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thesilverlock · 1 year ago
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Little known fact; October is the big anniversary month of my other big OTP 💜 The antihero parenthesis-questionmark couple. Art block / style crises hit hard in the past three weeks, but I managed to doodle a smol for them.
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bloodpen-to-paper · 1 year ago
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Felps is a goddamn enigma. He's not on the server enough to be a concurrent member but he's on too much to be considered a non-concurrent member. He's described as just "spawning in" during IRL events. He canonically drove and crashed the ship with the Brazilians that got them on the island. He was reintroduced as a new member the day the September batch arrived (he was not a new member). The admins gave him his own little iceroom recreation at spawn that he woke up in, and made him an official introduction post on the twitter account as part of an elaborately dedicated inside joke. He was the first one to get abducted by the Federation and spear-head the current lore all because he fucked off to Japan for a month. Getting kidnapped is called getting "Felpsed". He got a weird marking in his arm that was never brought up again. His biggest contribution was Festa Junina but everyone knows him for the ginormous square he's digging out block by block (he has threatened to restart the entire project if anyone uses Create to empty the square. No one knows why.) The most significant thing that happened during the France Vidcon stream was the members using Cucurucho to place a block of bedrock in Felps Square before they immediately crashed. The recap video has this
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for his stats page. Its all just Felps.
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picturejasper20 · 4 months ago
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College Trio Month Event
Tag: #collegetriomonth2024
Hello people in the phandom! Me and others would like to share with you the official announcement of this prompt fandom event we have been working on for a while: The College Trio month event!
What is this event about?
It is a fandom event centered around the College Trio (Jack, Maddie, Vlad) that people can participate in by making fanart, fics, etc by using the list of prompts we are going to share in this post down below.
This event is going to last four weeks (around a month), with each week dedicated to a different character from the College Trio and the fourth last week being dedicated to the College Trio as a whole. For this, people can choose the prompts they prefer to use from the list of prompts and apply them to the week’s character however they want. It doesn’t have to follow a specific order nor all the prompts have to be used to participate in the event. More details about the event down below.
What is the College Trio?
College Trio is the fandom name for the relationship between Jack Fenton, Maddie Fenton and Vlad Masters. It is used to refer to their dynamic or the three characters as a group. For this event you are free to interpret their dynamic however you wish. Both ship and non-ship content is welcome.
In addition to this, you are free to use both of their college versions (their younger selves from the flashbacks and photos) and older present versions (how they usually look in the series) for the prompts themselves
When is the event going to take place?
In August, from August 4th Sunday to September 1st Sunday. It is going to last four weeks to be precise. Each week will be dedicated to a specific character, following this order:
1st week - Jack Fenton 2nd week- Maddie Fenton 3rd week- Vlad Masters 4th week - College Trio (as whole)
Guide and rules about the event: -Remember to tag any entries/posts as #collegetriomonth2024 -Nothing that is too NSFW or inappropriate. -Things like horror and gore are allowed but shouldn’t be taken to an extreme. -Avoid repeating prompts if they have been used previously. (Not use the same prompt twice) -The prompts do apply as long as the character of the week is there. Other characters can show up in the work (in case someone wants to draw/write the college trio together) -Not every prompt has to be used while participating in the event (A person can do six of them, for example) -The prompts don’t have to follow a specific order. The participant can start and use the ones they prefer.
List of prompts for the event:
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Credits to the @theillustraitor for making the design for the list of prompts!
*In any case you have any questions about the event, you can DM me or send me an ask to my blog.
See you there!
Tagging @furiarossa @chaseacer-ghostedition @schnuffel-danny
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lesbianrobin · 4 months ago
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Em i LOVE the idea of Buck and Eddie making a lil podcast (in my head it’s called someth like best buddies be prepared)
Can u imagine it having a following? Nothing huge or anything, they’re long ass episodes about niche topics it’s not exactly a top 10 listen, but like maybe they’re on a call and it’s someth from one of their episodes (earthquake maybe?) and they’re tryna get to a kid who’s stuck and he’s just spouting lil tidbits and factoids and buck is like “wow buddy you know a lot about this stuff” and the kid goes “it’s from my favourite podcast!” And buck is just SO excited and Eddie pretends to have forgotten that they did that but he’s so tickled for Buck and excited that other people like listening to him as much as Eddie does
Anyway I’m thinking about that
ok first of all that is adorable. and second of all honestly i Can see it having a following if they were able to tell stories from their calls and/or somebody with lots of followers happened to listen and spread it!!
like here's the thing okay. they live in los angeles and meet tons of people every day. they're bound to help out some influencer or b/c/d-list celebrities and all it would take is somebody casually mentioning the podcast in front of an influencer who then tweets like "hey guys some firefighters rescued me from a car accident last week and turns out they have a podcast!! here's their episode on safe driving!" and bam their stupid little podcast that they just started because they were bored and buck wanted to yap suddenly has a few thousand listeners. buck and eddie have a great rapport and people enjoy when they go off on tangents or tell funny work stories and of course if listeners look them up and See how beautiful they are bam that's another point in their favor.
and because it's educational maybe some teachers will assign students episodes for homework and maybe the lafd reaches out and is like heyyyy you guys want to maybe do this in a more official capacity 😳❓ and suddenly they have the opportunity to make a lil bit of money from their podcast not Much but eddie's never gonna say no to extra cash and he Likes having an excuse to just sit down and talk to his favorite guy in the world for like three hours about whatever the topic of the week/month is.
just for funsies i do like to imagine that the podcast becomes popular enough that a small but dedicated rpf shipping community crops up and there's discourse about it 🫶🏻
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ashen-char · 6 months ago
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dating river - hcs (family edition)
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ship: river (all souls) x gender neutral reader
warnings: mentions of death/graveyards/spirits as is canon-typical
notes: jade's such a big part of her life that this got a bit longer than i expected! if you want a more general dating river hcs, find it here. requested here
✦ river is BUSY. on top of the classes she takes at valley, dealing on the side, and the shit the cops makes her deal with, she dedicates all the time she has to her daughter
✧ as such, she definitely did not expect to get into a relationship. let alone to care about someone as much as she does you
✦ she was wary at first. river hasn't been in many, if any relationships. she didn't know how you'd respond to jade, if you'd understand that you can't be her first priority, or if jade would take to you
✧ so for the first few months you two were seeing each other, river swatted off your requests to take her home with a "maybe next time"
✦ in fact, the first time you met jade was an accident
✧ you were chilling in the park with some of your friends while river was taking her daughter to the playground. when jade noticed her mama suddenly brightening at the sight of you across the park, she asked why she was all smiley
✧ basically, river had to introduce her to you
✧ of course, you understood why explaining your relationship status to a 5 year old who's grown up with a single mom her whole life was complicated. so you wore the badge of "this is mama's special friend" with honour
✦ river couldn't hide how happy she was with you, though
✧ jade could always tell if her mama was coming home from hanging out with you. she'd be less stressed, her smiles brighter and laughter more frequent
✧ river couldn't help but to repeat your jokes (if they were appropriate) or gush about what you two did
✧ and since you made her happy, it was a done deal for jade. with all the love in the world for her mama, she hatched a plan to get you two together! 
✧ so jade made up all sorts of excuses to have you stick around
✧ movie nights, tea parties, games - jade insisted things were more fun with you, and river couldn't keep saying no to her
✧ any small problem, you were called in to solve it. a jar needed to be opened? they couldn't reach something off the shelf? jade knew who to call
✧ "mama! we don't have enough pillows to make a fort... maybe we could ask your friend to bring some!"
✦ and river secretly loved how much her little girl took to you
✧ every time you showed up for them, it reminded river that she's not going it alone anymore
✧ river would catch you helping with jade's homework like you were a born teacher. rather than just giving the 5 year old the answers like it'd be easiest to do, you'd explain how to get the answers
✧ both of them appreciate how patient and understanding you are
✦ whenever you three were out together, you'd occasionally get compliments on your "sweet little family"
✧ jade would just wrap her arms around both of you and go "thank you!", not letting either of you rebut
✧ not that you wanted to, of course. you loved the idea of you three as a family
✦ you hoped that one day river would see that you'd love jade like she was your own and just make the damn thing official already
✦ needless to say, when jade accidentally caught a glimpse of you two kissing one night, she was ecstatic! she thought her plan worked perfectly
✧ when you two explained that you were actually dating all along, jade got a little huffy that you two were keeping a secret from her
✧ she made you promise to never do that again. but she did give you extra special permission to date her mama, with the addendum that you had to keep making her happy ok?
✧ and she made river promise to treat you good too
✦ river was very embarrassed when jade waxed poetic about how happy she is when she comes home after seeing you
✦ jade basically deemed you worthy of being her second parent before you two even told her
✦ the closest thing river has had to a co-parent was her mom, jade's nana. she had to learn how to let you support her, how to be a team when it came to raising jade together
✧ of course, it helped that you never tried to take over. river was in charge and ultimately, she knew best about what jade needed
✧ river appreciates the amount of respect you have for her decisions in raising jade
✦ it means the world that you're there
✧ you're there to attend jade's recitals, you're there when she scrapes her knee, and you're there when river is coming home late but jade still wants to hear a story
✧ you'll sit by river's side and cheer jade on. you'll carry her over to river so she can patch her up, making them laugh so it hurts less. you'll tell river all about jade's day so she never feels like she missed out because she was too busy
✦ with you around, they teach you their traditions and you teach them yours
✧ with jade being so young, it's nice to make lasting memories for her to cherish
✧ formative stuff, like camping trips when you teach her how to pitch a tent or you help her catch her first fish
✦ you help the kid learn how to ride a bike, and how to swim
✧ when you realise that river doesn't know how to do either (her family could never afford a bike or a pool), you teach her too
✧ (buying her a bike was a very necessary splurge when she smiled so wide because of it)
✧ river trusts you. she trusts you when you hold her hand and help her get used to the feeling of floating, of losing control. she trusts you when you promise to keep your hands on the bike
✧ when you see her balancing on her own, you let go and let her bike around for a bit. realising she had been duped, river cussed at you playfully for breaking your promise
✧ learning how to do these simple skills and being able to do them with you and her daughter, river's confidence shot up because of you
✦ they like to go to the graveyard on all souls day, wearing matching outfits and doing their hair and makeup the same. you let jade do your face paint and river laughs and kisses you because it looks all wonky
✧ when they take you to see nana's grave, you take the time to thank her for how great of a person river is
✧ you tell her how she'd be proud of how much jade's growing
✧ you introduce yourself and promise to take care of her daughter and granddaughter
✦ for your anniversary, river gets a tattoo of your name on her neck, just below 'JADE' <3
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actualbird · 5 months ago
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Statistical Report of Marius/Luke Ao3 Literature (2024)
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(aka, a pet project i've been working on behind the scenes for a while. if you'd rather read it as a PDF, you can check it out here, but i've copy pasted its entirety into this text post, beginning in 3...2...1...)
Introduction
Ahhh, Marius von Hagen and Luke Pearce…such wonderful characters from hit mobile otome game “未定事件簿 | Tears of Themis.” As love interests to Miss MC Rosa Qiangwei, they each are incredibly compelling characters with incredibly nuanced backstories, personalities, and dynamics with MC.
Also, there’s a small but dedicated community of shippers that want them to kiss and make out and be in love with each other. Hell yeah!
Welcome to the Statistical Report of Marius/Luke Ao3 Literature (2024), a report that aims to capture this community’s literary contribution to the MariLuke ship by crunching the data available to the public on Ao3! 
Before going into the data, there are some notes and caveats to this census that the author would like to make clear.
This report’s data was taken from the “未定事件簿 | Tears of Themis (Video Game)” fandom tag on Archive of Our Own. This means that all works outside of this tag or outside of this website (ex. Twitter thread fics or Tumblr drabbles not crossposted to Ao3, fanfiction only on other sites like FanFiction.net, Wattpad, Weibo, etc.) have not been included.
This report’s data is as of May 31, 2024 as a cutoff date. This was so that I wouldn’t have to endlessly update the data and go insane.
Works that did exist but have since been deleted as of May 31, 2024 are not included, as the author does not have an encyclopedic memory of fanfics that no longer exist on the site :( 
Now with all that said, let’s dive in.
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Number Of Fics Posted and Surge Periods
Now, let’s begin with the number of fics posted. As of May 31, 2024, there are 166 fics in the “Lu Jinghe | Marius von Hagen/Xia Yan | Luke Pearce” tag on Ao3. This number (and subsequently, this report) counts fics as they are listed in AO3 as unique fics, meaning that if it takes up its own little box in the AO3 feed, that’s one fic in itself. This does unfortunately mean that fics that act as a collection (i.e. each chapter is a different story) are only counted as one fic. This number also excludes podfics, because that’s basically the same fic in a different format.
That being said, this number is still nothing to scoff at. And things get even more delightful when we track down the frequency of fics posted month by month in a timeline.
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The earliest MariLuke fic posted on Ao3 was “You are King” by itshaku on August 8, 2021, a mere 10 days after ToT’s official global release. The folks who posted the very first few fics in August 2021 laid down the foundation and bedrock of the Ao3 tag, and as ToT’s existence to the global audience continued, more and more fic started to populate our hallowed halls.
However, while that’s the earliest MariLuke fic as is recorded by Ao3 now, I happen to know that there was a fic that was posted even earlier. A fic called “Don’t Let Me Go” by sakurei. Both the fic and the author’s account has since been delated, but I knew this fic existed because I originally started this report in 2022. When I had first put together the preliminary data, I noted “Don’t Let Me Go” as the first ever fic, and then was disheartened to learn that it was deleted. Like, no…the sacred texts… All hope seemed lost until my dear friend Z Lukevonhagen suggested I search the link on the Wayback Machine, and lo and behold, a copy of the True First Ever MariLuke Fanfic On Ao3 had been unearthed. Thanks, Z!
In the month of October 2021, the Marius/Luke tag experienced its first fic surge. For the purposes of this report, any month with 8 or more fics posted during their duration is counted as a surge. Why is 8 or more the qualifier? That number was picked solely off of vibes.
A total of 9 new fics were posted in October 2021, though the I can’t find any discernible reason for this fic. After some digging, I found no relevant fan events that occurred in October 2021 that linked to any of the MariLuke fics. In terms of in-game happenings, the only thing of note here is that this is when the Symphony Of The Night event was running, but it’s not like Marius and Luke made out on screen during that event’s storyline (oh, how I wished though…)
Our next surge happened in August 2022, with a whole 12 fics posted, when the tag suddenly and beautifully got a sizeable influx of CN fics. CN fics take up 6 of the 12 fics posted during this time period, which is half of the month’s total fic yield. Thank you for your service, CN MariLukers !
Our next surge period lasted for a whopping 3 consecutive months, ushering a Golden Age for MariLuke fics, so to speak. Month by month, what happened was:
In October 2022, another surge occurred with a total of 11 fics. During this month, Twitter account Thirst of Themis had run a ToT Kinktober fan event, and a number of new Marius/Luke fics were created and posted in accordance with the Kinktober prompts. 
In November 2022, a total of 9 fics were posted, and this was mostly because of two specific singular authors’ hard work, as they published several fics all on their own in rapid succession and contributed to the surge. Ao3 author Litchire posted a whopping 4 fics during this period, along with Ao3 author ynfzymokaihewo who posted 3 fics. 
In December 2022, a total of 9 fics were posted, though this is the month where I couldn’t find any discernible reason once again. Maybe the holiday season just made us all fic-happy? Who knows.
After that, it’s smooth sailing for a while with average MariLuke fic yields for a couple of months.
Then, the Recession came. Followed by a Revival. Followed by another Recession. 
In April, 2023, only one (1) MariLuke fic was posted. Authors recovered in the following month of May 2023, but right after in June 2023, we all died once again with a staggering zero (0) new MariLuke fics posted. I assume we all went into hibernation or something. But that’s fine, because the next month in July 2023, the crops started flowering once more and the MariLuke harvest began anew.
Our next surge happened a couple months later, in November 2023, with 8 new fics posted. The culprit here is Thirst of Themis once again, for they had run a November prompts event, and 7 out of 8 MariLuke fics posted this month were in fulfillment of the event.
Now, we arrive at our latest surge and also our biggest one. In may 2024, the MariLuke Ao3 tag saw a whopping 28 new fics posted. This is undoubtedly the result of the fan event MariLuke Week (May 2024) for 27 out of the 28 fics were posted in fulfillment of the event’s prompts. The following authors participated in MariLuke Week, with their fic counts for this event placed next to their name:
xXILoveMyFridgeXx (10 fics contributed)
wtfhoney (7 fics contributed)
quarterweeb / theobscenfraction (4 fics contributed)
reptilianraven (3 fics contributed)
lukevonhagen (2 fics contributed)
Litchire (1 fic contributed)
Congratulations and thank you to the writers who participated in the event! You all contributed to the biggest surge in MariLuke stocks THUS FAR, and you should all give yourselves a pat on the back.
That concludes the timeline of MariLuke works up til May 31, 2024! Hit the showers, everybody!
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Full List of AO3 Users Who Have Written Marius/Luke Fanfiction
The Marius/Luke writer population is a small but mighty one, with a total of 45 unique authors who have posted a fic Marius/Luke fic on Ao3 as of May 31, 2024. Before going into the full list of authors, here are some important caveats to the list:
ON ANONYMOUS AUTHORS: As this report deals with how Ao3 lists data, all authors who have opted to post anonymously will be counted as one entity. I personally know that some anonymous authors are different users, but verifying this without making any fuckups would make my tiny pea brain cry. For this reason, anonymous authors are counted as one unique author, so if you’re one of these anonymous authors, congrats on being a part of a Marius/Luke hivemind!
ON AUTHORS WITH PSEUDS: An Ao3 user who has different posted fics within the Marius/Luke tag under different pseuds will be counted as one unique author. Despite saying in the last paragraph that the my personal knowledge will not be enacted to tweak how Ao3 lists data, I’m making one exception here because it literally only pertains to three Ao3 users in the ship tag, so this won’t make my tiny brain cry at all.
So without further ado and in alphabetical order, here our are heroes:
Authors listed under the Anonymous Label
ajing_1124
artistic_gemini
asukryo
autumnsparrxw
BlazingSunflowers
CandorArchives
chechevitsa
darkbreak
doridoripawaa
dxpiarchaive / keeyamii
Eden_of_Amour / suffering_meguca
EnnTea
floweringlight
friedchickenlord
Goryo_Wataru
i_o_u_e_a
itshaku
kombat_exe
ladyhaspran
layla_wp
Litchire
lukevonhagen
m3i_day
marcipancake
monocuri
osamurice
pvsiytemhaver
quarterweeb / theobscenefraction
reptilianraven
RikuMorimachisGirl
Rxzaliya
samandspam
snocchiato
Solaste
sondepoch
strayris
Szim
Tinowenn
ThirdLibraryOfYumenosaki
turnscote
wtfhoney
xeriacat
xXILoveMyFridgeXx
ynfzymokaihewo
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A Brief Glimpse Into Ratings and Tags
Before I looked at the ratings, I had a hypothesis that Explicit fics would take the lead because in majority of the MariLuke fics I’ve read myself, Marius and Luke are written to have incredibly active libidos. Lo and behold, when I did chart down the fics by rating, is is revealed that…
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…statistically, we are horny. 
Not by a whole lot though! Fics that are rated Teen and Up comes in 2nd place by just a very small margin, so that’s a lot of fics that are accessible to those who don’t want to read Marius and Luke getting nasty.
In terms of Additional Tags, I checked out the Top 5 most frequented Additional Tags and charted them below.
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The Top 5 most used Additional Tags are actually Fluff, Light Angst, Comedy, Humor, and Anal Sex. However, I reasoned that Comedy and Humor are the exact same thing, so I counted them as synonyms and added in the 6th most used Additional Tag: Established Relationship. 
Anyhoo, I think it’s really sweet to see that Fluff reigns supreme! And by a large margin, too. We love to write our boys having a wholesome lovely time. Of course, we also like just a smidge of narrative spice, which is where Light Angst comes in in 2nd place. That being said, I think it’s insanely funny that Anal Sex is in this chart. It is very out of place among the rest, LMAO.
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A Brief Segue Into The Popularity of Marius/Luke In Relation to Other ToT BL Pairings
As of May 31, 2024, Marius/Luke is the 1st most popular M/M ship in the Ao3 tag, overall clocking in with a total of 166 works. 
In addition to that, I think it’s interesting to note that the 2nd most popular BL ship is Marius/Artem, with 130 fics, while the 3rd most popular BL ship is Marius/Vyn, with 66 fics. Tied for 4th place is Artem/Male or Gender Neutral Reader, and Vyn/Artem, both at 46 fics respectively.
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The reason why I think the top 5 BL ships are interesting to look at is due to Marius’ participation in 3 out of the 5 most popular M/M ships in the ToT tag. Given this, we can veritably congratulate him for statistically beating the heterosexual allegations. Marius really gave off vibes that made many different shippers go “oh there’s no way in hell he’s completely straight.”
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Accolades 
Longest Fic
As of May 31, 2024, the Longest Fic in the tag is [drumroll]...Losing Sight by pvsiytemhaver! This fic is actually primarily as ArtemRosa fic with MariLuke as an additional ship, and it currently clocks in at 90,109 words, taking the 1st spot as the longest MariLuke fic and the 18th longest fic overall in the general “未定事件簿 | Tears of Themis (Video Game)” fandom tag. Let’s take a look at the runner ups!
Here’s the list of the longest fics in the MariLuke tag:
Losing Sight by pvsiytemhaver (90,109 words)
the lips i used to call home (it was maroon) by xXILoveMyFridgeXx (58,185 words)
Five Points of a Star by xXILoveMyFridgeXx (25,494 words)
Risk of Pain by Solaste (25,157 words)
end of a decade (start of an age) by xXILoveMyFridgeXx (20,671 words)
Special shoutout to user xXILoveMyFridgeXx who consistently pumps out fics with gargantuan word counts.
Fic With Most Kudos
Next on the list is the Fic With The Most Kudos, and this title goes to [drumroll]... “standard operating procedure (x4 speedrun) by reptilianraven” which…oh, that’s me. 
This fic is not solely a MariLuke work, but an NXX Polycule work that has MariLuke within it. Weighing in with 827 kudos, it takes the spot as the 1st most kudos’d MariLuke work, while also weighing in as the 9th most kudos’d fic overall in the general “未定事件簿 | Tears of Themis (Video Game)” fandom tag. Let’s take a look at the runner ups!
Here’s the list of the Top 5 Fics With Most Kudos:
standard operating procedure (x4 speedrun) by reptilianraven (827 kudos)
every breath you take, every move you make, peanut will be watching you by reptilianraven (735 kudos)
how Puppy Pierce© conquered the world by reptilianraven (705 kudos)
the existence of a top student implies the existence of a bottom student by reptilianraven (575 kudos)
making out with your bro for fun and for profit by reptilianraven (567 kudos)
(Thank you for the kudos ;^;)
Author With Most MariLuke Works Written
And now, for our last accolade… the award for the author who currently has a large chunk of the MariLuke Ao3 tag coming from their own fics wrought by their own mind. 
This title goes to [drumroll]... oh goddamn it, it’s me. I’m sorry. I’m sorry for being insane about them. I don’t remember writing this much for them, I swear to god. Let’s look at the runner ups!
Here’s the list of authors with the most MariLuke works written:
reptilianraven (24 works)
quarterweeb / theobscenefraction (quarterweeb) (23 works)
Litchire (15 works) and ynfzymokaihewo (15 works) tied for 3rd place
xXILoveMyFridgeXx (13 works)
wtfhoney (11 works)
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Conclusion
I love this ship. I love this ship so goddamn much, but if there’s one thing I love more, it’s the community of shippers who write for this ship. This pet project was started as a little love letter from me to the MariLuke writing community. So, thank you, MariLuke writers!! Thank you for putting your heart and soul into the works you create, thus fashioning a beautifully wide array of fics to enjoy and read, and thank you for showing your love for this rarepair!
Alright, this report is too damn long. I’m gonna go reread MariLuke fics now. Bye! Hope you enjoyed!
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juliapark13 · 10 months ago
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https://www.tumblr.com/juliapark13/738698380775178240/i-love-how-2-groups-of-people-are-pretending
Y'all be like kids istg hjshsjsj💀
Taejoon decided to go together real afffff
Not a tkkr here. Remember that not all ppl who come here as a matter of eye opening to you, is a tkkr. There're many people who aren't shippers. Nor "supporters" bc there's literally nothing to support here. As of now,there's no official couple of bts. Many people don't support headcanons and assumptions. Bc simply it's none of our business and it's really uncertain thing to dedicate time for, wich also, not everyone has this much time for.
May you stay delulu if this keeps you sleep at night. The fact none of armys know anything personal about the members and each of armys look at things in a certain way and see anything as something "eyebrow rising" or a "sign" or whatever while it simply be to fuel shipping propaganda (especially when ml ships are pretty popular In korea and internationally even) and also something not as deep or "romantic" in their life as YOU make it so.
I hate seeing you guys being as toxic as tkks but you're always somehow covered with the fact that you're not actually a tkkr. Since toxicity is only directed to tkks, but this is not actually true. Toxicity exists in jkks and jnkks too. As far as I saw.
I'm actually one of your followers, and many other jkk blogs. That's why I'm writing you here this to express the way I'm sick of y'all. Y'all are grown up right?
Taejoon decided to enlist as companions to be together for whole 18 months too? 😮 I had to miss it anon, my apologies 🤧
Sometimes I wonder if you’re this stupid for real, or you just can’t find anything to say anymore, so at the end it only makes you toxic and look like you aren’t grown up.
They don’t have to be official couple for me to believe they are, because it can’t be more obvious they are. They were showing it without actually saying it for years.
I really don’t care if people think they’re only friends unless they don’t downplay everything they do. And you know why they do it?
When we say everyone sees what we see, but it makes them uncomfortable because they are either homophobic or y/ns or ship them with someone else, it’s not a joke. They feel jikook is too real, so they have to downplay their bond every single time.
For example everyone saw the „bite mark” was a hickey and everyone knows what it means. They were shocked and they could never accept it. If they truly believed Jungkook and Jimin are only friends, they wouldn’t have such a huge problem specifically with them.
They don’t even want them to be friends, that’s why they were furious when they found out Jungkook and Jimin are going to enlist together as companions.
Lastly, the only BTS ship pretty popular in Korea is jikook, because koreans aren’t blind and they know their culture.
Happy unfollowing me 👋🏽
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curious about your perspective – what do you think is the primary reason for the current comeback, and for the large scale of it (daily videos, new heavily marketed merch, etc)? are they trying to make up some monetary loss? is it true revitalized passion? the influence of the new management? lead-up to a major project/announcement? i'm guessing there's an element of at least the first three, but interested in your opinion as a noted non-cynical cynic (compliment btw)
under the cut because that's a lot. and it's not even all of my thoughts, unfortunately.
no one is gonna read it. but if you are, i'm sorry in advance.
ahaha. about merch. did you notice how they just continue to promote the calendar and the catboy sweater even though the initial release and promo had a deadline aka till December 1st? this is a fishy marketing right there. and i would love to know: why they did what they did (i'd assume they printed more calendars than people ordered by Dec 1st, but that's not our problem as customers. we shouldn't have been put into a framework in the 1st place if there was a chance for this shit to go south. this theory goes against the "pre-order" with a start of shipping in 2-3 weeks); why their managers allowed it (from a legal perspective); and why dnp didn't say anything. anyways.
i do think that Dan is trying to compensate for wad losses. and i know that he was "joking" about not making money or making negative money on tour. but i saw ticket sales a day before each show (only public information, not the inside official data from venues), it's still on my blog. and the sales didn't look good. so, how much of it was a joke? and compensating by making content that we and they enjoy isn't a bad thing, btw! i also think that he feels guilty for leaving us and the dnp brand behind for so long without actually giving us anything in return. thus so many comments on this 5-year hiatus and potential future ones. blame youtube originals, i know. not really his fault, but his choice of (the lack of) communication is his fault. and again, i always come back to wad. something fucking clicked in his head when he saw not as many people as he hoped for (or expected), how dedicated were some of those who still supported him during wad, and also he realised that without stronger managers he was not gonna make it solo. and he dragged Phil along because they do everything together and only then it works the best, and also dnpg's return in full force needed new energy for the amount of sponsorships they decided to do (i think, it's mainly Phil's pushing, because he is pro-sponsorships, they just need to be more careful with it on dnpg because Dan (hopefully) has principles when it comes to this. which is amazing. you go, girl!)
i'm very suspicious of dnp's new management right now. so idk. i think, again, most of it comes from Phil, because Phil thrives on their gaming channel, and that's basically the only easy way to survive on youtube and make money right now (for him). i'm glad dnp separated dnpg from their solo careers at least on the management and content levels. it gives Phil the room to use dnpg as a brand to pitch and fund his ideas/projects if it's ever needed. and now, after we survived the hiatus, they can pause dnpg for a couple of months to focus on their solo projects without losing the majority of the audience because technically we would know the reason and also we grew a thicker skin.
i do think that Dan is using dnpg to later help himself with a stand-up special or tour or some sort of series (danisnotokay). i also think he will use it to promote wad dvd (which is good. i will be disappointed if he doesn't use dnpg. like, bitch, why are we even here then? those who went through wad with him, i mean). i wonder if Inter Talent (i'm separating their name intentionally at his point because they piss me off) was smart enough to announce Dan and Phil's signings 2 weeks after UTA announced Dan to just make us pay attention to Dan's solo career again. as a hint of something coming our way. you know what i mean? i wonder if it was intentional. like UTA made a huge announcement, Dan retweeted it and posted it on instagram stories. it was a big deal. meanwhile, dnpg began thriving again and our eyes were on Dan anyway, so of course we noticed that solo career was on the maps again. Inter Talent was basically silent as another representative of Dan (and Phil), despite having them on the website for at least a month. and now 2 weeks after UTA's announcement (which was on November 22, 2023) Inter Talent was like, "hello? do you remember we signed Dan? and also Phil, and their joint channel?" Dan said wad dvd is almost cooked. wouldn't it be genius to stir our interest up step by step? (a part of me still thinks that Inter Talent's social media managers are just slow as fuck though. also they don't even care to check facts about their clients. UTA didn't fuck the announcement up like that, btw. and i doubt Inter Talent realises how nosy dnp's audience is, and that we are very likely gonna notice and spread even this stupid announcement. maybe they are dumb and it's me who is a fucking genius planning steps to present wad dvd to the masses, ugh. when will Dan pay me, like for real.)
i'm surprised you don't think it's heavily connected to new projects. i would bet my kidney it does. Dan will fuck off the moment he needs to focus on danisnotokay or someone offers to sponsor another tour (which, please, someone do. i need to see him for professional reasons). the question is, fuck off for how long and if it's gonna be communicated thoroughly or not. i'm not saying he will leave for 6 months without giving us something in return to balance things out. no, no, no. i don't think he would dare. but 3-4 weeks, maybe 2 months? sure.
is it true revitalized passion? well. *nervous laughter* i'm gonna defend Phil like i'm a phillie, even tho i'm not. he wanted it just as much as we did. so i believe it's a true revitalized passion at least on his part. i hope he fights for it if it's necessary, i hope he asks us for help if needed. i hope he threatens Dan with an actual divorce and forever home if needed. like, bitch, if there's a chance to keep dnpg alive without Dan actually losing his will to live, we should use that chance. Dan's stubbornness and delulus are not the reason to kill the most fun and profitable thing they ever created aka dnp brand. let it exist, even if alongside solo projects, even if it's 2-3 videos a month. damn, even 1 video (i don't mean during pauses made specifically for the peaks of solo projects). i do think Dan enjoys the attention, money, and possibilities their returned audience can give him. he also enjoys working with Phil. he certainly does not enjoy promoting their videos. and he is lucky he has Phil for that. is it a true passion for the gaming channel and joint branding solemnly? i genuinely don't think so. now, this dnp brand puts Dan into a framework, unfortunately. and i understand his desire to grow as a "strong independent Dan", and i wish him the best. i will root for him no matter how much of a floppy-ding-dong it can potentially be. i want him to fulfill his dreams and have a team that will fight for his interests. and i hope to god, UTA and Inter Talent are the ones. don't fucking tempt me with your unprofessionalism. but do i think Dan's head and heart belong to dnpg or dnp brand? no. i'm happy that he is at least trying. a part of me doesn't even care about the reason. i'm curious, but in hindsight, it wouldn't matter or change anything.
other thoughts, because apparently i decided to vomit on a keyboard tonight:
i'm glad dnp took back a bit of control over the editing on dnpg. i hope they will try to edit more themselves when gamingmas is over. or they will teach their editors better. because man, we need to slow down with these cuts.
i do think that dnp brand will expand, and dnpg and merch aren't the only things we should expect. (twitch, podcast or liveshows, onlyfans or its equivalent, vlogging series not limited by ditl, and other things that i forgot). reaction videos are already a thing and it's very funny because it's what youtube wants, so Dan must feel amazing right now falling for it :)) it's good thought because it's fun and torture for all parties involved.
i think by these reaction videos they are trying to rewrite their internet history a little bit for those who are new. it's not gonna work with us but at least dnp can control the narrative in new people's heads (i wonder for how long though).
with new people, the phandom will become more generic and dnp will love that. it can actually help Dan with new projects i think. Phil as well, but we don't know shit about it right now.
i wonder if Dan returns to working with charities.
if they involve more phannies, not only artists, it's gonna be interesting.
in case i'm wrong, don't step on my neck, i don't know anything for a fact. half of it is alleged, the other half is wishful thinking <3
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But a Child [Mianite Royalty AU Oneshot]
Relationships: N/A
Characters: Captain Capsize, Rupert the Grey, Aunt Mabel
Lady Capsize is coming to the end of her first voyage. Though the work has been hard and the crew less than friendly, she finds herself upset to be leaving the ocean behind. While looking forward to seeing her family again, she’s felt more at home as a deckhand than she has in her life as a noble. Even before her travels have officially come to an end, she finds herself daydreaming about when she will return to the ocean.
Unfortunately waiting for her on the docks is news that will change her entire life and drag her away from the dreams that she had just been starting to carve out.
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Though her muscles were aching, Capsize did not relate to the excitement to return home that was prevalent among the other crew members. That was not to say that she didn’t understand them at all. The last three months had been exhausting, far more so than anything she had done before in her life. She knew it made sense that most were looking forward to being able to rest but Capsize just couldn’t look forward to returning to land. All these few months had confirmed to her was that she was meant to be travelling across the oceans. Returning to her normal life felt almost akin to a punishment more than anything else.
That was not to say that there was nothing that she was excited to return to. She did miss her brother and her aunt. She was not about to lie nor deny the fact that she was looking forward to seeing them again. However, despite what most of the crew had been mocking her about for nearly the whole journey, she had no particular excitement about the idea of returning to her life of nobility.
She knew that such a point of view was privileged. Even as a member of the smallest and most insignificant noble house in the kingdom, she still had far more advantages than those without a noble title. And she additionally knew that she had far more freedoms than most nobles. She knew that most other families would be aghast at the idea of allowing any of their children, let alone one of their daughters, to travel as a common deckhand. Still, now she’d had a taste at the vastness of the oceans, she was left with a certain melancholy at the notion of having to return to life away from it.
Even stuck at the lowest rank of the hierarchy aboard the ship, this journey had proven that all her dreams of the ocean had not been in folly. This is what she was meant to be doing with her life.
“Oi! Don’t think you can slack off, your Ladyship!” The first mate yelled. Immediately she put more of her focus into the task before her, ignoring the unconcealed laughter of the other crew members standing close to her.
So maybe there were things that she wasn’t going to miss. Though the disrespect certainly wasn’t enough to chase her away, it had been wearing her. But still, she couldn’t let them see her falter. They weren’t far from port now. She would have the rest of the day to recover and forget about the less pleasant parts of the journey.
For now, she would do everything possible to make sure she would be welcomed back for another voyage.
Even if she was aching and she was absolutely sure that she’d collapse as soon as she was home, she couldn’t do anything that would put this position, as lowly as it was, at risk. She doubted there would be another chance if she did not take this one seriously. She could not risk losing this opportunity that she had fought so hard for the mere chance of.
Though she had less power than she had ever had, she felt far freer than she ever had before. The ocean was truly within her grasp, and she could not allow herself to be torn away from it.
Respect and a less demeaning position could come later. For the moment, she could cope with the jeers of the crew and the number of unfavourable tasks they thus upon her. They were merely tests of her dedication. Or perhaps they were attempting to scare her off, to prove their own assumptions that she was just some prissy noblewoman looking for a lark. Either way as long as she kept working, kept proving that she was taking this seriously, everything would end up fine.
It didn’t matter how she was currently being treated. This was where she belonged and not a soul was going to chase her away.
The next few hours did not stretch as long as they should. Even while doing arduous labour and being assigned more tasks when most of the rest were allowed to rest. No ill treatment was enough to erase the bitterness of the bittersweet thoughts of her mind towards the idea of returning home. Still, she had to be honest that it was nice to finally be allowed to take a break.
She leant against the railing with her eyes closed, just breathing through her aches as the ship was coming into port. There was conversation around her, though far too many to eavesdrop on any one in particular. Men who were looking forward to seeing their families again. Men looking forward to drinking their pay away in the nearest tavern. Conversations that she would not be welcome to join unless she wanted them to turn to mocking jokes at her expense.
Now there was something that she was certainly looking forward to about being home again. Being able to talk to people who actually understood who she was. Having conversations that didn’t immediately turn into jokes at her expense. That and being able to take a bath.
Of course, there’d been more work to do before she could actually go home. The moment they got into the docks, she’d be assigned a thousand more tasks before she would be allowed home. She had no chance of wriggling out of such things, not that she had any intention of doing so. Though her physical body might be complaining, her mind was already set on what she had to do to keep the ocean in her grasp.
Still, she’d take the rest while she could. Even if she knew it would not save her any of the aching pains in the days to come.
“Surprised that you actually made it to the end,” The voice of the second mate cut through her thoughts. After a moment of consideration, she opened her eyes to actually look at the man. Surprisingly, she wasn’t met with a sarcastic smirk but a genuine impressed look.
That was enough for her to actually straighten up. The man, Rupert, continued speaking. “Think the whole crew thought you’d be crying and begging for home after a single night.”
“You don’t have to think. They told me as much,” She said with an annoyed tone that she’d been told off for throughout her childhood as it was an improper way for her to talk. However, today it just gained her a laugh which did not make up for the rest of her treatment, but did make her feel somewhat better about herself.
Her first week aboard had been, despite her best efforts to just keep her head down and work, utterly hellish. The crew had had even less respect for her than they currently did. Most of their time had seemingly been spent throwing insult after insult at her. She’d half expected them to turn to violence, but they hadn’t. Apparently insulting her and giving her any job they didn’t want was fine, but hitting a teenage girl was too far for them.
“Well, you’ve played the lot of us for fools. You’re actually serious about doing this, aren’t you?” Rupert asked, a broad smile on his face. It showed a gold tooth in his mouth aligned with a scar that went from his lip to his cheek. It was enough to make Capsize herself smile.
Were her ears deceiving her? Was that a real genuine compliment from someone on this crew of pricks?
“Of course I’m serious. If I wanted to just lolly gaggle around then I wouldn’t need to travel out to sea for it,” The tiniest hint of bitterness snuck into her voice as she spoke.
She had known that she’d face opposition for joining the crew. Both from those that she’d be working with, and from any nobles outside her own family who somehow got wind of it. However, she hadn’t expected the criticism to feel quite so illogical.
“Most of these guys aren’t thinkers. Back when I was a lad I got treated ‘bout the same as how they’ve treated you and all I had was a couple more years of education. They’ll lay off you next time, I’m sure,” He spoke from an experience that Capsize appreciated hearing. And it allowed a certain hope into her heart. If the way people were treating her improved, she’d truly gotten rid of the only thing giving her any doubts of her ability to continue doing this. Given that he appeared to be truthful, she took solace in his words.
Next time would be easier.
“Good,” She said simply. She didn’t have much else to say.
She watched as the smallest amount of laughter escaped from Rupert. She relaxed against the railing with a smile. The soft wind brought the smell of salt to her. How could she not return to this?
Maybe it was this exact thought that was the reason that such a fear was put into her as the docks came into view. Or maybe it was who she saw standing there.
At first, she thought that her eyes were just playing tricks on her. That the sun had reflected off the water in just the right way and tricked her into seeing a gleam that wasn’t truly there. But of course, such a thought was always going to be wishful thinking. Though the sight was still unbelievable.
On the docks were five figures in shining armour. Three stood blocking off the docks itself, stopping anyone from coming onto them, or indeed for any of them to be able to leave without the soldiers wanting them too. The other two stood close to the end of the docks. Though it was hard to actually see where their gaze fell, Capsize was sure they were watching the ship as it came into dock.
Perhaps if they were ordinary soldiers, she wouldn’t have been so panicked. It was not overly rare for random checks to be carried out for smuggling within the cargo. Nor would she put it past her aunt to ask some to pick her up to make sure she actually came home. However, these were not her house’s men-at-arms.
“Royal guards?” She stared down at them with a tightness in her chest as she tried to think of any reason they would be here. Some reason, any reason. None would free her of the building terror. They had to be here for her.
Royal guards would not have been sent merely to make sure that smuggling was not taking place. Soldiers loyal to her Majesty perhaps might, but the royal guards themselves were not mere soldiers. They were specially trained loyal soldiers who protected the royal family.
They were not the sort of soldier who just came to visit other vassal territories. There should be no reason for them to have come here.
There were only two reasons she could fathom their presence. Both were utterly terrible.
Either some terrible fate had befallen Redbeard and her aunt while she was out to sea, and the Queen had sent her own guards to make sure that she was safe and that an entire noble house hadn’t fallen. It seemed unlikely that the destruction of their house would gain any such attention, but Aunt Mabel had once had a position in the royal court. Maybe her Majesty did truly still hold a soft spot for her.
The other option felt just as likely but struck the same fear into her. That someone her family had been found guilty of treason and the guards were here to arrest her and take her in shackles. She couldn’t imagine a single reason that would be true and yet it was the only other thing she could think of.
Both situations felt unimaginable. Each more like a terrible nightmare than anything reasonable that could have happened. But at the same time, they were the only reasons she could possibly imagine for their presence.
“Lass?” The voice of Rupert, more concerned than any voice she’d heard in the past three months, tried to pull her back into reality. However, it did nought to loosen her ever tightening grasp on the rough wooden railings nor to pull her stare from the guards that she could feel staring into her soul.
Why were they here? What had happened?
Why now? Why when she’d now had a taste of the freedom that she was carving?
“You need to breathe, lass.”
She knew that she should listen to him. Acting like this would do her no good regardless of why they were here. However, there was not even a fragment of her mind that could be dragged away from the panic that had been set within it.
She was utterly locked into dread as the gangplank was lowered and the two guards approached.
“Hey! What rights do you think you have to board my ship?” The captain yelled across the deck the moment that one of the guard’s feet touched the deck. The command was enough to freeze both the soldiers in place. His sharp tone was even enough to get her to turn around to be able to properly watch the scene.
The guards looked nervous. Of course, they did. Legally they had no rights to board.
It was an old law, back from when the kingdom had been far more fractured and had been desperate to unify any of the warring vassals. Back then pirates had been ruling most of the coast, and only agreed to stop their war with the rest of the kingdom if a captain had rights even above the highest of nobility on their own ship.
Even now, the law was still in place. Hence, the captain’s utter lack of fear in the presence of guards that had to be here acting on orders from the Queen.
“Please do accept our apologies, Captain,” The more decorated of the two guards spoke. His tone was careful and far friendlier than she would have expected of a man in his position. However, whatever relief his tone could’ve brought her was snuffed out just as quickly when he spoke again. “We were informed that Lady Capsize Dunbar has been travelling aboard your vessel. We have simply come to retrieve her.”
A silence descended on deck. Capsize felt herself freeze completely. Rupert shifted his position, putting himself in front of her.
This couldn’t be real. She’d never done anything to attract the attention of the royal family.
Given most of the crew’s less than stellar option of her, she half-expected one of them to immediately sell her out. However, not a soul said anything. Rather those with weapons all not so subtly moved their hands to be resting on them as the captain approached the guards. His boots creaking across the wood echoed through the air.
“Maybe she’s here. Maybe she isn’t,” He said. A frown started to form on the guards’ faces. They knew she was here, if not they wouldn’t be on the docks at all. Clearly neither liked being played with. However, the leader at least seemed to realise that he was severely outnumbered. A wrong move would result in a bloodbath.
It could not save her. If the royals were looking for her then they would not stop. Eventually she would have to leave the ship and then they would be committing treason if they tried to stop the guards taking her. Still, she appreciated the actions, nonetheless. “You have to understand, I can’t risk telling you who’s on my crew without knowing why you want her. It’d be asking for a mutiny if I start willingly handing people over to the gallows.”
“Why on earth would a lady of nobility be on a crew of—”
“Of course, Captain. A completely reasonable concern. I assure you, we are not here to harm anybody,” The leader cut off his underling. A good thing too. Another word and the idiot would’ve been on the receiving end of every sword of the ship. She doubted the leader would’ve helped him out of said fight.
The words he did get to say, however, sent a wave of shame through her. She wished that they didn’t, that she could be proud enough of herself to not think about how shameful this position was in the eyes of other nobles. But she wasn’t strong enough.
Worse, the brief amount of hope that had been brought from the leader’s assurance that she would not be harmed was about to be shattered. As the words that came from his mouth were about to change her fate just as soundly as death would. “His Majesty Prince Jordan has officially chosen her as his betrothed. We are here to escort her to the palace and make sure no harm comes to her on the journey.”
Reality shattered. Eyes turned to her. Her own body felt close to collapsing under its own weight as she stared at the two guards in utter confusion.
“What?” Was the single word she uttered in reaction to what they surely expected would be good news.
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A few hours later, Capsize stood numbly staring into a mirror as she tried to desperately process the newfound world that she had found herself in. She was the betrothed of the crown prince. A man she had never met and clearly couldn’t be sane if he’d decided to get himself engaged to a stranger over all the noble women in the kingdom that actually presented themselves as suitresses.
Perhaps she should take it as a compliment. After all, she had no doubt that all the other noble women will have taken it as an insult. However, she could see the situation as nothing more than a sick joke. A joke that she was completely stuck in as no part of this life changing decision was something she could influence in any way.
The guards had escorted her home. All but the leader had worn barely concealed looks of confusion and disdain upon seeing her, as if they too were questioning how she had ended up with such a lofty title. She must have looked a disgrace compared to the other noble girls they’d seen the previous month. However, none voiced these thoughts out loud. Perhaps they just didn’t dare question the prince’s decision even if he was not around to hear.
At home awaited a scene of chaos that she could only hear as she was quickly greeted by her aunt and led away from the noise of Redbeard yelling. She did not hear much, but more than enough to know that he was protesting her being taken. Nothing would come of it, though she hoped he would not get himself hurt fruitlessly arguing for her as the guard captain headed in his direction as she was led upstairs.
Her aunt had looked so pained as she quietly told her that the guards had arrived a month ago, apparently not having realised that she was out to sea. How this could be the case was beyond her, she had said as much in her letter to this prince apologising for her lack of attendance as a suitress. However, that was the least of her focus.
Mostly, her thoughts were on just how upset her aunt looked. Part of Capsize wanted to scream at her that she was not the one with the right to be upset. To let all of her spiteful and bitter thoughts out because she knew Aunt Mabel had to have agreed to this engagement for it to be happening.
But of course, in her heart, she knew that it was not so simple. Yes, her aunt was regent of the house, making all the decisions until Redbeard came of age and took charge. As such, it would be her signature on the betrothal agreement that officially linked their house with the royal family. However, even if it was presented as a request, that was not how such a thing worked when it came to the royal family.
No one could refuse a royal request without reason, especially not a house as small as their own. The only justifiable reasons to refuse would be if she was heir or if she was already engaged. Capsize was neither. So, they had no grounds for refusing, and nothing they could offer to in exchange for not accepting. The only possible way that she may somehow get out of the agreement was if either the prince or her brother got themselves killed – both of which would be so terrible either for the kingdom itself or her own personal world that she daren’t wish for either.
So, she had not pettily acted out against her aunt. She had walked in silence until she had been brought to her room and been told a bath had been run and that clothes were laid out for her. Though her aunt’s expression had begged her to say something, she still had not said a word when she had been finally left alone.
That was hours ago now. Washing had taken an age and felt like stripping away a part of herself. Like putting on a disguise that she hadn’t even realised she had been wearing.
That brought her to now. To staring into silvered glass at herself as she struggled to keep herself stable. There was not a single sign that she had spent the last three months out to sea. All the built-up dirt and grime has been painstakingly scrubbed away to the point that her flesh felt raw though it didn’t look irritated. The smell of salt was gone, replaced by the scents of oils and perfumes.
Staring back at her was the noble woman that she was meant to be. Brown curls falling loose over her shoulders rather than being knotted into a ponytail to keep out of her face. A purple gown detailed with embroidered waves rather than practical clothes designed to take damage and weather the elements. A silver family necklace hanging from her neck now she had no fear of it being stolen or lost to the waves.
She looked just as she should, but she could not help but feel that she was looking at a ghost.
The softest knock on the door sounded her end. She could not delay any longer. Better to walk out on her own than be dragged. This way she could perhaps pretend any part of this was due to her own will.
She opened the door, unsurprised to be greeted by her aunt. None of the guards would’ve been so soft. But perhaps it would have been better for it to be a stranger as, upon seeing the face of her guardian still so pained, she broke.
Her sobs were uncontrolled and guttural. Mabel stopped her from falling to the ground, holding her as she had years ago when she used to wake from nightmares.
“Please…” She begged between sobs. “Please don’t let them take me.”
An impossible ask. Like a child asking for protection from monsters. Because that’s precisely what she was.
Mabel held her niece, a teenager begging to not be taken away from the only home she had ever known, able to do nothing but quietly hold back her own tears. There was no answer she could give that would make this better. She just had to quietly hope that somehow, something good would come out of what now seemed like such a cruel fate.
Though such a hope could not soothe the grieve that was felt of dreams lost. She doubted it ever would.
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monsieuroverlord · 4 months ago
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Hellverine #1 2nd printing 1:25 Cassara Virgin Variant
My goodness, do I have a mini rant about this (I'll keep it under the cut if anyone wants to skip it):
It was such a pain in the ass trying to get ahold of a copy of this!
I saw it when it was first announced a little over a month ago, right?
So, I'm like okay, it'll probably be posted on my usual ordering site (no physical shops near me, but if you follow me, you know I got a pulse on the solicits. My pull list is immaculate, things are planned and preordered MONTHS in advance).
I check every day for a week. No dice. Not posted for pre-order.
After the first couple of days during this week, I'm also casually checking other comic book sites -- either already sold out or going for a minimum of $65 to $100. Ebay pre-sales are pretty similar.
So I'm like, screw that, it isn't even out yet! The official catalog price is like $9.99, I can wait.
A month goes by, I'm checking diligently every day. There are no changes.
Then I'm like, "Okay, I just have to wait until it actually comes out" and I'm sure the shops will be selling their extra incentive copies at a more reasonable price.
Tuesday night, I'm pulling out all the stops, I'm deep-diving. I'm utilizing all the secret advanced search commands I learned in college. AND I thought I found one!
It was a listing on Google shopping for $4.99, so I'm like "Jackpot" and click "buy now" so I do, and it redirects me to checkout on the website, and I think to myself "sweet!" so I buy it.
I get my order confirmation, and IN BIG BOLD LETTERS at the top, it reads:
"PLEASE NOTE YOU MUST BUY ALL INCENTIVE QUALIFIERS TO GET A INCENTIVE COPY"
(I'm paraphasing a bit, and there was a bit more after that, but you get the idea)
So, I'm thinking "what?" and I go and actually browse the site I ordered from, and I somehow stumbled upon a wholesaler store, like the kind a comic book store would use to order bulk copies for the store.
Essentially, if I was a store, I would've placed an order for 25 main 2nd printing copies, and then I would've qualified for this incentive variant.
I was quick, and sent and email request to cancel, and got my money back, no problems. (I don't have the budget to but 25 copies of one book just to get the one I want. That's the whole reason I'm not paying $100 for a copy)
So its the day of release in my timezone. Everywhere is still sold out. Slowly but surely, the Ebay resellers begin to trickle in. Its averaging about $70 to $80.
Then I see it! By sheer luck or diligence or a wild combination of both -- there's a $20 copy. But the listing says "DEFECT" in big bold letters.
Undeterred, I think "How bad can it be?" as I don't really need a flawless copy, I just like collecting my pretties, you know?
There were pictures provided, along with the description: some of the color is faded off around the lower left staple
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That's not shininess, its actually faded white.
So I bought it. And it arrived today. Its my wonderfully imperfect copy and I'm so happy.
As of today, the lowest is like $49.99 + shipping o Ebay. All the online shops don't have it, even though it came out less than a week ago. And its still not on my usual pre-order site.
Like, I dunno if the 2nd printing didn't sell as well, or maybe there was a manufacturing delay, but good lord, I did not expect this particular variant to be such a pain to obtain.
Like, it's only a 1:25!! I dunno how many 25s were actually printed, but my goodness. I know this is such a first world problem and I recognize at least half of the drama is self-inflicted by my own hubris and dedication to also getting a good deal.
But I'm just trying to buy a little treat for myself. damn.
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t-barnzalez-hall-of-fame · 7 months ago
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taikouvember · 1 year ago
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ANNOUNCEMENT POST
Hello everyone!
First of all, thank you to all 48 participants of the interest poll, it was very interesting to see how another ship week would be perceived! Considering that at least 12 voters confirmed to be happy to dive into participating, I think there isn’t a more suitable date than June 1st, the beginning of Pridemonth, to officially announce this year’s Taikouvember event! (Title picture + new icon provided by @seventeenlovesthree)
November is the last month of autumn, right before Christmas time begins. It’s a time that can be filled with light and coziness but also lurking shadows and gloominess. So, November 6th to November 12th shall be dedicated to the platonic or romantic relationship between Taichi Yagami and Koushiro Izumi (Taikou, Koutai or mainly known as Taishiro(u) in the English speaking fandom). Since "Digimon Adventure 02 - The Beginning" will air on October 27th 2023 as well, some of the prompts are inspired by the potential theme of the movie:
Day 1, November 6th: The Multiverse: Canon vs. AU
Day 2, November 7th: Past & Future
Day 3, November 8th: Habits & Change
Day 4, November 9th: Trauma & Healing
Day 5, November 10th: Visible & Invisible Signs of Affection
Day 6, November 11th: Brave Knowledge & Curious Courage
Day 7, November 12th: Free Day
You can interpret the prompts however you like, you can take one or both for each day. If you want us to reblog your posts, please tag everything as #taikouvember or #taikouvember2023 and we will be happy to share your content, let it be fanart, fanfiction, edits or whatever comes to mind!
Rules & FAQ and a more detailed Prompt Guideline can be found here too. If you are looking for inspiration, please take a look under the cut - and the links above. We already compiled some ideas there! Stay tuned for the upcoming updates!
The Multiverse: Canon vs. AU: What is your favourite "version" of Taikou? Do you prefer the original anime timeline (Adventure, 02, Tri, Kizuna, The Beginning) or the reboot? Do you like to focus on other kinds of media, such as the novels, the manhua or the games? Or do you have your own AUs you like to focus on when it comes to the two of them?
Past & Future: What are your favourite moments that have already happened between Taichi and Koushiro that shaped their relationship? How do you imagine they will interact in the future, how will their bond develop?
Habits & Change: What are typical characteristics (one might even want to say: stereotypes & tropes) you associate with the two of them? What are things they have always done, things they are familiar with about each other, things they have adjusted to, habits they adore about each other (or are even annoyed by)? How can you imagine them to change?
Trauma & Healing: What are the things that haunt them, that may put a strain on their relationship, memories and experiences they might not be able to open up to towards each other? And what are ways they can help each other to actually heal, getting better and getting more honest or even learn to live with their trauma?
Visible & Invisible Signs of Affection: What are, in your opinion, the smaller and bigger gestures these two like to offer in order to show their love languages? How do they show their adoration, admiration and appreciation? Physically, verbally, through their actions, knowing glances or endless patience...?
Brave Knowledge & Curious Courage: How do they mirror each other and their trademark traits in certain situations? What are Koushiro's moments of hands on activity, how does he overcome his struggles to do what matters to him? What are Taichi's brightest strategies, his most thoughtful moments, his smartest speeches or interests he wants to put his own research skills to the test to?
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colleybrifanfics · 5 months ago
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Imagine a divergent universe, where Cassian Andor never met two bullies on Morlana 1.
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He’s not the man he should be.
Jyn Erso, dedicated Rebel in the face of an impossible fight with a triumphant Empire, comes to Ferrix one morning to buy stolen parts. Cassian is very much… his old self.
NSFW below the cut. Smut with a distinctly wistful flavour.
Ferrix, Imperial Era 24
As the glow of dawn makes a rare appearance low on the horizon a flock of five steelpeckers flap over, low and squawking, heading from the main salyards to their daytime roosting sites in the surrounding hills. He tenses a little, instinctively, and hurries under the awning at Gueti’s. One of these birds had shat on him once, and clothes were basically unsalvageable after that. He isn’t ready to give up on this coat yet, not after all these years.
He doesn’t go off-world much these days as the risks are so high, but he does remember a few planets with … nicer birds. Birds that made pleasant noises to greet the day, a chorus of joy at a new beginning rather those guttural cries that put in mind a Corellian hound being throttled. He can't remember the morning songs of the birds of Kenari, though, and supposes he never really noticed.
He selects an outdoor table with a nearby heater, greets Gueti and orders caf and pistachio cake. Then, oh so casually, he places a little iron bowl on the table and pulls out the datapad from his large bag. The Time Grappler marks Start of Day but his, and Gueti’s, and his buyer’s (whoever they may be) has already started.
So. Something to read while he waits.
How many have died recently?
He rarely dwells on the news these days. It’s so hard to know what is the truth anymore. But illicit stations, broadcasting from ships flying under flags of convenience or from all-out pirate vessels, still pop up every few months before being shut down, and manage sometimes to broadcast text updates too. His datapad is ancient and he can’t afford the latest software update, but it doesn’t matter - these guys use old tech and the ‘dark’ holonet, whatever that is. He still likes old tech. He stares at the silently unfolding letters, telling the same familiar story. Another several-billion lives destroyed in a heartbeat. Apparently, a rebel cell had been located on this outer-rim world, a planet he had never even heard of - and that fact didn’t matter one bit because it didn’t exist anymore anyway.
Peace is, according to the official version, being kept. According to the unofficial version, Palpatine is simply wiping out any signs of resistance. He sighs. You think they would have learned their lesson by now, those rebels. How utterly pointless it was to fight back. It’s so much better to live. To eat, to sleep.
He is vaguely thankful, in a passing thought that commonly comes his way, that Ferrix has stayed relatively unscathed all this time. It’s a well-behaved community. Heads down, continuing as they always have to exploit those with money, whatever the design of their flag or logo.
His buyer is late. Still, he doesn’t mind. It means more time to enjoy the small pleasures of an early morning. He lights a cigarette - the iron bowl serving as an ashtray. It’s good cover for its presence, but he wants to smoke anyway. Since giving up the drink, told at last flat-out first by the doctor and then, more convincingly, by Brasso that it would be the death of him if he didn’t, he had felt.. hmm, rebellious … enough to take up another vice. Death-sticks had no appeal even for a risk-taker like him and the last thing he needed was more mental stimulation. Just something to make the days seem… a little more pleasant, in some indefinable way.
“Hello. Is this seat free?” The voice is from behind him and belongs to a human woman, with a clipped Core worlds accent, and obviously she is a small individual as he had not heard her approach over the sounds of the waking town.
He turns and takes her in fully. She is in Pre-Mor uniform, but of course that can mean very little and there’s something about the way she wears it just a bit… too well that makes him immediately positive that she isn’t Pre-Mor. No matter. As long as she has his money, he really doesn’t care.
She’s looking at him very directly, with pale grey-green eyes. She’s attractive. Definitely. He’s probably spending a beat too long looking at her as her eyes now dart quickly to the table - the little iron bowl there - and he realises she’s waiting for confirmation. He gives it with a little wave and she sits. Gueti is over in an instant and she orders caf but nothing to eat.
He sees her eyeing the cigarette. “Would you like one?” he asks.
She grimaces. “No, I hate the smell. Thank you, though.” She says this forcefully enough to compel him to hold the cigarette down and behind his stool so that the fumes don’t bother her. She’s intriguing him already. She doesn’t really look like a rebel. But he is immediately of the belief that that is what she is and wonders if she will realise that he suspects.
Negotiations begin. He’s so used to this now, it’s almost second nature. He's employing a favourite tactic today: try to bump up the price agreed remotely by introducing another unexpected piece as a bonus. The buyer would then sometimes think they were getting a bargain, without the time to research the actual value of said piece. But he knows not to push either the price or the deception too high. He likes repeat customers.
Repeat customers. She is talking now about how the masking transponder he has produced from the bag isn’t the exact model stated in their communications, and he’s telling her that it’s superior. He’s talking on autopilot, practically. A good part of his concentration is leaping ahead twenty minutes or so, to the time when he estimates that they will finish their business in a mutually agreeable way. He is thinking about how he might persuade her to delay her departure.
Because she is very attractive. And the problem with getting repeat customers on Ferrix these days is that … the women who live here all know him. Either directly or by reputation.
Off-worlders were a happier hunting ground these days. With them, he could very often rely on his old methods. Which basically consisted of throwing out the net and seeing if the object of his desire wanted to swim into it. He knew how good he looked, despite the signs of his past indulgences. He didn’t see it as vanity, just as a simple fact - evidenced by the way that the lamest of pickup lines would almost always result in… a pickup. Experimentally, he had even once tried the simple “I’m free if you are...?” - and had scored a pretty much instant success.
He realises soon enough that he should have put a little more thought into this, but then he wasn’t prepared for this particular buyer.
All he can manage, as they stand up, salvaged or stolen parts and credits exchanged, is “Would you like to stay a little longer and…”. He realises his error immediately, as her gaze goes from his face to his hand, where it had been making a vague waving gesture at the dusty street that seemed to suggest that the sentence might finish with ‘…let me show you the sights of Ferrix’, and then back to his face with a dawning expression of incredulous and derisive mirth.
Her laugh is loud enough to draw a glance from Gueti over at the counter.
“That’s actually hilarious. I was warned about you, y’know, by my contact before she gave me the rendezvous details. I thought you were going to be a real Loth-wolf. But this? Is this the best you’ve got?”
Stung but helpless and still hoping, despite these less than auspicious signs, all he can do is smile. Sometimes that would work. In fact, most things would work on off-world women. Again, he really wasn’t used to making much of an effort with them. He wasn’t very good at conversation. Perhaps he should just be frank.
“I just thought.. you might like a little fun. You know. If you want to, we can go…”
“Oh wow, you really don’t know when to stop, do you!” But her smile is now wide and genuine, and he still goes on hoping. He doesn’t mind being humiliated if a payoff may yet come his way.
At this most bizarre but strangely captivating impasse they continue to regard each other levelly. Finally, she tilts her head a little to one side and she subjects the full length of his body to a long, sweeping stare, as if assessing the visual condition of a speeder before deciding whether it is worth a test drive.
(Cont below - NSFW. )
“OK,” she says contemplatively, with a smile that reveals another glimpse of her prominent overbite. It’s… very cute. “Why not?”
He does have a very lovely smile, she thinks. And it had been clear that Caleen had feelings for him, despite the lighthearted warning. An intelligent being, especially a female, can often sense the painful truth behind the outward nonchalance. He was obviously an ex who she still cared about, despite everything.
But besides all that… she knows what she likes, and knows what she wants. Right now, what she wants is this slightly-built man with the unusual accent, the long jawline under a short beard and those big brown eyes that are somehow knowing, cynical and childlike all at once.
He is very, very attractive. And she has plenty of time today.
They attract a few knowing stares on the short walk to his place, but he doesn’t care, and he knows the starers don’t either. He’s gone home with a few Pre-Mor employees before. Some of whom turn a blind eye to his activities for that very reason.
They are upon each other even before the door slides completely shut, and her kisses taste so very good. She allows him to take her all at once and greedily, perhaps sensing that once this initial hunger is sated he will be more measured and considerate of her needs too. Maybe. He can’t think that far ahead. He can barely think at all. All his blood and energy seems to divert to his groin and he feels the familiar but still so delicious burning. He doesn’t even take his clothes off, bar the coat, concentrating on her tight-fitting uniform instead, featuring belt, buttons and zipped trousers that are not hastily shed. Panting, she tries to help him but her fingers get in the way of his, bringing a few snorts of laughter from them both. So she switches to unbelting and unzipping him instead, freeing the cause of that promising bulge that she had noticed from that first sweeping visual inspection. Finally, in frustration, he yanks her trousers and her panties to her mid thighs and she allows herself to be pushed back onto the bed. He follows and is delighted to find her so ready, absolutely sopping, her body belying that slightly demure expression on her face that he has adored for the last - hour?! - since he has met her.
He cradles her face with one hand as he pushes at her and she nips at his fingers with those cute teeth as he enters her fully, trying her out for size.
She breaks off from nibbling and fixes him with a frank gaze. “So,” she says conversationally, “what should I call you?”
He has almost forgotten that they didn’t know each other’s names. And here he is, buried deep and hard inside her. It does seem a little rude. For a second, distracted as he is by his lust he considers giving her his real name. But no, that wasn’t how this worked. “Keef,” he says after a little hesitation.
She smiles, as she knows that’s not his name, but he has answered the question truthfully enough. “Lyra,” she says immediately, before he even thinks to ask. He then vaguely wonders if, like himself, she has chosen the name of a real person of some significance to her life.
He finds himself frozen for a moment, despite the nagging from his nether regions to just get on with it already!. The past, always frighteningly close in moments of emotional vulnerability, lurks just outside his consciousness. Previously, he could drink it away.
“Come on then, Keef”, she growls with sarcastic relish, emphasising the F sound somewhat derisively. “Show me if the man lives up to the notoriety. Fffffuck me, Keefff...” and she blows the imperative and the false name into his lust-anguished face with those two long puffs of fricative breath.
Already thinking ahead to the next course, which might well involve that intriguing mouth of hers, he gets to work as instructed and she matches him, effortlessly.
***
They rest eventually, after over an hour of frenzied and gloriously messy sex. He wonders anew at the human female's ability to just… keep on climaxing, but decides again that he isn’t envious: if pleasure came that easily and frequently to someone like himself he doubts he’d ever do anything else remotely productive. It’s almost too much effort to light a cigarette, but it does really help to enhance the afterglow. She hadn’t seemed to mind the taste of him. It was a high quality tabac.
Very much to his surprise, she asks him for one. “I thought you didn’t,” he says.
“I don’t,” she replies. “Except after sex.”
“And how often is that?”
“I’m not telling you about my personal life.” But she smirks at him as he holds the lighter for her and she puffs the first little drag into his face coquettishly.
She is, quite frankly and once again, adorable. He wishes she could stay longer. Despite his reputation, he really dislikes one-night stands. Or one-day stands: whatever. There’s not enough time to get to know exactly what works for each other. Not enough time for getting to know each other. Just… not enough time.
Yes, there was definitely such a thing, with his relationships, as not enough time. But there was such a thing as too much time as well, of course. Bix knew all about that. Commitment. No matter how many times they tried it again, it seemed that he was never actually willing or able to give her what she really wanted. Perhaps that was sad. They had been so good together, when it worked. She was so good to him, even now. So good for him. Still, she had her life and that idiot of a husband and her cute children - and she seemed to be happy.
Switching his thoughts to the woman here now, as there's never any point in dwelling on the past, he calculates quickly - as he is still mostly as sharp and perceptive as he ever was - that “Lyra” doesn’t actually have sex that often. Or rather, that she doesn’t have regular sex with the same person. There’s something in her manner, her hunger, her eagerness to please him and to please herself that tells him that she is unattached. He feels even more certain now that she is a true-believer Rebel, despite her accent, and that her mere presence here was exceptionally dangerous, to him and possibly to the entirety of Ferrix, commercially valued though it was. No planet was ever, really, safe.
No. Rebels didn’t do long term relationships either, and in that respect he knew she was like him. Rebels put the cause first, always. They didn’t want to risk heartbreak. He snorts a little, cynically. So he does have something in common with them after all, albeit for a completely different reason.
An unpleasant thought threatens to cross his mind then but he quickly dismisses it, distracting himself with a long pull at his cigarette. They are sitting up in bed, the blanket covering them in a surprisingly modest-looking fashion. He thinks anew how nice it is to be sharing a bed when all they are doing are relishing what has been and looking forward to what is to come.
This in-between time… could possibly be his favourite part of a sexual encounter. Well, OK - but...top-three, anyway. Time to digest. Time to contemplate. Time to savour.
They could even be a married couple, he thinks, this silence between them is so comfortable.
She breaks it then, a child with a naughty joke. “Question: do you smoke after sex? Answer: I don’t know, I’ve never looked.” And she giggles.
As is often the case with jokes involving double meanings, as this is still ultimately a foreign language for him, he doesn’t get it.
Frustrated, but amused, she attempts to explain and finally ends up with - “You know - from the friction?!”
He gets it then, but as is always the way the joke is lost by this stage so instead of laughing he quizzically raises his eyebrows and suggests that after their next bout - they should look.
She finds that hysterical, apparently, and he finds her even more adorable.
***
They don’t, literally, smoke but he feels it’s a close run thing. By mutual agreement, they take turns to cool down any possibly overheating areas with their mouths, just in case. And both agree, after a great deal of intensive research, that this process is very counter-productive.
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They break for a meal in the mid-afternoon. He can see she’s impressed by his store cupboard, packed high with dried ingredients and flavourings from across the galaxy, some of it rare and expensive. While he fries up some leftovers from the conserver, she explores the little house. There’s another bedroom, with a small single bed, in the front and he tells her it was his childhood bedroom.
As he had known she would, she soon spots Bee on his pad. “Your droid. He doesn’t seem to be charging.”
Even now, he can’t help but feel a stab of pain at that, but he keeps his voice light. “I know. He can’t be charged anymore. Eventually, he needed a completely new battery, and they just don’t make them anymore and I couldn't find a secondhand one. I keep him… just in case I do ever find the right model.”
“But his files will be corrupted by then. Have you transferred his memory? You could at least talk with him. Put him in another droid chassis, even.”
“I haven’t.” He concentrates on frying, stirring the vegetables and now adding the beaten fiejuc eggs. He has also just added Durmic spice so knows he can blame that for any dampness in his eyes that might come with his next words. “I made the choice not to. When my mother died, he was inconsolable. He couldn’t understand what death was. I could have had his memory wiped then, I suppose, but … he wouldn’t have been him anymore. His name was Bee. Is. I just … keep him there, in case…”
She has appeared at his side and he realises that while the Durmic might explain his wet eyes it doesn’t disguise the catch in his voice. He glances sideways at her, smiles slightly and sheepishly. He feels her arm around his waist then and her hug is one of comfort rather than desire, and it feels just as good somehow.
And he realises then that this is what he has really missed.
After this moment, and after the shared meal, things are different between them. Different in a good way. He realises later that they had moved forward with the liaison to the same stage that would normally take a week or so in his other casual relationships. There is a tenderness between them now. They talk. On light subjects, but they find common interests. It’s like a kind of cautious dance around the perimeters of each other.
And it’s all so good, and sweet, and delicious and somehow… medicinal. And hot.
It ends, as they had known it must. She needs to take the shuttle ferry out to the commercial port for her evening flight back to - wherever it was.
He wonders, as he watches her retreating form in the fading daylight, if he should call out after her, or tell her his real name. He decides not to. Perhaps she would decide to come again. If she lived that long. He feels a sudden and genuine chill that she will not.
He feels the pain anew then, and something of the old anger. The Empire. They had taken so much. Lives, chances, time.
He even wonders if he should join the Rebels, even at this stage. Belong, in some way, have a purpose, even if it is a short lived one.
Maybe one day. Then again, perhaps not. It is surely better to … live. To eat, to sleep. To do what you want.
He watches her until her retreating figure fades into the failing light.
Steelpeckers are nocturnal. Their dawn comes with the setting of the sun. Day shift; night shift. A flock of five fly over now, low, squawking raucously. Perhaps the same five from that morning - it is impossible to tell. The chimes for End of Day join their chorus as he stands there still, framed in the open doorway, looking, but with nothing to see.
From chapter 2.
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yuukei-yikes · 1 year ago
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hope you dont mind me asking this but since you seem very knowledgeable about the fandom and all i thought it was suitable
why is there so much ship content between sato kido and kano?? are they not adoptive siblings?? theres even some in semi canon (i think) contents like in anthologies too,, i mean not surprised it exists since weird people are in every fandom but its talked so casually here
with momo and hibiya too actually! because of the huge age gap you would think it wouldn't be such a casual ship but it somehow is?? as far as i seen anyways
oh man lollll nah i dont mind. fair question and it's much better to have an answer to this
im putting it under the cut bc it turned out kinda long and into a rant, and also to warn i mention the themes suggested in the ask (incest, age gaps)
basically it's no secret that in japanese media, incest and age gaps are widely normalized even today so just imagine in 2013 when kagepro was at its peak.
back then, kido and kano specifically were a WIDELY popular ship. here's the thing with the weird kano and kido (and seto too but mainly kano and kido) shipping, aside from what i said abt normalized incest and shit. kano and kido (and seto) being siblings is actually... sort of a spoiler? it's not revealed early on.
kano and kido are presented as 2 kids the same age living together and having different names. and they purposefully stop acting like siblings. SO it doesnt register until you get into their backstories. they're both adopted into the same family when theyre like... 7 or 8, and were friends before becoming siblings so people were able to use this excuse: "OHHH THEYRE MORE CHILDHOOD FRIENDS"
but like..... they live together as siblings for YEARS and to be honest im sure 99% of people watch the song mvs FIRST which u can binge in 1 afternoon and if ur watching with any sort of actual interest and attention, you WILL see kano and kido as part of the tateyama family in ayano's theory of happiness. not to mention the anime came out in 2014 which im also sure 99% of kagepro fans have seen. so to me that was always an excuse if it came from a very dedicated fan though i do understand it if it's from a casual enjoyer, like they truly didn't catch that they're siblings
when i joined the fandom i was 13, didnt know eng or japanese, and thought mekatrio childhood friends made total sense for some good 6 months into the fandom until I realised properly. a few months ago, i discovered a very close friend of mine had a kagepro phase in 2014 or something and told me he really shipped kano and kido and when i told him they're siblings he was like WHAT!!!!!!!
and another thing abt kano and kido. they're indubitably the queerest characters. THEY LOOK THE FUCKING GAYEST. there is Something abt pushing the gay characters together?? kido is constantly mistaked for a guy. kano the poor thing had ANOTHER popular ship going for him with ayano because people decided he is that way to shintaro because he actually had a crush on ayano. yeah. this was the fucking consensus with kano, shintaro and ayano. like i mentioned i DONT KNOW japanese and only ever read the translations of the novels and i also dont Know what jin was thinking when writing kano and shintaro. But. dear lord it reads fucking homosexual my dude. jin does this by accident a lot though. look at kido and momo. momo calling kido beautiful 1000 times but she's like Well as a woman i am jealous i wish i was that pretty. bruuuh ok anyways moving on Ill GET to jin again in a second.
like you said, semi official stuff like the anthologies are very heavy on this ship and also.... sorry, the manga which is an official media. is Heavily into this ship. for jin's stance on it, i am not sure. i do think he laughs it off but he NEVER intended to write them that way. in the seventh novel theres a whole bit where kido's telling kano you shouldve never hidden this from me im your sister we are family. even shintaro who is the pov ur reading from is like wow what a nice brother and sister AND THATS THE SECOND TO LAST NOVEL WHICH BY THEN THE SHIP WAS SUPER POPULAR SO TO ME THAT WAS JIN'S WAY OF REMINDING EVERYONE THEYRE SIBLINGS. personally i think jin truthfully intended to write kano and kido as siblings but doesnt care people ship them otherwise he wouldnt have had the manga written by someone who shipped them
so basically what happened. kagepro was confusing and people sometimes missed they are siblings. in japanese media its super normalized. it is 2013 so here it is also normalized in fandom spaces. fanart ensues, even official or semi official content teases it, and yeah. boom its popular
another big part of it was, EVERYONE GETS A PARTNER!!!! kagepro content has A LOT of Shipping Pieces if that makes sense. idk what to call it but like god, pixiv entries with 1 shinaya, 1 harutaka, 1 setomary.... and 1 hibiya and momo and 1 kano and kido. god awful. if any golden year kagepro fans follow me they will KNOW what im talking about.
now that i mentioned it. hibiya and momo. ough. idk man. people were properly weird with this one. because with kano and kido they at least made up a damn excuse. with hibiya and momo there was nothing. but the thing is, jin is entirely to blame here. absolutely fucking disgusting bro. unlike with kano and kido, with hibiya and momo he actively wrote it. in the third novel their chapters together or any of hibiya's chapters are actual fucking torture to read. i wont go into details if u havent read it but like there are Reasons i never recommend kagepro to people.
its good to give jin proper respect he IS the creator of my favorite characters ever in the whole wide world and the writer of the story that makes me the happiest ever in the history of life. but. that doesn't mean i dont hold him accountable for being weird as hell in his writing because he absolutely is
back in the early days of this blog i had my very own Gets Send Deaths Threats arc by some people who shipped these guys or people who were mad i criticized jin (i always suspected it was like. the same 1 or 2 people. with a lot of time in their hands) soooo honestly answering this activated my fight of flight a little bit but tbh i havent seen Any content here on tumblr (i do have everything blacklisted to hell and back) or gotten ANY rude messages here in years, so i think we're good👍
hope this was helpful and i hope ur not grossed out of kagepro though I'd understand. u kinda need a strong stomach not only for its themes but sadly kagepro does the gross anime thing animes do :(
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keeperoftinyarmy · 9 months ago
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As usual it's the hypocrisy that gets to me. If taekook is included in official content, that's normal. If other member interactions are included, that's perfectly fine. Nobody's wondering why jinkook have so many scenes in official content like you said. The answer is obvious - they interact a lot in an entertaining way. Nobody takes the sope interactions and then measures it against how much sope hang out in real life in public. There's no conspiracy theory that sope is being pushed by Hybe. When we got more 2Seok compared to Namjin in recent years, nobody's reaction was that Namjin is being hidden by Hybe to promote the company ship of 2Seok. We all made the much more normal assumption - friendships change and 2seok hang out more than Namjin probably
If jikook is fake, why isn't everything else fake too? I could easily say that the whole ot7 thing is just company propaganda but while people might agree that ot7 is a brand, they'll never admit that the seven of them don't love each other. But why? Objectively they don't hang out much when they're not at work. All the statements the say about loving each other comes from official content. Maybe that's scripted too? Why not? Why is only jikook scripted but everything outside of them authentic and true?
Why are they the only ones who merit this kind of scrutiny? Why are they the only ones in this group who are doing so much fanservice compared to everyone else and with only each other? They're not even the most popular ship! And why hasn't this fanservice reduced over the years? So they went from an unknown group to global superstars, their whole lives have blown up and changed completely but we have to believe that Jungkook must lie about visiting Jimin's room all the time when they're touring?
Even the talk about the military is insane. Jikook have tattoos. Even so if they had applied individually, they would have gotten a much more favourable posting than the fifth division. None of the other members have to do anything and can live their lives as they want but Jimin and Jungkook will spend 18 months in the military stuck to each other just because of their dedication to fanservice and because it's convenient? No other pair in kpop (not BTS but kpop!) have applied for military companionship. It's not a common thing at all. But somehow because jikook have done it, it's not really special and actually just very convenient. Everyone else in kpop must be really dumb for not using this super convenient option thats available to them.
People shouldn't act as if believing jikook is fanservice and not really friends is some enlightened thinking when they don't question any other relationship in the same way they question jikook.
All of us, including jikookers and non shippers, are so subsumed in a fandom filled with taekookers where we question jikook to an unnatural amount even when we're not taekookers ourselves. Thats what we should really be wondering about - why dismissing jikooks relationship is so normalised. That's the real issue here.
Such great questions anon…
My personal answer to most of them isn’t pretty.
“Something” about this particular pair rattles people…either into buying a pervasive theory on social media that makes little sense…
Or it provokes a silence when faced with their interactions that would normally be happy cheers if any other combo of members were doing the same…
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