#and i thought of finish it 😬

[akkivee]

Wait omg can I hear more about platonic Saburo and Jyushi? That sounds like it could be really sweet 🥺

kr can pry saburo having an idol crush on 14th moon out of my dead cold hands!!!!!!!! 😤

lol no but i like to imagine that as mutual enjoyers of the edgy goth aesthetic, they’d have a lot of fun together slowly bringing saburo into that world lol. jyushi can introduce saburo to ouji fashion and they can play video games together where they customise their own characters to look as grandiose as possible and larp their characters’ ridiculously long final moves names lmao

narratively??? like they are also really similar???? i’m not caffeinated enough to explain this but i started a fic about them meeting for the first time a while back that i think you can get where i’m going with them lol

like!!!!! they want to change themselves into stronger people y’know???? they both really desire power for themselves!!!!! so much so that i worry about them in very similar fashions so they’re obviously twin souls at heart lmao!!!!! 😭😭😭

[stellabobow]

FFVIII

[mishkakagehishka]

Fucked up to think of myself as a college student tbh. Did you know i once dreamt that i was playing enstars between studying for matura, and thought to myself (upon waking up) surely i won't be such a loser that i'd be playing mobage as a hs senior. Anyway.

[inkovert]

Wow.

ha.

wowowowowowow.

[caernua]

season 2 of the witcher… ew ❤️

[moqlnkkn]

tamora pierce give your protagonist an age-appropriate love interest challenge

[nalivaa]

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[the-yearning-astronaut]

I. I have the sinking suspicion that I MAY have been completely oblivious to the signs that a classmate friend might be interested in me??? But idk??? Because he hasn't exactly said anything but something happened yesterday that's got me wondering and I have no idea if I'm just reading into things or not.

[wavesmp3]

before sunrise x kevin moon ....

[apricotluvr]

Update on my essay so far!

[pearl-kite]

How am I so tired? It's barely past 9 and I had like a two hour nap today. Went to bed at a reasonable time (before midnight even!) and woke up at a perfectly normal time without waking up halfway through. If anything, I should be the perfect amount of rested, but I'm struggling to stay upright. It's a good thing I have a psych appt on Monday, because this is weird and bad and I don't like it >:C

[azulzinharts]

I don't know if you have this problem, but I do lol 😂😂😬

As soon as I finished, I thought, "Man, this is cringe", but since it's already done, pls have it 🥺

[lilake]

developing an allergic reaction to the word 'proof' and also the name 'cauchy'

[motleyfam]

hey! so its 4am and ive just finished my, um... fifth(?) reread of world's saddest breakfast club and like! aaahhhh!!!

do u got abything to tell us abt this story? like sbt the writing proccess or things u thought that did not make it in or hc or anything really. i dont have a question exactly, just wanted to hear you talk about it. im a bit. well. obssesed.

Oooh cool question! I definitely do!

World's Saddest Breakfast Club: Fun Facts

The opening line is a result of me angsting to @batmoniker about how I couldn't figure out how to start my fic, and her jokingly being like "I got you, bro. Ready? 'It was a dark and stormy night'" and then me just being stubborn and committing to the bit.

The story started with a vague idea of "everyone in the kitchen at 3am for different reasons and Jason channeling his inner short order cook." All I knew going in was the order I wanted people to appear, what was wrong with them (sick, hurt, insomnia, etc) and what food Jason would be making for them. Everything else I made up as I went.

If I could go back and change one thing about this fic, I'd reduce how long Jason was kidnapped to like, 6-8 days, max. 16 days seemed funny when I wrote it, but in hindsight, I feel like he'd be a little more fucked up in the story if he were really escaping from that many days of captivity lmao

I headcanon Dick as the kind of person who straight-up forgets to eat when he's preoccupied, and Jason as the kind of person who cannot FATHOM this concept. Jason absolutely will miss a meal if the situation calls for it, don't get me wrong, but he's aware the entire time he's doing it and it makes him super antsy. (This once turned into A Thing™ when Jason was like, 13 years old and staying with Dick for the weekend for some brotherly bonding and Dick forgot about lunch and by 5pm, Jason maybe sorta kinda had a minor panic attack about it. Dick was a lot more mindful of that moving forward)

Bruce's favorite food being lobster thermidor is a reference to the Lego Batman movie

I wrote this whole fic with Julia Child's recipe pulled up in one tab and my google doc in the other

At some point I realized that since I started with fresh lobsters, I was going to have to write Jason killing them, and it derailed me so hard that the fic nearly became about meatloaf instead. (Never mind the fact that Jason canonically kills human beings — that's totally fine. I just draw the line at him killing lobsters 😰)

(in the end I just kinda glossed over it and made sure they were already cooked before Damian appeared so I wouldn't have to address it 😬)

Dick's reoccurring shoulder injury is a reference to the DCAU where I swear that man has dislocated his shoulder/injured his arm at least 4x

The line about Tim being allergic/throwing up when he eats eggs was inspired by a line in chap 11 of @goldkirk's fic Hymn, which I've reread about 37x

Jason is correct— grits are fucking delicious and definitely not baby food.

My favorite line is "Okay there’s self-sacrificial bullshit, and then there’s whatever the fresh hell that is."

The idea for Cass being a big meat-eater comes from a comic panel where Steph offers her a plate of rice and beans and Cass says she needs meat and starts mischievously eying Steph's hamster. Can't find the panel to save my life, but I promise it's out there.

EDIT: finally found it!

Steph's nickname of "Zombie Boy" for Jason is borrowed from @audreycritter's Cor Et Cerebrum series (which is a fucking masterpiece, btw)

This fic was gonna be called "Creatures of the Night" until batmoniker said Steph's line made for a better title

Several people have asked me whether Jason was really cooking Bruce's lobster to spite him, or if he was actually intending to make it for him all along. The answer is... both? Like Jason's kind of an unreliable narrator in that he's trying to convince himself that he's just doing what he's doing to be a little shithead when deep down it's all stemming from his need to take care of his family, you know? Like he'll never admit it, but that's where his heart is at.

To everyone who's asked for a part 2 where the family finds out Jason was kidnapped, I'm gonna be honest: the main reason I don't think I'm ever going to write that scene is because I can't come up with a good enough joke for him to make to accidentally out himself 💀

[esprei]

VOLO TIME *cue piano* OK SO... I’ve been meaning to write this up for a while now - my thoughts, observations and general musings on Volo (and maybe a headcanon or two?) (please keep in mind this will be very jumbled - literally just me trying to talk about why this character has grown on me and why I love him so much now so without further ado, let’s go! also, big shoutout to @sunnyluma for helping grab most of these screenshots tyyyyyy ;-;)

((under a cut because this will be loooong))

Ah, Volo... where do I even start?  I was pretty indifferent towards him at first and the same can be said as I played through the game. I honestly thought that he was just a Legends Arceus version of Cynthia, nothing more nothing less (since, y’know he had similar looks, mannerisms and things, not to mention the whole various characters as ancestors bit). For some reason gen 4 is the gen that resonates with me the least (I’ve uh... never actually finished a gen 4 game or fought Cynthia 😬), and while I do think Cynthia is a really cool champion and character in general, I definitely don’t feel a lot of the same hype for her that others do. So that, in turn, applied to Volo for me as well. It was like a... he’s just there kind of situation. But fast forward from finishing the game to hyperfixation on submas to maybe... two months ago? Three now? I dunno, can’t remember the timeline, but what I DO remember is looking at Volo one day and being like... wow. He’s cool. I like him. More specifically, I was looking at his character design sheet at the time. And in that moment it really sank in that, wow this guy is freaking tall. 190cm? equivalent to 6′3″? What in the world. And just... something about that cocky smirk of his in his artwork, coupled with the fact that it’s right next to his goofy Arceus cosplay with that hair... He hooked me. Seriously. Look at him:

(This outfit has also grown on me btw I unironically love it because look at him he’s in his Arceus cosplay and he confidently rocks it like i can’t-) Anyway part of it is probably because I love characters who have crazy or sinister expressions. They can be fun! So then I rewatched the cutscene that happens after you win against him and Giratina because I couldn’t quite recall the sequence of events that happened there and I was curious. And MAN I was shocked... I did not really remember ANY of this?? Seriously, there’s so much packed into these last few lines before he walks away (forever... sobs...). I feel like I really see a glimpse into Volo’s complexity during this whole cutscene. Or, at the very least, his insecurities. Just take the following for example:

HE LOOKS SO SAD... SERIOUSLY, this particular little scene always gets to me. Like... ok. Yeah, he not too long before this ordered Giratina to strike you down to get the plates because he said he wasn’t above using force to get them from you, but it’s here where I really see a guy who’s questioning himself in this moment. It’s like he’s putting so much worth into Arceus’s view of him, he’s so convinced that he’s the chosen one because of his bloodline that when Arceus doesn’t choose him he’s lost. Confused. Surprised Pikachu face even. 

I dunno... we unfortunately don’t have a lot of backstory on him, but I feel like this guy has (or feels like he has) a lot of pressure on his shoulders due to the nature of belonging to a bloodline that has pretty much since died out, save for himself and Cogita. Or maybe even that he put that pressure on himself? Which brings me to this... a scene that REALLY caught my attention when watched it again because I actually read what he says???

If you follow me over on twitter, you might have seen me talk about this scene a while back - more specifically what he says in the first two screenshots. It’s honestly one of the ones that led me to look into Volo even more because seriously... Volo. Who or what hurt you. What happened. Talk to me. PLEASE...

In all seriousness though, the lack of backstory kills me because I like to imagine something tragic happened to him in the past for him to have this viewpoint. And to not only have this viewpoint but to be driven enough to make a change in the world... err... rather, just make a new one!

But. Back to the lines after you defeat him and Giratina... what stands out to me here as well is Volo’s admission and acceptance of defeat. Watching it back the first time I was honestly a little caught off guard. He really kinda humbles himself and gives you the last plate, the Spooky Plate, admitting that his journey ended when lost to you. I don’t really focus too much on the other Pokemon villains admittedly so I’m not sure if others did this, but this sequence just stuck out to me because he gives it up after being so aggressive right before this. Like before he was confident, smug, hellbent on doing everything that he could to get you out of his way, you outsider, then when he Giratina ran off he was at first angry, then confused, questioning Arceus about it all, left with burning questions that he can’t bear not knowing the answer to... It’s like this man goes through the five stages in grief all in the span of like... 30 seconds.

Seriously, this man looks tired here. Done. Defeated. He knows it’s over.

He accepts it all, even if it’s just for a moment. ...Then right after that the Azure Flute forms for you and he’s right back to being an angry, petulant brat about it all... But that’s why I love him! He’s morally gray. He fights with himself, he fights with the internal emotional turmoil that he’s feeling about you being the one Arceus wants to see rather than him, about him not being good enough for Arceus to spare him even a second of its time, him thinking that he was doing something that needed to be done, rebuilding a new world free from pain and strife and other horrible things he’s had to experience, that others have no doubt experienced... (at least, this is what I see asfkldfj) And all of that, at least to me, makes him more interesting than the Volo I had first impressions of. Makes him feel more human to me. More than just “oh shoot, he’s the Cynthia ancestor who’s actually the villain instead of Cyllene!” Like... yeah. He made bad choices. He tried to use Giratina to strike you down. He wanted to subjugate Arceus and force it to create a brand new world, erasing the current one. Not a good look. I’m not trying to excuse any of that, and I’m not the best at organizing these thoughts probably, and I will admit that I also saw Volo as the manipulative, conniving guy early on because for me it was such a twist that he was the villain, so that’s what I focused on. And why he was such a great twist villain for me was because of the setup. By that, I mean you already had a well established character in Cynthia right - an all good, helpful, friendly and strong person - then you apply that to Volo and... boom. HE’S NOT THAT?? I was thinking at a certain point it was just going to be Kamado as the big bad because of the events that unfold, which is why with Volo it was EVEN BETTER because you had that sort of fake out I guess (for lack of a better term)? Kamado banishes you from Jubilife, Volo finds you in Obsidian Fieldlands and helps you, takes you to Cogita to help with the lake spirits and the Red Chain and all, you eventually hear that Kamado is going up to the temple to deal with the rift, then after those events Volo gets kinda sus at the Giratina statue riiiiight before you go up to the temple and then when you get up there... JACKET COMES OFF, OUTFIT CHANGE, etc etc. And like... I get why some people just do not like Volo and never will. I respect that. Trust me, I did NOT like Melli during the main game at all, I’ll tell you what. The little bit of background we get on him in the daybreak update was what changed my view on him, though. And for me what changed my general view on Volo were these scenes. I dunno, maybe I’m a broken record at this point, and maybe I’m a little biased now because I adore him, but I now see him as someone who maybe in the beginnings had noble intentions and just ended up going down the wrong path unfortunately.

Like... look. Right after he questions Arceus about what he’s lacking he asks this:

To me, he’s doubting it all now. And like the moments I mentioned above, him questioning the grand ol’ creator what it is he’s lacking, what makes him not good enough, we see a bit of his human side. Scenes like these and scenes like when he gives you the Spooky Plate lead me to think he has a lot of insecurities hidden underneath that confident (and other times cheery and playful) demeanor. Whether it’s a burden, an expectation, his own self-imposed pressures... there’s just a smidge that we can see and so much more that could be possible if he had more story elements focused on him. (WHICH IS WHY I WANT PLA DLC SO BAD I KNOW IT’S WISHFUL THINKING BUT PLEASE) I’d also like to mention that I think it’s very very interesting that his trainer class for his last battle is “Pokemon Wielder” rather than the “Ginkgo Guild Member” class he has for his other battles. I don’t feel like “Pokemon Wielder” is negative in its connotation - rather, I’d like to think that it derives from his bloodline, the Celestica people, and the thought that perhaps they were the first tamers of Pokemon in the land of Hisui. This thought is due to the fact that he’s excited to see another person (you) who uses Pokeballs for their Pokemon (rather than the Diamond and Pearl clans whose leaders and wardens do not use Pokeballs at all - with Ingo being the (other) exception to that rule of course). That coupled with the fact that he looks genuinely disappointed that more people don’t use them (this line here):

And, of course, how can I fail to mention his Pokemon team itself? Look. Really. If you know anything about me lately it is that I ADORE the idea of Volo adoring his Togepi. Which then would evolve into a Togetic through high friendship. And then into a Togekiss through use of Shiny Stone, but you get my point right? Budew into Roselia, Riolu into Lucario... Yes, I know, I know, Volo is Hisuian Cynthia so the team matches for the most part outside of H. Arcanine, and the joke about him gaslighting his Pokemon into evolving is funny on the surface, but in reality I think he genuinely loves his Pokemon. For goodness sake, there’s a photo of him and Togepi outside of the photo booth! And and and the standee that was recently announced as merch?!

LOOK AT HOW HE HOLDS LITTLE TOGEPI. YOU CANNOT TELL ME THIS MAN DOESN’T LOVE HIS EGG. LOOK AT HOW HE HOLDS EGG. EGG DAD. ...Sorry. Got a little carried away there. But yes! I think he loves his Pokemon, genuinely. Which is why it kills me when he says this:

Like bro. Your Pokemon were right there in that battle. VOLO PLEASE- (ALSO JUST A QUICK MENTION ABOUT THIS LINE, it also leads me to think that he’s kinda... always been alone for the most part, outside of his Pokemon team maybe 🥺 probably more of a headcanon than anything but that’s just how I feel sdflkjsdlfkj) Alright... I think I’ve said enough at this point and it’s a mess and I’m not too sure I can ever put quite how I feel about Volo into proper words because I’m not the best at this kind of thing but... I just want to say that he’s a character that I have accelerated in love and appreciation for because he’s just... I dunno, he’s got a lot going on. And I think maybe some of that gets missed because of his ties to Cynthia and his betrayal. But I’m reaaaaaally hoping to see him again in the near future. A random house in one of the cities either in the new region or in Unova (if we get B/W remakes) will suffice 🥲 So uh... YEAH. tl;dr I think Volo is a great character with a little more under the surface than just the villain reveal twist at the end of the game and I’m rooting for him all the way. Him and Togepi (Togekiss?). 

Alright. That’s all I got! Byeeeee y’all 👋

[alucarddear]

im loving the hc😗 i wonder how adrian acts when hes mad at “you” or reader? maybe fights about you investigating too much to his life

Angry!Adrian

Note: [You] Argument HCs with Adrian. Plus a little flashback drabble cause I can’t help myself, I like drama.

He usually has a lot of patience, but there are times when arguments do happen, as they tend to do with any couple. Even he has limits.

Rather than explosive anger though, he seethes with cold fury. It’s a lot more frightening. Even the room feels colder with him in it.

Don’t push him, really, don’t. 😬

He gets quiet, eerily quiet. You know he’s angry when his volume is even lower than usual—his voice is deep, almost emotionless. It’s different, colder than the usual soft voice he uses around/for you. He may even get a little sarcastic with you.

His body language is stiff, twitchy even, like an agitated cat. You know he’s uncomfortable, the way he keeps walking about, the way he tries to diffuse his anger by occupying himself with mundane activities. Only, they don’t always work.

His expression hardens. His jaw clenches, as if he’s trying his best to restrain himself from saying anything that could hurt you. He would never hurt you physically, but you know how cutting his words can get.

He is likely to attempt leaving or putting off the situation before it gets out of hand. He prefers having space, some quiet time to get his thoughts in order. But if pursued or cornered, he might snap.

In the rare instance that he snaps, that’s when he actually raises his voice, and it’s enough to scare anybody, including you.

The first time he snapped at you went a little something like this:

“Adrian, come back! We’re not finished,” you huffed indignantly, hurrying after his retreating form.

“Are you trying your hardest to vex me?” he turned around and snapped at you that one time, voice raised, cornering you against the wall.

Unaware of how badly he needed space, you’d made the mistake of tailing him and throwing questions after questions at him when he wasn’t quite ready for discussion. To you, the way he upped and left had been rude. But you realised belatedly that he had only been trying to protect you. That he needed time away to reflect and calm himself.

He towered over you as he backed you against the wall. His eyes were not the warm honey hue you knew them to be for his temper had coloured them scarlet. Adrian stared you down, leaving you utterly speechless, and for the first time, rattled by him.

“Well?” He hissed, fangs in clear view, leering at you.

He’d never raised his voice like this before, and you’d never seen him direct so much anger at you. Your lips started to quiver and your chest heaved. But as soon as the first droplets of tears escaped your eyes, he drew back with a gasp as if burnt by a consecrated whip.

“Fuck,” he cursed softly, regretfully, his face contorting with what looked like pain. His trembling hands then came up to touch you, so very slowly, as if afraid you would cower or flinch away from him, giving you plenty of time to push him away if you wanted to. You didn’t. You saw the concern plainly written on his face even through the blurry haze of tears in your eyes.

“I’m not going to hurt you,” he promised you, voice whispery and tinged with unmistakeable sorrow. “I am truly sorry, my beloved,” he said, grasping you by your shoulders. “I’m never—darling, I could never hurt you. I’m sorry.”

You believed him. You knew he would never. You hadn’t even meant to cry. You were simply startled, taken aback. You’d never pushed him this far before. It was your mistake to pursue rather than give him the space he needed.

You let him crush you against his chest, let him brush the hair away from your temple and kiss you tenderly there.

“Shh,” he murmured against the top of your head, cradling your trembling body in his strong arms. “Forgive me, I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” he repeated over and over until you calmed down.

When you’d calmed down sufficiently, he sat you down and held your hand. “I’m sorry,” he apologised for what must have been the hundredth time. “But please, my love, understand that I need to be by myself. Please, let me go and brood somewhere else when I’m angry.” I’ll always come back to you. You don’t have to see me this way.

You nodded, fully understanding. “I’m sorry, Adrian,” you said, eyes glued to the ground. “It’s not going to happen again. It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have—”

“No, don’t be,” he cut you off, bringing you closer to place a kiss upon your lips.

“Look at me,” he said. “I never want to see you cry. Never.”

It hurt him more than anything to see you cry.