#this is the most hilarious thing ive ever seen and i love it
Text
listen the nimona movie is proof that you can change some truly major shit in a story but as long as you stay true to the original themes and intentions people are gonna love it anyway. holy shit two cakes etc etc
#listen they changed ballister and ambrosius so goddamn much#and literally every post ive seen talking about it is just like#this is the most hilarious thing ive ever seen and i love it#god bless#anyway#it's about the HEART OF THE STORY FOLKS#i'm fine#nimona#ballister boldheart#ambrosius goldenloin#my post
1K notes
·
View notes
Note
Hello there! How are you doing? I'm a new follower and I just wanted to say that I love your writing so much.
If you're up to writing this, you don't have to: could you please write the ghouls/ghoulettes or Sleep Token vessels/vesselettes with a gn reader who just has a collection of the 90s furbies (if you don't know what those are, they're these electronic toys that would interact with you. However, they'd randomly turn on and start talking. Even if the thing didn't have batteries) on display in a shelf...
But, instead of looking like this:
The furbies look like this (if you want more pictures then just search for cursed furbies and you'll find the most cursed looking things ever):
I love cursed furby pictures, they're so funny to me. Anyway, if you do want to write this, please take as long as you need to write it. I hope you gave a good day/night/evening and don't forget to take care of yourself!
omg Y E S
swiss
creeped the fuck out by it.
"uhm baby..why do you have a homemade demon in your room?"
why do you have that when you can have him?
just don't get him involved and you're good.
sodo
admires your room.
"good work. my mate, making nightmares."
would steal one to scare the shit out of papa.
papa thought it was one of his rats but mutilated.
rain
*shifts uncomfortably*
he doesn't like them, but he can cope.
don't leave him in a room with one. he'll either cry or hang from the ceiling light to avoid interaction with it.
phantom
"babe what the everloving fuck are these?"
how on earth did you disembowel a furby?
might join you if he's riled up.
aether
"these are my C H I L D R E N ."
he loves his goofy goober and their possessed furby collection.
to creep out the other ghouls, he will bring it backstage to a show and run his claws through its fur while cackling.
mountain
doesn't make eye contact with them.
he's not scared, he's just a little concerned.
once growled at one because it touched him during a blood moon.
"HOLY FUCK-"
omega
doesn't care
"whatever makes you happy, puppy."
watches with love in his eyes whenever you spook a ghoul.
alpha
looks at you with judgment in his eyes.
"kitty, how did you discover this as a hobby?"
stares at your collection for a long period of time.
ifrit
encourages the behaviour.
"i will raise hell and its deepest darkest pits with you, my sweet little lamb."
makes you sit on his lap while you make them.
aurora
Y E S .
"i want to make one with you."
don't question it, let her do it.
she will make some absolute abominations.
cirrus
cool.
might encourage the behaviour, depending on how bone chilling the furbies are.
"..what did you do it? it looks boiled."
she means that in the nicest way possible.
cumulus
scared tbh.
"i don't really want to pet that. but it looks nice??"
will do everything but touch one.
mist
"fuck yeah."
makes amazing ones.
give her credit, she will hang one up on the Ministry chandelier.
vessel
he's seen worse.
your creations don't even scare him, he likes them
thinks their hilarious.
ii
what the fuck.
he'll hold one at arms length and no closer than that.
they creep him out.
iii
heehee
fucking loves it.
they're so out of pocket, and so is he.
iv
nice.
don't stop making them, they're entertaining.
makes some in secret.
vesselettes
stand there for 37 seconds exactly, then walk towards them and adopt them.
#my writing#sleep token x reader#vessel sleep token x reader#ii sleep token x reader#iii sleep token x reader#iv sleep token x reader#ghost band x reader#nameless ghouls x reader#nameless ghoulettes x reader
62 notes
·
View notes
Text
BLOODY VALENTINE- machine gun kelly
ੈ✩₊˚ pairings: goth!bkg x blkshyfem!reader
*ೃ༄ summary: I'd give everything up, Tonight If I could just have you be mine Be mine, baby
*ੈ✩‧₊˚warnings: praise,creampie(readers on birth control) mentions breeding, spit, slapping, virgin reader,virginity thief, praise, slight degradation, oral! (fem) big booty reader. dirty talk. penetration. riding
⋆.ೃ࿔*:word count:4k
✧˚ · . ꕥkay speaks: credit to the artist! @raptorjules , @seeminglydark i loved this artwork and it sparked the inspiration for this fic! ive been having bad writer's block recently so i apologize if this is super ass, just wanted to get something out for v-day!
Last period, the worst class of the day. you hated last period with a burning passion. the loud and rowdy students, the sleeping teacher who could care less about what the fuck the class was doing.
you hated the kids most of all. rowdy as fuck. no consideration for others around them. the rudest human beings on earth is what you think of them. lacking every inch of human decency as they finger fuck in the back of the class or dryhump on the teachers desk. yuck! so when your friend katsuki bakugo asked to skip class that day, you were totally down.
you’ve never been the type to be rebellious, skipping wasn’t in your vocabulary and you’ve never thought about doing it but today you couldn’t refuse the offer. hormones and ‘love’ was in the air as the day struck february 14th, the amount of pda you’ve seen was enough for your whole life.
you didn’t say anything though, not wanting to be labeled as a ‘dorky single hater’ from the rest of your peers. but the last straw is when you barley walked into your last period class, seeing two classmates of yours making out on your desk, practically fucking.
you were seething as you stomped to the little unknown staircase that bakugo told you he’ll be at. when you lay eyes on the little hideout hidden in the unused wing of the school, you begin to panic. you’ve never ever skipped a class before, always being the good girl your mom taught you to be, but today was different.
“y/n?” you hear a whisper from the little hidden staircase. you jog farther into the hall, instantly remembering you couldn’t get caught. as you get closer his body becomes more recognizable. his strong muscles practically ripping his shirt as he folded his arms on his chest.
his black patch-work black jeans fitting him in all the right ways, black doc’ martens laced up so he wouldn’t have to constantly tie them. and lastly his signature scowl on his face as he looks around to make sure nobody followed you, since of course you were a rookie.
once you make it to him he notices the small pout on your face. he wipes his scowl off and replaces it with a slight frown. “why you frownin”? he takes your hand and sits you on the steps right beside him. “i hate this school katsuki, fucking dumbasses don’t have fucking human decency.”
you’ve only started cursing since you’ve been hanging with katsuki, so everytime he hears you spur curses out of the cute little lips of yours he’s laughing. “t’s not funny katsu, they were doing stuff on my desk” you voice gets quiet as you mention what you just saw not even 10 minutes ago.
“fucking on your desk?” he laughs that you're afraid to talk about anything that remotely has anything to do with sex. you're too pure for this world, and he loves that about you. your quiet sweet demeanor, your shyness, your self respect, he loves that your different from every girl that he’s ever fucked. he loves that your just naturally you.
“shh katsuki” you hush him quickly, looking at him with wide eyes. “i didn’t think you’d come, now that i know that all it takes is for someone to hump on your table to follow me” he jokes. you laugh loud, a little to loud for your own good. him threatening you with that off all things is hilarious.
“shhh gonna get us caught with all your barking” he caused you to laugh a little harder. clutching your stomach as you start to wheeze, he swears to god your humor is definitely broken.
once you calmed down, the two of you fell into conversation. the two of you noticed it was only 10 minutes into the 45 minute period. you could've sworn with the way you were talking it was at least 20.
“got a valentine sweetheart?” that nickname. you loved that nickname but only when it came out of his mouth. he’s been calling you that since at least 9th grade, he swears it’s because you're the biggest sweetheart he’s ever met and you believe him.
“no, i don’t do fake love” you remind your friend. never been in a relationship because you're scared of the outcome. too scared to ask out the boy who you live most because you're scared of rejection. so all these years you’ve put on a hard front screaming ‘i don’t do fake love’.
“how bout you, any one night stands worthy enough?” you joke. you miss the way bakugo frowns at your words. but he quickly covers it up. “i’m overstimulated and i’m sad” his dramatics making you giggle. “mhm, you’ll find the perfect someone, i’m sure of it” you lay your head on his shoulder, closing your eyes at the closeness.
“i already did” he mumbles, making sure you don’t hear him. you sit up quickly and look him dead in the eyes. did he just said what you think he said? “what did you say? bakugo has never been one to shy away from his emotions but with you it’s different. he doesn’t want to jeopardize your friendship over this crush he’s had on you.
“i said i already did” his voice is just above a whisper. his eyes watched your face closely he watches your face wash with disappointment. “who katsuki?” you sound distant, a little cold. that takes him by surprise but nonetheless he continues.
“you” your eyes widen as your jaw goes slack. the two of you sitting in complete silence now. bakugo swears he hears his heart racing and he’s afraid that you could hear it too. your eyes never leave his body as you think about what to say.
“don’t just stare at me dumbass, forget i-” you snap back to reality and realize what was happening. “i like you too” you look him in his eyes, your sentence obviously catching him off guard. “what?” you see the slight blush on his cheeks.
you’ve never seen katsuki so flustered. “kat’s” you take his hand and cover it with yours. the two of you staring into each other souls as you smile. bakugo being the rash person he is, pulls your forward so the two of your a closer now. smashing his lips against yours while you’re eyes close in shock.
the kiss was messy and sloppy but you didn’t care, happy that the boy you loved was the one kissing you right now, not some lame just looking for a hookup.
his hands drop down to your waist while yours snake on to his neck, pulling the boy as close as possible. “mhm” you hear katsuki groan as you pull him down farther wanting to practically jump in his skin. him sexily biting your bottom lip before pulling away.
“what do we have here?” your eyes widen in shock as you hear the principal's voice ringing through the hallway. your arms still around katsuki as the principal looks at the very unpleasant position the two of you are in.
your arms unlock from his neck and you stand up quickly straighten out your clothes as you sheepishly look at him. “i-um” you're at a loss for words as you think about how to explain this.
“nothing really,” bakugo’s still on the floor as he speaks. his tone is assertive as he looks at the headmaster head on. “we saw the two of you on the cameras, skipping last period is unacceptable”
“i know, i’m sor-” you were about to plead for forgiveness before katsuki stood up and spoke his mind. “we wouldn’t have to skip it wasn’t for your numbfuck staff not doing their job”
your eyes widen as you look at bakugo, “bakugo!” you slightly smack his shoulder while he just looks down and smiles at you. “me and y/n did nothing wrong, we just didn’t wanna deal with the shit class anymore” you hear the headmaster audibly scoff at bakugo’s words.
“looks like we’ll be going to detention” you sigh as you see the headmaster nod his head. you look up at bakugo and see a smirk on his face. “let’s do this”
for it to be your first time in detention, bakugo thinks your handling it pretty well. but deep down inside he knows your panicking.
your perfect now ruined because of him. all because he couldn’t shut his stupid mouth. he feels a hand on his shoulder as the two of you walk down the hall. “it’s not your fault katsu, i don’t regret it” you whisper in the air.
“are you sure?” He stops you two in your tracks. he wants to see your face to make sure you're telling the truth. “i love you katsuki” those three words rolled off your tongue so smoothly.
you’ve been waiting to say those words for 3 years now. you’ve finally felt relief after all those years. “y/n…” you feel him lift you up, placing a kiss onto your lips before those three words fall from his plump lips. “i love you too”
you feel like you're on cloud 9 as his hands sneak down to your waist, resting there as the two of you continue walking.
once you make it to the classroom you see a bunch of kids in the detention room. their eyes go wide as they see you walk into the classroom. but once they see bakugo holding your hand they smirk.
you feel all eyes on you as you walk to the back of the classroom, the last two seats. the two of you sit right next to each other.
the headmaster closes the door before walking over to his seat at the head of the class. “no talking, no texting and no touching” he said the rules and instantly started doing whatever work he had to do.
10 minutes into detention you see bakugo pull a piece of paper out of his bag, paying it no attention you put your head down for about 2 more minutes later you feel a kick to your leg.
your head shoots up and looks at bakugo with a snarl. his hand drops down, you watching it as he hands you a heart shaped paper.
“be mine, baby” written on it in pink ink. you feel tears brim your lash line. you look at the man who has a genuine smile on his face. you nod your head and you see his fang peek out through his smile.
2 hours later and you're in the passenger seat of bakugo’s all black audi. his ginormous hand gripping your thigh as he speeds through the streets of mustafo one handed.
“slow down katsuu” you giggle as the air flowing through your hair makes you feel like you're in a movie. It's a cold day in mustafo but the both of you didn’t care, as long as he was taking you to his house he had no complaints.
“unt, unt, not until we get there” he squeezes your thigh and looks at you. deeply taking in your features, wondering how he got so damn lucky.
“what?” you ask sheepishly, feeling like you were on fire while under his gaze. “your just really beautiful” he focus back on the road so he could avoid your beautiful gape. “and your gorgeous katsu”
his cheeks instantly turned cherry red, but he would probably blame it on the cool air outside. “shut up” he jokes while rolling his eyes, you laugh before noticing you pulling up to a nice neighborhood.
multiple houses decorated in valentine’s day decorations. “it’s beautiful out here katsu” he watched your eyes light up from excitement. “where are we?” your smile is so big and he wants to take a mental picture of it to keep it engraved in his brain forever.
he doesn’t answer, he pulls into the driveway of a nice sized modern house. big glass windows showing a sneak peek of the expensive house. “is this your house?” you question, he gets out of the car before walking over to your side.
opening the door before taking your hand and helping you out the car. “yep” you contain your excitement but not saying anything. the two of you walk up to the door, bakugo punching in the key code to unlock the door.
as soon as you get a glimpse of the inside of the house you shy away. “what’s wrong?” he takes notice of your movement. you’ve never been into his house before so this was definitely a big step. “spit it out, it’s fuckin’ cold” you notice the way he’s shivering and laugh.
“never been over to a boys house” you say sheepishly as you look him in the eye. this big doe innocent eyes makes him want to worship the ground you walk on.
“let’s go” he practically drags you in by your hand making you laugh. once the two of you are in he closes the door with his foot and quickly takes off his shoes leaving them at the door.
you follow suit and take off your brown colored low uggs. you take off your coat and give it to katsuki to put in the closet. now just in your knee high socks, white skirt and pink sweater with little hearts on it.
you follow katsuki to the living room and notice nobody’s home. “some couples retreat” he states as if he could read your mind. “your not very hard to read sweetheart”, again reading your mind or facial expressions.
“okay, what are we gonna do?” your voice low as you speak. he looks around and you laugh ‘of course he didn’t think this through’. “we can definitely chill, order some food maybe watch a movie” you nod your head at the suggestions.
“scary, comedy or love movie?” bakugo asks you from the kitchen. he’s preparing all the snacks so he doesn’t have to get up when the movie starts.
“have you ever watched twilight?” you turn to look at him with a smirk playing on your lips. he’s walking back from the kitchen now with a bowl of popcorn, two canned sodas and some candy.
“no, why?” he looks. clueless and that makes this way more fun than it should be. “that’s what we’re watching today” you watch him place everything on the table before picking up his phone. “okay let me order the food”
“bella is so dumb” bakugo huffs as he finishes the last of his low-mein. you laughed at his expressions throughout the whole movie. his slick comments about how dumb the movie is and how unrealistic really tickled your funny bone.
“but you couldn’t keep your eyes off the screen katsu” you smirk as the tip of his ears turn a cute pink color. “because i didn’t want to miss the stupid shit she did” he lies.
you him with a smile on your face, picking up the remains of food that’s on the table. “don’t worry bout’ it, i’ll clean up later” he guides you back down to the couch making your face feel hot.
you feel bakugo’s gaze on you and your whole body feels hot. you look up to him shyly before talking. “what’s next” bakugo doesn’t even think before his lips is on yours. you reciprocating is all he needed as his hands landed on your waist.
the feeling of bakugo on top of you makes your whole bit feel like it’s been lit to flames. the short grunts and moans shared by the two of you let the two of you mutually know the other is enjoying it.
you feel bakugo hands move from your waist to your thighs, playing with the white knee high socks that stop at the fat of your thick thighs. you whimper at the feeling of him rubbing the area sensually, you feel your core begin to throb lightly once you feel his lips against your neck.
“katsu” you moan out his nickname breathlessly as you unintentionally begin to grind into the air. your clit catching onto your soaked panties gives you a bit of relief but you need more.
“what’s wrong sweetheart?” the innocent nickname causing your heart to stagger. “wan’ more, please?” you plead into the hot air.
you feel katsuki suddenly stop his actions. “katsu?” you question as you open your eyes. you see katsuki sitting on his knees between you with a conflicted facial expression. “would this be your first time?” your embarrassed expression tells him everything he needs to know.
“it’s okay, i just want to make sure i’m not pressuring you” a gentle smile takes over your lips as you think about him making sure you're comfortable.
“i’ve been waiting for you katsuki” you wanted your first time to be with the man you loved. bakugo heart grew three sizes when he heard you say that. his hands make their way back on your legs, gently spreading them apart.
you turn your head away as your face gets hot. the way he’s looking down at your cunt was like an animal hunting down its prey. “it’s already yours katsu” you mumble and before you know it katsuki has his eyes on you now.
“don’t rush me sweetheart” you whine in response knowing that katsuki means business. his gaze falls back onto your pretty panties that looked like they’ve been soaked. “cute little virgin” you hear him whisper in the air.
“please suki, need to feel you” squeezing your legs together did nothing to help the growing need between your legs.
katsuki positions himself so that he’s in between your legs, face to face with your clothed cunt. he sees the outline of your lips being suffocated by the fabric (fat pumpum) thirsting after you more and more. his tongue sticks out his warm mouth before it’s licking the wet fabric making you shiver at the sudden action.
he stands on his knees before bending down slightly, hands attached to your hips as he glides your underwear down your legs slowly, watching the sticky string that attached your pretty pussy and those pretty pink panties.
“shit” he groans out as he places the underwear next to your body. he bends back down before getting face to face with your cunt. you look down at him before feeling his tongue sliding through your slit.
“fuck!” you moan out as he gets deeper and deeper, your hands shooting to his blonde locks, pulling on them slightly as you moan into the air. “kats,” you pant out as your eyes roll to the back of your head.
you feel him pull back before the sound of spit is heard and you feel it dripping down your pussy. “prettiest pussy i’ve ever seen babe” he says before diving back in.
you feel your climax approaching fast. you wrap your legs around katsuki’s head making him moan into your pussy. “m’ gonna cum ki!” you scream out as he sucks on your clit harshly.
you feel your muscles tighten and your hands grip his hair harder, your vision blacks out as you let out a loud pleasurable moan. your orgasm takes over your whole body as you feel weightless from it.
after a couple of seconds you feel little nibbles being placed on your thigh causing you to remember the blonde adonis between your legs.
you unlatch your legs from his head weakly before letting out a big sigh. “that good pretty girl?” you quietly nod, not wanting to say anything to ruin this perfect moment.
“you okay?” you open your eyes and look at him meekly. “more than okay katsu” a big smile takes over his lips letting you know he’s satisfied with your answer.
he takes his hand in yours before pressing a kiss to it. “i wanna go all the way katsu, need you” you whine making his cock twitch. “need you more” before you know it he’s picking you up. your legs wrapping around his waist as he hauls you upstairs.
passing baby pictures, vacation pictures and family pictures of the boy makes your heart melt. “didn’t know you had braces katsu” you joke as he throws you on the bed. shutting the door quickly so he could get back close to you.
“wear and invasline every fucking night” you giggle at the boy but it’s soon cut off by a low growl.
the sight of you laying on his bed, no panties, hair a skew in just a little pink skirt and knee highs was something he could only dream about. dreams do come true….
“you know how many nights i’ve jerked off to the image of you, just like this? you softly bite your lip while thinking about the lewd sounds that would come out of his mouth.
“how many?” you egg his thoughts on. “too many to fucking count sweetheart” you giggle at the thought of katsuki jerking off to you. you look back up at him and see his face full of concern. You take it upon yourself to shimmy out of your clothes quickly, leaving on your knee highs. you see katsuki follow suit making you smile. he sits on the bed in nothing now.
the size of his cock making your nerves bubble. "its okay, you can take it.. i know you can". you nod your head in agreement. you straddle his lap but before you can do anything he stops you. “baby are you sure you wanna do this?” you look at him and nod. “you can’t go back after this” he says while caressing your ass. “yes i’m sure suki, i promise” you say before you give him a sweet kiss on his lips.
he kisses back with the same amount of energy making you smile. you pull back gently and he looks at you awaiting your next movement. you move back a bit, picking up his cock and holding it in your hand. “wet it babe” katsuki says while awaiting your next move. “how about you wet it?” you say while looking him in his eye. “i’ve never been asked no shit like that before…but it’s whatever you want,” he says before spitting on his hand and using it as a lube on his dick.
you stand up a bit before he slaps his cock against your pussy. “mhm babe, ima put it in nice and slow.” you nod and brace yourself by holding his shoulders. you feel his tip protruding at your entrance. he takes it upon himself to circle his tip again “you okay?” you nod and he continues to push in. you whimper and he looks at you with a questionable look but you just nod and smile.
soon after he's fully in and you're sitting on his cock trying to wait till the pain subside. “y/n you feel sooo good babe” he whines trying to help you relax by rubbing your back and thighs.
once you feel the pain subside you start moving, catching bakugou off guard. “mhm so tight babe” he says when you start bouncing slightly. “suki, feels soo good” you say when you feel him smack your ass. all of a sudden you feel a hand snake around your throat. you look at bakugou and he has the nastiest smirk on his face. you moan loudly and move faster against him. “oh, i knew you were a whore deep down inside.” you look beautiful to katsuki all fucked out, tears dripping down you face and your naked body pouncing on him.
“suki’ i’m gon-gonna cum” you say pleading with the man. he places a harsh smack on your ass and you clench around him making his eyes roll, his hands gripping your hips so hard you know there's going to be bruises on your plump hips. suddenly you feel him begin jack hammering into you. balls slapping your ass, the lewd sound of your slick and his dick making him feel fuzzy inside. “best fucking pussy ive ever had babe” he says while slapping your ass.
a couple minutes later you feel yourself at the edge. you can’t hold it anymore so you release it. “ah fuck suki!” you say moaning while collapsing on his chest. bakugo is still chasing his high, jackhammering into like it’s no tomorrow. you decide to kiss him to drown out your moans. while kissing katsuki he grabs your ass and you grab the base of his neck slightly choking him .
that was the breaking point for bakugou. he grips your hips so hard when he cums that you wince out of pain and pleasure. “fuck baby” he says as he kisses your neck getting over his high. you smile and kiss his lips.
"You'll be my bloody valentine tonight"
#bakugo smut#bakugo x reader#bakugou katuski x reader#mha bakugou#katsukibakugou#bhna bakugou#katsuki smut#mha smut
367 notes
·
View notes
Note
top 5 things you like about each of jo boys?
oh like five things for each of them? i hope so because that’s how I understood it so im sorry if I just made this unnecessarily long 😭🩷
Bojan
- i love how hardworking he is, like i know people often get worried about him not resting enough but i do admire it a lot and i think it’s a big key to his success
- i also love how he’s trying so hard to make every fan that approaches him seen
- surprisingly, I do fucking love that he was fighting with me when he disagreed on something, that he wasn’t just kissing his fans ass but was bitchy and funny and real
- he genuinely does have one of the most beautiful and powerful voices I’ve ever heard and every day im in awe of it
- i love his dumb humor, like his dad jokes are so awful i love them
Jan
- fuck that he’s famous, talking to him was probably one of the nicest conversations I’ve ever had with a man? He’s so sweet and asks you questions back and doesn’t treat you any different, like I’ve mentioned once that meeting them has changed my opinions on them and it actually made me believe jan has the best personality out of all of them
- he’s so so fucking funny, he doesn’t even try but everything he says is fucking hilarious
- i love how he doesn’t try to fit in at all, he’s just himself at all times and couldn’t care less about trying to be pleasant
- the way he’s playing music feels so raw and authentic and it makes me transfer to another place
- i genuinely love his style and look so so much ive never been so amazed by the way someone looks like im about him
Jure
- even tho it’s kinda a big contrast to the others i do appreciate that Jure just decided to be very private
- he’s extremely sweet but it doesn’t feel fake
- i love the way he loves the other boys and the way they’re seemingly his whole world, i think it’s very adorable
- it’s super nice how when he’s talking to people he’s making them feel very special and nice
- i will admit that i do not know much about him but anything that i learn about is very cool and i think i would love to be friends with him which i dont think would be possible with all of them
Kris
- he’s so so real and honest, i think he would rather be disliked than be what he’s not and even tho i sometimes don’t get some of his thoughts i do appreciate his honesty
- i love the progress he’s made from the “ew make up” to be Damon’s muse, that’s a personal growth i absolutely love to see
- i think he’s very intelligent and i do find it very attractive
- this is just personal experience but in berlin when i met him he kinda looked like he would rather be in the bus but he still remained so polite and sweet and even tho it was awkward as fuck I appreciated the effort he made towards fans even tho he’s apparently very introverted
- i fucking love his lyrics
Nace
- i love his little bitchy sassy personality so much, everyone always sees him like such a nice boy but he’s the most likely to stand up for himself and i love it
- he is such a sweet boy tho and I think he does have this beautiful talent of making people feel loved
- i love his stage presence and i love the way he’s slowly getting so much more confident there
- I’ve never seen anyone to ever care so much about fans and spent so much of their day to interact with them, he seems so so grateful and down to earth and it’s very validating
- his bass playing has stopped numerous of my panic attacks and what more can i even say to explain my relationship to him lmao
#thank you this was so lovely to make!!!#and im gonna tag this because why not shhdjdjdjd#nace jordan#jan peteh#bojan cvjetićanin#kris guštin#jure maček
31 notes
·
View notes
Note
For the ship bingo, perhaps ethubs or boatboys?
sorry it took so long to get to this i got so excited someone asked me to talk abt ethubs i went into a coma 😭😭
Ethubs
um uhh umerm ethubs yeah etho and bdubs and last life and mindcrack UHCs and eyah yknow um yeah
you know that one post that's like "inside my head is a five page essay with footnotes and when i speak it's just ouhghh blorbo he is so shaped". that's me with ethubs. not even kidding ethubs is the ship that made me finally "get" shipping in general, mcyt or not. i. words. i care them.
and uh there's. not rlly anything i can say i think that my ethubs moots haven't already said? They've been friends forever, they play off eachother super well, "he loves me", they're both so obsessed and in need of eachother but at the same time would rather eat raw, unpicked cactus than admit that, etc etc they're so unwell
im just gonna skip on over to the song lyrics bit cus i. they make my brain short circuit i cant even sentences.
The scarlet summer is gone and peaceful gray is draping the city Alone, I reach out for you to hold me tight,
shivering
Always the days spent with you warmed
my heart and kept me from freezing
Although I knew they were gone forever
But in my pain, to me you came like the warmest breeze
"On nights so cold I know you need some company."
Though only in lonely and freezing times,
we held each other close
to keep from feeling hopeless nothings
And now again I can see summer fast approaching
like a storm that there's no stopping
Repeating in a cycle
Like our mistakes
My love for you is endless,
just like the deepest sea
And like the ocean blue your complications speak to me
I've come to understand you,
your parts and inner workings
My sun only in winter
Only when I need you or else you won't need me
Leave you in Summer, Yet You're In My Fluffthoughts (Ashe translyrics) (sidenote this might be one of my favourite music videos of all time)
Falling so deeply while clinging to love
But even so, I feel my heart
and it’s floating up above
Your true face, such a passionate one,
shows your beauty, coming in a flood
True, all of our short-lived youth
will someday come to end
Ah, even so, in my view,
it starts right now, yet again
And every day, I found I prayed
for you to be always full of happiness that remains
Ah, just like this, please wait
right by my side, please stay
Tablet (Will Stetson / sayriris translyrics) (after watching LL the first thing i did was make a MV to this song with LL Bdubs and it was still the most insane thing ive ever done fuelled by pure gargoyle inspiration juice)
I wouldn't say they're ~~Divorced~~ quite yet cus Idk if they were ever really married as much as just plain endlessly obsessed with eachother, which they still are. But they definitely broke up lmao
but yeah uh their chemistry is great. bdubs said it best. they've been thru the trenches together.
Boat Boys
Thankfully much less thoughts about these two or else this post would get way too long lmao. I like them but I'm not too insane about them I guess? Etho's very awkward near people he isn't used to which was fun to watch but made their interactions kind of limited for a lot of DL I feel.
Joel's obsession with Etho is hilarious and seeing Bdubs get jealous of his #1 ethogirl status getting challenged is great fun. He's definitely gone through a bit of an arc from "I KILLED ETHO! I KILLED ETHO!!" in Last Life to "Eefo D:< You're making me nervous, eefo D:<" in Double Life to whatever the cow divorce situation was in Limlife. It seems like Etho's otherworldly status has been nerfed in his head and he's much less intimidated by him, while still admiring him in that 'childhood hero' sorta way.
I think because of that I've always seen them a little bit as more of a mentor/prodigy relationship than anything else? Specifically one that Etho is not even aware he's in. Eitherway, I don't really ship them in the romantic sense 🤷♂️ etho's just way too aloof and joel's got too much fangirl energy for it to be anything intimate lol
#asks#ask games#trafficshipping#ethubs#smalletho#i love joel smallishbeans have i mentioned i love joel smallishbeans#but yeah i would have so much more ethubs art if i wasn't such a perfectionist abt them </3#they drive me insane
44 notes
·
View notes
Note
what the FUCK do you mean you wrote two of the best prototype fics AND drew some of the best art. illegal
seriously though i am in love with your characterisation, especially of all three mercer siblings. frankly your version of dr mercer is the best ive seen in the entire fandom lmao
Thank you! I'm really glad you're enjoying that terrible bastard of a man. Dr. Mercer enjoyers unite. We love this evil skinny twink
Thoughts about Mercer sibling characterization + themes of the game (under a cut because it's VERY LONG):
The thing I try to stress when writing Doc Mercer (hereto referred to as "Xander") is that yes, he is a narcissistic, vain, arrogant bastard of a man, generally irredeemable, with extremely loose and/or nonexistent morals and a terrible personality.
However, [PROTOTYPE] is a game where most of the characters are some level of fucking awful and monstrous, but their motivations are still explored, and sometimes even still justified. I mean, Alex eats people. Randall was on his way to nuke Manhattan. Blackwatch regularly laughs at being able to murder innocent civilians. A powerful moment in some of the WOI's is Blackwatch gleefully discussing killing people, while the visuals show a camp on a rooftop where the survivors have written a big "NOT INFECTED" in a bid to not be murdered by Blackwatch.
Still, there's nuance there. Alex may grow a conscience and save New York, but he's still, you know, a walking viral apocalypse that both eats people and enjoys it/thinks it feels "right." Blackwatch murders all the people they want, but at the end of the day, they ARE the line that stands between humanity and viral apocalypse. And Randall might even be justified in nuking Manhattan if it means taking Alex out, because - you know - walking viral apocalypse (and for all Randall knows, ZEUS only killed Elizabeth to establish his dominance as hive queen supreme). I don't see why Doc Mercer should be exempt from that nuance, but he so very often is.
So that as my starting point, what do we know about Doc Mercer? Well, mostly from the PRIMA guide, we have his backstory. This backstory is so hilariously awful that I legitimately don't think I'd believe you if you told me he wasn't supposed to be sympathetic.
Xander's mom is thrown in jail right after he's born, no other family is willing/able to take him in, so he's thrust into the foster care system (no father is EVER mentioned, ever)
To make matters worse, Dana's bio mentions that she moved "to New York" to follow her brother, implying that they aren't NY-born, which further implies that they're from NEW FUCKING JERSEY LOL (it's only like, an hour's bus away from Columbia U, where Xander went to college)
Xander is kicked around foster care system like a hot potato until mom is released from jail. Seems like she either got pregnant right at the end of her stint, or right as she got out; he's 10 when she regains custody of him, but 9 when Dana is born.
Dana's bio says "[Xander] was the only parent figure Dana ever knew." It also said their mother had "drinking problems." Xander raised Dana to the degree that she literally doesn't even see her mom as a parent.
"For [Xander], foster care was better." Yikes. That's definitely an implication of abuse (if the parentification weren't enough). What kind of abuse? Well, they're often bundled together, but we can make a Strong Case for extreme violence at minimum, given the following:
What was mom in jail for? A 9-year sentence implies a second-degree crime, which, uh... take your pick: aggravated assault, aggravated arson, theft of an item more than 75k$, armed burglary or burglary that results in injury or threats of injury, unlawful possession of a firearm, sexual assault. Yikes
Bio outright describes it as living in "abject poverty," so with the fact that he was LITERALLY the only parent Dana knew (a role he was forced into starting at the age of TEN), as soon as he was legally able, he probably had to take on a job in addition to school and childrearing.
Given the "abject poverty" angle, I find it doubtful that he was able to leave home until he graduated, especially given that a commute from Jersey to Columbia U could be as short as an hour. Since he graduated from his PhD at the age of 24, that means he was Dana's parent until she was fifteen. 3/4 of her life by the time of the game.
Needs to be stressed: this man changed her diapers, warmed up her formula, cooked meals for her, helped her with homework, taught her sex-ed and what puberty was, helped her get her first job, taught her how to apply for college. He is, for all intents and purposes, Dana's father. (Put a pin in that!)
Like... holy shit! This is a sympathetic character! I don't know how anyone would be able to read that in isolation and not feel bad for this guy. I mean, this is a person who has literally ALL the trauma. Like, he's in the 99th percentile of worst childhoods in America. This boy has collected PTSDs like they are pokemon.
The PRIMA guide literally says that, at the end of all that, he "trusted no one, had no friends, cared less and less what others thought of him," and was an "impatient, dark, tortured person" with a history of burning bridges. "Forever paranoid," "morally ambiguous," and "teetering on the border of sociopathy" are also used to describe him, and - yeah, of course! I mean, did you SEE his backstory? Holy shit.
And what really fascinates me about this is that, even under those circumstances? He was probably the best parent he could have been to Dana. She literally sees him as one, stuck around NYC for five years because he was just that important to her, and trusts and cares for him so deeply that she's willing to risk her life for him/willing to forgive Alex ranting about how eating people "feels right."
Some people argue that he was using Dana as a pawn, or manipulating her, etc. etc., and I really dislike this take (though, of course, everyone's entitled to their own HCs etc., especially because a lot of the PRIMA stuff was clearly rewritten by the time of the game's release). First, I think that a working college girl with a fiery personality like Dana would not have stuck around for FIVE YEARS if she didn't feel like Xander deserved it - and given that he was also ghosting her for those five years, any manipulation he had her under would have worn off. Like, it's REALLY HARD to gatekeep gaslight girlboss someone if you're no-contact with them. Also, are you trying to tell me that an eleven-year-old boy was looking at a literal 2 year old going "yes... I will raise her to trust me absolutely... as a tool for me to use in the future... and then completely ignore her calls for 5 years!" C'mon.
But the second, and more important, reason I don't agree with that take is that I feel like it strips Dana of agency and reduces her to this almost damsel-like role. Nah, man, even if Xander was not her brother/dad, she would have risked her life to help him out. Why? Because she's a fucking anarcho-socialist journalism student, that's why!
Her PRIMA bio is really interesting in that regard; I feel like the game didn't show off well enough just how awesome Dana actually is. She's studying journalism at NYU. You may have heard that her job is "writing tabloids," but that's such a simplification/misunderstanding of the text! We actually have the titles of the publications she writes for, and they are: "Everything You Know Is Wrong", "Bathsheba", and "The Military/Industrial Complex Report." Even just from that small glimpse (and the fact that she calls Blackwatch "goose-stepping motherfuckers"), I think it's evident that she's got some deeply anti-government, anti-military, anti-fascist beliefs.
Furthermore, Dana is like... kind of a terrible person. Here's a great excerpt from her bio that I feel like isn't talked about enough (emphasis mine):
"She owes money all over town, and somehow manages to sweet talk friends into lending her more. She's a hustler, good at manipulating people. Like her brother, she's narcissistic and evasive. When she doesn't like someone she'll go out of her way to make sure they know it - particularly if they push the point. She's disrespectful, foul-mouthed, and not afraid of a fight. This all serves her well when she's neck-deep in a story, but in real life, her kind of behavior only makes her one thing: enemies. In short, she's her brother's sister."
Guys, I am not normal about that last sentence. It's phrased the same way as "she's her mother's daughter" or "she's her father's son." Like. Oh my god, Xander is basically her dad.
But back on topic: Dana is characterized as a BADASS BITCH who doesn't take shit from ANYBODY and is ALREADY anti-government. She literally calls the Blackwatch shit "the story of the century." She would have taken that case on even if it weren't her brother presenting it to her, no manipulation necessary.
AND she knew the risks. I've seen it argued that Xander's to blame for "tricking" her into investigating something that put her life in danger, but I think that's unfair to him. First, I think Blackwatch would've investigated and/or disappeared Dana either way, given how trigger-happy they are. Second, she knew the risks - that's why she was using her friend's penthouse apartment as a safehouse. She was prepared to risk her life for this story; BW just moved faster than she anticipated and ambushed her at her apartment.
(And, also, like, just as an aside, we don't know if she had permission to be in her friend's place, and given her PRIMA bio, she probably didn't, like she just full-on broke into her friend's really nice apartment LOL probably even chose the friend with the nicest digs LOL)
This also serves as such an interesting glimpse into not only her and her brother's relationship, but her brother's characterization. We already know that Xander possesses good social skills to some degree, given that he has a girlfriend who was willing to risk her life for him (she went back to the lab to get something for him, which is how she got caught - let's ignore for now the ethics of dating his subordinate); he also climbed the ranks at his job, rising to Associate Director (McMullen's direct subordinate) sometime within only five years.
Dana's bio, however, confirms it. Every description of her personality becomes associated with Xander with the phrase "she's her brother's sister." Xander is a hustler; he's manipulative and gets people to do what he wants. Xander is evasive, disrespectful, and lets people feel it when he doesn't like them. Xander makes enemies. BUT.
Even in the midst of all that - his paranoia, the fact that he's having a freak-out because his coworkers are being "silenced," and that he ghosted Dana for five years in an effort to leave the past behind him... who does he trust to have his back? Dana. I need you guys to understand. He doesn't go to Dana because she's an easy tool for him to manipulate. He goes to Dana because he's scared for his life and she is the only person he trusts. I think there's a reason Alex latches onto her when he learns she exists, and part of it is definitely because the scaffold he's built on, the original Dr. Mercer, viewed Dana as unconditionally trustworthy. The feeling is mutual.
And just in case you needed some sort of in-game proof? He has at LEAST two photos of Dana on his foyer wall. Legit. Go back and rewatch that cutscene when Alex walks into Xander's apartment. He has 2-3 photos of Karen... and 2-3 photos of Dana. He's been ghosting Dana, but he keeps photos of her on his wall, where he sees them every day, right next to where he works. One of the Dana photos is also the only photo that Xander is not in. I just... he loves his sister. He's just too mentally ill to be normal about it and keep in contact.
So, we have here pretty much Xander's ONLY redeeming quality: cares about his sister! That's it. That's all he's got. Let's talk about some other irredeemable stuff.
So far, I've talked a lot about the PRIMA guide, but now I'm going to talk about what's in the actual game, because it's quite interesting, and I don't think all of it made it into the fandom zeitgeist. It's too bad, because this one major fact really adds a shitton of nuance to this character:
Xander was out of the loop.
Xander did not know anything about Hope, Idaho. Xander did not know that Blackwatch existed. Xander didn't even fucking know that his human test subjects were deliberately infected. Within day one, Alex knows more about the conspiracy surrounding Blacklight than Xander ever did. And we know exactly how much he knew about the virus because he mailed Dana a laptop containing everything he was able to find, and it pretty much got as far as "MOTHER is named Elizabeth Greene" and "Hope, Idaho existed...?" We have a WOI where Randall expresses concern over even giving Xander access to MOTHER, and a WOI where Xander is pissed the hell off when he finds out that their human subjects were not naturally infected. He didn't know!
That suddenly casts his role in Blacklight's production in a much less nefarious light. Look at this job from Xander's point of view: You're a 24 year old who completed an 8-year college run (undergrad and PhD) in six years, WHILE raising a teenage girl and probably while working, too. At graduation, you get offered this insanely cushy job, with a threat that you'll be blacklisted from the industry if you refuse (this literally happened to Dr. Ragland, according to his PRIMA bio). It's a top-secret government job. The government's not great, but you have loose morals, and it can't possibly be worse than Albert Einstein building the atom bomb. So. Whatever.
(On top of that, they're already lying to you abour what the project's purpose is. Xander states he "didn't know" what he was working on until he "figured it out," and there's a WOI where one employee raves that the virus could be used to cure every disease on earth. It seems there was a general vibe that they were probably working bio-weapons, but no one knew FOR SURE, and a contributor to Xander's meltdown is the fact that his research results just... vanish. He doesn't know what they're being used for.)
Plus, holy shit, the pay. Xander is making, like, seven figures by the time he's 29. He lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side (where Gossip Girl takes place lol). The average price for a one-bedroom there is, like, 4000$ a month. This man spent 24 years in brutal poverty; the money matters to him.
On top of that, the stuff they're doing at GENTEK? Of course, it's stomach-turning, but it wouldn't clock as inherently unethical. Xander's fury at learning that MOTHER was a test subject, and not naturally infected (as he's been led to believe), implies that they were NOT infecting people at GENTEK. The bodies we see in WOI, their test subjects, were already infected by the time they got there, supplied to GENTEK with a cover story, that the virus was one they'd found naturally, and that these people - whose brains were fried by the virus - were just unlucky victims of random happenstance. Furthermore, making viruses more dangerous is legitimate virology. It's called "gain-of-function" experimentation, and while it is controversial (for obvious reasons), it's still something you would potentially be doing at an above-board lab.
That means that, prior to Penn Station, the worst Xander can be accused of is being a bootlicker, class traitor, who knowingly worked on WMDs for the US government. And yeah, that is monstrously evil, and Albert Einstein is a monster by that metric, but it's a level of evil that's matched or surpassed by almost every other character in the game. Dana and Ragland are the two exceptions, maybe Karen too, depending on whether you think her low hierarchical position absolves her of any sin. McMullen and everyone at Blackwatch are all more culpable than Xander. They're the ones giving him orders - he's the low man on the totem pole!
And his reaction upon realizing how deep the rabbit hole goes? It's not asking to join up with the evil side. It's not going out to do a terrorism (even if that's how it ends up). It's blowing the whistle. His first instinct is to go to his sister, the anti-government, anti-military journalism student. And as he spirals into panic and anxiety, it's to escape the city, while warning someone - probably Dana - to "get out of there". Even McMullen says, when Alex confronts him, "you were always so smart. You were ready to give up all our secrets. [...] We were trying to figure it out -- you just wanted to bring it all down." The class traitor was about to redeem himself. His motivations might still be selfish - to punish the people who lied to him, to save his own ass - but he's not a cartoon villain.
It's only after he's cornered, staring down guns, realizing that all his efforts were futile, possibly even realizing that Dana is next, that he smashes the vial. AND EVEN THEN... I think we're supposed to understand why he did it. Not sympathize, necessarily, but... look at his life. Abandonment, abuse, parentification. Skipping meals to make sure Dana can eat. Running on a sleep deficit because homework has to be done after helping Dana with hers after coming home from work after going to school. His wealth and girlfriend are hollow victories when he can't trust people enough to make friends. He loves his sister, enough to keep her photos on his foyer wall, but can't bear engaging with her as an adult on equal footing. He thought he'd finally caught a break, only for it to turn out to be a death trap from the start. Yes, choosing to smash the vial was an irredeemable action, a selfish, vindictive, and evil choice; however, I don't think he could have chosen differently. Dr. Mercer was not necessarily intended to be a sympathetic character (although he was), but he was certainly, bare-minimum, intended to be a tragic one.
It seems like the game went through several rewrites, and those rewrites confuse a pretty major plot beat: does the virus Xander releases at Penn Station burn itself out, or does it go on to become the main virus on the streets of Manhattan? This question, and where you personally fall on it, is really important. And that's because... if the virus burns itself out in Penn Station (which apparently the writer confirmed on Twitter, but there's evidence in the game to suggest the opposite), then that means Xander has one of the lowest body counts in the game.
Yeah, you heard me. Let's say the virus burns itself out in Penn Station. How many people would that even be? A few thousand? In 2009, Penn Station served about 300,000 people per day. That is really busy, but obviously, not all of those people - or even a majority of those people - are going to be in the station at any given time. It's probably a number around four digits. Um, how many people does Alex kill over the course of the game, again? Obviously, the in-game kill counts can't exactly be trusted, because you can rack up millions depending on how much you fuck around, but it's generally agreed that he's in the tens of thousands, between all the military bases he destroys, civilians he eats, and soldiers he cuts through. Randall has been confirmed to have ordered the glassing of both Hope, Idaho, AND Two Bluff, Arizona, with an attempt on Manhattan. (Cross also mentions a Kentucky in one of the cut lines, implying there's more cities and casualties than we even know about.) There are 1.6 million people living in Manhattan in 2009, so Randall was about to kill, like, a thousand times more people than Xander.
It also means he never put Dana in danger. If it's a virus that burns out on its own, he - the person whose work was "years ahead of his nearest competitor" - would know that it wouldn't reach her. And it would make sense if it burns out, too, because it's a bio-weapon. Not a great bio-weapon if it causes a a whole-ass apocalypse! And I also don't think it's fair to blame Xander for Alex letting Elizabeth Greene out of her cage, because by that point, 1) Xander is dead, 2) Dana sent Alex there, 3) Alex is a fully sapient and independent being who is not under Xander's orders because Xander is dead. I mention this because I've literally run into people who believe that the virus burned itself out at Penn Station, BUT ALSO that Xander releasing the vial directly put Dana in danger of infection AND that Elly's rampage is somehow his fault. You can't have it both ways!
That's actually why I don't believe that the virus burned itself out. Narratively and thematically, it's much better if Xander did release his virus knowing that it might cause a full-on apocalypse. That does make it so that he risked his sister's life (although you can argue that he figured she was as good as dead, anyways, given that they'd tracked him down - I don't, since I think he was too busy panicking and being sleep-deprived to be thinking about that), and it DOES make the entire ensuing tragedy his fault. And the reason that this is important is because of Xander's role as a "father" to Alex.
Here's something else that's important to note, which I often see overlooked: Alex places the blame on the shoulders of Randall, not Xander. "You bastard," he says after he's eaten Randall. "You could have stopped all this - you let it happen." Meanwhile, here's what he actually says about Xander: "what Mercer did is beyond forgiveness," and at the end of the game, "Alex Mercer. This city suffered for his mistakes, for what he did at Penn Station. And whoever he was - that's a part of me." We aren't supposed to think he's unilaterally evil without nuance. Pretty much everyone, Alex included, has done things "beyond forgiveness" in this game. We're instead supposed to ponder what it means to be derived from his stock.
What is Alex's characterization? To be frank, Alex is a dumbass baby. I know that this is not necessarily popular, but I genuinely believe that it's intentional. There are literally cut lines from the very first mission that REALLY drive home that this poor guy has NO IDEA what's going on. Begging people to stop shooting at him, thinking to himself "where's a place with a lot of people?" (honey, you're in NYC), and generally going "what was that? how did this happen? what's going on? what? huh? what?"
There's also needing Ragland to suggest to him the novel idea of breaking both spines on the leader hunters, and following Phone Voice into a death trap, and then still listening to Phone Voice a second time, not to mention how awkwardly he shrugs his way out of Karen Parker's hug, or how he's constantly pushing himself all the way into Dana's personal space/startling her/disappearing while no one's watching. There's a point where his brilliant plan for getting McMullen to land is to disable some infection detectors... while standing ankle-deep in biomass... looking up at McMullen. He's just, ah, ehm... not the sharpest tool in the shed. If you replay the game with that in mind, it... yeah. I mean. His first instinct upon being attacked by helicopters is to go up onto the roof of a building, where he is surprised by... more helicopters. Who left this child unattended? Where are your guardians.
I know I'm exaggerating - Alex does show remarkable flexibility and adaptability and on-the-fly problem-solving sometimes - but when the PRIMA bios and McMullen repeatedly stress that Xander is clever, manipulative, a schemer, a hustler, "so smart," it really highlights how... straightforward Alex is in comparison. You cannot tell me that Alex, as he's presented in-game, is "a lateral thinker - plans within plans."
And the interesting thing is, this actually seems like a fairly late-stage change! The original PRIMA guide blurb for "The Prototype" seems to suggest that he is actually an amnesiatic Dr. Mercer, not a wholly separate entity. It goes on and on about how "The Prototype" is cool, calm, dry and witty, always in control of his body, etc. etc., but that really doesn't match the in-game characterization at all (he's consistently characterized as awkward, unsure of himself), meaning that I think this is more proof that a characterization as "fucking idiot dumbass baby" was intentional.
Sampling of cut voice lines:
"Ghost Twelve, Ghost Twelve... oh, shit, that's my callsign..."
"Aw, I hate D-Codes..."
"They think I'm dead. Perfect. I can't wait to see the look on McMullen's face."
"I need to get somewhere with a lot of people... somewhere where they can't just keep firing at me."
"Where is there a lot of fucking people? Where?" (girliepop you live in NEW YORK)
"Just remember! This was your idea!"
like. cmon, man.
That being said, Alex is not innocent. He starts the game without a conscience, easily and effortlessly killing people, instinctively eating them, too. He's quite literally built upon two existing minds - the people-eating virus, and the sociopathic misanthrope. I think this is why he defaults to shoving people and has no option to put them down gently - he's filled with Xander's rage, his hatred, and his casual cruelty. One of his earliest lines is this: "revenge was the only clear thought in my head. The only one I could call mine." LITTLE DOES HE KNOW. He continues. "I wanted to find out what happened to me. The reason. Someone to blame. Someone I could punish."
And now we get into a major theme of the game, my thesis: [PROTOTYPE] is about family. It's about nature vs. nurture, it's about the cycle of abuse, and it's about how the people who raise us, shape us. Xander is the "father" of this story; he's consistently placed in that role relative to Dana, and Alex directly inherits his genetics, his appearance, his name, and even his initial personality from him. And as for the mother... there is literally a character in the game named MOTHER.
Alex is, in a very literal way, the child of Xander and Elizabeth Green. He was born out of a fusion of their DNA - the virus infecting Xander's body. Elizabeth also literally says "I am your MOTHER" in their first meeting. And as if that weren't enough, Elizabeth's relationship to Alex directly mirrors Xander's relationship with his own mother: the first thing Elizabeth does is abandon Alex, and when she returns, it's only to threaten Dana's safety and torment him. Xander himself becomes a mirror to his own absent father, disappearing before he ever got to know his son. This is the cycle of abuse, the tragedy that occurs when someone who was abused becomes trapped by it, and has no ability to operate outside its confines, perpetuating the pain that was inflicted upon them.
However... something's different. Alex is not left alone to suffer like Xander does. He has Dana - a parental figure who loves him unconditionally, whom he loves unconditionally in turn. And she is the impetus for his ability to change, the one who most directly molds his burgeoning consciousness. His interactions with Dana are brief, but even in those brief interaction, she teaches him empathy ("my god, [Elizabeth]'s just a girl. What kind of fucking monsters are these people?"), kindness/mercy ("whoa, whoa, whoa. [Ragland]'s a good guy"), and trust ("look, no matter what, you're still my brother"). Let's go back to our pin. Xander is Dana's "father" also... and he was the best one she could have had, given the circumstances. Dana represents breaking the cycle. Dana represents Xander's single redeeming quality.
In other words... the key difference between Alex and Xander is that Alex has an adult figure in Dana that he can trust and rely upon, something Xander never had... because Xander was that for Dana. Xander broke the cycle. That's the one good thing he managed to do.
Now, we know that lots of rewrites happened, that final boss stuff got shifted around, and things got moved into a sequel hook, like Dana's fate or PARIAH's whole deal. However, I think we can almost piece together what it might have been if we follow this thematic line of thinking. Because here's something quite interesting: PARIAH... is in foster care. A child who kills everything he touches, abandoned and trapped, a monster, whose only use is as an agent of evolution, a direct parallel for Xander at his worst - this tortured man who "found solace only in his work", for whom foster care was better, who teetered on sociopathy and didn't care. Randall represents the government, the system, that put him there - the first ones to ever screw Xander over. So if we assume that the final boss was originally PARIAH, and Alex still needs to eat his way through Elizabeth and Randall to get to him, then an incredibly interesting thing happens when we view that sequence of events from this thematic perspective.
Alex would triumph over MOTHER, the government, and Xander's worst. The crystallization of the fleeting love within Xander's heart - the one redeeming facet of Xander's personality - would overcome his abusive mother, the cold-hearted system that forsook him, and even his own worst traits, the monster he was molded into. Quite literally, love would win. And I think this would have even tied in to curing Dana - that this would become a major facet of Alex's motivation - that he'd need PARIAH in order to cure her, or something like that. Dana - kindness, empathy, and love, breaking the cycle of abuse - becomes the impetus for Alex to change, to become a better person, to grow a conscience, to trust others. I think that's the central theme of this game.
Xander's shadow looms large over the entirety of [PROTOTYPE]'s story. There are more themes than just family, but it's the one I wanted to highlight, because I think it's the one most central, most core to the game's emotional experience. At every turn, you can feel the ghost of Xander - not just because Alex is literally wearing his corpse.
I'll restate here the relevant parts of Alex's closing monologue:
"I looked for the truth. Found it. Didn't like it. Wish to hell I could forget it. Alex Mercer. This city suffered for his mistakes, for what he did at Penn Station. And whoever he was - that's part of me."
Xander is Alex's father - the person from whom he inherited his base nature. But Alex is able to grow beyond that - to trust others, to love others.
"What have I become? Something less than human. But also something more."
Xander was so tormented by his past, by his abandonment, neglect, and abuse, that he was unable to face his sister. Terrified of the pain of abandonment, he chose to abandon her rather than risk being rejected when she became an adult. And yet, he loved his sister. That's the nuance of this character, the legacy he leaves. One of cruelty, but also one of kindness. Both are inherited by Alex - it's fair to say that everything Alex is has been shaped by Xander, his father. The bad... but also the good. And it is because of that miniscule, faltering, fleeting "good" that Xander was able to procure, that Alex is able to rise above what Xander became.
TL;DR: It would be appropriate, both narratively and thematically, to call Xander "daddy".
#prototype 2009#[prototype]#alex mercer#alexander james mercer#alexander j mercer#dana mercer#general randall#sure hope that rambling mess was coherent to somebody
76 notes
·
View notes
Note
Advance apology for the long ask in a likely sea of 'em.
A lot of people talk about wishing they could experience something they love again for the first time, this series was genuinely as close to that as I've ever felt. Just given the span of time my attention flucuated on and off but once the latter half of s4/s5 began my attention was absolutely nailed to your feed. Its up with Dragon Ball Z Abridged as parody series that become so dramatically effective they become a valid or definitive way to experience the series. Goddamned sensational.
Your portrayals of the characters soar. They provide a hilarious, cruder take on each that still cuts right to the soul of who these people are and lays it bare, which I think is the mission of any good-natured parody. Adora, Catra, Glimmer, Scorpia, Bow, Prime etc. There is not one that does not shine. It tackled a ton of issues and misgivings I had about canon, and even elevated or clarified many scenes and arcs through addressing them a more direct fashion.
You took full advantage of not having to dress up and dance around the dark subjects canon was sort of doomed to handle inadequately given its age bracket and thematic priorities. Many scenes were jawdropping. Ive raved about it before, but your scene with Glimmer actually talking about her mom with Catra still leaves me gobsmacked every time I reread it. Your big moments towards the finale btwn Adora and Catra are obviously sublime and tie their wonderful arc off fantastically, but in my heart of hearts that cell talk will be the crown jewel of this project.
Loved seeing the LGBT message take center stage in way canon had to hold back. To paraphrase Tolkien, I'm can't count myself among those gifted people, and youve def got a target audience in mind, but if youve ever worried if your stories resonate on a quote unquote "more universal" level, I promise you can put those worries to bed. Since becoming an adult ive intentionally sought out more and more queer-inclusive/created stories and I havent regretted it a bit, and the rising tide of fascist sexist/homo/transphobic bile in politics gets more and more frightening. But I've also seen how strong and resilient LGBT people are in the face of it, empowering themselves in no small part thru stories like yours. Please don't ever give up on your art. The world needs artists like you.
Sorry if I come off pretentious or condescending, I feel like that when I try to get everything I think out at once. I'll be among the first to come running if you ever start another project like this or make something on an even grander scale. Thank you a thousand times for this.
Also writing a wholeass sitcom pilot based on an offhand quasi-joke I made is the most weirdly touching thing I think anyones ever done "for me" (at least nominally cuz of me), especially a stranger. So thank you for that too.
Aw, you'll make me cry, you know! I think you've understood everything I wanted to do with this strip (or at least, when I started thinking beyond just 'characters saying fuck'), and... yeah, it's been an incredible journey, both for the blog and for me personally.
I've always tried to keep the parody good-natured. You can often tell, particularly in parody, when the creator dislikes one particular character (I mean, Horde Prime was probably the exception here), but I love all of them, so it really comes from a place of love. It's quite odd because I never set out to "fix" the show, and I wouldn't want to, but some things I've done seem to have had such an impact that a lot of people think I have done just that.
The Glimmer/Catra conversation is absolutely one of my favourite things I've written from this. It's such a pivotal moment in both their stories and character development, and I am truly humbled that multiple people have called it 'better than canon'. Like... I'm just some person trying to be funny and occasionally serious, and people are saying something I wrote is better than what a team of experienced professional writers did? Give over, no... But it's still a moment I can be proud of.
I won't be stopping writing things. This whole blog has given me a new lease of life and something to aim towards. I've got an excellent pilot script pretty much finished, and I do want to bring Hellspawn up to that standard too (thank you for suggesting someone make a Sweary Frosta sitcom - I'm someone!). That may well involve a complete re-write, but I'll be sure to share it.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your kind words along the way. It really keeps me going :)
48 notes
·
View notes
Note
hey
my friend wanted to know everything ever about medic tf2 got any good stuff I could throw at them besides the baboons and the skeleton thing ive forgotten everything as soon as they asked and sent them YouTube vedios in a panic and then quoted you from memory #I am not exiting the mind prison this year
I GOT QUOTED WHEN ASKED ABOUT MEDIC!??? that's so sweet and hilarious to me.
————————————————————
Canonically? I know very little about what to say about this man. Um, he's funny as hell. This is actually my favorite scene of him in the comics other than his whole presence in The Naked and The Dead,
Like I can not tell you how much I think about this scene.
ALSO THIS ONE??
He's batshit insane too, but in a good way. Technically, this has nothing to do with him as a character but Medic! Is a fucking banger song!?
————————————————————
If you're asking me about my personal thoughts on Medic, then it gets away from canon quite a bit, or at least what most people accept as cannon. I'll just quick fire some things and add links to posts that provide better explanations
He may be batshit insane but he loves his team, and his team loves him. They are all friends and care for each other. He also loves Archimedes. Don't ever let anyone tell you he's uncaring or just evil with no feelings. (More context can be found here)
He's gay, no elaboration needed, have you seen the way he and Heavy look at each other?
I think he's Jewish and faced a lot of shit during WW2 from both the allies and those in Germany. He had to flee during the war and almost didn't make it to America, and even when he did, he had to mask the fact that he was german to avoid internment camps. (Headcanons about him fighting for the allies is here)
He has a lot for trauma, and had a really fucked up childhood. I have a whole post on it that I can't find right now 😭
And that's kind of the basics? Sorry its not much, and its not everything ever, but I hope this helps your friend on their Medic endeavors!
46 notes
·
View notes
Note
You know what would be funny duo. Cyno n Heizou. Because they are straight up, buddy cop duo.
Heizou is funny rule breaker, comedic relief. Cyno is by the book, serious thought guy.
Heizou would constantly die of cringe when Cyno makes his dry as sand jokes. Cyno would be so done with Hei’s constant flirting. If its a police modern au. There be like constant thought, are they friends or just hate each other.
Honestly it be funny to see their debate about law.
YOU GIVE THE MOST BASED TAKES IVE EVER SEEN thank you for your immaculate contributions to my blog i love you so much
what’s so incredible about this is that they are both silly guys, but they are silly guys of different flavor.
heizou is full of sarcasm, wit, subtle flirtations, teasing, etc; and then on the other side of the spectrum we have cyno, whose whole schtick is being so unfunny that it’s endearing. his humor is such a slap in the face that sometimes it actually ends up being funny. and it makes it even better that their styles of humor are the exact opposite of their styles of enforcing law.
heizou is pretty tolerant of most things—i think it takes a lot to get under his skin. and i feel like the one thing that gets under his skin the easiest is incompetence, or what he perceives as incompetence. since his humor is so witty, and he very much enjoys mind games, i feel like he’d find cyno’s slapstick style to be somewhat annoying, which is hilarious. he wouldn’t see it as incompetence, necessarily, because he knows the general is intelligent and perfectly capable, but the simple style of the humor and the way cyno delivers it puts “annoying” in the same category as incompetence.
usually heizou is the annoying one—in literally any situation, he is always the annoying one—but here, he’s put in the position of being so flabbergasted at cyno’s attempt at a joke that he is left grasping for something to say. but he cannot. cyno’s jokes invoke brainrot.
and the reason i think it could go this way but not vice versa is because cyno is quite literally unbothered. any attempt heizou makes at one-upping him or getting him to stop with the puns fails horribly, because cyno just really doesn’t care. there is not anyone more unbothered. he’s just doing his own thing. and i feel like that would end up getting to heizou in the end, because he’s so used to getting to others. he thinks so much and analyzes everything; his style of humor is creative and intricate; so in the end it’s terribly ironic that the one thing getting to him would be someone whose idea of humor is the most dry delivery of puns.
now on the other hand, with their styles of law enforcement, it would be the exact opposite.
heizou’s freeform attitude would bother cyno to the point of actual, visible emotion. which is rare for him! he just really, really likes structure, and rules are very important to him. the idea that someone else in his occupation would find it so easy—fun, even—to color outside the lines is completely beyond the general mahamatra.
cyno: there are rules for a reason.
heizou: but what if the law isnt always what’s right :3
cyno: then change the law.
heizou: but it’s not that easy :3
etc etc etc
hehehe they would be a very amusing pair of friends—i think that under their slight disdain for each others’ differences there would be a very clear foundation of respect <33
#blessings from the anemo archon barsibitos#muji’s inbox#cyno#heizou#shikanoin heizou#cyno and heizou#genshin impact#genshin headcanons#muji’s mutuals
41 notes
·
View notes
Text
I just finished a Court of Fey and Flowers by @dimension20official, it was absolutely amazing, hands down the best AP I have ever seen, or imagine I might see.
You can find it here.
As someone that is strongly anti-D&D 5E and Anti Wizards of the Coast, it took me a long time to give dimension 20 a chance, and I will strongly suggest that anyone in that same position give it a shot.
I am gonna talk about it below the cut here, cause this will likely be long, this will be things I both liked and didn't like.
So i'm gonna talk abit about my feelings and experience with games and APs, because we're all different, we all like different things in a TV Show and by extension those variable preferences would also expand to APs. So I want to give you a little bit of information about where I stand as I explain my thoughts. Sorry if this gets very SEO Recipe lmao.
If you don't care about all that, skip to the next bold line, however if you are gonna comment or argue or whatever, at least read the context first and then probably don't do that.
I've been gaming for 30+ years, I started very early, and i've played definately dozens, probably hundreds of different games. D&D doesnt even rank in that list, I didn't like it much as a kid, when i grew up and it was 3/3,5 I hated both it and pathfinder with a passion. I played 5E for a bit but its lackluster and very poor design led to a game of boring mechanical options and choices that quickly grew old. And if I was gonna play a narrative game, i wouldn't be playing D&D in the first place. 4E is the only edition of D&D I've actively enjoyed.
I was an immense Critter during Campaign 1 and partway through Campaign 2. Like... "my wife and I have Critical Role quotes engraved on our wedding bands" critters.
But I quickly fell away from both Critters and Critical Role, by and large Critters is the worst fandom ive been apart of (and I was a SuperWhoLock back in the day) and the CR cast talks a lot of nice ideals and backs them up with absolutely nothing but lip service. I am now, tbh, somewhat uncomfortable when I see any of them on my timeline.
Dimension 20 is the first AP my wife and I have tried to watch since CR (we find most APs to be unwatchtable in most situations, just our own preference), My wife was curious about seeing Brendan as a DM after watching him on Game Changer, so we watched Mice and Murder (it was fun, and good, but has NOTHING on aCoFaF), and then on a suggestion moved to watch aCoFaF).
Last piece of the puzzle, WotC is a fucking nightmare company that has harbored some of the worst pieces of trash imaginable (though tbf that is not unique to them, its a major "large/old ttrpg company issue". And I quite frankly would love to never have to hear or see about anything wotc ever does ever again, preferably because they burned down and everything they ever made goes with them (this sadly means I would lose 4E but sacrifices must be made).
Things I like about a Court of Fey and Flowers
The first thing I love about it, is its a very role play heavy AP, and it centers on matters of Political fey intrigue, and that is done so masterfully by every single player and by the GM. (I absolutely avoided D20 because of the DnD/WOTC connection, but I in retrospect absolutely understand the whole "Season of Aabria" that was going around now).
The characters were thrilling, dramatic, sneaky, nuanced and hilarious, and the storyline was gorgeous and beautifully made, allowing the players to make their own messes and their own relationships and romances. So much romances.
I absolutely loved that I didn't have to see dnd 5e be played most of the time. This is something, and one of the only somethings, you'll see me talk about in the "don't like" section, so it is strangely enough both. The system was changed and mostly ignored that I almost never had to see dnd played, the AP is so heavily social and rp and during the state of the AP only had two very very short combats that were more priority on the social implications of the combats than the combat itself. Overall it could have used any system and done what they did, but mostly I didn't have to see 5E played and that made it pretty solid, despite "being 5E".
I also love Brennan Lee Mulligan's Captain KP Hob, a very good bab and the first and only Bugbear PC ive seen in an AP (and I love me some Bugbear)
Thing's I didn't like about a Court of Fey and Flowers
This is gonna stay light, because really there wasn't much. The only thing really is that the system, while ostensibly "5E" the system was so lightly applied, used or stuck to that the game could have used almost literally any other system to better affect and I absolutely hate that they still gave 5E and WOTC some sort of props/bandwidth by barely using the system but still selling it as DnD.
34 notes
·
View notes
Text
they're toxic + mike is gay and in denial
Why Mileven is shit - a submission-based essay, part 1/3
Mileven - a currently canon het ship from the Stranger Things fandom between Michael (Mike) Wheeler and Jane (Eleven) Ives/Hopper/Byers/IDK
12 years old girl raised in a lab is thrown in a relationship with the first boy she ever meets. They constantly fight, lie to each other and develop a unhealthy co-dependent bond. The boy has a close ambiguous relationship with his male best friend which leads a good part of the fandom thinking that he is actually gay. People who stan this ship constantly throw homophobic slurs to this male best friend and some even argue that they hope he dies of AIDS next season
Where do I even begin. I do not care what anyone says the chemistry is not there. Another cog in the Should Have Never Been Written As A Couple machine. What made them cute in earlier seasons was their platonic dynamic and Mike's kindhearted nature to help her. It is hilarious this is apparently their "flagship" and "main" couple when they have the least amount of chemistry and the poorest written out of the others. They are not their best selves together, not only hurting themselves, but the people around them. Mostly Will, which is clear as day in Season 4. At the end of Season 4 I am so to the nth tired of the same shit different shovel with them. I am probably too gay to see The Vision fans of them see, but I do have eyes and it looks to me like they've been slowly crumbling. There is no foundation for their relationship they were barley friends a week before Mike kissed her and then she vanished for a year. They maybe had a little bit of interaction between closing the Gate and Snow Ball. Kissed again. Then spent all summer making out and ditching their friends until El comically broke up with him. Their relationship is exhausting to watch. The drama eats up too much screen time. I am tired of watching them hurting themselves staying together. There is no meaningful conversations since maybe Season 2. In Season 4 what could have been one ended poorly and the other interrupted comically. They've dragged out the Mike saying "I love you" story line, seemingly concluding it while El was being strangled in a Mind Scape trying to save Max who was also in said Mind Scape being slowly to tortured to death. Said confession prompted by using Will's own veiled confession disguised as El's an episode earlier. Plus Will using his own words to encourage Mike to help her. He did to help her, but that was painful to watch there was so much going on! Then they expect me to believe they're better than ever afterwards when there is nothing to indicate that? I need them to break up please free them. Free me. I am over it bro.
My propaganda is *drum roll*. Season 4. That's it. I am putting faith in the other haters to submit something coherent. I do not have the energy unfortunately. It is shit now, but would be even more shit if they finish the show endgame. I do not care about them. I want focus on the supernatural plot!! I want focus on characters and conversations that don't revolve around or circle to their relationship! I don't want to see another character to become a mouth peice for Opening Their Eyes and What Really Matters and they'll "Work out." I am exhausted of third parties putting more effort into Mileven than Mike and El themselves. I want them to be their own people because they come off miserable together. They both vocalize their pain and no one that ships them cares! I have never in my years of watching shows have seen such a terrible,boring and annoying couple championed as much as Mileven. Every other canon couple in the show is miles better, yet are over shadowed. They are holding together by Elmer's glue and popsicle sticks. Them being boyfriend and girlfriend means nothing to me when the chemistry is not there. Final propaganda- Most of the more vocal fans are homophobic and go out of their way to harass others.
Two incredibly written characters that have so much potential outside of a relationship. seriously their relationship is absolutely erasing all and any personality that the show gave them separately. That and they're just incredibly toxic, el literally met mike almost first thing after living in a lab her entire life, she has no reason to start a romantic relationship, especially at that age. mike is also super insecure, and using el's love towards him to ease said insecurities. incredibly unhealthy on both sides how this became the main ship of the show absolutely BAFFLES the fuck out of me
#propaganda#why [ship name] is shit#the (s)hit list#not a poll#anti milkvan#anti mileven#byler#kinda?#idk y'all will like it
28 notes
·
View notes
Note
How much didi you love that adorable and hilarious scene of the trio poping out of the wall to talk to ares ?
YOU CAN BET I TOOK MULTIPLE PICTURES OF IT BECAUSE THAT WAS LITERALLY THE MOST ADORABLE THING IVE EVER SEEN EVER EVER EVER WHOEVER DESIGNED THAT SCENE HAS MY HEART
literally look at them and tell me they arent the most cutie patooties those are my children
#thank you for reminding me of this anon because this scene added like 5 years to my life#percy jackson#pjo <3#percy jackon and the olympians#percy series
11 notes
·
View notes
Note
please elaborate on the Paul films you think are good (I’m assuming Withnail is one of them lol)
hello thank you for the ask!! i always love getting them :3 but yeah upon looking at pauls filmography ive realized ive seen wayyy more of his tv stuff than his films (most of which are kinda just really bad but made good by the fact i get to look at him) and i think his tv stuff is usually way better than his movies so im just gonna go through all the movies ive seen. with him
i should note im literally mostly ranking these on how paul llooks in them. because i watched these during quarantine and its all a blur
withnail and i <- literally my favorite film of all time i can quote the whole thing. i watch it in my head when im bored. it changed me irrevocably. i love it and also paul is justsuch a wet sopping pathetic sexy beast in it
paper mask <- ok i did like this one. it's kind of insane and an entertaining watch and it's one of his movies that ive actually seen multiple times. paul plays the banjo and sings in it a bit and he's also really cute in his little outfits while committing medical malpractice and identity theft
the doctor who movie <- you already fucking know what i think of this one baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the biographer <- oohhhh he's wearing glasses...... and a cute sweater.........i found this one interesting enough. i think
hotel! <- blantant fucking airplane! ripoff but still kind of really funny in my opinion if you like that sort of humor. peter capaldi is also in here
the rainbow <- isn't good but you get to see his bare ass and watch him run naked in a field so that has to count for something i suppose. i also think it has his first ever sex scene in it so it's funny to watch
dealers: this one is about the stock market and i dont remember shit from it but i sure did watch it !!!!!!! but hes a little business boy in a little business suit and even wears a turtleneck
catherine the great: this one is only for the most skilled paul mcgann watchers as his brothers are in it and literally i can't tell them the fuck apart. and i dont remember anything in it except paul has a scar (hot)
lesbian vampire killers <- this fucking sucks. james corden is in it. it's supposed to be a comedy but none of it is funny except for the parts with paul :)
the monk: not good in the slightest but he has a tonsure which is hilarious. to me
downtime: it's fine i think. im putting it last because i cant even remember what he looked like in it
#IDK IF THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED BUT#too bad ive already written it all out and im posting it#alexlifesonofficial#paul mcgann
16 notes
·
View notes
Note
your griddlehark was such a funny and cute reading! and i was wondering if you have any griddlehark recs on ao3? thank you!!
hi anon! first of all thank you so much, i'm so glad u enjoyed it hehe and second of all!! i absolutely do :] i wouldn't call myself an expert but ive been going through the tag and i definitely have a few favorites that i need to comment on because i really loved these fics a lot. all of these are currently complete! i hope you enjoy them and if you want im always up for discussing great works hehe
here we go:
not enough to ruin me by autumntales: 29k, the handmaiden au set on the ninth. showstopping amazing incredible if you havent seen the handmaiden i think id recommend you watch the movie first because knowing the plot twist is coming makes it even sexier but! theres no movie knowledge required. excellent work.
its a long road (losing all you own) by greekphilosophress: 5k, library au, harrow thinks shes being haunted and antagonized by gideon. honestly whats new. harrow's internal monologue on the brink of a nervous breakdown is what rlly makes this fantastic
the things that befall cavaliers by ThatAloneOne: 1k, short and sweet in that rip your heart out way. gideon and harrow from the end of gtn are time-looped back to the beginning of the events while theyre still on the ninth. i wanna read a 40k fic with this premise now
Midnight at the Mithraeum by zoicite; 66k, harrow is the manager of a speakeasy, gideon works at a casino, they hate each other and wake up married. literally what more could you ask for. i love realistic relationship development and even though they are very stupid and bad at communicating i adore them
Cake by the Ocean by zoicite: 15k, same author!! gideon bargains her voice for human legs after she saves harrow from drowning. it goes just about as well as you imagine it would go but its hilarious
The Furnace of You by Cypseloides: 67k, post htn (not nona compliant) where harrow, gideon and cam(and pal) end up escaping from the mithraeum. the summary reads angst. dramatiques. kissing. and theyre right its all of that but theres also camilla being incredible. palamedes being just as great. and most importantly, gideon getting some LOVIN
blue gray green lavender by smolranger: 29k, harrow and gideon are forced to work together to participate in a sailing race. this made me want to learn how to sail, which is the highest possible compliment i can pay a fic-you made me wanna learn something. thats incredible. i love it. the amount of detail in it is so good to read and the griddlehark is just. chef's kiss. excellent work
raise the gates, love by syntheseas: 3k hades (the videogame) au where gideon is zagreus and harrow is thanatos. if uve ever played the game youre gonna love this, its so good and the premise is PERFECT like are you kidding. thats Them
trust/fall by strangehunger; 4k, piercer harrowhark lets tattoo artist gideon tattoo her. anon u dont know me but tattoos are IT for me so this really checked all the boxes for me personally
we've got a good thing goin' by sinshine: 14k, nebulously post htn, team 69 find a safe house and its. the tern family vacation home. its hilarious. griddlehark try and fail to figure their shit out until they get it right. i love it
beat your swords into ploughshares (and your spears into pruning hooks) by NotAFicWriter: 18k, post-war, harrowhark goes cottagecore and avoids everyone. she plants tomatoes instead. little butch farmer harrow was everything i never knew i needed but this fic DELIVERED. i was yearning for a butch farmer wife like ten words in
eyes and words so icy, oh but she burns by groundedsaucer (coasterchild): 47k, harrow is a figure skater, gideon is a hockey player. obviously they end up pair skating together for a competition. obviously they hate each other at the beginning. i went into this with high expectation and finished it with the delight i usually associate with good sports anime. loved it
nothing safe is worth the drive by saltwaterconfessions (rosesandcinnamon): 4k, modern au with out besties on a road trip, the pining is incredible. hit a little bit too close to home ! the lesbian yearning is strong in this one !
let’s drink to feelings of temptation by overnights: 25k, bartender colleagues au, extremely fun because i love them being antagonistic. it fuels me.
memories of darkness undone by the light by corpsesoldier: 5k, not nona compliant post htn, if these two just TALKED TO EACH OTHER............ i swear to god. also an excellent example of lesbian miscommunication and yearning. really good
i hope u have fun reading! make sure to also check out other fics by these same authors and send them some love :] i might update this list in the future as i read my way through the tag. have a nice day!
#anons#answers#tlt#fic recs#captain's log#i might put this in a read more later! and maybe add some other links in the future just so i have this post as reference#if anyone else asks for recs#heres to hoping the links work lolol#have fun anon!#griddlehark
77 notes
·
View notes
Note
ello bones hope youre doing good
just found even more cool songs thanks to you, how do you always have more???
also WE COULDVE HAD YOU DOING ASL??? aw man :( (/lh)
anyway, I just turned in my paper that ive been working on for the last few months (yay, finally, it ate like all of my free time and energy) and suddenly I have too much free time and not much too read or watch (I had saved so many fics I cant manage to read anymore)
any coming of age books (or fics) or movies recommendations? (I need me some honey and tangerines vibes yk? ive been listening to the playlist too much again. one day I think ill read that fic again, but today is not the day)
much love to go you all in the ask box, eli <3
I'm doing pretty good! went to a yoga class tonight and I'm seeing the tommyinnit live show tomorrow so it's shaping up to be a pretty great weekend!
I actually filmed a video to post here on language day and everything but I wanted to redo it so my face wasn't fully in frame but then I just didn't get around to it :( oh well next time
OOO congrats on turning in that paper!! that's a huge accomplishment, I hope you get a great grade on it. and yay for free time!
oh boy ok coming of age recs I can do this. I haven't read any coming of age books since I was a teenager though so keep in my my memory of these are all hazy
books:
the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky - hallmarker of the coming of age genre, read this when I was 16 and cried, even if you've seen the movie I highly recommend the book
aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe by benjamin alire saenz - literally was one of my favorite books for so many years. I read it when I was 15 and became obsessed with it. I still look back on it so warmly it's just such a great book
it's kind of a funny story by ned vizzini - also read this one when I was like 16ish. I remembered enjoying it but not as much as the other two I've listed here. still very good though!
movies:
cha cha real smooth (2022) - actually one of my favorite coming of age films I've ever seen. it's a coming of age film about a guy in his early 20s instead of in his teens which is refreshing in its own. it hit particularly hard for me because I saw it when I was 22 and freshly graduated from college unsure what to do, the main character is 22 and freshly graduated from college unsure what to do. it's also a very unique setup and I really loved how they pulled it off
the edge of seventeen (2016) - this might be a controversial pick because the main character is actually pretty insufferable in this, but that's part of why I enjoyed it. the character is meant to be insufferable. she's a teenage girl dealing with the hell of being a teenage girl and she sucks! it's an intentional thing and it does it very well! I would say it still falls flat in some areas, but I'm mainly recommending it because it's so refreshing to have an mc genuinely be a shitty person
sing street (2016) - I count this as a coming of age movie but it's also kind of a music movie? it's incredibly fun no matter what. the songs are so catchy, the characters are all great, and the relationships are just all very well done
the kings of summer (2013) - genuinely why do I never hear anyone talk about this movie. I haven't seen it in so long but I remember it being incredibly funny with a great dose of summertime whimsy
hunt for the wilderpeople (2016) - tbh I never thought of this as a coming of age movie and it might be a bit different than most of the films on here but I was looking up lists of coming of age movies to try and remember which ones I've seen and I saw this one mentioned a few times. if you're a fan of taika waititi films, in my opinion this is his best one hands down. it's hilarious but also incredibly sweet and heartwarming at the same time
moonrise kingdom (2012) - very charming and storybook esque in the way all wes anderson films are, but with a really sweet story between two kids at its core. again, different from most of the ones on this list, but definitely an enjoyable one all the same
hope this list helps!
3 notes
·
View notes
Note
HEWO EI i need to fill my quota and hope this isnt too out of reach for something too specific </3 but may i ask hcs for kanata n chaiki (separate) with a menhera s/o who also dresses a lot in yamikawa and dark girly fashion :") I NEED TO STOP ASKING ONLY FOR KANATA N CHIAKI FROM YOU LOL but i like how you write them (loud sobfing). of course this is the same anon as the one who asked for the sanrio hcs because erm </3 doesnt dark jfashion somehow just go hand in hand w sanrio sometimes. they even released some jirai kei kuromi n mymelo stuff like im in tears /pos
BESIDES THIS HOPE UR DOING WELL!! ive also been around your blog a lot so im sorry i forgot to say but if you note down anons then lemme be darlingnon (=v=)~ﾌﾌ♪
a/n — HAHA IT’S OKAY DW! also the new sanrio collab cards makes me want to throw up /pos i love niki as cinnamoroll i might cry tears of JOY. I ALSO GOT MAYOI’S CARD ?! I SCREAMED SO LOUD AHHHDHDHCJF
also idk much about menhera / yami kawaii fashion </3 i tried to make it as detailed and clear as possible. BUT I HAD FUN WRITING THIS TYSM FOR REQUESTING ANON <3
CHIAKI & KANATA WITH A MENHERA S/O ! ☆
genre — fluff !
warning(s) — none
the first time CHIAKI had seen you in a different outfit other than your uniform, mans is BEWILDERED. though he is someone who doesn’t really care whether your fashion sense is great or not, chiaki gets extremely giggly whenever he sees you dress-up, no matter the occasion.
in all honesty, bro dresses so… simple LMAO, not that it’s a bad thing. his unit mates love to point out how your sense of fashions differ from each other and it’s kind of hilarious since he’s just getting dragged.. 😭
AHH OK BUT IMAGINE SHOPPING WITH HIM THOUGH? he’s literally so happy that you decided to take him with you when you wanted to buy new clothes, although he knows nothing about menhera fashion himself. he’s a very patient man when it comes to you— if you want to try on new clothes, go for it! no complaints from him no matter how long it takes. he’s also willing to rate outfits that you’ve come up with. you want to spend hours at a specific store? he’s looking around with you and waiting until you find clothes that you are happy with. high chance he’ll also pay for you, he’s not taking no for an answer. (unless you beat him into it, and he’ll sulk for a good 10 minutes or more.)
SPEAKING OF CLOTHING AND SHOPPING… chiaki will suggest matching outfits! he’s so enthusiastic about it as well… will definitely force midori or kanata to take pictures of the two of you.
HE WILL SCREAM IF YOU EVER SEND A PICTURE OF YOUR FITS TO HIM. will start malfunctioning and yelling at kanata, giggling and kicking his feet about how adorable and pretty you look! if he’s at home, chiaki will send one back in a similar outfit with the clothes that he bought when he hung out with ryusetai at the mall. SOBS
like chiaki, KANATA is also one who doesn’t really care about fashion outside of idol work and stuff. he just naturally dresses nice and has drip lol (bros beautiful)
kanata LOVES doing your makeup, especially the undereye blush because he thinks it’s satisfying for some reason LMAO. if he’s free, he’s most definitely going all out on your makeup AND will pick out an outfit for you, which he prefers pastel colors instead of the darker ones, so he’ll usually go with those.
he also doesn’t mind matching with you! it’s just not as often like with chiaki, since he doesn’t want to ruin the outfit when he goes out to float in the water (again). BUT HE’S DOWN TO GO ON A DATE WITH MATCHING FITS! he also helps you put on certain accessories and bandaids that fits in with the aesthetic.
kanata’s also a great partner to go shopping with BECAUSE HE’S JUST FOLLOWING YOU AROUND AND NOT COMPLAINING. kind of just,,, letting you do your thing and stuff because he loves seeing you buy and look for clothes that you enjoy wearing. if you’re changing or trying out some clothes, he’s waiting outside the stall, waiting for you to do the grand reveal and he WILL HYPE YOU UP AND TAKE MULTIPLE PICTURES OF YOU!
he’s not as expressive as chiaki, but he will go crazy in his head when you send a picture LMAO he’s like.. “?!?!!? holh?!?! my s/o is os.hfs / sso… PRETTY?!?! AGHHH” and will probably unconsciously start gripping on his pillowcase and sheets trying not to kick his feet out of excitement LMAO
#ensemble stars x reader#ensemble stars#enstars x you#enstars x reader#chiaki morisawa x reader#chiaki x reader#chiaki morisawa enstars#chiaki morisawa#kanata shinkai#kanata shinkai enstars#kanata shinkai x reader#enstars x y/n#ensemble stars x you#ensemble stars x y/n
60 notes
·
View notes
Last Seen Blogs
fuckyeahnathanandhaley-x
always and forever ♥
dannyblog-blog2
Untitled
viviane-fernandes-designer-blog
Designer de Interiores
canus
what 'bout gnite kisses ?
