#and so does Domi

[ayakashibackstreet]

(deep sigh) I need to make plushies of my OCs. I need to make them so badly.

[dissentersbedamned]

i realized as an artist i can draw whatever i want

art commissions

[goodnightsasuke]

watching noe get assaulted while Vanitas is w Jeanne is so horrifying VANITAS STOP CHASING PUSSY AND GET YOUR HEAD IN THE FUCKING GAME!!!!

[whomeekmanlarsson]

2 goals for Willy, 2 goals for Pap, 2 hooking minors for OEL, 2 assists for Mitchy. All thanks to 22 being in the lineup — who ALSO got 2 assists :))

Domi’s 300th assist + Mitchy’s 700th point!!

Welcoming Keefer back to Toronto by swEEPING THE SEASON SERIES <3<3<3<3

AND belt pick with 1634??? And, wait a minute–

[wholemeallbread]

ALL YOU GUYS ALL CHANGING THEMES TO CHANNELS OR IDK FIRST SIA NOW YOU, IS SOHPIE NEXT?

🤫🤫🤫 shh dont let the secret out

[littencloud9]

this fight is so fucking intense im gonna cry

[hawkeyefierce]

i think max’s cunty hat is here to stay and i for one am all for it

[3416]

I personally love that you can’t stand domi. Like you’ve picked ur hill and honestly go you. Can’t say I share ur view to quite the same extent but it’s fun to see a ‘this guy straight up sucks’ post from someone who loves so many other players 😂🩷 (love all ur other posts too!)

HFKSNFJSKDBDND i appreciate that 😭😭😭 it's kinda funny to me that there's even any sort of love for that man in the first place that like fbndndfhdj being a hater is so easy tbh and ever since the debacle on here where i was harassed for NOT talking abt him like. damn i'll just lean into it, who gives a shit... that man's not a leaf for life, like hopefully we'll be free of him next yr lol. they should spend his cap hit on d upgrades since they have all these up and coming forwards in the marlies n ohl. it's been easy to complain esp lately since auston's been a scoring machine and elevating his linemates to greatness and i gotta hear 4473883 ppl talk abt how 593411 are apparently god's gift just bc auston is willing himself to 70 with the end in sight... like when your own linemates haven't even assisted on half your goals during that time period, you're creating the chances yourself atp 😭😭 it's auston fucking matthews. but i'll be glad when we're done with this one so we can stop pretending like domi's anything other than a team hopping mid liability of an nhler who is good at passing sometimes and that's about it. and i will forget about his existence in due time amen. and thank you for enjoying the content 🙏🫶

[endosexual]

Whats w players getting hit in the nuts tonight?? First kane now macca....

[boundlss]

DAZE :  for one muse to wake somewhere and find the other hovering over them. | for antoine from domi?

"Dominique."

The moment her eyes open, Antoine has put on a cool, collected, and innocent smile. Not that he'd been doing anything particularly terrible to begin with---contrary to popular belief, Antoine does not believe himself to be sat atop a high pillar from which he heartlessly holds all of the strings.

Besides, even if he did hold all the strings, Dominique would be a little more like set dressing. The fact that he cares for her to some capacity doesn't change that she'd be absolutely worthless to keep in his deck of cards, in his current situation.

In any case, since she's useless, he's not there for any particularly nefarious reason.

"I see you're getting up incredibly late. I wonder if this is a habit of yours." He laughts, covering his mouth slightly with one hand. "Never mind; I'm here to invite you to join me for breakfast. It's been so long since I was last able to eat with you."

scenarios. / accepting.

[mayoiayasep]

i have so many thoughts about dominique's gender. btw

[panvani]

Person writing 2 paragraphs about how the way people treat Jeanne VnC is insaneeellyyyy misogynistic but somehow choose the 1 complaint that seems that it could be totally sincerely delivered in good faith

[prettygirl-gabi]

Title: Lucky Me

Pairing: JuJu Watkins x Reader

Fandom: USC Women’s Basketball

Raring: General Audience

Summary: juju’s very lucky… very lucky

🏷️: @isansstuff , @yailtsv , @nicebellee , @sitawita , @thatonesuschix , @vamptizm , @elalfywhore , @starfulani , @authentic-girl03 , @paige05bby , @paxaz535 , @azziswrld , @jadasogay , @paigeluvvr

The gym is still buzzing with energy from our win, the air thick with the scent of sweat and victory. USC fans are roaring outside, waiting for us to step into the tunnel, but before we get there, JuJu has me right where she always does—under her intense gaze.

We’re supposed to be answering questions at the post-game conference, but instead, she’s staring at me like I hung the stars in the sky.

Rayah, sitting between us, catches on quickly. “Yo, JuJu, you gonna answer that question or just keep drooling?”

JuJu doesn’t even flinch. She just reaches over, cups my face—right in front of cameras and reporters—and tilts my chin up slightly. “How are you this beautiful?” she murmurs, loud enough for the mic to pick it up.

A mix of laughs and “Awws” ripple through the press room, and I feel my face heat up. “Judea Skies Watkins, behave,” I whisper, smacking her hand away gently.

Rayah groans, rubbing her temples. “Y’all are so embarrassing.”

One of the reporters chuckles before asking, “JuJu, what’s it like playing alongside your girlfriend? You two seem to have a natural chemistry both on and off the court.”

JuJu leans back in her chair, grinning. “Man, where do I even start?” She turns to me again, and I already know she’s about to go off. “It’s the best thing ever. Not only do I get to hoop with one of the most talented players I’ve ever met, but I also get to share my life with her. Y’all see her out there—she’s a problem on the court, but off the court? She’s the sweetest, most caring, most beautiful person I’ve ever known.”

I shake my head, hiding my smile behind my hand, but she’s not done.

“I don’t think people understand how lucky I am,” she continues, her voice softer now, almost like she’s forgotten we’re in a press conference. “I’ve been blessed to have her since high school, and every day I wake up grateful. She makes everything better.”

Rayah exhales dramatically. “Bro…”

The room erupts in more laughs, but JuJu just shrugs like it’s nothing. Like she wasn’t just out here confessing her undying love in front of cameras and reporters.

When we finally escape, heading back to JuJu’s apartment, she’s still on the same type of time.

I’m sitting on her couch, scrolling through my phone, when she suddenly grabs my hand, tracing her fingers over my knuckles.

I glance up at her, already knowing what’s coming. “JuJu.”

She just hums, turning my hand over to press a soft kiss to my palm. “How are your hands so perfect?”

I groan, trying to pull away, but she grips my fingers tighter. “I mean it. Like, look at these fingers. They braided my hair last week, made me breakfast this morning, hit a clutch three in the fourth quarter—how are they real?”

“Judea…”

She grins, leaning in and pressing her forehead against mine. “Say it again.”

I huff, but I can’t help smiling. “Judea Skies Watkins.”

She shivers dramatically, eyes fluttering closed. “You got me weak, ma.”

Before I can respond, Deuce—her spoiled little Frenchie—jumps onto the couch, yipping excitedly.

JuJu immediately switches to baby talk. “Aww, Deucie! Did you miss your mommy? You wanna give mommy kisses?” She starts smothering his face with kisses, making him wiggle happily. “Who’s the bestest baby ever? You are! You are!”

I give her a look. “You’re ridiculous.”

She doesn’t even argue. She just grins and cuddles Deuce closer. “You love it.”

Later that night, I go live while doing Kiki’s hair. She’s sitting on the floor in front of me, and I’m parting her curls, waiting on Viv and Domi to show up with more braiding hair and gel. JuJu is still being JuJu, laying across the couch, eyes glued to me like I’m a masterpiece.

“She’s staring at you again,” Kiki says, amused.

I sigh dramatically, not even looking up from the section I’m working on. “I know.”

JuJu doesn’t even deny it. “And what about it?”

I shake my head, still focused on parting Kiki’s hair. “You’re in timeout.”

That gets a reaction. “Timeout? Baby, no—”

“You heard me. Timeout.”

JuJu gasps, clutching her chest like I just broke her heart. “Y’all hear this? She’s putting me in timeout just for loving her.”

The comments flood in instantly.

@USChoopfan: NOT TIMEOUT LMFAO

@JuJu’sWifey (not actually JuJu’s gf but we move): FREE JUJU

@RayRay’sluvrr: She deserves it, respectfully.

Viv and Domi finally show up, walking in with the supplies. The second they see JuJu pouting on the couch, they burst out laughing.

“What she do now?” Domi asks, sitting on the armrest.

“Existed,” Kiki mutters, making everyone laugh.

“She won’t stop staring at me,” I explain, finishing up a section.

Viv nudges JuJu. “Yeah, you gotta chill. Let the girl breathe.”

JuJu crosses her arms. “I can’t help it! Have you seen her?”

Domi groans. “Here we go.”

Viv smirks at me. “You really put her in timeout?”

I nod, smirking. “Had to.”

JuJu pouts even harder. “Y’all don’t love me fr.”

The comments keep rolling in, people eating up our antics.

@USChoopfan: NAH JUJU IS TOO FUNNY

@Kiki’swifey: Keep her in timeout for another 10 mins

@JuJuWatkinsFan23: She’s just a lover girl fr

Kiki snickers. “You gon’ let her out eventually?”

I sigh, pretending to think about it. “Maybe…”

JuJu groans dramatically. “This is the worst day of my life.”

Everyone cracks up, and even I have to fight back a smile. “Alright, alright. You’re free.”

JuJu perks up immediately, scooting closer like she’s been starved for affection. “So I can love on you again?”

I roll my eyes, but I don’t stop her when she leans in, pressing a soft kiss to my cheek.

She grins against my skin. “Lucky me.”

I shake my head, laughing softly. “Yeah, yeah. Lucky you.”

And honestly? Lucky me too.

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                 -Thank You For Reading!🩵🩶

                             -prettygirl-gabi🎀✨️

[selfshippinglover2222]

Hazbin Boys And Their Partners modern Music Taste

Alastors partner listens to Hozier, always humming and singing to his music. Alastor prefers jazz, so he was not to impressed by Hoziers more alternative songs. But sooner or later he’d get an earworm, especially after hearing you singing and humming the song. He catches you on the kitchen one night, singing a song from his new album, and he decided to join in, grabbing your hand and spinning you around as he softly joins you in your song. “You’re too sweet for me~”

Lucifer has not kept up with music at all. But he is very open and loves sharing music with you. He loves it when you sit next to him singing songs, showing him your favorite albums. Billie Eilish is your favorite artist so you share her music a lot with him. By proxy she becomes his favorite artist, her songs all reminding him of you and your happiness when you share her music with him. Now he sits making a new rubber duck singing his personal favorite song by her. “Birds of a feather, we should stick together~”

Husk always preferred jazzy songs, a song you would play in a casino. But he is open to any music you want to listen to. Mainly because he loves spoiling you, and when you’re talking about your favorite artist you just light up. So when you bring up Mitski with that look in your eyes, Husk listens in and even learns the lyrics just for you and the smile you give him for it. He learns to appreciate Mitsuki and her songs, even outside of you. “Domi Ti~Why not me?~”

Angeldust loves pop music to his core and you can’t tell me otherwise. He’s a pop girly and when you tell him your love for Taylor Swift, He immediately geeks out with you. You guys bond over the albums and which ones you like the best (he’s a Avid Reputation Stan), you guys will sing to her lyrics to your hearts content, just laughing and sometimes crying together. So now you guys are outside in the streets humming and singing to her songs like nobody else is watching. “The more that you say the less I know~”

Vox doesn’t have much time to listen to music, and he wasn’t big on it when he was alive either. It was just not really something he connected with personally. But he does find it pleasant when you sing or hum along to Chappel Roan. It’s a nice change from the chaos that Valentino brings, or the stern lectures Velvette dishes out. He’d never admit it but he looked into Chappels album after you started to get into it, just so he could feel closer to you. He found he didn’t really care much for it, however he liked the way you moved to her songs. It made his heart swell. So maybe while he was on his keyboard typing away, he started to absentmindedly sing a song or two. “H-O-T-T-O-G-O, you can take me hot to go~”

Valentino likes all music, there isn’t a type he likes or dislikes more. He likes music you can cry to, Music you can move to, Music you can fuck to-Just all kinds. So when you start talking about Sabrina Carpenter he is instantly curious and ready to learn about it. He immediately falls In love with her and her style, dancing and singing along with you as he learns the lyrics. He swings yo around the living room, hands on your hips as he grins and laughs with you. He adds her to his playlists immediately, intent on learning more. Now it isn’t uncommon for his to start singing her songs at random. “Have you ever tried this one?”

[neversetyoufree]

Since we'll hopefully be getting out of the VnC hiatus soon, and this new arc seems to finally be turning the spotlight back to Noé and calling out some of his more troubling traits for the first time, I've been thinking a lot about him recently.

I've talked before on this blog about Noé's inability to recognize or process bad things when they happen to him alone. He bounces back from and idealizes almost any experience as soon as it's over, even when he absolutely shouldn't. It's one of my favorite traits of his, and it's been lampshaded a couple of times in-manga. Louis calls out how weird his attitude toward his kidnapping is during the mémoire 9 flashback, and the "be a little bothered" from Vanitas and co in mémoire 57 has the same effect.

We also recently got a whole extended sequence of Vanitas and Domi complaining about how Noé also never anticipates harm before it might come to him. He waltzes into dangerous situations like it's nothing, almost as if he thinks he's unkillable. Combined with the above, this is just more of his strange brand of optimistic denial. Everything is fine in Noéland! It can't possibly not be fine! He always trusts and thinks the best of people and situations by default, never wanting to expect they may do wrong, and so long as a given event doesn't involve harm to external innocents and/or Noé's loved ones that he can't rationalize away, he compartmentalizes and denies harm once it's done. Thus he carries on in blissful ignorance, his past suffering having no effect on the blithe trust with which he treats the world.

But in addition to all that, Noé is also very notably divorced from the consequences of his own actions. It's not that he's *incapable* of considering his own effect on people, and he certainly tries to be kind and decent, but much of the time, it just doesn't seem to occur to him that people will have reactions to the things he does. He does as he sees fit, and when his deeds impact the people around him, especially if they produce a reaction that could upset him, it bounces off his mind in the same way that potential traumas do.

On the more lighthearted end of the spectrum, this leads to things like Noé never noticing when people are attracted to him. It may also have something to do with his airheaded messiness—the way he's always thoughtlessly making a mess of the hotel room and incurring Vanitas's wrath in bonus materials. On the heavier end of the spectrum, this causes a lot of genuine problems for the people around him. He's largely oblivious to the depth of Dominique's mental health problems until she's pushed to her breaking point at the amusement park, despite the fact that he's inextricably entangled in the cause of them. He also completely loses sight of Vanitas's reactions to him when he gets caught up in his protective rage at the start of the vanoé fight, and it takes an outside reminder from Jeanne and a literal mirror to make him realize that his own actions are part of why Vanitas has devolved to such a state.

This lack of self-perception on Noé's part feeds back into the other problems I laid out at the top of this post, his obliviousness toward his interactions with the rest of the world helping to facilitate his denial. It's part of the happy little insulating bubble that he interacts with the world through. And as the other side of that coin, his automatic, unthinking denial of things that could hurt him is part of what enables him to ignore his own impacts on the people around him. You can't reckon with or worry about harming other people when you live in Noéland where everything must be fine. I think the fact that he wants to be a good person that doesn't harm others actually makes it harder for him to confront the truth of how he impacts the world, because him hurting others is a Bad Thing that would cause him mental harm.

We've seen Noé mess up, understand his mistake, and apologize for it before. He apologizes to Vanitas for making assumptions about him after the bal masqué, he apologizes to Vanitas again at the end of the amusement park fight, and he apologizes to Riche for speaking with ignorance about dhampirs. However, I think the bigger a mistake of his is, the more harm it causes other people (and the more understanding would hurt him as a result), the harder it is for Noé to comprehend his wrongs. He's clearly trying to make things right with Domi, and he's told her that he values her, but I don't know if it's yet occurred to him to conceive of their mess as a situation where he's done her active wrong. He also literally passes out on her mid-conversation, leaving Domi and Vanitas to carry him back to bed when he was supposed to be comforting her.

But I think the most fascinating example, the moment where all this comes together into Noé's most feeble and blatant act of denial yet, is the first time he sees Misha after clawing up his face. The anime actually changes this detail, which is its own can of worms to get into, but in the manga, when Noé sees Misha's injuries in the light of day after attacking him, he immediately fucking turns around.

At the end of his wits at the amusement park, Noé claws a child across the face in a fit of anger and protectiveness. I'm not interested in condemning Noé for this, especially given that the child in question was actively trying to stab Vanitas at the time, but I will say that his actions are quite extreme. Given Vanitas's response and the way Misha's injuries are portrayed, I think it's clear that the manga wants us to see how Noé hurts Mikhail as something troubling and extreme. He gives that kid a pretty horrible injury, and Misha will likely have scars on his face for the rest of his life.

And regardless of how justified he may or may not have been in hurting Misha in defense of Vanitas, it's clear that Noé himself is upset by the true extent of what he does to Mikhail's face. When he looks at him in the light of day, when he sees a numb-looking child with his face wrapped in still-bloody bandages, though we only get to see a small segment of his face in that moment, he looks sick. He knows that he's done something troubling, and I'm sure he feels all kinds of heavy and unpleasant emotions.

This is one genuinely bad thing he's done that Noé cannot deny. He can't rationalize this one away and make it all copacetic. He can't conveniently forget the emotional reality of suffering and harm, because that reality is standing ten yards away from him. And he can't just apologize for things either, because apologies cannot undo physical harm, and frankly, I'm not sure he'd be able to give an honest apology for his one. Sickness at the results of his actions doesn't mean he fully regrets hurting Misha, at least not at this moment when emotions are still raw.

But Noé, confronted with this undeniable source of guilt and pain, is still ultimately unable to look the pain he's caused in the eye. A problem piercing through the happy veil of Noéland and forcing him to acknowledge it doesn't mean he's capable of reckoning with that problem. Instead he just. turns away from it.

Noé, forced to acknowledge a harm he's done and unable to employ all the many layers of automatic insulation that usually protect him, physically turns around because he cannot bear to look at the person, the child, that he's hurt. He employs the very last possible form of avoidance available to him, even though it's useless in the ways that matter. Not looking at Misha doesn't mean he gets to un-know the fact that he maimed him, but he simply cannot bring himself to look.

Noé is extremely good at playing "I do not see it" with things that hurt him. He's good enough that I think he has genuinely no idea he's doing it a vast majority of the time. Whatever mental shield he has that's protecting him is automatic enough that the badness that could hurt him doesn't ever even seem to cross his conscious mind. But no matter how automatic and subconscious, this tendency of his is still, and the end of the day, nothing more than an unhealthy coping mechanism, and this moment helps to put that to our attention.

What's the difference, really, between him cheerfully acting like Jean-Jacques and Chloé's assaults never upset him and him turning around so he doesn't have to look at the wounds he gave Mikhail? Noé can't look at pain, can't acknowledge the things he finds upsetting (at least not things that cause him alone pain, as others' pain often triggers his savior complex and spurs action). This scene with Misha throws that into the light, forcing Noé to desperately cling to his avoidance in an obvious and physical way.

Even when there's no way to deny the harsh reality of having done something he finds horrific, Noé Archiviste cannot make himself look directly at a painful truth, be it others wronging him or his own wrongdoing. It takes an external hand to step in and force him to turn his head and acknowledge/reckon with a problem. And even then, who knows if intervention can always be successful.

The start of the dham arc so far has drawn a lot of attention to this pattern of behavior, with Vanitas having to sit Noé down and explain to him in detail why his words said in well-meaning ignorance make Dante so upset. This is Noé being forced to look at a harm he caused because he couldn't or wouldn't look at and comprehend the problem (his fellow vampires' racism) in the situation he was in. But upsetting Dante is ultimately a low stakes problem for Noé. He put his foot in his mouth and offended a peer; he didn't shred Vanitas's little brother. He's able to accept his wrongs and feel his discomfort without resorting to physically turning around and avoiding the issue.

I want to know what Noé will do if/when this arc forces him to confront a source of pain he can't handle in a context that's more high stakes than a social faux pas. I want to see what he'll do when something really forces him beyond his ability to believe that everything is fine. How badly would he have to be hurt to lose his ability to filter an event/events through rose colored glasses? How badly would he have to hurt someone else? Or is his instinctive shield good enough that he'll never get out of it on his own? And if so, who else might step in to make Noé own up to reality?

Teacher and the Archivistes are becoming plot-relevant now, and our attention is being drawn to Noé's issues. I think there might be something coming soon that even Noé can't turn away from and cheerfully pretend isn't hurting him. Teacher even ends his appearance at the amusement park with a little speech about having to "wake and face reality," which makes me even more certain that a wake-up call for Noé is imminent.

Either that, or Noé's going to mess up and hurt somebody even worse than he hurt Misha later this arc, and in that case, we might get to see a feat of denial even worse than him literally turning around to avoid looking at the wounds he caused.

[hawkeyefierce]

woah 😳