#BUT THE ART IS ALWAYS SO GOOD TO SO I FEEL BAD

[raevenlywrites]

the text in the art

"Friend who listened to me once": dont discount the folks who are actually there for you just bc its not the shape or narrative youre expecting to see

"Putting myself out there again. And again.": not giving up, even after failing. Its easy to focus on failures and forget successes.

"Doing the hard but necessary work of setting boundaries": sometimes you gotta relationships that aren't good for you go. sometimes its not that final, and all a bad relationship needs is some parameters to keep it safe for you. This one is especially hard if youre a people pleaser, or afraid to lose what little you have by standing up for yourself. Always keep in mind that if someone leaves bc of a boundary, it is for the best. You deserve to have your needs met and your boundaries respected.

"Trusting that one bad moment doesnt negate all progress": Keep trying. Focus on what you want, not how you failed.

The metaphor of a garden growing in bones: I can only speak for how I understand it, OP isnt around to explain themselves, but here we go:

Bones: Past wounds. Ideas of who you wanted yourself to be but no longer are. Old hurts

Flowers: nice things in your life. poppies especially are used to remember the dead, to honor them. so doing things in your life that honor who you were (in this case someone who wants to be vulnerable with another person)

Weeding: Setting boundaries, cutting ties with folks who dont care for you like you need and want, releasing your own negative thoughts that hold you back (such as telling yourself no human is worth it)

Planting: Actively spending your energy trying to fill your life with the things you want in it (in this case, human connections)

Watering: Giving yourself support and care while you heal and grow (in this case, talking to someone about how you feel. The therapist in the comic was not helpful (it happens) but someone else could be. Even journaling to yourself can help)

Soil depletion (since I mentioned it): Burn out. Its HARD to keep trying over and over again. Take a step back and build yourself back up with hobbies and activities that make you feel better. Tend to your surroundings so your at home time is actually restful. Take care of yourself so you have the resources to keep going

Metaphors are useful. Its not "putting flowery language" on gritty reality to pretend everything is okay. Its offering a way to think about things from a new angle. I have a horrible time setting boundaries and removing draining things from my life. Thinking about them as weeds that are competing for resources I want to spend on something else helps me see these activities as something that will improve my life, helps me get past the ingrained "stick it out!" mentality that had kept me in bad relationships in the past.

Im sorry you are hurting. I hope this helps you see things in a new way. I hope you learn to believe in human connection and worth. I hope you have a better day today.

i call this one “nobody likes you when youre 23”

[kxsagi]

“𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐡”

a/n: for @levisgoonerr 

ALL I NEED IS ONE MORE DAY WITH HER 😫 GAWDDDD 

i actually wrote a chase atlantic inspired fic with rin and their song friends which is here if anyone wants to check it out 😗

(art credits go to immmso_ko on twitter)

suggestive content inside! 

he meets you in madrid, draped in versace and violet dusk. 

you smell like ysl and trouble, leaning against the bar like you own the city, like your daddy didn’t abandon you at fifteen and leave behind a mansion full of ghosts. the kind of girl who lights a cigarette just to watch it burn out between her fingers. 

sae knows girls like you. 

he’s spent his whole life avoiding them. 

and now he’s five minutes into knowing you and already offering you a drink. 

“you speak japanese?” you ask him, lips curled around the rim of your glass. 

he shrugs. “it was my first language.” 

you arch a brow. “and english?” 

“just enough to get what i want.” 

you laugh, and it’s a sharp thing, like broken champagne flutes. “that so?” 

you tell him you’re just visiting. something about needing a change, needing to breathe. you mention new york in the past tense, paris like it was a phase, LA like it tried to swallow you whole. you wear gucci, but talk like you clawed your way into it. 

“what about you?” you ask. “what’s a guy like you doing alone in a place like this?” 

sae doesn't answer. he never does when the truth is ugly. 

he doesn’t say he’s exhausted by fame, by expectations, by the echo of his own last name. doesn’t say he’s only ever been good at one thing and now that one thing is starting to feel like a cage. doesn’t say that love, real love, always seemed like a scam until you tilted your head and looked at him like he wasn’t some national treasure, but a person. a person with hands in his pockets and insomnia in his bloodstream. 

he just says, “i liked the view.” 

but he’s not looking at the skyline. he’s looking at you. 

so don’t be surprised when two weeks later, you’re wearing his shirt. 

balenciaga on the floor. sex on the walls. he’s brushing your hair back, and you’re telling him things no one else gets to know. 

you talk about your mother’s pills. your father’s mistress. the time you stopped eating just to feel something, anything. you talk like love is a loaded gun, and yet, there you are, pressing the barrel to his chest, waiting for him to pull the trigger. 

“i’ve never met a man who looks this good in silence,” you whisper, tracing his jaw. 

sae’s hand finds your thigh. “i’ve never met a woman who makes it worth breaking it.” 

you smirk. “so break it.” 

and so he does. 

even when you’re a hurricane in a hermès scarf. 

you pout when you don’t get your way, kiss him like you own his breath, leave lipstick on his collar and bruises on his ego. you fight, gosh, you fight. sometimes over nothing. sometimes over the way he forgets to say he misses you. sometimes over the way you disappear for hours with a louis vuitton tote and come back smelling like bergamot and danger. 

but you always come back. 

and he always lets you. 

his friends ask questions. sae doesn’t answer them either. not when they say you’re reckless. not when they say you’ll break his heart. 

he already knows. 

but when you drag him out of his head and into yours, into stolen nights and rooftop laughter and dancing barefoot to the 3 AM sound of chase atlantic pouring from the penthouse speakers, he doesn’t care. 

he’s never known peace like this kind of chaos. 

it’s all proven one morning, when you’re sprawled across his sheets, legs tangled, gucci slides on the carpet, saying, “do you think we’re bad for each other?” 

“definitely.” 

you smile. “good.” 

he brushes a knuckle over your cheek. “you want bad?” 

“no,” you say. “i want you.” 

and it’s terrifying. the way you say it like a confession. like he’s the only place you’ve ever felt safe in, even if you both know he’s anything but. 

even if there’s a photo on your phone. 

him in sweats, coffee in hand, barely awake. you in his hoodie, lips on his cheek. he doesn’t smile often, but in that one, he almost does. it’s soft. too soft for a man who’s spent his life hiding behind goals and gold medals. 

you keep the photo hidden. you only look at it when you’re drunk or lonely or both. and he never asks why, but he sees it once when your phone lights up at night. says nothing. just pulls you closer. 

but one night, you break down. mascara smeared, voice shaking, talking about how every man before him only loved the idea of you. the designer-wrapped, glass-skinned, thousand-dollar lie. 

“what if that’s all i am?” you whisper. 

sae tilts your chin up. 

“you’re a fucking disaster,” he tells you. “but you’re mine.” 

you kiss him like that’s the only truth you’ve ever wanted to hear. 

and months pass. you move in. kind of. your toothbrush ends up next to his. your coat in his closet. your perfume in his sheets. 

people still talk. 

about how you’re too much. 

about how he doesn’t do love. 

about how this won’t last. 

but when you catch his eye across a room, and he walks over without a word, cups your face like you’re something to be worshipped, you don’t care what they say. 

you never needed a fairytale. just a man who could meet you in the ruins and still choose to stay. 

and sae? 

he stays. 

© 𝐤𝐱𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐢

[fuzzandfeathers]

"Oh relax. I'm sure your big royal chicken ain't gonna let anything happen to his peppy lil' fuck doll." You already know the drill, rambles under the cut 😌

As much as I want them to eventually find out about it, I'm glad Blitz didn't know about Stolas' involvement in resolving the kidnapping situation in Oops. With the level of denial he was in, Blitz absolutely would've found a way to spin it into something negative. This art originally started off as an observation on how hard Blitz is projecting his own feelings about his relationship with Stolas onto Fizz's relationship with Oz. That if Blitz had known, the above line probably would've summed up what he'd think of Stolas' actions. The more I worked on it though, the more I realized it kinda went the other way as well, with Fizz doing a bit of his own denial and projection. Fizz wasn't wrong about Blitz missing the mark on Stolas' feelings, but his viewpoint has always struck me as having a bit of the rose-colored tint of exceptionalism, Fizz believing he earns his treatment (good or bad) via performance and separate from being an imp. That if he's good enough being an imp (and disabled) doesn't matter.

(spoiler: you can't succeed your way out of systemic inequality, sorry) Fizz and Blitz (pre-Mastermind) are both in relationships with unequal power dynamics and while I wouldn't consider Fizz and Oz's relationship unhealthy*, there's a sense of push-back against the inequality that isn't present for them but is for Blitz and Stolas. Despite their rocky start, Blitz and Stolas clearly see any inequality between them as something to resolve or address, whereas Fizz and Oz seem more resigned to it (or content to ignore it). Blitz is wrong about Stolas, but his dissatisfaction with their relationship isn't wrong - and Fizz could stand to learn a bit from that. So this piece ended up being more of a two-way conversation than I initially thought (and this post ended up being a lot longer than I planned 😂) *obviously it has room for improvement, but it's imperfect in ways that are realistic and non-worrisome. Even if I'm hoping for a bit of conflict between them going into season 3, I have absolute faith their relationship is solid and would make it out intact. Anyways, have this fun and relevant screenshot:

[ur-fav-slushy]

i am a FIRM believer of hamzah x weird girl... poetry and funky tights and bangs and flowy skirts and ethel cain and The Secretary (2002) and being unapologetically freaky. do u see the vision

i feel like thats so raven rn cause i see that mf vision, my darling. he is so freaky himself that it only makes sense to find someone to match the freak just in a different font. fellow slushies, recently hamzahs been in his art boy era and on the patreon bts he showed his little routine of sitting in the corner of his room and listening to true crime while sketching and i cant help but iMAGINE:

"what would you say your favourite type of pattern was?" he asks you from his desk. "that's private informa-"

"baby."

"hmm i always love a good checkered moment. stripes are always fun." you respond from his bed which you lay upon with your current read and your headphones. "so which one?"

...

"flowers."

"heh." he chuckles because he already knew you weren't gonna say either of the other choices you gave before. "thank you, baby." "anything for you."

about 45 minutes later he stands from his desk picking up his sketchbook which catches your attention. "can i show you what i drew?" "please." you take your headphones up and sit up. "here." he turns his sketchbook towards you in his hands.

"oh my god, hamzah." you put your hand over your mouth.

its a drawing of you but not ONLY is it of you physically, its of you spiritually. hes drawn flowers all around you in your favourite wacky colour combos. your drawn hair is just as funky and styled as your own real hair, he's added these small details and more to show you how much he loves you because to be loved is to be seen. he loves everything about you in such a caring way that you start to actually feel a little emotional over it and start to tear up over how special this moment is to you.

but hamzah doesnt know that. he's only reading your face. and you look scared.

"DAMN ITS THAT BAD?!" hamzah yells out while turning the notebook back to him in a panic to make sure he's showing you the right photo. when he turns the notebook you catch a quick glance at his drawing of martin and now the moment is over.

request/ask anything<3

xoxo, ur fav slushy

[creatingblackcharacters]

I have a question about coding non-human characters as Black-- is it okay to have a fantasy race (so more like a species, really, like mermaids or elves) where some characters of that fantasy species are coded Black (in terms of things like features and hair, sometimes skintone byt not always if they have fantasy skintones) and others aren't?

I thought it was alright and made sense because the fantasy 'races' are more like species, so it would make sense to give them as much diversity as humans, but also from a worldbuilding and I guess science (?) standpoint someone pointed out to me that if they all evolved alongside each other it's not super realistic for them to have features that historically are different due to evolving in different climates.

When I decided I would be creating certain non-human characters who I coded as Black who live alongside other members of their species who may not be, I kind of just thought it would be a nice touch in terms of diversity in character design, but what that person said kind of made me think that maybe it wasn't a good idea to code non-human characters as Black when I wouldn't really be able to work their Blackness into the narrative due to their fantasy species not having dynamics based off of that sort of thing. (And it's fanfiction, not my own world, so idk if I can add them?)

I'm sorry if this question comes off as kind of disjointed and hard to read, but yeah. I know you did do a lesson about Black coding but in there I couldn't really find an answer to this specific question. Would it be better to simply not code certain members of a fantasy species as Black (when others are not) if I'm unable to address their Blackness due to them I guess not technically being Black (as we humans see Blackness) because they're elves or mermaids or whatever? Because I would also feel bad having a cast full entirely of non-humans, none of whom have any Black features at all.

(Also, thank you so much for your help with Lydriia the other day! I commissioned some new art of her recently and I'm so in love with it aaahhh)

IF YOU WANT BLACK VERSIONS OF YOUR FANTASY SPECIES THEN MAKE THEM!

You could have that species live all around your fantasy world. They can travel, trade, intermingle, start families and communities amongst one another. Or, tbh, it's a FANTASY WORLD, I don't think we'll all die if you don't apply real world population genetics. Mermaids aren't real and yet here they are. So. Just give them a community so they're not the only Black one.

As for your story, if they're humanoid enough to describe, then you can describe the same things on them as you would with a regular human Black person. Hair texture, nose, lips, hair styles, style influence, etc. If you paint them, we know who we're looking at, and so does everyone else (it's why Black elves and dwarves make them mad).

[habken]

Habs I want your 36 hour long YouTube analysis on bnha including thoughts on the new info from the fan book SO bad the toga stuff has me biting holes into the walls

Okay, it’s long:

First, stuff I liked:

Deku:

Good to see deku stocks rise, they doubted my nephew but he always comes out on top 🙏🙏

Circling back to 431, I don’t think it was all bad and I don’t hate it like some people do. I like that it shows us how passionate he is as a teacher and that he was able to carve out a path for himself outside of hero work. I think people were quick to judge him and make assumptions about him after declining Katsuki’s sidekick proposal, and it was Rough having to see Deku get bashed for it for months. I’m so happy that the new info shows that he didn’t give up on those heroic dreams, he just had to find the balance between teaching and being a pro.

I’m over the moon that he’s #4 and that Katsuki’s ranking bounced back too to #5 as a reaction to Deku being back on the hero scene, this is what I wanted so much from the ending, the two of them fighting neck-in-neck, competing for forever, teasing each other and being in each other’s lives… it’s perfect :’))

I think it’s so cool that apparently Deku was still placing in the top 100 despite being retired because of the extended requirements on the hero ranking, but I think that info should have come up in 430. The epilogue suggested that hero charts were going to be restructured or done away with entirely, and I think it’s silly that it’s only vaguely touched on in an art book lol. That should’ve been part of the main ending.

Streets are saying Deku did not get a degree before he started his teaching career… I’m electing to ignore that because I really want to imagine him in uni. I think it’s fair that UA wouldn’t have traditional standards for teachers… but let my boy get some certification before putting him in charge of a class c’mon.. But also this could be a bit of a misinterpretation considering there’s no official english translations out yet.

Also I’m so glad that it’s confirmed the suit mimics the ofa quirks !! I was worried that wasn’t gonna be the case and I was gonna end up disappointed but I can rest easy!

Bakugou:

I talked about him already kind of but the thing I’m happy to learn the most about from the art book is that supposedly older pro heroes have a soft spot for him. I think there’s something really endearing about that, and I feel like despite having a “bad attitude” he’s such a sentimental and sweet character and he’s grown so much from the middle school punk from chapter 1. He’s got this blunt but genuine quality to him and I think that’s what older characters would latch onto.

I am such a big fan of his friendship with todorok and love what they said about it in the book under todoroki’s section. Also a big fan of the tidbit that monoma tried to get close to him after the war, the guy saw him die right, and there’s something very touching about him trying to reach out and check up of katsuki and worm his way into his life because of that trauma idk. I want to make something about their friendship maybe.

Eri:

IThe information that jirou helped eri with guitar lessons fills my heart with so much joy :’)) I love that Eri has so many older siblings who all love her and want to teach her stuff and be part of her life and cheer her on

I really like that she’s pursuing music! I know some people wanted her to go down the hero path too, but I think it’s really nice that she was able to carve out a path that makes her happiest. It’s what first brought a smile to her face! When class A performed! And seeing her be able to live that dream is so nice :’))

Deku and mirio being her biggest cheerleaders also makes me so happyy. Those are her older brothers frfr.

I’m really glad the one shot was focused on her, very great thag we get to see her relationship with aizawa and the teachers, and learn about her life now. I was so worried about what the extra pages were gonna be about and it was such a pleasant surprise lol

Things I’m… less of a fan of:

Uraraka:

It’s genuinely criminal that the art book doesn’t touch on her reformed quirk counselling programs at all. To me, this was one of the most interesting tidbits of info we got from class 1-A in 430, and something I really wish we’d been able to learn more about.

It’s very clear that her character’s potential was tossed aside the entire story, and honestly her relationship with deku was too. I’m not really a fan of izuocha, but I am a lover of character relationships and the lack of growth the two had together throughout the series was very disappointing to me. I think the idea of romance between them and horikoshi’s aversion to writing it got in the way of their actual relationship and it stayed stagnant for too long — which is why 431 feels so disappointing in that regard — because they should have gotten closer in the actual story instead of in an add-on epilogue chapter.

All that to say, from what I’ve seen from the artbook, her info section is taken up mostly by things that relate to izuku, all we really learn is her parents don’t use the money she sends them LMAO. It’s just so strange for her to be both disregarded as a character and labelled the “Love Interest” when it comes to talking about her as her own person, but yet not have really any development alongside the character she’s supposedly going to end up with in the actual story.

She’s apparently there to cheer deku on, that’s the role they want her to have. They don’t care about who she is outside of that even though her entire character is a separate person with a life and a story beyond having a crush on a boy. It’s misogyny lol.

Toga and the LOV:

Speaking of misogyny… Toga’s death :( Learning that there were other options for her is upsetting. The artbook has really reopened my feelings about all the endings for the LoV members.

In my mind toga had the most satisfying ending, but that’s really not saying much. I don’t think she should’ve died, I don’t think her “facing responsibility/taking accountability” had to mean the only ending for her was death. She was a kid, she was mentally ill, she wanted love and to be loved and to me, her death being off-screened and used as canon-fodder for uraraka’s feelings and to be pushed towards izuku was so upsetting.

Idk it just feels like a habit for the female characters to be sidelined and for their sacrifices and deaths to be pushed to the side, it’s aggravating.

With the lov in general, it just seems like the overall message is there’s no real path to redemption, that the only way they could find it is to die. For a story that seems to want to highlight the fact that everyone can be saved, and that things aren’t so black and white, and that it’s the fault in society that drove these “villains” to where they are, it really does treat them as if they’re completely and utterly irredeemable and there was never any hope for them. That they are a product of their nature/nurture and cannot escape it any way but through dying. It’s not even tragic, it feels lazy and unsatisfying and feels like it goes against whatever the message of the story was supposed to be.

Idk I’ve defended mha a lot, and I think there’s a lot of positives in it. I think it does have strong messages that no one person can fix issues that are societal in nature, and that real change comes with forming community and being there for those around us. Etc etc. But I’m disappointed that a lot of the themes of mha fell flat and don’t go deeper than surface level.

I’m upset that horikoshi has made these compelling and very human villains, and shown us their stories and that they’re not all evil at the core, and then decided that their arcs all had to end in pain and suffering.

The one who upsets me the most is Tomura. He’s been one of my favourite characters since the beginning, and I think his ending hit me the worst. To me it felt like he was right on the cusp of something and then afo came in and told him his whole life was a lie, that he was groomed to be an angry man with half a quirk that could only destroy, and every choice he’d ever made was directly under afo’s influence. That he never had any free will, he was always meant to go down this path. I thought for sure the final battle with deku and afo would have shigaraki fighting back against the possession, and I was disappointed that his final moments were barely anything at all.

Learning about his original quirk and the original plans for his ending, it’s made me angry about his arc all over again. Thinking about how things could’ve been, and that there were other options for his final moments, I’m frustrated.

I hate that the villain’s are used as emotional canon fodder, to serve as character development for the heroic main characters, when horikoshi made us so invested in their stories as well. You just end up wanting to root for them, not in a “I want them taking over the world” way, but in a way where they find some sort of happiness. And we kind of maybe get that from toga, but to me all their endings just don’t hit the mark. They feel cheap and unsatisfying, and this art book drives a lot of that home for me.

Anyways yeah. I’m gonna stop myself here before I go crazy lol. Hope this made sense

[silliest-sideblog]

Days since last anvil incident: 1 0

After seeing the art that @wasyago made for Tango for Hermit a day May, I really wanted to write a little something for it.

So here we have 500 words of Tango and his goofy little factory helpers!

Writing under the cut!

The factory hums around Tango as it steadily works in the background. He's gotten used to the noises around him by now, especially now that it actually has been working for a few months without a major hitch. 

Minecarts are rolling around, lights are blinking on and off, and Tango has to admit, this place might be a home? Well, maybe home isn't the right word. But it is done and he feels satisfied with it. Even if there still is a bit of stuff left to do. 

Like cleaning up. 

With all the recent finishing touches he's made to this place, the boxes have stacked up, and all the work outside, shaping the paths, has tracked enough dirt inside that Tango felt the need to finally fix his mess. 

One would think that this is what he invented the teknicians for, right? But if he left those guys alone with this, no work would get done, in the best case. In any worse case he'd have to reassemble them again after another anvil to the face incident. 

So instead, Tango is swiping up dust, mud and debris himself, two hands on the broom, his other two hands holding his pesky tail out of the way before it can absentmindedly swipe through one of the neat piles he's just made. All while making sure his little guys are actually helping. 

One definitely is, and Tango can't help but smile, always enjoying to see when his inventions actually work out, as he's carrying around some trash bags. 

Another one is currently trying to dust off a few boxes which is... Admittedly less helpful but it's got the spirit. 

Maybe this isn't going to take forever. He's been making good progress and one of the little guys is even helping with unpacking the non-trash boxes, carrying around items to his storage, even if he plays around with them for a bit first. 

With a smile and a small shake of his head, endeared by the teknicians, Tango keeps swiping until he sees something red being lifted out of one of the boxes. Oh no.

"No no no no no no no"

The broom is clattering to the floor as Tango sprints over, tackling the small robot away before he can actually light the TNT. Rolling over the floor, a safe distance away, Tango can catch his breath, picking the robot up by his neck like one might a cat. "No! Bad teknician!" Tango is aware of how exasperated he sounds. "How often do u have to say, no lighting shiny boom booms inside the factory?" 

With a sigh and a pat on the head he lets the guy down as he waddles off, hopefully doing something else now that won't give Tango another heart attack. 

Sitting on the floor for another moment, one hand in his lap, the other two propping him up, Tango allows himself a momentary break, going through his hair once with a free hand. 

His moment of peace is interrupted by another anvil falling down, dangerously close to where Tango is sitting, causing him to practically jump out of his skin and scatter away with a loud "Gah!" 

Looking up he saw another teknician, the one that presumably held an anvil a few seconds ago, fallen onto his face, struggling like a bug turned on its back. 

With a deep sigh, Tango gathers himself, and mildly regrets having made these little helpers so stinkingly adorable. 

[livingfiction]

YA'LL I GOT A WRITING IDEA/PROMPT!!!!

I just came back from watching Sinners for the first time( I was gonna wait , but I was scared it was gonna be out of theaters by the time I planned on watching) and I have so much to say but I have to get this idea out before I lose my nerve SOOOO.... BARE WITH ME

I was thinking about a modern Sammie x Pearline story.

POTENTIAL SAMMIE PLOT IDEAS:

A young Sammie, still a preachers kid (though a rebellious one) around 22 or so meets a (unhappily and sexually unsatisfied) married Pearline (around 30 or 31) at his cousin's smoke and stack newly opened club

he's starting indulging in his true passion...music despite being a recent college graduate working a regular 9 to 5 (something boring and unsexy like accountant, engineer, maybe even tech) and trying to appease his father by living a straight and narrow life unlike most of his father's side of the family.

Sammie has no desire really for fame or fortune, he just loves music and sees at a chance to escape his oppressive upbringing and is one of the only times he feels free and alive...until he meets Pearline that is.

Maybe he moved from MS to Chicago, IL for work (better work opportunities) where he reconnects with his cousins

Kind of a coming of age for Sammie in a sense. He's a young man that's away from home and the people he knows and who know him so he trying to figure out this new identity and this new freedom away from the scrutiny of the people he's always known.

POTENTIAL PEARLINE PLOT IDEAS:

Pearline married before she was ready because she felt it was what she was supposed to do

Was more of a fun loving and free girl in her early twenties (a real bad bitch) but became more conservative and toned down after marrying her straight laced and boring husband

She met her husband around the age of 23 and he seemed like a great man though he was never the best in bed, but he displayed manipulative and emotionally abusive tactics that wore away at her confidence and self esteem. Her family loved him and pushed the marriage as well as his. He's good at hiding his true nature.

By the time the made it to the alter Pearline's self esteem was whittled away and she truly felt like he was as good at it gets

She maintains her friendships just barely due to his overbearing and controlling nature

PEARLINE & SAMMIE:

Pearline's friends convince her to get dressed up and go out to the new club that everyone's been talking about (her husband's out of town for work)

While there she see's sammie perform and they connect and he becomes infatuated with her ( much like in the movie)

She's attracted to his confidence, lover boy nature, as well as his open minded way of thinking ( much like hers)

They start to build a connection due to their similar natures and he brings out the old her and also gives her some much needed vitamin D among other things ( he's young but he's experienced and knows what he's doing-partly thanks to his cousin stack 😉who gave him advice years ago on the art of pleasing a woman)

Sammie does feel some jealousy over her marriage and begins to urge her to leave her husband)

Things come to a dangerous head when the husband begins to suspect her affair and goes as far as trying to confront Sammie in the club ( with smoke and stack present so shit goes REALLY bad for him) and maybe...he locks Pearline in the house (not saying he holds her hostage but he holds her hostage) and Sammie helps her escape

There relationship isn't one sided but Sammie is THIRSTY for Pearline and is on her body BAAAADDDDD

I don't really see them ending up together in my mind but I'm not the writer so....

I honestly just really loved the two of them and I'm sucker for that infatuation shit! Also I liked how confident and upfront Sammie was anytime he was with her. It's like the hesitant boy disappeared and a confident man showed up. He knew what he wanted and applied pressure to get it. He wasn't concerned about her husband (asking her if she was happily married) or the religious aspects of committing adultery. Throughout the movie you see that he is a strong minded individual despite the lifestyle his cousin's introducing him to being new and against everything his father preached about.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

THESE ARE JUST SUGGESTIONS AND THOUGHTS I HAD. I AM NOT A WRITER THUS I CAN'T TELL ANYONE HOW TO WRITE A STORY. I truly love and respect all the work, time, and energy you talented and beautiful ladies put into this craft and I would NEVER come along demanding a story be written a certain way because I know for a fact ya'll can come up with shit 10x better than anything I could imagine. I would just love a modern story about those two and I had to get these ideas out before I lost my nerve.

SOOOOO.....any takers??? 🙂🙂🙂 ANYONE???

@nahimjustfeelingit-writes @uzumaki-rebellion @keyaho @megamindsecretlair

[asheyxash]

WHAT SEVENTEEN’S GIRLFRIEND WOULD LOOK LIKE:)

genre(s): fluff, humour

warning(s): none

word count: ~1.25k

*work of fiction that is what I think of seventeen and their ideal type, do not get any wrong ideas or judgement*

work all mine, no reposting without creds, no stealing of published work, copyrighted:D

scoups:

his girlfriend is definitely someone who he is scared of like how his members fear him because of his aura, as soon as he comes home from work, he will be running for his life if he sees his girlfriend mad. he always tries to please her, giving their relationship his all and on most occasions she returns the love, making them quite a happy couple with a healthy relationship (unless cheol pisses her off then you already know he’s sleeping on the couch tonight😃).

jeonghan:

his girlfriend isn’t the angel you think she is either, just like him, because he would need someone to be his evil partner when joshuas not around. she is very playful and pranks jeonghan’s members too, making seventeen groan internally whenever jeonghan brings her to practice with him. she has an outgoing and bubbly personality (1), makes friends with anyone and everyone to “earn” their trust, just to prank them afterwards.

joshua:

unlike her boyfriend, she is someone very calm and collected, and if i do repeat myself, ✨NORMAL✨ she’s got long, smooth hair that matched her visuals so everyone calls her and joshua the visual couple, she puts up with shua’s antics because anything he does is cute to her, blushes whenever he calls her baby, is the melt absolutely KINDEST soul you’ve ever met and could do no wrong, the main reason why joshua fell in love with her anyway.

jun:

girlfriend is unexpectedly funny, just like him. an introvert obviously, but she knows jsut when and what to do to make you laugh or smile after a bad day, and did i mention an amazing cook? (her food is so good svt begs jun to ask her to make some for them) makes jun the best chinese mala dishes ever and treats jun as her number one priority, MAJOR green flag!!!

hoshi:

isn’t it obvious? his girl would definitely have that tiger energy in her as well, bringing headaches to every single seventeen member whenever she tags along during practice because oh damn you bet she’s loud and crazy and chaotic, just like hoshi. they call her the tigress, but svt has to admit she’s got the skills of a dancer too (also part of the reason why hoshi went head over heels over her was because he saw her effortless and flowly yet sharp dancing and loved her artistic style🔥) likes to tease hoshi by joining in on the anti horanghae club, often hears and keyword, IGNORES hoshi’s complains on how she likes woozi more than him but can you blame her?🐯

wonwoo:

his girlfriend is interesting. she's mysterious, her feelings so hidden only someone so close to her like wonwoo would know what she's feeling or thinking. she looks really cold on the outside, but is the absolute sweetheart inside once you get to know her. LOVES mystery and crime shows, and reads books so much wonwoo had to built her a small library in their shared apartment. the seventeen members and wonwoo himself sometimes feel intrigued to knowing more about her. she also loves cats and although has an RBF, couldn't hurt a fly because she's so sweet.

woozi:

his girlfriend loves music. albums, records, vinyl players, radios, dg booths, she loves them all. instead of being quiet, she's actually quite talkative and an extrovert who gets along well with basically everyone. finds woozi's height cute and pinches his cheeks every time they go to the studio. cries a lot and very emotional, but her tears aren't always sad tears and most of the time are tears of overflowing joy and pride whenever seventeen wins an award, the most supportive girlfriend to her boyfriend's career fr.

the8:

his girlfriend loves the art and can make REALLY good tea. chamomile, green, earl grey, fruit teas, you name it, she somehow has the ingredients and teabags for it???🍵🍃 very peaceful and understanding so her and minghao barely ever fight. she gives in really easily, and is sort of the peacemaker, her voice alone enough to calm down any tension. the one who suggested her boyfriend to start trying yoga and meditating with her to which he eagerly agrees to. her voice is music to anyone's ears, and never, ever does raise her voice at anyone, doesn't hold grudges and VERY forgiving.

mingyu:

unlike him, she is very focused, neat and organised, and is polar opposites to mingyu because she's careful and firm, somewhat a perfectionist but then again, mingyu defends with "opposites attract" which is somewhat true, because they fell in love at first sight after he accidentally knocked down her cup of coffee on himseld one random night at a cafe. she loves reading up on animals and is the BIGGEST eco friendly enthusiast on earth, cares passionately about saving the environment so makes seventeen recycle and use sustainable materials but that just makes mingyu fall in love with her once again.

dokyeom:

his girlfriend is the cheery girl version of himself. cute and short, but her heart is bigger than the universe. has a burning interest towards nursing and healthcare, and is incredibly smart too! loves taking care of children and aspires to be a pediatric nurse. she has a strong set of values and a moral compass that she sticks by too, and will NOT tolerate it if anyone crosses the line, breaks her limits or hates on her boyfriend because let's all be fr, who hates our happy pill dk right?

seungkwan:

his girlfriend has has an outgoing and bubbly personality (2), never fails to make anybody laugh. she is seungkwan's whole motivation to keep going and she would do anything, and i mean anything, in a heartbeat for his boyfriend. she does NOT care about any hate comments and defends her boyfriend very aggressively, but a smile is always plastered on her face and she's always bright and positive, lighting up anyone's day. she is the diva and is just as if not even more savage than seungkwan, does not gaf and would roast seventeen as if she owned the place. this world is hers, and we're all just living in it:D she actively peels oranges for seungkwan because it is "good for him"🍊.

vernon:

like him, his girlfriend lives her life exactly how you expect her to. nothing fun, nothing boring, but at times, she does break "character" and wants attention from her boyfriend who of course, instantly melts at her eyes that he doesn't know whether to describe cute, or a look of "vernon hansol chwe you better look at me this instant or i will dig your eyes out" YES, kinda creepy and gives silent treatment when mad so yeah...she's chill with her girls though and very generously splurges on her friends, treating them to whatever whenever because she also helps to pay the bills out here, but may or may not fake her "anger" sometimes just to see the pitiful side of vernon because she likes to spice her life up a bit, yk?

dino:

his girlfriend is quiet...or is she really and has the best humor, has a collection of jokes that never seem to run out?? dino as her boyfriend is forces to laugh at every single one of her jokes even though some of those he questions whether she got it from his dad but moving on, she would have the BEST fashion taste and sense, and is SHOPPING BESTIES with seungkwan and minghao(and also sort of a shopaholic). challenges dino actively to games where she wins (most of the time). loves sports and athletics, and may even be fitter than dino himself???

[cantareincminor]

For the character ask game! Franky & # 24 & 25 🥸

Hiiiiii bean!!!!! Thank you for asking about Franky, he's such a fun character!

24. What other character from another fandom of yours reminds you of them?

It wasn't until the infamous Nightfall & Franky chapter that I made this connection (along with other fans)...

Or more like when they first met...

Ahhhh this sociopathic ice lady is kissing me! She could kill me with a flick of a finger! This is bad!! Is it bad?? Wait is it good??

"But damn is my heart racing" indeed...

Krillin isn't super intelligent like Franky is, but he is an extremely loyal friend, fun, laid-back, all that. Great sidekick. And every DBZ fan knows that his death triggered Goku's Super Saiyan transformation!! One of the most iconic moments in anime history.

Hmm that makes me wonder how Twilight might react if Franky ever got seriously injured or (God forbid!!) died. Super Saiyan Twilight?

Although, one other key difference between Krillin and Franky is that somehow Krillin landed a hot girlfriend even before he met 18. Maybe Akira Toriyama wanted to subvert the whole "desperate short man unable to get a girl" trope...but who knows, maybe Endo will subvert it too! SxF is not over yet!

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

Honestly I didn't think too much about Franky on my first readthrough of the manga (I think Twilight's childhood flashback chapters had just come out at that time). He was the fun resourceful sidekick and sort of gag character with his bad luck with women.

It was only when I started writing fic that I realized I really enjoyed writing Franky's POV as a contrast to Twilight's serious, angsty, overthinking narration. It forced me to think more deeply about Franky's past and how he isn't just all laughs and sunshine. He also lost his friends to the war and suffered a lot. And I began to take his serial singleness seriously. I myself had bad luck with dating for many years, and constantly felt down on myself and quite lonely. So later on in Orpheus I wrote a more serious Franky POV where he wasn't just there to advise Twilight or babysit Anya. He joins the Forger family for dinner post-reveal and feels envious and even a little bitter about Twilight's newfound happiness (and guilty about feeling that way).

I started to admire Franky's character and personality. To be so upbeat and optimistic, always a "glass half full" type of guy, but also very wise to the world and able to run circles around the SSS, truly makes him someone special. He doesn't take himself too seriously. He's a loyal friend as we see many times throughout the manga, most recently when he rescues Teller from the SSS. Just like I wish I could be more like Yor in her kindness and patience with kids, I wish I could be more like Franky with all his positive traits.

I have joked to some fandom friends that my husband is like a tall Franky, lol. Sciency, upbeat, mellow, and loyal. Listens to all my fandom musings and gets all my quirks. I love him so much. He even contacted @apetronart, an amazing artist who drew fanart for my Aladdin fanfic, and worked with her to print my fic into a book with her art on the cover. Here it is:

This post somehow turned into bragging about my amazing husband. But I'd like to think that whoever marries Franky in future canon (please Endo, give this man some love), will be the luckiest woman ever because he'll treat her so well and give her gifts like this! I know @juuyeah and other Franky stans 100000% agree!!!

Ohhhh also, shoutout to all the amazingly talented Franky fanartists and artists who feature Franky heavily in their work, like @juuyeah, @marimarlak, @maximx23, @unhappy-sometimes and many more I missed!! And for amazing Franky-centric fics, check out tri_repetae, SokkaFanLawyer, macaroni_cannoli, and again many more!!

(Ask game)

[justherefortheffs]

Season 6 is cooking so bad im crying oml. I gotta word vomit about it because i literally have no one to talk about it with.

So!! The side characters getting depth???? You’re telling 13 year old me that we’ll actually have an opportunity to connect to them 😭 don’t make me cry. Not trying to be salty, im genuinely happy we have it now. I understand their hands were tied up to this point and whatever happened between s5 and s6 did the show so good.

The whole bad parents shtick is getting layed on pretty thick which makes me think its building something up. If i had to guess its definitely has sum to do with Adrien. Im betting by the end of the season Adrien will finally admit out loud that his father was abusive (not just a few mumbles about him being distant) and it isnt wrong to hate him for that even if he’s a “hero”. In fact that’s what its trying to do, the story is telling the viewers that parents aren’t all that glorified and you CAN take them off the pedestal if they’re not great parents. You don’t have to love them unconditionally just because theyre family. People can stand up against injustice and the parent can face judgement and CHANGE. Something gabriel couldn’t do time and time again and i can only guess how that will blow up later.. so i think the reason why it frequently comes up so the moment Adrien actually does admit to the abuse or stands up for himself or comes out with his side of the story it feels much more satisfying and closer. Imagine yourself as a little kid watching s6 and getting the message that you can tell your parents to change over and over again and when the final episode comes out Adrien does that, imagine how vindicated you’d feel. That yes, STAND UP ADRIEN!! AS YOU SHOULD!!

Anyhow, another thing i noticed is how Marinette is somewhat almost always “responsible” for the akumatized person. I believe this is just Lila’s way of manipulating Marinette into feeling guilty bit by bit, slowly. Or when the ultimate moment to expose her or ruin her image comes to, she can show how everything was connected to her. I think the finale with her will be that she’ll try to ruin her image as Marinette just as well as Ladybug. If she were to expose her identity she’d do it in a way so she buries Marinette into the ground. Therefore she’d expose the lie she told as Ladybug, as well as how big of a failure she is as Marinette and that Ladybug is in fact “causing” the akumas. She’s obviously closely monitoring her life since all the characters that have been akumatized so far has been in her close vicinity. PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE YAYYYY!!

Also its absolutely unbelieable how pretty the show is. I dont care how much people bitched about how its not the same anymore and they miss the old one etc, i think thats just people scared of change xx. Its genuinely so pretty, its a work of art honestly. The way sometimes 2d gets mixed into the 3d is ☹️☹️☹️ my artist heart is squeeling everytime i see a scene like that. Like when Ladybug spins her yoyo:( its so pretty like COME ON how can you not appreciate that.

At first the only gripe i had with s6 was that they took away even what was left of Adriens personality. As someone whose rewatched the show a couple of times and is rewatching it rn aswell, its insane how much Adrien has changed. S1 and S6 are completely different people change my mind. He used to be so witty and sarcastic just overall a tiny prick behind closed doors. Now hes a little bit bland. But i read a post about Astruc saying the only person he has rn is Marinette, and thats why his personality is centered around her. Which makes a lot of sense but i dont think that transition was well shown, altho i have hopes the remaining episodes will build up to that. It was obvious to me hes traumatized and sad why wouldnt he be, he has no family left ??? But at the same time now he feels like just a side character. Alas, i understand in order to flesh out other characters and the story arc he has to be put in the backround for now. Just kinda bummed we don’t get to see much of him anymore.

Don’t get me started about Chat Noir ☹️ i miss him so much. But again i know why they’re doing it, they’re seperating Ladybug of her only support system. They’re trying to tie Marinette to Adrien and how the guilt with that lie is to be carried alone. Even when Alya found out she was faced witht he consequences: no one likes to be lied to. She cant tell Chat now, especially now that theres an obvious drift between Chat and her. It’s not just them against the world anymore, theres a whole team there now. Altho, this just makes her even more alone. Feeling alone with people around~ again, the moment this all comes to a boil, there’ll be 20 people around her, looking at her like shes the one to blame. Chat noir wont be there next to her anymore, hell be on the otherside looking at her, (feeling more betrayed than anyone there), trying to figure out who she is (not her identity, he just doesnt know Ladybug anymore, they dont talk, they dont interact, theres no us anymore, she made that decision alone-). It just isolates Marinette even further. My baby:(

I disagree with people who say Marinette lost her character development. In FACT id say what the shows doing rn is the best its ever done at showing actual internal battles. Its always been just a kids show so of course they couldnt go for a darker route or something that shows moral issues and heavy decisions. Little things like how they interact with their environment. Up to this point the story was focused on Marinette and her every day life usually a silly problem came up that was sort of solved in just a single episode, usually in the last 2 minutes of it. Now i feel like the whole entire episode is centered around the issue and its actually giving Marinette space to feel. For the viewer to experience the worry the anxiety WITH Marinette. Not just jumping between a silly problem in the city and Marinette doing god knows what. Shes just a baby now:( finally looking and acting like a kid, 14 and worrying about her boyfriends reaction to her sneezes. While simultaniously struggling with guilt over a lie that feels too heavy for a 14 year old. Her control issues isnt using Ladybug for her personal battles which felt just funny up this point but an actual anxious issue and her trying to make everything work on her own and keeping the peace for her own sake. Like if this ISNT character development (not in the usual way just simply the way its shown) then idk what it is. Shes feeling!!! Look at her guys shes showing fear, anxiety, anger, insecurity!! Im jot saying she didnt up to this point but it was shown so much less. Just little tibits. Now shes finally in the spotlight. Good for her!!

Last but not least my theory for Lila: i think shes gathering info (duh). Figuring out who is who in the class, obviously suspecting Marinette is Ladybug but having no actual proof for it. London special showed she couldn’t confirm her suspicion but she HAD the suspicion. Because when she did figure it out and see it was Marinette she wasn’t surprised. And how all the victims are obviously tied to her in her personal life, and how the villian itself has always been connected to her moral issue in one way or another. Lilas a good manipulator that way, knowing which buttons to push. I think shes just trying to break Marinette in.

Cant wait what else is there!!! Mwuah love this show

[one-beer-is-not-enough]

i'm SUPER curious how Marcel would interact with my OC Julia, what he'd think of her. I love Marcel btw and your art style is so comforting <3 great work!

That's so sweet, thank you :D I really like Julia’s look, she reminds me of that sly cat threatened with a knife meme lol. Immaculate memes btw

The vibes they bring to the function:

I drew Julia in the school uniform, since I wasn't sure what her full outfit in the character sheet looks like. And yes I gave Marcel a flip-phone. Please ignore that it looks nothing like an actual phone. And the dumbass butterflies

Now as to how I interpret their interactions:

First off, I’m not sure they could hang around each other for extended periods of time, because Marcel is kind of a dick by default, and Julia probably wouldn't like seeing him treating other people so rudely. But in small doses, they’d have a cool dynamic!

Nine times out of ten, Marcel makes an enemy rather than a friend when he meets someone new. But considering Julia is a very laid-back person, he’s not even sure how to react, since most people from Bullworth are quick-tempered and tend to hold grudges. I think a likely way they’d meet is through Pinky. She’s fascinated by both of them due to their poor status, so I could see her just introducing them to each other at some point

It's also possible that Julia swooped in to help Marcel during his first couple weeks at Bullworth when he’d just lie there and take the bullies’ beatings, paralyzed with fear due to the years of abuse. Seeing someone actually give a damn about him could be his wake-up call. These guys are not like his father, he's on equal grounds with them; he can stand up for himself at last

He'd be too prideful to admit it, but he'd always feel indebted to Julia for something this major, and offer to do her a favor/errand once in a while. Free of charge

Marcel is lowkey fascinated by the way Julia speaks, though it probably goes both ways since he slips in Italian words and cliché mafia slang he learned from movies. Their conversations must be unbearable to listen to lmao

If Julia ever wanted to, Marcel would be down to 'teach' Julia some boxing techniques (he wants to flex so bad) when none of the other preps are the at Glass Jaw. However, he's kind of apprehensive about fighting a girl (if his sister found out she'd kill him). Though once he sees that she's quite good, his competitive side wins over and they can have an actual match

His respect for her skyrockets when he finds out she has a little sibling too, especially since Julia strives to set a good example to her. He’s like: “They’re so innocent, y’know? Gotta be a good influence” and in the background his little brother Rafael is setting some kid’s hair on fire

Marcel occasionally gets up to mischief like Julia, though it’s mainly to get some extra cash. And since Julia is skilled at breaking into places, he might ask her to tag along with a bullshit excuse, but only when it’s low risk. He doesn’t want her getting arrested because of him.

Like, they'd break into an abandoned warehouse "because it'd be cool as fuck", but Marcel actually just wanted to loot the place and needed someone who knows how to pick locks💀

+ the meme I was referring to

[class1akids]

I know salty stans always claim that the author has a personal grudge against their favorite character, but do you think that's genuinely the case with Dabi? Because at this point its clearly apparent that Horikoshi is Endeavor's #1 glazer and everyone know how much Endeavor's glazers hate Dabi, which is the only explanation I could come up as to why Horikoshi is paying dust to one of the series most prominent and popular characters.

Like other characters were also done dirty don't get me wrong, but he at least handled those characters with some type of dignity and it never felt like he went out of his way to purposely exclude them or minimize their panels-time/impact for no good reason.

I mean comparing Dabi to Toga will leave you in despair, because Toga is clearly one of Hori's biggest favorites (to the point of some creepy attachment to her). This is evidenced by the sheer number of Toga twitter sketches, how the last art exhibition had 2 different Toga art when many characters got nothing. I would also posit that the excessive focus on Uraraka in 431 was less about Ochako and more of Hori wanting to force Toga into the ending.

But also I feel like the attention to Toga is a very "male-gaze" kind of attention, but the exploration of her background is pretty repetitive and how much she's drawn is not really in proportion to the actual impact on the narrative or even exploration of themes.

Unlike Touya - whose backstory is more nuanced with his family acting like actual people making bad decisions and he himself makes some bad decisions - Toga is just a victim of cartoonish paper villain parents who don't matter, having an obsession with blood which than gets retconned into not a real need, etc.

So I don't know if Hori hates Touya or he just doesn't really care about him and wanted to use him for aura. I think it's clear that Hori abandoned the idea of exploring Shouto's and Endeavor's relationship in Act 3 and bring it to forgiveness, probably due to a lot of fan backlash and also just the sheer amount of damage Enji did to Shouto and the lack of any real way to undo any of it.

So he focused instead on Dabi and Endeavor, making "Dabi" unhinged, unlikeable and cruel and then have Endeavor atone for "Dabi's sins" instead of his own crimes against the family, while using "Touya" "to show that "it was all very complex, Endeavor was bad, but also tried, but not hard enough, but it wasn't his fault alone anyway".

I think Touya could have died on the battlefield after a short reconciliation with the family, but he needed to stay alive to give Endeavor his atonement time. I also feel that Hori didn't know where to land the Todoroki family in 426, so he gave them a real wishy-washy ending where nothing really got resolved and then he didn't want to touch it anymore.

I truly feel that this part of the story stressed him out a lot. He was always sick during Todofam chapters, there were short chapters, lot of revision. I think he just wanted a spicy setting and draw funny scenes like Shouto and Natsuo slurping soba at Endeavor, but without realizing and properly planning, he grabbed more than he could really chew. Fans were invested, many people had personal stories that resonated with all of this and it became a very complex and sensitive subject that Hori had no appetite to properly handle or take a stance on.

There may be also some annoyance by Hori that Dabi is the highest ranked villain in the end and despite his best efforts, Toga never reached the same popularity she had during MVA which may cause some malice.

But I think most of it is just simply him not having the writing chops to handle a story like the Todoroki family with gravitas and once 426 was well received (at least in Japan, though still controversial), he didn't want to pick it back up again.

[faiszt]

⠀⠀⠀───⠀⠀ ACADEMIC LIFE⠀⠀·⠀୭⠀⠀🚬̸⠀ִ⠀ﾟ⠀ r. ︎ cameron ꒰ 注意！ ꒱⠀minors do not interact⠀⠀ে♥︎ ूੂ⠀ eighteen plus

୨୧⠀summary!⠀you and rafe are the complete opposites of what an exemplary college student would be and, honestly, you can barely stand each other. except when he’s the one responsible for de-stressing your brilliant brain for you.︎⠀♥︎

୨୧⠀content warning:⠀ smut. hard & strong language. weed mentions. enemies with benefits. masturbation. slightly praise kink. dirty talk. fingering. handjob. ୨୧⠀wordcount:⠀2.8k⠀·⠀again, minors do not interact!

୨୧⠀letters to lovers:⠀hey! this has been in my drafts for a while and though i’ve read and re-read it, i can’t really guarantee that i haven’t missed any little mistakes. so, i apologize in advance. i hope you like it! ♡ see you soon.

star student, there was an appeal to being the highest-graded student in the class, though college was more about survival than being exemplary. you decided that surviving wasn’t your only goal, but rather always being the best, almost a matter of honor for your competitive brain.

everything could be a competition if you tried hard enough not to be the loser. but, rafe believed that you were actually just a spoiled know-it-all in who’d end up successful, because you’re brilliant, but alone and divorced at thirty... or rather, maybe not even divorced because he doubted you could stand to be around anyone without losing your temper with them in the next five minutes.

he certainly had a lot of opinions about you for someone who’d make the long walk to the visual arts building just to see the know-it-all who pretends to be a nobel prize winner in physics.

and he’d say it from the rooftops if he wasn’t drooling over you and your beautiful, stupidly smart brain that he’d like to do many things with which, again, he’d never mention out loud. envy or weird love, probably hard to say which feeling was stronger in him.

it wasn’t like you didn’t have controversial opinions about him either. like his stupidity, his bad sarcastic comments, his slowness, his use of weed beyond what’s supposed to be recommended, maybe looking like a chimney wasn’t exactly cool. he was intelligent, not the scientist type, but as hot as insufferable.

rafe was the perfect person to set an example for you of what not to do, so you criticized him whenever you had the chance, then he criticized you whenever he had the chance. it wasn’t an academic competition, much less an artistic one, maybe it was just one about who could last the longest without trying to get into the other’s pants again.

the first competition you both lost.

in the passenger seat of his minivan, you had your arms crossed over your chest and a grumpy expression on your face. rafe looked at you over his shoulder, rolling his eyes and chuckling softly at your behavior before taking a drag on his joint. “you need to relax, two-shoes,” a low cough between his words. “i swear this one is good.” he offered you the joint, but you grabbed his wrist and pushed it away from you. “fine, you’re the boss.”

silence reigned in his minivan for a few minutes before he sighed and put his joint aside, looking at you, waiting for you to tell him what was making you so mad that you asked to spend time with him and didn’t insult him yet. a miracle, honestly. “it’s not like i’m going to care that much, but if you want to talk about what’s makin’ your lame ass hurt so bad... i’m all ears.” yeah, he wasn't really unbearable.

“i’m just stressed, rafe,” you sighed, still looking as grumpy as you did before. “and a joint isn’t going to make that better.” you took away his hopes and he just looked like a kicked puppy after knowing that you didn’t even want to try the best thing he could offer you. “i just need to stop thinkin’ about my academic life, that shit is killin’ me.”

“i see...” he mimicked your behavior, crossing his arms in front of his body with a slightly serious expression. “get a dog and teach it to bite you every time you spend more than three minutes quiet.” rafe suggested in the dumbest way he could think of, starting to laugh when he saw that it only made you more grumpy. “okay, okay... i can drive around, how ’bout that? i’ll take you somewhere nice... and i can make you chill your brain, princess.”

his words echoed in your mind as he drove around, you didn’t know where he was taking you and honestly, you just hoped that this would be enough to take your mind off all that unbearable pressure on your shoulders. ironic that he was the one who cared enough to want to take care of you when you turned to him.

twenty minutes or a little less, the silence was quite loud, though the music on the radio was too, you were talking to your own thoughts and he was trying to talk to you, even if you couldn’t hear him. the sun had already set on the horizon, the blue sky was no longer as vivid as it used to be and the clouds were slowly covering the stars that were trying to appear. melancholic, you thought.

you would’ve even thought about it a little more if you hadn’t been distracted by the minivan pulling up. the whole city right in front of your eyes through the windshield, you had never seen it before. “a viewpoint?” your eyes didn’t want to leave that sight, but you did it anyway, looking at rafe with a little more than that tired, stressed mood from before.

“the best place in this shitty city, actually. nobody comes here, perfect to have a nice joint,” he grumbled, crossing his arms over his chest before leaning back in his seat. “i mean, it’s a good place to chill with a pretty girl, yeah? now smile a little, you’re makin’ me depressed.”

“your life is already makin’ you depressed.” you retorted and he just laughed, placing his hand over his chest as if he had been slapped hard.

“ouch, princess, why so mean?” then, rafe sighed, almost like a snort, looking away from you for nothing more than a second. “come on, you can’t stay sulking forever... you need a helping hand or somethin’ to lighten that mood?”

you knew perfectly well what he meant by helping hand, not that he was discreet with the meaning of his words when his hand was already snaking over your bare knee. “i’m trying to be generous with you today, but looks like you don’t deserve my generosity right now.” he was just teasing you, quite predictable, it wasn’t like he’d deny you if you just looked at him with that look.

“you were less pathetic to try to finger me back then, you know?” your not-really-funny joke made him laugh, kinda bothered as he took his hand off your knee, adjusting your seat so you could lie down a little more.

“yeah, yeah, pathetic... let’s see who will be the pathetic one here in a few minutes.” damn bastard. you should’ve known rafe was silly, goofy and whatever, but he took it seriously when you called him pathetic, almost as if that was his only weakness when it came out of your mouth, specifically.

before you could think straight, his hand was already on you again, between your thighs, caressing the thin fabric of your underwear while he didn’t even look at you. he looked so good, not at all bothered like he was before by your little joke, maybe because he knew you’d still have a massive crush on him even if he was the most jerk man in the whole world.

your skirt meant nothing more than a boring piece of cloth that was getting in the way of him reaching his goal and, honestly, he wanted to take it off right that second, but he held himself back. “pussy and joint, thank god.” yeah, well, he was high, you already knew that anyway.

“are you going to be quiet or do you need me to sit on your stupid face?” rafe paused for a second contemplating your words before nodding, pulling your panties down as if he was following orders you didn’t even have to give him.

“this isn’t as threatening as you think it is.”

“rafe.”

“it’s the weed.”

and could you stay mad at him? definitely not. he was a little... well, frustrating and silly, but damn, you could put up with so much bullshit if it meant having his fingers all the way on you. rafe was the perfect blend of everything you couldn’t be, the perfect antidote to whatever it was you had.

his long finger with a silver ring stroked your clit gently, little pressure, just looking at you as if he wanted to gauge exactly what you wanted and how you wanted it. he wasn’t a stranger to it, but pleasing you every time was what he wanted to do. “can i put my finger inside?” anyone could say anything about him, except that he wasn’t a good boy even when he was fingering you.

“yeah.” you sighed deeply, watching his fingers caress your clit before moving down your slit in an almost chilling manner. that was exactly what you needed and you couldn’t believe how well he did it even when he was kind of high.

you had to bite your lips, his middle finger stroked your entrance for a brief moment, using your own juices to make you wetter for him—which, honestly, you already were, but he wanted a little more, just for the show. until he began to lightly pump his finger in and out for a good time, watching you with a small smirk, listening to your every single little grunt.

“you look so pretty with my finger inside your pussy, princess.” he almost sounded like he was purring in his whisper, putting a little more force on your finger and increasing the pace. didn’t you want to de-stress? then, he’d de-stress you nice and deep. “can you suck it for me?”

rafe pulled his finger out of you, making you miss it for a minute before he brought his wet finger to your lips. “open your mouth for me.” he asked in the nicest way possible waiting for you to open your pretty little mouth, like he wasn’t finger fucking you before, like he was a sweet gentleman. “yes. just like that, you’re so obedient, princess.”

he brushed his finger across your lips, chuckling softly in a sly manner. “this could be your lip gloss... i’d love to kiss you with that taste...” he stuck his finger in your mouth, running the tip over your tongue, making you taste yourself on his finger before going deeper. his silver ring was cold against your lips as he was tickling your throat, he loved the sight. “you choke so well on my cock, i wanna see if you do the same with my finger.”

idiot, that was the truth about him, he was still chuckling softly like a silly boy when he purposely started trying to make you choke on his finger. you’d be lying to yourself if you said that you didn’t like the way he treated you. “there you go, nice and wet.” he seemed satisfied when he made you gag enough for your eyes to water, it was exactly what he wanted to see. “back to your sweet pussy...”

you took a deep breath as he removed his finger from your mouth, saliva wetting the corner of your lips as he slowly put his finger back inside you, pumping in and out again. “you’re going too slow.” your words came out with a spark of discontent.

“yeah, princess? let’s do this your way then... is that fast enough for you?” the question was almost on purpose, just because he absurdly increased the pace of his fingers and wanted to see if you’d answer him without sighing. which you didn’t, and like the good bastard he always was, this served to make him feel way proud about the effect he had on you. “or do you need a little more?”

he put another finger inside you, making you let out a restrained moan as you bit your lower lip, then he stopped. “no. i wanna hear you. now... or i’ll stop again.” he warned, moving his fingers inside you again. hearing you moan was like listening to music, he couldn’t get tired, especially knowing that he was the one making you moan like that.

but, rafe was weak and you could see the bulge growing in his pants, but he was too busy pleasuring you to care about how horny he felt.

“rafe,” you called him, your hand slowly moving towards his thigh. he was making you feel so fucking good, it was fair that you did the same for him too. “let me touch you too... please.” a smirk began to appear on his lips when he heard you asking to touch him, that was the last straw and he knew he couldn’t deny you anything—not when his fingers were so deep in your pussy.

“yes, princess, whatever you want. my cock is yours... to do what you want.” he grunted, using his free hand to pull his pants down, a little bit, just so he could pull his cock out of his boxers. thick and hard, waiting for your touch. then, he took your hand, guiding it towards his erect member and wrapping your fingers around it. “mhmmh... sweet girl.”

he began to arch his hips upwards as he thrust his fingers deeper inside you again and again, pumping in and out quickly, your moans intensifying and making him feel ever closer to a pleasurable end. he was so worked up for you.

“i’m going to...” your legs were going weak, your fingers squeezing his cock as they moved up and down. your mumbling was intense and messy, you had to look at him and damn, what a sight. you could see his cock glistening with his pre-cum, as if it was offering itself to you. “... fuck.”

“use your... words, princess...” rafe moaned hoarsely, his digits slowing way too much just so he could appreciate your expression of pleasure, the expression of someone who was so close to break down.

“yes... mmhm... i’m going to... come...” each of the words that came out of your mouth dragged out like a long moan. he could feel how much you were squeezing his fingers, moving your hips towards them and almost closing your legs—he knew your stress was dissipating at that moment, seeing the satisfaction reflecting in your eyes.

a low chuckle escaped him, he pumped his fingers in and then, they were completely out of you, so he could just put them all the way down inside you again. back and forth until your inner thighs were shaking. “and so am i...” he grunted, using his free hand to guide your hand one more time, making you stroke him faster and harder than before. “come for me, sweet princess... let me know i made you come like you needed.”

it didn’t take long, your orgasm came like a flood that almost left you drowsy. your breathing was labored, your legs weak and shaking, just like you wanted—just like you needed, the stress of your college life finally leave you alone for a while.

meanwhile, rafe next to you had his eyes closed, enjoying the feeling of your hand on his cock, making him see stars until he was a cumming mess. the jets of cum on his bare stomach making him notice how intense he was with you and how only you could provide that to him. “this would be embarrassing if i hadn’t made you cum just now,” he grumbled before straightening up in the driver’s seat to grab a roll of toilet paper from the backseat. yeah, of course he had that there. “here if you need, my princess.”

the emphasis he placed on the possessive pronoun might stress you out if you weren’t simply too busy still thinking about how amazing his fingers felt. you watched him clean himself out of the corner of your eye before doing the same, wiping yourself down and lifting your panties back into place—as if nothing had happened.

“thank you.” despite your behavior, it was clear that this would give him a few good days without having to deal with you insulting him for any little reason you could think of. eventually, he’d totally win you over, it was just a matter of time.

rafe was almost overjoyed to know that he was your escape valve, glad to be able to take advantage of the chances you gave him, especially because he’d make good use of each one of them. “how about we go get something to eat now? i’m so hungry that i could eat you.” he said, the confusing face you made when you didn’t understand what he had said was priceless.

“what did you just say?”

“nothing. it’s the weed.”

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[lostcatinthedark]

I think you can tell a lot about what Jimin thinks based on what he doesn't say. He's too polite to publicly have beef with anyone so he's more the type to ignore someone instead. Jimin not talking about someone it's very telling because he's a very loving person who always makes sure to be very clear and loud about his love and respect for others. We all know he's always been the best about supporting the other members but it's not just them because even with his producers he gives them way more credit them most artist do. He had them show up everywhere in Face and Muse content and he even created a band just for the 4 of them and named a song after it (he was going to name the whole album sgmb actually). So considering all of this if Jimin is avoiding and not saying anything about someone or something then it's probably because he at the very least doesn't care about them because if he did he would've made it very clear.

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I agree anon! And sometimes that kindness and cordial nature makes people distort what he really means (the same way some armys say that because he never asks for awards, he doesn't mind giving them up in favor of the members). I think he threads carefully the way he expresses himself not just because he's considerate, but also because he is in the public eye in a wild industry where things can be misconstrued. His silence is what speaks volumes. It's what he chooses as a way of rebelling. When he was told he was going to be kicked out at the beginning , he worked tirelessly in silence to prove them wrong. When solo era started, he moved in silence to work on his art as a soloist. When he is against something or someone, most probably he'll turn away and do the opposite in silence. If he has nothing good to say, he'll simply stay quiet. If he doesn't like a place, he simply won't be there, even if he doesn't complain about it, he also won't speak favorably about it because he's sincere.

Assuming that he's OK with everything because he doesn't say anything bad about it is the WORST we can do. Because we already know that's not how he rolls. So the best for us is to understand when he takes a step aside and he stays quiet to get a glimpse of how he might be feeling.

And just wait for his actions, because that's where he let's people know his stance.

[transformersconfessions]

So...this is about a user on here within the tf fandom...I haven't talked with anyone about it cause idk how to, this was the only place I could think about, feel free to not put this confession up.

For obvious reasons, I will only refer to this user as 'K.' When I was on Instagram (and in a different fandom), I followed K because I thought they posted cool art. A few years ago, uh, well the memory is hazy, but I think either one or multiple artists on that platform said that K was..not good. So I unfollowed, and that was that.

Years later, I'm in the tf fandom, not really on Instagram anymore and I find K on Tumblr now. I cannot for the life of me remember what K did, or what made the artists call them out. But I just got a bad feeling whenever they posted art.

Years later, I'm less on Instagram and more on here, and I find K here. I could not for the life of me remember why I needed to unfollow them, or what they did. But whenever I saw their art, it was always a bad feeling.

Cut to a while ago, I'm scrolling through my old saved stuff and Instagram, and I find a post that I saved that briefly touched on what K did. Little unclear, I think it was just sexualization of characters?

But looking at their Tumblr...it really doesn't seem that way. The art looks good, it doesn't seem sexual (tho, I am horribly at recognizing stuff like that so). I have no idea if after Instagram, K went through like an arc or something. There's even a chance that K here is not the same K on Instagram, just someone else who used their username. Idk. They seem to be doing pretty well on here.

Once more, feel free to not answer this, I completely understand why.

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