#cw: rivalry

[nthee]

love triangles [1]

summary: what happens when two people fall for you at the same time? rivalry, that's what. even the closest of friendships and relationships aren't safe from it.

characters: floyd and jade, riddle and ace

general notes: no gender mentioned (refers to mc as "you" and "prefect"), rivalry, jealousy, a bit of self-deprication in the first part of this post (one sentence only)

author's note: very much inspired by @/kaiijo but i wanted to see some of my own pairings here so i can also get rid of writer's block. i could only do two pairs for now but i have plans on doing the other characters aswell! (please like and reblog, i appreciate it so much <333)

floyd leech vs jade leech

“Page 172, I believe.” Jade quickly scans on his own textbook, nodding when he confirmed it.

You grimaced, sighing as you looked back at your own textbook. “Sorry, Jade. I'm probably weighing you down with this help you're offering.”

“It's no problem, Prefect. I insisted, afterall.”

“Does this come with a price?” you questioned with a laugh, tapping the end of your pencil to your chin rhythmically.

He shook his head. “No. Not this time. My service comes for free.”

Jade scoots over to you afterward with his book in hand. He tucks the dark, stray hair he has behind his ear. “Now, let's start ov—”

“Ah~? Shrimpy! Oh, and Jade!”

Well, twins always find their ways back together... even if the other grimaces at the idea, especially during moments like these.

Floyd makes himself at home beside you, slamming his textbook in a haphazardly manner. “Watcha doin’?” he leans over to check out you and Jade's textbooks.

Jade cleared his throat, doing the same. At that moment, you could only yell in your head about personal space, as the twins pressed harder against your sides. “Well, Floyd, I believe we're... busy, at the moment.”

“Aw, that's no fun, Jade,” he replied, though by now you noticed the... dangerous gleam in their eyes as they spoke to each other, along with the venom in their tones and voices. “Professor Beakfish told me to find some people I can study with. That's fine with you if I join in on this study session, right~?”

It's crazy to believe; Floyd and Jade are almost polar opposites when it comes to personality. But the way Jade sneered and didn't hide his feelings on the matter? It made sense that they're not as different as everyone thought.

Though, that face seemed to mist away as it was replaced with a smile instead. “Of course, Floyd.”

“Ah, you're so kind Jade!” Floyd clapped his hands together, earning some glances from the other students in the library. “I'll be working with Shrimpy and my twin~” he recited in a sing-song manner.

Gulping, you realized just how much hazard this group session was doomed to have.

riddle rosehearts vs ace trappola

You don't have the most keen instincts of course, but you would still notice little things here and there.

And what you've noticed is the Housewarden of Heartslabyul trying to win you over, and his freshman member actively doing the same but failing; Miserably.

Riddle would be a lot moodier when around Ace, that much anyone would know (and everyone pressumed it was normal because well, it's Ace). But only a few would know why.

“Woah! You actually baked one?” you exclaimed, carefully holding the plate of strawberry tart in your palms. You rotated it around, inspecting every little detail.

“Yes, I followed the recipe exactly as Trey gave it.” Riddle sighs a bit. “It was a challenge, but I can reassure you this tart won't taste like the tart I made back then.”

You shiver slightly at the thought of his oyster sauce-tart mishap. “Well, thank you for the tart, and for err... following the recipe, Riddle,” you lift the fork up from the side of the plate, glancing over at him. “Come on, let's eat it together.”

“There's no need, Prefect!”

Another voice was heard, and you see Riddle take a deep breath with a menacing look on his face.

Ace walks over with a plate of, you guessed it, tarts. “Hey, isn't this a coincidence... I made tart too so you don't have to share!”

He urges the plate towards his Housewarden, who glares at him. Still, Ace remains smiling, quietly insisting on taking the plate.

Riddle lets out a sigh in defeat, taking the plate. “You didn't have to, Ace.” he says with gritted teeth.

“Oh, but it's no biggie, housewarden.”

You blink several times, gaze switching back and forth between the two.

“Go ahead, you two eat!” Ace looks over at you and silently waves, walking away afterwards.

“Troublesome, he is,” Riddle commented, already a fork in his hand as he brought the tart to his mouth to taste.

Was it spicy or was he getting red from anger? You couldn't have known as Riddle tried to swallow the bite of tart down. I guess that was respectful, but honestly, you'd rather him spit it out instead of him dealing with it; it looked like it was a terrible tasting tart with that reaction.

“THAT MEDDLER!”

You already knew: Ace deliberately made the tart ugly tasting. He could be laughing to himself by now, hiding.

You sighed, now left alone as the red-haired boy stomped away, yelling at his students to find Ace.

Oh well. You eat the tart Riddle made you. “Riddle! Excellent tart by the way!”

He glances towards you for a moment, face softening and cheeks flushed. “I'm... glad.”

And there he goes back into his search for Ace.

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[shkika]

This has probably already been asked, but you said that W1 goes through the events of the game in V1s place. So what happens when it meets Gabriel? Would it avoid him, attack the same as in game, or do something different? Love the AU; some of the best quality work in here!

A gentle reminder.

I think W1 is capable of more spite than V1 alone!

[jestersuper]

everything is under control, hurray for the captain!!

[beetlerings]

It’s suck his soul out Saturday !

+ alts

[s-aint-elmo]

*twirling my hair* do you have some good yuri manga recs?

(lying on my stomach and kicking my feet) i'm SO glad you asked!

to preface this i'll be excluding better-known yuri or yuri that's recently gotten its flowers (whether thru virality or adaptations) (e.g. in love with the villainess, love bullet, bloom into you, etc. etc.) and will instead be recc'ing works i don't often encounter in the wild. some will be more well-known than others, but all of these i've enjoyed and would encourage others to check out! under the cut because. this got. so long. i heart yuri <3

multi-chapter

the princess of sylph (ongoing; self-publishing): plot-heavy fantasy yuri between a bereaved princess with the aura of a thousand sad hamsters and a persistent nun whose silliness conceals a deep well of trauma. gushed about it plenty here. i recommend starting with the serialized version, the proceeding to the twitter version + extras. cw: blood, violence, dismemberment (nothing too graphic, more standard monster-fighting fare).

i love amy (completed): school loner strikes an unlikely friendship with the girl known (and feared) for her violent tendencies and single-minded obsession with the school prince. cute but striking and skilled art with a surprisingly nuanced handling of trauma and neurodivergence. cw: attempted child murder, animal death (non-graphic). there are also depictions of standard yandere fare (kidnapping, torture basements) but they're always presented comedically.

i see you, aizawa-san! (ongoing): girl who steadfastly pretends not to see ghosts meets one she just can't seem to ignore: a deceased classmate and former j-pop idol, who has taken to haunting their classroom. ft. art that harkens back to classic shoujo and a supernatural mystery centred on the relationship between the two leads--that one of them can't seem to remember. cw: blood, body horror.

school zone girls (on hiatus): slice of life yuri comedy ft. a massive interconnected web of girls spanning at least three schools. it juggles gut-busting comedy with genuine heartfelt moments of character growth and connection and expresses it all through a solid, dynamic art style. the sprawling cast also makes for incredible outsider pov moments that lets us really appreciate how far some characters have gotten. this genuinely motivated me to revamp how i approached ensemble casts for my ocs.

brides of iberis (completed): wedding planner unenthusiastic about her engagement falls in love with a bride she's taken as a client. bittersweet but deeply loving; and so compassionate to each and every character, even the men the female leads have relationships with. cw: infidelity.

destroy it all and love me in hell! (ongoing): model student finds her miserable, tightly controlled life unraveling after being blackmailed by the class truant into indulging her ugliest impulses. toxic yuri extravaganza eleganza between two girls desperate for escape and the catharsis of fucking! shit! up!!! also hits that sweet sweet "love triangle as a conflict of ideals" beat. cw: blackmail, coercion, bullying, violence, emotional abuse, physical abuse, verbal abuse, adult/minor relationship.

yuri is forbidden for the yuri otaku (completed): passionate himejoshi enrolls in an all-girls private school to observe class s yuri in action, but never to engage in it herself--at least, until a misunderstanding wins her the resident gyaru's heart. a surprisingly poignant exploration of being queer in a repressive society and experiencing your queerness through the safety of unobtainable fantasy.

the superstar idol crushes on me today too (ongoing): failed idol-slash-middling radio personality finds an unwanted superfan in the country's biggest superstar. explores the merit of pursuing your artistic passions in the face of repeated failure, and what makes an emotional anchor in the fraught seas of showbiz. they are also just so so funny. what if i emphatically declare you my rival in show business but you've been in love with me since you saw me in a cooking show as a child actor and you take any excuse to spend time with me and have my attention with blinding enthusiasm

normality and monsters (ongoing): outcast weirdo witnesses the class idol devour their homeroom teacher in one bite and begs to be trained in the art of appearing normal. the art is snappy and charismatic, the monster design is properly grotesque, and the friendship of convenience between the two leads teeters between overcoming the monster's nature and just being a prelude to the monster acquiring a new meatsuit. cw: blood, gore, death, body horror.

a monster wants to eat me (ongoing): suicidal girl meets carnivore mermaid who promises to eat her if she develops a desire to live. it's been a while since i read this one, but the monster designs are once again sick as fuck and the drama of being cared for by a creature that finds you tantalizing is sooo juicy. cw: suicidal ideation, blood, gore, violence, body horror.

liar satsuki can see death (completed): high schooler who can see corpses before the death occurs strives to save as many lives as possible despite being branded a liar by the entire student body. this and ryouko's other manga, a walk to death, are pretty banging declarations on the value of living ironically (or maybe aptly) wrapped in so much death. blanket cw for blood, gore and death bc i tell you every mini-arc somebody dies in a fun new way and we'd be here all day if we listed them out.

anthology:

i'm the villainess but i'm being captured by the heroine?!: an anthology featuring heroines of otome games swerving hard and sweeping the villainess off her feet. i am such a sucker for villainess yuri. mean women forever. my favourite chapters are vol. 1 ch.1 and vol. 2 chs. 1 and 4.

honourable mentions:

my idol sits the next desk over! (completed): loner idol otaku ends up deskmates with her oshi and between jealous sabotage from a rival stan and the herculean task of acting normal around your fave, lands herself in the first and closest friend group of her life. one girl does explicitly have romantic feelings for another girl, but i bumped it down here because it isn't explored to the extent it could have been. it felt like it was setting up a slow burn only to end abruptly. do not recommend if you want a love story, do recommend if you want lonely people forging deep and enduring bonds of friendship.

the one within the villainess (ongoing): the villainess of an otome game reawakens for her condemnation and sets off on a path of vengeance for the sake of the beloved transmigrator who's occupied her body for years. it's ostensibly het, but to hear the way that the villainess speaks of her transmigrator, the first person to love her wholeheartedly and wish for her happiness and so inadvertently prevent her from becoming the hollow bitter woman she originally grew into...... like. that is yuri. like what if i knew your life in its entirety and loved you for it and i found myself in the position to give you the happiness i always wished for you to have. what if we wrote fix-it fic for each other on the fabric of the universe. what if we never even had a conversation but we knew each other the best and loved each other most. and we were both girls. do you understand why i'm insane about them. cw: blood, gore, violence.

[millenniumringg]

Highly saturated pirate bakura

[kazoosandfannypacks]

summary: an expanded edition of percy and annabeth's underwater kiss.  word count: 1073 words a/n: even without looking it up, i can guarantee that there's hundreds of fics about this scene. i wrote my own anyways though because i wanted to. taglist: @laughingphoenixleader @jedi-nurse {if you’d like to be added to my percabeth/pjo taglist, let me know!}

also on ao3!

My Weak Spot

 I'd like to say my first instinct wasn't my own survival. It would be a cute story to tell those catty little gossips from the Aphrodite cabin if I could say that after our fellow campers tossed us in the lake, I pulled myself right down into Percy's arms, drawn to him like a magnet— or something more poetic, I suppose, like a flower growing towards her sun, or two stars being pulled together across galaxies, planets caught in a celestial dance, meeting their climax in a glorious supernova that sends a spark across the universe.

 Maybe that all makes sense if you're a child of Aphrodite. And maybe if you're one of Posiedon's kids and can breathe underwater, sure, why waste another second just for something like oxygen? But, I guess I was just cursed with being a daughter of Athena, and actually having to think things through and pay attention to little details like breathing.

 So, as soon as I went under the water, my first priority was, well, to not be under the water. I started swimming up, and would've poked my head out from under the canoe lake immediately, but I felt something pull on my hand, bringing me back down to the lake floor.

 Before I had a chance to object, I felt the air return to my lungs. I opened my eyes to see Percy, a familiar smile on his face as he pulled me closer to himself. A bubble of air surrounded the both of us, from the top of our heads down to the bottom of our camp t-shirts, though I really hoped that whatever miracle kept Percy dry when he left the water would also dry out my favorite green utility shorts when we resurfaced.

 "We don't have to swim back to the surface quite yet," Percy said, "and this is probably the only place in all of camp half-blood where we can finish the conversation we were having without everyone else eavesdropping."

 "Oh?" I asked with a smile, "and what more did you have to say?"

 Percy always had this way about him of looking cuter than normal when he was flustered— usually because it made him talk less, so his stupidity wasn't counteracting his looks as much as normal. Right now was no exception, and the increasing red flush on his cheeks, illuminated by the underwater moonlight, made his whole demeanor more appealing than it usually was.

 "I, uh," he scratched at the back of his neck, "it's not as much about what I have to say. I think I've been saying it for a while already, even when I didn't realize, and even when you didn't make it all that easy for me." He took my other hand in his, then added, "I really like you, Annabeth."

 "You're not so bad, yourself," I teased.

 "Wow," Percy rolled his eyes, "that's still probably the nicest thing you've ever said to me."

 "No," I said, as half a dozen genuinely kind things I'd told him came to mind, "the nicest thing I've said to you is this: I really like you. I don't think we've ever exactly been 'just friends,' but I want you to know, I never want us to be, either."

 Percy smiled, "and when did you tell me that?"

 I let go of his hand and shoved his shoulder, playfully and lovingly, but not too gently.

 "Right now, Seaweed Brain," I said.

 "I know," he laughed, and I felt his free hand— his hand that wasn't still holding mine— on the back of my neck, "and I want to be more than just your friend too."

 "And what does that mean?" I asked.

 "For right now," he said, leaning closer and pulling me closer to himself, "it means I can do this."

 Percy had never kissed me before. I'd kissed him on the cheek when we won that chariot race together, and I kissed him last year before he blew up Mount Saint Helens, and I kissed him a moment ago on the pavilion before we were so rudely interrupted, but he'd never been the one to kiss me.

 That is, until now.

 His lips met mine, gently, almost as if he was afraid I'd pull away if he moved too fast. I closed my eyes, not wanting to think about anything else besides this kiss, and Percy, and the fact that we were here, together.

 I'd survived, despite my injuries, in the battle for Olympus.

 He'd survived his sixteenth birthday.

 I didn't have to worry about Percy's feelings for Rachel, or anyone else.

 And Percy didn't have to worry about me and anyone else, either.

 As I pulled myself closer to him, my soaked sneakers dragging through the wet sand, my fingers dragging through his magically-dry hair, my lips dragging across his, I knew this was all I'd ever need— that Percy was the only boy I'd ever need in my life.

 My fingers trailed down to his neck, and I thought I heard a softly whispered "oh," like you'd read about in all the old love stories, and he kissed me with all the more fervor.

 My fingers ran further down his back, but his whole body suddenly tensed, and for half a second he pulled away from me.

 I opened my eyes, about to ask if everything was alright, but he pulled my lips back to his before I could say anything.

 His arms wrapped tighter around me like he was scared he might lose me, his fingers gripping my side like I was the one thing keeping him tied to this earth.

 "Oh yeah," I remembered, "I am."

 Percy had bathed in the river of souls, given himself invulnerability— and as a result, he had a very sensitive spot where I'd just touched him on the small of his back.

 "I'm sorry," I whispered.

 "About what?" Percy asked.

 "I forgot about your weak spot," I said, my fingers tracing nervously near it, but not too close.

 I felt his lips curve into a smile, and he whispered back, "Annabeth, you are my weak spot."

 As corny as it was, I giggled a little.

 He then pulled me even closer than we already were, his hand on my neck so firmly that I couldn't've pulled away if I wanted to.

 And why would I want to pull away?

 This was the best underwater kiss of all time.

[luminaryofblood]

... Had this sudden thought of the Tarnished going through their period. And then realizing later on that Mohg's going through his right at the exact same time.

[loganslowdown4]

Janus: *gets down on one knee*

Roman: Oh my god, it’s finally happening.

Janus: *falls over*

Roman: The poison is kicking in.

Janus: *weakly* Touché Prince Charming, you finally *groans* killed me.

Roman: Relax snake, you’ll be fine. Don’t be so dramatic. This is just a little revenge for implying I was the evil brother. Among other things.

Janus: *lying on the floor* You’re not *grunts* proving me wrong.

Roman: *places a foot on Janus’ chest, leans down and whispers* Oh I didn’t say you were wrong. But I have a reputation to hold up. *walking away* Have fun not dying.

Janus: If I wasn’t in agonizing pain, I would say that’s the hottest thing that’s ever happened to me. But owww—

[baerryjj]

So uh. Protective Loretta?? Anyone?? 🧍

[arrow-v-flash-polls]

Who was the better older brother to their sibling in Rogue Time?

[thecluelessdoctor]

When a blog you've followed since forever supports incest and your just now learning:

[tarraxahum]

good day I apparently never uploaded my t4t butch4butch werewolf lesbians (which I created in the sims and then tragically lost the save file of), and that's a crime

at the time I was drawing them just for myself, hence the very different linework and no shading, but I think they deserve to be posted actually

[itoshi-s]

*rattles the bars of my cage* SHARING IS CARING PLS I BEG !!!!! <333

+ nonnie's "NOOOO I want to hear the filthy thoughts about prev anons old money itoshis 💔💔💔"

😭😭 you FILTHY creatures afhsalkj both of you belong in the horny jail!! w/ me in the same cell obviously though dw ahsfkahlk

no but you're not rly missing out on much just.. just the usual random stepcest agenda of mine :3 like. i'm so sorry but i'm just thinking of the itoshi brothers and their younger sister, always the golden trio, heirs to the family fortune, turning heads of men and women alike...... everyone would want to marry into the family, and many have tried their chance, but every brave attempt of asking either of the three out ends up a failure. people are so curious!! maybe they're all in some secret relationships, or perhaps they're waiting for their marriages to be arranged - a business transaction of sorts? then, there's also this rumor going round that the brothers have their eyes on the same girl.. is there why they're so hostile towards each other?? the rumors are everywhere - the campus, press, even around some of their friends (cause no, seriously, has anyone ever seen any of the itoshis with someone before?). all three only ever shrug and give a dismissive comment, cause really, it's none of your concern.

well.. it's not like anyone would've ever thought - and it's better no one ever does - that it's the youngest itoshi heir that her brothers constantly fight over, and that it's her getting bent over the expensive marble counters and fucked into the bespoke silk sheets </3

[incorrectcfvg]

[ampersand-echo]

btw Pancomp also goes by Phantom now. and is more goth than you.

-THE FUCK THEY ARE—-