#and even when I do it’s a bunch of stupid shit

[himbo-kuto]

the tv was playing in the background as you were mindlessly scrolling on your phone. it was a lazy sunday afternoon in skyhaven and you and caleb decided to spend the day doing nothing. he had been twirling the ends of your hair around his finger for who knows how long at this point, half listening to what you had put on earlier. he was just happy to be in your presence. 

you left out a huff as you locked your phone and looked up at him from his lap. 

“done scrolling?” you were silent as you turned toward him, crossing your arms soon after. your eyes scanned his face, down his neck, shoulders, chest and finally your gaze settled on his arms. he was wearing one of those muscle tees with the sleeves cut off and as much as you tried to help yourself, you always caught yourself looking. caleb may be a fool for you, but he was no fool when it came to you. he bought a bunch of shirts just to rip the sleeves off of them in hopes he would catch you looking at his arms again.

“like what you see?” he leaned in closer to you, a shit eating grin dancing on his lips for catching you in the act. you immediately averted your eyes, but your reddened cheeks were a dead give away. 

“shut up..” he took your chin between your fingers, tilting upwards to catch your lips in a chaste kiss. 

“you can look all you want, honey. they’re all yours” you stuck your tongue out at him, glancing over to his arms once again and before you could even think, you leaned over and gave his bicep a big old bite. he yelped in surprise, but laughed as he looked down at you. 

“what are you doing! get off of me!” you quickly sat up and straddled his lap as you began to give his arms little love bites. his arms were soft, squishy and some might describe as… beefy. 

“they’re just so yummy looking, I have to give them a little nibble!” you continued your antics, laughing out loud as you moved up to his neck and shoulders. caleb was over the moon as he laughed along with you. he missed these moments with you– just being stupid with your laughter filling up the room.

he managed to grab your hips, pushing them back so you were sitting on his lap. you took it as your sign to stop. you wiped the stray tears from your eyes from laughing too hard before your vision cleared and when your gaze met his, you swear you felt your heart skip a beat. his cheeks were slightly flushed, hair disheveled, the quickened rise and fall of his chest– when you two were teens and he had the same look whenever you decided to mess with him. 

you took his cheeks within the palms of your hands and shifted his gaze onto yours. moments like these came and went when you were with him. moments when you would think about how you spent those grueling months after his alleged death, how you never thought you were going to see him again, but here he was, in the flesh. your thumbs stroked his cheeks gently, feeling the texture of his skin from the explosion. he was insecure about it, but it was one of things that reminded you that he was real and you loved him even more for it. there was a shift in his expression, one of innocent curiosity. 

“what is it?” you didn’t speak, you just continued to gaze on to his features.  it was only after you scanned his whole face that you gazed into his eyes, running your fingers through his hair to fix the mess you had made of it. his eyes closed instinctively, relishing in your touch. 

“nothing. i’m just really glad that you’re here is all.” you placed a small kiss onto his forehead before leaning your forehead against his. it was your turn to close your eyes. you could feel how his arms held you safely within his embrace and how his hands were steady on your hips. he prided himself on keeping you safe, and you knew it too.

god, how could he have been away from you for so long? he gave your hips a gentle squeeze as his eyes partially opened to see your face. your expression was calm and vulnerable, almost how you looked like when you sleep.. his arms reached up to your back, pulling you in for a longing embrace. 

if caleb could absorb you he would, wanting to absolve any distance between the two of you. he breathed in the scent of your shampoo that smelled faintly of apples he buried his face into your neck. a shudder went down your spine, reciprocating the same amount of intensity. you tried pulling him as close as humanly possible to your chest, you could feel the heat that was radiating off his body. you cradled his head against your cheek, carding your fingers through his dark locks once again before placing a kiss onto his temple.

you finally felt him relax into your embrace, his breathing slowed. it took a lot for caleb to fully relax, especially when he was so used to being on high alert. you’re sure what he has been through in the past couple of months couldn’t have made that easy for him. so you were just going to hold him until he tells you to let go. he listened to the faint sound of your heart beat; you were here and you were real. almost like you were reading his mind, you smile softly as you look down at his calm figure.

“you don’t have to worry anymore caleb, im here and i’m not going anywhere.” 

🎤 hello is this thing on? crazy how it's been 3 years since i've last posted, but IM BACK KINDA? i really want to get into writing again this year and sO this is my introduction back into that!! i hope y'all enjoy this caleb fluff and here's to more!!!

[wynsummers]

felt like combining two of my biggest interests so this is my ranking of buffy characters by how much they would enjoy the rocky horror picture show

honorable mention - anya. i can't decide if anya would love or hate rocky. the more chaos-loving anyanka side of her would have a lot of fun with it, but i think she might also hate the idea of going to see a movie only to have it talked over by a bunch of hecklers. especially if she went to a theater where they throw/spray props. so i guess it would depend on whether she went to a showing for the experience or the film itself.

9. angel would walk in, sit in the back row, stare with an intense face at the screen for the entire hour and forty minutes of the film and then stand up and leave without saying a word. he would never come back.

8. xander - xander would enjoy rocky for all of the wrong reasons. he is the cishet man who only goes to see the lingerie-clad women. i've met so many xanders in my time. they always have that smug laugh when someone tries to interact with them, but they're too cool to do anything that they can't use to (attempt to) impress a woman

7. cordelia - i don't think rocky is really cordy's scene, no disrespect intended. i think she could have a good time but some of the more extreme traditions might put her off (especially if someone threw/sprayed something at her, i think she would hate that). she would look at it as that fun thing she did once, probably because someone invited her. that being said, though, if she ended up in a shadowcast, she would put her entire heart and soul into playing janet.

6. oz - i can't explain it but oz is both too cool not to be at rocky and too cool to be at rocky. like, oz has been going to rocky every week for two years but the scoobies only find out when they go as a group and everyone in the theater knows him already. i don't think he's ever said a callback in his life but he definitely has a bunch of them memorized

5. buffy - ok now hear me out. buffy needs something like rocky in her life. she needs a place where she can unwind, yell loudly, dance around, and just have fun. i don't think she'd be super into it right away, but i don't think it would take long for her to get into the rhythm of it. i can't see her going so far as to be in a shadowcast, but i can totally see her being a frequent audience member who tells all of her friends about this awesome thing she found

4. tara - listen, tara is a lesbian witch in college. rocky was made for her. season 4 tara is too shy to participate, but i can see it being a place she returns to a lot, and season 6 tara is definitely in the front row of the theater every friday gleefully yelling at the screen. she might even dress up as janet or magenta (shoutout amber benson for performing toucha touch me)

3. willow - this may be controversial, since early seasons willow is kind of reserved and seems like she would be really overwhelmed by rocky. but often that's the exact kind of person who thrives in rocky the most because it gives them a chance to come out of their shell. at her first show, she probably wouldn't participate at all, but something would compel her to come back, and slowly but surely, she'd start doing more. cut to a few months later and she's going full vampire willow in a theater full of people. i think later seasons willow wouldn't have as difficult of a time at first but i still don't think she'd get into it right away. but once she got it, she'd be a regular for life

2. spike - i think spike has been going to the shows for a long time; it's definitely his scene. it wouldn't surprise me if he invented some of the callbacks. yelling stupid snarky shit at a movie screen is so him. i don't know if i can see him dressing up as a character though.

giles - obviously. fucking obviously. in his ripper days he was frank at his local theater and he still goes to the shows all the time. maybe on special occasions they bring him back as frank for a special show. it wouldn't surprise me if he saw the rocky horror show before it was a movie. if buffy and the scoobies found out about his double life they would faint. (if you haven't seen anthony head as frank, do yourself a favor and look it up)

[dapper-lil-arts]

Do you have any unpopular opinions about mlp fim? For instance, "Newbie Dash" is probably my favorite Rainbow Dash episode since I think it's the only episode that actually had her suffer some consequences due to her own hubris.

Oh, I have a few. For one I think Fluttercord as a concept is misogynistic as hell and a huge disservice to Fluttershy's character if not downright fuckin creepy. I used to be neutral on the ship but it's only gotten worse and worse with time. Another is just. I don't think Starlight Glimmer shoulda gotten all that screentime. I like a lot of the eps shes in, especially with Trixie, but I really didn't need her to be permeating through so much, feels like a strange self insert

One more for the road: I think the finale is kind of awful on a thematic and lore level. Like, emotionally wise, they reach all the high notes they could have ever wanted off the show, thats for sure, but like;

1 - I'm ideologically opposed to the idea that Cozy Glow is an irredeemable monster that belongs turned to stone or in tartarus. she's a fucking child and the writers think she's irredeemable. 2 - Generally Chrysalis Cozy and Tyrek are all a weird choice for ultimate trio for final bosses. Any of them have been their own world ending threats, I woulda preffered something new. Hell, I still think the mean 6 or at least anti Twilight coulda been a more interesting finale.

3 - If racism is THAT easy to bring back, then clearly theres an enormous systemic problem with all of the goddamn society, and oh, look at that, bc of g5, canonically we know that Equestria falls, and bc of the comics we know it falls on the lifetimes of the main 6. It's almost genious foreshadowing, how much Twilight's kingdom was built ona house of cards tbh.

4 - Celestia and Luna lose to Cozy Glow. Cozy Glow, a child alicorn, 1 v 2s them. That's unforgivable, insane, really fucking stupid.

5 - If the solution is friendship power, just like it has always fucking been, then why wasn't it the first choice to deal with the fucking problem, at this point the 38 minutes that build up to 'oh shit my friends are my power' feels completely superfluous man. Its lazy

6 - The final problem has that vibe of JKRs 'all was well' thing that glosses over some major damn problems, and well, considering the canon, even when i watched the first time I couldn't help but think I was watching a bunch of naive ass ponies trying to enjoy their final years together before Equestria fell to the damn brink. It's more bitter than sweet. Twilight Sparkle will watch all her friends die of old age hooray...!

[spidermans-l-o-v-e-r]

Strawberries and Cream

Pairing: Eddie Diaz x Reader

Notes: I’m literally doing this all from my iPad mini, including editing so you know I’m sorry if it’s TRASH. I’m so glad to finally put this out! 😀😀😀 15 is uhhh slow goin! But I’m workin on it!!! Please understand I am now on my phone editing this while walking the dog

Chapter 13: Criminal Minds

Tommy doesn’t even try to stop you as you go running to the trailer, he just jogs alongside you. You rip the door open and run in and Eddie grabs your waist, Athena mutes the line

“What the hell do you think you’re doing?!”

“It’s him, Eddie it’s him” Your hands are shaking and he turns you in his arms

“Who??”

“The man from the club. The one you guys beat up??? He’s got Buck”

“What the hell???”

“Hi Y/N, glad to see you’re awake” you hear over the phone and you cling to Eddie

“You don’t have eyes on me, but I have them on you. My name is Nero, it’s nice to make your acquaintance, now, if you’ll unmute me. I want Eddie”

You rush over and hit the unmute button and Athena pulls you back

“What do you want him for?!” You yell and he laughs evilly

“That was actually really good” you hear over the line and Eddie face palms

“Buck!! Buck, are you okay??” You cry and Athena glares at Eddie. He grabs your waist, pulling you back against his chest

“I’m fi-“You hear a smash and your blood runs cold

“I let him have his compliment, my dear Evan. I thank you for that. But let’s get down to business. You bring me, Eddie, I let him go. Simple as that”

“That’s stupid!! Why do you even want them!” You say and you can hear the eye roll.

“Oh, honey. Could it be that they possibly beat the shit out of me and humiliated me???”

“Because you were being a total creep!! To like, a bunch of women!! They had every right to kick your ass!! It’s your fault I ended up in that stupid coma!!”

“Technically, the anesthesia was the reason. That’s right, I know things. I was on drugs, Y/N I didn’t mean it”

“Am I supposed to care?! You did shitty things drugs or not and you got your ass whooped for it. Just take the L and leave my family alone!”

“I just wanted to dance with you, I just wanted one fucking dance”

“This is gonna sound so stupid, but you could have asked.”

“Right, right, with your three, six fucking foot bodyguards on you at all times”

“6’2” Tommy interrupts him

“Is this really the time” Eddie whispers, sounding completely exasperated and Athena whacks Tommy in the chest

“If you know me so well? You should know the kind of person that I am! And had you just asked, and just been nice?? I would have said yes and I would have asked them to leave us alone as long as you were respectful”

“Are we really arguing with this man right now?” Athena says under her breath and Nero sighs

“You’re such a fucking Buckley. Do all of you have to be this stubborn?”

“Well, when you’re doing something stupid!! Now give him back!!!”

“No? I’m not- I’m not just gonna give him back because you asked??”

“What if I asked nicely? Can you please give us Buck back?”

“Are- are you shitting me?”

“Well??” You throw your hands in the air “I asked nicely!!!”

“Y/N?? I’m a bad guy??? Bad guys don’t just give in because you fucking ask nicely?!?!!”

“Well you didn’t have to be so rude about it” You scoff and he groans loudly

“Jesus. Sorry?? Happy?? Now can you please just fucking send Diaz in so we can get this over with??? He and I have a walk to go on”

“No!!!” You yell

“Okay. Say goodbye to your cousin”

You hear a gun cock and you freeze

“Make the fucking decision Y/N”

“No, no wait! Wait, I'll come in!” Eddie yells and you look back at him like he’s grown six heads

“What?!”

“Just send him out, and I’ll trade places with him okay please”

“Eddie??” Your voice cracks and he starts to take off his gear

“See? That's what I’m talking about! He’ll be out back, Tommy you might wanna get him he’s heavy as fuck when he’s knocked out”

“No. No no no this is stupid no, we can work something out” You try to fight Eddie’s gear back on and he shakes his head, taking your hands in his”

“I can save you and Buck, baby. You don’t have to make the decision, I’m making it for you”

“That is so romantic” Nero sighs as you hear him dragging Buck. “Don’t get any ideas either, I’ll tell you when Buck is ready”

“Please no no please no” You sob and Eddie holds you “ It’s gonna be okay, I promise you it’ll be okay. We’ll be okay”

Nero gives the go-ahead for Tommy and he and Eddie walk out, Athena has to pry you off of him as you scream at him to come back. She fully does not agree to this but she can’t stop him, he’ll go in there no matter what. He takes a hidden camera with him, giving you one last kiss before he leaves the trailer

“Isn’t this fun?” Nero says, leaning against the door as he watches Tommy and Eddie approach “I’m surprised she let you come” He’s got two guns, trained on both Eddie and Tommy

“Take him and leave. Mr. Diaz?” He steps aside and Eddie sighs, looking at Tommy

“Take care of them, please”

“Well, I'll be damned” Nero laughs as they hear shouting behind them. You’re running straight for them, and Eddie curses loudly

“Are you shitting me!” Tommy yells as he lets Buck go and tries to catch you. You slip right through his arms, running for Eddie

“Don’t you fucking dare!” He yells at you, and you dive at the door, tumbling in. Nero shrugs and slams the door shut. Locking it tight while Eddie slams his body against it

“No! No, we had a fucking deal! You give her back!”

“The deals changed! And you keep trying to break that down, your precious little girlfriend is going to be full of lead!”

The banging stops as you pant wildly, sprawled out on the floor

“I’m okay Eddie! Just trust me!” You call out and Nero raises his gun to you, you recoil but the hit never comes

“Shut up” he hisses, dragging you to your feet and tossing you into a scorched chair

“You’re so fucking lucky I think you’re pretty or I would have pistol whipped your ass. What were you thinking?! I said I wanted Eddie! Why did you come?!”

“Because I love him. And I love Buck and Tommy, and I can’t let you hurt them”

“How noble”

“Are bullets really made of lead?” You ask and he looks at you, then looks at the gun, turning his wrist over

“I mean yeah, and like a bunch of other stuff… why?”

“I don’t know,” you shrug “Just always kinda wondered”

“I mean do you want me to Google it?”

“Yeah why not”

“Are you two actually doing this right now?!!” You hear Eddie through the phone speaker and Nero rolls his eyes

“It’s a good fucking question??”

He sits on the floor next to you, setting one of the guns down and keeping the other on you as he starts googling

“Can we please discuss getting Y/N back?” Athena sounds tired and she’s got every right

“Yeah… yeah just give me a second. Hold this” he switches the safety on and hands you the gun and your eyes widen

“I know you don’t know how to turn it off. I need both hands”

“He did not just hand you the gun,” Tommy says

“He did”

“Okay it says here, Bullets can be made from a variety of materials, including metals, plastics, and rubber, and their construction depends on their intended use”

“What’s your intended use?” You ask and he shrugs, taking the gun back

“Murder.”

“Oh! That's…that’s so nice! H-hopefully you bought the right ones…”

“I’m sure I did” He pats your head lovingly and Eddie groans loudly

“Great! We found out what bullets are made of!! Can we please have Y/N back??”

“We discussed this”

“Just cause you say it nicely doesn’t mean he’s gonna give me back,” You say and he coos at you

“That’s my girl! Look, Eddie! She’s learning!!”

“What do you really want?” You ask, looking him over and he shrugs

“How about, not getting my ass kicked in the middle of the club and then thrown out into the fucking alley where I got my wallet stolen! Oh yeah!! And my fucking identity!! I’ve literally been ruined”

“This sounds like a you problem” Buck groans softly and you perk up

“Buck?? Buck is that you? Are you okay?”

“My head hurts” He whines and Nero rolls his eyes

“I barely hit you”

“You pistol-whipped me three times!! I’ve got a freaking concussion!!”

“How would you know” He scoffs and Buck nearly jumps through the phone to strangle him

“Can we please get back on track!” Athena yells at all of you and you look and Nero

“I think you can listen to that one,” You say and he nods along

“You’re right. Anyway, I don’t need Eddie anymore… I’ve got something better. So we’re just going to be on our way..”

He stands up and holds out his hand and you hesitate, before taking it. He pulls you up flush against his chest and you narrow your eyes

“You know if you weren’t a psychopath, I’d probably think that move was hot”

“Hey!” Eddie yells

“He’s attractive!! Under you know, all the fucking crazy!!”

“I’m going to take that as a compliment” He growls, yanking you tighter against him

“Let’s fucking go”

“How are you planning on getting out of here??” You ask and he grins widely

“You really think I didn’t have an exit strategy?”

“I mean I don’t know you so…”

You can hear Eddie yelling as he hangs up, taking your hand and leading you over to a set of stairs

“Better fuckin hurry before your boyfriend and Hulk Jr come breaking down the door”

You run down the stairs, tripping over your shoes and he groans

“You had to wear the damn platforms”

“Why do you even know what shoes I have?!” You ask as he drags you behind him down a damp corridor, it’s not very well-lit and you wonder where the hell he’s taking you.

“Because Y/N it took me a long damn time to plan this?? And I’m not going to fuck it up by not knowing your every move. I thought Eddie’s idea to take you to that house last week was very romantic by the way”

You freeze in your tracks and he turns back

“You- you were there?”

He listens for a moment, to see if someone has caught on and sighs.

“I didn’t stick around. I’d planned to grab Eddie, that night. But… you guys were so happy-“

“So why would you break us up now?”

“I don’t want to talk about this. Get moving”

You run along silently for a while until you come to a fork, he stops for a second, tossing you to the floor to let you rest and you cross your arms over your chest, pulling your knees up

“If you tell me you don’t know which way to go I’m gonna laugh at you,” You say, letting your head fall back and he sneers at you

“Of course, I know which way to go, I’m so sorry I wanted you to have a break”

“I’m just saying, it’s gonna be really funny if we have to turn around.”

“You know you’re really damn chipper for having been kidnapped”

“What do you want me to do?? Be a sniveling, crying mess??? That’s not going to solve my problem of getting away from you before you kill me!”

He looks at you for a minute, narrowing his eyes before shaking his head and sitting down across from you

“Are you hungry?”

“Are you joking?”

“Fine, be hungry see if I give a fuck” He pulls out a bag of pretzels from his pocket and pops one in his mouth

“I can’t accept random food from a psychopath sorry,” you say and he rolls his eyes

“And here I thought it was because of the peanut allergy”

Your mouth drops open and he winks “I told you I know all about you sweetheart”

It’s quiet for a few minutes before he sighs, letting his head fall against the wall behind him.

“I am sorry. For the way, I danced with you… I- I was on drugs and I know that’s not an excuse. I know it’s not… but it’s the reason and, I don’t know. I’m not usually like that” he chuckles awkwardly, rubbing the back of his neck “I’m sorry”

You look at him, your eyes narrowing. You can tell he means this apology. He’s threatened to murder you… and yet he’s apologizing for grinding on you.

“Are you seriously doing this because you got your identity stolen? It just…. Feels deeper than that”

He looks at you, offering you the bag of pretzels and you gingerly take it, popping one in your mouth too. He wouldn’t eat them if they were laced

“Have you ever heard the name Aurora Din?”

Eddie is beside himself. If he could rip out his hair he would, if he could blow up that entire damn tunnel system just to find you he would.

The transmitter you swiped has gotten weaker the further you go but it’s still slowly moving along, although it’s a bit laggy. They’re watching your little dot, just chillin' there.

“Did they stop?” Buck asks, holding an ice pack to his head as Tommy wipes up his lip

“It looks like it” Athena sighs. As soon as Nero hung up she’d had to tell Eddie the entire plan you’d come up with. You’d trade places with him, having a transmitter hidden in your shoe and they’d be following it and Eddie screamed about what a shitty plan that was and how could they possibly go through with it

He apologized immediately after Athena gave him the look

“Look we’ve called in back up and everyone is searching the best thing you can do is-“

“If you tell us to go home,” Buck says and she puts her hands on her hips

“Pair up with Officers Nolan and Juarez. I know you’re not going anywhere. But I need to know I can trust the three of you, I need to know that the three of you will work with them, not against them.”

“We promise, Mom” Buck sighs, rubbing his head

Eddie hugs Athena, holding her tightly “I-I’m sorry. I know you’re doing your best… I promise we’ll be good”

She hugs him back, patting his back and kissing his forehead

“I know you will baby” Her voice breaks as she pulls away from Eddie

“Alright, they’re outside waiting for you. Let’s go find her”

Officer Juarez is very excited to see Eddie again, and even under the circumstances he can’t help but chuckle a little with her as they walk along the tunnels with flashlights. Your tracker started moving again not too long ago, faster this time.

“It seems like this Nero guy hasn’t had the best last year or so” John reads the report from his phone

“His girlfriend died in a bad accident…”

“Am I supposed to be sympathetic? He kidnapped mine” Eddie says, stepping over a plastic baggy

“Her name was Aurora Din” He reads off “Huh she would have been the same age as Y/N… same hair color too”

“Let me see that” Eddie reaches over for the phone and Buck and Celina crowd around it. They look over Nero’s profile and Eddie looks over at John

“Do you have anything on Aurora?”

“Yup right here” Celina clicks through a few things and Eddie starts reading

“Buck? Tommy??” He looks up and Tommy steps away a bit, holding his phone up

“I have no signal”

“Do you need to call someone??” Celina asks and Tommy nods

“We need to call Y/Ns Doctor, now”

Fifteen minutes later Joel Din arrives on the scene, they take him straight to the trailer and Athena radios John. John hands it over to Eddie

“Joel- Joel do you know a Nero??”

“You mean Nero Pike? He was going to be my son-in-law… that name is too rare not to know him. Why??”

“We think we know why he kidnapped Y/N” Buck says

“He did what?!” Joel has to sit down for a minute, Bobby offers him a cup of water and he downs it

“What the hell do you mean, he kidnapped her?! He would never do that!”

“Well, he did. He wasn’t after us at all, he knew she’d come running in headfirst” Eddie explains, running his hand through his hair

“He kidnapped her”

“Why the hell would he do that???”

“Oh I don’t know-“ Tommy says sarcastically “Because Y/N is a dead ringer for your daughter??”

“When you said that were similar, I didn’t know you meant that similar! They’re almost identical Joel, right down to the same color lipgloss!”

“Bet it’s the same brand too” Buck scoffs and Juarez snorts

“Okay. Okay. Yes. She’s…eerily similar to Aurora, that’s why I loved her so much Eddie. That’s why I couldn’t give up on her. Had I known Nero had seen her? I- I don’t know I would have talked to him. He’s not- he’s never been like this Eddie. I know he’s been off the deep end since her death but I didn’t know it was this bad. You have to believe me”

“Of course, I believe you” Eddie sighs

“Do you have any idea where he’d take her?” John asks and Joel sighs, holding his head in his hands

“There’s a cabin, they used to go to. I don’t know where it is but I know I can find out. I just need time”

“You might not have time,” Celina says and they all look at her. She shrugs awkwardly and Buck starts to fake strangle her. Tommy grabs his waist and pulls him away and she laughs

“Please, hurry” Eddie begs him “The tracker is starting to die again” he hands John back the radio and turns to the three of them

“My fucking girlfriends been abducted and you’re all joking around??”

“My cousin- no my sister has been abducted” Buck stands in front of him “She’s not just important to you Eddie. But if I don’t lighten the fuck up it’s not gonna be good alright?? If we don’t have some sort of levity to this shitty fucking situation I’m gonna lose it”

Eddie curses, smashing his flashlight against the wall and Buck cringes a little. Tommy comes over, putting his arm over Eddie’s shoulders

“Feel better?”

“Yeah… sorry about that” He picks up the smashed light and John shrugs

“Needed new batteries anyway”

Buck giggles and Eddie reaches out for him “Bring it in buddy. I’m sorry I was being such an asshole”

Buck hugs him tightly, sighing into his shoulder “We’re fighting the same battle, remember I’m in your corner”

“I know, I’m with you too man”

Celina looks over at Tommy and John as Eddie and Buck stand together, rubbing each other's backs

“I feel like we’re interrupting something”

“Are you sure he’s dating the right Buckley?” John asks

“You know sometimes I wonder that too”

“Oh come on!! Bros supporting bros!” Buck yells at them

“You don’t see me hugging Eddie like that!” Tommy throws his hands in the air and Buck lets go

“Do you want to hug Eddie like that???”

“I mean yeah! It seems nice!”

Eddie opens his arms, waving his hands “Come on buddy come and get it. You too” He points at John and John steps back

“No- no I'm fine it’s-“ Eddie hugs Tommy and they both bring John into a group hug and Celina laughs at them

“Oh, you’re not getting out of this!” Buck drags Celina in with them and puts her in the middle

“Is this always what it’s like to be Y/N??” She asks as they squish her between them

“Yup!!”

Nero lifts the grate cover climbs out and turns around to reach down for you. He pulls you up and replaces it carefully. You seem to have come out in some woodsy area

“So…what happened next?” You ask as he takes your hand, pulling you through the woods

He’d been telling you all about Aurora, his fiancee and Joel Din’s daughter. That was how he’d known so much about you, he snuck into the hospital, disguised as a nurse and had made copies of your charts. He found out the rest on his own, breaking into Buck and Eddie’s places, even into Maddie’s at one point. He’d left as soon as he found Jee-Yun and didn’t come back.

The last moments he’d spent with Aurora were jarring, to say the least.

“A drunk driver…took my world from me and everything I had to live for. I threw myself into drugs and drinking. The last words I ever heard my angel say… were “I love you”

He chokes up a little and you felt a pang of grief in your chest, nothing he’s doing is okay. It’ll never be okay, and you’ll get back to Eddie, you know you will.

But you can understand it.

“I was gonna go home, after doing one last line… call it a night… when I saw you.”

You look up at him, and he’s looking right back at you

“I’d thought I’d died. I thought that last line had killed me, not that I’d mind. But no, I heard Eddie call you Y/N and I knew you weren’t her… you know she even had that same dress? Fashion Nova right?”

“Yeah…”

“Yeah I thought so, I’d gotten it for her” He chuckles and shakes his head “I couldn’t breathe, I needed you. I still need you”

“I can’t replace her, Nero. No one can” you say quietly, watching your steps again and he keeps his eyes on you

“I'm not looking to replace her. I’m looking to make it easier”

“We could have been friends” You bite your lip, holding back tears and he shakes his head, going back to pulling you along

“I don’t want a friend. I want my life back. Now if you’d kindly shut up and keep up” he waves the gun and you glare at him

“Can you please put that thing away? I know you’re not going to hurt me, Nero”

“Says fucking who??” He scoffs

“You’d shoot Aurora?” You ask seriously and he stops again, staring at you. He glares because he knows he’s been found out. You could get away from him now, so he does what he has to do, he fires off a warning shot, it grazes the tip of your ear and you yelp

“Don’t you say her fucking name”

It’s quiet after that, very quiet. Your soft pants echo around you as you trudge through the forest behind him. He doesn’t turn to you, doesn’t say a word, he hardly even makes sure you’re keeping up.

“Nero?” You say softly “I-I need a break again”

It’s been at least an hour since he’d shot at you, you’re sure. You have no idea where the hell you two are going or how no one’s found you yet, you’re just praying the tracker is still working

He stops walking, sitting on a nearby log and points to the ground in front of you, he stops you before you sit down, handing you his jacket to sit on. You thank him quietly and sit down, stretching your legs out in front of you and letting your head fall back

“How much further?” You ask and he shrugs, looking at his watch. He won’t look at you anymore

“Nero?”

“Can you please shut up”

“I sound like her too, don’t I?”

You can’t beat em? Join 'em.

“Yes.” He deadpans and you nod slowly, looking away from him

“Do you want me to change my voice?” You ask in a weird deep voice and he snorts, shaking his head, unable to contain his chuckles

“Really?”

“How about this one?” You say in a weird stitch-type voice and he lets his head fall back as he laughs

“Jesus shut up Ari”

You both freeze, it’s like all of the air has been sucked from the space around you. He slowly tips his head back up and stares at you, his eyes are so lifeless, so… cold. You swallow thickly and he stands up, holding out his hand to you. You take it, this time he just pulls you up, not making any moves, not making any jokes. He doesn’t let go of your hand this time though, he just quietly leads you through the forest again.

You don’t bother him anymore after that, and that seems to calm him down, his grip on your hand doesn’t loosen though and you don’t blame him. Eventually, you come out to a road, there’s a car up ahead, it looks like it’s been sitting there all day with how covered in leaves it is. He comes up to the car, brushes off a few of the leaves and opens the door

“Get in”

You look at him, hesitating, and he shakes his head, reaching for your ear and you rear back. He glares and you slip past him, sitting in the passenger seat. He slams the door shut and you watch as he removes the leaves from the car, clearly, he’d done it himself to make it look abandoned had anyone come across it. He gets in a few minutes later, tossing his gun into your lap and putting his hands on the wheel

“We’ve got a long drive ahead of us. I’ve already got all your favorite snacks and drinks in the back. We’ll make a quick stop to go pee, and if you fucking try anything Y/N. I blow your entire family to pieces”

“What does that mean?” You turn to him and he starts the car

“It means there’s a bomb somewhere in the 118. And unless we make it to the cabin together? I’m going to set it off. It’s your choice whether I do or not. Now, how about some music?”

[godsoopsiewoopsie]

POV: Will Wood has an asthma attack while trying to talk about to many things at once and then skadoodles (?)

my mum bugged me into posting this

(it’ll probably rot in my drafts for ages)

(also i’m not sending the live stream to anyone so don’t ask. find it on youtube or tiktok or something idk i bet those guys probably have it somewhere)

[anneonomus]

pre-robin baby stalker tim as a streamer. that’s it that’s the post

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

men are so disappointing in so many ways i know i shouldn't expect most of them to be dignified humans but it's crazy. i need to get over this guy he's making my sense of self crumble even faster than it usually does. like he's just so unlike my usual type and i'm pretty convinced he's stupid and slutty and not discerning whatsoever. not to mention boring like i know even if i did have a chance with him he wouldn't Get Me at all so it's a bigger waste of time that usual and i'm actually pretty tired of men in general and definitely tired of parasocial relationships because they drive me insane for months typically. thankfully it's only been like 2 weeks if that at this point. idk. sigh. i know literally virtually nothing abt him as a person and ofc liking any public figure who you know nothing about is only setting yourself for heartbreak and disappointment to begin with bc you already know nothing is gonna come from it but. in a way it's almost addictive to become obsessed with someone and not be looked at with the same level of scrutiny. i don't think anyone in real life would ever try to get to know me as much as i try to get to know people who i'll never even meet. lmao! but that's the thing... idk... i have a lot of love in my heart and it consumes me and i reject my pride usually when i'm into someone. i want to know more... like VORACIOUSLY consuming anything with information about them involved simply because i think knowing someone is a very deep form of love but of course you can never truly know anyone. not completely. and that scares me i think which is why it's always probably been easier for me to never really TRY to be with anyone or have anything real. idk. this turned into me psychoanalyzing myself real quick but SOMEONE needs to bc i need to understand what the fuck is wrong w me.

[forcebookish]

i need a new strategy for like, cleaning my room and doing yoga and reading and leaving the house. the adhd has reached mythic levels of bad. i have the thought, "i should do X," and then i won't move. i make a to-do list and i won't do anything on it. i queue up a yoga practice and i won't do it. i stare at my room and get stressed out about how cluttered it is. i write 3000 words of notes for a fic i don't even know if i'm going to write. i think and i think and i think about my OCs and they won't let me write them. i spend hours looking at stuff i can't buy. i take like an hour to write this.

[springeneticist]

the pigeons who come to my window feeder cant decide whether they are hungry enough to not be scared of me yet ...

[horrorsequel]

i typed a huge post and it went to drafts but basically even ppl that like me r fatphobic to me and how do i escape that

[anaalnathrakhs]

it feels like another stupid fucking thing to get pressed about, since it's yknow, a normal thing and i'm the only weirdo in the world who would like to do different, but it doesn't feel great that my parents just go around telling people about my school results and whereabouts and stuff? like my graduation exams went better than the notes i'd been getting during the year, so i was pretty happy with it, but yknow, grandma's congratulating me about specific exams scores even though i didn't tell her anything, my dad's friends and coworkers know, my mom's side of the family knows... one time we attended an event in a city where i briefly went to a boarding school for very specific and complex and personal reasons, and my dad just starts referencing AH YEAH THAT'S WHERE MY KID WENT TO THAT SCHOOL to his (famously nosy) friends right in front of me like. like it's nothing. and god i know it's not MY info i know i can't tell them to not talk about stuff to their friends, i try to act normal about it in the moment, but yknow. thinking back on it. it's not super easy to know that they KNOW they've been told and nothing will ever make them unhear it. that things that happened to ME, in MY life, are public fucking knowledge and tying me a little more to these people.

[pup-pee]

y does it feel so SO wrong 2 share ur opinion???

[orcelito]

Sasuke is Out! Sasuke is Doing things! What will Sasuke do?! I have no idea!!! I've never gotten this far in the story before, so I have no idea how things are going from here!!!! But Sasuke is Loose!!!!!!

Quoting this post to myself as I see Sasuke walking around and doing things. I haven't seen this guy do anything in like a hundred episodes. It's so exciting

[schrodingersbabe]

would anyone understand if i said this is how i act think and feel at my completely (relatively) normal dishwashing job

[vilelittlecritter]

If I wasn't so busy all the damn time I'd do commissions, and also the fact I suck major ass at digital and don't have a printer/scanner.

One day, one day I'll steal people's money with mediocre art.

[toxicrants]

I literally glanced at the anti-natalism subreddit because I'm a single, child free woman turning 30 and reddit obviously has my number, but jesus christ, these people really type out full essays on how every suffering in your child's life is your fault and you'll have to live with yourself knowing all their failed marriages and bankruptcy are all your fault because you had the selfishness to want to procreate... I've never seen such neurotic dribble. They even said 'every skinned knee'.

Also, not to mention all the obvious incels who refer to women as breeders and think pregnancy is women 'being stupid bitches self-harming'. Hide yourself behind as much 'I don't want anymore children to suffer' bullshit as you want, but when the majority of your comments are about slagging off women, calling us stupid, calling us whores, calling us 'breeders' and insisting maternity leave and childcare shouldn't be a thing because it 'encourages women to be lazy whores who get fucked and paid' then you're just another incel sub by a different name.