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#it makes me insane....what do you mean i will never get to touch them? ill never get to hold them?
rucow · 2 months
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that venus conjunct neptune habit of falling in love with concepts... it's been driving me nuts! 😵‍💫
i have so many soft tender dreams about people, i wish i could just live in those dreams forever 🥹 where i get to hold the literal person of my dreams...oof! the yearning is so real 💔
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schizoidcel · 23 days
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## BOOTHILL x READER ★
🤍 ﹒ HEADCANONS ! ! . .
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- notes ̽ ۪⠀written before his release + gn reader huhu. yall i swear ill get to the lcb requests but im brainrotting too fucking much right now boothill is colonizing my mind so enjoy these thoughts i had and will throw into the tags
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He's a little spoon and NOBODY can convince me otherwise period.
We know damn well hes touch starved. So ofcourse he'd wanna be nuzzled up inbetween your chest and chin
Will teach you how to ride a horse. He definitely has a favourite (his name is Sebastian 🌚🌚)
Very protective over him though. You will not ride on that horse until you are months into the relationship
He gave you another horse to practice riding on and an extra horse incase the other "knocks your socks off" ... Whatever that means
You named them Yee and Haw and he was so conflicted with his emotions that he considered getting a routine check up on his body
Will tease you if you completely fuck up immediately.
He grabs your hands to gesture on things you should be wary about while being on the back of a horse, knowing it'll mess your brain up and lead you to not pay attention to a single thing coming out of his mouth
On the other hand if you're able to handle it in a short amount of time, he'll start flirting with you
"I'm doing it, Boo!" "Nice work, honeybunch. Think ya can manage ridin' somethin' else?" "Dude"
It's one or the other. You will not escape the Boothill down bad programm
Boothill also acts like a himbo to mess around with you.
On another note, you called him Bootyhill once and he's still shook up. Whether /pos or /neg is up to interpretation
While we're on the topic of nick/pet names, he calls you things you've never heard of before .
Or even if you did, they're things you expected never to be called 😭
What the fuck is a doodlebug Boothill
Type of man to get flustered when you flirt back. He just starts bugging out
Will play it cool though, but the faint blue on his cheeks says otherwise
Also a fan of headpats. No, he's not ashamed. No, he will not tell you.
Expanding on the no shame, Boothill takes it to the extreme
No filter, no mask, no nothing. Touchy EVERYWHERE you go
Even if he can't really feel it, he just feels more at ease when you both are near eachother or touch one another. Man wants to protect his partner, after all
It dosen't matter if you're able to protect yourself, the gesture just makes him feel more comfortable and calm
Also has a hair pulling kink woah. Let's keep it sfw everybody
Forehead kisses ❤️ or just kisses anywhere on his head in general. Kiss behind his ears and he will overheat
He let's you play with his hair<3 It's one of his favourite passtimes with you
Braid it, tie it in a ponytail, give him buns, pigtails, curl them, decorate them with hairpins, clip bows in his strands it don't matter PLAY WITH HIS HAIR ⁉️
He relaxes SO MUCH it's insane. Genuinely just one finger goes into that hair of his and he melts
This plays into the little spoon factor
You'd tease him about it but he takes pride in it 😭
Has a weird obsession with biting. If you complain that it hurts he goes "What, want me to smooch the pain away?" and he does this fuckass face :3 while you're just staring at him dead in the eye (you say yes btw)
If you're ticklish, he's hell for you
Tickles you in the most random times possible.
And you know it's even WORSE with those cold ass metalic hands
You're cuddling? The sides of your torso are not safe. You're currently occupied with an activity involving your hands? Your armpits are not safe either. He's laying on your bare stomache face down? He starts blowing raspberries.
You know damn well he uses the feathers of his hat 😭
Sticks it up your nose to make you sneeze too. Usually to wake you up or some shit
You could have the most volcano eruption alert level 5 sneeze and he'd still say "Aww, ya sneeze like a kitten!"
One last note this man is a whiney loser bottom not sorry
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the word ill is in boothill for a reason the way im laying in bed all sweaty ANYway 🌚😵😵😵😵
ૢ་༘࿐ thank you for reading ! Ⳋ᧙
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KINKTOBER DAY 2: SEMI PUBLIC
Yall why tf I forgot to schedule this post. I just woke up and was like wtf. Anyways a year later yall gettin the finished version of this.
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The waitress, innocent in her unawareness, made her way over far quicker than Barbatos wished.
Your fingers didn't stutter once in their rhythm as she approached. When she spoke, "Yes? How may I help you?", you felt his cunt squeeze around you, arousal drizzling down the thoroughly-soaked digits.
From where the waitress stood, all she saw was your hand in your boyfriend's lap. He was tomato red, a strange glazed look in his eyes that suggested illness of some sort. Oh dear, was there a problem with the tea?
"Ah, was the tea not to your liking? Our deepest apologies–"
You slide your thumb across his clit, making him jump. Cold tea sloshed over the side onto the table.
You and the waitress both gasp, hers coming out significantly more genuine.
"Please, let me clean that for you!"
In the second it takes to retrieve a towel from her uniform pocket, your thumb moves to his clit in true, rubbing mind numbingly slow circles as your fingers sped up.
Barbatos wasn't sure he could breathe. The woman was bent over the table, dutifully cleaning up his mess, occasional glancing up in confusion at the forced stoicism on his face. She was so close. Close enough that if she looked down right now, she'd see you. Close enough that if she listened in, the bustle of the busy Cafe would fade to the wet gush of arousal leaking into his (thankfully dark) pants, forced from his cunt by your skilled fingers.
God, why was it taking so long to clean such a small spill?
"Once again, um, our apologies sir. May we help you with anything else? A refill, perhaps?"
He hoped he didn't sound too breathy. "It’s f-f…" he closes his eyes against beading tears as you switch your pace again, nails digging into the soft skin of his palms as his hands fisted in his lap. "Fine. May I… hah, may I please have a refill?" He shoves the words out, fighting the urge to fuck himself on your fingers the whole time.
Wearing a slightly befuddled expression, she nods, absentmindedly scribbling on her little notepad and backing away.
Barbatos pants, relaxing onto your fingers and allowing them just a little farther inside. The squelch of his own arousal meets his ears and manages to further warm his face.
"You're amazing," You lean in, whispering into his ear and basking in the shiver that ran through him. The sun was going down, and it's rays were hitting him perfectly, making his hair and eyes glow with a special sorta brilliance that drove you insane. His lips, bitten raw by this point, were red and puffy, begging to be kissed. Hot, flushed skin looked soft to the touch, was soft to the touch, begging to be caressed and cared for.
You smile, your own lust like a beast that'd caught its prey in your eyes. Barbatos was quick to catch the change in mood; quick to realize he was extremely fucked.
To outsiders, you look like a couple on a rather awkward first date, or perhaps like one on their umpteenth. A teasing lover and a shy one.
Oh, how Barbatos wishes it was that simple.
"Do you wanna cum?" There was a barely leashed excitement in your voice. Never had a whispering seemed so loud, loud enough to drown out everything else all at once.
There was only one answer, really.
"Yes."
Your smirk was devilish. "Then beg the waitress for it."
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What?
Pretty green eyes filled with tears as they widened to saucers. Beg... the waitress?
The last woman he wanted to see at the moment appeared behind the counter, chatting it up with a coworker as his drink cooled on its platter. He had a few minutes at most.
"What do you mean? How can I... what would I say?"
Your smile gets no less evil, a dark chuckle leaving you as your fingers stopped all movement. He whines automatically at the loss, just managing to stop his hips from grinding down when he catches your look.
"You of all people are acting like you don't know how to beg?" How he managed to blush even more, only the devil knows.
You roll your eyes at the helplessness on his face. "Figure out, and quickly, she's coming back."
In one fluid movement you retrieve your hand, earning a gasp as you wrap your arm around his waist, slide back into his pants and pose your middle finger right over his clit.
"Anything else?" The lady says, setting down the tray and dutifully moving the cup and it's little plate infront of Barbatos.
You smiled, nodding your head to Barbatos. He inhaled, hoping his expression was polite and simple, despite the watery eyes and rosey cheeks.
"Yes, please..." You tap his clit, making his eyes flutter. "Please, may I– fuck– I mean, please can," Steady breathes began to break as your tantalizingly slow circles broke his focus. He was almost there, so sensitive, so close. Please, please, please...
She smiled, but it was... different, this time. She leaned down, hugging her notepad and pen to her chest.
"Go ahead and cum, pretty boy."
And he did. He came hard as you pinched his clit, jaw dropping open as nothing but a shocked exhale left him, a single, thankful tear falling down his cheek as his orgasm shook him to his soul.
When it was over, two sets of hands were upon him. One was yours, the other was the waitress'. You both smirk at him, twin whispers of "Good Boy," meeting his ears.
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barrenclan · 19 days
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(gestures to that one panel in the new issue) you see you can tell their family because of their matching eyebags
in all seriousness you are making me soo insane. i barely even touch tumblr but every once and awhile ill come check “new patfw updare? new patfw update?” like a lil parrot and i reread different pages so much i just. my brain chemistry has been altered. outside of the story and all that i love how you format the whole thing. ive never seen a comic formatted like this in my life with like the. the. the text outside of explicit dialogue still there you know but it scratches a little itch for me and you utilize it SO WELL. like i feel like if you were to switch patfw to any other format, outside of the effort itd obviously take to make it itd just be. really hard to get right if that makes sense. its just… so tied to its strange little format its great. if i may ask like. stupid question but is this just like a type of formatting you just decided to use or did you see it somewhere else beforehand? bc like it may be common or smth i dont read many comics man
weird tangent aside i love the characters, story all that too of course! theres just. so much to talk abt there i wouldn’t know where. To Start. youve done admirable job of fleshing out so many characters to some degree in the time youve had. some of barrenclan may be assholes but theres something to be said about all of them. beeface isnt mean all the time etc, you know? they dont feel static in the sense that they feel like they are living their kitty lives. slug family in particular just scratches a little itch for me i could go. on and on. i miss asphodel. if you kill any more of them i wont. do anything but i would be very sad.
i cant imagine the type of dedication and effort it would take to keep smth like this going and just. yeah!!👍 good luck with ur silly kitty comic solider
Thank you so much for all your kind words! I'm so glad you like the comic! I've had a lot of fun making it and the response has been truly flattering.
The "style" is not my own creation; it is inspired by one of my favorite webcomics, Paranatural, which transitioned out of traditional comics into this format a couple years ago. :] Like so:
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That is what it's based on! And I've seen setups like it in other places before, though none come to mind. However it's not very common in webcomic spaces - although my friend haw does have a new comic @pipjackal which uses a similar setup! Read Pip Jackal, please, for me. And Paranatural.
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AITA for wanting to stay in an important team position?
(For reference: 🎮🎮🤖)
(Sorry for the long post and any bad grammar!!)
So i (16F) am in a robotics team at my school, we take part in a pretty big national and global competition called FIRST.
recently my team got through to national stages, which is a MASSIVE deal, not exactly an everyday occurrence.
Our robot requires two drivers, one for the main body, and one for the arm. The whole time we’ve had the robot working, i have been the arm driver (apart from a couple lunchtime sessions where other people tried it out briefly) and took part in the actual qualifying rounds. I’m also the CAD designer so i designed the claw part and know what i have to do to make it move in the correct fashion and not damage it. My friend Pen (not any real names ofc) is the main body driver and has spent so much time working on the robot no one is disputing her driving.
The problem comes in with two people - Plane and Bolt. I’ve never particularly gotten on with Plane, while ive been kind of neutral with Bolt. There’s no active hostile feelings with us at the moment, but they have been pretty aggressive to people in the past, gatekeeping roles and new people joining - they had a huge fight on the team group chat over it with my friend Keyboard. They also tried to stop Pen (who was originally doing software) and another person in our team (ill call her Remote) from being engineers, but im the end Plane and Bolt did none of the hard work, doing very easy things while Remote and Pen were left doing all the manual work on the body, while i attached the arm.
Both Plane and Bolt decided in the week before the qualifying event that they wanted to drive the arm, and that we should rotate at the event. Thankfully the supervising teacher got involved and told them no, i had put in the time, he guessed maybe they could try do some more practise before the national event. Me and Pen were drivers in that and are now in the top 19% of global drivers, which i am insanely happy about. Despite being ill the day of the event, Plane was the human player, which means you still get to be around the field while not directly touching the controllers or the robot, but can help.
The first session after the event, Plane comes up to me saying how badly she wanted to be the driver and she was going to put in the practise. I told her that I didn’t want to be mean, please don’t take this the wrong way, but it depends on what our teacher says, and really, it’s a matter of skill. Me and Pen have had the time practising together, it’s not a personal attack on you. The next event is only 8 weeks away (a lot of that is holiday) so im really sorry, but it’s not up to me. You’ll have to take it up with the teacher.
She was obviously not happy with this and walked out of the room without saying anything else. I’m panicking that I was too rude but she’s been far more aggressive to me before and I haven’t got super pissed at her for it?
The rest of the team apart from Plane and Bolt agree with me, and I really want to stay driver because honestly I enjoy it. It’s something im good enough at as well, and I don’t super enjoy just sitting in the audience feeling useless.
Tumblr, AITA?
What are these acronyms?
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russilton · 10 months
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BODY LANGUAGE ANALYSIS BODY LANGUAGE ANALYSIS BODY LANGUAGE ANALYSIS BODY LANGUAGE ANALYSIS BODY LANGUAGE ANALYSIS BODY LANGUAGE ANA-
ALRIGHTY HERE WE FUCKIN GO-
So this is about the Silverstone ‘23 hug, my beloved, my hyperfocus for the past week while I poked around and wrote this, and also because I say this every time but you can see a visual development jump in how George used to approach Lewis, how hes matured, and how much more at home he feels in Lewis’s space- I’m going off already…
Get ready for far more photos than anyone needs of this, in so many angles because…I have an archival hoarding problem! We know this!
Hug Video, for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet
So, unsurprisingly, I want to start by talking about what happens before George and Lewis even touch, because I never know quite how to launch into curated insanity (fun fact I wrote the second half before the first because I hate writing intros, you will probably be able to tell)
Silverstone marks the first time I’ve ever seen George deliberately wait for Lewis, especially when he doesn’t beeline for Lewis as his main focus. It’s good of George to congratulate Lando but I personally find it pretty distinct to how he goes to Lewis. Lando is a quick companionable slap and move on, they’ve been trying to get on a little better recently I think and it shows. But its an entirely different vibe than when he goes for Lewis, who he slows down for and requests the full focus of, by waiting and tapping at his back.
George has a thing for tap tapping Lewis for his attention, its a bit like watching a cat paw at someone to be noticed. I remember George doing it when he and Lewis climbed the fence after Brazil and Lewis was still waving to the crowd when George stole a phone off a merc staff member and began going tap tap slap tap on lewis’ shoulder so he’d focus in on George again. It’s oddly adorable to watch him become at ease with going ‘hey hey Lewis Lewis hey look at me’
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This one (I couldn’t find a gif at this second of the slap slap tap but I have no doubt it exists. If it doesn’t,… ill make it exist), George has gone from a guy who would hover awkwardly to see if Lewis would even glance his way, to someone perfectly comfortable demanding his attention. And that’s what I was so fond of seeing at Silverstone, George getting right into Lewis’ space, patting his lower back (rather than shoulder or arm) and essentially going ‘hey! Hug?’
Which Lewis then grants immediatly, grabbing Georges hand and falling into a position that must be becoming muscle memory the amount of times they’ve done it
I MEAN LOOK AT THIS, Left is Hungary 2022, Right is Silverstone 2023. In Hungary they double podiumed (L P2- G P3), and yet the only difference between it and Silverstone is that now George tucks into Lewis even closer.
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Maybe it’s something only I notice, but George ducks his head a little more every time they hug, almost like he’s trying to get closer and closer to tucking himself inside Lewis’ suit entirely. He always angles it like he’s going for the weirdest kiss, fitting his head up next to Lewis’. George is 6’2 or so, to Lewis’ 5’9 and yet every time George is the one trying to crunch himself into Lewis’ space, get their heads as close as he can with the HANS device and thick crash foam helmets obscuring the way. They always seem like they’re millimetres from clunking their heads off one another the way George always goes for it.
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For a guy who likes to strut with all the confidence in the world and drive like it too, George always seems to ache for those tangible reminders that Lewis cares about him, be it his praise or this, wrapping a clingy arm around Lewis’ neck and making it feel as all encompassing as he can before he’s straightening up and acting like nothing has happened… usually only for the pair of them to post 4 different angles of photos of them together as soon as the race weekend ends….
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(Gif courtesy of @princemick , posted with permission because, ‘I’m not putting that on my blog Markus’, thank you Kyle, sorry I made you scroll into one of the middle of my rambles to find your own name)
I feel something we also glossed over in the original fervour and shouting is that they never let go of one another’s hands during the entire movement, Lewis’ fingers remains clenched tight around George’s as they pull one another in. I watched this gif on loop, you can’t really tell who begins the whole movement, they meet one another rather than George pulling Lewis to him or vice versa. But the whole time their hands are pressed into one another’s ribs, a block of hooked contact between them. It’s not quite as desperate as say, Brazil or Australia, where George threw himself wholly into Lewis and earned a proper two armed bear hug, but its not a situation that asks for it, even in its above tenderness its a warm ‘well done, good job, even if its not me I’m glad its one of us, no hard feelings’ hug.
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Hard feelings George would be somewhat entitled to have! It’s his home race, he wants that podium as much as Lewis did, if not more, but he himself said after that if not for the safety car, NEITHER of them would have gotten that step, they couldn’t clear the McLarens and well, Max might as well be considered an automatic first. So at least its one of them up there, one Mercedes. It’s not Merc’s fault the safety car came out, and Lewis has experienced plenty of his own disastrous safety car luck last year, it’s just unfortunately the way George’s luck fell… But George still seeks Lewis out for a moment of comfort, a congrats for getting points for the team, before he returns to the garage to lick his wounds.
It’s a big but gradual shift in their partnership, the way they’re not just coming to one another when they are BOTH happy, but in other moments too, for comfort and congratulations right after the race ends and before anything else. Last year if they weren’t both on the podium or side by side, they tended to go their separate ways and roll into separate routines. Even at Georges first podium in Aus 22 Lewis didn’t haul him in for a hug until they were both in the TV pen (and I’ve gone over how emotional that moment makes me before lol). But this year I’ve seen so much more how they just… hang around one another. After qualifying or sprints they show up side by side weighing in together, talking before helmets even come free, simple little moments of being relaxed in the others space, George knowing Lewis wont rebuff him.
Casual intimacy is a rare thing with Lewis, I honestly never saw much of it with ANYONE other than Valtteri and Seb and his team. Lewis is touchy, he’ll congratulate anyone, but then he seems to prefer to drift into his own quiet area, doing things alone and focused on himself. With the exception of people he’s really fond of, and I truly think George is entering that little group, tentatively. He’s doing what Val used to, sliding easily up to Lewis, patting him casually, knowing Lewis wont jump and back away, but will allow him in instead. It’s not a hopeful guess anymore, George expects Lewis to let him in because Lewis has initiated it over and over.
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Lewis doesn’t have to do this honestly, he has been subject to multiple teammates who he didn’t get along with from the second they stepped into the paddock each week, hes seen and outlasted hundreds of drivers he barely spoke to. He’s beholden to nothing. But George he allows close now, likely because as he’s said so often these days, hes trying. He’s trying to be the best teammate he can be, someone who doesn’t force George to deal with the ice he turned on Valtteri at times, someone who’s trying to trust from the get go, and George returns that trust with physical contact and adoration in ample supply.
It’s good for both of them honestly, and each week I post their hugs and get a cacophony of tags going ‘see they get on!’ As if its up for debate anymore. Sure they have their rough and snippy moments, their radios are never perfect, but they’re human beings, and I really think anyone under the assumption these two aren’t deeply fond of one another is wilfully ignoring ample evidence to the contrary and just, what they both want?
They both want to be seen as friends, they both want people to know they like one another, and they go out of their way to show it. I mean God damn you don’t take side by side half nude ice baths with a guy you hate, and you certainly don’t post an artful depth of field photo of you tucking your head into his fuckin neck, do you.
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There you go, my long, insane, only slightly winding and off topic ramble about boys, body language, and big soft hugs. Anyone who read to the end of this- why.
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kyouka-supremacy · 1 month
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Dazai?
Eheh Dazai
Favorite thing about them: I really like how as a character he was able to deeply touch so many people!! Seeing so many people finding relief in being able to relate to and emphasize with the character makes me happy.
Least favorite thing about them: I mean, his personality? I don't like how his many flaws are written to be interpreted as strong points / good traits for his character to the point no flaw is actually a flaw, it makes the reading experience very frustrating for me.
Favorite line:
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brOTP: Mmmmhh, I don't spend a lot of time thinking about Dazai. Soukoku, probably. The Buraiha trio makes me emotional a little. Souheki, but in a very passive-aggressive, over-competitive, one-sided rivality, can't-stand-each-other way. Dazai and Kyouka. Dazai and Atsushi too I suppose, though I prefer them romantically. I think he makes for a lot of interesting dynamics with virtually all the characters, but none compells me in particular tbh.
OTP: Odazai is plain canon to me, idk what to tell you. I think they make for a beautiful, tragic love story. Get you a man who is willing to change the path of his whole life for another man just like that, nobody does it like them (actually, wait, I can think of another man... ). Although I always distantly liked them, dazatsu has grown on me like, an INSANE amount in the last few months. I'm not sure what happened. I think it was an unfortunate (lol) coincidence of growing a little fonder of Dazai and just wanting to give more space and agenda to Atsushi. Like to me a lot of what dazatsu is really is about giving Atsushi more agency and autonomy and independence and overall just respecting him as a complex, full fleshed out character. I don't see ANY kind of power imbalance in it I keep finding people talk about. Dazai pushes Atsushi to be better every day, and Atsushi does exactly the same for Dazai. Atsushi admires and respects Dazai, and Dazai admires and respects Atsushi equally. I really don't know why the ship isn't more popular and instead just gets discarded most of the time tbh. I feel like everyone should sit down a second and actually give Atsushi the dignity to choose for himself. And fyozai!!! The investment in this ship mostly goes on waves for me but despite that I firmly believe that they really make for an engaging and interesting dynamic to be interpreted romantically. The epitome of “You're both just enabling each other's mental illnesses. You're both perfect for each other. Never change. Just never involve anybody else in what you've got going on.”
nOTP: Nothing comes to my mind.
Random headcanon: Not canon related, but in modern aus I feel like he'd be one to always end up working at ceo roles and he would HATE it. He fires himself and starts working at some cheap frozen yogurt place and one month later he'll find himself as the ceo of the most important oil company of the country AGAIN without him even realizing it / despite his active efforts to avoid that. And he HATES IT. He fires himself again but the loop only repeats forever. He's just that kind of person for whom all doors open automatically.
Unpopular opinion: ............ I could be here forever. I regretfully fail to relate to a lot of characterization / readings of the character I've seen the fandom give him. I really don't want to dwell on this so I'll just mention something mostly unrelated to his characterization: I wholly can't share the take of him being physically built like??? At all??? Which got REALLY popular a few months ago. Dude feels like he never lifted a finger his whole life, I really don't know where the idea comes from???? And I personally don't take his manga visual portrayal as a telling factor for this; pretty much all the characters have the same body type, it's impossible for me to base the buff Dazai assumption on how he's drawn in the manga. Just one thing about his chracter though stop making him matchmaker for ss/kk he really isn't stop don't do it please
Song i associate with them: HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE associating him with my favourite vocaloid song ever but. Meltdown by iroha is a very Dazai song. So many other songs though... Parade of Liars by ryo. Abstract Nonsense by Neru. God-ish by Pinocchio-P. So on and so forth.
Favorite picture of them:
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meowzilla93 · 5 months
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The people need little known facts about Baxter! Just like random headcannons, like what's his favorite holiday and why, etc. etc. Basically please just tell me more about this silly little man :)
*cracks knuckles*
me? talk about my favourite love interest in OL:BA?
Thought you'd never ask :P
favourite holiday? we already know his favourite season is fall cause nostalgia, and I almost wanna think that eventually Thanksgiving is his holiday
you absolutely know why but if i must elaborate
he is just so damn thankful for being able to reconnect with people he truly cared for, and that those people didnt give up on him; if MC romanced him, all the more thankful he has someone he can trust and rely on for the rest of his life, and that he can provide that back
but it wasnt always and only after Step 4; he needs to reconnect first for this to eventuate
and you just know that he will love hosting and cooking; any excuse to learn new recipes and show off his skills
before step 4 though? i dont think he had one, and thats his parents fault
any sort of events like these he had to attend with his family and be the 'expected perfect son' which he loathed
i do believe this is canon (pls correct if wrong) but i truly do believe he did not have any friends at his private school, and actively hated going
rebel Baxter? he sure was in his own way
spare periods between classes; he wandered off grounds to a spot where he could avoid the pompous populace
talk back to teachers? you can guarantee that; just more in that incheek way where they couldnt really punish him for what he said
can see him being the type to screw around in class and just be a bit of a bother to the teachers and students, but he was an A+ student all the way
guarantee that when asked to answer questions in class, if he was in the right sort of mood, straight up makeup facts just for the lols
(his parents might have put a stop to that real quick though)
mans was a brat we know this, and it was making the OLNF friends that made him question his life and his upbringing more
this is a touch more sad, but i think early on, he didnt really understand his parents position on things like the LBGTQIA+ community and such until he saw people he cared about be treated poorly by them, or heard what they had to say behind closed doors
i think this truly broke him and is what started the rifts in his friendships as he didnt know how to approach this (he is a kid, we cant expect him to know)
but what he did know, he NEVER wanted to be like his parents, and this is when he started his plan on moving to Virginia for uni
ahem, lets get back to some light hearted sweet stuff
i recon he went full platinum white once - pure white hair (you cannot take this away from me) but the upkeep of that was more insane than just handling black
favourite flower! rose. come on. even Cove said it in Step 1: Fancy!
though if we must choose a second option, Lupine
it has that really pretty purple colour (his second favourite colour after black and white) and its symbolism is very much on par with what he truly wants from life
google that shit, and tell me im wrong
100% reads smut; Im talking like Victorian era smut (Johanna Linsday, Amanda Quick type stuff)
October is his favourite month - the world around him was covered in that beautiful auburn colour
He loves pumpkin spiced lattes (with oat milk of course)
PRESENTS! oh oh when its Christmas time, this is the hardest thing for him because he doesnt just wanna buy something random, it needs to have meaning
You wanted to go see a museum? here are some tickets
Missed this movie when it was screening? Here is the Extended Release with all the additions DVD
You have a favourite flower or plant that you can never really have cause it doesnt grow in the climate you live in? In a frame you received a pressed and dried version of it, so you can always have it with you
.....i need to stop otherwise ill just keep going
(pls dont stop asking me though, ill talk about Baxter till death and will make a million more posts)
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conclush · 2 years
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Busy Secrets
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pairing . ִ ་ ˖ ʿ ִֶָ ׄ Angelina jolie x Fem!Reader
summary . ִ ་ ˖ ʿ ִֶָ ׄ Angelina is longing for you meanwhile you were busy keeping secret.
warnings . ִ ་ ˖ ʿ ִֶָ ׄ fluff, slight smut?, mentions of pregnancy
an: maybe I should start writing more of Angelina Jolie?
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You were late.
God, you should've known this you looked at yourself at the mirror before sighing it's been 15 minutes since we'll you've taken a test, you were tensed to this.
3 weeks ago you and angelina were making out well you guys were making love but you didn't expect to be pregnant or this might be just a feeling.
You've started to encountered nauseous, morning sickness you first thought it was just a some illness but as days went on this started to get on and on.
You don't know if Angelina even suspect a thing nor she asked you, whenever you were on a family dinner you would have nauseousness right away.
You don't even have a clue what would Angelina react to this, I mean come on she already has 6 children's would she even want one?.
You know that angelina love kids but this is new for you. Finally after waiting and felt like years you finally look at the test.
And god your legs began to tremble, it's positive you let out a shaky breath looking at the other test all of the 3 of them is positive and yes this is the 4th test you've tried.
You thought it was broke or doesn't work so you've tried others test. They were all positive.
How should I tell her?
How would she even react?
Does she even want kids with me?
Many insane questions kept going through your mind, you can't stop asking about it how she'll react, what will she even say.
You heard a twice knock on the door which made you panicked you carefully pick up the tests and put them on the trash but you kept one on your pocket.
You heard your name being called you finally gathered your courage and you finally opened the door knob, your eyes catches a blue eyes and a blonde hair girl.
Shiloh wooh boy you at least expect somebody else.
„ mom said it's dinner, what were you doing in there?, you were taking so long that's why I became worried abit.” you can't help but smile at the young girls worried words.
„ Uhm just you know taking meds, I'll go there just give me a minute you don't have to worry hon I'm good now.” she gave you a smile before nodding and taking her leave on yours and angelina's bedroom.
You sighed deeply and you put your both hands to your head and shaking your head, Does she suspect a thing? Does she know?
You take out the test from your pocket and looking at it for a seconds, How should I tell her?
You made your way to your secret box, this box holds your childhood memories since you were 6 you already kept your little things in there, some of them are your diaries, pictures of you and Angelina some old family picture when your grandparents were still alive, you found a small plastic bag that would fit the test there so it wouldn't smell.
You hid the box to your nightstand, you know Angelina would never touched it since you both trust each other and love each other.
You made your path to the dining room where the kids where and your wife.
When her gaze catches yours she jolted to you and gave you a hug like she haven't seen you forever and she gave you a soft kiss on the cheek you returned the hug and gave her a sad smile.
„ Still haven't feeling any better love?” you knew she was worried.
Everytime before she would go off to work, for the passed 3 weeks you gotten used to waking up early because you would wake up vomiting and running up to the bathroom she would woken up from the sound of you vomiting from the bathroom,
She would be there rubbing your back and get you a water of glass and some wipes or tissue for you to wipe some mess around your mouth.
She tried talking to you about going to the doctor which you decline because you don't want to be confined, and just said this just might be a sickness.
You shook your head before spoke again.
„ no I'm kinda feeling better just taking some meds and I will be fine darling.” she just nodded and holds your hand before leading to your chair.
After eating you've decided it was time to clean up, the kids have just finished off eating you picked up the plates but you felt a hand on your wrist you looked up and see your wife shaking her head and narrowing her brows.
„ love give me that you just relax on the couch and watch with the kids I'll take care of this.” you giggled at her actions.
„ Angie it's fine I can take care of this, I'll wash the dishes remember the last time you tried to wash the dishes?” she playfully rolled her eyes.
„ At least let me help you.” you can't fought with her right now so you just let her handle the plates.
After washing some dishes, The kids decided to have a movie night so here you guys are sitting in the couch Angelina was on your arms clinging to your other side while the other side of your arms were Zahara she was distracted on the large tv watching their favorite film meanwhile Angelina was lost on her thoughts.
She kept kissing your cheek her hands rubbing your hands then kissing it, you catched her looking at you lovingly you just grin at her.
After the movie night you guys finally decide for bed time you put the kids to their own bedrooms then giving them a kiss on their forehead then making your way to your shared bedroom.
When you entered the large bedroom you didn't find your wife at the bed laying there waiting for you, you thought she might be in her office yeah she have her office in her own house, she's a congresswoman she's sometimes a busy person not a workaholic though.
You wanted to tell her so bad about it but your insecurities and anxieties are getting in your way.
You layed down to your bed closing your eyes for a moment letting your mind to ease at the silence you finally opened your eyes feeling comfortable for a little bit.
You heard your shared bedroom door knob getting opened you popped up your head only to find your one and only wife, Angie.
She had a long black nightdress while you are wearing a long white silk nightdress, when you both had eye contact you could see full of lust in her eyes.
Oh dear you thought to yourself, you gulp at this situation.
You didn't even notice she was right beside you, you let out gasp when she holds your waist she giggled at your actions.
You cheeks burns turning into pink blush she notice it before she started speaking she smiled at you.
„ you smell really nice.” you looked at her deadpan.
„ not in the mood angie let's sleep.” you layed again and rolled over your back facing her.
„ ugh but come on baby I've been longing for you.” her hand snaked at your waist and stopping at your center.
„ yeah well sorry to break it of to you but I'm not in the mood for sex.” you knew and she knew to herself that angelina wouldn't take a no for an answer especially when she wanted want she want.
She kissed your neck and gently rubbing your stomach, your eyes widened when she started to spoke again.
„ I know y/n, I saw the test you don't have to pretend.” that's when you rolled over to her gazing at her.
Your looking at her terrified field your eyes, she rubbed your cheeks you let out a sob.
She shushes you and layed beside you comforting you and making you relax so you can talk.
After you relaxed you were trying your best to avoid her eyes she's just holding your hands while you both are laying to the bed.
„ Are you mad...?” you let out a tear she brushes the tear away and made you look to her face you saw a smile on her face.
„ Why should I be mad? When I'm about to be a mother again?” she glance at you while you study her.
„ it's just that... you're gonna have a kid with me and you— we already have 6 kids.” you looked down at your hands fidgeting your fingers.
„ so? I want to have big family y/n.I want to live forever with you and have a family with you y/n.” she leaned into you and kissed yoh softly you put your arms around her neck and kissed her back.
You both kissed each other and pulling away for a moment you kept doing that again and again and again.
Your breath was heavier needing for air, you both chuckled to each other.
„ Let's have a appointment for a doctor, let's see if it's a girl or a boy.” you liked that idea and nodding at her.
You continue to lean in again and kissed again.
After that night you both had fallen asleep, you felt this is the best day ever, you can't help but dream about your baby that is growing on your stomach.
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an: this is so sweet.
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ad0rechuu · 8 months
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★ MILKY WAY. ━━ (000) ASK THEM ANYTHING part 2
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💌 ZERO SAYS. wow it’s over! it feels bittersweet and emotional! i can’t believe it to be honest, it doesn’t feel real yet but i am very grateful for everything and also for the questions! i deleted the asks bcs i’ll answer it here but i got nearly teary eyed reading trough them again! i wanna be sappy and continue talking but ill keep it to myself for now because i think i should say everything in the afterword <3 i love you and i hope you’ll enjoy the last (special) chapter of mw! you can find part 1 here
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❪ # i ❫ : What inspired your solo "Milky Way"? ━━ to yn
from @meginthebuilding27
YN : i was watching a drama when i wrote the music but the lyrics wouldn’t come to me, that was until i started writing with hwa, san and mingi, afterwards it was easy and i just wrote how they made me feel
❪ # ii ❫ : Did you ever think about the fact that she would find your fan accounts / So my question is would you all have ever told Yn about your fan accounts if sera never put two and two together? ━━ to psh, csn & smg
from @meginthebuilding27 & anon
SEONGHWA : I feel ashamed saying this but I don’t think I expected our relationship to ever progress to the point where telling her could be considered a possibility to be honest
SAN : I considered telling her when she found out about my crush but then I just couldn’t
MINGI : No it never even crossed my mind
❪ # iii ❫ : What did you feel when you finally released your first single? And how do you expect it to be perceived as from fans, what feelings should we get? ━━ to yn
from @jaehunnyy
YN : It was insane, I released it as a distraction for myself but instead it made me miss them more. As for the fans, it was a lot better perceived than I expected but I think everyone should make up their own meaning about it, it’s more fun that way. (However I wrote it with the intention of capturing the feeling of falling in love)
❪ # iv ❫ : What team are you guys on? Team Hwa, San, or Mingi? If possible please justify your answers ? ━━ to ateez (except psh, cs & smg)
from @seonghwaddict
HONGJOONG : Team Hwa! I hate to pick favorites but I was going to try to set Seonghwa up with Yn before I knew that she was his idol just because I think they would fit together like puzzle pieces
YUNHO : Team Mingi! Because he’d commit a war crime if I would say anything else
YEOSANG : Team Yuna! I like chaos and she can do so much better than these losers
WOOYOUNG : Team San! I trust Yn with san, San can’t be handled by just anyone you know, it takes a special kind of person
JONGHO : Team leave-Jongho-out-of-this.
❪ # v ❫ : I just wanna know their love languages! ━━ to yn, psh, csn & smg
from @tocupid
YN : I think my love language is words of affirmation! I like them all!
SEONGHWA : Definitely quality time, I think the ultimate type of love is the type where you can just be around your person doing whatever comfortably
SAN : Physical Touch!
MINGI : Korean!- Oh that type of language… hmm maybe gift giving, I’d love to spoil her
❪ # vi ❫ : What qualities of Yn made Seonghwa, San, and Mingi fall in love? (You don't have to go into major detail but I want to know about this from your perspective as the author) ━━ to psh, csn & smg (but answered by zero)
from @alixnsuperstxr
FOR SEONGHWA : I think Yns kindness and caring side made Seonghwa go from being a fan to being in love with Yn, the way she treats the people around her makes him want to take care of her in return. He tried really hard to separate the Yn he got to know as an idol and the Yn he got to know as a friend but he found that they were identical which made him want her even more
FOR SAN : For San it was Yns passion and love, this one is quite straightforward! San adored Yn the moment he saw her but what pushed him over the edge and made him fall in love was that she has so much love for everyone around her and craft
MINGI : Yns sense of identity and vulnerability, Mingi would always worry about the hate Yn received and get worked up about it (he still kinda does) but after seeing how she handles everything he was so impressed, the administration turned into love. She allows herself to feel hurt without changing herself because of what others think and he thinks she’s the coolest for it
❪ # vii ❫ : I know that in the group chat, each member has a different endgame and an idea of who Yn should pick, but why is that?? What makes them think they are suitable for Yn?? ━━ to ksg, fts, psj & syn
from @alixnsuperstxr
SEULGI : I chose Seonghwa because I know him the best out of the three, I’m not saying the others are not great but he’s just so sweet, I trust him to take care of my little sister well
FATOU : To be honest at first I chose Mingi just because he’s hot but then I noticed that she never has not a smile on her face when talking about him, which is sickeningly adorable
SWAN : *sigh* I’m guessing I can’t choose Park Taegyu huh? Just kidding! I choose whoever makes the Yn happiest
YUNA : Obviously I’m team YNNA first and foremost but I like how open san is about his feelings, something about him makes me think that Yn would always be his top priority
❪ # viii ❫ : How long has Sera had feelings for Yn?? ━━ to srw
from @alixnsuperstxr
SERA : I guess it started a while before I left, I’m not sure but I remember that it was very intense feeling that I haven’t felt since then
❪ # ix ❫ : if you could go back in time do you think you would change your mind about leaving (during trainee years)? If no, you would still leave, would you keep contact with yn this time? ━━ to srw
from @kodzumo
SERA : There is no point in crying over spilled milk but I do think the idol career was never meant for me, so yes I would leave but I’d keep contact with Yn and love her without being a coward… maybe in our next lives
❪ # x ❫ : What were you guy’s favorite songs off ‘Le Astre’? ━━ to psh, csn & smg
from @ kodzumo
SEONGHWA : I love the intro Body Language but I don’t think that counts so I choose Blue Flame
SAN : Loveade, no question!
MINGI : Other than the title track, I’d choose Deep!
❪ # xi ❫ : Has Lee Hyori answered any of your mail yet? ━━ to jwy
from @ kodzumo
WOOYOUNG : Sadly, no. However I’m now friends with Yn and Seulgi and Seulgi knows Boa who probably knows Lee Hyori so I’m staying hopeful!
seulgi’s note : Am I planning to give Wooyoung Boa’s number-?! Why in the world does he need her number?
❪ # xii ❫ : How is it seeing how far Yn has grown as a person from when you guys were younger? ━━ to khj
from @ kodzumo
HONGJOONG : It makes me super proud of her, I didn’t know she’d become an idol but I always knew she’d do great things- Don’t tell her I said that though
❪ # xiii ❫ : When are you free for a date (I’m literally spiderman pls)? ━━ to jyh
from @ kodzumo
YUNHO : I’m can plan something every day other than Monday’s, Thursday’s and Friday’s (because I work on those days), I love you so much Spiderman!
❪ # xiv ❫ : Have you shown yn your star wars lego collection yet (i also collect them hehe)? ━━ to psh
from @ kodzumo
SEONGHWA : We should be friends then! But I told her about it and she thought it was very cool, hopefully the next time I can show her them
❪ # xv ❫ : Not a question but I love you guys <3 ━━ to kys & cjh
from @ kodzumo
YEOSANG : You love m-me?
JONGHO : …Okay
author’s note : despite their answers both participants are blushing profusely
❪ # xvi ❫ : Also not a question but you guys are so cool I love you guys so much as well ━━ to star
from @ kodzumo
STAR : Thank you so much! We love you too of course!
yuna’s note : You love us more than them right??
swan’s note : Please feel free to ignore Yuna’s note
❪ # xvii ❫ : I just wanted to tell you how proud I am of you and I hope you have the best day, mwah <3 ━━ to yn
from @ kodzumo
seulgi’s note : Yn is currently crying about how much she appreciates this message but I’m here to say that she is having a great day and she’s proud of you too
fatou’s note : She’s going on a date soon!
❪ # xviii ❫ : Now that we know that sera likes Yn, how do you feel? Also how does it feel to be part of this whole thing where MinSanHwa like Yn, Yn liked you, you like sera, and sera likes Yn????? ━━ to ptg
from anon
TAEGYU : Sera likes Yn? Her liking someone other than me hurts less than I expected… to be honest I kinda started to lose feelings after Sera started getting distant around the time Yn confessed. Anyway I’m not surprised she likes Yn, after all my dongsaeng is great! And the whole Yns crushes situation stressed me out a little, so the only thing I really have to say is that I’m glad it worked out but I wish that Yn and me were both less oblivious haha! I also don’t think they like me very much
❪ # xix ❫ : Did you guys have any hope that Yn was going to forgive you the moment your accounts were revealed to her? ━━ to psh, csn & smg
from @ jaehunnyy
SEONGHWA : I didn’t think about hoping in the slightest, when she said that she needed time I thought it was just a nice way of saying “I don’t want to see ever again’
SAN : I definitely hoped that she did, because she’s a really sweet person and I couldn’t imagine that she wouldn’t but I didn’t think she’d ever consider a relationship like this again
MINGI : I don’t know if I would be able to forgive me but I always wanted keep hope so I was torn the entire time
❪ # xx ❫ : When did you guys know that Yn was the one for you? ━━ to psh, csn & smg
from @ jaehunnyy
SEONGHWA : I started feeling something when she was so genuine to everyone in one of our first conversations (ch 013)
SAN : Oh my god it was when I met her in real life for the first time, I think I liked her before but this was different! (ch 025)
MINGI : I’m not sure, at first I just liked spending time with her and talking to her but then all of a sudden I couldn’t imagine a world without her anymore (ch ???)
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ohbo-ohno · 8 months
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Maybe this is too dark, so please feel free to ignore it if it makes you uncomfortable in any way. I just wanted your personal spin on it.
What happens if reader finally reaches her breaking point? That last fic you wrote was insanely graphic (I loved it though) and I can’t imagine reader ever truly recovering or coming back from that. So in her grief and realization that she can’t leave no matter what she does; she tries to end it. Readers thought process being, ‘Ill never be human again, experience human things, even if I’m treated like the top of the world— I’ll still be under their boots’.
Again - if this is too dark please feel free to delete it! I love your content a lot and I’d hate to make you uncomfy!
This doesn’t make me uncomfortable but I’m not gonna touch on the suicide aspect just cause I genuinely don’t know how she’d come back from that!!
I didnt really mean to make the ending of that drabble so dark, I just got really lazy at the end and didn’t want to write all the aftercare 😭 the thing with this Simon and Johnny is that they do, technically, want to break you, but they want to build you back up too. They want to push you far enough that you let them in, let them see all your vulnerable little squishy parts, and then help you rebuild and become an even better version of yourself with them as your pillars
That drabble is meant to be a big step in that. Breaking you down to nothing, just an animal they don’t even bother to get off, so they can rebuild you as their girl, their woman, the love of their lives.
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j3st3r-13 · 1 year
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jimmy and michael parallels
so i was watching the reuniting the family mission and the conversation between jimmy and m is fucking insane because they completely parallels one another. 
these ate some quotes 
“im a fat shit that you ruined!” this is said by jimmy however it works in michaels perspective too, you could argue that his family “ruined“ the old Michael. they also both clearly have low self-esteem issues.
 “your just a lame and angry psycho sometimes,” jimmy says to Michael but jimmy could be considered an angry psycho. when gaming jimmy trolls and torments others on the game to such extreme lengths that someone actually kidnaps and tries to kill him over it. and it’s pretty well known that jimmy is lame and I think tracey calls him lame multiple times. im pretty sure that her main insult to him which is far too much of a coincidence.
“I get so mad and I can’t control things.” jimmy talking about himself but this quote alone sums up Mikey’s character perfectly. although jimmy talking about the helplessness he feels in his own life probably due to his unique upbringing and his clear low self-esteem, it is far too much of a coincidence that this quote can also be about Michael and how his anger and his inability to keep in control is what sets the game into motion. he pulls down madrazos house in a blind rage which means the vangelico job and Trevor coming back. and back in Yankton he couldnt control Trevor and brad, which leads to the actual game. this quote is followed by “shit just falls on top of me.” jimmy talking about how he’s struggling to navigate his parent’s rough marriage and finding his place in the world but in therapy, michael complains that it’s all getting on top of him and he’s lost on what to do.
“I wanna say I love you and hug it out but all that wimpy shit is just...... lame” the ellipsis is where jimmy goes on about his gay friends which ill will mention in a minute but anyway. Jim has probanly picked up struggling to open up from his parents, im willing to bet money on Amanda and michael haven’t said I love you and mean it since north Yankton, which is proven to hurt kids. Michael himself also struggles to tell his family how much they mean to him when i play I thought that Amanda thinks that Michael doesnt love them, he does but just cant express it all that well. also michaels family never like hug or anything, with franklin m gives him fistbumps which he doesnt with his family the most that they’re touching one another is the occasional bump into one another. 
“I would say gay but that’s not cool anymore.” jimmy talking about his gay friends rn but if you watch the actual cutscene look at Michaels face he looks angry and a little scared. looks like denial to me. as someone who was part of the LGBTQ community i can see the gay denial ive experienced it myself. and rockstars aren’t complete idiots they knew what we would think about M and T. they hint at it themselves and the fact that jimmy talks to him about being gay?? too much of a coincidence for me. it also speaks volumes about how repressed and in the closet Mikey is, he gets angry/ scared when his family talks about being gay. I wanna shake mike until it clicks that he’s fucking gay. 
“im so upset that we can’t even see each other,” jimmy says this to mike but we know for a fact that Michael is heartbroken when Amanda and the kids move out. paralleling each other again!!
“your just a drunk lame dad.” “you know what, that’s the nicest thing anyone ever said to me.” how often is jimmy insulted in the game, not only in missions but you overhear it all the time. so swap whos speaking to who and it still makes sense. jimmy is prolly so staved from regongition from his father, look how much jimmy copies him and his ideals/ thoughts. to me? seems like he’s trying to mirror him so mike starts treating him like a son (this one kinda got away from me tbh)
then jimmy ruins the mood and asks for a car. amazing. 
I love this game so much because all of it has much-hidden meaning and it’s so fun to analyze. im not saying I like jim, in fact, i hate him cause he is so annoying but,. It shows how much effect michael's behaviour and words affect the rest of the family. im so glad that they went to family therapy. sorry that this is so long but i just had to give my thoughts on this, we analyze amanda and michaels relationship but never anything with the kids. idk really but yeah
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drabbles-mc · 10 months
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Retelling the Story
Stede Bonnet x Edward Teach
Written for the 2023 Hurt/Comfort Exchange
Warnings: none really, hurt/comfort with big emphasis on the comfort
Word Count: 1.2k
A/N: The hurt/comfort exchange really got me out of my comfort zone in terms of writing for new characters and fandoms! I'd never written for Our Flag Means Death before but I had such a fun time writing this little story! Hope y'all enjoy!
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Stede didn’t remember falling asleep. The last thing that he remembered, aside from feeling insanely light-headed and dizzy on top of the exhaustion that had been plaguing him for days, was Ed’s voice. He didn’t remember what the man had been saying, but he remembered how he sounded.
He slowly started to force his eyes open bit by bit, allowing everything to gradually begin to come into focus. He was thankful that there was no harsh sunlight beaming directly into his eyes. It also wasn’t too dark, either. He wasn’t trading in one form of pitch black for another. It felt like just enough.
The lighting was the only thing that felt at all comfortable. His body was still riddled with aches, his brain pounding away inside his skull. He didn’t know how long he’d been asleep for, but it clearly hadn’t been enough to put any real dent in the exhaustion he’d been feeling. It was unfortunate, really.
Finally reaching the point where he could register things outside of himself, he could hear someone rustling around inside his room. He heard the sound of fabric shuffling, the dull, split-second sound of someone’s boots touching the floor. His eyes hadn’t focused enough yet to try and make out who it was, and that that point it could’ve been anyone in his crew.
Then he heard the humming, and he knew that it could only be one person.
“Ed?” he rasped out. His face instantly contorted when he heard the sound of his own voice, knowing that he didn’t sound at all like himself. There was nothing that he could do about it now, though.
The humming paused for a moment. Stede blinked his eyes a few times, hard and slow with the sole intention to bring the rest of the world out of the fuzzy aura it was existing in for him. Once he could see everything again, the first thing he saw was Ed perched in the chair that he’d pulled up alongside Stede’s bed.
Ed was leaning back in the chair, dressed in clothes that Stede knew for a fact the man had stolen from his closet. He didn’t mind, of course. It brought a bit of a smile to his face in spite of how tired he was feeling. Ed had one leg propped against the other, the ankle of one leg draped against the knee of the other. He had a book in his lap, perched open in the space his bent leg created.
Despite the open book in his lap, Ed’s eyes were focused solely on Stede. One hand kept the book pages from turning themselves, the other was toying with the ends of his beard. Anything to keep his hands busy and fighting the urge to toy with Stede’s hair, stroke the side of his face. It’d been awfully tempting while Stede was still asleep, when he knew that the man wouldn’t mind it too much. Just a fleeting caress, something that could prove to be comforting for the both of them.
Stede tried to clear his throat as best he could as he repeated the singular word he’d said before, “Ed?”
It was only then that Ed realized how long he’d been sitting there just silently staring at the man in front of him. He looked nearly as dazed as Stede did only he didn’t have the cover of illness. He sniffed, nose twitching as he tried to gather himself and his thoughts.
“Thought we might’ve lost you there for a minute,” he finally replied, trying to sound nonchalant and not even fooling himself.
“Ah,” Stede made a lame attempt to wave his hand dismissively, “you know it’s not going to be nearly that easy to get rid of me. It’s going to,” he coughed, “going to take a bit more than…whatever this is.”
Ed’s lips started to twitch into a smile, noticeable even with his thick beard and mustache. “I can see that.”
Stede tried to prop himself upright, at least somewhat. He would’ve settled for being able to rest his weight on his elbows, lifting his torso just a bit off the bed. It was futile, though, each attempt just resulting in him collapsing back against the mattress and pillows beneath him.
Resigning himself to his completely horizontal position, he turned his head to look over at Ed. “How long have you been sitting there?”
He shrugged. “Since I heard you asking for me.”
Stede coughed in shock. He wasn’t sure what was more surprising to him, the fact that he had apparently been asking for Ed, or the fact that Ed had not only showed up, but that he’d stayed. Stede tried to clear his throat again, not that it did him any good.
“When…when was…could you tell me when I started doing that, per chance?” Stede asked, feeling more embarrassed than he would ever admit to.
Ed shrugged, drumming his fingers against the page he had opened the book to. “Two days ago, maybe? Yea,” he nodded, “two days. That sounds about right.”
“Two days?!” Stede exclaimed, instantly sending himself into a coughing fit. “You’ve been sitting there for two days?”
Ed tilted his head slightly. “You asked for me. Least I could do was be here when you woke up.”
“I can’t believe you’ve been sitting there for two days.”
“Wasn’t just sitting here, was I?” He gestured around the room. “I poked around, rearranged some of your trinkets.” He pointed to the windows, the ones that currently had the curtains drawn. “Bird-watched.”
Stede nodded towards the book in the man’s lap. “Made use of my library, did you?”
He shook his head. “Grabbed this for when you finally came about. Was starting to doubt I’d get the chance to open it.”
Stede hummed quietly in amusement. “Lucky you then, I suppose.”
“Lucky me?” Ed said, shock apparent in his voice. He shook his head. “No, no. Lucky you. Because you get to listen to my retelling of one of your favorite stories.”
Surprise crossed Stede’s tired face before he could even think to try and subdue it. “Really? You’re going to read that to me?”
“You surprised that I want to? Or that I can?” there was the slightest twinge of hurt lingering at the back of his words.
Even in his sick and tired daze, Stede picked up on it. He tried to recover. “Didn’t think that the classics were quite your thing, is all.”
Ed let slip a small smirk. “That’s why it’s a retelling, mate.”
Stede chuckled softly, the first time he was able to do anything of the sort without descending into a fit of coughs. Rolling onto his side so it was easier to look at Ed, he readjusted his blanket so that it was tucked up right underneath his chin.
“Retell it, then,” he said with a smile. Suddenly the tiredness wasn’t so bad, the heavy limbs keeping him bed-bound not seeming like such a bad thing in the moment. At least now he got to lay here and stare at the man sitting in front of him, listen to whatever a dramatic retelling by Edward Teach really had in store.
Ed could feel Stede watching him, and could also feel the warmth spreading across his own face. He tried not to let it show, instead dramatically licking the tips of his fingers before turning the page and smoothing it out.
“Now,” he said dramatically, “as I was trying to say…”
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Ask game!! For Sam and Dean both:
What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you like?
What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?
OMG HELLO TUMBLR USER SPNTRUNK???? WHAT AN HONOR
I will ramble about my samdean thoughts ANY TIME so thank you for indulging me lol
1a. for sam, I loooove when the fandom acknowledges and magnifies his obsession with dean. he's slightly quieter about it (he doesn't go around yelling YOU TOUCH MY BROTHER AND ILL KILL YOU the way dean does) but that doesn't make him any less codependent or any less freakish!!!!!! he is JUST as insane about dean as dean is about him, and I LOVE to see that explored
1b. for dean, I love fandom discussions of his experiences with romance and sex and what they mean to him. I feel like the show mostly goes "dean sleeps around lol" and leaves it at that, but sometimes you get a glimpse of something else (cassie, lisa), and I always found those parts to be extremely intriguing. because dean can be such a hopeless romantic!!! he just doesn't let himself have good things, he holds them at arms length so that when he inevitably loses them it might not hurt so much. it's so heartbreaking and I could write academic essays about it probably. (as a sidenote, this aspect of his character is part of why I love samdean so much. he and sam have their moments, they've been separated by thousands of miles and death itself and it hurts dean terribly, but they always find their way back to each other. sam is the one person who dean has never really lost, not forever. and now that they're in their shared(!!!!) heaven, he never will.)
2a. I am going to have to try so so so so so hard not to write an essay about this one. the way the wider fandom treats sam makes my blood BOIL. tossing him to the side, pretending he doesn't exist, saying dean would be better off without him, etc. I hate all of it. I hate the way he gets sidelined in his own story, and the worst part is that THE SHOW ITSELF DOES IT TOO. SO I CANT EVEN BLAME THE STUPID FANDOM ENTIRELY. but if I had to pick one thing that I hate the most about the fandom's treatment of sam...I think I would be unoriginal and choose the purgatory debacle. there are just so many reasons why he shouldn't be blamed so harshly for the way he handled that time period. like. 1. he had JUST gotten hallucifer out of his head. he was having psychotic episodes so bad he nearly DIED, he barely even knew what was real and what was a hallucination. 2. he was ALONE. bobby was dead, dean and cas were, by all accounts, dead. his whole family was GONE. I can't even imagine the grief he must have endured in that time. I wouldn't be surprised if he had been suicidal, or if he'd had another psychotic break. and 3. WHERE WAS HE SUPPOSED TO GO LOOKING? he had no reason to think that dean SURVIVED the dick-splosion, and even if he was certain he had, sam KNOWS how dangerous it is to open the door to purgatory. and he couldn't exactly ask cas about it, could he? what was he supposed to do, summon crowley? yeah I'm sure that would've gone great. plus, 4. he and dean AGREED not to look for each other. sure, they make and break those kinds of promises often, but come the fuck on. how is it fair to ask sam, hopeless and alone and barely even functional enough to stand on his own two feet, to defy the promise he and dean made in order to bring him back from the dead and probably let something else nasty out along with him? that hardly seems reasonable to me.
um. I got heated about that one. anyway everyone lay off sam about purgatory okay. including dean. I get why he was upset but man cmon.
2b. this one's going to be shorter because I'm pissed about purgatory now lol but I hate when people make dean out to be some kind of. horrific wifebeater (and sam his battered, trapped woman). like. yeah. he's got anger issues and violent tendencies. yes, he often fails to break the cycle of abuse. yes, he lashes out at sam, and that's bad. but like. sam doesnt need protection from dean??? sam doesnt need liberation from dean???? dean isn't some horrible monster who belittles his brother for shits and giggles. he's a man who's seen way too much, lost way too much. it hurts to look at the ways he's changed, but he's doing the best he fucking can. also, pet peeve!! I HATE HATE HATE when people point to the behavior he exhibited while he had the mark of cain and go "see!! see!!! it was inside him all along!!!! he's a terrible person!!!!" LIKE. UM. HES LITERALLY BEEN SADDLED WITH AN ANCIENT CURSE. I DONT THINK ITS FAIR TO PROJECT ITS EFFECTS ONTO HIS CHARACTER, ACTUALLY. it annoys me soooooo bad. like did they miss the parts where he tried everything he could to keep his urges under control? did they miss the horrified look he'd have on his face after he went on a killing spree he couldn't stop? it's willful ignorance, and I hate that shit!!! I hate it!!!!!
genuinely though. and maybe this is silly to say after all that rambling. I don't want to be negative here. I love my (our!!) little corner of this fandom and I genuinely unironically love this show with every fiber of my being. it's my favorite piece of media ever and maybe that's partly just recency bias but like. I had sworn off live action TV for weird personal reasons (if you go looking, I have a personal post saying I refused to reblog spn posts because I didn't want gifs of real people on my blog. lmao) and yet here I am. I love this show. I love the wincest fandom. I love my mutuals. and as soon as I finish the finale I'm probably just going to start the whole damn thing over again.
oh also SPNTRUNK I LOVE YOUR ART !!! WTF!!!! HI???? IM STILL KIND OF IN AWE LOL
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THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS ON ABOUT!!! Should I say fuck you for breaking my heart or thank you for the fic I will never know. On that note, you can’t just leave it like that! I need, WE all need a continuation of this!
(Thank you I literally thought about it all day to figure out how to write it so I'm glad you like it!)
She has mild withdrawal symptoms.
Aches and headaches. Fatigue. Her appetite comes back a little.
The hardest part, really, is fending off Midge's family and friends. Joel is a fucking nightmare, demanding information when Lenny told him he'd have to hang onto the kids a little longer because Midge is sick.
"Sick? Midge never gets sick. And what the fuck are you doing there? Didn't you run the fuck away?"
Lenny squeezes his eyes shut. "Hold onto the kids. Midge will be in touch." he hangs up after that, thankful to be done with the man, at least for the moment.
Susie is equally difficult. She comes over, demanding face time, and Lenny leaves them to it, making a sandwich for Susie and some toast for Midge.
When he taps on the bedroom door, he gets Susie's usual charming greeting.
"Fuck off, Lenny!"
"Stop that," Midge scolds. "It's okay, Lenny."
He steps in, holding up the plates. "Just some lunch."
"I don't like that he's here," Susie says to Midge as she takes the sandwich. "He's just going to leave again, and you'll be right back where you were."
Lenny takes a breath as Midge takes the toast. He knows she's been thinking about that; that once she's back on her feet, he'll disappear again, and she isn't entirely wrong. He still can't really work here in New York, and Kitty's still out in LA with his mother.
But now that he's back here, all he can think about is being with Midge. Not just to make sure she's okay, but to be with her; be happy with her.
He's missed her.
"It's okay, Susie," Midge says softly. "Really, it's enough that Lenny is here at all to help."
It's not enough.
He knows it's not enough. It'll never be enough.
*****
Midge naps in the afternoon, and he lays down with her, watching her as she dozes.
"You're staring," she mutters with her eyes still closed.
Lenny chuckles softly. "I might be. What of it?"
"Just saying."
"You're hard not to stare at," he tells her. "And I miss staring at you."
"Even when I'm disgusting and exhausted from using insane pills?"
"Even then," he tells her.
Her eyes open and she gazes at him softly. "When do you have to go back to LA?"
"Whenever," he shrugs. "I can write anywhere. I'm not performing much...and Ma's got Kitty."
Midge nods, averting her eyes.
"I don't want to leave," Lenny tells her. "I missed you too much, Midge. It was really fucking stupid to hide from you like that."
She says nothing, rolling over, away from him.
"Midge..."
"You're only saying that because you feel bad for me," she says quietly. "You didn't want my pity, I don't want yours, Lenny."
"This isn't pity," he says, sitting up. "This is honesty. I'm better when I'm with you. Happier. More stable. Less of a fuck-up. And as an added bonus, you're happier when we're together, too."
Again, he doesn't get a response.
"Please, Midge," he says softly. "I know I fucked up. I know leaving you was a terrible thing to do, and you've had so much shit happen to you over the last few years that you couldn't fucking take it anymore, and I know I am undeserving of a second chance-"
She sits up quickly, wide-eyed. "I never said that."
"You didn't have to, I know what I am," Lenny shakes his head. "But fuck do I want one."
She stares at him for a long, silent moment before speaking slowly. "If you don't mean that, I need you to leave."
He gazes into her eyes, tired and teary. Her face is pale and she still looks a little ill. It'll take a couple more days for her to really start feeling better, he knows.
"I mean it," he confesses. "I do. I don't want to leave again. I'm never going to get over you, Midge. Never. And I'm selfish enough to risk ruining your life if it means being in it."
Midge watches him carefully, before slowly wrapping her arms around him, holding him tightly. "Then that second chance is yours," she says against his shoulder.
Lenny holds her tightly, laying back down with her in his arms.
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neonsbian · 4 months
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hi vinnie <3 since you’re like my resident writing oomf i gotta ask: do you have any tips on motivating & inspiring yourself to write and get through a writer’s block? seeing you post about your writing is so inspiring but i’ve been struggling for months now rip </3
hmmm tbh i dont rlly have a good answer for you other than teach yourself self-discipline. ive been writing for almost a decade (crazy to think abt lol) and in that time ive basically had to teach myself to commit to writing.
writing is just like any other artform, it's a skill that you build gradually by practicing consistently. the best way to do this is to come up with a goal in your mind and actually work towards this. i don't mean like, deciding you want to write a novel and just writing right away (though that does work for some people) but building steps to slowly achieve that goal.
let's say you want to write a novel. great! the first thing i would do is find time in my schedule to write. a lot of people assume that means sitting down for hours at a time and just typing away but finding time to do that in todays society isnt easy and personally, it's more effective for me to find gaps and short moments to just write for a bit. for me, the most writing gets done when im constrained for time. and you don't have to do it all at once! you can write a little bit at different points of the day too.
i also plan what im going to write before i write it. this doesn't mean i outline necessarily (i don't do that until the second draft) but before writing a scene, ill have a vague idea of what i want to happen in that scene. sometimes it changes as im writing but i never go into writing without a vague idea of what's going to happen.
i think setting a daily goal for yourself is really important. i know writing everyday seems kinda daunting, especially if you didnt do that before but like i said, writing is a skill you build gradually by practicing consistently and you have to be consistent. your daily goal can be a certain page count, word count, or chapter count. whatever works for you. i personally don't rlly like using quantifiable units as my daily goal bc that makes me like check the word count obsessively and prefer to use story markers as my goal instead. basically, i decide before writing i want to reach a certain point in the story by the end of the day. sometimes im in over my head and have to adjust, but it's more useful to think abt it that way for me.
also, if you're just starting out, i would make my daily goal relatively simple and easy to achieve. if word count is how you're counting it, then i'd set it to like 500 words. you might feel frustrated with how slow your progress is but it's more effective to slowly build a story than to write a huge chunk in a short amount of time and then never touch it again. and even if the progress is slow, at least progress is happening!
i know a lot of people have said this but you're also gonna have to allow yourself to write badly. i feel like this something that's difficult to implement into your mindset but it's essential to teach yourself this or else you'll never get anything done. shitty writing doesn't mean you're a shitty writer, it just means that your writing needs more work and the only way to achieve that is by working on it consistently.
i also personally think it's helpful to read the writing processes of other writers and try doing them yourself. lauren groff, for example, writes her entire second draft from memory which sounded absolutely insane to me but i tried it for one of my short stories. that method didn't really work for me but from her method helped me improve my own system. basically for scenes that were in the first draft but were going to be changed pretty drastically, i don't open my first draft at all and just write the scene. every writer's process is different and what works for one writer isn't always going to work for you, but it's still worth a shot to try it and one way or another, it'll help you understand yourself as a writer better.
to me, writing is self-discipline as much as it's art and building a system that works for you is going to take some time but it's necessary to achieve what you're hoping to achieve.
this ended up being longer than i expected but tldr: set a goal, do it everyday 👍
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