#and how he hates him because he's old and has too many kids while poor or some shit 🤨 my guy he tried to SHOOT THE STORKS

[toonheartz]

its his special day everyone say happy birthday to him :]

[lxnarphase]

━ dear sukuna...♡

✷ synopsis .ᐟsome of my personal headcanons for heian era!sukuna ♡

✷ content .ᐟ heian era!sukuna x fem!reader, oc mention [nonromantic], fluff, teasing, name for sukuna's stomach mouth, sad childhood (poor kuna :<)

✷ lunar's note .ᐟ these are just a few headcanons ive wanted to share about heian sukuna but i have so many more that i will 100% make another one of these for this sukuna AND different sukuna's, like fratboy!kuna, modern!sukuna, jujutsu high teacher!kuna, etc. whatever other aus i think of !! i hope u guys like my silly lil thoughts :33

sukuna was abandoned by his mother and father at a young age as his more monstrous features began to develop. the village he was born into grew to despite him as a young boy, blaming any misfortune on his existence. it got to a point that they figured the only way to get rid of the bad luck in the village was to kill him. before this, a sorcerer woman named chiyo, quickly got him to safety and cared for him as he grew older.

during his childhood, sukuna nearly burned down an entire forest trying to learn how to use divine flame. he hasn't told anyone beause he still gets overly embarrassed when he thinks about how badly he fucked up.

during his time with chiyo, sukuna met uraume. he practically dragged uraume home and simply said "this one can cook. they are staying" and chiyo just sighed and accepted it. he always seemed to have a thing for strays.

when chiyo became older, she became extremely sick and ended up passing. because of the bond he formed with her, sukuna couldn't accept her death and ended up transforming her into a curse. instead of being monstrous, however, chiyo is relatively human looking...but now just an old lady who huffs playfully at sukuna for not letting her sleep.

while he does have concubines, sukuna wants a wife who can keep up with him. yes, being gifted the finest women is a pleasure and fuels his ego, but he wants to ensure the person he marries checks all the boxes. no one knows him best except himself, after all

if any concubine or servant is caught speaking ill of his wife, uraume, or chiyo, sukuna will not hesitate to kill them. after all, he selected them to be the closest people in his life. if someone questions his decisions, they have no worth to him.

sukuna gets extremely grumpy whenever you get sick because he just. cannot figure out how to take care of you without being too overbearing or accidentally calling you weak. yes, he's one of the most powerful sorcerers to walk the earth, but seeing you sweat from a fever makes him feel weak and he projects a little bit.

sukuna's stomach mouth was playfully named 'mokuna', or 'moku for short, by chiyo as a combination of mouth and sukuna. he swears up and down he hates the name, but the mouth on his abdomen can't help but grin and grumble happily when it's referred to by a name.

he will never admit it, but sukuna has a massive sweet tooth. yes, he will steal candy from a baby, he does not care. if it smells sweet and makes his mouth water, he wants it.

sometimes, when sukuna is sleeping, moku will still be 'awake' and will try to communicate with you. it can't speak verbal words very well, but it's so expressive that you find it relatively easy to figure out what it's trying to say.

sukuna is a shitty liar when moku is visible because if he tries to act grumpy and upset at the sweet cooing and petting your giving him, mokuna is practically purring, giving you a little lick on whatever part of you it can reach. it's so fucking cute too when he tries to hide the pink tinge on his ears

sukuna LOVES water, he loves soaking in the onsen for hours, loves swimming in large ponds and lakes. he turns into a little kid when he seems a big lake with crystalline water and will not hesitate to stop everything he's doing to drag you into the water with him

when he sleeps, sukuna will purr a little if he's having a good dream...if you get lucky, you might catch mokuna awake, trying not to laugh at it's host acting like a kitten in his sleep.

sukuna very rarely has nightmares, but occasionally will have short but vivid dreams about his childhood. he will never admit they bother him, but you know something is up when you feel him playing with your hair in the middle of the night. you let him have his moment, pretending to be asleep against his chest as he busies himself with your hair to distract his mind.

uraume and chiyo are the biggest gossips when put together, and while sukuna does his best to act as thought he thinks gossip is pointless, he's always listening attentively when they get to talking. "the new servant was caught sleeping with the local seamstress' husband? how whorish of him...was he the top or bottom?"

sukuna really, really, really likes seeing you in gold. if he could, he'd stare at you all day, in nothing but gold and jewels on the bed, looking like his little gold hoard as if he's some kind of dragon. if he wasn't so jealous, he'd have you like this publicly so everyone would know what a goddess would look like. but, he knows he'd violently maul anyone who sees you naked...that's for him and him only.

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[icarusredwings]

Watching interviews from the olden days and finding gold.

Finding out that Hugh Jackman having to "be the alarm clock" for James Mcavoy and Micheal Fassbender because of how hung over they were is simply hilarious.

Also finding out that James slammed them into a Lexus (only doing 12 miles an hour) got thrown 10 feet, immediately got up and looked back to see Micheal (who was once on the back of the golf cart) now sitting upright in the drivers seat after smacking his head on the seat and got a gash scar on his leg from it- Only to start "maniacally laughing" and literally RAN AWAY once blamed, Is also so young cherik coded.

These crack heads definitely were getting into some nonsense trouble.

Micheal saying he thought the scene from the strip club with charles and angel "I thought we looked like the two old men from the muppets"

Micheal calling the x men "Charlie- boy's kids". Perfection.

Also the way James looks at him when ever Micheal just bursts out into song is so pure. The "wow this idiot... thats my idiot." Glitter in his eye.

James finding out that Micheal isn't american by driving up to him on a vespa, and screaming at him in his normal voice is so funny.

"Fuck you erik-"

"His names derik."

"How long has he name been derik?"

"Since the begining- you just keep calling him that."

Even the bloopers of Hank and Charles are such a vibe.

"Hold your breath but make it look like you aren't holding your breath" Man these leather suits gave them so many problems fr.

"I already said im not a man. I cant jump this damn wall!" I think storm says as the director goes right up to hugh and is like "Litsen when I say so youre gonna jump this wall" and hughs like idk about that mate. "Ill be talking to you through the big microphone that everyone hates" says the director. "Were gonna take the batteries out if it" says someone else.

Hughs stunt double: *screams*

Hugh: Let it go sis

Hughs stunt double: *dies*

Something about how the directors talk to hugh and how hugh speaks directly to multiple set members makes me feel like half the cuts they had to make was because of him joking and being a silly theater kid LMAO

Everyone randomly dancing all the time, including old magneto.

James too. The blooper of him violently killing a bug on the chess set in the plane scene is so "insane charles" iconic.

Also poor Evan peters. He kept slipping everywhere. And theres so many shots where hes just standing there in charater getting absolutely soaked while charles and Logan do some ridiculous shit lol. Him at panels is so awkward too. Describe your character " hes a little weird uhhhh hes fast. Hes quick. He talks fast he runs fast..... uhhh its like at the atm waiting for the bastard infront of you to move out the way" "I wish my dad magneto could try these 😀" "thats my dad"

Evan also wishes they would have done the scene in apocalypse where he tells him hes his son and all the metal in the room drops. Im someone has written this already but that sounds great.

"THATS MY SON, QUICKSILVER!" Shouts Micheal multiple times. "My boy!" "Its in the genes darling." "I had him when I was very young 😁"

[beggars-opera]

Hey, so we don't talk enough about A Christmas Carol as being at least a little bit about not continuing a cycle of abuse and neglect, both against others and yourself.

In the book little Scrooge is left languishing over the holidays in a boarding school for some never-explained reason, but it is made very clear that this is miserable and unfair, and that his father is doing this on purpose. His sister specifically comes to tell him that "father is so much kinder now than he used to be, that home's like heaven." This also reflects a bit of Dickens's own childhood when his father went into debtor's prison and little Charlie was forced to support his family working full time in a shoe-blacking factory at the age of 12 (which is also why so many of his books seem to have a moral of "hey, kids are people too and maybe we shouldn't make them work in the mines.")

Whatever family reunion happened after didn't work out, because Scrooge continues believing that no one is coming to save him and pulling himself up by his bootstraps at the detriment of all other social relationships is the only way forward. And the more he lives by that philosophy, the more miserable he gets, because obviously he pushes away anyone who has that hope that he lost. They threaten to break down the walls he's built and teach him that a big pile of money doesn't have to be the only thing that he can rely on, if he'd just let himself be vulnerable and have a relationship with people who care about him, because they're out there even if he's ignoring them.

There is a certain type of person still very much out there who thinks this way. "I've never been happy in my life, so no one else has a right to be either. I was abused in my childhood so it's only fair that everyone else suffer as well." We see this in parents who still try to use corporal punishment, and in wealthy people who ignore the social factors keeping others down and scream that everyone else is just entitled, that only those who suffer and scrape deserve happiness. And they especially hate the people like Fred who represent the past that could have been, who have maintained hope for the future, and seem to be rubbing their optimism in your face, when in reality they're just maintaining hope because it's the only way you can survive.

It's so important for Scrooge to actually see the impact this thinking has on both himself and multiple generations. Rich people have this weird hangup about this story because they think Scrooge is bad because he's rich. He's not, he's bad because he's a horrible person and a miser - he doesn't use his money to better anything, including himself. Salting the earth, everyone suffers here, including him. And he learns that he's going to die old and alone without ever having spent or enjoyed his money, and that his family feels sorry for him, and that the nameless masses of poor people out there that he decries so much are in fact living, breathing people, including tiny disabled kids who don't deserve to suffer just because you decided life isn't fair.

In the end he takes responsibility for actually uplifting the people in the next generation who are trying to make the world a better place and no longer punching down, because it doesn't have to be this way. So many people out there just give up hope because things are hard and they think trying to improve things is a pointless exercise that makes them look dumb. How dare you grow a year older and not an hour richer! How dare you marry for love! That's the only thing more ridiculous than a Merry Christmas! When in reality, there are plenty of people who would love to see them happy if they just had a chance.

It's really sad that, while the language used to describe it has changed, these problems still persist. That people feel so wronged and isolated that they spend their days ensuring everyone else will be as well. That they fail to see their fellow humans as fellow humans who are just as deserving of love and kindness and a roof over their heads. I don't care what time of year it is, we should all be lifting each other up rather than tearing each other down.

[irisinluv]

Yandere Stardew Valley- Sebastian

I've been playing some Yandere Stardew mods recently. While I love them..... I feel like they do my husband (Sebastian) wrong. The citizens of Pelican Town are telling me that they can't hang out with me because Sebstian threatened them. That they've noticed some weird behavior. That he's physically violent. I disagree with all of these for Sebby.

He's our hot programmer boyfriend who lives in his basement bedroom, and only emerges to enjoy a smoke break, or to go see his friends. Now, while again, I do enjoy playing the mods...... I think his cannon behavior sets him up to be the perfect chronically online yandere. Pelican Town isn't exactly the most connected (6 out of the 11 rivals have access to a computer), but there's still potential. Obviously they're gonners if they have a computer. Sam finds himself doxed after making a comment about the gifts you gave him this week, and poor Haley's socials are blowing up with hate comments- from her personal insta to her photography blog.

But what about the other 5? The ones who are more disconnected? Well. It's easy enough to get Shane fired from joja. A little email to Morris from "HQ" saying he either fires Shane or his own pay gets docked..... well. Suddenly, everyone's favorite alcoholic doesn't even have a job anymore. Elliott suddenly has all these taxes he hasn't paid on his little shack..... beachfront properties cost a lot, you know. The parents stop letting Penny watch their kids after some..... explicit photos get leaked. It doesn't matter that they're edited. These people don't know about Photoshop. All they know is apparently Penny's making ends meet to support her mother..... and there's a new favorite subject to gossip on between all the older women. The other rivals are equally taken care of. All you need to focus on now is how Sebastian is the only reliable option in the whole damn town.

And he knows you so well, doesn't he? You, who lived away from it all until now. You, who WAS connected to the internet. Who had their entire life detailed through Facebook updates and Instagram posts. Honestly, Sebastian thinks that maybe he DOESN'T need to leave Pelican town... looking at the life you lived before coming to the valley, he thinks its much easier to keep you safe when he can control everything that goes on. There were too many factors to your old life. Too many parties to go to, coworkers to talk to, ex-boyfriends/girlfriends worry about. No. Sebastian thinks that city life isn't fit for the two of you to start you life together.

While he enjoyed seeing the trip down memory lane of who you were before becoming the farmer, and learning more about your likes and dislikes, he much prefers this version of you. The version of you who he found bouncing on their toes outside his door, excitedly shoving a frozen tear at him. Who eventually became the only person he was genuinely excited to have come barging into his room unannounced. And the thought of moving into the farm with you was all together far too tempting. He can picture it already. He'd set up a little area to work on his bike, he'd help out around the farm for you (he saw your hands covered in scrapes and splinters one day, and you sheepishly told him your fences had started wearing down.... but fixing a fence was another first for you. So you ended up scraping yourself up a bit on the old wood. Now, Sebastain, who, while he doesn't enjoy it, grew up with a carpenter mother..... well. He's going to make sure you never have that many splinters again.) Oh and he can already imagine it. The two of you, far away from the rest of the town, from prying eyes, no one to hear what you two would get up to as he helped you relax after a long day of working the feilds.....

This fantasy would sustain him until you eventually asked him to marry you. I don't think he would rush anything. To you, and the rest of the citizens, he was just normal Sebastian. Showing up for band practice, playing pool at the bar (although he seemed to play much better when a certain farmer came to watch). He just realized that the best way to control all the factors in town would be to remain anonymous. Avoid suspicion. After all. In a small town like that, it would be all too easy to turn against him if he decided to publicly threaten someone. And how would you react if you came to drop off some fresh sashimi to your boyfriend, only to find him being dragged out of his house by Clint, with Marlon standing nearby, ready to ship him off to face justice in the adventurers guild? No. That wouldn't do. He can't add any more stress to you like that. He'd remain the puppeteer, pulling the strings of the valley.

This isn't to say Sebastian never stalks you in person or anything like that. He can't help himself. He's a night owl. He knows the villagers schedules, has since before you even came to town. So, he knows he can get away with digging in the trash to find the straw you threw away at the bar. And if someone does hear him.... well. Linus is going to be everyone's first thought. He does, however, start adopting a stricter routine as far as monitoring your house after you mention how you sell your produce.

Sebastian was rightfully horrified when you explained that Mayor Lewis comes by your farm at night to collect anything you wish to sell. How it's such a relief to be able to just chuck things in the the bin as you're rushing to bed at 1:50 in the morning, only to get up first thing and start your day again, and not have to worry about lugging all your goods to the store. Sebastian won't criticize you for the lack of sleep..... no. That's not what's worrying. What's worrying is that this old man who has a gold statue of himself and who gets it on in the bushes with his secret girlfriend (of course Sebastian knows about that) is showing up to your house sometime after 2 am. His mind flashes back to his fantasy of the two of you, completely alone on the farm.... and then is mortified as this fantasy morphs into a nightmare where he looks up from bed with you, and sees Lewis' wrinkled face peering through the window. Yea. No. Sebastain installs some hidden cameras to make sure Lewis doesn't get up to anything funny while you're defenseless, asleep, alone..... ok he might need to get a new mayor elected. The old man might just have to go. Perhaps to a home outside the town. Regardless, he makes sure Lewis stops coming by as frequently. Frustratingly, he isn't able to completely stop it, but that'll be an easy fix once the two of you are married. He'll act surprised, "wow Lewis, that's so kind of you to help out the farmer all this time. But hey, don't worry, I'll take over. I'm up late anyways, and it's the least I can do!" But Sebastian still wakes up in a cold sweat and frantically rushes to check the cameras, making sure you're OK. That Lewis really is just checking the shipping bin.

Once y'all get married, he shows a bit more of that possessive side to you. But you chalk it up to just bedroom spicy time, and honestly find his hand tightening on your waist as Elliot asks you to read his latest poem hot.

Just. Yandere Sebastian brain rot.

[reticent-writer]

Hi Can I Ask for a Scenario of the Hashiras (Apart from Rengoku, Shinbou) With Their Father Figure Discovering They Are Blood Relatives and Being Their Real Father.

Which Was Separated From Them. I'd Love To See Sanemi Discovering That The Monstrous "Father" He Had Isn't The Real One And Obanai Discovering That His "Family" Stole Him From His True Parents And The Fact Of Obanai Discovering He Was Loved By His Real Parents.

They Deserve So Much Love Please.

I've had this picture for a while and been wanting to use it.

An: for fathers figures I go with their occupation from other fics.

Mitsuri's ff is a Baker. Giyuu and Rengoku's is a retired hashira. Shinobu's is a doctor. Obanai, muichirou, sanemi and tengen are people from their past.

demon slayer master list

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Sanemi

When Sanemi was younger you would constantly visit him and his siblings, oftentimes helping his mother with his "father" when he was drunk. Sanemi and his siblings were yours.

You hated seeing how Kyogo would treat your kids, but you vowed not to say a word because Shizu did not want to tell him that they weren't his.

Unfortunately, you weren't there when tragedy struck.

You came clean when everything settled down. Genya was ecstatic but Sanemi was about to beat your ass.

"You let us deal with that asshole for YEARS and said NOTHING!" He screamed as he pounded on your chest.

"I'm so sorry, Your mother swore me to secrecy. I wanted to tell you so bad." You said, catching his wrists as he tried to punch you. You could barely see his frustrated and tear-stained face right before he pushed it into your chest.

This poor 14-year-old boy had lost his mom and siblings but at least now he has a proper father.

"I'm glad your my actual dad." He muttered as his arms fell limp.

"Me too."

Obanai

When Obanai was born he was immediately taken away from you and your wife, who unfortunately just passed from birth complications. Being in the infamous Obanai clan is hell on earth.

They didn't care that he was your son, what mattered to them was that he was the only born blood male of the entire clan.

(ya know when your family thinks that they are entitled to something you own just because they're family) Obanai grew up just thinking you were a father figure who called him son. You were always there for him especially when he was still in the clan's clutches. While he was with the clan you told him many stories, one of which is about your wife and that she was pregnant but had complications and died during labor, but you never said what happened to the baby.

Today you were watching him train, he looked a bit off, like he had something on his mind.

"Hi son, did you eat today?" You ask interrupting his training with bento boxes in hand.

"No."

"Come eat I made lunch." You beckon him over with a wave of your hand and he listened.

He sat next to you and asked, "What happened with your baby?

All you could do was look at him. It just came out of the blue. You were tongue-tied and didn't know what to say.

"My child?"

"Yeah, what happened to him? You never told me you always stopped the story after your wife died." He asked again. You had to tell him eventually, why not now?

"Well, my son was taken from me, but I still got to watch him grow up. Unfortunately, I couldn't save him from getting hurt. A snake demon didn't like his uniqueness and wanted to make him more like her, She had the clan slit his mouth."

Your words marrinated in Iguro's mind as he realized you narrated his childhood.

"I'm sorry I never told you. I was scared of your reaction."

He didn't respond, instead he scooted a little closer and laid his head on your shoulder and started to eat.

It felt like an entirety before he said something, "thank you... For everything."

Giyuu

You were absent for most of his life, he only knew you existed from letters you'd send him and his sister.

He didn't know what you did, where you lived or if you had a second family, so when he met you he didn't think you were his father. More like someone who looked out for him while he took your spot as the water hashira.

He only found out because he went to your house and found a picture of his sister on a offering table in a spare room.

"Hey who's this?" He asked and you walked into the small room.

"My daughter. I wasn't there to save her but my son is an excellent fighter, a hashira."

Giyuu just stared at you. His eyes starting to tear up

"Are you alright?" You tried to comfort him but he backed away and covered his face with his hands.

"I'm fine this room is just dusty."

"Okay." You chuckled and patted his back.

In a blink of an eye and turned to face you and hug you.

If any other Hashira were present they'd certainly tease him.

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[mikakuna]

JASON SHOCKING PPL WHEN HE TAKES OFF TGE HELMET BC HE IS SUCH A PRETTY BOY YES YESSSS YESSSSS!!!!! I need it, I crave it, and on the topic of scars, I’m remembering this old series I used to read back in middle school, the lunar chronicles? Where there was a character, Winter, who was so beautiful and everyone agreed (she was the Snow White equivalent) and she had three symmetrical scars down the side of her cheek from under her eye down to her jaw and they looked like tears. Idk, Jason like that as well always gets me.

But Jason with no scars too??? Yes yes yes yes want it need it crave it desperate for it to shock ppl, like, I’m constantly in an annoyed at Tim mood cause he’s been everywhere in fics even when you filter him out 😭 and I’ve come across so many “poor baby Tim’s friends the titans HATE Jason for attacking sassy poor scared baby bird Tim and threaten Jason on his behalf when they see him on a mission or at the watchtower or smth” and I have enough spite to want an oh yeah? How about a fic that starts off like it’s going in that direction.

Jason the absolute unbothered king who does not give two shits abt the Titan tower incident cause whatever it was a while ago move on? And he wasn’t fighting a baby he was fighting a dude a year or two younger than him, who had training, and the hubris to think he could beat Jason. It wasn’t a one sided smack down, and of it was ever spun that way it’s because Jason was THAT good, and Tim was too caught up in his prejudices regarding Jason to truly believe Jason had skill. That’s on Tim.

For jason, it happened, but it’s not even that big of a deal it’s barely registering on his radar bc Tim does NOT take up space in his list of priorities. Jays a busy guy. So maybe he’s at the watchtower or wherever with the outlaws (biz and arty cause Roy and Kori are with dicks TT atm, but you just know they are excited to see Jason again. (Jayroy my beloved.) and obvi so is Donna.)

and he gets approached by the comically angry Tim’s teen titans like OoOH we got a bone to pick with you! All that usual woobifying of Tim talk happens like, “so pathetic that you as an adult are coming in and beating on some kid sooo much younger than you, and all that crap,” and arty and biz are bristling here, and Jason just, shakes his head in wtf, takes of his helmet, muttering “this I gotta see with my own eyes” only for him to faintly register the THUNK of Kyle Rayner walking into a window, and the sputtering of Tim’s friends as they trail off in gobsmacked.

When they speak again it’s Kon, clearing his throat, “so like, are you single or…”

Cassie, hissing, “kon!” Sharply elbowing him in his side, still shook that Jason is barely older than them.

Kon, hissing back from the corner of his mouth, eyes still on Jason, cheeks flushed, “what? It’s not like I have a PROBLEM with the crime lord thing, my other dad is Lex Luthor!”

HAHDJD YES I LOVE ALL OF THIS

everyone thinks jason is this horrific monster for fighting tim like tim didn't equally fight back. it is NOT jason's fault tim's weak ass lost against him!!!!

omg the idea of him being so unbothered that he doesn't even remember fighting tim but meanwhile everyone and their moms have that shit in the back of their mind constantly because tim has them all thinking he's a little kid that needs protecting. it's just jason not giving a single fuck and 100% willing to fight him again to see if tim's improved even slightly <3

kon's reaction is so real !!! instant switch up when he realizes that this is not an old man but a beautiful, gorgeously scarred individual he will begin courting instantly. kon's internal thought is to wonder why tim was so upset about jason beating him because he would gladly sign up. my fav trope is everyone realizing how young jason is ♥️

thank you so much for sharing this amazing idea I LOVE ITTTT

[multifandumbmeg]

Ok. Came across my first pro Five and Lila post so FiveLila shippers let's talk. If you ship Five and Lila, that's totally fine! Both CHARACTERS are legal adults.

What they did on the show was disgusting.

And yes, it was also poor writing. You should be angry too. Let's discuss.

Aidan Gallagher is BARELY an adult. He was, what, at most 19 during filming? Ritu Arya is 35. She is a grown woman. They met filming season 2. Late 2019. Aidan Gallagher was freshly 16 years old. She has watched him grow up from his early teens to now, bareeeely a legal adult. For that reason, they CLEARLY do not have any physical/sexual/romantic chemistry, because Ritu Arya isn't a groomer creep. She looks visibly disgusted all while acting her ass off. She plays the lines well but the kissing was so unbelievably uncomfortable to watch and I KNOW it was because SHE FELT UNCOMFORTABLE DOING IT. She remembers this BOY as like a five foot two kid in the prep school uniform, right? It's gross for the same reason dating your teacher even after you've graduated is very gross and makes everyone give you the side-eye. Both Ritu and David (Lila and Diego) have made it clear they were very against this choice. It is obvious this was entirely pushed by Steve Blackman.

Now before you get pissy and scroll away, before I explain why it is in this case bad writing, let me also remind you:

It is fine to like this ship conceptually. It is fine to write fanfiction. There is nothing wrong with that. I totally get shipping their characters based on their personalities and life experiences. BUT

What they did with this season with the canon was simply an awful mess. Morally, it was just plain wrong. The age gap alone made it inappropriate. But it was also bad. Writing. As many have pointed out, it was horrifically out of character for Five. Lila's character was written wildly inconsistently this season. Neither of them would have done that to Diego. Five would simply never have made a move. No matter how badly he wanted to, I don't believe he would have even if she made the move. Not for decades. At least. Add to this the entire experience was completely unneccessary and made no sense to begin with- Lila's suggestion that they go back and save original Ben would mean she never met the Brellies and thus never met Diego, still believed her evil mother, and her children didn't exist. Lila os brash, but generally not stupid, but even if she overlooked that fact are you telling me Five, Mr. Know-it-all who LIVES to be the smartest person in the room and always has, wouldn't have even said something then?? Before they left?! NO. He would NEVER have agreed to go on that mission before even considering the consequences. It was essentially an entire episode of character assasination for both of them. If you like either Lila OR Five at all, you should HATE this arc. Five not considering fallout, falling for his brother's wife despite most of the fandom believing he was aroace the whole time, choosing to betray his brother by physically having an affair with said wife, giving up on solving the apocalypse or finding his family again (his whole mission for the entire series, his entire character), finding a way out and then HIDING IT FOR HALF A YEAR FOR SELFISH REASONS?!?! Five... Hargreeves?? Are we talking about the same person??? Inconsistency is poor writing, plain and simple. Lila, for her part, was traumatized by her mother and spent all of season three grappling with her pregnancy. She had the opportunity, and made discussions with Diego about abortion. She ultimately CHOSE to have a child and ASKED to have a family WITH him. So to have her and Diego both spend this season only saying negative things about their family and act like they regret having the kids they VERY THOUGHTFULLY CHOSE TO HAVE is just plain shitty. They could have done a thoughtful plotline about how hard parenting is when you're breaking generational cycles, but instead they absolutely abandoned it and just had them cause more. Lila runs off to do something that logically will erase her children immediately and then when she finds out Five figured out the way back she mentions Diego and her kids and I found myself yelling at the screen-

"Oh, you care about your kids now?? Since when?!" Diego and Lila literally dump their kids off with a relative in the start of episode 2 and only even mention them again to complain after that. Never once do either of them say one nice thing about their children. Never do they say they love their children. We don't see any shots in the montage of Five and Lila of Lila being UNDERSTANDABLY DEVASTATED and being comforted by Five. It's not only completely inconsistent, it's not just that it makes all the parties involved look shittier for it, it's that they didn't even do it well.

What I'm saying is-

It shouldn't have happened in the final shortened season of this tv show. There was no way they could make that happen and be in any way a fulfilling ending for any of those characters, and for that reason EVERYONE should be pissed about it.

You could write a fic where Diego and Lila's marriage slowly breaks down (or hell maybe they never even got married) but it happens amicably and they don't fucking hate their children in the process and Five doesn't have an affair with Lila, but is there in the aftermath instead. You can write thoughtful, well-executed 200,000 fics drawing out the family drama of this slow burn and Diego and Five coming to terms. Or you could write a trashy smut fic where they all cheat on each other and are assholes and nothing makes sense, basically just like the show did. That's great! Both are totally fine and make absolute sense and are gratifying under the right circumstances to the right audience. Because that's fanfiction, and you've got time.

This was the end of a show we all fucking loved. This was a horrible ending that left everyone dead and unhappy at the moment of their death. A show that was supposed to be about overcoming familial dysfunction, not drowning in it.

So yes, we're angry about Five and Lila. Not because your ship is bad or wrong. Because it should not have happened under these circumstances.

[0pancake-mix0]

Pokémon bsd headcannons because I can do whatever I want

There is a lot and I only did the DOA trio, look below the cut at your own risk.

Fyodor

Professor, if this was a game he’d be a twist villain but it’s not so he’s just a professor

I imagine he’s not fully evil in this game, like N, perhaps he’s trying to study dangerous legendaries and getting in over his head?

His partner Pokémon is a very graceful and elegant glaceon (they have matching Ushankas :D in my universe he started wearing it as a child to match with her )

Vaguely evil, extremely cold with all his Pokémon and every single 10 year old that wants his help. Despite this all his Pokémon love him (not the 10 year olds they are terrified of him, but he is extremely helpful if you get over that, he thinks he’s very nice to the kids and is unaware how terrifying he is)

The reason all his Pokémon love him is that he is actually quite sweet to them, he loves them all more then anyone in his life (poor Nikolai), but he’s got appearances to keep up.

He doesn’t battle and has none of his Pokémon are in pokeballs or the boxes (as a professor he has some to study or to keep for trainers) his Pokémon are, Glaceon, Ratatta, Maushold, Raichu, Nidoran, plusle+minun, and Minccino. As well as Alonan Ninetails and a (shiny!) Mimikyu.

The government has to physically stop him from owing more rat adjacent Pokémon.

Nikolai

Former world champion, was defeated by Dazai :( (who was later defeated by Atsushi, the protagonist of this AU, the new current champion) he wasn’t too mad tho, he now wanders around tormenting Sigma and Fyodor.

Also vaguely villainous, but that’s mostly because of a loyalty to Fyodor

He was never to interested in any prestige, he just finds battling fun

Doesn’t believe in pokeballs or boxes, so he technically has no Pokémon, his team is constantly changing as wild Pokémon will hang out with him for a bit then move on. He does have a handful of Pokémon that he’s quite close to and will never leave him.

His permanent team is Corviknight, Mr. Mime (who he calls Sir Mime for some reason), a Meowscarda Fyodor loaned him that he stole, and a Talonflame. A tinkaton has been hanging around him recently and many think it may become a permanent member.

They are all tricksters and love his pranks, probably why they are so loyal.

His ensemble of temporary Pokémon tend to consist of flying types, but he likes all types, there isn’t a single Pokémon he dislikes

The government has to physically stop him from getting more bird Pokémon

Sigma

A trainer with the goal of catching the entire Pokédex

His partner is eevee, who has not evolved, but eevee (Eta) knows charm and they are extremely close, so if it happens, it will likely be a Slyveon.

An errand boy for Fyodor, he catches pokemon, brings them to Fyodor to study, then they get released (this they are occasionally kept by Fyodor, Sigma, or trainers that visit Fyodor) sigma loves his job and seeing the world, but is fairly certain Fyodor is trying to kill him with all the week long shiny hunts and dangerous pokemon he expects caught.

While eevee is his best friend, he also has Arcanine, Hatterene, Kirlia, and Formantis. They rarely stay in their balls, and tend to boss Sigma around.

He is extremely kind to Pokémon, often spoiling even wild pokemon with sweets and berries

The Pokémon Sigma research’s and catches recognize him, and when he backtracks through places he is swarmed by friendly pokemon who want to see him again. leading to him being frequently suffocated in jigglypuff.

Often tormented by Nikolai who will send his birds to steal Sigmas stuff and watch him panic. If discovered Hatterene will try and beat the shit out of Nikolai and will need to be stopped.

General

Nikolai and Sigma are friends despite all the tormenting, but Nikolais Pokémon and Sigmas Pokémon HATE each other

Just like how Sigma and Nikolai (though he doesn’t admit it) will take orders from Fyodor , all of Nikolai and Sigmas Pokémon will listen to Fyodors Pokémon (which is very funny considering Fyodor mostly has tiny mice, compared to Sigma and Fyodors larger pokemon (you ever see a Nidoran scold an Arcanine and Corviknight?))

Nikolai is the only one morally against pokeballs, but Fyodor and Sigmas don’t tend to use them either, Sigma doesn’t with his party only the pokemon he’s delivering to Fyodor. Fyodor only using pokeballs when he travels, which is rarely.

A Blissy hangs around Fyodors house to help with his anemia, however Fyodor doesn’t own this pokemon and doesn’t know where she’s from (it’s a wild pokemon who made a deal with Nikolai)

When Tandemaus evolved into Maushold (had kids) Fyodor showed his ‘grandchild’ to anyone that would listen

Sigma barely needs a bed anymore, he exclusively sleeps on Arcanines back

Hatterene is EXTREMELY protective of Sigma, often resorting to physical violence. Fyodor was worried about Hatterenes reaction to Sigmas anxiety, but it seems to be fine.

Nikolai’s Corviknight remembers being a small Rookidee and sleeping on Nikolai’s lap, he still thinks he is small enough to do so and once broke Nikolai’s ankle trying to cuddle (Nikolai had to grin through the pain)

Occasionally Fyodor goes to take a nap or something and then his full lab is run by a team of rodents (plus ninetails) ordered around by Glaceon. By all account they do an excellent job beside trainers being weirded out that a Mimikyu is starting out their journey by giving them their first pokemon and Pokédex.

I will absolutely be drawing this at some point, and adding more, because I have ideas that would probably be better at my schoolwork but you get Pokémon instead.

(Also sorry if any of my followers aren’t familiar with pokemon, this must be so confusing, I’ll answer any questions 😭)

[studentinpursuitofclouds]

hi mouse! i hope you consider this idea: sve bachelors and bachelorettes as stepdads/stepmoms who have a stepchild who HATES them (the farmer had the child from a previous marriage). like the stepchild pulling pranks on them, was always rowdy or nonchalant around them, even the farmer themselves can't get their own child to listen and not hurt their stepparent. all that because they're children! they don't understand why they need to accept a "new mom/dad" when they have the real one already (who no longer lives in the house ofc but visits/meets up with the child sometimes). poor stepparents though. they only wanted to get closer to the farmer's child as they already love them unconditionally. 😔

but what if the day finally comes (let's say after 3 years) that their stepchild says "i love you, mom/dad" wholeheartedly, how would they react? 🥹

Awwww, it's very cute idea 🥺 Sure thing, have some headcanons, dear anon! 💖

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SVE bachelors:

Lance:

Lance is by no means angry with his stepchild, knowing perfectly well how hard it was for the kid when Farmer and their ex divorced. Their whole world had been turned upside down. The pink-haired man didn't get mad at all their pranks, even telling them what they should do in the future to definitely prank him successfully. Lance made it clear to the kid that he's not trying to replace their parent, but he loves Farmer and genuinely cares for them, the kid, too, so at least a tolerant relationship with each other would be nice. In time, their relationship will become warm, and when the word "Dad" comes out of the kid's mouth, Lance will enclose them in a tight hug.

Magnus Rasmodius:

Broken vials of elixirs, scorched hair, and the new nickname 'Razzy poopy pants'... Magnus's eye would soon start twitching from stress. The old wizard knew the kid was going to be tough, and he could genuinely understand their protest and desire to get things back to the way they were. But so many pranks and nicknames he hadn't even seen from Camilla, the child had clearly surpassed the witch here. But at least they didn't hate him while he was watching the potions making (it's always interesting), and slowly but surely the relationship began to improve. Magnus almost dropped the old magic ball at the word "Dad", he was overwhelmed with so many emotions, mostly joy and happiness.

Victor:

Victor was at a complete loss. The poor man had no idea that his stepchild couldn't stand him as much as he did. He should not take offence at them, but... It's just.... Sometimes their words hurt him very much, though he loves both his partner Farmer and their kid. It was a very long process, and Victor sometimes thought of giving up after another portion of pranks, but love was stronger. When the little kiddo first addressed him as "Father" instead of by his first name, Victor's eyes filled with tears and a smile shone on his face. "I love you too, son/daughter."

SVE bachelorettes:

Sophia:

Sophia is sure to cry more than once after yet another one of her stepkid's ways to get her to leave Farmer for good. Even though Farmer has tried to scold their child for this behaviour, Sophia thought it won't change the child's mind. She loves Farmer, and she loves their kid too. It's just... what is she doing wrong then? There were many hurtful moments, but both Sophia and her stepkid were able to become friends. When child got ready to go to the library and said "bye mum", they were startled as Sophia almost fell on her feet, and cried. She would apologise for scaring them and give them a biggest hug.

Olivia:

There was already an appointment in advance for family counselling from Olivia (having made arrangements with Farmer beforehand, of course). The former accountant felt that there they could get the help they needed with Farmer's kid behaviour. Whilst she understands their struggle, throwing name-calling and mean prank that really almost got her hurt is not acceptable. The therapy helped, and though the relationship was strained at first, her stepchild began to open up to Olivia, and she showed them care and patience. Tears ran down her cheeks when she received a Mother's Day card from her stepchild that said "happy holidays, Mom, love you."

Claire:

Not to say that Claire is sort of immune to mischief, but working with the clientele at Joja Mart (almost all of them tourists, the locals mostly polite) allowed her not to react harshly to her stepkid's behaviour. Though hostile attitude of Farmer's child hurt the ginger girl, she could understand why they behaved the way they did. Claire remained calm and continued to treat the child kindly, remembering to learn about their lives. It came as quite a surprise to her when, about three years later, the kid called her mum. She smiled broadly and hugged her child despite their weak protests of "mum, stop, everyone's watching", which only made Claire hug them harder and cry.

Scarlett:

Scarlett is desperate because no matter what she does, Farmer's kid only sees her as the enemy they're constantly trying to get rid of. The girl in no way wanted to get involved in her stepchild's life right away and has made it clear that she's not going to replace their mom, it's just... what has she done that they hate her that much? Scarlett will confer with Farmer and her parents, who will help with advice and how to do the right thing in such cases. Gradually she and the child will find common ground and relations in the house will become calm. She almost fell off her chair when instead of the usual "bye Scarlett" she heard "bye mum". She's about to hug the kid and Farmer to death.

[linkemon]

Bruno Madrigal (selfship)

Selfship made for Mia_Kamiya-Sawyer.

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~ When exactly did you meet Bruno?  You don't remember exactly. From a young age, you ran around town with him and his sisters. There were tons of you everywhere.

~ You spent a lot of time in the meadow, making wreaths, collecting bouquets or building castles out of sticks and dirt.

~ You also liked to play marbles in the town square.

~ One day, you were overcome with doubt. One of the kids at kindergarten accused you of having no powers and said you didn't fit in with the Madrigal siblings. Bruno overheard everything, then assured you that you were great without it. Right after that, he said something about how he himself would like to get rid of his ability. What he meant didn't sink in too quickly.

~ It wasn't until you were a teenager that you noticed how some people treated him. Over time, there were more and more of them. Scared and blaming him for prophecies that he had no influence over. You hated this blatant injustice. You often stood up for Bruno. He usually tried to drag you away from a given place as quickly as possible, afraid that the town would think badly of you.

~ You once asked him for a prophecy. He performed the entire ritual but after watching it, he wouldn't tell you what was in it. You didn't bring it up again because you knew how stressed he was about everything related to these matters, although you were very curious about what he saw.

~ You already had a crush on him back then but you knew there was no way he would notice. You tried to drop small hints but they all seemed to flash before his eyes and after a while you gave up, content with your friendship.

~ When he disappeared, you were devastated. You couldn't understand why his family hadn't searched for him. Julieta and Pepa had tried but their obedience to their mother had dampened their enthusiasm. They had helped you as much as they could, though. You made posters at night. People quickly began to see you as a weirdo when you stubbornly refused to give up on your investigation.

~ You met Bruno again when you came to help rebuild Encanto. You didn't like going back to his house since your rather loudly reported fight with Abuela Madrigal. You had said a few hurtful words to her ten years ago but you didn't regret it. You forced yourself, however, and weren't ready for the shock. The fact that Bruno had lived next door for so many years and hadn't given you even a sign hurt a lot.

~ You had a very, very long night talk to make up for lost time and figure everything out. It took you a few days to digest all the information. After that, many things were like old times again. The first thing you did was take all siblings to the meadow like you used to.

~ The man introduced you to his new friends – rats. A bit unusual but it quickly turned out that they were anything but ordinary. They can do tricks and with Antonio's help you can even talk to them.

~ Your relationship became colourful when Bruno asked you to dance at one of the fiestas. He resisted with his legs and arms but Isabela and Mirabel threatened that if he didn't do it himself, they would drag him by force and ask you themselves. The poor guy stuttered a lot but seeing your happy face, he decided it was worth it.

~ You took him to the city shortly after. He was afraid of this visit but he squeezed your hand tightly and it gave him hope. You went to different places with him, helping him clear up some misunderstandings about the prophecies (and also to bring some of the townspeople to order, peering murderously from behind Bruno...).

~ In the evening, you sat on one of the white walls, admiring the colourful murals and the children playing like you used to. That's when you confessed your feelings to him. He was partially surprised. He has problems with self-confidence and it took him a while to realize that you were interested in him romantically. He shyly admitted that the vision of you that he once saw was you kissing someone. He didn't know then that it was about him, so he thought that you would really be better off without him.

~ Since you became a couple, you've spent a lot of time with the Madrigal family. Abuela apologized to you. You didn't think it would ever happen. From that moment on, everything was going well.

~ You attend a lot of family dinners that you can't get out of. Of course, your family is invited too. The more people, the better.

~ It's very easy to embarrass Bruno. One tesoro from your lips and he'll behave like a red teenager.

~ Your dates are usually very simple. Preferably in quiet places. A man will be happy to find out everything he has missed from your life over the past ten years, this also applies to your favourite shops or restaurants.

~ Lately, you've noticed that Luisa's eye is twitching a lot and that Isabela and Mirabel are giggling. Camilo and Antonio are suspiciously disappearing with their uncle for long afternoons. You've been baking cookies with Julieta while Pepa is trying hard to stifle a rainbow after you've asked if you're getting engaged. I think you've already answered your own question...

[sanyu-thewitch05]

I feel like there aren’t as many “dominant/sadistic” female reader stories. Like don’t get me wrong, I love dominant men, but let’s make that story a bit more spicy…So here’s another idea I had…Male Yandere Fiancé X Female Sadistic Reader

Darling grows up from a prominent old money family, and from young childhood was put into an arranged marriage with one of her father’s longtime friend’s son (who was the same age, and also from a old money family, hence the arranged marriage). Darling was born with a sadistic streak (inherited from her mother, cause we gotta love generational femme fatales), and just thought “why not play what’s already been promised to me?” So she decides to cruelly play with her fiancés feelings even at a young age. (Goes the whole gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss route). For example, fiancé (the yandere), falls in love with her easily since Darling easily manipulates him. Once fiancé is hooked, Darling abuses him into becoming her “ideal man,” forcing fiancé to workout relentlessly, spend countless days/nights studying to become more intelligent, perform extravagant acts of love/devotion to her, etc. Fiancé is pushing himself to the limits in every which way for Darling, because if he doesn’t, Darling is threatening to break off the engagement and leave him forever.

Last day of college arrives (it was agreed between the two families that after the kids graduated college, they’d get married asap), but Darling being the cruel thing she is, makes out with another man in front of yandere fiancé and declares that she loves the new man more and wants to marry him instead. The new man is the total opposite of yandere fiancé (physically weak, lowest ranking in each class, from a “poor family/ugly,” etc.) and in a sense Darling breaks yandere fiancé’s psyche, cause what has he been working for his entire life now? Yandere fiancé snaps and sets a plan into motion to get his Darling to stay with him, because no matter what she does to him, he will always love her (he’s absolutely delusional and off the rails). After all, he’s going to make sure he gets his fairy tale happily ever after. 

So maybe in the end he does become the “dominant” one, or maybe Darling is still the “dominant” one. Who knows? But I hope this idea of a story could have some fun exploring various power/relationship dynamics, and how they can spectacularly backfire. I hope you can have fun with this one too! <3

TW: Noncon, manipulation, corporal punishment

You always liked Barbies. You love the fact their Ken's are just dolls to them. Another accessory to their closet. Their only job is to be a fool in love.

"Y/N, what are you doing?" Lucian, your future fiance, says.

"Playing with dolls," You reply, looking at him.

17 years have gone since then, and Lucian has shaped up quite nicely. You planted little suggestions about what you liked in his head, and he eagerly followed like a horse trying to eat a carrot waving in front of its face. He wears contact lenses because you hate brown eyes. He dyed his hair blonde, changed his style, and even got on steroids for a while to bulk up for you. If he didn't, you'd threaten to end the engagement.

Now, you're in your senior year of college. You're an A+ plus student and a vivid party girl as well. Lucian never knew about you sneaking out from his eye to party all night. He never knew about all the guys you hooked up with. The poor boy would be furious if he knew you fucked with the guys who were antithesis to him. Dumb, jock, alcoholic, trouble, everything he thought you hated.

"Oh, Jeremy, you've gotta try this jungle juice! It's amazing!" You exclaim, practically hugging your jock boy toy Jeremy.

"I know it's amazing. I made it," Jeremy laughs, turning you around and kissing your neck.

You kiss Jeremy's lips and make out with him. You didn't even know kissing Jeremy was your metaphorical kiss of death.

"God, I wanna marry you," You coo as Jeremy snaps your bra strap.

Now you've signed your death warrant.

"How could you?" Lucian mumbles, crushing his red party cup.

"Jeremy, let's head to your bed," You whisper, kissing his neck.

He leads you to his room, and Lucian takes advantage of the large crowd to pull you away. Lucian drags you outside despite your complaints.

"Luci, what the hell are you doing?" You drunkenly say, trying to get your hand free from Lucian.

"Listen to me! You're not going to treat me like I'm some doll anymore. I've changed myself beyond recognition for you. I've obeyed your every order. You're going to love me!" Lucian snaps, throwing you into the passenger seat of his car.

"Don't threaten me. Dogs don't growl at their masters," You hiss, making Lucian stop the car.

Lucian unbuckles your seatbelt and slaps you across the face.

"You're going to respect me for once in your life," Lucian monotonously says, buckling you back in and driving back to his apartment.

You stay silent for the rest of the ride until Lucian carries you inside. You don't know what's wrong with you. You would never let someone, especially Lucian, treat you like this. Where did your wits and words go?

"If you even think of trying to run away or stop me, I will tell your parents all about your dirty alcohol and party drugs addiction. Mommy and daddy tolerate lots of things, but they won't tolerate their junkie daughter spending their money on drugs to party," Lucian threatens, putting a change of clothes next to you. "Now, change. I don't want you sleeping in my bed smelling like booze and sweat."

You nod your head and change into fresh clothes.

"Lay across my lap," Lucian commands, rubbing your butt. "Call me my love, master, sir, or my name. Do you understand, pet?"

"Yes, sir."

Lucian takes off his belt and slams it across your ass. You flinch, but Lucian holds you still.

"Sir, please stop," You whimper, trying to hold your tears.

"Pets don't disobey orders," Lucian says, slamming his belt across your butt again.

"Sorry, sir."

Lucian spanks you fifty more times, and each time is worse and more pleasurable than the last.

"Ah, master!" You moan, cumming onto Lucian's pants.

"Damn it, you messed up my pants!" Lucian groans, pulling your pants down.

"I'm sorry, master!" You yell, Lucian pulling your hair back.

"Suck my cock, pet."

"Yes, my love."

You kiss and lick Lucian's cock. It shivers with every touch, and your soon-to-be husband grabs the back of your head and forces your mouth to take his whole dick. You gag on it for a while, then get used to it. He pushes your head so far down that your lips touch his balls. Once your lips touch his balls, he cums into your mouth and yanks your hair back to get your lips off his cock.

"You've learned your lesson?" Lucian asks, holding your head up by the hair.

"Yes. I'm sorry I manipulated you!" You cry, your mascara running, leaving black streaks.

"Good. You're mine, and we'll be married once we graduate. You're going to respect me for once in your miserable life."

Lucian lets go of your hair, and you faceplant onto the mattress.

"Now then, let's have some good bonding time. I don't want our relationship to be like it was when you were still in control. No manipulating you into someone else. No cheating on me with someone else. Just our true selves," Lucian says, cleaning your mascara streaks away and kissing you. "I love you."

[verdemoun]

WHEN DUTCH SAYS “hosea, i…miss him” I SWEAR TO YOU ON MY LIFE THERE IS A TEAR ROLLING DOWN HIS CHEEK I SAW IT

i have such a love hate relationship with this interaction because i hear it as 'you sound like hosea. i miss... him'. like dutch the trembling inhale looking up to stop himself crying like grief is going to destroy him but also it feels like 'i miss...him' as a jab at arthur trying to step up because he wasn't hosea. dutch wasn't suddenly going to turn to him for advice on plans. arthur was still his son, subvervient, beneath him, an enforcer and gunman and nothing more.

back to your regularly scheduled angst

Arthur, understandably, withdrew into himself a bit when he heard what happened to Dutch. Hosea knows his poor boy has always been a sulker, whether it was over Mary or disagreements with gang members Arthur sulks and bottles things up.

In 19th century normalized destructive habits, he decides the solution is to get Arthur drunk. Arthur's always been a fun, silly drunk. They'll have a few too many drinks and laugh about the old days - the good times, just the two of them. Like when Arthur was too stubborn to admit he shouldn't have killed a rabbit with a shotgun and chipped his tooth on buckshot when he insisted on eating it. Or how when Hosea finally decided to formally introduce him to Bessie, Arthur got so nervous he fainted. They'd laugh too hard, Arthur would drink too much and no doubt pass out, and in the morning he'd feel hungover but more like himself again.

And it's working. Arthur starts cackling as he reminds Hosea of the time Bessie had to help him play dominos against the old man, only to discover Hosea had been cheating the entire time and was exiled to sleeping on the ground while Arthur got to sleep in the bed. Hosea countered with the fact he was 19 at the time and still snuggled up to Bessie like a little kid, which she adored and Arthur has always denied.

If not for how clearly and confident Arthur said it after a long burst of laughter, Hosea would've told himself he misheard. "It should've been me, in Saint Denis." Tells him not to say stupid things, but the fun, silly Arthur is gone. He goes on.

Says he was already a dying man and too stupid to realise. If he'd been shot in Saint Denis instead of Hosea, Hosea would've saved Dutch. Hell, he would've saved the gang. Hosea would've talked Dutch out of all the stupid plans like he always had, and he would've realised Micah was the rat and dealt with him like any traitor. They would've stayed together, everyone would've been happy. Dutch would've listened to him, they would've made it back out West. Jack would've grown up surrounded by family and the bureau would've had no reason to go after John, Bill wouldnt't have started his own gang, Javier wouldn't have had to flee back to Mexico everyone would've been so much happier if he died instead of Hosea because he wasn't enough. He was never going to be enough to save everyone. He couldn't even save Dutch, because he wasn't enough and he was sorry because he failed.

Hosea had only seen Arthur cry a handful of times over his entire life. When he scratched one of Dutch's records as a boy and thought they were going to throw him out, when Mary left him, when Eliza and Isaac died, the first time he held Jack. He knows Arthur is a messy, ugly crier, and once he starts all he can do is hold him. So that's exactly what he did, hoping at least some part of Arthur believed him when he said none of it was his fault.

[more-than-tender-curiosity]

If Nick’s family is overbearing enough that they all had to come together to allow Nick to go to New York then I’m sure they’re a pretty good family.

A snobby family, sure, but there’s love there. They hug and kiss, give gifts on Christmas, and have lovely traditions but half of the stuff out of their mouth would make you want to punch them in their face and hope they bleed.

Nick Carraway is an odd man so he must’ve been raised by an odd family. Jay Gatsby is odd enough, and anxious enough, that he’s adored by Nick’s aunts while Nick’s uncles are indifferent. Nick’s father loves him and Nick’s mother hates him. Nick’s cousins love him, their nieces don’t know what to think because Jay Gatsby doesn’t know what to do with children and panics every time he’s left alone with them, and that’s about all I can say.

Daisy is the darling of the family and Nick is like the puppy. Or, at least, in their eyes he is. They simply ignore the fact that this man is grown and has gone to war (WW1). Maybe because Jay is more of a puppy than him that’s why half of the family loves him (and the other half doesn’t because they’re cat people)

No like I totally agree about Nick’s family infantilizing him. Like he is 29 years old, a war veteran, college educated, and still has to get everybody’s opinion to move away from home despite having already done so once for college?

I guess they expected him to come home and stay home forever after New Haven.

And then his dad so automatically unsure in his ability to support himself that he just. Gives him a whole YEAR of rent and utilities and whatever? Maybe Nick will have to pay him back but still. That move has always served to betray both how comfortably wealthy Nick’s family really is (and thus Nick himself even if he’s cosplaying poor) and how little faith they have in him to serve as an active participant in his own life—to the point where he can’t hold down a relationship AND it might even have prevented him from engaging more with the whole Gatsby issue and possibly saving Jay. He can say he didn’t really care about it all at the time but we obviously know all the little context clues to prove that he did—but when you’re so unconfident in your own ability to change the world around you, why bother?

Like that’s the whole tragedy of it. Nick’s forced to reckon with the fact that he has some blame in this after a whole lifetime of people just cleaning up after him like he’s a kid and not handing him any real responsibility. He has to face that he was at least partially responsible for Myrtle and Wilson and Jay, because even if he was a passive participant, he was still a participant. It’s a reality he’s never had to face before so naturally he blamed Tom and Daisy and society and Wolfshiem and even Jay, a little bit, for being too much of a dreamer for the waking world, because he couldn’t accept that life isn’t just something that happens to you, but you are living.

That sort of avoidance doesn’t just happen, you know? His family no doubt did that to him. And I think a lot of that is Fitzgeraldian in nature.

But on the topic of COUSINS!!!!!

MAGGIE CARRAWAY STEP ON DOWN !!!!!!!!!

No I just love her. She’s Nick’s cousin in the More Than Tender Curiosity series, particularly introduced in Fugue for a Flapper. She’s the only cousin that’s close enough to Nick’s age to have ever looked up to him and she’s pretty cool. Bi queen. Aspirational girlie. Too many aspirations actually and no talent except at just being loveable. She’s like the opposite of Nick in that she tries to do too many aspirations at once and never gets good at any of them, whereas Nick is like. Trying at something (bonds) for the first time in his life (because most of his other interests are not things he feels safe pursuing, like poetry,, and men,,,.)

Yeah if you want to see a hint of my ideas at Nick and Jay’s interactions with Nick’s family, that series is a good place to start. Right on Time will include a more modern take on Nick’s interactions with his family too once a couple of them arrive for a certain event.

[miniherodesktales]

Note: I know this is full of continuity errors, but it was fun to play round with the idea.

Day 3: Parents

'Frank, I need a favour!'

Hollister shuddered and held the phone further away from his ear. His brother-in-law's roar of a voice always had that effect on him.

'A favour, Jack? And I owe you one because...?'

'Because, Frankie, you married my sister and ruined her life. In fact, you're gonna owe me for life for that. And well into my holographic life too, if I can get one, come to think of it.'

'What do you want, Jack?' Hollister asked impatiently.

'At some point this week you're gonna get a call from your recruitment guy on Io. He'll have a young kid on his books who'll need a job pronto that'll come with board and lodgings once he hits 15. Emancipation case.'

'Emancipated? Can't you feed him?'

He heard Jack sigh heavily.

'Emancipated, not emaciated, Frankie! Get yourself a dictionary will ya? And clean your ears out while you at it. The kid's 14, I'm helping him get away from his parents. It'll help a whole lot if we can prove he's got some kind of employment lined up once he's of age.'

'I've got enough waifs and strays onboard,' Hollister grunted. 'What's he like?'

Jack paused. 'Bit of a dreamer.' Another pause. 'Boarding school brat,' the lawyer finally confessed. 'Family tree full of soldiers, bishops, and minor royalty swinging from every branch.'

'Don't want him,' Hollister grunted. 'Tell him to suck up whatever it is mummy and daddy have done to him - maybe they didn't buy him the right pony for Christmas. Tell him to hide out at school until he can land himself a job at the local bank!'

'Heartless, Frankie boy, totally heartless! The kid needs a break. Sure, he's not the sharpest tool in the old box, but he's a fighter. Take him under your wing for a few years. A. J is going places, trust me.'

Hollister snorted. Jack was so full of it.

'What's A. J stand for?' he asked.

'Ace Jupiter.'

'You just made that up!'

'Do you know how many lost kids the state has to keep track of?' Hollister was pleased to hear that Jack actually sounded defensive for once. 'Labelling them by planet of origin stops us from getting them mixed up with the Earth and Saturn brats, you know? Plus, the protection of of a fake name. Plus...'

'What?'

'His parents must really hate him. Why else call him Judas?'

Hollister shuddered.

'So you'll take him then?'

'Do I have a choice?'

'Sure you do. But I'm giving you the opportunity to do something decent for once. To give someone the chance of a brighter future. With you he could build his career, find himself a woman -

'Or man,' Hollister added, warming quickly to the idea of being some poor mite's hero. A mentor. A mysterious benefactor. Someone who would actually mourn him when he died and would provide a wailing lament at his funeral along the lines of: "Frank Hollister saved my life!" A sort of father figure...He'd never have kids of his own...

'Or man!' Jack agreed. 'Kids, friends, home, pension. The whole shebang! A future, that's the gift you'll be giving him. Whaddya say?'

'Fine. I'll take him, keep him busy, keep him on the straight and narrow as long as he's on my ship. After that his life his own to screw up in any which way he pleases. Got it?

'Got it.'

'Fine. Send me Ace Jupiter....What a stupid name!'

Many, many years later....

'What did you think of Captain Hollister?' asked Lister.

'Not much,' Rimmer admitted. 'Kept getting my name wrong, stupid man. You?'

Lister idly flicked over the page of his magazine.

'Same,' he grunted. 'Not much else to say is there?'

'No. Not much.'

[geddy-leesbian]

quick 3,298 word lil Luis backstory oneshot

Luis is scooped off the streets by a woman who wants to get him into a special boarding school where all his wildest dreams could come true…

on ao3 or under the cut

Luis quickly adapts to life on the streets. He learns where not to sleep, he learns the most profitable street corners to play guitar for tips. 

There's a few homes in the city that are sympathetic enough to feed an orphan some scraps if he knocks, but sympathy only goes so far and dries up if he tries hitting the same home too often. He gets it down to a science, exactly how frequently he can knock at each door without wearing out his welcome. His favorite house is an old lady that seems especially fond of him. He gets some snacks and a glass of water to have on her porch on nice days, and when the weather is bad she invites him inside for a warm meal and a mug of hot chocolate. 

Between the money he gets from tips and the people who give him food, he goes to sleep with a full belly every night, tucked away in one of the hiding spots he'd learned were reliable– places that were dry and where no one would disturb him.

His thirst for knowledge is satisfied too. While he won't attempt to get his own library card, fearing they'll ask for personal details that will get him sent off to some orphanage, he goes into the library and spends hours reading. He's pretty sure the librarians catch on that he's not in a normal child's situation, but he's quiet and well-behaved, so they never confront him. Sometimes one of them will even give him an apple out of her lunchbox. 

There's one nice lady that he sees while playing guitar regularly, and always stops to wordlessly give him a generous tip. One day she stops and talks to him. She takes him to a restaurant and tells him he can order anything he wants, as much as he wants. Then peppers him with questions. 

She wants to know where he's from, does he have family, his entire life story. He proudly boasts about how he's only 12 years old and made it from a tiny village in the mountains all the way to a city all by himself, with only some old maps to guide him. He's worried she wouldn't believe him, but she keeps smiling and nodding while he talks. She asks why he goes to the library all the time. He counters and asks how she knows that. Apparently she knows one of the librarians and they mentioned the strange kid who came in every day, and that they suspected he was coming in because he was homeless and it was the only building he could go into for a break from wandering the streets. 

That surprises Luis, and he insists he likes the streets just fine and only goes in because he loves to read. She must think he's too stupid to enjoy reading! There were so many things he hated about Valdelobos, and one of the things he hated the most was that everyone except his grandfather and Méndez thought he was stupid. He knew he was smart, he read every book he could get his hands on, in a village with very poor literacy. He knew things that almost no one else in the village did. But did anyone care? No! All they did was pick on him and criticize his grandfather for raising a useless boy. He didn't know how to farm or fish. Despite going with his grandfather hunting all the time, he still didn't know much about hunting. (He'd try, he really did, to pay attention when his grandfather explained things, but his mind always wandered elsewhere while his grandfather's words went in one ear and out the other.) Luis knew a lot, but didn't know anything useful, so that meant he was stupid. 

He doesn't want this lady to think he's stupid. He wants her to know that he goes to the library to read, not just to sit inside uselessly. Trying to prove that, he starts rattling off the titles and authors of books he's enjoyed.

“You like to learn then?” Luis nods. “How would you like to go to school?”

Luis's eyes almost pop out of his head. School!

He has the biggest grin on his face while she explains that she works for a pharmaceutical company called Umbrella, and they have a boarding school she thinks Luis might fit in at. She pulls some papers and a pencil out of her purse and slides them across the table. It's a test, and she has Luis take it right then and there as he eats.

He's a little bit terrified when he finishes. He thinks he knew most of what was on it, he tried to read about as many different subjects as possible, but isn't that sure. What if he blew his chance to go to school? Suddenly the street life isn't enough for him, he needs to go to school, just as intensely as he needed to leave Valdelobos. One lesson the streets have taught Luis is the power of tears. Maybe if he begs and cries enough she'll give him a second-

He doesn't need a second chance. She looks the finished test over, then looks at Luis and smiles. She tells him everything he wants to hear. That he is special. How impressive it was for a homeless 12 year old with no formal education to ace a test like this on the spot. That he's a genius, and certainly would have already graduated and employed in a high position at Umbrella by now if he hadn't been stuck in an isolated village. Really, it just boils down to what everyone wants to hear: He is special. No delusions of grandeur here, just actual grandeur. 

She pulls out more papers. Contracts he has to sign to attend a special Umbrella boarding school just for child prodigies like him. He won't be homeless, he'll be given a room to sleep in, food will be provided, as well as a small wardrobe of uniforms and sleepwear. No cost. In fact, they'll give him money; as long as he does well in his classes, he'll be given a small stipend to spend however he wants.

There's so much text on the contracts, but she tells him he doesn't need to read it all, it's just a formality really. He'll go to this school, then he'll graduate and immediately begin working for Umbrella as a researcher. He signs every dotted line, having no idea he just made a deal with the devil.

After he finishes his food and a hot chocolate, she takes him shopping. First is a basic set of pajamas for tonight and a basic outfit for him to wear until he gets his Umbrella uniforms. The next stop is a bookstore. She tells him to pick a book, any one he wants. A brand new book that no one has ever read before, just for him. A fancy edition of Don Quixote catches his eye, but he resists out of a desire to stay in this woman's favor. Instead he picks out a medical book full of pictures, hoping the intellectual choice will impress her. He also asks if he can get a notebook and something to write with. He wants to start writing a diary, like his grandfather was always doing. 

Not only does she agree, she takes Luis to an art supplies store and lets him pick out a very fancy notebook, and sets of pencils and pens, some plain and the rest in every color of the rainbow. 

Finally the whirlwind day comes to an end. The nice lady starts driving, explaining a little bit more about the school. 

France.

Paris. 

That's where Luis is going to go school. He's seen pictures in books. The small city he lived on the streets of was already completely mind-blowing to the little boy from little Valdelobos, Paris is going to overwhelm him, and he's never been more excited for anything in his life.

But of course he has to be patient. The nice Umbrella lady is going to escort him herself, a journey split between car and plane, but they won't leave until the next morning, which feels like an impossibly long time to Luis. She gets him set up in a hotel room and he takes a hot shower for the first time in his life. Then he crawls into a gigantic bed with the softest sheets and blankets he's ever felt and falls asleep fantasizing about Paris, about school. He imagines it like the old Salazar castle, because that's the closest thing to a boarding school he's encountered himself. He's not sure how accurate his imagination is, but he does know that it's going to be amazing. 

In the car and on the plane, Luis devours his new book and writes a bit in his journal. In English. He's taught himself a fair amount of the language, but could definitely use some practice writing it. He'll probably have to learn French too, which excites him because he loves to learn anything. When he's done writing, he turns his attention to the car radio, flipping through stations. He likes the songs in English, they're so different from the music back in Valdelobos. 

There's one song that's amazing, so unlike anything he's ever heard. It's not even the catchy music, made by instruments Luis can't even identify, that grabs Luis's attention so strongly, it's the words . Lyrics about rejecting religion to choose freewill. He's pretty sure it would incite an angry mob clamoring to burn someone at the stake. 

He's a little bit disappointed when they arrive. He saw so many cool buildings on the way, buildings as castle-like as the ones in his imagination, buildings out of fairytales. 

And none of them are the school. It's a huge but sleek, modern looking building. While it would have impressed Luis 24 hours ago, it feels lackluster to the current Luis whose imagination had run wild with what were likely unrealistic expectations. 

Even worse, the sleek building he's looking at isn't even the school. While they walk into the lobby, the nice lady explains that there's actually two different Umbrella facilities on the property. The above ground part of the building he saw is Umbrella Europe’s largest laboratory. The special boarding school he's going to attend is in the basement. No bedroom with a window. But despite his disappointment, Luis keeps smiling and nodding while the lady walks him through a maze of hallways, because he does want an education, and this might be his only opportunity to get one. And there's at least a purpose to it. The school is attached to another laboratory so students can begin doing occasional, basic lab work to start gaining hands-on experience before graduating.

What does impress Luis is just how clean everything is. And cleanliness is foreign to Luis. Everything in Valdelobos was dirty. Everything. It was like everyone and everything in the place magnetically attracted dirt. Even after getting out of there, Luis was constantly covered in a layer of grime, just part of life on the streets. Which makes the sparkling clean surfaces all the more shocking to Luis. They're so clean and shiny that Luis's reflection looks back at him when he looks at the walls or floor.

The classrooms are just as sleek and cutting edge as the labs, with sparkling clean white desks that each have a computer built into them.

His bedroom is really tiny. On the left wall is a desk and shelves, and there's a bunk bed on the right. There's only a narrow strip of floor between them. Thankfully he doesn't actually have to share such a tiny space with someone else. The school truly takes only the best of the best. If there were enough candidates, then there would be two students per room. But this year they hadn't been able to find enough students that met their high standards, so there's enough space that each student gets their own room to themselves. It's still disappointing, but nothing Luis can't handle. 

Life in the boarding school is harder than life on the streets. On the streets, he was free. He could go where he wanted when he wanted and no one stood in his way. He answered to no one. His only responsibility was making sure he found someone who would take pity and give him free food, or making enough in tips to buy something to eat. 

Now he has people to answer to, and an absurd workload. Every week day consists of him going to class for a few hours, then getting food to take back to his room to eat while he works on assignments and studies until he can't keep his eyes open anymore. 

But Luis doesn't mind the brutal workload and expectations, because for the first time in his life he feels like he truly belongs somewhere. None of his peers look down on him. The statement that the boarding school would produce the best candidates to be Umbrella's future without regard for gender, race, background, sexuality, or creed was accurate. Luis could tell that most of his classmates weren't cut from the same cloth that he was– they were whiter than him and from wealthy families– but Luis didn't feel that it mattered to anyone here. He was treated exactly the same as everyone else was. His peers weren't just neutral to him, they were friendly. Not only was he no longer an outcast, he was almost popular. There wasn't much time to socialize, but whenever there was a free moment, there was no shortage of people eager to talk to Luis, asking him about books and music and all the normal mundane things he's craved to converse about as long as he can remember. And while his teachers are cold and harsh, they're like that to everyone, not just him; not even the blond, blue eyed boys from rich families are given any slack, they're pushed just as hard.

And weekends do offer a reprieve from the brutal grind. Usually he wastes Friday night most or Saturday just catching up on sleep and giving his mind a rest, but Sunday gets more eventful. He thought that Vanessa would go back to Spain doing whatever it was she was doing with her life before plucking Luis off the streets. But she stays in Paris. She sees Luis often. Sometimes she checks in on him briefly during the week, but Sundays are special. She picks him up from the school, going wherever he wants. Usually he likes to sightsee in the city, or go on a hike more out in nature, getting him the fresh air he desperately craves throughout the week. 

He also asks to go shopping regularly. For music, usually. He can listen to CD's while studying in his room, so he begins building a collection. Eventually he finds it – the song he'd heard on the radio and fallen in love with. He buys the rest of the band's albums too. (One has a song about an angry mob fearing and wanting to destroy things they don't understand, which hits a little too close to home. The residents of Valdelobos are exactly the type of people the song is criticizing.)

To celebrate finishing his first year at the top of the class, he picks out a shiny new electric guitar for himself. He'd planned to pay for it himself with the allowance money he'd been saving up, but Vanessa jumps in and pays for it, telling him to save his money. 

The break isn't the long summer break normal schools tend to have, it's just one week. It's important that Umbrella's elite students, Umbrella's future, complete their schooling and training as quickly as possible, and giving their minds a several month break to collect cobwebs and dust would undermine that. 

Luis expected to just spend the days off enjoying his new guitar and wandering around outside in the fresh air and then his nights back in his cramped bedroom, but instead Vanessa picks him up and says he'll be spending the week in her home. 

Her house is nice. Shiny new appliances, marble floors, lots of art, a huge flat screen TV, all the things Luis had assumed rich people would probably have. She doesn't live alone. She's married. To another woman. (They're not able to get married legally, but wear rings and refer to each other as wives.) Which offers Luis some nice reassurance that Luis really could flirt with the cute boy he sits next to in one class without being kicked out of the school, socially ostracized, or worse. 

There's a guest room that becomes Luis's room. She insists that it's to be Luis's bedroom, even though he'll only be there for a week. Vanessa and her wife, Alyson, take him on a shopping spree to personalize the room. 

Luis's birthday just so happens to fall within the week break, and Vanessa throws a party. With most of Luis's peers being out of town with their families, the bulk of the guest list is Vanessa and her wife's friends, who are mostly fellow scientists. Luis actually learns a lot; Vanessa's love is conditional. 

Prior to the party, he often took comfort in thoughts about how fond of him Vanessa was. When he got stressed by his schoolwork and started panicking about what would happen if he failed to meet the school's expectations and got kicked out, he would calm himself down thinking that Vanessa liked him enough that she would let him live with her and help him get into a more normal school. 

But that safety blanket is ripped away during the party. Vanessa parades him around the room introducing him to a few people at a time, bragging about how smart he was, how he was just a street rat when she found him and went on to become a model student at the top of his class. 

“Damn, Vanessa, he is a great find. Have you gotten a bonus for him yet?”

“Oh no, not yet. I will, but they don't hand out the child prodigy finder's fee until the child graduates and starts working.”

“You're just spending your own money on him in the meantime?”

“I don't mind, he's at the school 6 days a week and he doesn't ask for much when I do get him. Alyson was wanting to adopt, so this has really been perfect for us. I have to admit I was against adopting, I just thought a random kid from god knows where wouldn't ever be Umbrella material, but here's Luis, from a horrible background and top of his class. I just hope he maintains it. I know it would break Ally's heart sending him away, but I can't keep spending money on him if he flunks out and can't get a position in Umbrella, you know?”

“I know. You're more generous than me for already spending anything on him. I'd wait until…”

Luis walks away before they notice he heard what they were talking about. While it's a distressing revelation, it's one that Luis can learn to live with. As long as Luis keeps his grades up, there will be a place for him in Vanessa's family. Luis can do that. Luis couldn't be what the community of Valdelobos wanted him to be, but he can be what Vanessa wants him to be. 

He can be what Umbrella needs to be. He can graduate at the top of his class and then go on to become a star at Umbrella, curing wasting diseases like the one that killed his grandfather. Luis can do that.