#as well as try to consistently scam her

[justsleepyrune]

i have such admiration for anyone who has managed one or more fallen london alts

y’all are doing so much with your brains and i applaud it

[babyfrogz]

Fundraisers for Gaza

The following are all people who have reached out to me to share their stories and their campaigns. Please, if you can spare anything, any of them could really use your support.

Asmaa Ayyad @asmaayyad - Asmaa is hoping to help her family of eight escape Gaza and has been verified. They’re currently at €11,034/€45,000 and the GFM can be found here.

Mohammed Hussein Ismaeel @m8hammed - Mohammed has already had his blog deleted by staff once, but remains persistent in helping his family evacuate to Egypt. His campaign was verified by ibtisams before they deleted and is currently at €9,666/€25,000.

Bshaer, Ayla & Family @bshaeromars-blog - Bshaer was newly married when the genocide began and has lost her husband, who her newborn daughter never got to meet. Reem, a family member, is sharing her mother's words in their GFM Campaign -- please don't assume it's a scam because of the different names, their campaign has been vetted and can be found on line #231 on el-shab-hussein's list of verified fundraisers. $14,811/$40,000

Ahmed AbuOmar @ahmedabuomar - Ahmed is trying to evacuate himself, his wife, and his three young boys. His campaign has been verified here and is at €2,444/€30,000, less than 1/10th of the way to the amount needed.

Abd Alhadi Aburas @abdalhadiaburas - Abd is asking for help getting basic necessities as well as rebuilding a better future for himself and his family. His GFM has been verified and is only at $3,513/$65,000 CAD.

Imtithal & Family @d-imtthal - Imtithal is raising funds to evacuate her family, mostly young children, from Gaza. Her campaign is new and unvetted as of yet, but the images are original and donations to her GFM are protected, so please don't let that dissuade you from donating. Currently the campaign is at €3,302/€50,000.

Mohiy @mohiy-gaza - This is Mohiy's second account since his first one was deleted, he is raising funds to leave Gaza after much deliberation. He is Wafa's (@/wafaaresh) brother, verified here and by 90-ghost here. The GFM for him is currently at $18,017/$31,000 which is a little over halfway to the goal!

Nour & Family @noorabd1992 - Nour is a family friend of Wafa and Mohi's (check here) and has recently made a Tumblr account seeking help for his family, made up of him, his wife, and his two children, one of whom is a new baby. His GFM is at $8,500/$45,000 and can be found here.

Omar, Jody & Family @omargaze / @jody-family - Omar is another friend of Mohiy's, trying to help his lovely family escape the violence in Gaza. His campaign is verified and is currently at £4,604/£20,000.

Mahmoud Alkhaldi @mahmoud1995 / @mahmoud-1995 (both accounts link to the same GFM)- Mahmoud is trying to evacuate five family members including his wife, his younger brother and his wife, and his little nephew. His campaign was reblogged by 90-ghost and can be found here at $11,611/$50,000.

Mohammad Abujubara @mohammadabujbara - Mohammad is trying to evacuate his family to build them a better future. His campaign has yet to be verified but donations are protected and there is no duplicity in his words or photographs, so please use your discretion and donate if you can. $5,155/$150,000 CAD

Samer Abu Ras @samerpal - Samer's first account was unfairly deleted, but he remains persistent in helping his family, which consists of his wife and his three kids. His campaign is #196 on the list of verified fundraisers. Please note that $1 USD is about kr10 (ten Swedish krona) and his campaign is at 122,649/450,000 SEK.

Thaer Qanoo @savethaerfamily - Thaer is trying to evacuate with his wife and small daughter to Egypt. His account and campaign are new but have been shared by @/mohammedalanqer, currently at only $67/$20,000 - let's give him a warm welcome!

Ahmed Al-Sir & Lubna Al-Shami @ahmadelser / @lobnaalser - Lubna and Ahmed are trying to flee Gaza with their three sons. Their campaign has been verified by 90-ghost and can be found here at only €1,711/€50,000.

Ezz El-Din Salem @ezzaldeens-blog - Ezz is seeking refuge for seven family members, currently all living in a single tent. The campaign is verified and is at only €224/€20,000.

Lina @lina-gaza - Lina is a mother of two children, one of whom was born by C-section during the violence. She hopes to evacuate them and her husband to Egypt. The GFM is being run by her husband's cousin, it is verified and currently has €35,004/€45,000 - less than €10,000 to go!

Sara Hussein @sara-97a - Sara has three young children and is looking after her mother, who suffered a stroke recently. Her GFM and account are new but the images don't appear anywhere else and donations are, again, protected. €517/€50,000

Shaima & Ibrahim Al-Sir @shaimaasblog - Shaima and her husband dreamed of one day having a child of their own, but tragically lost their unborn child due to the violence. Their campaign is very new but their photographs are unique, please use your discretion and donate. €95/€50,000

Hazem & Nisreen Suhail @hazemsuhail / @nisreensuhail - Hazem and Nisreen are brother and sister trying to evacuate their family of eight to safety in Egypt. They are seeking verification but their photos are unique (you can see Nisreen's instagram dating back to 2015 here) so please don't hesitate to help! Their GFM is at €1,813/€50,000.

Ahmed Ziad @ahmed-ziad - Ahmed hopes to evacuate his family, including his mother, to Egypt so they can live safely. His GFM is verified by nabulsi and is currently at £9,484/£30,000.

Mahmoud Ziad @mahmoud-ziad - Last but not least, Mahmoud. He has had his previous account deleted, but hasn't given up hope to rebuild his life and help his family. His campaign has been verified and can be found here currently at $14,123/$30,000. Today is his birthday - I've donated to him and his family and encourage you to do the same, even though he deserves a much better gift.

Choose a campaign and donate if you can, otherwise please share this post so they can reach safety with their families.

[tallgirl14]

Chilchuck angst

I love this lil middle age man but i aslo live for angst so her are few my ideas because I need tell someone and if you have angst dm me we can talk about it

He carries a wallet size family portrait (when his girls were little) with him when he goes down in a dungeon, and he looks at it when he miss them. ( I feel like photos are probably pretty 💰💰 so they only had few consist wedding photo, baby photo mayjack she's fist born, then one of the whole family ) and this photo is chaotic and It makes him smile.

This is the ONLY photo he has of his entire family and he hasent seen them in few years with his kids grown living there own lives and him and his wife are split this photos all he's got.

How far would this man go for this picture. I can see chilchuck getting badly hurt because he went back to grab it and as Marcille is lecturing him about his reckless action as she's healing him.

Marcille: "What could have been so important that you risk your life over??"

Chilchuck: "my family or what's left of it"

He shows her the photo and marcille feels her heart drop she finally got to learn something about him and its sad ( this miscommunication leads to his group to believe chil family is dead )

Chilchuck taught Mayjack how to pick locks, and in the manga, he says when he dies, if they need someone, she'd be their first choice. SO he obviously took her through dungeon showing her how to navigate because being locksmith in a shop vs. dungeon is night & day different, dungeon being high pace environment.

Could you imagine how traumatizing that would be if saw her dad die in front of her AND NOT KNOW THEY COULD BE REVIVED!! (Seeing anyone die would be scaring) Especially if she felt it was her fault.

At first, Mayjack was curious about going into a dungeon with her dad to see exactly what he does she rember as kid seeing him come home late tired excused but mostly worn down.

Whenever she asked him about his work as a kid he was always vague or if he did talk about it was pg version and normally he was just trying scare us about going into dungeon. BUT one thing he made very clear, he didn't want any of her or her sister near the dungeon, but now that she's an adult, he couldn't stop her.

" I still don't want you near the dungeon, but you are a skilled locksmith, so you would be valued and well paid. IF you're still interested, I'll have you shadow me on my next small job so you can see what it's like."

At first, it was like any job we met with the client went over to the terms dad took payment, and then we headed over to the dungeon. I was awestruck by the new environment, but it quickly became overstimulating it took me a moment to adjust. the first few levels, dad had pointed out things to avoid what were scams & how to detect traps and walked me through a few I felt confident. Most importantly, when talking jobs, always have a skilled healer. Now I realize why as we enter new room dad was working on trap I was observing the room when I noticed treasure chest peaking out corner not knowing it was a mimick.

Chilchuck was Halfway through picking his lock when his dad sense went off. He quickly looked around room and spotted may messing with mimick

Chilchuck: "MAYJACK TIMS! get away from that!!" He starts running towards her

May turned to look at her dad, confused " why I already unlocked it?"

Her body stiffened as she could feel presents inside the chest, but before mimick could attach, chilchuck pushed her out of the way taking damage as it jabbed one of its claws through his neck causing him to bleed everywhere all mayjack could do was watch in horror paralyzed with fear trying process what happened. One of group members took care of mimick while she scrambled to her feet to get to here dad trying to put pressure on his wound tears flooding out

"Nonononno im sorry I'm sorry 🥺 "

As chilchuck lay there dying, he was more concerned with the fact he could comfort his daughter. This wasn't how he wanted to see death for the first time. Afterwards, the healer from their group came over and assured her he was going to be fine as she worked on reviving him.

Chilchuck let out a gasp and cough out some blood that had remained stuck in his throat. He turns to mayjack " that's why I told you to stay near me..." He moves toward her noticing her hands are strained with his blood. " are you hurt?... may? "

She shakes her head, and tears start to fall down her face he pulls her in for a hug. " it's ok, I'm ok ... I'm right here. " she hugs him tight, and they stay in that embrace for a while. When they finally break the hug, chilchuck wipes tears from her face.

" im sorry you saw that... do you want to go home.? "

" but the job?"

Chilchuck shakes his head " don't worry about it I brought someone along for that exact reason"

[rosegoldenatlas]

They're siblings, your honor

All of the hermits are one great big psychotic family. Here are the roles of the ones I know enough to point out properly and even reasoning. Might make this a foster au BTW.

Xisuma is the father, obviously. But like he's the kind of dad that works night shift just to see his kids more often. He's the kind of dad that adopts kids by pure accident. He's the dad that is always there to give advice and definitely got half of those tips from the internet and the other half from personal experience.

Doc is the eldest child, he was adopted by X because one day he just fucking appeared with his three friends at X's house (its basically a mansion because of how much space he needs to keep all of these kids in check) trying to steal food and supplies. He got caught because he hit his head on a doorframe an it woke up X lol. Doc would be like 17 in the au and he would immediately find a reason to not like Grian.

Beef is one of the people who arrived with Doc, he is on month younger than him and he's the reason X let them stay he night because he immediately invoked pity.

Etho also arrived with Doc, he is two months younger than him and he was supposed to be the only one going in to steal because he knew how to be sneaky but he had no conception of what was needed to survive on the streets so the rest had to join him.

Bdubs was the final person who arrived with Doc and he is a year younger than he rest of the NHO (he came up with the name in the au) Bdubs and Doc have this weird sibling rivalry where they'll have a huge argument over something important then Bdubs will ask for a ride two minutes later and suddenly all is well with the world.

Grian is classic middle child vibes except he's the kind of middle child that causes so many issues that he actually gets attention constantly. When Doc arrived (Grian was adopted a year before Doc was) he immediately accidentally broke Doc's robotics project he had been working on since before they met. Immediately he realized he effed up while Scar was only scared because Grian was. Grian is like 15 btw

Scar is three weeks younger than Grian and he is the kid who always gets in trouble for the most obscure things in school. Like comes home early cause he was suspended for creating a pyramid scheme for monster energy drinks kind of obscure. Also he has scammed most of his adoptive siblings out of their allowances.

Cub is Scars twin in this, he helped with all of the scams and pyramid schemes. But he never gets caught. Nobody knows how but he never got into trouble in school even though he sold pens that had test answers written on a piece of paper in them.

Cleo is 17 in this, she is the on who is put in charge of the house when X is gone because the NHO was deemed irresponsible after the incident which ended with Grian, Scar and Mumbo locked in a closet with the NHO taunting them through the door. Cleo is the only child who owns a car and the one who is consistently begged to drive people places. She has since used this to her advantage and now has the others pay by the mile.

Ren is younger than Cleo but is older than Mumbo, he apparently knew Doc before they were adopted and was adopted first. Ren is the classic theatre kid and does drama after school every Wednesday and Friday. One time he was supposed to watch the younger kids because X was at work, Cleo was shopping and the NHO group was doing stuff. This ended with X coming back to Ren about to be sent to exile (the yard) because he had crowned himself as king of the house and the TV remote was his magic scepter and he wouldn't let anyone else switch the channel.

Mumbo is a year younger than Ren and he used to be considered the most mature, for all of five minutes until he started doing things, these include; making a custom lock on his door out of rubber bands and twine which proceeded to somehow work two whole times before it ripped the doorknob out of the door, making a semi sentient robot out of an old furby and a gameboy, naming it Grumbot then adopting it with Grian, and then accidentally setting his curtains on fire while he was testing a homemade microwave because he wants one in his room but couldn't afford to buy one.

Pearl is the same age as Grian in this, she is labeled the demon child by every other sibling except for Gem and Cleo but she embraces the title. She is called this because she is known to bring dangerous animals into the house and her room is half full of terrariums and tanks of animals. She has brought in multiple spiders and snakes from outside and kept them as pets, she also has a running joke of taping objects to the ceiling so they're upside down. Her biggest prank was attaching everything in grians room to the ceiling including his bed and nobody except Doc, Cleo and Pearl herself know how it happened.

Joel is somewhere between Grians age and Bdubs' age. He is known for getting caught while pranking people in the house consistently. Which is a good thing because most of his pranks will end in something catching fire. He has started multiple cults and has convinced people to give him money to 'support the religion' He makes way too much money from it because he has multiple siblings convinced that the made up gods are real. He uses this money to buy insane amounts of Lego's to build with. He shares them sometimes. He also has a girlfriend at his school (Lizzie) and also whatever odd thing with his friend (Sausage bc c!Joel is probs poly) whom he has 'joint custody' over a small child they babysit sometimes.

That's all of the hermits in the au, here is all of their age in order of oldest to youngest ig

Xisuma (32)

Doc (18)

Beef (18)

Etho (18)

Cleo (17)

Bdubs (17)

Ren (17)

Joel (16)

Mumbo (16)

Grian (15)

Pearl (15)

Cub (14)

Scar (14)

And here is the order in which they were adopted;

Cleo & Ren

[Two months later]

Grian & Scar

[One week later]

Cub

[Three months later]

Pearl

[Two and a half weeks later]

Mumbo

[The next day]

Joel

[Seven months later]

Doc, Beef, Etho & Bdubs

Here is how/ why they were adopted.

Cleo and Ren were both originally foster kids and X was fostering them. They were about to age out of the system and be forced to live without any real help so X offered to adopt them.

Grian and Scar were runaways from their sucky homes and survived on the streets for a total of three days before X found them while he was at a picnic with Cleo and Ren. He took them in pretty quick.

Cub was actually Scars friend from school who tutored him sometimes, while staying over for dinner one night X asked about his home life. Cub explained that he had been emancipated and lived on his own. X offered to let Cub stay for a bit and Cub never really left.

Pearl just appeared in X's yard one day trying to catch a frog who had hopped into it. X was trying to find out where her parents were and she just sat there very confused on the concept of a parent and she claimed she had just appeared in existence one day. X was going to put her in the foster system but decided to just adopt her.

Mumbo was a kid up for adoption that Grian knew and Grian spent about three weeks convincing X to adopt him before X finally agreed.

Joel was found injured am knocked out in the forest one day and a pink haired girl (Lizzie) carried him over to the first safe looking house and knocked on the door. She was let in until Joel woke up, Joel said he was from space and X had decided that wasn't the weirdest story he's been told and yoinked him. X was close to adopting Lizzie until he found out Lizzie already had parents.

Doc, Beef, Etho and Bdubs were lab escapees who were apparently tested on in a shut down lab a few towns over. They had been living on the streets for a few months before they were caught trying to steal from Xisumas kitchen at five in the morning. They were adopted instantly.

Should I write this as a multi POV book of one shots from the same universe and put it on ao3? This is an idea just now occurring to me.

[comma-tose]

Something I noticed that I REALLY don't like is just how much current borderlands seems to be trying to diminish Rhys and Fiona's personalities and achievements.

It started out with Rhys in Borderlands 3, where Vaughn implied he was fake and that they haven't spoken in years for some reason??? Then it happened again in New Tales, where Rhys was written as incompetent, and an awful boss that fires his employees for having ONE bad idea.

It also essentially calls him a warmonger that's focused entirely on profits, and has no moral compass beyond "the almighty dollar". Going as far as to explicitly state that that is literally Atlas's motto.

Aside from all that it also says that Atlas is essentially failing and that Rhys has absolutely no idea what he's doing, which is especially weird considering how in Borderlands 3 it's stated that Promethea is finally starting to do well for itself again, and through Echo logs you hear that even Marcus is impressed with how well Rhys is doing.

So for Rhys we have him losing connection with his best friend and being called an idiot, fake, being mischaracterised as a terrible person that apparently learnt nothing and has regressed as a person to a borderline unrecognisable state.

----------------------------------------------

And now we get to Fiona. Since borderlands 3 treats the female protagonist of Tales as if she just doesn't exist, Fiona's story continues in Debt or Alive so...

SPOILER WARNING FOR DEBT OR ALIVE.

Not only is Fiona characterised VERY strangely in the book but they also just give Sasha credit for some of what Fiona does, and Fiona alone tends to be the target of blame in the book. Oh and she gets compared to Handsome Jack for good measure.

To start off with, Fiona doesn't even get her wish from the Vault of the Traveller. She gives it to Sasha, and Sasha wishes for a rare Vaultlander figurine of Typhon DeLeon which is destroyed a couple of chapters later. So not only does Fiona not even get to use her wish but the product of the wish gets destroyed anyway so it's entirely pointless.

Fiona also just decides to not be a vault hunter. That conversation she can have with Rhys SECONDS before this happens, about how it suits her, about how she's sad the adventure is over? It's just ignored. She immediately gives it up because she doesn't want Sasha vault hunting and getting put in danger again. Sure she still likes vault hunting but it is immediately given up. (I could write a whole other post about why this bugs me and I probably will).

Fiona has flaws that are addressed in the books, as they should be, all characters have to have flaws, but she is the only one out of the sisters to have flaws addressed. Sasha's are treated as if they don't exist, even when they're very apparent. Fiona learns to not be overprotective, and that she can't stop Sasha from doing things she wants to BUT Sasha doesn't learn anything. She does impulsive things that endanger both her and Fiona, and her risking their safety for fun or on a whim is just never mentioned. (Again something else I'll definitely talk about in another post).

Fiona is also consistently the one who comes up with the plans in the book, while Sasha is either not doing anything or suggesting they take the easy way out. Fiona is the one to start removing the debt cuffs from people while Sasha stands there bewildered, asking what she's doing. Fiona is the one to come up with the plan to scam the billionaires so that they can use the money to free everyone from debt while Sasha suggests just funding Gaige's revenge scheme (and assumedly just abandoning the people in debt??). And Fiona is the one to figure out how to get into Holloway's panic room and save everyone.

Fiona having her moments to shine would be great if they consistently didn't end with her being called an idiot, getting badly hurt, failing, or at one point being compared to Handsome Jack of all people. (Additional point: Sasha doesn't even defend her when she's compared to Jack, which is weird and very out of character.)

This might be petty but the book also gives credit to Sasha for Fiona surviving Bossanova's murder rally in Tales. Which is really weird considering Sasha and Fiona were separated during the entirety of that event. So instead of mentioning a time where Sasha actually helped save Fiona, like in the bio-dome when she was caught by Finch and Kroger, I guess they're actively retconning an event to give Sasha the credit. For some reason.

Fiona also has to confront Sasha about how she's treating Rhys, but then like a chapter later she literally apologises for all that, despite having every right to call Sasha out for that. So again Sasha's flaws are not being recognised as actual flaws and instead it's Fiona who's somehow in the wrong and Sasha learns nothing. Sure by the end of the book she considers Rhys her boyfriend but she is never the one to tell him. Fiona is, because Sasha just doesn't bother to, because it never treats her as someone who has to grow as a person. Sasha is usually either just used as a plot device to progress things or just doing almost nothing while being given credit, instead of being developed like a proper character. I'd call her a shell of what Tales Sasha was but even that feels too generous.

I used to really want to see the Tales characters in other borderlands media, but at this point I just dread it. Because why would I want to see my favourite characters being wildly mischaracterised and mistreated by the franchise?

[mamawasatesttube]

hi! i wanted to know if you had any thoughts about possibilities for the interactions between kon & matrix? as she was supergirl when he came into the scene and i know they interacted at least a little

they did! this is gonna get kinda long, my apologies, but lets gooo.

so kon and mae's relationship is... fascinating. they started off pretty sweet, with her being a warm and friendly presence when he started off as superboy - she invited him for dinner with lex, and all that, plus helped him with the stinger bridge incident. i often also think about the bit during the trial of superman arc where he tried to teach her to play magic the gathering with him:

however. their relationship took a significant turn for the worse shortly after this, during the arc in which knockout groomed kon into a relationship and manipulated him into helping her run from accountability for a murder he thought she was falsely accused of committing. the press turned very negative about kon aiding and abetting her escape, and mae showed up to confront him about it:

superboy (1994) #28

now there is a LOT to say about this arc and this issue, but there are two main things that stand out to me the most. firstly - this is pretty much a textbook example of what NOT to do when someone is in an abusive relationship, i.e. throw an ultimatum that they have to listen to you and leave immediately. it's how to drive them further into their abuser's arms, and that's exactly what happens with kon and knockout (she even literally tells him he doesn't need anyone but her, which is a classic abuse tactic. isolate the victim from his other would-be support.) ironically, this is also exactly how mae herself reacted when clark and the kents objected (much more gently than she did here!) to her relationship with lex luthor. it is so textbook "what not to do when someone you care about is in an abusive relationship" that i really wonder if kesel did it on purpose. i can't say he did with any confidence, though, given how victim blamey the rest of the narrative gets towards kon and how much he clearly still has a boner for knockout even after this arc ends, but... it is fascinating, i guess.

secondly, though, as much as it sucks, i would say this is completely consistent with mae's characterization in her own run (supergirl '96) which starts not too long after this. mae fuses with linda, which means... she and kon never actually work this out between them. however, mae is consistently characterized as someone who means well but can be hotheaded, judgmental, and prone to being pretty holier-than-thou when she jumps into situations without assessing them fully beforehand, like when a priest of a scam church in her name dies in front of her because she ignored him having a heart attack, not realizing he was trying to reach for his pills and begging her to help him reach the bottle he'd dropped, because she thought he was just scared of her and pleading for mercy. so her harshly judging kon for being in an abusive relationship, having recently escaped her own with lex luthor (in supergirl 1994), is in line with her characterization; in fact, it's entirely possible that she's so angry with kon here because it's the misplaced remnants of her anger at herself.

this is pretty much the last nail in the coffin for kon and mae's relationship. as long as mae is the more dominant personality in the linda-mae fusion (i.e. the first 50 issues of supergirl vol 4), she and kon don't really interact much anymore, and when they do it's without the warmth their relationship used to have (the "skyhog!" moment, hilarious as it is, comes to mind). HOWEVER, once mae and linda separate, and linda becomes supergirl, she has other opinions on it:

young justice (1998) #38

kon and linda have a much better relationship than kon and mae - this is the first time kon talks to her since her split from mae, and from there on, their interactions are pretty warm! linda gives him advice on how to patch up his friendship with robin after their fight on apokolips, and takes some inspiration from their conversation to patch up her bond with buzz, too. i won't get too far into linda & kon since that's not what you asked about and this is already a long post, but i do love them dearly 🥺

tl;dr my thoughts on kon and mae are mostly like, i think she saw herself in him in a lot of ways (the naivety, for one), but she didn't always like what she saw, and that put some significant strain on their relationship. there was love to be lost between them, like, in sb94 #28 kon even mentions they were just working together and helping free superman from false accusations, and mae is trying to reach him; she just doesn't go about it in the best way and it blows up in both of their faces, and her run establishes that she's got a proud streak and doesn't really like apologizing. so it's.... complicated! oof.

[d4rkpluto]

i've returned to post about a particular subject i've been fighting to or not to post, because i used to consider this person the closest person in my life and i even considered her as a best friend and a sister.

and we have fallen out and apologised to each other many times, but perhaps whenever we argued it was life telling me that she is not supposed to be in my circle. and you could be wondering why am i bringing this up and telling tumblr this but im telling tumblr this to be aware of @couerardent and her scamming behaviour.

couerardent also known as MYSTIICWINTER OR MYSTICWIINTER.

talk about WORSE SERVICE I HAVE EVER GOTTEN MY ENTIRE LIFE.

[other people have come to me and spoke about how bad her services were, but i tried to overlook it because i really cared for her, lessoned learn]

i have always been empathetic towards ardent and her money situation, but there are moments when excuses turn into reasons to not do something. on august, i sent alex money because she needed it, but she also said in return she will give me 4 packs she usually gives her clients and she told me she would give me my money back.

first pack is "tell me your story."

second and other packs she hadnt told me what they were but she informed me that i'll be receiving them weekly since august, and now its november.

at first i was empathetic, since i used to be close to ardent, i knew she went through a lot of stuff at home, so i was patient. until august turned into september, and september turned into october and then october turned into novemeber.

and slowly i became annoyed, [as i should] because her services arent even long or good, as someone who gives chart readings to other people that consists more than fourteen pages, the effort to write that would take long, but ardent doesnt even give five pages for her services, three at most, so why is it taking her so long?

previously, she has joked to me about scamming other people, but would put the blame on them and not want to take accountability until they start using threats to expose her, i think she deleted the making fun of scamming them but here is some of it:

and when i would message her for updates about my reading because it'll take months, she would ignore me and even change her pfp on tumblr or discord, until i reach out to her on more platforms to get her attention.

and what would annoy me even more is that she would talk about how she never has something to do or would focus on other stuff knowing she needs to get my reading done lmao and this would be like 1-2 months after i was supposed to receive any of it lol.

worrying about the layout for almost 3 months PLEASE.

i have received 1/4 readings, and that was now almost 2-3 weeks ago, we should've been on my 2nd or 3rd reading by now, the only reason i have received 1 reading is because i did threaten to expose her if she didnt send the money or reading my way, because even i had some issues because living in london has gotten really difficult and i have been trying to support my family as much as i can, but im doing better right now.

its all about the principle. and she has none of that. and even attempted to victimise herself and behave like she was in distress whenever she got called out about her behaviour.

she lost track of time, the time being 3-4 months lol.

and when i was speaking to her she ignored me for a bit again ha, it was almost comedic. for almost two weeks she didnt try and check what i was speaking about.

she has gotten ill, but this was still months after.

and i have remembered, she has used much of her earned money to fund for her nose job but also uni, but during the moments it was best to pay me back was at the job she said paid her well, she informed me that when she gets paid by her job she'll pay me back, and she never did and ended up quitting the job.

[the unfairness i was speaking about is how uni her country dont do student finances, she's from romania, because they do in the uk it was just a surprise].

i asked her recently on how i was supposed to receive a reading but she didnt reply but change her pfp on whatsapp and discord, again.

if there is any confused people comment please because i did this half asleep lmao

[tiajk]

Platonic strawhat interactions? Here’s some ideas

You and Robin go shopping, You find a cool trinket, but you don’t have enough money

Sanji brings you a snack. A bird flies overhead and -plop- right on the food

Luffy was playing tag with you, Usopp, and Chopper. He uses his gum gum rocket to try and catch up and flies too far

Usopp is holding a game show. The contestants are you, Nami, Zoro and Sanji

Have fun!

Warnings; a POC reader in mind, with curly hair, Bi sanji because i genuinely believe its not cannon it's the truth, chaotic strawhats as usual, reader is interested in marine biology, and is hinted at having water powers (basically water bending), reader singled to have a lot of siblings, Gn!, reader, everyone just loving reader, Other pirates having a crush on reader

A/N; the game show one really spoke to me for some reason and your always so good with request ily, Guess who's working on her one piece script

Words count; 1070 masterlist

You have no idea how Usopp somehow convinced you and nami to join his little game show. That's a lie you know exactly how he did. Bribing nami with money that he didn't have. Sanji sees nami joining automatically willing to be the next contestant. Zoro joined because Usopp claimed that Zoro was too much of a chicken, scared that sanji would win. The rivalry automatically makes his blood boil. He got you to join by promising he would grow a water plant with you in his garden that you had particularly been wanting to learn more about. Your interest peaked. Now you stand in front of Usopp with poorly built little wooden stands Sanjis’s was made out of cardboard waiting for Usopp to finally get what he wanted. “Welcome my very good friends on this ship, the going sunny owned by the strawhat pirates and welcome our very own contestants Nami, {Na}-”. “Usopp, will you hurry up? I don't have all day for this” Zoro's voice from beside you speaks out. Ussop turns to him slightly offended from not being able to finish his little (cute) ramble. “Well i was almost done but since you rush me so damn much will start cant even have fun without you running your dumb mouth.” mumbling the last part he pulls out some flashcards out of his pocket. “The basic rules of this game are it's basically we're gonna see who knows each other best. It will go by category nami’s first, , then zoro, sanji, then {name}.” You all nod your heads at him, the game seemed simple enough. Usopp goes to your podium first “{Name} how are you today?” you smile “I’m doing great Usopp.” he returns the gesture to you “that's great to hear! Your question about nami is what are her favorite hobbies to do in the meantime when she's not scamming people.” Nami knocks Usopp on the head from her podium “YOU DUMBASS THAT'S NOT ALL I DO Y'KNOW” “HEYYY NO HITTING THE HOST” “USOPP LEAVE NAMI-SAN ALONE YOU HEAR ME”. you turn to zoro to see if he sees all the bullshit that's happening right now. He looks your way as well having a silent communication to at least try to stop the fighting. Before you could do anything the rest of the crew showed up. “What's happening we’ve been looking for you guys for the past 30 minutes” Luffy says while picking his nose. “I’m hosting a game show for the four of them!” Usopp explains excitedly while looking at you. Nodding at the others “yea were just about to get started you should watch!” The others agree they grab a few chairs or opting to sit on the deck floor and are curious to see what type of game show this is. “Alright now that we’ve all settled down we can finally begin. Clearing his throat “now {name} you may answer the question”. You thought hard nami was one of your best friends so it was easy but you had to pick one she licked the most then it was easy. Usopp had noticed you took a few moments “whenever you're ready tell me”. “I have my answer, it's shopping and she also loves to sunbathe”. Usopp looks at his flashcard “you are…Correct!!! Namis hobbies consist of sunbathing and shopping, one of her favorite things”. You smiled to yourself the game was slowly starting to get more fun now that you realize it.

The process had gone on forever every single time you had gotten the answer correct. Knowing your crew very well. Surprisingly the rest of the crew stayed. Robin was reading a book with chopper in her lap but her attention was still towards the game. Franky had been working on little fidgets while sitting there but he was interested nonetheless. Luffy had been lying in a star position. Brook and Jimbei had been engaging in small conversation but they still saw their crewmates go on with their daily shangains. Ussop had asked you a question about what is Zoro's favorite sword. Saying the Wado Ichimonji because his dear best friend gave it to him as a promise that they would both fulfill their dreams. When asked what Sanji's favorite food is answer spicy seafood pasta knowing that he wished he could have cooked it more often. It was your turn for the question to be asked about you. “Alright name your our last contestant and then the winner will win 40 thousand berries.” you look at nami to see the gleam in her eyes when money is mentioned. Usopp goes to Nami asking her the question he had prepared “How many people have a crush on {name}?” Nami scoffs while crossing her arms. Blood rushes to your face being grateful that they can't see it. “That's easy, Law,Kid, and not to mention Marco from whitebeard pirates. ” Usopp nods his head with confirmation and a thumbs up “YOUR CORRECT”. Usopp walks past you with a smile then stops at zoro. “Zoro what is {name} favorite thing to do with the strawhats crew” Zoro seems like he doesn't know but answers with confidence “They love hugging everyone giving people affection throughout the day”. Usopp doesn’t want Zoro to get the points but he does with a sigh of defeat “you are correct”. Ussop moved to sanji that was practically beaming like he was when he got asked nami’s question “Sanji your question about {name} is how many siblings do they have?” Sanji smirks and takes the cigarette out his mouth “Easy they have 4 being the middle child having two older ones and 2 younger” “your correct too” Luffy gets up from his pose from before “Is the game over who wins??” Usopp rolls his eyes “you have no patience y’know that luffy?” “BUT THE WINNER IS {NAME} GET ALL THE QUESTIONS CORRECT YOU GET 40 THOUSAND BERRY that i don’t have right now” Nami jumps from her podium strangling usopp “YOU LIAR YOUR DAMN LUCKY I DIDN’T WIN BECAUSE IF I DID” you go pull her off him just making sure that he doesn't die usopp i don't want the money just the water plant your promised to help me grow okay” usopp tried to catch his breath from almost being strangled to death “yup anything you want {name}” he said horsley maybe you should do more game shows from now on.

[agent-calivide]

Having some swap au brain bees, so, enjoy

Solaris and Fabricator

Solaris is an abstract artist that likes to make elaborate laser displays that show the sheer power and beauty of light refractions. Unfortunately, she was ostracized due to her art having the unlucky side effect of semi-regularly burning down the museums they were displayed in. She now works for Crane as an engineer so her lasers can be truly appreciated in death traps

Fabricator is a total physics nerd that is passionate about the logistics and running the numbers that making death traps entails. Her favorite part of working on a new death trap is figuring out how to calculate the perfect angle to lob an agent’s head clean off- OH- or maybe she could try that one trap that goes for an artery in the legs to see how efficient death via bleeding out is- OR OR- Oh la la- so many options! So many tests!

Prism and Juniper

Roxana Prism is a Hollywood practical effects star, she’s known for her amazing inventions that have revolutionized film stunts for decades to come! Rather than actors being shot at by firearms specialists (yes that’s really how they did that for a window of time) they now are able to safely do stunts with harmless pyrotechnics and simulation devices, all with the help of her test dummy companion, CrashBot! But eventually, her device’s improvements weren’t being appreciated. As she tried to advance her techniques, she was told that the originals worked well enough, and now she was just being greedy. A scam. A one-trick pony that contributed what Hollywood needed and could go back to her corner now. This filled her with indescribable rage, and when Crane approached her with the chance of a lifetime, to show people just how good her inventions were on an international broadcast, well. How could she refuse?

John Juniper was once a high ranking EOD agent, known for his special skills in deceit and espionage. With his charming charisma and having lying down to an art form, he was integral to the EOD’s ability to work eyes and ears into secure facilities all around the globe. Unfortunately, he was too good at playing the game, to the point there was lack of trust in him to tell the truth when it came to work. This stung, as he had done nothing but give to the EOD, and when he was gently let go, he found Crane more than willing to put his… assets to good use. It was only when he realized that switching sides was getting many of the very people he personally trained up killed that he realized this wasn’t what he wanted. He wanted to be respected, acknowledged, but not at the cost of hundreds of thousands of others.

Caliente and Hivemind

Caliente is a passionate pyro, his favorite past times consist of experimenting with how he can develop more potent lighter fluids and made flames burn hotter than ever before. He has a massive collection of lighters that he meticulously maintains and is not above a good arson pun before killing someone. He doesn’t think much of Crane, so long as he has stuff to burn he’s happy.

Hivemind is gruff, harsh, and will kill you if you make a bee pun around him. He uses killer hornets and views them as simply a means to an end, he’s much more interested in the control aspects of the creatures as tools than he is raising them like animals. While he is interested in his hornets more than other creatures, he understands that his bee research is merely a means to an end to Crane, and respects that as such.

Zor and Crane

Zor is a handler that’s been at the EOD for a while. They’re rather cynical, but in truth it’s a way to hold people at an arm’s length away. They don’t like people getting too close or knowing too much about them, they actually use a voice modulator when talking to their agents to keep things from getting too chummy. They were good friends with Juniper before he betrayed the agency, but even despite his betrayal they trusted that he wouldn’t reveal their secrets. He wasn’t like that. Of course, their walls only work for so long, as eventually a certain someone worms past their defenses and reveals the heart of bronze underneath. Not gold, they’re not that nice, but they care and that’s all that matters.

Crane is a renowned corporate billionaire who is known for his corporation, Cranaxis. Despite the fact the EOD is well aware of his legal name and full identity, they have a hard time pinning him down. Between his cheery disposition and reflective humor, people are inclined to trust him even to their own detriment. He’s very fatherly, giving support to people who had their passions rejected and giving them a new chance to forge the life they want. Of course, this is all an act. He couldn’t give a damn if they live or die, he just wants results. And if he doesn’t get them, well, he always has another operative lined up on the chopping block.

Ulanova and Ollie

Anna Ulanova joined Cranaxis in hopes of making a difference! While she struggles with juggling her passions with work, Crane pushes her to try and do both. She mostly works on Cranaxis’ image, vocally supporting them whenever she’s asked what’s helped her journey with her music the most. Crane is just such a kind, patient man after all.

Ollie is an exhausted marine biologist that was forced into shackling the giant squid. He didn’t want to, the actions were abhorrent, a crime against nature, and he knew in that moment he had to get out. Unfortunately, when he tried to defect he was locked away in an underwater lab and left to rot. It was only with the help of an EOD agent that he managed to escape.

Sans and Phoenix

Phoenix is Crane’s right hand op, they’re known for their knowledge with not only arson, but infiltration. EOD buildings burn down overnight with not a scrap of evidence left behind on how it started, defectors vanish without a trace, somehow Crane knows things that only EOD agents should be aware of, and it’s all thanks to a little Birdy telling him. Phoenix really truly sees Crane as their father, but it is unclear if the feeling is mutual.

Sans is an elite agent known as the Chemist. His innate knowledge with not only chemistry, but biology makes him quite the unique force in the field, able to start fires with compounds that nobody would think of and having the capabilities to subdue an operative with attacks he has innately honed to go for weak spots in the body. His unique approach to problems got him to be a top-ranked field agent, even though he really wonders if he should have gone into forensics. At least they have dental… his dynamic with his handler is a strange one, an odd, cold distance between them that made it hard to communicate. But over time, Zor opened up to him, and to this day he’s one of three people who know Zor’s real voice.

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“God, you’re as fun as untoasted bread.”

“I agree.”

“As you should,” Michael nods solemnly, patting your shoulder while you both look at Nicole with disapproval.

“What?” She frowns, holding up her hands defensively, her long sleeves draping over her hands. Nicole had approached you both asking you to sign up for a volunteer event for her chess club, citing that the activity would take place this Thursday, just two days from now.

It wasn’t that you hated giving back to the community, you didn’t really mind it at all. Well, you wouldn’t mind it at all if Nicole could come up with at least one good idea that everyone else wasn’t doing already. 

“What’s wrong with a food drive?” She’s cross now, folding her arms across her chest and trying her best to look intimidating. It’s not working, especially when she looks like the equivalent of a snowman in summer with her sweater and beanie. It’s a wonder how she hasn’t gotten heatstroke by now. You make a mental note to stick around her — maybe it’d somehow rub off on you.

“Okay, you come up with a better idea then,” Michael looks at you expectantly. And as always, Google is there to save the day. You turn the phone screen around to face them, displaying the search results you’d pulled up moments ago.

“Caricatures.”

“Sure,” Nicole shrugs. She could care less about what the activity was, as long as it meant she’d get the credits to her name. 

“I’m not doing it for free though,” Michael points out with a grin, loving the way her eyes narrow into a glare directed at him. 

“...What do you want?” Nicole forces each word out through gritted teeth, leaning against her table. 

“Twenty per hour, with drinks provided.” 

“Ten per hour, and you buy your own drinks because you have two perfectly functional limbs.”

“Fifteen an hour, with dollar drinks from 7 Eleven.”

Nicole pauses, taking his deal into consideration. “Alright.” 

Michael nods, satisfied with this small victory. “What do you need for supplies?” He asks. You ponder for a moment, starting to list off the materials.

“Drawing pads, 2B pencils, eraser, drinks, snacks…” 

“I can get those.”

“I’ll leave it up to you then,” You say, reassured by Nicole's casual nod. “How much should we charge?”

“Ten bucks?” Nicole suggests.

“Ten bucks.” 

— — — — — 

“Caricatures! Get your drawings done for ten bucks only!”

Luckily, today was a relatively cloudy day. The three of you had set up your small booth consisting of two tables and chairs, covering the tables with a long cloth that hid your bags underneath. The school had excused all three of you for this activity after Nicole had cited it as a valid reason to be absent. 

The girl in question is now slacking off beside you, sipping away on a juice box and scrolling through Instagram while Michael promotes your booth to the various pedestrians.

You had chosen the location, setting up at a junction where many people would pass by the booth. So far, a decent amount of people had asked for a caricature to be drawn, mainly for couples and friends that posed cutely while you drew them.

So far the booth has raised about a hundred dollars, and it’s only increasing by the hour. You’re pleasantly surprised by the demand, especially since it’s for charity. Usually people avoided anything to do with that word like the plague. 

You didn’t blame them, having been targeted by many scams. You usually pretended you didn’t speak English, merely smiling cluelessly until they gave up trying to talk to you. Then again, another reason for your booth’s popularity definitely had something to do with the very boy who’s flirting nonstop with the various girls that had just ended their classes.

“So, how about you and I get some gazpacho sometime?” You overhear him hum to the girl next to him, sweeping a hand through his golden brown hair with a flirtatious smirk. She giggles, tucking a blonde lock behind her ear with ring-clad fingers.

Michael is rather attractive, you have to admit. But as they say, all that’s gold doesn’t glitter.

And he sure as hell isn’t the gentleman he makes himself out to be.

Even then, it’s seriously impressive how many girls he’d already managed to pull to your booth, and pay in full price for your drawings. You gotta step up your game.

And step up your game you shall.

“For a gorgeous girl like yourself, you can have it on the house,” You wink at the flustered girl in front of you, handing her the caricature you’d just drawn. Her cheeks flush, and she accepts it with a quiet thanks. Your fingers brush against each other and she starts at the contact, lips parting and stuttering out an apology. 

“What’s your name?” You ask, smiling gently at her.

“Marissa…” She replies in a soft whisper, and you have to strain to hear it.

“Well Marrisa, don’t apologise,” You reassure her, taking her hand and checking to see if there had been any injury from a potential paper cut. You release it once you’re satisfied that she’s unharmed, giving her a lighthearted two-fingered salute as she leaves.

You lean back in your seat, twirling your pencil in your hands and trying to ignore the way Nicole was staring daggers at you. “Did you just give away the drawing?”

“Yeah. Thought it’d give us a lil’ more publicity,” You say cheerfully, making eye contact with Marissa whose eyes widen when she sees you looking at her. She ducks her head, showing her friends the caricature you’d drawn of her to her friends with a shy smile. 

You turn your attention back to the drawing pad in front of you, uncrossing your legs and bending down to grab a fresh one. You flip it open, beginning to sketch the food truck owner opposite the street you’re on. 

“Don’t do it too much, though. If not we might as well not make any money,” Nicole grouches, crossing her legs under her knees on the chair, and folding her arms with a surly frown on her lips.

“What’s got you so strung up?” You ask casually, catching in your peripheral the way her eyes flit to Michael flirting with the group of girls nearby. The corner of your lips tug up slightly, trying to mask your amused laugh as a cough.

“Nothing,” Nicole mutters. “Stupid gazpacho,” You hear her growl under her breath.

You hum softly under your breath, thankful for the small fan on your table that provided you with some form of relief from the increasing summer heat in Brooklyn. Summers were hot and humid, which proved to be your worst enemy. Many times you’ve gone out with your hair all fluffy from a fresh blowout done at home only for it to go limp and flat not even an hour later. 

Thankfully, summer is ending soon, only a month or so away. For now though, it seems that summer is here to stay. 

“Do you think it’ll rain today?” You ask, lazily propping your head on your hand. Nicole shrugs, looking up at the clear blue sky. 

“Not sure. Besides, the rain here is always unpredictable. Did you bring an umbrella at least?”

You recall leaving your room with your umbrella on your desk, having forgotten to pack it in your bag for today. Nicole shakes her head once she spots the sheepish smile on your face, rolling her eyes as she leans down and digs through her bag.

“You better be grateful I brought an extra. Had a feeling you might’ve forgotten after you left in a rush yesterday.”

You accept the small umbrella she hands you with a grateful smile, nudging her side playfully. The ghost of a smile appears on her face. You grin, grateful that you’d managed to cheer her up and distract her at least somewhat. 

Your efforts are however ruined, when Michael jogs up to the desk with yet another girl whose hand is in his. She sits down with a giggle, handing you ten bucks with a dismissive wave. 

“Welcome!” You chirp, readying your pencil and eraser. You eye Michael who remains blissfully oblivious to a silently enraged Nicole by your side. He lets go of her hand with a suave grin, sending her a wink. 

“I’ll have to take a raincheck on that gazpacho, but maybe we could go out sometime?” He chuckles, the girl nodding eagerly. 

“I’m gonna go get a drink.” 

You watch Nicole push past Michael with a scowl, and he follows her with a silly grin. “I’m gonna grab a drink too!” You hear him call out to you, and you shake your head with a helpless chuckle. 

They’re idiots, the pair of them.

“So, is this gonna be done soon? Or…” You glance up to the girl who’s now eyeing you with dissatisfaction, her eyes scanning your entire being like she just came across a pile of steaming hot garbage. 

“It’ll be done in about five minutes,” You promise with a slightly forced smile, your hands continuing to move while your mind comes up with both creative and obtuse insults for this unpleasant specimen of human being.

“Right… I just have places to be, so like, hurry up.”

“Bet,” You mutter under your breath, watching her pull out her phone and scroll through it with a bored expression. True to your word, you finish the caricature quickly and hand it to her.

She snatches it without another glance, standing up and leaving once she realized that Michael isn’t coming back anytime soon. You grin, chirping a cheerful goodbye. 

It takes all of four steps away from the booth for her to let out a cry of enraged shock, whipping her head around to glare at you frostily. You stare back with wide eyes and a questioning gaze, the very picture of innocence.

The remarkable shade of red that tints her ears almost makes you break character, but you maintain your neutral facade. The corner of your lips twitch ever-so-slightly, watching her scoff and leave with your drawing in her clenched fists. 

When she’s out of sight, you dissolve into a fit of snickers, various people who walk by giving you odd looks. It did look strange, you suppose, for a random girl in the streets curled up in her seat laughing.

You couldn't help it though, the look on her face was absolutely priceless once she saw how detailed your drawing was. From her fake lashes to her horribly attached extensions, even the small pimples she’d tried so hard to cover up with concealer was all on display in her caricature. 

Was it mean? Yes.

Did you regret it? Not in the slightest.

You finally calm down, leaning back with a satisfied smile. The water bottle on your desk was empty, having drank the last few sips earlier. You pull out your phone and dial Nicole’s number.

“Hello?”

“Yo, Nic. Could you grab me like an iced latte or something? I’m parched.”

“Y-yeah, sure.”

“You good?” You ask, noticing how breathless she sounded. “You sound like you just ran a marathon or something.”

“W-what?”

“Oh my god, did you actually run a marathon?” You gasp, looking around and trying to spot any marathon runners. 

“No! There’s no marathon happening, you moron.” 

You purse your lips, disappointed at the fact that potential entertainment for the afternoon was gone. 

“That’s not ideal. But can I still get my ice latte?” 

“Yeah, sure. Don’t you need to visit the restroom though?” 

“Nah, I got a strong bladder. I can handle anything.” You reply proudly.

“No you don’t.” Nicole’s blunt response stabs your inflated ego, and you practically shrink in your seat.

“Just get me my ice latte please.” You mutter, hanging up before she can wound you further. You sigh, kicking your feet up on the now available chair that Nicole had used earlier. The bustling crowd had now died down. You check your watch. 

2.30PM.

It’s almost time for school to end. You wonder if Bug Boy had anything going on this afternoon (besides his usual web-slinging duties, of course). 

Anti-Hero [ 02:32 PM ]: yo

Bug-Boy [ 02:33 PM ]: wasnt aware we had a session today

Anti-Hero [ 02:33 PM ]: we dont

Bug-Boy [ 02:33 PM ]: then?

Anti-Hero [ 02:34 PM ]: idk i was bored\

Bug-Boy [ 02:33 PM ]: i would liek to take this opportunity to let you know that i am in fact, not a fidget spinner

Anti-Hero [ 02:34 PM ]: aw man :/

Anti-Hero [ 02:34 PM ]: was hoping you were

Anti-Hero [ 02:34 PM ]: anyw wyd :)

Bug-Boy [ 02:34 PM ]: why you wanna know?

Anti-Hero [ 02:34 PM ]: smh smh im just making conversation

Anti-Hero [ 02:34 PM ]: im not that bad a person !

Bug-Boy [ 02:34 PM ]: my friends dragging me to this caricature booth on fifth avenue. She caught me buying some food.

Fifth Avenue?

Oh no.

You immediately look up and scan the crowd, spotting Nicole and Michael next to the person you dreaded seeing the most in this very moment.

Bug Boy. Well, Miles Morales, to be accurate.

You have to get out of here. 

For the love of God-

You can’t let him see you. Not here. Not when he only knows you as Ray Paynt. Sure, you’d probably tell him your real identity one day, just not today of all days. You scramble out of your seat, but your foot gets caught on an uneven tile on the sidewalk, falling flat on your face with a cry. 

You quickly get to your feet with a pained grunt, ignoring the sting on your arms and the ache in your knees from the sudden fall. You spot someone entering an alleyway only a few feet ahead. You run toward it, all but flinging yourself against the brick wall as your heartbeat pounds in your ears, the blood rushing through them as you pray desperately that they didn’t notice.

“Hello dear customer! Come right this way for a caricature drawn by our very own in-house artist!” Nicole drags an amused Miles to the booth, only to stop in her tracks when she sees no one there. Her lips purse, brows furrowing into a glare as she processes the clear lack of the main artist for the booth.

“Did you see her?” She asks Michael, who can only shrug hopelessly. You watch her groan, sliding a hand down her face. “I knew she had a weak bladder,” She mutters. She drags Miles behind the booth, plopping him down in your seat and handing him the drawing pad you’d been using earlier. 

“Wha- I can’t!”

“Why not?”

“I got stuff…”

“What was that?” Nicole glares at Miles who shifts in his seat. 

“Nothing,” He replies with a defeated sigh. “I can only stay till four,” He reminds, picking up a pencil and beginning to draw another customer who sits down in front of him. 

“She should be back by then.” 

You lean against the wall, tilting your head up and letting yourself breathe deeply. That was close. You couldn’t risk it happening again. For a while, you’d forgotten that he knew Nicole and the rest too. Five minutes pass by quickly, though it feels like an eternity. 

Should you risk a look….?

Risking a glance around the corner, you spot Miles chatting gaily to both Michael and Nicole who’s nodding every now and then before chasing away Michael so he could continue promoting the booth.

You can vaguely hear what they’re saying, the lack of people around making it easier for you to eavesdrop.

“So, how’ve you been?” Nicole leans back against her chair, sipping away on the latte she’d bought for you. She did buy it with her money, after all. Plus, you weren’t even here to drink it so she might as well.

“I’ve been good. New school, new friends, lots of classes…” Miles chuckles, sliding his headphones off his neck and storing them safely in his bag for the time being. He twirls his pencil in his fingers absentmindedly.

“New friends? Bet they’ve been taking up so much of your time that you forgot about your old ones.” Nicole doesn’t bother to hide the bitter venom in her words, watching him flinch with a guilty smile. 

She sighs. “Look, we miss you Miles.”

“I miss you guys too. I’ve just been really busy lately.” 

“With what?”

“Just…homework.”

It’s quiet for a moment, Nicole allowing the incredibly awkward silence to envelop her friend’s entire being with each passing second. “I’m gonna pretend you didn’t just say that.”

“Please do.”

It’s not like he can just tell everyone what’s been going on, you realize, your lower lip pursing slightly at his defeated tone. Do his parents even know about him being Spiderman? You highly doubt it, especially since you’re around the same age. Your parents would definitely freak out if you reveal a hidden vigilante identity out of nowhere. 

Being a superhero must be tough. You’d heard about the countless robbers, pickpockets, and criminals that he’d faced off against. There was one group who robbed an ATM machine a while back with batman masks. It even made it to the front page of the Daily Bugle. They had guns and duffel bags, the very signature items of an experienced group of criminals. 

He’d faced them alone.

It’s no wonder he didn’t tell his parents. There must be people out there dying to get his identity. They’re part of the problem.

You’re part of the problem.

This realization stuns you. You can hardly blame him for being so cautious, much less distrust you. Sure, the trip to the cafe was fun, but there's still been endless tension and distance between you both. 

You shake your head stubbornly. Get your head in the game, you’re only in this situation because of your own ineptitude and inability to produce even a decent piece of art without needing a muse to help. 

A tinge of guilt infringes on your conscience. Your cheeks feel hot with shame, and you press your hands to your face in a lousy attempt to cool them down. God, this is pathetic. This is so, so pathetic.

All the more reason to get it done and over with as soon as possible.

“Well, I gotta dip. I gotta meet my parents for dinner.” You peer around the edge of the wall once more, watching him grab his bag and walk off in the opposite direction. He tenses, turning around and staring straight in your direction. You dart your head back behind the safety of the red-brick wall, panic striking your heart in one swift blow.

Was he gone? 

You angle your phone to see him in the reflection, thanking the gods above for the existence of the Percy Jackson movies. If it’s one survival skill you’ve learnt, it’s how to use your phone screen’s reflection to subtly check if people behind are still present.

It’s also the only survival skill that actually mattered in those movies. God, those teenagers were dumb.

You spot Miles shrug and turn back, resuming his trek back home. After you’ve confirmed that he’s truly gone, you step out from behind the alleyway and lightly jog back over to Nicole who’s still sipping away with her feet kicked up on your chair. She watches you approach with raised brows, eyeing your dishevelled state.

“Did the toilet eat you alive? ‘Cause you look like sh-”

“I fell down.” You interrupt her with a pointed stare at her shoes. She shrugs, taking them off and sitting back upright in her own chair before handing you the now half-finished latte. You take a large sip, sighing blissfully from the sweet, sweet relief the cold beverage provides you with. 

“Some stomach ache that must’ve been. You just missed Morales.” Nicole remarks. Your shoulders tense, choking on another small sip of your coffee. The back of your throat burns from the sudden reflux, and you force yourself to swallow. 

The coughs gradually subside, and you’re made aware of the fact that she had been silently watching you practically gasp for air with disinterest in her eyes. “Coffee.” She orders, and you hand the cup over to her before wiping the involuntary tears that had formed in your eyes.

“We’re gonna be hanging out this Sunday with the rest.” She cooly informs you, nibbling on the tip of the straw. 

“This Sunday?” You almost choke again, this time from the air you’d suddenly inhaled out of shock. 

“Yea, what’s up? I thought you said you could make it.” Nicole gives you an odd look, stirring the remaining coffee with the straw. The ice inside rattles noisily, serving as a way to snap you back to your senses from the ice-cold panic that settles in your stomach.

“Y-yeah, I can make it.” You nod slowly, pulling out your phone and opening the chat between you and Morales. “I can make it.” You repeat, fingers hesitating to type.

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Nickole [ 09:22 PM ]: why is my name still this stupid nickname you set

ForeverUnstupid [ 09:25 PM ]: because its fun! :]

Nickole [ 09:30 PM ]: no. 

ForeverUnstupid [ 09:30 PM ]: :[

Nickole [ 09:31 PM ]: anyw, remember this sunday’s hangout. Miles will be there so be on your best behaviour and stuff

- [ ForeverUnstupid ] has changed [ Nickole ] to [ mOM ] -

- [ mOM ] has changed [ ForeverUnstupid ] to [ ForeverLacking ] -

ForeverLacking [ 09:30 PM ]: :[[[[[ 

ForeverLacking [ 09:30 PM ]: unbelievable.

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Anti-Hero [ 09:30 PM ]: you did a good job today!

Bug-Boy [ 09:30 PM ]: what r u talking about

Anti-Hero [ 09:35 PM ]: that was self affirmation. you should practice it sometime

Anti-Hero [ 09:35 PM ]: - has sent an image -

Bug-Boy [ 09:37 PM ]: why did you send me a picture of your latte

Anti-Hero [ 09:37 PM ]: oh whoops wrong pic hol up

Anti-Hero [ 09:37 PM ]: - has sent an image -

Bug-Boy [ 09:37 PM ]: looks good actually. 

Anti-Hero [ 09:40 PM ]: ik :]

Anti-Hero [ 09:40 PM ]: thanks for bein my muse. heres a bouquet of flowers for ya

Anti-Hero [ 09:42 PM ]: - has sent an image -

Bug-Boy [ 09:43 PM ]: i signed the contract. kinda have to be :/

Bug-Boy [ 09:43 PM ]: thanks for the flowers tho

Anti-Hero [ 09:45 PM ]: ok ok i get it i already apologized >:[

Bug-Boy [ 09:45 PM ]: not enough

Anti-Hero [ 09:45 PM ]: clearly.

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I really like how realistic (well as much as any show where the main character hears a bell any time someone lies) Do Ha is without his mask. He may have gained some confidence but he’s still anxious without a mask on. That will take time but the best part was how Sol Hee understood and took him somewhere he would be more comfortable showing his face.

As for Sol Hee thinking his hands are pretty, she’d probably fit in nicely on Tumblr, lol.

Poor Do Ha trying to wipe off her coat without touching her. Though it is a little weird that he took off his shirt to look at the back in her apartment when he literally lives next door.

It’s so good for him to still be trying to be out in public without the mask even when Sol Hee is not there. He’s not comfortable but he’s trying.

He really does listen to her (and is very honest with her despite not telling her everything yet) and the soccer game is a nice quasi date. It’s something they both enjoy and tend to watch alone. That they both dressed up instead of wearing jerseys is so cute.

Sol Hee’s mother is awful. Interesting, that she says that she wants to stop and it appears to be the truth. But I have a feeling she only thinks that. She’ll get bored and probably start running a scam again.

It’s a terrible position to put Sol Hee in. Though I never doubted she would tell her client that her mother was scamming them. It’s her business, her reputation and she does not want her mom to hurt anyone.

When they argue, her mom cannot even answer the question about if she loves Sol Hee or not. Her refusal really speaks volumes about how she sees Sol Hee. Sol Hee is to blame for all her problems. Not because she’s a terrible person.

Sol Hee told Do Haabout her power so it’ll be very interesting to see how he takes that.

Couple of side notes - Do Ha’s ex girlfriend’s brother is just about as creepy as her. We saw this even before his sister “died” so that was not his trigger. Sol Hee’s ex is just annoying. This actor is very consistent in playing characters that annoy me to no end.

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On QJL...

So we all love to hate QJL. That’s fine. I hate QJL for what he did to Jiumei >.<

But, for a brain teasers, here’s this.

Popular theory is that QJL lusted after his sister, but the actual phrasing was something like… he was spoilt, thought himself above everyone, the only person he cared about was Haitang, and didn’t want her to marry. So this sounds sus, but back in the day marriage (particularly for rich nobles) wasn’t that romantic. It’d probably be part of some deal between families, arranged by the parents. The young lady would be shipped off to wherever, expected to stay at home and produce heirs, with little to protect her from a bad husband. So it’s also plausible the QJL really cared about QHT and was paranoid about her being mistreated outside his home.

Marrying his sister to a freed slave is a wild move. It would have turned a lot of heads. The other family members must have been tripping over themselves trying to figure out what the hell he’s doing (and those same family members would probably not have blinked an eye at QJL abusing said slave).

It’s implied that QJL taught SJ to read and write on good (???) will. Like in the extras there’s this bit: ‘standing nice and upright… he actually looked quite pitiful… an odd feeling arose within him, as well as he notion that he rather liked the boy, and he pulled back the foot he’d originally planned to kick him with’, before he asks SJ to write down some letters and is impressed at how well he does it.

So what if... there was a tiny part of QJL that actually wanted this to work out. How he sees it, he pulled this kid out of a gutter, taught him how to be a decent human, then entrusted him with his beloved sister. So what if he gave him a few beatings – he was a lord, SJ was a slave. He’d never really been taught that this was Not Okay (not that he was innocent - he hid it from QHT. But like... he probably thought it was bad rather than unacceptable). And granted, he was right about one thing – Wu Yanzi was a scam artist.

Another thing to bear in mind, QJL was 16 when SJ came, 19 when his father died and he took over as family head. That doesn’t excuse anything, but that’s… kinda young.

All this in mind, here’s a (fanfic? Background?) idea:

QJL and QHT’s parents consisted of 1) a father who was the eldest in the family but the son of a concubine, who’d bonked off a brother in a succession battle to get to where he was. He was 80% an okay human being but also had really bad anger management issues, was extremely distrusting, and a terrible husband. Many characteristics diffused to his son. 2) a mother who was a young lady from an exceptionally good background, who was meant to marry the original heir, but after QJL’s father bonked him off, her family didn’t want to lose the marriage alliance, so they sent her off to him instead (Catherine of Aragon style). She hated him but was extremely prideful of her position in the household (Madam Yu style).

Both parents had heavy expectations for QJL, their eldest son. They’re both paranoid about an uncle taking over so they strictly punish anyone who shows the slightest hint of disrespect for QJL, which over time teaches the kid that everyone below him are dirt and he can get away with anything. Simultaneously, they constantly berate him for not being good enough, so he grows up full of unvented stress. (This is also where his distrust for outsiders and his extreme sister complex come from.)

He vents by going around beating servants and whipping beggars, generally being a huge a**hole. When he first comes across SJ, he acts in the same way. But then he decides he likes him and keeps him close by, giving him nice clothes and tutoring him personally. Everyone on the outside (who can’t see the full picture) thinks he’s pampering a slave (which is the story QHT also hears). And despite his slither of good will, QJL is still an a**hole and ends up abusing SJ worse than if he’d thought nothing of him.

This doesn’t make QJL a good person (or even that tragic tbh, compared to the other characters) but it does make him more believable??? Beyond just ‘scummy villain who’s scummy for no reason’. 

Also, QJL to SJ is SJ to LBH, right? Poetic parallels.

On a final note, the whole Qiu household get a lot of ‘they deserved to die’ but realistically, most of those servants had no say in what went down. They could do what? Quit their job? Then starve on the streets? Also, sure SJ didn’t kill the women, but he did just destroy their livelihoods. It’s like LBH burning down the whole of Cang Qiong after SQQ+some disciples caused him misery. We love parallels~~.  

(And speaking of parallels, imagine if the Jiang family from MDZS were the better version of the Qiu family – they even have the purple colour scheme lol)

[thefruitypebblescastleoftorment]

5E: Haha, no, no, the Vistani aren't all evil minions of Strahd! That would be super racist.

Me: Oh, okay, so they're just like anyone else in Barovia?

5E: Well, no, he gives them special treatment. But it's because Vistani saved his life when he was younger, see, it's for a good reason! They just choose to live in Barovia because they're persecuted elsewhere.

Me: So they don't serve Strahd, then?

5E: Uh, well, "many Vistani" have "allowed themselves to be corrupted by Strahd," and they do his bidding. Also they scam adventurers and sell fake potions to them.

Me: Gotta say, that sounds pretty bad, 5E. I assume you at least have a variety of Vistani characters in the module itself?

5E: Well, no, both locations where you can find Vistani explicitly say everyone there is in league with Strahd. And all the Vistani you can encounter are either evil or neutral. Oh, except one! We've got a cool monster hunter Vistana who's good!

Me: Well, that's something at least. She does look cool, what's her backstory?

5E: She was mentored by Rudolph Van Richten, she's the only Vistana he likes, actually!

Me: Wait, Van Richten hates the Vistani? The lawful good character who's consistently portrayed as a tragic hero and a good and noble person? He hates a specific ethnic group of humans? One that's a stand in for a real-world ethnic group?

5E: Well, yeah. But he has a good reason for it! The Vistani kidnapped his son and sold him to a vampire lord--

Me: Isn't that a horrific stereotype that's been historically used to justify violence against the real-world Romani people?

5E: No, it's okay, because he's friends with the one good Vistana! Though he is training a tiger to kill all Vistani on sight and plans a tiny little genocide where he'll unleash it on the Vallaki encampment.

Me: So you're taking a myth that's been used to excuse violence against real people and using it here to excuse violence against a fictional group? A fictional group that's a stand-in for the real world one??

5E: I know it sounds bad. But it's okay because like we said earlier, all those Vistani are evil and working for Strahd. So you see, it's fine!

Me: WHY DO PEOPLE ON REDDIT KEEP TRYING TO DEFEND THIS?!?

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Raven's love interests, ranked from worst to best!

Everyone knows that Beast Boy is currently Raven’s true love, according to DC, but what many readers may not know is that in their first comic together, New Teen Titans, Raven and Beast Boy never dated! Gar in New Teen Titans was quite a ladies’ man, in fact, and Raven was the only lady who was immune to his amorous overtures. That didn’t stop Raven from having her own dating life, of course. Following are Raven’s love interests, rated from worst to best!

10: Brother Blood

Brother Blood expressed romantic interest in Raven twice, which is two times too many if you ask me! First he brainwashed her after she died and came back to life and used her to promote his Tele-Evangelist cult scam! Then, the next Brother Blood raised Raven into a teenager’s body and wanted to marry her as well. What a creep!

9: Eric Forrester

Eric Forrester was the sex-fiend who wanted to use Raven for her body – or rather, her soul! He was her first ‘real’ boyfriend and she easily fell for him. Sadly, he was a scumbag who wanted to use sex to steal Raven’s soul so that he could preserve his human body. The only reason he’s not the worst love interest Raven had is because Brother Blood exists!

8: Wally West / Kid Flash

Wally West was Kid Flash when he and Raven met and she saw him throwing a fit on Mount Everest because his girlfriend dumped him. He was also in the process of quitting being Kid Flash, a theme that would repeat itself during his tenure on Teen Titans. Raven used her emotion powers to make him fall in love with her so that he would help her save the universe from Trigon. He expressed interest in her at later points in the comic, but there was no way their relationship was going to go anywhere with how it started.

7: Dick Grayson / Nightwing

Dick Grayson was Nightwing when Raven was brought back from the dead. She immediately fell in love with him, probably due to that V-neck, and accidentally used her powers to make him fall in love with her. Dick’s girlfriend at the time, Koriand’r, was amazingly understanding, but sadly did not suggest a threesome. Instead, everyone just talked about their feelings to resolve things. How boring!

6: Garfield Logan / Beast Boy

Yes, as we mentioned in the start of the article, Raven did date Garfield for some time. This was after she was reincarnated as a teenager, so what the heck Garfield? Anyway, their relationship is this high in the list because there was no intentional or accidental power usage influencing emotions on her part, and he didn’t have evil intentions for her. Poor Raven! Her love life never goes well!

5: Paul (Azarathaboo)

Paul is a student from Raven’s college (Bet you didn’t know Raven was in college) who is in love with her because he’s obsessed with Azarathian culture! He then punches someone in Raven’s defense, indicating that perhaps he doesn’t understand the pacifist Azarathians very well.

4: Koriand’r / Starfire

Now, Raven and Koriand’r don’t technically date in the comics, but neither do Raven and Paul, Raven and Dick, or Raven and Wally, and they’re all still on here! After Dick confesses his feelings about Raven to Kory, Kory takes Raven skinny-dipping in Tahiti. They’re definitely gay!

3: Joseph Wilson / Jericho

Joey is the only guy Raven has good sexual tension with! She genuinely appreciates his compassion and listening skills, and he’s always there for her, even though he’s the newest member of the team and doesn’t know her well! She starts learning sign language from a book for him! They’d be adorable!

Sadly she goes evil and he gets traumatized by trying to possess her with his powers. Oof

2: Donna Troy / Wonder Girl

The other lady who makes this list, Donna Troy definitely was one of the Titans most consistently present for Raven during her slow slide into evil. She even begged Raven to turn good at one point, and it worked!

She’s rated higher than Kory, because Raven’s emotional repression would bother her less than it would bother Kory.

1: Donna and Kory combined:

I think that if the three of them were in a polycule, they could make each other better.

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This is mostly tongue in cheek, except about donnakoryrae being the best raven ship, that is true

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Isn't Being A Wicked Woman Much Better? Side Story Chapter 12

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Yoon Do-hee, who passed by quickly as a child, had a much calmer and more mature face than I thought. She seemed to have atrophied somewhere.

Because it's not easy to assert yourself among selfish families.

Even if the other person behaves unfairly, it is difficult to resent or get angry, so I would rather yield and take a step back… .

The video of Yoon Do-hee's biography, which was flowing at thousands of times, was running towards the end that I knew.

I couldn't bear my anger and came out as if I was running away from home, and I got into a car accident... .

- After that.

-!!

Again, my view flipped, and I was thrown into a place I was terribly familiar with.

It was the living room of the house I lived in in a previous life.

***

“You, in Dohee’s name, don’t she have any insurance?”

“I’m looking for it right now, so don’t look at me and stay still. Dohee is a well-prepared girl, so she might have put something in it.”

'Wow. Fuk, They are really consistent people.'

I feel absurd before my life, my family… No, I looked at people like they are cattle.

I expected that they wouldn't sincerely commemorate my death due to their personality, but I'm sure they're trying to figure out how to get insurance money.

I can't come out without cursing.

Young-sook Jang, who looked like her mother, who was searching through Do-hee Yoon's belongings, frowned. What she carried was a thank-you letter and pamphlet from a donation organization.

“Do-hee, why did he donate 100,000 won a month to this fraudulent organization? You should have insurance or something.”

I was so shocked that I almost grabbed the back of my neck.

Hey, isn't there a scam group out there? What a famous children's foundation!

No matter how good I was, I would have donated every month to an organization I had never heard of because of my lack of money.

To be honest, it was a real scam that Ms. Jang Young-sook's friends' insurance encouraged her to buy this. The payment period is terribly long, and the conditions for compensation are strict.

I wanted to refute it because it was unfair, but I did not want to live as Yoon Do-hee again, so I quietly watched the situation.

“Not long ago, didn’t you even buy bike insurance just because you learned to ride a bike? By the way, how can you leave out Dohee's insurance in the midst of all that stuff?”

That's it.

“Then you guys are here! Why is it that the human being who has been arguing every day that the insurance fee is not worth it has come and didn't take out insurance!?”

Their conversation quickly escalated into a fight, and the younger brother in the room suddenly opened the door and came out screaming.

“ah! Don't you know I have a few days left for the exam? There is no soundproofing already, so it will be noisy.”

“Ah Dokyun. ...Mom quietly sorry, I'll do it.”

“Huh? Where do you come from, man, yelling? Man, give me your report card.”

Man-guk Yoon seemed to have a hard time dealing with the horned woman, Young-sook Jang, so she started catching the youngest son like a mouse, and when he saw his report card, she was furious.

“Did you even get this as a score!? Do you know how much money you get out of your tuition a month?”

“Ah-oh! Our house is the only house that is so fussy with only a million won tutoring fee!”

“Hey man! Your sister only listened to Lee Ingang, which cost 30,000 won, and went on to a prestigious university.”

“Ah, why is Dohee sister appearing all of a sudden? That older sister didn't look like her mom and her dad, so she had good brain.”

“What? This bastard!”

“My mother certainly did. Dohee sister also looks good, and she said she didn’t come out of your belly.”

At that moment, the first, Yoon Do-yeon, who was in the room, jumped out with the sound of the door being opened.

“what? 1 million won for tutoring?! Let's listen, let's listen, it's ridiculous and my nose is stuffed. Mom! I guess I only invested half of Yoon Do-kyun’s.”

“Auntie, get a job. She can't even get married until she's that age, and she plays and eats in the corner of her room. Preparing for public announcement, honestly, isn't it?”

“hey! Do you want to go backwards? You bastard like a pig's foot!”

“Yoon Do-yeon! Why throw that expensive thing!”

Watching the cockroaches fighting while throwing even a catch, I was terrified inside.

'I fight to become a real powder.'

I thought that the makjang family was not called the soybean flour family for nothing.

By the way, the situation didn't go to extremes like that usually, but when I think about it, when those humans start fighting, I was the one who stopped them in the middle.

I used to close my mouth when I ordered chicken or jjajangmyeon after fighting hard.

'It's too late.'

But when there was no one to stop them, they fought and fought until neighbors reported the noise to the police. It was a mass of waste itself.

Shortly thereafter, they received a notice from the landlord asking them to leave the house. Complaints came from all directions, and it was a natural result, as there was a mess in the corners of the room and even the veranda.

“What, it’s too narrow!”

And since the rent price has risen, they have had no choice but to move to a smaller house.

“We don't have Do-hee Yoon, so I’m only now getting my own proper room, but how can I live in a house like this from now on? Aren't you all in my room this time?”

Looking around the two-room house, Yoon Do-yeon was very annoyed.

“Do you know how hard it was to rent this house? Even the pocket money you used to get every month is now bending our backs! Do-hee added even a penny while working part-time to a household that was still not there, but this guy didn't even get a job and was just irritable!”

“Since when did my mother take care of Yoon Do-hee? Suddenly you say every time, Do-hee! Do-hee! Honestly, does mother have the right to say that? She didn't have insurance, so things got really complicated!”

“What? Is it my fault?”

“Then who is to blame for all this?”

“Hey! You get out of my house!!”

“why me? If you give birth, take responsibility!”

They uttered abusive language to the point where the onlookers got tired of it, and they always blamed each other. It was Abigail.

'There is no other hell.'

The tension that even that Lucifer sticks out his tongue.

In the meantime, my father picked up some strange information and came to hear it, and he pulled up a third financial loan and invested it in the operating owner and threw it all away.

“What? how much do you blow How could you be that old and still immature? it's crazy?”

First Lady Jang Young-sook slapped Yoon Man-guk on the back and made a fuss.

“Did I just say good sleep? Didn't this happen after trying to make you and your children live in a big and comfortable house without worrying about money?”

“No power? I'm foolishly deceived to throw money Don't make excuses for us! You're a bum!”

“An excuse?! Had I been there, would I have entered such risky stocks with a straw hat? If it were him, he would have gone to a large company, but how reassured I must have been! Why am I the only one working in this every corner? How come there are only carnivores!”

“What!? Insects? Who eats the food provided by such insectivores!?”

“What’s the point of savoring and eating a tasteless curry for a week?”

“hey! Yoon Man-guk! Don't campaign with a monthly salary that's the size of a rat's tail! All of my friends' husbands are now responsible and moved. You're the only one who babbles! know?!”

“This woman! sudden!”

“Hit it! hit it! And stamp it!”

Rather than getting a divorce, screaming, the situation is getting worse and worse, but I got into this situation. No one was trying to hang up. We just blame each other.

‘And how come you seem to be looking for me more than before? '

Whenever they fight, I get goosebumps when I see Yoon Do-hee's name being mentioned and criticizing and demeaning each other. How long were you planning to eat your back?

'They are all people who don't want to see the real thing.'

nothing more to see No one was trying to bring the finale to life. We just blame each other.

nothing more to see Just as the finale of the play was clear, their future was also clearly visible.

Since Yoon Man-guk borrowed the money from the debentures, the real hardship door has been opened. In the future, there will be no reason to fight like that.

'To pay off debt.'

They will soon realize the fear of loan and welfare, and they will blame each other for the rest of their lives, chasing only money.

***

- It's self-sufficient.

Thought body looked at the family and evaluated them coldly, and I let out a short sigh with a vague feeling.

- Deborah, you don't have to be complicated. You only reap what you sow. Isn't it pleasant? Those people sacrificed you and oppressed you to get my greed.

-… It's crazy to do it I should have realized sooner that those humans were irresistible.

In the name of family, I of a previous life had endured them too long.

Well, I have to regret it, but it's all in the past.

-!

That was then. The background changed again, and this time the familiar college campus background unfolded.

In April, when spring came, the pink cherry blossoms were fluttering like snow, and the students gathered together, laughing and chatting happily.

There was no room in my heart, so at that time the scenery passed by quickly.

For some reason, I thought it would be my last chance to capture the scenery of my previous life so vividly, so I looked around carefully.

As I glanced around the places where I once devoted my 20s youth, but now there is not even a faint feeling left, I ran into familiar faces. They were the same architecture, classmates and juniors.

They were sitting around the lawn with the delivery food in the middle, chatting.

"This was a lecture note that Dohee senior lent me, but I couldn't repay it properly. "

Suddenly, the name of Yoon Do-hee came out of someone's mouth and I swallowed my breath.

I didn't even go to the department MT well because I was doing part-time work and homework at the same time. I thought you didn't know my name well because it was so cheesy.

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The Weird Diversity of Wednesday

While watching Wednesday, my brother and I were disappointed to see the darker skinned characters consistently used as bad guys or jokes!

The mean popular girl, the bully, the shady mayor, the pathetic nerd. It was WEIRD to see a darker skinned character get introduced, predict that they’re gonna be a minor antagonist, and then get proven correct every time. Obviously, that didn’t happen with the white/light-skin characters, who had the options of being bad guys and good guys.

The only exception was Eugene. Instead of being a villain, he got the chance to be the loser character that the show fridged for the latter half of its run time. (Excepting the finale, I presume, but I haven’t seen that episode, yet.) (Also, Deputy Santiago is a black woman who is just a deputy, but she’s also working with Sheriff Galpin, and she’s such a minor a character I forgot she existed. That one depends on your perspective.)

If you couldn’t tell by my “the option of being good guys and bad guys” comment, I don’t actually think dark skinned characters being bad guys is a problem. A person of any race or complexion should have the chance to be a bad guy because villains are fun and allow for complexity. (Also, more importantly, because race doesn’t determine morality.) In fact, I actually really love how the show delved deeper into the minor antagonists.

I love Bianca’s issues with her mother and her siren powers. I appreciate that the popular/beautiful queen bee isn’t a blonde white girl. I love the way the show humanizes the “mean girl” by demonstrating that she has more depth than her mean girl caricature, such as her talking with Wednesday at the dance about struggling with connection or her trying to save Lucas from getting scammed by her mom.

Lucas, similarly, is really fun as a villain. My brother and I got a kick out of how much game this guy had. Almost every girl he shared a screen with had chemistry or a mini-romance subplot with him! Go off, Casanova! I also liked that his reasons for attacking the dance wasn’t just cartoonish bigotry, but a human reaction to Wednesday kinda sorta enacting domestic terrorism at his dad’s ceremony. And it was cool to see him change and grow over the course of the season!

The show almost works! But it doesn’t, and Morticia’s scene with the mayor demonstrates why.

There’s a scene in this show where Morticia Addams, a white woman, tells a black man he has "no idea what it's like not to be believed."

Obviously the show was going for the “me-too” movement, identifying how her background as an outcast and a woman made her more vulnerable to victim blaming and disbelief. But it’s kind of crazy to me that they had her say that to a black man because black men have historically also had issues with being believed due to their marginalized status.

There is something to be said about how being a woman is different from being a man, how women are uniquely ignored, but Morticia, I’m sure the Mayor—as a black man in America—does have at least some awareness of what that’s like. Especially, especially, with the history of white women falsely accusing black men of crimes and getting them lynched or locked up because nobody would believe their word over a white woman’s.

It’s astounding that the show doesn’t address this context, and it makes the scene come off as ignorant. Almost willfully so. In fact, so much of this show felt like the reason they made “outcast” a marginalized social group was so that they could have white people be the victims of oppression with the most screen time on their tv show about marginalization, like they’re appropriating marginalized stories.

And this is consistent. They did this with LGBT+ themes, as well! Enid, a character who has no queer aspects to her character (only shown dating guys, no canon hints about same gender attraction), got an entire subplot about her mom trying to put her into “werewolf conversion therapy,” AND she got an entire scene where she told off her mom while wearing rainbow eyeshadow. Meanwhile, the actual LGBT content of the show consists entirely of two background characters (Eugene’s moms).

It honestly reminded me of the scene in the Vampire Diaries where Caroline, a vampire, gets electric shocks from her human dad, who is trying to use conversion therapy to turn her back into a human. Only, the dad character is ALSO canonically a gay man, for some reason.

Like, what is with this thing of creating fictional marginal statuses as a way to talk about social issues without actually involving said issues (no actual homophobia or colorism). Without actually creating main characters of real life marginalized status (no LGBT main characters). While also having the real life marginalized characters that do exist acting as the oppressors???? (Lucas, the Mayor, Caroline’s dad).

So yeah, the show is really interesting with its diversity. It almost works, as the stories it’s telling are cool and nuanced, but within the context of real life and the casting, the show is tone deaf. Plus, the show being somewhat produced and directed by Tim Burton (a guy who thinks that black characters must justify their blackness to exist in his works, and as a result, his works almost feature white people exclusively) does NOT help.