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jealousy, jealousy- gamer!kate x reader
summary: it seems as though kate loves her playstation more than she loves you
The incessant clicks of the buttons coming from Kate's controller were driving you insane.
Hiding your head under your blankets, you groaned loudly, not that your girlfriend could hear you with her headset on.
The same thing had happened every day since she had gotten her new game.
She'd stay up all night gaming, coming to bed after you had gotten up in the morning. The only exception was when she had to go on missions; then she would go to bed at a reasonable time.
Claiming it was because she had a slightly less busy schedule, she promised to return to a somewhat more normal routine soon.
Unfortunately, you didn't believe her.
Kate often struggled to stick to her word, usually when it came to small things, so it didn't bother you too much. However, it still caused you to doubt her whenever she made a promise occasionally.
You huffed, "Kate?"
No reply.
Getting out of bed, you walked over to her, standing in front of her with a frown.
"Hi, baby," she smiled at you, leaning to the side so she could still see the screen behind you.
"I miss you," you pouted.
"I miss you too," she giggled.
It was difficult to be annoyed with her when she was so sweet and adoring.
"Then come snuggle," you whined slightly, knowing her answer would be no.
"I'm almost finished my game, though," she looked at you sadly.
" But we've barely spent any time together recently," you stared at the floor beneath you.
"I'm sorry," she sighed.
"Don't be," you shook your head.
"But I feel bad," she told you.
She always told you she felt bad but never did anything about it. It was infuriating, but you realised very early in your relationship that Kate needed direct communication as she wasn't good at picking up on hints, no matter how much detail you included.
"So come to bed; all you do is play on your xbox, and it's not fair. The console isn't your girlfriend; I am," you took a step closer to her, tears threatening to spill from your eyes.
"Oh, honey. It's not an xbox, but are you jealous of my playstation?" she giggled, pulling you onto her lap, pausing her game.
"Well, you spend all of your free time on it," you didn't dare make eye contact with her due to the embarrassment of being jealous of an inanimate object.
"I promise I will always love you the most, and I'm sorry I haven't been spending time with you," she picked you up, carrying you into the kitchen and setting you down on the island.
"It's okay; you don't have to apologise; I'm the one who should be sorry. I'm so stupid for-"
"Nope, none of that," she interrupted you, kissing you softly.
She began to walk around the kitchen, preparing two mugs of hot chocolate before turning on your favourite film in the living room.
Carrying you in, she held you tight as you lay on the couch securely in her arms.
"I love you, much more than I love my stupid playstation," she giggled, kissing all over your face until you were laughing with her.
#marvel#avengers#fluff#ybml writes#kate bishop x reader#kate x reader#who's keeping score#who's keeping score au#hawkeye x reader#hawkeye#hailee steinfeld x reader#hailee steinfeld
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Danny gets summoned out of his final exams to help the Justice League with a Multivers-level of tread. Grumbling the entire time, he transforms, helps, and just wants to return home cause, hello he was summoned in the middle of his exams but can't return because of the aftermath. Danny is angry and pissy with them the entire time, with a couple exception in the younger generations like Kon when he learned the guy was a clone.
Meanwhile the batkids started to bet on who of the Justice league will attempt to keep Danny:
Red Hood: I like the kid. I give it three weeks, money is on Wonder Woman.
Red Robin: with how B is. Two on him.
Nightwing: One, Green Lantern has been complaining that he wants a kid.
Spoiler: oh are we betting on mentoring or adoption? I put my money on Constantine for the chaos.
Robin: This is ridicules.... I place it on Jon pestering his father.
Red Robin: wait we are throwing in the Sups now? Change it to one week, Kon likes him ever since he mentioned having a clone sister.
Orphan holding up two fingers.
Signal: Mentor wise, two days, adoption? I give him a week. Doesn't matter who though.
Oracle: oh aren't you all forgetting something? The Justice League Dark was the one doing the summoning, they already stated claim on him.
Danny could only stare flabbergasted at them. Didn't they hear what he said? He needs to find a way back home, his final exams were at stake, his sister, the older one, would kill him if he bombed them.
#danny phantom#danny fenton#dp x dc#dpxdc#crossover#jason todd#damian wayne#tim drake#dick grayson#stephenie brown#cassandra cain#duke thomas#summoned danny#he was in the middle of his exams#danny is not amused#the batkids are betting on who gets danny#they will attempt to keep him#he just wants to get back tho#jazz will not be happy about his exam scores#random late night thoughts
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Okay let's put this stupid semantics argument to bed right now:
Judaism is not Zionism, obviously, because Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people and Zionism is an amalgamation of political beliefs supporting the idea of Jewish self-determination in eretz Yisrael. They are two different things. Obviously.
However, you cannot separate Zionism from Jewish identity and Judaism, because Zionism is fundamentally a political ideology created by Jews, for Jews, and about Jews.
You also can't separate Jewish identity and Judaism from Zionism, because while the notion of statehood is contemporary, the longing to return to eretz Yisrael and end the Jewish people's exile has been a foundational part of rabbinic Judaism since 70 CE.
Bottom line: they are two distinct concepts that overlap substantially and you cannot talk about them as if Zionism is totally foreign and unrelated to Judaism or vice versa in good faith, but neither can you 100% conflate them.
This is like when pregnancy discrimination was allowed on the grounds that not every single woman is pregnant or will become pregnant (and also we know that not everyone who becomes pregnant is a woman) and therefore it's somehow not sex discrimination and you don't have to factor in misogyny and sexism into the conversation.
You can't talk about Zionism without talking about Jews, Judaism, and antisemitism, but also, if you bring up Israel/Palestine every time a Jew is publicly Jewish, guess what that makes you? (Hint: It's antisemitic.)
#המצב™️#a lot of things about this conflict are complex and difficult to understand without extensive study#this is not one of them#for anyone keeping score at home:#these no nuance ''Zionism = Judaism'' or ''teehee Zionism =/= Judaism so whatever I said totally isn't antisemitic'' antics#bother the crap out of me no matter who's doing it or for what reason#they are deeply interrelated but distinct concepts this isn't rocket surgery folks
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How I sleep knowing I'll never trust anyone that hates Sydney but worships Richie:
#the bear#the bear fx#sydney adamu#carmen berzatto#richie jerimovich#jk kind of#well on days I don't see or think about Sydney haters#under every damn comment section in this fandom is someone saying Sydney didn't take accountability#like I know we all have our biases but yall are really shameless about it#Sydney scored A LOT of Ws for The Beef AND The Bear#but one time she makes a mistake and justifiably walks away from a toxic work environment she's the devil#Richie worked at The Beef for years and Sydney did more for it in what less than four months than he did#on top of being a prick to Sydney in particular because she was changing things he wanted to keep the same#to the detriment of the restaurant but also everyone#and overall being unpleasant to Carmy#Nat and anyone that didn't find him funny or interesting or like his bs#pre-Forks Richie reminds me of those types of people that only listen to people that like them#and I love that because it's realistic to some ppl#I do like Richie#it just leaves a bitter taste in my mouth knowing there are people that hate Sydney#ignore her accomplishments only to raise up Richie#in the same breath when the actual show is showing you what's up#like you'd think there were different versions of the show with how these two are perceived#I get this weird need to defend Sydney when people shit on her because I wonder how often said people treat the Sydneys of the world#but that aside#In Fishes Richie mentions something about wasting potential at the beef#In Ceres it's implied he called the popo on the dealers after Sydney deescalated a situation Richie previously dealt with#in an unorthodox manner#he recognised he needed to change but still was an arsehole to the one person who was facilitating that change effectively Sydney#this show is great but people denying what they're seeing on their own screens is crazy
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Iceman and Maverick (enemies to lovers) and Hollywood and Wolfman (friends to lovers) have the most intense game nights
#this is directly related to that one post I made once upon a time about them running into each other at a gay club#I love the idea of them being friends and bonding over being in love with their fellow navy dude#but like also I think they would tease each other relentlessly#cause they can just be fucking gay and in love without fear because guess what so are the others#so they fight over who’s the best couple#and they keep scores on their game nights and they get very competitive and they scare everyone#gay solidarity#well queer solidarity#top gun#icemav#wolfman x hollywood#tom kazansky#pete mitchell
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Ada Wong & Leon S. Kennedy: The History [ Resident Evil 4 (2023) ]
#crimson's gifs: resident evil#Resident Evil#RE#Resident Evil 4#RE4#Resident Evil 4 Remake#RE4R#RE4MAKE#Ada Wong#Leon S Kennedy#Leon S. Kennedy#Leon Kennedy#Leon Scott Kennedy#Aeon#AdaLeon#LeonAda#Leon x Ada#Ada Wong x Leon S. Kennedy#Pairing: Keeping Score#im ngl to you please look at all the other Aeon footage ive previously edited in its full on youtube#from the 1998 og to fucking re2 remake and tell me you don't see how out of character their interactions in 4r are#Because I swear to god ive been working with their entire history of footage for this series for the past couple DAYS and its just mental#I ranted about Leon last set but its also Ada whos undergone a crazy fucking out of character streak too#Calling Leon a dog and shit is NOT how shes treated him at ALL in any other instance#Like in the og again shes outwardly caring and concerned for him in SW and the base game. She does NOT talk about him like that#Even in their later interactions like re6 shes still outwardly worried for him#The only piece of media that comes even close to that type of characterisation would probs be Damnation and even then#The whole movie segments with them is just dark flirting while on the job and theyre both in kinda bad moods so in there it makes sense mor#In RE4 its a reuniting after 6 years on BOTH sides. I loved Ada's new seperate ways and the bond she had with Luis but they massacred#How she and Leon treated each other and it makes me mad
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how can some people go to bed at night satisfied that they ripped off/defaced posters of actual civilians being held as war hostages just to make a point
well idk, couldn’t be me but sure go off you’re doing great honey fighting for human rights
#actually as a SW student i have my guesses#first being that it actually helps you sleep better at night not thinking that ‘the other side’ might not just be simply evil#it helps to dehumanize the ‘other side’ well my oh my do i have news for you#dehumanizing a 1 year old won’t make you a better person#bring them home now#israel#jumblr#antisemitism#i write ‘other side’ bc it’s just the same people who think this is a sports game where we keep score
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just realized that “down bad” may also be in reference to a score — if you’re several points behind the other team you’re down, bad.
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What Jesus doesn’t say
Today’s Gospel is the story of Jesus walking on the water. With Peter trying to walk on the water. And failing.
So, Jesus pulls him into the boat. And afterwards says to Peter, “Oh you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
Which is Jesus’ way of saying, “Why are you worrying? I’ve got this.”
The best part? What Jesus doesn’t say.
When Peter cries out for help, Jesus doesn’t say, “You know, Peter, you really need to get yourself together if you expect Me to help you.”
Jesus doesn’t say, “What have you done to deserve My help?”
Or “How many times am I going to have to do this?”
Or “What’s in it for Me?”
Jesus simply pulls Peter into the boat. Before He says anything.
Why is that the best part?
Because it shows us that Jesus isn’t keeping score.
Jesus isn’t looking at you or me or Peter, to see whether we deserve His love, His help.
Because if it was left to what we actually deserved, Peter would still be in the water.
Jesus is looking at us through His eyes of love. The same Love that’s looking for you.
Let’s be clear.
The Love that’s looking for you has nothing to do with who you are.
The Love that’s looking for you has everything to do with who He is.
Today’s Readings
#Who God is#God's Love#God#Jesus#Catholic#Christian#Church#What Jesus doesn't say#Blame#Deserve it#Keeping score#Moments Before Mass
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So. So. Imagine Gojo popping up as a sorcerer only after the start of the Culling Games Higuruma style. Idk if he’s still a Gojo in this AU, probably shouldnt be, but i dont care i dont want to think og another surname so whatever. Gojo Satoru, the singer, the popular idol
But yeah, suddenly unlocking and speedruning all this power genius style. And then arriving to help against the big bad with Yuuta in tow (cause he met the kid by accident and just thought he was troubled but had potential and made him a little idol too. Like he clocked that stuff happens when the kid is upset and everything and Rika is there but kinda went “well happens, idk if its a ghost or he’s just troubled, but it can be solved anyway by giving him a good environment and support :)”. Also he adopted Tsumiki cause after Zenin got to Megumi she was sent to the orphanage. Cause i said so)
Hehehe :)
#jjk#gojo satoru#jujutsu kaisen#it was born cause i was thinking#about the way you think of main characters as kids#and then culling games start#and megumi and yuuta are fucking leading the score#also satoru is very idol shaped so#i dont usually like idol au but he’s very fitting for it okay#at first it was meant to be stsg#and they like had HISTORY#cause they went on a couple dates but Suguru decided not to date a non sorcerer#it could be dangerous#but now hes not ;)#but then i realised#who my moots are#and wrote it with the option of putting sukuna as the current strongest#this tickles my mind in a very nuce way#i need to study but this is very nice#trapped in one room with my brain who keeps giving me AUs
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Guilt- Gamer!Kate x Reader
summary: kate accidentally wakes you up while gaming and feels bad about it
word count: 0.2k just a quick drabble
"Fuck!" you were woken by the loud yelling coming from your girlfriend.
Groaning, you rubbed your eyes and propped yourself up on your elbows to look at her from across the room.
"Oh no, baby. I'm so sorry for waking you," she paused her game, walking over to you before pressing a soft kiss to your forehead.
"It's okay," you smiled up at her as she hovered over you, guilt present in her expression.
She crawled into bed next to you, "I'll stay with you to make it up to you."
You giggled, "don't be ridiculous, Katie. Go back to your game."
"No can do; I am going to snuggle you till you fall asleep," she insisted.
"Well, we could compromise. You can play your game, and I'll sit on your lap and sleep," you proposed the idea.
Kate's eyes lit up, "okay," she swiftly scooped you up in her arms, carrying you over to her gaming chair. She sat down, allowing you to wrap your legs around your waist as her arms snaked around you.
Your head lay in the crook of her neck as she held you tightly, occasionally pressing gentle kisses to the top of your head.
"I love you so much, sweet dreams, honey."
#marvel#avengers#fluff#kate bishop x reader#kate bishop#hawkeye#hawkeye x reader#gamer!kate#x reader#marvel fanfiction#mcu#mcu x reader#kate x reader#kate bishop fluff#ybml writes#who's keeping score au#who's keeping score
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I found these old doodles I made a month after Eurovision where I drew my top 5 at that point in time IF I couldn't count Käärijä
and so here we have:
Joker Out (Slovenia), Albina & Familja Kelmedi (Albania), Mimicat (Portugal), Lord of the Lost (Germany) and Gustaph (Belgium)
Could it be fun make another set of doodles half a year later? Feel free to let me know if you'd like to see that ^V^
#I remember having a whole excel arc keeping score of who was my fave after every live show xD#albania surprised me - I really liked their live show OVO#another thing that surprised me is that only one of my top 5 w/o käärijä even hit top 10 in the contest :'3#so many people got screwed over#and this is not only all of them#gustaph#albina and familja kelmedi#lord of the lost#joker out#mimicat#esc2023#mine#my own art#jure maček#nace jordan#jan peteh#kris gustin#bojan cvjetićanin
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#columbo#season 7#how to dial a murder#''I dont have time for games'' says man who gamifies literally everything in his life#columbo the type of mf to keep score of raincoat stains accrued:stains removed#columbo the type of mf to speedrun eating cereal in the morning#79:67 and 93 seconds respectively by the way thank you very much#hes standing over the sink running late spilling milk everywhere trying to get a sub 60 sec time. mrs c is standing there shaking her head
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Have some of these trad guys ever considered that maybe women don’t like you simply because you’re unpleasant?
A woman ain’t gonna care about your Stable Career and Masculine Trad Values if being around you just makes her uneasy and wears her down. Lol.
#you still have to treat people well#and usually the guys who puff up how trad they are#are the manipulative kind who are keeping score anyways#which is miserable and evil#and antithetical to Christian values#maybe just become humbled by the Word instead#and then you can find a tradwife
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You know, I was pondering this for the past couple weeks and I haven't seen it discussed. And as I was circling around another meta (for Our Flag Means Death and Around the World in 80 Days) and looking at trauma and The Body Keeps Score, it really solidified this idea for me in Doctor Who.
Because the Doctor used to be the Timeless Child. A foundling child found on an alien planet whose adoptive mother strapped them in a lab and experimented on them for years. And we know they that regenerated many times during this, likely because she was killing him to see how the regeneration happens. I don't think I'm stretching anything by saying he was tortured tortured through his first childhood.
And then they worked for Division and that too likely involves some "persuasion" given that they apparently ran away from them and Tecteun complained that their morality always got in the way.
And then they were forced to regenerate back to a child and wiped their mind.
And they don't remember any of it.
But the body keeps score.
To clarify, the book The Body Keeps Score posits that exposure the abuse and violence fosters the development of a hyperactive alarm system and molds a body that gets stuck in fight, flight, and freeze. Trauma interferes with the brain circuits that involve focusing, flexibility, and being able to stay in emotional control.
And while there's little we know of One's childhood, its clear that the Doctor was a fearful child, intelligent but too distractible and unfocused to succeed in school. All that trauma in one little boy who can't remember any of it and yet it still affects him in every moment of every day. The Doctor's body has been molded by the trauma they experienced, a legacy that passed through One's childhood and each regeneration after. The Doctor has always run from one emergency to another, but really, that just matching their external reality to the internal reality of their mind, their body.
And the truth is, even when the mind hides (and it often does! Amnesia of traumatic events is common in real life) the body keeps score. We are meant to survive. We are built to survive, and we adapt around trauma, like a tree around a rock. Survival at all costs... And so has the Doctor for all these years.
As someone with c-ptsd, this is why Fourteen stopping is so powerful to me. To stop and take time to tend to your body - to ease it off from that state of fight, flight, or freeze bit by bit. To find that ease, that calm. To tend and mend.
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okay weird q incoming but what ways do you think speedsters can get sick? Like to my understanding, they can’t really come down with normal virus’ like the flu, right? But they could get things like chronic migraines?
NANOBOTS!!! This is one of the best pieces of canon lore ever. I did a whole post on it but TLDR: normal human metabolisms have so much shit going on that they don't even notice nanobots in their body BUT speedsters have hyper accelerated metabolisms that are the equivalent of the straight A's overachiever in school on meth. So speedster metabolisms do notice nanobots and they attack full force, triggering all of the body's defenses and responses.
But the nanobots are metal so it obviously doesn't do anything. It just leaves the speedster lethargic, feverish, vomiting, dizzy, with a headache, sore muscles and a runny nose, ect. It's basically an allergic reaction.
Now, poisoning them can work depending on what the poison is/what the dosage is. You would need a 100% fatal poison and you would need a fairly high dose. Because speedsters heal fast and they have a hyper accelerated metabolism, so any poison that is based on toxicity (alcohol poisoning for example) would be out of their system faster than it could even take effect.
But poisons that can't be cleared out/processed by the body (take cyanide for example, it binds with the chemical receptors in your body making it physically impossible to use oxygen) wouldn't really be affected by their metabolism at all. So while the speedsters could heal the damaged tissues from these poisons fairly quickly (making it seem as though they were only slightly affected) they would ultimately need time to do so, time they would not have if it kills them first. This isn't technically what you are asking because there would be no substance that 'makes them sick', there would only be 'fine', 'not fine for like a minute and then fine again' and 'dead'. (... unless they were hooked up to a steady supply of the toxin)
Likewise, (this is getting more into theoretical territory, less canon) there might be some illnesses that would affect them? Not for long but if you got something super fucking fatal like Rabies, it might make them display mild cold symptoms for a day or something.
I don't know though. They have really fucking good immune systems. And even super fatal diseases can be fought. Take my example of Rabies, while it is commonly thought to be 100% fatal once symptoms show up there actually have been cases of people surviving it. Rabies is a very stealthy and fast disease, so the main problem with treating it is that your body's immune system isn't fast enough to stop it. People have survived by being placed in medically induced comas (slowing their bodily functions and thus the disease) for long enough that the medication can eradicate it. So for a speedster? That's gone in a minute tops. You would need an insane disease that I'm not sure even exists.
There's also like... pregnancy and menstruation. Growing pains, muscle pain from running is a BIG ONE, being dehydrated/starvation, blood loss, ect. Lots of ways to fuck with a speedster in a way they can't immediately fix.
There are also speedster specific ailments. It's basically 50/50 if a natural born speedster gets a weird highly fatal aging disease. Sometimes speedsters can be born without a kinetic energy shield which makes using their powers at all incredibly fatal to them. All speedsters will have connectivity issues at some point that can be fatal. Sometimes Time Gets Bad™ (shout out to when Barry kept chronically stealing time from people/things every time he used his powers). Sometimes they have too much energy and can't maintain human form (shout out to when Wally didn't know what the speedforce was and was accidentally cosplaying Ghost Rider). Velocity 9 is a highly addictive drug that works on speedsters and makes them display typical addiction behavior (and withdrawal). V9 can also cause a speedster to 'overdose' (burst into flames/lightning/energy). They all have the constant urge to yeet themselves into the speedforce. Ect.
#here's the thing: they are made of speedforce but its not a skin deep thing. you feel me? like their CELLS are made of speedforce#so all shit still affects them#i keep saying that they don't need oxygen or food to survive and thats true but its only if they're actively compensating with speedforce#cause they can get energy from the speedforce or they can get energy from oxygen and food or both. they can't do neither#and they don't really *know* or understand that theyd be fine with JUST speedforce energy. they still think they need oxygen and food#so if they were suffocating or something they might instinctively crank up the speedforce to compensate but they're also very stupid#so they might just die. idk it really depends on who it is how much they know and how much SF they're drawing on#cause like... energy beings need energy yo#i hope this makes sense#the muscle pain one is interesting cause Wallys early runs are really big on the whole hitting the wall thing#he would hit a wall that he physically couldn't break through and it caused him a lot of pain.#some of that was not being hooked up properly cause Wally wasn't hooked up properly until he was an ADULT#because he is FUCKING INSANE and he just went 'huh i guess this is my limit and i will stay below it' liKE AN INSANE PERSON#anyway some of it was SF issues and some of it was mental but he actually got really really hurt anytime he got close to the wall#REALLY bad muscle pain. and like... it was potentially extremely fatal. 'breaking down your body into little bits' fatal#he doesn't get that anymore because hes properly hooked up now but jfc that man treated 'entering the death zone' like it was#the high score to beat at his local arcade. he took it as a fucking challenge. absolutely insane dude right there
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