing in her way or not.)
YES IT'S HAPPENING OK!
of course, there's also the writing of kill the goose (3 chapters in my drafts now!), rain on my parade (a very slow rewriting), sunday without god (i wrote the next chapter and it was too long like 8k words and i'm not even halfway done so i'm stuck)! and posting some comm'd works that have been rotting in my drive for months!
some possible fics but no promises:
floating blue (nanami/reader)
Aoi's josei romance manga life starts when she's saved by Nanami Kento after almost falling down the train tracks! (Or, it turns out that Aoi is the main character of a supernatural josei manga! She's so excited!)
starts off as a cliché josei manga set-up bc aoi is a josei manga protagonist! then turns deep :D might become a reader-insert instead but without the [name] insert things. just second pov. this was really meant to be a rom-com than a sudden "omg! i'm in a supernatural josei manga!" might write bc it's a cute concept.
the prostitution of learning (jjk & male!oc)
There is no other main character but Kikuchi Eita. (Or, defeating enemies, exorcizing Curses, facing conservative higher-ups, there’s no adversity that Kikuchi Eita cannot push through because Kikuchi Eita is the main character. That is until Itadori Yūji.)
i made this guy before 少年A and while eita is my favorite oc i've ever created in jjk, 少年A's story is easier to write. but the prostitution of learning is a bit more complicated even just with eita's planned CT and while i'd love nothing more than to write this one, idk if i'd have the time but i really want to!
willow diaries / 柳日記 (kakashi/oc)
Kakashi gets a nobleman's concubine pregnant. Whoops. (Or, I no Yanagihaya's honorable brother-in-law said to surprise him. She did.)
first of all, it's not cheating or infidelity. said nobleman is dead. anyway, i think this is the most likely to be written bc i've written the first chapter a hundred times but couldn't get satisfied. anyway, this one's fun. and i love civilian ocs! especially writing nobility. the research was a pain but i loooove this one.
pls... don't ask me about frog in a well :"") i'm working on it! idk, froggie's become that weird cousin idk if i wanna talk to or not. it's awkward between the two of us right now bc ik i could start writing the chapter anytime and get it done and over it quickly but i've been lazy and focusing on other stuff hehe <3
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Our Little Secret
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Synopsis: Before having a family with Ran take a look at how it all started.
Pairing: (Bonten!) Ran Haitani x (Fem!) Reader
Contains: Fluff? Implied Sexual Content, Pre-relationship, mentioned pregnancy.
A/N: I tried putting this in more of a younger [name]'s perspective to express some awkwardness before getting comfortable with Ran.
[1] [2] [3]
Your parents weren’t the best— no, they were actually the worst people to seek help from. So you really had to do everything on your own.
Your older siblings left the second they turned eighteen, leaving you alone with those people who don’t deserve the title “parents”. None of your siblings even offered you help or advice, they just left.
Your friend's parents were better than yours. They paid for their children's college tuition and their textbooks.
You ended up getting into college with a scholarship. But that didn’t cover the textbooks you needed. That’s why you were currently lacking sleep, and sitting with a bunch of old women who requested you.
The nightclub you worked at was huge. There were different areas occupied by many men and women who were most likely only going to be one night stands. never to talk to each other again.
You know that because you’ll see the same men and women come in and leave with different people.
“You are really young to be working here, no?”
you were torn out of your thoughts by one of the women sitting next to you. She had a joint in one of her hands, the smell of it going directly into your nose.
You scrunch your face, “Ahhaha…They really don’t seem to care who they hire here” You chuckle, pushing a strand of [hair, braids, etc.] behind your left ear.
It was true. This place was apparently run by some huge secret organization, the current boss was just a decoy—which he was aware of. Only staff knew that, and they’ve been loyal for years. You were barely informed about it a few months ago during a meeting between trusted staff and the boss.
They real masterminds were careless, because they knew they would never be in the spotlight if the place ever got raided.
“Well if I may be excused, I have another table to serve” You politely excuse yourself after feeling a buzz in your bra.
It was a small square screen that every server had. Appearing on the screen would be a number representing the tables, or it would be a short sentence of where you’re needed.
The women giggle and wave you off, not before stuffing their tips under the shoulder straps on your dress. You had waved them off, suggesting they come again soon.
“Looks like you found yourself new customers” The bartender—also a very close friend of yours—winks with a teasing tone.
You pull out the device from your bra and set it down on the counter, rolling your eyes. “Why was I called?” You asked, gesturing towards the buzzer.
The man picks it up and magically makes it stop vibrating. “Someone has requested you. VIP room six, second floor” He informs, sliding it back over to you. “Don’t fuck it up”
You furrowed your eyebrows in confusion. “What? Are these guys undercover cops or something” You ask, resting your chin on your palm.
The older man shakes his head and leans closer to you, making sure no one was in earshot range.
“they're the ones that own this place”
Your body froze at his words.
It was easy for him to lean back and go back to cleaning the counter, unfazed by the situation.
However, you were the one serving them. You might as well just die.
“You’re the only one I can trust with this tonight” The dark haired male admits, throwing the rag over his shoulder. “Tana and Rei are too dumb to even remember simple orders. And the others are new, so they don’t know anything about them” He explains.
You swallow the lump in your throat and nod your head. “Of course, you don’t have anything to worry about” you assure.
Obviously he had nothing to worry about.
if you fucked up, then you were most likely going to die. not him.
+++
By now you were already in front of the door your manager assigned you to. Your legs wanted to give out just seeing the number six on the door, knowing Tokyo’s biggest gang is on the other side.
You didn’t want to keep them waiting. So you took one last final deep breath and reached for the doorknob, twisting it gently as ever.
Only an inch open and you could hear their voices mixing. You couldn’t tell how many there were, and you simply didn’t want to know.
Once you enter the room you immediately take notice of one of the new servers. He wasn’t much older than you, maybe in his third year of college. But you knew he wasn’t supposed to be there.
“That's our server” you heard one of the men say as they stare the boy down.
“Kyo, this is where I was assigned” You didn’t want to come off as rude, but these new staff just couldn’t listen and always caused trouble for everyone.
“Tana told me to—”
You pull the device out from your shirt and swipe past a few screens, turning it around to show red words that say “V.I.P ROOM 6: [NAME]”
The male huffed and walked past you, purposely bumping his shoulder on yours.
like always, trouble.
You mentally sigh and lock the door once he is out. “I apologize for the inconvenience” Your voice went soft as you turned to the-
eight men?!
You had to take a moment to collect yourself from all the intense stares. You couldn’t meet a single one, you thought you would piss yourself if you did. So instead you bowed.
“If there’s anything you’d like to get started on, I’d be more than happy to take your order” You announce, raising back up from your greeting.
Your eyes ended up landing on some sort of open folder displayed in front of a man with white hair. You noticed there was a small photo in the corner of it.
“[name] [last name]…” The man spoke first. “taking a gap year to raise money for college needs…nineteen years old…comes from a drug abusive family…blah blah blah” He read aloud, making you grip the device in your hands.
They had your information. Well why wouldn’t they?!
“huh” A man with the pink mullet hums. “Guess you really aren’t that different, how disappointing” His lips curled up into a smirk.
The same white haired man waved him off. “So [name]” he calls, making your chest tighten. “Do you…know who we are?” he asks, dull and dark eyes staring right into yours.
don’t fuck it up.
don’t fuck it up.
don’t fuck it up!
“I apologize sir but I don’t have a clue on who you may be” You answer. “But i’m more than happy to get you started on drinks” You suggest, raising the small device up and switching to the notepad screen.
fuck, that was extremely hard.
From afar you couldn’t see it, but the corner of his lips slightly curved up into a satisfied smirk.
‘So they are training them to say it. good’
For a good twenty minutes you stood there as they went around the table, ordering what bottles they wanted. They would end up getting off track and bickering with each other, that’s what caused the delay.
You had to admit, their shameless bickering for some reason brought comfort to you. As if this wasn’t going to be bad after all.
+++
“I think i’m gonna puke”
Your manager rolls his eyes as you take a seat on the bar stool, hands covering your mouth while your eyes go wide.
“Well get used to it love” He says, looking down at the small screen you dropped, memorizing what bottles to send with you.
“Huh? Wait, I can just drop it off and leave, right?” You grip the counter.
“Yeahhh, these aren’t your typical “V.I.P’s” remember?” He cocks an eyebrow, placing two bottles onto the counter. “They requested you with a full stay” he informs, making your lips part.
He begins to put the bottles in an eight cup carrier, oblivious to your panicking face.
“Tadashi, I feel like a mice in a room with sna—”
Cutting off your sentence was the man reaching over and slapping a hand against your mouth.
You widen your eyes and yank his hand off. “What the hell?!”
“You want to survive the night? I suggest you don’t talk about them like that” He harshly whispers, sliding the crate over to you. “Trust me doll, you’ll be fine” He assures, changing his voice to a softer tone.
You wanted to just stay there the entire night. Wishing someone else would take your shift and customers.
But once again you found yourself in front of the door that scared you so much. The drink carrier in one hand, and your work device in the other. This time you were a little more prepared.
You opened the door, walking in the middle of a conversation you obviously have no interest in.
You do your best to cancel their voices out as you go around passing the respected bottle choices along with setting down shots, and regular sized glasses—depending on their option of booze.
It wasn't until you passed out the last bottle and crossed out its name on your virtual notepad when you felt a hand reach up to your hip.
That’s when the room got silent.
“did you not hear me, doll?”
You avert your eyes away from the screen and only had to look down a little until you were met with lilac colored eyes.
You swallowed the lump forming in your throat and nervously shook your head. “I’m sorry, I didn’t catch that” you apologize.
The man squints his eyes and looks down to your waist, using his fingers to pinch your skin and tug on it, making you widen your eyes.
“hm…I thought the servers were supposed to show more skin?” he questions, looking over at the white haired male you assume was the actual boss behind everything.
You furrowed your eyebrows. You thought servers already showed enough skin. Well, what you have to wear is exposing way more skin then you’d enjoy.
During the week every staff would have to throw in ideas for a theme. You could never use the same theme more than once unless it’s already been a month or two.
On this specific night it happened to be a “forest” theme. The women staff were required to wear a dress or a tank top with a skirt. Dancers wore their usual attire along with adding something small having to do with the theme. And the male staff only had to flash a smile and they were good for the night.
For tonight’s themes you wore a white, sleeveless, pencil dress that went from the top of your neck and to the end of your thighs. You had white wrapped heels that went all the way around your calves, stopping just below your knees. It created “X” shapes on the front of your legs. On each heel was a white daisy with one green leaf—The leaves matched your earrings identically. You even had little white daisy clips in your hair.
You had soft makeup applied, not wanting to break out with any pimples. You did however add green eyeshadow, black eyeliner, and lashes to make your [color] eyes pop.
Another tug to your waist brought you out of your thoughts.
“[name], was it?” The same man asked.
You nodded your head.
The violet eyed man smiles and points a finger to his empty glass. “Be a dear and pour my drink for me. My wrist has just been hurting too much lately” he requested, finally letting go of you.
However, before you could even show a reaction, someone tugged at your opposite arm.
“Mine too, might as well get our moneys worth” The pink haired man from earlier said.
“Oi, is that anyway to treat a woman?” The man with the scar on the left side of his face rolls his eyes at the two.
“I’m sure [name] doesn’t mind, right [name]?”
You meet the first man's eyes again, instantly nodding your head in agreement. “If it’s what you request then I don’t have an issue with it” you assure.
Soon enough, everyone around the table made their own request of you pouring their drinks for them.
Let’s just say, it was a busy night.
About four hours later of walking around pouring drinks, going out to get refills, and earning teasing remarks—they had finally wrapped things up.
“[name]”
You looked up from the ground and meet eyes with the one you found out was named Mikey. He was in the middle of putting his coat on.
“If you repeat a single word of anything discussed within this room, or mention that we were ever here—” His words were already making your chest tighten.
“I’ll kill you”
you might as well just piss yourself now.
You inhale a deep breath and close your eyes before bowing your head. “I don’t recall you ever being here” You state.
“good”
With his response you lift your head back up, watching him throw some cash on the table—most likely your tip.
He was the first to walk past you, not sparing you a glance. Everyone else followed behind, and you memorized every single one of them.
“Think we found ourself a new personal server” Sanzu winked.
“Can't wait to see the other themes” Takeomi, the hypocrite, mumbled.
“Idiots…” Kakucho rolled his eyes.
The others also had a remark directed towards you or your features. It felt like it took forever just for them all to leave. But even when you reached the end of the line, one lingered behind.
The man that tugged your waist earlier, Ran.
He purposely walked slow, watching as his colleagues exit the room. His hands were tucked into his suit, a small smile formed on his lips.
“You know…”
You looked up at him for one last time that night.
“you’re way too pretty to be working somewhere like this”
Your face expressed that you were puzzled. But your eyes showed admiration.
Ran grabed your hand, placing who knows how many bills in your palm. He had personally handed you the tip, unlike the others who left it on the table.
He left you with a wink that night.
+++
It seemed after your first interaction, Bonten started to have frequent meetings in the club you worked at.
And every time they would request you to be their server. always requesting a full stay.
You couldn’t deny the fact that you enjoyed being their server. They tipped very well. What they tip you a night is more than what you get tipped in a week. And that’s saying a lot.
You even started to pick up on a few things between them all. How Sanzu and Takeomi share interest in the same booze. Or how the Haitani brothers always seem to appear in matching suits. And you even picked up on how they all have the same tattoo, just in different places of their body.
Every time you would serve them they always requested you hand pour the booze yourself. It started to become a natural thing that they didn’t even have to ask anymore.
It also became a frequent occurrence that when you would pour the liquor, they would mess with an accessory on your outfit, or actually tug at your clothing/skin.
On nights you didn’t work or had to call in sick, they would be displeased with the club service. So to make sure that never happened again, Mikey personally took a look at your schedules and changed them himself or worked around it.
He even made you work on your birthday. It’s not like you were doing anything important anyways.
Sometimes they’d even wait till you were done serving a table. Other times they’d tell your manager to find someone to replace you just so you could serve them.
However, one thing you took a major notice in was Ran.
It seemed he was the one who showed more interest in you than the others.
Every night when they left they would all tip you. Ran would always end up tipping you the most, sometimes even more than the others combined. Following his personal handed tip was always a new flirty comment.
“Those clips make you more beautiful”
“Have your eyes always been that captivating?”
“Oh come on doll, it’s okay to smile with me”
He loved the way you’d become flustered at his comments. Always hiding your face with a hand as a shy smile made a way to your lips.
Maybe it was the abandonment issues and loss of touch that made you so interested in him. He probably said this to a lot of girls, right?
“here”
However, one certain night is what made you realize just how much of an interest he took in you.
You hold the cash in your hands, feeling his warm ones slip away. You tilted your head when you saw a small piece of white paper be mixed in with the money.
The paper had numbers on it.
“Is this your number?” You asked, looking up at him.
Ran nodded his head. “Text me if you ever need help with anything. Or if you’re in trouble, or just bored…” He trailed off, offering a sweet smile.
He lifted his left arm, using his hand to brush his knuckles against your cheek, reaching it further back to push strands of your hair behind your ear.
Another moment of you two alone should’ve ended minutes ago. But here he was, closing in on you.
“Ran—” You whisper, placing a hand on his chest as he backs you up into the wall. “don’t keep them waiting” you say, glancing at the open door.
“They can leave, we all brought our own cars anyways” he assures, using his other hand to tilt your head up towards his. “Perhaps you can even go home with me” he suggested, making your stomach twist and chest tighten.
His hand that pushed your hair out of the way lowered down to your waist, bunching up the pink tank top you wore. His cold and slender finger-tips digging into your skin.
“What theme is it tonight? Barbie themed?”
You nervously nodded your head, slowly retracting your hand away from his chest. It felt like a frog was in your throat, you couldn’t say anything but hold your breath.
“Come on now…” He leans his head closer to yours, noses a pinch away from touching. “Tell me I can kiss you. Ask me to kiss you. with your own words” You could feel his breath fan over your lips.
You tried shaking your head, but his hand that tilted your head up by your chin wrapped under your jaw. four of his fingers on the left side of your face while his thumb is on the opposite.
You had to admit that you took the most interest in him as well.
The attention he showed you. The touch you never received growing up. The compliments you never heard.
you loved it.
you loved him.
You slowly nod your head, eyes darting to his lips and back up to his lilac eyes. “Kiss me, Ran” you give your permission.
Without another thought crossing his mind, Ran attaches his lips to yours. He tilted your head more, lowering his own to properly connect your mouths.
He was obviously experienced unlike you. Your eyes were wide, noticing how his own were shut.
He wasn’t rough. He didn’t do it like he was in a rush.
He was patient and considerate.
His lips were warm and soft. His hand placement on your body wasn’t as tight anymore, they had relaxed the second your mouths connected.
you could feel his mouth part as he tilts his head to the side in order to prevent your guys noses from bumping any further.
You didn’t know what to do, which was really embarrassing.
Ran didn’t mind. He was too caught up with your perfume he now had the chance of smelling even stronger. He loved how you didn’t know where to put your hands. He loved the way you tensed your body from the feeling.
He loved having the honor to be the first person to show you such affection.
Noticing the way you started to wiggle he opened his eyes and pulled away—but not by much. Your faces were still inches apart, close enough that you felt each other’s breath.
“Did I just have to figure out that you’re twenty years old and never had your first kiss?”
His tone was teasing, but his eyes showed deep affection.
Your lips were left parted along with your expression being a mix of flustered and bothered.
“Did I just have to find out I'm kissing a twenty-six year old who’s been through many girls?” You finally spoke, words coming out harsh.
The man laughs and leans back a little more, “just girls?” He cocks an eyebrow.
You furrow your eyebrows and scoff, shoving him off of you. “Whatever” you mumble, walking to the table to collect the tips.
He caught your arm before you could get far and pulled you back to his chest, staring down at you with admirable eyes.
“One more before I go?”
Your bothered expression softened to a curious one. “I'd rather you grow a new pair of lips. Who knows whose mouth I'm kissing” you say in a flat tone.
The man just watches you collect the money, folding it into your bra while collecting the glasses as well.
He had to come clean, he loved seeing you work like that.
Ran decided to back off for the night, for he was in no rush to make you two official. He already knew the connection both of you shared was tightly secured, and that it wasn’t going anywhere. He knew he was yours, and that you were his.
“Don’t let that paper go, or we’ll have some problems” He mumbles, leaving one last peck on the side of your cheek from behind.
You didn’t exactly want him to go that night, nor did you want him leaving so soon any other night.
Because when Ran left, you felt alone all over again.
You only had his tips, words, and brief touch to think about for the rest of the night. Then overwhelming thoughts of him treating different women the same way would crowd your mind. You didn’t like that there was a chance this was a one-sided crush.
Even with access to his number you still felt alone. He wasn’t physically there, leaving you alone and no part of him to comfort you.
No one ever showed you the amount of affection and love Ran Haitani did.
Boys in middle-school and high-school would use your family issues as an advantage, gaslighting you into thinking no one would ever love you the way they do. Shamelessly degrading you about the way you act and dress isn’t appropriate for a girl, blaming your family for not raising you right.
Their words would make you cry the second they said them. In public, in their room, at school, etc.
You only realized now how they didn’t apologize when tears stained your face. They were manipulators, leading the situation into making you their doll. Their puppet. Their plaything. Their phase.
Ran didn’t do any of those things.
+++
“Do you like it?”
By now it’s been about a year and a half since you’ve met Ran. And still you two weren’t official.
However, that didn’t mean you two weren’t together.
Ran would try taking you back to his home since it was more secure, but you mostly rejected at first. And you wouldn’t exactly let him go to your home either, for obvious reasons.
So it was mainly meetups at fancy hotels. You didn’t like the idea of him paying for unnecessary things. But his claim was that if he got to see you, then he didn’t care.
Currently you leaned up against Rans chest while he had his back leaning on the headboard of the bed. In your hands was a small open box, soft black texture filling your palms. Reflecting in your eyes was a luxurious silver necklace. The pendent was a locket, shaped like a heart.
That wasn’t even the part that made your body go stiff. It was the way the locket dropped into a four leaf clover shape when you opened it, four different pictures of you and him.
His arm around your shoulders gave you a squeeze, bringing you back to your senses.
You close the box and set it between you two, examining the necklace even more with a smile. “The best gift i’ve gotten all day” you admit, lifting your head up and placing a quick kiss on his lips.
Ran used his other hand to caress your cheek before bringing you back for another loving moment. Though he had to say he was quite tired from the night you two shared. A night like any other when you two meet up at the hotels.
“Happy birthday, love”
Moments like these are the reasons you’re so insecure about moving forward with him. You feared what you two had was too good to be true. That the love Ran offered you was nothing but false hope.
It worsened your trust issues. But it increased your obsession.
“[name]...” Ran had pulled your head more onto his bare chest. “How much longer are we gonna play this game?” he asked, fingers twirling in your hair.
You cupped the necklace in one hand while your other wrapped around his lower stomach. “I don’t follow what you mean” you say in a tremulous tone.
He scoffed past a smile but continued to caress your hair. “I feel as if I’ve given you more than enough time…” he started off, fingers trailing the love bites on your shoulders and neck. “When will the day come that you become my girlfriend?”
It might actually be time for you to admit a dirty secret.
Your main obsession was Ran, obviously. But part of the obsession was that you loved the way he treated you. The way it was basically a game of cat and mouse between you two. How Ran would always do anything to make you happy.
You loved seeing the effort he put into pleasing you. How he wouldn’t stop unless you were officially his. And maybe that was a bad thing for you to take a liking in.
But Ran wasn’t any better.
“The day you ask me is the day I’ll say yes”
“Have I not been asking?”
You separate yourself from the man and lean yourself up against the headboard. “Gifting me things isn’t exactly asking me, you know?” You tilt your head with a smile. “If I knew that was your way of asking me then I would’ve straight up asked you to be my boyfriend” You joke, carefully setting the locket on the hotel nightstand.
Ran slides further down the board, head almost reaching his pillow. He ran a hand through his hair and let out a deep breath.
You lower your smile and instinctively scoot closer to him, pulling his head to rest just below your chest covered in his loose tee. His own arms easily snaked around your waist as he adjusted himself to your touch. Loving the feeling of your nails running over his scalp.
You found it fascinating how much Ran loved being babied and taken care of by you. How he would easily fold when your arms wrapped around him. You probably enjoyed moments like this more than when he takes care of you.
“There’s this thought that runs in my mind everytime I think about you,” he admits. The tone in his voice was one you’ve never heard before. It sounded shaky, almost as if he was going to break down. “I fear that if we don’t get together then…then the beautiful children of Ran and [name] won’t get to experience this world”
Of course. Why would anyone expect Ran Haitani to be straight with his feelings?
You pulled a strand of his hair, making him laugh and dig his head into your stomach to yank his hair out of your grip.
“You are way too annoying” you rolled your eyes.
Ran calmed to a natural smile, agreeing with your statement. “Yeah, but, you’re the only one who puts up with it. Makes us perfect for each other, you know?” He asks, turning his head which then gives him the opportunity to stare at your features.
“Ran, just ask me already”
“Ask you what, sweetheart?” He teasingly shuts his eyes.
“Don’t make me ask it first, idiot”
Ran pushes himself up and sits on the back of his legs. “In no universe will I let you ask first” He sternly states, playfully shoving your leg. It reminded you that he still has that childish mindset, most likely due to the fact he had to push it aside to raise his brother.
He grabs one of your hands, pulling you to sit up straight. “[name] [last name]-”
“erm…” you hum, scrunching your face.
Ran’s face drops. “Oh my- okay fine” he clears his throat. “[name], my long time secret, will you be my girlfriend, and promise to become my wife later on in life?” he asks, lips curving back into a smile.
Another example of what you meant by your obsession.
You smugly smile and bite your lip as a instinct reaction. “I mean…we have been seeing each other for a while now…” you trail off, never meeting his eyes just to spite him.
“So yes, I will go out with you”
Ran didn’t even give you a chance to do anything after answering him, for he launched forward and engulfed you into his arms, rolling along the bed. The laugh you two shared was muffled by the kiss you both leaned into.
Ran was so happy to the point he didn’t let you go for the rest of the night. You two ended up sleeping sideways on the bed, fortunately it was big enough so your feet didn’t dangle off the sides. You didn't even need a blanket, his arms were warm enough.
Looking back you wouldn’t change a thing.
But at the same time you wish you paid more attention to the words and jokes Ran would slip in.
That night you two became official should’ve been the first tip. Ever since then it became obvious by his constant neediness and random times where he would mention it.
You always brushed it off as a common thing a man was interested in when behind the bedroom door. You were always safe anyways—most times. And even when you weren’t properly safe you always had a backup plan, but that was never needed because every test came out negative.
So imagine the thoughts running in your mind as you look down at the stick with two lines in your hand.
You couldn’t help but feel as if you owed this to Ran. All the gifts he gave, the attention he offered, etc. And it’s not like you ever shut down his idea of having a family.
You dropped the test back onto the counter, shaky arms trying to hold yourself up as you slid down the wall behind you.
Three different tests, all of which came back positive.
You were already halfway through college. You weren’t in the proper position to become a mom.
Oh but at the thought of having some part of Ran left behind when he goes on oversea missions brings comfort to your heart. The image of being a young and beautiful mom was also interesting.
Nevertheless, you wanted to complete college first. You didn’t want to end up like your mom and just get your GED just because some guy got you addicted to drugs.
You wanted a better life.
But you didn’t know which was the better life.
“[name]?”
Three knocks came from the bathroom door, making your heart drop.
“Is everything alright? What did it say?”
#ran haitani#ran haitani x reader#bonten ran#oneshot#Fluff#tokyorev x reader#tokyo revengers#anime#tokyo rev x you#romance
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hi gigi!! hru bff? <33 i hope you’re well 🫶🫶 ooh also i saw you were taking requests, could i please request prompt 47 or 48 with riki? ♡
Helloo I'm doing awesome fae my sweet bff. wbu? <33 I hope the same for U as well 🌸
prompt: “Is it that hard to believe that I love you?”
pairing: ni-ki x gn!reader (0.9k)
genre & warnings: fluff, insecure reader, not proofread, just riki being the sweetest boyfie <3
note: It's like 4:40 am here now and i just finished writing this i'm so sorry for this being late cause I was kinda busy a few days back TT but here it is omg 🥲
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You and Riki have been dating for a couple of months now. How, you may ask? He courted you.
He always wanted to pursue you as his from the very start. The first time he laid his eyes on you he immediately knew that you were the one for him. So cheesy right?
You were impressed by how he would do anything just for you, honestly you never saw how dedicated he was. So of course, one day while hanging out with Riki, you finally said yes.
He felt every jolly emotion that a human being could ever feel when you finally called it to be official. He'd be jumping up and down around you and squeezing you in a tight hug as well as your hand to know that he's yours… he's actually yours.
Although you couldn't bear to overthink after a few weeks.
Riki is insanely popular in your school based on his looks and skills. He's kind and polite, and helpful too. He's an outgoing person and fun to be with. That's why every girl who lays their eyes on him, will feel love at first sight.
You saw him talk to other girls. You trust him a whole lot and he knows that, although you couldn't help yourself to have the thought that he might replace you with any of the girls he randomly talks to in the halls someday.
They're pretty, someone who he would look better beside with. Just perfect people than you two will ever be.
Though the other had already reassured you multiple times that you're his and there wouldn't be anyone in this world who'd tell him otherwise, not even you.
Sometimes he just wants you to stop being insecure because he doesn't want anyone else other than… Well of course, you.
Riki finally had enough when he heard you compare yourself once again to another person while he walked you home.
" You know Zoa? " You asked. He already knew what you were gonna say after so he immediately intervenes before you say something he's expecting for the nth time.
" Yeah I know her but she's not my type. "
You swiftly turned to the male beside you, seeing his brow furrowed, looking directly at you.
" Y/n. How many times do we have to talk about this? "
" I'm sorry, I'm sorry! " you sighed, looking at the ground while the two of you continued to walk. You felt so stubborn and irritable beside your boyfriend because of the repetitive comparison you do to yourself with other people you think are way higher and better than you. You really couldn't resist thinking to yourself;
Why did Riki choose you?
The other leaned in and brushed your hair behind your ear to see your face… to see your gloomy face.
He then took a big step in front of you to stop both of you in your tracks. You couldn't look at him in the face because of your pettiness from a few seconds ago. You felt bothersome to riki.
" Y/n… " He grabbed both of your hands and caressed them. " I already told you that I don't find anyone cute, even the people you think who look prettier and stunning than you. "
You were on the verge of tears, hearing your boyfriend comforting you again. You felt like he was tired of you and your emotions. shouldn't he be pissed at you by now?
" Y/n… Look at me, please. " He then gently placed his hand on your cheek and slowly caressed it, for comfort. He was surprised by the tear that was stained on his fingers when he did so. Causing him to quickly wipe them off from both of your cheeks.
" Y/n look at me. Don't cry now. " He cooed.
" I'm sorry. " you sniffed, finally gazing at his worried face.
" Sorry for what? "
" Sorry for always saying these kinds of stuff… I'm just… you know..? I just feel like there's people who'd look better with you than… me… " you looked down once more, Riki tsked.
" Y/n, stop thinking that there are people for me that are better than you. " He calmly stated, sighing before continuing.
" I like you for a reason, I courted you for a reason, I pursued you for months for a reason, I chose you for a reason. You know what that reason is? "
You stared at him, you had an answer already in your head but you decided to just wait for him to answer his own question.
" It's because I love you so damn much. "
" I don't care about those pretty people you always talk about, those pretty guys and girls you compare yourself to. For me you are the prettiest, most stunning person to ever walk in my life and I promise you I don't regret courting you and being your boyfriend. " Your eyes widened, you didn't even notice your lips had perked up, Riki looking back at you with the same smile on his face.
" I don't know when you'll believe me, when you will finally see your worth, when you'll finally realize that I'm so lucky to have you. Is it that hard to believe that I love you? "
" I love you y/n. So so much! " He added with a cute expression that made you let out a soft chuckle.
" There's that smile I always love. "
He caressed your cheeks once again before pulling you into a hug. You really felt the warmth and comfort in this embrace, you didn't want to let him go out of the hug and the same goes for the other. The two of you stayed in that same position for a while, then Riki kissed your hair.
" If you can't see your worth, I'll make sure you do. "
© wonamore 2022. please do not modify, edit, copy or reproduce any of the works published.
#enhypen#enhypen x reader#ni ki x reader#ni ki enhypen#enhypen imagines#ni ki imagines#ni ki scenarios#ni ki x y/n#enhypen x y/n#nishimura riki
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Actual Concrete S5 predictions from me
I feel like I've been fucking around with trying to figure out possible groupings for the next season, so I'm actually gonna go into what EVENTS I think are going to take place next season. Well, more like ONE event I know is gonna happen.
Will Getting Vecna'd (in some capacity):
I first felt like this would be too obvious, because Will has already been possessed before, but the evidence points directly to it. I don't think it will be the same as other Vecna possessions, namely because Will has a different bond with Vecna than Max and his other victims did. But, again, I'm like 90% sure its gonna happen. Why?
This image right here ! This image was posted by Noah before vol 2 dropped (I believe), and everyone assumed that vol 2 would have Will getting Vecna'd but that never actually happened.
And I will acknowledge the possibility that this could just be a joke made by Noah and he tried it on just to take a picture, but that also seems unlikely imo. Like I feel like these harnesses would probably be expensive and hard to get into yourself, so they wouldn't just let him run off with one? But I'm not involved in the production of ST so idk.
Actually, just realizing this as I go back to edit this point, Noah isn't wearing Will's clothes at all. He's wearing a white t-shirt and grey sweatpants. In the show he wears a blue long-sleeve undershirt and tan colored jeans (which you may be able to see in the bottom right corner of the mirror) alongside his yellow flannel.
Sadie doesn't wear Max's clothes here when she's harnessed up. This was in a rehearsal, not the actual thing. But I would imagine that they would A. maybe put their clothes back on in post-production (though this seems kind of unlikely) or B. have them dress in layers as to hide the harness and knee/elbow pads the best they can.
Will's actual outfit clearly being in frame in Noah's photo could mean he was going to put it on over the clothes he is wearing.
The second piece of evidence is this footage which shows the actor for Lonnie Byers at the table read.
Now, we don't see Lonnie at all during season 4. It's possible that there's maybe a cut scene with him in it, like a flashback? But I have no idea where they would put it. They don't show anyone in the Byers family having flashbacks in S4, and they're probably the only ones who would have any involving him.
Lonnie being present means we'll probably see him again. And because I don't think he would put in any effort into reconnecting with his kids he abandoned 5+ years ago, it's gotta have to happen in a memory, or flashback, or nightmare, or hallucination.
And who do we know that uses people's past trauma to get into their brains?
This queen right here!!
Now I know what you're wondering. If we're gonna see Lonnie in a Vecna-vision in S5, why was he at a table read for S4?
This leads me into my next theory:
Parts of S5 have already been scripted and filmed.
NOW HEAR ME OUT. This theory makes a lot of sense if you really think about it.
First of all, the production of S4 was delayed significantly by COVID. This left the writers with more time to potentially work on the S5 script.
Another huge hurdle for the crew of ST was the kids getting older. Nearly 3 years passed in between the end of filming S3 and the end of filming S4. Their characters were only supposed to age like 6 months.
Because of this, they tried multiple ways to make them appear younger, through wardrobe and even asking them make their voices higher.
They knew it was gonna take them at least another year or two before they could get to filming S5, and the actors would age more in that time. I mean, look at Finn Wolfhard. He already looks nothing like he did in S4.
The Duffers have stated that there was no way for it to not pick up where they left off.
Because of their insistence to shoot back to back, it's safe to say assume something happens right after S4 ends.
But I think they must have come to a compromise, where they inserted a time jump some time after that.
Lonnie's actor being present in the S4 table read and Noah in a harness (with the flannel he wears in the final episode) are kind of hard to explain if this isn't true.
Originally people thought a time jump would occur after episode 4 of S5, but I do think it's unrealistic for them to have already filmed half of S5. I do think it's feasible that they've maybe filmed episode 1 of S5, or they filmed parts of S5 that they want to play in flashbacks or just play in a non-linear fashion.
They finished this grid awfully quickly, and have said many times before that they already had most of S5 blocked out. I don't think it's super unrealistic for them to have scenes in mind that needed to be filmed asap to fit in with the story. This grid was probably more of a way to determine what part of the story fits in where.
Suffice to say, there's something fishy going on here.
Predictions:
I think Will will have some type of contact with Vecna right where S4 ends. Not necessarily being Vecna-d, but something to lift him in the air which would require a harness. I think Vecna would want to use his memories of Lonnie to turn him against his friends and family.
I think that Will may join him with the intention of double crossing him. This would bring the "super-spy" scenario back full circle.
But no matter how we look at it, Will being Vecna'd seems inevitable.
#in short: noah probably spoiled this shit#stranger things#stranger things s5#analysis#byler#will byers
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lol it being completely open ended to talk about whatever i want, i went on a tangent (〒﹏〒) I'm putting it below the read more
i think.. it'll be funny, how when i move and finally say goodbye to this city, people on here who don't know we're in the same city will probably think “what that's where u lived?? why didn't you say anything sooner!!”
buddy i have been here for 8 years and completely lost faith in everyone here, this is a uniquely terrible area with somewhat friendly but extremely impersonal people and i don't care for it or anyone in it anymore!!!!!!!!!!!
i don't want someone to change my mind, I don't want to suddenly find what I'm looking for; I learned a lot professionally and about myself and life in general while living here but its time is up, the people here suck compared to literally every other place I've been to lmfao. I'm sure there's a few gems out there but they aren't worth what it takes to live around here.
when i was trying to figure out where i wanted to move next, I was going to give this place another year since that would arguably the best opportunity I'll have to enjoy it if i move somewhere cheaper (I've had a long complicated journey here).
but then i really thought about it, and being here — trying to chase happiness feels like swimming upstream towards something that's forever just out of reach. and then i thought about the city i decided I'll move to next, and there are so many people there who are always really happy to see me and always inviting me to stuff. and it's not just me, but they're all rly chill with each other and hang together too.
and it felt silly to think of suffering through another year here. why should i fight so hard to find what's already waiting for me somewhere else? life does not need to be this hard and i don't have to suffer another year here actually ✋🏾😭
very cool that i have some mutuals in the area who don't know this yet, but I'm not trying to spend an hour+ in traffic and have to pay to park just to hang out with them lol. wish i knew y'all like a year and a half ago but it's too late for me to really get attached to anything here.
there's literally (1) thing i care about in this city and it's the best friend i have. and being completely real, i love her very dearly but if i felt supported enough as i need from even one person here i wouldn't feel the need to leave. we talk thru text Sometimes very briefly, mostly to just send stuff to each other and ask about hanging out, and we hang like once a month or 1½ months.
like.... this is as good as it gets? 😐 there might be something better but it's going to take a significant amount of time, effort and frustration to find. and i just... do not think it's worth the effort, actually. sometimes taking the easier path is the correct choice.
I've made so so so many friends here that have all fizzled out. everyone I've become friends with will speak to you once a week or two or three maybe. MAYBE!! And it doesn't matter if you sent 1, 2 or 10 messages, it's not just a matter of where you are sending those messages, it doesn't matter what you are talking about or what you may need, you are just not hearing back from them. i could die here right now and no one would even begin to think something might be wrong with me for god knows how long, if ever.
so like. idk. i am extremely over this city and could not be convinced to stay. I'm the kind of person who needs to be talking to 2 or 3 friends every day, i need to be in one or two small but active group chats with people who are dear to me, I need to hang out at least twice a week at one of our places, i wanna go out to something together every two weeks at least.
it just seems like if i move somewhere where people take it a little slower and are more personal, I'll be able to get back into that kind of life i miss. it's so fucking easy to feel like the problem is me somehow until i drive like 25 miles away from here and suddenly the difference is like night and day (´-﹏-`；) like oh i don't suck actually, and I've become much more sure of that over the past year-ish i guess, but the problem still remains and i just have to suck it up until i leave.
also yeah I'll name drop it while I'm at it lol DO NOT MOVE TO SEATTLE 🙅🏾♀️ no one here drives, most people hang out in the pay to park/HEAVY traffic areas and everyone here is friendly but VERY very impersonal. if what you want is someone to hang out with every once in a while and to live a hermit lifestyle then it's probably perfect for u but if you want to meaningfully connect with your friends you are swimming upstream here do not do it. this city SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is the most trash ass city I've ever been to and I've been up and down the west coast and to other inland states!!!!!!!!! this is not normal!!!!! you people are not normal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! people from here get pissy when you bring up the Seattle freeze but it's real actually you guys do suck supremely and anyone from any place with even a shred of warmth between people in its community can tell you that, and i can say that bc i remember how often I'd be willing to say hi back to people when i took public transit and they'd immediately clock that I'm not from here because No One wants to talk to them otherwise.
i don't know wtf the deal is here but i don't need to navigate it or fight it 🚶🏾♀️ I'm just moving to the kinda place you can both live and work in, which is what all the other places I've lived at have been like. I'm sorry y'all live like this and think it's normal, but i don't think locking yourself away for weeks at a time not talking to anyone because of depressive episodes and always feeling lonely is like.. normal.. it's not. and you genuinely do have a lot to be fairly depressed about, and so do i tbh and i fight it so fucking hard but I'm just removing myself from this 😶🌫️ good bye and good luck.
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The Sheep
Wassup. I realized I can post snippets literally whenever I want without there being a tag game as an excuse. Soooooo I decided to share a snippet from "Devourer of Souls" that I just wrote and am pretty proud of. I even gave it a title for the purpose of this post bc I'm Fancy like that.
trigger warnings: horror, animal death, animal body horror, vomit, gore mention
This snippet is nothing like the rest of DoS in terms of vibes. Please don't be scared. I promise this story is (mildly) normal. This also technically has a lot of context behind it but I like this bit and it works somewhat independently so fuck it we ball!
Taglist: @wildswrites and @little-mouse-gardens
(I tried to post this multiple times but tumblr stopped me, so I's like to thank the nice people who helped me, @ellierenae and @owlsandwich, they were very lovely <3)
Some days later, at the market, the sister whose arm she'd healed approached Seth. She had a messy air about her, with bags under her eyes and thrown-on clothes. Her expression showed panic she seemed to be trying to hide, with little success.
"Seth..." she began, hesitantly.
"Yes?"
"I have a... strange request for you."
Seth raised an eyebrow, intrigued.
"What is it?"
The woman seemed to grow more nervous.
"Can you heal sheep?"
She stared at her for a moment, still processing the words.
Heal sheep?
"I must confess I've never attempted it, but I can try now."
The woman nodded.
"Thank you. Come with me, please."
Still a bit confused, Seth followed her, giving Theo a signal to do the same.
They already knew the path to that house. They'd traversed it less than a week ago. But now, the farm seemed to be steeped in silence. It took her a while to identify what was missing, but, when she did, she felt a chill creep up her back.
The sheep, she noticed, were quiet.
With grave steps, the sister guided them to the stable.
Was there a disease among livestock? She'd heard of them, but, in all of her time living there, she'd never been through one. She'd heard it said, from the oldest inhabitants of the town, that they were almost always devastating and that they could ruin the town for months – sometimes, years.
She took a deep breath. If she could heal people, she could heal animals. The life force that flowed through all living things was the same. Healing magic should work on them.
When she was about to enter the stable, she was pulled back. Theo held her wrist tightly, stopping her from going any further.
"Theo..."
"Something's wrong with the sheep," she whispered. "Their bodies..."
"Can you see if it's a disease?" she asked, also in a low voice.
"They weren't sick when we came here. If it's a disease, it acts extremely fast. Their state... it's not natural...
"Not natural? How?"
"Their organs, Seth. They're all... I can't describe it... They're distorted. I can feel them. I can feel the shape they are inside, and that shape doesn't make sense."
Theo loosened her grip on Seth's wrist and she took the opportunity to hold her hand and squeeze it.
"I have to check. If it's a disease, I should eliminate it now. It could put the whole town in danger."
Theo nodded and let her go, but she seemed reluctant to do so.
As she grew closer, Seth noticed a stain on the floor, right in front of the divide where she knew the sheep slept. It was hard to discern from that distance, spread over the irregular straw. When she was close enough to tell what it was, she had to force herself not to trip.
Blood. In a trail leading to the sheep.
"I think it's an illness," said the woman, with her eyes trained on something inside the divide. "But it's much more horrible than any I've ever seen."
Seth reached out with her magic. She could feel the souls of the sheep, although weak. Something was interfering with them.
"Please be careful," the woman asked. "I don't think it's contagious for humans, but..."
Seth finally reached the other side of the divide. She had to swallow the scream that threatened to escape her throat.
The sheep were lying on the floor, some with their bellies up. Their paws were stretched before them, with some contorting in painful spasms. Their eyes were blown wide, but they were looking at nothing, as if they were blind. Their mouths were open, ready to scream, but they made no sound.
Through their sheared skins, she could see shapes trying to pierce them. Some were thin and sharp, like broken bones, but some were made of soft flesh and muscle, almost like bubbles. And some of their organs appeared to have changed places. One of the sheep, closest to the entrance, seemed to have a heart where its stomach should be, stretching the skin every time it beat. Another, in a corner, had its ribs turned upside down, jutting out of its back. Another still, clearly dead, had wool growing out of its mouth and nose and, by the shape of the bulges that filled its abdomen, on the inside of its body too.
The sheep spasmed in agony, turned into something that only vaguely looked like an animal. Their mouths remained open and their eyes wide.
Seth had seen many horrible things when she'd been at the hospital, near the front lines of the war. She'd seen men disfigured, burnt, missing limbs. But this was the first time one of those things had made her puke.
After she emptied her stomach onto the straw, still heaving and with her back turned to those horrifying sheep, she felt a hand on her back. When she straightened, she was hugged from behind and let herself slump onto Theo's chest, comforted by the presence of that soul with hints of divinity.
"You saw them too, right?" she asked.
Theo said nothing, but she felt her nod against her hair.
"How are you taking this so calmly?"
Theo still did not respond, pulling her closer.
"Um... Seth?" called the woman who'd taken them there, her voice shaking. "Can you heal them?"
She vehemently shook her head.
"No," she replied, breathless. "Each one of these sheep would need a huge amount of energy just to make them look close to normal again." She turned to the woman, who took a step back. "End their suffering. Buy new sheep."
Everything I touch turns to supernatural horror. Help.
Btw the sheep thing is 100% Theo's doing (but on accident). She just came back from the Plane of the Gods and has divine body horror powers. Not my fault where my ideas are taking me. B&W originally also wasn't horror but then it just happened, ok?
Please tell me if you feel the snippet is too long. It feels a bit big, but I wanted to include the whole scene. I've never posted a snippet like this before. Still a bit confused about what to do.
Anyway, hope you enjoyed! Can't wait to share more snippets!!
#now that i translate this into another language#this kinda gives off “just an insight into my twisted mind haha” vibes#or however it is the meme goes#but istg this happened naturally#why are all my proudest snippets horror#i dislike horror irl (kinda)#i really like this bit but wtf me???#writing#writeblr#my wips#devourer of souls wip#nano 2023#tw horror#tw animal death#tw body horror#tw animal body horror#does that tag exist?#tw vomit#only slightly#tw injury mention#very vaguely
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ATTENTION: local dumbass that needs to kill themselves discovers the concept of boycotting
Okay, there are multiple errors here:
1) I already knew about boycotting for years now. I've also complained about it a few years ago when "y'all can't even boycott chick fil a" went viral. And I already understood the concept of it in general since I was eight when my mother warned me not to read some newspaper companies cause she found out they're own my rotten politicians. Maybe that's something other people should practice sometimes.
2) if you're agree that I said you can't boycott a whole country, then I'm sorry you can't handle the truth. One of our biggest financial support is by creating small chips you put in tech objects that are impossible to take out. We have international shipping with multiple countries outside of the West because shocker! The world doesn't revolve around one side of the planet! There multiple families who do the immigration thing to the US to send money back home since dollars have more worth than shekels. You can't just "boycott" country from the rest of the world unless that country only does one specific thing like some cartoon's concept of an evil empire. That's not how life works.
3) the only way people I've seen actually affected by this boycott are working class people who just trying to get through the day. Jewish Europeans who had their kosher cafes destroyed. Innocent McDonald part-time employees in the UK having to deal with a nutjob releasing rats into the restaurant. Rabbis getting death threats on Twitter. Only normal people are actually affected by this because it was never about being right, it's about looking right.
4) killing or threatening me isn't going to do any change either. I'm a depressed 22 year old that's been unemployed for months and suffering from burn out. You're targeting someone that has nothing to do with the war effort and would mourn by fifteen people at best.
5) Jews are the most argumentive stubborn, bullheaded rebellious people I know. By you going to strangers' inboxes and telling us to kill ourselves, it gives us motivation to reach a hundred and twenty out of pure fucking spite.
6) I'm allowed to criticize BSD. Sometimes victims can be wrong. Remember how on Twitter white BLM protestors were given advice to wear pretty clothes so that the police would think they're too innocent to hurt? Or how during the actor's strike, people were told to not promote anything even when the actors' themselves said "no, some of these are okay. Just give us some credit"? Not every movement is a hundred percent correct. Putting Palestinian movements and political solutions on a pedestal will only get more people hurt.
All in all, an f-. You were so disappointing that you invented a new low. Just what exactly did you think you want going to happen?
#Asks#Anon#Israel#Palestine#finally! my first anon hate about thr conflict!#i was afraid you people were getting rusty
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HELLO!! I’m genuinely curious what got you into haikyuu and hwat made you stay… also you were one of the first few ppl I saw who liked oisuga/iwaoisuga and I was like Woah. headcanons you have of them maybe?? or like what you think of their general silly dynamic. what suga ship do you like other than iwaoisuga? also I apologise if thats a lot,, but thank you 4 answering anyway :3
i don't mind at all!! i love when i get asks with lots of questions!!
so, i got into haikyuu in... 2021? i want to say? that sounds right. i had a lot of free time and i had been playing mystic messenger (lol) and i wanted something to keep me occupied between chat rooms so i was looking for things to watch! i don't really remember why i decided to watch haikyuu, that was when it was on netflix so it may have been as simple as "i want to watch an anime, oh this one looks neat and i've heard about it before"
as for what made me stay.... not sure! it was really engaging and i remember the matches had me on the edge of my seat and freaking out in my bedroom and i was like "i can't believe a volleyball anime is captivating me (<- not a sports person)"
and the characters too! they're all well written and i always enjoy when creators give us extra information (character sheets). and i latched onto suga really hard and never let go. this was also a few months after the second part of season 4 wrapped up so the fandom was pretty active which helped.
answering the rest under the cut
trying to think of any iwaoisuga headcanons i have that i haven't discussed here... i've been thinking about pets a lot! about two years ago i made a whole bunch of pet headcanons but those are kinda outdated now. i've changed my mind.
i think iwa already has a dog when they start dating. an akita he got in high school named kenji! (she is a girl but is named kenji because they thought she was a boy and the name stuck) when iwaizumi told oikawa he was naming her this, oikawa was like "AFTER FUTAKUCHI??" and iwa was like "who?" [doesn't remember names]
anyway. oikawa has a love hate relationship with her. she is, all things considered, a lovely and well behaved dog but she's also very stubborn and doesn't always want to listen to oikawa specifically. also oikawa in my mind is the type of guy who would get kinda jealous over a dog. [in a... silly way, not a serious toxic way]
suga loves her <33 they're besties... she loves him too, very excited when suga comes to the apartment. animals and children love sugawara koushi. bc he's so cool and has a comforting presence.
(and then i have thoughts about a cat too! but i have a wip about this so i won't go into detail)
some other headcanons/thoughts on their dynamic (many are inspired by conversations i've had with friends - shout out to ash and bex specifically)
i think suga specifically has a way of bringing out iwa's sillier side. a little better than oikawa can. suga tells people that iwaizumi is the funniest guy he knows and people are like "... Him?" because funny isn't the first word they think of when they think iwaizumi hajime. but suga thinks he's very funny. they both really enjoy puns and jokes that other people would argue are bad.
as we know, oikawa can be dramatic and overreacts to things sometimes. it is very intentional and he does it because he know it annoys iwaizumi. suga likes to enable him sometimes because he ALSO likes seeing iwaizumi exasperated
iwaoi have many silly arguments. suga likes listening to these silly arguments and thinks they are very entertaining. (the fact that he's endeared/entertained and not annoyed by this is how they knew it was meant to be)
suga also likes when iwaoi get competitive over silly things. (suga is also a guy who gets competitive over silly things but the things he gets competitive over doesn't always overlap with what iwaoi are getting competitive over) sometimes oikawa talks about winning at being a boyfriend and iwa is like "you can't win at that" but iwa is also invested in 'winning' at being a boyfriend. <- they are not serious, ofc. i must make it clear this is in a silly way, not a toxic way. they have a healthy relationship.
before they started hanging out with suga, iwa always teased oikawa for not having much of a spice tolerance. and then they started hanging out with suga and iwa realized that compared to suga, he ALSO doesn't have much of a spice tolerance. suga often has to tone down spicy meals he cooks for them because his spice tolerance is absurdly high. iwa indulges him sometimes too though... even if it means his mouth will be burning.
i like lots of suga ships other than iwaoisuga!! i really enjoy kurosuga and i've made a few posts about it!! also a fan of sugaten but i haven't really made any posts about them. i think they're neat though. and sugayaku! sugayaku is lovely and really cute. very underrated too. ASASUGA!!! asasuga is so cute. i think about asahi calling to suga to set to him a Lot. there are others but these are the 'big' ones i would say.
i am very picky about daisuga though, i like when some of my mutuals do it and i like poly ships with daisuga (asadaisuga, kurodaisuga, etc) but otherwise i usually only talk about their dynamic platonically lol.
#hq!!#my headcanons#iwaoisuga#thank you for the questions!!! i was super excited to see this in my inbox#my inbox is always open. especially for questions about iwaoisuga/oisuga/etc hehe
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