#bad touch

[finalcake-art]

Jill Frieren

I actually worked on these ages ago, but seeing that one cover art parody of Frieren x VA-11 Hall-A finally motivated me to finish this

[amygdalae]

STOP trying to embrace me with your flame dude I dont know you like that

[pastelcakebatter]

Update, my friend got it lol!

[auncyen]

I make an attempt at writing for Loop. This has 2hat spoilers from the get-go so it's allll under a cut, but actually takes place in act 3 (with Bad Touch).

That little song and dance Stardust does with the Fighter in every loop is so funny, so pathetic! They recite their pun every time to make him laugh, and then he reaches out, almost touches them, but he doesn't! He won't! He's not your Fi--Isabeau. This one is the Fighter because he's not your Isabeau.

(And you can't forget Isabeau's name. Not again.)

It's a strange difference between your Isabeau and this copy of him. Your Isabeau was willing to touch you. You remember a cautious but warm touch on the shoulder, sweaty hands holding your gloved ones and grounding you. ...You hold your arms more tightly. You miss that. Hah, no wonder Stardust is so needy! His Fighter won't touch him at all. But...you do wonder why their party seems to have that idea, that they're made of glass. Yours didn't.

...

...

You don't...think they did? They didn't on the third floor. You know that. (But even your Isabeau was cautious, wasn't he?)

You...try to put that out of mind. Stardust is coming. Wouldn't do to be muddled and maudlin when you have a Siffrin hanging on to your every word! Honestly, what would he do without you?

(He'd be going numb, because he'd be constantly dying to the King. Bastard doesn't know how blinding lucky they are.)

They start the old little song and dance. Pun, not-quite-shoulder-touch, lunge forward--whoa whoa WHOA WHAT IS THAT IDIOT DOING?!

The kiss is broken the same second you register what's happening, Isabeau pushing him away, and right then you know, the Fighter is your Isabeau, your Isabeau is still here, you remember--

the world shifts.

"Hi Isa, I need to do the Favor Tree thing!"

"Oh! Sorry, I'm in your way then, aren't I? I'll get out of your hair, see you at the Clocktower!!!"

No, but that's not what...

...Ha.

HA!

Oh, your Stardust really is such a coward! You can't help but make fun of them when they finally drag themself to the tree, their eye already downcast because they know you saw their shame.

"What were you afraid of? For him to finally see you? To see what kind of person you truly are?" You taunt him, but toss in as a kindness: "Maybe he would have accepted you, you know. Maybe you're not as disgusting as you think you are."

Because that's what your Isabeau did. He pushed you away in shock, and then he apologized, worried he'd bruised you physically or emotionally when you were already a husk that had just. You'd wanted to feel something nice for a moment, you'd wanted the warmth he kept teasing you with. You hadn't feared the consequences, it probably wouldn't even have fazed you if he'd punched you for trampling over his boundaries. The King fight had broken any scale for pain.

Is that why you didn't loop back, and Stardust did? You're still not quite sure how his loops work--but if that's the reason, oh, how funny! Their own luck cursed them. But it's still his fault for being so fragile.

"Or, stardust... Maybe you ARE that disgusting. Not letting the poor fighter make his own decisions! Who would do that! Or--"

"SHUT. UP."

...You ignored him the first two times, but this time he sounds mad enough to start a fight, so you pause the taunting.

"I don't want to talk or THINK about ANY of this." He glares, his eye squinting, trying to hold back the more fragile emotions. "Especially not with YOU."

But you're the only one who'd understand. You did nearly the same thing. You were disgusting too.

But that'd be telling far too much, so Stardust doesn't get to know~!

Next loop you stare at the Fighter. You've never let yourself before, but now you feel compelled to. That is Isabeau. When you were Siffrin, when you'd kissed him, he'd pushed you away, and then he'd panicked and apologized. You...think you had enough presence of mind to apologize too, aware what you'd done was wrong, even if knowing hadn't stopped you. Isa had laughed a little. Said it was-- 'well, kind of sudden, warn a guy next time maybe, but also could next time maybe be now?'

'better watch out then,' you'd said, and somewhere in you there'd still been a real smile or something close enough, and you'd moved in more slowly, not quite sure how you were actually supposed to do it in a romantic way, but Isa had made it easy for you by meeting you halfway.

You'd kissed a lot, that afternoon. And you're pretty sure you talked more in that loop than any other, because even if Isa liked kissing you he was a little worried about what had possessed you to be so daring, especially when he thought you didn't like touching. You'd explained that no, you had no idea you'd been flinching when people tried touching you, you wish they would (it'd be such a nice difference from the King beating the life from your body, please please please), and Isa had groaned hilariously loud into his hands 'THERE COULD HAVE BEEN SIF HUGS THIS WHOLE TIME?', his face darkening with hilarious fluster as soon as he caught himself.

You'd loved that afternoon.

You'd never dared repeated it. You might have done something wrong, made Isa upset as he rightfully should have been. You might have broken the next time he asked you what was wrong and told him about the loops. You'd made sure. To just stay in the timeline where Isa knew it was okay to touch you and passed it on to the others. You drank in those precious touches.

...And then you'd forgotten that afternoon.

And then you'd accidentally ruined the sleepover that now had hugs and a 'congratulations, you figured out communication' headpat from Odile (you can't remember if she actually said that or not, but it certainly seems something she'd say) by getting overwhelmed and crying once, and you'd made sure to never do it again by claiming you were tired early and never repeating the sleepover because YOU COULDN'T LET THEM KNOW, and so you'd just loop through the House, and you'd cut those loops shorter and shorter, with fewer and fewer of those precious touches until you were only going through one floor, but at least they didn't know, and--

oh, oh, oh! Stardust is coming! This is no time to unravel, you've got a show to watch. Pun, almost-shoulder-touch, and ah, Stardust improvises a small step away from Isa so they don't get tempted. They don't plan to try again, then? ...Maybe that's for the best. Don't want them getting distracted from breaking out of the loops! You have to keep them on task. And if they won't make a move...maybe, if you ever get free, Isabeau could be your Isabeau again?

You realize how ridiculous that thought is almost immediately. He has a crush on mousy little Siffrin, not a star. You look away from him, and remind yourself, the Fighter the Fighter the Fighter. He will never be your Isabeau again, because you are no longer Siffrin.

[a-weepin-willow]

Normalize only drawing Siffrin with shoulders when drawing the bad touch event

[davekat-sucks]

And the final result is Cronus x Mituna aka Bad Touch, is the worst Homestuck ship.

People really care about these two unimportant Dancestors for some reason.

[eldragon-x]

(You dreamt you were eating your friends whole.)

(You want to throw up.)

[loveherallican-blog]

Bad Touch ft. Mollie Marriott - Baby Get It On (Official Video)

[cosmicgardencreative]

(Ismaire here:) ~6 hr speed-paint, + 1.5 hrs to tweak for the second version.

I love Resident Evil. I won't go through my whole personal fan history or journey, but it's my favorite franchise. I've loved the Resi Remakes too. And like it seems a lot of people did, I absolutely loved the new Separate Ways.

And this is just a personal opinion, I'm not saying that anyone needs to agree - but I adore Lily Gao as Ada Wong.

Every actress who portrayed Ada before has their place in Resi history and I'm grateful for the work they did in the franchise, but I think Lily Gao did such a perfect, snappy, subtly multi-layered version of the mysterious mercenary I was familiar with.

I always loved Ada, so I say this with love and appreciation:

She's taken Ada from femme fatale spy stereotype to a fleshed-out individual, from an archetype to a complex woman who has her own ideals, feelings and struggles, and has to juggle them with the decisions that got her where she is now. Obviously the writing was great too, which played a huge part in setting up Lily Gao's acting to absolutely sing (at least to me).

She's a different Ada, for sure. Was I caught off-guard by her voice at first? You bet. She doesn't have the airy, playful, motherly (sometimes kind of condescending?) tone about her anymore - she's got things to do. She's as sharp and cunning as she is quietly compassionate. She's willing to cut off Albert Wesker mid-sentence, but she's just as willing to call Leon and tell him where to find Ashley. She feels like a merc who's had it rough and made her way by sheer hard work, not a model who gets out of bad spots by blowing kisses and tossing a perfectly timed grenade.

Now, I love over the top badassery, and I love how that was rehashed and still fit back into Ada's character. But she felt like a human first, and like those "glorious moments of awesome" came out of painstakingly honed skill, not absurdly sturdy plot armor.

What I stated here applies to a lot of things about the Resi remakes, of course - not just Ada. So much has been tweaked, amped, remixed, and so on. Ada is just maybe one of the most prominent parts of the remakes that made me really pause and go "oh my God, I can't believe how much I love this!"

I don't have a problem with the originals - I loved them (camp and all), grew up with them, etc. As a whole package, the series is just my jam and it would be hard to lose me as a fan. I even got used to first-person play so I could enjoy 7 and Village - they were awesome. (Bless you who already love first-person games. I... don't, haha.)

But back to Ada - I just thought this was the most well-rounded performance her character has ever gotten. Anyone else can read her any way they want to. She's fictional, let's all remember. But Lily Gao is not, and she now has my heart and my vote as a fan!

[sparkchemy]

YAOI HANDS 👋

[xxxsugarcyanidexxx]

why tf is no one appreciating The Bad Touch anymore

this shit is the funniest song i've ever heard

just. just look at the album cover. look.

[acapulco-goldd]

you and me, baby, ain't nothin' but mammals

so let's do it like they do on the discovery channel 💋

🍓🍓🍓

[salvation-within-the-void]

I have figured out how to poll

[auncyen]

(He was trying to touch your shoulder?)

(You're not sure how to react to this.)

Isabeau: Aaaah, see, this is why I didn't do it! Because you do that face every time people try to touch you! I'm sorry!!! I try to remember!!!! Sorry!!!!

I really do wish we saw exactly what Siffrin's expression is for this moment. Because we know Siffrin does want to be touched. But it's not just jumping at touch, when they're anticipating touch they make a face that reads to the others as "NOPE DON'T" and like. Does he just look so greatly confused that it comes off a different way? Or is there some anxiety getting in there too that they're going to mess it up and never have another chance to be touched again, unintentionally cutting off the current chance?

Did Siffrin make this face right before trying to kiss Isabeau and Isabeau immediately went "(HEY NO SIFFRIN IS UPSET SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG)" and. yeah no wonder that turned bad

(post-game siffrin probably still making this face at times before touching and the others are like "wait is it not a good time?" as they all try to readjust)

[davekat-sucks]

[truly-morgan]

[Age Swap, Mob sexually harassing Reigen (18+)]

MobRei | Mob Psycho 100 Age Swap AU 15-01-2023

[#mobrei age swap, sexual harassment]

Got ideas from a fanart, will extend later.

But Mob casually harassing Reigen. Inappropriately touching reigen whenever he wants to, acting on his sudden thoughts and wonders with no care for boundaries.

Like, what if Mob just doesn't have a very good sense of boundaries when it comes to touching people? Like, he technically knows you shouldn't, but that's about it.

and like, this is a darker age swap mob (as usual) where being bullied by his peer fucked him up and he never really had much regular healthy interaction with someone outside of his family.

So he's never felt the want or need to touch people (he actually preferred not to).

And with his family, he had only platonic physical interaction and never felt the need to do anything or to go further.

But Reigen is another story.

Reigen is someone that stormed into his life and brought so many new things he never felt before.

and suddenly he has these new feelings and wants that he never had before towards anyone.

I can see Reigen as being a pretty tactile person, which encourages Mob to reciprocate.

And at first, it is just as innocent as what Reigen does.

a pat or squeeze of his shoulder and ruffling his hair.

But then it grows less and less innocent.

A hand on his hips guided him around.

An arm was thrown nearly fully around his shoulder keeping him really close.

A large hand on Reigen's nape, finger slowly caressing the skin.

A hand staying /very/ low on Reigen's back.

A large hand just resting on the teen's knee or thigh.

And some of these actions are thing he either does consciously because he really wants to touch Reigen or that naturally comes without Mob even thinking about it.

And slowly but surely it keeps going on until Mob sometimes finds himself just groping Reigen at random times when they are alone, simply because it suddenly came to his mind and he decided to act on it.

And Reigen doesn't know what to do about it first.

In the beginning, he was actually happy to see his shisho reciprocating his touches.

But as it grew more and more inappropriate he wasn't sure what to do about it. Sometimes he does try to dodge it, but Mob's hands always find a way to him.

And Reigen isn't a stupid kid, he knows that the way Mob is touching him is *very* inappropriate, especially coming from an adult who is also his boss and teacher.

But he doesn't know what to do about it.

telling his parent or someone at school would end up with putting Mob in trouble (which despite it all he doesn't want to).

He knows how much of a brocon Ritsu is and how much he dislikes Reigen, so he would never believe him (probably).

And something in Reigen is a bit scared to bring it up to Mob. He has worked so hard to have him finally join them as a part-timer (even though he's always here after school, doing more than a part-timer would) and he doesn't want to be kicked out because he refused Mob.

And maybe he ends up rationalising it to himself with "It's only idle touches, he's not asking for sex of something like that". So he forces himself to relax in the warm touches.

Maybe he eventually grows really used to all these touches and groping, not that surprised or shocked anymore when they come.

Maybe he even eventually comes to enjoy it, because he does notice shisho doesn't touch /anyone else/ the way he does Reigen.

Maybe something in him feels oddly proud and joyful about that fact, which is also helped by the developing crush he has on his shisho.

And well, the more Reigen accepts all his attention, the more Mob touches him casually and without much restraint.

Maybe it even gets to the point where it's not just about idle touches that stays on the same spot for a while or sudden brief groping. The touches grow longer and more adventurous, especially when Reigen seems to enjoy them and encourages them.

and it's a gradual shift and evolution in the relationship and they only realise just how far it has gone when they nearly get caught by Ritsu while Reigen is sitting in Mob's lap, a large hand slowly stroking his thigh and nearly brushing against his crotch while the other explores his chest over his t-shirt.

Maybe it takes nearly being found out for something to snap or click inside of them and they share a look of realisation.

But they don't stop because of it anyway.

sexual harassment turned wanted touches. interesting.

I could see Reigen sometimes being taken aback when Mob does something he's never done before and when he is pretty bold despite Ritsu being within eyesight.

But he'd probably do anything for his shisho and he really loves him so he's happy to have all his attention like this and he'll warm up to do anything.

meanwhile, there's no one Mob wishes to touch more than Reigen and of course, without him realising his own feelings, he falls for the pretty blond that brought colours to his sad monotone life.

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