Time is like a wave                                                       It will be washed away like the ebb                                            But don't forget to find me                               independent . original character multimuse . 21+

May I ask Camila Queiroz as a face claim, please?

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yourinstagram is it too much?

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harryfan1 NEVER omg

harryfan2 you’re so pretty are you kidding me?

harryfan3 the way I’d wear this to a harry concert

↳yourinstagram I just might 😉

harrystyles I say do more.

↳yourinstagram of course you do

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harryandy/n harry and y/n are in Paris together!

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harryfan1 harry totally took that picture of her 🥺

↳harryfan2 they’re probably on a picnic date at the Eiffel tower :(

↳harryfan3 that should be me ugh

harryfan4 ugh I can’t even see what he’s wearing but I already know it’s a slay

harryfan5 I bet they’re there for their anniversary I could swear it was coming up

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yourinstagram playing dress up

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harryfan1 this dress is amazing omg

harryfan2 another fit I would 100% wear to a harry concert

↳harryfan3 I swear she’s my outfit inspo for all my shows

harrystyles I’m obsessed with you.

↳yourinstagram other fact that you could just say this to my face since I’m sat right next to you 🤭

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yourinstagram teamwork makes the dream work. thanks for the most fun dress @ harrylambert

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harryfan1 the fact that harry styles her is so cute to me

harryfan2 I bet they have just the cutest friendship

↳harry_lambert we do, she’s my lil bestie 🫶🏻

↳harrystyles woah you’re stealing my best friend now?

↳yourinstagram plenty of me to go around

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harryfan1 Harry was out in london today with y/n via twitter

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harryfan1 they’re so cute does anyone have photos??

↳harryfan2 harry said no photos but I’m sure someone took a sneaky one

harryfan3 I saw them leaving lunch they were so cute holding hands and harry was giggling at her

harryfan4 I’m so happy for harry

harryfan5 london harry is my fav harry tbh

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harryupdates harry in London today!

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harryfan1 he’s so cute omg

harryfan2 the house on his shorts? we love subtle harry’s house promo

harryfan3 THE ICONIC FISHERMAN HAT IS BACK

harryfan4 he said he wasn’t taking any pictures cause him and y/n were on a date 🥺

harryfan5 his lil yellow phone case

I hope this is okay, I feel like it wasn’t my best work but I really liked making the fake tweets it’s was different 😚

The Day Before You ~ Part 3

My Blurb: So i took some creative liberty with the Performance Center. As always if you didn’t write it don’t post it anywhere. And if someone else is interested in being added to my lil tag list feel free to message me!

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Cor Meum = My Heart (Latin)

Summary: Forced into an awkward dance with a stranger at Sheamus’s wedding, Ridge doesn’t think he’ll ever see her again until she turns up at a show a few months later with Sheamus’s wife and he gets a second chance.

Pairing: Ridge Holland x OFC Lyssa Hutchinson

Warnings: None

Tagging: @pioched​​​ @snarkandsarcasmftw​​ @pikapuff316​​​  @moxskitten​​

Read First: The Day Before You Masterlist 

Also Check Out: Main Masterlist

Claire burst into my office causing me to jump and nearly spill my coffee. My glare turned to confusion when I looked up as she held the door open for a delivery man to bring in a vase of flowers. “Ms. Hutchinson?” he asked, glancing at his clipboard. 

“That’s me,” I walked around my desk to sign the paper he held out before handing me the vase and heading out of my office. The flowers were beautiful; roses, lilies and carnations in a variety of pinks paired with green chrysanthemums and other greenery I didn’t recognize. I set them on my desk and pulled the card from its holder, “Have a great monday, Ridge”. I grinned like an idiot as I leaned down to smell them, only to be reminded by a throat clearing that Claire was still in my office. 

“So I take it the date with muscle man went very well?” she wiggled her eyebrows at me and I blushed before returning to my chair. 

“We had a great time, he was sweet and romantic. He set up dinner at a gazebo on the water. He was a gentleman, pulled out my chair, opened doors, walked me to my apartment, and brought flowers.” I smiled, running my finger along one of the petals.

Claire smiled again, sitting in one of the chairs in front of my desk, “so no ungentlemanly behavior?” 

“It was all very chaste.” I grinned back at her and was rewarded with an eye roll from my assistant. 

“We have got to get you away from editing the historical romances for a while.” she grumbled but I could see the gleam in her eye. “Are you taking him to the wedding?”

I scrunched my nose up at her question, “I don’t know, things are still kinda new, wouldn’t that be weird? Plus I think the assumption was that it would be Astaire coming with me.” 

“She’s your friend, I'm sure she realized by now that’s not happening anymore. Plus imagine the look on Astaire’s smug face when you show up with Mr. Muscles.” Clarie sighed dramatically and fanned herself, standing and heading out of the office when she heard the phone on her desk ringing. 

“He has a name!” I yelled after her before opening my phone to send a message to Ridge.

“Thank you for the flowers, they are beautiful! *heart eyes emoji*”

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I grinned at the text from Lyssa, it had been a split second decision to send her flowers this morning. Remembering the look on her face when I gave her the bouquet before our date made me want to do it again. I hit reply, sending her a quick message.

“You're very welcome.” 

“How’s promo day going?”

“Lots of snarling at the camera and keeping track of Butch.”

“Haha, still good for tonight?”

“Absolutely, I should be finishing up when you get here. Gotta go, our turn again.”

I stuck my phone in my back pocket and grabbed Butch, dragging him to the studio again. We were all filming promos for the upcoming PPV and getting new headshots done. Lyssa was coming by after work and I was going to show her around the PC. Her eyes had lit up and she’d almost squealed with excitement when it was brought up. I was pretty much willing to do whatever she wanted as long as she kept smiling at me, I was in serious trouble and I knew it. Sheamus gave me a hard time, but as a newlywed he didn’t have much room to talk when it came to women.

We wrapped up a few hours later, I walked out with Butch and Sheamus to meet Lyssa in the parking lot. She had texted when she left work and should arrive shortly. Sure enough, her blue car pulled in as Sheamus was pulling out. She beamed when I opened her door, greeting me with a hug the second she stepped out.

“I never thought I would be excited to see a gym.” She admitted, slinging her purse over her shoulder after tossing the keys in it. 

I chuckled, “Well it’s pretty impressive, there’s lots of other rooms for promos, videos and stuff too.” 

“You aren’t going to get in trouble for showing me are you? Isabella said she hasn’t even been here.” Lyssa slid her hand into mine, gripping tightly as we headed to the entrance. 

“Nah, there’s usually a family member or two being shown around. Isabella has probably never been because Sheamus is a jealous guy. Doesn’t want anyone hitting on what’s his.” I grinned at her, loving the way she rolled her eyes at my statement. 

“Oh, and you don’t get jealous?” She smirked back at me. 

“I’m more of a show off what I have kinda guy.” I replied with a wink, entering the first door that led to the gym area.

“That explains why you are never wearing sleeves.” She ran her hand up my arm slowly, grinning when she reached the edge of the tanktop, before tracing back down and capturing my hand again. “Not that I’m complaining.” 

I barely managed to contain a groan, I was quickly becoming addicted to her hands on me. I pulled her closer, turning so that our bodies were almost flush. I pulled the hand holding mine to my mouth, kissing it gently, “Careful cor meum…”

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I’m pretty sure I stopped breathing for a second, before my body reactivated when his lips touched my hand and it felt like the temperature rose 30 degrees. I couldn’t stop staring at Ridge, Nothing was touching but our hands but it felt like an electric current was zapping between our bodies. I licked my lips, attempting to relieve the sudden dryness, watching the way his eyes picked up on the movement. I opened my mouth to ask him what cor meum meant and why it made a warmth wash over my body. 

“Hey Holland! Who’s the pretty little thing you have trapped over there?” A voice interrupted me and I felt Ridge tense beside me, turning to see two guys heading towards us from the entrance. It took me a minute but I recognized them as members of Legado Del Fantasma.

“Nothing you two could handle,” Ridge retorted, his hand dropping mine and wrapped around my waist. “Lyssa, meet Joaquin and Del Toro.” I waved, snuggling into Ridge’s side. 

“Like you handled Imperium last week?” I was pretty sure that was Del Toro.

“A loss to Imperium is nothing when it's a good fight, I think the crowd fell asleep during yours.” Ridge shrugged before turning to me, effectively dismissing whatever they were about to say in return. “You ready for the tour?”

I smiled at him, nodding and letting him lead me away. We spent the next couple hours roaming around the building, me asking questions about different rooms or equipment and him explaining it to me in detail. It was clear wrestling was his passion and he took great pride in it. We finally circled back around to the room connected to the gym that had a couple of practice rings in it. 

It was empty and I ran my hands over the ring apron. I had never seen a ring this close and it was different then I had imagined. Ridge easily hopped up and sat on the middle ring rope, lifting the top one up. “Come on” he held a hand out to me and I quickly grabbed it, letting him haul me up and guide me through the ropes until I was standing inside the ring. 

“This is bouncier than I expected,” I tested bouncing a little on the balls of my feet. 

Ridge laughed, “A lot of people think that. The padding depends on the kind of match you’re going to have. Sometimes they pad it a little more when the high fliers get in the ring.”

“Or when you send someone flying?” I questioned, he shrugged in response. I put my hands up in a fight position. “I could totally take you.” 

Ridge raised an eyebrow at me, “I’m easily three times your size.” 

“So? I’m fast and I have a secret weapon.” I replied lightly punching his arm. 

He laughed before putting his hands up to match my stance, “What’s your secret weapon?”

“If I told you, it wouldn’t be a secret.” I stuck my tongue out, dancing away when he made a quick lunge to grab me. We went back and forth like that for a while. I was aware he wasn’t trying his hardest but I appreciated it all the same. I would get close enough to lightly kick or punch him and he would attempt to grab me. “Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll be good enough to beat me one day.” My sentence ended in a squeal when he grabbed my waist and very gently belly to belly suplexed me to the mat. 

“What’s this about a secret weapon, I’m about to pin you.” Ridge leaned over me with a gleam in his eye. 

Smiling, I reached up and grabbed head, pulling his face to mine and pressing my lips to his. He froze for a fraction of a second before wrapping his arms around me and pulling me closer. Somehow I wound up straddling his lap, crushed tightly to his chest and he deepened the kiss. I had done it as a knee jerk reaction to his taunt but found myself getting lost in the way his lips moved over mine. We finally broke away when I shifted in his lap and rubbed against something very hard causing him to groan. 

“Ignore that,” he whispered, resting his forehead against mine. I was pleased to see that he was breathing as heavily as I was. I started to reply but was stopped by Ridge’s body tensing under mine. I looked at him to see him glaring over my shoulder at something. “We’re leaving.” he quickly pulled me up, readjusting himself discreetly. 

“Why?” I looked around, confused by his sudden change. That’s when I realized there was a window between the gym and the ring area. Wilde and Del Toro were in the gym, quite clearly watching us. 

“They’ve been watching us the whole time.” his arms were tense as he lifted me off the ring apron. “And if they look at you like that again, I’m going to fucking kill them.”

I bit my lip to hide my grin at his sudden protectiveness. “I thought you weren’t a jealous guy?”

“Apparently I am where you’re concerned.” he grumbled, shooting a glare at the two wrestlers before leaving the room. 

“It’s kinda hot,” I whispered, blushing when he looked down at me with a raised eyebrow. 

He pulled me close to him, leaning down until his lips were almost touching mine before whispering,  “You’re going to be the death of me cor meum.” and then closed the gap with another searing kiss. 

What are your favourite in canon beauyasha fics on AO3?

Ok I realized just now I only had 4 beauyasha fics bookmarked and only one of them was in canon 😂 I went through my history to try and find some good ones to share. I actually mostly read short, in-canon beauyasha fics, but I think I mostly read them before I figured out how bookmarking worked on ao3 😅 ANYWAY. Here’s a quick lil list of some fics I remember enjoying

May You Find Some Comfort Here by stardustedknuckles - Beau is touch starved but also doesn’t like people touching her so Caleb uses polymorph so she can shnug with Yasha

not all treasure (is silver and gold) by lexa_lives_in_us - Beau and Yasha ask Fjord to marry them mid-battle while they’re at sea

take your time, but not too long by weaseltotheface - post-date morning after, Yasha is worried about the red eyes on Beau

From the Mouths of Birds by Bob_The_Other_Zombie - Kiri overhears something and decides to tell everyone

That’s a few I remember really enjoying and a good place to start looking around! I also have written a lot of canon verse and post episode beauyasha fics if you want to check them out! Shameless self promo lol

It rubs me the wrong way when a source comes out saying they are fighting bc of him partying or his lifestyle and drinking. Like it's like she's with him all the time so she's sees him not being sober???? She has literally poured him whiskey in interviews, sexualized him being a drug addict and thought it would a good idea to let him to pretend to do coke off of her and then idolizes an abusive relationship and then thought it would be a good idea to bring a drug addict to do that trip in the jungle with him and have him do even more hardcore drugs. Also the recent clubs he has went to are for lil after parties after concerts for fans?? It's basically promo When ur dating someone with a career like colsons u can't be in ur own fantasie land. U have to be very real with urself and acknowledge his reputation and busy schedule and lifestyle and all those late nights at the studios and ask urself beforehand if ur ok with dating a literal rockstar, if u can handle being with someone with a life like this. This isint a book or movie or what u read about in these Wattpad stories. This is the real deal and u can't expect a rockstar to completely change his lifestyle and career especially with him just now getting at the top just bc u want a bf who stays at home (like what her ex Brian did). Like he's been doing this for wat since Casie was born so 13 yrs? He has proved he's a work a holic and isint going to stop any time soon (even thoe he should take a lil break and rest) It's like she liked the idea of dating a rockstar but not the actual reality of dating one

Right!? This whole thing is the perfect example of the lyric “My life on the outside's fun to them, But the person on the inside is crumblin'” She wants that rockstar wife fantasy but doesn’t want to deal with Rockstar wife problems.

I saw ur research post and got inspired hehe

can we get some yasuhiro x m reader hcs where the reader just moved to japan and is still learning japanese?

Yasuhiro Hagakure with a boyfriend who recently moved to Japan and is still learning Japanese headcanons

Hi hib hi hi hi hi hello

I am once again using your request to self promo but omg guys look at my bestie poo poo kun! He has subscribed to my 5 dollar a month tip thing meaning all of his requests are first priority. And also he has my instagram and now he's my lil stink stink

-Mod Souda

❤ There is speaking as well as reading and writing. He puts a lot of effort into helping you with writing, and it works out since out of anybody, he's the best teacher: he has surprisingly neat handwriting.

❤ He might have a lot of like, those remember-cheat-sheet tunes and similarity spottings that people do to help remember the lines and such. Those can help for sure.

❤ You wording things wrong is so cute to him, and you can tell whenever you do it because a small smile with grow on his face.

❤ You learn a lot of casual words and expressions from being around him, too. You've even picked up the "-chi" thing he does.

❤ ^ Chronic casual Japanese.

❤ ^ You try to practice formal Japanese with him and he's like stop it feels weird.

❤ He can read you some of his clairvoyant books. He uses teaching you as an excuse for him to actually finish reading them, too. He both never tried to sit down and read as well as, not remembering he had the books in the first place.

❤ You learning was what drew him closer to you, he almost felt special that decided to learn the language, no matter how common it may be. Your everything was perfect.

❤ Hiro learning more English for you, too. His cute accent.

❤ After meeting you for the first time, you stuck in his head. You were the cute boy who had the foreign accent. It was as if you were straight out of a movie.

❤ Japan is a beautiful place! When you move to Japan and get together with him, your house is going to become his house too (whether you like it or not). He's wiggling his way into your living space.

❤ ^ Your house is going to suddenly have house plants and crystals on shelves and tables.

❤ Buys you flashcards even if they're elementary level stuff.

❤ The first date the two of you go on is quite a fun one, especially since your vocabulary wasn't wide enough to understand a lot of the casual words he uses.

❤ Sometimes you can get him into museums for you to practice reading, and plus, you learn about a lot things regarding history and art.

❤ ^ Hiro learns things, too, but he'll often start getting bored and, instead of looking at the artifacts and their descriptions, he'll start looking at you.

❤ He unironically recommends some manga's he knows are popular.

❤ The main problem you encounter when it comes to learning Japanese is trying to find something that isn't so rigid. Therefore, being with Hiro is a good thing, as he can just casually teach you random vocabulary, and he will do it over and over again, not minding if you don't remember some of it.

❤ ^ This includes walking around the kitchen with him pointing at things.

❤ He helps you with the complicated words! Some might be tongue-twisters for you.

❤ He will hold your hand to lead you around outside as he drags you from place to place, letting you read signs and menus, testing your knowledge in such a way that the challenges are easy, making you all the more happy when you get something right.

❤ Watching the cogs turn in your head is his favorite.

❤ Imagine a build-a-bear where he does the little voice box with a romantic Japanese phrase.

❤ Him breaking into the school to give you a tour just because you're new to Japan and he wants to show you his favorite places.

❤ His mom being impressed by your language skills and thinking the fact that you're new to Japan is soooo adorable. She might pinch your cheeks teasingly just because of how cute you are.

❤ ^ You can see how similar they talk (and it makes it much more contagious).

❤ She invites you over all the time, and the two of you make the trip over to her. It's a very good environment, the energy is a very kind one.

❤ "Which one is this?" He holds the paper in front of you, having written a character on it with sharpie. Parts of the character are a little unclear from the paper that was on top of it, which he also wrote on with sharpie.

❤ You suck in a breath, staring at it and running words through your head.

❤ He watches you with soft eyes.

❤ You say, "I don't know which one that is."

❤ "I thought so," he puts the paper down, "since I just made it up." The smile on his face stops you from groaning.

As I was waiting for my bus, I think I’ve connected the dots on these Benny interviews. Clearly he’s not saying anything he hasn’t said before, so why do publications still go to the hassle of publishing the same thing over and over ad nauseam? Clicks! Engagement! Traffic! The man in white is not mainstream enough to end up on printed magazines, but he does have a very devoted online fan base that will eat up anything he regurgitates like little baby birds 🐥 so yeah, that was my big epiphany lol I hope you’re having a great whatever time of the day Coral!

See I am no expert in this area lol I know as much as I read about or what I got explained to me like I'm 5. Also I love ye and have a nice day too or goodnight ;ccc

Every publication is for clicks but ye would see it more prominent lower the food chain like in some copy paste articles where they just quoted the stuff that was said to bigger publications. And they clicking cuz they clickbaiting ye with outta the ass headline. Remember the bulianne are dating article and then what followed was 3892 articles about twin flames bikini choices and other shite? That was cuz the original one was clicking hard, even locals came to have a look when fandom exploded

NOW! The problem with Benny's interviews is not only that he not saying anything new, it is that he KEEPS REPEATING THE SAME STUFF over and over WORD FOR WORD. It's a fucking script. The questions asked are the same or similar enough to each other so that he can repeat his lil stories. Everyone had enough during his EP promo and now we getting... the same exact fucking thing like it's a repeat of a repeat of a repeat.

Some of the questions/topics are agreed beforehand, all of them probably if me being honest. Plug in the show, maybe mention bigger names cuz he has no other notable work and no upcoming projects. Mentioned Andy G? Well this one would click cuz Benny was only trending while fangirls went nuclear on his ass in August and when Andy G said he lost the Caspian part... during his Oscar tour press. He and his fucking team are pushing for this. He been giving the same interview since September 2021 and some of the stuff is his go to 'personality traits'. Lemme repeat, as Benny would do!!, he is giving the same interview to different publications for almost two years now but some shite he repeats since the dawn of time. And there was nothing groundbreaking or chatter worthy in this since the beginning.

Who in their right mind would think any of this is clicks material? That's why them big headlines cuz the actual interview is shite lol

Like he has a fixed personality of EDuCatEd gentleman, three favourite musicians and two favourite films. He an empath and his dad been writing Christmas poems. He tired of playing villains and he wants to do romcoms. And he lives laughs loves. He's opening up and he cares not for what people think but he will still cry when ye give him criticism. I FINALLY GOT TO LIVE MY DREAM at 40 no regrets. The end.

I can't understand the point of any of this, it's boring and I can fucking assure ye it's not clicking as well. I remember the EP over saturation and the so called devoted fans were making the exact same comparisons I've been making. He just repeated himself every day for weeks.

He never brings anything new to the table like he just reads a script. He basically ai of a man right now. He has no substance and obsession about controling the narrative. Boring controlling and every time it gets more and more creepy cuz like if there are only 5 paragraphs that he repeats all the time cuz these were deemed safe to tell out loud, ye gotta wonder what and why he be hiding. yeee at first I thought there are juicy juicy revelations but now imma pretty sure it's just back to him being absolutely uninteresting person with numerous obsessions so he just took what fangirls told him is so cutsie heart eyes about him and he be running with this and only this ever since.

Soooo ye I agree that them mags want clicks so they just gonna go with his shite but on the other hand it's pretty obvious that Benny needs them to adhere to his lil script and he needs to enact his lil script AGAIN and AGAIN. Ye know so he won't slip on accident and say something fangirls won't like or god forbid people getting a glimpse into his super top secret oh so interesting private life??? That deer in headlights look....

SURPRISINGLY it's not the low tier pop journalism fault here, it's all coming back to Benny and his 'opened up enough' fantasy scenario. It's his lack of personality, dick and taste. And obvi his I know better attitude 🧚🏻‍♀️ That's why peeps speculate so much and why the twin flames shenanigans are/were so popular. Cuz otherwise he saying nothing, seems obsessed with keeping all under wraps and repeats the most boring heard before profile of himself.

Ye know just a couple of oldies to prove my point that we seen it before

Cardi B Teases Mixtape and Album on The Angie Martinez Show

Cardi B spilled and Angie Martinez sipped on a radio interview with the two New York natives. Find out what to expect from Cardi in 2022. Hot Shit' by Cardi B featuring Lil Durk and Kanye West is fresh on the music scene.. This kicks off a long series of promo for the Bronx MC. Cardi's last album Invasion of Privacy saw career-changing success with all 13 tracks going platinum and 2022 being its fourth consecutive year on the Billboard Top 200. Now that so much time has passed and tons more female rappers have entered the game, all eyes are on Cardi to follow up her magnum opus. Cardi coming back The ‘Up’ rapper gave Angie some hints on her upcoming album and some additional projects. The 40-minute interview touched on both the music and the personal. Angie and Cardi began with discussing her latest single 'Hot Shit'. Surprisingly, Cardi revealed that dropping new music still makes her nervous. “I just get emotional, I start tearing out of nowhere…I’m scared!” She exclaimed jokingly. Cardi is known for taking long gaps in between projects. Aside from 'Shake It' featuring Kay Flock, Cardi hasn’t dropped a single since ‘Up’ over a year ago. “I should just stop waiting so long to drop records, so when I drop again I won’t be as nervous,” she pondered. Putting new music off is a habit the 29-year-old shares with her husband Offset. It’s been over three years since his solo album Father of 4. Perhaps that’s why he’s so good at managing his spouse's nerves. “I just keep thinking who can I put in this song cause I just feel like this beat is not for everybody” Cardi expounded on her newest song. In one interesting observation, she took note of the repetitiveness of male rap features. “I don’t feel like there’s a lot of male artists right now(…) I feel like I keep hearing the same male artists…seriously.” Well, it goes without saying, Durk and Kanye are certainly an unexpected combo. The two Chicago rappers worked together on an introspective Donda last year, but never on a rough beat a la 'Hot Shit'. Produced by Tay Keith and BanBwoi, This marks Cardi's first-ever track with both artists. She’s proudly showing she’s not afraid to take risks this album rollout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c14MVsSeVho Where is the song of the summer? Fans wondering about a music video for 'Hot Shit' can keep calm. Cardi confirmed visuals are on the way. Following in line with the features, Cardi decided to step out of her comfort zone with the video. “I did something that I never did before, and that I’m always against,” she began. “CGI. I’m really against that, I never really did it, never really liked it. But I was like you know what lemme try something different.” According to Cardi, the video was filmed back in spring. However, the CGI animation is incomplete with no official release date in sight. Another project still without an official drop date is Cardi's sophomore album. The follow-up to Invasion of Privacy has been teased for years by the former LHH star. While clues have been extremely limited, Cardi did confirm during an appearance on Playboy's Centerfold platform that both ‘Up’ and ‘WAP’ will make the tracklist. There always seems to be a reason for Cardi not to release her album, but her biggest setback at the moment is a lack of inspiration. “Right now I’m so disconnected with the music. It's like, I go to the strip club and my money is still here. Because I don’t even wanna throw money to the song that’s playing right now, cause everything sounds so slow, nothing is hyping me up.” Cardi explained to Angie. This is a sentiment largely shared by music fans on social media . Particularly, the lack of a “song of the summer” has been noted by both the public and the Bronx rapper. https://twitter.com/babygirinicole/status/1542910401343627270?s=21&t=N6lGyaQ8EahI-RMkL_ejzA https://twitter.com/thisisremm/status/1540151762652237825?s=21&t=N6lGyaQ8EahI-RMkL_ejzA https://twitter.com/voltaire_baby/status/1542722273324388352?s=21&t=N6lGyaQ8EahI-RMkL_ejzA https://twitter.com/oppmoataz/status/1541701649462353921?s=21&t=N6lGyaQ8EahI-RMkL_ejzA The rappers vs the fans A part of this issue is the internet, at least that’s what Cardi believes. A key portion of this interview was a perspective Cardi offered on how internet culture impacts the success of a song. Instead of hearing a track and forming an opinion for themselves, social media users often rely on the first impressions of others for song reviews. This leads to many potential listeners being turned off before they’ve ever given a song a chance. This trend could be seen recently with Drake's Honestly, Nevermind. Upon its release, it was quickly dubbed as a “bad album” on the basis of its unusual house beats and vocals. Obviously, it’s fine not to like an artist's work. But how many Twitter users do you think heard all 14 tracks before disliking it the same morning it dropped? "People are not giving things a chance. How people was judging fucking drake album, that shit was out for two minutes!!” Truly, the listening public is making up its mind faster and harsher than ever. It’s no coincidence the Billboard charts are currently so stagnant, with quarantine-era tracks like ‘Levitating’ and ‘Stay’  still hanging on to the top 20. This makes for a difficult time to land a hit song, and Cardi recognizes that. A businesswoman in and out the home A sophomore album isn’t the only thing Bardi Gang has to be excited about. “After I do this album, I want to do a mixtape with my husband.” Cardi revealed. Offset and Cardi B have rapped together several times. once on 2019's 'Clout', and before then on Quality Control: Control the Streets Vol 1. Even before Cardi's time in the mainstream spotlight, the couple worked together on Gangsta Bitch Music Vol 2. Aside from their personal connection, it’s clear why Cardi gravitates to her husband musically. The focus then shifted to Cardi's business ventures, of which there are many. From alcoholic whip cream to Reeboks, to Playboy, this rapper wears many hats. As creative director of Playboy, the ‘Like It’ artist has input on the aesthetic and content of the magazine. Tons of celebs take secondary roles in companies just for the bragging rights or extra points on their resume, but Cardi has shown some real passion and even realer results. Since making her creative director, Playboy has seen a revenue increase of 63% with a total growth of  $69.4 million. Evidently, this job position is permanent.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Playboy (@playboy) While discussing her affairs with Playboy, the wife and mother teased a brand new platform for the company. Centerfold is meant to serve as a competitor to OnlyFans. During the Covid-19 quarantine, OnlyFans blew up as a vessel for models, singers, rappers, and sex workers alike to make easy money providing exclusive content. Not much info was given on Centerfold but it is confirmed Jordyn Woods will serve as an ambassador. Paying it forward Cardi topped the interview off with a segment focusing on fellow New Yorker and female rap pioneer Lil Kim. As Angie and Cardi spoke on celebs they believe get too much hate, Lil Kim’s name popped up. Immediately, Cardi showed respect. “I really want to put her on a song on my album and I can’t wait” Cardi divulged. “She has done it all. She’s really done it all” in a compelling moment, Cardi tied this topic back to her comments earlier on the internet's influence on the music industry. In recent years, Lil Kim has been the victim of mass online bullying mainly concerning her appearance. Although rap fans still maintain a level of respect for the Brooklyn legend, her rep amongst younger listeners has been damaged by memes and petty jokes. “Cause you wasn’t there. You just don’t understand the certain impacts and certain shit.” As far as future plans go, it’s more of the same for Cardi B. She’ll be making her rounds this festival season, performing for her fans, and getting back into the swing of things. Following the birth of her son Wave and the COVID concert restrictions lifting, Cardi's plate is about to be extremely full. But judging from this jam-packed interview, this Bronx girl is used to being busy.   Also, Follow FM Hip Hop on Instagram and Facebook Dreema Carrington|IG: @dr3amgirl79 | Twitter: @notdreema Read the full article

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aran x reader sum: a short trip and a nice hotel room together after spending much time apart cw: 18+ only, minors do not interact, f anatomy, gn reader/no gendered language, fluffyish, oral (receiving), unprotected, vaginal orgasm, squirting, lil messy, mating press (?), established relationship wc: 1.9k a/n: alternatively titled "i cant stop writing run-on sentences but aran ojiro has a special place in my heart so i cant give up on this fic"..but that's a little long

Your eyes droop from the pent-up exhaustion settling into your bones the moment you step into the cool room. As comfortable as Aran made traveling, going such a long distance away was tiring no matter how easy it had felt. Setting your bag down on the couch, you didn’t spare any time to get comfortable before tearing through it to pull out your toiletries, desperate to wash away the grimy feeling.

“Looks even nicer in person.” He mumbles from where he’s sprawled on the bed, flicking through the trip itinerary he had created months in advance on his phone. Nodding in agreement you sweep your eyes around. It’s larger than most hotels you’ve been in, with a beautiful view, kitchenette, and a large tub situated in the corner of the main room.

“I’m going to take a shower now, okay?” You say more than ask it, already on your way into the spacious bathroom.

“Sounds good, I’ll unpack some.” He sits up and rubs his own tiredness from his face.

Before you slip the door shut you give him a quick thumbs up. After taking maybe a bit more time in the hot water than needed, you finally bring yourself to turn the stream off and reach out for a towel.

Bundling your dirty clothes in one arm you traipse back out of the steaming room, dropping them by the small closet before making your way to the bed. The suitcases had been emptied, neatly placed in the corner of the room, and he was flopped on the bed again with his eyes delicately shut, breathing steady and deep.

“Aran,” you whisper as you sit on the edge of the mattress and reach over to touch his shoulder. Within the second his eyes shoot open and scramble to find you. “Hey,” you giggle when he lazily pulls you down to lie beside him.

“Took ya so long.” He grumbles into the damp exposed skin just above your chest.

“Was getting clean.” You squirm with your reply, caging your fingers around the back of his neck and placing a small, sweet kiss against his forehead.

“Mhmmh…” Breathing in the soft scent of your soap, he finds himself planting small kisses against your skin, moving further and further down your body. Even though you can tell he’s still fighting sleepiness, his hands move in assured motions when they tug the towel open. “We won’t…” he says between hot kisses the trail down your abdomen, “be in here… a lot… for the rest of the week… so gotta… make good use… now.”

He feels like warmth and comfort, something so sweet as he settles between your thighs. It’s not often you get much more than a quick night together. You certainly understood the difficulty that came with dating someone with a career that demanded so much time - time working, time away, time training, time doing promos and ads and interviews. The time added up quickly, which is what made this trip all the more precious.

In his fleetingly spare moments, Aran had carefully planned out each day. Although you trusted him fully, knowing he was possibly even more of a romantic than you were, he confirmed each plan, ticket, and reservation with you before jotting it down. Normally, he wasn’t overly meticulous, but it seemed the stress of being separated for so long, especially following a long season, was catching up to him.

“Missed this so much,” he purrs, already moving his hands down your legs to push them up. “Sorry if I’m a little impatient today.”

You’re squirming, partially in embarrassment from being splayed open and partially in a lusty fog, though there’s little you can do to resist the iron grip his hands have around the back of your thighs.

With practice he’s learned to ignore you, instead opting to kiss around the apex of your thighs until he deems you’re completely ready and needy beyond repair. You want to cry that it’s really a cruel game, especially when he just said he was the impatient one, but as the heat pools in your stomach you’re rendered useless.

“Please?” You finally manage to gasp out, rocking your hips up. “Aran, please, don’t tease, I just…” the half-hearted whine barely gets out before he’s burying his head completely against you.

The minute a strangled, little sigh leaves your lips, his hands come down from your legs, letting you hold them up freely, and tug your hands down to interlace his fingers with yours. The palm of his hand is searing against yours as his grip tightens.

His tongue presses hot and steady against your cunt, lapping up what he can with a greedy focus on your clit. Forcing your heavy neck to crane up to look at him you almost regret it when your eyes meet his pretty ones, immediately tensing your fingers against the heavy weight of his.

“Like the view?” He chuckles for the split second he’s pulled away from you.

Halfway through letting out a short huff, it morphs into something weaker when his tongue starts up a perfectly steady rhythm. Your head falls limp, back arching up and hips twitching. At this point, it was purely luck that you had the strength to keep your legs loosely pulled back for him.

“Aran, gonna…” Stars were already dancing behind your eyes and the plea you breathe out fuels his energy, tongue picking up speed and pressure. You’re sure you’re squeezing his hands much too hard, but if he was uncomfortable he made no protest.

Before your cries had even picked up he could feel you drawing near to your finish. His own hips ache from how he’s rigidly holding them against the plush sheets. Your body is still just barely damp and warm from the shower, smelling like your favorite soap.

Between the feel of your skin, the soft scent, and the perfect taste of you his mind is flooded - but even so far away from your physical address, this feels like home to him. Not necessarily the feeling of nestling in between your legs, having you tremble under just his tongue (although he takes some amount of quiet pride in that as well), rather just being with you is what home is to him.

It’s impossible to tell when you started to topple off the edge into your own pleasure as it creeps up and swells inside of you, continuing on as he presses on against you until he’s sure that you’re spent. Body slack, but still racked by twitches, you can’t be bothered to move as he slinks his way back up to you, moving your interlocked hands beside either side of your head.

“All good?” He asks breathlessly, chest heaving into yours as he dips down to press a long kiss against the side of your mouth.

“Yes.” You sigh back, just barely tasting yourself on the edge of his lips. Peeling his hands away from yours, he wordlessly gets to peeling his soft clothes off, thankfully having opted for comfortable and loose things for the trip. “Am I gonna have to take another shower?” You joke to distract yourself from whimpering at the dark wet spot blooming on his pale briefs just below the patch of trailing curly hair.

He looks beautiful, you think, form highlighted by the soft lamps in the room and the golden sunlight that spills through the thin curtains. Although your eyes are wandering around his body you can feel his eye roll even as he’s peeling down his last piece of clothing.

“We can take it together.” Aran tries to hold back the hint of a smile creeping onto his features. “‘M sure you’ll need my help.” The second part is much lower, whispered so close to your ear his hot breath makes you squirm. He leaves sparking trails of kisses down your neck, letting his hips push against yours, the hard outline of his cock digging into your stomach.

“Stop teasing,” you huff, pushing back his shoulders to face him eye-to-eye.

“I love you.” He grins before stamping a quick kiss against your lips. “I’m glad we’re here… and together.”

Your expression softens, “I love you too.”

“I wanna take my time, but it’s been a while since… so I don’t know,” he trails off, letting his head fall into the crook of your shoulder.

“Yeah,” you say up to the ceiling, slowly wrapping your legs around his back and pulling him closer. “S’okay, want you too.”

Puffing out a heavy groan, he braces his top half up on his elbows, allowing himself the short reprieve of admiring you for a moment longer. Before you can say anything he’s pecking you on the nose and cooing your name.

“You’re stunning.” He hums, reaching down at last to carefully line himself up, dragging his leaking tip through your slickened folds still so sensitive. “Let me do the work,” the words slip out easily and syrupy in a way that makes your brain short circuit while he folds your legs up until they’re resting comfortably over his shoulders.

With practiced confidence, he presses into you little by little, shushing away your whimpers with petal-soft kisses strewn over each cheek.

The slow rock of his hips is carefully placed and with a sort of stern concentration he rolls them until he feels himself prod at that delicate spongy spot inside. Your barely audible whisper of his name catches his ears, bringing a sly grin to his face which you barely catch a glimpse of before he’s craning down to latch onto your chest.

His pace is steady, you can feel he’s trying to hold back, wanting to pull as much from you as he can before he reaches his own end. You feel him flinch inside of you when your fingers scratch down his back, so out of breath already and knowing that you’ll burst any time if he keeps this up.

He’s certainly getting there, you think, relaxing as well as you can with the growing pressure in the base of your abdomen. When he feels you just barely tighten up he speeds up just a bit to test you. The lewd noise you let out is absolutely pornographic, echoing around the room.

Chanting his name so quickly it becomes some messy string of letters and moans, such a pretty noise to him, Aran nearly misses when you become undone beneath him.

Cunt fluttering and gushing around his cock while you jolt in his hold. You almost want to feel bad for making a mess of the soft white sheets, but the heated satisfaction and feeling of his cock hitting deeper and harder inside of you with each jagged thrust stops any regrets.

“So good, feel so good.” He grunts, speeding up and coaxing the last bits of pleasure from you while he chases his own that isn’t far behind.

Two more harsh slams of his hips and he sheaths himself inside you entirely, holding steady while he empties himself inside of you. You can feel his heavy balls, pressed so tightly against your ass, pulsing as he fills you up.

Collapsing against you, he lays there for a moment, letting your breathing sync with his and listening to your heartbeat pound against his ear. His beard scratches at your skin, but it’s a comfortably familiar sensation that doesn't faze you.

When you shift your legs off his shoulders you truly feel, and hear, how incredibly soaked and messy the area where your bodies - and the bed for that matter - are.

“Yeah,” you sigh dreamily, “I might need a second shower.”

“And a bath?” He returns.

“And a bath.”

“WHAT KEEPS THE ROMANCE ALIVE”

Preface: the love of your life is getting old, and while his sex drive is slowing down, yours is just increasing. I guess that’s the problem with dating older men... Thankfully, you’re young and resourceful. You’ll find a way to get through this.

Aka, I aged up your favourite character and wrote you a lil sumthin sumthin!

W/c: 1.1k

T/w: lee’s infection, old man Kuroo, geriatric stuff, massive age gap, nsfw,  degradation, use of ‘daddy’, object (cane) insertion. Obviously not beta’d because, hello? Who would wanna beta this?

A/n: Ok I absolutely could not wait. Technically, this is part of my ‘shipping my moots’ post, and I have so many more, smaller ships to add - but I had to release @rocorambles​​ first. I had to!

The funniest thing about this ship, Roco x Kuroo’s walking cane, is that she actually likes it, LOL. Yours is the longest, and so over the top. I hope you feel proud of yourself, influencing me like this - smh. I let you off easy this time. Next time, I’ll get you good.

Elderly Kuroo is nothing like the man you watched on your grandma’s Tv. The reruns, the highlight reels, the old promo articles - none of them prepared you for the passage of time. None of them told you just how old he’d be when you first met his gaze.

Still, your love was belligerent - something like a 50 year age gap wasn’t going to get in the way of you, and your destiny. 

That’s why you went to school for all those years, and it's why you worked so hard just to get here - in Kuroo’s mansion, employed as his sole, live-in nurse.

When you two first met, he’d been bounding with energy, still trying to recapture his youth. But now, as he passes his 70th birthday, he's just too tired, he’s just too crippled. Keeping up with a young thing like you has proven too difficult for his ailing body. Any man would be lucky to have you, that’s what everyone tells him - but they don’t understand the challenge you present. He can’t deal with your consistent demands, your undivided devotion, your insatiable lust.

So what does he do when you’re sitting so pretty, with your sensitive little feet tucked beneath your delicate body? What does he do when you’re begging like a brat for daddy’s attention?

The answer is obvious. He tells you to bend over, to get on your hands and your knees facing away from his wheelchair.

You listen with eager anticipation as you hear the telltale click of your bottle of lube. Your breathing begins to pick up as it globs out, as Kuroo finally picks up his cane.

It’s undeniable the way your body starts to quiver.

Your excitement only continues to build as you hear the metal of his rings clack onto his aluminum walking aide. Every time metal meets metal, the sound only amplifying against the silent crackle of a fire, you get a little wetter, a little more receptive.

It’s only then, with barely any warning and certainly not enough prep, that he’s poking at your entrance, shoving the cool metal roughly against your heat. You whimper out how badly you want it, mewling for daddy to take care of his pretty little kitten. But your pleas, quite literally, fall on deaf ears.

Maybe you should’ve remembered to charge his hearing aids. oops.

Even if he does hear you, Kuroo works at his own pace. He doesn’t listen to whiny bitches.

Kuroo likes to think he’s slick, cunning, a tease - maybe even a brat tamer. But those days have long since passed. You know it, and deep down, buried under layers of denial - he knows it too. No longer is he the image of strength that he once represented. Now he’s nothing but a frail vessel playing at a man’s game.

Shaky hands miss your hole more often than not.

He claims it’s intentional, the way he slides down your slit... Or those times when he slips into your ass, forcing his cane roughly past the tight ring of muscles. Both of you know it’s not true. The not so silent curses under his breath make that more than apparent. But you’d never dream of hurting his pride like that. You let him have this, again and again. After all, a part of you likes it better this way.

Right from the beginning, he takes you at a brutal pace, never stopping or yielding at your cries. He’s so frustrated with himself. He hates that it’s come to this.

Unable to get his dick up, he’s forced to fuck you with his cane.

He’d use his fingers, but they’re so swollen with arthritis. Two minutes in and he’d be done, hands ruined and crippled for at least a week. The same goes for his mouth. His tongue can only lap at you so long before it lays limp against his mushy gums. He’s tried before, more times than he can count, and to your credit, you’ve never taunted him.

And maybe that’s the worst part. Maybe he wouldn’t feel as bad if you complained, calling him useless, flaccid - or maybe even just telling him that you aren’t that interested. But you don’t. You just sit there and take it, like the good little girl you apparently are.

For some reason, it has him seething with rage.

You’re so disrespectful. You’re so fake. Just a fucking brat disguising herself as an angel. He knows what you want. It’s not hard to guess. You’re nothing but a little shit, just waiting to be taught a lesson.

He might be old, but Kuroo’s not stupid. He’s been with enough women in his life to know when you’re faking, when those... hollow moans leave your lying little lips. Surely, you mean it with all the best intentions, not wanting to show him just how inadequate you find your lover to be - but it's just so… insulting.

So, right when you’re about to cum, like the filthy slut that you are - he yanks his cane from your tight little hole, whipping it across your ass and slapping it roughly against your abused, dripping cunt.

You act like you hate it, with tears streaming down your face and nails scratching at his pristine floorboards. He just scoffs. See? This is a perfect example of the petulant youth these days - the youth that you embody.

You don’t respect him, and you certainly don't respect his property. How dare you scratch his perfectly shellacked, well-maintained mahogany. Strangled screams are literally music to his ears as he beats down the harsh metal on your delicate skin. After treating him like a senile old fool, you deserve this.

You deserve to suffer.

With the way you scream, crying out for daddy to stop - his abuse almost seems… criminal. It’s obvious that you'd much rather have daddy’s cock instead - but both of you know that’ll never happen. He could never even dream of pumping that much blood to his cock. The only time he ever uses it, is to fill his diaper with piss. It’s a miracle to you how it hasn’t already fallen off.

No blue pill could even dream of saving his shrivelled up, floppy piece of meat.

Although, either way, it really doesn’t matter. The two of you know that Kuroo’s trained you well enough by now, almost too good. This, the way Kuroo beats you and absolutely wrecks your pussy, is really one of the only ways you can get off now.

Your night is only concluded if you cum around his cane, cream dripping down its length and pooling by Kuroo’s feet. That, or if Kuroo falls asleep first.

What you do when he falls asleep, when he leaves his cane unguarded - well, that's a secret between you and the well-used piece of metal.

Tues 11 May ‘21

Louis saw us all coming up with wacky theories about what the BMG announcement might mean and came to tell us what’s going on… wait no he just retweeted the same article from yesterday with the partnership wording! Haha, but in seriousness while I know not everyone agrees I think it’s pretty clear at this point that BMG is his new record label. The tweet he posted was captioned with another easily misconstrued statement, THANKS FOR THAT LOUIS, but I will repeat what I said yesterday, which is that by far the likeliest explanation of his announcing to a fandom that’s rabid for label news that he’s joined a label is that- it’s his new label! And all the evidence I see supports that. The post he retweeted said (in the words of Music Week) “After five One Direction albums and one solo LP with Sony Music and Syco, now Louis Tomlinson is officially an independent artist with BMG”. Some believe this means he’s NOT signed to BMG but is putting out his own album and simply using them as a distro; I personally would say it seems pretty clear at this point that that simply refers to the fact that BMG are, as a label that isn’t one of the Big Four, considered an independent label, making Louis, as someone on their roster, an indie artist- like the tweet said. If he’d gone rogue and started his own label there would be articles everywhere about it and that article would have talked about it (instead headlines read “Louis Tomlinson Signs Record Deal With BMG”), plus we have plenty of quotes that would be frankly odd if he weren’t signed to BMG, such as the vice president of A&R at BMG UK, saying "We are delighted to welcome Louis to BMG. He is already busy working on new music, and we are excited to join him on the next phase of his extraordinary career,” a BMG sales manager saying “BMG will have the new album” and referring to the fact that they’ll do promo for it (in a DM conversation that actually appears to be real, unlike SOME going around today), and Charlie Lightening posting “Congrats @louist91 on the new deal with BMG UK excited for LT2, gonna smash it lad”.

More to the point-- why do people want so badly to think he ISN’T signed with BMG? This is GREAT NEWS!! They’re an indie (what everyone has wanted for Louis forever), and they were founded specifically to give artists more control than the majors (after splitting off from Sony; they were more or less founded as a direct push back against Sony’s business model), but they’re big enough to give him the support an artist of his size needs, which would be very hard for him to pull off running his own label-- I’d much rather see him putting his energy into writing songs, touring, making documentaries, and running his management company, rather than doing his own promo and wrangling with distro deals and shit. He should be signed to a label to do that work for him! And BMG seems like an awesome choice! But the weird ideas out there just continue right on-- not just people saying he’s not on a label, but also others, who don’t think him being on a label completely unconnected to Sony will be able to prevent Sony from dropping a piano on Louis’ head like the moustache twirling masterminds they are er sabotaging BMG somehow (the whole point of them being an indie is that this shouldn’t be an issue?), and such amazing takes as “louis has signed to a queer label” (evidence? “we just know that they are queer”; an actual dialogue from tiktok), are unlikely to be affected by any number of facts, as are the twitter folks getting excited about him ‘unfollowing’ accounts he never followed to begin with (Syco etc).

Anyway Louis, on a roll of giving us what we want today, also gave us a VIDEO with his HAT OFF! I don’t even care that it’s a silly ad (for samsung), or that he trimmed his luscious locks a little, it’s Louis! Talking and stuff!! Showing off his still wonderfully long hair all pushed up and back! Gorgeous, amazing, perfect… and yes I am ignoring the slides and socks thank you very much, though I will mention that they are literally exactly the same as Harry’s slides and socks. He also followed BMG, one of his (no doubt many) NFT trading profiles was found (@LT282828, LMAO), and new shows are being added as the tour dates finalize (though ticketmaster showing a Harry date for the same day/place as one of them was a glitch, we don’t have Harry’s updated dates yet)

And speaking of Harry! MP filming was indoors today, so Harry was only seen walking to his car, but he showed up at the Brits!!! In an amazing geometric patterned (or, uh, “macro framed sequence print” I GUESS) brown and tan suit (that clashed just HORRIFICALLY with the neon pastel Brits décor and his award, I fucking love that) and a cute lil handbag and sneakers to accept his AWARD for Best British Single!! (For Watermelon Sugar oddly, but hey a wins a win). CONGRATULATIONS baby and WOW great to see him! He popped in with pal Tomo Campbell, last seen by us when they drove to Italy together last summer. He thanked “my fans, for being so generous to me, always, and everyone in my life who has my back, thank you so much I love you.” Question, did he make the choice to swap out the pink and yellow award he was handed onstage for the blue and green version he had later? Either way, lol. Lots more people will have nice things to say about him now with this high profile win, but even before that people were gushing about him-- Joshua Bassett came out as queer by calling Harry hot (”I guess this is me coming out”), we got Billy Porter on the Brits pre show carpet saying, “I am seeing change! You know Harry Styles on the cover of Vogue Magazine that is change. You’re welcome!” and someone from his recording studio telling us he “was very nice wasn’t he, he brought doughnuts for the assistants and gave everyone a lift home. He came into reception and offered to make everybody a cup of tea,” awww Harry! Lift home from Harry, that’s my new meeting-one-of-the-boys goal.

Niall wished “everyone involved at the Brits” good luck, and Liam wished an NFT creator luck on his sale.

Do u know any good exes to lovers fics?? Like break up make up ig 😊

Hi anon! Yes I’ve got you covered!!

Peter’s hoodie by @machiavelien - a lil hoodie stealing never hurt anyone

Mutual agreement by hannrose - exes w benefits!

You only know you love her when you let her go by @i-lovethatforme - angst and pain and Harry Osborn the gem

As soon as I can hold you once again by interstellarbeams - MJ’s back in the city after breaking it off w Pete when he becomes an avenger

New York isn’t New York without you, love by inmoonlightigetseasick - a couple of exes in love who now work together

even though i left you behind (i can’t quite get you out of my mind) (a little self promo hfjdklsejhd) - gotta fake date your bestie when your ex is back in town x

And Machi just made a list too!

Don’t forget to kudos/comment if you enjoyed!

Our discussion on turians made me wonder: how do you imagine the culture of the Salarian Union? (I'm sorry, you probably talked about this elsewhere, but I was too lazy to look for that, if so feel free to refer me to that post.) I find that there are surprisingly little elements about it in canon, though there are a few hints, like the fact that the planets in the Pranas system all have modern names, the previous names having been discarded, presumably, because they evoke "bygone superstition"?

Hello! Sorry I took some time. I actually rarely packaged my thoughts on salarian culture in a digestible way, so you gave me a great opportunity to give it a recap! I will go more indepth in the future for sure, but I might do a lil' overarching presentation of my general thoughts.

First, I have written an exploration/explanation of some of my headcanons regarding salarian reproduction, and it can be found here on Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18872515

It is sliightly out of date and I need to do a pass to adjust some of my thoughts, but I still go by the general idea.

I also agree that there is very little things in the OT canon. I think there might be slightly more in Andromeda maybe, but I still haven't played the game so who knows!

I even believe the games kind of give up on salarian culture past ME1, where they are arguably given the most importance; we get more depth to it in ME2 through the sole and lonely perspective of Mordin; and in ME3 they are barely worth more than somewhat cheap antagonism and a couple of questionable jokes. Even right now during the promo of MELE, I felt like salarians keep being characterized as weird-cute-gross, and more like the butt of a joke than people. Even the promo for Director Tann in MEA had this "haha you get a role for a mass effect character and you thought you'd be sexy and cool TOO BAD" vibe to it, which makes me think part of the devteam (or at least the marketing side of it) don't think too highly of their very own space frogs :'(((

But to get on my actual thoughts (under the cut and the nice gif, because it won't be as long as it could be, but it's still somewhat long):

So first off, I'm trying to keep in mind how indescribably huge the Salarian Union is: we're talking about a conglomerate of planet-sized communities, moons, artificial stations, plus appendages in every large-scaled, cosmopolitan communities in Council space and possibly beyond. Just like it would be hard to talk about any united "human culture", I think the same could be true for any Mass Effect species --even though, for the sake of both narrative convenience and the tendency for globalization once communities get connected and break down communication barriers, shortcuts have to be made (and that helps make Points, and I like stories to have Points so yee).

For this reason, I have identified organizational tendencies within these communities, based both on baseline of natural grouping emerging off salarian biology (clan-based structures with matriarchal figures) and where I speculated breakdowns would happen in the modern, multicultural setting of the ME universe. To brutally over-simplify: there would be the "traditional" political organization of Sur'kesh (that I will briefly cover later), the "colonial" style (a derivation of the Sur'kesh style with more centralization), and the growing influence of ultraliberalism creeping from Council space back unto these communities, creating a myriad of variations depending on how much the communities are willing to adapt to production being controlled by corporations.

I headcanon the culture, however, to be at once: very collectivist yet an oligarchy (because dalatrasses have a right to power by virtue of existence basically), extremely eugenist to the point of having created literal, biological races that are genetically distinct from each other and cultivated to remain as such by some clans (and therefore can be very cruel towards the disabled/the imperfect at birth too), misandrist (I believe being a male salarian from a shitty clan/baronny is one of the lower forms of political existence that can be in this universe, hence why their lives in the working force are so goddamn disposable), but also designed to protect its members and have the community take care of their basic needs (so homelessness is almost not a thing, or at least used to not be a thing). I also believe the culture to be consistently young and vibrant, with lots of energy (for better and for worse). And during the time of ME, to be under economical and social duress (even gender duress!) as it sits at a crossroad regarding its future, and everyone has a lots of ideas on what this future should look like, including people gawking the outside with economical or political interests in the outcome (this basically the plot of The Empire of Preys, which is technically a prequel to Halfway Home but will be written after HH because I love chronologies that make sense and are easy to understand :) :) ).

So concerning the OG, Sur'kesh style: I have contorted a weird economical/diplomatic/land planning system into quasi-existence, that is based around a unit called the "symposium". This is a *relatively* young system in their history (still milleniums old, it really solidified in the middle of the Rachni Wars as a reaction/adaptation after several waves of imperialism that didn't really look like ours but had the same effect of flattening local cultures into a more aggressive semi-ethnostate), but central into dividing resources, workers, affect. I will not go into too much details because this is quite complicated, but these are basically commitees that will take democratic decisions among its members, based on how many clan members are appointed in both this symposium and and adjacent symposiums that might be helpful to this one --it's a system explicitely based on bribes and social influence, and getting the partial control of key symposiums is absolutely essential for Dalatrasses to maintain the influence and relevance of their respective clans. It's also a system that has, traditionally, very little use for money (it exists, but as a token of exchange that doesn't carry inherent value --if you have only access to money as a clan, you are basically worthless and won't get access to good matches or good symposium seats, or at least you used to until capitalism knocked at the doooooor and that kinda fucked things uppppppp and the society is not recovering and the gaps are getting extreeeeeme this is the plot of TEOP basically).

Oh and on the subject of the transition to more capitalist values and the decay of clans that cannot keep up, I wrote The Leftovers a couple of years ago, which talks about a young dalatrass-to-be discovering she might be sterile, right here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15854244

I have a ton more things to say on the subject (and salarian culture as a whole), buuut this is getting quite long already haha.

And in regards to your question: I headcanon that salarians from one specific continent -that then became the "cultural norm" over imperialism and complications- were confronted, in a continental way, to a huge hurricane that led to incredible floods and then stagnant water and diseases, which really soured their relationship to water that was previously quite holy. This led to a very bitter enlightenment; their "Renaissance" came out of spite against nature rather than anything else, and a lot of previous ideas were abandoned for a time -then reclaimed, then abandoned again, then warped... It's complicated. :D

ADHD STUDY TIPS

I have adhd. I'm taking all online classes this semester for college. Somehow, I'm not failing. Here's what I do that works for me!

1. I have an alarm that makes me do math every morning to turn it off, it's called Alarmy! 📚

2. It also plays a different loud sound every day from random-- I have several hundred(?) ringtones downloaded from Zedge, things like songs from shows I like or Pokemon cries or MBMBAM lines, and this helps me wake up to a different sound I'm bound to like which my brain can't get used to (and then ignore). I highly suggest godzilla roars if you need to be startled awake. 📚

3. This is SUPER HARD but I always try to force myself to sit up in bed when I'm turning off my alarm or checking my phone or whatever, so I'm not tempted to pass out again. I also like to get up and loudly tell my cats "good morning" so I wake us both up 📚

4. PLEASE STOP EATING CEREAL AND BAGELS AND STUFF. You would not BELIEVE the difference it makes when you eat things like fruits and eggs in the morning. NO MORE 10AM NAPS, I'M WATCHING YOU 📚

5. I literally schedule in Duolingo time. If you aren't learning a language you can do some other enriching activity like this, idk. I force myself to do it on my computer, not phone, so I can't lay down in bed when I'm doin it. I have a 101-day streak!! 📚

6. ik this isn't available to everyone but SPACE MATTERS SO MUCH!! I got a gaming desk that we put in our living room and I do ALL of my homework there. I also got a second monitor for my laptop with is SOOOO important if you're multitasking (and we all are, bc we're adhders ibdusvcjkn) 📚

7. HAND WRITE YOUR NOTES!!! I know this is super hard for many people-- I have carpal tunnel so I get it lmao. If you can't, at least type them. YOU THINK YOU CAN MEMORIZE INFO BUT YOU'RE WRONG!! Please write as much as you can i swear it will change ur life 📚

8. COLOURED! PENS!!! These changed the game for me y'all. I take all my notes in at least 2 colours, and I cycle through them a lot. My favs are Pilot Frixions because u can erase them :) (the highlighters are epic too) 📚

9. Make your space fun, but NOT DISTRACTING. I have a plant (his name is Yoshi) and a desk Godzilla (his name is Godzilla) on my desk, but they're out of the way so I can't zone out starin at em. But also, when I'm bored outta my gourd, I can smile at Yoshi and tell him how my day is goin :] 📚

10. SNACKING BAD *BUT*... sometimes i do it anyway... i try to associate certain foods with subjects, like I eat cocoa M&Ms (which are awesome) when I'm reading my Kaqchikel textbook. On the upside, I think it helps me recall Kaqchikel better? but also the language makes me crave mnms adkldigurvn 📚

11. LISTEN TO... CERTAIN MUSIC. I have learned that music with words, even in LANGS I DO NOT KNOW, is HELL for my adhd. Right now I'm listening to stuff like "Pokemon and Chill" (lofi album on YT), Studio Ghibli violin covers, and Night on Bald Mountain 5x on repeat ibjnvc.... I highly suggest songs/videos that are, like, 20+ minutes or else you'll get distracted with the constant change. Also, that No One's Around To Help 1hr vid is REALLY REPETITIVE and therefore PERFECT for when I'm reading textbooks. 📚

12.  EVERY NIGHT... i make a super detailed timetable schedule for the next day, down to the half hour. I don't always follow it but it's a really good reminder of what I gotta do. I write it on a whiteboard but sometimes I also write it on a sticky note and on social media so I don't forget. To do lists are so epic you guys 📚

13. THIS HAS SAVED MY L I F E: at the beginning of the semester I looked at ALL of my syllabi and wrote down EVERY daily task, test, homework, etc BY DATE. this is essentially a premade to do list EVERY DAY for MONTHS and oh my gosh it is the best thing I have ever done. 📚

14. I use the Forest app to track my productivity AND lock me out of apps ndsjv... podomoro timers work well too!!! 📚

15. Ok so for me this is like... a religious thing bc my Patron (my God) is a deity of fire AND working, but I like to light a candle (scented like FALL!!) and do a little prayer on it and I have it next to me when I'm workin on terrible, terrible homework. It helps me feel like my Patron is here with me, but also it’s GREAT for grounding and I can just kinda. Stare blankly at the flame and then get back to tryin to focus. 📚

16. Please drink water lmao, to make sure I drink enough I set little goals like "take a sip after every paragraph you read" 📚

17. Each of my classes has a different coloured notebook which I'm consistent with! Like, all my German notebooks through the years have been green! Also I take notes w green pens a lot in Deutsch 📚

18. HELLA STICKY NOTES... I put em on the bottom of my monitor, on a shelf by my desk, in my books as bookmarks (bad idea lol), on Yoshi. When I wanna go look up something random but I need to focus, I like to write it down on sticky notes to look at later. 📚

19. I'm the most annoying student ever. I like to do a bunch of assignments at once so I don't have to budget my time later, so I'll turn in like 5 things in an hour and then NOTHING for a week. ALSO i email my teachers constantly if I have any questions at all. I work at a pace that works for me!!! 📚

20. I turn off my sound on my phone until I'm done with work bc otherwise I WILL open that notification 📚

22. I make a loooot of chai (and also some overpriced herbal teas). It makes me feel fancy, it's better for me than coffee, and it helps me ground and focus! Plus it's a samefood! 📚

23. Hyperfixating on classic literature would be awesome, except I'm hyperfixating on Gothic and I'm taking a lit class for More Than Just Gothic. But I'm figuring out ways to connect them, which is really helpful, cause I get to enjoy my hyperfixation while learning for school! PLZ TRY TO DO THIS (harder when you're hyperfixating on godzilla :pensivecowboy:) 📚

21. When I have extra time I write my notes like I'm plannin to put em on Tumblr and taggin em as #darkacademia... I never post my notes, but when they look nice it's easier for me to look over em later. Plus it takes me longer to write so I remember it a lil better!! 📚

24. I'm in an awesome academia + studyspo server!! We sometimes study together on call and it's SUCH a good motivator! Here's an invite link if u wanna join, we are nice https://discord.gg/fjuX7TN (this wasn’t meant to be a promo post I just really like this group lol) 📚

OK I hope that helps!!! Feel free to add more if you have any tips that work for you :) Neurotypicals, feel free to RB respectfully!

(pics are: syllabus list, daily schedule, Yoshi the plant, and some fancy notes)

‘We were gagging to experience life’: Foals on booze, becoming a trio and their love for Kyiv

Dave Simpson | photos by Linda Nylind/The Guardian

Now one of the UK’s biggest bands, the trio talk about the impact of losing two founder members, fighting pandemic gloom with a euphoric seventh album, and why the climate crisis won’t stop them touring

Shortly before Christmas, when Foals were discussing potential places to shoot a new video, Ukraine topped the list. Frontman Yannis Philippakis had gone travelling there alone when he was 18 and still has a “kind of map of what it was like then permanently in my head”. In more recent years, when Foals had played some shows there, Kyiv had been just as he remembered it: a beautiful, peace-loving city that loved a party. The band were keen to work with Tanu Muiño, an acclaimed Ukranian-Cuban director who has worked with Lil Nas X, Cardi B, the Weeknd and Harry Styles – she turned out to be a Foals fan, and so an old industrial courtyard workspace was scouted for the shoot. At that point, Russian tanks had just started gathering on the border but, as Philippakis remembers, “the idea of it turning into a full-scale war seemed pretty remote”.

They shot the joyously choreographed video for 2am in January, after which they watched some ice skating, visited bars, hung out with the crew and talked politics. A perfect day ended with hugs and group photos. “The optimism that day was captured in the video,” says the singer, wistfully. “It’s strange to think how quickly that’s been brutalised.”

Since the Russian invasion – after which Foals cancelled upcoming shows in Moscow and St Petersburg – the band have found it difficult to contact the Ukrainians they spent time with. “There are people in our video who are now having to shelter for their lives or pick up rifles to defend their city,” Philippakis says. “The choreographer left a message saying that she and her husband were having to hide from shelling.”

I meet Foals in March at their small rented studio, rehearsal room and writing space in Peckham, London, cradling coffees. “It certainly feels weird to be doing promo,” admits guitarist Jimmy Smith, his newly dyed blond hair reflecting his current status as an Englishman who lives in Los Angeles. Nor is it lost on them that the album we’re here to talk about – the seventh and best of their career – is a euphoric party record, worthy of a band whose last album reached No 1 and are billed high in this summer’s Glastonbury and Latitude lineups, warming up with four sold-out nights in London’s Olympia this weekend.

Life Is Yours – full of sunny, motorik disco/house-influenced dancefloor fillers such as Wake Me Up and the sublime upcoming single 2001 – is being compared to Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem and 80s Duran Duran. With more keyboards and fewer guitars, its ecstatic, air-punching vibe couldn’t be further from the horrors of Ukraine, the pandemic, climate change or economic crisis.

Philippakis expains that when they made 2019’s brace of socially conscious albums, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost (Parts 1 and 2), “the climate crisis suddenly seemed upon us and there were books coming out about the sixth mass extinction. It felt right to engage with the threat on the horizon.” However, while Life Is Yours is also a response to the post-Covid world in which there’s what he describes as “an everyday jeopardy or darkness now that’s impossible to ignore”, this time the mood is uplifting.

“It was written in the midst of lockdowns,” the quietly wellspoken singer explains, sporting a DH Lawrence beard and wearing the same sort of loosely fitting shirt he wears on stage. “Winter, grey, no life on the streets. So we’d come here and shelter from all that by writing music that felt escapist and joyful, but also hopeful for the future to come back.”

When the pandemic struck, Foals managed to do one date of an Asian tour in February 2020 before concerts suddenly started being cancelled. “We didn’t know what the fuck was going on,” says Philippakis. “You think: ‘Oh, this will soon blow over’, but it didn’t.” After making it back to the UK it was nice to spend unexpected time at home – the band had kept them from seeing partners – but the singer remembers the “surreal strangeness” of the first lockdown. “We’ve all grown up on apocalypse movies like Contagion, World War Z or whatever. So there was that aspect of engaging with something we’ve all been worried about.”

The very core of being a musician isn’t sitting around in a studio. It’s performing and connecting with people

Yannis Philippakis

Jack Bevan, the band’s well-groomed, amiable, gently self-effacing drummer, was one of the very first in the UK with Covid. On returning from Asia, he came down with “basically the worst flu I ever had. After about 10 days I started to feel a bit better, but then had pneumonia symptoms for a week and then this sort of extreme fatigue for about a month. This was well before lockdown, when Covid was a mystery to people here. I was just watching the news, with all these horrifying statistics and cases from abroad. So there was no reassurance of how this thing would go.”

Smith, meanwhile, escaped to LA to see his girlfriend, got stuck there during lockdown (hence his now full-time US residence) and contracted Covid too. “It was in my lungs for a month,” he says. “It was certainly enough of a shock to make me quit smoking.” When the band eventually regrouped in Peckham, playing for hours every day became a way of blocking out what was going on outside.

Foals made Life Is Yours as a trio. In 2018, co-founding bassist Walter Gervers, the band’s most stable “father figure” and counsel in times of strife, left suddenly to start a family. Last year’s exit of another founder, keyboard player Edwin Congreave, was less unexpected but equally significant. He had been doing an Open University degree with a view to studying at Cambridge and, as Philippakis explains, was finding it hard to reconcile the boozing and adrenaline of a touring lifestyle with academia.

“Poor Edwin,” Smith says, chuckling. “We’d come tumbling on to the bus at 3am and he’d be in the back lounge with his papers, trying to study for a 9am exam.” The remaining members insist the departures have strengthened their own bonds, but such lineup changes can play havoc with a group’s dynamic, especially losing people they’ve played with for 15 years.

“It can be destabilising,” Philippakis admits as we’re on a second round of coffees. “And you miss them as a social presence. Getting to spend your life with your friends is a beautiful way to spend your time, so when anyone goes you think: we’re never going to spend that much time with that person again.”

This partly explains why Life Is Yours occasionally has a more wistful undercurrent. All Foals albums are different – whether the “career gamble” of 2010’s ambitious Total Life Forever or the heavier terrain of 2015’s What Went Down. In a way, Life Is Yours recalls the giddy energy of their 2008 debut Antidotes, but viewed through a rear-view mirror.

“We were thinking back to when we started,” Philippakis, who is now 35, reflects, referring to their days (after originally meeting in Oxford) as a math-rock band living in a Peckham squat dubbed Squallyoaks, sharing takeaways and playing “feral parties” in the squat scene. “There was optimism that isn’t really around any more. It was a golden era of nightlife: great clubs, house music, pre-social media and smartphones, all the cross-pollinations in music, art, dance. I think on songs such as [Life Is Yours track] Looking High there is a wistfulness, now that clubs are closing down. When we were making the album we were gagging to experience life, so you find yourself thinking about old parties and times when you could lose yourself in a moment.”

You’d see Yannis hanging off a balcony with security holding him by his belt buckle and think: ‘What’s he doing now?’

Jack Bevan

Foals re-emerge into a very different climate from the one that they started out in in 2004, one of the print NME, CD singles and a thriving circuit of live bands and smaller venues. “There’s loads of positives to social media and the internet,” says Philippakis, idly strumming a Spanish guitar, “but one thing that has been destructive has been the ravaging of the geographical architecture around music: local venues, record stores, affordable rehearsal spaces and studios. It’s affected the way people make music communally, or the idea of making friends and making music together. Everything has migrated online, but if you walk around our cities, there’s no record shop, nowhere to make a racket. It’s all a bit bereft. When I was still at school I’d go to [club night] Trash in London every week and the Horrors or Arctic Monkeys or the Klaxons would be there, and it felt like everyone was part of something.”

The idea of music as a communal experience is central to Foals and, ironically, partly why Congreave left. Having started touring in an old Royal Mail van, the keen environmentalist had become uncomfortable with the band’s carbon footprint. Foals do offset their carbon, but Smith argues that if a band wants to sustain a life and income – even one who unfurled a banner reading No Music on a Dead Planet at the 2019 Mercury prize – it’s impossible to avoid some environmental impact. “It’s not just income, though,” Philippakis says. “For me, the very core of being a musician isn’t sitting around in a studio. It’s performing and connecting with people.”

He remembers a particular discussion with Congreave on the tour bus prior to their cancelled Asia tour. “He was saying: ‘We shouldn’t do these shows’ – not because of Covid, but because of the impact of a band flying thousands of miles. “We had a very frank and reasonable discussion, but in the end we said: ‘We want to be musicians.’ I’m more than happy to offset, but I wouldn’t want to be in this band if we weren’t playing shows.”

The singer has become one of modern pop’s great livewire frontpersons – known to leap from high balconies into crowds or battle with security men trying to prevent him. “I actually stopped drumming at one gig because of what Yannis was up to,” Bevan chuckles. “You’d see him hanging off a balcony with security holding him by his belt buckle and think: ‘What’s he doing now?’” For the singer, who grew up on “provocative, high-wire” hardcore bands such as the Jesus Lizard, performing is a way of escaping his “everyday self. It’s really charged, and on stage the energy from the crowd and the physical volume and the booze becomes like a cyclone.”

Foals read a recent Guardian article about how “hard-partying” bands have become outliers, but for them alcohol remains a part of touring. Philippakis has never done a show sober – Smith did, once – but has certainly seen peers fall by the wayside owing to the lifestyle. However, he points out that people who find making music cathartic or therapeutic might also have “certain psychological issues that make them more attracted to getting fucked up”.

Bevan explains that the industry’s “high-pressure environment” can cause social drinking to become a “coping mechanism. If you were hungover at home, you’d spend the whole day under a duvet, but on tour you might have to play to 40,000 people. You have to power on and maybe have a few drinks to get through.” The drummer always performed sober until a panic attack on stage at the Faversham in Leeds in 2006 led him to reconsider, so now he allows himself “a couple of beers before a show”. Philippakis is upfront about enjoying drinking, but explains that it’s also a creative tool, especially with lyrics. “I tend to become quite unhealthy in the later stage of writing,” he admits, “and that usually continues until the end of tour. I couldn’t do a show without drinking.”

Foals’s ideal is to keep the party going without risking the band. In 17 years, none of them has had a drug problem, and while they certainly enjoy a tipple, or several, Smith counsels: “It’s fundamentally a bad idea to drink your band into ruin.”

So much has changed around them. When Antidotes came out, the UK had a Labour government and was in the EU. Philippakis – who has a Jewish South African mother and a Greek father – explains that Greece sees the EU as “an oppressor, something that was very punitive to the Greek people, but I understand that Brexit has been disastrous for the UK”. He despairs of the “rampant corruption” in parliament and argues that people are “waking up to the fact that we have a rightwing government” and expects a “bigger fury”. On Life Is Yours, Foals perhaps represent a generation – or several generations – who remember the good times, are bewildered and angered by the world today, and just want to be able to look forward with optimism once again.

The idea was that Life Is Yours would coincide with the beginnings of a post-pandemic, brighter world, which – with war raging and prices soaring – seems further away than ever. “The spirit of an emerging new future isn’t here yet,” admits the singer, “which does add a weird extra poignancy to the album. But if it just never arrives, then hopefully we’ve made a great record that people can hide in and take solace in.”

The Guardian | 29th April 2022

Heyyy Jac, I don't mean to bother you, but I was wondering if you could recommend some fluffy Zemo fics?? Or maybe just your favorites? (That aren't smut geez I just wanna snuggle with the man-)

Oh gosh, I totally feel the mood!!! Here’s a little list of my fav 100% fluff Zemo fics, all of which will be linked to AO3 just because they’re easier to find over there and I already have them saved! All of these will be rated T and under, so anybody can enjoy them. 

This is under the cut because I sort of listed a lot and the post looked long. 

First, I’m gonna start with Rest because I will always be a fan of shameless self-promotion. It’s got Zemo comforting a very stressed reader and cuddles and stuff, and though it’s a little bittersweet because of the unknown aspect, I am the author and I’m just telling you they make it to Latveria alive in my mind. 

I’ll also shamelessly self-promote the first part of my Young Artist! Zemo AU, which is just the fluffiest little awkward meet-cute date with a college-aged Zemo in the 90′s called The Boy With The Easel!

Now, on to things that aren’t shameless self promos

Where Troubles Melt Like Lemon Drops by Hackmanite365 is a very sweet one where you sing Zemo to sleep, which I love. 

Blame by amelia_ta is excellent. Genuinely excellent. The reader takes the place of Zemo’s wife who managed to survive the destruction of Sokovia while their son still didn’t. It’s an exploration of grief, and though it’s angsty, overall it’s a short piece about healing. 

A Close Shave by raggamuffin44 is a wonderful little ditty where you get to help Helmut shave with a straight razor! I thought it was really charming. 

Now, those are the fluffy ones I love the most off of AO3, and I’m sure I’m missing some, but here’s one from a mutual on Tumblr that I love (All of their stuff is great, but some is not clean)  

The Way I Loved You by @writingtoforgetreality is so good, as their work always is. It’s the reader reuniting with Zemo (and reevaluating their old feelings for him) when they have to help him break out and work with him on their mission with Sam and Bucky. It’s wonderful. 

And, finally, 

I ShALL LIST A MILLION OF @creme-bruhlee‘s FICS BECAUSE I LOVE HIM AND HE”S MY BESTIE

I also have to add the disclaimer that Robbie’s blog, even for his sfw posts like these, is a 18+/minors dni space! Please respect that! (Especially right now, please god, especially right now) If you’re 18+, though, enjoy the good clean fun listed below. 

Bliss is sort of self-promo because it ties into stuff I write, but it’s a flash-forward in the Young Artist! Zemo AU to where Zemo makes a drastic move to defend his and the reader’s relationship. Murder is involved. It’s fantastic. 

Next Week is also a little angsty, and involves the reader taking a note to Zemo in prison regarding the breakout. It’s a really fresh take on an idea a lot of people have looked at, so I recommend it if you want a dynamic take on Zemo leaning more towards his cold side, check it out!

Forehead Kisses was a drabble I adored that came from a prompt list, and it’s basically just what’s on the tin, you give Zemo a sweet lil forehead kiss. 

and finally, for real this time,

Me and My Husband is an EXCELLENT little drabble where the reader talks some sense into John Walker after he hits Zemo, your husband, in the face with his shield, all while trying to take care of him. I love this fic. I come back. To it repeatedly. It’s just wonderful. 

Basically, go forth with this knowledge and know that. I will be providing some domestic fluff tomorrow as well. Also, Tumblr people, feel free to reblog this and add your favorites/fics that I missed!!!!