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frangipanilove · 7 months ago

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"Hope is the North Star, Let it Guide You" ...to Green(e)land?

More on the North/bear/Arctic symbolism

So, the first non-spoiler reviews are out, and a couple of things REALLY stood out to me. This might be nothing, but it could be something, and I thought it was worth mentioning. Take it with a grain of salt because after all, it is wild speculation over scenes we haven’t seen yet.

According to this article from gamesradar.com, Carol and Ash will make a “bizarre” stopover in Greenland on their way to Europe. That tickled my TD brain immensely, because Greenland is another one of those references I’ve just been patiently waiting for for years:

Greenland is a large island located in the North Atlantic. It is autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, and most of it lies above the Arctic Circle. The capital city is Nuuk, formerly known by it’s Danish name Godthåb, which literally translates to “good hope”:

I’ve been writing about the North Star symbolism in many posts over the years. The TLDR of it is that it all ties into Beth through the DC spoon from 4x12 Still, the theory is that the spoon (literally a Little Dipper) is a metaphor for the Little Dipper, which is the star constellation where we find the North Star/Polaris, foreshadowing Beth reuniting with TF, and returning “home”. Keep in mind that the Latin names of the Big and Little Dipper are Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, the Greater and Lesser Bear. I’ll get back to it shortly.

At the crux of the North Star symbolism is finding “true north” a well known metaphor for finding your true direction in life, including finding true love.

We also saw this symbolism in full display in 7x2 The Well, when Carol was wheeled around in a wheelchair at the Kingdom, while a quote on the wall about the North Star featured prominently in the shot: “Hope is the North Star, Let it Guide You”.

The quote with the North Star reference foreshadowed Carol finding her “true north” at the Kingdom. She found love with Ezekiel, and perhaps more importantly, she found a son in Henry. She found her true purpose in life.

In TWDU, the North Star is symbolically synonymous with “home”, as in “home is where the heart is”, “home” is where your loved ones are. We saw Carl define the meaning of the North Star symbolism back in season 5: “If you get lost at night, find that star”.

The North Star will guide you home, it will reunite you with your family. It symbolizes "home", "family" and "reunion".

“Home” is where you belong. It’s a mental state, more than a geographical location, but in TWDU the symbolism is often represented by various expressions of “northern” stuff and thangs like snow, ice, polar bears, Alaska license plates etc.

I’ll quickly go through the main points of my hypothesis, because I’ve written so much about it in other posts. Just search for North Star on my blog and about a million posts should come up.

In 4x12 Still, we saw Beth pick up what has become known as the "DC spoon", literally a little dipper. We later realized it was symbolically synonymous with the Little Dipper, the constellation where the North Star is.

We know that “bear” symbolism on the show ties into the North Star symbolism because the Little Dipper, the constellation where we find the North Star/Polaris, is called Ursa Minor in Latin, which means Lesser Bear. So "bear" symbolism is synonymous with North Star symbolism, which, as mentioned above, means “home”.

We’ve seen other references to this symbolism through the various exemples of “north” symbolism on the show, such as the Alaska license plate in 5x16 Conquer, where you can see the Alaska state flag with the Big Dipper and North Star/Polaris:

Remember how one of the guys at the car shop that Carol ran into in TWDDD 1x6 was called Juno, a play on the name of the Alaska state capital Juneau. The other guy was conveniently called Grady... the symbolism of which should be self-explanatory…

In FTWD 6x3 Alaska, we follow Dwight and Althea on their quest of finding driver’s licenses from all 50 states, where Alaska and Hawaii proved to be the most difficult ones to find. And yet, in 6x3 they found an Alaska driver’s license. Dwight insisted it was a “good omen”.

Dwight was reunited with Sherri later that episode, the love of his life, his “true north”:

Seems like the North Star symbolism indeed is a good omen.

Alaska is obviously the northernmost state in the US, and is therefore a perfectly valid “north” reference in its own right, but in addition to that, and perhaps more interestingly, Alaska is (like Greenland), partly in the Arctic, meaning large parts of their territoty lies within the Arctic Circle.

And anyone familiar with my writing knows how much I love to explore the symbolism in TWDU from an etymological point of view, which rarely disappoints:

Yup, the word “Arctic” comes from Greek “arktos”, which means “bear”, and in this case it specifically refers to the bears in the sky, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, the constellations otherwise known as the Big and Little Dipper, the same bears that Beth’s Little Dipper/DC spoon is a reference to.

And now that I’ve mentioned that, let’s check out the coat of arms of Greenland:

Further, the “north” symbolism ties into the symbolism we see around navigation and compasses. The whole point with navigating with a compass is to determine which direction is north, and from there decide where you need to go. Like Carl explained, just find the North Star and it will guide you home.

Or, as mentioned in King Ezekiel’s quote from the Kingdom proclaimed; “hope is the North Star, let it guide you”.

Or, as we saw with Henry's compass rose t-shirt. It was a representation of that for Carol, her true north was with her family at the Kingdom:

In TWD season 11 we came to know the Commonwealth, and while it wasn’t without its fair share of drama, it eventually came to be a peaceful home for TF, many of which found love there, started families, and settled down. That was foreshadowed by this massive compass rose on the floor of the former train station:

On compasses, the red needle always points north, and it therefore ties into the "red" symbolism which I’ve written about here and here, where the hypothesis is that the color red represents "the living color", or resurrection if you will. It's the color of circulating blood, which is a prerequisite for life. And keep this in mind because I'll revisit it shortly.

In 5x13 Alone, a broken compass was seen in the other storyline, the one parallel with Beth and Daryl's. A subtle hint of what was to come for Daryl and Beth later that episode? Where north/North Star/compass symbolism represents home/reunion, a broken compass perhaps represents the opposite; separation?

In TWDDD 1x5 Deux Amours, we saw a clock that bore a striking resemblance to Beth’s DC spoon from 4x12 Still, and in my opinion, it was a blatant callback to Beth:

It had the same type of detailed engravings, and interestingly, where Beth’s spoon was a metaphor for the Little Dipper/North Star/Polaris, the ultimate tool for navigation, a clock is actually also a perfect metaphor for a compass, which obviously also is an excellent tool for navigation:

Because yes; clocks can be used as compasses. I wrote a post about it here, along with all the reasons why I believe the clock was a callback to Beth's DC spoon.

And what did we see in TWD 5x9 WHAWGO, the episode directly after Beth had been "killed"?

We saw a blanket with a pattern of polar bears dressed in red scarves, red as in "the living color", and a clock where the hands pointed towards the "5" and the "8" and the "10".

Everyone knows that TD has "perfected" (lol) the art of interpreting clocks to the extent that we could probably publish a 10 part encyclopedia on clocks alone. Let me just go on a brief tangent on how I interpret this particular one:

One hand points to the 10 minute mark. "10" can be interpreted as Roman numeral "X", which can also be interpreted as a cross, symbolizing "death" and "resurrection". Beth's death and resurrection.

One hand points to the 5 hour mark. In my opinion, we can plausibly interpret that as a nod to the season in question, season 5, when Beth "died"

Then finally, the red hand points to the episode when she "died", episode 8 of season 5, or 5x8 Coda. But the fact that the hand is red, "the living color", reveals a plot twist. Beth's not really dead. She will resurrect in due time.

And when is this mythical "due time" going to arrive?

Well, other clues, such as the blanket with polar bears dressed in red scarves behind the clock, suggests that when we start to see symbolism that revolves around polar bears, is when we should start to pay attention.

Basically everything I've written in this post is about this particular "family" of symbolism. The North Star symbolism, the bear symbolism of Ursa Major and Minor, the fact that "Arctic" means "bear", the fact that the coat of arms of Greenland is a polar bear, the fact that the potentially resurrecting person in question's last name is Greene, and now we finally get a reference to Greenland...

All of these things and many others suggest that now might be the time to start paying attention.

And now, according to the review from gamesradar.com, we’re getting a Greenland reference! It's just what the doctor ordered! And according to the reviewer, it’s a “bizarre” little stop-over, which suggests it makes little sense in terms of the plot, which is usually an indication that it’s mostly included for symbolism reasons.

So, what does it mean? Is Beth on Greenland?

Probably not, in fact I believe that's highly unlikely. I think the "bizarre" Green(e)land stopover is just a little symbolic "snack" for us TD symbolism hunters. I believe that the big reveal will happen probably in season 3, in Spain, which I've outlined the reasons for in other posts, such as this one.

But remember the tagline for the season, "to find home is to find each other". Certain factions of the fandom interpret this as to mean Carol and Daryl are each others “home”. And sure, in a way they are. They’re very close best friends, family, actually, as we over the past few months have learned, through the most un-ambiguous, fiercly insistent friend-zoning PR-campaign ever seen in the history of the universe.

And as I've described in this post, the North Star symbolism is about finding your way home.

But they’re not each others "true north". That Carol, on her way to finding Daryl, randomly touches down on Green(e)land, of all places, is a clue about what Daryl’s “true north” is. She's not touching down on Peletier-land, or Carriere-land (as in Isabelle Carriere). She's specifically touching down on Green(e)land.

#team delusional #team defiance #bethyl #daryl dixon #beth greene #the walking dead #twd tboc #tboc #the book of carol #twddd

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venomvalley · 9 months ago

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If you have any more thoughts on the Resident Evil Appalachian setting idea, I beg that you share them🤲🏻 I can't get it out of my head, it's so cool

oh i am SO glad you asked because i have THOUGHTS!!!! it would tie in so well to our haint stories/folklore too!!!! lemme write a lil blurb

btw a warning for animal death and body horror (typical resi stuff)

folks living up in the hollers start hearing screams during the night. nobody round these parts is brave enough to go check, not after what our mammaws have said about the things that come alive in these woods past sunset. (there’s a reason why we’re supposed to be home when the sky starts to darken.)

the hunters lookin for deer sift through the foliage in search of a good spot to set up camp and see the flutter of haints through the leaves, dressed like lost soldiers tryna find their way back home. only one man was brave enough to follow, and he was never seen again.

(the shiners are different, you see. these soldiers say nothing as they accept the glass jars filled with clear liquid, an apple slice, and a stick of cinnamon. it’s a peace treaty only good corn liquor can provide.)

animals come down from the mountains and cross the two-lane roads. a common occurrence especially during rut season, and nobody suspects a thing til a driver catches a doe in their headlights, feasting on her baby. she looks toward the half-crazed woman with front facing eyes and walks toward the car with a gait too long for her limbs, joints popping beneath the skin.

word spreads around town like wildfire: the deer are actin strange. dogs howlin at all hours of the night. the remains of stray cats are found scattered across people’s yards.

it ain’t til one of the kids—a rambunctious lil thang, always scraped up from climbing trees and falling in the creek—ventures a little too far past the treeline that the consensus grows to alarm. sturgill’s baby ain’t made it back home yet. been gone for over a day.

folks up the holler start combing the woods, and these folks slowly go missing. must be one a them abandoned mine shafts people talk about. people get too close and fall in. there ain’t no gettin back out.

until sturgill’s baby comes home. his baby but not, pale as a corpse and stinking of death, and sturgill embraces his baby with open arms. don’t give a damn about no dirt on their clothes or leaves in their hair. but his baby’s grown teeth, you see. rips their daddy’s throat out without so much as a word.

but word cain’t travel fast enough, it seems, and nobody’s got the mind to kill a baby. it don’t matter no way. the virus is already in the water. everybody’ll be dead come sunday.

#was hoping somebody would ask me this #love talkin about appalachia i love it #asks #iamcautiouslyoptimistic #hillbilly resi

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p-wrryyy-mordial-soup · 1 year ago

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Hiiii :3 heres my pack of losers (my x-rank team) because i needed ghost to actually have a team :]. heres a link to all my splatoons on toyhouse

seperate refrences, little blurbs about them and color alts where they all share eachothers colors below the thang v enjoy my word vomit idk how to write character stuff out teehee

sorry his ref is a year old and rushed for artfight </3 also the age is wrong i think i changed it to 23

he's from around where the deepsea metro is/was. had to leave because of unstable surroundings from an unknown to him cause. he's best friends with Rust and her kids, im gonna be honest i haven't actually thought through how they met and ive just realized this oops. since he spent most of his life underground and now lives in the splatlands he gets sunburnt way too frequently to not be covered up constantly, though he wears thing like tank tops and shorts during splatfest since those mostly occur during the night.

He met wisteria and ember first and then 72. they didnt apoint him as leader nor do they really care to have one but he's the tallest so everyone assumes its him. he's the most softspoken out of the 4 of them but thats a really low bar, he has a hard time making decisions but once he does he will die on that hill

(since its not on his ref like the other three)

72 escaped the metro before agent 8 went through it, he had found a memcake that was dropped after a test giving him just a clear enough mind to think for himself some. he ended up finding his way out after a while of accumulating a couple more memcakes, barely any where his though so hes walking around with memories that aren't his. It also took him a while to get used to the fact he isnt a soldier nor a test subject anymore. If he saw another sanitized mollusk he'd probably hide or run away </3.

72 met Ghost while after wandering around the area for a while, and ended up crashing in his car the whole time on ghosts way back to the splatlands (he thought 72 was like, drunk or something since he was tumbling around and seemed to be not the most coherent). he doesnt blink or breath unless hes actively thinking about it :[.

he had a hard time discerning things for a while but hes gotten better, at first he thought ember was just a weird octoling because she wears the old octoling goggles. we beat the evil soap with friendship in this house!!!

personality wise hes pretty hyper and cheerful which isnt usually your first thought upon seeing a zombie, forgot his age but hes an adult, he was encouraged to pick his own birthday :]

I have the least down for him at the moment, there will be more on her prommy </3 she's 21

She's a callie superfan with a vulgar sense of humor, usually the one who purposefully makes other players angry. born and raised in the splatlands she knows all the places to hide and get you lost in.

he's been friends with ember the longest, they where online friends until ember moved to splatsville. was introduced to ghost and 72 later by ember, he likes to antagonize 72 (think sibling antagonizing, theyre both in on it). down to fist fight you in the back of a waffle house

Originally from the inkopolis outskirts, they're 31

Ember's both a video game and turf/anarchy streamer, she has camera in their goggles for the latter. bad habit of talking in twitch/internet lingo outside of streaming. Once she has eyes on something its nearly impossible to get her to do something else. Very friendly outside fighting, will give you nice words and a pat on the back after a game whether they won or not.

met ghost while playing turf war in a random que, he was, in her words, "a bit to intense to be playing in turf" and told him after the game that he should try out anarchy, he was scared of it since he was new to the area. they ended up teaming up and playing a couple games together, later inviting wisteria and eventually 72.

theres def more to these guys but it will take me a long time to get the words in my head to cooperate 🙏im better at answering specific questions about things then coming up with what to write myself

have some color alts :3

#splatoon #resh rambles again #my art #oc ghost #oc wisteria #oc 72 #oc ember

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frosting-surfeit · 23 days ago

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what's your favorite, and least favorite Invader ZiM episode? Would prefer a long answer, but don’t force it.

GAAASSPPPPP TY FOR THE ASKKK

(And thanks for telling me you prefer a long answer :333333 i love to yap!!)

Ive talked about it before here!! And here when my fav was germs♡.....germss is such a lovely ep....

And currently i dont exactly have a fav but if i had to choose....?? Very strangely id say ....bolognus maximus.... i cant believe im saying this!! All because of that one user wow

I used to find this episode kinda cringe inducing and laughable instead of eerie and funny, its still kinda like that but ive come to really appreciate it since that user made me realise this episode was body horror and it lead me to actually find it enjoyable !! (except for that lil chase they do near the end, on paper its funny but when i actually look at it its still just cringe and laughable for me sadly)

Ive come to really dislike how off the pacing in the writing and animation is in a lot of later iz episodes... and this one has just NONE of that... Its all solid throughout... i think thats what made it super rewatchable lately for me... it all flows so well... the soundtrack, the jokes, the transitions etc. Just everything on top of the pacing and i love it...!!

There's a cute lil team up between my blorbos ... zim not lying when he said there wasnt a cure... i love that they dont find one.... dib actually scaring zim for a sec before he slaps him away is just fucking gold... it never gets old... but literally every interaction between the two is gold in this episode and after realizing that zim and dib had much less episodes where they interact a lot like this than i remembered... its lovely... so very lovely for me....

But omg you caught me wanting an opportunity to talk about a small scene ive been thinking a lot about lately... for some reason........

Dont ask me why but i just.... find this scene so odd and out of place in the best possible way... i cant wrap my head around it.

Zim literally minding his own fucking business and Dib bothering him but not out of malice or to rile zim up or rub anything in his face or anything... he just... mostly asked because he's... fucking ANNOYING. He just took one look at zim and just dropped this without even thinking. And i have no clue if its all in my head but either way im insane about the line delivery. It makes dib sound like hes going "nah bro are you STILL mad at me for that thang?" "Are you seriously gunna give me the silent treatment now?"

Like a fucking

childhood friend who knows you on such a molecular level to the point he stopped apologizing to you entirely at some point along the way years ago and instead now reconciles with you by saying stuff like that and i just

I eat this shit up like im fucking starving and rabid it tickles my brain in ways no one can comprehend but anywho

Zim obviously fucking snaps, i mean the guy literally had meat fused to his face because of dib and like .... thats when the classmates make fun of him and that trigger is then directed at DIB... claiming he was laughing when he was the only one that wasn't in the whole class and .... once AGAIN ... it shines he didnt even mean to anger zim he was just being ANNOYING... he just stays chill while zim threatenes him and i AARRAFGHHFHGH it looks like dib wasn't even looking for a reaction, he just mindlessly fucking interacted like that

Overall the focus throughout the entire thing felt like it fell ENTIRELY on zim and dib interactions so i guess this became one of my favs lately after years of avoiding it.... probably BECAUSE avoiding it for years makes it feel so """fresh""" for me rn

Wait huh-? Oh- oh yeah. Right...my least favorite...??

Battle dib ig... dont expect me to yap about that its just......ehhh... i dont really have any strong negative feelings about any episode from the series tbh so yeah...

The only thing i feel strongly negative about the episodes is that the lost ones are LOST AND UNFINISHED FUCKETYCFUXKXGUFXLFYCKYFUCK

Im mad everytime i THINK about it

#asks <33 #invader zim #zim #dib #zadp #bolognius maximus #bolognus maximus

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dixons-sunshine · 25 days ago

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I'm here to ask you stuff and thangs about the babies. I know some of these already, but I want other people to know as well, so I'm asking them anyway! Asking regarding both Georgie & Matt.

3. What was the first thing you decided on, the character's name, appearance, personality or their role in the story?

4. And reverse, which one of the four things did you struggle with the most?

13. Do you have a voice claim for the character? What do you imagine the character sounds like? (Add-on, or do you just imagine they sound like the actor that's their face claim)?

Bonus question: share any additional thoughts, art, favourite scenes, anything you've been waiting for a chance to ramble about

Ok that's it love you bye 🖤

Hi angel! 💜 Thank you for giving me the chance to yap about my babies.

3. For Georgie, it was her role in the story. I was rewatching season one and thought “I wish there was someone here to stand up for Daryl. He just lost his brother. Despite his behaviour up until this point, they should cut him a little slack” and then the idea for her just spawned out of nowhere. It took me a while to actually get started on her character, like literally months, but I kept coming up with more details of her until I had to work on her character. The name and the faceclaim came after I figured her character out.

For Matt, it was his name first. I was actually watching a YouTube video with my sister and his name and middle name was taken from them. It took me a little longer to develop him, but I’m honestly happy with how he turned out. He’s my baby.

4. I think I struggled the most with Georgie’s name the most. For Matt, it was his personality, but I figured both out eventually lol.

13. Anne Hathaway for Georgie, through and through. Her voice is beautiful. And for Matt, he doesn’t speak, but y’all can imagine Joe Keery’s voice for him if it’ll make it easier.

Bonus: Oh god, okay. Lemme see. There’s this one scene in season 7 that’s going to make my skin crawl to write. Georgie’s gonna be going through it in that season, that’s for sure. As for art and other things, I’ll share my two fav art pieces (drawn by the wonderful @dixondystopia 💜)

Love you too!

#georgie hawkins #matt hawkins #the walking dead

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smokeybrandreviews · 7 months ago

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Heartsigh

I’m in love with Mary Jane. She’s my main thang! Looks, it’s no secret I shill hard for Spider-Man. I love the kid. I have since I was a little boy. Peter Parker was the first character that I saw myself in. Obviously, not physically. I’m a huge Black dude. Pete, decidedly, is not. However, I was a nerd and a geek. I had very niche hobbies, an encyclopedic knowledge of dinosaurs, and basically lived in my own head. My friends and I would go LARP in a field during recess, instead of playing sports an what not. You can imagine I was not popular in my youth. I had my fair share of bullies but I never stopped being me. I never changed to please other people and a lot of that took strength of will. Strength of character. Spider-Man comics showed that to me. Watching Pete struggle, fight, and ultimately prevail, gave me the strength to do the same. I’m an old man now, today I turn forty, I still adore the kid. But I AM forty. I adore Pete and his adventures but I’s be lying if I said I’m having fun in the same way I did as a kid. I’m not, actually. I hate where 616 is and that’s because they took the best part of the character away from him; His relationship with Mary Jane Watson.

You see, I’m an Eighties baby. My Spider-Man was married to MJ my entire adolescence. The Clone Saga ran basically my entire childhood, culminating in MJ losing their kid. Peter and Mary Jane canonically have a child! How do you take that bond away? You make a deal with the devil. That’s crazy to me! The Peter Parker I know, the one that showed me how to be me, assholes be damned, would never. But editorial made that happen and it’s sucked ever since. No shade at Gwen because she has a place in Pete’s heart, and mine, as well. I don’t hate Gwen. I hate she got Fridged but I don’t think she was “The One” for Pete. The “First”, sure, but it was always MJ in my head. Their chemistry together, especially during the Eighties, was outstanding. Everything got gritty back then and MJ was just this lovely beacon of light in an otherwise very dark era of the comics. I don’t know how editorial axes that because “marriage ages Peter too much”. That’s dumb because, every time you put the two back together, sales surge. Every time you break them up, sh*t goes sideways. I mean, look at the state of the mainline Spider-comic right no. No one likes that. At all. However, the run right before? Nick Spencer’s take on the character? One of the most popular (and bestselling) Amazing runs in decades. Why? MJ. Also, the writing. Zeb Wells is trash, man.

Now, I’m not going to sit here and fellate Spencer’s most recent run because it ended in a wet fart but, hat arc went a long way to corrected several sins against Pete and I will always be grateful to that. MJ was back to being basically Peters wife. Their relationship was strong, loving, and adorable. Two nerds in love, as they should be. MJ even got a solo limited run, which was f*cking hilarious. Those books were just a plain good time, so when Spencer bowed out and Wells took over, starting with bringing back Ben Reilly, I was shuddered. Radiation poisoning? Really? Well, whatever. MJ and Pete were still together. The promised move in was still on the table, and even Black Cat got an MJ team-up, which, in of itself, was a pretty solid read. And them Zeb dropped his number one and I’ve hated everything about Amazing, ever since. Even if MJ has powers now. No, I take solace in the peripheral Spider-books. Miles is still a pretty strong read but my bread-and butter, in terms of more mainstream books, has been the Spider-Verse titles and their spin-offs. Lots of great stuff in there, particularly Spider-Girls where ewe see May and Annie Parker meet for the first time. Anya’s there, too, for reasons, but it was the dimension displaced sisters which did it for me.

Loved seeing Mayday anytime a writer deems her worthy of inclusion (Mayday is the teenage to young adult version of the child MJ lost during the Clone Saga. She has her own MC2 book, the first in the little sub-line, and it’s a brilliant hundred issues, if you like Nineties schlock) and Anna-May Parker, the second daughter of Pete and MJ from the Renew Your Vows universe. Renew Your Vows dropped at the height of the “Give MJ Back” discourse ad an middle finger to the fans. Editorial, at the time, basically released the issue as a “This is why Peter and MJ need to be apart” but it back fired. That sh*t was awesome. Annie was awesome. MJ with powers kinda was awesome. The limited sold like gangbusters and Marvel had to admit that Peter was better with MJ. We got another Renew run, a longer one where we saw Annie grow up, MJ become Venom, and another round of record sales. Not only is Peter better with Mary Jane, their kids kick ass, too! Which is no wonder why Hickman decided to write his Spider-Man with the Spider-family in tow.

Coming off the best X-Men comics in probably three decades, Jonathan Hickman was given the reins to reshape the brand new Ultimate universe of Marvel Comics. The OG one has been defunct for years, but we got Miles out of it so it’s not like it was super missed. Hickman is the overall architect of this new take on Ultimate fair, but he is personally writing Ultimate Spider-Man and it is f*cking exceptional. There is so much to like, so many common sense changes that give a brand new, yet, familiar life to the book. Hickman opted for an older, more settle, more established Peter Parker that becomes Spider-Man. In this world, Pete and MJ have been married for years. She is mad crazy successful and he still does his Bugle thing, but they have two kids in tow. It’s not something that throws me as MC2 Peter had Mayday and Benji, plus April for a little while, so multiple Spider-kids is par for the course, but seeing the mature relationship between MJ and Pete never gets old. They are loving, supportive, and the way the interact on the page is classic, Eighties, nostalgia. I love Ultimate Spider-Man. It is everything a contemporary, mature take on Pete should be. It helps tremendously the art and writing are stupid superior to whatever the f*ck Romita and Wells are doing. F*ck, man, just let Pete and Mary Jane be together. The Parker luck can f*ck something else up, goddamn! Paul can eat a sack of baby dicks!

#Mary Jane Watson #Mary Jane Watson-Parker #MJ #Spider-Man #Marvel #Marvel Comics

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ghoastixx · 2 years ago

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Hi! This is a request for Josef and maybe some of the lost boys if that’s alright (and you can add anyone else if you would like too btw)

So this might be weird but If you don’t feel comfortable on doing it you don’t have too, anywaysss! How would they react to a 10’11 female whose buff and a whose also kinda like a tiger mutant who’s has thangs and sharp claws with stripes? And they growl and can roar??? THIS SOUNDS SO WEIRD IM SORRY (the reader is basically like a tiger but a mutant human tiger whoses really tall and acts like a tiger basically and doesn’t wear full clothes on like beads or stuff like that to cover themselves up)

Hey luv, thanks for the request, and don’t worry I don’t think it’s very weird-

AN: to everyone who has been sending me requests I’m so sorry I haven’t gotten to them, I see them and am in the process of writing them. Will get the pride ones out before pride month is over.

Slashers x fem tiger mutant! Reader

•Josef

-he loves you so much!?

-like it’s unhealthy, he’s obsessed.

-he sees you as a gift.

-the first time he saw you he was utterly baffled at your height. He really went O_O

-He’d ask questions about your beads or what your work out routine is while he’s debating on if he’s going to go through with it and kill you or not.

-When you two are dating he’d make it a goal to find all of your stripes, or scratch your ears.

-let’s be honest he’d probably bring Peachfuzz into it somehow as like a fetish so-

-He’d give you different cloths.

-thinks your fangs are so cool.

-he thinks your sexy.

-scratch this man’s back with your claws. He will become putty.

-Growl at him and he will moan. (Don’t shoot me I’m just the messenger)

The lost boys (together but somewhat separate)

-when they first saw you they probably mistook you for a vampire due to your fangs, but that was quickly dismissed

-Giant ego boost for David.

-Dwayne would take more of an interest in the art of you. Were you born like this? Do you work out or is it genetics? How do you eat? Where are your stripes? Do you have a balanced diet? The list goes on and on

-Paul uses it for bragging rights TM

-Marko would see you as a muse. An incredibly sexy muse at that.

-if part of your diets is blood? You’d fit right in to their hunting trips. But if not? You’ll have to turn a blind eye because the boys will come home dripping.

-Paul would probably use your strength as an advantage to win board walk games.

-growl at them? They will growl back.

-pick Paul up. Give Paul a piggy back ride.

-Ghoastix

My inbox is always open although it takes me a million years to respond!!!!

#creep 2 #creep #josef creep #Josef creep x reader #the lost boys #fanfic #fanfiction #the lost boys fanfiction #the lost boys x reader

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if you had been writing the women in metal gear what would you change with them (a lot i know) because i feel like just the idea of women being written well in metal gear will benefit us all

I'm answering but just so we all know my qualifications here are just that I'm a woman I am not a writer or game designer or whatever also as it goes on I get more pissed off so it gets a little messy structure wise hope that's ok anyways here's what I wrote:

Um ok, so it would take sooo long to write a full structured analysis so I'll give little things for each character. Uhh mgs1 make Meryl less of just a flat love interest stand-in because the rest of her backstory in that game feels like it’s shoehorned in to make it seem like she has actual character when she's just meant as the glorified damsel in distress (not to say she can't need help but a lot of it felt like a bunch of "leave me Snake, I can't help you I'm just a GIRL!!"). Also, this is just my personal HC but it would add so much to her if she was transgender but it's not like NEEDED- anyway also Naomi was meant to be brown idk what happened but I would return her melanin to her I think. Mei Ling is mostly fine character-wise but I would remove all of Snake's weird advances and comments about her. I would actually remove that from all of his interactions with women in that game I think. OH and Sniper Wolf should put the thangs away I'm thinking like a fur coat and also I want her whole character to be more than just a sexy lady with a tragic past. her speaking in a seductive voice 80% of the time and just being honestly creepy was stupid. I think she could just be a person maybe. that would be cool I think. She could've been just tough and standoffish and then revealed her true feelings as she was dying instead of all the weird seductive stuff

Ok now Mgs2, Fortune is pretty much fine but I wish she didn’t have her booty cheeks out on the seemingly cold big shell bc Raiden was shivering and sneezing like a little wet dog when he lost his suit so I'd assume she’s cold too. if she was wearing some cool pants or something that would be neat but other than that I think she's pretty well written. next Emma ummm her personality itself isn't the issue to me but I didn’t like how Raiden was kind of creepy towards her (not really but like. “You should wear contacts” I'll punch him maybe). Also, she should've had a cooler outfit but that's it. Honestly, I’d have to rewatch or replay Mgs2 to get a good grasp of her character but I see no crazy issues. Rosemary omg I think she’s fine but I hated how it kind of felt like it was Raiden and Campbell vs Rose and she always loses even in non-canon codecs it was so annoying. Other than that once again I will have to listen to the codecs again because I haven't heard all of them in a while. Actually, I just remembered I didn't like how she was kind of written to be oddly insecure?? Ig?? I mean she spent a lot of time in codecs talking about personal stuff and not the mission which I guess was intentional but I found it odd. Olga’s fine no notes. Don’t think there's anyone else. (skipping mgs3 bc it only has 3 women and I think they’re all written ok I don't have many issues.) Ok, mgs4 for the B&B unit I will refer you to this post because I’ve already talked about it. other than that Meryl was actually really good until the final part on outer haven that was so bad “I can't protect anyone” or whatever she said girl fuck off the only reason she said that was so that big strong man Johnny Sasaki could come to save her omg fuck you also Johnny Sasaki should die that's crucial to this anyway, Mei Ling was fine but I’d remove the codec call where Otacon and Snake say that Mei Ling probably just slept with older men to get to her job position I just think I wouldn't have that in the game probably. Naomi ok so I haven't finished mgs1 so I can't tell you exactly if what she does in Mgs4 is fucked up compared to how she is in mgs1 I mean personality wise but also I was eating a really gross ass sandwich when I watched one of her long cutscenes and it skewed my perception of her a bit oh also I would personally like to button her shirt up for her. uh idk Rose once again was fine but also I’m killing everyone for the mistranslation from the JP version of mgs4 that in English made her seem like some evil liar idk anyway you look that up if you really wanna know it’s on Twitter. uh who else does Sunny count doesn't matter she's fine no issues.

GZ you already know what I'm going to say also TPP so I'm skipping it also I'm not wasting my time getting triggered for no reason so like read my mind or something

Because I skipped 3 games I’ll do MGR Courtney her character itself was fine I didn't like the codecs where 1 Raiden jokes that she should get lipo and 2 the call that's just Raiden and Kevin talking about how much they don't wanna date her also her design is so like beauty standards boring as shit at least make her look cool or something idk. and Mistral I’m so tired of femme fatale characters in Metal Gear it’s not cute it’s not like empowering the way it’s done her entire character is sexualized and it is JUST because she's a woman. I said this about Wolf too it’s hard to feel bad for a character’s sad war backstory when it is also very clear they’re just meant to be a sexual object with no substance it’s not cute either it's just stupid. Also, there’s other stupid sexist codecs about her too obviously lastly uh Sunny’s also in it she's fine whatever

also i just noticed i skipped peace walker but like whatever its fine lol

#im not tagging everyone i talked about #asks #mgs #metal gear solid #mgs2 #mgs4 #mgr #metal gear rising

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bmpmp3 · 21 days ago

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another round of quick movie reviews from the past couple weeks:

The Search for General Tso (2014): nice little documentary filled with love for diasporic cuisine, taking a sort of fun question (where did this one dish come from) as an opportunity to teach about anti-Chinese racism in the US (I was vaguely aware of the Chinese Exclusion Act but I was more familiar with the details of the Canadian version in 1923, so it was good to have a prompt to learn more about all across North America!) as well as show all kinds of different perspectives. NOW. as a documentary from 2014 I will be. charitable. BUT they kept using rising sun flag motifs in the visuals in the editing and I was like. well that's offensive for several reasons. kinda physically painful every time it happened. but it is what it is 😔

Ernest & Celestine (2012): so cutes.... i remember when it came out and it was really hyped up for its 2D animation and its deserved. very sweet and silly story about two rough and tumble sort of outcasts finding family with eachother. also the watercolour artist likes the animation for a movie based off watercolour illustrations: more at 11

Fame (1980): oh god this really is where every teen dance movie came from. oh god this is patient 0. its all from here. oh god. (but for real its a solid movie, very much a vignette structure which i dont see as often, and the music is Really Good)

The Day the Earth Blew Up (2024 Looney Tune thang): watched this in theatres with some buddies, fun movie! ten years ago i would have been killed for saying this but i have never really been a fan of the over-animated-ren-and-stimpy style comedy animation BUT here i think they worked with it well, maybe even better than its inspiration because it leans so Looney Toon about it LOL a lot of the dialogue jokes fell flat but there were so rapid fire that for every one that didn't work, the next would - and also the visual gags KILLED me (farmer Jim especially destroyed the whole theatre, I also got knocked out by some of the ways Daffy just Was in this whole movie <3 )

Searching (2018): this movie RULED i loved it so much, probably the first "screenlife" movie I've seen that's in a non-horror genre? but it was pretty fun, the character arcs were solid, seeing the online searching aspect of it was neat, and the twists were CRAZY. one thing that did throw me off is that i forgot weed like wasn't legal in most of the US (?) when this movie was made. but i guess it wasnt technically legal in Canada QUITE yet either (released a few months before LOL)

The Importance of Being Ernest (2002): i think this was on my watchlist because of that goofy horny knight gif that floats around tumblr sometimes?? anyway it turns out Oscar Wilde is a good ass writer. has anyone heard of this. did anyone know this Wilde fellow is a pretty good writer.

The House that Jack Built (2018): movie that mostly was NAWT working for me although i did see some interesting stuff in it. i didnt realize it was a lars von trier movie until the credits tho when suddenly everything about it made sense

The Houses October Built (2014): can you tell my movies are in a folder sorted by title in alphabetical order..... this was okay, it started somewhat strong but the more it leaned into it just being the "killer hillbillies" type thing it lost me. the doll girl is fantastic tho, which is probably why she's in all the marketing

Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984): Breakin' 1 was a bit of a music video ass movie but Breakin' 2 was FULL THROTTLE music video movie. Also is this the first big we-need-to-put-on-a-show-to-save-our-community movie? I should research more........ Breakin' 1+2 are fascinating to me because they never really mention race explicitly, but it really feels like these movies really WANT to. opposite of Step Up 1+2 which DOES mention race but has nothing comprehensible to say.... I need to write an paper on race in teen dance movies or something LOL

also i watched those last three in the same day. if you wanted to know what kinda triple features I'm giving myself.

Run (2020): same director and thematic series as Searching, this one wasn't quite as good - particularly its use of disability is kinda messy. but im still curious about these movies, excited to check out Missing next!

Princess Mononoke (1997) rewatch: i hadn't watched this in FOREVER and this time i had the opportunity to watch it in theatres and MAN. before this my fav ghibli movies were cat returns and castle in the sky but mononoke kinda burst its way up there.... also i want to learn about all the animation techniques they used - im so curious about the digital techniques especially

Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024): I forgot this movie came out! its cute, it (and honestly the third movie too) did interestingly feel structurally more like straight-to-video sequels than theatrical storytelling? but its perfectly fine

A Patch of Blue (1965): a movie that hasn't aged perfectly and to be honest had plenty of criticisms when it came out, but somehow it worked? tone could be crazy, between poitier's really charming and complex character, the classic melodrama acting, some thoughtful discussions on disability and abuse and some NOT thoughtful, almost cartoony at times antagonists, a rape flashback that came out of nowhere and did not seem... tactfully written (and i didn't even know you could show that in 60s movies... like damn), and all kinds of other stuff good and bad it somehow still pulled through to mostly work all together. also this was unfortunately put on my watchlist because of references to it from fuckingg. a certain webshow rhyming with boug balker's bemo beel. head in hands. but im very glad i watched it - made me do tooooo much wikipedia diving about various US laws LOL

#if ur wondering why i dont just make a letterboxd. well. (pulls out a gun and aims point blank at you)

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smokeybrand · 7 months ago

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nezumiicraft · 9 months ago

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!! nightwings used to be the most disability friendly tribe (and there still the most disabled tribe) alot of them have bad eyesight or are just compleatly blind but they have really good hearing and smell and some of them have whiskers in darkstalkers time it was common to put smelling salts on the edges of balconys to warn dragons that couldnt see the edge and for some dragons to never learn how to fly so being able to get into a building from the ground was in nightwing osha (!!!!clearsight was mostly blind!!! she used her furure sight as a mobility aid) they lost alot of this when they went to the volcano and lost there powers and got desperate to look scarier then they where and they couldnt smell things over the volcano witch led to a survival of the fittest worldveiw for dragons that could afford to think like that rip to the dragons that where part of the spike in permanent disabilities (also why morrowseer reacted to sunny like that a sandwing without poison is not "fittest" and should not be part of the prophecy that he made up) during jade mountain and living with rainwings over half the tribe realized they need glasses nightwings invented braille and most of the things they write are in that its pretty much the only part of there culture thay survived the volcano theyve been reverse engineering the smellng salts thing and trying to find old scrolls to revive there traditions

nightwings have shortish fur with a noticable scruff strong flexable tails and no horns they have huge ears instead some of them also have the bat nose thing that sticks up they are omnivorous and eat mostly fruit and the have the stars on there bellies and under there tails/necks to!! the fur on top of them is scruffy to mimic the ground and they have as many colors as rainwings and silkwings but there so dark that most dragons dont notice nightwings are the second smallest type of dragon (not counting whatever seawings are doing) they can hang and sleep upside down

fruitbat/bat are names that go back and forth between being everywhere and nobody using them

🐟

seawings are like dogs making mastiffs and rat terriers and borozis the same species mudwings and seawings are actaully the same kind of dragon (still diffrent kingdoms though witch gets awkward sometimes like flood season) they get some of how they look from there parents but in the egg there sennsative to tempiture and vibrations to figure out what the water there hatching in is like royal seawings end up huge from being in the open ocean my sona is hand sized for the same reasons

seawings hatch like tadpoles without wings (not related silkys its convergant evolution) and lungs that cant process air yet some seawings never get wings or the ability to breath above water especially if they live in treaches exept for mudwings because there gills fuse to keep mud out so they have to get lungs they also get on land faster then other types seawings have a adaptable diet but most of then are piscivores (also have 3 eyelids)

^behold a seawing!!!

(eggs that dont grow in water or at least watery mud cant do this so the dragonet doesnt grow to match the habitat and hatches with a "default/best guess" body type the dragonet can still be fine as long as it grows up in water but they might have problems with swimming or hunting tsunami would have died like the skywing if webs wasnt there to yell at the other gaurdians to put that thang in the river ‼️ and she sticks out from the rest of her family) seawings are the longest type of dragon and alot of them are red ( travels the least in deep water and is hardest to see im ignoring every other part of realistic evolution) they glow with the same stuff that rainwings change color with

seawing hybrids are set up for tragity alot of them suffocate after hatching the best thing that a parent can do is be an animus but most of them have to put there egg into shallow water never leave it unsupervised and hope and try to tell if your babys gills are working or not or if there are gills to pull them out before they drown if they can breath at all

any other hybird has way better survival chances ^^ nightwing hybrids tend to have worse eyesight better hearing and being more awake at night and almost all of them will have star scales even if there hard to see

my sona doesnt have very much lore im fathoms great great greatsomething grandkid thats self exiled as a family trait i look like a nightwing but i actually take more after seawings!! (hatched under a full moon and didnt get a power good eyesight royal seawing markings no fire) i dont have webs and something probably happened to my sonas parents because i never learned aquatic im not an animus but my sona is sensitive to magic shrimp hatched in a bunch of seaweed with working gills but it took it a minute

can somebody ask me questions about my wof designs or just give me a tribe/type of hybrid/something i want to talk about them but i overwhelmed myself trying to find a place to start

#pup talks #shrimp #wof #♡#saw your ask btw!!!!!! drawing!!!#long post #being in fathoms family makes leopard so funny to me like the angst of the war n stuff and then my family history involves starting it #and then were here in love im going to be thinking about them forever #imagining that arc 2 darkstalker family fight wakes up and shrimp is like nah im not contributing to the plot today

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1lostone · 2 years ago

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This is where I'm at right now. :D

#1lostone #lost writes stuff and thangs

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dirty-brainrot · 4 years ago

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(What is this)

I FOUND THIS IN THE DARKEST CORNER OF MY DRAFTS.... I do not remember writing this probably made this when I was half asleep at 2 am and thought it was funny lol. So uhm, enjoy this embarassing thing.

Pairing: Kakyoin Noriaki x Reader

Warning: Perverted thoughts, Tentacle hentai but nothing happens,

"Hey, Y/N-chan! What are you reading?" You hear footsteps approach you. You only hummed in response knowing it was Kakyoin.

Since Jotaro was a long friend of yours, a mystery on how that even came about, Kakyoin instantly became your friend as soon as he and Jotaro came back from the 50+ day trip to Egypt.

Hearing Mrs. Seiko (Holly) falling ill because of DIO, you wanted to help them on their journey but Jotaro wouldn't let you. Not only that, your parents would absolutely kill you if they found out you went on an adventure with 4 men— well, 5 and a dog. Also, missing classes would badly affect your grades. You could only help and guard Mrs. Seiko against any stand dangers.

You were sitting alone on the school rooftop while waiting for the two bizarre boys until the other one had arrived. Peeking up from your book, you only saw Kakyoin and Jotaro was nowhere to be seen.

"A manga?" He mumbles sitting beside you, interested in what you were reading.

"W-wait... Th-that's not any ordinary manga.." Kakyoin's voice was almost a whisper but you still heard it.

You were not reading a normal manga, it's more of an erotic manga. You were reading hentai to be precise.

"A-ah, I didn't think you were the type to read this, Y/N-chan..." His cheeks were tinted slightly with pink. "You don't know a lotta thing about me kak~" You snickered, enjoying the sight of a slightly flustered kakyoin.

"I wouldn't choose tentacle hentai but the art style just draws me in, you know?.. plus it'll be good material for my book..." You spoke the last part quietly while flipping to the other page. "Normally I would just go for the hot futanari stuff. Buuut~" You stretched the word "but" before continuing. "Good plot and, again, good style." You made weird gestures to the page and then tapped at it for drawing Kakyoin's attention.

"Oh, so you read hentai only for the plot and style?" Weirdly finding this interesting, the red-head cherry boy asked.

"And material for my book." You mumble, getting invested into the manga as it was getting into the good part.

"Ah..." Kakyoin nodded thinking about..stuff but he quickly shook them off. Hearing your giggles, he leaned to take a peek a the page, curious to see what you found funny.

"Look at this kak, they made an accident here." You pointed at the creature's tentacle. "In this panel, the monster has 12 tentacles, and now look at this panel."

Dragging your finger on the soft yet rough texture of the paper, you pointed at the 4th panel. "The monster suddenly gained some more tentacles and the girl lost her earrings." Kakyoin chuckled at your attention to details.

You babbled further but Kakyoin's thoughts started to drift away. 'Hm, tentacle hentai huh... [Hierophant Green] can do that..maybe they would want to...!'

His mind is now quickly being filled with nasty hormonal thoughts. 'What would it feel like doing it while using [Hierophant]...'

He glanced at you, you were still busy rambling about hentai. 'Would they-- NORIAKI! NO!! GAH!!!' He shook the nasty thoughts forming in his brain away by thinking about something else and refusing to look at the manga.

"Oh hey, Isn't one of [Hierophant Melon] powers' to make tentacles?" The cherry boy looked at her with wide eyes, dumbfounded at her question. Y/N only looked at him with innocent (eye color) orbs.

"Well, yeah... [Hierophant] can make his limbs into tentacle." He rubbed the nape of his neck, his cheeks reddening.

"Is this getting too weird..? I'm sorry.."

You quickly averted your gaze from kakyoin and focused on the erotic manga at hand. "I tend to ask the weirdest of things.." You let out an airy, nervous chuckle.

"It's ok, it just...took me off-guard."

You closed the manga, not before putting a bookmark. "Ok so this may sound weird and...kinky but can I... see and touch [Melon]'s tentacles?" Like how Kakyoin reacted to you reading the erotic manga earlier, your voice slowly getting shy and turning into a whisper.

Kakyoin has never seen you act so bashful, he found it adorable, even in the bizarre situation he's in. "Strange request but sure, why not." He gave you a small smile and called out [Hierophant Green]'s tentacle. It was in front of you, moving like a serpent.

"Interesting... This is a good material for my book..." You mumble before setting down the manga beside you and began petting the tentacle. "So it's like a snake but no mouth and kinky." You stated while observing its reaction to your touches. Kakyoin giggled at the last part.

Gently petting the tentacle, you turn your attention to Kakyoin who was now watching your every move. "Can you feel it?"

"Yeah, it feels like you're petting me"

Humming back in response, you looked at the tentacle and back at the redhead. You had an idea, feeling a little mischievous, you maintained an intense eye contact with him and slowly bend down to peck the tentacle.

Surprised at the unexpected gesture, Kakyoin's noodle hair flew up, his face crimson red.

You giggled at his reaction, trying not to laugh. He quickly retracted back his stand. "Very cute."

Jotaro had finally arrived on the rooftop and looked at Kakyoin with a confused expression. "What's up with him." Asked the emo boy, curious about what had happened.

You smiled, standing up, you grabbed your unholy manga. "Dunno. Anyways, I'm gonna go grab a drink because you took so long." And then you began to walk away trying not to burst out of laughter.

Kakyoin was still beet red and he tried his best to cover up his face not wanting Jotaro to see the state he's in.

⤷ Reader is kinda like Rohan, the "oh this will be good for my thingy thang" and being attentive to details anddd Reader can also touch stands because of this. :P

'That was a...bizarre experience...'

#jjba x reader #jjba #jojo #jojo no kimyō na bōken #jojo bizarre adventure #tenmei kakyoin #noriaki kakyoin #jojo kakyoin #jjba kakyoin #kakyoin #jojo's bizarre adventure stardust crusaders #jjba part 3 #kakyoin lives #kakyoin x reader #x reader

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Ok ok ok so this isn't exactly jock 'verse related but it also kinda is & I need 2 tell u or I might explode 🤣🤣🤣 its legit a perfect fanfic trope but irl

So, my university has fraternities like a lot do BUT there's this dude (he's in a few classes with me) & this dude is just a Frat. Bro. thru & thru. He loves his frat & would likely die 4 those boys. Idk literally anything else about him besides the fact that he knocked a girl up his freshman yr & now, just, brings his kid everywhere. 2 zoom meetings & 2 in person classes (according 2 my friend) when we had them 😅

but wait

it gets Better.

I learned today when we were sharing about ourselves that his "frat name" (idfk how that shit works😂) has transitioned from a pun on his last name 2 just- D A D D Y

All the other dudes just. call. him. daddy.

YES HE IS A LITERAL FATHER BUT Y?

y are so many frats so straight that they loop back 2 being gay?

NONNIE I AM BESIDE MYSELF 🤣

Literally everything about this is fucking incredible!?

Being one of those dudes who probably ends up getting matching ‘bros in, bros out’ tattoos with The Boys™️ by the end of college? Impeccable 👌

This very same bonafide FratBro rocking around with a baby? DELICIOUS 👏

You already had me, Nonnie, but then you go and heap on the fact that there’s a group of young adult men casually walking around referring to this man as DADDY?!?

T R A N S C E N D E N T 🙌

This might be the best story I’ve ever heard to be honest. And you know what, as for the relevance to JockVerse? I think this fits right in, and I’m gonna go ahead and tag my girl @rainbowsandcoconut here because you’ve probably just made her day by prompting me to write this, Nonnie.

Consider, if you will:

Bucky having to take care of his 6 month old niece on short notice, on a day when he can’t afford to skip class. It’s a short day for him, only one morning lecture then a team meeting, so he just...brings her with him

In a baby carrier, strapped to his front, so he can still carry his backpack and have his hands free

He doesn’t make a big deal about it, and no one in his lecture takes issue because she sleeps pretty much the entire way through

But when he walks into the meeting and his teammates clock his situation?...

“I knew this day would come! I knew Barnes was gonna knock someone up!”

“How could you not tell us you had a spawn? I thought we were friends, man!”

“Jesus, she looks exactly like you.”

(That one’s accurate - this kid is all Barnes, dark hair and slate eyes and perfect little Cupid’s bow)

“Nah, this is our new linebacker,” Bucky lifts her out of the carrier and grabs her blanket out of his backpack, spreading it on the floor to let her stretch her little body out

She’s a pretty chill little person so she’s unconcerned by the bunch of jacked up football players all kinda crowding around, she just looks at them all in turn, babbling a quiet assessment of the situation to herself

Steve and Coach Fury walk in at the same time, and they both do a double take - Fury, because “why is there a goddamn baby on my floor?” and Steve, because Bucky’s hands - those grabbing, pinning, shoving, spanking hands that he’s so intimately familiar with - are now very gently slipping a tiny sock onto a tiny foot

“Barnes is playing Daddy!” Clint oh so joyously informs them, and Fury just kinda shakes his head and mumbles something about how he’s ‘been waiting for some bullshit like this’

Bucky explains his situation, and Steve doesn’t say much of anything, but his face is doing a whole lot of something. There’s no time to examine that though, because Fury is getting the meeting underway

It all goes pretty much as normal, except this time when Bucky’s running his mouth about how they’re gonna fucking obliterate the opposing team at the upcoming playoff, he’s doing it with a baby in his arms and his fingertips drawing soft, absent patterns over her belly; occasionally cupping his hands over her teeny ears when his verbiage gets a little more colourful

Steve does not know what to do with the duality of this

Since when does Bucky know how to do shit like one-handed prep a bottle of formula? Where the fuck is this soft-ass smile coming from? Why is Steve’s gut doing weird swoopy flippy stuff every time Bucky quietly coos “oh, you think so?” to his niece’s incomprehensible little sounds?

Crisis 2.0 comes when Clint insists on referring to Bucky as ‘Daddy’ for the entirety of the meeting, even after Bucky points out the inaccuracy, because in Clint-logic it would apparently be “way too fuckin’ weird to call you ‘uncle’”

This is not a kink Steve has ever considered before, it’s certainly not one he and Bucky have played around with, but fuck if his body isn’t doing some Thangs at hearing that title used on Bucky. His throat gets inexplicably dry every time, and a few strangled sounds make their way out when he’s not quick enough to catch them

He knows it’s not lost on Bucky, he can feel Bucky looking at him every time Clint drops the D word, but Steve can’t bring himself to return that stare

It’s a miracle Steve survives this maelstrom at all, to be honest. It’s making him think entirely too hard, and he doesn’t want to think when it comes to Bucky. The whole point of them is that they don’t have to think

He disappears pretty quick after the meeting, and it doesn’t go unnoticed, but Bucky decides to be gracious this time and let it slide...

...At least, he does until the next time he’s putting Steve through the headboard, when he just can’t help but tuck his smug grin right up against Steve’s ear, and purr “...gonna come for your Daddy?”

#this ask made my week #😂😂😂#JockVerse #stucky au #the perpetual crises of Steve Rogers

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