#agm asks

[meowsticmarvels]

what's your favourite ghost trick character

OOOH THATS A HARD CHOICE.... i got rly emotionally attached to sissel but i also. really adore jowd. hes a bit like asgore undertale to me. loved that guy i was so excited to find out what his deal (what mental illness) was. very hard though i do love the rest of the main cast in general. esp lynne, cabanela, missile (obviously!!), and kamila. also got weirdly emotionally attached to the justice minister for some reason likee after you save his life i was like wow can he be my friend forever. not sure why. i was drawn to him by some invisible force

[sillycyan]

I'M GETTING THROUGH EM SLOWLY BUT SURELY MWAAHHAHAAHA

[crystalmagpie447]

I tried playing kinito pet but i got scared and slammed my laptop shut and i was too worried to open it bc i thought i broke the screen with the force i slammed it (i didn't the laptop was fine lol)

He seems like a funky axolotl (?) tho so at SOME point i'll try again

(i promise i don't usually get scared that easily I just wasn't expecting it to TURN 3D AND TELL ME TO RUN)

Once I get around to finishing it I'm totally gonna post a few paragraphs abt how cool the horror in it is tho (and prob fanart too) i love cool horror. i could write a book abt cool horror (idk how good it'd be but it would definitely be a long book at least)

Also this is one of the few photos i have from my first attempt at playing it

interior design is my passion

WAHAGASGAGAHEEHEH

HEELPPP

I NEVER PLAYED IT CUZ I KNEW IT WOULD FREAK ME THE FUCK OUT ☠️☠️☠️☠️

i wa tched gameplays lmaaooo

h e is a verg funky guy

very neat and interesting indeed

i 💝 kinito pet

i wish u luck on yer Endeavours to try again 🫡🫡

ALSO

YESSYEYSGEYS

TH E

HORRORASPECT IS SO COOL

AND SPOOKY ABD FUCKED UP

Def need to look more intothat

HEGEGEHEVEGE

the roomwith all the posters

thtis awesome

my room now

heuehhehsue

[averagenderedmanta]

Was ist gefährlicher als fliegende Bären??

Fliegende Bären mit Äxten. Streitäxten. Brennenden Streitäxten. Laserstrahlen aus den Augen schießen. Fliegende Bären mit brennenden Streitäxten die Laserstrahlen aus den Augen schießen.

[gelu-the-babosa-multiversal]

mutual bingo: me 👉👈

YAYYYYYYY FIREFLY!!!!!!!!!!

[averagenderedmanta]

Yep!

18ish months ago i hab one pair of blue Puma shoes, one pair of jeans and way to much themepark shirts. Im wearing sth. Thats enough I guess?

Fast forward and I own several pairs of converse in different colours, a few jeans in blue/black/grey, some (short) shorts and way more new tshirts which I can mix and match.

Ans more than one belt, which I have to wear so my pants wont fall down. But i really like suspenders. Its way easier to wear.

My style now is somewhere around genderfuck? Not quite masc, a bit femme, but a vibe.

Also I cant wait until the heat is over so im back in Overknees!!

Not to sound like a 90s shallow prep, but how you dress can affect your self esteem, and putting energy into wearing things you actively like and projecting an ideal of yourself through fashion instead of seeing clothes as things you have to put on out of obligation helps.

It also can give you a sense of control over your appearance that you otherwise wouldn’t have lmao

[noireservoir]

I cant wait to quit this job <3

[smiling-circus-au]

Hey DogDay just wanted to ask if you saw a guy carrying around 2 rockets. Specifically, AGM-65 Mavericks. He stole them from the military base I work at and for some reason he's asking stunt guys to do an "epic" stunt with 'em that involves a bucket and a giant head or something. Just give me a call if you find him, thanks. *hands him a card then runs off*

[purrlockswatson]

Thanks for the tag @achildsfirstsorrow @frommarshtheycome and @angel-with-paper-wings , I'm honoured!

Last song: "A Milion Gruesome Ways to Die"

Favourite colour: I grew up among Plantone books and paper samples, there's no way I can choose ONE, my inner amateur graphic designer will curse me.

Last movie: Nosferatu 1922. Made my family watch it, they showed me a puppet from hell that supposedly looks like Orlok, and now I can't unsee it.

Last TV show: It's been a minute, Arcane...?

Sweet/savoury/spicy: Sweet>savoury>spicy

Relationship status: On my way to be a crazy cat lady. Sans cats, but I'll fix that.

Last thing I googled: "Do people still say hip?" My inner Victorian is showing, isn't it?

Current obsession: Drawing things that make me anxious into as silly vampurr comics

Looking forward to: Like ACFS, I'm waiting for Del Toro's Frankenstein, finishing my vampurr book, posting my writing (at last), and menacing my friends when they wake up.

I think we've gotten into the PoTO artists' end of Tumblr, so we're probably double-tagging like mad, but I'll do it anyway. @leader-of-grandys @blackghostm2o @wowyzowy3 @lokislynx @windforkthewriter @thedrawingduke @v-jack-v @vladimirsangel @blackforrestpunk (I already know you two but there's always "better")

10 people I want to get to know better

Omg thank you much for tagging me! @dearwormw00d :3

Last song: You're not alone, Allison Russel

Favorite colour: dark green

Last movie: Lord of the rings: The fellowship of the ring

Last tv show: The Gilded Age

Sweet/savoury/spicy: Sweet>Savory>Spicy

Relationship status: Single

Last thing i googled: hand holding pencil brush reference

Current obsession: One Piece, Nosferatu, Ethel Cain, my fem erik, Epic, Critical Role, studying the Enneagram again, Castlevania Nocture, The Apothecary Diaries, Witch Hat Atelier

Looking forward to: season 2 of the one piece live action, the oscars ( I want to see my beloved Fernanda Torres win), my necklaces that I've ordered, hadestown live recording, Superman, my next RPG session, Percy Jackson season 2! @insanely-creative-things @lepetitghostcat @fishing-rob @erik-christine @muirin007 @klausscrimshaw (ik it's not 10 but idk who to tag anymore, sorry ;-;)

[toyourstations]

i posted this on bluesky first, but here it is as a block of text for easier reading

what if i wrote a moderately wanky thread or newsletter post about people talking about an indie art revolution and how if it happens it won't be online and there won't be evidence of it for years, it'll just be a vibe and it'll only happen if people talking about it actually go outside and make it

im just gonna do it yesterday Chase Carter of Rascal News posted an addition to their article about games journalism not being marketing, in which they called out that the audience the article targeted were not Rascal's audience. This is where I'll start. read the post I quoted here

Internet discourse is a practice of preaching to the choir, preaching to the pastor, and an exercise in futility in 90% of cases. You may be educating someone, but more likely you are just talking to people who already agree with you and may know more about the topic than you (this thread included)

The way the internet is shaped around common interests exaggerates this when it comes to indie art. You know who sees indie art online? other indie artists. In a small community this only gets more pronounced. People call this an echo chamber when they want to be rude. I think of it like art club.

everyone at art club has a buy in on making art, because they're an artist too. I'm a volunteer at my local art gallery. Every other volunteer assumes I am also a visual artist. Because art club exists in the offline spaces too. Most of the customers at a small town art market are also vendors.

But unlike my local art gallery where school kids can tour it and families bring their kids in for handful of minutes where they can make the children quiet after a 5 hour car journey, and adults waiting for a train after lunch can kill some time, the internet doesn't get tourists.

Or at least, most of the tourists are just visiting from a different art club. So when I saw a creator today talking about how all their colleagues (I'm not sure if at a day job or a creative job) are sick of mainstream slop and the time is ripe for weird indie art, I sort of winced.

Of course everyone at art club wants an indie revolution, that's their stuff! But it won't happen if we just post about it on social media, because nobody who is not in art club is going to show up to the rally. Here's another angle:

In uni I attended at least 3 AGMs for clubs that didn't meet quorum, because people assume that someone else will go and a meeting sounds boring. But without the club AGM, there's no queer disco, there's no art show, there's nobody handing out condoms at the event, there's no tea in the staff room

And it is these public and open spaces that get people interested and involved who are not already at the club. When the jock picks up a little condom packet (because free condoms!) from the queer club, he also gets info about preventing HIV.

When the kids get dragged into the art gallery in a weird small town populated entirely by weird small town artists, they see weird art that makes them ask questions. "Why do her boobs have to be out" "why is that hand holding an orb full of cash?"

If you have a table of free zines at a local market, at least one person will think about your weird art who usually doesn't think about weird art at all, or is from a completely different art club to yours, but has a friend or family member who your art reminds them of.

Today at the gallery I explained how valuable it is that she has kept her son's retro consoles in good condition to a jade carver. Our interests don't overlap much but I was there the first time she ever set up her work for exhibition and we had a lovely conversation!

If you want a weird and indie art revolution, it has to be offline. You cannot rely on art club to change the world without people who don't attend. Like I said, I know this thread is just an example of doing it all online, but it's also not the only thing I'm doing.

one more thing - if you are shy about your art with the people you share physical space with, stop that. You don't have to show your mum your most soul revealing poem or any porn at all, but you should start getting comfortable showing people what you're working on, or explaining your projects

I promise, even if you think your art is silly or doesn't matter, or isn't good enough to show off, someone is impressed by it. An old lady at the art gallery asked if I was going to have an exhibition and I laughed and showed her a gif of pixel art art fighting game santa I had been working on

and she started talking about how there SHOULD be an exhibition of digital art. She had no context for pixel art or fighting games but she saw an animated santa doing punches and kicks and was tickled pink. Audiences don't need to know what's going on they just need to have feelings about it

2 calls to action, if you want them:

know when and where your local markets are. Attend them, talk to the vendors.

show your art to someone in your physical vicinity. Draw on a thank you card or write a poem for a notice board if you want

If that's easy cakes for you, here's a harder one (and one I'm going to work on myself)

organise yourself a booth at a local market, or a piece in a local art show, or ask your local art gallery if they're accepting works for their gift shop. At the very least leave some zines somewhere.

People don't want to put in the work to become part of art club, and that's fine, you can still show them the art you make, and they might even love it, and sharing with people outside the club is the ONLY way a club turns into a movement. Otherwise you just become academics.

Link to my thread on bluesky

Link to my newsletter where I post more of my opinions once a week if I remember to write it

[saphronethaleph]

Interservice Interstellar

“Would you look at that,” O’Neill said, shaking his head with a smile. “Hard to believe this is even something we’re putting together, huh?”

“I quite agree, sir,” Major Davis agreed. “First a fighter, and now this.”

“Exactly,” O’Neill nodded. “See, you get it, right? Six years ago we just had a big ring and no idea how to turn it on, and now we’ve got… this.”

He waved his hand at the under-construction X-303, a huge mass of alloy and heavy equipment, ensconced in its hidden hangar bay. “Our own all-up spaceship. And if Carter’s done anything like as well as she normally does, it’s going to be one hell of a ship, as well.”

Davis coughed.

“Bomber,” he said.

O’Neill glanced at him.

“What?” he asked.

“Bomber,” Davis replied.

“Bomber,” O’Neill repeated. “And what makes you say that, exactly?”

Davis raised a hand, then lowered it as O’Neill kept talking. “We are talking about six hundred feet of battlecruiser, with twelve missile tubes and sixteen railguns, eight fighters on board, a crew of over a hundred… the damn thing’s got a transporter ring station on it!”

“I don’t see how that makes it not a bomber, sir,” Davis replied. “There’s no actual maximum size on a bomber aircraft… I’m sure you’re familiar with, for example, the B-36?”

“Yeah, you know what they say about assumptions, but I’ve heard of it,” O’Neill conceded. “It wasn’t this big, though.”

“Whatever you say, sir,” Davis disagreed. “In addition, I should point out that there is no maximum size on what qualifies as a bomber crew, either. A crew of one hundred and fifteen is large, but the technical definition of bomber doesn’t have an upper limit.”

O’Neill shook his head.

“See, if you were Teal’c then I’d know if you were joshing me,” he said. “All right, then, if you’re going to insist… what about the weapons? If it’s a bomber, where are the… bombs?”

“I’ve been assured that the fighter bay doors open, and it’s possible to drop bombs out of them,” Davis said, with a slight shrug. “Early bombers didn’t have dedicated bomb bays-”

“-yeah, yeah, whatever,” O’Neill said, rubbing his temples. “I was going to get to those fighter bays, but first – doesn’t a bomber have to at least carry bombs?”

“First of all, there is precedent for designating an aircraft by a capability that isn’t the primary use capability,” Davis pointed out. “The F-117 is, by any reasonable definition, a bomber or an attack aircraft, but it can carry air to air missiles.”

O’Neill nodded.

“So, what, you’re saying this should be a fighter?” he asked. “The F-303?”

“No,” Davis said. “Because the bomber classification includes aircraft equipped with cruise or even ballistic missiles as primary weapons. For example, Skybolt was intended to be launched by the B-52 and that didn’t make it not a bomber, and the AGM-86 is launched from the B-52.”

O’Neill looked at him suspiciously.

“How long have you been preparing for a conversation like this?” he asked.

“I couldn’t possibly comment, sir,” Davis answered, with a shrug.

“Whatever,” O’Neill decided. “But what about the fighter bays? If anything they should make this a carrier.”

Davis made a face.

“Not at all,” he said. “It’s more esoteric, but the XF-85 Goblin was a parasite fighter design intended to be launched from the B-36, and-”

“And that didn’t make them not a bomber,” O’Neill parroted, making an opening-and-closing gesture with his hand and rolling his eyes. “Yeah, yeah. And I guess you’re going to say that bombers have defensive turrets, too. But enough of that. Tell me why this isn’t a battlecruiser.”

“Because, sir,” Davis replied, quite matter-of-factly. “We’re the Air Force, not the Navy.”

O’Neill considered that for about five seconds.

“Good point,” he said, snapping his fingers and pointing at Davis. “Good point, well made. B-303, then.”

“Actually, we’re considering giving it the Tri-Service designation of Bomber, Cargo, 303,” Davis stated, deadpan. “Since it can carry so much materiel… BC-303, that is.”

O’Neill chuckled.

“Just make sure someone gets a photo of the Secretary of the Navy when he hears about this,” he requested.

[averagenderedmanta]

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BOOBS!

[isaacathom]

combined with some other stuff ive heard about how this person has been going about the lead up to the agm its the vibe that they're treating it less like 'being elected to a position in a university game club' and more like 'being elected to public office' like yo. chill. its about board games. you can chill the fuck out. be normal about this

getting a message from someone asking me to vote for them at the upcoming agm on the basis of their involvement in a project i have no connection to and 0 public expressed interest with is. a choice?

[bolontiku]

LOL the things I know are confidential...🤣🤣

Spoke to my bosses boss today...

He was making rounds, telling her to clean what had already been cleaned and to be better when he walked into my area. I inquired as to when they would be removing the useless deck oven, and he gave me an answer.

The answer also gives me a heads up as once they do it will only be a matter of time till they put in coolers for frozen dough. Which means the baker position will be no more as anyone can throw frozen bread into an oven for minutes.

I asked about the coolers to come and he gave me a look, "thats confidential information, where did you hear that?"

My manager looked at me in surprise. "I have my sources..." I never tell where I've heard it from.

"Baker knows things she shouldn't. This means someone isn't keeping confidential info... confidential."

Tell me you WANT to sound smart, but I shocked you, lol.

Later my GM asked me how I knew. I didn't tell her where I heard it but they've already done it in Texas, they don't have baker positions there. She asked who would be baking then, I laughed, "more work for you, for your line people."

She's already struggling with the turn over rate but in these kind of jobs the turn over rate will be high, he gave her the same blanket corporate BS explanation in order to not promote her. I didn't say it but I did tell her it was the reason the company would not keep people. Easy enough to want employees to give their all and not return the "LOYALTY" they demand.

Labor will always be the first thing to cut, it's the easiest thing to control but people are trying to pay bills and if they find a better paying job of course they will leave when they are getting no raises, hours are being cut, people are playing favorites and there is no training.

She asked what I will do? What will happen to bakers? I said I really didn't want a pay cut and if i was losing my money I would rather go work with friends for the same amount but more safe environment for me.

Then she offered me management. Said I would make a wonderful AGM, willing to learn and help, I'm great with training and people often come to me when they are struggling. More often than not her new employees ask me how to do everything and where everything is. I'm good with inventory and ordering.

I laughed, I've asked about management and am willing to step into the role. I would like a challenge, even if nobody wants me to do it. She looked excited and promised to keep an eye on things cause she doesn't want to lose me.

Me or the way I come across information?

As long as I get paid. Lol

[usafphantom2]

AC-130J Ghostrider Gunship Has Operated From A Highway For The First Time

Operating from highways could make AC-130J gunships more survivable and flexible, but questions remain about their role in high-end fights.

Joseph Trevithick Posted on Aug 5, 2024 1:51 PM EDT

The US Air Force says an AC-130J Ghostrider gunship has operated from a highway for the first time as part of the service's larger push to reduce its dependence on traditional runways. This is also comes amid questions about the future of the gunships in future high-end fights.

USAF capture

An AC-130J Ghostrider gunship has operated from a highway for the first time during a recent exercise, according to the U.S. Air Force. This reflects a push across the U.S. military to be less dependent on traditional runways and established bases that would be high-priority targets for enemy forces during a future major conflict, such as one in the Pacific against China. This also comes as hard questions are being asked about what roles and missions there might be for the AC-130J in a high-end fight after the type has spent the past two decades supporting counter-terrorism and other lower-intensity operations.

The AC-130J in question landed on and then subsequently took off from a stretch of U.S. Highway 63 in Bono, Arkansas, on August 4 as part of the larger Emerald Warrior Field Training Exercise II (FTX II). An MC-130J Commando II special operations tanker-transport, a C-146A Wolfhound special operations light transport aircraft, and a standard C-130H cargo plane also participated in the road operations training. With the exception of the C-130H, all of these aircraft were from units assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). The C-130H was from the Arkansas Air National Guard’s 189th Airlift Wing.

“The MC-130J crew then set up a Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP), as the AC-130J assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Florida, made its approach, landed, refueled, rearmed, and took off again,” according to an Air Force release. “The primary objective of this exercise was to validate AFSOC’s capability to operate in austere environments with minimal infrastructure.”

A picture showing personnel setting up the Forward Arming and Refueling Point (FARP) using the MC-130J as the hub during the road operations portion of Emerald Warrior FTX II. USAF Senior Airman Ty Pilgrim

“The exercise provided an opportunity for participating units to refine their skills and advance ongoing pathfinding and experimentation efforts within AFSOC,” the release added.

A picture for the road operations portion of Emerald Warrior FTX II showed what appears to be a Common Launch Tube (CLT) being unloaded from a transit canister. What other munitions Air Force personnel may have practiced loading aboard the AC-130J in this austere environment is unclear.

What looks to be a Common Launch Tube (CLT) being unloaded during the road operations portions of Emerald Warrior FTX II. USAF Senior Airman Ty Pilgrim

The AC-130J’s current armament package consists of a 30mm automatic cannon and a 105mm howitzer that fire out the left side of the aircraft, as well as the ability to employ a variety of precision-guided bombs and missiles. This includes precision munitions that are launched via CLTs, such as the GBU-44/B Viper Strike glide bomb and AGM-176 Griffin missile.

“This exercise serves as a significant milestone for AFSOC, demonstrating our ability to operate in diverse and austere environments,” Tech. Sgt. Robert Gallagher, assigned to the AFSOC Air Commando Development Center, who acted as the lead planner for the highway landings, said, according to the Air Force release. “By leveraging ACE concepts, we enhance our operational flexibility and resilience.”

ACE here stands for Agile Combat Employment, which refers to a set of concepts of operations centered on expeditionary and distributed deployments that occur at irregular intervals across a broadening number of operating locations. The core function of ACE is to upend enemy targeting cycles, and by extension reduce the vulnerability of friendly forces, by operating in a less predictable fashion. The video at the top of this story from Emerald Warrior FTX II highlights all of this by showing the AC-130J being able to get in and out relatively quickly. The C-130 family’s impressive reverse thrust capability is on display, as well.

Being able to operate from remote and austere environments, such as highways, is a key element of current ACE planning. As such, the Air Force special operations aircraft, like MC-130Js and C-146As, as well as conventional ones, like A-10 Warthog ground attack aircraft and standard C-130 cargo planes, have been conducting road operations training on an increasingly regular basis. MQ-9 Reaper drones have also participated in similar exercises in the past.

Other services have been involved in this new burst of roadway exercises in the past few years. The U.S. Marine Corps has also been very actively training to use roads and other alternatives to large traditional runways as part of the service’s own array of new expeditionary and distributed concepts of operations.

AFSOC, as well as other elements of the U.S. special operations community, already have a long history of operating from impromptu forward locations, often in sensitive or denied areas, but generally on a more ad-hoc mission-to-mission basis.

“We’ve recently been returning to tactics, techniques, and procedures to find out where all of the 3,000-foot straight highways in the world are” as part of a broader push to become “runway agnostic,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind, then head of AFSOC, said last year. Bauernfeind is now superintendent of the United States Air Force Academy.

The C-130H from the 189th Airlift Wing on during the road operations portion of Emerald Warrior FTX II. Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Samuel Zang

For AC-130Js operating in their traditional special operations support role, being able to operate from roads and other remote locations on a more general basis could help allow them to fly (as well as refuel and rearm) closer to designated operating areas. This could increase their time on station and shorten how long it might take them to get to and from where they need to be, as well as just generally expand their operational flexibility.

At the same time, as the U.S. military shifts its main focus away from counter-terrorism and other low-intensity missions to preparing for high-end operations, especially in a potential future conflict against China, questions have emerged about AC-130J’s future. Even during the past two decades of support operations in largely permissive airspace over places like Iraq and Afghanistan, AC-130 gunships have operated almost exclusively at night in part to reduce vulnerability to potential threats from the ground. The War Zone just explored these broader issues facing the Ghostrider in the context of a rare appearance by one of the gunships at a sinking exercise (SINKEX) during the larger biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, which just wrapped last week.

An AC-130J from the 27th Special Operations Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii during RIMPAC 2024. USAF

The Air Force is in the midst now of a review of the Ghostrider’s current and future capabilities that could lead to the aircraft losing their iconic, but relatively short-ranged 105mm howitzers. A plan to integrate a laser-directed energy weapon, described originally as having immense potential in lower-intensity warfare contexts, has already been scrapped.

There is growing emphasis now on increasing the AC-130J’s stand-off strike capabilities, including through the addition of small cruise missiles to the Ghostrider’s arsenal. The Air Force is looking into the potential of using other C-130 variants, including MC-130Js, as well as the C-17, as launch platforms for larger cruise missiles and other munitions using a palletized system called Rapid Dragon.

In addition, AFSOC is interested in adding a new active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar to the AC-130Js to help extend the reach of their targeting capabilities, as well as provide added situational awareness. The gunships have already been receiving upgrades to their electronic warfare and communications suites.

The AC-130J, its capabilities, and its roles and missions appear set to evolve significantly in the coming years. Operating more regularly from highways and other roads looks now to be on the horizon for the Ghostriders.

Contact the author: joe@twz.com

[snailmp3]

no one asked, but i thought it looked fun so im gonna do my own ao3 wrapped ♡🐌 ↑template by @spicedrobot

words written: 68,414 → aiming to write/post 100k this year! im also going to try to draw more this year, so we'll see how that goes 🤔

works published: nine

fandoms written for: two! borderlands & jujutsu kaisen♡

longest work: Any Greater Meaning (38k & counting)

shortest work: Mind the Gap (423, for now)

fastest work (per word): Not Every Haunting is for Horror (impulsively wrote that shit in about an hour)

slowest work (per word): Any Greater Meaning

number of wips im bringing into 2025: seven… and they're all for jjk. im planning to prioritize AGM & Y,CoD!!

→ Yuuta, Child of Divorce (posted: 8.5k, 3/13 chapters / ~10k written)

→→ [Divorced, Never Married] (outline only)

→ Any Greater Meaning (posted: 38k, 8/29 chapters / ~60k written)

→→ Heliophilic (~2k written)

→→ Counting Back from Ten (posted: 1.2k, 1/11 chapters / ~2.5k written)

→→ Cigarettes, Strawberries, Sunsets, Fields (~5k written) 

→ [unnamed itafushi fic] (outline only)

favourite character to write: gojo!! i like to lean into how mean/rude he can be & pair that with how tragic he is as a character. his interactions with other characters (like megumi or nanami or geto) are VERY fun to write. hes silly. its fun.

favourite fandom to write: jujutsu kaisen♡♡ ←my current hyperfixation (watched jjk last january and caught brainrot immediately)

favourite moments written: (under the cut for brevity)

from Any Greater Meaning chapter 6:

“Sensei?”

Satoru turns from where he’s considering the logistics of opening Megumi’s door with another application of blue when the door next to it opens and Yuuji pokes his head out. He stares a bit quizzically at them for a half second before his expression turns a bit concerned.

“Yuuji-kun, you’re up awfully late.” Satoru says; Megumi stirs slightly against his shoulder.

“I was waiting for Fushiguro to get back; is he okay?” He steps fully out into the hall, closing his door behind him. He’s dressed down for the night, but he clearly wasn’t sleeping. What a nice boy, waiting up for his friend.

“Right as rain, he’s just a little sleepy, is all.”

“Oh.” Yuuji grins, “And you’re carrying him to bed? That’s really nice of you, Sensei.”

“Sensei is the best!” Satoru shifts his hold on Megumi so he can throw a thumbs up in Yuuji’s direction.

“Ugh, stop talking.” Megumi grumbles. He rubs his face against Satoru’s shoulder in a sleepy movement.

Yuuji muffles a giggle with his hand.

“Ah, but I’m just having a nice conversation with Yuuji~ Shouldn’t you be nicer to your classmate?”

Predictably Megumi goes stiff in his arms.

“Put me down.” He grits into the fabric of Satoru’s jacket.

“Hmm? What was that?”

“Now.”

from Carrion Birds:

Suguru stops a bit closer to him than he normally would, breaching the gap between them the way Satoru does without care. He grabs Satoru’s free hand, linking their fingers— Satoru’s eyes drop to their hands then flick back up to his face.

Suguru leans in and presses a kiss to his cheekbone, “Hey.”

On the way over he’d imagined kissing Satoru the way he’d been kissed in his room. This is about all he can manage, right now.

When he pulls back, Satoru’s mouth is parted slightly in shock, which makes Suguru feel a bit nervous— were those other kisses just a moment of excitement thing?

“I was thinking,” Suguru pushes the anxiety away; he fights curses on the daily, this shouldn’t be the thing that makes him flinch, “That we should visit that new crêpe place this weekend.”

Satoru blinks.

“You—” He closes his mouth. Opens it. Closes it, then, “Crêpes, yes, we should totally— Wait. Just you and me?”

“Yeah.”

“For real?”

“Yes?”

“Hell yeah!” His fingers tighten around Suguru’s, and he pushes into his space until the careful inches he’d left are eaten up. He must have dropped the can of soda because his other hand weaves with Suguru’s as well.

“You should definitely kiss me better than that, though.” He says, grinning, “I want a real one.”

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