#Cause it's not one moot asking me it's often 3 at the same time.

[susartwork]

To all my mutuals who ask me for drawings. Why do I often say no?

Because when I don't work on something strictly connected to my personal projects I feel overwhelmed by the feeling of "not being productive". So it's easier for me to say no than yes. This is also why I don't draw as many fanarts or make drawn asks as often as I used to.

Sorry not sorry. It's not my fault lol.

Still, I am very happy that you like my art, and your support means the whole world to me (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ) thank you so much.

[stargazer0001]

(art from above is by @/sleepinginmute.)

Hello everyone! I’m Stargazer0001! But you can just call me Star :3

my pronouns are she/they/he/it/astro in no particular order. I like em all so use them interchangeably

I'm your local lil space critter, who has declared themself the CEO of the rainworld ship Stargazer (spearmaster x rivulet x nightcat)

I'm a silly littol spacegender fellar :3 How can I be lesbian and spacegender at the same time you ask? Fuck you thats how!/j Im also asexual so no NSFW please! This blog is meant to be at least a bit more kid friendly, even if there are more mature topics

I am also a furry so if you do not like them then please leave here

I am also questioning if I am a therian and fictionkin. I have done research on both and I am now taking them into consideration. Im not gonna label myself yet because I still might not be, but if anyone has helpful info on them then please do share :)

I have a secret draw box! if you wanna draw for me anonymously, you can go here to do it! I check every couple days.

Ask box: Open

Ship requests: closed. Uhhh i frogor to update this for a while so uh yeagh.

Ask me stuff: Always open unless the ask box is closed

Tell me silly things: Yes I want to talk to people!! Please give me silly asks i need them....

art requests: not open sorry :( artblock is blocking my art so

I wanna make my blog more organized now so I am going to start tagging stuff

#my art Art that is made by me

#Art request anytime my art requests are open I will tag it with this

#ask An ask that I have answered, this also applies to anon asks

#Star.TXT document this is for anytime I am just talking

#vent this if for anytime I just need to talk and vent about stuff

#lil starz art this is for my really old art, such as the ones near the beginning of my Tumblr journey

#Silly chat this is me and my mutuals little chats! Like if they send a lighthearted friend ask I will tag it with silly chat

IF YOU DONT WANNA SEE A CERTAIN TAG THEN FILTER IT

I rarely block people but I still will on occasion. Please don't take any hard feelings if I do block you.

Basic DNI such as NSFW blogs, homophobes, transphobes, fatphobes, racists, antifurries and antitherians, and zionists

Cool moots who you should go check out if you like my blog:

@critter2: My IRL bestie that ive been with for a long time. We've been together through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. The bestie ever :3

@cookieeevee: An amazing friend! The first person to ever really DM me on here and I'd like to say that we've grown to be good friends. We have amazing little chats and she's an amazing person! Their art is also so soft and squishable! Go check em out

@sleepinginmute: one of my first moots! Such an amazing and silly creature. Its art is amazing, and even though im unsure if it considers me a friend, I know that I do. I really do wish the best for it and I hope that it can be truly happy someday

@cumulusbrume: we dont interact very often anymore, but I still find him a great moot to this day

@athofear: I fun lil fello!! Always a fun time interacting with em. Their art is also superrr shaped and silly!! Always a treat to see them on my dash

@meowyncherry: we dont interact much but he gave me the kinitopet brainrot and their art is also super blorbo so :3

@suburbandrifts: once again, we dont interact very often but they seem very cool and silly/pos and their art is incredibly good! mm the colors are coloring/pos @weeeeblr:!!! The art ever actually!!! Idk how we're mutuals cause hes super cool actually. Great art, and his designs for basically everything is peak/srs

@bananacat76: the bestie does indeed make art!!! And said art is amazing!! Such a cool person and fren :3 their style is also incredibly interesting I need to study it under a microscope/aff

@keeper-of-magic:!!! Cool person alert!!! Their art is amazing and their worldbuiding skills are super awesome!!! I also gotta try and play DND with them sometime.... I have no idea how to but it seems fun, just like them!

@badgerfrost: the silly ever!!! Its art is very well colored and its basically eye candy at this point, and ever time we interact I KNOW its gonna be a goood time

@draagu: ohhhh the silly!!! We dont interact much but shes a super cool moot and idk how we're mutuals like. ??? awesome person with awesome art FOLLOWED ME????? Awesome

@dazzoot: we have interacted a total of like 1 time but cool mutual deserves an honorary tag

GO CHECK ALL OF THESE SILLY PPL OUT!!! THEY'RE AWESOME :333 (if I forgor anyone i am so sorry. Also if you want me to untag you just ask. I dont wanna make anyone uncomfy)

Talking to people spooks me

I have anxiety so please be patient with me, I usually overthink what I am going to say and then end up saying something either really stupid, kinda weird, or I just don't respond.

I am mentally a 5 year old so please inform me if I did something wrong, I usually wont notice or I will think its not an issue. Please be patient with me.

if you sat through all of that, congrats! You get rw gifs now :)

[brick-a-doodle-do]

It's been forever since I've been on tumblr so have an ask for the ask game thing, 1, 2, 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 10, 121, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50

-Small brain anon

sb. you've struck again. just for you, since i haven't seen you in a while, i will answer all of them. except for the ones i have asked: 2, 3, 8, 12, 15, 18, 19, 22, 23, 27, 33, 39, 44, 45, and 50!

answers under cut,,,

1 : if you have a lighter, what color is it?

i have one, but i don't really use it. also i have no clue where it is. it's blue tho!

4 : how often are you on tumblr?

oh god. i have a horrible addiction to like constantly checking it, which i am not proud of and it's really annoying. but i'm not on tumblr for longer than 5-ish minutes before i decide to close the tab. but that cancels out when i open the tab again a few minutes later. trying to fix it. but i am pretty much always on tumblr and check it at the most every 5-6 hours :/

5 : are you only doing this because you're bored?

mmhh when i rbed it, yes, but now i want to do something with my fingers and this is a good fix :D

6 : what blogs do you mostly interact with?

depends on what "interact with" actually means but in terms of actually interacting with blogs that also interact with me, (moots, essentially), it's really only becky and squishy on a day-to-day basis. sometimes 3d and sloth pop up tho. i interact, (in terms of liking, rb-ing, etc.), with a whole bunch of ppl tho ,,,,

7 : can you swim?

yes!

9 : which do you prefer, cotton candy or funnel cake?

if i've had funnel cake, i don't remember it. so cotton candy. but honestly funnel cakes look way better ,,,

10 : have you ever used a fork as a bookmark?

no i have not! i'd easily consider it though ,,

11 : bass or drums?

god both are so awesome. but i'd say bass. BUT my exception for that is mark boardman that man makes their songs so fkn amazing have you HEARD the drums in golden hour or oyygc? LIKE MCXMCMXN his drums with wil's voice is just so lovely.

13 : can we be friends?

yes!

14 : do you admire the clouds and the color of the sky?

all the time. being in a car is so lovely because MMMM SKYYY !!!

16 : a netflix series that's your favorite?

the haunting of hill house/bly manor and midnight club are all beautiful shows and i fkn love them ,,, i also love orange is the new black even tho it isn't a netflix original ,,

17 : an earliest obsession you can remember?

g/t. it's a basic answer but looking back on my life, all the way from when 4-year-old me asked my dad what he would do if i shrunk, to writing a story about a giant when i was in 3rd grade to whatever the hell my fanfiction writing has turned into which started in 2018—it's a BIG part of me and has been for a while

20 : have you listened to the crane wives?

UGHMGDS,VXMCM qasdvkmdscMDFFSDVCX I LOVE THE CRANE WIVES. I AM CONSIDERING ASKING TO GO TO ONE OF THEIR SHOWS CAUSE IT'LL BE IN PHILLY !!!!! I LOVE THEM SMM

21 : your first celebrity crush?

aiden gallagher . don't ask. and it only worsened with tua. but i am out of that phase now ^_^

24 : what have you learned about yourself?

that i'm more like my mother than i ever thought i'd be eueue (in a /neutral way cause she's a great mom i just find myself doing the habits of hers that i never liked)

25 : can you tie a cherry stem with your tongue?

ah, no. i've tried once and gave up ,, i hope to eventually be able to do it tho !!

26 : do you believe in aliens?

in a way, yes, because there is a lot in the universe and i refuse to believe there isn't some type of life out there, but it's my same response with ghosts: i want to believe

28 : an unusual song that's your favorite?

LOTS. to narrow down on one, any of my favorite broadway songs. in any scenario i would never put it on a playlist but i fucking love broadway sm it itches something in my brain. probably something from heathers cause that's such a dark humor-ed thing,,,,

also a tv show called earth isn't my favorite but it's really sweet idek why i enjoy it sm <3

29 : the last thing you ate?

candy cigarettes !! the chalky ones

30 : do you have a favorite time to write?

mainly at night, from the hours of 12-1 when i really want to sleep but there's a scene in my head that won't leave >:)

31 : have you gotten bitten by a dog?

of course,, but nothing dangerous just when they accidentally bite while playing

32 : do you write better with a pen or pencil?

my handwriting is better with a pencil but it's easier to write with a pen imo

34 : when you hear "peace" what do you think of?

mmhghh satisfaction on everyone's person.

35 : a school subject you're good with?

honestly i'm pretty good at math. i'm not the best and it gets overwhelming but it always does ,,,,

36 : how many alarms do you have set?

one, (for 9:40 am), and i don't follow it. i mean not usually. i'll either wake up before it, sleep through it, or wake up to it and then fall back asleep eueu

37 : do you shop at thrift stores?

when my mom takes me to one, yeah !

38 : what's the meaning behind your url?

mm i have good stuff for this. my name is brick, of course, and then in the show derry girls one of the characters is constantly saying 'fuck-a-doodle-do' for a few episodes and then i decided to combine the two. it has NOTHING to do with cock-a-doodle-do, chickens do not deserve my respect.

40 : who's your favorite character to write?

i feel like tommy is my go-to, and yeah the narrator for him is fun asf but i like writing techno. he's fun. i like him a lot more than i did before which i'm really happy about because i found his character very intimidating to write :D

41 : you gotta have a favorite beatles song, what is it?

this may change, but it's twist and shout. it reminds me of my dad :D

42 : earphones or a speaker?

earphones for the quiet me-time, and speaker for the times when i'm feeling extroverted or when i'm in the car w my mom :)

43 : what do you remember from your childhood?

this is such a vague question. i uHNMM remember lots of stuff, but mostly my annual trips to disney world with my family !!

46 : a christmas song you secretly like?

there is no secret here, but i LOVE ¿dónde está santa clause? it's mildly racist but i love the ending sm 😭

47 : book stores or record stores?

book stores !

48 : how weird were these questions

i found them pretty neutral eueueu and fvcnhcjfdbbcx ahhhh finally i am at the end !!!!!

49 : what scents do you like?

gasoline and chemical-induced markers...i'm not ashamed to admit that. they're so bad for you but they SMELL SO GOOD why ??????? also i love pinapple scented stuff :D

50 : are there 20 new aus i have to catch up on?

ah, YES. yes there are. they should all be on my masterpost! but that's just the names of them, altho i'm sure if you searched on my page you could find them easily ,,,

,,, ah. well. i'd say thank you for the ask....but am i really thankful? /j of course i am. hope you are having a good day and are doing good ! <3<3

[cinhomi]

HI RORA I sent you an ask yesterday about how apparently my ask did not get eaten, just my notifs cause i have your notifs on and tumblr never sent the notif about the ask that got answered-

and then tumblr ate that ask. how ironic.

anyways yes! I am so sorry that I've been inactive sending asks, I got a nasty cough and have been coughing my lungs out for the past few days 💀 it's much better now tho! hope uni has been treating you well (on the other hand here uni can eat my ass-)

yeah small update on moot guy: well a few days ago he said that he'd be occasionally online if he had time to reply to me, and then today he sent me this really long message about how he'd be helping out with his prof and his prof would teach him stuff, so he'd be really busy and he was sorry that he'd be leaving me with nothing. said he'd be thinking of me a ton no matter what. I sent a really short answer bc I wasn't sure what to say. he apologized again and said he was sorry and please don't be mad...I think he's having a panic attack as he posted on his blog. 💀💀 I love him and I wish this isn't ending this way but god if this shit isn't tiring atop my already very loaded plate. at the end, I'm a girlie who believes firmly in equal standing, so there's no point if he'll be gone, I guess. if he won't reach out, then I won't come back.

anyways, enough sad updates here! (skzflix broke my goddamn heart) aside from skz, who's your favourite musical artist? I'm curious 👀

- titracha nonnie :3 (literally copying this ask rn in case tumblr eats it again 😩) (second time sending this ask help)

hi sweetie! I did imagine you sent something but it disappeared again, happy to receive your asks again and to know that you're doing better now 😊 and yeah, I got this one twice but it happens often, don't know why! tomorrow I'll take a day to stay home and work on some projects so hmm it's kicking me hard and it hurts but I'll get through it in a way or another :)

I understand caring about someone and all but we all have limits. you're right and you have to treat yourself like you deserve and yes, we have to respect others but when things get to the point where we are stressed/sad/anxious because of a situation we're in it's time to slow down or stop. it's exacly what you said at the end, "if he won't reach out, then I won't come back" you got straight to the point. I'm sorry this is happening... I already said that I've been in the same situation (more or less, maybe a bit more intricate) and it's a saddening experience. hope you'll be good soon.

skzflix was devastating and I could talk about it endlessly because I love skz lore sm, with all the theories and stuff!!

and you know who makes these things too? Twenty Øne Piløts, my favorite band of all times! been a fan since 2016 and no one could ever take their place... they literally saved my life.

but I listen to all genres of music so I have a pretty long list of artists I like... I generally prefer death metal (yeah I'm serious I'm a metalhead lol), visual-kei, and all that hard/chaotic music. it's actually a very difficult question for me, always, so I generally send my spotify account to people to make them understand a bit!

if I really have to choose someone beside TØP it's Diaura, another band. I can't list anyone else or I'd feel guilty and want to say everyone... take a look at my playlists if you'd like, or at my followings!

if you want to know for k-pop, beside SKZ being my ult group I love BTS, NCT (all units) and recently Ateez too... I'm back from a long break so yeah, I'm starting to know them just now haha (as for girl groups I don't like them too much but I enjoy (G)-Idle and LESSERAFIM a lot). fav korean solist rappers are BewhY, Villain and Gwangil Jo!

[boopeth]

I was tagged by @sebfreak . Thank youuu.

nine albums or songs I've been listening to lately x nine people I’d like to get to know better x tag game with no name

1. why did you choose your url? it's a long story that i've shared before, but basically video games and brainrot.

2. any sideblogs? if you have them name them and why you have them. lewdeth, its a nsfw blog so that this one doesn't ever lose the avatar like my old blog did in 2018 purge.

3. how long have you been on tumblr? 2012

4. do you have a queue tag? uhh yeah i think i used to have like a special tag, but right now i just do q

5. why did you start your blog in the first place? i honestly cannot remember at all. i was bored, facebook sucked, myspace was gone, reddit was boring, twitter was annoying, i think it was just the only place left.

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp? looked cool, planning on changing it again soon

7. why did you choose your header? looks cool, if part of my header is the like title it's an elden ring reference from the best guy in the dlc.

8. what’s your post with the most notes? had to check cause i didn't know but it seems to be an anime cap from tsukimichi that says cats are great.

9. how many mutuals do you have? idk lots im not gonna count . i generally check out all the people who follow me. if i like their blog i follow back,

10. how many followers do you have? 1835

11. how many people do you follow? 1091

12. have you ever made a shitpost? yes, frequently.

13. how often do you use tumblr each day? really depends on the day. lots of days i don't even get on, and other times im on every few minutes in between doing stuff.

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? not really, at least not for the purpose of tumblr. there has been people that i've gotten close to that we argued about random stuff but had nothing to do with tumblr.

15. how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts? i really don't care for it. im nihilistic as fuck me reblogging that shit isn't gonna fix anything. it's not what im here for, and it's why i don't like twitter. i just wanna see cool pics, anime tiddies, and horror aesthetic stuff.

16. do you like tag games? i like the fact that people tag me in stuff cause it makes it seem like they're either interested in getting to know me more, or that they think im a cool mutual who they wish to tag.

17. do you like ask games? yeah, it's fun to have people interested in you by asking stuff about you, i feed on the validation.

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? i don't think anyone. tumblr seems to be this weird place where even if you're a 10k+ followers blog, you're still the same kind of internet degen that a smaller blog is. like people are mostly here to see your reblogs which most blogs don't create.

19. do you have a crush on a mutual? not particularly. but all my moots are hot af so all of them.

20. what is the last song you listened to? Baddadan(feat. IRAH, Flowdan, Trigga & Takura) by Chase & Status.

21. what are you currently watching? oshi no ko s2, nokotan brainrot, TOG s2, slime S3, and other anime from this season.

22. sweet/ savoury/ spicy? i like all. major sweet tooth but i have an obsession with hot cheetos so spicy?

23. what is your current relationship status? dead inside

24. what is your current obsession? uhh nothing in particular? still do gacha games, league swarm has been fun. always obsessed with music. energy drinks lately.

25. what are nine albums/ songs you’ve been listening to lately?

songs cause albums would be too hard, gonna hit shuffle on my liked song and put them on here, indecision. prepare for the roller coaster

Ew - Joji

Man on the run - Dash Berlin

Drowning - A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie.

The hand that feeds - Nine Inch Nails

Magnetic - ILLIT

HP - Maluma

Shame - 2Chainz, Lil Wayne

Dead Talk - Wind Walkers

it's my fault - Willow if you actually listen to these 9 songs my bad

i tag : @dreamweazel (got it right this time), @grimmscythe , @ghvsts, @creepingkyofu,

nine albums or songs I've been listening to lately x nine people I’d like to get to know better x tag game with no name

(thank you for the tag @lianhuajing !!)

1. why did you choose your url? uh. it was a play on "rose tinted glasses"

2. any sideblogs? if you have them name them and why you have them. nope!

3. how long have you been on tumblr? I think 2022? i knew about it before, just never bothered to make a blog

4. do you have a queue tag? don't kill me, what's a queue tag?

5. why did you start your blog in the first place? I had some Thoughts about Blue Lock and wanted to post meta for it

6. why did you choose your icon/pfp? uhh Flora.

7. why did you choose your header? Reo is one of my Blorbos and I just really liked that panel of him

8. what’s your post with the most notes? probably the "do you download fics" poll

9. how many mutuals do you have? about 20? i don't remember

10. how many followers do you have? 120?

11. how many people do you follow? 91

12. have you ever made a shitpost? yes. i think.

13. how often do you use tumblr each day? an hour?

14. did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? nope

15. how do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts meh. some of them are funny i guess

16. do you like tag games? yep! it's nice interaction

17. do you like ask games? i do! but uh. it's a silent empty void here. an echo chamber, if you will.

18. which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? i have no idea but i see @kingsandbastardz a lot in the mlc community

19. do you have a crush on a mutual? nope

20. what is the last song you listened to? 若梦 by 周深

21. what are you currently watching? i just finished The Double! probably starting on Dashing Youth next

22. sweet/ savoury/ spicy? savoury!

23. what is your current relationship status? single

24. what is your current obsession? The Double,,,,

25. what are nine albums/ songs you've been listening to lately?

若梦 by 周深

如故 by ���碧晨

如�� by 张碧晨

借过一下 by 周深

万物不如你 by 张杰

Our dawn is hotter than day by Seventeen

Hitorijana by Seventeen

my music taste is kinda...i tend to stick to a few artists...

26. tagging (no obligation to do this!) @randomingoftherandomness @good-vs-evo @chrysofightme @bbcphile

[crispy-chan]

a guide how to not f*ck over your writers

hello, i am joining the bandwagon with my own two cents on how tumblr interactions have gone from shit to lower shit.

first of all, let me just stress how much i appreciate readers who interact with fanfics. you guys are the true mvp's and i applaud you for doing god's work. (also let's be real a significant portion of those readers are fic writers themselves).

second of all, i want to say that i'm not trying to be “ungrateful” or sound like a prick, i just see so many writers leave this site because they feel unappreciated, alone or they think that nobody enjoys the fics they work hard on.

honestly, there were/are times where i think if this is even worth it. i get so much enjoyment from this, it's a hobby that allows me to be creative, to escape reality and have a little fun. yet i feel like what i'm doing is just good for nothing since it seems like people are allergic to me on this site.

it truly means a lot to us when you guys interact. it doesn't even have to be much, just a short comment, but it can still make our day

now onto the ways you can support your fave writers:

1. interact with the fics -- comment, reblog, send asks. trust me, you can't go wrong with this one. don't be afraid to send an incoherent wordspill or type out that essay in caps lock where you go nuts about your favorite scenes, comment on the characters and their development or compliment the author's writing style. again, i guarantee you'll receive answers that are similarly incoherent as the author tries to not lose their shit bcs what the fuck? someone is finally interacting with my stories

2. recommendations -- you can rec fics to networks for various events, send your recs to your moots or maybe even to fic rec accounts who accept recommendations. even by reblogging - you're already basically doing this. it can make our day when we see that someone recommended something we worked on to someone else :)

3. interaction -- usually, most authors on here wouldn't mind more asks that don't even have to be about fics. you can ask how their day was, talk to them about a favorite book/movie/song literally whatever. i feel like i don't really have much to say on this topic cause i don't really get these types of asks :} but yeah, i think most of us would feel really touched if people wanted to talk to us outside of our writings. note: if you're shy, you can go on anon :> it's there for a reason :P

4. criticism -- now be careful - this one is tricky. you should first make sure if the person is okay with you giving some constructive criticism. if it isn't mentioned anywhere on their page/at the bottom of their fic, just ask. i for one wouldn't mind hearing things like “just a suggestion but i think you could work on your descriptions more” or “be careful - you often use the same words in one paragraph” etc.

lastly, i wanted to stress that you shouldn't force yourself per se to do these. nobody wan't your feedback if it isn't genuine. i just feel like people think “oh well if i won't comment, i'm sure somebody else will-” bullshit! that's the problem here. this mindset is what has to change. if you want the writing community to not wither into dust, you'll have to give something. in this case it's interactions and feedback.

i won't go into the details of how long it takes to write but as someone who writes primarily long fics, i can tell you it's extremely time consuming. and i spent the past fifteen minutes typing this post instead of working on yellow wood @_@

so yeah, this is a desperate cry from me. i'm hoping that if you're a silent reader/serial liker who doesn't leave feedback, you'll learn something new here. thank you for reading so far and i hope you have a lovely day <3

[iichaeyj]

omg can you please do it for enhypen too? i saw your moot game and it was really cute

enhypen as kdrama cliches . . . ♡

PAIRING: enhypen x gn!reader

GENRE: fluff

WARNINGS: not proof read at all lol

WORD COUNT: 1.8k

A/N: tysm for requesting this!! hopefully you like it!

HEESEUNG: past life lovers

i love this trope omg

the one where the two leads were in love in their past lives (and it ended tragically)

maybe you two were in danger and he was killed trying to protect you

or he was the one who had to kill you to protect you from something

classic kdrama stuff, yk?

this concept just suits heeseung so well imo

smth about randomly meeting heeseung somewhere

maybe you saw him at a party or you passed by him on the street

and you just feel this weird connection and he feels it, too

so you both sorta freeze as you make eye contact, the world moving around you as you two stare at each other

and you eventually have to move on and go about your day, but the image of the stranger who feels so familiar to you doesn't leave your mind

and you meet him somewhere else the next day

maybe he's your boss at your new job

but everytime you see him, you feel this weird sensation in your heart

the feeling that the thing you've been looking for your whole life has been found

that's how heeseung makes you feel

and it's the same feeling you had when you loved him in the past <3

examples of kdramas that include this trope: extraordinary you, hotel del luna (sorta), and goblin

JAY: demon/fantasy

okay just hear me out

tbh i didn't think this suited jay that well when i first thought of it

but the more i thought about it, and my bad boy!jay agenda, it sorta makes sense

in fantasy kdramas, there are often ones where the male lead is a demon

and he typically comes off as this tough, brooding figure who has never experienced love (and claims he can't feel such things)

but it all changes when he meets the protagonist who is kind and can understand him

as they spend more time together, their feelings for each other grow stronger

and just think about this but with jay

demon!jay (or any other mystical being) who only comes to meet you because maybe you accidentally summoned him or smth

and he's sorta kept around bc you don't know what you even want from him

and although he seems cold and rude in the beginning, he begins reaching out for you more and more as time goes on

and soon enough, he's falling in love with you

also, this trope just produces the most soft-hearted men (most of the time) who only love their lover and that is so <3

just picture jay, a literal demon, pining for you like #@*$&#$!$!

and ofc there's the dilemma of whether you two will be able to even be together

but he's a demon, he'll figure it out

and you two are now together, whether you two are both human or demon or whatever <3

examples of kdramas that include this trope: doom at your service, goblin, and my roommate is a gumiho

JAKE: love at first sight

this suits jake so well :(

imagine accidentally running into jake at a cafe or smth

and your drink spills on him

and you're apologizing profusely and such

and you look up at him and make eye contact

and he's just staring back at you with such lovestruck eyes????

like you're just trying to apologize, but jake can't even hear anything cause he's so focused on taking you in

you're just so stunning and attractive and you make him feel so ??? in a way he can't explain

and this is even better if he's the popular, confident type

he, who is normally very confident and poised, just stuttering after meeting your eyes

so basically, you're all like ??? trying to say sorry, while he's staring at you like <3_<3

and just imagine him chasing after you??

like you sorta run away after that, embarrassed to have spilled your drink all over him

and he's so enamored by you that he just begins searching for you

he goes to the cafe everyday at the same time, hoping you'll come in

or if you two meet at a cafe in a university, he asks his friends if they've seen anyone like you around

im basically spreading my puppy bf!jake agenda atp but idec

and when he does find you, he goes all <3_<3 again while trying to ask for your number

so cute im throwing up

examples of kdramas that include this trope: business proposal, descendants of the sun, and strong woman do bong soon

SUNGHOON: opposites attract

we all know how i feel about sunghoon and enemies to lovers <3

but this trope could be enemies to lovers, or it could just be ppl who are very different from one another falling in love

this could also suit sunghoon as a ceo tbh

he's known as this cold, rich ceo who's attractive but apparently not very nice

and you're his new secretary who's been told that you shouldn't try and approach him in a friendly manner

but you're friendly and bold, so you do it anyway

and sunghoon is sorta cold at first, dismissing you as strange and telling you to go away

but as you keep persisting, you manage to become a daily sight for him

when you greet him in the morning, he begins greeting you back and making conversation

he knows you're different from the other people in his life, and he enjoys having you around

it's sort of like he's cold to everyone but you

i also see a lot of angst potential in this trope omg

you two have very different backgrounds (regarding your wealth and reputation and such), and that could pose as a problem

idk but this trope w/ ceo!sunghoon ??? in love tbh

examples of kdramas that include this trope: run on, business proposal, and it's okay to not be okay

SUNOO: love triangle

idk but i just see it

sunoo's your best friend who's had your attention all his life

you two had something special and it was obvious to everyone

the way you two looked at each other said enough about how you both felt

but bc you two were so precious to each other, he was afraid of making the first move

he had just figured that it was all going to work out

after all, you two only had eyes for each other

but then someone else comes in

the company you work at just employed your new coworker

and he seemed into you at first sight

the new guy just kept approaching you both in and out of the office

and ofc, sunoo saw all of this

he saw the way the guy was practically chasing after you everytime sunoo came to pick you up after work

and he was feeling something that he hadn't felt before

he was scared of losing you

and he was jealous that someone was taking your attention away from him

and tbh, i feel like he'd just sorta snap at that point

even though you two had previously been very cautious about your feelings, he was suddenly crossing over the line you two had been too afraid of jumping over

he was suddenly being affectionate with you in public and began asking for your attention anywhere you two went

and ofc, the other guy stood no chance

not when sunoo was yours and you were his since the beginning <3

examples of kdramas that include this trope: cheese in the trap, nevertheless, and love alarm

JUNGWON: business partners/working together

to be specific, i'm talking about the classic kdrama trope where the leads are forced to come together because they have a mutual goal and/or just work beside one another

just think about jungwon and you who work together in the same company

you two are the heads of two different groups (like maybe you're head of the designing team and he's the head of the marketing team or whatever)

so you two have never really interacted with each other personally

but one day, you two are tasked to work together on a big project

and i just picture a lot of arguing at first

you two have totally different ideas on how you want your project to turn out

but you two have to spend time together (or else you two might get fired)

so you collaborate using all your ideas

and you two gain mutual respect for one another

but as you two spend more time together, your friendly relationship begins to turn into a romantic one

i imagine a lot of mutual pining and small accidents that make you two like each other even more

like think about you and jungwon working late together one night

and all the lingering stares and the gentle brushing of hands against each other

or him moving closer to take a look at your work, coming up from behind you and leaning down so that his head is right next to yours

the tension is insane

and it's all up to one of you two to confess (if your pride allows it)

examples of kdramas that include this trope: run on, start up, and itaewon class

NIKI: hopelessly pining

i've said it before, but niki and the best friends to lovers trope <3

he's been your best friend since you two were in middle school

and now you two were going to the same university

you've only ever seen him as your best friend

you've talked to him about love before, but he's never been the main subject

but he's actually been in love with you for years now

he hadn't realized it until the last year of high school, but he was completely head over heels for you

i can imagine all the angst omg

just niki trying to control his new feelings for you while you're totally oblivious to them

and imagine jealous niki omg

him getting jealous over every guy that tries to get your number, sometimes pretending to be your bf or just casually slipping an arm around your shoulder

and you're just totally oblivious

you two have been affectionate with each other since you were little

it was no different now than it had been in the past (at least that's what you think)

but as you two try and navigate your first year of university, weird things begin happening

niki becomes more open about his feelings in a way you can't understand

you don't understand why he glares at any guy that comes near you

you don't understand why he begins getting more cautious of hugging you or holding your hand

you don't understand why he can't look you in the eye anymore

but maybe with a heated argument and an angry confession, you'll realize why

examples of kdramas that include this trope: dear m, fight for my way, and weightlifting fairy kim bok joo

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[ddejavvu]

hiii, i'd seen you quite often on my dash with some of the moots and i thought i'd follow ya.

also, hearty congratulations on achieving your milestone :D here's to many more <333

i'd like to participate in your event if it's possible and ask for this:

911 calling - send me a trope and a character, and i’ll write about what it would be like! (ex. enemies to lovers with regulus black)

I'd like forbidden love with derek morgan if possible pleaseeee? thank you so much!!

come celebrate 2.5K with me!

911 calling - send me a trope and a character, and i’ll write about what it would be like! (ex. enemies to lovers with regulus black)

i recognize you too! happy to meet you :D i am so head over heels for morgan oh my god thank you for requesting something for him 😭

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okay but let's go classic 'coworkers can't date'

so you're working at the bau as well and you've managed to land yourself the derek morgan

it had started as a drunk one-night stand but then you'd woken up to him making pancakes for you in the morning and you'd talked over breakfast and he'd asked you to continue seeing him

you had to keep it discreet, of course

and when i say discreet

i mean

discreet

your coworkers analyze microexpressions for a living

so you need to be better actors than they are profilers

thankfully, derek is pretty out there and affectionate with everyone

he's able to disguise his flirting with you as work flirting and not date flirting

buuuut as the weeks go on you start slipping up more and more

you drove spencer home one time because he needed a ride and you have this blanket on your seat and it sheds everywhere so he went home with all of this fuzz on his jacket

and what does he start noticing on derek's clothes all the time

the fuzz from your blanket

emily notices that you smell different one day, you're like i put on my perfume just like i always do!! she's like yeah no there's something underneath it honey <3

you make some joke about needing to shower again before she can start to figure out what smell is under it

because it's definitely either sex or derek's cologne and neither are things you want her to smell on you

penelope tracks you guys one time after spencer mentions the fuzz on derek's jacket and lo and behold

he's at your apartment for the entire night

you leave 5 minutes apart from each other in the morning so that it doesn't look weird when you get to work at the same time

but those two already knowww

they're waiting for you when you walk in and they're like. sit down.

they freak you out about protocol and unprofessionalism and respect for your job and all of these terms that genuinely have you about to cry

until they're like nAH DW ABOUT IT WE WON'T SNITCH LMAO

"We only scared you 'cause you didn't tell us right away, I should have been the first to know!" - Garcia

[fluffyfranny]

Hi!!! Since you said you liked Komahina! This is a bit of a sad fluff request. I tend to believe that one of Nagito’s worst fears is death, and it certainly doesn’t help that he has a terminal illness. But he keeps his usual composure in front of his classmates. That is, until one day when one of his symptoms gets really bad and he starts to panic. Hajime walks in on him in pain and freaking out and he drives him to the hospital immediately. Nagito ends up being okay in the end, but he eventually breaks down to Hajime and opens up to him about his fear of death. Then, Hajime would do the best he can to comfort him. And from then on, Nagito finally starts to be more open and honest with his classmates about how he feels. This would be set in a non despair au btw! Hope this is okay!

Hoo wee this was- a long time coming, to say the least... BUT IT SHALL BE DONE!

Finally getting to this ask after WAY TOO LONG. But justice will be served and I do hope this meets your ask expectations, Sof :3

Go check out this bean's work, it is *chef's kiss* MAGNIFIQUE- (And she's lowkey the best moot on here but you didn't hear this from me) >;3

This is in a non-despair AU, bt dubbs :3

TW for mentions of: mental breakdown, cancer, s**cidal ideations, death below the cut

Just his luck...

Or rather, just his lack of luck..

He was usually super laid back about concealing the fact that he was in pain. He would sit straight up in class while Ms. Yukizome lectured, hands folded neatly on top of his desk and eyes glued to the board as he let a smile grace his features.

There were days that Nagito's symptoms were a little more prominent than others, and his classmates saw right through him and his "composure." One time, his throat was extremely itchy and he was trying with all his might to suppress a coughing fit, causing his face to become extremely flushed and his Adam's apple to quiver in his throat. Akane had approached him during a break between lectures and questioned if he'd like to see Mikan, but he waved a hand in dismissal at her probe, saying it was just spring allergies starting to flare up.

Another day, as the class was outside having lunch, his stomach was acting up and preventing him from having an appetite as he sat by his lonesome under a shady tree. Gundham and Sonia took note of this especially, with the former stating that he sensed a dark presence within Nagito's aura and thought it best to accompany him during lunchtime to lessen the potential long-term effects of the times he was going through.

This was not the first day this particular symptom occurred; he often went throughout his days regretting eating full meals and started to cut down on portions in order to lessen the amount of ache he felt if another episode were to occur. Yet, through the pain, he trekked on, attempting to put something his belly each day even though the skin around his limbs and abdomen started to shrink and his ribcage began to show.

He appreciated his cohorts' efforts; they displayed that hope would not be entirely lost once he went on his merry way.

But it would all be in vain...

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Of all days for this to happen, it had to be his birthday...

Nagito had decided to get up early, freshen up, and be the first in the classroom for the day, which he successfully was. He took up the same position in his seat as he did in the past: back straight, hands clasped and eyes staring forward with the corners of his mouth quirked into a tiny smile as he waited out the final ten minutes before the rest of his comrades would start trickling in.

But behind this seemingly innocent facade, his hands were clammy with sweat. His spine shook from the strain. His eyes stung and his muscles twitched and burned from holding himself together for too long.

And his throat... it was killing him.

It felt like a wave of fire ants was crawling around the slowly narrowing airways; the dry, burning sensation seemed to amplify in intensity as each minute passed, becoming slowly more and more unbearable. But he didn't dare call out for help. If his luck still stood strong with him, this episode would pass just as the first student walked through the door.

But, when the doorknob slowly began to rattle and turn, it still burned. It still scratched and ached, no matter how many times he tried to wet his throat with his saliva. Any cry for assistance would probably produce nothing more than a raspy squeak.

In that moment, Nagito could have been drowning on his own breaths for all he cared. He could pass out and enjoy how his body gave out and slumped across the desk. The others would merely think he was catching a few extra winks of sleep before class, when in reality, he would be sleeping...

But not waking up...

"I could just let it take me..." His inner voice cooed, a single tear leaking from one of his eyes. "I could let myself give out...give up..."

"..-ito?"

A voice wormed its way into his head, trying to get his attention, but it was hazy. He couldn't give less of a shit. He was losing air.

Losing it fast, and yet so painfully slow...

"I could make a break to Mikan's office...take any pills I see-"

"You okay-?"

No, no he was not. He felt his face flush up to the point he could combust, and he heard minuscule gargles escape his throat. Tears were spilling faster and hotter now.

"Wait, this would mean I'd die...would it be so bad?"

"Nagito?"

"I don't wanna go though, not yet..."

"HEY!"

"I don't wanna die today-"

His body was shaking now, twitches racking every inch of his being before a particularly rough tremor rattled him to his core, along with the feeling of his shoulder being clenched. He craned his stiff neck up to try and see who it was through the tears...

"Ha-Hajime..?"

He practically forced himself to rasp his friend's name; the brunette's eyes practically blown out of his skull and mouth agape at seeing Nagito in such physical and emotional distress.

"Komaeda! Can you hear me?"

His ears felt like they were stuffed with cotton; Hajime's voice was immensely muffled. Dark spots were now clouding his vision along with the tears. Too much lost oxygen was getting to his brain. He tried to shake his head to the side to signal to his friend that he was anything but okay, only for his head to slump forward and causing the rest of him to slide out of his chair as he passed out mid-fall. Hajime gasped and slid back an inch before he shot his arms forward to latch around Nagito's waist and keep him from hitting the ground. Because he was so light, Hajime was able to lift him up with ease and make his way towards the door.

"Move, move! He fainted!" He pushed past his classmates that had begun to converge by the door, muttering 'sorry' under his breath every time he hit against someone.

Mikan was shouldered out of his way with a yelp as she and the rest of the crowd looked on at Hajime dashing down the hall with Nagito cradled in his arms. She called out to him in a last-ditch effort.

"Wh-where are you going with him? Let me see him!"

"Hospital! I'll be back!" Hajime shouted back, turning a corner out of sight.

There was a collective flinch from the class as they heard a door slam shut where Hajime and Nagito presumably exited. An engine revved before the harsh sound of tires screeching elicited some more squeaks from the crowd.

"D-do you think he- he'll be okay?" Mikan stammered to nobody in particular, biting her lip out of fear.

"Uncertain," Peko chimed in, placing a gentle hand on the nurse's shoulder, earning a slight flinch underneath her palm. "I know Hajime would do anything to make sure his class mates are okay, but this was quite sudden."

"Yeah, whatever the fuck happened with Nagito didn't sound like he simply 'passed out,'" Fuyuhiko huffed, doing air quotes around the last few words before crossing his arms. "The way Hajime sounded, it was somethin' way more serious than him just 'fainting.'"

"It did seem most troublesome," Gundham sighed, wiping a stray bit of hair from his forehead before looking up with a sharp glint in his eye. "I, as well as my dearest Dark Devas, have sensed that this flaring of troublesome energy may have the potential to extinguish the remaining bits of Komaeda's life essence if not dealt with properly."

This earned a few concerned mutterings before Mikan gasped and began to tear up. "D-do you think his...his-"

"His what, woman?" Kazuichi piped up, earning a yelp from the nurse once again. "What's wrong with him, man?"

"His...his cancer!" Mikan cried before covering her face, earning some much sharper gasps from her classmates. "His cancer m-might be back!"

"His WHAT?" Kaz practically screeched, causing Mikan to cry out again and shield her head as the mechanic nearly stuck his nose in her face.

"You heard her, Souda," Mahiru scolded as she lightly pushed at Kaz's shoulder, causing him to back away from the nurse before looking him in the eye. "Early on before he came here, Nagito was diagnosed with a serious case of lymphoma." This immediately made Kaz's forehead gain a sheen of sweat that wasn't there moments prior.

"And I th-think he passed out because the inflamed lymph nodes in his n-neck were keeping him from breathing enough, and THAT'S why he passed out!" Mikan muttered loud enough for him to hear to keep him from screaming at her again.

This earned a sigh from the mechanic as he shamefully glared at the floor, nudging at it with his shoe as the crowd grew silent again. After a moment more, the crowd began trickling into the room and took quiet seats, with Kaz almost taking up the exact same pose as Nagito had earlier, clasping his hands as he stared not at the board, but at them.

"Awe man," he thought to himself. "Now I feel like a dick for forgetting."

As Chisa began to stir up conversation with her students, Kaz remained silent as he turned his glance up to her, but not his mind.

"I hope he pulls through this..."

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Hajime lost count of how long he had been bouncing his foot. It felt like an innumerable amount of time before the doctors cleared him able to see Nagito. They said that the cancer itself hadn't come back, thank goodness, but the flareup he had raised their suspicions for just a moment.

As the doctor gave Hajime a pat on the back before leaving him, the other boy wondered what would have happened if he hadn't arrived to class when he did.

"There would've been a body discovery, that's what..."

This thought plagued him for a while before the brunette shook his head to clear it away as he entered the room.

Nagito was laying in bed, dressed in a light blue hospital gown and equipped with an oxygen tube around his nose. His hands lay flat in his lap as he blankly stared up at the ceiling, the rise and fall of his chest visible through the sheets.

"Thank God he's awake...and alive-"

Hajime lightly rapped a knuckle against the wall to alert Nagito of his presence. The latter moved only his eyes to glimpse at the former through his peripheral vision before the smallest, weakest of smiles twitched onto his face. Nagito gathered enough strength to turn his head to the side and lay it against the pillow to look Hajime's way.

"I'd hoped you'd still be here..."

Hajime let out a low huff of a laugh before seating himself on a chair next to the bed, giving the back of one of Nagito's hands a pat before returning his own to his lap.

"You gave us quite the scare back at school." Hajime tried to brighten the mood with some light humor. To much of his surprise, Nagito let out a tiny wheeze that he presumed to be a chuckle, before he noticed a glint in his classmate's eyes.

"Surprised it didn't come all the way back right then and there," he rasped, referring to his lymphoma. He's been in remission for quite some time now, so it wouldn't have been a surprise if it returned with full force. "Woulda been just my luck, cause, you know..."

"Yeah, I know," Hajime barely whispered, yet somehow was still heard. He reached out again to give one of Nagito's hands a rub. "Thank goodness it's not all back, though. You're lucky to have these renowned doctors and nurses to take care of you."

"I suppose so..." the other boy said airily before returning his gaze to the tile ceiling, the glint in his eyes more prominent now.

Hajime kept rubbing the back of Nagito's hand as they sat in peaceful silence, save for the hissing from the oxygen tube and the ringing of alarms and phones from the hallway outside.

"I almost died, you know..."

Hajime's eyes widened as his friend broke the silence with...that remark, of all things. He turned his own gaze to look him right in the eyes, even though he was not looking back at him.

"Seems like so..." He didn't really know how to proceed, so he chose his words carefully. "You were turning a bit blue back th-"

"Can I confess something?" Nagito interjected.

The brunette paused mid-sentence before giving a nod in his direction and trying out some humor again. "Sure, what is it? Are you gonna tell me that your love for hope was all a lie?"

A few airy laughs escaped Nagito before he let out a series of gritty coughs, putting his free fist over his mouth as Hajime gripped the other hand while he rode through this fit, fearing that another attack was about to occur. However, it never came, for the incessant coughing ceased after only a few seconds and the hand covering his mouth lowered back into his lap, the other gripping weakly at Hajime's hand that had loosened its own mini death grip on him.

"No, no, I could never admit that," he sighed. "Not even if I was on my actual deathbed."

Hajime squinted at this remark before shaking his head and returning his attention. "Then what do you have for me?"

"I..." Nagito paused for a moment, and Hajime feared that he had stopped breathing. However, his train of thought resumed.

"I was...afraid."

"Afraid?" Hajime gave a slight tilt of his head. "Of?"

"I was afraid I'd die..."

The air left Hajime's own lungs for a split second. "Die? You think you were about to kick the bucket back there?"

"I felt it coming, Hajime..." Nagito breathed. His grip had gotten a bit tighter on his hand. "I was being dragged towards its depths in that very moment as I struggled to breathe, and..."

Hajime let Nagito catch his breath and waited for him to continue, intent on hearing what his friend had to say.

"...I didn't wanna go."

"Wha-" Hajime choked back a cough of his own. "What do you mean you 'didn't want to go?'"

"You know how I always say I would be willing to die if hope promised to live on?"

Hajime nodded.

"Well, I know it would have if I went kaput right then and there, but..." Nagito choked again, but this time, not on his breath, but his own tears. They suddenly began to drip down his face in thin rivulets.

"I was afraid to die, and I always have been..."

This plunged the room into a prolonged bout of silence, save for the tiny, blubbering hiccups from Nagito, as the boys both processed what had just been said. Hajime couldn't believe it, and neither could Nagito.

"Well," Hajime finally broke the silence. "I'm glad you didn't, and- hey!"

The air left Hajime's chest as Nagito shot up from his bed and leaned over the railing to grip him in a bear hug, face immediately hiding in the space of Hajime's neck as he returned the embrace and caused his sobs to escalate from zero to a hundred in the blink of an eye, with them coming out louder and more numerous.

"Don't say the others would have missed me!" Nagito said between sobs, his grip tightening. "You know that Hiyoko is disgusted of me the most out of everybody, Fuyuhiko doesn't care about anybody other than Peko, and Mikan is afraid of talking to me!" Each instance was separated by a whine and a heavy sob before he ceased talking and just let himself cry, hoping his point got across to Hajime. It apparently didn't, because Hajime countered his claim.

"None of that is true, Nagito. Mikan is just spooked around anybody, Fuyuhiko just wants to make sure Peko is safe, and Hiyoko..." He paused before adding on. "Well, that's just Hiyoko being Hiyoko. The truth is, from what I heard when I rushed to drive you here, the others sounded afraid, too."

Nagito sniffled before lifting his head up to look at him. "Afraid? Of?"

"Losing you," the brunette admitted. "They sounded genuinely concerned. Would people that didn't care about you sound like that?"

Nagito went silent as he pondered this, loosening an arm from around him to wipe at his nose with his sleeve before immediately latching it back on again. "I- I suppose not, but-"

"You saying 'but' isn't going to change our perspective of you, Komaeda," Hajime scolded, earning a wince from Nagito before starting to gently run his fingers through his bleached locks. "I do apologize if we raised your supersitions about yourself, but just know that that wasn't our intention." Barely audible whimpers came from the crook of his shoulder where Nagito hid his face again. Hajime secretly smiled to himself, since he wasn't looking, and propped his chin on his head, moving his other hand to brush at the back of his head now.

"I...I know you meant no harm," Nagito admitted, voice muffled from hiding in Hajime's neck before removing himself and looking back again, still hugging the brunette. "I've just...had trouble wanting to talk about my issues with the others because..." Another pause.

Hajime nodded, signaling for him to take the time he needed to recuperate before continuing.

"Because I have my own trust issues. I don't trust myself sometimes, whether it be what I say, do or otherwise...exist." Hajime let out a sad sigh hearing this bit, giving him a little squeeze as he went on. "And because of that, I've been afraid the others wouldn't believe what I say if I vented to them, consensually or not."

"That's it then, huh?" Hajime whispered, not wanting to startle the other boy as he loosened his grip on Nagito. He gave one last nod into his shoulder before he pulled away as well, laying back onto the bed with Hajime's help and resting his hands in his own, giving them a loving squeeze.

"I'm glad we had this talk."

"So did I."

The two sat in silence once more before Hajime rose from his seat, holding a hand up in front of Nagito to reassure him that he wasn't going anywhere. He pulled out his phone and dialed a familiar number. It was Nanami's.

"I gotta give Chiaki a quick call, then I'll be right back," he winked. You rest up for the time being."

"I guess I can try," Nagito smirked with a wink of his own. "For you, at least." Hajime snorted just as Chiaki picked up the phone, causing Nagito to snicker as the brunette stammered and speed-walked out of the hospital room, face flushed and cheeks burning red. Nagito let out another airy laugh before returning his gaze upwards.

"He really is my hope, huh?"

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An hour later, after Hajime returned from his chat with Nanami and said he had to leave for a few minutes but would return as fast as he could, a multitude of voices was heard muttering and whispering outside of Nagito's room. His ears perked up as he began to prop himself up on his mountain of pillows.

"What is Hinata up to, I wonder?" He suspected to himself.

The muttering got louder as he heard the knob click and the door open, followed by it being silenced by a loud *SHHHH.* Nagito craned his neck to get a look around the corner, only for him to start tearing up again and cover his mouth with a hand.

"Curse you Hajime, you slick bastard..."

It was the entirety of Class 77.

Nidai and Akane came in boasting a huge cake, with the former eyeing the latter as if she would eat the entire thing any minute. Hiyoko begrudgingly carried in a bunch of balloons, the look on her face conveying her desire to pop them.

And Hajime strode back in, wearing the goofiest party hat he had ever seen. It had a little white pom-pom on the top and everything.

"Don't you think we forgot about what today really is about, Komaeda!" Sonia cheered from within the crowd.

"Rather, it's who today is about," Hajime corrected, sitting on the edge of the bed again and motioning everyone forward to get closer. "Happy birthday, Nagito."

"Really, Hajime?" Nagito blubbered, from behind the hand still smacked over his mouth. He lowered it to wipe it against his blanket before placing it over Hajime's. "After all the trouble I just put you through-"

"That's a thing from the past," the brunette reassured, craning back to look at all that had gathered around them. Nods were sent in unison in their directions before he gently smiled down at him. "I had a nice chat with everybody and explained the talk we had, and-"

"WE LOVE YOU, NAGITO!" Akane practically shouted, Nidai nearly having to slap a hand over her mouth to quiet her down, but instead settled for a low laugh and a nod in her direction. She got the message and clenched her jaw for a second before toning herself down. "Platonically, of course!"

"Yeah, cause Hajime does that in a romantic sense," Teruteru trilled from the front teasingly before Fuyuhiko grabbed him by the collar and dragged him to the back of the group with him. He gave a 'thank you' gesture to the yakuza, who merely nodded his head.

"What I was saying is that everybody understands what you've been through and will have your back if you ever need them, trust me." Hajime reassured Nagito again by looking back at everybody, who responded with varying smiles and nods. "You don't have to be afraid anymore."

The urge to leap out of bed and bear hug everybody was itching at the back of Nagito's brain, but he had to suppress his thanks. Instead, he gave the crowd a teary-eyed glance that conveyed just how thankful he was, a hand weakly rising and waving at all that were there before lowering it.

"Thank you all, really. From the bottom of my heart, I am confident saying this."

Everybody directed their attention towards him for what he would say next.

"You're my personal reason...that hope will never die. You are all my hope."

Various 'awe's and 'thank you's filled their air before a loud *BANG* startled the crowd, earning a shriek from multiple people, including Mikan, who had tripped and fallen, thankfully, into a chair, and not onto the floor. Everybody turned their heads to see Hiyoko with one less balloon and a suspicious looking needle in one hand.

"Yeah, yeah, we get it, let's just have cake already! Or I swear I'll do it again!" She raised the needle to another balloon, followed by a chorus of 'NO's, causing her to lower the appliance with a snicker before begrudgingly tossing it away.

Following that little spook, much cake and conversation was had amongst the class, with Nagito being the pinnacle of the day. He mentally pondered his gratefulness for the life that fueled his cohorts, Hajime, hope...

But most of all, himself...

"Thanks to you, Hajime, I no longer fear death."

[colorsofmyseason]

was tagged by @hoely-pavard, thank you!

why did you choose your url? it came from the title of a Japanese song from SHINee, "Colors of the Season", with a little tweak lol

any side blogs? no, but I have side insta/side twitter (I'm more active on them than my main insta/twitter though lol)

how long have you been on tumblr? i used to run a kpop tumblr on 2013-2014 (go check @neverendingfairy if you're interested lol) but i stopped posting on it when i got locked out of it and i made this new tumblr on mid 2020

do you have a queue tag? no and not creative enough to make one

why did you start your blog in the first place?  to simp over hot footballers and shamelessly advertise my fics lol

why did you choose your icon/pfp? basically i'm a leno trash. also he's smiling in the picture and is looking so happy :')

why did you choose your header? we won the 2020 fa cup?? guess that's enough for a reason

what’s your post with the most notes? the picture of the champions league trophy going through the airport x-ray i guess lol

how many mutuals do you have? dunno, quite a lot i think

how many followers do you have? 243 at the time of writing

how many people do you follow? 335 at the time of writing

have you ever made a shit post? i guess so haha

how often do you use tumblr a day? i’m addicted to this hellsite. help.

did you ever have a fight/argument with another blog? aside from some playful banter, thankfully not haha

how do you feel about the “you need to reblog” posts? like ‘what’s happening in-’ kinda post? if I think the cause is important then I will reblog, if not then no haha

do you like tag games? I LOVE IT! so yeah please tag me whenever and whatever you like my beautiful moots <3

do you like ask games? same answer as above

which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous? a lot i think especially the bayern-blr ones ahaha

do you have a crush on a mutual? not yet XD

once again thank you bb!

I’m tagging @manuelmueller @cinnamonstroll @fhoetball @zinzy @marcquez @slightlyconfuseddaydreamertrash @thegametheboysandthearsenal and anyone else who wants to do it, feel free to ignore though! love you all <333

[0ceanoflight]

My thoughts on Gaya Sa Pelikula now that I've watched all 8 eps.

Cause I need to write down my thoughts and Twitter's character limit just isn't enough so thank you tumblr. This is gonna be a rant

Also, just wanna say this is from the point of view of a gay trans masc enby, aka me.

First impression

Gaya Sa Pelikula is just.... Wow. It's hard to describe. I originally watched it cause some moots on Twitter kept talking about it and they recommended it to me. It doesn't take much for me to watch a gay show, so of course I checked it out. At the time I think maybe 2-3 eps were out.

I knew nothing about the plot. I had no expectations for it. Just hoping it didn't have any problematic stuff in it, hopefully some cute stuff, same as any other gay show. It was just some show to watch to pass the time. I was wrong. It's so much more than just a good show. It's rare for me to get THIS emotionally invested into a show.

From the first ep I thought "Oh, this is pretty realistic lol. I've said stuff like this", referring to Vlad's lines. That continued as I watched the remaining available eps. Later my moots mentioned that it was written by a gay man and I understood right away. GSP is a gay show with the intention of being very realistic. It wasn't just gay for entertainment's sake. It was gay for the sake for real gay people.

Characters

The characters are so well written. They are flawed. They're not perfect. They all have their own struggles that you wouldn't know until you sat down and talked to them. Their lines and personalities are real. They feel real. I've met people like that. I have friends like that. I see myself in them. Also the acting is incredible. Really brought it to the next level.

The Music

A golden sound track. Every song just fit. It felt like the songs were made for that scene. The lyrics, the vibe. There were so many times when I thought that lyrics perfectly fit the scene in a way that would make me connect even more to what was happening. Really couldn't have been better. 10/10.

The visuals and plot devices

The way everything seems to have a purpose. Everything seems to be interconnected. There were so many things that were mentioned earlier in the episode, or I'm previous episodes that you originally didn't fully understand, then they would come back and suddenly *mindblown*.

The lines in the first prom dancing scene in the first ep. The ghost stories (still blows my mind). Vlad not liking his hair being touch which wasn't explained till later. The keychain. The theme song test. The movie they were watching about the imaginary beach (I forgot the name). The reason behind Judit's seemingly fake/weird ally speeches. The reason why Karl always seemed so stiff and awkward. The closet. The orca. The remote. Ect.

All of that came back later in the show and added so much depth. The metaphors used seemed to almost add extra explainations. Like... they didn't just give more layers of complexity, but it gave us a stronger understanding of what was going on. Or at least it made it more emotional. Idk. I was just one of he people who read posts of others dissecting the show cause I'm not as good. Lol.

Also there were beautiful scenes visually. Karl's dance scene. Beautiful. The film scenes outside, looked gorgeous. The use of mirrors and the TV. Great. Awesome

Connections

There were a lot of things I connected to.

Vlad's lines like I mentioned above were among the first. I've personally said or thought very similar things. Or even those exact things. I was actually shocked at first. By how real that felt for me.

Vlad being lonely, but faking it. Aha. I'm an introvert, and people know it. As much as I need space, I get lonely very easily as well. And friends online sometimes aren't enough. It's not the same as having someone there. With covid, and the fact that all of my friends live far away or are normally too busy to meet up, I very rarely am actually with friends. It almost hurts tbh. Especially since I'm a very affectionate person. Also the gay yearning hours are real and powerful.

Karl's dance scene, letting out the inner femininity. So I'm a bit different. I never came out as gay. I'm a gay trans guy. People already knew, or assumed, I liked men. However I did have the struggle of inner femininity. I hated fem things up until I was maybe 15-16, maybe almost 17. I didn't know why I hated it, I just did. Clearly now I know why. However my evolution to being a fem guy from hating fem things happened around the same time as discovering I'm not actually a girl. It was confusing 3 years (yes it took me about 3 years to piece everything together, a bit longer to settle). My point is, once I opened up to fem things, it was beautiful. It really really was. I felt more comfortable. I felt freer. I went from "ew makeup, skirts, leggings, pink. I hate it". To wearing makeup, wearing leggings, liking pink, often painting my nails. I've worn pretty short shorts with a loose t-shirt and a cardigan. Peak fem. Felt great. I want to wear a skirt, but I'm too afraid to do that. I may feel better with being fem, but society is still society and I might get looks cause "wtf, a man wearing a skirt?". Maybe one day. Uhhh anyways. The times I've grown to become more fem felt like how watching Karl dance felt like. Just like that.

Karl's struggle with his sexuality. Ok again I can't relate on the gay part, cause my coming out was coming out at trans. However yea. That was an adventure. I remember being so confused in 8th grade & 9th grade. God that was.... something. At first I thought I just wanted to be more tomboyish, more androgynous. So I found androgynous girls with short hair and said "I want this". Everyone was confused. My friends said "is there a reason you cut your hair so short?". I was afraid of that question. At the time I didn't know why I was so afraid. I don't remember exactly what I said, but tbh I was pretty defensive. Of course I later realized why I felt that way. I remember finally figuring things out after I settled into knowing I was trans, I didn't know how to come out. I couldn't say it directly. In fact, I never did. To my friends I just said "he/him, they/them pronouns" when asked at events, and of course they knew, but didn't ask more. In fact one friend found out cause I wrote "agender" on a form cause he looked over my shoulder. For my family... I just dropped a big hint, and they understood something was up. I wasn't able to explain it well then either. It took another 2-3 months till I couldn't take it anymore and did my best to explain it better so they would take it seriously. I was afraid. I couldn't say it directly. I actually didn't come out to my my high school. I was too afraid. I had friends who were out and I was jealous. I was jealous of their bravery. Same as Karl to Vlad. I was out to friends, but couldn't be open in the real world, much like Karl. I was only out within the space of the GSA, and of the local lgbt center. That was my "apartment". It was only until after i graduated where I promised myself I would live my real self.

The prom dance scene. I missed my high school's prom too. I wasn't brave enough to wear a suit. That would be like coming out and I wasn't ready. So I missed that. I wouldn't have been able to be open of course. I went to the senior dinner. I guess that was the start of me trying to be open. I went in a suit. Tailored men's dress pants too. I went with friends.

Wanting to write my own stories. That's a big one isn't it? I never really do see myself in films or tv. An autistic mentally ill gay trans masc enby? Yea, not a thing. Not a popular role in hollywood, will never be. I'm not a writer, I wanted to be as a kid, I was going to go to uni for writing, but I'm not really good enough for that. I really really do want to see more of myself in media. I wish I could be able to create such things for other people as well. Cause things like Gaya Sa Pelikula are truly magical. It literally made me cry whenever something I related to happened.

[queerautism]

Am I exploiting my dog?

Yesterday I asked @severelynerdysheep if I'm exploiting my dog by having him as an assistance dog in training (assistance dog is the legal UK term for service dog), and they linked me to this article.

It's an incredibly bad piece. Let's go through it.

"Firstly, it should be obvious to most observers that many service animals are being harmed. Police canine units and military animals are often intentionally cruelly treated as part of the training process"

'Service animal' is not a term interchangeable with 'working dog'. These are not service animals and irrelevant to the discussion. Though, for the record, police and military dogs just shouldn't be a thing and their training is garbage.

"The question of exploitation and harm is more nuanced when it comes to service animals used to assist those with disabilities, such as emotional support animals or guide dogs for the blind."

Really, those are the two examples you're going for? Emotional support animals are NOT service animals, and do not need to have any kind of special training that a pet wouldn't have, or perform any tasks outside of their presence being a comfort. Lumping them together does a huge disservice to disabled people, and it's an extremely common misconception by people who know very little about actual service work.

Only mentioning guide dogs for the blind also isn't great, because it's the only kind a lot of ableist people know about and recognise, which means a lot of handlers get told we don't really need our dogs, because we aren't blind. You had an opportunity to actually bring up the amazing diversity of service dogs here (autism dogs, psychiatric service dogs, Medical alert dogs, etc) and educate people, but instead reinforced misconceptions and stereotypes.

"These animals are not usually subjected to stressors which any ordinary companion animal wouldn’t be"

This is not exactly true. Service dogs deal with many situations and environments ordinary pets don't, of course. But you cannot define for a dog what they should perceive as a 'stressor', anymore than you can decide what a dog should or shouldn't find aversive. Many dogs find loud noises stressful and aversive. Mine, as a service dog in training, does not, and hasn't ever, since he comes from a line of working dogs bred to be very 'gunsteady', which means hunting dogs who wouldn't be scared of the loud sound of a gunshot.

If a service dog finds these things stressful, they'll wash out and not be one anymore.

"these animals are still being exploited for human gain, they are bred, raised and trained solely for human benefit."

And we come back to the central idea of exploitation. I just don't get it. It's like these people can't imagine building a mutualistic relationship with a dog, based on trust, where you work as a team. Where the dog also benefits.

What do they think our day to day looks like? What exactly is exploitative about it?

"As for whether or not these animals would be better off were they not service animals, this is something of a moot point, since these animals are bred specifically for the purpose of being service animals."

Actually mostly they are not! Program breeding, where the whole litter is bred for a specific organization and all puppies are expected to be service dog prospects, is quite rare and very much not how most disabled people get their prospects.

It's a lot more common for good breeders with breeds and lines suitable for service work to place some puppies from each litter as prospects, if they seem to have the temperament for it.

As an example, my dog's breeder does not breed exclusively service dogs at all. They are working line poodles, and in my dog's litter there was a lot of variety! - Another one of them also went to service work, I believe two went into dog sport homes, another one into a dog conformation home, and the rest went to pet homes, all depending on their individual traits and what they would be happiest as.

"Service animals are currently very rarely drawn from rescue populations, but this seems like an obvious way to solve a lot of the ethical issues involved with using service animals."

Fun fact, I tried talking to a few rescues, including breed specific rescues, for a few months after I decided I needed a service dog myself. It was my first option.

They all ended up turning me away, saying the same thing. Their dogs had their own difficulties to work through, and the chances of being successful with this training are extremely low. 99% of them simply aren't suitable.

Proper service dog training takes about 3 years. Here you're asking disabled people to adopt dogs with unknown genetics and spend incredible amounts of money and time for a huge chance of failure. It's cruel and dismissive.

Even in the cases where rescue dogs have successfully become service dogs (which of course still happens), they often have a very short working life, because they haven't been bred responsibly and with all the proper health clearances, which leaves them at risk of serious health issues and early death.

"There are groups mounting pressure to only train rescued animals, contrary to popular belief, many breeds of animals are capable of being guide dogs or emotional support animals, and since many dogs in shelters are still young there is little reason to resort to irresponsible breeding practices to fulfil the demand for service animals."

If you want rescue only service animals, you literally don't give a shit about disabled people. We are acceptable casualties to you. What we actually need from our partnership with our dogs is secondary to your ideology here.

Rescue dogs can be excellent emotional support animals, I'll agree there. Because as I said, they aren't service dogs and they don't need any especial training. They are still pets.

They most often cannot be service dogs. Even if they are young, temperament in dogs has a huge genetic component. Dogs that end up in rescues are not responsibly bred (a responsible good breeder will take any dog they produced back at any time, and stays as a secondary contact in the dog's microchip in case they do end up in a rescue somehow), and their unknown genetics not only can cause issues with their temperament and health that makes them unsuitable for work, but also often mean they are not a representative example of the breed and do not show the usual traits that make that breed successful at service work when bred reputably.

Adult temperament does not fully develop until a dog is +3 years old. This means you could do everything right with a young rescue dog, only for them to develop dog reactivity or aggression once they fully grow up.

It is simply not fair to ask every disabled person who needs a service dog to put years of their life into this process while stacking the cards against them like this.

Actual good responsible breeders absolutely exist. They do right by their dogs and work their asses off to bring healthy, sound dogs into this world. No one is talking about irresponsible breeders here.

All of their arguments recap into this:

"1) The animal was not specifically bred for purpose and is a rescued animal.

2) The animal must be treated as a companion rather than a worker, and as such must be properly retired with a loving family once they can no longer work.

3) Animals should not be placed under any stress or put in danger.

4) There should be no viable alternative for the use of service animals."

1) Again, they usually aren't specifically bred, certain lines have a few puppies from each litter that have service work as the best fit for them.

2) Of course they are companions. We're a team. Of course they deserve a happy loving retirement.

3) You cannot avoid all stressors, that's life. Low levels of stress to be overcome actually help dogs build their confidence. Obviously none of us want our dogs in any danger.

4) if you think the stipulations you've presented for service dogs are sufficient to fullfil disable people's needs, I'd love to know what you consider to be a 'viable alternative', because something tells me it ain't gonna be good either.

"An example of this might be a therapy dog who has come from a rescue center as a young dog, and would probably otherwise have been killed."

Most places do not have an overpopulation problem so big they're killing young dogs at rescues. The UK sure doesn't. Young dogs get adopted extremely fast.

Also, a therapy dog is NOT a service dog. You cannot keep using these terms interchangeably and expect me to take your opinion on service dogs seriously.

A therapy dog is simply a pet as well, with a general calm and friendly temperament, that volunteers with their owner to meet and cheer up people. It's a completely different thing with different standards. Many rescue dogs can indeed be excellent therapy dogs!

"We do not have to deny that animal use is exploitation in order to justify service animals in some scenarios. Yes, service animals are being taken advantage of"

Still would love to hear how exactly I'm taking advantage of my dog, or what the alternative 'living with a dog without taking advantage of them' looks like.

"We are seeing some advancements in robotics which look promising as a replacement for service animals, so this may become a non-issue in the not too distance future."

Imagine complaining we're the ones not treating service dogs as living individuals but thinking they can be fully replaced by robots. Amazing.

"Regardless of your viewpoint on this, no negative judgement should ever be placed upon the people who require the use of service animals in order to function, it is not their fault that this is the option that has been given to them, and no one who relies on a service animal should be made to feel bad because of it."

You can say this as much as you want, but it's absurd. You're 100% being extremely ableist and asking disabled people to do things in the most costly, effort and time consuming way to fit in with a morality position which is clearly been developed with no real accurate knowledge of service dog work or training.

Plenty of us have chosen this option with full understanding of what it means, it hasn't been 'given to us'. Don't go 'oh the poor disableds don't know any better tho' like it absolves you of all the shitty things you've just said about us and our dogs.

Anyway I said my piece. Have a cute pic of my dog Kovacs, assistance dog in training for my Autism and CPTSD, currently almost two years old and living his best puppy life. I had to stop writing this for a little while many times because he demanded pets.

[seraphimguks]

Ship your moots with an idol !

omg i never got an ask like this before EVER omg this is soo exciting!!!!! sorry for being so late with this, I've been working on this ask ever since I got it! my life has been havoc for months so my mind really isn't the right place butttt lets start!!!!

I tried to diversify the idols mentioned and I hope you guys like the idols I chose for you :3

1. @todeobi as Mina from Twice! Honestly Gus was my first friend/moot on tumblr and she really gives a cute, soft spoken, adorable and caring vibe like Mina! Mina is too cute, too sweet and she gives me sweater-paws vibes, and that's exactly how I see Gus too! <3  Gus is also pretty soft-spoken but she always manages to convey her feelings and concern, no matter what. I also feel like Mina is the same, she may seem quiet, but in reality she shows her caring! side quite often to the members so yeah Also Gus also kinddd of has a duality about her, and Mina’s duality on stage is just WOW so yeah :3

2. @juyeonzz as Jimin from BTS! From whatever interactions I’ve had with Qiu, she really gives me those perfectionist, DOWN WITH CAPITALISM, yet those soft uwu please plant me soft kisses on my forehead or else I will scream vibes LOL hahaha (omg please don't take this seriously lmaoo) and I thought this perfectly equates her to Jimin!! Why I say this is because Jimin is also a perfectionist, he strives hard in whatever he does and often faces the repercussions of that. But his efforts and inborn talent really shine in the process! So like for qiu, she really tries her best in writing and her college work too!! also jimin can be very vocal about what he's thinking if he wants but at the same time there's no one softer than him :( So yeah, qiu reminds me most of jimin!!

3. @hwqll as Baekhyun from EXO! I just have an overall feeling that Han here gives me Baekhyun vibes cause she's cool and fun and super funny and soo chaotic at the same time!! That's how I envision Baek too, cause omg if you've seen his pre debut videos of him flipping inside a room full of his friends and being obssessed with the light switch????? Han gives those sweet yet SOO chaotic vibes and I love her for it and we STAN also not how baek looks like a cat and I envision han to also look like a CAT sooo- 

4. @kachulein as Joy from Red Velvet!

ok but KACHU IS SUCH A SOFTIE CUTIE and our wavelengths match so much that like I'm sad :((( she's so joyful and is so soft and very adorable, so I couldn't help but pictures Joy in my head. Joy's smile is filled with purity and love and when I tried to associate Kachu to an idol, filled with softness and kindness and then friendly vibes, I thought joy would be a perfect fit!! Joy herself is bubbly and cute and so adorable Jesus Christ, so I thought Kachu and Joy would be a perfect match <3  

5. @wenjunuwu as Ryujin from Itzy!

Gayatri gives me these cool girl, bitch better have my money type vibes ngl  LMAOOO I know how soft and sensitive she is but still haha I just see her as this super cool girl that I'm so lucky to be friends with! Also I really love how she's so consistent and always responds under any post I make, such a thoughtful bby!! And as much as I know about Ryujin, she's everyone favourite in the group even if you don't stan itzy lol. So I believe knowing how chill and relaxed, at the same time sensitive Gayatri is she makes me think of Ryujin a lottt. And I kind of think she has many friends or is everyone's favourite in the circle she's in so :) 6. @chaoticdeobi as Youngjae from GOT7!

OMGGGG BEA :( honestly I haven't come across someone as nice and sweet and endearing and sooo sweet and adorable and SOFT™️ like her!! Whenever I see her replying to asks or replying to my asks or anything, I just imagine her having this soft giggle and just being so babie and soft and all that wholesome shizz. Youngjae is my bias in got7 for that a reason and that's because he's all about that cute and soft agenda!! Super giggly and always smiling and having fun, I love it when he's always the "MWEOHYA????" in a loud voice all the time cause he seriously doesn't know what's goin on and just laughs his way through LMAOOOO I love him. So yes!!! Bea reminds me of soft and sweet Choi Youngjae! (psst bea I love your writing too <3) 7. @flytomyparadise as Chungha! So I feel like Ywan is such a good conversationalist! Like she's got a great vibe and I really like speaking to her, and she's so chill as well. I saw Eric Nam's podcast on Chungha and haven't seen any idol with more of a chill, yet friendly vibe like her before! And I love how Chungha is able to connect with her fans and the people around her readily, and I thought Ywan is perhaps the same when I think about her!!

Sooo that comes the end of my list!! I was like, writing all my emotions into blocks so you might not understand parts cause was just pouring out my love and appreciation really fast LOL. Buuut I hope you guys liked it :)

[things2mustdo]

I heard a family member make remarks on the ‘victims’ of Hurricane Florence, who knew well in advance the possible horrors which came crawling their way. But were those who decided to stay victims given the warnings? They also espoused, essentially, that rescue teams shouldn’t put their lives at risk for those who remained in harm’s way.

This brought me back to a conversation with a man who has been big on situational awareness in terms of avoiding assailants who aim to pierce your heart and rob you while you lie in a pool of your own blood. He asked this question about what one does when in a dark alley and you see a suspicious character coming your way? My response was something to the extent of whether or not I even had to be in the dark alley? That was his point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHq4dbQBa14

Now, I’m not remotely suggesting rescue teams avoid doing their job, but it did get me back to situational awareness and understanding the justice brought about when you are foolish enough to venture into a dark alley on the wrong side of town, or remaining in Florida when you damn well knew the potential risk involved.

That got me thinking about the recent political violence and acts of domestic terrorism caused by Black Lives Matter and Anti-Fascists. So, in regards to our contemporary state of the political and cultural arena, and what surely awaits us in the next US presidential election, here are some simple, basic tips about situational awareness and being prepared in case civil unrest breaks out.

1. Understand The Baseline Of Your Environment

Political rallies across the US demonstrate the capacity of violence and the willingness to assault in ruthless manners. Both men and women of more right-wing views have been assaulted, been threatened to be raped, have their families killed, get doxxed, have dead animals thrown at their living quarters, had their finances threatened, etc. It’s a goddamn nightmare on the more North Side of America than the South Side, where not everyone has a bamboo stick up their ass.

There are many great articles written on situational awareness. And that’s key: situation. The environment, in a general sense, has a baseline. It’s the basic overall feel and operation of that set area.

For example, you go to the mall. What’d you expect to see, generally speaking? People walking and talking, laughing and usually carrying a bag or two. It would, in this context, be out of the ordinary if an individual, dressed in all black, is quickly walking through a crowd while he has his hoodie on and hands in his pockets. It’s odd behavior. Same for someone moving nervously carrying a bag that does not appear to be bought at a store or, to add to that, he doesn’t have workman apparel. It’s out of the ordinary.

If I’m at a bank and someone walks in, sits in the corner for an unreasonable amount of time without engaging in any transaction and appears to not work there, I’m alert. Are his eyes moving around scanning for cameras, are his lips moving to suggest he’s counting something, is he in apparel which could perhaps more easily conceal a gun?

Same if I’m out sitting while enjoying coffee and an all-black car pulls in and just sits. Whether the engine is on are not does slightly change the degree of the potential threat of the situation. If it’s on, is it a quick getaway for a potential crime? And is it at night where there are fewer people and witnesses?

These are all pretty basic to practice, in my view. So it doesn’t help when everyone’s head is glued to their smartphones. Especially with women. They appear to be much less aware than men who themselves very much have this issue with their smartphones.

2. The Gray Man At Political Rallies

The concept of the Gray Man is simple: blend in. Do not create stimuli around you. Gray is often considered a very bland color. It’s boring, lifeless, moot. This isn’t to suggest wearing gray makes you undetectable, but the concept works well with this color.

Blend in so well to your environment that you essentially appear bland. But if you’re at a political rally, then you know anyone is a potential threat. Wearing a Trump hat or an American flag raises suspicion, creates stimuli from your political adversary, and now you are made. If you’re European-American, wearing a hat over your shaved head is a good idea in terms of lessening your presence because there is still widespread delusion about the reincarnation of literal Nazis.

People involved with BLM, AntiFa and other leftist gangs are already going to make assumptions about your character and will dehumanize you and engage violently. Perhaps lessening that delusion, if even possible, could potentially add to your safety and security, in some respects.

It’s not that one desires to give up their chosen headwear and so on, but weighing the pros and cons should be obvious if you wish to avoid conflict. Which, again, these days is hard to do.

3. Consider Your Neighbors And Conversation

Depending upon your living situation, if you’re in California, talking openly with your neighbors about politics in relations to conservatism, in a positive light, creates quite a stir of stimuli. And, given the next US elections are coming up, you’ve made an impression in their mind. If they believe you are a literal Nazi, you’ve coined a political adversary. If you’re in the deeper South surrounded by red-necks and American-loving Christians, chances are, from my observations, you’ll be less likely to be attacked for your political (or religious) views.

I personally despise having to sometimes lower my voice or take a quick glance around because I’m about to say something that might cause stimuli to a potential assailant. But, in these contemporary times, it’s up to you to decide what’s worth it and what’s not.

Conclusion

These are merely a few things of quality in regards to your safety and security. I’ve been quite observant. It’s not always intentional, but I’ve seen things and made assumptions (or had a strong thought about it) and turned out to be spot on.

Identity your adversary. Weigh in how much of a threat they are to you. Pay attention to who they know or talk to, then extend that person’s conversation partners and then extend it again. Leftist are ruthless, dangerous, hateful devils. And remember, if you ever see anyone wearing the hammer and sickel, then be even more alert.

Read Next: Being Situationally Aware Is A Matter Of Life Or Death

It is 7:30am on the day after Christmas in 2004. The sun is already up in the blue sky of the Andaman sea, and some rare tourists are walking on the main beach of Phi Phi island in Thailand. Most of the tourists are still sleeping, dealing with the usual hangover that comes with the traditional Christmas party.

The locals are busy preparing the long tail boats they use to cruise around the nearby islands. Some Westerners like me, who live here, fill and carry the diving tanks the scuba divers will use to explore the underwater reefs today.

In less than an hour, this idyllic landscape will turn into a dramatic nightmare and many of those people will die, crushed and drowned by the powerful wave of a tsunami coming from the Indian Ocean.

Was there a way to prevent that? Not more than preventing a hurricane in Florida or an earthquake in California. Scientists can predict it, multi-million dollar sensors can detect it, information networks can announce it through various media, but there is no way to prevent it from happening. But we can be more prepared than when I experienced this tsunami in Thailand. Governments and local administrations can invest in infrastructures to mitigate the potential risks and better inform the general public.

And individuals can be better prepared to deal with the consequences of natural events. The people who tragically died on this island were not different from any other people on this planet. As a matter of fact, a vast majority of them were young and relatively fit. They didn’t survive for only a handful of reasons, mainly:

lack of situational awareness

lack of appropriate mindset

lack of physical skills

The situational awareness and appropriate mindset are mainly due to the fact that, when we are on vacation on a tropical island, the last thing we want to think about is the remote possibility of a tragic event of any kind. If the place is nice and sunny, if the locals are friendly and smiling, we quickly feel safe and let our guard down. No pickpockets, no fire, no mugging, no earthquake, no car crash, and therefore no need to pay attention to any precursor sign, no need to keep our valuables and documents with us at all times, no need to have a look at evacuation routes, fire exits, etc. In other words we quickly become complacent when everything looks like paradise.

But this lack of situational awareness and appropriate mindset was only one side of the coin for the many fatalities that occurred that day in Thailand. One of the main culprits was the lack of physical skills. Many people didn’t survive simply because they didn’t have the physical abilities to deal with what happened to them and around them.

Some were not comfortable in the water and couldn’t swim across the strong current that the wave and the obstacles created. The event only lasted a few minutes but the water raised quickly and submerged the lowest part of the island.

Some were not able to hold their breath for a few seconds. When the wave hit the hotels and guesthouses near the beach, most of the rooms were submerged very rapidly, but not for very long. Surprise and panic killed a lot of people in their rooms.

Some were not able to hold on to fixed objects for more than a few seconds. The current was strong and being able to hold on something, or even better to climb onto something, was a good way to increase the chance of surviving.

Some were not able to run away and climb a hill or a stairway. For those who were on the beach and saw the wave coming, the proper action was to sprint and find high ground. Reaching the highest floor of a hotel or one of the nearby hills was a good way to avoid the full force of the tsunami.

Some were not able to push away heavy objects. Entrapment was one of the major risks in this event. Many people drowned because they lacked the necessary strength to move away the objects that the current pushed onto them.

The Western world tends to rely heavily on tools to make our life easier and tools to make it safer. Instead of dealing with the weather, we use tools to make it more bearable (A/C, heater, umbrella, raincoat, sunscreen, etc). Instead of moving in this environment, we rely on tools (a car or an ATV instead of walking and running, a canoe or a boat instead of swimming). We easily blame the lack of protection that can get us injured (“I cannot walk/run without shoes”, “I cannot float without a flotation device”, “I will fall and break my skull if I don’t wear a helmet”, etc).

Tools are fine and make our life more enjoyable most of the time, but what if? What happens when we don’t have them? That’s where skills and physical abilities make plenty of sense. Every one of us, regardless of age, gender and race should be able to do at least the following things:

sprint for at least 100 yards/meters in order to get out of danger (collapsing building, wild fire)

climb over a wall or fence at least shoulder high (to escape an angry pitbull or a group of thugs)

carry for at least 10 yards/meters someone of 3/4 of your size and bodyweight (to save someone from an immediate danger)

swim at least 100 yards/meters without stopping and float at least 10 minutes with no aid or support (to get out of a dangerous zone and wait for a rescue vessel)

walk 5 miles in an hour (to reach a gas station when you run out of gas and you cannot call for help)

perform some basic self-defense techniques (striking, grappling) to react appropriately in a mugging/rapping/life-threatening situation

hold your breath for at least one minute while walking/moving at a slow pace (to escape the toxic fumes of a building on fire)

crawl for at least 30 yards/meters to seek cover (active shooter situation) or rescue someone (a child hidden under a car, or someone trapped under or inside something)

If you think that any of those abilities is way beyond your limits, it’s maybe time to reconsider your priorities in life. Being self-sufficient and prepared doesn’t mean relying on tools—it’s knowing that you can deal with dramatic circumstances to the best of your abilities. Tools come in handy when you have physical limitations (age, injuries, illness) but they shouldn’t be the first line of defense.

Having some regulations that require a floatation device in every hotel room in Thailand will not save any life if the next tsunami in the region happens in South Korea. Use your body and your brain. They are the original tools, and you have them with you all the time!

Read More:  How To Improve Your Situational Awareness From One Minute Of Effort Per Day

[channiechanchan]

Sonette thanks you for an awesome 2019~

Hello my dear lovely moots and followers! 2019 is ending and I just want to thank everyone who stayed by my side. I appreciate all of you! You guys have made my 2019 amazing!

Plus 2019 was the year I met some of my moots irl 🥺💞 and ate good food 😋🤤 in my “hometown” Anyways!!!!! Honorable mentions under the cut! And if I forgot you, I give you permission to yell at me 😔✊🏼

I know some of y’all do the tags alphabetically but like... I’m kinda lazy lol (blame my messy side on infp-t trait😅) and like I just wanna write little messages for my moots that I interact ever so often and I follow whatever shows up on my @’s 

First of all, I want to thank missus Ruby🖤 @changbeanie for letting me stay at her house and letting me borrow her wonderful couch 🥺 and let me tell you something, her couch is hella comfortable!! Thank you for the good food you cooked on my first night :o and the coconut milk!!!! Which I ended up buying every time I’m at the Asian store :D I’m gonna need your couch again this Feb lol (づ￣ 3￣)づ The letters you send are soo cute and it always make me ugly sob (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`)

And thanks to Ruby I met her BFF Sid🍦(ice cream because good food was shared with you (o゜▽゜)o☆) @softyhyunjin a.k.a my fave Hyunjin stan :D THANK YOU bb for putting them falsies on me cause idk how LOL I can’t wait to see you and Ruby again on Feb! WE GONNA EAT GOOD FOOD AGAIN hehe

Ohh yessss!! I also met missus Lea🌺 @blushyunjins and missus Jerika🍑 @hanchanbin one of my fave Chan stan :D idek if they’re gonna see this lol cause they are both busy women uwuヾ(•ω•`)o but I’m so glad I met you both and made my SoCal trip an unforgettable one!

Missus Aurora💌 @seungminsmile my favorite SeungJin stan!! Thank you for getting me the Miroh (from what I remember but I’m old soo, I have bad memory lol) album when you were in Korea and thank you for the Chan pc you traded me with hehe （＾∀＾●）ﾉｼ can’t believe I’m gonna see you again this Feb!!!

Missus Maddy🍕 (there’s no pizza rolls so pizza will do i hope kdsfj) @hoodiehan I was so sad that I didn’t get to see you at the concert in Pasadena, but hopefully I get to see you on Feb!! I also want to thank you for blessing my dash with news about skz and some random videos of them you find on twt lol and I want to thank you for all the hard work you put on straykidsupdate!

I also want to thank my first child who sadly deactivated :’(( Lou🥀 I miss you and thank you for making my 2019 an unforgettable one with our weird video chats and messages 🥺💞

MISSUS AIMEE❄ @arqueritefrost thank you for the letter you sent! YOU ALSO MADE ME UGLY SOB ಥ_ಥ thank you for always making my day and I guess thank you for attacking me with Chan posts (○´･д･)ﾉ because I do the same to you hehe :D

KAIT🌟 @yeaimfishboi my seester!!! I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE/MEET YOU ON FEB at SuperM’s concert!!!! We’re finally meeting ahhhh and of course you’re gonna meet one of my BFFs she’s chill sooo I’m sure you two will get along!! But thank you for always checking up on me even though life can be busy. I love you so much!!

Missus Kashi🍰 @chimneycloud another fellow Chan stan!! Thank you for making my 2019 days whenever you leave an ask or whenever you post AMAZING AND SEXIE GFX!! You’re so talented and you inspire me to create more gfx!

ATE MORI💎 @luvknow my fellow svt stan! I want to thank you for producing such beautiful and sexie ass fics!! You and of course missus Ruby inspire me to write more (but I’ve just been lazy lately and life has been busy or I’m just procrastinating LOL) But anywayss ate, I honestly love calling you ate! And thank you for blessing my dash with your sexie selfies (´▽`ʃ♡ƪ)

QUEEN EM👑 @realstraykids last year I was honored to be given a wonderful gift which was your beautiful header and beautiful icon which I will never forget! I know you’ve been busy lately but whenever I see you post something whether it be a reblog or what not, it makes me happy because I am following such a talented and BEAUTIFUL human being🥺💞

Missus Falak🌠 @3noracha I JUST WANNA THANK YOU FOR BLESSING MY DASH WITH YOUR AMAZING GFX! And for being the best and amazing human ever! You’re so nice and sweet and when I saw that you got your old url back I was all giddy and happy like ＼(((￣(￣(￣▽￣)￣)￣)))／ hehe

OKAY THIS IS GETTING LONG KFSDHB I’m gonna stop here and just tag the rest that made my 2019!

@dimpleboyjeffery @00hj @iridescentbee @cold-eyes-made-ice @hyunjins-wife @cherryblossomchangbin @bangchcn @butterfly948

[margarethelstone]

Once Mine: Chapter 3 - We’d Known Her First

Yes I want to grow yes I want to feel Yes I want to know show me how to heal it up Heal it up

fanfiction.net / AO3 / wattpad

The night was cool and bright. The Moon was hanging high, lightening the quiet homesteads of all the Vikings, currently preparing to sleep after the whole day of work. Pale beams disappeared in thresholds and niches, while the shadow with its distinct lines showed their edges and curves. Every now and then, silence was interrupted by dragon rumbles and not so cordial reproofs of their owners.

On the top of a platform, a still remaining relict of the past war against the dragons, a fire was set, burning with a small but steady flame. The group of young people that sat quietly around it, certainly did not intend to go back home any time soon. For the leaders of the Dragon Academy there was no such term as too late.

“I’m warning you,” Snotlout spoke, pointing at Tuffnut with his stick, on which the remains of a roasted chicken could be seen. “You’ll do something like this one more time, and I’ll personally rip your head off.”

“Yeah...” The other boy didn’t even glance at his prosecutor. “Just like yesterday.”

“And the day before that,” his sister added.

“And every other time...” Fishlegs pointed out with scepticism.

The whole gang peered at Snotlout, not even trying to conceal their amusement.

“Actually, you say that every single time you get shot," Tuff summed up. "And there is no real consequence to it."

“Exactly!” Ruffnut revolted. “You could tie him to a mast with his head down, and ship him off into the storm. Or lock him up in some dark dirty den, face to face with a Changewing, and a Changewing only. That would be something.”

“Dirty den. Brr.” Tuffnut shivered. “But I like the mast thing – put it one the list before we forget it.”

“Excuse me?” Snotlout looked around with a reproach. “Doest anyone care for what I really mean?”

“Truth is, you’ve been threatening him since forever and you have never fulfilled any of those threats. Don’t expect him to start caring for them now.” As usual, Fishlegs was answering his friend calmly, glancing at him a bit derisively. At the same time, Snotlout was far from being calm.

As usual.

“You don’t understand a thing, you mutton heads! How are we supposed to be an authority for those kids, if we’re making things hot for each other inside the team?”

The twins looked at one other, apparently enjoying themselves; Fishlegs sighed, unconvinced. Eret, who’d remained silent until now, lifted his eyes, examining the preceding speaker carefully.

“If we think of being an authority as of our main goal, Snotlout does have a point. But I’m not sure this is what it’s all about.”

“Hold on a second,” Tuffnut protested unexpectedly. “Didn’t you command this way yourself? You know, don’t mess with the leader, and stuff?"

“I did, and that’s why I know what I’m talking about.” The former Dragon Trapper had no intention of withdrawing. “That was different. My mercenaries were all adults, but I was the only one to answer before Drago. So those men really had nothing to say – about anything.”

He fell silent, pondering. “It’s not the same with those kids. They need to learn to make decisions on their own, because they’ll be the ones responsible for them.”

“And how is that connected to the authority at all?” Snotlout asked.

“Only that’s it’s not the authority we should be focusing on right now.”

Fishlegs cleared his throat. “As much as I hate to say it, I think Snotlout may be up to something. Sorry, Eret," he muttered tentatively. "Even if he's only partially right."

“Ha!” the short Viking called with a triumph in his voice. “Of course I… Wait, what?”

“It doesn’t often happen, but I have to agree. Partially," Fishlegs continued, sounding a little more assertively. “If we want our future Riders to make a tight team, they should perceive us as one; that’s the first thing to start with. And as it comes to taking the initiative, there’s no need to hurry. I don’t think we should pattern ourselves upon Drago and his soldiers -" On that point, he spoke to Eret directly. "- But you have to admit, some of his methods can actually work. Remember that those kids have just started their training; some of them have never ridden a dragon. They’re learning, Eret. From us. So, if this training is supposed to end with any good results, it’s better if they think of us as well as possible.”

“You want them to think we are free from any faults?” The Trapper slightly raised his eyebrows.

“That’s something no one could achieve. And certainly not with this squad.” Fishlegs smiled under his nose. “Besides, it would be rather dumb to pretend we have no defects, but then again, why would we give them the entire list at once? Maybe… you shouldn’t know everything about your leader, not at the beginning, at least. Keeping a proper distance can also do some good, to both of the parties.”

“Sounds awfully like Hiccup.”

There was something in Tuff’s words, that made his comment resonate with scorn – but what was really there, was a strong feeling of grudge.

Silence descended, while the Riders lowered their heads and looked away. Each and every of them tormented themselves with the matter of their young Chief, who’d seemed not to remember he’d been a member of this group himself once. As the time had gone by, they’d started to doubt if Hiccup would have even called them his friends anymore. But none of them knew what could’ve been done about it.

“I’m so sick of him!” Snotlout yelled, eventually. “So sick! He pisses me off! He always has, but what he’s doing now, tops it all. He acts like if we weren’t even here. He may be a Chief, but Odin’s beard, it’s doesn’t mean he can be a jerk now!”

Noticing, that no one’s going to respond, he went on: “You’ve all heard Valka saying what’s happening to him. How this guy is functioning – he hardly eats, hardly sleeps, and Toothless has probably forgotten, that you can go for a flight and for once, not care about what other people need. But of course, we can’t do a bloody thing, ‘cause Hiccup doesn’t wish us to.”

“Why doesn’t he let us help?” Ruffnut asked, exceptionally quiet. “Why?”

“We all know, why,” Fishlegs answered bleakly, rolling a helmet in his hands. “It’s her. All that happens, happens because she is not here.”

“But there is even more to do now, right? He could use help more than ever,” the girl didn’t want to pull back.

“It’s not that easy...” Fishlegs dispelled her hopes, as he was patting his hand on Meatlug, lounging by his side. “He wants to work, because if he does, he has no time for thinking. Maybe it’s better for him to tire in a physical way, than agonise over remembering Astrid.”

Ruff looked rather unconvinced.

“Well, it doesn’t seem to work. He thinks of her all the time anyway.”

“True.”

For a moment, they remained silent, both occupied with the same thought. Eret put his fish down; for some reason, he completely lost an appetite for it.

“Everything here reminds him of her.” The Trapper gazed at the fireplace, slowly dying in the night. “When you guys were entertaining the recruits by setting each other on fire, I had a chance to fly around the Island. I saw him. He was checking a wall near the Academy and I think he heard your screams; I could’ve sworn, he smiled sincerely, and more, it lasted. But only for a while.”

“So it doesn’t really matter if we talk about her, or not. You know, don’t you dare to mention Astrid with Hiccup in sight rule. We worry for no reason.”

“That’s another thing!” Snotlout perked up again. “Even if there is a reason, why should we care? Why can’t we speak of her? Because he’s hurt? And what about us?”

Fishlegs opened his mouth, intending to defence their Chief, but closed it a second later. As for the young Jorgenson, he was thriving.

“He cared for her more than we did. I get it. They were closer. And… And maybe Hiccup really suffers more than all of us together, but for gods’ sake, he doesn’t have an exclusivity for mourning!”

He fell on a bench, exhausted, and still furious.

His companions saw no need to hurry with an answer; they let the silence take over again.

The Moon had shifted, changing the arrangement of the shadows. Somewhere in the distance, a dragon roared; in one of the houses, situated closer to them, a man knocked a wooden bowl, making it fall down with a crash. The sea was burbling gently – it was friendly and calm. Even Barf and Belch, who’d been too busy biting one another to notice anything, lay their heads on the ground, ashamed.

“He doesn’t even let us mention her,” Snotlout’s voice sounded more like a whisper now. “Like if she was never here.”

Sniffing, he fiercely wiped away a tear that had was suddenly slipped on his cheek; and he wasn’t the one be moved easily.

“It’s not exactly like that...” Fishlegs threw in conciliately. “But you’re right. He kinda appropriated the right for a grief.”

“As for me, sometimes I think there are no good memories of Astrid,” Eret mumbled.

Tuffnut confirmed. “Soon there won’t be any.”

The rest of the gang shook their heads.

“You know we’d known her first, right?” Ruff mooted a while later “We’d known her for longer, much longer. Whatever you may say, she’d hanged out with us since we’d been kids, but she practically hadn’t noticed Hiccup until the Training.”

“When she was trying to kill him,” her brother snorted with laughter. “Oh Thor, she was mad.”

Eret raised his head and glanced and his friends’ faces. He wondered how was it possible he’d not heard that part of the story before.

“You should’ve seen it,” Snotlout spoke directly to him. “The worst Viking Berk had ever seen came to the Dragon Training and not only did he survive the first days not getting eaten, but was actually doing quite well."

“Quite well?” Fishlegs protested. “He was doing much better than quite well. We were all playing  daredevil, but no one doubted – if there was anyone to win that Training, it was Astrid. Until Hiccup appeared and made dragons do whatever he wanted them to.”

Eret still looked rather sceptical about the whole thing.

“Nothing new. It was Hiccup, after all.”

“That’s the point. Short and skinny, he couldn’t even handle his axe properly.” Fishlegs smiled, embarrassed. “To tell you the truth, none of us had treated him seriously back then, Stoick especially. Astrid wasn’t any different.”

His friend observed that the twins peeked at each other knowingly. He could bet that the blonde girl sitting in front of him had something to add. Apparently, she abandoned the idea.

Fishlegs continued, “Anyway, as you may guess, Hiccup soon went from zero to hero. He was no longer a village doormat; he was a serious rival instead.”

“And nothing made Astrid as crazy-insane as a rival nearby. Trust me.” Snotlout grinned widely, and so did the oldest Viking.

“It’s always a competition, isn’t it?”

“Always,” the whole group replied harmoniously.

“No matter how long Hiccup would tell us otherwise,” Fishlegs made it complete. “It changes nothing.”

“If only you saw her while Heather first came here,” Ruff chuckled. “It was quite a show.”

“You mean the Heather?” The trapper picked up his fish, which was still lying next to him. He was more than happy to see the surrounding warm up again.

“The Heather...” Fishlegs responded quietly; then, after getting it together, he added, “Astrid… wasn’t especially fond of her during her first visit. She didn’t trust her; and as it soon turned out, she was right.”

“Heather kidnapped Stormfly.”

“Yes. But I suppose the thing that really made Astrid sick, was Hiccup paying so much attention to our guest.”

“Another hen in the rooster house, if you know what I mean,” Tuffnut nudged his sister, smiling halfwittedly.

“Astrid was...”

“The last thing I am is jealous!” the Thorston-Jorgenson duet squealed simultaneously, imitating their friend really badly. The gang burst out laughing, including Eret. Even though he couldn’t remember the situation, the very thought of the warrior saying anything remotely like this was enough to make him accompany the group.

“You know Hiccup would kill us, if he found out how we speak of her, right?” Still unable to stop laughing, Snotlout could hardly pronounce it properly. Again, he wiped his tears, this time caused by a sudden explosion of cheerfulness. “Oh gods, we’re dead.”

“Hiccup?” Tuff asked, cackling. “Just think of what Astrid would do, if she could hear us now!”

“Farewell, my friends, as the end is near!” his Twin summed up in the most theatrical way.

Another howl of laughter ripped the air, spreading around, slowly dying in silence. None of them stopped smiling.

“And that’s the crucial difference,” watching his friends’ faces, Fishlegs sighed. “Many months will pass until Hiccup learns to treat those memories like we do. If he ever -”

His speech was interrupted by a noise coming from the ground below. Seconds later, they all heard a thud on the stairs – someone was reaching the top with an unbelievable speed. The dragons raised their heads, intrigued by the arrival of a new member of a company, while the Vikings understood they were not being visited by a representative of their own kind.

The “steps” were ringing close, and soon the Riders saw what – or better said, who – was making them. A black dragon head appeared above the edge of a platform and green eyes sparkled, reflecting the flame of a dying fire.

“Toothless?! But what are you -”