#( mirage would 1000% do this )

[scrompsautobotsrchives]

The grand race

Alright, first Mirage fic !! *Cracks knuckles* Lets do this. Word count:1K

Mirage lived for adventure even back on cybertron. He would always get up to antics which would have pissed off the prime leader back then. Now on earth, it was his personal playground, He would always toy around with the police in chases, Doing the best stunts he could do. But he always wanted to do more.

One day as he was cruising around the city, He parked nearby just to watch the city go by. He then saw two friends walk up to each other and have a quick chat before one said. "You still down for the race tonight ??"

"Yep, I also heard that they jackpoted the prize to a $1000" The other said enthusiastically.

"Woah..." That was all he needed when he started to zoom back to the makeshift HQ, You were busy helping Optimus and Bumblebee setting everything up when you heard the familiar revving.

"Hey y/n !!" He transformed and kneeled to your height, eager to tell you the news. "Guess what I heard today ?? Your gonna love it"

'What's up ??' You stopped what you were doing and gave him your full attention.

"I heard these guys in the city talking about a race that's happening tonight"

"Oh yeah, They do those almost every year now"

"Really ?? We should go !!"

But before you could give your answer, a familiar prime's voice boomed. "Absolutely not Mirage, We need to remain undercover and away from prying eyes, Drawing attention to yourself will only cause more damage then good" He said, bee whirred in laughter and soon the radio flicked to an audio of the Nelson Muntz... "HA HA !!"

"You must promise me to stay away from that race" Optimus said firmly.

"Yeah yeah sure, I'll stay very well away so far away... Dude don't leave me with these tightasses bro, We'd make a great team" Mirage whispered to you pleadingly.

"Mirage you heard what Optimus said, I'm not doing a race just so you can get kick out of it" You frowned to him.

"But what about for friendship ??" He said, making you raise an eyebrow in dissapointment.

"Ah or or or what about for cash ??"

You looked up at him. "How much are we talking ??"

"$1000, I can get that to you easy"

Now what you could do with $1000, ooooooh you could buy that new games console that just went on a market. You looked at Optimus who was helping Bee before back at Mirage.

"Ok, I'm in" You nodded.

So later in the night, the two of you went out. Heading to the start of the course where all the racer's would line up. You got out as you heard rap music playing on full blast, People catching up and taking selfies. You saw a dude with a clipboard standing nearby, Taking down the names of another person who arrived before you.

"Guess that's our ticket in" You closed the door and went up to him. "Hey, I wanna enter the race"

"Awesome, What car are we racing with ??"

"The Porsche behind me" You nodded to Mirage.

He nodded and took down your name as well. "Alright, your in kid"

"Thanks" You headed back to Mirage and got inside. "Ok remember, we need to make this look natural so nobody notices something's off ok ??" You reminded him of the rules.

"Don't worry, your boy's got this" Even in car form, you could tell Mirage had a huge smirk on his face.

You lined up, Eyeing the competition. some had modified cars ranging from old to new. They took this seriously.

"This'll be easy" Mirage chimed in, revving his engine as he got into place. "Relax"

You nodded as you gripped the steering wheel, Watching someone walk to the middle with the chequered flag, signalling the race was about to start. The contestants around you started to rev up their cars as the flag was raised, and then with the swish downwards, Tires skidded on the road and soon everyone was off.

"Come on Mirage !!" You cheered as you made pretend movements on the drivers seat.

"'scuse me 'scuse me'" He chuckled softly as he passed some contestants with breeze.

But some were proving to be a little bit of a challenge, like we said, some were modified specifically for this race. Mirage grumbled as he attempted to pass some of them. "Move over !!"

The driver in one car could only chuckle and pressed the nitro, picking up speed.

"Damn it !!" You pushed the pedal to the medal, and Mirage began to speed up, pushing a little more and sped past the guy, blowing dust in his face.

"WOOHOO !!!"

The first lap was done, Just gotta keep up the momentum. "Let's kick some aft !!" Mirage cheered.

You cleaned up the second lap, But on the third, one of the contestants began to kick it up a notch. Mirage was cruising along when he felt that he wasn't ahead anymore. "Huh ??"

You watched as one of the contestants sped past you, This car looked like it went through hell and back on the performance.

"Shit !! Come on we got this !!" You reminded.

Mirage was determined, as determined as ever to win this. He tried to speed up as best as he could, Tires burning every drift. The other driver wasn't giving up as well, Both of you pushing the pedal to the medal as the finish line was nearing. The crowd cheered as the two of you crossed, Mirage made a total stop. "Did we win ??"

"I'm not sure ??" You got out of the car, asking the racer. "Yo what's going on ??"

"Beats me" He shrugged.

Because it was such a close call, Some people had to review the footage on their phones just to see who touched the finish line first, You waited for almost 5 minutes before one nodded and shouted. "It was the Porsche !!" Making everyone cheer.

"YEAH !!" You were so goddamn happy, Mirage was so goddamn happy, Oh screw it you were both so goddamn happy.

Others watched as you showed off from mirage and as promised, you were awarded the $1000. You drove off soon after.

"Holy shit that was incredible !! Did you see the guys face !!??"

"Oh, he was so mad !!" Mirage was so happy. "We gotta do that again sometime.

"Maybe... Just maybe" You smirked. You made your debut, a race or two never hurt anyone.

Taglist: @callofdudes

[bunnyluvs-blog]

Txt x reader: txts reaction to you being at one of their concerts

Tags! Fluff, blushy txt, nothing crazy, really short because I'm tired

Soobin: Seeing you all dressed up for the "act sweet mirage" tour was something he was so happy about. He understood that dating an idol was hard. But seeing you there to support him brought tears to his eyes. He just loves you so much and you loving him to where you went out of your way to go to his concert was everything to him. He was crying on stage. Many thought it was because he loved MOA which was also true. But his sweet bunny was the biggest moa he could ever want.

Yeonjun: He saw you at the front. He was so happy to see you but he gave you a kinda "wtf" look as he remembered how much those seats were. Knowing you spent 1000+ just to see him made him giggle inside. Durning the concert he would glace over to where you were the whole night. Posing over there for pictures. While fans were screaming you just smiled at him back. Looking him and the rest of the boy's performance always warmed your heart. The man you love with the people he loves was something so special to u.

Beomgyu: at first he didn't see you. Huening kai did. Once kai told beomgyu of how is lover was here, beomgyu put in so much more energy. Moas we're talking about how happy gyu was today. Not knowing the real reason. Once he found you he gave all his attention to that section. You felt bad for people there who didn't bias beomgyu because he would let any other member go to the section since you were there. During the "happy fools" dance you got on the big screen. Beomgyus face lit up as he and other moas danced with you. Lets just say he died at your ending fairy.

Taehyun: COWBOY TERRY you had went with the guys on tour but didn't actually go to the concerts. Execpt this one. And oh em g you were so happy you did ! You were raised in the south so seeing your boyfriend in a cowboy hat. Not only that but you knew he was doing it for you. It was the second night and he didn't do it the first one. You were so happy and he could tell. He always looked your way and you did the same. The other guys said hi to you and you said hi back. Teahyun was so happy watching you as you sang along to songs and danced with them in ur seat.

Huening kai: He knew you were going to be there because of your life 360 with him. For safety reasons due to crazy fans. But he spent all concert looking for you. You were super close do to not wanting to spend 3 million dollars on tickets to see your boyfriend. Once he found you he waves with his huge smile. During a small talking break he mentions how someone special is here. You thought maybe he would cry but turns out you were the one to cry. You loved him and his work so much that being there and seeing the impact he has on other people was all you could ever want

[plananafish]

my prompt idea is one of them waking up in the other's bed cause she accidentally fell asleep after a hookup 🤭

Sure thing Nonnie 💛 I think this is Omegaverse adjacent if you squint? I wrote this on my break in a half delirious state, I hope that's okay 🫣 it's sfw as I'm not about to write porn on company time 😅 I hope you like it 😊

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The first thing Nymphia noticed when she woke up were the arms that held onto her tightly, followed by the warmth from behind and the steady breath of the person who held onto her. The light barely peeked through the blinds. The quiet of the morning hadn't settled in just yet.

Enveloped in Jane's scent, Nymphia's heart was calm despite her predicament. Had it been anybody else or if their relationship had been different, maybe Nymphia could have let herself relish in the feeling of a domestic morning.

A secret part of her wanted to turn around to burrow into Jane's neck, then fall back asleep as her nostrils were filled by the scent of tonka beans and something sharp she still couldn't place.

No. She couldn't do that. Nymphia had to be gone before Jane woke up.

If she was careful, maybe Jane wouldn't notice that she had broken their agreement by staying the night.

Or maybe Jane already knows, of course she would. Jane was sharp and seemingly always twenty steps ahead of everyone no matter what.

If by a miracle Nymphia didn't wake Jane by moving, or from the noise of getting dressed before leaving, Jane would still somehow know. Nymphia couldn't erase the bump from her head on the pillow, nor could she remove the heat and fresh scent that she left on the sheets. She'd know. 1000% Jane would know.

Nymphia was stalling. She knew she was. All for one more minute in Jane's arms. One more minute where she could pretend she was Jane's mate and didn't have to leave.

Staying was also an option, a sporadic thought that Nymphia threw out the moment it came to her. Nothing good could come of it. Right?

A myriad of thoughts passed through Nymphia's head as the clock ticked by. In her inability to decide what to do, she stayed put. Her eyes grew heavy once more, and the hum of her internal questions quieted. So many questions, yet she didn't have an answer to most of them.

One thing Nymphia knew for sure, though, was that her plan had failed spectacularly. Like a dumb idiot, she had listened to the age-old wisdom of "if you can't get over them, get under them."

Drunk or not, Nymphia should've known it was stupid. Stupid Megami. Stupid Mirage. Stupid Nymphia who listened to them. Everything was stupid. But especially Jane. She was so hot that it was dumb. Or...

Nymphia didn't finish her last thought as she had fallen asleep. In the quiet of Jane's apartment and the safety of her bed, Nymphia felt the tug to calm down and go back to sleep.

[creativitysparks4everxoxo]

HA! THIS IS SO ACCURATE! I can just see it now. Noah spends time with another human (could be Elena, or some other person) and then Mirage starts off slowly and subtly with the awkward jokes. And then he suddenly goes full throttle with the bragging and maybe even throws in a pet name or two just to get a reaction from Noah. Lol thanks for fueling my Noah/Mirage thirst! They're all I can think about! 🤣 Actually, this works well in a platonic setting as well. Mirage just wants to be Noah's one and only friend because he just loves being around him.

This post reminds me of a similar scenario in TFE when Mo and Robby mentioned Hansel and Gretel to Bee, and he immediately started showing off. He picked up a log and asked if their Hansel and Gretel could do this. 🤣🤣

"Yeah, [name of human Noah has spent time with] is cool and all, but can they turn into a car???" "Okay, but can your new car turn into an giant alien robot that's as good looking as me??" **Mirage accidentally/on purpose destroys Noah's new car.** **Noah is pissed af but then they have a long heart to heart chat**

🤭

thinking about how mirage would be absolutely terrible at hiding his jealousy.... he'd make so many awkward jokes just so that your attention was on him. he'd start bragging about random shit, telling you how much better he is than the person hitting on you. if it was a human he'd be sososo confident in himself but at the same time the fear that you might want to be with someone who's soft and closer to your size would still be somewhere in the back of his head.... :((

// "yeah, he's gotta pretty plate but could he lift you up with one servo? ... that's what i thought." skdjdskdns

[dammarchy211]

Despite having finished Psychonauts I don't think the fixation is gonna wear off (time to watch a Rhombus of Ruin playthrough!) so I will be plaguing your askbox/page (/lh+silly)

For an ask about your Psychonauts OCs, what do you think they'd be like in-game, if you could interact with them? Or how do you think they'd be towards Raz? I've seen some of your characters and they make me go silly /pos, so I'm curious about them :3

Hi hi basically all of my ocs are written as if they were in game characters fhfjvk

This includes mental worlds and game mechanics and such!

The curb this post being extremely long and just a run down of Everything about my ocs. I’ll group them up. (Even tho a lot of this will probably still be restating lol)

So the C.R.I.M.E. agents function basically entirely as antagonists for the most part. Given the uh. Villainous nature of the organization lol. They all kind of act Banterly towards the psychonauts and especially Raz. But do not take this as them being bad at their jobs!! The only cringefail villain really is Ant, I can’t play up the “villain but they actually suck XD” trope that much it would get annoying to write lmaoo. I will single out Dexter specifically to note that he was written as a perfect foil/arch nemesis whatever to Raz. The two are also “accidentally friends” because they would 1000% get along well if it weren’t for their circumstance. That being said Dexter is probably just as good, and just as bad, of an agent as Raz. They were written to be comparable. Another note I’ll make is towards Neo Cortez. He’s the founder of CRIME, and probably stands out as a possible “main antagonist”. Hes extremely self serving and ends up garnering the contemp of his own agents along with the psychonauts eventually.

Now Cheri! She was originally made, as my first oc, to be a new mentor for Raz after what happens in the events of pn2 (though I reckon I’ll probably have to change that if a pn3 comes out and they expand on that). She’s an ex-villain, similar to Oleander, but a lot farther back and was “evil” for a bit longer too. She kind of ‘pretends’ to still be evil because she thinks it’s funny, but it’s mostly just cartoonishly dastardly things. Imagine Queen from Deltarune with Kris or Noelle but instead of being Genuine it’s just a bit. She has a loott of baggage she’s just kind of. Holding onto. She got a handle on her mental spiral back when the psychonauts had stopped her previously, but that doesn’t really mean anything was fixed. Anything in game with her mainly circles around helping her with that, but also her helping Raz! She is a mentor after all. She teaches Raz electrokinesis (more specifically how to deflect it) and an alternate form of mental projection

Mirage and KC are more background characters. I still need to post about Mirage. Most of their connections to the canon come from not Raz, so it’s hard to fit them in a game-like narrative. Theoretically you could probably chat with them regardless tho. KC is Dogen’s friend, so after awhile she kinda becomes friends with Raz too :-]

I also have the Donatella headcanon backstory characters, but I don’t think I say anything more about them other than “they’re just the family members I thought up for Donatella because I wanted to write a backstory for her” without sounding like a broken record. They would probably eventually have a reunion with the Aquatos tho! Raz’s favorite Aunt would be Fran (and her wife) :-]

[darkshadowduelist]

MZMI-EN002 Salamandra, the Flying Flame Dragon

Level 2 FIRE Dragon/Effect 700/1600

While this card is equipped to “Flame Swordsman” or a monster that mentions it, the equipped monster gains 700 ATK. You can only use each of the following effects of “Salamandra, the Flying Flame Dragon” once per turn. If this card is in your hand or GY: You can target 1 Warrior monster you control; equip this card to that monster you control as an Equip Spell. If this card is sent to the GY: You can add 1 “Salamandra” Spell/Trap from your Deck to your hand.

MZMI-EN003 Mirage Swordsman

Level 8 FIRE Warrior/Effect 2800/2000

If a face-up FIRE Fusion Monster(s) you control is destroyed by battle or card effect: You can Special Summon this card from your GY (if it was there when the monster was destroyed) or hand (even if not). At the start of the Damage Step, if this card battles an opponent’s monster: You can destroy both battling monsters. If this card is destroyed by battle or another card’s effect: You can Special Summon 1 Level 7 or lower monster that is “Flame Swordsman” or mentions it from your Deck or Extra Deck. You can only use each effect of “Mirage Swordsman” once per turn.

MZMI-EN004 Ultimate Flame Swordsman

Level 8 FIRE Warrior/Fusion/Effect 2800/1600

“Flame Swordsman” + “Fighting Flame Dragon”

You can target 1 monster your opponent controls; destroy it, and if you do, inflict 500 damage to your opponent. This is a Quick Effect if this card is equipped with an Equip Card. At the start of the Damage Step, if this card battles: You can double this card’s ATK until the end of this turn, but if you do, destroy it during the End Phase of this turn. You can only use each effect of “Ultimate Flame Swordsman” once per turn.

MZMI-EN005 Fighting Flame Dragon

MZMI-EN006 Flame Swordsrealm

Continuous Spell

Your opponent cannot activate cards or effects when you Normal Summon a FIRE Warrior monster. Once per turn: You can send 1 monster from your hand or face-up field to the GY; Special Summon 1 “Flame Swordsman” from your Extra Deck. (This is treated as a Fusion Summon.) Once per turn, when a monster declares an attack: You can target 1 Warrior monster you control; until the end of this turn, it loses exactly 1000 ATK, but all other monsters you currently control gain 1000 ATK.

MZMI-EN007 Salamandra Fusion

Equip Spell

Equip only to a FIRE Warrior monster. It gains 700 ATK. If the equipped monster would be destroyed by battle or card effect, you can destroy this card instead. While this card is equipped to a Fusion Monster you control: You can send this card and the equipped monster to the GY, and if you do, Special Summon 1 “Flame Swordsman” or 1 Fusion Monster that mentions it from your Extra Deck (This is treated as a Fusion Summon.) You can only use this effect of “Salamandra Fusion” once per turn.

MZMI-EN008 Fighting Flame Sword

Quick-Play Spell

Activate 1 of these effects:

• Add 1 card from your Deck to your hand that mentions “Flame Swordsman”, except “Fighting Flame Sword”.

• When an attack is declared involving a FIRE Warrior monster you control: You can target 1 card on the field; destroy it.

• When your opponent activates a card or effect that targets “Flame Swordsman”, or a monster(s) that mentions it, that you control: Negate that effect.

You can only activate 1 “Fighting Flame Sword” per turn.

MZMI-EN009 Salamandra with Chain

Normal Trap

Target 1 FIRE monster on the field; equip this card to it as an Equip Card that gives it 700 ATK, then you can change 1 Effect Monster on the field to face-down Defense Position. You can banish this card from your GY; Fusion Summon 1 FIRE Warrior or Dragon Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck, by shuffling it’s materials from your hand, field, and/or GY into the Deck, but destroy it during the End Phase. You can only use this effect of “Salamandra with Chain” once per turn.

MZMI-EN010 Flame Swordsdance

Normal Trap

If a monster(s) is Special Summoned: Special Summon 1 Level 7 or lower Fusion Monster from your Extra Deck that is “Flame Swordsman” or mentions it, then you can change 1 face-up monster on the field to face-down Defense Position. During your opponent’s Battle Phase: You can banish this card from your GY and Tribute 1 face-down Defense Position monster; Special Summon 1 “Flame Swordsman” or 1 monster that mentions it from your Deck or Extra Deck. You can only use this effect of “Flame Swordsdance” once per turn.

[whumpsmith-participates]

AI-less Whumptober 2024

Day 10 - Pushing away a loved one

Tags/CW: heated argument

Getting injured on the job is never fun, but as a professional superhero it's almost a given. March Hare, a.k.a. Lyall, had it particularly bad today. On one hand, they finally arrested a villain who had been at large for almost eight years. On the other hand, he spent the majority of his evening avoiding a dragon in an underground maze while slowly bleeding out from a bad compound fracture.

He'd been treated since. Slept off the anaesthesia from the surgery to piece his arm back together. They told him it was all being held together with a metal plate. He could swear he could feel the screws and bolts poking into his muscles from the inside.

A painful reminder...of immortality.

"What you did last night was insane."

Lyall rolled his eyes. When his childhood friend walked in he was expecting a nice chat, perhaps even a compliment on his hard work, but instead she came to give him a lecture.

Faline Leblanc, heiress, cheer captain, beloved superhero Magnetic Girl, and Lyall's sister from another mister. Normally they got along swimmingly, but lately things just haven't felt quite right between them. Lyall blamed it on growing up. Faline blamed it on Lyall.

"Going against direct orders, you put everyone at risk including yourself! It was incredibly reckless!" she mercilessly continued, "You left Ash and the sidekicks to fend for themselves most of the night!"

"Nuh-uh," Lyall interrupted, "I got them out of that maze, past the Jabberwocky, we kicked Hatter's ass and saved all of y'all's lives!"

"You broke your arm!" Faline said, "You steamrolled all over Ash and the sidekicks and you would have died if it weren't for Mirage taking you straight to hospital!"

"Oh please, it'll take more than that to kill me."

"Lyall!"

The lights flickered briefly, the equipment monitoring Lyall's vitals stopped working as they scooted backwards slightly, and Lyall screamed out in pain as an invisible force yanked on the metal plate in his arm.

"AH! You fucking bitch!" he yelled.

Faline realised what she had done, and quickly forced herself to calm down, but the damage had been done. Lyall glared at her as he held his wounded arm.

"You think you're so perfect, don't you?" he hissed.

"Lyall, I'm sorry—"

"Daddy's perfect little princess, praised for your perfect little smile, playing life on easy mode because everything is handed to you on a silver platter!"

"Y-you don't mean that—"

"You're only popular because you were King's sidekick, but even after all that training you can barely control your fucking powers, because you never had to work hard for anything in your goddamn life!"

"T-that's not t-t-true!" Faline said, putting a hand over her mouth as she slipped back into her stutter.

"Oh really?" Lyall said, "Don't make me laugh. If you had half the control over your powers as I have, then King of Hearts wouldn't have had to retire!"

Faline's eyes widened as an eerie silence fell. Lyall leaned back against his pillow, catching his breath a bit as he tried to breathe through the pain. He didn't even care to look at the heartbroken expression his friend bore, not did he seem to hear the quiet sob she let out before promptly turning around and leaving his room.

@ailesswhumptober

Ash (mentioned) belongs to @dr-abitat-blog

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Some context: King of Hearts is a very popular here who was forced to retire after crushing his back gruesomely. Magnetic Girl was there with him and has always felt guilty about not doing more to save him, even if she was 1000% not at fault. It's a cross she'll always bear.

[loopstagirl]

Endless Horizons

For @flashfictionfridayofficial​ prompt: FFF210: The Sand Ocean

Words: 1000

Step.

Step.

Step.

That’s all he had to do. 

One foot. Then the other. Didn’t even need to be in front. Just needed to be.

Screwing his eyes up against the glare, he tried to lift his head. He didn’t know where he was going because he didn’t know where he was.

They’d taken him too far. He couldn’t see his ship. Didn’t know which way blessed safety lay. It would’ve been better if they’d taken him with them. They’d have had shade, water, maybe even someone who spoke a language he’d recognise.

But they hadn’t. They’d left him. Taken him out into the desert and left him there.

Exposed skin blistered  in the heat. He longed to cool down, to peel back his uniform, but it would make it worse. Someone would tell him off for that.

Who?

Who would tell him off?

A medic… a brother. 

Virgil!

Virgil would tell him to find shade. Impossible. Stay hydrated. Not going to happen. Stay put so they could get a lock on his location.

It’d take too long. He had to get back to One. Had to make sure the men hadn’t gone after her.

Step.

Step. 

Step.

The pounding in his temples spread  to his entire body. Every time his foot connected with the parched earth, the impact sent a tremble through him. There were dust motes dancing in his vision, but they didn’t fade when he shut his eyes. Nothing faded: not the heat, not the burning sand… Just a red glow that permeated every part of him.

He kept stepping. If it was the only thought he could hold onto, then it was what he’d do.

One foot.

Then the other.

If only there was a clue he was travelling in the right direction. Some sign that the endless dunes stretching forever didn’t truly go for all eternity.

He forced himself to look up.

Was that..?

It couldn’t be… but it was. There was something there. A hazy, wavering image. He wasn’t sure if it was real. But it was something… He’d rather walk towards an imaginary dream that stumble through a nightmare.

Step.

Step. 

Step.

Thunder.

There was thunder. A deep, booming noise that he felt in his heart more than he heard.

But that couldn’t be right.

A desert meant the absence of rain. It was why the Poles were deserts. He remembered explaining it to a baffled Gordon.

There couldn’t be thunder without rain.

But the sky was darkening. A shadow falling over him that made him sway as the burning glare momentarily faded. The wind was whipping up the sand, making it scratch his eyes, his throat, he couldn’t breathe…

Burying his face in the crook of his arm, he tried to look up. The sky ahead was still blue. The thunder, the shadow, passed over him, but didn’t fade into the distance. It hovered, grew louder…

He had to keep going. The mirage was still there, shimmering at the edge of his vision. It could thunder on someone else. He had to keep going.

His knees hit the sand.

He didn’t step again.

-x-

“Lowering the platform now.”

Virgil didn’t check his safety straps. Gordon would keep him steady. His hands were already on the railing, ready to jump out as soon as he hit the ground. Or before that. No one would judge him.

The burning glare of the desert hit him with force enough to make him stagger as the hatch opened. He screwed up his eyes before remembering the visors Brains had packed.

Snapping on one, he breathed easier as the glare instantly reduced and the burning air stopped scorching his lungs. The platform was swinging out, lowering towards the ground.

Two couldn’t land. The sands were too uncertain; he didn’t know if she’d rise again. This was the only way.

But as soon as the platform was a metre from the ground, Virgil flung open the gate and jumped out. The ground shifted under his feet.

“Scott? Scott!” He darted forward, movement hindered by the surface, and stumbled more than ran towards his brother.

Scott was a smudge on the sand, nothing more. Dropping to his knees, Virgil turned him, swiping at the sand on his brother’s face. Blistered skin and chapped lips greeted him. It was the only greeting he got - Scott’s eyes remained closed.

But he was breathing. That much Virgil was certain about. His fingers shook as he fumbled for the med-scanner. Even with his protective gear, he was sweating as he waited for the reading. It was almost a relief when the lights came back red - anything to stop this infernal waiting.

The readings were bad. But Scott wasn’t injured. A couple of bumps, maybe, from when One had hit the sand and the men had dragged her semi-conscious pilot away from the Thunderbird.

Everything else was to do with this wretched desert.

Pulling his brother over his shoulder, he staggered back to the platform.

“Take us up,” he ordered.

Gordon did so. The cool air as Thunderbird Two drew them in made Virgil close his eyes in relief. He threw the visor off as soon as he could, needing to see his brother with his own eyes. It didn’t improve the view.

“Get us home, Gords,” he ordered, dragging Scott’s prone form towards the infirmary. He had a stocked sickbay, but he’d never seen anything like this. He wasn’t sure if it even counted as heat stroke in this severity. 

He felt Two turn even as he hoisted Scott onto a bed. He knew Gordon would tag One’s position so they could come back and get her once they had Scott home. John had initiated lock-down procedures from Five: the men who had done this wouldn’t be getting in.

“Oh, and Gords?” Virgil hesitated as he slipped the first line into his brother. “Give us an ocean view.”

“F.A.B.”

Anything to wash away the image now burnt in his mind’s eye.

[hatshepsuthypatia]

Abduction by the Death God

This is a Orihime POV fanfic on her and Ulquiorra's dynamic, or just what I believe would have been her take on her time in Las Noches with Ulquioirra.

I have met death gods. They look like us, wear obsidian kimonos and wield huge katanas, reminiscent of traditional Japanese theatres that I used to visit as a child. This was before my brother’s demise. The first death god that I met at 15, (albeit he was officially recognised as one sometime later on) gave my dead brother absolution and helped him pass over to the Otherworld. But unlike the lores of them being terrifying, the death god that saved me and my brother was both kind and familiar, his eccentricity only limited to his funnily scary face and orange hair. Thanks to him, I met a lot more death gods, and none scared me. Not even the ones who were 8 ft tall with bells on their head & a feisty pink-haired kid on their shoulder. Deep inside my heart, I acknowledged them as soldiers that protected the weak souls and not as death gods of the terrifying lores that I had heard as a toddler, ones that were much worse than my drunk father and abusive mother. 

However, not long after meeting the good death gods, I met another. In creation, he was an antithesis of the death gods that I had met. But in my reality, he was the original death god, the one from my nightmarish childhood. He was the reaper of souls, of emotions who killed over 1000 people in my town, while I could do nothing to protect them. And that was the day hope in me started chipping away. The hope that I had onerously built after my brother’s death. The foundation of my hope was already built on shaky grounds and once he first arrived in my town, it didn’t take long to crumble. Being helpless that day felt like drowning despite knowing how to swim, so I tried to paddle harder and swim upwards towards the surface but I kept sinking and sinking until he finally dragged me to the bottom of the dark, insidious ocean of despair.

He dragged me, dragged me away from the world of happy mortals to his abode of eternal night. When my friends came to save me from this predicament I had landed myself into, he and his lot squashed any light of hope by torturing & butchering my friends. He taunted me every time their soul power vanished in the dark crescent night, extinguishing my hope, and slowly suffocating my will to live and return. 

Amongst all of them, I thought he was the most terrifying, the most different. His presence constantly loomed over me, like death to the freezing. But the after spending a long time with him, I had a horrifying realization. He was the epitome of nihilism, of the despair emerging from an unfeeling void. Bonds meant nothing to him, while hope and happiness were a mirage for the weak. And I, the person who had been surviving off my recently built non-sanguine bonds and forced laughs found myself falling into that void. As repulsive as he was, he was a mirror that I resonated with, a bit too much for my liking. Which is why I put up a fight. In my own way, I tried to be foolishly human in that soulless land. In retrospect, some of my actions were questionable. Yet I was a human, and as a human, I tried to do everything that defied what he stood for. Life is hard yet we build our happiness, and despite the hardships, I had shakily built a lively life. Succumbing to his beliefs meant destroying my very conviction to live and embrace happiness. 

His path was easy to follow. After all, who hasn’t looked at a dark void from a height and not been tempted to jump? And he was very tempting, with his words, actions and beliefs. Relishing in my dwindling hope and luring me into jumping in his abode of eternal void became a personal business for him. It was evident when he had my orange-haired saviour by the neck, blasting a hole through his chest. His eyes made it obvious - the fight was ours, and killing him was a way to kill any hope in me. Kill the human in me. 

And in those few moments where time was running through molasses, he had won. My human protector was lying dead on the rocks of Las Noches while he reigned, the God of Death. My healing shield, that had a measly job of reviving my saviour’s body, failed. The cracks on its golden surface had mocked the state of my beliefs. 

I wanted to be saved. I wanted to be saved from him, and from myself who found herself falling back into neverending despair. I had been there before when my only family had died, and I did not want to struggle anymore. I was too tired to struggle, to fight, I just wanted to be saved. Even if the one who saved me was the corpse in front of me. To me his dead body held more hope than my broken self did. 

When my orange-haired human saviour rose back from the dead, he was no longer the warrior fighting to protect my humanity. He was the personification of violence. He had emerged from the grave to reap the soul of my soulless jailor. He hesitated none while brutalizing him, and his victim cried not once in his agony. To him, modus operandi of his swiftly-arriving death was was poetically fitting. His nihilistic soul being defeated by another, in a fight so quick yet destructive that it leaves the prey with no thought other than the primal instinct to protect his skin. 

Sometimes I wonder if this is why he reached out to me in his impending death. As if being on the side of powerlessness made him realize why we humans do not give up hope even in despair. I wonder if he finally realized why my hope and belief only grew stronger with consecutive psychological defeats. 

Ulquiorra was right when he said bonds and feelings were for the weak. Afterall the strongest usually walk alone. But he was not right when he said that the very bonds were meaningless. If today weak coexist with strong it's because of the bonds they have with other people.

If today's weak & disposable society like mine feels seen or heard, it's because of these bonds. They make life worth living, these indispensable friendships. 

The fact that I was weak is the reason I found my friends for life and the reason I continue to live, live a life with meaning and hope. Hope, that he struggled to latch onto in his death. 

I used to hate my weak, clumsy self. I loathed my powerlessness and my inability to help people. Today, I have grown past that. I am working harder than ever to become stronger, to become more capable. And it would not have been possible had I not forgiven the little powerless girl from that night. No matter how strong I may or may not get, I will continue being the girl who never gave up on her bonds or morals as it was what kept me myself in that eternal night of Las Noches. Though in this tug-of-war of ours, he had almost pulled me into his magnetic void of despair, I persevered because of those very bonds between me and my friends. And finally, with the strength of our humane bonds, I could forgive him and bid him adieu with a meaningful death, where he could finally see a heart in his hands. 

[alparlaboratories]

To Another Abyss - Chapter 13: Empty Causes

(Chapters -which are usually between 500-1000 words- will be posted daily here first on Tumblr, and will later be posted in 7-8 chapter batches on AO3.)

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Kanto has changed a lot in the past ten years. The League is no more, and trainers are now only tools for the rich and powerful, either mercenaries or dogs of the government.

Sabrina is the latter. She is to play the role of Gym leader in a sick, twisted mockery of the art she once admired, bearing the name of her childhood idol, a woman who is now wanted across the region. All for the entertainment of Kanto’s shadowy new rulers.

It’s a role she doesn’t mind playing. At least until an unusual challenger comes into her Gym, into the life she’s worked so hard to build, and begins to unravel it all.

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Chapter 13 - Empty Causes:

“So, how did you end up here?”

The young man with the cross threw the question at Sabrina only moments after throwing himself to the ground, barely avoiding an Ice Beam from her Starmie that would’ve frozen him solid, and only moments before ordering a counter-attack of his own, which his Scyther executed swiftly.

“Here?” Sabrina repeated, eyes struggling to follow the two Pokemon’s dizzying battle.

“Here, yes. Yours isn’t a particularly common… nor a healthy profession.” He pushed himself up, following the battle just as intently. “Not to mention illegal.”

Sabrina scoffed. “I could ask you the same. Why do you waste your time coming here every single day?” She paused for a moment to bellow an order, then sighed. “Don’t you have a hobby or something?”

“I asked first,” the man replied with an annoyingly childish tone of voice.

Their Pokemon exchanged blows for a few unbearable long seconds; Scyther had split himself into countless mirages of himself, and Starmie-

“Psych Up!”

-alternated between short electric bursts to keep its foe at bay and beams of pressurized cold to catch him in between dodges. Neither of the trainers spoke for a few breaths.

“It’s good money,” Sabrina finally said. “I’ve got some debts, my mom… she’s got medical issues that aren’t cheap to deal with. Not the kind of money I could earn doing a normal-”

She choked on her words suddenly, at the realization that her opponent was looking at her with tears slowly forming in his eyes, lower lip trembling.

“Wh-Wait. Stop. Why are you-?”

“I KNEW IT!” The man bellowed, seemingly forgetting about the battle, his voice fraught with emotion. “The devoted daughter who sells her soul to the devil in order to save her mother… What a beautiful tale! See? Do you see now that God’s love still lives inside y-!”

BANG!

A bolt of lightning the width of a person fell upon the man with ruthless speed, and he would have certainly been carbonized were it not for his Scyther jumping at the last moment to take the hit for him. He hit the ground with a deaf thump an instant later, smoking from head to toe, completely out of it.

“Tsk. I missed.”

[magicwithclass]

Typal lords have sure come a long way since mirage. Zuberi, golden feather is a griffin support card on the reserved list but there are a ton of issues with this card in the modern era. First, the card is simply too weak. Giving all creatures of a certain type +1 +1 costs two or three mana and usually grants another ability. Zuberi is a whopping 5 mana and only gives a boost to power and toughness. The stats also show the card's age. A 3/3 flyer does not cost 5 mana. Over all, you have a card that is not suited to modern gameplay.game play. Yet, this card is currently three dollars. Why is this card so expensive if it is not viable in commander or other formats? Apparently, griffins must be more popular then I thought despite the relatively low number of griffins compared to other creature types. There are slightly less than fifty different griffin cards which is enough for a deck but not enough for the griffin decks to look significantly different from deck to deck. Zuberi is legendary so it can be the commander of your griffin deck and all griffin decks should run it as this is one of the only griffin typal cards in the entire game. Griffins have almost no support so any griffin deck would run all of the very few support cards the type actually has. I do not know much about the lore of zuberi but it was a griffin that lived on dominria. Most griffins got phased out of dominria when teferi phased out northwestern dominria before the original phyrexian invasion. Currently, griffins are a rarer sight on dominaria but not extinct. In fact, the legendary creature, zeriam, golden wind, is a descendant of zuberi. Zeriam, golden wind was released recently in dominaria United commander decks so griffins are not completely out of the mindset of wizards of the coast. Zeriam is also a typal griffin card wich lends hope that the type will eventually get more support. Zeriam is a better commander for griffin decks but zuberi would still make the 99 of that deck, at least, until we get some proper griffin cards. Zeriam leads over 1200 commander decks on edhrec and zuberi is in 70 percent of them. Zuberi leads 70 decks but zeriam is obviously the better commander asit was created for commander in the modern age. When zeriam was first spoiled the price of zuberi spiked. As a result, zuberi reached a high of almost fifteen dollars in 2022 when most other reserved list cards were plummeting in price. Zuberi was an outlier as it did not spike significantly in 2021 but shot up once a card synergized with it. Even so, the deck is fun and not competitive. It is interesting to see a card spike because people want to play a casual griffin deck and not only because the card has become broken or competitively viable. Due to this fact, I think griffin typal will continue to get some cards here and there and I can see a set where griffins are a major tribal theme. Will this card spike once we have more griffins or is zuberi only so expensive because players are so limited in what griffins they can play? If griffins had 15 lords, like elves or merfolk, would zuberi see any play at all? Would a new griffin card really move the needle if there were 1000 griffins in the game? Who knew griffins were so popular? I blame Harry Potter. Of course, the card had some expected spikes in 2018 and 2021 but not as much as other reserved list cards although this means that there has always been some speculation surrounding this card. Typal themes are so popular, I am surprised any typal reserved list card is under five bucks. Bloomburrow even has a few generic typal cards and yet even soraya the falconer is not moving. Is it because birds have so much more support than griffins? You could have gotten this for absolute bulk before 2017 but I think this card will never be below a dollar again. Furthermore, I do believe this is one powerful griffin commander away from skyrocketing.

[yostresswritinggirl]

Mentally comparing Scara to the water spirit in Avatar the Last Airbender the war scene because he would def go that far to avenge his moon spirit, puppet reader.

Anywho, I was thinking about Cyno and I was going through some Instagram stories and one caught my eye so think of how intense Cyno can be at times, and this can be applicable to Chasing the Mirage or Heart Cyno???, reader taking a bite of fruit before putting it down and he stares right into their eyes as he picks it up and bites the same area and I feel like I’m peeping on them because my words do not do the tension and intimacy any justice at alllllll.

So now I keep thinking that Cyno shares a plate with his significant other(s). Eating off the same plate. Sharing food. Maybe making sure that his partner/partners are fed?

And then I slightly lean towards Tighnari waiting until they are physically sitting at the table or by his side and take the first bite before he touches any food. (And then all three wait until Collei joins them and sits first lol.) Karkata I have a bit of trouble thinking for but depending on where they are, Karkata will be with them.

Scara in true Scara fashion, debones any and all fish for puppet reader. Cuts up steak or any other meat for them. They have to convince him they can do so by themselves.

Food is such a love language. Maybe I’m hungry.

💖bloom anon

How dare you bring angst Atla and by extension Yue into this sldndonwmd you're just hurting my feelings now hhh Scara the self-destructive type of lover, self-sacrificing idiot too why don't we, now I wanna expand on the bad ending in Kintsugi smh smh

This is like the reverse of that scene in the first CtM where Cyno hates the idea of his lover indirectly kissing with someone, but does it so boldly and often with them awww but also hot hot

And him sharing the same plate!! That's freaking married couple behavior already haha adding that if Reader can't finish their meal, Cyno would just take their plate and eat from there himself. Sharing morning coffee together, he is not at all picky

Also Tighnari's part of always wanting to eat as q happy complete family cuz he believes that a family that eats together stays together type of shit, might also be the type to prohibit taking even a single bite until everyone's seated/there. And also the person to put the food on your plate himself when you ask to 'pass' something. Kaveh sometimes hates eating with them because he feels so lonely sksksks Karkata helps with food prep and gathering ingredients of course, did you not see how precise its movements are with the mechanical parts back in the quest?!

Actually on second thought, Scara might be the one who takes their plate to fill it up himself to a measured helping, he knows exactly how much his lover eats so he always make sure that they finish their plate clean. If they don't then something is definitely up. And the cutting part is so cute, no Scara stop treating them like a child, please they're 1000+ years old, come on-

Bloom anon sees domestic activities and asked "is anyone gonna write for that?" and doesn't wait for a response hahaha

[rainydaydriversclub]

I think I mentioned this idea a while ago, but 24 hours of lemons sister series called “cheap time attach” in which you have $5k (aud) to buy a car and build it into the fastest possible three lap machine.

The kickers of this would be rules regarding cost, namely tyres. Essentially tyres cannot exceed 205 tread width, or 200 tread wear. So no matter what, you can’t just put big sticky tyres on your car to cope with the insane amount of power or weight your car has, instead you need to keep it balanced so better suit the 205 tyre. Tyres don’t count to total cost but are capped at $1000 per race meet, so you can’t go putting expensive pilot sports on your car.

The next rule is categories, which is simple. 2WD n/a, 4WD n/a, 2WD no limit, 4WD no limit, and finally fastest slow car, which compares the everyone’s stock best time with their modified best time based on either common sense, power to weight or even magazine comparison if need be.

Engine swaps are allowed and not limited, but ecus, engines and transmissions all count toward your final cost. If you win and your car has been shown to go over the $5k limit, you are stripped of your title. Forced induction can be added but again, must stay under the cost cap and nitrous is absolutely forbidden purely due to the likely hood of popping your engine.

Vehicle weights are free, but must remain safe and the chassis complete, ie no space frames. Aero is open but this counts towards final cost so there’s no point in buying a fancy wing.

Consumables or whatever can be argued to be a consumable of your vehicle also doesn’t count to your cost.

I think if I was to build a car for this to win outright I would go for something like a manual turbo subaru, an RX8, or a honda accord.

the goal in my mind is to make the car as light as possible, and have the potential to tune extra power into the car without spending much, ie aftermarket boost controller or doing some basic porting. the potential to make 200-250hp and remain under 1000kg is sort of the golden area in my mind, anything more than that and you start getting pricey.

the other thing i'd be aiming for is a platform with a good gearbox and diff possibilities. lots of Imprezas came with factory LSDs and the same can be said for RX8s and accord, but matching ratios etc gets a bit tricky.

you could also go in the complete other direction and not bother at all with power and exclusively tune your car by removing weight, especially with there being no lower limits. take a small car with good bones and a decent engine: mitsubishi mirage hatch . you can supposedly get these things down to 800kg with very little effort, and 750kg with a good amount of effort. you now have a light car for a few hundred dollars, but you have maybe 80hp if youre lucky. mitsubishi engines are cheap and plentiful, but most importantly easy to swap across platforms. get yourself a 2.4L motor from a later gen lancer and you now have 160hp, with potential for more with some messing around.

suspension is something ive been skirting around, but suspension is almost a fixed cost. people will either go for a set of BCs or frankenstein some OEM parts together to make something that kinda works. you could definitely maths your way through getting a good springs rate for your car just by finding out OEM spring rates and diameters and trying a few combos and cutting off some coils, but damping is a huge difficulty. my pick would be to find some cheaper height adjustable coilovers, drain the shocks they provide so they are essentially just linear bearings, then find an OEM damper that better suits your application and figure out a way to make it work on your car. (eaiser said than done though haha)

i think this is a pretty good idea, but obviously it needs tweaking.

[theyhavetakenovermylife]

Masterlist

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Mirage

All Turtles:

Their Nicknames For You (Fluff)

Leonardo:

Clash of Priorities (Angst) (Slight 18+)

Nerdy Boyfriend (Fluff)

Raphael:

Just Friends (Angst) (Slight 18+)

Donatello:

Lazy Night with Comic Books (18+)

Michelangelo:

Hungover (Fluff)

1987

All Turtles:

Raphael x reader x Michelangelo

Wheel Request: The Attention of a Crush (Fluff?/Cracky?)

Leonardo:

Hidden Feelings (Slight Angst/Fluff)

Raphael:

Mischief in the Sewers (Fluff)

Donatello:

Tech Troubles (Fluff)

Random Headcanons About Donatello (18+)

Michelangelo:

Unrequited Love (Angst?)

TMNT: Sewer Slasher

All Slasher!Turtles:

Dead By Daylight (Angst/Gore?)

Mikey Myers:

The Boogie Man (Angst)

2003

This way to my 2003 Masterlist💚🐢

2003: Same As It Never Was

Raphael:

Forest Hid Out (Angst) (18+)

Michelangelo:

Like The Good Old Days (Angst/Fluff) (18+)

2003: Fast Forward

All Turtles:

Kids Of The Future

Leonardo:

Chrono Memories (Fluff)

Sunset Bedroom (18+)

Caught Between Light and Darkness (Angst..?/Fluff)

Raphael:

Chronicle of Emotions (Fluff)

Suit On, Dress Up (18+)

Gravity Olympics (Fluff)

Donatello:

Timeless Love (Fluff)

Timeline Tension (Slightly Angst/Fluff)

Virtual Reality (18+)

Michelangelo:

Futuristic Flirtations (Fluff)

Dark Version (Angst?/Fluff)

Blowjob Tease (18+)

2003: Fast Forward - Dark Turtles

This way to my 2003: Fast Forward - Dark Turtles Masterlist💚🐢

2003: Back To The Sewers

All Turtles:

He’s Back (Angst/Fluff)

Leonardo:

Back From The Future (Angst/Fluff)

2003: Back To The Sewers - Foot Turtles

All Foot!Turtles:

Red Eyes (Angst)

2003: Unused Production Art

All Shinobi!Turtles:

Shinobi Eyes (Angst?) (Suggestive)

All Stealth!Turtles:

Stealth of the Night (Angst?)

All Super!Turtles:

My Hero (18+)

2007

This way to my 2007 Masterlist💚🐢

IDW

All Turtles:

Why They Fell In Love With You

Leonardo:

Visions Of The Past

Eyes Of Love (Fluff)

Raphael:

Angel With A Warm Home (Angst/Fluff?)

2012

This way to my 2012 Masterlist💚🐢

Bayverse

This way to my Bayverse Masterlist 💚🐢

Injustice 2

Raphael:

Opponent (Fluff/Cracky)

Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

This way to my ROTTMNT Masterlist 💚🐢

Batman Vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

All Turtles:

How Would The Two Of You Work Through A Problem?

Leonardo:

Shadows Entwined series:

Shadows Entwined: part 1

Shadows Entwined: part 2

Shadows Entwined: part 3

Shadows Entwined: part 4

Shadows Entwined: part 5

Shadows Entwined: part 6

Shadows Entwined: part 7

Shadows Entwined: part 8

Shadows Entwined: part 9

Shadows Entwined: part 10

Shadows Entwined: part 11

Shadows Entwined: part 12

Shadows Entwined: part 13 - Final

Shadows Entwined: Bonus (18+)

Raphael:

"Miss me?"

The Night Before (18+)

Broken Shell (Angst/Fluff-ish ending)

Donatello:

A Nurse at Arkham

Quiet In The Batcave (18+)

Michelangelo:

Skateboarding in Wayne Manor

The Last Ronin

All Turtles:

A New Light (Angst/Fluff)

Raphael:

Sad Memories (Angst)

Donatello:

Peace Talk (Fluff/Angst) (18+)

Michelangelo:

Even Better: part 1 (Angst) (18+), Part 2

16 Years: part 1 (Angst), Part 2 (18+), Part 3 (18+)

Mutant Mayhem

All Turtles:

Crushing On A Classmate

April’s Big Sister (Fluff) (Platonic)

Leonardo:

Beauty in the Bodega: part 1 (Fluff), Part 2 (Fluff)

Crushes and Prom Dates (Angst)

Raphael:

Family Friend (Fluff)

The Rules Of The Mistletoe (Fluff)

Hallway Crush (Fluff)

Don’t Flirt With My Girlfriend (Fluff)

Just friends, nothing more (Fluff/Mild angst)

Hockey Game (Fluff)

Donatello:

Family In The Sewer (Fluff)

Popular’s Crush (Fluff-ish)

Michelangelo:

“1000 Gange” (Fluff)

Fortnite

All Turtles:

Random Spicy Headcanons (18+)

Leonardo:

Stroll In The Meadows (Fluff?) (18+)

Raphael:

How The Movie Night Went (18+)

Donatello:

Overstimulation (18+)

Michelangelo:

Sex on the Beach (18+)

[drunktuesdays]

might be hallucinating....did you have a car named....syphilis? did my brain invent this after being infected with omicron 2.0???

irl lol. you, my dear anon, have been around for a long time. yes, i did, and syphilis was a 2005 Mitsubishi Mirage.

I’ve always had a thing where I name cars. My first car was a 2001 Chevy Prism named Esteban the Emerald Eagle. I picked up the Mirage in 2010 when Esteban died. It was late April, I was in the middle of finals, I had no money and was working 40 hours a week while going to school full time. I needed a car and I didn’t have TIME to buy a car. So I bought the Mirage from Craigslist for $1000 in cash without anyone knowledgeable going with me or taking it to a mechanic.

Things that didn’t work on Syphilis the Silver Sloth, a list:

1. Power Windows. I had a pencil jammed up against the glass, with the eraser keeping it up. When I needed to roll down the window for some reason, I removed the pencil, and the glass would slide into the door with a bang. When I needed to put it back, i would reach in and pry it up with my fingernails and jam the pencil back in. No problem.

2. Gas gauge. Read as empty all the time. Actually NOT a problem—I had a trip setting on the odometer and just reset it every time i filled up, and never went over 300 miles.

3. Trunk. But who NEEDS a trunk. I just strapped it shut and kept my shit in the backseat. Again, NO issues.

One time I was in the back of a taxi with @thebeatneverleaves, drunk off my ass, and the taxi driver was really invested in helping me with my existential crisis, which I loved. “I’m just really impetuous,” I said, sobbing. “I never think things through before I do them. That’s how I ended up with Syphilis.” Glass partition divider closed SO fast. I was on my OWN.

[lost-lepord-beaniewrites]

𝘓𝘪𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘦 . 𝘗𝘑𝘚

𝙿𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 : jay x fem!reader

𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚛𝚎 : fluff, angst

𝚂𝚢𝚗𝚘𝚙𝚜𝚒𝚜 : Jay park is the living definition of trouble, while you, a quite an studious girl, can only pray that you never cross paths with him. But when the unexpected happens and both of your worlds collide to become one, is your happiness real or just a mirage? or did you just simply invite trouble, pain and misery to yourself? what happens when you’re left at the mercy of your broken heart?

𝚆𝙲 : 1.6k

𝙰𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚜 𝙽𝚘𝚝𝚎 : YASSS !!! Finally this is out ! I would say that we planned for this for like months but that's not true ksksks we planned to do this collab like three to four days ago and I was like let's write and BAM ! I'm not sure if this came up your expectations but I had fun doing this!

𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚜 : Lie to me by 5 seconds of summer and Wolfgang by straykids . And this isn't necessarily a rec but I listened to this song when I wrote the angst part so yes listen to this to feel the vibe!

I hate to admit by Bang Chan

You should've listened to your friends when they said Jay was bad news. His name basically spelt trouble and everyone in the school knew who Jay was. He was a part of Enhypen as they liked to call themselves. They were the popular kids of the college and trust funded kids. And you, were just an ordinary student with good grades. You never paid much attention to anything other than studies. You were what Enhypen would label as a ‘good , innocent girl’ but yet you decide to get involved with one of the bad boys , the college’s very own heartbreaker , Jay park…

A few weeks ago.......

You were just minding your own business , thinking about the café meetup with your best friend Somi when you suddenly feel strong arms pin you to the wall. You look up to find Jay’s eyes staring into your eyes , as if he could see through you and your soul. Shivers run down your spine because obviously why would the Jay park want to corner you in school like this ? he leans in closer to you , and you shut your eyes , preparing yourself for the worst. He softly caresses your cheek and says “ relax, y/n, I won’t hurt you.” the way your name rolled off his tongue made you melt, and you calmed down, after his persuasive reassurance. he smiles coyly, as he pulls a rose from behind and asks you, “I like you, beautiful. will you date me?”

You look at him in horror, as if he had gone mad. huh? did you hear that right? you got asked out by Jay park? you didn't have any feelings for the him but since you were scared that he'd do something to you, you said yes. He beams proudly, muttering “my girlfriend” and you roll your eyes, sighing. He raises an eyebrow, and you tell him “look, I did agree to date you, but it feels like a one sided relationship. I mean, no offense, you’re incredibly handsome and stuff, but I don’t really feel anything for you yet” a smirk sets on his face as he says “guess then I’ll have to win your heart, baby” and winks before leaving you with your jaw practically touching the floor. Okay, maybe he did already began to win your heart.

And thus begins Jay’s mission of winning your heart. Everyday, he’d wait for you after your class ended, walk off till your room, send you memes if you were feeling down and take you to the most quite, yet amazing dates. Everyone in the college was pretty much shocked to see you both together. Girls would shoot you daggers through their eyes, but jay held your hand tightly, as if he would never let you go. You begin sitting with Enhypen during lunch, and the younger ones of the group, Niki and Jungwon would amuse you with their cute talks. “jay seems so happy these days” you hear Heeseung and Sunghoon talk at the table. you laugh and they both point towards you. “he’s happy because of you, y/n.” says Heeseung and Sunghoon scoffs “I’m happy for him and everything, but i swear, one more time he decides to flash his 1000 watt smile, and I’ll end up going blind” as everyone on the table breaks into hysterical laughter.

And slowly, before you and Jay knew it, you were falling in love with him, he already had fallen for you. You both fit each other, like puzzle pieces. You were the Rachel to his ross, every date with him felt special. You never thought someone could ever treat you like this. He made you feel confident, wanted and strong. being with him felt like home. It felt safe, comfortable. He'd come to pick you up after your part time work at the café, and as soon as your eyes would meet, he’d swoop you in your arms and kiss you until every part of your body tingled with love for him. And a 1000 watt smile later, he’d say “hi, my love. you did a great job today.” he would leave you little notes of love and you’d feel butterflies as your heart leapt with joy. His love for you was evergreen, even in the snow, the rain, the sun.

You felt like you were living in a dream of bliss and you just wished this would be forever. You both absolutely adored each other, and were inseparable. But alas, even fate gets jealous if you’re continuously happy for too long, and suddenly everything in your life took a huge turn. Little did you know, that your sunshine and rainbows would turn into pain and thorns. The smiles and hugs you both shared, would turn into hatred and tears.

You strolled into the cafeteria, looking for your boyfriend, wondering where he went. And then, you catch a glimpse of him, whispering and talking in low tones. You move closer, and your breath suddenly hitches in your throat when you hear your name. Why was Enhypen whispering about you? "how long should does this go on for?” says an urgent jay. "well, quite a few weeks are over so, I guess you can end it now?" now that was Sunghoon. "you know you have to tell her right ? " said Jake. What did jay need to tell you? "I know" replied jay's voice. "but you know she'll be hurt when she finds out-" Jake started again and you could hear jay sigh "that she's just a bet" Jake finished.

Your whole world came crumbling right at your sight and your heart shattered into a million pieces your eyes started to well with tears, a few had already escaped without you noticing. You left the cafeteria without telling a word. The boys didn't have a clue about your presence. All these weeks, all the affection he had shown was fake. You couldn't bring yourself to believe that. All what you had between the both of you was just an act. You were nothing more but a mere bet to jay park. Just a bet. You weren't in school the rest of the day, which made Jay worry. On top of that, you didn't answer his calls either. Which made him worry even more. After school when he went to find you at your work, the owner told him that you had called and said you won't be coming to work. Jay didn't know what was going on and why you were ignoring him. His heart brought up the idea of you knowing that you were just a bet but his mind decided to put that thought away to not add to his already stressed mind.

He decides to look for you in your apartment, and he smiles in relief as he sees you. "Baby where were you all day-" Jay gets cut off by you saying "no" "what do you mean babe?" he questioned. You had enough at this point. "just don't ‘babe’ me jay, I'm tired of this" you say as you rub circles on your temple which hurt like hell. That was the first time you had called him Jay. It was always nicknames between you both, so this felt weird. "what are you talking about y/n?" jay questions, looking confused. "When were you gonna tell me that i was just a bet?" you ask him back. Jay's heart drops. His worst nightmare had come true. You knew. There was nothing he could do about it now. You knew the truth. That's why you ignored him. "baby I-" he started "cut it out jay, don’t explain what bullshit you did. I can't believe you lied to me. all these weeks what we had together was fake ?” you choke on a sob as you continue, “I loved you jay I really did. but turns out, you lied to me " you yell, cutting him off once again.

He knew he deserved it, but you didn't. You deserved, much better. He knew he had to apologize. But for some reason, he couldn't bring himself to say sorry. His simple sorry wouldn’t be able to heal your wounds. You scoff "you don't even feel sorry do you ?" he wanted to yell sorry and hug you but he couldn't. He had no idea what had gotten into him. He knew he hurt you bad. You looked at jay one more time and said, "I really felt the connection between us but you messed it up. Thank you for breaking my heart, Jay park. I never want to see you again. Goodbye " those were the last words jay heard from you before the door slammed close indicating you had walked out. Out of this place, and out of the relationship. Jay watched as you walk away from your relationship and it pained him that he couldn't do anything to stop you. He gets down on his knees and breaks down in tears. He wished he could turn back time and hold you in his arms again. He missed your presence already. He knew he couldn't go on for even a day without you but it's him who messed up this time. And he regretted it with every ounce of his being. He wanted to tell you that you were more than a bet. You meant the world to him and more. You were the love of his life, the light to his darkness.

But you were gone, and all he could do, was cry and remember the happy memories you both made together.