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Proton packs can be set to explode, with multiple ways to do it.
First is a button on the back of the pack. This one produced a very big fiery explosion, but it was hooked up to the Ghost Bomb so that probably amplified the explosion past what it normally would be.
Secondly is a button on the thrower handle. The thrower button has a safety covering it that you flip up (the yellow switch that they usually use to activate their throwers), and an extra button to arm it (the red button) before you can start the self destruct (the black and yellow button). The other two methods donât seem to have any sort of safety. We don't see this method blow up, but as the destruct sequence is initiating, it produces sparks from the throwers.
Or thirdly a switch on the side of the pack. They don't really show this one well, the vampire that sets this one off is touching the trap when they say he flips the switch, maybe something with the red part next to the trap? This produced a decent sized explosion for being just one pack, and not amplified like the packs that self destructed with the bomb attached were.
The two buttons each take around two minutes before the pack explodes, with the switch itâs about ten seconds. (The Boogeyman Cometh, Ragnarok and Roll, and No One Comes to Lupusville)
#ghostbusters#the real ghostbusters#season 1#season 2#equipment#I suppose this could be multiple fact posts but I like having all the info together#boys why are there so many ways to blow up your packs#and only one of them has a safety???#and how is the thrower wired that the switch to activate it for normal use is also the safety cover for the overload??#Ray and Egon i think we need to have a serious talk
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for writing game, iwaizumi + assistance <3
hope this sparks some inspo and thank you in advancee
hi there!! thanks for sending in a prompt đŤś
contains: friends to lovers (ish), halloween parties, reader is dressed as catwoman, expletives, iwaizumi is thiiiiis đ¤ close to murdering seijoh4 (jk)
iwaizumi + assistance
this is a set-up.
iwaizumi knows he shouldn't have fucking believed anything the boys "promised" him back when they assigned him this costume.
the suit is fucking tight, spandex digging into his groins and all other crevices that definitely should be aired out after after a few hours. he's had to constantly readjust his stance almost every few minutes, the black fabric compressing his thighs and torso, significantly constricting the range of motion his shoulders and arms are typically used to. if anything else, it could double up as a back brace from how rigidly straight it's kept his posture all night.
he'll give it to makki though; he did outdo himself sourcing this year's costumesâthis batman set looks pretty damn legit.
except for one tiny problem.
there's no fucking pee hole. it's a zip-up, zip-down one-piece situation. and that normally wouldn't be a problem, except that oikawa "accidentally" knocked over a cocktail straight into his pants, the sickeningly sweet liquid now seeping straight into the fabric and past his boxersâcold and sticky as it touches his skin.
and so, the problem: his pants are wet, it makes him want to fucking pee, and coincidentally, the only vacant bathroom is across the hall, at your apartment.
this is why he believes this is a set up. that, and the fact that you're dressed in an outfit strikingly similarâjust with cat ears.
he's been asked five times in this party if you're in matching couple outfits.
it catches him off guard, flusters him because of how badly he wants to say yes. but, you're just friends, and he doesn't even think you like him that way (despite mattsun and oikawa practically begging him to confess. makki tells him he thinks you're going to do it first).
so he politely smiles and says no, but you look good, your costume clinging to you in all the right places. thank fucking god he has a cape because he's pretty sure he spent the first 30 minutes in the party hiding his boner.
"hajime, it's fine, i swear," you stand beside him in front of the conveniently locked bathroom in oikawa's apartment. from the other side of the door, he's pretty sure he hears mattsun and his girlfriend mumbling. maybe fucking? who knows. "you can just use the bathroom in my apartment."
he glances at you before closing his eyes, contemplating, before finally agreeing to you.
"okay."
if he's being honest with himself, friends is definitely an incomplete label to what you are. as oikawa's neighbor, you are conveniently around all the time; and oikawa being oikawa, the ever-social butterfly, he's somehow managed to carve a space for you in the friend group.
(never mind the fact that oikawa's sniffed him out from the moment he first introduced you.)
you were a crush, then a friend, and now you're someone he picks up from work and drives back home three times a week, because he "has to train oikawa." you don't question it, even when you both know he stays over for dinner way past the gym's open hours.
"you know where it is," you open your apartment and urge him in.
"sorry again," he turns to face you.
"yeah, yeah, just pee!" you laugh, shoving him towards the bathroom door.
getting out of the suit is manageable, and he's able to wipe off a bit of the cocktail that's leaked to the suit and his boxers just to make sure it isn't gross and sticky when he gets home later. peeing is a big relief once he gets it over with, but it's when he has to suit up again that things become difficult.
stretching out the spandex one body part at a time is a workout in itselfâthe hardest task being when he has to pull it over his shoulders, adjusting it to fit properly over his arms and chest.
but then the zipper breaks.
and he truly thinks makki has fucked him over.
iwaizumi contemplates what to do next for a good, good while. he tries calling oikawa, only to no success every time; no way in hell is he calling mattsun in the middle of having sex. and calling makki isn't even an option; he'd never hear the end of it.
then you knock on the door, your voice soft and concerned as you ask, "hajime? you good in there?" you hit it spot on, too, "do you need help with your suit?"
iwaizumi presses his palms to his eyes. he's a rational man, straightforward and logical in thinking. there is literally no other option for him right now but to ask help from you. again.
fuck.
.
it's 30 minutes later when oikawa barges in your door, and the sight that greets him is iwaizumi in nothing but a hoodie (the hoodie you borrowed some time ago) and his boxers, with his hands on your waist as you hover your hairdryer over the crotch of his batman costumeâcat headpiece off and all.
"you finally got together?!"
#iwaizumi x reader#hq!! x reader#shotorus.workbook#omg i hope u enjoyed this!! i had fun thinking it up ehehe and writing it#in my mind this is set in the same universe as the halloween one i did for mattsunâactually its the same party HABFHBSF#some stuff about the fic: iwaizumi is hot in that costume i spared the details bc i was going to combust MYSELF#but it clings to his muscles REAAAAAAL good and there's really not a lot of padding in the costume itself#bc makki believes in iwaizumi's anatomy enough to deliver#what happened in between iwaizumi asking for help and oikawa barging in??? we may never know đ¤ˇââď¸ kidding !#i just didnt write it in bc it would be too long but#if anyone is curious maybe i'll write it as a separate thing!#other stuff abt the fic: reader became good friends with oikawa first bc neighbors but then oikawa admittedly wanted to play matchmaker#so he invited reader a ton to their group things so he could introduce em to iwaizumi HAHA and iwaizumi crushed hard#they become close pretty quickly too hence why reader calls him hajime HAHAH and they hang out even outside of the group#theres definitely something like they text a lot and stuff but neither of them are sure of how the other feels so they arent admitting#reader has borrowed a hoodie from him tho#(aka the one he's wearing in the blurb bc it's the only article of clothing that fits him in reader's apt)#also they figured they'd just kill time by drying iwaizumi's costume bc for sure they couldn't chuck it in the dryer so the next best thing#was to just use a dryer and spot dry it#makki did source most of the costumes! except mattsun's and his gf's#uhhh they go back to the party afterwards but reader literally had to makeshift lock iwaizumi's costume with safety pins HAHA#i guess his muscles just be too popping đ¤ˇââď¸#fvntybomb#ask#rep#ask game answered
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there is a difference between being born to a throne, maliciously vying for a throne, stealing a throne, and having a throne thrust upon you when you are already in the midst of an identity crisis. And I fear Loki's place in the line of succession has people unable to differentiate between any of these
#you can't really argue he planned the extent of Thor's downfall#that was all Odin#Loki didn't force Thor to invade Jotunheim he isn't even the one who gave Thor the idea -- Thor did that all on his own!#that he was doing waswasa @ thor didn't help but wasn't really crime worthy on its own#Thor himself took time convincing the other warriors to be okay with the trip despite the treason and danger involved#like. what. Thor can't differentiate good advice from bad and is emotionally volatile and reckless and that's Loki's fault?#THOR was the one who got them past Heimdall too#the entire ordeal inadvertently showed off the favouritism Thor was receiving in comparison to Loki#even though Loki was the one supposedly so easily influencing Thor to such an extent#call Thor a puppet the way he--wait. no. that sounds weird. uhhhhh#you get the point#people will claim Loki was all up in there rearranging Thor's mental processes to cause his downfall#when really it was Loki doing the bare minimum instigation and watching things only devolve from there#because Thor WAS reckless and immature ?? and he WAS quick to anger and enjoyed exerting his power with violence ??#Loki didn't STEAL THE THRONE FROM THOR he literally just is implied to undermine the coronation#that's not even confirmed but we assume it's true that he let the frost giants in near the casket etc.#Loki has his own actual crimes that he did against Thor and hugging his bro's arm and saying 'you're soooooo strong and correct' was not on#even if you manage to argue Loki was cheering Thor on for the invasion (he wasn't) it was clearly to dob Thor in with Odin#which he did when he had some guard inform Odin#that Odin's chosen punishment was for Thor's disobedience aside stop blaming Loki for the damage ODIN inflicted on him#focus on Loki making up lies to Thor about how Odin died instead like at least Loki DID SOMETHING for that#you can even ascribe as evil a motive as you want there bc Loki was slipping fr#twirling his hair and telling Thor he's smarter about the realm's safety than the king was on the normal scale#you want to talk morals go look at how eager Thor was to invade mass destroy and massacre in the other realm#and expected Odin to 'finish them off! together!' bc he was power high on whatever bloodlust pheromones battle apparently imitates for him#sigh. this is why you can't have nice things Thor. no Loki you're barely any better. sit down. have a cookie.
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Everyone's all "just let the speedsters kill" and "they're subjecting people to fates worse than death" and "please god, why, death would be more merciful than this" but no one stops to think that they do kill, actually. Surprisingly often.
They don't go to extremes to avoid breaking some sort of 'no killing rule'. They go to extremes because they know death would be a mercy. That or they aren't emotionally capable of killing that particular person. Either way, there's no logic involved. It's pure unregulated emotion.
#Wally's options with thad were torture or death. the no kill rule wasn't even a thought#only reason he didn't kill thad was because as Bart's clone he was the last living part of Bart#he WANTED to#also barry has killed multiple people. hes not adverse to that at all#bart and jay fully tried to kill rival. they only stopped out of fear for Max's safety#wally and Jai tried to kill a gorilla guy one time too#anyway the no kill rule is not applicable to them#they don't kill people because they don't want to and they don't need to. if they need to or want to then they do#easy as that#dc#dc comics#the flash#kid flash#impulse#speedsters
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God it just hit me.
Names are power in VnC. We call the piece of the world formula that defines a vampire their "true name." Learning and altering a vampire's true name gives you near-absolute power over them. Vanitas hides his old name as part of his "Vanitas" personaâa defense mechanism to hide his vulnerable self.
And names are an axis of discrimination too. The main way we've been examining discrimination against the dhampirs is through the lens of vampires refusing to call them by their names. And Luna, the perennial outsider, seems not to have been given a real name. They certainly didn't have a name that they liked or identified with for most of their life.
So with all that context, even more than it might be in another series, Teacher's whole name shtick becomes such an insane power move. He changes his name constantly and will brutally punish anyone that gets it wrong. Nobody has the power that would come from knowing whatever his first/true name was. He has the physical and social power to punish and correct anyone that doesn't call him what he wants to be called. He is in complete control of how people address him, or at least close to complete control, which is such a big deal within this story.
#this was just gonna be a post about how it's interesting that names are the vehicle through which dham discrimination has been emphasized#and then I thought of teacher when I was thinking of counter examples#and then this hit me like a bus#if power comes from knowing someone's true name. and safety comes from hiding it#and calling someone what they want to be called/calling them their name is a sign of respect#teacher's found a way to ensure he gets all the safety AND all the respect#(if only out of fear)#also I realize me calling him teacher through this whole post might be a little ironic#but at this point it's just automatic#vnc#vanitas no carte#the case study of vanitas#vnc spoilers#vnc 62#<<not super directly. but with the dham name thing#english major hours#teacher my beloathed#comte de Saint Germain#the shapeless one
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(*i dont know what kind of dog huan is, but he sheds. a lot. caranthir just wants to have ONE (1) space thats not covered in shed fur)
assume this is in the context of a modern au, or else that everyone is miraculously back from the dead and generally getting along fine and in the interim aman has had its industrial revolution and produced a more eco-friendly equivalent to our technologies
dont take this too seriously or get upset if your blorbo isn't represented, i filled out the ballot on a whim lmao. if you have someone you are Convinced would have one that isn't on this ballot, please do mention it in the tags
#silmarillion#silm polls#polls#house of finwe#finweans#feanorians#nolofinweans#arafinweans#and for anyone curious about why i excluded some of them (i.e. my highly arbitrary headcanons im sticking to):#feanor and nerdanel have seven kids and two(+) crafts that utilize a lot of bulky materials. they dont have time for vehicular aesthetics#they have a 15 passenger vans for kid ferrying and a delivery-type van to move materials and Thats It#i honestly think finrod is too social for a car that only seats two#maglor has a minivan. i will not be accepting criticism or substitutions at this time. he needs the space for his instruments and kids#(where'd he get the kids? are they his? probably. maybe. dont worry about it. did you know that minivans have /so many/ cupholders?)#curufin also has a minivan because he has only one child but is completely obsessive about his safety. and minivans are generally very safe#celegorm refuses to consider buying a vehicle his dog cant fit into and has either a jeep or a toyota hylux that he uses to the max#maeglin has a nightmare car he cobbled together out of the remains of twelve different makes and models. its extremely fuel efficient but#visibly frankensteined together and he almost never gets asked to give anyone a ride to the airport#(jury's still out on whether that was an intentional part of the design or not)#i dont have a solid reasoning for leaving off findis and arafinwe. they just dont seem to me like they would#same for celebrian gil-galad or the rest of the great-grandkids. i either dont know them well enough or they dont strike me as the type#god these tags are ridiculous. okay cutting myself off now goodbye
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it was just going to be a few warmup doodles but then she infected the rest of the page like the ever eternal and spreading spores. hod!!! hod. hod :)
#lobotomy corporation#lobcorp#hod#hod lobcorp#lobotomy corp spoilers#I GUESS i almost forgot i drew her box form#lobcorp spoilers#and michelle actually. ..#both very tiny. itty bitty. microscopic#other sephirah there too as normal. i cant have her alone. and Angelina as well on the top patting her#i have a hard time fully capturing her for some reason. in my mind. maybe its because is the disconnected period!!! mentally#she genuinely wishes to care and be kind yet theres a dissonance with what she does..? or how it ends up being taken or what she does to en#up bringing those actions into reality. she can be forceful? wanting to have employees attend therapy sessions and meetings for suppression#tactics. which i think is also something the safety team is incharge of iirc. so that means shes doing way more that what she needs to on#her job as a sephirah. just for the sake of employees#she really does care as shes one of the only to Directly attempt to change their circumstances and quality of life and health#sure chesed doesnt punish employees when they dont do their work assigned or stress them out with work#but he doesnt actively push to attempt to make changes to aid employees besides the research perks which is to the manager#yesod IS right next to her and does also genuinely care but when it comes to employees hes distant at best when it comes to them and the#way he tries to protect them is by enforcing rules but he doesnt really create or attempt to help them like hod does#yesod is sort of a passive? way of doing it. yes he doesn make a push to enforce said rules but he doesnt make new ones. just follows what#is already there in place. hod tries to make new ways and not just for the safety of people like how yesod's has them physically fine and#not letting them over a certain threshold of mental corruption but she tries to have a program to Directly Address such a thing#its born out of care but the genuine worry of being a good person and her naivety ends up having it do more harm than good#sure there may be some employees that actually like and find it useful but so many are just accepting to their fate of Dying to where#her care seems pointless. shes a sephirah and to them a literal metal box why would they go ahead and feel bad for what an 'ai' is feeling#as she is interrupting their free time in the company#which is rude. and shit. iirc the counseling is compulsory but people go because shes a sephirah and their superior. the thought was there#but again it comes off wrong and ends up not working because shes their superior in the end#EEK!!! yeah... hod. the hod. there is WAY more but i can't fit it all here and i already typed enough
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Fluent Freshman - Part 19
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Thereâs a couple things about FF that might be good to know at this point.
1. There are few things in the world he hates doing more than asking for clarification or admitting he doesnât understand / know something. The thought of going up to someone and admitting that he hasnât perfectly comprehended the situation upon the first explanation is something makes his stomach twist like heâd just eaten Mango-Habanero ice cream.
He has figured out his own math theorems in the pursuit of not having to ask the math teacher to explain he doesnât understand. He got lost in an Ikea once for over 6 grueling hours where he considered making a home there and living among the display rooms until his grandma grabbed him by the ear and dragged him to safety (the food court) and let him regain his strength (eat Swedish meatballs). He, to this day, is not sure about one of his foreign language friendâs names (how embarrassing he just keeps waiting for someone else to say it but they go by some insane nickname).
So he has become a master of piecing shit together on his own. He sometimes gets it wrong (Andrew, god how embarrassing) but for the most part 8 times out of 10 he can get to the right answer if he just has a couple pieces to work with. No one had ever actually explained to him how Exy works and he was too embarrassed to ask after the third week of practice in middle school so he just pieced together what he was and was not allowed to do through the art of trial and error. Heâs even mostly pieced out the rules for the other positions.
So with the information he has gotten through people being bound and determined to talk in foreign languages in front of him he has an idea about the tenuous situation some of the older Foxes find themselves in.
Heâs heard Kevin Day and Jean Moreau talk in French.
Heâs heard that the anxiety in both of their voices as they talked about their futures and owing 80% of their salaries to the âMoriyamasâ and how nervous they were about getting on professional teams or else theyâd be killed.
Captain Neil and Andrew are not always using Russian to talk dirty.
Heâs heard Andrew soothe Captain Neilâs worries about playing for a professional team. Heâs heard Captain Neil mention that at least âIchirouâ would likely just kill him and not make a game out of it like his father did.
Organized Crime might have more to do with Exy than FF had originally thought.
(He had thought it. Plenty of times he had thought it but his Gran had warned him that he was overthinking things. That he wasnât playing a sport invented by the Mafia. That he had caffeinated coffee instead of decaf. âItâs going to be okay sweetie. Just take a deep breath.â)
This leads into the second thing you should know at this point.
2. Â Before he had signed with Wymack he had known the broad strokes of Captain Neilâs life. There had been a lot of news articles about it and Gran (bless her) loved trashy gossip magazines.
After he had signed with the Foxes he had done a bit of a deep dive on as many of their controversies as he could find. Thereâd been things from brawls on the court (worrying), player overdoses (concerning), a straight up MURDER (Oh god), and the very public breaking of the King of Exyâs arm resulting in his suicide (Warranted, that wacko was going to take off Captain Neilâs HEAD.)
But the thing that had made him actually a little bit, dare he admit, excited to go to Palmetto was the fact that Captain Neil was there.
For someone who froze for almost a decade, who just took it and didnât have the balls to even react? Neil Josten is an inspiration.
This is someone who got away, who lived a life completely unlike FFâs, someone who knew how to run and more impressively someone who learned how to FIGHT. Captain Neil was being hunted but he still ripped people to shreds in interviews. Captain Neil was probably more scared of the Butcher than FF had been of anything in his entire life but Captain Neil was way braver than FF could ever hope to be.
Captain Neil was taken and tortured but he still fought. FF had seen the scars and Captain Neil is right to wear them proudly (though based on some conversations he has unfortunately overheard he is sure Andrew may have a role in Neilâs positive feelings about them).
FF had thought that he was being lead to his death down in a basement of a club (Donât cringe. Donât cringe. Donât cringe. Donât-) and he just trailed right behind the two of them without even an illusion of a fight.
Neil Abram Josten was a bit of a personal hero.
Heâs proud to call him Captain Neil. He wishes Andrew hadnât been there when Greg had mentioned wanting autographs because FF wants an autograph from Captain Neil but now Andrew has probably mentioned it to Neil.
Long story short, FF had looked into a lot of details on Captain Neilâs case.
Including two of the Butcherâs top men who were still on the loose.
Romero Malcolm and Jackson Plank.
He keeps his presence low but no matter how many times he blinks the man grumbling in Italian next to him continues to be Romero Malcolm.
Moreover Romero Malcolm continues to grumble about the fact that he is having a hard time finding âNathanielâ and that heâll have to grab one of âThe Wesninski bratâs friendsâ to draw him out.
FF is a recently confirmed friend of Captain Neil.
FF who is standing next to this man, with his dick out, and trying to remain as invisible as possible.
After two shakes (Yes he was watching but only because he had to! He wonders briefly if he goes to the FBI if they would accept a description of Romero Malcolmâs penis for the wanted poster? Probably not but it is BURNED into his retinas.)
He watches as Romero tucks, zips, and then bypasses the sink entirely.
FF shivers at how unhygienic that is. Who RAISED him?
The door shuts and FF needs to get out of here ASAP but his hands are shaking with the sudden adrenaline of âOne of the FBIâs Most Wanted just took a piss next to me and is looking for me friendâ. He pulls his phone from his pocket and ducks into one of the stalls. Even if thereâs no door itâll at least FEEL a little safer, a little more private. He needs to warn Neil, Warn Andrew, and warn-
The door to the bathroom SLAMS open and music blares in (palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy-) and his phone slips out of his hands and into the toilet. There are footsteps coming towards him and FF digs deep.
Heâs in ultra stealth mode. He is the wall behind the wallpaper. Mantis shrimp can only dream of the color he becomes, the United States military have the CIA on the look out for him because heâs fallen off all conventional forms of radar and tracking.
He is a bargain fruit platter on a dessert table at a kidâs birthday party.
He is ULTRA stealth.
Romeroâs gaze glides over him.
Then the man leaves (STILL DID NOT WASH HIS HANDS).
His heart is hammering in his chest but he manages to reach down and grab his phone. Well, Coach Wymack had gotten the extended warranty at least. (âDo you know what these fuckers do to phones? Josten crushed his last year in a fight with the Baseball team captain.â)
His phoneâs extended dip into the toilet water had not done it any favors in working properly.
Well fuck.
He wipes his phone down the best he can. He wipes his phone down with some toilet paper before cramming it into his pocket (Sorry Nicky, heâll wash the toilet water pants if they survive).
He sees a flyer on the wall of the bathroom and starts to think of a plan.
He rushes out of the bathroom (he still washes his hands because he will not have something in common with a man on the FBIâs most wanted list and he just dipped his hand into a CLUB TOILET) and clocks Nickyâs wild arm movements and WORSE clocks Romero just 10 clubbers away.
He sees Romeroâs eyes lock onto Nicky and a smile that terrifies him.
Heâs out of Ultra Stealth Mode even if every atom in his body wants to run.
He is so stressed and panicked that he has gone beyond his bodyâs ability to process that so all that is left is determination. Heâs got a head full of a half-baked plan, a hand going to his pocket, a second hand on the only âweaponâ he has on him, and a stomach full of acid.
Heâs pulling his phone out of his pocket before he can really let himself think about it and walking up next to where Romero is standing. He holds his toilet water phone up to his ear and does the one weird social anxiety thing that he had never done before.
He pretends to be on a phone call.
âHey Captain Neil,â he says and in the corner of his eye he can see Romeroâs gaze shift from Nicky (surrounded by an adoring public, covered in sweat and therefore difficult to grab - a difficult target) to himself (alone, shorter, and probably looking like heâs about to pass out). âYeah I think Iâm going to take a break outside after I grab quick drink and then a water at the bar.â He says because he has to be the easier target and he has to go to the bar. âYeah, yeah, okay Iâll mention it to that bartender guy.â He says and pretends to hang up.
He turns and he walks towards the bar and feels his pulse in his throat go to the beat of the music (success is my only motherfucking option, failureâs not).
He only knows about the alley because in the car ride to Sweetieâs Nicky had mentioned that he wouldnât let FFâs first time be out there. He had been embarrassed but it was the only way he knew to get Romero out of the club and away from where he could hurt Captain Neil or anyone else in the pursuit of that.
He spots the bartender who had gotten the drinks for their table and his mind completely blanks on the name but the bartender sees him and smiles. âOh youâre Neil and Andrewâs new friend! What can I help you with? I thought you were-â
âHi, yes I am Captain Neil and Andrewâs friend.â He says a little loudly because he can feel Romero behind him and he does NOT want the man to know anything about where Captain Neil was.
âCaptain Neil? Oh wow thatâs adorable.â The man gushes. âWhat can I help you with? I wonât ask for ID for one of their friends.â He winks.
âIâd like to order the uhâŚâ he tries to remember the exact drink name from the flyer, ââŚthe deluxe chocolate martini?â He asks and knows he got it right when the bartenderâs expression shifts ever so slightly.
âOh yeah, how do Andrew and Neil feel about that?â He asks and oh great a coded conversation. Itâs nice to actually be having a real one of these for once instead of just perceiving normal conversations to have hidden meanings.
âThey donât know. They probably prefer that I order it instead of Nicky or Aaron.â He lets his eyes dart to the wide where he believes Romero is watching him.
âI donât know if thatâs true.â The bartender says, âNicky knows how to handle a drink and Aaronâs not a lightweight either.â He adds.
FF struggles to find a coded way to say âItâs not that someoneâs hitting on me too hard like the flyer mentioned. Itâs that thereâs a mafia hitman in your club.â
Finally after a moment, âItâs not the usual kind of drink they get.â He tries and the bartender looks confused by the statement, dammit. He struggles to find a different way to say it before the bartender smiles.
âYâknow youâre really cute.â He reaches under the bar top and grabs a piece of paper and a pen. âHow about you write down your number for me cutie? We can meet up sometime.â He says. âIâll get started on that chocolate martini for you.â He says.
HE COULD KISS THIS MAN.
âIâd like that.â He says.
He writes out a quick message on the small note paper.
âArmed. After Neil. Looked at Nicky. Iâm going to the back alley. Phone is dead.â
The bartender comes back and looks at his note. âWeâre out of chocolate martini mix, can I get you something-â He hopes the club lighting obscures how pale the man got, âsomething else?â He asks and FF can SEE his pulse.
âCan I just get some water then?â He asks.
The bartender nods and pulls up his phone and hopefully is dialing the police and hands FF a water. His hand grabs hold of FFâs âYou donât need to go out into the alley. You could hang in the backroom with me?â He offers.
There really are some kind people in the world.
âI think itâs better if Iâm not in here for a bit.â He says back and honestly he needs this kindness and he has a spare bit of courage, âWhatâs your name by the way? Sorry I missed it.â He says.
The bartender swallows, âItâs Roland.â He says.
âThanks Roland.â He twists the cap off of the water bottle and takes a sip.
He turns and pretends not to notice how Romero is trying to be inconspicuous pretending to be on his phone.
He makes his way over to the alley door and notices that Romero is tracking his movements but is not following him like he did to the bar.
His heart is pounding and he canât BELIEVE heâs doing this. He wants to run, wants to hide somewhere, wants to become imperceptible butâŚbutâŚ
He opens the door to the alley as the bass of the remixed song finishes.
(You can do anything you set your mind to, man)
He lets the door slam behind him and he is alone in the alley.
He was not expecting a van to come to a screeching halt in front of the entrance and for a different face to appear climbing out of the car.
Jackson Plank.
FF looks at the ugly smile on the man as he walks towards him with a knife in hand.
Okay now what genius?
MASTERPOST FOR ALL PARTS OF FLUENT FRESHMAN AU
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5/26/23: EDITED. Canât believe I forgot to put the Captain in front of Neilâs name on the meme. Iâm blaming the accidental early awakening.
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#Fluent Freshman AU#Is it a songfic chapter if it's only 3 lines? Experts aren't sure#Did I listen to lose yourself a lot while writing this chapter? Perhaps#If Nora mentioned something about Jackson or Romero in her extras I did not read it#Also gonna be honest here and state that I forgot the likely year that AFTG happened in and this is happening in 2010#So I guess this AU also involves a slight time shift#Andrew and Neil may have gotten lost in one another's eyes a bit down in the speakeasy#Really they're just being polite to get all of their PDA out of the way while FF is taking what might be the piss of a lifetime.#(They have no idea how accurate that might be)#Andrew is all set to kiss one of his favorite of Neil's freckles (yes he has ordered them from favorite to lesser favorite)#Then his phone goes off#He looks and it's Roland#Andrew: WTF is Roland trying to call me?#Nicky is busy being the Dancing Queen. If someone plays ABBA he will absolutely scream rn#I had considered a whole sequence of FF trying to get Nicky and Aaron to the safety of the backroom in Eden's#And Nicky just keeps reappearing on the dancefloor while FF is looking for Aaron#I was gonna use that simpsons meme where Moe throws out Barney and then Barney is just right back in the bar#But it got a little too crazy#But just know in this AU Nicky is canonically an excellent escape artist#Maybe Erik went through a bit of a magician phase and Nicky was DELIGHTED to be asked to be his assistant#Maybe that's how they got together#The inherent ROMANCE of magician and assistant#I don't remember if they ever really said in the books or nora's content#If I'm rambling because I forgot to shut off my alarm (Memorial Day 4-day weekend baby)#The fate of FF's phone may have been caused by some slight anger towards my own#RIP FF's Wymack phone (July 2010 - November 2010)#AFTG#AFTG AU#Andreil#FF - Pt.19
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ârequiem for methuselahâ crazy ass episode for many reasons. Kirk is being fully insane, like I donât actually think, even controlling for how quickly and easily and readily he seems to fall in love with anybody at the slightest encouragement, that heâd go that bonkers for that android woman he just met while everyone on the ship was this close to dying, but thatâs neither here nor there, because in the background youâve got an equally but much more subtly insane episode for Spock, who extremely uncharacteristically admits to experiencing an emotion (or nearly experiencing, whatever) and that emotion is ENVY of all things. And then spends the rest of the episode warning Kirk away from this new love interest (something that doesnât usually happen, even when Kirk has very inadvisable love interests) and is, in the end, the person who accurately identifies that Raynaâs competing love for Kirk and Flint is ultimately what overwhelms and destroys her with the most killer line in maybe history???
And then to wrap it up we get an equally uncharacteristic sort of denouement scene (TOS loooves to cut an episode off right after the actual climax, leaving little time for falling action or character reflection, or to stick a sitcom-y button on the end where the gang all smiles and laughs at their misadventures and everything resets to zero, which is not a criticism, itâs just the style of that era of tv, honestly) where Kirk is literally miserable over Raynaâs death (again, kind of unusual for a lot of his love interests, he tends to be able to move on pretty quickly) and Spock goes to see him and he falls asleep right in front of Spock (also odd) and then when Bones comes in to give the final word on Flint, Spock waves him off from waking the Captain (tender) and Bones gives him that awful speech about how itâs sadder that Spock canât even imagine the love Kirk felt for this random android woman than it is that Kirk lost her in the first place (debatable but also rude) and how his great tragedy is that he canât love at all like they can and how all he wishes is that Kirk could forget about all of this and move on. AND THEN, to have Bones leave and Spock go over to Kirk and very gently, tenderly, reluctantly touch him and put his hand to his forehead and tell him to forget and HAVE THAT BE THE END OF THE EPISODE??? What am I supposed to do with that??
#âthe joys of love made her human. the agonies of love destroyed herâ hUH. What a cool line.#hope it doesnât become some sort ofâŚthesis statement for you or something SPOCK#listen my number one beef with the way they write bones is that they just make him completely mischaracterize everything to suit the plot#this man is not an idiot he KNOWS Spock has emotions and just suppresses them#youâre going to tell me heâs been on that ship with Spock for years and thinks he feels no love whatsoever for anyone???#like even after what happened in the empath and in that episode where McCoy thought he was dying#he knows Spock loves people!!! COME ON#does he really just mean romantic love?? thatâs so boring WRITE HIM BETTER#also theyâre banking a lot on people remembering what the Vulcan mind meld is for that last bit#like I know it comes up a lot butâŚthis is 1968 or whatever. They donât have this shit on dvd to rewatch#youâre counting on really dedicated fan memory here or on people catching reruns#because otherwise it just looks like Spock waiting to be alone to touch Kirk as tenderly as possible and pray he forgets this woman#truly whatâs going on#anyway I kind of hated this episode#like quite frankly there was too much going on#are androids people? would Kirk fall in love that hard that quickly and choose it over the safety of his crew?#why wasnt the illness ravaging the crew a bigger deal??#they didnât even get into WHY flint was immortal#he was just a regular human and apparently the ONLY one who was granted immortality by the earthâs atmosphere#leaving aside the very creepy and very early born sexy yesterday trope going on throughout#but it was a really good Spock episode if you justâŚ.dont look at anything elseâŚ.#the writer for this one also did Day of the Dove and Mirror Mirror which explains a LOT#two other episodes that are interesting for the character dynamics but really chaotic plot wise#anyway imagine saying to Spockâs face that he has no idea what love can drive a man to do#one has to laugh#tos#star trek#as alwaysâŚ. Iâm sorry that Iâm Like This
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motherhood would only fix shen jiu if he was a girl mom tbh
#for everyones safety we better hope he only has girls#absolutely love fics where shen yuan is his son so absolutely not hating on thosr fics#ive read like all of them#but i dont think ârealisticallyâ shen jiu would forgive himself for bringing one of those creatures into the world#those creatures: men#shen jiu#shen qingqiu#svsss#original shen qingqiu#scum villian self saving system
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#buddy daddies#kazuki kurusu#miri unasaka#buddy daddies 1x10#for the better right?#just had to get this off my chest#as a child who prized access to my beloved people and routines and familiar places more than anything#i would have been absolutely DEVASTATED to find out that not only could I suddenly not go back to the place I had been living#but I would never see my parental figures who had been raising me for almost a year again#and not only that but they LIED TO MIRI about it being a SLEEPOVER to get her to go!#yeah four-year-olds wouldn't necessarily understand everything that makes that situation necessary#but they deserve to know in the larger sense that they're leaving so they have a chance to say goodbye#considering that Miri has already been sent away and rejected by one parent and that we've seen her abandonment issues before#I hate that they chose to spare the feelings of the adults by concealing the truth from Miri#it WON'T be 'easier on her' to hear that her papas told her she would have a sleepover and they will never come to get her#and she will never see her room or her clothes or eat Kazuki's cooking or play games with Rei again#it's not even a clean break! Misaki said she was going to keep Miri at the same daycare!#in worrying about Miri's safety and avoiding public meltdowns the adults are hurting her ability to trust in them#it never feels good to be manipulated like that no matter what the reason#but enough about me projecting#in which I babble to the world#memes
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- I understand how you feel, Yuma... and I don't want you to accept it. -
Rank 55: Yuma Jets!!
#Did you hear that? That's the sound of my soul shattering because of them#Astral's sorrowful gaze and Yuma's hopeless reaction#It doesn't matter if Yuma won the duel#there's no way for Astral to avoid his fate#and Astral has already accepted that dreadful future that was reserved to him#because it is the only way he could protect Yuma's world and his world as well#He wants to protect their worlds even at the cost of his existence#The fact that Astral sees himself as something small to sacrifice destroys me#for him his life is nothing compared to the safety of their worlds#and Yuma understands why he has to do that but how can he accept it?#how can he accept that there is nothing he can do to save Astral? How can he stand and watch Astral sacrifice himself?#it's unfair it's awful but there's nothing that they can do#that end was decided from the beginning#and it is made more painful because Astral has learned how to live thanks to Yuma and Yuma has got more attached to Astral day after day#and now Yuma has to watch Astral meet his terrible fate and Astral has to accept it because there is no way to fight it#the only thing Astral can do is ask Yuma to not lose his spirit his Kattobingu#to not accept that hopeless feelings to not let that sadness take over his heart#I want to hug Astral I want to hug both of them and never let them go#Every sentence in this scene is carved in my mind#especially Astral's ones because he accepts what will happen to him but there is also so much sadness in his words#he deserves to be happy I want him to be happy#yugioh zexal#yuma tsukumo#astral zexal#astral yugioh#zexal#yu gi oh zexal#ygo zexal#zexal manga#zexal manga spoiler
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something about qbad mentioning how much horror he put red team thru every time purgatory gets brought up... something about how proud dapper was of him.
like this is just my late-night read but- it feels like guilt qbad is trying to twist into pride. he keeps needling away at it. âi killed them all, over and over and over again.â âthey were hunted by a monster.â
itâs like- reassurance. like a nail heâs trying o beat into his head. heâs had SO much trouble with legitimately hurting his friends, despite making that vow all the way back when the eggs first went missing, despite all the tree talk and the promises to save the kids no matter what. He never faltered with elq, and that protected them. He keeps faltering now. Sometimes he doesnt remember the code, or cucurucho, or skeppy. But that doesnt matter, right? Because heâll protect the eggs. Heâll be the monster. he is the monster. he can and he will protect them even as his seams start ripping and he keeps breaking further and further apart. even at his worst, heâll do whatever he needs to protect the eggs.
heâll be the monster. wont he?
#qsmp#he loves his friends and he wants to hurt them#he loves his friends and he doesnt want to hurt them#qsmp badboyhalo#ita like. He was torturing himself with the soul vultures because he kidnapped ron and threw down some scary magma mobs#and then forever changwd rhe whole fuckin narrative with that appreciation room and bad remembered the joy of community#and then cellbit. Where bad was like âi see him destroying himself to get the eggs back and i know where that road goesâ#âhis loved ones dont want that to happen to him. i dont want that to happen to himâ#and then purgatory gave him the first actal legitimate lead for finding their kids and he just had to get worse#and so he fucking swandived into self destructive violence (and the cc was purposefully playing qbad more recklessly violent)#(bbgirl couldve been lured into a trap so so easily)#ive lost my point somewhere now im just rotating qbbh in my brain and all the parallels#ah yes. But now theyre out of purgatory. And he refuses to regret what he did because he *had* to do what he could to save dapper#and the other eggs#because he has a huge complex about being the âonly one who can protect the eggsâ because of a thousand little cuts and his mental health#issues. Like heâs Wrong bur its such a fascinating little direction for his character. Yes king burn thyself on the pure of protection#and then burn in a nuclear blast too because your self sufficiency left you to care for your egg alone#you can take care of the eggs. you can hurt your friends. look at how much you hurt your friends#look st the monster you are . your teeth are sharp and your claws are large#never mind that time you sent tina into a panic attack because you tried to recreate safety#never mind that your friends and family are worried about you#you are falling apart. but so many monsters survive the killing blow
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on top of this being the anniversary of the most traumatic day of my life which was followed by 6 weeks I was homeless and had a variety of traumatic things happen, we also got
me being due for my depo shot which means I will cry over things that are not worth crying about (the best example is probably the time I thought we had a frozen spaghetti meal in the freezer and started sobbing when it wasn't there)
finding out my estranged sister violated her probation (it's a long story) and even though I wouldn't have expected to have strong feelings about it it's still somehow like
my mom's dad might be dying (I haven't seen him since I was very young so I don't view him as much more than "my mom's dad" and saying he's my grandpa wouldn't feel right to me even if it's technically correct) and it's like the thing with my sister where it's not something I would expect to have feelings about but still do
We went into our apartment complex's office to renew our lease and they said they'd email us all the lease stuff to sign online earlier this week and it's probably nothing but anxiety brain go brrrrrrrr they're not going to renew it and you'll be homeless again!!!!
I truly feel like Luis Serra in this moment:
the bear trap is last years trauma, the ganado is everything more recent
#but wish them well has been my primary therapy song. especially bc im thinking abt my sister again. i miss having a sister. i miss having#nephews. i cant say i miss having a niece bc she was a baby i only met once before everything imploded. but im sad abt not knowing her#i miss having who i thought was a genuinely good person for a bil#and sometimes i just think abt WHY. why was my pos dad and his family more important to her than the safety of her mom and siblings#why did she sit back and watch my dad destroy my mom's life and by extension mine and my younger sibling's#so i rlly need the ''even the lost ones you can only give up on. even the ones that make you burn. thank your stars youre not that way. tur#your back and walk away. dont even pause and ask them why. turn around and say goodbye.''#and ofc the ''even though youre going through hell JUST KEEP ON GOING. let the demons dweeellll JUST WISH THEM WELL''#is always good
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Do y'all think object heads have a peculiar vision? Well I certainly do!
If DJSS is actually a supernova then assumption probably brings with it the idea they were a star, and being a star where it sends light in every direction and vision is directly correlated to light, what if that means omnidirectional vision?
#dj subatomic supernova#djss#no straight roads#nsr#fanart#a lot of notes i have in the image itself but i'll talk about them in the tags#i like to headcanon nova in youth was an o-class main sequence star aka big blue star that is bound to supernova#that shit is BRIGHT like 800000ish times our sun bright so even at a portable head size it's like a literal eyesore#kid to adult nova probably had to wear a helmet for others safety (an inconvenience to be sure)#but that would inherently condition them to have a more eye-based narrowed vision with a more frontal view of the world#which was helped a long way by being blinded by their own luminosity at the back and sides of that helmet#even if their vision was kinda dimmed and muted thanks to the visor being as shaded as it was#which is why when nova's a- well- supernova the interior of their hoodie not only is white but emits light#practically speaking it would be an inconvenience as the dj of a lowlit club but what if it was a habit that was a layover from being a sta#and to that: vision as a star and vision as a supernova are like two completely different logics#if a star is one celestial object that can view everything in every direction- a hot cloud of space dust is just trillions of staring eyes#compound eye having ass#from 20 or so years being blinded by their own light it does mean that not EVERYTHING has sight#let alone the 'used to be internal' contents of nova's head that kinda swirl in no particular direction#but whenever those blind spots happen to swirl their way up to the glass nova may get spotty vision#probably more a visual snow rather than any cataracts just because of the shear number of space dust particles#which means poor nova the dark gets littered with static and stargazing has a little more stars than they were used to#though it might also be because they aren't perpetually wearing sunglasses anymore but then again shades are different than visual snow#i have no idea where i learnt this (i think it was a humans are space orcs thing) that spacewalks can be utterly TERRIFYING#so i don't know if this was a nasa (or other space organisation documented) observation or general fear of space moment#but if folk are terrified with their binocular vision to float around in an ever endless void of stars and systems- how would nova feel?#i mean sure they utterly revel in space (they're an astrophysicist and ex-professor for it for god's sake) but they're now IN space#and it was just after bunkbed junction crashed their concert and took apparently their helmet and headphones as a trophy#bestie having omnidirectional vision in space is one thing it's another to literally have the place your vision comes from spread out!#i mean being the object that is their head it's not going to run completely away from them
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I just remembered they devoted a whole scene to Mike and Will burying a dead body for no reason other than to poke fun atâ
#byler#they said cliche gay tropes#we raise you mocking those tropes subtly through the plot#like did they really need to devote a whole scene to burying a dead body?#they could have left dude laying anywhere#couldâve just stored him in one of the trunks in the junkyard#it wouldnât have made any difference#fucking argyle joked about just writing their names on the makeshift gravestone#the scene was treated like a joke instead of them seriously needing to bury the body for safety reasons#it was a way to joke about how many viewers think Will is going to die#and follow the same trope every gay main character in mainstream media has before#where YAY they give us a gay character and get some brownie points from queer fans#only to kill the character off to appease the homophobes who make up the majority and would rather not have to actually watch a queer story#and the duffers are essentially saying#lmaooooo fuck that#and having it be both Mike and Will most prominently in this sceneâŚ#another fuck you to those saying that this love story is unrequited like every other story before it#theyâre laughing at yâall!!!#yâall as in ppl that are predicting the most cliche ending to the story#like do you think they would poke fun at a trope that favors straight characters over gay onesâŚ#only have a storyline that does just that?#the correct answer is no
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