#bc they'd put a child through the same shit

[galedekarios]

not ppl taking the dark urge dialogue in the epilogue that they adopt any children as "proof" that gale is totally not against being a father despite saying so and the clues we canonically have in the game supporting that as well

to provide context:

a) this is not gale suggesting it, it's durge and it's durge specific

b) it's a warning durge gives here: if they had biological children (and if that'd be possible at all depending on your char), it'd spread their bhaalspawn essence and thus the dark urge, cursing the child with it

c) gale doesn't even react but goes into the default line for accepting the proposal bc given the context with durge, it's clear that this is no actual invitation to have children

[save-the-villainous-cat]

Selfless hero gets kidnapped and tortured, and the first thought that comes to their mind is “is this punishment for all the things I’ve done..?” even though the worst thing they’ve ever done was something along the lines of beating up a villain for slaughtering dozens of civilians

Then enter their villain love interest who rescues them and showers them with comfort and warmth and hero doesn’t know what to do or how to react since they’ve always been the one to care for others, not being the one being CARED OF by others 💔 (also bc it’s supposed to be their nemesis, so they’re like “why tf are they saving me rn”)

You reap what you sow.

The hero stared at their broken fingers through their blurred vision. Their hands were shaking. Their throat hurt. The rain was cold and uncomfortable as it seeped through their torn clothes.

For the first time, they felt like a child again, getting bullied and beaten up at school. All of it had been so quick. They'd been kidnapped and tortured. They'd been thrown into an alley. But despite the broken bones and the open wounds, the fear was worse. They had slipped back into that terrified kid who couldn't even raise their hand in school.

They knew they deserved it. They deserved all of this. Violence only answered violence and they had beaten up enough people to be a criminal themselves.

When they saw the headlights, the hero closed their eyes laboriously. Would running over by a car be a painless way to die? They could tell bleeding out wasn't their biggest problem. It was the cold.

The driver's door opened and at first, the hero couldn't even tell that it was the villain who was approaching them.

"Shit..." the villain cursed. They didn't look amused.

Although the hero couldn't believe the villain was here to save them, they prayed in secret that it was true.

When the villain was close enough, they kneeled next to them.

"What happened?" Their eyes had dark circles under them and as the rain soaked through the villain's perfect hair, the hero understood that they truly weren't here to kill them.

The villain's hand found the hero's forearm.

"Talk to me, what happened?"

"I don't know, I really don't-" Suddenly, the hero's throat closed and the tears followed promptly. Their nose was running and anew, they were teleported back in time. So many times, they had blamed themselves for the abuse, they had protected their abusers and now, they could feel themselves do the same thing all over again. "I messed up."

"You went missing for two days," the villain said.

"What!? No, that can't be true. I was gone for a few hours, I swear." The hero felt more pain crawl up their throat. How on earth were they going to explain that to their boss? "Shit, what am I doing?! I have to go home."

They tried to pull themselves up and stand but their ankles had been smashed with a pipe. That they could remember. Embarrassingly, the hero struggled and almost fell to the ground again.

"Alright," the villain said calmly and before the hero could say anything, they picked them up as if the hero didn't weigh anything at all. "That's enough."

At first, the hero wanted to protest. But they didn't have the energy to fight nor did they think it would get them anywhere. The villain was warm and gentle, their hands were soft and their voice was calm. The hero knew this was dangerous. They were walking into a trap, into a comfortable and safe trap.

The villain was probably waiting for the right moment to end them.

However, when the villain put them on the backseat, they weren't sure what to expect. Although it was a big car, it was surely not designed to fit two people on top of each other in the back.

"What are you doing?" the hero asked. They were getting tired. "Why are you helping me?"

"Remember that time you pulled me out of the river?"

"Oh."

"Yeah," the villain said. They took off their coat and put the coat on the hero, attempting to cover them. "Now, let's start over. What happened?"

"I told you, I messed up..."

"I don't believe that. Please, in your own time." They held onto the driver's seat and reached for all the buttons in the front. Suddenly, the car got warmer and the hero grabbed the villain's hand. Their broken fingers didn't want to cooperate but at this point, the hero cared little for the pain. The villain turned again and all of their attention seemed to be on the hero.

"I got kidnapped and then tortured; I thought I was going to die there. I was so scared. I froze and I didn't put up a fight. I couldn't..."

"Okay," the villain said. Their eyes didn't leave the hero's face and the hero almost thought they had said something wrong. "Easy..."

The villain gently rubbed the hero's thigh.

"You're safe now, okay?"

The hero nodded.

"It was bound to happen. You reap what you sow. I am not a good person and I was selfish, I-"

"No," the villain said. "Don't do this to yourself. You didn't do anything wrong."

The hero could feel the tears again. God, they were such a mess today. They couldn't hold back anymore.

"Please," the hero whispered. "What are you doing to me?"

"I'm bringing you home," the villain said. The hero's hand was still around theirs.

"No, what are you doing to me? What are you doing to my brain? Why are you so nice? Why do you care?" At this point, they were exhausted. Exhausted from crying, exhausted from the pain. The hero craved a long hot bath but the villain so close to them came pretty close to that.

"Someone has to, don't you think?" Something in their expression told the hero this wasn't the whole truth. "We have to go now, okay? You seriously need some medical attention."

Their gaze lingered on the hero for a little bit longer before they got into the driver's seat.

[thechy-fychannel]

I try not to get hung up on timelines but I swear Wilson's timeline makes no damn sense to me 😭 I don't believe we are ever given a precise birth date for him, so assuming he's about the same age as his actor (who already looked incredibly young for his age) he would've had to be a child prodigy as well for the timeline to make sense.

RSL was born in 1969, so we'll use that year for Wilson too bc I just cannot imagine him being any older than that. He was 35 when the show aired and could've easily passed for his 20s. Aging him up more than 35 feels incredibly unrealistic with how young he looked.

Being born in 1969 means he likely graduated high school in 1987ish. Four years of undergraduate school already puts him at 1991 before he even starts med school. Another 4 years in med school puts him at 1995, 3 years after he meets House. And that doesn't even include his residency years after he graduated.

But wasn't Wilson already a doctor when they met? He said him and Sam split because he was working two jobs while doing his residency in order to put her through med school. So we can extrapolate that when he met House, he had graduated but was still going through his residency in 1992.

For shits and giggles, let's say he graduated as a prodigy at 16 in 1985, 4 yrs of undergrad- 1989, and let's say he did the accelerated program that allowed him to graduate med school in 3 years, 1992. That would make sense if Wilson had only just started his residency when he met House. But according to his lore, he must've been doing his residency for a while in order for it to affect his marriage so much that they divorced. They'd already been split up for a while before he was served divorce papers.

Even if that timeline makes a little more sense, what doesn't make sense is that he would've finished his residency between 1995 and 1998 (even later if he didn't graduate early) and then sometime between then and before the show aired, he became the HEAD of the oncology department. I'm pretty sure he had been department head for a while before the show aired, but even if he'd only been promoted to department head just before the show started, that means he was made department head 5-9 years after finishing his residency. I don't know how ranking in a hospital works, but less than a decade out of his residency feels like a very short amount of time to become head of a huge department in a big teaching hospital— one of the best in the country.

I guess the solution that makes the most sense is to consider him to be closer to 40 at the beginning of the show, but you cannot look at that young sweet face in s1 and tell me that man is anywhere close to 40. He doesn't even start looking close to 40 until s6 imo.

Anyways, feel free to ignore this. This is just what runs through my head while I'm pretending to be busy at work.

[theprinceofliones]

Omg your headcanon for Lancelot are great! I also got a headcanon for Lancelot....😗....he likes kissing Percival on his forehead when nobody is looking...😚🤭 got some more headcanons for Lancelot or any other character?

Aww thank you hun!!! And yes! I have a ton of more headcanons for other characters! Mainly for Meliodas, Ban, Elizabeth, and Elaine hehe

One more Lancelot headcanon tho that I forgot to mention, something that's kind of au-like but, since he was stuck with the Lady of the Lake for so long, he considers her like a mother almost. She was the one who was with him the entire time he was stuck wherever he was. Of course, had Master Jericho, but Lady of the Lake, /Mother/, was by his side, in his mind, whispering words of comfort in his ear and running her hidden fingers through his hair when he needed reassuring. She was a rock he didn't know he needed. But, she's also the reason for everything he hates about himself. It's why he avoids Benwick, why he doesn't come home. He can't face his mother---his /real/ mother, how could he, when he replaced her so easily?

Very much Stockholm syndromey for sure with the whole Lady of the Lake situation. He feels like he needs her even though she was the one keeping him trapped. He needs her like he needs a limb, but at the same time, he feels like he could make do with never seeing her again because he hates her for taking away those years he could've had with his parents, his uncles, his aunties, with /Tristan/---

But, that's a story for another day...

MELIODAS HEADCANONS HEHEHEHE

Meliodas is a VERY overprotective father. It might not seem like it at first, but he's extremely careful and watchful of his son. That's his baby. The one thing he's been waiting for for nearly three thousand years, the thing that brings him and Elizabeth eternal joy and happiness, the one thing that makes all of their suffering worth it.

When Tristan is born, Meliodas is like "dude I hit the jackpot first TRY" because holy shit THAT'S ELIZABETH REBORN...AGAIN! It's why they stopped at one---they don't need to try again bECAUSE HE ALREADY WON AHAHAHA

(Ban and Meliodas are like sobbing for joy together because they BOTH won man. Sons that look just like their mothers first, TRY. A millennia in purgatory was all worth it for THEM)

He's TERRIFIED of the thought of Tristan training with real weapons when he's a toddler though. Elizabeth is all for it, saying that he'd be fine and they'd be right there if anything happened. She was always willing to let Tristan have the freedom they never did---but Meliodas was biting his knuckles bloody because what if his little boy gets HURT??? Goddess healing or not, his precious boy would still be in pain!!!

Like I said, VERRYYYY overprotective but slowly tries to learn to let go and let his son be his own, although as Tristan grows up, he mistakes his father's overprotectiveness for disappointment and doubt in his own child. But, Tristan couldn't be more wrong...

Hehe onto Elizabeth!

She is a boy mom. A boy. Mom. Not them toxic boy moms, a BOY MOM. She dresses her son up in pretty little outfits when he's a newborn through his toddler ages, almost like a cute tiny doll. He has two entire wardrobes filled with frilly dresses and adorable little fluffy blouses by the time he's four. She braids his hair, lets it grow long and longer still. Ties his silver locks into ponytails, or buns, and even puts little accessories on his head here and there. Tristan surprises her with how much he seems to love it---or maybe it's because his mother's attention is solely focused on him.

SHE IS THE QUEEN OF BRITANNIA! I'm sorry but making Meliodas King makes absolutely no sense to me...probably bc I'm a hardcore ASOIAF fan so seeing a daughter who is technically in line for throne get cast aside by a random male protagonist with no claim whatsoever makes me lose my mind lmfao. BUT SHE IS THE QUEEN! She handles diplomatic and domestic issues all throughout the kingdom meanwhile Meliodas is in charge of the military, trade routes, training Holy Knights, and other little things that the Queen doesn't need to be involved with.

She acts more like the Elizabeth we meet at the beginning of the series, a little more reserved and a little shyer but she will stand her ground and be the Queen her kingdom needs when the time calls for it.

Nakaba, I like you sometimes and all, but that god awful, horrible, eye traumatizing DRESS you put that beautiful woman in is a crime against women. I WON'T STAND FOR IT! Elizabeth wears the most REGAL ELEGANT gowns. Thinking more of victorian and medieval fashion slapped together with some Targaryen fashion sprinkled in as well. She WILL be dressed beautifully with a silver band that wraps around her head with little jewels and crystals hanging from it. Meliodas has a gold band with a single gem, indicating his status as the Prince-Consort to the Queen, and then Tristan has a silver band like his mother with sapphires and pearls, indicating HIS status as the Crown Prince of Britannia and biological relation to the Queen of Britannia.

Oh, final thing. BAN, MELIODAS, ELIZABETH, AND ELAINE HAVE ALL HAD A FOURSOME AT LEAST ONCE I DON'T MAKE THE RULES I'M MERELY A PAWN IN NAKABA'S GAME

okay okay I'm so sorry I went on a tangent BUT I HOPE YOU ENJOYED! I love answering asks so keep them coming! Feel free to ask about Half Light as well! I'd love to chat about it!

[kelpiemomma]

That post about kayaking got me thinking about something. About Akari living in the Highlands with Ingo close to/during winter where snow is slowly starting to cover the area. About Akari being upset about something but she won't talk to Ingo about it. She insists that she's fine but as her dad, he knows better than that. If he can't help her by getting her to talk about it, then he can help by getting her mind off of it for a little while. By engaging in a snowball fight. She's fairly annoyed at first. Until one of their Pokemon throws one at Ingo in her defense. It quickly turns into chaos and they even manage to drag an unsuspecting Melli into it. Eventually the father daughter duo settle down by the fire to warm up and she's finally able to tell him about what's bothering her.

THIS IS SO FUCKING CUTE THO???

Akari is so used to the adults just giving her things to do, putting yet ANOTHER responsibility on her shoulders, that while she doesn't expect Ingo to do the same she's like... "well obv i am an adult now and I must keep my problems To Myself" and Ingo is like "darling child, you are a baby" bc Akari is still... idk. 13-15? That melodramatic age all teenagers go through where they think they're alone made worse by people going "also do this or die :)"

And Ingo is so Irritated by it but he doesn't have the power to tell ANYONE putting all these things on her shoulders to knock that shit off, that she's a kid, because she was doing it all before she met hm and he has no "legal" control over her. He tries to put her at ease as best he can but he's unwilling to confide in him bc she's an Adult doing Adult Things and he can't change her mind to ask for help or express her frustration.

So winter hits and she's been spending time with him, Melli over to visit and bug them both (he'd never admit he's been a little lonely, that he sees the warden and his adopted daughter as something like his closest companions in the highlands), and one night a blizzard blows in and covers EVERYTHING nearby in snow. Traveling too far is impossible by foot, and her pokemon are so blasted tired that she can't bear to ask them to take her anywhere. The snow is deep enough that even lord wyrdeer and lady sneasler and lord braviary are like "darling child, fuck no" so Ingo takes Akari with him to clear out the worst of the snow just from where he lives. And Melli is bitching about the cold and Akari is pouting and frustrated and snaps at him that she has too much to do, too much to handle, she can't be WASTING TIME here...

And Ingo throws a snowball at her.

It catches Akari in the face, gentle, but catches her off guard. She's standing still, confused and angered about what just happened, and Ingo does it again. Because he has very few memories, but he DOES remember someone important to him spiraling, and that he needed to help distract them, and so he did something they'd never expect. So he does it to akari. And she starts yelling (not as loud as Ingo can get) and he just throws another snowball and says if she wants him to stop, shes going to have to make him.

And the snowball fight starts off angry on Akari's side because she's stressed and scared and frustrated, so she starts yelling at Ingo except Melli joins in and also throws a snowball at her. She has no choice but to throw snowballs back (the idea of goin back into Ingo's home never occured to her) and at first she's mad, but then Ingo makes a move to dodge one of her throws except he slips, goes pinwheeling into Melli, and they both land in a snowbank. Melli immediately gets up, complaining about being cold, and goes inside to warm up but Ingo and Akari stay out a little while longer until theyre just chasing each other through the snow and laughing. Akari manages to shove a handful of snow down the back of Ingo's tunic, and he retaliates by filling his hat full of snow and slamming it onto her head.

And when they go back inside, the fire already lit with Melli snoozing in front of it, Akari's eyes start to water and then dribble with tears. And as they dry off and change clothes, pulling blankets around them as they sit in front of the fire, she curls up into her dad's side and quietly, fighting back tears, tells him about how scared she is of what she's doing, how she knows she can't say no. Ingo holds her close and promises that if she wants to stop, he'll help her, and if she wants his help, it's always ready to be given. Whatever she needs, if he can provide it he will. And for the first time in what feels like forever she relaxes, takes a deep breath, and lets herself be helped.

[tojikai]

I know you already explained a bit of it, but why was it so easy for him to act right for Naomi and not y/n though?? Even with y/n faults, how could you not give what the one you claim to love the most wants, needs, and that has been trying hard for you, her faults aside, and the mother of your child, but yet so easily give it to a new woman? Y claim to love less and who isn't the mother of your child and most definitely didn't put up with your shit the way y/n did😩

If I were y/n I would be so bitter regarding that for like forever, but if he got with Naomi before y/n came into his life, would he still act right for her?

Would he and Naomi even date if she came into his life before y/b did? 😭😭

Maybe it’s because I’m still young? Actually I’m pretty sure I’m the same age y/n had yui😦 but I personally would never get over naomi and everything he did, I would probably always get so sad thinking about everything that gojo did for Naomi's and his mother’s sake

I would forever be heartbroken and think of what could’ve been if he kept his promise

I would probably have hella mood swings with him and think about how I can’t completely be genuinely happy due to it but i could’ve if it hadn’t happened

idk if i'll explain this well but you see…sometimes we treat new things better when we first have them. we leave the old ones, bc apparently this new one works better. so you try, protect it from scratches and harm. because there's literally no reason to damage it, it's new and it feels so new. you try not to make the same mistakes you made with the old one so it doesn't end up like that. until you realize that the old one actually feels more right for you, like it fits you more. it was the same w them, naomi was good to satoru, he didn't want to hurt her like that. she's a new rs, she gave him the feeling of starting fresh and new again. he wanted to be better with her bc he didn't want to make the same mistakes as he did with his previous rs, so that he will know that it wasn't entirely his fault that it fell apart. it made him feel better, treating naomi well felt like he was a new person. he wanted to do it w yn too. why didn't he? because she's not letting him. instead of letting him fix their rs, she started to pull away bc she herself doesn't know what else to do but protect herself from their fights and his mom. satoru had his realizations abt how much yn put up w his shit, it was written in chapter 3 (i think, when he was drinking). that's why he regrets not fighting more for her and yui.

if he got w naomi before all that, they'd be having problems here and there but not as bad as yn's and his. probably not enought to break up too, bc his mother won't be adding fuel to the fire.

and yep, yn wouldn't forget that either. after all, scars do not disappear. but wounds heal and when they do, they do not hurt anymore, not with time. just a reminder that it happened. and it didn't kill her, it didn't kill them. sure it's hard, but it's up to them if they'll give up again or try.

i'm sure yn's bitter abt satoru a lot of times, there's always attitude, but he doesn't want to give up anymore. he's been through that, he won't be able to take it back, but he can give her something better. it's up to yn if she'll accept that :>

[red-hood-vigilante]

it's so disheartening to watch bc i just KNOW it was bc of the writers seeing audiences hate sam and glorifying dean and playing into that narrative that sam is unreasonable, selfish and cruel to dean when he just... isn't.

YES you literally stole the words right from my brain! I actually saw an article that someone wrote saying supernatural would have been better off without Sam after season 9 or something, and I just stopped reading because it was absolute bull. Sam is one of the only reasons I watch spn, if they'd have dropped him I never would have watched it again

and it sucks to watch bc sam doesn't give the same shit back to dean and there's no catharsis for sam's pent up frustrations and anger so their relationship is so one-sided

Also this. One scene that bothered me was when right before dean left with cas while Sam was doing the trials, he said that Sam of all people needs a chaperone while he's doing the important stuff. And I literally just thought to myself, if there was ever a time for him to stop being a dick it should probably be when his brother is dying and trying to save the world by closing the gates of hell, but no not even then. And worse was when Sam overheard and instead of defending himself, decided that completing the trials and dying would be better than living with a brother who thought so little of him :( until dean talked him out of it of course.

I just couldn't understand why the writers would make Dean such an asshole but still make almost every other character in the show love him while still leaving Sam isolated and lonely. Honestly I would have been very happy with an episode that was just Sam being happy with his own life outside of Dean, without someone dying. It seems like we saw a lot of that with dean but not with Sam. Instead it seems like the writers tried their hardest to make him seem boring just because he didn't like the same music as Dean, didn't eat the same things as Dean, didn't laugh at Dean's jokes and basically just because he was his own person and not dean 2.0

I'm sorry if these asks are too long and rambling I just have a lot of frustrations with what they did to the show 😅

don't be sorry, i love rambles and rants 💗 as you can see my answers are just as rambling

i was genuinely baffled when i saw sam go through the trials and carry this burden for the greater good only for dean has the damn nerve to say something so shitty. again, dean has this ingrained idea that sam is a kid who doesn't know what he's doing - to some extent i can understand this notion bc dean did help raise sam since he was a baby and struggles with letting go of this kid (interesting pseudo-parent and child dynamic here) and accepting sam as an adult (which was what their s5 dynamic was about and it led to some growth on dean's part that regressed since) - but since sam has proven himself perfectly capable of surviving and completing the trials (as well as hurdles from past seasons), it's so utterly condescending and demeaning on dean's part to say something like that (s2 dean would never!).

at the point of s9 in the show dean was so utterly despicable to me i couldn't wrap my head around how he was so respected and loved by side characters (bobby, jo, castiel, charlie) bc the thing is right, that dean was so rarely written to be in the wrong by the narrative when it came to any conflict bc regardless of what he did and who he did it to, there would always be bigger issues going on so his wrongdoings would always take a backseat to the Big Bad of the season and the show would twist his actions be accepted or even 'necessary' at times bc for whatever reasons. it was such a blatant response to major parts of the audience putting dean on a pedestal and declaring him the poor misunderstood bisexual king. AND he was constantly prone to violent outbursts and temper tantrums when he got bad news or you know... somebody just disagreed with him...mans a walking red flag

the more space they gave dean and his emotions, the less there was for sam or anyone else and the writers didn't know how to take dean's mistakes and turn it into a redemption arc/an arc where he realizes how much the people around him have been hurt specifically because of him, his words and his actions, sam in particular. while kripke era isn't perfect, sam still had anger, sass, snark and the ability to stand up for himself even when he felt guilt or shame bc there was to some degree a balance to their dynamic. sam being the opposite of dean was never boring, writers post kripke era just wasn't capable of handling properly him as a character parallel with the storylines, which is a shame i think

[initiumseries]

Hey! so idk if this has been said before but julie plec or whoever came up with all these pregnancy plot lines on tvd really gave strong pro-life vibes. like there's caroline who is impregnated without her will, she essentially does not have the choice to not keep it bc the emotional fallout would be crazy and they're the last of the coven and it's all super tragic. then there's hayley who is pregnant with the child of literally the most abusive man on the planet and Elijah decides that this baby will be their saving grace, and there's no question of whether hayley can have an abortion (iirc) then she moves in with what is supposed to be the most nefarious family which just further puts her in a situation where she can't safely make the decision to not have the child if she so decided.. like they really seem to be pushing an agenda here imo, the option is just never on the table for this or that reason

In general i hate when tv shows give an accidental pregnancy to a woman and the word abortion isn't even mentioned.

do u have any thoughts on this?

love ur blog btw <3

Thanks anon!

Yeah, so, having been around the tv block, I can say, the pro-life vibe from TVD based on their pregnancy plotline choices aren't unique to TVD. Almost every single American show I've watched that introduces a surprise baby plot, abortion isn't on the table. In more modern times, let's say the last 10-15 years, abortion has become peppered into dialogue as an option, but never as a solution. It's usually a miscarriage, or in the case of, Gossip Girl for example, the fear of pregnancy, but then not being pregnant. And tbh, I think that's just the general social conservatism, though. I find that abortion, just with regular people is a touchy topic, so writers tend to play it safe, or they overplay it (TVD) and do some really weird shit that crosses some boundaries when they aren't good writers. I can only think of one show where the woman actually went through with an abortion, and it was an Australian show called Please Like Me, and I liked that, she quietly had her abortion, and wasn't like, bouncing back and happy the next episode, it sat with her for a couple episodes, and she wasn't really interested in talking about it. It was just something she had to do. I thought that was a decent, balanced approach. I would like to get to a time where abortions in tv are looked at the same way any other medical procedure would be, but with the state of things, I'm not sure that's possible lol.

As for TVD specifically, I think part of the problem is, Julie & co are absolutely horrific writers, and their understanding of consent is OBVIOUSLY murky. They have a history of messing with the consent of the women on the show (Elena & sirebond, Caroline and compulsion etc). So when Haley got pregnant I rolled my eyes SO hard, because it was also meant to be like, Klaus finally has a family, and it's fraught and there's anxiety of keeping this baby, blah blah. But honestly, any sane woman would've just gotten an abortion and disappeared lol. Caroline being nonconsensually impregnated with the twins was like...the stupidest plotline to me because I kept feeling like, there HAD to be a better way to execute it, but it goes to show how bad they are at writing. There were a million ways to execute that stupid plotline that didn't force Caroline to give birth against her will. Julie ripped so much from btvs but somehow missed the Dawn plotline where Dawn was just THERE, and as viewers we were all like...???? But to everyone else, they'd always been there? Or the children being introduced and left in her care? Like a BUNCH of other ways that would've also been more narratively interesting than THAT. And because of the lack of consent, and all those things, it comes across as ESPECIALLY pro life because abortion isn't even an option, it's an unwanted and unplanned for pregnancy, and yet still the woman goes through with it. I don't know that that was their intent, because I don't know much about their politics, but the optics are awful. It's tempting to say that they're too stupid to see what they've done, but I think, even if they are, it doesn't make it less problematic.

[grassanticipatinglightning]

I had to learn how to post on tumblr to get this fan theory on the record before Rick Riordan does it better

The River Styx is the symbolic will and force behind Mortality itself--The paradoxical power that comes from weakness, the quality of life that comes from a limited and unknown quantity. It's the power the gods envy their demigod children for. Obviously, the will/essence of Mortality can't be an immortal, so it's a river--a river so powerful the Fates respect it.

The gods offered to make Percy a god, sworn on the River Styx, and he refused. Instead he said to pay their fucking child support (or, as he put it in CotG, systemic change). And then they didn't. And why? Because it's not in their nature to give a shit. Giving a shit is a super-power afforded to those of us who can die and get sick and be hurt and watch loved ones go through the same. The gods are, from a human perspective, spiritually sick. It's what happens to certain humans as well, when they are protected from consequence. They swore on this power that they cannot, or possibly will not, understand.

Anyway they swore to Styx they'd do the systemic change, then they didn't, so now Styx is making Percy a god. He hates this, and will be the last to notice. But the Styx needs a mortal champion who does understand suffering and powerlessness (hello allegorical representative for all abused, disabled, traumatized children) so instead of forcing the gods to respect mortality it's creating a being who can hold them to it.

What's he a god of? Loyalty is obvious and might becone the canon word, but I'm going to get more specific: it's the type of mortal loyalty that is driven by awareness of our common weakness. In other words, "Solidarity." Percy is the god of solidarity. The gods already know it's happening, to varying degrees, by ToA. I have lots of evidence but none of it matters bc no one's going to read this, I just need the time stamp, and it won't feel satisfying or true in some Tumblr essay--it has to be unfolded in the narrative--including a pretty impressive meta-narrative involving Riordan's and PJO's positioning as "weirdly actually effective" white-cishet male-ally avatars (though I can't say fully-abled, because obviously Percy's got ADHD/c-PTSD/dyslexia out his ass and bc Rick, no one actually believes you're neurotypical)

Oh, bonus points: I'm not sure Zeus actually made Apollo mortal, I think that might have been Styx or even Percy or smn, idk, haven't read all those books and I'm less sure about that. I just know it'll fit in some narratively satisfying way. Apollo is now also toeing the line between mortal and immortal, spiritually, and he respected Percy from the jump.

[pbjhellyeah]

TW: beating, blood

STOP IT maybe their parents were out one night and Darry took the opportunity to apologise bc he would still never let his parents know under any circumstances.

it would've been after dinner and pony and soda were in their room minding their business, feeling content but after all they were dealing with, constantly on edge. it traumatised them so bad :(.

Darry knocked on the door and there was no answer. they hadn't said two words to him in days. he gingerly opened the door and walked in, trying his absolute best to not seem intimidating, but as soon as he entered, Pony and soda both shot up, and soda swiftly pulled pony close to him, as if darry was a complete stranger. they both stared at darry with the same look of pure hatred and cautiousness. This sent darry into a quick state of dissociation, because they were looking at him the way they'd look at the other socs. that made darry finally realise he was one of them, he was becoming the very epicentre of his brothers' fear.

"what?" Soda asked, on high guard as if facing down a shark or a bear.

"when the guys and I give y'all a hard time," darry began, "y'know I don't mean anything by it right? but I'm s-"

"don't mean anything by it?!" soda interrupted, letting go of Pony and walking up to darry. "So when you ripped up the essay I spent six hours workin on you didn't mean anything by it? When you called me stupid and said I wouldn't amount to shit in my life you didn't mean anything by it?" Soda was furious at this point, getting consistently louder as if a dam of fury had broken inside of him, "WHEN YOU GAVE ME A FUCKING BLACK EYE YOU DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING BY IT? WHEN YOU DAMN NEAR BROKE PONY'S WRIST YOU DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING BY IT?"

Truthfully, darry was a little afraid, he had never seen soda in this state, and couldn't bear to acknowledge he was the one who put him there. "Soda, I'm so sorry," darry reached out to pull soda into a hug as he would've done when they were kids, but Soda wasn't taking it. He twisted darry's arm, almost breaking it, completely debilitating darry's movement, and pushed him full force into the wall next to them. Darry slammed against it and fell to the floor. He felt blood dripping from his nose. He got to his feet and said defensively, "this is the reputation you're giving yourself, and that ain't anyone's fault but yours."

Soda was so angry it was making him physically nauseous. He punched darry right on his already damaged nose. He then grabbed darry's shoulder and punched him in the stomach, making him fall to the floor. Soda didn't stop there. Darry was miles stronger than soda, but in that moment he had no way of defending himself. Soda beat him to a bloody pulp. He'd never normally be violent, and he'd certainly never be violent in front of ponyboy, but his judgement was so clouded by rage that he just kept going, sobbing as he beat the living hell out of his once favourite person.

He only stopped when pony yelled through tears, "Soda please stop, you're gonna kill him!" And if pony wasn't there, that could've happened. Soda stood up and stared down at what he'd done. Darry was drenched in blood, bruises forming all over his body, and he was crying. Out of fear. He never cried, especially out of fear, but he was so convinced he was going to die at the hands of his kid brother.

Soda knelt down beside him, and said, "you feel that Darrel? That's what you did to me." He then turned to ponyboy, but stopped. He kinda stumbled backwards a few steps, and he fell to his knees and started to bawl. Every single emotion had bubbled to the surface, and he felt so damn mixed up. He kept losing his breath amidst his tears, sat against the wall he had slammed darry into, hugging his knees like a frightened child. At this point, darry had regained some strength, and again, reached out to hug soda. Soda didn't relent this time, but he didn't hug back either. He just simply allowed darry to hold him, and profusely apologise about what he had done, Pony joined the hug soon after, and they all kinda just sat on their bedroom floor, sobbing and apologising. and although all this didn't fully fix their relationship with darry, they knew how truly sorry he was.

OMG SO when Darry was friends with all those socs he would bully Sodapop so bad in the halls with them. Sodapop would be against the wall sitting on the floor from being shoved by Paul, looking at his big brother expecting him to help him. Darry felt a pang in his heart but he laughed with his friends and called him dumb and stupid, just like everyone else. Soda cried so hard.

They wouldn’t pick on Pony as much (mostly because Darry was to embarrassed for his friends to go to his house) but when they did it was so horrible. Pony, who was so small being in the middle on a circle of big soc boys and his big brother. Being shoved around. Eventually Soda would try and help him but still-

Darry feels so horrible for what he did when he was a “dumb teen”

DUDE i could talk about this for HOURS-be careful or you might open the floodgates

He’d make sure to be “lighter” but he also always told his brother if h they told their parents he’d kill them and it got to the point where Soda would purposefully avoid going the same routes in school as Darry beating he didn’t want him or his Soc friends beating him up. Soda would cry so hard his throat hurt and he wouldn’t speak to darry for days, no matter how many times he apologized. Soda was already depressed in school and he didn’t need his own flesh and blood telling him that too. They never told their parents, but he also wouldn’t let his parents near his soc friends because he found his dad’s happy and goofy personality embarrassing and he found his mom to be “too much” around his friends so he’d always either go out or sneak out.

Little twelve year old Pony too just being in the middle of this ring of Soc boys, Darry could see the fear in Pony’s eyes too and just felt horrible. But he just went along with it and told Pony to not be so weak and to stick up for himself…it got to the point he let one of his friends burn Pony’s favorite book and didn’t do a thing about it as Pony wailed for his big brother to make it all stop and Darry just stood there.

He does everything he can yo make it up to them now. He’s VERY careful with his words now with them (Pony isn’t a reliable source so there’s some wiggle room between canon and not) and he’ll sometimes randomly jsut ask his brothers like “you know I’m sorry? You know I never meant it..? You know I love you, right..?” and he gets so close to just crying. It literally keeps him up at night sometimes.

I will ramble about this.

[kira-fluff]

Imagine the bros with someone who was a gremlin as a child and just nonchalantly tells them their stories. For example in kinder I got dared to put a rock in my ear and my little five year old self was not gonna back down. I had to get that rock removed by a doctor 😭.

a/n: i love this oddly specific request as well as the flawless usage of the descriptor "gremlin". i too was a lollipop-stuck-to-hair, hot-mess-express child. thank u for sharing your amazing story x i took the liberty of using as many funny childhood stories as i could remember, as well as your own (thought it a befitting tale to tell to lucifer lmao) disclaimer: this is assuming that you had a childhood full of crazy events, but none including ab*se of any kind. these are silly, funny memories, not ones that would hurt you to this day. tw: language, mention of children in the future (not totally breeding kink tho), established relationship unclear so just decided that for yourself bc im lazy

reacting to funny stories from your childhood - obey me! brothers x reader

stories of your childhood were always something most found entertaining, but you found that these stories intrigued your demon roommates even more so. it started off as a comment you'd mentioned off-hand, but the brothers urged you on, hooked on hearing some of your stories - after all, it had been a few hundred years since they'd been children.

"...so one time i got dared to put a rock in my ear and, of course, only losers back down from a challenge--" "you didn't" "--so i put that rock right in my ear! then i had to go to the doc to get it taken out, but at least my friends knew i ain't no pussy." "of course you did."

lucifer

trying to pretend like he doesn't care

but is easily baited into the conversation when mammon says "the person who knows the most 'bout y/n is obviously ME!"

rolls his eyes, but you can see his head turning to listen to you better

is rude af about it once you finish your story smh

"it all makes sense now, that rock must've replaced your brain"

smirks throughout the story, making focused eye-contact with mammon because his dumbass did the same thing. LAST. MONTH. (for a bet, of course, that he lost)

scoffs at your story, but can't help but continue to listen with a smile

he's got it bad

feels the need to one-up your stories with stories of his own (that aren't embarrassing at all, but that prove that even at the age of 2 he was a badass)

can't help but let his mind wander to having a child with you (he's domestic af okay)

"let's hope your our child inherits more of the father's genetics"

i dare you to smack him upside the head he deserves it for being a snarky little whore

just run away after, it's not like he'll catch you he def will

"...and then my sister took my doll, so then i tackled her to the ground and started chocking her. she passed out but she had it coming. my mom grounded me for like a month but i didn't care because guess what? my sis never took my doll again" "remind me not to take your shit anymore oh fuck--"

mammon

oh? cute stories about your childhood?

he's all ears

can't help but turn it into a competition to see who knows you the best or who your favorite is

so badly wants you to say it's him ;-;

was expecting stories about maybe the time you made your first friend or when you learned your first word

nope

he's over here sweating bullets because did he remember to put back all that stuff he took?

he wasn't gonna sell it or anythin'.. he just kinda likes the way yer stuff smells... not in a creepy way though, ok?!

and like, you hadn't noticed yet

so of course he was gonna keep some of your stuff!!!

but.. but you choked your sister for stealing a doll?

not even lucifer was that... extreme

may or may not find him in your room, putting all of your things back in the places he recalled he'd taken them

you'd just laugh, saying you didn't mind as long as it wasn't something you really needed

he breathed a sigh of relief

he was genuinely about to shit his pants when you walked through the door

"'m too young to die! swear i was jus' lookin' at 'em!"

"..one time my dad was in a bad mood so he got mad that i passed the ketchup bottle without the cap facing DOWN so that all the ketchup was able to be poured out quickly. so then, when he asked me to pass the salt, so i looked at him, then turned the salt shaker face down and handed it to him as the salt was pouring out..."

leviathan

already tweeting "STORIES FROM Y/N'S CHILDHOOD?!?!??! #REALSHITSABTTOGODOWN #STANRURICHAN"

spurs him to tell his own stories about his childhood (he wants to share but swears its sO emBarrAsSinG"

swears he was into anime as a newborn

is honestly a lil giddy to hear your stories and laughs at them just as much as everyone else

whenever you come into his room while he is gaming he wants you to tell him more of the stories from your childhood

"LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOO Y/N IS A SAVAGE"

doesn't find it hard to believe that you were just as sassy as a little child

you're just like him <3

kinda blushes imagining the two of you being childhood besties uwu

like he gives bullied in high school vibes for some reason idk

i can just imagine the two of you being the best of friends

you'd make him lil flower crowns while he ranted to you about his pokemon card collection

he's so SOFT for you omgggg

would quite literally die for you if he had to but im getting off topic

anyway, please never stop talking to him, it's his number one fear <3

giggles in the dorky way he does when you get super expressive

"...there was this day when i was eight and i didn't want to go to school anymore and i was bored in class so i decided right then and there that i would lose my tooth and get one of those crappy-looking 'tooth necklaces'..... not five minutes later, i ripped my front tooth out and was sent to the nurses with blood dripping down the hallway. i was so proud of myself but it turned out i had accidentally ripped out an ADULT tooth. my parents were pissed, but i was proud because i got to go home and eat ice cream for two weeks."

satan

THRIVES off the stories of you being a little shit as a kid lol (or the stories of you being a little shit now)

that being said, WHAT THE FUCK

he forgot how wild kids can be, much less YOU

i mean, you were sent to the demon world and all you did was shrug and roll with it??? who even are you????

you even felt a little bit of pity for your parents, bless their souls

he smirked at the part where you got out of school as you clasped your chest proudly

it was cute to watch you get excited about all your little adventures from when you were younger - it's hard to believe that was only a few decades ago (to him)

finds himself looking for the you now in your old self

he's easily able to identify some of your key traits: stubbornness, strength, optimism, kindness, wit...

you were always this way, he thought, and it was reassuring.

a little smile crept up his face, taking over the neutral expression that once adorned his soft and regal features

you were always something something special

"...and then the teacher was wearing this ugly ass skirt and so my sassy little six-year-old self was like 'did you dress in the dark or something? because your shirt doesn't match your skirt'... i feel kinda bad about it now but it was iconic back in the day."

asmodeus

gives you exaggerated reactions to each part of your story, but they're genuine

gASP

hand over mouth

laughs at the parts when you get super animated

insists your are doing her a favor by helping her with her fashion dilemma

honestly he probably has some similar stories to share himself

gushes about how the two of you are so alike that it is shocking

(i mean i guess sorta? jk u wish)

"we're so similar.. let's go to my bedroom and find out what is different"

all his other brothers simultaneously shout, "NO"

i headcanon that asmo has dimples that come out when he truly, REALLY smiles and he does it when you talk about your childhood

you get all excited and he can't help but just shout, "oH you're SO cUTE~~~~~!"

"....i backflipped into the christmas tree and the next thing i knew i was in one of those crusty ass hospital beds. so yeah, i don't recommend doing that."

beezlebub

got lost half-way through the story when he got up to get a snack

next thing he knew you were talking about backflipping???

still though, he found it really cute how you got all soft when talking about the way that your mother started crying once you woke up only for her to fall into a fit of rage the next moment

the moment actually brought tears to your eyes, reminding you of a part of yourself that did really miss home and the people that you left there

his eyes widened, taking in your shrinking form

as if his arms moved on his own, he moved to grasp you in a tight embrace

your sniffles ceased and you even let out a little giggle, "beel, you're squishing me"

he apologized, his purple eyes full of worry and remorse

you only shook your head, mumbling a quiet, "i'm fine"

he realized that even though devildom seemed like home to him now, he also knew what it felt like to have to get used to an entirely new place, especially going from being an angel to a deadly sin

so he cherished those moments in his heart, but he was hesitant to ask you more about your childhood, afraid that the memories, while happy, would also make you homesick

he cares for you so much, don't ever think otherwise <3

"...i skipped class so many times because i slept in - and like, usually i'd just show up late, but i had decided that i will never be that loser who ran to class. if i was gonna show up late, i'd show up looking good. so i'd curl my hair and put on makeup if i was late. i'd be more late, but i'd look like a bad bitch."

belphegor

your "idgaf" personality reflects his quite well

the amount of times he's tried to skip school because of sleeping were too far to count

yet lucifer always forced him to take part in the daily academics activities

honestly sort of jealous of you

still, he gets over it quickly, though, when he sees the cute little crescents that your eyes form

can't help but not be mad at you

and now he knows the perfect person to go to when he wants to escape the world and take a big nap

maybe miss a few classes on the side with you :)

you're his special napping buddy

a/n: this was sorta ass but just ignore it

[hisseptember-arch]

i did a whole big writeup for september’s squ.id ga.me verse bc im Obsessed w it so uh...... its below the cut thanks

september is player 007, coerced into playing by their father robert, told they don’t want to know what would happen if they didn’t do it. september and robert were in korea because of the debts and crimes that robert had wracked up in america. robert runs to south korea when september is fourteen, and the pair quickly begin to pick up the language and settle in to their new home. it's not long until robert is getting back into old habits, soon getting in plenty of debt and getting caught up in shady shit. he goes back to the same money making scheme he'd had in america: prostituting his daughter out to anyone who'd pay. september's oblivious to how horrific it is, and this behavior continues for years without them ever becoming aware of the horror's they're being put through. it only stops when september is pushed into the games, robert believing it to be a better way to make money than if they just keep this up. but once september's in the games the reality of their situation begins to kick in, the life or death consequences becoming clear. they manage to get through for a while, fighting for their lives as much as they can. they can speak and understand korean enough to communicate with the other players and understand what's going on, but they're still very much feeling like an outsider. they're the smallest and weakest looking person there, perceived as stronger than only one person: the old man. when the riot breaks out september is quick to try to hide, knowing they'd be an easy and likely target. they soon get attacked, fighting for their life and barely managing to survive. they manage to steal the mans weapon from him and beat him to death with it, the man dying just as the lights come up. september steps out from the corner holding the weapon and covered in blood. this may cement their abilities in some people's minds, but they're still seen as weak, a child. it seems no one wants to pick them to team up with despite their survival instincts, well aware that a tiny girl isn't going to be the most strategic pick for a teammate.

[pinky-the-polar-bear]

gahabbsb cool!! i just recently made him so I don't rlly got much of a story goin on w him but I'll try my best to keep it short lolz. He's also a moth bc moths r cool

This fellas mother had an affair which resulted in his fur being a pink-ish color, his parents having a dark blue coat instead, his father quickly noticed. He knew something was wrong but didn't want to accept the fact his wife was unfaithful so he simply convinced himself that Vanilla ( temporary name) was just ill and needed help.

after countless of doctors who just gave him the same answer that his son was fine and it was the wife who was the problem, he found one who was willing to play along to the poor man's delusion. Dr. Dern. He was a sham doctor who believed that with a strong enough will, a superhuman could be made. He played along, claiming that Vanilla was deathly ill and needed help in a special facility. The father, finally happy his delusion was confirmed, quickly agreed, giving the boy who was only 7 to the doctor.

In the facility they focused on creating superhumans, trying to create someone stronger than strong. They did this by killing and draining all the blood from their subjects, Vanilla included, and putting them in a tank so their bodies can regenerate without being revived the 'normal' way, their mind in a coma-like state. Once the body was repaired they'd fill them back up w a new liquid to see what the affect would have on the child.

During one of these sessions some dumbass accidentally dropped their three flavored ice cream into his IV, mix that with the other liquids and his body was ultimately ruined. He's now quite literally made of ice cream. His eye changed due to the sudden rush of cold and they mistook the change for being the cause, removing his eye. When they realized they fucked up they just went ' Ah shit just put a button lol ' Too much stress, excitement, or heat and this guy will melt, the only way to bring him back from this state is by scooping up some of the remains and putting it in a freezer, he'll slowly regenerate himself as long as it's cool. He can create ice cream icicles but they will also melt when exposed to enough heat, he's basically useless in the summer.

As for the father, he divorced his wife and when he was about to look for his son when he heard a soft knock, opening the door revealed Vanilla. In the rush of the moment the two hugged, as stated before, excitement causes him to melt and the hug quickly turned deadly. Vanilla slowly suffocated his father and was ultimately left alone again, he has killed the only person he had left. Anyways yeah that's all I rlly have for him-

TL DR ; Father refuses to believe wife cheated, sends Vanilla to a facility for a fictional illness, Vanilla gets turned into ice cream and then accidentally suffocates his dad lolz

Damn. He's been through a lot. Poor dude deserves better. Though I don't think he's ugly. He's clearly been through Hell, but that hasn't stopped some characters from being cute. He looks as sweet as his name suggests! He can stay in my freezer anytime.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

#i do still think ingo should be an unsundered who Forgot tho#to mirror the came from the future thing + match up w/ emmet and also bc it's hysterical#volo would honestly work so well as any of the ascians it's not fair#ES elidibus fandaniel... the potential in all of them#id prolly go fandaniel tho for the drama of him Forcibly Becoming giratina's heart#and also the motives match up v well#(and also that line just before he jumps. ough the drama. the chills)#but then he doesn't get to participate until ew which is sad#unleeeessss he's actually still doing a similar thing to canon pla and pretending to be a chill guy who is your friend#which actually makes him mirror ingo v well#alright. tag plotrant over

siiiiigh goddammit this is the incomprehensible xover obsession of the week aint it

unsundered!ingo is the Watcher. keeping an eternal vigil over giratina, making sure the wards don't degrade, and also probably supervising mare lamentorum (which in this au is probably run by their unova teams/something like that instead of loporrits? idk i haven't decided but i feel like that makes sense)

...until fandaniel!volo gets up to the moon somehow. with the aim of, obvi, breaking through the wards. he's got a Plan for how to deal with the one and only guard, but unfortunately ingo is still more powerful and quicker on his feet than volo's anticipating (being, yknow, unsundered, whereas volo's rolling with a shattered soul and some scrambled bestowed memories, i think he follows the fandaniel line of not being one of the originals bc that's fun and flavorful) so while volo does succeed in getting rid of the watcher, the efficacy gets nerfed and he also gets his spell flipped back around on him, and now they're both banished from mare lamentorum with no good way back. volo gets to keep his ascian memories bc he's got a little crystal thingy to remind him, but he no longer remembers his human pre-ascian life, and ingo, naturally, remembers absolutely jack shit.

(they don't wind up in the same place either bc otherwise volo would have immediately turned around and murdered the fuck out of ingo bc of how pissed he is. idk where they do end up tho. put a pin in that)

MEANWHILE i think it would also be fun and appropriate for kamado to be a fourchenault analogue. altho probably also participating in the scions at the start of the game? since i also wanna keep that he's like Running the protag's org. and then you get the turning-on-the-protag happening around the final days, which is very appropriate bc yknow, red sky event. idk why he never told anyone abt the loporrits tho. maybe bc he knew they'd never be on board with abandoning the planet? bunch of stupid idealists the lot of them

this is a lot of rambling anyway. i think also it would be very funny if when the protag gets to elpis and meets uh, regular emmet, in addition to getting sniped on the whole time travel thing completely out of nowhere, emmet upon hearing the story is also like YOU'RE the warrior of light?? hero of your time?? who puts a CHILD in charge of the fate of reality?? and the protag is like YOU, DUMBASS

thinking abt that silly ffxiv au again. this time it's also very self indulgent bc i'm imagining emmet as hydaelyn

[cattles-bians]

damie vibecca exes au part 20

post directory

obsetress: ok but when they first meet

obsetress: at that bar on whatever night or whatever

obsetress: when dani and viola are talking

obsetress: viola's waving her hand around as she says something and dani's staring and then totally out of nowhere:

obsetress: "wanna compare hands?"

obsetress: "what?"

obsetress: "lemme see your hand"

obsetress: and dani is grabbing one of vi's with both of hers and pulling it towards her "like this"

obsetress: and then dani's pressing their palms together and viola's raising an eyebrow and dani just GRINS and then even once they lower their hands back to the bar, neither of them move away

em: dani is SO bold i would die for her

obsetress: god same

obsetress: dani keeps glancing down at them as they're talking and she is NOT subtle

obsetress: viola catches her every time

em: maybe dani gets a smidge of smthn on the corner of her mouth and viola...

obsetress: viola pulls her hand away and dani blinks and her brows do that lil thing but then viola's murmuring "here" and grazing her thumb along the corner of dani's mouth

obsetress: dani squeaks

em: love when dani gets out dani’d

obsetress: viola's like "sorry, was that... was that okay?" and dani just swallows and nods with big shining eyes and then vi kinda hesitates and (they've been talking for a couple hours at this point, touchin hands and obv v into each other) lets her thumb graze across dani's bottom lip and she murmurs "what about that?" and dani's eyes flutter shut

obsetress: cut to: them making out in the bathroom

obsetress: no um

obsetress: thinking about vi and dani's first kiss and like

obsetress: maybe like right after that up there vi's leaning in closer and i think she. asks dani "can i kiss you?" and dani's whispering "please" and then they're kissing all soft and THEN cut to: them making out in the bathroom and one of them slamming back against the door and kissing hard

em: dani whispering please…

em: also the smash cut between um nervous anticipation and SLAMMING against a door is so funny to me

em: sums them up

obsetress: RIGHT

obsetress: it's so good i love them

obsetress: i cant decide like

obsetress: because i don't think vi would be so rough with dani at first as to shove her hard against a door and i DO think dani would be shoving her against the door and her tongue down her throat first chance she gets

obsetress: but i think vi prob flips them p quick

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em: i am. creasing thinking abt dani having to rename all of violas contacts like STOP FUCKING UR EX

obsetress: STOP FUCKING UR EX lskfjakdlsfjsd even BETTER

obsetress: edit the tumblr post coward

em: obsetress: no um dani definitely calls the landline once and viola's like "HELLO?" and dani's like "hi?" and viola's so glad to hear her dumb voice but she's still like "dani, why are you..." and dani's like "well... i, uh... i... i was... and then i..."

obsetress: anyway they have phone sex on the landline

em: CRYIN

em: danis blocked all of vis numbers except the landline shes down Bad

obsetress: yeah,

obsetress: (dani still comes over after)

em: unstoppable force (danis thirst) meet immovable object (violas stubbornness)

obsetress: just imagining like

obsetress: i mean either after this or at literally any other time

obsetress: dani and viola laying side by side in vi's bed catching their breath immediately after and viola's just like

obsetress: "you have the libido of a teenage boy"

obsetress: and dani's head just flops to the side to look at her and she just GRINS

em: dani makes some quip abt um

em: danis like i read somewhere women don’t hit their sexual peak until their 40s or something and violas like (extremely tersely) i’m 35

obsetress: SCREECH

obsetress: dani "no, i... i know, i wasn't–– i was just––"

obsetress: viola can't stay pressed w her

em: dani tryna explain her way outta that one i’m

em: dani has never once seen violas drivers license nor ID

obsetress: "i was just... saying, because, you know, i mean... for me, i'm... you know, i'm only ever getting more..." (flush, head duck, grin up through her lashes) "you know. and i'm getting older, so i was just... thinking. for me, i mean. thinking for me"

em: dani; also i give WAY better head than a teenage boy

obsetress: viola biting her lip, grinning, melting because how could you not? and then dani kinda stops in her tracks and her brows pinch together and she tilts her head at viola "i'm... a lot better at going down on you than a teenage boy though, right? i think i am" (long pause) "i hope i am"

obsetress: anyway viola laughs and tugs dani over n on top of her "i wouldn't know" and dani does her lil nervous laugh and is like "yeah, you're right, i guess not" "but" and dani's face lights up and viola continues "i think you probably are. and you're definitely up there" and dani just GRINS

obsetress: her head is back between vi's legs not three minutes later

em: dani talks big game n then like immediately double checks for validation

em: it’s an important part of her character growth!!!

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em: ok more ‘viola has been doing this lesbian thing for longer than jamie realises’ content but like

em: perhaps she has a whole lot of ear piercings that she just never wears

em: and then one day she’s like gosh gotta make sure these don’t heal over and jamies like

em: hey what the fuck

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obsetress: um suddenly had a thought

obsetress: viola tattoos

em: oh

obsetress: yeah, like um

obsetress: vi wouldn't have heaps and they'd be hidden bc Propriety but

em: hidden tattoos my beloved

em: all tattoos my beloved

em: i mean defs has like. the date and coordinates of isabels birth somewhere

em: but um! hmm

em: haha violets

obsetress: THE ISABEL THING WAS THE FIRST THING I WAS GONNA SAY

obsetress: violets are very vi tho like

obsetress: shade plant yk

em: under the tit

obsetress: I WAS GONNA SAY UNDER THE TIT

obsetress: GET OUTTA MY HEAD

obsetress: ok it has to be canon then if we both thought it

em: it’s canon!!

em: hmm what else

em: i think viola and dani have belly button piercings but like they got them separately

obsetress: omg when did they each get theirs

em: hmmmmmm

em: i mean wild child rich heiress viola (untapped potential here won’t lie)

obsetress: wild child rich heiress viola/boarding school wild child dani au

em: oh my god

em: viola defs went to a boarding school and dani n her commiserate over it

em: viola gets it done while she’s in highschool

em: dani post eddie break up

em: like symbolically reclaiming herself deal

em: doing things for Her

obsetress: YES

obsetress: i was gonna say vi highschool dani college

em: YES

em: idk what tattoos dani would get but am thinking abt viola holding her hand while she’s getting a tattoo or piercing done bc she’s braver than ppl think but Also

obsetress: vi holding dani's hand and telling her how good a job she's doing

obsetress: dani kissing vi's tattoos

obsetress: super fascinated even though shes seen them a hundred times

em: danis like haha and what’s this one mean (plants a big old smooch)

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obsetress: Shananigans402: dani putting on 4 inch heels and being so content that she's finally her girlfriend's height and then viola kisses her before putting on 6 inch heels with a smug little grin

obsetress: i––

em: oh my god shannon

obsetress: oh shes on one

obsetress: Shananigans402: dani starts keeping things on a high shelf in her place just so she can ask viola to reach up to get them down for her

obsetress: i was talking to shan abt the shelf thing

obsetress: and i played myself i think

obsetress: because now i literally cannot stop thinking

obsetress: dani putting the strap on the top shelf in her closet "baby 🥺 can you get it 🥺"

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[em note: once again it is the time honored timezone tradition of either sending ur friend something really good or really fucked up b4 they go to sleep]

em: what about

em: jamie and dani laying in bed after brunch w violas excessive amount of ear jewellery and jamies like ‘those were cool. i want some’ and danis like ‘with ur tiny lil ears??’ and jamies like ‘well. yeah…’ and danis like well. if u wanna. i think one would be cute here (mwah) and here (mwah) or maybe here (mwah)

em: ticklish jamie. that is my lil idea

obsetress: im Soft

em: thankyou

em: em softsbians

em: what was ur lil idea

obsetress: oh

obsetress: not obsoftress

obsetress: but um

em: look i was really hoping i could make it hornier but alas sometimes the idea is soft

em: can’t force the horny

obsetress: i will do my job n delivery the horny for u i suppose

obsetress: it's a hard job but somebody's gotta do it!

em: it’s a thankless job!

obsetress: dani, sneaking up behind viola to wrap her arms around her waist and bury her face between her shoulder blades: baby 🥺 can you get the strap 🥺

obsetress: dani, laying on the bed, staring up at her, panting: baby 🥺 can you get the strap 🥺

obsetress: dani, pulling away mid-heated makeout, half naked, still grinding into vi even tho they're not kissing anymore without even realizing it: baby baby 🥺 can you get the strap 🥺

obsetress: dani, catching her breath after her first orgasm, letting her head flop to the side to look over at vi: baby 🥺 can you get the strap 🥺

em: insatiable dani clayton my beloved

obsetress: thank you i agree

obsetress: something about dani calling vi baby also........................

em: oh i love dani calling vi baby SO MUCH

em: fucked up that dani clayton is potentially just the right height to motorboat vi pretty much whenever

em: sappho may u plant ur self face first into the breast of ur tender gf or whatever

em: dani: haha i’m so short i can’t reach it. can u lift me

obsetress: vi sees thru all of dani's little tricks but entertains them anyway

obsetress: because she knows shes gonna get to rail her at the end of them

em: dani being a little shit is foreplay actually clayton

em:

[spookysanta]

daddy’s girl. (e.d.)

Summary: he's been watching her and she knows it. He's yearning for her, and he’ll have her, but she has to finish high school first. 

Pairing: Ethan Dolan xReader

WARNINGS: age gap (38 vs 18), creep shit

SAY NOTHING IM WRITING A NEW SERIES JUST READ IT AND TELL ME IF IT SUCKS 

DISCLAIMER! PLEASE READ: in this, the girl (cairo) is of LEGAL age. he (ethan) refers to her as a child bc yanno.... he's almost 40 here. this isn't on any pedophile stuff, okay? just for clarification. AND as i was writing this i got jake gyllenhaal vibes from this, but then i figured ethan could be the “sexy dad” in the future (so to speak)—which is what i was kinda going for; like a man that’s older but is so irresistibly gorgeous, even young girls swoon over him.

UNEDITED

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She'd caught his eye. 

And he doesn't know how it came to be this way; he thought he was done messing around like this ages ago. But here he was, a thirty-eight-year-old man, watching an eighteen-year-old girl cheer at his neice's high school's football game. 

She sees him though; as if he's staring into her soul. As she finishes her tumbling routine in the halftime show, her eyes dart in his direction and his never leave her. She shivers slightly--

Who is that man? she wondered, walking away from the field to distract herself. 

**

She stands at the cash register, swiping his items across the scanner. "Did you find everything okay?" she asked in a monotone voice, looking at the clock on the register's screen. 

"Yes, I did. Thank you." the man responded, fishing in his wallet for cash as he already knew how much two bottles of red wine cost. "Do you need to see ID?"

"Yes, I--" she paused, looking at the man for the first time during their interaction. This was the man from the football game! She couldn't have forgotten those pearly eyes that bore into hers, and definitely didn't forget the way he ironically made her feel when their eyes locked. "I-I do."

"You okay?" he asked with a chuckle as he handed her his driver's license. He knew exactly who she was, and after a bit of research, he knows that she's what he wants. And, likewise, he knew that she remembered him. That in itself was exciting because now he knew where she was from 9-2 every Saturday--which meant he'd be seeing her a lot more. "You look like you've seen a ghost."

She glanced at the line forming behind him and shook her head at the idea of her confrontation. She took the card and read the birthdate carefully. "1980." she muttered, handing it back to him. "Your total's $18.20."

He handed her a $20, grabbing the bottles of wine by their necks and smirking. "Keep the change."

"Thank you." 

"You're welcome, Cairo. See you around."

**

She lay in her bed, wondering why this man clouded her thoughts. What was it about him that made him so intriguing? Yes, he was attractive, but he was more than twice her age--shouldn't that mean that he was repulsive to her? Should she shy away from this man and his beauty?

Ethan.

If there's anything she knew about men, it's that older men (well, boys, in her case) don't usually have the girl's best interest in mind. But no matter how many cons appear on this list, the only pro she seems to think of is the fact that he looked at her like he knew her already. His hazel eyes were almost magnetizing her brown ones to his gaze, and the energy was too strong to pull it away.

**

He's come to the realization that he's hooked on her.

He wants her, no--needs her. 

And he knows how crazy that sounds with all of the odds stacked against him (namely, her being a child by his comparison) but he'll admit they'd look absolutely perfect together. 

And there's nothing he won't do until they're in love.

**

day one.

She walked home from school every day. Three-fifteen on the dot, Monday through Friday. Sometimes, she takes the after-school bus after her cheer practices, and that drops her off on the same corner but at five-thirty. He sees her walk down Linden Avenue, then make a left on Conch Street, and then go into the tiny brick house at the end of the lively culdesac. Sometimes he sees her through her window at night, laying in her bed soundly. It takes everything in him each night to not climb up the big pine tree to the second floor, open the already unlocked window—she doesn't lock it anymore because the lock can get finicky at times and it can get quite hot in San Bernadino in May—and breathe in the same air as her.

Just once.

Just once, he wants to be there for her—hold her, kiss her, smell her, taste her.

Is that too much to ask?

Just one more month, he reminds himself as he perches himself on his porch chair, watching her walk into her home with her friend, Janelle.

He does not like Janelle.

Janelle has a tendency to be a bit manipulative when it comes to Cairo; she wants the best for her, of course. But she's always making Cairo go to parties that she doesn't want to go to, or do things that Cairo doesn't typically do.

Cairo's a good girl who doesn't need to be bombarded with social...ick.

"She's a good girl," he mumbled, palms set on his knees with white fingertips. "My good girl."

***

She continued her walk to the store like she usually does on Sunday mornings in the spring. Yes, she does work at the store, but why not stop by and visit her favorite co-workers while she picked up her favorite ice cream?

"Good morning, Edith!" she greeted to the elderly woman stood behind the customer service desk. She resembled Jane Goodall in a way; caring, generous, kind. "How are you today?"

"Hey, sweetie! I'm alright, hope you're doing well. Say 'hi' to Katherine for me!" she replied with a wave, going into the employee's lounge.

"Will do!" she wandered to the frozen food section, her coffee brown eyes set on the cookie dough ice cream in the freezer. With happy alarms blaring in her head, she grabbed a pint from the shelf, going immediately to the checkout line to pay for her dessert. "Hey Ricky." she said to the cashier.

"Hey, Cai." he responded, ringing up her ice cream and setting it on the counter. "$4.68. Got your employee ID on you?"

She fished through her wallet and came up emptyhanded. "Shoot. I must've left it at home." she sighed. "It's cool, I'll pay full price."

"Nah, I got you." he took a card out of his front pocket, swiped it, and put in his pin. "There ya go. $2.27."

"Thanks, Ky. I owe you one." She handed him a five dollar bill, keeping the cash fold of her wallet open so she could put her change in it.

"You know what you could do for me so we're even?" he opened the cash drawer, taking out her change and handing it to her.

"What?"

"Go to dinner with me." he wrote on her freshly printed receipt. "It doesn't have to be fancy, but if you're interested, you should hit me up sometime."

"Sure. I'd love to." she smiled, putting the receipt with her change and grabbing her ice cream off the counter. "We'll talk tonight?"

"Totally. See you around."

"See you!"

**

She entered the house again and put her ice cream in the fridge. "Ma!" she yelled into her mother's office as she passed it. "Ms. Edith at Ben's said 'hi'!"

"Aw, how sweet of her to think of me!" she said with a smile. "I'll have to send you by her house with a plate of cookies this week."

She groaned inwardly. Edith's a nice woman, but Cairo's mother, Katherine, does not conjure up her life-changing cookies on any given day. Which means that she would make a small batch—just enough for Edith and her husband, Clarke—and then, poof! No-one's going to see those cookies until Christmastime. Bounding up the staircase and into her bedroom, practically leaping onto her bed with a sigh.

Meanwhile, he was watching her still. He didn't even think to consider the idea of someone catching him stare at this girl, sat in the rocking chair on his front porch, watching her intently through a pair of zooming binoculars while she boredly scrolled through her phone. Quite frankly, he wouldn't care at all. If someone were to walk by and ask him what he was doing, he'd merely say: "Protecting my girl."

He doesn't give a damn if she took a glance out her window and saw a man—that man—staring back at her. Knowing her, which obviously he does, she'd probably scream for her mom and tell her mom to come and look because "there's a strange man" looking at her through her window. And then her mom would come and look but by then he'd be back in his home across the way from hers, in his bedroom, watching her panic through the telescope he'd set up.

That'd be a gift to himself, really. Because he knows deep within that she thinks about him. Even though maybe the thoughts are of worry or panic and not ones of admiration, all he cares about is the fact that he's invaded her thoughts just like she's invaded his.