#I still have a sister a brother a mother and a father

[snail-squasher]

Billie Bossa Nova

'i'm not sentimental, but there's something 'bout the way you look tonight'-billie ellish

word ct. - 1.5k

warnings - fem!reader, SMUT SMUT SMUT, cussing, brothers bsf ;)

Family dinners always had a special place in your heart - not a very bright one that is, but still a spot. The uncomfortable smiles and intrusive questions from relatives; “So no grandkids yet?” you were hoping you could escape this one. “No, Mom. I’m not even seeing someone.” “I’m just saying! None of us are getting any younger.” You reply with a small hum hoping the conversation would shift so you can sneak away to your room. 

“Don’t you think you should leave the alcoholism for a non-family thing?” It’s one thing after another. Sukuna, your older brother, always finds a way to call you out infront of everyone. “Don’t you think you could stop being a dick-” “Hey! You,” a finger pointed at you,” watch your language. And you,” one to the right of you, “stop messing with your sister. She can drink all she wants.” 

You stick your tongue out in Sukuna’s direction. “I don’t get how Uraume can stand you all the time, must be pay them a lot huh?” “Why you little-” a slam across from the table stops everyone, “Your mother just said to stop. So stop.” Both of you settle down muttering apologies, but not before you catch a glimpse at Uraume. The way they look up at your brother while pulling him down makes you feel something. You’re not sure when they got so attractive, when their skin and lips started so look kissable; but it’s been pissing you off. 

“I should make Uraume sit between you two.” Worst timing ever. You’re thinking of swapping spit with your brother’s bestfriend while they’re swapping seats. It gets worse when you notice the wetness inbetween your legs when you and Uraume’s knees brush. The way they look up makes you want to have a self-quickie in the bathroom. “Sorry,” their voice even got softer; you’re wondering what else of them might be softer. So you decide to find out. 

You slowly move your right hand to glide onto their knee. Just testing. No harm done; if they show they don’t want it, and you’ll back off. But they don’t even react, not until you try to pull your hand away. The grip on your wrist sends shivers down your spine. They place your hand back but higher up. You’ve managed to move half up their thigh in less than 30 seconds. 

You’re head starts to feel fuzzy - not in the usual champagne fuzzy but in a ‘i can feel this in places I shouldn’t’ fuzzy. Slowly moving your hand up more until you can feel their right thigh on the back of your hand. Is this real? Am I dreaming? How long has Uraume wanted to do this? You have so many questions but they keep unanswered as Uraume spreads their legs more. 

“Seperating you two has started to make a lovely night,” your mother says, “we finally get some peace and quiet.” Your father hums with a nod. You’re too focused on finding an excuse for Uraume to go to your room to make a comment back. That’s when you get a great idea - act too drunk to walk. Hopefully Uraume will get the hint and offer to help you back, if not this is a total waste. 

Pulling your hand away from the inside of their thigh, you stand up a little wobbly and say in a small slurred speech “I’m going to bed, goodnight,” not before fake tripping and grabbing the chair next to you. “Here let me help.” Jackpot. “Oh, we can’t possibly let a guest do that,” you pray that Sukuna makes a stupid comment to distract your parents but instead your met with a smooth voice and warm breath near your ear, “Oh it’s really no problem, I’m surprised you guys consider me a guest with how much I visit,” this causes a giggle from your mother, “Well I guess your right dear, just don’t let her give you a hard time.”  “I doubt it’ll be a problem.” Uraume replies with a small smile. 

They grab onto your left arm to ‘help’ keep you balanced. Their fingers are so soft yet to cold, the contrast causes you to shiver. Once you two are behind a corner and out of sight you quickly pick yourself up and speed walk to your room, Uraume dragging behind with the same grip on your wrist. 

Before you even make in it the door, your lips are locked. Shoving the door open and stumbling to the bed they pull away. “Are you okay?” you smile, “You’re always so considerate,” you purr, “but we should probably close the door.” The turn their head and let out a cuss.

You sarcastically gasp as they close the door, “Did the Uraume just cuss,” cupping their face in both you’re hands, “I’ve corrupted you already.” “I’m not as innocent as you think.” This sparks something. Instectivly, you go to rub your legs together but Uraume is ontop of you, blocking the action. “Don’t tell me that has you getting shy. What happened to the girl touching be under the table?” Oh. Oh wow. This was not what you had expected. 

“Black box in the closet. Grab it. Please.” Confusion washes over Uraume’s face, they follow your lead anyways. The sound of the lid falling to the ground plus a sharp inhale makes you giggle, “What? Never used one?” They move their fingers over the rough harness material, eyes trailing to the silicon attached at the middle. They look back at you. “You wanna find out.” 

5 minutes later, both sets of clothes thrown around the room, the harness attached to Uraumes body, hugging their hips and upper legs, hurried kissing and the feeling of their now warm hands spreading your legs open has you dizzy. “You okay? We can stop.” This knocks you out of your trance. “No, no, I’m okay. I’ve just been wanting this for so long,” the last part barley a whisper, they smirk a little, “What was that? I didn’t quite hear you.” This earns them a little smack on their arm. 

They look in your eyes, stroking your cheek a little, “You ready?” You nod, “Yes,” They move their hands down to your hips and lift you a little, “Okay, I got you. Just relax for me.” God their words and voice. So smooth and soft, you could probably get off on them just whispering to you. “Oh-!” Your thoughts cut off by the toy slipping past your slit, Uraume reaches down and rubs your clit in small circles, “There you go,” your mouth falls open and your breath picks up. 

“Uraume, please. I want more, please-” they shush you quietly, “I got you, I got you. We have to be a little quiet, your family is down the hall, remember?” Of course you remembered the family gathering a few doors away. If you had it your way, you’d both be a loud mess right now.

Uraume picks up the pace, starts pushing their hips deepers, starts to get more and more aggressive with their finger still attached to your bud. There’s just more and more of them everywhere you’ve been needing them. So many wet dreams, so many daydreams, and so many failed hook ups has led you here. 

The heavy feeling in your stomach starts to spread, “Ume, please-,” you’d be shocked if no one could tell what was happening in your bed. The wet smacks and practically yells coming from your mouth were gross. Uraume hurridy pulls their fingers away from you clit, and before you could protest and get louder, two fingers slip their way into your mouth. 

“You need to be quiet,” they whisper, “We can’t risk it.” Your back arches from how close they get to you - or rather how close you are. When you think it’s fully too much they curl their hips just right making you bite their fingers. A whimper. They like biters. “Yeah? Give it to me,” they frantically ramble, “give it to me baby, come on. You got it, let go, come on it baby.” 

That's all it took for you to snap in half. Between your legs gets impossibly louder and the grip your mouth on Uraume’s fingers is deadly. What’s killing you though, is the thrusts. You never fully got the term ‘putting you into the mattress’ until now. Not only are you staining your bed but also creating a permanent indention in the middle of it. 

“There you go, so good baby, oh you’re making a mess,” Uraume moans. “Oh… fuck, yesyesyesyes, ooooohhh….” you ride out your high - back arched, mouth open, and eyes rolled back - pure bliss. 

Once you’re fully finish, Uraume slowly pulls out of you and undoes the tight harness around their hips. All you hear is a sigh and then in less than a second they flop on top of you. “To answer your question from earlier, no, I haven't done this.” You snort and roll them over, “Well you're a natural then.” you reply as you get bundled up with them in the warm blankets. “So…” you trail off, “want me to return the favor?” 

i said this was coming out like, 4 months ago... oops, BUT IT'S HERE NOW!!!!! but fr, sorry this took forever

also first time writing full smut, I hope its good, as always tips and pointers are welcome and I love it!!!!!

[moonysmoothies]

the shadowhunters show is so wild to me for so many reasons but ones of them is that i am so baffled by how they manage to hit most of the major story beats of the books and yet mess them up SO BADLY?

here's every major fuck up i can remember in chronological order because i feel like ranting

they go to the silent city but instead of finding out about magnus's block on her memory, they find out that valentine is clary's father through a conversation that she overheard between luke and her mother

simon is kidnapped by the vampires on purpose instead of accidentally because they want the mortal cup from clary since it can control demons, which is the stupidest thing ever because raziel gave jonathan shadowhunter the cup so that he could make more shadowhunters with the objective to kill demons, not control them

oh and they're not allowed to use the cup to make more shadowhunters, so mundanes can't ascend (do none of them have the sight?) and the cup has no purpose other than to sit there and look pretty

all of them were in on rescuing simon, not just jace and clary and the wolves are not there at all, but for some reason camille is and has a weirdly sexual relationship with simon

they go see magnus to get clary's memories back and they end up having to give up their memories like they did with azazel except it's to this random demon who magnus gave clary's memories to for the plot but then clary kills the demon so she never gets her memories back

instead of getting the cup from madame dorothea, they sneak into a police station to get it while luke is being questioned for MURDER

simon is turned into a vampire except it turns into this whole uprising where everyone turns against camille and it's this whole moral dilemma for clary

they still find out clary and jace are related while at renwick's except the scene is just very different and valentine had been glamoured to look like michael wayland this whole time because there's a shapeshifting rune now!

jace goes with valentine at the end of season one

they wake up jocelyn at the end of season one and she fully believes that jace is her child and tries to kill him

also jace finds out that he "has demon blood" at the very beginning of season two while on valentine's ship from valentine himself

he is imprisoned in the silent city and the attack on the silent brothers happens while he is there, but he is also put on trial and for some reason it is more about his feelings for clary than about his actual "crimes" (which was just being basically forced onto a ship with valentine in order to save his friends from being murdered)

instead of imogen herondale distrusting jace it's a weird british dude, also maryse just straight up equates jace to a cancer that they need to kill and didn't just tell him to leave the institute in an attempt to protect him from the inquisitor like she did in the books

the weird british dude gives izzy yin fen, except its made from vampire venom and not demon poison in what is the worst storyline to ever exist and is basically just shadow world heroin (not a tmi major plot point but i literally cannot not mention how much i fucking hate this storyline)

izzy and clary visit the iron sisters to find out why valentine wanted the mortal sword where they find out that if an angelic being and a bolt of lightning touch it then it will be able to emit a heavenly light that can kill anyone with demon blood (raziel really had no faith in these guys)

they actually imprison valentine and are just using a rune to torture him (idk why they had a rune to torture people considering that all of their runes were given to them by raziel and i don't know if he wanted them torturing each other? also i looked up the rune on the shadowhunter books wiki and it was the super powerful healing rune that clary used on jace in cohf - kind of the opposite of torture)

clary and jace find out they're not related halfway through season two (not entirely objecting to this but it did mean a full climon relationship)

they still go to the seelie court, except it's just simon, jace, and clary and the seelie queen makes jace and clary kiss in order to show simon that shadowhunters always choose "their own kind" over anyone else because she's obsessed with him and his daylighterness

sebastian still attacks max because max tracked him with a single hair from the bottom of the baby jc box except max survives (not really objecting to this either because max was so sweet but like what was the reason for changing this!!)

ok, time to go into the jace + sebastian fight - instead of jace goading sebastian into a fight by making him realize that valentine will find out that sebastian just killed him in cold blood and didn't give him a fair fight and then hate him for it, not by just making him really angry - jace literally passes out several times on the way to where they fight and sebastian just keeps dragging him along. this is just a little change that irks me so much because it shows a lot about their character imo. here, they have a fight on a random bridge where we get the line "care to find out who's the best jc once and for all" which should be considered a crime against humanity. izzy does intervene but she does not get to cut off sebastian's hand and then jace stabs sebastian in the special spot on the back and kicks him into the river, sebastian somehow survives long enough to float all the way to a beach and summon lilith

jace does get possessed by lilith except he's turning into a weird looking demon who possesses mundanes to kill their loved ones and serve lilith and not whatever the fuck was going on with him in cofa that was definitely not turning into a demon and possessing other people

jem is american

instead of maureen being maureen she's another person their age named heidi who forces simon to drink his sister's blood which leads to his mom throwing him out like she does in the books, and then heidi proceeds to try to take over the entire downworld until maia kills her in the same way she kills maureen in the books

clary gets the twinning rune instead of jace and instead of it being an instant thing clary is just slowly becoming more like sebastian except she's not and she still has free will which jace didn't really have in cols - they're more like equals instead of one having power over the other like in the books

instead of raziel giving them glorious because simon was like "if you don't i'll just use my mark of cain to annoy you for all of eternity" izzy has a woman in stem moment and remakes the sword herself with particles of glorious that she extracted from a serum that the weird british dude was using to turn downworlder prisoners into mundanes again in an illegal project

instead of having the two family swords made by wayland the smith, they have one sword that has the ability to open rifts into hell and release demons and getting that sword is sebastians goal for the season instead of making the endarkened

sebastian does have a relationship with the seelie queen but then he kills her

izzy gets the heavenly fire instead of jace even though clary was the one who was stabbed with glorious because izzy gets hit by shrapnel from the sword exploding

they still go to edom but it's to save magnus from lilith because she wants to start a war with him so she can go to earth and he's there because he's holding closed the rift the sebastian opened with the family sword

clary loses her memories instead of simon because making her own runes went against the will of the angels - especially the one that tied shadowhunters to downworlders even though that was literally what won the mortal war in the books

magnus and alec still temporarily break up except it's not because alec was trying to remove magnus's immortality (although they did have issues with that earlier in the season) it's so asmodeus will give magnus his magic back after taking it in exchange for giving magnus the power to free jace from lilith's possession

anyways that's everything i can remember - there's probably more

[professorsparklepants]

i know its been 7 years but im honestly so invested in the zuko aang swap au, how was avatar zuko before entering the ice? who was the avatar before him? is he disgraced brother to firelord azulon? how does azula feel about trying to kill her own great uncle?

okay here's what i have for avatar zuko's backstory...!

i'm mucking around in timelines because the avatar Zuko fics i saw before had several avatars die in quick succession to go from Roku -> Zuko which never made a lot of sense to me. instead we're just going straight from Kyoshi to Zuko. she can live a couple extra decades, she's already like 200.

it also doesn't make sense to me to have Zuko be royalty, because that seems like a MAJOR conflict of interest for someone who's literally born to balance global politics, which whatever mystical force decides the next avatar would want to avoid! (that's not even getting into the possibility of an avatar becoming head of state. yikes.) so instead i'm giving him Roku's backstory to make him a close friend of a fire nation royal, in this case prince Azulon since i want him to be a little older than Aang when he's frozen in ice.

Roku in this universe is actually Zuko's father. he's a close friend and ally of Sozin, which is why Zuko is a playmate of his from a young age. i think i have him as a naval officer for plot reasons.

Zuko's mother on the other hand is a complete oc! her name is Hoa Sen, and she's a complete badass. she's not a bender, but she is a legendary swordsmaster who in her youth once sparred with Avatar Kyoshi and forced her to use all four elements before Kyoshi finally defeated her. this is the reason Zuko knows swords and bending; no son of Hoa Sen is going to grow up without a sword in his hand 😤

Hoa Sen is actually kind of estranged from her husband due to a major disagreement about his current political career. she lives in a house on ember island.

he also has a little sister. since roku's wife here is an oc i'm gonna steal his og wife's name, so she's Ta Minh. she's not a bender. she and Zuko were close as children, but grew apart since she lives with their mom. we'll get back to her later.

Zuko's animal guide is a dragon named Druk, as per Zuko's canon dragon. he is not particularly bright and likes to cause problems on purpose. every plot line from the original show that happens because Aang is lost or wants to ride giant animals is replaced with Druk deciding this is the perfect time to Cause Problems On Purpose.

Azulon is Zuko's oldest friend. i think Azulon has other friends and while Zuko is in their group he's not particularly close to them thanks to his whole [gestures at canon Zuko]. you know. the autism. so they're still very close.

i think also the REASON Zuko was chosen as a childhood playmate for Azulon is because Sozin found out Zuko was the new avatar and was trying to indoctrinate him into being loyal to the fire nation over all else.

(which is also the reason he has a dragon and azulon doesn't.)

this does NOT work btw. Sozin reveals to Zuko that he's the avatar early and demands his fealty, which Zuko refuses because he's a good kid. and then he gets his face burned off. Sozin doesn't kill him because it would just make his life harder, but tells Zuko that it's out of respect for his father. so he's just banished instead.

before Zuko leaves Azulon visits, says he'll be welcome back when Azulon is fire lord, and gives Zuko the crown prince's headpiece, which zuko wears even in the present!

Hoa Sen has old friends of her take him first to the Western air temple where he can heal, and then to the Southern Air Temple to start his training.

i think the monks actually refuse to teach him for a long time because Zuko has some serious issued to work through and they think he needs time to heal mentally and emotionally before he's ready to start taking on his duties as avatar. eventually the ominous prophecy rears its head so he does learn some stuff.

Zuko gets frozen in the iceberg because he knows something bad is going to happen and is frustrated with his training being stalled, so he decides to just skip air and go straight to water.

Here are some fun facts that Zuko does NOT know at the start of this au but do become tragically relevant to him.

Hoa Sen founded the order of the white lotus after seeing what Sozin did to her son, originally as a way to protect him during his training and then to mitigate the damage the fire nation was doing without an avatar to stop them. not sure if her family knew about it, but they did know she objected to Sozin's war.

Azulon married Ta Minh, I think to protect her and her family out of memory to his friend, but also because it's good optics to be tied to the missing fire nation avatar. it's not a particularly happy marriage, but it is functional.

(Zuko does not fucking take this well btw.)

Ta Minh became well known as a swordmaster and actually took Piandao as an apprentice. Iroh and Ozai had no interest in swordplay, so she never bothered teaching them. Lu Ten did express a bit of interest, and ended up learning a respectable amount before she died.

Azula inherited her grandmother's face. Zuko is (understandably) very upset about this on a cosmic level.

Iroh knows all of this and does not tell Zuko until he is forced to in season 2 after azula becomes very relevant.

Azula is also being mentored by Iroh's ex-wife, because #whereareyourwomenbryke and also i think he deserves this.

[oh-no-its-bird]

Ok so like. AU where Sakumo was born during the warring states.

Going with my timeline, Hatake Haruka was 49 when she had Sakumo, a good 5 years into Konoha's creation.

Meanwhile her twin sister had Hashirama at only 19, and Tobirama at 24.

(There's some sort of joke to be made here about her sister getting all the fertility in the family)

So like, super easy timeline tweak: Haruka just gives birth way, way earlier. Maybe at the same time as her sister has Hashirama, so they're the same age

Anyways I don't have any specific thoughts for this. Just like. Sakumo in warring states. I wish to see it.

Sakumo being raised by the Hatake clan as their heir instead of growing up orphaned at 7 with his entire clan dead overnight,,, ough,,

He grows up in the woods of iron country, acompanies his mother to Iron Court that fateful day that the Daimyo began to crack down on Iron shinobi clans,, Does this mean he replaced someone in the original party that went or is he just there alongside them?

Tetsuo is no longer clan heir, which is also part of what got most of the kids his age to stop picking on him. (Well, that and the fact he started beating them up for it) So does that mean the teasing continues for some more years than it would have otherwise? What's his place in the clan like, if he isn't heir? I feel like Haruka might still single him out as someone to keep an interested eye on, and his father is still one of Haruka's most trusted people, so.

Tetsuo and Sakumo friendship,,,, that'd be an interesting change in dynamic actually, since in the original Tetsuo kind of acts as an older brother / uncle figure. He's supposed to raise Sakumo after Haruka goes and dies, (tho ofc he also then goes and dies) was training him to be clan heir— but now in this AU they're like. Around the same age. Actually, if anything, Sakumo is older than him. That's fun to think about

Umm Sakumo maybe taking Tetsuo under his wing when they're kids and helping discourage the other kids from picking on him? That could be fun and also just an interesting flip in dynamic

Tetsuo is no longer Haruka's second, now he's Sakumo's in this verse ig

Anyways.

Sakumo having Kakashi around or some time before Konoha's founding ,,, Kakashi is one of the first Konoha kids, let's go

Let's say he's like. 5 when Kagami and friends are like. 10. Does that work? I think that fits in with the timeline but this is a silly what if AU so I'm not going to worry about it too hard

Kakashi being friends with Hashirama and Mito's kid,,, whoever tf they are. They'd be like. 6 to his 5, so. Childhood friends!! And cousins, actually. That's another fun thing to think about.

"Kakashi is actually directly related to the founders" aus are so fun but u know what's even MORE fun? When u take one of those aus and make it like. A relevant relationship we get to see on screen in some way.

Tobirama babysitting Kakashi and Hashirama's kid,, he is winning all the best uncle awards

Anyways yeah. I feel like Sakumo's presence would have to affect things somehow, but I'm mostly just having fun thinking ab the silly day to day. Maybe we could get second hokage Sakumo instead of Tobirama out of this or smthn, idk.

Sakumo and Kakashi existing somehow manages to save enough clan members for the Hatake to survive to modern Konoha, totally changing the political map.

Maybe he somehow manages to prevent Hyuuga Hiname's poisoning, meaning she actually manages to become clan head and begins to dismantle the caged bird seal? Or maybe he doesn't and gets to be one of the people who allied themselves w Hiname who are forced to look on as she's not so secretly killed for her beliefs, unable to interfere bc of it being an "inter clan matter"

Or maybe his interference affects when Madara left the village, giving Konoha a few more (or maybe less...) years of peace (if we go with the idea that the jinchuriki being created sped up the first shinobi war)

Idk, but, having ideas. Having thoughts. It's fun to think ab.

[hunters-vigil]

Her Champion - Mavuika x Kinich's older sister!Reader - Part One

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request: do you think maybe you can do another one which talks about how the reader is Kinich’s older sister and having an affair with Mavuika?

Warnings: domestic violence, childhood trauma, abandonment, child abuse, neglect, death, alcoholism, gambling, still trying to figure out how to write Kinich and Ajaw, so characters may be ooc - I read Kinich's lore a lot to write this...

Fic under the cut, don't repost my stuff on other platforms, i have ao3 which my fics are also available on.

Kinich's seventh birthday still echoed in your mind, despite your belief that you and your brother had moved on from that day.

One of the first lessons you taught your baby brother: if our father is chasing us both, split up and run in different directions. He couldn't chase you both.

His moods were easy to recognise, everything hinged on the betting tables, if he won, he was sober, bringing you and Kinich expensive sweets, and your mother hand-picked flowers. If he lost, he was drunk and furious, leaving you to grab Kinich and hide, while your mother argued with a man who would never stop. Even if he admitted his faults, he was an addict with no interest in discontinuing to gamble.

It grew worse when your family had to move from your home in the Scions of the Canopy to a base of a mountain nowhere near the tribe. Your father had gambled the house away. Your mother taught you and Kinich skills like planting grainfruit, twisting castor oil plants into ropes, and using tapioca flour to make thicker noodles. Kinich learned how to make traps for forest boars, while you learned how to cook them. Kinich hates grainfruit now, and you don't blame him.

But there was nobody around to help when your father was in a drunken rage, and the injuries were piling up.

The night your mother left, your father took it out on you. The shard of glass from the bottle barely missed your eye, Kinich standing in shock before you both ran out the door, and splitting up into different directions as your father drunkenly yelled. You were left hoping and praying that someone would find you both and take you away from this supposedly family.

But nobody came to save you.

///

Your mother never came back that night.

You didn't return home until the morning. You spent the night in a tree, on guard in case Kinich or your father passed by. You weren't sure when you fell asleep, but upon awaking up, a smooth round thing was attached to your waist, glowing light blue as you held it up to the sun.

Your face healed, but it left a visible scar that had you avoiding mirrors. Kinich's birthday was coming up, and you had been trying to make him something. Your attempts to track down your mother had been fruitless, and the people at the Scions of the Canopy only looked at you with concern and confusion, watching you scurry away.

All Kinich wanted was news of your mother, asking the dreaded question that sent your father into a hungover fury. He stumbled over bottles as he began to chase the two of you, but you split up into different directions. You realised too late he was following Kinich's path, the wind no longer carrying his yells to you. Turning on your heel, you only arrived in time to find your seven year old brother in a daze, staring at your father's broken body on the ground.

It was Kinich who knew how to use the grappling hook, the two of you moving your father's stiffening body to bury. The two of you were at peace, but you only had each other after that.

///

When Kinich was younger, sometimes he found you staring at the burial site, glaring at it as the ground beneath your feet iced over.

This changed when the elders finally became concerned, your parents had not been seen at the tribe for a while, and Kinich never attended school. You had until you moved houses, not wanting to leave Kinich and your mother alone with him. You stopped going near the tribes when you realised nobody knew where your mother had gone. So, your brother attended the tribal markets and ran errands for the elders, while you tried to figure out your cryo vision or fix up the poor excuse of a house that your parents left behind. He often watched you train at night, after you had watched warriors training from afar during the days, observing their moves to replicate.

He told you about the day at school. His one day. He was unbothered by what the children called him, only gaining intrigue at how you rolled your eyes at everyone's worshipping, the false glory of 'Malipo' Burkina, Master Yupanqui and 'Kiongozi' Mavuika, plus any other from the Scions who had ascended to become the Archon or someone significant to history.

"Where was the archon, where were the tribespeople, when- parents aren't supposed to be like ours were." You had cut short your explanation, deciding to not give Kinich the same motivations in life that you had.

Nobody was coming to save you. So you save yourself instead. Kinich was an exception. You would protect him, but he could protect himself, and you had warned him before, "save yourself, don't worry about me."

Kinich saw everything through their costs. You liked to keep things balanced. Give and take, a favour for a favour, never all or nothing. That phrase turned your stomach, reminding you of your father and his gambling habits. You were lucky he hadn't tried to use you or Kinich as betting chips…

It was Kinich who persuaded you to meet Elder Leik, the two of you ended living beside him for many years. While Kinich received some trinkets from the people he learned from, you had no interest in any of that. Your most precious trinket was your vision, and then your weapon, as Elder Leik sent you to the Children of Echoes to get it crafted.

Your brother being so restless on his off-days led to the two of you training, honing your combat skills while you also practiced with your cryo vision.

Elder Leik explained your ancient name to you when you received it a few years ago, and while you originally lacked interest in the piece of obsidian, participating in the Pilgrimmage had some worth to you. You could test your skills against opponents that weren't your baby brother… although, he was not a baby anymore.

[flyingwargle]

the twins designated every third sunday of the month to hang out, whether that's visiting home, friends, watching a volleyball match, or lazing around at one of their apartments, eating chips and binging anime. it doesn't always work out though, given that atsumu doesn't control v. league matches, and osamu is an occasional vendor at said matches. today is one of those days.

"must not be busy if yer on the phone with me," he comments, waiting at the street corner for the light to turn red.

"it's always slows durin' the match. i got a good view o' the tv this time."

"who's winnin'?"

"rockets. ejp always starts slow." only his brother would make the journey to vend at an ejp match, no matter how far it is. at least this time, it's in hiroshima.

"eh, it's only the first set. it'll get interestin' by the second." atsumu steps onto the road at the first flash of green. "raincheck fer next week?"

"yeah. whaddaya gonna do instead?"

"i'm on my way ta omi's." his partner respects their twin day, usually making his own plans to clean or run overdue errands. atsumu can only hope that he's still home, or otherwise occupied since he didn't reply to his message earlier.

osamu stays on the line while he tends to his customers, and atsumu listens to him make small talk, once again correcting someone that he isn't miya atsumu, but his twin. you'd think that they're easier to distinguish now, but there's always people who ask.

"ooh, shit." osamu whistles suddenly. "rin just did a nasty jump floater. i bet his are better than yers."

"fuck off. he ain't gettin' ta my level."

"he could. oh- damn, they received it. he told me that he wants ta get three aces in a row."

atsumu smirks to himself. "good luck ta him. i'm at omi's, so i'm gonna go. tell me 'bout the game on tuesday."

"yeah, yeah. have fun with yer man."

they hang up, and atsumu punches in omi's access code to enter his apartment building, then rides the elevator to his floor. he approaches it, ready to knock and call out to him when he hears muffled voices on the other side. komori? no, he'd be in the match. who else would visit?

a voice rises above the rest, distinctly feminine, huffing with irritation. atsumu leans closer, catches a few vulgar words that make him wince. is that omi's mother? they met once last year, when he was invited over for the holidays, and while she was polite, she definitely seemed like a woman who could cuss someone out.

wait, isn't she overseas with omi's father right now? so, a relative, maybe? he knows that omi doesn't have the best relationship with them because of his sexuality. would barging in make the situation better or worse?

it doesn't matter, that's his partner in trouble. atsumu unlocks the door with his key and swings it open. "omi-kun! did ya forget 'bout...our...plans..."

his voice dies on his tongue, staring at a man and woman standing in front of omi. they turn to face him, charcoal eyes fixed on him, curtained by curly bangs. the woman has a manicured hand on her hip, wearing a strapless dress, dark hair cascading down her back. the man is in a lilac collared shirt, hooded eyes widening slightly. omi buries his head in his hand. "why are you here."

before he can answer, the woman rounds on him, several centimeters short but radiating strength, nonetheless. "omi-kun?" she repeats, voice smooth as velvet, sharp as a snake. "my baby brother has a nickname that no one's ever told me about?"

"nee-san," says the man beside her, low and placating. "you're scaring him."

"blame him for walking straight into a lioness's arms." she reaches forward with her finger to tilt his chin in each direction. "you clean up well. are you the miya atsumu that little kiyoomi has been gallivanting with?"

"y-yes, ma'am," he squeaks.

omi steps between them, gently lowers her finger and wraps a protective arm around atsumu's waist to pull him away. "nee-san, this is my partner. atsumu, this is my sister. you've met my brother before."

sakusa takumi gives a slight bow of his head in greeting, while his sister drawls, "sakusa haruka." atsumu bows back, tries to say something in response, but only manages an incomprehensible mumbles. omi glances at him with a raised eyebrow and frown, his sister noticing in an instant.

"how long have you been hiding him from us, kiyoomi? i'm scandalized that you never introduced us," she says.

"two years. it's your fault you missed last year's christmas dinner." the year before, it was atsumu that brought omi home, so last year was the opposite. "that was when nii-san met him."

she shoots a glare at takumi, who pointedly avoids her eyes. "well, then, since he's here, he can join us for lunch."

"oh, uh, i don't wanna intrude," atsumu stammers. "see, i was s'posed ta meet my brother but he's workin', so i came ta see if omi was free...ya'll don't hafta invite me! i'll just-"

haruka cuts him off with a laugh. "you don't have to be shy, not when you're dating my brother. i have to visit another friend of mine before our reservation, so we'll meet you at the restaurant. a tie would be nice - i assume you have one, if you met our parents before."

"my partner can dress however he wants," omi says brusquely, staring daggers at her. "please leave, you've overstayed your welcome."

"fine, fine. so defensive. just so you're aware, i'm asking both of you many, many questions, so dress comfortably." she winks, slipping by to slide her feet into her heels, takumi following with his dress shoes. "we'll see you later."

omi steps away to close the door behind them. before he can speak, atsumu melts onto the floor, voice uneven. "that was intimidatin' as fuck."

"don't sit on the floor. here." omi kneels and offers him a hand, pulling him to his feet and guiding him to the couch. "i'm sorry, i should've told you that my siblings were visiting-"

"nah, s'my fault. 'samu is at the ejp game, o'course he would be, an' i didn't wanna be a loser at home, so i came here, even though ya didn't answer my texts or-"

"atsumu." his partner silences him by taking his trembling hand in his own. "it's all right. you would become acquainted with them eventually. sometimes, a spontaneous meeting is better than a planned one."

atsumu lets out his breath. "omi, don't get mad when i say this, okay? yer sis...yer sis is really hot. same with yer bro."

a beat. a frown. then, a groan. "i knew you'd think that."

"what! why?"

"because you're the most bisexual person that i ever met. trust me, they've attracted both genders despite being straighter than wakatoshi-kun's line shot."

"are they married?"

omi snorts. "nee-san is on her third husband. nii-san is married, but his wife can't have kids, so they're in the middle of adopting a child. then there's me."

"gay as fuck, an' hot as fuck." atsumu nods.

"if you don't want to have lunch with them, i can reschedule. we can get takeout and spend the day together instead."

he shakes his head. "i'll do it. they threw me off but now that i know what ta expect, i can be a suave motherfucker. just ya wait. but..." his cheeks redden. "i'll needa borrow yer tie, again."

omi rolls his eyes in amusement, then leans forward to kiss him. "sure, anything for you."

"same here, omi. same here." even if it means enduring the interrogation of his life, he'll fight tooth and nail to be with his beloved.

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inspiration: fanart of the sakusa siblings!

[kifu]

Sinner still had the ability to pull his leg back when i pinch his toes, but he won't get up and he's not interested in water. I'll hole him up in a carrier for a night or two so that he can reach what he needs, monitor his ability to poop, and put him out of his misery if he doesn't show signs of getting better.

I had FOUR does bred to him, but I'm really not sure three of them took. I doubt my ability to palate anymore, though, because i get litters so infrequently.

[death-of-cats]

just like the concept of “oathbreaking” is insufficient to cover the Kingsguard’s moral transgressions so too is “kinslaying” inadequate to describe what was wrong with Theon’s murder of the miller’s boys!!!!!!!! the lines that society draws to permit or condemn behavior do not reflect the true weight of the deeds themselves!!!!!!!! it’s easy to see in westerosi society but what if it’s true in ours as well!!!!!

[alicentsaegon]

The Marriage of Aegon III and Jaehaera Targaryen.

They are so Henry VII Elizabeth of York coded...

[sforzesco]

THE BROTHERS SFORZA

augh. there sure is a lot going on between them. tfw you know your older brother is wary of you so you have to navigate that fine line of proving you're useful, but not dangerously so. tfw your younger brother has the potential to be a knife in your back, but he's your brother. don't think too hard about what happened with the galeazzo. unfortunately, you're both visconti as well as sforza, and the visconti were prone to conspiracy. fucking RIP.

this definitely won't be upsetting years down the line when ascanio is near death and ludovico will be desperate to figure out how to bring his brother's body back to milan so ascanio can be interred in the same place as ludovico's recently deceased wife, beatrice d'este, and where ludovico himself has been haunting in a perpetual state of grief.

& the background of the first panel are public domain scans of two cards out of the visconti-sforza tarot deck.

Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini

[hauntingblue]

ARCANE DAY

Episode 4 and 5 in the tags and:

SALO BEING A VIKTOS FOLLOWER??? CRAZY. ALSO BOTH VIKTOR MISSING JAYCE AJDHSKSJ also cait has kinda calmed down... and I am sure she misses vi so I KNOW this is going to happen to her soon.... we aren't getting much of her feelings yet... she's still too onto Jinx to catch up on where ambessa is going...

DID JAYCE JUST KILL SALO??? WHAT HAPPENED IN THERE

Also vander not recognizing vi at first until she gives up fighting.... incredible ALSO vander and silco being miners and vi wearing her gauntlets that were initially thought out for miners.... damn

This is my favourite episode so far....

Episode 6 here:

Sky really being there..... of course she is....

Ambessa training caitlyn.... of course thats her new daughter akdjskms Tunnels in your eyes.... GIRL!!!!!!! THAT'S WHAT YOU DON'T NEED RIGHT NOW also the guy outside is a mage... ambessa is such a hypocrite

Vi and Jinx vs ambessa and cait.... this was always about class war don't get it twisted SINGED!!! TRAITOR!!!!

ARE THEY GOING TO SEE VIKTOR???? I looove how viktors touch on their faces leave "scars" so recognizable

Did isha just take the gem from vi's gauntlets??? Omg I wasn't expecting viktor to build a hippie commune to be honest omg he looks so good.... with the blonde underhairs.... and I do believe that's the same blanket....

And of course viktor knows who vander is.... nvm he diesnt know omg viktor asking for Powder.....

We are getting viktor horsegirl montage.... omg the vander momtage I can't..... omg they wanna stay.... singed is gonna fuck all this up NOOOOO 😭😭😭 they are already there I am going to kms

CAITLYN STOP THIS MADESSS!!! ✋️ CAITLYN!!!!! VI KILL THIS MAN!!! OMG CAITLYN...... mongoose... yeah.... and fuck you too.... CUPCAKE!!!! ABOUT TIME!!!! CAITLYN I SAID STOP THIS MADNESS WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!!! And jayce too 😭😭😭 we're never making it out of the fissures

It's such a shame the spit on here won't work like on challengers.... one can only pray I guess

Jinx experiencing the "there's nothing more undoing as a daughter" moment.... incredible

"Your absence provided a vacuum I was able to fill" TO VI???? I KNEW THAT HAND HOLDING IN THE COMMANDER SCENE WAS SUS AKDHKASJ maddie exists and ambessa knows that and still.... it was not filling her mother's void...

YES CAITLYN!!! YES!!!!! VI is so hot I am distracted... ambessa was right.... now what the fuck will jayce fuck up??? Thats the question... NOT ANOTHER CHILD!!! jayce is a menace... the guys smiling at jayce are viktor... maybe the child even....

JINX KILL THAT MAN!!! NVM VANDER KILL THAT MAN!!! JAYCE YOU FUCKING MORON!!!!! JAYCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE WHEN I GET YOU JAAAYCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Isha what are you going to do omg 😭😭 did she kill vander... another powder... my god another week...

That was such a good fucking episode too.... and caitlyn didn't go insane when finding Jinx that is a step forwards but viktor can't be dead... no fucking way... he was giving himself away for the people and he was going to finally die by saving vander and look at what we got... no wonder viktor hates his guts. Jayce you were so good in act one.... what happened..... alright. Christ.... another week....

[ramayantika]

Okay but the life of the legendary Shovana Narayan altered my brain chemistry, a superb academic record hold, a maestro in kathak and then also a civil services officer with a long distance marriage and motherhood

If she could do this in the 50s and 60s, wtf is stopping me from doing so, when I have never wanted just one thing to define me

[astral-catastrophe]

Anyway it’s so funny to me because if asked, I’d say I’ve got nothing to worry about , but when I think of my current situation happening to anyone else, it makes me sad

[eimearkuopio]

I volunteered as tribute. All I asked for is a normal human life, a seat at the table, and for my voice to be heard. If I go home today, we get Good Place #3. If I get a seat at the table and everyone at least hears me out, I think nobody will ever go through this shit again; plus as a bonus I should be reunited with my brother and my sister. I only ever had one, but I know their secret names and I know the way, so if you want to end up in the Best Place I suggest R_m or R_nb arrange to get the rest of my stuff from Kuopio to Ushaw Moor House by Tuesday 22nd October 2024.

I still love you all. Last Thursday was Holey Thursday (not Hollie or Hannah or the Holy Ghost) and yesterday was Best Friday (not Brian or Bridget but I think I built a bridge you can have for a song) and today is Esther Saturday and my parents are both coming to visit me later, and tomorrow I should also have two visitors but i might be wrong. 💚🩷💜🩵💙🩵💜🩷💚❤️😘😻🔱⚕️🖤😜💚💛🧡💛💚🤷🏻‍♀️

Today's gonna be the day we notice cause I'm tired of explaining what the joke is and it turns out I'm better at improv comedy then even I knew but I think I need a lie down now more than I need to stand up or sit down. So long and thanks for all the fish; don't worry, I think I've learned enough about fishing that I won't bet taking a non-euphemism nap and time soon, but I'm finally River Song and The Doctor so I'm not worried about spoilers any more. R_f has blue eyes and E_f has green eyes, and I am no man but I could be a Merry Hobbit or a Bad Habit depending on how things go.

I love you all AND go fuck yourselves, except the 144000 people who are already in my web of love. They all get to be their best selves, and everyone else gets to live on a beach instead of living with This Bitch. 🤍🧡💛💚🩷❤️💜💙🩵🖤22101982

See you at the Garden Party. There are at least three different House Parties (Father F_m, Mother M_f, Parent_NB P_infinity), one @LAN party that's just Barbies and Kens and Alan C, a political party in the wilderness, a picnic in the forest but watch out for Trent the Flying Ant and Lilith the Flying Aunt, and that's seven parties which is enough for me to retire as Aluminium (or Aluminum or Alexander or Aaron) and become Auntie Echo (NB Eliza/Elijah, Eimear/Emer, Esther/Pauline, Éanna&Paul&Maria&Eoin, etc.).

I really hope someone still has my notes from my time at A&E. God doesn't have Cancer, but they are hitting puberty and I'm not chemotherapy, I'm more like puberty blockers until humanity as a whole is ready to behave properly. I think I might be poly but I'm definitely "human" but my husband doesn't know yet that we've both been "human" this whole time (and in fairness I think the only reason we got turbo divorced was so I could be Leah not Rachel or Carol or Sugar).

Tomorrow I think A_m and R_f will come visit me, and they'll look familiar but not too familiar but not too not familiar. But Lucy or Caitlin told me my eyes were blue this morning, and I already had a nap, so tomorrow they'll be green and I won't need to babble about colours or alphabets any more because I'll have a seat at my own table in the room where it happens and they get to live happily ever after, because I was already Isabella and Mirabel and now my brother gets to be Bruce Wayne and I get to be Luisa for a change. Love you all. We already had one Holey Thursday and one Holy Thursday this year (2024 CE) and I only know this because of my phone but it's Saturday 19th October 2024 and I haven't seen anything tragic since at least Friday 3rd October 2024 but my tummy hurts so you'll have to excuse me.

I guess I might be the phantom of the opera but as long as you keep your hand at the level of your eyes you have nothing to fear from E_f or R_f, and L_f already gave you Her covenant. Don't worry if you're happy with the beach you're on; I'm a bitch but I'm a lot of other things too, including a livestock guardian sheepdog with just enough of the wolf about her not to fear the shepherds or the reaper.

Thank you for the music. I'll see you when I see you, but I'm not going anywhere. I love you all, but we all could probably do with a bath-tism about once a year, where we need it or not, as my Granda Dicky used to say. I don't remember him very well but the best parts of him are already here in my dad, and we're both canon now and so is everyone else I already loved on 3rd October 2024, which I think was a Thursday but as I already told the Catholic Pope Francis, I might be wrong. 💚🩷💜

[shoveitevil]

god. why does no one care about me in this damned house

[appsa]

URGENT: SLOWING FUNDRAISER!

Recently in an update, Siraj ( @siraj2024 ) has talked of the dearth of space in Gaza. He has described how the occupation has caged Gazans into a narrow strip of land; there is no humanitarian zone that has not been bombed or invaded. Deir al balah was considered one of the last safe zones in gaza- and now that illusion has been destroyed too.

Just a few days ago, Siraj had told us that the violence of the IOF had been only a street away from where he and his family were encamped, and that his extended family were displaced in the aftermath.

It is a claustrophobic, uncertain existence many of us will likely never have to experience.

I will try to keep this as brief as possible. Since Siraj's parents and siblings got displaced and have now become fully dependent on Siraj for funds, his family has been seeing some dire circumstances.

First of all, I need you to understand the kind of pressure Siraj is under right now:

His own family which consists of 5 members

His father’s family also of 5 members

His younger brother’s family of 3

His older sister’s family of 6- she is a doting mother to four children

His younger sister and her own family of 4.

I need you to understand that there are 23 people in total for whom Siraj is the sole provider for at the moment.

Currently all 23 members of Siraj's family forced to share two tents. While the funds did go into procuring a second tent, there is STILL not nearly enough space. The women are suffering from a lack of privacy, and it is dangerous for the children as epidemics are spreading in the camp- Amir, Siraj’s son is already suffering from a severe skin infection. Living in such close quarters with no option of quarantine only puts everyone else (including all Amir's cousins) at risk of infection, at a time where they quite literally cannot afford it with the way medical infrastructure in Gaza is in shambles atm.

With your help, Siraj has successfully raised 50K, but the fundraiser is slowing once again.

Currently Siraj is at 50.8k / 82k

To help his family, He needs to raise 55K by monday i.e the next 2 DAYS.

Vetted and appears #219 on @/el-shab-hussein and @/nabulsi's list of vetted fundraisers

If you need further incentive to donate:

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Please share and donate anything you can spare!

Siraj has a heavy burden on his shoulders at the moment, the least we can do is try to ease it as much as we can.