#((oof it's been a Hot Sec))

[leqclerc]

Is Fred becoming binotto 2.0? He's completely incapable of taking accountability for any errors from the team. He'd prefer making his driver look like a liar. In one interview he says that we must check what happened, maybe it's the tyre blanket, maybe we got stuck in the pit lane too long. The next interview he's saying I don't know what charles is talking about, the tyres were in the right temperature window. We all heard the team radio of charles being told his fronts are cold, so I don't get why he does theses media games when all it does is show that he's disengenious. Taking accountability shows so much more leadership abilities than this tactic of burying his head in the sand binotto style. My god, when will charles get a tp who will fully back him and not shelter the team at his expense. All the other top drivers have had that at some point in their career besides charles. I hate this

Coming back to this ask now that the weekend's done and we got more info on this.

So as it stands, Charles went back on what he said after qualifying and stated that regardless of the tyre temps he should've done a better job as a driver, which. Wasn't there a video going around from like Charles's side of the garage that shows one of the mechanics struggling with the tyre blankets on the front left, I believe? Something about wires having to be replaced pretty last-minute.Seems like a bigger issue than just driver error or poor prep. I know Charles is a perfectionist and he's the first to point the blame in his own direction but how can a driver perform to the best of their ability if he can't trust the tools at their disposal in the garage? And iirc Carlos also suggested his Q3 crash was down to cold tyres, which again, indicates there's something going on on the technical side in the garage.

As for Fred himself... I've got personal beef with him ngl 🧍🏻I still think the Xavi situation was handled extremely poorly on his side and I will die on that hill. I would be lying if I said that didn't sour me on him. I get wanting to try something different, but then have a staff reshuffle during the off-season, instead of confirming he's continuing with the driver and then changing your mind, what, five races into the season? And then Charles having to clarify that not only was it not his decision, it was also taken quite suddenly and without his knowledge. No reason why they couldn't have waited it out until the summer break or, hell, at the very very least made the situation clear to Charles ahead of time so he could have proper closure after the race instead of being blindsided and finding out between races that the race engineer he's worked with for the past five seasons is just????? Not only being replaced by someone else but apparently being removed from his side of the garage altogether. What little acknowledgement Fred/Ferrari gave him afterwards heavily implied they were the ones to pull the trigger because Fred thought "if they can have something better why not go for it." One day someone will say the same about him when he's on the way out. That's not to say Bryan is doing a bad job, but yeah, it still doesn't sit right with me, how everything went down and how Fred handled it.

From what I see across social media the fans kind of flip flop on him, depending on the results. One week he's being criticized for his vague statements and giving explanations incongruous with what Charles has been saying, and the next he's being touted as everyone's favourite bald guy because Charles won Monaco and they held hands and jumped into the water together. The way he's been fraternizing with Zak Brown and McLaren is also A Choice and he's been getting heat for it from some in the Lecfosi circle online, who think it's a bad look for him to be goofing around with the TP of a rival team that outdeveloped Ferrari and is now running away with the constructors' championship, and that he should put more effort into protesting their latest inventions.

So I'm definitely side-eyeing him but objectively it's probably too early to definitively say he's heading for a Binotto-style downfall, at least for the time being. The team has generally cleaned up their act in terms of strategy, making sensible tyre choices, pretty smooth pitstops—eliminating or at least mitigating all of those gremlins that consistently tripped up the drivers, and Charles particularly bore the brunt of, under Binotto. Under his leadership Charles and Ferrari delivered that long-awaited Monaco win and a second Monza victory, which I think will placate most fans at least until the end of the season. It's like, they're not having their best ever season and they're not really in the mix in terms of the championship crown, but they've had memorable performances and depending on the weekend can solidly be second-best so in that sense I think he's still got more of a grace period going for him compared to Binotto. And, much like with Binotto, I think the first big indicator of him being on thin ice will be a very visible disconnect between him and Charles. Monaco 2022 was a warning sign but Silverstone was the final nail in the proverbial coffin of Binotto's career as Ferrari TP.

I do wonder how much of the "sheltering the team at Charles's expense" is just in the job description of a Ferrari TP. Historically Ferrari has placed a lot of emphasis on optics and protecting the good name of the team.

At any rate it'll be interesting to see how Fred handles the situation next year and beyond, with Charles and Lewis at the team, particularly if there's more to play for and more at stake.

[pctaldrunk]

Palm presses ABRUPTLY over vibrating strings, the sound stopping immediately after - and she looks up from her instrument like a startled deer, little face dyed RED. "...Sorry, sorry, I didn’t know anyone else was...around...” The red deepens, and she chews her lip. Of course, it’s the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT - who’d be around? Except then, she’s also playing guqin in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night - equally infuriating, since she could be waking everyone up. Or perhaps she might be suspected of more nefarious actions - like charming everyone again in their sleep, or something to that effect. “...I just - I don’t really know what to do, anymore, with...everything,” Explains, voice small. She’d calmed and put the littler ones who call her shijie to bed quickly, and left the adults to their quiet crying and discussions of where to go next - if their sect is even still a sect, how to go on after everything’s happened, what the rest of the cultivation world will do about them. She’s been - well-shielded, from the politics between sects. All she’s known her whole life is only the music. “So I came out here to clear my head. Um, musical exercises help me think, so. I promise I’m not doing anything bad.”

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[madamechrissy]

♡ I can't help it I want you ♡

♡ ♡ Pairings ♡ ♡ Maki x Yuuta x Reader

♡ ♡ Warnings ♡ ♡ MDNI- Fingering, cunnilingus, blow jobs, threesome, multiple partners, explicit sex, overstimulation (you're Maki and Yuuta's little toy) F/M, F/F and F/F/M. Characters are 21

♡ ♡ Word Count ♡ ♡ 5,321-one shot

♡ ♡ Summary ♡ ♡ You, Yuuta and Maki were best friends forever, then when they got together, you backed off, since honestly you love them both and not platonically. But, little do you know, they have wanted you too, to be their girlfriend. So they decide to invite you for drinks and a game of Truth or Dare, but all the dares are just them kissing on your body. Do you join?

A/N- anon request 🖤 open to requests btw 😘

You adjusted the hem of your little black dress in an effort to look good for just a casual hangout with your best friends Maki and Yuuta, but for some reason you feel a little flush. They were all over each other, all the time, and you had been close to them for your entire life, so now things were a little awkward, especially since you had a crush on Yuuta and Maki.

Yeah.

You never told either of them, and now you all are grown, in college together, all recently turned twenty-one, and they had been together since Senior year of high school, but for some reason it felt awkward. Like you were a third wheel, though they both love on you constantly. Sometimes a lot of love, especially from Maki.

With a deep breath, you rang the doorbell, and she came running to open the door, breathless as she smiled at you. Maki is tall and gorgeous, with long emerald hair and glasses that fit her aesthetic perfectly. She’s in a casual little outfit, shorts and a crop, showing off her toned body. You felt so short and though you worked out too, you were nowhere near her, she was a baddie.

“You look so hot, oof!” She spins you, pinching your butt and making you giggle a bit, shyly. “That booty. And the waist is snatched. Yuuta, look, she looks hot right?”

You flush even redder as Yuuta comes to the door, smiling at you with lidded eyes, his inky black hair falling over his forehead. He was in black ripped jeans and a white dress shirt with a tie, looking every bit the emo boy he was, all of you knowing him, nostalgic almost you muse, they both look so attractive together.

“You do look pretty, angel.” You blush more now, at the nickname, that he still calls you, and Maki just grins.

“You never hang with us anymore, we miss you!” Maki drags you in finally, shutting the door. “Get in here!”

As you stepped inside, the warm heat of the apartment enveloped you, instantly washing away the chill of the night. Maki was leaning against the kitchen counter, her hair a wild cascade, and a grin that promised all sorts of mischief. Next to her, Yuuta stood, his presence grounding and magnetic, they were so different but both so dear to you.

Yuuta smiled at you, his casual interest making your heart race. “Want a drink? I’ll make one.”

“Oh, um… sure!” Yuuta gestures for you to come over then, and you follow him to the little bar in their apartment.

“Oh, I got a call. One sec, gonna step out. Have fun.” Maki shoves you close to Yuuta then, and you look at her, eyes wide, as your shoulders touch. Maki runs a soft hand down your shoulder. “Be right back, you two.”

You feel so awkward now, but Yuuta doesn’t seem to share that, as he mixes you a little pink drink and smiles. “You remember!”

“Of course I do. Ugh, we really miss you.” Yuuta brushes your hair back behind your ear, and you tremble at the touch, biting your lip. “It’s been months since you’ve hung out. And barely since we started college.”

“I know but, you and Maki are so happy and I don’t wanna ruin anything.” You sip the drink for courage, and Yuuta pouts at that, looking at you with those deep, pretty grey eyes of his.

“Ruin what? You just make things better, for both of us.” You feel your legs shift, like you can’t stand still, looking away and around their place.

“You all have your own little life now. I am alone and…”

“You’re not alone. We’re always here, angel.” You turn and look at him, wide eyed as he says that name again.

“Yuuta, you shouldn’t call me that. Angel. It’s-”

“It’s your nickname, silly.” Maki comes back in, sipping a drink Yuuta made. “Since you all were kids. Why change it now?”

“Because you all are together now. I don’t want to ever cause an issue. And that was back when…”

“Back when you all dated? In middle school?” Maki sips her drink, and you flush at that. “You think I’m bothered? You all were cute as fuck. Shit, I didn’t like this emo boy back then.”

“Hey!” He glares, then snorts in laughter, as does Maki, and you just look between them, confused.

“I wanted to date you too.” Maki caresses your cheek, and you back off a bit then, as the both of them overwhelm you.

“You all are confusing me a bit, honestly. You’re too nice, and too sweet. It should change when you all-”

“We love you the same.” Yuuta says softly, his brows together. “If you had… been around when…”

“When you all got together?”

“It’s hurt you, hasn’t it? But you don’t understand… We both want you around. Please just try tonight, just have fun, then see if you want to… stay.”

“What? Stay… what-”

Maki walks around behind you then, rubbing her hands gently down your shoulders, and you shiver a bit. Yuuta’s eyes hungrily rake down your body, and something is different about it. Maki slips your straps off your shoulders, and your eyes go wide, grabbing her hands.

“Maki, Yuuta is here!” You hiss, and she laughs softly.

“Exactly. Think he doesn’t like this pretty body too, babe?” You flush, looking at Yuuta, who smirks a bit down at you.

“Maki, look at you. I-”

“Different bodies, both beautiful.” Yuuta comes up to you then, fingering the strap that you had slid back on, and you shiver as he touches it. “You’re tiny, and these supple curves…” He trails his fingers down the side of your breast, making your nipple harden against the fabric. Then, he trails a finger down Maki’s breast. “ And my Maki, so tall, strong and toned, could kick my ass.”

“I sure have, too.” You can feel her heat behind you as he touches you both, but you clear your throat, overwhelmed with how much you feel. The desire, hot between your thighs.

“I’m so… what are you two up to? This a dare? It’s not funny.” Yuuta frowns, then, and Maki pouts.

“Why is us both thinking you’re beautiful a joke to you?” She asks, hands on your waist now.

“Because you both chose each other.” They sigh, and then you sneak out of their grip, where they are on either side of you. “I should go.”

“Angel…” Yuuta pauses you, grip on your hand, and you feel those feelings coming, that crush you always had.

“It’s fine, I love your happiness. I will always love both of you, I swear, it just… it’s hard for me. When I felt things- for both of you. It’s just… I don’t know. I am going to head out you all.”

“Stay, babe, please. Even if we just hang out, it would be so special to us to have you around again.” At that, you concede, struggling to push the ridiculous images you have of them two. “That’s our girl. Let’s have some fun?”

Their girl?

You nodded, still unsure of what that fun would entail. Maki walked back to the kitchen, grabbing a tray of snacks and then more drinks, sparkling eyes dancing in the dim light of the apartment. Then you all gather around their little gray couch, as Maki puts on music.

Maki draped herself over Yuuta, playful and teasing, her fingers tracing patterns on his forearm. You felt a complex mix of emotions watching them, the closeness between them drew you in, but it also stirred a strange longing. And they had already confused you enough tonight. What was that…

“Do you want to play a game?” Maki suddenly suggested, with a devilish glint in her eye. “Something to spice things up?”

“Like what?” You asked, your curiosity piquing.

“We can play Truth or Dare, since you brought that up.”

“Seems so high school though. What next spin the bottle?” You tease. Yuuta laughs softly, washing over you.

“It won't be high school. Truth or Dare, Maki?” Maki grins.

“Dare.”

“I dare you to kiss our angel, here.” Your eyes go wide, mouth open, just staring at him.

“Yuuta!” He just smiles, leaning back and crossing his legs, watching as Maki smooches close on the couch, cupping your face.

“Is this okay?” You ask,and Yuuta laughs.

“It's part of my dream.” Maki leaned forward then, soft but firm lips slamming against yours, and you sigh against her lips, feeling Yuuta’s eyes on you both as your tongues meet, as Maki’s hands trail down your breasts. “This is too hot.”

“Mnh-what’re we doing?” You whisper, and you see the hunger in Yuuta’s gaze, and in Maki’s.

“Making you our girlfriend.” Maki says, kissing you again, and you’re red to the tips of your ears now.

“If you want to be.” Yuuta says softly. You take a shaky breath, then look at them both, feeling bold.

“Okay, my turn.” You look at Maki, and she grins.

“Truth or dare?” She brushes your hair back gently.

“Dare.”

“I dare you to kiss Yuuta.” Maki murmurs those words, and you feel your entire body hum with excitement, with nerves, as Yuuta sits on the other side of you on the couch now, hand gently cupping your face.

“Only if our angel wants to.” You melt then, nodding eagerly, and he leans close to you, as Maki’s hand is caressing up your thigh, Yuuta places his mouth over yours, and you taste his sweet breath when he moans softly, deepening the kiss then, his tongue sweeping between your lips.

His kisses are intense, where Maki’s were more teasing, playful, his tongue dancing with yours as he drinks in the little whine in the back of your throat. He pulls back a bit, biting your lower lip, and you can hardly function, the heat between your thighs growing, and Maki’s hand is caressing right near it.

“Oh fuck, she likes that.” Maki teases, and you giggle a bit, covering your mouth then as they both look at you, intensely, Yuuta’s lips parted with desire.

“Did you like kissing me, Angel?” You nod, looking down, lashes casting shadows on your cheeks, but then Yuuta tilts your chin up, making you look at him.

“You two kiss. You’re the couple.” You lean back, and they look at each other, then smile at you, before kissing each other, both of their hands running down your thighs as they do. As you watch their tongues meet, hungry, and you feel that wetness dripping from your little entrance, especially when you feel Maki’s fingers against your panties.

Yuuta and Maki break apart, and then they’re kissing down your throat, each licking and sucking each side, until Maki has yanked your panties to the side, and your hips buck up. You gasp as Yuuta’s finger finds you between your folds, already glistening with how wet you were. He moans a bit, kissing a trail up to your ear while finding your clit.

“You’re soaked, Angel.” He murmurs, tickling your ear, and you just whimper, pathetically. “Feel her, Maki.”

“Oh yeah you are.” Maki trails a finger down your entrance, teasing, and you grip both of their arms eagerly, turning to kiss down Maki’s throat, making her gasp, then turning to do the same to Yuuta. “Truth or dare, Yuuta?”

He laughs a bit at that. “Truth, switch it up.”

They slide those straps down your dress again as Yuta kisses down Maki’s throat now, and she laughs a bit, mischievous. “Do you want to lick her pussy, Yuuta?”

You tense now, as that wasn’t really something you’d done, and you look to Maki nervously. Yuuta pulls back, looking down at you then. “Sure do, I have wanted to for a long time.”

“Wh-what!?” You tense then, as Maki smirks, and you feel them sliding your dress up your hips.

“We’ve been wanting to date you this entire time, you just are so… shy…” Maki murmurs, as Yuta sinks on the carpet between your thighs, planting little kisses on each one.

“Both of you? How… work… hmm…” You can’t think now, not when Yuuta is sliding your lacy panties down off you, baring your cunt to his face. You close your thighs, but Maki spreads them.

“Fuck your pussy is pretty. Come look, babe.” Maki leans over, her hair falling down like a curtain over her pretty face.

“It’s so pretty!”

“You guys… how do we all… date!? I’m so con-oh fuck!” Yuuta’s breath is against you now, as Maki’s slipping your dress off, leaving you bare, and she’s now playing with your breasts, squishing them in her hands.

“It works like this, babe, you date Yuuta, you date me, and we date you. If you like it, you can move in.” 

“That’s so- mnnh! Listen, I haven’t… done that.” You nervously look down at Yuuta now, and brush his hair back off his face, as he stares up at you, so sweet but full of hunger.

“You’ll love it. Promise, angel. But, only if you want.” He runs a finger down, sliding in your entrance, making you gush. “Oh, you’re so tight, fuck.”

“You’ve totally been horny talk. We talk about how we wanna lick your pussy while we fuck.” Maki says, and you look to her in shock, as she just grins, and Yuuta’s free hand is sliding up her thigh, finding her with his fingers, smirking.

“Me!? You all have…”

“You’ve been avoiding us. You’re hard to get. Mmm!” Maki cries out when Yuuta has two fingers in her now, still playing with you too, one crooking up and hitting your G spot, making you cry out.

“I’m dreaming, playing with two perfect pussies.” You and Maki giggle then, and she pulls you in for a kiss, your tongues meeting, sloppy now. “Angel, will you let me taste you please? I’m hungry.”

Yuuta is pouting, and you giggle again, nodding and running your hand through his silky hair again, exhaling. “Please, Yuuta. Taste me.”

He groans, and then he’s between your spread thighs, and you feel his tongue, hot and soft running up your slit, shooting pleasure through your core, and you can’t stop the loud moan when he flicks on your clit.

“Oh! F-fuck!” You’re mumbling and Maki pulls back, looking down at Yuuta and him devouring you hungrily, her hands playing with your breasts.

“Feels good, yeah?” You manage a nod, as Yuuta’s groaning against you, his hands now spreading your thighs and lifting them, burying his face against you, tongue flicking your clit over and over. “Soak his face, baby.”

Maki’s urging you, and Yuuta’s eyes peek up, and you feel it building, you can’t even take it, his hot tongue drinking up the wetness that gushes. You yank Maki to you, pushing up her top and sliding your hands on her breasts now, crying out your pleasure into her full lips.

“Fuck… You taste so good, Angel.” Yuuta whispers, looking at the two of you and flicking his tongue on your sensitive clit. “You two are so beautiful.”

“Mmmnh! Fuck… I’m…”

“Cum on my face, please.” Yuuta begs you, pouting with his big gray eyes, and you nod eagerly, as he’s back licking your entrance, and you’re soaking his entire pretty face, he’s slurping up every bit of it.

“I’ll lick it off him.” Maki whispers, and then you’re falling apart, as Yuuta uses his finger and crooks up, then tilts his head and flicks your clit so fast you start cumming, that pressure in your tummy insane. You’re panting as the release washes over you, until you’re so sensitive you can’t take it, and he’s still flicking his tongue.

“Good girl.” Yuuta whispers as he pulls back, and your legs are shaking as you gulp, when he runs a finger down you and comes between Maki’s thighs. “Why don’t you kiss me, Maki?”

She eagerly licks your release off his lips, and you can’t take it, how hot it is to watch them, the two people you adore, the people you missed. The people you now want so bad. You lean and start kissing down Maki’s perky breasts, palming them in your hands and sucking a nipple, as Yuuta bends between her thighs, his free hand sliding up and down your slit.

“Oh, fuck!” Maki cries out, arching her back and playing with your nipple in one hand, while Yuuta groans against her pussy.

“He’s ridiculously good at that.” You whisper, and she laughs, nodding and looking at you with cock drunk eyes.

“He’ll do it whenever you want. Won’t you, babe?”

“Oh fuck yes.” He leans back over to plant a kiss on your sloppy little clit, grinning as you jerk just from that. “If our Angel wants.”

“I think… I think I want.” They grin then, and Yuuta dives back down on Maki, but two of his fingers slide in your tight entrance, and you’re feeling that insane pressure again, blinded momentarily, as Maki’s finding her release.

Yuuta slides up, cupping your face, and his own is covered in a mix of both of your slick, and you eagerly lick Maki off him, making them both moan loudly, as you all meet for a kiss then. The three of you, tongues everywhere, it’s a little messy and awkward and then it’s so so good.

“It’s perfect now.” Maki whispers, and you grin.

“It feels perfect.” You agree.

“Not perfect yet.” Yuuta kisses you both, all over your faces as you come down from the pleasure he gave you. “It’ll be perfect when I feel both of you cum around my cock.”

“Oh… fuck…” You whisper, your brain losing its function now, and Maki and Yuuta look at you hungrily.

“I have only done it once.” You admit shyly, and they both caress you, hugging you from either side.

“That’s fine, Angel.”

“Even better, babe.”

“You all… are experienced.” You’re murmuring the words as they both kiss down your chest, each sucking on a peak of your lush breasts, and your back arches, your fingers running down their backs now as they please you more.

“Then let us teach you, Angel.” You take a shaky breath. “But it you do this… you’ll be ours.”

“All ours.” Maki whispers in agreement, and you look at both of them, as they stare at you in desire. “Just ours.”

“You all are so hot when you’re possessive.” You tease, then they laugh with you, until Yuuta has snatched you up, carrying you to their bedroom, and Maki is eagerly running to the room. “You two are crazy!”

“Crazy for our angel. We missed you so much.” Yuuta gently lays you down on your back then, and Maki is already laying on her side, smiling at you.

“I missed you all too.” You caress Yuuta’s face, and then he leans back, sliding off his button up, revealing lean muscles under pale skin. “Oh fuck… you’re hiding all that huh?”

“Could say the same about you.” He shoots a wink, and you grin, blissful with them then.

“I had feelings and didn’t wanna ruin anything. I’m sorry I stayed away.” Yuuta shushes you then.

“No, we should have been more open with you about what we wanted.”

“We were a little scared you’d run away, we can be intense.” Maki runs a hand through her emerald hair, and you admire her beauty.

“I like it. Is it all official? We’re a whole thrupple?”

They both laugh, nodding, and then Yuuta has slid off his boxers, freeing a long cock, much much longer than you would think, and your eyes widen. Maki laughs at your reaction. “I know, it’s the skinny emo boys packing heat.”

“Skinny!? I’m so strong.” Yuuta scowls, bending down and yanking Maki by one of her long legs, and she’s sticking her tongue out.

“Your cock is huge, I’m complimenting you, little emo boy.”

“Okay, the mouth needs to shut.” Yuuta has his cock on her lips now, and she eagerly sucks it down, something you had not done yet either. Your only experience was rushed and awkward, and you hadn’t cum. It had been the night you’d found out that Yuuta and Maki were together.

Yuuta groans, then looks at you, holding out his hand. You nervously sit up, and he’s caressing your face, sliding two fingers in your mouth. You suck them eagerly, as Maki sucks his cock, and both of your thighs are pressed together, her fingers find your clit, and yours find hers, nervously.

“Wanna suck him, babe?” She looks and Yuuta pops his fingers out, shaking his head then.

“You haven’t before.” You nod, and his expression softens. “You don’t have to yet, we can go at your pace.”

“We totally can wait! It’s fine, promise. We just want you happy.” Maki kisses you then, and you taste Yuuta on her, then you look at his cock, the pink tip leaking with white sticky pearls of precum.

“No… I want to. Just guide me a bit.” Yuuta moans, gently caressing your face and Maki is holding your hair back, pulling it gently, placing you where you need to be, and it’s making you even wetter.

“I’m totally dreaming.” Yuuta’s words make you both giggle, as Maki is wrapping her long legs around you from behind. “Open up, Angel.”

You do as he says, and taste him then, salty but yummy, lapping that precum up and watching his head fall back. “Take what you can, relax your throat.” Maki’s urging you on, and one of your hands slides up and down his length, the other on Maki’s thigh, and you begin moving.

“Oh, fuck.” Yuuta’s moaning, urging you on, and now Maki is sucking on his two fingers while you suck his cock, taking as much as you can, until you nearly choke, pulling back a bit. “You all right, Angel?”

“Too much.” You cough a bit, embarrassed. “I’m not that good-”

“No, you’re amazing. Especially your first time. Besides, I prefer to eat pussy, honestly.”

“He’s a giver.” Maki’s breath is hot on your neck. You grow even more flustered at their words. “You looked so hot sucking him.”

“Yeah you did.” He’s leaning down, kissing you again, then he’s leaning over and kissing Maki, and you suck on his neck, hand running down his abdomen, feeling every muscle tense as you did. “I wanna be inside you so bad.”

That whisper makes you shiver, as you assume he’s talking to Maki, so you slide out of their grip, assuming they need some time. You get a grip on both of your wrist from two different hands then, Maki’s green eyes and Yuuta’s gray ones staring at you in unison.

“I’ll let you all fuck, thanks so much. This is so amazing ugh.” You kiss both of their hands, as they frown a bit.

“Are you not ready for that? Was I too much when I said that?” Yuuta asks, his hand gently brushing your hair.

“I thought… you meant… you wanted to be alone?”

“No, I want to feel you cum around me. Pulsing like you did on these fingers.” His husky voice, his hungry look, it makes you melt, and you nearly hurt.

“You sure? Like… I am gonna suck-”

“I’ll smack you, brat.” Maki yanks you down, on her lap, and then you smile, as she kisses you again. “I wanna see you fuck him so bad.”

“I don’t wanna overstep!”

“Oh no. I plan on drinking his cum out of you.”

“I… what!?” You are in shock, as they grin at each other. “Have you two planned this… thing? Sharing those devious looks!”

“We so have.” They answer that in unison, and you can’t stop your blush, which they coo at.

“Want me to go first? If you’re nervous.” Maki suggests, and you nod, curious to watch them. “Then slide up, let me kiss on you.”

“What!?” They laugh again, and you do as Maki commands, as Yuuta positions himself behind her, and thrusts into her cunt then, as she’s bent over with her ass in the air, and she’s sucking on your breasts, as each thrust has her breasts rubbing against your slick heat.

Yuuta’s hand comes and slides up your thigh, as he looks at you, moaning at the sight of Maki kissing down your tummy, pushing your thighs apart with her, and then your eyes flutter shut as Maki licks you. Her tongue is lightly flicking your clit, sloppy as she moans her pleasure while Yuuta fucks her.

“Yes, lick Angel’s pretty pussy, babe, while I fuck you. Fuck you feel so good around me… mmm… Good girls.” He cooes those words, and they urge Maki on, now she’s left her sucking on your clit and she’s screaming out her orgasm.

She kisses down your tummy again, and then grins at you, as she catches her breath. “Your turn.”

“My turn?” You nervously look up, and then Yuuta pulls out of her, yanking you by your ankles and laying on top of you, two fingers sliding into your soppy little entrance, and you’re already cumming around them, screaming ouy.

“Not doggie first time, Maki. She’s our little goodie goodie.” Yuuta earns a glare from you, and they both laugh at that. “You’re so cute.”

“I could take doggie… Well… maybe…”

“We have all the time in the world to do that. Yeah, Angel?” They both look at you then, and you caress their faces, nodding.

“Yes. We do.” They grin, kissing each other, then kissing you, and you feel Yuuta’s fingers replaced by his thick tip at your entrance, and you tense a bit, but Yuuta is kissing you, leaning up to look down at you.

“You’re so beautiful. Two most beautiful girls.” He kisses Maki now, and your heart feels too full, it’s too much.

“Ugh… I love you both.” You whisper, and then you see emotions in their eyes, as Maki kisses you now, leaning against you.

“I love you both.” Maki says softly.

“I’ve always loved you both.” Yuuta kisses both of you, and then you wipe your tears, gasping as he’s sliding his tip against your clit. “You all were missing out in high school you know.”

“I see I’ve been missing out alot.” You giggle, and they both are touching you, Maki kissing you when Yuuta slides his cock in, and you gasp at it, at the stretch burning your skin. “A-ah!”

“You okay, Angel?” Yuuta pauses, speaking through gritted teeth, and you nod, gasping and moving your hips a bit, making him moan, gripping you tight. “You’re so tiny…”

“I’m good, I’m so good.” He moves then, and you cry out, hands reaching for Maki then, but she pulls back a bit, spreading her legs and displaying her glistening folds.

“I wanna watch.” She’s playing with her clit, and you and Yuuta stare, hungrily, as she giggles. “Fuck her pussy, Yuuta.”

“You’re so bossy, Maki.” He smiles then down at you, and your hands grip his shoulders, as he begins to thrust into your tight entrance, his brows lowering. “Feel s’good…”

“Mnh… yes…” His hips are snapping as he hits your cervix, and you cry out, nearly backing off, and Maki moans, biting her lip. You gasp, feeling yourself closer, reaching out to touch her, as does Yuuta, both of your hands on her legs as Yuuta fucks into you, looking down lovingly.

“Too much?” You shake your head, and then he’s thrusting so deep, and you’re feeling higher and higher, finding Maki’s soaking entrance and fingering her, making her scooch closer, moaning.

“Cum on his cock, babe, please.” She urges you, and then Yuuta finds your little clit, rubbing as he bottoms out in you, and you’re screaming out, crooking your finger up and feeling her gush around your slender finger. “Oh fuck!”

“Fuck!”

“F-fuck…” That last one is Yuuta, as you’re throbbing around his cock, thickening inside you, and his tip is on your cervix, leaning down and moaning, capturing your lips in his, Maki is sitting up then too, rubbing down your body. Yuuta kisses her, then you again, and then he’s pressing so deep, so deep you fall apart under him again.

“Look how pretty you are.” Maki whispers, and you whine, so much pleasure you feel fucked up, you feel buzzed, you can’t focus anymore.

“Both are so beautiful. Look at her cumming, Maki.” Yuuta pushes in again, and you hear the squishing sound as you’re soaking his cock, making it slippery. “Look at that pretty face.”

“Love you… both. Fuck.” You’re crying nearly, as you cum so hard you lost your last brain cells, and Maki’s playing your clit, kissing up your neck, while Yuuta is slowly fucking you into another orgasm.

“We love you.” They say in unison, and then you’re cumming again, this time Maki drinks your cries, your cunt is so slippery her hand falls off, and she eases back, shoving her fingers in your mouth.

“Taste that pussy.” She orders, and you swirl your tongue around her long slender fingers, crying out as Yuuta is tensing, his grip tight on your hips, as he’s throbbing inside you.

“I’m so close… too much… too good.” He whispers, and Maki peeks down at you then. “Wanna cum in this perfect pussy, Angel.”

“Can he cum in you?” She asks, and you just nod, then Yuuta’s leaned down, thrusting deep and kissing you just as deeply, tongue moving in rhythm with his length, until you’re cumming once more, and he’s moaning his release into your mouth. “That’s it… cum in her little pussy. Fill her up.”

“Gonna fill this little pussy up, Angel.” He huffs, and you nod, as Maki watches in delight while he pumps so much hot ropes of his cum in you, and it fills you up, hot and pouring in you, as your walls flutter around him. “Oh my god-I”

“S’good, s’good… Yuuta…” You’re crying out, trembling as he pumps more of that cum so deep in you, kissing your forehead sweetly. You blink to get any sort of vision in your mind, as Yuuta looks at you deeply.

“Was that too much? Too rough or…”

“No, no. Perfect. You could have been rougher.” He smirks then, nipping your lower lip.

“Oh, rougher next time huh?” You nod, giggling, as Yuuta kisses you once more, before sliding out of you and kissing Maki deeply. You run your hand down both of their faces as they do, until they grin at you.

“You two are so devious. What are you thinking now!?” You demand, as Yuuta’s cum is sliding out of your little cunt. Yuuta switches spots with Maki, and now he’s on your side, kissing your breasts, sucking on sensitive tips. “Ahh… Maki… Yuuta… s’good, mmm.”

“Clean our Angel up, Maki. Get her ready for another round.” Yuuta murmurs, and Maki is grinning before she dives down, licking his cum out of you. Yuuta is smirking down at you, brushing your sweaty hair back as you whine out.

“M-Maki! Do you breathe!?” She laughs against you, as she’s lapping up all of your cum and Yuuta’s, and Yuuta is pulling your hair now with one hand, the other sliding up your throat.

“We have been wanting you for so long, Angel.”

“I… should have-ah! Come sooner?”

He grins, nodding. “It’s gonna be a long night, pretty Angel.” Yuuta whispers, then kisses you, drinking all your cries of pleasure as Maki works on you. And it is a long night, of endless pleasure, of all three of you loving and fucking each other, tasting each other, until you’re spent.

You have a boyfriend and a girlfriend now.

Maki and Yuuta. And they really missed you, because you don't get any sleep at all.

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[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

ALRIGHTY’S I KNOW ITS BEEN A HOT SEC I’VE BEEN GONE CAMPING AMONGST THE TREES AND THEN OPENED COMMISSIONS BUT NOW IT IS FINALLY TIME TO SIT DOWN FOR ANOTHER KNOX REACTS. WHATS UP ON THE MENU TONIGHT?

MONKIE KID SEASON 5 EPISODE 3

(spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen it)

Yeah alright, lets see what we got here title be TEMPLE OF THE GODDESS. Sounds cool sounds neat, is this gonna be Nuwa’s first appearance then? or like… i assumed she’d show up later ngl if at all, sets have a habit of adding characters that never show up sometimes— AHEM

.

ACTUALLY THIS FEELS A BIT SURREAL LIKE RIGHT THERE’S MONKIE KID EPS OUT THAT’S CRAZY HELPGLKMAF;LKSDF

Let’s see how I do after two weeks of semi-fresh slightly smokey tree air—

theme song my beloved, oh yes okay the three weeks did something i’m almost used to the animation difference i think it’s settled we’re good i can react primarily to the story now WHEEZELKGJASL;KDF

OHH OHH OKAY IT MIGHT JUST BE THE TWO WEEKS BUT SANDY SOUNDS A LOT MORE SANDY NOW, hang on lemme pull up ep 2 i’m curious

ah hm and nope nvm relistened again, its like… y’know if you’ve ever gone on like a sound music app thingie like garage band or something and you up the tenor and get rid of some of the base, Sandy’s voice sounds kinda off that way, he’s more nasally and not as rumbly? HEY I’M ABLE TO ARTICULATE NOW LETS GOOOOOO

Anyway tho back to react lesgolesgolesgo

Mk, my lad, you are indeed moving from one apocalypse to the next but if it’s all leading up to destiny then i’m sure it’ll be like PSYCH IT’S BEEN THIS ONE GUY PULLING THE STRINGS ALL ALONG— or something like that that’d be funny

Hm, I wonder if the five coloured stones have a name like the Samadhi fire does.

W O O F (ouch) yeah some of the movements still make me feel like i’m sitting in front of my grandparents TV watching treehouse or something :[ It’s kinda like… it’s not bad its just very much used for a specific type of show usually and monkie kid isn’t that type of show to me so it’s claaaashing so bad AHA I AM ABLE TO ARTICULATE! Whaddayaknow the three week break did wonders for me actually we’re loving this YEAAAAAA

Wukong rubbing his head where the circlet is while he talks is MMHM <3 Wowza!!

HM! Tang sounds muffled! Once again i gotta go back and reply to understand what’s being said THIS IS TRAGIC THIS IS A NEW EXPERIENCE FOR ME USUALLY MONKIE KID IS SO CRYSTAL CLEAR I HEAR WHAT’S BEING SAID RIGHT OFF THE BAT (only mis-hearing once in a blue moon) I do like how Pigsy is shaped in this frame <3

Sniffs. I was gonna say they are indeed reusing the samadhi rings plot line again of like, wow we gotta find this thing! but hey this time they don’t have a map! It’s different [winks at camera] LOL no tho fr it’s kinda interesting to see them using the same theme in different fonts. Like the goal is different, Samadhi fire was beat the lady bone demon and the stones is seal he heavens but it is a very similar plot to have so close to the other season. I mean there was a 1 season break in-between tho so PFF that’s probably good enough MOVING ON

Okay hmhm, Pigsy’s “what about the thing where” is super like muffled to me? And quiet, like they turned down the volume on his audio and then cranked it up immediately at the “WE DON’T KNOW WHERE THESE STONES ARE.” on second listen now that i know what’s gonna be said it’s not so bad, but it also just seems very kinda slurred together almost?? It feels like it was done in two separate takes and pasted together almost. I had to pause and be like huh!!! weird!! usually there’s a bit of a pause between Pigsy’s quiet and then loud bit to my memory, he’s done this kind of thing before but the audio volume is just so wildly different—might just be my version of the show tho!

Oof yeah, the music and audio of mk talking after it are wildly different volumes, and these are my good headphones WOUGH THIS IS BRUTAL

still chilling in the good vibes tho, fresh air does a load of good

Actually, fantastic plan mk, ask someone who knows, mind blowing for these guys, when have they ever— //j/jj

Is that how you say her name? NuWAH? I do it more of like a… NAHwah? maybe? ??? NeWAH HGLKJSDF

Mk and Mei getting hyped bless <3333

….tang bro you guys have walked through lava so many times by now I don’t see why you’re loosing your mind— GHL;AKSDJFSADF

they’ve cracked the code, if you want to distract Tang from doom spiraling just ask him to info dump and you’re good!! Still whatever with the visuals of that gag ngl but i do appreciate the verbal comedy

Okay, who do those highly stylish eyebrows belong too? Actually hello?? this might be my favourite frame in the show so far it looks so nice?? I LIKE A FRAME IN SEASON 5 LESGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

“There’s always a temple”

“Mhm, yeah, mhm”

Yeah its like all the voices lost their bass, their growl, their RUMBLE. Nah the Pigsy Mei moment was cute tho bless

Tang. You have. Been around the Samadhi fire. Yeah okay trauma fire, without getting literal ab—TANG YOU LITERALLY SAMADHI FIRE??? THAT’S LITERAL FIRE PLS HGLK;SFJA;OWIEFM AND FAR MORE DANGEROUS THAN REGULAR FIRE??? MY GOOD SIR??? Priorities—

AHAHAHA Darn right, I know Ashe likes their “LEGOOOO”’s, fantastic that is becoming part of my speech un-ironically thanks to them HGLASJDF You know what yeah this feels like Ashe’s writing “Sounds like Tang’s on board!” yeah hGLK;SJDFSD

SANDY’S VOICE ALMOST SOUNDED RIGHT THERE

GODS WE’RE SO CLOSE [clenches fist]

That little transition noise had a good base—

Wow speediy AHAHAHAHAHA STAIRS

YESSSSSSSSS

Okay, Okay mk’s little NNOOOooooooooo…. was pretty funny hGL;KJSFD;LJSADF Bro just yeah, nods nods that’s how stairs feel fr :pensive_emoji:

The music kinda drowns out what Sandy says for a second RAAAAA

ALPINE SANDYGNL;DKFMSADF

nice

Why do you need a hook the stairs are right there—

Oh pls make Tang climb don’t carry him pls make him climb plsplsplsplsplsplspls PLEASE MAKE HIM AND HIS WEAK ANKLES CLIMB I’M BEGGING YOU—

Oh

Oh yeah okay good call actually I take it back teleportation is actually a good ideaHGKL;ASJDFSDF

AS FUNNY AS TANG CLIMBING WOULD BE

.

I feel like tang’s old man back would snap under mei—

DID HE JUST UYEET THATLGKMD;LFKSD

oh he can slip it back

CHEATINGLKSDMFASLD;MF

Cant’ use magic or tracking

….. AND THEN USES HIS CLOUD GLKMDFA;OMFIWEF

CHOKINGL;KSDFMASDF

ONLY TAKES MK

I’m telling ya man Sun Wukong’s one and only priority is that kid

…. is mk and wukong ditching the rest of the crew gonna be a theme this season— HGLKJASD;FKASD

TANG N O

TANG

NO

LEAVE THE PIG MAN ALOOOOOONE

DARN RIGHT YOU AIN’T CARRYING HIM TANG HE’S HALF YOUR SIZE— (not to say that I don’t believe Pigsy is stronk and buff ask heck but STILL)

The way Wukong keeps touching the circlet is a neat detail ngl I’m STILL salty about how it went on but its FIINNEEEEE

MK

W H A T

BROTHER HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU CHEATED AT STUFF, TAKE ME BACK TO THE SKELETON KEY WHEN HE BYPASSED LEVELS IN VIDEO GAMES AND STOLE THINGS AND WENT ON A WILD CRAZY RUN WITH MEI?? I mean you could say character development BUT PLS WDYMMMMMMMM

Okay “LOOPHOLES BABY” is absolutely delightful and I will be quoting that for the rest of my life for no reason i just think he’s delightful

they almost made him squishy good effort wild brain ;-;7 i salute you

Ashe, I love your sense of humour—

“THIS PROVES NOTHING—“

Oh so the eyebrows are a BIRD ;-; ok i was like owaa new design? cool character? no :pensive_emoji: its a bird :pensive_emoji: that’s okay i’m sure the bird is lovely too ;-; TBF the bird probably would ave appeared anyways

Why is the bird growling HLGKJA;WOEFJSDF

Ooo fire blasts!

Isn’t shielding the fire using magic—?

….bro

CRACKS KNUCKLES

COOL YEAH IMPLICATIONS SINCE THAT WASN’T MAGIC EVEN IF IT HAD THE MAGIC SOUND EFFECT ITS JUST SWK USING HIS BODY TO SHEILD MK AND NOTHING ELSE YEAH I’M NORMAL AND FINE DON’T TOUCH ME

oooooo touchy wall, get pulled in, MK YOU’RE HOOOMEE <3 probably, I don’t know I assume Nuwa would be like wassup brrooo <333 since she’s the one who made him maybe its unclear still but we’ll worry about that when we get to it

Tilting my head. eh, no particular feelings over mk mimicking wukong ngl shrugs

Oooo Nuwa’s place looking a little worse for wear

Bro she’s legit a snake—

Just casually smashing things

Ooo OI TILTED ANGLE COUNTER GOING UP

Sniffs.

She made monkeys! :D Oh yeah and humans ig—

Oh come on don’t show me flying bark PLEAAASE I’M BEGGING YOU ON MY KNEES EVEN IF ITS TRACED DON’T SHOW IT TO MEEEEEE

Bro having flashes once again and going iTS NOTHIINNN DW ABOUT IIIIT

Okay big ol prophecy painting with the face scratched out that’s silly

HELPGKLMASFSAD

CLASSIC FINAL BOSS AESTHETIC HGL;KSDFMASDF

…..

Way to change the topic wukong

OH i kinda almost like how mk looks in that frame the “answers ain’t in this room” one its so close ;-;

Ig they both know who its supposed to be :T

Ahem okay so this is gonna be a prophesy destiny season alrighty cool cool cool

Sniffs. I feel like the coming down in a beam of light to people reaching up to him is probably misleading given the whole harbinger of chaos thing so maybe Mk’s like, how’s you say this… bam bam boom whack wowza rip the world ig :pensive_emoji:

WHO KNOWS

ANYWAY

Oh mk says “fair point” when monkey king says the final boss thing that’s funny OUGH I WISH I COULD HEAR AND PROCESS THIS IS KILLING ME A BIT

aw lets focus up ;-; i like him

STOMPY STOMPY

Bro those are traps—

MONKEY KINGS FACE GLKASMFSD

yeah

Mk’s steamrolling huh

BBQ’d 2.0

Indiana Jones’ing it MONKEY KING TAKING THE BR

SHUT UP HE LOOKS LIKE BURNT MARSHMALLOW WUKONG EVERYBODY SHUT UP TAHT’S MY DESIGN THAT’S MY BOY

bet you didn’t expect me to fixate on bbq’d wukong huh—

He’s just

on his cloud

MANYMANY DADS

HE SAID IT

HELPGLKMASFASDF

I’m hoping its dads and i’m not mishearing deaths hG;LKJSADF

MONKEY KING WITH STUFF STICKING OUT OF HIMGLMFLKSDF

Lava or axe’s nice

NOOO MK’S MCGUFFIN;SLDKFMA;OEFWN;AWENF;OAWG;KMFLASDMFS MCGUFFINS I’M CRYINGLKSDFMASDFS I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE ASHE YOU’RE FUNNY OKAYGLKMSFSD

Aw that’s cute

“three times actually” smug look at the camera

“first time was just the city don’t get cocky”

I’m liking a lot of the dialogue in this ep a lot more than the first two ngl feels more monkie kid but HEY ITS ASHE SO THAT MAKES SENSEG;LKSMDFSD

I love Wukong telling Mk this ngl

“look i don’t know how many times you gotta learn this—“

A lot monkey king

a lot more times— HGL;KASJDF

Seems like Mk’s getting worn down by the whole destiny thing and its probably gonna end up being something he doesn’t like or something

Monkey king: USE YOUR ABLITY TO MAKE CHOICES

Mk: :(

oUGH

OUGH

NAILING IT

ON MY HANDS AND KNEES THANK YOU ASHE FOR WRITING THE CHARACTERS I LOVE, THAT WAS PLAYING DUMB TO LIGHTEN THE MOOD DONE WELL WAILS

MAAAN

Sniffs okay okay

oooo STARS

FANCY

“I can sense it”

“What fr???”

that’s funny and also ominous

a lot of “i can feel it”’s going around here hLKG;JASDF

Bro fr i thought it’d be another map—

They’re goofy

Ohhhh OHH I get it, the bird is the

stone

yeah

that makes sense

stone bird

so all the stones are those creatures at the start

and merged together they’re that giant chimera freaky creature plus whatever snake guy lego set dude merged together

.

maybe

so stones together in fact busts stuff up fr?

AYO? WHY’S THE BIRD DOING A LADY BONE DEMON THING

OH THEY HOVERING NOW

Hi Nuwa

I’m sorry i never got to see flying bark animate you ;-;

OKAAAY I gotta process all that

So it’s definitely gonna be like a keep the universe from getting destroyed thing, but also probably a fake out of he’s meant to destroy it or something because PSYCH YOU THOGUHT WE WERE GONNA BE STRAIGHTFORWARD—or something like that final answer (its not my final answer i’ll come up with something better later maybe)

The phoenix sounds like somebody trying to sound Chinese

….

jurys still out on whether they succeeded or not

coughs

Mk sacrifice his existence?

Okay i do like the um… difference in responses from mk and wukong “—to save the world?” and Mk’s like D: and wukong’s like >:[ more like. feels like he’s going AHA YEHA NOT GONNA LET THAT HAPPEN BRO— conviction nuh-uh kinda vibe maybe

SIGHS

mEI STILL SOUNDS OFF TO ME I DON’T WANT HER TOO BUT RAAAAAAAAA Save me guys take me back to when i wouldn’t notice this ;-; make me into one of those people who everyone sounds the same to or something (pls don’t i like being able to decipher voices) MAAAN good voice acting still tho, good yell, well done

Circlet used to keep monkey king down so he can’t save mk real?

Dang they really spoiling the end of the season here—well if it actually goes like this, mk never got engulfed in fire like the lady bone demon claimed he would so this might not even happen lol

“Your hearts have been measured”

Swk: OKAY FIGHT TIME BECAUSE AIN’T NO WAY I PASSED THAT—

Swk do you need to sit down and talk about it buddy? :( ?

And poof gone==oh those are pretty big

HA

Trial after all

True true mentor stuff still stands

hmhm no thoughts!

WHY IS HIS MONKEY FORM ALL EVIL SMILEY

PIGSY YOU DID NOT CARRY HIM

PIGSY

P I G S Y

Mk: [another crisis]

Okay no fr respectfully someone needs to throw tang down the stairs GET OFF MY MAAAAN

Swk felt very silly goofy in this episode

It does kinda feel like he’s helping Mk avoid what he doesn’t want to think about now, which, is interesting!

DID TANG JUST TELL DADSY TO MUSH

TANG W H Y

I GET ITS FOR THE RUNNING GAG BUT W H YYYYYYY

This is p interesting tho, this episode definitely felt more like monkie kid to me, it’s still just MAN is it missing the heart and soul flying bark brought and I’m still having a lot of trouble processing the audio to an almost ridiculous degree of the amount of times i have to go back and replay and not to enjoy a line but to actually hear it regardless of how much i have my sound turned up so there’s still some OOF stuff but all in all the gags on this one were good and my three weeks away have helped me put enough distance between the animation and me that i can actually kinda watch it now!! LEGOOOO

Next reaction ep hopefully coming sometime this week so until then KNOX OUT BABYYYYY

[eruden-writes]

"The Beast is abusive."

Alright, so I'm going to get super nerdy for a hot sec, because I thought too hard on this.

All of this is going to refer to Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast, since that was who was pictured on the poll these posts mention. Broadway musicals, sequels, and the live adaptation are basically AUs.

This is long so it's under a cut.

First, Beast was trying to survive and un-enchant not only himself, but his servants. This isn't an excuse by any means, but allows us to understand his mindset. He had a whole castle-full of people relying on him - and even goading him - to seduce a woman he barely knew. (And who knows how many times they tried that before? How many women wandered into the castle? Or how many servants tried to seduce the Beast?)

Further, in Be Our Guest, Lumiere says the servants have been "rusting for 10 years." Which leads to the second point...

Second, whether Beast was cursed when he was 11 (since the curse ended when the last petal fell on his 21st birthday) or he was 18-20 and the spell slowed down his aging, he was still in survival mode for 10 years.

This isn't even touching on what his initial attempts to break the curse was like or how he learned to do everything in his new form. (Side note: When people get plastic surgery, they can get a nauseous due to the "unreality" of it. Not recognizing one's body or face hits hard it turns out. Now imagine being a kid or a young adult, looking in the mirror and seeing something completely not human. Oof.)

And who put him in that survival mode?

The Enchantress.

I know, I know, it was to teach him a lesson because he was already a shit. But who gave her the right to teach him that lesson? Absolutely no one.

She only bestowed the lesson because she was more powerful than the Beast/Prince Adam. Her curse kept him and the servants isolated for ten years.

(Also, can we talk about how the stained glass opening makes it seem like the Prince is answering his own fucking door in a castle? He has servants for that! What are the chances a servant lied and didn't let her in and she just assumed it was the prince denying her entry? Did we even get a scene where the Beast talked about the Enchantress? Or does he think this fae-like beauty just popped out of nowhere to curse him???

Is the stained glass opening just a "winners write history" reiteration full of flaws and lies?!)

Could there have been other, more healthy, ways for a freakin' magical woman to make her point to this allegedly looks-obsessed royal prince? Absolutely.

All of this is to say:

The Beast is a victim of the Enchantress.

While it doesn't absolve him of his own abusive/toxic acts, it gives us more reason beyond "he was already rotten to begin with" for his actions.

Being abusive or continuing the circle of abuse is honestly something that happens with abuse survivors before they acknowledge and process their abuse.

Through the story of Beauty and the Beast, we see Beast becoming a better - arguably healthier - person and healing with Belle's support/friendship/companionship and in spite of the Enchantress's abusive use of her powers.

Fin.

[baronaliswritingcorner]

TOS Replay Stray Thoughts No. 4 (Luin/Asgard/Balacruf Mausoleum)

-“I’ve read nothing but books in angelic language since I was a child” Oof, the religious propaganda runs deep. I wonder how left out Colette felt?

-wait Kratos how do you know the angelic languagohhhhhhhhhhhhh 

-Mmmmm yeah listen to the Luin music sing. “Water symphony”, indeed!

-Ever notice how Asgard doesn’t have a fence? Like, it's on a cliff -- that's a public health hazard if I've ever seen one. Y'all so preoccupied with your tourism and open half-elf discrimination while there's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Get on that!

-One thing Tales of Symphonia does really well is how lived-in and handcrafted the house interiors are, with Asgard and Luin being particular standouts. Just look at the story Harley's house tells! You don’t see this sort of detail in modern Tales anymore...

-The Asgard Human Ranch…but it doesn’t have any relationship with Asgard. Hmm. Shoulda been Luin Human Ranch.

-I don't dabble into customization/spending GRADE *too* much, so I always forget how cost-effective it is. Managing Tales of Symphonia’s economy is fun.

-“There are hardly any trace of the ancient civilization left. It’s almost as if they were intentionally erased by someone.”

HMMMM. Cruxis??? But why would they care about the Balacruf Dynasty? Kinda wish we knew more about that. 

-There's this whole flying dragon business that's always talked about, but almost never seen aside from Hima. I wanna see how that works.

On that note, what's with how one Asgard dragon looks totally different? He's a cutie.

-“Aisha was chosen for the sacrifice because she associates with that half-elf."

Y E E S H.

-The background of the Asgard dais is purty.

-Y’all, Linar. Why do you keep rubbing your head in embarrassment like that. You're gonna shave all your hair off if you go any faster.

-That dais bomb disbarment scene is peak TOS comedy with how Raine keeps beating up that one dude. Also, sudden Lloyd bomb disarment skills.

-That scene when Harley almost gives away their half-elf identities 😬😬😬 The way the Asgard elder and his assistants giving Genis those looks says it all -- poor guy must've been terrified.

(By the way, I don’t remember if they fixed this in the ports, but did you notice Secret of the blue sky plays veeeeeeeeery faintly here? I know that’s a song associated with half-elf discrimination, but I think the wind howling speaks for itself.)

-“that monster with a giant f*cking blade for an appendage and demanding virgin sacrifices was a problem but Harley merely existing and minding his own business is a way bigger issue”.

Lady. Chill. Leave your racism by the door.

-“Well, he’s not causing any problems by being a half-elf but-” YES. YOU’RE THIS CLOSE TO GETTING IT.

-“My sister got a new fan!” *gets smacked*

okay

-“The location of the next Summon Spirit is the next seal.”

yes, I would think that's obvious

-“I’m a little scared, but you’re with me, so it’ll be okay, right?”

“Yeah, leave it to me!”

HHNNNNNGGGGGGHHHHHHH COLLOYD!!!!!

-man Fatalize is such a cool song. I wish it played more.

-look at Lloyd’s arm clipping through Colette’s when she falls down

-how did Colette’s hand bleed that much from falling down

-“Colette, can I talk to you for a sec?” 

oh

oh, here it comes 

“I thought it’d be nice for us to talk just by ourselves” 

The line, it’s coming…! 

“Here, it’s hot coffee.” 

HE’S GONNA SAY IT! 

“Hot, isn’t it?” 

ANY MOMENT NOW 

“It’s actually iced coffee.”

BRACE YOURSELVES

“I lied. It’s actually hot.”

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 

-Memes aside, how about that scene? Peak Colloyd. Colette’s trying her absolute hardest to downplay her trauma for Lloyd's sake (“But my eyes have gotten better!”) even though anyone paying attention can see she can't even convince herself ("I've gotten so good at hearing that...it's painful") and Lloyd just stops and hugs her in the middle of it and apologizes for everything…and she can’t even feel it! SHE CAN'T EVEN CRY!!! AAAAGGGHHHH

The bond they share goes beyond the senses!!! IT'S TRUE LOVE

[thewatercolours]

King's Quest Ficlet: "A Little Change"

Thanks for the prompt, @captmickey!

“How much for the strudel twists?” asked the traveller with the broken nose.

Graham flipped hurriedly through the notebook Jerry had left. “Um, one sec. Just let me check. We’re just watching the cart while he’s at lunch. Aaaand that’s the last page. Hey, Ginger, strudel twists! Do you remember what they cost?”

His sister poked her head up from the Crackers’ vegetable stall two spaces over. “Should be two silver ladybirds, a throne, and a bronze hawk. I think.”

“I’ve got a pouch full of thrones. Can you give me change?”

“Uh, change?” asked Graham, uncertainly.

“I give you three thrones, you keep the cost, and you give me the rest in smaller coins?”

Graham and Ginger made eye contact. “I’m guessing you’re not from nearby?” Graham said.

The traveller sighed, dodging the old healer lady as she passed with a wheelbarrow full of something that made Graham’s eyes water. “No, not from nearby,” he said, coughing and dabbing at his face. “Haven’t you people ever heard of plain, old, shiny gold coins? Just pick a number of them and that’s what the thing’s worth?”

Graham fidgeted his fingers in the money basket, making it jingle. Even though he was the knowledgeable one in this situation, it nevertheless made him feel a bit country bumpkinish - like their way of handling money was behind the times. And there was something about the tall stranger.  Though his clothes were weather beaten, they were of good wear, his speech was proper, and he carried himself in a soldierly sort of way. But no use delaying. Graham smiled and shrugged his best customer service shrug. “Jerry’s also good with sliced thrones, if you haven’t got the exact coins. There’s a guy down at the south end of the market who’ll cut them up for you, if you want.”

The man rolled his eyes in frustration, and looked like he might be about to turn away. But his glance fell on the basket of hot strudels again, and something melted. He leaned over and took a deep whiff. Graham couldn’t help breathing in along with him, taking in cinnamon, pumpkin, and spiced butter. Minding Jerry’s cart was the best.

Unslinging his pack from his back, the man began fiddling with a button on one of the outer pouches. “Hold on. I think I’ve got a few small coins in here. Fell to the bottom. Might be easier - oof!”

He pitched forward as the boys from the mill jostled past - Graham hadn’t quite seen, but he suspected one of them had given the traveller a shove. Graham gasped and grabbed the cart’s handles to pull it back before the traveller could fall face first into the baked goods. But the man caught himself, regaining his balance with a strange little ankle flourish, one that looked strangely rehearsed. The pack, however, did not fare so well. The button popped free. What spilled out were not coins, but about a million over-sized papers. The wind grabbed them, like an over-hyped toddler, and scattered them to the wind. The stranger reached out to snatch them from the air, but it was far too late. They were flying everywhere over the market, landing on market stalls, in puddles, in people’s baskets, and in the branches of oak trees.

One blew into Graham’s face. He grabbed at it, and pulled it back to look at it. His heart skipped a beat. Blazoned in glorious colours was a picture of a castle. A castle he had never seen, but which his heart knew well. He had pored over sketches of that castle in the pages of his beloved travel guidebooks by morning light, firelight, and candlelight. As a younger boy he had made a model of it from paper, and it had figured in many games. He had dreamed of the day when the world would be his to explore, and he’d walk over that drawbridge and see if his imagination had been right at all.

And beneath the castle, in enormous letters, were the words, HELP WANTED.

His eyes flew over it so fast he couldn’t even read the words in order. Only the best. The knighthood theatre. Daventry. 

Graham stared up at the traveller, who was apologizing profusely to the vendor across the way (a poster had fallen into her sample punch bowl.)  “What… are these?” called Graham, only just loud enough to be heard over the crowd.

“What’s it look like?” called the man, stooping to pick up several papers from the ground. “It’s a poster for the annual knighthood tournament next month!”

Graham gulped. “In Daventry?”

The man nodded. “Yeah - we’re trying to get the word out farther afield this year. Look here, lad. If you want to be really helpful, forget the strudel. Help me gather these up, quick as you can. Of course, let anybody keep one who wants. You give me a hand with this, you can have a whole handful of thrones, and you and the baker can work it out later.”

“Can -” Graham gripped the poster tightly. “Can you pay me in gold coins instead?”

The man looked confused. “But you can’t use them around here.”

Graham nodded. “I know.”

[visions--of--collisions]

for @its-just-a-glitch who requested 200 words of an active work-in-progress, here is an uh er um slightly longer than 200 words-preview of:

let me ease your mind (chapter 3) • hobie/miles, post-canon, omegaverse; rated: e

Hobie’s bladder woke him a couple hours later, albeit not as many as he would’ve liked, if the darkness was anything to go by. He grunted and dragged his cheek against the pillow under his head.

Miles was warm in his arms, muscles twitching in his sleep. He’d backed up against Hobie at some point in the night, and Hobie had performed some kind of death roll to accommodate him, apparently; the blankets were a tight cocoon that would’ve been cozy as anything if Hobie weren’t worried about pissing himself. He eased his arm out from underneath Miles and wormed his way up into a half-sit. Hobie propped his weight on his elbow as a yawn seized him, squeezing tears out of his eyes. He wiped them away with his knuckles and leaned over to peer at Miles’ face.

His eyes were darting about under his eyelids as he dreamt, but his brow was relaxed enough. A sheen of that weirdly clean-smelling heat sweat limned Miles’ shoulders; he’d lost his shirt again, which wasn’t all that surprising. He wasn’t quite a furnace under Hobie, as he gingerly crawled over Miles, but that was probably because Hobie ran fairly hot himself. However many hours spent cozying up under bedsheets had to have warmed them both up, besides. 

He peered over at his alarm clock, which had just ticked past four. Hobie sighed and laid his brow on Miles’s shoulder. Five hours and change would do it, alright. A shame it hadn’t been more than that. He reminded himself it could be, if he extricated himself sooner, but when Hobie shifted to do just that a hand fisted in his shirt. Miles turned his head, ribs quaking with a noise that was part-grumble, part-keen, all-protest.

“M’here, Miles, shhh. You’re alright.” Hobie wormed his face into the curve where Miles’ neck became his shoulder. The tendons beneath his skin stretched and strained against him as Miles raised his chin to expose them. He pried Miles’ hand free and tangled their fingers together, holding them against his chest to feel the vibrations as he purred. “Need the loo; go to sleep, yeah? Be back in a sec.”

He spent a long minute nosing at the pulse thrumming under Miles’ jaw before he squeezed Hobie’s hand and relaxed against the mattress. Hobie felt his sleepy, reciprocal purr more than he heard it; he bussed Miles’ temple and clambered out from underneath the covers, tucking them over Miles’ hand before he crept out of the room.

It was dark enough that even the thought of turning on the bathroom light made Hobie’s eyes sting. He flicked on the galley light instead, and left the bathroom door open wide enough that he could see where he was aiming. After he’d flushed and washed his hands, Hobie shuffled back into the kitchen with his eyes mostly-closed to wet his suddenly-parched throat. As he was leaving his glass in the sink, the empty cooking pot on the draining board snagged his attention. Hobie thought for a minute, squinting in the direction of the fridge. He dug out some chicken breasts and half a pound of sausages and left them to defrost before he turned off the light and retreated back to bed.

The change in Miles’ scent was obvious, with the bedroom door shut behind him. Hobie crawled back into the nest as quietly as he could. Miles was turned away from him, hugging one of the spare pillows to his chest, but he wasn’t sleeping deep enough that he didn’t notice Hobie’s arrival. He’d barely settled his head on the pillow before Miles had backed up into him, his shoulder blades two hard, sharp points through Hobie’s thin shirt.

“Oof! Easy,” Hobie entreated, the surprised laughter huffing out of him. Miles’ only response was to continue shuffling until their lower halves were aligned to his satisfaction, and then to keep right on going. Hobie took the hint and got his arms around him, squeezing tight enough it made them both grunt. Miles writhed like he was trying to get free before he went lax, purring deep in his throat. His eyes were pleased slits in the darkness, when he rolled his head back.

Hobie could feel him rocking against the pillow he was still clutching at. The high, quiet noise Miles made when he tightened his arms left Hobie swallowing through a sudden thickness in his throat. He groaned under his breath and wet his lips. “Miles. Oi,” he mumbled. Hobie squeezed him again all when he got in response was a vague murmur and a brazen non-cessation of pillow-fucking. He bent his head to speak into Miles’ ear. “D’you need a minute? Where’s your stuff?”

The purring stopped. “I’m …” Miles croaked. “S’under the bed.” The almost-sweetness of the sweat on his temple didn’t quite distract Hobie from the way his hips kept moving. He was tempted to nudge a thigh between Miles’ legs. Instead, he pushed himself up and twisted around to grope about among the peripherals.

The leather satchel was lying on its side behind a discarded shirt; Hobie found the handles and dragged it out. He hefted it up onto the bed and turned to find Miles lying on his front, the pillow trapped underneath him. He turned his face away when Hobie met his eyes. “Man … You just got back in bed.”

Hobie reached over to rub his back. “Allow that. Couch is already set up and all; I’ll be cotched.” There was a damp spot starting on the back of Miles’ shorts, visible even in the gloom. He pulled the blankets up over it, arranging them around Miles’ shoulders. “Wake us when you’re done. If you ain’t out like a light after,” Hobie added, nudging him.

Miles didn’t answer right away. He’d stopped moving, finally; his face was buried in Hobie’s sateen pillowcase. If he didn’t know Miles better than that, he might’ve thought he was sulking. Hobie sighed through his nose. “I can’t stay if we ain’t talked it out first, mate,” he said, quietly.

Miles turned his head, settling his cheek against the pillow. His face was flushed, the corners of his mouth down-turned. “I know,” he mumbled. “Sorr–”

“Boy, if you say sorry …!” Hobie shoved his shoulder lightly, jokingly mean-mugging at him from a few inches away. Miles swallowed, noisily. Hobie kneaded his back again. “Ask me later,” he offered.

Miles looked at him with dark eyes. “What’ll you do?” he murmured. When Hobie just stared at him, he added, “If I say ‘sorry.’ What are you gonna do?”

“I …!” The surprise and delight winded him for a second, filling up his throat. Unable to speak, Hobie pressed his teeth into Miles’ shoulder, blankets and all. The purring had started up again; a thin vibration he could feel right through the layers. Hobie shoved himself off the bed, feeling a bit like a fish that had managed to escape its hook. “I am gonna leave this room like I said I would!” he declared. He fished a piece of blanket fuzz out of his mouth as discreetly as he could. Hobie glanced at the empty space next to his alarm clock and hesitated. “D’you need water?”

“I don’t need water,” Miles hummed. The blankets shifted as he moved underneath them.

“Okay, alright,” Hobie scoffed, playing at disapproving while something not far removed from glee filled his lungs like smoke. He snatched his patched dressing gown out of the nest and reached down to scruff the back of Miles’ neck. “Fresh batteries is in the inside pocket. Be good,” Hobie said, and walked out before Miles’ breath could even.

[impishtubist]

hello miss imp <3 havent been in ur ask box in a hot sec but may i tempt u with some dad!sirius?

- harry is an absolute sweetheart except when it comes to bedtime bc he needs his siri with him or he just won’t go to sleep. this becomes a problem when sirius is physically not able to tuck him in (which is the only way he won’t be there lbr). showing him the sky & the dog star stopped working once he grew up a bit; the mirrors weren’t enough after a while & nothing short of sirius’ presence would do. so, sirius decided to charm harry’s stuffed grim to imbue it w his magic so it’s always like he’s with him.

(ok now i’m imagining harry somehow discovering this toy after sirius’ death and fully breaking down in tears bc he can still feel remnants of his godfather and it’s almost like having him back but not and he’s kind of just hit w the fact he’ll never have Sirius back)

- sirius has always had a habit of checking up on harry throughout the night and it doesn’t change when he meets him again as a teenager. when harry moves in w him (bc obv sirius is declared innocent and freed here), he keeps it up until harry finds him tip-toeing thru his room one day. he thinks he’s about to be kicked out/asked not to come back but he forgets one fact: harry is a criminally neglected child and he cannot remember anyone ever once caring about him to this extent. he’s always had to take care of himself & put himself to sleep & soothe his own nightmares so to have sirius do it for him is—heartbreakingly new.

- harry is padfoot’s child as well. since he was a toddler, padfoot has helped him learn to crawl/walk/run; let his canine body be used as a handrail and towel and bed and sofa and footrest and everything in between; acted as a physical barrier between harry and harm etc. harry also tends to go to padfoot when he’s brooding and upset. as a child, the size difference was almost comical—padfoot’s bulk would almost swallow the kid, but even when harry becomes older & bigger, he’s still small in comparison to the grim so the sense of safety and comfort at being fully surrounded by padfoot remains constant.

OH NO I LOVE ALL OF THIS SO MUCH

That first one, oof, I LOVE WHEN SIRIUS IS DEAD AND HARRY IS GRIEVING HIM. Harry finding a toy after Sirius's death that is drenched in his presence/magic? YES PLEASE.

The second one, with Sirius checking on his boy, even when Harry is a teenager? ALSO YES PLEASE.

Padfoot helping Harry walk/crawl/run 🥺🥺🥺🥺HE WOULD. James would be so jealous when Harry is a baby, because like, Padfoot is his??? And now Padfoot is Harry's??? But he's not REALLY jealous, because it's what his Harry deserves.

[the-official-account]

I HAVE BEEN INFORMED THERE'S A NEW EPISODE HERE'S 26 LIVEBLOG BABEEEEYYYY

my podcatcher is cool and great and open source and ad free and all that shit but I haven't set up my notifications good and because this is my first episode as they come out (my inner fanatic is all grown up) im not used to the schedule but HHHASD;LPIG AHIP'LSF AG THE WAY I SCREEEEEAMED AND ACTUALLY DANCED FOR JOY HERE WE GO!!!!!

oh opening music my beloved. Oh shit I got so obsessed with Blorbos I briefly forgot exactly where we are in the story. Coping mechanism (slash joking slash lighthearted) im 👀👀👀👀 very hyped bery concerned

"you need to be making eye contact to be frozen" means it's vry easy to free spar!!! ahhh so they somehow duplicated the pendants....or found more??

BACKUP THINGS 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 IM ON DESKTOP AND I CAN ONLY HAVE ONE EMOJI COPIED TO MY CLIPBOARD AT AT TIME ASJKDLHFASDFH

also the title of this episode is making me excited

Ila's stress about spar's condition is such a mood

THIS TELEKENISIS NECKLACE THING IS SO BANGER.

ooh. oof. this drive. CRIT?????? NICE FUCK. WHEW.

SUUCESSED THE FUCK OUTA THAT.

Voracity fucking sucks sorry about your lineage bestie i do hope you die though

SPAR BALANCED HALWAYD ON A CATWALK, FROZEN, SNUGGLED UP TO AN AWFUL AWFUL VAMPIRIC ASSHOLE UHHHH

......that joker.

OH I FORGOT VELLUM CAN TELEPORT FOR A SEC with the power of looking INCREDIBLY sexy. I like this plan I'm feeling good about this plan

Jordan's clearly plotting some shit and i am HERE for it

"normally you are not conscious during it" NORMALLY???

Spar depersonalization crash course. OH WAIT NO SPAR STEVEN UNIVERSE MOMENTS. IM OBSESSED????

viscious spar.....hmmm......im making a face it's not a great face LASDFALHFAHS

I love that spar's first thing is to just get the gist of what he's got going on <3 LJSADFLKJAHSDJFKHASD HE GOES TO VELLUM A;LKSDFLJSHDFLJSADGFLJSHADFKAHSDFKLASDF SCOOBY DOO ASS LOVE BIRDS

Oh shit is Vellum gonna think spar is fucking dead???? VORACITY GOES TOPPLING WHICH IS HILARIOUS BUT SPAR TOO??????? HOLY SHIT????? LMAO????

we are thirteen minutes in.

IF YOU DIE IN YOUR BODY YOU DIE IN REAL LIFE ALKSDJF;LAKSDJFASKLD;FJALSDFJ

Essay protesting Voracity's stats is such a mood. What if...what if ya jus didn???

As spooky as this whole situation is, the mental image of spar having royallllly biffed it is sending me

Okay when I was very young, I used to play chess with a younger sibling of mine. And I did this thing where I would just take one rook and systematically go around capturing all their pawns because they didn't know how to protect them, while just kinda giggling. And that's the energy ipswitch is bringing right now, tkaing out all their backup.

EIGHT FUCKING CARDS

AD;ISFLG;ALKDSGASLDFK RING TOSS SITIONATION wasn't jakub with ipswitch? or going to him? and yeahhhh lunevella is an important ally.

Diamond? friend? mmmmmmmmmmmmnahhhh

YEAH LUNAVELLA!!!! MASSIVE WITCH LADY COME IN CLUTCH!

nooo fuck PLEASE dont make it diamond please please please LUNEVELLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA lesbiamb...YEAS

I forget what beloved does but mechanical nonsense is my favorite

NO SUCESSES ONE JOKER there are not emojis on this computer that describe...you know that one image of the hot cook guy from Queer eye looking traumatized? that.

"I'm having fun being a useless ghost boy" VALID i am also having fun. sometimes in a ttrpg you just wanna be/add to the problem for a bit!!! And that's ok

Voracity being pissed about being launched off the catwalk is SO Funny.

"so I could accomplish my goal without violence" BITCH YOU THREATENED TO MURDER SEVREAL-----FJHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

NO NO NO VORACITY ISNT ALLOWED TO CRIT LEAVE VELLUM ALOOOOOOOONE!!!!!!!!!

oh shit but vellum's turn now.......kick them back off!!!!!! asjdhfakjsdhfasdkflakdhf

TAEKWONDO!! switching instantly for a drive does seem like a good balance I like that mechanic

god I love my gay rule-abiding detectives who for some reason keep trying to fight the ONE being that EVERY rule is like don't fucking fight for the love of god do not fight them for the LOVE OF

"I imagine that vellum gets a cat stance, which is like an L stance" i know there is more informaiton here but my brain has already shifted into the "someone i know is talking about something they love and i understand very little of what's happening here but I'm just excited to listen" mode. But no i do need to know what cat stance is because this is so art in my brain. ill look it up later.

im so *chinhands*

OOOOOH BUT THIS DESCRIPTION IS SO GOOD i CAN SEE IT IN MY BRAIN SO WELL OOOOHAS;DFHKLASEHFASKDFHA VELLUM IS SO COOL

there are no ascii emojis for doing a silly stupid little happy stim but that's what's happening

oh shit luna can fly!

Lune deserves to be condescending to her enemies, she's dealt with so much bullshit.

Ooof we have the AA and now the bramble guard with MOTORCYCLES????? ugh!!! organizations!!!!! Lore!!!!!!!! im swooning. there is nothing sexier in my mind that good worldbuilding

tatiana related plans but not htis episode 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀????

yeah lmao fuck diamond.

okay but in my brain Desdemona was suuuuuuper pretty. Oh no!!! Don't make her endearing!!!!!!!

(sweetly) "So uhhh, people of cindershore as you can see....we have the people of theee passion fruit festival held hostage <3"

THEY WANTED TO DO THIS NON VIOLENTLY god fuck i hate fucking misinformation goddamn.

"side with crystallis of againse you own wellbeing" bestie how is that fucking nonviolent?????

"get your gummy jello fingies in here" hello i am uncomfortablleeee AHSDL;FHASDFHADJSFLHAKDSFJH

TERRORIST TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

I like to imagine that Kit's comments was ipswitch being genuinely helpful

oh god. there was a SPLIT second moment when my entirely world lit up with the GLEE that was Voracity biffing it off the catwalk again.

vellum pulls them...up? NOOO I MEAN THATS SMART BUT AHHHHH IM STAKING THE PROTAGONISTS LIKE A MIRACA (how the FUCK do you spell this im pretty sure i knew that) STOP PUTTING YOURSELF IN HARMS WAY AHHHHHHHHHH

i swear to GOD the host have an uncanny ability to say the joke i was thinking and I think we've just all got the same internet brain rot. my FIRST thought here was "None successes? left beef." and there we go. no funny left for the rest of us.

oooh what's jakub up to

WITCH TIME WITCH TIME WITCH TIME

"leave diamond where they are" you know, cause fuck em.

LUNA VELLA COMING IN FRIGGGGGING CLUTCH.

"Lunavella casts a spell that was taught to her by tara. Lunavella later taught it to jasper, who used it to talk to a god at a very crucial time"

the VOLUME at which i just sais "HUH?????" is IMMENSE.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN??? HELLP???? NO DONT MOVE ON HELLO??? HI! hIS I HAVE QUESTIONS?

Did jasper do the untethering???? Did jasper PERSONALLY speak to mommy magic???? Is that was Tara did to sacrifice her connection to magic for Merim & Josepha's freedom????? what...what does this mean....

SHE'S TALKING TO KRONOSAVA SHE CALLED THIS RELIC'S FUCKING PARENT. SHE SAID SHE'S GOING TO THE MANAGER. AJSHDFAJSHDFLKAJSHDF

An animatronic giant....HMMMMMM

okay but what is the triple threat if not just a small, minimalist mech suit?

"oh i do like information" "I know!!! Me to!!!" Oh my god they're suchhhh fucking nerds i fucking love them HASKLDJHFASDHFAKDJLFH GET ME TO A CLOSET.

AND JAKUB BLUSHES. AND OF COURSE IPSWITCH DOESN'T NOTICE CAUSE ITS IPSWITCH. THIS IS CUTE AS FUCK

I WANNA TRY TO POSSESS VORACITY Spar has been a ghost for like 2 minutes, and he was already like "When in rome!!!"

Kronosava manifests as a NINE FOOT TALL CLOCKWORK PERSON WITH MANY CLOCK FACES OF IMPOSSIBLE GEOMETRY????? COOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL FUCKING RAD RAD RAD

Spar's ALONE with the TIME GOD al;jsdflkasdjfasdjlf

he did NOT just introduce himself....holllly shit lmaooo. "those who may be frozen by my eye are unworthy by my sight" oh so Spar is like. Time daddy's favorite blorbo. This makes sense to me. or maybe somewhat.

KRONOS SAY YALL KINDA SUCK SO I MADE YA DIE, CAUSE FUCK EM

Spar is NOT fucking out logicing this GOD im So here for this. fuck em up bestie FUCK EM UP!!!!!!

imagine your last name being considered by the GOD OF TIME now that's what I call clout.

"relative innocence" yeahhhhh. peace and lvoe on the planet earth, but emphasis on "on the planet earth"

Mayor lipton is the mayor of cindershore.

Okay I understanbd this scene im loving the vibes but MERIM FELSPAR THE SECOND IS NOOOOOTTTTT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM MR. TIME DADDY!!! He can't awnser for the crime and bigroties of Extra #8 and 13

YOU MAKE A GODDEX CHUCKLE that line will be living in my brain as something that can be so symbolism

I....I...I don't like this. wow i HATE how fast spar just traded off year of his fucking life span noooooo. fuck. fuck. fuckity fuck fuck fuck im in distress. ughhhhhh spar being spar.......I will have thoughts but first I need to sigh a lot ......Ugh.

but also fuck the gods im not vibing with this barter situation. is it good for the plot YES is deicide always an aspiration of mine also yes

"it feels like licking a battery with your hand' oooh mental sensory imaginings not good but very very cool

Like sourpatch kids watermelon flavor colorscheme.

*sadly, with hesitation* midtro dance midtro dance....

guhhhh spar....Spar why. Like I understand the choice but that was SO fast. HE DIDNT THINK ABOUT IT AND THAT'S WHAT I --UGHHHHHH

happy late birthday to essay!

ESSAY PLEASE STOP ASTRALLY PROJECTING PLACES ALSDFL;ASHFDLASHDFLKASF

Spar is a snacker and habituatally hands people snacks to keep them sustained.

God yall are just begging for me to write a communion (slash literary term related to chrstian, not christian practice itself. for as much as i say the words lord and god i like barely know who jesus is) fic....soon my toils will be over and my backlog will sing so my like the sirens lulling me away from an approaching storm, so instead my hyperfixation can crash violently upon the rocks and. it. will. be. GLORIOUS.

VELLUM WON A LEETLE KEETY <3<3<3

KIT CAME OUT SWINGING WITH THIS????? ....HUH????? BESTLJHAS;DIFHASDHFASJDFALKDSFKJASF. KIT SAID "IPSWITCH LOOKS AT SOME GAY SHIT END OF SENTENCE" IM DEAD. Im just imaginging Jakub looking at the performers, and at ipswitch, and at the performers, and in his head he's like "why does he look contemplative?"

Xbala, hilde, grey, anya play shoots and ladders at the safe house while knowing Spar, Vellum, ip, Jakub, and Luna are risking their lives fighitng voracity....that was me typing for speed but "Ip" as a nickname is really cute imo.

*much more enthusiatic end of midtro dance*

ILA I DON'T THINK THAT'S GOOD NEWS. DODGE IS ONE. AH. OH NO. HHHHH.

i made i sound like ID been bitten. Voracity. Rancid bestie, what if we like....didnt...

LIASDFASDJFASDF VELLUM'S BLOOD TASTES WIERD?????

*A deep sigh as I realize by having Beloved as a ultimate Vellum is, in fact, another self-sacrificial blorbo for the lot.*

Oh fuck he's so determined and valliant but i want him to STOP.

People should be reinvigorating and spar should be around soon??? im....spoooked. I know being unconcious isn't the end of the world though....

I think some of the gumw as given to Anya and may not have ever been returned? Which i only mention as a brief note for efforts and because these eps are recorded long ahead of time: i aint a snitch

spar to the recsue <3 <3 <3 king I'm imagining spar like Baseball-sliding in, swinging the sword like he's going to a home run, in slow motion. It's VERY cool.

SPAR IS AJUDSHLKJSAHGFKLJSADFGHAS THIS IS FO FUNNY I FUCKING LOVE THIS.

OHHHHH JUST ONE SHORT.

OH. OH SHIT. OH. PLEASE FLIP GOOD OH MY GOD. ID WOULD BE SCREAMING BUT IF I START SCREAMING i CAN'T HEAR.

AHHHHH;LFRGHA jumped so hard I pulled my chair up off the floor and keysmashed irrespocibly enough to put my compter to sleep. I'm SO normal.

The Animaation of this that exists in my brain through. Vellum gets bitten and Voracity reals back enough for you to see, between their faces, spar sprinting towards them reaching for his sword. The Camera whips to a side angle for spar's baseball swing. Slice! Spray of blood as vellum gets up a bit. Shot from below spar's chin to show his determined face and the long line of his arm and Bang! Bang! They all drop until his gun clicks empty. As there's a zoom in on the bat going for the window. One last bang and as Spar looks down the Camera does too, to show Vellym propped up on one arm holding His derringer high for a beat before his arms fall when he slumps in relief and he just smiles as ash rains down around them. Spar falls to his knees, and vellum slides over to kiss him...augh. AUGH!

Spar with a subtle scar over his hear that after 26 is raised and more obvious. For you know. Eventual shiftless art that WILL happen

Oh shit Jakub's getting a fucking promotion, huh?

LKJUAHSFGKJAHSKDFAHSDFKLASD IPSWITCH FINDS TERRORISM TAX FRAUD EVIDENCE I LOOOVE THAT FOR HIM OH MY GODDD <3.

Okay but Jakub being attracted to that is SO dorky and i love them and they're such sillyy guyssss. IPSWITH STARTLES.

"i have one more thing to end on!" [the episode has twnety minutes left]

Governor thorn middle ages. violet haired. carries a spear. CLEARLY need to pack her ass up and fuck off before she messes with Hilde, Anya, Grey and Xbala. I was only gonna mention my favoirites out of that grpup but not yeah they're all good. So throne need to like. go. I don't trust this.

"What's this about? how do you know where this is?" GOOD QUESTIONS.

FUCK. OFF. UNDER ARREST FOR WHAT. BITCH?

NO. NO. YOU DONT GET TO FUCKING END CREDITS MUSIC AFTER THAT FUCK YOU. FUCK OFF. WHAT. WHAT?

What.

i HEARD KEVIN AND I ACTUALLY GASPED. ITS MY FAVORITE CRINGEFAIL KING!!!!

CATBOY ASCE!!!!!!

OH WAIT im realizing....If SUITS has been abolished that Spar did retire after all, huh? Huh. Good for not having to report info about clovenheart. BAD news for whatever the fuck is happening to jack. Interesting news for Vellum's blood theirvery theories. And damn, I just sort of assumed Mayor Thorne was just like...Good Guy(TM) until....well until chapter 3 of tempest and teapots yesterday. God i love stories where things only get bigger. crunchy as hell.

THEY HAVE TO BOTH WEAR HIS CLOTHES STACKED ASJLDFALSDJFADF

I'm in love with Asce's himbo ass, he should NOT be enabling this and YET.

Iris has jury duty and then she's getting a massage and then she's going to therapy and then doing her therapy homework: considering new employment.

DOES CASEDYWM FUCKING STICK THEM IN HIS ACTUAL POCKET??????? OH NO.

ARE THEY JUST GONNA KEEP THE PIXIES IN HIS POCKET THE WHOLE TIME?

"I just need to know whose on top and whose...whose...whose the legs" Ah, when nature denies us our low hanging fruit

oh god I hope asce is left handed because otherwise Caedyn';s hand is occupied and Asce only has access to his non dominant hand

SDLFASDFAJSDFLASDF "I DONT KNOW HOW IT HELPS BIT I WANT IT"

"IS CADEWYN'S noSE PIECED" "IT IS NOW"

ASDKJFA;LSDJFASDF FUCK

added together they look like a great mintaur, yeah!! If someone shakes their head back and forth very fast

peer pressure confusion...sweet jesus.

JSADLFJALKDSFJAS just look abnormnal and blend in!!! This stratedgy would work in many of my social circles to be fair.

Not CALHOUN (just finished reading the 1619 project, that's the last name of the probably most cartoonishly evil & racist person in that entire book. Which, if anything, makes this mor funny for me

HE GIVES CADEWYN MORE ALCOHOL. NOOOO LMAOOOOOO

A BRILLIANT TACTICAL PLAY YOU'RE NOT HIGH LEVEL ENOUGH TO GET FULL DETAILS ON.

I was gonna make a joke about xbala getting arrested in the background but then it hit me: anya is a defense lawyer. A defense lawywer who already fucking hates Thorn. A defense lawyer who already hates thorn who has made up with spar and befriended Xbala and in all likelyhood has the support of the Harrington's behind her. She might. She might fuck it up. Take no prisoners, but like, the opposite way that's usually meant. still just as fuckign rad tho. my brain is turning. rotating like a microwave plate. mmmmmmmmm.

That scene was so funny though. cherry on top of a wonderful episode. i have...i have things to consider.

@threeheartscast @citrusandsalt @ilaalexei

[the-sayuri-rin]

Go on tiktok for a hot sec and the first thing I saw was a hsr 2.0 story leak oof I don't even play the game anymore but at least I won't be shocked by what happens if it trends all over the place. At least it's not more of what's been happening on twitter lol

[castle-dominion]

c4x19 47 seconds

The protest bomb ep

heck yeah! Let's go protestors! Mum & lil bro thought this was an episode of Arrow at first

She's lucky there are no swears

Cool how he kno-- wait ringo was the drummer for the beatles, not this guy's name

She got anxious there bc the filming was just a bit later than she expected bc of the drummer

heck yeah!

FUCK NO

Love how the camera one was shocked for a sec but immediately started filming again

"if you've just tuned in" girl it has been like three seconds since the explosion & six seconds since you went live

Ah, her face, she did not expect people to be injured

Oof all these injured people here.

wait is that the mime? Poor fellow there.

there is still fire here?

five dead is a LOT... 28 injured, depending how bad they might still die. Why was it so bright earlier & now so dark?

Good on her, no comment, deal with press relations

Did she somewho she recognized?

Ooh the music today.

She actually listens to someone tell her she, nypd, is not allowed to enter the crime scene, which is under control of the fbi? Wowie.

I hope they get both lanie & perlmutter (& possibly slaughter's mortician girl & alexis) here looking at bodies.

Castle looks so shocked & sad.

Ok on the outfits, castle is wearing typical castle garb & looks hot as always, beckett has a nice grey turtleneck, ryan & esposito have coats & I can't see them v well rn but I like their coats & outfits rn so yeah. grey detective-looking jacket for ryan, black collar-up for espt it looks like. I'll give another update later.

Could still be a suicide bomber but with like a briefcase bomb not a vest bomb. Also who is your medic friend? I need character names & faces!

VG, someone whom I actually respect: Listen up, people! We're still piecing together what happened here, but what I can tell you – FBI and Homeland Security will be taking point on this investigation. [Beckett looks disappointed & esposito & ryan kind of follow suit.] NYPD will act in a support capacity. Our first assignment is to determine if any of the victims were targeted because of their involvement in the protest. Uniforms are bringing families to the precinct as we speak, so…let's go hold some hands and do our jobs.

"To sin by silence when we should protest makes…cowards of men."

Heck man, look at ryan's jacket! Squares!

Dang, they were tourists..? That's honestly rly sad. & they were planning on starting a family...

[04:03, INT. PRECINCT, BREAK ROOM - DAY]

[Castle stares out the window ((btw wearing a leather dress jacket)); Beckett approaches him from behind.] ((he is not interviewing anyone, he is not excited over the case... this is something))

KB: You good?

RC: Yeah. Yeah, it's just this case, you know? It kind of gets to you. How'd it go with the rest of the families?

KB: Um, one victim was the first kid in his family to go to college, and the other was a mother of two, so… about like you'd expect. No one seems to have been targeted, though. ((How many people? We have the recruiter, the tourist, the college student, & the mom. that is only 4, who is the other dead victim?))

RC: So their deaths were random. You know, most of our victims they…they die for a reason. You know, there's a logic behind it. It's a twisted logic at times, but…at least it makes some kind of sense.

KB: Yeah, but in this case, these people were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

RC: And their future and all their plans, everything is just gone in a flash. ((pUNintended))

[Beckett and Castle gaze at one another.]

KB: It makes you think about all those things in your own life that you don't want to put off anymore.

[Castle's mouth opens as he takes Beckett's meaning. Esposito enters, interrupting their confession of love.]

he says "troops" & I thought that was a colloquial term, just smth he said abt ppl congregating, but it could be actually the term for them.

I love how they show a clip of the bomb going off there. Good choice by the editor or whoever made that choice. I can't see it v well though & Ithought slowing it down I might be able to see more of it

OK SO: the reason I got into unus annus was bc during the protests in what, april, possibly may of 2020, I saw protest information including what it was like to get pepper sprayed, I saw the unus annus pepper spray video. Pepper spray sucks. They say to use milk but water is better (tho an acidic dairy product might help), however, be sure to wash AWAY from your eyes.

I bring this up because the fbi recovered a photo from one of the protestor's phones.

Do Not take photos! Don't include faces! Cover up any scars or tattoos, wear nondescript clothes. Turn off your phone's GPS, data, & wifi. In fact, turn off your phone entirely, only turn it on if you need to make an emergency call.

If a pig throws in a can of tear gas, you can cover it with a pylon & douse it with water.

Do Not wear suction swim goggles, if you get hit with a rubber bullet or even just thrown to the ground too hard, you can pop out an eye.

If you wear contact lenses: do not wear them if there is a risk of tear gas or pepper spray.

If you wear glasses: only wear them if you really need them, try to wear the most nondescript frames you have.

If you use mobility aides, use the nondescript ones, not the cane you personalized with stickers. If you use a wheelchair but can also use a walker/rollator, go for the rollator. You can still sit on it if you need to, but it is safer. If you do use a wheelchair, cover up the logo & anything you did to personalize it. I highly recommend using push-handle spikes to prevent people from moving you without consent. Hell on wheels is a business that sells them suited for your needs. You can get a pair that can be removed easily if you do need someone to push. Be aware, if rubber bullets are a risk, your mobility aid could be damaged.

& I repeat, do not take photos of protestors, I know it was a "good" thing in castle, but usually if the feds want photos of a protestor's phone, it is not good.

My question is though: why did they take a pic of where the bomb would have been?

47 seconds is a short zone, usually you have like a two hour kill zone

lots of names on the list wow.

Love the diagram on the board!

How did they get the names of all the ppl there tho? The injured ones maybe, but the ones who were just there? They would have run, they would refuse to give their names to pigs.

Holy moly only on the second intro rn! I have to go to work in an hour & a half!

Corinne: Do I look like I'm in the 99 percent?

Me: Uh, kind of. Do you have over 11 100 000 dollars?

Flashbacks are a good decision for this kind of stationary episode. (lol, really is stationary, they are in the station.) Like, even Castle is technically not in the top 1%, his net worth is like 4mil. There is a difference between rich-because-I-work-36-hour-shifts-as-a-surgeon-but-I-never-get-to-enjoy-my-mansion-because-I'm-at-work-all-the-time, inheritance-rich, rich-because-I'm-an-author-&-not-the-starving-artist-kind, & rich-because-I-commit-massive-wage-theft-on-all-the-employees-beneath-me. Now of course you can be hella rich, but the top 1% is about three standard deviations away from the mean. ofc statistics are probs wrong here. there is a wage GAP, not a nice bell curve. Anyway, you probably ARE within the 99%, just the rich side of it.

Good guy wearing a gas mask. There's the hoodie guy. There's the drummer.

Oh & btw you can LOOK at stuff online & buy them irl or vice versa. When buying my knives, I was told to go to a knife shop & test out the ones they had, find what I liked, & then buy it cheap online.

Box guy, "that's mine," spilled coffee

If he was carrying a bomb of course he'd look nervous & sweaty. Just like how the other dirty bomb the guy was calm bc he didn't know it was a bomb.

WEST SIDE WALLY! THE MAN IS BACK! Westside is one of my fave recurring characters.

(espt why do you look so weird when he says to call him westside.)

Johnny Law lmao

Love his sign. Will work protest for food. He is The Best.

Beethoven?

JE: Stop. Let me understand this. You…you saw Beethoven, [Ryan looks to the side on concern] the composer who's been dead for 200 years, in the plaza this afternoon?

WSW: Oh, yeah. And I bet that half-dead bastard is behind all this.

[Ryan clears his throat.]

KR: West Side, are you on any medications of any kind?

WSW: I don't see how that's relevant.

it's probably that he is NOT on medication lol. or hungry & dehydrated.

Man looks familiar. I swear tho, he's going to be real, not just west side's imagination.

You know, westside would look really good if they trimmed his beard, he's a really good looking actor.

Oh no, not more bomb threats...

RC: It's like trying to find Waldo in a sea of Waldos.

prioritizing interviews is a great idea.

RC: You know, the witnesses that were closest to the bomb aren't on our list. ((oof he right))

KB: *looks at him to continue*

RC: Maybe dead men do tell tales.

Jesse Freidman? More like Jesse fried-man eyo! Sorry that was distasteful. He wasn't even fried, he died in an explosion from blunt force trauma, not the fire of the explosion.

Oh poor alexis.

Except that Dr Parish said alexis needed to get stuff done. Lanie might say the same thing but Dr Parish said to get the personal effects done. You should at least talk to the staff & ask if you can take her home & let beckett know you're taking alexis home & staying, not talking to alexis for a minute like you implied when you said you needed a minute.

K but the film clips don't seem like they were what they were at the beginning of the episode

MR: Honey, do you ever wonder why I never visited you at the precinct the first year you were working there?

RC: I always thought it was because of the harsh lighting.

MR: (chuckles) Well, that was a consideration. No, I thought if I—if I saw you acting like a cop, I'd start thinking of you as a cop, and I just…whew. That—that brought on all manner of nightmares.

RC: How did you get over it?

MR: Eventually, you realize, your children are gonna make choices you don't like. Just a fact of life. ((this made my mom hug me so tight))

RC: Well, if the bombing proves anything, it's that bad things can happen no matter what you do. Nobody's tomorrow is guaranteed.

((In Cree the word for tomorrow is "IF the sun rises tomorrow" which implies that we don't KNOW that the sun will rise tomorrow, we just have FAITH that it will. wapaki. Edit: see the rest of this comment after the quote))

[Martha raises her eyebrows.]

MR: So…how do you plan to act on this realization?

RC: What do you mean?

MR: Oh, you know what I mean. Richard, how much longer are you gonna drag your heels before you tell Beckett how you feel?

[Castle shifts uncomfortably.]

MR: And I mean, while she is awake, not lying on the ground with a bullet in her chest.

((Wapaki comment, continued: I actually spell it wapaké bc that's how I was initially taught to pronounce it but other ppl say wapagi bc in cree k/g, t/d, n/ng, p/b, s/sh, & ts/ch are all both kind of considered the same. Ojibwe has different spellings but similar words: pimohte means walk, bimo'tee I think is it in ojibwe, & ojibwe is an anishinabe language so I saw an anishinabe word that meant "walk in a good way" & at first I didn't understand a thing, but then I saw the relation to the ojibwe word & I related it back to Cree. Languages are so cool. You know, I thought celtic languages would be removed from romance languages, I thought they might have a bit of german influence, but slainta means health in gaelgie (irish gaelic) & sante is health in french. That's the only relation I can remember rn but I think there was one more that I learned of recently.))

Martha is so right. I love her with all mu heart.

they are in LOVE!

RYAN NO YOU ALSO INTERRUPTED THEIR LOVE CONFESSION ACH (at least ryan is pretty)

castle it cannot wait until after the case, you never know if you have a tomorrow

This is why you turn off your gps.

That is a damn good friend!

Where did they get the audio from?

Andrew Haynes

I don't think he's planning on bombing you.

*just eating their food*

lmao he probably is not even in the 1%

She's making buddy buddy with him.

*all close to her*

lmao I hate him. Most of these people HAVE jobs, they just are still poor bc the wage is stupid. Besides, SOMEONE has to mop floors & wipe tables, who is going to do that job? They still deserve to live. Covid taught us which jobs are actually essential. Factory jobs, cashiers, medical professionals (including people like porters & janitors)

That's freidman, right? Who turned around Haynes?

Man this guy is so dumb.

& the longer you go, the more they forget & witness accounts get scrumbly.

The drummer <3 as a busker, I really respect him.

Well he's probably infamous, like that guy who plays the drum while on a skateboard in the city nearby. Everyone knows him. If he was drumming near the protest, he is probably going to be at the next protest.

I really respect him, not wanting to say anything. "I gave the wrong answer?"

Haynes should TOTALLY remain in custody.

VG: Not you Mr Castle, I have a special task for you

Me: "get out of my investigation?"

VG: I'mma get u to speedread

She actually thinks he has value uwu.

"no I'm not" she says & Iove her

ALEXIS' CHOCCY CHIP PANCAKES

Well he also does it bc he's in love with beckett

Well… they say genius… skips a generation WOW THAT'S--

Apparently, so does funny.

"Hey bobby" he says with a GUN

holy crap I need to take a pic of ryan's outfit

Man's an early greying bro.

Castle is back with COFFEE

"& I missed it?"

Castle acab moments

OH NO SHE'S NOW REVEALING THE TRAUMA THING.

Girl you can NOT remember every second of it. Different people have different reactions. Plus, at what point do you not remember?

& castle talks to her to himself

Talking to his mom. They have such a great relationship.

Maybe she didn't say anything bc she has that wall in her or bc she doesn't remember as much as she thinks

(But also bro you can't remember all of it, at what point do you not remember? Do you remember the surgery? No, they put you under. Do you remember every second of the shot & falling to the ground & that means "Every second of IT" it meaning the shot & nothing after.)

He's right. It is about MORE than books, more than HER even.

You can redirect love... & also he has worked with her for YEARS but he was pining with hope, not pining hopelessly

Castle you're communicating like a girl. You say these double entendres & half expect her to understand that you were watching.

There are only so many garage door opener frequencies out there so sometimes in big parking lots or alleys you can beep your car or try your garage door opened & someone else's will open.

*Tosses evidence bags FULL of that stuff*

He's a pickpocket?? I mean sexy ig but bro you're preying on OTHER POOR PEOPLE

The beethoven

& THEN THE MUSIC CHANGES LIKE THAT SO GOOD

Oh he has so much guilt bc he didn't mean to bomb anyone

WHY did they show freidman's photo? maybe bc he was the closest so he was chasing the backpack

RC: And since he placed the bomb between two dumpsters…

KB: He didn't think that anyone would get hurt. Then Bobby stole the backpack.

chronology!

"haranguing"

"business opportunity" lmao

How do they know it was seconds? Right they had his phone records w/o the ophone

Hold on, Westside knows that this is beethoven's 5th?

She called HIM? when?

Except when did SHE call HIM?

it was NOT the best vantage tho bc it exploded in a different place?

Except she would have had to continue reporting, she didn't just pop in for a few seconds, blow the bomb, then run to the storm drain

She KNOWS he's talking to HER but she DOUBTS it

Music recall & she gives congrats

captions said holler, sounded like he may have said yell. Does that mean he'll call her later?

LOVE HEARTBREAK GAACK

as always, thank you livejournal transcript https://scriptline.livejournal.com/64171.html

[transhoverfish]

doodle page from memory bc i couldn't sleep <3

[image description: a black and white group of scribbled drawings with messy lineart, all of characters and creatures from the subnautica series. from left to right, top to bottom: bart torgal, marguerit maida, paul torgal, a hoverfish, a peeper, a stalker, a spadefish, and al-an. they're all bust-shots, except for the hoverfish, peeper, and spadefish, which are fully visible. /end id.]

[seekingthestars]

FROGGY CHAIR

[astrocassette]

there’s no need to fear. no one bears you ill will.

[angelic-guardienne]

Gladio + s/o with thick hair hc

I’m black. I have thick hair. I love Gladio. I’ve been meaning to write these headcanons for a good while, but never felt... qualified enough, in a weird way. I’ve had my hair natural for about a year now (I can’t believe it’s been that long, wow) and I still don’t feel like I’m knowledgeable enough to write these, because there’s still so much for me to learn. 

Still. Even if I’m certainly still learning the hows and whys of my hair, I wanted to write these. Took a solid month of time, and it definitely didn’t cover everything about the Experience (TM), but that’s mostly because I haven’t experienced it myself. Namely, anything with heat because heat damage was the reason I chopped off my hair and went natural, haha. 

Buuuut that’s enough from me. I want to get this posted before I have to start getting ready for work, so. Without further ado, here are the headcanons!

Tagging: @blindedstarlight @crazykruemel @ponkita @tales-of-a-fallen-star @valkyrieofardyn @insomniacapples @kawaiinekorose @glacian-apocalypse @honey-your-bee-puns-sting @neo-queen-alinity @singergurl91 @jaysfandomcorner @commitmentroses @linxsa99 @sakuraangel1 @tiniestofqueens @bestchocobois @magictactic200

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Gladio absolutely adores your natural hair. Whether it’s curlier or wavier (or both if you’re like me and have mixed curl patterns rip), he adores it

He’s always kinda sad when you put it up or straighten it, he loves it more when you just wear it down and out and b i g

(though that being said, it’s not that he doesn’t love the other hairstyles, he just loves it more when your hair is out. that’s his favorite style, he loves seeing you embrace your natural self)

He wishes his hair could do the things that yours can do

(he jokingly says he might get a perm and you have to shut that down in an instant cause lord knows that man has zero impulse control)

On those days where your hair just won’t cooperate, he’s defo there to lend a helping hand (once he learns how to handle your hair, of course. as soon as he’s trusted with it, he loves loves loves helping you with it)

If you’re anything like me you’ve got an army of hair products and Gladio just l o v e s the way they all smell

Sometimes you’ll catch him in your products and you’re like “what do you need curl defining cream for, huh?” and he’s just like “it smells like you” and you can get mad at him but can you really when he says stuff like that

Speaking of, he steals all of your leave-in conditioner, all the time

If you let him play in your hair, his favorite thing to do is pull on a little curl and let it go and watch it bounce back into place

It makes him giggle like a child

One time he tried running his fingers through your hair and he was actually stuck (it’d been a while since you detangled it)

Speaking of “detangling,” he tries his best to learn all the terminology 

One time he falls asleep with a book about different hair types and their care routines open in his hands. it was the cutest image ever. you took a picture and made it your lockscreen

He will eagerly sit down and watch hair tutorials with you. In case you can’t do your own hair (or don’t want to) he wants to be able to help. Besides, it’s genuinely interesting to him that you can do so many different styles with your hair

(Again, he wants to try it on his own hair but it just doesn’t hold the same)

But yeah so he can’t run his fingers through your hair and at first he was a little sad about it but once he got used to the idea, he was just like “I can’t run my fingers through it but have you felt how soft it is?”

He's… obsessed with how soft your hair can get

he's obsessed with you (and your hair!) in general but yanno

It took him a minute to really truly understand the concept of shrinkage, so if your hair was straight when you met him, when he sees it natural he's like "oh man did you cut your hair? looks nice" and you have to explain it to him

Sometimes when he wants to surprise you, he'll pick up some hair products that you'd been longingly staring at (you couldn't get them yourself since they were outside of your price range at the time) 

Whenever you decide to get some stuff to try a hair mask or do some deep conditioning, you bet he’s right there beside you wanting to try it as well. You’ll have to make twice as much cause he’s a little heavy handed

Speaking of him being heavy-handed, you have to tell him to chill out when he’s doing your hair because even though he sometimes buys your products for you, they’re still not cheap and you’d like them to last a little longer

If y’all are showering together and you’re washing your hair, when you’re doing something a certain way he’ll ask why and then he gets a mini-lesson in the shower (if you’re up for it, that is)

Like, detangling from the ends to the roots, sectioning the hair for ease, wide-toothed combs, making sure you put in the leave-in conditioner while still in the shower, cowashes, etc etc 

If you let him wash your hair for you, good lord this man’s scalp massages are to die for

Eventually, curiosity gets the better of him and he starts using some of your advice for his own hair, and then he just? never shuts up about how much better his hair feels? he wants to tell everyone about it and he does, starting with Iris

He’s very much so the type to brag on his s/o and no one is excepted from hearing him wax poetic about them, he’s such a proud boi

(Iris just shakes her head fondly and is like “if you watched hair tutorials with me back when we were younger you would have been here already, but go off I guess”) 

Whenever you wash your hair, right after you get out of the shower and are dressed again (and sometimes before that) he’s just “What are you gonna do with your hair?” 

Sometimes he’ll pull up some hairstyles he found on the interwebs and show them to you, and you’ve actually done some of them but sometimes it’s way out of your league (or it’s something you would rather go to a salon to get done). Tell him, and eventually he’ll find that sweet sweet boundary between impossible and doable for suggested styles.

Once you told him you were gonna twist your hair and he had the most adorable look on his face when he asked what a twist was 

You were a little shocked that he’d never heard of it before but you showed him and he was just stoked to see your hair in a bunch of twists after that (and boyo, don’t get me started on the twist-out. This man is lovestruck)

When it’s a styling day (because sometimes it takes a whole day), Gladio will sit with you and just hang out with you while you do your hair. He’ll cook for you, too, because he knows having your arms above your head for hours on end is exhausting. 

Styling days are also movie days, if he can stay home! (usually you plan your styling days with his days off so you really can spend the day with him) Y’all just chill out and watch movies together and once you’re finished, you guys cuddle

The first time he used a shower cap he was literally amazed. Like he’d never really given them more than a passing thought, but like…. a cap. to protect your hair from getting wet in the shower. It’s ingenious. If he didn’t wanna get it wet he tried to put it up in a bun and hopped on the struggle bus

Suffice to say, he loves shower caps

If you have a hooded dryer at home, well. He’s not a fan of constant loud noises (or loud noises in general tbh) but he thinks it’s really cool that you can have a little piece of the salon with you at home, that you can still do certain things without having to drop the money

Speaking of the salon though. 

Your stylist loves and hates him because he’s super charming and they can tell just how in love you two are and they can tell how well he treats you and all of that, but good lord when the two of you talk you move your head a lot and that’s veeeery frustrating

As soon as Gladio notices he gives you a little kiss and goes over to the waiting area but it’s really not much longer before he’s trying to text you or trying to get your attention from across the room or something like that.

If you’re due to be bound to the stylist’s chair for a long while, he’s at your beck and call and will do anything you need while you’re stuck. Snacks? You got it. Thirsty? A drink, fit with a straw so you don’t have to bend your head anymore. Entertainment? He’ll ask if you want a book or a video game. Your phone is dying? He’s got a portable battery, babey

He always checks the weather and lets you know when it’s supposed to be humid, because humid days are your worst enemy. (He hates them too, but since he started dating you he’s become more aware of their frequency)

He’s bad about the bonnet. He really is. He really tries not to say it but it’s kind of like a mushroom top. He’s so bad about it. 

If you use a satin pillowcase, you’ll have to get another one because he wants to steal your pillow. He loves the way it feels against his face when he sleeps and he wants to feel it allllllll the time

But yes, all in all, as I said in the beginning, Gladio adores your natural hair and everything that comes with it and he embraces it and loves when you do the same.