#I think I'm guaranteed to get at least one

[woso-dreamzzz]

Leaving: Christmas

Alexia Putellas x Teen!Reader

Summary: Christmas with Menor

It's not often that Eli gets to have all three of you in the same place, not with you off travelling the world for your tennis, practically in a different country every month.

But the winter months is one that she can almost guarantee you'll be home for.

You finish your tennis season on a high, lifting the trophy at the WTA Finals before you spend a few more weeks in Poland with your training team coming up with a rough schedule of what you want to compete in next year.

But you're home now which means that Eli has all three of her daughters in the same country. Which also means mandatory days out together on the run up to Christmas.

It's easier to get you sorted than Alexia - still playing football every week - and Alba, still teaching as the schools haven't gone on holiday yet.

You're back in your childhood bedroom and seem to delight in sleeping the day away and only getting up around two in the afternoon to migrate from your bed to the sofa.

Occasionally, you roll out of bed early in the morning to take part in some sponsorship commitments.

Your tennis season has been nothing short of extraordinary this year and you've somehow become Nike Tennis' golden girl along the way with all of your tennis gear bar your racket being supplied by them.

Like how now, you and Alexia are wearing the exact same Nike shoes as you all walk through the Christmas market together.

"Mami!" You complain over the noise of the crowd," Mami, make them stop!"

Somewhere between the stall making handmade Santas and the stall with fresh paella, Alexia has gotten you into a headlock and is none too kindly ruffling your hair while Alba pinches your cheek between two fingers.

"She started it!" Alexia yells back.

"Alexia," Eli says with a sigh," You are thirty years old-"

"Yeah, Alexia!" You butt in," You're old."

"No, y/n, that's not what I meant," Eli tries to correct you but she's interrupted yet again.

"Yeah, older than you!" Alexia says," Which means you're meant to do what I say! Listen to your elders!"

"Oh? So you're elderly now? Maybe you should sit down, Ale, and rest your old back!"

You shove her off of you, stamping on her foot before taking off down the street.

"Hey! Get back here!" Alexia yells, taking off after you as she forces her way through the crowd.

Alba shakes her head in mock disapproval. "You know, Mami-"

"No, Alba," Eli says," I will not only buy you stuff tonight. Stop trying to get your sisters in trouble."

Alba shrugs. "It was worth a shot."

By the time Eli and Alba catch up, you and Alexia have forgotten whatever argument you've been having in favour of nosing around some of the stalls together.

Somehow in the time it's taken for Eli and Alba to return, you've both gotten cups of hot chocolate with caramel sauce and marshmallows along with little Christmas ornaments to hang on the tree.

"Must you two spend so much money?" Alba complains as she points at the little paper bags that Eli hadn't even noticed.

"It's not our fault that we've got a lot of it saved up."

Alba rolls her eyes. "It's exactly your fault! You don't have to keep winning so much in prize money."

You shrug. "It's not my fault I'm good at what I do."

"It's your fault you're not spending it on me," Alba says, tongue poking out of her mouth.

"If I buy you stuff, will I get sister points?"

Alba doesn't even have to think about it. "Yes."

You grin. "What do you want?"

Eli sighs. "Alba, please stop exploiting your little sister's goodwill."

"Yeah Alba," Alexia butts in, her own tongue sticking out," Don't exploit our little sister."

"You do it all the time!"

"I'm allowed to!"

"Girls," Eli says wearily," Please stop exploiting each other."

It's a weak request, one that Eli knows will be ignored but she has to at least attempt it, if only to look like a good mother in a crowd of strangers.

She easily tunes out the bickering of the three of you as she turns to the hot chocolate stall and buys herself a cup of it.

You and Alexia have good taste, she can give you that because it's delightfully creamy and Eli takes a long gulp before turning back around.

She's not surprised that the three of you have disappeared.

In all honesty, she's surprised you all stuck around for so long.

Usually, the three of you go off by yourselves the moment you step into a market. Eli's kind of been a bit antsy for you to all disappear. She does her best Christmas shopping when none of you are around.

"Alexia!" You complain," Hurry up! Alba's saving us a spot in line."

"But..." Alexia pretends to stumble, making herself seem suddenly weak and weary. "I...I don't know if I can go on! You know, with my old bones!"

"Alexia, you're so dramatic!"

She grins. "Yes."

"Come on!" You say," I want to go on the drop ride!"

"You always want to go on the drop ride!"

"Exactly," You say, pulling her more forcefully than before," Because it's tradition! Don't ruin tradition!"

Alexia laughs, finally having stopped digging her heels in to throw her arm over your shoulder.

"You know I'll never break tradition."

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

Edwin, Charles, and Monty (Holiday AU: Christmas Part 2)

“You know, I’m a bit nervous about getting something for my son and his partners,” the woman says, “See, I started dating someone recently, and this is the first time I’ve really gotten the chance to really spend time with my son in person since we became serious.” She sighs, fingers drumming against the bookshelf. “My first relationship was, as you kids say, a shitshow,” the woman says. “But since I got divorced, I started learning about new facets of myself. And I fell for someone new.” She pulls her phone out of her pocket and shows Monty the photo on her lock screen. 

Where Monty’s potential customer is beaming ear from ear, her brightly-colored dupatta gleaming beneath the lights of a butcher-shop, the woman next to her is almost stern-looking in all black, tattoos ringing her neck, a butcher shop logo on her black shirt, dark hair pulled back into a bun. She would be incredibly intimidating, if it weren’t for the small smile on her face.

The woman giggles. “And I'm a vegetarian, can you believe?”

Monty can’t help his own laugh, because god, he knows a thing or two about finding love in the least expected of places.

But then the woman’s lips purse, and it feels like all warmth has been sucked out of the shop. “Now, my son- he doesn’t know that I am dating a woman.”

Well, her son better not be a dick, because Monty doesn’t do violence at all, not with his mother’s tendency to grab his neck, but he’s about ready to fight the guy on her behalf. “Do you think that he’s gonna be homophobic?”

The woman laughs, high and hearty and bright. “Oh hell no. He has a boyfriend of his own, came out years ago as bisexual.” Her smile holds true, but her voice cracks slightly as she says: “I’m the one who’s a little bit late.”

If there is one thing in life that Monty is an expert on other than the zodiac, it's second chances. It's jumping into the deep end on something that has no guarantees, no matter how scared you are, because everything in life is terrifying and if you don't stare into the abyss, how are you ever going to get across the bridge to the other side?

What this woman is doing is brave.

-aletterinthenameofsanity, it came a flower bright (amid the cold of winter)

'Cause in my head (In my head, I do everything right)

When you call (When you call, I'll forgive and not fight)

Because ours are the moments I play in the dark

We were wild and fluorescent, come home to my heart

-Lorde, Supercut

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[emmavakarian-theirin]

so i've got my follow up appointment today to see if they finally got all the cancer this time after 3 attempts because despite being told i was meant to receive the results prior to the surgery that day i still haven't gotten them and it's been a week :)))

[spaghett-onaplate]

depression is really weird actually wdym i spent 2.5 years of my life in bed

[unproduciblesmackdown]

has happened plenty around iconis goings on but what an all-timer

[flockofdoves]

i really really really don't get how anyone has the time to do most assignments. like yes i know that my job takes up a lot more of my time than it does for other students but i've been working on all of my assignments i was behind on almost nonstop 12 hours a day with the exception of graduation weekend since the 11th and i'd already worked on those projects as much as was possible when school was in session too. but even just counting from the 11th if i was to divide those hours of work by the days from when most of those projects got assigned thatd be consistently every single day more time scheduled for work than i even have on my best days. and thats for shitty half finished assignments. i dont know. i guess i'm just like really really slow and also have a horrible perfectionist tendency that tends to just result in me embarrassingly crashing and burning instead of actually having nice quality things to show for

[palms-upturned]

Sorry for being late today coming online, a lot has happened and I am trying to think about the best way to organize this blog going forward. For now though I will try to get the list updated quickly and read through my messages/@'s

[mrbrrop]

fuck I hate being poor, I had to eat the most disgusting rice I've ever tasted tonight (I don't even know what was in it), and I don't even know if I'll be able to eat anything but bread tomorrow for lunch, my fridge is fucking empty, I had to say yes to my MOTHER to go eat out with her tomorrow night cause I wouldn't have been able to eat if not and it will be like that until my dad gets payed on the 28th... Fuck inflation! Fuck life! Fuck food! I want hot water, I want cold water, I want food for every meal, I want FUCKING HEATING IN THE GODDAMN WINTER! I want to know that it's guaranteed Every. Single. Month. Instead of having to ask my friend to steal bread for me at the cafeteria and then have her bring me food cause she's worried for me.. I am fucking tired of capitalism, it's gonna kill us all one by one until there's no one left anymore.

[kerosene-saint]

hashtag one of the few jobs I can do as a physically disabled person is like. live streaming and being a youtuber. which is generally regarded as VERY BAD FOR YOUR MENTAL HEALTH. which really fucking sucks considering I am physically disabled and am much more likely to have mental health problems and already do and have for a long time.

[july-19th-club]

hate when i'm having insomnia and i cant point to the exact reason . which to be fair is a problem i have elsewhere but i want to be able to pin down a specific thing i did and go welp won't do that again and then the problem would stop . but instead i do everything 'right' according to what has worked perfectly every single night for a month . and then it doesn't work for some bullshit reason .

[sysig]

Tainted batch (Patreon)

[ronanlynchbf]

basically there's been a void inside of me since i was 6 and that's what's wrong with me.

[mirrortouchedsea]

getting motivated to work on that kaokana fic finally and i have added like 1k this week.... so much progress for me i'm so happy

[callixton]

also no offense but if i don't end up getting into nti next year and i Don't get the student full length. when i am the only director in our year who actually plans to go into this professionally and hasn't decided to change paths post college. well i will be so so so upset

[crehador]

ok taking a serious look at who the pt 2 cards might be, possible candidates are ichiro samatoki jyuto kuko doppo saburo

number of events since last appearance: ichiro (3), samatoki (12), jyuto (2), kuko (2), saburo (9), doppo (4)

number of gacha appearances since last free appearance: ichiro (1), samatoki (1), jyuto (3), kuko (2), saburo (1), doppo (2)

so if jyuto is one of the pt 2 ssrs then i feel like he absolutely must be free, but he and kuko showed up so recently that it feels like they aren't likely to be ssrs again so soon (and if they are then likely not on the same banner again since they were together just 2 events ago)

samatoki and saburo haven't been seen in the longest, and they do both have fairly unique designs (cardigan for samatoki oh my god that cardigan and the uniform + an additional vest for saburo) so imo it's looking likely they'll be cards

based solely on the numbers the third card should be doppo, and that seems possibly... likely? since he's already shown on hifumi's card? (like how the roller coaster cards basically previewed one another)

but with the smic plot brewing it does feel odd that ichiro wouldn't be an ssr as well

so

samatoki (free) + ichiro and saburo on paid banner

seems most likely to me

but doppo (free) + samatoki and saburo on paid banner is possible also.........

i guess theoretically doppo + ichiro + samatoki is possible too but seems less likely considering how long saburo's been gone

also possible that they really will just throw jyuto back in and have a jyuto (free) + samatoki and ??? paid banner

tl;dr I DON'T KNOW SHIT. BUT SAMATOKI SHOULD BE THERE. FOR SURESIES.

[sylviareviar]

Curious but how did you come up with your OC? Is she her own fandomless OC you have verses for, or has she always been one in the Persona universe?

Truth be told, Sylvia is a self-insert OC. I have other verses of her, and her background is usually different in every one, to better explain her circumstances. It's just, her Persona verse is the most active one I have on Tumblr. I came up with her in middle school, when I was at my lowest point, and Sylvia became my go-to comfort character ever since, because... she helped me escape.

But the truth is, I have lots of verses for her. Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's is one (which I don't actually use on here since I don't have any 5D's moots, but I am writing a fic about it on Wattpad-- it's the kind of fic that I'm not really proud to have, but I'm too attached not to write it, so into the trash bin it goes, I guess). I also have verses like Pokemon, in which she only accumulates her trauma after going out on a Pokemon journey, or Fire Emblem, where she's a glass cannon mage tasked with defending her lord (and maybe falls a little ill because of all the magic she's got inside her).

There are others, of course, but at the moment I can't think of many, since right now I'm hyperfixated on the Persona series, but if there are any other fandoms I like that I want Sylvia to be a part of, chances are she's there, with at least a basic background that I can build on if I start focusing on it again (like My Hero Academia). Oh, but I don't actually watch popular anime like One Piece, Bleach, Death Note, or Demon Slayer. Especially not Fullmetal Alchemist; I watched it when I was younger and got traumatized by the chimera dog. It's a little bit tricky, but I mostly find myself attracted by JRPGs, which is when I start to wonder, "I wonder what it would be like for Sylvia here? What kind of background would she have? How would she interact with the characters?" Building her up from there, coming up with funny scenarios with other characters, creating mischief and angst and blending the two into a believable character... It's all a lot of fun for me.

Sylvia being a self-insert doesn't mean that I take everything personally when I RP. Instead, the way I act with her feels more like she's a "doll" or an act that I play with. If other characters have personally hurt her, that's not an attack on me, nor is it an attack on her. It is an in-character interaction, much like how two actors who act out characters on stage that fight one another doesn't mean that the actors themselves are fighting.

The way she looks and is as a character is built in ways I can relate to, and it helps me to cope with the real world and real traumas I have. In a way, Sylvia could actually be my own personal Persona-- a mask I wear to get through the real world.

Sylvia's appearance is based purely on what I would find ideal on myself, and is sorta like what I think my personality looks like if it were a person. Her background, though, is something I have fun playing around with and building with the world, and I do my best not to break the boundaries of whatever world she's in, but bend them a little bit to make her seem unique without trying to take attention away from other, more important characters.

I guess you could call Sylvia almost a "trauma response," but I prefer to think of her more as a "special interest," because through her, I can learn better how to write, how to behave myself, and simply have fun interacting with canon characters.

Also, exhibiting some of my own personal habits through her helps me identify my faults as a person, and figure out things that I need to work on versus what things may be cute or fun in an objective sense, which I could leave alone after a bit of moderation. Such as...

...m-my habit of rambling. Or my dislike of loud noises.

But not everything Sylvia does is the same as me! For example, I don't actually live on a farm like Sylvia does in both the Pokemon and Persona 5 verses. My home is actually in a suburban area. Sylvia's location also isn't exactly the same as mine, and depending on the verse, her skillset isn't the same as mine either-- the only things that remain the same are her like of drawing, singing, and writing. Sometimes it isn't possible for her to play a flute, or to play video games, or even to just ride a bike. So really, how close she is in depiction to the actual me depends on the verse, but all of it is simply to have fun.

I hope that explained Sylvia as a concept sufficiently. I know a lot of people are uncomfortable RPing with self-inserts, so I'm already very grateful for the people who are willing to RP with her, and who haven't dismissed her as cringe or disgusting. Believe me, I've tried to let her go years ago, but every time, it never worked. So I'm sort of stuck. But I think if I practice with Sylvia long enough, I could start writing other characters with their own silly nuances and overly specific habits too.