#bc marie deserved to hear this SO BAD

[babvblue]

MARIE & NEUMAN gen v : sick

[iamnmbr3]

I hate it when people say Ginny "deserved better" when it comes to the way she was written and portrayed in canon. I'm sorry but no she didn't deserve better. She was a barely there Mary Sue character who existed primarily to be the future wife of Harry and link to him joining the Weasley family. She was also supposed to be this very powerful witch but again it never paid off. She didn't amount to anything. She turned out to be a big nothing burger of a character.

Idk. I do think she deserves better, though I definitely get where you're coming from. Ginny as a character really annoys me from book 6 on. Book 6 and 7 Ginny feels like a shallow and annoying Mary Sue and also is just kinda mean and I hate that she never gets called on her bad behavior. As soon as I feel like a story is trying to shove a character down my throat and insist that I love them and that they are flawless, I kinda feel turned off by the character and I want to hate them out of spite. Ginny's pettiness and stuff like her being pretty awful to Fleur and getting angry at Harry for even saying something nice about Fleur even though he has no romantic interest in her just really rubs me the wrong way. Especially bc these flaws are ignored and even glorified by the story. Plus there's not much there with her character.

She feels like this kinda wish fulfillment empty vessel. And I hate that she gets touted as this perfect girl for Harry when their romance feels so empty and her character feels so un-compelling - which is honestly pretty unusual because generally the characters in HP are really interesting, even the ones we only hear a little about.

Now that said, I still do actually feel that she deserves better. What do I mean by that? Well, first of all, in-universe she ends up with someone who frankly, doesn't pay much attention to her. Harry barely knows anything about Ginny and never makes her his priority. Even in the epilogue it feels like he barely even consulted her on naming their children. He never really views her as an equal or respects her opinion. And she seems to feel pressured to act a certain way to please him. Like not crying in front of him because it might bother him, but apparently having been extremely upset after their breakup according to Ron etc. I don't think they are really compatible or have a deep or substantive relationship and I think that's sad and she (or anyone in that situation) deserves better.

Also from a more Doylist POV she deserved better because her character had so much potential. I actually loved Ginny in book 5. She has a lot of growth but also still feels connected to who she was in the first 4 books. She doesn't need to be amazing and perfect at everything. She's human and real. She catches a snitch by luck because it was slow and her competitor looked away at the wrong moment - and she has the humility to notice and admit this. And it doesn't matter. Harry's professional-level good at Quidditch. She's good at other things. Also Harry and Ginny actually have a deeper and more trusting relationship in that book than in book 6, but I digress. She doesn't need to suddenly be an amazing seeker and an amazing chaser and be #NotLikeOtherGirls and super into Quidditch (even tho she wasn't in book 4) to be likable but book 6 makes her all these things and it just takes away from the real and human and flawed and empathetic and actually funny Ginny we have in book 5.

Also her whole backstory from book 2 was really promising. She and Harry could've bonded over both having had Voldemort inside their heads. She could've provided critical insights about Tom Riddle since she spent a year essentially being pen pals with him. She could've had an epic arc where in book 7 she took on a more central role in the fight and ultimately got to face her childhood monster and destroy a Horcrux. Also there was just a lot to explore with her dealing with the trauma from book 2. She could've done so much. But nope. She just gets reduced to Love Interest TM. So yeah we had this really great character who was just coming into her own in book 5 and had all this amazing potential and then gets absolutely torpedoed by JKR bc she doesn't know how to write romance. And I do think that's a shame.

Now I ship drarry and I think that's always going to be the most interesting and well set up relationship for Harry to be in. But I think Harry and Ginny getting together the way they did is realistic but I think they would then realize they aren't really a good match - they don't know each other and both are more attracted to the idea of each other than anything else. I think them realizing this and working through it would be something interesting to explore in an 8th year fic.

[slut4chriss]

𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐄𝐓

(𝐩𝐭.1)

pairing: chris sturniolo x fem!reader.

summary: you and chris have been together for 8 months but his parents don’t like or approve of you. so, instead of asking for you to come over, he sneaks you over.

warnings: chris arguing with his parents, chris standing up for y/n, angst to fluff, y/n comforting chris, tw!! — chris getting hit by his dad

a/n: guys pretend mary lou & jimmy aren’t chris’ parents in this bc they’re way too sweet to ever do any of this to chris. also i’m gonna quit doing the colored dialogue bc it’s so much work.. for what?!? it literally says who said it so idc. sorry y’all i’m lazy. not proofread

word count: 1,028

it was the morning after you and chris had sex while his parents were home. y’all had a rude awakening from chris’ parents shaking y’all awake. your eyes shot open, seeing chris’ dad as angry as can be, standing before you. were you scared? most definitely but this is your boyfriends family and y’all broke their rules.

you roll over to shake chris gently since you know he likes to be woken up gently. he groans and opens his eyes. when he sees his parents before him he shoots up, “i- i can explain.” his dad scoffs, “shut up, chris. you can’t explain shit.” his moms voice is stern and angry, “i want you both in the kitchen in 10 minutes, got it?” you both nod and they leave the room.

you immediately look at chris with a worried and apologetic look, “chris, i’m so sorry.” he shakes his head and pulls you into his arms. “this isn’t your fault, sweetheart. we’ll face them together, okay?” you nod and he kisses your forehead, “i love you.” he says in the most soft and loving voice you’ve ever heard. you nod and smile softly, “i love you too.”

chris gets out of bed, as do you. he grabs your hand and squeezes it as y’all walk into the kitchen. y’all sit at the island with his parents.

his dad looks so angry, it’s so scary. as does his mom but she’s better at hiding it.

his dad narrows his eyes at chris, “do you think we’re idiots, boy? we heard everything that went on last night.” you look at chris and he rubs the top of your hand with his thumb to try and calm you down. he sighs, “listen dad, mom, i’m sorry. but i’m getting older and i’m going to experiment.” his dad laughs, “fucking some little slut isn’t experimenting.” your eyes widen slightly and you feel a lump in your throat. hearing his dad call you a name made him beyond angry. he stood out of his chair and yelled, “never call her a name every fucking again.” his dad scoffs, “or what? you gonna beat me up? go ahead try me, son.”

this only enrages chris more. he gets up and walks over to his dad ready to hit him. you get up and try to calm chris down, “hey, baby, calm down, okay?” his dad hears this and laughs, “shut up, slut.” this was chris’ last straw, he went to punch his dad in the face but his dad caught his hand, twisting it and slapping chris across the face. it was so hard, there was a red mark on his face.

you gasp and immediately pull chris into your arms. chris is trying his best not to cry but it hurts so bad and it stings. you bring chris to the couch and rest his head in your lap. you gently rub your fingers through his hair, tears filling your eyes. “my baby, are you okay?” you ask. chris swallows the lump in his throat and nods, “i- i’m okay.” his voice cracks and you hear his dad yell from the kitchen, “be a man, chris. can’t take a little hit? grow up. and while you’re at it, find yourself a better girl because this one’s a little slut.”

i sigh and cover chris’ ears, “don’t listen to him, okay?” chris nods and tears start flowing down his cheeks. you frown and start wiping them away while kissing his forehead, “my sweet baby, you don’t deserve this. is this a normal thing? does he normally hit you?” chris nods weakly and more tears stream down his face. you wipe more tears and help him up.

“let’s go upstairs, okay?” chris nods and you help him upstairs. it may only be a slap but that would traumatize and scare anyone, not matter how many times it’s been done before. so you really want to take care of chris at this time.

you lay him on his bed and you lay beside him. he scoots into your arms quickly and you hold him tightly. you whisper to him, “i want you safe, okay? and if you’re comfortable with it i’d like you to come stay with me for a few days. my parents love you and would love to have you over.” chris’ face softens, “you’d do that for me.” you smile softly and nod, “of course i would, i’d do anything for you.” chris looks so grateful and he holds you tightly, “thank you, y/n. you honestly don’t understand how much this means to me. i love you.” you smile and kiss his forehead, “i love you too.”

“let me help you get packed, okay?” he nods, “thank you.” you smile, “no problem, baby.”

you guys pack his back and shortly after realize you’re gonna have to sneak out of chris’ house. his room is on the second floor so you guys throw his bad onto the electric box then both climb out the window, landing in the electrical box. from there you guys jump onto the ground and start walking to your house.

chris is clung to you the whole walk to your house. you honestly find it cute but the reason for it isn’t.

you guys make it to your house quickly and you take chris to your room. he sets his bag in the corner of your room and he lays on your bed. he does grabby hands for you to come cuddle. you giggle and so lay in his arms. he smiles and kisses your forehead, “i love you, baby. thank you again.” i smile, “it’s no problem and i love you too.”

“do you wanna watch a movie and sleep?” you ask. he nods and smiles, “yes please.”

you guys agree on a movie and turn it on. once the movies half way through you look up and see him peacefully asleep. you smile to yourself and whisper, “i love you.” you see a small smile grow on his face and you lay your head back down on his chest. you close your eyes and fall asleep with him.

a/n: this was rushed sorry! anyways, ily & have an amazing day! 💓

tags: @rheaasturn @junnniiieee07 @chrisstopherfilmed

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[dansconcepts]

Loveybug AU Headcanons/Concepts

Bc Loveybug is such a cute cute cute idea and I wanna create some stuff but we start with brainstorming my interpretation (I love seeing all the different interpretations) because of course.

I really wanna see what would happen if Adrien had to choose the Ladybug miraculous (although bad idea as it is) and I really feel like Adrien would choose Marinette despite her previous insistence on not being a good enough hero hero and being "easily exposed" as Multimouse ("I don't know Plagg, she really would be great at this! She's the most creative person I know. I really think she deserves a second shot. She would do a great job as Ladybug- although no one's better than her." And cue Plagg being like: Kid please. And also cue Marinette, a bit later, being given back the earrings and going "W-what am I supposed to do now?!"

Also, I do like the idea of flirty or just unshamelessly open about her feelings Marinette as Lovey, but also consider how she would do quite literally anything for the people she loves and gets kinda silly around those she has a crush on, and I wanna hone in on a Loveybug who's really big on gift giving (she makes so much stuff for everyone omg, the rest of the team is constantly given food or little trinkets to keep in their suits) and acts of service. Or even just consider Loveybug + love languages (she'll be so committed to trying every single one until she nails it on the head on how best to show appreciation for someone). I think as Lovey, her most prominent way to show love is through her support and devotion. So she's open-hearted until she's proven wrong in doing so. Essentially: she's loving and loveable.

In battle, that's very prominent. Her heart's on her sleeve. She has an enhanced attentiveness to the emotions that may have caused an akuma, willing to hear them out before needing to fight (will only stay on the defensive until all other methods are exhausted), being gentle to sentimonsters and giving her farewells to them, and sticks around to offer some kind words and a little gift to victims or a hug (she always asks first) after purifying the butterfly.

I imagine an average encounter with Chat (not Cat Walker because that's gonna be a separate thing ;>) to be a mixture of flirting (mostly on Chat's end, but we all know Mari can match it so easily) and a bunch of affectionate touches. Touch-starved Adrien would MELT. And Lovey would never miss a chance to tell him he's done something great or cool. She would be playfully swooning at him and everything.

Once Cat Walker's there, she's tentatively affectionate and flirty before realizing Cat Walker responds positively to casual touches and hugs better. His gentlemanly nature and reservedness does make her back off slightly. Although, as she falls deeper, she can't help her increased affection with silly lil ploys to achieve touch (i.e. Cat Walker catching her or holding her). Her being both purposefully clumsy and then the one time she's actually clumsy that causes Cat Walker to be like: Oh no, she's cute.

There's also the immense amount of angst potential, because yknow: love is beautiful, but it can also hurt. Marinette deffo knows that so damn well. She's constantly positive about it, until she sees something like someone getting broken up with, and she'll be very empathetic. Being cheated on, an unrivalled fury. Falling out of love with someone?

Oh.

Oh.

Chat notices Lovey leaning against a balcony's railing. She greets him with a grin, but her eyes are so, so sad as she gazes back at the Paris landscape. Chat: Lovey? Is everything okay? Lovey: ... She sneaks a glance at him, with a look he can't decipher, before letting out a sigh. Lovey: I think- I think I'm falling out of love with him. Lovey: Did I even love him at all? Chat, coming up next to her: What makes you think that? Lovey: I've fallen in love with someone else! How could I have done that?! How could I have dared to-?! Chat: Lovey, stop. What makes you think you don't love him anymore? Lovey: Because- because. Chat: Do you dislike him? Are you annoyed with him? Have you stopped wanting to be around him? Lovey: I- no, but... Chat: You can love multiple people, you know that. There's nothing wrong with it. Lovey: Not like this! Chat: Just use communication, lovely bug. Just communicate how you feel. That's how relationships are, right? Communicating. Lovey looks at the guy she's in love with, and turns back to a billboard to see her first love, the love she still loves. She lifts the gloved hand clutching hers, kissing it gently in gratitude: Yeah, you're right. You always know the right thing to say.

[directdogman]

Did you take inspiration for Karen's last from the FNaF trilogy? I was reading The Twisted Ones and there's a guy named Officer Dunn

Nah, not consciously, though I have read FNaF:TSE and remember the character. I'd honestly believe it was the case though if I didn't happen to remember the exact process that caused me to end up with the surname. It'd be out of character for me to base a DT character name off a fictional character (real world names are fair game/referenced in many names in DT!)

I kinda wanted to give a main character a surname that's also a colour to reference the fact that the main datables have consistent palettes and a nod to the fact that DT uses colour theory all over the game (with grouped colour themes/vibrant weird palettes on different screen bgs.) Hell, it's basically a trope in fiction to give characters surnames based on colours that correspond to (or suit) them somehow, take Walter White and Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad, say, a show that goes p ham with its colour theory (namely consistently incorporating it into names/costume design.) Anyway, i briefly considered 'Cyan' as Randy's surname (bc cyan is the base colour for teal, which is the colour of Randy's head, and cygnus means swan, which contains several of the same letters) but, the word 'cyan' is fairly commonly mispronounced by people who've never heard it said aloud (and when people do say the word right, they still sometimes tend to switch which syllable is stressed, at least in my experience hearing people say it) and I figured Randy deserved a surname that everyone can read the same way first time. The poor guy has enough confusion going on in his life without people misreading his name!

So, I brainstormed a colour based surname for Karen (already having most of the others decided at this point afaik), with the aim of maybe using an autumnal colour to match her palette (orange, beige, cream, brown) and then decided to look up 'surnames that mean colours' and voila, 'Dunn' came up on a long list, derived from 'donn', irish gaelic for brown. Also, sounds like 'done'. Like "so, so done." Relates to a colour in her palette (her printer head is brown) and there's a separate pun built in that suits her dilemma (working a job she HATES.) It was a no-brainer for sure.

Y'know, funnily enough, this isn't even the first time I've seen people assume I lifted a DT character name from FNaF. Hell, I've seen folks theorize that I lifted Marla's (Callum Crown's deceased + (formerly) long-suffering wife) name from the identically named character in that very same FNaF novel series, when I actually picked it bc the name is a variant of Marlene, which is in turn derived from Mary Magdalene from biblical canon.

There's biblical symbolism in DT's canon surrounding Crown and his inner circle (y'know, with the whole failed messiah schtick + him helping the disabled walk again with his prosthetics) and Marla's name is an extension of it. Magdalene is notable in biblical canon for being the one woman Jesus consistently traveled with (y'know, like Marla, the one woman in Crown's (quite typically) male-dominated cabinet) and also the fact that Magdalene was allegedly the first to witness Jesus' empty tomb post-resurrection... Marla wound up with sole custody of Crown's husk right after his accident. Both ended up with first dibs on the (now vacant) space their old messiah/former companion once filled. Brutal.

[harrysmaison]

Vi's 2022 Follow Forever!

It's 2023 for me now and I wanna say thank you to all the lovely lovely people that I befriended so far who made my dash (and in case of some, my life) so much more beautiful.

Under the cut bc there messages I want to give you 💞

Unhinged gc: @dragmedown @lovelikealandslide @cowboylarries @purplepantsniall @coffeehotcoffee @surroundedbylightt @holyshit @loubbies @greeneyesfriedrice @louishandkink You people bring so much brightness and happiness to my life. Talking with you all was like, a stress reliever, you made me feel okay with being weird and unhinged and I can't thank you enough. You all were the support system I didn't know I needed in 2022. Thank you beloveds. I hope we'll stay as weird and chaotic forever as we are now ❤️

Therapy gc: @thedevilinmybrain, @larrysballetslippers @walkinginsunflowers @thechavier @finexbright @medicinelarrie @summercherrylou @amateurd18 @kadd-kadd you all have been so supportive and helpful and understanding and comforting to me in these past couple of months. Why would I need therapy when I have you all? Everyday is healing when I talk to you guys. I can't be thankful enough for all that love and support. Hope all of your year is filled with a lot more happiness than the previous one ❤️❤️

@anxiouslarrie. Cata, my love. What can I say to you. You're my bug sis. My candle in the terrifying darkness. The elder sister I never knew I needed. You're so pretty and smart and wise and understanding. All that you've done for me till now, not even my close irls could do it. Being there for me, helping me out, keeping me sane, giving me advices. I don't know what I did to deserve you. You're so nice and sweet and just amazing. I love you loads and more. Thank you so much for being ❤️❤️

@decemberries dheera meri jaan, meri dharampartner. I can't believe I have a Tumblr mutual who I had the blessing to meet IRL. It was an extremely fun experience. And I love you even more now that I know you personally. You're funny and pretty and so so lovely, but along with that, you're so talented and wise and no I'm not going to hear another word of denial. You're someone who understands me, knows me from up close, and I'm glad that I have you for real in my life now. You're just awesome. I love you so muchhh 💖

@hlkings mari, you're one of the few people on here that I trust and open up with. You're so sweet and wise. Always there for everyone, willing to help them deal with their problems, guiding them, advising them. I can't appreciate you enough. Thank you for being there for me too. I love you a lot you know that? I do. And I admire you too. Your gifs are one of my most fav things on here. Never stop being creative and fun and of course, horny as usual, my favourite whore 💞

@moonknowshome Angie my most beloved, you adorable,.sweet soul. I wish I could hug you right now. You're like a soft plushie on a hard night. Always brightening my day with your sweet messages and cute stickers. I want to squish you and never let go, will you let me do that? Thank you so much for making my days better and tolerable. I love you tons💜

Everybody else: @otbnaga @writtenalloveryourface28 @agape-28 @ladychlo @pop-punklouis @complictedfreak @itsnotreal @persephoneflouwers @perksofbeingasunflowerblog @stood-onthecliffside @ialwaysknewyouwerepunk @bluewinnerangel @loulovehome @saturdaystakethepainaway-fitf @thosefookinvacados @nauticallyrics @tiredeyeslouis @mostardently @anapologethicc @kiwikiwiandkiwi @awesomefringey @louistomlinsun @harryslonecurl @itmustbefireproof @throughthedarklive @sarcastic-sue @thetriangletattoo @curlyhairedprince and all the others (bc of Tumblrs shitty url limit) thank you for making my Tumblr experience so blissful and fun, I never had a bad post on my dash because you lit it up with all the good content and happiness. Some of you who are talented creators, some who have such beautiful and wise thoughts, some who are just incredibly funny, some who are my really good friends, you all make being on Tumblr worth it. Thank you. Have a pleasant new year full of happiness and success and keep doing what you do. I love it 💞

[numbnessofthemind]

hi yuki. what do we think of pavrinalevi love triangle. doesn't matter whichever way it goes i think they're very entertaining any way and id like to hear the thoughts from your beautiful mind

i made a stupid comic around halloween sorta based on this !!.. i think i never posted it because i felt deeply shameful for not finishing it in time. ill queue it up just for you nonny. as for my thoughts? marina deserves a minimum of two cute boys fighting over her at all times… 🍸 but thats just me. and im crazy. i think levi is… almost territorial about mari in this case especially, what with which uniform pav’s wearing. he wants to protect her (AND HE IS RIGHT TO DO SO. PAV IS BAD NEWS GIRL!!!). pav on the other hand delights in the challenge that levi presents (while secretly harbouring a bit of a complex about how levi is basically perfect for marina haha)….notice how neither of them are asking marina her opinions on this. yeah. i’d say that at first she likes the attention but having them bicker while shes trying to do plot stuff sure can get annoying quickly… speaking of that ANOTHER reason i want playable pav so badly is bc!! i want to hear him snark the other contestants!! and if we got pavrinalevi dialogue…maybe her snapping at them like they’re two dogs who havent been properly introduced yet….sorry wipes drool from my mouth you were saying. yeah i love it. i love it.

[trenchcoatsbi]

ughdf. hearing henry's speech at the end of fnaf pizza sim makes me feel bad.

It's praised for being so so so cool and tying the story together but as somebody who was there in the vents as his voice played over the speaker, fuck henry. i know in canon it was needed but fuck everything he said was wrong in my timeline.

Charlie had already moved on. everybody except Kensley had moved on. Lefty and Molten weren't monsters, they were their own people. Springy wasn't all afton. hell i don't actually know where scrap baby was if she was even there!

Henry had literally no reason to burn us besides his twisted idea of what happened. there were only two good thigns to come out of it: afton going to hell, and michael being freed

I remember clinging to Mari and Springy, with Kensley sitting next to us, as the fire crackled around us. I remember being so so so close to tears because we had made plans to go somewhere after this was all over. maybe we'd hunt down any remaining fazbear locations with Lefty and Molten. Maybe we'd just stop existing of our own free will. Anything would've been better then being forced to stop existing with no warning.

I... think Lefty and Molten burned up while hugging each other. they knew their story ended there, before it had hardly begun.

And to think, I had actually started to think of Lefty and Molten as friends. family even. I knew Molten for a week or two. Lefty for only a month or so.

I miss them so much.

Sorry for this, I'm listening to a fnaf pizza sim playthough and heard the Henry SpeechTM and started getting really angry and sad so I became something without a skip button - Voidling Anon

(and a light hearted side note, my nickname for Molten Freddy is Mold bc typo. He is now mold to me <3 )

sorry for the late response i went insane last night studying lol. anyway uhm geez fuck that's a lot. dont apologize though its good to get that stuff outta your head. idk what to say really just that fire is a fucking awful way to go. yall didnt deserve to go out like that.

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

You really cannot tell me that numerous members of the senior staff didn’t try to get Charlie to take a quick cat nap every time he and Bartlet would return from a trip at 3 or 4 in the morning. I can see it so clearly too. Toby’s up late writing a speech and hasn’t left bc he can’t put it down when he’s found the words, and he sees the whole group return to the West Wing, secret service agents, staffers, Charlie, and all and pauses in his writing. Goes and sets himself up quickly in Sam’s office real quick and then heads to the outer room of the Oval to get Charlie to take a nap on his couch, hoping he’s actually successful this time. Or Sam roaming the halls, having just retrieved some snacks from the mess, almost bowls over Charlie in his haste to get back to perfecting a speech that Leo and Toby entrusted him with and he’s gotta fine tune until morning for. He tells Charlie he should get some sleep and that Sam knows where Toby’s spare key is bc he and Josh have been trading it off between them for weeks during the busiest times in the year for each of them. Sam doesn’t actually let Charlie get a word in, hyped up on caffeine as he is, but he doesn’t retrieve the soft blanket he has hiding in a corner cabinet of his own office and returns just as Charlie is actually falling asleep. CJ’s doing her damndest, trying to stave off some morning show from leading with the latest mini-scandal for the Administration and hears the stampede of staffers returning to the West Wing. She takes a quick glance at the clock, immediately thinking about the ruined sleep schedules of staffers, and heads out to retrieve Charlie. There’s a lot more protesting on Charlie’s end here, and CJ suggests leaving Deanna a quick message to let her know that Charlie’s back in D.C., which earns her a moment of silence from a hyped up Charlie on a roll, just enough time to drag him away from his desk and get him situated on her own couch. She narrowly outwits his reasons for staying awake, briefly considering smothering him with a pillow just to get him unconscious, but instead goes to close her blinds and lock her door, deciding that he deserves an hour alone to actually sleep peacefully and she can do some work at Carol’s desk for the time being, hopefully. Josh has already faced a concerned Donna and a suspicious Leo himself because he’s been consistently staying so late, so when he sees Charlie through his open door, he sees an opportunity to be a little bit of a hypocrite about sleep deprivation with the kid he sees as his little brother. He catches up to Charlie and wraps an arm around his shoulders, making small talk (aka policy talk) like it isn’t getting steadily lighter outside by the minute and neither of them have slept a wink. Josh goes for the indirect path, but Charlie just fires back about how Josh isn’t sleeping when he could be, so why should Charlie, and Josh’s only response is to do as he says, not as he does, which does not impress Charlie in the slightest. Josh goes for the Hail Mary and says he’ll tell Mrs. Landingham (or Debbie) about his refusal, which has a 93% chance of the President himself finding out because neither woman is particularly silent when it comes to Charlie making bad health choices. Charlie acquiesces and Josh deposits him on Toby’s couch, stealing Sam’s blanket and making sure the blinds to the office are all closed, the door locked.

Charlie is their collective little brother, and they all care a lot about him, even if they’re incredibly annoying about it at all times. Charlie knows this, and it’s what allows him to actually take a nap, knowing they’ll wake him if he’s needed for anything.

[aitarose]

hi! i’ve been so inactive lately and wanted to post something today, and i realized i haven’t made an appreciation post for my moots in a hot minute—so hey hotties, here’s some cute words about uu. oh and this isn’t all of my mutuals, just the one’s i’ve spoken to outside of the discord lol asjfdkl

@hesthermay —❥ you’re one of my best friends and ilysm and i hope that we get to meet in person one day, so you can endlessly hear me talk about how much i love jimmy woo. also i want to get matching marvel bracelets or smth, gonna look on etsy later for us ajskdlf

@probablydisgusting —❥ you’re like actually so funny and sweet, whenever you pop in the gc on snap just to say goodmorning or goodnight—it really makes everyone’s day and we love having you around. plus, you were one of the first people to pop into my inbox when i was an atla blog and i think that’s so nice.

@imarizaki —❥ i literaly love you sm mari, like you’re adorable and i want to give you a hug, i feel like you give rlly good hugs. and congrats on 400!! you deserve it and i hope 500 comes rolling around fast so you can hit another milestone in the near future ajskfdl

@tsukishumai —❥ cam i swear i know your name like I SWEAR I DO! you’re like an older sister to everyone in the discord and you bring such a comforting presence like it’s so nice to have you in the chat whenever you choose to pop in. you’re quite literally the calm to our insanity

@fukurodianthus —❥ dani you’re asleep rn but when you wake up and see this i want you do know that ily wifey. pls i love it when you harass me in my inbox, i think it’s so funny AND IM GOING TO FLOOD YOUR’S EVENTUALLY I JUST NEED TO BECOME ACTIVE AGAIN ASDJKL

@missmorosis —❥ you’re literally one of my favorite moots ever and you’re always so sweet to me and everyone else around you, it’s so heartwarming to see your positivity and happiness on tumblr and how hard you work! pls ilysm

@ray-ofmoonlight —❥ I LOVE TALKING TO YOU ABOUT THE BACHELOR. i haven’t responded in a hot minute, but dw i’ll answer in a bit i have to go through my messages jaksfld. you’re so nice and fun, and literally the sweetest ever

@diorzumi​ —❥ hi rheya! i’m so glad you took the time and all that hard work to make the server, like that’s insane and i still can’t believe you did all of that. pls the amount of effort you put into keeping it up is so evident and amazing!! also ur rlly pretty, like RLLY pretty

@luvoikawa​ —❥ gigi!! my face literally lights up whenever i see you in my notifs or on my dash pls. i love your energy sm and the presence you bring to the discord. like idk, you just seem really cool to me, does that make sense? like you have cool girl energy.

@sugas-cookie​ —❥ hello rissie. you should be sleeping rn, but ily and you’re my favorite and only child, and no matter what i say i would never bring you back to the ditch. but like...the frogs? i fucking hate the frogs, abolish all frogs they make me physically cringe i cannot.

@kei7ime​ —❥ CHLOEEE!! every time i see your theme i feel so satisfied, like it’s so pretty it rlly is. you’re so fun and i love talking to you or just popping in your inbox to say hi. omg hi chloe!! ok ok ily

@pxnk-velvet​ —❥ angie your drawing of us are so cute and i love them sm, and i can’t wait to read the story that you’ve been writing of our gc as a volleyball team, like pls i’m so excited. also the line “just shut up already, angie” lives in my head rent free

@miyalove​ —❥ hi dylan! i haven’t popped in your inbox in a while but i just wanted to tell you that i love u and you’re so nice and sweet and ilysm. you give off hot girl energy dylan, like for real, you rlly do.

@iwaizoom​ —❥ HI JADE. you’re so nice and your blog is so pretty, like the light green jaskljl PLS ITS SO PRETTY. i love the vibes you give off like you’re so chill and so easy to talk to sjakljdkl pls ilysm

@kageyuji​ ��❥ lore i love you. like i love you. every time i talk to you i just feel happy like idk it’s this overwhelming feeling, you just have this gift where people feel comfortable when they’re talking to you. and your blog is so pretty pls asdjl

@hikariakaashi​ —❥ you’re one of my favorite moots, firstly bc of our interactions on tumblr in the early days of the discord and now on snap too. you have rlly good style, like rlly good style—and whenever you do your voice asks, your voice is like rlly pretty! girl you have a rlly pretty voice!

@ceci-chan​ —❥ hi twinnie! pls i think it’s so funny that we have literally the exact same nose, that’s actually wild. it’s so fun to watch your blog grow and your events are so cute and ily

@nekomabvc​ —❥ i buried you in here so you’d have to search for your part. literally going to say nothing i’m tired of writing about you goodbye. you called me a whore this morning. that’s not very swag of you, i’m going to report you to mab and cancel you on corpse tumblr.

@bellesowl​ —❥ hi isa! we haven’t interacted all that much, but in the times we have you’ve been so kind. and you’re rlly pretty, just sayin. you’re blog is also super aesthetic and i literally live for it, pls the muted tones are everything ajsdlk

@gellysticks​ —❥ angela pls you’re actually so funny like you’re so funny. every time your tiktoks come up in my suggested they literally make me laugh pls—but the frogs are terrible. abort frogs. this is a frog slandering blog. me and all my homies HATE frogs.

@cafemiya​ —❥ issy you give off such hot girl energy (and you are a hot girl anyways) and your energy is so contagious, like idk how it just is. you bring this positivity to the discord just by being there and i know everyone is so thankful that you’re so interactive with us jaskfdl

@biqherosix​ —❥ DANIZA I HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR SNAP YET BUT I RLLY WANT TO HEAR YOUR BAND PLAY. pls that’s literally so cool, like i wish i was in a cool band with my friends jsakdljkl. i love talking to you and we’ve been friends for like a good three months now which is crazy

@velvetfireworks​ —❥ rach i literally never read fics but yours are so good and they live in my head rent free. PLS THE SAKUSA ONE FOR THE BROKEN HEARTS CLUB AUDHS. you’re so nice and so talented and i reread your masterlist OMG I JUST REMEMBERED THE MOB AU ONE THAT ONE IS PERFECTION.

@hajiswife​ —❥ hi gabbie! your blog is gorgeous and your so nice pls!! like i literally can’t believe we’re mutuals it hits me like a brick. i love your works and your energy sjaklfdjl i’ll probably be popping in your inbox later just to say hi lol

@svgashi​ —❥ NIKE!!! omg we’re literally sister wives. you’re the first moot i had on tumblr that understood how great sugawara is and it’s like a breath of fresh air from the constant slandering my friends give him. ILY

@sexy-bee-juice​ —❥ aja!! i love getting your messages and just saying the most out of pocket things with you, and your reblogs make me laugh so hard like you’re rlly funny. also my broken french is terrible but i’m glad it makes you laugh ajskfdl

@koutarousangel​ —❥ MICKEY PLS YOURE SO FUNNY. I LOVE YOUR VIBES AND EVERYTHING LIKE YOURE FUNNY. and ily too. just putting that in there in case i haven’t said it in a while <3

@hvnlydmn​ —❥ hi ains! congrats on 5k!! that’s literally so insane like omg you must be reeling rn jadskfl you really really deserve it tho, everyone sees how hard you work and how much content you produce in such a short amount of time CONGRATS ILY

@akaashi-bby​ —❥ victoria you were the first person i talked to teen wolf with in like three years pls. i’m listening to a song from the show atm and it’s making me sad but ilysm and i love talking to you about literally anything

@laineywritesstuff​ —❥ LAINE!! hi! you’re so pretty like you look like you give the warmest hugs and i feel like if i ever met you in person i’d just get engulfed does that make sense? you’re so nice and ilysm and i hope you’re have a fantastic day!

@kiyoalex​ —❥ you’re rlly funny. like rlly funny. and i feel like we match each other’s energy pretty well in pms. pls my insanity is too real back there BUT IT’S OK I THINK BC YOU SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IT LOL ILY

@shoutamajiki​ —❥ hi nana!! you’re so nice and i’m so glad you joined the discord! and i’m so sorry i added you to my terrible private story on snap pls it’s so bad i’m very very sorry about that jksalfjdl

@sunacity​ —❥ nea i love your works so much like literally they LIVE in my head. you’re so talented and i can’t believe we’re mutuals that’s literally insane bc i love your stuff pls. and on top of being talented you’re so nice, like the nicest jaskdflj i can’t

ok ok i think that’s it for now, this isn’t all of my mutuals—but it’s the one’s i interact with the most and if we are moots and i didn’t include you pls my inbox or pms are always open to just like go insane in. ok have a great rest of your day!!

[neverdoingmuch]

now hear me out,,, an au where lan wangji is an editor who works for an erotica publisher and wei wuxian is essentially chuck tingle. (also lwj writes romance novels on the side)

wei wuxian didn’t plan to write erotica he wants to make that really clear, he was actually studying like biomed or something equally “oh wow my parents can brag to the other parents about this”

but, as frequently happens in wwx’s life, he got drunk with nhs, like really drunk and they woke up the next morning with a laptop on the floor beside them and loose paper strewn everywhere

they don’t really remember what they were doing or thinking last night but they’ve both drawn a bunch of really shitty and weird porn (the less said about the anthropomorphic version of wen chao’s pet turtle the better) and wei wuxian has like 20,000 words of an erotica story on his laptop

when he starts reading it, at first he’s like haha what the fuck this is so weird but then it turned out to be really good??? and nhs blushed at some of the ~sexy~ scenes so that’s how wwx knew he was writing the good stuff

anyway they’re sitting there, eating their hangover food and wei wuxian goes so uh my story was good right? and nhs is like yeah it was, top stuff i would buy it and wei wuxian goes what if i actually wrote it,,, haha just kidding,,,,, unless?

and in his defence he doesn’t actually write anything for the story for another like three months but then he finds himself in the middle of exam season and he’s like fuck it stress relief let’s write some erotica

he finishes the book and his exams (which he does well in but whatever) and then spends his summer holidays editing the book

when he comes back, he slaps down a paper copy on nhs’ desk and is like i finished it. nhs, thinking he meant his latest lab write up, opens it up to a random page and starts reading it out loud which was a Mistake

he trails off mid-sentence, and whips around to glare at wwx with all the wrath he can muster. it’s raunchy nhs says and just read it wwx tells him so nhs does

like 2 hours later nhs turns to him and says if it wasnt for you and the librarian staring at me the whole time i definitely would’ve felt something and wwx is like so it’s good? and nhs is like fuck yeah it is but i dont get what you want from me?

pretty much wwx passed out after exams, slept for like 20 hours and then woke up and went i should publish this and decided that nhs should draw the cover art.

nhs agrees of course and a month later wwx self-publishes bc there’s no way he can walk into a publishing house with his porn and not just combust on the spot and he decides to go by the name yiling patriarch

wwx clicks the final button to upload the fic and nhs just toasts him and goes yknow what,, this is the closest you’ve ever gotten to having sex and i’m proud of you

wei wuxian is the man who guarded his first kiss for the first twenty years of his life for someone special,,,, wwx definitely wants his first time to be special and there’s no way he’s putting out for someone he doesn’t think is important & despite having dated before, he’s never gotten close enough to someone to go yeah let’s do it so our boy is still a virgin

so wwx’s entire erotica writing inspiration comes from porn, nhs’ way too in-depth answers as to how his latest date went and uh more porn

wwx blusters about a bit bc how is he meant to respond to that and nhs is like maybe you’ll finally move on from reading those trashy romance novels and read something more exciting and wwx is like how dare you call them trashy!! hanguang-jun is a master of the romance novels!! he understands the heart in a way that no other person has ever!! 

and nhs just chugs a bunch of wine and is like yeah hon okay, do you still blush when the main characters hold hands? and wwx is like no! of course not! (it’s a lie, he blushes a lot)

so nothing really happens with the book at first and wwx forgets about it for the most part but then he wakes up one morning and he’s got an extra like RMB 1000 (i dont actually know much about currency so it’s roughly $200 if my quick interneting is legit)

wwx is like wtf? and once he finds out it’s from his novel he’s doubly like wtf? but then he finds out that someone had purchased his book and did a dramatic reading on youtube bc wwx decided that regular erotica was boring and decided to make it satirical or whatever and people loved it??

he’s got nothing better to do so he just goes hm yeah remember that Author i dated who had an “incredible idea that would absolutely amaze The Critics and helped explore his own convoluted mind” let’s make something of that and he writes another book kinda mocking that idea in a very horny way.

he publishes it and someone writes a review of his two books on their blog and now he’s actually starting to get popular - he’s got more money from those two books than he did by working at the local cafe for the whole week

wwx is poor and broke and semi-disowned anyway by this point so he goes fuck it and spends every moment he’s not studying writing erotica. 

he publishes another like five books by the time the year is out (i know the maths isnt working here but this is a book world where wwx can just do that via the power of loneliness and friends who egg you on)

also?? he varies his books. some of them are porn parody things a la chuck tingle and some of them are genuine porn and one book was just him writing a recipe book but making it sound as horny as possible

by the time he’s published his like 8th book or so he starts getting reviews that are critiquing his book and most of them boil down to the fact that he needs an editor or something 

he ends up asking nhs for help and he’s like oh sweet my brother’s boyfriend works for a publisher who does that sort of thing

cloud recesses actually specialises in erotica and i hate the idea that lqr has spent years reading and editing erotica but sacrifices must be made

(side note that i know nothing about the writing or publishing process so pls don’t judge me too harshly)

wwx goes in with his latest manuscript and ends up arriving like ten minutes late, he rushes into the room sweaty and hot, takes one look at the guy sitting on the other side of the desk, flushes an even brighter red and runs back out of the room. he checks the plaque on the door and walks back in slowly and goes hm i didnt expect you to be so hot

cue lan wangji

lwj has always enjoyed being an editor. what do editor do specifically? idk? edit? regardless, he enjoys it. 

while most of the time he’s happy working from this side of things he also likes writing

lwj fucks. he deserves it tbh. but, while he’s had a tonne of one night stands and fuckbuddies, he’s never actually dated someone. so the fact that he’s writing romance novels under the pseudonym hanguang-jun makes his friend jzx laugh a lot

he tried writing porn once and he just couldn’t do it. it was always too clinical or vague and lacked any actual passion bc he was always going oh okay mc sucks a dick but the guy i slept with last week was like a 6.4/10 when it came to sucking dick so maybe mc should also be bad at it or whatever and it just ends up falling apart,,,, but romance he can do

as an editor lwj has pretty high standards for good erotica but he’s really found himself enjoying yiling patriarch’s work even though he’s clearly just been editing himself so when the guy sent cloud recesses an email asking whether they’d be interested in his latest book lwj was ecstatic. 

he also didnt expect wwx to be so hot

anyway,,, we now get to enjoy a week of lwj thinking that wwx is super hot but even more annoying and then him deciding that annoying is hot and now wwx is just absolutely amazing and wwx is just panicking the entire time 

i want my publisher to rail me so hard wwx texts nhs and nhs just responds has he read the bdsm scene with the alien who has a tentacle dick and a knot yet? and wwx is like no??? nhs just goes shame, it will give him so ideas for if you ever grow a backbone and just ask him out

they publish one book together and nothing happened between them the entire time other than yearning and horniness,, of the heart and body. 

when wwx realises this means that he won’t get to see lwj again he immediately writes a new book and like a month later he’s back in lwj’s office, lying on his couch while whining about the cafeteria prices at university

lwj is very enamoured by the fact that wwx is writing erotica and studying biomed bc wow

they do this for like another three books and wwx’s eroticas evolve from here’s a dinosaur man fucking a politician while a mary sue watches on to be like here’s a dinosaur man with black hair and golden eyes and a stern look to his face fucking a politician while a mary sue watches on

and hanguang-jun’s latest book?? i dont want to say that this au’s version of wangxian is hanguang-jun finally finding inspiration to write porn (his muse is wwx of course) and writing the most amazing porn with feelings and plot novel ever,, but it is. 

wwx read it five times in the first week and when nhs finally tried to read it he was like uhhh wwx are you a narcissist, the love interest is exactly like you? and wwx is like ??? no???? he’s nothing like me??

anyway one day wwx gets called into lxc’s office and lxc is like so i’ve read your latest book (not the dinosaur man, a serious one with like normal people and not overly humorous thank fuck but still full of lwj yearning) and wwx is like okay? and lxc goes yes, see i was worried that you didn’t care very much for my brother but after reading your book i’m not so sure and wwx gets the weirdest shovel talk ever which is interspersed with like compliments for his porn writing skills

anyway lxc accidentally mentions that lwj writes books too and before he can take it back wwx is like who??? and lxc is like are you fucking stupid?? you told lwj to his face that you loved his books,,, he broke his theme of tender romance to write kinky sex with a character that’s a lot like you and wwx is like .,,,,,,,,, hanguang-jun??? HANGUANG-JUN???!!

lxc barely manages to confirm it before wwx is sprinting out of his office and across to find lwj.

regretfully for everyone else, lwj is in the lobby so thirty people get to hear it when wwx comes in and shouts LAN ZHAN!! back then, i really wanted write porn about you! ... i think i have actually? but i want to write porn about you and i want to be able to do the research to make it accurate! and i also want to go on dates and hold hands and feed each other food! and i love you a lot! 

lwj is dying inside bc his brother’s bf is there, his uncle is currently waiting for the elevators and a whole bunch of staff are also there but also wwx likes him??? dinosaur man was lwj??

he goes over and they make out for a really long time right there in the middle of the lobby but no one wants to get between them when they’ve been pining for so long

after that they start dating and they do all the romantic stuff but also,, let’s just say that the next book wwx publishes is a lot more creative than all of his previous books

and they become some writing power couple with horniness of the heart and body and sometimes wwx will be like hey lwj i don’t really know how the logistics of this sex scene will work and lwj will be like we could try it out ourselves? and wwx just pats him on the head and is like im sorry but you dont have enough dicks for it to work ),: better luck next time

[firelxdykatara]

not gonna lie I would love to hear more about the drama and infighting that went on in The Vampire Diaries fandom if you have the time (and also want to use that time to give your experience with the fandom, which from the snippets you've told sounds Not Fun so I get it if you don't want to lol)

oh god, there was like, SO MUCH, i just

i really feel like tvd is one of those fandoms that is so hard to describe without a lot of ‘you’d have to have been there’, but it really felt like this huge and all-consuming beast for about five years until the show finally imploded and the fandom basically turned on it en masse. (you ever see that post going around that’s like ‘if you ever want to know what true regret feels like, ask someone who once called tvd their favorite show’? still a mood, all these years later. basically the entire fandom thought the show should have just bowed out with whatever shreds of dignity it had left at the end of season 6, and became more of a hatedom than a fandom for the last two seasons. when you have an entire fandom cheering news of your show’s cancellation, i think that’s a sign you done fucked up, julie.)

first and most infamous, of course, are the ship wars. which are pretty much inevitable in any teen-centered drama, and i really think the CW fucking thrives on them, but it was particularly egregious in TVD’s case because not only was the base premise of the show a love triangle, but the two main romantic leads were brothers that the show constantly pit against one another--in pursuit of elena’s affections, but also because it kept up this insistence on the ‘good brother/bad brother’ dichotomy which stopped making sense after about season 2 (by which time we have found out that the good brother was never as good as he appeared, and the bad brother has been growing and isn’t nearly as bad as he pretends to be)--and the question of which brother ‘deserved’ elena (and no, what elena wanted very rarely factored into these discussions, especially in the team stefan camp because they turned on her when what she wanted was no longer The Good Brother, but i’ll get to that in a bit) was hotly contested.

i’m not kidding when i say the shipping wars were vicious. i started watching tvd shortly after it began to air, which was late 2009, and kept up with it fairly sporadically over the years. i didn’t come onto tumblr until 2011/2012, and by then, the fandom was already pretty much a garbagefire. there were anti ship and anti character blogs, any time something bad happened for one ship the rival ship would invade the tags to gloat about it (seasons 3 and 4 were especially rough, and i’m not gonna pretend delena fans weren’t just as bad about tag invasion and shit, but as that was my side of the road i saw a lot more of the stelena shippers being assholes, which soured my opinion on the ship a long time before i started rewatching and realized the red flags were there from the start), confessions blogs were popular also toxic as fuck (so much fighting happened in the notes of those posts, good gods), and this was right around when twitter’s popularity was on the rise and the line between Celebrity and Fan was thinning, so the fandom was absolutely atrocious to much of the tvd cast and crew.

(some of them deserved a lot of the later backlash, but in the early years a lot of it was ‘how dare you write the story in a way i dont like, you terrible fucking person’, and gods don’t get me started on the dobsley vs nian Thing)

i think what really encapsulates my feelings on the tvd fandom as a whole, though, is the way they (to this DAY) treated elena gilbert, which can be summed up in one meme that gained a lot of traction around season 3 if i remember right: that gif of pam from true blood, with the text altered to read “i’m so OVER elena and her precious doppelganger vagina!”

i swear at one time i had over half the active tvd fan accounts on tumblr blocked, because i got to a point where i would no longer tolerate elena hate, and she was (and still is, in what remains of the fandom; you’ll see a lot of ‘elena was one of the worst things about the show’ takes from ex-fans, too) one of the most widely despised characters in the entire fandom. because she -checks smudged writing on hand- was a traumatized teenage girl who -reads off a crumpled notecard- couldn’t always perfectly sort out her own feelings and -squints at the ceiling- sometimes made mistakes or bad decisions. (except a lot of the fandom also insisted that she was a mary sue who had no character traits or flaws or faults and it was like....make up your fucking minds???? is she a calculating conniving bitch whose somehow manipulating these centuries old vampires to tie them around her little finger or is she a boring flat character with no depth and no flaws??? jfc)

there was this massive double standard, too--like, stefan and damon could fuck whoever they wanted and that was fine, but elena was constantly raked over the coals for the crime of developing romantic feelings for the two men who had become constants in her life and whom she cared for deeply, and oh my GOD the slut shaming that happened when elena slept with damon was fucking wild. (and also happened in canon lmfao. like the show had one of elena’s best friends basically call her diseased on screen for falling in love with someone other than stefan. it was gross and ridiculous and the friend in question was also being a giant hypocrite at the time since she was happily flirting with someone who was directly responsible for the deaths of like four of elena’s loved ones and her own boyfriend’s mother but that’s beside the point) but like elena was called a slut and a bitch and a whore for ‘cheating’ on stefan (she hadn’t, and she had in fact broken up with him on screen the episode earlier) and ‘immediately’ jumping into bed with damon, even though none of them said fucking boo when stefan had one night stands or damon had fuckbuddies or whatever.

shit, caroline didn’t get any of this treatment when she started falling for tyler while dating matt! which isn’t to say i think she should have, just that i think it’s fucking ridiculous that elena was absolutely demonized by the fandom for daring to have feelings for two guys at once and eventually acting on them--despite the fact that the entire premise of the show was a love triangle. it’s not a love triangle if both sides don’t eventually get explored, and the crew had been pretty explicit about the fact that delena was going to happen at some point--but when it did, a huge chunk of the fandom absolutely threw a fit.

and a lot of these elena haters were alleged stelena stans, and i say alleged because they hated her so much for not wanting stefan’s dick anymore that it was clear they were really stefan stans and only wanted stelena to be endgame because they wanted stefan to ‘win’ at the end of the day, because ‘he’s the good brother’ so he deserved elena more.

it was all very gross and very misogynistic and very sex shaming (apparently delena was a ‘shallow’ and ‘superficial’ relationship because they had sex after two years of unrequited feelings slowly becoming requited and then pining for ages on both sides, and because they had a lot of on screen chemistry that the show capitalized on for years so of course they did a lot of making out and shit but it’s not like stelena didn’t have its fair share of making out and sex scenes, stefan was just too much of a coward to let elena top i’d apologize for that joke but i’m really not sorry because it’s true), and when i say it was egged on by the crew, that’s because they refused to let the love triangle die back in season 4 when it should have.

they insisted on stringing stelena fans along, dropping little bread crumbs to keep them invested, like dreams of a future where they were married and revealing that stefan was also a doppelganger and he and elena were descended from a pair of star-crossed lovers (a plot that ultimately went nowhere, to no one’s great surprise), and then fucking like. julie plec turned around and threw nina under the bus after she chose not to extend her contract and pretended that stelena might have happened again if she hadn’t left the show, which....i mean frankly i wouldn’t put it past her, but it would have been shitty writing. then again, she thought having a vampire pregnancy where a uterus was magically transplanted from a witch into a vampire that could somehow......carry the babies to term.... made sense and was a good way to accomodate candice’s RL pregnancy rather than like literally ANYTHING else, soooooo. but anyway julie saying that around like, end of s6 sparked off a new wave of nina hate and elena hate and ship wars bc they SEers took it as ‘confirmation’ that stelena was REALLY meant to be endgame and it was all just a hot fucking mess

another thing is that, while tvd was in its prime before the anti/purity culture shit started picking up any real steam, there was still this pervasive attitude throughout the fandom that if you liked Damon, you were A Bad Person. liking damon was apparently grounds for insults and harassment, and apparently he was The Worst Person on the Show even though literally nothing he does on screen is any worse than shit we know stefan has done (and frankly every other vampire too, but i mention stefan specifically because he was always held up--in the show but especially in the fandom--as the Good Brother while damon was the Bad One, and if you liked damon more then that had to mean your morals were dodgy and you clearly couldn’t appreciate what a heroic and saintly figure dear stefan was and....oops, i’m sorry, my salt keeps leaking -cough-).

meanwhile klaus quickly became a fandom darling despite not even really having much of a redemption arc (on tvd anyway, he just became more ‘affably evil’ as the show went on and more inclined to work with the main characters rather than try to kill them; i have no idea what went on over on his show, though), and like i can 100% appreciate liking villains and not caring that they do dodgy villainous shit, even just liking them bc they’re hot and wanting them to kiss a main character bc they have insanely good chemistry (yes i ship klaroline, no i won’t apologize for it, they could have been Really Great), it’s just really the double standard that gets me.

and all of this, incidentally, required ignoring some truly gross shit stefan was responsible for wrt his relationship with elena, that frankly it has always bothered me never really got addressed in the show. i get why elena herself would never be able to actually call him on it, but the fact is that he stalked her for months after he first saw her and thought she was katherine (meanwhile it only took damon .5 seconds to realize she was someone else entirely, but that’s another topic entirely), and then he deliberately inserted himself into her life because, in his words, ‘i have to know her’. he never gave a thought to how his presence in her life might affect her (or rather, he did, and tormented himself about it in his internal monologue, but never let this actually dissuade him from disrupting her life), and elena would wind up blaming herself for every tragedy that befell her friends and loved ones as a result of getting mixed up in vampire bullshit even though none of it was her fault--she literally blamed herself for existing but most of the fandom didn’t give a fuck about that lmfao--and stefan did shit like find out that she was adopted and then withhold this information from her until she got pissed about another secret he was keeping (her resemblence to katherine) and drop it on her to try and distract her from her very reasonable anger, and like... i should stop before this becomes a whole rant about how much i hate stefan fucking salvatore, but the point is, he did a lot of really sketchy shit he never answered for and elena never really took him to task for, and the fandom just kept eating up his insistence that he was the Good Brother and therefore he deserved to have elena, and if she didn’t want him anymore it was because she was a heinous bitch who didn’t deserve him.

uh.....i think i got off track there. and there’s probably a lot of shit i missed, like i think i was incandescent with rage for most of seasons 5 and 6 so i missed a lot of the interfandom shit cause i was too busy being increasingly pissed off at the show itself, but if nothing else this should give you an idea of how much of a goddamn cesspit the fandom was while the show as in its prime. there’s a reason both the show and the fandom have such a lousy reputation lmfao.

[kurtanaaa]

i am back to ask another gaga related glee question ☺️☝️

you get to give each member of the OG new directions (+ blaine & sam) a gaga solo, what are they singing?

everyone sit down shut the fuck up and listen to me i have important things to SAY thank you ANA

my only problem is i cant assign people just one so i will be listing other contenders if i have them

quinn: sinner's prayer. "and she wants nothing more than a man to please/maybe she's in too deep/her love for him ain't cheap/but it breaks/just like a knockoff piece from fulton street" tell me thats not quinn. tell me thats not quinn and ill tell you youre wrong. and the title alone... perfect for her religious trauma. ALSO it fits her alto voice!!!!! can you tell i had this one on standby for if i was ever asked something like this.

mercedes: you and i. now this is a song i mostly chose because i would absolutely love to hear it in her voice. she would fucking kill it and would sing it with so much emotion i can SEE it. also (pushing my samcedes agenda), its vaguely country vibe means it would be a great song to sing to/about sam's lil country ass. the shows version... did they really HAVE to mash it up with that other song. Did They. i was also seriously considering paper gangsta for her bc that would fit her s4 storyline SO WELL but i just wanna hear her Sing this one more. other contenders: paper gangsta and the fame

only now realizing how long this is, its going under a cut

kurt: hair. i cant avoid it man. this is just his fuckin song! this is it! i know the whole "hair" metaphor doesnt really work with short hair, but its about the MESSAGE! ITS ABOUT THE EMOTION! he just wants to be himself and he wants you to love him for who he is! other contenders: boys boys boys and donatella (i have to say i rlly did something here with the other contenders)

santana: marry the night. everything about this song is for her. god i wish we got the "santana exploring the lgbtq scene in new york" storyline we deserved because this would fit it perfectly. shes gonna drive down the streets dressed insane and be gay as fuck! and she's gonna be alive to see it! no other contenders bc this song is just Hers. sorry bout it! and my fucking god her voice would sound INCREDIBLE doing the "NIIIIIIIIIGHT" AT THE END

sam: alejandro. now we all love Our Local Slut Sam. this is his Single and Free vibing song, which he should've gotten maybe! at some point! just a lil moment to Vibe and be sexy. i think this would be SO FUN!!!! he needs to wear a weird outfit and weird makeup. basically i need sam to be more campy

tina: dance in the dark. god this song fucks. i dont wanna ramble on too much to explain exactly how much it connects to tina (because it connects SO MUCH. SO MUCH) but. its about the breaking free of expectations and the self-consciousness. it is! AND about being a woman and having to deal with those things specifically!!!!! also her voice is so sweet and suited to this song's range. other contenders: schieße

rachel: million reasons. i think that this song connects to her and finn and a lot of their relationship. plus, this song isn't really pop, which suits rachel's voice more. thats it really. other contenders: joanne (also about finn, but specifically his death.)

puck: dope. you know that post about changing hey there delilah to be about a man separated from his daughter? yeah do that with this one and make it about beth. do it i promise it doesn't hurt at all :)

artie: just dance. this is a song i think he himself would choose bc it is right in his pop wheelhouse. he would have fun with it i think! and no escaping, he has to sing both colby o'donis AND gaga's parts. he is not exempt from gaga. other contenders: mary jane holland and starstruck

blaine: fashion of his love. this just makes sense okay! it just does. "i'm gonna be his first and last kiss" ok miss thing!!!! you go kiss your man!!!!! other contenders: so happy i could die

mike: artpop. im gonna be real, i mostly chose this because i think he could dance to it in his Own Style. i dont think theres much of an explanation otherwise? HOWEVER. if it werent such a Kurt Song i would def also propose hair for mike. it would fit his storylines quite nicely! so, other contenders: hair and teeth (that makes it sound like its one song title They Are Separate)

finn: brown eyes. this ones about rachel. it tracks it checks out it adds up it makes sense. "everything could be everything if only we were older/guess its just a silly song about you/and how i lost you/and your brown eyes". and in the context of finns death it hurts more ! :) other contenders: 911

brittany: highway unicorn (road to love). now i'm not just saying this because of the unicorn. i AM saying this because it just feels very brittany in terms of vibes as well as it being something she can sing about santana (she don't care if your papers or your love is a law/she's a free soul burning roads with a flag in her bra). also i think she can dance to it somewhat which is important

BONUS

marley: judas or john wayne

jake: bad kids

unique: babylon

kitty: grigio girls

bc i couldnt stop thinking about these while making this post

[eveenstar]

True Love is Forever (Kieran Duffy x reader)

Tags/Warnings: Chapter 6 spoilers. Mentions of death, canon character's death, slight mentions of suicide, blood, overall angst and sadness. This is kinda heavy so I’m warning y’all! 

Summary: You ride Kieran's body back to camp after witnessing his death.

Note: Okay so I wrote this during class bc I'm having a very bad day sooo I'm sorry for any mistakes! I have no idea what happened on this one, it just...happened.

Everything had lost all color now that your lover died. You didn't feel like crying, you didn't feel...anything, at all. How did this happen? How did it come to this? You felt suck in an endless cycle, a routine. Doing the said routine was what you wished to be doing now instead of carrying your loved one's body back to camp. The sun was shining like usual and the birds were still singing. Of course, why would the world stop because of a person’s death? 

"When we get married, I want to go see the world, ya know? Visit different places!" You laughed while looking at the sky. Laying with you on the ground, Kieran held your hand and looked at you dead-serious. "I'll take you anywhere you'd like to go! I'll work harder for it!"

"It's no fun if only I get to see it. I want you there by my side, Kieran." You smiled gently while giving him a soft kiss.

Even if life on Earth would go on, your entire would collapse beneath your feet. You were left without wings and a hole in your heart. The heavy burden you carried on your back was something you’d never wish to your worst enemy. 

"Hey, uh-" You paused for a second, before looking up from your book and staring at Kieran, alarmed. "Shush! Don't even think about calling me some polite name! We're dating, for weeks now." You saw Kieran's cheeks quickly turning red with embarrassment. "Sorry, it's, it's the habits, y' know?"

"C'mere," You opened your arms and gave your boyfriend a big hug, smiling back at him. "You're gonna be the death of me one day."

You carried Kieran’s body back to camp, your eyes never leaving the dirty road. To any other living soul, you could be dead as well, your breathing was barely noticeable. One point was right; You were dead but on the inside. Who wouldn’t, after watching their loved one be beheaded in front of you? To watch the life fade from their eyes, as their body falls numb on the ground? 

"Darling..." You heard a low "uh" coming from Kieran since he was almost asleep. Asleep well deserved, in your opinion. "I think we deserve a soft epilogue." Your boyfriend turned his head to you, his half-open eyes stared at you in confusion. I mean, it was almost 1 AM and you were still awake, thinking.

"What do you mean?" You let out a small chuckle, "I mean, we've suffered enough, and...we deserve to be happy." Kieran didn't say anything this time, merely gazed at you.

You’ll never forget Kieran’s last expression, his last smile, and his last words to you early the day before. 

"You're such a kind man, Kieran..." He immediately shushed you. "I'm sorry, darlin', but you're always saying that kind of stuff to me and...and you shouldn't." You raised an eyebrow. "Why?"

Kieran scratched the back of his neck, "You, you're a very good-hearted person, (Y/N), you were the only person to be nice enough to, to me!"

"Kieran, I-"

"I really love you, I do! I'll even save money, and, and work harder so I can get us life out there." Your eyes widen in surprise and a smile spreads across your lips. "Oh, my sweet boy...You were the best thing to ever happen to me."

Did he die, at least glad, that you were the last thing he saw? Kieran was laid to rest, maybe the only peace that he had was death. You wished yesterday’s night to last forever, with him asleep between your arms. No poem could ever describe how it was, to witness the light of your life to be turned off. 

"Kieran, I...I fell for you, and I'm still falling." You admitted.

"Well, uh, then I guess I...I'm falling for you too."

Only when Mary-Beth’s scream echoed through the camp that you finally realized you had arrived. Getting down from your horse, Dutch confronted you about it but you merely stared into his eyes and replied in a low and empty voice, “Kieran is dead.” Everything else went numb after that and every other noise was just background sound for you. Tilly and the other girls helped you to sit down in your tent, your eyes never leaving your boyfriend’s bloodied head. 

"You're the first thing I want to see every morning, and the last thing I see when I fall asleep."

“Can you hear me? (Y/N?” Miss Grimshaw asked, at least you thought it was her. It didn’t really matter anymore. The gang was falling apart, your future husband was dead, and you had nowhere to go. Mary offered you a cup of water and you slowly turned your head to her, staring into her teary blue eyes. “Do you need anything?” No, Kieran was not gone. He was here, somewhere, looking out for you. They took him away from you but now you were returning to his arms. “(Y/N)?” 

"I wish time had better timing for you and me."

Your eyes paused on the gun on top of the table next to you. They didn’t know that Kieran would never leave you, they didn’t hear his softly spoken words he’d say to you every night as his sweet lips met yours.

"So, tell me, do right people with wrong timing ever get a second chance?"

 “Mary...I...” 

“Yes?” 

“I’m late to go see Kieran.” 

They don’t know that real love is forever, even in death. 

[irishmacguirefucker]

O’Driscoll no more

(Kieran Culkin lives in my head rent free for no fucking reason, it made thinking about Duffy much harder. Anyways im not gonna use this to answer my kieran ask bc tbh it answered none of the anons questions, but i hope this tides them over until i do answer that one. i DO have thoughts about kierans cabin but i need to establish the beginning stuff in my head first)

Au Masterlist

TW: Castration (slight mention at the end)

Kieran didn't think he was going to the ranch with them to be honest. Dutch announced the plan not long after they started trusting him to care for the horses, which in itself is not much trust.

The speech about the ranch felt like a plan he shouldn't be hearing. If he weren’t busy being amazed by how close Mary-Beth was standing to him during all this. Sure she was holding Tilly’s hand, but she had inched close to him and caught him staring.

Instead of looking away in disgust or slapping him, she smiled at him. He swore he had never seen anything prettier in his whole life.

When the speech ended, everyone began to part ways. They all seemed to have a lot to think about, and Kieran had two more horses to brush out before bed. But just as he was about to head back up to the little campfire, Mary-Beth grabbed his arm and pulled him to the big fire with the others.

He would have protested if he weren’t so distracted by how gentle her hands were against his wrists. She sat down beside her friend and he stood awkwardly, unsure what to do.

She tugged his wrist again, and this time he got to hear her perfect voice. The one that spoke kindly to him for the first time when he got here, encouraged him to drink water while he was tied to that tree.

“Sit down Kieran, I don’t think anyone should be alone right now… Not with so much to think on and such.”

Who would he be to deny her that one request? So he sat down on her other side, and she laced her fingers with his behind them. It was silent for a while, and Kieran would have felt awkward among them if his heart weren’t pounding out of his chest.

They started talking after a while, each of them eventually agreeing to go to the ranch, and Kieran couldn’t have felt more out of place sitting around the fire. They would all go and enjoy their ranch, and Kieran would be left to wander. He hoped Colm wouldn’t find him again.

Javier played a few songs at Mary-Beth’s request, and Kieran did his best to memorize the feeling of her hand in his. He would miss her the most.

Eventually, Javier stopped singing but continued to strum the guitar softly, and then the most amazing thing happened. Slowly, Mary-Beth leaned over and rested her head on Kieran’s shoulder.

He froze up, afraid to move lest she realizes what she was doing and push him off. Surely she meant to lean the other way into Tilly? But then quietly, just by his ear, he listened to her breathing grow soft and turn into the cutest little snores he ever heard.

What kind of divine punishment was this, to have her touch him and trust him so much that she slept on his shoulder, and she would be leaving for a brand new life soon.

He finally managed to relax his muscles enough to look over and take in the sight of her sleeping, her cheek pressed into his shoulder and her soft curls spilling down his chest. She looked ethereal in the firelight, lighting up the freckles that covered her face in a delicate galaxy. He was entranced by her.

He was startled out of his thoughts by a gruff voice, nearly waking her with the way he jumped. She grumbled and pressed her face further into his shoulder, and he would have felt bad if he weren’t worried about what was going to follow Arthurs; “So, O’Driscoll-”

He looked up at the man, and he couldn’t help but expect the man to threaten him for getting so close to the young woman.

“You gonna be moving on to the Ranch with us then?”

Kieran’s brows furrowed and he answered quietly. “I-I can't say I realized that offer was bein’ extended my way, sir.”

Arthur chuckled. “Now why would you think that Duffy, we let you stick ‘round this long. And it looks like at least one of us has taken a liking to you.” He gestured to the sleeping girl.

The younger man felt his whole face heat up. Before he could answer, Arthur continued. “You should come, we’ll still need someone to help out with the horses. We’ll probably have more when we’re on our feet proper, and you just have some sorta way with ‘em.”

It was weird to hear the man pay him a compliment. He wasn’t the worst of the camp by far, but Kieran couldn’t help but be a little scared of the blonde still. “Oh, w-well thank you, Mister. I am lucky they like me so much, on account of how much I like taking care of them.”

That made Arthur chuckle, and Kieran was able to relax a little. “So will you come along then Duffy? You’d get your own room and all. Eventually anyway.”

His own room. His own possessions that weren't just the clothes on his back and the saddle on his horse. Days on end with a belly full of food and surrounded by the gentle beasts he enjoyed so much. And maybe friends. Maybe just maybe, a girl.

Mary-Beth stirred slightly, and he braced himself for the push, for her to slap him away for getting so close. She just looked up at him with her blue eyes, sparkling with firelight. “Please join us, Kieran, we want you there with us.”

He must have woken her when he jumped earlier, but he couldn’t feel guilty about it when he got to hear her voice all sleepy and soft. “I want you to come along, you deserve to be happy just as much as all of us.”

He smiled genuinely, something that didn’t happen often before he started running with the Van der Linde’s. “I suppose I can’t say no when you ask so kindly Miss Gaskill…”

She smiled so big he was sure she gave off her own sunlight. “Oh Kieran, it’s gonna be so perfect!”

She sighed in content and dragged herself to her feet. “I should head to my bed now, we’re gonna be quite busy tomorrow. Thank you for being my pillow Mister Duffy, but I oughta go to my real one. Goodnight everyone!”

Tilly said her goodnights as well, and the two girls headed to bed while Kieran sat there in awe. She had not only begged him to join them and wished him goodnight but thanked him for allowing her to sleep on his shoulder. He would never quite be able to comprehend her kindness.

“I suppose that answers that question.” Arthur chuckled, as he stood up with a grunt. “I suppose I’ll head in for the night. But you listen here Duffy,” Arthurs large hand clamped down on the sitting man’s shoulder as he leaned over, and Kieran can’t remember the last time he felt so small.

“If you hurt that girl, or cause one little tear on her face,” He leaned in closer. “I really will castrate you, and I certainly won’t need Bills damned tongs. I’ll do it with a bear trap.”

And then he stood back up straight with a crack in his back and walked to his tent leaving Kieran frozen to his spot. That little speech would certainly linger…

He couldn’t help but laugh about it a little later, only because if he ever hurt a hair on her sweet head himself, he would probably let Arthur do it happily.

[casmick-consequences]

okay um sjdghs yeah thank you for not being mean or thinking I was mean cause I really wasn't! I do really like your blog (we are mutuals and I *think* you know me by name) but zjdgsh jack still isn't Cas coded for me, tbh. He might LOOK like Cas but sjdgsh his literally story was based on his powers othering him (sam), killing his mother (sam) and eventually being manipulated into doing something bad by accident and no bad intentions (sam). he is also infused with very obvious daddy issues (the sam kind more than the Cas kind) and if you thjnk about it I prommy there's not a lot of similarities between his and cas's personalities (except for that they're both wonderful and I love them but that's beside the topic) like Cas plotlines usually go like: huge sacrifices for love, hugely misguided attempts to make everything right, loss of powers leaving him abandoned. while sam (and jack) plot lines are the opposite because it's the ABUNDANCE of power that leaves them abandoned (by Dean, cough, cough) and while cas's powers are seen as desirable throughout the show (when they ARE seen, of course :/) sams were evil and Jack's were evil and they were supposed to be thought of as evil (by us, the narrative and dean) for using them ! So...yeah? also sjdgshs I hear you on the Dean not being a John girl just because he wanted his affirmation so bad and would do anything he said for it — but the jack Dean situation is not exactly the same because the moments that they use to show us that jack loves Dean aren't ones where dean has any expectations from him to be/do good per se???? it's things like fishing and being a dork on a case and they "make jack the happiest he's been" so...? (Plus I DO believe that jack really wanted Dean's approval and Dean to think of him as good, and family but it just...isn't in the same way as John. Dean WAS a dick to jack and it might johncode him but Jack's behavior doesn't s1-dean code him 🥺) so im gonna stick with jack being a samcoded deangirl who looks a lot like Cas actually ajdgshs (also yeah Dean is both a samgirl and a casgirl, he has the range, although you saying he HAS to be a samgirl cause they're blood is kinda weird because I really do think he loves and stans sam as family (in a COMPLETELY non incestuous way oh god) and not just because he has to cause of the script (like some bloggers these days think...which just. what show did you even watch bestie) but yeah. also, if we had to choose, I'd definitely choose sam as a casgirl. Because he appreciates him and looks up to him and cas's opinions really matter to him and he believes in him and wamts him to come home and thinks of him as best friend and family :)

Listen bestie. I get your points, I'm willing to say that Sam's a Casgirl bc he loves his bestie and always tries his best to give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe even more than Dean's done.

HOWEVER. Let's go back to the part where you don't think Jack is Cascoded because their plotlines don't match. (Also; Sam didn't kill his mom. Azazel killed her 6 months after his birth. As for the manipulation thing; that happened to all three of them at some point.)

Let's look at your namings of Cas's plotlines:

huge sacrifices for love

Jack literally gave his life/was ready to give his life to save the Winchesters&Castiel on multiple occasions. He kneeled down before Dean's gun because he felt he deserved it, he wanted to kill himself in 13x23 to save Sam and the others, and his entire arc in season 15 was about sacrificing himself to kill God and Amara. So that Sam and Dean could finally be free.

hugely misguided attempts to make everything right

point I mean; this speaks for itself. Things go wrong and Jack always tries to fix it, even if it doesn't turn out well. A GREAT example is everything that went down with him and Dumah; him trying to make Heaven a better place (making angels, killing non-believers, etc) because he believed it'd make Sam and Dean happy, and it would redeem him from killing Mary. In fact, his soulless arc was pretty close to Cas's Godstiel arc. I could even pull up a few parallels for you.

loss of powers leaving him abandoned

He lost his powers in season 14. And yes, he wasn't left on the streets like Cas was. HOWEVER, he felt just as lost and abandoned as he did. Not physically but definitely emotionally. He had no one to connect with and felt useless and hopeless. He stole someone's grace afterwards, though, just like a certain angel we all know and love.

I get what you mean and Sam and Jack do have similar story arcs. But Jack has similar story arcs with all three of them, and he shares all their characteristics because he's their son. All three boys are his dads, but he only has one father and that's Cas. I just think he happens to share more of Cas's personality because he has the same squints, the same awkwardness around humans, the same confusion about specific trivia and the same love for the Winchesters.

Let's just agree to disagree at this point sjkfjsdklf we could go on and on about this.

I enjoy this, though <3 this is fun. I love getting to talk to you ppl about this stuff :D