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Koi no Yokan 21: push through (nishinoya yuu/reader)

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A/N: and a double update! I wasn't gonna leave y'all with just 700 words and call it a day lmao. I feel like I should be wishing y'all a happy nanowrimo. I've been doing that challenge half my life. it feels weird to have divested myself from it now.

Summary: The training camp continues in spite of the heat. Your concussion makes you feel like you're on a roller coaster.

Warnings and Tags: suggestive themes if you take your glasses off

Words: 3200+

The next day, you nap for two hours after lunchtime and meander your way downstairs. The headache hasn't exactly faded, but if you can just hide it, you can still be in the gym. The question is whether or not you can handle the volume enough for that to be sustainable. Before you even reach the gym, you run directly into a wall.

Or rather, you note once you've caught your balance and your bearings, you run into Tsukishima.

"Oh! Sorry, Tsukishima-san. I guess my brain's not awake yet," you explain with a laugh. "Concussion naps are killer."

Tsukishima—unfazed, the bastard—looks down at you for a moment. Stares, really. You raise an eyebrow at him. "You alright?"

He sighs. "Yeah. Sorry. Bathroom."

…right. "Okay. I'm just gonna—" You sidestep him, move to slink down the hallway behind him, but a hand closes around your wrist suddenly.

"Wait."

"…waiting."

He chews on his words for a moment, avoiding your eyes. "Why did you bother showing up here?"

You flinch, shooting him a wounded look. "Alright, we're being an asshole, I see. Because I'm a manager and managers go to the training camps. Is that a problem?"

"No, I mean—" He lets out a frustrated sigh. "I mean, why are you here when you have a concussion? It's not like anyone would have stopped you from resting at home for the week."

…okay, that's a little better. "I might have been more comfortable, but I wouldn't have been happier. I would've been bored and annoyed and useless." You eye him. You've seen the way he is during practice—tired, lower-key, there to be there. Compared to anyone else on the team, he's certainly taller, and you've heard them talk about how much potential Tsukishima has and just fails to use because he doesn't want to try. "Why are you asking?"

He shrugs. "Just curious."

"You suck at lying. Try again. Why are you asking?"

His left eye twitches a little. "I already answered."

"No, look. You want advice, you get advice, but you have to actually ask me outright. You're not asking why I'm here for no reason. What's your actual problem?"

"I just don't get why everyone on this team tries so hard all the time. You drag yourself to Tokyo even though it sucks, everyone else is putting themselves through penalty after brutal penalty, risking injuries… it's way too much effort for something that's just a club at the end of the day."

Ah.

You get it.

You get it well.

You hum, leaning against the wall. "You're trying to figure out why everyone else is passionate when you aren't."

"I guess."

"I mean, that's a tough one. The weirdest part is that you're lumping me in with the passionate ones when I've spent most of the time since joining the club being actively jealous of everyone else in the club for having something they love doing and doing it. If I could figure out how the hell to have half their energy, I'd do it."

"But you've got the energy to try harder than I would. If I'd gotten a concussion, no one would have seen me for a month. Where does that energy come from?"

You shrug. "I guess… I just… I want to be happy, and I don't want to go home. And now that I'm here, I don't want to feel like I don't need to be here. I can't miss time or not show up and lose to someone who's better than me."

He snorts. "What, do you think you're gonna get overtaken by the other managers or something?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

He gives you a surprised look.

"I mean, you saw those posters Yachi-san made. I don't get passion, I don't know how to be like her, but among the two of us, she's done something amazing for you guys. She is amazing. When there's someone else doing the same job, filling the same role… isn't it normal to not want to lose to them? Isn't it normal to push through the headaches so I can at least stand on equal footing with her?"

"And when they outclass you so hard there's no point in fighting?"

"Then you quit." You shrug. "I'm not saying I want you to, but like… if I didn't think there was any chance of me being good enough to be worth being here at all, I'd just stop showing up and find something else to fill my time. Probably go back to starting fistfights and stuff. In your case, though, it's not like Hinata can be both middle blockers in a lineup. There's something you can do that he can't, and if you actually gave a shit, you could probably shine just as bright in a totally different way. You're way better off than me."

You move past him, down the hall, intent on pushing through the pain. He disappears into the bathroom, and you—

You run smack into Yachi.

"Oh, Yachi-san. Are you also running to the bathroom?"

There's a wounded look in her eyes, and—

Oh.

She heard you.

Yachi returns to the gym with you in tow—apparently, she'd only been coming to wake you, since you had mentioned not wanting to keep sleeping until dinner. She also reports to Sensei that your head's still bothering you after your restless nap. Within five minutes of entering the gym, you are kicked out again to chill outside until your headache clears, which means you're also forced to overthink about how she might be interpreting what you had to say about her.

It's not like you said anything bad. Yeah, you sense danger from her in the sense that she's better than you and you need to work hard to justify showing up at all when she's here. Yeah, she's amazing and did amazing things. Those are all compliments.

But…

She looked halfway to crying. She wasn't taking it as a compliment.

You pass the time sitting on the hill outside, watching whichever team just lost a set running up the hill and joining the girls in handing out water bottles and mixing sports drinks for Karasuno as needed. You don't try to avoid Yachi—if anything, you do try to talk to her, but she's clearly avoiding you, and that makes things worse, so after the first few set losses, you stop trying to talk to her and just focus on manager duties.

When one of the other teams comes out, you'll scamper up to their manager(s) and join in—Suzumeda, Shirofuku, Otaki, and Miyanoshita are generally happy for the help after you assure them that your limit right now is that you're not allowed in the gym and not that you can't do anything. They don't let you lift, but they let you pass out bottles and towels, and you take the chance to chat with them and generally fill the time between now and the end of your exile.

It's a little odd that Nekoma doesn't have a manager, so when they lose a set, you take it upon yourself to approach the coach with a sheepish smile.

"Um, excuse me, sir?"

He turns to you, relaxes with a smile. "You're one of Karasuno's girls, right?"

You nod. "I've been exiled from the gym due to my concussion until my headache clears a bit more, and I noticed your team doesn't have a manager. If you'd like, I can help pass out drinks and stuff out here until I'm allowed to rejoin my team? No ulterior motives or anything, I'm just really bored and couldn't stand sleeping upstairs any longer."

He nods his assent, and you excitedly move to handing out drinks at the top of the hill, taking care to make sure you don't miss any Nekoma guys. It's entertainment enough, makes you feel useful despite the headache, and you find the headache quickly fading as you get your mind off it.

You also find a set of intense eyes staring you down. It's Mohawk Guy, the one that seemed to have been friends with Tanaka and Noya. You roll your eyes and make your way over to him, holding out a bottle. "Here. You can just flag me down, it's fine."

He accepts the bottle, stammering with a profuse blush. Much shier than he looks. Interesting. "Uh—t-thank you! It's v-very nice of you to—to—to help out like this!"

You snort. "People really like confusing me for a nice person. I'm just bored, don't get it confused."

"Bored? What are you doing out here instead of with your team, anyway?" one of the other guys—first year, tall as shit, silvery hair, foreign-looking—says.

You shrug. "I've been banned from the gym until the headache clears. Something about don't make your concussion symptoms worse," you say in a mocking tone. "I'll be fine. They're just worried about me being around too much noise. If you ask me, it's louder out here with the cicadas than it could ever be in the gym."

"Concussion? What happened?"

Huh. You kinda figured one of your guys would have mentioned it. You shrug. "Oh, I don't really remember it. Apparently Hinata took my head off with a spike a couple of weeks ago."

"U-um!" Mohawk Guy says suddenly. "H-how did—I mean—what should I—"

You raise an eyebrow, watch him babble in amusement. He gets almost sort of halfway towards a full sentence before Nekoma's libero smacks the back of his head. "You're gonna freak her out. How many times do I have to tell you to be normal?"

You stifle a laugh as the libero turns to you with a bow.

"I'm so sorry about him. He doesn't know how to talk to girls. I think he's trying to ask what to do to recruit a manager to our team. He made a failed effort to recruit a manager a few weeks ago."

You laugh, shake your head. "No worries. I'm used to guys like that. But, you know—" Your eyes slide to Mohawk. "—you'd probably do a better job either sending someone else to ask girls or building yourself up until you can talk to girls without the staring contest to start out. You're pretty intense-looking, and I'm more or less immune to that at this point, but 99.9% of girls are gonna get scared off by that combination and become impossible to recruit."

"T-thank you! Sorry!"

Okay, wow. Yeah, you think the Noya vaccine is the only thing protecting you right now. "No need to apologize. Maybe just like… practice talking to real girls so you don't freeze up like this?"

"How am I supposed to practice talking to girls if girls won't talk to me?" he laments.

"Ah. Good point. I mean, you're talking to me just fine…? Just like, pretend you're talking to a person instead of a goddess or something and you'll be alright."

Giving out girl advice wasn't where you'd hoped to take today, but it works well enough, and it keeps your mind off things with Yachi for a minute, which is nice. When he bows and runs off to re-join his team, you sigh a little. It feels good to be useful, at least.

[name] to Noya at 22:01

[name]: level one soba request

Noya: is level one soba the worst or the lightest

[name]: the lightest

[name]: level 100 soba request is like, someone just died or something

Noya: [image attached. Image description: A white handkerchief on top of a lump. A tail and one paw stick out from underneath the cloth.]

Noya: Halloween edition Soba!

Noya: talk about it?

[name]: nah

[name]: but thank you for the soba

Yachi wouldn't talk to you for the rest of the day, or this morning in the bathrooms, or at breakfast. You don't think anyone's noticed, and you do a good job of distracting the other girls before they can notice. This doesn't need to be dramatic. You just… need to clear the air with her. Somehow. When she won't even look at you.

God, you used to be good at talking to people. Where's that skill now?

Anyways, at least Tsukishima's making some kind of progress in his volleyball-related soul-searching. The first indication is a simple question before their set this morning. Coach is doing his pre-set pep talk, reminding the guys of things like it's enough to get a hand on the ball, when Tsukishima speaks up.

"We don't have to stop it?"

It snaps the attention of the rest of the team to him, and you feel the slightest swell of pride at the look in his eyes. You hadn't been particularly invested in whether or not he decided to give a fuck about volleyball—sure, it'd be handy to have his height actually on Karasuno's side, instead of just showing up because he doesn't have anything better to do, but you can't say you had any interest in pushing him one way or another.

That, of course, doesn't mean that you don't notice when he looks a little different during the next set, when his arms go up for a block and he actually looks scary. Fukurodani's ace gets around it, barely, and you listen as his teammates tease him for running away from a block.

He ran away from Tsukishima.

You huff, smile. He'll probably never admit to really trying. You're the same type, after all, but… he's playing differently, just a bit. You know what it looks like to start trying, just a little bit, just so you can figure out whether it's worth trying any harder than that.

He's searching for an answer, and you hope he finds one. Maybe you can find one too, in time.

It is in the showers that night that Yachi finally decides to talk to you. She could have picked any time before this, but she chose now, while you're combing some fancy bullshit through your hair courtesy of Kaede, still wrapped up in nothing but a towel, still mostly dripping wet. She marches right up, standing too close.

You suppose it's the first chance you've had to be really alone since the thing, excluding last night's shower run. There's not really much point in there being staged showers for the managers in the same way the guys have to split up shower slots by year to fit everyone in, but it's the first years' turn to shower after the other girls have gone anyway, which really just means it's you and Yachi alone in the showers for as long as you need.

She's in an equal state of undress, standing closer than you thought her capable of with a burning look in her eye. "[s-surname]-san!"³⁶

You frown. The -san is a bit of a downgrade. "Yachi-san?"

"I… I wanted you to know…!" She's got her fist clenched, eye contact unflinching for possibly the first time in her life. It's not a bad look on her. Neither is the towel.

"I'm sorry about yesterday," you try to interrupt, but she stomps her foot and you let her continue.

"I-I don't want to lose to you, either!"

Oh.

"If—if Tsukishima-kun has a different role to fill than Hinata, even though they play the same position, then I don't see why both of us being in the same position means that we can't both be useful!"

You flinch a little. "I wasn't—I'm sorry. You know there's no hard feelings on my end, right?"

"D-do you?" she snaps.

You're going to panic at this rate. You probably fucked things up permanently, the way this is going, but—

"I respect you! I respect you a lot! It made me really happy to hear that you think I'm amazing! But it's important to me that you know that I don't think I'm any better than you, and that I think you're actually way cooler than me, prettier than me, and fit in way better!"

"I'm not—"

"I-I'm not done! You look down on yourself way too much, and it's really frustrating because if you're so cool and still looking down on yourself, what am I, even? I'm not half the manager you are. I wouldn't be pushing through a concussion like this. I'm still learning a bunch of stuff that you seem to just already know somehow even though we started at the same time! I would never have a—an almost-boyfriend, or whatever you have going on with Nishinoya-san. I'd never be able to. I'm basically just here until everyone figures out that I'm not that great and gets annoyed with me, or until they figure out that I'm—that I'm, like, broken or something, and then it's just going to be you left because I won't be able to be around anymore and—"

"Woah, pause, wait, you're not broken, so let's start with that. I said it before, right? There's nothing wrong with you that's any worse than anyone else I know."

"B-but I don't think I'm like you," she insists. She's making a valiant effort to shove down tears, and it's sort of working. "Sometimes I think I can fit in, and I'm just like everyone else, but I know that's not right. Normal people aren't like this. Normal girls aren't like me."

You frown. "I… you seem normal to me, but I guess I'm not seeing things from inside your head."

"I'm sorry if I'm being presumptuous, or pushy, or… I just… I admire you, you know? I don't want you to feel like you're not good enough because of someone like me."

You huff. "I guess that puts us on the same page…? Thanks."

"I don't want to lose to you, either. S-so, let's keep working hard together, okay?"

You stick out a hand for her to shake, scramble to hold up your towel with the other hand. "Alright. Friends?"

She takes it, serious look falling away to a bright smile. "Friends."

36. In editing, I kept nearly fucking up this sentence because I keep a style guide on my character notes for how everyone refers to each other with like, supporting textual evidence/character notes on how in-plot events affect this, so generally any inconsistencies you see in honorific or nickname uses are deliberate decisions.³⁷ I still kept almost fucking this up because Reader is listed in Yachi's note as "[surname]-chan" during this arc and my urge is to match up to the style guide always. She's also one of the only style guides I've gotten up to date since moving into a centralized note-taking platform… I think I mostly just need to strike a fine balance between referring to my notes and trusting myself.

37. For example, during the popsicle scene in chapter four ("Nishinoya!"), the intention is very much "playful indignation" in response to Noya's horrific eating habits. I'm holding back on digging into Reader's honorific usage rules here but I think thinking about these things easily adds twenty minutes onto writing time whenever I include a new character or dynamic where I haven't yet made notes on how one character refers to a specific other character. Honorifics are really fun as a tool for relationship dynamics.

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#my fics #nishinoya yuu/reader #nishinoya yuu x reader #yuu nishinoya x reader #yuu nishinoya/reader #hq reader insert #haikyuu reader insert

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whchenlvr · 2 years ago

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Hi! I saw that your request is open, can I request how the union + eunjang boys would react to getting kissed randomly to shut them up? I think it would be so cutee

YES i am loving theseeeee THANK YOU

kissing you to silence you ;

weak hero x gn!reader

gray yeon

➤ he’d be helping you study for your final, and you’re just so stressed that you can’t stop putting yourself down

➤ “what if i can’t do it? if i fail?”

➤ gray would try to calm you, but i don’t think that’d necessarily be his strong suit. he’d just keep going over the chapters with you and glance over at you every few seconds to see if you’re getting it or not

➤ when you clearly struggle, gray would place a hand on your back and let you rant until you started putting yourself down

➤ once the words “i’m so stupid” leave your mouth, gray’s lips are on yours, begging you not to say such things about yourself without actually voicing his concerns. let's just say you like this form of encouragement

ben park

➤ you were almost in a car accident on your way to eunjang from your school, and when ben hears about an accident on your route, he’s instantly worried about you

➤ of course, your phone died :)

➤ both of you mega panic. him because he thinks you’re hurt, and you because you have no way of contacting him to let him know you’re okay

➤ he’d be running to the accident and nearly knock into you as you rush to eunjang, and he’d just grab you by the shoulders and check you. “are you okay?! are you hurt?!”

➤ this will set you off, and you start rambling your explanation because you feel so bad for worrying him. “i’m fine, i’m fine. i wasn’t hurt, but my phone died so i couldn’t text or call you. oh gosh, i’m sorry! i was trying to get to you as fast as i could to assure you that i’m okay! please don’t be upset—“

➤ and ben would just cup your face and kiss you so hard :’) “i’m not upset, i was just worried...” expect lil caresses in the cheek with his thumb

alex go

➤ you’re watching a movie together, and you have a habit of talking during films

➤ it was okay at first since alex was used to this, but when you slipped up and spoiled the ending for him…

➤ you wouldn’t even notice his slow turn toward you lmao you’d just open your mouth when a new actor appears on screen and prepare to tell him every other film this dude has been in

➤ of course, alex beats you to it and leans over just in time to silence you with his lipssss

➤ super flustered at first, but when you realize he’s just trying to shut you up, you smack him on the shoulder and laugh when he gives you such an offended expression

➤ “if you wanted a kiss, you could have just asked.” “i couldn’t. you were talking too much.” “okay, just say you hate me—” and he’d kiss you again just to spite you.

donald na

➤ you and donald just recently started dating, and you still got a bit flushed and shy around him

➤ one morning, you were walking around town and came across a little flower shop. you weren’t sure why, but you couldn’t stop yourself from buying a pretty yellow tulip for your new boyfriend

➤ any confidence you had dwindled as soon as you came face to face with donald, though

➤ “what’s this?” he asked softly, referring to the flower between your hands, and your mind goes blank. “u-uh, well, i saw this and, i don’t know, i thought you’d like it? if you don’t, that’s okay, too, but, i don’t kno—”

➤ he leaned forward, swiftly taking the tulip from your hands as he places a gentle kiss against your lips. “i love it, y/n. thank you.” blush central for you

jake ji

➤ honestly i’m so obsessed with the idea of you and jake constantly having little arguments about manga versus literature

➤ you’d be on the couch, legs propped to your chest as you read the new novel you bought when jake comes barreling toward you with a fresh manga in his hands

➤ since you were so immersed in the scene before you (like, on the brink of tears immersed), jake’s interruption frustrates you a bit more than usual, and you can’t help but tell him so

➤ “jake! i was about to read the best part!” of course, he’d apologize the second he realizes that you’re actually upset, but i think he’d still poke your side or cheek to get you to lighten up

➤ “jake ji, i swear to g—“ and BAM, he stole your words with a kiss <3

wolf keum

➤ i would say he’d kiss you to keep you quiet in bed, but i��ll try keeping these pg 😁

➤ you’d be angry at each other for some unimportant (to him) reason, and since wolf really hates fighting with you, he’d get up and leave while you’re in the middle of your rant

➤ “where are you going? wolf, talk to m—” “talk? you want to talk? to me, we’re just wasting our breath yelling at each other for no reason!” “you could have gotten seriously hurt! killed! and you don’t even care! what am i supposed to do if something happened to you, huh? how am i supposed to live with myself if you... if you—”

➤ the words just barely slipped through your lips when wolf’s hands reached your cheeks, meeting your lips with his and silencing you with a kiss

➤ wolf would rest his forehead on yours and caress your cheek gently with his thumb. “you’re right. i’m sorry. but nothing is going to happen. can you trust me?” “... okay. i trust you.”

#weak hero #weak hero webtoon #weak hero class 1 #weak hero x reader #weak hero manhwa #gray yeon #ben park #alex go #gerard jin #donald na #jake ji #wolf keum #jimmy bae

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hallucie · 2 years ago

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2nd MARS OBSERVATION:

✨Leo Mars✨ I’m so sorry but when they’re mad they make everything about themselves and can be very defensive. (Sometimes it’s just not about you) My Leo Lilith is showing lmao. They can also be very dramatic when they’re upset which draws attention on themselves. This is really stereotypical of me to say but these individuals have very strong egos but the nice thing about it is that no one is allowed to walk all over them— they really respect themselves. The bad thing is that it can cause a lot of power struggles. The great thing about this placement is that when they’re upset their heart is almost always in the right place. Just like Cancer Mars, Leo Mars stick up for people and really go the extra mile. They walk with a proud attitude and others look to them for advice in self-confidence. Leo Mars love to be acknowledged for their confidence & will gladly hype up another. Oh and in sports? Yeah it’s all about them. They’ll put on a show for everyone in the crowd, EVEN IF THEY ARENT WINNING. The one thing about Leo Mars is that they never go down without a fight.

✨Virgo Mars✨ Oh God… where to begin. They’re very similar to Gemini, but less passive. I have a love hate relationship with this placement because they tend to be so picky that they end up annoying themselves, but I feel like this comes from anxiety. Virgo Mars really focus their energy on the imperfections in life, which can cause them a lot of stress. To others they can seem very cutthroat or cold hearted. They can come off as rude or “too busy to be bothered”, but I genuinely think they just can’t stop being stimulated. Side topic they really don’t like unsolicited advice— I think this stems from the idea of “take your own advice before you dish it out to others”. Virgo Mars have very good advice and very high standards, so they’ll tell it to you straight. OH AND THEY ARE SO GOOD AT PRACTICING SOMETHING OVER AND OVER AGAIN— to the point of perfection! Britney Spears did this with her choreography before shows. They’re great teachers too. Side note, messy eating upsets them— something like a sloppy joe, or hard taco would annoy them.

✨Libra Mars✨ One thing I’ll say about this sign is they will yell. I don’t know where exactly it comes from but so many Libra Mars I know will just lose their shit and get into a screaming match. Honestly I feel like Libra Mars get pissed because they’re always putting other people before them. So it’s like they get mad when they realize someone is walking all over them. Libra Mars are willing to give you the shirt off of their back. I love a good Libra Mars placement. I’d say the only thing bad about this placement is when they do get upset it’s very hard for them to pin point what they’re mad about because it’s just one thing after the other. It’s like if they can’t be actively creating peace they get frustrated. It must be hard dealing with a planet in its detriment. I also notice that this placement is seen as clumsy in their first years. I don’t often see many Libra Mars being gym rats either— not to say they can’t because they definitely can once they fall in love with the way they look.

✨Scorpio Mars✨ Oof. Okay their fuel is just straight up spite. It’s so funny because I don’t even think they realize it. Some would say spite is bad, but honestly it creates a lot of passion. Sometimes holding onto anger gets you places. Scorpio Mars are so rejected because of it too as if its immoral or wrong— it’s normal to feel spiteful at times. And as much as people say scorpios are sex crazed, no. Scorpio Mars are SO secretive with their sex life majority of the time. I’ve also noticed the pain threshold is insane, even emotionally. These folks will investigate deep into something that eventually ends up hurting them in the end (like deep diving into socials to see if their partner is cheating). Why do they do this? I don’t know. Sometimes I feel like Scorpio Mars are subconsciously mad at themselves and they just blame others, even if the other person is wrong I feel like the native doesn’t see what part they played too. When these people are mad at you, they can’t see you as a good person. It’s very black and white for them, never gray. Scorpio Mars also have very sly remarks but I feel like they’re said behind closed doors more often, though they have no problem saying how they feel to your face. These people are ride or dies. Similar to Leo they will not go down without a fight, but their fights are usually emotionally motivated. Would kill out of love.

#mars #astrology #astro observations #scorpio #virgo #libra #leo #zodiac #astro posts #astro placements #astro notes

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chocottang · 5 months ago

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I forgot to send this before but. I'm interested in your take for Golden/Deuz 👀

hiii!! so it's not very elaborate because i haven't analyzed deuz a lot, but from what i understand + what I've heard from deuz enjoyers i think him and golden could get along

like imagine if the nightmares found golden when he ran away and took him in... honestly at first golden would probably be shitting his pants out of fear, but once he realizes they don't want to hurt him and actually want to help him, i think they'd become friends.

i consider deuz to be a "idc abt ur past, if u need help I'll help u" type of guy so i don't think he'd ask golden why he was living on the street, which would be a HUGE relief for him because he doesn't want them to assume he's a spoiled brat throwing a tantrum like everyone else seems to think. golden is also just not prone to talking about his issues, so he'd feel comfortable not telling them. and even if golden did tell them eventually, i think they, and deuz especially, would understand that being homeless is ROUGH and nobody, espcially not a spoiled rich kid, would do it just because, and especially not for the amount of time golden does. sooo i think golden could find a safe and supportive space

enough of that. let's talk the actual ship. deuz and golden are both hugeee loverboys. i mean, golden fell in love with a girl because she helped him once and deuz is still trying to get meg back and gifting her flowers after god knows how long. these guys never let it go, so if they liked each other, dude? they'd always do romantic things for each other, and they would never, not in a million yeras, give up on the other or move on. some call it codependency-

they're also both quite flirty, and although deuz can have an edge to him, we know from golden's interactions with fox that he can keep up. if golden can't earn deuz's respect though his strength (and we know from the halloween special that he can't cause he's a weak bitch) he definetly can through his smarts and his unwillingness to let anyone tear him down, he knows what he's worth and i think deuz would respect that. and golden would definetly admire deuz for not just surviving on his own but helping others and creating his own little family. i mean, golden tried to live on the street and was not doing great, doing that as a KID? that's insane.

also they would both fucking hate rich old farts, they both have trauma with adults mistreating them and taking advantage of them. i can imagine deuz enabling golden to let out his frustrations and spite on fun light crimes against the rich. golden has always been the one to organize and plan what the animatronics would do, so i think it'd be fun to see golden use that ability to help the nightmares in their shenanigans. and yes this is jsut me wanting to see golden be more of a rebel when he runs away ok.

all of this assuming the nightmares are actually not bullies anymore. cause otherwise i don't think golden woukd like to hang out with the guys that beat up his friend. well i mean it's still kinda fucked up even if they stopped cause they still have beat up bonnie in the past. so uhh drama!! lmao. no but really, golden wouldn't want to lose the animatronics for ANYTHING so if there's tension between them and the nightmares that would actually be a huge drama. and then there's fox in the middle which both golden and deuz have a bad relationship with lmao.

uhhh i think that's all i have!! thanks for the ask!! thinking abt this was fun

#fnafhs #ask #multishipper-baby #uhh whats their ship name #goldeuz #yeah thats good enough #thanks dear mutual for giving me the soace to think abt a rareship

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mythos321 · 2 months ago

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Chapters 6 and 7 of me reading Moon Rising! and my random scattered thoughts

first up is of course Chapter 6,

which I had a lot of for lmao

•Kinkajou wakes up like that “Gooooood morningg(insane high note)” meme(I hope someone knows what that is

•“I was a little worried about it at first because I was, like, ACK, that means I’ll have to make friends with a NIGHTWING.” Kinkajou somethings are better left unsaid. Trust me, I get it, but you don’t have to outright say it-

•“I can’t wait to meet our Seawing, they sound so weird.” When did Kinkajou enter the racism olympics-

•completely valid to be nervous of Tsunami tbh

•Starflight managing to memorize 35 new names is legitimately super impressive imo

•“tail kisser” that joke still makes me laugh a little even when reading it here

•Umber being so small is frustrating to me he is the same size as Clay

•“We decided to switch a couple of dragons around, since you guys seemed like a good match.” Tsunami Winter threatened to violently murder her-

•What were Sunny and Clay thinking with that, since it was likely them who thought of it since they were the ones present

•Can someone make Qiblis brain shut the fuck up-

•I love Kinkajous crush on Winter admittedly, I know Winterjou isn’t popular but I feel there’s potential

•I’d also like Umbers to an extent but it feels off due to him being the same age as the DoD? I know the age gap is only 2 years but the DoD feel much older in comparison, I just chalk this to being a Tui flub though since Umber acts the same age as the others

•also I love Carnelian hating everyone there lmao

•I kind of like Moon feeling safer around Turtle, I know it’s cause she can’t hear his thoughts, but I still find it cute

•Tsunami introductinh herself just to spite Sunny because she said she wouldn’t is hilarious to me lmao

•the fact Tsunami never actually does anything a head of a school would do is so funny they 100% gave her that title to stop her whining-

•“When do we eat? Just kidding. Pretending to be Clay.” Fuck you Umber, I hope you get eaten by animals actually

•“did I sound like an idiot?”

YEAH YOU DID FUCK YOU-

•Note, the two above notes are to be played for laughs…however I am legitimately not appreciative of that joke-

•“It was impossible to ignore how handsome Winter was, especially with Kinkajou thinking about it all the time” just gonna leave that there-

Tsunami:I brought fish!

Turtle:Yooooo

Kinkajou:FUCK-

•Oh Carnelian you won’t ever get that promotion for a very different reason

•also imo all of the stuff Qibli pointed out felt kinda obvious? I got that read off of Carnelian as well before Qibli mentally pointed it out so we can know how totally smart he is

Carnelian, the red skywing:my favorite color is red

Kinkajou, the yellow rainwing: My favorite color is yellow!

Carnelian:Basic bitch-

•honestly Qibli just feels like a mean bitch to Winters MOODY mean bitch-

•““And I’m Umber,” Said Clay’s brother”

that is one of his two claims to fame in this series lmao

•“See, I’m your destiny”

“Wish he were my destiny”

lmao

•Qibli I’ll tell you right now Moon is not laughing at your lame joke, only Kinkajou and Umbers punchline-

•“Winters such a moonlicking crocodile” of all the expressions to use-

•Why did no Nightwing ever write down how their powers work when they got to the island, or keep those in tact, there’s no way they’d be THAT stupid- oh my god they would-

•I love Kinkajou stepping in for her friend, I appreciate her way more in this than the Graphic Novel(like her a little more and like Qibli and Winter less)

•Qibli thinking to himself of how he’d beat Winter is so funny with hindsight with Icicle absolutely whoops him lol

•I don’t even blame him for thinking about that btw Winter is legitimately being out of line here

Kinkajou:Idc if you’re hotter than the rainforest during a humid day in summer you and your perfect face can’t be mean to my friend-

•I legitimately love how infectious Kinkajou is as a person, she even got Winter to tell his first joke

•Also, more like Winter Turning into a tsundere am I right(🦗🦗🦗)….anyways!

•Hold on was Kinkajou on drugs once-

•Darkstalker get your mansplain manipulate malicious ass AWAY

•“Dragons who like you now are most likely to betray you. Believe me, I know”

Darkstalker, I could give a million and one reasons why you lost your friends, and believe me, you are the root problem in all of them-

Now for chapter 7!

•Qiblis such a loser bruh, Moon can tell you’re watching her you creep-

•I love Moon getting gleeful when she realizes she can have a goat to herself(also her sharing with her friends!)

•don’t worry Qibli we all know you’re a bum you don’t need excuses for why you can’t hunt for shit-

•Moon you’re the size of a car how is a goat heavy-

“You don’t need to be popular if you’re powerful”

-Guy who 100% got shoved in a locker once

•“Moon wanted to ask what he meant by calling Qibli desperate” Girl you’ve seen his thoughts this guys more desperate than a dog being taunted with a bone-

•God I love Kinkajou

•Okay over the top Qibli hating aside genuinely fuck Cobra, I genuinely want to cave her face in for how she treated Qibli

•“Who was “she” Qibli had been asking about? His mother? Thorn?”

I know it was intended as separate things, but I first read that as Moon calling Thorn his mother(in the adoptive sense) and my heart melted for a sec, so ima read it as that instead

•time for Moon to lock in and try and stop a murder, here’s to her succeeding and nothing bad ever happe- okay I can’t even finish that joke lmao you don’t even need to read the book to guess what’s gonna happen-

#mythos yaps(me)#is not available due to lawsuits from Sombras lawyers #mythos reads moon rising

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eggchjf · 7 months ago

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okay I tried drawing a Witch form of myself and this is Take 3 of that bc I had ideas that would NOT leave. there's a bunch of other details you can't see under the cut lol

Limbs are all stretched out like crazy. Xurkitree-ass proportions

It's hard to see but she's basically fused to the chair. That's why the hands and feet are just kinda... disintegrating. also there's restraints on the head and chest too

The wheels are spiky and have eyes on the center. You just can't see it from this angle

The squiggles all over the body are supposed to look like a migraine aura. You can draw 'em however you want LOL (I was kinda going for Infinite but with reversed colors, sort of)

Not many ideas for the labyrinth bar "Gravity going apeshit and the Witch is constantly worried about toppling over so she's holding onto the floor for dear life" (I contemplated putting quadruped legs on the chair and/or tying it down but just didn't bother)

Couldn't decide on a name but had 3 ideas: "Faraday"/"Kilroy"/"Polybius" (yes like the arcade game). I considered "Hedy" and "Ada" but I think those would work better for Familiars

ALSO contemplated the nature and had thoughts of "Vigilant"/"Spiteful"/"Frustration" for that. I could do "Helplessness" but that's already used by Walpurgisnacht, LMAO

Tends to wretch up black bile. Makes you wonder if there's some other Witch that spews up yellow bile instead...

#art fart #body horror #pmmm #puella magi madoka magica #BD version #incidentally I've had an idea for NILLY'S Witch for the longest time but idk how to go about drawing it

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The thing is when Charles starts on pole they can’t do those strategies because either Carlos refuses or he is not great enough and it fails.

Because still right now while Charles is a bit behind in quali (no confidence in the car) he is still better in race pace. And his race craft help tremendously for Carlos to keep his position.

So everytime it’s Charles race that has to be compromised. Already in 2022 we could see that.

Now Carlos who needs confidence in the car but also in himself can be on a high. And I agree Charles might stay behind in the standings. Could have been different with no mechanical failures and Ferrari fumbles that caused him two penalties for impending but… 🙄 Carlos is lucky I guess (i would say his side of the garage is just better because I don’t believe luck is a great explanation for 99% of what goes on at Ferrari). Charles lost some points when he tried too hard or not enough a few races back, we could sense he was frustrated with the year and the car. But after Monza and even today the faith he has in the team still… I guess he knows something we don’t.

I just need Ferrari to listen to his feedback and listen to him more than Carlos. We know Carlos prefers a car that will be slower. The field is coming together now so they need to be able to extract everything and that mean not an understeery car.

I fear Carlos recent form will get us back to 2021-start of 2022 : no first driver, Carlos resisting orders … the situation needs to be clear right away. Or Charles needs to be more like Carlos and do his own thing, but he won’t. Like today you’d think Carlos came up with the strategy, while Charles is barely acknowledged but he is the one who started on softs and who asked for the free pit stop but was denied. (Ooops I’m a bit mad again, the lack of ambition in this team. Yes let Carlos take p1 and don’t do a 2019 again but maybe trying to get both car on the podium for a top team is not completely out of reach?)

(In my wildest dreams Ferrari and Carlos would also acknowledge Charles work today, because without him we would be looking at Lando 1st win or Merc back on top that’s a given. We really need to work on teamwork and recognizing it, it’s crazy).

You're so right 📣

This is why I'm so frustrated—it's less about this one singular win (although, assuming Red Bull bounces back like nothing ever happened in Japan and this remains the one and only non-RB win in the entire season then obviously the optics will be massively skewed to Carlos's benefit) and more about what this means on a larger scale in terms of how Ferrari operates and their future long-term trajectory.

Carlos's own ambitions and ego have gotten in the way of maximising results in the past. I don't see how that's going to change any time soon, especially now when he's buoyed by recent events. When the same is asked of him there's always an excuse and/or bargaining, "don't ask this of me," "stop inventing," "I can go faster just give me [x number of laps]" etc. I mean, we all remember Silverstone, and at that point the championship was still technically on the table even in spite of all the setbacks. Having seen what we've seen over the past few seasons I frankly don't trust him to go above and beyond in the team player game in a high stakes, high pressure scenario, like how Checo worked with Max in Abu Dhabi 2021.

Ngl it was so funny to see the team be so deathly afraid of an undercut they pulled off completely inadvertently back in 2019, lmao 😭😭😭 Fall back 3 seconds behind, 5 seconds... And yeah, failing to pit Charles under the VSC when he was willing to go for it... still feels like they're struggling to make decisions under pressure and are unwilling to gamble even when 1. it's what the driver wants, 2. they're not risking losing a win because Charles was already at a disadvantage after the initial hold-up in the pits. If it had been the wrong call then it would've been on Charles, but seeing how quickly the Mercs closed up on him and successfully passed him on fresher tyres... Feels like they're committed to making the exact same mistake over and over again with him. I've lost count of how many times he's made the right call, was denied/overruled, and then it turned out they lost out that way.

And yeah, it sure seemed like it was Carlos and Lando who were the Ferrari teammates that day with their little agreement. Like, I get it, they're friends off-track, and they can celebrate however they wish, but in terms of on-track happenings... 🤨 Don't think I've ever seen Carlos help Charles out like that tbh.

Disappointing from the team for sure, but as for Carlos, I've long gotten used to the fact that Charles is little more than an footnote when he's high on his own success 🤷🏻‍♀️

As for Charles and still having faith in the team... Idk, it's hard to tell what's going on at the moment. Recently we've had quotes about how the team seems to have "figured out" the weaknesses in the car and they pointed to Monza as a sort of breakthrough weekend, but they certainly weren't expecting 1. Red Bull annual Singapore stinker, 2. to be competitive at this track. So I'm not sure if whatever they're doing at the moment is actually helping any—or rather, helping Charles any, since he's still vocal about struggling with the handling of the car while Carlos is on cloud nine with how the car feels for him—or if this is just Charles cutting his losses and looking forward to a clean slate in 2024.

I do find it interesting how he was willing to fight down to the wire in Monza over a third place spot on the podium, but then here in Singapore he's sitting discussing pre-race strat with the team and seemingly agreeing to be used for Carlos's benefit. Was he that disappointed with himself in the Q3 mistake that he figured, okay, let's at least do what's best for the team even if it puts me at a disadvantage (possibility of a win sky-rocketing after Red Bull's flop era was confirmed in qualy) or... Because he did comply, but he also had to point out that if they slow him down too much they're going to just back him into George, and that it would be more beneficial to ask Carlos to pick up the pace since he was at the front controlling it.

#replies #anonymous #discussions and predictions #long post

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im feeling a little silly think abt cacoëthes reiner and what if the reader was or had become mute? (Idk why i love mute characters because they are so expressive in body language)

ooo this is an interesting idea anon!

reiner would be frustrated at first if reader became mute, not completely understanding why she started to do this, contemplating if it was because out of spite, anger, or a combination of both. he'd get mad cause he expects verbal communication to be reciprocated (it's like expecting eren to join forces with him and bert back when he confessed that they were the armored and colossal 💀), forcing her to try and speak again but since it's only harming their relationship, he stopped and started to adapt to her new "habit" rather than try to change it. reiner started paying even more attention to very small details in her expressions and movements, now causing him to fall even deeper in love with her LMAO cause nothing can really make bro stop loving reader, we appreciate our delusional king here ‼️

since she's not talking, she thinks that he can't read her anymore but it's becomes the opposite effect. like the smallest twitch of her mouth downwards indicates that she obviously doesn't like something, the shifting glances towards a particular object constantly during shopping means that she likes it and wants to get it, closing her eyes with slight scowl means that she wants to be left alone (he gets that a lot haha), etc. even during sex, reiner's attentive towards what she likes and what'll get her off quicker, even if it's just from her sounds. you can blindfold bro and he'll still manage to make reader cum like crazy LMFAO

and then let's say she was born mute (like her vocal cords were never properly developed) or she's been mute since reiner met her (like they were damaged from something WAIT OMFG IMAGINE SHE SCREAMED SO MUCH AND SO LOUDLY WHEN HER FAMILY DIED THAT IT LITERALLY SHREDED HER VOCAL CORDS TO THE POINT OF NOT BEING ABLE TO BE FIXED/USED ANYMORE THE GUILT REINER WOULD HAVE OVER THAT BC IT WOULD ESSENTIALLY BE HIS FAULT), he adapts much faster than if she started to become mute during their married life. if the reader knows sign language, he'll learn it just for her and during this time (since they're still cadets), she appreciates his willingness to communicate with her like this and actually will start to have a genuine crush with him since he's the only one that's talking to her in the way she likes/knows best (canon cacoëthes reader did like reiner and thought he was attractive from time to time, but never had a long-lasting/actual crush on him). everyone else either just talks to her and lets her only listen, or she uses a notepad to respond, but with reiner, she doesn't have to do that. it's pretty cute since they're the only ones that know what they're saying to one another, and reiner sees this communication as something special between them, like he's the only one that listens to her yk. just like in the other paragraph, he learns what her expressions and movements mean as the days go on and when he kidnaps her, he could never forget that look of fear and hatred and betrayal sewn onto every detail on her face.

first few months, she'd close her eyes and put her hands over her ears to ignore him and he understands why, but gets so frustrated to the point where he rips her hands away from her ears and threatens her that if she keeps on doing this, he might as well take her hearing and sight away since she likes doing that so much. that's the only time he'd actually threaten to severely harm her to the point of disability (cause i'm gonna be so fr, i don't remember if i ever wrote reiner threatening reader like that in the entire three parts besides him telling her he would A. unalive her (he won't and ik i said that in the third part, but reader constantly assumes he's gonna moider her) B. impregnate her C. slap/hit/choke her D. shoot her and well, we can see which ones he chose without even saying it 💀💀) and safe to say, she immediately stopped and was forced to start communicating with him again.

sorry i made this hella long LMAO but i found this really fun to think about, thanks for your ask anon!!

#love-message #cacoëthes ask #yandere reiner #🌷 anon

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dogmomwrites · 2 years ago

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Find the Words!

Got a doubleheader from @autumnalwalker, so thank you for including me in this game!

I'll be passing this on with soft tags to @sliceofardath, @tyne-sharrow, and @papercutsunset, as well as leaving it an open tag! Your words will be quiet, chance, enter, highlight, and gather. If you can't find one, leave a fun fact about your WIP, OCs, or writing process!

My words were green, dozen, sound, send, and alive for the first tag, and lock, faster, skin, and burn for the second tag. I opted to use mostly various WIPs I don't often share from, so the titles will be after the word I used for that WIP. (most of these have never been edited lmao)

Green (taken from unnamed sequel to unnamed WIP)Jimmy came up behind his mother and held his phone out over her shoulder. “Can you take me to the store?” he asked.

She didn’t answer immediately, instead taking the phone and reading the messages that were pulled up. Then she smiled and shook her head with a soft laugh. “This can’t wait, huh?”

“What’s going on?” Riley asked.

Jimmy shifted the crutch so he could lean over and take a brownie from his mother’s plate. It was a small piece, so he was able to shove the whole square in his mouth. Only then did he respond, and Riley glared at him for the food that muffled his words. “Jess said I had a green mohawk in her dream and I rocked it. She wants a picture to see if she was right.”

“We know what you look like with a mohawk.”

“Not a green one.”

Dozen (taken from Trivial Drivel, the DnD drabble WIP)“I…” I’ll never see you again. How did he tell him that? In spite of his friend’s best efforts, Kiormo knew he mattered to him. After all, Boudreaux had made only one set of Sending Stones even though he was saying farewell to half a dozen travel companions. That he cared to keep in contact was enough to negate his grumpy words.

“Kiormu? Are you there?” Concern was beginning to seep into his words.

“I’m here,” Kiormo said. It might have been comforting if his voice hadn’t slipped to a whisper. That’s just it, isn’t it? That’s the issue—I’m here. And you’re there. You’re both there.

The two he considered himself closest to in all of Ten-Towns, and he’d left them nearly two thousand years in the future.

Sound (Taken from Castle book 5)“What does the horn mean?” Arial asked. “I don’t care if they were trying to make a song or not, it did sound evil. There’s no way Westenboro would have horns like that. And the battle’s already started, so why would the Avrans blow their horns? Does it mean there’s another army?”

Aero let out a soft, almost unintentional scoff. “A third army? No, I do not think so. Reserves, perhaps, but not another army entirely.”

“Reserves?” Nuka echoed, perking up.

So did McKenna. “Does that mean Westenboro’s winning? If the Empire is forced to bring in their reserves—”

“Reserves are not held back as reinforcements for a losing battle,” Saben interrupted. “It means the Empire has fulfilled their strategy. They would bring in the reserves to cut off any retreat, pin Westenboro down, or as a tactic of fear to force Westenboro to break ranks. The warhorn is used to announce the coming of the reserves, for no matter what the plan is, the arrival of any sort of reinforcement is a horror no army wishes to see.”

Send (taken from unnamed sequel to unnamed sequel)The shriek of metal made them all wince. Riley didn’t have to look to know that the hellhounds had finally torn through the Essence of Creation’s hull. He heard a frustrated curse from Luke and held on when Luke began to wrest from his grip. But he wouldn’t let go. They were so close to their own ship, he wouldn’t risk losing Luke. The Essence of Creation needed help, yes, but there wasn’t anything they could do. Even if they fought off the hellhounds, the ship was compromised. It wouldn’t survive space. There were just too many hellhounds to even consider transferring the Quarians from the Essence to any other ship.

His boot landed on the bottom of the ramp just as it began to lift from the stones; he didn’t slow. Luke backpedaled desperately to keep up with his pace, one hand holding onto Riley’s arm, the other raising his rifle to send photon bolts at the hellhounds that snapped at their heels. Captain Jinn stayed right beside them, laying down cover fire for the crew that were behind them.

Alive (taken from Alara at War)He stumbled out of the woods, bleeding from an abdominal wound. Across the field, he could see a girl. They stared at each other for a second. Then he collapsed.

With her dog on her heels, Aelin raced over to where the man had fallen. Even from as far away as she was, she’d seen there was a lot of blood on his shirt. He was still alive when she dropped to her knees in the grass beside him, but barely.

Lock (taken from Borjan Bitch)“Open it!” Francis yelled.

“Sir, don’t you mean, open it, please?” Mark replied.

“Open it, bitch.”

Mark bent over and inspected the box. It was small, solid black, and a perfect square. The only thing on it was a small combination lock. “Can’t open it, sir.”

Francis put his face in his hands and sighed. “Why not? Why the fuck not?”

“It’s locked.”

Faster (taken from Legends and Legacies, the novelization of a homemade Dragonball TTRPG rules-test campaign)“Fuck him up, Fridge!” Ligma said, laughing as the ringleader ran from the fight to hide behind a broken wall at the back of the alley.

Fridge watched the ringleader run for a moment. Raising one hand, he unleashed a rectangular block of ki that reduced the man’s entire body to scorch marks on the ground. Then he looked at the man who lay before Ligma, barely clinging to consciousness.

Grinning, Ligma shot the man with ki.

The last of the thugs saw what happened. His leader was dead and his only other backup was also dead. In a matter of seconds. His nerve broke. Standing from his corner, he attempted to flee the alley, but Fridge was faster. He cut off the escape by knocking the man unconscious. Then, following Ligma’s example, Fridge killed the unconscious man.

The homeless person they’d saved hadn’t waited around to thank them, not that they cared. Ligma didn’t care whether they had lived or died. He just wanted to admire his own strength. And simple Fridge was just following his friend.

Skin (taken from he a dude and stuff happens)Quinn let loose another loud guffaw, slapping his leg. His eyes always seemed to disappear whenever he smiled or laughed. Or made any sort of expression at all. Karl grimaced at the unnecessary volume, but couldn’t hold back a smile.

“You’re funny,” Quinn told him.

“Tell me something I don’t know.”

Not understanding the jest, Quinn frowned. Sure enough, his eyes vanished in the little folds of skin. “Hmm,” he said, then his face lit up. “I got it! Okay, here’s something you probably don’t know: I want to be like you when I grow up!”

Karl had been smiling, expecting the boy to say something along the lines of You’re watering your flowers, hurr durr. He was floored by what Quinn actually said. “Wh-what?”

Quinn beamed, proud of himself. It wasn’t often that Karl was rendered speechless. “Betcha didn’t know that!”

Burn (taken from a different DnD drabble; Campaign One)

“What happened to your village?” Griffin asked.

“What spawns such a question?”

“I know that look. I see it often enough in these godsforsaken lands.”

Sun-Kissed Sands paused in his strumming momentarily to give the birdfolk a long, serious look, then resumed as he said, “A fire drake. Burned everything, as though trying to burn down the whole world. Looked as though there was success.” The simple tune shifted to something more somber. “This one’s mother…the first scent, the first sound this one knew…all gone. Lost even to memory.”

“I’m sorry for your loss,” Griffin said.

“All ones lose in this life.”

#find the words #find the word tag #find the word game #tag game #writer games #open tag #open to everyone #original fiction #original characters #my writing #yavs writing #unnamed wip #unnamed sequel to unnamed wip #castle in the ice series #trivial drivel

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The heteronormativity is bad but it’s not even just that. I think the bigger problem in the Byler vs Melvin ship war is that since mlm fandoms have a reputation of being misogynistic and hating the female character for “getting in the way” everyone automatically assumes that Bylers fall under that category too (I’ve had sapphic friends who don’t watch the show tell me that they hate Byler because they think that the fans hate women even though most of us are queer women ourselves) and so we have to be extra nice and accommodating and apologize every time anyone even mildly criticizes El on here otherwise we’re labeled misogynistic (and even ableist even though El has no canonical disabilities). Which I think is so dumb because El is a flawed character and that’s a big part of what makes her interesting. Discussing her mistakes doesn’t mean that we hate her, in fact I would go as far as to say that people who recognize her flaws and love her for them care about El more than fake-woke Twitter feminists who try to strip her of all her less than perfect qualities. And don’t even get me started on how acceptable homophobia is in the Melvin fandom. The way that they shit on Will all the time and want to erase him and have him die in the name of “supporting women” is disgusting and idk why Bylers try so hard to cater to these people and just get along. There is no need and there shouldn’t be any desire to get along with homophobes. It’s okay to just hate things and it’s not morally wrong to dislike Melvin and want to stay far away from it.

Mmmm. Well first off I appreciate your honesty and want to (sorry for phrasing it the therapist way lmao) hold space for your irritation with how ignorant people can be in fandom spaces, because it is very real—and especially given the complicated history mlm ships carry in fandom historically, I can see how byler being pigeonholed into the same "you just want to get rid of the girl for your mlm ship" space is frustrating as hell, especially now that it's officially semi-canon.

Also, to your point about El: I agree that there are far too many people who behave as though acknowledging that characters (especially female ones) can be multi-faceted + make mistakes / be imperfect is somehow tantamount to a misogyny, even though good characters (male or female) must have internal challenges and conflicts so they aren’t one-note in the narrative. Too many people act as though their personal resonance or projection onto a character should define everyone else’s understanding and analysis of that character, and that’s something that happens a lot with El, especially in the case of the space she occupies in relationship to Byler.

Personally, I've avoided most of that discourse by not engaging with Byler "versus" Mlvn conversations for the most part, but that I still notice and react to myself when it comes into my space—particularly the "you're misogynistic or ableist" conversation, considering almost all of that is rooted in headcanons and projections, and not El's (or Mike's...or Will's) canonical characterization. You’re completely right to want to stay far away from that kind of discourse/energy—staying away from how I’ve kept myself sane and enjoying st in spite of how chronically online some of the fandom's takes can be.

I don't think there is any solution to it (people are like that in every fandom space, and I don't think they're gonna stop being willfully ignorant or heteronomative now), but...it helps that I know most of the argument surrounding "byler is trying to get rid of El" is based on either not knowing the show, unchecked emotion, or poor media comprehension, because media literate analysis makes it clear that all three characters involved are deeply complex, growing individuals whose stories all have their own purpose—El's is just moving independent, while Mike & Will's are moving toward each other.

People who don't understand or can't see that—or who want to start arguments over byler based on nothing but their understanding of other mlm ships, or their need to posture solely for the sake of being "right" on the internet—are, quite frankly, not people I'm trying to converse with if I can help it. I don't need to be an advocate for byler badly enough to put up with any of that lmao.

Thanks for the ask!

#I'm really sorry that people are saying shit like that to you tho anon!#its wild to me that people have decided byler is just 'another one of those irritating mlm ships' without even seeing the show???#people are wild lmao #asks

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microsuedemouse · 2 years ago

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things that happened at work tonight

I had to do an employee satisfaction survey and I was as mean as it’s possible to be in a survey where nearly all the questions are statements where all you can do is choose from strongly agree/agree/neutral/disagree/strongly disagree. you may not have given me space to air my actual grievances, but I sure will make my level of frustration known

I called a mischievous little girl, no older than four at the most, a monkey, after she reached up and tapped the help button on the machine (which calls me over) while her dad wasn’t looking. with an enormous grin on her face, she spent the next several minutes softly repeating “I’m a monkey… a MONKEY” to herself while she waited for her dad to finish checking out.

our loss prevention manager had to kick a lady out of the store after someone saw her pick up a packaged meal at the deli, open it and eat several bites, and then put it back. the lady apparently made a huge fuss and security had to be called? I don’t think we have an actual security guard so I don’t know who that would be. a mystery

I watched a guide dog in training simply Give Up. his trainers were taking a few minutes at the self-checkout machine and he just collapsed on his side on the floor and gave them Sad Eyes when they started giggling at him. to his credit, he got up and was very well-behaved as soon as they gave him an actual command! but clearly he was pretty tired lol.

I listened to a couple of college-aged, musclehead-lookin’ dudes still in their workout clothes (we have a 24hr gym next door) snipe at each other while they checked out - one complaining to the other “why didn’t you put this in a produce bag, I don’t wanna put my zucchini right on the scale, it’s gross. dude you’re gross” and the other answering “bro we’re gonna wash it before we eat it, relax. dude look at you, you can’t even SPELL zucchini” which was fun. also they were lamenting the prices and cursing G*len W*ston’s name and griping “yeah right it’s ‘inflation,’ come on, we’ve all heard about the profit margins…” also also, they started grilling me about the lady who got kicked out in bullet point three, because they came into the store just in time to hear her being yelled at and desperately wanted to know all the juicy details lmao. unfortunately I knew very few details myself at that time

the LP manager went rocketing past me at one point and I looked up to see her chasing a couple of kids out the door and into the parking lot. ten minutes later, I was approached by a kid maybe 12 or 13 years old, red-faced and damp-eyed and evidently uncomfortable, with an armful of deli items. “my friends just stole these,” he explained to me. “a blonde lady chased them out?” I called the aforementioned LP manager and she hurried out to see him. he was quick to tell her - “it wasn’t me, it was my friends, but I got really really mad at them, and I wanted to bring this stuff back…” she thanked him very much for doing so, and as soon as he was out of sight we both melted.

and honestly, I don’t give a shit about people shoplifting, in the broad sense. obviously it’s a pain to me as an employee, but beyond any effect on me personally… the company can more than afford it. (although I’m not super impressed with kids doing it just for shits. it’s one thing if you’re broke; it’s kind of another if you’re 13 and just trying to be cool.) but we spent the rest of the night talking amongst ourselves about how impressed we all were with this kid for (at his age!) having the courage not only to take a stand against his friends when he felt that what they were doing was wrong, but also to take the stuff they’d stolen back and bring it back to the store in spite of the genuine possibility that he could then get in trouble himself.

like, having spoken to him, I could tell he was RATTLED. with the context it was pretty clear to me that he’d just given his buddies a good lashing. and tbh, huge props to him for that. being able to tell your friends off for being assholes is tough at any age; at 12-13 it’s fucking herculean. so. I’ll be thinking about him for a bit.

oh oh also. one of my recent favourite customers got really excited and offered me a fist bump when I remembered her name. (she’s insanely sweet and always remembers MY name so I made a point of it! but it was really cute how happy she was about it)

#this is just occurring to me now but.#am I gonna have a strange and memorable encounter with a teenage boy every time I have a self-checkout shift?#bc it’s happened each time so far. hm.#grocery grunt #life

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brambletakato · 4 months ago

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Des has a lot of pride and a tendency to withdraw from others which is prevalent in Piplup and their evolution's pokedex entries (copied from Bulbapedia as I love the summarized sections);

Piplup; Piplup has a strong sense of self-pride. Because of its pride, it has a hard time accepting food from humans and bonding with its caretakers. It will even puff out its chest after it falls down, which it often does due to its poor walking abilities.

(Prinplup is basically the same)

Empoleon; The edges of these wings are comparable to master-crafted blades, capable of slicing through ice floes, and this Pokémon will use them to attack anyone or anything that damages its pride. However, it prefers to avoid unnecessary disputes at times

I feel like if Descole would have any starter Pokemon after his childhood tragedy, a Piplup is pretty high up there as a possibility, plus I feel this lines up almost comedically to a pinpoint accuracy as to what he typically does. Especially in Empoleon's last entry, which reminds me of Miracle Mask and how he essentially gtfo when he was done with everything... Thoughhh... To be honest I'm very open for starter pokemon ideas, I'm really rusty with them lol

Also I really wanna talk about the rest of the Pokemon decisions so I'll put it under a cut as its super long,, im so normal about this trust me (do not EVER trust me) ((and obvious AL spoilers))

Golurk reminds me of the Azran technology, and he probably got a Golett way back in the day before Descole came around. I kinda view it as a bridge between both his fascination and frustration regarding the Azran;

If the seal on its chest is removed, its energy runs wild, and its energy's color turns from yellow to red. This causes it to rage and fly around uncontrollably without being able to land itself. Removing the seal also causes Golurk to attack indiscriminately. A rampaging Golurk can turn a whole town into a mountain of rubble.

The seal on its chest also sort of reminds me of a bandage over one's heart (yes I know its on the wrong side let me cook here) which is like. lol. lmao. you get it right. There's also more obvious parts as to why he's there like the fact that he's a machine and whatnot. I think if in this hypothetical AU that the Golurk actually had ties with the Azran, then Descole would keep it around to better figure out the civilization rather than to have his blind revenge-filled obsession lead him to box it up.

I already talked about Sylveon in the tags, but its also the fact that you have to have a high friendship value with Sylveon... I think that pokemon was with him pretty early on and therefore saw most of his struggles first-hand as well as the kindness he tried to bury later on. If he'd have any Pokemon roam unsupervised out of their ball in private, it'd probably be the Sylveon.

Specifically the Hisui Zoroark's shiny form has a black white and purple theming which makes me think of his outfit, and therefore it'd be the only shiny he has (by pure luck). But it's also the Pokedex entry that makes me think of him as well;

Hisuian Zoroark was said to resemble an embodiment of death. The illusions channeled through Hisuian Zoroark's long withering fur are full of spite. Uniquely, this spiteful illusion can cause physical harm to its opponent on both the inside and outside. This power comes from the hatred it has for every living thing in the world. Hisuian Zoroark's illusion malice is powerful enough to drive anyone who sees it to insanity due to their terror. Hisuian Zoroark recklessly attacks its foes or nemeses, to the point its own bitter energy can cause physical harm onto itself. Despite its extremely hostile and aggressive nature to everything, Hisuian Zoroark can be compassionate to those it cares about, such as Hisuian Zorua, and it will become an invaluable ally once someone earns its trust.

I think maybe Descole had some sort of "recognition of the self" when he first came across them, and it'd be funny if the Zoroark had similar ties in backstory in this hypothetical AU (so that they also have a reason to work together). I think maybe it'd help aid Descole in some of his Master of Disguise works too

Maushold because lol. dead dotter and wifer . I think I'll make their terratype ghost just for that reason. thats it thats the only reason why i have them on there im sorry

And I'm pretty sure it's obvious why Honchkrow's there, though I change out Honchkrow with Corviknight depending on how serious I feel like battling that day (in exchange, Corviknight doesn't fit assss wellllll but it still works), so here's Corviknight's entry;

Corviknight is said to be the strongest bird Pokémon in the Galar region, being able to scare off any Pokémon that tries to challenge it. Due to its intelligence and flying skills, Corviknight serves a Flying Taxi service company called Galar Taxi, where it transports people from one location to another.

There's also its gigamax form, which in showdown matches I don't typically use that, but I think Descole would very much dabble into it because of the Detragiganto ties me thinks... and I think thats everybody

normalize making pokemon teams on showdown for your favorite characters... nerding out but

#bram.txt.exe #long post

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