Stains and Saints
Tiny ramble about protective big brother Dabi but heās not right in the head.
TW: Violence, blood, cops and paramedics, hints at incest and SA but not completely confirmed, drug use mentioned, gun mention, Dabi is not stable, crying, Dabi uses his real name, mentions of death and suicide.
Inspo from inbred by Ethel Cain š„
Ignore spelling and grammar please I literally wrote this on my phone at work š±
How would you get those fuckin stains out? Thatās all the played in your head as they hauled him off. His teeth stained with the same crimson on his shirt, his eyes blood shot and wild, nose gushing down his neck painting his tattoos. āDonāt worry bee Iāll be okay!ā He shouts as they shove him into the car. You know heās not lying. He will be back by morning. This is how it always goes. You donāt bother begging with the cops to listen. To understand the real story. Why would they bother? They know Touya. Scumbag fuck. Drug dealing shit stain. Loud mouth fuck up. Best big brother on the fuckin planet. You walk back into your room, closing the door and looking around at the broken glass and furniture that used to be your possessions. You crawl into bed, covering yourself with ever blanket you can grab with your shaky hands. You close your eyes trying to get that image out of your head. Your brother beating him to a blood fuckin pulp. The sounds of paramedics and cops pulling your brother off of the remains of the corpse he had bloodied. Him shoving them away just so he could comfort you. Just so he could cup your cheeks, brushing your tears away, replacing them with his blood, sweet and warm. Even in a drug crazed black out madness he was so soft with you. You were his little bee. His sweet bugsy. His baby sister who heād kill for. And tonight he might have. You glance over at the paramedics getting a heartbeat from the corpse. Touya forces you to look at him. Heās scaring you but that doesnāt matter. Heās the monster under the bed and the brother ready to fight it at the same time. His eyes blink a few times, trying to fight off the come down. Heās sweating now, the drugs slipping away from his head and whispering sins into his ears, sweet songs of another high before the earth collapses under him. He keeps his eyes on you. He always has his eyes on you. He loves you so fuckin much. Maybe too much to some rumors. Let them think what the fuck they want. At least if you told your brother to stop heād listen. Unlike the corpse your brother pulled off of you. The cops try to cuff him. He lets them when you nod, still trying to focus on him. He needs to know youāre gonna be okay tonight. Okay without him. Okay without his footsteps down the hall. The smell of smoke in his room. The soft sounds of some video game. The familiar sound of him loading his gun before heading out. The feeling of his lips on your head, hands petting your hair as you fake sleep just so you can hear him tell you he loves you. Heās the only man whoās loved you. Scumbag fuck but you swear that heās not. He loves you so much. So much itās almost a sin. So much that maybe the whispers of jealous hicks may keep the rest of the wolves in sheepās clothing at bay. You love him to death and thatās okay. Youāre already dead.
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Stephen Kingās Top 20 Rules For Writers
1. First write for yourself, and then worry about the audience. āWhen you write a story, youāre telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. Your stuff starts out being just for you, but then it goes out.ā
2. Donāt use passive voice. āTimid writers like passive verbs for the same reason that timid lovers like passive partners. The passive voice is safe. The timid fellow writes āThe meeting will be held at seven oāclockā because that somehow says to him, āPut it this way and people will believe you really know. āPurge this quisling thought! Donāt be a muggle! Throw back your shoulders, stick out your chin, and put that meeting in charge! Write āThe meetingās at seven.ā There, by God! Donāt you feel better?ā
3. Avoid adverbs. āThe adverb is not your friend. Consider the sentence āHe closed the door firmly.ā Itās by no means a terrible sentence, but ask yourself if āfirmlyā really has to be there. What about context? What about all the enlightening (not to say emotionally moving) prose which came before āHe closed the door firmlyā? Shouldnāt this tell us how he closed the door? And if the foregoing prose does tell us, then isnāt āfirmlyā an extra word? Isnāt it redundant?ā
4. Avoid adverbs, especially after āhe saidā and āshe said.ā āWhile to write adverbs is human, to write āhe saidā or āshe saidā is divine.ā
5. But donāt obsess over perfect grammar. āLanguage does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isnāt grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a storyā¦ to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all. ā
6. The magic is in you. āIām convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didnāt need the feather; the magic was in him.ā
7. Read, read, read. āYou have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. If you donāt have time to read, you donāt have the time (or the tools) to write.ā
8. Donāt worry about making other people happy. āReading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second to least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.ā
9. Turn off the TV. āMost exercise facilities are now equipped with TVs, but TVāwhile working out or anywhere elseāreally is about the last thing an aspiring writer needs. If you feel you must have the news analyst blowhard on CNN while you exercise, or the stock market blowhards on MSNBC, or the sports blowhards on ESPN, itās time for you to question how serious you really are about becoming a writer. You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, Iām afraid, that Geraldo, Keigh Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.ā
10. You have three months. āThe first draft of a bookāeven a long oneāshould take no more than three months, the length of a season.ā
11. There are two secrets to success. āWhen Iām asked for āthe secret of my successā (an absurd idea, that, but impossible to get away from), I sometimes say there are two: I stayed physically healthy, and I stayed married. Itās a good answer because it makes the question go away, and because there is an element of truth in it. The combination of a healthy body and a stable relationship with a self reliant woman who takes zero shit from me or anyone else has made the continuity of my working life possible. And I believe the converse is also true: that my writing and the pleasure I take in it has contributed to the stability of my health and my home life.ā
12. Write one word at a time. āA radio talk-show host asked me how I wrote. My replyāāOne word at a timeāāseemingly left him without a reply. I think he was trying to decide whether or not I was joking. I wasnāt. In the end, itās always that simple. Whether itās a vignette of a single page or an epic trilogy like āThe Lord Of The Rings,ā the work is always accomplished one word at a time.ā
13. Eliminate distraction. āThere should be no telephone in your writing room, certainly no TV or videogames for you to fool around with. If thereās a window, draw the curtains or pull down the shades unless it looks out at a blank wall.ā
14. Stick to your own style. āOne cannot imitate a writerās approach to a particular genre, no matter how simple what the writer is doing may seem. You canāt aim a book like a cruise missile, in other words. People who decide to make a fortune writing lik John Grisham or Tom Clancy produce nothing but pale imitations, by and large, because vocabulary is not the same thing as feeling and plot is light years from the truth as it is understood by the mind and the heart.ā
15. Dig. āWhen, during the course of an interview for The New Yorker, I told the interviewer (Mark Singer) that I believed stories are found things, like fossils in the ground, he said that he didnāt believe me. I replied that that was fine, as long as he believed that I believe it. And I do. Stories arenāt souvenir tee-shirts or Game Boys. Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world. The writerās job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible. Sometimes the fossil you uncover is small; a seashell. Sometimes itās enormous, a Tyrannosaurus Rex with all the gigantic ribs and grinning teeth. Either way, short story or thousand page whopper of a novel, the techniques of excavation remain basically the same.ā
16. Take a break. āIf youāve never done it before, youļæ½ļæ½ll find reading your book over after a six-week layoff to be a strange, often exhilarating experience. Itās yours, youāll recognize it as yours, even be able to remember what tune was on the stereo when you wrote certain lines, and yet it will also be like reading the work of someone else, a soul-twin, perhaps. This is the way it should be, the reason you waited. Itās always easier to kill someone elseās darlings that it is to kill your own.ā
17. Leave out the boring parts and kill your darlings. āMostly when I think of pacing, I go back to Elmore Leonard, who explained it so perfectly by saying he just left out the boring parts. This suggests cutting to speed the pace, and thatās what most of us end up having to do (kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your ecgocentric little scribblerās heart, kill your darlings.)ā
18. The research shouldnāt overshadow the story. āIf you do need to do research because parts of your story deal with things about which you know little or nothing, remember that word back. Thatās where research belongs: as far in the background and the back story as you can get it. You may be entranced with what youāre learning about the flesh-eating bacteria, the sewer system of New York, or the I.Q. potential of collie pups, but your readers are probably going to care a lot more about your characters and your story.ā
19. You become a writer simply by reading and writing. āYou donāt need writing classes or seminars any more than you need this or any other book on writing. Faulkner learned his trade while working in the Oxford, Mississippi post office. Other writers have learned the basics while serving in the Navy, working in steel mills or doing time in Americaās finer crossbar hotels. I learned the most valuable (and commercial) part of my lifeās work while washing motel sheets and restaurant tablecloths at the New Franklin Laundry in Bangor. You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.ā
20. Writing is about getting happy. āWriting isnāt about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, itās about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. Itās about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink.ā
(Via Barnes and Noble)
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Bakugou buys us clothes just a little bit too small because he drools when you wear tight clothes that show off how soft you are and make you pudge a bit more in spots. Mf down bad for fat girls and he doesnt even try to hide it. One of those "my girl can wear whatever she wants bc I can fight" mfs
thisā¦.. fuck.
yeah, he buys you shirts that cling to your chest and tummy, tight dresses that highlight ever dip in your body. bakugou likes it when you wear the clothes he buys for you out with him. he likes how you grab onto his arm and the looks you get from people who pass by.
they make him jealous but he also loves knowing that youāre all his. katsu likes the way you look up at him with hearts in your eyes and the cute little sashay in your hips do to keep that little skirt from riding up. makes him want you more, so much that he fucks you in his car because he just canāt wait to bury his face in your pussy </3
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to the white readers:
you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.
you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.
you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.
you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.
you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.
you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.
you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.
you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.
you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.
you have no right to get mad at poc writers because they write for poc.
period.
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Ngl it irritates me whenever someone says "this character likes big girls" then immediately thin people are like "would they still like skinny people???? š„ŗš„ŗš„ŗ" like... please... just let us have this. Just let us fucking have this. You can find a million depictions of that character liking thin people, just let us have this without needing to validate you immediately after to be like "oh... yeah... they'd like thin people too...." it just feels kinda like "but that character likes thin people more, right? they'd date someone thin, right? right?" And it just irks me
like, yes, britney. over half the characters in the show r thin. obviously theyād date someone skinny.
i absolutely abhor when non-marginalized parties simply have to center themselves in conversations about marginalized people. the bitterness that fills my mouth when this happens is simply unhealthy.
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AHHHHHHHHHH š¤š¤š¤š¤ thank you!!!
If youāre still doing hybrid owners ask Iād love to join! Iām a fluffy maine coon cat with soft black fur š¤š¤ thank you š¤
Maine coons make great pets, it's almost like having a dog and a cat at the same time! What's not to love?
Shouta Aizawa wasn't sure what drew him to you, yes, he loves cats, but there was more to it than that. You're special to him, he loves the funny little things you do, but isn't above scolding you when you break something to get his attention. He's a somewhat strict owner, you're not really allowed treats unless you've been really really good. Speaking of treats, he still expects you to behave during your heats, you'll get what you need. When you've been good
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to all of my chubby bubbas:
i love you, you deserve the world, and i hope you know that if you asked to sit on my face, i would 110% without a doubt, let you.
like, no need to even ask. just fucking do it.
shsh anYHOOā
i love you so much, i wish you the best in life, and you are stunning and amazing (ā°Ėā”Ėā°)
and remember: nobody can get the butt without a bit more gut (ć„ļ½”āāæāæāļ½”)ć„
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