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5uptic · 3 years ago

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crewfu: fanfic spotlight!

We work together by Anonymous (5up & DK, unrated, gen | 248 words)

Summary: One likes plants and baking, the other loves to create and design video games. They stay up and create monstrosities together, it's their fun, it's their favourite game. Aka a 5up and Dk roommate au!

No matter how life tangles, I’m still here with you. by hungryandsleepy (5up/Steve, general rating, m/m | 279 words)

Summary: 5up has been working so hard on his new map, and of course, he needs someone to give him a motivation to go to sleep.

objectively pretty by vesque (5up/Steve, general rating, m/m | 462 words)

Summary: steve is drunk. he's pretty sure 5up is too. that doesn't mean being called pretty is any less momentuous.

you plus me by mangoedges (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 489 words)

Summary: 5up and Steve meet.

he said to me by mangoedges (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 656 words)

Summary: 5up and Steve share a moment.

by the snowmen by mangoedges (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 670 words)

Summary: Steve has a moment when it's all over.

today you got to know me (a little bit too slowly) by runninohhoney (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 675 words)

Summary: Steve lights up a cigarette. 5up doesn't smoke.

what would it take by mangoedges (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 787 words)

Summary: It's Steve's first mission. He hecks up. Or does he?

sorta cute by floweruru (5up/Steve, unrated, m/m | 822 words)

Summary: ‘I wouldn’t do that,’ he said. ‘That’s just disrespectful,’ he said. Yet there was 5up, crushed like a can in Steve’s embrace, feebly kicking at nothing as his feet leave the pavement.

i was gonna kill u, but ur kinda cute?? by Cthulhuer (5up/Steve, general rating, m/m | 1k words)

Summary: Steve is a mess and 5up is worse.

I hear a Symphony by AwkwardAce (5up/Fundy, unrated, m/m | 1.1k words)

Summary: He exhaled until his lungs ached for air, fingers twitching as he opted to remove the sleek white gloves he wore in a feeble effort to soothe himself. It didn’t work. He wrung his trembling hands together as his eyes raked down the worn leather case taking in the doodles- some etched some drawn- across the faded surface. He snapped the buckles open and his breath hitched, catching in his already tight throat. For a moment the world span, his head throbbed and he wanted nothing more than to run and hide. 5up breathed out slowly, shakily.

staring by lytriis (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 1.1k words)

Summary: steve asks 5up out. 5up doesn’t know how to respond.

and it's four am, and yet, you're here by vesque (5up/Steve, general rating, m/m | 1.2k words)

Summary: in which steve shows up at 5up's house, in the middle of the night, completely spontaneously

more than this by mangoedges (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 1.2k words)

Summary: Steve catches 5up venting.

3:15 by vesque (5up/Steve, general rating, m/m | 1.2k words)

Summary: Steve tries to guess Five's name. It's much more difficult than he anticipated.

things were different by fourpebbles (Apollo/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 1.5k words)

Summary: His eyes circled around to his friends, Kimi and Janet engaging in pleasant comversation, sleepy and becoming increasingly more sober. He looked, finally, across him, and caught Dumbdog staring at him. What now bro, what did this guy want. small talk, turns into not small talk, then there's no talk

Once Upon A Dream by SmearedWords (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 1.5k words)

Summary: 5up looks ethereal, while Steve is struggling to breathe. "You're not real either." Or: Steve has a crush and a nightmare in three parts, 5up is tired, the crew life is hard and Polus sucks.

the ones you love will call you back by homeward_bound (Apollo/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 1.8k words)

Summary: stevesuptic: dude, is it weird that i miss vegas DumbDog: No? I do too. stevesuptic: okay [steve misses vegas and apollo. they talk about it]

cough it out by cj__writes (Apollo/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 2k words)

Summary: Apollo thinks that Steve must be well and truly gone, at this point, because he giggles, like Apollo’s just told a particularly funny joke. He looks Apollo right in the eye and asks, “Do you trust me?” “Absolutely not.”

ivy by Secular_Czar (5up/Steve, teen rating, gen | 2.1k words)

Summary: It might be a sad day, in general, but Steve isn't about to let it get to him. His friends won't ever let him wallow either.

The Colosseum by WhenTheFogClears (general rating, gen | 2.1k words)

Summary: Five squinted, looking at the colosseum intensely. He thinks Apollo was latched onto the sphinx’s shoulder, fur matted with blood. Janet was slumped against a column, probably out, with Kimi whose bow was snapped in two, her leg twisted at an odd angle. DK was in the corner trying to cast various supporting hexes and charms with a broken arm, whilst Hafu was dragging a heavily bandaged Steve away. or 5up slaughters a cat

Oneshots :) by woofles1990 (5up/Fundy, 5up/Steve, teen rating, multi | 2.5k words, oneshot collection)

Summary: Just a bunch of MCYT/Among Us oneshots, mainly featuring 5up's crew because yes :)

the adventures of 5up and steve staying up late because they're under 30 by 5280ft (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 2.5k words)

Summary: “The night is young!” Steve yells at the ceiling, throwing his hands up in the air. “Take advantage of it! Commit crimes! Fuck hoes!” Five catches his hands in the air and laughs. “You wish you had hoes.”

unreasonably in love by cj__writes (Apollo/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 2.6k words, chaptered WIP)

Summary: "It was like pieces of a puzzle, everything coming together. And now, here they are, standing in their apartment, which looks more like a hollow shell than a home, filled solely with scattered boxes and the minuscule amount of furniture that they brought with them to Vegas." Or: what happens after Apollo and Steve move in together.

cant be love by fourpebbles (Apollo/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 3.5 words, chaptered WIP)

Summary: He had chuckled to himself, he felt so stupid. Who in their fucking minds names a playlist 'sugr?', he thought, internally cringing. A story where a Steve meets an Apollo, and some things happen.

Somewhere in the darkness, us together for a while by tumtummeke (Apollo & Kimi & Steve, teen rating, gen | 3.6k words)

Summary: Apollo worries about Steve. Steve breaks his vape pen. Kimi plays power washer. Self-indulgent angst, with a generous helping of friendship and cuddles.

odyssey by 5280ft (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 23k words, chaptered WIP)

Summary: "First you will come to the Sirens who enchant all who come near them. If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens...they warble him to death with the sweetness of their song. Therefore pass these Sirens by and stop your men's ears with wax that none of them may hear." -Homer, The Odyssey

Also: SilverSprinklez10‘s yupwaves collection.

Summary: This is a Harry Potter AU based on the characters/personas of the youtubers/streamers.

FAQ:

Wait what is this: pretty straight to the point! i’ll regularly share crewfu-related fanfictions to this blog :)

How regularly is “regularly”?: great question! LOL. it depends on the flow of fanfics that get uploaded, which i do not have any control over, but i’m looking forward to do this twice a month. after all, it’s only me doing this and i often run on a tight schedule.

What’s the format like?:

[title of fic with link] by [author of the fic with link] ([main pairing(s), if there is one/multiple], [fic rating: eg, general rating], [relationship: eg, m/m] | [word count in k] ([added prompt to specify if it’s complete or not)])

Summary: [summary provided by the author. if it doesn’t have a summary, a “No summary” prompt will be put instead]

(What does WIP mean again?): Work In Progress :)

Why are you doing this?: from the beginning, my blog has hosted conversations about RPF (real people fiction) and crewfu pairings. this has evolved into people sending me updates about certain fics in the crewfu tags every now and then, but i wanna take the next step and just do these things myself. after all, i’m already lurking in the tags often to see the fics that get posted. as someone who is both a writer and a reader, i wanna appreciate fanfic writers and help out other people that want to read fanfic and consume more fandom content!

Will it be AO3 only?: well, ao3 has a very helpful tag system that makes finding fics incredibly easy, as well as allowing people with no accounts to like and comment on fics, so that’s the site i will personally look in for fanworks. but if there are any fics you’ve written or liked in any other platforms, such as wattpad, you can always contact me through my inbox (send an ask or a dm!), and i’ll make sure to include for the next fanfic spotlight :)

Does it mean you won’t reply to fic asks anymore?: yeah, i guess. since i’ll be doing the searching myself it seems counterproductive. but if i ever skip a fic or again, it’s in another platform, or you’ve posted/read the fic a while ago and you want to get more traction on it, hit me up and i’ll take it into consideration!

Will you read every single one of the fics on your list?: oh no. again, i run on a tight schedule, and also i have my own taste when it comes to fics. i won’t be reviewing fics or any of the sort, and my intention extends to simply sharing these fics to this page so people will have easier access to them :) that’s where ao3 tagging becomes SUPER useful!!!

So what’s the criteria for the way you’ll sort out the fics in your list?: word count, going from lowest to highest. in case of fics in other platforms, i guess i’ll put them at the top of the list. i’ll also be looking for fairly recent fics, so let me know if you want any old-ish fic to be included.

I see you talking mostly about 5up/Steve and Steve/Apollo. Can I still send/see other crewfu fics?: why yes absolutely! my goal is to push every fic which heavily features regular crewfu characters - 5uptic and supdog just happen to be very popular pairings. so, to give you a list: core 4 (5up, hafu, dk, steve), apollo, aipha, annie, janet, kimi, ellum, koji... you know the drill. it doesn’t have to be centered on a relationship, or about 5up in specific, etc. my only requirement is that any of the previously mentioned members are a central part of the fic or are HEAVILY featured in it (sorry, minecraft fics with 50+ tags who only mention 5up as an afterthought won’t make the cut :/).

Isn’t shipping Bad™?: well, it’s a little more nuanced than that. i will go out of my way to discourage and shame people who often violate CCs’ boundaries by acting like so and so has a crush on this person, or that this and that are Actually Into Each Other or secretly dating. any sort of tinhat bullshit is a big nono (think larries). but i run on the assumption that people who write rpf understand that what they’re doing is simply write a completely fictional story using real life personalities, and understand the boundaries necessary to do it - aka they’re not tinhats, they understand they can’t assume everything about CCs’ thoughts and personalities, they understand that what they’re writing is strictly fiction, they keep these works only in fandom circles, etc. (but again, it’s only one me doing this, so please be kind if i don’t happen to know that this person is Actually a tinhat or whatever).

show fic: NO. (seriously. i don’t feel comfortable putting my ao3 account out there. please respect my privacy on these trying times <3)

I REALLY don’t care about your rpf/fic talk: fair! i’ll be tagging every single one of these posts as “fanfic spotlight”, so just mute the tag using tumblr settings so you’ll never have to look at these! likewise, you can follow the tag if you want to keep up with it, or search it on my blog to look at the other entries you might have missed (but this is the first one! lol).

Hey, my fic is here and I don’t feel comfortable with it being shared over here: no problem! let me know as soon as you can and i’ll take it down <3

#crewfu #fanfic spotlight

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softboyscully · 4 years ago

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Public School Stuff I Wanted to Share

public school is both beautiful and horrifying am i right

so ill just go by the grades i guess

Kindergarten, first year

i did kindergartden at a catholic school in a relativly big city so this one’s got some shit

we went to church every wednesday, me and best friend (lost track of her when we moved, wish we’d stayed in touch, she was awesome) would giggle the whole time, pretty sure we made fun of jesus once, can’t remember why, possibly the hair

i had the nicest teacher, she was (as i remember her) young, blonde, and super sweet, that was the first and last year i ever had naptime

SPEAKING of naptime

i never slept during it

once i found what i remember being a nut of some sort on the ground, probably came off someone’s shoe

i grab it, turn to sarah (my best friend), say something about putting it up my nose

sarah, apparently having common sense, says, “no dont do it!! we’re supposed to be sleeping!!”

i put it up my fucking nose

try to get it out, just push it farther in

im crying a little bit now, that shit hurts

go up to my teacher

“you’re supposed to be asleep!”

“i have a nut up my nose and it wont come out”

teacher tries to get it out, but it wont budge

just. sends me back to my mat

that was it

the art room was tiny

like re-purposed broom closet tiny

there was a copy of the mona lisa in the hallway, someone had drawn ray bans on it with a pencil, never got replaced

there was a creepy-ass basement i went down to after school, we ate cheeseballs and sandwiches with some kind of meat, mayo, and that kinda yellow bread

someone broke his leg down there once, think an older kid threw him at the ceiling or something

we learned how to play Silver Bells with actual bells in music class

Kindergarten, second year

i remember these two teachers as the evil step sister-type look, but it might be my little kid imagination

but seriously they were horrible

we learned stuff in a room that was more middle-school styled, except everything was green or black and it was v dark

me and sarah attained a new friend, john

honestly i think we would’ve stayed friends for a while if i didnt move away

i have two vivid memories

one is of me really wanting to go home, so i walked by the teacher’s desk and did a fake sneeze

they laughed at me and told me to go sit back down

the other is john leaning his chair back and then falling, so me and sarah went to help him back up

it was funny, so he did it again

and again

me and sarah were laughing, had the time of our lives

after the maybe fifth time the teachers said “john can get back up by himself. sit down and stay there.”

one of the reasons we moved was bc i got sent a letter from my fourth grade buddie

most of the words weren’t spelled correctly, many letters were backwards

my mother was horrified

ofc now we know it was probably a learning disability

1st grade

this is when i moved

beginning of school i was ASTOUNDED we didnt have uniforms, one of the best things ever to happen to me

nothing wrong with this teacher, she was cool

thing is i was a little shit

told everyone my dogs died (they did but i was maybe three when it happened, i remember it not)

all my personal narratives were bullshit (only one sticks in my memory, wrote it about celebrating christmas AND hanukkah with my dad’s friends who were jewish, i have never even met those friends)

had a crush on this kid, best friend (she was terrible and helped wreck me emotionally) told me to kiss him in music class. me being a stupid ass bitch, i did it, aND HE GOES TO THE TEACHER AND CALLS ME OUT. at the end of class she gets both of us to stay for a bit, AND I DENYIED EVERYTHING. i walked across the fucking classroom, kissed him on the cheek, ran away giggling, told my teacher i didn’t do anything, AND GOT AWAY WITH IT. i’ve embarrassed myself further with this child but thats another story

2nd grade

i loved this teacher but honestly he was absolute shit

like. all he did was play the guitar and sing with us

never actually taught us stuff???

middle of the year, my mom goes in for a parent-teacher conference, he tells her i dont pay attention is math.

“what do you mean?”

“she doesn’t listen, she just takes out a book and starts reading.”

“........have you.... tried taking the book away?”

“sure, i could try that.”

“o....kay”

he also told her i’d be a girl who’d grow up to love spellcheck (which i do lmao)

like ???? why not just??? teach me to spell????

there was this one dude who one day showed up, gave me a pink stuffed cat, and then asked me where i lived

funniest thing was he lived on the same street as me

something that is vivid in my memory is showing up to class one day and realizing that i was wearing my regular clothes over my pajamas

also we had fish

every day someone else was in charge of feeding them

one of the times it was my job, i grab the fish food and walk over to the tank only to find all of the fish floating on the top

i screamed “THE FISH CAN FLY?!?!?!?!?!”

everyone ran over, all of us scarred for life when Mr. G walks over and goes in the most normal voice ever “no theyre dead”

we held a funeral

the cause of death is still undetermined

3rd grade

this year just draws a blank for me

all i know is that whoever the teacher was, they neglected to teach me how to tell time from a clock

also we learned the Cotten Eyed Joe dance in gym around here

4th grade

i had two teachers this year

one was the same one from 1st grade, the other one was a total bitch

made a girl named hannah ball her eyes out once, never apologized

i was (and am) and avid reader, so my reading skills were high above average

instead of being proud of me she told me i was weird, not normal, and too smart for a 4th grader, so i MUST be cheating.

she was the start of a lot of self confidence issues for me ngl

this was around the time i went and got tested for ADHD (me and my grandmother almost broke down on the highway but thats another story), Mrs. M (the nice one) was super supportive when i told her why i was leaving early but Ms. S (bitch) told me ADHD wasn’t real and i just wanted to be special for once

she sucked, Ms. S

5th grade

this is getting super long so this’ll be the last one i do

but my teacher..... Mr. F was A+++++

he legitimately taught me math

we had i guess like,,, a buddie class we switched with sometimes

the teacher of that class was Mrs. R, who had crazy red hair and many freckles

at one point she referenced a meme and my entire class started screaming

also there was another Mrs. S (to differentiate this one will be called Mrs. Su)

she was kind of crazy

she was the astronomy teacher and she told us many times that the moon landing was faked

once she handed out sunscreen and had everyone put it on their whole body (this was in december, fyi)

Mr. F also hosted an ‘archeological dig’ which sounds cool but in reality he had a bunch of arcade prizes from his childhood buried in little flower pots we dug into with plastic spoons

also heres some stuff i cants pinpoint the time of/happened in multiple grades:

someone held a who-can-scream-the-most-like-a-goat contest

a guy named Makenzie won

remember we planned it while the teacher left the classroom so the teacher walks back in and one by one everyone in the room starts screaming, there was some applause, a few kids got a standing ovation

we cleaned out our desks in the middle of the year, i found 3 socks and a dog treat in mine

like how the fuck did any of those things get there

and where’s the fourth sock

b o t t l e f l i p p i n g

but no seriously there were at least five water bottles stuck in the ceiling in the cafeteria

my sorta friend charlie was obsessed with paper airplanes

one time he might’ve broken the world record for longest time in the air but he was counting in his head and it was at recess so there was no video

four square and gaga ball would be played no matter the setting, time, or conditions and it was super competitive

like if you could get to king in four square you got the everlasting respect of everyone

and everyone was super educated on four square special rules, special plays, that kinda shit

no but guys i grew up with bus stop, candy store, haunted house on mondays, haunted mansion on fridays, zombies was fair game unless it was Zach, Ryan, Chrissy or Vee

me and one other guy named andrew were the only known pjo fans, had the time of our LIVES making refrences

“HEY ANDREW IM NOBODY”

“I HAVE WAITED YEARS FOR YOU, NOBODY, COME HERE AND FACE YOUR DEATH”

“hey annabeth, i thought you looked like a princess when i first saw you. i printed out a picture you sent me casually and kept it with me. i snuck along on a quest so i could save you, endangering myself immensely. i held the sky for you. when you talk about your crush on luke, i get jealous. beckendorf understood, but hes dead.”

“ikr we’re literally the best of friends”

“RIGHT”

also the first time we finished mark of athena we were in the same classroom and we individually dropped the book, stood up, looked at each other, and screamed “WELL FUCK YOU TOO RICK RIORDAN”

#public school #percy jackson #percabeth #my childhood #you dont have to read this but i felt like posting it lol #if you've read this far #i applaud you #thanks for listening to my meaningless shit #im gonna be a comedian #school #school stories #adhd #kind of

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w-e-r-e-wolves · 4 years ago

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Hey guys

So, I would like to start thanking everyone who’s been reblogging my art and my commissions post, it really means a lot and warms my heart, thank you all very much.

Now I need to tell you whats been going on with me in hopes of getting help.TW: I will be talking about suicide.

So in the start of 2020 I was living in another state and I had a job after many years of being unemployed, after a couple months the pandemic hitted and the factory closed for a week and a half (other countries closed for months and my partner stayed at home for a month and then worked only part time) I was terrifiyed, both because I was affraid of the virus and also because the majority of the people I was working with either didnt care or belivied in it (the very owner of the place refused to wear her mask over her nose), we were forced back to work after that, i developed severe anxiety because I was working in these conditions, I was tired all the time, didnt sleep and was always crying, I had anxiety attacks while working and couldnt stop what I was doing, I was in the middle of a factory floor crying, feeling like I was going to pass out from 8am to 6pm, it felt like hell, so I talked to my partner and I quitted, but the damage had been done and I’ve never been the same anymore, the anxiety still here along with depression, I can’t go anywere without somebody with me cause I have anxiety attacks and still (with someone acompaning me) I get extremily nervous, I had to exit stores multiple times because I feel like I will passout. I came back to my home state a few months ago and things have not been good, we came back jobless with few savings and me in need of treatmeant. Since I’ve been here i’ve attempted suicide two times, the most recent attempt was a couple days before the commissions post, my partner of almost 10 years left and i’ve been really lost since. He was helping me with my treatmeant and accompanying me to doctors appointments and he was all the financial support I had. After he left, I got really desperate, like I said, I have 5 dogs and 3 cats, luckily I dont pay rent, but I have utillities to pay for and a mom that i need to support (she’s almost 60), so I opened commissions despite being something I said I would never do, drawing to me was a hobbie and I didnt want to make it something like a “”job”” to feel pressured and to be judged by, and as much as it makes me really happy that you reblogged and liked my art unfortunally its been like a week and I have no requests and my situation is getting direr, so if you didnt like my art but maybe you can help please, I will take any donation at this point, a dollar comes a long way in Brasil, so if you can help please message me so we can figure out how to do it, for some reason I dont have a paypal.me link or cant figure out how to make one, so maybe I can send you a invoice, if I there is no commission requests I will be selling my computer (I already listed my phone for sell) I need to be able to hold things off until I get a job and right now I am pennyless. If you read til here thank you, please consider reblogging and boosting if you can.

#My post #Long post #Sorry but I really need help #so if you can please donate #and if you cant please reblog and boost #sorry If theres any typos/wrong wording #idk if a week is a short amount of time to get requests #maybe its the anxiety #but i need to buy my cats food #so it makes the waiting worse

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mojavehearts · 5 years ago

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Fallout 4 Companions react to Strong having a crush on Sole

(REQUESTED!!) (im cackling like a maniac already)

(I know I used this before but...This IS Sole and Strong)

some are them realising it and some are helping him come to the realisation (some of the reacts even work together as one!)

Cait:

Cait watched as Strong stomped back and forth in front of Soles house in Sanctuary, at 4 am, on a Sunday. ‘’Oi buddy! can ya quit yer stompin?’’ she whispers out angrily, putting out her cigarette onto the side of one of the small shacks sole built Strong grumbles under his breath which makes Cait come striding up ‘’what is your problem?!’’ she was trying her best to whisper at least ‘’Strong doesn’t know!’’ he roars back she covers her ears and sighs ‘’Listen big guy, people are tryin to sleep and they cant with you stompin around’’ Strong grumbles again and points at soles door ‘’Strong cant be without master’’ ‘’what you like a lost puppy or somethin’? yer supposed to be a big mean ol’ supermutant’’ Cait scoffs, now leaning against soles house ‘’NO Strong does not want to be, without master near him, makes Strong MAD!’’ Cait’s eyes widen and she backs away slowly ‘’good lord, you better talk to MacCready about that...’’

Curie:

‘’Ah monsieur Strong!’‘ Curie waves strong over in a chirpy tune ‘‘How have our experiments gone so far? any pain? some memories? violent tendencies more than usual?’‘ Curie had gotten some data from some ‘hospital’ of sorts from New Vegas and was testing the medication in does on Strong so far nothing was different of course Strong was already more ‘Put Together’ compared to many supermutants and it had been a very small dose, ‘‘No strong want stop, making head fuzzy! weak!’‘ Curie nods and checks her chart ‘‘When does this usually happen or is it all the time?’‘ Strong stomps his feet slightly ‘‘If Strong is near master it becomes fuzzy! want to stop! need to be strong and protect Master’‘ Curie stops writing down in her notes and freezes ‘‘Oh Mon dieu’‘

Codsworth:

Codsworth is what he calls ‘Smart for an old bot’ he knew from the get go, hes still full of old world ideals so he isn't to keen on it, considering supermutants are known as violent brutes as well, but he warmed up to Strong (well as much as one possibly could if they weren’t sole) and it became quite entertaining for him to watch over a cup of tea and a nice book (he makes the tea for show, sadly he cant drink it) as strong ‘somehow’ gets red when with Sole, it really makes Codsworth rethink many things

Danse:

Danse...Isn’t exactly a fan of supermutants in general, that's just the way he’s wired (haha get it...Ill go)

Strong would always try to size Danse up, whenever he would talk to Sole Strong would be there, either watching intensely with a violent glare or just interrupting whatever he could, so he went up to him and asked what his problem was, guessing it was because he used to be brotherhood and also because...Danse obviously wasn't a fan of him. Strong just stares him down and points a thick green finger to Danse’s chest poking it into him slightly ‘’Sole needs real man, not metal man’’ and walked off leaving Danse to be (the gif above)

Dogmeat:

You know that thing dogs do when they cover their eyes with their paws and or ears as well?...Yeah just that

Deacon:

One word nine letters Terrified

Deacon thought it was kinda cute at first when he would watch strong follow Sole around, in that scary sort of way...in that way where little girls sing ring around the rosy or your child stands beside your bed in the middle of the night and says nothing, but then he noticed things...different things, like how he would rarely let anyone else around Sole, and that one time where they went to the third rail and that person tried to hit on sole and he chucked a tantrum and set the third rail on fire and- OH MY GOD

Piper:

Piper was making her usual rounds around Diamond City, trying to question whoever she could about her new piece ‘’Mirelurks and their MireQuirks’’ when suddenly she saw strong browsing the general supplies store she was confused why he was here alone, things may have changed since Sole came into play but he might still get given a hard time, he scratches his chin and Piper moves closer to greet him ‘’Master friend, Strong need gift for Master, Master gave Strong milk of human kindness’’ Piper thought this was very normal in fact and did help him pick out something, but then he turned to her and said ‘’How do humans show ‘E fec tion’ ‘’ and she froze ‘’Oh wow buddy i’m not the one for that um...Maybe Nicky can help he was married once well- when he was- when he wasn't- wait was he him- yes of course- um - but its- well-’’ Strong had enough of her blubbering and scoffs already walking off to see valentine, Soles gift in hand. Piper breathes out and then in deeply but then starts laughing softly, it was kind of cute really, but she didn’t think Supermutants could feel ..Love?, Piper had already found a new, and better article idea. SCORE

Preston:

Preston sighs softly, wiping the sweat away from under his hat, taking it off to fan himself with it he noticed the ground rumbling slightly beneath him ‘’Strong that you?’’ Preston turns to the direction of the rumbles and places his hat back on, sure enough he was met with big green mean fighting machine, strong. ‘’You know master, what does master like, besides blood and fighting’’ Preston purses his lips in slight confusion an audible ‘huh’ leaving his throat ‘’Strong want say sorry for Third Rail on fire, Mack Ree Dee says I should show sorry with actions’’ Preston scratches the side of his face and stares at the ground for a minute ‘’why don't you go to diamond city? check out the stuff there I’m sure they would like anything from the surplus store’’ Strong grunts in agreement and stomps away again behind Strong stood MacCready with a tilted head and raised eyebrows Preston looks at him completely confused until MacCready takes his two fingers and draws a heart, Preston stands there dumbfounded his gun falling from his hands

Valentine:

It was a slow day for nick, seemed not many people needed help nowadays guess he had Sole to thank for this time off, but he was getting a bit restless with all this sitting around waiting for something, he felt kind of bad for wishing for things to happen but he was sick of the small ‘Lost my cat’ or ‘forgot where my nuka-cola truck was’ and sick of the fact all of those were deacon in different wigs, so when his door opened he was pretty excited he turns his head up quickly and is met with strong slowly trying to squeeze into the door, he struggled for a few minutes before sitting down, and then breaking the chair, but he still sat in place on top of the broken chair on the floor, nick chuckles and rubs at his temples why was the world against him ‘’Strong, great to see you...What do you need?’’ strong was quick to speak ‘’Paper send me but before that pwes ton and then before that mac ree dee and then before him irish lady, and now im here help strong now metal man!’’ nick rubs the lower part of his face and sighs ‘’so...Paper? sent you specifically?’’ strong nods with a grumble ‘’Alright..tell me what you need’’ it was better than seeing deacon in a long blonde wig talking in a high pitch voice about his cheating husband for 5 hours ‘’Strong been told to come to you because you were married and I need to know E fec tion’’ Nicks eyes widen slightly, the pupils whirrling vibrantly this had to be one of deacons tricks ‘’Affection? for whom’’ Strong slams a big green fist on the desk, breaking it, nick pretends the desk is still there for sanity sake and rests his arms in midair ‘’For Master! who else would be good enough for E fec tion’’ Nick could die at that moment ‘’Alright Deacon you can come out now’’ Strong roars angrily ‘’Bald man at settlement!’’ oh god so this was...Serious, nick takes a looooonnngggggg drag of a cigarette and sighs ‘’Alright...ill help ya’’

X6-88:

(petition for me to just use Raymond Holt gifs for X6 considering they are basically,,The same person like the personalities are spot on omg)

All of the companions where sharing their opinions/outlooks on Strongs growing affections on sole/if Sole would return them and all that, Hancock threw in a few sexual jokes (making everyone groan in different tones) while everyone else already knew X6 did not, and he found it obscene

‘‘x6, what do you think about it?’‘ Curie asks with her eyes full of curiosity, as always.

‘‘Absolutely...Not’‘

‘‘What do you mean ‘Absolutely not?’’ Piper asks with a joking scoff

‘‘it is ridiculous at best, there is no way’‘ the other companions sigh at him ‘‘hey it could be a real blossoming love my guy, they will have gorgeous half green babies’‘ Deacon says with a mouthful of carrot X6 looks at him in distaste and turns in his hair ‘‘X6! don't ignore us, stop being a grumpy pants you aren't in the institute anymore! love is real!’‘ Mac says excitedly X6 slowly turns his chair back and stares at him through his glasses

‘‘It might be, but not between sole and the supermutant, now before you complain, i am once again turning in my chair’‘

he will come around

MacCready:

‘’MACK REE DEE!’’Strong stomped up to Mac at INCREDIBLE speed ‘’whoa there strong! you could flatten me buddy’’ he chuckled but he was literally terrified for his life seeing strong run like that ‘’Loud lady says you can help me’’ strong says bluntly ‘’help with what?’’ now mac was interested ‘’I told her I didn’t want to be without Master and she tells me to see you little man’’ MacCready rubs his neck in confusion why would she send strong to him over nothing it was only natural that he would be if he considers Sole his Master ‘’After fire in Third Rail Master was upset at Strong, STRONG CANT STAND IT’’ Mac nodded slightly ‘’uh well...Sometimes a good ‘’hey I’m sorry’’ and some affection, maybe a hug and a gift can work?’’ strong seemed to like that idea ‘’I GO NOW’’ he roars ‘’whoa buddy wait! do you want me to tell Sole you’re leavin? I’m on my way to have dinner with her now’’ dinner!? Strong’s alarms went off in his head and he picks Mac up by his jacket snarling slightly ‘’Dinner?!’’ Maccready stares at strong, confused and terrified ‘’Um yeah...The thing people do to eat? she wanted Duncan and Shaun to meet formally? you were invited remember?’’ ‘’oh’’ strong slowly and gently (for a supermutant) and slightly dusts Mac off and turned away MacCready laughed softly at how strange he could be and then stopped dead in his tracks ‘’Wait what the fu- ‘’

Hancock:

Once the institute was defeated Hancock and Sole both came up with the idea to have a party for everyone at the third rail, all of good neighbour was decorated from top to bottom with funny decor, synth scraps, all of that (much to x6′s dislike, he still went) everything was fine and dandy, everyone was partying it up, Magnolia switched It up for the night and was singing some upbeat party tunes, and then some random stumbled up to Sole, Hancock watched for a distance he knew Sole could handle themselves so he just watched silently, it was chill and all until Strong war cried, threw the person into some lit candles which then got caught on a decoration and set it on fire and then in shock some people bumped into each other and started fighting AND THEN as everything was going to shit Sole had to jump up to Strong to avoid the fire as it pooled around them, the way strong held onto Sole, told him enough whether supermutants could feel that kinda thing or not wasn't his business. Putting out his cigarette he sighs and decides to help in the chaos as Deacon walked into the third rail ‘’ I BROUGHT PIZZ- aaaa???!’’

BONUS

Sole:

Sole was sitting at dinner with Mac, Duncan and Shaun and turned towards the empty spot they had reserved for Strong with a sigh. They just continue to smile and eat, until the door gets fireman kicked down (I cannot stop with that) and strong appears Sole stands up and strong walks towards them, a pretty sweet looking belt in hand he throws it at sole and they catch it ‘’is this for me strong? well thanks! I-’’ then Strong picks them up and awkwardly hugs them to his body sole struggles a little bit against him ‘’is this about the third rail? its alright strong I told you that I was just busy’’ Strong ‘’I’m trying to do human E fec tion’’ sole goes silent and then smiles softly ‘’thanks strong that’s really nice of you to do that for me, but you don’t have to I like you the way you are’’ strong slowly puts sole down and sole pats him on the arm

Mac and Duncan just looked at each other awkwardly and kept eating the whole time

Bonus Bonus

Maxson:

(I hope this was okay!! thank you so much for requesting I had a BLAST doing it!! xxx)

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janthonyashtoreth · 5 years ago

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Another big batch of asks!

Answering a bunch of asks under the cut! Most of them are ink and flowers centric. I hope you all are doing well <3

anonymous asked: wait wait hold up Anathema works in Azra's tattoo parlour?? amazing, when i was thinking of making my own florist/tattoo artist au, i also had Anathema be Aziraphale's apprentice :D i like when these two are friends. do you have any more headcanons about Anathema in ink and flowers?

she does!! she was doing an apprenticeship under him but has since graduated to doing her own thing (but she still works at his parlor). i can’t get into the whole plot because spoilers but angels/demons and agnes nutter’s prophecies still exist in the iaf universe, but anathema isn’t her descendant. instead, anathema is a wickedly smart computer genius and her boyfriend newt is an endearing but kind of inept descendent of agnes. anathema was azra’s good friend-turned-wingwoman once anthony shows up. i love her

anonymous asked: concept: aziraphale seeing crowley presenting femininely for the first time how'd you think he'd react? in your flower shop tattoo artist au

anonymous asked: OKAY totally not asking bc i may or may not have been thinkin abt this for like. too long. but would anthony have to like, come out as genderfluid to azra/how would azra react to seeing anthony present more fem for the first time

ooo ive been thinking about this as well! i dont think anthony would necessarily have a “coming out moment”, they just kind of do what they want. if they feel like presenting fem or using different pronouns they would just. do it. and azra would just kind of roll with it. i like to think that the first time anthony presented fem she got all dressed up for date night and didn’t tell azra and azra just Stares bc,,,, wow anthony is just gorgeous like that!! azra’s dead!!!

anonymous asked: You're a cutie pie. That's it. That's the fact.

:’ ) you’re a sweety pie!!!

anonymous asked: i deadass tried for 20 minutes to make the finger heart...... how did your friend do it......

i have absolutely no idea and it hurts my brain,,,

anonymous asked: Wahoo

wahoo.....

@alligatorsnbats asked: OK, so what's Oscar's thoughts on Anthony?

oscar LOVES anthony... he’s the worlds most apathetic cat but he actively seeks anthony out when hes around. azra is only slightly salty about it

anonymous asked: Is Anthony cross eyed?

he’s not! i made him a little bit cross-eyed in my latest post on purpose bc he was flustered but i dont know if it came across very well ;;

anonymous asked: not to be *THAT* bitch who comes into your ask box and gushes over your art but i love the way you colour things and your clean line work?? mwah. i wish i could draw like you its just so lovely

bfdkjfdh im cry,,,, just keep practicing my friend!!! i promise it’ll get you where you want to go. the last couple of months have been really nice for me in my ~art journey~ because its the first time i’ve ever really liked stuff that i’ve drawn. ive been drawing for about 7-8 years and this is only just happening and it varies so much from person to person!! some people get to where they want to go in 2 years, some people take 20. just don’t stop practicing!!

anonymous asked: your human!crowley deserves infinite appreciation and the fact that he has coloboma: that right there! is! good shit! he has snake eyes,,,, but as a human. u are a genius good sir and your art is a blessing 👌👌👌

haha thank you!! i think coloboma (i know how to spell it now!!) is such an interesting condition and it’s kind of underused for human aus!!! its so dope!!!

@bolitakawaii-senpai asked: what would crowley's and azi's fav emojies from the cursed emojis??

asking the real questions out here..... i think crowley’s would be the one with all of the teeth and aziraphale’s (assuming he knows what they are in the first place) would be the really cute one with big eyes and the pink hairbow

anonymous asked: concept for the ink and flowers au: something happens to crowley (imma b honest i have no idea) and has a lowkey crisis and chops all his hair off and just. joins his pet snake and snakes around the nursery untill azra comes in seeing crowley crying and cuddling his snake and yeah idk enjoy my the weird shit my brain comes up with

jhuyhaijodfaydgsihfujoi RIP TO THE HAIR...... i love the angst potential (and i can come up with a few reasons for the angst, but i digress) but i dont think i could part with anthony’s hair,,, i love it too much

anonymous asked: I can't handle your ink and flowers Aziraphale. I can't. His hair is TOO fluffy. His face is TOO squishy. He is EXTREMELY friend shaped. His glasses and his eyes are bright like SPARKLES. Every time I see him I want to go feral and show all my friends. I would hug him without letting go of given the chance. 1000000000/10. 💜🐝

anonymous asked: I have a cat just like Oscar (big himbo) and I got him some knit hats for Christmas and he's gonna hate me but I can't wait to dress him up like a little bee so: does Azra ever give Oscar like costumes or footies just for fun? If yes, does Oscar love or hate? 💜🐝

isldakfj im grouping these two together bc im assuming ur the same person anon!! i love your signature!!

you’re correct. his hair IS too fluffy, and he IS entirely too friend shaped. he has the BRIGHTEST eyes. i cant contain my rabid love for him and it spills out into the art. i can’t help it. he gives the best hugs

SLADKFJ YES HE DOES..... IVE BEEN MEANING TO DRAW THIS FOR A HOT MINUTE,,,, as i mentioned earlier oscar is the world’s most apathetic cat so i dont think he would care that much but he’s not super happy about it

anonymous asked: Y'know what? I'm too tired so say smth clever so just know that I love you and your art is amazing 💕💕 PS: i love that you also tag them as Ineffable partners (i guess the point is to be gender neutral)

i love you as well anon,,, and yeah i like the ineffable partners tag! i find that it fits more with their relationship for some reason. though i still tag as ineffable husbands since its such a popular tag lksdfjdfknjbh

anonymous asked: Hello! Fist of all thank you for yor art, you are one of my favorite artists in this fandom and I have Feelings about the Ink and Flowers AU. Second: Don't feel pressured to post daily, we understand that life is complicated and art can be difficult sometimes. Take care! You're the best!

anon i would die for you!!! i never imagined that i would ever be one of anyone’s favorite artists,,,,, im speechless,,,,,,,,

and yeah unfortunately i dont think ill be able to post every other day once this coming semester starts :( i’ll probably have to cut back to once every 3. but there’s more ink and flowers coming at u guys so!! stay tuned for that

anonymous asked: Good omens characters having a game night?

i know this was sent in for the au prompts i asked for but. i dont think im physically capable of capturing the pure chaos that would ensue from this. holy shit it would be so feral.

thank you to anyone who read this whole thing!! i read all of my asks as soon as i get them and i have a lot that i’ve been sitting on for a while. if you sent me something i promise i haven’t forgotten about it!! if you’ve sent something in that you were expecting a response to and i havent responded, just send it again to be safe in case tumblr ate it

i love all of you! <3

#ask me anything #anonymous #not art #ink and flowers au #bolitakawaii-senpai #alligatorsnbats

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deathsusanstohelit · 4 years ago

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some nie huaisang thoughts bc i love him. warnings: i’m coming late to the party, i’ve only watched cql once and just read the novel so i prob missed something, i watched cql first so i’m a little biased since he got more screentime/explanation there, sorry for the lack of sources this is rambly and i didnt have the energy to pull quotes/episode citations, etc etc

TD;LR: is nhs a perfect mastermind? nah. does he do morally questionable stuff? yeah. is he intentionally trying to hurt people (except jgy)? only kinda? do we know his plan/his goals/how did he stuff? not really....

so a list of things that we know nhs did: (mostly cql but taking some novel canon too)

potentially work with mxy to bring wwx back

plant nmj’s arm/baxia’s ghost in the mo manor

encourage rumors about sword hall to draw in wwx and lwj when they came by with the arm/baxia

find and (send someone to?) rescue sisi

find bicao and encourage her to talk to Qin Su/other sects

send the letter to jgy

find the guanyin temple and take meng shi and nmj’s head from it

put together nmj’s body and release it/put it in the temple

harm himself to get nmj/others to attack su she and jgy

trick lxc into hurting jgy

things nhs might have done:

release the fairy statue (cql only)

kill cats to guide the juniors to yi city (heavily implied to be him in the novel)

Thoughts re: Mo Xuanyu

first: i feel like hunxi-guilai said it better but we don’t shit about him? was he mentally ill? probably, the novel suggests so, but we only rlly know it bc other people call him crazy. was he gay? novel says so but it says so bc he ‘harassed jgy’ which is also something jgy might have encouraged in order to kick mxy out of lanling. how close were jgy and mxy? enough that people could spread these rumors and that mxy was able to see wwx’s manuscripts that talked about the ritual he used to bring wwx back. what did nhs do with mxy? who knows!

ive seen post that said that nhs pushed/encouraged mxy to sacrifice himself but honestly, mxy’s desire for revenge felt to me like his own decision/something that existed w/out encouragement. i honestly think nhs was treating mxy like sisi or bicao, another witness to jgy’s schemes that could be pulled for later, with the idea of bringing back wwx a potential bonus but not guaranteed. if mxy was already planning to bring wwx back, than all nhs had to do was not stop him. (this is all just personal interpretation but since we know so little about mxy than i dont see why it cant be true)

which brings me to the mo family. honestly i don’t think that nhs was relying on wwx to expose out jgy/find nmj (he’d been building a case against jgy for a decade! all he needed was more hard evidence of jgy fucking up). i think he was trying to get lwj to investigate (and wwx was just a bonus). see: nhs is in the same inn/dining hall as the gusulan juniors in that second scene in episode one. nhs knows that the mo manor would reach out to the lan sect, goes to mo manor to monitor the situation and releases the arm once lan sect people are there to control it (p sure that the juniors were just there to deal with the walking corpses? which nhs could have helped draw out but arent esp dangerous). when finding a difficult spirit like baxia/nmj’s arm surprisingly, who are the juniors going to call? lan wangji, aka the guy who has become known for showing up in all kinds of complicated situations while emulating/looking for wwx. (esp in cql where baxia has been corrupted by the stygian tiger amulet, which is a good way to get lan wangji to explore it). if lwj is investigating, if wwx comes back than he’ll have help, if not than these questionable things (and the disappearance of nmj) will be brought to the attention of the lan sect (including lxc who is probably one of the largest obstacles to getting people to question jgy).

so nhs is willing to let people at mo manor’s get hurt but he waits until the juniors are there to really let anything happen, and mostly seems to be trying to get the attention of lan wangji without outing himself to jgy as against him. (bc nhs’s whole cover relies on people not suspecting him)

on the fairy statue: it does bother me that (in cql) nhs possibly released the staute to start hurting people again. im guessing he did it to also get proof that mxy went through with the ritual? in the novel, wwx and lwj never encountered the statue before the timeskip so no one had to wake it up, it did it on its own. maybe the statue just re-woke on its own in cql? honestly its not clear but it does kinda suck that nhs might have let it out for... no much?

on yi city: in the novel, its implied nhs led the juniors to the city (which meant that he knew that xue yang was there i guess?) and wwx implies that nhs was willing to let them bc xy/corpses in order to have more to pin on jgy. this one is complicated. all i have to say is that whoever led the juniors there also seemed to know that wwx and lwj were going there - having the juniors there provides more witnesses to xue yang doing bad shit and wwx and lwj can clearly protect them. (in cql verse, i honestly am not sure if nhs led the juniors there or if xue yang himself did, xy did want wwx to try to fix xxc, and might have lured the juniors there in order to have hostages to convince him to do it?)

as for qin su’s suicide, honestly on the way that she was acting in cql and jgy’s (kinda over the top?) reaction, i always suspected that jgy had done something to encourage her to hurt herself. i mean he wanted her out of the way (was going to send her to stay with her dad) but if he couldn’t get rid of her in a less obvious way, i dont think encouraging her to hurt herself (with evil music?) would be beyond jgy at all. also i dont think either bicao or nhs expected qin su to react like that (at the very least bc nhs was trying to build a case against jgy and so wouldn’t want her gone when she could provide a useful perspective)

sending the letter to jgy: honestly, while nhs knew that jgy would do something to react to that, i honestly don’t nhs expected jgy to try to kill them all - i mean nhs almost immediately starts trying to help wwx help them/figure out what happened in the burials mounds so he took advantage of the moment but yeah. i dont think nhs would have showed up if he expected jgy to do that

on meng shi (jgy’s mom, original body in the temple) and nmj’s body: its super fucked up that its implied in the book that nhs messed with meng shi’s corpse for revenge, like gross nhs. glad that got taken out of cql.

for nmj: putting him in the coffin is honestly so much more dramatic (thanks cql). in both adapations nhs releases something dangerous (nmj’s body looking for revenge or baxia’s ghost) that wen ning than has to fight. not sure if nhs meant to just completely drop those without supervision though (remember that su she did capture him, even if nhs probably did intentionally let himself get captured). i think nhs figured that nmj/baxia would go straight for the temple but nhs definitely did just kinda decide to just handwave other causalities. still at this point, jgy did just try to murder all of the sect leaders and a bunch of disciples so it’s kinda understandable that nhs would be willing to let baxia/nmj go to go find jgy because if they don’t deal with jgy, who knows what else jgy might pull for revenge. might be a case of weighing the potential havoc that nmj/baxia could cause versus the sheer slaughter that jgy was pulling to perpetuate (as well as personal revenge on jgy of course)

tricking lxc: hmmm not much to say except yeah that was a dick move nhs. to be fair, i think nhs would have pulled the same shit on anyone (with a sword) to came to help him and turn their back on jgy. lxc had just told jgy that he wouldn’t hesitate to hurt jgy if needed and nhs just took advantage. but he would have done it if say lwj came to help him too. it was a cruel move but honestly jgy would have kept trying to get out of shit so i get it... and nhs had tried to get nmj to come kill jgy just a bit before, if they had just let it happen...

in summary: i dont think nhs was being as cold-hearted/manipulative as some fans think he was. he definitely was willing to let people get hurt in the crossfire (the mos, releasing nmj/baxia in yunping, yi city, fairy statue) although its hard to tell for sure if he was the one causing some of the dangerous situations (fairy statue, yi city). both the novel and cql implied that he did something bad for questionable reasons (maybe doing something to meng shi’s corpse, the fairy statue) but at other times in both versions nhs seems to be trying to prevent people from getting hurt or help mitigate the consequences of his provocations of jgy (nhs in koi tower and the burial mounds being a distraction and trying to help figure out what happened).

nhs’s plan seemed to be drag jgy’s reputation to the dirt and then let nmj kill his murderer. thus, nhs seemed to be trying to protect his informants (sisi, bicao, maybe even letting the mos get killed so that mxy stops being abused?). wwx coming back feels like something that got rid of one of nhs’s informants but provided nhs with another potential ally that he knows will help expose jgy so pros and cons for nhs’s plans. if you noticed timing wise, nhs doesnt send a letter to jgy/have bicao tell qin su stuff until wwx and lwj have already started putting together what jgy did. nhs only provoked jgy and started more directly putting people (the clans) at risk when he knew there was a more of a case to pull on (they’d found most of nmj at this point and exposed xy). so most of the finale, nhs is pulling more risky moves because he finally can do something and have some support

like the one post said, nhs isnt a mastermind with everything planning out. he’s throwing rocks at hornets nets and then trying to figure out how to deal with the fall out. if he plays his hand too strong, up until the very end, jgy can still wreck all his plans and take over again...

after all that, i love him anyway so uhhh time to be a nie huaisang apologist i guess

#nie huaisang #the untamed #mdzs #uhhhh #long post #very long post #god i had a Bunch of nie huaisang thoughts huh #i like morally grey characters and i just wanted to sort out of my feelings okay #i havent posted much untamed or mdzs or anything really but if you have thoughts #i will happily talk #i esp have many thoughts and questions about the nhs and mxy dynamic/story #like what happened there!!#who was mo xuanyu??#anyway its after midnight i should stop now

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zefyre · 5 years ago

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Excuse me? How could I miss any of your updates xD?!? Cheking in regulary and the new pfk one s just so swoon worthy! I love how you wrote the whole thing, And you are ofc right, the jelly thing would be more like James (maybe at first just teasing her how he is jelly, then really becoming jelly and last stage would be scared that she does leave dumb him? lol now I want a fic with james becoming jelly! *pretty pls?*). Ugh I loved how you wrote it so much! Cant wait for raising the stakes tbh

aksjhdfd i’m!! so sorry!!! / cries/ this has been sitting in my inbox for almost a year and i started it back when you sent this but couldn’t manage to finish until today when i stumbled onto it in my docs and decided to try again. thank you for your sweet words btw haha, i hope you see this and enjoy~

It started when James found Kagome muttering almost furiously one day, a letter in hand and a flush across her face.

She hadn’t noticed his approach, so distracted by her letter she was, and he felt his curiosity grow to a point where he couldn’t help himself. He casually strode past her, a growing smile on his face when he did so undetected, before he backtracked to sneak up on her.

Once close enough, James hooked his chin over her shoulder as he simultaneously grabbed onto her hips to hold her steady, so he didn’t get clipped in the chin if she jolted.

A chuckle escaped him when not only did Kagome jump as he predicted, but she also let out the most adorable squeak, slapping the letter against her chest – an act that piqued his curiosity even more, as if she had something to hide.

“Wotcha reading?” he drawled, resting his head against the side of her own, only to draw back when he saw the flush on her face darken out of the corner of his eyes. His grin grew, a trickle of giddiness trickling up his spine at the sight of it spreading all the way down her neck. “Oh ho ho,” he said with a breathy laugh, “This wouldn’t be from a secret admirer now, would it?

He laughed in earnest when her face twisted in an expression of mortification, a whine escaping her throat. “Well that’s a yes,” he sniggered. He raised a hand, wiggling his fingers pleading. “Are you gonna let me see it?”

With a long-suffering sigh and a reluctance that one would think she was signing over her life, Kagome surrendered the letter, holding it out for James to read. Unable to witness the deed with her own eyes, she shut them and leaned her head back against James’ shoulder to save herself from the grief.

James eagerly scoured the letter and soon realized with a bubble of delight that Kagome’s reaction wasn’t an overreaction – the bloke actually opened the letter with some of the cheesiest poetry he’d ever laid his eyes upon.

“To my dearest angel, with eyes so faire, even the stars cannot match the luster of your stare,” James tried reciting with somber flair – he managed up until the word “luster", breaking out into pained wheezes trying to hold back his mirth. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, no more reading aloud,” he choked out when he saw the tell-tale twitch of her eyebrow and the tightening grip she held the letter, and knew if he kept it up she would looked ball up the parchment without hesitation. “Okay, okay, phew.” As he read on, his smile diminished once he got past the cheesy poetry and the letter took a more earnest turn. “You know him well?” he wondered absently as he continued to read, not knowing why that surprised him so much, and not wanting to know why that idea.. niggled at him, either.

He thought it was just some anonymous, star-struck underclassman writing her, to be honest, but the letter was now talking about a meeting they had in the summer.

Kagome let out a sound that was a cross between a sigh and a hum. “For a few years now, yeah… He’s a good friend of Inuyasha’s brother. We met over… the summer after fourth year, I think it was, when we happened visit them at the same time.”

He glanced at her, blinking owlishly. “I didn’t even realize Inuyasha had a brother.”

Kagome snorted. “Half brother,” she explained, “He’s a couple years older and they get on like cats and dogs. He also went to Durmstrang, where he met Kouga.”

“And he’s been sending you these things ever since?” James asked, taking her hand and waving the letter in the air before stopping short, mouth dropping open as realization hit him. He sputtered, laughter bubbling in his chest, “No, no, no, this isn’t the same guy that sent you that singing howler on Valentine’s day in fifth year, is it?

James all but exploded in laughter when Kagome groaned and buried her face in her hands. “You got detention for a week for setting that thing on fire in the middle of the hall!” he crowed, hugging her tightly to his chest in lieu of clutching his stomach, his head folding over her shoulder.

Kagome began to bang her head back against his chest, repeatedly. “That was so embarrassing,” she groaned, sinking against him. “The detention was worth it to get it to stop.”

“Merlin,” he muttered, still laughing, “I think I might be a little jealous,” he teased, pouting his lips at her.

“Don’t be.” Kagome said it so bluntly that it made him laugh again. “I tried telling him I’m not interested but he never really listened. I think he was hanging on in the hopes that I’ll give in one day.”

Now that made him frown. “Not bloody likely,” he muttered, unconsciously pulling her snugger against his chest.

Kagome grinned and reached up to give him a little pat on his cheek in reassurance. “He’s harmless, if a little pushy maybe, but I think he does it mostly to get on Inuyasha’s nerves. Now they really hate each other.“ Instead of pulling her hand away, she used it to cup his cheek, sweeping her thumb along the curve of his cheekbone. “Since he found out about you, it’s now like a jokey tradition kind of thing,” she explained, rolling her eyes to add, “Still bloody embarrassing though.”

James felt something in his chest settle then. “Oh,” he said a a small laugh, perhaps a little too relieved, and his chest puffed out a bit. “You told him about me?” he cheesed, feeling smug.

Kagome burst out into a bout of snickering. “More like Inuyasha gloated in Kouga’s face first thing that he lost his chance when we both visited this past summer.”

James was pleasantly surprised Inuyasha did that for him – after all, they got off on the wrong foot last year and things had been awkward around each other ever since, which made the moment’s they crossed paths in the tower uncomfortable to be sure. “He did that?” The ‘For me?’ unspoken, only to have his spirits dampened when Kagome snorted and shot him a look of pity.

Not for him then.

“They really, really don’t get along,” Kagome explained, laughing once more.

Kagome continued to receive the letters, but after some time she began to keep the correspondence to herself. They weren’t cheesy love letters, she’d tell him, but more personal in nature and as such it didn’t feel right to share with others.

James completely understood of course, didn’t mind, but he would be lying if he said there wasn’t a… discomfiting feeling that took to stirring inside his chest whenever he witnessed a certain owl delivering letters to Kagome, one that only grew over time when the letters increased in frequency – when he’d spied the soft smile blossoming along her lips upon reading said letters.

It got worse when Valentine’s came and she received a package – a gift, more sincere than the obnoxious ones of the singing variety she’d gotten in the past: her favorite flowers and special chocolate truffles imported from France along with another letter that made her smile bright and laugh a flattered sort of laugh and even blush the faintest shade of pink.

The burning in his chest only eased slightly when a Howler came three days later and Kagome immediately panicked, arm whipping out, wand in hand, and lighting it up into flame before the owl could even properly take off from the table – causing a chain reaction of the owl shitting in fright on a fifth year, the tablecloth catching fire, and three sixth years getting drenched with pumpkin juice in a failed attempt to put it out.

Fifty points were deducted that night from Hufflepuff, and Kagome earned herself two weeks worth of detention for the spectacular display.

It all eventually came to a head one day in the middle of Hogsmeade when James stopped short at the sight of a handsome man with long dark hair pulled back into a ponytail and striking blue eyes down on one knee in front of Kagome, one hand cradling her left while his other held out something that glinted bright in the rare sunlight.

“Holy shite, is that guy proposing to Kagome?” Sirius choked out from beside him, equally rendered stunned at the scene, but James could barely hear him over the roar in his head, over the heavy, rapid beat of his heart in his ears, over the monster that grew in his chest at the sight of someone proposing to Kagome.

Over the deafening thought that he wanted to be the one to propose to her, and the… the anger he was taken aback to find simmering hot and foul at the bottom his belly at the simple, and yet mind-blowing fact that he wasn’t the one do it first.

He was just about to turn on his heel and run away, afraid of the scene before him and even more terrified of the turn his thoughts had taken, when a sharp smack echoed out loud the street. His head snapped up to stare wide-eyed at Kagome’s hand still raised and the man’s head turned at an exact ninety degree angle.

“This is not funny!” James heard her shout, her voice strangled and frantic, tinged with disgust as she went on to say, “Put that thing away!”

And to his utmost shock, the man threw his head back in laughter and did as she asked, snapping the velvet box shut and shoving it back into his trouser pockets as he clambered back up onto his feet.

And, to his ever mounting surprise, pull Kagome into a bear hug that while she didn’t completely accept, she didn’t exactly fight him off like he thought she would either.

Now, James found himself striding closer to the pair, unable to ignore the growing, curiosity gnawing his chest.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, old habits die hard,” James overheard the man say, still laughing. “Couldn’t help myself.”

“You’re as bad as Miroku proposing to Sango every weekend.”

“Hey, she gave in eventually didn’t she?”

Kagome refused to deign that remark with an answer. “Now get off me you big oaf, you know I have a boyfriend. He’s gonna have a heart attack if he hears about some strange bloke proposing to me in the middle of Hogsmeade!”

Striking blue eyes caught James’s and he was startled to see a hint of fang in the smirk the other man flashed. “Oh,” he chortled, not even bothering to keep his voice quiet. In fact, he projected it so James could clearly hear him. “I don’t think you have to worry about the rumors getting to him first – he wouldn’t happen to be the tall bloke with the glasses coming just now would he? Cause he’s giving me quite the evil eye.”

Instantly, Kagome’s hand snapped out to start wrapping him against the arms to release her, which he did a chuckle, arms steering wide.

Once free, Kagome whipped around, the familiar look of mortification whenever it came to a certain Durmstrang graduate clear on her face, and he already knew what she was going to say.

“James!” she said, a little breathless and on a nervous laugh. “This is, haha, this is Kouga. I’ve told you about him.” She sounded honest-to-Merlin at her wit’s end at that last part.

James crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow. “Am I going to have to duel him for your hand in marriage?” He looked over Kagome’s head to lock stares with Kouga as she suddenly choked. Despite his snarking tone, his gaze was uncharacteristically serious. “Cause I will.”

“What is this, the dark ages?” she sputtered, before waving her hands hastily between them, “And there will be no dueling because that was just his idea of. Of a Joke.” She turned to give Kouga a filthy glare when he shifted a little uneasily behind her, adding in a much darker tone, “A bad one.”

James broke out in an easy smile that still held a bit of edge. “Oh I know,” he said pleasantly, sounding all light-hearted now, even as he smile turned a little smug. “I could tell by the slap. I think even kids in Hogwarts could hear it, it was a beautiful one, love.”

Kagome’s head tipped to the side to study him, and it was the uncertain look that crossed her face that had him inwardly sighing and backing down. He strode over, dropping a reassuring kiss on her temple as he passed her before offering his hand to the older man. “James Potter,” he introduced himself. He also offered a half grin, “I’d say nice to meet you, but, I just saw you propose to my girlfriend.”

“Kouga,” he introduced himself laughing a little, a little nervous. “It, uh, it really was a joke,” he said, taking James’s hand and shaking it. “The ring’s actually for my girlfriend. Fiancé. Hopefully, if she accepts that is.”

“And she will,” Kagome chimed in, giving Kouga another stink eye, “So long as she doesn’t murder us both if she ever hears of this.”

Kouga waved her off with a robust laugh. “She’s in Japan visiting family, she won’t know a thing!”

“She always knows,” he heard Kagome mutter, watching as Kouga suddenly gave a deep wince when she continued to say, “She knew about Valentine’s,” which was when James realized the Howler from back then must’ve been from his girlfriend instead of Kouga and… and that Kouga must have been dating her even that far back.

Louder, Kagome went on to say something about how Kouga started writing to her about this Ayame, his hopeful fiancé to be, asking for advice and sharing about his ideas to propose, all which James heard but didn’t quite take in completely as he was slipping back into his thoughts.

This meant, that this whole time, the growing… growing jealousy that he’d felt – he couldn’t deny what it was now that he knew – seeing Kagome with the letters… all that worry had been for nothing…

Merlin, he felt like a bloody idiot.

It wasn’t until after Kouga left, treating them all to lunch – Sirius included, who had hung back, fists at the ready for the moment James needed him to jump in to help kick the arse of the bloke trying to propose to his best mate’s girl – for his self-admitted “dumbarse stunt” before taking the Floo back to his flat, that Kagome confronted him.

“James?” he heard her quietly prod, felt her nudge him gently against his side. He turned to see her looking up at her, “Everything alright?”

James sighed, managed a small smile to reassure her, before turning to Sirius to ask for a moment alone with Kagome. He caught on quick, clapping him on the shoulder before getting up and making his way to the bar.

When he turned back to face Kagome again, he found her worrying her bottom lip. With another sigh, this one fond, he reached up with his thumb to gently tug her lip away from her teeth to save it from further abuse. “It’s not your fault,” he told her with genuine honesty, taking her hand and intertwining their fingers, “I’ve just been a bit thick lately and hadn’t realize it until today.”

“Kouga,” Kagome guessed, and correctly at that. James nodded, squeezing her hand. “I never realized the letters upset you, I’m sorry, James, if I did…”

She trailed off when he shook his head, squeezing her hand more insistently this time. “No, no, this was all me, getting into my own head, seeing things that wasn’t there and never… speaking up about it. I’d thought…” he trailed off, with a rueful, self-deprecating laugh as he confessed, “I’d thought the letters were working on you, I guess. I saw you get them, and how you’d… laugh, or even blush, and built it up to something it clearly wasn’t.”

James reached up with his free hand to tuck a fallen curl out of Kagome’s face and behind her ear, pressing a kiss against her furrowed brow to smooth it out smiling when it worked and Kagome leaned into his touch. “Never once realized I was jealous until I saw the bloke today, down on one knee in front of you and a pretty impressive rock in his hand,” he said with a wry laugh.

“Gods,” Kagome breathed out, laughing along with him. “All this time I was helping him with Ayame, it scared the shite out of me when he did it.” Quietly, more hesitantly, she added to say, a pretty flush rising to her cheeks, “Definitely, uh, definitely not the one I thought about… about proposing to me.”

James was not ashamed to admit how breathless her admission made him, the sight of Kagome shyly averting her gaze, her blush darkening further, as he whispered, “Yeah?” and she nodded, biting her lip once again to hide her flustered smile.

Nor was he ashamed at how eagerly he quietly confessed in return, “I think what upset me the most was the fact that I wasn’t the one to propose to you first, joke or not.”

Stunned, Kagome steered a wide eyed gaze back up at him, silently mouthing “Really?” and he laughed, a little giddy, and pressed his forehead against hers.

“Trust me on this, Kagome, I was not kidding about dueling that prat for your hand. And I’d’ve kicked his arse, you know I would.” At her breathless, snorting laugh, James grinned a foolish grin, before he sobered and slipped his hand free of hers to cup the sides of her face instead.

“One day, I’m gonna propose,” he promised, and watched with rapt attention how her blush returned in full force, mingling with the freckles smattered across her cheeks, and the roundness, the misty sheen her gorgeous blue eyes took on in response.

James felt his heart flutter, so incredibly entranced right then and there, and swallowed down the nerves that was building up in his throat.

“Not now,” he ruefully muttered, “And certainly not in middle of The Three Broomsticks where all you can smell is the butterbeer and stale fish and chips, but…”

James trailed off and gazed warmly at Kagome with gentle grin. “But one day it’s gonna be me getting down on one knee, offering you up a ring, riding on the hope you’d grant me the incredible honor of becoming your husband, because as sure as I knew it the day you threatened me with your bat that you were something special,” and James paused, grinning wider as Kagome burst out in a watery chuckle, her eyes way past misty now and almost spilling with tears, before he told her so solemn, so empathetically, with as much emotion and confidence that he could summon, “I know you’re it for me, and there’s not a chance I’ll let you slip away, not if I can help it.”

#it started out funny and fluffy and ended up sappy and fluffy lmao #i'm tagging this #pfk #as there're a couple of nods to a few events in the fic #but i am reasonably sure this won't be canon in rts lol #again i hope you enjoyed and sorry for the wait;;;#jameskag #my fic #mail time #nonny #prompt fill #ALSO #i almost forgot aksjhf #although he wasn't named #the fifth year that got shit on by the owl #was most definitely shippo lmaooo

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mrswhozeewhatsis · 5 years ago

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2019 Jason Manns FanFic FanArt Project

This project is finished!

See the completed book online HERE.

Jason was sweet about the book, as always, and was sad that this will be the last one. I think he’s finally gotten into the idea, but he understands that we can’t keep doing these forever. No matter what, though, I’m proud of what we’ve done! We rock!

Rules for the project, and links to the original posts with the stories and art are below the cut!

As I’ve done for Louden Swain in the past, so shall I do for Jason Manns! But only with your help!

Jason Manns has been an adjacent part of our show for over a decade, now. His music has been featured on the show, and he’s close friends with many of the cast, as well as a frequent collaborator with them, which has brought us so many projects with our favorites! In order to thank him for everything he does for us, I want us to do for him what we’ve done for Louden Swain.

If you’re new to this type of thing, check out previous Louden Swain projects:

2016 - Masterpost - Finished book

2017 - Masterpost - Finished book

2018 - Masterpost - Finished book

This is just like the Louden Swain Projects of the past, so if you’re familiar with them, this will be old hat for you.

This will NOT include any of his covers albums! This is for his original music, only!

I’m looking for BOTH writers and artists for this! For the Louden Swain projects, we’ve had art/aesthetics/edits for every story and I’d love to do the same with this. Whether you’re drawing or making aesthetics or doing something else, WE WANT YOU. All art and stories will be put together, printed, put in a snazzy binder, and presented to Jason in DC!

Everything you need to know is below the cut!

Here’s the schedule:

6/22/19 5:00PM EDT - I will post the rules and regs and open the projects up so you guys can start claiming songs. Only one song request at a time (though you can list a backup song or two if your first request is already taken). Once you have finished and posted your first request, then you may make a second request. (Note: Due to a mistake on my part last year, the fic for She Waits has already been written, so this song is not available this year.)

9/2/19 Midnight EDT - Deadline for writers. This gives writers 10 weeks, plus the US Labor Day holiday.

9/29/19 Midnight EDT - Deadline for artists. This give artists 4 extra weeks after the writing is done.

This schedule then gives me about three weeks to put everything together and prep for the con.

Here are the rules (below the cut):

Deadlines are final. NO LATE ENTRIES! If you find you need more time, let me know and we can try to work something out. I’m not going to make a deadline to sign up, but if you sign up the week before the end, you will only have a week to complete your part. If you want to do two, you must finish your first before you will be allowed to reserve a second song.

Artists: - You will be expected to work with writers so the art reflects the story. Whether you pick a song you like and get together with the writer, or pick a writer you like and get together on a song, it doesn’t matter to me. - If you’d like me to pair you with a writer, let me know, and I will match you up with someone. Most times, I have more writers than artists. If you are willing to work for multiple writers, I would be most grateful!!! In the past, I’ve had a pool of artists, and I tried to divvy up assignments as fairly as possible so no one artist gets all the work. - SEND ME AN ASK or an IM or whatever and let me know what you want to do. Whether you’re working with a writer on one, or willing to be part of a pool that works on multiple, just let me know! - When you’re making your art, keep in mind that it will be pasted into a Word document, printed on letter-sized paper, and put into a sheet protector in a binder. You might want to print out what you make to see how it looks on the page. (You can check out the finished projects above for reference.) - You can post your art in your own post and tag me and #2019 Jason Manns FanFic FanArt Project or submit it to me through my blog or send it to me via carrier pigeon (please don’t send it via carrier pigeon, they poop a lot and I have cats) or drop me a line and I’ll give you an email address to send it to. - I would love some original cover art! If you are an artist and are interested in doing something, send me a message and we can talk concepts!!

Writers: - Can be any pairing or ship, reader-insert or OC, or even no pairing, whatever floats your boat. Please no RPF. - Please no smut. Anything else is up for grabs. Or maybe just a headcanon kind of thing. - Pick a song and SEND ME AN ASK with the song you have picked to sign up. I will update a masterpost on my blog with the songs taken. Songs will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. - You can’t write for the same song you wrote about in previous projects. This is to ensure variety in the stories from project to project. - Tag me in your fic, plus use the tag #2019 Jason Manns FanFic FanArt Project. You can also submit your fic to me through my blog, or send me a message and we can discuss the pigeon and email options. (Really prefer no pigeons.) - You must use a Keep Reading feature if your fic is posted to Tumblr and over 500 words. - Your fic can either be a story based on the song or just have it somehow highlight the song. Since Jason will get to read these, I’d rather the fics be more relevant than just a song playing on the radio in the background, but do what you can. - Your fic can also be a part of another challenge, BUT make your fic relevant to the song you choose, please! (Basically, please do more for this challenge than having a Jason Manns song playing in the background.) - If I haven’t liked or reblogged your post within a couple days, let me know I missed it! - I will give your work a basic grammar/spelling proofreading before adding it to the project. If you would like, I can beta read your story for you before you post it, too. Just let me know!

Everyone: - If you would like to include a short summary of why you like the song you picked, especially if the song has some special meaning to you, I will add that to your submission in the final project. If you look at the previous projects (links are at the top of this post), you can see the kind of thing I’m talking about at the top of some of the stories. Please keep these brief, though.

And now, for something completely different: If you are interested in doing something completely different than a Supernatural-related story or art/edit, talk to me about it, and I’ll figure out a way to include it. Letters to the band or stories that are not SPN-related can be printed out and presented separately, and a list of links to posted audio or video submissions can be added.

I’m so excited to see what everyone does!! As songs are claimed, this list will be updated!

Song List:

Album - Jason Manns Vision Another Number Perfect Spot Journey I Remember Your Song The Same Reminders All I Ask Without You - @andromytta (fic) @brothersinsync (art)

Album - Soul Soul Never Let You Go Hold On Me Real World Rooftop Rendevous - @wingedcatninja (fic and art) Vagabond Blues You Take My Blues Away - @winchestergirl-13 (fic) (art) He’ll Walk Away Breathe In Two Pictures

Album - Move Move Down Never Let You Leave Me (Again) Weary Man Let Loose Need My Muse To Dance Put the Past Behind - @robbenedictandco (fic) @espada-iv (art) The One Who Lifts Me Up - @winchestergirl-13 (fic) (art) Let It Go

Single - When Did I Stop Believing

Cover art by @alaskanartist

Tagging past participants and other possibly interested people: @a-winchester-fairtytale @adriellej @alangel1895 @andromytta @anotherwinchesterfangirl @archangel-with-a-shotgun @archangelsanonymous @atc74 @brothersinsync @castiels-forbidden-angel @crashdevlin @curliesallovertheplace @deansleather @dont-hate-relate-pls @ellen-reincarnated1967 @enchantedstarfleet @take-my-crookedwheel @growningupgeek @hideyourdemoneyes @i-cant-believe-its-not-satan @i-dont-understand-that-url @icecream-and-gadreel @iwantthedean @jelly-beans-and-gstrings @jpadjackles-mishamark @leatherwhiskeycoffeeplaid @lifeonsarz @littlegreenplasticsoldier @loudenswainfangirl @manawhaat @mandilion76 @multi-fan-dom-madness @mysupernaturalfics @narrettwist @notnaturalanahi @oriona75 @padamooseandgrasshopper @pastelspn @personal-boogeyman @purgatoan @robbenedictandco @roxy-davenport @samanddeanwinchester67 @sams-little-toy @samsexualdeancurious @saritaa-chan @scorpiongirl1 @sinceriouslyamellpadalecki @smmywinchester45 @stunt-idjit-number-two @thing-you-do-with-that-thing @toastiel @tricia-16 @trollhunter94 @waywardnerd67 @wideawakeandwriting @winchestergirl-13 @writingfromkitchenator @ilostmyshoe-79 @wingedcatninja @desiraelovesdestiel @impala-dreamer

#incoherent babbling by mrswhozeewhatsis #2019 jason manns fanfic fanart project #Jason Manns #the station breaks

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hollyhomburg · 7 years ago

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Hold Me Tight

(BTS HYBRID HOUSE PART 3)

🐾 (PART 1) 🐾 (PART 2) 🐾 (PART 3) 🐾 EPILOGUE

Summary; Hybrid house consists of humans; Seokjin, Namjoon, and Hoseok, and Hybrids DOGBOY! Taehyung, DOG BOY! Jimin, CAT! Yoongi, and FOX! Jungkook. Together they have the happiest poly family possible and then comes you, a skittish cat hybrid. But BTS will do the best that they can to welcome you into their family even though one member just can’t seem to warm up to you; Jeon Jungkook.

PAIRINGS: reader x everyone, reader-centric, reader x bts,

TAGS/WARNINGS: polyamory, non-descriptive smut, abuse mention, violence, brief arguing, weddings, fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, nightmares, anxiety, panic attack,

W/C: 9.0k

AUTHORS NOTE: it’s finally done! the holy grail of hybrid au’s, I hope you guys like it, I almost didn’t make this angsty but then I couldn't help myself, enjoy guys,

SONG REC: The Truth Untold ~ BTS

BEFORE

- At this point, Jungkook would do anything to get the thought of you out of his head...

NOW

- The next few days pass in a blur, Seokjin and Namjoon go back to work, and as usual Jimin trails along with Hobi to the dance studio a few days out of the week.

- Though things at the studio have slowed down a little; Hobi lets one of his other instructors do most of the work in the afternoons and at night classes so that he can be home, to keep an eye on you and the other hybrids.

- Slowly you start to warm up to them more. Thought you still trail after Yoongi looking more like a lost puppy than a kitten. the next one you warm up to is Jimin (though your trust of Namjoon and Hobi has always been implicit)

- You take a bath one night with Jimin, Hating it at first but then liking it more once they get it to the right temperature.

- You let Hobi brush your tail through and blow-dry it shivering every time his hands get too close to the base of your spine as you lay sprawled over his with your head pillowed on Jimin’s soft thighs in nothing but a large shirt of Namjoon’s.

- Hoseok isn’t immune to your nudity, and he has to take special care not to let his hands wander every time he gets a view of your cute butt. Jimin grins at him when he catches Hoseok staring, all the while running a careful brush through your hair careful not to snag it on your ears.

- They both giggle when you start to purr loudly and giggle harder when you flush after realizing they’re watching you.

- Taehyung watches the three of you from the door forlornly until Namjoon snags his attention by passing by, running a hand across Tae’s back before he continues on his way to his office with a fresh case file under his arm.

- “I just wish she liked me.” He wines with his cheek resting on Namjoon’s thigh as the elder poor’s over document after document in his office.

- “Have you tried being a little calmer around her, lowering your voice- I just think you startle her when you get loud.” Namjoon says carefully, running a comforting hand through Tae’s hair.

- “Oh” Taehyung says, his eyes wide and his ears pinned to his skull. And Namjoon cant help but smile at the hybrids pout. He pulls Taehyung up for kisses.

- Kisses that very easily turn sultry and hungry as Namjoon picks Taehyung up and lies him out over his papers- all thoughts of work forgotten. he Pulls up his shirt and presses trailing kisses down Taehyung’s soft stomach and lower. Until the sound of Tae’s moans are making the three of you blush down at the end of the hallway.

- In truth the reason why you avoid both Taehyung and Seokjin is because you find their beauty somewhat intimidating.

- It wasn’t like Yoongi’s beauty- that way his calm steady hands that held books out in front of you.

- or like Jimin’s and Hobi’s soft beauty as he buries his face in your shoulder while he let out a tinkling laugh.

- It wasn’t a harsh domineering beauty like Namjoon and Jungkook had- that made you slightly intimidated and mostly curious at the same time.

- It was an ethereal timeless beauty that stunned your heart into pitter patters whenever they got too close.

- It made you squeak and fall silent every time Seokjin entered a room, and divert your eyes, worried about being caught staring, and it makes you hide behind Yoongi’s shoulder every time Taehyung plods up to you in the living room

-usually asking if you wanted to go play outside, or help Seokjin in the kitchen, or watch another movie, or play video games usually while you were attached to Yoongi’s hip (usually when you two were just napping). Which would result in Yoongi hissing playfully at Taehyung and turning over, usually dragging you with him.

- Hoseok goes clothing shopping with you one day and lets you pick out whatever you want

- at first, all you see is price tags but after he and Namjoon prod at you start looking at a few more expensive pink skirts for spring and a few nice embroidered blouses that Taehyung brings you-you get into it.

- You stop by an expensive shop and Namjoon catches you eyeing an expensive silk scarf; cream colored and patterned with small watercolor flowers, your eyes snag on it for a moment before you let yourself be dragged on by Tae (who you’re actually letting hold your hand for once) before Namjoon mentally files the interaction away for later and marks the name of the store in his phone.

- A few days after, you find the delicate silk scarf folded in quarters with a small flower from the garden and a little note.

- “Please tell us if you need anything, we care about you y/n - Joonie”

- you touch the soft silk and wonder what a thing like you has done to deserve this.

- Later when the 8 of you go out for a special treat of ice-cream to celebrate the start of spring, you wear the silk scarf as a headband to hold back your ears and hair a bit.

- Hybrids are widely accepted but its almost commonplace for hybrids to hide their ears since most people treat them as children or as second-class citizens. Though the patrons at the ice cream parlor would never dream of treating you badly in front of your human owners

- And in the line for ice cream you feel a small tug on a lock of your hair before you look up and Namjoon tucks it behind your human ears.

- The moment is wordless, as he looks into your eyes with the same soft fondness that he looks at all of his family, you lean your cheek softly against his arm before Taehyung interrupts you by slinging an arm around your shoulder and asking you what flavor you’re going to get.

- You end up splitting a Sunday with Jimin while Yoongi gets the largest bowl they have filled with plain whipped cream

- Sometimes In the mornings you let Hobi pick out your clothes, especially when you plan to go out of the house.

- You let him carefully tug your skirt up to your hips and press a small short kiss to the inside of your knee as you squeak and he just grins ruefully up at your flushed face while Yoongi watches from his bed feeling his heart constrict.

- Recently you’ve taken to sleeping there in Yoongi’s room with him- though usually not if Jungkook is. You’ve taken to plain avoiding the young hybrid now.

- You usually fall asleep with Yoongi; thought Hoseok joins you more often than not, and Jiminie is the cuddliest puppy

- Try as he might, Yoongi can’t ignore how good he feels when you press your face into his back in a cuddle puddle or when you playfully nip at his ears (softly too) his heartbeat stutters whenever you choose him to sit next too at the couch.

- And he straight up laughs the first time you come back from a walk with Tae and Jimin covered with mud, holding your muddy tail close to your grass-stained blouse, bothering Hobi until he sighs lovingly and Leeds everyone to the large communal bathtub.

- He’s always the one that takes extra care of the hybrids at bath time, always making sure to blow dry each of your tails and detangle yours, Jimin’s, and make Jungkook’s extra fluffy (since you two have longer hair than Yoongi and Taehyung).

- Hoseok also does this for Seokjin in the morning, taking extra time to coif his hair perfectly into place how he likes it. Seokjin loves the way that his careful hands scratch over his scalp sending shivers down his spine.

- Sometimes you wake up early and catch them before they leave for work.

- They’ve started to be less careful around you, and you’ll accept kisses from some of them, especially Yoongi who you even seek out from time to time.

- You end up straddling him one morning enjoying the warm spring sun in the grass and he gets handsy enough that Jungkook and Tae wolf whistle from the second floor, and you turn over and cover your face hiding your blush but Yoongi can’t stop smiling at you.

- He is always your first choice, and that means a lot to him.

- But then one night he wakes in his cuddle puddle of a room that somehow has become yours and you’re twitching, pushing everything away from you as silent tears drift haphazardly down your face and you toss your head.

- “Please-“ you choke out, and it takes Yoongi a moment to come to his senses, and shake you awake, your fingers dig into his arms like claws when you’re tossed from your nightmare devolving into sobs almost immediately clinging to Yoongi- to anything that’s real and safe.

- He runs his fingers through your hair but try as he might- no matter how many times he tells you it's going to be alright you just sob harder. Eventually he picks you up and takes you to Seokjin’s room.

- Seokjin wakes from beside Jimin and Namjoon who are both too heavy sleepers to notice you quietly sobbing. Seokjin rushes to the door and takes you from Yoongi

- Seokjin leads you and Yoongi down into the kitchen. Seokjin’s wide protective shoulders covering your anxieties like a heavy feather blanket as his easy words slowly draw you out of your panic attack.

- His thumbs wiping tear after tear from your cheeks

- “I have some hot chocolate for you lovely. Do you want Yoongi to put some whipped cream on it?” you nod, sniffling, your arms still loosely twined around Seokjin’s neck and he brings the cup to your hands, so that you can grip it yourself, you sit across Seokjin lap, your sniffles stopping instantly when you taste how good the whipped cream is.

- Seokjin giggles his windshield wiper laugh as Yoongi grins and runs a comforting hand down your spine.

- Later- they decide- they’ll try and get an answer out of you about the nightmares, but for right now, both Seokjin and Yoongi decide that they’d rather have you propped in-between the two of them, sleepy face slightly smudged with cream, belly full and happy with sugar.

- You fall asleep in Seokjin arms as he laughs as he chats on about a new intern at his company, your ear pressed against his chest to listen to his steady heartbeat

- Kisses start to be an everyday thing; when Seokjin treats you to sweets Jimin will sneak a peck and say that he just wanted to see if it tasted any different, then Taehyung tries it and says “I wanted to see if your mouth tasted any sweeter after Jimin kissed it” and it makes you skitter behind Hobi so quickly, face flushed, that they all dissolve into giggles.

- You’re still painfully shy around Seokjin and Taehyung, but it gets better, soon you start to seek out affection instead of shyly waiting for it and stop wondering if they want you to touch them and just touching them, being affectionate as Jimin is.

- The same way that cats will come into a room and then ignore you? that’s the way that you were for the first few months- but not anymore.

- Namjoon loves it when you sit on his lap during dinner time especially when you give him kitten licks on his neck.

- They’re all so surprised at how needy you got when you finally warmed up to them, you almost rival Jimin in terms of pouts (when the two of you are together they’res nothing stopping it, his puppy dog eyes, and your doe eyes make everyone melt)

- Seokjin calls you lovely,

- Namjoon calls you baby girl

- Tae calls you darling

- Hobi calls you honey (honey and hope- how cute would that be?)

- Jimin calls you baby,

- And Yoongi calls you princess.

- Jungkook calls you kitten when he refers to you, which is rare. He’s a little put out. Everyone’s been giving him just as much affection as before. But he hasn’t spent a night with Yoongi in a while because he’s been focused on you too much.

- It would be fair for you to ignore Jungkook so much if he had given you any real reason at all to avoid him. But in reality, he hasn’t all given him any reason to treat you with a constant cold shoulder (besides the first few weeks in which he pushed your boundaries- but it’s been a few months now).

- Jungkook didn’t want you to leave but he didn’t want to get closer to you either.

- Every time you passed him there was this undeniable urge in his bones, your scent stung like perfume in his nose lingering everywhere. Distracting him so much and making him want you so bad that he had taken to his old haunt the woods to get away from the house,

- Sometimes he took Jimin with him but usually he was too busy. Usually it was Yoongi who came along with him but those times seemed to have passed now.

- in general, your and Jungkook’s relationship has been nothing but tense, and it makes everyone exchange painfully full glances. the humans spend one afternoon in Namjoon’s study discussing it before they decide to see if you’ll warm up to him on your own time.

- but when the tension breaks, it takes more than a few casualties.

- it’s a rainy Saturday with everyone home and having somewhat of a movie night, Namjoon has his work spread out over the kitchen table while Seokjin is sleeping quietly in the living room with Jimin strewn over his lap.

- You're by their feet, still in your silky new pajamas that Hoseok got you as you watch a drama with the volume all the way down,

- Taehyung is helping Hobi hang a new painting and cleaning up the main entryway.

- Maybe it starts with Jungkook and Yoongi coming into the living room talking loudly, but no ones really sure how the fight starts

- But all they know is that they’re sudden shouting, And it escalates until you hiss- you actually hiss at Jungkook.

- It isn’t missed by anyone, he replies instinctually- the way he would have in the wild if any hybrid had behaved towards him so aggressively by swiping, back at you, not hard really, just enough to get you to flinch back.

- “JUNGKOOK” Namjoon yells from across the room, standing up, Hoseok and Tae come in from the other room; Jimin perks up from his spot on Seokjin’s chest.

- “We do not lift our- y/n!” he yells again, this time when you do your best to shove Jungkook.

- “He stepped on my tail!” “Well its not my fault that you where in the way”

- “You should learn to watch where you’re going.” “Maybe you should learn to find any other place to be.”

- “Both of you need to calm the fuck down.” Yoongi is the first one to put himself in-between the two of you his hands up, an arm on Jungkook pulling him away from you.

- “Get out of my face Yoongi” you, say, turning your face up to him, it’s the first time you’ve spoken against him- or spoken up really.

- You’re breathing in rapidly, and he can see your eyes flashing from every persons face in the room and he can see a panic attack lurking under your skin even if you cant- there are too many people looking at you.

- Your grey tail is so fluffy it looks more like a fox tail than a cat’s tail and your ears are flat against your skull,

- “You need to calm down y/n,” he says softly, turning fully to face you, putting himself once again in between you and Jungkook.

- “I am calm!” you practically shout at the other cat. Your arms are shaking when you raise them again but Yoongi catches them in his own hands, pinning your back against a wall, you roil and hiss, trying to fight him back

- but before you can try to bite his arms Yoongi leans down and bites your neck.

- The intake of breath is palpable as everyone hears the pop of Yoongi’s canines into your skin,

- Taehyung makes a noise moving to go to you, and then they all watch in fascination as your ears slowly raise back up, your tail gets less puffy, swishing back and forward almost lazily,

- Yoongi lets go of your arms; he retracts after a moment, giving you one or two licks to the bite before he lets you go.

- “I’m sorry” Jungkook says, he shoulders slack, looking defeated, “I didn’t mean any of it.” he didn’t mean to get you so worked up. Didn’t mean to get you hurt like that.

- Yoongi steps aside so you can look at him, you look shyer now- back to your old self, no longer shaking. Everyone watches the interaction stunned, unable to comprehend the fact that Yoongi- Yoongi bit you to calm you down and it worked.

- “I know you didn’t” you reply softly. Your eyes diverted to the floor.

- “Your shirt!” Hoseok cries, reaching for a napkin to stop the blood from running further onto the collar of the blouse you wear.

- Hoseok guides you to the bathroom to clean it up. Casting one relived glance at Jungkook.

- “Why did you do that.” Taehyung asks Yoongi looking at him suspiciously as Yoongi wipes the blood from his mouth. “You didn’t need to hurt y/n like that.”

- “Because I knew she’d be calm if I showed her she had to be.” Taehyung gives Yoongi a confused look, “I’m not sure if I follow either Yoongs” Namjoon says plopping down on the couch, and running a hand through his hair.

- “Look” Yoongi says, “don’t you and Jimin have your own dominance hierarchy?”

- “Yes! And with Jungkookie and Namjoon and you-“

- “Well cats show dominance in different ways ok?” He says before he takes him a moment to exit through the backyard doors- the rain has finally stopped.

- Jungkook goes to follow but Seokjin stops him. “Oh no you don’t, when y/n comes back we’re having a talk with the two of you”

- The scolding you two get for your little display of aggression isn’t too severe, mostly, Jungkook just apologizes again as Hobi reiterates that he said to you in the bathroom- that you’re a family, and family never raises hands against one another.

- “But what about when you spank Jiminy?” Tae asks,

- Hobi and Seokjin laugh their asses off with how red both Namjoon and Himin get.

- “That’s a little different Tae.” “Why?” “Because Jiminie asks me to do that.”

- Hobi stays with you in the living room while Namjoon takes the others to the backyard for some much-needed catch, it’s finally warm enough outside for that kind of activity.

- The next few days, Hobi takes you to work and so does Seokjin, they realize that keeping the five of you two cooped up in the house might not be the best for the whole Jungkook situation.

- You sit at the front desk and keep track of everyone who comes in, smiling at the child class that comes in. You do a good job with guiding the little kids into the room, while Jimin smiles and assists with the ballet class with one of Hoseok’s other teachers.

- The day you spend with Seokjin is a little posher, he sets you up in his office window and you spend the day sketching the skyline on a pad of paper

- Bring your hybrid to workday is always one of your favorites, especially when you get to go into the city.

- “I used to live in one of those houses on top you know.” You mutter quietly one day, causing Seokjin to look up where you sit at the plushy window seat finding you nodding off.

- His pen pauses on his paper, “you never talk about your old owner, or about the night that Namjoon found you, will you ever want too?” Seokjin asks you turn to meet his eyes,

- Seokjin’s always surprised at what balance hybrids are.

- You might hiss and fight, and your animal instincts, might be apparent, but your humanity is equally as apparent when you smile at him sadly. “That part of my life is done hopefully, and besides they’re not much for me to say, he hurt me. Namjoon saved me, you guy’s love me. that's more than enough.” you yawn

- “Seokjin nods, but when he turns back to ask you about pressing charges (hybrid abuse is a serious offense, after all, Namjoon has dealt with more than a few cases in his time as a lawer) but you’re already asleep on the sunlit window bench.

- And Seokjin ends up wishing that you could come around more often, but he’ll take what he can get- the quiet peace he has when he goes home to you and the others.

- Next week he comes home with a red sketchbook for you, and Yoongi gives you a set of colored pencils.

- You spend the first few weeks of summer finding every flower you can and drawing it. sometimes Jimin will join you and you find yourself sketching him too.

- The humans are so surprised with how good you are, and more than a little proud, pinning some of your drawings onto the fridge, and of course Taehyung has to join in drawing stick figures and loly pop trees to hang there too.

- Eventually, there are very little flowers left for you to draw in the garden, especially after the pink magnolia leaves all of its petals behind,

- Taehyung comes up with the idea, they’res this park nearby that the humans never have time to take him too, but it’s his favorite.

- There is this kind of rule- that the hybrids can’t go anywhere by themselves unless they go in a group of 3. So in the peak of summer the only way Taehyung can go to his favorite park down the street is if he convinces someone to go with him.

- As the humans are all at work, and Jimin went to help Hoseok, and Yoongi is asleep, that means you and Jungkook are Taehyung only options for fun; especially if he wants to do something besides lazing around the house.

- You’re surprisingly easy for him to convince you to go, as you’ve never been to the park down the street. You wait around the front of the house sitting on the stone steps for Taehyung idly twirling a daisy in your hand.

- Before Jungkook joins you and your eyes flicker to him in a silent question that he would know anywhere the “why are you here?” look that makes him turn in on himself.

- The time might not be the worst if you would just pay attention to Jungkook the entire day, but no you seem just as happy as to sit on one of the picnic tables at the edge of the park in the shade staying out of the sun while Jungkook and Taehyung toss a ball back and forth.

- Jungkook finds himself watching you out of the corner of his eyes. Your back is to them, facing the pond and the ducks as you sketch away in your book, in the background the willow tree drifts lazily in a cool refreshing breese.

- “I just don’t understand why she doesn’t like me” Jungkook says to Taehyung quietly, as he releases the red ball at the apex of his swing.

- “Do you know what Joonie told me at the beginning when she didn’t like me? That I was crowding her too much.”

- “But I barely talk to her- I don’t think that’s my problem.”

- “That’s my point!” Taehyung says with a small smile “if you didn’t give her such a wide birth you might have more luck,” Taehyung stoops to pick up the ball that he missed from Jungkook’s hands.

- Jungkook’s eyes flickered up to look at where you sit- only to find you missing,

- Jungkook and Taehyung search the entire park but find neither hide nor hair of you.

- Jungkook tries to tamp down on his panic- because he knows how little you know this area, and you could have tripped and fallen or someone could have stopped by and kidnapped you. But before he can panic further he hears a shout down by the edge of the pond.

- Jungkook and the swear they’ve never run faster in their entire life as they run towards the sound of your voice.

- Three high school boys have cornered you by the waters edge, and Taehyung feels his blood boil when he sees one of them yank at your tail roughly and laugh as you try to twist away- they’res even a small scratch on your cheek.

- Another one has your sketchbook underfoot and is crumbling it into the dirt, you reach for it, but the other teenager pulls you away by your tail.

- “Hey!” Taehyung yells when he see’s just as Jungkook stoops piking up a river rock at whips it as hard as he can at them. The high school kids might have been brave a moment ago but at the sights of two infuriated adult hybrids they scatter, Taehyung whips a few more rocks at their retreating figures and chases after them. Jungkook goes to you and for the first time you go to him, running into him at full speed crashing into his chest.

- Tae returns just as You burst into tears burring your face in his chest as your small body shakes; stunned he wraps his arms around you, running a relaxing hand down your back. Tae returns, casting a look down at you, his eyebrows pulling together “I was so scared and because they where human I didn’t know if I could fight back without getting in trouble- and I-”

- Tae bends down to your levels and rubs over your shoulders. “Listen to me y/n,” Tae is not often serious, but at the low timbre of his voice you look up from Jungkook’s shirt, your eyes red and puffy, but Tae just wipes your tears out of the way.

- “If anyone ever treats you like that human or hybrid you fight back, and you yell as loud as you can for us, for any of us, you’ll never get in trouble for defending yourself” you sniffle and nod shyly up at Taehyung,

- He kisses your forehead gently. “Lets go home.” Jungkook retrieves your sketchbook from the ground,

- A few of your sketches are torn and more than a few are dirty, and the kids tossed your pencils Yoongi had given you into the water. You start to cry a little again before Jungkook takes your hand, rubbing a thumb across your hand before he assures you that no one will be angry that you lost your nice pencils and Taehyung chips in that they’ll find something to replace your sketchbook.

- Taehyung takes your other hand in his,

- By the time the three of you make the short walk back your tears have mostly subsided into slight sniffles’ and you’re glad to be back within the air-conditioned confines of your home and out of the summer heat.

- Jungkook sits you down and checks the freezer finding ice pops and ice cream and fixes you with a lemon ice pop.

- But that’s when Yoongi comes down the stairs and sees the three of you sitting on the edge of the counter.

- “What the hell happened?” he says almost tripping down the stairs, when he sees the small scratch on the side of your face. He takes your face gently in his hands.

- “They’re where just some neighborhood kids Yoongs- Jungkook and Tae saved me.” Both of the hybrids try not to puff out their chests and exchange grins feeling proud- before they catch Yoongi’s expression, he’s looking at them murderously like they’re the ones that beat you up,

- As he goes to pick up the phone they start to protest but then he shoots them a look, and they fall silent.

- It takes Hoseok, Jimin, and Jungkook, to stop Namjoon and Seokjin from calling the police that night, especially after they see the scratch on the side of your face.

- Jimin sits next to you when he gets home and presses a wet paper towel to the scratch, pressing a kiss to the scratch every time he takes it off too check it.

- They spend the night pampering you; Namjoon runs a brush through your hair as you sit snuggled up against Jungkook’s chest while Tae spoons Jungkook.

- Yoongi watches you from across the room. Tracking your movement like he's not sure you’re all right.

- Namjoon retreats to the patio outside, finding Hoseok and Seokjin piled on top of each other, the two of them giggle and pull the him down onto the outdoor futon.

- The air is warm, And Namjoon can’t keep the smile on his face especially when Seokjin’s hands start to wander.

- “God I love the two of you.” Hoseok gasps, running a hand down Namjoon’s arms and another through Seokjin’s hair. “I love our family, I love our everything. And mostly- I love that that’s no longer a problem.” He says gesturing inside his house, where they can see through the window. You and Jungkook, sleeping, snuggled up on the couch.

- Yoongi has moved next to you, his black cattail curled gracefully with yours, with Taehyung and Jimin equally as cuddly. All the hybrids piled onto one couch, happy and finally getting along.

- By the end of the night it’s Jungkook and Yoongi who carry you upstairs and tug you into a comfortable pair of flannels, you fall asleep in the middle of the big bed after Yoongi promises you that the others will join you, and they all do. Piling in together, each of you feeling happy and whole and so full of love you could nearly burst.

- The next day when you wake up Namjoon manages to convinces you to file a police report against the teenage boys who harassed you. The two of you go down to the police station that morning

- the law is important to Namjoon- but then the unthinkable happens, it turns out your name is in the system, Namjoon gets the call stunned three days later while he's at work- because he never imagined that you could be accused of a crime

- But no the police officer assures him- you where in the system as missing.

- Missing- no that can’t be right, Namjoon found you that night, abandoned to die. But it’s too late he can;t take back the police report they’re already contacting your old owner.

- Namjoon doesn’t know how to tell you- he never got the full story about what happened to you because he never imagined it could be a problem, he thought that whoever had you before didn’t want you.

- Of course he asks his fiancée’s what he should do- and the three of them decide to tell you alone away from the others, but Yoongi muscles his way into the room, standing by the floor to ceilings windows with his arms crossed while the three of them sit you down at the table Namjoon works at.

- “y/n, I know you don’t want to talk about this, I know it’s a hard subject, but can you tell us about the night I found you? Can you tell us what happened before that?”

- Namjoon asks as you sit across from him, Seokjin holding your hand. None of them are surprised when the tears start to fall.

- Yoongi starts forward, saying that it’s too much for you- that they should just leave you be, but you wave him away, saying that you should tell them that they have a right to know.

- You tell him the story of the man that adopted you from the facility, how he always mistreated you and kept you as a pretty house cat- and pretty much a maid, but never let you out, never gave you anything more than the bare minimum.

- You tell them About the times that he would abuse you and hit you for the smallest things, like dropping plates or tripping over your tail.

- Sometimes kicking you to the point where it hurt to breath- he’d even twisted your arm so far he’d broken it once.

- You tell them about the demeaning words and Hoseok assures you that no- you’re not worthless, you’re not any of the unkind words he used to tell you that you where.

- You tell them about the things you overheard about his business, and that’s when they all realize that the person who owned you might as well have been a monster.

- As they start to put the pieces together they realize that there is a very good possibility that your old owner was connected to a mob.

- The last night you stayed in that house he was having a dinner party, a normal occurrence, but not so normal as when you tripped, manage to shatter an expensive vase and spill a whole glass of wine over one of his guests and the carpet.

- The beating you had gotten that night had been the worse ever, and when you had thrown up blood on his carpet too- he had decided it was the last straw and had his men drop you in the ally down the street,

- Everyone is crying by the end of your story, everyone but you, you’re just looking down at the floor willing yourself to disappear into it, your eyes empty and your hands shaking

- And when they open the doors they find the other hybrids listening in, Jimin is sobbing and he throws himself into your lap before anyone can stop him.

- And you just hold onto him as tight as you can, burying your face in his shoulders as the others pile around you and hold you tight.

- Namjoon has already told you what your owner might do, and all of them decide unanimously that no, they’re not going to let you go back to your old owner,

- You’re their family now and they’re going to fight for you no matter what.

- And with what Namjoon’s witnessed and with what you told him he has more than enough to convince a judge or even a jury that you need to stay with them.

- That night, Yoongi already knows you’re going to wake up because of nightmares, and he makes Seokjin sleep with them too, and Namjoon. You pull Namjoon into the big bed as well,

- Namjoon has always made you feel so safe; ever since he saved you that night. but he cant stop it when you shoot out of bed and head to the bathroom to vomit up your food, anxiety curled in your stomach.

- Taehyung takes you down into the living room to watch TV when you decide that you don’t want to sleep, and in the early hours of the morning you finally do. Your head on Taehyung’s lap as the news (it was the only thing that was on) drowns out Tae’s snores, all of the lights on to banish any demons and any shadow.

- Your old owner doesn’t try to get in contact with you until a few weeks later- but he does it in the worst way possible- but turning up at your front door.

- Jungkook’s near- thank god, because he sees you flinch back from the front door and immediately goes into protective mode, shoving you behind him and out of the way before growling at the man before slamming the door in his face.

- it takes Jimin and Jungkook to talk you down from the panic attack that follows

- After that the humans are served with papers- asking for the return of the hybrid.

- How horrible Seokjin thinks, that your old owner only refers to you as the hybrid, when he knows from spending time with you, from falling in love with you that you are a full-fledged person with dreams and hopes.

- Namjoon would never think of letting him take you, and he talks and bothers the judge assigned to your case incessantly, Hoseok and Seokjin come as well- corroborating Namjoon’s story about the condition they found you in that night, your injuries that where obviously inflicted.

- You even go in and give a testimony Hoseok never lets go of your hand and you don’t cry, but your shoulders are slumped and curled in when they lead you out of the courthouse.

- All it takes is a glance between the three of them to decide that they can’t let you go home like this. So they take you out to an art shop and buy you a set of new colored pencils, oil pastels, and watercolors complete with brushes and new sketchbooks.

- You fall asleep against Namjoon’s shoulder in the back seat on the way back from the courthouse, so tired from the emotional stress of the day.

- Namjoon runs his hands through your hair as he looks down at you and thinks about how strong you are for facing this, and as he thinks about the last few months, about how happy everyone’s been, about how well you fit into their little family, Namjoon lets a few tears loose as he thinks about the very real possibility of losing you.

- He meets Seokjin’s eyes when they’re parked at a spotlight and they share a fond broken look. And that’s when Seokjin vows that there is no way he’ll let you go- it will break his family he knows it will.

- Seokjin might have been raised with money, but he works really hard so that his family can live comfortably now. They still manage to put a large amount of money away every month for a rainy day fund, after the groceries and mortgage and cell phone bills are all paid for.

- And this is certainly a rainy day.

- So he sets up a meeting with your old owner no matter how bitter of a taste it leaves in his mouth- to meet with that monster of a man like an equal.

- And he finds him more disgusting than you described, with breath smelling like smoke, and wearing a very ugly and out of fashion Balenciaga suit.

- Over drinks, Seokjin swallows down his rabid distaste of the man and convinces him to sell you, despite the fact that you are a person and not a thing to be sold.

- And when he comes home, and finds you cooking in the kitchen with Namjoon spilling every other bowl, laughing your ass off with Jungkook, watching him struggling to cut an onion for the roast you’d planned on making that night,

- He decides he can’t wait to tell you. You drop the bowl of salad you’re holding in your hands the moment his words leave his mouth and it clatters and spills but no one pays it any attention.

- “you mean I’m yours? He can’t take me away from you now?” you say, your lower lip quivering. And Seokjin smiles at you before you launch yourself into his arms; Namjoon comes to hug him too, before Taehyung runs in, shouting for confirmation of what he’s just heard.

- Seokjin smiles and says yes- yes, he hasn’t gotten your official birth certificate yes. But right now it seems that you’re theirs now, and that there’s no risk at all of you being taken away.

- Namjoon catches Jimin smiling at you with a small sad look in his eyes, and Namjoon takes his hand in his while everyone woops and cheers, already talking about going and getting ice cream cake to celebrate, Hoseok noisily asking you what your favorite food is.

- It might have been a few years since Jimin was saved from a similar situation but some day’s it’s still hard for him to forget the abuse too,

- That’s one of the reasons why Namjoon thinks the two of you are so close to one another. Because you’ve both gone through such similar things.

- That night, a warm summer storm sweeps through, and instead of finding yourself scared (like Yoongi is- underneath about 5 layers of covers to drown out all sound of thunder) you find yourself drawn outside, accidentally rousing Jimin from sleep when you elbow him, he comes with you outside as the two of you stand underneath the rain,

- “it feels fantastic doesn’t it?” Jimin asks, after you’re done twirling around, your smile stretched so wide that your face will start to hurt soon, “I never thought I’d feel so free” you agree stretching your arms out.

-“What are the two of you doing?” Hoseok calls from the open patio doors, which results in the two of you pulling him out to dance with you in the rain.

- Jimin and Hoseok teach you few moves as you twirl underneath the deluge of the water feeling light and for the first time like you could be okay, like it’s all not too good to be true.

- Hoseok starts singing a terrible rendition of “singing in the rain” resulting in the three of you dissolving into giggles before you shriek and run inside, trying to avoid getting water on the floors, Jimin is downstairs making tea when you corner Hoseok with a towel, fluffing his hair out for once- the same way he always does for you.

- He giggles and smiles, and twines his hands around your waist from where you sit in between your legs and presses his nose to your sternum, his hands wandering as he grips you tightly. Breathing in your warm fluffy scent

- He’s happy to have the person he holds dear in his arms. You press a kiss to his nose when he looks, up and then to his lips. And pretty soon Hobi is standing, as you kiss hot and incessantly against the closed bathroom door before he pulls away his eyes heavy-lidded, and reminds you that Jimin is waiting downstairs.

- If at all possible after that things get even more happy- though they also get busy.

- Soon the humans remember that- yes they actually are engaged still, and if they want to have a wedding they should probably do it soon while they can still have it outside.

- They spend time picking out cakes and taste testing in their backyard on a late summer day,

- Jimin and Taehyung play Frisbee while you sit and sketch the two of them, while Jungkook disappears into the woods with Yoongi only to come back a hour later the two of them holding bouquets of wildflowers for you.

- You kiss both of them on the mouth, and when the wedding planner catches the three humans looking at the hybrids with expressions of tenderness, she asks how they’d like to incorporate you into the ceremony.

- So they decide that you’ll be like bridesmaids and groomsmen, standing up at the altar with them.

- Three months later at the wedding, the hybrids are all dressed in shades of navy blue and champagne.

- Jungkook and Taehyung are in matching pinstripe suits, while Taehyung wears a white shirt embroidered with yellow bumblebees.

- Jimin wears a suit of the same bumblebee pattern while your dress is yellow and princesslike long with small flowers that goes fantastically with your grey ears. Yoongi’s suit is so blue it’s almost black.

- Seokjin and Namjoon in suits of dark blue with yellow boutonnieres and Hoseok is in a cream suit and glittery silver shoes that he loves.

- The three of the humans say their vows as the hybrids stand around them and watch on, sniffling and crying as work friends, and family friends and family that are supportive of their modern relationship cheer and smile.

- They share rings and a three-way kiss, as the three of them pledge their lives together.

- The 8 of you spend the night dancing and getting drunk on Champaign, feeling giddy and happy, and light knowing you have people to love you.

- It’s on the honeymoon next week, a cruise trip around the tropical islands, when the first breakfast rolls around, Namjoon gives you a collar that makes you officially his not that any of the hybrids really belong to anyone specific.

- Its small and such a light shade of pink its almost white with a gold tag with your engraved address and a small golden bell- traditional for cat hybrids, and you press so many kisses to his face that his cheeks hurt from smiling before Jungkook helps you fasten it around your neck.

- A lot of shenanigans happen on that cruise ship.

- Between Namjoon fooling around with Seokjin in the hot tub, and Yoongi discovering the all you can eat ice cream Buffett,

- Jimin nearly giving everyone an aneurysm when he drops the ball that the only bathing suit he brought was a bright red speedo by walking out onto the deck in offending speedo giving half of your family nosebleeds.

- The black bikini you wear doesn’t make it any easier

- Jungkook and Yoongi both fight over whose lap you get to sit on, both of them protesting indignantly when you curl up between Namjoon and Seokjin, who laugh at their pouts.

- All in all- their honeymoon is really just everyone being a bunch of horn dogs and finding creative ways to have sex on the cruise ship.

- And for the first time- you join in, though its Jimin and Jungkook that first rope you into it after convincing you to work out with them, queue steamy sauna times.

- Then its you and Yoongi making love one morning when everyone else goes for an early yoga class,

- Then you assist Taehyung in making Seokjin fall apart in the walk-in shower in your cabin.

- After the honeymoon, it becomes apparent why everyone’s so horny, because you and Jimin go into heat within a day of each other, the two of you make a nest of sorts in Yoongi’s room and its Jungkook and Yoongi that take the first round from the two of you.

- Yoongi is a little overprotective of you- since he claimed you as his own a little. You're not exactly mates, because there are no official mates in hybrid house but being the only other cat makes him very attached to you.

- Somewhere along the way the humans also decided It’s not wise to have the hybrids help each other out with the heat if they happen to coincide, since you could very easily hurt one another.

- You ride Yoongi while Jimin rides Jungkook right next to you and in the middle you lean over and start making out with Jimin, the sight of the two of you making out above them makes both of them cum quickly.

- And then its Namjoon’s turn to take care of the two of you and lets just say he has his hands full. He brings the two of you chocolate covered strawberries to recharge afterwards.

- But Yoongi keeps getting drawn back in, probably because he’s a cat hybrid and you are too, they’re something about the smell of you that has him hardening in his pants whenever he nears your room,

- It’s not any easier for Jungkook, who was already a horn dog when you weren’t on your heat, and you being a girl also has a particular effect on the hybrids.

- Yoongi and Jungkook take very good care of the two of you when you’re on your heat, switching between you and Jimin every round or so. though everyone visits the room at one point or another.

- And when you and Jimin finally burn off your heat, it takes nearly an hour for Hoseok to clean the two of you, with both of your bodies feeling ropey and satisfied and miles high before you both get hit with a day’s worth of aftercare and a buffets worth of food.

- All in all- your heat is nearly a week affair. it’s your first heat but you’d never dream of letting anyone else help you through your heat.

- Winter arrives quickly and quietly after that with more snow than you’ve had in years past

- The humans take you sledding one weekend the same day that Namjoon finds his first real grey hair (though it will take him another full 5 years to get to the point where he’s full salt and pepper)

- he finds it after he takes a warm bath with you- you’d been cold from sledding and a snowball fight, and you're still leaning over the edge of the tub when he looks into the foggy mirror and tries to find more grey hairs, while you just laugh from the edge and say that now he’ll match your grey tail and ears.

- And it takes the cold invading for them to realize it’s nearly been a full year since you moved in with them.

- Christmas is a happy affair filled with good food (Seokjin decides to make Christmas taco’s with the help of you and Jiminie)

- And by the end of the night Taehyung and you are so full that you stretch out in front of the fire and fall deep into a food coma, resulting it Seokjin carrying both of you up into the big bed.

- The next morning presents are exchanged; you give the three humans a framed drawing of yours of their house that they put on their wall. Jungkook gets new video games, Tae and Jiminy get matching Gucci sweaters, while Yoongi gets a pair of 100% noise blocking headphones that he nearly cries over.

- Seokjin laughs and runs his hands through Yoongi’s hair, saying that now he better not complain about getting any peace and quiet.

- The humans get you a large fluffy heated blanket complete with a white duvet cover that’s covered in small blue and pink flowers. (You love it so much, you and Yoongi use it until it’s old and stained)

- But really the gift that means a lot is the one that the hybrids made for Seokjin through really it’s for everyone,

- though they did get the supplies to make It with help from Namjoon and Hoseok on one of the days that Seokjin had to work late.

- Seokjin’s the one that bought them the house all those years ago, but it makes half of them cry when he unwraps it.

- It’s a small black slate plaque with golden letters (that you and Jimin carefully painted together), it’s your house number and address, but underneath it there’s a tiny golden paw decal and large curling letters that say;

- 18 Magnolia way: Hybrid House

EPILOGUE

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theunlimitedskye · 6 years ago

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A REALLY REALLY LONG POST OF MY DUMB BSD FIC IDEAS (I am so sorry)

All y'all can ignore this post this is just me thinking out loud at 3:30 AM (yes, I prewrote this) What Bungou Stray Bullshit am I gon be writin: •Hanahaki. I don't even know what fucking ship I'd be writing for with this one, but after getting sucked into a certain ship hell on AO3, I may or nay not have, like, 4 ships in mind, •prrrrrrrrobably like, 7 separate Sakaguri things (ranging from drunken comfort cuddles to Oguri following him to work and stealing pocky to "hey what if Oguri was a kitsune") •Oguri. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand Nathaniel. Ch... Church. Churchy stuff. Yeeeeeah. •AU where Oguri is a shrine Kitsune and Nathaniel goes there for frequent visits and prayers and shit •Twain... Something something Twain. Don't even care what, honestly. One happy shooty boy. •Ango squeaks when he's scared and now I have no choice but to write about it •Daraaaaannnn...????? God I forgot how much I ship this •Oh look; Oguri and Yokomizo adopted a cat together like the gays they are, and Oguri got rid of it after Yokomizo's death. Nothing to see here, folks, just a bunch of angst. Scroll past this one why don't you. •I GOTTA WORK IN FYODOR INTO ONE OF MY FICS ONE DAY JUST SO I CAN SPECIFICALLY HAVE SOMEONE EITHER CALL HIM FYOOP OR FYODADDY •shit with my own bsd ocs i have like 37 and it is absolute utter hell. i cant stop making bsd ocs. i am suffering. i will not be satisfied until i have 50. someone please kindly snap my neck •"welcome to walmart thanks for bringing your fucking kids" •cold glass of spaghetti-o's on the rocks (this is way more valid than it sounds but I highly implore that you d o n o t a s k) •how fucked up would it be if I wrote a whole bunch of drabbles and ficlets with Nathaniel all inspired by specific Bible verses? Like, no specific ships or plotpoints in mind. The only constant is Nathaniel and whatever verse I choose that day. Work whatever ships fit with it. Great way to force myself into some good 'ol Bible Discussion and Study Meetings, lemme tell you. •You can't spell Procrastinate without Nate. Not only is it a horrible prompt, but it's also true. •"People's brains slide right out of their assholes the instant they start to sin. At least those that are dumb enough to die for their sins without repenting first get their dumbfuck legs boiled off in the firey pits of damnation." -Possible dialog for Nathaniel????? I don't even know where I'd put this but I heard someone say something relatively close to this sentence in a YouTube video and I absolutely lost my fucking shit •this isnt even a fic idea but it involes writing but fuckkkkkkkkkk ask-nathaniel-hawthorne blog that'd be so fucking lit it'd give me a chance to try writing for him and show off my art nd ghhhhhhhhhh it'd literally just be nothing but church jokes and r/dankchristianmmes •OR BETTER YET, ASK-ANGEL-NATE (@mysaldate you know precisely what I'm getting at here wanna make a joint blog) •*chanting and slamming hands off of table* ACCURATELY! WRITTEN! FICLETS! AND! DRABBLES! WRITEN! BASED! ON! FUCKED! UP! AWKWARD! SERVER! CONVERSATIONS!!!! •911 what is your emergency yes help there's a demon in my church and his name is dazai osamu please send someone before I exorcize this bitch •Bad Apple seems like a really good general direction to go here, considering everything else. Ever on and on, I continue circling with nothing but my pain and the paralyzing agony... •this is a callout post to @midwinter-stars and I hope you realize I'm gonna be copypasting both of our RPs into a document and slapping that shit onto AO3 with both our names attached •I had this one really cute DazAtsu-ish RP where Dazai kept trying to drown himself so Atsushi saved him then they ended up frolicking in the park. Sorta. •That one Vocaloid song called Error. I wanna work that in somewhere somehow. •ANGEL WITH A SHOTGUN ANGEL WITH A SHOTGUN ANGEL WITH A SHOTGUN ON MY FUCKING GOD THIS SONG IS UTTER PERFECTION FOR NATE LIKE PICTURE NATE AS CALM AND CLASSY AS EVER BUT HES HOLDING A FUCKING S H O T G U N AAAAAA I GOTTA ADD THIS IN SOMWHERE I HAVE. TO. WRITE. NATEGUN. •Alternatively - Ginger with a Shotgun. (I DON'T CARE IF THE GUILD'LL EVER TAKE ME BAAAAAAAACK--) •Fitzgegerld is a dumb bitch legend and if I'm not ever gonna find time to draw him I may as well write him at some point • Alternatively, again - that Brandon Rogers video called The CEO but with Fitzgerald. How amazing would that be. Literally just Fitzgerald going through his daily life and I somehow incorporate every line of dialog in there ("Nathaniel I'm walking through a FUCKING FOUNTAIN right now.") •So I saw Unedited Footage of a Bear recently. It was one of those weird, creepy 3 AM commercials on Adult Swim everyone knows about. It really messed with me, to be honest. The website had me tripping balls, and I'm still not certain if I found all the secrets it had to offer. In summary - I'm probably gonna write about Nathaniel having some fucked up hallucinations maybe. •Oguri Mushitarou is a fucking pillow princess send tweet •PoK is really fucked up and I already have like 12 drabbles being written all at once hlep •pLEASE DON'T LET OUR LOOOVE TUUUUURN OOOOUT INTO A TRADGEDY LIKE IT WAs FOR JULIEETTT T TAKE ME AWAY INTO YOUR AAAARMS IT'S ALL I ASK OF YOOOOu (in summary - Romeo and Cinderella) •Koyou Ozaki - unintentionaly turning straight Canadian chicks with shitty anime tumblr blogs into lesbians since her debut. •I HAVE SO MANY LEMON IDEAS JUST PILING UP YOU GUYS MAY AS WELL START CALLING ME KAJII AT THIS POINT BECAUSE I SWEAR TO GOD ITS NEVER GONNA GET ANY BETTER, ONLY WORSE

#bungou stray dogs #bsd #fic ideas #longish post

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sometipsygnostalgic · 6 years ago

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xenoblade chronicles 2 rapidfire review

π after i started writing up a 5000 word review and was still on the “character” section ive decided to make a rapidfire version to get to the fucking point.

Story - at the end of the day, it’s a tale about how to deal with all the pain and insecurity that life throws at you. how to dig down deep and find a way to continue in what you may interpret as a dreadful world. it also has some of the most satisfying mysteries and plot resolutions i’ve ever seen in a videogame. utterly touching themes. unfortunately gets a bit too shonen at points especially with the protagonist. also quite possibly a lowkey harem anime.

Story rating - 8 out of 10.

Characters - mostly all amazing in the english version.

Rex - a top lad. your best mate. however, becomes a total flawless gary stu pretty quickly. better than many protagonists out there. i like the way he gets people to open up by acting so casually friendly around them. 7 out of 10.

Pyra - unfortunately the weakest character in the main cast. has 3 forms that are treated as different characters for some reason, and no emotions beyond “sad” and “in love with rex”. her mythra form is a slightly better character who will talk to other cast members and sass down people. however mythra also comes across as weak and overly emotionally fragile at times, considering she is supposed to be the Master Blade. i suspect she exists for rex to have 4 3 girlfriends at once.

Azurda - dragon grandpa. subversive in that when he dies for the hero to move on from the homeland, he immediately resurrects himself as a cute furry thing that sleeps in rex’s helmet. best videogame decision ever. gives top advice.

Nia - welsh. double furry. how old is she? 6? most useful NPC. swears a hell of a lot. hilarious sassmaster with an intriguing story and well-rounded motivations. consistently interesting relationships with other cast members up to the end of the game. even remains the same after receiving her compulsory magical girl transformation. has the most awesome magical girl transformation. gives the main villain super cancer, causing him to blow up like harry potter’s aunt. probably the best character. lightly orbits the black hole of the rex harem, struggling to maintain geostational stability against the powers of fanservice.

Dromarch - a good dad cat. there is not a lot else to say about dromarch, except that you can ride him, which is badass. he and azurda are the old dad types babysitting the kids.

Tora - meh meh. actually likable mechanic child. why is this furry cat thing a key member of my party. despite rarely ever upgrading his blade he has made me basically immortal many times. nopon mask is underrated. masterpon is same at start of game as at end of game. that is to say he is an ambitious child, and a bit of a pervert. however, has terrible taste in upgrades. has many IRL blades pointed at him.

Poppi - poppi artificial blade who speak like masterpon. poppi α has cool design. poppi α adorable and cool. due to being newborn blade, poppi have refreshing and truthful view on world. poppi have tragic artificial sister who almost die terribly after evil nopon brainwash! poppi have most sad heartbreaking scene at end of game. however, poppi QT and poppi QT π designs can die in big fire. poppi good at throwing shade. it endearing and special trait.

Morag - technically the group normie. however, very weird. when you first see morag she reeks of pure chilled badassery. logical and with a strong sense of justice and compassion, morag starts off as an intimidating antivillain but becomes a staple member of the party. even though rex and the gang are fugitives in her city, she lets them leave because she senses they weren’t crooked ruffians and they had a purpose of their own. but she comes back to kick their ass when she thinks they’re causing more trouble, and is actually quite pissed off about rex and pyra holding back on her. has a sweet relationship with the emporer, her distant cousin/adoptive kid brother. morag learns on her adventure the value of the optimistic views the kids around her have of the world, and says multiple times if more people thought like they did, maybe there wouldn’t be so much political nonsense stopping people from living together peacefully. morag has a lot of pride and cannot deal with being oneupped. i love her.

Brighid - Morag’s wife blade who is one of many that struggles with the thought of losing her identity after regenning. has a diary of her past lives. uses it to taunt mythra about that one time she kicked her ass. pretends to be a little distant but low key super emotionally invested in the cast’s development. literally asked a main villain if she was like her past self that he knew, causing him to reconsider his entire philosophy on blades becoming completely different people when they’re reborn. bitchslaps rex that one time. Owns everybody at some point. such a beautiful character design that i never even noticed her chest is basically bare.

shellhead Zeke - the prince... of NOTHING. wishes he was still a student. that one time he nearly died, he was probably impaled by a falling twig. enjoyed playing Team Rocket. surprisingly wise for a teenlike NEET. does not look after his precious turtle. potentially does have a thunder powered eye. however, definitely requires second contact lens. unfortunately not comparable to rex in combat especially as his Luck stat means using a legendary crystal on him is like throwing it away.

Pandoria - i often forget pandoria is a blade because she is zeke’s girlfriend, also i never use her in battle due to his redundentness. well reknowned for also not looking after turtles properly. also well reknowned for slam dunking the prince over his nonsense while being equally silly.

BAD GUYS

Jin - apparently has special people-drawing trait that makes all the good cast who know him shocked he is ordering such evil bastard things to happen. not entirely sure what that trait is. emo about much bad stuff that happen to him and his driver. wishes to never forget his life with his driver. dirty child killer.very aniime. why is he the only flesh eater whose core turns red? okay character with decent enough motivation. was confused as to why Malos was following him until the very end.

Malos - evil bastard. cheesy villain. you can kick his ass many times and he will get back up 3 minutes later and laugh at you while swallowing back the bile of a bitter defeat. is actually a little tragic by the end of the game. dies for no reason. makes morag jealous because he found his purpose in life, though im not sure what that is.

Akhos - N3RD. probably the most likable member of Torna. had a silly Blade companion who he was really upset died. i like how he was sentimental about his ‘sister’ blade.

Patroka - most forgettable Torna member. a little bit tsundere.

Mikhail - grew on me significantly at the end though like Akhos and Patroka his backstory was unceremoniously dumped on your lap at the last second. must be a great fan of Prince Zeke as he’s heard of the term Blade Eater. also why has Mikhail got awesome blade powers and immortality when Zeke hasnt? maybe Mikhail is “possessing” the blade per se.

Amalthus - emo bitch. stared God in the face and raised his middle finger. hypocritically creates flesh eaters then sends witch hunts out for them. i like that he reminded himself every day about how bad humanity was by doing his best to help people. so despite the praetor being this “benevolent” figure he had somehow manifested a being of pure hatred.

Theres a lot of other people I cant be assed talking about right now.

Character rating - 9 out of 10. Even though some important characters arent as impactful as they should be, everybody is memorable and I can remember all of their damn names and backstories.

Gameplay - not particularly amazing. battles are alright, RPG-wise, with orb breaking combos and cancelling being fun to use. but they’re highly limited by the fact you can only control 1 character at a time and there is no Co-op feature. they also take an incredibly long time, even for just one enemy encounter, and there can be unfair Spike damage moves that oneshot you. my most satisfying moment battling ever was when i was fighting Aeon, the final boss, and got a Full break for the first time... I decimated the fucker when he was at 60% health.

Of course, those are just the battle mechanics.

The game is full of complex mechanics that do nothing but add tedium. Every single quest in the game forces you to farm for certain “collectibles”, plants that grow in specific unlisted locations that respawn when you fast travel. Many character “affinity” upgrades, which can lock out certain areas of the map, special skills, or unique interactions, also require you to do this shit. A guide is NECESSARY for this. There’s also the Merc Missions. Little did you know, you will need to complete Merc Missions to reach the end of many blade quests!!!you know what’s FUN? Waiting for a timer to pass after 25 fucking minutes!!!! this game has NO RESPECT FOR YOUR TIME WHATSOEVER.

the biggest bullshit of all is when you’re locked out of the main story because a specific character on your team hasn’t unlocked level 3 of a specific skill, because there’s no way that you’d be able to unlock that by naturally playing the game as you have to go out of your way to fill the criteria and grind something or other for 20 minutes.

This makes sidequests absolutely worthless.

The saving grace for the gameplay is probably the customizability of the blades themselves. Not so much the skills you can attach to each blade, but that you can unlock a number of fun characters to use, and they will have their own unique dialogue. The drivers and blades talking during battle also makes a 20 minute fight feel a lot quicker.

Battle gameplay mechanics: 6 out of 10. Fun but could be better. Sidequests, crafting, and field skill mechanics : 1 out of 10. Worthless trash that should never have been greenlit.

Considering that you will be spending so much time on the gameplay, why even bother playing the game at all?

It’s very much the story that pushes the player to move onwards. If this game didn’t have such a fun cast and meaningful plot then I’d probably not have gotten past the first act.

Music and Environments - Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is filled with vast, beautiful and diverse environments. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of interactivity with them other than killing monsters or foraging those bloody collectibles, but they’re beautiful enough with a diverse range of monster inhabitants that give them life. The MUSIC is godlike. My favourite track in the game would be the song used for the city in Tantal. Very ominous and beautiful hymn, sung in English.

Music and environment rating - 8 out of 10.

Localisation - While many sneer at the localisation choices for this game I thought it brought it to life. Granted I have great bias as being a Welsh girl who is familiar with the differences in UK regional dialect, but it felt like the dialogue the characters were saying also had a heavy makeover to fit the new voices... I really don’t believe that Rex’s Japanese voice actor also sounded like a Top Lad, or that Nia’s japanese voice actor sounded as much like she was ready for a valleys bar fight. However there are some clear obstacles as well - the characters seemed to have no idea of the context of their lines. This is obvious when they shout something for a long time. Rex’s “HIYAAAAAAAAH” and Nia’s “NOOOO MOOOOORE” sound comically off-tone when they are supposed to be epic. It’s the works of someone who read those lines off a script without knowing what was going on. Tora’s actor saying “meh meh” sounds like it was meant to be a COMPLETELY different noise. Morag and Zeke never go off-course, however. I think either they had an advantage with more visuals being completed by the time they were cast, or they just don’t have diverse enough dialogue in the game for it to have been an issue.

Localisation - 7.8/10 too much Meh.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Xenoblade chronicles 2 is a highly addictive game that pulls you to the finish line with an interesting plot and a cast you just can’t let go of. While Pyra is certainly the weakest link of the characters, and the game has some extremely goofy shonen scenes that it’s hard to take seriously, and oh dear me that’s an awful lot of boob shots, I had a lot of fun powering through it. I’m going to have a tough time letting go of this story and these characters.

Unfortunately the gameplay itself is not similarly addictive, and becomes more of a chore for you to get to the next cutscene or funny interaction.

Final rating - 6.5 out of 10. While a worthwhile experience, the greatest story in the world cannot save this game from piss-standard design choices. It is probably better to spend your time on a game that doesn’t have anti-fun mechanics. But I’d be hard pressed if any had a cast that touched your hearts quite like that of Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

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bazookapussy-stankhoe-5000 · 7 years ago

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BMC Headcanons

I have literally been thinking about this all day so

Christine knows sign language and taught Jeremy and Michael some and now they wont stop signing “i love you” at each other

(Rich doesnt know sign language and thinks theyre pretending to be at a rock concert)

Christine loves Disney and makes references all the time but Rich doesnt understand them bc hes never seen a Disney movie so she makes him watch a bunch of them

(his favorite it “Tangled”)

Michael drinks weed tea bc “I’m a refined stoner”

Rich is a musical buff so he and Christine sing musicals all the time together

Christine is also a history buff and her favorite musical is “Hamilton”

Rich is actually really good at sewing/cooking/etc bc his dad wont do any of that so he had to learn himself

Michael cronches bathbombs

(like if he and Jared existed in the same universe they would bond over cronching bathbombs)

sometimes Jeremy cries himself awake bc he misses his mom

Christine spends her weekends volunteering at the animal shelter and she spends so much time there they keep offering to pay her but she wont let them

Jake is actually really good at school he’s just kind of a ditz

(like he’s a complete math whiz and can recite the entire Constitution w/o hesitation but he forgets things like the role of Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet”)

Michael plays the saxophone

Brooke drinks five cups of tea per day

(during midterms and finals she pours monster into her tea)

Brooke and Michael are really good friends

Jenna has a bunch of hamsters and has dedicated almost her entire room to them

Chloe is a cat person and her parents got her a ragdoll kitten for her eleventh birthday and they are literally inseperable

(she taught it little tricks and everything and it likes walks and baths but it will literally only listen to her)

Brooke is totally more of a dog person and her family owns a chihuahua and a newfie

(they like to sit on her lap specifically chihuahua on top of newfie on top of Brooke)

Rich is a complete nerd and loves things like “Lord of the Rings” and “Harry Potter”

Rich has a bearded dragon named Voltron and he likes to put wings he made himself on it

(Jake thought Voltron was a band)

every Halloween the squip squad gets together to go trick-or-treating and watch “The Nightmare Before Christmas”

(Jake refuses to throw anymore Halloween parties)

despite burning his house down Jake doesn’t care and he and Rich are still best buds

when the squip squad has sleepovers Brooke and Chloe do everyone’s makeup

(the guys get more excited about it than the girls)

Jake wears crop tops

Rich exclusively wears tank tops even in the winter

Rich also almost exclusively listens to 2000s bops and literally prays to Beyonce

Christine’s favorite scents are citrus

Chloe writes faster in cursive than she does in print

Michael has terrible handwriting whether it’s cursive or print

(like to the point that even he cant read it)

Rich and Michael watch anime together (especially “Voltron”)

Rich is terrible at video games without his squip

Jake calls Michael “Mike” even though he initially told him not to

“Michael’s gotten so used to it that he doesn’t care anymore and is actually surprised if he calls him anything else)

Christine and Jenna get really really excited about the holidays and buy everyone gifts

everyone celebrates Hanukkah with Jeremy

Rich absolutely hates eggnog because he only knows about the alcoholic kind that his dad drinks and he’s actually a little scared of it

once Rich becomes friends w/ the rest of the squip squad he celebrates the holidays with them every year

(before he didnt really celebrate bc his home life kind of sucks)

(also after he first celebrates with the rest of the squip squad he lovesthe holidays as much as Christine and Jenna)

without his squip Rich has no idea how to flirt of be in a relationship so he is incredibly awkward

Jake doesnt know how to dab and cant seem to get it right

(like this vine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Hl6Rx-n_s )

Chloe insists on Brooke carrying her and it’s to the point that she’ll just lift up her arms and Brooke will pick her up

Jenna and Christine are the groups’ moms

Rich and Jake play Wii Sports together

if Michael and Jeremy are playing a game against each other Michael lets Jeremy win sometimes

Jenna runs a blog and is working on starting a project to save the bees

Chloe plays soccer

Brooke sometimes insists that she and Chloe have a movie marathon

(their marathons can span days)

Jenna and Christine are the Platonic Power Couple™ that everyone thinks is dating but really theyre just good friends

(both of them are hella ace)

(Christine is aro/ace and Jenna is an ace lesbian)

the group would go to pride together

(Rich would wear the bi flag as a cape)

(Brooke would paint everyone’s faces w/ their flags)

Jake’s the kind of person that would casually mention he’s not straight and then be surprised that youre surprised

Jake would fist fight anyone who made his friends upset

(except for Rich because Rich would have already fought them)

Rich wants to open a bakery when he’s older

Brooke wears a pan-colored beanie

(even at school bc the teachers dont care enough to tell her to take it off)

Jake has his left ear pierced

Brooke is really good at drawing and runs an art blog

Brooke is very empathetic and acts as the group’s counselor

Mr. Heere’s first name is Greg

(don’t ask why it’s mostly cause he reminds me of Greg from “Steven Universe”)

on father’s day everyone gives Mr. Heere a little gift cause he acts like everyone’s dad

Jenna is a fanfic writer

sometimes the squip squad gets together to play Kahoot

(it gets really competitive and friendships are tested)

Jeremy understands that grades are meaningless in the long run but still gets really stressed when he’s not doing well in school

Michael likes to quote really obscure movies that no one knows

Jake owns a melodica

(he also knows how to play the piano really well)

Michael insists that he and Jeremy take pictures together to put on holiday cards and send them to all their friends

(Jeremy wears a Hanukkah sweater and Michael wears a sweater that says “HO HO HOMO”)

Rich likes to stand on top of things to feel taller

Michael wears light-up heelys

Michael always forgets which is left and right but instead of making Ls with his hands he checks his headphones

Rich believes in leprechauns

(every St. Patrick’s Day he makes Jake go leprechaun hunting with him)

(Jake anticipates it every year and keeps the day free so they can)

Jake is actually really bad at using electronics

Rich insults Jeremy affectionately

(one of his favorite’s is “noodle-boy”)

(at first Jeremy was offended but now he doesnt care)

Jake has owned his jacket for a really long time and it’s falling apart but he refuses to get rid of it

whenever Michael has to say the word “squip” he purposefully mispronounces it (ie squemp)

Rich calls people “godfucker”

the squip squad celebrates the fourth of July and Jeremy’s house because Mr. Heere likes to grill hamburgers and hot dogs for them

(Rich likes to help him cook)

Brooke has two moms

Michael drinks milk straight out of the gallon

Jeremy keeps buying new patches for Michael’s hoodie

Christine has an obsession with button pins so everyone pitches in to buy her a button maker for her birthday

the girls like to go to the Ren Faire

Chloe makes her own incense

Rich has Jake help him make snowmen in the winter because he always makes the bodies too big for him to reach to put its head on

Jenna runs a joke tumblr blog that posts cringey facebook memes

Brooke taught Chloe everything she knows about makeup

Christine stays up late sometimes to surprise her friends with gifts she made

Rich asks Michael to teach him curse words in Spanish

Jenna basically lives in Barnes and Noble

(Christine would but she doesnt have as much spending money so she lives in the library)

Michael likes “Undertale” because it’s got a cool storyline and he adores the animation

(he and Jeremy do voices for it when they play)

Rich bakes cookies for everyone during the holiday season

everyone has gifted Michael a new hoodie at least once but he only ever wears his red one and no one can figure out why

Jenna is in the color guard

after joining the play that one time Brooke found that she actually really likes acting

I am so sorry for such a long post, but feel free to add on if you want

#headcaonons #be more chill #bmc #bmc musical #long post #i spelled headcanons #jesus fuck #i am making mistakes #idk how to get rid of tags #i was gonna say i spelled headcanons wrong #headcanons

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diaryofsecrecy · 3 years ago

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It has been the most exhausting year of my entire life and I will be surprised if I ever top it...

Brent was having a hard time adjusting to the altitude when we 1st came out here, (July 8th 2020) But as time went on he got better as expected. Then suddenly he got worse and worse, Eventually he lost the job that he got because he was calling out so often throwing up and experiencing extreme nausea. Because of covid, the doctors were booked for weeks (new patient) so it was just kind of a waiting game until we finally decided to just go to the ER. They did a full blood panel and decided that he needs to see a GI doctor because everything else is normal. So, That was booked 2 weeks out and he was sent home with nausea medication for one week...

Of course we were going to try to buy or rent so I was freaking out about money and working as much as I possibly could... But then I too had to go to the emergency Room because I had extreme abdominal pain resulting in an emergency appendectomy😖

The day after my surgery, I am home, when my dad comes in with my older sister.

To my knowledge, my older sister was diagnosed paranoid schizofrantic. She has been Homeless for the last 11 years, And on drugs. She recently was beaten so badly that she was left with several brain injuries on top of it all, And while she was healing at the hospital somehow they didn't notice her walk out. We were just about to get her placed somewhere safe...And they lost her.

Anyhow dad walks in with my sister who I guess called him from a coffee shop when they told her that she couldn't sleep there anymore (after a month of being missing again) Dad had to go back to work so then it was me & her for the next 2 days, As you can imagine, not the rest I needed post surgery... then, I had to go back into the hospital because something wasn't right. I was there for 3 more days, 2 days alone because ben was so sick that it was worse with him being there than me sitting by myself in pain and nausea of my own.

Fast forward a few more months, tragic accidents led to 2 separate deaths of my parents dogs. Both events I happen to be present, so get blamed & am no longer welcome at mom & dads.

(Still healing from sugury, brent still very sick)

We get an apartment, and I start working as a nanny for my aunt twice a week while working at Massage Envy the other 5 days.

At this point, I am tired. I am horney, and lonely, and Absolutely. Fucking. Miserable.

I am begging ben to keep up with drs. but he has lost hope of getting better, and I have no way of helping him when I am already worn too thin.

After 9, Long, long months, he eventually, with my consistent pushing, nagging, most likely not always kind remarks, he finds out his hormones are completely off, which I knew would be the case, his dick hadnt worked for the last 3 years properly..

Anyway. He blames his addiction medication rather than continuing dr. Appointments... he gets on testosterone with an outside company(pay out of pocket kind of subscription company...rather than checking insurance, or figuring out what causes low testosterone and fixing that first). I was working and had no influence in any of those choices that effect us both as they have for at least 2 years. He hasnt touched me for so, so, long.

Month 3 of his medication that seems to be working (only reason I know is there was a ton of porn in my google history, he had declined all advances, except the rare, 3 times he allowed a blowjob then left immediately after for the gym or literally anything else rather than make it romantic at all.)

Month 4, he forgets to make a payment at all, so now we owe $250 rather than the normal $100. His meds get sent, then FedEx loses the package all together so, he is sick and I am house sitting in a dream home, alone for 2 weeks straight that originally was going to be our getaway to focus on Us.

At this point, brent and I havnt slept in the same bed for 2 months. At first cause he says I'm mean and he wants to not be near me, but now its cause hes "more comfortable out in the living room..."

A month ago when we last had a conversation about our relationship he said he wants space and a break from me all together. I'm too much.

I am the problem..?

When trying to understand what he means, he shuts down the connvo, saying he cant talk about it anymore. It's been 30 days since we have made any verbal progress. Our fighting has stopped though, and I'll tell you why...

Rewind 1 week before house sitting;

1 week after brent and I had an awful fight where he told me we should take a break, I stay at my parents & My mom offers for me to join them at a graduation party of a kid I used to babysit.

We were sitting in the back of the dining room, out of the way, when I saw someone i slightly recognized in the hallway. Not sure from where, but he was the kind of guy that you couldnt stop looking at. He was clearly into fitness, his shirt couldnt hide the muscular features he had been perfecting either, despite him dressing nothing out of the ordinary. He had beautiful ink crawling up his leg, an artform that would only mean something to someone who is more spiritually awake. But more noticable about anything was that smile.

God that smile. His face was scruffy, as if he had been away, but regardless, the smile he had influenced his entire ora. His eyes smiled, his walk... smiled. He had some kind of thing about him that was a physical draw I had never known for myself before. Dont get me wrong, i have been woo'd by many men so far in my life, from all stages in life, but This one was just, different. He was making his way around the room, & I could hear his voice over my mom who's talking beside me. I had literally been blocked out by my ever wondering thoughts of this random stranger whom felt familiar.

Then, he was there, at our table?

He was so easy to talk to, not even sure how we started now, but all I know is I was not nervous despite my very physical attraction to him.

He spoke of traveling, and adventures hes been on. This guy had a whole other life in the military at one point and now was traveling, working for a company that sends him around the US.

This guy had Hope's and dreams and somehow we got to talking about that kind of thing at a graduation party?

When I left that day, I thought about him. Not just him specifically, but men like him. Had I chosen Brent wrongfully? Does brent even like who I am anymore, what does he want going forward in his own life? How do I even fit into that? He understands my need for adventure but his actions say that he doesnt want to come along. My mind was loopy after that because for the first real time I questioned, what if there was someone who wanted to see the world, Who liked my sad music, and my emotions being in everything I do? What if there was a women more interested in the simple home life, having a couple dogs and living a small, comfortable life? Are we doing one another a disservice by occupying oneanother's lives? How could I ever bring that up with Brent at all without making him feel so inadiquite after a year of terrible sickness and defeat?

Well, when I went to that big, gorgeous dream home the following week to house sit for 2 weeks... begging him to come see me, I grew weak from overthinking. I cried, I cried so much the first 3 days.

I cried from a place of such sadness, anger, bitterness, defeat, they were so strong. My mind was cloudy, drunk, stoned, tired.... I found myself writing a suicide letter.

My plan was to disappear, I knew I'd find a firearm in the home & allow someone to find my remains eventually in the hills where I'd walk far enough.

I prepared by cleaning the litterbox, laying out several bowls of water for the dog and cat, and watered all the plants heavily. I transfered brent all the money in my bank accounts, and as I waited for the sheets to come out of the dryer I balled my eyes out, reading the last conversations I had had with my family members. I thought to myself how the kids would take it, what different life choices they would make having been close with someone before their passing. At this point, I needed something, but I needed it from someone who doesnt know me in my life right now, but the me that was worth saving. The me I still recognized.

I called an old friend from 2nd grade. Hadnt talked to her in years and years, didnt known her life, her schedual, her name(which had been changed). But she talked me down. She saved my fucking life. It took a person who knew my soul years ago, to remind me I am not alone.

I dont blame my parents, or who I thought would be my future husband. I had talked with my aunt earlier that day and she couldnt see it either. I had become this fake shell of a person and it took considering an actual murder of myself to make me see that if I continued this path, I would die eventually and nobody in my life would ever see me preparing for it.

That night, I invited a complete stranger over and we fucked like rabbits. 4 times. He got to do things he'd never done before, and I begged him to. Sounds cold, sounds unapologetically disgusting that I'd do something like that, but quite frankly, I FUCKING needed it. I needed someone to see me, even if he didnt see my current life nor care about me as a person... he saw, touched, kissed, sucked and ate me up. For the first time in at least 2 years, i felt satisfaction when I walked him to the door and watched his car drive away.

It was like a sigh of relief, an inch I could not reach for the longest time, gone. Finally.

The following days, brent began putting in more effort. It has been 3 weeks and I'd say he has been kinder to me than he had in a while (probably the lack of testosterone) but also, I havnt seen much of him in general. From his point of view, it is all fine. Hes getting the space he needed, I'm being nicer since I quit massage Envy, and things are looking up....

But that is because he doesnt See Me.

My suisidal thoughts subsided after my long conversation with Scout. & that night I called my cousin as well, and learned he too had been in my shoes before. He said something that stuck with me.

If everyone has an expiration date on their life already, and we don't know when it is, you're to the point that you're life is so invaluable that youd kill yourself than flee your life and make one you want. Dont care about the people youd hurt, because suicide is just as careless as abandoning them all indefinitely.

He was so right, it put things into perspective, gave me a freedom I felt I was waiting to gain permission for.

Five days later, I noticed He had written me 5 before, on the day I had truly planned to end my current life..

He had written me at 12am, what would someone like him, a gorgeous, beefed out, big thinker, high energy, go getter be doing messaging me, a tired women who was 300lbs a year ago, (still working on getting to a normal size) and completely at a crossroads with existance.

I entertained the connvo a tad, and honestly forgot about it for a few days as I figured no way he could be serious.

He triple messaged me, and asked for my personal contact info to have real conversation?

Hesitantly, and wildly excited to even just flirt for a moment with someone who is literally everything I fantasize when I'm alone everynight....

Our conversation immediately took off. In directions I hadnt expected at all what so ever. He told me he had to admit he felt drawn to me, like he had known me in another life. That he doesnt expect me to get it, but I did. We talked about things that only my sister and I can relate to on a spirituality standard and it changed me in that instant. Suddenly i realize, I wasn't broken, I was just misunderstood. & that there are people in this world that See Me even when I am not trying. Not many, and it takes a specific Kind of person, but they do exist and when you meet them, you cant ignore it. It is as if they stain you with remembrance.

As the sexually hungry humans we are, not only did we find that morality, values, future goals coexist, but also our importance of intimacy. Not just lust and sex, well, yes that too, uff did those conversations get so, fucking, hot, but the interactions of intimacy and how they make a person whole.

I opened up to him about Brent, and where I am at in life, asking he please oversee my unfaithfulness, but that I am loyal at heart. He says with such pain in his voice how he too in a parallel position simultaneously, however, he married her 7 years ago.

Ugh.

So now I get to choose. Do I chose mortality, say no, brent and the other women deserve to understand the severity of sex, love and passion, and if they chose not to then we will leave before we act on our mutual attraction....? Or, do we say hell with it and give in to serendipity moments that our hearts crave so badly, take on the consequences and move forward. Sigh. If only there was a guideline for complicated.

Last night, as the 5 nights before, we talked for hours on the phone. His voice makes me smile every, damn, time. Perhaps because it's new and exciting, or maybe I just love to hear him go on his tangents of loving yourself despite the bad in life. I Want him. I want him when I wake, &when I go to sleep. I do not want a life without him& it saddens me to know our timing is incorrect. He asked her for a divorce a year ago, but has sat comfortably as I have despite the horror because weve both been too busy, too tired, too... afraid that life will always be lonely. Last night, he said to me, Elise, I love you. I avoided it several times but when he said it two more times, I couldnt keep it any longer to myself, Jackson, I really do Love you as well. It's scary, and faster than I'd ever say it to anyone. But I know it to be true because I Feel it. I want his love so badly. I want him to live life along side of me because with a person like him, I'd be a better me.

I am absolutely terrified. My life, my home, my family, dogs, my 5 year relationship, the unborn children brent and I have named, and the houses we'd have... all gone?

Running away with a man who says hes going to leave his wife is absolutely stupid. I'd be an idiot to think I am enough to get him through that fear of change, yet he gives me strength to want to try, so maybe I do, Him?

Ugh my brain being pulled in many ways. My heart having been in pieces so many times now doesnt know who to go to or why. I know for certain I love Brent, is this a self gratifying moment To push me back to him? Is this the devil bringing two lost people together to ruin four people at once?or is this Fate. Fate that has seen both of us individually loosing ourselves in a life we didnt want and has brought us together to lean on one another, temporarily not?

Suppose time will tell.

Last two days he has been working a ton, and told me that tomorrow he has something he needs to talk to me about.

I assume it isnt good. I assume it is the first put off of many, because, I know I want to do the same. Part of me says I should block him right now, because lust, and attraction, both mentally and physically like that couldnt make a women addicted and that's a no good addiction when he has a women in his house with his last name. 😔

#latenite #life #struggle #deep thinking #bad choices #misunderstood #deardiary #confessions

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