✨ weekend wip exposure club ✨
rules: post 7 sentences/a snippet of an unfinished work
@theotherwhybietoldmeso & @killerandhealerqueen
I'm late, I'm late, I'm late. Forgive me. I was fighting demons (imposter syndrome, crippling self doubt, fatigue, and a wild pack of mental illnesses). (◕દ◕) But! I'm finally back after like three ass weeks. <( ̄︶ ̄)> So, here! A v unserious snippy from my we have to stay silly modern kidlaw au (yeah, shocker, it's them bastards again) that I've been doing sometimes on the side just for shits n giggles. 〜(꒪꒳꒪)〜
The call connected and Killer's accent crackled out of the speaker. “Law? What's up?”
“Nothing urgent. I just need to know if Eustass h—”
“Yeah, his phone’s dead again. He's in the shed. You want him?”
“What?”
“Hang on. I'll get him.”
Law pinched the bridge of his nose. Squeezed his eyes shut till he saw pinpricks. “No, I just need to know if—”
"Oi, Kid! Your boyfriend wants to speak ta ya!"
Law snapped his eyes back open and nearly crushed his phone as his hand clenched in a useless attempt to smother the speaker.
Ahead of him in the aisle, hands in his pockets, Cora stopped. His leg held out in front of him as he froze mid-stride.
Dammit.
After a beat, as if he'd been waiting for what he'd heard to start making a little more sense, Cora slowly turned on his heel. His other leg still stuck out in front of him and the hem of his heart-covered button-up twirling with him.
He stared wide-eyed at Law. The embodiment of flabbergasted. His raised boot absently clicking down on the supermarkets’ bland tiling like an accompanying exclamation point.
Dammit!
"He's not my damn boyfriend!" Eustass yelled, taking the words out of Law's mouth.
The heavy rock blasting from the shed’s stereo lowered enough in volume to not blow out Law's phone speaker and Eustass' voice dropped several octaves as he brought Killer's phone up to his ear.
“Miss me, did ya, sweetheart?”
His eyes bulging, Cora took several steps back in bewilderment and tripped over one of the restocking boxes stacked in the aisle.
"Shut up, Eustass!" Law snapped. His face igniting alongside his fury. "You're on speaker!"
There was a pause so pregnant it had reached its third trimester. Then Eustass chuckled. It had a grotesque amount of facetious glee in it.
"Am I now?"
So. That had been a mistake. But Law could only double down now.
"Behave," he said through clenched teeth. "Or I'll—"
"You'll what? Don't go making promises you can't keep, princess."
Cora toppled back over the box trying to get up and landed on his back with his legs sticking straight up.
"I'm going to—!" Catching Cora's eye from down on the floor, Law sighed. "Doesn't matter. I'll deal with you later. Cora-san wants to know if you have any dietary restrictions.”
He scrunched down into his jacket. Tense. Gritting his teeth. Law still wasn't sure how Cora had talked him into letting him come over and cook dinner. But if it had been a bad idea before, it was a horrendous one now.
Eustass Kid was an arsehole. Always had been. Always would be. Always was. There wasn't a chance in hell he could be trusted not to—
"Hold up. Cora's there?"
"Yesss," Law hissed, ready to brain him.
“Put him on then.”
“Don't tell me what to do!”
Cora looked from Law to the phone and then accepted it when Law clicked his tongue on his teeth in irration and offered it down to him.
Tagging @schwazombie (no pressure. You keep working on those kidlawgust prompts if you're still on a roll 😊) and anyone else that wants to give it a whirl ✨✨
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I think My Melody could be autistic.
I wouldn't go so far as to say she's an autistic-coded character, but I do think it's a very feasible reading of the Onegai My Melody anime. Here's my evidence:
She has difficulty identifying emotional states in other people, especially negative ones.
She once tried shopping at a big, crowded supermarket, but it was too overwhelming for her, so from then on she sticks to the local farmers' market.
She seems unable to conceive that someone might have negative intentions towards her.
There's a scene where she's playing a racing game with her friend Flat, and she seemingly doesn't understand that the point of it is drive faster than the other player. She just drives the car normally.
She is never intentionally rude to anyone, but frequently says and does things that come across as insensitive. As long as it's not clearly explained to her, she doesn't notice when she inadvertently hurts someone's feelings. This is why Kuromi holds a grudge against her for such a long time.
This one wouldn't mean anything on its own, but combined with all of the above, her comment that she is "very slow at chopping vegetables" could possibly point to an impairment in fine motor skills.
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Anyway, my WoW: Egg thoughts are as follows:
Being completely honest, I would've missed the announcement entirely except GeForce Now broke with BG3's latest patch and I just happened to refresh Facebook while GLARING at it and was like "oh right, that's a thing."
I legit thought for half a second that they'd decided to eschew cinematics in favor of getting a live actor to play Anduin for half a second, so idk how much the cinematics team is getting paid right now, but I'm petitioning for them to get a raise because goddamn.
I'm very glad they chose Thrall to come and give Anduin the news that his manpain is the new expansion. My boy is all grown up :,)
(I literally don't care if it's called The War Within, it's an egg)
If there isn't already Alleria/Xalatath fic out there, there needs to be.
I am so glad more than just my dragon mounts will now be able to do WHEE flying things.
I've been at this long enough that Delves is just Dark Elves to me, idk.
Lore seems fine or whatever. Apo is sort of sitting here like 'WHY. WHY HAVE YOU COME TO ME NOW WHEN I AM THIS.'
(meaning the full time job professional he is now and not the guild leader he was 10 years ago)
I'll play, because it's just sort of what I do, but so far I feel somewhat detached. Now if WoW 2 ends up happening at the end of the Egg saga, like if Azeroth hatches into "Azeroth, but with better graphics" then we'll talk with more excitement.
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