#beans writes sometimes

[superbeans89]

Bear Faced Cheek

Word count: 441

Prompt: Write a story about a cursed object.

It was a Friday night in the O’Driscoll household, and things were looking lively. Loaded up with sugar, popcorn and vampire movies, Alice and her school friends were engaging in a fun round of verbal abuse. 

Their victim? Stuart the bear.

“I touched him once and puked up in mam’s good bowl.” Alice giggled.

“I touched him once and me arm fell off.” Siobhan tittered.

“I touched him once and forgot how to spell my name!” Caoimhe honked with laughter.

Older than any of them and missing an eye, Stuart had definitely been through the wars.

“And maybe you could stop knocking him?” A voice called from the doorway. The girls turned around to find Alice’s mother looking unimpressed.

“Aw mam…!” Alice cried. “You know we don’t mean it! Stuart’s part of the family!”

“And that means abusin’ him.” Siobhan chipped in.

“It’s true! I do the same for Aisling!” Alice grinned.

“She does, you know.” A muffled voice agreed from the room next door.

“Oh you would, would you now?” Her mother’s eyebrow arched. “Well Stuart’s got seniority on you, so you’d best be careful.”

“Stuart’s older than time itself, so he is.” Alice said.

“That makes him a powerful wizard.” Caoimhe tackled her to the ground, where the pair of them landed in a bunch of cushions.

“It wasn’t that long ago,” Mam sighed. “It was only 1994, girls. I was 10, me da was in the hospital. Stuart kept me company at the time.”

All three girls gasped. 

“He is a wizard!” Caoimhe cracked a grin. Mam just rolled her eyes and walked away from the madness.

“He can’t say much anymore, though…” Alice said. Indeed, Stuart the bear used to introduce himself and mutter a couple of other niceties when his belly was squished. But now all he said was.

“Hell…” A dull, tinny voice burbled from his depths as Alice buried her hand in his belly. The three tweens giggled at the forbidden word. 

“Hey Stuart, where do bad people go when they die?” Alice threw caution to the wind, pressing his belly. Stuart stirred once again;

“Hell.”

The trio burst into puddles of laughter.

“Hey Stuart, what do you get instead of high water?” Siobhan had a turn.

“Hell.”

“Hey Stuart, what’s a word that rhymes with yell?” Caoimhe joined in.

“Hell…”

The girls carried on giggling.

“...p me.”

A palpable silence rippled through Alice’s bedroom. Even the vampire movie went deathly quiet. 

Silently, three girls gathered their things and vacated the room, leaving Stuart to his own devices. Maybe Aisling would like to join in on their sleepover tonight after all.

[brigid-faye]

headcanon that Peter was a brunette until Ron cast sunshine, daisies, butter mellow turn this stupid fat rat yellow

[whumpacabra]

Whump that is about change. Whump that is about acceptance. Whump that is about adapting to loss. Whump where there is no rehabilitation, no getting back what’s gone. Sometimes things happen and there is no going back, there is no getting better. Sometimes the person that comes out the other side is different and they will never be the same again. Sometimes you need to grapple with the reality that most people don’t bounce back from traumatic brain injuries, from severe burns, from lost limbs and are their old selves ever again.

Whump that is about change, with no going back, and how the world won’t end because of it.

[birdgee]

my notes app has the most diabolical writings from depressive episodes right next to such highlights as "Masking tape" and "coffee ground hot shower make coffee chew beans"

[recapitulation]

journaling in a language you're learning is so fun. its like a puzzle bc you have to think of creative ways to talk about what you want using only the limited number of words you actually know. i sound like a third grader with bad grammar but also it really helps so much

[this-was-a-terrible-idea]

if you haven't already answered, i've been so curious about the jaykon firemedic au 👀👀

maya my beloved, thank you for asking!!!!! jaykon firemedic kon au is sooooo. i have so many thoughts about it. the au is huge and expansive in my brain. without making this a huge long post with disjointed thoughts, heres the rundown.

clex grew up together and were besties and then partners and trans!lex had kon as an oopsie baby when they were teenagers before they had the whole superman falling out. ma and pa took kon in bc neither lex or clark were able to take care of him since they were teens as well, and kon grew up thinking of clark as more of a brother than a dad.

bc kon's a biokid and not a clone, he has way fewer powers and what he does have are weaker. this means hes not a superhero, but he DOES want to save people, so he became a firefighter. he did the volly to paid route, and went to gotham u for fire science. when he got on with gcfd he showed interest in becoming a medic so they put him through paramedic school. kon is a huge nerd and keeps a huge medic kit at home, which is also just a good idea in general bc he lives in gotham, and also he taught himself how to do stitches for funsies.

jason is still red hood, and one night he got hit hard enough to slow him down near kon's place, and kon ends up taking care of him. jason keeps going back to get patched up by kon, and he totally has a crush on him.

i just want kon to be a badass firemedic, and also kiss jason 🥰

(ask me about my wips!)

[smalltimidbean]

Something that I’ve been curious for a while is that when Fiend speaks, how come their text is always in capital letters?

It's bc they have a big mouth and talk very loudly jkdfgkj;fg

But uhh, I don't exactly remember why I made their 'speech quirk' all caps - like how Pep's 'quirk' is that he speaks backwards - it was kinda a spur of the moment idea and it just stuck

Originally Fiend didn't speak at all, or 'spoke' garbled nonsense, and then they could suddenly speak full sentences, with the all caps supposed to indicate that they are speaking loudly - like how one would project their voice while on stage

Their voice has a slight reverb to it too! But idk how to portray that in text hgdljhkgdl

[ziskandra]

apropos of rereading one of my old old fanfics i am suddenly reminded of an even more ancient RP i did where franziska von karma tried to run kristoph gavin down with a shopping cart

[beevean]

i really liked lenore at first in castlevania when i watched it until i finished S4 with my boyfriend and he told me (not word for word) "i think you only like lenore because you've made up your own view of her in your head and she's not actually as well written as you think she is". he was right. i was fucking imagining she was an actually good character.

now that it's been a day since we finished the show, i looked through the castlevania tags and found your posts on hector and lenore and uh... yeah, i can see why he said that now. should we even watch nocturne? he told me "maybe it'll be better than the first one" but i'm on the fence here, i feel like i might get my hopes up too much about it...

Bro, your timing wouldn't be more right. I just finished writing a scene I had stuck in my head for ages, where I did exactly what many do without realizing and basically wrote the Lenore in my head which makes much more sense as a character than what we had on screen 😂

(also I'm very flattered that my posts managed to have an impact! I tend to screech in the void so I don't expect anyone except my mutuals to read them lol)

She is such a good concept, wasted away by the worst writer who could have written her. She has many intriguing elements to her name! Her design that speak of her personality, how hard she tries to look soft and harmless - I really like the detail of her cutting her own claws and putting on make up to simulate blushing cheeks. The implicit resentment of her own vampirism, implied by things like her random comment about eating food (which she equates to "living well") and her alleged insistence on using diplomacy in a culture that thrives on violence: missing her own humanity and trying to recreating it would be the only valid interpretation of the "princess in mourning" theme supposedly going on (have you noticed how she introduces herself to Hector with a black veil that she lifts, as if unmasking herself? And then she never wears black veils again? That's most surely a vestige of this idea that never came to fruition). The, at times, clever abuse that feels realistic in the way she dodges responsibility and makes others feel responsible. The giant savior complex, of someone who is power hungry and revels in feeling superior over others but expresses it by "taking care" of "inferior" creatures - like a twisted Rosaly, if you are familiar with the game lore.

Lenore is a vampire who doesn't want to be a vampire, who clearly thinks herself better than her own kind, but can't rise above her own nature. She is amoral, selfish (this post is my best one to date <3), only concerned with her own comfort, hedonistic, cruel, hypocritical, a professional liar, but she has principles. When she promised that she would keep Hector safe, she meant it - in the worst possible way, by ignoring his human dignity, but she really seems to think, like Carmilla, that love is keeping something with you for as long as you can. Her apparent fascination with humanity contrasts with Hector, who is alienated from his own humanity and seems fascinated with vampirekind and all things grotesque and unnatural. On top of this, you have the conflict between her and the rest of the council, who seem to think of her as a stupid little girl who can't do anything worthwile, which makes her snap if underestimated: this is, surprisingly enough, relatable, in a pathetic sort of way. It's fascinating! Look at all these good ingredients for a complex antagonist and foil for Hector!

But in practice, she is simply awful, an not just because she's an abusive rapist played for titillation. In S3, she is cartoonishly evil, basically Carmilla 2.0 + BDSM patch (and not even the hot vampire kind, girl doesn't do so much as bite her pet), the most stereotypical smug, obnoxious, condescending manipulator a porn writer could write, things that even Ace Attorney would say "hey man, maybe she's too much of a caricature" - and in order to make her look smart, Hector had to be lobotomized to a truly embarrassing degree, and his potential character arc was pissed away. Moral conflict over agreeing to culling his own kind? never heard of her. let's make him sound like a child who just needs a mommy. (also, it really doesn't speak well of Lenore's skills if she felt that she had to resort to using her pussy to win over the stupidest man on earth. Sexism, much?) In S4, she's downright pathetic, doing nothing but whining about how boohoo her besties are sidelining her :( and boohoo Carmilla's evil plan is soooooo inconvenient for her :( while the man she raped into slavery pats her little head and concedes that it's not rape if he enjoyed it, and the story tries so hard to make you forget about how disgustingly cruel Lenore was to him less than two months prior - so hard that even the writing itself degrades in front of your eyes. If you have found my old posts, you must have found the ones where I talked about how Lenore's ring is completely pointless, because if it worked, all the "cute" scenes between them would have a sour aftertaste, and we can't have that.

In short, the show promotes the idea that a gilded cage is a good thing, and if a cute woman traps you there, then it's nothing to complain about. Even if it's through sniper-accurate emotional abuse and sexual deceit. It's not like it's rape if you gave your consent under false pretenses :) you were stupid for falling for it anyway :) Lenore was right in saying that what Hector always needed was being made a "pet" and kept safe, because that's how you show love! By trapping people at your side, for their own good!

It makes me puke. Lenore should have stayed a villain. Giving her a backstory, showing her more vulnerable side and her fears, would have worked well, if only she and Hector were treated like characters, and not fucking ship fuel for fans who masturbated at her and wished they were him! That's the thing that pisses me off: Hector is not respected as a character and a victim of abuse, and Lenore is not taken seriously as a female abuser because she's too "cute"! There's no room for that contrast between a vampire drawn to humanity and a human drawn to vampirekind, when Hector is not afforded a shred of internal world (or dignity in general) and Lenore's angst is reduced to "besties don't like me" to not dwell into her monstrosity!

By contrast, Isaac from the games has an extremely compelling backstory that makes you sympathize all too well with his despair and anger: he's a victim of circumstances outside of his control. But the story doesn't get all 🥺 when he kills Hector's wife and dangles her head in front of him while taunting him. Cool motive, still murder and all that, being a hot tragic twink doesn't make him suddenly redeemable. The story allows me to decide how much I want to sympathize with the villain. The show instead always forces you to feel sorry for its murderers and rapists... except the Japanese not-twins, who are not considered real characters. Or Carmilla, who is too much of a Hysterical Woman and therefore needs to be put down and replaced by the Logical Man. Have I mentioned how sexist this show is? Usually the sexism is reserved for the non-masculine men, but Carmilla and even Lenore are victims of a more traditional misogyny.

Yes, Lenore is badly written! She's fetish fuel in S3 and then woobiefied for the fans in S4! She's Wildly Inconsistent™, incoherent, and wishy-washy! But if you pay attention to the dialogue and not just the "hot" scenes, then you notice all those details being left afloat in a sea of wasted potential. I'm still not over her mentioning that she eats human food, and that going absolutely nowhere. So it's easy for your brain, who can surely write better than Ellis can, to dream up a version of her that actually makes sense, and then getting confused and thinking it was what you watched all along.

No, trust me. Everytime I start to think "mhh, maybe her fans (the non-horny ones) may be seeing something that I missed, they might have a point", I only need to rewatch her scenes, and be reminded of the fact that no. she sucks. her voice sucks. her expressions suck. she is a caricature. i need to rescue her from the shitty writer and turn her into a proper semi-tragic villain. and turn hector into something closer to his game counterpart while i'm at it.

As proof, just see how many people missed that, in theory, she killed herself out of fear that she'd go insane and mad with power as Carmilla did, again fitting the idea that she hates being a vampire, and has come to see her as a metaphorical cage. Her fans assume she felt guilty for how she treated Hector (she did not, "I'm sorry things happened" is not an apology, especially if you were one of those things), and most instead think, because of her shitty voice direction and complete lack of characterization that isn't "woe is me", that she killed herself because she couldn't deal with being Isaac's prisoner for a few decades, making her look like a massive petty hypocrite. That is bad writing. Your character was not conveyed properly. Because Lenore never once expressed the view of feeling stuck in a cage, because she was too busy molesting Hector and crying over how useless her bestie made her feel.

Anyway, as for Nocturne. It really depends on what you liked about the OG show. Nocturne is bland, so far. It has nothing to do with Castlevania, both the games and the show: if you liked Alucard, that's pretty much the only connection with the OG show it has. You can tell the writer wanted to recreate so badly what made the OG show show appealing, but lacked fundamental elements like an interesting villain. It also deals with historical and political themes with all the finesse of a war hammer on your balls. However, it does not viscerally insult me like the OG show, it at least attempts to be slightly more hopeful and less cynically edgy, and some storylines even have me politely interested - Olrox and Mizrak have a more compelling "problematic" human/vampire relationship than Hector and Lenore, with Olrox being a more genuinely morally grey vampire. If you want to try, S1 is generally considered a huge bore, while S2 has been much better received - personally, though, I only felt it way too confusing and rushed, like a S4 of the OG show on steroids.

Most fans of the show seem to agree that the OG was better. Make of that what you will.

[superbeans89]

Loose Change

Word Count: 749

Prompt: Write about an encounter with a supernatural creature.

A visit to the pet store had left Julia high and dry.

Sure, the animals were nice and the company would’ve been even nicer, but then there was the smarmy guy at the cash register, the costs of it all, and the deadened look in that hamster’s eyes. Anything from that place was either going to hate her or die on her within a week, she just knew it.

But still, that meant another night in the new apartment, all alone. Inviting Jade or Alana over for the night was only a temporary fix, and honestly, her fridge regretted every visit.

With a short sigh, Julia glanced over her shoulder towards the animal shelter down the street. What about a fixer upper pet?

Something like a cat would be low maintenance, plus they’d be given a second chance, and hopefully give her company in return. She checked her phone; still two hours ‘til work. That was more than enough time to fall in love with something.

Tying her crimson curls back into submission, she straightened out her dress, because new animal owners were smart and responsible looking, and began her trek over to the shelter.

Only to immediately get stopped by the red man at the traffic lights.

Julie deflated. Fate itself seemed to be against her. As cars droned past, their greyed-out cargo staring mindlessly ahead, she couldn’t help but feel her gaze wander while she waited. 

Against the granite drudgery of the city,  a sparkle of light caught her eye just a couple of feet away. The red man was still red, so she knelt down to investigate and found herself a lucky quarter under a drainpipe.

Sometimes it was the little things, but this definitely made her Tuesday. She could get herself a free coffee from the vending machine at work. No one would judge if they saw a grown woman pulling coins from a drain, would they?

Julia shrugged; judging was for when she was on the clock. That was an hour and forty-eight minutes away. Plenty of time to be a messy reprobate.

A cursory glance; the coast looked clear enough. She reached out for the coin, only for a hissing to emerge from the drainpipe.

Julia retracted her hand. Picking up change was one thing, but coming to work splattered with sewage was another entirely.

It wasn’t water that came spilling out of the pipe however, rather a tiny lizard. Two, maybe three inches long at the most, the little beastie nevertheless curled up around the coin and snarled at the invading giant. Fluttering a pair of minuscule wings, it chomped down on the coin and tried to drag it back into its drainpipe. No such luck.

Julia straightened up again. It looked like that coin was spoken for. What a dragon was doing in the middle of the city was anyone’s guess, but pissing it off for a free coffee didn’t sound wise.

The red man flashed green at last. Julia scraped a dime out of her purse and flicked it the dragon’s way, then took her chance and scampered across the road.

The tiny dragon’s beady eyes watched her retreating away. Its tongue flickered curiously.

Half an hour later, Julia left the pet shelter, exactly one cat heavier. Of the ten or so to choose from, it was Scrungus the one-eyed tortoiseshell that stole her heart. The nice lady there said that she had a penchant for eating custard and sleeping with her head in tissue boxes. Two things Julia could provide, for sure.

Tucking the kitten in a carry case under one arm, she was just calculating her route back home when a bizarre noise hissed up at her.

“...huh?” She frowned. Kneeling down, she noticed the very same dragon as before - well it had to be. How many other dragons were there in this city?

Gurgling in delight, the mini reptile had what looked like a jewel lodged in its jaws. Was that a thanks? Did dragons understand that concept?

The little dragon scampered onto her outstretched hand and up her arm, resting on her shoulder.

From no pets to two in the space of an hour, Julia’s downtimes were better than  ever. Scrungus napped in tissue boxes, occasionally waking up with them stuck to her head and scattering about the house in a panic, while Sterling the dragon had a fishbowl full of change to parade around in.

It wasn’t much, but it was the company she needed.

[jestersdlc]

You say coincidence as if I haven’t read your fanfic gxghxhchcjv the Rowlet was picked on purpose HEHEHEHE

ACK well....I wasn't going to assume it was cause my lil fic >_<

it COULD have been coincidence after all (...which apparently it is not) hjhjdjd dying rn /pos

[marshmellowtea]

chris and sandra make each other better but they also make each other worse. especially to any man who makes the questionable decision to date either of them <3

[kanene-yaaay]

Sooo, Heya Heya, everyone!

I am actually quite not sure if I already made a post like thus because I think I just wrote this intro around 5 times already and never got to finish so ahwfywgeue idk hope I am not sounding like an old scratched vinyl but I wanted to share some stuff for the beans who read my fics!

Long short story: college is kicking my butt a LOT and lately (and by that I mean the last three months ahfwtwfwjge) I haven't been able to have a free moment to spend by writing and creating, which is,,, boring, but something I expected. Honestly I don't really know when I will have some time and energy to write (July is coming by w the holidays but aaaa energy and inspiration are hard auywfwffw) and that is quite disheartening that I can't just show up w a date to come back w posting fanfics but I didn't want to...just disappear w my writing and not explain anything.

About my reblogs! They are being affected too! However I still think I still can rb a good fic or a lovely fanart here and there when I get some time to breathe. So probably I will come back w them earlier than my fics ^v^)

Thank you for your patience if you read until here! Please accept this cookie 🍪

[johnbly]

WIP game!

i was tagged by @tortoisesshells ✨

so i have two fics going one rn: 1) in the boat purgatory in at world's end, james comes across gov swann and the two have a final conversation together (not using that for this since i haven't done too much but something to look forward to i guess) and 2) bolt's "what if james had a dragon" fic and subsequent discussions and questions has me now doing a "what if hornblower had a dragon" fic so here is an excerpt from that:

“Who are you?”  The dragonet is speaking French, and internally Hornblower swears. Is French the only language the creature knows? It’s no issue for him, of course, but how can it be expected to be a British dragon if it only knows French? “Captain Horatio Hornblower, most recently of the HMS Sutherland,” he replies, also in French – awkwardly so, because it’s a ridiculously formal introduction to make to a dragon, but in light of never having conversed with one before he’s fallen back on the old habit of saying more than is necessary. “That is not a French name,” the dragon says. In English. “Non – no, it is not. You speak English, then?” “I do.” Pause. “That was a long introduction. I hope you don’t want me to use it whenever I want to call on you?” The idea of a dragon wanting to call on him at all is no less ridiculous than having a conversation with one, but it – he? The voice is deep – has a point. “You can call me 'Hornblower',” he says.

i don't remember who all is writing things that hasn't already been tagged, so if you see this and are a writer, feel free to share!

[onlineufo]

i have 1/3 a cup of coffee and im like. my heart is full of love! <3

[unladielike]

As previously explored with @spiritpyro’s Hayate and @dis--parity​’s Alex, Vivian actually has trouble saying the word, ‘love’, around people she is romantically attracted to. ...In fact, she opts to say ‘L-word’ instead, meaning rather than ‘I love you’, it would be ‘I L-word you’, because this girl is unaccustomed to navigating romantic relationships and romance as a whole.

Seriously, you’ve got to understand Vivian has spent years, looking down on normies and scoffing at the idea of ‘true love’, that once she actually realizes her feelings for someone is less platonic in nature, she becomes very embarrassed. Why, while she has no qualms telling friends, pets, or even her father she loves them, love interests and significant others are a whole different story altogether.

Honestly, at least when dating them for the first little while, Vivian would act like a bashful school girl around anyone she falls for and just fumble through her words, to the point where if a ship were to occur in her older modern verse, people might doubt the fact she’s not actually a virgin. But yeah, she has trouble being the least bit suave and will be a very milder version of a tsundere (ie: will threaten to smother a muse’s face with kisses if they don’t shut up, whine about a muse being incorrigible, etc) when it comes to more flirtatious or charming muses.

Of course, she does end up being a bit more lascivious or weirdly blunt/shameless (which is best demonstrated through this post here *WARNING* suggestive language) as time goes on, but overall, doing anything romantic (like bringing a significant other flowers) will still reduce her to a blushing mess... and naturally, how she reacts is quite heavily dependent on how shy or bold a muse is, but for the most part, Vivian is very much a dork.