#almost 10yrs in the making

[vnixxir]

<3

the slowest burn, the biggest payoff

self-indulgent piece because I can.

[mutalune]

my clone culture headcanon is that they have almost no traditional mandalorian ties, they picked up almost nothing culturally/linguistically from the mandalorian trainers, but the one thing they DID get were endearments/affectionate and-or comforting words/etc.

b/c 1) that was the only way the trainers could somewhat express affection for their favorites without getting dinged for being too attached to them since no one there actually spoke mando’a 2) kaminoans would be Unhappy if the clones expressed affection openly so secret language words were the only way to safely verbalize caring and loving, so they picked up on those few kind words VERY quickly

(The way I see it working is that the trainers had favorites, would occasionally say something like “chin up, hang in there, good job kiddo,” and said favorites picked up those terms without actually ever getting Direct Translations of what they mean. So they get the words and some context but have to jumble it together themselves and pronunciation and meaning change the further away it spreads from the original favorites - because all of this is spread in private, quietly, until it grows its own legs in different iterations with different battalions imho

like they know adding -‘ika to a name is affectionate and feels like a diminutive but they don’t know what it means exactly and sometimes plug it into names in grammatically odd ways, so instead of “Trap’ika” you get “Trapper’ika” which sounds more like “Trapperka” when you’re talking fast.)

(i’m just a fan of gentle soft pet names and showing affection quietly and how love finds a way and how the clones can take what little scraps they were given and make it their own)

[syn4k]

okay so since we've basically finished the draft of the first chapter of this fic we're working on and since we're going to be posting it exactly a week from now on may 30th as planned (unless something goes horribly and i mean HORRIBLY wrong), i figured that i may as well finally start posting a little bit about it here because this thing's been cooking for a few weeks now and man are we excited about it.

without further ado, everybody get ready for... salt and the sea!!! (named after the Lumineers song :3)

so about a month back our dear friend quincy @starry-storm-main watched a mianite s1 clip we sent xem in which tom did one of his signature Tom Things and tucker (whom he was living with irl at the time) muted himself in the call but could still clearly be heard screaming in agony from upstairs from tom's stream. and xey were like "hey what if you interpreted the fact that we could still hear tucker as an in-universe psychic link between him and tom" and we were like YOUR BRAIN IS HUGE AND I NEED TO WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT THIS NOW.

things very quickly got out of hand past that point and since then the idea has expanded into a full study of tom's loyalties being split between his friends and his god, with the mental link between him and tucker kinda accenting everything that's going on on that side of things.

so yeah this is gonna be a longfic (or at least a multichapter) and it's also almost certainly gonna get into some pretty heavy territory eventually so uh. have fun everybody and be prepared to get ur titties blown off 👍

[last-answer]

WAHOO my sister finished hatoful bf today so im gonna make this poll bc the plot of the game is so fucking insane and everyone else needs to know abt it ! pls reblog to share around itd be soso funny <3

[taylorsabrina]

one day i'll have a working functioning laptop that doesn't take 10 minutes to load a page, or runs out of battery 30 minutes after unplugging it, and then i'll start blogging on here like normal. you'll see!! YOU'LL ALL SEE!!!!

[empress-hancock]

I can never definitively decide what my favorite food is, nor can I rank my favorites in specific places in a top 10, but I know Koshari is one of them

[strrykais]

(❤︎) love shot

sometimes the best feeling is the way his mouth moves against you, and other times.. its the taste of sweet sweet revenge.

cw: fingering, oral (fem receiving), drugging, bondage, foot on crotch, mentions of death, gangs mentioned, revenge, age gap if you squint (its legal like 6-10yrs idk dont think too hard about it ! just putting here to be safe!) not proof read! wc: 1.5k

requested: Idea to distract you: the reader tying Seungmin, Han, Lee Know or I.N. to a chair for sexy times and they absolutely just melt under the readers attention.

「 authors note 」 took this and definitely deviated from their plot... and i'm very proud of it.. let me know your thoughts.. for more click here !

minho almost had a heart attack when he walked into the living room to see you sitting in the dark. you have been waiting for him to come home for hours now only thinking he wouldn't be gone for so long.

"jesus baby, you scared me. why are you sitting in the dark?" minho reached for the light switch, turning it on to see your pouting face.

"you are late babe. where the hell have you been?" you say crossing one leg over the other, the gown you wear sliding down your thigh. minho couldn't help but glance down. you knew his one true weakness was your thighs. He could spend hours in between them and that is exactly where you planned to have him tonight. if only he wasn't so late.

"i know baby, but the boss needed me and you know how demanding they are." He takes off his jacket and throws it over the couch walking to you. He places his hands on either side of the chair, trapping you in.

"you should really leave that gang. it's only gonna lead you to an unfortunate end." you reach out to caress his cheek as he leans into your touch.

"don't say that baby, plus i can't exactly say my girlfriend wants me home before 11. if anybody knew about you, you cou-"

"yes min i know, i could be seriously hurt. but it would be great to you know see you more than once every two weeks." you say leaning back into the armrest. minho takes this opportunity to lean in and press a kiss into your lips. you open your mouth letting him deepen the kiss as you are melting into it.

minho places both hands on your cheeks, running them down your arms and firmly placing them on your thighs. You sigh into his lips as he gently separates your crossed legs, gently pulling you down as he detaches himself for you taking in your appearance. 

Your blushed cheeks, your puffy lips, your gown slipping off one shoulder, minho loved that he had this effect on you. He never got tired of seeing how needy you begged for him and tonight was gonna be no different. He places a kiss on your temple, then gets down on his knees right between your legs.

You watch as he pushes your legs further apart, the gown slowly riding up. He takes notice of you not wearing any underwear and lets out a soft groan. 

“Not wearing any panties? Since when did you become such a dirty girl.” squishing the meat of your thighs, rubbing his hands all over your legs but never rubbing the place you needed him to.

“I can’t help it when you look so good.” hips lifting trying to get him to touch you, to relieve the ache. 

Minho lets out a breathy laugh at the way he completely had you under his spell. He usually loved to tease you, but the way you looked was so pretty he just needed to taste you. Minho glides his fingers through your folds gathering up your wetness, pressing onto your clit giving it a pinch between his fingers.

You moan at the feeling, getting lost in the way he was playing you like a fiddle. Minho did a lot of bad things in the field he worked but one thing he was good at was making you reach completion with his hands and mouth every time. 

He removes his fingers from your clit replacing them with his mouth, alternating between sucking and licking. You were completely unraveling at the way his mouth was devouring you. Its like he was a man starving and you are his next meal. 

Minho inserts two fingers into your wet hole, not giving you time to adjust as he presses against your walls in the spot he knows will make you lose your mind. Your moans were music to his ears, which only fueled him more as his fingers thrust in and out. Minho was a man on a mission he wanted, no he needed to make you come into his mouth. He sucked harder, pressed harder, thrusting harder. It didn't take long before you clenched your thighs around minhos head squeezing hard. 

“I'm gonna cum. Fuck baby please don’t stop. Dont stop.” you moan out, one hand gripping the armrest and the other lying to his hair pulling hard as you start to grind down on his face. You let out a loud moan as your legs shake, cumming in his mouth.

Minho groans still deep in your pussy, fingers still helping you ride out your high. His mouth licks up your orgasm. He falls back on his heels admiring his work. 

“Open up baby.” he guides his fingers into your mouth as you suck harshly, licking his fingers clean of your orgasm. He groans as your warm tongue wraps around them. He pulls out his fingers, your mouth making a popping noise as he pulls out.

“Fuck your mouth is so warm. Wanna be a good girl and let me use it.” 

“Yes, if you let me have some fun now.” you say glancing up at him. He groans at the way your eyes are glossed over completely willingly to suck him off. 

“Fuck baby do whatever you want, as long as you continue to look at me like that.” you smile nodding your head as you help him undo a few buttons. You kiss him, fully wrapping your arms around his neck and pulling him into you. You giggle out as he grabs a handful of your ass. 

“You gotta trust me okay?” you say as you pull away from him, switching sides with him and pushing him down on the chair. He furrowed his eyebrows as he watched you walk away returning with a glass of liquid and red rope. 

“You are not tying me up.” he shakes his head in disbelief, in awe that you would even be into this, so dominating, minho has always been the dominant one in the relationship so he was quite confused about why you never brought it up.

“Baby, please. Just one time, that's all I ask.” you twirl the rope around, extending out the drink. “Here, this will calm your nerves.” you smile at his face. He looked at you skeptically, sighing, you brought the glass to your lips, but he stopped you before you could. 

“Okay give me the drink, it better be vodka.” you nod your head handing him the glass as he downs it in a gulp. Placing the glass on the table beside the chair. 

“Don't worry baby, I'll be gentle.” you go to work on tying him to the chair, starting with his arms and then going down to his legs. Minhos heart was racing, he had never been so submissive to a woman before this was new to him. He watched as you made sure the knots were tight almost like you have practiced for this very moment. 

Once you are satisfied with your work you step back grabbing minho’s chin forcing him to look up at you. “Gosh it's almost a shame it has to end this way.” you softly say, voice losing its loving tone. Making your way to the radio, putting on some music.

Minho was starting to worry about the way you were staring at him. Before minho can ask what you meant, you tied something around his mouth to get him to be quiet. Minho pulls against his restraints realizing that you have tied him tightly, and he has no way of getting out. Minho watched as you made your way back to him pulling up a chair to sit across from him. 

“You know we have been seeing each other for 3 months and you still haven’t recognized me minho.” you watch the sheer panic in his eyes trying to make sense of what you are saying. “Of course you don’t, I was only a child when we first met.” you extend your leg, pressing firmly on his crotch. Minho groans as the pain, mind becoming fuzzy, he was starting to lose control of his body, he feels like he was drunk, he couldn’t fight back against the tight hold of the ropes.

“You took something very important to me, and when I finally found you, I knew what had to be done. Who would've thought someone as pretty as you would be so dumb.” you watch as minho head fights to stay up right. You take your foot off of him, pulling his hair so his eyes were looking straight into yours. 

“Don’t worry I'm not gonna kill you, but your boss might. You see he found me and stopped me from killing you on the spot, made me an offer I couldn't refuse. All I had to do was get you all drugged up and weak and I would be set for life. Your boss is a scary man.. But he seems to hate you more than I do. Something about playing both sides? Minho people don’t like snitches.” the ringing of a phone breaks your attention from him, letting him go, head fully flopping over. 

“He’s yours. Come on up.” with one last glance to minho, completely unconscious in the chair, you grab your coat from the rack, walking out, never looking back.

ⓒ strrykais

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[rubydubydoo122]

What are your thoughts on some of the more popular ships? Fanon and canon. For example superbat, bruce x harvey dent, tim x kon, dick x babs, dick x kory, jay x roy, steph x cass, damian x jon, pennywaynes,...

I’ll list them out

Superbat (Clark/Bruce): I find this ok, but personally, I like it when the trinity acts more like siblings, so it’s not my favorite. 5/10

BruHarvey: lovers to enemies? The angst? Amazing. 8/10

Dickbabs: idk. It feels kinda boring to me. Mainly because DC ruined both of their characters in order for them to be together. 4/10

DicKori: they’re soulmates. Idk what to tell you. And maybe you can tell how biased I am. Right now, they are the opitome of right person wrong time. 10/10

Jayroy: I don’t like this ship. It reduces Roy’s character down to a prop, the age gap feels kinda icky and I personally believe in Aro/Ace Jason Todd. 1/10

Superbat (Kon/Tim): the only version of superbat I truly ship. Reluctant friends, to besties, to flirty friendship, to a game of cat and mouse on if that taunt was real or if they were just fooling around? 10/10

DamiJon: I think their age gap never works in their favor. Either Damian’s too old or Jon’s too old, and it makes me feel wrong. And in more recent comics, they’ve been acting much more like siblings than friends who maybe possibly have chemistry with each other. But I do think if you wanted to go the romance route, it could be double unrequited love that was never expressed. Like a 10yr old Jon had a crush on a 13 yr old Damian. Jon left for almost a decade and comes back, looses feelings for Damian, but a 14yr old Damian has feelings for an 18 yr old Jon, but it never works out. 5/10. Just like their Dads

PENNYWAYNESSSS: 100000000/10. Like are you kidding me, this is the best ship ever and I love it so much.

Honorable mentions:

BruTalia: 10/10. My favorite Bruce ship.

Brulina: 8/10. I like it… but I feel like it wouldn’t work out because Selina would get overwhelmed by the amount of wealth Bruce has. Like she thinks it’s what she wants, but it’s too much for her

Birdflash (Dick/Wally): 8/10. I see the appeal, they’re best friends with so much chemistry, but I feel like they would never date bc they value their friendship more and they’re both super busy

JayKyle: it’s the only Jason ship I like, but only because I want it to be one sided, with Kyle failing to flirt with Jason and Jason is completely oblivious and actually just hates Kyle but Kyle thinks Jason’s playing hard to get. (Kyles flirting is just arguing with Jason, so that’s why Jason never gets the hint) 7/10 +300 bc of hillarity

StephTim: I don’t like this ship because Stephanie deserves so much better, and Tim seems like the type to mansplain every little thing, and it would drive Steph up a wall. I also don’t like the notion that they would be friends after they break up. 3/10 bc they had that piano scene

DamiRae: 2/10. Garchel is a better ship, and I feel like their personalities are too similar.

Flatline/Damian: I love them. I think they’re cute, but I don’t see it lasting long. 4/10

StephCass: 9/10. No more needs to be said. But I won’t ever officially write them as being together within a fic bc Steph’s character deserves to be her own, rather than a lover of a Batfam member, and Cass has her own things to deal with

[vigilskeep]

Do you have any thoughts on the differences (or similarities!) between Sol’s relationship with Viago and Lucanis’ relationship with Caterina? In a mentor/protege sense, I mean

Viago clearly cares about Crow!Rook and worries about their safety so it’s hard for me to imagine him being as cruel as Caterina was, even if it is the norm for the Crows. Then again, Caterina is a prime example that you can love someone and still hurt them

i think the different age gaps are one main difference on a basic level!!

viago is in his like late thirties maybe early forties currently, and probably only became talon after most rooks were finished with training. i can’t imagine anyone is going for more than a 20yr age gap tops, and for my rook i usually hc a 5-10yr age gap. he might have mentored them a little and seen potential in them, but it’s still closer to growing up together than being raised together. he’s not responsible for their situation in the same way, he’s just someone ahead of you going through the same situation. the previous talon would have been in power, so they would have had a “shared enemy” to blame for the hardships in both their training. also, viago is so all bark no bite with rook that personally i truly cannot imagine him being cruel in the direct way caterina was. he doesn’t have that in him imo

(does any of this make rook feel better about the fact that, now he is talon, he must be putting more kids through what they went through together back then? well that’s a different question!)

anyway, my point is that caterina is lucanis’ grandmother and was afaik already first talon. she had all the power in the house and was singularly responsible for raising him. there’s no-one for either of them to blame but herself!

also, you have to remember where viago and caterina were coming from and the effect those differences probably had. caterina had spent a long life in the crows, watching all her family members die and determining it was because they hadn’t been pushed hard enough. viago spent at least the first decade of his life outside the crows, in at least superficial comfort, and probably compared to almost any crow isn’t quite hardened to how their children are treated

caterina devoted a lot of her own energy to her remaining grandchildren (or, you know, to lucanis, and illario was also there) and seems to have been personally training them day to day. whereas i would not be surprised if the worst things that happened to rook were because the person they had latched onto/earned favour with was just a young assassin answering to somebody else and couldn’t be there all or even most of the time. if viago was planning some kind of takeover and that is how he became talon, as i like to hc, it might even have been a bad idea for rook’s safety and a liability for himself for him to be too overtly invested and always intervene when they were having a bad time. which is a hell of a way to justify letting a kid you care about get hurt but that’s the crows for you

to summariseeee i don’t want to completely soften the rook viago dynamic and make them the “exception” to how i read the crows but as i see them as kids who ended up in a survival horror together, i think they basically did the best anyone could’ve expected? whereas caterina was a grown powerful woman fully responsible for her grandchildren, and because she let her own trauma and ambition rule her, she chose to hurt them like that. i think those are quite different setups

[mesapies]

I think it'd be interesting to see iroh/zuko interact with ppl that don't and will never forgive them. And not in a villian trying to take revenge on them type of way. Ppl don't have to forgive the guy that burned down their village, was the direct or indirect reason their loved one died, etc just because they changed.

Especially with iroh living in ba sing se after the war, the same place he tried to conquer 10yrs prior.

There was this small moment in the iroh/june team up comic that came out a little over a month ago but the writing makes it seem like the guy was totally wrong for his hatred of iroh. Now I don't like how it's worded but I like concept of ppl acknowledging that iroh wasn't always a good person and what he has done did and still does effect ppl in their daily lives.

I also wasn't a big fan of the writing here because it almost infantsizes iroh even tho he's a 60yr old man that was a general of a military for years.

Anyways, he lives in the same place where years ago he was the reason of death for ppls siblings, children, parents, significant others, friends. He walks past them everyday. He's probably seen memorials of the ppl who have died during those 600 days. Not even just the soldier but the citizens as well. It was 600 days long, over a year and a half of consent violence, ppl probably starved, especially those living in the outer area. They didn't know if the wall was going to finally crumble and that day was going to be their last. There's no way everybody is just gonna be ok with him living there after the war just because he's good now and sells good tea.

I think there should be ppl that don't like and will never forgive iroh and even zuko for the stuff they've done, no matter what they do to try to make up for it. And they shouldn't be villanized for not forgiving either. Like I said ppl don't have to forgive the guy that harmed them or the ppl they love physically, mentally, or emotionally just because they've changed for the better. Ppl can acknowledge they changed, but that doesn't take away the pain they've caused ppl. There gonna be ppl that forgive them no problem, ppl that don't forgive them right away but later come around, and ppl that won't ever forgive them. I just wish there would be more exploration on ppl that will never forgive them.

[manifesteddreams]

Sometimes it is fun to return to very old patterns I made(in this case, almost 10yrs) and update them to better reflect where I am as an artist. One of the things I love about crochet is how fluid of an art it is, and how no two pieces are going to be identical. The original Chandelure I made was a shiny version for a holiday swap. I only ever made the one, and that seemed like a shame. There are a few more updates I'd like to make to this new version, but it's so satisfying to see my own growth. In theory I'll have a few of these available for adoption at both Matsuricon and Tsubasacon. Who is your favorite Pokemon? What would you like to see me pattern next? #Amigurumi #Crochet #Plush #Pokemon #Chandelure #ghosttype

[loppytaffy]

Deadpool (2013) #13

I do love these throwback comics. But by basing a comic in 70s, it does place his birth year at 1950, at least (joined spec-ops at 19, was in for 10yrs, assuming he became Deadpool in the same year he left, and be generous and say this was 1979 and he's only just gotten out of Weapon X). My man is old as balls.

Iron Fist continues to understand Deadpool like one understands that if you don't give a husky attention, it will chew on your walls.

Oof

"Baby".

Make what? Which of the 3?? Wade do have a kidnap kink????

And like that, Ellie almost wasn't born (also, why show her conception in the 70s? She'd be in her 30s by the time they introduced her)

That makes 3. Wade is exceptionally horny in this comic.

Or not, I guess

Damn. Wade can add blackfishing to his list of social crimes.

[alicentsswornshield]

@wolfie-1221 posted a list of their fav rhaenicent fics 🤌 10/10 recommendations

I've been inspired to share my own list since I've been spending probably too much time on ao3 - hopefully it will be helpful for anyone looking to start reading rhaenicent (note that few are already mentioned in the above mentioned post)

My favourites (in no particular order):

(WIP) Seven (by @comicxgrl)

The story follows two alternating timelines and you're equally invested in both. It's so so well written, you fall in love with the characters immediately, the pacing of the story line is incredible and with only 5 chapters published, I think story is slowly set up for the main arc. The author is an architect and you can feel the thought process and clear intention behind every line and action.

(WIP) Out of sun (by @lumyart )

Rhaenyra and Alicent share a complicated past. Skip 10yrs later, Alicent is an excellent surgeon, has three kids and a husband. Their paths cross again when Targaryen Enterprises start being involved with Alicent's hospital.

Tags for this story are #bdsm #makingkinkemotional #emotionalslowburn - I think that's all you need to know?

I feel like it's really hard to write about bdsm w/o making it feel gratuitous. That's not the case here. @lumyart involves it as one of the main plot points of the story. It explores the emotional/psychological reason/need behind kinks and how those relationships differ etc. The push and pull in their relationship is dizzying, as the story progresses we get snippets of their past and what went wrong between them and how did they get where they are now. It almost feels like you're uncovering a mystery. There's many layers to the story and each chapter gifts you one piece of the puzzle.

See also: Blame it on Fate (morning show au we deserved) | silver sparks (wish this was the s02 hod script)

Love is complicated (by @molter-writes)

Absolute favourite of molter's fics and that's really hard to decide on.

This story made me want to start a campaign to get @molter-writes to actually write a rhaenicent Notting Hill AU.

Don't even read the summary. Just read everything and anything by @molter-writes , it will always deliver strong writing, a compelling storyline and characters that you can't help but fall in love with.

Bodhrán beat (by @molter-writes)

I'm not a monarchist but I will make an exception for this modern royals au. Whatever you think this fic is about, you are mistaken.

Only one chapter posted so far but it's so so good. I don't think you realise how unwell I was after I read it.

See also: (WIP) leaf and blade | (Completed) grey ridge (ríl liatroma) | (Completed) ride the dragon (and do it quickly) | (WIP) song of the exposition

(WIP) Lying (in the hollows of your heart)  (by @wakesirens) 

I usually read only modern AUs (because of the misogyny in Westeros, I have enough of that irl thanks) but this fic is amazing nonetheless. Keeping Baelon alive and him being king gives us an alternate version of Rhaenyra's life. One where she's his most trusted advisor and representative of the Crown but she's not bound to the throne/realm in same way as the heir. This allows her to still attain power and freedom usually not afforded to women. Oh and Alicent works in a brothel.

What you wanted (by mrdcai)

Berlin, spies, complicated past, angst

Again it's just excellent writing! This one only has 1/3 chapters out but I'm already convinced that it deserves to be among top five fics. Only downside is that the story will only have three chapters, though a part of me is hoping that the author will change their mind and make it a longer story.

Side note, I keep imagining Alicent as Olivia Cooke's character from Slow Horses... great spy/thriller show btw

See also: Desire (I want to turn into you)

Some other fics I loved:

(WIP) Honey, make this easy (by nerdsofdeath)

Alicent is a history professor at university and Rhaenyra is her new TA. It's a slow burn and v angsty 😭

Midnights Like This (by pure_black_wings)

College AU, they're two idiots in love that don't know how to cope.

War of Hearts (by Silanahfire)

Rhaenyra Targaryen is barren and the realm needs an heir. The King and Grand Maester Mellos found a solution in the scripts of Old Valyria. Alicent Hightower will carry her child, even if the estrangement between the two seemed impossible to end. An arranged marriage waits both.

(WIP) You Broke Me (by skullgamerscy)

Angst 😭

The Silver Queen and the Lady in Green (by Wandering Fan)

This is AU in every sense of the word. The author built a whole different world with its own lore. Very very slow burn

[youreallyshouldtalkmore]

Be My Valentine

A.N: Homicipher Mr. Crawling x Reader Valentine’s special.   

—

“Hello!! I like you! You like me?” 

A big heart made out of construction paper was thrust at you the moment you walked in the door. On it, in child-like writing was “I like you! You like me?”  

It was a little lopsided but you couldn't deny the feeling behind it. Although this wasn’t the first time, your heart still warmed as you gave an amused huff, “Yes, I like you.” 

Mr. Crawling gave his high-pitched creepy cute laugh as he crab walked further into your apartment to find a place to hang it. 

By now your apartment was looking questionable even by the season's standard. 

It was filled with hearts, big and small. Most of them, a bit lopsided. Although you had taught your ghost companion how to use the scissors, he cut things out much like a child would: lots of heart but little accuracy. In fact the first time he had used the scissors, he cut off his finger, sending you into a panic. 

You admit in that moment, you forgot he was a ghost. 

You had grabbed him, hauling his hand to you, to find…nothing. No cuts and it was still attached. But I promise, it looked like he had cut his finger off. Mr. Crawling had to console you as you were almost in tears. Actually first you had to explain why you were so panicked. 

Mr. Crawling only laughed and hugged you, “I okay! I not hurt. Not hurt. See! No sad. You no sad, okay? I careful!” 

You brought the boy some children's scissors. Yes, he was a ghost but your heart couldn’t take it. That and the adult scissors seemed hard for him to hold and cut properly. 

Mr. Crawling had taken it his personal mission to cut out hearts so he was more than a little upset when he somehow cut his first hearts and they fell into two.

“It’s okay!” You rubbed his back. 

Mr. Crawling had promptly laid on the floor in fetal position as if he had done a grave injustice because his first heart had been accidentally cut into two. 

“I like you! Lots and lots! Heart wrong! Two not. One. One!” 

“I know! I know! I like you lots! Heart two no mean you dislike me. I know.” 

You had to fight to keep the laughter out of your voice. You weren’t successful as by the time that Mr. Crawling had uncurled himself he pouted at your laughing eyes, “No laugh.” 

Your voice was high pitched, “I not.” 

Mr. Crawling gave a whine and you couldn’t take it anymore. Like a wounded cat he turned his back on you and sulked. Laughing you threw your arms around him, hugging him close. It was so adorable how offended he was at how his first heart cutout was coming along. 

Since then, Mr. Crawling has been diligently trying to cut out hearts to his perfection. 

But, his newfound obession was probably your fault to begin with. 

It's not like Mr. Crawling didn't accompany you when you went shopping before. He usually did, everything fascinating him in the human world. 

You had long since got him to stop bringing up everything he sees in the store. Now he quietly follows you, discreetly handing things to you he knew you brought. 

Good deal too cause you did not want to explain why your frozen meat was walking on air towards you. 

You'd long since realized that people did not see him if they didn't put in effort or if Mr. Crawling didn't make himself known. 

Unless it was children under the age of 10yrs. Then they could either sense or see him. You never could tell which. But at least in the grocery store you had the grace to avoid the toy section. Couldn't do a thing about the child busting into tears at the broccoli aisle though. 

But I digress….

One cold, late January day, you had every intention of zooming around in the shortest way possible to get your stuff and get home. 

So you were a little annoyed when Mr. Crawling did not zig when you zagged. You stopped and looked over your shoulder. 

Where'd he even go? 

You wheeled the cart back to see you had left him sitting in front of the changeable display in the middle of the aisle. Few weeks early but red and pink pierced your eyes. 

Ah, yes, the month of love. Valentine's season. 

But what exactly caught his eye? 

You wheeled all the way back until you were standing next to Mr. Crawling. Strange, he did not look up at you, so riveted on….what was it? 

You squatted on your haunches following his supposed gaze. The only thing that really stood out among the red and pinks was the giant glittery red cutout heart pillow that read, “I like you! You like me?” 

You know that Mr. Crawling was becoming proficient in your language reading. You weren't sure if his language had a reading component to be honest. You had shown him how to use the TV and he got a kick out of kid shows for learning to read as well as other words. 

So you were positive that Mr. Crawling knew how to read such simple words. In fact, those were some of the first words that he wanted to learn to read. He had come and asked you one day after watching kid shows. Apparently he heard the word used on the show but they did not show him how to write it. 

You had brought a set of Crayola crayons for him to write with. He almost wouldn’t let you go to work until he could write it sufficiently. 

So it seems this red glittering heart had Mr. Crawling in a trance. You nudged him but he was in so deep as he did not react. 

When he finally reacted, he absently reached out his fingers and poked the red plush heart. For his part he wasn't sure why he liked the odd shaped object. He knew what the words said but why did the strange shaped object make his insides flutter?

Why?  

When it moved suddenly, he dove clutching at it with a loud whine. A snort broke his trance making him tilt his head. That's when he realized it was you that had picked it up. Releasing it, he lowered his head, fidgeting. 

You flopped the plushie at him, “You want, yes?”  

Mr. Crawling only dipped his head once in a nod.

“Eh! It's only $5. I don't mind.” 

Although half your words were incomprehensible, Mr. Crawling understood the meaning when the strange shaped object went sailing into your basket. He let out a loud laugh. 

Ahh, now the ghost was back to zigging when you zagged. 

Good, it was too cold to be out here longer than necessary. 

–

By now you were convinced that Mr. Crawling was having an existential crisis over this heart shaped pillow. Once at home, he kept staring at it for long stretches of time, poking it in silence. At the same time, he almost never let it out of his sight either, hugging it gently to him while he moved from room to room. You had inquired if everything was okay and Mr. Crawling chirped at you that it was…..then promptly returned to boring holes into that pillow. 

For your part, you couldn't fathom what was so fascinating about it or wrong with it. You really couldn't tell if Mr. Crawling liked the heart pillow or not. He was being so weird about it that you had no frame of reference to ask about particulars of his moods. Didn’t help that ghost language wasn’t good at details either. 

It wasn't until you were both watching TV that a commercial came on. A valentine's day themed with hearts. You jumped when Mr. Crawling, who had been largely quiet, suddenly jabbed a finger at the TV. 

So into the hearts on screen he didn’t realize that you had been startled as he spoke quickly, “Object, object same.” He poked the pillow that rested between you, “Why? Why same? What means?”  

You stared at him. It took you a minute but it dawned on you. You didn't think that the other world could distinguish between different shapes except to clearly see that they were different. 

You poked the pillow, “Object. Heart.” 

You had the feeling Mr. Crawling was staring balefully at you. His words confirmed it, “Not heart. Know heart. Object not heart.”  

Right! How could you begin to explain the intricacies of symbolism? You gaped at him before slapping a hand to your head. This was going to be….difficult. 

But Mr. Crawling pawing at you made you look up. You shook your head, pointing to your chest, “Not body heart but….heart like.”  

Mr. Crawling cocked his head.

You even lost yourself. 

Sigh. This language so didn't do well with details. 

You picked up the heart pillow pointing to the words, “Know this?”

“I like you. You like me?”  

“Good.” 

“Heheehehe!! I like you!!”, He flung himself onto you. You were quick to move the pillow out the way as you wrapped your arms around him with an amused smile. He cocked his head peering up at you, “You like me?”  

You smiled, “I like you.” 

Mr. Crawling nuzzled you. 

“Like object words?”, You asked, reaching up with your free hand to pat his head. 

“I like.” You felt Mr. Crawling grip tightened just a fraction. 

“What wrong?”  

Mr. Crawling released you while looking expectantly at you, “Object look. You teach. Why me like object look?”  

You scratched your cheek once. Did he instinctively associate the words with the object and knew he liked the heart shaped for the symbolism which he did not consciously know? 

Wow, let that sink in for a bit. 

You did as you fought to find your words. Meanwhile, Mr. Crawling had repossessed the heart shaped pillow even as he continued to gaze at you.  

“Object heart, yes.” You started slowly, “Not body heart. Object heart different. Object heart, I like you, you like me, same.”  

You hoped that made even a lick of sense. 

Mr. Crawling cocked his head, “I like you, you like me. Object heart, same.”  

You nodded, did that translate? 

“.....” 

“.....” 

“…..Heheehehe!! I like! I like! Object heart, I like!”  

You giggled before flagging him down. Mr. Crawling looked at you, “Human day, I like you, you like me, same. Why object heart over place.” You pointed to TV as you poked the heart shaped pillow, “Valentines Day.”  

“Bah-ren-time? Day.” 

“Valentine's Day.”  

Val-ran-time Day. 

“Close enough.  Oh hey!” You exclaimed rushing about your apartment. Mr. Crawling eyed you in curiosity as you brought over paper and scissors. 

He sat close watching you work. You folded the paper then drew something before cutting it out. When you finally flipped it open, Mr. Crawling clapped like a seal, “Heart paper. Same as object. I like. You teach.”  

And that was why your apartment was flooded with hearts this Valentine season. Maybe next year you teach him other sayings, such as “Be Mine.”, “I’m Yours.”, or even “Hug Me.” He’d probably get a kick out of them. 

Mr. Crawling was so cute, you couldn't even be mad. You'd have to coax him out of this after the season was done though. 

But that was a problem for your future self.

[sotvtaughtmehowtofeel]

✏️ new year, new wip game 🖋️

Thank you @deervsheadlights for the tag!

I have a tendency to forget about ask games and tag games but I always appreciate being included so I should really do them more 💜

the rules: list all your wips (or as many as you feel comfortable sharing), and open your ask box for people to inquire! share the ideas you had, any for it, a snip if you're feeling generous! whatever makes your lil heart happy.

THE HWIPS: First the ones I actually do plan to finish: By Midnight Time chapters 5 and 6: I swear I'm still working on them 😭 struggling, but they're coming along

Hell's Comin With Me: This song was my number 1 on spotify wrapped this year (0.05% of listeners). Because of the Rot™. I'm picturing a lil fic that basically follows the song, Cee was taken prisoner by a town and 10yr later Cee and Ezra returned to burn that town to the ground. Older Cee is a menace is something I'm so sensitive about <3

Stolen Future: LISTEN. This is a death fic that has been nearly complete for ALMOST TWO YEARS. Idk why I can't just finish it lol

Febuwhump 2025: I have started writing for Febuwhump this year, all days have some notes (although one of them is Cee timber so like... note quality may vary). I'ma try to write them all this year

More under the cut, I don't want to inhibit your scroll experience

Now the ones I might actually finish eventually: Buried Alive: A wip from last year when my friend group decided we had a hive-wide prompt. I never finished mine lol

Swim: Cee has to jump into a lake to survive an explosion. She still can't swim... might be adapted into a febuwhump piece for this year

From the Massacre: Damon lives AU. At any given time there is a 60% chance that @channelrat, @orangechickenpillow, @not-so-mundane-after-all and I are screaming about a Damon lives AU

Save You: Almost purely vibes. Fic based entirely around the Paramore quote "I never said I'd save you" where Cee and Ezra fights and Ezra says this to her so she leaves forever

SPACEHEIST: Adult Cee is a menace (I told you, I'm obsessed with it). Ezra and Cee pull off a bank heist. I think this might be modified into a febuwhump piece for this year

Aaaaand the crackfics and ideas that will probably never see the light of day lol:

Glad: Cee tells Ezra she's glad he killed her dad (crazy one I know). This one kind of morphed into "You Lied to Me" for Febuwhump last year

oberynFic: crack fic where Ezra is going on a very dangerous mission and leaves Cee with the only person he trusts... his brother, Oberyn Martell

CD: Prospect AU where Cee had a little sister named Dee still in the drop pod when Damon was shot. Credit @channelrat for this idea

Dreams: Cee has a nightmare Ezra killed her in the drop pod so she's afraid of him when she wakes up :( this will never be finished but I have. multiple very similar ideas for febuwhump this year lol

Flinch: Ezra reaches for Cee and she flinches away from him. That's it. That's the idea. I'm just so sensitive about them

The Girl: AU where when Ezra asks where the starter is, Damon says "the girl has it" and Ezra is expecting like... an adult woman and then realizes it's his daughter and is like wtf. idk I don't have any other thoughts than that lol

I also have a doc called The Sky where I go on about a head canon that Cee gets anxious when she can't see the open sky but I have no plot for this

No pressure tags, if you wanna play too: @channelrat @orangechickenpillow @not-so-mundane-after-all @alwaysaslutforarthurmorgan @insomniamamma @steeb-stn @ristenm @tlou-obsessed and anyone else who would like to play

[sillyyuserr]

Despite all i post about being terukane, i actually fucking love nene.

hence, 4 reasons why you should love nene too (+mini analysis at the end?)

Reason 1: shes cares so much

For one, when aoi was trapped in the far shore, not only did she cry, but so much so that even mentioning her name made her cry, like full on cry not even tear up. She let herself cry in a public infront of someone she deems ‘hottest guy in the school’ not really gaf cus she misses her bsf

And when she got aoi back, she didnt need aoi’s apology she just missed her, going in for an immediate hug, letting aoi tear up in her arms

At the end of the ‘picture perfect’ arc she thanked shijima mei for the painting, something no one else did

She asked what sumire saw in No. 6 to make her like him sm, again something only she did which caught hanako and sumire off guard

Reason 2: shes adorable.

idk how shes not as popular as aoi she’s actually so pretty. A moment of silence for our queen nene

Literally so gorgeous in anything she wears

Reason 3: She’s the mc, what are you doing NOT loving her??

shes the narrator, the character we’ve known the longest and are going to stick with until the end. How dare thee betray her and say she sucks? ‘She has a big forehead’ its called a hairstyle

‘she has big ankles’ yah and theyre cute. Its called having originality

‘copy and paste personality’ shes actually one of the more original mc’s ive seen in awhile. She isnt one of those girls who’re obsessed with just boys and makes that her whole personality, yes she does get crushes easily, but she’d rather die and lose the boy she actually has a chance with than let her bestfriend die. She has standards

Reason 4: shes cool as fuck?

she has a skull brooch, skull on her phone, horns ON HER PHONE, wears yin and yang hair pins, loves opera songs about forbidden love, loves scary stories, interested in supernaturals and the dead/ghosts and to top it all off, in the pilot she CURSED her ex to DEATH

FYM SHES MID??

tired and can’t think of anything else 😭 kinda starting to think chapter 113 IS the last chapter. I mean you’d think AidaIro would say something considering they’ve been making this manga for almost a decade now but the ‘sinister’ ending along with there being no ‘next chapter up on the 18th!’ Makes me kinda nervous 😭 as i said they’ve been doing this almost 10yrs no way they’d forget to put it there

AidaIro have publicly stated they both dislike/hate happy endings. And this i feel, is a perfect way to end it horribly. I absolutely hate the idea of this being an ending, but it would work out pretty smoothly in pissing off their entire fanbase. I mean theres so many unanswered questions and so many things left unsaid.

are teru and aoi really getting married? which yugi sibling is alive? will any of my previous ‘suspicions’ be definitively confirmed? what happened to hanako? what changed? whats happening with the clock keepers? what did natsuhiko do? what is sakuras role in this story?

this seems such a perfect way to end is so horribly😭 REALLY hope this isnt the case doh we’ll just have to wait and see. The topic strayed very far off from why you should love nene 😭 sorry lmao