#bc they're always flirty around each other

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one of the funniest aro traits i have is that i NEVER notice people i know being romantically into each other. they can be the most obviously pining couple in the world flirting ridiculously hard right in front of me and ill just be like wow, look at us three besties all just hanging out :) and then they'll be like btw we're dating now! and ill go WHAT???? oh that was romance??? WHOA. like yay happy for you!!! i just didn't clock it at all whatsoever!!!! (part of this is that im just an affectionate person with my friends and ill happily flirt with my besties and physically lay all over them with absolutely no romantic intent. so i forget that sometimes people are flirty or always concerned with each other for romantic reasons. like. EVERY time it's just oh YEAH... i forgor again...)

anyways, i like to hand this to bart allen, aroace extraordinaire. guy who just straight up forgets romance is real and not something they made up for video games with romanceable companions. he's happy for his friends when they say they're dating someone, bc they're happy so yay! but until they come out and say it he will NOT clock any sort of romance going on.

now i also like to imagine that when the gang are all like in their late teens to early 20s, there's some RIDICULOUS lesbian drama going on. cassie and cissie have been kinda sorta dancing around each order for ages, but then after kon's death and resurrection cassie got distant and cissie and anita started spending more and more time together, and cassie isn't proud to admit it but she maaaay have gotten jealous and fucked rose about it, and now cissie is giving her the cold shoulder. and rose keeps flirting with cissie even though she and cassie keep having unplanned hookups, and anita just asked cassie to be her plus one to a wedding and cassie is shocked she didn't ask cissie and what's going on?! is anita hitting on her??? omg??? wait but what's going on with cissie?? and....

anyway, all of this to say cassie is going the fuck Through it and it's a mess that she keeps bemoaning to kon while languishing on his couch and eating all his ice cream (kon is listening wide-eyed like "wow. if i ever need romantic advice, i'll ask you and then do the exact opposite of whatever you say.") this whole ridiculous affair is going on for months.

until one day there's a core four sleepover and kon is like soooo is it the time of night where we start unpacking the latest developments in cassie's love life? and cassie goes AUURGHGHRHH!!!! yes but oh my god shut up don't say it like that auugghhhh

and bart just looks at her and tilts his head like a puppy dog and asks "wait. you have a love life?? since when???"

silence.

cassie gawks. kon looks positively gleeful.

and then tim starts laughing so hard he doubles over and accidentally slams his head into the corner of the coffee table hard enough to get a mild concussion. bart's aro swag claims yet another victim

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☆ the wrong way to hard launch (11) | OP81

summary : oscar's girlfriend is a walking pr problem for literally everyone (including herself) social media au

pairing : oscar piastri x zhou!fem!singer!oc

a/n sometimes people aren't the nicest (and people can be severely delusional)

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↳ 🕯️manifesting EB3 🕯️@ linabelles · 2h what are y'all up to? ↳ lina !!! @EB_selina · 2h we went out to dinner tgt! authentic thai food and the night markets bc only grandpa aidan knows how to speak thai <3 ↳ Aidan Park @EB_Aidan · 2h Alex gave us recommendations 😊 ↳ kayla @luna_apocolypse · 1h deluding myself into thinking this is a producer-songwriter meeting

opal @pxastrixxx · 1h enough time has passed, i think we need to talk about how weird l*na is, a 🧵 ↳ opal @pxastrixxx · 1h and ik ur all gonna try defend her by saying its a stage persona yada yada but it's still weird the way she interacts with guys ↳ opal @pxastrixxx · 1h starting off with kas and lina, they keep insisting that they're just childhood best friends or smth but the massive shipping fandom they have just proves that ppl aren't blind and they're flirty ↳ opal @pxastrixxx · 57m idk how u comfortably flirt with ur so-called 'friend' in front of thousands of ppl each night and even in front of ur boyfriend??? and she's always the one instigating it (e.g. the glove thing) it's weird, does kas have a gf bc i feel sorry for her ↳ opal @pxastrixxx · 56m the whole thing with tommy howard is also childish, like its been 3 years and she's still so petty, it's giving: not over him, the whole comment on not dating athletes and then dating oscar just seems like she's trying to rile tommy up ↳ opal @pxastrixxx · 54m and that's not even covering the trouble she causes her management team, i swear, the past month i've known of her existence has been her causing drama, going viral, her pr team burying it and rinse, repeat, cycle ↳ opal @pxastrixxx · 49m whatever is going on between her and chris yamada is also WEIRD and it's always been weird bc she's mentioned having a celebrity crush on him and then they become friends? and then suddenly they stopped interacting in 2021? ↳ opal @pxastrixxx · 43m u think that maybe he's realised smth but then he comes back to perform with them in seoul and they hang out again which is just weird weird weird bc their 'friendship' back then was also shipped ↳ opal @pxastrixxx · 40m and i know i'm onto smth bc not all her male friends get shipped with her. her other male bandmates are seen as just friends bc she treats them like friends, the way she acts around kas and chris is just flirty and ppl latched onto that ↳ opal @pxastrixxx · 39m and ppl are so brainwashed they think her bluntness and lack of filter is 'authentic' and funny but she's being a self-entitled bitch and her fans keep inflating her ego ↳ opal @pxastrixxx · 36m and i haven't even mentioned her actions right after her final break-up with tommy like, going out to parties every week? seen with a different boy every time? making it a very public affair that then needs to be scrubbed from the internet by ur pr team? it says everything u need to know about her imo ↳ opal @pxastrixxx · 32m on top of all this, we all know oscar doesn't like the media and would want to keep his relationship private and l*na's blatant disrespect and showboating feels like she's just with him for the virality, it just looks performative ↳ opal @pxastrixxx · 30m i literally just want oscar to go back to his quiet life of just racing and stay away from that kinda lifestyle

kayla @luna_apocolypse · 1h is it just me... or did that lina post and reply not quite sound like her? ↳ june @linafesting · 1h was literally just thinking the same thing, that is not my girl ↳ kayla @luna_apocolypse · 1h i thought i was being paranoid but like, when was the last time she posted??? do you think management banned her from socials?

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r/EmptyBottles · Posted by u/buisms84 8 hours ago lina radio silence

does anyone else find it so weird how little promo lina is getting? like she's by far the most popular member esp since she's the FRONTWOMAN and she's been completely radio silent on socials since last weekend?

and not to discount any of the other band members ofc but everyone is noticing, like this is so not like the EB pr method?

so does anyone have any clue what's happening lol

dreamofbees · 8 hr. ago didn't she tweet a pic of her and aidan like last night? buisms84 OP · 8 hr. ago i think everyone and their dog knew that wasn't her

niaphilia283 · 7 hr. ago there's a twitter hate train rn it's causing a bit of a commotion and i think they (management) took her socials off her to prevent escalation buisms84 OP · 7 hr. ago wait, what twitter hate train? niaphilia283 · 5 hr. ago one of her boyfriend's deranged fans (user pxastrixxx) had a long ass thread basically calling lina a slut and saying she's just using him for clout but they priv'ed their acc now (i took screenshots if u wanna see)

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piaa⁸¹ @ papayaeightyone · 2h what happened to that one oscar user who had that fuck-long thread bitching about lina? ↳ piaa⁸¹ @ papayaeightyone · 2h i mean like i was also pretty against about her to begin with but i think anyone with eyes could figure that was a bit... right??? ↳ oscalina real ?! @emptyginbottles · 1h ppl aren't that smart and my girl is a pretty convincing actress

kayla @luna_apocolypse · 1h why was bangkok kinda robbed like 👀 ↳ kayla @luna_apocolypse · 1h it's one thing to put ur frontwoman on a social ban but to stop her from giving it all on stage is an insult. i firmly believe that it's criminal that the band management told lina to 'tone it down' on stage bc of the online noise which straight up isn't fair for the thai fans ↳ kayla @luna_apocolypse · 58m and she looked so miserable btw like it's the only thing you can notice in the tour videos, she's pissed off and she's trying so hard not to let it bleed into her performance

liv is SEEING EB LIVE!! @olivielina · 31m hot take: people have always been weird about lina's dating life and it's gone far beyond anything reasonable ↳ liv is SEEING EB LIVE!! @olivielina · 27m nobody take this the wrong way! i love her and oscar together, they seem really happy and enjoy spending time together, from what i can see they both put in effort to see each other (which is esp difficult with their jobs) but we need to leave them ALONE. she likes privacy and oscar is a very textbook introvert. those bitches do NOT want you prying into their lives, trust me on this

pookie piastri @op81ln4 · 2h the lack of individual content from both lina and oscar is convincing me those two are shacked up somewhere, trust 🙏 (i'm delusional) ↳ pookie piastri @op81ln4 · 2h YES IK LINA IS IN BANGKOK AND OSCAR IS IN MIAMI, THIS WAS A JOKE

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[little-miss-dilf-lover]

What would you think about HCs with Pietro x reader with retractable angel-like wings? 🕊 Imagine the flying/running dates they'd go on. Plus Pietro would love it when she wraps her wings around him and he would help her clean them if got dirty. And he would definitely call her 'înger' (angel). Take care!

omg thats perfect, like angel from xmen!! then you'd be a cute mutant couple bc pietro is also technically a mutant. thanks for requesting, sorry it’s so small💌

— pietro is very competitive, so he's always down for a bet. which would work perfectly bc you could have races all the time. he could speed and you could fly

— maybe he's like a child saying, "my feet hurt, carry me," just so you can hold him while you fly

— maybe you balance each other out, so say you want to go somewhere up in the hills on a budget he can run you both there, and you can fly you both up. also talking of which, you go on lots of lookout point dates, simply bc they're easy to get to and you can go when no one else goes (it's also more romantic and private)

— he loves to trace the wings when they're in your skin, like going over the pattern - he loves following the lines. he'd do it mindlessly. you don't even have to be engaged in what he's doing, you could just be reading and he'd sit beside you and go over the lines for hours and hours

— he thinks they're just the prettiest and that they suit you perfectly. the iridescent pinks and purples

— he calls you înger, in that smooth, silky, flirty way. but in the most normal of settings and environments

[joelsbeard]

oh em gee i’ve literally js found ur blog and i’m in loveeeeeeee

would you be willing to give us your hcs about young!joel and readers first time?? i’m such a whore for that man<33

Hihi!! Thank you you are are so sweet 😊also thank you for the ask :) the tlou fandom for sure needs more pre-outbreak!joel content!!!! I am starved for that shit. I love hot and old ass dilf joel don't get me wrong but mannnn he was so cute when he was younger 🥲 such a lil cutie.

I've never actually thought about this because my mind always jumps to once joel and reader are in an established relationship hehe or when they're dating but not quite official yet. I'm not sure about these hc's tbh, I hope you like them!!

To start off, I don't think joel was a player in high school at ALL. Though of course, with his damn looks he could be. I might even go as far as to say I think he could sometimes give off golden retriever energy? Maybe once he gets to know you. I don't think he'd be 100% golden retriever energy lol definitely not, thats tommy haha. I imagine him only having had 1 or 2 girlfriends in high school, bc like i said i don't think he'd be a player. Flirty with multiple girls at most but I think that might be pushing it.

For some reason I feel like you would be his second girlfriend lol, with the first being eh bc you know how dating is in high school. He probably would've tried some stuff with her (😡) but still inexperienced by the time he meets you.

After some time flirting, you guys go on a couple of dates and you both really really like each other, then afterwards is when you two finally decide to take the next step 🙈

He would never pressure you to do anything you don't want, because joel miller is a gentleman!!!

Your first time would probably be at yours or his house when you were able to find time alone since he would want y'alls first time to be special

The first time you see his dick you probably panic a little and he sees the blood drain from your face because he's definitely on the more gifted side (both in girth and length ;) ), but he just pulls you in close and reassures you that it's okay if you change your mind, he doesn't want to pressure you ❤️

This is the first time y'all have ever seen each other naked and he tells you "you're so beautiful" while he kisses down your neck to your chest

Ofc he makes you cum on his fingers once or twice to make sure you're ready and comfortable, and you try to reciprocate and give him a handjob first but shortly after you start he tells you to save it for another time, otherwise he'll bust a nut before he even goes inside you because he's so horny for you LOL

You struggle a little when he first pushes inside you because he's just so big, and he tells you "take your time baby" while rubbing his thumbs across your cheeks and kissing your forehead and nose as you take more and more of him

Once he bottoms out you both sigh and you tell him to give you a minute as you adjust to him, ofc he does as you ask but you can tell he's eager to start moving inside you and he almost starts shaking with the anticipation hahahah

You have your legs wrapped around his back as well as both arms, with one hand cradling the back of his head and tangled in his soft hair as you hold his head down to yours, and he's holding himself up above you with his forearms caging your head in

Once you get used to feeling him inside you, you tell him he can start to move slowly, so he just rocks back and forth in you while y'all are making out and grinding on each other like theres no tomorrow LMAO

He lets you finish first but he comes almost right afterwards inside you, and then you guys are just laying there in your post-nut bliss✨ before he slides out of you and gets a towel to wipe you down ❤️

Then you just lay in bed together and cuddle and kiss each other as he asks you "was that okay?" and you hold his adorable face in your hands and say "it was perfect" and give him a lil kiss on the nose because he's so cute

After that, y'all be fuckin like rabbits for sure LMAO until your last days 🙏🏼 HHAHAH

I hope I did your thoughts justice hehe, i was NOT expecting to write this much lol

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My Trafalgar Law HC’s!! pt.8🤍🤍

ft. Reader-ya!! + Harry Potter HC’s

Law can roll his R’s. He will flirt with Reader-ya doing this.

For Halloween, Law will dress up as a wolf and Reader-ya will be Little Red Riding Hood. (Reader-ya convinced him to do it !!)

Law really likes buying things for Reader-ya. He’ll remember her saying something like “I really want that, but I’m so broke waaa (;-;” and without knowing, he’ll buy it for her.

Law likes reading with and watching movies with Reader-ya. He likes cuddling with her under the blanket and smooching her.

He’s okay with PDA, but he only reciprocates. So, if she kisses him, he’ll kiss back. The only thing he’ll initiate is squeezing her hand to communicate.

Law will always hug and kiss her compassionately. He’ll also kiss her wrapped injuries after he’s done treating her or after a mission. If something requires bandages, he’ll always make a small bow for her as a small way of saying “I love you”.

Harry Potter HC’s!!

I think Law would be Ravenclaw and Reader-ya would be Hufflepuff.

I think Reader-ya would get bullied or hurt by someone (most likely Doflamingo) at Hogwarts and go to the infirmary room for routine checkups where Law works as a student.

Law would scold Reader-ya and listen to her and Reader-ya would open up to him. They'd talk and spend a good hour or so everyday after the first two or three meetings.

After a while, Reader-ya would stop showing up bc she's gotten better and Law gets really sad. But it's funny bc if she does show up then he'll be mad bc she's hurt LOL. He’s a total tsundere.

They discover that they take a lot of plant classes together and that Reader-ya also takes animal classes. Law would interact with her and they'd do homework together. They’d train together. Law would be stronger than Reader-ya, but she trains a lot more. It causes conflict at times.

Reader-ya would forget her homework and Law would just look away as he's handing her his notebook like “Don’t let it happen again, silly-ya”. And she smiles really big and Law turns around to catch it and just is in love with her.

It would look something like this:

They're already pretty vulnerable and open with each other at that point, and Law becomes unintentionally more compassionate and tsundere with students in the infirmary.

Regardless, he’ll be much more thorough and helpful when treating them, and be much more gentle because of Reader-ya.

Law gets teased too for hanging out and crushing over Reader-ya, because she's very eccentric and very much a lone wolf.

He waits for Reader-ya and wants her to show up. Sometimes, she’ll pass in the hall and his heart will skip a beat from the infirmary room. If she waves at him and smiles, Law’s internal CPU will crash LOL. I also forgot but Law would like watching her conjure animals.

I think she’d have a ferret, an owl, or a dog. Law would have one of those, too, but not the same one. He hates the fact that they're in different classes and so they pass notes alot too and find quiet places to hang out. They skip class together once to go into the woods and I think that'll be their flower crown chapter.

I think Law will start to realize she likes him when he catches her looking at him during lunch from another table. He also starts seeing her blush a lot more and uses it as an excuse to check her fever and look at her and touch her forehead.

She’ll also do alot more conjurations around him and draw things for him. She’ll write little things in his notebooks and during class he’ll let her draw in them. He’ll start pecking her cheeks at times and Reader-ya starts hugging him a lot more.

Law and Reader-ya get detention when they're caught sleeping together in the halls or in a quiet area they usually go to (not anything sexual, just like literally cuddling sleeping.)

Still, I like to think this could be possible but maybe the professors just let it slide when Law and Reader-ya get flirty because they realize what she endured or something and also just realize that they’re both smart, mature and healthy. They don’t have any concerns.

Before that, During xmas (I can’t remember if this is canon or not) but Reader-ya won’t have anywhere to go for the holidays, so Law will do one of two things:

1. He’ll stay behind and keep her company.

2. He’ll invite her to his place for the holidays.

On Christmas, Law kisses Reader-ya under the mistletoe and confesses his love to her. They become a very loving and strong couple!!🤍🤍🤍

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going back to your post about when you first started shipping shourtney

I can't remember now whether I'd picked up on a vibe yet but I pretty much was getting into smosh videos and i looked at courtney's instagram and saw the bucca de beppo pic from 2023 and honestly before clicking on it just thought "oh they're together that's cool" then I scrolled through the actual post and went oh it was a work event so maybe not? but something about it, set those bells off in my brain enough that i googled whether they were dating and discovered the all the tumblr posts. I wasn't necessarily convinced but the more i watched of them the more it all seemed to fit together.

the change of flirty energy to seeming entirely comfortable around each other over the years. shayne being touchy/suggestive (for content eg. family guy reunion & idiots present) with simply no one else on the cast except courtney.

but honestly it was in the weeks leading up to the hard launch when smosh dropped their trivial pursuit tntl (my mum watched that with me and said "they live together, i feel like i'm intruding on something" without missing a beat), and the regular tntl where they played a couple in every other bit. it just felt like they stopped hiding it and i became actually so certain that there was no part of me that thought the wedding post was an april fools.

anyways love them, deserve the world and each other.

If this is the photo you were talking about, this sent all of us shourtney shippers through a spiral when it was first posted

The amount of people I seen saying it was a soft launch was a lot. Not to be too invasive but I feel like Courtney’s ig was SUCH a tell they were dating. With the amount of photos that she posted that were huge hints, I’m surprised people deny them being together.

Also, it’s funny you mention how “touchy” Shayne got all of a sudden bc that’s how I realized they were dating too. I rewatched the silent library video back in early May/late April of last year and I seen this part ⬇️

In my head I knew they always had play fights, but I never seen Shayne pick her up like that. Same as you, that clip eventually led me to tumblr and that’s how I found out they were dating. After that, every video I watched with them in it made me SO sus of them to where I would’ve been incredibly shocked if they weren’t together.

Don’t even get me started on the family guy reunion, that made me go absolutely insane when it first dropped. I feel like by that time my suspicions became more and more validated.

[ybyag-lil]

I just... LOVE Sunshrine as a ship and have my delusions and HC's about it and I needed to put these thoughts out on WHY I like them so much somewhere other than in my fics or else I'm literally going to explode, so—

Annoyed x Annoyance. Need I say more?

I will.

If we're talking purely potential ship dynamics, we have:

Flirty x oblivious, Denial/Dense, Sunshine x Sunshine protector, stoic vs pain in the ass, optimist vs pessimist, "why me?" "why not you?", Insecure vs showers them in love.

Sun and Moon/Day and Night yadda yadda y'know the drill

Complementary colors (orange/blue) that you can correlate with their difference in personality.

But I hate reducing them to basic opposites attract and other dynamics bec they're NOT completely opposite - they actually have a lot in common!

"Two sides of the same coin" is how I'd actually describe them.

They're both trying to find their own way in life, and the paths they're taking are so fundamentally different than what has come before them.

Their voice-lines about it. Love to read into those

("I'll walk a different path this time." "I'll find my own path." "The path shapes you." "That's the path you've found?")

Potential for shared isolation issues and fear of abandonment!!!!

I feel like Kiriko's life suddenly shifting one day when Sojiro was killed and her proceeding to lose a bunch of people she held near and dear (not even counting Kanezaka itself facing major power and societal shifts) is not talked about enough. The only real personal connections she knows she has left are:

Her mom, who is forced into inaction and can't move to help liberate Kanezaka or save-

Her dad, who is currently Hashimoto's leverage/hostage and she doesn't even know for sure is still alive rn bc she hasn't seen him.

and Hanzo, which, there's a load of angst there HC and actually in-game wise for her connection with both him and Genji that would be a while 'nother conversation. I don't know if Kiriko even knows Genji's still alive, actually? More issues!

Illari's pretty self explanatory with that isolation/abandonment point. That girl's riding the, "I don't need anyone else (because I'll only end up hurting them)" train so hard. So much so that she doesn't even really feel comfortable showing any positive emotions to people around her (cheer/hello/chuckle animations anyone?).

Kiriko/Illari are both "chosen".

That one's kinda out there tbh, but my logic behind it is that Illari is already notably special. She's prodigy that was quickly predicted to be the GREATEST fucking Inti warrior of her time, whose power was so great that she turned every single other Inti warrior to ashes unintentionally.

(which, by the way, is insane if we assume the augmentations have to give you some sort of resistance to solar power to be able to wield it in the first place?)

Kiriko is where I start playing fast and loose. I'd argue her having the power of the Kitsune (which is not fucking science idc what lore comes in the future, magic exists in this fucking universe!) to such an extent makes her chosen in her own way. Like I'm assuming the teleporting around, the self healing like, and everything else is not a standard affair but no-one talks about the Shimada FAMILY being able to summon dragons so. Maybe that's just the standard in Japan.

On that note — they also both have a responsibility to their people which sort of parallel each other.

Kiriko has happily taken up the mantle of a vigilante to protect the people of Kanezaka, and, as far as we know, she has no qualms about doing it. Her way of doing things is different to how her family served/protected for generations in the past, but she still upholds the duty like it's second nature.

Pure conjecture, but I don't think Kiriko's ever felt forced to do it either. There was never a, "you must protect the town!" talk or anything like that from her grandmother/mom, she's doing it because it feels right to do.

Illari, conversely was always told she had a responsibility to her people. If you read between the lines of her lore blurb on her OW2 page and listen to what she says in her origin video, you get the sense that it was a sort of... burden? Heavy is the head that wears the crown and all that.

I compare it to the "gifted-kid burnout" precisely because of this. Illari has always been molded to follow one path, a rigorous one she didn't really have a choice BUT to follow. You're told at a young age that you are special, that there's no-one else like you, that you will grow to become a legend. How could you even begin to refuse that?

You don't. And when it all starts to fall apart, you start to wonder what's wrong with yourself. Illari has lived a life dedicated to serving, and now there's no-one left but her.

She def has some self worth/esteem issues stemming from having to be this prodigal kid essentially groomed (not that way) her whole childhood to be strong and nothing else. Couple that with an overwhelming feeling of regret for failing to uphold her duty as a protector and you have someone who is just completely lost - direction AND sense of self wise.

And I think Kiriko could help with that. Say what you want about her, but you can't deny that Kiri is strong. Imagine Illari meeting her and realizing that for herself. That despite how careless and foolish Illari thinks Kiriko is, she somehow still manages to protect her people as her duty.

Imagine her realizing that she's been taught a lie her whole life, that she doesn't have to just be Illari, the strongest Inti warrior, she can also just be Illari - the scared 18yr old trying to find a new purpose in life after that choice was stolen from her.

Like Zen says to her, "true strength comes to those who accept their weaknesses". Illari's gotta learn that she can't just be strong, she has to learn to balance these aspects of herself.

and who has played a balancing act between conflicting ideals before? Who has carved her own path out of what she's known? Kiriko.

Ahem, back to a few more hehe haha shipping things

They're both pretty capable as fighters, and both trained since they were kids. They're both probably very disciplined because of it.

(I was going to say "though Kiriko is reckless despite that" but I refuse to believe Illari isn't equally as reckless.)

They're both very petty, check out those revenge voice lines—

("Forgive and forget? Nah..." and, "Forgiveness? Never heard of it." Are two examples LOL)

They're both smart assess. Kiriko is Kiriko so that one's obvious, and I'm looking at your Hanzo/Soldier/Sombra/Ana start up interactions, AND your sassy ass "I didn't do it for you," ally save voice line, Illari.

THEY'RE LITERALLY SPRING - SUN ILLARI, BREEZE/WHATEVER TF ELSE KIRIKO

And the two most important things....

They're just cute. Like seriously look at these little idiots, I love them both dearly.

And it's kind of a funny ship. I'm a firm believer that you don't need a reason to ship two characters, and Kiriko and Illari liking each other can lead into some hilarious ass dynamics, so why not?

Anyways, finished with my brainrot spew. If you've made it this far, check out my AO3 where I will be brainrotting even further in the future. Might post some dumb shitposts here about these two from time to time.

Illari and Kiriko's voice line pages for the things I quote.

(some of this, particularly parts regarding Kiriko, might be incorrect bec I haven't read a single lore comic and am going of things I can vaguely remember hearing about.)

[oldiesstationlover11607]

heyyyy 😋😋

as promised, i am back with a new halloween idea since the last one was SO STINKIN CUTEEEE

so im thinking RAB tyler x reader at a halloween party! like stereotypical-college halloween-frat-party type scene. (maybe reader and tyler coincidentally showed up in matching costumes lol)

tyler and reader arrived separately, but they both go to Ohio State Uni and have some classes together, so they've seen each other around. which is why they're immediately taking refuge in each other's company the wholee time. theyve both been abandoned by the friends that dragged them to that god forsaken party in the first place, and neither of them are drinking or smoking or anything, and the music sucks.

flirty banter ensuesss

and i know youve been experimenting with smut, SO i'll let you take the reins on this one a bit more.

either tyler and reader forget to leave room for jesus during the party and decide to take refuge in a bedroom together (smirk)

orrr tyler shows reader his music and they go back to his studio together for a cutesy, fluffy, musical bonding moment

can't wait to see how it comes out!!!

take care of yourself!! 🫶🏼

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Ghostbuster - Tyler Joseph x Reader

Warnings: None lol - no smut bc i wanted to keep it cute

Word Count: 2019

A/N: I literally cannot wait for this vampire fic i've got planned and this was a great warm up! keep requesting halloween stuff before it's too late!!

It was one of those chaotic nights at Ohio State in October, Halloween parties scattered across campus. But somehow, I found myself at one of the bigger and louder parties–something high school senior me would never have imagined. It was the kind of party where I’d expected to be hanging out with my friends and having a good time. But no one told me that my so-called friends would ditch me the moment they saw a dance floor crowded with zombies and vampires–though I wasn’t too surprised, vampires were the best dancers. 

I stood at the edge of the main room, arms crossed, trying not to visibly cringe at the music blaring old viral hits. The bass rattled my bones, a thudding pulse that did nothing to improve my mood. My favorite holiday was turning out to be a bust despite the amazing modern queen of hearts rocker costume I’d thrown together. I was so proud of it but none of my friends understood the reference.

I was mentally debating whether I could sneak out without anyone noticing when I spotted him. Tyler. I’d seen him around campus and in a couple of my english classes despite campus being big. He was quiet, didn’t talk much, but there was something about him that always intrigued me. Maybe it was the fact that he was always scribbling in that notebook of his, or the way he seemed to get lost in thought even when the professor was droning on about literary theory. He was standing awkwardly by a wall across the room, tugging at the sleeves of his shirt. He was dressed as a Ghostbuster, of all things, and somehow the outfit looked just right on him—oversized jumpsuit, clunky proton pack, and a slightly bewildered expression like he’d rather be anywhere else. I couldn’t help but smile at the sight. Tyler, in his quiet, introverted glory, standing amidst the chaos of a college Halloween party, looked almost comically out of place.

I hesitated, debating whether I should go talk to him. We’d only ever exchanged a few words in class, the typical “do you have the notes?” or “what did you think of that reading?” kind of conversations. But something in me felt drawn to him tonight, maybe because I knew exactly how he felt—trapped in a place where we didn’t belong, surrounded by people who didn’t really see us.

Before I could second-guess myself, I started making my way over, weaving through a mess of slutty witches. When I reached him, he looked up, his brown eyes wide with mild surprise.

“Hey,” I said, trying not to sound as awkward as I felt. “Busting ghosts solo tonight?”

His lips twitched into a small smile. “Yeah, you know, it’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it.”

I laughed, the sound bright and unexpected, even to me. “Well, you’re doing a great job standing guard by this wall. Any ghost sightings yet?”

“Not yet,” he said, leaning back slightly as if relaxing in my presence. “But I’m staying vigilant.”

“Good call.” I tilted my head, giving him an exaggerated once-over. “Love the costume, by the way. You went all out.”

He looked down at himself, shrugging with a bashful smile. “It was either this or going as a sad college student who got dragged to a party he didn’t want to go to .”

I chuckled. “That’s a little too real. Ghostbuster is a better choice.”

“And you’re the, uh, Queen of Hearts?” he asked, his gaze drifting over my costume. “But... cooler. More punk.”

“Exactly!” I said, a grin spreading across my face. “You’re the first person to get that all night.”

He smirked, rubbing the back of his neck. “I have an appreciation for good costumes. And you definitely pull it off.”

“Thanks.” We stood there for a second, just smiling at each other, the noise of the party fading into the background. It felt... easy, natural, even though we barely knew each other. And then a thought struck me, and I couldn’t help but blurt it out.

“Hey, this is going to sound crazy, but... want to get out of here?”

His eyebrows shot up. “Like... leave?”

“Yeah.” I gestured around at the rowdy crowd and pulsing lights. “I don’t know about you, but I’m not exactly having the time of my life here. We could— I don’t know, grab a coffee or just go for a walk. Somewhere quieter?”

Tyler hesitated, glancing around as if weighing his options. Then he looked back at me, something softening in his gaze. “You know what? Yeah. Let’s do it.”

A few minutes later, we were outside, the crisp autumn air biting at our skin as we stepped away from the thumping bass of the party. The street was lined with other groups of costumed students milling about, some shouting and laughing, others huddled together in quieter conversations. But for the first time all night, I felt like I could breathe.

Tyler walked beside me, hands shoved into his pockets, the plastic proton pack bouncing lightly against his back. We didn’t say much at first, just strolled aimlessly through the leaf-covered streets, the noise of the party fading behind us. After a few blocks, we found ourselves at a small park tucked away between campus buildings, its winding paths lit by dim streetlights and the faint glow of jack-o’-lanterns set out along the walkway.

“Wow, this place is cute,” I murmured, taking in the rows of glowing pumpkins and the few scattered benches. “Never knew it was here.”

“Me neither,” Tyler said softly, his gaze sweeping over the scene. “I guess we’re both discovering new things tonight.”

We wandered over to a bench near the center, where a particularly intricate pumpkin carving of a haunted house flickered softly. Tyler glanced at it, then looked at me, a curious smile on his lips.

“So, what made you pick the Queen of Hearts? You don’t seem like the ‘off with their heads’ type.”

I laughed, sitting down on the bench and crossing my legs. “It’s more about the aesthetic. I wanted something bold, something that stood out, but with a twist. Plus, I had to wear a crown at some point in my life, right?”

“Right.” He nodded seriously, but his eyes were sparkling with humor. “And you look good in one.”

“Thank you,” I said, tipping my imaginary crown at him. “Now, what about you Mr Buster? I mean, besides the obvious ‘saving the world’ angle.”

He shrugged, settling beside me on the bench. “I like old movies. The classics. Ghostbusters just felt... I don’t know, nostalgic? Plus, I already had the jumpsuit from last year.”

“Recycling costumes?” I teased. “I’m not sure if that’s very ‘heroic’ of you.”

“Heroes have to be practical, too.” He grinned, then looked down at his hands, which were resting on his knees. “Honestly, I just didn’t want to be something flashy. I’m not really a... center-of-attention kind of guy.”

I nodded slowly, understanding more than I expected to. “No, I get that. But still, you came out tonight. That’s more than a lot of people would do.”

“Yeah, well.” He looked up at me, his expression thoughtful. “Maybe it wasn’t a total waste.”

The way he said it, so quietly, made my heart skip a beat. I swallowed, suddenly feeling nervous in a way I hadn’t been before. This was more than just two classmates killing time together. There was something here, something I wanted to explore, even if it scared me a little.

“So, what do you usually do, if not parties?” I asked, shifting the conversation slightly to steady myself.

Tyler leaned back, his gaze turning distant for a moment. “I, uh... I spend a lot of time making music. Writing songs, recording. It’s kind of my escape, I guess.”

I perked up, curiosity sparking. “Really? That’s awesome. I always wondered what you were scribbling in that notebook during class.”

He smiled, a little sheepishly. “Yeah, it’s mostly lyrics. Stuff I don’t really show people.”

“Can I hear some of it?” The question slipped out before I could stop it, but I didn’t want to take it back.

Tyler looked at me, eyes wide, then glanced away, biting his lip. “Maybe. I mean, if you want to. My studio’s not far from here.”

My heart jumped. Studio? “You have a studio?”

“More like a basement with some equipment,” he said quickly, rubbing the back of his neck. “But... yeah. I could show you, if you’re interested.”

I didn’t even hesitate. “I’d love that.”

The “studio” turned out to be in the basement of an off-campus house Tyler shared with a couple of other music majors. The room was small but packed with gear—guitars leaning against the walls, a keyboard set up in one corner, and a laptop surrounded by mics and cables on a desk covered in sheets of scribbled lyrics. It smelled faintly of old books and coffee, and it was a little messy, but it was cozy, too. I could see pieces of Tyler in every corner.

“Sorry, it’s kind of... chaotic,” he said, glancing around with an embarrassed smile.

“I like it,” I said honestly, stepping further inside and taking it all in. “Feels... lived in.”

Tyler relaxed a little, moving over to his computer and opening up a file. The sound filled the small space like magic. Then he glanced up at me, his expression shy but open.

“Mind you this is super rough, and I–”

“It’s good,” I interrupted and he nodded, smiling to himself. 

His voice, soft and warm, filled the room, and the melody wrapped around me like magic. The song was raw, beautiful, and filled with a mix of longing and hope. As he sang, I felt like I was seeing a side of him that no one else had—the real Tyler, not the quiet guy from class.

When the last note faded into the air, I just stared at him, completely speechless.

“That was incredible,” I finally managed, my voice full of awe.

He ducked his head, a blush creeping up his cheeks. “Thanks. I wasn’t sure if you’d like it.”

“I did. I definitely did.”

He looked up at me, a small, genuine smile tugging at his lips. For a moment, we just sat there, grinning at each other. Then, the room fell into a comfortable silence, the kind that didn’t need filling with words. It felt... nice.

Tyler scratched the back of his neck, glancing at me shyly. “So, um... I know it’s getting kind of late, but... if you don’t want to go back yet, you could stay a bit longer? We could, like, listen to more music or just... hang out?” He hesitated for a beat, then added, “I think it’d be cool to get to know you better.”

My heart did a little flip at the invitation. “I'd love to.”

His smile widened, and then, as if realizing something, he fumbled in his pocket. “Uh, here—let me give you my number, you know, in case... well, you don’t have to leave right away or anything, but just in case.”

I grinned as we exchanged numbers, the moment feeling so sweet and simple, like it was the beginning of something special. I added him on social media too, our phones pinging softly as the connections were made.

As we settled back in, the music softly playing in the background, Tyler glanced over at me, his voice soft. “So... you want to stay the night? I mean, not in a weird way—just, we can keep listening to music and hanging out. No pressure, but... I think it'd be fun.”

My heart warmed at the offer, and I nodded, smiling at him. “Yeah, that sounds perfect.”

And just like that, what had started as a chaotic, disappointing night turned into one I knew I’d remember forever. Sitting there with Tyler, in his cozy makeshift studio, with the soft hum of music around us, I felt like I’d stumbled into something unexpected and wonderful. And I didn’t want it to end anytime soon.

//

REQUESTS OPEN

[your-turn-to-role]

is there a canon reason why percy and vex broke up? did tal or laura ever say why exactly?

not to my knowledge? they mentioned a lot about the secret wedding, but the break up was mentioned offhand in the campaign wrap-up talks machina, when they were asked if there was anything anyone did during the year off that never came up in the campaign

i will say though that in quite a few talks machinas tal and laura talk about perc'ahlia like a celebrity relationship (or specifically say "yeah we're one of those couples"), and that's a thing you tend to see fairly often with celebrities that end up in tabloids - they have a complicated life, they break up and get back together quite a bit, so i think part of it is tal and laura having fun playing that drama and letting them be those disaster celebrities

if you want my speculation on an in-canon reason though? i think the commitment freaked them out

like vex has always had issues surrounding stability, she's not had it in her life since she was a little kid, and she's just made excuses to herself her whole life that she's fine because she doesn't want stability - she just wants her brother and to keep moving and to never have to worry about putting down roots or forming emotional attachments because it hurts less that way. it's why she gets so jealous and snippy when vax starts showing interest in keyleth, and why she keeps shutting down his attempts to tell her he's moving to zephrah - she can't keep being flighty and only attached to her brother if he wants to settle down with someone else

as much as she loves percy, and they're good for each other, we know from the grey hunt trial that the idea of settling down with him scares her, because it's new, and because it means for the first time in a long time she has something to lose

percy is almost the opposite, he lost his entire family once already and he doesn't ever want to do that again. it's why he gets so vicious when scanlan leaves, because vox machina is his new family, and no one's allowed to tear that apart again (also why we get the really tentative "i know we don't always agree and i know i can be unkind, but... you know you're family, right?" to grog immediately after)

but a relationship is a whole new step, he trusts vex about as much as he does anyone, but this isn't just trusting her with his anger issues, or trusting her with his city, this is trusting her with the future, with his future, with always being around. i don't think he's confident enough to believe she loves him that much, that anyone could, and if he lets himself take that step fully, he has so much more to lose if something happens like it did last time

so it's all well and good when the relationship is new, when they're still trying things out, when it's flirty and it doesn't have to be serious if they don't want it to

even in moments where it's emotionally heavy, like percy's resurrection, it's still new and in the moment, they're not looking past what's immediately in front of them

(and even after that heavy moment, vex got nervous percy didn't like her back and decided to push it all to the back of her brain and not think about it - vax straight up told her to go chase him bc she deserved to be happy and she instead got drunk and changed the subject)

but then the fighting's over. they're not worried about their lives every day. no one died, they're both still here. and it starts to sink in with them that this isn't going anywhere. that this can be their forever, if they choose it. and that scares both of them, and when they get scared they tend to either wall themselves off or lash out, and both would cause a schism in their relationship. and then one day it turns into an argument and in the heightened emotion one of them says they should break up and the other agrees

and now they're emotionally safe, because if they cause the relationship to end on their terms it can't be pulled away from them unexpectedly

but they're not actually happy

and maybe they come to that realisation on their own, more likely they talk about it with their friends and vax and keyleth tell them they're being idiots

and then the question is what to do about it

it's possible they went slowly back into it

or, since we know their first marriage proposals were a dare, maybe they weren't even together again yet

i could see that being exactly the sort of thing they'd do if they wanted to get back together but they didn't want to be the first one to admit that they wanted to

skip the dating phase we already did that i dare you to marry me

and maybe they talk about it much later, maybe they don't

but i think by the time they got to the marriage, they'd realised they wanted this to be more than a casual thing, and it's still probably scary, but there's no one else they'd trust to get them through that fear and come out the other side

[osamusbigtits]

I think motoya is a little weirded out by how open sunaosa are about sex and kink. and it's just something he isn't used to.

like he comes home and osamu's splayed out on the couch and motoya gets so flustered and so confused. why is his boyfriend naked? not in the bedroom?

so its a weird learning curve for him. and sunaosa ask if there are boundaries they're overstepping, because they'll make a change so fast. and its not like they're technically doing anything wrong, motoya's just not used to it.

motoya tries. he gets a little flirty.

he gives suna bedroom eyes when they're at practice and panics when suna gets hit in the face with a volleyball bc they're both distanced.

he sends, not nudes, but suggestive photos to osamu. only when he knows osamu's not at work. only to get incomprehensible texts in response. (suna tells him it means osamu's into it.)

but joining in on their scenes feels a bit too far for him. he tries, but usually ends up quietly slipping out of the room. he's seen them in the aftermath. one of them so out of it they can't talk, and the other one still ready to give a command.

they suggest scenes that focus solely on motoya, but motoya always declines. he's never done anything more than vanilla sex. expect for his ex who had a thing for dirty talk, but that was the craziest he ever got.

one day he's in osamu's lap, they're both just kissing. and kissing slowly turns into more.

and he's being fucked by osamu, so slow and controlled it makes motoya dizzy as he begs for more. and then suna's whispering intoxicating words into his ears. words of praise that send bolts through his veins, his skin tingles and head spins.

motoya's back arches as he cums, untouched but not embarrassed by it. osamu kisses motoya's neck, but his hips don't stop. suna's continue, unwavering. usually he'd be done after this. usually his partner cums long before he does.

motoya covers his mouth, moans becoming louder and more uncontrolled. he doesn't want this to stop, he realizes. this is the best sex he's ever had.

"don't cover your mouth, darling," osamu says.

suna coos softly, "come on, pretty boy. let us hear you. let us know how good we're making you feel." he wraps a hand around motoya's cock.

their words, their names, their touches... it's not long before motoya cums again.

his head feels fuzzy and each touch feels electric. he's not sure how, but he ends up in a nice warm, bubbly bath that smells of vanilla and cinnamon. the water sloshes and someone sits behind him. motoya leans his back against whoever it is. only relishing in the extra warmth it provides.

"did that feel good?" a voice asks. it takes motoya a moment to recognize osamu's voice.

motoya nods with a smile.

"rin's getting you some water and a snack."

motoya nods again. osamu's arms are so comforting around him, motoya melts against his chest.

"we should do that again," motoya mumbles.

"yeah?" osamu asks. his voice sounds like honey. motoya nods. "I'm glad you enjoyed it, sweetie."

motoya doesn't know how he gets to bed. he finds he doesn't care when he's wrapped up in a soft blanket, surrounded by his warm boyfriends.

after that night, he becomes far more curious about what suna and osamu get up to in the bedroom.

[xmoonlitxdreamx]

High boom ? Opinions ? Takes ? Hcs ?

(Answering at a weird hour, sorry)

I like highboom (junk x cass)! I draw it sometimes.

My HCs for canon universe where Junk & Hog ally w OW (under a cut bc its kinda long):

Cassidy generally works out of an OW base in the US, while Junkrat usually works out of the Gilbraltar base; occasionally Junkrat is tasked to go to the States alone to help with mechanical work in the US base, which is usually when the two of them hang out

This isnt important but i always imagine the US base being less populated than the Gilbraltar base (??? Dont hold me to that making sense in canon idk any OW plot outside of junk n hog)

Their dynamic is usually Cassidy being a big flirt + Junkrat being totally smitten by him

Cassidy also likes to prank (??) or tease Junkrat; he easily catches Junkrat off-guard

Cassidy sometimes underestimates how dangerous/unpredictable Junkrat can be (mostly bc Junkrat's default mode around Cassidy is ehuhuhu bashful mode (?) so that's the side of him Cassidy tends to expect)

Junkrat earnestly thinks Cassidy is like The Coolest Guy™️

Cassidy generally thinks Junkrat is cute amd entertaining

Junkrat has an (unintentional) habit of gassing Cassidy up and feeding his ego (???)

Cassidy has a (fully intentional) habit of enabling Junkrat to get into trouble

Tho their relationship is usually kinda surface level (flirty), Junkrat can be vulnerable/sincere around Cassidy and seeks Cassidy out for comfort when he's upset/uncomfortable; Cassidy is willing to comfort him

Cassidy is less likely to show his own vulnerable side to Junkrat (but may occasionally open up to Junkrat)

In general, Junkrat tends to follow Cassidy's lead (unlike when Junkrat is with Roadhog, where Junkrat acts as leader)

They're drinking buddies

Junkrat loves trying on Cassidy's cowboy getup

Cassidy is generally less patronizing toward Junkrat compared to how other OW members act toward Junkrat, genuinely trusts his perspective and expertise

Cassidy has taken Junkrat to a farm before (? Idk it was like a vague plot in my head)

Cassidy likes to bake/cook & sometimes cooks for Junkrat

They've tried cooking together but it's unclear how successful that was (????)

They're romantic and flirty with each other, but they're not in a serious relationship & consider each other friends

(An aside but my other hcs are Junkrat & Roadhog being in an open relationship, and Cassidy being mainly interested in Hanzo) (i don't rly draw yeehan tho idk just not sth i think about... it is like an endgame couple in my rando OW universe tho)

Anyway yeah I think that's about it... thanks for reading!

[convenientalias]

West Out of Yu Men/Parallel World Review

Bc I just finished watching it yesterday!

I really liked it :D

I think it had a very unique aesthetic. It's set in the desert or in cities located near the desert for the most part, and you really feel it. The characters don't always look like they're hot, but there's always a dry, gritty feeling to the air. The fashion, tooo, was pretty unique. Ye Liuxi is very rough and tumble action girl with a little bit of sexy thrown in; Chang Dong mostly dresses kind of generic, practical and understated; Ding Liu dresses kind of cutesy-garish, loosening up both in attitude and in fashion as the show progresses; and then everyone in the parallel world dresses like they're in some historical fantasy with a touch of apocalyptic. So that's all just fun to watch. I love when a show has a unique visual feel to it.

In terms of plot, the show is a little wandering and not super tight, but that makes sense for a show about two characters both investigating a mystery and traveling through a different world. It's about discovery, meeting people and seeing wonders--eventually with some political intrigue as well. I honestly wish it could have been a little longer. Give it another five episodes, and I think we could have tied up some loose ends and gotten a more satisfying ending for a couple characters (specifically I'm thinking of Gao Shen and Jiang Zhan, but even Liuxi... well, I could watch several hours more of just Liuxi lols).

The acting was all pretty good. I have to admit I was not equally invested in all characters. This is definitely the Ye Liuxi show. Everyone else can be as cool and complex as they want, but we're all here to watch Ni Ni beat people up, open up portals, drive through the desert, cut melons, flirt obnoxiously, make threats, and so on and so forth. Previously I had only seen Ni Ni in The Rise of Phoenixes, and she's good in that but more of a trickster character, clever but not exactly intimidating. I love seeing an actress in a role where she's really allowed to dominate everyone around her, and I hadn't known Ni Ni would be so good at that. Now I want to finish watching The Rise of Phoenixes at some point but I don't know if I'll feel disappointed seeing her in a role that's less absolutely tyrannical.

The other lead actor is of course Bai Yu.

Tumblrites probably know him as Guardian's Zhao Yunlan, which is also where I first saw him. In this show he's much more subdued and serious, which I think is necessary to counter such a powerful presence as Ni Ni's Liuxi. He and Ni Ni have great chemistry. It's less sexy and flirty, and more familiar and comfortable, though slow-won. There's one scene where Liuxi pokes a brooding Chang Dong with a stick until he takes the end of it, and when he lets go of it she pokes him until he holds it again, and they just sit together in silence. For me, that's kind of what their relationship is about. They understand each other and offer each other comfort and support. At the same time, they have a strong sense of physicality for a cdrama. Again, not necessarily in a sexual way, but Liuxi is the kind of person who will just drape herself on someone, hook an arm over their shoulder, rub legs like an obnoxious and kind of sexy cat... it adds to the warmth of their relationship. (Though I would also have been fine seeing the two remain platonic, but as ships go, it's rather nice.)

That said. This show also had a couple ships it did not need! Gao Shen/Ding Liu is okay but underdeveloped and kind of just background noise; Fei Tang/A He is where I enter "okay, so now you just need to pair up EVERYONE" territory. None of the ships were annoying exactly, but apart from Liuxi/Chang Dong, I just feel like you could have left them out and you wouldn't lose much. If you're going to include them, give them some damn development! That's all I can say on the matter.

I enjoyed the villains a lot. There's a variety here: Some typical shady bureaucrats, a scheming woman to serve as Liuxi's foil and rival, and a man from Liuxi's past who has a complicated relationship with her. My favorite was the last of these three, Jiang Zhan! And I won't give more spoilers than that but can I just say: Jiang Zhan deserved better!!! Will someone please write hurt-comfort fic for my boy!!

Anyway! I recommend West Out of Yu Men if:

-You like Ni Ni or Bai Yu and want to see them doing something a bit different.

-You would be interested in an atmosphere of urban fantasy meets desert epic.

-You want to see a woman playing the amnesiac "chosen one" warrior trope (and with flair).

-You like to see an ensemble go on a road trip, gathering members along the way and getting into magical shenanigans. (If you HATE road trips, though--not a reason to skip. Travel is an aspect but there's still plenty of plot to go around.)

-You want to see Ni Ni cut a melon with a big knife (you can get this in episode one. Just one episode to appreciate the glorious THUNK of a melon being cut with a large knife).

You can also watch it if you want to write fanfic for it to satisfy my current cravings for 1) femslash and 2) anything about Jiang Zhan. (I haven't talked about the possible femslash ships bc they are pretty much my imagination but Ding Liu is very cutesy and friendly with Liuxi and also that female villain I was talking about above HATES Liuxi in a way that is quite fun, so. There's that.)

Now I have to find another badass woman show to satisfy that particular mood. If you have any recs along those lines, let me know ;)

[manlikeazi]

hellooo I have a lil request tingy ting I was wondering if it could be something where aj is on stream (like for the streaming weeknd beta squad did) and the reader calls him and like flirts with him while he's on stream (Reade didn't know he was streaming) and he like get flustered and like confused to why reader is flirting bc they're just friends

anyway love you and you're stories😘

Gaming, Teasing, and Flirting - Aj Shabeel

Aj gets an unexpected call from Y/N, which quickly turns into playful flirting that catches him off guard. As the chat goes wild with teasing comments, Aj struggles to keep his cool while wondering if there's something more behind their banter.

Masterlist

Aj, along with the Beta Squad has temporary moved in to some house they rented for the weekend for their streaming weekend. Once they arrived to the house, everyone is buzzing with excitement as they started to pitch in for everyone's room decoration ideas including their friends.

They started off with each one decorating their own room that reflects their personality and unique styles. The rooms were being outfitted with custom backdrops, LED lights, and creative props to make the weekend's streams feel extra special. The house quickly became a vibrant mix of personality, with each corner designed to be the perfect setting for their online shenanigans.

AJ had always enjoyed streaming, his setup was flawless, the lights on his gaming desk casting a soft glow, and his chat was buzzing with excitement. He was in the middle of a gaming session, casually chatting with his fans, answering questions, and cracking jokes as his screen with gameplay.

As the Beta Squad weekend stream rolled on, his chat was flooded with comments, gifs, and memes as everyone was enjoying the chaos. Aj sat on his gaming chair after going over Niko's room. He checked his phone and glanced momentarily at his lockscreen notification where he felt his phone buzz and check that the caller ID was you.

AJ froze for a second, surprised by the sudden call from you. You two had been friends for a while, always chatting about random things, laughing over jokes, and occasionally hanging out but calling each other on phone weren't both of your thing.

"Y/N is calling chat. Should I answer it?" Aj asked as he looked at the messages in the stream. A bunch of flowing messages saying yes and even winning the yes option in the poll.

Although maintaining nonchalance as if it's normal for him to do it, Aj answered your call infront of the stream.

"Yo, what's up?" He spoke casually, hoping to keep things normal.

"Hey Aj! I was just thinking about you, and y'know... wondering what you're up to?" You said, your voice smooth and playful.

AJ's heart skipped a beat. The moment he heard your voice, it was like everything else faded out. Your tone was warm, teasing, and way too flirty for just a casual chat. He blinked, his mind momentarily going blank. He laughed nervously, scrambling to get a hold of himself.

"Errm.. y'know.. streaming. Just chillin" Aj said, keeping his voice cool and nonchalant. Leaning on his gaming chair, while swaying it left and right.

"Yo, Aj acting all shy?!"

"Is Y/N really flirting with Ajjj?!?!?!?"

"I KNEW something was really going on between them"

"I badly wanna see stream Aj edits again!!!"

Aj tried to ignore the chat, but your voice threw him off. The playful tone was messing with his head. Aj mentally shook himself as he tried to put his playful persona as he inhaled and exhaled.

"How's the game going? I see you lot are still trash at it" You said, teasing with a laugh.

"I'm actually carrying right now. How's everything going with you? You miss me or something?" Aj said with a smirk on his face, reading what the chat has been saying.

You know he's just messing around, but you can't help yourself, maybe it's the fact that his chat is full of people watching, or maybe it's just the playful energy you two share. Either way, you decide to match his on screen flirting.

"Honestly, I do miss you" You said casually.

"It's been a while since we hung out. Maybe we should fix that sometime soon. Just the two of us?" You added, feeling yourself smiling at the thought. It's a good advantage that no one could see your reaction right now.

"Nahhhh Y/N is really flirting with our boy Ajjj"

"Can't lie, they make a good couple still"

"DID ANYONE SEE HOW FLUSTERED AJ IS WHILE TALKING TO Y/N"

"AJ MOVE, IT'S MY TURN NOW!!!"

Aj blinks, his fingers freezing on the controller. There's a slight pause before he responds. For a moment, you wonder if maybe you've crossed a line. But then he laughs it off but except this time, the laugh sounds a little nervous. He knew to himself that you were watching his live and enjoying his reaction right now.

"Uh, you... yeah, I mean, we could do that sometime" He says, though his words sound a bit hesitant.

You watch him on screen, his hands fumbling with his controller now as his gaze keeps shifting between the chat and the game. He's definitely flustered, but not in the way you expected. It's like he's trying to figure out why your words are hitting him differently now, and it's honestly kind of cute.

"I mean, I'm always down for something... but I wasn't exactly expecting you to, uh, suggest that on stream" Aj added, rambling on his stream. His eyes darting toward the camera for a split second before quickly looking away. The slight pink on his cheeks is hard to miss, even through the glow of his gaming setup.

The chat is on fire now and everyone's noticed the shift in the mood between you two. The comments are flying by so fast, it's hard for either of you to keep up, but you can feel the playful pressure building as AJ glances over at the screen again, his face a mix of amusement and something else, it's either confusion or maybe curiosity.

AJ runs a hand through his hair, still looking flustered and unsure how to act in front of the live audience. His viewers are loving the awkward energy, sending in super chats and comments, teasing him about how flustered he looks.

"Watch Niko's next upload titled 'how I tricked Aj Shabeel into thinking that Y/N is flirting with him"

  "This is actually violating"

"Chunkz said Aj lost his mind talking to Y/N"

    "Aj forgot to speak english for a second lmaoooo" 

The chat was spamming with messages, AJ's screen flooding with new comments faster than he could process. He couldn't focus on the game anymore, not with the playful tension building between him and you. Every time his eyes flicked back to the screen, the chat seemed to be getting more and more hyped. The teasing from his viewers only made him more self-conscious, but part of him, deep down couldn't deny that he was enjoying it.

"I just enjoy messing with you. I'm not saying you like me or anything" You let the sentence hang in the air, your playful smile evident even through the phone.

"Bruh, I'm shipping them hard rn"

"Can someone explain why Aj is acting like he's on a date right now instead of playing a game?"

"They're so obviously flirting"

"HAHAHA, Aj is so flustered. I'm crying"

"Nah, nah, stop with that. You're just trying to mess with me" Aj said with a smile while he shifts continuously in his chair, shaking his head while reading the chat.

"Why's everyone acting like I'm the one blushing here?" Aj said jokingly, shifting again in his seat.

"Aj is LOWKEY loving this, look at him"

"Someone tell Aj to stop acting like he's not blushing"

"Watch Aj start making rat noises because he's flustered"

"Yeah, totally messing with you" You said with a small chuckle.

"But honestly, if you weren't acting so cute about it, I wouldn't be having so much fun" You added, your voice a little lower now.

"What cute? I'm not cute, I'm handsome" Aj said, as usual, taking compliments in his own way. 

"Okay, okay, 'handsome,' my bad" You teased with a laugh.

"But seriously though, you've got a charm that's hard to ignore" You added.

"You're all just trying to mess with me. I'm here to game, okay?" Aj said, trying to regain some control, his eyes darting back to the camera, avoiding direct eye contact as he tried to maintain his composure.

"Someone tell Aj to stop playing hard to get"

"MY MAN AJ IS TWEAAAKINGG"

"Y/N GOT AJ IN A CHOKEHOLD LMAOOO"

" Y/N, you know you're distracting me right now, right?" Aj said as he leaned back in his chair again, pretending to compose himself even though his expression betrayed his nerves.

"I know, I'm really good at distracting, if you haven't noticed yet" You said.

For a brief moment, AJ looked straight into the camera, trying to muster up some confidence, though the pink tinge in his cheeks made it hard for him to look anything but flustered.

"Definitely not distracted. Look, I'm focusing on the game" Aj said, his character didn't even moved an inch since you called.

The chat exploded into more laughter and playful teasing, feeding off the awkwardness between you two. One person even made a meme of Aj's face mid-fluster, and the chat immediately adopted it as their new reaction image.

"Well, maybe when you finally stop pretending to be all 'focused,' we can hang out. Just you and me. No distractions" You said.

AJ swallowed hard. The playful banter was one thing, but now you were leaving him no escape. His mind raced, torn between keeping up the act for the chat and just being honest about how you made him feel. He wasn't used to feeling like this, especially in front of so many people.

"Yeah, we can figure that out sometime" Aj said, his voice a little softer this time.

"Well, it was fun messing with you Aj. I'll let you get back to your game. I wouldn't want to distract you too much" You said, your voice warm again.

"Yeah... yeah, sure, you can go now" Aj said, though he didn't sound nearly as confident as he normally would.

With that, you hung up, leaving AJ to gather his thoughts. He blinked at the screen, still feeling the aftermath of the conversation. He glanced at the chat again, which was flooding with comments and memes.

- bonus -

"Okay, okay" Aj said, running a hand through his hair, trying to get back on track. He glanced at the screen where his character had just stood still for the past few minutes.

"Y'all know I was totally focused on the game. 100%. No distractions at all" Aj added.

The chat didn't let up. If anything, it got worse. The comments flooded in even faster.

"Y/N really out here making Aj act like this"

"Yeah sure Aj, just keep telling yourself that"

"Aj, you officially got Y/N'd 💀"

"You just got hit with the Y/N curse 😭"

"Seriously, I don't know what y'all are talking about. I'm here to game. No one's got me flustered. Not at all" Aj said with a small smile tugging at his lips as he focused on the game.

The chat was relentless now, everyone piling on the playful comments and Aj couldn't help but smile despite himself. He couldn't quite explain why, but the whole situation, this teasing, the banter, and even that strange little shift between you and him it felt... good.

"Y'all really wanna see me sweat this game, or you just wanna keep violating me over this Y/N stuff? Lemme know" Aj said, trying to get back into the game.

Aj shook his head with a grin, his hands back on the controller as he tried to focus. But even as he played, his mind kept drifting back to that call. 

As the stream continued, Aj couldn't shake the feeling that something had shifted between you two. Not just because of the playful banter, but maybe because... well, maybe it was something more. Something he was going to have to figure out.

For now, he had a game to win and with a chat full of viewers who were definitely not going to let him forget this anytime soon.

- end -

helloo lovelies, what's up? I'm honestly trying to get back into writing but failing to do so because of my tight schedule lauu me.

I hope y'all have an amazing day and absolute love and guidance.

As I said everytime, send in some request and ideas!!

[bucksdaffy]

this is a genuine question, sorry! (i ship bucktommy! i just also ship buddie and i wanted to ask) but you said here https://www.tumblr.com/bucksdaffy/750558811283144704/what-that-buck-was-jealous-of-this-superhot-guy?source=share that we've seen the way buck acts when he has a crush on a man, how he gets flirty, and i feel like there are quite a few times in canon where buck and eddie get flirty i know an example that gets thrown around a lot is the "do you want to go for the title?" which reads as flirty to me, esp bc of the bucktommy moment in buck's kitchen. i hope its okay to ask you this, i just wanted to get your take on it :)

of course it's okay to ask! i'm happy to give my thoughts on various topics, especially when you ask in such a respectful manner!

beware, though, this is a long one.

i feel like i need to preface this by saying that i don't think shipping buddie is wrong. i'm committed to the principle that as long as a person doesn't twist canon, it's not really my business what they enjoy, even if i personally don't share that view. so if you choose to view certain buddie moments as romantic but at the same time acknowledge that your view is not really canon (yet, with a huge possibility that it never will be), i'm totally fine with that. and if you don't need your ship to become canon in order for you to enjoy it, i'll probably develop a little crush on you because, damn, that's hot! what pisses me off, though, is claiming that something IS canon because YOU interpret it that way, whereas the actual canon often states otherwise. this is where i draw the line, and this is why i might seem to talk in such definitive terms when bobs send me asks.

okay, now back to your question.

i think your interpretation is valid, but at the moment, i do consider it fanon.

shorter explanation: i don't really see it as flirting (and canonically as of right now it was not).

longer explanation: it might sound funny, but there is this strange idea in a lot of fandoms that friends can't be... friends with each other. now, don't lose me just yet – let me explain!

so i think it's a common view that a friend is someone who you can trust; someone who supports you and is always there for you when you need them. and that is absolutely true, there is no doubt about that. this is basically the foundation of a friendship.

but for some reason, there are people who don't see beyond that.

when a friend jokingly insults the other in a tiktok video, for example, chances are you'll find a number of comments on how the insulted friend deserves better. and yeah, sometimes that's true. not everyone we consider our friend is truly a friend. but people seem to forget, or simply ignore, the fact that this is how a lot of people actually show affection too.

and it doesn't end with insults, of course. there are a number of ways people show affection to those they love. one of them can also be flirting with each other in a joking manner. tbf, i do that with my friends fairly often. does it mean i'm attracted to them or they are to me? no. we just feel comfortable with each other enough to make such comments, and we just like to spice up our conversations a bit so they're not boring. that's it.

the thing is, friendships differ from person to person. there is no rule that dictates what is and what isn't considered a friendship. saying that someone insulting their friend definitely means they don't care about them is a reach, just as saying that someone flirting with their friend definitely means they are in love with them is a reach. people can engage in these behaviours without romantic feelings underlying them.

you mentioned the "wanna go for the title" scene and how you interpret it as buck and eddie being flirty with each other, and that is your right to interpret that scene that way.

however, personally, i have never seen it as them flirting with each other (even in the platonic way i "flirt" with my friends). i have always viewed this exchange between them as just a friendly banter, which, again, is something that a lot of friends do. being playful with each other isn't exclusive to romance; people can do so in all sorts of relationships – romantic, friendships, familial. so, it doesn't indicate what type of relationship one has with another human being; rather, it just shows that they are comfortable with them.

bucktommy's kitchen scene is different in that the exchange ended with a kiss. buddie's kitchen scene ended with them playing a video game.

with the assumption that buck's crush on eddie (if there ever was one) was gone by the start of s3, that scene reads completely platonic to me. however, if i believed the crush lasted longer than that, i think i could perceive it as genuine flirting on buck's part. the problem is, though, i really don't think that's the case, and i don't think anything in canon indicates it was that as well.

[inke-ri]

So I had a different post up about the miraculous movie and how it wasn't perfect but - as someone who liked the series back when it was just Ladybug and Chat Noir against the world, and sorta naturally dropped it when the show started to introduce more heroes just bc it wasn't my thing - it felt nice and it gave me closure.

I was just gonna rewrite it in a way I liked better, but Jesus, whatever minor desire to pick the show back up again was very quickly snuffed out by how negative the a browse through the fandom tags felt. It's like people who like the movie are rubbing it in with a sort of arrogance, and the people who don't are almost gatekeepy with how "it's not the show" and how inferior it is bc of that. And I feel like wanting to talk about that instead.

Like. There are actual criticisms and praise going around but it gets lost in a sea of salt. It's kinda scary.

Personally, I liked it. It had some very cheesy lines, a couple scene transitions could have been better, What Have They Done To My Son, Plagg, and Adrienette's dynamic would have benefitted from a couple extra scenes (just a few tweaks showing him a little embarrassed or staring a little longer than usual in the Baddie Of The Day Montage(tm) would fix it, since I think they do a decent job of setting Marinette as special to Adrien given she's the only person we see him open up to about his mom, when we know he and Nino are friends and Nino already stated to always be there for him), to make the turning the ball invitation down + reveal hit harder, but overall it was fun. It was different.

What I truly cannot understand how this isn't Miraculous or how it doesn't really have a story. Sure, it's not The Series but in movie format, including the characterizations (they ARE different characters), but?? I feel like the core of who they are, or who they were back when the show began, still remains. Marinette still struggles with self confidence (which is in line with her season 1 self), and I particularly love how you can see how she HAS that spice bubbling underneath the surface, she just needed a push to embrace it and grow more confident (very Origins of her). Adrien is still closed off and quiet, and I love the implication that it was each other that gave them the push they needed to open up and be stronger and more social. I love how it was still Adrien's kindness that made Marinette fall for him, and Ladybug's bravery and selflessness that caught Chat Noir's eye.

Marinette is still clumsy and a little over excited, which we see in the first music, it just has a sense of WONDER to it instead of a frazzled energy like in the show, lol, poor baby. Adrien is still flirty and punny, he's still closed off, except show Adrien is trying to put up a brave face about it and trying to move on, and movie Adrien has lived with grief for longer and developed different coping mechanisms in regards to it. They're both very interesting in their own right, and I think the timing of Emilie's loss really explains the changes in him- movie Adrien is just past the meek attempts to be happy that show Adrien is still trying to do. He lost his mom and lived with an absent father for much longer than his show counterpart and it SHOWS. It's a different flavor of Adrien, but I think it's a neat choice, to have LB be the reason why he chose to open up. Show Adrien was interesting bc he chose to stand up to his dad in order to go to school, but he still felt alienated from his peers. The movie just makes that separation clearer but lets Adrien grow and hang out with his friends* and create actual bonds with them thanks to having first created a bond with Ladybug. It's a cool take on it.

I also really like what they did with Hawkmoth, though I don't think I can compare it to the show bc back when I watched it Gabriel was more or less just the absent father, mustache twirling villain that he was. This is where that * is inserted, I think the biggest change is that show Gabriel was more controlling of his son's life, and more demanding. Movie Gabriel straight up "lets" Adrien go missing for a whole night and only tries to talk to him the day after. He doesn't seem to mind Adrien spending time with his friends. He doesn't micromanage his son, though we still see hints of that control in how he talks about his designs, so its there, just a little hidden, that pride and arrogance. Again, it's a different flavor of Gabriel, but it works within the characterization of the movie and what they wanted for his character. Reminds me a bit of the Gabriel that wasn't willing to hurt Adrien (which apparently is an early series thing only, rip lmao) but was willing to go all out on Ladybug and Chat Noir.

So... yea. Maybe I'm just out of touch with the fandom and the show. Maybe it's because the characters have grown in ways I simply don't know bc I lost interest, and the modern MLB fandom understandably attaches those changes to the characters and wants to see it represented, which is valid. But tbh? I still love early MLB - not bc the "writing was better" or bc of Astruc v Zag shenanigans (are those still going? oh the war flashbacks) - just bc I vibed with the concept more. I love the show versions of these characters. And I think the movie is a different spin on them, but I think it does them justice. It has flaws, but the show also did, and I loved it anyway.

Speaking of just what I watched back then... I still think nothing in the movie tops the Umbrella Scene(tm), but I love that Ladynoir got a cute equivalent in the sparring one. I love the banter in both. I love the Adrienette moments in the show and I love how the movie expands on the inconditional trust between Chat and Ladybug, on how they're partners and always there for each other. I love Tikki in both. Show Plagg is my baby. I love what they did with Hawkmoth in both (movie and s1/some of s2). Master Fu as a cooky old man is hilarious. The cringe somehow got cringier in the movie. I think it's funny that movie Adrien gets to have his own "oh my god the second hand embarrassment, I want to cry" to balance out show Marinette lol. I love Chat still simping for LB and I love the cute little romance scenes, shipping fodder moments were always one of the strengths of the show, and we have it here in spades, so good for me.

It's just... as I said, it's different, but to me it's a love letter to the MLB that captivated me for years. It does its own thing, but I think I'm just gonna make a few tweaks in my head, mash Origins with the first half of the movie, then watch season 1 and a few select season 2 episodes, then go back to the movie to finish it up. I actually think that they complement each other quite well, even with the characterization changes, because, for example, the early seasons compensate for the movie's lack of Adrienette, while the show expands on the ladynoir side. If you use both, then the movie manages to effectively reverse the love square, allow Mari to grow past her awkward self, deal with the bits of insecurity in her that we still see sprinkled across the series, allow Adrien to stand up to and face his father, and give me a satisfying conclusion to the Hawkmoth plot and a cute little reveal.

I could go on over more talked about topics like the music (its fine. Christina inserts a certain breathlesness to Marinette that you feel Lou is trying to capture but she just can't. I got used to it tho, and Lou's voice is lovely) or the animation (gorgeous), like I did in the original version of this post, but to me what mattered most was the... For lack of a better word, the vibe of the movie. To me, it felt like a little time capsule bc it really embodies everything the fandom liked about the show during season 1 and its hiatus. I can't give it an objective score bc I think my 8.5/10 feels very biased, but I loved the nostalgia trip. I loved getting that closure. I'm still gonna go off and enjoy parts of both the show and the movie, because something something stronger together might just apply to them as well :)