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farfaras · 1 year

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Part 1.

Maybe if Steve acts casual Robin won’t even notice. She barely pays attention to him when she’s too busy rambling about her love life. Or lack there of. If Steve’s lucky, today is gonna be one of those days.

But Steve’s good luck probably ended the first time he took a look at a demogorgon.

“What is that?” Robin giggled. If she finds this amusing wait until she hears what actually happened.

“What?”

“Don’t play dumb. That only worked when I thought you were an actual idiot.” She rolled her eyes.

“Yeah well, I was hoping you wouldn’t notice.” Steve put on his family video vest and clocked in.

“What? I notice things!” Robin exclaimed when Steve made his way to the counter.

“Yeah, when you’re not too busy daydreaming about Vickie.”

“You’re changing the subject!”

“Objection!”

“Stop it!”

Steve sighed. How could you explain your friend sucked your neck to make your another friend jealous when you don’t even like said friend? Tricky.

Ugh. Robin was gonna make fun of him.

“You wouldn’t believe me.” Steve tried. It was a last resort to save himself from the embarrassment.

“Yeah, because I’ve never experienced anything out of the ordinary.” She raised an eyebrow. Steve knew she wouldn’t let it go. “When did you even go on a date, dingus? I don’t remember you telling me about it.”

“I didn’t go on a date.”

“Well then who did that?” She narrowed her eyes. “Ew! Are you in a friends with benefits situation?” She look scandalized and curious at the same time. “Because honestly Steve, I don’t think that’s your thing. I mean even if you try, it wouldn’t work out. You’re like an actual romantic. Wanting a serious relationship, yearning connection and all that shit. It would be cute if you weren’t kinda desperate sometimes.” Okay he had to cut her off if he wanted to keep his ego unbruised.

“Jesus! Okay! You don’t have to say it like I’m some loser who can’t get a girlfriend!” If he needed humbling he knew who to call now though.

“But you kind of are.”

“Do you want to know or not?” Even if he was embarrassed about the whole thing, he couldn’t lie and say he wasn’t hoping Robin would give him some insight. Once she stopped making fun of him. “It was Eddie.”

Her eyes widened in surprise and… excitement? “Holy shit! It finally happened?” What is she talking about now? “I thought I would actually have to wait another year at least for you guys to figure it out.” There’s nothing that makes Steve feel more inadequate than when he doesn’t get what people are talking about. “I mean anyone who’s got eyes could see how much you two liked each other and it’s cute but I was getting tired of the pining..” she trailed off when she saw how silent Steve was. “Why aren’t you as excited as me?”

Pining? Like each other? Did Robin think..? Did Eddie?

“What the fuck are you talking about?” He questioned. His mind was going through every interaction him and Eddie once had. Trying to analyze his own behavior to come up with an explanation as to why someone would think he likes Eddie.

“Oh god. I thought. Did you guys not like… get together?” She was hesitant. It felt like she was trying not to scare a wild animal.

“No.”

“I gotta stop running my mouth like that. I’m sorry.” She looked mortified and it would be funny if this was another situation. “But what? Why would he do that? I’m so lost here, Steve.”

Steve went through backstory first, then he started retelling the events of the other day. Including how he actually enjoyed himself a little. He might as well be a hundred percent transparent, she was his best friend after all.

“Robin, say something.” His best friend being silent was not something he was used to.

“I’m so confused.” She said.

“Me too.” His confusion was starting to fade. The answer right in front of his face.

“So you’re… not together? Even after that?”

“I don’t even like him like that!”

“But you said you liked it!”

“Who wouldn’t!”

“I wouldn’t! Steve, a boy giving me hickeys is one of my worst nightmares.” He knew that. He knew it meant something that he liked it. The question is if he’s ready to face what it means.

“I- I know, okay?”

“Steve, say the word and we’ll stop talking about this.” He loves his best friend. He doesn’t know what he’d do without her.

“No. I think I’m ready.” Steve muttered. Robin smiled gently at him and that was all the encouragement he needed to feel safe enough to say it out loud.

“I like him.”

They hugged.

“It kinda sucks that he doesn’t like me back though.”

Robin thunked her head on the counter.

#kinda rushed #don’t know if this is going anywhere #steddie #steveddie #steve x eddie #eddie x steve #steve harrington x eddie munson #steve harrington #eddie munson #robin buckley #stranger things #stranger things 4 #ficlet #mer writes sometimes #platonic stobin #i want what they have #steve and robin #eddie pov next ?? perhaps ?

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alexsoenomel · 8 months

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Dear Asshole, (Dean Winchester x Reader Drabble)

NOTE: I wrote a letter for my ex best friend for therapeutic perpouses. I used to like this person, a lot , and they broke my heart with their shitty behaviour. I never actually send that letter so I decided to turn it into a drabble aka a letter for Dean if he ever decides to break Reader's heart (we all know he can be an asshole at times). Ironically enough this person reminds me of Dean. Enjoy!

Dear Dean,

I was never good with spoken words so I decided to put my heart on a piece of paper. We met at the worst possible time, hell, we met in the worst possible universe. You said you loved my Led Zeppelin shirt and I got nervous. The whiskey wasn’t enough to make me not be. Your presence was captivating. You would still remind me of that day when we met in that shitty pub in Dallas and I would still laugh. Soon we became friends and your brother started wondering if there was something more between us because in his words we are too obvious. I have to admit, at first, I liked the idea of us being together, but I kept telling myself no and pushing those thoughts away because I was convincing myself that it would ruin our friendship. Truth be told I was scared shitless. Between living and working together and both of us having our fair share of issues, I was scared.

Nonetheless you showed me what true friendship looks like. I loved hearing your stories, silly jokes and I loved talking about music with you…I loved spending time with you. My fondest memory will always be us jaming to Nickelback after we killed that nest of vampires back in San Francisco. Do you remember? Sam hated us for waking him up. The laughs we shared I will cherish forever. There aren’t enough words in the English language to express how much those memories mean to me. Those are sacred and will remain sacred for the rest of my life.

I’ll never forget when you didn’t want to leave my room until I laughed at one of your silly jokes when I was sad and couldn’t sleep – reasons unknown (the next day I got my period).

Once I laughed, you let me sleep. I still think about that night. Your lame puns are too funny to forget.

The question “What if…?” started lingering soon enough in my mind and sadness started visiting me almost every night. I started analyzing every moment we shared and it was driving me mad right until you decided to be an asshole.

Do you remember when I told you, drunk on tequila, that I would sleep with you if I wasn’t literally working and living with you and your brother? That wasn’t a lie. My sober thoughts turned into slurred words of desperation and nothing but the truth. It wasn't your body I wanted – my soul was craving yours. I was secretly lonely (and horny) and you kept me company. I wanted you all for myself. Every part of you. I dedicated so many songs to you, imagined what it would feel to kiss you, touch you. What it would be like to get out of this life and not worry about dying every day for a change. I imagined so many things and yet here we are. We became strangers again. My heart breaks as I write this, knowing damn well we're just two lost souls that met at the wrong time; wrong fuckin’ universe. Your absence is painful. Your silence stings. Say what you want, lie to my face if you want but I know you felt it too. You cannot hide a connection like that, you just can't. Something like that you cannot subside; it's too human, too real. Even your brother agrees.

Don't ponder too much over me falling for you, because it's simple. That's my baggage to carry and I can carry it by myself just fine. You can help if you want but it’s not necessary.

My point with this is: if we are meant to be in each other's lives – we will be. But, if not; I hope I meet you in another life. Hell, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to that.

Sincerely,

The girl you call sweetheart every once in a while and secretly make her blush.

#supernatural #supernatural fanfiction #spn #supernatural fic #spn drabble #spn fanfic #dean winchester #dean winchester x you #dean winchester x reader drabble #dean x reader #dean x Reader Drabble #dean Winchester x reader

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wutheringmights · 4 months

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I have to provide some context for this one.

Once a year, some friends and I get together to put on a big powerpoint night. We go hard for these. I usually do a big presentation where I analyze a piece of media. I put a lot of effort into doing the research for these. I once did one on eugenics rhetoric/ideology in My Hero Academia, for context.

This year, I want to do a presentation that tackles the antisemitism and fascist ideology in Attack On Titan. Naturally, this required research. A couple of weeks ago, I was reading an article on Polygon when I read that Attack On Titan has a YA novel spin-off. Not a light novel translated into English. A YA romance novel written by an American author published in English for American audiences.

Huh, I thought. You guys can probably tell by some of my reading choices that I deeply enjoy putting myself through some god-awful books (primarily YA). And one that's a tie-in to an anime I love being a hater for? Sign me up.

I bought myself a used copy and read it the moment it came in the mail.

That's all the context you need. Now that I've covered my ass, let's talk about what I actually think about Garrison Girl by Rachel Aaron.

It's not the worst thing I've ever read. The prose is overall decent, and I can appreciate that the main character has a pretty clear character arc. The best contribution Aaron made to the Attack On Titan series as a whole is a section towards the beginning where she takes about 2-3 pages to just describe how grotesquely horrifying the Titans are. I always thought the Titans were more funny-looking than anything, so this was a much needed improvement.

Everything else... ugh. Where do I start?

First off, the romance with male lead Jax drove me nuts. On paper, it's probably okay. Aaron put in a lot of effort to make sure they started off hating each other before slowly falling in love. Unfortunately, I really don't like Jax as a character. He annoys the hell out of me, and there was one too many times where he forced the main character, Rosalie, to apologize for something she did not need to apologize for.

The plot is largely episodic, theoretically tied together by Rosalie's character arc. By itself, it just feels like a slightly boring set-up for a larger series. It's fine. Some of the antagonistic characters were too cartoonishly evil for my taste, but it at least works. Having a plot that works is a surprisingly tall order, so I will give Aaron credit for that.

But in context of being a story that ties into Attack On Titan...

Attack On Titan is very good at being self-important. It is a very stupid story with some glaring writing flaws that can hide its issues under the veneer of depth and complexity. As long as you do not think about Attack On Titan too hard, it is a fine watch. Then it started including things that you HAVE to think about like eugenics and persecution, and it becomes glaringly obvious that the author has no real idea how any of this stuff works and only cares about the aesthetics of war.

None of that is in Aaron's book. On one hand, THANK GOD. On the other, this doesn't feel like it fits in with anything in the anime. Where are the gruesome, meaningless deaths? Where are the characters waxing poetry over their moral choices? Where are characters doing batshit things that can only be described as "cool as balls"? Aaron tries to squeeze some of this towards the end, but that still means reading 200 pages of lighthearted military exploits.

This just feels ill-conceived.

I have never read anything else by Aaron, but from a quick perusing of her Good Reads account, I don't think I would have picked her to write this. In her Reddit AMA, she says she took the project because she's a big fan of the show. Good for her, but I don't think she did a good job at making something that fits with the show.

But any Attack On Titan tie-in shouldn't be written for teens. An older target demographic would have opened the doors for a lot more of the anime's signature flairs.

I just think the very existence of this book is fascinating. Every time I check out the YA section at B&N, I always see more novels that are part of bigger non-book franchises: Disney princesses, Avatar the Last Airbender, Marvel comics. Whoever decided in ~2016 that American publishing should try to go anime was ahead of their time.

Yet, it seems like this book didn't do well enough to generate a trend. I haven't seen any other anime novels. But anime is more popular and more mainstream than it has ever been. Surely, another attempt will come.

Yet, Attack On Titan is a last of its kind. While anime is hugely popular, none of the big series now are the same ubiquity that early Attack On Titan did. Do you remember 2013 when the show first came out? Everyone was watching it, even non-anime fans. Many of the articles I read credit it as jumpstarting Crunchyroll. They also say that it's the perhaps the last property that every weeb could be expected to have working knowledge of, much like everyone's latent knowledge of Shonen Jump's old Big Three. There is so much variety and options at this point that weebs aren't watching all the same shows anymore. It's the last titan of an old age of anime fandom.

I don't know if anyone will ever attempt a novel tie-in again. Should it happen, then this is a strange, ill-conceived product ahead of its time. Should it not, then this is the most unique and strange attempt to profit off of a mainstream anime.

I hope Alex Aster writes a novel for Naruto. That's the good ending.

#i swear i am reading the broken earth triology #i just go super sidetracked by this weird ass book #that i surprisingly had a lot of thoughts on #me rambling #me reading #garrison girl #garrison girl by rachel aaron #rachel aaron #attack on titan

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martianbugsbunny · 10 months

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Locked In This Embrace (An Espionage Husbands Fic)

*Shapeshifts from being a filing cabinet* So funny story, this started out as like, a good old fashioned scene rewrite fic where I just thieved the dialogue from the show itself and added some inner monologue and of course my own twist at the end bc otherwise what's the point? and OF COURSE the scene I picked was the forehead touch scene between Nick and Talos, I'm obsessed with it. It was supposed to be basically just that scene plus a romantic end, real short and sweet.

It kind of got away from me and consumed several hours of my life. I analyzed the scene itself so a lot of the gestures Talos makes in the fic are actually what he was doing onscreen. His inner monologue is matched to the canon gestures/facial expressions and I swear on the ship it works so well he could actually be thinking that stuff in canon. At this point half or less of the fic is the actual scene rewrite, that's how much of my own material I added.

...and yes, the title is derived from a post I made earlier about this exact scene. It's maybe not the best title but that's my weak spot so that's how it is.

Here's my offering to the blorbo gods and the Espionage Husbands fandom, read on and enjoy!

“I am so sorry,” Fury said.

“Me too,” Talos replied, his voice low. He savored the feeling of Furys forehead pressed against his, sharing space, breathing the same air; he had lost one love, but the other lived, and the fact that Fury cared enough to meet him with a Skrull embrace rather than a Human one returned a bit of the warmth to his heart that he had lost when Soren died. “Soren loved you,” he said. It felt right to remind Fury of that—Fury, who had cared for her almost as much as Talos had.

“But she worried, mate,” he went on (he was never quite sure if he was using that word in the Human context of "friend" or in the Skrull one of "partner"), “That it would take something like this to bring you back to Earth.”

Fury pulled away to look Talos in the eyes. “I guess she was right,” Talos finished.

For a moment, Fury said nothing. Talos wondered if he knew that the word ‘Earth’ was never the one that he or Soren had used when worrying over Fury’s absence from their lives. Talos remembered her saying, only a few days before she died, “I’m afraid of what it will take to bring him back to us.”

But Fury didn’t know that.

He cupped his hands around Talos’s face for a brief moment; far too little time, yet so precious, and then let go and sighed heavily. “Tell me about Gravik,” he said, and Talos tried not to let it show in his face how horribly heartbroken he was that Fury could move on from such a personal moment so quickly. Fury was back for Earth, not for…well, now it was just him. Even if he did feel for Talos the way Talos did for him, which Talos had never been able to decipher or been bold enough to ask, there were more important things to do than trying to determine where the two of them stood.

And still…Talos was never one to let things go. “Let’s just talk about you first,” he suggested. “We’ve been helping you for all these years, to ensure that you kept your promise. But after the Blip…you were different.” Life during those five years had been a nightmare for Talos, even though he had survived. It was terribly complicated, being grateful that his wife and daughter had been spared, and yet grieving the loss of Nick like the loss of his soul. If he hadn’t had Soren to lean on, Talos hated to think of how completely the darkness would have enveloped him.

“You disappeared.” That was the final pang. After all the agony of the Blip, Fury had been returned to life and Talos had, for a moment, hoped he could finally ask, once and for all, where their relationship truly stood. And then—he was gone. Settled in space, almost as lost to Talos as he had been when he was dead.

“Carol Danvers disappeared,” Talos said. She, like Fury, was supposed to be helping the Skrulls find a home. He was less angry at her, though, because she wasn’t Fury. She didn’t occupy that same space in his heart. “And—so did G’iah.”

Fury turned to him. “Your daughter disappeared? To where?”

“She was young. Angry that our people still don’t have a home.” G’iah was the one person he loved more than Fury, and Talos didn’t hesitate to defend her to him, even though he was utterly disappointed in her decisions. But like he said, G’iah wasn’t evil. A lot of rebel Skrulls weren’t. Just angry.

“Many of them were upset. I got kicked off the Council, pushed into exile, but Gravik—Gravik, mate, he took your abandonment—” Talos couldn’t quite look Fury in the eyes where he said that word—“that much harder.”

When they went back downstairs so Maria Hill could brief Fury on the rebel Skrulls, Talos tried not to read too much into it that Fury sat next to her, on the complete opposite end of the table from himself. She was, after all, the closest friend Fury had.

He also hated that, as the only Skrull at the table, it was his job to break the news to Fury just how precarious the Gravik situation was. “We brought you here for a reason,” he said. A far heftier one than my broken heart, he reminded himself, realizing that it was probably about to get a lot more cracked. “If he succeeds…your species will cease to exist.”

Fury stood up abruptly, pushing his chair back from the table. “Shit,” he muttered. “I’m going for a walk.”

“You’re going for a walk—in Moscow, at night?—You’re gonna stand out.” Even if he couldn’t meet Fury’s gaze, Talos couldn’t resist the urge to warn him off from getting hurt.

And then just like that he was gone.

Talos stared at Maria across the table. He didn’t care that his expression was probably giving away how he was feeling—he wasn’t even sure what label to put on it, so why should he bother to hide it?

“He loves you, you know,” she said, after a drawn-out moment of silence. “When I told him I was calling at your request…well, his tone changed awful quickly.”

That was the call where not only had Fury been summoned back to Earth, he had also learned of Soren’s death. Talos had insisted Maria tell him; the wound was too fresh, and he hadn’t wanted the first time he saw Nick after all those years to be a moment for breaking bad news.

“I’m not so sure,” Talos answered. He got up to look through the fridge—he didn’t truly like a lot of human food, but there were some fruits that tasted nearly identical to Skrull produce, and he kept a stock of them whenever possible. He pulled out a half-eaten can of lychees and a fork from the silverware drawer. “He left.”

Maria followed him to the kitchen area, leaning against the small counter. “The Blip hurt everyone, Talos. The rest of the world may not think so, but you and I know that he’s only human. He needed the time away.”

“He could have spent it with us.” “Why are you so hung up on that? I know you missed him—”

“Missed him?” Talos shoved the can to the side and turned towards Maria. “If you can say that lungs would ‘miss’ oxygen or that veins would ‘miss’ blood, then yeah. I missed him.” He buried his head in his hands. “It wasn’t just those five years, Maria. For decades I’ve wondered if he loved me, always too afraid to hear that answer was no to even ask, always sure that if he felt so, he would tell me.”

“You could have told him how you felt,” Maria reminded him.

“I could have. And he could have. We wasted all that time and I just—I can’t help but believe that if he had been down here with us, like he should’ve been, maybe he could have done what I couldn’t. Maybe Soren would still be alive.”

He abandoned us, Talos wanted to say. It was what most Skrulls believed about Nick Fury, although Talos could’ve told them they had no idea what it was to be abandoned by him.

Soren had never made a secret of her affection for Fury; all those years locked away from her husband in Mar-Vell’s lab had taught her how precious love was, and how freely it should be expressed. Talos, on the other hand, feared rejection. Loneliness. Ages of being hunted by the Kree, mistrusted and reviled by other species, had taught him that. And yet…with Soren by his side, it was always clear that Fury had a home with them if he wanted it. And Fury had accepted that offer and lived with them from time to time, his nearness and his close relationship with Soren driving Talos mad.

Why did he give up that home when they needed so badly to see him alive and well after his death?

Suddenly Talos remembered something else Soren had said. They had been washing dishes together, while Fury was in the living room admiring some drawings that G’iah had made.

“You’re a stubborn man, Talos. And I love you for it. Anyone else might have given up on finding us again.” She handed him a plate to dry. “But…I wonder what it would take for you to take a leap of faith.”

“I don’t know what you mean.” (He did.)

“Hand him your heart, Talos, and trust him not to break it.”

Soren had been able to do it all that time, and it had never cost her. Yet even now, when he was finally reunited with Fury, Talos had only been able to give him Soren’s love, and not his own.

It was on him as much as it was on Fury that they had never determined what they were to each other. And it was his inability to protect Soren, not Fury’s absence from them, that had cost Soren her life, Talos decided.

When Fury finally returned from his walk (and a kidnapping, Talos was alarmed to hear) he informed them that he had set up a bug in an associate’s house and was expecting to get new intel on Gravik’s plans soon. Maria took charge of setting up their end of the surveillance equipment, and Talos determined to take his chance and do what Soren had advised him to do years ago.

“Fury, can I talk to you for a moment?” he asked. He noticed Maria smirking and wanted to sigh. “It’s….” Not information on which the fate of Earth or Humanity hung, but still….“Important.”

To Talos's surprise, Fury’s irritation with him had entirely dissipated, no doubt in light of the new information they were about to get. They went back up to the roof and stood looking out at the city together, the silence amiable.

Talos reached over and took Fury’s hand. His fingers were cold. “I’ve always loved you,” he said, staring straight ahead. “And I’m sorry it took me so long to say it.”

Fury smiled. “I had guessed. Figured you would say it when you were ready—didn’t quite expect that to take three decades.” He pulled Talos close and repeated the Skrull forehead touch they had done earlier, their fingers still intertwined. A single tear slipped down Talos’s face. “I love you too.”

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scary-monsters · 6 months

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20 Questions for Fic Writers

Tagged by @crown-of-winterthorne, thank you friend!!! 🧡🧡🫶🏻

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 33 total! i've got 8 for jjba, 25 for haikyuu

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 473,497 🤯🤯🤯

3. What fandoms do you write for? currently only jjba, i don't anticipate anything else for a long time since my major interests tend to last for years

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? unsurprisingly they're all ushiten 😭 i won't link them but: "i'm a house with no windows" (200k friends-to-lovers), "shuffle" (fake dating/only one bed tropes), "fascinating facts about geckos" (high school teachers au), "on display" (nsfw oneshot), and "morning routine" (my very first fic ever posted :')) aw)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? i try to!!!! sometimes i get really behind (like i am right now ugh) and that's either because i'm busy or i can't properly put my gratitude into words 😔 but i think i get to most of them eventually. i don't really reply to the ushiten ones anymore, but they still mean a lot to me.

6. What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? i.. don't think i have any?? i love writing angst but i really cannot handle sad endings.. i'm a sappy little romance-obsessed fool, i fear i'm incapable of anything but sweet and fulfilling endings

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? i mean it's gotta be "i'm a house with no windows".... they literally grew up together and got married and then visited their hometown as middle-aged men.. i don't know if i can out-do that. but if we're talking jjba then probably my most recent diego fic, "ritz to the rubble"

8. Do you get hate on fics? i have before LMAO, nothing too horrible but honestly i just shrug it off. i like my writing and i know lots of other people do too so i can't be bothered

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? ummmmmm yes.. i write a lot of it HFDSKLHGKLS.. i won't detail that here bc this isn't a nsfw blog but my ao3 speaks for itself.

10. Do you write crossovers? nope! the idea hasn't ever even crossed my mind

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? i feel like.. i remember someone telling me that one of my ushiten fics was on wattpad at one point but i never saw it myself and that was years ago so ??? MAYBE?? i truly don't know

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? i couldn't find evidence of it but i remember someone requesting to translate a fic of mine to chinese?? and i had no problem with it but AGAIN LOL these things happened in like 2016 or 2017 so it's been a hot minute and my memory is garbage

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? not really, i attempted to collab with a couple friends in the past but it really didn't work out very well.

14. What’s your all-time favorite ship? diego and me (im kidding. kind of.), i mean currently it's dinopants and dinoballs. i love diejoni as well but the other two reeeeaaally hit that sweet spot for me. i like ushiten in a way that's like... aww.. those were my boys and now they're grown up and moved out ?? they are cute but they aren't My Guys anymore

15. What’s a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? UGH I HAD a dinopants university au that i started over a year ago but i ended up using one of the previously written scenes for my recent fic so i doubt i'd ever finish the original one. for the most part i finish what i start, though.

16. What are your writing strengths? DIALOGUE !!! at least to me, anyway. i think i'm really good at getting into a character's head and analyzing them and how they'd handle social situations, which is funny bc i have trash social skills. i fucking love character analysis in general

17. What are your writing weaknesses? i think i tend to overuse words sometimes... maybe lean too heavily into dialogue.. i'm always always always trying to get better, so in a way i think i look at everything as a weakness that i'm constantly working to improve

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? i've tossed in little fragments of Italian when i write gyro but other than that i don't think i'd personally do it.

19. First fandom you wrote for? realistically? naruto 💀 my original old-ass clunky desktop had several word docs of deidara fic, i'm like 99% sure. too bad limewire and heaps of viruses killed the damn thing

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? atm i think it's gotta be extra hot, well stirred, light foam :')) i was so iffy about it while writing but i think it's such a perfect balance of funny and sexy and i'm quite proud of it. it would make sense to say a fic from a while ago but i don't like my writing from back then.. i just think i've gotten so so so much better

IM TAGGINGGG @reclusiverisottonero @swallowed-teeth @hammerofspace @penny-lane-123 @phvntom-limbs but no pressure, lovingly patting y'all on the head regardless 🧡

#EEEEE i love tag games 🧡 and i love my writer friends and i wanna see their answers

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nthngtoseehere-blog · 9 months

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I’ve poked around a little in Tumblr etc to see what people say about Café Minamdang, and it seems like people either really enjoy it or they really hate it. I can see why – while it occasionally gets serious, it’s mostly goofy af. Headdesk-inducing goofiness, even.

I just finished ep 6, and I actually love it. I started watching it specifically because people said it was ridiculous and funny, and I needed something like that to off-set the heavier stuff I’m also watching (Beyond Evil, Bloodhounds, Flower of Evil).

I love me some angsty and traumatized MLs so the fact that Nam Han Jun has not been a happy-go-lucky lunatic all his life is a bonus, mainly because so far they haven’t given up the goofiness to go all in on the angst.

Actually, the fact that he hasn’t always been a con-man, and that he’s been running his shaman con from the beginning with the mindset of someone whose career was always meant to help people, makes me like the show more. Han Jun has let his inner court jester off the leash, but he’s still a good guy underneath it all.

I love the dynamic between the ML and the FL so far. I’m hand-waving the age/timeline stuff and just going with what the show tells me to think about that rather than analyzing it too hard, so I think her early crush on him was cute.

Usually the trope of the cop who assumes they know who did it and refuses to be objective in the slightest really frustrates me, but it works here somehow? I think because there really does appear to be no reason to doubt the so-called evidence until Han Jun makes a stink about it. Jae-hui has started to question things, now that she’s being called out on her rigidity, which makes a huge difference.

I think my favorite element so far is how much Han Jun really doesn’t give a fuck if law enforcement will believe him, or support him, or even listen to him. I’m guessing he gave up on that sometime during his incarceration. He’s perfectly aware of how easily the law can be manipulated to sacrifice the innocent, because he’s been the sacrificial innocent, and he has no faith left.

He knows he’s right, and he’s going to investigate what he wants to investigate, and Jae-Hui and her cohort can either listen to him or they can continue to focus on what they think is right; he doesn’t care either way.

It’s kind of refreshing. Usually, there’s some level of desperation on the hero’s part to be understood and believed by the people in power. They either try to hide what they’re doing because they’re afraid of being misunderstood, or they’re aggressively trying to get people to believe them.

Han Jun doesn’t do that. He doesn’t agonize over it, either; he just does his thing.

It helps that he has people on his side, even if none of them are particularly powerful. Han Jun, Hye Jun, Su Cheol and Na Dan are such a great little ridiculous, pure, mutually supportive family.

Speaking of actual family, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a more realistic brother-sister relationship. Han Jun and Hye Jun have such a great love-aggravate-support-mock dynamic.

I have to admit that I keep waiting to find out that Su Cheol is the bad guy. I couldn’t figure out why until I realized that the other show I’ve seen that actor in is Lovers of the Red Sky, in which he played the villain. I don’t *want* Han Jun to be betrayed by his friend, though, so I will be very happy if he doesn’t turn out to be evil.

Oh, side note: I kind of love that while Han Jun started out being the BAMF martial artist who taught Jae-Hui, he’s now barely able to hold his own in a fight while she’s Avengers-level kick-ass. It feels like a skill he let lapse because it maybe required a level of...I don’t know, dedication to heroism? That he no longer feels. Whereas Jae-Hui has improved because she’s driven to be The Best Cop Ever after the tragedy of her brother’s death and the fact that his killer got away.

But yes. 100% enjoying this show.

#cafe minamdang #nam han joon #seo in guk

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thinkpink212 · 9 months

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♡ Taking myself there - Week 3 ♡

Summery:

Last week was a rollercoaster of wild emotions (hormones lord, hormones!) But despite it, I had a lot of great moments and greater ones are to come as this week unfolds! I feel the spark I lost halfway through last week slowly return on this super rainy & beautiful Monday morning so let’s go!

This week I was grateful for…

♡ My room; to have a place I could unwind, destress, and escape from the chaise my princess self is sensitive to!

♡ My humor; I have been laughing at my own jokes all week, and I cannot be stopped! Most of the laughing was in a “gotta laughing to keep from crying” type of keke, but funny none the less 🤭

♡ The presence of people who get it; Three friends in particularly, really made me feel validated with some things that were happening, and I just appreciate that. Like wow, no need to over explain? Love it here!

Highlights - The best parts of this week were four moments

♡ Despite my usual introverted, homebody hermit-self disliking too many outings, I spend a significant amount outside of my home (for work & social events) and I am glad I participated! A lot of it was fun, and I got to get out of my own head.

♡ I’ve had my suspicions on a few people, and a lot was confirmed to me through several behaviors & more. And what will I do with this? Absolutely nothing. Actually, I’ll be minding my business. A wise person told me people who find problem with you usually have bigger problems with themselves; so I’ll let them do whatever, self-sabotage, continue their cycle till they learn or whatever. And mind your business, and I will. I refuse to partaking in the madness, I have places to be, things to do, MOVE.

Whats Next?

♡ My times previous, so I’ll be spending it as so. I haven’t for a minute and I can tell from the state of my physical, Emotional and mental health. But thankfully I know how to get myself back on track!

♡ I am resuming positivity week for this week due to a lot happening and I just need to be at a set mood (as insane as that sounds). It won’t be anything over the top just

Shutting down any negative throughs, unproductive speech & unnecessary stress.

Allowing myself to rest, even when others are on 10. I’ll stay on my zen-mountain. I’m taking deep breaths to a new level, I have a feeling I’ll need it!

Jumping into whatever feels right & simply not allowing this ‘logic’ to analyze anything. I’ve done enough of that, let’s just have faith yeah? Let’s go!

Wishing you all a lovely week! We’re halfway through the year, and no matter how far you are with your goals — it’s not over. Start today, be who you want to be! Honor your higher self🫶🏾

Positivity Week Playlist 🩷

#thinkpink personal #taking myself there #thinkpink positivity week #advice #motivational #week 3

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For some reason I’m having byler doubts lol someone on twitter brought up how Mike was acting like he didn’t care when El broke up with him yet he was upset and chased after Will to apologize to him after they fought and the Melvins started replying with the blank makes you crazy scene where Mike apologizes to her and says he only acted the way he did because he was jealous of Max and that being broken up was hard and he has never felt this way with anyone before. I know they get interrupted and they still to this day have not had another heart to heart but for some reason it started to make me doubt again. Especially since we never got a scene in s3 with Mike getting to actually apologize to Will. The macaroni shippers use this as “evidence” for maroon 5 being endgame. Sorry if I’m being negative I just wanted your opinion on this :)

hi! absolutely no problem at all, and i’m so so sorry that it’s taken me literally forever to respond to this :(

so, let’s break down your ask:

first, let’s start with “Melvins started replying with the blank makes you crazy scene where Mike apologizes to her and says he only acted the way he did because he was jealous of Max and that being broken up was hard and he has never felt this way with anyone before”.

whenever we analyze mike’s actions and/or dialogue, i feel it is very important to keep in mind the theme of forced conformity. this is was quite prominent in season 3 but was further hammered in throughout season 4.

mike’s behavior from s3-s4 especially elucidate this theme. you can tell that he is not being himself; rather he is doing what he thinks he is expected to do or saying what he thinks he is expected to say.

regarding “blank makes you crazy,” we know for a fact that mike was only saying it because that’s what he’d seen and thought it was also expected from him. i mean, he literally said that!

so, it’s very probable that the rest of what he says is based on how he thinks he should feel, and not necessarily how he actually feels.

the “being jealous of max” might be how he actually feels, but not for the reasons he implied to el. i feel if he has strong platonic feelings for el, it’s still very possible he was a bit jealous of max because he felt he was replaced as her friend/someone who was always there for her.

the line when he said he “never felt that way before” with el honestly felt rather cliché to me. it’s something straight out of a cheesy romance movie, and i feel that was kind of the point. it sounds not very genuine, in my opinion. rather, it sounds like something he thought he was supposed to say and not the way he actually felt.

now, let’s talk about “Especially since we never got a scene in s3 with Mike getting to actually apologize to Will. The macaroni shippers use this as “evidence” for maroon 5 being endgame.”

i feel like a lot of people tend to forget about the 3 month time-skip that happened at the end of season 3. we don’t know what happened during then; it’s very possible that mike apologized to will during that time. however, i only wish that they will show a flashback of it in season 5 :/ i don’t like the way the fight was never brought up again post-season-3 (and tbh was barely even mentioned in s3).

and also, i’m sorry, but i find it so funny how moonshines will say “mike not properly apologizing to will after their big fight is proof milwaukee is endgame!!” as if they don’t just wish their ship had the amount of angst as ours do. i mean, they literally want a monorail rain kiss for christ’s sake😭

so yeah, i really wouldn’t worry if i was you! byler is 100% endgame, i’m sure of it. there’s so much proof!! everything will work out :)

tysm for your ask and again, i’m so freaking sorry for answering your ask after literal years🥲 here’s a hug as compensation 🫂 :,) i hope you have a great day!

#byler #shreya answers #stranger things #mike wheeler #el hopper #milkvan #anti milkvan #anti m*leven #anti melvin #st3 #anti mileven #byler tumblr #byler is endgame #byler is real

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Hi there petra! Im sorry if im sounding weird rn or smth i know we haven't interacted that much at all aside from that object show analysis server and ig i can say i had been admiring you from afar but i cant stop but being amazed with the work you have done specially when it comes to analyzing taco and microphone

Im somebody who is heavily invested into taco's character and her relationship with mic and your analysis and points of view gives me a better description of them and their relationship and it helped me a lot to understand it better

Which is also why i want to share you my thoughts abt her since i think you are one of the people who would hear me out

And is that,,,i just love this british woman alright? And i love telling people how SCREWED her mental health is because of the game, she is literally alone atm she has anybody she cant rely on, th3 only thing she can rely on right now is inanimate insanity because at the end of the day that show is the only thing she feels she has left on her miserable life which worsens her mental stability, she needs somebody to help her, somebody she can rely on, somebody who lends her a hand, somebody who loved and cared for her like mic did, somebody who can direct her to the right track

Because she is lost and disoriented in this world, and the only thing she can do is stick to her plan, because after all what else can she do? What else can she do after she lost the only person who took the time to actually understand her and didn't got inmediatly pushed away for her real self? And the only thing she feels she can do? Continue, continue with her plan,she cant do nothing more, because she already lost it all

Mic leaving her HURTED her and im 100% more than pickle, because mic understood her, mic cared for her, mic didn't inmediatly got pushed away by her true self, mic trusted her and had faith for her

And that's what hurts her the most, that the only one you could possibly rely on its now gone just like the rest of people around you

She is hurt and miserable again, but i feel the fact that mic leave was needed for her character to start growing, like you say millions of times she'll probably so one final mistake before breaking down but i feel mic leaving her was the first step for her to atleast for a second realizing how much she screwed things up

Taco is not only hurting the ones she cares for she is hurting herself as well in the process

And i think that's one of the most tragic things of her character, the isolation, the despair, the guilt, the regret

This girl desperatly NEEDS help,she NEEDS somebody to put her on her place, she NEEDS somebody who she can rely on and that puts her on an actual good track

She needs somebody to call her out and show her how much she is not only hurting the ones she loves but also how MUCH she is hurting herself

Taco is badly damaging herself and badly and she needs somebody to make her see that, she is blind, she is lonely, she just needs somebody to lend her a hand

And make her see

All the crap that she had done

And how much the entire show is affecting her

And depsite all of the things i say i just CANT hate her, this girl is going through already many guilt for me to put more weights on her shoulders and despite all what she did i really want her to get the happy endibg she secretly awaits for.

[Side note:its so funny to me how microphone is like my highest ii kin and how much im invested into taco's character and how i cant hate her and i actually took my time to understand her just like mic did, this woman deserves a break and many hugs and im willing to give her that sbebeeh i just hope mic and taco can make the amends maybe taco getting her redemption arc apologizing to mic AND pickle, spending some time at the hotel, mic and her becoming friends again, and after that catching feelings for eachpther and everyone happy DJDHDH but srs tysm for making me understand even more taco and mic relationship i hope both sides of your pillow are cold tonight :] bye bye for now! Hope we can talk more abt mic and taco and their relstionship sometime soon and i hope you have a great day/afternoon/night goodbye again and see you later!]

oh i'm so sorry it took me a moment to get to this! what a delightful ask to get as i was coming back from the con!!

I think this is a really apt read of her, for sure! I absolutely agree she needs that sort of influence/reinforcement in her life right now. I think she's burning a lot of bridges in a sort of wild, desperate attempt to make it so this wasn't for nothing- she wants the prize, because i think, at this point, she worries that if she doesn't get it, she will have hurt all these people for no reason. She lost Pickle and Mic for no reason. And i think that's something really scary for her, this loss of control and the idea that she really DOESN'T know what she's doing and it WASN'T worth it.

Taco is a very complex character, and i adore her dearly. She's definitely one of my all-time favorite characters, so i'm super glad to hear you like my read of her!!!! :']

sidenote: you never have to apologize for sending me character analysis rambles! i always enjoy it :D

#character analysis #long post #inanimate insanity #ii taco

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Is anyone else tired of this heat wave?! It’s been HOT here, as I’m sure it’s been most everywhere else, too. That means lots of early morning outings and park trips to avoid being out during the hottest part of the day and lots of kiddy pool afternoons at home. Homemade apple juice popsicles have also been a big hit.

Pep has developed a deep love for trains over the past month or two and he constantly pumps his tiny arm up and down going “mmm mmm!” to signal “choo choo!” to us.. as in, please put on YouTube videos of trains, my people. So we’ve been at least watching less cocomelon, to my great relief. When we take him to the local parks, pep often gets to see the trains in real life and he gets such pure joy out of it. So — we decided one day last week to take him on his first train ride! A quick 15 minute trip to a nearby town and back, and he loved it so much. It was a juggling act getting out of the house with both boys but we did well! When this heat breaks, we need to get out as a family more often.

Pip is doing great and has actually fallen into a pretty predictable sleeping schedule (!) which still seems too good to be true to me sometimes because we struggled so much for so long with pep’s sleep. He usually has his last big meal (which I’ve dubbed ‘ultrafeast’, channeling our best Kevin Malone vibes) around 730-8pm and it’s lights out by 830. He then sleeps till about 1am when he wakes up to eat. He goes back down till about 5, when he wakes again, and he may or may not go back down again after that. I’m still the one getting up with him 100% at night which means I’m tired, but it’s getting better. Slowly.

Nursing is going pretty well all things considered and I’m now happily supplementing a few bottles of formula a day. It’s what works for us. My biggest complaint: I cannot get this baby to stay awake while nursing. He gets so cozy and passes out so quickly. A friend told me oh, just rub his head and blow in his face! Oh, I am. I am.

How am I doing? Not too bad, really. I worked out for the first time in a long time the other day! Did a 30 minute fitness marshall workout. I really need to get serious about weight loss again. I hoped pep would be super into dancing around the living room with me but his interest faded after a minute or two and then he just got annoyed I wasn’t paying attention to him. Typical. 😂 I have my postpartum doctor appointment this coming week so fingers crossed I’m all good to go. I think I’m healing alright, but definitely not totally healed just yet.

I keep wondering whether therapy is really benefitting me. I’m just not sure. Some days I feel better afterward, but I don’t seem to get a ton of feedback from my therapist — it’s kinda just one way. Who knows. I feel like I should be getting more from her. Like, analyze me, woman! Fix me! Tell me how to Be Better!

On that note, I just started reading “How to be Perfect - The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question” by Mike Schur (of The Office, Parks and Rec, The Good Place) and it is FANTASTIC. Highly recommend if you’re looking to learn about ethics in a funny, witty, relatable kinda way.

As far as watching goes, I started rewatching Parenthood (big heart eyes) and B and I are currently halfway through season 4 of Stranger Things. Shit, does that get dark. Right?? Not sure how much I love it if I’m being honest. Obviously I’m also watching Bachelorette. How do we feel about two bachelorettes this season? Jury is out on that one, but I love the mindless trashy show anyway.

That’s all for now; it’s 1am and I’ve got a baby who is hopefully about to let me go back to bed. Love to you, friends!

#momblr #pep is 18 months #pip is 6 weeks #07252022 #operationkay10

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positively--speculative · 7 months

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To be honest, this dude didn't send me the worst messages, but I do think this can be used for teachable purposes:

There are a few things to unpack here:

For one thing, I think this guy has a very oversimplified view of women. I think there are quite a few dudes who have never grown out of the mindset of 'What do women like? Ah...romance! What do women find romantic! Oh! Nice words and promises of devotion! That'll do it!' If this conversation took place ten years ago, he'd probably be one of those dudes who addressed women as "m'lady" and really thought they were doing something unique and different that women were just going to buy. Promises of "love, creativity, and reciprocity," as he puts it probably would look good in the pages of an escapist romance novel, but in real life, you have to define those things. Like, this guy doesn't seem to have the very basic understanding that women's wants vary based on our experiences that shape the people we are. We're human. This means we are complex, but this guy clearly thinks he has this romance thing down to a science.

The other thing? I know this is a dating app, but so many dudes just try to throw on that "romance" hard from the very first message. Like, how are you going to promise to 'change someone's life' for the better if you don't even know that person? Like, I actually *am* considering meeting someone from one of these apps in a safe environment, and one of the things that sets this particular guy apart from others is that he's not laying heavy compliments or trying desperately hard to be romantic. In fact, we're really both kind of going for developing a friendship and seeing where things go from there. We might not even end up dating. But I'm comfortable with the idea of meeting him and seeing where it goes because he seems *genuine* and isn't trying to sell a version of himself that isn't accurate (as far as I know). At first, it felt strange that he wasn't throwing all these compliments about how pretty I am or whatever, but the more time I've had to think about it, the better I think that is. It's a more natural start to a friendship that may or may not turn into something more.

Lastly, as you see in the screenshots, my last message to him was about how he didn't even mention a single thing I wrote in my profile. So, what did he do? He talked about himself but made sure to make his interests as identical as possible to mine (I mention that I love my dog [so he mentioned kittens], analyzing horror movies [so he mentions liking "sociological stuff"], and that I enjoy working out [and I do think it's funny that he has to tell me he works out 7 times a week when I don't even workout 7 times a week. Maybe he does, but it feels like he really felt the need to lay that on heavy]). I'm not interested in dating a clone of myself. Like, yes, it's nice to date someone or even just be friends with someone who has similar interests, but not someone who *only* wants to do things I want to do. To his credit, he does change things up and doesn't just simply copy and paste my interests, but given his previous messages, it still feels carefully crafted.

As an added note, there were some other red flags here. For one thing, to save dudes the time, I encourage them NOT to message me if they take advice from the likes of Elon Musk or alpha podcasters like Andrew Tate because I'm not interested in becoming the obedient and submissive woman they idealize. He goes out of his way to say he doesn't take advice from Elon Musk, but earlier described me to be a "high-value woman" which is a label these loser podcasters love using, so I'm pretty sure he's getting his dating advice from any one or more of them and wondering why he doesn't have women breaking down his door.

In short, here is some advice--If you are trying to find people to date, just be normal. Don't try to sell yourself as a fairytale dream, because flowery romance sold in storybooks is not enough to maintain a healthy relationship and most people aren't going to buy it. It's not pessimism, it's just reality.

For those who find themselves on the other side. Be wary of people who try to sell themselves like this in the very beginning, because more often than not, they are being deceitful. They want to try to appeal to whatever vulnerable parts that might exist in you that want to feel loved and adored. Don't fall for it. Engage with the people who are normal about you. If something is meant to be, the romance will come later in a more realistic framing.

#dating app fails #terfs don't touch #teachable material #advice #life advice

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anon is soooooooo fucking sorry for the late addition! i thought that i send this but realized that i didn't oh god

but i'm glad to know that u liked the crime seeking wonderlandian duo!! after all, tiara needs to interact more with one of her brothers' bfs that will kill for her!!

anyways!! – anon is thinking of how mitsuba is trying to stop tiara from meeting her brothers, and vice versa, is because he's afraid that once both parties found out, tiara and kou will hate and leave him (and teru's sword is aiming at his neck) and then failing in the process since it's difficult with said brothers appearing from left and right, and now being in the same place at the same time in the still-forgot-dinner-name that the duo are going to (rather, attempt and might fail) to steal from and god do we hope that shijima finds tiara adorable enough to spare her!!

but can i imagine mitsukou?? ofc i can imagine mitsukou!! though i am awful at talking or thinking some ideas for their dynamics since i'm not 5x-obsessed with them like with terukane, anon could still imagine the angst so here is some mitsukou angst!!

mitsuba feels loooooots of guilt as he gets to know and spend more time with kou, even "helping" him in finding his lost sister through misdirecting him and messing with traces and evidences that tiara was in that area in the first place. But after sometime, when he realized that he had fallen for the chesire cat, mitsuha started to plan in telling the minamoto siblings about the truth because he believes this is for the best: he practiced; he prepared himself when tiara and kou, the two people that he thinks he wouldn't mind to be with for a bit longer, leaves and hates his entire being; he reminds himself that working alone is better; and then he set the date.

however, mitsuba forgot about tsukasa to add to his preparations, the one he shouldn't have involved with in the first place – and soooo, tsukasa interferes with mitsuba's planned confession: he mocks, twisting mitsuba's words but still spoke of the truth and straight to the point. mitsuba panics sooo bad that he screams, of how it was all true and what's so bad about it, and how he wished that he never revealed to them about the truth just in front of a sobbing tiara and a shocked and furious kou

and u can probs guess on what had happened : D

now back to the terukaneaoi!! – again, anon is glad to know that i got aoi on the point!! i'v got a feeling that the more i made some good characterization on aoi, the more i had a feeling that i kin her😭😭

but i had to send another ask of terukane because i had a feeling that this is suuuch a long ask!!

again, thank u for letting me talk with u about this wonderland au of urs!!

Anon you're back! I was thinking about my wonderland au JUST YESTERDAY

and here you areeee hii I was wondering where you ran off too....

anyways the MitsuKou angst you sent today? wow

honestly I could angst fest this entire au, and that'd be so funny to see ppls faces when I tell them the HUGE dark turn everything takes, because wonderland can have some REALLY dark turns and adaptations, and I would love to feed you some angst >:)

and yes you're doing a great job on analyzing Aoi, also being an Aoi kin is rough, I mean, I'm a Teru kin....and Akane kin... anyways ehehe

at this point Mitsuba has been hiding and stealing with Tiara for a while, he has no idea how to tell or even show Kou and Teru that their long lost sister has always been with him, but he thinks if they do find out, they'd reset him for ever keeping her from them and take her away, his only friend in wonderland, he couldn't steal with her, couldn't rhyme, couldn't bicker, and he'd lose his only crush, he likes Kou, he doesn't want to lose him, he may not know Kou that much but he means a lot more day by day, Tsukasa the Hare(imposter rabbit lmao) offers him a chance, and tells him to come to a tea party, it's much better and you can get away from everything, one day Mitsuba went to a tea party and accidentally stood Tiara up, she was very upset, and most of the time sat on a tree kicking her legs lonely, Mitsuba didn't even enjoy the company at the mad tea party, but he felt included, like he could fit in, but when he saw Tiara after he felt horrible and didn't even realize he had hurt her feelings. when Kou openly talks about his sister, and says he'll find and rescue her, and his brother will be proud of him, and maybe one day he'll get to play as a white knight in the chess board. and he searchs blindly, Mitsuba can see this and he knows where Tiara is, but if they met, what would happen to him?

one day telling Tsukasa about his irrational fears of this, Tsukasa can't help but agree, and give him pointers on why this has messed everything up, as wonderlandians do, he'll decide it all makes sense, and that Mitsuba has ruined their family for what it used to be, but that's fine, bc Tsukasa doesn't care he just wants another cup of tea. Mitsuba feels horrible after this, and one day, when Mitsuba stumbled across the Cheshire cat, he was talking with him, but suddenly Tiara runs out from the bushes and excitedly tugs at his sleeve to tell him something about a wonderlandian they could rob, only to notice who he was talking to, quickly hiding behind Mitsuba, she wonders who that is, Kou is completely speechless, and after Kou angrily stating and asking questions, Mitsuba bursts into tears and tells him everything was a ruse and that was his sister, Tiara was so heartbroken, she had thought she never had a family, and only remembered a silhouette, so gentle, bright teeth, so sharp, and a mother's voice, she had never imagined that THE Cheshire cat of wonderland, whom she had never seen, was her brother, she could see the shining teeth and his funny tail, it was a sense of familiarity.

there's some details I left out that I liked in your rant but sksjdhdjdnd I just woke up and am not going over everything...

idk Anon ig this is how I'd imagined it more, because Tsukasa doesn't really interfere with Mitsuba in cannon? he only came in to change his rumor and only said how he saw and took his words, he's an evil supernatural that's why he'd ever take them as such when wish granting, I can't see the Hare interfering that much, probably just talking down to Mitsuba without noticing when he's drinking his tea. but tbh both written angst variations are good, and the Teru and Tiara reunion?? WOULD BE SO CUTE AND HEARTWARMING

but yeah, Teru would have it out for Mitsuba, after he gets his sister safe in his lap he is so quick to cut the mfs head off, and is so confused when Tiara tells him no and talks about all the fun they had and that she wants to go on more playdates (heists) with him, and Mitsuba is so emotional the next time he sees Tiara bc he missed her so much, but suddenly he's not protecting her it's her scary knight brother ....but it took a lot of convincing from Tiara to see Mitsuba jsjsjsj

the LAST thing Teru wanted was Tiara near him again, and even humbly asked the white queen for permission to publicly execute him, the white queen asking for a reason and eventually giving permission (why tf does she care??) but Tiara burst into tears when Kou confronted Teru about it in front of her, suddenly the protective and caring brother is being begged by his siblings not to harm a hair on this detestable thing, he's naturally weak to them so he gives in, with a warning of course, and watches them VERY closely, but he still has a duty to attend too....(and fighting Akane cough cough)

Kou still loves Mitsuba but he doesn't know what to do or think about what he did, but in the end they make up and Tiara and Mitsuba get to go on playdates, and when they're unmonitored they rob ppl, Kou and Teru still don't know their little sister one of two of the wonderlandian theifs

so when is my TeruKane rant? I love my boys dynamic so much—

anyways the possibility for angst in this au can go on for miles tbh, but I'll shut up now

ok tysm for the ask Anon! this is always so fun ehehe and your ranting is so amazing to read, and I'm glad you enjoy this au sm!! and would love to hear more♡♡

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hot-hellboy · 30 days

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My Nightingale - A Jasico Fanfic (Part 3)

Part 1

Part 2

A week had passed and Nico was in a considerably better mood. Hazel noticed this and Nico saw that it made her happy as well. Most nights he and Jason talked about mundane stuff which included basic “get-to-know-you” questions that Nico didn’t really care for, but he quickly realized he didn’t mind. Everything Jason shared with him he listened, even the boring things like favorite foods or music tastes.

And sometimes they talked about heavier stuff, which Nico wasn’t used to, but he decided that he was okay with sharing because it made him feel better. At least to some extent. But one conversation truly stood out to him, and it was one that Nico wasn’t ever going to forget.

“So, any exes?”

Jason asked as a joke at first. They had been sitting above decks while everyone was asleep and they had the ship to themselves.

“No, I don’t really date.”

Nico said as the cold night air ruffled his dark hair and he shivered as the winds proceeding to grow more brisk. Suddenly, the cold didn’t bother him and he wondered the cause before realizing Jason had draped his jacket over him.

“Th-Thanks.”

He said, blushing. Then he inwardly slapped himself. It was just some platonic friendly gesture, and nothing more, right? There was no reason to be blushing for the gods’ sakes.

“Um, what about you? Any girls you’ve dated?”

Nico asked, knowing there was a small likelihood of Jason being “not-straight”, not that it really mattered to Nico.

“Yeah, I used to be in a relationship with Piper, but it didn’t last very long.”

It took Nico a second to remember who Piper was, because the only two people he really paid attention to were Hazel and Jason. Then he remembered Jason was talking about the girl with the really cool multi-colored eyes that Nico vaguely recalled seeing when he first came aboard.

“Oh. How come?”

“Well...It wasn’t like we were together for very long, maybe like, three months? After I got my memories taken away, I didn’t even remember her but she said I was her boyfriend or something, and I didn’t want to just leave, you know? And then the funny thing is was that we were both planning to break up but we ended up doing it at the same time.”

Jason paused to laugh a little to himself as he remembered the events of his and Piper’s split.

“She came up to me saying we just didn’t really fit together, and then just as she was saying that, I ended up telling her I was into guys and then we broke up but we’re still really good friends.”

Nico was too stunned to speak. Not because of the complex breakup story, but because Jason mentioned being into boys, and maybe Nico did care after all. Was he...Catching feelings? No way. He was done with that, but as he and Jason soon made eye contact once he was done talking, Nico thought otherwise. He was falling for him and there was nothing he could do to stop it. He originally thought of Jason as another annoying demigod that he would have to socialize with, but the two had grown closer and Nico was seriously starting to appreciate him more and more.

“That is a really crazy story.”

He managed to say at last, but he didn’t miss the fact that their faces were much closer than he remembered them ever being. Nico refused to look away from his handsome face, his stunning icy blue eyes, that little scar on his upper lip, and he saw that Jason was studying him with the same analyzation he had for him. Then Nico cleared his throat and took a step back. Jason looked away as well and scratched the back of his neck while placing his other hand in his pocket.

“It’s getting late.”

He said and Nico couldn’t agree more.

“Yeah, yeah it is. Uhm, I’ll-“

“I’ll see you later.”

Jason interrupted and Nico awkwardly handed him his coat back.

“G-Goodnight, I’m probably not going to go to bed just yet, but...Goodnight.”

Nico said and Jason wished him a good evening before entreating to his room. It turns out Nico didn’t sleep at all that night and instead went up to the crow’s nest and sat there until Dawn. He felt unexplainably giddy, like he was on an adrenaline high where he was peaking, and Nico decided he never wanted to come down. It was like meeting Percy for the first time, except Nico totally forgot Percy’s name whenever he was hanging out with Jason. It was unbelievable, a phenomenon he couldn’t explain. Nico couldn’t understand how quickly he let Percy go and moved on after four years of longing, waiting, and hoping. Then the answer came to him.

Jason never met him as that Mythomagic obsessed ten year old that Percy first knew, Jason never saw his ups and downs and highs and lows as he figured out the world without much guidance from any adult figure. Nico finally realized he could start fresh. He would try again with someone who wouldn’t know him as an immature child who had chronic anger issues, because that’s how Percy sometimes still saw him. Nico could have a chance, a real chance at love because he had met someone who listened to what he had to say, and saw him for who he was at the present.

There was nothing left to say besides the fact that Nico was in love once again.

The

End.

#smut #jason x nico #cross posted on ao3 #cross posted on wattpad #just reposting really old fics #my nightingale #hellboy

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its-inevitable-lupe · 2 months

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Well me and n didn’t fight today lol she was in a happy playful mood and as the whole world knows I thrive and am too good. When I tell you I soak people’s energies. Whew. And when we were in the same area she was all ah lmao she can’t be close to me and my fun side and freaks. I was laughing the whole time because she can’t. And she is so pushy lol. And actushe wanted to start things and fight but I’m like dude see it’s you. Im not starting anything and super chill. And I’m like what do you want a fun me with you or a bad moody fighting because I see. I’m like pause and analyze how you act lol. It’s not normal. And when I was laughing she’s like I can’t, there’s something about you that I just can’t 😂 girl. I literally am not doing anything. I notice she gets nervous 😂. Like I treat u like how I act with everyone and I like to play but she says I play with peoples feelings a lot and I’m like not anymore but now I’m just prefer to not be in any drama and mature. Let’s see how tomorrow goes and then she isn’t working this weekend and I’m like I see u are off. And ironic since I’m away in Miami. And she’s like no invite and I’m like dude I did and you were saying things to me lol. Missed chance. She probably would fight me in the festival and with friends or in the place we stay or in the club again lol. It’s funny how she ask what are we and I’m like coworkers :) lol and idk what she wants me to say lol. I mean we are friends but I could say trying to be friends and start over lol. And she’s 💍 and how she acts and all is wayyy more importance to what I say than a normal friend and I’m sure she knows. And even when she fights and says shit to me she actually really likes my company so much and stays even tho it’s like push and pull. But we actually get along very well besides many times because she takes things too literal lol. But it’s her lack of being able to take things and see it’s not like that. She makes things bigger than anything is. Hopefully we have a good day later and funny how everyone noticed we were talking again and were like wowww I haven’t seen u guys in a long time lol. “I love that” Wellllll and the other woman will see us tomorrow lol. But when I tell you I really want us to be good friends for a long time I hope so but what we had was such a crazy crazy crazy experience I will never forget. And dude it was the most unexpected weirdest times I ever encountered. She’s like I got in her head lol.

And it’s like DUDE LOL I said sorry. But yes the first time was the worst.. but I tried to made it up and the thing is even after all she still went out with me. Because deep down I’m not the problem but her and her emotions and how she reacts and acts. But obviously it’s two people.

#my thoughts #n

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bitchineering · 5 months

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College Essays

You know when target posts back to school ads than that means our summer has officially ended. Sadly, I live in a place where usually I start school on August 1st. This year I’m actually attending university and wanted to help the future seniors or students who need help writing essays for college admissions.

To be honest I’m going to keep this on the shorter end because I feel like there are so many others who’re more qualified to tell you about this information.

1. Read this It is by Sharon Murchie, a high school teacher who went above and beyond for her students. I’d say read all the stories she suggested. Analyze/look over all of them by thinking “how could you write a story from that perspective?”. Find one you’re most comfortable with to work with and start writing. I’d definitely say you’re going to mess up and going to have to do some rewrites which is perfectly fine! I did that myself.

2. Watch the word limit. Get your story over in the least amount of words as possible. The overall purpose needs to describe a significant moment in your life and who you are as a person. Don’t mind the fluffly stuff as much (and this pertains to anything that doesn’t have to do with the topic to your essay). Your introduction should be at max three sentences. You need the words for answering your topic is a very memorizing way.

3. This is your story. Write about the people closest to you or a star you’ve never met but it all has to come back down to you! Who you are as a person and who you want to be at this school. What will you provide this school and how will you take what you’ve learned at said university and put it out in the world? Know, there are many different essays, most popular, why do you want to attend this university? Who are you? Tell us a challenge you overcame? What’s a funny story about yourself? (This was one of my topics actually).

Why do you want to attend this uni? Be specific, look up facts and opportunities to the school you want to go to. Co-ops, undergraduate research, libraries and the ability to double major are so many good reasons you can talk so much about. Think instead of why do you want to attend this school, think what fascinates you most about this institution? What makes you so excited that on day one you need to join (a club, organization, start prepping for co-ops, or signing up for classes, or minors etc).

Who are you? This can be formatted in so many different ways but I feel like so many of the Common App essays fall under this category. Using the New York times post above should help with writing who you are with all of the hidden messages within the story.

All the youtube videos I watched (tbh I don’t remember watching many videos about this because I had a really smart friend and she helped me learn and grow from my writing errors and I also want to note some of these are for transfers because I was looking into transferring)

The Transfer Essay Guide for Dartmouth, Columbia, NYU, Penn, Cornell, Harvard

Transfer From Community College to a Top University: How She Got Into Stanford

how i got into harvard 📚 *stats, extracurriculars, essays, & more*

how i got into ucla 🐻 grades, extracurriculars, essays, etc

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Editing this like almost a year after I think I wanted to post it??? But anyway, totally recommend these items. Not beta reading because I’m pretty sure essays are almost all due, or main essays are due soon. Good luck to everyone applying!!! You got this.

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