#ask: cheater

[personasintro]

This is not an ask, i just wanted to say. I decided to read more of your work since i love your writing so much. I just finished ‘Cheater’ & lets just say i dont think i would be able to handle another angst like that. I have not had to experience it, but its one of my biggest fears. While reading it; it felt like it was happening to me and i was bawling my eyes out!! Broke my heart.

But i was low-key hoping he had changed his mind at the end, but when he nodded yes!?! 😭 Y/N is clearly the stronger soldier here cuz I wouldn’t be able to handle it.

Wow Mimi! You ALWAYS evoke emotions out of me when i read your stories. You have a life long fan here! 🫡 Thank you!

Cheater is (probably) gonna have to be my most angsty story! It’s truly a heartbreaking story and I always say this, but I’m so happy to see you guys still loving it after all these years! If I’m not mistaken, it’s one of my first oneshots (probably first Taehyung oneshot) and I’m glad I decided to write it.

Again, I’m honored and happy to know this story can evoke such emotions in people. So thank you very much! 🫶

[gothghostiie]

The way I would be so toxic with Cheater Soap? Fuck another woman? Okay, I’m fucking your best friend. I don’t wanna make soap better, I’m going to make him worse by the time I’m done with him.

you. you're so fucking real bestie.

the only way to stop soap is being as bad or even worse than him. he flirts with a stranger? leave underwear soaked in cum that isn't his.

he makes out with some random guy at a bar? go and fuck ghost.

he fully fucks someone else? send him a video of you getting gangbanged by the rest of the 141.

always one up him or he gets what he wants. the only problem is that he's probably into it.

[zarla-s]

I just read your TF2 bot post and I’m fascinated. It has left me with a few questions though. Why/how were bots a problem for so long? What was the main incentive for botting (is it botting or boting??) Was it just to be an asshole? What’s your favorite baked good? Have a lovely day and don’t worry about answering my questions if you’re not in the mood :]

The bots were a problem for so long because Valve just didn't care, sorry to say. They just let it happen. I'm not sure when they started coming in in force, maybe after the Jungle Inferno update like six years ago? But they just kept pouring in and Valve just ignored it. It's really shameful how bad they let it get, honestly. They just kept putting out community updates like nothing was wrong.

Eventually after a lot of community pressure a year ago (#savetf2) they tweeted saying they were aware of the problem and then nothing happened. Then there was ANOTHER community movement this June (#fixtf2), and THEN at the end of June they ACTUALLY did something, which is why everyone was so shocked and skeptical at the time. Like the bots got so bad, it's hard to get across just how bad it got if you weren't playing at the time. It was bad. To suddenly go from that to totally bot-free was unbelievable. Frankly I'm still shocked they're gone! No one knows why Valve's acting now or how they're doing it (personally, I think they must have been working on these anti-bot measures for a while... maybe even since their initial tweet, but no one knows), but I hope they keep it up. I can finally teach people how to play in peace!

As for why they'd do this, yeah, it's just to be jerks. They just want to make people miserable. They have websites on Neocities you can find under the tf2 tag (I was looking through it for sites to link to my tf2 site) and they state themselves that they just like making people mad. I don't think they actually hate TF2 so much as they love the power rush from destroying something so famous that so many people love. Kind of a power-trip/control thing, with a dose of being desperate for attention. A lot of the more notorious bot hosters had twitters or youtube accounts where they invited people to rage at them uselessly, they loved it. They've also formed communities around botting and trolling people, so they have kind of a social investment in it (although they were quick to turn on each other when they suspected someone was a mole). Some of them sell their bot software or "bot immunity" for money but I think that was just pocket change, I don't think that was a real motivator.

After having free reign for so long, they reacted violently to the community movement in June. They were positive that nothing would happen to them, so they kept doing more and more outrageous things to prove it. They DDoS'd and DMCA'd the site for the petition multiple times, they doxxed and swatted one of the main bot fighters, they impersonated figureheads and posted illegal links to things, like they were really stepping over the line and gloating about it. They were extremely confident and to be fair, who could blame them? Valve's negligence let them get away with it for years. To suddenly have that power taken away from them without warning made them absolutely furious. They're still seething about it right now and plotting ways to get back in, but they haven't found one yet. It's a matter of pride for them at this point I think, that and a childish tantrum about not being able to ruin other people's fun anymore. Them targeting a baby game version of TF2 (TC2) also points to it being a power trip. If they can't ruin TF2 anymore then by god they've got to ruin SOMEthing!

Even now I'm not sure Valve can hold the line and I keep checking TF2 Casual every now and then to look for bots, haha. It's just hard to believe! I greatly enjoy hearing about bot hosters raging about it and suffering though, they deserve nothing less. Die mad about it!!!

In terms of baked goods though I like all kinds, although right now I'm thinking about brownies so I'll say that. |D

[lunarneo]

Poor Neo- "Wait a Second...."

[oifaaa]

I really miss Timsteph as a couple because it felt like both of them got to grow together and now we have whatever the pride special was…

See I could take or leave timsteph but that's mostly due to my own personal bias (stephcass my beloved) but also I have the same problem with timber that I have with JonJay which is dc doesn't want to upset anyone so they keep the relationship safe and non problematic which unfortunately just doesn't make for interesting reading and obviously this isn't just them this is more the direction dc overall is going

[choccy-milky]

omg hi ive been following u bc i love ur comics but i did'nt realise that you have a fanfiction?? and that its rlly big on ao3. i thought u were just a tumblr comic creatorrr. anyway im gonna go and read it now but i love clora so muchhhhh!! <3

thank u for ur committment!!

BAHAHA my brainrot cannot be satisfied with just fanart or fanfic I NEED TO DO BOTH🤪🤪thats so funny tho LOL but THANK YOU!! AND I HOPE U LIKE IT💖💖🙏

THANK YOU!! AND SOON!! im writing as we speak, and i just decided what i want the drawing for this chapter to be and quickly drew it using my laptop trackpad before i forget LMFAO

look at this masterpiece???like😍😍😍heres your sneak peek for next chap!!

LMFAO AND HES NOT EVEN THE FIRST IVE HAD MANY PPL TELL ME THIS, clora will never escape the clorox allegations😩

IMMA BE REAL ITS LIKE 50/50. in my headcanon, seb was never the type to really want children/care about children. like if he never met clora i imagine him just graduating and becoming a curse-breaker or auror and going off on his own. but since meeting clora its like damn.....i do want kids with u.....i think #1 for him would be out of a desire to have clora be his full ass wife and have everything with her that comes with that (ie children) and warming up to the idea more, and then ofc once he actually sees the kid born ITS OVER (i also have it planned that their first kid is gonna be a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes so like......a little mini clora. sebs doomed🥺hes gonna spoil her so bad🥺🥺)

AW TYYY💖💖im glad you like how i draw him🥹 and ikr i need to draw older seb more, bc i am a slut for seb in that trenchcoat and black gloves🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️🧎‍♀️actually wait while we're on the topic of my curse-breaker comic, i forgot about this LMAOO. I NEEDED REFERENCE PICTURES OF SEBS POSE so i put on a coat and similar shoes and forced my roommate to take pictures of me (she was very confused but also very supportive) i was like "i need you to take a picture of me on all fours from multiple angles. AND ITS NOT FOR SMUT I SWEAR" LMAO (i still dont think she believed me)

im dead it looks like im in the depressed anime pose bc theres no choccy milky in the fridge or something😩😩

[firenati0n]

wip wednesday <3 :)

hello :) thank you to @duchessdepolignaca03 and @suseagull04 for the early tags! i am scheduling this post early af bc i have Plans all week with FANDOM FRIENDSSSSS IRL so i will hopefully be off grid for a bit. yeehaw!

i have no new words bc i word vomited a whole fic out this week and posted it...so here's a snip from it instead <3

fic: and all i can taste is this moment, and all i can breathe is your life

He turns to head to the kitchen when he nearly jumps out of his fucking skin. There’s a man in his kitchen. There’s a man in his kitchen just watching him with the saddest eyes Alex has ever seen on a person. He’s wearing a long, calf-length blue overcoat, the color of his sad fucking eyes. His hair is blonde and soft-looking, resting in a light wave above a face that could rival that of the best Renaissance statues, all angles and cheekbones and sharp jawlines and sloped noses. He’s otherworldly, untouchable, stunning. And he’s also in Alex’s flat, where he definitely shouldn’t be. His body kicks into gear, catching up with his runaway brain. He grabs the nearest blunt object—a candle sitting on his coffee table—and brandishes it like a weapon. Fucking useful it’ll be, if he wants to kill the intruder with a damn Jo Malone candle. But it’s heavy and he can knock out his new friend with the smell of wood sage and sea salt.

xoxo roop

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[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

SATORU IS NOT A CHEATER, SUGURU IS ❗️❗️❗️

It’s canonically mentioned how geto is more popular with women compared to satoru, he must have side bitches for when he gets bored with his partner.. especially with his good looks and that lucious long hair of his…

(jk lol just wanted to make a mouse angy today 👹)

Also how would geto feel if someone says that about him? 👁️👁️

AND what if it’s said INFRONT of his lover 😱

Would he be exasperated? Or just give a deadpanned look.. or would he plaster on his customer service smile but fume with anger and defend his reputation?…

😭😭😭 ANON THE WAY I GOT SO HEATED WHEN I SAW THIS ASK. you guys know me too well atp…….

ohhhhh sugu would be . irritated. probably not angry because it’s just…. such a ridiculous thing to say??? he doesn’t think it’s worth a response. just gives them a Look, scoffs, and then gently tugs you away. he’s literally soooo devoted you almost want to laugh at the accusation lmao. i think suguru makes it very clear that you’re the only person who’s opinion he cares about, so you have nothing to worry over <3

[autumn816]

Trick or treat🧛‍♀️🩸

(i forgot if i already sent one or not so if i did: just ignore the other one)

There you go. What you kindly requested. I had to write this part🤭

It’s the keys George said he lost.

In a room this big, a small item shouldn’t be something that catches his eye. But it does because of the glint, because of the placement. Half tucked into the pocket of Lewis’ jacket.

George lied. He didn’t lose his flat keys. He just gave it to Lewis. He gave his fucking home keys to Lewis.

Daniel sees red. There is no other explanation. The romantic dinner set-up, the keys in the jacket, the music coming from the direction where George’s bedroom is. The same he is walking to as quietly as he can.

The door is almost fully closed. It seems mocking, like it’s laughing at his face and entrancing him to look inside as he stands there. He peeks through the inch gap.

He can’t see much. Just the tattooed back of Lewis on top of George. Daniel can’t see George either. He is fully covered beneath Lewis.

Daniel almost throws the door open and barge in. Let his fucking cheater boyfriend know he caught him red-handed. With Lewis fucking Hamilton of all people.

He has half a mind of taking pictures and leaking them. Show people that the man bigger than the sport isn’t as good as a person he pretends to be. That Lewis Hamilton, 7x World Champion and the best of the sport, is willingly fucking a taken man. His own ex-teammate. Daniel’s boyfriend.

He closes his eyes, trying to calm his heavy breathing through focusing on the music. Of course Lewis is the type of person that likes to fuck people to music.

I wanna fuck your love slow

Daniel almost laughs deliriously at the irony.

Catch my heart, go swim

Feel your lips crush

Hold you here, my loveliest friend

“Lewis.” George’s moan snaps Daniel out of the little grip he had found. “Lewis, Lewis, please. Please. Fuck me.”

Yeah, Daniel finally understands why the hell his boyfriend didn’t seen too upset that he couldn’t make it for his birthday. He had made a plan to surprise George on his birthday so he told George he was stuck with more simulator work at Mercedes. That he wanted to give Toto a reason to extend his contract. Turns out his boyfriend didn’t really seem to mind. Daniel had questioned why it seemed like George didn’t really give the reaction he was expecting. George just went through the call like it was normal. He understands now.

“Lewis.”

“I know, baby, I know.” The softness in Lewis’ voice knocks him out. The other half of his mind wants to knock Lewis out.

[personasintro]

I’ve been holding off on reading Cheater because I don’t like angsty stories but I love your stories so I just had to and omg throughout the middle and ending, my throat was clogged up like I was about to burst in tears. I really felt her pain even tho I can’t even imagine what she went through. I really hate this (fictional) Taehyung sm. I’m so glad she left and not stayed with him. It was so sad to me :(

Even to till this day, I’m amazed what emotions can Cheater bring and evoke in readers 🤯 I don’t think I’ll ever get used to it! Thank you so much! What a lovely message to wake up to! 💘

[gothghostiie]

Soap would be a chronic cheater but not even just because he's a massive slut, it's just a really great way to make reader feel absolutely worthless. Soap gets the benefit of reader at their lowest not having anyway near enough self esteem to even think about leaving him. Really scratches some neglected part of himself real good

Reader starts acting like soaps disgusting ? Well he can double down on that, come home smelling like someone else's perfume, all marked up with hickies if reader thinks there to good for him. Que reader agreeing to any nasty fuck soap wants to do, really desperate for any kind of praise and assurance that soap still loves them. Who's disgusting now? At least soap makes sure they always cum lmao

oh you're EVIL

cw: cheating, gaslighting, oral

soap has absolutely no shame in what he does, not even trying to hide the cologne or the lipstick stains on him, rather proudly showing off to you, poor little thing. that's what you get for calling his fantasies disgusting, don't you? if you won't do it someone else will.

he gets rock hard at the shock on your face, the tears dwelling up in your pretty eyes. "what's the matter love? thought you wanted me to find someone who'll do what I want?" he taunts, talking you into thinking you wanted this. "c'mon, dont cry. tell you what, how about you suck me off now, yea? i wont go to anyone else this time." and for some fucked reason you do, taking his fat cock down your throat while he tells you what he and the other person did:(

you're sobbing around his dick, can't help but feel like you can taste who he fucked. your brain gets so fucked by his words, making you feel guilty for driving him away like that. you wouldn't dare to refuse to do anything he wants ever again, no matter how disgusting you think it is :(

[genericpuff]

Hey so uhh about the Kawacy vampire comic my friend apparently is a fan and they said that it isn't grooming because the usual "He only loves her when she's an adult" and say that he also protect her from "actual predators"

[marzipanandminutiae]

Ok so I was mucking around online and came across Theriault's doll auctions.

A few thousand on a rare or antique doll I can totally see. But tens (or hundreds!!!!) Of thousands of dollars??? Who has that kind of money to spend on a single doll? Not that I don't think they could possibly be worth that much I guess. But...are these people buying the dolls because they will actually cherish them? Or are they just spending for bragging rights?

I just...I guess I hope it's museums.

Depends on the person, honestly.

I used to work for a dealer, and while we never got into the $10,000+ range, I did get a glimpse of who exactly makes that kind of purchase. Many of them do indeed really love the dolls; I think of one specific case where a dear friend of mine had a successful doll reproduction business and horse-traded his way up to an incredibly rare $20K 18th-century doll. He's not Bezos RichTM or anything. He just was a childfree artist who made good money and had priorities. Antique dolls were his one big indulgence: not a second home, not cars, not designer accessories. Dolls made him happy, so he was willing to save and grind away at his business and eat ramen sometimes to make the really insane ones his own.

For some, it IS the bragging rights. Never exactly the sort of people who are active in the community and who you'd want to spend time with, in my experience. I recall one heir to a major company who was in a battle with another hyper-rich guy for who could get the most rare [Doll Brand Redacted]. I guess it's better than spending your money on private jets and mega-yachts; at least they're works of art? At least you're supporting dealers and (usually) small auction houses? But it doesn't seem like true enjoyment to me. Not the way I see "lesser" collectors like my friends enjoying our dolls.

There's also the fact that not all collectors get their most valuable dolls at market value. Sure, the auction records you saw show people spending top dollar, but people having those dolls in their collection doesn't necessarily mean they spent that much. Some bought when the dolls were newer or the market was down, often the very elderly collectors. Some were gifted their dolls. Some got a rare head at an amazing price on a shitty cloth body with little T-Rex arms, and then sold another rare doll they got a deal on to buy a beautiful appropriate antique body.

(...Leonore. That was Leonore.)

And finally, sometimes it is indeed museums. The current record for most expensive doll ever sold at auction, for over $300,000, was an 1870s Rochard French fashion doll sold to the Barry Art Museum at Old Dominion University.

[thegreatimpersonator]

its wild how adamant they are that joe cheated and thats what lead to tayprincess indulging in some "innocent emotional cheating". Not kidding i saw a post which used the phrase "innocent emotional cheating". I think if Joe had cheated, she would not have gone so easy on him this record... Bro would have been COOKED. They find out its taylor who cheated instead of him but hey its okay because she deserves a little cheating as a treat because he didnt marry her you know

INNOCENT EMOTIONAL CHEATING LMAOAKKSJSJSNENNNN 😭 also like. themes of infidelity and unfaithfulness have been common in her recent works and she has Always empathized with the other woman (august) and had a nuanced perspective on cheating at least post folklore. surprised how swifties can choose to perceive it as a complicated, nuanced decision when taylor does it but an outright crime if it's her partner

[batsplat]

The reigning World Champion got the drive out of the final corner, but not enough to make the difference over the line. So Stoner did the smart thing, attaching himself to Rossi's tailpipe, never more than a breath behind the Italian, turning The Doctor's usual tactics against the old master. Flattered by such attention, Rossi returned the compliment, looking positively Stoneresque in his obliviousness to what was happening behind him. There could have been one Ducati behind him, or a thousand, Valentino Rossi seemed to be riding in blissful, and willful, ignorance of what was going on to the rear.

(x) kinda cute if u think about it. both of them taking on the role of the other in their most infamous duel. casey turning valentino's tactics 'against the old master'. valentino 'returning the compliment' by acting like casey. the line between the pair of them blurring in the heat of battle. 'flattered by such attention'...

there's an ask I am attempting to answer rn where I'm slapping my hands not to start using agassi/sampras quotes to talk about the rossi/stoner rivalry. so I'm just gonna do it here instead. this sampras quote is not not relevant imo:

and to ME this agassi quote also works as a description of laguna 2008:

(see here for more about the agassi/sampras rivalry)

the challenges of a rivalry forcing both sides not just to adapt but also to imitate each other... the tension causing this blurring of the line between the two of them, despite how defined this rivalry is by their differences... no hope of justice, and everyone will blame the victim...

also. not to be too bold here. but this bit is also sort of valentino/casey, wherein they both have a very different understanding of what constitutes 'best' and 'worst':

casey IN SOME WAYS low key valentino's favourite rival solely during the years where they were actually competing for titles, because he's super challenging and tricky to beat and forces valentino to get creative but isn't emotionally messy and is instead kinda fun to play with. valentino switches to casey's tyre in 2008 - he has to learn to do what casey has already accomplished and succeed on the bridgestones, because that's the only way to compete against casey. valentino is a better rider in 2008 for having had to figure out the casey stoner puzzle!! admittedly he'd prefer to have done all that in a season where he spent a LITTLE more time actually racing w2w with his competitors in a way that would've played more to his strengths as a rider, but that's mostly not casey's fault... and crucially they have their One Defining Battle where valentino forcibly wrenches casey and their rivalry from casey's comfort zone to valentino's. and it's not just one race, right - the whole point of that battle is that implicitly it's valentino threatening casey by suggesting he will always do this when given half a chance. valentino learns from casey and adjusts his approach and then takes control of the rivalry by dragging casey down into the dirt with him

and then you've got casey, who very much did not love this rivalry. who is always talking about how much he learned from valentino, how he learned about having to stand up for himself on the track, with the media, had to learn to treat some riders with less respect, to suck up to the press, to race more aggressively, to sell himself better - and crucially NONE of these things he would want to be doing in an ideal world!! he doesn't want to have to ride aggressively and he CERTAINLY doesn't want to be a pr merchant. but he gets pretty good at all of these things... because he has to. because that's the sort of challenge valentino poses for him. and. again. not to get too bold here. but what's also interesting is how... there is just this sense that casey's development doesn't just help him in fighting valentino: the rivalry makes him an all-round better competitor. casey doesn't just talk about having to race valentino differently due to valentino's aggression - instead it's "after two years of racing people who don't worry about you", he's had to change. which, yes, is obviously mostly indirectly slagging off valentino, but in that same answer he's also saying EUROPEANS simply do not understand what he's talking about - this IS a grudge that extends beyond valentino, even if it's always focused around him. (obviously europeans are not inherently more aggressive riders than anglos but... let's not even touch that.) laguna is a turning point of his CAREER, not just of that particular rivalry. it made him realise he had to race only for himself, which is an ethos he carried with him even when they weren't direct rivals anymore. likewise, casey was already constantly feeling misrepresented by the media long long before valentino began working his dark magic. casey came to realise that refusing to engage with the media simply wasn't going to work for him... it's a process valentino jumpstarted, but its effects on casey's approach went beyond the immediate scope of that rivalry, eventually transforming casey into a far more effective communicator for it. casey learned valentino's tricks because that's what it takes to succeed in the sport - both in the literal sense of succeeding on-track as well as the more abstract sense of getting people on your side, selling your story to people. winning them over. even to casey, valentino remains the ultimate point of reference

and these are the parts of the sport casey wishes didn't exist, and they're all so closely connected to valentino. and THAT is where the tension comes from, because casey hates valentino in one breath and learns from him the other and always has to reckon with how much he is willing to cross his own lines to succeed. and it helped him be a better rider! but not in ways he actually liked. this grim tone in which he talks again and again about having had to learn to respond to what an arsehole valentino was... he did not want this. he did not want to have to learn these things. and yet casey ended up becoming a little more like valentino than he had been when their rivalry began. and so his discomfort with valentino becomes his discomfort with the sport becomes his discomfort with himself. and thus even for all the obvious contrast between the pair of them, the line that separates them would occasionally still be blurred

[asknarashikari]

https://x.com/tuna_chamchi_/status/1825500086757097893?s=46&t=r5cQ-fyChNi-Dn-w3MjHHg

Suitless version of the Sports day race

Ah yes, ✨chaos✨