#PLEASE I RUSHED THIS AGAIN

[khvlani]

cookie monster — a calex short

— softies on their day off, one with raging stress and one who happens to have an obsession over sweets.

alex cabot is known for being notoriously good at many things. the squad, including her girlfriend, is often amazed by how she single-handedly tackles every inconvenience and has deemed her to be naturally skilled no matter what. she is just that good, whether in the courtroom, karaoke bar, polo field, and as casey would proudly flaunt, in the bedroom.

though despite her godly skills, the squad has learned that alex has her weaknesses and that there would always be one place where alex remains inferior, and that is the kitchen. she never understood how people got to smoothly create a meal for themselves, let alone a meal for her and her redhead. alex can vividly recall the last time she tried to make boiled eggs and ramen for casey but ended up causing a fire that eventually led to the pair deciding that casey would do the cooking and alex could set the table.

the squad has also had multiple encounters with alex disposing her mini fire extinguisher as they arrive at the couple’s place. they've also overheard casey, multiple times, talking on the phone with their repair guy to make a deal in regards to the burnt marks on the wall made by none other than alexandra cabot.

it may be put out in the world that alex can be disastrous in the kitchen, but she knows one recipe that for sure won't burn down the kitchen and guarantee her a good time in bed later that night, and those are sugar cookies. when alex found out about casey's love for sugar cookies, she made it her life's mission to figure out how to make a perfect batch that would make casey drool non-stop.

eventually, she did figure out how to do it and would occasionally make a batch for casey to eat at home or bring to work. casey has begged alex multiple times to make more than one batch but the blonde finds it challenging as she had tried it before and failed. her sugar cookies would become bitter cookies and sometimes it would even turn out salty. baking more than one batch makes her panic, which would then cause mishaps that can affect the entirety of her cookies.

today was different than her usual baking days, she was making 3 batches of sugar cookies, which was unsual for her. an orphanage whom she donated to and often assists, asked her to bake sugar cookies for their upcoming event. she had thought of turning down the favor but she was too shy to do so, plus, casey bragged too much about her mouth-watering cookies that even the kids—who casey plays with and gave cookies to—begged her for it. she was left with no choice but to do as told.

both casey and alex were on their day off, and casey left their place early to play softball with some old friends, leaving alex at home with her little project, and a fire extinguisher ready in the corner. the blonde was precise and careful about her measurements as she wants her cookies to be perfect, and she had to make a hundred for the little event, as requested. if her calculations were correct, 3 batches would make about 105 cookies—enough for the event and a little left for casey.

the redhead had just gotten home from her game when the smell of freshly baked sweets lingered in their duplex which tickled her nose making her smile. she followed the scent that led her to the kitchen where the blonde was caught focusing on her, what seems to be, third batch.

“are you making what i think you’re making?” casey smirks, leaning on the wall. alex looks up after pouring a cup of flour into the bowl, “the cookie monster’s favorite? why, yes” she smiles re-directing her focus to the batter in front of her. “i thought we weren’t interested in making big batches of cookies” casey says making her way towards her girlfriend, hugging her from the behind, slowly burying her face in her girlfriend’s neck, taking in her scent. “it’s for a charity event,” alex says turning around, facing her girlfriend who now, surprisingly, has a cookie in hand. “you can only get five though, so now you have four left” she says sternly.

“not fair.”

“i know, baby, but i’ll make you your own batch soon. after i finish this tedious ass task” she replies, cupping casey’s cheek and kissing her nose before letting go.

casey groans, rolling her eyes as she walks out of the kitchen. “i’ll be in the bedroom, scanning my cases” she says. “don’t think of anything stupid!” alex shouts from the kitchen. by the time casey had walked away from the kitchen, she had already thought of multiple ways to snatch more than four cookies. she had even thought of asking olivia to let her babysit noah as a distraction for alex while she baked. she looks at her pad paper, scratching out her little plans as she continues write more and more ideas.

she had already grown frustrated trying to plot her little scheme until she had her little light bulb moment.

“hey, baby” alex looks up at to see her girlfriend in her sports bra and boxer shorts, with her hair down, showing off her little curls. “yes, hon?” casey walks towards the kitchen island putting one hand on top of a tray full of cookies, sneakily grabbing two cookies. “i was thinking, for the charity event later, i’ll go with you” alex smiles,“that’s lovely, case. i’d love that” she says as she tips her toes trying to reach for casey’s lips who was at the other side of the island. “perfect. i’ll go pick out my clothes and i’ll be right back” casey walks away with two cookies in hand and a girlfriend who is unaware of the missing cookies in her tray.

a few minutes later, casey is back in the kitchen again, this time her choice of clothing has changed and she is more revealing. “alexandra,” she calls.

alex looks up raising her brows as she sees the redhead wearing only her panties. this was a sight to see for alex, except it was a view meant to be kept in the bedroom. she rushes towards casey, taking off her apron and putting it on casey who was all giggly.

“you like it don’t you?” alex was now red, distracted, and panicking. “yeah, babe, but this is for the bedroom only” casey chuckles, slowly pushing alex gently towards the island, kissing her just how she likes it before slowly moving her way towards alex’s neck. alex let out a soft moan, struggling to come up with a response “i-i- have co-cookies to finish” casey pauses before quickly letting go of alex giving her a soft but swift “okay”

“wait, so you’ll stop? just like that?” casey smiles, walking away farther away from the kitchen, “i mean yeah, you said you have cookies to bake so i’ll leave you to it” alex was baffled by the quick turn of event, which made her think, and all of a sudden, everything clicked.

“casey novak.” she calls, her tone low but not too aggressive.

casey stops in her tracks and stands stiffly. “yes?” she could feel the blonde getting near so she did the only valid thing to do in tense situations like this. “casey, nooooo” alex whines as she faces casey who now has 5 cookies shoved inside her mouth.

“ahm shory” alex sighs leaving the redhead and walking back towards the kitchen. “forget it.” alex starts cleaning up the kitchen and wrapping up the remainder of the baked cookies. “wait, baby, no. i’m sorry, we can make another batch,” casey says stopping alex’s hands from cleaning up. “no, we won’t. i’ll just give them not a hundred cookies and prove that i’m lousy and lazy and bad in the kitchen” she says moving casey’s hands gently. “they wont know” alex huffs.

“they will.” casey says walking towards her girlfriend and sliding her arms around her waist.

“they’ll be too busy eating your yummy cookies that they won’t know and even if you made a hundred or a thousand, it’ll never be enough. you know why?” alex stares into casey’s green eyes, relaxing her shoulders, “why?” casey smiles, moving alex’s loose hair to the side, getting a clear view of her beautiful blue eyes. “because it’s so good, they’ll be left wanting for more” she says before pulling alex closer and kissing her. “your cookies taste just as good as you babe, it leaves me wanting for more” casey says cheekily making alex laugh. “and if they notice and ask why there aren’t a hundred cookies?”

“tell them you have a cookie monster at home”

[nipuni]

Casanova sketches!

[xxplastic-cubexx]

your krakoa era cherik art has altered my brain chemistry

more krakoa era is to come from me my friend so i worry for your brain

[housederiva]

[hana-bobo-finch]

drops this here and runs away ok bye

[kissdeficiency]

“mwah! 💋”

day two: forehead kiss ✨💗

context if anyone is interested!:

stolas goes to give a sleepy blitz a good morning kiss on the cheek. but before he leaves, blitz quickly grabs his face and smooches him on the forehead—it’s only fair that stolas gets a kiss, too, to start his day.

[tubbytarchia]

Sorry I seriously can't stop thinking about "Jimmy please hidef". This is bad and incomprehensible but. What is hiding gonna do for him Joel. Are you frantically throwing just whatever out there. Is it upsetting that you couldn't do anything last time and you can't do anything this time and really have no room to tell him what to do regardless because he's not an ally? But you want him to survive, you want him in the top 10, you want him in the top 5; at the very least, anything but for him to be the first one to die, and he plummets to red this early. Are you worried? All you can do or think of is to tell him to hide? In some impossible space in which he can't be hurt? Are you scared?

[thekittyokat]

you ever just have a lot, a LOT of feelings all at once about a character and not even remotely enough words or brainpower to FORM the words to describe everything you're feeling. so it feels like you may explode. yeah

[cookinary]

Okay, I get it now

Thanks @mileikcin for making me curious about this game like god damn I've been missing out

[christine-ye]

Does the Kamen Rider subreddit have anything better to do that isn't being misogynistic whenever someone asks for a female main Rider

I just saw another post talking about that (for god knows how many times now) and once again a decent chunk of the comments are generally misogynistic and bring up the mostly male target audience as an excuse for why Toei/Bandai don't want to do that and/or any female-led media that they don't like or find underwhelming (you won't believe how tired I am of those talking points being repeated over and over for the sake of acting like a bigot)

Also one of the comments said that they still have PreCure (since they're both part of Super Hero Time) to solve that problem and I can't get over how many issues I have with this statement even as a female PreCure fan (who also just so happens to like Kamen Rider)

They literally had Cure Wing as the first male Cure who's also part of the main cast last year and he was still as popular as the girls and there are plenty of people who want more male Cures (we've especially seen that with Satoru and Daifuku this year) and diversity within the main team overall

So if boys who like PreCure and other female-oriented media find themselves represented through characters like Cure Wing, then why not do the same for girls who like Kamen Rider? The good news is that there are more female Riders (especially part of the main cast) in recent years compared to before but there's still a long way to go

​Tldr: being a female toku fan still sucks apparently because capitalism 🫠 Also responding to someone criticizing any male-oriented media for constant mishandling of women (or any marginalized group in general) by telling them to go suck it and watch something else that they think addresses and solves all their problems (when it doesn't always do that) instead of actually advocating for change is not it since it's a vast systematic problem that affects real life society as a whole, not just fictional media

[sleepy-aletheas]

The inherent tragedy of Aventurine's older sister being nameless messes with me daily. To love someone so much, clutching any memory close to the chest, any memento carefully kept hidden and never given for a better life, and yet there is the inherent thievery of time, robbing us of details we once held dear.

I like to chalk up her not having a name to him not remembering it anymore. He might have an inkling, but cannot be sure, and there is no one he can ask to clarify. He might remember her face if he tries, but can't confidently point to the shade of her eyes; he might remember the texture of her skin, but it's only an echo that feels like a dream. He remembers her voice so clearly, but her name uttered by others faded with the sands, and the memory is hazy to the point that even if he guessed correctly, it won't feel right.

There is so much loss in his life, often by external forces of greed and hatred; people were cruel and sometimes he might be even crueler to himself to feel in control. But in this inherently unjust destiny he is dragged through, time is taking the most precious thing he has from his past as Kakavasha - the memory of his big sister, the one who loved him the most and last - and there is no one that knows about her existence. She will be forgotten, not just because of the merciless sands of Sigonia and the cruel fate bestowed upon his people by others, but also eventually by him as time marches on, never turning back.

[askticcitobyshit]

Cody is pretty alright. We work together a lot, and he's good with meds, I guess. He's definitely got some weird obsession with me and tries to copy me any chance he gets. But it's whatever, as long as he doesn't fuck with me I'm fine. Jack doesn't seem to like him though.

Helen is also pretty cool. He's quiet and polite enough, but he has a mean streak. (who doesn't?) We hang out sometimes, but normally in group settings.

~Toby

[ratatatastic]

or alternatively dweeb meets other dweeb more news at 11

LIGHT. LIGHT IN HIS EYES. LOOK AT EM BIG OLE EYES. LOOK AT HIM TOUCH HIS JERSEY.

GLORY BE TO THE MIKKSY SIGNED JERSEY RAAAAAAAAA

CanesWear Signing | 7.1.24

[pikorinku]

mspaint doodle after my computer networking class

[imminent-danger-came]

IVE ONLY SEEN ONE PERSON POINT THIS OUT BUT MK TRIES TO PUNCH MACAQUE DISGUISED AS WUKONG BEFORE HE EVEN REALIZES ITS WUKONG. I CAN FEEL THE MK AND SWK FIGHT IN MY BONES. Also can you imagine with like that one art post Mei asks MK who HE wants to be, not a reflection of somebody, not the Monkie Kid, not the Harbringer of Chaos and HE REPLIES WITH HIS REAL NAME I WOULD GO INSANE

I'm like. 85% sure that person was me afasdfafsd. I know I've mentioned it before somewhere!

Because it's like, MK feels extremely abandoned and hurt by Wukong during s2. MK's line of "Fine! Then just leave! At least my friends will never abandon me!" in 2x01 Sleep Bug is VERY telling, and it also makes me sob when put together with 3x10 The Samadhi Fire:

MK: "NO! Mei is my best friend—I'd never abandon her when she needs me! We're heroes! It's what we do!"

And 4x02 New Adventures:

MK: “You don’t know! We’d risk it for sure! I won’t abandon them when they need us.”

MK's own low self-worth combined with Wukong's tendency to leave in the worst way possible, which was only further exacerbated by the Lady Bone Demon's manipulation.

And I think MK's experiences and feelings throughout s2 made him resolve to never make his friends feel abandoned.

But of course, since this is Lego Monkie Kid, it's more interesting than just that—because MK leaves at the end of s4. It was out of fear, sure, but so was Wukong leaving in s2 and at the end of s3. MK does exactly what he set out not to do, making the same mistakes his mentor has, literally going to isolate himself on Flower Fruit Mountain for an undetermined amount of time.

It's things like this that make the question of "Who is MK" so intriguing, because that's who MK want's to be. He want's to be himself. But who is that person?

Is MK just like Wukong? Is he a harbinger of chaos? Is he just a noodle delivery boy? Is he Monkie Kid? What if you remove all those labels? What's left? What is he?

(Plus the whole "I just want to be me—to be MK!" "Yeah well...we all know where that leads." interaction between MK and the curse in 4x07)

And now that we've thrown MK's mysterious past and ominous future into the mix, we are in for a FULL on identity crisis spiral next season.

And well, when it comes down to it, MK was willing and ready to fight Wukong in s2. The lmk writers are fantastic at paying off several arcs all at the same time (see all of 3x10, which literally had the culmination of Mei's, MK's, Wukong's, and Macaque's arcs all in one. It's fucking phenomenal), and this is partly due to the time constraints of the show as a whole, but it's also just damn good writing. MK's past, his identity, the hurt he's experienced across every season—that's all going to come to a head. I also imagine it's going to happen right along side Mei, Wukong, and Macaque's arcs once again, because that's just how this show do. It do insane shit.

I also happen to be a believer in "Samadhi Fire Part 3", in which we get another 3x10 and 4x08 parallel to round it all up, and I am waiting, WAITING, for Mei to repeat MK's words back at him:

“Mei! You have to stop. I know you’re upset, and that’s okay! I know what it’s like to have a power you don’t know how to control—to feel like the fate of the world is in your hands and you have no idea what to do! But you always have my back, and help me through it. We, will figure this out! Together!” (3x10 The Samadhi Fire)

((Which, MK himself is repeating Mei's words back at her, with "But we're going to figure this out." I NEED A POSITIVE FEEDBACK FRIEND LOOP BABY))

But yeah. I'M WAITING MAN. WE HAVE THE SAME BONE FEELINGS.

[tiny-heist]

Does Chai have a home to go back to?

At the very beginning of the game, Chai wants to get off the Vandelay campus, but he never says “I want to go home” or something along those lines. He just keeps saying he wants to get off the island.

I don’t know if this is something to point out, and it’s me reading wayyyy too much into things, but with Chai’s tendency to kinda “act younger” you’d think he’d say something like “Ugh, this is so hard! I just wanna go home!” Or “can I go home now?” But he never mentions anything about home. He never even mentions a place to go. He just wants to get off the island.

This may be me projecting onto him about not having a good family and home life, but this is my hyperfixation, damn it!

In the game models, it says how Chai’s a college dropout, and do you ever think that Chai may have gotten kicked out for that? He’s also called a slacker a numerous amount of times in the game. It just leads me to believe that his parents or whoever took care of him really didn’t care for his rockstar dream, so when Chai dropped out for that dream, or possibly just wasn’t great in academics, they kicked him out. It’s like a “If he wants to be a slacker, he can be one somewhere else, not in my damn house” type of deal.

Because if Chai did have a home to go back to, you’d think the ending may have shown something like him calling someone, talking to another person, or maybe writing a simple text and it could have the same camera angle as Macaron when you see him working on CMNM to be able to look down at what he’s texting. A hint that he has a home to go back to. However, he’s not shown anything and never mentions anything.

If Chai never had a home to go back, then the ending just becomes so much more emotional for me because this means he found his home. It’s like a found family story.

And if it’s like a found family story, we can get into how there’s that whole thing about what home really is, and it’s the people and how you feel safe and secure in a place. A home isn’t just a house. A house is simply the vessel one can have as a home, and it can have the elements of what really makes something feel like home, but it’s not home. Home can be anything that makes you feel like you belong, like you’re safe in this place with these people in your environment. You feel safe because of the people you’ve bonded with and care about. Chai has found that home with his friends at the Vandelay campus. He found a place in his little group of misfits, and he sees that he finally has people he can lean onto.

And the song they play at the end, Synesthesia, means a whole lot more because when he’s with his friends at the Vandelay island, he gets to show all of himself to them. He feels that safety to feel everything with them, to be all the colors of himself. He gets to shine as a person and fully embrace his potential because of all the support he had with his friends. And it really gets me going because I’m a sucker for that shit, and I’ll eat it up.

Ugh, I feel like I didn’t make sense with this, but oh well. Tbh, I feel like what I’m saying here is a stretch, and people can have their own interpretations, but I like making up lore (especially sad ones tee hee) for my characters who don’t have one canonically lol