#and there's a Lot going on there. it's just that the grossness is also there a lot

[shellybortpresents]

01: Do you have a good relationship with your parents? mom yes, dad no.

02: Who did you last say “I love you” to? husby <3

03: Do you regret anything? so much, lol but i'm doing the hard work to let it go, because some things are beyond addressing at this point. in other instances i did my best, and i still feel bad. both get me nowhere, so i do the work. hopefully, one day, it'll work :)

04: Are you insecure? not really, anymore. i guess slightly, sometimes... mostly in situations where i'm dealing with men who i can tell hate women and something important needs to get done. that's always hard. but in general - not really. insecurity is a huge life waster, and i spent enough time insecure in my youth.

05: What is your relationship status? insanely happily married <3

06: How do you want to die? in my old age after a long long happy life, in my husband's arms.

07: What did you last eat? coffee and toast

08: Played any sports? softball when i was young. i was so good at it.

09: Do you bite your nails? no, gross.

10: When was your last physical fight? never. i don't do that.

11: Do you like someone? i like almost everyone.

12: Have you ever stayed up 48 hours? no, i'd probably die. i've come close, but i doze off for small increments within days... i can't fully stay awake.

13: Do you hate anyone at the moment? just the dictator cheeto, and most men online.

14: Do you miss someone? my perfect angel niece <3

15: Have any pets? in my heart - still 6. currently in my arms - 2 </3

16: How exactly are you feeling at the moment? extremely sick. i've had covid for 14 days and i'm just getting worse. i think i have bronchitis or the beginnings of pneumonia.

17: Ever made out in the bathroom? lol ohhhhhhhh yes <3

18: Are you scared of spiders? more so than most things.

19: Would you go back in time if you were given the chance? 100% yes.

20: Where was the last place you snogged someone? oh gosh, it was 15 days ago, so i can't remember, but probably my hubs in bed before i woke up sick.

21: What are your plans for this weekend? sleep, and protect our kids during the 4th fireworks and fall out. we hate it.

22: Do you want to have kids? How many? no answer, no answer.

23: Do you have piercings? How many? just ears, 4. hoping to get my nose done... maybe on my 50th bday :)

24: What is/are/were your best subject(s)? it was always english/reading/literature. i was reading and comprehending at a college level in 1st grade. i failed practically everything aside from english, music, and photography, haha

25: Do you miss anyone from your past? no. i've made peace with those i did, and gotten back in touch with those i couldn't live without. i'm very happy with my life right now, i've done a lot of really hard work.

26: What are you craving right now? sleep. peace. health.

27: Have you ever broken someone’s heart? oh yes. i was being honest - i have many regrets.

28: Have you ever been cheated on? yes. more so than not.

29: Have you made a boyfriend/girlfriend cry? yes.

30: What’s irritating you right now? being so sick it literally hurts to breathe.

31: Does somebody love you? many people do and i'm so grateful <3

32: What is your favourite color? lavender, mustard yellow, blush pink, sky blue... they all swap places as my favorite.

33: Do you have trust issues? yes. one of the many things i work hard on in therapy.

34: Who/what was your last dream about? i was performing with renee rapp. it was so fun. for some reason i woke up coughing so hard i spit out some blood, no joke. i seriously need to go back to the e.r. but i'm so tiredddddd.

35: Who was the last person you cried in front of? my husband.

36: Do you give out second chances too easily? yes, but i'm working on it.

37: Is it easier to forgive or forget? forget. i really have to do the work on forgiving. i tend to be way too hard core about that. it's a flaw.

38: Is this year the best year of your life? in most ways, no. it's been the hardest year of my life. but that may also make it the best. plus, i'm still alive. so isn't every year of life the best? <3

39: How old were you when you had your first kiss? 12. then 20 for the next one. the first one was with a boy i loved so much, i didn't want anyone else to touch me for soooo long.

40: Have you ever walked outside completely naked? no. never. will never, lol. the world doesn't deserve that, haha

51: Favourite food? my mom's lasagna, and pizza. also french bread with really good butter goes sooooo hard. and chocolate.

52: Do you believe everything happens for a reason? no. i believe in action and reaction. i do believe some things happen because destiny exists, but definitelyy not everything.

53: What is the last thing you did before you went to bed last night? watched funny videos and played the times games with my husband whilst cuddling our kids, just like every night <3

54: Is cheating ever okay? Absolutely never. there's is never an excuse for disrespecting someone. all things can be done in kindness... even the hardest and most inconvenient things. grow up. be brave. take responsibility for yourself. don't be an a-hole. that's a young person's game.

55: Are you mean? as a default - no. when i feel extremely scared and threatened - i can be.

56: How many people have you fist fought? zero.

57: Do you believe in true love? 100%

58: Favourite weather? 68 degrees, by the ocean, wearing lots of layers, and hopefully it'll rain for part of the day <3

59: Do you like the snow? yes. but not driving in it. it scares me to death because of a situation that happened in 2023.... we literally almost died in a snowstorm. never again.

60: Do you wanna get married? i didn't, no. but then i met the right person, and it's been the best decision i ever made.

61: Is it cute when a boy/girl calls you baby? no. i don't think "babe" or "baby" are cute. it's infantilizing and uncomfy and lazy.

62: What makes you happy? more things than i could ever list, but the tops are my hubs, my kids, my niece, my friends, coffee, beach, movies, and gardening.

63: Would you change your name? no.

64: Would it be hard to kiss the last person you kissed? nope, i do it a thousand times a day :) or, i will again, when i'm better.

65: Your best friend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do? have a very strange talk with them, cuz they're gay.

66: Do you have a friend of the opposite sex who you can act your complete self around? of course. i can fully be myself around ALL my friends. they wouldn't be my friends if i couldn't.

67: Who was the last person of the opposite sex you talked to? my husband. what are these questions? from an 11 year old? haha

68: Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? my husband.

69: Do you believe in soulmates? no. but i do believe we're perfect for each other.

70: Is there anyone you would die for? i would die for most people <3

70 horrible questions ... Fuck it

01: Do you have a good relationship with your parents? 02: Who did you last say “I love you” to? 03: Do you regret anything? 04: Are you insecure? 05: What is your relationship status? 06: How do you want to die? 07: What did you last eat? 08: Played any sports? 09: Do you bite your nails? 10: When was your last physical fight? 11: Do you like someone? 12: Have you ever stayed up 48 hours? 13: Do you hate anyone at the moment? 14: Do you miss someone? 15: Have any pets? 16: How exactly are you feeling at the moment? 17: Ever made out in the bathroom? 18: Are you scared of spiders? 19: Would you go back in time if you were given the chance? 20: Where was the last place you snogged someone? 21: What are your plans for this weekend? 22: Do you want to have kids? How many? 23: Do you have piercings? How many? 24: What is/are/were your best subject(s)? 25: Do you miss anyone from your past? 26: What are you craving right now? 27: Have you ever broken someone’s heart? 28: Have you ever been cheated on? 29: Have you made a boyfriend/girlfriend cry? 30: What’s irritating you right now? 31: Does somebody love you? 32: What is your favourite color? 33: Do you have trust issues? 34: Who/what was your last dream about? 35: Who was the last person you cried in front of? 36: Do you give out second chances too easily? 37: Is it easier to forgive or forget? 38: Is this year the best year of your life? 39: How old were you when you had your first kiss? 40: Have you ever walked outside completely naked? 51: Favourite food? 52: Do you believe everything happens for a reason? 53: What is the last thing you did before you went to bed last night? 54: Is cheating ever okay? 55: Are you mean? 56: How many people have you fist fought? 57: Do you believe in true love? 58: Favourite weather? 59: Do you like the snow? 60: Do you wanna get married? 61: Is it cute when a boy/girl calls you baby? 62: What makes you happy? 63: Would you change your name? 64: Would it be hard to kiss the last person you kissed? 65: Your best friend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do? 66: Do you have a friend of the opposite sex who you can act your complete self around? 67: Who was the last person of the opposite sex you talked to? 68: Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? 69: Do you believe in soulmates? 70: Is there anyone you would die for?

[binmeister]

Office Worker AU - Headcanons

Saja Boys x Office Worker! Reader | Human, modern AU

Character notes and headcanons, things that happened, just yapping in general about this AU and what’s in it - entirely self indulgent and maybe even cringe but I live for the dumb cheesy and cringe stuff

Relatively open ended / casually poly - marked all NSFW / suggestive hcs with a warning at the front of the HC so you're welcome to skip over those

CW: contains suggestive and NSFW HCs and mentions of mature themes (R18+), MDNI, Fem! Reader, not proofread

General

Abby is the dad of the group with Jinu, Romance or you being the mum of the group, Baby is the baby and Mystery flips between being the goofy aloof uncle or an edgy teenager

Most of your friendship is based on similar humour and being able to talk about anything and nearly everything with each other - very open book policy in most cases, like to an unfortunate degree because it means the homiesexual humour or dumb humour comes out a lot (you partake in it as well)

There’s been a lot of instances where you or Abby would instigate an argument with Jinu and Mystery about whatever hyperfixation the guys had and you’d just sit back next to Abby and watch the two of them fight like their pride was on the line while smiling the entire time

Jinu and Mystery bag on you the most, they’ve known you the longest so it’s basically just the privilege they have which is a shared sentiment because you bag on them just as much

You all dote on each other in small ways, you and Romance fix up their appearances, Jinu and Abs eat your left over food for you, Baby does your guys’ work for you sometimes, Abs or Mystery carry your stuff for you pretty frequently and you all buy each other drinks / snacks 

They’re all great at karaoke and flex about it frequently - forced office bonding moment meant that the other people in your respective departments were also aware of this now

It’s spotted that the guys have painted nails in some shots, during HS and uni you used to paint their nails - Romance still paints his nails now and Baby lets you paint his nails whenever you want

Saja LLC - Gwi-Ma is big big CEO man and is surprisingly chill, none of you ever interact with him but he doesn’t ever really appear in the office (thankfully)

NSFW / suggestive - When you’re drunk you get very physically affectionate, normally just very cuddly and giggly but sometimes you get sloppy drunk and you’re coming onto them since you’re comfortable with them and it leads to a lot of things happening (make outs, potentially a little more here and there etc)

NSFW / suggestive - As adults you often all go to Mystery’s place to drink and he ends up having to take care of you all, you never break your overly affectionate habit from uni so occasionally they let you drink a little too much and you’re touchy feely with everyone (ranges from hugs to kisses on their cheek / forehead to a little more)

Jinu

Legal degree - minor in chem / physics (he seems like he’d be into science idk why)

He’d transferred to your high school and into your class in the second half of your first year, even though he was pretty and relatively popular with the girls because of it - he’s a total loser (endearing)

Like I feel like he’s a nerd archetype or into ‘nerdy’ hobbies so when girls would find out they’d either be grossed out because he wasn’t some pretty athletic tye, or they’d try harder to talk to him and he gets uncomfortable so one day you snap because you’re tired of girls flocking to your classroom to talk to him and you yell at them to piss off - something that everyone collectively remembers well because they’ve never really heard you lash out like that so the girls leave and go back to watching him from a distance and you end up picking Jinu up as a friend

Noticing the day after you’ve scared the girls off that he’s reading a manga series that Mystery likes, so you strike up a convo with him and he’s really excited to talk to you about his interest and you haven’t read it yourself but you know most of what goes on cause Mystery wouldn’t stop talking about it

His dad is out of the picture - mum alive and his younger sister is also alive and well in this, you’d all become close with them because you’d often spend time at their place and his younger sister adores you (she’s well aware of his feelings for you and really hopes that you’ll be her big sister regardless if you get with him or not)

Your first kiss is with Jinu when you’re both 17, Mystery had made fun of you two for not having kissed anyone yet and when you’re hanging out his house bc Mystery had extra after-school classes to attend you guys do it - it’s awkward the first time and you definitely accidentally bumped your heads against each other so he says ‘let’s try again’ and the second time is softer, his hand lifting your chin up as his head is tilted a little so your noses aren’t pressed awkwardly together

He’s pretty and popular with women but I believe ! that this man ! has never had a girlfriend before. before he met you, he wasn’t interested in girls that much - he had his mum and his sister why does he need anymore women in his life,, they’re scary enough,, then he meets you in HS and he’s like okay never have to pick up a new girl and then he steadily falls in love with you during HS and it lasts through to uni and it just keeps going

Realises he’s in love with you during your last year in HS, you were in the same class again and while you’re stuck on cleaning duty for your class one afternoon, he’s just watching you and the afternoon glow on you makes him realise that he really loves you and that scares him at first but he just lets it happen - knows that mystery confessed so he holds off when you’d told him that you didn’t know how you felt about love, has probably drunkenly confessed to you but you’d both forgotten

Pierced his ears in HS on a whim and his mum chewed him out for it but when he showed up to school and you did a double take and told him he looks good with pierced ears? best decision of his life actually

During uni for your first and second years, you’d often hang out together just the two of you or with Abs because mystery would keep flaking, so when he wasn’t getting dragged on dates with Abs he’s hanging out with you as much as he can

Can handle his alcohol fairly well, usually the second one after you to get wasted easily and he’s a giggly drunk that likes to instigate - can be really annoying sometimes because of it, also sings a lot more when he’s drunk

Him and Mystery share a lot of the same interests in manga, music, games etc so half of your time is spent listening to them ramble about their interests and by proxy it becomes your interest as you start complaining about plot to them or how one character is shit so it becomes an argument on who’s character is better

Visits his family on the weekend every couple of weeks, you and Mystery usually tag along to catch up with them

NSFW / suggestive - Whenever you guys got drunk together (uni and now) there’s a high rate where you’d make out or get handsy with one another, like you don’t think twice about it and don’t always remember what happens the next day but he definitely does 

NSFW / suggestive - you have given him head while he fingered you during one of these handsy nights (has happened more than once) - i won’t elaborate further on this one

NSFW / suggestive - bi curious in uni - made out with abs, him and mystery fooled around a little bit but it was a little awkward since they’re roomies AND long term best friends - probably considers himself bi with a preference for women

NSFW / suggestive - does not have much sexual experience, has no body count (you are the closest thing to counting as 1)

Abs (Abby)

Legal degree - major in law, minor in health and sciences or phys. education equivalent

You meet him in university, he’s in the same legal degree as Jinu and as an E - he had adopted Jinu which in turn means he adopted you and Mystery

At first you two weren’t too close because you’re kinda scared of how loud and rambunctious he is until you realise he’s a lot more perceptive and caring than he lets people in on, notice how he always neatens things up when people make a mess or how he always reaches a hand out to hold the table corner if someone’s bent down so they don’t smash their head when they get back up, a lot of small stuff like always grabbing you a snack you when he showed up uninvited

Even though he’s outgoing and likes talking to people, he’s actually relatively closed off and selective on the people he’s vulnerable with - the only ones that he’s open to is the other guys and you, everyone else gets the semi-fake and curated version of him that keeps them at a respectable distance

He’s the oldest out of you, Jinu and Mystery - born first (my HC alone) in the year regardless of your birthday

He takes Jinu out on double dates or rather, forces him to be match made with various girls he comes across because it’s been noted that Jinu hasn’t dated anyone in the entirety of him knowing you guys and Jinu finally confesses to Abby one day that he can’t do another date because he doesn’t want to think about any other woman that wasn’t you

Steadily develops feelings for you during uni but he has a lot of guilt about it because he knows jinu and mystery are also in love with you, but they all have a heart to heart about it and just let it out that they’re not gonna pursue anything until it’s obvious that you’re interested since the dynamic is too comfortable to break and it’s hard to gage where you’re at bc you’re affectionate with them

Does a senior-freshman buddy program where he brings Baby into the group, loves having his lil introverts to harass

I see him as an oldest of too many kids (like 4 younger siblings), big brother vibes and explains why he has that teasing older sibling thing going on - divorced parents but they’re on speaking terms (lowkey hates his dad)

Heavy weight. Definitely a heavy weight like, with his build it just takes him a while before he feels tipsy and even when he’s drunk as hell he’s still more sober than the rest of you - actually mellows out when he drinks but does like to humour people by pretending to be wild

Out of everyone he’s closest with jinu and romance, then you, then baby, then mystery - jinu’s his best friend in uni and romance is his best friend back in HS, when he was actively hanging around you mystery had been distant so he didn’t talk to him that much until your last couple year of uni and now in the office

Him and Romance have a shared apartment that’s extremely spacious but a little out of the way so you guys don’t really go hang out there unless it’s a vacation period / long weekend

No one really knows why he calls Baby by baby boy, baby man, etc - when you finally ask he shrugs and admits its because he likes to piss him off and then it just makes perfect sense after that

Bi, no real preference - he’s comfortable in his sexuality and doesn’t really care to prove himself on anything

NSFW / suggestive - He’s experimented with Romance in HS and in uni he and Jinu had made out once bc Jinu admitted he was a little curious, you find this out about him when you’re all a little tipsy and opening up about stuff to each other - Jinu confirming this too and they’re pretty chill about it

NSFW / suggestive - I have a drabble in my notes where you make out with him when you’re both drunk and almost sleep together the same night, but he’s a gentleman and makes sure you’re not doing something you’ll regret and it doesn’t escalate further - Jinu and Mystery would find out from a drunken confession from you a few weeks after it happens

NSFW / suggestive - Always keeping you by his side at parties and drinking less so he can make sure a repeat doesnt happen of you begging him to climb into your bed - he’d become near celibate when he realised he’d fallen for you cause he used to be into casual sex and non-committal arrangements

NSFW / suggestive - average amount of sexual experience, lower body count than Romance

Mystery (Minseok / Min / Myst)

Finance degree - minor in psychology

Been your best friend since primary school, you’d moved into a new area and were neighbours so your parents made you hang out so ofc he falls in love with you during that time and assumed it was a crush that would go away (it never did)

A lot of sleep overs growing up or just hanging out in general, was there during your first period and you were both freaking out on what to do bc why is your vagina bleeding - you both get given the talk and he’s got female hygiene products stocked in his bathroom at all times as well as a couple in his bag just in case you ever forget

Towards the end of HS and during uni he struggles with his feelings for you because he did confess towards the end of your time in HS and you genuinely didn’t know how to take it, you said you weren’t sure how you felt and you had cried because you didn’t want to lose him but you didn’t know if you loved him in that way but also you know it’s more than friendship at the same time - teens unable to understand complex feelings and also the added baggage of knowing him for so long so you don’t know if its feelings of familiarity of if he made butterflies erupt in your stomach

Certified introvert but great at pretending he’s not - out of your little trio he actually went and socialised the most in uni even though he didn’t really talk much

Studio apartment nearby the office that you guys like to go to as your main hang out spot after work

When youre all off work he puts his earrings back in, enjoying the familiar feel of them and he doesn’t really want the holes to close back up - also likes that you always look at him a little more when he’s got them on

Chaotic drunk - gets more vocal as he gets wasted but it takes him a while to get there, like by the time you or Jinu are gone, he’s a couple drinks out from also getting there

Pays the most attention to you, knows all your quirks and habits, knows when you’re lying - everything, same can be said from you to him so you knew long before he confessed that he had feelings but you’d been hoping maybe you were wrong

His parents are pretty good to him, he’s got an older brother that he’s not too close to - moved out early and they’re just naturally a little awkward around each other but generally get along pretty well

NSFW / suggestive - I HC that during university that he still hangs out with you and Jinu as his long term best friends - sharing a dorm with jinu, but he starts to sleep around and has a lot of one night stands so he can hopefully get rid of his feelings for you but it makes it worse as he imagines whoever he’s sleeping with to be you - for a brief time during uni he dyed his hair and changed his hairstyle (more fuckboy esque) and gotten his ears pierced - changed up his whole vibe but when he was in his dorm with you and jinu he’s back to his regular quiet and nerdy self

NSFW / suggestive - He meets Romance at one of those mixer events and then opens up about his love problems to him which Romance helps him through and the two bond about unrequited love and how to cope in a healthier manner - Romance pointing out that you never said no and its clear you do love him you just don’t know how to go about it, progressively stops sleeping around and getting black out drunk as he cleans up his act midway through your third year of uni

NSFW / suggestive - doesn’t label his sexuality bc he’s not actually sure, experimented a lot in uni but doesn’t really count it as anything that mattered because it was meaningless and emotionless sex

NSFW / suggestive - second most in terms of sexual experience, highest body count

Romance (Roman / Ro)

Marketing - has a degree in communications too

Oldest in the group, a year older than Jinu, Mystery, Abby and you

HS friends with Abs and had met Mystery in university during both of their whore arcs and he puts a stop to Mystery’s self destructive coping mechanism

Originally wasn’t at Saja LLC with the rest of you guys until a year later where he transferred into your company eventually after a company merger, originally just there for a shared company project

He develops a crush on you briefly but otherwise it’s actually unknown what he thinks about you in a romantic aspect, he definitely platonically loves and dotes on you but he’s never disclosed how he feels to any of the guys and is always able to avoid the topic if asked - the years you’ve been friends and hung out at work is when he starts to really develop anything for you in that regard

Is the most aware out of all of them how messy everything is but he lives for it, has reprimanded you for messing with everyone and pointed out that you may be hurting them without realising so you close yourself off for a period of time and become distant bc you dont want to hurt them by not fully reciprocating feelings or leading them on

He talks to you again about it and just says that let whatever happens happen then, bc even with the feelings it seems like everyone collectively just gets along as friends and aside from the romantic sloppiness of it - it’s clearly working for your guys’ friend group

Sometimes if it’s really quiet in the office he gets away with coming up to work on your guys’ floor bc no one really gives a shit as long as he primarily gets his work done - but there are a lot of instances he actually is just there because he’s supposed to be bc marketing and legal needed to run things by each other

Loooves to talk about gossip it’s such a fun thing to him, but if anything involves you or the guys he’s extremely defensive and will actually get violent with people that mess with you guys if he hasn’t already been extremely petty towards them (one time he had to give documents to someone that insulted you and he took the time to put each individual page of the 100 page document out of order so it’d be like 1 - 89 - 23 - 36 - 2

He likes to pretend he doesn’t know what’s going on but is very emotionally aware of people, likes to pretend he’s dumber than he actually is as well cause it lets him get away with things - mean streak when you cross him (never does anything to outwardly harm you or the other guys though)

Blended family - has step sisters and gets along well with them and his parents/step parent are really lovely people

Openly bi / pan, does not particularly care as he’s more interested in the connection than any persons’ gender - slow burner and does not fall in love easily but does entertain crushes etc bc he thinks it’s a little fun

NSFW / suggestive - is the most open about his sex life or his sexual interests, not to like a ‘always bragging’ kind of thing but more that he’s not opposed to answering questions anyone has because he doesn’t mind being informative

NSFW / suggestive - most sexual experience, average body count

Baby (Byeol)

Finance degree - has a few IT certificates under his belt as well (he got bored - probably wouldve been compsci but he didn’t like the program and swapped to finance)

He’s the youngest in the group, younger than everyone by a couple years - being a freshman when the rest of you are nearly in your 2nd last year of your respective degrees

Baby is an extremely efficient worker but youre all fascinated by him constantly alt tabbing and working on different projects at once bc he struggles to focus on just one thing - you gift him a fidget cube and he uses it basically all the time

Potentially has undiagnosed ADHD, no one can confirm it and he can’t be bothered to confirm it himself either - extremely poor time management which is why Abby being his buddy in uni helped him get socialisation in & you and mystery help him at work now so it works out that you guys give him a loose routine to follow

During one of the drinking nights you guys have he shows up and you’re sloppy drunk again where you’re overly affectionate to everyone and coo-ing at them bc you love them and you’re rambling and as it’s just you two for a moment he lets you kiss him while hes tipsy (he kisses back) then you’re just giggly the entire time as he gets steadily more n more drunk and you’re all just knocked out in Jinu and Mystery’s dorm - you’re his first kiss

Light weight! Cannot hold his liquor! Bro is tipsy from his first shot and he’s developed your same clinginess when he’s drunk so he’s always trying to be close to you or he actually initiates hugs with the other guys (Abby is like omg my baby boy..!)

Only child, parents were a little dismissive and he isn’t that close with his parents

Sweet tooth as well as liking spicy stuff, insane snacking habits bc of it like when you guys are off work this guy is burning through multiple packs of chips or going through a shit tonne of candy

Had a crush on you in uni - lingered til you graduated and he kinda forgot it existed when he wasn’t actively around you much, you didn’t really keep touch after uni cause he was more Abby’s friend than yours

Has a soundcloud, still occasionally posts his stuff there but it’s so far removed from anything he does that it’s actually hard to find 

Probably helps resolve IT issues on your guys floor now bc there’s a time where your pc is spazzing out and you look like you’re about to cry and before Mystery can flag down the IT guys he just steps in and fixes it for you (if it’s after you’ve grown closer he might peck you on the top of your head so you don’t cry)

Typical gamer guy - used to bring his laptop for LAN games when Abs’ dragged him to hang out with you guys if not just console gaming nights, high rank in any game he plays competitively and thinks nothing of it

NSFW / suggestive - Baby hanging out with you guys in uni against his will and one time when you all were drinking and he was just forced to hang out with you, the guys had all stepped out for fresh air / to go grab more drinks and you’d gotten whiney and complained about it being too hot so you took your hoodie off but your shirt had gone up along with it and he had the best view of your bra clad tits and you kept whining about being too hot as he wrestled your shirt back down over your body - he had jerked off to the mental image for over a week straight

NSFW / suggestive - ^ the above headcanon is why Baby abruptly gets up and goes to the bathroom when it clicks in his head who you are - struggled to recognise you in your work attire cause he was used to you drowning in one of the guys’ hoodies or usually baggy clothes and when he realises who you are his brain just blasts the memory of your tits and he’s gotta go rub one out

NSFW / suggestive -  has the least amount of sexual experience but doesn’t really care too much for it. 

Probably leans to demisexual with a bit of a preference for women but it’s hard to gage bc you’re the only person he’s really thought of in that way

[jujuberry136]

Murderbot 1x09, All Systems Red

Murderbot's quipping and conversational skills are put to the test, the GreyCris team makes a re-appearance, plans within plans are attempted, and we're in the penultimate episode that has a longer run time. I cackled, I cried, a good time was had by jujuberry. More behind the cut!

Things I loved:

Minor point, but I love the difference between PresAux and Corporation Rim in terms of outlook. Mensah asks about the probability of success and MB runs its Risk Assessment Module (aka chances of failure)

MB quoting Guarathin's line about eye contact back to him, brilliantly petty

MB casually listening in to Guarathin talking with Mensah in the ship, you can just feel it rolling its eyes (I already told you guys I can hear everything, why do you keep acting surprised?)

Everyone has a crush on Mensah, i'm glad this is canon

"As usually, humans were being hot messes" - that line delivery killed me. Anachronistic and kind of out of place? Yes. Funny? ABSOLUTELY.

Mensah's little recoil when SecUnit was telling GreyCris that its clients didn't realize it was rogue because the PresAux team was too self-absorbed was a great character beat

MB's reveal that it's plan involved killing all of GreyCris with the beacon to keep the PresAux team safe - and that was the only plan it could think of, but a "better" SecUnit might have come up with a better idea ("you get what you pay for")

MB's obsession with Sanctuary Moon yet again gets it in trouble... it really needs to realize that as "premium content" its possible that others will also recognize the names/story beats

I LOVED MB congratulating itself for its great conversational skills as we can clearly see its failing terribly

"Clasp hands?"

"There's a pebble in my boot"

"Yeah, why?" Do you think MB realized it spoke out loud?

Mensah's continued angst about MB needing to defend Sanctuary Moon

We get to see MB offering to help its fellow SecUnits hack their governor modules, hooray!

When MB shared the media with the other SecUnit as a distraction, a nice visual when the file sharing options "Accept Yes/Yes". Nice continuation of how Corproation Rim treats SecUnits (since we also got a scene in the cargo bay)

"My clients are the best clients" gross sobbing, just perfect with that musical theme and the catastrophic failure warning visual

Pacing wise, I do think this one had some issues in context of the larger show's runtime. I feel like the show wanted to have some tension about betrayal in the last episode, but just resolved everything pretty quickly in favor of getting through a LOT of plot. I really enjoyed 1x07, but part of me wonders if we might have been able to re-distribute the beacon plot a bit better across these three episodes.

One more episode to go!

[s3ashellss]

I haven’t uploaded in a while (sorry 💔) but I thought I’d make this post for anyone who actually gives a fuck:

Final Destination Deaths that will NOT EVER Happen To You

Because people either get paranoid watching the franchise (understandable) or are maybe just interested in reading about this??

Spoilers for movies 1, 2, 3, 5 and Bloodlines

1. Tod Wagner - Final Destination One

This is actually my favourite death in the first movie. It doesn’t need gore to be unsettling, and to me, is the perfect first death in the franchise. But it is also never ever going to happen to anyone ever 😭.

This death is very supernatural driven. Even if you did slip and get your neck tangled in a clothing wire, death was keeping that wire tight. In reality, death isn’t an overbearing sentient being. You would be able to quickly get out of that situation.

But what if it wasn’t getting looser? Well, it wouldn’t go tighter. If you slotted your fingers in between the wire and the front of your neck and pulled away, it would keep the pressure of the wire away from your airways.

Like I said, this is a very supernatural death and the chances of it happening are basically nonexistent.

2. Tim Carpenter - Final Destination Two

Let’s be so for real. Human bodies are not that weak. Glass is not strong enough to turn a human into tomato purée.

We have bones. 206 to be exact. Each of these bones are strong.

Glass is melted sand that is easily smashed.

Put these two together? Glass falls on your head and your skull causes it to smash. The worst you get is a lot of cuts. It is guaranteed and literally impossible for you to get turned into a strawberry slush puppie.

3. Ashley and Ashlyn - Final Destination Three

This is personally my favourite in the entire franchise. I get it’s basic as hell but it genuinely made me feel uneasy and is always a really tough watch.

Tanning beds are built safe. They usually have an opening you can open at any time and you’re only in there for as long as you set. And guys… don’t bring slushy drinks into a room with human air fryers 😭 it’s common sense I fear. There will always be a worker nearby too to not let any harm reach you.

The most harm you’ll ever get from a tanning bed is risks of skin cancer. But if you’re more concerned about turning into KFC, you’re safe.

4. Olivia Castle - Final Destination Five

Anything to do with medical procedures is a guaranteed inaccurate death. I love this franchise but they make things inaccurate on purpose to scare viewers.

Lasik eye surgery is just as safe as any other surgery. Your eye is numbed by anaesthetic. There is a surgeon at ALL TIMES. It’s too long to explain here but just know that this is the same as any other surgery - safe and literally done to help you.

5. Erik and Bobby Campbell - Final Destination Bloodlines

Going back to the medical related deaths. Ouch.

Erik first:

Piercings aren’t magnetic when they’re good quality. I mean, if you go to the darkest depths of temu to get your nipple piercings, sure, they could be somewhat magnetic. But piercings will never be magnetic enough to be forcefully ripped out by an MRI.

The wheelchair… yeah, no, I’ll admit, you are fucked. But they wouldn’t ever let a wheelchair in the room at the same time as a scan is happening.

And now Bobby:

Oh my god. This death is graphic and honestly gross as hell, but seriously? This is NOT happening 😭. Even if the spring was magnetic, why on earth would they let a vending machine in a room with an MRI??

MRIs will never go into research mode when there are people in the room that are not qualified to work with MRIs. Again, another sage medical procedure made unrealistic to shock audiences.

(Although I can’t be a hater because I really liked the MRI deaths…)

That is it for this. I know it’s not all of the deaths, but these are ones I’ve seen talked about a lot from people who feel that they could happen. Chances are SLIM. SLIMMMM.

Thank you for reading :3

[bonsaisboneyard]

Yeah, this.

There are plenty of explanations for the war, but they’re banal, unsatisfying, and complicated.

There were a ton of little reasons why a bunch of people wanted to go to war, from business/geopolitical interests, to the Bush family holding a grudge against Saddam Hussain, to the nation still processing the trauma that was 9-11, just to name a few.

Each of these reasons on their own wouldn’t/couldn’t justify a war, but what they did do was make a lot of people eager for one, and this made them motivated to find an appropriate justification (excuse) to go to war (this was also a time when politicians still put up a façade of propriety and knew not to say the quiet parts out loud). So that’s what thy did. They found those excuses (expanding freedom, WMDs, opposing tyranny), and we went to war.

This is a gross oversimplification (there were so many different and bizarre reasons why certain people wanted war), but it captures a number of the significant factors in causing the war.

But people don’t want to accept these reasons, because they are objectively absurd reasons for such a costly and catastrophic result.

I missed most of the Iraq war due to being a baby, but every time I read about it I start wondering why we aren’t all talking about it all of the time

[oldbutchdanielcraig]

Okay, I just watched queer (and you were one of the foremost reasons for this) and I’m seeing screencaps and gifs of their first time having sex but no one seems to be talking about the vomit. Hopefully I don’t sound like an insane sicko (and not in the good way). But like Eugene vomiting (probably bc it’s his first time having sex with a man) and Lee immediately taking care of him, and the gentleness and tenderness. Him rubbing his chest and specifically stomach…god. And him still being equally if not more enamored towards him. It was honestly a really touching, healing moment as someone with fairly severe intimacy issues. Being seen in such a visceral “gross” way and still being so deeply longed for and embraced. Also, “Do I smell like vomit? No” Idk why exactly that’s so hot but once again…god. Also I’m sorry this became really long and I rarely even sends anons and you definitely don’t need to answer it. But you seem like the kind of person who would be open to discussing vomit and I mean that as a high compliment. Anyways ❤️

NO EXACTLY!!! EXACTLY THIS!!!!

"do i smell like vomit?" / "no" is literally one of the most romantic exchanges of all time. there's a line burroughs wrote in the original introduction which has really stuck with me that says lee isn't looking for a sexual connection though he thinks he is — with the implication that he's looking more for a spiritual/soul connection. so i really think the vomiting/the caretaking/the uncomfortable intimacy enhances the experience tenfold for him!

this is especially charming to me because i headcanon allerton throwing up as an act of self sabotage because he seems aware that This is the night he's going to have sex with a man. and a man he likes no less! he eats more at dinner than he ever does, he drinks a lot right before he goes to bed ... i saw somebody say once that him asking how he smells is giving lee one last chance to back out before things between them change forever. and lee responds by jumping in head on. because of course he does.

this scene is also huge to me because lee is very selfish in his desires most of the time. he wants to be loved most of all which i think kind of clouds his vision and ability TO love because it makes him a kind of selfish lover. but he really isn't one at heart, and you see it here. him rubbing gene's stomach....... he would love taking care of gene so much all the time if gene would only let him.

anyway the vomiting is very important to me thematically and also because it's gross. i just think gross stuff is cool. and i will talk about vomit scene anytime ❤️

[ihopesocomic]

Super long ask? incoming oh GOD—

Maybe growing up is re-reading IHS 5 times and then realizing I’ve been living with a human Vicious for 18 years.

The things Vicious does to Hope really were some things I experienced myself; “discipline” that crosses the line and pummels your self esteem to the ground, invalidation of your feelings, struggles, boundaries and your body, claiming that I’m her possession, babyfication just to get followed by another beating session of self-worth and the occasional physical punishment that “you deserved”!! Yay!!! I literally can ramble more but I digress.

I’ve been wondering why Vicious’s dialogue sounded so familiar to me, then the line where she lambasts Hopeful saying “Why are you crying?” just after she mauls her verbally gave me a Vietnam flashback and I was like. oh. And the fact that I can see where it all came from both in the comic and my real life experience makes it all the more realistic.

It’s actually really confusing and also clarifying to kinda realize my parent was an abuser but also to have a large part of you think that I’m the problem. Maybe it was all actually from love and was an attempt to fix me and I’m just wallowing in self-pity, or maybe my thoughts are also a result of abuse and gaslighting. I still have no idea. It’s also bittersweet and a bit heartwarming to get to know that having sweet and good memories that you cherish with your abuser, and even still loving them, is possible, and that it’s normal to feel even worse just because of it. Like damn, do this comic and community make me feel a little bit validated.

I used to believe it wasn’t worth to do anything against what I experienced because it was just going to make things worse. A big part of me still does. But now I do think, at least a little bit, that I can actually do something to make things better for me, especially when I still do love my mom. Maybe I can talk about all of it to her again. If that doesn’t work, I could talk to my own Clevers and Storms and Adamants. Maybe cutting ties like Hopeful did could turn out to be the only way. But whatever happens, I just hope I can be more kind and brave like Hopeful is.

In short: thanks for my revelations if you could call it that, and for Vicious too. Even if she’s a really, really bad mom who gave me a couple of PTSD moments. Seriously, y’all are gonna go somewhere, I swear.

and you have to give hope a big warm mug of cocoa with a blanket and her friends to cuddle with

cat, rj, this is a threat

A lot of us in this community have bad relationships with our parents. I never feels good to hear about, and I'm truly sorry. If its any consolation, people have figured out that their relationship with their parent is/was abusive, and I feel like that's an important discovery to make, especially early on. Sometimes we don't figure it out till we're 30+ years old. But ultimately, we want you to do what keeps yourself safe. And if you have a support system, definitely use it.

If its any consolation, my parents and I get along better now than we ever have. It took a long time for them to come around and many years of resentment, thinking everything I did was specifically to hurt them, religious zealotry, the babyfication, and other things I won't get into. But they got there. It might've taken me leaving for them to start waking up to it. I never forgave them, but they /did/ get better. While I'm hopeful for parents in general, sometimes they just don't come around at all and maintain they've always been correct. It's important to consider.

This is why we can't get behind every single abusive parent plotline being one that insinuates "forgive your parents no matter what because they're your parents" or "well they feel bad for abusing you, so that makes it okay" or even "they died trying to save you, so this cancels out their abuse". Because it's gross for a load of reasons firstly, but importantly, presenting abusive parents allows people, especially young people, to recognize a threat. And sometimes constructive ways on how to deal with one. I think about people who have seen a piece of media, like MP, and messaged us saying "This is why I didn't realize I was being abused until later." So I can't put enough stress on the importance of diverse experiences in media. It's more important now than ever. - Cat

[croquettish]

You know, I have reblogged posts talking about preferring a Bisexual Hans read, and at the time, I was like "Well, something to consider." But I had not been clued in that it was a debate and now I'm wondering whether I missed some implication of it being a "better" and "more moral" read, and I actually strongly suspect it did now.

As a bisexual myself, I do go back and forth, because I can actually see all the signs of comphet affecting Hans and can easily read him as gay. But I also know that, well, being attracted to both genders and being comfortable with being attracted to both genders are too vastly different things, and so I can imagine overcompensation ocurring even if the attraction to women is there. As a young deep-in-denial bi, I tended to use any and all crushes I had on men as proof that I definitely didnt like women and I must have imagined it! 🙂‍↕️ I would have continued in deep denial if I hadnt.... had a dream... of kissing my best (girl) friend... and then more. Very hard to deny hard evidense like that to myself, you know.

So if Hans is hit in the face with his bisexuality like a shitton of bricks precisely due to the strength of falling in love with Henry, I think that would look pretty similar to him being gay and falling in love with a man for the first time. It could easily be either.

Shame to hear people are being jerks about it. I hope that with this ask you know, at least, that that positioning might only seem to have more support than it actually has, due to inattentive rebloggers like me.

I can definitely see both readings!! In no way am I trying to negate other people's interpretations of the character, the only thing I'm firm on is that we should all be allowed to have those interpretations (regardless of what they are!) without fear of judgment :D

A lot of the evidence I take from my interpretation comes from KCD1 (esp the DLC), and it actually hasn't occurred to me until just now that it's entirely possible that people who are so anti-comphet Hans never played the OG.

The post that I saw on my dash was a real rough read for me honestly, and the replies to that post were even worse. It left me feeling extremely gross. That said, I did not fault any of the people I follow that reblogged it in any way (which is good, because a fuckton of people reblogged it), I much more so took issue with the prescriptivist tone of the post itself and the people in the replies. So please don't worry about that!!

[crows-in-the-house]

hi hi hi hehehehe x3 saw ur hcs about the brothers with a popular mc and rlly liked ur writing and how u wrote them <3

was wondering how do u think the obey me brothers + datables (pls i need my solomon n barbatos crumbs) would react to an mc who's hands and feet get easily / constantly cold ? not in a cutesy mildly chilly way but in a 'holy shit did they take you out the morgue or smth 💀' typa cold

bonus points that when they sweat, IT'S COLD SWEAT. so now their hand feels like touching a slowly defrosting chicken lmfao (heavy projection on this one, basing off when someone told me my hands felt like the ones of a dead person. greatest compliment ive received)

anyways ty for reading and i hope u have a lovely next 24 hrs <3 may the local street cats never rejects ur pspsps 🙏🙏

Aww thank you! Sorry I've been on hiatus I had uni exams, but now that i have vacations i can finally finish my drafts

(I made only 4 guys tho, cuz all of them at once is a lot hahah)

pairing: Solomon, Barbatos, Diavolo and Mammon

tw: none

Solomon

mortified, he actually freezes for a second

tries to figure out what's wrong with them, tbh tries everything - medicine, superstition, checks out your whole family history up to Lilith

you have to stop him so he does not theorise that it's a curse from the Angels

maybe a better diet will make ur bloodflow reach the hands and feet?

he can make a curse to make it nicer, if u want

not that it's a problem for him ofc, his hands are also weird

in his case they are very boney and rough (bc of using all those wird things in the food he makes) so if you ever were selfcontious about your hands, he's going to grip yours thigly with a shiteating grin and say that now you can be gross together!

Bartbatos

actually concerned, at first he just thinks you must have tauched something cold like ice (or a melting chiken)

won't show that tho

will try to warm up your hands with his breath

his tea parties are more frequent now - when at first he would just do it once a month, to give you space, now it's once a week, so you can wrap your palms over the cup and drink the hot liquid

he secretly wishes to hold them but won't say anything if you won't do it urself

tbh he's also a cold handed person - baing a snake u know? so he's kinda thankful to know he's not the only one

maybe you would want some gloves? he could spare you a few pairs? (he secretly enjoys that option because that means you two will match)

Diavolo

will be concerned but somehow amused

do all humans have such cold hands??? Is it a defensive mechanism? Can you become cold on your whole body? Do you still want to hold hands?

His are probably very hot so he will joke that you two balance each other

He doesn't mind if your palms are very sweaty, he just finds it endearing to learn a new thing about you

Mammon

is the one to tell you ur hands are cold like the chicken (seriosuly???? xd)

and then he's going to panic, while blubering apologies and excuses

but he can get used to this, those are the hands of his human! He will cherish them, however they look and feel like!

(and he's even ready to lick them to prove it, might be gross, but at least it will make you laugh)

(hopefully)

if you want to he will buy you some handcreams that can help! (from shady "organic" sellers and witches)

[taylanix]

Hey guess what

Ramble time

Todays topic of discussion: My Rocket Raccoon design that I do not have a ref sheet for + some headcannons for this one

Aka this man:

His outfit takes from a variety of designs from the games, movies, and comics. Most notably his jacket, pants, and gloves are from rivals, and then the clothes underneath are inspo from both MCU and GOTG 2021 game. Goggles are from Avengers: Endgame (not pictured).

Fur pattern mostly matches rivals design with some tweaks. He does have a hole in his ear above where his earing is (again another design taken from both games). This hole is actually due to this Rocket's specific lore (which mainly follows MCU) where HE tagged him and when he escaped either he tore it off or someone else did (ouch). Example of when he had it:

(yes I want to give yall this image again. I love how innocent he looks)

If y'all would like I can make another ramble post over this version of events in this universe. ANYWAY BACK TO THE DESIGN.

Now this is just general design choices I do with rocket. First off is that his eyes are all red for most of the designs I give. His sclera is a bright red followed with the outer part of the pupil as a dark red and then the inner part being a softer red. The only exception is Celestial Rocket who has a different eye color (Yellow -> Dark pink -> Light pink). His eye shape is also very angular compared to more round. Most of his character design for me includes sharp points and spikey meaning his eyes should reflect it. The only time his eyes are not round was when he was a baby.

All my rockets have claws! Most of the time his claws are a dark shade of brown like usual raccoon claws. However some designs I give him white/clear claws bc it matches better with the color scheme. Going along with this is that his paws actually are two-toned. The top of his hands and feet are covered in his light brown fur while the inner/underside of his hands are the same color as his dark brown fur. This is to be like how actual raccoon paws are with having a darker underside.

Fun fact: The drawing below he does not have paw pads as raccoons do not have it them but they are in fact calluses. His hands are sensitive so thats why he wears gloves unless he needs to use his hands to see what he is doing.

Headcanon time:

He has decent eyesight but sometimes its strained. He owns glasses but doesn't like using them unless its for stuff up close that he cant make out. He does not defeat the tired dad allegations with his kid (Groot)

He is still very much an asshole to everyone but some people have it less. His favorite guardians are Groot, Mantis, and Nebula while his least favorite is Quill (hes still fine with him but likes the other 3 more).

I cannot for the life of me find the post but someone said that Rocket would love spicy food. I agree with that even though raccoons hate spice just so the imagery of white boy Quill dying to his food is funny. If someone has the link to the post I will link it here.

The underside of his hands are very sensitive to touch which is why he wears gloves. He hates it when any of the guardians (besides groot) or gross material touches his hand without his gloves. He often reacts violently when someone touches his hand without permission (often just a nip or claw swipe).

Overall bc he is an actual raccoon he is very sensitive to a lot of things which makes him easy to anger when everything at once is going on. No wonder he is pissy during fights.

Consider yourself lucky is he falls asleep by you or next to you. Groot is #1 at this ranking due to the closeness of the two while both Nebula and Mantis are tied for #2. Nebula is at number 2 due to her and rocket getting along and having to spend a long while together. Mantis is at number 2 bc she will just scoop him up and take him to watch stuff as a break. He often falls asleep when extra tired. The person in last place is drax. The amount of times Drax has made a reference to eating him/animals similar to him makes him not trust sleeping by Drax alone.

Continuing with the sleeping habits, when he sleeps in his hammock he is sleeping either one of two ways. First way he is on his back splayed out like he owns the ship. 2nd way is he's curled up with his tail by him/using it as a pillow.

He can grow a beard if he so does wish so (like 2021 Rocket) but chooses not to. Instead he has just barely any scruff.

He has a very fluffy tail bc I say so

As much as he represses it, he will make chattering and other raccoon noises when working. He eventually learns to actually use these sounds this on jobs with the others when alerting them of trouble, he's in position, or just to mess with them. Its great bc he sounds like an animal but he will get picked on if he purrs (he nearly bit off quills arm).

Thats all for now.

[cricky-butspicy]

I just imagine a roller skating date with the slashers

How would they be on skates

Also you know getting Soleil (and likely atlas and the reader) his very own skates I feel like using the rented ones he would simply cease to exist

Roller skating!!! Such fun, but I’m personally not very good at it, at least I wasn’t when I did it years ago! But it was still a good time when I was little 🥺

Atlas probably is just fine at it. He probably can’t do any impressive tricks or anything on them, but he might be able to figure out how to circle around you while skating! It might be some fun for him! Though, he spends most of the date helping someone else.

Soleil thinks the rental shoe system for roller rinks and ice rinks are disgusting. So many gross feet inside the same skates!! Not his idea of fun, so yeah, getting him his own pair at the very least would be a good idea, but he’d prefer you all keep your feet clean as possible and get your own skates!

But it wouldn’t quite be worth it for Soleil seeing as he’s not very good on skates, and if he falls and keeps doing it the first visit, it’s going to become the only visit for him. Not only is falling embarrassing and he feels like a baby giraffe falling from its mother while being born, but he bets the rink and floor are dirty as is. He doesn’t want to be on them. But at least he has fast reflexes so he can either make sure his fall is as graceful as it can be so he doesn’t get hurt too badly or he can grab onto the side of the rink to catch himself.

He’s the one Atlas is helping most of the date before Soleil gets frustrated and goes to just sit and wait for you and Atlas to go a few more laps before promising to buy him a fancy iced coffee. Like, we’re talking Atlas is trying to skate backwards while letting Soleil hold very tightly to his forearms. They fumble a lot, but Atlas makes sure he doesn’t fall when holding onto him, and the one time they did, Atlas let Soleil take him down so he made sure Soleil didn’t hit any of the floor with cushioning Soleil’s fall.

(Atlas later tells you during the laps with just you and him together that he thinks Soleil bruised him with his pointy elbow, but don’t tell him that. It’ll make Soleil more upset about fumbling them both so bad.)

In the future, it might be an Atlas and you only date to save Soleil the frustration and embarrassment.

[hydeandseek128]

Adding on to say: The last bit of Loopquest (the very end of Act 4) where you talk with Loop gives us some more insight as well, and I think that's worth looking into. In this dialogue, they'll always mention Siffrin looping back because of Kingquest and the Loop hangout, where Siffrin doesn't die, but they will also mention some of the other events depending on if you have done them: Bad Touch event, Stupid Rotten Adults, Sus Event, Sadnesses, and Ghosts. (I also think it's interesting that Mirabelle is the only one whose sidequest doesn't result in Siffrin looping back but that's a post for another time.) For all of them, it's something about the party/the person in question hating Sif or being scared of them, but for the Ghost event:

This is very notably different from the other events Loop mentions for a variety of reasons, but there are two big things that I think are important to notice (three, actually, but we'll get to that last one in a sec).

Siffrin is terrified of the ghost. On the surface, this seems like Siffrin's fear of ghosts (as confirmed by ID5) manifesting, and it fits with the dialogue we see in the scene. ("You don't know what they are, maybe they're dangerous-") However, I think this is actually more important than it seems. Again, we'll get to that.

Siffrin is insistent on knowing what exactly the ghost did. Notice his dialogue after it disappears.

Part of this is definitely concern for Mirabelle, but they keep pushing Isabeau in a way that seems out of character for him. What did it say? (What did it do to upset them? How did you manage to ruin this?)

This is pretty much confirmed by the Loop dialogue (aka the secret third thing):

The ghost version of Siffrin wanted to see the party, and Isabeau thought it was weird. (It could be "sad," but the word "weird" is repeated more throughout the event, so that's what I'm going for.) Isa thinks it's weird how Siffrin reacted. It's weird and sad and gross, and so they want to move on. Maybe it's not that they don't care, it's something worse.

Loop's response really seals the deal here.

Loop says a lot of stuff that they don't take back - the moment that comes to mind is the Act 4-exclusive chat you can have with them if you kept the dagger.

There's some other stuff as well - blaming Siffrin for their role in the end of Kingquest, namely - but this is a big one to me. Loop doesn't apologize for accusing Siffrin of seeing his family as nothing more than actors, but they do for saying...a clone of him probably had a gross smile? It's such a strange thing for them to remember.

But maybe it's because it hits just a little too close to home. Because in the end, SIffrin loves them "enough for even a reflection of [them] to react like this." Because he feels as if the party doesn't care about what he's going through. And because, most importantly, the "real" him is weird and sad and disgusting.

I think Siffrin's fear of revealing their "true self" to the party isn't really talked about enough, but it's a vital part of why they loop for so long in the first place, and it is exactly why the Legendary Act 5 Crashout happens the way it does. Ghosts event is a showcase of why the loops are happening in the first place, and the fact that it's so different from the other "Sif loops back" sidequests yet so fundamentally similar makes it so goddamn interesting.

this post made me think about the ghost scene again and i realized it’s a little different from most of the times Siffrin loops back without dying

usually it’s because of something Siffrin does. they say or do something that causes the others to react so badly that he believes it’s impossible to repair the relationship after that, things will never be the same because of what he did, the others must hate or fear him now

pushing Bonnie’s boundaries until they scream at him. kissing Isa and being pushed away. goading Odile into demanding answers that they are too scared to give. action and response, mistake and consequence, and a refusal to push through the messiness to the other side to see if it can be fixed or if it’s actually broken forever.

Siffrin….doesn’t really “mess up” the ghost encounter. the party doesn’t respond a particular way because of something in his control. there’s no fear or anger or confrontation. they just react how they react to the situation at hand.

but their response isn’t something that Siffrin can bear to accept. to know their family could see that and move on like it’s nothing, where a shadow of himself acts so strange and desperate and sad and everyone just…..walks away. would they do the same if it was the real Siffrin standing there, in tears?

better to start over. don’t let the scenario play out that poses that question. you don’t want to live in the timeline where they’ve given their answer.

[pupcarisi]

Ok am I reading too much into the fic someone just posted anonymously in the Barisi section of ap3? It is basically Mia writing incest fantasy fiction and her mom thinks that it’s about Carisi and accuses him of grooming her, even though he isn’t. and the rest of the fic is spent bashing reader and dark fiction or kink with taboo subjects and the characters are all calling it predatory for even existing. I’m trying to read the fic in good faith but it feels like it’s just an excuse to call out people who enjoy fantasy writing that involves anything problematic in kink? At first it felt like a real Barisi fic but by the end it felt like it was trying to call ‘x reader’ fic writers predators and I can’t tell if I am reading too much into it or if it’s just a ‘you’re gross for enjoying this kink or writing about it and you should be in prison if you enjoy any of these things’ essay disguised as a Barisi fanfic? Like I don’t want to comment on their work or ask for clarification because it feels so much like bait but I genuinely don’t know if I’m just overreacting to it? It feels like it’s very much pointed toward certain people so I’m side eyeing in pretty heavy but don’t want to judge it poorly if that’s not how they meant it, ya know? It feels like they are vague posting about the ‘stepdad!sonny x reader’ fics and trying to call it out without saying so directly. Figured it directly relates to you so I thought I’d get your take and see if you read it that way?

attaching anon's follow up ask below too! as warning, this answer has discussions about like, everything. so minors do not interact (MY WHOLE BLOG IS 18+ PLEASE), mentions of abuse, pedophilia (NOT partaking in it. it's the context).

BREATHES. okay. where do i even begin? omg. but thank you anon, for telling me about this and also for speaking out your thoughts! i also appreciate what you said. it's unrealistic to think that the things i enjoy must be the things someone else enjoys. part of being ONLINE, having mutuals, is yeah you won't always have the same tastes but we still #respect it. tbh it means a lot to me that even though you don't necessarily enjoy the content, you still thought about the implications of everything and you're having a discussion here #ally

so before i go on, two things:

as a disclaimer, whatever i say in this ask is solely my Opinion so *glances into the audience* please lower any lasers pointed at me or anyone else... i am also NOT a kink expert, but i know what healthy boundaries are. and i also know what is FICTION.

here are two very insightful posts, on the topic of taboo fics that i align with (exhibit a and exhibit b. exhibit a VERY NICELY covers all the important questions people love to ask when it comes to content of this nature so i suggest you read that!!! because i fear my words below are not enough of a justice)

ok back the programme. you see, when i was first reading the fic, i really had no issues with it because it seemed like your typical case fic, plus we literally are watching a SHOW called law & order:svu but god. the last bit was the one that really threw me off. more on that later.

firstly, i am someone who BELIEVES everyone has a right to like whatever they want and also dislike anything, without having to justify why or why not. especially when we are talking about FICTIONAL characters that are OF AGE. (and if u like rpf whatever sure like that's none of my business LMFAO you do you!!! <3) so i was FULLY trying to keep an open mind when i was reading this. because right, it's totally valid that someone wouldn't like the same things as me and that it just so happens to the plot of the fic.

and second of all, as what you mentioned anon, that this is also /just/ a fic so technically, by default and as per aligned to my beliefs, fiction is FICTION and so it's reasonable to believe that the content isn't a direct critique of morality and not meant to actually target anyone. because simply put, people can enjoy murder stories without being a murderer and a murder victim, it's Fiction. so MAYBE... just Maybe. the original author just felt randomly inspired and decided to write this with no intentions. so yes, this train of thought made me very hesitant about forming my opinion. because again, I AM someone who is very open and i like to hope and believe that everyone has the best intentions.

but mannnnn..... i've talked about this to several people already and so far everyone is thinking the same thing. that it felt too... personal? i really do not want to directly quote anything they stated in their fic because yeah, as much as i feel Weird about it, i still stand that everyone can like/dislike whatever they want and write whatever they want, even if some things mentioned were oddly specific.

HOWEVER, i really did NOT enjoy what it implied, and hence i just wanted to clear the air, in case people out there DO actually take FICTIONAL work at face value. my biggest gripe about the whole thing is the part about minors do not interact + the whole line about childhood things. first of all, things that REMIND you of childhood (e.g. plush toys, bedroom) does not equate to CHILDREN. like oh heavens forbid i be a 24 year old trans man who has a bed full of plush toys and that i still live with my parents. and oh! i can't imagine to be innocent now? okay.... hm. maybe i just enjoy this manifestation of VULNERABILITY. i'm NOT a pedo for enjoying stuff like ddlb (daddy-little boy), because... you guessed it. i'm an ADULT and i only want to do it with another adult. anyway, i was trying to get a sense about how i should further structure my argument and came across this small discussion about the cognitive dissonance surrounding consent in little space.

and if this was more about the dark nature of the fics like abuse, dubcon, etc. then um. *points again at the sign that this is all FICTION, literally the same as your usual horror/thriller/murder stuff* exhibit a explains it better, but people also don't need justify that they have gone through XYZ (insert trauma here) etc. so that it excuses them to write about dark topics. again, we are talking FICTION. it's invasive to expect and have this particular "criteria"

lastly, i just want to close off and say that we are on the Internet. like this is a space that you choose to curate and have the power to. don't like something? simple. mind your business and just don't go biting at people who are enjoying it. if anything is NOT your fancy, it's literally easy to just click/scroll off and block. things of that Nature ALWAYS come with disclaimers.

and maybe you may say i am biting back by airing my thoughts here, but i think it's justifiable. plus, i'm not calling the person out directly? because if you have READ whatever i have said above, i still want to give them the benefit of the doubt out of my goodwill because of i stand for, that your writing is not a direct reflection of your morality..... otherwise, if that really does reflect their pov, happen to chance upon this and have something to counter, feel free to do so LOL... i'll be down to have a RESPECTFUL and POLITE conversation.

lowkey i feel like the joke is on me now because yeah, i did spend a considerable amount of time reflecting on this the whole day. it's not wrong to have discussions and reflect, i think that's how we learn from each other. but boy did i feel like i just got rage baited. but whatever, i'm not guilty of anything! so yeah. will i still write and enjoy my gross icky sonny x reader things? yes.

that's all from me :) again, to reiterate, these words are MY PERSPECTIVE. thank you for reading! if anyone has any other things to say, feel free to drop them below, in the reblogs or in my ask. but pls be nice to me.

[l4tchk3y]

I love Espio so much. I wish chameleons were real.

[roughlyhonestdrifter]

I know I'm late to this party by like, two weeks, but King Kong 2005 is such an interesting discussion piece.

Like, this movie is a singular anomaly in 21st century film history. It is the kind of work that could only come about after a director had not only made the highest grossing movie of 2003 but had also just set the still standing world record for most oscars won in a single evening. It is recklessly indulgent, obsenely expensive, and it seems there wasn't a single scene that Jackson was willing to leave on the cutting room floor. But there wasn't a studio around who would have felt in the position to turn him down.

Normally, the studio would take one look at that 3 and a half hour run time and said, "Hell NO!" But Return of The King was 3 hours long and it made a billion dollars and won 11 oscars.

Normally, the studio would take look one look at that effects budget and say, "Hell NO!" But, Return of The King had a big effects budget, and it made a billion dollars and won 11 oscars.

Normally, when a director came to the studio and said "I want to cast Jack Black as a villain kinda" the studio would have said "Hell NO!" But there weren't a whole lot of people taking the Lord of The Rings cast very seriously before those came out, and those movies made billions of dollars and won 17 oscars between them.

Normally, when a director came to the studio and said, "I want Andy Serkis to get vored by worms during this whole nightmarish bug sequence in this PG-13 adventure film that's going to get marketed towards families" the studio would have said "Hell NO!" But spooky shit was going down left and right in those Lord of The Rings movies, and they made billions of dollars and won 17 oscars between them.

If King Kong 2005 is any one thing, I think it's a warning about just how dangerous a fully blank check can be. No movie like this should ever be allowed to be taken completely off the rails by one guy like this, no matter how successful he's been in recent years. Directors do a lot of work, and they tend to get a lot of credit because of that, but film is a collaborative art. Editors are important. Other people's input is important. And that's what's lacking from King Kong 2005.

I try to use this account to make things I like and collect things that I think are important or find deeply delightful. I don’t want to use this blog as a space to be negative or unnecessarily critical about movies like some kind of barbaric opinion-having twitter user.

That being said, I’m trying to watch King Kong 2005 for the first time, and I’m going to be mean for two minutes just to get it out of my system. Bear with me.

[alexandraisyes]

The cutest reminder ever that the way family works in TSAMS canon is that two parties have to be in mutual agreement that they are family. If one party doesn't agree then they aren't family. Parties can revoke familial ties whenever they want and that means they are no longer family.

"Code Relation" theory is stupid because you're then implying that Eclipse is Sun and Moon's child. Which he isn't. Or that Killcode is somehow Moon's child and his brother at the same time that he's Eclipse, Lunar and Bloodmoon's "father" at the same time that they're Sun and Moon's grand children. Like, we're seeing the issue here, right?

Don't make things more complicated than it has to be. Just accept the fact that family is literally determined by a verbal agreement between two animatronics and nothing else because none of them were born from wombs. That means respecting canon when characters in canon decide that they aren't comfortable being family (like Eclipse) or just straight-up disown everyone (like Bloodmoon). It's okay to have headcanons, but don't try to push them onto canon.