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we are back with another one of these!! yay!! this week's prompt is recuperation — and so we're tackling willie and some post-bremen dilemmas, featuring John Brady no this isn't just an excuse for me to write them who said that? anyways im fond of them and this and I hope you are too :) me? posting at a reasonable time? unheard of.
It was almost offputting, how a phrase could change meaning in a little over 72 hours. Nothing to write home about becomes nothing you can write home about. Willie always struggled with writing letters, and Viv often teased her about how she’s the only person in the Hundredth who could struggle with making piloting sound exciting. Of course, Willie didn’t want it to sound exciting, even if she could manage that. She didn’t need Otto getting any wise ideas to end up on the fast track for enlistment. But now, there was nothing she could write home about.
Thirty people, gone, just like that. It was hard to be optimistic when there were no chutes to give some scrap of hope — and Willie hated watching June wipe Carrie’s blood from her hands almost as much as she hated watching Carrie get carried away on a stretcher, her collarbone a bloody mess haphazardly subdued with the sulfa powder and rag June held to it until she had to drop their bombs in the channel. They only knew how upset she was about the whole thing after she kicked her footlocker like it’d personally wronged her after interrogation.
If this is what it feels like being the last man standing, Willie hates it most of all.
That was three days ago, and now most of Mouse Hole’s flak holes were all patched up, and Willie’s certain that if she hopped into it right now, there would be no blood on that bombsight, no remnant of the fact that Bremen, in plain terms, had been a failure.
But that was nothing she could write home about, now was it?
She couldn’t tell home about the dead or about the hole torn through a nineteen-year-old girl. She couldn’t tell them about the flak or watching three planes go down or the engine fire. She couldn’t tell them that ten women she’d considered friends were gone, just like that — no funeral, no fanfare. She just had to live with it, like they all did, even if she still couldn’t make sense of what she’d seen and much less make sense of the fact that she’d have to witness it again.
“Willie?”
The sound of her own name catches her offguard — she wants to kick herself for the reflexive jolt her body makes at being caught offguard. But she turns her head and there’s John Brady, looking apologetic for startling her.
And that fact really makes her want to kick herself.
“Hey,” she breathes out, then inwardly cringes at her own lackluster response. Real smooth, Willie.
“Hi,” That makes it better. He walks closer still, nods, and Willie looks over the details of his face quickly. Furrowed brows and a bit of a tight lip — he’d given them that same look when they came out of interrogation. 418th. The first group grounded, huh. “What’re you doing out here?”
“Could ask you the same thing.” She counters, brows raising. This, however, makes him nod, the frown cracking a little bit. Good enough.
“I asked you first.” Willie clicks her tongue in mock surrender, then gestures to Mouse Hole — the Mickey Mouse decal grinning down at the two of them like a flak-happy lunatic — then gives him a half-shrug.
“Came to check on my house,” she explains, a statement that chips away at the rest of that tight-lipped frown and makes him smile a little bit. Much better. “Thought I’d catch Swanson out here or something. Wanted to ask a couple questions but now I guess I’m just having a staring contest with Mickey Mouse.” His brows shoot up towards his hairline and he chuckles.
“Oh yeah? Who’s winning?”
“Me, obviously. I don’t lose,” He makes a noise that she’s pretty sure, or rather, hopes, is a laugh — based on how the corners of his eyes crinkle a little, how he ducks his head down for a moment to rub the nape of his neck with a quiet muttering of ‘of course.’ Then he shoves his hands into the pockets of his jacket, tilts his head up to also, presumably, try his luck against the flak-happy mouse. He’s pretty bad at it though, because he glances at her again out of the corner of his eye.
“Where’s Viv?” Viv and Willie. Willie and Viv. Wherever one goes the other trails. Willie reaches up to rub at her earlobe a bit.
“Fifteen minutes behind me, probably. Or keeping the rest of them out of trouble,” Because that’s how it’s probably gonna be — she’s gonna make sure no girl walks home alone in the dark and I’m gonna sit and grumble until we make piss-poor jokes about it, just like we did over smaller things in Utah, Iowa, and Nebraska, too. “She’ll end up at the club one way or another.”
Brady nods, giving little more than an understanding ‘Ah’ and there’s a moment there where they lapse into something of a familiar quiet.
This, funnily enough, is the most normal she’s felt in days. She couldn’t really shake that restlessness that settled in after interrogation — a loud, harping feeling that she should be doing something. Which is at least half the reason that she came out here to begin with — to do something, maybe find something worth writing about on the hard-stands. I could tell them about Sandy Swanson and her crew of mechanics, or…
She looks Brady up and down for a moment. There was something assuring in knowing he didn’t seem off-put by her silence, that he was fine with sitting in it instead of prying words out of her that she couldn’t give. But words always came easier to her when she was comfortable anyway. And when it came to comfortable…
“You played well, last night,” Willie shoves her hands into her pockets. You always do. He raises a brow, his smile turning lopsided and boyish in a way Willie thinks she likes more than she reasonably so.
“You think so?”
“Well I’m no expert on the subject, but yeah,” Willie nods, affirming her own statement. “I do.”
There’s a look shared between them, and Willie feels that shyness starts to overtake her as it so often does when it comes to him. There’s the urge there, to say more: to show how much attention she pays to him when he picks up his instrument. There’s also the acute awareness that anything she says she’ll have to live with after saying it, and so she bites the inside of her cheek to keep from saying something too bold.
It doesn’t change the fact that he’d quickly earned a soft spot with her, whether he meant to or not. Maybe that was something she could write about.
…Not the soft spot— the band. The music. She hadn’t really talked about that part much, beyond that there is a band, and there is music; jazz most nights, meant to provide them with some means of relaxation day in and out. There are words the more she thinks on it, waiting to be phrased in the right way to statiate the needs of both her worrying mother and her too-curious little brother. If there’s a few sentences in there about an unnamed saxophonist being, in her eyes, maybe a little bit better than the rest — then it’s a good thing she censors her own mail.
She reaches up to pat the body of her fort twice, takes a couple steps back and gives him a once over.
“I’m gonna head over now, I think. So I don’t make the missus wait on me,” there’s a snort there that’s so uncharacteristically Brady, and yet somehow he makes it work.
“Right, okay. I’ll walk you.”
“Think I can’t handle myself, Brady?” He clicks his tongue, turning as she walks past to keep step with her. He mutters something under his breath that she doesn’t quite catch, then continues to look at her as they walk.
“You caught me. I’m trying to keep you from dancing on tables.”
“Damn, there goes my weekend plans.”
Laughing is a shared sound, his deep chuckle overlapping with her breathy one, and she likes the combination. They lapse into that quiet again, the comfortable kind that feels normal when everything else doesn’t. Willie says nothing of the fact that their shoulders bump every now and again — if this is as much of a reprieve as she’s getting, then she’s more than happy. She’s never been a greedy type, but she could start to be if it meant there would be more of this. She steals a momentary glance at him, before committing wholly to it with a clearing of her throat as they get closer to the long rows of huts that line the path to the Officer’s Club.
“You never answered my question,” Willie points out, and Brady responds with little more than another ‘hm?’ “I asked what you were doing out there, you never answered.”
Brady’s brows raise to his hairline and he nods slowly before looking away from her, tongue poking out to run over his lips for what feels like a full minute before he looks back at her with that boyish smile of his again. There��s that brief, fleeting thought that recuperation looks less like the shine of brassy instruments and more like the warm, welcoming glint in those gray-blue eyes of his. If nothing else, he’s serving as a pretty great reminder that she is not, in fact, the last man standing.
“Heard there was a mouse running around by the hard stands, wanted to make sure she wasn’t scurrying into any of the forts and trying to take off,” The smile on his face gets a little wider with every word. Willie can’t help it — she laughs a little louder than before, shaking her head, half-disbelieving and yet surprised all the same that she couldn’t come to that conclusion on her own.
“Seriously? Did Viv put you up to that?” She asks, not upset at all, but Viv had a tendency to worry so Willie wouldn’t be especially surprised if she had.
It’s the barely there shake of his head, ‘no’ that almost knocks the wind from her lungs, and even if she doesn’t write this part down: Willie knows her mind will return to this fact often. And she won’t be able to hide her smile when it does.
#*poet writes#ch: willie neumann#ship: willie/brady#masters of the air oc#john brady x oc#mota oc#hbo war oc#putting them with the 349th not realizing their emblem was Mickey Mouse is one of the funniest things ive done to date#I love when this happens to me /gen#*wdawe
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Human G5 Ponies!
#I have watched all 5 seasons so far idk when it happened#I love Sunny her whole personality is SJW pony she’s everything to me girlbossss#mlp#my little pony#mlp art#mlp g5#mlp gen 5#my little pony make your mark#make your mark#unicorn#alicorn#Pegasus#sunny starscout#izzy moonbow#hitch trailblazer#pipp petals#zipp storm#misty brightdawn#opaline#opaline arcana
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To summarise: Casper's having the time of his life, Petrah's glued to her seat and Marco came for the free food 👍 But hey everyone's having a great time and we get to meet the newest addition to the Apple family...Briar!!!
The cousins meeting for the first time 🥺
#ts4#sims 4#ts4 gameplay#ts4 legacy#postcard legacy#postcard gen 3#marco montalvo#connie apple by tulipsimss#noah ngata#casper montalvo by tulipsimss#briar apple#gus apple by tulipsimss#adrian edelstein by cavsis#petrah apple by tulipsimss#zeke apple by tulipsimss#love seeing the whole fam here#SO MANY things are happening!#the first pics my fav!! i cant with petrah looking like that and noah being wtf is this guy on about then the cuteness with cas#we just think this is how everyone would interact with the babies stealing all the spotlight and then petrah all unamused 😒#look at gus with his grandkids 🥺 tysm for letting me do this alice#posting early couldnt wait to show! reason i queue for 1:30 am bc when my 2/3 queue runs out id be playing 9pm-12am#to aim for that time then that became the norm!! and why i spread out 2/3 posts during weekdays as i play weekends#tulipsimss collab
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Yo that's a lot right?
Because I can't tell /gen but it feels like a lot. I mean tumblr said holy moly so
Thanks guys :)
#50k likes#personal#wow#tumblr milestone#tumblr#I guess#tumblr told me to post on this and idk what I'm doing so#but it seems like a big number!#I remember when I made a first post that went past a thousand notes and was bouncing off the walls about it#now I'm just like yeah that happens sometimes#still makes me happy <333#I got a notification last week that I've now made a hundred posts#so that's cool#I love you guys so much haha thanks#(also I hope this didn't appear condescending or negative in any way bc I can never tell)#/gen#now! back to ranting incessantly about Sky and Hyrule!#my username at this time: luna-lovegreat
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Hey I’m new to the LMK fandom, why do so many people ship Sun Wukong and Macaque??
A lot of people like the hurt/comfort potential because of their backstory and because they’re just really good counterparts lol. Macaque even makes a whole play about their past relationship, which is where a lot of that fuel for the ship comes from and the whole “the hero and the warrior were like the sun and the moon” spiel that people love using for shits and giggles. There’s also a really strong enemies to lovers sentiment and i think it’s kinda sweet
Personally, I just really like riffing off the divorced energy. To me, these idiots would rather beat the shit out of each other than make up and I really really eat that up. Not just as a joke, maybe as a way to cope with their feelings like “I want things to go back the way they were but this is all I can do”
#I don’t think there will be a /perfect/ answer to this question but this is just my insight lol. I think a lot of people are weak for#enemies to lovers content cause we just don’t get enough of it. and nobody’s doing it like themmmmm#it’s fine not to ship it ofc!!#enemies to friends is just as good and I don’t see any reason to appreciate it less#we’re also on the cusp of finding out what exactly happened between them either in the s4 special or s5#not going to give anything away but. they were REALLLYYY fruity when they were friends if we get anything more I will die >///<#ALSO I FUCKING LOVE KNUCKLEHEAD X KNUCKLEHEAD CONTENT. FUCKING MORONSEXUALS#step aside heartfelt apologies it’s time for offering you a bandage after a huge fight. can we get some hand lingering on fist content#because that is the closest youll ever get to holding their hand like back then?? feeling their palm against your face in a hard punch HELLO#you’re only ever gonna get them ‘insulting with each other and finding it comfortable because it’s kinda like banter’from ME#thank u for the question btw!! this made me think a lot about what exactly appeals me in their relationship /gen#yapping#lmk#Lego Monkie kid#shadowpeach#doodles#ask
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can i give a happy pride month with dina making ellie a bit embarrassed in the lgbt bookstore showing her this spicy thing saying “it’s us right?” and making comments on the fact those things has women on it and also dudes, while ellie saying to stay focus and dina being amused by all of this not only ellie being flustered but by all of the books she never seen (and this is a sad part too, everything stopped in 2013, and no one anymore care about lgbt community, history etc. because everything has been lost)
also have an ellie walking on the ruined dirt rainbow cross walk in seattle bc ok you are on a revenge mission but you can’t say no to the gay stuff
and ellie pointing at the big book of gay only a lesbian could find
but now image ellie and dina if they really read all of those stuff, i bet they would’ve comment on how people were living their sexuality and sexual life in general, maybe in that bookstore there still was some gay book history
#the last of us#ellie williams#ellie williams tlou#ellie#dina the last of us#dellie#dina x ellie#ellie and dina#lgbt#pride month#i waited this day because yes i already talked a bit about this scene#but for me it’s the most important one like#image a new gen that don’t know anything about lgbt despise them being part of it#because no one teach you on those things#it’s like you are again in the past when homosexuality was hidden#but in 2038 or something it’s a bit different#it’s mainly bc you are too focused on survive than to know those things#and after all i think it would happen irl if we’d go through this for real…#anyway i always love how dina being so#charismatically flirty#my silly girl
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In true (closeted) hopeless romantic fashion, you and Bakugo always manage to steal the show at every the wedding you attend, looking so cute when you ignore the rest of the crowd and dance together, mouthing the words to each other lip to lip☹️☹️☹️
#bakugo#idk it's boo's fault but bakugo like kinda classic blues and jazz and that era of love songs#and then dancing with you so cute and romantic like as if no one else is there#IM TEARING OUT MY HAIR#and everyone is so excited for your wedding#cuz the music will be banging and everyone will be crying for. u#this is what happens to me when i listen to. idek what kind of music it is#but YEESH#i have a whole powerpoint to make and i dun wanna#gen#shii posts
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all hate to tiktok for taking 'having a space to more openly and actively talk about different cultures' to mean 'cultures are NOT to be shared and we must be vigilantly defensive of our cultures for fear of appropriation, a word that can be applied to any multicultural interaction'. like of course cultural appropriation is a very real problem but ive seen with the access to global multicultural conversation that tiktok provides it's made people TERRIFIED to even interact with cultures other than their own for fear of 'doing it wrong'. like at some point you have to acknowledge that in the real world of the great outdoors, the majority of people are eager to SHARE their cultures. yes there are ignorant questions and biases but also... how do you think those things get unlearnt? i dont understand how deciding that multiculturalism is an elephant in the room instead of a normal thing that should just be talked about and lived with is supposed to benefit anyone? and kids on tiktok are CONVINCED that it's a time bomb of a conversation to have and therefore must be avoided at all costs but like. people generally LOVE their home and their culture and are PROUD of it and want to share it. how have we made it so that showing genuine interest and a desire to understand something so integral to a person's identity is now feared and borderline demonised?
#thinking about this a lot lately. thinking about how fun it was comparing cultural differences in america#thinking of how when i was homesick one thing i found a great comfort in was talking about my home#and how it differed and i really loved and appreciated it when people would ask me about england#in a way that they genuinely just wanted to learn about it and not to take the piss#thinking about how the kitchen at work has chefs from all over europe. we have an irish chef and a spanish chef and an italian chef#and one of the kps is from eastern europe (i havent actually been able to find out where yet) etc and the way they banter with each other#like usually chefs are Problematic bc their humour is VERY abrasive and usually offensive#but this is one instance where it's actually to their benefit bc they're so unafraid to ADDRESS THE FACT THEY HAVE DIFFERENT CULTURES#i feel like the tiktok gen are so petrified of even acknowledging other cultures let alone discussing them#that it's actually sending the conversation backwards. like how does hoarding your culture and pretending it's not there benefit anyone#LET ALONE YOU AND THE CULTURE IN QUESTION. idk it just baffles me a bit that something that started as people on tiktok#genuinely spreading information and talking about the BAD side of this where people DO culturally appropriate or invade spaces that arent#theirs has now become 'for fear of speaking bad about it we will not speak about it at all'. and they'll crucify you if you do. like what#even at uni my best mate is indian and she's too scared to join the sikh society on her own so i regularly go to the events with her#and im typically one of the handful (or the only) white non-sikh there and i get SO welcomed each time#like there's such a genuine excitement to share the culture with someone who is effectively a blank slate#and like yeah ill ask 'dumb' questions or i'll have different experiences (tried a samosa for the first time at one of these events#and the moment that info got out i had like five STRANGERS trying to give me different samosas to try and it was genuinely such#a laugh bc yes they were TEASING me bc 'how have you never had one' but they were also really eager to share MORE as a result)#ugh idk what im saying. i just think it's a shame to watch this happen in real time on the internet#when if people would just go outside and actually TALK to people from other cultures they'd realise 9 times out of 10 the interactions#are actually really really nice for BOTH parties. and actually refusing to talk about this stuff is long-term pretty fucking detrimental#and it also goes the other way!!! like imagine if i - citizen of colonisation motherland herself - didn't interact with other cultures#and didnt ask questions or hear their opinions on whatever shared history we have from THEIR POINT OF VIEW#imagine the kind of shit id be internalising bc i only hung out with other white british people. it wouldnt matter if i was doing it#to be woke or 'respect their culture'. it would still be fucking ignorant. like half my interactions with other cultures#see me as the butt of the joke bc of this like aforementioned irish chef at work VOCALLY slates the english all the time#but it's done in an environment where we're FRIENDS and it's poking fun at each other while still addressing a very serious history. like??#idk if any of this is worded in a way that makes sense but yeah. i have thoughts#cant believe i got inspired to make an actually serious post bc of the CHEFS AT WORK. embarrassing. no one let them see this
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hi hello. i just need to send an ask to someone about how Frogwares Remakes Holmes is afraid of water to the point of passing out in it, and how if I were writing a sherlock holmes/cthulhu mythos crossover i would definitely play with that concept more. can you imagine how he must have felt during the swamp chapter
YES!! I have been thinking about this definitely too much... I know this is mainly for gameplay reasons but I 100% agree it has so much potential! (Btw, I love the concept itself. It makes Holmes seem so... simply human. I think Frogwares did such a great job on Holmes' portrayal in general, they didn't go into the "cold detached logician without emotions" trope and I am SO HAPPY they didn't. This Holmes is nearly 1:1 how I see canon!Holmes, and he is so human in it. And small details like this, they just give depth to the character, and I think this is a great use of the fact that here in fact we see Holmes as he is, with all the aspects that Watson would obviously omit in the stories.... Yeah, I wouldn't miss an opportunity to write an epiphany on a great reading of Holmes)
And the swamps.... I don't think I can even imagine. Honestly, I think it would be great if they addressed that somehow in this part, even Watson asking Holmes if he is alright, would be something.
(And if I am not mistaken, the only locations when there is enough water to make his pass out are the ones where Watson is with us? So I always imagine Watson pulling Holmes out of it, and I was almost disappointed that he didn't even comment on that.)
This is one mess of an answer but! What I mean to say is I am totally with you on this, I love this aspect of the game and I only wish they played with it a little bit more
#asks#northeasternwind#sherlock holmes#frogwares holmes#sherlock holmes the awakened#huh this is what happens when you give me an opportunity to discuss SH media.... essays instead of a normal answer#thank you for the ask#i love when people smack me with their theories/thoughts/ideas on my fav media (/gen)
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currently watching pd ep 11 (season 1), feelin bad for Dakota <//3
i don't think I quite understand the exact feeling, but the knowledge that you're powerless against something while the need/want to help burns so brightly from within you that it makes you lash out and shake and be angry is familiar, if only slightly
i usually only ever get angry when I'm overwhelmed with too many things happening directly to me at once, or if someone steals/breaks something that belongs to a friend. like believe me, if I could be optimistic and this pillar of light all the time, I would, but on the rare occasion I'm not I hate being an asshole the people I care about because I can't outlet it any other way Dx
Dakota definitely has a right to be angry/overwhelmed/restless with the outcome of. everything.
the base was blown into smithereens, tides gone + probably kidnapped, and now he's being forced to live with someone he considers to be villainous, I can't say I blame him if I'm gonna be honest
#jrwi#jrwi pd#jrwi dakota#dakota cole#LIKE#I LOVE MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY#I LOVE MAKING PEOPLE SMILE AND BEING THERE FOR THEM#AND I HATE WHEN I CAN'T BE THERE FOR THEM IT'S THE WORST 😭#my life is a roller coaster of emotions but not in the negative sense (((usually)))#most of the time the transitions between each emotion are pretty smooth#and often#h o w e v e r#sometimes certain little things that either my brain thinks are important or are only really important to me start to pile up#one time one of my favorite bracelets broke and I had a breakdown because at the time I was recovering from a pretty bad night terror#it sucked :/#whenever something like that happens I call it an off-day or just a break in being happy#it always happens so fast#that's why I refer to it as a roller coaster#bc it's a sudden drop#y'know ???#just roll with it#just roll with it pd#just roll with it prime defenders#jrwi prime defenders#after a reblog I have realized I should probably tag this with more spoilers#srry y'all xd /gen#jrwi spoilers#just roll with it spoilers#jrwi pd spoilers
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i hate to break it to you, millennials, but gen z does, in fact, know what dvds and cds are. we grew up with them. we grew up with a lot of stuff y'all obsess over, actually. not my fault all the tech companies collectively decided to get rid of dvd players
#you're not an elder you're 30#ALSO: WE KNOW WHAT LANDLINES ARE#I USED TO USE THEM TO TALK W MY FRIENDS BEFORE I GOT CELL SERVICE#BUT PAYING FOR A LANDLINE IS EXPENSIVE NOWADAYS SO THERES NO POINT#sorry but i just saw an article about millennials crying over how gen z apparently think dvds are useless#i mourn the loss of dvd movie home screens everyday#BRING BACK DVD PLAYERS PLEASE I LOVE PHYSICAL MEDIA!!!!#but like..make dvds scratch resistant. please. all of my old dvds are so scratched up and it makes me sad#omg i just remembered that my mom used to have a bunch of cds BACK WHEN CARS STILL HAD CD PLAYERS#tangled 2010 soundtrack cd ❤️#i used to jam out to my kidz bop cd on my huge cd player#ummm what else#unrelated but i used to be so jealous of my friend's mp3 player#also was super jealous of my friend's flip phone#i wanted one sooo bad. more than i wanted an iphone bc i thought flip phones were COOL#i had an ipod#not one of those stupid mini phones but like an actual ipod music player#i had 1989 by taylor swift on it#god i miss my ipod#I MISS WHEN PHONES HAD HEADPHONE JACKS. WHAT HAPPENED TO THOSE#the only reason i regret upgrading my phone 💔#kez.txt
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how it feels reading different fics in different fandoms and no longer getting involved in the intracommunity bullshit of relationships and fandom headcanon opinions
#back in Naruto fandom and it’s so lovely when you don’t pay attention to the current gen relationship and instead just stick with SakuOro#and MadaTobi - literally go back the previous generation and all the bullshit disappears#honestly there’s a reason why I like canon divergence to happen way before the bs of canon happens so it can all be circumvented i.e me#writing CTBRTP and literally every Gerion/Elia fic lmao#sometimes fandom needs to be smothered with a pillow and that’s okay!
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Grusha Headcanons
Grusha avoids social and networking events as far as possible. Even though his role as Gym Leader demands a certain degree of public engagement, he finds it exceedingly difficult to sustain conversations, and often comes across as aloof and rude without meaning to. Rather than risk saying something tactless, he engages as little as possible.
He joined the League a few months before Ryme did, but he has taken much longer to settle into his role. Despite being relatively new to the professional battle scene, critics rank him as one of the strongest Gym Leaders in Paldea, with the makings to become an Elite in future. Geeta has dropped similar hints during his annual performance reviews. But the praise does not always register; he doubts his ability and dwells on defeats, which often leads to him avoiding more challenging opponents.��
Grusha did not have great interest in pokémon battles when he was younger. Neither of his parents were trainers, but they pressed him to try an array of sports and other pursuits throughout childhood, both battling and coordinating among them. Of the countless activities he dabbled in, snowboarding was the only one that truly seized his interest, but now that this path has closed to him, he has fallen back on alternative pursuits. Competitive battle still does not wholly engage him - but it is, at the very least, something he can feel good at.
His battle style is notable for how he manipulates visibility during matches. His signature technique utilises tailwinds combined with hailstorms and haze, which makes it exceedingly difficult for opposing trainers and their pokémon to see what is happening on the battlefield. His own team, all trained to rely on senses other than sight, are well adapted to fighting in such conditions. The technique is highly effective, but League officials have gently (but firmly) discouraged him from using it in more public matches, because low visibility hurts spectator enjoyment.
When he was younger, Grusha kept his hair short. It was only during the long, listless year after his injury that he grew it out, largely because he couldn’t summon the energy to book a haircut. He has since decided that he prefers it that way. Occasionally, he experiments with his appearance in other ways, such as with nail polish and makeup, but he is intensely private about it, especially now he is back in the public eye.
He does not tend to keep his pokémon in pokéballs unless he has to, as they are adjusted to roaming alone on Glaseado mountain. His weavile is especially reluctant to be contained. While Grusha has good control of his team on the battlefield, he is lax in domestic settings - he lets his pokémon sleep where they please, and even feeds them food from his own plate.
Grusha did some occasional modelling as a child, largely due to his mother’s insistence and fashion connections. He has taken on similar work as an adult, but he feels more self-conscious in front of a camera than he used to, uncertain of how to stand and hold himself.
Due to how recently he entered his role, he is not especially close to anyone in the League. At the few social functions he attends, Rika is one of the few to always strike up a conversation with him, but he assumes she is only being polite. Her blatant attempts to flirt are also taken as politeness.
Before his altaria evolved, she liked to settle in his hair and sleep on his head. She still attempts to do it now, even though she is rather too heavy for it.
#tl;dr grusha has former gifted kid syndrome#grusha#pokémon#pokémon headcanons#gen 9#scarlet and violet#sv#paldea#pkmn sv#indepth pokémon headcanons#i love grusha#if you see me projecting quarter life crises on helpless pokemon characters no you don't#poor guy. when u devote your teens and early 20s entirely to snowboarding and then you reach 25 and u have no idea who you are#i don't think anything would happen between him and rika but i had to entertain that they shoot their shot#allow me this indulgence#my gnc duo...my girl king and my boy queen#pokemon
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i know its not for everyone for whatever reasons apply but damn do i love unreality. in horror, in sillyness, in pretty much any context. i actually love the moments i sit there asking 'is this real? what is happening?' and then realizing its not and being in on the fun
whether it be like that one blog that pretends pokemon are real, or horror projects like welcome home where the whole premise is that its based on a children franchise that never existed but it does exist for this projects reality, or the youtube video i just watched that pretended to talk about creepypasta history but it was only talking about creepypastas that were never actually real... genuinely so fucking fun to me. i love it. i need more of it fr fr
#i hope im using the word right#my impression is that it means like. 'this thing pretends to be in our world but it talks about things that never happened as if they did' ?#if that makes sense#my post#GOSH that creepypasta video went so hard it was so fun#i wont say which one it was because i dont want people to see it and not be in on the fun lol but like. wow#it genuinely had me thinking i somehow missed out on several creepypastas when i shouldnt have lol#i especially love it when its horror or when its memes#i dont even know what to say! its just super fun to me !!! i love it :]#unreality#nothing in this post is unreality but im tagging it just in case /gen
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is it because of tiktok or did i always have poor attention span, inability to focus w/o feeling overwhelmed and bad memory
#naomivents#pc#me wanting to make a post on yothagun novel spoilers bc i gen think they're cute and want people here to know about it too#and not doing it bc brain considers it as a “task” that will “take time” and a lot of “effort”#eventhough i really want to do it and know i'll be very into once i start#man i hope i do that post soon i gen think yothagun's adorable#fluffy pc boys in love save me... save me uni roommates pc#yotha not realising he's “jealous” and when gun tells him that yotha's all “nah it's just love” like..... my guy....#yotha is so cute....#would be funny af if i start going “i want yotha” with my history of going after chimon characters only#like i dont actually see that happening but lol
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I’m upset “did you forget the small joys of the world and that your friends love you?” Sigggghhhh. Yeeeeesss. I forgot about the small joys of the world and that my friends love me UUUUUGGHHHHH
#thank you for that pick me up you guys /Gen I feel like for me it’s so easy to spiral when I’m upset and then I rememebr#oh yeah#good things happened today#my friends love me and people go out of their way to cheer me up when I’m sad#yippee NFNBE WEHSNSJSNSJ#THIS SOUNDS PRETENTIPUS IM SO SORRY I JUST LOVE YOU ALL SO SO MUCH
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