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doyouknowthischaracter · 4 months

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RANDOM ASKS GRAB BAG

Putting a bunch of answered asks in one post so I don't spam your dashes too much. Under the cut because it's a very long post. If your ask isn't here, don't worry! The ask box is far from empty, and I'm sorta trying to group them by topic. Enjoy?

Anonymous asked: you mentioned in another ask that there were a few things you were probably going to check out from doing these polls and I was just curious which ones those are, if you don't mind sharing fjdjsj

I don't mind sharing! I had to go through the archive to remember which ones I wanted to check out, but a few of them would be The Walten Files, Red vs. Blue, The Murderbot Diaries, I Am In Eskew, and The Mistholme Museum of Mystery, Morbidity, and Mortality. Many of the characters posted here look interesting, but I'm such a slow watcher/player/reader/etc. that it'd take me decades to go through everything lol

Anonymous asked: Have you considered doing like uhhh idk how to explain properly, but statistics/data from loads of polls in a summary every so often? I've seen some poll blogs do a most known/least known type bar graph every so often. And I would be super interested in seeing this sort of thing for this blog!! It's fair enough if not though, obviously this would create a lot of extra work for you. Anyway, thanks for running this blog :-) Anonymous asked: I just asked a question about seeing the data statistics/ bar graphs - please ignore it! Just reread your pinned and realised I'd missed that bit :'). BUT, last point remains, thank you for running this blog and putting up with repetitive anons I bet aksjskdjsk

I haven't put the data in a graph yet, but if I figure out how to organize that in a way that's both comprehensible and actually tells us something new, I'll give it a try for sure. Until then, we do have the spreadsheet. And no worries, I'm glad you're enjoying the blog! :)

Anonymous asked: *sees a poll blog* "I must answer each and every poll I can"

Godspeed on your journey and remember to stay hydrated! 🫡

Anonymous asked: this is my favorite blog! Every morning I wake up and check the polls like they're the paper, just to say "I don't know them" Truely a humbling experience!

Happy to be your neighborhood paperboy!

@iceice-baeby asked: Are olyou fearing the day someone submits Solid Snake from MGS and you will choose the wrong picture Because everyone always seems to choose the wrong picture

The only difficulty will be in not using this one:

Anonymous asked: Just scrolled back through your blog up to posts from Dec 3rd and I know why those polls are closed now but I cannot describe the genuine anguish I felt seeing Mr Orange and going NO I KNOW HIM - I KNOW HIM!!!! Anyway I found this blog like ten minutes ago and I love it

Don't worry, he's A-OK! 👍

(Also, thanks! I appreciate your dedication.)

Anonymous asked: scrolling through to catch up on the characters and knowing a whole three of them was so bizarre. im not supposed to press the yes i know them button, im supposed to do my sworn duty and vote no with unending confusion. the world has been flipped on its head 😵‍💫

I bet the next 30 were characters you've never heard of, just for balance to be restored.

Anonymous asked: Whenever i misclick I feel sooooo bad like im sorry my dear friend for not recognizing you I apologize for my rudeness

No polls so far ended with only one vote difference between answers, so you don't have to feel too bad. For now. 👀

Anonymous asked: this is fun cause i’ve definitely submitted some characters but i’ve immediately forgotten who. so i’ll also be pleasantly surprised to see my beloveds on the blog.

A gift from you to you, courtesy of unreliable memory! Sweet!

Anonymous asked: Devastating. I keep missing the voting for the only characters I know.

You'll do it one day, I believe in you!!

@iceice-baeby asked: Would you consider writing in the tags if YOU know a character or not You have done it sometimes before, but I'd be curious if you do recognise some of those random niche as all hell blorbos Also I can't wait for my Blorbos turn. Because either He-and-she is gonna take most obscure place, OR I will actually find maybe more than two people, myself included, who know him-and-her and who I can ramble at for hours until they block me

Oh yeah, for sure. I didn't think anyone would be interested to know, but I can do that when I remember to!

Did your blorbo show up already?

Anonymous asked: I have been having the opposite problem of everyone else, apparently. I'll see a name and be like, "I don't know who that is". But then I see the picture and realize… Yes I do!

That's why I take the time to include fitting pictures, helps jog the memory!

Anonymous asked: I feel very superior every time I know a character most people don't

Hey, nobody likes a show-off. (<- Joking)

Anonymous asked: Wait, has Beetlejuice not been submitted?? I could've sworn I submitted the musical version! Anonymous asked: Oh wait no I didn't submit musical Beetlejuice to you, got you mixed up with @/every-character-ever-poll lol my bad

Indeed he hasn't been submitted yet, maybe next time!

@thetisming asked: sorry for saying something negative in the replies to a post someone was being a dick about jukebox musicals

No worries, but don't let it get to you. People are allowed to dislike your favorite things even without any good reason. It's a matter of taste, which is highly subjective. It's more constructive to focus your attention on people who do enjoy the same things as you!

@autism-criminal asked: What is your favorite color of the rainbow (red orange yellow green blue indigo purple) ?

Orange! 🍊 What's yours? :)

Anonymous asked: "data is not accurate" bro if ur going to a tumblr poll blog for accurate data you NEED to reassess some things asdfghjkl; anyway this blog is great thank you for running it it's a lot of fun and has resulted in some very funny interactions between me and my fiance. notably "what the fuck do you MEAN 6% of the sans undertale website doesn't know who sans undertale is" and "i'm sorry i simply don't believe that ANYONE doesn't know who DRACULA is"

Different people come here with different expectations, I suppose. Which is fine, I don't mind, but they're bound to be disappointed if they expect 100% accuracy all the time. But anyway! I'm happy to hear I can provide a new form of enrichment for you and your fiancé!

@sweetpollyolliver asked: So many manga and anime characters and I know like 1% of them 😭

I'm ngl, I'm not a big manga/anime connoisseur either, so I'm just as lost as you most of the time lol 🤝 (<- shaking hands in solidarity)

@cringelordofchaos asked: If I go insane one day I am going to try to make an English translation for Mesec Boje Purpura so everyone can know who veštica Noks is

I'm fully behind you! Keep us updated if you do.

Anonymous asked: I scroll through your blog. I don’t recognise any of these characters. ‘No,’ I click, ‘no,’ ‘no,’ ‘no.’ I am content in the darkness of the rock I live under. But, alas, all things must end. I continue my scroll, the glee of the irrelevant rampant in my veins. But what’s this? It can’t be… My shelter is cruelly ripped away and the brutal light of knowledge seeks me out like a bloodhound, it gives me no place to hide. ‘Yes,’ I sob, defeated, ‘Yes, I do know the jjba character.’

A modern-day Greek tragedy, truly 💔

Anonymous asked: was really surprised to vote and see that a character was 100% know them. then I noticed I got there early enough to be the only vote

For one shining, brilliant moment they were 100% known and surely that counts for something.

Anonymous asked: You should make up a character and make a poll for them and see how many people lie or misclick

Well....... I'm not going to comment on that. 🐰

Anonymous asked: I follow this blog and another blog that does smash or pass and occassionally I will come to one of your posts and examine the images to decide and then remember this blog's gimmick before trying to hit smash

Imagine voting smash there and then coming here to vote "I don't know them at all" on the same character. Brutal.

@ink7blot asked: *sees big naturals* I hate that. *reblogs*

A job well done, then 😌

#dyktc chatter #asks #not a poll #anonymous #iceice-baeby #thetisming #autism-criminal #sweetpollyolliver #cringelordofchaos #ink7blot #phew that was a lot

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theladyragnell · 2 months

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I am surprised that you are concerned about Catherine Called Birdy wrecking you. I found it to be very light hearted and a silly romp.

I watched this vid recently and felt Shrimp Emotions, it's quite possible I'm just rather fragile about things! But as much of a romp it seems like overall, from some gifsets and things I've seen I also know there are some moments that are going to Get Me.

#sweetpollyolliver #answered asks

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gabzilla-z · 11 months

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Gabzy!!!!!!! Are you still reading the Spy x Family manga? Have you read the latest chapter?? 😱😱😱

Yes and yes.

Need less Yuri and more Yor tbh.

#i know he's not dead but one can dream #ask gabzy #sweetpollyolliver

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veliseraptor · 2 years

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Bubblegum Bitch for sure, and definitely Royalty, with a tiny tiny side of Raspberry Ice (with regards to nmj) and very occasionally Box Dimension

I have to tell you I laughed about the fighting in a parking lot re: nie mingjue. that's fair and understandable though I'll warn you I've been described as "scrappy"

for the rest: thank you! and also probably when you're in box dimension the answer is "nope, but I'll get there eventually, or at least an approximation thereof"

#conversating #sweetpollyolliver #that's usually the case anyway #also i am. completely serious about the descriptor. more than once even #i'm not sure how i feel about it.#lise memes

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yexie · 11 months

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Congrats to the Divorce Poll Winners: Nieyao!!

tfw you get divorced so hard it kickstarts the whole plot

In second place we have: Chengyao!

nothing like amicably co-parenting a child and then having a messy divorce right in front of said child

And in third place: Xiyao!

a divorce so harrowing you need to go into seclusion about it

That‘s a wrap, folks!

at this point special shoutout to xuexiao though, incredible effort there, xiyao beat y‘all by only 1%!! y‘all love pain huh

i‘m considering making a „who should‘ve gotten divorced“ poll based on the incredible suggestions by @sweetpollyolliver 👀 but we shall see

For now, congrats to Jin Guangyao for being The Most Divorced Character Ever, Probably!! oh boy.

#the untamed #mdzs #jin guangyao #nie mingjue #nieyao #jiang cheng #chengyao #lan xichen #xiyao #polls #max.txt #s: the untamed #b: mdzs #cql #s: cql

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dollsome-does-tumblr · 8 months

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thanks for the tag, @sweetpollyolliver ! :)

favourite colour: pink and yellow tie!

last song: "love is blindness" by jack white

last movie: a haunting in venice. it was a pleasantly eerie one! i just want to watch people be terrified in a weird-ass house, okay. that's all i've ever wanted.

currently watching: the bf and i started watching jenna coleman's new series wilderness last night and as of the first two eps, it is VERY fun so far in a bonkers melodramatic way. also doing a millionth rewatch of superstore!

other stuff i watched this year: ahahaha. i can't list everything because i watch way too much tv. but some standouts for shows i watched for the first time this year are rectify, the righteous gemstones, joe pera talks with you, nathan for you, the sex lives of college girls, dave, somebody somewhere, the gilded age, shrinking, cunk on earth, vice principals, beef, i hate suzie too, & poker face. sadly, this is a very abridged list.

shows i dropped this year/didn’t finish: somehow i just stopped in the middle of schmigadoon season two? i like schmigadoon but for some reason i'm never in the mood to watch it.

shows I would like to watch: bad sisters, the bear, reservation dogs, black sails

currently reading: a reread of the lie tree by frances hardinge

currently listening to: i have been delighting in olivia rodrigo's new album.

currently working on: finishing up the last two chapters of my succession wip fic. i am technically almost done but also, for no particular reason, Very Nervous.

current obsession:

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but i am very chill about it so nobody's probably even noticed.

tagging: whoever sees this and wants to do it! (i'm lazy today. but also, i'd love to read what you have to say!)

#dollsome's deep thoughts

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winepresswrath · 4 years

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(1) I have to admit, I don't understand what it is that a lot of people have against Xichen - I am honestly very confused about it. As someone who has a lot of responsibility at work and someone who is in a central role in a large and conflicted family, I kind of relate to him a lot. The most effective way of making peace is often talking people round by semi-agreeing with them while also not agreeing with them. It's pragmatism. I don't know, I don't mean to defend him but he also, you know,

(2) isn't cruel - is kind in fact! And I get the impression he tries to do the right thing, as he sees it. He does not kill lots of people. Is it that he /could/have achieved so much if he took a side at some point?

Xichen emphatically is not cruel! He’s consistently kind, and he has very good opinions, relative to his peers, on things like second chances and beating teenagers until they can barely walk and whether you should murder your enemies en masse without trial. He’s also much less inclined than many people with substantially shittier ideas to defend and stand by his (correct!) moral assessments. Xichen is, to me, one of those narratively satisfying cases where his greatest strength is also his greatest weakness. Giving people the benefit of the doubt, valuing different perspectives, and trying to find compromise and common ground are all genuinely good and admirable things right up until one of those perspectives is “I declare a blood feud” and you’re in a position of power accidentally lending your stellar reputation for righteousness to endorse atrocities because your boyfriend has a very convincing mustache and you didn’t want to fight with him about collective punishment in front of your other boyfriend’s shitty dad. It’s not like there’s no upside to his approach! There’s a post that went around awhile ago about how his willingness to hear Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji out and try to investigate and gather evidence rather than just defaulting to assuming that his beloved boy/friend who helped him rebuild his home was innocent and the necromancer who killed a bunch of his friends is up to some shady shit is good, actually, and I agree! That’s Xichen at his best, and his best is very good! Had an alternate universe Jin Guangyao been coming back from the dead to expose Wei Wuxian’s crimes I think Lan Wangji would have handled that comparatively badly.

However, I also think taking the middle road is not a morally neutral choice and he compromises on a bunch of stuff I think a) you shouldn’t compromise on and b) he could have fought harder about, and sometimes I am left being like “Xichen. Xichen come on you KNOW this is wrong. Xichen! If you’re going to endorse work camps run by JIN GUANGSHAN shortly after he declared a blood feud you’ve gotta station some of your own people in those camps so they can see what’s going on! Xichen! Mingjue listens to you! He loves and trusts you! Together you can make things unpleasant and annoying enough for Jin Guangshan that he’ll be less shit for pragmatic reasons! Xichen I know you love Jiggy and have mommy issues that are directly on point here, but once he’s Chief Cultivator and you’re one of the leaders of the three other remaining great sects ‘I assumed you had your reasons’ is not enough you’ve gotta look directly at the thing so you have the best idea possible about what you’re choosing to let happen.”

All my favourites do terrible things except Yanli, so it’s not like I think he’s in bad company. Most of the cast spends most of the story fucking up horribly in lots of fun and terrible ways! That’s a big part of what I personally find compelling about this story.

#lan xichen #and whose fuckups you find the most compelling and heartbreaking #is honestly i think mostly a matter of person preference #like I do think think there is a range and not all of these characters are morally equivallent for sure #but whether you find mingjue's willingness to hop on board with bad things #because he thinks they're right or at least neutral #or xichen's willingness to hop on board with bad things #because he thinks compromising is generally the right thing to do #and also hates conflict #more sympathetic is probably just going to be a tossup #and now i genuinely ship nielan because their complementary faults make their #relationship work wonderfully #while everyone else gets fucked #except jiggy and jgs who are working it #idk i like xichen very much and honestly what did it for me was a combination of the mommy issues #and coming around on #believing he thinks that compromise is a moral good in and of itself #because apparently i #sweetpollyolliver

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drwcn · 4 years

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For the meme: Jiang Cheng, Nie Huaisang and Wei Wuxian and 10, 7 and 3

Sorry I meant or not and! You choose which you like most :)

put three names & a number in my ask

3. fight aliens with, fight zombies with, fight capitalism with

Fight Aliens with Nie Huaisang NHS is surprisingly intuitive and very intelligent. We probably don’t even have to fight. He’ll just try to communicate with the aliens and we’ll all be friends.

Fight Zombies with Jiang Cheng Is that...not what already happens? LOL. Jiang Cheng and his unreleting rage are all I need in this zombie apocalypse.

Fight Capitalism with Wei Wuxian Wei Wuxian’s go-to colour is red, how convenient, just like the communist manifesto. We’ll seize the day like capitalists seized the means of production.

XD thanks friend!

#about corie #sweetpollyolliver #corie replies

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samyazaz · 3 years

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Top 5 songs to listen to in the morning.

I don’t know that I tend to have songs specifically categorized that way in my head — I do a fair amount of listening to songs first thing in the morning, but it’s to trick my probably-ADD brain so that it will actually let me get up out of bed and start getting ready, so my listening choice tends to be more defined by that than by the time of day. So, barring that, here’s some frequent choices from my Spotify likes:

1. For weekdays, because it’s the ringtone I use for the alarms on my phone: Loreley, by Blackmore’s Night

2. For when I want to start the day with a cheery bop I can belt along to but also I want to yell about bullshit gender roles: Like A Boy, by Nick Pitera

3. For when I want a nice mellow folksy start to the day with bonus morning imagery: Thus Always to Tyrants, by The Oh Hellos

4. For when I want something peppy enough to dance to to get me moving in the morning but also want to get my brain primed for my current writing project: Never Look Away, by Vienna Teng

5. For when the only force powerful enough to get my ass out of bed is the narrative pull of a five-minute-long ballad about space ghost ships: Dawson’s Christian, by Vixy & Tony

#answered asks #memery #sweetpollyolliver

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fiona-widdershins · 3 years

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Chris Evans

send me your favorite average, white man and i’ll rate him

Yikes, I Don’t See The Appeal || Not My Type || He’s Alright || I See The Appeal But I’m Different™ || Cute But On Alternating Wednesdays || He Has A Kind Face And That’s Good Enough || Pretty || Gorgeous || I— I Love? We Don’t Deserve Him.

#sweetpollyolliver #Answers to Things

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pilferingapples · 4 years

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@sweetpollyolliver replied to your post “I want. Jewel tones. I want vivid colors and really loud patterns and...”

Yes tell me about it! Occasionally they go really out there and do an ugly shade of red potentially in an ugly pattern but that’s the best you will get

WHY IS IT ALWAYS UGLY RED ,I mean it IS you are so right but WHYYY

#sweetpollyolliver #talking to people through replies what #natter

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theladyragnell · 1 year

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Hello Nell, it's been a while since I sent you a fic request! I have a challenge for you - no worries if you're not interested though. In anticipation of Shadow and Bone season 2, how about Kaz/Inej/Jesper (specifically the show version of them) and "I didn't realise we were dating!" Jesper has talked himself into believing that he is just imagining being romantically involved with Kaz and Inej :)

(In which I don't have the time to rewrite In Defiance of All Geometry but a lot of people give serious thought to inventing powerpoint to explain things to poor Jesper. Set in some nebulous point in canon, probably post-s1 and pre-s2, but I haven't wached the show since it came out so you'll have to forgive some inaccuracies!)

It’s not that Jesper is lonely.

For one thing, he’s an incredibly charming person, thank you very much, and he makes friends (and other acquaintances, and occasionally, when luck isn’t with him, enemies) wherever he goes. For another, he has a crew these days, steady backup in any rough patch.

It’s just that the two people he sees most often, the two people who have his back more than anyone else, the two people he trusts (and who he can never tell he trusts them because they’d flee the city) are stupidly in love, and Jesper is not meant to be a third wheel.

Somehow, though, he still finds himself sitting and waiting it out while Kaz and Inej exchange looks full of all sorts of things that they then have to explain to him out loud because he can’t do their freaky mind-reading trick. And fading tactfully back when they’ve had a rough job and need to stare at each other and say weird intense things to each other.

“I don’t grudge it for a moment, you understand,” he tells Nina, who is very sympathetic as long as he lets her speak in her turn and who is less embarrassed in funds than he habitually is and buys them drinks when men trying to get her attention aren’t doing it. “It’s just awkward to be there, and they do it in front of me a lot.”

Nina frowns at him. “They’re both pretty private people,” she says, in a leading tone.

Jesper does not like leading tones when he doesn’t know where he’s being led. He groans. “I know that! That’s why I try to keep giving them privacy! It’s just that apparently they can’t restrain themselves long enough for me to leave them alone!”

Nina’s continuing frown takes a turn for the embarrassingly pitying. “Those two never do anything by accident. Surely you know that by now.”

“Whatever you’re trying to be delicate about, please stop, I have a reputation for being unable to take a hint.”

“I can certainly see why,” she says, and refuses to say another word on the subject.

The other problem is, and Jesper will take this one to the grave if his face doesn’t give him away, the problem is that Kaz and Inej are the two most amazing people he knows. They’re also terrifying, but sad as it is, Jesper seems to have a weakness for terrifying people. Inej and her silence and her very scary knives, Kaz and his very scary brain, they’re going to be able to burn down the world someday, and for some reason, they’re letting Jesper come along for the ride.

Jesper’s got an excellent opinion of his own good looks, intelligence, and skill as a sharpshooter. He’s an asset. He’s just not the sort of person who gets ballads and legends written about him, and the other two are.

So if, sometimes, he stares at them while they’re doing the freaky exchanging-looks thing and it’s not annoyance he’s feeling, he hardly thinks that anybody could blame him.

“You keep disappearing after our jobs,” Inej says in the dark.

Jesper yelps. “Must you do that?”

“Do what?” she asks, so dry and absolutely making fun of him. “You used to want to celebrate. Is something wrong?”

“Does Kaz know you’re asking me this?” She gives him a long, judgmental look. Right. Stupid question. She and Kaz plan everything out together, these days. “Okay, fine, obviously. And no, nothing is wrong, does something have to be wrong for me to give you privacy?”

Inej frowns, and Jesper groans and goes to sit down on his bed to start unlacing his boots. To his surprise, Inej sits down next to him a moment later, arm brushing against his. “You’re part of this with us. We don’t need privacy from you.”

First Nina feels sorry for him and now Inej does. And possibly also Kaz, though the thought of being pitied by Kaz is a horrible one. It doesn’t seem to be in his range of emotions, which to Jesper’s knowledge are plotting, anger, and utter devotion to Inej. “You two aren’t exactly babes in the wood, no matter how slow you’re going, and I don’t want to catch sight of anything that would make Kaz put a hit out on me.”

“He would never.”

“You’re right. I think he’d have the good manners to kill an old friend face to face.”

Inej frowns at him in confusion. Jesper waits for her to try to convince him and herself that Kaz would never kill a member of their crew for any reason, or that Kaz, who would probably wear a veil over his head if he’d still get respect that way because he hates anyone to know he’s got anything so human as skin, would be fine with Jesper seeing anything that comes out in the natural course of amorous activities. Instead, she just watches, and after an excruciating interval, says “Hm.”

And then, before he can ask her what that’s supposed to mean, she disappears in that special Wraith way she has, leaving him confused and annoyed and a little bit worried that Kaz might kill him after all.

Kaz does not kill him. Or yell at him, or threaten him, or anything else. Kaz pays for a drink and stakes him in a game and sits next to him while he plays it, intimidating the rest of the table so much Jesper actually wins. He gets them an easy job where Jesper gets to shoot a hole through a man’s hat and gives him the grimace-twitch that serves him as a real smile.

After, during their celebrations, Kaz and Inej sit on either side of him instead of all wrapped up in each other, and Inej leans against Jesper and drinks and laughs, and Kaz doesn’t kill him or even particularly look like he wants to.

“Yes, I get it, you value my friendship, it’s very sweet of both of you,” Jesper says later, when Inej is asleep against his shoulder. It’s kind of nice, being trusted like that.

Kaz stares at him coldly for a good thirty seconds. Jesper waits for a blistering insult, or at best a reminder that he ought to get some rest himself. “Hm,” he says instead, and when Jesper tries to ask what that means, shushes him, looking at Inej meaningfully.

“I don’t know what we’d do without you to make us smile, Jesper,” Inej says quietly, lounging on his bed, a habit she’s somehow picked up.

“Your terrible luck shames me,” says Kaz, and spends an hour making him learn to count cards.

“You’re a mess, Jesper,” says Nina with no sympathy at all when he brings his bafflement to her again. “I’d tell you what to do, but it’s going to be a lot funnier to watch you figure it out.”

Not every job can go well, not even for the best crew in Ketterdam. They set out to divest a merchant of his ill-earned gains, and end up on the run from his private security all across the city. Kaz is somewhere hidden, not being the running type, but Inej and Jesper have been running for long enough that Jesper’s lungs are starting to burn, and while Inej could disappear if she wanted to, for some reason she’s not doing it.

Jesper isn’t good at planning jobs out, all the thousand iterations of a plan that Kaz can come up with and switch between at a second’s notice. One thing he is very good at, though, is improvising. When there’s a convenient alley, he grabs Inej’s hand, pulls her in, and kisses her. It’s a classic distraction technique, and gives him a chance to pluck off his hat, muss up her braid, and make them look like two young lovers who have been at it a while, not a pair of criminals on the run.

Sure enough, the steps of the security slow when they pass them, but they don’t stop, and Jesper kisses Inej for a few seconds more before he backs off. “Do not stab me for that,” he says.

Inej frowns at him. “Stab you? Why would I stab you?”

He frowns right back at her. “Because I kissed you without asking.” He picks up his hat and then freezes. “Wait. Don’t tell Kaz. Kaz really will stab me. You like me at least enough to keep me alive, right?”

“We need to meet up with Kaz,” she says, still looking worried about him, even in the midst of this job knowing something that he doesn’t. “Everything will make a lot more sense then.”

It’s dawn before the three of them meet up, after a lot more evasive maneuvers and a little regrouping and a called in favor that got the unfortunate merchant dumped in the harbor for some nearby fishermen to pull out.

By then, Jesper is exhausted enough that his murder might be a blessing in disguise, so he doesn’t protest when Inej drags him into the room with Kaz and says “He still doesn’t know. He kissed me and he still doesn’t know.”

“Don’t you, Jesper?” Kaz inquires. That’s a dangerous tone of voice.

Jesper, pushed past all endurance, throws his hands up. “Of course I don’t! Why would I know anything? Nina won’t tell me, you two insist that you don’t want privacy despite that being a thing nearly universally desired by all lovers and you don’t really seem like the type to want an audience so I assume that includes you … it’s very trying!”

Kaz smiles. It’s one of the dangerous ones. All the ones that don’t look like weird grimaces are dangerous. “You’re right. We don’t want an audience. Or only a very specific audience, and not as much as we want a participant. You kissed the Wraith. If she didn’t want you to, she would be handing me your liver right now.”

Jesper looks between them, even more baffled. “You need a proxy? I thought you were just going slow about the touching thing, but I suppose I’ve done worse things for people I liked less.”

“Intriguing idea, but also not my point,” says Kaz. “I staked your bet. Have you ever known me to make a bad one?”

“You were being nice?”

“I’m not nice,” says Kaz, and kisses him. It’s quick and brutal and Jesper sits limply on the floor when Kaz is finished with him for the very simple reason that he’s too surprised for his legs to hold him.

“Now do you understand?” asks Inej.

Jesper takes a moment to recalculate his entire life like he might recalculate a shot when the wind picks up. He thinks about being included past all reason, about how Inej and Kaz use words and not touch with each other and, it seems, with him, about good bets and bad bets and Inej not stabbing him in that alley. He thinks, and he gives them his most charming grin. “Maybe you should explain it to me some more.”

Inej grins. Kaz grimaces. Very little of the explaining that follows is verbal.

“I regret ever wanting this to work out,” Nina says a few days later, but she grins and lets him buy her a drink, and really, Jesper is pretty sure he’s never had fewer problems in his life.

#sweetpollyolliver #answered asks #sometimes i write stories

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relatablepicturesof-kuroo · 4 years

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sweetpollyolliver replied to your post “Wow all my old posts had so many notes I really let you guys down when...”

I mean Kuroo hasn't been in the manga for a while as well - don't beat yourself up

that is true but i wasn’t there keeping you guys entertained while he’s mia...

#sweetpollyolliver #loving kuroo hours

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veliseraptor · 2 years

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the silmarillion/lotr?

oh man blast from the (sort of) past! this should be fun

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): hmmmm I feel like at this point probably Maeglin though Celegorm has always been, like, up there. but in the last five years it's been more Maeglin though I think I've probably spent more cumulative brain space and virtual ink on Celegorm (and no regrets about that, mind)

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): honestly feel like the character who most approaches giving me this feeling is Maeglin which. concerning, possibly

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): she's not the most underrated/underappreciated as far as Silm characters go but I have a deep and abiding fondness for Nerdanel that has endured in me quietly for many years.

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): fuck if I know why I'm so weirdly attached to Daeron but here we are! he's kind of awful and I love him a stupid amount and have spent a truly absurd amount of time thinking about him. absolutely pathetic disaster of a man. nothing but mistakes all the way down

but what is the Silmarillion if not a whole book full of glup shittos, is kind of what I want to say

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): pretty much all my Silmarillion faves qualify here because as usual are they really a fave for me if they haven't killed at least two digits worth of people but!! yeah it's Maeglin and Celegorm. especially Maeglin, I feel like Maeglin is somehow the epitome of a poor little meow meow

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): I feel like for this meme in general you could take the "poor little meow meow" answer and this answer and smush them together and it'd just be the same across the board. I love them and their lives probably already suck and I'm just here to make it worse, yanno

eeby deeby (character I would send to superhell): every single iteration of feanorian discourse I've been forced to endure during my time on the internet

(or maybe Eol.)

#conversating #sweetpollyolliver #fun fact i have rped every character in this post other than eol #noldor are the best dor #lise memes

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