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pinkyqily · 1 day ago

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ALL MINE - JUJU WATKINS X READER

Summary: school and life is stressing you out but your lovely girlfriend is here to calm the cloudy storm brewing up.

Contains: fluff, fool inlove, juju and reader are down bad for each other. Also ignore the mistakes in one of the text I'll edit it out later

A/n: another game day fic we cheer this is a date fic one of my favorite writing prompt i hope you guys enjoy this, I would have had this posted earlier but tumblr sucks and didn't save half of the ending so I had to redo it but here it's, and as always happy reading, feedbacks are appreciated or commenting in general 💕

It has been a while since you ans the basketball player hangout, with both of you being full time students athletes your schedule would always clash and you guys wouldn't be able to hang.

But that didn't stop your late night calls catching each other up about what is going on in your lives.

Juju could tell you where having a strees full week from your track week and juggling having a part-time job.

You where getting ready for the day that you had ahead of you until you heard your phone pig. Picking it up you saw a message from juju.

You weren't going to question what she had planned because one thing about ju was she stays planning.

Your whole day went well, practice went well your after a while you needed to meet up with a few friends for revision.

You got back at your apartment around three in the afternoon. You started by doing your wash routine that conceited of a coconut butter body wash, then gentility exfoliating any dead skin.

Getting out the shower, you wrapped your towel around you, moving onto your skincare routine and body care routine.

Once you were done, you started getting dressed, picking a black flared tube bodysuit, and paired it with a cropped puffer jacket. You wore your white and gold Jordan 4 that juju got for you, and for a final touch, you added your white Prada cross bag to finish your outfit.

With a final touch of using the Vaseline body oil and your kali perfume in vanilla candy rock sugar.

You picked up your phone to text juju that you were done and she could be coming. After a few minutes of waiting, you got a text from her saying she was outside, but before you left, you replied, Your perfume.

Finally making it outside your building you saw juju leaned back on the car.

"Hey baby." You said, making your way towards her.

"Hi, my love." She said once she saw you

"So where are we going?" You asked her, as you we're about to open the door for yourself she got to the handle before you beating you to it.

"Umm, thinking about me and you a little date night, driver around our area and get some food while we're at it, what do you think." She told you as she closed the door

"Sounds like music to my ears." You said

"Gald were on the same note, how was your practice?". She asked

"Wasn't bad went really well, I'm starting to think these coaches got sum up with them so much complaining before we even start, but things are well." You told her.

You started ranting as juju continued driving but still paid attention to what you we're saying.

"And can you believe that, telling me I'll come third behind some big headed fool."

"No baby, but all that matters is that you prove to her and everyone else that they are wrong, you're the one who knows your strength and weaknesses."She told you as she laid her on your thighs palming your hands together.

"You're right it just gets really irritating having to hear this." You sighed, needing to get that rant out of your system.

"You feel better getting that out?

"Yea how did you even know I needed a day off".

"You looked like you were going through withdrawals on your spam."

"Ugh, don't remind me was spam was meant to be mysterious vibes only." You said.

Taking off your seat belt as she already found a spot to park.

"Pretty sure I'm the mysterious one." She said, raising an eyebrow at you.

"Whatever miss nonchalant, bring your face closer for a sec." You asked her

All of a sudden ju was all in your personal space, you looked up at her getting lost into those dark brown eyes of hers.

You felt her hot breath on your neck.

Next thing you do is pull the neck of her hoodie and go in for a kiss. It caught her off guard, but she found herself grabbing your face, deeping the kiss a little longer.

The both of you move back, trying to catch your breath.

If humans were able to breathe into each other the both of you would be sucking the oxygen out of one another.

"You got me way off guard." Was what she told you as took out her car keys.

"What did you think was gonna happen when I asked you to come closer, big head!?"

"Welp, I thought I had sum on me guess I was wrong."

"Sure, now where are we?". You said with a sarcastic tone layed under it

"This new diner places I recently found, c'om let's get out". She said taking off her seat belt.

"They better have good food."

Walking into the place you and juju had your hand intwering, she wasn't huge on pda, but you never take them for granted whenever she displays any type of affection for you in public.

You both went to go find yourself a table, getting yourself sitted before the waitress came.

"Enough about me, how's basketball?." You asked her.

"Same routine, but everything nice getting ready for march, though." She said as a waitress started making her way towards your table.

"Hi, welcome to didi's diner what get I get for you two?". You heard the waitress say.

"Umm, I'll have your chicken burger combo with a chocolate milkshake." Was what ju ordered

"And you miss".

"I'll have your chicken and beef pizza sandwich with a cold lemonade."You said

"Perfect would you guys like to pay now or later". The waitress had asked you both.

"I'll like to pay now." You told her as you started getting your card out.

"You'll be paying, yea no baby I got that what our total".

"Your total is 105". The waitress said she found you and juju amusing.

"Your always paying for everything I got this one". You said to her.

"Nah I got this". Before juju could do anything you grab both her hands and handed the waitress your own card instead.

"Here you go". You said to the waitress who immediately grab your card before ju could get out.

"I'll be back with your food soon".

"Thank you".

"Bruh why wouldn't you let me pay". She said crossing her arms.

"Because you always pay". You told her

"I pay because I enjoy treating you out". She said lowering her back on the chair.

"Well this one is my treat". You told her as you laid your head on her shoulder.

"This was supposed to be a fun relaxing day for you". She said.

"It's fun and relaxing because being with you is the quality time I need, so don't be sour Judea." You told her.

"Using my government is crazy." She said, wrapping her arms around your waist.

"Girl bye it ain't the end of the world and you do have a pretty name so yea infact might just be calling you that". You told her

"Sure baby." the both of you found yourselves looking at each other anyone could tell y'all got tension and chemistry together as a couple.

Before you both could do anything the waitress was already making her way towards you both.

"Here's your food hope you guys enjoy". She said before leaving you guys.

Anyone around the two of you could tell you both had crazy tension and chemistry, the attraction you both have on each other was something natural and couldn't be replicated.

You found yourself digging in juju fries that came with her meal.

"You got a problem miss Judea". You asked her as you took another one of her fry.

"You just have a pretty face and smell so good that I could eat you instead". She said making you almost choke.

"Ju, we're in public". You said nugging her.

"So?". She asked, not really caring. One thing for certain was that juju doesn't shy away from a lot of things. "Whatever big head".

You guys date continued you feed juju a few bites if your sandwich, chatted more about your goals and what you both want.

And you guys ended your night with a drive back to juju places and getting all cuddled up with her and duce.

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joyful-soul-collector · 2 days ago

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Writing Femoral Anteversion

From someone who has it! I figured people who're writing Viktor (or anyone else you'd like to bestow this condition onto) might find this helpful.

For anyone who doesn't know, Viktor is theorized to have severe Femoral Anteversion in his right leg. Mine is not quite as severe as his is, but it's enough to cause problems. Currently my condition has me considering buying a cane at the ripe old age of 22, which is a few years younger than Viktor was in Season 1 Act 1.

Femoral Anteversion looks like this:

This can happen in one or both legs. I have it in both, but it's far worse in my left leg. Viktor's seems to be mainly in his right leg. To be clear, this is NOT the same thing as his lung disease, though it likely exacerbates that disease a bit. The anteversion very likely worsens the problems with his back, but isn't necessarily the cause. Now, lets get into it!

What is Femoral Anteversion?

A wonderful post by @ihavea-natural-curiosity explained that all here, so I'll leave it to that person to explain what it is.

What is it like to have Femoral Anteversion?

Depending on the severity/treatments done for it, it can range from barely noticeable to a constant pain. If we put that on a scale, I'd say my right leg is at a 2-3, and my left is at around a 7-8. Viktor is likely at a 9-10 on his right leg. 8 on a good day.

General Pain Sites: mainly are in the knee, the hip, and lower back. Pain is worsened by long periods of standing, or long periods of sitting. Basically if its in one position for too long, it hurts. For me, it's difficult in school when I have to sit for a long time, and at work, where I stand a long time. Viktor may have more flexibility as he can stand or sit at his job whenever he wants, though if he's low energy that day, sitting for a long time may be his only option.

If standing for too long: (for me that's more than half and hour to an hour, for Viktor it may be more like 15 minutes), pain will start in the lower back, typically on the side of the bad leg, and with each step that spot on the lower back will pop. It's rather uncomfortable, doesn't relieve much pain the way popping a joint normally does. Pain from standing too long tends to be in the lower back, below the kneecap, and on the side of the hip, in the center between the front and back half of the body

If sitting for too long: typically the pain sites change slightly depending on the position, but often it's in the back of the hip, the lower back, and above the kneecap. Sometimes there may also be awkward positions sitting when trying to keep weight off that leg, which ends up hurting your upper back or shoulders too.

Painless: The only position I've found to be completely painless when in it for a long time is laying down on my back, with a pillow under the knees. Takes ALL the strain and weight off of those joints so it doesn't hurt. Only annoying bit is sometimes the REST of my body gets tired of being in that position anyways. I really only do this if it's hurting pretty bad that day because I can't really do anything while laying down like this. Even being on your phone is annoying cuz your arms get tired eventually.

Treating Femoral Anteversion

There's a bunch of treatments for it, the main ones are physical therapy, a brace, and a surgery. Typically none of these are needed because this usually happens in children, most of whom grow out of it. In the people who don't, physical therapy, a brace, and/or surgery may be needed.

The Brace

They usually hug the thigh as the problem is in the femur, the thigh bone. The reason Viktor likely doesn't have one of the top two may be either:

1. Pain, the braces can be rather painful, and with anteversion as severe as his it may have been too much

and/or

2. It may have interfered with his back brace. The bottom brace doesn't work as well, but it is certainly far better than nothing.

To be clear, the most comfortable position for someone with femoral anteversion to be in is with their toes pointed inward. So the brace is not necessarily actually for comfort, it is for overall health. They're rather painful as it forces you're muscles, tendons, and literally bones, to be in a different position than they are naturally. Braces for adults would also have to be worn most hours of the day, and likely forever. In children the brace is taken off after they have grown enough that the anteversion is corrected, but in adults they are done growing, so it must be worn as much as possible.

Generally a brace is not actually the go-to form of treatment for adults, as physical therapy works better and is less uncomfortable for the patient.

Physical Therapy

Physical therapy for femoral anteversion will look like a lot of leg exercises to strengthen the outer leg muscles that will help correct the direction of the femur. It's very possible Viktor does these, or did them when he had the strength. When his disease got worse he may not have had the energy, but if he ever saw a PT in Piltover to help with his leg then they likely had him do exercises every day, possibly in the morning and at night with how severe his case was.

Stopping the exercises would likely mean the leg returns to its previous condition, as the muscles would no longer be maintained and would grow weaker again with time. In which case, the brace would help, and is possibly why Viktor has a brace in act 2 of season 1, but not in act 1.

Surgery

This surgery is called Femoral Osteotomy, and is a rather invasive one as it will change the direction of your whole femur, thus the direction of your whole leg. People often need walkers after this surgery, and can definitely come with complications. The reason Viktor didn't get this done is almost certainly because of his disease. A lung disease increases the risk of complications exponentially, especially with something as invasive as this surgery.

Disclaimer: I personally haven't actually had any of these treatments because I cannot afford them at the moment, though I'm hoping to go into physical therapy soon. The treatment order tends to go PT, brace, and surgery as a last resort.

Daily Life with Femoral Anteversion

Honestly, for most people with this, there's not much difference. They may not even feel any pain. My right leg technically also has femoral anteversion, but rarely hurts. But for people with a more intense case, like my left leg, or Viktor's right leg, there's a few things that can be different, so here's a list of some things that I do because of my femoral anteversion, that might be interesting to include in your writing:

Constantly correcting the direction of the foot. It becomes an unconscious correction after months of practicing, but occasionally it will still happen that you have to consciously move and correct it

Some days hurt worse than others! It can be just how you wake up that morning, or it can be due to activities done that day

Constantly cracking the bad knee. Especially when sitting or standing for too long. I crack my knee probably every few minutes or so when I'm standing for more than 5 minutes

Leaning elbows on a table, crossing the legs at the ankle, and leaning the torso side to side to get a stretch in the hip and potentially pop the lower back. Even deeper stretch by letting the elbows go below the table top and balancing by holding onto the table with just the fingertips.

When turning around, forgetting to move the bad leg too so it ends up turning almost completely backwards. This doesn't hurt, but as soon as I do it I often think "Aw fuck I'm not supposed to do that". Sometimes this makes you trip too.

Tripping over the bad foot when it gets in the way

Massaging or gently hitting the bad knee and hip to help the pain

Preemptively taking painkillers when anticipating a lot of walking or standing. May also do this for sitting, like on a plane or long train ride

It's hard to pop the hip but when it does happen it's both rather painful and instant pain relief. Very similar to popping a shoulder that's been annoying all day

Getting something warm to put on the knee and hip to help with pain. My favorite thing is the Warmies stuffed animals, the added weight feels good too

If without a cane/crutch, or somewhere to sit, then leaning heavily on tables, walls, and railings when in pain. Limping when you can't do that

Pushing the bad leg out to the side to get a good stretch in the hip (In the sexual sense, having the knees spread far apart for a long time would end up painful. Shorter sessions will be fine, but the best positions for something lasting a long time would be ones where the bad leg can be resting on something at a 90° angle or wider at both the hip and knee. A pillow under the knee works perfect. If on top, the person would likely end up leaning on the good leg, and leaning on the bed/a pillow/the other person with their arms to take the weight off the bad leg)

Constantly changing sitting position, generally every 5 minutes, give or take depending on how bad the pain is that day

Sleeping on the side with a pillow or blanket between the knees

Would secretly really really love for someone else to massage your leg because it's so difficult to get the right spots by yourself, especially in your hip.

Aaaaand that's about it! Feel free to ask any questions!

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pupyuj · 20 hours ago

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→ “favorite pastime.” || ahn yujin x jang wonyoung fic.

— despite being in the same group, it was hard for yujin and wonyoung to find time to be normal girlfriends in the middle of a world tour, so when they are finally granted a break, they decide to make the most of it...

word count: 4.7k.

dynamic: dom!vers!ahn yujin x sub!vers!jang wonyoung.

warnings: established relationship, fingering, clit play, scissoring, body worship, ya'll why is there like no other tags here hello, this fic is EMPTYYYY, this actually started out with more tags AND IT WAS GONNA BE FREAKYYYY, but it just got soft LMAO.

requested?: nope.

a/n: a little treat before the long trek that is the witch liz fic💕 i made this doc around the time they were still on the swih tour so that's why the setting is the way it is 😭 and i've been kind of writing it in the background while i worked on other, bigger stuff so no, i didn't take this long to create something so short! 😤 personally, this is like my one of the favorite things i've written 🥺 idk why i cooked so hard for annyeongz out of all things but ykw i'll take it! enough yapping, I HOPE YOU GUYS LIKE THIS 💖💖

1:37 am.

jang wonyoung had no business being up this late when she, as well as her group members, finally had the luxury to sleep to her heart’s content and not worry about being late to rehearsals and soundchecks. today’s show was the last one until a long while, which means the members of ive have the time to explore the current city they’re visiting or relax in their lavish hotel rooms for the next few days before they fly back to south korea and do some real relaxing there. wonyoung already had her next day planned out, as she always does, and thus had nothing much to think about in her mind.

except the fact that she was up at an ungodly hour brushing through her beautiful locks with her favored hairbrush in front of a vanity mirror. her doe eyes glancing at the clock each minute, getting increasingly impatient and disappointed whenever her gaze turns to the empty and cold queen-sized bed behind her. wonyoung had already done all of her post-concert routines and was more than ready to hit the sheets and sleep until nine in the morning, maybe even ten! but what was the point of resting if she didn’t rest well?

to put it simply, jang wonyoung needs only one important thing to complete her night, and that came in the form of ahn yujin, who was currently not in their shared hotel room.

pouting, wonyoung took a glance at her phone. no recent calls or texts from her dear girlfriend. before leaving the room in a hurry, yujin informed wonyoung that the managers needed to have a talk with her ‘for a bit’, but exactly three hours had passed since! it worried wonyoung, to be frank. why weren’t the other members talked to? was yujin in trouble? were they all in trouble and it was so serious that the managers needed to talk to only the leader about it? wonyoung knew in the back of her head that it was probably just company gibberish that even yujin doesn’t have all the energy to actually talk about, but wonyoung being wonyoung—being yujin’s girlfriend—she still can’t help but be concerned!

now don’t get her wrong! most of the time, wonyoung can sleep without cuddling with or even when she’s not with yujin! it’s just… she thought tonight was going to be special for the two of them. maybe they were going to spend the entire night talking about the show, how fun it was, how great they all did, and how they can’t wait for the next ones. maybe they were going to bundle up in the blankets and cuddle each other to keep warm while watching movies until they fell asleep. maybe they were going to share small and funny anecdotes about their own personal adventures in every city they’ve been in! whatever it may have been, wonyoung would’ve loved it.

she missed yujin, so much. yes, they’re together for literally every second they’re alive because duh, they’re in the same group, but wonyoung misses her in a… girlfriend kind of way. she misses their talks, their jokes, their staring competitions, their hands holding, their lips locking—she misses everything about her relationship. truthfully, wonyoung might just be a little bit dramatic because it’s not like yujin went to war or something but can anyone really blame a girl in love!?

wonyoung sighs, putting down her hairbrush and fixing her bangs with her hands. she felt (and is!!) so pretty but yujin wasn’t even around to ogle at her! she stands up, grabs her phone and pulls up yujin’s contact from her long list. she was about to press the ‘call’ button until the hotel door clicked and swung open, and entered a very smiley ahn yujin in her charming oversized flannel shirt, thick-framed glasses, and her favorite bottoms to wear lately, some… jorts.

yup, this is the girl jang wonyoung is down terrible for. a loser.

“honey, i’m home—oof!” yujin nearly gets knocked back out of the door after wonyoung tackled her for a hug. in a fit of laughter, yujin embraces her girlfriend tightly, giving her quick kisses on the side of her head in the process. yujin uses her leg to close the door shut behind the two of them before awkwardly shuffling further inside the room while still hugging wonyoung, who just refused to remove her head from the crook of yujin’s neck. the older girl wasn’t about to start complaining though—wonyoung was usually so reserved and, well, classy. only behind doors does wonyoung become this clingy, adorable creature that is always seemingly shooting hearts from her eyes while looking at yujin.

lately, they haven’t been given a lot of privacy so yujin missed her cute, loving girlfriend too! the two of them collapse slowly on the bed, where yujin immediately peppers wonyoung’s face with kisses while the younger girl laughs at the way it all tickles. eventually, yujin’s lips landed on wonyoung’s own and the latter made sure it stays there! taking yujin’s face in her hands and keeping her still, gently locking their lips in a soft, warm kiss that even makes yujin melt so quickly that she kisses back earnestly.

it was pretty easy to get lost in a searing kiss for the two of them. eventually only the smacks of their lips and their hums were heard in the room, with the occasional shuffling of the mattress underneath wonyoung and the sweet sounds that left her mouth. with the younger girl’s top slightly lifted, yujin had no problems putting her hand on wonyoung’s toned stomach and slowly dragging it upward to where wonyoung obviously wanted to touch her the second most.

“hmn.. ah, yujinnie…” how cute. yujin already had her moaning like that. yujin slides both of her hands further up until she was cupping wonyoung’s soft breasts and at the same time, she slots a knee in between the younger girl’s legs and pressed it lightly against her clothed pussy. wonyoung, being so desperate to feel yujin, starts to grind on the older girl’s knee, moaning softly at the added sensation of yujin toying with her nipples underneath her shirt.

wonyoung allows yujin to slip her tongue inside her mouth—an act that was always messy but did wonyoung ever care? of course not, not even when there was drool running down the side of her mouth. the messier the better, and wonyoung hoped that it gets worse from here because they both deserve this.

it wasn’t long before wonyoung was practically humping on her girlfriend’s thigh. her needy moans only intensified the longer yujin took to just rip her clothes off and make her see the stars. the older girl was adamant on keeping their clothes on, only merely pulling up wonyoung’s top to expose her pretty tits but never actually taking it off. and at this point, wonyoung had successfully popped open four of the buttons on yujin’s flannel shirt and was only slightly disappointed to see that yujin had been wearing a tank top and a bra underneath. but that still didn’t stop wonyoung from trying to feel yujin’s skin on her own.

“someone really missed me, huh?” yujin chuckles, watching as wonyoung struggled to open the rest of the buttons on her shirt. wonyoung ignores her teasing, however, and tugs impatiently on yujin’s shirt. and if yujin wasn’t completely smitten and head-over-heels for her girlfriend, she wouldn’t be yujin at all! so, yujin slips out of her shirt, as well as her tank top like wonyoung whined to her about, and smirks at how the younger girl seemed to be at a loss for words. still though, wonyoung finds enough control in herself to carefully and gently run her hands all over yujin’s chiseled features. everybody knows yujin works hard to shape her body to perfection, but wonyoung still finds herself in sheer awe every time she sees the results.

yujin working out was always a sight that wonyoung constantly looked back to and secretly admired. and even though they’re dating, wonyoung is still a bit too bashful to admit that even just the slightest glimpse of yujin’s muscles can make her crumble as her members always teased her about it to the point it would reach yujin’s ears, and then yujin would tease her and it would just be a lovely mess wonyoung would rather avoid. but at least right now they were in their own world, wonyoung has nothing to be ashamed about here. delicately, wonyoung pushed yujin back until the latter was standing up properly and wonyoung herself was sitting up on the bed.

wonyoung, looking up at her girlfriend whose eyes were riddled with curiosity, places her hands on yujin’s hips and pulls her closer and closer until her lips were touching yujin’s abdomen. for the next few minutes, ahn yujin finds herself feeling… shy as she watches her girlfriend leave soft, loving kisses all over the exposed skin on her stomach. why, wonyoung had to appreciate all the effort yujin puts into working out! what better way than this? kissing her firm abs, feeling and making random shapes on the other well-defined muscles on her back… hearing yujin’s soft laughs was a bonus, too.

“hey… i’m supposed to take care of you.” yujin runs her fingers through wonyoung’s hair, taking note of how smooth and soft it was and noticing that the chair in front of the vanity mirror was in slight disarray. now she knows wonyoung had been patiently—well, impatiently—waiting for her to finally join her in the night while looking all pretty for her.

“we can take turns.” wonyoung whispers softly. her kisses continued on rising and soon enough, her lips were on yujin’s chest. it was hard for the older girl to not melt on the spot when wonyoung looks up at her with pleading eyes—sure, there has never been a moment where yujin was able to resist those eyes, but something about this night was making her just a tad bit more vulnerable to them than usual. or perhaps it was just her immense love for wonyoung that made her so freaking soft. reaching behind, yujin unclasps her bra and allows it to fall to the ground, smirking slightly at the way wonyoung blushes at the sight of her bare breasts.

wonyoung leaned back, propping her hands up behind her to get a good look at her girlfriend who was now completely topless. “you’re so pretty, unnie…” she said, and even in the softness of her voice, yujin could hear her desire and it only adds up to the excitement of it all. wonyoung watches with anticipation as yujin takes off her shorts, failing to fight back the urge to bite her lip because good god did her girlfriend look amazing wearing only a pair of dark blue-colored panties, and how could she even pretend to not notice that wet spot on the fabric? wonyoung was delighted to know that she has such an effect, it makes her heart swell with pride… and she could tease yujin about it, see that deep blush on the older girl’s face that always looked so cute on her, but the only thing wonyoung wanted to do right now was feel her.

but wonyoung has been disciplined well enough to know she can’t do that until she has yujin’s permission, and so she watches as the older girl lays down on the bed. it wasn’t until yujin beckoned wonyoung over that the latter finally moved, crawling over on top of yujin quite eagerly.

“you want to take care of me, hm?” yujin tucks a strand of hair behind wonyoung’s ear.

jang wonyoung—the idol that everyone knows to be perfect, reserved, and elegant beyond comprehension. who would have thought that she would have such an astonishingly different side to her behind closed doors? in the outside world, wonyoung would not be caught having an expression that did not scream her genuine compassion and kindness but here she was on top of her group leader, her best friend, the love of her life, looking like she wanted to eat her whole. yujin wasn’t shy to admit that the way wonyoung carried herself right now only made that pool in between her legs get worse, but at least she had the fastest way to relieve herself of that ache right in front of her.

“go on then.”

ahn yujin—ive’s strong-willed leader that can do anything and everything except one: give up control. even right now, when her girlfriend is right on top of her, giving her neck spine-chilling open-mouthed kisses and sucking on her skin enough to leave a trail of quickly-blooming marks from her jawline down to her collarbone, she refuses to relax and actually allow wonyoung to take care of her. she keeps her hand buried on wonyoung’s beautiful locks, tugging slightly every time she feels something that makes her thighs twitch and her core beg for much-needed attention. but that was all okay to wonyoung; there was nothing more she loved than being bossed around and told what to do by her leader.

finally, after what seemed like forever, yujin feels wonyoung’s tongue on her hard nipple before she feels her warm mouth wrap around it, eliciting a beautiful moan that stirs something inside wonyoung. the latter reaches down and slides her hand inside yujin’s panties, palming her wet cunt and pressing her thumb against her clit.

again, yujin moans loudly and struggles to keep her composure. but still, she finds her ways. “g-good girl… oh, fuck… you always know know how to make me… f-feel good, hm?” she knew that the smallest of praises was enough to dumb wonyoung down into her personal pleasure toy that she can play with to do whatever she wants her to do—and her praises were not short of effect, as usual. wonyoung’s whines are muffled with her mouth around yujin’s nipple, her tongue too busy swirling and playing with the hardened bud to push out some words. she feels her own pussy creating a mess in her underwear, but yujin’s voice silences her needs.

“hmmn.. ngh… ahh—” every gasp, every hiss, and every little sound yujin made as wonyoung pinched, pressed on, and toyed with her clit reverberates through the younger girl’s fogged up brain and feeds her all the energy she needs to make her lover feel even better. “god… just fill me up, princess…” and that pet name was the icing on the cake.

impatiently, wonyoung rips off yujin’s panties with haste and throws it off to the side. her mouth finally leaves yujin’s nipple, which allows yujin to easily pull her back up and kiss her, hungrily and possessively. completely different from the sweet kisses they usually shared in secret rooms, behind the privacy of some curtains, in the dark corners of a set, and amidst unsuspecting eyes. and thank god for the kiss, because the room next to them surely would have heard the sound yujin made upon getting stuffed full with two fingers if her mouth hadn’t been busy being on wonyoung’s.

a loud whine from wonyoung manages to escape their locked lips when yujin pulls on her hair harshly, controlling the kiss as she pleases while simultaneously bucking her hips up to meet wonyoung’s thrusts. god knows how much she needed this. months long of touring, rehearsing, endless vocal warmups, and being on-the-go for hours on end… ahn yujin deserved the utmost care right now, and luckily for her wonyoung was more than willing to give her just that.

wonyoung’s pace increases, making yujin throw her head back in pleasure as her hips struggle to keep up. her moans were now loud and free with only wonyoung’s lips silencing her every now and again but even then, the latter was too busy leaving more marks on her leader’s neck. mine, she wants everyone to know even when they shouldn’t. wonyoung bites on yujin’s collarbone, and the older girl’s free hand clutches her shoulder, nearly piercing her skin. mine, she wants everyone who thinks they can win over yujin’s heart to know that she belongs with someone else already. her.

but now that yujin thought about it… wonyoung herself worked hard all tour long too, and what kind of girlfriend would yujin be if she didn’t make her feel good in return?

yujin tugs on the waistband of wonyoung’s shorts, “i wanna.. hah… feel you too, baby… take this off.” of course, wonyoung obeys her almost immediately. it was something about her that yujin always loved: whether she’s talking to her as her group leader or as her girlfriend, wonyoung will always listen to her and do what needs to be done at the drop of a hat. and before yujin could even think to open her eyes and take her mind off of the sensation of wonyoung’s fingers inside her, the younger girl has already taken off her shorts as well as her underwear.

wonyoung stares at yujin for a good minute—taking in every single one of her facial features as if she doesn’t already do just that every night they’re together. she then decided that her lips were feeling a bit too cold, so she paused her actions and leaned down to kiss yujin. the latter didn’t seem to mind prolonging her climax. even going as far as to allow wonyoung to pull her fingers out of the older girl’s cunt just so she can hold her face as they kissed. yujin could feel her cheek getting wet with her own slick but she didn’t exactly care when her heart felt like it was going to explode with the sheer amount of affection she was feeling for her lover.

and for a while, they got lost in each other’s lips and even forgot that they were in the middle of something. yujin holds wonyoung softly, both hands firmly but gently holding the latter’s waist as she takes control of the kiss. with their lips still locked, yujin flips their position and now that she was on top, she can truly show wonyoung how much she missed her. especially during these last few hours that she had to endure listening to her managers talk on and on about the precautions the girls should take before walking around the city and whatnot.

all yujin wanted to do at that time was to melt in her girlfriend’s arms and hold each other until the next afternoon. but unfortunately, a few minutes became a few hours. frankly, yujin felt bad that wonyoung had to stay up so late waiting for her. she should have been sleeping considering that it was quite the long and tiring show that they had that day, but she really waited for her. it was impossible for yujin to express her appreciation with just words… and actions, really, but she’ll for sure try her damn best.

“you can relax now, princess… it’s my turn to take care of you.” yujin says, giving the younger girl a last peck on the lips before leaning back. while she got herself situated, yujin smiles briefly at wonyoung, who blushed as she just sat there watching her girlfriend. it was stupid how she still sometimes felt like she was crushing on this ‘cool, funny unnie’ because for the longest time, that was really the farthest wonyoung got with her feelings.

some people like to tell her that it was actually quite cute how wonyoung still behaves like a high school girl who was in love for the first time and to that she thinks: sure, it could be cute… if it wasn’t so embarrassing at the same time! because come on, she was swooning over her girlfriend looking so handsome on top of her!

upon the realization that she looked quite stupid being flustered over literally nothing, wonyoung covers up her warm face with her hands, opting to only look at the older girl from behind the gaps between her fingers. yujin, unfazed, grins at her cute girlfriend, taking a mental note to tease her all about it tomorrow. it’s what she always does the morning after having sex! wonyoung has gotten used to it by now, but that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t get embarrassed whenever yujin starts to lay out whatever details she remembers from the night before.

“let me see you, wonyoung-ah,” yujin takes her girlfriend’s hands and holds onto them tightly. she laughs seeing wonyoung’s tomato-colored cheeks and ears. “you’re so red! are you okay?” adorable. wonyoung was never not going to be the cutest thing in yujin’s eyes, that’s for sure.

suddenly, those three simple words that she has gotten used to saying all these years have become so difficult to push out of her mouth. not because wonyoung didn’t want to say them, but because even she herself could make fun of just how much she means them. “i love you, yujin-unnie…” wonyoung managed to blurt out. her eyes were everywhere except on yujin’s own, afraid of getting teased to hell by the older girl and wonyoung always knew exactly when the teasing would come. yujin would usually slowly start giggling before she was full-on throwing her head back from laughter, and then she would pinch wonyoung’s cheeks and fawn over how adorable she was.

wonyoung was waiting for it. she was waiting for yujin’s soft laughs, waiting until her face was being peppered with kisses once again, and until the leader completely disregarded the situation the two of them were in and just flatter her until dawn… but strangely enough, none of it ever came. so, wonyoung finally looked yujin in the eyes and found her girlfriend blushing just as wildly as she had been.

well, that was certainly a brand new sight.

“i love you too… so much.” yujin replied rather breathlessly. it might be cheesy as fuck, but she feels her heart growing twice its size the longer she stared at wonyoung, who smiled so adoringly at her that she thought she would melt. it was at this moment that yujin decided she was willing to endure all the exhaustion that came with being on tour for almost an entire year four times over if at the end of everything, she would come home to wonyoung’s warmth.

she realizes now that that was made the long, long nights of working so worth it to put up with. she was never going to take fleeting moments such as this, where they are able to just be them, for granted ever again.

yujin leans forward, slowly, and holds back a chuckle upon seeing wonyoung close her eyes immediately, knowing full well what was coming. god, yujin could swoon. she technically was! deep inside! but she had to pull herself together—wonyoung had needs too and it was about damn time yujin fulfilled one of her many duties as her loving girlfriend. yujin puts one leg over wonyoung’s and gets real close until she able to catch her lover’s lips with her own, and simultaneously, she rocks her hips forward, giving both herself and wonyoung the absolute pleasure that was the feeling of their clits clashing against one another.

“oh…! gosh—” wonyoung takes a hold of yujin’s arm with one hand and a fistful of the white sheets below with the other hand, clutching both with an iron grip as the older girl continues on. her whines were muffled by yujin’s lips, the very same trick that she had pulled on her earlier when their positions were switched. yujin puts her hand on the back of wonyoung’s thigh, pushing her leg upwards slightly to give herself more room as her thrusts get faster.

wonyoung starts doing her own work as well, using her hips accordingly and still taking such good care of yujin even though it was ‘her turn’ to be coddled. wonyoung just couldn’t help it. every time there was a surge of love coursing through her veins, she just had to pour it all over yujin. and this was only one of her many methods of doing so.

“good… yes…!” yujin cries out. her eyes were shut tight, one hand almost piercing through her lover’s skin and the other practically nearly tearing the sheets off the bed. wonyoung, despite her hazed mind, takes yujin’s free hand in hers and holds it tight. it helps both of them a lot. that, they know.

“god… if only… we had a strap, huh?” yujin says with a big, stupid grin. wonyoung must not reveal to yujin that she had intended to bring one but ended up forgetting due to the million other problems she had to sort out. she would never hear the end of it… and yujin might just end up visiting a sex store in the city the next morning!

the younger girl fought the greatest urge to break into a smile, but ultimately failed. “s-stop joking around… just fuck me… p-please, unnie…!” wonyoung pleaded. and she didn’t have to tell yujin twice. the older girl decided to shut up then, and pins wonyoung’s hand above her hand, thrusting faster than ever with only one objective in mind.

now they were really going to get complaints from the next couple of rooms. poor gaeul, who had actually been staying in the room directly next to theirs, probably won’t be able to even stand next to them tomorrow! neither of them could suppress their sounds—merely a chorus of whines and each other’s names left their mouths until finally, yujin’s hips come to a stutter as she came. wonyoung followed soon after, with a single tear rolling down her cheek as a mere proof of yujin’s very successful efforts.

the exhausted older girl collapses on wonyoung’s chest, gathering the very little strength left in her body to stay awake. wonyoung held her girlfriend tenderly, fixing the mess that was her hair while simultaneously getting themselves into a more comfortable position on the bed. yujin laid somewhat on top of wonyoung still, but a lot of her weight rested on the soft mattress of the bed as well.

not a lot of words were shared between the two of them as they laid there catching their breath. in fact, wonyoung thought that yujin had fallen asleep until she felt the hem of her shirt being tugged. the leader raises her head and stares at the oddly familiar graphic tee wonyoung was wearing, and then she smirks.

“my love… is this the shirt that has gone missing from my luggage for the past two weeks?” yujin asked, stifling a giggle.

“i-i didn’t think it was a big deal—i mean, you have so many shirts! a-and… i really like this one,” wonyoung, cheeks as red as a blood moon, takes the collar of ‘her’ shirt and sniffs. “it smells a lot like you too. i just… miss you a lot these days.”

yujin takes wonyoung’s hand and plants a kiss on her knuckles, “i don’t mind, baby. and i miss you too.” and every time those exact words are said, wonyoung will never not feel giddy.

the younger girl manages to compose her heart and says, “we’re lucky we get to be normal people for a while then! i have a lot planned for us, and the girls too.” wonyoung exclaims rather excitedly. while yujin had been busy being held up by the managers a few hours before, wonyoung spent all of that time making a list of all the worthwhile things they could do in this foreign city once the sun comes up. she had been wanting a chance to feel like a group of friends with her members as well, and now that she was able to be lovers with yujin for a night, who’s to say she won’t have just as much of a fun time being normal with her members too?

yujin lays there, utterly speechless at how she was actively still falling in love with wonyoung’s smile after all these years. still, she gets a hold of herself and kisses the younger girl’s hand again, “really? tell me all about it! but um… do make room for another night like this, hm?” she joked.

wonyoung pinches the bridge of yujin’s nose, laughing when the latter whines about it. she quickly kisses her forehead as compensation, “don’t worry, unnie. we have lots and lots of time just for the two of us.”

“good,” yujin hums. she places her head on her girlfriend’s chest, listening to her heart. it was the most comforting sound in the world, even more so when she knows that it beats solely for her. “you and me—my favorite pastime.”

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directdogman · 2 days ago

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hey dog! sorry to bug you with a coding question, but i'm learning rpg maker mv for a fangame & i'm wondering how you did a couple things. if it's not too much trouble, could you quickly explain some of it? i've scrounged around as much as i can but i cant find what i need so i thought it'd be worth asking directly ^^;

how did you get the players name to show up in the message log? i know theres a plugin that adds the name windows for other characters & i've got that figured out, but i have no idea how to get the players name to show up in the history after selecting stuff

how'd you get the graphic for the route diverging choices to show & play During choices? so far ive figured out that looping the images recreates the visual but then the game doesn't progress, bc its just stuck in that loop...

how'd you disable ( + grey out) dialogue options after selecting them??

how'd you add the fullscreen option? i found a code that was supposed to add a fullscreen option to the optionscore settings but that one just breaks the plugin & i simply Don't know enough javascript to figure it out myself

i'm using all the same plugins that dialtown has so clearly these are possible without extra ones, i just don't know how to do it,, thanks for explaining your pronoun system a little while ago btw! i wasn't the one who asked but your post was super helpful when i was setting it up for myself :D

It's been close to 6 years since I started making DT, and I had to figure out a few solutions to specific issues that cropped up which I've likely forgotten now, but I'll answer what I can remember. I'm also gonna give you some advice and advise you not to use RPG Maker for projects like these.

I basically Scott Cawthon'd DT and forced the engine to yield to my demands because I wanted to use the one I knew best. A few of these solutions are over-complicated because the easier ones (which would've worked in other engines) had to be constructed differently. I'll also mention a few solutions to problems you might not have encountered (but inevitably will if you try to recreate DT.) With that out of the way...

You'll want these settings for the backlog plugin. the \c[x] commands refer to standard name colours. Log special inputs set to true, followed up by this below:

\n<\c[4]\n[1]\c[0]>%1

With \n[1] being the name you want and the number after the first c being what colour you want.

I'll also save you a potential future issue: I'd actually recommend you find the backlog plugin I used in DT's files (located inside the www/js/plugins folder) and use the version I have instead of the official release if you're not already, because I made a small change to fix an error. Basically, it breaks slightly with the plugin that lets you bring up the menu during dialogue because text reloads when you leave the menu and re-enter the text box, causing text to be logged at least twice after you pause it. If you keep bringing up the menu, you'll get constant duplication. I simply added a line of code that tells the log not to have two duplicates in a row. Not a programmer, but it seems works.

2)I did it in a funny way to ensure the engine wouldn't screw it up. Basically, there's 3 steps to the event and it's kinda hard to explain (and would be annoying to reproduce without a lot of trial and error for a beginner.) It's easier if I show my code. The first thing I do is run a common event (you can also just paste this code in and run it from the event) that renders the frames used by the popup, so they're loaded into memory + ready to go.

As you can see, they're set to 0 opacity but now ready to be used. Obviously they have to be on a layer that isn't being used by anything else in the scene (and won't be during this part of the game.) I run this event ahead of time, usually 4 messages before the choice comes up or so, so even slower PCs should have time to get them up.

The 'if head' thing just switches between the files for phone/typegingi's heads. I render each frame on separate layers and toggle their opacity from one to the next on a single frame to avoid flickering (bc RPG maker's renderer is hot trash and I have to work around it. Case in point.)

Step 2 is a second command event that orders the frames to fade in.

One layer is the text (which doesn't move) and the other is the first frame of the little head animation. A switch is also turned on at the end, and this signals the animation to go, which is handled by an event on any map where a choice like this comes up.

The event page that handles the animation itself has 2 pages, one to handle the animation as it goes and the other to handle when it stops (note that you could use one page and simply use a conditional branch. I didn't.)

Set to parallel so it runs in the bg behind normal events. As you can see, every 17 frames, I command one image to fade out over a single frame and another to fade in. It loops perfectly, cycling from middle frame, to left, to middle, to right, back to middle. Finally, when you select any route diverging choice, it sets off a second switch, which activates the second event page and commands the game to dispose of the graphics and then turn itself off.

Basically, it's the same animation but with a twist. The text is faded out over 60 frames and then the same animation is played as before, except the values it fades back into go from 255, to 170 to 85. Each of those commands is also followed by a 17 second fade to the opacity of the next frame. So, frame one renders in one frame at 255. Then seventeen frame fadeout to 170... Next frame renders for 1 frame AT 170, then fades out gradually to 85. Then next frame renders at 85 during 1 frame, fades to 0. This is how i synced the turning animation to fade out convincingly.

At the very end, I turn both of the switches this event page uses off so both event pages don't continue on loop. I also have a check for the first event variable to check if the game should still think the animation is running, as a failsafe. I don't remember if this mattered.

3)It's a function in the YEP Extended Message Pack. You'll see the commands for hiding (temporarily removing) + disabling choices (greying them out) as you scroll through the help list, almost 2/3 down. The thing you have to remember though is that messages that are commanded to be hidden/disabled will STAY disabled unless you turn them back on. So, ANY time there's a possibility to make a choice with a disabled or hidden message, add this plugin command to EVERY selectable choice

ClearChoiceSettings

This will ensure the game doesn't break from having a choice permadisabled. If you use loops or labels to make the game return to a previous choice, make sure the looping point is BEFORE any logic that may disable/hide a choice so it doesn't autoenable everything if the game has to go back.

4)Make a new RPG Maker project, copy the js folder from www/data/js and open the new project alongside your other one. Then check my YEP Option core plugin and follow this path in the plugin editor

This code should work.

On a similar note, I'd also take a look at how my plugins are ordered, if your list is different. I had to meddle with the list to make sure some plugins functioned correctly. This engine is held together with duct-tape and spite, so do what this advice what you will.

Hope this helps!

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martzahhh · 8 hours ago

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pretty little birds. pt. 2

hamzah x youtuber!reader

a/n: hey so i Hate This. But anyway like 90% of !reader's captions will be song lyrics sorry she has the same music taste as me. Also very very important all the people on those posts are just random people most of the time (excluding anyone from the slushyverse! Those are intentionally there) and if its a female presenting person its !reader and if its a male presenting one its usually hamzah :3

yourusername

liked by hamzahthefantastic, chaserutherford and 3,482,931 others

yourusername cheated on my bitch with a bitch with bigger tittie$

user1 shes the coolest

user2 hamzah twice in the post oh okay i see how it is

user3 the quote.. so real! our esoteric queen! • liked by author

clairedrakee Swag • liked by author

> yourusername wish i had as much as u

hamzahthefantastic Cancel her she's promoting substance use

> yourusername cancel deez nuts into yo mouth lil boy

> hamzahthefantastic Ok mommy

> user4 WHATTHEHELLL

user5 when are you gonna stream againnnnnn

> yourusername this thursday! tune in <3

user6 why does she keep hanging out with that loser • liked by author

> hamzahthefantastic Cause she can't roll her own joints

> yourusername pillow princess

and yet another evening of waiting eagerly for hamzah to knock on her door. she made herself look especially pretty today- her excuse being, we're doing a stream. deep down she knew it was all for him, but hated to admit it even to herself. because what would it mean to their friendship?

having put on a cozy outfit, she still decided to do her makeup nicer than she normally would. putting on a lipgloss he once talked about, and some perfume he complimented her over. she didn't even notice how gravitated towards those things she was, almost like she didn't want to notice. as she stood next to her bathroom mirror, trying to somehow get her hair to cooperate, the long awaited sound finally came- he rang the doorbell. after letting out a quiet, nervous 'fuck!' over her incompetence, she ran to the door to let him in as soon as possible. she did miss him, she really did.

"hey", hamzah let out, stepping into her apartment. "you look really pretty today"

she chuckled nervously and hugged his side, trying not to act too suspicious. "thanks. wanted to look presentable for the stream or whatever"

"you did a great job. i love your hair", he said, looking at her with unmistakable adoration, which somehow slipped past her. she gave him a small smile in response, not wanting for him to notice how affected she was by his compliments.

on the other hand, hamzah was just as nervous. she smelled incredible and it really messed with his head. he could feel the perfume probably from a mile away and recognise the unique blend it created with her natural scent. he truly felt crazy. who the hell thinks this way about their friend? who wishes they could just spray the perfume on their pillow for comfort?

"anyway, i did bring the food. got some mexican, i hope you're in the mood for that", he said hesitantly, to which she smiled again.

"oh yeah, that sounds amazing. wanna go settle it down in the office? i'll make us some tea in the meantime"

"of course", he whispered, before pinching her shoulder and heading to the said room. it was decorated nicely, very much in her style. as soon as he stepped in there, he noticed her dog lounging on its bed, looking at him with curious eyes, almost as if asking him for a pet, to which he obviously obliged.

after some time, y/n came into the room as well, holding two cups in her hand, noticeably one of them being hamzah's favourite. "there you go", she said quietly after settling it down on the desk next to their food. she sat down on the chair next to him, the dog immediately hopping onto her lap, making them both emit a small laugh.

"what do you wanna play on the stream?", he asked.

"i feel like we could play sims...? if you're up for it"

"yeah that sounds nice. do you also have that freaky mod with nakedness and shit?"

they both laughed, remembering how surprised him and martin were while filming sims videos with mandy. "nah, i don't".

"damn, you've been outfreaked".

she laughed at the comment. "what the fuck".

after a while of those snarky remarks, she finally turned the stream on, the camera showing both of them eating their food.

"hey everyone! let's wait a little bit till more people get on here..." "anyway, i'm here with hamzah today as you can see", she turned to the side as he waved at her computer.

"hi guys...", he said nonchalantly.

"bro you're not him", she laughed at his tone, and his facade snapped.

"boi come on, let me appeal a bit to your audience"

"aurafarming final boss", she said, laughing to the camera.

taglist: @moshuka @felixsbrat @rafesgurl @khxna @mirinaeii @xarerie @tbfaptbfae @vivianne666 @certainfestivalnerdshepherd @asthmaticcchoeee @loverzxi @chrisgetsmewetter (for some reason not all @'s are working i think?? So if i didnt tag you or tagged you on accident lmk lol!)

#🌺 pretty little birds #hamzah #hamzah the fantastic #hamzah fluff #hamzah imagines #hamzah x reader #hamzahthefantastic x reader #hamzahthefantastic #thatmartinkid #hamzah smau #mandy’s iphone #slushynoobz #slushy noobz #Spotify

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lotuzies · 1 day ago

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𝜗𝜚 STUFF I MANIFESTED — proving it's easy

⭑.ᐟ bts concert

this was probably the first thing i've ever manifested while being aware of loa! this was in 2019, way before it was even popular on tiktok, the community was all on youtube and amino (rip). this also goes to show that: yes, you can indeed manifest with limiting beliefs! all i did was listen to a bunch of subliminals & affirm every time i could. the circumstances were against me, family was short on money, bts wasn't coming to the country near me, and still, little 11yo me went to paris for her first concert ever :)

⭑.ᐟ missing school

lmao all the time, however i do mostly not having a specific class (mostly p.e.). also i should add i don't really use any methods for my manifestations, i just choose the desire and decide it's done.

⭑.ᐟ stopping the rain

all the time too! it's a 10 minute walk every morning from my house to the bus stop, of COURSE i'll stop the rain so my hair doesn't get messed up. or yesterday, it was raining VIOLENTLY (it's literally spring wth) but me and my mom had to go run some errands, so i stopped it.

⭑.ᐟ iphone 15

my iphone 11 was on it's deathbed, specially the battery that had already been changed and it started malfunctioning again. when the iphone 15's came out, i fell in love with the baby blue one, the color is so gorgeous and i liked the new dynamic island. last year, my mom said she'd buy me a new phone for my birthday, on our way to the store she mentioned that she was going to buy the iphone 14. i simply nodded, knowing i'm the creator of this reality and i literally get to choose what i want, i kept affirming i'd get my iphone 15. cut to: the store employee told us that the iphone 14 in blue was not available, but the price for the 15 was just more ninety euros, making my mom oblige. now i'm writing this post from my beautiful baby blue iphone 15 :)

can u tell i really wanted a blue phone

⭑.ᐟ waist

i was so incredibly insecure while growing up, and developed a weird obsession with a tiny waist. it's worth mentioning that i was a naturally chubby kid too. i did the same thing i always do, choose the desire and decide it's done, no method, no nothing. now i have a naturally small waist with no work outs or weight lost diets.

⭑.ᐟ going viral

ever since i was little i've always been fascinated by creating content, (aka i was a gacha kid). i've had many many many tiktok accounts, and all of them went viral a moment or another. my current one has 20k followers and videos with over 400k views, one of them with 1 million views and another with 2.5 million.

⭑.ᐟ crushes & love

i really liked a boy around 2020-ish, so i used a bunch of subliminals, backfired because he ended up being so shitty and annoying. (also we were kids lol). my current boyfriend though, i used loa not only to attract him but also to make our relationship healthy (it was a shitshow in the beginning oh god). however i remember i used to affirm "everyone falls for me" or something, my dm's started filling up, and one of my closest girl friends fell for me, resulting in a friendship breakup. it was really cool for my self esteem that used to be non existent, but now i'm taken so it's whatever.

final notes: these are the ones i remember from the top of my head, i hope i could motivate you all since some of these were done with little to no loass knowledge and a massive amount of limiting beliefs!! no method either, just my mind! happy manifesting <3

#.☘︎ ݁˖ izzy's advice ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 #shifting #kpop shifting #law of assumption #loassumption #shiftblr #shifting moots #shifting community #shifting blog #reality shifting #loa #manifesting #loass

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luna-loveboop · 2 days ago

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SO, I'm doing three of these for Time, what his physical age is, what his mental age is, and how big the gap between is. Posted yesterday, today, and tomorrow- I'll put the links (lol links) in below. I wanna know what y'all think!

Quick refresh, there's a longer explanation below-the Hero of Time's mental age is more than his physical age by the time it took for him to complete his journeys. Due to time travel, he ended both Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask in the same body as when he started.

Evidence so far in Lu on Time's age:

-he is the oldest

-his mental age is different than his physical age-his mental age is MORE THAN his physical age. The difference is determined by how long his adventures were. This is because he time traveled- adding years to his memory and life lived, but ended up in his original child body by the end.

-He had to 'grow up again' with years of life from his journeys not shown in his physical age, hence the difference.

-Jojo put him as 'an older adult age' because in his games he was a child, teen, then child again, then more child while not changing from child, then we next saw him as the hero's shade, which is a skeleton ghost thingy, aka really old.

-the boys take bets on his age and apparently think he's 60 (making 60 an essential option in the polls)

-idk if you caught in there- from 'Malon 2', Epona was specified to be an older adult horse in Lu, having lived with Time from a fairly young horsie in Majora's Mask. So for numbers, this factors into his age because the time since his journey is comparable to Epona's. For reference horses live to 30 years on average.

Aaand I will be copy and pasting the explanation on his poll posts, sorry, I don't want to write this out every time.

-this does not account for his 7 year sleep at the beginning of Ocarina of Time. His sleep did not have an effect on his current bodies physical age, nor his mental age. For his total time with years he has lived (outside of this poll), that would add seven years.

All the art and words are from Jojo @linkeduniverse au :D

And yes, the intervals for age options are indeed random, I got tired trying to figure out the number jumps ToT

<Time 1

Time 3>

...here's a doodle from when I was taking a break on trying to figure out numbers for this (child?adult??)'s age-

#I think I'm gonna need to make a master post for these ? hmmm #linkeduniverse #linked universe #lu time #........#oh right my art tag #smoll art #I'm proud of that doodle

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hootyhoowoo · 2 days ago

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ah! I totally get keeping your ao3 private! in any case, do you have any svsss fic recs you’d shout out? any ships is fine! bingqiu, Liujiu, 79, Liushen, I’ll take it!

Okay i'm sorry this took so long!! I was trying to look through my fics and see what would be appropriate to post bwaahahah

So disclaimer, i'm more of a one-shot type of reader for the most part, I really enjoy a nice hearty and wordy piece. I'm also a whore so I enjoy a lot of pwps!! I delve into omegaverse and some dead dove fics a lot too so please READ THE TAGS before reading

Also, these are more of my own personal reviews of the fics? You can read the summaries +tags to find out more :D I'm sure the authors can summarize better than I can

but anyway, I'll start out with the fics recommended to me by others, and ones that are so widely loved by the fandom!

These are multi-chaptered:

"I Wish You Were My Husband"- Feynite; Bingqiu, Liushen, and Qijiu all in one!

This fic was recommended by a good friend of mine, and it is sooo good anon. It's got wife stealing, love triangles, and is sooo hilariously funny it's made me genuinely laugh out loud while reading. There was times where I felt like I was just reading canon content and had to remind myself this wasn't mxtx writing. The author does a wonderful job in delving into Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan's inner mental gymnastics, and the complicated history and relationships between the different pairings is so tangible and well done. Not to mention the dialogue between SQQ and SQH made me CACKLE.

"Like A Tooth From a Mouth (I Leave A Hole)- Anonymous; Bingyuan (?)

Okay I started this fic but still haven't gotten through all of it, but the first chapter (first few paragraphs really) captivated me so much I was instantly hooked. Actually, I may draw this out at some point bc I really love the beginning of this fic. So angsty. So well written- especially once Liu Qingge gets introduced, he's so cute and I really like the dynamics of everyone in this one. Disciple!Shen yuan with his system and Shizun!Luo Binghe will always be messy and i'm here for it <3

"Shen Yuan of No Relation"- Gemi ; Bingyuan, Qijiu (i'll probably come back and edit if needed)

Ahhh. Ze fic of all time. OKAY so I haven't actually finished this one yet, i'm currently still reading. BUT I WILL SAY: It is so good so far. So good. The author's writing feels so hearty and their descriptions of the setting is something I fell in love with immediately. The way they write the characters is very endearing and i'm giddy with excitement to continue to read c: This fic was very very recommended by multiple friends so i'm happy to finally start it!!

"Love in Another Shape"- Celardor ; Starts Liushen -> Bingliu -> Bingliushen

Okay this fic was recommended to me by the same person who recommended IWYWMH so you know this shit is bangin. I have not read this yet, but I have had many people gush about it to me and had the lovely opportunity to chat w the author and they are the sweetest person so I'm very excited to start it next!!

'Satisfaction'- Raiiskaim ; Bingjiu

ohohoho ok- can I just say I love Raiiskaim's works, but this one is soooo delicious. It's got dead-dove like elements so be warned, but ahhh the follow up to this fic is "Discontent, and the spaces inbetween" and dude omg the ending literally made me gasp. Can't recommend this enough if it's your flavor.

"Blessing in disguise" - chamsie; ...implied Qijiu?

yeah i like omegaverse and i will not be shamed about it on my own blog. BUT this one is not...your typical pwp omegaverse fic. It's very shen jiu centered around him and his babby- shen yuan! it's very cute and good and I quite enjoyed it when I read it a whiiiile ago. Actually, I think it's time for a re-read. heh

These next ones are one shots

"We Should Stick Together" and "You're My Best Friend, I'll Love You Forever" - Pennydaniels; Liujiu

ohhhh my god. OHHHH MY GOOOOODDDD. Do you ever read a fic and have it touch something so deeply in you and it's like a soothing balm to a really rough aching burn? yeah so that's how these two fics are to me. I vividly remember reading them on an airplane and literally crying my eyes out I had to ask the flight attendant for tissues- and got side eyed by the other passengers. Specifically YMBF,ILYF.... this fic definitely shaped the way I would like to be loved. Excellent works, definitely recommend, read tags, as always. Pennydaniels is one of my fav ao3 authors, so definitely recommend checking out their other stuff too!

"Through the Widening Circles"- ancient_moonshine ; Bingjiu

Please read tags. It didn't bother me but ik it may not be everyone's flavor- but trust me when I say that this fic also made me sob like a baby, especially towards the end. The author does a great job of navigating through trauma and healing in such a touching way, but it is a pretty heavy fic because of these delicate topics. Such a good read, and I think one of my first SVSSS fanfics too!

"Vedaniya" - ancient_moonshine ; Bingjiu

Once again another fic by this amazing author, this one is a little more kinky ehehe but it's still very good and there's a gut wrenching scene that gets me every time near the beginning.

Anyways I hope this list satisfies! I can't wait to read more and get recommended more as we keep going on this scummy adventure :D if you have any recs, please be sure to drop them down below or in my inbox :3 always happy to add to my queue of reads.

#anon #hoots #fanfic recs #can you tell i love og binghe and shen jiu

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localgeekyselfshipping · 2 days ago

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Selfship Reblog Game!

Reblog with a photo/gif of your f/o(s) and I'll make a moodboard based on their color palette!

It'll look like this:

I can do up to 3 f/os in the same post!

pro/darkship plz dni.

#selfshipping community #self ship #self ship community #self shipping #self shipper #yumeship #yumeshipping #yume ship #yume community #fictional other #f/o x s/i #f/o #f/o community #proship dni #darkship dni #reblog game #rb game

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yanderedrabbles · 2 days ago

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my stance on AI and writing

Hey guys! This is a little interlude from my regular yandere posting, so feel free to skip this if you aren't interested.

I haven't really made a post on this, because I'm honestly pretty conflicted about a lot of things.

To begin with, I don't like AI. I don't like the environmental impact. I don't like the handling of data and copyright. I don't like the way people are losing their jobs because of it. I don't like that something that could potentially be so life-changing for so many of us is just... kind of awful for artists and writers.

But on the other hand, I also recognise that things are never quite so simple and one sided. AI can help so many people in so many ways. Advancements in technology should be celebrated. New jobs are being created all the time. A part of me is genuinely excited to see what's possible.

Publicly available AI has advanced so far so rapidly that I think a lot of us feel intimidated. Especially writers and artists. Do we still hold value when an AI can spit out a 10k word Gojo fic in less than a minute? If it can generate a baroque style piece in seconds?

Fan fiction especially exists in this sort of grey area. Unlike traditional authors, none of us are really in this for the money. We write because we enjoy it, because we find it fulfilling, because we want to get dicked down in all sorts of freaky ways.

So the pushback you see from your favourite yan authors isn't financially motivated. I won't speak for all of us, but I think a lot of it comes from the ethical issues around art, creativity and technology. Is it really art if it's generated by an algorithm?

I recognise that for most of us, fan fiction is entertainment. And hey, c.ai is plenty entertaining. AI can write decently well. I mean, it's been trained to. It has a surprising range in terms of style and voice.

And saying that c.ai is lazy isn't entirely true either. The folks creating the characters definitely put the work in. They have to create well rounded characters just as much as we do. I recognise that.

I also recognise that the nature of c.ai means that it doesn't occupy the exact same niche as written fics. It's a lot more interactive. A bit closer to old school role playing.

Having said that, I personally have no love for it.

I won't go on a tirade about it being soulless or artless because, let's be honest with each other, folk have been saying that about popular and pulp fiction for years. Nor am I so arrogant as to say my writing is so much better and that you should only read real authors. I'm not going to lambast you for using or not using it. You're a smart person. You can weigh up the ethical issues and decide for yourself where you stand.

But I don't want my ideas fed into a machine. I don't want it to take my stories and twist them all out of shape. I don't want my prose and style watered down to fit the generic c.ai writing style.

Am I being arrogant? Maybe. My ideas are hardly the most unique things in the world. My prose is hardly remarkable.

But it's still mine.

I don't want to hand it over and have it changed without my control.

I've had a few people ask me if I'll ever make character bots of my characters. And I'm flattered guys, really, I am. It's a huge compliment that you've enjoyed my characters so much that you want to directly interact with them.

But I don't see myself doing that anytime soon. I don't want to water my characters down just to fit into that mould.

Maybe I'll change my mind in the future. Maybe I'll do more research on the impact of AI and take a stronger stance. But for right now? I'd rather be shot than engage with it any more than I have to.

#Val rants

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peachesvault · 19 hours ago

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AFO reincarnated

Okay hear me out. I think it's so fucking funny that you and Bakugou, despite having fought in two wars and literally beat the villains who international top heroes couldn’t do, can’t do something so mundane.

Your sitting with your legs crossed, laptop in your lap, on your bed as he lays down on his back by your feet staring at the ceiling out of frustration.

“How the FUCK do you write a resume”

You side eye him.

“Bitch as if I would know, I've never applied for a job??”

And he would get so pissy and roll over so he's squashing your feet pettily.

“How are you 17 and never had a job??”

“How are YOU 17 and never had a job?”

“Look who’s talking”

Just bickering for like a good hour.

Eventually you both settle and just stare at the blank word document like its AFO reincarnated. You were BASICALLY already hired why did you have to do this? ‘Hero Code’ Bla Bla Bla

“I actually can’t believe we have to do this.”

“I feel like we should just become billionaires for yanno I Dunno maybe uh beating AFO??” he nods

You can’t help but snicker.

“Is your biggest achievement killing a grandpa? what like a” you say squinting

“150-year-old? Give or take?”

Even though it was a blow at him, choosing to ignore it, Bakugou snickered.

“Bro was too old to be doing all that”

Silence falls over the room as you both stare at the stupid word document.

Clearing your throat you write your name.

“Do you think that's enough? Like we’re basically celebrities I feel like just our name should be enough” You ask turning your head to look at your boyfriend.

Your met by his unamused face.

“What??? It's a genuine question”

“What if there was somebody else with the same name?” He reaches over to aggressively type on your computer.

Y/N L/N Beat AFO.

You both just stare at it.

“I think that's enough, right?”

“Yup”

So, you send it to a bunch of agencies.

“Wow that was easy”

“Yeah, why do people act like it's so hard” You nod along.

And some poor intern at Best Jeanists agency who's new to the country is like ????

DO NOT COPY OR POST ELSEWHERE. REBLOGS AND LIKES APPRECIATED

A/N: Maybe I'll do one with taxes. Its js so funny how stupid they are

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gigglesoup · 1 day ago

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I've been meaning to post this for a while now. I'm a soft and very, very sensitive person, emotionally speaking. I lean more into the lovey-dovey side of stuff in general...kinks, books, movies, shows, etc. I do enjoy some sadism and "cruelty" in some situations, but there's a limit. My limit is easy to reach because, again, I'm soft. And usually i know i've reached my limit when i get triggered by something, which is not a cool thing to happen to someone as emotional as me. No, i can't help it, and yes, i'm working on "getting tougher".

My point is: some kinks and fetishes out there are extremely triggering to me. And i simply can't stand being friends or being around people who are into stuff that disturb me. SOME dark kinks and fantasies are not that bad to me, so i just ignore that type of content and scroll/move on. But some are just too bad. Some i just can't ignore.

So please, if you're into darker stuff, don't send me your fantasies in my dm's and asks like you've been doing 😕 don't try to push it on me, i kindly ask you. Don't follow, don't interact, don't expect me to engage in those desires of yours. Please keep a distance. I did mention before that i have a tolerance, though. Some dark kinks don't affect me much, so i'm "okay" (as okay as possible) with them, some are on the "ehhh" zone for me, so if they just pop up on my dash i can just scroll or block It's tag and some are intolerable to me (instant block and that's it). I'll be updating my pinned post soon to let everyone know about my preferences regarding those!

Please keep in mind that it's nothing personal with anyone and it's just a matter of mental health! On that same note, i'm okay 😆 i really just wanted to let y'all know, so don't worry 🤍🫂 Thanks for reading!

#my boundaries #i'm really sorry if this post came off as offensive in any way shape or form. As that was not my intention at all!#this isn't a personal attack or me throwing shade at anyone in particular! this is just about my boundaries and mental health🤍#again no need to worry i'm perfectly fine! <3

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butterflydm · 1 day ago

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Wheel of Time 3x03 Deep Dive (show spoilers)

Spoilers only for the show in this one, through 3x04, because some of what we learn there gives us insight into bits of this episode.

Our first Forsaken meeting post-Ishamael's death.

Let's go, Forsaken Meeting!

I really like the way they introduced this by having us follow Rahvin to the meeting location, and the show-only people would wonder what Prince-Consort Gaebril is up to but have that shock of surprise when Lanfear comes to speak with him. Loved it!

We get to see four Forsaken here -- Lanfear, Rahvin, Sammael, and Moghedien (hiding from all the others except Rahvin). We also get mention of the deceased Ishamael, and learn that Rahvin has been talking to two other Forsaken named Graendal and Semirhage, who were not invited to Lanfear's meeting. Lanfear mentioned Graendal last season ("vain idiot") but did not mention Semirhage.

So, to all appearances, this would seem to be Lanfear's first meeting with any of the other Forsaken since she spoke with Moghedien (a month and some change ago). She does have a different agenda from the other Forsaken, as far as we're aware -- Ishamael wanted to turn the Dragon and his friends to the Shadow; Lanfear wants the Dragon for herself and is fine if his friends just fuck off forever and never contact him again; and she claims that all the other Forsaken just want Rand & co dead. Her opinion of "the boys" last season was that they "couldn't carry out a plan if they were under Compulsion", but we don't know how accurate any of Lanfear's opinions about her coworkers are.

So if Rahvin is dressed as a noble, though less fancy than when he's around Morgase, Sammael is dressed up military, and fancy enough that I'll say 'general'. And Lanfear is wearing clothes that remind me of the more 'modern' style that we saw in the Age of Legends.

"According to her, and anyone who meets us, we've been hopelessly in love for more than a decade." Terrifying! Gaebril's cheerful affable stepdad vibes from the last episode revealed here as a facade.

"You always were an artist with compulsion" - this from Lanfear does let us know that this is sort of Rahvin's "speciality" and potentially none of the other Forsaken are able to compel as easily and as quickly as he does.

Sammael just wants to get down to the business of the meeting. He wants to know where the Dragon is.

But she doesn't want to talk about that.

"You didn't learn your lesson last time, did you? You were so in love with Lews Therin, you'd have stretched out at his feet if he'd said "Rug"."

We have an interesting set of observations when it comes to Lews Therin and Lanfear's past relationship. According to legend (Moiraine), Lanfear was in love with the Dragon and turned to the Shadow after he broke her heart and left her to marry his wife. According to 'Selene', her ex-boyfriend judged her after he saw who she really was and broke things off with her.

Lanfear's main angle in seducing Rand appears to be isolating him as much as possible and trying to get him to admit that he's just as dark on the inside as she is, and that she's the only one who will ever see that and understand and love him all the same.

Ishamael also blamed the Dragon for both himself and Lanfear turning to the Shadow (but that was part of his ploy to try to convince Rand to turn). And Sammael paints the picture of a woman pathetically eager and desperate for a man who doesn't respect her.

What's the truth about Lanfear and Lews Therin's previous relationship?

I think that the most obvious signs of the truth lie in how Lanfear is seeking to mold Rand, presumably so that things between the two of them don't go the same way that they did with Lews Therin. And what is Lanfear doing with Rand? She wants to isolate him from everyone else who cares about him and convince him that he has darkness inside him that no one but her is capable of loving.

So, I think that Lews Therin did glimpse the darkness inside Lanfear, went "um, fuck no!" and went off to fall in love with someone he liked better, but Lanfear doesn't want to think about what that means.

The fault can't be in Lanfear. And she doesn't want the 'fault' to be in Lews Therin either. She wants to be able to blame it on external influences that are tearing him away from her, or else on him denying his true nature. Because that would mean that her desperate and possessive love for him isn't in vain.

Lanfear and Sammael seem close to starting a fight, but Rahvin cools the temperature of the room down by reminding them that it was all their in-fighting last time that let Lews Therin trap them in the seals, and we get to the actual point of the meeting that Lanfear called.

What is the purpose of Lanfear's meeting? She wants them to gang up and kill Moghedien (doesn't mention that this is because Moghedien was just threatening Rand by sending a Gray Man to his inn in 3x01). She dresses it up by pretending that she's worried that Moghedien is going to start taking each of them out so that she can be Nae'Blis herself, and the implication is that Nae'Blis was previously Ishamael, who was particularly favored by the Dark One before his death in 2x08.

Lanfear calls out Sammael as "the weakest of us", which maybe explains why he fronts as so aggressive. She also tells us that Moghedien tends to work by targeting the weakest in the group and picking them off one by one until she reaches the top. In the case of the Forsaken, that would be Lanfear, she says, now that Ishamael is gone. I like that the show has leveled out the power levels between men and women, and so Lanfear, instead of being the strongest of the female Forsaken, is now currently just flat-out the strongest Forsaken.

This also gives us some information about Nynaeve being the first to be targeted by Moghedien in 3x01 -- she's currently the weakest of the group (but has the potential to be very strong if she breaks her block), so going after her is the least risky option at the moment.

"If you're so strong, why isn't our Great Lord speaking to you? And why aren't you Nae'Blis? Why aren't you our leader?" Sammael asks, after Lanfear positions herself as the top of the power pyramid, the person that Moghedien would kill last.

"Maybe he mourns Ishamael still," Lanfear says. I do think it's possible that Lanfear really does want to kill the Dark One (as she claims to Rand later on) but I don't think she wants to stop doing horrible things, which is what Rand would actually want from her.

Rahvin says that he'll consider presenting Lanfear's idea of an alliance to two of the other Forsaken, Graendal and Semirhage, making it clear that he has already made some alliances of his own.

It's interesting to think about how Ishamael and Lanfear so often wore clothes that tied them to the Age of Legends, to the past. They are also the two Forsaken who remain the most concerned with the past incarnation of the Dragon, Lews Therin. Meanwhile, Rahvin and Sammael both appear to have adopted the clothing of the place where they're currently living.

After Lanfear & Sammael leave, we get the reveal that Moghedien was hiding and watching. Moghedien states here that she doesn't want to make the same mistakes as last time, and doesn't plan to end up in a cage again. Very interesting considering that we see her at the end of the episode playacting as Liandrin & co's servant as they learn that the object of power that they stole from the White Tower is a male version of the sul'dam bracelet and they are here in Tanchico to find the matching collar. She talks about wanting to avoid being caged and ends up finding out about a potential way to cage the person who locked her up last time.

I definitely understand picking slightly more time in the episodes over using the credits but they are so pretty and I am always happy to see them. And the way that the gold threads first burst out at Josha's (the Dragon's) name just hit me so hard from the first time that we saw them.

Our first major plotline in this episode is Elayne and Nynaeve's investigation into where Liandrin might have gone, which starts with the interrogation of Amico and Joiya, who both pretend to break and who are both lying liars who lie, as Elayne and Nynaeve figured out by the end of the episode.

Nynaeve and Elayne remind us that they do not trust anyone else in the White Tower, even the people like Verin who Siuan trusts (even Siuan herself). Nynaeve has a lot of reason to be wary -- Liandrin really did connect with her before betraying her, plus she and potentially Elayne also know about Siuan trying to cage Rand. The one other Aes Sedai that they might trust, Alanna, is not currently in the Tower. Nynaeve did get along really well with Maksim, so might have been willing to trust the pair of them, if they'd been around.

Unfortunately, we know that Elayne already may have trusted the wrong person -- with the reveal that Gaebril is really the Forsaken Rahvin, it's possible that every word that she said to her mother was repeated directly to Rahvin.

The information that we get from Amico and Joiya:

The Black Ajah work in hearts, where women only know three other BA Sisters (the two others of their heart and one outside of it). this protects the full BA from being revealed if any single BA sister gets caught

Liandrin somehow knew about the rest of them (because of Lanfear? or because of Ishy?) despite that breaking the heart structure, though she was actually Amico's "outside her heart" connection

Amico's lie about Liandrin's location is that she's gone to Tear, to help one of the Forsaken claim Callandor

Joiya's lie is that Liandrin has gone to find Mazrim Taim, the false Dragon in Saldaea

We shift to Elaida, who appears to have some health issues going on that make her hands shake. Or, well, hand. It appears to be only the one hand, where she wears a gold and red bracelet that appears to have a snake on it. And I can't tell if she sweeps the items off her vanity out of frustration or if she literally loses control of her hand and it sweeps the items off against her will.

She calls for a servant but instead of getting the one she's used to, she gets Min. The shot in the mirror showing Min, and then Min hurrying out of shot to go clean up the broken glass... I really like it. We also see a perfect red rose next to the mirror, which is a very nice nod to a piece of Elaida's characterization in the books. We know from Verin that she's sending Min around to look at various Sisters and try to get viewings from them. Now that Min has been handed off to Siuan, it makes a lot of sense that Siuan would want to see if Elaida might potentially be causing trouble in the Tower.

Elayne's hairstyle is a rose! The back of her hair is a rose! That's so cute. <3

Also, Nynaeve feels like Verin and Siuan are too focused on Joiya and Amico, and Nynaeve figures that they're both lying, and that the best way to suss out the truth is to do their own independent investigation, out from under the watchful eye of Siuan. This continues the trend we've been seeing this season of the 'kids' bucking against authority and going their own way -- Rand telling Moiraine "You don't tell me what to do anymore"; Egwene getting the Accepted ring and then immediately bouncing from the Tower, Elayne standing up to her mother last episode and telling her that she would be staying in the Tower and not going home, and now Nynaeve deciding that Siuan isn't investigating the right things and that she needs to take charge of things herself.

If we expand the theme to forging their own way and finding authority in themselves, then this also extends to what we're seeing from Perrin and Mat in this episode -- Mat being able to harness his memories to kick the princes' asses, and Perrin beginning the process of organizing his people in their defense against the Trollocs.

The kids are all coming into their own this season.

Nynaeve has the inside scoop on Liandrin, from having followed her last season (also, I spotted the Gray Man following them here) and takes us back to the room where she found Liandrin with her son, which is empty now. We do get it acknowledged here that Nynaeve has been telling Elayne things off-screen, so if Elayne didn't previously know about Siuan trying to cage Rand, I expect that Nynaeve has told her about that by now.

Elayne and Mat really would have a lot in common if they get the chance to sit down for a chat because just like Mat is always the one to take the emotional temperature of his friends, Elayne reaches out here to Nynaeve and opens the door to a conversation with a non-judgmental, "You liked her, didn't you?" to Nynaeve about Liandrin, which gives Nynaeve the space and safety to talk about her complicated feelings about Liandrin.

I love the continuation of us getting all these different funeral rites and rituals. The chalk and salt symbol at the place of someone's birth and death. Wearing your loved one's ashes until the grief finally wears off your face. Just the variety of human ritual that we've gotten in the show, and what it tells us about the different people and places that have been shaped by this world. Love it.

Elaida wants to talk to Siuan and gets blocked by Leane and Verin. She is... uh, not pleased. The sort to keep a grudge forever, it would appear! Elaida learns here that she won't get her private talk with the Amrylin unless she can get a Sitter to request the audience for her, so now Elaida has a goal, which she will attempt to solve in a couple of different ways.

Attempt #1: flattering and bribing one of the current Sitters into requesting the audience for her. Contrary to Verin's words last episode, Elaida does not seem particularly well-liked. At least not by the Red Sitters.

For the Red Sitter named Galina, Elaida brings a gift of wild strawberries from Andor, which brings with it the information that Morgase keeps a royal forest.

For Tsutama, who is a Sitter and also the Highest of the Red Ajah, Elaida brings a necklace. It is not much like what Tsutama is already wearing, and Tsutama promptly rejects it and just as promptly calls Elaida out on her attempts at bribery.

We also see here what lesson Tsutama took from what happened in 3x01 -- basically, that the Reds fucked things up by managing to be so untrusted by the Amrylin Seat and that they need to earn that trust back, after Liandrin betrayed the Tower in such a spectacular fashion.

Elaida wants to "return the Reds to where they belong, at the heart of the Tower." She says that because the Dragon Reborn has been revealed, and confirmed to be a man, it is time for the Red Ajah to take the lead on how to handle him, since they are the ones who have practice dealing with men who can channel.

I really like this because it shows us exactly what Siuan and Moiraine were afraid of, exactly why their search for the Dragon Reborn had to be kept a secret. But we also see the dangers of that secret, because Siuan has not been able to prepare the White Tower for the Dragon's arrival. The weight of Tower Law and Tower tradition has proved too weighty to overcome, especially since Siuan not feeling like she could trust anyone also likely contributed to the factionalism in the Tower.

Elaida wants them to call for a vote to send a team of eight Sisters to find Rand and cage him. Tsutama shoots the idea down. Elaida is not happy about continuing to be thwarted.

Rand and co have arrived in the Aiel Waste. Cracks me up to see Aes Sedai level secrecy turned on an Aes Sedai. "That's Wise Ones' business." lol

We get clarification here that Egwene managed to pull herself out of her (Lanfear-induced) nightmare and put herself into Bair's dream -- where Bair was carrying spears instead of being dressed as a Wise One.

They find a burned caravan of the Tuatha'an, with their dead, so we're able to learn what the Aiel perspective on them is. "It's forbidden to harm the Lost Ones" (and we'll learn why in 3x04).

"The only thing with less honor than refusing to defend yourself is killing someone who won't defend themselves".

It really is fascinating how ji'e'toh was built out of the Way of the Leaf and how Lewin & the others coped with breaking their oaths to peace, and how they tried to chart a narrow path where they were still keeping to some of their ways while knowing that they were barred from others because of their violence. No swords, because swords are viewed as inherently violent against other people while spears or arrows can also be used to hunt game for food. The way to most honor is to touch an enemy without killing them (from 3x04). Bits and pieces of the Way of the Leaf still surviving in the present-day Aiel.

We get our first mention of the Shaido, in context of how they might be willing to break Aiel tradition by killing the Tuatha'an (Lan notes that what look like sword wounds could be spear wounds disguised to look like swords). I have some thoughts on the Shaido, but I think that's better for when we actually meet them. The main thing to note here is that they have a blood feud with the Taardad.

Egwene tells Rhuarc that they need to bury the dead Tuatha'an, and Melaine shoots back "they are not worth the time or the stones. It's their own fault they're dead" but Rhuarc agrees to stay behind to bury them. We also get our first "Shade of my heart" between Rhuarc and Bair here. <3 This endearment always gets to me because it's just so personal and specific to the Aiel as a people.

In the first steps of a "you two don't belong together" campaign that Bair will continue in the next episode, Bair calls Egwene to come along with her, while Rand stays behind with Rhuarc as he covers the bodies with stones in their burial ritual (which we can see in 3x04 comes down to them from the time of their trek eastward, as Jonai buries his daughter this way as well). I have some thoughts on Bair's motives re: Egwene, mostly revolving around Bair wanting Rand to be able to focus his attention on becoming the Car'a'carn and not get distracted by wetlander Aes Sedai, even if they are capable of learning how to use the dream, but I feel like we may get more answers on her motives when 3x05 airs. Bair does mention in 3x04 that the Wise Ones did not see Egwene coming along with Rand, and that may contribute to her belief that Rand and Egwene's paths do not align.

"You know too much and too little." Yeah, this ties back to Chiad and Bain's reaction when Aviendha mentions the Trial of Rhuidean to Rand in 3x01 -- they were startled and talked to each other when Aviendha said it to Rand. Living as someone who was raised outside their culture, Rand will never fully understand (as he admits to Aviendha in 3x04, after the columns) and it also seems that Rhuarc & the Wise Ones were of the mind that the less information given to Rand about what he needed to face to become the Car'a'carn, the better.

We get a really lovely scene here of Perrin burying his wife's ring, and we continue the "funeral rite" theme from the previous scene, as we learn how the Aybara family buries their dead -- holding an apple tree seed, to add to the orchard and thus feed their descendants for generations to come. That feels so perfect for the Two Rivers (I wonder if different families have slightly different versions but that they all 'contribute' to the future in some way). And Alanna shares her people's way with Perrin -- that the markings on her face are Ihvon's ashes with clay and water. The music here is gorgeous.

"It hurts and comforts me to see how her tree has thrived in my absence." That is such a beautiful line. It made me tear up.

"We wear the grief until it seeps in... becomes a part of you." And how stripped down and vulnerable Alanna is in this scene. "When one half of a couple dies, the other one is left to grieve. When one of three departs, who owns that grief?"

So, we've seen that different cultures all have their own funeral practices. Maksim does not seem to be from the same culture as Alanna -- did he object to Ihvon's body being burned to create the ash for Alanna's funeral rites, because it conflicted with his own rites that he wanted to carry out (which may have been the Warder rites or his own cultural rites)? Who owns the grief when they both loved Ihvon?

Bain teasingly says that "losing" Maidens' Kiss means that you'll be dead, so Mat was doing fairly okay by only getting a few nicks! I do think that Maidens' Kiss does a good job of showing us how casual and ingrained violence is in the Aiel culture -- even their kissing games have violence woven in.

Anyway, Chaid and Bain get no takers for their game today, but we do get to check in with Maksim, via them asking him to play, about his own grief over Ihvon - "the only man I ever loved". Much like Alanna is wearing her grief on her face, Maksim carries his grief as well -- Ihvon's blood is still on the sword that killed him, and Maksim carries it still.

We also learn that Loial is writing a chapter on Manetheren, and he seems to be quite a few pages into the book that he's writing (he did have a month on a boat to take some time to sit and write out what he's experienced and what he might have learned by talking to the others).

We meet a group of people, being led by "Lord Luc" (a hunter for the Horn, who stuck around after he learned about the Whitecloaks and Trollocs). The woman that we are later introduced to first as Mandarb and then as Faile, is also there but we don't get her name at this time. We learn that Natti Cauthon & Mat's sisters have been captured by the Whitecloaks, making Perrin's internal conflict nudge up another degree or so.

Faile challenges Perrin's presence, which leads to all the villagers noting his changed eyes, while Perrin challenges Lord Luc ("Lord of what, exactly?" we don't get an answer.

We do shift over to get a view of the Whitecloak camp (on Watch Hill, Faile helpfully lets us know in the previous scene). We see that Natti & the girls are, indeed, captured. That Dain is conflicted over the idea of harming them in order to question them about Perrin but willing to bend his morals if it starts to take too long for Perrin to show up in the Two Rivers, and that Child Valda is as much of an asshole as ever.

Also, it really does disturb me so much seeing kids with the Whitecloaks. Training them up young. Dain was one of those kids once.

Cutting from Mat's family to Mat having his memories that are keeping him awake -- inspired. The transition choices in the show have always been great, even back in s1, but they flow so well this season especially.

Min showing up in Mat's bedroom again late at night (but once again not for that reason). This time, she actually is there to talk to Mat, instead of acting as Siuan's messenger. What Min tells Mat here -- that she is haunted by visions of her visions of the future and wanted a chance to be rid of them, may resonate with Mat whether he wants them to or not, because he is currently being haunted by visions of the past.

Elayne and Nynaeve continue their investigation -- Nynaeve found the symbol and Elayne figures out the meaning. Together, they figure out that Liandrin has likely gone to Tanchico.

"What if everything they said was a lie? We should be looking at what they didn't say." Elayne and Nynaeve study the catalogue that Verin has created of the stolen items, and they find the drawing of the bracer, immediately recognizing it as similar to the sul'dam bracelet. Elayne's knowledge of history and politics comes in handy again -- she knows that Tanchico is near Falme, where the Seanchan originally left from centuries ago, so Nynaeve puts together that the collar that goes to this bracer might be located in Tanchico. That there is a clear and present danger to Rand.

The Gray Man tries to kill them - Nynaeve gets them both out of the way physically, while Elayne pushes him back with the One Power. When they go out into the corridor, they find that he's already dead. Stabbed to death.

From where his bolt flew, it does look like the Gray Man was aiming at Elayne, which is interesting, since it was Nynaeve that Moghedien was targeting before. I do think that Elayne wasn't considered an important part of things before 3x01, but since we know that Moghedien and Rahvin are talking to each other, and Rahvin likely learned from Morgase that Elayne healed the Dragon Reborn at Falme... Elayne may now also be a target, at least for Rahvin and Moghedien, though perhaps still unknown to the other Forsaken.

Verin strolls around the corner with a book, asking the girls what happened. She is able to tell them a little bit about Gray Man, but Nynaeve notes (after she leaves) that she never wondered who killed the Gray Man. As Elayne said about Joiya and Amico -- it's good to pay as much attention to what people don't say as what they do.

Everything is too suspicious for our detective agency now and they've just learned of a clear and imminent threat to Rand (and they now both consider themselves Protectors of the Dragon Reborn, the way that Egwene does, I think), so they figure it's time to book it and get out of dodge before the Forsaken can send another assassin after them.

We shift over to Tanchico to cover Liandrin & co's arrival and to check out the new outfits on the Black Ajah. Jeaine slaying, as always (they all have fun outfits - I also really like Ispan's braids). This is the part of town where Liandrin is from, and these are the people who raised her. Liandrin wears a veil when outside here, and she slips into a different accent when she speaks to the locals.

There's some big information about Tanchico (or this part of it) that's given to us here, information that validates and reinforces what we learned about Liandrin's past in previous episodes, the things that created the way she feels about men and the trauma that led her to the Shadow, to have enough power that no one would ever be able to abuse her like that again.

Tanchico practices child-bride marriages, and it sounds like it's normal practice for the girls to get married very young, so that their husbands can "mold" them into being the perfect little wife. The show has done a really good job of giving Darkfriends relatable reasons why they would choose to become Darkfriends, and seeing Liandrin's backstory really helps explain the person that she is, and why she acts the way that she does.

We shift over the Elaida and it's time for Plan B -- she's figured out who Min is and why Min was sent to be her servant, and she puts into motion her plan to get Tsutama out of the way so that she can do what Tsutama refuses to do when it comes to the Dragon Reborn. And she uses Min to do it.

Step 1: bond with Min over having visions of the future (helpfully also telling the audience that Elaida shares this with Min).

Step 2: offer her advice on how to handle her burden in a way that will make her feel agency over it. She tells Min that they can find their power in what leads up to the moment that they see, and what they do afterwards.

Step 3: now that you've created this sense of kinship between you, pretend to share a secret with her, knowing that she will pass the information on to Verin & Siuan, in order to get you what you want. Elaida is good at manipulating people into doing what she wants (if the people don't already know her - Tsutama caught on to her pretty quickly). And Min passes it along because she knows that Elaida can't lie -- but if Elaida saw in a Foretelling that she would become the Highest again, then that could explain how she could tell Min this and not have it be a lie.

"Many years ago, I had a Foretelling that the queendom of Andor would play a key role in the Last Battle." And that led to her supporting and advising Morgase in her campaign to win the Succession War. She touches her bracelet after this, and Min asks about it, and Elaida does coyly admit that it's part of a Foretelling "of a sort". Very intriguing!

Bair and Egwene talk about Dreamwalking and how rare it is. Also, Bair calls Egwene "Egwene Sedai" and Egwene does not correct her.

Egwene does confide in Bair about her dreams, and Bair tells her that someone hurting her in the dream world and the hurts following her into the waking world means that the person hurting her is truly also there in the dream world, and alive. Bair promises to teach Egwene how to protect herself... after Rhuidean.

We go from Egwene talking about the person hurting her, to us seeing that person.

Lanfear claims here to Rand that he's the one that brought them here this time and not her -- he doesn't buy it and neither do I. We've never seen any evidence that Rand can move himself around in TAR the way that Lanfear can and the way that Egwene was able to do in the last episode.

She is playing up her vulnerability hard in this talk with Rand. Oh, you were so right to make the choices that you did. I made so many mistakes. I can't do this on my own. You need to help me, Rand. You need to save me from myself and my own poor choices. Don't you want to save me, Rand? (remember how it felt when you saved me from that Fade? didn't it feel good to save me? I'm here to make you feel like a grown man, capable of protecting the woman that he loves -- you remember that you told me that you loved me, right?) You need to find this incredibly powerful object for me so that you can help save me from the bad choices that I've made.

The fact that she is still playing Selene here -- that she has soft hair and a soft attitude -- really exposes that she's not being honest. Her most honest moments with Rand, imo, were their desert talks last season, after he'd found out the truth. But she realized that they weren't effective, so she switched gears.

The bait-and-switch of the sweat tent scene is interesting. Because Lan encouraging Moiraine here could mean one of two different things: either he feels like she's open to the idea and he wants her to have some happiness even if she's not still with Siuan, or she isn't open to the idea and he doesn't want her to trap herself into the past.

We learn here that the Taardad Aiel, at least, do take in refugees sometimes, as they took in Melindhra as a small child and raised her as their own. We don't know about the other clans.

This plotline of exploring Lan's feelings about his heritage feels very well-timed, since it means he can bond with Rand over it (which we see a little of in the next episode).

"Aiel do not have tattoos" - given what we learn in the next episode, this is likely because they are sacred, as the marker of leadership. They don't get other tattoos because of the marking that Rhuidean gives the clan chiefs.

"Have you forgotten your duty?" Duty has been another big theme so far this season -- taking up the duty left to you by your ancestors. Elayne struggles with this in 3x02, Lan is questioned over it here, Perrin will take up a duty regarding the Two Rivers, and both Rand and Aviendha will accept their duty to the Aiel people in 3x04 (and the burden of duty through the generations is a huge theme we explore in 3x04).

Two Rivers town meeting! Perrin volunteers to turn himself in to save the Cauthons, and the vast majority of the village says "fuck no. we defend our own".

A heartbreaking thing that we learn in the conversation between Maksim and Alanna is that Alanna is now keeping secrets from him -- she hasn't told him why they came to the Two Rivers. He's just as much in the dark as everyone else.

"Mandarb" and Perrin have their first conversation here, where she comes over to poke at him over that moment of attempting to turn himself in. "I've never seen someone try to turn themselves in... and fail." She has been watching him a lot and definitely finds him intriguing. They have a bit of (understandable) miscommunication -- Perrin is amused by her being here to look for the Horn (because he knows it was found already) and then amused by her name (because it was what Lan called his horse) and puts her back up with his amusement until she gets up and leaves with one last barb ("try again to turn yourself in").

She definitely thought Perrin was going to make a dick joke about her name ("It's what my friend calls his..." and it means 'blade'). But that was not his intention, of course. Still, she leaves prickly and he remains amused by the conversation.

Turning himself in failed, so we learn that Perrin's Plan B is to go in and save Natti & the girls.

Mat spots Min, and wants to clear the air between, now that he's had a chance to think about it, but now she's the one who isn't feeling great. I'm guessing she might be coming back from telling Siuan and/or Verin about her conversation with Elaida.

Mat apologizes to Min, and he begins to explain about what he's been dealing with, and we learn that Mat's memories are common knowledge around the Tower. Then Min gets another viewing of Mat -- a twisted doorframe behind him, and his body hanging from a noose. She's worried over it and Mat immediately clocks her reaction, as this is not the first time she's had a scary viewing about him.

Galad swoops in to 'save' Min (she doesn't need it), and even after Min says that she's fine, he stays and keeps bothering Mat anyway. This kinda goes with what we saw in his introduction about treating Elayne like she was young and needed his protection -- he seems to extend this outwards to all women, not only his little sister (who doesn't need his protection either).

Mat's extremely sarcastic "praise" of Galad here is very funny. The show definitely puts a lot into building up Mat's irritation towards the brothers (but especially Galad) before we get the sparring later on.

Yes, the fact that Leane goes now to give the Amyrlin's orders that are designed to get Tsutama out of the Tower confirms to me that Min was just in reporting to Siuan, and then Siuan takes immediate action to try to get what she views as her greatest danger out of the way. And Elaida talked plainly enough that I can understand why Min believed her (I just think she was able to speak so confidently because she's had a Foretelling that gives her the knowledge that the moment she's talking about will happen). But it means that Siuan was tricked into forcing out the Red Sitter & the Head of the Ajah who actually was dedicated to earning back the trust of the Amrylin and who wasn't inclined to make hasty moves with regards to the Dragon Reborn.

I'm guessing that part of the reason that Mazrim Taim is the goal that is given to Tsutama is because of the lies told by Joiya. Siuan thinks that Liandrin might already be there. While she may be less suspicious of Tsutama being Black Ajah now (because of her actions in 3x01), she's still worried about her as a potential challenge to what Siuan believes she needs to do in the Tower, so she gets her out of the way.

Since Elaida fully thinks of herself as the once and future Highest of the Reds, her words here are actually her saying that she needs to stay in the Tower to complete her work (though she's the only one who will understand it that way).

Now Perrin returns the favor of protection -- as the Two Rivers defended him against the idea of turning himself in, Perrin uses his personal knowledge of the Trollocs to convince the villages to hold together here, and not scatter back to their own farms. He takes up a position of inspirational leadership in the village, without realizing that he's doing it.

Mat trains with a quarterstaff, perhaps trying to do as Min suggested, and find the Hero from Falme inside himself again. The princes show up and twit Mat about his fighting skills, but Mat doesn't yet take the bait, faking a laugh.

Galad, uh, offers to show Mat how to handle his sword, but Mat rejects that offer.

Nynaeve shows up, after having sought Mat out to say goodbye to him -- Mat is understandably upset at the idea that Nynaeve is just going to leave without him after she promised to help him.

And, once again, Galad swoops in to rescue a woman who neither wants nor needs his help (and Nynaeve is the one who came to speak with Mat! not the other way around).

"Mate, take a day off!" is such a great, frustrated line from Mat. Just let him talk to his friend! He's a touchy-feely person and his friends know that about him. He's not bugging her!

It is also so funny to me that we get Elayne mentioning later that she didn't even tell her brothers that she was leaving and we definitely have Nynaeve here, not trusting Elayne's brothers with the knowledge that they're leaving.

Loved the fight. <3

I don't really have anything deep to say about it, just that I really loved it. Mat quoting the same Old Tongue line that he said before the fight at Falme. Nynaeve's concern turning to smug happiness over seeing him beat the snot out of the princes. The music! The times when we get the bits of slo-mo. Mat's very brief moment of choking Galad. It all really works for me.

Echoing Perrin, Mat also finds an authority in himself that he didn't know he had, but instead of it being outwards, it's inward. Control over himself.

Now we get a more personal and private conversation between Perrin and the woman who says now that her name is Faile. No jabs this time and no hidden amusement. She asks an honest question, gets an honest response back in turn, and they end on a nice note.

"Nobody's getting hurt. I'll make sure of it." Hmm, very similar to what we see with Randcestor Lewin in the next episode, which did not end up working well for him. Will it work better for Perrin? His people don't follow the Way of the Leaf, so they won't cast him out if he does end up causing violence.

Mat has joined Nynaeve and Elayne's trip by invitation, while Min is sneaking along behind them (but, hey, we don't see any Gray Men, so at least there's that!). Likely thinking about Elaida's advice about trying to turn her viewings into a gift.

We end on Liandrin finishing out the funeral rite for her son, including some flashbacks to holding her son after his birth. She goes upstairs and we get some Black Ajah lore dumps about how they are going after a way to cage the Dragon, and it's revealed to the audience that Moghedien is there, playacting as a servant and learning what Liandrin & co are up to, so that's all some nice set-up for the future episodes.

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