i wanna talk about the ‘treasure room’ because i think it does a really good job of summarising what’s happening between ed and stede at the moment.
stede ‘takes the initiative’ (or acts without discussing what he’s doing) and puts all of ed’s remaining treasure in one room that’s completely hidden. his reasons for putting it away are:
it was all over the place
he was tripping over it
some of it is quite ugly :/
and instantly ed hits him with the “excellent. a reminder of all my guilt. a guilt room. 😔🤘”
they’re not being subtle about it. this is a physical representation of their guilt and they’re demonstrating here exactly how they’re taking care of it.
ed is living with it. it’s in his space. sure it might be in the way but where else could he possibly put it? there’s so much of it and it’s his. there’s no use in just palming it off to someone else. no one wants this much treasure.
but stede can’t stand it and he has to deal with it now or he’ll die. so he just crams it into some hidden space and considers the matter resolved. it’s out of the way. it can’t hurt them if they don’t think about it. and it’s ugly! no one wants to look at something ugly, especially when they’re trying to rebuild their space.
but that’s just the thing. neither of them are actually dealing with or addressing the problem. stede has just. put it away.
WITHOUT ASKING ED WHAT HE THINKS THEY SHOULD DO WITH IT.
so they decide to just use it to throw this big party because surely that will fix it, right? that will get rid of the Treasure Issue.
WRONG!!
because they still didn’t talk about any of it. yeah they talked about “turning poison into positivity” and “giving some of it to the less fortunate” but they didn’t deal with the root of the problem. how did ed amass that much treasure in the first place? what’s the ideal way of getting rid of it? is there anything they want to keep?
they’re on such uneven planes this season because they can’t communicate to reach a common ground. ed is surrounded by his guilt and wants to leave it all behind. stede has just hidden the guilt and wants to pretend it isn’t even there.
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Fully of the belief that Miko is only seen as an annoying character because of the dynamic between her and Jack.
Miko in isolation isn’t an annoying character. She’s reckless, and unwise, and has to be bailed out of trouble every five seconds, but this isn’t really an issue for any of the bots because as far as they’re concerned, this is Normal Human Behaviour™. They are constantly having to work with and around humans or bail them out of trouble.
Bulkhead adores Miko. He is exasperated by her like a parent is of their toddler, sure, but I wouldn’t say he is annoyed by her in any way. Her interaction with wheeljack is another example. When she exists with the bots by herself, she doesn’t come across as burdensome. She’s just limited, as every human is, by the curse of being small.
It’s only through her interactions with Jack, and his continuous challenging and calling out on her behaviour, that Miko becomes an annoying character. Frankly, it’s the tension between them which annoys the audience. We can only watch the same cyclical bickering between children before it gets old.
I have noticed that there actually are a lot of people who do like Miko, and find Jack super annoying instead. It seems like people pick one or the other depending on how you interpret which one is causing the tension. When I watched tfp as a kid, I loved Miko and hated Jack. Like, hated hated him. Because I saw Miko as a fun punk rock kid and Jack as the one needlessly calling her out. Upon rewatching tfp as an adult (who works with kids a lot) I related far more to Jack, and so the situation flipped; I saw Miko’s actions as more frustrating to watch.
The writers did eventually try to fix this, with the one heart-to-heart scene between Miko and Jack. But it was kind of rushed, and didn’t leave any lasting change to their dynamic. They went right back to arguing.
Tldr: Miko and Jack are annoying together. Fans usually pick one of em as the cause to be annoyed at but honestly, they are both fine on their own. Children bickering is annoying even in a fictional cartoon lmao
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(9/15) prompt: pleasure — 1,719 words (nsfw; explicit sexual content) @jegulus-microfic
Regulus was supposed to be helping his brother paint the walls in their new flat. It was Sirius that his afternoon was meant to be spent with. Yet here he is, left alone for an extended period of time with James Potter.
They forgot about the walls a while ago.
Or, he should specify, they forgot about painting the walls a while ago.
The wall is actually a great surface to consider, conceptually. Sturdy. Solid. Little cold against his back when his shirt was yanked off and he was shoved back into it, maybe, but he’s surviving. Can’t breathe properly with James’ palm a warm weight against his throat and James’ tongue licking eagerly into his mouth, but damn it if Regulus isn’t doing his best.
James is gripping his hips and spinning him to face the wall before he can catch his breath. It’s a little sticky beneath his hands, the paint not totally dry yet. God, Sirius is going to fucking murder them if they leave actual evidence of what they’re doing right there on the living room wall. But as James crowds into him, presses against his back and pushes him further into the wall, Regulus is finding it hard to give a fuck.
“I can’t believe you wore these and expected me to get anything done,” James pants next to his ear.
He smooths one hand over the curve of Regulus’ ass, tips of his fingers skimming soft skin on the back of his thigh when he reaches the hem of the shorts. They are quite small —the tiny sort of running shorts that Regulus has no business owning given he’s not a runner. But they’re light and comfortable and he’s noticed that James gets thoroughly distracted by the way his ass looks in them. He would’ve worn them even if they weren’t left alone for the day, in fairness, but it’s working out even better now that they have been.
“There’s nothing underneath them,” Regulus informs him airily.
James’ forehead thunks heavily down against his shoulder, a shaking whine punching out of him. “Oh, I hate you.”
Regulus laughs quietly and reaches back, curls a hand around James’ hip and does his best to drag him even closer. James follows the guidance thoughtlessly, his own hand moving back up to Regulus’ waist to make room for the way he rolls his hips against his ass, the hard line of his cock felt between thin layers of fabric.
“We probably don’t have a lot of time,” Regulus reminds him. He gets distracted momentarily as James’ head lifts so he can mouth hotly along the side of Regulus’ neck. “We have to finish painting before Sirius gets back or he’s gonna find out.”
James hums into his skin, hips rutting forward against his ass once again and Regulus feels his own cock twitch in his shorts. He settles his hands firmly on the partially dried wall, and presses his ass back into James more notably. James hisses between his teeth, fingers a bruising grip on either side of Regulus’ waist.
“Do something now or lose your shot,” Regulus warns.
“Yeah, fuck, okay.” James nods, the ends of his dark hair tickling the side of Regulus’ neck.
Then his warmth is gone, Regulus shivering in its absence, as James drops down to his knees behind him. He makes quick work of tugging Regulus’ shorts down, but not until he’s playfully swatted at him and muttered a marveled ‘this fucking ass’ that has Regulus smirking to himself. James licks a warm wet path beneath the curve of each cheek before grazing his teeth over the left one. He takes a pause to suck a bruise into the spot and Regulus bites his lip to hold back the whimper that threatens to escape.
“No need to keep quiet, love.” James’ lips brush against his skin as he speaks gravelly. “Getting to hear you whine is half the fun.”
“Fuck off,” Regulus sighs, but it tapers off into the banked whimper from seconds before when James smacks at the right side of his ass.
“Be nice.”
“You don’t like me nice.”
He can practically see the roll of James’ eyes without even turning to look back at him. Thankfully, no more time gets wasted as James kneads at either side of his ass and pulls to spread him open. Regulus tries to ease his feet further apart but the shorts left around his thighs only allow for so much. Still, it’s more than enough room for James to get his mouth where they both want it, tongue circling the rim of his hole twice before pushing inside. Pleasure coils up each notch of Regulus’ spine at the velvety wet feel of James slowly fucking him open with his tongue. He’s more languid about it than Regulus would like, James enjoying himself too much.
Regulus reaches back to grip onto James’ hair, arching his back to press James’ face further into his ass. James moans and licks more eagerly for a few seconds but then he inches back. A noise of protest crawls up Regulus’ throat and James laughs, of all things.
“I got you, don’t worry,” James assures breathlessly.
Regulus manages a look back over his shoulder just in time to watch the way James sucks two fingers into his mouth. His hand wraps around his aching cock, thumb smearing precum down the length, as he watches James coat his fingers as needed. When James is satisfied with that, he collects a bit of spit in his mouth and leans forward, lets it drip from between shiny lips to slide over Regulus’ hole. He pushes a bit of it inside when he slides one finger in and the moan Regulus lets out in response is positively obscene.
“There it is, baby, go on and be loud for me.” James kisses at his right ass cheek in further encouragement.
Regulus doesn’t require much more push than that. He’s never been good at being quiet when James has him in circumstances like this.
His hand drags slowly over his cock as James works him open further with two fingers then three. He’s a squirming, whining mess, right on the fucking edge of coming already when James stops abruptly and pulls his fingers out. Which is fine, because he’s standing and dropping his own shorts and lining his cock up with Regulus’ entrance, but does that stop Regulus from whining again? No. No it doesn’t.
They moan long and loud together, sharing the same pleasure now as James sinks into him inch by inch until he bottoms out. Regulus sucks in a shallow breath, hand fallen away from his leaking cock so that this isn’t over too quickly. James dragged out the preparation for his own benefit, Regulus is going to make this last as best he can now that he’s got James fully inside of him.
Once again, James is slow about the way he fucks him. Deep, deliberate thrusts at a damn near leisurely pace, knowing just how to take Regulus apart. He hits the same spot deep inside each time, and Regulus fucking shakes with it —stars on the back of pinched-shut eyelids, and fingernails scraping over the half-dry paint on the wall in front of him.
“God, you feel incredible every fucking time,” James moans into his neck, thrusts harshly into him to drive his point home.
Regulus’ breath hitches in his chest, a shaking sound following. “James— Fuck. James, faster, please.”
“Only ‘cause you asked nicely.”
James gives him what he’s asked for them, fucks into him in earnest, squeezes bruises into his hip with one hand and tugs tightly at his dark curls with the other. Regulus sobs past parted lips as his legs begin to wobble, a string of swears slipping past afterward. James uses his hold on Regulus’ hair to turn his head so he can kiss him over his shoulder. The angle is awkward, and it’s knocking teeth and panting into each other’s mouths at best, but once James sucks hard at his lower lip with a groan in the same moment his hips snap forward fully, it’s over.
Regulus smacks one hand against the wall as he comes with a strangled cry, James giving him no reprieve as he fucks him through it. It’s too much now but Regulus takes it, gets dizzy on it, whimpers through the slight overstimulation of it all, until James stills with his cock as deep in him as he can get, biting his shoulder as he spills inside.
Panted breaths and uneven hums mingle in the haze of pleasure in the aftermath. James stays inside him, pressed against his back, as he hooks his chin over Regulus’ shoulder. There’s a huff of a chuckle beside his ear and Regulus’ brow furrows over dazed eyes.
“Why are you laughing right now?”
James only laughs further, slides his hand from Regulus’ hip over the space low on his stomach, presses there and makes them both groan at the feel of it. Regulus has to actively try to breathe again for a moment, blinking quickly with a flutter of dark lashes at the sensation. He can’t imagine that’s what James has found funny, but it’s a hell of a distraction.
Finally, hand still pressed against him, James says, “You came on the wall.”
Regulus glances down in a hurry, the living room blurring dizzily at the edges of his vision, and sees that yeah. Sure enough, James is right.
“Jesus Christ,” He breathes out his own laugh, knocking his forehead into the wall and leaving it there. “Sirius is gonna kill me.”
“It’s fine, it’s just the first coat, we’ll paint over it,” James says.
“Gross.”
“We’ll clean it first, you weirdo.”
“You can’t call me a weirdo while your dick is still inside me, James.”
“Think I just did, actually.” James kisses at the back of his neck, noses affectionately at his curls, then slowly pulls out of him with a stuttering groan.
They miraculously get themselves and the wall cleaned up as needed without further distraction, but when Sirius gets home half an hour later they’re still finishing the paint job. At least the incriminating section is complete; Sirius will never know, but Regulus and James always will.
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