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good-beanswrites · 5 months

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🎬: About Es being a past prisoner and the secret 11th prisoner in your AU. But advance apologies if I'm overstepping into your AU!

I had this idea from a story that pretty much did the same thing. Going off there are novels/manga on Milgram and there being another Es and their own prisoners running another Milgram (but differently) I imagine this Milgram projects has been going on for a while, and our Es was from a previous project who might have gotten the worst verdict (or the most spared out of everyone), and was given this final task as a warden for the next group of prisoners. This is why they so readily agreed and had their memories wiped for this Milgram project instead of being weary on a shady project on judging an almost crime, they've already been through this.

(BTW is it bad and worrying for one of our ten fav prisoners to be the next Es if this is legit...)

Anyway, that's why Es is in Milgram in your AU, I guess? And the lore drop that Kotoko picks up on them being the 11th prisoner, I can imagine her also talking to Kazui since he's a policeman to see if she could cross out any theories on who Es is (Did they look familiar. Possible missing child. Any cases to do with an almost crime by a child other than the 10 of them here). Kazui knows Kotoko wants to investigate, but reminds her that, like in their prison while the trial is on, the facilities they're in have high security too. They do have the freedom to move about, but still limited.

If they're trying to investigate Es, maybe Fuuta, Kotoko and Mikoto can try to do the hacking on the comp Mikoto's allowed to use to Photoshop some shots for the MVs and photos (Fuuta and Kotoko seem to be able to search up info they need I think...). Yuno, Mahiru and Muu can work on charming the staff to see if they can spill more deets on Milgram. Not sure how much the group can gather, but oh boy fun times in Milgram can turn into another sort of stress in this AU...

No worries!! Like I said before, this whole au has been a fun collaborative project, so there's no overstepping :) I am sorry I won't be writing a lot on the ending until we get more info, but that's just the perfectionist in me who doesn't want to be proven wrong 😅 Still, I love tossing around and digging into ending scenarios, I really love this!

Because that would make a lot of sense why they're so willing to subject themself to the whole experiment! They remember how tough their experience was, and are confident they can care for the new set of prisoners while doing their job. I'm imagining they get the opportunity to return as guard, and get to have a nice talk with their own guard first. Once they fully understand what it's like, they're know they can handle it and sign up. It adds a bit of drama, too, since they must have been really young committing their crime in order to complete a years-long experiment prior to this one. They would have been like 10? Oof. (Now I wanna see their three trial songs 👀)

And like you said, that also brings up the question of the new warden. Though I think it's based on verdict results, I can just picture Jackalope keeping an eye on everyone during filming. He studyies their interactions and personalities, keeping his own set of notes on who would make a good successor. (I'm not going to go through every character but there are pros to any choice, it's very fun picturing them all taking the job.) Haha, on the other hand, maybe the reason Kotoko keeps bringing up her role as Es' partner/bringer of justice is because she did discover the truth. She drops as many hints as possible so she can be chosen next 😅

Ooh, I love her working with Kazui on an investigation! The fact that eh may know details on recent crimes (and almost-crimes) is super fun to work with. He's the last person who's going to spill a secret, so the group could go several trials without realizing Kazui had actually heard all about their situation this whole time.

(Getting sidetrack for a sec, I'm suddenly realizing that he and Kotoko may have heard things about the crimes in canon, too. They're a bit unclear about how much time passed between the murders and arriving to Milgram, so maybe he heard some things. I don't know how well-connected Tokyo police departments are, but Yuno, Fuuta, Muu, and Shidou are all nearby. There's definitely a chance he caught word of the vigilante nearby, and she heard about the odd policeman's suicide. Both of them could have heard about the tragic housefire, the disgraced doctor, or horrible schoolgirl murder nearby.)

Anyway, I like that idea of Kazui wracking his brain for any similar cases. Though, if he had, Milgram may have had the foresight to wipe parts of his memory, too. Maybe he does end up using his call to reach out to Hinako and have her look into it from the outside. Sadly, Kotoko seems the type to sacrifice her personal call to reach out to a connection who can help as well. I'll have to think about how closely Jackalope monitors those calls, hm.

I'm going crazy over prisoner investigation team !! Kotoko and Fuuta had the online knowledge to find some good info, and Mikoto and Kazui seem like they'd have a huge network of people they can ask for info and favors from. Haha, I'm torn whether Mahiru would have flirting down to a science or if she'd refuse to do it since it wasn't real love 😂 Still, she's very good at reading people and could definitely help the others charm and bribe their way into some restricted areas. Amane and Haruka can also charm with their innocence/cuteness (though I'm not sure Amane would). Shidou seems very organized, he'd have a plan and backup plan and backup-backup plan ready, no matter what happens. I think it's even funnier, then if Milgram had run several experiments prior. Jackalope would think this was just another runthrough, and for the first time the ten subjects decided to organize together and Cause Problems.

I think there's a beautiful irony in a story featuring ten prisoners planning a jailbreak to save the prison guard...

#milgram #as always thank you for sending 🎬!! these are so fun and big brained ough #lol yeah a fun fact about me is im Such a stickler for canon even in aus like this #the pain of writing a mahiru x boyfriend fic and doing the whole thing without ever saying his name 💀#so i wrote the last chapter of the au as vague as possible so that it had a nice ending but i may go back to make things more accurate when #t3 ends and we (hopefully) find out who es is #i love that this eases some of the pain knowing that es knew exactly what they were getting into :')#and wont be too fucked up upon getting their memories back since they knew it was faked #while also adding extra angst that theyve been there for so long -- theyve spent so much of their childhood within milgram #i was just recently looking at that post about their character locations and had it all marked out on a map #i swear i dont just know that off the top of my head asdfsd #i never realized kazui and kotoko would have outside knowledge >:0 #i really love that concept #between the ten of them they hit so many skill sets -- theyve got the brain and the brawn and the people skills #theyve got intimidation and innocence #theyve got the experience of 40yos and up-to-date kids #theyd be unstoppable -- rip jackalope 😂😂😂#lights camera sing your sins #ask

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looney-just-like-her-tunes · 2 years

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I saw this on Twitter and let me just tell you the pure and utter joy I'm feeling right now watching all the Tom haters scramble for their lives.

#VINDICATION #first icemav breaks 1000 fics mark on ao3 #and now tom cruise has been voted the finest dilf of 2022 #they hate to see a babygirl winning ✨💅💖#love this for us #tom cruise #top gun: maverick #top gun

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kit-the-gaygent · 3 months

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I'm looking for a specific fic of a protective parent reader with Welcome to demon Iruma Kun

Where the misfit class kids just go to Iruma's place as like a second home

And I can't find it and I'm sobbing!

Please someone help me find it

��⁠:ﾟ⁠(⁠;⁠´⁠∩⁠`⁠;⁠)ﾟ⁠:⁠｡

#mairimashita! iruma kun x reader #it was so good and i should have book marked it but i dont think i did #the writer has a a series of parent reader and every fic is top tier and i wanna bindge read them again #sadge

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marnz · 3 days

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I watched tsn last year because my memory suddenly remember that i used to see photos and gifs of it in 2016 and i read someone blog analyzing the relationship of mark and eduardo (in 2016) but didn't know it was a fb film, so i decided to watch it, to be honest my brain is pretty damage from working corporate job and seeing how nasty capitalism is, so my first thought watching it wasn't really wow gay, eduardo was in love!!! but was more like wow mark is such a jerk, i didn't see anything gay that people were screaming about 🙃 and being reminded that this is zuckerberg and his old friend irl did not help, and i also read the story of what actually happened irl and understand how eduardo was also a jerk too so i just jumped into ao3 to read fanfic, i actually wish i watched it during highschool or college time more because i truly can't consume queerbait series or films that aren't obvious anymore, normal queer film/tv series is fine tho. This is just my own experience i'm sure there are many tsn new fans who watched it and also enjoy how "gay" it is like you guys in 2010 too :) i just have damaged brain i think

oh no friend I’m so sorry about your job! Let’s get you a better one. I don’t think your reaction is wrong at all, like I said, it was a different time and you had to be there. I got into it in college and exited the fandom in the mid 2010s; I would never in my life get into it now. I think you are right…it’s 2024.

However I have been thinking about this since I got your message and I also think the constant analysis and the fanfic contributed pretty heavily to the atmosphere, plus like I said the Andrew Garfield of it all. Honestly I think the fandom boils down to a couple things:

1) the film has homoerotic subtext mostly evidenced by Eduardo. There’s a lot of time spent on Eduardo’s feelings about Mark, like even during the bathroom blowjob scene the camera takes a moment to remind us that Eduardo is thinking about Mark in the next stall. There is almost no time spent on Mark’s feelings about Eduardo. So this subtext is like, there are feelings and they are unreciprocated. Isn’t this so tragic when 0.03% happens? Mark certainly talks a lot about his feelings for Eduardo, but words do not matter. Action matters. Contrast this with a more classic queerbait like Sterek where 1) there was queerbaiting market and 2) there was reciprocal homoerotic subtext that could never be acted upon.

2) I don’t think fandom is super good at dealing with an unlikeable or unsympathetic yet compelling protagonist! Which means this protagonist is rendered much more sympathetically in fic and people watch or read the media source with rose colored glasses. “He would not fucking say that” x1000.

3) I’m not that much older than you I think but…there was this period in tv where there were canon gays who were as interesting and dynamic as a pool noodle and, meanwhile, in subtext and/or queerbait land, there were relationships that consistently got a lot of time and attention and so were sooooooo compelling. And those are the relationships that I, and fandom, tend to gravitate towards. Plus growing up there weren’t a ton of happy gay stories so instead it was like, you have Brokeback Mountain, you have Dead Poets Society, you have What Happened to Lani Granger? You have, for some reason, Glee (boring except for faberry and Santana). Thank god we are not there anymore.

4) I have bad taste <3

Anyway sorry for rambling here, your asks got me thinking because it very much was like hmm well yeah it IS completely inexplicable huh but I think a lot of fandom is like that.

#answered #anonymous #tsn #I have so many memories that I shall not trouble you with #um but I think there’s a reason that my top 2 tsn fics are like. 1) mark learns empathy & human kindness and 2) Eduardo moves tf on #simply because. it has to be one or the other baby!#anyway thanks so much anon 💜💜💜

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simmonsized · 9 months

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Idk about other people but I’m always a slut for that old man and I think you got amazing taste so pls rec anything you like anywhere

I think you will find that my taste is actually kind of garbage but like, in a fun way that makes you go "wow really???" rather than being so embarrassed for me that you can never look at me again. of course that would be fine too haha you know, don't yuck my yum etc but I will try to put together my unfuckable old man rec list right here, right now, and we can all just live with that

(mostly because titling a post makes me cringe it's too much attention, and I'm a stereotype)

These come from a section of my actual Fic Rec List, which is massive (by my standards), lives in a googly doc, and is much more embarrassing. this list generally won't include any ship stuff and if it does, i will say so. mind any and all tags.

This section is titled: The Redemption Narrative (lol)

1. Empty Nester - egomaniac (THE WHOLE REASON I MADE A NEW LIST. BRO AND NANNA!!!!!!!!!!!! also bro/grandpa, aka “he fucks that old man”, but not the most important part to me, because as good and tragic and hurtful as their relationship is in this fic, it is dwarfed, to me, by the kindness shared between Nanna and Bro, which once again, to me, is the Crown Jewel of the whole story. PLEASE read this please if u have time A++ endorsement)

2. dualshock desertbloom (the whole fucking series. i hardly need to say why, you should just know by now. i call dd dirkfic, because it is The Dirkfic, u know??)- geometrician (🔶)

3. sun’s angle - dellaluce (they can orphan it all they want but i never forget. very old, but never GETS old, u feel)

4. Hexadyne Meetings - Saesama (the rarity of bro and nanna fics could absolutely destroy me but i really like the interactions between all of the guardians in this one)

5. Flop, Flutter - cthchewy (technicality, big nasty soulless bro yikes sorry)

6. The Estrangement Thing - NoBrandHero (there’s a theme here listen to me don’t be doubtful it’s worth the trouble, there is brojohn in there, which is not my thing at all, but it is NOT relevant to what i like about this fic, and i think if u read it, u will realize that immediately lol (*i am not including second best even though that fic is literally my favorite ds fic ever because it is NOT bro centric))

7. cold front off the pacific - drow_sy (i actually read this bc geometrician bookmarked it lol but it punches down on u and i like that)

8. insect clockwork - SORD (aka, if it was written pre-2013, i’ve read it)

9. Flashing Lights and Raisins - RadioMoth (the strider manpain tag exists for a reason)

10. Hide - Plajus (OG post-sburb type shit. we love to see it)

11. Blackout - lantadyme (bro strider sick fic. Wrow. old shit. I don’t even know how i have held onto these for this many years.)

Things that don't quite fit into the category necessarily but It's MY List Not Yours:

12. signs at sundown - geometrician (I don't need to say it, do I? I think we understand, I do think that. Imagine being canon together with you favorite author. Imagine it. Wow.)

13. No Homo - Laurasauras (bro/dennis. yes, dennis from gamebro. yes, it's good i've said it before i'll say it again. i'm into it, i think you should be too.)

14. flash - problemsloth (this shit is just. absolute chef's kiss to me. i don't know how else to explain it. young bro. he's perfect, and perfectly dreadful)

15. play ball! - spacepuck (this is a johndave fic but it has this very stressful atmosphere around bro and dave that kinda fucks me up and also, delights me beyond reason. it tastes like summer to me. sandlot lookin ass. an old favorite)

#this list is. shorter than it could be and longer than i meant it to be #this is by no means a Full List there's lots of other stuff out there #rabid raccoon rehab is for everyone obviously #and i am not a person who reads a ton of ship fic so if there are good fics that also have ships in them i probably just haven't read them #lol sorry about that #sloth has a brodad that's on my to-read which i think will probably be added to the actual doc but at this time i have not read it #i want to say i take recs but the truth is they will probably end up in the shameful pile of Marked For Later that grows taller and taller #every day that passes by #well anyway i just wanted to talk about empty nester like an insane person so #i want to say u can just like. plug in all the things i have excluded on ao3 for bro's tag and then sort by kudos and these will pop up #but the truth is that i have also been dragging some of these around with me for literal years and there is a Reason they are top kudos'd #to me #anyway yeah okay sure whatever sorry this is just. hells of embarrassing it's all homestuck it's all bro related sorry #for non bro centric fics consider begging on ur knees or it will never see the light of day #actually i think you'd have to pay me or weasel your way into my server. it's not happening is what i'm saying #ANYWAY OKAY FINALLY IT IS DONE

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guqin-and-flute · 2 years

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The Dadliest Chat (3zun Group Text)--Modern 3zun raise Jingyi AU

[Modern 3zun Tag] [Ao3 series]

[This was a lot of fun and the first thing I have written in a WHILE, so I just let myself go for it and write whatever. Therefore the vibe is a little all over the map; slice of life, fluff, lil' bit of lemon, a bit of angst and trauma work, but mostly just sort of day in the life look at 3zun's group chat as fathers! A-Fu is about 10 months old in this.

CW: dirty talk, lemon (I'm leery of tagging more cause I don't wanna get flagged because Tunglr™, but they sometimes have adult convos over text, ya know?]

SATURDAY

<10:42 AM>

Xichen: Stupid bill?

Xichen: [sent picture]

Da-ge: spam

A-Yao: 👍

Xichen: 👍👍

MONDAY

<12:12 PM>

A-Yao: People are stupid

Da-ge: yep

Xichen: !! :( Are people being difficult at work? 💙

Da-ge: are zixuns being difficult at work

A-Yao: Yes

A-Yao: Need son pics, please

Da-ge: lol to up your blood sugar

Xichen: On it!

A-Yao: Something like that

A-Yao: ❤❤❤

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: [sent video]

Xichen: [sent picture]

Da-ge: !

A-Yao: My god

A-Yao: They’re like drugs

Xichen: Better? 💙🥰

A-Yao: Better than drugs, yes

Xichen: 😂 Not what I meant but I’m glad! I have so many more.

Da-ge: who won the fight

Xichen: 😂 He’s playing DRUMS in that picture, Da-ge.

Xichen: It’s his music class.

Xichen: We Lan eschew violence.

Da-ge: yeah

Da-ge: that’s why wangji almost took a chunk out of my thigh when he was a kid

Xichen: 😬

A-Yao: Hush, I’m basking

Da-ge: lol

TUESDAY

<9:56 AM>

Lan Xichen: [sent video]

A-Yao: Why does he sound like that? Is that normal?

Da-ge: gollum

Xichen: 😂

Xichen: I was thinking more sink drain, but that too!

A-Yao: Our son is not GOLLUM

Xichen: He’s started making that noise when he’s happy, A-Yao, it's alright! 💙 He does it especially when he looks at the tiger toy A-Yu got him. Or when he’s going to the bathroom.

Da-ge: lol

Da-ge: he has your smile

Xichen: Not sure that’s possible, Da-ge😂

A-Yao: I actually agree with Da-ge

A-Yao: I think it's the eyes

Da-ge: yeah

Xichen: Hmm, well his mother's father's father was my father's cousin, I believe. Or second cousin, I can never rightly remember. Several branches off, we'll say.

Xichen: Maybe my father was the common link.

<2:27 PM>

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: I don't see it, really.

Da-ge: see what

Da-ge: whose that

Xichen: A similarity in our smiles.

A-Yao: Is that your father???

Xichen: Yes.

A-Yao: !!!!

Da-ge: i didnt know you had pictures of him

Xichen: I don't, I asked Wangji if shufu had ever shown him any. He was visiting him with Wuxian and A-Yuan today, so I suppose he found one.

A-Yao: Or Wuxian did.

Da-ge: snoop

Xichen: Well, maybe 😋 I didn't ask.

A-Yao: Hmm

A-Yao: People don’t always use their real smile for pictures

<3:04 PM>

Da-ge: ?

Xichen: Hm?

A-Yao: Are you okay?

Xichen: Yes? Why wouldn’t I be? 🤗

Da-ge: you went quiet

Xichen: 😉 I'm fine.

Da-ge: ??

Xichen: 😘 I'm fine.

A-Yao: Er-ge

Xichen: Truly, I'm fine! A-Fu and I are at the park.

Xichen: [sent picture]

A-Yao: 😍

Da-ge: ❤️

Da-ge: how did you get him to wear the sunglasses

Xichen: Patience and sweet potato puffs.

Xichen: He also threw them on the ground directly after the photo, so don’t praise me too much 😂

Da-ge: distraction

Xichen: ?

A-Yao: You’re cheating, Er-ge

Xichen: Cheating?? Cheating what?? How??

Da-ge: 🙄

Xichen: It was just odd to think I’ve never seen his real smile. I'm not even thinking about it anymore, I'm keeping A-Fu from eating sand! I can call you to prove it but really, it was just a thought. I'M FINE 💙

A-Yao: I'm bringing home eclairs from Jean’s

Xichen: 🤩🥰 A-Fu is EXCITED!

Xichen: [sent picture]

A-Yao: 😭😭

Da-ge: so fuckin cute

Da-ge: how are his cheeks so big

Da-ge: chipmunk cheeks

A-Yao: This one is going in the next batch I’m printing

Xichen: 🥰

Da-ge: we’re gonna run out of wall space by the time hes 1

WEDNESDAY

<5:17 PM>

A-Yao: Eggs

Rice

Okra

Coffee

Da-ge: ok ty

THURSDAY

<12:47 PM>

Xichen: [sent picture]

A-Yao: ❤

Da-ge: daww

FRIDAY

<8:24 AM>

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: I do not enjoy stepping on Cheerios, I’ve found. Whether wet or dry.

Da-ge: lol good luck

<9:17 AM>

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: Oops 😬

Da-ge: well we were gonna give him a bath tonite anyway

A-Yao: How???????

A-Yao: It was on the counter!

Xichen: I was vacuuming after the Breakfast Cheerio Disaster and then I turn around and, well, plant down.

A-Yao: Did it fall on him??

Xichen: Nope! He just dug around in the dirt and remnants after he managed to pull it down.

Da-ge: kids are sturdy

Xichen: I don't understand how he can climb but can't walk yet???

Da-ge: monkey genes

A-Yao: Technically ape

Da-ge: 🙄

Xichen: 🙈

A-Yao: Where was that from again? That garden store downtown? I can pick up a new one omw home

Xichen: We might be able to repot it, they seem pretty sturdy. Maybe go pick up a hanging one this time, though?

Xichen: I'm just glad we made sure all the plants werj;/ abb noewlp

Xichen: Sorry, he slapped the phone out of my hand and it sent. We made sure all the plants were non-toxic if eaten or I'd be having a heart attack right now 😱

A-Yao: HE AUE IT?? ?

Da-ge: you didnt see the dirt in his mouth? kids put shit directly in there as default there’s no stopping it

A-Yao: IS HE OKAY???

Xichen: I called poison control even after looking it up online. Totally fine! There was only a little bit gone, after all.

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: See?

Da-ge: lol i was imagining cartoon bite marka but that makes more sense

Xichen: 😂 He doesn't even have teeth yet!

A-Yao: Is his tummy upset???

A-Yao: has he poop ed??

A-Yao: did they say we should feed him something or make him dirnk water or ???

Xichen: My love, he's COMPLETELY fine, I promise.

Xichen: Look!

Xichen: [sent picture]

Da-ge: tiny feet ❤️

Da-ge: cant stand that show tho

Xichen: Actually, I find it oddly soothing.

Da-ge: you had no tv growing up. huaisanf was addicted to fuckin telletubbies for AGES

Da-ge: gets old really fast

Da-ge: hate how they talk

Da-ge: youre still panicking aren't you ayao

A-Yao: No

Xichen: And what does WebMD have to say? 😂

A-Yao: …

A-Yao: That it’s nontoxic to humans and pets.

Da-ge: lol

Da-ge: like he said

Xichen: 😂

A-Yao: I apologize for overreacting.

A-Yao: I wasn’t trying to question your competence.

Xichen: A-Yao, no! I didn’t take it that way!

A-Yao: It’s fine!

Xichen: I’m sorry, A-Yao, we shouldn’t have teased you when you were worried about A-Fu :(

A-Yao: It’s fine!

Xichen: Love, please pick up.

Xichen: A-Yao, please call me.

A-Yao: I'm fine! :)

Da-ge: bullshit

Da-ge: answer him or me you choose

A-Yao: I'm in a meeting.

Da-ge: i doubt that

Xichen: Please call me when you're out?

A-Yao: Maybe! My schedule is very full today. I'll try to remember.

Da-ge: don't fucking start that just call him

A-Yao: I'm in a meeting.

Da-ge: then promise to answer after

A-Yao: I’ll try to remember.

Da-ge: you don’t forget shit set an alarm to remember then instead of being a child

Xichen: Da-ge please that’s not going to help

Da-ge: its stupid if he’s going to have a problem with something we said and not fix it

Da-ge: just fucking tell us instead of the pasive aggressive shit

Da-ge: he knows that

Xichen: You know that’s not how it works. Please don’t do this here, just text me privately. A-Yao, we’re not talking about you behind your back

Da-ge: thers no other way TO talk to him when he does this

Da-ge: this can literally be over right now if he just answered his stupid phone

Xichen: Please stop. Call me.

<10:01 AM>

Xichen: No one’s angry with you, A-Yao 💙 You can call in your own time!!

<1:45 PM>

Xichen: I’m going to make some stir fry for tonight! 2 batches, one with meat and one without! Extra bamboo shoots! 😊😊😎 Any requests?

<3:32 PM>

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: A-Fu Baxia cuddle puddle 😴🐱👶🥰

<5:07 PM>

A-Yao: Im sorry

A-Yao: I was being stupid

A-Yao: I’m sorry

A-Yao: I wont do it again

Xichen: Shhh, call me, Da-ge came home early, we can all talk 💙💙💙💙

SUNDAY

<11:05 AM>

A-Yao: Why do stores rearrange everything so often??

A-Yao: Is this the right brand??

A-Yao: [sent picture]

Xichen: I think? Show me the back?

A-Yao: [sent picture]

Xichen: I think they just changed the packaging, it should still be the right one!

A-Yao: 👍

<2:43 PM>

Xichen: Can Huaisang still babysit tonight after A-Fu goes down?

Da-ge: he says yes

Xichen: Perfect!

<4:33 PM>

Da-ge: thought you two were going out for dinner? isnt that why you needed asang?

Xichen: Something happened with a last minute change to a contract and he has to go in to oversee changes, but I need to run some errands anyway, so I’ll take advantage of the expanded mobility 😂

Xichen: It’s surprisingly difficult to shop for baby clothes with a baby in tow.

Da-ge: sucks

Xichen: Yes, but there’s always next time!

MONDAY

<8:07 AM>

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: We love Papa’s breakfast!

Da-ge: ❤

TUESDAY

<12:18 PM>

Xichen: Da-ge, A-Yao came home with one of his headaches--I'm going to take A-Fu out so he can sleep and I'm putting his phone downstairs so he isn't tempted to use it. Can you check on him when you get home? 💙

Da-ge: I will

Da-ge: poor ayao ❤

Xichen: I know 😢 Love you!

Da-ge: love you both

Da-ge: let me know if i should bring something home

Xichen: Right now, I think he just needs some sleep for now, he caught it early instead of pushing through (for once)!

Xichen: Proud of you, A-Yao!

<8:57 PM>

A-Yao: ❤

WEDNESDAY

<11:34 AM>

Da-ge: [sent picture]

Da-ge: what is this shit

A-Yao: Ugh

Xichen: Sigh.

<2:04 PM>

Xichen: Look what just came on my photo roll!💙

Xichen: [sent picture]

A-Yao: Ahh, Da-ge in an apron, my favorite

Da-ge: lol

Da-ge: i remember that day

THURSDAY

<6:41 AM>

A-Yao: [sent picture]

<7:25 AM>

Xichen: !!!!!!!!!!!

Xichen: A-Yao is so handsome 👀💙

Da-ge: love when you wear that one

Da-ge: it’s sexy

A-Yao: 😌

<7:40 AM>

A-Yao: Not overtly, right?

A-Yao: Not somehow inappropriate?

Da-ge: fuck no you just look good in a suit

<10:13 AM>

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: Cousins at the library!

A-Yao: Ahh, A-Ling!!!

A-Yao: 😍😍

Xichen: A-Fu’s being very gentle!

Da-ge: good!

Xichen: I saw Mary there!

Da-ge: basoonist?

A-Yao: No, that’s Mari. Mary is the percussionist, curly hair, glasses, nose ring

Xichen: She says they miss me, which was very sweet.

Da-ge: still trying to get you back?

Xichen: I said I didn’t know when I’d be back as director, which is the truth!

Da-ge: you don’t have to apologize for anything

Xichen: I know 😊

Da-ge: mmm

SATURDAY

<4:55 PM>

Xichen: Will you be home for dinner, Da-ge?

Da-ge: no they moved my flight up

Xichen: We’ll miss you!! 😙

A-Yao: Fly safe! Do you have all your IDs and chargers? Do you have your meds? Did you get your motorcycle in for the scrape?

Da-ge: yea yea yea no

A-Yao: Should I have A-Su drive it in? She’s very responsible

Xichen: I didn’t know she rides motorcycles!

A-Yao: She got her license but doesn’t have a bike yet

Da-ge: nah it’s fine i’ll get to it when i’m back

Da-ge: leaving earlier means im only out for 4 days instead of 7

Da-ge: more meetings but

Xichen: Make sure to get lots of rest! Don’t burn yourself out.

A-Yao: Good!

A-Yao: [sent picture]

A-Yao: FuFu says “love you, Papa”

Da-ge: ❤

Da-ge: my boys

SUNDAY

<8:45 AM>

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: Morning!

Da-ge: ❤

A-Yao: 😍

A-Yao: So cute

A-Yao: Also I love that braid, Er-ge

Da-ge: everything ok there?

Xichen: Going swimming-ly! 😉🏊‍♂️

Da-ge: lol

<7:02 PM>

Da-ge: how was the dinner with the all the jins

Xichen: Loud but good fun! A-Fu loved it.

Xichen: [sent picture]

A-Yao: I want to schedule them more regularly

<8:22 PM>

Da-ge: night

Da-ge: lov you

A-Yao: Poor sleepy Da-ge. Love you

Xichen: We love you!

MONDAY

<7:00 AM>

Xichen: ☕

Da-ge: [sent picture]

Da-ge: how did you know

Xichen: 😁 We are creatures of habit.

<6:11 PM>

A-Yao: Toilet’s doing that thing again

Da-ge: fuck

Da-ge: upstairs one?

A-Yao: Yep

Xichen: I’ll call the plumber but it’s late and short notice so 😬 We'll see!

<6:32 PM>

A-Yao: [sent picture]

Xichen: Little gremlin 🥰

Da-ge: adorable

<8:20 PM>

Da-ge: goodnight love you all

Xichen: Love you! Baxia misses her Papa and so does A-Fu! 💙 A-Yao’s making popcorn, he says ‘We love you, dream of us’ from the kitchen!

Da-ge: lol will do

Da-ge: hows the toilet

Xichen: We are taking care of it, focus on work! 💙

TUESDAY

<9:03 AM>

A-Yao: Can someone call

Xichen: You okay??

Da-ge: eating lunch whats up

A-Yao: Murder

Xichen: Ahhh 💙

Da-ge: are we coming up with scenarios or ar you

<12:24 PM>

Xichen: Honestly, why don't we bake bread more? The house smells SO good.

Xichen: 🍞

Xichen: I'm making honey butter! 🐝

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: A-Fu approved! 👍

Da-ge: ❤️

A-Yao: Hell day. Want fresh bread

A-Yao: Look at him

A-Yao: So cute

Xichen: I’ll have plenty for when you come home, love! 💙💙💙 I can always make more!

Xichen: I’ll make it again fresh when you get home, Da-ge!

Da-ge: yum

<9:18 PM>

A-Yao: ❤ Sleepy?

Da-ge: eh

Da-ge: a bit

Da-ge: why

A-Yao: Want to video call?

Da-ge: oh? wheres xichen?

A-Yao: [sent picture]

WEDNESDAY

<7:01 AM>

Xichen: Good morning! ☀☕

Da-ge: lol

Da-ge: bet you slept good

A-Yao: Oh, he’s very pleased with himself. It was all his idea, actually

Da-ge: is he blushing

A-Yao: Yes, it’s very cute

Da-ge: lol ❤

<9:39 AM>

A-Yao: [sent picture]

A-Yao: ???

Xichen: 😂

Da-ge: wtf

<6:27 PM>

Da-ge: timezones suck

Da-ge: work trips suck

Xichen: 😟💙

Xichen: Need to talk?

Da-ge: just complaining

Da-ge: wanna go home

A-Yao: We all want you here

<8:00 PM>

Xichen: Goodnight, Da-ge. We love you and can’t wait to pick you up on Friday!

THURSDAY

<8:05 AM>

Xichen: Last day apart! Good morning! 🌈

Da-ge: thank fuck

A-Yao: I do not say this lightly, but I’m ready for the weekend

A-Yao: Can we go out to dinner somewhere when he gets back? That bistro place?

Xichen: 🤩 A wonderful idea.

<11:26 PM>

Da-ge: so fuckin horny

A-Yao: Oh?

A-Yao: Lonely, Da-ge?

A-Yao: Xichen fell asleep on the couch, here. I’m all alone in our bed

A-Yao: I can just imagine you there, in the dark, touching yourself

A-Yao: Did you hold back until you ached? Probably not, hm? You can be so impatient sometimes

A-Yao: Did you even get your pants off?

A-Yao: What were you thinking of? Or who?

A-Yao: Are you remembering our call together?

A-Yao: Xichen was magnificent, wasn’t he?

A-Yao: So were you

Da-ge: fjck

A-Yao: You know what? I’m going to call. I want to hear you

FRIDAY

<7:14 AM>

Xichen: Oh my 😏

Xichen: Good morning! ☀ Seems like you had fun last night!

A-Yao: Sometimes you miss out when you go to sleep at grandpa hour 🤷‍♂️😉

Da-ge: the mouth on you

A-Yao: You came so hard, too

Xichen: PLEASE no dirty talk when I have no recourse, the Backyardigans are not the right backdrop for this convo 😩

Da-ge: lol

Da-ge: you just wait for tonight

Xichen: 😳

<12:13 PM>

Xichen: You emailed me the new gate information, yes?

Da-ge: ya

Da-ge: see you tonight ❤

<5:35 PM>

A-Yao: Here!

Da-ge: 15 minutes out

Da-ge: just landed

A-Yao: We’re by the vending machine

<6:44 PM>

Da-ge: diaper bag out of wipes

A-Yao: On it, there’s emergencies in the car

MONDAY

<6:16 AM>

Da-ge: i just saw the morherfucker scratched the door getting it in

Da-ge: couldn’t see it in the dark

<7:30 AM>

Xichen: ? Who? It?

Da-ge: plumber

Da-ge: toilet

Da-ge: [sent picture]

Xichen: Yikes, I must have missed that, I’ve been coming in the back.

Xichen: The plumbing company should cover it, right?

A-Yao: If you make it their problem enough, I’m sure they will. This is the right one, yes?

A-Yao: [sent picture]

Da-ge: yes

Xichen: Yes.

A-Yao: On it

<7:56 AM>

A-Yao: Idiots

Xichen: It’s not too terrible, it won’t be a problem. It’s not like we don’t have money!

A-Yao: No.

Da-ge: there he goes

A-Yao: It’s the principle of the thing, now

Da-ge: honestly agree

<8:11 AM>

A-Yao: Done. They’ll pay for whatever replacement or repair

Xichen: Ahh, persistent A-Yao saves the day! 🥳

<10:28 AM>

A-Yao: Omg call me when you're done with your appt, gege

A-Yao: I have stories about the assholes from music class

Xichen: A-Yao, they're BABIES 😆

Xichen: Was it A-Chi? They have a bit of a rivalry.

A-Yao: LANDON

Xichen: Ohh nooo! 😱 One second, I'm paying.

Da-ge: i've got 10 min before my meeting with the contractor

A-Yao: EVEN BETTER

Xichen: 👶🍵

Da-ge: wtf is that

Xichen: Baby tea!

A-Yao: I love you so much ❤

Da-ge: ???

Xichen: Ask Huaisang about it later! 😃 He will probably groan because I'm old and using slang 👴

Xichen: Calling now!

TUESDAY

<2:27 PM>

A-Yao: Do we have chicken at home?

Xichen: Nuggets but no breasts.

Da-ge: lol

A-Yao: I'm not going to grace that with a response. Chicken Parm for dinner?

Xichen: Yum!

Da-ge: works for me

A-Yao: A-Yu’s coming tonight with A-Yuan, remember

Xichen: Yes!

Da-ge: yep

WEDNESDAY

<1:02 PM>

Xichen: I feel terrible. I didn’t reapply the sunscreen on his neck well enough.

Xichen: Look.

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: I’m sorry. I’m going to run him an oatmeal bath and get aloe. I’m going to order him a sunhat right now. I won’t let it happen again.

A-Yao: Oh Er-ge, it happens, don’t feel bad

A-Yao: It’s not so bad, just a little pink!

Xichen: It will get darker. They always do.

Xichen: I was just reading about UVB and how our ozone is getting thinner and the rising rates. I should have been more diligent.

Da-ge: a little sunburn isn’t the end of the world xichen

Da-ge: hes gonna be fine

Xichen: It can give you melanoma.

Da-ge: hes literally 10 mo he’s not gonna get melanoma from 1 sunburn

Da-ge: asang once turned bright red like a lobster and he’s fine

A-Yao: Provisionally 😁

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: Is that enough oatmeal, do you think? I added some honey as well, they say that it would help.

Da-ge: youre going to kill our pipes

A-Yao: ER-GE YOU’RE GOING TO STRAIN THAT BEFORE YOU DRAIN IT, YES??

Da-ge: ^

Xichen: I know.

A-Yao: Please don’t beat yourself up, it happens

A-Yao: We’ll all be careful and we’ll put aloe on him

A-Yao: Is he in pain?

Xichen: I don’t know. He seems alright. A little more cranky. He fell asleep on the way home from the splash pad.

Da-ge: sunburn can do that

Da-ge: you didn’t do anything wrong

Da-ge: its a fact of life and all kids will get sunburn

A-Yao: It’s his first one, it’s not going to hurt him

Xichen: We’ll go to the library and children’s museums this week instead to let it fully heal.

A-Yao: Alright, sweetheart, that sounds like a good plan ❤

<6:08 PM>

Da-ge: they said they dont carry those tongs anymore

Xichen: Drat.

THURSDAY

<10:02 AM>

Da-ge: why the fuck is this class called mommy and me

Da-ge: its weird

Xichen: 😂

Xichen: How heteronormative of them!

Da-ge: plus the kid isn't the one paying or driving

A-Yao: Marketing, probably, but I agree

Da-ge: lady is looking at me all confused

Da-ge: think she's trying to place me

Xichen: Mm, a bit old for a nanny? 😁

A-Yao: She's like 'there's GOT to be a mommy here somewhere…'

Da-ge: lol

Da-ge: [sent picture]

A-Yao: 😍😍😍 His little butt!

Da-ge: he's so weird

A-Yao: He is not! He's perfect!

Xichen: All children are weird, A-Yao, it's alright 💙 Why is he upside down?

Da-ge: who knows

Da-ge: at the sand table now

Xichen: 😬

Da-ge: i’ll take the car to be vacuumed after

Xichen: 💙 Thank you!

A-Yao: FuFu likes the carwash with all the lights!

Da-ge: ok

FRIDAY

<5:43 PM>

A-Yao: Are we alright on fruit?

Xichen: Apples would be good!

<8:21 PM>

A-Yao: I’m going to be later than I thought, don’t wait up

Xichen: Drive safe!

SATURDAY

<10:39 AM>

Da-ge: [sent picture]

Da-ge: 👍👎?

Xichen: 👍👍👍👍👍👀

A-Yao: Holy shit

A-Yao: Buy that shirt right now

Xichen: Yes PLEASE, Da-ge! 🙏

Da-ge: lol

Da-ge: well alright then

Da-ge: 😏

Xichen: I’m legitimately flustered right now, I can’t focus 😵

Xichen: I keep looking at this picture,

A-Yao: When are you coming home???

Da-ge: lol

SUNDAY

<9:37 AM>

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: Coolest kid in the grocery store 😎

A-Yao: 😍

A-Yao: This grout is fucking horrible

A-Yao: [sent picture]

Xichen: I’ll grab more of the heavy duty stuff, then.

Da-ge: youre both insane

Da-ge: lan qiren is not going to look at the grout

Da-ge: and the dinners not til wed

Xichen: To be fair to us, he very much will look at the grout.

MONDAY

<8:53 AM>

A-Yao: more watr pls

Xichen: 👍💙

<10:21 AM>

A-Yao: watrre pls

Xichen: 💙💙

<1:13 PM>

A-Yao: help

Da-ge: ??? ayao?

Xichen: All is well! Help getting up is what he meant 💙

Da-ge: hows he doing

Xichen: Not much better than how you left him, I’m afraid ☹

Xichen: He won’t let me cancel the dinner.

A-Yao: will be fin

Da-ge: get off the phone

Da-ge: and sleep

Da-ge: xichen you should confiscate his phone

A-Yao: using it 4 help

Da-ge: SLEEP

A-Yao: then stop txtin

Xichen: I scolded him very gently, but we should all let him get some rest 💙

<4:11 PM>

Xichen: Pedialyte and more painkillers and crackers, please!

Xichen: Oh, and maybe ginger ale?

Da-ge: ok ty

WEDNESDAY

<8:02 AM>

Xichen: I’m sorry I’m so behind on laundry, everyone.

Xichen: I should have been more on top of it.

Da-ge: its FINE

Da-ge: i still have like a weeks worth of boxers

Da-ge: youve been taking care of ayao and afu

Xichen: I kept meaning to get to it.

Da-ge: srsly

Da-ge: your shufu isnt going to even be in our room he’s not gonna know about what laundry you did or did’t do

Xichen: It’s not about that.

Da-ge: it is tho

Da-ge: xichen

Da-ge: what are you doing

Xichen: Cleaning the kitchen, why?

Da-ge: you already did that

Da-ge: can you just chill out for a bit?

Da-ge: call over asang or asu or yanli and go out for a bit on your own

Xichen: I don’t want them to get sick.

Da-ge: ayao overworked himself

Da-ge: you know his immune thing

Xichen: I’m fine, I don’t need them to come over! 😊

Da-ge: im rolling my eyes so hard at you rght now

Da-ge: did you eat?

<9:27 AM>

Da-ge: xichen did you eat

<10:11 AM>

Da-ge: answer your phone

Xichen: Sorry! I left it in the family room while I washed windows! Calling now!

THURSDAY

<9:43 AM>

Da-ge: i’m glad we’re all sane again

A-Yao: 🙄

Xichen: Don’t pick fights, you two 😂

Da-ge: mm

<12:20 PM>

Xichen: [sent picture]

Xichen: So sleepy 💙

A-Yao: He’s SO cute

A-Yao: Is he going to think we’re creepy when he’s older?

Da-ge: ???

A-Yao: We have so many pictures of him sleeping…

Xichen: 😂

<5:04 PM>

A-Yao: I have to work late, rain check on the soup?

Xichen: Oh.

Xichen: Of course! See you when you get home 💙

A-Yao: I’m sorry ☹

Xichen: It’s alright! It happens.

Xichen: Love you.

A-Yao: Love you, too 💙

Da-ge: again??

SATURDAY

<11:31 AM>

Xichen: Oh, turns out we don’t have Draino! We need some, please.

A-Yao: 👍

SUNDAY

<4:19 PM>

Xichen: Poor Da-ge is crying at The Fox and the Hound 💙😭

A-Yao: Oh, that one is BRUTAL

Xichen: Lilo and Stitch levels of crying.

A-Yao: Hug him for me ❤️

MONDAY

<10:29 AM>

Xichen: A message from your son!

Xichen: irriOydristI

Xichen: Rogzkgz,lgsoycllydglci k🙁🤐s

Xichen: s😖d😒d🛌xx🦋🐙s🎳🕐📥aa

Xichen: ➿Dd

A-Yao: He opened the emojis!

A-Yao: He’s so smart!

Da-ge: i hope youre joking but know youre not

Xichen: A-Fu says ‘Baba and Papa should stop arguing’! 👶

Da-ge: lol

WEDNESDAY

<12:15 PM>

Xichen: [sent picture]

A-Yao: Holyshit

A-Yao: Holyshitholyshit

Xichen: Really? I thought it was amusing…😅

Da-ge: fuck thats so hot

Da-ge: why is that so hot

Xichen: 😳😳

A-Yao: Remind me to thank Huaisang for his gag gift

A-Yao: Cryptically, of course

Da-ge: where did you find that even?

Xichen: Back of the closet! You’ve never worn it, right?

Da-ge: i mean its a crop top

Da-ge: not really my style

A-Yao: Maybe it should be….

Da-ge: hmmmm

Xichen: 👀 I require…proof.

Da-ge: i need you to wear that while i fuck you

Xichen: 😳😳😳

A-Yao: Oh my god

A-Yao: Who?

Da-ge: yes

A-Yao: What’s that meme? ‘I will not spend the rest of the evening consumed with lust’?

Xichen: Well…decluttering surely has its advantages.

Xichen: I’m going to…take a break for a while.

A-Yao: 😏

A-Yao: Well, there’s Da-ge gone

A-Yao: Ah, Er-ge as well, it seems

A-Yao: Well, SOMEONE has to work to pay the bills around here :P

<12:50 PM>

Xichen: 🙁

A-Yao: No no

A-Yao: Sweetheart, I was joking, you know I would NEVER mean it in that way

Xichen: I know 💙

A-Yao: I know you worry about your choice to stay home

A-Yao: And like we’ve told you every time you mention it, we both fully support you doing so ❤❤❤❤

Da-ge: yes

A-Yao: I shouldn’t have said it that way. It was careless. I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt you.

Xichen: You didn’t.

Da-ge: bs

Xichen: :P

A-Yao: Can I call?

Xichen: Of course 🥰

<2:04 PM>

Xichen: Sorry for being a boner killer, before 😂

Da-ge: lol

Da-ge: i think all the boners had been taken care of byu that point

Da-ge: youre fine ❤

Da-ge: im just glad you said something at all

Da-ge: usually you don’t

Xichen: I’m…trying. To be better about it.

A-Yao: ❤❤❤❤❤❤

TUESDAY

<10:19 AM>

Da-ge: you bite so hard

Da-ge: my nipple is still sore

A-Yao: Awww 🥺 Lemme see

Da-ge: im not sending shirtless pics at work

A-Yao: Mm, should have kept wearing the crop top, obviously

Xichen: 😂 Easier access?

A-Yao: Exactly

A-Yao: Come home and let me kiss it better 😘

Da-ge: 🙄

Xichen: This is all very distracting when you're in the dairy aisle, you know 😂

A-Yao: Then get out of the dairy aisle and come home ❤️

A-Yao: FuFu 's asleep

A-Yao: Just went down, we swam all morning so he'll be asleep a long time

Xichen: Paying

A-Yao: [sent a picture]

Da-ge: fuck

Xichen: O mw

A-Yao: Seems we have a winning outfit on our hands!

Da-ge: smug gremlin

A-Yao: 😊

#modern 3zun #my stuff #my fic #3zun #they make me smile #not the au I thought I would be updating but it has the same amount of fathers in it! So I was right #Contains crop top adventures and NieYao judging people together #I just feel like Xichen is one of those people who REALLY try to communicate through text with emojis and tone #Like it comes off as really peppy but he's trying to be either transparent or purposefully obscure to direct the conversation #I feel like he also enjoys showing affection and so he allows himself to be goopy in this private chat #With normal texting he's concise and friendly but tones down the emojis and exclamation marks #Those are for His People

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daydadahlias · 9 months

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There was an ask before about how MiM Ashton probably gets happy when he makes bubble float while doing dishes, and so I decided to draw it!

STOP OMG THIS IS THE CUTEST THING IN THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM LOSING MY MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#THE LITTLE WORDS #ofc he would tell cal ofc he would giggle #the fact that this isnt a scene in the fic #im such an idiot it should have been #pigeon #1loulu5 #the little blush marks stop it #and his little pink shirt #this is just so fucking adorable i love how little and chibi he is #and all the marks in his hair are such a cute stylistic choice!!!#especially the lil curl on top omggggg #how fucking precious #thank you sm rory omg #u little angel baby thank u

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yikeshereiam · 1 year

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you shake my nerves and you rattle my brain

Liam settles himself into his usual seat, ignoring the glance Hayden shoots over her shoulder. Trying not to bristle at the concern within her gaze. He’s fine. The couple of hours he spent holed up in the gym, trying to shake off the anger in his veins after Theo’s pissing contest, and the ass-chewing he’d gotten from Deaton, was enough to mellow him out. He’s not planning to go for Theo’s throat.

That doesn’t mean he’s above glaring in his direction though. Which is something he’s ensured to do ever since. Even during the game of dogfight football Derek had dragged them all out onto the beach to play. Or the subsequent beach barbecue after party. Both of which Theo had spent shirtless. Torso glistening in the sun. Abs on full display. Pecks perky. Just generally built to appear on the cover of some male modelling magazine, and not on the beach outside the Hard Deck.

Not that Liam was paying any attention to the way he looked. He was– and still is— pissed, after all.

#chapter 5!!#half-way mark guys #liam dunbar #theo raeken #thiam #thiam fic #thiam fanfic #theo x liam #top gun au #teen wolf

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57sfinest · 1 year

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2, 3, 7 and 24 lol

2. a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

mmm i'm gonna go a little sideways from the prompt because harry isn't necessarily my fave but i just do want to say i don't think this man is topping. i think the emotional fallout from martinaise has stripped him of his ability to ever top or dom or be in charge in any sexual capacity like ever again. someone tries to get him to top and he gets the thousand yard stare like oh no... i dont top..... not since The Accident..... like already immediately post-amnesia you've got these comments saying sober sex is scary for him, his blood flow is bad from the alcoholism so his dick is operating at a generous 48% capacity, he's got chronic pain + will probably feel that bullet in his thigh forever and ever and this is a perfect storm that equals to This Man Aint Topping. physical and emotional agony if this man even tries. you put this man in a situation where he's expected to top and he says 'i can't... not after everything women have been through...'

that being said i think if you can convince him that there is a shortage of tops for the future communist utopia of revachol & you remind him "from each according to his means" etc he might try. like if you tell him mazov topped then it might actually work. but otherwise call this man a cheese pizza cuz there's no topping here

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

there have been many. but i think one that angers me the most is the idea that dora was somehow wrong for leaving harry. i did see once (many months ago) that she should have stayed because of what the breakup did to him and i know for a FACT that person completely missed the point of the last dream on the seafort. that shit was crazy

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

i'm very good at maintaining my own separate opinions so there's no character i HATE but [strapping on my bulletproof vest] kim took a back burner in my brain for a while because the sheer volume of genuine sincere unironic 'kim is a good cop and his purpose in life is to be harry's support system' i saw was like. mind numbing. i'm not talking about lighthearted fun with his character i was seeing people genuinely believing that shit and i got so sick of it that kim became a secondary consideration for a while. i do love him his character is super interesting & i'm currently working on an analysis, but i think it was a case of oversaturation for a few months there

24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

i am lucky to have not seen much but i think one of the things i see start some conflict is that there are 2 equally good and valuable types of Disco Enjoyment: 1) silly goofy fun and 2) full 10th-grade-english-teacher-mode analysis. and people can do both but i personally have deleted several anons who i think didn't realize this fact and therefore took my character analysis posts as personal attacks on the Silly Goofy Fun activities rather than the braindumps they were. most of the rancid shit i HAVE seen has mostly come down to: we are looking at the same thing through different levels of detail and canon-compliancy and are forgetting that Ignoring That Shit is an option

#harry refused to bottom before martinaise (wouldnt even acknowledge hes bi). after martinaise he wont top. cant top.#walking out of the bedroom covered in kiss marks but limp dick thousand yard stare etc guys cmon he just cant #he can try very very hard maybe if he is really pressed to it but he won't be any good at it.#he forgot how to top. the amnesia took it from him. but have no fear. my boy still knows how to lay there and get choked out #also i do love kim i just . a lot of racism surrounding the way (mostly twitter people tbh) he is treated #especially in the context of becoming harry's entire support system & that being framed as his whole Purpose. that sort of stuff #it's ok though i wanna write some fics with him soon #kiwipost #ask #ask game #& also my analysis posts are never meant as 'i am smarter than you' i NEED to tear media apart with my teeth or i grow ill and die #i just post my thoughts bc it keeps them organized & people might like to see new angles

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salemoleander · 2 years

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Concept: Ren and Bdubs and Scar and Cleo all awkwardly sitting around the Square table in the Crastle. No one is making eye contact. The vibes are Extremely Bad.

Joe is cheerfully ignoring this and doodling a new pinball design in the margins of the meeting notes

Cub is hidden inside his massive dragon head, silently trying to google if you're legally allowed to quit a king's court

#cleo #bdubs #scar #ren #cub #joe hills #uhhhhhh #fic #i guesssss question mark #not putting an actual q mark bc it pushes things to the top of the tag list #s9 #salem tag #salem fic

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bearsinpotatosacks · 7 months

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Familiar Faces - Whumptober2023

I don't need you to help me, I can handle things myself

“She’s got stage four terminal lung cancer, it spread to her liver and she just finished chemotherapy.”

For a moment, they didn’t say anything. Not for long, you couldn’t stop for long in cases like this. The kid gulped, his eyes shiny with tears. He didn’t look defensive anymore, he looked like a scared kid, like he’d lost his mum in a grocery store.

“See you did need me,” he said with a sniff. “She’s not allergic to anything and her blood type is B positive.”

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After a rumble at a baseball game, the Bradshaws end up in County Hospital, Chicago

For day 15 of @whumptober . Also on AO3. Set in S3 of ER after Susan Lewis leaves

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Doug placed the chart in the rack and sighed. Mark looked up, pen in hand as he scribbled something onto the bottom quickly.

"If I have to see another baseball this year, I think I'll lose it." He said.

Doug turned to look at the two teams, and their parents, loitering around the ER. From minor cuts, to broken arms and concussions, he didn’t know a high school baseball game could go so wrong. Maybe it's because one was from Texas. They were all cowboys.

"Don’t let anyone else hear you say that, you'll make us lose the game against radiology this year," Mark said with a laugh.

"That's impossible and you know it, a three year streak's hard to beat."

"Don’t say that," he said. "You'll jinx us."

He looked back down at his chart. Doug would never say it was quiet, he wasn't an intern, but he was surprised that despite how many people were around, it wasn’t busy or hectic like usual. He could hear himself think for once.

"Whatcha working on?" Doug asked, peaking at the chart in his hands.

"Sixteen year old with bruised knuckles and a mild concussion,"

He pointed to a medium sized teen with a shaved head in Curtain Two. The coach was giving him a lecture and from what he was reading from his body language, he was annoyed. Doug would be too, you get the opportunity to represent your state in a baseball game and ruin it when the two teams end up fighting? He understood exactly where he was coming from.

"Was he the instigator?" He asked.

"No idea." Mark shrugged.

He waved at Carol as she walked over to them, chart in hand. She shoved the chart in Doug's hands and smiled.

"While you two are standing around talking-"

"We were discussing a patient actually-" Doug started.

"While you were standing around talking-" Carol said louder again. "You forgot a minor case."

She pointed to a lanky looking kid in Curtain 1. He had slightly curly brown hair, long like those boy bands all over the TV. His mother was next to him, a scarf on her head and a smile on her face as she fussed over him. He seemed to still be at the age where any overt attention from his mother in public was a death sentence socially. But if he looked close enough, he could see he was loving every minute of it.

"What's the kid's name?"

"Bradley Bradshaw."

Mark stopped writing. He met eyes with Doug as they tried not to laugh.

"What cruel parents," was all Mark said.

"Can you call child protective services for a name?" Doug joked.

Carol, laughing behind her hand, swotted him with her hands until he got moving. Doug sighed and waved goodbye to them, the kid's mother looked up from fussing.

"Mrs Bradshaw I assume?" He said, clicking his pen and scanning the chart. "And you're Bradley."

"Yeah," he said. "Look, you really don’t need to do this, I'm fine!"

Mrs Bradshaw tutted at him and stroked his cheek. "You are not, now let the man do his job and just give you a once over?"

The kid tensed for a second before rolling his eyes and sighing. Doug took that as permission to start. He lent forward, about to see if the cut was any deeper than just a scrape, when Mrs Bradshaw jolted next to him.

"Are you alright?" He asked.

She waved her hand and nodded at him. He went back to the kid but saw his face pale. There was a look in his eye, one he was familiar with as a paediatrician, that didn’t sit right with him.

"Mom-" he started.

"Chick, I'm fine." She said, a little out of breath as her hands gripped the sides of the bed.

"Are you sure, Mrs Bradshaw?" Doug let go of the kid's head. "How about you sit down? I can check you both over?"

His words were a little too late. Her hands let go of the side of the bed. All the blood rushed from her face. Her eyes rolled back and closed as her body hit the floor with a thunk.

"Mom!"

The kid jumped off the bed and was by her side in an instant. He knew where to check for her pulse, checked her breathing too like it was second nature. There might be a future in medicine for this kid.

Mark and Carol stepped in with a board. She wasn't breathing, her body was limp as they moved her onto it in one go and rushed to Trauma One. The kid stayed at their sides as Mark said his usual "gently in 3, 2, 1" as they shifted her onto the bed.

The kid was still there as they intubated her. He was right there trying to hold her hand as they stuck an IV in her arm and took samples for her blood type.

"Look, kid, you need to move out of the way while we work," Mark said, placing his stethoscope on her chest and moving it around as he tried to listen.

"But she's my mom!"

"We know and you don’t have to leave but you can't stand this close," Carol said

She moved him out of the way but the kid just moved back. He wasn’t being defensive but still insisted on being by her side no matter who moved him out of the way.

"Look, if you don't move out of the way, we'll have to take you to the waiting area because we have to work!" Carol tried to get him to move but he just wouldn't.

Doug looked at Mark, who just nodded. He stepped back and took the kid by the arms as he tried to get him to move toward the exit of the trauma room. The kid resisted, holding onto his arm as he tried to push him back again and again.

"Come on, let's get that head looked at okay?"

"My head can wait! I need to be with my mom."

"She'll just be in the other room, okay?" He tried to push him toward the door again.

The kid shoved his arms off but luckily didn't force his way back in again.

"She needs me here."

"She needs the doctors and the nurses to help her, now they can't do their jobs if you're getting in their way."

He was starting to get annoyed now. His short breaths were making his nostrils flare as he made himself an immovable object that would not leave.

“Everything’s already separating us so you can’t blame me for wanting to stay with her.”

Doug immediately thought of a custody battle. His dad wasn’t here. He hadn’t even mentioned him yet she was Mrs Bradshaw. He didn’t want to assume but baseball and sports things were usually dad things to do. Not that he’d know.

“What?” Mark looked up from where he was preparing a needle.

“She’s dying!”

The room stopped. Carol looked down at Mrs Bradshaw then up at the kid. She knew something about losing a parent, even if she didn’t get a chance to be there when she did. Mark stopped, his hands were resting on her chest, he was taking a Pleural Fluid Sample. They’d usually get a phlegm sample but that was kind of hard when your patient was unconscious and had an intubation tube in her mouth. He must suspect pneumonia.

“She’s got stage four terminal lung cancer, it spread to her liver and she just finished chemotherapy.”

“See you did need me,” he said with a sniff. “She’s not allergic to anything and her blood type is B positive.”

He sniffed again as a nurse came back with a sheet of paper.

“Thank you, but we still need room to work.”

The kid sighed and stepped back a bit. “I guess my mom wouldn’t want me to still be hurt when I wake up.”

“That’s the spirit,” Doug said, he then turned to Mark as he left the room. “Will you be okay?”

“Yeah, just get Kerry for me.”

Doug nodded as he left the room. Luckily Kerry was walking his way anyway, he navigated her to Trauma One and pulled the kid along a free bed.

He’d gone from argumentative and resistant to still and quiet. There was something else about him, a hurt deeper than his mum dying. There was a desperation in how he was losing her that was different from other kids he'd seen lose their parents. He wanted to know why.

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After Dr Ross has cleaned the scrape on his head and applied some skin closure strips to it, he let him get up. He hadn’t said anything while he worked. All he could focus on was his mum. She’d seemed fine, well, as fine as she had been for months. He'd told her not to come, that he'd get Mav to come but she kept on saying that she'd missed enough baseball games, she wasn't going to miss this one.

He was really starting to feel guilty now. If she'd have stayed at home then she would be fine. She wouldn't have collapsed in a strange hospital and he wouldn't have been forcibly ripped from her. He knew they were just doing their jobs but he barely liked going to school out of fear that she’d be dead when he got home, let alone let doctors push him away while she wasn’t breathing on a table.

"Can I see her now?" He asked.

Dr Ross looked up from the chart in his hands, "We'll see, shall we?"

He walked him to that room, Trauma One he thought they called it. He was partially glad that he was being led because he wouldn't know where to go otherwise. This place was like a Maze. What made Curtain one any different from curtains two or three?

"You done?" Dr Ross said to the balding one in glasses.

Glasses guy shared a look with another woman with glasses, and a crutch, and the nurse with curly black hair and nodded. There were gloves and gowns strewn over the floor. A machine was beeping behind his mum and he almost collapsed when he saw her.

He didn’t like to see her like this. Her scarf had been pulled off so he could see her bald head. There was a tube in her arm, one in her mouth and a IV pumping something into her body.

Glasses guy pulled off his gloves and held out a hand. "I'm Dr Greene, this is Dr Weaver-" he pointed to the woman with the crutch. "And this is Nurse Hathway."

The woman with the curly hair waved at him and smiled. "Sorry about earlier, thank you for telling us but if you'd just moved out the way-"

Bradley didn’t want to hear it. He just shrugged. "What's wrong with her?" He then added. "Okay, what else is wrong with her?"

"She's got pneumonia," Dr Greene said. "You said she just finished chemotherapy?"

He nodded. He'd started skipping school when she had her sessions at first. She'd gone nuts but he didn’t want her to face it alone. He was terrified at the idea so she had to be too, right?

"Well, her immune system would be weakened and with the travel here, a lot of other kids and parents, and then coming to Chicago, with a lot of other people, it could easily have let her to be infected." He said. "We've just done some tests and are waiting to see what kind she's got so we know how to treat it."

"What kind?" Bradley scratched his head. "There's more than one type of pneumonia?"

"There's five: Viral, caused by a viral infection, bacterial, caused by bacteria, walking, caused by a specific bacteria, fungal, caused by a fungus, and aspiration, caused by breathing in dust or toxic fumes." He gestured towards his mum. "When you saw me with the needle, I was trying to get a sample of the fluid in her lungs so we could see the type of infection, we took an X-Ray and it showed signs of pneumonia so now we're just waiting for confirmation to start treatment."

Dr Weaver, who'd kept quiet up until now, turned to face him. "Can I ask why your mom came? If she's just finished chemotherapy?"

He didn’t want to answer that question. His mum didn’t want anything to stop her, even though she was sick. She’d stormed into his school when she'd found out kids were picking on him for her being sick despite her still vomiting from her chemotherapy. She was wonder woman really.

"She used to come to every baseball game I played, then she got sick and couldn’t, so she wanted to see me play maybe for the last time." He rubbed the back of his neck.

The atmosphere dampened a little. They were doctors, they dealt with death all the time. He was only realising now that just because they saw it, didn’t mean they were always okay with it.

"Is there anyone we can call? Your dad maybe?" She said.

He chuckled. Dr Ross' face sparked something familiar. He didn’t know exactly what.

"You guys really can work miracles,"

"What?" Dr Greene asked.

"You've got a phone that goes to heaven?"

Yet again, the mood dampened. Dr Ross' face fell, it looked like he'd got an answer to something but didn't like the response.

"Your dad's dead?" Nurse Hathway said.

"Yeah, he died when I was four, he was in the Navy, he was the backseater in a jet and broke his neck in a training accident. Died instantly."

He said it with practice. It was a straight up fact, he didn’t remember his dad too much and hated that he didn’t. He had vague memories, soft and warm, something he held onto like a comfort blanket when he was a kid but nothing concrete.

"Was he a flight officer? A RIO?" Dr Greene said.

Bradley stood up straighter, paying more attention. "Yeah, why, do you know the Navy?"

"My dad's a Captain, he worked on aircraft carriers when I was a kid," he shrugged.

"Huh, Captain Greene? I'll have to ask my Uncle Mav if he's heard of him."

"You got a picture?"

He shoved his hands in his pockets and pulled out the faded, folded picture of his dad. It was his Naval Academy graduation photo. His mum gave it to him at his funeral and he'd never let it go since.

"Here."

He handed it to him, Nurse Hathaway peaked over his shoulder and tried not to laugh. Dr Ross joined in too and got the same look on his face, even Dr Weaver seemed shocked.

"Mark, I think you had a long lost brother somewhere," Dr Ross whispered.

"What?"

"He's a spitting image of you! Just give you a moustache or get rid of his hair and you'd be twins!" Nurse Hathaway joked.

"Alright, alright, that's enough give the kid his photo back," Dr Greene, Mark, said.

Nurse Hathaway gave it back with a smile. He folded it up and placed it comfortably in his pocket.

"What was his name?" Dr Greene asked.

"Nick, but his callsign was Goose, so everyone called him that,"

He nodded, "And your mom's name? I just realised we don't actually know it."

"Carole."

"Yeah?" Nurse Hathaway said.

"No, that's her name, Carole, with an -e on the end."

She tilted her head and looked at Dr Greene. "I guess today's full of coincidences, huh?"

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I've been mentally planning crossovers for er and top gun since I started watching it. Anthony Edwards (goose) is Mark Greene in ER, and his dad was a Captain in the Navy on aircraft carriers so the top gun guys could've worked under him before he retired! Also Carole Bradshaw, Carol Hathaway, a lot of similarities. Also Rick Rossovich (slider) and Michael Ironside (Jester) are both in season 1 so early ER is just a top gun reunion honestly. Thanks for reading! @whumptober-archive

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