#and then its a plot point where this happens to more and more of my characters later on but no spoilers

[yoiisa]

Hey Sofie!! Hope you're doing well! I wanted to make a request for a Wind breaker fic if that's okay!

Can you do a Sakura Haruka x Reader one where Reader's been pining (mutually but Sakura is so dense he doesn't even know what he's feeling) after Sakura for like a while. And like just recently figured out that they've liked him romantically.

I'm pretty sure you know how sensitive Sakura is to romantic stuff, and if you've read the manga, and has like a romantic sensor where he can tell someone has feelings just by the look in their face.

Now, what about Reader is trying their best to hide their feelings for Sakura and Sakura is like 'THEY LIKE SOMEONE?!' And that's the whole plot. They get together by the end of it.

IM REALLY SORRY IF I'M LIKE BEING TOO SPECIFIC ITS JUST THAT THIS CAME TO MY MIND AND I COULDNT GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD 💔😣

Feel free to ignore if you don't like this 🙏 Thanks for reading!! 🌹

this is so cute oml. it reminded me of this time I didn't realize a guy had a crush on me until five months after we stopped talking and my friend was the one who pointed it out (ᵕ—ᴗ—) im suuuppper dense irl!

➜ in my mind, the first person to actually bring it up to Sakura would be Nirei. Like, it would be as they're leaving school for the day, and you happen to be there ➜ here's the thing though: like you said, he can still tell something's up. that blush you're rocking doesn't go unnoticed. he just thinks it's for someone else entirely

"Sakura!" you call, waving your hand. Nirei, Suo, Kiryu, Sakura, and Tsuguera come to a pause as they see you walk over. You hold some small wrapped candies out to them. "I got these in a goodie bag from the arcade. I don't like these flavors so you can have them!" Sakura, cocking his head to the side just huffs. He can feel his face growing warmer by the minute, and he's not about that. He casts his gaze off to the side and huffs, "I don't want your leftovers . . ." but he still takes them! "That was really nice of Y/N!" Nirei says as you send them a wave and walk away. "What flavors did she bring?" Kiryu asks, peaking at the wrappers in Sakura's hands. Sakura rolls his eyes and practically throws them into Nirei's hands. "Tch. Who cares? She just wanted an excuse to come over here and see Suo." When the boys all freeze and stare at him like he's grown fifty heads, all he can manage is a flustered "The fuck are you looking at?!"

➜ and here's the kicker. this goes on for months. literal months of sakura thinking that you want suo, because every time you come over, suo just happens to be nearby. ➜ you also go to suo for advice on Sakura as well, so you're spending even more time with him through that, and it really isn't helping your case here ➜ all of the other boys can tell though, that it's sakura you want, but none of them say anything: nirei feels bad for keeping quiet and tries to change the subject whenever you come up, kiryu says you could do better (which sakura wholeheartedly agrees with, completely oblivious to what kiryu's actually saying) tsuguera doesn't really care all that much, and suo? ➜ SUO THINKS IT'S HILARIOUS ➜ always one to mess with sakura, he's taking this incredibly seriously. he nods in agreement with sakura's assessments, and moans about how "it's too bad, she's such a nice girl but I'm just no interested . . . oh what to do . . ." ➜ and sakura feels bad, so he overcompensates for what suo's "lacking" ➜ he's more warm with you when you walk up to him ➜ if the two of you go somewhere together after/before school starts, like kotoha's restaurant, he'll carry your bags for you. if you see something you like, like a keychain or even one time, just a really good looking apple, by the next day, it's yours. you get worried at first that sakura's spreading his funds low over you, but he just waves you off and says it's from bofurin's influence.

"Sakura, seriously?" you sigh as he holds out a tiny stuffie of a white puppy with a black spot on its eye. "I didn't even touch it . . ." "But you wanted it didn't you?" Sakura asks before gently tossing the small dog to you. "I saw you staring at it when we walked past." "Yeah, but I didn't get it because it's a collectors edition from this brand. This must've been crazy expensive!" Sakura just shrugs. "The owner of that store gave me a discount. Said his daughter knows Umemiya or something. Said he likes Bofurin . . ." You gently stroke the soft fabric of the dog's coat. you do really like it, and the asymmetrical design kinda reminds you of Sakura. Your eyes widen as a hand comes up and pats you. When you look up through your lashes, you see Sakura's face growing pinker by the second. You feel your own cheeks heat as he says, "You wanted it, Y/N. That's . . . that's reason enough." His words are hardly a whisper, and his voice is hoarse, as if he's forcing them out. Still, it's genuine enough that it earns a bright smile from you, and a soft "Thank you."

➜ eventually sakura reaches his breaking point with suo, because he wants you! of course he wants you, who wouldn't? you're smart, talented, and beautiful! suo is so ungrateful for not appreciating you properly, and sakura tells him as much

"What's your damage asshole?" Sakura grumbles one day as he pokes a straw through his juice box. It's hot outside, and he just got finished cleaning up grafiti on the side of some convenience store. "Hmm? What do you mean?" Suo asks as he wipes his forehead on the collar of his shirt. "If you don't have feelings for her, just reject her already," Sakura snaps. "It's worse for you to drag it out and make her think she has a chance with you-" "Who're you talking about?" Hiragi asks, unwrapping his ice cream sandwich. "Y/N L/N," Suo says. "You know her?" "Oh," Hiragi says. "Eh, not all that much. I saw her at Kotoha's restaurant the other day though. She was talking about some guy thing, but I could've sworn she said 'Sakura' and not 'Suo'-"

➜ oh lordy, poor sakura's brain just breaks ➜ like full on short circuits ➜ because what the actual fuck does hiragi mean you were talking about him to kotoha? that doesn't make any sense ➜ but when he looks up at nirei and suo, they're giving him knowing smiles. ➜ he thinks back to the past four months and how you were always trying to single him out from the group. he thinks about the sparkle in your eyes whenever you saw him and how you brighten, and how your smile widens, and how- ➜ HOLY SHIT YOU LIKE HIM-

Sakura body is moving before he can even compute anything happening around him. Suddenly, his entire being is on a one track minded sprint to your side, desperate to see you. You're standing outside, taking out the trash when he turns the corner to your street. You have lounge shorts on, a loose white shirt and your hair tied in a low ponytail. You fluff your shirt's collar to try and ventilate yourself better on this hot day, and as you look up, you see Sakura. "Oh! Sakura, hi-" You hardly manage another word, as he practically collapses onto you. His arms come around your shoulders and he squeezes. "You should've told me, idiot." "W-what?" you stammer, your arms coming up to his biceps. He huffs and pulls back, staring at you. His face is so red, he looks sunburnt, but you know he's just incredibly embarrassed. "I like you too, dumbass. So . . . so you should've told me! I was thinking it was Suo this whole time!" You give him an unimpressed look. "Suo? Seriously?" "Still!" Sakura cries out before shaking his head. He wraps his arms around you in a tight hug and huffs. "Whatever. It's over now anyways. I know everything and you know everything so we're good now." You return the hug, your arms equally tight and nod.

➜ around the corner, nirei, suo, and hiragi stand there, watching the spectacle unfold ➜ hiragi is just incredibly confused, but nirei looks close to tears of happiness and suo's messaging in a separate group chat with nirei, kiryu, and tsuguera. one that they made specifically to gossip about you and sakura

suo hayato: (one attached photo) SUCCESS! ദ്ദി´ ˘ `)✧

[dissidiacloudstrife]

kicks down the door: DISSIDIA MENTION!!!

this is my obligatory "go play or watch dissida/012 PLEASE i am BEGGING"

the main plot of the first part of dissida, is that the warriors of light are trying to find their crystals. so if youve seen the final part where it looks like sephiroth is giving him a materia orb, it's not. for the warriors of light to get their crystals, they HAD to fight their own counterpart for it to appear. light in dark despair and all that.

anyways this is from the first dissidia game, and at this point in the story, sephiroth ambushes the Lads:tm: aka the warriors of light from (firion (2), cecil (4) and tidus (10)

before this, cloud was traveling with them! so it makes sense why sephiroth had his eye on them. he didn't actually beat Lads:tm: and just stole the rose to lure cloud in the cutscene above! cloud just thinks the worse has happened, which is all sephiroth needs to give him a reason to fight. (or so he thinks anyways)

honestly the way the game works with all 20 characters (plus chaos and cosmos) is really well done. in the game, only some the warriors of darkness have their memories, so cloud actually has no idea about the connection to flowers and aerith. but WE DO as an audience. which is fun!

sephiroth also doesn't really work with the other warriors of darkness, which is so funny. he's very cryptic, and obviously only cares about cloud. even if you only watch cloud's and sephiroth's cutscenes (and the ones including tifa from 012 as well) they do such a good job of their characterizations that they had from their og games!

their interactions with the other characters is what makes them feel like themselves, cloud helps terra by fighting instead of talking to her because he wasn't sure what else would have helped her. (she was loosing control of her powers)

everyone makes the assumption cloud is strong and isn't afraid (like they do in the beginning of the og vii) when he has no idea whats really going on and is scared, and only knows not to trust sephiroth. he wants to have a real reason to fight, instead of just fighting for fighting's sake or because sephiroth says so, which is what kicks off firion's wild rose dream when they talk about it. firion wants to live in a world filled with wild roses, to not have to fight anymore, and cloud thinks its a nice dream.

anyways sorry for the ramble, i get excited to talk about dissida! regardless, yes its gay as hell even within the context. honestly a lot of sephiroth's scenes are more sephiroth being a cryptic gay. my favorite one is when he fights the Warrior of Light (1) and just Leaves after. and the Warrior of Light goes, "He Got Away." when he just. Left. Another is when Emperor Mateus and Ultimecia are talking to him, and Sephiroth says "Not interested."

like i just love this game and how well they interact with each other, even though this is just a fighting game! it's so much fun, and even if you only care about 7, it gives such a fun taste of the other games!

Wait when did Sephiroth throw a rose at Cloud???

In one of the Dissidias. I think Seph kills/defeats Firion (aka some dude from FF2) and since Firion carries a wild rose around with him everywhere, Seph dumps it at Cloud's feet to be like "haha I beat your ally what you gonna do about it 😈".

It's supposed to be intimidating. It comes off as gay af.

[bookshelfpassageway]

i'm gonna be the one insufferable bastard on this earth that liked everhood 2, huh

[asgardian--angels]

things I wish I could relive for the first time again:

that magical window where you finish a new piece of media, having watched/read it all by yourself with no fandom contact whatsoever, and you are just so happy about it, and full of interesting theories and takeaways, and just in love with it as a gorgeous piece of art.

because I swear to god as soon as you join the fandom for anything, you're bombarded with how you're supposed to view characters and their arcs, how you're supposed to morally and ethically judge the plot and the ways it apparently failed to present the right message, and if you don't you'll either be shunned for not sharing the popular headcanons or you'll be harassed for not criticizing the source material enough.

like how is it that the fans of a piece of media are also the ones being the most negative about it? If I like a show or a movie or a book, well, I liked it. That's kind of the point. I'm actually not here to tear it apart and talk about how it didn't live up to standards other people had! I enjoyed it for what it was, and forcing myself to find negative things to say about it doesn't actually bring me more enjoyment of it or reap any benefit to me. Fandom's a double-edged sword; you want to join a community to share your love for a piece of art, and the price you pay for a modicum of joy is a mountain of negativity. that's one main reason that I never engage with fandom until I'm completely done with a show, because if I was plugged into all of that commentary and discourse during the process, I'd be completely colored by how I'm expected to interpret everything this piece of art is presenting to me without being able to even form my own opinions.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I'm so heavily anti-advertising that all pitches sound goofy silly to me/I can never take them seriously, so I have no idea how I'll manage to to advertise my game even if I do finally finish it soon-ish lol...

[congregation-of-the-spiral]

thinking about writing a jmart fic inspired by my original story. would y'all read it or nah

[qprstobin]

Honestly I think I could handle how much I dislike the way some of biggest ships in the fandom were handled if this fandom still actually produced gen fics. Almost every single fic out there right now is only there to push people towards a ship in the end. Even the fics where it's TECHNICALLY gen always feels the need to sprinkle in a mention of a ship or crush. Like this show has always been about the friendships? The found family? How horrific things can bond you together? And with one season and within a year it feels like it's been completely wiped out from this fandom. it's honestly depressing at this point

[bonerot19]

unfortunately the worst part of becoming an adult is realizing you and your dad might always disagree even when you love each other, because he’s probably not going to change and you might not either

genuinely, truly, from the bottom of my heart, it's my dad's fault that I can't figure out how to write a happy ending to someday.

and maybe if I wasn't mad at him right now, in a way that I can't even begin to talk to him about, I could figure out how to fix things because it's fiction. I can do whatever I want!! I can make things happen that fix things. but, unfortunately, it's also fundamentally a fic rooted in reality. and, unfortunately, genuinely fixing things is rarely realistic.

this is what happens when you write things as a one-to-one projection, or even just a metaphor for your bullshit. cause then you have to try to fix it. horrendous. someone sedate me.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

rewatching 13s era for me is not so much diminishing returns as it is something opposite and eviler...............increasing losses? increasing losses

[pup-pee]

i h8 nightwing ((2016)) sm that i would reread it all over again just 2 make a list & point out all the things i dont enjoy in it

[themyscirah]

I'd like to state officially, for the record, that I think the Parallax retcon IS stupid as hell and if I worked for dc that garbage would be gone in an instant. Just like, FYI <3

[ragnars-tooth]

i completely and absolutely hallucinated the last time i read firestar apparently bc i was ten thousand percent sure russ shot beargstrom at the end. i thought that man was so dead. so imagine my surprise rereading tfe properly rn.

(i was already too confused by whos who irt the bears last time anyway so if anything its making me feel LESS stupid that i just misread a paragraph and fucked up the entire plotline for myself <- it will happen again)

consider this a public acknowledgment that it turns out idk what the hell is happening in these books, soz <3 i will continue to lie by accident and make shit up 🥰

[bakatenshii]

ANGEL YOURE BACK YOURE BACK YOURE BACK!!!!!:&/&&,&/@&;; oki so when I watched Arcane and Silco and the modified version of Viktor popped up I immediately thought of you. I was like….this is very bakatenshii taste. Silco is literally so beautiful. I am scrambling begging dying to find good fics for him

THIS IS SO AOOXPAIZOAISPZ THANK U <333 FOR THINKING OF ME OMFG i kneeee when i saw silcos scar and one eye i was donesies it was game over for me, they really ripped him straight from my cranium ughhg AND HES OLD. ive been rly enjoying me slightly decrepit miserable old men recently and he rly tickles my neuron heh

so very honoured that u thought of me omfg i think i just have such an obvious and consistent taste HAHAHAHA wait im gonna mention some spoilers in the tags ARCANE SPOILERS IN THE TAG !!!! (dont open them if u dont want to see them pls xx)

let me know if you find any good silco fics tho omg i am mmmmm

[tittysuckersworld]

just askin, hypothetically, what if i did make an alternate au + animatic of mizu 6 being angst and ena 5 not happening the same way.....

[cinnabeat]

i should relisten to season 1 of the magnus archives

[spyroz]

i need to make all my characters that live in between realities interact or at least draw them all together. this has been a recurring theme for me for far too long to not have done anything about it