#beyond excited to read this

[overtake]

I'm really obsessed with your hockey AU and I was thinking if (when) they win the Cup, how do they celebrate their day with the Cup? I mean, if they're still having their relationship in private, they celebrate separately? I was thinking of them choosing correlated days so they could be at the other's celebration easily but I would like to know what do you think about it ♥️

I'm so grateful you're obsessed with it because I cannot get leafs maxiel out of my head. I actually talked about this some with @danifesting before and have many thoughts, so this is going under a read more

The day of the win

When they actually win, Max obviously passes the Cup to Daniel. However, Daniel is very caught up in the emotions and how beautiful Max looked with tears in his pretty eyes after he passed Daniel the Cup and used their raised arms to block his mouth when he said, "I love you" and Daniel said, "I love you too, I'm so proud of you." He does his lap with the Cup and then comes around and gives it right back to Max, who is temporarily very confused but does another lap, and then thinks about how beautiful and right Daniel looked lifting the Cup and gives it right back to Daniel.

This continues for another round before GP intervenes and says "guys, the rest of the team also exists." Max and Daniel aren't even sorry. They're too busy hugging each other and crying.

They get so many photos together and with their families all as one massive group, and people are side-eyeing them.

Max's Cup Day

They do separate days with the Cup. Max brings his to Belgium because he's learning how to belong back in the place he didn't get to be raised. He pays to have a bunch of nearby children's teams meet him and see the Cup and play one big, giant match together, and he announces surprise guest Daniel Ricciardo as the other team's captain. Also, the cats obviously made the journey to be in Belgium and they get put inside the Cup. They are NOT happy about it, but they do look adorable curled up inside there.

Daniel's Cup Day

Daniel brings the Cup to Australia. Hockey isn't big there and they had to make such a journey to get there that when Daniel politely requests two days with the Cup (one to try and grow the game in Australia, another for himself and his family), the keepers of the Cup and league agree.

On day one, way more people than Daniel thinks show up to see the Cup and meet him. People have flown across the country to see him and it, and he realizes all the good he could do for Australian hockey and spur of the moment decides he's going to build a new ice rink in Perth (of course, Max decides to invest too because "think of all the little Daniels the league could have!").

On day two, the camera crew treks out to the farm and shows up expecting to see Daniel's friends and family. They get the shock of their lives when Max opens the front door like he owns the place and invites them inside. Daniel has a party that night for all his loved ones and it's warm and lovely and happy and the camera crew/keepers of the Cup join in on the party like they've known everybody here their whole lives. But during the day, Max and Daniel take the crew on a tour of the farm ... they do dirt bike jumps over the Cup and give the poor keepers a fucking heart attack.

But there's also the night in between, where Max and Daniel get the full night alone with the Cup. They've made a million jokes to each other about what sex acts they're going to do when they get it. But then it's actually in bed with them and they realize the enormity of this thing they've done together. They just hold hands and cry a little and tell each other how proud they are, share stories of all the hard times and all their worst, cruellest thoughts they had toward teammates during playoff losses. They hold nothing back. It's this shared understanding of how much this means to them, and how much more it means that they got to win it together, and there's no embarrassment or judgment or shame, just a new kind of intimacy.

This is also when Daniel tells Max that he's only doing one more season because hockey is so hard on his body, his ankle is acting up, and he wants to be happy and healthy for their future kids. That he's going to stay in Toronto for as long as Max keeps playing, but that Daniel only needs one more season to say a proper goodbye and experience all his lasts with Max there, and then he's ready to be done. He achieved everything he wanted, and he's content now.

Anyway, when these Day With The Cup videos get released, fans are saying "I think this may not be a joke anymore. I think these guys might actually be gay for real. Max is in Australia giving a tour of Daniel's farm like it's his and telling stories of how he named the animals? Daniel was at Max's Cup day? Like what is going on here?" They're still not actually telling people, but some of the less oblivious players who can conceptualize that gay people exist definitely know.

[boku-no-anime-phase]

I thought I was already maximum excited for Witch Hat Atelier but I just watched a video about the manga that goes over the general premise & shows some panels, and it turns out it was possible for me to get more excited!!

I simply can't believe how well fantasy anime enjoyers have been eating lately. With Frieren, Dungeon Meshi and now this, I'm getting spoiled rotten.

I also can't believe how well "anime that loves and is normal about women" enjoyers are eating. I went from having, mm, a few anime I could recommend with my whole chest as loving women, some of which are close to my heart but admittedly not "great anime," to having what feels like a bunch of truly great and also woman-loving anime with Frieren, Apothecary Diaries, and Dungeon Meshi.

I'm stoked about this bc it definitely feels like Witch Hat Atelier is going to fall in the same category. I can't wait 🤩

[chiropteracupola]

so my planned Term End Reward was going to be downloading another biggles (you wouldn't download a biggles &c &c) but have just realized I could do latin american revolutions lockdown with the happy return / beat to quarters & sharpe's devil & crucible of gold.

[pained grimace] I'm Going To Have Such Fun.

[rozugold]

Well ON THE BRIGHT SIDE:

[lawlietscaramels]

of α and β

Warnings!! dead dove - do not eat, cannibalism, implied cannibalism, death (before the start of the short), horror(?), blood (image).

It's rather dark, but not very explicit. Continue with caution.

A was dead.

A was dead.

A was dead.

The words cascaded through B's head, lines of green text overlapping as they fell.

A was dead.

B was next.

“He who says A must say B likewise.” That was Hansel and Gretel, the version he read with them in the dusty room that Thursday.

B didn't like the funeral.

He didn't like the black clothes. The Victorian element of it all. He didn't like the church.

He didn't like A's grave.

He sat on the grass covered in weeds and ripped them out, then ripped out the flowers too and stared at the stone.

A was dead.

Stone was the rest of them.

No.

They were there.

B ripped the grass away. Then the dirt. He ripped at the wood and their flesh and held their heart.

A was dead.

B was next.

There was very little blood.

Between the lines of alpha and beta, half a heartbeat made two one.

Dear L did you know

If you write it right,

A fits inside B?

　★━━─・‥…━━━☆

𝖎𝖋 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊𝖉 𝖎𝖙 ˏˋ⋆˖⁺˖⁀➷ 𝖕𝖑𝖊𝖆𝖘𝖊 𝖗𝖊𝖇𝖑𝖔𝖌 + 𝖋𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜

→ thanks to @levi-dayne for being my beta reader! ←

©lawlietscaramels. Do not repost on other sites, claim as your own work, edit, rewrite or “fix,” feed to AI or otherwise use unethically.

[weirdbabs]

thinking of peekaboo as a sliver of the locker wight is so interesting, bc it puts this entire interaction into a new perspective. peekaboo pulling dimitri into a spirit trance to play a game with it where he has to find it but its hiding in plain sight? choosing the same, childish game over and over? wow, that's sooo similar to what davy does with cryptide. peekaboo is lonely and doesn't have anyone to talk to if dimitri doesn't use its powers? wow, its almost like maybe the rest of it is locked in a dream or in a locker, unable to interact with others. didi will use powers lots? didi isn't mad at peekaboo anymore? hmmmm, its almost like it's heard someone say to their spirit companion something like "oh, i can't stay mad at you, my precious little cuddlefish!" before. and has maybe seen how great of friends they are and how often that person relies on their powers. maybe, bc it's lonely and has seen that person be such great friends with their spirit companion, it's jealous and wants that for itself

[cacw]

I hope this isn't weird but I love your dovewing design you posted on your other blog I'd love to see more it makes me like feel things because it looks like me and i relate to her so much it makes me explode inside because I love her and the scars I lost it it's just me

Everytime I see it dresden dolls plays in my head and it makes me emotional stop stop ok I'm crazy sorry I am a dovewing enjoyer too much she's so. Dresden dolls I am so excited to tell you this

I've been thinking about this all day it's such a compliment... I still do like that design and I'm really glad she resonated with you so much! this isn't weird at all I keep every comment like this very close to my heart. thank you for enjoying her I'll have to to draw her again soon but here's a small one just for you

[talldecafcappuccino]

Thanks for the tag @thesumdancekid! Posting nine books i want to read in the coming year which was an excellent exercise in getting my tbr a little bit organized. Tagging anyone who wants to play! Also, open to recs for 2025 reading.

[bookwyrminspiration]

heyyy people who follow me for completely different things. i've lost my mind again <3

[yourlocalbadgerscales]

hate being that person but sometimes… sometimes mcd in a fic is just SO unnecessary and ruins the whole thing

[kylos-starlight]

I just read your post about 7 star Anakin and I noticed.

FIANCE?

Fiancé ~ ♡

[untilyouremember]

Cinderella Closet

Available digitally

Available in print

[s0fter-sin]

Chapters: 11/? Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead & Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Midoriya Izuku & Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead & Midoriya Izuku, Dabi | Todoroki Touya & Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko Characters: Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Dabi | Todoroki Touya, Shigaraki Tomura | Shimura Tenko, Midoriya Izuku, Shinsou Hitoshi, Tsukauchi Naomasa, Kayama Nemuri | Midnight, Iida Tensei | Ingenium, Nedzu (My Hero Academia) Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Angst with a Happy Ending, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Case Fic, Deaf Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Villain Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, Parental Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead | Dadzawa, Past Child Abuse, Canon-Typical Violence, Found Family, Slow Burn, Eventual Smut, Fights, Fist Fights, Hurt/Comfort, Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic-centric, Hurt Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, no beta we die like sir nighteye Summary:

Hizashi is spiralling; his hero career is on the brink of collapse, no radio station will give him a shot and he isn’t sure how much more he can take.

When people start turning up beaten half to death, they lead him to an underground quirk fighting ring. Could it be the big break he needs to save his career or will the mysterious Referee show him something better?

[wuntrum]

guys i just finished reading catching fire for the first time. that shit was craaaazyyyyy

[juniperhillpatient]

was it even me that wrote it if the childhood flashbacks aren't like "OHH that's why this bitch is so fucked up" :')

like. what if a hunter & taxidermist were horrible parents in different ways & they had kids anyway & it went Bad

[acepalindrome]

I want to like Frieren because it’s very aesthetically pleasing and the music is beautiful, but it’s just so slow. And I get that the whole point is Frieren learning to appreciate the small moments, but it doesn’t feel like there’s any stakes beyond Frieren learning life lessons about how human interaction works and realizing her regrets.

And if we have to see the exact same dialogue again about the original party watching the meteor shower I might lose it. Could you at least expand the scene or add something to it!! Flashbacks are fine but you gotta show something new!

People who have watched it, does it get better?