#they’re just frustrating and annoying and unsatisfying | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

peraltiagos-paper-rings · 11 months

Text

the more I think about it the more it just annoys me what they did with roykeeley in s3…throughout the whole show it really seemed like they were building up to them being together and staying together, yeah they had their issues and setbacks but they were working through them together and could’ve continued to do so. but then in s3 the writers went “whoops lol actually they broke up!! will they get back together???? maaaaaybe…or maaaaaybe not…who knows?!?!?? 🤷‍♀️🤪”

obviously relationships can have their ups and downs and maybe I wouldn’t have minded them breaking up if the subsequent will-they-won’t-they teasing ending in an ambiguous “maybe” hadn’t just frustrated me…especially since in brendan’s AMA he says they were “exploring the love triangle trope”?? in the finale???? when roy keeley and jamie have never been presented as a love triangle before…keeley dumped jamie halfway through season 1 and chose roy and stayed with him until season 2 without ever seeming to doubt her decision or have lingering romantic feelings for jamie (apart from sleeping with him once to make roy jealous). jamie moved on and didn’t seem jealous over roykeeley to me, he went to check if roy was ok when he heard they broke up and he said in s2 that he respected their relationship and also if he really felt that keeley belonged with him wouldn’t he have tried to make a move on her when roykeeley broke up?? but he never did?? apart from that “I still love you” comment at the funeral in s2 but he apologised for it and said that was just his emotions being all confused and messed up from being around dead people or something didn’t he? and as for roy, his s1 rivalry with jamie was never about a girl and his jealousy was more about his self-hatred and not feeling like he was good enough rather than believing he deserved keeley more than jamie or whatever.

overall I just never got the impression that roy keeley and jamie were ever a love triangle, it really seemed to me that keeley and jamie’s relationship was over and roy and keeley were going to stay together - it felt even more official with the addition of having scenes with keeley and phoebe, making it feel like keeley was becoming part of roy’s family. i just felt it was dumb that they would bring up a rivalry again and make keeley have to choose one of them or neither when it seemed like she already chose and also jamie and roy had such a nice friendship going, why would you ruin it by having them fight like teenagers over a girl?? and in brendan’s AMA he said they wanted keeley to have this independent girlboss ending where she don’t need no man because she’s keeley fucking jones and like…yeah but?? she can have both?? she can be an independent businesswoman AND have a relationship?? being in love isn’t bad or anti-feminist, sure she doesn’t NEED roy or jamie to feel fulfilled or complete or anything but it isn’t bad for her to WANT one (or both!) of them…she was still keeley fucking jones when she was with roy, he said so himself!

in conclusion yeah it just felt pointless and annoying to me as well as unsatisfying to build up my expectations for them to be together and then end it ambiguously…especially after teasing that they slept together after roy’s love letter apology only to then be like “actually they’re just friends now” and then have roy say he wants to be more than that…but then an episode later they’re still not back together. feels a little bit like I rooted for them and believed in their love for 3 seasons but was rewarded with nothing. well not nothing I guess but like, they were the one endgame I was sure of and now you’re telling me they might not even be back together???? there was no ending where they kissed and made up and worked things out together????? and maybe they needed to break up so roy could work on himself and keeley could focus on her business but they both did that and they STILL didn’t get back together???? ugh

#ted lasso #roy kent #keeley jones #roykeeley #phoebe kent #jamie tartt #roykeeleyjamie

29 notes · View notes

mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess · 10 months

Text

Haunted

Warnings: explicit porn!!!

I'm not putting content labels on it anymore cause it kills my visibility, so consider yourselves warned.

I told y'all @sasukimimochi gave me brain worms with their gift and I wasn't joking.

This is like a part two to their very fun and sexy ficlet, so go read it too!

Enjoy and drink water!

Lan Xichen has never had trouble sleeping - the 9pm bedtime instilled into his circadian rhythm ever since was a child, his body growing tired whether he willed it to or not. His sleep was rarely troubled, and he woke up rested the next morning at 5 am.

Tonight, his body is betraying him, and Xichen doesn’t know how to deal with it.

(Well, he does know, but he is not doing that. He is above such things, he can control his body and his urges. He’s a powerful cultivator, he’s a sect leader for heaven’s sake, he cannot let such base needs cloud his judgment!)

He’s tried everything he could think of to get himself to sleep - lavender tea, calming melodies, even a walk outside!

It’s 3 am by now. He has to be awake in 2 hours and he’s barely slept a full one.

He wonders whatever could be haunting his subconscious so badly that he can’t fall asleep enough to even nap - and no, it’s not that person, quiet! It must be… the… stress of his position. Yeah, that’s definitely the cause of his restlessness right now, he needs to take a vacation somewhere soon…

(A vacation, huh? A vacation… somewhere isolated… and with-)

Xichen groans, frustrated, turning in his bed for the seemingly millionth time. Why is his mattress so uncomfortable? And his pillows are horrible too, it feels like he’s laying his head on a rock! No wonder he can’t sleep, the conditions here are abysmal!

(Yes, they’re the same conditions as always but that’s not important right now.)

He’s so tired, he really is, but he’s just laying in bed staring at his ceiling, frustration mounting. He has meetings tomorrow - technically, today, ugh! - and he needs to be well rested! He needs to sleep even if it’s just a little bit!

Is there really no way for him to get some shut-eye tonight?!

Well, there is one way left. Xichen sighs, defeated - might as well, right? It’s for a good cause, if he shows up in front of the elder council tired this morning, he’s going to end up calling them cunts to their faces - not that they’re not, but uncle’s had enough qi deviations after hearing Wangji and Wei Wuxian go at it all over the Cloud Recesses lately and Xichen doesn’t want to put their uncle in the ground yet.

(To be fair, Xichen’s a bit envious of his little brother, though he knows Wangji and his husband deserve the happiness and respite. Is it so wrong for him to wish he had someone too? Someone to share his life and his heart and his bed with?

Someone to get risky around the Cloud Recesses with? Someone to warm his… lap while he works, someone to wait for him late at night wearing nothing but a smile and-)

This feels incredibly unsatisfying, Xichen thinks to himself as he tries to work himself to completion. He’s not even fully hard, and the drag of his hand feels unpleasantly rough against his hand. He should’ve had the foresight to use some oil - but he’s in that annoying stage of insomnia where he’s not asleep, but moving seems nearly impossible, and his night stand is way too far out of his reach right now.

He feels pathetic and ridiculous at the same time - such a simple act and yet he doesn’t even enjoy it. He’s not even really into it, just leisurely trying to get himself off so he, hopefully, gets sleepy after. But even the thought of that feels tedious - how is he going to handle the mess after?

It’s always so, so messy… in fact, that’s one of the main reasons why he doesn’t do it often. It’s incredibly embarrassing to clean up and way too troublesome for just a few seconds of bliss.

Or maybe he’s just bad at it and doesn’t see the appeal.

He wants to laugh almost - he must make quite the picture, forlornly staring at nothing in particular, dick in hand, no progress on either of his two objectives - sleep and orgasm. At this point, he’s just going to probably find morning like this, and the image does make him giggle a bit.

What a way to watch the sunrise, right?

His back protests against his mattress - he really needs to have a softer one brought in - so he rolls over on his right side, and his eyes suddenly go wide with arousal, realization and shame all the same. The softness of his blankets and the pillows he’s haphazardly thrown around the bed have rubbed against his cock in just the right way to send his mind reeling with sensation.

And an idea.

He feels… dirty even thinking it. Pornographic, debauched, unbecoming - but despite that, he quickly - excitedly - makes a nice little mound of pillows for himself, stacking them on top of one another enough so he can grasp at them and then-

“A-ah!”

The sound escapes him before he even feels it form on his tongue, and he slaps a hand over his mouth as if to cover it. But it already echoed through the empty hanshi and Xichen irrationally worries people heard it - even if, at such an hour, everybody is dead asleep.

He lets go of his mouth, resolute to keep quiet now. He can do that, he’s not such a horny animal with no control over his reactions. He’s going to be quiet and finish quickly and then go to bed.

Heavens, why are his pillows the exact firmness of-

Xichen’s eyes flutter closed and another moan tumbles out of his lips, helpless against the feeling and the vague fantasy coming to life behind his eyelids. His hips cant slowly against the pillows, and the touch is pleasantly rough now, much better than his hand, the bite of it sending shivers down Xichen’s spine like lust-coated needles.

Still, he does reason with himself, in between thrusts, that he really needs to keep quiet. His window is open after all - and if there’s anyone suffering from insomnia like he is and they’ve decided to take a walk to clear their head, they could walk by and hear-

Another moan escapes him. Fuck, what if - what if that person was here right now on some business, who cares, and they - No - no - don’t -

Xichen heaves a breath that nearly hurts - holding himself upright by his forearms. No, he can’t think of them, it’s not -

His body betrays him, though, because his mind’s weaving a perfect fantasy of them underneath him instead of the pillows, arched perfectly off the bed, head turned to a side to look at him, cheeks flushed, glistening with tears, and eyes distant as he-

The bed creaks, loudly, and the sound both breaks and makes the fantasy. Maybe he’d fuck them so hard they’d break the bed and he’ll have a valid reason to replace it. Maybe he’d get to break every piece of furniture in the hanshi like that, refurnish the whole fucking thing after as a cute couple activity-

His hair falls, wild and unbound, over his body, sticking to the thin layer of sweat covering his skin. He almost feels the phantom grasp of their nails all over his back, the desperate grip on his forearms, the loud moans and the begs and-

Xichen stops on the brink of orgasm, gasping for breath to the point of hyperventilation. He doesn’t want this to end yet - and he’ll think of the irony of that later - but the way arousal simmers underneath his skin is intoxicating, his imagination supplying the lack of a partner so well he should probably wonder if he’s hallucinating.

He wants - what doesn’t he want? His hips pick up speed again, this time in a slow, forceful rhythm, and he smiles to himself at the way the bed’s begun protesting again. He feels his muscles flex with the movement, and his brows furrow at the aftershocks of pleasure that follow every thrust - this shouldn’t feel as good as it does. He shouldn’t be enjoying it the way he is right now.

But he’s somewhere between reality and fantasy right now, and it’s a heavenly place to be. He hears a voice he likes ask him for more, harder, faster, and he doesn’t deliver because he’s feeling mean.

He likes to be mean, he wishes he could be mean more often.

The feeling of his hair all over his back annoys him, so he’s quick to gather it all to a side, supporting himself only with an arm and - he gets it. It is pretty hot to be able to do that. And, what the hell, he is pretty hot in general.

There’s a rule somewhere about arrogance. Not that Xichen cares about it right now, but he notes it exists.

It’s fun to break it. He should be more arrogant too.

He moans again, pathetically pretending to bite his lip to stop it as his fantasy shows him something else, something new - and he’s decided he’s had enough of teasing himself and whoever he’s dreaming he’s fucking right now.

It is late after all, and he did start this with a purpose - to fall asleep.

It’s not that much physical effort, not for the strength and stamina Xichen has built up, but he figures this is different from the training he’s done. Still, he hopes he’s really as good at this as he thinks he is - perhaps he’ll get to test it out for real soon.

The thought brings him back into the moment. The images in his mind are more diffuse now, but he can’t be bothered with that now. There’s a rush everywhere in his body, his heart pounding relentlessly in his ears and puffs of quick breaths leaving his lips with every quick, mindless movement.

He feels everything start to tense up, his body gearing up for something that it’s felt before but not - not to this intensity, not to this level -

And he nearly collapses on his wet, messy pillows as he comes, a name spilling out of his lips as his body relaxes into the rush of his release. It pulses inside him seemingly forever, endless, and he wonders if he could kill himself by coming too hard. It does feel like he’s dying, for a fraction - air seems to be insufficient and his vision is unfocused, heart hammering against his ribcage - but it passes, ebbing into a soft, pliant warmth.

Xichen knows he has to clean up now. He can’t sleep in his mess.

But he doesn’t want this feeling to go away, not as his eyelids are finally growing heavy and he’s yet to feel the emptiness of having nobody to share the afterglow with.

So, he picks up the only unsullied pillow left and the topmost layer of his blankets and with the elegance of a particularly heavy slab of stone, he rolls himself onto the floor and decides to sleep there.

Not much different from his bed anyway.

—

The elder council sends unkind glares towards their sect leader as he casually struts into the meeting hall two hours late.

“Apologies,” he starts, not at all feeling sorry. “Last night has been… particularly haunting for me. Let us proceed?”

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #writing attempts #lxc

18 notes · View notes

evilisk · 1 year

Text

Animated Things I Watched In 2022, Part 2

I (try to) describe the animated shows I watched in a sentence, but this time for stuff I watched in late 2022

= = =

Inside Job Season 2 (2022)

This season did not go in the direction I thought it was heading, I expected Reagan’s relationship to go in a completely different direction due to the obvious contrast between Reagan’s own parents. What we got was much more bittersweet...

Favorite Episode: “Brettwork”

Hilda Season 1 and 2 (2018 - 2020)

Dunno what else to say than “it’s good” and “watch if you haven’t already”

Favorite Episode: “The Deerfox”

Extra Note: I may have teared up (just a little) because of the above episode

Harley Quinn Season 3 (2022)

Same comment for this show, except I also have to say “thank god this series has survived the purge over at Warner-Discovery”

Favorite Episode: “There’s No Ivy In Team”

The Owl House Season 2 (2022)

Same comment for this show AGAIN, except I have to say “of course Disney execs are coming into ruin a good thing yet again”

Favorite Episode: “King’s Tide”

X-Men (1992-1997)

The artstyle has aged like milk and I wouldn’t call the show “good for its time” when Gargoyles and Batman: The Animated Series are from the same period... but I admit, the show has some high highs, even if it also has some very low lows, and generally isn’t consistent as the those other two shows

Favorite Episode: “Beauty & the Beast”

Extra Note: If voice actor for Fabian Cortez wasn’t so awful, I probably would have put the “Sanctuary” 2-parter as my favorite one in the series.

Niko and the Sword of Light Season 1 (2017)

This show is perfectly fine, it has a good voice cast and a classic setup, I just wasn’t the target audience for this show

Favorite Episode: “From the Sea of Suffering to the Faraway Shore”

Ultimate Spider-Man Season 1 (2012)

Maybe it gets better in the later seasons, but the first season is pretty rough.

The skits, which I didn’t mind, get annoying when they start undermining the serious episodes. You can also tell the writers didn’t want to give Spider-Man a team at all, because they barely explore Spider-Man’s teammates and it feels like they're always sidelined when the main plot is actually happening.

Favorite Episode: “Freaky” Least Favorite Episode: “Awesome”

Extra Note: Awesome is such a bad episode. Mr. “Great Responsibility” flunks on his science fair project and decides to steal technology from SHIELD to pass off as his project, EVEN THOUGH his principle is literally works for SHIELD and would probably notice stolen SHIELD tech if he saw it

Dead End: Paranormal Park Season 1 and 2 (2022)

It’s hard to call this show a “must watch” when I think all the legitimately good episodes are in the back-half of Season 2 and it’s not clear if there’ll even be a Season 3. I recommend checking out the first few episodes for yourself and seeing if the story and characters vibe with you

Favorite Episode: “My Super Sweet 1600″

Dogs in Space Season 1 and 2 (2021 - 2022)

It’s hard to describe what I don’t like about this show... it’s like this. The cast is very fun and funny in low stakes episodes. But when there are actual stakes, the cast (especially the main character, who is literally named “Garbage”) becomes very frustrating to watch. And the problem is that the writers keep trying to do story heavy episodes instead of sticking to their lane (sorry if this sounds mean but I really preferred the self-contained stuff over the main plot).

I don’t want to completely disregard this show: it’s mostly unknown and it’s not actively terrible. I actually had a lot of fun with Season 1 but I wouldn’t bother with Season 2 since it writes off the best character (Kira) and has a very unsatisfying conclusion.

Favorite Episode: “Paws & Rewind”

I really wish the writing for this show was as good as its animation

#dogs in space #dead end paranormal park #ultimate spider-man cartoon #the owl house #inside job cartoon #hilda cartoon #animated things i watched in x #x-men the animated series

8 notes · View notes

aldings-stash · 1 year

Text

Mass Effect 3 Thoughts

This post has been in my drafts for almost a year! After doing the other games, here’s my thoughts on the 3rd. It’s hard to approach this without tackling the ending so be warned.

By 2012 Mass Effect was a huge franchise. It’s hard to believe now but there were comics, mobile games, books and even a anime film out in preparation for the final game of the trilogy.

There was a lot to live up to and the hype was real!

When it released it was well received at first, with great gameplay, a high-stakes narrative and fun time-killer of a multiplayer. But as time progressed things turned sour as people approached the ending. Originally, after your 3 flavours of explosion, the Normandy crashed and it cut to credits. Given the time spent with the series it was an abrupt and unsatisfying resolution and made you think you’d nuked the Galaxy by the detonations from the Mass Relays. People also had issue with the final reveal being dumb or illogical. It’s difficult to say the proportion that was annoyed but there was enough backlash that BioWare were compelled to add an Extended Cut to put a more positive spin on things and grant closure to some of the decisions made.

These days people have mellowed out but it remains a bit of a dent on an otherwise decent track record. It’s possible new players will not even wonder what the fuss was about, but that’s how it was at the time. As always, a simple story told well is better than something that tries to be clever and falls short. No one likes to have their hero’s self agency taken away, or to feel lectured by the writers. Don’t get me wrong, despite all this bashing it really is a lot of fun and should be played to get the full experience.

Graphics: 9/10 - The best looking of the games. Lots of new animations and everything is very well put together. Pre-rendered cutscenes have improved a considerable amount and conversations flow a lot better.

Soundtrack: 6/10 - Many missions have no music at all! Many tracks just aren’t memorable or capture the energy of ME2, or are too forced: [this is the sad music, feel sad].

Squad: 7/10 - Feels a bit of a step back after ME2′s huge roster but everyone gets a bit of closure, which is nice. No combat chatter anymore. They have a lot of comments mid-mission but once they’re done they’re silent.

Story: 7/10 - Poor, rushed opening and shaky final mission. Could be better in middle places, like the Geth are suddenly whitewashed to be suspiciously innocent and harmless despite their past. And why would you pick the option to not cure the Krogan? However, the bulk of it was good and gathering forces and resolving major plot points feels satisfying.

The ending still feels off but if you talk as little as possible to the holo-kid and go to Destroy it felt ok. Leviathan DLC is excellent and essential for added context but doesn’t effect the ending in the way it needed to. Frustrating because it otherwise lays down the perfect groundwork to both explain and deal with the Reapers. All it needs is a Shepard who knows the full story to shout down the kid who is obviously a rogue AI with a God complex and self-replicating fleet. You shouldn’t trust it one bit.

If you could point this out, and re-frame it so that it doesn’t feel like the Reapers are giving permission for Shepard to win, it would be much more palatable. So skip the dialogue, don’t ask for details and go blow those feckers up!

Gameplay: 8/10 - Super fun shooting mechanics, with improved movement, gun modding and excellent weapon variety. Would be the best in the trilogy except the enemy variety is poor. Most of the game you’ll fight Reapers or Cerberus, and they won’t get all their roster to face you until halfway in.

Overall: Generally good but more inconsistent than the other games. This is where you see the cracks in what was old BioWare, though they were definitely rushed by EA. Manage expectations and it is still a very fun game for the most part.

ME1 Thoughts

ME2 Thoughts

3 notes · View notes

anonymousewrites · 2 years

Text

Of Pawns and Players Chapter Six

Chapter Six: Strategizing

Ren stood watching the servants bustle around the temple where she was going to be married. Annoyed, she looked from her room as they walked in and out with frankly concerning amounts of flowers.

This is a wedding, not a botanical show, she thought.

Ren sighed and turned to look at the shiromuku hanging on the wardrobe door. Pure, pearly white and gold embellishments screamed “you’re a trophy, a doll they’re playing dress-up with” at her.

But not for long. She smiled. Soon they’ll be the ones played when they lose what they worked oh-so hard for. Speaking of which… Ren glanced the new vanity in her room. She had lied about it breaking because she had tripped and let a tray of food hit the mirror. The fools had eaten up the idea that she was a poor, fragile, clumsy woman.

But they weren’t who occupied her mind. Ren was focused on the curse who had broken the mirror: Sukuna. She huffed, annoyed at herself and the king. Her feelings about their (relationship? partnership?) were complicated to say the least.

On the one hand, Ren’s logic ruled her mind. She had long ago rationalized that she couldn’t avoid her fate; she was going to die at Sukuna’s hand. She had moved forward. And yet…she was unsatisfied. Not only due to her bothersome feelings, but because Sukuna wasn’t following through. He would get close to finishing the affair his way but stopped before doing any real damage to Ren.

Is it some sort of game to him? Ren pushed emotions aside; she could not understand his motivation. I know he wants a reaction from me, but surely, he’s gotten as much as he can. There’s not much I can give him. I don’t emote as a normal person does.

Her ignored but ever-present emotions also played a role in her annoyance. Ren was upset Sukuna kept playing with her because…well, because she liked him. Sukuna was interesting, intelligent, strong, and, Ren had eyes, attractive. Even if he was adamant on killing her, Ren couldn’t help but eagerly anticipate his visits. He seemed to respect her more than others ever had. That was her greatest weakness: her desire for recognition, for being seen as more than just a pretty face, a woman who either belongs to her father or her husband. She wanted to be more, and for once in her life, she felt that with Sukuna. It made her crave more, and when he got close to killing her, it hurt. He wouldn’t just end it. In the deepest recesses of her heart, Ren somehow felt betrayed by someone who never promised loyalty to begin with.

The only cause I have for grief is because he isn’t following through with the plan, argued Ren. He’s promised to many times, and yet he hasn’t. That is my only grievance. And yet… Frustrated, Ren ran her hands through her hair and took a deep breath. These damn feelings are clouding my judgement.

“I thought you were above such emotions,” observed a smug voice behind her.

“No one is devoid of feelings,” answered Ren simply, turning to face Sukuna. I almost didn’t realize he was here. These distractions are becoming troublesome. “You should know.”

“Are you insulting me?”

If Ren wasn’t mistaken, there was a hint of humor in his voice. “Merely observing how you’re quick to anger.”

He smirked. “Yes, but not quick to act on it.”

Ren raised an eyebrow and let out a brief, airy laugh. “I believe that’s debatable.”

Sukuna leaned on the wall beside himself. “I haven’t killed you whenever you annoy me, have I?”

As men do, Sukuna said precisely the wrong thing to keep Ren in a good mood. The glimmer of amusement in her eye winked out. “No, but is that not a defect of your character?”

“What?” Sukuna frowned.

“Couldn’t your not killing yet me be a sign of…hesitation?” questioned Ren.

“Careful,” warned the pink-haired curse, red eyes narrowing.

“I have no reason to be if I’m going to die either way. Somehow it hasn’t gotten into your head that if someone is planning on doing something no matter what, then threatening someone with that thing doesn’t make sense.”

Sukuna stepped forward, towering over her. “I can still cause you a lot of pain. You seem to forget that.”

Ren looked up into his eyes angrily. “No, you’re the one who’s forgetting his job. Neither of us gets to see the Gojos suffer if I don’t die.”

“You’re awfully keen to die,” said Sukuna cruelly. “You’re so desperate, it’s pathetic.”

“And you’re so desperate to avoid this conversation, it’s pathetic,” said Ren.

Sukuna slammed her against the wall. “I’ve allowed you to speak impudently to me because you amuse me, but you are not immune to consequences,” he hissed.

Ren winced and looked up at him. They were incredibly close, near enough to see their reflection in the other’s eyes. “Prove it,” she whispered. “Kill me.”

Sukuna jerked backwards as her lips brushed his and the weight of her challenge hit him.

“I’ve had enough of these games, Sukuna.” Ren took a deep breath and straightened her shoulders. “You refuse to follow my plan, yet you don’t follow through on your own either. You arrive at the perfect moment to kill me, but you don’t.”

Sukuna waved a hand. “I need you to fear me.”

“I’m not going to. You’ve gotten as much of an emotional reaction as you’re ever going to get,” said Ren. “It’s time for you to end this.”

“I’ll end this when I please,” growled Sukuna.

Ren scoffed. “I’m beginning to doubt your commitment.”

Enraged, Sukuna stepped forward once again to keep Ren trapped against the wall. Staring into her unwavering eyes, Sukuna spoke in a dangerously low voice. “Do you truly want to reap what you sow?”

“I gave you a perfectly good opportunity in the maze. You should have taken your chance then if you didn’t want me to grow bolder,” snapped Ren.

“Are you truly so desperate to die?” As soon as Sukuna spoke, the words hung in the air, a cloud of tension forming. There was something in them resting right below the surface, a quality neither party wanted to address. To acknowledge it would be to acknowledge another level of emotions they both possessed. A level which could bring consequences.

“What do you think?” breathed Ren.

Sukuna was struck with the same feeling he’d had in the maze. He was silent, for once. Stepping back, he steeled his expression into one of careful aloofness. “Then I look forward to the ending of our arrangement.”

“Then you’ve made up your mind?” asked Ren somberly.

Sukuna tilted her chin up towards him. “I can assure you that any ‘hesitations’ I might have will be gone within a day’s time.”

Ren didn’t turn as he strolled behind her, disappearing out the terrace and into the sunset. She took a deep breath. This will all be over with soon, one way or another.

#of pawns and players #sukume #jjk sukuna #sukuna x oc x uraume #sukuna x uraume #sukuna x oc #sukuna #sukuna fluff #sukuna ryomen #ryomen sukuna #jjk uraume #uraume x oc #uraume #oc #original character #jjk oc #jjk #jujutsu kaisen oc #jujutsu kaisen

12 notes · View notes

sunshine-zenith · 5 months

Text

Aight so I’m rereading “On a Sunbeam” by Tillie Walden again and it’s easily one of my favorite books — stunning art; beautiful story; amazing queer, female and nonbinary rep; go read it please go go go go go — and I gotta express my frustration with two tiny things here — a plot hole that gets harder to overlook every time I reread it (because there’s so much amazing attention to detail that this thing stands out as such a frustrating exception), and this one mildly unsatisfying moment at the end

Again, these only stand out because this is such an amazing book

SPOILERS

So like. Grace’s necklace. It’s such an important thing during the flashbacks, with a major turning point for past Mia’s story being her saving it. It’s also how Grace’s sisters keep track of her and I always took it as the reason they barged in on Mia when they were looking for Grace — because Mia was wearing it

The thing is, after Grace puts it on Mia, it disappears. I keep searching the panels in case it’s there, just not addressed, but I just don’t see it anywhere. And it’s especially annoying because this is a tracking device! The Big Tragic Moment Of The Past is Mia not being able to say goodbye to Grace because she physically can’t — if she’s wearing a tracking device that the people Grace is with utilizes, wouldn’t they somehow be able to see she’s staying in one location? Wouldn’t they see her frantically running just seconds too late? And why doesn’t present Mia have it?

The thing is, Mia is impulsive. There could’ve easily been a panel where she tosses the thing into the void of space! Or! The necklace could’ve been the reason Grace and her sister were able to catch her before she left TS at the end — the sister could’ve been following the necklace, which if you want some plot armor, she could’ve forgotten until that moment, hence why they didn’t know anyone was trying to break into TS! And listen, I like that Mia’s motivation is “I just want to get closure” — it’s this big, wordless thing that fits Mia’s impulse, bad-with-words character — but Mia wanting to return the necklace would’ve been such a nice circular moment for their story!

And the other thing — throughout the story, it’s repeatedly said that those stranded seek escape by putting up a flag. How does this work? Why do the rescuers have information about the people they’re rescuing? How can you even find a single flag on a large planet or dinky asteroid in the middle of space? Here’s the thing — I don’t care about the answers to these questions! They don’t matter and I love the flag imagery

The thing that matters is that this is a repeated symbol. And how to Grace and Mia get the ship to turn around for them in the end? With a flag, right?

Not. With a flare gun

Here’s the thing — if you’re ever stranded and you see your escape leaving you behind, logically if you have a flare gun, you use the flare gun to get their attention. It makes sense to use

But it’s so narratively unsatisfying. The flag is a repeated important symbol, the flare gun means nothing. If you’re going to tell a story, sometimes the real world smart thing does nothing to help your story

Again, these are just two relatively minor things in an amazing story, but if I don’t talk about them at least once I’m going to explode

#the sun shines #spoilers #should I tag the book? I don’t want my criticism to bog down the tag #ask to tag #long post

1 note · View note

glittersandsourcherries · 2 years

Text

Just friends (part 3) | Fezco x Reader

Summary: You ask Fez to take your virginity

Pairing: Fezco x Reader

Word count: 1.6k

Warning: nudity, first time, drug use (idk what to add)

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 (coming soon)

Keep sending requests!!

Sitting on the counter, you were blowing your bubblegum and annoying the hell out of Fez with the popping noises when Jules came by the convenience store, Rue seated behind her on the bike. She greeted you, all bubbly and happy, while Rue went for the candy aisle, craving something sweet. She was dressed a little 'nicer' than usual, which made you raise an eyebrow.

''My dad invited Rue to dinner tonight. She's a little nervous,'' Jules said, explaining Rue's outfit and sweet craving. She needed something to chew or suck on to pass her anxiety.

''Am not!'' she replied from the candy aisle. ''Stop telling her that, Jules.''

Jules tucked a piece of hair behind her ear, showing off the eyeliner art she did on her eyes. You wished you were artsy like her. ''You guys have plans for tonight?''

''Fez has a few errands to run and then we'll be watching movies. Did you see the new Halloween? I heard there's some very gore-y scenes.''

At first glance, no one would've guessed your passion for horror movies, but you were a sucker for psychological horror and slashers.

''Bet it's gonna be a let down like all the other sequels. Nothin' can beat the classics,'' Fez said, leaning against the coolers.

You turned in his direction. ''Well, I like the new movies. I'm sure this one will be good.''

''And I say it'll suck.''

Jules watched you and Fez bicker with a smile on her face. ''You two would make such a cute couple.''

Although her comment was pure intended, your whole body went into panic mode. ''Me and Fez?'' You forced a laugh, using denial as defense. ''No. That's-'' You shook your head, searching for words. ''He's...weird looking.''

That wasn't nice to say, but you didn't think too much about it. You just wanted Jules to not have room to bring it up again.

You and Fez were friends. That was it.

You were partially naked with this random guy you met half an hour ago, having what could be classified as decent sex - he had been pounding into you for ten minutes -, but something felt off on your end.

''I'm gonna come,'' he said, watching your boobs bounce at every trust of his hips. ''You close?'' His voice was a mix between a groan and a bad runner struggling to catch his breath.

Honestly? The distance between now and your orgasm was the same as the US to China.

''Eh, yeah,'' you lied.

You tried to focus on the pleasure and stop stressing about orgasming, thinking you'll make it, but it wasn't working.

You shook your head, gently pushing the guy off of you. ''Stop. Stop.''

He stopped his movements and frowned in confusion. ''What the fuck you stopping me for?''

''I...I don't feel well.'' You used your best actress skills, running a hand over your face and faking feeling unwell. ''I think we should stop.''

''But I'm so close.''

You wanted to roll your eyes. So what if he was close? You told him to stop. Do men not understand the meaning of consent?

''I guess you're gonna have to use your hand. I'm leaving.''

The guy's jaw dropped, frustration and anger filling his veins. ''Are you fucking kidding me?''

You ignored him as he was cursing at you and calling you names, clearly upset you had ended the intercourse, and put your clothes back on. You left the bedroom without saying 'bye'.

''I think I'm broken,'' you declared, finding Kat and Maddy in the kitchen, feeling utterly confused after living the most unsatisfying experience of your life.

Kat frowned. ''What do you mean?''

''I just had sex with this guy and it was...lacklustre.''

''You mean, you didn't...''

''I tried. Thrust me, I tried, but...'' You shook your head. ''What if having a good first time made my standards and hopes too high?''

You wanted to laugh at how ridiculous you sounded.

''Not all men are gods in bed,'' Maddy explained. ''Most think they know what the fuck they're doing and are great at it, but they can't even find the clitoris.'' Beside her, Kat laughed, agreeing. ''That's why women sometimes have to fake orgasms. To not hurt their ego - and end the torture.''

Kat nodded. ''I did that with Ethan,'' she admitted. ''Thank god it's over.'' She took a long sip of her drink.

''So I gotta fake it till I find someone who's actually good? Doesn't sound like a fun plan.''

Maddy laughed. ''No.''

''Why don't you go back to that person if it was so good?'' Kat asked.

You wished. If only it was simple.

''Because I can't.''

When it was time to go home, you rode with Fez and Ashtray. Ash was riding shotgun, as always, leaving you by yourself in the backseat. You usually didn't mind, having a whole seat to yourself meant you could lay down and nap when you were too drunk, but tonight, being alone with your thoughts was a bad idea.

All you could think about was the guy you had sex with and left with blue balls.

And Kat's words. Why don't you go back to that person if it was so good?

While it made sense, you didn't want to jeopardize your and Fez's friendship again. Many friendships had been broken after the line had been crossed and you didn't want to risk losing Fez.

Perhaps you could give it another chance and try again with someone else? If it failed again, then you could ask Fez.

''I'm gonna heat this frozen pizza for me and Ash, want some?''

You pulled yourself out of your thoughts and nodded. Pizza sounded good after drinking all night.

''Don't forget to change the setting to broil when the cheese is melted. Don't want mushy cheese or burnt crust from overcooking,'' you said while Fez was fixing the pizza, taking off your heels and curling up on one of the couches. ''Parties are exhausting.''

A minute later, Fez dropped heavily onto the couch, humming in agreement. He closed his eyes and rested his head against the pillowy back of the couch.

''Don't fall asleep,'' you warned.

''I'm restin' my eyes.''

You rolled yours, not believing him. Fez was one of those people who fell asleep easily. ''Where's Ash?'' you asked, making conversation to keep him awake.

''Upstairs. Mouse is comin' tomorrow.''

Your stomach tightened. You had had the ‘chance’ of meeting Mouse once in your life and it had been enough. Thinking about him gives you chills. He had this way of looking at people that made you instantly scared and want to pee your pants.

''Should I be worried?''

Even Fez was a little scared of Mouse. He wouldn’t admit it out loud, but he was. The conduct of his visits were unpredictable and stressful, hence why Fez kept a gun in his couch when Mouse came over.

''Nah. We almost sold everythin'. There shouldn't be a problem.''

You nodded. ''Good.''

According to studies, you are more likely to make dumb decisions after 2am. To carry on to the tradition, you decided to kiss Fez. Why? There were a lot of possible explanations. It was late and your brain wasn't functioning properly. Perhaps you felt a little lonely too - don't we all at 2am?

What you knew was that Fez immediately kissed back, slow and smooth, and pulled at your waist, encouraging you to come closer. You could taste the weed he had smoked earlier on his tongue, but it didn't bother you.

You swung a leg over him into a straddling position, deepening the kiss and moving your hips in a teasing pattern. Your skirt rode up a little, causing your underwear to make direct contact with his jeans. A groan came from Fez's throat, raising his hips to meet your movements.

Just when you thought it was going somewhere, he pulled away and shook his head. ''We're not doin' this.''

You returned to your previous position on the couch. ''Why not? We're both single. I don't see a problem.''

''Last week you were tellin' Jewel I ain't your type and I look weird, but now you wanna fuck?'' He ran his hands over his shaved head, very confused. ''I knew girls were complicated and hard to follow sometimes, but you're on another fuckin' level.''

You wanted to sink into the couch and disappear. You didn’t think he had heard that part.

''I'm not some free dick you can use whenever you please, Y/N. I agreed to take your virginity because you were going to give it to the first horny nitwit who'd be willing to and didn't want you to waste it like that.''

Your eyebrows pulled into a frown, eyes filled with hurt. ''You pitty-fucked me?!''

Fez groaned, having expressed himself wrongly. ''No...''

"Yes, you did! You 100% did!" you yelled, tears brimming your eyes.

''You wanted this, you asked me to-''

''So I forced you into fucking me?'' You laughed dryly. ''I don't recall you having difficulty getting your dick hard. In fact, I remember you getting hard pretty damn fast.''

Fez rubbed his hands over his face, trying to find a way out of this. He hated confrontation and arguing, he avoided it at all cost. ''I can't believe we're havin' this conversation... This is why I didn't want to do it in the first place. 'Cause I knew it would stirr problems.''

A beeping noise came from the oven, announcing that the pizza was done.

While Fez was occupied with the pizza, you took your phone and text Maddy, asking her to pick you up.

taglist: @misaamaneswifey @garfieldsladybird @ch3rrydoll @longlostx11 @yaspillz @bigpoppajes @jamespotterwifeys @joselyn001 @bubblegumcat229 @divalicious-jessa-blog @thecraziestcrayon @chenlemure @kittylomein @wh0reforbucknasty @euphoria-bra1nr0t @mariyaodison @poohkie90 @divalicious-jessa-blog @starfulwonderer @shortstoriesbyher @lililils-blog @congchuacavang @just-stupid-stuff @kxllanxtdoor

#fezco #fezco imagine #fezco x reader #fezco euphoria #fez x reader #euphoria #euphoria fic #euphoria season 2 #euphoria imagine

2K notes · View notes

ironwoodprotectionsquad · 2 years

Note

just saw a take in the anti-rwde tag so bad i had a whole allergic reaction /hj

it was about how rewrites are NEVER good because it ignore's the writers' work, and that if you make rewrites you never actually enjoyed the content.

like okay, i guess AU writers hate the content they pull from! because AUs do technically count as rewrites, just probably not what OP was thinking of (*cough* fixing rwby *cough*). actually, technically all fanfics are rewrites to some degree! fuck it! everyone who writes fanfic is actively ignoring the writers' hard work! damn!

sorry for disagreeing, but i personally think making rewrites means you're more passionate than if you were to just passively consume the content you were given! because you're putting effort into ignored characters, dropped plot threads, unexplored worldbuilding and lore, etc.! who are you to judge if someone's way of appreciating content is wondering how things could have gone differently, expanding on what the writers' didn't pay attention to? there is NOTHING WRONG with wanting to rewrite something, whether it's because you're just curious about how things could go differently or if you're unsatisfied with what you got. hell, even the rewrites i HATE i still hold some respect for because damn, take it from someone who tried and gave up, making rewrites is HARDDDD, ESPECIALLY for a show like rwby with so many characters and other factors to take into consideration

anyway, sorry for ranting in your askbox lol, i'm just so....jesus christ that take made me MAD.

Hey anon! First off never EVER apologize for ranting in my inbox! I don’t mind, I know sometimes venting out your frustrations can help you feel better. I do that a lot on my blog when something annoys me so I get how therapeutic it can be.

Secondly I have never gone into the anti-rwde tag because I know I would die after a few posts. I will stick to the RWDE and James Ironwood tags where I belong lolZ.

Regarding the meat of this ask, holy shit I just- why just why? How can you look at a show like RWBY that regularly and actively takes things like themes and character arcs and say that someone making a rewrite doesn’t love the original subject? People don’t waste time on things they don’t care about. We have limited free time to do shit we’re not going to waste it working on a project that does absolutely nothing for us.

I have a morbid curiosity for what they think of AUs because how this person describes it, they should be even worse then rewrites because aus fundamentally completely overturn what the original work was. It’s all about taking the characters you love and plopping them in something completely different from their canon universes. It is literally about exploring the infinite possibilities that a universe holds. Personally I almost exclusively write in Aus in anything longer then a one or two shot. They’re just so much more interesting to me to explore because I love seeing how minor things change the bigger picture and what these characters do.

Hey you know everyone is allowed to have their own opinions and they literally don’t hurt anyone just like how rewrites and AU’s aren’t hurting anyone. They’re a way someone expresses their love for whatever it is the rewrite or Au is for just like fanart. Just because their are certain things one would change doesn’t mean they still don’t enjoy the base media the rewrite is for. Their is always something that we love in it what’s why we create for it.

I may not like every rewrite or au or whatever for any fandom I love but I still respect the work put into it because these fics take a lot of work and time and effort and writers do this for free. Their is no way to get any compensation for fic writing yet people do it anyways because they love the thing being written about and this is how they express that love. That whole sentiment is just insane for me and reeks of a mega fan refusing to understand that their precious show might not be perfect and that sometimes people might have a better idea for something. Or even if it isn’t it still has value and these mega fans are just wrong about it not having value. As I said it takes time and effort and people won’t waste time on something they don’t care about or enjoy it helps no one and trying to pretend otherwise is just insane to me.

#rwde #rwby crititical #rwby critique #fans behaving badly #fndm behaving badly #answered ask #anon ask

16 notes · View notes

changeling-rin · 3 years

Note

Ok, so codex and shadow on chains adventures. Go!

There will be nothing left standing

Skyward Sword: Whoever's idea it was to live above the protective cloud cover is about to get stabbed, Shadow is dead set on it. Meanwhile, Codex takes notes. Lots of notes. Coincidentally, someone OHKO's Ghirahim with a very clever loophole regarding advisors

Minish Cap: Codex takes notes, lots of notes. Coincidentally, Shadow OHKO's Vaati with an uncharacteristically clever plan regarding the consumption of energy fields bigger than one's head

Four Swords: So many notes. Codex needs a new notebook. Meanwhile, Shadow coincidentally OHKO's a different Vaati by taking advantage of the kidnapped Princess who, not so coincidentally, hates Vaati's guts

Ocarina of Time: Codex fills two entire notebooks. Meanwhile, someone OHKO's Ganondorf the moment he steps into Hyrule Castle with the speed of forethought and hindsight. The coincidentally bolded, highlighted, and underlined note in Codex's books about the locations of sacred treasures that can defeat the Big Bad are seriously completely coincidental

Majora's Mask: Shadow takes one look at Majora and vows to stab it in the eyeball. Meanwhile, Codex fills another notebook. Completely coincidentally, Shadow times his fore-avowed stabbing perfectly with the would-be fall of the Moon, no there wasn't any sort of countdown he was using to escape the deadline, that's a silly idea

Twilight Princess: Seriously, Shadow doesn't get what all the fuss over the Twilight is about, it seems just fine to him. Meanwhile, Codex struggles to hold a pen without thumbs... but the slight delay in taking down Zant and Ganondorf is completely coincidental okay!?

Four Swords Adventures: Four Codexes means four different notebooks heck yes- Meanwhile, Shadow punches Vaati in the eye a full five minutes after he made his invasion force known. Look they're got four notebooks to work with this time, things get sped up a bit - wait no they mean IT'S A COMPLETE COINCIDENCE

A Link to the Past: The Dark World seems fine to Shadow. Meanwhile, Codex learned from his time in the Twilight. Paws are no longer a writing impediment to him! Completely coincidentally, mind you, Agahnim gets OHKO'd before he even gets the chance to summon Ganon

Oracle of Ages: Codex only fills half a notebook, because somebody (Ralph) was being sensical for once. Meanwhile, Shadow nearly punches Queen Ambi in the face. In his defense, they had less notebook to work with this time than usual WAIT NO IT'S JUST A COINCIDENCE

Oracle of Seasons: Codex has so many notes on dragons and dragon-like entities at this point that Shadow can literally just OHKO Onox from the get-go without breaking a sweat. Completely coincidentally.

Link's Awakening: None of Codex's notes survived, he is so upset. Meanwhile, Shadow decides he hates the ocean

The Legend of Zelda: ...There's nothing in his notes that can speed this up. They're literally just gonna have to check everywhere and see what they find. To date, it's their worst Completion Time yet

A Link Between Worlds: Codex fills the other half of that notebook from Ages, finally. Meanwhile, Shadow punches Yuga in the face, settles for tripping Hilda into a bush, and 'unintentionally' traumatizes Ravio. Look, it was a very unsatisfying trip, okay?

Wind Waker: Codex fills another notebook, though a good quarter of it is about sailing tips. Meanwhile, Shadow still hates the ocean, but at least he gets to take out his frustration by OHKO-ing a giant bird and also Ganondorf

Spirit Tracks: ...Codex is out of notebooks, and he is Upset About It. Meanwhile, Shadow punches Chancellor Cole in the face. It's annoying that they can reapply the Veran Tactics to Malladus, but on the bright side this does make OHKO-ing him much simpler!

#Changeling Answers #DL Questions #Other Link Adventures AU #Shadow #Codex #j0shuadh #whoo gosh guys it's been a hot minute #sometimes life just sucks #and you gotta accept that 10+ hour workdays means very little energy for anything else #oof

31 notes · View notes

xpeachesncream · 3 years

Note

Can i Request a Drabble where Aiko keeps sending taehyung Nudes and the reader gets insecure about her appearance bc of it? She compares herself to Aiko and it makes taehyung upset :/ im not too good with requests sorry if this isn’t clear

perfectly wrong | drabble [11]: it’s the way that she sits pretty with that perfect hourglass shape of hers in her nudes.

word count: 1.8k

warnings: cussing, implied sexual content, jealousy, insecurities about image/looks

Okay, let's be real. Men love nudes. They all have needs, and they all love marveling at a naked body, especially when it comes unexpectedly. It could be a good, or bad thing. Whatever it is, they love that shit either way. I'm calling a man's bluff if he ever says he didn't enjoy looking at someone's nudes.

Taehyung isn't exempt. It was honestly the biggest highlight when he went on his fuckboy spree. Just the feeling of being wanted so badly that girls would send you nudes to grab your attention. Biggest ego booster.

Before anyone gets on his ass, he loves his woman and he quickly taps out of the snapchat so he doesn't see it for long. It's been Aiko's 5th nude so far, and he's already knowing what to expect when the notification hits his screen. He knows this shit.

You were there the first time she sent him a nude over snapchat. You both looked at it, confused that it had been sent to the wrong person since she hadn't sent him anything in between that movie selfie and this. It became a running joke for awhile, but it eventually died the less you saw or heard of it. You just actually didn't know she was still sending him nudes.

So, when you see her snapchat notification pop up on his screen again, you're a little taken aback.

"Aiko's still sending you snaps?" You ask as you hug Taehyung tightly while you both are cuddling on Jimin's couch, watching another yet unsatisfying episode of Unsolved Mysteries. You all had just finished watching The Hate U Give, Jimin throwing the channel on something random afterwards. He sat on the other portion of his couch, hugging a pillow tightly against his chest as he cussed to himself and mumbled questions about how people could stand this show if barely any of the episodes were actually solved.

You get the frustration, right? You just wanna know if they ever caught the killer, or if they found new clues, but most of the episodes end so abruptly with that 'if you happen to have any info regarding this case' message with the number to call.

"Yeah, it's whatever though." Taehyung says, keeping his eyes on the tv while you fiddled with his phone.

"Woah!" You say as you pressed on her snap, revealing her nude and on her bed, fingers trailing down to her lady friend. You tilted your head as you watched her begin to rub her clit ever so softly. The thing that gets you though is her body, and how she sat there, looking like a perfect hourglass. "Interesting." Taehyung looks at his phone and does a double take.

"Oh shit." He nonchalantly says as he also tilts his head confusingly while looking at the snap, causing you to shake your head and hit his chest as you tap out if it. The second thing that catches your eye is how many times her name comes up in his history.

"She's been sending you snaps?"

"Yeah, but I don't pay much attention to it." He caresses your arm as you slightly tilt your head up to look at him.

"Have they all been nudes?"

"Yes, but I told you I don't pay much attention to it, baby." You were unsatisfied with his answer, only because you just got a glimpse of what she sent tonight. You have no idea what the others looked like, but you were thinking it was just as this one was - the perfect position in her hourglass shape.

"Okay." Is all you say. You suddenly felt insecure as fuck, knowing your man had seen those snaps of her. She honestly looked like a fucking goddess and it kills you. He used to fuck her, for god's sake! Aka he used to have the hots for her to some extent?! He considered it once, and it makes you feel a little queazy knowing he could again.

"What happened?" Jimin asks from his side of the couch.

"Aiko sent Taehyung a nude." You flatly respond.

"Seen it, she's sent me the same ones." You roll your eyes because for Jimin, it's whatever. For your man though, please. Don't come up in his inbox with that mess. What the fuck was she trying to do here, show the world her coochie? She was feeling herself that much?

Shit, honestly. Single and with that body, you would be too. Fuck, that's annoying.

"Baby, it's nothing, okay?" He gently tickles your chin.

"Kaaaaay, I heard you." You say as bothered as possible. For the remaining time at Jimin's, you're quiet. Your mood has plunged. You just wanted to sulk in your bed. Taehyung takes notice, but he was going to wait until you two were alone to bring it up.

Which is now, in the car, in your guest parking spot.

"Okay, what's going on in my pretty lady's head?" He shuts off the car and sinks into the driver's seat, having the damn nerve to manspread in it.

"Nothing."

"Mm, not gonna fly with me, sweetheart."

"I just can't believe she's been sending you nudes."

"So what? It doesn't mean anything."

"Yeah right, with that body of hers? How could it not? You used to have a thing for her."

"Used to."

"Her body is fucking perfect, it's annoying."

"Babygirl, don't do that. I don't like when you compare yourself. You're the only person I know who's close to perfect." He boops your nose, but it leaves you unamused. You're just letting your feelings of insecurity and jealousy get to you that everything is clouded. All the things he's saying doesn't reach you, and you're literally in the mood to pick a fight for no whole ass reason over it. That was exactly one of your other bad habits that you had trouble unlearning.

"Whatever." You brushed him off, making him a little irritated with the way you were coming off over this. Again, Taehyung doesn't mind reassuring you. He loves doing it. He loves babying you and being the best he can be. But there were days where your attitude did get to the best of him, especially when he was trying. Taehyung hadn't given you a reason to make you doubt him since you two became exclusive, so he didn't think it was necessary for you to act the way you were acting.

"Really, Y/N? This isn't necessary."

"Why are you still even entertaining her snaps? Shouldn't you have gotten rid of her contact info already?" He grabs his phone and blocks her on snapchat, showing it to you before shoving it into the small storage space under the car's radio.

"There, happy?"

"Why are you so mad about it? I'm sorry you want to see her body so fucking badly."

"I'm mad because you're being a brat when you don't need to be." He looks at you intimidatingly with his piercing eyes. "You're putting words in my mouth. I never said I wanted to. Plus, I've told you time and time again that it was nothing and that it didn't mean anything to me." You roll your eyes, getting out of the passenger's seat to make your way up to your apartment.

Alright so, here's the deal. You feel like Taehyung is missing the point. Aiko looked so good in that ones nap. So good that you suddenly questioned your own look and felt completely insecure. You disliked hearing him say it wasn't a big deal, because it was. To you, at least.

Taehyung sighed heavily before going after you. He does a light jog, barely catching the elevator you had hopped into.

"Y/N, don't do that." You glared at him.

"It's not a big deal, right?" He sighs again before running his hand through his curly hair. The elevator doors open, but he wraps his arms around your waist, pulling you back in and preventing you from walking out. "Tae, let me go."

"Nah." He shrugs. "Not until we fix this." The elevator stays at their floor.

"You said it wasn't a big deal." You crossed your arms.

"Okay, I'm sorry." A good thing about Taehyung is that he's learned to be better about admitting his mistakes and saying sorry when he's in the wrong. "I shouldn't have said it in a way that would make you feel like I'm discrediting your feelings." You continue to look at him silently, the elevator suddenly going back down to the lobby. "And I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner or get rid of her shit earlier. But baby, her snapchats don't mean a thing to me. I don't care how 'good' she looks or if they're nudes." He uses finger quotes. "It's still not you."

"I just--" You sighed, watching a lady come into the elevator to join you two to go up to the 8th floor. "I feel like I can't look that good. She had the perfect hourglass figure and she looked so good posing for her nudes. The perfect angle, her hair, the way she smiled through her eyes. I can only imagine what the others were like." He shook his head and shrugged.

"I honestly don't remember." Truthfully. He really didn't care about them, even if he took a quick glance. At the end of the day, they still weren't memorable because it wasn't his lady. "And I don't care if she has that, or whatever it is. I love you." He smiles toothlessly at you. You catch the lady scrunch her nose and smile at you both before walking off. "I love every single thing about you. You're the definition of perfect to me. I hate when you compare yourself because I really, really wish you could see the way I see you."

"Cheesy." It causes you to chuckle a bit and press your hand against his chest as he presses the button to your floor.

"Yeah, okay. You still like to hear it though, I know you." He smirks playfully as he pulls you into a hug and kisses the top of your head. "If it's not you, I don't want it."

"I honestly hate you sometimes." He shrugs before picking you up by the legs and carrying you, causing you to squeal.

"So then hate me."

"Put me down!"

"Say it to my face in bed, baby." He playfully smacks your ass in the hallway, allowing it to echo as he carries you to your apartment. It was hard to stay mad at Taehyung, but you were grateful you had someone like him who could bring you back down to Earth. You had your fair share of bickering and unnecessary arguments [because you liked picking fights with your attitude], but he was still able to show you that he would ride or die for you, no matter how silly things got.

That was your man, and your man only. Sorry Aiko.

#bts #bts fanfiction #taehyung fanfiction #taehyung #kim taehyung #taehyung x reader #kth x reader #writing #perfectly wrong drabbles #perfectly wrong #kth series #taehyung fluff #bts fluff #kim taehyung fluff #kth fluff #taehyung angst #bts angst #kim taehyung angst #kth angst

158 notes · View notes

inventors-fair · 3 years

Photo

Animal Race Runners-up: The Tail End ~

Our runners-up this week, after some really hard choices, are @real-aspen-hours, @reaperfromtheabyss and @whuh-oh.

@real-aspen-hours — Corvin Doomseer

I think this was one of the ones that was always going to be here, because there’s one major change I’d make and some tweaking here and there, but the changes I have in mind are in service to the card because I want it to be good, not because it somehow failed in what it set out to do or that it doesn’t feel right—on the contrary, this is a fantastic mood and card. I’m going to preface this by saying that I don’t play video games myself but know a lot more about them than I should: this is giving me Dark Souls vibes. The way to phrase that that doesn’t make me look like a dork is that the mood of a dying world or some world torn asunder, where maybe even the heroes only fight in stoic misery, the ruins of kingdoms never to return to glory—like, I dig the place you’ve made here, a lot. Mechanically: I think that you can, indeed, make an opponent lose 13 life instead of six. Yes, it’s a lot, and it would definitely knock this card down to a 1/1 instead of a 1/2, maybe even a 0/1, but the hoops you have to jump through make the ability happen are enough to push this. Maybe the math just won’t work out! And hey, maybe they’ve gained life! My point is, I love this card and want you to push it just a touch. Also, if you can, I kinda want to see the FT as a rhyming couplet.

@reaperfromtheabyss — Ethereal Scyphozan

When I thought about playing against this card, I got a little mad. That’s how I knew that this is absolutely a mechanical contender. Is it broken? No. Is it a pain? Unquestionably. Does it die to removal? That meme gets more and more eye-rolling every day. No, I mean, look at this thing, the ward cost is really annoying but not busted, the combat trigger is annoying but not busted, the art direction is really neat so props there, and I want to jam this card (jelly this card?) into a deck and see how it goes in a draft. The role of the jellyfish in the greater world is a little undefined, but on this card, it doesn’t have to be. I get that this isn’t just some jellyfish that happened to gain magic. This is a jellyfish person, a sapient jellyfish, a jellyfish on a mission, and that’s vague and unsatisfying but that doesn’t matter when I’m swinging in enough to force frustrating blocks.

@whuh-oh — Ursiib Den Warden

My eyebrows raised here, and I think this is an experimental situation where I really want to see what the GW shell would be to make this card work. Is it tribal necessarily? No, doesn’t have to be, but it’s a race of bearfolk so maybe it should be. I’m getting a “peaceful warrior” vibe, like, it’s making it possible to get the food but keeping watch over the den by drawing because it took a lot to get the food an they’re sleeping, and wow, there’s a lot to love about this card and about the synergies possible with it. It’s perhaps annoying in multiples to have the draw on top of the lifegain on top of the bodies, but you know what, this mechanic and this sensation of curiosity tickled me enough to want more. I think that there’s a fair amount of design space here, although not a lot. Whatever the flip side of these bears’ lives is, I can only imagine. After all, can’t be a warrior without a war...

<3 - @abelzumi

#mtg #magic the gathering #custom magic card #animal race contest #runners-up #commentary #inventor's fair

16 notes · View notes

stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale · 3 years

Text

Top 5 Character Deaths That Made Me Side-Eye the Writers

There are a lot of character deaths in TWDG... obviously. It a series about the literal dead walkin’ around and eating people, so as you’re playing, one of your favorite characters is bound to meet such a fate. To give this series credit, it does have quite a few well-executed deaths that, while I hate them, they have a purpose in the story that works.

The best example of this is Lee’s death-- we all hate that Lee dies, but it’s well-done. It serves its purpose, it acted as both a shock and a slow-burn for the player, and left us all an emotional mess.

However, we’re not talking about the “good” deaths today. No, we’re talking about the character deaths that are poorly executed, cheap, lazy, and just plain dumb... they’re the deaths that make me side-eye the writing team and wonder what the fuck happened there.

By the way, it was reeeeeeal fun narrowing it down to only five deaths, because it seems like for every great death, there’s at least two bad ones.

5. Mariana and her death that ruined ANF’s potential story

I’ve talked at length about Mariana’s death and how much I hate it. Like, I get it TWDG... you love your sudden deaths and you’re so edgy for killing off a child character because you’ve never done that before... but maybe consider things a little further before pulling the trigger?

Yeah, killing off Mariana the way they did got a reaction outta people when it happened, and we got the burial scene if you stayed with Clementine... but you didn’t consider the future of this storyline? You pretend you did by name dropping Mari when it’s convenient, but then throw it out the window when it comes to characters like David or Gabe.

Listen, I know that ANF is a mess and what’s the point in telling the mess that it’s a mess? Well, I’m still annoyed at the writers for wasting the biggest opportunity for this game’s story, something that could’ve saved it from being a mess.

And I get it, you gotta make a death quota, so instead of killing Mariana off... why not kill Kate off instead? Oh no? We don’t get the stupid love triangle that no one actually enjoys or is engaged in?

Instead of this dumb story about Javi falling in love with his sister-in-law but oh no David’s back.... we could’ve had a story about Javi losing Kate and being left to care for two children by himself. Mariana and Gabe are all he has left, and he going to do whatever he can to keep them safe all while the three of them are mourning Kate.

Then David comes back, and he immediately takes these kids away from Javi.

There is no stupid storyline with Kate, but an actual conflict between two brothers who were never on the same page and two kids caught in the middle.

Plus, Mariana herself as a character really could’ve brought something to the table. She could’ve brought out a lot in David’s character since she seems to be more like Javi.

Her death is just... annoying. It’s frustrating when you know they could’ve told a better story with her alive, something ANF desperately needed.

My side-eye is one of disappointment and annoyance.

4.Luke and his easily preventable drowning

Ugh.... where to even begin?

Luke really just gets butchered as a character throughout the second half of S2, and the writers end up demolishing the set up they placed at the beginning of the season for a Luke vs Kenny thing.

Why? Well, Luke vs Kenny was the initial ending they were gonna go with, but because this season went through all kinds of bullshit, they scrapped that and replaced Luke with Jane... and it’s so dumb.

Hell, it kind of ruins a lot. Not only did it ruin Luke, a character that many players loved, but it forces the new character of Jane, who we only get two episodes to get to know, so they can fade Luke out.

But that’s not all.

His death is so... ugh. It’s stupid, okay? Stupid and easily preventable, but noooo... we gotta kill Luke off for reasons because all we know is that S1 killed off a lot of characters and we’re gonna do that again but worse because we failed to understand what made those deaths impactful in the first place.

Lots of character death and despair = good game.

Yep, uh-huh. Okay.

So we all know that Luke’s leg is hurt, yeah? Great, so you’d think that the group that has an injured man and a new born baby would be extra cautious and go around the frozen lake. Yeah, Arvo says that it’s safe but let’s not take any chances.

But no. We gotta go across like a group of dingdongs and whattya know-- the ice begins to crack beneath Luke’s feet. Now, even here, we coulda got him outta there safely... if Bonnie wasn’t a dingus.

Think about it. If we shot the walkers who were coming towards Luke with all their weight, he could’ve slowly scooted away, even if he’s already fallen through. BUT NO. Bonnie either guilts Clementine into going towards him, adding more weight to the already fragile ice as Luke tells her to stop, or Bonnie will go over there herself... and she’s a full grown woman soooo her weight breaks the ice.

Good job, you dipsticks.

When you have to make your characters into morons in order to move the plot along and kill off characters....maybe do some rethinking, yeah?

3. Mitch and his shock-value death

This death is so dumb... so incredibly, dumb. Even now, I can’t help but give full side-eye to the writers every time one of them tries to justify this death.

I’m sorry, but this death didn’t have the impact you wanted it to have. And because there’s always someone who says, “Mitch didn’t die for shock value, you just can’t tell the difference between a good and bad death” lemme tell you a thing.

What was the point of killing of Mitch? Well, according to those who worked on TFS, it was to show that Lilly and the delta are serious. This is when shit gets real, and when Lilly is established as a bad bitch who will do whatever it takes to get what she wants. We should be scared of her now.

Except no.

This scene doesn’t tell me that Lilly is a bad bitch. It tells me that she has good reflexes, and going off her reaction after killing Mitch.... I’m not fucking scared of this dumbass. If anything, this scene says more about Mitch than it does Lilly. It says that Mitch is also a dumbass for running at her like he did.

Y’know what would’ve been more impactful? If Mitch didn’t immediately get stabbed in the throat, but instead, actually got her on the ground and struggled with Lilly. Then, Lilly gets the upper hand and when you think she’s about to send Mitch to the cart, she fucking murders him in front of everyone to prove a point.

There’s no remorse, it’s slow enough for Lilly to actually process what’s happening and show that she does know what she’s doing. That would scare me. That would show me that these people aren’t fucking around and they’re willing to kill some of them if that means getting the rest for their army.

You still get your shock value death but it actually does something other than kill a character off.

I’m really supposed to believe this is the same Lilly who can order to have Louis’ tongue cut off?

But it doesn’t end there. No, no... there’s another part to Mitch’s death that annoys me, and it’s how insistent everyone was that his death is going to have a greater impact on the second half of the story. It had a purpose within the story, we did it for a reason.

...I mean, it has an impact on Willy and his arc for the second half.

But that’s it.

Oh... oh, what’s that? Oh, you were referring to those throwaway lines about Tenn? “He was screwing up again, just like when he got Mitch killed.”

OOOOOH.... I see, that’s what Mitch’s death was really amounting to... some lines dealing with whether or not AJ shot Tenn. Well, I guess I was wrong. Mitch’s death wasn’t just shock value. It really had a big purpose. In fact, Mitch’s death has the biggest impact on the series. Fuck Marlon and Brody’s deaths, and Lilly and James, and hell, fuck Tenn’s death, too. They’re meaningless compared to Mitch’s death. You did it, guys. You really did it.

....Okay, I’m done. I’m just... salty, I fully admit.

Being serious again, Mitch’s death is probably the worst in TFS as far as unpreventable deaths go and the real reason I side-eye the writers is because they tried to tell us it was going to have this huge impact in the future and it just... didn’t.

2. Nick and his offscreen death.

I’m sorry, but what the fuck happened here? Why- what are you- how the hell did this happen??

I’m actually baffled.

Someone wrote this.

They set up at the end of ep3 that Nick is shot.... then ep4 comes and we find him like this. I just... did someone on the writing staff not wanna do their job that day? Someone was working on the story and at the last minute forgot Nick was a character, so they were like “Eh, he’s not important anyway, and it adds to the shittiness of everything so we’ll pretend this was 100% intentional.”

Nick was one of your more interesting characters and you really thought killing him off like this was the way to go, huh?

Like, his first death is shitty, but in the very least it kind of makes sense.

But this?

This is horrible. If I wrote this, I’d be embarrassed.

I just... I’m so tired of S2 right now.

This is at #2 because it’s just lazy, bad writing. At least with Luke, Mitch, and Mariana, we got to see their deaths and they had some, even if just a little, impact on the story afterward.

But Nick?

Nothin’.

Even Luke, who is the closest person to Nick, name drops him maybe twice? It’s just.... nothing.

And yeah, you can come at me with the “oh well not every death has to have meaning!”

This is a story, okay? This is a story crafted with characters who have arcs by people who wanted it to be a success, and usually that means having satisfying conclusions.... or, intentionally unsatisfying if that acts as a natural conclusion to their story or is a reoccurring theme.

Nick’s death is just the writers falling flat on their faces and hoping no one would notice.

1. Sarah and both of her shitty deaths.

Ugh. UGH.

Okay.

I’m not even side-eyeing anymore-- I’m fully glaring.

I don’t have to tell you how shitty both of Sarah’s deaths are. We all played S2, we all know that no matter what you do, Sarah dies in ep4. You can try to save her, she lives a little bit longer, and then falls to her death... and both deaths have her being devoured alive by walkers.

Now, this is enough to annoy me. First off, I guess my choices don’t really matter. Sure, you can justify this as one of those “sometimes you can’t save someone, no matter how hard you try” ...and fine. Sure, if they had bothered to execute that point well, then great.

But I disagree that the writers had that in mind when they were killing Sarah off.

In fact, I know what what going on in their brains-- “God, can’t wait to kill Sarah off! Give us any reason to do it! She’s so damn annoying!”

The writers have openly admitted that a lot of the team were just waiting to kill Sarah off, waiting for any reason, so when the major part of the community who take everything at surface level because why think? kept complaining about Sarah, they jumped on the opportunity to kill her off.... but the deaths are dumb.

Listen, this isn’t like when the writers planned on killing Lee off. You can plan a death and even be excited about it because you’re excited about the story and execution of it all. You can be excited to see the heartbreaking end of this character’s story that you crafted because you know you put everything you had into it.

These deaths were lazy and the product of a team who didn’t care about the character. Sarah dies and no one cares.

Sure, you leave her to die the first time and Jane does her thing about how you can’t save everyone, she talks about Jaime, and then Luke exposes himself as the fake Luke by agreeing that leaving Sarah behind was probably the right thing. Like what?

Now as much as I hate that first one, the second one is even worse.

For some reason, Sarah is standing in the corner while they’re trying to fight off the walkers instead of being inside with Rebecca... y’know, where she would be if this was logical.

Then the deck breaks and Sarah falls, trapped under a pile of wood. Jane, despite being the one who sees Sarah as a liability, goes down there to try and help her after Clementine begs her to.

But because the writers don’t know what they’re doing, Jane gets hit by a random piece of wood and can’t get Sarah out in time, leaving her to be eaten alive by walkers.

Then AJ is born and no one cares about Sarah ever again.

I just....

Could’ve had an interesting story arc with a character who just lost her father in such a gruesome way, a character that already deals with anxiety and other problems that you never bothered to explain other than “she isn’t like Clementine” and you could’ve had her grow.

But I guess that would’ve taken effort.... and screen time away from Kenny, and god forbid we ever do that.

---

Honorable Mentions

-Ava falling to her death in the most comedic way possible, made even more hilarious by David’s two seconds of mourning. -Omid.... because hope is dead. Do you get it? Hope? is dead? Because Omid means hope? Do you get it?? -Honestly you could put most of S2′s deaths on this list because oh my god. -Ben because I’m still a salty bitch. -I also wanna add Louis and Violet’s deaths on the bridge mostly because they die, Clem is sad for two seconds, Tenn says sorry, and then no one cares. Yeah, yeah, they mourned off screen and I call that lazy bullshit. -Hell, throw Tenn’s death on here, too, for similar reasons-- no one but Louis/Violet and AJ seem to care. Even Clementine is like “whatever” after it happens.

---

Y’know, picking this one seemed like a good idea at the time, but by now I’m just annoyed by all these dumb deaths. So, what are your thoughts? Are there any deaths that make you question the writers that didn’t end up on the list? Do you agree or disagree with my list? Lemme know, we can have a friendly discussion about it.

Have any suggestions for future T5F’s? Feel free to send ‘em in! :D

---

Next week’s T5F Top 5 Favorite Louis Moments

#twdg t5f #twdg clementine #twdg javier #twdg kate #twdg mariana #twdg gabe #twdg david #twdg luke #twdg jane #twdg kenny #twdg nick #twdg sarah #twdg mitch #twdg willy #twdg louis #twdg violet #twdg tenn #after this i need to talk about muh boy #louis content coming next friday

64 notes · View notes

experimental-daydream · 2 years

Text

This is very long and kind of about a fic i barely remember reading. But I was asked to post this because it gets into the dynamic between Eridan and Gamzee so here it is:

(also like TW: mentions of abuse and rape cuz it happens in the fic)

I’m a little unsatisfied with how that Eridan/Gamzee idea in that hivebound fic (which I only read a bit of) was written. I want to write something similar but it only works because Eridan is the anti-hero side character. I like him too much to write from anyone else's POV first so his POV can be revealed and hurt as bad as it should.

I can’t write Gamzee, but I also can’t replace him. If Eridan were to have the same fucked up conversation with someone he hates, like Sollux or Vriska, his anger would seem fueled solely by personal distaste. However, it can’t be someone he likes either because that's out of character. He doesn’t put himself above Feferi, Karkat or even Kanaya; they’re practically the only ones he listens to so they’re out of the question as well. He hasn’t talked to anyone else enough to get a good grasp on their dynamic. All that leaves is Gamzee. Eridan doesn’t have any strong opinions about Gamzee.

Eridan feels so strongly that his idea of the world is the truth and when Gamzee acts the way he does it just pisses Eridan the fuck off because Gamzee gets to be blissfully unaware of what pain is... Eridan wants so badly to ruin it because it's not fair that he has to suffer and Gamzee doesn't...

And it sucks because you can tell in the pesterlogs that he is trying not to start shit... That he really rather not talk about his problems with Gamzee but Gamzee just keeps talking nonsense and Eridan snaps at him because magic isn't real.... Someone took that away from him and he can't stand that Gamzee thinks it's ok to tell Karkat lies....

It's like.... He's doing the exact thing he was trying to avoid in an even worse way....

It's just human(troll?) nature to want comfort and validation for being mistreated but Eridan doesn't want to seem weak.... He doesn't actually want to seem needy and whiny... He's too prideful for that... So he just accepts it as the way the world is because to know its wrong would be a feeling too hard to deal with...

To know that the world isn't actually miserable and that it's just him who has a hard time is unbearable and the only way to deal with that is to be angry at the world for being shitty.... Be angry at the thing that hurts because that's not weak..... That's being tough and above crying and complaining....

He's trying not to be a selfish douche and accept the challenges in life without complaining because that's more mature but he's still a hurt little kid and reacts immaturely because it's not fair he had to grow up faster than everyone else.

reacting like a child when you are a child is understandable.... trying to be a mature adult is actually a noble ambition... But reacting immaturely while claiming to be an adult is what makes you seem like a horrible douche.... Because nobody else sees how hard you're trying.... All they see is you claiming to be the bigger person but being cold and sometimes just plain mean...

It's almost admirable that he's trying so hard to just be better instead of bothering everyone else with what he knows is annoying immature behavior... He knows he's not suppose to be any better than anyone else even though it's completely contradictory not only to his blood class and personality but the basic psychological need to feel loved and validated... he's stuck in this conundrum of being upset but thinking he's not allowed to be and It's unimaginably frustrating... He's trying to follow these impossible rules of what he thinks is the world's expectations of a good person.. So to see Gamzee just get a free pass? Well that's not fucking fair! And if a good person is someone who follows the impossible rules, then someone who doesn't is a bad person and must be corrected like they corrected him.

That's why he yells at Gamzee.

Which is why it doesn’t make sense the way it happened in hivebound. (I'm writing this part years later so I barely remember what happened in that scene but) if Eridan was Asexual, and on Alternia you are forced to reproduce, then yeah… that would mean Eridan was raped… and also believes that it’s just the way life is… so if Gamzee started, in Eridan's eyes, “complaining” about the fact that /he/ was being raped too I feel like that should set Eridan off in a defensive way. Not an aggressive way. Eridan would snap at him not because he thinks Gamzee “deserved it” or something but because if it’s true Gamzee didn’t have to deal with that then Eridan didn’t have to either. Which would mean that it’s not the way the world is. And he was in fact abused and raped and it shouldn’t have happened. Which is too difficult to accept and therefore Gamzee must be wrong and that’s just the way life is. Gamzee isn’t a “victim” he’s “complaining” because that’s what Eridan gets yelled at for all the time, “whining and complaining”. And if Eridan gets yelled at for it then Gamzee must be yelled at too because that’s literally how Eridan's world works.

In Eridan's world, there's no sympathy for people who are hurt and its wrong to want comfort for it. he's wrong for wanting love and attention and gets yelled at for seeking them out.

how fucking sad to imagine a kid who believes being abused is normal and wanting to be loved is wrong.

#Homestuck #Eridan #Eridan ampora #Gamzee #gamzee makara #im not gonna tag the fic cuz this is kind of a complaint about it #god i have too many feelings about Eridan

3 notes · View notes