When you ask someone to do something and they forget to do it, but you've got Some Screws Loose so you automatically assume they didn't want to do it, so you don't complain.
But then they remember you asked them for something so they get up to do it.
And you're sitting there, begging them not to, if they don't want to, please, I don't want to inconvenience you!! Because inconvenience is The Mark Of The Beast, ig and they'll hate me forever because I requested a small-to-medium manageable task of them. All because they forgot. And then remembered.
And like, the entire time they're not doing the thing, you're wondering if they're going to?
And you have to fight yourself to either NOT ask incessantly until they do it and THEN it's an actual problem OR stay silent until they completely forget or remember and panic because you asked them to lift a finger for YOU of all people, the Worst Person Alive.
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Also have another “first words spoken to you are on your skin” soulmate AU idea where Kara is a journalist assigned to shadow the controversial CEO of L-Corp for the day. It’s a big deal for her to get this assignment, so of course she trips the second she’s near the other woman and tries awkwardly to redeem herself.
The CEO stares at her almost in shock, and then says nothing. At all. Ever, for the entire day.
Kara spends hours following Lena Luthor around trying to fill the silence, but no amount of questions get her to talk. Lena almost seems to be running away at some points - like she’s trying to lose her? - and the few times she’s managed to catch her actually talking to someone she goes silent the second she sees Kara.
She asks around if Miss Luthor is usually like this and everyone looks at her like she’s crazy. Apparently she’s the only one who gets the silent treatment. By the end of her first day shadowing she’s walking away with half a page of observations and not a single quote. Miss Grant is going to kill her.
But that’s okay. It’s fine, this isn’t over. She has four days of shadowing ahead of her and she’ll be damned if she doesn’t finish this with a quote from the woman herself. It’s only a matter of time.
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i love gale so so so so much
but fuck does his initial reaction to the player beaming romantic thoughts into his head via weave make me wanna peel my skin off
don't get me wrong, it's cute, he's cute, i love it, its such a sweet bonding moment and I scream- but also when he has that initial shock and embarrassment before the elation settles in, it makes me want to die and that's not a criticism of him or anything because that is a very realistic and understandable why to respond even if he is genuinely interested but just didn't expect it
but as someone who is also very fucking awkward and rejection sensitive my immediate instinct every time is "Okay, swing and a miss, thanks for having me- gonna go kill myself now."
and I know he immediately goes like "No, no, I really like that- I really like this."
but realistically my ass would have already been jumping off the nearest cliff, like- all i heard from that narrator was the word embarrassment and I blacked out from shame, goodbye cruel world, here lies Snark, dead from wanting to hold a wizard's hand
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Hey so y'all know how Garroth asks Aph if she's sure about taking in Levin? Because her duties as a lord might get in the way? Do you ever think about how he was raised? And how maybe he's looking at Levin and seeing another kid who might suffer bc his parent is too busy being important to love him, and he's afraid? Because he knows (or at least REALLY wants to believe) Aphmau wouldn't do it on purpose, but then again, part of him still wants to believe his father didn't either? And the way he IMMEDIATELY volunteers to be in Levin's life, IMMEDIATELY steps up at every occasion, gets Zoey involved, ACTIVELY SAYS THAT HE KNOWS LEVIN WILL BE SOMETHING GREAT SOMEDAY TO OTHER PEOPLE?? He's making DAMN sure that kid has people in his life, and that the kid has somebody who unapologetically is proud and enthusiastic about him. I think he's making sure no kid ever has to grow up anything like he did.
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Ponds was the oldest.
He knew he was given to Seventeen to train because the Kaminoans wanted to prove a point. They thought Ponds too soft. Too generous. Too anxious. Too caring.
He was not what the Kaminoans thought Seventeen wanted for the individual training program. They had set both of them up for failure.
Seventeen had looked at him for a long while on their first meeting, his eyes hard and assessing. Then he had simply nodded, and gestured for Ponds to follow him.
Ponds learned very quickly that he was good at keeping the morale high. Good at keeping everybody's heads in the moment. Good at building bonds between other members of his squad.
He was given little brothers. All three of them brimming with energy, anger and potential. So much potential, that the Kaminoans didn't even know what to do with them anymore.
They just needed someone to calm them down. To gather them together. To teach them how to stop and think. How to follow each other's every move and work as a one, unified front.
Ponds learned how to teach them all of that. He learned how to lead them, and they learned how to lead from him.
Ponds was the oldest.
Fox was the youngest. He was short and slight, with scores that kept climbing up every single day and eyes that seemed both incredibly intelligent and deeply frightened.
Ponds knew that Fox was given to Seventeen to train because the Kaminoans wanted to prove a point. Fox was smaller than the rest of them. He wouldn't be able to keep up with the training. His scores would start to fall, and thus prove that the individual training didn't work, that they should all just get back in line.
Ponds was the oldest. Fox was the youngest.
They both had something to prove.
In the end, they did both prove themselves. Fox's scores kept getting higher. Ponds kept his little brothers in order.
(Ponds was the oldest.
He was always meant to be the oldest. The one who kept the rest of them in check, the one who had the last word.
So, when Cody back from Coruscant with fury in his eyes and treason on his tongue, Ponds sat him and the rest of them down.
Let's take a moment and think, he told them, and lay out the rules.
Ponds was the oldest.
He had been given little brothers, and he had loved them enough to make them and himself Commanders.)
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