#anyways lets just assume it's not bs and well

[sengenism]

The Ishigamis and The Gifts of Science

Dr. Stone is a love letter to humanity and its sciences. The main character, Senku, often acts averse to all forms of affection, and the only love he doesn't deny is his love for science. But Senku is so so full of love. He just expresses it in a way other than physical touch or words of affirmation. He gives.

But let's go back to the one who taught him so– Byakuya Ishigami, his father. The love of Senku's life.

Byakuya is introduced in the tenth chapter of the manga as a dotting father who sells his car to present Senku with scientific instruments he will need for a more efficient research. This car is Byakuya's means of transportation, and given that he is crying and shaking in this scene, it could not have been easy for him to lose it. But his love for Senku is so big, that he wants to support his son's passion even if it means sacrificing a great convenience for him.

And Senku? Senku truly fell in love with science at this moment.

If there is anything that Senku is, he is Byakuya Ishigami's son through and through. They may seem like two very different people, as Byakuya is an openly affectionate guy while Senku is more closed off with showing his true emotions. But Senku takes more from Byakuya than not, and one of them is by showing his love and/or care for others through giving the gifts of science.

And it starts with Byakuya.

[Bodysuit Acquired!]

Byakuya had failed his first attempt at being an astronaut ten years back, but he doesn't give up and tries again. Senku then creates a bodysuit that manipulates muscle movement to help Byakuya pass his swimming test. And while the bodysuit doesn't quite help Byakuya to swim, the thought Senku had put into it had motivated Byakuya more than ever to pass the test. This is one of the fundamentals of gifting– sometimes, it really is the thought behind it that matters.

This motivation is what Byakuya credits during his interview with JAXA for passing the tests. He understands that Senku might not have given him any words of encouragement, but this bodysuit was all the words that were needed between them. Senku wants Byakuya to achieve his dreams just as badly. It's the way Senku shows his love for his father.

And it's the way Senku shows his love for others too.

[Glasses Acquired!]

One of the primitive aspects of the Ishigami village is that it considers bad eyesight as a type of "disease". Fuzzy disease, to be exact.

Suika wears a melon mask at all times to help clear her eyesight, which Senku later reveals is due to the pinhole effect. She, however, has never told Senku or the others about having the fuzzy disease. Senku himself notes how odd it is for her to wear a melon around, and confronts her about it once he decides to create glass. This is one of the most beautiful scenes in Dr. Stone, as Suika finds out that her disease was never a disease, and is finally able to see as clearly as the others. Senku basically gives her perfect eyesight, something she didn't even know was possible before.

[Antibiotics Acquired!]

One of the most beloved people in this village is the priestess, Ruri. Two of Senku's new friends, Kohaku and Chrome are deeply affected by her unknown fatal disease. Senku is such a person who would help a stranger even if there is no benefit to do so (though he would never admit to it), what more a person who his new friends truly love and care about. He cures Ruri of pneumonia, giving her a chance to live a life without the worry of it being her last day every day.

[Cola Acquired!]

Senku forms an alliance with Gen, who plays the role of Tsukasa's spy, for the promise of a bottle of cola. Both Senku and Gen are aware that the cola is only a front for Gen's loyalty to Senku and the Kingdom of Science, for Gen needs his superficial reputation as a comfort and cannot simply join them if there is no personal benefit for him to do so.

This cola is also the first gift post-petrification that Senku brands himself on, probably because it represents the first gift that is not out of necessity and leans toward a comfort/luxury that they both used to enjoy in the modern world.

For a modern man such as Gen, drinking his favourite soda in the stone world might have been one of the happiest days in his life.

[Cotton Candy Acquired!]

Senku cares about people so much, even if the people in question have tried to kill him. Senku sees Homura as a soldier who is merely following the orders given by her leader, but he also sees the Homura as a lonesome girl sitting by herself on trees day and night.

As usual, Senku hides his kindness and care by showing an evil ulterior motive, such as turning Homura to their side using the cotton candy, but Ruri points out that this is a facade. Similarly to Gen, a person with such an ego is unable to seem as if he is doing something good out of the kindness of his heart.

[Stove Acquired!]

As winter approaches, the elders in the village are worried about losing people to the cold. Senku hears about this and creates a stove which has a multi-purpose of cooking and also radiating heat for the people to stave off the coldness of winter. And speaking of winter...

[Christmas Acquired!]

Senku hangs up lights in the tree for the "light bulb test" on a random night. Except the date isn't random at all and he drops enough hints for Gen to catch on that it is the night of Christmas. The significance of the day is only appreciated by Gen and himself, as they are the only modern timers in the village. It is for the sake of nostalgia, but Senku would rather be caught dead than admit that he is a sentimental guy with such irrational feelings.

And well, it all comes back to that scene with Byakuya, doesn't it? If you recall, Byakuya calls himself "Santa" while giving the scientific presents to the young Senku. This indicates Senku received them during Christmas. Which means... Christmas is a sentimental day to Senku and his father. An anniversary of Senku receiving his Christmas presents from Byakuya, which led to his deeper dive into his science obsession. The beginning of it all, one would say.

And even though he's dead and buried, Byakuya never stops giving. He gives Senku the Ishigami village to provide Senku with allies. He gives Senku Lillian's music, because he believes in the light of music and understands the importance of media to society. He collects platinum till his last breath, because he believes that Senku will need it someday. Byakuya keeps on giving to Senku, because his love for his son is so huge and unconditional. And because he promised.

Surely, there is no greater love in the manga than Byakuya's love for his son and Senku's love for his father. Byakuya could easily win ten billion best father awards... well, not like there's much competition for that in shounen mangas.

[dalliancekay]

Aziraphale, misogyny and the female character treatment

I don't know if anyone wrote a post about this but I see from time to time comments to this end - that Aziraphale is treated like the female leads in films often are, obviously especially romantic films. So I'm gonna try to point how I see this. I welcome further insights of course.

Say we take a basic premise of a romantic film: A girl is wooed by a bad boy for example. And she is a good girl, from a good, proper family and everything so she refuses his advances. This goes on through his various ploys to entertain and romance her, do things for her etc etc and frustrates us as the audience because we can see the bad boy is actually good, her family is oppressive and holding her back and that she (deep down) cares for him (if only she was brave enough to admit it to herself) and so we want her to open her eyes and say she is actually in love with him cos her life will be so much better should she (finally) give in and run away with him.

Familiar? Reasons Aziraphale is not her and the analogy does not fit (but that I so often see in metas and takes about her):

Aziraphale always knew her family is shit. Or at least longer than Crowley did. She was already anxious in Before the Beginning about what she thought Angel!Crowley could and could not say or do without getting into trouble.

She knows Crowley is good. She never doubted him. Whatever he says or does or pretends to do or must do for his job. Aziraphale knows he's inherently good and would always do good if he can.

She knows she's in love - I mean we can argue about when each realised this and also when each realised the other loves them back just as fiercely, but they both know. And they both love. And they both long to be together. Aziraphale is not ashamed of her feelings nor hiding or suppressing them for fear they are wrong or immoral or other BS like that.

Aziraphale doesn't need to overcome her love for her family/employer and finally make the leap to be with Crowley. They simply can't leave their bosses without punishment. Neither of them. They live in a dictatorship with nowhere to go. And just because Crowley experienced both sides, doesn't give him some huge insight that Aziraphale completely lacks. Both places are awful. Their separation isn’t about fear of societal judgment (or Aziraphale's unwillingness to give up Heaven, being seen as good, being an angel - and to what end, to Fall? I really don't know what takes like this want from her, it would not work anyway), it’s about survival in a system that won’t let them be together.

Aziraphale doesn't want to change Crowley. She never did. She asked for Crowley to come to Heaven as an angel because that was THE ONLY option she had for them to be together in any capacity at that point. It was NOT an attempt to “fix” him—it was a desperate bid for a way they could be together at all.

One thing I don't see as much anymore is the call for Aziraphale to change. Obviously she's pretty but she would be prettier if she lost those century old clothes maybe and started listening to something made after 1950? Be more cool to match Crowley? Less stuffy?

These kind of film premises are already pointless, offensive and make me roll my eyes, but to stick them all over Aziraphale and huff cos she doesn't do what the clever sexy man in dark clothes and sunglasses says she should - well that makes me angry.

And so do takes and mischaracterisations that ignore Aziraphale as silly, her worries as pointless, sometimes excessive - maybe she's just hysterical, you know? The one time she shows more emotion, in F15, she is so often completely ignored in her obvious distress just because Crowley is trying to confess his love at the same time and seemingly 'not getting through,' because Aziraphale is not reacting the way everyone expects. So many takes that always assume Crowley is right, no matter what. Even when he calls Aziraphale an idiot. If Crowley says that, it must be true. No matter that the book spells out in Terry's voice that the angel is extremely clever.

Aziraphale’s charm lies in her kindness, her love for books and knowledge, her whimsy, and her quiet courage. These qualities don’t make her naive—they make her resilient. She often hides how she truly feels, hides her grief, her pain, her true desires, hides what she really thinks; always always to protect herself and her beloved. She is often forced to say stuff she doesn't mean. Again. To keep the one she loves and their fragile relationship safe. But where people seem to catch on with that on Crowley's side, they don't with Aziraphale. She is fierce when pushed and will defend the defenceless (humans) and the ones she loves (Crowley) to her last breath (whether she needs to breathe is irrelevant right now okay).

She loves her bookshop. She built this home, full of knowledge for herself and her demon and you can take this HC from my cold hands. That she was forced to leave it, only emphasises how little choice she had in Final 15. Good Omens has two main, equal characters; who are both gorgeous and complex and deep and neither is right or wrong or in need of saving or learning some huge lesson to get to their goal and be together. What needs to change is the world, the system they live in. And they will change it.

Just look at her!! Anyway. I love her. P.S. Just to add, many, many (if not all) bad takes on Aziraphale are also bad takes on Crowley. They mischaracterise and misunderstand just how deeply and unconditionally he loves Aziraphale. How he adores her and understands and accepts her just as she is. He does not expect or want Aziraphale to change in any way. He knows why they are not together. And it's not Aziraphale's fault, it's because of circumstances, not because of her choices. Crowley would never ever want Aziraphale to suffer, he wouldn't expect her to come back from Heaven saying how sorry she is for what happened, how stupid and blind she was and how he was always right. That's just not going to happen. ------------------------------------------ @tenok I simply must highlight the awesomeness you put in hashtags!! EVERYBODY please read:

Thank you sm for this!!

[litnerdwrites]

There's no indication that anybody from Velaris is, or has the ability to become, a soldier for the night court. The only soldiers we see are darkbriners and Illyrians. Velaris has also been warded two times over to keep it hidden (even though nobody knew it existed anyway). There's also no indication that either Illyria or THC have access to the library in Velaris, or have any similar resourced (even though they are the only places that provide the NC soldiers, and, by the IC's own admission, rife with misogyny and abuse towards woman and children).

The ones who suffered under Amarantha's reign were Illyria and the Hewn City. Exclusively. The ones who fight to protect the Night Court are Illyria and The Hewn City. Exclusively. The ones who were orphaned and widowed by war (up until Velaris was attacked in ACOMAF for the FIRST TIME IN 5000 YEARS (which we can assume was when it was built)) was Illyria and The Hewn City. Exclusively.

Velaris has no slums. The Illyrians live in tents.

Velaris was by no means poor, its people mostly cared for, the buildings and streets well kept. My sister, it seemed, had managed to find the only thing relatively close to a slum. (ACOFAS Chapter 4)

And yet my sister managed to find the seediest, most miserable taverns in Velaris (ACOFAS Chapter 12)

Rhysand talked to the 'governors of the Palaces' and getting them to refuse service to the people from the Court of Nightmares.

“Starting with meeting with the governors of the Palaces and getting them to agree never to serve, shelter, or entertain Keir or anyone from the Court of Nightmares.” (ACOWAR Chapter 27)

“They have been sending out the word to every business owner in the city,” Rhys went on, “every restaurant and shop and venue. So Keir and his ilk may come here … But they will not find it a welcoming place. Or one where they can even procure lodgings.” (ACOWAR Chapter 27)

Velaris is built and protected on the blood of others. One of the only issues that they faced were a lack spices, and probably other imports, due to stopping trade for fifty years.

“It’s just … so lovely to have such spices available again—now that … that things are better.” (ACOMAF Chapter 29)

After it was all over, and Amarantha was dead, they could have reached out to other courts, offered aid and helped rebuild. Or, at minimum, they could've offered Illyria and The Hewn City, aid. They could've helped them recover. But they didn't.

Velaris protected by the blood and sacrifices of Illyria and the Hewn City. What exactly have the IC, or the people of Velaris done in exchange? Deny them service and lodging? Did nobody contest this? At all? Did nobody, in this entire city (a place that's supposed to be the only 'good' in the Nc) ever protest? Or even ask about the conditions in either Illyria or the HC?

I know that there was something similar happening in the winter court, with Viviane protecting a small city near the border, but in that case, Viviane had to stay there to keep whatever magic shielded it strong, whereas in Velaris, the city was already a secret, and shielded, so I'm still not following why he had to shield it again. Also, the city she protected took in any outsiders that made it there, and the wards on Velaris, actively encouraged people away from the city.

And in the aftermaths, there is no reason to think that Viviane, or the people of that city didn't extend their help in rebuilding The Winter Court to others who had not been as lucky. Whereas we know for a fact that neither the IC or the people/governors of Velaris didn't extend help. Instead, they agreed to help segregate the HC residents even more.

So the argument that 'Velaris is the only good place, because the The Court of Nightmares is made of monsters and Illyrians refuse to change' is bs. At this point, the only change either should make is letting the IC, and Velaris fend for themselves during the next war. There is no reason for them to lose their loved ones and spill their own blood for the people of a city that will refuse them service and lodging just because of where they're from, at the encouragement and behest of their shared monarch.

Remind me again, how and why that stupid bat should be high king? He can't even govern his own territory.

[adoremexxs]

Stalker!Sekido x gn! reader

i should be writing requests but i don’t have the energy to do all of them right now so you guys get this

warnings: you guys know the drill by now ☠️, crazy bs, stalking, self harm, manipulation

Sekido had first saw you in his class. He was intstantly memorized by your obvious beauty.

Other people noticed it too.

It infuriated him. You were his and his only. You just didn’t know it.

He was so obsessed with you, going home at night and mewling out your name as his body shook violently.

The second that Karaku even talked to you, he snapped. Sekido never thought he would lose it so badly that night. He never realized how obsessed he was with you.

That night, Karaku never talked to you again and it completely scared Urogi and Aizetsu away from you.

But you went up to Karaku and them anyways, not talking to Sekido. The anger fueled in his stomach. Why wouldn’t you talk to him?!

You never talked to Sekido because you didn’t know him. Aizetsu, Urogi and Karaku had talked you before. You didn’t know his obsession with you.

Whenever you had went up to the brothers, the looked terrifed of you. You were confused.

“Did I do something, guys?” You had a smile on your face. Karaku was all beaten up, a black eyes forming on his face. You assumed that him and Sekido had gotten into another fight. You knew a good gist of their home life.

“Oh! Karaku! Come here, you poor thing.” You frown, looking at that cuts and bruises all over his body and he immediately backed away from you.

“Sorry, (Y/N)…It’s, uh, nothing. Don’t stress.” He tried to reassure you but your attention was focused on something else. A very angry gaze behind Karaku. Those red eyes boring into the back of Karaku’s head. Those gorgeous, red eyes.

You never realized how beautiful Sekido really was, even if he had a bit of a temper.

You remember watching him at the archery tournament, the way his hair was in a messy bun, baby hairs and bangs framing that gorgeous, tanned face, the way his veins bulged out of his arms, the concentration on his face.

Or the way he got heated during the debate team. God, it was hot to watch him lose it. But he also was physically hurting his brothers. So you glared at him while you cleaned up Karaku’s cuts and scrapes.

Sekido’s heart was crushed and shattered into two whenever you glared at him. Sekido didn’t understand what he did wrong. To make you baby his idiotic brother. It’s Karaku’s fault for approaching you.

Sekido finally had enough.

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You were so focused on Karaku that you didn’t realize that Sekido had walked over and ripped you away from Karaku. Pure fear was engraved on your face as you stared up at those red eyes. An immense amount of anger in them as his hand tightened around your wrist.

You were frozen in fear for a few seconds because you slapped him harshly across the face, watching shock flash onto his face.

“Let go of me! Are you in your right mind?!”

Those words stabbed Sekido in the stomach and twisted around in his gut. He bit his bottom lip harshly. “(Y/N), I’m sorry, I don’t know what I was thinking.”

“Yeah! You sure didn’t! You could’ve hurt me!”

God, the thought of hurting his precious (Y/N) really turned him on. It had his pants bulging and begging for air. You looked up at him so angrily, it made him grow even more possessive over you.

“How can I ever make it up to you? Can I take you out for coffee?” This was his chance. His pants just kept growing tighter and tighter and his heart kept racing. The tips of his ears turning red. He could feel Karaku and them staring at him. He didn’t care if it was in fear or not. He was too focused on his precious (Y/N) considering his offer.

“…Fine. Tomorrow, before school.” You exchanged numbers with him. You didn’t think of the consequences this could have.

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The coffee date went fairly well. Sekido was smooth with conversation and compliments. He had done his hair up all pretty for you. It was in an half up, half down. His bangs framed his chiseled face.

He was able to keep you on your toes, leaning forward for more of his talking. Sekido knew exactly how to reel you in towards him. His foot rubbed up against your leg several times which made you squeeze your thighs together.

Sekido’s eyes bored into yours, you were so infatuated with his beautiful eyes. They were narrow, deep, the color was irresistible. The way he looked at you had you squirming in your chair alone.

You didn’t know why this man, who you barely knew, had you already wrapped around his finger. You bit your lip as he talked about debate team. You decided to be bold, returning the bold movement he decided to do. You rubbed your foot up against his leg slowly and you watched his breath hitch. Maybe you liked being in control of such a strong, irresistible man.

He paused in stirring his tea to look at you, his expression had you weak. How could he do this you? Did he cast some kind of spell on you?

“(Y/N)…”

“Sekido.” The way you said his name was so quick and breathless. You wanted him. No, needed him. What the hell did he do to you?

He smirked, revealing those beautiful white fangs. “You’re playing a dangerous game.”

“Am I?”

Sekido wanted to take you right then and there but he had to wait for his plan to work out. He already managed to win you over with his sweet words.

The way your breath hitched whenever he looked at you made him feel extremely powerful. Sekido could only smile as he called the waiter over to pay for the bill.

“Let’s get going, yeah?”

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It had been a few months since that incident. You and Sekido weren’t offically together yet but you have been hanging out everyday and getting to know each other.

It didn’t stop from his hands and yours from wandering, exploring each other’s bodies and sharing hot, sloppy kisses. Sekido was happy to have you to himself. Your body fit perfectly with his. The way you moaned out his name stirred something inside him that he never thought he would enjoy.

But somehow, you weren’t completely obsessed with him. You still talked to his brothers.

Maybe because they look like each other but you felt an attraction to his brothers as well. You and Sekido weren’t exactly together so you also took the time to get to know his brothers more. Urogi caught your interest.

Unknowingly to Sekido, you and Urogi were hooking up behind his back.

You couldn’t help it but Urogi’s sweet and loving personality had you wanting more. You wanted to see if he was as sweet and loving in bed. He was not. The amount of hickeys that you had to cover was insane.

Sekido found out. He will always find out.

He found out by going to your own home. He had this habit of going to your house while you were asleep and watching you. Just. Watching you.

Sekido would also steal your underwear from time to time to inhale your remaining scent. Nothing turned him on more than that.

Anyways, he saw you through the crack of your door. Urogi was there. Urogi had lied to him and said that he was at a friend’s house. Maybe he didn’t necessarily lie but still. You were moaning out Urogi’s name and it pissed him off. He almost couldn’t handle it. He had to leave before he killed the both of you.

He instead went to his room, looking at the little shoe box he had sat on his bed.

It contained photos of you, your underwear, used bandaids, used tissues, an old toothbrush and much more. Sekido’s breath was shaky as he felt his skin rip open and blood seep out of his fresh wounds.

Sekido felt the skin on his lip open up. He had busted his lip. How could his (Y/N) do this to him? Surely they will pay for this punishment. They have too. They couldn’t do this to him. He loved them.

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The next time you went over to Sekido’s, you were excited. You had missed him and his sweet gentle kisses. No one was over, so you expected your relationship to move forever.

What you didn’t expect was to find him on his bedroom floor with his sleeves rolled to to expose the fresh, bleeding slits on his wrist. His eyes droopy and filled with lust but also anger. It terrifed you to watch the blood leave his wrists and drop onto the ground.

“Look what you did to me, (Y/N).” Those soft words left his lips. “Look what you did…You slept with my brother and now look at what happened. You did this…how could you?” Sekido’s words quickly twisted from soft and sweet to angry and mean. He stood up, you were frozen in fear.

This was not the Sekido you knew. Or did you even know him?

He walked towards you, his words remaining harsh and rude, “You slept with a lowlife like him? He’s using you. He doesn’t like you, (Y/N). I LIKE YOU. Not him! Why him? Why not me? I’m the one who is fucking good for you, you pathetic bitch.” You cry out as he harshly grabbed your chin, making you look at him.

You were panicking but you couldn’t move. You hated to admit that you somehow enjoyed the treatment.

“You are nothing without me. You’re a pathetic slut, waiting around for men like Urogi and Karaku to use you,” He uses his other free hand to stroke your cheek, blood dripping onto your paled face. “I wouldn’t do that to you, (Y/N). You’re mine. You’re fucking mine.” You could have sworn that your chin was bruised. You winced as tears gathered in your eyes.

You felt his hands move from your face to your throat, clenching tightly around your neck. You were losing consciousness as you tried to fight it off. Your hands scrambling to your throat while trying to escape his grasp. You heard him say one final thing.

“And I’ll make sure you don’t ever leave me.”

[beneathsilverstars]

Can you pls explain to me the proper way to raise a child gender neutrally, especially in a world that loves to push gender? It’s something I always wanted to do when I have my own kid but I’m scared the world is just not ready for that kind of thing and my child will get bullied by other kids/adults.

Unfortunately the feasibility of this does depend on where you live. I’m lucky to live in a fairly liberal college town — the state as a whole is awful, but in this town we have drag shows and a huge pride parade and rainbow stickers in shop fronts. There are still transphobic people here of course, but they generally know that being too overt about it will have social repercussions.

However! It doesn’t necessarily have to be an all-or-nothing thing! When your kid's a baby it’s up to you how you refer to them while in different situations, so you’re free to adjust your language as seems necessary. And then when they’re old enough to care, well, at that point it’s not up to you anyway! (My kid has decided she’s a nonbinary girl, hence the she/hers in this post.)

So here’s a list of things my partners and I did, and you can decide which things seem safe / worth it to you.

We gave her a name that doesn’t have strong gender connotations.

We shopped in the boys and girls sections equally, aiming for a roughly equal number of fancy little button ups vs fancy little dresses, pink diapers vs blue diapers, etc.

We told friends and family that we were planning to raise her gender neutrally and use they/them pronouns, until/unless she expressed a preference otherwise.

Our explanation to adults was along the lines of “We don't want to assign a gender to our child, because we think gender should be a freely-made choice rather than something that is assumed based on body type. So, we're raising them gender neutrally until they decide what they want to be. We’re not assigning them 'nonbinary', either; we’re using they/them to help avoid gendered bias, so they’ll get to experience feminine, masculine, and ungendered options equally. That way every option will be open to them as they learn their own preferences and decide who they want to be.”

Our explanation to kids was along the lines of “I don’t know yet if they’re a boy or a girl or something else! When babies are born, the doctor guesses what gender they’ll be. But sometimes the doctor guesses wrong, and the kid grows up to be a different gender. We decided not to guess what gender our baby will be, because we want to let them choose.” This usually makes perfect sense to 4-5 year olds! (Younger kids might not entirely understand or care, and older kids might have more questions.) However, you gotta be careful with this, bc even some people who are okay with you explaining your own adult transed gender won’t like you implying to their children that everyone should have that option and the whole system is bs. The less objectionable explanation is “I’m going to wait until they’re older to ask them whether they’re a boy or a girl.” Or even answering "What gender is your baby?" with "What do you think?" and then "Maybe!"

We didn’t announce her agab. When people asked, we refused to answer, more or less politely depending on the vibes. If you really want to make them feel bad you can give them a weird look and say “My child’s body is none of your business??” but there’s also the gentler “I don’t think it really matters!” We did fill out her assigned sex for official paperwork, like doctor's forms and legal government stuff, but for more casual forms we sometimes skipped the question or wrote in "we are raising them gender-neutrally" or "they/them".

We generally didn’t correct strangers or explain it to them unless they asked. Nothing wrong with some people assuming “she” and some people assuming “he”, as long as it’s not always just one or the other. If a stranger asked about their gender, I'd go for a quick "We're raising them gender-neutrally." I did also have to clarify fairly often that I only have one kid, when I talked about them and people assumed the "they" was plural, but that was never a big deal it was just kinda funny.

We did correct friends and family, since if they used gendered pronouns it was an active choice or mistake rather than a clueless assumption. Most of our circles are queer so most people were chill about it, but some family members changed one diaper and immediately assigned a pronoun set. We didn't think it was worth fighting over or limiting access, since it's not like they were disrespecting the baby's preference. But we did keep correcting them / emphasizing the neutral pronoun in our replies.

When she started preschool, we preemptively explained to her teachers that we're raising her gender-neutrally, and to please refer to her using "they/them" unless she said otherwise, and to avoid splitting the class into boys vs girls teams or anything like that. Again, fairly liberal town, and the preschool even has a teacher who uses they/them, so the teachers agreed without issue. iirc, they messed up occasionally but they were making an effort, and again I wasn't too bothered as long as my kid wasn't.

When she started using she/her sometimes, I let her teachers know, and told them to follow her lead. When we talked with friends and family we just used the right pronouns ourselves, and explained if they asked or it came up. And then once she was consistently using just she/her, we made a facebook post about it and started correcting people with a quick "She actually decided to use she/her, now."

And then here's how we talked about gender with her, specifically.

When she was old enough to start wondering who's a boy and who's a girl and what that even means, we explained, "Some people are girls, some people are boys, some people are neither or both or something else. I decided I don't want to be a boy or a girl, I'm nonbinary instead. You can decide if you want to be a boy or a girl or nonbinary or something else, too." and "Well, maybe that person's a boy, but they could be something else; I don't know because I don't know them. I don't know their name or anything either." We decided not to explain how differently most of society treats gender, the stereotypes of gender presentation, etc, until she started noticing that stuff herself. Explaining that it's wrong still involves putting those ideas into her head, which was going to happen pretty soon anyway regardless. Might as well start with a foundation of pure gender anarchy while we can.

When she noticed that every other kid she's met already had a gender, we explained "A lot of parents guess what gender their kid will be, and sometimes they guess right or sometimes they guess wrong. [Friend]'s mom guessed that she was a girl, and [friend] agrees! But when Mama was a kid people guessed she was a boy, and then she grew up and decided she's actually a girl. We didn't want to guess for you and maybe get it wrong, so we decided to wait until you were old enough to decide for yourself what gender you want to be."

Occasionally when the topic came up, we would ask if she felt like she wanted to be a girl or boy or something else, or specifically ask if she liked "they/them" or wanted to use "she/her" or "he/him". When she was ~2, she didn't entirely understand and didn't care. When she was ~3, she occasionally said she wanted to be a girl or use she/her, but immediately changed her mind as soon as we actually referred to her as such. (This is quite in-character for her, because she's generally averse to big changes and doesn't like to do anything she doesn't feel totally confident about.) When she was ~4 she finally stuck with it, and now she's a nonbinary girl who uses she/her, and her feelings about gendered terms like "daughter" still go back and forth a bit.

When she started expressing preferences in clothing, colors, etc, we just got things she liked, which ended up being dresses and sparkles.

As she started noticing gender differences, picking up stereotypes from school and media, etc, we'd address them as they came up. "Yes, a lot of people think dresses are just for girls. But I think that isn't very fair. Some boys love to wear dresses, and some girls don't, and that's just fine! It's not very nice to tell someone else what they're allowed to wear. (Unless they need certain clothes to say safe, like a jacket in the winter.)"

We also had to tell her to stop being sexist, lol. "It's fine that you think girls are awesome, they are! But boys are awesome too. It's not very nice to say you won't play with someone just because of their gender. If someone said they wouldn't play with me because I'm nonbinary, I would be so sad! If you don't want to play with [these three classmates] because they're usually too loud and rough, that's fine, but that's not because they're boys; that's because of what games they like to play. Some girls like to play loud and rough, and some boys like to be more careful and quiet like you. Can you think of any boys in your class who you like to play with sometimes? ... See, boys can like all sorts of different games, just like girls can."

We ended up getting the easiest resolution (at least for now): by the time she reached the age where kids start caring about these things, she'd started caring, and settled into being a classic girly girl (with the occasional splash of nonbinary flavor). If she'd stuck to they/them, she'd probably be starting to have a harder time in school -- definitely not full bullying, given her 12-kid 2-teacher private kindergarten class, but probably some frustration with constantly correcting people.

However... if she was more gnc, she woulda ended up that way sooner or later, anyway. If I was choosing between "she's out and proud trans and gets some shit for it" or "she's unhappy with being cis but doesn't realize she has other options," I'd always choose the former, because in that case she gets a choice. By the time kids are old enough to bully each other over gender, they're old enough to decide whether they want to be out at school, y'know? And I've always been ready to pull her from school if it ever became necessary due to peer bullying or unsupportive teachers, especially since she shares a lot of the traits that my wife got bullied for as a child.

It is possible to go 100% gender-neutral, and cut anyone out of your life who opposes it, including moving schools or even moving house if necessary. There are people who will support this choice, even cishet people who don't really get the trans thing but know that unconscious sexism can have a big effect on babies' development. Maybe more people than you think! But it depends on your local culture. And sometimes it takes a certain amount of privilege to be able to prioritize finding those people, and it's simply not worth, say, paying more to switch daycares to find a teacher who won't gender your baby. Sometimes you do have to balance your priorities, and you can't know how much balancing it will actually take until you get there.

So, overall, my advice is just to do whatever you feel comfortable with! What sounds worse to you: gendering your baby, or fighting against society's attempts to gender them? Obviously when you have a trans child you fight for them, but it's a muddier question when the child doesn't care yet. Most of our queer friends aren't going full they/them gender neutral with their kids like we did, because they don't want to have to constantly explain that on top of all the shit they deal with for being queer. Instead they're just being extra firm about shopping in both sections of the store, not falling to stereotypes, and explaining to their child that they can decide to be something else if they want.

And there's a lot of options in between -- maybe you use they/them at home, but he/him at school, or maybe even she/her at home to balance out the school. Maybe you name and dress them gender-neutrally (or both fem and masc) and don't correct any assumptions. Maybe you tell one side of the family that you're going gender anarchy neutral so they should avoid gendered terms, but you only tell the other side that you're going feminist equality so they should make sure to gift both pretend kitchen toys and pretend power tools. It's the same as deciding in what situations you want to be out vs stay stealth/closeted.

When they're a baby it doesn't matter much either way (as long as you're not being sexist in your reactions to their behavior) because they're a baby, they could not care less. And then when they're old enough to pick their gender, you're hopefully giving them that choice regardless of what you did when they're a baby. It's true that the starting point you gave them may affect their gender journey, but that's true of gender neutrality as well.

So if you think it'll be too risky in the time and place in which you're raising your child, you really don't have to feel bad about not doing it. It's okay to save your energy for when your child really needs it. But if it's something you're committed to, it is possible! I'm so glad that my family was able to make this choice. I actually loved the conversations that it opened up with all sorts of people about gendering children! Even though I got in trouble one time for explaining gender too well to the children at the daycare I worked at, lol. And I know that gendering my kid as a baby would've made me more uncomfortable than any number of awkward conversations. I love knowing that her pink purple flower unicorn heart dresses are something she freely chose!!

[themuseinthewoods]

Headcanons for asking the men of troy if you can ride their face.

Female reader. Married to the guys cause uh, ancient Greece.

18+ content

Achilles, Hector, Paris and Odysseus because Patroclus is a child. An innocent bean. Never.

So, this is my first time writing NSFW content so I am sorry it isn't good but it's an effort. A very explicit effort

NSFW under cut. This is embarrassing I feel like I should explain myself but have you seen these men?! Like have you?!

Achilles the things that this movie presented us with

I am already of the opinion that he sees your orgasm as an accomplishment

Ooh boy

I have a personal headcanon that he can and will throw you over his shoulder when he wants to do Satan's Ramba so he's gonna do that here

Might make you wait after promising to do so just to be an ass

But might I remind you that he is your ass

Grips your thighs while he ravishes you with his tongue and staring up at you with that fine face framed by your thighs

very pretty sight

Grip his hair and pull him closer and he will finally feel wanted for something other then fighting like you didn't want him for other things 🙄

Cocky bastard, will never let you live it down but at the same time he enjoys doing it to you

Likes giving you oral anyway so I'd say he's a 10/10

Hector bae

Okay so-

At first, he's flustered

Let's assume you blurt it out, cheeks flushed as you are embarrassed because of what you are requesting

But uh

You asked for it didn't you?

He has to please his queen, doesn't he? 😉

Well, are you going to be sore hehehe

But also, now he is kinda hooked on eating you out

Side rant!

he will come back from a stressful meeting or something and just lose himself in your thighs before he rams you into the bed

Back to main topic

Grips your thighs or hips when your above him

Might come up with an a system of hair pulling code so you can tell him what you want or need when he has you to much of a mess to speak

10/10, the looks he gives you from between your thighs 👀

Paris

ok, so ik I don't like Paris a lot as a character buttt, I understand the appeal okay? Orlando Bloom was in his prime

you think you are the one who suggests this?

Paris heard about it

And begged you to try it

Your worried about suffocating him but he assures you that it is fine

Full honesty, he isn't very good at first

But I'll be damned if he isn't a fast learner

Makes it his mission to become the best

Actively gets stronger from holding you up when you go weak from the sensations and his brother notices that his lil bro is suddenly a lil more built in the arms

That leads to some awkward conversations but Hector ain't telling, might be kind enough to give pointers though

is the kinda guy who would love a 69

9/10 because I think he might be a tad sloppy at first

Odysseus

This man does it to get something from you

could be information or help or anything really

At least the first time

But, he kinda starts to enjoy it

Questions everything

Comes up with different methods just because

Does it to "simulate his thoughts"

The only thing being stimulated is your clit-

so, uh yeah. Awkward coughing fit of embarrassment

8/10 because of the bs excuses

I'm tagging @streets-in-paradise because I really want her opinion lol. Her blog has more great stuff for Troy!

[howlingday]

do you have any ideas for semblances for characters that we don't know yet? Ilia, Mercury, Oscar, Roman, Ozpin (host), Taiyang, Watts, etc.

Hm... Well, if I had to make up semblances...

Ilia - Pre-Hair-Style Named by Yang, mostly allowed because Blake laughed at the joke, this semblance allows Ilia to use her hair as an extra hand. She doesn't use it that often because 1) it's a literal pain in the neck and B) sometimes Ilia's hair gets caught in the smallest crevices.

Mercury - Cloud Jump Going along with the theory (I think, it could be actual dialogue that confirms this) of his father damaging his legs out of spite, Mercury USED to be able to walk on air... kinda. It was more of a hop and he can only stay in one spot in the air for so long. He could use it again, maybe, but his legs are made of reinforced anti-aura metal, so he can use them farther than his thighs.

Oscar - Rain Check Drawing inspiration from a fic, in which Papa Arc had the same semblance, Oscar would have been able to sense the humidity in the air. Sounds kinda underwhelming, right? Well, you say that until you realize, "Oh, it's going to rain. That's going to make everything hard to see." Though Oscar is less attuned to aura, at least compared to magic, anyways.

Roman - Wink Honestly, it's kinda amazing Roman made it as far as he did and accomplished just as much WITHOUT a semblance. Keeping it downplayed because, let's face it, he's Roman friggin' Torchwick, I'll settle him with a neat little nod to Clockwork Orange and let him use his eye to charm anyone he'd like. C'mon, with a face like his? You know he's gonna be workin' it and wearin' it out until it gets him into trouble, which it won't, because Roman Torchwick NEVER gets into trouble.

Ozma - Moment of Clarity Assuming semblances aren't an evolutionary trait, or some magical BS (Brothers Sent) ability, let's pretend Ozma had something that gave him an edge compared to the other knights; he had a brain. Lasting as long as a deep breath, Ozma can determine the his immediate surroundings, including structural weaknesses, significant dangers, and anything else that could make or break his ultimate strategies. As for his host, whomever Ozpin was before Ozma, I'm not sure, since we don't really know anything about him, save for how he looked.

Taiyang - Blaze Like father, like daughter, Taiyang can ignite his extremities for a little fire to his fists and feet. Also triggered by anger, Tai earned a couple nicknames back at Beacon to the tunes of Hot Foot and Hot Pants. And yes, of course, Hot Head. It's partially why Taiyang is so keen on training Yang, while Ruby was better suited being trained by Qrow.

Watts - Eidetic Memory Taking inspiration from James Moriarty himself, Watts is able to remember every single, little detail he sees in a single glance. With this, he's able to provide perfect advice for all criminal activities. And just for funsies, he's also the only one who remembers the Wi-Fi passwords.

[valkyrieandstrangeridingaragorn]

Episode 2 of What If Season 2 poked the Peggy hornet’s nest and did exactly what I thought it would. 

So, for context, in this reality Yondu actually handed Peter Quill over to Ego when he was supposed to, and within just 6 months Ego was able to corrupt his son into a conqueror, so they invade Earth together. Peggy is director of SHIELD at the time, and she and Howard work together to assemble a proto-Avengers team to stop them. The team consists of Hank Pym, Bill Foster, T’Chaka, Thor, Wendy Lawson (who I think is from Captain Marvel), and… wait for it… the Winter Motherfucking Soldier. 

Yes, for real.

And because I know you’re thinking it, the excuse given is that he is in the hands of the Russians during this time, so Peggy and Howard couldn’t possibly have known about it UwU. Anyway, when they see him there’s a super drawn-out moment where they both think they recognize him (and it’s while he still has the mask on, so while this probably wasn’t intentional I actually read that as yet another middle finger to Steve, as Peggy could apparently recognize Bucky even under his disguise while Steve couldn’t). And then, Howard says, I shit you not: “I'd heard the rumors, but even if they’re true, the man we knew is long-gone, Peg, and we have bigger fish to fry.” And then later in the episode, with no segway from that to this, there’s a scene where they’re all together and the Winter Soldier has his mask off, and actually speaks. 

So, at least in this universe, Howard and Peggy are 100% aware that Bucky Barnes is in fact the Winter Soldier. Later on in the episode Howard attempts to get through to him, but only when it becomes a necessity to save the world (because he is about to kill Peter Quill while Hank is trying to convince him to turn on Ego), but it’s still pretty damning. And then at the end of the episode, rather than trying to rehabilitate him, they just let him go. Like, it’s not the same situation as Steve where he was out cold and unable to do anything, they could have taken Bucky in and tried to break his programming, but they didn’t. It’s left ambiguous what will happen to him after that, so it’s not like they sent him back to Hydra, but Hydra is still out there in this universe, so my hopes aren’t high.

TLDR; this episode attempts to handwave away the very strong possibility that the Howard and Peggy of the Prime Timeline knew what was happening to Bucky, but in doing so unintentionally made them look so much worse.

I don't... I can't even... WTF did I just read? (not you of course, I mean, what is wrong with Marvel?) 🤦‍♀️

So they use Bucky while brainwashed and/or still with Hydra's BS in his mind, and they don't even care to help him out after? They see a victim and they use him and then turn away from him, not caring about his well-being? And, I assume, Howard and Lady Brexit are still framed as good guys? And how are they any better than Hydra in that story?! The absolute nerve...

Once I read the spoilers a few days ago and saw they were going to have her as Director of SHIELD, I just knew they were going to absolve her of everything and never have her answer for any of her actions. And of course the only one who says he had "heard rumours" was Howard, not her. She's an angelic glorious being incapable of doing anything wrong. What in the absolute narrative protection is this...

Howard and Miss Brexit couldn't possibly know about Bucky... yeah, right. Except for the fact that they knew what Zola had done, because Steve told them, and they still willingly worked alongside him, even gave him a nickname. Oh Arnie, my beloved, wasn't it fun when you tortured Steve's best friend? Let's have some beer. I don't see how Miss "I shoot innocents when I'm jealous" Brexit could have recognized Bucky considering she didn't give a damn about him after Steve risked his own life against her wishes to save him, but apparently in this she can tell who he is even with a mask on? Damn girl, did you inject the serum in him yourself?

And I'm sorry but what is this... “I'd heard the rumors, but even if they’re true, the man we knew is long gone.” Excuse me? Oh, good enough to use but not good enough to save? How is the everloving hell is that even a line?! Oh my god, Marvel, just say you hate Bucky and go. I don't get it, what, he's the guy who ruins their beloved Steggy nonsense and they can't help themselves, they have to drag him through the mud for daring to be more important to Steve than Miss Brexit here? (And I say that as a non-shipper but holy crap, this is nuts.)

Not even in another timeline are these two somewhat redeemable. And Bucky is fucked up no matter what. Typical.

So the Infinity Saga had Stark as their golden boy and now it's Agent Brexit's time to shine... Will the Hero Cinematic Universe ever provide any heroes of narrative protection or are they going to choose the bad ones only? Oh, you're a soldier kidnapped, tortured and brainwashed? Go ahead and make amends, you monster. Oh, you willingly worked for the TVA and tortured and killed because you wanted to? Poor you, let us frame you as good and pat you on the back, you sweet thing.

Wow, I got mad in this one. Sorry. I have the Bucky feels right now 😜😂

[evilpenguinrika]

Okay so I had another thought about Descendants Rise of Red

Under read more cuz it's gotten a tad long. Also spoilers.

Throughout the movie, I legit thought that Uliyana was a red herring with the whole horrible prank on Bridget that made her turn from a sweet girl into a tyrannical leader because of what Ella said about it when QoH was staging the coup.

Like I DON"T KNOW to me it felt like they were setting up Ella as the person who actually did the prank (maybe against her will or was just part of a group that decided to do it and she just stayed quiet and went along with it despite not vibing with the prank at all).

And then we got introduced to Uliyana and her group and like they very clearly obviously had her set up as the one responsible (even though I was still under the impression that she was still a red herring and it was actually Ella)

But no

It... It was Uliyana

I felt like the writers had such a perfect opportunity to dive just a little deeper into the complexities of high school drama and high school cliques and teenagers. Because yeah, teenagers can be so incredibly cruel and so incredibly mean. And like, I kinda also assumed it was like your typical dumb love triangle bs with Bridget Ella and Charming as well and maybe that's why Ella did the prank idk. Like the two girls are interested in him but it's also a little more apparent that Charming is interested in Bridget and maybe Ella got jealous. And with how horrible her home life is, she just wanted something for herself for once and had a horrible lapse in judgment in playing a mean prank on Bridget.

And like if you think about it, how horrifying is it to discover your one and only friend stabbed you in the back and humiliated you for selfish reasonings (or maybe other reasonings) and that's how she became the QoH, which could tie back into that song about how love ain't it or whatever it was called, like it would further emphasize just why QoH is the way that she is and why she finds the notion of love and trusting humans/humanity so asinine because she had something horrible happen to her, a trust and betrayal, that has since hardened her heart.

Idk if this made any sense I'm just word vomiting at this point

like IDK THEY HAD A PERFECT SET UP. ULIYANA WAS LIKE A CLEAR RED HERRING (kinda like first movie with snatching of the wand and ppl thought it was Mal but nope it was Jane. See? Red herring. Kinda. Probably.) like it was an obvious choice but then the reveal that it wasn't Uliyana would have been juicy

Oh, I also wished they had more of a clear consequence of time travelling at the end. Like I was holding my breath the entire time anticipating some sort of time-travel consequence

But

There was none

Which makes no sense because when you time travel and change the timeline, there's gonna be consequences. It's sort of an important story beat to have (one example I can think of right now is the first Life is Strange game with Max's time travelling powers and how the more she uses her powers, the more fuckery shit happens where you either watch your best friend die to save an entire town or sacrifice an entire town to save your best friend). I wish they gave us something, because then it would definitely help set us up for the next movie since apparently people are saying Rise of Red is supposed to be a two parter? Or maybe not have it so blatantly obvious but still have something there to let us know "oh, something ain't right" (like I get QoH having that drastic change is already like its own thing, but idk give us more. I want more.)

ANYWAYS again, idk, just word vomiting don't mind me

[thebunniesgrim]

I'm getting way too much enjoyment watching how some of Helluva Boss fandom is raving over the popular current theory that stolas is going to die in the series.  

Because of the Oops episode and how the skull and cross bones in the smoke clock landed on Stolas and other stuff  

I.e.  

Having imp assasins in LooLoo Land 

Stella  

Striker  

His lullaby saying that when he’s gone Octavia will be ok and that today could be his last (I could go on a whole tangent about that lullaby it's so good)  

Western Energy  (that's it)

I'm not saying I want stolas to die but am I also saying it would be funny to watch the fandom go up in flames about it?  

Well call me Phineas and Ferb because

Yes  

yes I am 

You can stop reading here if you want. Under the cut I'm just rambling justifying why I think what I think. there are some jokes and lighthearted critiques, but you know... you have the option to look and give your own opinions  :)

I mean I have my grievances with him like I've said in my other post (shameless plug Warning I'm very illiterate in case you haven't noticed) but like I don’t wish death upon him I still like Stolas believe it or not   

lol.

In fact I hope stolas doesn’t die and mostly I don’t think stolas is going to die at all frankly. I highly dout the writers/viv/whoever is going to actually kill off stolas mostly because like any time stolas is in danger its so underminded like- ok LooLoo land is mostly a joke (good joke too I like the end where Stolas turns the imp guy into stone good pay off), Stella played for laughs beacues shes making the hit right in front stolas and it doesn’t get paid off till the next season which is fine the seasons are short, Western Energy he was fine like an episode later.  

If home boy cant be hospitalized for more than one episode he isn't dying  

Granted I will allow some leeway as we don’t know how much time has passed since Western Energy to Oops but it- I don’t think stab wounds and broken arms heal that fast regardless of that :/ if I'm being honest especially if it was a holy weapon just saying.  

Even if he did die that brings up a lot of questions like what happens to demons when they die? Are all demons immortal and can only die due to physical damage? are Asmodeus and Beelzebub going to outlive Fizz and Vortex if imps and hellhounds/other demons aren't immortal. Were the 7 deathly sins ever babies like everyone else? If demons are immortal and can live forever and the Ars Goitias can only be killed by angelic weapons that are hard to get, I'm assuming, why do, they need to have children or heirs? Why even have children at all? If angelic weapons can kill demons do demonic weapons exist and can they kill angels or other holy beings?   

All this and more on You Can't Answer These Questions at 8 

Lol  

anyways

but in all seriousness 

Here’s the real question  

If they did actually kill Stolas, will they bring him back?  

Riddle me this batman  

there's a very the very real outcome of them bringing stolas back through some magical demonic bs anyway so like it really won't matter. They're not going to have Stolas bite the dust permanently and if they are... respect honestly (the balls frankly).  

People will cry, I'll laugh because I'm heartless, he’ll be like resurrected or something, and everyone will be happy or mad idk.    

Like it's one thing for Millie to get hurt in the other episodes because there wasn’t a major plot point you know? (and she’s not important) There was no lingering scene on it with sad music. In when stolas got hurt it was this big thing and for him to just be like fine an episode later is like what? How are you going to have this big emotional climax with no emotional orgasm (sorry) afterwards. And like no I'm not letting this go what the heck? You had the whole fandom screeching about Blizto going to sloth just to do nothing with it and put a twist about Barbie and then also have stolas be perfectly fine and dandy the next episode afterwards. Are there no stakes in this show? Like I get that Helluva Boss wasn’t planned in the beginning but like come on... When Viv approves of the episodes does she look back at the other episodes? Is she even there? Is she ok? Is she and everyone else seeing a bigger picture that I'm not? Has she sat down and watched Helluva Boss from the very beginning and watched them from episode one to now? I mean really not just a once over to send it off to youtube I mean really took a good and hard look at the episodes? The way they mix episodic, and story is really messing with me I'm going to go back and watch all the episodes from the beginning just to make sure it’s not me.

I like how I said in my tangent about Hell fire (shameless plug part 2) I said I liked the new episode over all give or take some extremally small nitpicks yet here I am complaining :) guess I'm a liar   

soo yeah, I really don’t think they're going kill off their golden child, their best boy, their little botanist boo, their dopamine deficient dandy, their booboo bear, their uwu baby boi, their uke wukey cinnamon roll, their twinky little baby owl, their Boo thang, their stary eyed savant, their sad beige gay, their smoopy woopy do, their snoogum-boogums, their skidamarink a dink a dink skidamarink a doo, their-  

ok 

I'm done  

I'm so sorry   

[taylortruther]

AHHH  

OKAY! anon with the shitty ex fiancé here😭

I didn’t expect it to like blow up on your blog/get so many response I just needed to put it out there cause like can’t make jokes with my best friend anymore 😭

So basically my job had like a meeting thing that went really really late and it was required to go. So I went and got out earlier. I got to our apartment and went in. Heard moaning and was like MAD confused like genuinely assumed it was PORN cause in my mind he would never so😭 went to are bedroom and there is my best friend on top of him and I literally said “what the fuck.” Because at that point what else could I say. 

So she got off of him and started crying having the audacity to immediately apologize. He was pulling up his pants like “oh my god babe I swear it meant nothing.!!” which? I mean like I got you MID FUCK it clearly was something.

ANYWAY I was like in such a state of rage and shock I literally LEFT 🤧

Called my mom sobbing and she gave me money for a hotel for the weekend cause like? Didn’t want that mf to find me.

ANYWAY. I eventually had to go back and he had jewelry, flowers, bought tickets to a nice beach place being like “I’m so sorry!!” And I was like done at this point. So I like nagged him to tell me how long that was going on. He said 4 months. SO. Yeah.

Then he tried to say me working late ruined our relationship BUT the kicker. My job only started keeping me late THAT WEEK. So I was like ain’t no way you blaming that on me.  And when I called him out that was bs he went “sorry?” And anyway KICKED HIM OUT.

And called his mother who. His mom was cheated on like she raised him alone so when I called and told her she was pissed the F off and wouldn’t let him stay with her 🥰 and my friend lives with her parents and they met him so I know damn well he couldn’t stay there so who knows where that man is.

As for my friend. I immediately blocked her and her family on everything so I haven’t heard anything and THANKFULLY my lease is up next month and my fiancé and I were planning to move. So I get a new apartment and she can’t find me so yeehaw. Truthfully. I don’t want to hear from her. I had a really hard time finding love my whole life. She was always the “pretty friend” she knew my insecurities so her doing that’s yeeeh don’t want to ever see her again! 

ANON THIS IS WILD. "your job kept us apart" FOR A WEEK? oh my god. FOUR MONTHS????? this is so so awful. the betrayal is just... wow. sending love to you anon! i'm just... omg

[morningstar-chronicles]

(4 year shifter here hi)

I decided I'm shifting. Like I'm ready to dive back in because 4 years??? nothing should take you 4 years to do and thats utter bs and i will NOT stand that. im gonna shift!!! because 4 years of my life is not gonna be wasted fantasizing a world instead of improving my own. i could've mastered a skill in 4 years. out of pure SPITE I WILL BE SHIFTING AND ILL MAKE IT A CONSISTENT THING TO VISIT MY DRS!!!!

Only problem is. I HAVE SO MUCH ANXIETYYYYY around shifting. I mostly blame tiktok for this but i have such imposrer syndrome (i just learned that term maybe im usijg it wrong). i feel like nothing im doing is correct and my brain tells me with assurance im not gonna shift because of it.

i know if I just believed id be with my husband rn. but i dont know how and 4 years of conditioning myself to believe i wont im scared i cant undo it and my thoughts on life is *if you dont believe you can do it you won't do it*

l asked my tarot deck for advice on what to do and got:

situation: The devil, Page of swords

what to do: The Emperor

i have no clue what's this is meant to mean 😚

hm. okay so i'm not super well-versed in tarot but i'll consult my books for u

the devil (assuming upright): describes obsession and limitations. given the context, i'm going to assume these limitations are more percieved than actual physical limitations. this pretty much checks out with what you told me here. i'm getting that there is a lot of overthinking and maybe method hopping or trying to make something work that just doesn't align with what you need.

page of swords (assuming upright): tells me that you are very methodical and thorough with your attempts. this is great for most aspects of life, but in my own personal opinion, shifting is about letting go of the details and focusing on the big picture.

the emperor (assuming upright): this was most interesting to me! it appears that you crave structure, and so a method with more structure may still be what works best for you. however, it also appears as though you need to focus on practicality over smaller details. you might benefit from taking a more commonly-known rigid method and changing certain things like the breathing pattern or steps that just don't allow you to relax.

ANYWAY that aside, you can totally shift even if you have doubts!! some people shift the day after they give up (baffling to me??? like omg universe i'm totally giving up... 👀) and i think something that helps a lot of people to know is like... anyone can shift. literally anyone. also i never do the methods right and i've shifted before so like... idk hopefully that helps you feel better about doing things wrong 😭

[sporadicboinglerstealer2000]

I'm starting the think Emhyr's plans are just bs. Right I was thinking last night about it all and pretty sure we can all agree both Emhyr and Vilgefortz plans for Ciri are like the worse out of any of the factions that want her (the lodge and elves are both shitty too but I feel like are not as bad compared to these two twits, not by much still bad) But Emhyr says he'll '...beget her a son who will beget a son.' which would not work for his plans of making Nilfgaard a powerful empire since the elder blood can only remain active in the female line, so Vilgefortz must have omitted some details there. However his plans for marrying Ciri will only speed up this process by one generation. Like if he was normal about this and was like 'this is my long lost daughter' (easy to tell cos they look near identical and Ciri has the obvious looks of her mother and grandmother so anyone who met those two women (like Queen Meve of Lyria and Rivia, Calanthes relative) could verify that) then it would either be his foretold grandchild or great-grandchild who would be the actual prophecy child who would inherit his grand empire. However if he got his way then his son and grandson would have half of the gene because they aren't women and wouldn't be able to carry the full elder blood gene, so unless it was a family of controlled incest then the power he wants would just cease to exist. (I doubt getting the Nilfgaardians behind his whole Targaryen family would go down well).

Another thing, if the plan went accordingly and Ciri was on the ship with them then he'd would of sent away Pavetta anyway, which would make it all sooo much worse because Ciri would know he was then (even in the books she notes something familiar about him which would make sense since she was 5 when he 'died' so a part of her could have some recognition). Though admittedly that probably wouldn't happen since I think Vilgefortz would've gotten rid of him and then had both Pavetta and Ciri for his own sick plans. Essentially Emhyr has justified this incest by speeding up the process by a generation because he's impatient. If he hadn't attacked Cintra and instead sent some messengers to Calanthe being like 'hey it's me, your son-in-law I'm actually an emperor and Ciri will be my heir and as such Cintra will join Nilfgaard' then there's Cintra secured. Presumedly he had the whole incest plan the whole time looking for Ciri (I assume so anyway) and only changed his mind after Geralt tore into him, Yennefer didn't want her daughter to cry, said daughter cries so he lets her go. Like he only saw reason after having it pointed out to him? Also the fact it's obvious Ciri is practically identical minus the hair and probably eyes (are his eyes described?) If the incest plot didn't exist then he could just be like 'i've searched for you my long lost daughter you're an empress' then things could've gone a little better, only thing is now Ciri may actually want to go with him (I can see Geralt and Yennefer being able to accompany here or at least allowed to live), but no and I fail to see why at least a version of this couldn't happened.

[onequeerhuman]

Caught up again- an emily prentiss/larissa weems fic

during an investigation that took the bau team to a Special school in Vermont, Emily runs into her one love she thought she lost forever while trying not to get wrapped up in the bs that is now her life and larissa grapples with the sudden re-appearance of the one who got away while dealing with yet another serial killer in her woods that threatened her precious school and it’s unique pupils.

pairing: Larissa weems x emily prentiss warnings: language, arguments, gruesome violence (like a typical c.m. episode), tension, angst, etc.

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Chapter 1:

Emily sat with her team again in the round table room, waiting for penelope to introduce the latest crime that needed their attention. This was her life now, a typical tuesday, really… but maybe it’s become too much of her life.. She dosent know. Then again, with everyone telling her she needs to let off some steam, take a vacation, get laid, maybe she does know, but refuses to admit it ... oh well, who cares? It's no big deal anyway, shes lived this long she’ll be fine. she just has to get through this case and then her weekend- or whatever few days of the week it'll be- will be free to do as she pleases.. Which is mostly sleep, but that works. Emily is pulled from her thoughts when Penelope finally shows up and starts the debreif.

"Alright people, our next case is a series of murders, believed to be a serial killer in Jericho, vermont...”

Jericho? emily thinks man, I havent been there since... no, not gonna think about that now, em, dont. she disciplines herself before her focus is back on garcia and what she's saying

"..So this is their second serial killer in two years, which is part of why we’ve been called, also because the last killer was a hyde boy being controlled by a woman who groomed him."

There's a slight pause as everyone takes all this information in, before Penelope continues.

"Because of this, we'll all be having to take a quick refresher carse on outcasts with a member of our OCR(outcast crimes and relations) division, who's supposed to arrive in...5 minutes! Anyway, that's all l've got for you guys, buT I told SSA Oakley we’d be all Together in this room when she arrived, so…” pen shrugged, plopping down into her swivel chair next to where she was standing and fidgeting with her fluffy purple, sparkle pen.

There's yet another pause, a brief moment of silence while everyone processes this information and then it’s all over as soon as it began, the entire room envellopped in overlapping conversation. JJ talking about what she remembered when she worked with outcasts at the pentagon, rossi and Alvez asking a slew of questions, penelope and Tara gossiping over what they think having to work with outcasts will be like, matt babbling over them about professionalism and so on, and then there was Emily... Just... sitting there, in silence, Thinking. Contemplating, really, Because emily has more secrets than the team knows, and one of those is her status as an outcast herself, another being - no... she chastised herself again. were not thinking abat that right now,.. and so she didn’t, She thought about the case and her plan and not a moment later when JJ was asking why she was being so quiet,her answer was interrupted by a knock at the door, penelope rushing to get it...

"Ah! SSA Oakley, l'm penelope, it's awesome to meet you!" she said engulfing the woman infront of her in a hug.

"Likewise" the woman said, ner voice sounded strange, like a breeze rustling through leaves in the spring, but pleasant.

“I assume everyone already knows why i’m here?" she kindly asks the group and a chorus of yes-es and other such agreeing sentiments are returned her way.

"Wonderful! Then let's get started." she said, pulling out a laptop and hooking it up to their tech.

"So.. Number one thing I need to ask, is who nows anything about outcasts, just in general." the agent asked the group and everyone immedately has Ideas, but JJ speaks up first.

"There are many types of outcast and just like us, obviously, there's good and bad ones. I worked at the pentagon for a bit and one of my favourite coworkers was a werewolf named chelsea, she was so sweet and gave the best hugs!"

"On you know chels? shes super sweet, never met a warmer body, either!" SSA Oakly smiled, and it finally clicked for the group what made her seem odd, she was an outcast herself, seemingly a vampire at that.

“Anyways, yes, SSA Jareau, that’s actually the first thing on my list as a reminder, arcasts are people, too. Pretty much exactly the same in all aspects but their particular quirk, actually.” She smiled, closed-lipped this time before asking “Anyone have anything to add? I know this is a refresher course but if you’ll just bear with me I need to know how much of a refresher is really needed..”

And surely, as she trailed off, garcia gladly spoke up.

"ooh. I got something-although you may be enthralled with them, staring or making comments is Just weird, so try not to do that." Emily smiled at what she said though internally was a bit bored. As a siren herself she found this all quite stupid, for it was all clearly normal and obvious stuff... but she had to remember her team was all normies, albeit quirky ones, so she had to just shut up and hope this "refresher course" helped.

"Yup!" Oakley said, "Just like it'd be for anyone else.... I mean- any normies." She finished, waiting to see if anyone else weld speak un-pronted and catching eyes with their unit chief, a look of mutual understanding briefly lashing in their eyes as Oakley clocked Prentiss but knew not to say anything.

After a moment of no one speaking Oakley moved on to continue her reminder.

"Well, if no one else has anything

to add, since you’ve got down the general basics, l'd like to give you all the opportunity to ask questions about anything you want to know. Anything at all, nows the time to ask.” She said, pointing around the room.

Emily held back as her agents bombarded the OCR agent with questions upon questions upon questions about seemingly, as Oakley had said, absolutely anything. But eventually as everyone else's curiosity dwindled, they began to notice emily's lack of involvement in the whole ordeal and the gazes of her teammates began to shift towards ner more and more before Rossi finally had the courage to speak

about it.

“Prentiss? You’ve been pretty quiet this whole time.. anything you wanna ask or what?” He questioned her.

Not anything I didnt learn in school already, but thanks she thought, but didnt dare speak. instead easily lying with an “Oh, no i'm good - you all managed to cover anything I wanted to learn, and everything else l’d learnt back in university. I actually took a few classes on outcasts and i’m not that old yet." Fortunately, everyone seemed happy enough with that answer, though JJ was a little skeptical.

"Really? I didn't know that..." A sideways questioning glance was thrown her way by the blonde but emily just avoided her questioning gaze, instead locking eyes with SSA Oakley who swiftly moved the conversation- and lesson- away from her once more.

"well, since we were so thorough in that questions period " everyone looked a little guilty but Oakley reassured them

“Oh no worries, it’s honestly easier that way, it just means we’re nearly done now. The last things you all need to learn are just some simple facts about the most common species which you should mostly know of already, and some of the most common misconceptions,” Oakley explained further, “How about we start with the easiest one for me: vampires, tell me what you think you know.” She announced casually, Rossi immediately speaking up.

“You will never be able to enjoy the wonderful food of my people, for one.”

“Albeit a very common allergy among vampires, that’s actually not completely true. Being allergic to garlic is like the lactose and gluten-intolerant normies. Pretty common, sure, but honestly most just suck it up to enjoy good food, even if they’re stuck in the bathroom for three hours afterwards. What else?”

“Well, in most stories you can’t go out during the day because the sun will kill you.. but obviously that isn’t true.” Tara said.

“Yes, correct! Giant myth. We’re all naturally nocturnal, so our eyes and skin are much more sensitive to light but it can’t actually make us burst into flames or dust or whatever the current normie stories are saying.”

“What about blood?” Alvez asked, “I mean- like, you’re obviously not all murderers so…”

“Actually most of us are like… the equivalent of a human vegetarian- we don’t need human blood, it tastes much better though, and if you’re lucky you can find a blood donor, but otherwise we mostly just drink animal blood.”

“Oh, cool!” Alvez smiled, clearly fascinated.

“The next species we could talk about are sirens, what do you know?”

At the mention of her own classification, Emily became slightly anxious, worried about what their perception of her would’ve been if she was forthright about it.

“They trap sailors with their voices and seductiveness and have sex with them just to kill them.” Penelope said.

Oof. that hurt. thought Emily before she spoke up. “Actually sirens are much… more like sharks, like, they prefer fish and humans have only accidentally been eaten during siren-song a handful of times. And the sex thing is just a huge lie.” The moment she finished speaking, Prentiss realized her mistake when all eyes were on her. She backpedaled quickly “They were my favourite species to study in university” she added on a bit nervous yeah, because I am one was the thought that passed through her mind afterwards.

“Yes, actually! Chief Prentiss is absolutely right- siren-song isn’t used for sex or any personal gain normally, and is actually just traditional communication between them. Almost all sirens wear a special piece of jewelry or something of the like to keep their song from affecting others.” As Oakley said this, Emily played with the necklace hidden underneath her shirt, praying no one noticed all of her odd behaviour.

The team were impressed with this answer and the questioning continued on with a comment on werewolves from tara.

“Ah, yes! well, as JJ so kindly said…”

…

About 20 minutes later, after everyone but Emily had learned many new things Oakley was finally satisfied enough and began to pack up.

“Well, it was absolutely a pleasure to meet you all, and hopefully we can see one another again!” She smiled wide at the group, showing off her fangs once more, before turning to Emily with a knowing look in her eye, “And if you ever find you need it, you can always call me.” She slipped a business care to her on her way out the door, a chorus of ‘bye’s and ‘nice to meet you’s following her out.

Merely a minute or two later, after Emily had announced wheels up in 30 and sent everyone to collect their go-bags and prepRe had she been sat back in her desk, grabbing for that business card.

The front was simply a standard issue FBI card with a name, title and number on it, but when she flipped it over it read

“Really, if you ever need any support, there’s an FBI outcasts group. Give them a ring. xxx-xxx-xxxx

-Oakley of Antipaxtos.”

There was a knock at her office door and she quickly shoved the card into her blazer pocket “come in!” she called, turning towards the door to see which it was.

…

About 25 minutes later and everyone was set and ready on the jet. They’d have to fly out to Burlington and then make the hour drive to Jericho to meet with the sheriff before heading another half-hour out to the school for outcasts - nevermore - where they’d be conducting most of their investigation as well as staying at.

With penelope paged-in on one of the many tablets, light conversation rolled for the first hour or so of their plane ride and Emily joined in here or there, but remained mostly in her head as she thought about returning to nevermore for, well, the first time ever. She wondered who the current headmaster was.

Less than a second after what thought crossed her mind she was pulled down, out of the clouds from which her head was floating in.

“I’m sorry, what?” She asked and JJ frowned at her for a second time that day.

“Are you alright?”

“Yes, yes i’m fine, what is it?”

JJ seemed skeptical but continued on, “Pen asked if you’d lived out in Jericho when you were younger for a bit.”

“Oh. Yes, actually I did. My mom thought it best I spend some time with other ou-my father. It was only a couple years when I was 18 and 19 but it was quite nice. To my memory Jericho is quite quaint ..and has a lovely hot-chocolate spot.” Emily added, reminiscing on a time long since past when her and a delightful blinde would spend hours in that cafe together after school…

She coughed, bringing herself back to reality “..Although i’m pretty sure theres high tension between the outcasts and normies, if it’s anything like when i graduated..”

“Really?” Tara butted in “I mean, I know theres still a big gap in knowledge on our side, but i assumed its just like in any of the cities, where were civil and kind at minimum…?”

Emily laughed, a sarcastic sound “yeah… no, Jericho was originally filled with pilgrims, and most are still pretty nutty, so they think outcasts are less worthy than them, or something.” She sighted, everyone feeling a twinge of sadness for the outcasts in the area at that.

“Well, to brighten up the mood a bit, guess what i’ve just gotten?!” Penelope squealed, “Your sleeping arrangements at nevermoreee!! Ooh, i never thought i’d get to be this excited about dorms after college… so! who wants to hear who their roomie is?!” she clapped excitedly, waiting expectantly for someone to speak up.

“All right, I’ll bite,” Alvez told her, “where am I staying?”

“So lovely for you to ask, newbie, you’ll be staying in the empty teachers apartment at the end of the Dickinson boys hall with our de Rossi and Matt. Don’t worry, it’s quite spacious, and there’s three separate beds for you all.” she told them with a smile.

“ and what about us?” JJ asked.

“ yeah! what are we, chopped liver?” tara joked.

Emily smiled along, though she still felt like a fish out of water as they got mirror and mirror to her former school and the secrets she left buried there.

“ of course!” she heard Penelope say, but her mind had drifted as she listened to what Penelope was saying, only catching onto the last bit…

“… and you, my dear Emily, get the room right next to the headmistresses, all to your lonesome, which I’m sure you won’t mind” she informs her.

Oh great thought Emily, how fitting for the former student.

“ yes,” she ended up saying instead with up or smile on her lips that she looked real enough. Emily digited with her hidden necklace.

…

Later, when everyone was loaded up into what was basically a limousine and getting driven to Jericho 13 was once again feeling quite chatty… Too chatty for Emily’s scatterbrain at the moment. And unfortunately, for her, Tara could tell.

“Hey, you,” Tara said sitting down beside her and bumping their knees, “Whatch’a thinking about? You’ve been pretty weird this whole time, is there anything that we should know about?” She spoke softly, almost in a whisper, to the other woman and when Emily dosent answer at first she adds, “or that you want to get off your chest? I promise i won’t judge.”

After a bit of internal deliberation on Emily’s end, she decided to leg at least a little bit of whats bothering her off her chest.

With a sigh she spoke “I just.. I never thought i’d ever be back here to be honest.. A lot of shit went down when i was here, a lot of bad shit.. and of course i expected to come back to Vermont for work but.. not here, you know? its just a lot of memories and emotions and events to get thrown back in..” It’s a bit vague, what shes saying, she knows.. but to give much more detail she’d have to tell tara- and by consequence, most likely the who team- a secret she’d been keeping from them since before she even joined the FBI.

“Wow.” Said tara, “Yeah, that cant be fun.. but i’m sure whatever happened back then is long over now- it was practically 30 years ago was utterly not? I-I cant promise you’ll be fine, but i’m sure it’s just nerves and that everything will work itself out in the end.”

Emily really doubted that, especially id all the memories in the form of photos and trophies of hers were still there, she was actually just screwed.. but she wouldn’t tell tara that, she was just glad tara didn’t seem to want to push the topic and just said something along the lines of “yeah, thanks” before leaning on her shoulder and staring out the window, waiting out the rest of the drive in silence.

…

When the team finally reached jericho the charter that had previously infected the group had developed into nerves. This was the first ever case they’d had that included outcasts and none of them had any real experience with them.. or so they thought. because of this, emily found it in their best interest to go meet the sheridf as a collective before splitting off to begin their investigating and profiling.

“Hello, sherifff galpin. Cheif prentiss, i assume?” a scruffy mean about emily’s afe asked, and out for a shake.

“Yea, thank you for bringinv us on. These are SSA Alvez, Rossi, Lewis, Simmons and Jareau. Out tech js patching in through your computer, if needed.”

“thank you all for comjng, if you’d just follow me, i’d like to discuss a few things..”

once they’d arrived in the small station’s one boardroom and gotten settled, sheriff Galpin, shitty coffee in hand, immediately began to blab.

 “ oh boy am I glad to have you and your team here!” the sheriff said, voice laced with exhaustion. “I really was getting worried here- ‘specially since I cant be working this case…” he trailed off woefully.

Emily had to hold in her surprise at this development, taking a sip out of the styrofoam cup she calmly asked “well, what exactly do you mean you cant be in this case? I assumed we’d be working closely together..” her expression turned to show a look of professional concern.

“Well..” there’s a long and awkward pause between them, with the sheriff seemingly fighting an internal battle before speaking up again with a sigh, “unfortunately i’m unable because i’m considered to have a conflict of interest.. you see- my son Tyler, and his mother my late wife, are hydes. Actually, he’s the hyde that caused the deaths of so many last year. though he was under the control of laurel gates.. it’s quite sad, really. she was a damn good woman in many ways with agreeable values. Felt her opinions should be more valued and represented in the community, with the whole segregation and all that. too bad she went crazy.. Anyway, considering my son, Tyler, was part if the whole situation last year and just recently escaped his centre for troubled youth, he’s one of the prime suspects, and as it turns out i’m not allowed to work a case that he’s a suspect in..” the man says solemnly.

Emily has to take a few moments to process these bombs that have just been dropped on her when before she can even speak up, he continues his scary speech.

“But don’t worry,” he says, “it’s no big deal. we all know it’s those.. fucking FREAKS up in their special school that did it. This time i’m sure of it. Man, those guys are fucking creepy and weird as shit. Hell, their headmistress didn’t even die from poison. Big ass bug in my opinion..” he finally stops, seeming to be internally fuming over his one-sided hatred of outcasts, and to this headmistress in particular it seems.

Emily just sits there, stunned at how open he was and vocal of his opinions… I mean, she knew the people still thought like this, but she really thought it would’ve gotten marginally better since when she attended there.. She toyed with her necklace, trying to compose herself and the inner turmoil she was having with her life at the moment.

When she managed to gain enough control over her emotions -specifically towards this sheriff she was now glad to not have to work with- Emily found her voice once more, making her first comment since this little.. rant debacle began.

She cleared her throat, “ahem, so, speaking of this.. headmistress, i’m assuming i’ll have to be working with her as opposed to you?”

“Yes, yes.. as you’ve probably gathered we’re not exactly a big town, and as much as i hate to admit it, she does have grounds and different levels of authority over her school per the outcast laws anyways, damn outcasts, always taking more than they deserve- she’s not even American you know?!” Sheriff Galpin spoke on as Emily began to get a gut feeling about this no, it couldn’t possibly be- right?! i’m crazy, snap out of it prentiss! you’re better than this, she was in her head as the sheriff was still speaking.

“…And I swear the guts on that woman, fucking english giant! That weems woman will be the death of me and all that I stand for, I swear.” He said, anger in his tone like he still had more to say, and he did, but it was at this moment where it all ended for Emily as she was mentally transported back to a time lived and long since passed of her youth.

Fuck. Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck. Weems?!

…

over the course of that …’meeting’- if you could even call it that- emily learned several unfortunate things.. among them were thag the sheriff had called them in to help because he himself could not work the cae- considering his son was the last killer out here ans one of the main suspects. The second thing she learned was, although his late wife and son are outcasts, he seems to have an irrational hate for all things not 100% normie.. and worst if all, the main thing she was running from out here was the headmistress of the schol she had to work with. Her ex.

Larissa Weems.

Apparently, without realising it herself until later, she managed to black out everything that happened after that last discovery. about the lo-her ex. Larissa. That woman always managed to do that to emily. make her forget about everything else in the world but her, that is.. Seems like she still can, though its not nearly as pleasant as ut waa when they were together. Granted, emily probably deserved tgat after what she did.

Unfortunately, though, she really needed to pull herself out of her head. she could hear someone saying something to her.

“Hmmn?” She muttered, turning her head. Oh good, it’s just JJ.

“I asked if youre ready to head to the school now? everyone else is in the car, we were just waiting to see if you were out of your meeting with sheriff Galpin yet?

“Oh, yeah. Great timing actually, we just finished.” She said with a smile trying yo seem like her normal self.

Larissa. Larissa. Larissa.

“Okay, cool.” JJ said grabbing her hand and dragging her up and outside to the car.

“Everyone’s ready? Feeling prepared?” Emily asked her.

Larissa. Larissa. Larissa.

“As much as we can, i think., and were all a bit nervous but…”

“Oh, no thats totally understandable I wou- i am too.” She smiled again.

Larissa. Larissa. Larissa.

“Okay, everyone’s in and buckled. Off we go!” The driver said to the team when Emily and JJ were settled.

Larissa. I miss you.

—————— end of chapter one ——————

A/n: Hello everyone! so sorry for this long ass wait, and apologies in advance for the VERY slow updates I will continue to have. I promise I’m still very much in love with writing and I won’t give up finishing my fics but I have some family obligations along with classes that have to take precedence over my writing. Updates might be more like once a month, but hopefully they can be longer! Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this, remember to drink water and go outside today! xx -bug💜

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Sorry this is a bit of a vent, feel free to leave this unanswered!

I’m a student and we were doing a review game in class about philosophy which, of course, included some Greek philosophers and words. Anyways I’m Greek-American and everyone knows this because of my name, and the game we were playing was a bit of a competition for extra points on the test. The teacher asked a question about a Greek word and some kid points at me and goes “she shouldn’t answer this - you should make a rule about not letting a Greek answer questions about Greek stuff.”

He said it jokingly but still kinda hurtful, and it didn’t help that everyone started laughing and agreeing with him, even the teacher. Anyways I’m tired and just wanted to let you know how much casual bs is going on in the states, even now.

Great blog btw and wishing you well in terms of health! Ευχαριστώ πιο πολύ Θείτσα! (My Greek is very bad so apologies)

Γεια σου πουλί μου! (σωστό Θείτσα introduction 😁) I was late to answer my asks including this one and I hope nothing weird happened to you in the meantime! And I hope you got extra points on that course!

To be fair, as the classic "haha Greek must know all about Greek philosophy stuff" this feels like a harmless joke to me, and a little bit flattering (assuming the students and teacher didn't actually believe you would know philosophy because of your heritage, but they were just joking).

Ooon the other hand, I haven't lived all my life hearing stupid 'Murican takes about Greeks and Greece constantly so I can imagine that after all those years, it takes the smallest comment to break the camel's back. So I can understand why it rubbed you off the wrong way.

I send you many hugs and wish you courage 💙💙💙

[rosetheocto]

After the doors finally opened up, the group quickly dashed into the first room they could register. The moment was chilling after their sudden brush with death, everyone taking a moment to catch their breaths.

“Okay.” Blue was the first to speak up. “I’ve seen a lot of things happen in this game, and this is by far the most messed up.” The bean took a quick look outside the Laboratory’s doorway, double checking that those faceless, creepy, glitchy ‘ghosts’ didn’t follow them in there. “You’re right. This definitely isn’t a dream… so how the hell are we gonna get out of this mess?”

we were really robbed of more Blue in the NoVisor Arc. like my guy has been playing this game since 2018, which means he’s been around during the same time Aiden was first kidnapped!! I’m a bit hyperfixated on the rewrite of the NoVisor Arc (and AUL in general) I’m doing with a friend rn, so if I remember to post more of that I will! For now though more context and other scattered stuff about the lore for AULR will be under the cut!! :3

the beginning of Return is kinda identical, but Blue replaces Ria. Player, Veteran, and Noob try to warn them about Things Being Kinda Weird and that they are absolutely trapped inside the game but they both call bs (assuming they’re like dreaming or something) until a group of glitched out ghost things (with no visor cuz duh) chase after them all. PF also Coincidentally™️ shows up not too long before the ghosts start attacking and chasing them! how strange…

ANYWAY now they’re hiding out from those things and are using the stupid cleanup thing in MIRA to give them a moment to catch their breath, buy some time, and think of a game plan. The near death experience convinced Mr. Egg and especially Blue that maybe there is way more to this than they both initially thought.

PF’s a lil nervous cuz he believes Blue is catching onto him knowing more about everyone getting transported into the game than he lets on (AND HES RIGHT), esp cuz Blue has mentioned having multiple encounters with strange cultist beans over the years of playing Among Us. (Spoilers Blue does find out about PF later in the episode, but definitely dies like right after :(()

The way I see NV’s plan is somewhat similar but also different. We didn’t really know what was going on exactly in canon, but for this one the best way I can describe it is like the plot of Side Order. The NV Cult is forcibly bringing people into a virtual world in which they would be able to rule with The Power Of Hacking.

as for why the world they picked is a hacked Among Us game? Well it’s simple! it’s super buggy, and there’s only three developers (at the time this takes place that is), so anything they do will take forever to fix and update on their end. And the game being practically a wasteland to the sudden boom in popularity was perfect for bringing unsuspecting people in.

Innersloth knew something was wrong right away all those years ago, but they just couldn’t keep up with this group of hackers. The eventual solution they came up with to all the shenanigans from the cult (and others when it started getting popular) led to the creation of the Hacker’s Lobby, run by 2 (technically 3 if you count Clogsworth) Admins. This new lobby worked! …for the most part. As new cult members infiltrate the game, there’s bound to be some people Innersloth and the Admins missed…

BUT THATS ALL SUBJECT TO CHANGE and there’s a lot of stuff I definitely missed but yea!! AULR my beloved :]