#an honest question to which she could have very easily answered if there wasn't a man with an axe standing directly behind her

[pdwoozi]

5.09 Schizogeny

[dozing-marshmallow]

Okey, hear me out.

Chris Mclean with a wife that is just THICC. Like she Has a bit of a chubby tummy with big thights, chest, behind etc.

She Has them amazing curves AND also is really sweet and caring towards everyone. You just look at her and you think "How the hell did Chris git with her?" And when you meet her you'r even more confused. Idk I just Imagine Chris be the kind of dude to find any excuse to ley his head on you cuz you just so comfortable and soft <33 and when you fell backpains cuz of you'r breasts he hires the best massagers[or just does it himself ;)]

If you'r uncomfortable its ok. But just let me know then so I don't wait like an idiot.

I hope you'll have a lovely day!

(sorry for aby gramer or spelling errors, English is not my first lenguage)

👀 pixar mom reader confirmed?? I’ll be for real, this was a lot of fun to write, and don’t worry about grammar mistakes! Thank you for the request and may you all enjoy and have a lovely day too~

CHRIS MCLEAN X “THICC”! WIFE! READER HEADCANONS

No one could deny how attractive you were.

Your own husband couldn’t resist you for more than half a day.

“Chriiis, what are you doing?” a question that often left your mouth imbued a different answer each time from Chris.

“You’re comfy, (Y/N).” his usually loud voice blocked by his face sinking as far as he could into your covered cleavage.

"Aren’t you honest!" you gently nudge his head,"But we have an episode to get to in two minutes, so if you just wanna...” you step back, forcing Chris into solitary.

He huffs, before getting an amazing idea- he puts his hand over his eyes,“Oh no! I can’t see where I’m going! Is this...” he zombie walks towards you and readjusts his head back on the natural pillow of your chest before you could properly make a run for it,“I made it to bed! Alright, I’m gonna stay right here until I regain my sight!”

“Chris!” you squall, finding displeasure that he wasn't taking you seriously and wasn't getting off so easily this time, with the hand he used to blind himself now tightened around you,“Come onn, there’ll be plenty of time to do this after we shoot the episode!”

“Just five more minutes, please (Y/N)!”

Not on days like that, albeit you do dress up in a bunny fit for him.

“You know I’m very fertile, Chris.” you press yourself up against him enticingly on his lap,“As fertile as a bunny rabbit can be.”

“I can tell.” his voice sounded composed, but his face was crazy red,“Can never get enough of your legs though. You know that you could choke someone with just one thigh, right?”

My, that sounds dangerous!,“Oh dear... I’m not that heavy, am I?”

“Never! It’s like I always say... Everything about you is awesome. Everything. From the top of your head to the core of your skeleton.”

“Well, that’s relieving...” You feel his hand exploring about on your round back,“How do you like these fishnets? Wore them just for you.”

His hands then squeeze through the space between under your thighs and the top of his lap, masking his extreme prurience with his dismissive,“Duh. Who else would you wear them for?”

With the contestants, you’re very friendly to them.

Like once beginning with brushing Lindsay’s hair,“Lindsay, you have such beautiful hair."

The “dumb princess” giggles,“I knoww! It’s the prettiest bare here!”

From the wide distance in which Chris stood from, he snaps a photo of you tending to Lindsay with his camera,“Aww!”

Seeing that strengthened Cody’s confidence to approach the hot host,“Hey Chris... I need to ask you advice on something.”

“Sure thing dude, what’s up?” Chris grinned, not taking his eyes off his camera.

“It’s..." the geek takes a breath,"How do you get girls?”

“You say exactly what’s on your mind.”

“Well, I do...” his voice quiet,“But every time I speak, Gwen looks at me like I’m a donkey carcass!”

"Sucks to be you, can’t relate one bit.”

Cody was about to whine his way into defending himself had he not fully noticed Chris’ lack of presence in the conversation. He was...taking pictures?

“Uh...why are you taking photos of (Y/N) when you get to see her everyday? If anyone should be taking pictures, it should be me!” He really didn’t think with that one.

“I know dude, but she’s into photography and she reaaaaaally likes having her pictures taken. It’s a favour for her and I.” he suddenly turns to Cody, washing a scowl on his face,“Save your photo taking skills for someone else, okay? Not on my someone who’s like old enough to be your mom. That’s just gross.”

Meanwhile with the girls:

“(Y/NNN), you should really reconsider your marriage.” Beth advises with a glum glaze reflecting off her glasses.

Confusion bubbles your mind,“What do you mean?” you ask, placing Lindsay’s brush down as you began dividing her hair into smaller sections.

“What does Beth mean?“ Sadie repeated like you were crazy,“(Y/N), you’re like a super goddess compared to Chris! He doesn’t deserve you.”

“Yeah, what Sadie said! I was thinking that too!” After Katie spends a minute gushing with Sadie about their unbreakable friendship, she turns back to you with concern,“But for real, you’re WOAH and there, Chris is...” she doesn’t feel the need to finish it, which takes you by surprise.

“Aww, what? He’s way more WOAH than I am!”

“That’s not true...” Bridgette curiously comments,“What do you see in that guy?”

“He makes me laugh.”

Pause.

Courtney’s the first to boom,“Seriously? There’s about ten thousand other men that can do that and not be as horrible as Chris is!”

“Ohh, but Chris isn’t horrible!” you exclaim, dropping Lindsay’s hair to clasp your hands for the moment,“He’s a wonderful guy! The most wonderful man I’ve met in my entire life!” 

“(Y/N)... You’re too nice.” Gwen breathes out exasperated, gothic view floats to your symmetrically defined waist,“Have you tried modelling before?”

“I have, yes, but I was rejected for not fitting the standards.”

“Impossible!” Lindsay flips her head around on impulsive shock. Thanks to her extensive hair length, it barely made a difference to the styling process.

“Possible. They said I wasn’t what they were looking for and told me to surgically change myself before reaching out to them again. As if!” you do the next batch of golden dyed hair,“While the experience wasn’t ideal, it reminded me of something that even as a grown woman I need to be careful of. At the time, I was actually willing to lose a part of me that I was perfectly fine with for the sake of a runaway platform. Doesn’t that sound ridiculous? To do all that for one place? Let this resonate that you as young girls should never feel that you need to ruin what you were naturally given to feel loved or pretty. If something or someone doesn’t accept you for who you are naturally, the relationship was not meant to be and you mustn’t dwell on them. Don’t do things to yourself that aren’t for yourself.”

You had done the final twist in the band of Lindsay’s hair.

...

All they could think by the end of it was

How the hell did Chris get with her.

Back to some private examples with lover man.

“I’m so exhausted!” you fall down in your armchair, groaning to Chris,“I could do with a new bra...”

He smirked,“That one you’re wearing too small?”

“Or I’m too big.” your hands shoot up through your shirt to unclip it, freedom freezing off the tension around your shoulders,“It’s hard to breathe sometimes, you know? These balls of feminine fat hang on my chest doing nothing all day, but weigh me down and kill my back! Sometimes I envy women with smaller boobs, they can move as much as they please and don’t need to spend hours on hours searching for clothes!”

“Yeah uh, I don’t think comparing yourself in this case is gonna help you feel better.” a cheeky glint fires across his pupils, his voice rasping gingerly,“How about a nice massage instead? All it costs is your love!” 

A tease of your own climbs up on your lips,“And by love, you mean a week’s worth of getting to sleep on me?”

“Huh? Oh no, of course not!” Liar. Look at how happy he was to do something for someone else. It was exactly what he wanted.

“Okay, okay.” you laugh and trudge to the bed, preparing to undress yourself.

Like Chris was gonna allow any masseuse, no matter how good they were, to see your body the way he could.

Especially if he could get a personal reward out of it.

You intentionally moaned when his fingers dug deep into your rhomboids.

“Better?” his tone still mischievous and salient.

You nod, sitting up and sighing in relief,“Much better... You’ve improved your technique, haven’t you?”

He scratches the back of his head, smiling sincerely,“You noticed? Well, of course, only the best for you.”

“Aw, aren’t you the best husband anyone can ask for?” you push yourself off the bed and wrap your arms around his neck, kissing his flustered cheek,“Thank you. Now who’s ready for a good night sleep?”

[katerinaaqu]

I’ve heard a story where Odysseus sneaks into Troy to steal the Palladium and is told where to go by Helen. This might sound like a silly question, but do we know why she didn’t leave with him and stayed on in Troy?

Indeed. Although the story of Odysseus sneaking in Troy is actually memorized in Odyssey as well in which Helen describes the incident where Odysseus arrives disguised with rugs as a beggar but he had also self-inflicted wounds on his body to pretend he was chased by the soldiers and gain sympathy. The Palladium is not mentioned there but it is mentioned in other parts of the Epic Cycle and future writers sich as Hyginus.

I will be completely honest I do not remember the detail in other sources in which Helen tells him where to go. I will have to double-check! Thank you for the piece of info!

It is not a silly question at all. It is a very good and intriguing question. I believe there is not one single right answer for that since one can speculate many things and they can all be correct. So here are some of the thoughts I can come up with now!

For starters practicality; it would be very hard for Helen to be sneaked out of the city as well given how Odysseus (and in most sources Diomedes with him) probably had to jump over walls or under them so climbing around AND carrying the Palladium AND Helen at the same time would be difficult and they would all most likely be discovered and killed.

Two judging by some sources that have Menelaus almost killing her or sendng her to be killed, there is a light chance she was worried about her life if she faced her husband or simply not ready to face him just yet.

Three Helen claims in the Odyssey that she was glad when she heard Odysseus's plan to take Troy (not specified if he informed her of EVERY detail but according to the Odyssey Helen says that he informs her in general that he had a plan to take Troy so maybe he insinuates more) and that she had a change of heart and wanted to return to her husband but perhaps that change of heart needed time to mature inside her. She had lived more than a decade in the city of Troy. She was emotionally attatched to the people there. And judging by the Iliad she wasn't mistreated there. She couldn't just betray the people that never mistreated her and welcomed her even if they could easily just blame her for all their sorrows and tell her that all Greeks were at their doors because of her.

Four she also had children with Paris according to some later myths so she probably wouldn't leave those behind (given how guilty she already was about Hermione. She had responsibilities against them. In one way now that she was also married again to Deiphobus maybe she wanted partially to honor her marriage with him out of seer obligation and not for any other reason than that. Maybe she was even worried that her children from Paris might be held as hostages of war.

Her leaving out of Troy wouldn't solve anything at that moment given the years all had spent fighting. Troy would still fall in a battle regardless of whether she got out or not and Helen is a proud and respected Queen. She wouldn't just run away to hide in safety when the city was falling under the greek fire. If anything maybe in a sad scenario she might as well hope to fall in in it herself heroically but I doubt she would want to run away from her responsibilities.

In the Odyssey she mentions how Aphrodite blinded her into loving Paris. Perhaps even if she broke free by her incantation she was still bound to the city somehow? Or perhaps she was afraid of the rage of the goddess?

I believe many interesting discussions can be opened with Helen's complicated personality and her situation at war and your question is amazing and thank you for making it.

I hope this helps

[airenyah]

15 people, 15 questions

I was tagged by @belladonna-and-the-sweetpeas <333

Are you named after anyone?

no. there's a video game character with my name and occasionally people will bring this character up and ask if i was named after her but no, i wasn't. my parents don't play videogames

2. When was the last time you cried?

i honestly don't remember, i don't actually cry all that much. (so if you see me say things like "i'm crying" in the tags then i'm actually only crying in my heart, i'm not shedding any actually tears dfkfkjdf)

last time i cried was either bc i was really angry or really extremely overwhelmed with life during a period where i hadn't slept much or was on my period or so. orrr what is actually even more likely is that the last time i cried was when i cried from laughter while being with friends. i cry from laughter a lot, actually

3. Do you have kids?

nope. i think i could be a good mother if i had to, but ngl, motherhood and parenting doesn't sound very appealing to me. i am planning on becoming an aunt tho. i'll let my brother provide the grandkids and i'll just borrow them occasionally, spoil them, and then i can always give them back when they get too exhausting or annoying 😂

4. What sports do you play/have you played?

i play baseball for fun once a year with old summer camp friends. other than that i'm not very athletic. in elementary school i used to go to schwimmkurse (swimming courses) which was super fun and it's one of the few sports that i'd consider taking up again if i were to do any. i've always liked swimming (but only in places where i can see the ground and where the water isn't too cold. i feel really uneasy when i can't see the ground and i also freeze easily so i'm not a fan of cold water)

5. Do you use sarcasm?

sarcasm? me? neeeeever, not at all 🤭

(^^^this answer is sarcastic, the genuine answer is yes. yes, i do. <- for those struggling to understand sarcasm, esp in written form <3)

6. What's the first thing you notice about people?

uhhhhh good question, i don't actually know???? maybe their face, idk

7. What's your eye colour?

blue-gray ish. and i have a yellow/green circle around each pupil. i actually really like my eyes, they're my fave part of my appearance 🥰

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

happy endings for sure!! i could never get into scary movies, idk

9. Any talents?

languages, i guess. at least i'm known as the language genius in my family and my friend groups. but to be honest, there's still a lot about language that i don't know and i don't feel like i'm all that great (esp when my language learning progress feels slower than the one of others. which is totally fine by me bc everyone should go at their own pace, but i just don't like it when people call me a language genius bc i feel like in reality i'm not really living up to that. i just happen to know a little bit more about language than those around me, but compared with actual experts? yeah no, i in no way compare...)

but yeah out of all the skills that i have, languages is one my best ones. and i'm also really good at organizing (aka keeping a million lists and making sure all the props are at the right spots and with the right actors and there's enough spares of everything etc lol)

10. Where were you born?

austria 🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹

(NOT the place with kangaroos just so we're clear dkjgkdjf)

11. What are your hobbies?

(internally) crying over fictional characters, then blorbo-posting about it. sometimes i'll also subject irl-people to my blorbo rants (mainly my mother and some of my friends)

i also take violin lessons and thai classes for fun

12. Do you have any pets?

technically no, but really yes. my mom and my brother share a dog and my parents also have two kitties. i go home a lot bc i don't really like staying in my own flat in the city where i study so they do feel like my own pets as well, esp the kitties <333

^this is nika (the dog) and coco (boy cat). they're besties <3

^this is minou (girl cat). she's the youngest and the smallest of them all, so we nicknamed her "die kleine" (the small one (f))

13. How tall are you?

155 cm

14. What was your favourite subject in school?

german, it was the easiest for me

fun fact: the only subject in school that i ever got a frühwarnung in was english lmao. ("frühwarnung" = early warning and it's what you get when you're about to get an f in your report card for a subject. i got an f in english in my report card for semester break, so i had the whole summer semester to get my grade up to a d)

15. What is your dream job?

director!!!! in theater or film, idk, but i just really wanna be a director. and maybe take some minor acting roles on the side, idk. for now i still feel too shy to do any professional acting, despite having gotten acting training for 3 years djkkdjfg

i'm really looking forward to next summer, bc i get to be assistant director at this one theater that i've worked at as an intern for the past two summers. the assistant directors that i've worked with so far at this theater have both sucked and both times i ended up more or less taking on the job myself anyway (to the point where they even paid me for my work despite my position usually being an unpaid one) and so this summer i was like "uhhh guys so what if for next summer's production i just work as an assitant director right away instead of an intern?" and they were like "omg you're hired" 😂

tagging following 15 people:

feel free to ignore if you don't want to do it or tag me in/send me yours if you've already done it, i'd like to read it <3

@newyearknwwme @moonkhao @visualtaehyun @lurkingteapot @callipigio @waitmyturtles @sunnenfinster @cornflowershade @celestial-sapphicss @killiru @gaym3bo1 @nongnaos @dimplesandfierceeyes @gillianthecat @ranchthoughts

bonus: @telomeke i know you've already been tagged, so this is just to ask you to tag me when you've thought of all your answers, i wanna read yours too 👀

[sarcasticsciencefictionwriter]

Trick or treat!

Why, hello, the first trick-or-treater my door! Come in and have your treat, a piece of The Abnormal X-File that I have pried from hibernation to drop into your bucket tonight.

🍬🍭🍫🍬🍭🍫🍬🍭🍫🍬🍭🍫🍬🍭🍫🍬🍭🍫🍬🍭🍫🍬

"Good morning, Agent Scully. Agent Mulder." Declan's accent wasn't like Dr. Magnus and Dr. Watson's. It was more rough, less refined, at least in Scully's opinion. "Here's your breakfast. Dr. Magnus wanted me to tell you that she'll be with you shortly."

Declan set the tray on the table beside Mulder's bed.

"Thank you." Scully said.

Declan nodded. "You're welcome."

"Thanks." Mulder added. He was staring at Declan a little intently. If they had been close enough, Scully would have kicked his leg.

Declan nodded to them and left. Once he was gone, Scully turned to Mulder.

"What?" Mulder asked.

"Why were you staring at him like that?"

Mulder didn't answer, turning to the tray. Scully folded her arms over her chest.

"You were trying to see if he's…..weird, aren't you?" she asked.

"Maybe a little."

"He's not a patient, Mulder."

"Then what is he?"

"As far as I understand, he's Dr. Watson's protege. Or second-in-command. I'm not sure."

"Hmm."

They sat together to eat breakfast. It was a better breakfast than Scully had had in months, which she thought was a little sad. Or just a good thing about the Sanctuary. They certainly seemed to take good care of their 'guests'.

Dr. Magnus turned up after they were done, Mulder dubiously eyeing the tea that had accompanied the meal. It smelled very flowery and Scully couldn't identify what it was. "Good morning, Agents." Dr. Magnus said, scaring them both. "I trust you both had a good night?"

"Very well, thank you." Scully said. "Yes, thank you." Mulder echoed, surprising Scully a little by not jumping straight into his questions.

Dr. Magnus certainly looked more presentable and put together than Scully felt. In contrast to last night's leather and dark jeans, she was wearing a dark blue blouse and cream colored skirt, brunette hair loose, save for the strands around her face, which were pulled back with a clip. She wore an open lab coat easily and well. Tailored to fit her, it fit better than any lab coat Scully had ever worn, reminding her again she was wearing yesterday's clothing, which had blood and dirt on them and had brushed her hair with her fingers.

"I feel confident that I can discharge you this morning, Agent Mulder."

Scully could feel Mulder's disappointment without even looking at him.

"I was actually wondering if I might….if you might be willing to show me what you showed Scully last night. And answer some of my questions." Mulder had stood up and taken a step forward.

Dr. Magnus looked at Mulder with a slightly hard expression. She was a tall woman, able to look Mulder in the eye easily enough, and her height added to the imposing air around her. Scully felt that Mulder was about to bite off more than he could chew.

"Agent Mulder, you have done nothing to make me wish to show you any of my patients. Certainly none of my files. As for your questions, I imagine that they run along the same line as last time?"

Mulder clearly wasn't fazed by this. Scully wondered if that was bravery or stupidity. Probably a little bit of both, if she knew Mulder.

"Dr. Magnus, you can deny everything all you want. But I do have evidence of what it is you're denying. You haven't managed to erase your full impact on people or history. I saw those things last night--the animals you call tanuki. I believe Scully when she says that you have a pterodactyl. I understand that you want to protect the people under your care. I don't want to harm them or go telling everyone in the world about them. To me, it would confirm a personal truth. Tell me that I'm not crazy for believing."

Mulder was being surprisingly honest and Scully had a feeling that Dr. Magnus knew that. The woman seemed to size Mulder up.

"I can not tell you that aliens exist, Agent Mulder. Frankly, I don't believe that they do and if they did, I would like to think that any advanced race would have much better things to do than abduct humans for the simple means of experimenting on them."

Scully saw the gleam in Mulder's eye, surprised that he wasn't annoyed by the denial of the beings he had spent his whole life pursuing.

"You say humans as if you're not one of us." he said.

"Let us just say that I do not feel human and have not, for the majority of my life. But I will tell you this--extraordinary beings do exist, Agent, and I have made it my life's mission to protect them. The definition of how they are extraordinary is subjective. You say alien--I say nature creating something strange and beautiful that humans, sadly, fear and hate more often than not."

"So everything that can't be explained or every disorder or defect is nature just playing games with the human race?"

"Evolution has not simply stopped."

Scully understood Dr. Magnus's side of this debate, even though the woman was not giving Mulder anything more than she already had. She was dressing up the words more, but it came down to the same thing she had said when they first met. Mulder, however, looked thrilled with the woman's views.

"Doctor, I mean no disrespect. But you are avoiding my questions." Mulder said.

"Ask any you like, then. I cannot guarantee an answer and I will throw you out of my house if I see fit."

"Fair enough."

"Oh boy." Scully murmured.

But before Mulder could ask, Dr. Magnus gestured them to come with her. They followed her.

"Was your father Gregory Magnus?" Mulder asked.

"That was my father's name, yes."

Mulder glanced at Scully, clearly thinking the phrasing meant something. Scully felt like she was walking alongside two psychos, one of whom was playing the game much better than the other.

[short-black-diamond]

Wednesday's Bestie- part two.

Part one , Part three

Since many of y'all wanted a part two, I'll make a part two!!!

Also why did nobody tell me that I made many grammar mistakes? Please correct me, write it in the comments for I am sometimes too stoopid to write or form words :p

Warnings: Suggestive???/ weird jokes, I'm a bad writer, you're a shitty character, let's gooooo

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{ Last time : }

You stood there for a moment, stopping dead in your tracks with wiping the neverslowing waterfall which came from your tearducts. you then frowned at her before storming out of the room.

Wednesday sunk to the ground and even her eyes got wetter than usual.

...

Wednesday couldn't help but feel bad about kicking you out of her room, Enid seizing that as a chance to console her. You couldn't help but feel bad for basically cornering Wednesday and it lasted heavily on your chest. I mean, Wednesday wasn't the person known for love or emotions, and you, who had plenty of it, couldn't help but pour your heart out. That resulted in her telling you to get out and you ending up sulking.

"What's gotten into you?", a smooth voice asked and you perked up immediately. It was Bianca. Sure, you were still hurt about Wednesday "rejecting" you, but your slutty tendencies knew no barriers and so you only answered: "You. In my head. Giving you head."

And of course, you earned a disgusted look from the second hottest girl in school. Internally, Bianca was kind of...flattered? But very flustered by your blunt and pery words, and still she chose to flirt back.

"Oh, but at least try to get to know me better."

Even though you'd really like to flirt back and firth until she was a blushing mess, you sighed before telling her the truth. "And, well, that's why I'm here.", you finished, before lifting your head and closing your eyes. Bianca sat down next to you and watched you for a while. When you opened your eyes again and noticed her presence, you yelped. "What the fuck? Why didn't you say anything?", you asked, scared but at the same time amazed on how sneakily Bianca could spawn next to you. She was just as quiet as Wednesday, if not more, and you found a little admiration for the young siren. "I thought you knew that I was still here because you didn't hear retreating footsteps.", she only deadpanned, eyeing you with her glowing eyes.

That made you a fool out of yourself and you laughed dryly. "Oh yeah, you're right...but, um. Sorry if it's mean or rude, but...why are you still here? Don't you have your friends to hang out with or some club to attend?"

Your question came out of carefulness but also curiosity, because the Bianca, the siren of your school, the girl who hated "your" and Wednesday's guts just sat the fuck down next to you and she didn't look like she'd like to stand up soon. "I wanted to get to know you more,", she only exclaimed before taking out her biology book and advising you to do the same. "Since you're shit at biology, let me help.", the popular girl said confidently, unaware of the weirdo's lexica of knowledge of every single fucking plant there is known to mankind.

"Dahlia, Moonflower, Marguerite, Daffodil, Chryantthemum, Crocus, Gerbera daisy, Pansy, Peony, Cyclamen, Calendula, Sweet Woodbine, Fox glove, How many more?", you asked after about five minutes, the lead singer looking at you with a dumbfounded expression. "Why do you know all this? I thought you were the stupid one from you and Wednesday?"

You only shrugged. You didn't know Bianca that much to be honest with her, because you actually were more smart than the brunette, but still you decided against sharing that with the girl sitting next to you. "I just like to make a fool out of myself and see who still respects me despite my 'stupidness', you know? That way, I can easily kick the ones secretely whispering behind my back out of my life. You, as it seems, like to manipulate people too. Any hard reasons?"

And so, you and Bianca kept chatting until it was time to go to bed. Your words stil lingered in her head, because she never felt like making herself look dumb. She just manipulated away monsters and humans alike which she didn't like. But...with Xavier, it was a whole other story.

From what I know (or what I headcannon), is, that Bianca couldn't stand having all those admirers around her, so she chose someone to be together with, and poor Xavier got in her field of sight. Soon, she manipulated him into thinking that he actually liked her, and she actually, really fell for him. But what is a love with only one side really feeling it? One-sided-love. Soon, Xavier caught up to her gaslighting and using her powers on him and broke up with her as soon as possible.

So the only question for her was...why were you manipulative? Suddenly, Bianca wanted to know more about you, your little encounter with her was not enough for the pretty siren, and so she asked you out to go somewhere private. Confused by her sudden request, you packed some weapons, and haven't even talked to Wednesday since all morning. Of course, since sharing a room with Yoko meant for Enid to come visit, but also the goth girl (=> being blackmailed by Enid to have some "quality time with friends") came along sometimes. As Enid shared all the gossip and not sparing you a glance, Wednesday stared at you packing your things.

She wanted to ask you were you were going, although she would imagine you either not anwering, saying that it's none of her business, or trying to apologize, which was neither the time nor place to talk, especially with Enid in the room, where you were sure that she'd claw your eyeballs out the moment Wednesday said so, but you found her little threats adoring. I mean, Enid still hadn't caught on what you exactly are, and it seemed like Wednesday didn't tell her.

What the goth girl also couldn't stand in your presence was you stuffing your bag with meaningless stuff like homework and some books, but that wasn't the center of her attention; your ass was. Even though she couldn't exactly explain why your butt was so intoxiacating- maybe because it was packed in a nice pair of jeans, or that it was juicy- or simply your ass. Either way, Wednesday couldn't bring herself to look away. and when you turned around, finished with stuffing the bag, she saw your tits. In a nice top with long sleeves, but with a low cleavage. Wednesday had small boobs, yes, but yours were simply huge and she often found herself wanting to sleep on them or touch them. Now, in a full display like this, she didn't want you to go.

"Where are you going.", she demanded to know, and to her surprise, you smiled. "Somewehere, they said it was a surprise.", you calmly answered.

"They?"

"Well, I haven't asked about Bianca's pronouns yet."

That made the girl look at you perplexed. Even Enid and Yoko stopped their conversation. "Bianca?", Wednesday only made out, Enid about to attack you verbally. Of course, you didn't care for what a rainbow bitch like her said who has only once trandsformed into a werewolf in her entire lifetime.

"Well, they asked me to go somewhere with them, so I guess I'll go.", you muttered, about to take your leave. But, to everyone's surprise, the brunette held your hand. Her eyes were cold but warming up with concern. "Should I come too?", she asked silently with her eyes. You only gave her a little shake before taking her hand off gently. Before you made it out of the dorm, you looked at Wednesday with a sorrowful expression. That meant you said you were sorry. If only you'd look a little longer, you could've seen her well hidden, shy response.

...

"What took you so long?", the singer asked the manipulator.

"Be happy that I even decided to fuckin' show up, maybe?", you retorted.

Bianca rolled her eyes before leading you up a hill. "What's your favourite hobby?" "Have none." "Reading? Sport? Going out?" "Nope"

She felt kind of disrespected of you not asking about her hobbies as well, and when she lead your attention towards her issue, you only snickered. "I already know your hobbies. You like to fence a lot, 'queen bee', you sing beautifully and you also attend many clubs. That's all the information I have about you and I'm satisfied about that."

"Yeah, but-what about favourite food??" "Fast food." "Come on." "I like to take shitty care of my body you know?" "Can you stop lying to me?" "Only if you tell me why the fuck you've brought me to a fucking farm.", you calmly stated, watching sheeps wander around the nice view.

Bianca swivelled around, a panicked expression on her face. "Shit...we must've taken a wrong turn somewhere...", she muttered, looking around frantically. "You wanted to go to the cinema with me, right?", you instead asked calmly before taking her hand and leading her out of this place. All the while, Bianca told you to let got of her hand so that she could call somebody or some other shit she explained but you only lead her into the heart of the place; Now, you and her were in a field full of some flowers you had to count prior and it was very beautiful.

"Wow...", she only made out, looking fondly at the many flowers. you breathed in the nice smell before sitting down on a place that was mostly dark stone or grass. "Sit.", you demanded playfully, patting the spot next to you and inviting her over. Still, the siren had a few questions. "How do you know this place?"

"I often go here when I want to be alone from everything. It's a nice place, isn't it?"

"Yes, it actually is. Say...you're not mad about all that?"

"What, that you couldn't have brought me to the cinema, meaning that you have zero orientation skilss and are so the perfect target when going out or that I brought you to my hideout and now having none anymore?" (you had plenty of hideouts left, you just wanted to make her feel bad.)

At that, she fell silent. You smirked. "I mean, you could repay me with something...!"

...

Wednesday knocked on your dorm room, a week after that conversation about you two. Even though there were also Enid and Yoko, she and you were the ones talking and she wanted to try and talk to you again.

"Oh? wednesday, what brings you here?", you muttered, after you answered the door a few seconds later- too late for the brunette's liking. "Is there somebody else in the room?"

You looked behind you, noticing that Bianca left. "Not anymore", you sighed. "Again; what brings you here." Were you annoyed? the girl in front of you averted her eyes, unsure where to look. She'd just noticed you were in showy clothes again, and you had a few dark spots across your neck and your cheeks were a little too red- "I see you're together with somebody now. May I know who it is?" "Do you promise not to kill the person?" "It depends."

"When it 'depends', then I'm not telling you." "Okay, I won't."

"It's Bianca. And you've just ruined a heated makeout session."

Silence filled the air.

Oh.

"I'm sor-" "You're not. You're jealous."

"Well, in that case...I guess I'll go.", she said, making her way to her room. you stood in your room and sighed.

You didn't even love Bianca.

You also didn't love wednesday.

No, you didn't even know if you could love anybody. If anything, that would only be admiration. But...you liked being together with people, but not the love.

You went more for the pleasure.

And as those tears of fear, of not being able to even love a person properly made itself known in your soul, you broke down and cried.

---

How was that? I kinda made it weird in the end but meh.

I actually didn't want you to end up with anybody, because I don't really like love stories. I like it when there's a conflict where it ends with parting, not bonding.

So, if I'd put you and Wednesday together, you, who is a manipulator and Wednesday who never tells you anything about how she feels or what she has on her mind would be a shitty relationship. all you simply felt for her was admiration, because you wanted to be next to her...not...with her.

Bianca was a manipulator just like you. and even though she was capable of loving, you weren't and that would end up just like her story with Xavier, so...no love for you.

[danglovely]

Regrading Taskmaster: S06E05 H.

*Score changes noted in parenthesis.

This is the "I'm Alex Horne and I support apartheid" episode.

Yup.

Prize Task: The Sturdiest Thing

They actually are disgusting, aren't they?

Greg defines "sturdy" as whether it would survive him falling on it from 15 feet. This is arbitrary, but it does raise an important question: sturdiest by expectations or in totality? I'm of the mind that totality governs here, otherwise it would be "the most surprisingly sturdy thing."

Tim's plastic dog actually seems kind of difficult to break. Eggs are famously easy to break, to the point where you have to actually be mindful to not break them. I think I could kill a donkey pretty easily. I don't want to . . . but I could. Alice does a plastic greenhouse, which is sturdy against some things. Unfortunately, I immediately thought of how easy it is to get through it with a knife and then began to think about how I could get through it with my bare hands.

Russell's brother's calves are crazy well defined. I'm not really sure how to categorize this one because they would probably be difficult to tear into, but he could tear them by exerting too much effort.

I think the way to go is Asim last (easy), then Alice, then Liza, then Russell, then Tim. It's not the easiest designation, but I'll find a way to sleep at night.

Alice: 2 (-2) Asim: 1 (0) Liza: 3 (-2) Russell: 4 (+1) Tim: 5 (+3)

VT 01: Without leaving the caravan, work out how long this piece of string is. Most accurate answer wins.

I might do it in lobsters.

No one really seemed to know the trick that your wingspan is about the same length as your height.

We're gonna knock Alice out of contention right away. Absolute shit workaround attempt. No interpretation of the task means that you can cut your own desired length of string and measure that. It clearly meant the length of string that existed at the time the task was read.

We get the mess of imperial and metric measurements. Asim says 500 ft. (152.4 m.). Russell says 31 m. (101.706 ft.). Liza cuts the string off from the spool, which I'm a little more willing to consider, because it's semi-reasonable that the task could be referring to the unwound string. However. she doesn't even say which piece of string she's guessing when she says "4 miles" (21120 ft., 6437.38 m.), so she's getting the same treatment as everybody else (not that it would matter). Alice's guess is 5'7".

Tim uses a lobster and I'm actually not sure how he did it, because it doesn't feel like he's taking into account that both sides of the lobster would be a foot. He does it though. He says a lobster is a .98 feet and he guesses 308 lobsters.

Alex does round up in lobsters and down in string for Tim. It doesn't affect the scoring though. This is a very long-winded way to say that they got it right.

Alice: 2 Asim: 4 Liza: 1 Russell: 3 Tim: 5

VT 02: Pull this tablecloth off the table. Most eggs left unbroken on the table wins. You have one attempt and may not tamper with the table, tablecloth, or eggs.

Heh. Eggs.

Aren't they tampering with the tablecloth by removing it?

Task doesn't say "fastest wins."

They all nail it and honestly, I'd love for them to show more tasks where they all nail it.

Alice: 5 Asim: 5 Liza: 5 Russell: 5 Tim: 5

Team Task: Find the link then do it exactly 100 times.

Have we ever had a clearer metaphor for the plight of women through the ages?

This is the only time we see the back of the lab (revealing it's just a bedroom). Nothing to be said that wasn't said during broadcast.

Alex says the team of three was at 8:07. Team Funk did it in 11:18. Greg doesn't split the points anymore, but I do.

Team Funk: 2 (-1) Team of Three: 3 (-2)

VT 04: Pull off the most elaborate trick shot.

Look at the crazy trick.

Oh, this one gets me salty. Liza deserved last so much because she used the crew and no one would believe that was an actual trick shot. Somehow, I'm putting Alice above her, because she was at least honest about what she was doing.

It's kind of more difficult to evaluate Russell's mess of challenges versus Tim & Asim's Goldberg machines. "Elaborate" means "carefully arranged" and I think Russell's feels a little more haphazard. Tim's machine is better than Asim's (and is named after a pun) so that's that.

Alice: 2 (+1) Asim: 4 (+2) Liza: 1 (-3) Russell: 3 (0) Tim: 5 (0)

Live Task: Throw as many eggs onto the shelves as possible. You must lie flat on your bed at all times. Most eggs on the shelves wins.

No condition about being broken or intact. There's actually not even a condition about whether they have to stay there (though tough grading if they don't). Asim also steals an egg from Liza, which I'm very okay with.

I'm also very much okay with how Alex scored this.

Alice: 1 Asim: 2 Liza: 5 Russell: 4 Tim: 4

F I N A L

Alice: 14 Asim: 19 Liza: 18 Russell: 21 Tim: 27

I arrive at the same conclusion as Alex and Greg, Tim deserves a win. I'm giving him his second, where they give him his first.

[spaceorphan18]

Can you share your Glee knowledge, please? When Glee was airing who were the most popular characters? Was Rachel popular as a female lead? I know Kurt was popular, but was he more in TOP 10 or TOP 3 in popularity? Was Blaine very popular? I read he was the most popular character, someone else said it is not true. Was Santana very popular or she is more popular now? Who is more, and who is less, popular than before?

So - I'm going to be honest with you, Nonny, this isn't an easy question to answer. Partly - because when I got into Glee fandom, I zeroed in on Kurt and Blaine and didn't spend a whole lot of time in spaces that weren't devoted to them, and partly because the Glee fandom had such a universally huge appeal, it's kind of hard to track how people felt about it.

I think that near the beginning of the show Kurt was easily one of the most popular characters (if not the most popular). But General Fandom had spaces for everyone, and I think you could easily find pockets of fandoms for every character on the show. I mean even Will/Emma had a following. I really can't tell you /how/ popular each character was in the early days. It's a shame that Glee Forum was taken down -- you could have gone there and seen who had the longest threads.

The thing, also, that became bigger than the character itself was shipping. I think that people found their ship and stayed on it -- more so than the characters individually. Or at least where I ended up most of the time. For example -- I'm not really sure how much Rachel was liked? (I know that Lea was divisive even then -- and a lot of people, including the media, wasn't that big a fan of hers.) But Finchel was a relatively popular ship, as was Faberry.

In the same vein as most popular - it's hard to say who was the most unpopular. Disregarding shipping wars - I'd say that Puck was probably the least talked about? (Of the main cast) But he still had a decent number of fans.

As for Santana -- I don't know that she became that popular until her coming out story starting in the second half of season 2. She and Brittany had a small (but rather vocal) fan base that grew during the middle of the show's run. Brittana became a legit thing because of them -- and I think Brittana stayed a couple because of the vocal fan base. I don't know if Brittana fans are larger in number now? But I think they're the most vocal and visible now on social media -- namely TikTok, I believe.

I do know, that out of F/F ships -- Faberry was the most popular. I can't tell you why -- what it was about Rachel/Quinn that the fans enjoyed more so than the actual F/F ship on the show, but it was a huge thing. It could be the tropes of enemies to lovers combined with good girl/bad girl? It could be that Brittany and Santana were less developed, and also mean girls? I have no idea.

Then there's Blaine. And the stuff about Blaine is (fascinatingly) complex, so the rest of this is going under a cut.

The thing about Blaine comes down to the popularity of Kurt -- and how fandom was working at the time. I can't understate how popular Kurt was the first couple of years -- and how much shipping was also a huge factor in online fandom.

At the time, Kurt was shipped with everyone - Puck, Mike, Karofsky, Sam, everyone. And then Blaine came along.

Now you have to keep in mind -- Darren Criss came on board with a fandom of his own. Which actually annoyed people, so you already have a divide with the character from the beginning.

The Blaine and the Warblers story line was generally liked -- among the General Audience, and critics, and even in fandom Klaine was always the most popular of the Kurt ships.

But then the great Kurt fandom divide happened -- you had;

A) Kurt Stans - who liked Kurt and foremost, and the ones who kept this label the longest got cranky when shipping took precedent. They eventually turned into the leaders of the lol!Blaine/Darren Criss stuff -- and were pretty much anti-Blaine everything, but that really picked up around Season 4 (which I'll talk about in a second.)

B) Other Kurt Ship fans - look, Kurt/Karofsky and Kurt/Sam were huge back in Season 2. The shipping wars were huge, and I still have stories.... lol

C) Klaine fans - which were by far the biggest group. There was also a subsection who, unfortunately, became the tinhatters.

D) Blaine Stans - who started out mostly being Darren Criss fans that came into the show through him.

So, Blaine was popular, but also divisive because there were people who didn't like him, didn't want him with Kurt, etc, etc.

Season 3 was kind of rough for everyone -- the General Audience stopped watching, the story lines were not great, and also spread too thin among the big cast of characters, and the Media was officially over it.

And then Season 4 happened. The biggest thing that made Blaine a divisive character was the cheating. The Better Boyfriend Olympics had started in Season 3, but ooff, Season 4 everyone was pushed to either the Kurt side or the Blaine side. And if you remained a Klainer -- you were a 12yo, or a tinhatter. (Omg, this time was the worst.) Blaine also got a lot more screen time in Season 4 -- where I do think he got more people who enjoyed his story more than Kurt's. But, as I said, I think most of the GA was gone by then, and the fandoms between Kurt and Blaine were fairly equal and war-ing with each other. Constantly.

By the time Seasons 5 and 6 came around, I think in fandom, things were more or less the same - the BBO never really stopped. You had Kurt fans against Blaine fans. I think, though, they were so entwined with each other, though, if you asked an outside, they'd be of equal-ish popularity. Kurt, because he was an original character, and the most fleshed out, I think still had the upper hand in popularity, but idk, Blaine had/has his own hefty group of fans, too.

Also, in years since, Chris has faded from the public view, and Darren hasn't - so I feel like I see more Blaine fans around then Kurt fans.

I will say - that by the end of the run, I found my group of elders, who enjoyed both (even if some had preference over one actor over the other) and have stayed in my lane for the most part.

Anyway, I don't know if that answers your question (I didn't really get into the nuances of each time period) but that's the general break down. I guess the tl;dr answer is that, yes Blaine was a popular character, but he was also divisive.

[hotforharrison]

It's been about a week, and I'm back to the cathartic land of the void.

Out of the 371 tracks on the Spotify Taylor Swift Complete Collection playlist, the shuffle feature chose probably the sole and single one that could reduce me to a crying mess -- happiness from evermore.

I had listened to it exactly once when the album came out before I decided I wasn't going to listen to it again because it felt vaguely like some things that were starting to go on with my marriage.

I didn't add it to my liked songs and completely forgot it existed until shuffle thrust it upon me today.

It went from vague to some of it being very clear and applicable.

I know it's not supposed to be a sad song, but I'm still clinging desperately to my wishful thinking and not ready to give up yet. I've been with him almost half my life, and I don't know how to just let that go when I have even the tiniest sliver of hope left.

I so easily upset him and ruin our time together, with things that wouldn't elicit the some response if it were his girlfriend in my position. I know it's because of all the heartache I've caused him in the past, that his fuse when it comes to me has shortened over the years and only has the tiniest bit left. He didn't deny it.

I admitted to him that I spend all of my time with him walking on eggshells, questioning everything I'm going to do or say in my mind, and still fail consistently. He told me it wasn't healthy to live that. I told him that I know.

Everything about this is hard, but the hardest thing is seeing him have that happiness that used to be ours, that I want more than anything to recapture and have again.

We were each other's person for a lot of years -- years that I took for granted until they abruptly ended last fall. Now, he has a new person, and she has him, and they have happiness.

I have what feels like a gaping wound in my chest and only a box of cheap off brand bandaids to tend to it.

We'd always had a sexually open relationship since we met in person for the first time and started long distance dating, but we transitioned into a polyamorous one 9 years ago.

While my husband has had a number of girlfriends and women he's seen over the years, I stopped trying to date anyone else 8 years ago, after I found and briefly had my second "boyfriend" ever (my husband being the first). "Boyfriend" is a term I use very loosely for that relationship.

And here I sit 8 years later, once again wanting to find a boyfriend, with the term not used loosely this time around.

I'm not going to start trying to date again until I've lost quite a bit more weight.

I told my husband to be honest with me and asked him what he would think if he met me today for the first time. He said he would have found me sweet and fun to talk to, but I wouldn't be on his dating radar.

He didn't answer in an unkind way, and I'm not upset with him for how he feels.

I mean I also have an upper limit, based on what activities the person can do. If we can't spend a day at, like, the natural science museum or zoo or aquarium or a larger mall or something along those lines and walk around there without constantly stopping, it's a compatibility issue.

As far as my current progress goes -- my highest weight was 352.8 lbs. I started on September 22 of last year at 340.6 lbs. My 2024 starting weight was 309.1 lbs. My last weigh in was on March 1 at 295.4 lbs. Before my ankle surgery was scheduled for January 19, I wanted to get into the 280s at some point in February, which unsurprisingly didn't happen when I was unable to walk a single step for several weeks.

I obviously still have a very long way to go to get down to a healthier weight. The upper range for me being a "healthy" BMI at my height is 169 lbs.

I've been pretty on point with my moderate keto diet for months now, but there's an unfortunate limit that's been placed on me for activity.

My foot and ankle doctor said I'm not allowed to start working out until I'm cleared to do so. The soonest that would possibly be is my 12 week follow up on April 8. Over a month away.

I was cleared to walk again a week ago tomorrow, though, and I've been doing that in moderation.

For the first few days, my stupid calves were killing me after not being used for several weeks. Adding in multiple stretching sessions a day and massaging them helped clear that up. That pain is fortunately 100% gone now like it never existed in the first place.

I wasn't expecting to, but I'm definitely not getting in those 10,000 step days I aimed for last year. So far, it's been a "good" day if I do 3,000 or so steps, and it's been up in the air for whether I end up regretting it the next day or not.

My goal is to gradually up the daily steps starting this week with a baseline of 3000 increased by 50 steps per day, and dial back if the swelling and pain flare up.

On an unrelated note, I also wrote another 2000-ish words over the last week for one of the Harrison fics I was working on. The story is unfortunately not to that point chronologically yet, though, so for now it's a future snippet. It was very clear in my head, and I didn't want to lose it, so into the a new future chapter document it went.

[tokiro07]

Cipher Academy ch.53 thoughts

[Solve. Die. Repeat.]

(Contents: reminiscing, character analysis - Omomuro and Iroha, thematic analysis - victory, speculation)

Oh man, this might just be my favorite chapter so far, and none of my best girls were even really in it! We love a good bookend in this house

I'm actually pretty miffed that Nisio included a Kogoe Lesson to explain the parallel to the Q5, it doesn't leave me with a lot to talk about. Maybe that's supposed to be insight into Kogoe's character, but it kind of feels like Nisio wasn't confident that people would remember a chapter from literally a year ago

But I do remember that chapter and I remember it very fondly. Q5 was the first puzzle I actually tried to solve in this story, and I got really into it! I got a pencil and paper, I did research, I tackled it from every angle I could trying to understand it. Sure, I ended up being wildly off base for the actual method of solving it, but for a moment, I was just like Iroha. I was just as invested and had just as much fun trying to crack the code by myself, of my own power. If I hadn't gotten hung up on one little inconsistency in my own logic, I might have actually been able to figure it out too! I still wouldn't have been able to figure out what the answer meant since I wouldn't be able to translate it, but it ended up not mattering anyway, the act of solving it was what mattered in this instance

This chapter is my favorite because it's a beautiful little benchmark for how far we've come. Iroha isn't the one struggling to solve the question, he's the one posing it and was able to think of it practically on the fly rather than taking several hours to do so. Maybe only a couple months have passed in story, but Iroha has grown so much in the last year without ever losing what made him who he is: he's confident and clever now in a way he never really was back then, but he's still just as kind and honest

Like Iroha says, it was because of Q5 that he was able to make it this far. With the exception of Q3 (which Iroha didn't solve at all), the first four code were all solved using the Glasses Weapon, which makes sense on the basis that Iroha was only just starting out. Q5, easily the hardest code he'd faced yet, was the first one he had to solve completely on his own, and it showed him both that he was capable of solving codes and that he enjoyed doing so, a crucial part of his success going forward. There were very few codes that he ever used Glasses Weapons to solve after that, the only ones I can immediately recall being the dancer and the maze to decide the brackets for the CLP tournament. Other than that, he's made every effort to solve codes honestly, which allowed him to grow in a way that using a cheat system never would have

It also makes sense that Iroha looks up to Omomuro so much specifically, even ignoring how she inspired him with Q5. They're pretty great foils for each other: Iroha is a feminine man with the drive to be a leader but still often has to rely on his followers, Omomuro is a masculine woman (a lot like Amvicious) who only sees herself as a follower but often insists on acting alone. Even now, Iroha is fighting to make sure everyone makes it out in one piece, while Omomuro is letting herself fall to pieces so that one person, Toshusai, can succeed. Iroha wants no sacrifices if he can help it, but just like Omomuro, he's the type who will throw himself into the line of fire if it means giving someone else the chance to survive. The key difference, though, is that Iroha isn't throwing himself away when he does that, he's just putting himself on the line with the hope and confidence that he can make it to the other side unscathed, while Omomuro isn't concerned with her own wellbeing at all

Finally, the result of this code battle is the diametric opposite of the previous as well: Iroha went over the time limit, but still solved the code, technically making it a draw, while this time, Omomuro solved the code flawlessly but admitted defeat, technically meaning that both sides won. A stalemate on a technicality and a victory through mutual benefit; we may still be in the Friendship arc, but Nisio won't shy away from discussing the theme of Victory

Since this isn't the first time that Iroha has won through the opponent solving his code (ch.13, Iroha tricks Nohime into apologizing to Toshusai), I'm getting the feeling that the Victory arc of this story is going to pull similar tricks along the way. No-win scenarios for Iroha or others, Pyrrhic victories, hidden safety nets; the possibilities are endless, and Nisio is rarely, if ever, going to be straightforward with it, but as he's been saying the entire series, it's only a victory if everyone makes it home alive

I hope everyone loved this chapter as much as I did, and I hope to be able to touch base like this with our cast next year

Until next time

[struggle-but-its-all-ocean-floor]

he didn't have any song in particular that he related to and that they weren't autobiographical.

Honestly I think he just said that so that fans don't freak out lol. Did you see how fans were asking him why he was looking at the actress in the music video 💀 he had to say that he was a robot just following the directors orders. Some fans are immature and crazy

I don't get why some fans never trust anything the boys say when it comes to dating or anything else fans make assumptions on - if BTS don't say what Armys expect, then they're lying... I thought Armys trusted BTS? One thing is to be asked point blank if you are dating and another is to volunteer that information. I agree that we can't really trust some of the answers BTS give in interviews because we know they can't refuse to answer but they have the right to not reveal or conceal the truth, which means they may lie, even by omission. In this case, Jungkook chose to answer a fan on Stationhead. He could have easily ignored her or answered the question from a different angle (for example, romantic love has a lot in common with other type of relationships, he could've said he wanted the kind of love portrayed in his songs, etc.). Jungkook chose to answer the fan when he didn't have to. Why would he reply only to lie when it would've been far easier not to say anything? Because he didn't want fans to freak out about the lyrics that he chose to release knowing it would trigger fans in some way? He's said in multiple interviews now that the songs don't tell his stories - duh, he didn't write them, those who did don't know him, and he only selected the songs, probably before they even had lyrics. Some fans are immature and crazy, but I trust BTS to be honest with us whenever they can. He had no reason to lie. Some fans always want to believe BTS are fucking a different person every week or in relationships. The fans who refuse to believe BTS aren't dating have a lot more in common with the fans who refuse to believe BTS are dating than they'd like to admit.

Also, the lyrics in Golden are lowkey bullshit. 3D is about hooking up with someone you met online, which isn't necessarily a universal experience. Then we have really specific songs about breakups that don't line up storytelling wise (Too Sad to Dance, Shot Glass of Tears, Hate You). Golden doesn't tell a coherent story about a relationship, with a lot of the lyrics contracting each other. It makes it hard to connect to the lyrics (and the songs) because they're all random. Imo, while some love songs are relatable, regardless of the romantic relationship you have/had, or don't have, Golden has crappy lyrics. I'd say the most relatable/impactful lyrics are Seven (Clean Ver.), SNTY, and Hate You - this coming from someone who's never been in a relationship.

About the actress, what was he supposed to answer??? You think he was thinking "Oh I want to fuck her?" or "Oh, she's so attractive I want to ask her out?" when he shot the scene?? First, that would've been a very disrespectful thing to say about the actress; secondly, he literally didn't know her; thirdly, he was surrounded by cameras, so it wasn't exactly romantic; and, fourthly, Jungkook doesn't like acting or know how to act, which is probably why his mind was "blank". The director told him to act a certain way and he did. I'm sure Jungkook's mind wasn't literally blank but he would've had no issue telling that fan he'd been trying to communicate the intensity of his feelings/tell the story of the MV, etc.. I'm sure Jungkook knows fans get jealous, but why do you assume he's trying to appease those fans? He's awkward and shy around people he doesn't know, and shooting something with strangers isn't exactly intimate, like plenty of actors have said. Jungkook answered a similar question about the female dancers in 3D. He knew the fans were jealous about him being pushed by the female dancers, but he didn't really get why because he naturally felt awkward being pushed by, and holding eye contact with, people he didn't know well.

Why can't we just accept Jungkook's words? Sometimes I feel I must be very naive to actually trust the boys and not just say "Trust BTS" and then twist almost everything they say. We know they've lied or omitted stuff from us before, to protect themselves and even us, but why assume they're lying when they say something that goes against what he believe, especially if it's something so small?

[lunaetis]

@ardenssolis asked :

"Herta seems quite interested in you, which in itself, is very odd. That woman only cares about things that are worth caring about, which brings to question why she seems so intent on you assisting in her research." He figured something was off about Eden, could sense it when his eyes instantly landed upon her from a distance, but the question was why? "What exactly have you been doing for her?"

unprompted. || always accepting

─「エデン」─  when his voice broke the silence between them, the TRAILBLAZER immediately had her eyes turned towards him. every single syllable, despite sounding casual, was well-crafted and carefully thought-out. AUREATE optics observed him, realizing that the sensation of the time she caught the aeon's gaze started to grow back whenever his eyes were on her. the molten gold that felt like they would consume everything in his path and wouldn't let anything out of his sight.

                " a body that could house the stellaron isn't something she had seen before. " despite her answer, her line of vision was not lifted from him. her gaze was fixated, drawn, as she watched him and followed his thinking process. it wasn't like other researchers weren't curious about the genius society member's interests in her, however, most of them chalked it under her recently given REASON, the seed of disaster inside of her.

                that wouldn't fool this one, would it ? even EDEN knew that. if he had chosen to address it out loud, that means he had given ample of time to consider it. she'd be daft to think he would buy such EXCUSE. so how much did he know ?

                " how much do you see with those eyes of yours, ozymandias ? " the TRAILBLAZER posed the question back to him. a humble researcher he had presented himself to be, yet, his vision had pierced through things others could not see. the truth about the SIMULATED UNIVERSE wasn't something she had the rights to disclose without herta's permission. eden realized, though, that she hadn't answered his question yet.

                " i'd prefer not having to lie to you, if i could help it. " she could have done so easily, of course, make up something to cover the truth. for some odd reasons, she didn't like the idea of making half-assed excuses to someone like him. what was it about HIM that made her so honest ? eden wasn't sure. she straightened her back, gold meeting gold.

                " so what is it that you are searching for ? " it was a genuine question. no hint of aggression, nor accusation. just as he had come to ask her personally, she felt he deserved the same courtesy. " if you tell me your truth, i'll tell you mine. " herta wouldn't be pleased, but equivalent exchange was just and fair, wasn't it ? he would understand.

[cloudinterlude]

Do you think Howard fell in love (or had a serious relationship) before he met Maria?

Great question! One I really don't know the answer to, honestly.

Howard was a playboy in Steve's time, according to Steve himself. Steve said in CW he was glad (and he was probably surprised) that Howard settled down and got married because Howard was a womanizer when he knew him.

I don't think Howard falls in love particularly easily. Nor do I think he'd fall in love with any rando off the street. I think it's reasonable to assume that he has experienced falling in love prior to Maria, but I actually don't think anything came out of that. He might have had some bad experiences before he ditched the settling down thing all-together.

Honestly, I don't even know the deal with Howard and Maria. I sometimes think that they didn't start out in love, actually. They probably grew into their love. But this assumption of mine is wildly and completely baseless considering we know next to nothing about MCU Maria besides the fact that she loved Tony, loved Howard and tried to fix the strained relationship between her son and husband.

But back to your question. Yes I think he must have experienced falling in love before Maria, but no I don't think he has a serious, steady relationship before her. Or, if he did has a steady relationship, it most likely wasn't long lasting. Bitten once, twice shy when it comes to matters of the heart for him. And not even exclusively in romance. He has a total of 2 friends in Agent Carter which is Jarvis and Peggy. Maybe we can throw in Jason as well when they grow closer, but he roster of close friendships is very, very short. I can't imagine he's eager to jump into another relationship where he bares his soul and gives his trust. It could be because of his status, his background (he mentioned growing up poor and having to deceive his way to the top, so I don't think he's been in many environments where sincere and honest relationships thrive), or his own abrasive personality. Whatever it was, it makes vulnerability a tough skill to nurture in his case.

[choserage]

  i’ll always want to listen to you. / to Ana

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       he says it so easily. like it's obvious. something she doesn't have to question. an offer made that she's free to take or leave anytime. it should be a simple act of opening your mouth to let someone else in. let them see you. she doesn't like being seen. the feeling of being exposed was a little too close to when someone walks over a freshly-dug grave, hairs rising at the base of the neck. of being haunted while still alive.          she hasn't told him much of anything at all. he's wanted to ask, she's seen the questions in his eyes frequently. would she even give an honest answer if he did? he looks at her and she looks away, feeling the weight of his gaze as her own settles on something else. a glass in her hand, surroundings so she isn't caught off guard, a book she's already read several times before. if her secrets are what he wants she has no idea where to start. while others were an open book, she was a vault with a combination no one knows.           there were a lot of things she could tell him if she was able to find the right words. which tea she liked the most. what her hobbies were. what her life was like before he became a part of it. her darkest moments or deepest fears. not a single one comes to mind and it's all she can do to force a smile. hoping it doesn't look as fractured as it feels.         all those private details she guards religiously despite knowing he's earned the right to hear them. her trust in him is precarious at best, their relationship unbalanced. he's done so much for her and she's done nothing for him in return. guilt consumes her, along with regret.            "i appreciate that but i'm not very good at talking."          understatement of the century right there. she wants to be. used to be, so very long ago. she wasn't always like this -- silent and closed off. an enigma wrapped up in a mystery with no interest in shining a light into the shadows.          would he treat her the same if she gave in and let those thoughts out? something tells her he would and that might be the most terrifying part of it. not the act of sharing itself but living with whatever was left if she let some things go.

[girltomboy]

End of the year answers

Song of the year?

Track 10 by Christine and the Queens has been the soundtrack of many moments this year

2. Album of the year?

None other than Paranoia Angels True Love

3. Favorite musical artist / group you started listening to this year?

A friend got me into Mon Laferte and she became one of my top artists in just a month

4. Movie of the year?

It wasn't released this year but my bf and I discovered The Medium and it's definitely the best movie I've watched all year (Banshees of Inisherin is a close candidate)

5. TV show of the year?

I actually have a top 3 for this question; number three would be Yellowjackets, I would've put it on two if the second season had been at least as good as the first one, but they fumbled it. Number two is Severance, so the creators of that show had better sorted their shit out by now because that show is meant to BE, fr. Number one is Succession because it was just deluxe on all levels: writing, acting, score, production, just great. And a finale that sunk the earth beneath my feet.

6. Episode of tv or webisode that defined the year for you?

Ouuu I wouldn't say it defined the year, but I remember being very impressed with Flight of the Bumblebee/Yellowjackets.

7. Favorite actor of the year?

Sarah Snook 100%

8. Game of the year?

I haven't played many new games this year, but I managed to finish A Little To The Left and it was a highly satisfying experience (and that soundtrack DAMN)

9. Best month for you this year?

I think March was a very fun month, so many cute moments with my bf and friends, nice weather, the feeling of revival was overwhelming.

10. Something that made you cry this year?

To be honest I didn't cry much this year, not as much as in other years at least. Missing my best friend was probably a consistent reason for crying. Even at the beach I was emotional and in need of her presence.

11. Something you want to do again next year?

Meet my best friend :) this time I have a gift for her too. And I wanna knit her a little alien. I want to spend more time with her, this time just us and more than an afternoon. Maybe have a little weekend getaway somewhere, like my bf and I did for our first anniversary.

12. Talk about a new friend you made this year

Not a particular friend per se, but my manager has been working very hard and consistently on bringing us closer as a team; she's been making these groups and stuff, trying to make us befriend each other more, making the dynamic of our work team more informal. I really appreciate that, it's been so fun connecting with my coworkers and discovering their personalities. They're so likable in their own unique ways and my lovely Aquarius manager has been amazing at uniting us a lot more this year.

13. How was your birthday this year?

My boyfriend RAN to the store a couple minutes before midnight (cause we'd been out all day and then napped, and he didn't have time to stock up in advance) and bought me a mini cake which he stabbed with a lit up joint so I could have a candle to make a birthday wish 💀 it was so funny and sweet and it made me so happy. And he got me a piggy plushie I had seen in a store window and pointed out to him just DAYS before my birthday (the day before we passed by that store again and it was gone; I didn't say anything but it DID get me thinking) and now I squeeze it against my chest at night. And we went to the mall and looked around the toy store, and ate ice cream by the lake. It was really lovely and I was straight up glowing

14. Favorite book you read this year?

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, I practically devoured that book

15. What’s a bad habit you picked up this year?

Umm smoking cigarettes in social circumstances? I mean it's by no means a new habit, but this year it's gotten worse because my work bestie has been getting me out of the house plenty! I've given it back up easily cause it was so poisonous, but that's cause I've been away from smokers in general for some time. I need to get back into chewing a ton of gum. I need to become gum girl again

16. Post a picture from the beginning of the year

17. Post a picture from the end of the year

18. A memorable meal this year?

Gawd damn my friend cooked for us one time in April, and he made mashed potatoes with meatballs and sauce. It was all so damn good, it tasted like cartoon food. It tasted like the word "food". I kinda miss his cooked food, I'm not gonna lie. My stuff comes out so dry and sad, and his stuff is always so rich and filling.

19. What’re you excited about for next year?

Seeing my grandma again, maybe getting a nose piercing, traveling, the beach, my friends, those last 3 things combined (or maybe just my boyfriend, that's fine too)

20. What’s something you learned this year?

I find it hard to pinpoint a specific thing I learned this year, but I think I remembered and realized more things about my past, which is maybe ironic and counterintuitive. That includes my family's past, my past in relation to other people, I've managed to sharpen the lens of the past even more than I could before. And it's constantly mesmerizing and ridiculous at the same time, it makes me feel like Shauna playing with Jackie's frozen corpse, trying to breathe some life into something that's already dead

21. What’s something new about your place of residence (room, home, or general location) now vs the start of the year?

I have this new comforter that really cozies up my bedroom and I even started paying more attention to my bed (making it more carefully, not leaving it unmade for too long, matching the fabrics and stuff as best as I can) ever since I got it. And I also got these colorful lights hanging above my bed, my mirror, and my bedroom door that I put up "for christmas" (they're halloween-themed but whatever, I wanted lights in my room) that I'm definitely keeping up.

22. Favorite place you visited this year?

My bf, friend, and I went on a really long walk one day this year; we walked through the cemetery and then kept on walking further around the neighborhood. It was a long adventure and it tired us out but such a nice day together, we got soda and candy afterwards and walked back home. I miss having days like that

23. If you could send a message to yourself back on the first day of the year, what would it be?

I'd warn myself to not dye my hair in the summer, that orangey shit was really hard to cover up and even though I rocked that look I'd have felt much more comfortable with a different shade. Also plan the holiday better, and I have my reasons to say that

24. Did you keep any New Year’s Resolutions?

I didn't have any, BUT I started doing yoga this year, a bit more consistently than last year's workout attempts. And I'm proud of that because it makes me feel really good when I do have the energy for it

25. Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year? Describe one

None that aren't based on real people and that I didn't have before lol

[hisaribi]

Dick had a plan, a plan that worked. Unfortunately, it worked better, than he expected. He needed a balance between all the powers in Blüdhaven. He wasn't idealistic enough to think he could rid the city of the crime, but he had a plan to reduce it to the less bloodthirsty levels. And if it meant eraducating one band that wanted everything to let the band which is fine with talking — that's fine by him.

Well, eraducating wasn't really a right word, more like put them in prison or use Wayne industry to find a job for them, support some underground hospitals that didn't ask questions and treated everyone evenly, and overall increasing the life expectancy. Not by himself, just by protecting some activists and politicians who wanted this better future for the city.

Because he knew that fighting every night to get rogues out was more of a Gotham thing, Blüdhaven didn't have this level of crazy, just your usual gangs, mafias and whatever.

During his interview to get to the police force, to get rid of bad seeds he needed to trail the ground, which was to find enough evidence to rid of as much corrupt cops or at least make them scared enough to take big bribes. Small bribes like not giving a ticket for speeding were somewhat fine in Dick's book, even though they might lead to bigger ones, but it was a lesser evil. So during his interview he heard a Romanian accent, an older woman dressed in bright colors and long dress was trying to explain something to the officer, who kept telling he didn't understand her. So Dick stepped away from the waiting table and came close.

"Auntie, what's the matter?" he asked, and he knew his Romanian wasn't polished, he didn't have a chance to speak it in the last twelve or so years, so he knew it was probably on the right years old level.

"Oh, thank God," she said. She used a different type of the dialect, but Dick knew enough to get by. "I came here for my daughter, she got arrested, and I brought money."

"What's her name? I mean the one they most likely took her in with."

Eugenia Gracheva. Dick retold everything to the officer, who looked at him with disdain.

"She's a whore, you know?" The officer said, not even moving to do anything.

"Well, and the lady here said she brought a bailout money, so who cares, right?" Dick smiled. Of course he was more than aware. He also knew the auntie here inew English better, than she let it out. But also he knew the officer wanted a bribe, and this sort of bribes wasn't ok in Dick's book.

The officer huffed and went into the bailout, Dick smiled at the Lady again and went to the office, as he was called in. The boss said, he might be lost his chance at being an officer, if his score at the academy wasn't that high. And yet, he was sent to one of the balcan quorter to patrol, which was considered a bad luck and one of the most lawless places in Blüdhaven. Mostly because nobody really trusted the police, so he didn't actually expect much work, as he still had his night shift as Nightwing, and also well, it helped that he would be there during the day, to get hold of the district.

Auntie came to him, calling him officer Grayson, she was nice, asking your usual questions, which Dick answered as honestly as he could without letting a lot of personal details out. His partner wasn't very happy about it, probably thinking he would easily be bribed if anything happens, he was one of a few honest cops in the local force, so Dick hoped they won't get I to a lot of arguments.

What Dick didn't learn until much later was that she was some sort of a Godmother to the local mafia family. And that he sort of got their protection while being the officer Grayson.

Stupid Crack au that makes zero sense:

Accidental mob/crime boss Dick au.

Makes no sense I know but it'd be Very funny. Like wasn't he close to(?) A mob boss and his family at some point? Imagine he inherits everything overnight bc he was THAT liked and Dick is just panicking abt it

I don't have more thoughts but I could totally see him doing his best to use it for good, and knowing him he'd absolutely find a way lmfao

[idk about him being close to a mob boss in canon, but let's work with that idea ^^]

Dick is intelligent and trained in detective work. He's very proficient at noticing facts others miss, observing a room, and piecing together clues. He's no slouch... when he knows he's working a case.

He's a Bat. He's paranoid and constantly on guard... but he can't always be detecting 100% of the time. That's exhausting and a waste of energy (especially when his detective skills end up pinging shit like "this coffee was made approximately 6 hours ago" whenever he picks up the coffee pot at work).

So, at first, he doesn't notice that a group of people are following his every directions a little too well. He merely attributes the ex-mafia members' change in heart to his ability to charm/help/convince people. If they aren't selling drugs, kidnapping people, murdering, etc. anymore, then that's good!

Sure. They call him Boss. But that's a common address/compliment from other guys! It's fine.

[Basically, Dick is in denial trying desperately to convince himself that he's not a mafia boss until his detective side can't ignore the facts anymore. He then freaks the fuck out (and also brags like hell to Jason because Dick is a *mafia* leader and not a drug lord)]