#did nobody even notice that he literally knows how to use a gun

[miwiromantics]

Sad that ppl be like this. Wtf did Will do to y’all?

[lesbojournals]

Three's A Crowd (Stucky x Reader)

Nobody at the Avengers compound knew about you, Steve, and Bucky. In fact, not even Bucky and Steve knew you were seeing them both. To be fair, you started your…situationship with them both on the terms that it wasn’t just them you were seeing, and that you weren’t ready to commit to a relationship yet.

It’s just that neither of them knew who was the other you were referring to. Or so you thought.

The night started like any other, you were in your sweats and a tank (your usual pajamas) in the kitchen making a bowl of ice cream for yourself. You added some whipped cream to your dessert and nearly jumped out of your sweatpants when a pair of hands met you from behind.

“How’s it going babygirl?” Bucky teased you, taking your spoon and eating some of your ice cream.

You jokingly scoffed, taking the spoon back. “Get your own ice cream, Buck.”

“What’s this I hear about ice cream?” Someone called, and that’s when the smile on your face was wiped clean off.

Steve entered the room, joyfully at first, until he made sight of Bucky’s hands around your waist. His eyes turned dark and he looked at Bucky, who just smirked back.

“So…” He started. “This is who you’ve been seeing.”

You pulled yourself out of Bucky’s arms. “I can explain-”

“No need.” Bucky interrupted. “We’ll be in my room.”

And with that note Bucky walked away from you and towards Steve, giving him a painstakingly long kiss before dragging him off and away from the kitchen.

The whole event shocked you so much you didn’t even notice you’d been making an “o” face, AND had dropped your spoon on the floor.

Your mind was swimming with questions, and without even thinking about your ice cream you left it behind, practically running to Bucky’s room.

“What’s going on?” You demanded as you entered, walking in on Steve and Bucky in a beautifully posed make out session.

Bucky had a small smile and Steve smirked at you.

“What do you mean, beautiful?” Steve asked.

You stammered as you came up with what to say next, the “guns blazing” technique not working to the best of its abilities. “Did you both know this whole time? Were you playing some weird twisted game on me? Are you two dating? Literally Steve, tell me, what’s going on?”

“Well,” Bucky spoke first, sitting up. He caused the blanket to shift down, making you just now realize they were both shirtless. “We kinda figured it out ourselves from the beginning–you weren't being very slick. Thought confronting you about it should come organically.”

Steve added to his comments. “Plus, we'd always been seeing each other. Hard to believe you hadn't noticed.”

“We thought you were just teasing us–” Bucky continued. “...turns out you're just a little lacking in observation.”

It was like a quick montage of moments between both Steve and Bucky flashed before your eyes. The wistful glances, the long touches, the soft smiles.

“Oh.” You were shocked by your own obliviousness. Had it really been that obvious? “I…I uh…I'm sorry.”

“What're you apologizing for beautiful?” Steve cocked his head to the side, almost daring you to look at the hickeys Bucky had clearly left behind.

You looked down at the ground, blush rising to your ears. “I shouldn't have been messing with you guys if you're a couple. I should've realized sooner.”

“Don't be stupid.” Bucky quipped. “You think either of us would have gotten with you if we didn't want to?”

“I…I don't understand.”

Bucky rolled his eyes. “We want you to join us. Be with us. Romantically.”

Steve rushed to add more. “You don't have to say yes if you don't want to. Don't feel pressured. But just know that the option is out there.”

You took a deep breath. “Yea I…I think I'd like that.”

[ironyscleverer]

Good Omens Book Racism

This essay was originally a reblog of this post, but I’ve decided to make it a post of its own so it’s a little easier to read.

***

Rather than diving straight into examples from the text, I want to take the time to explain my intentions/goals for this little essay. Sorry if it's boring, but I do think it's important.

First, I want to clarify that I'm not just taking the opportunity to dogpile on NG by calling him racist. The people who commented that TP was equally responsible were 100% correct! Rather, I hope that now that we know NG isn't a good guy for other reasons, people will be more receiptive to my critiques of the book without jumping to the authors' defense.

I also want to note that I believe every instance I reference in this essay is not in the show. Someone in production clearly recognized that the book didn't age well, and quietly removed the bad bits without a word or a guilty speech. I think this is part of the reason why the fandom hasn't really addressed these moments; the show cut a lot of the racism, cynicism, and generally icky bits. The overall the tone of the newer content is very different and much sweeter. Personally, I prefer it this way!

Most importantly, though, I think a lot of people reading this might wonder--why talk about racism in a book that's 30 years old and has a modern adaptation that fixes almost every problem? Isn't it normal for old books to be a bit suspect? Why go through the effort of bringing it up?

The answer is that it's less about the book more about the fandom; the fact of the book being racist isn't the problem--I fully understand that it's 30+ years old. But the fandom is alive and well, and the lack of discussion is what feels weird to me. I was disturbed by the book when I first read it, and finding nobody online who felt the same way was a bit isolating. I had to wonder if other fans didn’t notice any racism, didn’t remember, or just didn’t care. By talking about racism, by making it clear that yes, we notice and we remember, i think we can make the fandom a more welcoming and inclusive space.

So really, my only goal for this essay is for it to exist; I want it to be out there so that if someone else, like me, goes looking for online acknowledgment of racism in the book, this will be there for them to find.

I think you get the point. Let's move on to the actual substance.

I’ve selected three specific passages from the book for us to examine, as well as a few other moments that I’ll describe, but won’t directly quote. Let’s start with the most obvious (to me) example of racism, which takes place on the whaling ship:

“The captain drummed his fingers on the console. He was afraid that he might soon be conducting his own research project to find out what happened to a statistically small sample of whaler captains who came back without a factory ship full of research material. He wondered what they did to you. Maybe they locked you in a room with a harpoon gun and expected you to do the honorable thing.”

To be clear, associating Japanese people with honor and ritual suicide is a racist stereotype. Writing a Japanese character this way is racist, full stop. Later, the navigator also refers to the captain as "honorable sir." This is probably in reference to the different levels of politeness that exist in the Japanese language. However, frankly, I'm mixed Japanese, and seeing any white person using the word "honor" in reference to Asian people makes my skin crawl. Even ATLA is on thin fkn ice (although the fact that it's literally just Zuko helps a lot).

This passage is the most clear-cut example I can find of racism in that it fits into the framework of "author makes x joke, which feeds into y racist stereotype." However, there are other moments that may not directly do this, but definitely are sus enough to make you think "why tf would you say that." For example, this is how the narrator describes Aziraphale when he drives Anathama home:

“As soon as the car had stopped he had the back door open and was bowing like an aged retainer welcoming the young massa back to the old plantation.”

I can't even begin to logic my way through whether this is technically racist or not. I'm still back at wondering why on EARTH would anyone choose to write this description. It’s just repulsive. Purely based on how I feel reading it, and how I feel imagining a white man writing it, I'm gonna go with yes, this is racist.

Another example of a similar variety would be this moment, when Crowley is trying to get to Tadfield:

“It's all out of control. Heaven and Hell aren't running things any more, it's like the whole planet is a Third World country that's finally got the Bomb…”

Again. Racist? Maybe? It shows a dismissive attitude toward "the third world," which I suppose isn’t explicitly non-white, but mostly it’s just weird and uncomfortable. It's less about the actual offense and more about the...why did the author write that.

There are more such moments throughout the book that I could mention, such as the half-assed attempts at AAVE and Caribbean dialect (I think Haitian? it's when Azi is searching for a host). There’s also that whole affair with Madam Tracy and her Geronimo character. I assume that one is meant to reflect badly on her, but in the back of my mind there’s still the knowledge that the authors chose to put it there.

After a point, all these individual moments start to blend together, and the possible motivations and excuses become less convincing. Maybe on a case-by-case they can be written off as characterization or irreverent humor, but in the aggregate they’re just unpleasant. Again, my overwhelming thought is just, "Why?"

Ultimately, that question, "why would the author write that" is at the center of my critique of the book. More specifically, the question is "why do these authors, given their identities, feel comfortable writing the things that they do?" In this case, it's clear the authors, as cishet white British men, thought these kinds of racial comments were funny and didn't have the social consciousness to know better. It belies a kind of arrogance, audacity and frankly entitlement that only people with their social standing tend to possess.

Anyway, that’s all I have for now. I hope this was enlightening for some people. I just wanted to provide a little bit of perspective, and maybe reassure some other fans that have recognized these things, but haven't seen them discussed online before. To them I'd say: don't worry, you're not the only one.

[thatguywhodoesstuff]

A Fist Full Of J X Thad Incorrect Quotes

(Its been a while since I’ve done one of these, so here’s the sequel to these three posts)

———

(J and Thad are flirting with each other, yet again)

Uzi: And you two are sure you're not dating?

J: 100%.

Thad: Of course not! Why would you think that?

Uzi: (Sarcastically) I wonder why that possibility would even cross my mind, Thad. I fucking wonder.

———

(Playing Twister)

Lizzy: Right hand red.

(Thad tries to place his hand on a red space, only to end up on top of J)

Thad: (Blushing) Uh…

J: (Aggravated and blushing) You're doing this on purpose, aren't you!?

Lizzy: I stopped spinning like 15 minutes ago. Honestly, I'm surprised you didn't notice.

———

J: Come on, V. Nobody actually believes that Thad is in love with me.

V: (To everyone in the classroom) Raise your hand if you think that Thad is helplessly in love with J.

(Everyone, including the Teacher, raises their hand)

J: (Blushing) Thad, put your hand down.

———

J: Okay, I’m going to get the wedding cake.

Thad: Perfect, while you do that I’ll check on the ring bear.

J: …You mean ring bearER, right?

Thad: (Eyes hollow) ...

J: Look me in the eyes and tell me you are not going to bring a dangerous wild animal to our wedding.

———

J: Is something burning?

Thad: (Leaning seductively on the counter) Just my desire for you.

J: (Unimpressed) Thad, Uzi is literally on fire.

———

(J asks N for some relationship advice)

J: Can I tell him that he looks nice?

N: Sure.

J: Can I tell him I respect him?

N: Maybe, if he asks.

J: Should I show him an oil painting I made of us surrounded by our three cats and four dogs?

N: (Taken aback at this) …I’d save that for later.

———

Lizzy: (Teasingly) Ooh, somebody has a crush.

Thad: (He rolls his eyes) Pfft, I don’t have a crush on Person D I just think they’re cool, it’s not like I stay up at night thinking about them.

(Later that night)

Thad: (Wide awake at 3 in the morning) Uh oh.

———

Thad: Did it hurt when you fell-

J: From heaven? Wow, I didn’t think you were such a flirt-

Thad: No, I meant when you fell down the stairs.

J: ...

Thad: You just laid there for 15 minutes.

———

Thad: How do I tell J that I want her to yell at me like she’s Gordon Ramsay and I'm a poor little chef who just ruined a crème brûlée?

———

Thad: I think I'm falling for you.

J: (Blankly) Then get up.

———

J: Due to personal reasons, I will be fucking sinking to the bottom of the ocean in a large metal box.

Uzi: (Not even looking up from what she’s doing) Did Thad say 'I love you' and you said 'Thanks'?

J: (Blushing) THE REASONS ARE PERSONAL–

———

Thad: I have a lie detector in my shirt.

J: …What? Weirdo. Take it off, then.

Lizzy: (Grinning) Why do you want him to take off his shirt?

J: (Blushing) WHAT- NO I DON’T…

(Thad’s chest starts beeping)

J: (Her blush deepens)

———

N: Who do we know that has handcuffs?

Thad: Well J and I-

J: (Elbows him and shakes her head)

Thad: ...wouldn't know.

———

(J has just managed to save Thad from a collapsing building)

Thad: (Getting up off the ground) Thanks, I owe you one.

J: (Brushing herself off) That’s ok. You can just date me and we’ll call it even.

———

Thad: Sorry I’m late, I was doing things.

J: Hi, I’m ‘things’~

Thad: (Blushes profusely)

Uzi: (Rolls her eyes) Ugh…

———

J: Love is weakness and an evolutionary mistake.

V: (Unimpressed) You are literally making a Valentine’s day card for Thad.

J: (Pointing the hot glue gun towards V) You’re on thin fucking ice.

———

N: Why don’t you go talk to him?

J: (Sarcastically) Oh. Yeah, sure.

Uzi: What? So you go tell him he’s cute, what’s the worst that could happen?

J: He could hear me.

———

N: I spy with my little eye something that begins with the letter “s”.

Uzi: (Dully looks over at J and Thad) Is it “sexual tension”?

———

Thad: But what about J? She was my SOULMATE!

Lizzy: (Exasperated) You said that about a football once!

———

N: So you’re dating Thad?

J: What? No! I’m just buying him an accessory since he has terrible fashion sense.

V: (Blankly) That’s literally a wedding ring.

———

[stryshttu]

the scriddler nation doesn't appreciate Riddler 2022 as I do so I'm here to make you love him

He's one of the best interpretations of Riddler and here is WHY.

“he's a desyassified version,” “he doesn't wear expensive suits full of question marks,” “that suit was boring” NO!!!!! IT WAS THE PERFECT SUIT FOR HIM TO START!!! He literally comes from the lowest point, and he talks about how the men in power and corruption keep the low income/poor people at the bottom. Ofc he can't afford those shiny beautiful suits because he doesn't have money for it. Also the military suit was GREAT. He paint it and designed his own symbol which is amazing, a gun sight with a "?" in the center.

Also, he fights againts corruption and classism? 😭 Why would ppl hate that? He fights for the people that were forgotten like him.

“it's not the same story of his father and blah blah blah” ok, they changed his origin story A LOT, and I can get why you get mad at it. I also get mad when I am used to the southern granny Scarecrow story and ppl change it to the story of his father experimenting of him- BUT regarding the Riddler's origin story, it is so so great. Eddie HATES LIES AS WELL, HATES CHEATING, because ppl used to tell him that he could have a better future, and gave him fake hopes. He just wanted an opportunity to be better and when that promise of renewal broke, he broke, too.

He grew wanting to please everyone, be a good boy for the nuns and the other children at the orphanage, even if he didnt agree in somethings or if it was difficult for him to act "normal" (masking his autism- we will talk about that soon), but NOBODY thanked or pleased him. As he got older, he still followed orders from his corrupt boss and the goverment. But what did they do for him? NOTHING. And when he does something for himself ppl tag him as self-centered.

He became the Riddler for the others that also needed help, not only because of him, and ppl still think he's selfish.

He's implied to be autistic (you can notice this more in the comics of Riddler: Year One by Paul Dano), he is non-verbal since kid (canon), as an adult ppl say he doesn't talk and call him weird. He doesn't know how to interact with people in a "normal" way. He also seems to vocally stim with riddles and weird silly noises that you can hear in the movie.

The catholic guilt content? PLEASEEEE. We need to take advantage of that. He even did a catholic reference riddle!!! (That one of the sins of the father)

We can also see that topic of him dont knowing if he's insane or not, (or denying being it). He knows his situation is not good, and HE TRIES to be better, listening to podcast about mindfulness and stay positive- but at the end, everything gets worse to him. He's very smart and is afraid that his biggest and greatest thing about himself (his mind) is also the worst thing and can turn againts himself because of a mental illness. We saw it in the movie when Batman calls him "sick and twisted, etc etc," and he has a mental breakdown. Yes, that scene is DEEPER than you think. His mother died in Arkham when he was in the orphanage as a kid, now imagine that the guy you always admired says to you, “you're gonna die alone at Arkham” just like his mother did and no one cared. He doesn't want that, he wants to be remembered. He doesn't want to end up like his mother- alone and mentally ill.

He makes funny jokes in the movie! He's so goofy!!!!

AND CAN WE TALK ABOUT HIM BEING A BIG BOY?!!!! CHUBBY RIDDLER SUPREMACY!!!!!

And please he has the same bad habits as Arkhamverse Riddler, you cannot hate this version of him if you love Arkham Knight Riddler. He doesn't sleep well because he plays the DETECTIVE role (YES! HE ALSO GOES THERE AND INVESTIGATES- or else how tf would he have evidence of all the corruption and know all that information?) and claims that Einstein only took naps. He doesnt eat well. His lastname is Nashton (a reminder that is canon that Arkhamverse Riddler had the same lastname before changing it to Nygma). And in this page called "nigma. org" is well known and ppl call him a genius, which suggests that we will soon see how he calls himself E. Nygma.

And yes, he is also a little bastard insufferable, and if you dont think so, then I guess we didnt watch the same movie.

THERE'S SO MUCH MORE OF HIM BEING ONE OF THE BEST ONES!!! but i'll end it up here, thank you for your attention.

[egg-emperor]

Is it just me or is eggman kinda chill woth amy? I was playing frontiers as amy, when i noticed that all the dialogue between her and eggman is kinda chill, especially when compared to the other characters.

Plus, then there's his egglog about her, where he's kinda, sort of proud of her? I dont think pride is the right term for it, but its the best i can use to describe it.

I mean sure, he did hold a gun to her head at one point, but it feels less out of malice, and more useing her as a bargening chip. Which ultimetly, he would do to any character regardless if it benefited him. Even sage if pushed to it.

Im not too framilar with sonic games though, so i could be wrong about this, but thats the general vibe ive got from them. Deffinetly not freinds, but not as at eachothers throats as i thought they'd be.

Im curiouse to hear your take on this though, since you seem very knowledgable on eggman lol.

Eggman does have an interesting attitude towards Amy in Frontiers. There's definitely been development in the way he feels about her over time, the most significant aspect being he's literally even thinking about her as her own person at all- with his own admission that he used to just see her merely as a pawn to ensnare Sonic in the memo

However now he's seeing her as her own person and calling her clever and tenacious, so clearly something changed. It seems she's proven herself to be more than that in his eyes, likely as he's seen/heard more of her doing things on her own and showing her strengths, independence and determination to work towards her goals

But also not without him saying that he feles she had trouble finding herself, so it seems he thought nothing more of her than just being a pawn to use as bait for Sonic to come along and thought of her as an obsessed fan who's life completely revolved around Sonic. So now she seems more than that to him, he feels it's something to commend her for

He's glad her life doesn't seem to completely revolve around his loathsome arch nemesis lol. It's funny how he says Sonic has an ego too, he's the exact type of guy to groan about someone having an ego or accusing them of such even when they don't because nobody should have an ego or even anywhere near as much as regular confidence like him XD

He's never really seemed that antagonistic towards Amy herself beyond the times he's kidnapped her and that was only with luring Sonic in in mind. He hasn't insulted her in the same ways/as often as with most of the other characters beyond calling her "that kid" condescendingly in Adventure and I think that says a lot about how he used to feel too

He probably saw her as just a little fan girl that wasn't any serious threat for a while and was just a pawn to lure in the ones he was actually interested in fighting so he didn't put that energy into it. However like all the rest, if she causes him trouble and gets in the way he will absolutely become immediately hostile and violent towards them, of course

But it's like he never really considered her an adversary and really just another common enemy just for being on Sonic's side. He couldn't see an identity in her besides chasing after Sonic, just like how he looks down on Tails living in Sonic's shadow. In his eyes nobody should center their lives around Sonic regardless of how true that is lol

Because be probably thought lowly of her in that sense but otherwise just didn't really think of her at all besides that, it probably made it easier to respect any accomplishment she made. When she proves herself to be a worthy opponent he will praise that, we know he's even willing to give credit where it's due with Sonic and Tails too

He seems to like to recognize and commend his enemies on their skills and I feel it's because praising them for their skill and strengths proves his own for being able to hold up against them in battle. Because if they have respectable skills and strengths, what does that say about him for being their absolute biggest recurring threat?

He praises both Sonic and Amy for their tenacity, which is something he of course has a limitless amount of himself, which supports that. Also for the cleverness he praises in Amy. It's like he can see himself in them in a sense and with that it makes even more sense, praising them praises himself, it makes him even more tenacious to be so in the face of their own tenacity

With that it makes sense he projects having an ego onto Sonic too lol. He has confidence but not in the immense egotistical way Eggman does- but because he doesn't believe Sonic's confidence is anywhere near as deserved as his own with the most inflated ego in the world, he thinks anyone else being confident in themselves is egotistical :P He's glad Amy isn't fuelling it

But yeah he's come a long way from thinking a bunch of Sonic's friends were just insignificant common enemies. He'll always become directly hostile the second they directly cause him problems/significantly aid Sonic in doing so but besides that he didn't think much of them, either lowly or not much at all. In Amy's case especially he seemed to hardly see her as enemy but now she's proven herself to be a worthy opponent now that he can see that she's her own person

He's not one to downplay their skills- well except for when he's trying to knock down their confidence in battle lol- when he recognizes them for how they can prove his own. They give him a challenge and he can prove himself and his own strengths even in his failures for still being able to hold up against them and the way that he still manages to keep coming back to try again, also proving his tenacity

In the Egg Memos, it seems he's thought deeper about all of Team Sonic as individuals, who they are, and what they can do rather than just being Sonic's insignificant friends over time. He shares little thoughts on Amy, Knuckles, and Tails in the memos like Sonic in the actual cutscenes. But it's interesting how it seems he has the least bad to say about Amy while he's at it

Their convos in Final Horizon with Amy do seem to be some of the most chill. Eggman acts passively annoyed at being approaching like "what do you want, if you're looking for Sonic he's not here" still acting like her life does revolve around Sonic to her face despite the contrary of what he says about her finding herself in the memos lol, and Amy saying things he doesn't like and sassing him and him getting defensive and correcting her which is funny

But there's not the same immediate hostility between them than say, Sonic and Knuckles. And he seems willing to discuss his knowledge with her, I mean he loves showing it off to all of them but something feels a bit different in his way of going about it, seems a little less condescending than with some of the other characters. They're more casual despite still bickering a bit but they can tolerate each other to get the job done

Eggman isn't the type to hold back on anyone if they get in his way though, so he immediately becomes extremely hostile and violent if she gets in his way, like when she interferes in SA2 and he tries to deal with her and Tails jumps in to save her. He was also willing to kill her the times he kidnapped her, with the way he says if she values her life she'll do as he says when he held her hostage with the gun to her head and threatened that "she WILL die" in Crazy Gadget in SA2

So there's definitely malice towards her in certain situations but yeah when he kidnaps her it's mostly just him seeing her as a pawn to get what he's really after with Sonic, rather than specifically as an enemy to take down, aside from when she specifically gets in his way. But he also seems to think more highly of her as a worthy opponent now, which could potentially lead to that actually changing and he sees her as more of a formidable adversary to fight! I'm interested to see where it goes

[starsstuddedsky]

Chapter 3 - f=(ma) (Friends Make Anger Issues)

reader x jihoon

Chapter 2 | masterlist | Chapter 4

summary: when you're caught in a simple lie, the best solution? dig in and stick to your guns until everything inevitably goes wrong and everyone gets hurt

or, a serial dater and a pessimist fake a relationship in the vain hope that nothing will go wrong

genre: fluff, angst, non-idol au, lawyer au, coworkers to lovers??? friends to lovers???? fake dating!!!!!

warnings: alcohol, cursing(?), silly lies

wc: 3.2k

a/n: hnnnnnnrg school

Seungkwan’s apartment, much like Seungkwan himself, looks fancier on the outside. The building is adorned with buttresses and all sorts of things Jihoon doesn’t know the name of but were slapped onto buildings in the 1800s because apparently that’s what you did back then. He swears there are gargoyles around the roof. 

But the apartment itself is simple: one bedroom (though its larger than Jihoon’s entire apartment), an open space that doubles as a dining and living room, a kitchen with a fancy marble island, and a bathroom with a tub perfect for sleeping in when you’re too drunk to find a real bed (or so Joshua tells him). 

Jihoon is used to it all by now, the chaos that comes with being friends with Boo Seungkwan, but he keeps an eye on you, who has barely said a word since the movie ended. You smiled and nodded and kept face for his friends but Jihoon doesn’t miss how quiet you are. He worries if he can notice, the rest of them will too. Maybe he should have warned you. 

Joshua greets them at the apartment. “Nobody is allowed to say anything!” He says. “I did not give up my ticket for you to spoil everything immediately.” 

“Why are you looking at me?” Mingyu says, clearly offended. 

The silence speaks for itself as everyone walks in. 

“I’m responsible!” Mingyu says, closing the door after everyone streamed past him without a word. “At least I didn’t introduce the person I’ve secretly been dating to all of my friends without telling them one of my closest friends is literally famous.” 

“Technically you’re famous too,” Jihoon says, accepting a beer from Seungkwan and immediately holding it out to you with his eyebrows raised in question. He leans against the kitchen counter, you following suit beside him. 

“I’m mostly over the Seungkwan thing,” you say, taking the beer. “But Mingyu too?” 

“He has like 200k followers on Instagram.” Jihoon says.  

“Hang on, I’m one of your closest friends?” Mingyu asks. 

“No.” 

“Do I even want to know why?” You ask in a loud whisper. Your shoulder presses against Jihoon’s, a normal enough action that makes him wonder why it bothers him. 

“He’s an influencer but he hates being called that,” Joshua says. “And I’m Joshua.” 

You shake his hand. “Jihoon did manage to tell me about you.” 

He smiles at your glare. “You have to admit it was a little funny.” A small part of him might be scared that you will say no, call the whole thing off and leave him floundering on his own. 

“It really wasn’t funny to embarrass myself,” you say. “But I guess Jihoon still hasn’t learned how long I can hold a grudge for.” 

“I like you!” Joshua says. “And I have an entire folder of embarrassing Jihoon content to help you.” 

“Oh you’re my favorite already!” You say, leaving Jihoon frowning at the counter and joining Joshua’s side, cackling at the folder. Jihoon figures you deserve a couple glimpses of him in college, but he yanks the phone out of Joshua’s hands when he tries to send any of them to you. 

“Enough of that,” he snaps. 

“But you look so adorable!” You smile at him. “You’re only half naked.” 

Jihoon can feel his cheeks burn as he stares at the photo on Joshua’s phone, taken on one of the few nights they’d managed to get Jihoon to drink. It was Halloween, and Jihoon can’t quite remember what he was supposed to be dressed as because his shirt is nowhere to be seen and his pants are simple black dress pants. He’s passed out on Seungcheol’s dingy college couch, which he can still smell even though it’s been five years since they finally left it at the dump. He deletes the picture and hands the phone back to Joshua, knowing the other man would inevitably save it from his recently deleted. As long as you don’t end up leaving this fake relationship with more blackmail than you started with. 

You shake your head and link your elbow with his, dragging him to the loveseat. Seungkwan and Seungcheol have taken the other sofa. Jihoon wonders if you can tell that they are the ones who will need the most convincing. 

“So,” Seungkwan says, “are we ever going to get the story of how you managed to get the elusive Lee Jihoon to go on an actual date with you?” 

You glance at him, concealing the obvious check-in with a smile. “It’s unfortunately not as dramatic as you’d hope.” 

This is the story you managed to concoct when you negotiated the contract: 

Jihoon worked late one day (August 9th, to be exact, which Jihoon can prove from his texts). Coincidentally, you worked late that day, too (less easy to prove since you did not, but there’s no evidence that you weren’t there other than the security tapes and Jihoon figures if his friends manage to get their hands on those then they’re already screwed). 

You ran into each other making coffee at an ungodly hour, and got to chatting by the expensive cappuccino machines that he dragged you away from just a few days ago, and realized that despite knowing each other for so long, he doesn’t even have your number. You were too embarrassed to say then, but you’ve always had a thing for Jihoon, the boy that’s never quite been your rival, yet somehow always appears in your life. For his part, Jihoon never thought of you as a part of his life, too familiar with your trainwreck relationships that he’s born witness to every single time. 

But between your rather funny texts and surprising lack of insanity (Jihoon isn’t too sold on that part), Jihoon found himself enjoying your company, and it wasn’t long before he realized he enjoyed you. 

You both agreed to keep it a secret, since a work relationship would cause everyone in the office to whisper (Jihoon points out they need to deal with this because ever since the closet, everyone in the family planning department stares at him as if they were doing something weird in there). You especially kept it secret from your office neighbor and Jihoon’s friend, Wonwoo, because, as Jihoon says, “he’s more obsessed with my love life than his own and he will stop at nothing to interfere if he finds out we’re together.” (When you tell him this detail, Wonwoo nods in agreement as if he’s proud). 

In the end it’s you that asked Jihoon to dinner (on September 6th) because he decides that his friends will never believe that he admitted his feelings first. So you went to dinner at the fancy Italian restaurant that you’ve both been meaning to try and found out that neither of you like Italian food that much, but the company is nice, and one date turns into two, and suddenly Jihoon is being forced to expose his relationship and the entire office knows. 

Jihoon adds that final detail, glaring at Seungkwan to make sure he knows that it’s his fault that this secret got exposed. Seungkwan doesn’t even have the decency to pretend to be offended. 

“I still can’t believe you actually told someone your feelings,” Seungcheol says. It sounds like a harmless insult, but Jihoon knows he’s still testing the waters. 

Well, Jihoon’s committed now. He turns to you, doing his best to gaze lovingly into your eyes, whatever that means. Except your eyes are pretty and he sees nothing but warmth and reassurance in them, so genuinely kind that he forgets what he was about to say. 

“I do like you,” he says, trying desperately to remember why it’s so important that he says this now. “You understand me. Understand when I’m not like everybody else, and I know I’m not always the perfect partner, and I think I should do a better job of telling you how grateful I am that you put up with me. So thank you.” He glances at Seungcheol. “That’s why I like you.” 

Your smile is starting to become familiar to him. It’s scary how easily he leans into your hand on his cheek, a gentle pat that sounds strange yet feels so nice. 

“I like you, too, dork,” you say. 

Mingyu pretends to gag. “Oh my god, you guys are disgusting.” 

“Disgustingly cute!” Joshua says. Your hand falls away from his face, but Jihoon knows the camera in Joshua’s hand caught it all. This is all such a mistake. He’s going to have to hack Joshua’s phone and delete those pictures. Maybe it would be easier to just kill the man and prevent any new incriminating photos, but there’s no scenario he can think of where he doesn’t do hard time for the crime. 

“I thought you were the ones that wanted to see me like this,” he grumbles. 

“Kind of regretting it, not gonna lie,” Joshua says. “And for the record, I never pushed it.” 

“Me neither,” Seungcheol says. Jihoon doesn’t miss the way his eyes narrow at you. He really does have a problem with this. 

“I did!” Seungkwan says. “And I’m proud of it, because, as disgusting as you two are, you do look happy!” 

And maybe that’s enough, because when Jihoon looks at Seungkwan, he has this silly smile, as if this was all his doing (which, technically, it was). Sure this was a convoluted mess that’s guaranteed to blow up at any point, but to see Seungkwan genuinely happy for him… Jihoon doesn’t quite mind losing a limb or two. A side effect of the overdramatic history their friendship has. 

“So, I do actually have a question for all of you,” you say. “You are all, to some degree, overly invested in Jihoon’s love life.” 

“Not nearly as much as before we knew about you, but sure,” Seungkwan says. 

“No, I’m definitely more invested now than before,” Wonwoo says. “I think you two kids will make it.” He even pretends to wipe a tear from his eye. 

You roll your eyes. “Okay, whatever, my point still stands, because I just want to know how many of you are single.” 

It’s not really that hard to make his friends speechless, but Jihoon can’t deny how funny it is to listen to them stumble over saying “look,” or “the thing is,” and “it’s not about me.” You grin, as if you knew this was going to happen all along. 

“So,” you say, “Jihoon is the only one that’s managed a date in, what, the last six months?” They nod. You sit back against the loveseat, shoulder pressing back into his. “Maybe you all should invest a little more time into your own relationships.” 

Jihoon grins, half tempted to pull you into a hug right now, just to rub it in their very single faces. But technically he is single too, though there’s a clause in their contract that gives them the freedom to fall in love so long as neither of them get caught with any evidence of ‘cheating.’ So he just laughs at his friends and squeezes your hand, and thinks that maybe it’s not all bad. 

.

.

“You put on some muscles since that picture,” you say, poking his bicep. “Though you were a pretty ripped sophomore.” 

“I told you all I do is work and go to the gym,” Jihoon says, willing himself not to blush as if he had any actual control over it. He hates Joshua. 

“Seungcheol is looking,” you whisper softly. “I don’t think he likes me.” 

“Seungcheol is…” Jihoon doesn’t know how to explain why he is the way he is. “Complicated.” 

“Like any of your friends aren’t?” 

Jihoon snorts. 

You inch a little closer to him, resting your head on his shoulder and pressing your body against his as if it’s natural. And it is, sort of, even though you have to be the one to place his arm around your shoulders into an embrace. 

“This okay?” You whisper. He can’t see your face like this, can’t tell if the way your voice is a little higher than normal is because it’s as painful to you as it is to him. The PDA clause of the contract could be improved on. Playing chicken with it won’t end well but it was the only solution he could think of short of writing out every possible scenario. Besides, he turned bright red just thinking about it. 

“It’s fine,” he says, adjusting you a little bit into hopefully a more comfortable position. “I’m… sorry about tonight. For not warning you.” 

“Two apologies in one day?” You whistle softly. “Are you sure you’re feeling okay?” 

Short answer? No, because there’s no way Jihoon-that’s-okay would enter a contractual relationship with you of all people. But the longer you stand at his side, the more he feels that this is nice, and that he was a little unfair, not telling you. 

“It’s okay,” you say, “I’ve already decided your revenge.” 

“I don’t like the sound of that,” Jihoon says. 

“You shouldn’t.” You’re warm against his side, and he wonders what it would be like to wrap his arms around you in a real hug. Maybe Seungcheol’s drunk therapist brain is right and he’s touch starved. 

“So if you’re not busy, I—” Seungkwan stops when he turns around and sees your face pressed into Jihoon’s arms. 

“Actually, I’m a little tired,” you say, lifting your head. You don’t move away from him, which Jihoon can’t decide if he likes or not. 

“It’s been a long night,” Jihoon says. “And you all have met and interrogated my partner, so can I please take them home and save any chance I have at this relationship before you all inevitably ruin it?” 

“Don’t discredit your own perfectly good talent for that,” Seungkwan says. “But I’ll call an Uber.” 

“Oh, it’s—” 

Jihoon stops you before you can resist. “He insists,” he says. “It’s this whole thing about repaying us, and honestly it’s easier to just let him do it before he finds some convoluted way to pay you back.” 

You aren’t happy about it, but you rest your head back on his shoulder. You play the role of a tired date perfectly, saying your goodbyes and “nice to meet you”s from Jihoon’s shoulder, even leaning on him and your intertwined fingers as he waved goodbye and walked down the hall. It’s not until he’s in the elevator that he realizes you might actually be tired. You’re quiet as you finally let go of his hand and lean back against the railing. 

Jihoon flexes his fingers, cracking a couple knuckles. It’s nice to have his hand back, especially when he realizes that ever since you stepped out of the limo, with the exception of one bathroom break, some part of him has been touching you. Maybe that’s why he can still feel the ghost of your hand in his. 

He walks ahead to get the door before you can, even holding it open just in case they’re watching from the apartment above. He wouldn’t be surprised if he checked his phone later to find a grainy picture of the two of them. He considers flipping off the general direction of Seungkwan’s apartment, but he doesn’t have to do it for the guys to know he’s thinking it. The perks of adult friendship. 

“You did good today,” he manages to say when he shuts the door behind him. The Uber driver is off without even checking that Jihoon’s seatbelt is on, which he thinks is a bad sign. 

“Thanks?” You say. “They were fun to meet.” 

“They’re assholes, you can admit it.” 

“They’re definitely overwhelming,” you say. You pause as the driver makes a particularly jerky turn, making you both slide around the backseat. Jihoon bites his lip to stop the curse from spilling out. “But they’re all nice. And they care about you, a lot.” 

“Too much,” Jihoon says. The drive to his apartment is short, thankfully. Jihoon seriously doubts that their Uber driver has a real license. You both jump out of the car the minute he stops, and he speeds away without asking for a rating. 

“I’ll take you home,” Jihoon says, gesturing for you to follow him. He wonders if you think it’s strange to be so close yet not touching anymore. 

“You don’t have to,” you say, trying to catch up. He slows down when he realizes that you’re struggling to keep up with him. 

“You are keeping up your end of the deal, the least I can do is drive you home. It’s not like I really trust Uber right now.” 

He can tell you’re trying to come up with a better argument, your brow furrowed in concentration. 

“Look, if you really insist, you can buy me coffee,” he says. “We need pictures for a fake date anyways.” 

You’re sort of glaring at him (thankfully not the confusing glare from before), so you still aren’t happy. But clearly you can’t think of a better argument. 

“I always was better at you in debate,” he says with a smug smile. “This one is mine, by the way.” He stops at the silver sedan that’s at least ten years old. 

“You were not,” you say, sliding into the fabric seats without complaint. “The only reason you got a higher score is because that professor was extremely biased and you know it.” 

“He definitely had a preference for less… flashy students,” Jihoon admits. “But I’ve been better than you at debate for our whole lives.” 

“You are not talking about sixth grade.” 

Jihoon hums. “Sounds like a loser to me. What’s your address?” 

You glare when you give it to him, but for some reason it makes him smile again. He finds himself wondering again why he never spent time with you before he remembers, ah, yes, the infamous heartbreak that follows you wherever you go. 

You give up fighting him about debate skills and the ride falls into silence. Jihoon wonders if that counts as a new fact about you (Fact #9: not stubborn when tired?), but he decides he needs more time to determine the validity of it all. 

He’s afraid he’ll have to wake you up, but when he pulls up next to your building, you open your eyes, unstrapping your seatbelt and pausing in the idling car. 

“Thank you for driving me,” you say quickly. “You really didn’t have to.” 

“Coffee and we call it even.” 

“Fine,” you say, and when you smile, Jihoon feels obligated to return it. You get out of the car, but pause before closing the door, turning back to face him. 

“By the way, you have very nice arms. Solid muscles yet soft enough to still be comfortable, your gym time has paid off, 10/10 would snuggle again,” you say with a wink. 

“Thanks?” Jihoon says. You laugh and shut the door, waving goodbye through the glass. You don’t look back, but Jihoon still waits until you’re inside your building before he puts the car back into drive.

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okay okay, one more guess

86’ ice n mav waking up in 22 for the first time. like getting hatched out of whatever lab or elsewhere they get pulled to

EVERYONE wants this scene and I refuse to write it because I genuinely have NO IDEA how the heck they convince these two that this is real and not some sort of kidnapping attempt or very strange hallucination/dream LMFAO we are all just going to accept that it works. In consolation, my friend, please accept the first scene with either of them as a POV character:

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Ice isn’t sure what exactly he’s expecting when he and Mav walk into Top Gun thirty-three years in their own future.

It is emphatically not what he gets.

Next to him, Mav whistles, low and shocked. “Well, looks like you did pretty well for yourself,” he says.

Ice doesn’t answer. He is in a staring contest with a picture of himself, clearly older, in the front hallway of one of the most elite naval aviation schools in the country. Older him has four stars on his shoulders and is staring down the cameraman--and the viewer, presumably--like he is fully daring someone to comment.

What the fucking Christ? Nobody thought to warn him?

“Oh, hey, look, it’s that picture of us from the newspapers after Layton,” Mav says, and Ice drags his eyes away from--well, himself as the CINCPACFLT, no, COMPACFLT, COMPACFLT, they changed it--to look behind him at the picture literally right across from his official Navy portrait as a four-star Admiral. It is, indeed, the picture from the papers--the two of them, disheveled and hyped up on the adrenaline of surviving six MiGs all shooting at them at once, grinning fit to be tied and shaking hands.

“Good to know I’ve made it into your shrine,” Mav says, apparently kind of entertained. “They weren’t kidding when they said the future remembers us as a good team, huh?”

Ice shakes his head, shoulders unwinding a little in spite of himself. It’s really hard to be worked up at all this in the face of Mav’s cocky good cheer. “We’re going to be late,” he says, and turns away from the picture.

“We’re going to be late anyway,” Mav says, and takes two long strides to catch up to Ice. “Do we even know which way we’re going?”

“Other way,” says a voice--the same voice, but a little deeper, a slight gravel to it. Ice turns his head, and then snaps to attention and salutes, Mav next to him doing the same, as a figure he hadn’t really noticed before pushes off where he’s leaning against the corner and walks over to them. It’s Mav, but it’s not--older, for sure, with laugh lines around his eyes and cut deeper into his mouth. His hair’s cut a little different, and the color’s lighter--a dark gray, Ice realizes, as the light catches it in places. The slope of his eyebrows is a little softer, too, and the tilt of his mouth assessing. His eyes on them are the same though--sharp and green, taking them both in slowly, like he’s trying to decide what to do with them.

He’s wearing a Captain’s uniform, in the way that looks natural--like he’s been wearing it for years. Who knew Maverick Mitchell would ever make Captain?

Captain Mitchell stops in front of them now, returns the salute. And then he smiles, the same smile Ice is familiar with on a much older face, flashing slightly crooked teeth. “Lieutenants Kazansky and Mitchell,” he greets. “Didn’t mean to startle you.”

Next to Ice, Mav is practically vibrating out of his skin.

“No harm done, sir,” Ice says carefully. “We didn’t realize we were meeting you this early.”

“Oh, you’re not,” the Captain says. “I was never here.” He winks at Ice. “But Cyclone’s a hard ass, and if you wander down that way you really will be late. He’s down the right fork.” The Captain points.

“...Ah,” Ice says, voice going a little wry. “Thank you, sir.”

The Captain grins again. “Pretty sure it’s rude to tell your superior officer he’s full of shit even in your own head, Lieutenant Kazansky.” Ice freezes. The Captain laughs, and turns to go. “See you both later.”

“...That’s it?” bursts out of Mav’s mouth. He looks a bit startled after, like he didn’t mean to say it.

The Captain turns to look at Mav--at his younger self. For a moment they stare at each other, silent.

Then the Captain smiles again--different this time. A twist to his mouth. “That’s it, Lieutenant,” he says. “I’ll see you later.” And then he turns back around, rounds a corner in the hallway, and is gone.

For a moment, they’re both silent, standing alone in the hallway.

“How long was he standing there?” Mav explodes.

Ice sighs. “Does it matter?” He turns to go down the right fork.

“Yes, it matters,” Mav says, turning with him and taking two long strides to catch up to Ice. Ice smirks. Mav elbows him. “Shut it. But yeah, he was scoping us out.”

“He’s going to have to train us, and this is weird as shit,” Ice points out. “Makes sense to see how we’re taking it. He did point us in the right direction.”

“We don’t know that yet,” Mav grumbles.

Ice eyes him. “You think he sent us the wrong way on purpose?”

Mav grumbles, but doesn’t say he does. Ice shrugs, and for a bit they continue down the hallway until they find a plaque with numbers.

“Looks like this is the right way,” Ice says.

“Oh, fuck off,” Mav says, shoving his hands in his pockets.

Ice snorts, and they keep walking.

“He’s not married or anything, you know,” Mav says, out of the blue. “Married to the job I guess.”

Ice hums. He hadn’t looked at his own file--there were more important things to know for his first day. They weren’t going to meet him, they’d been told, just Mav, and didn’t that make a lot of fucking sense now--

Anyway. Anyway. It’d seemed to him that there were some things he shouldn’t know yet about himself.

In hindsight, maybe the file would have been that warning he was missing when he walked in, Ice thinks wryly.

Mav shrugs. “Means Charlie and I don’t make it. Bit of a downer.”

Ah. Ice glances over at him, nudges their shoulders together. “Maybe you can ask him what happened--preempt whatever the issue was.”

“Maybe,” Mav says. “Naw, but I’m excited to meet Bradley!” He turns, grinning. “Did you see that? Goose’s kid! He became a pilot! Good enough to be on this mission, even. Have you met him back in our time?”

Ice has not met Bradley Bradshaw. He’s seen him, once--in his mother’s arms at Goose’s funeral, dressed in a little black suit and crying because he didn’t understand, because everyone around him was sad, because he missed his dad and didn’t get yet why he hadn’t come back.

Goose was probably away a lot as far as Bradley was concerned. Ice wonders if he understands even a month later that his dad will never come home.

“I haven’t,” Ice admits. “Guess I’ll be doing this a bit backwards.”

“He’s a great kid,” Mav says, smiling in a way that feels--strange. Not forced, per se. Sad. Wistful. Still fond. “He looks just like Goose, really--even at four. And, uh, a bit older now, obviously.” He trails off, smile falling off his face. Bradley Bradshaw is now older than Nick “Goose” Bradshaw would ever be. 

“Damn, but Goose’d be proud,” Mav mutters eventually, quietly.

“I’ll bet,” Ice says, and Mav falls silent for real, lost in thought. Ice clenches his jaw, knocks their shoulders together again. Mav jostles like he’s waking up, gives Ice a distracted-looking smile.

Ice doesn’t know what to say. He never has, about this. He’d barely managed to scrape ‘I’m sorry’ out of the core of him the first time, and that was the least Mav had deserved.

He doesn’t have to figure it out now, fortunately. In front of them looms an office door, Vice Admiral Beau “Cyclone” Simpson on a simple plaque outside.

“Ready?” Ice asks.

Mav snorts. “Born ready,” he says, and does the honors of knocking.

“Come in,” a man calls out.

Here we go, Ice thinks, as Mav reaches for the doorknob, pushes it open for them to walk through. Fire or clear.

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Hiiii! Can I make a request were it is a t’challa x reader and it takes place during the civil war and they are on opposite teams and once they start fighting they are extremely flirty with each other

Enemies to lovers

T’challa x Reader

Contains| fluff/flirting

Contains:angst/fluff

You had your arms crossed while you listened to the buffoonery in front of you, two white men arguing over bullshit. I didn’t care for it, it had nothing to do with me since I don’t take orders from no so call government. You stood up rolling your eyes as you leave but a couple of days later capt called for you in need for you to protect a damn killer, you said no! If he wants to protect a man that forgot him in the first place and nearly killed him he can suffer his consequences.but you made a deal 1 mili for it, and surprisingly he made the deal but the twist was upfront, you made him run for his money but that money came into my bank so you decided to be “team cap” or whatever.

Tony was even surprised that You was on their side when you then told him the only reason why was for the money other then that, you would’ve never cared, you still don’t but you know. You walked inside to see a certain man you never seen before talking to Natasha, it seem they were having a serious talk by the look on his face. But, that serious face went away once he saw you, his eyes never loss track of you, you did look back and then squinted your brows trying to figure out who he was, he looks familiar but you can’t find the answers. Natasha cocks a brow noticing the whole scene “wow, someone caught your eye,” she smirks teasingly, “who is she?” He asks, “she used to work for shield, till she went rogue after a whole situation with hydra, she’s been around helping me still,” Natasha said, “hmph” he glances back at bit before looking back at Natasha.

A couple days have passed and it was fight day, Youwalked out in your suite with ‘rogue’ written across it, and you had a mask covering your face. “Let’s get this done,” capt said, we started fighting, “ahh what the hell!”You shouted when your arm got stuck in..webs? “Sorry” a literal spider swinging around, you are not drunk enough for this but luckily your wrist had heated compartment that melts things and it melt the webs allowing you to get out. You huff running out to help cap,you kick down the person who was attacking him in a “cat” suite, how cute. He rose up tilting his head, “well hello there kitty,” You taunted, pretty much he didn’t like that so he started fighting you, he managed to pin you down till you unmask “so fiesty” you said his grip loosened like he was shocked so you took the opportunity to mask back and knock him back.

You decided to walk away and not fight whoever was in that suite.

Towards the end you realize rhodey was hit you gasp, “rhodey!” You run over, Tony looks up You can see his full blown anger, “who did it?” You ask, “somebody did!” He snarled, “I’m gonna need paramedics” You called out on comms, after the whole incident, rhodey was okay thank god, he’s in therapy now, Tony walks out “tell me why you’re on the wrong side again?” He questions “I just want the money I’m apart of nobody’s,” you said “that Bucky… that soldier! He-" he inhaled sharply trying to hold in his anger “what did he do?” You ask tilting your head, “he killed my parents, it was him,” your jaw dropped, “he’s the one! What the fuck!” Now that angered you, if you would have known the truth as to why cap wanna be captain save a hoe over a man who don’t remember him it’s because he’s protecting a damn murderer!

“I be right back!” You said and turned around quickly in anger.

You walk down the hall about head to where cap was at till you feel someone was behind you, you turn around aiming your gun at nothing, “looking the wrong way,” a African accent spoke next to you, you look left aiming you gun at a unfazed man who you saw before with natasha. “Hmph..why so sneaky,” You spoke, “just listen” he said, “who might you be?” You question “who might you be?” He repeats, “never seen a man run around inna cat suite,” you said he smirks, “then maybe you should be out more,” he says.

“Rogue is my name that you’ll get,” you said.

“Rogue hmph..interesting,” he said, “why are you protecting a murderer?” He asks, “money and two I just found out what he did to Tony’s parents, so now I’m going to be the living hell out of both of them,” he cocks a brow, “so you’re doing this for the money?“ you nodded, “he killed my father, and I want him dead” he said, you raise a brow “apparently this man is a damn parent killer, I don’t blame you, that’s why when cap gives me the location it’s going straight to Tony,” you said looking at your phone.

He walks up to you a bit, you didn’t realize how tall he was till he got closer, you nearly gulped and he sensed it. “Where are you from? Cat?” You ask “a nation called wakanda,” he said my jaw dropped “there’s no way-wait a minute you’re the prince?!” He smirks nodding, “wow, a prince in a car suite never seen that before,” You said “it is called the black Panther,” he said, the way he said it with his accent really did something to you, it had to be the accent that draw this spark in you, a shy feeling “black Panther? So is this black Panther some sort in the shadows type of protector?” I ask.

“That is all you will know for now,” he smirked with a chuckle before walking away.

And you indeed beat cussed and beat the shit out of Bucky and gave cap a couple of punches after finding out the real reason, luckily you were already paid upfront to dip but you wanted to make sure they regretted what they did. During those days rhodey doing his therapy for his legs, You was training but noticed someone was watching, you took a quick glance to find that set person and it was the prince himself, standing up top by the window. “You got the prince’s eye huh?” Nat grinned, “oh shut up nat,” I roll my eyes, “you know, you should love a little take a break, for somebody who went rogue sure as hell come back to us when we need you,” she said, You shrug “that’s thing I got nothing else to do,” you shrug nonchalantly.

You did really wonder what the world had out there, you barely go out to see it since you’re always off the radar hiding from any enemies and secrets groups and what not. You’re always looking behind you because you can never trust what the darkness have for you. Later on it was night, you made it to your home, you yawn tiredly as you settle down your gun and other things. Before you could turn your lights on you sensed something around so you were about to grab your gun but somebody grabs your wrist stopping you, you quickly try to elbow them but they block your attack shoving you into the wall and covered your mouth.

I could barely see the man’s face, “you could’ve died,” the prince says.

I squinted my eyes trying to see him He flicks the light switch on, and there he was, the prince,here, in your house. He slowly moved his hands from your mouth “how the hell you get in my house?” I question, “not that hard,” he said moving, “how the-how did you not get detected by my cameras?” Yougo to look at your phone and notice he turned the cameras off but suddenly they came back on, he chuckles. “What do you want prince? Got nun for ya,” you ask, “nothing” you raise a brow “so, you broke into my house for nothing?” He smirked, this man wanted something but he wanted you to play his game to figure it out, but due to it being late at night and you’re tired you don’t have time for games.

“So, y/n l/n, tell me, what is a person like you doing working with the avengers?” He asks.

“I’m not an avenger, I don’t work with them, I only help when I feel like I need to but other then that I’m a loner, if I’m not getting paid I’m not going to stay,” you tell him, you look at his necklace that look familiar to that ‘black panther’ suite calls it, you reached out to touch it curiously “why don’t you put the suite on?” You ask “unless you have a pair of spare clothes,” he said, your eyes widen in shock “so what, your naked under there?!” He chuckled, you shake your head amusingly “so prince, tell me about, this black Panther, what is it to your people?” You asks curiously.

He stares at your for a while in debate if he should trust you enough to tell you, he walks around a bit looking at your pictures you had on your walls, “the black Panther has been the protector of wakanda for many generations, the black Panther fights for the people of wakanda,” he begins, he stares at a picture of you and your late sister, “so this black Panther is a god?” You ask walking into the kitchen, he follows “goddess” he corrects “Bast has given us the black Panther to protect wakanda but the black Panther represents bast,” he said, “a goddess, she sounds beautiful,” you said with a little smirk, you were always curious about the many gods and goddesses that were worshipped in Africa, their culture was very unique and beautiful.

He tilts his head a bit squinting his eyes, “well maybe one day I’ll be privileged to see this, black Panther,” you said walking up to t’challa who watched your every move, “well maybe you can,” you chuckle you hands rubs against his covered chest going up and up “you are one mysterious woman,” he said, you pulled him down a bit to where both of your lips almost touched “I’m not that mysterious, you’re just not looking deep enough,” you whispered but what caught you off guard was when he kissed you, your eyes widen in shock, you were in complete disbelief but you kissed back anyways with your heart beating out of your chest, he pulls away chuckling.

“That’s what gets you to close your mouth hm?” You roll your eyes, “something else could,” you said before walking out the kitchen leaving t’challa mouth dropping catching what you meant.

A/N: idk if I was high making this Bkuss WHAT😭 I tried😭I tried

[arry-katt310]

Okokokokok!! I finally got a decent picture of Shelia to post and to put together in a character sheet.

Shelia grew up in the same town in Dublin Ireland as Julius and Killian. (I don't know many details of their old neighborhood but whatever.) She lived across from Killian.

She was always very quiet and shy, but she was known by literally everyone. And not in a good way.

Shelia's mother was an immortal black witch, so she got her mothers abilities, which were passed down to her as more violent and stronger than her mothers. She very easily lost control of them. Bc of this, sge was harshly bullied and was usually being beaten up by the kids her age.

She would have been completely alone if it wasn't for Killian and Julius. Technically it was only Killian who really hung out with her. Although she had an older sister named Megara.

Megara was definitely the most popular girl. Every girl wanted to be her and every guy wanted to be with her. Nobody ever noticed Shelia.

After years, she lost contact with her two friends after Julius moved. She was alone, and since Killiah wasn't there to kick their ass, she was more tortured and more kicked around resulting in terrible injuries and pain.

After acouple hundred years, she moved and found herself in Boston. This takes place when Megara and her father, the only humans in the family, died, so she was kind of lonely bc she moved out if her mothers house, which wasn't her mother's idea bc of how deadly sick Shelia was bc of all her injuries and other stuff, technically I'd she wasn't immortal, she'd be dead.

Killian found her and noticed her wounds and injuries, and was very concerned. She didn't recognize him at first, but he forced her to tell him what happened. So she did.

After that, Satan "claimed" her as his property and shoved her in the pocket dimension of Hell, which Julius didn't agree with but sucks for him and yeah

Name: Shelia Grace Silverwood

Birthday: October 3rd

Bloodties:

Mildred Silverwood- mother

Ian Silverwood- father

Megara Silverwood- sister

Jason Meyer- husband

Harmony Meyer- daughter

River and Forrest- sons

Likes:

Animals

Flowers

Music

Children

Tea

Modeling for Julius

Teasing Killian and Jason

Playing with her kids; she is very involved with them even tho she was r@ped giving her twin boys. Jason doesn't mind either. He completely understands and tries to be supportive of her given the fact that her body couldn't handle another childbirth

Sleeping

Violence

Drama

Gossiping

Dislikes:

The hospital wing; she was hospitalized there for 3 years bc of how terribly pained she was

Medicine

Being near Lucien

Staying in one position for too long

Personality:

Sweet

Psycho; she has a LOT of potential for evil, just is too pained to do it

Funny

Kinda dumb

Emotional

Weapon-

Uses her magic to fight, but Killians teaching her how to use a gun

Weakness:

Her injuries

Her mental stability

Killian and Julius @sanityshorror

I'll explain her marriage with Jason in another post. Bye!!!

[projecthipster]

High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby

(The book, not the movie or the show, but I'm not passing up a chance to post a picture of Jack Black)

“What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"

High Fidelity is a book about (and for?) music hipsters. It’s a pretty lighthearted read about a pretentious dipshit who works in a record store, published in 1995 by British author Nick Hornby. Rob Protagonist spends his days working in his mysteriously empty record store in London and making top-five lists of everything from movies to breakups, and, of course, albums and songs for every conceivable scenario.

Right away this concept starts to show its age - how is a record store, in London of all places, not swarmed? But this was 1995, I guess, before any secondhand record that wasn’t Englebert Humperdink got instantly snatched up by online parasites resellers. But that makes the whole thing shine with a bit of nostalgic fantasy for the modern post-hipster. This is a story from another time. That's not an issue if you don't make it one. More noticeable, though, is that books centred around pop culture tend to fall out of interest as the pop culture does. Book Rob will always be a music hipster looking at music from a 1995 perspective, and what's even the point of a music hipster who chronologically can't know Neutral Milk Hotel?

Fortunately, the book isn't really centred on pop culture, so much as it uses its narrator's pop culture obsession as a mirror for its centre, which is looking at Rob's relationships, outlook, and maturity. As mentioned at the top of this review, he's actually kind of a dipshit, but in a subtle, redeemable, even moderately charming way. The focus of the story, as Rob tries to move on from a devastating breakup that he's trying without much success to convince himself isn't that devastating actually, is his evolution as a character and his learning to value other people beyond their usefulness for reinforcing his own cultural-consumer acumen. This bit is well done and believable, and that's what saves the book.

High Fidelity was adapted into a movie in 2000, which moves the action to New York and casts John Cusack as Rob. I'll probably review the movie separately on this blog, but it's worth mentioning here just because this is one of those exceptionally rare cases where I think the movie is better than the book. For one, the extra five years put it on the other cusp of the millennial indie revolution, so it feels remarkably more modern just for the tip-over into a new century. This Rob listens to Belle and Sebastian! I know them!... better than underground '80s British rock bands at least. A movie also has the advantage of actually being able to feature music instead of just name-dropping it, which can be frustrating when you don't know what the songs in the book actually sound like. The biggest change, though, is that Cusack is just more likeable than Book Rob. Having a bit of distance from the inside of his vaguely misogynistic head makes it easier to actually root for the guy. And the book doesn't have Jack Black. There was also a 2020 Disney+ series starring Zoë Kravitz as a gender-flipped Rob that I haven't seen, but ought to get around to. I've heard it's good. Disney cancelled it after one season, so that's a good sign.

But we were talking about the book. Right. And I'd say the book is worth reading, if only because it's pretty breezy, short, and funny, so long as you don't mind a narrator who rides the edge of likeability.

I give this hipster book three and a half vintage 45s with rare b-sides out of five.

Project Hipster is a futile and disorganized attempt to dive into the world of things that the internet has at some point claimed "are hipster," mostly through ListChallenges search results.

This review comes from the first list, Hipster Lit: If You Haven't Read 'em, Pretend You Have.

Stay deck.

[cyarskj1899]

He isn’t better than Tory himself so who makes him think that he can say anything about this

Kodak if you don't shut yo throwback Flava Flav Flavor of Love looking ahhs up!

One thing ive noticed is yall criminals stick together. You would still be locked down if that other criminal hadn't pardoned you!

Funky ahhs..😡

Forget the fact that Tory showed us numerous times that he’s an angry little man outside of this whole Meg situation… 😒

When it comes to men and the bar…he is literally below the bare minimum of the bare minimum bar. The type of men defending Tory is the type of men women should run from.

Kodak Black Takes Aim at Jay-Z & Megan Thee Stallion Over Tory Lanez Shooting Conviction [Video]

Walker

December 28, 2022 10:43 AM PST

Kodak Black has spoken out against Tory Lanez’s guilty verdict in his felony assault case involving Megan Thee Stallion, taking aim at JAY-Z and the Houston Hottie in the process.

via: Rap-Up

The “Super Gremlin” rapper went live on Instagram on Christmas Eve and shared his support for Tory, who was convicted on all three charges for shooting Megan Thee Stallion.“This shit ain’t right, homie. For real, bro,” said Kodak, who collaborated with Tory on “F**k With You.” “And Tory Lanez a good ni**a, bro.”

“This shit fu**ing with my Christmas Eve ’cause everybody shit ain’t for me to speak on,” he continued. “But it’s like ni**as ain’t finna talk about that. Ni**as finna act like this shit ain’t even happen. I don’t know. I wasn’t in the courtroom. But at the same time, if it is some fu**ed up shit going on, ni**as ain’t gonna wanna say nothing because of this whole politics bullshit.”

Kodak Black says Tory Lanez verdict isn’t right and it’s messed up. pic.twitter.com/0GFlkACRww

— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) December 28, 2022

He then alluded to the conspiracy theories that JAY-Z, whose company Roc Nation manages Megan, somehow influenced the verdict. “And then all of this JAY-Z shit, homie. But bro, I don’t like that shit nan bit.”“Now, I’m a God-fearing ni**a,” Kodak added. “If my brudda actually did that shit, homie, God gon’ see it through to where he get the justifiable punishment he feel like he deserve for that.”Kodak went on to claim that he is against men who abuse women before questioning Megan’s credibility and the evidence presented in court.“They done caught this female in a few lies and shit,” he said. “And then, how the f**k you find a ni**a guilty for shooting a bitch, when ain’t no evidence behind it? Y’all talking ’bout, bitch had gun residue on fam and another person. And ain’t nobody came through and say, ‘Oh yeah, he did that shit.’ That shit don’t sit well with me.”Following a trial that lasted nearly two weeks, a Los Angeles jury convicted Tory on all three charges against him: assault with a semiautomatic handgun, carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and discharging a firearm with gross negligence. He faces up to 22 years in prison and deportation when he is sentenced on Jan. 27.While Kodak was sympathetic towards Tory, Adele shared her support for Megan after the guilty verdict was announced.

“Well today, tonight, I would like to wish Meg Thee Stallion a very, very merry, merry Christmas!” she said during her Las Vegas show on Friday. “Girl, get your peace. Do whatever you want now, baby! I love ya!”

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[m1ckeyb3rry]

USHSJSJSJA PURSUIT CHAPTER 1!!!!!!!

Stopppppo WHERES MY COUSIN BAROU I wish I had one irl brooooo im not crying everytime I read the alivd moments im reminded they’re short lived goodBYEEEE ok but SO HYPED FOR NEXT CHAPTER houndours pokeball heating up was such a nice detail too!!! Also AWEWWEE when she pops out of her pokeball so cute it’s giving gyarados the way that people are like “wtf get your dog” “it don’t bite” “YES IT DO” but anyways wait also why am I lowk in my feels about leaving the gogoat behind…the govt should just give it as a free mount bro

ALSO SHABSHSH Barou and reader finding the houndour siblings separated from the pack and with one injured and Barou telling the houndour to meet him again for the potion but also to fight with him I’m not sobbing

Anyways I LOVED the flashback PURSUIT FLASHBACK SUPREMACY can’t wait to see a certain bird man next chapter

- Karasu anon

PURSUIT CHAPTER ONE YESSSS omg no because whenever i’m writing barou i’m just like yeah it makes so much sense why reader spends YEARS looking for him and waiting for him to come back 😭 if someone loved me that much i’d fr never give up on them either

i’ve been trying to add in little details like that!! as well as behaviors from different animals that the pokémon are based on just to give it a more realistic and immersive feel as well as to give the pokémon more personality?? like i hope it came through but barou’s houndour is much gruffer/more protective/warier than reader’s houndour (not unlike their respective trainers) as well there isn’t really any canon backing for psychic types hating dark types but imo it was a fun inclusion HAHA that’s also why the espurr and grumpig were constantly side-eyeing reader!! she always had houndour with her and they didn’t like the energy even before houndour was released LMAO it’s fun coming up with random stuff (such as the on-account stuff in the pokémart) and expanding on lore to make the world feel richer

DHJKFLSKDJ that’s literally reader’s entire team if you think about it 😭 none of them live up to their reputations except aegislash and kind of hydreigon?? although hydreigon is also rlly sweet w reader it’s just kinda emotional and throws tantrums a lot (gyarados learns ice beam specifically so that it can use it on hydreigon when it’s being annoying HAHA) so it’s not fiercely evil or malevolent or anything just a bit of a sensitive which given that reader rescued it from the pokémon abuse ring as a baby deino is understandable 🥹 aegislash is the only one that’s like genuinely just problematic but because it respects reader (and her houndoom + hydreigon) it behaves itself…other than that though like houndoom and gyarados especially are just big puppies with hearts of gold despite how villainous they may appear

DID YOU NOTICE READER FOUND THE HOUNDOOMINITES??? that’s what houndour has on her collar hehe although ofc nobody but aiku (and barou but he’s #dead) knows what it is so it’ll be irrelevant for quite a few arcs but i wanted to drop it in now so that people aren’t like “why’d you just make it up when you needed it” or whatever like now it’s been referenced and is a chekhov’s gun that’ll be brought up later

OMG GOGOAT stop i loved the gogoat too bruh this is all mr mikage’s fault (somehow) maybe after becoming champion reader returns to coumarine city and demands they give her the gogoat and it lives the rest of its live being spoiled with the rest of the nagi family’s pokémon instead of having to walk dumbass kids to and from school (i think it would be besties with nagi’s arcanine given that arcanine was supposed to have that job before failing out of the training and being given to nagi…also his whimsicott because #grasstypebond)

BAROU AND HIS HOUNDOUR HAVE ME CRYING also you know what that implies right…when barou caught his houndour his sister didn’t run away/rejoin her family she stayed in coumarine until barou caught her for reader as well 😭 she refused to abandon her brother 😭 just like reader 😭 refused to abandon 😭 barou 😭

AHH DID YOU NOTICE I REFERENCED DADDY KARASU??? as in tabito and yayoi’s actual literal father not a freaky nickname for OUR karasu SDKFHSLKDJ anyways he’s the gym leader at shalour in the flashback (since yayoi still has to go on her journey with barou and isagi and prove herself/build her team before she can inherit the gym) and barou mentions him at one point!! hehe i felt so intelligent writing that line because if you don’t know who’s about to pull up and what his lore is it’s literally meaningless but when you DO know you’re like KARASU MENTIONED 😯⁉️

[thisisevenharderthannamingablog]

Liveblogging notes for Ep 10.

Belated episode 9 reflection - Kim grew up in a world without innocence. He's what, ~4 years younger than Kinn? So was that much younger when whatever happened to their mother, and when Khun's kidnapping took place. He has a kind of caution that results from putting an observant child on the periphery of fucked up situations.

On to the episode.

Porsche has dropped the polite mode when he talks to Vegas? And now he's run off with him? Leaving Kinn hoping he hasn't just made the biggest mistake of his entire life??

Back to Chay. So was there a makeout session here, or a nap or...? Entertaining contrast from their older siblings' sex marathon.

Oh no, Kim.exe has crashed. You really are a Theerapanyakul; total fail at intimacy. Give yourself some time. More food, hm - but it doesn't get eaten.

Wow, broad daylight kidnapping Chay. There certainly is more plot happening all the sudden.

Kinn back to the power suits, no more cuddly. Big is suspicious. I kinda like how he always has his hands in his pockets? I don't know why.

Oh no Pete you just broke my entire heart with that speech. So brave. (I was so glad when he legit did find something useful.) Back on my chess metaphor, this is when his "piece" gets promoted from pawn to... knight, maybe? It goes unremarked in the dialog, but he has literally switched sides here. Would he have gone back in there on Kinn's orders? Absolutely. He wants to do it for Porsche.

Your writers know absolutely nothing about computer security. And how the hell did Tawan get out of the place? Oh right, mole.

Well this is getting very democratically unpleasant.

Tawan is legit pathetic. Still kinda gross. I can never get over how (relatively) short Vegas is. Porsche is SO confused. Vegas finally clues us in regarding his long game. It's evil! I love it! Porsche, wasn't untying yourself day one training?

This is probably the biggest family gathering Kim has attended in years. He's got Chay and Porsche is probably like who the fuck is that?! never mind, gotta fight people.

NOOOOOOOO I knew it was coming but damn. :( RIP perpetually annoyed supporting character, you deserved better. I hope Kim writes you a beautiful song.

Oh Kinn you will not let him live nobody's buying that.

Wow Vegas says a lot of shit. Even Porsche is like WTF that is messed up?? Spoilers did not prepare me for this whole Tawan/Vegas side story. Just put this guy out of his misery, yikes. Not right now, given that you're directly in one another's line of fire though.

That did indeed end poorly -- very much so for Big and Tawan, a little less for Chay, and kinda for Vegas who is now in a lot of trouble.

Kinn smoking this is new? Any chemical coping mechanism in a storm I suppose; this was not a good night for him.

I'm not sure if I'm going to watch the Pete/Vegas stuff or not. I hesitated to watch the show at all on account of this plot. Not here to harsh on anyone who likes that part of the story, just not my personal jam. Gotta say that is some intense eye contact there though. (What is with this show and freshman actors in major roles absolutely knocking it out of the park?)

Gun (? I've seen his name romanized like three different ways now) is pissed. Hard power vs. soft - we would never see Korn do something like that... himself.

Family meeting. Kinn's already down to the bottom of the glass (once I notice stuff like this I can't stop, sorry). "Your guy who betrayed us" nice verbal positioning there Gun. Khun not letting him get away with it, good job. Not quite ready to throw Vegas under the bus, eh.

Interesting micro-nod from Kinn there. He is so annoyingly hard to read in this setting. That was after Gun's line about punishment - an acknowledgement that yeah, he does want that, so what?

He lost Big, Could have lost Porsche. Chay's gotten dragged into it, which has dragged Kim into it. No matter how generally inured you are to violence, having your ex-lover shoot himself in the head three feet away is a little rough. And as much as he and Vegas hate each other, I doubt Kinn's thrilled that things have gotten to this point.

Gutsy move there, Gun! Korn would never kill him though (not with an audience anyway, or unless a last resort). That would completely upset Korn's whole meticulously arranged system. Gun (probably) knows that, and by forcing the question he removes the possibility that he'll get shot right now from the table.

Korn also (again, probably) won't let Kinn do it, and right now he is the bigger threat; Gun's eyes are mostly on Kinn in this scene, not his own brother. At Korn's "someone must be responsible for this," Gun looks at Kinn, who has another of those almost invisible nods. (There's his intro scene energy again. Mom must have been an interesting person. The main family and Kinn personally are surrounded by water, which is feminine? I don't know much about Thai symbology. Was she the last good chess opponent Korn had?)

Korn isn't going to let Kinn kill Gun for the above reason that he wants Gun right where he is, also because it would hand off way too much authority to Kinn, and finally (I suspect) because he wants to kill Gun. You can't go around letting people do things they find satisfying, what fun is that. (If Gun will hand over Vegas, though? Kinn can kill him, no great loss--or vice versa? Vegas is controllable. Kinn has been erratic lately. Just musing here, back to the episode.)

Victory doesn't come from taking advantage of the weak? Dude that is literally your entire livelihood. Making Gun accept that label of weak in public is far better than shooting him as far as Korn is concerned. Gun watching Kinn finish his drink, both of them aware that he would have pulled the trigger.

Still smoking. Stress-induced reversion to an old habit? They're arguing, but they're talking; I'll take it. Just gonna kiss the stupid out of each other, huh. Outside in broad daylight though, y'all getting reckless. Also getting better at fighting and making up like regular people. Kinn is not relying on vibes and sex, but explicitly checking in to agree the argument is over (a thing lots of people with much more relationship experience never learn, tbh).

So Chay wants Porsche to quit - not surprising - and it seems like Porsche is not inclined to? And Kinn kinda forgot about Pete...? On the other hand, at least there's besotted looks and cuddling.

[toastess-with-the-mostess]

Let's Rewind! Toast watches Voltron: Defender of The Universe (1984)

Season 1, Episode 45: One Princess to Another Season 1, Episode 46: The Mighty Space Mouse

Episode 45: One Princess to Another

Starting today's episode on Pollux I see where the hell is Romelle and why are the guards only talking to Bandor when he's A BABY

Never mind she ran off with Sven to stop doom from rebuilding their army and attacking their planet again At least she left a note that he could follow

I love how Lotor and the other people behind him gasp when Zarkon says he's gonna make himself the best king to have ever ruled with that plan Like guys, he's said crazier things than that

Also, with the way Zarkon spoke about him conquering the universe it sounded like Arus was the only stronghold left that he hasn't conquered which a bit weird to me

"I think the robeasts are having some kind of contest" "Yes they're trying to figure out which one is the ugliest!" "That's not funny Sven" YES IT IS ROMELLE

why does the winning robeast have such a cherry red colored head compared to literally the rest of its green colored body

God Romelle's outfit looks SO GOOD ugh I need to find someone who I can pay to make it for me, such a vibe Or y'know I can make it myself, but I'm lazy

Oh woah we only just now got to see Arus and even then nobody spoke but Sven when he called in, that never happens

SVEN WHERE DID YOU GET THE ROBEAST COSTUME Now I just imagine him making it in the middle of the night before this whole plan was made

Amazing we finally get some dialogue from the lion team, not for long though 'cause it's back to Sven

"Why didn't I think of this fantastic plan before my father did" Because you're a fucking idiot Lotor, get with the program

Not Sven bitch slapping a guard, go king you can do no wrong

Sven yelled at enough people in the cockpit to convince them to go to the engine room he just blew up, but I guess the producers either forgot or thought nobody would notice if they just,,,, pretended those guards were new ones as they were running out so they could "catch" Sven being there

Sven: (guns down the entire room to destroy all the controls and then does it AGAIN when he's just about to leave) Uhh, A bit trigger-happy huh Sven

Late episode launch sequence means business

I was gonna say, is it really a robeast if it's just a ship that outmaneuvering the team, but it really is one in the form of a spider

that robeast just stood there as voltron pierced through it,,, not much of a fight

SVEMELLE MY BELOVED THEY'RE SO CUTE

man this episode had nothing to do with both princesses, just Romelle, but I will never complain about seeing more screen time of her

/episode end

Episode 46: The Mighty Space Mouse

We open with Pidge bitching about the Garrison not doing their jobs by refusing to send reinforcements to Arus, I love this episode already #fucktheGG2k24

I dont think the mice have ever bothered me, it's obvious they're comedic relief but they're training to help fight against enemies so they're kinda useful! Also they found a sleeping Kova (Koba?) and Cheesy immediately stabbed him with a tooth pick and when that didn't work HE FUCKING STONED THE CAT SO IT'D STAB THE TOOTH PICK FURTHER INTO HIS TAIL, RUTHLESS

christ does that cat have no neck?? it was FAT

cheesy is just braving this cat along man, where are his wife and kids?? BEHIND ROCKS THAT'S WHERE unappreciated 😤

Nanny putting Hunk on a diet is foul, like I know it's a fat joke, and that man is NOT fat but I do agree maybe a diet is good because all we've seen on him is that as long as it's food he doesn't care what he's shoving in his mouth

ah the other mice went to get help from the team since Cheesy was getting cornered by Kova, HOWEVER HE DOESNT NEED HELP HE FUCKING STABBED THE CAT IN THE EYE AND CHASED HIM OFF HIMSELF EVEN THOUGH HE WAS AFRAID I LOVE HIM HE'S SO COOL

Keith giving Cheesy praise is so wholesome, i love this keith he's a sweetheart through and through

"let [lotor] stand by and watch a job done right!" get his ass zarkon, i want to see lotor verbally abused MORE

Allura and Pidge were arguing about what the mice should do, allura is on the other three's side where they're too distracted to train while pidge agreed with cheesy that they need to be ready for kova

The transition to them agreed was weird because allura was finally like "train to stand up to kova first!" as if she wasn't the one arguing against that sdoivns

omg everyone is so supportive of the mice training, keith was there first giving them moral support and now hunk and lance are watching them do cardio i love this team they're having so much fun just being themselves

PIDGE BUILT THEM A MOUSE SHIP THATS ADORABLE I know in future comics and tv shows (and in the next season prob) they made pidge the genius but he just seems to like to tinker instead of being the defacto smarty pants and i love that a lot

DID LANCE HELP PIDGE BUILD IT, HE KNEW THE NAME (X-47) AND SAID IT WAS STABLE AND FOOL PROOF lance is forever pidge's big brother in this goddamn show nobody can tell me fuckin OTHERWISE

test flight 1 failed but they're still tryin

oh great,,, coran's here, at least he has plot relevant quake information yay launch sequence!

i love when the show reuses scenes, we just saw the team land on this open fault line and then immediately after hunk races out of inside it as it was closing in on him we see the same scene again LMAO i get it's so save money but it's so silly to me and very fun

"from down under! you can feel it!" pidge was that a down Under by Men At Work reference?

of course keith is the only one who doesnt get caught by chains also he's cutting the team loose with the ion knives but you can very obviously tell its just his one and the rest are color coded for the other lions lMAO

voltron formation time, we're at like maybe 1/4 more than halfway of the episode though? i wonder what makes the fight take so long

Voltron is tied up and trapped but what's this?? THE MICE COME IN WITH THEIR SHIP AND FIRE A CANON BALL AT HAGGAR AND BREAK HER CRYSTAL BALL HOLY SHIT

alright excitement short lived because cheesy is having a mufasa moment at the edge of a cliff with kova as scar

is voltron being tied up and cut apart fucking redone in voltron force?? you've gotta be kidding me this is the third goddamn time it's happened

THE MOUSE SHIP FLIES AND CHEESY IS SAVED AFTER SLIPPING OFF THE CLIFF

im sorry since when did "magnum energy fusion" exist?? they just melted off the goddamn chains like that! obvs voltron always wins and is overpowered as hell but I NEED THE WEAPONS LIST WHERE IS MY 30TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK

oh that is a SICK design for a robeast, very very cool, it looks like a mutated scorpion that has extra legs underneath

robeast defeated, haggar thought that bringing up the surprise attack from the mice would make zarkon soften up but he just got on her ass more LMAOO

/episode end

[foolishone-downbad]

going to do a massive personal info dump because I need to vent

so I was always very candid with my husband about what I wanted from life in general.... Basically, to gtfo of Texas ASAP and to be done with having kids by 35 (for many reasons), and also wanting multiple kids.

Anyywaaayy. We had our son in 2020, were handling that and figuring out what we were going to do, where to settle long term, when roe v wade got overturned and we were like yeah so we don't want to try for another kid while we're in Texas, so let's try to get out sooner vs later? Then we decided we'd try to move to Germany because that's where my brother lives! He has his residency! Opportunities for our son!! Amazing!! The plan was to take a year for my husband to go back to school and get his cyber security certificate, save money, job hunt, etc. put off second baby until after the move because it'd be safer and easier (even though the year would put me at 34 and gap between the kids would keep increasing...).

I basically single parented for a YEAR while my husband disassociated from our marriage/family and didn't give a flying fuck about anything I was going through. Like. Wouldn't even miss a single class when I was so sick I could hardly stand up to take care of our toddler, didn't notice I was crying myself to sleep next to him because I was dealing with massive family problems (that's a whole other story but I basically lost my other brother now too).

For my swiftie mutuals... When I say I claimed "you're losing me" for the better part of 2023... I had to stop and sit down to breathe the first time I heard it.

And my husband was just.... Dragging his feet. Wasn't taking certification tests. Wasn't applying for jobs. I was applying left and right and he was just... Giving me constant new deadlines. "I'll apply in January." Then February. Then March. Etc etc. He quit his job WITH NO SAFETY NET. He wouldn't apply for jobs here in his current field to hold him over. He was unemployed for the better part of 2023. Savings ran dry and he was taking loans under the table from his parents without telling me.

Meanwhile.... I'm literally aching for this baby I thought we would start trying for this year. Like. Crying when I'm getting my period, even though we weren't trying.

My husband finally. FINALLY takes a small job because "I fucked up and need something" in December. We decide to try for a baby and I get pregnant.

I did an over the counter early gender predictor and it's a girl! OVER THE MOON. A girl to match my little boy!

But right at 11 weeks I miscarried. I lost her. I'm. I'm so devastated y'all. It was so painful and so awful and my husband told my mom within a week that "we've had time to process it"??? And I wanted to strangle him. My body was still expelling things, and he had PROCESSED IT.

My doctor told me we could try again after my first period and so we did and.....I just got my period again on Friday, so happy fucking mother's day to me, I guess. I just feel like I'm never going to get this little baby that I so desperately want, I really want my son to have a sibling, I wanted that girl so bad.

And we're still stuck here and my husband doesn't seem to be trying to look at jobs out of Texas, out of the US, and I know everyone we told (family) just doesn't think it's happening ever and they are all constantly acting like we're going to be here forever and it rubs this salt in the wound of being here forever, of being a failure at anything I want to do, any hopes I have. And I keep having late night panic attacks doing the math at how old my son is because he'll be leaving daycare to go to school on two years and I thought he'd be okay going to elementary school with my husband if we're stuck here at least but THEN my husband came home with this story two weeks ago about a FIFTH GRADER who brought a gun to school because she was being bullied and nobody found out for a MONTH until she ratted herself out ("so what? I've brought a gun to school") WHAT THE FUCK

anyway when I said I'm spiraling, I'm spiraling, and I know there's more, but this is my current stream of consciousness, i just want to cry and lay in bed for a week away from everybody and talk to nobody