#They're all traumatized your honor

[tumblingxelian]

@princess-of-the-corner

Thinking of Aware Lila being part of the group and how that probably pisses Marinette off and had this discussion in mind.

Marinette was practically pulling out her pig tails as Kagami watched on with a fond sort of bemusement at the girls expressive antics.

"I just don't get why she has to keep lying, its so frustrating listening to her just spew nonsense after nonsense like its nothing."

Kagami tilted her head, just a little, "It is quite obviously vexing you, and for that I am sorry."

Marinette waved her off, "You're not the one whose pants should be on fire. Though... I mean why do you hang out with her? Chloe & Adrien I kind of get, your parents are all vaguely aligned and you're in the same circles. Lila's not actually rich or famous-" Marinette gasped, "Has she tricked your parents!?"

Kagami actually let out a huff of amusement, despite its quiet nature, it ran through her whole body.

"That would be amusing to see, my mother hanging on Lila's every word, but no. That woman has no time for even sly boasting and the others parents are little different."

She held up her hand when Marinette looked ready to speak and added, "Lila's mother is genuinely a diplomat, and while not in our parents sphere of wealth she is connected enough that it behooves all of us to at least be polite."

Marinette sighed and flopped back down on the bed at Kagami's side.

"I suppose, though you'd think being able to attend events like you do and having a respected diplomat for a mother would be enough. Like its not even as if she's stupid or has no talents so she has to make things up to brag about even. What's the point? I just... I don't get why someone would lie when they don't have to."

Kagami stilled, and Marinette watched as her friends manner shifted, no longer angling towards her but instead stiff as she stared into space. Experience said to let Kagami think and after a minute of growing anxiety in the silence, Kagami spoke, her voice like tempered glass, strong but made of fragile things.

"I don't think you can understand, Marinette... Or perhaps it is not something I have the words to explain. Maybe if you experienced it... But I would never wish that on you, never."

She finally turned to Marinette, gaze intense, even as her eyes focused somewhere other than Marinette's own.

"It is love, it always comes back to love, or more, the absence of it and the quest to find it, to claim it. To let it fill that gaping chasm inside yourself that exists only because of something integrals absence."

Marinette took one of Kagami's hands and squeezed and saw the fencers breathing steady as she pressed on.

"You can't imagine what its like to never know it but always feel like its just out of reach. The depths someone might sink, the lengths they would go to finally have it."

"You might convince yourself if you just twist yourself a little more for them, tear another piece of yourself away, break yourself or someone else, that it will finally be granted to you. That you can let it sink deep into your bones and sinew and finally, oh finally, you can be happy without hurting."

Marinette shuffled closer, pressing herself at Kagami's side.

"If you can't do that, can't trick yourself into going down that path on a fruitless quest you do the next best thing. You lie. You lie to yourself, or to others. Because even false happiness is better than real despair. Or at least, that's what you tell yourself, even as you starve and wither on the inside..."

Kagami's entire body shuddered, it was somehow both the most powerful sensation Marinette had ever felt and the most subtle she'd ever seen. A reminder that even in her moments of deepest hurt Kagami could not show even a hint of weakness.

Her eyes were stinging now, and Marinette let out a sob.

Kagami's entirely frame pivoted to her, something like terror in her eyes. "Marinette, I- I don't now what I did, b-" She let out a surprised breath as Marinette practically flung herself into the taller girls embrace, pressing Kagami down on the mattress of her bed.

"You didn't make me cry... I'm crying... Because you can't, and you deserve to!" The other girl's powerful arms embraced her so tightly it was like she wanted them to stay locked together forever.

She buried her face in Kagami's neck and whispered, "You are loved, I love you Kagami."

Kagami couldn't speak, so she just held tighter, letting Marinette etch herself ever deeper inside her soul and sinew. She'd do anything for this moment to last.

[pharaoh-ferrous]

things you need to know about Ghost in the Graveyard:

Jason hates Tim and makes that very clear

Tim considers Jason his best (and only) friend

Dick is losing touch with reality

Bruce

[sparrowsortadrawzzz]

shaking my lil fanfic bois(gn and sometimes boi and gurl) azira and anthony in my head- I need to make a Playlist for them or something-

[inbabylontheywept]

i did wrestling in middle school. on one hand, i was actually quite good at it, which was nice. being good at any sport was a new achievement for me. on the other hand, i was bi, and i was trying very hard not to notice that i was bi, and getting folded into knots by very kind, very muscular dorks made that task somewhat difficult.

adding fire to the problem was that my parents and my grandparents wanted to watch my matches, because they were very proud that their Gangly Nerd Son was actually Sporting, and they wanted to cheer me on. which would've been sweet and all, but if there are four people you do not want there during a key part of your Burgeoning Sexual Awakening, it is your mom and your dad and your grandma and your grandpa.

right? i mean, imagine some guy's got your head in his armpit, and you're going you know, old sweat smells bad, but fresh sweat has a sort of and then you make eye contact with your grandpa in the stands and you remember you're swearing spandex so if you pop a boner people aren't just going to be able to see the outline, they're going to be able to count the veins, and the only way you will be able to restore your family's honor after that would be by moving to siberia and renouncing joy, forever. that, or lift your entire body up by your kneck then twist 180 degrees without paralyzing yourself.

it’s a lot of pressure, is what i’m saying.

still it did motivate me to win my matches really fast. because i was so tall and skinny, i was stupidly good at the double leg takedown, and then once someone was knocked down, i'd just do the half nelson and kind of flip em over for the pin. then the ref would count to three and i’d win. EZPZ.

i had one match where that went great. won in the first ten seconds, sat back down, and prepared myself for a good hour or two of doing fuck all. didn't even feel bad the parents/grandparents were gonna be bored. the matches went up from me in 5 pound increments (i was in the 115 lbs division) and it was going great until we got to the 145 lbs division. the other school's wrestler stepped onto the mat, and she turned out to be a girl so our guy flipped, because for straight guys, wrestling a girl is not a pleasant experience.

i'm not entirely unsympathetic. my experience wrestling dudes was definitely a little traumatic. but also, i dealt. guy could've dealt too. instead, he refused to wrestle, and the coach went - fine. not even worth fighting over.

so he went to the 140 pounder, and that guy said, nosir, my mom said mormons can't wrestle girls. next guy down, 135 pounder, now he knew he could pull the same card and thus did. 130 pounder, 125, both tapped out. he got to the 120 guy, and that guy was catholic, but he said he was considering being mormon, and thus would have to pass. as a precaution.

coach blew up a little at that. he said "is there anyone - anyone - on this entire goddamn team that is willing to wrestle a girl?" and then he pointed at me and said "YOU. MAT. GO."

and i'll be real, if i'd been paying more attention, i'd have pulled the mormon card too, but i'd just been putting all that audio into a buffer file because i was reading, so i was halfway across the mat before i even processed what had been said and by then it was too late to turn back.

still i had a plan. and my plan - my beautiful, perfect plan - was to do what i'd always done. tackle, flip, pin, win. sit down. read. bore my family to death. move on.

i got the first part right. she was bigger than me, but she wasn't taller. just an incredibly stout woman. god built me like a snake with glasses, just as he built her like a combat cube. the problem was the half nelson. soon as she was down, i tried hooking my arm under hers from behind and for both genders, the defense for this move is just clamping your arms really fucking tight against your sides. if you're a guy, that's whatever, but if you're a girl - especially if you're god's chosen combat cube - that pins your opponents hand right against your boob.

so, i got the hook in, she clamped, my whole arm pressed against something soft, my coach was yelling THE HALF NELSON. BABYLON! JUST FINISH IT! FINISH THE HALF NELSON! and i was just trying to press hard enough to finish, when then my brain went

...oh.

and i flipped out. of course i flipped out. i like girls, and touching a boob is an elemental experience, and i was not ready. i was not prepared. i had not committed the sacred rites. i recoiled like i'd just brushed my arm against the surface of the sun, stood up, and backed away. nobody in the room knew why i'd given up. all they saw was me, right about to win, suddenly flailing around and scrambling. so everyone started screaming at me to just get the half nelson again, and i couldn't really yell back there's a fuckin' boob in the way and it was very distressing, and the only way i could think of to make them stop was just doing it over again the right way.

so i did.

i hunkered down and prepared myself for Wrasslin' Attempt #2: The Sequel.

i knocked her down again, EZPZ. i went for the half nelson again, but she knew what i was about to do so she super clamped, and i knew she was gonna super clamp, so i wound my arm back like a pop-eye cartoon punch before swinging my arm through the gap between her bicep and her side, but the amount of time i spent winding back super signalled what i was about to to do, which gave her time to clamp even harder, which somehow redirected the entire force of the popeye punch to the bottom of her bra.

it spat out a single boob the same way an action hero might spit out one single tooth after getting a solid crack across the jaw. as if to say:

*ptooie.* "that all you got?"

i did not actually see this. my experience was that first there was an arm, then there was a bit of boob, but i was braced, i was ready, forward at all costs, tatakae motherfuckers, and then the boob went away, and i didn't know where it went but my team, and the audience, and everyone who was in front of me, they all gasped like i just kicked them in the stomach. except for my coach. he was behind me, and thus one of the four people in the room who did not see the boob. now my mom, my dad, my grandma, and my grandpa, they all got flashed but nooooooo, coach thunderbutt was behind me, and he didn't see shit so he was still yelling NOOOOOO BABYLON WHAT ARE YOU DOING JUST FINISH THE NELSON! GO FOR THE KILL! BABYLON! BABYLON!

but i did not go for the kill. i stood up and she stuffed her boob back real fast, and we just kind of circled each other awkwardly until time ran out and i won on points. that's not technically allowed, but the ref had some mercy on me.

my coach did not.

i barely had time to sit down before he strode over to the bench to chew me out.

"babylon," he said, in that very calm way people get when they're too pissed to yell. "why didn't you pin?"

and i didn't know how to say well coach, i tried, but there was a boob, and it kept getting in the way, and my mom was watching, and so was my dad, and so was his dad, and his mom, and god (like bible god) and that's a can of worms because i'm pretty sure he was already mad at me, and i'm wearing spandex, and i think i might have to move to siberia, so instead i said

"i uh. i forgot how to do the half nelson."

which is actually impossible. forgetting how to do the half nelson is like forgetting how to swallow your spit.

and he looked at me, like i was the dumbest person in the entire world, and i looked through him like i'd just survived my 250th day in a trench at verdun, and he said: fine.

fine.

but we're all going to practice it for an hour tomorrow because you forgot.

and then he left.

and my buddies had the gall to be salty about it. i got so many comments saying "dude, why didn't you just tell him the truth?" and i said "you can if you care so damn much. you could've wrestled the girl too. maybe someone else should do the hard thing today."

but they didn't. so the next day, we did an hour of half nelson drills, and i spent a decent amount of time getting thrown around the mat, and it was pleasant in exactly the way that i hated and the year after that, to the surprise of everyone but myself, i quit wrestling and joined the trivia team.

and if you want more reasons to love my mom, my grandpa joked after the match that i might have to talk to my bishop about it, and my mom told him he would be allowed to make jokes after he stood in front of a crowd of 110 people in spandex underpants while wrestling a woman that was not his wife.

he paused for almost five seconds after that. then he said: aw. hell. sorry babylon.

and i'd have preferred my apology from god, but getting it from him was pretty good too.

[officialfoxsquadron]

sooo i read this snippet to my partner today and i got a "i love two queens queening out" so enjoy

“Hey-What did I say about smoking on the ship?” Luke said, exasperated, placing his hands on his hips. “You weren’t here,” Wedge shrugged. “Oh, c’mon, don’t be such a bore.” Luke rolled his eyes. “Wedge, we could literally blow up.” “But we haven’t. Yet,” Wedge said. Luke huffed. These people, I swear. “And I breathe your recycled air.” Wedge shook his head. “It’s not my fault you don’t smoke.” “And it’s not my fault I want my lungs intact,” Luke strode over to where Lottie was sitting and handed her the condenser. “Lottie, for you.”

[starboundsingularities]

the jurist system seems really cool i hope they keep using it :-)

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they called me to the witness stand and the defense attorney just shouted "BOOOOOO WE HATE YOUR PUSSY"

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look if i was on trial and the guy prosecuting me started advertising his music i'd just plead guilty. avoid the embarrassment of getting put in prison by a guy who basically used the trial to say "this blew up btw here's my soundcloud"

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didnt miles edgeworth defend someone in a case once

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do you know the difference between a prosecutor and a defense attorney

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who the fuck is evil magistrate

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STOP TAGGING THIS WITH LAWYERS?????

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they hired a guy to stand in court and shout "GET A ROOM YOU TWO" whenever the lawyers start getting a little too homoerotic

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your honor i know all the evidence points to my client being guilty. but come on you have to admit he kinda ate right

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mia fey when they had phoenix wright on trial

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🔍 thuthseeker Follow

ok hot take but i feel like these lawyers should maybe not be allowed to drag literal children to court with them?? how many people have gotten genuinely actually fucking SHOT in court and they're just ok bringing fucking 8 year olds in?

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STOP asking me about the dl-6 post idc idc look even phoenix wright forged evidence once shut up

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he didn't forge the evidence, though. it was kristoph gavin who ordered the forgery. this was covered in the trial of vera misham. if you're going to try to compare yourself to well known figures, you could at least check the veracity of your claims.

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yeah well. he might have. on a different case or something.

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i tried to take the bar exam but they didnt let me because i wasnt cunty and traumatized enough

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[fuzzandfeathers]

Was thinking about Octavia and Stolas and got sad about it 😭

Feelings and junk under the cut~

This one's been sitting awhile and in that time I've gone from feeling relatively certain about what I'm trying to express, to no longer having any idea what I'm expressing, to once again feeling kinda sure about it! It was meant as hopeful but I can't fully say it ended up that way; the little perspective shift at the end was originally intended as optimistic, because without it things felt to 'final', but in retrospect I might've just made it worse 😂 I had all kinds of feelings going into this, thinking about all the little private ways we try to measure our worth in other people's lives and how badly that can miss the mark, but more than anything I think I was trying to ask myself something from Octavia's perspective. When someone goes through something life-alteringly traumatic, eventually they always find a new normal. No matter how devastating something is in the moment, given time, things will always settle. So what does that feel like when you are the thing someone you love is 'settling' from? It's not fair to assume that someone's life is better without you in it just because they're still out there living. But what does it feel like, to see first-hand that they have either somewhat healed or hidden a wound that you carved in them yourself. Because you don't want them to hurt (well, you kinda do a little) but you also don't really want them to forget (even though you told them they should) and then it all becomes a jumbled mess in your head. Thankfully, I don't think Via and Stolas are going to be estranged long enough for this to become the kind of obstacle I'm portraying here. Pretty sure I accidentally stumbled into some of my own old teenage angst there - always a fun time 😂 I handled this a little clumsily, I think, and I have a few nitpicks with the formatting (beefing with past me's approach is a time-honored tradition for these things 😌) but it's sincere and I'm still happy with it~

[l0s3rd0wnt0wn]

Meet the Diamonds (that's their mean girl group name, but the girls are far from mean).

Trish Jackson, the white girl of the group, really likes manga; she's a shoujo fiend and is obsessed with magical girls. She has little Precure keychains on her bag, and she'll wear Sailor Moon nails. People think that because she's blonde, she must be dumb, but my girl gets good grades across the board; she's on the honor roll, so don't play. She's also the reason you got into the friend group in the first place. You both had a project to do together, and you couldn't stop yapping—no work was done. The next day, there's a piece of paper on your desk saying, "[Name] Wayne, you are now adopted by Trish Jackson," in perfect handwriting.

Kiara Antoinette, she's a very sporty girl and she's the ace of girls' volleyball or the head of girls' track. Just know she plays sports; she's won a whole lot of trophies for Gotham Prep, which is why she's so popular. Now, Kiara is really deep into the horror genre, and she complains that horror movies nowadays don't understand horror. "You can't just slap an evil clown on something, put a hot girl in a movie, have her tortured, and call it horror." She hates the Terrifier series with a burning passion. While all the girls are screaming and covering their eyes, she's sitting in the theater disappointed. "Worst movie of the century, name I know. Children’s shows are scarier than that!" But what she didn't know was that the rest of you were completely traumatized. Next time, she'll make you all watch Coraline.

Cleo Nakamura, a Blasian baddie, is pretty shy and soft-spoken. Her popularity comes from the boys in her school having a thing for her. I mean, she's sweet, pretty, and kind, but she's rejecting boys left and right. Why? "Oh, they're not my type..." she mumbles. Who is her type, then, you may ask? Darth Maul—yes, the dude from Star Wars with a red and black face and horns on his head. That's her crush. Hear me out: imagine the sweetest girl in school having a crush on an evil Sith warrior from Star Wars. My girl is foaming at the mouth for him, and you can probably guess she's into sci-fi movies and books. It's literally pumping in her veins like blood. She likes to drop weird facts about the Dune books to the girls, horrifying them: "So then Paul's son becomes an evil worm dictator to get the people on this thing called the right path. Are you following?" All three are completely lost. "Okay, good."

[kneelbeforeclefairy]

More SOTR thoughts

I think we were all surprised that the tribute center hadn't been built yet and the tributes are being treated ....like that. But hear me out, I think the debacle that was the 50th led to it.

You're Snow. You've got 40-some victors and growing. You're trying to contain them to seperate apartments. You keep the tributes handcuffed and locked in. There's Peacekeepers and surveillance everywhere and no one's afraid to use force to subdue. And STILL they do this. They still manage to team up, to build a coalition. And on top of that, you've got people who have NO RESPECT for the Games, and no respect leads to slip ups, leads to mistakes, leads to people seeing the holes in the capitol's security, and more importantly, in their STORY that the Games are necessary to live and the Capitol is all knowing and all benevolent. You've salvaged it THIS time. But they only have to be lucky once and it all comes tumbling down.

So what do you do? Do you increase security? Go back to the zoo days? Keep the tributes chained in their rooms? Take away their mentors?

No, you can't do that. People like the spectacle. You NEED the spectacle. Furthermore, If you go backwards, you look weak, you look like they won something. You have to go on and pretend nothing happened so the rebels don't get the wrong idea, so the truth doesn't spread, while still increasing security so it doesn't. Happen. Again.

So what do you do? You stop trying to seperate them. You put them all together, all 50 traumatized, fucked up, teenage to 50 something victors, in one place, with the 24 terrified teenagers they are in charge of, so no one can escape each other. A place CUSTOM built to hold them, where YOU control their every movement. No more transporting them from place to place, everything is controlled from the train arriving under the remake center to the chariots entering the tribute center to the helicopters to the arena. Smooth. You have a state of the art surveillance system but one that doesn't draw attention to itself, which encourages looking for where the cameras aren't. You let them meet, let them have the hope of each other's society to keep them calm, but if tempers and grudges fly, that's fine too.

And most importantly, because it's Panem Et Circenses, you make them A SHOW.

You hide them in plain sight. You take them out of their gilded bird cages and let them see and be seen almost, but not quite, like a free citizen of the Caoitol. You get the victors dressed and fancied up too. You put them in the crowds during the interviews and cut the camera to them. You bring them out for interviews and retrospectives, make them talk about their lives, all with gratitude to you. You show off how rich and HAPPY they are and how much the capitol LOVES them , so their districts hate them. You keep them busy, so they have no time to rebel. You keep the trauma fresh, by making it impossible for them to hide from the cameras and drop their personas. You turn them into archetypes, into people they'll have to PLAY for the rest of their lives. You tell the tributes they're your honored guests, you treat them like celebrities so there's no holes in the story that they're anything but respected and cared for by the benevolence of the capitol. And maybe, keeping them distracted with luxuries for a week keeps them content. Less time to mull over how miserable they are when they're being treated so well.

Give them Circenses. Make them BE Circenses. An animal in a cage being treated poorly fights back and tries to get out. An animal in a safe warm enclosure grows to like the safety and luxury of it. They'll start acting like calm little zoo animals if they don't realize they're in cages. All, of course, under your complete control.

And it works. Mostly. Katniss can't imagine running from the reaping. She has no idea that tributes HAVE run in the past, just a speculation. The tribute parade goes off without a hitch. Everything runs so, so smoothly.

Except what Snow doesn't realize is the victors become friends. They become allies. They become FAMILY. it's harder to plot sedition under strict surveillance, but they manage it. And it doesn't take long for them to regroup and try again.

And this time, it works.

[hibiscusseaart]

Had a dream today and I'm evolving it as I go here

The main idea that Rin didn't die when she tried to unalive herself by Kakashi's hand, but Obito was already traumatized and got in with Madara's Moon Eye plan. So yada-yada, she's the jinchuriki of Sanbi. BUT the difference was that she decided to come out of the closet (a real tight one cuz of her clan but she almost just DIED what to regret now) that she's actually a guy. So FTM Rin guys. Rin is he/him from now on.

He wouldn't change his personality and crush on Kakashi much. Dude is a medic, have you met medics? My extended family has a lot of medics in ER and other and let me tell you, they're ruthless and give 0 fucks.

Oh and since he's a medic he has top notch access to remove his own boobs and change his hormones fucking manually.

I think he would rethink his crush on Kakashi, like, man, he's a loser, plus it's hard to crush on someone who you thought killed you (even tho you made him) AND Kakashi has doomed love with 'dead' Obito and it's a bummer.

Idk about his name tho, he probably would change it just to, unknowingly, create more confusion for poor Obito, who is SURE that Rin is dead-dead and fucking Konoha didn't even made a grave for her and Kakashi doesn't even VISIT.

Madara and Zetsu obviously don't tell him about his development. They don't need him to have a hope in this world again.

Kakashi is just glad that he didn't kill his teammate and maybe they connect better since "Rin" (listen i NEED a name for him, but i have 0 ideas about meaning or what ever. maybe he'd take something to honor Obito's memory?) doesn't crush on him anymore and maybe he's trans too?? idk about it yet but he might act warmer to "Rin" now.

So Obito is just confused, like WHO is this dude from Nohara clan who is now with Kakashi ALL the time (they're still best friends). He doesn't connect that this brown haired (!) medic (!!) from Nohara clan (!!!) with the same marks (!!!) same age as them (!!!!!) might be Rin. like no, nope, Rin a nice gentle lady, not this smoking dude who yells at Kakashi and curses at him cuz he run away from hospital again.

So yeah Obito is just not impressed. But intrigued. And jealous. He stalks Kakashi AND this guy all the time. May develop a crush on both, cuz "Rin" is still the same at his core.

Kakashi would still go in ANBU cuz Minato asked him (still not sure about it, like yeah lets put deeply traumatized 13 yo in assasin squad good job) and stuff.

So idk how canon would go from there, like i doubt that Minato would let 14 yo jinchuriki near another one at this tense situation, even tho "Rin" could've help.

So yeah Kushiha and Minato die, "Rin" barely holds onto the Sanbi but Obito finds out that the guy is holding them. He doesn't connects the dots. Or he does? His mind just CAN'T hold on to the fact that his Rin MIGHT survived.

But maybe "Rin" was closer to the place where they sealed Kuubi in Naruto (maybe he ran there cuz there's Kuubi rampaging and he HAS to help) so Minato entrusted Naruto to him, not to fucking Sandaime.

So yeah, now "Rin" is Naruto's legal dad at the age of 14 and no one can fucking take him away cuz a) it was Minato's dying wish; and b) just fucking TRY to peer "Rin" away from Naruto, you'll get your hand bitten off and NO arguments work, cuz "Rin", who was trained by Kushina in jinchuriki stuff, can make some sort of turtle shield and he hides in it with his new baby and no one can do anything.

And no one can protect baby jinchuriki better than the other jinchuriki so it's fine. Everyone just accepts it.

(Isobu laughs at Kurama cuz haha im the older sibling now :))

Naruto is bullied less but I think no one can tell him about his parents cuz Sandaime sucks ass. But "Rin" drops HUGE hints cuz he hates Sandaime now too. Like no shit Tsunade left.

Idk what would happen with Obito if he finds out about "Rin's" identity. he'd come back crawling and crying probably. Maybe try to kidnap him and cry more in Kamui.

update: added sketch

[evilminji]

SVSSS

So! A thought that's been stuck in my head with your SI-OC series is "What if they took being made a Wife seriously?"

Like, wouldn't it calm Binghe down a bit if he had one of his wives hanging on his arm telling him "[X action] will make [Y wife] sad/happy".

Now there's a thought >.>

Someone working off modern "how to make a marriage work" play sheet instead of ancient Chinese? Far more "spend time together, share interests, bids of affection, open communication" etc?

Trying to treat the harem as a polycule. It would have to be early on. Before he got too disillusioned and the harem grew too large... but? It would be doable?

Like? Before the fall of the Sects, the realms merge. When he's still a raw wound of a man. After he's dropped his Seduction Mask. Hunt over, you've seen the ugly in him, he's started ignoring you for the next hit of dopamine he's so desperately chasing.

Do you still love him? Or do you get offended. Pout. Upset that you're not the center of his universe anymore?

Wife-Oc? Would have to treat him like the heavily abused animal he acts like. Not LESS then human, mind you, but something wary of them. Would need to be very, very patient. In the face of a man who's brain chemistry is not only deeply fucked up? But who's actively suffering under the effects of a legendary cursed sword.

He's NOT okay.

Trying to control him? Get things from him? Will only feed into his "they don't REALLY love me. They're using me." Complexe.

What he needs? Is consistency. Boundaries and positive reinforcement. Support and affection. Someone making HIM meals. Soft, platonic touch. Genuine interest in his day. Someone who both remembers and avoids his triggers.

(Maybe someone who researchs OTHER Legendary blades. Non-cursed varieties.)

It would build. Slowly, then all at once. First she'd just... be there. One of the wives. Bit more persistent the usual, but maybe she's just needy? Wants to gain his favor? Only... no. She's getting along with his other wives. Respecting his boundaries. Remembering what he does and doesn't like. Being... kind to him.

There are "welcome backs". Ones that don't flaunt bits of neckline or hints of curve. Just... warm smiles. Hugs. There are meals that match his mood. Medicine sent when he's hurt, even though most people think he doesn't need it. Offers to brush his hair. Talk about his day. Do things he's interested in. None of them an excuse for sex.

He is treated softly. With kindness.

When was the last time THAT happened?

Obsession quickly follows. Of course it does. He is not well. Sealed as a kid, cursed during the most traumatic event of his life, has his demonic blood EVER had a chance to settle? Yes, there is good in him. But he is both ill and unspeakably powerful.

It would be her life's mission to get rid of that damn sword.

Xin Mo is driving him insane. Killing him with ten thousand little cuts to the soul.

It would grow like a cancer, Xin Mo's influence. Dispite the United forces of the Wives trying to push it back. Not enough of them would truely care. There would be divisions, within the harem. Those that care about Binghe and those that are using him, in his mind altered state.

The Loyal wives? Would probably conspire? To free the one person who could Get Rid Of That Damn Sword. Their honored father in law. Tianlang-jun. Especially? Since the old Palace Master is a CREEP and they don't like how he stares at their husband. Wasn't even hard, to find out what the fucker did to their poor, honorable, deceased First-Mother-In-Law Su Xiyan. (The absolute BASTARD)

So like... a squad of ladies rolling up on Tianlang-jun? Huh... not his birthday, but he'll take it.

Oh? *gets an exposition dump* ......Oh?

You don't say.

So now Father-in-law's free. And pissed. Old fucker is soon to be VERY dead. And Father-in-law has agreed to, in the grand Demon Tradition, kick his son's ass. Lovingly. Then steal his Cursed as fuck sword and break it into itty bitty pieces. Maybe scold him a bit. Be a general asshole. You know, as one does.

He certainly can't be assed to take back the throne. It was tedious as FUCK.

So you do it, Jr. Your problem now~! But! Dear ol daddy's here to beat some sense into you~☆ then eat your food and laze about. It's what your mother would have wanted. (Lies. She would have done the beating her self. Then dragged him out by the ear. But let him have this. He's lonely.)

@babbling-babull @legitimatesatanspawn @mayfay @hdgnj

[whiteeevee996]

Thinking about how insane the Wundrous society is, especially for the mundane.

Imagine you're really good at a basic skill like cooking. A relative mentions to you you're so good at cooking that they're going to sign you up for this elite society that is considered an incredible honor to join! Even getting to participate in the trials to potentially join is seen as an honor.

So you go through grueling, frankly traumatizing trials that most likely have very little to do with your knack. And by the end of it when you get into classes, you're blackmailed, forced to work together with your fellow 12 year olds even as something terrible is being held over your head.

You get through that and you might think for a bit that the hard part's over- you've gotten through the secret trial! Maybe you're really starting to like your unit at this point.

And then you're informed the society you joined exists to fight back and distract people from the fact that various monsters exist in the city, created by a mass murder 100 years ago, and this is all necessary to avoid causing mass panic. You signed up to cook! You did not sign up for this!! But you certainty can't leave because it's such a prestige to be in the society and you've already been through a year of classes!!

[side-shuffling-hyperfixations]

Is it just me or do 2003 Leo and Raph have the best relationship out of all the iterations? It's my favorite, at least. Like they do get snappy with each other sometimes but their spats aren't nearly as often, as intense or festering as long as some others I've seen.

It was refreshing that Raph didn't challenge Leo's position as leader nearly as much. Sometimes he would challenge the decisions he made while leading but not undermine his position. He learned and mostly accepted that Leo would be a good leader in childhood and he backed him up nine times out of ten (even when Leo didn't know it: e.g. the "If Leo needs us, we're here. But let's see what this is all about." An instance of Raph pulling a Leo-type move, hanging back to recon rather than rushing in, while Leo's judgment was clouded. Learning from each other and supporting even from a distance)

How ready they are to be there for each other? How openly protective they are of each other? Like they're not as coy or begrudging or emotionally constipated as others about showing how much they care. Small gestures, big gestures, it doesn't matter. Leo's having trouble focusing on a plan because of the noise? Raph makes the noise go away. Wasn't Raph the first one who wanted to look for Leo when his morning training (getting ambushed by the Foot) ran unusually late? Or the scene where Leo's suddenly getting pulled away by an unknown magical force and he calls out to his brothers in alarm. Don cries, "Oh, no!" as he and Mikey stand there and watch; they freeze up. Raph dives headlong after him instantly.

And how they take it when they can't be there for each other? He dove headlong and he didn't actually make it in time to grab Leo's hand before he's gone. Master Splinter has to physically hold him back as he's still shouting and fighting to get to him (and then he has to be restrained again by magic when it looks like Leo's in danger in the 1v1 he was pulled to. Screw the fact that he's obviously outpowered by the almighty binding rules of the duel, he'll go kicking and screaming anyway, that's his bro!) And the scene where they're on top of a moving car, Leo loses his grip on Raph and he falls and from Leo's POV, time slows until he sees Raph land alright. Raph facing his fear ick about bugs, jumping down to defend Leo from the big boss bug with no hesitation when he sees him get stung? And of course when he cries just the once (as far as I recall) in the whole series when Leo's seriously hurt. How he makes me cry in SAINW as he crawls to Leo's side, reaches out for him, calls his name with his dying breath, his last word is his brother's name as he falls beside him, hand against his??? And that was after being estranged in that what-if future! LIKE BRO THAT SCENE MAKES ME WANT TO SCREAM

Even just the two or three lines where Leo's waxing poetic about their family, being completely sincere, and Mikey bursts out laughing and teases him for being a sap. Raph immediately tells Mikey to lay off and that Leo's got a point.

They're just so good. They have a few arguments like all siblings do but there is zero doubt that they love each other to pieces and they don't hesitate at all to show it on the regular. And outside of that estrangement timeframe where they were traumatized and grieving and in a literal apocalypse where they lost all hope, they didn't let their relationship fall apart the way some other iterations did. (Like I love 2007 but that fight on the rooftop? Where Raph could have killed him? I watch it and I can't help but think to myself, "2003 Leo and Raph would never." We saw them have a tussle on a rooftop and the moment there was a possibility he put Raph in real danger, Leo came to his senses and dropped everything to make sure he was okay. I dunno)

Asfjskjfks this is all just biased four AM rambling. The point is I love them, your honor, best/closest/healthiest R&B dynamic duo forever in my heart <3 (Natural disclaimer: I don't say any of this to crap on any of the other iterations. I like them all! I just like 2003's portrayal the most)

[questionablecuttlefish]

In defense of KataGaren...

Seen this ship cop a bit of flak after the Bite Marks video dropped...I think mostly because Arcane Only fans taking their first look at Katarina and going "PLEASE TELL US SHE'S A GIRLKISSER OH WAIT WHAT"

I mean she could be, I don't make the rules. But bashing poor Garen over it is a bit uncalled for and just plain mean. KataGaren's actually one of the few M/F League ships I kinda like.

Hear me out.

It's actually two-sided and they're actually on equal footing.

I know, shocking right, but most of the other M/F ships where they aren't either already a couple or already freaking married are in some way one sided? The Guy Likes The Girl and we either never get to see how she feels back or she has no idea who TF he is and is weirded out when he fail-flirts with her or there's some toxic power dynamic because League sure doesn't like giving its women agency in their M/F relationships unless the couple's introduced expressly as a couple.

There's an underlying comphet, "he wants her, so of course it's going to happen" that icks me out and I can't shake it away.

KataGaren though? They've got a pretty simple, straightforward 'loyal-warriors-for-rival-nations-but-we-had-a-couple-of-sword-fights-and-realized-we-are-hot-for-each-other-oh-no' dynamic.

The attraction is clearly mutual, they're equals on the field of battle and respect each other's prowess and loyalty to their nation even if they're enemies, no one is trying to fix anyone or manipulate anyone outside of the fairly transparent "I'll do whatever the mission takes, even taking you down" that they are both clearly aware of.

They just keep bumping into each other in dangerous situations and having flirty fights.

The straight-laced stoic paladin hero guy getting flustered but also excited by the flirtatious edgy assassin femme fatale who thinks riling him up is kinda cute actually oh wait damn do I like him never ceases to be funny.

Their dialogue in...LoR I think? Where they're throwing the expected threats at each other and then whispering asides planning a date later will never not be cute and funny.

Lux giving them both shit about it will never not be funny.

If you want to take it seriously, Katarina assassinating King Jarvan 3 is a pretty big point of conflict for the relationship if Garen ever finds out.

Garen would be the most boring character in League, Generic WhiteGuy Hero McChonkJaw, if it weren't for the fact that he's a GIGANTIC hypocrite

He's unswervingly devoted to his Duty And Honor as the front man of DEMACIAAAA including when he knows his duty is morally wrong.

But he genuinely loves his sister and has lied all his life to keep her secret safe.

And he's utterly smitten with a dangerous enemy agent who literally assassinated his king.

Katarina is a sexy edgy femme fatale stereotype on legs (and what legs they are) but as depicted in the Kat comic and some of her other material, she's also kind of a goofball and in her own special way, a gigantic faildaughter.

So there's an element that KataGaren is this edgy ship but it's also basically vanilla-flavored enemies-to-lovers and that's sometimes just fine.

And they're also kinda a pair of doofuses who are barely equipped by their respective traumatic nationalist upbringings to navigate whatever's going on between them.

She's got a couple of F/F ships if that's more to your taste and that's totally fine.

But there's nothing wrong with KataGaren and I like it.

[axxxx13]

HEAR ME OUT: Briam are basically canon and I have proof your honor.

EVIDENCE 1.

Do we really want to believe that Brett's basically unmotivated hatred towards Liam has turned into the way he looks at him like 3 episodes later just because Scott saved him?

I mean Brett locked Liam in a cage and basically traumatized him for life just because they lost a game of a sport that honestly doesn't seem to matter to him that much. And then like 3 episodes later Brett smells Liam's fear in the middle of the field, pulls him out of a panic attack, asks him if he's okay only to ask him again in the locker room telling him he has "strength of character" (I'm referring to the episode where Liam hallucinates about Berserkers)

I mean let's say Brett was chained up in a closet and was mad at Liam for the way he made him feel so he took it out on him but being almost dead reorganized his priorities.

EVIDENCE 2

The Sinema scene? Brett is bi (or pan) like... what was that scene for (the one where he dances with the girl and the boy)? And the way he looks at Liam afterwards while they're talking? The way he throws himself on Lucas to protect Mason and Liam? Protective boyfriend mood on.

EVIDENCE 3

In the episode where Hayden and Liam compete on the field (Lacrosse and soccer) Brett is there (why?) and not only notices the sexual tension between them but even asks Mason about it (who tells him the story about the fight)

Like... why are you so interested?

EVIDENCE 4

In the episode of the charity game Liam and Brett have a little plan between them (to stop Kira) and Brett practically gives himself a concussion just for Liam. He's such a sweetie in that scene.

EVIDENCE 5

When Hayden is there, Brett is not there.

Brett is there when Liam and Hayden are competing (Sinema and training) and then he practically disappears until the charity game (during the period in which they are in crisis for Theo's pack facts). By the way Brett and Liam exchange their last words just before Hayden goes to Liam to tell him that she chooses him. Then Brett disappears again until Hayden leaves Liam and reappears to help him with the freshmen lacrosse, but ends up trying to help him with his anger.

After that Brett dies.

Note: technically Brett dies because of Liam's. I mean Monroe sees the ball that Liam punctured with his claws but when he looks at the field Liam is already gone and there is only Brett. Liam should have been the target and Brett was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

EVIDENCE 6

Aside from the obvious trauma of not being able to save two friends and having to watch them die (which alone would explain Liam's reaction) everything that happens next?

In the police station episode Jiang and Tierney are basically Brett and Lory (including Satomi's pack and the tattoo) which is basically a trigger for Liam that only explodes when he sees Brett's jersey number on the hunters' arrow. I mean do we really want to make it seem like it's all a coincidence and not extremely personal to Liam? Even Theo realizes that Liam is projecting

And then Brett reappears in the zoo scene (when Liam has the cage flashback) a sign that he has literally not gotten over anything related to Brett (not the bullying, not his feelings, not his death)

And last but not least. How similar are Theo and Brett? I mean I think people have types but Liam basically sees Theo and is like yeah, I want exactly this orphaned, bloody traumatized, sarcastic, manipulative, incredibly sexy guy with six-pack abs and green eyes.

I mean...

[cheesycatz]

Parasitic worm pretends to be your valentine so you don't notice that they're the reason you have 24 days left to live

Wormton AU fic is 190k words now! : )

Nothing crazy new plot wise, more bonding and found family stuff. Obligatory fluff after how much these guys had to go through. I like describing all the sounds he makes when isn't trying to suppress them; chirps, warbles, trills, chirrs, chitters, screeches, snarls, and that weird computer whirring sound he makes that may or may not have the same connotations as purring (sorry I couldn't resist)

I'm excited to go through revisions! It's been so long since I wrote some of this stuff that I don't remember the fine details, so it's genuinely fun for me to read through. Also, I had fun making disguised wormton seem as cursed as possible without actually describing his real form until post-reveal. Blue was probably the only one who didn't think he was some deranged serial killer at first sight, which, fair enough. I was kind of worried about a few very minor original characters I added not being accepted, but then I remembered that Trashy the trash can probably has more speaking lines than any one of them and it probably isn't that big of a deal. I hope you enjoy the one chapter with these three kids putting their LPS animal dolls through the most traumatizing, heart-wrenching, dark story as we all did as children (I promise it's plot relevant and contains symbolism).

Drew some non-canon wormton stuff for Valentine’s Day. I mean, I don't know how you would send a valentine to an elusive homeless man with no official documentation of his existence. The asexually reproducing computer worm guy can't feel anything romantic, but he would love to take advantage of you—gladly accept your lovely gifts. Bro’s just teasing haha he would never inject parasitic worm larvae into your abdomen just don't go to the doctor in the next 24 days please he definitely loves you and not the worms hypothetically eating your organs

“worm.vbs” is a reference to the file type used by the ILOVEYOU worm and other old malware. I only know this because I realized that one of the official spamton valentines from last year contains its exact file name “LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs”. sharing this trivia because it was like the one reference in those valentines that I didn't see anyone mention back then and because it makes me feel smart

Food for thought:

Honestly, he'd be pretty scary if it weren't for his justified fear of the antivirus forces. Malworm safety is all about avoiding disembodied voices trying to lure you into alleys, so the fact that you can physically see his relatively humanoid disguised form would make him seem dangerously trustworthy. I was thinking about what would've happened if he would've gotten help from the person on the phone (probably gaster I guess? idk). He could've totally been like a cult leader manipulating people into willingly becoming hosts because it was honorable or whatever. And that could combine with the fact that their venom slightly influences the brain. And the followers would've thought he was simply dressing up as a malworm and his fall from grace would've been when they realized he was just a malworm in disguise infecting them and prolonging the invasion. I prefer what I have now; lonely hypothetically-murderous wormton is a lot more redeemable than very-murderous cult leader wormton would be. The addisons, or anyone really, would want nothing to do with him. Fun to think about! And only to think about; I'd rather focus on the version I have now.

See you next time at the big 200k 👀 chapter 3 might actually come out before my multi-book-length spamton fanfiction but don't worry I would never abandon my favorite freak of nature

yappin complete B)