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Me, every time I go into the Cassie Sandsmark tag and find yet another post complaining about her appearance (so, every time I go into that tag)
#her outfit isnāt āshittyā or āoocā itās literally just a tanktop and jeanjacket#please for the love of comics get over it#the example youāre using of what Cassie is āsupposed toā dress like and the outfit youāre complaining about are the same#it is so hard to resist the urge to say something#I am a block and move on kinda person but this post is TESTING me#adding the tag posthumously for organization purposes (aka now that it wonāt show up on the first page of results)#cassie sandsmark
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Hi. Update of random shit in case anyone cares.
The scary test I was stressed over in the fall when I was posting my last fic? It was the CFP (Certified Financial Planner) exam. Yes, I passed it. The designation requires a bachelor's degree, so I had to go back to school to finish my last 10 classes. Then I had to take 7 more classes that are pre-reqs for the exam. Then I spent probably 700 hours attempting to cram everything you could think of related to personal finance (my god, there is a metric shit ton) into my head. The designation also requires 5,000 hours of experience in the planning field (which I thankfully already had). By the time I passed the test, I was no longer proud of the accomplishment, just relieved to have it behind me.
Work was intensely busy in November and December. I got little reading and no writing done.
I have a WIP featuring the Darcy/Rumlow pairing that has been languishing on my computer since 2020. To be honest, I've mosty forgotten what the conflict driving the plot was going to be. I think I was trying to tie it into the events of Wandavision. Took place after the show and had Monica Rambeau and Darcy kinda sorta working together and trying to figure out what, if anything, crossing the barrier that Wanda had thrown up did to them. Of course, Rumlow is alive and scarred and back with the good guys. And also really annoyed that his recent gunshot wound stuck him on desk duty watching the nerds complete their physicals as part of employee onboarding. Darcy doesn't want to have gym class with Rumlow, and Rumlow doesn't want to be there either but he's also kinda into the sassy brunette who tried to sweet talk him into passing her without making her run a mile. In the chapter or two I did write, the banter between Darcy and Rumlow was so fun, so I'd love to go back to it and try to move it along.
I got sucked into reading Draco/Hermione fanfic recently. Blame those damn Snow edits from the latest Hunger Games movie. Guys, I have never read those books or seen the movies, but blonde Tom Blyth is looking like the fanfic Draco of my dreams. How dare. This rabbit hole led to me deciding I needed to write a Dramione piece. It's maybe 6 pages and has gone nowhere even though I have a vague idea of the plot. My muse is struggling.
I found my old folder of all the fic I wrote in the past 20 years. There are still a couple hockey fics I haven't posted to AO3. There are also Anita Blake fics (I was a hardcore Anita/Edward girlie) and Harry Potter fics (don't cancel me but I used to write Snape/Hermione; NO student/teacher stuff though). I think I have an old Doctor Who fic featuring Nine/Rose (yes, I'm a Nine girlie). And a very old Forgotten Realms fic that paired Catti-Brie up with Jarlaxle. Look, I don't know. It was ages ago. With the exception of the hockey fics, I do not think any of these are of the same quality I've posted on AO3, but I've been toying with the idea of trying to clean them up and posting them so more of my work is archived together instead of spread over various fan sites. Does anyone have any interest at all in reading this shit? Like, at all?
I decided 2024 is going to be my book binding era. I bound isthisselfcare's Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love a couple weeks ago. I did all the typesetting with the help of some macros. Printed it, folded the signatures (the booklets that comprise the book), sewed them together with waxed linen thread, glued the text block together with some mull, and used chip board and book cloth to make the case. It feels and looks like a book, y'all! I could do a better job with lining the signatures up when punching the holes for sewing and with the measurements on the case, but overall I am pretty proud of it. If anyone is interested, I can link a nice tutorial series on TT and/or post progress pictures I took during my book binding experiment. I have to say, it's exciting to have the ability to put my fav fanfics on my physical bookshelf.
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okkk wait this is the anon that sent an ask about autistic narinder and leshy hc š
i retract my statement they're all autistic š¤Æš¤Æš¤Æš¤Æ
I WAS LITERALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF ANSWERING THAT ASK TO SAY "I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE ALL AUTISTIC" BEFORE THIS ONE GOT SENT IN, I was two sentences in so your comedic timing was impeccable actually
I know there's like no evidence in-game to back my claims so this is purely a vibe check (and also me being unable to write for neurotypical characters) but yeah no I 100% feel like all the bishops have autism for some reason. They definitely express it in different ways and I was actually thinking about that in the car ride back home tonight??
SEMI-DETAILED HC EXPLANATIONS BELOW THE CUT
For leshy, I feel like since he's the youngest...when he came along, everyone was like "yep. We don't even need to get this one tested" after seeing him in his natural element. Which sounds cruel but that's just personal experience after people in my family started getting diagnosed and we started noticing things about each other better LMAO. I kinda actually designed my iteration of him to be like a big stim toy, I did that shitpost sketch in the last post but even the first time I drew him I was like "this dude is made out of orbs that make satisfying noises when they click together", so if I had to categorize the way his neurodivergency manifests, it's definitely "I NEED TO MOVE AROUND!! RIGHT FUCKING NOW!! MAYBE SCREAM A LITTLE IDK IT JUST FEELS RIGHT!!"
Heket is for sure the one that fights the most against people labelling her with it, just because she's like I'M SO NORMAL GUYS. LOOK HOW NORMAL I AM. LOOK HOW WELL I CAN ADAPT TO CHANGE AND LOOK AT ME NOT FREAK OUT AT ALL WHEN I'M OUT OF MY ELEMENT!! She's the new leader of the family so she does her best to hold it together but if you make plans with her, she's gonna be in Waiting Mode as soon as the plans are made and might tear you limb from limb if you flake or reschedule. Something my therapist told me recently is that me getting absurdly upset over injustices (small or big) is likely directly related to being autistic, so if heket feels like something is wrong she will absolutely be vocal about it. If someone says something mean to her, they are her fucking arch nemesis from that point on. The block button is NOT enough she wants them DEAD
For narinder, I feel like he maybe bonded a lot with shamura over the fact both of them feel pretty disconnected from everyone else? The way his autism manifests is probably the feeling that he's on a completely different wavelength than everyone else, and can't experience empathy the same way his siblings can. He'll like have conversations with people but it feels like someone just talking at him, and him having to mentally choose the dialogue options that make the conversation end the quickest. He probably feels like a completely separate species from everyone else on more levels than just "I am a cat and you are not". I know this doesn't line up with my narinder art so far but I have a distinct characterization of him pre-schism that's completely different from post-schism. I feel like he also resented the other siblings for having the same condition as him but presenting so differently, he felt like he got the short end of the stick.
Kallamar........is a FREAk ABOUT TEXTURES. Bro will actually throw up if he has to eat or touch something gross. He would probably excuse himself to go hurl if he sees leshy combining everything on his plate and shovelling it into his face. I'M actually about to hurl just thinking about it. I have to have lotion on at all times or I freak out when I touch things with my hands, and I feel like kallamar needs to have that famous Cephalopod Mucus Layer in order to exist in his body without wanting to implode. Maybe even a special oil he formulates himself? I also feel like he probably has the most freakouts and has been left crying inconsolably + hyperventilating on the floor over something seemingly stupid MANY times, but shamura is understanding enough to be patient with him and not try to grab him or repeat phrases at him over and over.
LASTLY, SHAMURA DOESN'T THINK THEY HAVE AUTISM. They're like "I love my Neurodivergent Family :) can't relate tho" but all the siblings have unanimously agreed they have something going on up there, even before the TBI. I think they're very book smart, and have little file cabinets of their brain of stuff like "arthropod husbandry" and "dreamcatcher making techniques" but are totally clueless to how other people operate. They don't really know *why* people do the things they do; in my prequel AU thing, they gain most of their social knowledge through people watching rather than like...being normal and just knowing how to behave. Out of all the siblings, they've probably been told the classic phrase "but you don't look autistic!" the most LMAO
Also shamura 100000% has misophonia and that's the reason I didn't have them sitting at the table with the other siblings in the voidpunk comic I did of them. They love their family to death but they have to make the conscious decision to not shake baby leshy every time he loudly chokes down his dinner, so they just sit out meals and eat on their own time. If shamura was real I would build them a shrine and sacrifice my noise cancelling headphones cause idk if they have sound reduction methods in cotl world <3
I know autism kinda encompasses ALL of these traits and isn't something that can be categorized into "this one hates noises, this one needs to follow a schedule..." but I also don't want to just point at one bishop and go "YOU. YOU WILL BE MY VESSEL" because I'd never get to write all that I have in mind if only one character had it. There's definitely overlaps in symptoms between them but I just wrote down what I felt would be the most notable to that specific character. I've been wanting to do a comic about their special interests or the times they just like sync up and have a brain blast jimmy neutron moment, cause usually they're all over the place. I have literally never said the word "autism" so many times in my life I think I gotta cut it here, THIS IS SO LONG. I REALLY DID WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS THOUGH SO THANK YOU FOR THIS ASK GENUINELY. IDK IF YOU EXPECTED A SMALL ESSAY ON THIS BUT I WROTE ONE ANYWAY
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Update!!!!!!!!
Hey Yāall!!
Here is the start of hopefully monthly updates. I know in my last update I said I was going to be more consistently here and active. Obviously, that didnāt happen lol. Trying to hold myself to that rn. So this is probably going to be the format for all of my update posts, just so they are easier to follow.
Refresh:
So I am almost completely done with the blog refresh. I think all that is left is updating links and getting some other posts (ex: theme days) made/redone. Most of that got put on the back burner due to how long they were going to take lol. But hopefully, over Spring Break, Iāll be able to get those done (no promises, another thing Iām trying to do, is be more realistic about what I want to get done by when so).Ā
Writing/Other Content:
Ik I said Iād write more. Once again didnāt really happen. Well, I have written a decent bit, but never finished anything. There is one fic that I am going to try and work on after this week (midterms lol) and have someone look over it (the first time Iāve had a beta reader, look at me go lol). Like the blog as a whole, I am trying to organize my writing, like requests and my ideas and what is going out when etc. (@ any of the other writers if you have any suggestions of what to/where to organize my stuff so it doesnāt get all confusing and mixed up you should def let me know). Speaking of requests, I am going to try and do at least two requests a month. That doesnāt sound like a lot but for me, that feels like something I can realistically do. I will be doing old requests first because even though they are years old at this point, I liked the ideas so I genuinely want to write them. I am still going to be accepting new requests (esp because sometimes that helps spark creativity/help with writerās block so feel free to send in any ideas!!) but I will try to get those older ones done first. As for any other content (playlists, moodboards, IG edits, drawings, etc.) I am also taking requests for those so feel free to send in any of those requests too.Ā
Another Blog?!
As of rn the second hockey blog has not been āreleasedā. I want to catch up on things for this blog before I throw that into the mix and try to grow that as well. I am hoping to add that sometime this summer. Also, I do technically have a sideblog already (@samistheman) which is normally where I reblog random things, and I donāt really have tags for that blog I just kinda willy-nilly reblog there (it used to be mostly PJO stuff but now thatās kind of here because of how much of it there is lol).
Life Update:
College is a lot rn. Iām doing 17 credit hours and tbh do not know what possessed me to do that. At first, I was doing pretty good, but now not so much. Like I said earlier I have midterms this week. If yāall didnāt know this, Iām shit at taking tests so not doing great rn. Thankfully one of my classes ends on Sunday so at least I donāt have to worry about that. Iāve had a lot going on in my personal life recently that is impacting a lot so trying to navigate that as well. I am moving out in May, which is yes months from now but there is still a lot that I need to do beforehand. Anyway, Iām going to a college hockey game on Thursday and I am super excited. I havenāt been able to go to a game since October. Also little fun update, Iām going on a weekend (work) trip to Boston. Super excited for that. Iāll be getting to go to a Celtics game and a Red Sox game (Iām a Royals girlie tho). Iāve never been to an NBA game so thatās for sure gonna be really cool. Iāve been to many MLB games before but this will be my first at a different stadium. Anyway, I think that is it for this update. Hope yāall are doing well!!
As usual, if yāall ever want to talk dms/inbox are open <3
I am going to tag some moots, I am totally forgetting some people so I am sorry for that (if y'all could reblog that would be amazing)
@2manytabsopen @krugstrash @jimmystrudel @andreburakozy @sidneycrosbyhoe @fallinallincurls @timstuetzle @typical-simplelove @ilyasorokinn @drei-mrssvechii
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cuddling headcanons! ā
~(ā”ļ¹āāæ)
this is more of a test thing to see if i like writing this way and if this blog does well
other imagines and headcanons won't include everyone i write unless it is specifically requested and is a prompt i really like
includes: wilbur nihachu karljacobs quackity dream georgenotfound sapnap p!tommyinnnit p!badboyhalo p!skeppy p!eret p!philza p!tubbo p!ranboo
cw: cursing
wilbur:
wilbur is a very cuddle-y guy
to me he seems very soft
i always see people saying he would like spooning, but i disagree
i feel like he would do more of a half-spooning thing with his head on your chest or the other way around
mans would DEFINITELY make you run your fingers through his hair
i feel like he would lay on your chest and just *nuzzle* into the space between your shoulder and neck
anytime you tried to leave him, whether it was because he had to do something or you had to, he would whine. so. fucking. much.
It would probably always go something like:
you - i need to piss
wilbur - no <3
but the moment he decides its time to stop cuddling its fine
and if you complain that youāre gonna miss him heāll just call you clingy and tease you
like??? sir???
all in good fun though, no bad intentions :)
nihachu:
i feel like you and niki would face each other
with your head like under her chin and in her chest (this is a bad description but look at the āhoneymoon hugā on the list for better explanation ;-;)
she would always want to protect you
so she does that by like almost guarding you and keeping you close
niki would definitely do the arm thing where she just lightly moves her hand up and down you arm
iām so sorry if you don't understand that, it just feels like something she would do
if you haven't experienced that it kinda sorta feels like spiders??? but in a good way???
but generally she is very protective
she just holds you so close the whole time
even if she doesnāt want to let you go, sheās more understanding about it
she would be upset but wouldnāt show it because she doesnāt want to make you feel guilty
niki is generally just an amazing cuddle-r (is that a word?) and has a super comforting presence
karljacobs:
karl would definitely keep your head on his chest
the whole time he would just absolutely squeeze the life out of you
he would constantly bend his neck down to kiss your head
and instead of just like leaving his head down so he could kiss you it would just be:
*inner monologue karl* hmmm i wanna kiss them on their head
and he would lean down to do so which, cute
but then five seconds later he would do it again
and again another five seconds later
and again
very cute karl but please sir, your neck is gonna be so messed up after this
when you had to leave he would be upset, but like niki, would try not to show it
except karl is very bad at that and his pouting would be so obvious
so you would feel guilty and layback down with him
immediately he just becomes (āĀ“Ļļ½ā)
like a happy little puppy
karl is just too adorable for you to deny
quackity:
now we all know this, quackity is a huge dork
which is why i believe he would DEFINITELY use your butt as a pillow
not even in a weird way
i just feel like quackity isnāt too comfortable with touch so this is sorta his way of being close to you without it being a whole serious thing
like he still is able to be goofy and comfortable without it being a whole big thing
him doing this would almost always come with a flatty patty joke from you
which always causes him to threaten divorce, even though you arenāt married
while it isnāt a very good position for things like physical touch, it is good for talking and having conversations
for some reason i feel like heās the type of person to text someone when theyāre right next to each other
so while heās laying down heāll just send you random photos of himself
very annoying when your phone is spammed, but also good blackmail material >:)
i donāt think heād be too clingy
obviously, he enjoys spending time with you
but if you told him you need to go do work or something he wouldnāt throw a fit or pout
big q just seems like heād be more rational about stuff like that
overall a 420/69 cuddle partner
dream:
one word: spooning
mans just envelops you and has no shame
very big: āno you are mine! >:(ā energy
while heās sleeping heāll unconsciously nuzzle his head into your hair/the back of your neck
when you guys got to bed patches usually climbs in and you hold her
i love patches so much i could write headcanons just about her
dream always wants to be cuddling you
if you try to leave he wonāt pout, there simply isn't a discussion on whether youāre moving or not
incase you havenāt caught on yet, the answer is no
you need to do work? just bring the laptop to bed
he needs to edit? just sit in his lap at his desk, duh
obviously, he knows at some point you guys need to stop cuddling
he just isnāt too stoked about it
when it comes time where he absolutely canāt cuddle with you, i feel like heād be more chill
mainly just annoyed
georgenotfound:
i feel like george, like quackity, also wouldnāt be too touchy
iām pretty sure he has a hard time expressing emotions (please correct me if iām wrong!!) and i think that would crossover to his sleeping habits
i think he would prefer a sort of back-to-back cuddling position
it seems cold, i know
but also he would most definitely kick at you
so every night while trying to go to sleep suddenly you would just feel *kick*
and then instead of sleep youāre suddenly playing footsie
lots of laughter and warm feelings involved
george would probably pretend that you kicked his leg hard or something and act like you hurt him
the first few times you were actually worried
but then after a few months your only response was a sarcastic ācry about itā
which just led to more laughter
sapnap:
sapnap and you would do a sort of leg hug thing
you both you try to go to sleep in a cute spooning-type position
but the moment one of you fell asleep it all unraveled
you would wake up apart but youāre legs would still be touching
sapnap would joking blame it on you
āwow canāt believe you don't wanna be close with me even when weāre asleepā
āitās not my fault! i canāt control where i end up when i sleep!ā
āno, no. you donāt have to lie. i see how it is.ā
ā>:(ā
but it's okay!
your legs are the first thing to react in a flight-or-fight situation, so they usually react in an honest way
which is like your legs are both reaching to hold each other!
p!tommyinnit:
i donāt get a very touchy vibe from tommy
i feel like the most he would do is put his arm over your shoulder
not in a flirty way, just in a āhey, there isnāt a lot of space, this will make sitting down more comfortableā way
he will let you sorta fidget with his hand/arm
i don't know if that makes sense but what i mean is that heāll pretty much let his arm go *flop* so you can control it (by like moving it around or playing with his fingers)
in the beginning he would get annoyed
but eventually he would get used to it and wouldnāt really care
it sounds a bit strange but i personally find it very comforting to just have something to fidget with while watching youtube or netflix in bed with my friends
and itās entertaining (sometimes i do this to me sister to annoy her :>)
he would act like he didnāt mind if you left him
but holy shit he is so clingy
If you try to leave itāll just be āno, why??? stay here dumbassā
you would be slightly annoyed when he had to leaveĀ but knew he had to film and stream and all that so you would be okay
p!badboyhalo:
you would kinda sit within badās lap
like not on his lap, but more of in between his legs
he would have his arms around you
and his phone would be in front of you so you two could scroll through twt or instagram together
or you guys could watch skeppyās youtube ( Ķ”Ā° ĶŹ Ķ”Ā°)
rat would sit in your lap
sheās just;;;;;;;; so adorable
rat is just so soft and fuzzy in your lap and everytime you move to pet her she just melts
rat is the the superior cuddle buddy to any of these block people
p!skeppy:
skeppy, similar to quackity, is a total dork
he would make sure you guys were in a position where he could effectively troll you
so if your head was near his lap he would just flick you or some
ādude can you please stop hitting me in the headā
āit turns out i am not actually hitting you in your head because based on the perpendicularity of the bisector multiplied by the photosynthesis of the dividend, it is impossible for me to do soā
āwtfā
lya is so goddamn sick of you guys
she's trying to get him to actually do something but instead heās just sitting there throwing paper airplanes at you while you sleep
heās an annoying asshole but it's okay because he gives you money for absurd reasons
p!eret:
eret has such a comfortable presence
i feel like she wouldnāt be up for cuddling too much
more of like putting your head on a friends shoulder so you can see the tweet their showing you
but they do like to hold hands
holding hands isnāt very intimate but it's also just such a sweet comforting thing
she even holds your hand when you guys are out walking around
like if you guys were getting food somewhere (post-covid of course)
you most likely would get addressed as a couple
and he would just be likeā...wut?ā
itās happened so many times at this point you just go along with it
āyou guys look like such a cute couple!ā
āoh we aren't-ā āthank you!ā
can you tell that i love eret?
p!philza:
phil always has such dad vibes
i feel like the closest he would get to cuddling is hugs and hand holding
even though cuddling isnāt inherently romantic, he is married to kristen
so i fell he would get most of his touch in with her
but with you heās just so fatherly
hello dadza
whether you have a good or bad relationship with your father, everyone can admit that philza minecraft is dadza
this is such a dad thing, but tries to hold you hand when you cross the street
no matter the age, he just feels the need to protect you
hugs are similar
uses hugs as a way to comfort you and protect you
just so amazing all around
p!tubbo:
tubbo would love cuddling in any way, shape, or form
if you guys are hanging out at like the park or something and lying down
get ready to become this mans pillow
this is really fun to do with your friends but imagine you guys are hanging out in a field type area (with my friends we hand out in the field next to the cemetery but it can be any open grass area)
tubbo would just use your lap as a pillow the whole time
and when you guys were walking back to his house he would sorta drape his arms over your shoulders (assuming heās taller than you)
he would do the same thing when you guys were sitting in chairs or at a desk
just drapes his arms over your shoulder with his chin on your head
if it's really late and he's tired heāll just hug you
p!ranboo:
if you thought tubbo is bad, ranboo is even worse
not even really cuddling, he just likes having a sort of skin-to-skin contact
so handholding and laying on top of eachother
if heās streaming he will legitimately message ou to just sit next to him
so sometimes if heās just chilling by himself on the smp youāll end up on his streams
heāll have you next to him just because he likes be near someone
and so randomly itāll just be like āchat, a real human is here, behaveā
chat does not behave
(they heavily bully him)
heās pretty clingy but when you HAVE to leave heāll understand and just be a bit bummed out
holy shit this took me so long-
if you read this whole thing thank you!
#mcyt x reader#wilbur soot x reader#karl jacobs x reader#nihachu x reader#quackity x reader#dream x reader#georgenotfound x reader#sapnap x reader#tommyinnit x reader#badboyhalo x reader#skeppy x reader#eret x reader#philza x reader#tubbo x reader#ranboo x reader#kermie's headcanons#kermie spent so long on this and is dying
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long overdue | l.dh
pairing: haechan x reader
requested: yes! sorry this took so long :(
summary: when you move back home after a few years apart, haechan starts to see you in a different light, and eventually the tension between you overpowers your worries about ruining your friendship.
genre/warnings: bestfriend to lovers au, smut (dirty talk, slight overstim if you squint?), fluff
word count: 4k
since your first day of elementary school, donghyuck had been your best friend. on that very first day, he had shared his animal crackers with you on the playground bench when you'd dropped yours, and you'd been inseparable ever since. even when your parents moved you away for the majority of middle school, you talked over the phone, you'd even sent each other handwritten letters through the post until donghyuck got his first phone.
the summer before high school started, your parents decided it was best to move back, and suddenly things were different between you and donghyuck. for one, he'd adopted haechan as a nickname, which you couldn't deny suited him more than you'd ever admit, but those four years had seen a lot of changes in the both of you. changes you couldn't ignore.
that stupid smirk he was always wearing was one. the growth-spurt and the jawline and the attractive shape of his shoulders had just been the things you noticed first, let alone the flirty humour he was so comfortable with. nevertheless, the two of you fell back into your old best-friend ways since elementary school; ice cream on fridays, although now they were at two in the morning instead of the afternoon, burgers at the diner on wednesdays because wednesdays are the worst day of the week.
these thoughts cross your mind once again as the boy in question slides into the chair opposite you in the cafeteria, pushing a tray towards you. "they had fries," is the only thing he says to you before he turns to jaemin and starts talking quietly about how they're going to cheat on their chemistry test. you murmur a thank you, picking a few up and stuffing them into your mouth as you continue your conversation with mark, your replacement whilst you were gone, as hyuck had so elegantly put it.
"are you coming to lucas' party tonight?" he asks, stealing some of the fries in front of you before you can swat his hand away. opposite you, haechan has blocked jaemin's voice out of his head so he can hear your answer, hating the way his heart skips a beat in anticipation. these parties were nothing new, you went to almost every single one, but haechan never got used to the clothes you wore, so much more revealing than the ones you to school. it was undeniable in those moments the way his cheeks flushed at the sight of you.
when he had first noticed these thoughts about you, he had been terrified. you were his childhood friend, how could he think of you as anything more than that? surely it would break the two of you apart if he so much as mentioned it to you? over the years since you moved back, however, the two of you had fallen into a comfortable state of flirtatiousness. he would say something suggestive and you would simply laugh and retort with a quip equally as witty. it was second nature, now; the longing glances, the way your hands brushed together when you walked side by side, the way his heart fluttered whenever you stole his hoodies, but only the ones that still smelt of him. your voice brings him back to the present.
"as if i would miss a party," you laugh, and the sound seems brighter every time to haechan, "are you driving everyone?" when mark shakes his head you raise your eyebrows in question and he nods to jeno, the dedicated sober friend for this week. the one good thing about not having your driver's license is that you were never denoted to that role.
as the school day comes to a close you meet haechan outside the back entrance, ready to walk home. the proximity of your houses meant it was always convenient for you both to walk home together, and it made haechan feel better to see you get home safe, he would never tell you that, though. he stands to the side of the crowd streaming out the door and waves you over when he spots your head in the sea of pupils. you shoot him a sunny smile that has his heartbeat pumping in his eardrums.
"you ready, princess?" the familiar smirk is present and you roll your eyes at the nickname, not allowing him the satisfaction of knowing how much it affected you, "you going home after tonight?" he asks as you break out the school car park and onto the pavement, steps falling into rhythm.
"i'm not sure yet, i doubt i'll be able to sneak back in," you scrunch your nose in contemplation, weighing up your options, "i'll probably tell my parents i'm staying at yeri's or something."
you miss the frown that settles on his face, "and stay at lucas'? alone?" haechan tries not to show how much he doesn't like that idea. lucas was a good person, he knows, but he would worry about you no matter who's house you would stay at. it was just part of your relationship at this point.
"yeah?" you stare at him in confusion, oblivious to the way his eyes flicker away when you try to meet his gaze. "what, you want me to come and sleep with you?" as soon as the words left your mouth you realised the second meaning to them and tried to ignore how your face blazed. it was your turn to avoid his eyes as you tried to pretend you had meant that word choice.
"if that's what you want, babygirl," a wink punctuates his words and heat spreads through you. you roll your eyes at him again.
jeno had, as promised, come to collect you from your house, laughing as you ran through your garden to avoid being spotted by your parents. jeno's car is smaller than mark's, all the seats already taken, but before you can ask where you're supposed to sit he presses on the accelerator. hands come to brace you as you nearly fall and your placed onto someone's lap. you can tell it's haechan from the expensive cologne that overwhelms your senses, the warm hands on your waist maintaining their position even after jeno's driving at a normal speed again.
the drive to lucas' house is short but bumpy and you grasp the seat in front of you to stop the jostling. when the car speeds over a bump haechan's fingers dig into your sides, his forehead falling onto your shoulder. you try and turn around to face him but his hands dig in further, stopping you from moving anymore. just as you're about to ask him what's wrong you feel a hardness pressing against the inside of your thigh and your eyes widen.
the flirty jokes you always exchanged meant something, you knew, but the feeling of him underneath you makes you heat up. you're frozen for a moment before a wave of smugness washes through you. haechan was always the one to make you flustered, and to know you had the same effect on him was something you wouldn't forget.
when the car finally stops in front of lucas' house, the others pile out before you two and you face him, raising your eyebrows. you open your mouth to tease him but he beats you to it, "fuck off." is all he says before he stalks towards the front door. you have to jog to keep up with him.
"really? in the car?" haehan rolls his eyes but the blush on his cheeks and the darkness in his eyes is obvious.
"if you weren't wiggling your ass, this wouldn't have happenedā"
"i was not wiggling my ass, it's not my fault you're just needy," he stops walking at your words and spins around to face you, eyes narrowed in a look you assume is supposed to be intimidating. it's kinda hot, though, you think.
"i am not needy!" the laugh you let out only seems to upset him further and he takes a step towards you, "i can show you what needy isā"
"are you guys coming or what?" jaemin shouts from the doorway and haechanās eyes flicker away from you to glare at him. before you can get another word out heās walking as fast as he can away from you, shoulders squared of defensively. you can hear the pounding music from the house and you decided to forget about his attitude for the night and have as much fun as you can.
five drinks in and haechan is the last thing on your mind. the harsh liquid had burned at first but as lucas offers you a sixth you don't feel it slip down your throat. he grins and you match it, head spinning and vision blurring, the bassline of the music pounding in your ears. lucas has always been a great host, and he laughs at the way stumble from the kitchen counter he sits on. litres upon litres of free alcohol fills the table in front of you and you reach for a colourful blue bottle that fizzes when you twist the top off. he passes you a red plastic cup and the drink spills over the sides as you try and pour it, lucas' laugh piercing through your head which starts throbbing with the beginnings of a headache.
as if he can sense the state you're in, jeno appears in your line of sight, head shaking disapprovingly. you put up a fight when he takes the cup out of your hand and tips it down the sink but give up quickly when jeno shoots you a stern stare. lucas has already slinked off back to his living room where the rest of the guests reside, hands waving at people as a pretty brunette pulls him to the corner of the room. "you're already drunk, y/n."
"no i'm not," you insist but you can hear the way they slur together. the sound of them is foreign to your ears and they make you giggle, the sixth shot you had taken moments before starting to take effect. when you try and walk towards the drink's table your knees buckle under you and jeno has to catch you to stop you falling to the floor.
"this is why i hate being the sober friend," he mumbles as he sets you down on the floor to prevent you from hurting yourself, pulling your hands away when they reach to pull on his hair, muttering about his hair colour.
"now that, i whole-heartedly agree with," the new voice belongs to johnny, who frowns in amusement at the position you're in, giggling hysterically at jeno's hair. "hyuck's in a similar shape, we just put him upstairs in the spare room."
"can you help me take her up? she can't walk properly." their conversation falls on deaf ears to you and you're staring at everything in the kitchen and yet nothing at all as they both take one of your arms, hoisting you into an upright position. standing up, you last all but five seconds on your own before you put all your weight into them and allow yourself to be carried up the stairs.
true to johnny's word, haechan is sat on the edge of the bed, head between his knees whilst jaehyun crouches to talk to him, rubbing his back with a sympathetic smile on his face.
you call out when you see him, "haechannie!" and his head shoots up at the sound of your voice, all the darkness of his eyes from earlier dissipated.
"y/n!" johnny and jeno place you carefully on the bed next to him and meet jaehyun by the door to watch you. haechan's arm is already around your shoulder, your head planted on his shoulder, unclear if you're passed out already or not.
"where are they staying?" jaehyun asks, eyes not leaving the pair in front of him, grimacing when you bump heads with each other.
"i think here?"
"you really wanna leave them alone like this?" johnny questions as he watches you press kisses to the side of haechan's neck, turning to face him.
jeno considers his options for a moment. leave the two of you alone drunk and clearly ready to omit any rational thoughts, or stay here and try to keep you off each other. or, he supposes, he could bribe someone else to do it for him. yes, that's what he'll do. he'll find jaemin.
once the others leave and you're left alone, hands are immediately on your waist, pulling you into a kiss. haechan rubs his thumbs into the exposed skin of your middle, pressing his lips to yours in such a desperate manner you can do nothing but sit and kiss back. the hands pull you onto his lap and you waste no time threading your fingers into his hair, deepening the kiss, subconsciously grinding your hips down onto him.
"i've wanted to do this for ages," he moans into your neck, fingers hastily skimming over your skin, trying to touch you everywhere at once.
"i told you you were needy," the reminder does nothing to halt his actions, accepting your words with nothing but a hum, hands now making their way up your shirt to the clasp of your bra.
just as he's battling with the article of clothing, the door shoots open again and you fall off his lap and onto the matress. jaemin walks in, snickering at nothing and plops himself in between you on the bed, head falling onto haechan's shoulder.
"hi guys!" the tone of his voice gives away just how much he's drunk already, and you eye haechan over jaemin's mop of blue hair, pouting in disappointment.
a pounding head greets you in the morning and even though you and haechan both remember what had happened the night before, neither of you can stop blushing for long enough to bring it up. so you don't, the fear of ruining your friendship too great a risk for you.
it's a hot summer day and you meet haechan and jeno along with jaemin and renjun at the ice cream shop near your house. it's a brightly decorated new place that offers a mammoth selection of different toppings, which is partly the reason you get bullied when you choose an ice lolly instead. in your defense, it was boiling outside and ice cream is dehydrating.
haechan is cursing every god he knows of as you sit opposite him in the booth, lips wrapped so prettily around your ice lolly. he blinks harshly when you lick the side to stop the juice dripping onto your hand, still talking to renjun. in front of him sits the tub of ice cream he previously been so excited to try and yet now he can't seem to eat it, thoughts elsewhere.
in his head, he curses himself for thinking like this, for thinking about how amazing your lips would feel wrapped around hisā
"dude are you okay? you're staring at your ice cream like it holds the secrets to the universe." jeno's laugh cuts through his mind and his cheeks burn. he nods wordlessly, searching for something, anything, else to think of, instead of the blood rushing straight to his dick.
later that same day, when he's back in his bedroom alone, you're the only thought that crosses his mind. he thinks about that night at lucas' party, how you had both been so ready to forget anything holding you back, he thinks about the car ride there, how cocky you had been when he got hard from you sitting on his lap. it was clear you felt the same way, at least, he hoped you did.
in your own bedroom, you're having a similar crisis to your best friend. it hadn't been easy to ignore to way he was staring at you earlier, you had even exaggerated your eating just to tease him. you wondered if he wanted you just as bad as you wanted him. maybe you should ask. no, that was too risky. you needed something less obvious.
"you wanna come over to watch that new movie? i'm bored."
haehcan reads the words over and over again, trying to decipher any ulterior motives you might have, yet again that may just be him wishing for some. he takes a moment to reply, choosing his response carefully, even though he knew immediately he would be saying yes.
"sure, when?"
"tonight?"
once you had confirmed a meeting time, haechan had but two hours to compose himself. he didn't know what to expect, after all, you could have invited him over simply to watch the movie, however much he hoped that was only a cover. a cover for an empty apartment, and some suppressed desires.
when you open your front door, you're already worked up enough. it takes all the self restraint in you to not pounce on the boy in front of as soon as he steps into your hallway. he seems to be having a similar internal debate and you feel the air shift as he drops his bag next to your door, stepping towards you.
neither of you want to make the first move, the tension growing until you canāt stand in anymore, reaching towards him, knotting your fingers behind his neck and pulling him down to you. he closes the gap between you, lips smashing against yours in such desperation you would tease him if you didnāt feel the same way.
āwhere?ā he mumbles against your lips, hands gripping up and down your sides.
ābedroom.ā is all you reply before he wraps his arms around your waist, shuffling the both of you into your bedroom and shutting the door with his foot. he pushes you onto the bed and you let yourself fall, hair splaying out underneath you in a way he likes maybe too much.
his body follows yours and he slots between your legs perfectly, hands reclaiming their grip on your middle, fingers toying with the hem of your shirt. wherever his fingers slide over, goosebumps rise in their wake, sending shivers through you at their coldness.
your lips return to his and you tilt his head up to deepen the kiss, only breaking away to press open-mouthed kisses to the space under his ear, relishing in the way his breathing hitches in his throat. the kisses trail down his neck to his collarbone, biting down before sucking the area into your mouth. haechan lets out a sinful moan that goes straight to your core.
as soon as you pull you lips away from his body he pulls your shirt over your head, cursing at the lack of underwear, gaze locking in on the swell of your breasts, nipples hard in the cold air. āyou had such a hard time taking it off last time,ā you reason into his ear, pulling the lobe into your mouth and pulling before continuing, āi thought i would save you the trouble.ā
āfuck, baby, youāre so hot,ā his words are silenced by the moan you let out when his fingers come to toy with your nipples, rolling one between his digits. you canāt help but arch into him, legs closing around the thigh spreading them apart. itās clear youāre already so turned on that haechan almost pities you as you grind against his thigh. āso hot, and needy it seems.ā
āhaechan,ā you moan, hands coming to tug on his own shirt, pulling the material over his head and throwing it somewhere else in the room. āi need you so bad.ā
āi know, baby,ā he cooes, dropping his mouth to envelope your nipple in between his lips, āiāll take care of you, donāt worry, princess.ā the filthful nature of his words make your body heat up, the coldness of fingers now toying with the waistline of your shorts so much more noticeable.
the shorts are removed quickly, your panties following quickly. before you can process what heās doing, his fingers are spreading your lips apart, lips blowing on your clit to watch the way you clench around nothing. you shiver, hands moving to grip his hair.
after admiring your pussy for a moment, he licks a thick stripe from your hole to your clit, stopping to suck the bud into his mouth, hands coming to press you into the matress when you buck up into him. his tongue laps over your most sensitive spot and he rubs your wetness over his fingers before pushing one into you, moaning at the tightness of your walls. the vibrations of his moan travel straight through your clit and you let out a shameful whine.
after working his finger in you for a few moments, he adds a second, closely followed by a third as he continues his assault on your clit. your moans are loud and non-stop, only stopping to warn him how close you are.
ācum on my tongue, babygirl,ā the dirty words dripping from his tongue push you over the edge and you let go with a cry, tugging on the strands of haechanās hair so hard it nearly hurts him.
āfuck, fuck, fuck,ā is all you can say as haechan makes his way back up your body, pressing his lips back to yours. on his tongue, you can taste the sweetness of your own cum and you move away from him only to tug his bottom lip in between your teeth, pulling then sucking on it to numb the pain.
you make quick work of his jeans, helping him out of them and chucking them to the floor, shortly followed by his own underwear. from his view, you look stunning, eyes hooded and blown out with lust, lips red and wet from kissing, bruised almost.
he doesnāt say anything as he lines himself up with your enterance, rocking his hips forwards and filling you completely. the pleasure is almost too much for you, still sensitive from your orgasm only minutes prior, eyes rolling back at the way he fills you so well. haechanās head falls to your shoulder as he gives himself a moment to calm down, biting into your shoulder when he pulls out to the tip.
āyou take me so well, baby,ā the words are hot in your ear, his breath fanning down your neck, ālook at you, all spread out for me.ā
you wrap your arms around his shoulders to steady yourself as he pushed back in, moaning into your shoulder at the feeling of you around him, tight, wet, hot. he can sense he wonāt last long as he sets a fast pace, chasing his own high.
to make up for his fast-approaching orgasm, he takes your ankle into his hand, pulling your leg up to rest over his shoulder, the new angle allowing him to hit every sweet spot possible. the feeling leaves you paralyzed in pleasure, unable to do anything but chant his name.
āiām gonna cum,ā you mumble against him, whining out when his thumb comes down to rub fast circles on your clit.
āfuck,ā haechanās eyes are screwed shut and the sight is so other-wordly beautiful it almost makes you tear up. āiām cumming.ā
his hips stutter and the feeling of his cum filling you, some leaking onto the tops of your thigs, pushes you over the edge. your back arches as you cum over his cock, his hips still easing the both of you through your highs.
when youāve calmed down, chest heaving as the aftershocks of your second orgasm ripple through you, he pulls out, wincing at the first flicker of overstimulation. he turns and presses a gentle kiss to your ankle, rubbing the fingers of his other hand over your cheekbone, relishing the fucked out expression on your face. he thinks this is the most beautiful youāve ever looked, so exhuasted underneath him, sweat glistening over your skin.
āthat wasāā
ālong overdue.ā
he laughs an agreement out, falling next to you on the bed and lacing your fingers together. āwe should watch movies together more often.ā
a/n: the only thing i have to say is yikes at this point.
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So Iām l a little nosy and I need more tea on this story, are you planing on making this a fic or one-shots š¤š„ŗ
Aaaah the kind of asks I fear the most, the ones who out me as a letdown š
Let me preface this by saying that I always have every intention to write the stories I come up with, but as is with life (house, kids, my mum moving to our village) and mental health fun and writer's block there is no promise I can make š
I try and float where my hyperfixation takes me and let me put it like this - it's a good thing I am already so emotionally invested in Elyana and Criston and their story, because watching the show still kinda feels like a chore I do out of GoT nostalgia ^^'
As for what I planned so far, Imma probably try and stick with the show's timeline, use the episodes as a kind of skeleton to get the story going.
I also have a bunch of "Help with Writer's Block" posts faved that I wanna test drive and there's also NaNoWriMo on the horizon.
I'm a little worried though because every fic I see is diving head first into the action and every single offspring is having their role in the Dance, meanwhile my story will be about realising that sometimes the happiness of two people matters more than another person's war and I don't know if maybe ppl will think this isn't exciting enough ^^'
Long story short, the plans are big and I hope the writer's block won't be bigger.
Thank you so much for asking and I really hope I haven't driven you right off š
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At the risk of sounding like a Jindosh apologist here (I am.) I will preface that Jindosh is a bad guy, he has either killed people personally or got them killed for experiment purposes by his Clockworks and has dissected the dead so he is not good, he is a villain, I acknowledge that.
Now with that out of the way I wanna criticize the narrative surrounding him and his mansion and how it sometimes falls flat on itās face trying to demonize them thanks to a lot of points my friend @divaythfyrā brought up. Iāll put all of that below the cut:
Yesterday I was told this line and I wonāt lie it is...bad. Line in question:Ā
Billie: "His home is supposed to be full of marvels. Locals go in as a test of courage, or because they're desperate for a meal. Kids, even. People say you can hear them at night, pounding on the windows, calling for help."
But because I couldnāt live with the idea that he kills children you know the simplest villain demonization tactic in writing history (kick the puppy, kick the child whatever) and I think itās pretty cheap to try and make him worse than Sokolov, I talked to the Jindosh apologist committee and thot about it so Iāll go over this line by line.Ā
1.Ā "His home is supposed to be full of marvels.ā - Okay but isnāt his home also supposed to be scary? Isnāt the wholeĀ āWhy would anyone build a scary mansion like this?ā line from Emily/Corvo as they enter supposed to tell us that this is a scary place? Which is funny because in reality the mansion itself isnāt scary at all, in fact itās extremely logical in the way it unfolds and exposes the rooms. Itās perfectly functional and as someone with a major in architecture, I can say itās the best designed house in terms of organization in the game. There is no way to die in the mansion unless the Clockwork Soldiers and the guards get you - which goes for literally any important/rich personās house? You walk in someoneās house uninvited and their guards get you. You can die if you get behind the walls but itās extremely difficult to do so especially in the places where you can get squished. The house itself is completely harmless. So the whole idea from Jindoshās end that itās a maze is stupid on itās own too, the house is perfectly logical and Stiltonās manor is an actual maze because I got lost 10 times in there.Ā
2.Ā āLocals go in as a test of courage, or because they're desperate for a meal.ā - okay first part is correct people go in his house to either steal, test their skills or kill him. He says as much himself. He says fabled thieves and assassins died there. Again probably from his guards and Clockworks since you canāt die from the house in any rational way. And then he dragged them half dead or dead in his lab to dissect them. He has a fascination with watching people die because he is like evil and a villain like that. Which brings me to the next point which is:
There are only two ways to get in his mansion without powers. There is the bridge below which is broken and the railway which is guarded and has a Wall of Light on the other end. So how will anyone that is not prepared with a grappling hook or some kind of way to close this gap gonna get in? How is your random average person gonna go in? And most importantly why? Do people just walk in aristocratās houses and expect not to get out in a body bag or?Ā
Besides he has a) a lot of free food and drinks in the lobby which is his threshold as to how far you are allowed to go so if someone wanted food they can just walk in and take it and leave (after you know, scaling a mountain for whatever reason because there arenāt easier houses to steal from) and b) he has an audiograph, because I am sure he assumes people canāt read, which tells youĀ āDo not enter or you will die and I will dissect your remains and this is a promise.ā Like why add a warning if you wanna lure people in? Unless those people think they can outsmart him so they come with intent and not just because they need food/shelter. Also he has food right next to that audio.Ā
3.Ā āKids, even.ā - okay this one, the scary line. I wonāt lie this made me uncomfortable. So like if we assume that normal people can enter by normal means (which in point 2 is clear they canāt unless further elaborated by the game on How? and Why?), a child going in as a dare and dying is possible. Billie after this line goes on to say that she saw a child dare his brother to touch the wall of light which vaporized the child, so the implication is possible. Itās possible a child went in his mansion as a dare and bad things unfolded. Itās also equally possible that it didnāt. We know of adult men dying because we see the bodies. For this one is just a rumor. You can take it either way depending on how you feel about Jindosh. Itās very unlikely a child would get this far though, unless this was some kind of Disney movie. Also Jindosh wouldnāt personally have a reason to kill a child you know, like I know itās the easiest āthis villain is super evil!!!!ā writing tactic, but he had a pretty shitty childhood, he felt hated by his mother and probably wasnāt treated so nicely by his (bastard) brother. He likes to exercise his lack of control during his younger years by having control over other people through his house and toying with them. He is very childish in a sense too (with his toy house and toy soldiers), and because of all of this I truly donāt think he would kill a child. He wants a real challenge and to test out his machines and his house against the best and smartest Karnaca can offer, not children. Though my opinion here can be highly biased.Ā
Also many children can casually pull 6ft tall levers Iām sure--
4.Ā āPeople say you can hear them at night, pounding on the windows, calling for help."Ā - we know people have died in the mansion and they have been crying for release, as he says so himself. But again the above points kind of challenge as to who these people that died inside were. However because you know Iāve been playing with his mansion for four years cause I am a dumb hoe, I can say that there are very little windows. In fact the majority of windows that arenāt blocked off by the cliff or the mechanisms are around his laboratory.
Ā Now yes people could go there and bang on them sure. But they literally...face the lab and chances are no one is gonna hear you bang on that side. The other windows not facing the lab are in the foyer where...you are allowed to be and nothing is gonna happen to you.Ā
And the windows that actually face a side where letās say someone could hear if someone was banging are the windows on the front of the house. Only the thing is, there are no windows on the front of the house except in the foyer.Ā
Here are the buildings from across his mansion which I guess can maybe hear if someone was banging on the windows. But again no windows on the front of the house.Ā
The fake windows is where the mechanism for the ceiling over the gallery in the upper hall is. The one that kinda extends and unfolds from there. So isnāt entirely possible that the banging and screaming or whatever people heard is just...the mechanisms of his house? The scary evil child killing house? Which is actually moving and making a lot of noise at all times?
So in conclusion? Yes, Jindosh is bad, he has no regard to human life, he divides society as innocent bystanders and criminals. He does dream of an army of Clockwork Soldiers to eradicate all crime. Be, he isnāt a senseless killer, itās his neutrality and fascination with death as well as his black and white thinking that makes him dangerous. He doesnāt see people as human. In the majority of cases we know of (except one for some reason? That cursed baker who got his brain fried why did you have to do that Jindosh!?) he experiments on people who he deems criminals without sympathy. Also in situations where he thinks itās justified - breaking in to steal from him or hurt him, the Blade Verbena, prisoners that can actually provide a learning experience for his Clockworks and Sokolov. He doesnāt go kidnapping people off the streets to experiment on them.Ā
And despite his evilness being completely logical, the whole game tries to paint his mansion as this big puzzle and trap when in reality itās...really just a house. The level design is beautiful and amazing but I think it doesnāt really carry the point as strongly simply because itās not any more dangerous than any other mission and itās just more fun when it comes to gameplay. The design is great but it never gave me the feeling of it being a horror house. So I think that demonizing Jindosh through hearsay instead of through his actual mission is a bit of a weird choice. A lot of things donāt reflect how evil he is, but not in the good way ofĀ āThe Grand Inventor doesnāt seem evil but he is.ā and instead you get it hammered how evil he is from the start without actually ever experiencing a climax of his evilness you wouldnāt expect. Itās not that every story should have a twist, but usually when you say someone is evil, you either make them good at the end or even more evil. Jindosh never has that climax, he is the same start to finish and that is... mildly annoying and slightly threatening. Like his level is pretty but not scary and they keep trying to convince you itās scary which makes it weird which I guess is because if you listen to a lot of his unused lines and old concept art, he was supposed to be this stereotypical mad scientist but in the end they changed his visual design and lines so much he comes off as lukewarm. I understand what they tried to do with Jindosh but I feel like they failed to do it and had to rely on everyone saying he is super irredeemably evil to justify lobotomizing him.
Anyway this post is too long, sorry if the read more doesnāt go through somewhere and please feel free to counter my points I am open to different and non biased views (or even information I might not know because I havenāt read the books or found everything).Ā
#kirin jindosh#me putting this with full confidence in the tag#i hope i dont wake up to anything bad
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itās the episode 8 review!!! how many episodes is this show supposed to even be?
the stages from the episode feel like such a grab bag.... i still donāt understand why they didnāt put all the skill stages together, and then did the normal two episodes of the third round. i guess it makes sense that they didnāt want to have six stages in one episode and then three in the other two, but eh.Ā
feeling kinda average on these as a whole, thereās a lot of good elements going on here but probably because of my own preferences (i donāt listen to ballads or blackpink) none of them really hit all the buttons. hopefully this will be a shorter review because i'm only going to do a quick rundown of the vocal stages; i dont really have that much to say about them because they are (intentionally) not very stage picture focused. i'll do the normal stage breakdowns for the other two though, even though i wonāt rank them because we still need to see the other four!
vocal stages
sf9 + tbz + ikon
not much to say here other than wow, thatās RED. glad to see some more specific use of spotlighting and i always love when they light things on fire. i do wish they had fill lit with a brighter amber so we could actually get a bit more detail on their faces, especially because thereās six of them. i appreciated the simple blocking and only using one of the āstages,ā this stage didnāt need to be anything complicated and it wasnāt. i donāt love spinning camera shots because they make me a bit ill, and i'll forgive the constant cutting because it's a vocal stage and there isnāt any other real movement that we should be paying attention to. not my favourite of the two, i found it visually a bit too repetitive and complex at the same time. always love a crushed velvet suit though, so bonus points for that.
atz + skz + btob
i was braced for the worst and i dont know what kind of miracle happened but it was listenable! like i said, not a ballad fan but i could listen to eunkwang all day. i love a good plinth for a ballad stage, theyāre one of my favourite devices in kpop design and i especially love it with a good groundlevel fog. glad they kept it black and white for the first half of the stage, it was in line with the blooming flower projections, and it made a very clear colour arc. they kept the visuals clean and simple with very little blocking at all, a very smart choice for this stage. not sure why they decided it would be the chanel time stage, which i disapprove of because i donāt like chanel, but i do love eunkwangās shirt with the cameo buttons and the massive turnback cuffs, very 17th and also 19th century. i know they never do it because they dont read on stage normally but yes absolutely more thin chain pendant chokers on men, thank you! i also liked that there was emphasis on a more traditional lighting scheme, there weren't any crazy concert effects, just some good directional beam spotlights and the rear stacks in the climax.Ā
third round stages
ikon
costume
the first look for them is definitely my fabourite of theirs so far. thereās enough variation in the jackets that the base layer of tshirt and jeans donāt look too repetitive. and i do love a good statement jacket. my favourite is probably donghyukās because i'm a sucker for fringe always.
i donāt like the backup dancers costumes, but given the way iāve reacted to every other all black outfit for this entire show i donāt think anyone was surprised about that. these ones particularly irk me because theyāre very matte; there's pretty much no texture or pattern differentials to define the shape of the limb, which makes them disappear when theyre all grouped together (mostly on the women). i think they probably were intending to make a statement/emphasis on the hands because of the sleeve cutoff point, but there were so many arm movements that were just totally missed because the costumes were just black voids. most egregious parts are here, with the female dancers up center. i can barely tell what the movements are unless iām paying specific attention to them because there's so many black shapes. maybe it was the point for it to be an indiscernable writhing mass, but it wasnāt my vibe.
donāt love this styling on lisa. i hate peeptoe shoes in general but peeptoe boots are the worst offenders. they make you look like you have duck feet, no matter who you are. especially with a flat cutout like that. a universally unflattering shoe, and i would know, i worked in a shoe store for two years. this whole look is just pg-13 rihanna cfda awards 2014 and really nobody should try to run up against rihanna.
also i have to mention this because itās actually really bothering me, but lisaās backup dancers are serving very allgemeine ss looks and i do not like it. generally when we see āmilitaryā uniforms in kpop theyre usually modelled off older styles (pre wwii) of western uniforms that usually arenāt in circulation, and theyāre usually non-matching and embellished in ways that are deliberately not military. i know logically that it's a budget constraint+theyāre backup dancers+current trend thing but the clean lines with only button detailing and the all black and that specific harness shape? it hit my brain the wrong way. i mean, technically those uniforms are designer because hugo boss did them, but the uh..... girlboss move didnāt land for me.
this is my PERSONAL OPINION please for the love of all that is holy do not come yelling at me about this. itās all under a cut, you chose to read the post.
set
very glad to see some busy kitschy sets! this is a massive build, since thereās essentially three full sets here: the temple, the jungle, and the first tiny room. and all of them are very heavily decorated.Ā
the starting room is just five walls on casters (wheels), that have been set into place with the cameraman and ikon inside at the start, and then once they exit the walls can be easily struck and rolled off set. simple, smart, and convenient!
i missed it the first couple times around but glitching out the projections in the temple for a split second was a neat little trick.
the silver and polygonal nature of the tiger/panther/cat(?) head is a bit disconnected from the gold and the aesthetic of the rest of the stage for me. the difference between the original room set and the jungle tracks, but the cat head isnt able to make the same leap for me. i'm also not a fan of mixing metals so maybe thatās why.
the tiger/panther/cat(?) head is a fun physical transitional device; i'm a big fan of tunnels and small transitory spaces like that and if theyāre well dressed like this one they do so much for establishing place and mood.
i'm very sure iāve seen this style of polygonal animal head with laser eyes before....i cannot for the life of me remember where or for what. i know wang yibo did a panther stage for sdc3 that had a human formation panther with green laser eyes, i wonder if i'm just crossing wires.
OH nevermind itās because it looks like the witcher medallion. wires were definitely crossed.
lighting
using purple/teal lighting for the jungle was a smart choice because purple is the direct compliment to the gold and also is much more flattering on humans than green. green is one of the colours that humans can see the most variations in, so when something is green when it's not supposed to be (like human skin), we register that very quickly and associate it with unease and sickness. you know how old fluorescent lights have that greenish tinge that kinda makes you feel ill? it's your cone cells and your brain recognizing that youāre looking at things that are not supposed to be green.
very clean colour arc, i love to see it.
sound
itās.....fine? i donāt listen to blackpink and have no opinions on their music other than it's not my type. i dont really know what the thematic connection to the visuals is, which is not strictly necessary in a lot of cases, but i donāt particularly care for the conflation of āsavageā and a (presumably) precolonial religion thatās assembled from stereotypes of real colonized cultures. you can come at me about how āit's not that deepā all you want but i am here specifically doing an in depth analysis, and i gotta point it out. i'm not here to pass judgement on you if you didnāt realize or donāt care or whatever, i'm just saying that it's important to consume content with a critical eye. what you do with that information is your own personal choice, but you should be aware of it at least.Ā
staging
they took a big risk eating popcorn right before singing, and we definitely got some residual mouth noises of them trying to clean out their teeth. eating on stage is difficult in general because you have to make sure it's not going to dry out the performers mouths, because they dont have access to water and it takes WAY longer to chew and swallow something than you would expect. thereās a LOT of testing that goes into making stage food and guaranteed itās not made out of what it looks like or what its supposed to be; i worked on a production of amadeus were we did literal weeks of testing amalgams of different desserts to make sure that salieri could actually eat the ones onstage without totally drying him out, because fun fact about that show, salieri doesnt leave stage like, at all, so there was no way to get him water. poor bloke.
i thought the blocking of this was really smart. the long take from the ānormalā room and transition into the jungle was super slick, even if that weird circle the camera did while pointed up at the ceiling was unnecessary and pointless.
bobbyās āactingā was extremely funny and thatās the only way people are allowed to act surprised now. edvard munsch scream style only.
the pacing is a bit off and this time it wasnāt mnetās editing that fucked it up. as fun as it is to have a feature, clearly she wasnāt allowed within proximity of the rest of them for covid or other yg related reasons, but it made for some extremely long transitions, especially the one out of her verse. it kills the momentum of the stage in that beat, even though they manage to pick it up after.
this is a very simple little narrative arc thatās easy to follow and doesnāt require any extra explaining. which is exactly the kind of arc that groups should be doing at this stage in the game. this is a good formic step up for ikon!
i thought the turning off of the monitor at the end was fun and a good callback to them watching the videos at the beginning of the stage. a nice clean way to make it circular.
skz
costume
FINALLY something different on the skz boys! these were mostly fun eboy looks for them, and i like it on the basis that it's not the same as the last set of costumes.
bang chan out there with his thigh OUT and a (fake) bridge piercing? LOVE to see it. great work.
(copy-paste every thing iāve said about backup dancers wearing all black)
the backup dancers that were dressed as bystanders/extras were great! they should have kept that with all of them because it would have given a little more shape to the choreography and establishing what function the backup dancers were supposed to have.
set
that is meant to be a giant rice cooker on stage, right? i think so because it's a godās menu mashup? if that's not a rice cooker i have NO idea what its supposed to be
thereās only two large setpieces here, which was a smart way to go. i LOVE the subway car doubling as the truck, even if the truck itself makes no narrative sense. what a fun way to double the use of a single big piece. youāll be able to see the way it moves in the full cam but it splits down the centre and there entrance doors at the back with attached stairs that bang chan and the dancers use to climb up.
lighting
not a whole lot happening here. i like the cool white leds in the subway car and the contrast with the more warm tones of the outside, which is good atmospheric establishment, but i can't discern a visible arc.Ā
not a fan of these projections; theyāre in line with what weāve seen from skz so far, which is: extremely literal. i dont think theyāre that distracting, but theyāre not to my personal taste. they really should have kept the comic panel theme that they did for changbinās first verse, because that was inventive and fun to watch! and a great atmospheric indicator! i would love to see a bit more experimental projection use but it's hard when they donāt have a lot of time to build these stages and the lighting team is definitely working remotely.
sound
i love that they made the choice to do some actual talking, itās a good gimmick and it works for the deadpool/comic book/fourth wall break theme, but australian accents take me the fuck out i am so sorry i cannot listen to either felix or bang chan speak english without laughing uncontrollably.Ā
i donāt like this arrangement but i'm not surprised about that, given my predilections. i'm also tired of skz shouting STRAY KIDS in every performance they do. i know on music shows it's probably more relevant and yea producers tags are a thing but weāve been watching this show for nearly two months at this point. we know who you are, you can stop yelling. be more creative with it!
staging
my biggest issue with this stage is that it doesnāt have a payoff. there is an arc here: theyāre stealing the truck, but why are they stealing the truck? who are they stealing it from? who are they fighting against? it's kind of important in a stage where the theme is stealing and fighting someone that you tell us who that is. in both of ateezās previous stages were they were both stealing (rhythm ta) and fighting (wonderland), they made sure to show us who the villain was. there needs to be tension for a big blowup climax to actually pay off. whether it be against a a balloon arm kraken or a fascist government. this stage could have reached that next step if theyād just done a little bit more exposition.Ā
there were a lot of fun choreo moments here, and this is probably my favourite choreo of theirs so far. i thought the whole first bit in the subway car was excellent and a very fun play on those viral videos that we used to see roll around every so often of dancers doing routines in subway cars.
did it need the guns? not in the slightest. more on this point later. i could talk more about weapons and weight here, but iāve done that several times already.
like with the tbz game of thrones stages, theyre relying a little too much on the audience's preconceptions of the source material in order to carry the theme. the guns are there because deadpool likes guns, but they donāt actually use the guns for anything? the most we get of the stealing segment is felix and the safe, which admittedly is a great bit with him leaping over and under the ālaserā lines (theyre likely led strips). because comic books are by nature procedural and deeply tied to narrative, it's unsatisfying when thereās no tension and no payoff.
HOW did we manage to get two stages that are blackpink covers with remote/tv static gimmick and durags? i know the slot machine of kpop tropes is not very big but surely the probability of hitting triple sevens on this one was pretty low. iām pretty meh on both of these stages overall. skz was unsatisfying but i loved the choreo in the subway bit so that bumped it up a little ahead of ikonās in my personal preferences, but i'm reserving my actual rankings for next week. assuming we get the other four stages next week and they dont do something stupid and only show two. which they very well might. iāve stopped trying to understand why mnet does things the way that they do.Ā
as always the ask box is open, drop your comments/questions/personal opinions, i love to hear āem! but donāt be rude just because some of this is touchier subject material.
#kingdom#ateez#btob#ikon#sf9#the boyz#stray kids#military uniforms are a weird one and i always find it a bit....(squiggly face emoji) when they get used in kpop stages#everybody is one of the exceptions because its used as a direct critique#but this is a very personal opinion as someone who has done a lot of historical research on military uniforms in particular#so im hyperaware of that kind of thing#be cool about this one people please and thank you!#im so glad this came in under 3k#kingdom review#kpop analysis#text#ive had to write a lot of deeply critical art practice analysis in the last week and i would like to sleep
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I didnāt mean to fall in love with you
Chapter Two
Book: Queen B - Choices (Universe)
Pairing: Ā Poppy Min-Sinclair x Trans!Male MC Ā (Beck Hughes)
Genre: Canon re-write (Because I can)
Rating: Anyone can read it, really... I think.
IĀ“ll be posting this one over here because Tumblr, for some reason, thinks my secondary blog is a bot...
This is me trying to write by and for the Trans community, specially FTM community, meaning, trans guys, but I actually took the liberty to use They/them pronouns for everyone out there whoĀ“s interested (Also, the name Beck was the most neutral one I could find, trying to use the cannon Bea Hughes)
Now, about the PAIRING... I will be using choices style, kinda. If you have any comment, PLEASE BE RESPECTFULL and patient with me. This is also my first english fanfic and english is not my mother language, so... iām sorry fo the grammar errors
CHAPTERS
The beginning
Chapter oneĀ
ONE-SHOTS
Just a dance (Zoey x MC)
āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā
One of their favorite things of all New York experience it's having lunch with Zoey. The girl was funny and interesting and she always had the right conversation to spend time with. Also, she had an incredible taste in music, they both even shared some classes together, working in pair so often that the rest of their classmates just knew they weren't available to them.
So when Beck found out Zoey co-produced the last summer hit, they weren't surprised, what was making some teeny tiny noise in their head wasā¦
āDid you really co-produced Lightning and you didn't tell me?!ā
ā¦ That.
Beck was impressed, of course. They where proud! That song was one of their personal favorites, so the fact of knowing they were collaborating all this time with such a spectacular talent was an honor.
āTo be fair, you never askedā She chuckled.
āOh, yeah. Yeah, Zoey: Hey, my name's Beck, had you ever co-produced a summer hit? Because I havenātā. Beck ironized. The news were all over The T, and it definitely had to do with a little lunch Zoey managed to have with the same Professor Roberta, making her finally be friends with Beck. āBy the way, thank you very much. You didnāt have to do that.ā
āBabe, you just bought us a $200 lunch. I think you deserved not to have some teachers bad bloodā
āMaybe I did it to be on your good sideā Beck winked towards her, making Zoey laugh.
āSuch a charmer, arenāt you?ā Zoey opened their room door, finally reaching their home. āCareful, Beck. Youāre going to make me believe I'm your favorite girl.ā
āHow says you arenāt?ā
āHumā¦ I donāt knowā She tapped her chin with a perfect polished fingernail, pretending to be thinking about it. āMaybe some little bird called Ina Kingsley.
Ow! Low blow
āAh, gotcha!ā Zoey laughed.
āOk, thatās completely unfair! You know it was one-time thing and we ended whatever that was as soon as we found out we were teacher-studentā Which was practically the very next day, by the wayā¦ kinda.
āStillā¦ I think you should make it up to me for it.ā Oh, that little flirty game between them. Beck was curious about it most of the time. Was it just a joke? Something more? Back at Farmville they never had a friendship relationship like that one, but Zoey was never really clear about the matter neither.
Instead, she always came up with some Ina related topic and it was confusing as fuck. I mean, yeah, they kissed Zoey in front of everyone in that football kiss cam. Beck thought that time that it was very clear they wanted to be more than friends with her. But apparently, she didn't feel the same, soā¦ they wonāt be pushing her. Beck would never oblige someone to be intoā¦ wellā¦ them.
āWhat can I do? Please tellā They said, playing along with her.
āYou're a smart one. I'm sure youāll find a way to do so.ā Damn it, Zoeyā¦
āI already have a few ideasā¦ Scandalous lingerie.ā Beck joked some more, a mischievous smile on their lips. āIām thinking satin sheets, handcuffs, maybe a blindfoldā¦ā
āI like this image. You, sprawled out on the mattress, completely at my mercyā¦ā Zoey moved closer to them, trailing her finger up their arm, making them shiver.
āCome on, Zo. Back down already! At least show me something, do something.ā
āI might just take you up on that someday.ā She said before walking away, teasing them.
āGwaah!ā
Beck hated that. Really, that kind of frustration was no good at all.
āCrap, I'm gonna be late for music theory! This is not good. The prof is a total hardass.ā
āTold ya! You shouldāve choose professor Liam as I did. You brought this on yourself.ā
āAnd now youāre just an assholeā She said smiling, hitting Beck right on their arm.
āOuch! Rudeā¦ā
āIāll catch up with you tonight, yeah?ā
āItā a dateā
~~X~~
āAre you sure youāre ok, Poppy?ā Veronica asked. She looked preoccupied, and she wasā¦ But Poppy wasnāt the one in her mind. The blogger was worried for Chloe.
She was number one now, dethroning Poppy so suddenly that it was suspicious, especially knowing the blonde dumb head girl. She adores Poppy since they were kids, Chloe would never betray her, never. But of course, Poppy wouldnāt see that; no, the strawberry blonde was furious, feeling backstabbed, feeling like revengeā¦
Of course, you couldnĀ“t blame her. She lived all her life between smoke and mirrors.
āOf course I am!ā She replied, knotting her white transparent beach dress, covering up a sexy pink bikini. Poppy took a deep breath and accommodated her cleavage so it shows part of her chest, just a little, seductively inviting, but demure enough no to seem made on purpose. She was an expert on it, and she was about to prove her theory right about now. āIĀ“ll take care of that traitor laterā¦ā She checked the hour on her phone. She had invited Farmsville to come there around this time. Test number one: They needed to be punctual, no lover āreal or fake- of hers is an irresponsible with her time. She had better things to do than waiting around for an asshole. āNow come, Hughes must be here by nowā
Ā āNo, I think Iām going to stay right here. Lightās perfectā Poppy rolled her eyes at the way Veronica was trying to find the right angle to make her face look impossible good. She always manages to do so, though.
The strawberry blonde crossed the room, walking through the cabin towards the swimming pool room, she could see Beck there, on time, talking with Michael. Poppy smiled to herself.
āTest passed, Farmsvilleā¦ā
āā¦ It was built by the Alphas and Zetas as a place to study, party, hook upā¦ Now the only people who come here are - -ā
āThe people I decide should be here.ā She made her entrance.
Test number two: Is Beck into girls? Kissing Zoey didnĀ“t count, Poppy herself had kissed a lot of friends without liking them, she had to prove it herself first hand. So she walked to them with confidence, head up high while moving her hips seductively, attentive to BeckĀ“s every reaction, reading their face, their expressions, the little gulp in their throat, the way their eyes opened wild, checking her out, looking at her boobsā¦
āDisgusting pervertā
ā¦ to her eyes, were Beck fixed their own to stay, always to the face. Beck was trying to be polite, respectful, but the red on their cheeks was exactly the same they had back in the class. They liked what they saw, Poppy knew it. Just to verify, she took a look at the rest of Alphas, who looked away the moment they were discovered. Ugh, gross.
āā¦ butā¦ you have manners. I like itā¦ Second test approved. Well done.ā
āWelcome, Farmsville. Letās discuss our little project, shall we?ā An inviting smirk was drawn on Poppyās lips, willing to test the limits of her new discovery, how much more could she play with Beck today?
āOh, sure. See ya guys at gymā Beck said, bumping fists and shoulders with the Alphas as if they were good friends. One more of them. For an instant, Poppy found herself wishing they wonāt turn Beck into a brainless gorilla. Beck was fine just like already was.
A blonde head caught her eye from behind Beck, saving her of questioning what was that though about because the anger crawled its way up her stomach, keeping her from minding of anything else. āHold on. What is she doing here?ā
The fucking nerve!
The audacity!
Every person in the room was watching Chloe, but nobody had the rage Poppy had. Of course she made them block the entry, how dare she?! After a little scene, that bitch finally went away. To think she considered Chloe her very own best friend! Deep inside, she was hurt, she felt usedā¦ The society was right: never to trust anyone, because their always pretending, always faking no matter what they said. Waiting the right moment to strike. That was a mistake she was never going to repeat. Never. She was about to leave, ready to start the project, but of course, Beck was about to ruin her mood one more time.
āThat wasā¦ pretty roughā¦ā What did they just say? The strawberry girl observed Beck. There was no rest of respect in them, conversely, Beck looked at Poppy as if she was NarniaĀ“s White Witch, what happened to the little lamb look? āI get it if yaāll are in a fight, but isnāt she supposed to be, like, your best friend?ā
God, they were an idiot.
āYouĀ“re not here to be my moral compass, Farmsville. Shut the fuck up and walk with me. The rest of you, get out. Nowā
Once alone, they both walked slowly around the pool, silenceā¦ She didnāt enjoy that. At all. But it was necessary and she couldnĀ“t show any weakness sign to anyone there. Especially not Beck. Butā¦ She was now sure of one thing: Beck didnāt care about looks, but actions, orā¦ feelings?
āHave you checked the student ranking today?ā She asked, her voice softened. Beck shook their head. They looked at her phone, and after a whileā¦
āOh boy. Chloe isā¦ā
āDonĀ“t say itā¦ā She was angry, venom caught in her throat, but instead, she let that out like a whisper. A hurt one. She wasnāt faking it, but controlling her emotions on her benefit. Wanting more test, Poppy slipped off her heels and went to sit at the edge of the pool. A moment after, she felt Beck doing the same.
āBingoā
āItās just as my parents told meā¦ You donĀ“t have any real friends, Poppy. Just allies. Hmp! Looks like they were right all this time.ā
āPoppy, Iā¦ā They said, unsure.
āSuch a shame.ā She stopped him, going back to the anger. āI donāt know who she thinks she is, or who she had to sleep with to knock me out of my spot, but if she thinks this is over she is so wrong. Itās utter betrayal is what it is. That girl is dead to me.ā Silence. Was that too soon? Did she got it wrong, again?
āPoppy, youĀ“re too hot to worry about thisā
Yesā¦ now they can play.
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hoh I'm really sorry friend but you got Talbot's backstory kinda muddled. Some things you stated that he did, he didn't actually do for the reasons you stated. He didn't experiment on killers just for fun -- he ran from them. they hunted him. he experimented on them to find a dosage right for himself. he also didn't experiment on an animal for fun. it was dead. Vigo apparently talked about escaping and it had to do with serum. Its why he injected himself after tests. He wanted a way out.
Iām going to answer this in two parts since itās stated in two. First, friend, I am going to have to operate on the assumption that you have very very strong feelings about Talbot and assume everything said against him is pretty much the same after a glance or something like it, because I never once said he experiments on the killers for fun. I said the Entity I think lets Talbot experiment on other killers now that he is one too asĀ āpunishment for them and fun research times for Talbot,ā not that Talbot experiments on them for fun. I think he does enjoy doing his scientific research, but that aside, the above is just a description of the Entityās reasoning in letting him do that/its POV.Ā I certainly never said he does itĀ ājust for funā. In fact, I explicitly stated his motivation for becoming a killer was to attempt to protect himself. I have to assume you didnāt really read my post at all, or perhaps got it confused with another. I know my shit. I read up. Though it is true I sayĀ āanimalsā when, while he canonically experiments on both rats and crows, only the one rat happened for sure before he moved on to the Trapper. Although, thatās kind of worse... Again though, I never once said he did any of this for fun. I know he injected people to see what the serum would do, in a very reckless and poorly thought attempt to escape the realm. I explicitly mention this. Perhaps you are confused because I describe him as torturing people, and heās not just doing pain for fun--this is because torture is not limited to only pain inflicted on someone out of cruelty or a desire to manipulate them. The dictionary definition of the verb, to torture, isĀ āTo cause intense suffering. To tormentā. And he absolutely tortures killers, survivors, and reanimated realm animals alike as a means to his own ends. Also, the Entity has not erased all his memories--I know the archives has some memory deterioration lore added, but much of what he did to others happened well before any of that began, and explicitly some of his own addons mention things he explicitly remembers. The Entity did of course leave him to suffer in the void, with is a form of torture, and used the medical affects of blight itself to help manipulate him. Unfortunately, being hurt yourself doesnāt excuse you from the responsibility of what horrors you inflict on other people.
For part two, I am sure my answer is coming off as a bit abrasive. I appreciate the apology, but yes, it is rather rude. Even without the lack of attention to detail. Let me try to say this more fairly though, because I donāt know you at all, and in all likelihood, youāre a very nice and decent person who doesnāt mean anything by this, and simply has deep feelings about this character. Also, this isnāt all directed just at you, but to some degree at everybody who has sent me one of these in the past, or will in the future, which I am very tired of. I am going to quit answering most of them from here on.
First of all, I understand feeling deeply about a character or topic. I understand being frustrated or even hurt when you see opinions that distress you, or seem unjust compared to what you believe. Thatās natural, and even sweet. And I am all for talking about how you feel and think and why, and leaving that in the tags so other people might hear what you have to say. Even for messaging people to see if they want to have a discussion with you. Itās endearing when people love things and want to fight for them. I only describe Talbot as more interesting than many of the others, because I was not asked specifically about my sympathy level, and it doesnāt factor high in importance to me where he is concerned, but youāre not wrong that Talbot is more sympathetic--or, at least, depending on interpretation, much more capable of being written sympathetic while adhering to canon--than many of the other killers. That said, heās also--completely in line with canon--interpretable as pretty monstrous. I donāt think I necessarily paint him heavily either direction. Simply I personally feel fairly little sympathy for someone who commits the kinds of dehumanizing acts of scientific research torture on war prisoners without a second thought, ignores the consequences of his actions, and so quickly casts his humanity aside when in tribulation. He devolves from someone who could have changed and been good, to a man who is a horrific monster and cares only for him self, with no lines he will not cross (his own words, and pre-killer even). And to some people, that is tragic. To me, I feel little kinship for the man he was before, and am simply disappointed in him for failing so easily and completely. I can see why someone might interpret his character quite differently, but my take is just as valid in line with canon, and itās mine.Ā
I donāt mind people telling me their thoughts, and I donāt mind reading takes in the tags. And again, I very much understand the desire to stand up for something you care about if you feel it is wronged. But thatās not really what youāve done here, messaging me on anonymous. To the best of my knowledge, I have never even interacted with you before. You didnāt open a discussion with me; you talked down to me, and you decided to argue with me about a topic I did not invite anyone into debate with myself. I am not an opinion blog, or a discussion blog. I am a personal blog. But still, you were discontent to not go into my space and try to scold me about my own opinions as a stranger. And you did all of it on anonymous, where there is no tag attaching anything you said even to your online persona, and no way for me to even be assured of you seeing an answer, or entering any dialogue with me. Which means that the goal, subconsciously probably since I know nothing at all about you and have no reason at all to think youāre anything but a decent person who is a bit carried away today with love for Talbot Grimes, but still the goal, was never to have a dialogue with me in the hopes maybe I would see and like your reasoning and we could talk about something we both have an interest in. It was that you felt so entitled to dictate someone you donāt knowās opinion about something they disagree with you on, that you felt compelled to leave a missive instructing me to correct my wrongs in my inbox.Ā
Which, well, is rude.
This is probably a bit more, uh,Ā āicyā? Than is totally necessary. I really am not angry at all; I understand you probably had no real ill will towards me doing this. I just have this happen a lot, and I am tired of it, so I want an easy frame of reference to link back to for why I find this behavior rude and cowardly and an unasked for nuisance--badly intentioned consciously or not. I truly am sorry if this makes you feel bad or distressed to read, especially if youāre a younger fan. I truly am not mad at you--and I do not at all think or mean to imply you are a bad person. Everybody is occasionally thoughtless. Itās not remotely representative of character. But please donāt keep doing this to people who arenāt interested in a debate. And if you believe in something enough you want to take the discussion to someone else, sign your name to it. If you feel enough conviction to make something someone elseās problem, make it your problem for real too. Iām truly not mad though, and wish you the best.
(and myĀ āif you are annoyed by this or any of my other personal opinions and desperately want me to read your thoughts on anon about thatā requirements below the cut)
Itās literally not worth my time to read anon hate or people upset I donāt like a serial killer, so if you for some wild incomprehensible reason really feel a need to see me read that and answer to you instead of just delete and/or block without a look, then either leave my $5 on my Kofi, or get used to knowing I didnāt even read it.Ā ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ I have to actually get paid to not file that shit underĀ āIām not paid enough to deal with thisā.Ā
#ask#anonymous#dead by daylight#talbot grimes#the blight#again Anon I know this might read very abrasive to you. Legit the only emotion I am feeling is mild annoyance#You're not a bad person for mildly annoying me and please don't feel too bad or dwell on this if u even#read it & care. Just. Please don't keep doing this to people#Anonymous
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The main 10 cheering up a crying Scholar (Y/N) finally part 2!
Here are Neha, Raquel and Tadashi! I had to cut the last 5 in 2 posts because tumblr doesn't allow more than 250 blocks of text... But anyway! I finally did it! It's been 84 years... though I feel like those are not really headcanons anymore. They're all so long that it would be more accurate to say that they're scenarios. Sorry! It's probably gonna be really annoying scrolling up and down.
Neha
- crying is a really good way to let your emotions out and it always worked out for you
- whenever it's all too much you make yourself cry to feel better afterward
- one day, once you finished crying your phone rang
- it's from Neha, she's inviting you to her room
- oh boy.
- when you moved into the dorms Karolina did say that the previous owner of the room would put loud music on and they would hear it
- 'did Neha hear me cry?' God you hope not
- When you knock, the door immediately opens as if Neha was right in front of it waiting for you
- She pulls you in and starts taking your measurements
- "I've decided to use you as my model for my next outfit."
- "W-what?!?"
- now you're almost sure that she did hear you, or else why would she make an outfit just for you when she's got Karolina?
- surprisingly a few days later the outfit is done! Does it really take that little time usually? You're pretty sure that Neha already had the design ready in her sketchbook
- during that time though, everyday until the "outfit" was ready she would go out of her way to talk to you everyday even though she's usually either busy or with Karolina
- she knows that it annoys her but even when Karolina was around Neha would still come and chat with you for a bit
- You're guessing that she didn't want you to feel like you're alone in your hard times
- when the outfit was done she called you over again
- "Here, try it on!"
- there's more excitement in her voice than usual and it's really freaking cute
- "You mean right here, right now?"
- she keeps staring at you in silence before coming back to her senses
- "Oh, right. Sorry. I'll turn away while you change."
- but then while you're taking your clothes off the door flows open
- "Neha, did you see my-"
- Karolina looks at the both of you and while she's trying to process the scene all that she gets from the situation is: you taking your clothes off in their room, and Neha waiting for you to take them off while facing away?
- "N... Nevermind. Just do your thing I'll come back in one hour. Or uh, two hours. Actually."
- She closed the door in a hurry. Welp. She probably misunderstood.
- Neha kept on facing the wall but you could see her ears getting red
- that little accident is quickly forgotten when you've put the outfit on
- it's so elaborate and classy. it's making you feel self-concious
- Even though Neha was the one who made the outfit she blushed when she saw you in it
- "You look so lovely- uh. I mean the dress! The dress looks lovely on you, obviously, since I'm the one who made it."
- her bashfulness is making you blush too but you tell her that you can't pay for it
- "Are you kidding? It's a gift I've made for you. No one else in the world owns this and won't own it because I won't put it on sale. It's a special outfit only for you."
- She takes her sketchbook and rips out a page, it's a sketch of the outfit and... you're the one wearing it on the drawing!
- "To be honest, I had already heard you crying a few times in your room and I didn't know how to help. So uh... I guess what I mean is. I've been planning this for a long time but I wasn't brave enough to ask for your measurements until recently and um..."
- She's rambling and rambling, you've probably never heard her talk this much
- "Basically... when you're sad come over. Or ask me to come over, whatever. Our rooms are right next to eachother so whether you cry in your room or here I'll hear you anyway so you might as well be with me."
- this was maybe not the best way to phrase it, but you got the feeling she was going for and that's all that matters
Raquel
- Noticed that you weren't feeling good right away
- but more in a "are you catching a cold?" kinda way
- but it didn't have anything to do with your health
- You actually wanted to explain what happend as soon as it did but when you tried to, tears came down immediately from the very first sentence
- Raquel grabbed you by the shoulders
- "It's okay! You can tell me later if it's too hard."
- The next day when you were getting ready to go to school Raquel came to your room dressed in casual clothes
- "Hey Y/N! Let's skip today."
- You tell her that you can't because you're a scholarship student and all but she ends up convincing you anyway
- "It's all fine, it's just for one day! Everyone thinks that you're a really hard-working, punctual and honest person! They'll believe whatever you say."
- "Raquel... I amĀ a hard-working, punctual and honest person..."
- "Exactly! And that's why you can take advantage of that and no one will doubt you."
- Oh well...
- it's not like you were looking forward to that math test anyway
- you sneak around and get out of the school through Raquel's knowledge of... blind spots?
- you feel a little guilty about it since you'll have to lie to the teachers later about "not feeling well"
- Raquel makes you forget that pretty easily though
- "Okayyy! Now let's go have our breakfast, I know a place."
- "Ah, cool."
- "You don't sound really excited... But you know, the both of us sneaking out of school to go on a date: isn't it a little bit like we're secretly lovers during war time between two kingdoms in a movie?"
- Wait, this was a date?? You had no idea
- You spent the whole day just walking around town in different fast foods, parks, and shops
- everytime you wanted to buy something Raquel would try to buy it for you
- You refused everything except the food, she was being extremely pushy about paying for the food
- on the way back you decide to tell her about your troubles again, this time hopefully you won't burst into tears
- She's incredibly understanding and doesn't let you downplay your feelings
- anytime you say "it may sound stupid"/"maybe I'm being too emotional" she's like
- "No! Fuck that! There's a reason why you feel this way and it's not dumb."
- You get a little bit teary eyed and before you can even think about crying Raquel hugs you
- then she whispers in your ear
- "Did it hurt?"
- "Uh... what?"
- At first you thought she meant your feelings because obviously it did hurt, you just spent like 20 minutes explaining what had happened
- but then you understood
- is she seriously trying to cheer you up with pick-up lines?
- "So did it hurt or did it not?"
- "You mean, when I fell from heaven?"
- She makes the biggest grin before replying
- "No, when you fell for me."
- You're trying your best not to burst into laughter
- "Nah, not really. It was a quick fall."
- Oh no, you outsmarted her lame pick-up line
- you guys end the day with the most stupid pick-up line fight
- little do you know that Raquel will shoot a ball in the face of a certain someone for hurting you
- maybe multiple times if she feels like it
Tadashi
- To be honest he didn't really notice at first
- maybe it was one of your "bad days", Tadashi knows what it's like so he totally gets it
- but then when it's been 3 days in a row and you're still in that state?
- he cancels all of his work and assignements for the day
- calls you over in such a professional manner that it's kinda scary
- he literally asks you to meet him in the student council's room
- tells you to "please sit down" in front of him
- Honestly, this situation is making you really tense. Did Tadashi figure out that one time, 3 months ago, when you stole a smoothie from the cafeteria?
- "Look, I'm sorry okay? I was just really thirsty and I needed sugar. Also, it's not like I wasn't allowed to get one! There was no one at the counter so I figured it wouldn't hurt to..."
- Tadashi IAmConfusionā¢ looks at you
- "Why are you talking about that now? Don't worry, I know."
- Now it's your turn to get confused
- "You mean... you knew and you didn't give me detention?"
- Now he looks a bit frustrated
- "Come on Y/N, I'm not thatĀ mean. I won't give you detention just because you came 5 minutes late to our meeting."
- This is most likely a misunderstanding...
- "This is what you were talking about just now, right? That the reason why you came here late is because you were drinking a smoothie. I figured you were probably busy doing something so no need to feel so guilty about it."
- "Oh. Oooohhh... yeahh... totally. Sorry."
- Now that thisĀ is out of the way, he asks you to tell him what's on your mind
- At first you hesitate a little but, if there's someone with whom you want to share this with, it's Tadashi
- he's listening really closely to what you're saying without cutting you off but sometimes you can see his eyes getting a bit darker
- Like, you're not being specific enough about a detail or something and he's probably taking notes of all the questions he has so that he can ask them when you're done
- At some point though, you become really emotional and your voice starts cracking when you're talking
- You end up crying and your tears fall on the desk
- Tadashi jumps out of his seat, his chair falls down as he panics
- "Hey! Y/N?? Err... Um..."
- Takes you in his arms carefully, like he's not really sure if that's what he's supposed to do when this type of thing happens
- "It's okay! I'm here... I'm here so... d-don't cry Y/N I'll do something about it no problem!"
- when you've calmed down he puts down his wallet on the desk
- "Uh... what?"
- "You can use it."
- "You mean your money??"
- "What else?"
- he explains that you can take all the smoothies and premium food in the cafeteria with this
- "Are you kidding? I can't use your money for that."
- He's literally trying to cheer you up with money which is obviously not the way to go about it
- He sees that you're not convinced so he pulls out his phone and shoves the screen on your face so closely that you have to take a step back in order to read what's on it
- It's Tadashi's to do list, probably the place where he writes all of his tasks for the week
- The spot on number one is you. It reads "1. Y/N"
- when you look at him Tadashi is furiously blushing and looking away
- this is incredibly sweet until you notice how wrong this sounds
- "Wait... Tadashi?"
- "Yes?"
- "I'm first on your... "To do" list? Seriously?"
- "What's that's supposed to mean? Of course you're number one on my- Oh god..."
- he just understood how wrong it sounded and took the phone back before rewriting the list
- He's making it so easy for you to tease him
- the poor boy is literally begging you to stop it but you can't until he shows you his phone screen again
- this time it's written "1. Make Y/N smile again", you're literally his number one priority. This is so sweet to the point where you can't tease him anymore. It would be too mean.
- As for Tadashi, let's just say that he's about to get "really mean" with the person you were talking about just now and he's not going to hold back
#sweet elite#se#main 10#I was this š close to forgetting that I have to write the rest of those scenarios#scenarios#well at this point I think everyone gave up on waiting š#sorry if some of them are silly but I only write top quality cringe š
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Authentic Costumes: Gladiators
-Yes! The costumes came!
Andrew walked back into the living room, with a simple brown postal box. Jack stopped what he was doing, and looked at his friend.
-Good. They were cutting it pretty late. I mean the party is in 2 hours.
-Well, no need to complain anymore. Hurry let's bust them out and start getting ready. The site said the transformation process will take about an hour.
The two friends worked together to open the box. Inside were two authentic gladiators costumes and two jars of glowing purple liquid. In addition, there was a file describing the costumes in more detail.
- "Octavius and Maximus" Wow those are some bad-ass names. Apparently, they were the Ancient Roman's version of a tag team. It says that they were undefeated, loved by the roman people, and were able to retire, with a comfortable amount of winnings from their triumphs. If I'm reading this correct these potions will transform us into Octavius and Maximus at the height of their careers.
-It, also, says that Maximus was the stronger of the two. So ... I'll be taking this vial.
-Aww come on ...
- No dude. Look at the size of this armor both these guys must have been so ripped. It's not going to matter that I'm going to be slightly stronger than you. Besides, I'm the one that paid for them.
-Fine, fine, fine. Well here goes nothing. Cheers.
-Cheers
Both guys remove the tops on their jars and drink the purple liquid. Jack becoming Maximus. And, Andrew becoming Octavius. An intense sensation starts filling thier bodies, as with each heart beat the glowing liquid spreads through every vein in their body.
-Dude, I don't feel so ... good. I'm getting ... pretty dizzy ... and tired. My heart is beating ... too fast.
-Just calm down. It affecting me too. The instructions says it affects everyone differently. Just try to sleep it off. But, I feel great. Damn, I feel pumped. I feel ... I feel ... I feel ...
And, like that Andrew fell unconscious. Meanwhile, Jack slowly started drifting off. The last thing his drowsy eyes saw was hair filling up his chest. And, was his stomach bulging out?
Dreams of being in the arena filled their mind, until Jack started coming into consciousness. His body felt heavy and swore. He was feeling the effects of the hard life style of the gladiator's life. Still unable to shake the sleepiness out of his eyes. He rubbed his face, with his hand. His arms felt heavy and strong. And, his hands were rough against his breaded face.
Slowly he moved to lay on his side. As he did, he felt a strange pressure on his stomach move with him. Completing the turn to his side, he felt his stomach extend far beyond his body. At this point, Jack quickly sat up and finally forced himself awake. He stared at his naked body, as his clothes were ripped around him. The sight of his belly and and moobs blocked anything underneath his gut.
He looked to the body next to him. Andrew, also, got fat and hairy. But, not as fat as Jack, now was. It also seemed like Andrew's new body had a height advantage, which helped him look slimmer.
Jack got off the floor and ran to the nearest mirror, his body jiggling with every step. All though he took up more space, the world around him seemed a bit bigger. He saw his reflection and screamed. His fears were confirmed. He was fat, short, and looked way older. The loud rough deep gladiatorial scream woke up Andrew, and he shot straight up.
-What ... what! What going on! Wait Jack ... what going ... is that you? What up with my body?
Andrew was now exploring his stocky body.
-What the fuck dude! You got the wrong package. This has to be some kind of joke costume. Why am I so fat and short compared to you. I thought I was supposed to be the better one.
-No it can't be wrong, I made sure. These are supposed to be authentic gladiator costumes. I'll call up. Something had to go wrong.
-You better. We can't go to the frat party like this. The costumes are the only thing that fit us, now. I'd be fine showing off my body if we were fit. But, I don't want to walk around shirtless with this gut. Not to mention, the fact that we look way to old now to be at a college party.
Andrew called the costume company. He explained what happened and the mumbled voice started answering his questions.
- So, what did they say?
- Okay. Don't be mad.
-Why...?
-Well there is nothing wrong with the costume. This is how authentic gladiator look like. Apparently they were all fat vegetarians. In fact, it seems like your current body type made for the best gladiator. It's seem to be a common misconception that they are buff, because of Hollywood. And, if we wanted to be hot gladiators we should have ordered the Hollywood gladiators package.
-Damn this fucking sucks. Shit! Well we can't go to the party now. I guess I'll post mates us some bigger clothes. How old would you say I look. 45? I guess there gotta be something a middle aged man can do on Halloween. Maybe a bar or something. I mean we still gotta make the most of tonight. I guess it will be kinda fun. I mean we won't be this age for another 25 years and tonight we will be able to legally drink. It's kinda like seeing our future selves, but hopefully I won't get this fat.
Jack started laughing. Andrew, who remained quiet, started up again.
-Well ... um .... there is actually more. Remember don't get mad. I'm sure we'll be able to laugh about this later.
-What!? What are you talking about.
-Well ... you see ... this authentic package is mainly bought by people you work in areas were this body is best suited for. Like gladiator impersonator, construction worker, or any other person who wants to be a big beefy guy.
-Yes ... and ...what?
-Well ... these type of people need the costumes for more more than one night. So, they sell the transformation liquid in a bundle.
-What? So we are stuck like this for a work week? Are you fucking serious. We have class tomorrow. I have test. I can't take it looking like a completely different person.
-No not a week. We were supposed to take a drop. That would have lasted a 24 hours. But, the jar has enough drops to last a year. So, we are stuck like this, at least until, next Halloween.
-What the fuck! What are we going to do? We can't stay like this?
-I know ... I know. But customer service is going to handle it. This isn't the first time this has happened. They got a connection with witness protection. So, for a year we are gonna have new lives. But, ... um ... there also might be a chance that we are stuck like this.
-What!?
-Like, I said it affects everyone differently. We drank a whole jar. Costumer service said most people, in cases like ours, revert back to normal. But, some also change permanently. We won't find out until next Halloween.
Jack felt tears welling up in his eyes. HIs body was shaking with rage. He was mad at Andrew for not researching enough. He was mad at himself for wanting to do this in the first place. He hated his new body. Even being in Andrew's new body would have been better. These strong emotions were rising to the surface.
Jack Slammed into Andrew. Their skin pressed against each other. Suddenly muscle memory took over, as the bodies wrestled against each other. It was like a dance these two bodies practiced for a life time. It just felt natural. They way their skin touched and the power of their bodies filled both men with passionate aggression. Finally, Jack was able to pin down Andrew. He looked into Andrew's eyes and smiled lovingly.
-I win again
Jack leans down and begins kissing Andrew. They moan as their bodies and tongues rub against each other. Suddenly they both snapped out of it.
Jack quickly gets off of Andrew
-What the fuck was that?
- I don't know it was like our bodies went on auto pilot. This must been something these bodies have always done. You know it wasn't strange for gladiators to have sex with each other.
-oh shut up!
They both just sat in silence. There bodies sore and heavy. Both men now looked at each other in a different light. In their new bodies they found each other extremely attractive. They minds were screaming no, but the urges in their body were getting stronger. They both got up and faced each other. Their bellies were pressed against each other. And before they could continue their love making there was a knock on the door, as two police officers came in. They came to escort the two men to their new lives. Their futures where unknown, but the two men were happy they had each other.
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roommate matchup !! im virgo, infp, and hufflepuff !! im shy and reserved at first but pretty loud and talkative once i know someone. procrastinating over studies 25/8. im independent in a sense and know how to cook, clean, and take care of my matters. sort of mom friend ? im a very clean person tho and strive to make my living space as neat as possible. i like drawing, baking, writing, and cleaning while hearing music.
that type of person who looks like they have their life together but have an existential crisis at 3 am. i stay up a lot with no sleep but once i sleep im gone. im also respectful of peopleās personal space but always try to offer help whenever i can. thank you so much !!
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Dear User,Ā
congratulations, we have found you a potential roommate. We have throughly looked through your application and we hope you are happy with the results. Below this post are the details about them.Ā
Yours SincerelyĀ
The Accomodation TeamĀ
Name: Iwaizumi Hajime
Birthday: 10th June (Gemini)
MBTI: ISTPĀ
virgo and gemini always make the best of friends, like you guys are smarter than the rest of us thickosĀ
anyway, i feel like iwaizumi is also the same in regards to coming accross quiet when you first meet him and passionate when you get to know himĀ
instead he just looks imtimidating lolĀ
so the first few nights were awkward to say the least but in the end he shyly approached you and offered to come with you to do the groceries
you guys really got to know one another and literally chatted the day and boom relationship is now levelled upĀ
now looking at this little procrastination habit of yours, iwaizumi isnāt going to lecture you too much, he believes it is your life and at the end of the day you need to take actions for your consequences (carla is being a hypocrite now lol)Ā
but if you wanted help in breaking this habit he is the manĀ
but believe me he will show no mercyĀ
phone goneĀ
food hiddenĀ
music offĀ
computer block thingy (you know those ones that block online shopping and games at school) installedĀ
look this man gives out tough love but when you ace that test, you are always there to run up and give this man hugĀ
besides you are also a hufflepuff so like when you put your mind to something you can move mountainsĀ Ā
now iwa chan is very happy that you know how to take care of yourself, he is a very practical man so dumbasses (like myself :) will annoy himĀ
but in saying that he will want to help round the house too, iwaizumi doesnāt think it is just your job to do this, sometimes at the weekend you will have spring cleaning afternoons where you just blast out the radio and start dustingĀ
now news got around that iwa chan roommate is an amazing cookĀ
so yeah you now have seijoh third years over every weekend sozĀ
oikawa usually tries to flirt with you but iwaizumi always threatens to kick him outĀ
mattsun and makki just come over to play videos games and you always call them likeĀ ādinnerās readyā and they always replyĀ ācoming mumāĀ
itās kinda adorableĀ
now iwaizumi knows about your thing of making sure the place is always clean and he always respects it, i feel like iwaizumi is very minamalist and doesnāt hoard too much trash so you too will have a mutual understandingĀ
he has even picked up some these traits from you, for example he went to mattsun and makkiās place and started to dust the coffee table and make sure the cushions were not flattenĀ
he was disgusted at their place and literally ranted to you all night about the messĀ
iwaizumi is amazed by your creative talents, he is a very sporty guy so he has never done anything on the artsy side beforeĀ
so your drawings are always featured around the house because like i mentioned iwa chan isnāt a guy to have things such a photos and decorĀ
will also happily proof read your work too
iwa doesnāt give me sweet tooth vibes but you once you made milk bread for him and he was with oikawa that day so yeah oikawa demands you to give him the recipeĀ
now i feel like iwaizumi is really good at reading people so when you start having you existential crisis at 3am he will be there with a tube of icecream and he is ready fo lots of snuggles (carla is soft)Ā
iwaizumi loves the fact that you are so generous but he worries that people will take advantage of youĀ
he basically becomes your broading body guard
overall he is a reliable, respectful but somewhat stubborn roommateĀ
Other Potential Matches: Nishinoya Yuu and Kuroo TetsurouĀ
hiya, i hope you enjoyed your matchup and thank you for your patience, you seem like a really lovely person just by reading your description and honestly as a procastinator myself that hit home. anyway enjoy your morning/evening wherever you are in the worldĀ
CarlaĀ
#haikyuu matchup#haikyuu roommate#haikyuu roommate matchup#iwaizumi hajime#iwaizumi x reader#iwaizumi fluff#home is where the heart is
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Babysitter | Part 1
Pairing: Steve Harrington x reader
Summary: You werenāt expecting Steve to be THE babysitter
Warnings: Grammatical errors (sorry), bad writing too
Word count: 1,855
Theme: Fluff, Angst
A/N:Ā Okay guys so this is my first time writing a fic. not that its the first but it would be the first time iām posting one so hit me up and let me know what you think of it. Honestly iāll be open with criticisms because English is not my first language. :))
i couldnāt wait any longer forĀ prologueĀ to reach a hundred notes so yeahĀ
as promised, here's another one
Babysitter Series - | Prologue | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 |
MASTERLIST can be found hereĀ
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Steve Harrington.
He was this fat kid who you used to make fun of because he's fat. You would always tease him for being shorter than you. Well who is he to blame? The kid was well fed by your mother whenever he was in your house.
He too would retaliate in the most loving way he know how. His friendly nature didn't help him either get into your nerves. You would actually find it funny that he doesnāt know how to be mischievous because he was so sweet. Not that you were asking but you find it cute.
He would always try to shame you for how straight and silky your locks are that its making you look more pretty. How your eyes were weird because your pupils were the lightest he have ever seen his entire life. Basically he was calling you out for being so beautiful which made your heart melt considering how pure and innocent he once was.Ā
In school, Steve was jolly. His signature of a laugh and smile radiated a welcoming warm aura to his classmates. He had so many friends because of his personality. Kids would always invite him to play with them in the playground. He would also befriend other kids who has no one to talk to. No one goes unwelcome under his watch.Ā
That made him a crowd favorite among other students. He would get these silly awards for being too friendly and kind that hang high in the schoolās bulletin board.Ā
But moments like these was short-lived. His intelligence and rankings soared high. He practically aced all his tests with flying colors which made him accelerate and skip to another grade and graduate earlier than you. Your school was only middle so he had to transfer to Hawkins High.
It made you sad of course, you thought that he was going away for a long time (even though Hawkins Middle and High just sat next to each other). But that didnāt justify the end of your puppy love towards him. Steve promised he would always drop by to hang with you, which he never failed to live up to.
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Your ass still in pain after that fall.Ā āMom are you fucking serious?ā. You stood up with your palm on both cheeks. Mixed reactions flowing through your face. You didnāt know if it was pure happiness, raging anger or what. But you couldnāt care less.Ā
āOkay first, language, second, yes why? I mean I kinda miss the boy though and I havenāt seen him in ages! third, I wonāt call in random people who we donāt know, at least Steve is a someoneā She replied.Ā
ā...Steve is a someoneā. That ranged a bell. Steve was not just someone. He was THE one.Ā
āBut mom that would be super awkward! considering that we also too havenāt talked in ages!ā you sassed.Ā āSee?! now is a good time to reconcile and catch up, Iām sure you miss Steve too!ā You followed your mom to as she moves her way to the other side of the kitchen to place the plates she has in her hands.Ā
āUh, Uh I aināt missing himā you lied as you felt pain pinch your heart. Lump forming in your throat. You hardly noticed and kept the thought at the back of your mind while you talk to your mom.Ā
āIāve carried you inside me for 9 months how naive do you think I am?ā she retorted.Ā āYou wouldnāt act like that if you doā she added.Ā āBesides, its just for a short timeāĀ
āYeah how long?ā you sarcastically replied.Ā āUntil he earns enough for his collegeā. That took you by surprise, so does that mean he will be here for a while?
āHe will start by Monday, so breakfast is the only last thing youāre going to do. Heāll be at 5ā³Ā
Great. Another nice morning.Ā
You found yourself in the bedroom again breathing heavy in your pillows with your front against the cushion of the bed. This is going to be easy right? You thought to yourself. The news of Steve working for you is too much for you to take, hell even handle.Ā
Thoughts of him resurfaced your brain again. You havenāt heard of the name since high school. Heck both of you werenāt even the same people as before. Of course things have changed. He changed. So you changed to.Ā
Part of you wants to see him. See how he was doing without you in life. See how he made his life out to be. There were so many questions forming in your mind. Questions he could only answer. You were curious but prying was not something you would do.Ā
Deep down it hurts you when you said that you have moved on and have completely forgotten about him. You miss Steve so much, but you have just decided to quit on your childish feelings because it was taking you nowhere. You needed to grow up and be matured enough to face the harsh reality that he does not feel the same way for you.Ā
Playtimeās over.Ā
Truth is, you didnāt quit on those feelings. You just set them aside and buried it deep beneath your mind.Ā
You hoped things wonāt be awkward as you think it would.Ā
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Monday came. Classes were a bore but you never thought that being stuck in one would help your mind to be ease. You couldnāt help yourself but get distracted. So distracted that you were staring blank at the windows of your classroom.Ā
Never thought that these mathematical equations could help.Ā
This is the day huh? Where you could see Steve again. You prayed that nothing weird happens. You promised yourself to keep your feelings at bay and maintain your professional stature around him. Personal matter shouldnāt interfere with work right? Even if youāre just working as a babysitter.Ā
Still surprised that after losing Steve so many years he would just come by crash-
āMs. (Y/LN)ā Mr. Mundy called you out.Ā
You wake up and came back to your senses.Ā āCould you answer Problem #4 in the boardā He politely asked.Ā
You faced the board only too see writings of equations you canāt comprehend and make sense of. But you got to admit, it helped you more to be preoccupied and get more oblivious.Ā
āNoā you answered with honesty.Ā āMr. Mundy I really canāt think and function properly right now, can I drop by at the nurseās office?ā you lied.
āOkay, get a pass and make it quickā You nodded then you grabbed your things and have decided to cut class and be with yourself for a while.Ā
Once you got yourself out of the classroom, you begin walking the endless hallways of the school. You really didnāt have any concrete plans where you would go to. You guess that its something for your feet to decide.Ā
You were walking with your face down on the floor when...
Ā ...youāve stumbled upon something that caught your eye.Ā
His name, his face.Ā
Steve was sporty and it was a fact. He wasnāt smart to do anything but he was dumb enough to try everything.Ā At first he doubted himself, but with enough support coming from you he became eager andĀ even have asked his parents to enroll him in sport camps to become better.Ā Which made himĀ excel at every sport he played.Ā
Standing now before you was a big brown shelf that contained all of theĀ memorabilia of achievements, his achievements Hawkins High ever received.Ā
Not that you were taking credit but you were one of the people who got him where he is right now.Ā
And there he was. Displaying that smile you know you loved.Ā
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āGo Steve!ā you shouted with the crowd. You were watching one of Steveās basketball game. Steve was seconds away from throwing that ball to victory. Other players were keen on preventing him to score from their side of the court.Ā
Screams intensified. Tension was high. Pressure was on him. You grasp your hand hardly as you watch Steve play.Ā
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Steve ran as fast as he could while dribbling the ball on his hand. Another player blocked him. But he was swift to throw the ball to one of his team mates. Which made the player blocking him get distracted.Ā
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Steve then rallied to his team mate who was now feet away from the opponentās basket. The poor player was surrounded but Steve came to his aid. He threw the ball back to Steve so he could be the one to throw it.
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Catching it, Steve ran as he makes a high jump and reach for the basket to throw in the ball.Ā
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The crowd gasp for air.Ā
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āCONGRATULATIONS HAWKINS HIGH, YOU WILL BE COMPETING IN THE STATE TOURNAMENTā the commentator screamed through the microphone. People cheered more louder than ever. You jumped from excitement. With much adrenaline in your system you ran down to congratulate your friend.Ā
āSteve!ā you screamed. The boy was carried by his team mates and was swaying him like a baby.Ā āSteve!ā you tried to get the attention of the boy.
Steve heard you. From all the people chanting his name, your voice stood out from the rest. But the chaotic crowd around him made it hard to look for you. Your height made it almost impossible. Steve figured that you might be outside the thick layer of sweaty bodies surrounding him.Ā
He chased his breath as he told his teammates to bring him down which in no second they obliged to. Steve walked the tight little spaces he could find to make it to you. He was like a thread coming inside of a needle.Ā
You look for an entrance within the crowd. To no avail your body canāt seem to budge it. So you just waited for him when...
You heard him yell your name.Ā
ā(Y/N)ā The exhausted boy ran to hug you. You hugged back. HisĀ hair tangling and sticking from his sweating face. What a sight.Ā
ā(Y/N) I canāt believe we won!ā He hug you tightly and carried your weight to swing you into a complete spin.Ā
Bringing you down he holds your shoulder and shakes you much to his delight.Ā āYeah me too! Iām so happy for you!ā You happily cried back.Ā
This was the first time your boy won. After months and months of practice he actually won. You were also proud of yourself considering that you were at his side from the beginning.Ā
āSay, why donāt you come to my house later? My parents promised me that if I win today they would let me throw the biggest victory party everā He asked.
āSure! why not! letās celebrate your win loser!ā You sarcastically joked as he reached for your hair to dangle it.
Your talk was cut short when you were interrupted by his rowdy team mates. You laughed at the sight. But you couldnāt care less because you were going to see him later on.Ā
Thatās when your fates changed. This was his best...and this was your worst
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Autism and discrimination
Upon recently being reevaluated by a psychiatrist, Iāve been given the official diagnosis of Aspergerās Syndrome, a form of high functioning autism.Ā That was one of the worst days of my life.
Iāve always had different opinions than my parents, theyāre hateful Christians who have no respect for diversity, they donāt accept anyone of the LGBTQIA community (which includes me as aromantic asexual) and value human lives above other forms of life, refusing to accept that all life is precious (especially to me, a vegan, and they believe God gave us animals so we could abuse them).Ā So, we clearly have our differences, I didnāt turn out to be the perfect daughter they wanted me to be and Iām getting punished for it.
Ever since the diagnosis, they think itās alright to just blame every problem they have with me on Autism.
I feel no attraction to anyone:Ā āYou just donāt understand emotions because youāre autisticā
I stand up for animal rights:Ā āSee? This is your autism again.ā
I try to help with chores around the house:Ā āNo honey, let me do it.ā
This isĀ definitely discrimination against one more thing about myself that I canāt control.Ā I shouldnāt be yelled at, verbally, emotionally and physically abused by those who claim to love me.Ā Iām done trying to make them proud of me, I donāt think I care anymore.Ā Maybe Iāve been too forgiving in the past, perhaps I should remember for once that change is hard for people.Ā My Mom said she would try harder next time to be more understanding but I know thatās not a guarantee that she willĀ be next time we have a difference in opinion.
Kids grow and change and parents donāt.Ā We shouldnāt be punished for growing up and we shouldnāt be sorry for not being what we were expected to be.Ā Iām done letting my parents put the guilt on me that I did something wrong, their emotional manipulation isnāt going to work again and I know that just makes them more furious with me.Ā Fine!Ā Let them be angry because I know itās NOT my fault for being who I am and I shouldnāt feel bad about it either.
I know for some people, itās a blessing to be given a diagnosis, to finally understand why they were different.Ā For me, I havenāt had the best experience.Ā Autism isnāt a disease and itās not something that can just go away, itās apart of who a person is.Ā I shouldnāt be slapped and slammed against the wall or called names because I was given this label by a medical professional.
I actually didnāt like my interaction with the psychiatrist.Ā I was diagnosed with autism when I was a kid and even though we had never met, I could tell she was talking down to me instead of treating me like an equal adult.Ā I understand she had assumptions about me based on data that was over a decade old but that doesnāt mean Iām the same person I was in 4th grade.Ā Like, she said,Ā āWeāre going to play with blocks and look at pictures,ā as if I were a kid who enjoyed that.Ā Then after the test, she talked to my grandma, who was my ride,Ā āTell Kaelaās Mom...ā and Iām like what?Ā Seriously?Ā Her memory isnāt that great in the first place and Iām right here!Ā You can talk to me about me, I have an excellent memory and I can relay your message more efficiently given that Iāll be seeing my Mom soon.Ā Then when I was waiting in her office while she worked on stuff, she got out coloring books and a cheap plastic spin top and said I could play with them to keep me entertained.Ā I just sat there, I could be patient to take my cognitive evaluation and I donāt need to fit into her, āIām autistic so I must be a childā expectation.Ā Yeah, I kinda hate her.
Of course, thereās been way more people in my life who have bullied, taken advantage of me or or misjudged me because I donāt fit into a perfect little neurotypical mold but that would make this post endless because thereās probably always going to be people like that.Ā In the end, I canāt let how others view me tarnish how I view myself.Ā It can be hard and Iāve had to deal with years of depression but it does get better.Ā Iām especially grateful to my younger sisters who look up to me and see me as a wonderful big sister who can do no wrong.Ā They love me unconditionally and give me their comfort and support whenever I need them.Ā I may be 21 and looking to move out, but I donāt think I will because those two need me and I need them.Ā Theyāre worth staying for.
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