List of “pov: your friends call you out for your undeniable feelings towards this one particular person” prompts 

“You want them.” “…I do. Oh God, I fucking do.”

“So like… When are you gonna confess to them?”

“You’re folding so fucking hard for them and I’m here for it.”

“I didn’t know you were such a simp.” “I’m— what? I’m not a simp!”

“This idiot is so down bad, your honour.”

“Maybe it’s time you start asking what you guys are—” “Uh, yeah, no. Not right now, at least.”

“Damn, I’ve never seen you like someone that much.”

“The way you talk about them gives me the impression you want to eat them whole.” “That is not true—”

“You never talked about your ex-crush like this.”

“God, you’re so in love with them.”

“Someone’s in love—” “Oh my God, fuck off.”

“Remember to invite me to your wedding when you guys get married—” “Shut it!” 

“Not you calling them a three course meal plus dessert. You have never talked about anyone like that, not even [insert ex-crush’s name].” (I have no shame in admitting I did, in fact, call him that HAFJKEBJEFN Like, he’s fine as fuck and I ain’t gonna sit here and act like he isn’t)

“You’re literally head over heels for them.” “I am not. Okay, maybe just a little.”

“So—” “Oh, I’m not in love. You’re not fooling anyone. If I hear their name coming from your mouth again—” “…I guess I’ll just shut up.”  

Okay, after spending what feels like 5 hours to try to send a longer message on tumblr – as the comments would only let me send a short paragraph and I didn't want to spam (to my shame I have to admit I’m not here very often and don't know how to tumblr) – I might finally be able to send this (or accidentally make a post or start a new cult instead, who knows, I'm talented like that). 🙈

First of, hello 😊

You have no idea how relieved I am to have found this information on The Fuckening. I just wanted to reread it (again 😅 because it's one of my go-tos for comfort reading) and was shocked to see it gone. I had feared that it would be lost forever, but knowing now that it will be back – no matter in which form – I’m glad. And you can bet that I will buy the hell out of your books when they arrive ❤

Do you have a rough estimate when I will be able to give you all my money in exchange for the best entertainment of my life? I will wait forever if I have to, of course, I’m just curious (and as you can guess eager to see how the story continues) 😅

And I don’t know if you want to give away any kind of information, but will Taliesin still be in it? I have kind of (read: completely) fallen in love with his character. And if I wouldn’t already ship him with Agent Jay like I (maybe too often) mentioned in the comments on the story (because I can’t help to be like that and obsess over minor characters and tiny side characters – just like with Theo and Blaise in the original books... and someone who almost no one understands, Zacharias Smith... but I'm repeating myself), I would want him for myself. 😅

I wish you the best of luck with your project and much inspiration 🍀❤

P.S.: Sorry for the many paranthesis 😅

Hello, my dearest! I have missed hearing from you! Kudos to you for figuring out the ask system - ngl, it all remains a mystery to me and I end up spamming people because I haven't the foggiest where to begin on fandangling the website to bend to my will. So well done! You're doing better than me! (But also, I will always endorse the creation of any cult, so I feel like you should do that anyway).

The only reticence I had about pulling the Fuckening was losing contact with the regulars who weren't necessarily in contact on Tumblr, so I am relieved to see you here. And I am really pleased you're still invested in the story despite it shifting universe - it's actually a huge relief. I hope you like where it ends up!

As for a rough estimate of when it'll be available? Not a clue. Not this year. I'll aim for an optimistic soft deadline of it being available in some form or another in 2024, but this is dependent on a million different variables that I don't really have control over. I'm going to try the traditional publishing route first, so this is going to eat into a lot of time, and then, in the miracle that I'm successful at securing the various buy-ins, the timeline will be dependent on a whole host of other things, so it may not even be in that year at all.

Failing all of that, I'll just self-publish, which shortens the timeline substantially. But even still, got to at least give the trad publishing route a go first before writing it off.

And this doesn't include the inevitable periods of writer's block and lack of will.

Either way, I'll keep you all updated with news, etc.

Alternatively, I've launched a (rough) author website and a Twitter where I'll be posting short stories and probably looking at newsletters, etc: Regan Atlas Website, Twitter

(I hate the whole marketing side of this business. My roommate is trying to convince me to start a Tiktok... I don't know if I can bring myself to that yet). For now, Tumblr will be my main source of coms because I am comfortable with hiding in this hellsite.

(( Also, spot the author name))

As for details, I love that you appreciate Tal and Agent Jay. I loved them very much too, so, of course, they will be appearing in the adaptation. The relationship between Tal and Hermione was something so tender that I think this new world is going to need to offset from the rest of the fuckery. And Jay and Kilmore are essential for the whole worldbuilding shenanigans so they'll def stay for the ride.

Thank you so much for your kindness, and I hope you know how much I have and continue to appreciate you. Stay in touch!! <3

Okay, here me out though:

If Rei is having an affair with someone, doesn’t Toshinori as himself make sense?

- he’s unfamiliar (new to the area) and therefore less likely to be someone known to Endeavor

- he’s pretty much the opposite of Enji in every way in this form, not just physically but emotionally and socially

- he might be awkward and a bit self-deprecating but at the heart remains someone who puts others first, cares about their comfort and being reassuring, apologizes frequently (which we know Enji does not), and tends to be gentle in the rest of his mannerisms — when he isn’t trying to cringe away from being noticed. if Enji takes up space, Toshi’s practically trying to give it away

- his philosophy behind “I am here!” is to put people at ease, to make them feel safe. can’t imagine how relieving that would feel to Rei, even if it wasn’t coming from the usual source

Sorry for the late reply, my little cousin was over on the weekend (full time job) and I wanted to give this some more thought!

Ngl, I haven't paid attention to the ship all that much, until now. I primarily considered it because I was thinking along the lines, "What can be done so that Enji suffers the most? >:)", and what could possibly surpass the humiliation that is his wife having an emotional (and physical) affair with the one person that Enji centered his entire life around to defeating? ...And I'm saying this as someone who loves Enji lmao.

You made a good comparison between Enji and Toshi, and I also think it's really interesting just how starkly contrasting Toshi's own normal character is compared to his hero persona, even if his core ideology stays the same; very much like Clark Kent vs Superman. (I wanted to make a post about this... it's there, somewhere in my drafts...)

Toshi and Enji being so opposite personality-wise makes for a fascinating factor in the relationships of this love triangle (both individually with Rei and also Toshi & Enji among each other), considering that those dynamics are kind of reversed as Endeavor and All Might.

Anyway, it's kinda funny how there's a 2.20 meters tall blond giant running around, who always happens to be in the same street clothing as All Might and in the exact same area too, and no one's been able to connect the dots.

On that notion, I love the idea that when Toshi is speaking comforting words to Rei in a deeper tone than he'd usually use for his skinny form, Rei can't help but feel an extreme sense of familiarity, but just could never place it.

...Or maybe she did, once, promptly froze, looked back at Toshi – really looked at him – took note, in that moment more intensely than ever, of his coughing, the sunken, tired eyes and the scar spanning a good part of his slim torso; and then went, "Yep, I must be going insane to have even considered the possibility for more than half a second". It's what put her at ease, even if a minuscule, treacherous part of her mind keeps nagging at her, what if, what if.

Depending how prevalent and violent the emotional and physical abuse has become in her actual marriage, in her darkest and loneliest moments, the thought makes its way back to the forefront of her mind, and she entertains the silly little fantasy for a while. What it would be like if her lover actually happened to be All Might in secret. What it would be like to be officially in a relationship with him. How Enji, Endeavor, would react to it.

It's the last question that all her thoughts ultimately spiral towards. It fills her with grim satisfaction; knowing that Enji's greatest rival is taking the No. 1 title from him, and now his wife, too, besting him not just at his profession but also in private... It would drive Enji mad, leave him fractured, in the same way he's been chipping away at her.

This isn't a prompt, but I could use some help figuring this out. There's this one trope that I would love to write about in the context of TG (more specifically Amon and Kaneki). Basically, a situation where (a) CCG member(s) would be forced to cooperate with (a) ghoul(s). I'm just imagining all the implications, the mutual tensions, the honestly (probably) awkward interactions, CCG member(s) forced to speak with ghoul(s) and have their ideas (cont.1-3)

challenged, an understanding of the cycle of grief etc. The problem is that I’m having trouble coming up with a reasonable situation where that trope could occur. All I’ve come up with is 1) just for giggles the clowns decide to handcuff a CCG member to a ghoul, and possible toss them in the ghoul restaurant to force a scrapper. (Or maybe they face a scrapper un-handcuffed) 2) some kind of “bottle episode” version of a fic (cont.2-3)

where the CCG member clearly knows their trapped with a ghoul who for some reason won’t attack. I’m not sure how I’d get pulled off though. If you have any advice on how to improve the concept or a better situation for how it could get pulled off I’d be very thankful, and thanks for taking the time to read this (end.)Tokyo Ghoul is pretty flexible with potential situations - Kanou’s lab always allows for the possibility of people being captured and forced to interact (CCG agent goes to investigate, finds people turned against their will, is forced to face the potential reality of changing themselves), The Great Wheel organization could take a full cult tilt and capture Doves with the explicit intention of changing their minds, if you go back before :RE Aogiri is FULL of potential meetings between ghouls and investigators. For specifically Amon and Kaneki, there’s even more possibilities: there’s  SO MANY fics where one has had to save the other, resulting in close contact for extended periods of time. There’s also potential prison break scenarios where Donato escapes and Amon goes after him, getting captured by the Clowns, or in light of recent events, just kinda going off the deep end and losing himself. Kaneki is pretty deeply entangled in all human-ghoul affairs, so if it involves the CCG, he’ll be there. NGL though I’m a big fan of the situation you thought up with the handcuffing. Comedic tension is one of my favourite tropes (a situation that could be funny, but written correctly is actually terrifying) and it’s a favourite of Ishida’s too. Since it seems to be what you have the most fleshed out, let’s roll from there! 

So, we have an investigator (Amon presumably?) who has been captured by the Clowns. An excellent opening to this would be Donato’s escape - you could AU this so he escapes before Amon is turned into a half-ghoul since it has more ‘my beliefs are being absolutely totaled’ tension. If Donato ever fled Cochlea, which we now know he absolutely could have, Amon would 100% go after him. Since V and the Clowns have so heavily infiltrated the CCG however, we know they wouldn’t actually be that interested in stopping Donato…so Amon goes off alone. We know he’s a stubborn guy and wouldn’t listen to reason (or the suspicions that Akira has). Plus his guilt would absolutely drive him to prefer working alone. The Clowns are pretty invested in Kaneki as a source of entertainment and they know he’s interacted with Amon before. It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to assume they’d make sure Kaneki found out about his capture. If this is before Haise, then Kaneki is still in full-on flat-out suicidal martyr mode, meaning that he would also rush in to help alone. Cue him getting captured as well.Since the Clowns love chaos and games, they could be interested in seeing what happens when these two are chained together while Kaneki slowly starves. They could set them up to fight a scrapper because heyoooooo scrappers can be humans BUT they work for ghouls. A challenge to both Kaneki and Amon’s morals. There’s some excellent meta talking about how Kaneki doesn’t really consider violent ghouls to be people, so this would be a GREAT tension factor. Imagine Kaneki trying to teach Amon about the ghoul side of things and being called out as a hypocrite. Now you’ve got two people struggling with their worldview getting w r e c k e d. So say they are facing the scrapper - unhandcuffed is best. Because it gives Amon the opportunity to kill Kaneki and likewise. The Clowns could IMPLY that to get out alive Kaneki will need to eat Amon or Amon will need to kill Kaneki. Now, where all the implications / tension / doubts lay is in what makes a person worth saving? Also, what makes specifically Kaneki or Amon worth saving? Amon is constantly guilt-ridden about Donato choosing to NOT kill him, so Kaneki’s decision to let him live during their first battle HAUNTS him. He can justify it to himself in that he had stopped being a threat, but in this new situation there’s going to need to be better justification than that. Kaneki thinks Amon doesn’t deserve to die just on the basis of being human, but in an actual life-or-death situation in which Amon is questioning his reasons, Kaneki is also going to need to think deeper. There’s a lot of really great meta about both of them and their reasons for fighting, what they think justice is, etc. that I would recommend looking for. It can help direct you with what kind of situations you want to put them in based on what you want to come out of it, y’dig? I’ve gotta go to class so I’ll stop here, but if you have more questions or more specifics feel free to message me and we can keep bouncing ideas! This has been fun!