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aida-sparks · 3 months

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To 9-1-1: Just Take One REAL Step Toward Buddie. See What Happens.

Hello fellow 9-1-1 buddie fans! I've been mulling over season 7 and a topic close to our hearts: the possibility of buddie sailing into full-on canon territory. We've heard people say the show can't give us buddie, using the unfortunate reason that it's because the larger general audience doesn't "see" buddie as a thing. That while the buddie fandom is huge, it doesn't compare to the size of the overall viewing audience, most of which don't even engage online in the fandom and might not know about the potential of buddie as a ship.

So that's the reason we may only ever get a love story that's written entirely in the subtext of the show? No, that's not good enough. I want to believe this show of ours is daring enough to let the general audience in on things and let them make up their own minds on the matter. Give the idea of buddie canon a fighting chance. Sure, the subtle nods and secret messages woven into the show might be crystal clear to us. But casual viewers probably don't pick up on those messages nestled in the nooks and cracks where buddie has been written up till now. We need to aim for more than subtext. And definitely don't settle for that color theory. If we are to get anywhere, we need to see them start spelling it out with explicit dialogue and storyline moments for the entire audience to interpret on their own.

By this season's end, the show needs to step out of the carefully crafted, unspoken undertones they always give buddie fans, and instead they need to explicitly spell out to the casual viewing audience, 'Hey there's a strong potential that Buck and Eddie might just be more than buddies (no pun intended). It has to be well done with clear hints leading up to it, of course, not just something in a single scene that's dropped on the casual viewers' heads like a piano. But it's more than possible to do, especially using flashbacks to buddie scenes and stolen glances throughout the seasons. Think about it. Eddie wrote Buck (and Buck alone) into his will; that's no small gesture! They can weave and layer these past moments into a current storyline, building up to a revelation from Buck and/or Eddie that feels like a "Whoa!" moment for all viewers (not just the buddie shippers), like, "I didn't see it before, but it makes sense. I can see those two as something more now."

And there are many different paths the show can take to get Buck and/or Eddie to this revelation. (I have my own idea of how it might go. The options are as diverse as all our fandom theories.) But how they get there isn't the important piece. What matters is that the possibility of something potentially happening between Buck and Eddie is CRYSTAL CLEAR in the narrative! Actually written into the dialogue and storyline, in a plausible way.

The show doesn't even have to commit buddie-end-game. They just have to give them a fighting chance by putting the possibility of it out there in the plain light of day, in front of the entire audience and see how it sticks. They could shift course in future storylines if it doesn't go over well, but my honest guess is that a majority wouldn't mind buddie becoming canon at all once they're exposed to it, especially if it was written/produced well; Oliver's and Ryan's on-fire chemistry is already there to carry it through. Many would come to root for buddie, especially over another new love interest introduced so late in the series that can't match all we've seen Buck and Eddie build together. Some viewers might not care one way or the other; they might just be in for the crazy emergencies each week. So then if we the remove this perception that buddie canon would not take well with general audience, what else is stopping it? I can't think of anything.... full steam ahead!

Now, am I prepared for the heartbreaking possibility that buddie might never go full canon in the sense we hope? That we may only ever get a love story buried in the subtext, if that's the best the show is allowed to give us? Sure, but it's much harder and so unfulfilling to come to terms with that outcome if the show never gives them a real chance at it in the first place.

This long ramble is all simply to say that I'm not demanding that buddie become canon. I'm asking that the possibility of it becomes canon.

If nothing else, it would take the "delusional" and "clown" stigmas off of buddie shippers' shoulders because addressing the potential of buddie in the show tells the audience that hey, maybe there could be something there; they didn't just "see things that weren't there". I don't see this as such a heavy thing to ask for. Please let this make sense to everyone. It does in my head. lol.

#buddie #buddie canon #buddie thoughts #911 buddie #911 abc #eddie diaz #evan buckley #buddie meta #buck x eddie #buddie 911 #tv: 911

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crowleyholmes · 9 months

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Concerning the Metatron's "offer"...

So I've had some thoughts about season 3 and I've hesitated to post them because a little voice in the back of my head kept piping up telling me it's a bit fanficion-y, but, like... was season 2 not fanfiction-y? I feel like with the jane austen ball dancing and the match-making, and the "oh..." moment and the dramatic angsty kiss-and-immediate-break-up, anything is fair game.

So here's what I've been thinking about - it centers around the Metatron's offer to let Aziraphale reinstate Crowley as an angel.

So at this point we're all in agreement that the Metatron knew perfectly well that Crowley was never going to accept the 'invitation' back to heaven, right?

It was only a clever ploy to get Aziraphale to really consider it and to make him finally accept the 'promotion', so they could bring him back to heaven and use him for whatever it is they really want him for, without Crowley, because I think separating the two was a big part of why they want Aziraphale back in heaven. Maybe because their combined miracles are so incredibly powerful and heaven is worried about what they might get up to once they realize?

Anyway.

I don't believe that getting Aziraphale to heaven was the only purpose of the 'offer' to reinstate Crowley as an angel – I think it was a very calculated set-up for further manipulation. And I'm stepping from in-story facts to meta now, because what is it that Aziraphale needs to do next season? He needs to finally and irrevocably separate himself from heaven, right? If he wants to be with Crowley (which we know he does, more than anything), then he can not be with heaven (at the very least not as it is right now).

But heaven, for some reason, needs him to help bring about the Second Coming. So heaven needs to make sure of 3 things: a) to keep Aziraphale away from Crowley, b) to keep Aziraphale in heaven in general, and c) to absolutely turn Aziraphale against hell. Which he already is, but I don't think he is quite strongly enough against hell to satisfy heaven and to be willing to bring about Armageddon #2 and destroy them all. They need to re-brainwash him, fully.

The need to keep up and REINFORCE Aziraphale's desperate believe in heaven as unquestionably The Good Guys, and hell as irredeemably The Bad Guys. And what's the easiest way to Aziraphale's heart? What's the easiest way to manipulate him? What is the most important thing in the world to him? What could we possibly use as a tool to get this little angel to dance to our tune? What would make Aziraphale hate hell with a divine fury?

Mhm.

Something Bad is going to happen to Crowley (either arranged by heaven and convincingly blamed on hell, or done by hell but arranged at LEAST partly by heaven).

And THEN the Metatron can tell Aziraphale 'look what they've done/they're doing to your friend. Look how he's suffering, isn't it awful? He could be here with us right now, safe and sound, because we were ready to forgive him for all his sins and take him back, if only he had accepted our kindness, such a shame...”

I'll go off on a bit of a tangent here but...

This also works very well for another reason that is extremely important narratively: Aziraphale needs to be the one to rescue Crowley from something - it's happened the other way around Too Many Times, there's an imbalance there, a big one. Crowley gives and gives and gives and sacrifices and compromises over and over and over, and Aziraphale has been taking him for granted.

Now don't get me wrong, I know that Aziraphale would come to his rescue IMMEDIATELY the second he got the faintest whiff of there being any NEED for him to. He has, in the past, offered to do things for Crowley, asked him what he could do for him.

It's just that, so far, in his eyes and as far as he knows, Crowley has never needed rescuing, or given Aziraphale any kind of reason to believe that he cannot simply get himself out of whatever situations he might get into. In Aziraphale's eyes, Crowley is incredibly strong and unafraid and capable of anything and does not need him. Or at the very least, does not need his help.

And it doesn't help that Crowley is way too proud (and protective of Aziraphale) to ever admit that he needs help. Hell, he doesn't even tell Aziraphale that he's living in his car because he lost his flat.

Which brings me back to the Something Terrible that is going to happen to Crowley. Aziraphale will see him in whatever horrifying situation, suffering and completely alone, and he will DROP EVERYTHING to get him out of there as fast as he can.

I don't think this will go over well, because at this point Aziraphale will probably already be quite re-brainwashed and while he will likely get Crowley out of any immediate mortal danger, I don't think the two of them will reconcile there already – unless Aziraphale realizes during the rescue that what happened to Crowley was (at least in part but probably in LARGE part) heaven's doing and he'll finally be back on Their Side instead of heaven's or hell's, for good this time.

But even if he doesn't realize that yet, and sticks with heaven for the time being, I think it will be enough to show Crowley that he is loved. Really loved. That Aziraphale asking him to come back to heaven with him was never about making Crowley be an angel again. That was never the part Aziraphale cared about, not really. The part he cared about was that it meant that they would be together and they would be safe, Crowley would be safe.

Because, while I do think that Aziraphale never thought of Crowley as someone who needs saving from anything, Aziraphale isn't stupid. He is very aware that Hell deals out harsher punishments more frequently than heaven does, and he knows that Crowley does not deserve ANY punishment – has never deserved any punishment, beginning with the Fall itself. All he wants is justice and safety and happiness for Crowley, and I think after Aziraphale rescues him (for which, in order to do it, Aziraphale will have to make compromises and sacrifices himself, most likely to Heaven's detriment), Crowley will understand that. Aziraphale loves him exactly as he is. And loves him more than he loves Heaven.

Aziraphale only chose heaven at the end of season 2 because it was, in his eyes (and to be fair, also in my eyes) the right thing to do (as painful as it was), and Aziraphale's most FUNDAMENTAL character trait is that he always strives to do what is right, even if it goes against what Heaven tells him is good.

He chose heaven because he believes it can be saved, and Aziraphale would never give up on anyone or anything that he believes can be saved.

I think in the end, Aziraphale will either actually manage to make a difference, or he will realize that heaven can NOT be saved and that is when he will give up on it and realize that the only place for him to be is With Crowley.

#good omens #good omens meta #good omens 2 #spoilers #good omens theories #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #ineffable partners #mine #gomens2 #good omens spoilers #sorry i think this may be a bit incoherent in parts #i stayed up too late last night and slept in too late today and my brain is a bit scrambled

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thepreciousprophecy · 1 year

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Cuddled Up with Tamaki Amajiki

Just a warning, I've never written fanfiction or even watched MHA before. I wrote this because I'm insanely in love with Tamaki. So, hope this isn't OOC--anyways, just a little bit of fluff with a gender-neutral reader!

It's freezing. Everything is freezing. The weather network said it'd be an okay night, so why is it freezing?!

You agreed to go out on a camping trip with Mirio, Nejire, and the sweet boy of your dreams: Tamaki. It would've been a nice break from school, and while you're not particularly fond of the outdoors because of the bugs and campfire tales, the mention of Amajiki was enough to immediately cement your decision. You'd had a crush on him for a while now, and the reasons were endless. His fluffy soft hair and the way it perfectly matched his navy blue eyes that you could (and have) gotten lost in forever. His rosy red cheeks that lit up when you stroked his hand on "accident", the slight squeaks in his voice, his warm touch that continuously seemed to blossom something inside you. His being a loner just added to his cuteness. It felt like...he was all for you. Only for you. You yearned to cup his face in your hands and stare at him, watching his mouth tremble gently as it always did when he got embarrassed. Oh and the best part about him-those ears. Thin and pointed, like an elf, you watched and grinned when they got a tinge of red to them. Sometimes they twitched. He was like an adorable little rabbit. It was fun, as well as embarrassing when you daydreamed about him. But it was impossible not to! Who wouldn't want to cuddle with him at night, kiss away the tears dripping from his velvety eyes, and whisper praise into his ears? However, because of the lack of camping, you failed to notice a fairly wide hole in the top of your tent. Thankfully, it was covered in mesh so no bugs could get in, but if it rained you'd be done for. And oh, the irony. Because that night a thunderstorm came in unannounced a few hours after the others had gone to bed, and soaked your tent in water before you woke up. Luckily it hadn't been too bad...yet at least. The floor had a huge puddle of water on it, and it already seeped into a few of your belongings. But...no! You have books! And tech! Goddamnit, seriously tonight!? You needed somewhere to rest, 'cause your under-eyes were dark enough. You stuffed your bag with as many of your important belongings as you could--that you could see. You unzipped the tent and looked around. The others' tents were small, but not awful. Although Tamaki's certainly is a bit bigger... You grinned as you headed over to his tent. A sweetie like him couldn't resist you, could he? When you got to his tent, you bent down gently and tugged on the overhang. "Oh, Tama.." you cooed. Shaking it more didn't do anything. There wasn't a peep from his tent. So, determined, you started to unzip the door. It was very dark. But you could still make out Tamaki's lean figure..softly breathing under the covers. You leaned over and rubbed his shoulder politely. He looked so peaceful when he slept. You shook him a little harder, and his eyes fluttered open. "Morning, Tama-chan."

"Ah…um…good morning? What time is it? Also…why are you in my tent?" He got up and groaned. "I'm here to ask a favour. Would you please let me stay the night here? My tent's soaked." I shuffled over to let him look. "Geez…that's rough. But why are you not going to Nejire or Mirio's?" Stop asking…please stop asking! Just let me stay the night! "Your tent's the biggest. Plus…' I got cocky. Sorry future me. 'I thought someone as sweet as you would let a darling in?" I smirked mischievously at him. He looked embarrassed and contemplated it for a moment. "Alright. You can stay here. Shoes at the entrance, and leave your stuff with mine, okay.?" His voice had begun to tremble. Maybe it was the cold, but I wanted to believe it was the compliment. I slid off my shoes and tossed my bag with his. "Thank you. Sorry for intruding." I could hear him sigh gently through the wind and a shuffling noise as he moved his mattress closer. It was a single. I slipped closer and bent down gently. He was covering his face with the blanket. Now, time to make my decision…do I face him or face outwards? I should look outwards, but it's so cold tonight… As I cuddled up against him and pulled Tamaki's blanket over me, I felt our legs rub together. Closing my eyes made me focus a lot more on my surroundings, and also made me realize how close I was to the guy I dreamed about kissing every single day. Along with the damp smell of the forest, a faint aroma of his cologne lingered on everything in the tent. Though the thunder was so loud I could still hear his calm breaths and occasional shuddering. "Are you alright?" "I'm fine…why do you ask?" His voice was muffled by the blanket and the hoodie he was wearing. "You're shivering. Is it too cold?" He shuffled a little closer to you. "Ah, yeah. I didn't bring enough blankets." "You can come closer, then. I don't mind." Your voice trailed off at the end, worried that what to him looked like confidence would ruin the mood. "No, no, it's fine…" He promised. So you closed your eyes again, a little disappointed that he didn't take up your offer. However, about a minute later, you felt one of his legs slip between yours. You kept your eyes shut, hoping that he thought you were asleep. He moved slowly, but soon enough you were just a couple of inches away from each other's faces and your bodies were pressed together. You struggled to keep a straight face as his breath, warm and cozy in comparison to the chilly wind outside, blew right up against your neck. Carefully, a pair of thin arms found their way around your waist and hugged you tightly. You let out the softest sigh of happiness you could and enjoyed his warmth. And sometime through the night, your arms must've wrapped around him too because when you woke up that morning your faces were both a rosy pink.

#tamaki amajiki #tamaki amajiki x reader #mha x reader #gn reader #mha tamaki #romance #fluff #mha fluff

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neuroticbookworm · 9 months

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Thai QL Favorites Tag Game

Tagged by @telomeke, thanks friend! ^^

Credit: this game was created by @thatgirl4815 as Thai BL Favorites Tag Game.

Favorite Thai QL: Bad Buddy, my beloved. I've watched very few QLs, and Bad Buddy is the one that I often go back to when I need a pick-me-up. It may not be perfect (Wai, my beloathed) but the show never fails to make me feel deeply whenever I revisit it.

Favorite Pairing: I share @lurkingshan's opinions on branded pairs, so I'm gonna answer with a pair that I think is well-matched in terms of on-screen talent, and therefore, my favorite: FirstKhao. GMMTV took two bad bitches and said "We're gonna pit them against each other and they're gonna love it" and boy, so do we.

Most underrated actor: I saw Sing Harit almost drown Gun Atthaphan in Not Me and I've been in love ever since. I have no reasonable metrics to know if he's actually underrated, other than the fact that he doesn't show up on my dash as much as I would like. I want to see more of him, and I can't wait to get to The Warp Effect, where he wears.. *checks notes* a puppy mask? Ummmmmmmm

Favorite Character: Time to get controversial, baby!

(tagging my ToL gang @waitmyturtles, @lurkingshan, @manogirl. Keep the getaway car running, frens. We might need to make a quick exit)

*clears throat* Khai from Theory of Love.

Wait.

WAIT.

WAIT. HERE ME OUT.

I absolutely love the fact that Khai is so well-written that half the audience can't stand to watch him and the ones who make it through either viciously hate him or absolutely love him. I love that he was unabashedly awful in the first half, and I love that his redemption arc was gradual. Was he still a dipshit in some moments in the second half? Yes. Was it realistic and in-character? Also yes. I love a character who can fully acknowledge his mistakes and wholeheartedly apologize and strive to do better in the future. So, to sum up, *hugs him close to my chest like a stuffie* KHAI, MY UTTERLY BELOVED!

Favorite Side Character: Hoon from I Told Sunset About You. The fact that called Teh a crybaby when he was having a complete breakdown in Hoon's arms cemented his place in my heart.

Favorite scene in a QL: The AlanWen conversation scene at the outdoor diner in Moonlight Chicken, episode 5. Yes, I'm a masochist, thank you for asking. I'm also a staunch Alan apologist, and will defend my poor little meow meow to the ends of the Earth. (ha, me clever)

Favorite line in a QL: "Why is your wall so high?" -- Wen to Uncle Jim, Moonlight Chicken, episode 6.

Most Anticipated QL (& why): Only Friends -- doy.

Healthiest relationship in a QL: My Sunshine babies, Mork and Tawan from My Ride. They were so good to each other and they got to know each other as friends before moving into a romantic relationship, and the transition felt as natural as possible. The drama was minimal and there were no stupid misunderstandings for the sake of moving the plot along.

Most toxic relationship in a QL: VegasPete in KinnPorsche. I also co-sign @lurkingshan's pick, ToyBoss from My Ride. If anyone messes with my bookshelves the way Toy does at Boss' apartment, they will get thrown off the balcony.

Guilty pleasure series: I don't have one, fam. I'm very new to the QL town and the ones I feel guilty for watching were not pleasurable in any way.

Most underrated series: La Pluie, the love of my life. I've gushed all over my blog about this show, week after week. I don't think I can say anything more that hasn't already been said, so I'm just gonna link the La Pluie meta round up, and invite you to ponder truly how amazing a show must be to inspire these many incredible metas.

I am a full three weeks late to this game, so I'm pretty sure everyone has already done it. So if you made it this far, and still haven't participated, consider yourself tagged, my friend! Toodles!

#thai ql tag game #tag game #this was so much fun!#thanks for the tag!#bad buddy #bad buddy series #firstkhao #sing harit #not me the series #the warp effect #theory of love the series #i told sunset about you #moonlight chicken #only friends the series #ofts #my ride the series #kinnporsche #la pluie

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westeroslive · 23 days

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callout on @honorhq / @tvrgariens / @bvrningflares / max / icarus

so i can honestly say, i've never posted a callout post. i've never felt the desire to - well that's certainly not true, but i've never actually done it. but i have to say, i've put up with a lot over the years but blatant plagiarization *?* absolutely the fuck not. for those of you who do not know, i - along with two friends - run @westeroslive, and prior to that 2 of us ran thronesfm. we've been open since close to the beginning of the year on and off, this run has been open over a month, and we have built a nice little place for ourselves.

a new game of thrones / a song of ice and fire roleplay just dropped ( honorhq ), which honestly, you go ! but we have noticed they have plagiarized our essosi houses, which as you might know, are basically entirely created from our mind ( even though the names were somewhere in grrm's universe ). we will be calling those admins out because we are totally not cool with this. we really don't care that there are other roleplays out there ( or if you guys join them, like truly - go for it !! support other creators because beautiful plots and stories emerge from them ) but our admin team literally spent many hours figuring out the right houses / cities / backgrounds to make it work - and we have more lore coming up for them, so this is just not ok with us.

@honorhq we want to know how on earth you think it would be okay to completely plagiarize our ideas, specifically relating to essos. sometimes people have the same idea - sure, whatever. but that is ....... very much not the case here and i'm not putting up with that. when the three of us formed this group , we created the idea of essos becoming a joined empire under the dagareon rule. literally took me hours of selecting what houses sounded good - which seemed to fit the vibe - and which i liked best. most i didn't love, and so skipped past. in the canon works of grrm, essos - specifically the locations we chose - is canonically free cities and not at all united. we only chose some of the free cities for this rule ( which if you're trying to 'take inspo' like besties at least use other cities and names lol ) and some of the random names off the many got/asoiaf essos names; dagareon being - a house that is just a random house from essos - not any ruling one. and specifically put dagareon as the leading party, rogare as the 'ruling' party of lys based on them being a bigger house there, and moraqos being of myr based soley on us looking at random houses and deciding on them, house zalyne because there was a sealord from that house once upon a time. so sure, i'll give you that one as not blatantly copied. but one glance at your group tells me not only are you completely stealing those, you are going as far as to say *members of house dagareon must be of filipino ethnicity* - matching our own, for …. zero reason. like, you could have chosen any ethnic background but you chose to copy. babes what in the actual fuck. it's ..... it's not looking good.

not only is this a new group copying - but this is a current ( now former ) member who has done this. it’s …. honestly so vile to think they would find this acceptable ??? we’re all writers. we know how shitty it feels to have someone.

i can’t remember if they ever sent in an account, but what i do know is at one point they followed us and submit an app ( as is proven in the link ), so even if this would be played as ‘somehow a coincidence’ it’s just not accurate.

#got rp #asoiaf rp #period rp #fantasy rp

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moriohradiojanitorroom · 2 months

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Hi, I stumbled across your blog and I'm really excited to try the match-up✨

Sorry if I write anything wrong, this is my first experience

I have always been told I am a very kind, caring and compassionate person. I think this is true, I always try to help people around me. I am also very optimistic and always try to think of the best. I am still a very shy, insecure and irascible person, but my bad moods pass quickly. If this helps you I am pisces and infp

Speaking of hobbies I really love my favorite manga and anime and cooking. Although some of my recipes sound suspicious but the dishes turn out really delicious. I can't imagine my life without music, I listen to it all the time. I think it's a bit funny, but I do know a lot of facts from many different fields

Oh, I'm afraid I've written too much. If something is unclear then please apologize, English is not my native language. Anyway thanks and good luck, looking forward to your reply💐

Hi there!!! Thanks so much for this request, I was really excited to fulfill it! And don’t worry about too much info or anything like that, this is great! This is also my first time writing a matchup so I hope it’s alright dkdnjsmd You didn’t specify an age or any preferences, so I’m gonna give you a canonically adult character & assume you don’t have a preference for other stuff, like gender or what part they’re from - if you’d like to resubmit with that in mind tho, that’s okay!

With all that in mind, here are some honourable mentions:

Noriaki Kakyoin was the first to come to mind when I read your request, but with the age thing in consideration, I decided to choose someone else.

After that, I considered Jonathan Joestar, Erina Pendleton, and Mohammad Avdol! Ultimately, though, I ended up choosing:

Robert E.O. Speedwagon!

Your positivity and kindness hooked the man in faster than he could even blink - we all know exactly how loyal he is and how quickly he can tell who deserves that loyalty. It only took him a few minutes to read that you’re one of those people.

He’s also pretty intrigued by how much you know. He likes to exchange little bits of knowledge and stories with you, especially after he’s done some travelling and has a wider expanse of knowledge. Even before that, though, he always keeps your words in mind - who knows, one day one of those facts might just save a life!

He also very well understands the difficulties of insecurity and hotheadedness, having faced them himself. He does his best to keep you grounded, and encourages you to leave your comfort zone now and then - it’s key to growth, after all - but he knows when to back off. He can be a little stubborn, especially if he’s enthusiastic, but in the end your comfort matters more. If you’d rather stay at home with him than go out and dance or something, that’s fine by him. Hell, with all the travelling he does, he may actually grow to prefer that more relaxed atmosphere.

On that topic, Speedwagon’s pretty good at reading people’s moods and actions. On top of knowing when he needs to let you chill, he also knows if/when he should make somebody else do the same. If he sees something or someone bothering you, he’s quick to swoop in and do whatever he can to settle the situation, whether that’s just to comfort some insecurities or get a particularly annoying person to back off. If he knows that you can handle it, though, he’ll take a backseat and play cheerleader. In fact, it makes him proud to see it.

Also, this man grew up on the most dangerous street in London. He’s no stranger to meals with some odd ingredients, and frankly, he’ll be even happier to learn how good they taste! He’s not the best cook himself, he’s the type of man who uses whatever he has on hand to try scraping together something reasonable, so a good meal will go straight to his heart.

For the sake of anime and manga, I’m gonna go ahead and pretend we’re a little more modern day for the next few. I feel like Speedwagon is more of a reading guy than a television guy. After a long day, he’ll to sit down and read with you, manga or not. He’ll watch a show too if you ask, but there’s something quite romantic about cuddling up and sharing a book that he feels can’t be matched by much else.

On that note, please forgive him ahead of time - if you do get him to sit down and watch your favourite shows, he will have a lot of commentary. He’s the type of guy who will interrupt a scene to enthusiastically declare something like, “So THAT’S why the bugger carries that chain around!”, or confoundedly question what a character thinks they’re doing. He’ll probably do this while reading too, just maybe not as often. He’s not trying to interrupt, he just gets excited - if you tell him to settle down, he’ll do his best to accommodate, but he might slip from time to time.

Also, (and this is another one of those modern day ones) depending on your music taste, he may or may not buy vinyls or discs of your favourite bands and try to get you to dance with him to them. He’ll probably suggest a concert at least once - something tells me that he’s the type to prefer live music.

Knowing that you’re passionate about something makes him passionate, too. He’ll try his best to look into your interests on his own time, and try to involve you in whatever he finds - maybe he asks an older lady he knows for interesting recipes to show you, or he scours a book store for a series he hasn’t heard you talk about yet. He’s doing his best to match your love for these things, even if they’re sometimes new to him.

Your bright outlook on life, your compassion, your love for the things you enjoy - they’re all astoundingly inspirational to this man. He may sometimes worry that you deserve better than an Ogre Street ex-thief, but by god, will he use all the motivation you give him to make a good life for you.

Okay - I think I might have rambled a bit there, but yeah, thank you so much for the request!! It’s the first one I’ve gotten anyways so I hope you’ll forgive all the babbling jehdjjfs

This was a ton of fun to write, and I hope that you’re happy with it!

#anonymous #matchups #jjba x reader #speedwagon x reader #robert e.o. speedwagon #thank you so much for sending in a submission!#Ik I kind of fell into writing headcanons too but I couldn’t help myself #just felt right #believe it or not I actually tried to trim this version bc it was too long originally LOL-#okay yes thank you again! Enjoy!

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lovesongbracket · 1 year

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Reminder: Vote based on the song, not the artist or specific recording! The tracks referenced are the original artist, aside from a few rare cases where a cover is the most widely known.

Lyrics, videos, info, and notable covers under the cut. (Spotify playlist available in pinned post)

Your Song

Written By: Elton John & Bernie Taupin

Artist: Elton John

Released: 1970

The song was composed and performed by Elton John but the lyrics were written by Bernie Taupin. It originally appeared in his self titled and second album. Elton John hadn’t come out of the closet yet, but Bernie Taupin knew, which is part of the reason why the lyrics avoid using gendered pronouns. In a 2013 interview with Rolling Stone, Elton John said: “What can I say, it’s a perfect song. It gets better every time I sing it. I remember writing it at my parents' apartment in North London, and Bernie giving me the lyrics, sitting down at the piano and looking at it and going, ‘Oh, my God, this is such a great lyric, I can’t fuck this one up.’ It came out in about 20 minutes, and when I was done, I called him in and we both knew. I was 22, and he was 19, and it gave us so much confidence. ‘Empty Sky’ was lovely, but it was very naive. We went on to do more esoteric stuff like ‘Take Me to the Pilot,’ of course, but musically, this was a big step forward. And the older I get, the more I sing these lyrics, and the more they resonate with me.”

[Verse 1] It's a little bit funny, this feeling inside I'm not one of those who can easily hide I don't have much money, but boy if I did I'd buy a big house where we both could live [Verse 2] If I was a sculptor, heh, but then again, no Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show I know it's not much, but it's the best I can do My gift is my song and this one's for you [Chorus] And you can tell everybody this is your song It may be quite simple but now that it's done I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind That I put down in words How wonderful life is while you're in the world [Verse 3] I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss Well, a few of the verses, well, they've got me quite cross But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song It's for people like you that keep it turned on [Verse 4] So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do You see, I've forgotten if they're green or they're blue Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen [Chorus] And you can tell everybody this is your song It may be quite simple but now that it's done I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind That I put down in words How wonderful life is while you're in the world [Outro] I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind That I put down in words How wonderful life is while you're in the world

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She Will Be Loved

Written By: Adam Levine & James Valentine

Artist: Maroon 5

Released: 2002

“She Will Be Loved” is the third single released from the band’s 2002 debut album, Songs About Jane. The song peaked at number five in the US (becoming their second top ten there), number four in the United Kingdom and number one in Australia (for five consecutive weeks). As of June 2014, the song has sold more than three million copies in the United States.

[Verse 1] Beauty queen of only eighteen She had some trouble with herself He was always there to help her She always belonged to someone else [Pre-Chorus] I drove for miles and miles And wound up at your door I've had you so many times But somehow, I want more [Chorus] I don't mind spending every day Out on your corner in the pouring rain Look for the girl with the broken smile Ask her if she wants to stay a while [Post-Chorus] And she will be loved And she will be loved [Verse 2] Tap on my window, knock on my door, I Want to make you feel beautiful I know I tend to get so insecure Doesn't matter anymore [Pre-Chorus] It's not always rainbows and butterflies It's compromise that moves us along, yeah My heart is full and my door's always open You come any time you want, yeah [Chorus] I don't mind spending every day Out on your corner in the pouring rain Look for the girl with the broken smile Ask her if she wants to stay a while [Post-Chorus] And she will be loved And she will be loved And she will be loved And she will be loved [Bridge] I know where you hide Alone in your car Know all of the things that make you who you are I know that goodbye means nothing at all Comes back and makes me catch her Every time she falls, yeah [Pre-Chorus] Tap on my window, knock on my door, I Want to make you feel beautiful [Chorus] I don't mind spending every day Out on your corner in the pouring rain, oh Look for the girl with the broken smile Ask her if she wants to stay a while [Post-Chorus] And she will be loved And she will be loved And she will be loved (Please don't try so hard to say goodbye) And she will be loved [Outro] Please don't try so hard to say goodbye (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, ooh) Please don't try so hard to say goodbye (I don't mind spending every day, ooh) (Out on your corner in the pouring rain) Please don't try so hard to say goodbye

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zalrb · 8 months

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the summer i turned pretty 2x04 review

Honestly, for someone who is meant to push people away and not tell anyone what he's dealing with, Conrad is pretty open about the stuff he's going through. He straight up tells Belly's brother he's having a panic attack and what he can do to help instead of just yelling at him to go the fuck away or something. Idk man.

"Talk about anything" launches into a speech about the beach and how Conrad is the coolest person in the world. The funniest thing about things like this is dialogue about "inconsequential" things would make their bond seem more realistic instead of pointed talks about memories and how cool the other person is. One of the reasons why the gang in T70s works is because they just talk about dumb shit together

"He's grown into quite the asshole" I mean has he, Skye? Your mother is being unnecessarily hostile about the whole thing, it seems like he's just matching her energy idk.

Like this isn't even me being team Conrad or anything because I don't care about him but he hasn't DONE anything for the way everyone talks about him.

Like he's isn't warm when she talks to him in his room but his energy is different because Julia's energy is different.

Jfc they're really trying to make me believe that Taylor and brother dude like each other with how they antagonize each other but this is as performative as Belly trying to be twirly and giddy around Conrad.

Steven. I'm not going to remember that.

"Let's do some drills down by the beach, volleyball camp is in five days." "I haven't touched a ball in months" isn't that why you do the drills, Belly?

"It was hard enough for me to get this one" *laughs* Why is that funny?

Belly actress does the Katie Holmes shrug. It was annoying then, it's annoying now.

"Well we're your family too" even though I kissed you then your brother then made the wake about me because Conrad lay his head on his ex-girlfriend's lap and I admittedly forgot to check up on you when Susannah died because I was too busy focusing on Conrad which consisted of me telling him to stop being sad at prom and then breaking up with him.

The only time Conrad's lack of a facial expression has worked is him looking at Belly when she's all "the magical sea breeze will cool you down"and his face is like that the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Did Belly tell Conrad her plan of schmoozing Skye and I just forgot it because it's very possible, I'm barely paying attention but if she hadn't, maybe she could. Or is this supposed to show how Belly and Jere are best friends now.

Skye doesn't come across as an introvert, they just come across as kind of an ass. "I don't smile, I don't high five, the corners of my mouth might turn up but I WILL NOT SMILE" we get it, you're cool.

No one on this show is likeable.

Them getting ready to play laser tag is literally the ONLY TIME they seem like friends.

I mean, we had pizza for *Christmas* dinner. OH THE HORROR.

Are whaling boats fancy?

I don't need to see this rock climbing scene. Next.

How many Taylor Swift songs do we NEED in a show. I understand I'm the only one who thinks this.

"It was supremely satisfying watching you wipe the floor with Conrad after everything he put you through" YOU MEAN BEING SAD??

"You used to cry every time you looked at the Tower of Terror" yeah but he's, like, seventeen now, Belly.

"He made it so hard not to love him." I MEAN HOW? BECAUSE HE SPOKE? Jesus Christ.

"Used to love him, I mean" JERE HAS ENTERED THE CHAT. I would appreciate this more if it was fun messy.

LMAO so when Jere is like "And what's the key to making me happy, Belly?" I was like oh OK because there was like a hint of innuendo in his voice, completely unintentional I think, but it was a bit like ooh, I hear that and then it was ENTIRELY ruined when she's like "correcting people who say bru-chetta" and he laughs and goes "Because it's bru-sketta!" and it was SUCH a corny delivery.

Skipping everything with the mom because I do not care.

So who's going to have a breakdown at the end of this episode?

"You're one of the most interesting people I've ever met" I'm laughing because the delivery came across as unintentionally sarcastic.

"Jeremiah is always there when I need him" it's a RIDE. I also love when she flashes back to him always being there for her the first instance is his mother telling him to stay inside with her because she's got a summer cold and him being like "MOM" and her being like "PLEASE" and him being like fine. Like that's not what you think that is. He should hang out with her and then be asked to go to the boardwalk and being like nah I think I'll just stay in with Belly. HOW IS THAT NOT OBVIOUS?

"And when he got sick two days later, I stayed home with him" so then wouldn't you two just be passing the cold back and forth to each other?

Ohhhhh they're looking at each other on this ride and she's feeling how much she likes him! and needs him! and they have NO chemistry!

"It feels weird having fun, like part of me feels guilty" if you were a good actress we would see that conflict in you the entire day but whatever, the show is really bad with showcasing how much Susannah's death is supposed to affect her.

Oh no breakdowns because that would require drama. Just the empty beach house which I know is meant to be a MOMENT but it isn't.

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lokisgoodgirl · 10 months

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This person put the ass in Asgard, she is my soul sister, and person I’m closest to. I’m talking about you, @lokisgoodgirl

I love you so much, I don’t have the words to describe it. I remember when CF started showing up on my feed. I was hooked. I thought I really have to meet this girl. I messaged you and we have been thick as thieves ever since.

You have been there for me through so much and I’m so thankful for you. I honestly don’t know what I would have done without you these past few months.

I wouldn’t send pics of myself in lingerie to anyone else on the internet and I think it’s a testament to our friendship that I expect some back too.

I love your mind. You are such a brilliant writer and your filthy ideas take me out every time. I know we talked about being platonic soulmates before, and I believe it. Like you said all the “Invisble Strings” thing us together are proof of that.

I loved getting to do your birth chart and explaining it to you. And when you have an astrology question you come to me.

It’s probably a good thing we aren’t geographically close, I can only imagine all the chaos we would cause.

You are such a kind soul and so supportive of everyone. I’m so fortunate to have you in my life.

You are the reason I started writing in the first place. I had written the first part of Across the Multiverse and sent it to you and you loved it. But I was still unsure about posting it. A few weeks later, you tagged me in Winter Warmers and I was so inspired the words wouldn’t stop flowing on the paper. I thought what the hell. If this goddess of a woman believes in me, so do I. And the rest is history.

Hostile Fucks is my favorite series. Wetsuit Loki will always live on in my heart and my head when I use my vibrator. That sexy little shit.

Being an absolute whore after reading Hail Commander and giving you all the sexy mental images you needed for writing The Feast was one of my favorite conversations with you. We just kept stacking on the filth.

Size Queen is probably my favorite fic. The best birthday gift I could receive.

Besides knowing I’m going to be slicker than a slip n slide after reading your fics, something I look forward to when you post is my unhinged reblogs. I only do them for you because I know you love them. I always imagine you waking up and doubling over in laughter. I love writing every crazy thought I have while reading and sharing it with you. Finding gifs to match is so fun too.

I love how I’m sync we are with our thoughts. There have been so many times where I’ve messaged you about something, only for you to post the same situation at the same time. Like you said we are kindred sluts.

I’m so thankful to have you in this life.

I love you. ❤️❤️❤️

Girl literally I don't even know what to say😭🤣♥️♥️

Your energy and love and enthusiasm was a total gamechanger for me. Thank you for opening your heart (and your metaphorical legs) for my Loki...but also for me. (well...🤣)

I adore you to the moon and back my sexy, badass cornbread minx❤️💖 You make me a stronger version of myself👏👑😊

Thank you for being my friend. And you bet your sweet country ass I've saved this for when I need a boost. You're incredible 💕

#LGG Love Notes

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shrineofwill · 1 year

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The Journey Of Shrine Of Will...

👑 "Clouds" 2021

👑"T-Rex Stories And Broken Chords" 2022

👑"The Price Of Dreaming" 2023

👑"Sheep In Wolf's Clothing" 2024

How will you describe your music?

It is a genre I call jazz metal and that you're never really sure what a song is about because I do my vocals on the spot, so my lyrics change a lot, since my mood will change as I'm singing.

Then, I do my guitars and other instruments, mostly after the vocals. Simply put, expect any @shrineofwill88 album to have so many layers that you probably could listen to one song like a thousand times and hear something different every time.

I'm currently in the studio, working on my 4th album, "Sheep In Wolf's Clothing" it is gonna blow your brains out, which is perfect to feed the hungry zombies around 🤣 or in this case feeding hungry wolf pack the LIGHT while pretending to be a wolf 🐺 while I'm actually a sheep 🐑 for #God chosen to shine the brightest even in the darkest corner of the earth.

ENJOY 😉 the behind the scenes footage of the upcoming 4th studio 🎙 album, playing with my "Red Demon" (my #Ibanez #bass #guitar 🎸)

Here I am. One day, it will be 10 or more albums, with the rate I'm creating Shrine Of Will music!!! still, I can hear a message I've got for everyone that has ever listened to Shrine Of Will.

Also anyone that has anything bad to say about my music, Taker isn't done digging holes and taking souls just ask anyone that had to stand toe to toe with the "Deadman" or American Bad Ass...Big Evil or whatever persona he was at the time...in a WWE ring.

Man, would it be handy if Taker & Kane could chokeslam people that talk trash about anything you care about 🤣, for the record if I could create a dream WWE match, it would be Undertaker teaming up with John Cena VS Sergeant Slaughter teaming up with Hollywood Hogan...special guest referee Shawn Michaels. 😱

That is if Taker doesn't drag HBK into a casket and "Hollywood" Hogan and Sergeant Slaughter wins by DQ within seconds...it would be funny 😄 people paying tons of money to see this tag team match...most probably the biggest WWE Tag Team ever, a man can only dream, unfortunately time isn't on their side. The match is possible on WWE 2K PS5 OR PS4 OR XBOX...the reason why it would have been awesome to have Hogan and Sergeant Slaughter teaming up - they were enemies and I would play/perform Shrine Of Will LIVE as entrance music for TEAM Sergeant Hollywood as a heel, and Taker and John Cena walking down the ramp separately, nothing like an Undertaker entrance walking slowly to the ring...and then HBK walking down the ramp with his referee shirt. VINCE... are you writing this down?

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bellewintersroe · 1 year

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I saw that your ships are open and was wondering if I could request one?

I have short dark brown hair and brown eyes. I am 5'6. I am also ftm.

I am currently learning German and Ukrainian. I play the cello (I would say that I'm pretty decent at it). I want to join the paratroopers soon and maybe get a doctorate degree in the medical field. I like writing books, reading, and drawing. I am very interested in history mainly the 20th century. I also know how to cross-country ski and love the winter.

My MBTI type if I remember correctly is INTJ. I love procrastinating and do well under a lot of pressure. I'm also very stubborn and awkward with talking to people so I don't have many close friends. For some reason, I have a sort of knack for doing things well, even if it's the first time I've tried it and that might be because I listen really closely to stuff to make sure I'm doing everything correctly. I need a straightforward path and a list of things I should do to get something done.

I have depression, anxiety and maybe (I say maybe because it's undiagnosed) maladaptive daydreaming, which basically means I daydream too much that it's a problem. Any small words of affection or reassurance sends me through the roof and makes me happy for the rest of the day (idk why). That's all I can think of for now.

hey! Hope you’re doing good, thank you for your request!! I have read your other message too, I’m going to integrate it into this post!

I ship you with… Lewis Nixon!

Okay first of all, the fact you both have brown hair and brown eyes is so aesthetically pleasing to me? I feel like as a couple your looks would just literally look so good together. Like you just look like a perfect match?!

Lewis brought up travelling the world and attending Yale University means he’s a clearly educated man? So when he meets you it’s literally his perfect match, the fact you’re so talented in so many different areas is almost bizarre to him?!

like you can play instruments, you strive to be a paratrooper, and getting a whole doctorate degree?! Nix would literally be in shock? Of course proud is an underestimate. I feel he’d be a super supportive boyfriend?

let’s say you were stressed out one day because of work or education, I feel like he’s the type to come up and rub your shoulders and offer you a massage, to take you out for dinner, literally spoil you to elevate some of your stress?

The two of you would 1000% read books together? Like one of you would have your head in each others lap, or you'd share the same pillow even if you were in a queen sized bed?? I think Lewis would thrive from just being physically close to you.

take this man skiing. Please. It would 100% go one way or the other, hed fucking ace it or wouldn’t even try it because he knew he’d make a fool of himself. I feel like watching you ski so effortlessly would intimidate him into just sitting in the ski bars drinking whisky and watching you??

Oh he admired you and you’re endless talents.

I feel like being a more quieter and thoughtful person, Lewis would approach you first. In my mind it would be as simple as he found you attractive and struck up a conversation with you?

he’d tell you pretty quickly his feelings for you and omg I really really fancy this man. He’d want to take such good care of you, and I feel like he’d try bring you out of your shell almost?

only if you were comfortable with that of course. Lewis couldn’t stand seeing you hurt or the slightest bit worried by something he’d done.

the fact that you’re so good at almost everything you do?! Lewis is stunned, he’s amazed beyond belief. Not only is he super fucking attracted to you, but his jaw is constantly dropped by your effort in everything you do?

he’d definitely just come up behind you and wrap an arm around your front and pull you close. I think Lewis would be great at reassurance and words of affirmation, he’s a straight talking, honest man.

you have no room for overthinking, and if he needs you to do something for him??? I don’t think he’ll sugarcoat it, the two of you are so alike I feel like he just doesn’t even need to try?

he’s so effortlessly understanding surrounding you and your feelings. If you feel your anxiety and depression flaring up don’t hesitate to speak to him about it.

need anything? Ask him? Worried about something to do with him? Tell him. Lewis couldn’t stand the thought of you in that way.

And if there’s nothing he could physically do to help??? This man would 1000% stay in bed with you all day and tender to your every need. He would be so fucking gentle and warm- dhifoeifhdisoeoirbr

You owning shirts of country’s you hadn’t been to is so funny to Lewis.

however every time you put on a new shirt, Lewis is like “been there, hated it there, that’s not somewhere that should be printed onto a shirt”.

seriously, where hasn’t he been???

the man would love to take you travelling, he’d definitely want to spoil you rotten in each and every country on the globe.

Your similar style with Lewis means you could share your wardrobe.

often you’d lose your aviation sunglasses for hours?! Sometimes days? And then he’d rock up wearing them. I suppose you couldn’t complain because you just know he’d look so good.

And if your transition is when you’re with Lewis, he’s support your every single step. As long as you were happy and comfortable he felt he could give you his utter love and support.

platonically, I match you with… Eugene Roe!

Okay I feel like this friendship would come about further into the war? Let’s pretend you were out there together.

eugene, constantly looking out for everybody would recognise you were a little quiet. The man has been through some tough experiences himself, so he felt he could resonate with you?

there was no awkwardness between you both, I suppose in a way he’d be easy to open up to. He’d 100% provide reassurance and just the small little nice things you’d need to keep you feeling a little more positive each day.

I think the friendship would be so so healthy, neither of you trauma dumped on each other, but you just naturally understood one another?

the fact you both work so well under pressure just screams excellent team work. Eugene maybe recognises your lack of close friendships, and besides his worry of growing close to people, he just knew he wanted to be around to and ensure you were okay?

I suppose in a way the friendship is built on trust and a mutual respect, Gene would feel safe around you, more so than anybody else in the company.

I truly think the two of you would make a wholesome pairing.

#band of brothers #band of brothers ships #band of brothers x reader #band of brothers imagines #lewis nixon x reader #eugene roe #eugene roe x reader

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demonsfate · 13 days

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The biggest issue with this game is how you literally have to GUESS what the characters do next, and even if you guess, you have to react accordingly; otherwise, it's over. I seriously don't know how to counter Eddy sometimes. And people say apparently he only takes ONE button to do most of his strings. like are you kidding me. One beat me just now and doing god knows what. You can't even lab him unless you buy him. Absolute garbage. I will admit I one and done sometimes in Ranked but mostly because of this. You can't expect me to rematch when I got destroyed and lose SO many points. It's like the game rewards you less by winning and takes almost all the points you won before. Idk whose idea this was. It definitely incentivizes people to one and done, and I've read other comments that say the same thing. I only don't rematch on Quick Match if the skill gap is too big that i don't even learn anything. Also if the other is a toxic user or use a character that I can't deal with yet (so sorry I'm salty lmao)

Whenever you get matched with an Eddy, you usually watch him obliterate your character by mashing buttons like this. And YEAHHH, I have Eddy, and I do notice a lot of his strings consist of pressing ONE BUTTON, or damn near close to one button. It's actually crazy how easy his combos are. And it makes be terrified that all the DLC characters will be like this in a way to get people to buy / play them. I mean, look at the current most played characters rn - other than Dragunov, the rest are literally the brand new characters (Victor, Reina, and Azucena). You KNOW they made the brand new ones easy just to get people to play them. And I just have a feeling they're gonna take that approach with the DLC ones, too. Definitely feels like they've taken that approach with Eddy. As Eddy was always a bit cheese, but he feels like he's even MORE cheese in this game.

That is true, and a good point. When you mention it like that, I can understand WHY people would want to one & done if they feel like their points are being taken away at fast speeds. Like just a couple hours ago, I was playing with Alisa - and I got her close to orange ranks. But my gosh, when I started losing a lot more - I almost didn't want to rematch 'cos I just felt like all my progress was draining fast. 😭

OH MY GOSH. That's one reason why I don't even bother with Quick Match anymore! It seems like I always get higher rank players that will ALWAYS demolish! And as I've said before on this blog, I'm fine with rematching ppl that are better than me to learn. But... when their skill is just SO GOOD that I can't even understand what's happening on the screen, then I just don't see the point because I don't see how I'm able to learn against that.

And no worries - I love playing this game, but it also makes me so so fucking salty, too! Sometimes I have to stop 'cos I can feel myself getting too angry at it lol! The good news is, I believe I am getting better at defense! My defense was at 34, now it's at 49! Plus, I was fighting against a Kazuya and Azucena, and barely either of them could grab me 'cos I was actually able to break their grabs almost every time!! I was pretty proud of myself for that haha. However... I still struggle to break King's grabs it seems...

#✏️ - ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏsᴛ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏsᴛ // (ooc)#✏️ - ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ? // (inbox)

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battaliaart · 1 year

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B yells about in-progress MAP parts, the first one!!!

Aight, let's give this a shot, yeah? Got no idea what I'm doing but I'd like to try.

Well over a year ago now, I yoinked the last open part in this Na Na Na Wings of Fire x Fandom Crossover MAP:

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Due to the DMC brainrot at the time that's the fandom I ended up choosing, and I picked the most iconic scene to portray: the Temen-Ni-Gru fight from DMC3. Swordfight translated into an aerial battle? heck yeah that seems cool

Back when the Discord server for the project was still active, I made my designs for Dante and Vergil. These'll still largely hold up for the part now, though the style will be different - it'll be more closely aligned with my Ten Plagues parts since that's the style I use for Wings of Fart now.

I designed them this way for one practical reason and many subtle meta reasons:

They're twins, so I needed a neutral color palette that'd work for both of them and wouldn't clash with their outfits

Went with Ice/Night for grayscale, but also because IceWings and NightWings are typically acknowledged as rivals

Also because IceWings and NightWings are incredibly opinionated on which tribe is 'right' and which is deplorable - very similar to how these two approach the human/demon dichotomy

I also have an unwritten rule to make most dragon designs go from a darker color to a lighter one in a vertical gradient, which I intentionally turned on its head here both to match more with how the siblings go in a similar light/dark gradient.

Back in the day I used to design a lot of hybrids with mixed scale types (shoutout to when Eclipse had half SandWing scales and half NightWing scales, or two rows of sharp scales and one row of round ones) before I realised that's not really consistent with how I assume their biology would work, but this is Wings of Fart and I don't really care for the accuracy of Wings of Fart anymore so we have blended scale styles - if anything, for one last hurrah before I never design anything like this ever again.

aight that's enough about the designs how bouts we get into actual work on the part yeah?

This was the only thing I got done before letting this part languish in my To Do list for over a year. It's the very last shot of the part, designed to showcase just one more aspect of these characters in this crossover: Dante uses fire breathing and Vergil uses frostbreath. I intend to have a more elaborate transition into the close up speen, I just didn't draw it out yet. I sat down for one session and scrawled this out, probably because the idea presented itself vividly in my head and I had to get it down asap. TVPaint, 24fps.

Fast forward a literal year of radio silence and now the MAP server is starting to see sparks of life again, and lil' ol' me is finally undergoing my MCR phase many, many years too late, so that means it's time to pick up this part again.

Had a brainwave the other night and came up with the remaining shots in the part, but it'd only be doable if I could somehow get a 3D reference of the Temen-Ni-Gru because there ain't no way I'm trying a complex rotating 2.5D thing again without a reference.

Thankfully DMC5 has tons of mods. With REFramework and this Bloody Palace mod, I can now freely fly around the silly demon tower and snatch all the reference footage I need. Took a few tries, and it's not the best, but we now got this:

My brain breaks down this rotating tower shot into two parts; the first part consists of four still assets, for parallaxing, and the second part has roughly 3-5 new unique assets, mas o menos depending on, once again, parallaxing. The dragons will be standing equidistant from each other in this shot and the camera will settle on a close-medium shot of one of them, so they'll require extra assets for the second part once I've solidified how I want the shot to continue. With the experience I have from my failed Jojo Reanimated part I acknowledge it would probably be hell to animate those background assets in VEGAS, so I'll be crafting them with Moho's superior camera functions in mind.

So far I've doodled out one additional concept so far - see the skeleton statue in the above video's freeze frame? Can't have that being a human in a dragon-centric universe, so here's an idea for a dragon skeleton demon sculpture thing:

That's just about where I am at time of writing - I wouldn't expect future posts to be nearly as wordy, this one's just different because I had a year's worth of time to recount like two to three days of work to rant about.

These posts will all be tagged with the relevant part/number and 'BTS (behind the scenes) Animations with B' unless I come up with a catchier series title. C'ya in the next one.

#BTS Animations with B #Na Na Na 24

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niicevibe · 2 years

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𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐊𝐲𝐨𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐨 + 𝐘/𝐍 𝐇𝐂𝐬

Sweetest boy!!! Cutest smile!!! So polite!!!

In this house, we don't talk about the events of Mugen Train. We... we just don't. It's also the reason why I haven't touched S2 yet. I don't think I can handle seeing it happen to him again.

So, I'm here to offer some sweet relief on this boy, what he rightfully deserves!!!! Hm... this is probably going to be realistic and self-indulgent. This man is easily one of my kins, so I'm gonna have to show some restraint.

Well, we'll see. I might change my mind. It is one in the morning that I've started these, after all.

𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬: none, 'cept maybe a lil angst with that last line... sorry.

𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧.

Look at that smile! Isn't it the sweetest?!

If not his flashy haori that matched his surprisingly natural hair, his smile was the first thing you'd taken notice of. So genuine, and so bright!

It quickly became a distraction, like a bird attracted to something shiny, upon the first day of you entering the same rank as the Flame Hashira. But he'd noticed you, too -- in fact, he'd been the first to notice you; the first to greet you when the day started...

Kyōjurō's astute eagerness is definitely an asset to any situation -- when he'd caught wind that they'd be expecting a new Hashira, he'd offered himself up to escort you into the meeting grounds, not that his services were necessary. Appreciated all the same, however, the kind gesture already making your new reality feel and exist closer to earth.

He'd only done it as a courtesy, to make their new comrade feel more welcome into their ranks; a completely unbiased thing to do. He didn't expect to be enamoured by you. And even if it were fate, he wouldn't have expected things to happen so quickly.

Kyōjurō finds himself relieved that the welcoming ceremony ends as quickly as it does. I believe he would definitely be a man of tradition, so under normal circumstances, his patience would be quite high. He only wants another opportunity to speak with you, so he'll politely wait at the side, trying not to look too eager, and waiting for you to finish introductions with the other eight Hashira.

Shinobu, who'd immediately noticed Kyōjurō's eyes following after you, only laughs to herself, as when you are encouraged by Mitsuri to meet Obanai, Giyū, and a grumpy Sanemi, his expression falters.

"My, my," she ends up saying to him, "so quickly?"

Kyōjurō would one-hundred percent be the kind of man to fall quick and hard in love. He's a great judge of character already, so wouldn't be any difference to him whether or not he thought you were a great comrade versus a great partner. But isn't it a surprise that Kyōjurō never actually considered the partner bit as a possibility? He just wanted to make sure you were comfortable.

More teasing from Shinobu ensues when he admits this.

He surprises himself once more when he's caught thinking too deeply by you that it ends up startling him.

"You looked like you were waiting for me," you point out to him as you exchange smiles. "Something on your mind?"

"You, actually!"

His honesty and intense earnest is a double-edged sword, though he thinks the better of it every time. Why not face such a cruel world with anything but passion and conviction? These are just some of the honorable words he lives by, believing they should be applied to every practice. Why not be truthful with every word spoken from our very souls?

Kyōjurō fears he's broken you, however -- you've grown rooted to the spot before him, unmoving and unresponsive. He tries asking you to have lunch with him as a means to bring you back down to earth, but if anything, his smile is to blame when you're unable to say "yes". So, you just end up nodding.

Ever the extrovert, Kyōjurō really would be the best at making a person comfortable in a new environment. He asks you many questions about your life, like a puppy's curiosity -- if you have any family; what your favourite food on the menu before you is; your favourite colour; and, if you'd care to display to him your Breathing Technique as a means of camaraderie. That last one had taken you off-guard slightly, but you're happy to oblige.

A relationship with Kyōjurō Rengoku would definitely start off with the two of you being the best of friends. His warmth and endearing nature would be impossible to try and ignore, especially if loud and proud isn't your cup of tea -- oh, you'd just have to make it work, or else you'd leave him heartbroken. And that's like... just pure evil.

Really, you'd be no worse than a Demon.

Kyōjurō is overwhelmingly good to you. Supportive, encouraging, protective, patient -- you don't think you could possibly dream up a better partner. He absolutely reveres you, the love you two share something he'd like to shout from the heavens if it didn't risk giving you a heart attack.

Hey, when I said he'd be someone to fall hard and fast, I'd meant it.

As much as he cares for your well-being, he doesn't worry about you when it comes to being in battle. He knows you're strong. Worrying about you would only diminish the great faith he has in your skill, so he won't. He'll simply send you off with well-wishes and words of encouragement.

And definitely a long kiss. Can't forget the most important thing.

Despite his great faith, though, when you return, whether injured or in complete health, his entire being envelops you. You're not even able to hand in a verbal report of your mission when he appears and intercepts you, sweeping you into his arms and holding you close to him.

"You were worried about me after all, hm?"

But you do the exact same thing, permitting that you're not on a mission at the same time as him. It's almost too devastating for you both when you receive several assignments in a row, sometimes going days or weeks without seeing each other.

But absence really does makes the heart grow fonder.

Kyōjurō is big on the idea of public displays of affection -- despite his traditionalism, he doesn't care who he does it around and if they watch or don't watch, if they're comfortable or not. All he cares about is that you're right next to him, willing and able to receive his love.

You won't catch him dead letting you out of your arms when you sleep. He'll always insist on being in contact with you in some way, shape, or form. Sorry if you're already a naturally warm person that overheats in their sleep; this man just might give you heatstroke, so you'll have to make it clear that unless he wants to wake up to his partner deceased and in his arms, then he better loosen the vice grip he has on you. In the wintertime, it's a free-for-all.

"Please, hold me tighter. It's cold and you're my personal stone oven."

He'll only laugh and oblige.

You're a couple who would absorb each others' quirks and mannerisms.

If you're already a shy person or just introverted, being around Kyōjurō has helped you to at least try to become more outspoken, if not having already succeeded in doing so.

If you've got an appetite on you, too, you both eat well together. Don't be so surprised if you end up gaining a few pounds while in a relationship with Kyōjurō; if you're not consistently training, anyway, it's bound to happen.

You'll shout "Umai!" with him just for the heck of it -- as embarrassing as it sometimes is, being the centre of attention thanks to it, you love the look on his face when you say it for the first time.

It just solidifies how smitten he is with you.

You and his brother Senjurō are best friends. If Kyōjurō is away, you can always be found with Senjurō at your side or vice versa, him keeping you company while you complete your menial tasks, and you spending time with him in the Rengoku home, either to play or to train (he loves doing either with you).

It's one of Kyōjurō's favourite sights to behold -- his lover with his beloved younger brother.

Your relationship with their father, however, is strained. You're constantly fighting the urge to run up and admonish the man, your frustrations so strong somedays that Kyōjurō has had to physically restrain you to keep you from causing any further issues.

Sometimes, having to do risks causing strains in your relationship with him, but both of you know how you only mean well with his and Senjurō's happiness in mind, expressing how Shinjurō should feel the same, if not stronger than you. You understand the importance of family to Kyōjurō and you would never dream of diminishing it. You only wish their father would treat them kinder.

Kyōjurō's idea of peace is simply being in your presence. Consistently a high-energy, enthusiastic individual, the man's battery still drains, and he shouldn't be expected to keep it up infinitely. He'll lay with you on the engawa porch of yours or his quarters, enjoying the weather, his body placed between your legs with his head on your lap. He loves it when you choose to thread your fingers through his hair; it's such a comforting gesture, one he can never get enough of.

And when you lean over him to place a longing kiss against his forehead, he'll quickly reach up to grab your cheeks to give you a proper kiss back, the both of you giggling like a couple of school-aged children.

I could spend the rest of my life like this, Kyōjurō thinks, lost in his bliss. I could spend the rest of my life with you.

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Will you keep it down? | Jeon Jungkook

Summary: You and Jungkook attend the same university and have been neighbors for 3 months now. It drives you crazy that he plays loud music at 2AM, and it drives him crazy that you barely acknowledge his presence.

Pairing: Jungkook x Female!Reader; Black!Reader

Words: 2.6K

Genre: enemies to lovers, student!jungkook, student!reader, fluff, mention of smut, angst? (in the form of bickering back and forth).

Authors note: Hi hi! This is the first fic I’ve ever written so if it’s bad I’m sorry. Also it is unedited so if there's grammar / spelling mistakes I'm sorry again! Also this is catered toward the reader being Black but I hope it can be enjoyed by everyone. Thank you for reading! Feedback is appreciated ok love u bye!

“Y/N? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME??!? Open this door RIGHT NOW!”

Even though you were studying in your room, his knocks were so loud you nearly jumped out of your skin. You had expected a reaction, but not a full-on explosion.

You and Jungkook have been apartment neighbors for about three months now, and a constant problem is that he blares his music hella loud late at night. Of course he’s a music major so he listens to music a lot, but at this point you don’t care. It doesn’t even seem like he’s working on composition homework anyway, just being an asshole with no regard for his neighbors peace. Now don’t get yourself wrong, you're not just some uptight bitch who complains about everything. Well, you do have several pet peeves but over the years of going to school in Korea you’ve picked and chosen your battles very wisely. In most cases you let things slide. You wouldn’t care at all about someone playing the music loudly, but it is 2 AM, and while you’re up studying you know a lot of your other neighbors are trying to sleep.

You tiptoe toward your front door and twist the knob slowly. You only open the door wide enough to be able to see his face. It’s not that you’re scared that you’re in danger or anything, and you rarely back down from people giving you a hard time. But you were tired, wearing a big ass t- shirt and short shorts (your regular sleep attire), and it was late at night. So if anything was going to pop off you felt pretty vulnerable. Even though you’re the same age, he towers over you and you find his size kinda intimidating.

As usual, you have to crane your neck to see his face, and your view of him is limited by the narrowness in which

you opened the door.

“Can I help you, lil boy?”

From what you can see of him, right away you can tell that he is pissed. Dawning his usual attire of a black sweatshirt with the hood up, black sweats, and stomp a hoe boots, he stood extremely close to your apartment door with his arms crossed. His usually wide, puppy dog eyes are now pressed in narrow slits. His normally pouty lips are formed in a hard line, and his jaw is so clenched you could carve an ice sculpture with his jawline.

"Who the hell do you think you are? You called the cops on me? Are you INSANE???" Jungkook shouts.

Obviously he's mad, and despite the amount of times you've gone back and forth he's never raised your voice at you. The old you would have screamed back at him, but over time you've tried to respond to anger with calmness. Also, you were a little scared because this mf is kind of big.

"I already told you if you keep blaring your music at 2AM, I was going to do something about it!" You respond in a hushed whisper, slightly concerned that your elderly neighbors will be even more disturbed by the noise. "I've told you this a million times, and you barely do anything about it. If anything, it's gotten worse like you're doing it on purpose. People are trying to sleep and I'm trying to study, why is this so hard for you to understand?"

He sucks his teeth. "You're such a little snitch. And I've already told YOU that YOU can't tell me what to do."

"I know I can't...but they can," you nod toward the exit, referring to the police officers that most likely just left out that way with a tiny smirk growing on your face.

If it was possible, he clenched his jaw even harder and you think that he's going to pop a blood vessel. He pushes his way into your apartment, which sends you stumbling back and you grab the door handle to regain your balance. This causes you to close the door shut.

"Hey! What the hell do you think you're-"

He steps right up to you and leans down into your face.

"Who the fuck do you think you are, seriously??? Why are you such an annoying little brat? Just because you're a nerd with no friends who gets no play doesn't mean you can take your bitterness out on me.”

You have to laugh in his face at this point because hello??? First of all, who is he talking to? Second of all, you have told him a BUNCH of times to turn his music down late at night. You didn't think that was too much to ask. As far as you were concerned, being aware of your noise level when you live in an apartment is the universal bare minimum for being a human being.

"ME? Who do you think YOU are? Actually let me tell you. You're an entitled little rich boy who thinks he runs the world. I don't give a fuck about how popular you are on campus, how many people fall at your feet to be around you, and how many hoes you have, you cant talk to ME like that. And how are you going to try and tell me about myself when it's too much of a task for you to be a decent neighbor? I've never done anything to blatantly bother you, so why can you just.." You started to panic because usually when you raise your voice out of anger, your voice cracks and tears threaten to pool out of your eyes, but you tried to get a grip and not back down..."why can you just be nice to me so we can live in peace? Is that too hard for you???"

He looked kind of taken aback by your question. Being nice to you? It never crossed his mind. Also, you kind of had a point. When the semester started and you both moved in on the same day, you would shoot him a small, friendly smile in passing but you never seemed interested in getting to know him. He always wondered why that was. It's not that he had a problem talking with girls, since all he had to do was breathe and girls would come flocking around him, but you would flat out ignore him. Even at all the major parties at the beginning of the year and on Thursday nights when students take over the clubs in the city, you'd barely even acknowledge him. He KNEW that you had seen him too, since you would make eye contact, but you acted like he was just another guy at the club.

And he'd be lying if he said you weren't fine. You had thick thighs, a beautiful face, nice curves, and always wore outfits that hugged you in the right places. He always wondered what it would feel like to wrap his arms around your body and press it against his own. He would constantly sneak peaks of you throughout the night at the club, but something stirred in him when he saw that you were chatting up other guys. Was he...jealous? Jealous that you were so eager to pay attention to these dudes who, in his opinion, were decent looking but they were nowhere near his level, and you never even gave him a second thought? One night he even saw you leaving with a man he knew through mutual friends, and he had to physically stop himself from breaking the glass he was holding, because that guy, while objectively handsome, was nothing compared to him. Jungkook wasn't blatantly cocky, but he let his talent, charm, and looks speak for themselves. He was THEE Jeon Jungkook, and nothing ever really bothered him....except you.

Was he....interested in you? Nah, that can't be it. You were some random chick who happened to be his neighbor, who also is one of the only girls he's met that doesn't give two fucks about even having small talk with him, and that infuriated him for some reason. So the first time you came knocking on his door in an adorable pink satin pajama set with a matching bonnet complaining about his loud music, he knew the game he had to play.

He's still standing over you, centimeters away from you face, but you notice that his eyes soften a little and so does his jaw. He unclenches the fists he was holding crossed against his chest

You continue, “I don't care what you do, and I'm DEFINITELY trying to run your messy ass life. Believe me," you scoff, "you don't have enough money to pay me to do that. But when your dickhole behavior fucks with MY life is when it's a problem. And it's BEEN a problem."

He rolls his eyes. "Whatever, little girl, maybe I should call you little mouse now, since now I know that you'll go squeaking to the cops now, don't fuck with me or my music again.”

Without moving your head you look him up and down with a confused expression. "Am I supposed to be scared of you? No seriously, you look like you cry during Disney movies while wearing footie pajamas, and now here you are throwing a fit because I forced you to stop bothering the entire wing with your music?"

Girl...what are you saying??? This man just barged into YOUR place, is in your face, and is strong enough to pick you up and throw you, and you’re insulting him? But you figured if he's going to be rude, you'll throw it right back because you're tired of his bullshit.

Whatever softness he was feeling for a fleeting moment immediately left, and annoyance once again washed over. He straightens up a bit and puts on that annoying confident smirk he wears when he thinks he's won arguments between you two.

"You should be nicer to me, all it will take is for me to tweet one thing about you, and you'll be the most hated person on campus."

At this point, any suspicions that you had about him annoying you on purpose were confirmed. You've concluded that this mf is a bully and you, small and shy but not one to take mess, will put him in his place to-motherfucking-night.

You take a step toward him, now crossing your arms tightly against your chest, but he doesn't even move a hair backwards.

"Clearly you need a rude awakening so here it is. I don't know what type of people you've dealt with all your life, always saying yes to you, letting you boss them around and taking whatever bullshit you dish out, but let me tell you I am not the one. Never have been and never will be. Unlike the other fools around here who cream their pants at the mention of your name, I don't care about who you are. You'll respect ME and MY peace as long as we're neighbors, you get me?"

Now y/n, you have never so boldly stood up to someone, where did that come from, babes? You've tried to not let this entitled little boy get to you this whole time, but with him standing in front of you in the middle of your apartment with that extremely annoying, yet handsome, smirk on his face, and after all the crap he's said tonight, he had you all the way fucked up.

After you said that, he just laughed and looked away. Now you’re standing there fuming and confused...was there a joke you missed? You were being dead serious!

"Something funny?" you ask, narrowing your eyes.

"Nothing, just thinking about how I want to face fuck that annoying little mouth of yours so you finally shut up.”

Your jaw almost dropped to the floor. You've never had a guy say something so blatantly rude and vulgar literally inches away from your face. But again, you weren't going to back down.

"Oh really?" Scoffing and tilting your head to the side a bit while narrowing your eyes even more, "I'd very much like to do the same. Maybe then you'll learn your place."

"Oh please, princess, you probably blanch when someone around you even mentions the word sex." He chuckles and leans down close toward your face again and cocks his head to the side, scrunching his nose and in a pouty voice said, "you're fooling no one, but keep trying, maybe you'll get there.”

You're even more annoyed than you were before, if that was even possible. But if he wanted to play this game, you might as well go there with him. It's true, you were a bit more prudent than more, but it pissed you off that he could tell. Regardless, you do know some things to say that could have him leaving with his tail between his legs.

You pouted your lips and in a babying tone said, “Aww sweetheart you have no idea. You think you're big and bad but like I said, you probably cry watching Disney movies. The same way you'd be crying, begging me to let you cum down my throat as I mercilessly toy with your cock for hours.”

Now it's his turn to go pale. Y/n, his stuck up neighbor who has barely even spared him five seconds of her time just threatened to edge him into submission? He has to pinch himself because he must be dreaming....

“Well I-“

“But I don't even think we’d make it that far, hun” you continue, “because in order to humble your egotistical, disrespectful ass, I'm gonna have to ride your face until you suffocate. And when the paramedics come and I have to explain how you died, I won't even hesitate to tell them that you were a punk ass loser who LITERALLY drowned in my pussy!”

You don’t know who this person speaking is, but it is not you. All of the pent up hostility you’ve held towards him just flooded out of you and you couldn’t stop the words from coming out. To be honest you shocked yourself, but you still stood there with your arms crossed and your face unfaltering, just waiting for him to say something smart back.

He stared at you silently, eyes wider than you’ve seen before and his mouth hung slightly open. He wasn’t expecting you to respond with so much fire, but now he wouldn’t be able to sleep until the image you painted came true. His brain said fuck it, and his lips crashed down onto yours. The kiss is sloppy but passionate, and you swore you heard him quietly whimper.

When he feels you starting to kiss back, he smirks into the kiss. Your lips are moving against each other in tandem, and all thoughts about how much you despise the prick fades away. As you uncrossed your arms and placed them on his chest, you could feel his heart beating wildly. Was he as nervous as you were this whole time? You wonder. You knew he was a player, so he was experienced. But the thought that you made him nervous gave you a tiny confidence boost. His hands slowly slide up the sides of your body to sneak behind your back, to pull you further into his chest. As much as your brain was telling you to resist him and push him away, you couldn't help but fall victim to how soft his lips felt against yours. Suddenly you feel airborne as he swiftly reaches down behind your thighs and picks you up. You instinctively gasp but he doesn’t miss a beat, simply biting your lower lip and locking your lips together again.

“Maybe we should test that scenario of yours, and if it comes true, that wouldn’t be the worst way for me to go” he says, doing that annoying but soul-crushingly handsome smirk he likes to wear as he carries you off to your bedroom.

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