#but yeahhh... i know this one was probably a bit emotional guys but i had to get it out.

[anthromimicry]

OH, speaking of misao, while i'm still here... let me talk about how she was introduced to playing instruments + why she still does it often to this day. as you may know, misao's mother — kaiyah — did suffer from mental health issues, and in ancient japan... they were very behind in terms of providing the appropriate care to those who had mental health concerns. while doing research on it, i also discovered that it was also unfortunately HEAVILY stigmatized and thought of to be caused by spirits and/or brought about by spiritual means. and so kaiyah would often have to find ways to try to help herself cope with her symptoms; one of which turned out to be music. and misao remembers which instrument kaiyah used to play vividly because listening to her play music, as well as sing, was one of the ways that they'd bond despite them having a rather complicated relationship. kaiyah used to play the biwa, which is a plucked string instrument that sort of resembles a guitar and whenever she'd play, kaiyah would sit cross-legged. and this wasn't only because that was the traditional way to play the biwa, but so that misao could sit in her lap as she strummed the instrument. and misao also remembers kaiyah just looking at her with this look that was just made up of pure happiness during those moments. which, although they were very ephemeral, kind of helped her pull through her childhood because they gave her hope that maybe she could be like this all the time at first; and then upon discovering that although that might not be the most realistic thing to think... it helped her pull through because she would believed that she rather hold onto whatever scrap of happiness she could get, rather than try to forget these experiences with her mother, because of the fact that they hurt her so badly emotionally sometimes. and this was because she wanted to help kaiyah the same way that music seemed to — she just didn't know how. but as the years passed, misao came up with the idea that maybe learning to play it could be a method in which she could assist kaiyah with feeling more... at peace, i guess you could say, and so she did.

though misao only got to play the biwa for her mother a few times before ryu was born, and whenever that happened, everything changed. but of course... none of it was his fault. all those good feelings that misao had associated with the biwa now had a sort of bitter taste to them because of kaiyah's neglect towards ryu and once more, although this conflict was a lot more nuanced than it might've appeared because of her mother's illness, misao felt this strong urge to just completely smash her biwa into pieces because she felt so bad inside. though, honestly, misao is glad that she didn't today. because it honestly is one of the few things that she still has around that reminds her of kaiyah, and although she literally cannot play it because the last time she did, misao just sobbed all the way through it — she was able to pick up another instrument that vaguely reminded her of the biwa and allowed her to reconnect with that old part of herself: which would be the guitar. but it is a very private part of herself that she doesn't reveal to a lot of people. she'll really only play the guitar around people she really trusts, as whenever she's playing it, it's almost like she's playing to her mother again.

[sunlightfeeling]

so..... how did you get into smap, anyway? (i would like to hear the origin story)

hiii anon! i would love to tell this story!!

first the elevator pitch version:

like a lot of more recent fans (i.e. post-JE launch), i was a victim (affectionate) of the RGG to SMAP pipeline

…bit of a boring story, and honestly isn’t a real indication of how I got to have this brain (affectionate, i love having five old men stewing in my brain all hours of the day 👍😬)

sooo im going to tell the story of how the pipeline hit me so hard 😄

the real origin goes back to 2021…

(im gonna make a cut for this story because this is gonna be long long - i promise this isn’t an exaggeration)

so back in 2021, i had an xbox one and game pass (side note: game pass is so worth it, actually fantastic)

and I found a series that I had never heard of…Yakuza

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hX9EomZwntU

sorry

anyway

downloaded Yakuza 0 and started it up

really dug the vibes, story, music, legitimately everything

then I reached Majima’s first chapter and ooooh the opening got me good

not too long after getting to this chapter, I was graciously gifted a ps5

and one of the first things i did was…

…impulsively buy every Yakuza release on ps4

…and the Judgments as soon as I realized they were under RGG’s umbrella

…after only playing like probably less than 10 hours of a prequel

(disclaimer: i do not mean to romanticize/minimize impulse purchasing; I’m more trying to give an accurate image of how deeply invested I got in a series that essentially sent me on my path; i was/am very fortunate and cognizant of how lucky i am to be able to cover/shield myself from consequences of my actions - so to speak lol)

probably six-ish months and 2 hiatuses later, I reached Y6

and i dont know if it was because the game was the last Kiryu game (at the time) and I was getting all emotional, or if it was because the likeness to Kuroda was pretty…

<stares at pictures of Y6 Kiryu way too long>

…preeeetty 🫠

i started developing (what knowing what i know now call) a hyperfixation on not just Y6 but also Kuroda Takaya lol

basically listened to his music whenever I could/on repeat; Y6 was the only thing I wanted to spend my free time playing; etc etc etc

(for reasons, this fixation actually led me to consider my possible neurodivergence; I wonder why 🤔..🥲)

finish Y6 and become baseline-which-isnt-really-baseline normal about Yakuza when I play LAD7

but then….

“Alex, stop hyperlinking sound effects”

(affectionate)

yeahhh it’s Judgey Time

okay so ive mentioned in tags somewhere but i actually didnt have high hopes for Judgment

at all

the cover just didn’t do anything for me at all…

…and i thought the protagonist was ugly 💀

(im actually genuinely serious, this isn’t me “not like the other girls”ing; i vividly recall looking at the cover when it was about time for me to start playing it and whining to my then-bf that I wasn’t sure I was gonna like it cuz the guy looks really weird 🤣)

but i booted it up and right when Yagami shows off his badge in the prologue

girl

giiiiiirl

I didn’t realize at the time but the seed had been planted and baby that beanstalk grew

Halloween 2022 (and I only know this date for a fact because I memorialized it texting then-bf about it) is the day I decided to look up who this guy really was

I can’t recall what made me finally look him up, whether lurking on the Yakuza subreddit or just something in the game, I dunno

i shared it once but I’ll share it anytime i can…

^^ this was my first Kimura photo

the first one I actually paid more than just a passing glance at anyway……

…i finished judgment in like two/three weeks [and not in a rushed playthrough by any means - getting all the cats, doing all the side cases/romance, etc.] (have a text trail of me going into the finale and date stamp is p exactly two weeks from Halloween 🥲)

started lost judgment immediately because i have texts days after this bitching about dropping money on the dlc before even starting it lol (again: not recommending/romanticizing; just giving perspective on how active my brain was about RGG/Kimura already)

now this…..this is where my timeline gets fuzzy

because i cant really remember how fast i beat lj before starting his dramas

or if maybe i started them before even finishing the game

skipping ahead to January 2023 and I’ve definitely wrapped lj by this point

and have watched a fair amount of kimura dramas (i genuinely cant give a number tho 😭)

around this point, ive determined that im fairly confident in being audhd

and i personally would have described kimura as a combined special interest-hyperfixation at this point (because the intensity would ebb and flow in a way)

started collecting things, starting with his albums and his live recordings (and eventually a lot lot more [I’ll get back to scanning consistently eventually I promise lol])

the defining moment to when I finally crossed from Kimura to SMAP…

…was actually watching Go with the Flow

I had heard bits of SMAP, but, as many unfortunately discover, accessibility to their music is…..well it’s just not there lol

I even got YouTube Music because I found playlists of SMAP performances and could just listen to them while I was working or driving

not that I could really hear them all that well since they were all live performances w screaming or muffled audio/crunchy audio/remixes/etc etc etc

(except for pams seigi shoutout to pams seigi [sorry goro 😔; also i linked that specific one for the tags but please look in the reblogs for a diff version of seigi that they did because it’s ridiculously good])

On Go with the Flow, Kimura performs “Style” which made me go on basically a witch-hunt to find the song since it wasn’t an album track and I didn’t know SMAP’s discography

Eventually found out it was SMAP (Kimura solo on s.m.a.p specifically) and decided that I actually really needed to listen to SMAP

aaaaaand I did ☺️

and then I found Jes yeah no I definitely didn’t

and…that is my SMAP origin story

[bonesandthebees]

Strings!Techno my beloved. Actually all of them, but Techno dropping how insane everything is because he’ll get to blow up a government building is killing me. Also the fact that he’s so prepared. What was he planning? Niki is also a mood. She too, is way too on board with blowing shit up. Jack is the only sane one, but who can say no to a little bit of terorism?

Now I’m really curious who Phil was switching with. Was it Kristin? Or was it just a random person? It’s funny that Phil has known for a while. He’s probably able to tell. I wonder if the coffee was a test. How much milk does Wilbur put in his coffee? Either way, Phil has already semi-adopted Tommy. Probably because he trusts Lady Death and the strings so their has to be a reason. Maybe he also knows that you get a life you really want and Tommy clearly just wanted a family.

Also, the end of the chapter took me a bit to figure out, but I suppose the idea is that Wilbur switched with Tommy, so while Tommy is in Wilbur’s body in the past, Wilbur is on Tommy’s body in the present. So you know, suddenly your entire town has been destroyed and you don’t know where you are or what happened. Good fun. You really like putting Wilbur through the ringer.

Speaking of which... I KNEW IT. I didn’t expect you to actually make them talk though. Or more like the universe. It makes him talk to a Tommy that doesn’t remember him and then it throws a comet at him to kill him. Damn. Or in this timeline he suddenly ends up on a mountain looking at his flooded village. Someone give him emotional compensation. Like Lady Death is trying to fix it, so it’s a good thing Wilbur won’t remember.

-🌲

LMAO i'm so glad you liked that bit bc that was a very early thing i came up with when i was planning strings. I was like "oh techno would be so down to blow up a government building they wouldn't need to convince him of anything else." and niki's anarchist tendencies are also shining through as she finally gets an excuse to put her demolition knowledge to good use. poor jack.

regarding phil, although I didn't include it in the fic I'd like to think he was switching with kristin when he was younger :)

you know i was so tempted to say "yeah the coffee was a test!" but I can't bullshit that I didn't even consider that I just was describing how I take my coffee in the morning (just milk). however, that's a very good idea so if anyone else asks me I'm gonna tell them that was intentional and phil was testing tommy with that /j

phil pretty much got his suspicions confirmed on the day tommy, techno, and him all hiked up to the shrine and tommy started asking him about the strings connecting people who had never met before and all that jazz. so he's had it figured out for a while, but when 'wilbur' woke up and suddenly started shouting about the town getting destroyed, that's when phil decided to confront him about it.

and yeah, phil trusts the strings quite a bit so he knows if this kid is connected to his family, then he's probably a good kid who is connected for a reason.

yes that's exactly what the end implies! you'll see tomorrow but yeah, wilbur is in tommy's body three years in the future with the town being destroyed. he's not gonna have a good time when he wakes up.

YEAHHH YOU GUESSED IT. we'll get a bit of insight into wilbur's thoughts on seeing tommy on the train next chapter, but yeah the poor guy has literally had such a rough time of it.

[misqnon]

i stopped reading usosan fanfic for this (actually i was happy to stop bc it was smut and i wasnt in the mood to read smut but was too lazy to look for non smut)

I KNOW.. PLEASE .. why does only sanji get to be free .. im so sad for them. reiju the literal (former) child soldier and pudding with no one to care for her and love her. i assume theyll come back in the cover stories. .. please oda... pls..

"UR RIGHT NO SHAME….PUTS MY YAOI PROUDLY ON THE FRIDGE" YEAH!!!! YEAHHH!!!!

NOO AHDNSBF.. i can relate though i always do exactly what im warned not to do

"it was all me. next i will be asking the size of katakur- [gunshots]" NOO HOW COULD THEY SILENCE U LIKE THIS ... dont worry I'll ask in ur place

u cant put improper french in ur fanfic!!!!

reading the water 7 arc when usopp splits always kills me inside... it hurts so bad. i hope that if/when sanji and zoro fight, its THAT emotionally impactful. like all the hidden meanings and . angst.. i want good angst. if they do actually get into a fight To The Death, i dont think anyone but luffy could stop them. i could also imagine theyre fighting to the death and like . what stops them is someone in the crew is put into mortal peril and theyre forced to work together (bc that's always how it goes). what they should actually do is sit down and talk about their feelings... with a mediator perhaps....

"but why does shuggy feel like one of the most likely to me." IT DOES TO ME TOO!!! like the subtext... is there... it is so much There.

"that is canon shuggy to me. oda doing it kinda halfheartedly in a roundabout way for laughs but the fandom is popping bottles (we popping the BIGGEST bottles when shuggy happens tomorrow-)" YEAH i think even if this is the case its a win. canon gay old guys??? who have been pining after each other (well mostly shanks pining after buggy) for what .. 25 years?? that would be amazing..

"do u think zoro will get more development of him as a character by the end of the story?" i do!!! i think he needs a bit more depth tbh. like he is a wonderful character and im not saying he should have a sadder backstory or something but. to me rn i think hes a bit more two dimensional compared to the rest of the crew. like yeah simplicity is wonderful but i think to me hes less.. of a simple character.. and more like a character that needs to have more emotional highs/lows. i know i could love him so much more if i just ... knew him better. anyways i think its coming bc there have been some realizations involving his character? backstory? recently. and i assume oda knows that he could use more emotional depth. stoic and aloof characters are fine but i think the real appeal is when u get to see into their mind for a second and understand who they really are as a person

sexualize him to the point the audience wonders if hes actually a woman

thank u for watching my 4kids sanji video. i actually have like 5 videos saved of trace heatfist because he is so weirdly attractive in the 4kids dub but i will spare u. also idk if uve heard 4kids luffy but imo his voice is way better than the funimation dub???

"WHILE CONNECTED to a GIANT PROJECTOR…THIS briefly flashed on the screen before i frantically clicked away. no one saw but i. i did." this is EXTREMELY FUNNY. i really enjoy embarrassing stories because i find my own embarrassing stories very funny (when i tell them to other people)

brainwash everyone into believing sanji one piece is gay in SOME way.. ur doing gods work

i love how not normal u are about him

"(nodding) no go on what animal parts" see if u had read dungeon meshi i could reference it and everything would be so much easier, BUT YOU HAVENT /lh /teasing

ok but i have been obsessed with animals since i was a kid (especially lions and wolves (special interest go brr)) so probably lotta lion parts... because theyre cooler looking than wolves. and also just give me wings for good measure. i want to fly. nevermind that wings are meant for lightweight creatures. these are magic wings. its one piece..

i saw u post abt nightcrawler and i was never really into x men but hes pretty

i stared at the law comic... for.... like... 10 minutes.... rhank u ... for putting that onto my . feed

YEAH HES 6'3. actually hes the shortest warlord, tied with boa hancock. 6 feet tall is short in one piece

"gay art markets" already intrigued.

THATS SO COOL AJJDHSDJ.. i have been to a few anime cons and i dont remember?? ever seeing any law's??? its very sad .. i went the year before last year i think. i did see a huge furry one time (at the anime con). they looked like they were 7 feet tall. it was really exciting. and intimidating. that weird mix of the two. i am 5'3 for reference.. like wow. u are huge.....

"i love ur insane thoughts pls continue to share."

"i will do the same someday when i am less shy and ashamed of my unhinged fandom thoughts" pls do!! share ur own!! (when ur comfortable!!) i will not judge .. this is a judgement free zone. and also a shaming free zone

"such as making zoro amvs to abba in my head on the way to therapy." u are so powerful...

"thats a line my therapist actually said in response to something i did once." ur therapist sounds cool wtf. i never got a cool therapist

YEAH I SAW PPL TALK ABT IT SO I RECOGNIZED THE POSSIBLE CROCODILE.. i saw someone say croc was gonna be... some white dude.. and internally i was crying.. how could u do that to him

thank u for ur sacrifice

(watched the video) omg its prozd!!!! i love stuart.... Stuart.. stuart little.. ???? no wonder he got along with mice

YEAH I HEARD THAT TOO?? LIKE WTF IS HAPPENING... its cuz crunchyroll is funding ...

did my meme image come off as ambiguous. i asked my friend if it was ambiguous and they said no.. but i had nothing wlse....

robin canonically having touched (crushed) franky's balls for an extended period of time is so weird to me. thats what i think abt when i see naked franky..

p.s. i will add u there... my discord is something like. stupid.. stinky... or something... i dont remember. u saw the doflamingo snail just remember that. oh wait i also have my name as my name. ok. i forgot about that.

send me ur sanji pics .

rowan i am honored 

ok that gives me a question tho. i feel like u mentioned sanuso before and im curious. do people?? have ships with characters in them that they dont like?? like before i converted u. i feel like i could never like a ship that had a character i disliked in it. or at the very least i would grow to like both the characters

THE COVER STORIES i didnt think about that!! yes…oda please…i know u havent forgotten about reiju bc u put her in that one really fruity chapter cover with tashigi for some reason…

to all the haters that i dont have….but my silence. for $5,000 a month,

APPARENTLY NOT the french in my fic is all now double checked….to my embarrassment 

TRUE IT WOULD BE LIKE THE USOPP SPLIT…and yea. that moment WAS a lot. i think i teared up. there are a lot of “crewmate almost leaves the crew” moments and i think a fight between two strawhats (which has also happened before! but usually at least one of them is luffy!) could feel similarly. i like ur interpretation of how it could go too…there’s this trope in zosan fanfics where robin ALWAYS is all up in there business trying to mediate them and i both love it and hate it lmao. like yea she probably would notice but also why does she always gotta be ur guys’ therapist….and in canon. for a moment like that. it would probably have to be luffy wouldnt it??

oda: haha guys i made buggy gay isnt that Funny

the fandom: [hooting and hollering]

I AGREE COMPLETELY ABT ZORO. HE DOES NEED JUST A BIT MORE EMOTIONAL DEPTH. MAKE HIM GO THROUGH SOMETHING…stoic and cool characters REALLY DO need a moment where they ARENT STOIC AND COOL to be more well-rounded…and zoro hasnt really gotten that since that one time he cried at baratie like a thousand chapters ago (literally). and that was a very brief moment. he and robin can be similar and enies lobby is what made everyone love her more…when is zoro’s enies lobby. i dont actually need an entire arc like that for him (i mean i'd love that but i dont expect it) BUT AT LEAST GIVE HIM SOMETHING!!

“sexualize him to the point the audience wonders if hes actually a woman” already there babes 🫡 just doing my part

DID. DID THEY ACTUALLY CALL HIM TRACE HEATFIST IN THE 4KIDS DUB…ARE U SERIOUS RN…IVE NEVER HEARD THAT BEFORE PLEASE SAY SIKE. i just looked up luffy’s voice as well AND I LIKE THE VOICE ITSELF A LITTLE BETTER?? BUT THE VOICE ACTING IS….HM. 

THE GALLERY I WORK AT IS SUPER CHRISTIAN I THOUGH GAY SANJI WAS GONNA GET ME FIRED ZJBFVHDCSKJ it was. it was so funny afterwards tho. i will share embarrassing stories like my life depends on it

“i love how not normal u are about him” 

IM SORRY MY FRIEND KEEPS TRYING TO GET ME TO READ DUNGEON MESHI BUT IM TOO BUSY READING ONE PIECE 😭😭😭 lion…and wings…so u want to be a griffin 👁️

not 6’3 and shortest warlord. dkjnvkjnfvkj

i love the gay art markets. also NO LAWS?? I THOUGHT HE WAS SUPER POPULAR…DIDN THE BEAT OUT ZORO IN THE POPULARITY POLLS ONE TIME

“i will not judge .. this is a judgement free zone.” WRONG bangs my sanji gavel. 

my therapist IS very cool she makes fun of me but in a good way and also makes me laugh. and i make her laugh. bc i am ridiculous. i got very lucky

i dont think theyve made any casting choices for s2 publicly yet so…we will See..

STUART KILLED ME but so did “HIS NAME IS LUFFY! THAT’S Monkey Luffy” its been playing in my head. also sanji’s love for mice/rats makes me fucking insane bc its the cutest thing on earth. that scene where he’s completely enamored by a rat that’s sitting in a woman’s shirt and he is completely ignoring the woman. for the rat 😭 SANJI LOVES MICE MORE THAN WOMEN CONFIRMED-

no but i saw clips of that scene and about cried. same to that mouse wedding he attended in a drawing request oda did kfnvkjd. can u imagine the first time they get rats in the galley and they’re all expecting sanji to freak and kill them and then they walk in and he’s made them tiny stir fry and is calling them cutesy names. they would be like. 😮

also all the fan content ive seen where ratatouille is his favorite movie. ANYONE CAN COOK!!!!! 😭

AMBIGUOUS?? I DONT THINK SO? I liked it. we turn a sad into a frrAAANKKYYYYYYYY

and god i try not to think about it but also. ROBIN WHYYY WAS THAT THE FIRST THING YOU THOUGHT OFFFF SHE IS INSANE. SHE’S SO WEIRD.  

EVIL(ER) CROCODILE NX KJDC

I ADDED U ON DISCORD!!!! sanji pics…breathes in…i will add a couple more here but. should i send some on discord as well. is that how i break the ice. images of sanji with his ass up in the air (my collection)

also check out how much this dude can cry!!! (laughing but also crying):

[shirayoru]

Okay so I tried myself at hc and idk those are just a few unpopular/unknown slashers I love to death I have pretty broken English so yeahhh anywaysss

James/ hazard jack

 Relationship would include:

- a lot and I mean A LOT of trauma dumping and flashbacks, those also include his quick angry outburst

- be prepared for those too and don't take it to hard if he leaches out on you

- he doesn't mean it really :( he is a great man

- he will apologize tho! And God forbid if he hurted you while doing so 

- it sadly happens quite a lot and anything could be the cause, even tho he tries not having them around you but it's really really hard to control them

- he is probably really obsessive

- he doesn't want to lose you, not like he lost others

- it is hard for him to understand those feelings again it is probably quite the time he felt those

- he is incredibly awkward really

- when he sees you standing on the other side of a hall and he just.. stares until he uncomfortably waved a bit

- wave back or he will get sad 

- if he sees you being to close with someone his more possessive side would come in action, again other people means losing you to someone maybe better

- he is afraid you will find someone more.. normal

- so of their heads go, without you knowing.. or so he tries

- he can't go into the city so eating animals (and maybe even other people) it was but with you?? FINALLY REAL FOOD AGAIN!

- get him... EVERYTHING this man will eat it in no time

- James does have a quite a lot of emotions he can't control, he knows what he does is wrong but it became his Outlet to everything

- it is a part of him, he tried to stop but he simply couldn't, killing became his coping mechanism

- the blood and screams calms him as horrible and morbid as it sounds

- some think it would trigger him but it somehow doesn't and trust me he is confused about it to

- touch starved men but also afraid at the same time

- he wants you sweet soft hands all over him but what if right after you see what he really his or more became and then leave??

- give him a lot of reassurance please

- he will get addicted to your touch real quick tho

- touching his face is a whole another problem

- he isn't particular afraid but, like killing, it made him feel safe especially before he had you

- it protected him and gave him still a layer where people simply couldn't see trough him

- he will take it of after a while tho he is just a bit afraid that he will get hurt right after

- again R-E-A-S-S-U-R-A-N-C-E

- overall he is being trough a lot and you now here and helping him makes it all so much better and safer, he has you and he doesn't need anything else now <3

Dating Karl Dixon/Paintball killer would include:

- Reassurance to the brim! He has being trough a lot and I mean a lot a lot, he is unsure of himself and never got the chance to fully let this shown

- also he most likely is afraid of a relationship, stella was the only girl he ever loved (before you obviously) and even she somehow in someway betrayed him

- possessive has heck and he reasons it, he can't let his new soulmate go so easy not after you accepted him like he was

- if you knew each other since school and was also protective of him right after the whole date fiasco he is even more clinger to you

- he is quite a funny guy actually and loves to joke around a bit, it calms him especially if you join!

- he isn't afraid to show his face, he will take his mask of as soon as no one is at the ruins 

- he does kill after his class simply because it gave him the power he never had in school

- he gets jealous easy again do to school, so he will take anyone talking with you as a thread and therefore should be killed immediately

- Karl is.. difficult to read you sometimes can't make out if he is angry or not especially because he still refuses to talk

- after a decent amount of time tho it can become a bit easier especially after he started saying a few words here and there

- please get him a therapist

- he wouldn't wanna go back home so either you stay with him at the ruins or let him move in with you

- you will still find him at the ruins tho

- yes he loves paintball like really, he is also incredibly good at it!

- please play with him whenever he is asking :(

- overall Karl is insecure about him even tho he doesn't show it often just know that he needs a lot of reassurance and promises and make sure he knows how much you truly love him (unlike a certain someone- looking at you stella-)

Slasher---

Dating Micheal gibbsion:

(Changed the plot a bit here sry,sry)

- you know that he being a known series killer is complicates to live peacefully

- especially after your first date

- he didn't told you from the beginning but about a month in he just was like:" btw I am the infamous Bible doll killer, love you"

- obviously you where shocked but well you loved him

- what you didn't loved was his dumbass idea of going to the "$la$her$" show to get a good laugh

- he dragged you with him and swore on his life that you two will survive

- if not, and I quote, :"if we don't make it I promise I will kill myself for you <3" in the most loving way

- boy does he BRAG with you at the show literally showing you off and all and he gets so much more handsy then he already is

- Micheal is like I said a really handsy and touch starved person, like he wants to hold your hand right now y/n! Don't deny him

- kisses everywhere and anywhere

- like you could be in the middle of running away from the preacher and he will take a quick kiss

- he is a horny as fuck and if you are down for it would do it while being in the show

- like I said he likes showing you off so if you would do it in that love room he absolutely will be a mess

- tbh ur just as crazy as he is

- he cares about you so don't even think about leaving his side your his and ONLY his

- he is a fanboy of most of the slashers in the show especially the doc

- so that means showing you off infront of him at any time

- d̶̶o̶̶n̶'̶t̶̶ ̶̶q̶̶u̶̶o̶̶t̶̶e̶̶ ̶̶m̶̶e̶̶ ̶̶b̶̶u̶̶t̶̶ ̶̶t̶̶h̶̶e̶̶ ̶̶d̶̶o̶̶c̶̶t̶̶o̶̶r̶̶ ̶̶h̶̶i̶̶g̶̶h̶̶k̶̶e̶̶y̶̶ ̶̶g̶̶e̶̶t̶̶s̶̶ ̶̶h̶̶o̶̶r̶̶n̶̶y̶̶ ̶̶f̶̶r̶̶o̶̶m̶̶ ̶̶t̶̶h̶̶a̶̶t̶̶ ̶

- he is crazy, you are crazy and you both are stuck in a show for now and if he decides to confess and does it infron of Megan u stop him so he doesn't talk whole being on break

- he didn't confess tho and you two ended up being the winners <3

- he loves you even more after that, he had no idea why you make him so happy and let him sometimes forget his desires but he is so happy to have you

Chainsaw Charlie Dating:

(Again changed plot and bg)

- mhh going in for some crazy ridesss..

- let me get this straight first, the longer he "played" Charlie the more he..well became Charlie

- idk how it would happen but let's juts pretend you two meet at the show

- this man would find interest in you fast and doesn't waste time

- well maybe he would play around with you way way more and let's you go here and there

- he does use the most fucked up but at the same time cutest pick up lines you ever heard

- he has saved them just for you

- yep ripping you shirt with his saw was an absolute accident y/n! Don't be mad at him

(And ripper told him to lol)

- if he could he would make out in the show like literally he just could have killed someone and goes:" girl wanna fuck?"

- it is more of a joke but when you joke back with a yes... he won't get off from ya

- he loves to change his more higher 'charlie' voice with the cracked up accent to his dark one whenever he is close enough to you

- he is quite obsessed with you so any other slasher getting to you is a death wish

- knows you return his feelings... you will

- yes he watched Texas chainsaw massacre

- yes he loved it

- yes he is a leatherface fanboy

- yes he will use his saw on you *wink wink*

- he can be gentle if he can hold still and will randomly wants cuddles

- " howdy my favorite girl~" *takes you and cuddle up in a corner*

- after the show you two are now together and live on his actual farm

- until he needs to work again smh

- obv you come with him. And if you even are in the crowd holding up anything to support him he will melt away

- he loves you so fucking much thx for coming Into the show hun~~~

Dating the doc would include:

(Again changes Hc that if longer on the show they more become their character lolol)

- first of again let's assume you two somehow in someway meet in the show!

- when he first realized that 'shit they hot af I wanna smash them against a wall but also cuddle up with them' he goes straight ahead!

- well.. no so much he is confused just a bit and just tries a few tactics

- the first one was simple, give you more attention by making the survival even harder for you!

- extra scares, hunting you more often, maybe just maybe give you a scratch or two

- but soon he will realised 'shit that ain't working' so how about the complete opposite??

- letting you escape a few times, running after others may even helping you here and there

- and when one time he was infront of you alone without even the camera he just dropped it:" listen I would love to have a nurse, I Mean what It's a doctor without one!"

- how THIS get to you? You have no idea, it was stupid such a stupid pick-up line if you could even call it a pick-up line

- but it did get to you so woo now you are in a relationship <3

- he still loves to mess with you even after 'work' when he invited you to his home

- he will be a bit softer but well he basically is the doc now so yeah that crazy will still be there

- If you thought that perverted side of him is gonna dissappear after the show, you where so fucking wrong

- he takes your underwear like you two wouldn't live in one household??

- you need to hide them from him :-:

- and oh if you would know about all the thoughts he had..

- and besides that he still his Dr. Ripper-

- so yes he does tear your clothes apart in the most loving way <3

- but will buy you new ones

- it's an endless circle

- much like Charlie would absolutely go crazy if you support him in the next season when he is in

- like he will go extra, EXTRA for you

- pls show him of-

- even tho he is a crazy maniac this mf loves you so bad he won't even let you go to other (normal) doctors!

[bigger-simp-than-kazuichi]

Skater kid!Todoroki x reader

Hey guys this is the beginning of my bnha skater au! I hope you guys enjoy!

(FYI this is also my 1st ff so pls don’t come at me ;-;)

(tw: swearing)

You never thought you would ever ride a skateboard in your entire life, that is, until your boyfriend Todoroki offered to teach you how to skate. He was pretty experienced, at least in your perspective, but he never thought of it as a big deal. You didn’t even think he even told anyone about his talent. These were your inner thoughts while you dressed up for your skate park date. You were dressed in a blue hoodie, adidas joggers and a pair of old skool vans.

As you were scrolling through Instagram, Todoroki sent you the text that he was in front of your house. Shit, you thought, as you rushed down the stairs and put on your shoes. Once you opened the front door, there was Todoroki in a black hoodie, black jeans with a chain on it, and a pair of busted up black slip on vans. He was also holding his skateboard. As you walked towards him, he gave you his little grin that you so loved. “Ready to go baby?” He asked.

“Yeah,” you replied, wrapping your arms around his neck, pulling him into a hug. He quickly relaxed into the hug and wrapped his arms around your waist. After you both pulled away from the hug, Todoroki set down his board and held out his hand for you to grab onto when you stand on it. “Todoroki, I will literally fall if I step on this.”

“And this is why we are going on this date, love. I’m teaching you how to ride.”

“Yeah yeahhh.”

You then placed your left foot onto his board, right near the center of the board. Then Todoroki, while still holding your hand, guided your foot, to the point your foot was covering the screws at the front. You then clenched his hand harder as you lifted your other foot and placed it on top of the screws on the other side of the board. Your boyfriend then looked at your stance as you struggled to stand on the skateboard alone. “You need to find your center of balance. Try leaning forward a bit.” And that’s exactly what you did, and to your surprise, it was working.

“Heh, you see this Todoroki kun? I’m doing it! I’m standing!”

“Yeah, with my help.”

“S-shut up icy hot idiot.”

“I-icy hot?”

You let out a chuckle at his slightly clueless nature. He then grabbed your hand harder and he proceeded to pull you while you were still on his board. That’s when you started to lose balance. “Just hold on to me, and I’ll pull you all the way to the park. To turn right you lean forward, and for left you lean backwards, but not too much.” You nodded and that’s exactly what he did. You continued to hold his hand and listened to his advice, moving towards the right when there was dog poop on the ground and moving to the left when the two of you had to move for an elderly couple going out for a stroll.

When you arrived at the skate park, you hopped off the skateboard and let go of your boyfriend’s hand. Todoroki seemed relieved that there wasn’t anyone around, so he got on, pushed off with his right leg, and rolled down the cement bowl like a pro would. You watched in awe as he did all those tricks flawlessly. He then stopped and ushered you to come down towards him. Once you reached him, Todoroki held out his hand again, and helped you mount his board. “I’ll teach you how to push off. You don’t have to push off a lot, but just enough so that you go somewhere.” You took your right foot off the board and placed it on the floor.

That’s when you heard yelling and laughing from the other side of the park and when you looked to see where they were coming from, you saw some familiar faces. Way too familiar. And they noticed you as well.

“Ayyyyy y/n! Todoroki!” Kirishima yelled as the hopped on his own skateboard and skated over to you. Behind him, Mina, Sero, and Denki followed.

“Yo!” You responded, then you looked at Todoroki. He didn’t show any emotion like usual however, your eyes focused on that bead of sweat that formed ever since he saw the all too familiar Bakusquad. It seemed like your previous thought of him not telling anyone he skated was actually true.

“Y/n!” Sero called, “is Todoroki teaching you how to skate?”

Todoroki let out a sigh, signaling me to just tell the squad the truth. “Yeah, he’s teaching me how to skate.”

Mina’s eyes lit up from the statement, “OH MY GOD THATS SO COOL! Todoroki! I didn’t know you skated!”

“I don’t think he told anyone about this.” Kirishima stated. “If he did, then we would’ve invited him. Ehh, he must’ve had a reason why he’s been hiding his talent. Yo Todoroki, wanna show us what you’ve got?”

Todoroki looked at you, probably wanting some reassurance, but all you did was give him a smile and a thumbs up. He sighed, looking back at the spikey redhead. “Yeah, sure.”

“ALRIGHT! WE ARE THE FIRST ONES TO SEE TODOROKI SKATE!” Denki exclaimed.

“Actually, I think y/n was the first one to see him skat-”

“SHUT UP SERO! THEY ARE DATING!”

“Alright, Denki, I was just saying,” Sero shrugged.

As you laughed at their argument, a familiar figure zoomed past you and the bakusquad. It was Todoroki, rolling back and forth on the steep half pipe. Now everyone was watching in awe while he did a sweeper, and many other tricks that you weren’t familiar with.

“YEAHHH TODOROKIII!”

After doing some more tricks he left the half pipe and skated over to you and the squad.

“TODOROKI YOU’RE SO GOOD WHAT??”

“DUDE YOU BETTER TEACH ME HOW TO DO THAT SPIN!”

“I-I can barely do an ollie...”

You patted Mina as she started to fake cry and gave your tired boyfriend a kiss on the cheek. Todoroki blushed at your gesture and ushered you once more to his skateboard and this time, you didn’t take his hand and instead you tried to push off on your own. Surprisingly, you were able to balance, at least, for about five seconds, until you fell onto the hard cement.

“Y/n!” Todoroki called as he rushed over to your fallen state. You grunted at the slight pain you felt on the arm and foot you used to support your fall. The half white half red haired boy checked the leg you fell and sighed in relief, seeing that you weren’t in too much pain and didn’t find any serious injuries, only a bruise on your knee. He used his quirk to make an ice pack for your bruise and hoisted you up on his back, giving you a piggy back ride.

“GAH Todoroki! I’m fine! You can put me down!”

“Ok, if you say so.”

He lightly placed you down but once you put support on your injured foot you winced, which unfortunately Todoroki saw.

“See, come on, we’re going back to your place.”

“Awww...”

“We can stop by the store and buy some ice cream.”

“Deal.”

You hopped on his back and while he supported you with his right arm, he grabbed his skateboard with his left.

“Aww, you guys leaving now?” Denki complained.

“Dipshit, y/n is hurt!”

“I KNOW THAT SERO!”

You and your boyfriend laughed at the two of them arguing and waved goodbye to the others.

Even though it was a short way back home, you felt bad that Todoroki had to carry you all the way back, but what could you do? He doesn’t seem like it, but when it comes to the people he loves, Todoroki Shouto becomes really stubborn, and to be honest, you found that really cute.

Once you reached your place, you gave Todoroki your key and he placed you down so that he could unlock the door, but he also made sure you were only getting support from your uninjured foot. After he successfully unlocked the door, he carried you again and laid you on the couch and left to get spoons for the ice cream. He gave you a spoon and watched as you immediately opened the ice cream and devoured it like it was your last meal. Of course, you saved some ice cream for him, because why wouldn’t you? After you two finished the ice cream, you rested your head on Todoroki’s shoulder.

“Heh, even though I’m technically crippled now, I had a fun time, thank you Shouto.”

After hearing those words, your boyfriend kissed the back of your hand, and then your forehead.

“Of course baby.”

[twtangel-arts]

POG HEADCANNON FOR TUBBOS PERSONALITY???!!!

How come I don’t see that Much talk about Tubbos personality? Like.... they all must know each other right?! SO MUCH POTENTIAL!!! 

Before I go and talk about the headcanons. I would like to thank my good friend @peak-wilbur-dumbass for helping me create most of these “big brain” headcannon! Half are what we created, I created, and what she created :3

But I be talking about:

Big Law

Big Crime

Dr.TB (Dr. Theropiest-bo)

Tubbox

and TOOB

the others were either hard to come up with or little was know of them (or we got lazy shsgsghssh)

Now on to the headcannon! It’s going to be a long one boys :3 so click “read more” to read it!!

Enjoy :)

We All know Tubbos personality right?

Well if you don’t

have the links to the Dream SMP wiki fandom about Tubbo!! :3

The reason why me and friend couldn’t create other headcannon for the Tubbos personality its because they had too little detail about them.

Hohoohoh! But is it the same with Tubbox? He has small details about him to!

Just wait :)

Now that you got some knowledge of the personality I will now start the Headcannon

NUMBER 1: BIG LAW

He’s the first Tubbo Ego. So he’s technically the oldest of all the Tubbos Personality

He monotone, and he really doesn’t show that much emotion. He’s all serious and shit

Speaking of that, he only shows a bit of emotion towards some he loves (like his personality brothers)

Now he LOVES to read the law. he has books on laws, on the judgment system. Government, crime solving, being a lawyer and other lawyery book stuff.

That fucker probably has a secret stash of Domino’s cookies and won’t share them 🙄🙄

He’s also the ‘heaviest’ out of the Tubbo because he eats those cookies DGZGSGSHX

Rights?! who needs them? YOU DONT ALLOW SHIT BITCH!

THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PERSONALITY?!??!?!11

TOOB: he doesn’t like him that much. Even tho TOOB doesn’t bother him that much, He still claims TOOB annoys him way to much. But he still likes his dumb bro (3/10)

DR.TB: mmm it’s a neutral, they can vibe. Tho Big Law doesn’t like when hes steals is cookies to make some ‘flavors’ (5/10)

Big Crime: (-10/10) do I need to say more? Big Crime DOSE CRIME!! Big law DOES LAW!!! Smh🙄🙄 But for real tho, they care for each other, love-hate brother hood lmao (4/10)

Tubbox: Big law LOVES him! Why? HES IN A BOX BEING HAPPY OK?! HE BOUNCES UP AND DOWN IN A BOX!!!! Tho... he can get to hyper for big law....a box huh? He likes to see him again (8/10)

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NUMBER 2: BIG CRIME

The second oldest of the personality :3

*pats his head* this boi can fit so much emotion

HES A CRIME B O Y!!! A DIRTY LITTLE CRIME B O Y

He’s quite strong,,,, a bit stronger then Tubbo too! The strongest out of all the personality

He’s a hothead and short tempered like....don’t pisss him off.... please don’t-

He can get overprotective with his brothers. He will kill a bitch for them... and that bitch is Techno

so yeah... he like...vary emotional :3

THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PERSONALITY 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

TOOB: he’s annoying as hell, He hates him, he want to snap his neck, DUDE STFU AND GET AWAY FROM ME.. but he will still die for him uwu (4/10)

Dr. TB: he’s a good theropiest! Normally Big crime would go to him >or been forced by him shshsh< When he need something to calm his nerves or just wants to talk....tho their relationship has grown a bit distant after the incident that happened months ago (7/10)

Big Crime: (-10/10) AGAIN!!! HE DOES CRIME, THE OTHER DOSE THE LAW!!. But to be honest with y’all, Big Crime makes fun of Big law when ever he shows emotion. Ex:

“I thought you were all serious and shit?”

“I am tho?”

“Nah, I just saw you crying back there because you dropped your cookie on the floor”

“SHUT UP!!! IT WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT I HAVE LEFT-“

Anyway yeah, love-hate relationship 🥰🥰 (4/10)

4. Tubbox: he will protect him in all costs, he makes him smile The most. You could say Tubbox is his favorite personality brother.... now he’s just angry. He wants to see him one more time. (10/10)

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NUMBER 3: DR. THEROPIEST-BO (DR. TB)

He’s the best theropiest out there :D

I feel like he know what he’s doing, even tho it may not look like it.

He the family therapist....lul

He like...still in the world of headcannon

He knows what he’s doing guys, believe me

RELATIONSHIP TIME BITCH!!!

TOOB: he doesn’t like him that much, one time TOOB decided to mess around with his ‘Flavors’.... yeahhh he wasn’t to happy about that (4/10)

Big Law: they have a neutral type of relationship, they barely get in to any fights. He’s actually the only person that Dr.TB can fully understand/work with! (7/10)

Big Crime: now.... he used to be the person that Big crime will go to when he starts to act up.... but, they barely talk anymore dude. After what happened to Tobbox? Yeah, let’s just say Dr.TB was at the verge to end his whole Theropey job because of Big Crime :/ (4/10)

Tubbox: he loves him, he misses him, he hates Techno. He tried to be there for everyone when they lost him.... He wants to see Tubbox. His life was cut to short. Anyways... he was a bit difficult to work with for theropey (9/10)

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NUMBER 4: Tubbox

So.... do you understand why I put him here despite him having little information known about him?

THATS RIGHT!!

ITS LINKED TO THE INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED TO TUBBO BY TECHNOBLADE >:D

but how? Well, he realized that Tubbo was in a box. He thought

“Tubbo in box? I’m Tubbox! I liked Boxes :D time to take over and be in a box- o h”

-

Yeahhh....not the box you want to be in pal... with that, Tubbox died with Tuboo. Obviously, Tubbo responded back to life.... but Tubbox didn’t....he’s dead.....

A N Y W A Y S

He’s a mute!!! He can only speak in Sign language:D!!

So with that... every single Tubbos personality knows how to do sign language and read sign language!

They like to speak sign language for he can feel a bit included :3

He likes it when he makes his personality brothers smile, it’s just give him a lot of joy

Stimming? A stimming boy? He likes to flap his hands up and down🥺

HES JUST FILLED WITH JOY MAN!!

What were the relationship that he had with the others?

TOOB: He love his! He doesn’t understand why people think he’s annoying?! Like... he thinks it’s funny how he speaks in 3rd and 1st person!! Tho.... I think there’s this one time where he invaded his personal space while in the box.(9/10)

DR.TB: AGAIN!!! HE LOVES HIM!!! He loves it when he sees him at work! He keeps him Company!! (10/10)

Big Law: LOVES HIM!! HES THE ONLY PERSON THAT MAKES BIG LAW SHOW A BIT MORE EMOTION!!! And big law might say it’s annoying and he hates it... but Tubbox knows he secretly love it uwu (10/10)

BIG Crime: do I need to say more? Tubbox LOVES big Crime! he wants to see him smile more!! He wants him to be happy! So... he hangs out with Big Crime more then the other personality. (20/10)

(The last one) Number 5: TOOB

Yes

TOOB good guy

TOOB little annoying? No BIG annoying!

He likes to mess around with his brothers lol

He understand that he’s annoying once awhile, but that just because he finds it funny

I LIKE THE LORD-

Did I forget to mention that TOOB has the little brother vibes? Like... he’s the annoying little brother that he’s hated but at the same time he’s also loved (considering he is the youngest out of all the personalities dddjtdjtdjt)

So yeah... Stan TOOB lmao

THE RELATIONSHIP TIME IS HERE FOR ONE LAST TIME!!

Dr. TB: he likes him, he enjoys messing around with his flavors, heehhehehe Angry doctor go brrrr (7/10)

Big Law: he doesn’t bother him that much, he’s all serious and shit, no big reaction. TOOB sad, but he can still annoy him while he being a lawyer >:3 (5/10)

Big Crime: HOHOHO HE LOVES TO ANNOY HIM!! HE HAS THE BEST REACTION TOWARDS HIM!! One time he mad Big crime squeal at a high pitch then normal....let’s just say things got UGLY!!! (20/10)

Tubbox: he misses him, he’s kinda the only personality that gives him the respect he wants.... he wants his box bro back :( TOOB sad now.... (10/10)

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THAT WAS A LONG ONE HUH CHAT?!

Once again i would like to thank my good friend Ally ( @peak-wilbur-dumbass ) for helping me create half of these Headcannons for the Tubbos personality! Give her some support lul :3

[kat-katsuki]

Love Letter | Todoroki Shouto x Reader

Synopsis: You wrote a love letter to your crush, Todoroki Shouto, but you debate on whether or not you should actually give it to him. 

Word Count: 2.2k

Fluff

~~~~~~~Enjoy~~~~~~~

Dear Shou-kun,

Although we've known each other since first day of high school, we only became close friends for the past three months. I know three months is a little short for some people, but it was enough for me to figure out that I'm madly in love with you. At first, you were a little cold, a little distant and hard to approach, but after we became friends it became obvious to me that you were the kindest soul I've ever met.

I noticed how you always walk on the outside when we go out together, and how you would always keep me on your left side when I'm cold. You're a little dense to emotions, but you'd always do your best to make sure I'm okay. I'm really, REALLY grateful for that time you lent me your shoulder to cry on when my dog passed away, and how you stayed with me the whole night and held me until I fell asleep on you. You're also so patient with me, always helping me with homework, and tutoring me in my worst subjects.

I know you probably only think of me as a friend, like Midoriya and Ochaco-chan... Honestly I can't ask for more! I love being your friend, and I just love being with you! But recently these...romantic feelings of mine, has been getting so strong it's overwhelming. I really don't want to do something that might end up jeopardizing our friendship, but I really can't hold these feelings in anymore. I'm afraid that if I don't tell you now, I might accidentally overstep my boundaries, and I don't want that... If you choose to keep your distance with me after you read this, I completely understand. I just want you to know that I still want to be friends, because whether or not you return my feelings, I'm always going to be there when you need me.

Shou-kun, I like you. I love you. I just want to tell you that.

Yours truly,

(Y/N)

You squealed into your pillow to let out all the stress pent up inside as you wrote the cheesy, almost unbearable letter. Your trashcan was already overfilled by scrunched up sheets of paper, and you lost count of how many letters you have written. Your hands were sour and you just wanted to get this over with, but at the same time there was a small part of you that told you to proofread for the millionth time. "Nnngurhhhghg!" You groaned as you pounded into your pillow.

You sincerely hoped Ashido can't hear you from next door, because she would surely make a big deal out of it. Not that you didn't like Ashido or anything, but you knew she wasn't the best at keeping her mouth shut. "Ugh, fine," you muttered as you got up from your bed and stormed to your desk. You folded the letter neatly and slid it into your little pink envelope. You sealed the envelope with wax. Old fashioned, yes, but you were kind of into that. You had a collection of wax stamps and you post wax stamping videos on tiktok, since it was satisfying. Of course, nobody in the class except Todoroki actually knows about it.

Now here was the real question. When do you give it to him?

"Back to groaning?" You asked yourself in the small mirror you stuck on the wall. You nodded. "Back to groaning it is." You plopped on your bed and covered your face with the pillow and rolled around back and forth making weird muffled noises.

The next day, you carefully stuck the letter in your textbook before stuffing it into your backpack.

"Good morning (Y/N)," Todoroki greeted you during breakfast. The seat on his left was open for you. Your heart clenched at the sight of him. Seeing his soft smile first thing in the morning was enough to make your day.

"Good morning Shou-kun," you smiled at him as you sat down next to him. Today was the day. You're going to find some time to hand the letter to him. But when?

"Something wrong (Y/N)?" Todoroki asked.

"Huh? N-No, nothing's wrong. Why?" you chuckled at him.

"You looked like something is bothering you. Is it the math homework? Do you need help?"

Oh god you love this man. "No, it's nothing, really! Thanks for worrying about me Shou-kun!" you told him.

You walked to class with Todoroki, Midoriya, Uraraka, and Iida. Everything was normal, but your backpack, for some reason, seemed to weigh twice as much as usual. In class you kept flipping through your textbook to glance at the letter, as if making sure it's still there. You thought you were being discreet about it, but little did you know you had eyes on you from all over the class.

During break time your friends were engaged in a conversation, so you missed your chance to give him the letter. Lunch break was too chaotic. Then you had hero training... As time went on you became less and less sure of yourself. Should you really give the letter to him? What if he doesn't want to be your friend anymore? Should you give it to him discreetly? Or do you give it to him directly? Should you just stick it in his desk? No.... You can't seem to find the right time when no one's in the class. How about the shoe box? But there's always people walking around the halls too.....

"Is it just me or has (Y/N) been acting weird today?" asked Kaminari, who happened to sit next to you in class. "I kept seeing her flip through her English textbook throughout the whole day." You had gone to the restroom during break between your math and physics class in the afternoon.

"Oh yeahhh, I saw her roaming around the shoe box area today. She was acting very sus," said Sero.

"Oh yeah, I saw her walking around holding an envelope. Wonder when she'll mail that out," Kirishima added.

"Envelope?!" the girls exclaimed.

Mina's eyes started to sparkle. "It's a love letter! It's definitely a love letter!"

"W-Wait, you don't know that!" Jirou exclaimed.

"It has to be! I mean think about it, why else would she be walking around the shoe box area if she wasn't planning on putting the letter in someone's box?!" Hagakure beamed.

The whole class started to play detective, trying to guess who the mystery man is. Meanwhile Todoroki sat there feeling really weird. There was a strange churn in his stomach, and a tight clench in his heart. His brows furrowed tightly without himself even noticing. There was only one thing on his mind. Who is the love letter for?

Everyone got super quiet when you came back, acting natural as they all sat down in their seats waiting for physics to start. During the whole lecture, people darted their eyes at you, to confirm what Kaminari said about you and the English textbook. And you didn't disappoint. You had been flipping through that textbook every other minute, a very conflicted expression playing on your face.

Todoroki had no idea why he felt angry. No, that was an understatement. He was infuriated, but he didn't know why. It was your freedom to like whoever you liked, so why is he so angry about it?

When school was over, you still hadn't given the letter to him. At this point you were thinking about giving up. Doubts filled your thoughts and you were sure by now that this was a stupid idea. It'll ruin your friendship, and that's the last thing you want. You'll have to get rid of this letter before anyone notices it.

"(Y/N), you wanna go back to the dorm together?" Todoroki asked you. He felt guilty for keeping you to him, because he knew you still hadn't delivered the letter yet. However, there was a voice inside him that told him to do whatever it takes to stop you from delivering that letter.

"Ah! Okay!" You were quick to respond. If you weren't going to confess, all you can do is enjoy every moment with him. "Do you wanna do homework together?"

Todoroki eyed your backpack, which he knew the envelope was in. "Yeah."

While the two of you did your homework in his room, he kept eyeing your English textbook. You haven't touched it since you took it out of your backpack. You seemed to be avoiding English homework, focusing on your worse subjects such as math and physics. The longer he stared at the textbook, the tighter his chest felt. "Who is it?" He blurted out.

"What?" Your head shot up from your homework, confused eyes meeting his heterochromatic orbs.

"The lucky guy. Who is it?" he asked. "The one you wrote the letter for."

Your face immediately heated up a thousand degrees. Your mouth hung open but words trafficked at the tip of your tongue. "H-How did you- I-I thought-"

"Sorry.... Kirishima was the one who noticed your letter.... I was just wondering..." Todoroki rubbed the back of his neck. He hated the way you blushed at the mentioning of the letter. "Whoever that guy is, he must be really amazing."

"I-I...uh-.....well.....um....y-yeah....he is....." You had no idea what you were doing. Words came out all jumbled, and you didn't know what to say to him.

Todoroki's fist clenched under the table. "Who is it?"

"W-Why do you want to know?" you asked.

"I just-" That's right. It's none of his business. "Never mind. You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."

"It's you," You blurted. You took in the sight of him widening his eyes at you. It was too late to regret, so you just continued. "The letter is addressed to you...." You took out the letter from your English textbook. You slid the letter towards him and packed up your bags. "I'll....go back to my room. Feel free to take as long as you need with your reply." You burst out of his room and dashed across the floor to your dorm.

You did it. You gave it to him. You slammed the dorm room door closed behind you before sliding down against it. You held your head in both hands, groaning to yourself. Oh no.... Why?!?!! Why did I give it to him??!!!! GAHHHH! You were ready to jump off this building. Goodbye world, you've had a good life.

You were absolutely conflicted between excited and devastated. There was a small part of you that had the tiniest bit of hope that Todoroki returned your feelings, but the realistic part of you knew that your friendship was over. You laid on your bed, hugging your little panda plushy that he gave you for your birthday. You buried your face into the plushy and let it swallow your groans and whines.

Todoroki was left in a blushing mess after reading your letter. The person you like is him. You said you love him. He clutched his chest to feel the rapid beating of his heart. It was beating so hard that he could feel his pulse echoing in his ears. What is this feeling? He was unbelievably happy. Suddenly a voice spoke in his head. I like her. It was his voice. I like her so much.

A long time had passed since you went back to your room. You knew you told him to take as long as he need, but you didn't realize that each second felt agonizingly long as you anticipated how he was going to reject you.

You were about to fall asleep when you heard someone knocking at your door. You half hoped it wasn't Todoroki, because you weren't ready for a rejection just yet. Taking in a deep breath, you opened the door to meet a familiar pair of heterochromatic orbs, the ones you loved so much. "Shou-kun..."

"Can I come in?" he asked.

"Of course." You made way for him to step inside, then you closed the door. He held the envelope in his hand.

"I read your letter," he told you. Your eyes were still a little bit blurry from closing them for so long, but you thought you vaguely saw a hint of redness on his cheeks.

"O-Oh..." You rubbed the back of your neck. "It was cheesy, wasn't it?"

"N-no...it was sweet," he replied, making the blush on your face deepen.

"I-I see..." You looked down. There was an awkward silence between the two of you. You just fidgeted as you waited for him to collect his words. Surely he must have felt guilty for rejecting a friend, so you gave him time.

"I like you too..."

What?

You looked up, eyes wide and awake. The redness on his cheek had become quite obvious. "Pardon?"

"I like you too.... A lot. I-...I was wondering if you um...." He held the envelope up, eyes darting back and forth between you and the door. "If you want to be my girlfriend...."

Holy shit.....

You slapped yourself in the face.

"(Y/N)?!?!?!?!" Todoroki exclaimed, completely horrified.

"It hurts..." you muttered at the stinging sensation on your left cheek.

"Well of course it does! It's turning red! Why did you slap yourself so hard?" Todoroki exclaimed as he quickly placed his right hand over your cheek. The cool temperature on his hand was really soothing to the pain on your face.

You chuckled, "I wanted to make sure I was actually awake!"

"Don't do that again," he said softly, brows furrowed as he gazed at you. "Promise me."

"I won't do it again Shou-kun, I promise!" You placed a hand over his right hand, tilting your head a little to rest your face in his hand. "I'm so happy this isn't a dream."

"(Y/N)..."

"Hmm?"

"Can I kiss you?"

"Yes please." You tip toed to meet his lips. You were intrigued by how half of his lip felt hot, and the other felt almost chilly. Maybe it was because he was using his quirk to cool your face. "I love you Shou-kun. I want to be your girlfriend."

"I love you too (Y/N). I want to be your boyfriend."

A/N: You know how some people spell Shouto with a ‘u’ and some people spell it Shoto, well I tend to go back and forth with it depending on my mood LOL. Idk why. Anyways! Please like if you enjoyed, and reblogs are appreciated!!! If you like my BNHA content, be sure to check out my AO3 which I post my main Bakugou x OC fanfic.

[becca-becky]

any good sanders sides fic recs?

oh my god, i don’t know what prompted you to ask this but do i have some*!

*i have a lot (these mostly come out of my bookmarks so y e ah (that's why there aren’t a lot of roman or patton ships ;-; (i’m just gonna link em and put the fic summary))

Analogical:

when you look at me with those eyes (i'm speechless): virgil finally manages to ask out the pretty enby in his class, just in time for his father's epic gala event. sadly, neither of them would know fashion if it bit them in the ass. luckily, they both have friends to help them out. (OR: almost 3k words of analogical being useless fluffy gays) (one-shot)

No Truth Untold: Set during SvS: redux. When Deceit makes the switch, he sends Logan to Virgil's room. Angst ensues. In other words, #LoganBreakdownRights2020 (one-shot)

the world had fallen under this falling: A snipet of the lives of Logan and Virgil, who are very much in love and very much stuck in their house. (one-shot)

lovely, dark, and deep: virgil wants exactly two things out of life: doctor sanders’ advice on his dissertation and the freedom to pursue his research in peace. he thinks he’s gotten both of these things, and then he finds a wounded merman tangled in a net on the beach. he rescues him, because of course he does, and that’s not so bad. then the others show up, and man, they are NOTHING like disney led him to believe.at least one of them’s cute, right? (OR: the analogical mermaid!au that exactly one person asked for) (multi-chaptered, on-going)

LAMP/DLAMP:

The Thought That Counts:  Your soulmate’s first thought about you appears on your skin, which can make them a little difficult to find. Especially when Virgil has to find three. (one-shot)

From Time Immemorial:  Logan’s timer seems to go on for far longer than the human lifespan... What can that mean? (multi-chaptered, complete)

Mind if I Slytherin?:  Deceit never can resist flirting with the other sides. The only problem is when they flirt back. (one-shot)

Moceit:

Love Like You: Patton asks Janus whether he'll take care of Thomas. Which seems like an innocent enough question at first, but Janus quickly grows worried about the moral side. (one-shot)

Overdue Apologies: Patton didn't expect any visitors after the video. Especially after Roman had ignored his knocking, and especially not from the one side he wasn't sure would ever visit him. (one-shot)

Love the View:  Patton is hiding something and Janus really wants to be in on the secret. Not for any malicious reasons, of course, he just wants Patton to trust him. (one-shot)

Multi-Ship:

taller than an avalanche: Virgil is taller than the other sides, but no one realizes how much taller. Virgil is faster than the other sides, but no one realizes how much faster. Virgil is stronger than the other sides, but no one realizes how much stronger. Then he proves it.(OR: virgil is thomas's fight-or-flight reflex, which makes him tol-strong-nyoom boi, and the others aren't exactly aware of this.) (analogical and royality (one-shot))

we’re all gossipy bitches sometimes: Roman and Logan sit down to gossip -- but not in the way you think. AKA Roman and Logan gush about their respective crushes, which is totally gossiping, right? (analogical and royality (one-shot))

Clouds and Moss AU: ok so this is a series for the TS sides as gods so I’m counting it (and it’s really good (it has roceit and intrulogical))

Logan ships other than analogical (i.e. loceit, logince, and intrulogical):

Infodumping About Octopi:  It was late afternoon, and the sides were spending it well with some much-needed relaxation time. Janus and Roman were in the kitchen baking, well, trying anyways. Virgil was taking a nap in his room, and Patton was in the imagination, reading books from the fairytales section of the library there. And Logan? Logan was currently dying of gay. (intrulogical (one-shot))

Amanecer: “Amame” Deceit’s smile fell, and Logan could see the moment he recognized the words, and he was sure Deceit could hear his heart beating. He was practically in Logan’s lap, how could he not? “Love me,” Deceit whispered, his eyes wide and - hopeful? Logan took his chance. Or, where Logan learns how to speak Spanish and agrees to teach Deceit. Things take an unexpected turn. (loceit (one-shot))

You Belong With Me: Much to his surprise, after being released from prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Logan has been appointed as a the prince’s new advisor. (logince (multi-chaptered, on-going))

Virgil ships other than analogical (i.e. dukexiety and anxceit)

First Words, and Then Some: Dee clams up whenever someone says the relatively common phrase on his wrist, fearing the inevitable rejection. Virgil's willing to work around it. (anxceit (one-shot))

What the hell would I be (without you): For as long as humans could remember, turning 18 meant so much more than reaching adult age. It meant it was time for the Swap, time for souls linked by fate to swap their emotions, their feelings to help them come together and one day, find each other. Virgil is about to turn 18, and for the surprise of absolutely no one, he's incredibly anxious about it. (dukexiety (oneshot))

Our Journey Never Ends: Deceit doesn't talk to humans that often. And he usually doesn't bother with them unless they step directly into his fae circle. But... he supposes one does many things, when they're bored. (anxceit (one-shot)

Misc (i.e. not any of the other ships listed (but they’re still really good)):

The Prince and The Frog: Prince Roman befriends a odd, blue eyed frog in the castle gardens. Little does he know, however, is that the frog isn't really what it appears to be. (royality (one-shot))

To Build A Home: "There was a long silence as Virgil processed the words, his eyes darting between the pair of them. “Y-You-” he swallowed heavily. “You want to adopt me?” This was a joke. Surely, it was a joke. Nobody ever wanted him. Nobody had ever shown the slightest bit of interest in adopting him. "Virgil never believed he was good enough for a loving family until the day that Patton and Logan walked into the orphanage. (gen, a lot of parent!logicality (multi-chaptered, completed))

Of Trying and Towers:  “Then there’s Princey. He always wants to go haring off after these impossible, grandiose dreams.” “Like breaking the Queen’s Stone, stealing all of her power, and freeing the entire kingdom from a rule that’s lasted well over five centuries?” “Yeah,” Anxiety said. “Like that.” After (grudgingly) attempting to overthrow the monarch of his country, Anxiety finds himself the sole survivor of a curse that takes Thomas and the other sides away from him. To make matters worse, he’s trapped in a tower with his own self-loathing and cowardice, and he finds himself guarded by an unusually polite dragon. What’s a guy supposed to do? Break out of the tower, finish overthrowing the monarchy, and save Thomas and the other sides. Obviously. (Ugh. He really doesn’t feel good about this.) (prinxiety (multi-chaptered, completed))

Love And Lip Gloss: After Remus returns Patton’s lip gloss, Patton comes to a few realizations. My imagining of a follow-up to IvyCpher’s Strawberry Lip Gloss, you’ll probably want to read that one first to understand this! (intruality (one-shot))

(you probably weren’t anticipating this many but like, yeahhh)

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november 2

andriel into the future (series) by @dustbottle

see which other fics i’m reviewing this month! / my review request post!

these are some wonderfully written post-canon fics that make you feel warm and safe. we get to see neil and andrew’s relationship grow and strengthen. there’s neil’s year at psu without andrew, a minyard-josten rivalry fic, just some good times, coming out, and cats! there are 5 fics in this series.

missing you (is all i am)

i feel like this whole series is so iconic, and i understand why. it’s really well written and is just such soft content. as much as it’s fun to read the many au’s that are out there, it’s nice to come back and have some comforting post-canon that wraps you up like a blanket because you know andrew and neil are just out there living their life together.

parts i really liked:

”tension scraping at the back of his throat and humming distractingly under his skin. the quiet of his empty apartment… is pressing in on him from all sides, treacherous and thickly oppressive.” i really like the description that you use so well. i can imagine how this feels, you’ve put to words something that i have only ever experienced before

that the exy highlight is literally just neil. andrew is so far gone ahhh

”in neil’s absence, andrew feels strangely untethered, smaller and emptier and less somehow than he has in years.” i just really like the words you used, it is so right

that when andrew finally sees neil looking bad and immediately looks for an injury or something, it reminds me that andrew doesn’t realise how much neil missed andrew. during the novels we saw everything from neil’s perspective and it can seem like andrew is just an anchor, so it’s nice to understand that andrew, like everyone, is uncertain and unsure and new to this whole relationship thing too. i find it’s easy to forget because andrew always seems so decisive and confident, that he’s never done anything like this, let himself be so vulnerable, given parts of himself away to other people like this.

”he bleeds raw emotion all over the place even as he fights to keep it contained.” i love the imagery here

“neil says, and smiles; a dismantled gun; a knife wrapped in lace.” yes!

”’because it’s the truth,’ neil tells, trusting and honest and harsh, and just like that, the resistance breaks apart.” this feels so fitting, because truth is such a huge part of the foundation of this relationship. 

minyard-josten: a rivalry for the ages

i think like most people in the fandom, rivalry!au’s are so so fun to read. there’s something fun about being in on a secret, especially since in these fics, it’s not necessarily a secret, people just are oblivious. 

parts/things i especially enjoyed:

West! not going to lie, he actually kind of reminds me of someone i know (named Wes) who fits this character. the guy i know is really nice and chill, but has serious muscle, a bunch of tattoos, and always looks super cool which is how i picture Wes. and i like when this type of character feels awkward, it endears me to them a little bit more

great to hear of the bonding between neil and his new teammates! i imagine it must have been tough for him at first, he has to adjust because the foxes were his first team, but also his first family and that’s something you can’t just move on from.

”…[matt] keeps an impressively straight face, commenting that andrew and neil have always had a ‘unique relationship’…” i LOVE when the foxes play up the rivalry with increasingly ambiguous and wild comments. i mean they’re not wrong?? they’re just purposely misleading the public and i am here for it!

”kevin catgeorically refuses to talk about anything not strictly exy-related; when pressed, he stiffly remarks that their teamwork had never been a problem.” of course kevin tries to stay out of it. he must be preparing such a long lecture for the next time he sees andrew and neil.

the bit where neil scores on andrew and andrew grabs his helmet. they’re sO cute!! i can only imagine that it must be so rewarding for neil to be able to read andrew so well because it shows him that 1. how he is affecting andrew and making him feel things and 2. allowing himself to have a strong enough relationship with someone to recognize all these small quirks, etc.

”as he watches the other team celebrate their win, with andrew a speck of calm indifference in their midst” something about the imagery of andrew being this calm in the chaos. i think that’s such a big part of their relationship. neil knows that no matter what, andrew will be there for him, his rock, something stable when everything else is crazy. 

you did a really great job transitioning between all these scenes in such a short amount of time. going from the intensity of the game to the quiet of the changeroom, moving from having their teams and the crowd around them to being alone. there’s this distance between them when they’re on court, but when they’re alone? they’re free to be themselves and it’s so interesting to see how different and similar it is to how they normally act. andrew shows his affection in all the little gestures and neil is able to catch all of them where other people just see the blank mask still. 

the self i am

the parts i really enjoyed:

something you don’t quite emphasize, but the fact that they’re driving home. it’s clear that since they’ve been driving for such a long time, it would make more sense to fly, but it’s cute that they don’t. first, it shows just another way that neil takes andrew’s preference into consideration. second, it gives them time to spend together! even though they’re about to have a few days alone in the columbia house, there’s definitely something different and intimate about being in a car with someone for hours. there’s nowhere else to go and no way to reduce the time that you’re together (because i’m sure that andrew was speeding anyway)

andrew not smoking around daisy. although i do think that neil has softened some of andrew’s edges, i do think that andrew would be more considerate towards children than adults/teens. he knows too well how vulnerable they are and even if he doesn’t enjoy spending time with them, i believe he would do the small things like not smoke around them, or share his candy with them.

”progress is slow and not always linear, but it is there” sometimes this can be easy to forget, but that doesn’t make it less true. 

all the ways that andriel should have been obvious to the public but they were too oblivious to know (perfect format of a 5+1 if people still did that HAH you know what maybe there is one like that out there and i just can’t recall it at this moment)

”’i’ll think about it,’ he says, and it would have been a dismissal from anyone else, but from andrew it’s a promise.” i like this because it shows that andrew won’t commit to doing something if he’s still unsure about it. he still takes his word very seriously and doesn’t want to give neil false hope.

oh double fudge ice cream sounds GOOD

”winter sunlight bathes andrew in watery gold, lending his pale hair an almost ethereal glow, and neil feels, with a fierceness that surprises even himself.” i love the imagery you use in this. watery gold? yeS.

th e kiss!!! yeahhh

”kevin is staring stoically ahead, either resigned to his fate or possibly sleeping with his eyes open” I LOVE KEVIN DAY (and also the way you wrote this. so funny)

woohoo! acknowledgement that even though neil is mostly soft, he is also a knife boy and could cut you if he wanted *insert knife emoji*

i can imagine the headlines MINYARD-DAY RIVALRY?

bless the foxes and their reactions. they’re exactly what i would expect. 

neil asking if andrew wants him to sleep on the couch!! so considerate! these boys!!

i wanted to say that i like that this fic didn’t just end with the kiss, in fact that’s the middle of the fic. the fall-out/reaction of the public is definitely some of the more interesting parts, and the scenes where andrew and neil are likely dealing with the most stress

a battle, a war, a growing up

things i really liked:

hearing about andrew’s childhood! i think the idea of andrew reading harry potter is pretty fitting too, i imagine that it would be something easy to come across and that he would be the type to try and spend time at the library, either a public one or with school

acknowledgement of andrew missing neil, it must be hard for him, after trying to pretend he is independent for so long

”andrew’s mind is flat with the kind of bone-deep exhaustion that comes from beating himself bloody against the constraints of his own spiralling thoughts.” i feel this.

that andrew is still in contact with bee! and he still comes and talks to her about the big decisions he is making in his life. i think that it’s great to see how much he trusts her and wants to share himself with her, she’s probably the second adult he has been able to do so with (first being wymack).

”you have been taking care of people for years, andrew… this is not so different when you think about it.” YES THIS IS GOOD

i like the idea of andrew picking out two cats at once, of the cats being brothers and keeping them together

the first time that king sits in andrew’s lap is so soft

”there are no more sharp edges to the way he feels about neil; there is only trust, hard-won but utterly true” ugH this is so good! their relationship started as only sharp edges and things that they could cut with, it’s so great to see how time has worn them softer and allowed them to grow and live and want and love

sir! allowing! pets! bless this moment forever

YES NEIL. YOU ROAST THAT REPORTER!!! 

oh dang, i forgot that andrew being sick would likely be so similar to withdrawal that it would trigger him. i think i read a fic that explored this but i cannot for the life of me remember what it was called.

”bee picks up on the first ring, just like she always does, and andrew finally exhales.” i just really like the wording that you used, it feels so right

neil and his bandana strikes again, stealing andrew’s heart (and mine)

so nice to see aaron and andrew getting along!! i do believe that post-canon they work things out like this. they’re still rough around the edges, i think that’s how most siblings are, but they have come to an understanding that they won’t always understand each other but that doesn’t mean they won’t always support each other.

also? i just relate to this fic because i really really want a cat. this just made me want a cat more. they’re such a perfect addition to the life that andrew and neil have.

i think this whole series was lovely. the writing is really easy to read and i love seeing the progression of neil and andrew’s relationship, both with each other and the rest of the world. you have great characterization and i like the direction you took with all of these fics. it was really nice to see glimpses of their life in this last fic and it’s so nice to hear everything from andrew’s thoughts. he’s a character that keeps so much on the inside that it’s great to be able to explore what’s really going on inside of his head and see how he reacts to everything inwardly and his process filtering these reactions. this was so nice to read again, and i’d love to read any more additions to this series!!

[atopearth]

The Men of Yoshiwara: Kikuya Part 4 - Kagerou Route

Loll I guess Kagerou is still as harsh with his words as ever even when Misao wanted to pick him because they’re the same age and so she should be more comfortable with him. Although he was harsh with her about lacking in etiquette at the banquet, it was cute how he taught her how to handle things properly when Kagura went out for a bit. It’s kinda saddening that as an apprentice, you actually get more freedom. I honestly thought Kagerou would be worked to death with studies, training and errands but he actually has time to chill with Misao! It’s so funny how he kinda used his skills of seduction to con Misao into holding books for him at the bookstore loll, she noticed and didn’t mind though lol. It’s kinda saddening that the more experienced you are and the more money you earn, the more you’re trapped in Yoshiwara, but I guess that’s kinda like how full time jobs are, huh? The only difference is that you’re not forced like these men to stay in such confinement and you’re not forced to sell your body.

Oh, I honestly thought Shion was Kagerou’s mum but I guess she’s his sister! She apparently married a rich enough guy in the mainland so she wants to buy Kagerou’s freedom but he’s reluctant. Hmm, I can really only think of two reasons he would be reluctant; either Shion is dodgy and lying, or Kagerou feels too indebted and attached to Kagura so he would feel guilty if he just left for his own happiness and left Kagura by himself. Or does he think he’s unfit to live with his family anymore since he feels like he’ll be a burden or something? Anyway! Misao is so thoughtful. I loved how she got a silver chain for Kagerou’s pendant so he won’t lose it again, it was really sweet of her, I can see why Kagerou would blush and be so appreciative haha. He’s so cute. So then I guess until Kagura is free, Kagerou doesn’t believe he deserves to be free? I guess it’s understandable since Kagura has been taking care of Kagerou ever since he was sold; so from a young age… He must be really grateful to Kagura, and he admires him a lot as well, so it must be difficult to abandon all that. However, he must really want to unite with his family as well, since he really treasures that pendant holding an old photo of his mother and his sister. Although Kagerou can be really harsh with his words, it’s really cute how Misao always finds out he’s just hiding his shyness etc by saying stuff like that. Them walking around a fair was so cute, and him getting jealous when he thought Misao was going to sleep with Kagura was cute too haha. Kagura wants Kagerou to start actually having clients…and he wants Misao to be his first client so that Kagerou can at least experience true love for his first time since they obviously like each other… It would be so bittersweet though.

Omg, when Kagerou pushed her down and forcibly kissed her, omg, that is not cool. Misao was so scared as well! I don’t care what his reasons are and that he’s hurt, because what he did really scared Misao and really hurt her as well. It’s worse when she really trusted him and had fun being friends with him. He better apologise later😠 I guess it’s good that Iroha and them take things like this seriously and punish Kagerou for it, but I feel like he got in trouble for causing a disturbance to Takao and his client and others who heard them rather than for the act itself. Wow, like I know Misao is supposed to be like a Mary Sue character that is perfect for the guy and always doing her best to help them etc, but saying that she shouldn’t have refused him since Kagerou’s getting punished??? Like uh what? I understand you like him, but it’s totally unrealistic to not even be a little mad or like sad about the act he did when she legit cried and screamed no to him, like seriously. I don’t mind her still caring about him and wondering if he’s being fed since the punishment probably is really harsh and worrying, but like dude, show a little more emotion towards yourself please Misao. Okay, they just totally brushed over the whole thing and Kagerou didn’t even apologise for scaring her etc, yeahhh, I really can’t take this whole romantic confession etc seriously and happily anymore. Like honestly, I really liked Kagerou but I can’t deal with stories where they just ignore stuff like that happened and continue the romantic story as if it’s still romantic! It’s not romantic anymore and it annoys me.

Personally, I think Kagerou looks better in darker colours, so I don’t like his new debut outfit lol. Well, that development was worse than I thought. Misao literally got some contagious high fever for dayssss just to have the story make Kagerou unable to take other clients since he wants to spend all his time caring for her. It was so cliche of them to trick him into thinking Misao was dying so that he would more honest and allow his sister to buy his freedom so he could spend the rest of his time with her. Anyway, it was about time he let go of his silly pride that was going to hurt Misao and everyone around him lol. Although I think the good ending fit with Kagerou’s stubbornness a bit more, since he asked Shion to lend him money to buy his own freedom and started working with her and her husband to repay the debt. Either way though, he gets to stay pure with Misao as his only lifelong partner, so I guess that is something they can all rejoice about lol. I liked the sequel, it was nice to see Kagerou and Misao appreciate how lucky they are to not only be able to attain freedom from Yoshiwara, but also be able to be each other’s first and last partner. They should really appreciate it and really achieve the happiness that lots of others could never possibly get. The other sub stories were pretty cute and I probably liked the romance there more than in the main story lmao.

Overall, Kagerou’s route started out pretty cute and natural, it actually felt like a normal romance since they got to spend time outside of Yoshiwara and bond! But then, it all goes downhill when he pushes her down like an angsty boy that we’re supposed to understand and forgive when he didn’t even apologise and Misao just rolls with it like nothing happened, because it’s love so whatever. The ending was pretty trash too because in the end, everything was basically Kagerou’s problem and if he wasn’t so stubborn about his useless pride that was hurting everyone, it would have been good for them all. Like seriously, you could do so many things to help and love and appreciate the people around you by getting out of Yoshiwara instead of rotting there with everyone else. Anyway, the last part was so contrived of a story, I thought I couldn’t get any more disappointed lol. On the other hand, I enjoyed the background to Shion (that Kagerou obviously failed to appreciate) where she actually ran away to the mainland with a courtesan she loved, but since the unofficial way to get there is very dangerous, their ship ended up capsizing and the courtesan didn’t make it, whilst Shion was saved by her current husband. In the end, she was blessed to be alive and find someone she could love again, but I was so annoyed that Kagerou couldn’t understand that Shion just wanted Misao and him to be happy because she knows from experience that it’s practically impossible to pay off yourself for your own freedom especially since you make your loved ones wait in pain and you’re suffering as well too, like ugh. Anyway, if I have to say that I was pretty apathetic towards Kagura’s route before, then I’d have to say I quite hated Kagerou’s route here lol. I think I’m mostly disappointed that they had to just ruin Kagerou’s route when it could have been a cute, tsundere and pure romance with a budding gentleman, sigh.

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(Via: Hacker News)

Act 1: Sunday afternoon

So you know when you’re flopping about at home, minding your own business, drinking from your water bottle in a way that does not possess any intent to subvert the Commonwealth of Australia?

It’s a feeling I know all too well, and in which I was vigorously partaking when I got this message in “the group chat”.

A nice message from my friend, with a photo of a boarding pass 🙂 A good thing about messages from your friends is that they do not have any rippling consequences 🙂🙂🙂

The man in question is Tony Abbott, one of Australia’s many former Prime Ministers.

That’s him, officer

For security reasons, we try to change our Prime Minister every six months, and to never use the same Prime Minister on multiple websites.

The boarding pass photo

This particular former PM had just posted a picture of his boarding pass on Instagram (Instagram, in case you don’t know it, is an app you can open up on your phone any time to look at ads).

The since-deleted Instagram post showing the boarding pass and baggage receipt. The caption reads “coming back home from japan 😍😍 looking forward to seeing everyone! climate change isn’t real 😌 ok byeee”

“Can you hack this man?”

My friend (who we will refer to by their group chat name, 𝖍𝖔𝖌𝖌𝖊 𝖒𝖔𝖆𝖉𝖊) is asking whether I can “hack this man” not because I am the kind of person who regularly commits 𝒄𝒚𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 on a whim, but because we’d recently been talking about boarding passes.

I’d said that people post pictures of their boarding passes all the time, not knowing that it can sometimes be used to get their passport number and stuff. They just post it being like “omg going on holidayyyy 😍😍😍”, unaware that they’re posting cringe.

People post their boarding passes all the time, because it’s not clear that they’re meant to be secret

Meanwhile, some hacker is rubbing their hands together, being all “yumyum identity fraud 👀” in their dark web Discord, because this happens a lot.

So there I was, making intense and meaningful eye contact with this chat bubble, asking me if I could “hack this man”.

Surely you wouldn’t

Of course, my friend wasn’t actually asking me to hack the former Prime Minister.

However.

You gotta.

I mean… what are you gonna do, not click it? Are you gonna let a link that’s like 50% advertising tracking ID tell you what to do? Wouldn’t you be curious?

The former Prime Minister had just posted his boarding pass. Was that bad? Was someone in danger? I didn’t know.

What I did know was: the least I could do for my country would be to have a casual browse 👀

Investigating the boarding pass photo

Step 1: Hubris

So I had a bit of a casual browse, and got the picture of the boarding pass, and then…. I didn’t know what was supposed to happen after that.

Well, I’d heard that it’s bad to post your boarding pass online, because if you do, a bored 17 year-old Russian boy called “Katie-senpai” might somehow use it to commit identity fraud. But I don’t know anyone like that, so I just clumsily googled some stuff.

Googling how 2 hakc boarding pass

Eventually I found a blog post explaining that yes, pictures of boarding passes can indeed be used for Crimes. The part you wanna be looking at for all your criming needs is the barcode, because it’s got the “Booking Reference” (e.g. H8JA2A) in it.

Why do you want the booking reference? It’s one of the two things you need to log in to the airline website to manage your flight.

The second one is your… last name. I was really hoping the second one would be like a password or something. But, no, it’s the booking reference the airline emails you and prints on your boarding pass. And it also lets you log in to the airline website?

That sounds suspiciously like a password to me, but like I’m still fine to pretend it’s not if you are.

Step 2: Scan the barcode

I’ve been practicing every morning at sunrise, but still can’t scan barcodes with my eyes. I had to settle for a barcode scanner app on my phone, but when I tried to scan the picture in the Instagram post, it didn’t work :((

Maybe I shouldn’t have blurred out the barcode first

Step 2: Scan the barcode, but more

Well, maybe it wasn’t scanning because the picture was too blurry.

I spent around 15 minutes in an “enhance, ENHANCE” montage, fiddling around with the image, increasing the contrast, and so on. Despite the montage taking up way too much of the 22 minute episode, I couldn’t even get the barcode to scan.

Step 2: Notice that the Booking Reference is printed right there on the paper

After staring at this image for 15 minutes, I noticed the Booking Reference is just… printed on the baggage receipt.

I graduated university.

But it did not prepare me for this.

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Step 3: Visit the airline’s website

After recovering from that emotional rollercoaster, I went to qantas.com.au, and clicked “Manage Booking”. In case you don’t know it because you live in a country with fast internet, Qantas is the main airline here in Australia.

(I also very conveniently started recording my screen, which is gonna pay off big time in just a moment.)

Step 4: Type in the Booking Reference

Well, the login form was just… there, and it was asking for a Booking Reference and a last name. I had just flawlessly read the Booking Reference from the boarding pass picture, and, well… I knew the last name.

I did hesitate for a split-second, but… no, I had to know.

Step 5: Crimes(?)

youngman.mp4

The “Manage Booking” page, logged in as some guy called Anthony Abbott

Can I get a YIKES in the chat

Leave a comment if you really felt that.

I guess I was now logged the heck in as Tony Abbott? And for all I know, everyone else who saw his Instagram post was right there with me. It’s kinda wholesome, to imagine us all there together. But also probably suboptimal in a governmental sense.

Was there anything secret in here?

I then just incredibly browsed the page, browsed it so hard.

I saw Tony Abbott’s name, flight times, and Frequent Flyer number, but not really anything super secret-looking. Not gonna be committing any cyber treason with a Frequent Flyer number. The flight was in the past, so I couldn’t change anything, either.

The page said the flight had been booked by a travel agent, so I guessed some information would be missing because of that.

I clicked around and scrolled a considerable length, but still didn’t find any government secrets.

Some people might give up here. But I, the Icarus of computers, was simply too dumb to know when to stop.

We’re not done just because a web page says we’re done

I wanted to see if there were juicy things hidden inside the page. To do it, I had to use the only hacker tool I know.

Right click > Inspect Element, all you need to subvert the Commonwealth of Australia

Listen. This is the only part of the story that might be confused for highly elite computer skill. It’s not, though. Maybe later someone will show you this same thing to try and flex, acting like only they know how to do it. You will not go gently into that good night. You will refuse to acknowledge their flex, killing them instantly.

How does “Inspect Element” work?

“Inspect Element”, as it’s called, is a feature of Google Chrome that lets you see the computer’s internal representation (HTML) of the page you’re looking at. Kinda like opening up a clock and looking at the cool cog party inside.

Yeahhh go little cogs, look at ‘em absolutely going off. Now imagine this but with like, JavaScript

Everything you see when you use “Inspect Element” was already downloaded to your computer, you just hadn’t asked Chrome to show it to you yet. Just like how the cogs were already in the watch, you just hadn’t opened it up to look.

But let us dispense with frivolous cog talk. Cheap tricks such as “Inspect Element” are used by programmers to try and understand how the website works. This is ultimately futile: Nobody can understand how websites work. Unfortunately, it kinda looks like hacking the first time you see it.

If you’d like to know more about it, I’ve prepared a short video.

Browsing the “Manage Booking” page’s HTML

I scrolled around the page’s HTML, not really knowing what it meant, furiously trying to find anything that looked out of place or secret.

I eventually realised that manually reading HTML with my eyes was not an efficient way of defending my country, and Ctrl + F’d the HTML for “passport”.

oh no

Oh yes

It’s just there.

At this point I was fairly sure I was looking at the extremely secret government-issued ID of the 28th Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia, servant to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and I was kinda worried that I was somehow doing something wrong, but like, not enough to stop.

….anything else in this page?

Well damn, if Tony Abbott’s passport number is in this treasure trove of computer spaghetti, maybe there’s wayyyyy more. Perhaps this HTML contains the lost launch codes to the Sydney Opera House, or Harold Holt.

Maybe there’s a phone number?

Searching for phone and number didn’t get anywhere, so I searched for 614, the first 3 digits of an Australian phone number, using my colossal and highly celestial galaxy brain.

Weird uppercase letters

A weird pile of what I could only describe as extremely uppercase letters came up. It looked like this:

RQST QF HK1 HNDSYD/03EN|FQTV QF HK1|CTCM QF HK1 614[phone number]|CKIN QF HN1 DO NOT SEAT ROW [row number] PLS SEAT LAST ROW OF [row letter] WINDOW

So, there’s a lot going on here. There is indeed a phone number in here. But what the heck is all this other stuff?

I realised this was like… Qantas staff talking to eachother about Tony Abbott, but not to him?

In what is surely the subtweeting of the century, it has a section saying HITOMI CALLED RQSTING FASTTRACK FOR MR. ABBOTT. Hitomi must be requesting a “fasttrack” (I thought that was only a thing in movies???) from another Qantas employee.

This is messed up for many reasons

What is even going on here? Why do Qantas flight staff talk to eachother via this passenger information field? Why do they send these messages, and your passport number to you when you log in to their website? I’ll never know because I suddenly got distracted with

Forbidden airline code

I realised the allcaps museli I saw must be some airline code for something. Furious and intense googling led me to several ancient forbidden PDFs that explained some of the codes.

Apparently, they’re called “SSR codes” (Special Service Request). There are codes for things like “Vegetarian lacto-ovo meal” (VLML), “Vegetarian oriental meal” (VOML), and even “Vegetarian vegan meal” (VGML). Because I was curious about these codes, here’s some for you to be curious about too (tag urself, I’m UMNR):

RFTV Reason for Travel UMNR Unaccompanied minor PDCO Carbon Offset (chargeable) WEAP Weapon DEPA Deportee—accompanied by an escort ESAN Passenger with Emotional Support Animal in Cabin

The phone number I found looked like this: CTCM QF HK1 [phone number]. Googling “SSR CTCM” led me to the developer guide for some kind of airline association, which I assume I am basically a member of now.

CTCM QF HK1 translates as “Contact phone number of passenger 1”

Is the phone number actually his?

I thought maybe the phone number belonged to the travel agency, but I checked and it has to be the passenger’s real phone number. That would be, if my calculations are correct,,,, *steeples fingers* Tony Abbott’s phone number.

what have i done

I’d now found Tony Abbott’s:

Passport details

Phone number

Weird Qantas staff comments.

My friend who messaged me had no idea.

Tony Abbott’s passport is probably a Diplomatic passport, which is used to “represent the Australian Government overseas in an official capacity”.

what have i done

By this point I’d had enough defending my country, and had recently noticed some new thoughts in my brain, which were:

oh jeez oh boy oh jeez

i gotta get someone, somehow, to reset tony abbott’s passport number

can you even reset passport numbers

is it possible that i’ve done a crime

Intermission

Act 2: Do not get arrested challenge 2020

In this act, I, your well-meaning but ultimately incompetent protagonist, attempt to do the following things:

⬜ figure out whether i have done a crime

⬜ notify someone (tony abbott?) that this happened

⬜ get permission to publish this here blog post

⬜ tell qantas about the security issue so they can fix it

Spoilers: This takes almost six months.

Let’s skip the boring bits

I contacted a lot of people about this. If my calculations are correct, I called at least 30 phone numbers, to say nothing of The Emails. If you laid all the people I contacted end to end along the equator, they would die, and you would be arrested. Eventually I started keeping track of who I talked to in a note I now refer to as “the hashtag struggle”.

I’m gonna skip a considerable volume of tedious and ultimately unsatisfying telephony, because it’s been a long day of scrolling already, and you need to save your strength.

Alright strap yourself in and enjoy as I am drop-kicked through the goal posts of life.

Part 1: is it possible that i’ve done a crime

I didn’t think anything I did sounded like a crime, but I knew that sometimes when the other person is rich or famous, things can suddenly become crimes. Like, was there going to be some Monarch Law or something? Was Queen Elizabeth II gonna be mad about this?

My usual defence against being arrested for hacking is making sure the person being hacked is okay with it. You heard me, it’s the power of ✨consent✨. But this time I could uh only get it in retrospect, which is a bit yikes.

So I was wondering like… was logging in with someone else’s booking reference a crime? Was having someone else’s passport number a crime? What if they were, say, the former Prime Minister? Would I get in trouble for publishing a blog post about it? I mean you’re reading the blog post right now so obviousl

Update: I have been arrested.

Just straight up Reading The Law

It turned out I could just google these things, and before I knew it I was reading “the legislation”. It’s the rules of the law, just written down.

Look, reading pages of HTML? No worries. Especially if it’s to defend my country. But whoever wrote the legislation was just making up words.

Eventually, I was able to divine the following wisdoms from the Times New Roman tea leaves:

Defamation is where you get in trouble for publishing something that makes someone look bad.

But, it’s fine for me to blog about it, since it’s not defamation if you can prove it’s true

Having Tony Abbott’s passport number isn’t a crime

But using it to commit identity fraud would be

There are laws about what it’s okay to do on a computer

The things it’s okay to do are: If u EVER even LOOK at a computer the wrong way, the FBI will instantly slam dunk you in a legal fashion dependent on the legislation in your area

I am possibly the furthest thing you can be from a lawyer. So, I’m sure I don’t need to tell you not to take this as legal advice. But, if you are the kind of person who takes legal advice from mango blog posts, who am I to stand in your way? Not a lawyer, that’s who. Don’t do it.

You know what, maybe I needed help. From an adult. Someone whose 3-year old kid has been buying iPad apps for months because their parents can’t figure out how to turn it off.

“Yeah, maybe I should get some of that free government legal advice”, I thought to myself, legally. That seemed like a pretty common thing, so I thought it should be easy to do. I took a big sip of water and googled “free legal advice”.

trying to ask a lawyer if i gone and done a crime

Before I went and told everyone about my HTML frolicking, I spent a week calling legal aid numbers, lawyers, and otherwise trying to figure out if I’d done a crime.

During this time, I didn’t tell anyone what I’d done. I asked if any laws would be broken if “someone” had “logged into a website with someone’s publicly-posted password and found the personal information of a former politician”. Do you see how that’s not even a lie? I’m starting to see how lawyers do it.

Calling Legal Aid places

First I call the state government’s Legal Aid number. They tell me they don’t do that here, and I should call another Legal Aid place named something slightly different.

The second place tells me they don’t do that either, and I should call the First Place and “hopefully you get someone more senior”.

I call the First Place again, and they say “oh you’ve been given the run around!”. You see where this is going.

Let’s skip a lot of phone calls. Take my hand as I whisk you towards the slightly-more-recent past. Based on advice I got from two independent lawyers that was definitely not legal advice: I haven’t done a crime.

Helllllll yeah. But I mean it’s a little late because I forgot to mention that by this point I had already emailed explicit details of my activities to the Australian Government.

☑️ figure out whether i have done a crime

⬜ notify someone (tony abbott?) that this happened

⬜ get permission to publish this here blog post

⬜ tell qantas about the security issue so they can fix it

Part 2: trying to report the problem to someone, anyone, please

I had Tony Abbott’s passport number, phone number, and weird Qantas messages about him. I was the only one who knew I had these.

Anyone who saw that Instagram post could also have them. I felt like I had to like, tell someone about this. Someone with like, responsibilities. Someone with an email signature.

wait but do u see the irony in this, u have his phone number right there so u could just-

Yes I see it thank u for pointing this out, wise, astute, and ultimately self-imposed heading. I knew I could just call the number any time and hear a “G’day” I’d never be able to forget. I knew I had a rare opportunity to call someone and have them ask “how did you get this number!?”.

But you can’t just do that.

You can’t just call someone’s phone number that you got by rummaging around in the HTML ball pit. Tony Abbott didn’t want me to have his phone number, because he didn’t give it to me. Maybe if it was urgent, or I had no other option, sure. But I was pretty sure I should do this the Nice way, and show that I come in peace.

I wanted to show that I come in peace because there’s also this pretty yikes thing that happens where you email someone being all like “henlo ur website let me log in with username admin and password admin, maybe u wanna change that??? could just be me but let me kno what u think xoxo alex” and then they reply being like “oh so you’re a HACKER and a CRIMINAL and you’ve HACKED ME AND MY FAMILY TOO and this is a RANSOM and ur from the DARK WEB i know what that is i’ve seen several episodes of mr robot WELL watch out kiddO bc me and my lawyers are bulk-installing tens of thousands of copies of McAfee® Gamer Security as we speak, so i’d like 2 see u try”

I googled “tony abbott contact”, but there’s only his official website. There’s no phone number on it, only a “contact me” form.

I imagine there have been some passionate opinions typed into this form at 9pm on a Tuesday

Yeah right, have you seen the incredible volume of #content people want to say at politicians? No way anyone’s reading that form.

I later decided to try anyway, using the same Inspect Element ritual from earlier. Looking at the network requests the page makes, I divined that the “Contact me” form just straight up does not work. When you click “submit”, you get an error, and nothing gets sent.

This is an excellent way of using computers to solve the problem of “random people keep sending me angry letters”

Well rip I guess. I eventually realised the people to talk to were probably the government.

The government

It’s a big place.

In the beginning, humans developed the concept of language by banging rocks together and saying “oof, oog, and so on”. Then something went horribly wrong, and now people unironically begin every sentence with “in regards to”. Our story begins here.

The government has like fifty thousand million different departments, and they all know which acronyms to call each other, but you don’t. If you EVER call it DMP&C instead of DPM&C you are gonna be express email forwarded into a nightmare realm the likes of which cannot be expressed in any number of spreadsheet cells, in spite of all the good people they’ve lost trying.

I didn’t even know where to begin with this. Desperately, I called Tony Abbott’s former political party, who were all like

Skip skip skip a few more calls like this.

Maybe I knew someone who knew someone

That’s right, the true government channels were the friends we made along the way.

I asked hacker friends who seemed like they might know government security people. “Where do I report a security issue with like…. a person, not a website?”

They told me to call… 1300 CYBER1?

1300 CYBER1

I don’t really have a good explanation for this so I’m just gonna post the screenshots.

My friend showing me where to report a security issue with the government. I’m gonna need you to not ask any questions about the profile pictures.

Uhhh no wait I don’t wanna click any of these

The planet may be dying, but we live in a truly unparalleled age of content.

You know I smashed that call button on 1300 CYBER1. Did they just make it 1300 CYBER then realise you need one more digit for a phone number? Incredible.

Calling 1300 c y b e r o n e

“Yes yes hello, ring ring, is this 1300 cyber one”? They have to say yes if you ask that. They’re legally obligated.

The person who picked up gave me an email address for ASD (the Australian flavour of America’s NSA), and told me to email them the details.

Emailing the government my crimes

Feeling like the digital equivalent of three kids in a trenchcoat, I broke out my best Government Email dialect and emailed ASD, asking for them to call me if they were the right place to tell about this.

Sorry for the clickbait subject but well that’s what happened???

Fooled by my flawless disguise, they replied instantly (in a relative sense) asking for more details.

“Potential” exposure, yeah okay. At least the subject line had “[SEC=Sensitive]” in it so I _knew_ I’d made it big

I absolutely could provide them with more information, so I did, because I love to cooperate with the Australian government.

I also asked whether they could give me permission to publish this blog post, and they were all like “Seen 2:35pm”. Eventually, after another big day of getting left on read by the government, they replied, being all like “thanks kiddO, we’re doing like, an investigation and stuff, so we’ll take it from here”.

Overall, ASD were really nice to me about it and happy that I’d helped. They encouraged me to report this kind of thing to them if it happened again, but I’m not really in the business of uhhhhhhhh whatever the heck this is.

By the way, at this point in the story (chronologically) I had no idea if what I was emailing the government was actually the confession to a crime, since I hadn’t talked to a lawyer yet. This is widely regarded as a bad move. I do not recommend anyone else use “but I’m being so helpful and earnest!!!” as a legal defence. But also I’m not a lawyer, so idk, maybe it works?

Wholesomely emailing the government

At one point in what was surely an unforgettable email chain, the person I was emailing added a P.S. containing…. the answer to the puzzle hidden on this website. The one you’re reading this blog on right now. Hello. I guess they must have found this website (hi asd) by stalking the email address I was sending from. This is unprecedented and everything, but:

The puzzle says to tweet the answer at me, not email me

The prize for doing the puzzle is me tweeting this gif of a shakas to you

yeahhhhhhhhhh, nice

So I guess I emailed the shakas gif to the government??? Yeah, I guess I did.

Please find attached

Can I write about this?

I asked them if they could give me permission to write this blog post, or who to ask, and they were like “uhhhhhhhhhhh” and gave me two government media email addresses to try. Listen I don’t wanna be an “ummm they didn’t reply to my emAiLs” kinda person buT they simply left me no choice.

Still, defending the Commonwealth was in ASD’s hands now, and that’s a win for me at this point.

☑️ figure out whether i have done a crime

☑️ notify someone (The Government) that this happened

⬜ get permission to publish this here blog post

⬜ tell qantas about the security issue so they can fix it

Part 3: Telling Qantas the bad news

The security issue

Hey remember like fifteen minutes ago when this post was about webpages?

I’m guessing Qantas didn’t want to send the customer their passport number, phone number, and staff comments about them, so I wanted to let them know their website was doing that. Maybe the website was well meaning, but ultimately caused more harm than good, like how that time the bike path railings on the Golden Gate Bridge accidentally turned it into the world’s largest harmonica.

Unblending the smoothie

But why does the website even send you all that stuff in the first place? I don’t know, but to speculate wildly: Maybe the website just sends you all the data it knows about you, and then only shows you your name, flight times, etc, while leaving the passport number etc. still in the page.

If that were true, then Qantas would want to unblend the digital smoothie they’ve sent you, if you will. They’d want to change it so that they only send you your name and flight times and stuff (which are a key ingredient of the smoothie to be sure), not the whole identity fraud smoothie.

Smoothie evangelism

I wanted to tell them the smoothie thing, but how do I contact them?

The first place to check is usually company.com/security, maybe that’ll w-

Okay nevermind

Okay fine maybe I should just email [email protected] surely that’s it? I could only find a phone number to report security problems to, and I wasn’t sure if it was like…. airport security?

So I just… called the number and was like “heyyyy uhhhh I’d like to report a cyber security issue?”, and the person was like “yyyyya just email [email protected]” and i was like “ok sorrY”.

Time to email Qantas I guess

I emailed Qantas, being like “beep boop here is how the computer problem works”.

(Have you been wondering about the little dots in this post? Click this one for the rest of the email .)

A few days later, I got this reply.

And then I never heard from this person again

Airlines were going through kinda a struggle at the time, so I guess that’s what happened?

if ur still out there Shr Security i miss u

Struggles

After filling up my “get left on read” combo meter, I desperately resorted to calling Qantas’ secret media hotline number.

They said the issue was being fixed by Amadeus, the company who makes their booking software, rather than with Qantas itself. I’m not sure if that means other Amadeus customers were also affected, or if it was just the way Qantas was using their software, or what.

It’s common to give companies 90 days to fix the bug, before you publicly disclose it. It’s a tradeoff between giving them enough time to fix it, and people being hacked because of the bug as long as it’s out there.

But, well, this was kinda a special case. Qantas was going through some #struggles, so it was taking longer. Lots of their staff were stood down, and the world was just generally more cooked. At the same time, hardly anybody was flying at the time, due to see above re: #struggles. So, I gave Qantas as much time as they needed.

Five months later

The world is a completely different place, and Qantas replies to me, saying they fixed the bug. It did take five months, which is why it took so long for you and I to be having this weird textual interaction right now.

I don’t have a valid Booking Reference, so I can’t actually check what’s changed. I asked a friend to check (with an expired Booking Reference), and they said they didn’t see a mention of “documentNumber” anymore, which sounds like the passport number is no longer there. But That’s Not Science, so I don’t know for sure.

I originally found the bug in March, which was about 60 years ago. BUT we got there baybee, Qantas emailed me saying the bug had been fixed on August 21. They later told me they actually fixed the bug in July, but the person I was talking too didn’t know about it until August.

Qantas also said this when I asked them to review this post:

Thanks again for letting us have the opportunity to review and again for refraining from posting until the fix was in place for vulnerability.

Our standard advice to customers is not to post pictures of the boarding pass, or to at least obscure the key personal information if they do, because of the detail it contains.

We appreciate you bringing it to our attention in such a responsible way, so we could fix the issue, which we did a few months ago now.

I couldn’t find any advice on their website about not posting pictures of customer boarding passes, only news articles about how Qantas stopped printing the Frequent Flyer number on the boarding pass last year, because… well, you can see why.

I also asked Qantas what they did to fix the bug, and they said:

Unfortunately we’re not able to provide the details of fix as it is part of the protection of personal information.

:((

☑️ figure out whether i have done a crime

☑️ notify someone (The Government) that this happened

⬜ get permission to publish this here blog post

☑️ tell qantas about the security issue so they can fix it

Part 4: Finding Tony Abbott

Like 2003’s Finding Nemo, this section was an emotional rollercoaster.

The government was presumably helping Tony Abbott reset his passport number, and making sure his current one wasn’t being used for any of that yucky identity fraud.

But, much like Shannon Noll’s 2004 What About Me?, what about me? I really wanted to write a blog post about it, you know? So I could warn people about the non-obvious risk of sharing their boarding passes, and also make dumb and inaccessible references to the early 2000s.

The government people I talked to couldn’t give me permission to write this post, so rather than willingly wandering deeper into the procedurally generated labyrinth of government department email addresses (it’s dark in there), I tried to find Tony Abbott or his staff directly.

Calling everybody in Australia one by one

I called Tony Abbott’s former political party again, and asked them how to contact him, or his office, or something I’m really having a moment rn. They said they weren’t associated with him anymore, and suggested I call Parliament House, like I was the Queen or something.

In case you don’t know it, Parliament House is sorta like the White House, I think? The Prime Minister lives there and has a nice little garden out the back with a macadamia tree that never runs out, and everyone works in different colourful sections like “Making it so Everyone Gets a Fair Shake of the Sauce Bottle R&D” and “Mateship” and they all wear matching uniforms with lil kangaroo and emu hats, and they all do a little dance every hour on the hour to celebrate another accident-free day in the Prime Minister’s chocolate factory.

calling parliament house i guess

Not really sure what to expect, I called up and was all like “yeah bloody g’day, day for it ay, hot enough for ya?”. Once the formalities were out of the way, I skipped my usual explanation of why I was calling and just asked point-blank if they had Tony Abbott’s contact details.

The person on the phone was casually like “Oh, no, but I can put you through to the Serjeant-at-arms, who can give you the contact details of former members”. I was like “…..okay?????”. Was I supposed to know who that was? Isn’t a Serjeant like an army thing?

But no, the Serjeant-at-arms was just a nice lady who told me “he’s in a temporary office right now, and so doesn’t have a phone number. I can give you an email address or a P.O. box?”. I was like “ok th-thank you your majesty”.

It felt a bit weird just…. emailing the former PM being like “boy do i have bad news for you”, but I figured he probably wouldn’t read it anyway. If it was that easy to get this email address, everyone had it, and so nobody was likely to be reading the inbox.

Spoilers: It didn’t work.

Finding Tony Abbott’s staff

I roll out of bed and stare bleary-eyed into the morning sun, my ultimate nemesis, as Day 40 of not having found Tony Abbott’s staff begins.

This time for sure.

Retinas burning, in a moment of determination/desperation/hubris, I went and asked even more people that might know how to contact Tony Abbott’s staff.

I asked a journalist friend, who had the kind of ruthlessly efficient ideas that come from, like, being a professional journalist. They suggested I find Tony Abbott’s former staff from when he was PM, and contact their offices and see if they have his contact details.

It was a strange sounding plan to me, which I thought meant it would definitely work.

Wikipedia stalking

Apparently Prime Ministers themselves have “ministers” (not prime), and those are their staff. That’s who I was looking for.

Big “me and the boys” energy

Okay but, the problem was that most of these people are retired now, and the glory days of 2013 are over. Each time I hover over one of their names, I see “so-and-so is a former politician and….” and discard their Wikipedia page like a LeSnak wrapper into the wind.

Eventually though, I saw this minister.

Oh he definitely has an office.

That’s the current Prime Minister of Australia (at the time of writing, that is, for all I know we’re three Prime-Ministers deep into 2020 by the time you read this), you know he’s definitely gonna be easier to find.

Let’s call the Prime Minister’s office I guess?

Easy google of the number, absolutely no emotional journey resulting in my growth as a person this time.

When I call, I hear what sounds like two women laughing in the background? One of them answers the phone, slightly out of breath, and says “Hello, Prime Minister’s office?”. I’m like “….hello? Am I interrupting something???”.

I clumsily explain that I know this is Scott Morrison’s office, but I actually was wondering if they had Tony Abbott’s contact details, because it’s for “a time-sensitive media enquiry”, and I j- She interrupts to explain “so Tony Abbott isn’t Prime Minister anymore, this is Scott Morrison’s office” and I’m like “yA I know please I am desperate for these contact details”.

She says “We wouldn’t have that information but I’ll just check for you” and then pauses for like, a long time? Like 15 seconds? I can only wonder what was happening on the other end. Then she says “Oh actually I can give you Tony Abbott’s personal assistant’s number? Is that good?”.

Ummmm YES thanks that’s what I’ve been looking for this whole time? Anyway brb i gotta go be uh a journalist or something.

Calling Tony Abbott’s personal assistant’s personal assistant

I fumble with my phone, furiously trying to dial the number.

I ask if I’m speaking to Tony Abbott’s personal assistant. The person on the other end says no, but he is one of Tony Abbott’s staff. It has been a long several months of calling people. The cold ice is starting to thaw. One day, with enough therapy, I may be able to gather the emotional resources necessary to call another government phone number.

I explain the security issue I want to report, and midway through he interrupts with “sorry…. who are you and what’s the organisation you’re calling from?” and I’m like “uhhhh I mean my name is Alex and uhh I’m not calling from any organisation I’m just like a person?? I just found this thing and…”.

The person is mercifully forgiving, and says that he’ll have to call me back. I stress once again that I’m calling to help them, happy to wait to publish until they feel comfortable, and definitely do not warrant the bulk-installation of antivirus products.

Calling Tony Abbott’s personal assistant

An hour later, I get a call from a number I don’t recognise.

He explains that the guy I talked to earlier was his assistant, and he’s Tony Abbott’s PA. Folks, we made it. It’s as easy as that.

He says he knows what I’m talking about. He’s got the emails. He’s already in the process of getting Tony Abbott a new passport number. This is the stuff. It’s all coming together.

I ask if I can publish a blog post about it, and we agree I’ll send a draft for him to review.

And then he says

“These things do interest him - he’s quite keen to talk to you”

I was like exCUSE me? Tony Abbott, Leader of the 69th Ministry of Australia, wants to call me on the phone? I suppose I owe this service to my country?

This story was already completely cooked so sure, whatever. I’d already declared emotional bankruptcy, so nothing was coming as a surprise at this point.

I asked what he wanted to talk about. “Just to pick your brain on these things”. We scheduled a call for 3:30 on Monday.

And then Tony Abbott just… calls me on the phone?

Mostly, he wanted to check whether his understanding of how I’d found his passport number was correct (it was). He also wanted to ask me how to learn about “the IT”.

He asked some intelligent questions, like “how much information is in a boarding pass, and what do people like me need to know to be safe?”, and “why can you get a passport number from a boarding pass, but not from a bus ticket?”.

The answer is that boarding passes have your password printed on them, and bus tickets don’t. You can use that password to log in to a website (widely regarded as a bad move), and at that point all bets are off, websites can just do whatever they want.

He was vulnerable, too, about how computers are harder for him to understand.

“It’s a funny old world, today I tried to log in to a [Microsoft] Teams meeting (Teams is one of those apps), and the fire brigade uses a Teams meeting. Anyway I got fairly bamboozled, and I can now log in to a Teams meeting in a way I couldn’t before.

It’s, I suppose, a terrible confession of how people my age feel about this stuff.”

Then the Earth stopped spinning on its axis.

For an instant, time stood still.

Then he said it:

“You could drop me in the bush and I’d feel perfectly confident navigating my way out, looking at the sun and direction of rivers and figuring out where to go, but this! Hah!”

This was possibly the most pure and powerful Australian energy a human can possess, and explains how we elected our strongest as our leader. The raw energy did in fact travel through the phone speaker and directly into my brain, killing me instantly.

When I’d collected myself from various corners of the room, he asked if there was a book about the basics of IT, since he wanted to learn about it. That was kinda humanising, since it made me realise that even famous people are just people too.

Anyway I hadn’t heard of a book that was any good, so I told a story about my mum instead.

A story about my mum instead

I said there probably was a book out there about “the basics of IT”, but it wouldn’t help much. I didn’t learn from a book. 13 year old TikTok influencers don’t learn from a book. They just vibe.

My mum always said when I was growing up that:

There were “too many buttons”

She was afraid to press the buttons, because she didn’t know what they did

I can understand that, since grown ups don’t have the sheer dumb hubris of a child, and that’s what makes them afraid of the buttons.

Like, when a toddler uses a spoon for the first time, they don’t know what a spoon is, where they are, or who the current Prime Minister is. But they see the spoon, and they see the cereal, and their dumb baby brain is just like “yeA” and they have a red hot go. And like, they get it wrong the first few times, but it doesn’t matter, because they don’t know to be afraid of getting it wrong. So eventually, they get it right.

leaked footage of me learning how to hack

Okay so I didn’t tell the spoon thing to Tony Abbott, but I did tell him what I always told my mum, which was: “Mum you just gotta press all the buttons, to find out what they do”.

He was like “Oh, you just learn by trial and error”. Exactly! Now that I think about it, it’s a bit scary. We are dumb babies learning to use a spoon for the first time, except if you do it wrong some clown writes a blog post about you. Anyway good luck out there to all you big babies.

Asking to publish this blog post

When I asked Tony Abbott for permission to publish the post you are reading right now while neglecting your responsibilities, he said “well look Alex, I don’t have a problem with it, you’ve alerted me to something I probably should have known about, so if you wanna do that, go for it”.

At the end of the call, he said “If there’s ever anything you think I need to know, give us a shout”.

Look you gotta hand it to him. That’s exactly the right way to respond when someone tells you about a security problem. Back at the beginning, I was kinda worried that he might misunderstand, and think I was trying to hack him or something, and that I’d be instantly slam dunked into jail. But nope, he was fine with it. And now you, a sweet and honourable blog post browser, get to learn the dangers of posting your boarding pass by the realest of real-world examples.

During the call, I was completely in shock from the lost in the bush thing killing me instantly, and so on. But afterwards, when I looked at the quotes, I realised he just wanted to understand what had happened to him, and more about how technology works. That’s the same kind of curiosity I had, that started this whole surrealist three-act drama. That… wasn’t really what I was expecting from Tony Abbott, but it’s what I found.

The point of this story isn’t to say “wow Tony Abbott got hacked, what a dummy”. The point is that if someone famous can unknowingly post their boarding pass, anyone can.

Anyway that’s why I vote right wing now baybeeeee.

☑️ figure out whether i have done a crime

☑️ notify someone (The Government) that this happened

☑️ get permission to publish this here blog post

☑️ tell qantas about the security issue so they can fix it

Act 3: Closing credits

Wait no what the heck did I just read

Yeah look, reasonable.

tl; dr

Your boarding pass for a flight can sometimes be used to get your passport number. Don’t post your boarding pass or baggage receipt online, keep it as secret as your passport.

How it works

The Booking Reference on the boarding pass can be used to log in to the airline’s “Manage Booking” page, which sometimes contains the passport number, depending on the airline. I saw that Tony Abbott had posted a photo of his boarding pass on Instagram, and used it to get his passport details, phone number, and internal messages between Qantas flight staff about his flight booking.

Why did you do this?

One day, my friend who was also in “the group chat” said “I was thinking…. why didn’t I hack Tony Abbott? And I realised I guess it’s because you have more hubris”.

I was deeply complimented by this, but that’s not the point. The point is that you, too, can have hubris.

You know how they say to commit a crime (which once again I insist did not happen in my case) you need means, motive, and opportunity? Means is the ability to use right click > Inspect Element, motive is hubris, and opportunity is the dumb luck of having my friend message me the Instagram post.

I know, I’ve been saying “hubris” a lot. I mean “the willingness to risk breaking the rules”. Now hold up, don’t go outside and do crimes (unless it’s really funny). I’m not talking about breaking the law, I’m talking about rules we just follow without realising, like social rules and conventions.

Here’s a simple example. You’re at a sufficiently fancy restaurant, like I dunno, with white tablecloths or something? The waiter asks if you’d like “still or sparkling water?”

If you say “still”, it costs Eleven Dollars. If you say “sparkling”, it costs Eleven Dollars and tastes all gross and fizzy. But if you say “tap water, please”, you just get tap water, what you wanted in the first place?

When I first saw someone do this I was like “you can do that? I just thought you had to pay Eleven Dollars extra at fancy restaurants!”.

It’s not written down anywhere that you can ask for tap water. But when I found out you could do that, and like, nothing bad happens, I could suddenly do it too. Miss me with that Eleven Dollars fizzy water.

Basically, until you’ve broken the rules, the idea that the rules can be broken might just not occur to you. That’s how it felt for me, at least.

In conclusion, to be a hacker u ask for tap water.

FAQ

Why is it bad for someone else to have your passport number?

Hey crime gang, welcome back to Identity Fraud tips and tricks with Alex.

A passport is government-issued ID. It’s how you prove you’re you. The fact that you have your passport and I don’t is how you prevent me from convincing the government that I’m you and doing crimes in your name.

Just having the information on the passport is not quite as powerful as a photo of the full physical passport, with your photo and everything.

With your passport number, someone could:

Book an international flight as you.

Apply for anything that requires proof of identity documentation with the government, e.g. Working with children check

Activate a SIM card (and so get an internet connection that’s traceable to you, not them, hiding them from the government)

Create a fake physical passport from a template, with the correct passport number (which they then use to cross a border, open a bank account, or anything)

who knows what else, not me, bc i have never done a crime

Am I a big bozo, a big honking goose, if I post my boarding pass on Instagram?

Nah, it’s an easy mistake to make. How are you supposed to know not to? It’s not obvious that your boarding pass is secret, like a password. I think it’s on the airline to inform you on the risks you’re taking when you use their stuff.

But now that you’ve read this blog post, I regret to inform you that you will in fact be an entire sack of geese if you go and post your boarding pass now.

When did all of this happen?

March 22 - @hontonyabbott posts a picture of a boarding pass and baggage receipt. I log in to the website and get the passport number, phone number, and internal Qantas comments.

March 24 - I contact the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) and let them know what happened.

March 27 - ASD tells me their investigation is complete, I send them a shakas gif, and they thank me for being a good citizen.

March 29 - I learn from lawyers that I have not done a crime 💯

March 30 - I contact Qantas and tell them about the vulnerability.

May 1 - Tony Abbott calls me, we chat about being dropped in the middle of the bush.

July 17 - Paper Mario: The Origami King is released for Nintendo Switch.

August 21 - Qantas emails me saying the security problem has been fixed.

September 13 - Various friends finish reviewing this post <3

September 15 - Tony Abbott and Qantas review this post.

Today - You read this post instead of letting it read you, nice job you.

I’m bored and tired

Let me answer that question,,, with a question.

Maybe try drinking some water you big goose. Honk honk, I’m so dehydrated lol. That’s you.

honk honk honk honl

Yeah, exactly.

I wrote this because I can’t go back to the Catholic church ever since they excommunicated me in 1633 for insisting the Earth revolves around the sun.

You can talk to me about it by sliding into my DMs in the tweet zone or, if you must, email.

[theabominableblogger]

Rewatching “Revenge of the Sith”

Ohhhh yeahhh, I’m going there.

My apologies in advance because this post is so long...

*silently boogies out to 20th Century Fox jingle and ends up throwing popcorn everywhere*

*mouths along to opening theme*

WAR!

“Evil is everywhere.”  Dude, this is Star Wars we’re talking about...

Just a heads up, I am so freaking glad that we have The Clone Wars because honestly, it has a lot more flowing character development when it comes from jumping from “Attack of the Clones” to this movie, especially Anakin.

Lens flare!

Holy snot how many Republic ships are there?!?  Did the Separatists come with every single ship imaginable?  Is that why?

Aaaaand that’s a dead body.

The hell are those things?

“Nothing too fancy.”  Says the man [Obi-Wan] who dramatically drops his robes whenever possible.

*imitates the buzz droids*

“IN THE NAME OF-”  Finish the sentence, Obi-Wan!

R2′s taser thingy looks like the Twelfth Doctor’s sonic screwdriver.

What if they didn’t notice the shield in time?

Boom!  End of saga.  Cue end credits music.

Ohhhh this asshole.

WHAAAATTT’SS THE SITUATION, CAPTAINNNN???

*imitates the droids saying “Roger roger”*

How come Anakin and Obi-Wan aren’t getting jostled around when the elevator car first stops?

*quotes the entire “No loose wire jokes” conversation in the elevator*

Is that the same freaking chair that’s gonna pop up in “Return of the Jedi?”

Anakin and Obi-Wan fight Dooku but every time their lightsabers clash, it’s Obi-Wan going “Hello there”

Did Dooku just backwards kick Anakin away?  Oh my God...

DEW IT

 *Anakin kills Count Dooku*  Well done, prequels.  You done didn’t use your Christopher Lee effectively enough.

ALL BATTERIES FIRE, FIRE!

Wilhelm Scream!

*imitates droid saying “Reversing stabilizers...”*

Holy crap, you can actually see Grievous’s face kind of twitching with anger when he commands the droids to level out the ship.  Dang.

Freaking Obi-Wan’s little yell of horror when he wakes up...

*ugly cackles*

*quotes the entire ray shields scene*

I cannot freaking believe that the TV show took the time to make freaking sure that Anakin never met Grievous until this movie.

Actually, yes I can.  They have a goddamn script continuity department.

How come one of them didn’t take one of the electrostaffs?

The Separatist flagship just tore in half when it entered the atmosphere and yet I remain completely unfazed.

“8 plus 16...”  Pfftt, what the heck does that mean?

Guys, I think I found the origin for the Dramatic Hair Flop of Angst in TCW

Pretty sure that’s the Millenium Falcon at the bottom hangar

“Oh, I’m not brave enough for politics.”  *cough cough*

Obi-Wan gets a whole freaking bus to himself.  Chaos will ensue.

How has no one noticed Padme just hanging out next to one of the pillars?

“There were whispers... that you [Anakin] had been killed...”  Really?

Anakin’s reaction to Padme telling him that she’s pregnant is actually really good.

Wasn’t there like a deleted interaction where Anakin first accused Padme of sleeping with someone else while he was gone but then they decided that was not that great of an idea?

The music that plays when Grievous exits the shuttle is pretty sweet

*imitates Grievous saying “Yes, Lord Sidious?”*

*claps with each word*  This is not how you write romance, [George] Lucas!

Oh I didn’t realize that you could actually hear Anakin’s robotic arm move when he puts his face in his hands

“How long is it gonna take before we start being honest with each other?”  You [Padme] should have asked that before you two got hitched in the first place.

Ladies and gentlemen, the absolute worst therapy lesson in the history of Star Wars:  Yoda telling Anakin to basically get over himself and accept the sudden, incoming death of the people he loves.

“What must I do, Master Yoda?”  MOTHEREFFING IGNORE HIM!

“Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.”  NOOO, OH MY GOD...

There’s actually a whole video by Pop Culture Detective that went into detail how terrible the Jedi Council were when it came to giving Anakin emotional support.

“Be careful of your friend Palpatine.”  And your pal, Friend-patine.

I just noticed that there are less chairs in the Jedi Council room

“The Council doesn’t like it when he [Palpatine] interferes with Jedi affairs.”  Then why the heck don’t they confront Palpatine about it?

Holy crap, I just realized that this movie came out 13 years ago.

“Hold me, like you did by the lake on Naboo...” Was that really “holding” though?

Anakin’s delivery of “At last!” sounds like Darth Maul when he said “At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi” in the first movie.

This entire opera scene should be a dead give away to Anakin learning about Palpatine being the Sith Lord.  The minute Palpatine even said the word “Sith” should have raised a few red flags...

This entire Darth Plaguesis explanation is so good and ominous.  Just the minute Palpatine finishes the story and tells Anakin that there are other ways to gain that sort of power, you can just gradually feel the dread setting in for the rest of the movie.  You just know something bad is gonna happen (besides Anakin becoming Darth Vader)...

Look at the way Obi-Wan’s sitting in his chair!

Oh my God... the Wookies just did a Tarzan yell...

Headcanon:  he’s [Anakin] checking for updates about the Siege of Mandalore

OK, everyone craps on the Utapau storyline with the fight scene between Obi-Wan and Grievous but I actually think this is one of the best parts in the movie.

I love the design for the Pau’ans

GUYSSS I LOVE BOGA SO MUCH YOU HAVE NO IDEA!!!

Someone get me a plush animal of her on my desk pronto!

HELLO THERE!

GENERAL KENOBIII... YOU ARE A BOLD ONE...

That pose though!

That spinning helicopter move Grievous does while stalking toward Obi-Wan was always really cool to me.  A little extra, but still cool.

ARMY OR NOT... YOU MUST REALIZE... YOU ARE DOOMED!

Oh I don’t think so!

*imitates Obi-Wan using the Force to throw Grievous*

Wait, so how many times has Cody had to hold onto Obi-Wan’s lightsaber when Obi-Wan freaking drops it?

Death Star plans?

Big question:  so how old is Anakin here?  He’s 19/20 in “Attack of the Clones” and there’s at least a one or two year time jump in S3 of TCW.

Yo, that means he was like late 30s/early 40s when he died in “Return of the Jedi.”  Well shoot, man...

Yeah, Obi-Wan, let’s freaking kick the crazy homicidal cyborg.  Great idea.

Is Grievous just covered in gasoline or something because he just went up in flames *snaps* just like that.

Ohhhh this scene with Anakin and Padme looking at the windows of their respective places is really good...

Look at freaking Anakin here! 

George Lucas deserves any and all sins for the bad dialogue for Anakin because Hayden Christensen can really act when he’s not given any dialogue and he’s just told to react. 

So, with that, henceforth, there shall be no dissing Hayden Christensen on my blog.

I AM THE SENATE!

Dramatic window break!

Palpatine’s lightsaber just freaking deactivated as soon as Windu kicked it out the window

Wowwww... the prosthetics on Palpatine look.. bad....

UNLIMITED.... POOWEEERRRRR!!!

I just realized that Anakin kind of walks over to Palpatine on his knees before he pledges himself to Palpatine

Why Darth “Vader” though?  Is there any special reasoning for that?

AN:  Holy crap, there’s an hour left and Anakin has just turned to the Dark Side...

Pfftttt....

THESE SHOTS THOUGH

Man, I need to download more tracks from this soundtrack...

You can tell that that’s green screen behind Cody

*in best Palpatine impression*  Execute Order 66!

Nooooooooooooo, Boga!

Aaaaand everyone dies and it sucks now!

Ughh, Aayla Secura...

NOOOOOOOOOO PLO KOONN!

What planet is that?

Here’s my question:  in Rebels, how the heck did Thrawn get Gree’s helmet?  Was there an imperial campaign out on Kashyyyk and he found it somewhere?

That small matte painting shot of the Jedi Temple burning is actually really pretty now that I see it again

Yooooo can we talk about this padawan though?

Kashyyyk has twin moons...

So what happens to Chewie after this and before the Han Solo movie?

Heeeyyyyyyy I know that kind of ship!

“Have faith, my love [Padme]...”  Uhhhh... Padme should have picked up on how... off that line was

How has NO ONE in the Senate (besides Organa and probably Mon Mothma) picked up on Padme’s pregnancy?

*imitates Palpatine*  Mustafaaarrrrr....

“Could be a trap.”  It’s Star Wars.  There’s always a trap.

What’s that planet right next to Mustafar?

Random xylophone scales!

Yoda is taking no prisoners!

Where are the lightsaber/balster holes in the younglings?  Yoda said that they were probably killed by lightsaber so where are the marks on their bodies?

Yellow eyes...

“So this is how liberty dies:  with thunderous applause.”  Best.  line.  Ever.  Someone send flowers and chocolates to Natalie Portman.

“I've recalibrated the code, warning all surviving Jedi to stay away.”  Aaaagghh and we see it in Rebels and in the Last Padawan comic!

Don’t mind me casually dying

I just noticed that gradually throughout this movie, you can see Obi-Wan get grey hairs in his sideburns

*Obi-Wan sneaks onto Padme’s ship to Mustafar*  Where did he come from?!?

“You [Darth Vader] have restored peace and balance to the galaxy.”  *in best Anakin voice*  OK... now what?

“And together, you [Padme] and I [Anakin] can rule the galaxy! We can make things the way we want them to be!”  Wow, “The Last Jedi” is just smackin’ me in the face right now

Anakin... you’re breaking my heart!

That is just extremely bad timing on Obi-Wan’s part

YOU HAVE DONE THAT YOURSELF!

Your new Empire?!?

DEMOCRACY!

“Only a Sith deals in absolutes.”  A what?

That’s a pretty nasty lisp you have there.  Might wanna do something about that.

You know how this Yoda vs. Palpatine fight could be more amazing?  Just add helium

Honestly, for the BIG DEAL fight between Anakin and Obi-Wan, it just goes on for a little bit too long.

Plus when it’s intercut with the Yoda vs. Palpatine, the latter is way more entertaining (hello, two most powerful peope going head to head with actual Force lightning being involved?)

Are they [Anakin and Obi-Wan] just kicking each other with the Force now?  Wow...

NOT EVEN HITTING EACH OTHER!

Seriously, they’re just banging their lightsabers together and calling that a fight.  C’mon... actually try to hit the opponent!

Duel of the Fates!

*Palpatine throws the Senate chairs at Yoda with the Force* So I threw the Senate at him!

Honestly, you could cut out this whole balance thing on the sinking balcony and mining buildings/walkways

Commander Fox?

ExPLOsions...

Noooo... cut this out...

“Into exile, I [Yoda] must go.  Failed, I have.”  And yet people complain about Luke doing the exact same thing in the sequel trilogy

You’re not even trying to hit each other!

FROM MY POINT OF VIEW, THE JEDI ARE EVIL!

IT’S OVER, ANAKIN!  I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND!

YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!

“You were my brother, Anakin.  I loved you.”  Uuuggghhhh....

I actually read somewhere that Ewan McGregor actually asked George Lucas to change the line to past tense instead of the original present tense.  Which is sad, so thanks Ewan.

Can’t you just put out the fire with the Force?

How did 3PO and R2 get an unconscious Padme on board?

Where is this?

*Palpatine’s shuttle lands in Coruscant*  It was a dark and stormy night...

Y’know, at this point, me comparing Anakin being repaired and transformed into Darth Vader and the creation of Frakenstein’s monster is almost inevitable at this point...

Stupid question, but what’s the significance of the names “Luke” and “Leia” concerning the themes present in the movies?  Or is that up to people like me who enjoy the meta to find that out?

He [Darth Vader] just killed that medical droid next to him...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Do not want....

“...[Qui Gon] learned the path to immortality...” In the TV show!

I like how the last line in this freaking movie is “Oh no!” and it’s from 3PO...

Triceratops rams!

The design for Padme’s funeral garb is actually Iain McCaig’s favorite concept art

How did they develop TIE fighters so quickly?

Oh my God, the dude they got to play Tarkin... oh God...

Definitely not Peter Cushing

*gasp*  Leia’s theme!

Random eopie noise!

Oh my God, “Binary Suns”...

Obi-Wan’s like “Great, now I gotta help a pair of random, separate Force-sensitive teenagers and their astromechs in the near future...”

Wait, they put Ewan McGregor in top billing?

“With Samuel L. Jackson as Mace Windu”  Thamuel El Jackthson!

Holy crap, I forgot Joel Edgerton plays young Uncle Owen

[peachingboy]

Boku No Hero Academia Light Novel No.2 Translatations.

Chapter 1: Commence the Study Groups! Part 4.

(そろそろの勉強会) 

 [Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3] 

“Uwaaaa, I think things should have calmed down now right? dude you need to calm your ego.”

The Kirishima and Bakugou who had just ran away from the library are now taking refuge in a family restaurant located in front of the nearing train station. It’s currently the afternoon on their day off, which is peak hour, it was filled with the liveliness of loads of customers.

You could hear random conversations here and there, then a voice suddenly spoke to them.

“Sir, have you decided on your order?”

“Drink bar for two please!”

The waitress notes down Kirishima’s eager response and left.

“Fancy place right?” The usual positive Kirishima says to Bakugou who’s sunk into his chair right about now.

“Hey! trust me this time! have some patience and teach me again!”

“How about you bettering this patience by getting some drinks you shit.”

“Please help yourself to the drinks bar located on the other side.” A passing waitress mentions with a seemingly fake business smile.

Kirishima gets up without hesitation “I’ll go bring some back, what do you want?”

“Coke.”

“Alrightttt, got it!”

After Kirishima left for the bar, a couple of figures who were on their way to the same bar stopped by at Bakugou’s table.

“…..oh? Isn’t it Katsuki?!”

“hah?”

After picking up drinks and returning, Kirishima notices that his table has increased by two more.

A guy with frizzy black hair, and a guy with long, centre parted hair seemed like they were having a really intimate conversation with Bakugou.

“Damn, to think we’d meet in a place like this!”

“shut it, be quiet.”

“Whats up Bakugou? You know them? Kirishima interrupted, the guy with the centre part notices, “Ah! A yuuei guy!”

“We’re actually friends from middle school, ah maybe we should probably return back to our table-”

“Whatttttt?! noooo! It’s totally cool man” Kirishima answers back briskly.

You can see the reluctance in the two guy’s face as they were about to get up, but Kirishima’s smiling face got the better of them.

“ahh, take a seat!”

“eh?… is it alright?”

“Yeahhh of course dude, you guys must have alot you wanna talk about right?”

“Oi, don’t we have other things to do?….. like studying!”

“It’s not a big deal if it’s just for a bit right? friends are important after all!”

“Wow, I didn’t think someone like you would be Katsuki’s friend, you’re a great person.”

The frizzy hair guy’s eye were dazzling at this point, he was in awe with Kirishima’s overflowing manly aura and his smiling face.

Bakugou and Kirishima were about to open their mouths at the same time.

“What do you mean by that? you piece of shit!”

“Ah, sorry about Bakugou’s potty mouth and attiude… But I’m just a straightforward hot-boiled man!”

Bakugou pulls a screw face at Kirishima, “Doesn’t saying stuff like that make you sick? you shitty hair for brains!”

“hmmm, still the same potty mouth as usual, wow that should get some praised.”

The centre part guy seemed like he was reminiscing, Kirishima was bursting with questions he wanted to ask.

“Listen…. during middle school, what kind of guy was Bakugou?”

“self-centred.”

“Kinda like… thought the world revolved around him.”

“…. You bastards! you wanna get hit or something?!”

At this point Bakugou was getting annoyed as he rounded his hand into a fist.

“Wow, this future hero seems like he’s going to be a hectic violent one!”

“You better shut it you side character!”

The frizzy guy with the hair that was sitting besides Bakugou was about to get up, but Bakugou beat him to it, his empty cup clasped in one hand he left for the bar, this time he was bringing back his own drink.

They watched Bakugou trail off into the distant on his own, muttering something under his breath.

“probably…” The centre part guy agreed and carried on.

“To be honest, if we were back in middle school, he probably would have beaten the crap out of us right now and to think hes tutoring people? impossible!”

“I guess that’s yuuei for you, by the way how is yuuei’s Katsuki?”

Kirishima paused to think a bit before answering.

“Because hes got my back, being together is cool. He’s also strong and I think everyone acknowledges that.”

As Kirishima was talking, he was having flashbacks to the school entrance test, that was the first time he met by one of the drones (t/n those robots they had to get rid off during their exam), he was just the typical angry Bakugou.

“Now, he’s probably even more bitter! He only opens his mouth to threaten people, especially the enemy before his eyes, Midoriya.”

“Oh yeahhh, wasn’t Midoriya in the same class as him back in middle school?” Kirishima asked, both the frizzy hair and centre part guy both drew up guilty expressions.

“umm…” they gritted their teeth,

But Kirishima carried on to tell them about Midoriya at the school entrance test, even though he had an amazing quirk, he couldn’t control it and always ended up getting hurt, he was half strength and half a serious personality too but it’s amazing how much he believed in himself.

“You know, Katsuki didn’t think Midoriya would end up going to yuuei too.”

“Hey….” The frizzy hair guy tried to hide his bitter smile as he scratched the back of his head.

“To be honest, we used to make fun of Midoriya, we thought he was quirkless.”

“Yet, he now has this amazing power.”

“Watching him at the sports festival and seeing him place first in the preliminary race, it really gave me goosebumps! I genuinely thought he was amazing.”

“Hey…” 

You can tell by the tone of their voice the emotions and regret they must have been harbouring,

It was noticeable in their face also, the bitterness of their regret.

Kirishima hated cowards who bullied others, thus did not understand the feelings they felt. However, even though he didn’t understand it is natural for people to end up feeling regret and wanting to mend their ways, he can’t blame them for feeling like this.

The person involved can definitely forgive them, and that person definitely will.

“If you tell Midoriya that he’d definitely be really happy! Actually he’d probably even blush!”

The Midoriya who strives to be a hero just like All Might, with a smiling face, he’d definitely forgive them. Well, forgiving is just a small deed to Midoriya, he lives and breaths for the sake of saving those who are suffering.

“Ah, I see…”

“He’s…. a good guy.”

Frizzy hair and centre part guy lets out a small sigh of relief as if a heavy burden has  been lifted from their heart, even if it was just by a bit.

“We couldn’t say this before in front of Katsuki, but the tournament was lit! (t/n: he literally says blazing so I just had to take the chance lol), the battle with the ice guy!”

“That Midoriya definitely put up a good fight though! He must have been felt really cold too!”

“I know right! But Midoriya definitely returned the favour tons!”

“Such a pity, Midoriya! If he were to be the winner, he would have went on to fight Katsuki right?!”

Suddenly…

“………….what did you say about Deku?”

Kirishima and the guys were taken back by the sudden appearance of Bakugou, coke in one hand and a scarily evil twitch on his angry face, you can feel the violence in him growing.

“Deku must have been cold huh? If you’re gonna keep talking nonsense, KEEP TALKING NONSENSE! You guys got shitty eyes or something??? You want me to blow up your asses with a nice, pretty explosion huh?!”

“Bakugou!! calm down man!!!”

“Shut itttttt you shitty side character!!”

“Mentioning Midoriya really does set him off.”

“Don’t say his name!!”

“Katsuki!! Stop it!!”

Both frizzy hair and centre part tries to restrain Bakugou whilst Kirishima tries to keep him down on the table, the rustling and bustling knocked a glass that was sat on their table over, breaking as it hit the tiled flooring.

The other customers started to notice the ruckus and most prominently the ever so angry and screeching Bakugou.

“That kid… I’ve seen him somewhere.

“Ah! yuuei!”

“Pedoro incident right?”

“Look! It’s the kid that got bounded up at the sports festival.”

“Ah, it’s him!”

Bakugou begins to notice the chatters and the whispering behind his back, this made him even more angry.

“SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU SHITTY MINOR CUSTOMERS! WHY DON’T YOU DO ME A FAVOUR AND EAT YOUR SHITTY FOOD IN SILENCE!!”

“Sir!”

A shop assistant suddenly appears over Bakugou’s shoulder, wearing a nameplate which says manger on it.

 “You’re being a bother to the other customers, please can you quieten down.”

Surprisingly Bakugou calms down and the planet was able to live another day in peace.

“shut it ok, I’m also a customer here!”

“You causing trouble for other customers does not make you a customer here, and also! This restaurant does not serve “shitty” food!”

And like that, Bakugou and the guys were chased out of the restaurant.

“It’s because you bastards were talking about Deku!!!! Aghhhhhh, everythinng is Deku’s fault!!!” 

“Calm down Bakugou!”

“Uh.. anyways, we’re heading off…. see you guys another time yeah!”

The two friends hurried off, they were definitely not going to hit them up again any time soon, Kirishima thought.

However, ever since the school entrance test Bakugou has definitely gotten better, Midoriya and his confidence too, this was something Kirishima has noticed but they could do with fixing Bakugou’s short fuse, however that is something Kirishima assumed would improve in the time to come.

But for now, the textbook and the pencil case in his bag is what will be needed to improve himself in time that is soon to come!

t/n: I found this part really sweet, knowing that deku’s middle school bullies were showing remorse and confiding in our embodiment of an angel, kirishima. :) and ofc always some of that vintage baku .

[hoe-imaginess]

replies

lots and lots of them! replies to my recent post about adding new fandoms as well

but thanks to everyone who’s been leaving me kind messages I feel like I always get so dramatic about these things thank you for putting up w me and being so nice and patient <3 imagines will be out after this!

omg dude!!! this makes me so happy ahH!!!!!!! Tbh if it’s worth saying, I can see basically all of the founders leading an ace relationship. Tobirama would rely mostly on an emotional connection, as well as Madara I believe. And Hashi is definitely a man who could enjoy sex, but at the same time, he can live without it just as easily. Cuddles really are all he needs 100%. There are numerous characters in Naruto that I can headcanon as asexual, even sex adverse aces! But ofc lots of imagines involve nsfw so sorry if you don’t see enough of that around ))): I’m really happy it comforted you though <3

yes I do! It’s in the fandoms list in my bio. I don’t have much for AoT at the moment, but I’d love to get more. Here’s the AoT masterpost!

Ahhhh I know. It’s just the blog and all my followers mean a lot to me so I want to make sure you guys are always satisfied! But I do know I probably need to chill out a bit, thanks fam

Yeahhh I hate to admit it but my mental health issues still play a big factor in it ): I’m still not any better on that front BUT the blog is usually what helps me feel better, which is why it’s so important to me! thank you for this message though you’re so kind you’re gonna make me cry omg )):

@sweetheart-syndrome AYYYY I’m glad to fit your slut needs. thanks fam (((:

LMAOOO FAM IT’S OK I’ll check it out!

for now @imagineityaknow is the URL in case anyone wants to check it out!!!

I’ve seen Noragami! Only the first season though. Maybe i’ll continue it then add it! And I used to have a friend who loved Blue Exorcist and she really liked it, so that’s another possibility! It’s nice and short too, so that’s a plus, thank ya

Death Note is one of, if not my FAV anime. I just never thought to add it to the list because I’ve honestly never seen an imagines blog for it... but I’ll add it! I think it would be fun to write about. I used to watch DBZ with my uncle a lot but never got through the whole thing, it really is super long with all the sagas ahhhh but thank you!

I love sports anime (tbh I say that but I’ve only really watched KNB and it’s my fav) but I tried the first season of Haikyuu and idk :/ just didn’t catch my attention at first. I’m sure I just need to give it a second chance tbh. thanks fam!

Ooooooo okay. Samurai Champloo is one I’ve always been eyeing so even if I don’t add it to the list, I still wanna watch it! And yes 18+ is important I forgot how many anime don’t have that lmao. thanks!!!

AHHHH you are so kind omg please when I first read this I waned to cry. This is what I really go for in the blog so thank you SO MUCH

thank you friend <3 I appreciate it!

I have not! But I know it’s super popular. I have to admit the thirst for character is pretty ideal in an imagines blog BUT that’s ok. I’ll still add it to my list!

Hmmmmm Ace Attorney seems really obscure or maybe that’s just because I’m not in the fandom.... but again it’s probably worth watching! Even if I don’t add it to the list. thank you!

Tbh at the top of my head I actually don’t know of any :/ my fam @imaginastys has some hxh imagines for a few characters! go check them out!

Otherwise I don’t know any active ones ))): sorry 

My first anime was Death Note! i saw a gif from the live action version on tumblr one day and I was confused as hell. It was that scene where Ryuuk was following Light around in a store and it just creeped me tf out I didn’t know what it was

Then a few months later I legit tweeted something like “What’s that show where the goth monster follows the kid around” and everyone told me death note so I watched it lmao. I also had a boyfriend at the time who liked anime so he told me I should watch it, along with Attack on Titan, which was my second anime!

@gabb-yeet 11/10 I agree

I don’t think I have a Naruto character I don’t like. Like, I’ve never been heavy on character hate for anyone. There are just some that I don’t like writing about, only because I really can’t get their character down and don’t want to disappoint people :/

that’s ULQUIORRA THE BF!!!!! don’t be a hater @supah-novah-betch

AND OH MY I CAN SEE IT. MODERN AU CAR HEADCANONS??? NEW FAV THING????

my child I love you too

[vivian1419]

(2.21.17) I hate being put on the spot light about my feelings...

I had a second chance to tell HIM about my feelings for him and I blew it again. I’m such a dork.

So today i got off early from work and I decided to drop by his house. He said okay but he needed to juice i agree to buying it like a dummy while i put gas in my car. When i get there he was on the phone with his baby mama on speaker. They are now starting to put their daughter in daycare. Like 2 mins later he gets off the phone with her then calls his mom. He discuss he’s baby mama drama with his mom, also on speaker for me to hear everything. He’s mom pretty much tells him same thing Im trying to tell him then she gets off the phone. We start talking about life and what not. From the movie i watched earlier this morning (Would you rather) to him throw a mini party last week in his apt to me traveling in July. He puts on call of duty, plays one match then tossed the controller to me and hops into the shower with the door open while I’m in the living room. Its a small space we were able to still have a conversation but we had to yell a lil bit. At one point there was a silence he then asked “Why do you fuck with me Viv? Do you like me?” in a sincere tone. I was so taken back from the moment i couldn’t give a straight answer even tho i had 50 thousand things i wanted to say. Even from the shower he realizes he has stuck a nevre cause i couldnt even answer the question fumbling thru my words so he follows up “is its cause im cool peoples?” In a nervous tone I’m just like “yeahhh” UGHHH! strike two for me. Till now i still think about that question and how i should have answered. “ Yes i do like you and i actually do care about you unlike these othere girls you fuck with. We have our ups and downs but I always keep it 100 with you. We vibe like no other and you always make me laugh. You tell me things you dont usually tell to people. I’m always happy when i get to see you even tho it dont seem like it cause i hate showing my emotions. I used to be so vulnerable but now after all the hurt I’ve been thru I’ve put a wall. I’m afraid if i actually tell you how i really really feel you’d probably laugh at me/ignore me. I don’t even know why you fuck with me cause I’m nothing like these other short / petite / pretty girls you fuck with. I dont want to lose you as friend. (The good dick is just a bonus) 😝

But instead of saying all this i froze like wtf is wrong with me. I swear if i get another chance I’m going in!!! Who am i kidding? I’ll probably chicken out. I swear i need to be strong. Guys don’t have time for all these games. And i might miss out on an opportunity if i keep stalling. Fuckkkk.