#Oooh he’s in for it tbh

[spidervee]

Just losing myself in the idea of bookshop owner!reader and tangerine. fem!reader; hella cursing; mentions of terminal illness; tan being an angsty boy; possible I might continue this little ditty 🌻🐝 (p.s. taking requests till dec 31)

Tangerine’s not quite feeling himself.

He’s really going through it and slips out of the rain into the first used bookshop he sees. He’s in New York and has never been in this one before, but he likes the way there’s candles burning, even if the first thought he has is “some fuckin’ insurance adjustor prick’s worst fuckin’ nightmare.”

They’ve got a job that night, he and Lemon, and for the first time ever Tangerine is having doubts about the morality of it all. Fuckin’ Tokyo changed him. Made him soft, he thinks, or maybe made him smart. Made him want to get out of the game, he thinks, but what else is there for a bloke like him? A wife? (She’d have to be a bloody saint to deal with the likes of him). Kids? (Little nippers would drive him crazy, he’s certain). A dog? (…actually, that sounded quite nice so long as he’d never have to go John Wick on any bloke, because he wouldn’t hesitate).

For now, Tangerine reasons, he’ll just have to settle on a book.

And he’s idly moving along the shelves, impressed by the small collection of first edition Dickinson and Emerson titles that have been amassed, his fingers hovering reverently over their spines.

Until he sees you—a sweet-looking thing in a floral get-up that’s garishly at odds with the shite weather outdoors, but for some reason he likes it. Even if his first thought, as he watches you reach to replace something on a shelf over your head, is that your hemline might sneak up just a little further, on accident of course, and he might catch a further glimpse of your thighs.

But you bustle away before he can be a lech and as if you haven’t seen him at all.

And so he’s left there with Emily and Ralph and, he notices now, Langston—whom he pulls from the shelf, dust unsettling to dance in the air around him.

Something catches in his chest, then, because he remembers how he first knicked a copy of Hughes’s collected works for the foster mum he and Lemon had lived with when they were twelve. She’d loved poetry—was the closest thing they’d ever had to family besides each other—with her lilting accent and her deep brown eyes. But shit never lasts. Seven months in and she’d sat them down. Told them about that bullshit diagnosis that gave her three more months, tops, and they knew, faces stoic and unmoving even at that tender age, that they’d be shuffled to somewhere else.

In a moment of forgetting himself—or perhaps in a moment of absolute indulgence to his real and baser self—Tangerine slips the book into the front of his suit jacket. Easy doing. He doesn’t rush out, confident in his theft, taking the time to browse a little while longer before he strolls to the front of the shop to leave.

It’s still piss pouring out there and he scoops up the umbrella he left at the door, about to open it when a soft, tentative voice interrupts.

“Sir?”

He should just keep walking. Just step out into the bloody hurricane and disappear into the crowd. But instead, he turns.

And then he’s face-to-face with you.

And there’s something glinting in your eye—some spark of really seeing—that’s a little unnerving coming from someone wearing such a goddamn sunny dress.

And he knows he’s right and truly fucked.

[a-most-beloved-fool]

makes me a little sad when star trek ignores IDIC. like. vulcans are logical. that is true. But 'logical', for vulcans, does not amount to 'without compassion,' and it definitely doesn't amount to 'racial superiority.' Belief in 'infinite diversity in infinite combinations' should NOT result in the weird racist/speciest stuff we're getting in some of the newer treks. It does make sense that some vulcans are discriminatory. They're still flawed. But that should not be common or expected, like it seems to be in SNW. If it is, then it's a race of hypocrites, which. doesn't seem very true to Star Trek's message.

I think TOS Spock does a pretty good job of embodying this. Not always, it was the 60s, after all, but mostly. He was often trying to find non-violent routes, and get by without killing - even if they were in danger or had already been attacked. (See: the mugato, and the horta (until Kirk was the one in danger, lmao. t'hy'la > IDIC), the Gorn ship). Kirk, in his eulogy, calls him the most human soul he's ever known, and I've always read that as Kirk calling out Spock's overwhelming compassion.

It's just so much more interesting when Vulcans get to be radically compassionate. I want them to believe that everything and everyone has value. I want them to respect all ways of being. I want them to find ways for even very non-humanoid aliens to exist unfettered in society. I want them to see hybrids and think that it's amazing. Also, like, disability rep. I want Vulcans to have The Most Accessible Planet and available resources because they want everyone to feel accepted and valued. It makes for better characters and more interesting stories.

[the-random-phan]

Ectoberhaunt Day 13

Isekai: Old Hero New World

[aria-greenhoodie]

Week 2 - Muse

Click for Quality!

Thanks to @localcanadiancreature62 for the prompts!

[cogcltrcorn]

the thing abt cherik is that mags is convinced that if he isn't vigilant charles is going to fucking re-wire his brain into a toaster and because of it he perceives every positive emotion he feels towards charles as proof charles has meddled with his mind. "he made me trust him, by messing with my mind with his psionic powers!" which, no, he didn't. except for the times he did. but no he didn't. except when he did

[crehador]

pathetic little meow meow sightings

[mysticforger]

[jamiethebeeart]

I ran across this old draft of a PI Spinner au and I might never finish it, so I'm posting what I had

[statementlou]

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[mrpuzzlessimp420]

Uh I've had this piece for a while and never posted it but here is a like reference(?) sheet for Orange Juice

(only for his Mario Simulator and Avatar Peach design though)

Oh and SPOILERS for my Joke Mario Simulator fanfic

[indecisive-dizzy]

If Discord was conscious while imprisoned in stone, could he sleep, in a way?

If so, could Luna visit him in his dreams? Would she?

[devotedlystrangewizard]

totk really is one of those games that make me go "ok thanks for the characters, setting, and general plot, but ill take it from here <3" because the entire historical timeline had so much potential for interesting and nuanced story telling but they just went with the old zelda story formula and YES thats how theyve always done it but botw was such a reset in terms of gameplay that they couldve overhauled how they handle story in totk. but they didnt

[starlooove]

This is all because someone said that tim being wealthy DOES impact his character. Like the ppl in the screenshot are defending the idea that tim should be written as middle class and even claimed that plot points about/made possible or exacerbated by his wealth have nothing to do with his characterization bc they’re plot points and not character traits. They also previously said there’s little to no mention of his wealth whilst also trying to say his wealth doesn’t matter because it’s just “new money” (which I’d argue adds a LOT of context to the drakes vs the Waynes but that’s into analysis territory and I’m not getting into with someone who said plot points don’t impact the character 💀)

Anyways the main point of the post isn’t just to clown on them I just want y’all to take that final tweet into account; “They come and take only what they want, they don’t like to delve into the great character that is Tim.” On a post saying Tim being rich doesn’t matter and has nothing to do with his character. Tim Stans I’m not saying this is all of you, but this group of y’all is sooooo. Let’s be nice and say weird. That it makes y’all look bad. When they’re saying “they pick and choose to ignore his character” in order to defend picking and choosing to ignore his character…have a group meeting or smth yall. This is crazy.

[keiicom]

I dreamt about link click again. and this time it was cheng xiaoshi having to relive lu guang's death over and over. he was stuck mourning inside a memory that would never go on, a photo showing a particular moment in time that could only replay itself, start over.

he held lu guang in his arms and he was unresponsive. his eyes were open. there was a halo of blood around him, on the floor, like he was some kind of fucked up angel. it was very dark outside. all of the light had been sucked out of the room. the faint glow of moonlight coming in through the window wasn't reassuring, but cruel. I could hear the soles of cheng xiaoshi's shoes slipping on the blood covered floor as he tried to stop himself from falling. he was scared of the dark, and yet there he was, scared and alone.

he wasn't supposed to be reliving this situation, he wasn't supposed to dive. but he wasn't aware of this, because nobody had ever told him that things could ever be different. there was, apparently, something very wrong with the way he'd been diving into pictures so far, and as a result it had taken a huge toll on his mental health. but nobody had realised until now. he could potentially live a long life without having these nightmares, but he'd never been offered a way out, so there he was, stuck.

[unmarkedhelicopter]

Blackthorne is hot but I just knooooow his ass hates the Irish lmao

[shibaraki]

thank you for the tag @namodawrites this was so fun (and time consuming LOL) I LOVE MY HUSBAND DONT U FORGET IT

no pressure tags: @cinnagalliard @reddriot @tinie @sluggybunny @autumnalsteahouse @isagimbap and anyone who wants to try: template under the cut ^_^