#and then i strayed from the source material

[amorchai]

𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐀𝐒𝐒 ─ g.r.

pairing(s): glenn rhee x reader

summary: deanna’s son tries to kiss you but glenn steps in.

word count: 1326

warning/tags: established relationship, aiden tw, harassment ( aiden tries to kiss you but glenn stops it from going there )

abraham’s knocks against the thick glass of the grocery store sets the hairs upon your neck to stand as you await amongst the group for any lurking walkers to emerge from the building. two of the dead bump against shelves on their way to the source of the noise.

you watch as glenn and rick kill one each before everyone instinctively waits for a few more moments for any strays before following rick’s nod into the abandoned store. tara closes the door behind you as rick turns to everyone, “we’ll scatter and grab what we need, meet back here once you’re done.”

glenn turns around, like a magnet his hand reaches out to squeeze yours, there’s a small smile sent your way and you lean up to kiss his cheek before departing like the rest of the group in search for anything good to take for alexandria’s growing supply.

you’re unsure how much times goes by; minutes pass of you aimlessly swiping cans of preserved fruit and vegetables into your accommodating cart and all you can hear around is the clanking of food and drinks across the supermarket.

hope fills you at the sight of the chocolate aisle, layered with all different types of chocolate brands and flavours and you desperately push your cart to begin checking dates in faith to please people back home.

while tipping a few packets into the trolley, you jump to the sound of footsteps behind you and take your knife from your pocket to aim behind you. aiden, deanna’s son, lifts his hands in an act of innocence while wearing a smirk upon his lips.

you sigh in relief, storing your knife back before turning to your previous activity. when you lift another packet of chocolate chips, searching for a date of expiry, aiden’s arm slides into your vision. he slides against the metal of the shelf, his stomach against your hip.

without flinching, you glance at him from your distracted position before stepping away to create an appropriate distance. aiden, with no self-awareness, only slides to accommodate the gap once more, the material of his top brushing against your arm.

“i was wondering if we could have a talk, now that i finally have a moment alone with you,” you are already wincing at the man’s tone and words, having an incline of what he means. you step back again, facing him with a grimace as your lower back bumps the carts handles.

his head tilts, wearing a sarcastic pout before he replies, “don’t hurt my feelings, now. looking at me with your pretty eyes like that.” you shake your head, not giving him the satisfaction of a reply as you turn your back to him to make your way out of the aisle to find glenn.

however, aiden jogs to stand in front, a hand pressing against the trolley so you can’t move it away. stuck in conversation.

you roll your eyes, “aiden…” trailing off knowingly, and he chuckles, “you talk! thought you had lost the ability!” the leader’s son walks around the cart and towards your frame as you watch warily, his hand still grips the metal of the cart to ensure it stays.

his hand raises to reach for your face but you step back, back hitting the shelves in disbelief as you ask, “what are you doing?” he chuckles again, eyes not tearing from your face and your heart drops when you realise he’s making a move on you.

aiden’s face is daringly close to yours that you can smell the peppermint of his breath, your expression of unwantedness apparent and unable to hide. “c’mon, we both know you want me. i could treat you so much better than glenn could, if you let me.”

your shaking your head at every word that escapes the man’s throat, your own throat closed and holding you back from screaming for someone to see what’s happening, your voice only wavering in a short reply, “no. no, i’m with glenn. i don’t-”

he laughs again, quiet but sending chills down your spine, “stop acting like you don’t.” aiden’s hand reaches up again in an attempt to touch your cheek, you try to pull your head back but it only presses more into the shelf. his hand cups your jaw and you push his chest in attempts to move him. however, he only leans in closer to your face, but before anything else happens, he’s off you in a flash.

you watch as glenn pushes him off you and against the shelf you were previously stuck to, now standing in the middle of the aisle shaking, “what the fuck, man? what are you doing?”

his forearm presses against the collarbones belonging to aiden, keeping him pressed against the metal and shoves him harder when the man doesn’t reply, “what? suddenly you don’t want to talk?”

aiden raises his hands again in faux innocence just when several of the group come jogging towards the noise, daryl’s fists holding his knifes and rick has one hand on the holster attached to his hip, “glenn! what’s going on?”.

you don’t realise you’re shaking until daryl’s now free hand squeezes your shoulder and you instinctively take a step back to rest against the man’s side as he keeps you close while glenn replies, “sick fuck just tried to make a move on y/n!”

rick slowly turns from the two men and towards you, eyes dazed and angry, “did he touch you?” you could feel everyone’s eyes on you as you shake your head, “only touched my cheek, he tried to kiss me though.”

“i walked over and saw him pressing y/n against the shelf while she’s trying to push him off!” glenn spits and you’re sure you’ve never seen him this upset, daryl suddenly jumps from your side in a lunge towards aiden who laughs, rick holding him back when there’s a flurry of shouting between all the men.

“alright! aaron and eric, take aiden outside. we’ll gather the stuff and head back to alexandria where we’ll talk to deanna about what happened…” rick trails off harshly, glaring in aiden’s direction.

glenn looks to aaron who steps towards then, willing him to let aiden go so he can move him away from the situation but glenn only looks to rick angrily before his eyes softening when he glances at you.

looking back to aiden, glenn steps back to allow him some room and everyone watches as they watch one another before aiden suddenly raises his hand to punch glenn. dodging the punch, your boyfriend retaliates twice before daryl shoves aiden off, rick holding glenn back.

“enough! go wait outside,” rick shouts at aiden, before nodding to aaron and eric, “don’t let him near y/n.” at the mention of your name, glenn turns around towards you once more, walking over to hold the side of your face.

he looks over your expression, checking if you’re alright and when you nod he kisses your forehead before wrapping you in a hug, one hand holding the back of your head while the other tugs the cart closer when everyone makes their way to their previous spots, ready to leave.

“i’m sorry i wasn’t there,” glenn murmurs against your hairline, pressing pecks soothingly across it after he talks. your hands smooth over his t-shirt, shaking your head against his hold, “it’s not you that should be apologising.”

“he’s never going near you again,” your boyfriend mutters, pulling back to look at you properly, he still looks annoyed, his aching and already bruising knuckles grazing your cheek so gently as if you may break beneath the touch.

instead of replying, you lean up to capture his lips in a soft kiss which he retaliates immediately. you knew it wasn’t over, going back to alexandria to deal with telling deanna and then seeing what happens next. but you weren’t worried, not when glenn was there to always save the day.

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[aroaceleovaldez]

thoughts on the current state of pjo fanart and/or how the fandom interacts with art? sorry if this question is so vague HAHAHHAHAHA i mean we've talked a lot about this in the TA server, specifically how a huge chunk of fandom being a community is lost due to fanartists basically just doing their own thing and the audience largely crowding around fanartists that are more or less established already... i also feel that, same as with fic writers, reception (i dont want to use the word 'engagement,' nor am i sure on if it's the right word to use lol) has drastically decreased compared to before, even though the fandom is reasonably large

Oh i have so many thoughts about this. I actually went on a tag rant on my main blog the other day adjacent to this exact topic.

Basically my current theory is the current widespread-fandom "environment" that exists is a result of a combination of two things: 1.) Widespread social media purges of nsfw material leading to large swaths of fandoms moving to different platforms and a loss of old fandom history and means of communicating that culture to the simultaneous large new wave of younger folks coming into fandom for the first time, and 2.) fandom becoming more mainstream and the way "fandom" as a concept was marketed and presented versus fandom practically.

Cause the way fandom was marketed in the mainstream sense was "This is a subculture surrounding a media. It's all about the media. Fanworks exist but they're just a natural part of fandom - they just kind of spawn or spontaneously appear." There's no acknowledgement of the community that is the actual foundation of fandom (and how some fandoms don't even have a source material!), and implies that fanworks are something guaranteed that you can take for granted and only exist for consumption like the source material itself. It's commodification of fandom.

There's also the secondary aspect of that mainstream marketing of fandom which is the sanitization of fandom, particularly painting large swaths of the community as "those icky weird parts of fandom" and something to be ridiculed, rather than an actual foundational aspect - which is where we see a lot of the purity culture in fandom arise (between that attitude being fostered and the dwindling resources to be able to educate new fans across fandoms). And this once again leads me to my usual spiel of encouraging folks to watch The Fandom documentary by Ash Coyote on youtube - particularly from the 1:03:27 timestamp - because learning pan-fandom history is very important especially right now when we're in a fandom climate where we're seeing a lot of these exact topics and talking points coming up again in different spaces. I seriously cannot stress enough how much I need this documentary to be like base-level fandom education, it's so so useful and important to know general pan-fandom history and major experiences of other fandoms.

Aside from all that though, I totally agree that we've seen a lot more of fandoms - particularly Riordanverse fandom - rarely straying away from BNFs who already have an established presence. I again think that's part of how the lack of community in modern fandom spaces makes it difficult for new fanartists and writers and such to get a lot of traction or footholds, because nobody is actually going out and having discussions or sharing work. The BNFs a lot of the time have old fandom presence and that established audience is how their work continues to travel. But also in modern fandom enviornments they're often treated as secondary source material - which is really terrible for them! Because it's such a rude and entitled attitude to have towards fancreators! And it is absolutely worse for fanfic writers I think particularly because of how when the media presents fandom as a whole in the mainstream, fanfiction very often gets the short end of the stick and is mocked, so new fandom folks don't appreciate it as much or even understand how to properly engage with it.

Especially also given how, because new fans are lacking a lot of fandom cultural knowledge that used to be passed on, a lot of them don't know how to navigate fandom sites like Ao3 and the language and structures used (like tagging systems - most new fandom folks are more used to tagging structures like on instagram or tiktok which is to say, completely nonfunctional) and are struggling with that since the resources to learn about it are difficult to find if you aren't already familiar with fandom - which is exactly why i'm working on my riordanverse fandom infrastructure project.

[eudico-my-beloved]

I still have not found a new bedside notebook so instead im drawing in what little space remains in between all the doodles

[mrtequilasunset]

Okay I've had this project open for like. Way too long now and I've hit a brick wall with it but i still would like to share what I have so here's this idea I've been mulling around about the disco skills being court jesters. I only have the psyche skills done but hopefully soon I'll have the inspiration for the others and also fully color these. Enjoy

[flamboyant-king]

I re-isaac'd my Isaac designs so Isaac can Isaac freely. Also a continuation to Jacobs Drawing.

[gaylight-prairie]

Deer

[making-your-fave-in-fr]

Can you make Subject Delta from Bioshock?

I made Subject Delta from Bioshock in Flight Rising!

M Bogsneak (Glowing Light eyes) Olive/Stitched | Murk/Foam | Stonewash/Basic

Cobalt Steam Mask, Deepwater Fins, Stoneshatter Drill, Electrician's Power Pack, Silver Steampunk Wing Armor, Silver Steampunk Wings, Silver Steampunk Vest, Silver Steampunk Gloves, Silver Steampunk Spats, Silver Steampunk Tail Bauble, Black Lab Coat, Classy Pants, Glamorous Scarlet Spats, Powered Implants, Dusk Rogue Tail Binding

[kaurwreck]

I'm sincere when I say I don't know how y'all have the energy to scrutinize Mori treating his successors like they're competent when the Port Mafia's skill users have been culled thrice over within seven years by men who can't act right (Rimbaud, Verlaine, Shibusawa, Gides, Fyodor), and the longevity of the tripartite framework relies on Mori not patronizing who's left.

Especially considering, like, there are foreign military police in modern Japan, British Somaliland appears to still exist, and Ango has seemingly kept Taneda in a medically induced coma for an irreversible amount of time so that he can unilaterally leverage Taneda's fictional authority within a very-historically-real cabinet in the Japanese government that hasn't existed irl since the Meiji constitution.

Like, I'm not asking anyone to engage with media in any other way than the way they enjoy most. It's just. Has anyone else noticed bsd!Russia appears to have annexed bsd!Abkhazia and bsd!South Ossetia.

All of this to say: you don't really have to beat the same dead horses if you don't want to. If you do, then by all means, lay into Equus with your whole chest. But, also. There's a lot in bsd the fandom scarcely, if at all, touches, and the incongruity between the work's layers and worldbuilding and even niche fandom engagement with the material is stark.

[prettyinaccurate]

sorry team i posted cringe 

[cyrussoleil]

i think if i keep including my art program in my posts i can get away with never drawing a background

[blazefirefox]

posting this inside joke oc thing with my bestie bc honestly this is the best things my hands have produced while blacked out lmao

little blue guy (Megan) belongs to @mapalssyrup and pink lass (Molly) belongs to me :3

[sigmas-split-hair]

I don’t want I need BSD fans to realise that “Dead Apple” and “the soukoku scene” are not interchangeable words

Like yeah I thought that the scene was hinting towards something too, but you all do realise that the movie is first and foremost about Atsushi, right?

[perfectshepherdlawyerherring]

happy birthday 6.19.24

[dmdumouchel]

All I’m saying is what Christine saw when the mask was removed couldn’t have been all THAT bad, certainly not bad enough to faint

[starbound-rewrite]

Your Starbound rewrite looks cool, but why did you change Stolas's name? Is he not the actual Goetic demon in this version?

Yeah, this version doesn’t take place in Hell! because it’s Stella’s story, the I.M.P. plotline wasn’t really relevant, and from there setting it in Hell just muddled the worldbuiding. So instead we’re getting a generic fantasy-monarchy setting, but with furries that have species symbolism!

[curly-fried]

I think some people get like way waaay too mad when people ship a ship that they dont like. And because grown people in fandom are kinda childish, they always try to make up reasons why its unethical to ship like two adults who are not family or whatever.