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Skyrim and its disconnect from Nordic nature
Hey everyone, this is a pretty long read and kind of unrelated to any OC or art stuff, but I got really passionate about Nordic nature and seasons and how Skyrim as a game fails to capture its beauty and reality. Despite the length, I'm not very serious about this, I'm not an expert on ecology or anything and I know it's all just fantasy and I love Skyrim for that, so don't get on my ass about how I'm nitpicking, that's not the point of this post. I just wrote this for fun! Everything is under the cut.
One of my biggest peeves with Skyrim is that the ecology and weather in the game is kind of idealized and fantastical. I don't know, the environment is really beautiful, and some places look harsh and gray, yes, but it feels like it's a bit too scared of showing "ugly" things, forgetting that usually the "ugly" wet grayness of Nordic nature is what makes it so beautiful. I'm going to get back to that statement soon, stay with me. In the game, there are no seasons, which I'm assuming was purposefully cut out in order to save time when making it, but it takes away *so much* of the experience of living in a Land of Really Cold. The sun sets at the same time every day of the year, the same flowers bloom everywhere all at once, some places are in an eternal state of autumn, and some places never get relief from the frost. I don't know, to me it's boring, and almost a little uncanny.

Like, one of the things we usually miss out on in open world games is that the world around us is alive, the world around us changes without us, and we need to adapt to it. Let's take something as simple as the sun. See, in the arctic circle and close by, nights are incredibly fucking bright in summer, and it often drives me a bit insane because I like to sleep in the dark. However, in winter the sun is only up for like 6 hours. Usually when the days start getting darker, maybe you feel a bit of relief, but you also start feeling this kind of dread about a quickly approaching period of Dark and Cold. If you work or study, chances are you don't really see the sun for weeks or even months during winter, because not only is it often cloudy, the sun isn't up yet when you go to work, and it's already set when you come home. And then, on a random Tuesday in March, when you're going home, you notice the sun for the first time in ages, and you just stand there, basking, celebrating the fact that you got through another long harsh winter. And then you have like two months of normal amounts of light, until soon you can't sleep again.

Seasons were pretty important to people in the past, they dictated how you would work, the amount of food you had, religious celebrations... I feel like nobody in Skyrim really talks about how bad weather can cause famines, or how a simple blizzard can make traveling impossible, or how seasons affect the animals you hunt. In spring you sow fields, in summer you tend to your crops, and in autumn you harvest. And winter? In winter you fucking survive.
Let's get back to the ugly wet grayness I mentioned. Most Finnish nature photography I see only captures the sun shining through the trees into the water in summer, vibrant orange forests in autumn, and the northern lights above snowy hills in winter. But like, what about when you go to actually walk in the forest and it's kind of lightly raining and gray, what about in spring when the snow melts and there's water everywhere and the grass is flat and yellow, what about when that one single week of autumn where everything is vibrant is over and the trees are barren and everything is brown, and what about 4pm in January when the darkening sky paints everything you see a deep blue. It's cold, it's wet and it's gray! And honestly, that's what I call the Land of Really Cold, and that's really beautiful to me - because it's real, everything you see changes in a cycle, and the good and the bad moments don't last forever. It comes and goes, and you start to appreciate every moment for what it is. Nordic nature is melancholic, and I don't think Skyrim as a game can quite capture that.

One of my favourite things about winter is when there's a field and the frozen tall grass and weeds kind of stick out of the snow. And let's talk about that, actually. See, snow isn't just some white frozen mass, sometimes snow is wet, and that's when you can make snowmen and throw snowballs at your friends, but in colder temperatures it doesn't clump up like that anymore. I think Skyrim can't capture the beauty of freshly fallen snow either, how soft it is, how sometimes trees are so covered in this blanket of it that the branches hang next to the ground. The game forgets how exhausting it is to trudge through knee-high fields of it, how sometimes you can't see a slippery patch of ice underneath, and how sometimes further into winter the snow gets this kind of hard shell on top that cracks when you step on it. And yeah, ice is fucking treacherous, you actually need proper boots in order to move around. Speaking of proper gear, it's really funny how poorly dressed some of the people in Skyrim are.

Anyway, I don't think it's a huge deal, like I said in the beginning of the post, these are just my own thoughts, and the landscapes and views in Skyrim are indeed very gripping and beautiful in their own sense. But like, I would love to see Whiterun covered in snow, or Windhelm in summer, or the Rift in any other season than autumn. I could talk about this more, about how eerie it is to spend a quiet midsummer night sitting by a still lake, how the yellow grass in spring quickly turns light green, how even the ugliest rock in a forest always beats the mundane city life, but I would digress, I've said what I needed to. Nature is alive and you can't just stop it from changing - when you do, you take away the life from it.
#MASSIVE WALL OF TEXT#kwamaeggrecipes#nature photography#skyrim#tes skyrim#tes v skyrim#tes#tesblr#elder scrolls#the elder scrolls#nordic#nordic nature#skyrim ramble
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In addition to watching some of the older animes, I have also been trying to recommit to the new entries as well - I watched a pretty good spread of first few episodes for different anime from this season. It seems like a very promising one, an auspicious time for trying such a thing - below are just some short thoughts on the Summer 2025 Lineup:
---New Shows:
City The Animation: Definitely the "artistic highlight" of the season, this show is just an endless sequence of zany irrelevancies, setting itself the challenge of making those fun and interesting via its smooth, unified-cel-and-bold-outlines artstyle. While the jokes haven't always landed for me the art absolutely does; highly recommended if this genre works for you.

Silent Witch: This anime has what I will call the "Bocchi test" - it is a comedy-drama where the main character is just an unkempt ball of social anxiety, forever tumbling downhill from crisis to crisis. That is either charming & amusing to you, or very, very annoying. I like Bocchi, I like fucked up goofballs, and Silent Witch so far has been very talented at making a fantasy world that "matches" the zaniness of its protagonist. And I just inherently like fantasy-academy settings (cute uniforms too!), this is a plenty-of-smiles show so far.

Ruri No Houseki: This is a cute-girls-doing-cute-things show where the "thing" is mineralogy, and the mineralogy is great! A little sad that the "girls" side includes some insanely fanservicey designs that imo distract from how otherwise straightly-played this thing is. Each episode includes break cards on different minerals, characters explain lava flows and plate tectonics, it is good shit! And the main character is a pretty adorkable little gremlin to lighten the mood. If the Boob Quota doesn't bother you, check it out.

These guys get screenshots since people dont really know their vibe yet - vibe matters most!
---Next Seasons:
Dandadan S2: As I mentioned in previous posts, this show should have been an OVA. There isn't enough meat to these characters to stretch out their romance arc, and the flashy animation style works better in smaller doses. But I certainly don't hate it stretched; I am happy to watch more high-octane occult street-punk drama, for now at least.
Call of the Night S2: Still one of the best new anime romances around - it has ideas, fun vampire worldbuilding, diverse "archetypes" for the relationships, some actual progression, and a great aesthetic. Like Dandandan and all shonen magazine adaptations, this should be shorter? But it has more to play with, at least, so it is showing that seam less than normal.
Dress-up Darling S2: The other good romance of this season, here the "primary" appeal of the show also pairs that romance with a very authentic case study of the modern world of cosplay. This delivers repeatedly great moments of things like anime parodies, the craft of costuming, and more to make this real slice of life. Combined with how cute Marin's totally-justified crush on Goto is, each episode always has more to throw at you. Plus, you can tell that a lot of more out-there creatives are working on this show this year; there are some great stylistic sequences that so far are beating out the original season. If only its sexual comedy jokes (which are great tbc) didn't overstay their welcome by about 50%, it would be ideal.
I should also mention New Panty & Stocking w/ Garterbelt, which I started watching thinking, surely, having seen just 2-3 episodes of the original would be fine as prep - no way this show has a plot, right? But, while that is generally true, it has juuuust enough of one that I felt like I wasn't having the intended experience here. So I may watch the original first.
---The Dropped:
Watari-kun no XX: I wanna say "why did I even watch this" but the actual question is "why did I even read this", because I read the source manga when it came out! I knew it sucked back then too, to be clear - I think there was something about the art style and the female leads that worked for me in a "hot smut trash" kind of way. I was shocked to learn it got an anime adaptation, not being particularly successful. It has the budget of a recycled bag of potatoes to show for that, which sucks away any appeal it could have.
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There might be 1-2 more shows worth checking out, but honestly I have a bunch of older stuff and non-anime things to keep on top of, so this might be at my limit. It has been fun so far! I think Call of the Night S2 is my fav right now, but City The Animation has the potential to beat it.
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#first actual post in forever and its this fucking thing#take it i dont want it#pronounce#toontown#toontown rewritten#ttr#toonblr
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LONG POST!!!⁉️
happy birthday to me and by proxy happy 4 years since i've (more or less) started digital art!! i've never talked too much about my art journey on here but i thought it'd be fun to share a few of my pieces over the years to showcase my growth
2021
i literally did not DARE draw without reference. I hated drawing characters with their eyes open because i never knew how to draw them exactly, and i hated drawing hands more than anything cause i just couldn't get them to look right. My colours weren't horrible, but they definitely weren't always great.
2022
aaaa!!! colourful!!!!! i started doing more anime fanart! i was kinda afraid to do it beforehand since i was worried i couldn't get the characters looking right since i didnt really have an anime artstyle and was mucchhhh more comfortable with more realistic proportions, which is why for the pieces here i also mostly used reference and then just plopped the characters' designs on top. my faces & hands were definitely improving, but not quite there. Also ocs!! i love my ocs!!
2023
welcome to the year of sskk and also the year i finally started posting comics!! (we ignore my webtoon that i definitely didnt have in 2022) im trying not to post too much art i already have up on my tumblr here but you can look up the sskk tag on my tumblr you can see how insane i was!! in fact, because of how much i drew them that year, i think i very rapidly improved at my anatomy and expressions AND hands compared to 2022. crazy what a hyperfixation does to you
2024
getting daaaangerously close to tumblr's image limit and also 2024 was probably my most active year on tumblr to date, so it's all here anyways, but here's some of my favourites for my overall improvement. i'm not sure i drew a single background all year.
2025
anyways!! we're all caught up now! These two have been my favourite drawings from 2025 so far (one of which im techincally not supposed to show yet, oepsie) and i hope i can make hundreds more that i'm proud of! i've never really set up my art and looked at it side by side, so seeing how far i've come in the last four years is actually kind of heartwarming. thank you so much to everyone who's followed me and supported me & my journey! im getting sappy now so i'll stop jaja
#crazy to think i first got my art tablet 4 years ago its been so fucking long bro ive been at this for forever#was drawing on an ipad before that now THAT art is cooked#i did do digital art before but like i used to be a gacha life girlie like it was not actual people drawing#it just mostly got me used to colouring and nothing else#i learned pretty much all my anatomy in the past 4 years so i do consider myself only really having started once i started drawing on pc#happy 4 year old birthday to my wacom intuos S LMAO#that thing has been with me for forever that thing will continue to be with me for forever i am in fact never getting a new one#art#digital art#art journey#art improvement#art milestone#digital artist#original art#original characters#ocs#my ocs#my art#fanart#angel beats#saiki k#sk8 the infinity#bungou stray dogs#charlotte#chainsaw man#genshin impact#link click#<< feels weird to fandom tag a personal post but. like its fanart what else am i gonna do#anyways shoutout to pinterest for paving literally all of my art in 2021 half my art in 2022#shoutout to my autism that bsd hyperfixation absolutely carried my 2023
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genuine question why is mpreg such a common joke with the newer shadvani shippers and why is it 9 times out of 10 pregnant sm1lk 😭
#like. idk#i found the first 2 posts i saw mildly amusing but after like 100+ its getting a little tired#honestly confused why its still an ongoing bit in the fandom and hasn't died out yet#like ik its all shits and giggles bc i just rlly cant imagine smilk ever comfortably or happily being pregnant#i doubt hed allow any pregnancy he potentially had to last long enough for him to even show. especially doubt hed raise a baby of all things#dude has played with childrens lives with the sole purpoe of fucking with pvs head too many times for me to be convinced hed ever b domestic#i mean yall have ur fun do what u want forever#but i just. cant fucking see it asjdhjsfjssbdjjdn#me yapping in tags instead of the actual post lol#text#i am gen curious why its so popular btw but im not sure if im actually expecting a response to this lol#but yea if either part of shadvani were to pop out a baby itd be pv#hes literally peak paternal figure already why is there a lack in pv+baby content sob sob
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unfortunately i have the kind of autism that makes people have to explain things to me/i have to bounce my ideas around with people who know things before thoughts become anything for me
#when i did cape literature it was the first time i had actually read shakespeare in its like. original english dialect#and i would read the play on my own at home‚ not understand anything much less connect themes or anything#then go to school and sit in class while we read it and it would feel like i was reading it for the first time#much of my existing is masking like. pretending i know things i think i'm fr stupid at heart#<- i got away with a lot of this at school like i never spoke in patois i never wore braids my parents were still super helicopter-y#so i was generally unaware of like. school gossip or jamaican pop culture because at first i didn't have a phone and then later on#i straight up stopped caring about pretending to care about that stuff#i was pretty quiet but at the same time i had a lot of friends but didn't have a friend group etc etc#i Appeared like the perfect student so i got away w cheating on tests or not knowing stuff etc etc#especially towards the end of highschool when my depression got really bad and my overall average was in the 60s#very often i would submit assignments and tests thinking i got my point across perfectly or answered questions right according#to what i studied then id get the grades and commentary back and i fucking failed or something#so now whenever my profs or people in fandom r like you're so smart or you articulate your works very well i'm like What the fuck thank you#and it imprints in my brain forever because this is new to me#jamaican academia and jamaica in general is like so much about following roles than it is being a person#and when you're neglected and outcast and autistic it becomes impossible to be jamaican at all#and now people both here (jamaica) and in ghe us ask me shit like “wait you were born and puved in jamaica your whole life??”#it's. anyway#this post was originally about how i'm actually kind of stupid#*
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every finals season when the stress starts getting to my head i start planning unwise art projects but like if i made an animatic for my toxic reincarnation yaoi ocs with the bad ending incest song would yall watch it
#asto speaks#didnt get an internship for the summer so i'm gonna have a lot of free time for fucking around#and. ok first order of business is finishing the orv zangemairi animatic finally <- almost typed zarushibai for some reason. god i wish tbh#but after that....... well i dont think i'll get around to making the alnst ivan kinmokusei one#sorry but my work ethic is bad and my passion for it isnt high enough to compensate in this case#soooooooo.......... oc animatic?#the thing is an animatic is so much fucking work and im sorry but i would like at least some attention for it. once its done#well tbh i'll probably make the draft for it like either way LMAO. its just a matter of whether i'll actually polish and post it#cuz i can envision like the whole thing in my head already#so i know if i dont at least try to commit some of it to canvas its just gonna haunt me forever
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RRRRRRRRAHHHHH VIVIYAKOU........ VIVIYAKOU SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.................... SAVE ME VIVIYAKOU..............
#blaire.txt#i'll be super honest i wasnt even a viviyakou shipper until recently.#you see im kin with vivia . and i had a HUGE fucking kinshift to him recently so naturally ive been Normal#anyways so. yeah i thought i wasnt a romantic/queerplatonic viviyakou fan until recently i got a kin memory. my first ever one.#that confirmed that yes actually i (vivia) was in love with him. queerplatonically or romantically idk but#yeah. therefore i have realized... yeah i (vivia) never saw him as a father figure at all LMFAO#in my canon at least#so therefore it is... uncomfortable to keep the headcanon i had that was familial viviyakou because while cute and i understand its also .#that just wasnt what happened. lol so now ive stopped and i realized. yeah qp/romantic viviyakou... beloved........#anyways yeah im normal about the doomed gays. what about it.#(RAHHHHHHHHH RAHHHHHH CRIES FOREVER)#they make me so sick im going to be ill . but also wholesome viviyakou content......... ouhhhhhhhhhhhhhh#i need to make them in the sims. i need to make us in the sims and i need us to KISS#bring in yakou's wife (i've been calling her Riley... not sure if that's a kin memory or not its just the first thing i thought of)#polyamory win. i would never split them up they're so good#anyways ummmmmm dont look at me. for kin posting on main. im being so vulnerable here but GODDDDDD MY HUSBAND#MY BEAUTIFUL HUSBAND
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accidentally* brainstormed a very complete outline for chapters 4-8 for eih, which should theoretically take us through Part 1. which is. you know. a godsend or whatever.
*accidentally meaning i was just eating delicious pancakes and the thoughts happened. usually its me crying screaming and shitting myself in front of an empty word document where ideas manifest. this is notably much more pleasant.
#that alone makes this weekend a good one#i also bought (leased) a new car yesterday!!!#which is exciting for me because i've been driving my first car for 16 years#even though its a base model its still SO much more advanced#hello how did i live without a backup camera of this long#also like. carplay. and auto windshield wipers. and keyless entry/start. and adjustable steering wheel#AND its electric! kinda. (a plug-in hybrid so has both engines but can run on only electric)#i've finally joined the 21st century#although tbh i thought my first car of my adult life may be something bougie. a BMW or some shit#alas i grew up to be too practical. so i bought a prius. because of course.#listen i live in california and wanted to go electric for forever#alas elon shat the bed by being elon so a tesla was an absolute no go#its funny like... you know that most of your customers for these cars were well-off environment-conscious liberals right#i've seen a tesla with a bumper that says 'i bought this before i knew elon was crazy'#which. like. yeah. fair#other fun events from last week. there was a fire super close to our house and we were in the evacuation zone#which is like. wow. i know its been dry and windy but i never thought it would actually happen HERE#everything is okay and we're safe and it was put out really fast#but definitely gave us a pause and made us think about whats important (our cat. everything else is replaceable.)#but another reason this weekend is good: it RAINED. last night and today.#listen i've been... extremely extremely extremely sad the past week#because of everything. because of 'allowance' of ice agents hospitals and thinking about what i would do and risk because FUCK THEM#suffering isn't moral and doesn't help anyone. just trying to find a way to help my community#and three nice things happening AND just hearing the border fire is under control...#its going to be okay. it really is.#anyway this post is about FANFICTIOn#fun fact i started looking into numerology that has to do with ying-yang#which is helping me decide on how many chapters per 'part'#its clever and unnecessary but makes me happy so whatever#chapter 4 of eih is ~2k works now as a mostly-outline
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i think the funniest ocs ive ever had were it was like a next gen crossover au where all webseries (of the 2000s-2010s for reference) exist in the same world but its like the kids of the characters and the main character (and couple) were an eddsworld fankid and a dick figures fankid
#i dont think i Ever got around to making any other characters i doodled tf out of it in a journal that. idk where it is#lost forever or thrown out which is sort of sad i feel like theres gotta be smth in there....#anyways i think that would be a funny idea for an au still actually but i rewrote the ew kid into a different story#and the mild inspiration for the au gives me the ick i never even read it just thought ''oh big xover cool''#though i think. the ew kid when i first rewrote him i think i gave him a crossover fankid s/o again but idk what the fandom was#cuz i had mentioned it on the blog i was using him on and was vague about it#from context clues in my mind from that time. first year or so of highschool. fucked up it mightve been a tmnt fankid#ALSOOOOO so everyone can rest well. the ew fankid was the kid of one of the main guys BUT!!! the mom is never specified#and i dont think i had a mom in mind the kid looks like 99% like his dad#the dick figures girl was blue x pink obviously. was her name pink. the fankid was called magenta#i swear there was at least 1 other character i mightve had when i first made it. but that would be in Lost Journal#i bet if i kept it going i wouldve had a htf kid or a charlie the unicorn kid cuz i was sick in the heeeaaaaddd#i never posted like anything about it. 1 pic on dA long deleted and talked abt them to The RP Girl#i still love the ew kid dearly but its bc i saved him from That#ACTUALLY THE EXTRA FUNNIEST FCKING THING WAS IN CHATS for some reason despite how eddsworld is#i accidentally implied the fankid was. born in canada. cuz im canadian and it leaked into the writing#DUNNO WHAT THE EW GUY WOULD BE DOING IN CANADA but that detail which i only realized NOW is rlly funny to me i want it canon
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11x9 is like the most touchy episode its kinda nuts how much theyre touching like this is more in one episode than all of the rest combined
#first the shaking off of ryan and graham#then hOLDING YAZS HAND into the antizone#i think until they meet ribbons??#like it feels like a really long time#you can barely see it but like#She Doesnt Touch#im so used to her never touching anyone im like hyperaware of this handholding#who wrote this ep bc i really like it actually#like i know i like it. its the frog episode#but i mean it has so many little things that i like#i really like yaz in it#'this IS another world'#'how nordic does this look to you?'#'no youre not. /i/ am!' hgkjhg <333#ed hime. what else has he written. orphan 55. that one has some fun moments too#dont remember it much for yaz tho#oh hang on that episode has some shots i can use#im posting bc im looking for fucking matching shots do you know how long it takes to find shots#less long if you remember better#takes me forever
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MAYBE IT WOULD STRENGTHEN THE STORY IF THEY GOT TOGETHER ACTUALLY 🖕
#text#and fuck that one guy who was my mutual for yearsssss and i thought she was so cool but over time she started vagueing me like#all the fucking time 😭#forever thinking abt how she saidf one of my headcanons wasnt 'realistic' bc how could one character be 4'11'' and the other be like.#i dont remember the exact number but Tall. she was like Its not realistic .#?!?!?!?!? fellas is it unrealistic to be short and have a tall boyfrien d#BUT LIKE she was like yeah i hate when ppl who ship this thing make it their whole focal point of the story i think it cheapens the themes#of the story like GIRLLL. first of all who cares if someone posts about a fictional couple a lot. SECOND OF ALL#MAYBE in a story about isolation & belonging having a character whose ending is just. Being even more alone & isolated than he was at the#beginning would be improved by him falling in gay t4t love with the main character actually. BUT WHAT DO I KNOW#and i mean sure theres a lot of other endings he couldve had that didnt involve falling in love BUT THAT WAS THE ONE I WAS REALLY INTO#ON ACCOUNT OF HOW I WAS REALLY AUTISTIC ABOUR THEM. ANYWAY I DONT EVEN CARE.#i was rhe one to take the initiative and block her btw 😭theres only so many times u can see someone vaguepost abt u before its like#man if u cant bring urself to block me i'll do it for u 😭😭#OKAY DONE FOR REAL NOW SORRY.
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i love how as you read more into tlt, the ninth house seems more and more normal. Like if i'm at an immoral evil government competition, and i use human fat as soap and animate skeletons to do menial labor, i'm gonna LOSE if my competition is the third house, represented by ianthe "who HASN'T eaten human flesh and fucked a corpse" tridentarius. My weird skeleton thing seems normal, suddenly. Well-adjusted, even. It's recycling. They're using resources in a sustainable way. Normal and regular and productive for a post-climate change apocalypse universe.
People go on and on about how Muir drops you into gtn hearing from the person who knows the least about whats happening, and does not hand hold the reader through the crazy shit that occurs, and that's all true. It truly is a crazy writing decision to make your first pov character come from the universe's equivalent of amish fundamentalists. But the reader is actually done a huge favor being dropped into the ninth house first, because we already understand that space is cold and what catholic nuns are, and what goths look like, and what lesbians are. Very little time is wasted in the first chunk of gtn ripping hair out of your head wondering what the fuck is going on, because for all of its strangeness, the ninth house is already the most familiar thing we're gonna get.
Because THEN we learn that this whole universe's medieval chivalry system is designed to groom people from CHILDREN to not only be exploited and used as human batteries for necromancers, but to LIKE it. to wax poetic about it. to confuse it for love, to write fucking academic papers about it! Then we learn about planet flipping, an act so horrific and violent it turns the planet's soul into a massive vengeful monster capable of killing GOD. Like what do you MEAN the animals "change"? Is this why noodle has six legs? I would MUCH prefer to wear skeleton makeup and repent forever if the alternative was to witness my family dog grow TWO EXTRA LIMBS because the planet he lived on fucking died. Suddenly, living in the asscrack of a planet where no light gets in seems like a sweet deal when the whole solar system is lit by a sun that MAKES YOU GO CRAZY. The ninth house's WORST sin, killing 200 babies to make Harrow, a waste of resources and an act so terrible it haunts Harrow for the entire span of her life, is like a BLIP compared to the death count Jod's empire. God even hears about it and he's like, no big deal! The cohort probably kills that amount of people in a DAY.
And its ALSO tragic because you realize that all of this trauma and abuse that Gideon goes through is not really because of the ninth house at all. It's really just an individual skill issue that she wasn't treated with compassion. Nobody hated her because she's jesus or a bomb, nobody even KNOWS she's a bomb. It's just Priamhark and Pelleamena being deeply guilty and scared people that motivates her treatment, and absolutely nothing else.
They did something bad, and they know it, and Gideon survived it, and they can't kill her to cover it up, and that's IT. They killed themselves for pride, because they were afraid of the consequences of their actions (both the baby killing and Harrow opening the tomb) coming back to bite them. You can argue this is the catholicism of it all, and I wouldn't say you're wrong, but compared to the cavalier system, where exploitation is in the very lining of the house's institutions, the ninth house is really removed from the space empire's blood factory. This is compared to the fourth house where they have tons of children to be CANNON FODDER to join the cohort at fucking 14, compared to the eight house uncle nephew fuckery, even the fifth house which actually does seems nice to live on but also seems to have the fourth house in some sort of fucked up political bear hug??? (maybe the fourth house has so many kids in order to fight the fifth's battles? which is EXACTLY what jod's whole empire is about; politely stirring your tea and acting nice while you destroy everything) compared to ALL OF THAT, the cruelty that Gideon faces is really more a bug of the ninth's system than a feature.
There's nothing baked into the culture and everyday life of the ninth house that necessitated that cruelty; in fact, for such a pragmatic and resource-scarce place, it's WEIRD that a strong able-bodied young person was treated like a waste of space and resources. It could just have easily not happened, if Harrow's parents had been different people. Maybe they were products of their environment, but so was Harrow, and she values Gideon's life SO MUCH that she'd literally rather carve out parts of her own brain than exploit her. Gideon grows up knowing really NOTHING about cavaliers, so remote from the horrors of the empire that she develops an idea of what the cohort is from porn magazines. And in a lot of ways, that upbringing was desolate and terrible, and in a lot of other ways it literally DID NOT HAVE TO BE.
Gideon's MAIN THING is that she wants to be useful, to be needed, to be loved and it SUCKS that she couldn't even get it in the one place where she was actually an invaluable resource, where the death empire had the weakest reach. Gideon can't even blame her lack of love on the fucked up chivalry system like everyone else can because it JUST WASNT REALLY RELEVENT!?!?! This is like if i rolled up to the trauma competition and everyone else was raised in a nuclear warzone by wolves or something and i grew up in like, the suburbs and was raised by teachers and i somehow STILL WON. truly what the fuck guys.
#tlt#the locked tomb#gideon the ninth#harrow the ninth#nona the ninth#tlt gender studies#none gender with left grief#the locked tomb trilogy
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Actually, I think this does link in with a wider conversation that I have been thinking for a while Tumblr maybe needs to hear.
There's a common meme on this site now that no one here has any reading comprehension skills. The best one is, of course, the original "No offense but reading comprehension on this site is piss poor/How dare you say we piss on the poor" post, which gave rise to the nickname "pissing-on-the-poor website". There's also the "I like pancakes/How dare you say waffles are terrible" one. Both of these are great, because they're silly jokey ways to show two closely related phenomena that are probably the commonest ways to fail a reading comprehension check.
The first is someone reading certain catchphrases or buzzwords in the post, and based on their own biases or prior experiences or whatever else, their brain simply fills in what it reckons the poster is saying on the topic. Instead of reading the rest of the sentence and digesting it, the reader then just uses their assumption as the interpretation, and reacts to that.
The second is closely related, because it also uses biases and prior experiences to to interpret the post, but rather than ignoring what the OP is actually saying, it instead performs a series of gymnastic leaps to construct a whole new assertion on the OP's behalf that simply isn't there.
There's also a third, of course; that one is people being so eager to feel smug and superior over someone they perceive as Bad that they wilfully assume the OP is stupid or being serious when they're actually joking. And if the reader hadn't been so blinded by their desire to get to look down on someone, they'd have seen the very obvious tells, sometimes even including sentences like "Obviously this is a joke." (I think we have all seen examples of these. Also, in a bid to avoid as many reading comprehension fails here as possible, this does not include misunderstandings borne entirely of neurodiverse struggles to parse intentions; but, neurodiverse people are just as likely as neurotypicals to have ego play a part in their misinterpretation of others, and that is what this point is about.)
And the thing is... actually, we are all capable of any of these. I imagine a sizable chunk of people reading until this point were probably thinking "Lol, yeah, people are so stupid," but na, nage, I'm not having that. Literally everyone does these sometimes. And it becomes a particular risk when the topic under discussion is something that might brush against an issue that is a pressure point for you, like a social justice talking point that you are forever having to argue with internet strangers about, for example. Your brain holds schemas! And sometimes it likes to pattern match things before it deigns to tell you about its findings! And that can hit you right in the emotions, which if they are strong enough, really can shut down all rational thought.
But. This brings me to the real point of the post.
Because the thing is, we have all saddled up and gone to war under these conditions, or at the very least been strongly tempted to. And a vital skill that literally everyone has to learn, sooner or later, is:
Before you hit 'reply', double check the post to make sure you fucking understood it.
And that does not mean "simply re-read, confirm your bias, carry on." It means, "Is it possible to read this post from the point of view of someone who doesn't intend it the way I've taken it? If I put myself in the shoes of an innocent, could they still have written these words? Is there another interpretation for these phrases?"
And you do have to do this step. You simply do have to. Because if your desire is to 'clap back' and call someone a gargling knobskin made of garbage, fuck me sideways but you must see that it is imperative that you check if they actually deserve that kind of treatment first. You cannot spend your time claiming that we must all choose to be kind and then not bother doing your due diligence before screaming a person's various and assorted bigotries at them. If you misread it, and they were innocent - you are the raging aggressive cunt in this situation.
It does not matter that you reacted from an emotional place of normally having to defend yourself either, by the way. Sure, that makes the quality of your human soul better than that of the average Redditor who just enjoys anonymously hurting people, I guess? But it's also irrelevant. If you messaged someone and called them a misogynist because you performed several mental somersaults and landed on your own sore spot when they meant no such thing, you are the attacker. You owe them an apology. And yeah, sure, you can explain your over-reaction as the product of your normal experiences if you like, but that is only an explanation, not an excuse. You are still the asshole here. You still need to apologise and mean it.
And you could have avoided it if you'd done that due diligence, as you should have. If you're going to take a swing, make sure it's the right target. This was once described to me as donkey people - they don't think, they just kick. This is admittedly a little unkind to donkeys, who always do their due diligence, but I feel it's an apt metaphor.
TL;DR: If you feel moved to angrily reply to something, first make sure you've interpreted it right. Don't be a donkey person. And if you ask for clarification, people are innocent until proven guilty. Ask nicely. If they are a bigot, you can then smelt them for parts.
#I reckon anyway#mileage may vary I suppose#but this has certainly made my life a lot happier to stop assuming everyone was attacking me#and to stop getting into pointless fights with no good or satisfying ending#this has been this week's Gospel According to Elanor
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man. this whole thing pisses me off because like. even when people talk about staff having a history of hating trans women, that this isnt the first time, without fail black trans women are forgotten to be included again and again. im not surprised this caused such an uproar when the popular white woman gets deleted. nobody should be, its been that way like forever. some cunt in my inbox got annoyed i called rita a sex worker (lol? okay)
but i mentioned that in my post because so many black trans women have gotten removed from this site for their sex work alone, regardless of if it "broke community guidelines" or not, especially when tumblr live and the ads on this website are so fucking horny. idek what to say rn because like. this wont get as many notes as the posts talking about her will. the exploding car thing is gonna get more attention than the trans women on this site you dont actually care about listening to. ive been talking about how unfair it is to be a black tgirl on this site for years and nobody cares.
i love rita, we talked abit the other day and she's doing fine, dont get it twisted and think i hate her or some bs, she's a big fucking reason im not fucking homeless.
but part of why her deletion got to #1 trending on tumblr for multiple days in a row is that she's white
#reblog this you fuckers. im tired of you people saying you care about us. about my sisters and then ignore us like we never existed#gonna have to put abuncha these tags here again too otherwise literally nobody will see. i got abuncha new followers for that post#yall better Do Something other than performative bullshit for once#whatever. whatever.#predstrogen#photomatt#transgender#trans rights#black trans lives matter#black trans women#carhammerexplosionmatt
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𝐅𝐔𝐂𝐊 𝐌𝐄 𝐔𝐏 | 18
˗ˏˋ on your kneesˎˊ˗

"He didn't picture himself ever begging for pussy... but alas, here he is."
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word count: 8,7k
content: wet sloppy kissing, jungkook being too horny for his own good, vibrator usage, masturbation (f), jerking off while eating kitty (idk what possessed me but i had to), vanilla kink (are we surprised), begging, slight praise kink, comfort, endearing moments, these two being stupid as always, post-orgasm sharing bed (yeah sleeping together), thinking about maybes.
✧ author's note ✧
LISTEN. You’re so lucky I have multiple FMU chapters backlogged right now, because if I didn’t? I would have thrown an actual tantrum, declared a two-week hermit arc, and told you all to fuck off while I moved to the mountains. BUT. Thankfully, I’ve written up to around Chapter 23-ish and just need to edit, so you can all calm the hell down.
First of all, no—I still haven’t updated the update post, because I’ve been too busy prepping this chapter for release. I’ve had zero time to sit and ponder. That said, the only valid suggestion I’ve gotten so far is to keep the Tumblr note goal but ALSO require the Wattpad goal to be hit—so that’s what we’re trying this time around.
Also—BIG ANNOUNCEMENT—we now have an official Kiki Nation Community on Tumblr (yay!). That’s where you little gremlins can finally scream together in one place, throw theories at each other, and insult Jungkook and Nix in a safe, protected space. (Mainly Jungkook. Because he’s a man. And this is a matriarchy. HUSH.)
So please check it out! Join, comment under the official Chapter 18 discussion post, and if you feel inspired to make a meme or TikTok or post your spiral—DO IT. If it makes me laugh, I will absolutely reblog it.
NOW. About this chapter.
BAHAHA. Okay. First of all—I am so proud of the kiss. I wanted it to be sloppy and wet and messy and borderline excessive, and I think I delivered. It’s so long. I really put my whole kikussy into it.
And of course… it was time. The vibrator had to make its appearance. It’s literally law. I don’t make the rules (but I do).
Also: Rogue begging. crawling. STILETTOS. Why did I like this chapter so much. It was delicious. I love sexually down bad men. Wait until he’s romantically down bad. It’s going to be so satisfying. Trust me.
And the ending?? Made me soft. Actual progress?? Kind of??? They’re still filthy, but they’re also edging toward something stupidly endearing and I hate how much I love that. The way this story is progressing is so slow-burn it makes my bones hurt, but I’m obsessed with it. We are maybe… possibly… inching toward friendship territory. MAYBE.
I’m really looking forward to the next chapters—soon, we’ll meet a new LI on Jungkook’s side (YES!). Things are gonna get messy (eventually). Reminder: they have zero romantic feelings right now. ZERO. What you’re seeing is just… subconscious tension, subtle shifts. We’re nowhere near falling.
So please. I beg you. If I start getting asks about them being in love, I will throw my laptop out the window and revoke my dictatorship. Don’t test me.
Enjoy the chaos. Let me know how hard you spiraled. Love you forever.
OH. I said it before but I will say it again. This chapter is entirely based on the song "get on your knees" by Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj so. Do with that what you will. Listen to it. Enjoy.
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His kiss tastes like four days of wanting.
Your back hits the wall as his mouth crashes into yours—not gentle, not careful, just hungry. Like he's been starving for the taste of you since Tuesday.
His tongue traces the seam of your lips, a question that isn't really a question at all, because you both know how this ends. You part your lips anyway, granting him access because denying him feels like denying yourself.
His hand comes to rest on your neck, thumb pressing lightly against your pulse point. It's a strange, suspended gesture—like he can't decide whether to pull you closer or hold you exactly where you are. The indecision is so unlike him that it makes your stomach flip.
Then his tongue flattens against yours, and any thoughts of indecision evaporate. He's not kissing you so much as he's tasting you, licking your flavor directly from the source. The sensation is filthy and intimate as his other hand comes to your cheek, fingers splaying across your skin, holding you in place for his exploration.
"Fuck," he breathes against your mouth, the word more vibration than sound. "Missed this."
Not you. This.
The distinction matters, even as his tongue circles yours in a slow, deliberate drag that makes your knees weak. He's coating himself with your saliva, savoring you like you're some expensive whiskey he's been saving for a special occasion.
You should probably be grossed out by how wet this kiss is, by how thoroughly he's claiming your mouth.
Instead, you find yourself pressing closer, fingers curling into the fabric of his shirt.
Because this is what you've been missing too—not him, not really, but this. The way he makes your body respond without even trying. The way he kisses like he's trying to memorize the taste of you.
And then his lips close over yours—soft but firm—like finishing the kiss just to start it all over again. Chained kisses. One bleeding into the next, seamless and endless.
You follow him because how could you not? The way he kisses—it’s not just skill; it’s instinct. Like he knows exactly what to do to keep you hooked, alternating between tongue and lips so perfectly that you never get tired of either.
Not that you could ever tire of him.
You’re pretty sure you could never erase the way he kisses—or fucks—from your mind even if you wanted to.
Maybe it’s him knowing what he’s doing. Or maybe it’s just the two of you—two mismatched pieces of completely different puzzles that somehow fit together anyway.
Just like your mouths do now.
Just like when your tongue darts out to lick at his lower lip in a kitten lick that has him hitching against you, a small, desperate sound escaping his throat. His hips stutter against yours like his body is telling you to stop messing around and get your tongue back inside his mouth where it belongs.
So you do.
You push forward, tongue meeting his again in a slick slide that has him groaning into your mouth. Then you close your lips to transition into another kiss and he follows, tongues forgotten for three, four open-mouthed kisses before he’s lost patience.
He moves his tongue against yours, seeking more, always more. Because when it comes to you, Jungkook is just this eager.
But this time you catch it. Suck it into your mouth in a soft suction that makes him freeze for half a second before his hand tightens on your neck.
And the sound he makes?
Undiluted filth.
It spurs you on.
You suck harder, dragging your lips down his tongue before releasing him with a soft pop that leaves both of you panting against each other’s mouths. He doesn’t let the pause last long—doesn’t let you last long—and dives back in with a hunger that feels less like kissing and more like consuming.
Tongues forgotten for other five or six kisses as his lips move against yours with bruising intensity—open-mouthed and messy—but he easily grows impatient and his tongue is soon back, sliding against yours like he wants it there.
You catch it once more—suck it again—and the way his hips jerk against yours tells you everything you need to know about how much he likes it.
Filthy sounds fill the space between you: wet kisses, soft moans, the occasional hitch in his breath when you do something particularly good with your tongue.
And when his teeth graze your lower lip before pulling back just enough to look at you?
You realize there’s no winning here—not for either of you—because this isn’t about who takes control or who gives in first.
It’s about this. About mouths fitting together perfectly even though nothing else about this situation should make sense. About tongues sliding together and lips bruising from too much pressure but neither of you caring because fuck—it feels good.
It feels better than good.
It feels addictive.
Your back hits the table near the entryway, and honestly? You never thought a piece of furniture could be an accomplice in your bad decisions, but here you are. Pressed against the entryway table. The one that holds your keys, Yoongi's forgotten mail, and now, apparently, your dignity.
Jungkook hasn't stopped kissing you—not for air, not for sanity, not for anything resembling common sense. It's like he's on a mission to consume you entirely, starting with your mouth and working his way through the rest of you.
These are not the kisses you exchange with people you tolerate. These are not even the kisses you exchange with people you like. These are the kisses of people who might actually hate each other but have found a much more interesting way to express it.
Your lower back presses against the edge. Hard wood digs into soft flesh, and you're about to complain when—
Fuck.
He lifts you. One hand. One fucking hand curves under your ass and hoists you onto the table like you weigh nothing, while his other plants itself firmly on the wood beside your hip. The display of casual strength makes something molten pool in your stomach.
Unfair. Completely unfair how stupidly hot he makes stupid things look. Lifting you shouldn't be attractive. It's basic physics, not foreplay. But your brain has apparently liquefied, pouring out your ears while he steals the oxygen straight from your lungs.
"Fuck, Nix," he mutters against your mouth, the words more vibration than sound. "Been thinking about this for days."
His mouth is relentless—wet, demanding, precise in a way that makes your toes curl in your shoes. He sucks your lower lip between his teeth and—god—applies just enough pressure to sting, like he's trying to extract something essential from you. Like he needs to squeeze you dry, drain you of whatever it is that keeps him coming back.
Didn't even know your bottom lip was an erogenous zone until Jungkook decided it was.
It's too much. The heat, the closeness, the way he seems to have forgotten where you are, who you are.
You push against his chest—not hard, just enough to create a sliver of space between your bodies.
"Jesus Christ," you gasp, chest heaving. "Let me breathe, you animal."
He grins at that—a scorching, self-satisfied smile that makes you want to either slap him or pull him back in.
Maybe both.
He bites his lower lip, swollen from your kisses, and immediately leans back in like your need for oxygen is a minor inconvenience to his plans.
Your palm against his chest stops him, firm this time.
"Wait," you say, voice rough.
Not because you want to stop—god no—but because your brain is finally catching up to your body. And there's something you want. Something specific.
His eyes find yours, dark and questioning. Patient, despite the hunger radiating off him in waves. He's holding himself back, you realize. Letting you dictate what happens next.
Your eyes drop, hair falling across your face as you gather your thoughts, your courage. When you look back up at him through your lashes, his breath catches audibly.
"Bring me the vibrator you chose for me."
His reaction? Pretty funny. Like watching a computer crash and reboot. His entire body goes still—processing, processing—then his eyes widen a fraction. He blinks once, twice, tension visible in the way his jaw ticks.
"What?" he asks, voice cracking slightly.
Something about his reaction makes hot satisfaction curl through you. You like throwing him off balance. Like matching his chaos with your own.
"The vibrator," you repeat, slower this time, savoring each syllable. "The one you picked out. Go get it."
His eyes dart toward your bedroom door, then back to your face. For a moment, you think he might refuse. Might challenge you. But then:
"Yeah," he nods jerkily, already stepping back. "Yeah, I will."
"Will you?" you press, because you can't help it. Because you like the way his pupils dilate when you push.
"Fuck yeah," he breathes, already moving toward your bedroom with a kind of urgent, stumbling grace that would be comical if it weren't so hot.
You watch him go, breathing still uneven, lips still tingling.
And you think—not for the first time—that there's something dangerously addictive about the way Jungkook responds to you. The way he matches your energy, then amplifies it, reflecting it back at you until you're both caught in some kind of feedback loop of bad ideas and worse self-control.
Roommates with benefits, you remind yourself. That's all this is.
But as you hear him rummaging through your things, drawers opening and closing with increasing urgency, you can't help but wonder if "benefits" is too mild a word for whatever the fuck is happening between you two.
He sprints.
Jungkook doesn't walk to your room—he fucking jogs, like the vibrator might disappear if he doesn't get there fast enough.
Like this moment has an expiration date he can't afford to miss.
No shame. Not a single ounce of it as he bursts through your door, scanning the bedroom impatiently. The same room he's been in a couple of times, but never with this specific mission, never with this frantic energy coursing through his veins.
Where the fuck would a girl keep her vibrator?
No. Not a girl. You. Where would you hide it?
Under the pillow?
He lifts the edge of your pillowcase, peeks beneath it. Nothing. Definitely not there—you like sleeping too much, and having a hard plastic toy jabbing into your cheek all night would be uncomfortable as hell. You're smarter than that.
The wardrobe?
He eyes the wooden doors across the room, considering.
No way. Too far from the bed. You're too practical for that kind of inconvenience. If you wanted to get off, you wouldn't want to climb out of bed and trek across the room.
His eyes land on the nightstand. Bingo.
The drawer slides open with a soft sound. First thing he sees: a messy stack of panties, some lacy, some cotton, all of them instantly triggering mental images he doesn't have time for right now.
He fights—really fights—against the urge to pick one up. To feel the fabric between his fingers, to imagine it hugging the curves he's already memorized with his hands, his mouth. Maybe even bring one to his nose...
Focus, dickhead.
Pushing the underwear aside (what? sue him for wanting to fuel his imagination), his fingers brush against something solid. Hard plastic. Smooth curves.
There it is.
He pulls it out, a triumphant grin spreading across his face as he examines his find. It's exactly as he remembers from the store—sleek, purple, designed for both internal and external stimulation.
Still in its original packaging, which means you haven't used it yet.
Something jittery and hot coils in his stomach at the thought of being the first to see you use it.
He grips it tighter, already imagining what it'll look like pressed against you, already wondering if you'll let him control it or if you'll insist on doing it yourself.
Either way, he's about to witness something fucking spectacular, and his body knows it. His cock strains painfully against his jeans as he heads back to you.
He takes a deep breath before rounding the corner from the hallway.
Tries to center himself, to cool down just a little.
To not look as desperate as he feels.
But then—
Fuck.
The vibrator nearly slips from his suddenly sweaty palm.
You're naked on the table. Completely, gloriously naked except for those high heels that make your legs look like they go on for fucking miles. The dress is gone—discarded somewhere on the floor—and your panties dangle precariously from one ankle like an afterthought.
One leg bent at the knee, heel resting lazily on the wooden surface. The other straight up, creating a perfect right angle that showcases everything he's been craving since the moment he walked through the front door.
And your hand—Christ—your hand is between your thighs, fingers drawing lazy circles over your clit.
His eyes stutter back to one thing though.
The heels.
What is it about the fucking heels?
He's never particularly cared about shoes before, but something about the way they elongate your legs, the way they make your calves flex, the dangerous point of those stilettos against the wooden table-it's doing something to him. Something unexpected and intense.
He nearly stumbles. Actually has to catch himself on the wall because his knees go weak at the sight of you touching yourself, waiting for him, spread open on the goddamn entryway table like the world's most perfect welcome home gift.
His grip on the vibrator tightens until his knuckles go white. He forces his face into something resembling control—a smirk, he hopes, though it feels more like a grimace of restraint.
"Needed it that badly?" he manages, trying to sound casual and cool, though he guesses he fails spectacularly at that.
Your eyes meet his, challenging. "Didn't you?"
The question catches him off guard, but he doesn't falter. Not much, anyway. Just a slight hitch in his breathing that he hopes you didn't notice.
"Yeah," he admits, the word barely audible. Then, louder: "Yeah, I did."
He starts walking toward you, vibrator clutched in his hand, but you stop him with a single raised palm. The universal sign for wait.
"Crawl to me."
His feet halt. He opens his mouth. Closes it.
What?
"What?" he asks, not sure he heard correctly.
"You heard me." Your fingers never stop their gentle circles. "Crawl."
He doesn't know why he does it. Doesn't pause to analyze why the command sends a jolt of electricity straight to his cock.
He just... does it.
Drops to his knees, then to all fours, the vibrator still clutched in one hand.
Maybe it's the novelty—you taking control like this when usually he's the one calling the shots.
Maybe it's the way your eyes darken as you watch him approach, like seeing him on his knees for you is doing something for you too.
Or maybe—most likely—it's just the promise of getting his head between those fucking glorious thighs again.
Whatever the reason, he crawls to you across the hardwood floor, too turned on to care about how it looks, too desperate to worry about his dignity. All he can think about is how wet you'll be, how good you'll taste, how he wants to make you come on his tongue before introducing the vibrator.
He's almost there—close enough to smell you, close enough that if he stretched forward just a bit, he could press his mouth to your inner thigh—when the sharp heel of your stiletto plants firmly against his forehead.
The pressure isn't hard enough to hurt, just enough to stop his forward momentum. To keep him back.
He looks up at you, disbelief warring with arousal.
Surely you're joking?
There's no way you're genuinely stopping him when he's this close, when you're this wet, when everything about this moment has been building toward his mouth on you.
Right?
"The vibrator," you say, extending your hand, heel still pressed lightly to his skin. "Give it to me."
His throat works as he swallows, suddenly parched. "Don't you want me to—"
"The vibrator, Ro."
The nickname, combined with the firm tone, makes his cock make a mating dance against the zipper of his jeans. He places the toy in your outstretched hand, watches as you examine it with curious eyes.
You turn it over in your palm, studying it like it's a puzzle to solve. Your brow furrows slightly as you locate the power button, press it experimentally, and soon enough its low hum fills the space as the toy comes to life, vibrating gently in your hand.
"I've never used one before," you admit, and he already knew.
You told him that much before buying it.
Nonetheless, the idea that he gets to witness this first for you—it does something to him.
Makes him feel special in a way he has no right to feel.
"Let me help," he offers, voice strained. "I can show you how—"
"I think I can figure it out," you interrupt, but there's uncertainty in your eyes as you look at the different buttons, the various settings.
Fuck, you're adorable. Even spread-eagle on a table with a vibrator in your hand, there's something so endearing about your determination to figure this out on your own.
He watches, mesmerized, as you press another button. The vibration intensifies, making you jump slightly at the change. Your finger slips, pressing yet another button, and suddenly the toy is pulsing in a rhythm that has him imagining it pressed against you, imagining your reaction to that particular pattern.
He can't take it.
"Here," he says, reaching up, a bit desperate, a tad impatient. "May I?"
After a moment's hesitation, you nod, removing your heel from his forehead and allowing him to rise up on his knees. He takes the vibrator from you, quickly familiarizing himself with the controls.
"This button cycles through the patterns," he explains, demonstrating as the toy shifts from steady vibration to pulsing to waves. "And this one controls the intensity."
He presses it, the vibration becoming stronger under his thumb.
"Start low and work your way up."
He hands it back to you, then you glare at him and okay, he immediately settles back on his heels, waiting. Watching. Fucking aching to see what you do next.
You take the toy, reset it to the lowest steady vibration, and then—God help him—you bring it to your breast first. Circle your nipple with it, eyes fluttering closed at the sensation.
"Fuck," he breathes, the word barely audible over the hum of the vibrator.
He shifts on his knees, trying to adjust himself without being too obvious about it. His jeans have become a torture device, constricting him painfully as he watches you explore.
The vibrator trails down your stomach, leaving goosebumps in its wake. He can see them form on your skin, can see the way your muscles tense in anticipation as the toy moves lower, lower—
And then it's there, pressed against your clit, and the sound you make—a soft, surprised gasp followed by a deeper moan—nearly ends him.
"Good?" he asks, voice wrecked.
You nod, eyes still closed, hips already starting to move against the vibration. "Good. Really good."
He leans forward instinctively, mouth watering at the sight of you pleasuring yourself. He wants to taste you, wants to feel the vibrations against his tongue as he licks around the toy.
Wants to be part of this moment in a way that's more than just watching.
But as he moves closer, your eyes snap open, fixing him with a look that stops him cold.
You extend your leg, the one that was dangling off the table, pressing the point of your stiletto against his chest this time.
"Just watch," you command, voice breathy but firm.
He blinks, sure he's misheard. "What?"
"I said watch." You adjust the vibrator slightly, finding a better angle that makes your breath hitch, toe of your shoe pressing more firmly against his sternum. "Don't touch. Just... watch me."
Is he dreaming? Having some kind of bizarre hallucination? There's no way you're asking him to just sit here while you get yourself off right in front of him.
No fucking way.
"You're joking," he says, but the steady look in your eyes tells him you're not. "Nix, come on. You can't expect me to—"
"I can," you interrupt, increasing the vibration intensity with a press of your thumb. The change makes you gasp, hips lifting slightly off the table. "And I do."
He blinks, eyebrows tugging upwards in a cross motion. "Do you want me to bust untouched? Is that it? Because that's cruel, even for you."
A smile curves your lips, mischievous and knowing. "Maybe I just want to see if you can behave for once."
"I behave," he protests, even as his eyes remain fixed on the vibrator, on the way it glides through your wetness, on how your thighs have started to tremble already.
On those fucking shoes that, for some inexplicable reason, are making this whole situation at least ten times hotter.
"Prove it," you challenge, and fuck—he's never been able to resist a challenge from you.
Never really been able to back down when you push him like this.
So he stays where he is, on his knees, hands fisted at his sides, watching as you explore the toy, as you find what feels good, as you experiment with different patterns and pressures. Your foot still rests against his chest, not pushing him away now, just... there.
A point of contact that feels both like ambrosia and agony.
It's torture. Beautiful, exquisite torture to be this close and not touch you. To smell your arousal and not taste it. To hear your moans growing louder and know he's not the direct cause.
But it's also—strangely, unexpectedly—one of the hottest things he's ever witnessed.
Because you're not performing for him. You're genuinely discovering what you like, what makes you feel good. And there's something incredibly intimate about being allowed to witness that, about being trusted enough to see you this vulnerable, this real.
"That's it," he encourages as your movements become more focused, as you settle into a rhythm with the vibrator that has your breathing turning shallow. "Just like that. You look so fucking good, Nix."
Your eyes meet his, heavy-lidded but alert, and for a moment, he can’t help but stare back.
Then you close your eyes again, lost in the sensation as the vibrator buzzes steadily against your clit. Your free hand comes up to your breast, pinching your nipple in time with the pulsations of the toy, and he groans at the sight.
Your foot presses harder against his chest, whether intentionally or as an unconscious reaction to your growing pleasure, he doesn't know.
Doesn't care.
"Cruel," he mutters, because he needs to at least let you know. “You're fucking cruel, you know that?"
His eyes are fixed on your pussy like it's the only thing in the universe worth looking at. Maybe it is. The way you're working that vibrator against yourself, the little circular motions, the way your hips lift occasionally when you hit just the right spot—it's driving him fucking insane.
His dick is so hard it hurts at this point, and he thinks it's going to start a mutiny. He shifts his weight, trying to get some relief, but it only makes things worse. His forehead thumps against the corner of the table in frustrated surrender.
"God fucking hell," he groans, the wood cool against his skin. "Nix, I need to lick you. Please. Just—let me taste you."
You look down at him, eyes heavy-lidded but gleaming with amusement. Your stiletto traces a path down his chest, and when it reaches his stomach, you press slightly, the point digging into the muscle there.
A warning.
A tease.
He's not sure which, but it makes his cock throb painfully either way.
"What was that?" you ask, lifting the vibrator just enough that he can see how wet you are, how your pussy glistens in the low light. "I didn't quite hear you."
Fucking tease. Fucking gorgeous, evil tease.
"I said I need to lick you," he repeats, louder this time, pride completely abandoned. "Let me put my mouth on you. Let me make you feel good."
You pretend to consider it, tilting your head like you're weighing your options. Meanwhile, he's about to combust from the inside out.
"I don't know," you muse, trailing the vibrator up to circle around your clit, making yourself gasp. "I'm doing pretty well on my own, don't you think?"
Your stiletto moves again, tracing along the inside of his thigh. He tenses, breath catching as it moves higher, closer to the straining bulge in his jeans.
“Phee,” he bites back a groan. "You're doing amazing. Fucking incredible. But I can make it better. You know I can."
"Hmm." You press the vibrator directly against your clit again, eyes fluttering closed for a moment before fixing back on him. "Maybe if you ask nicely."
Is this really happening? Are you really making him beg? His cock twitches at the thought, answering that question with an emphatic yes.
He swallows, throat dry.
"Please," he says, voice rough. "Please let me help."
The word lies suspended between you.
Please. Such a simple word, but one he doesn't use often—not like this, not with this much raw need behind it.
Your eyes widen slightly, like you weren't expecting him to actually do it. To actually beg. But then a slow smile spreads across your face, and you nod.
"Since you asked so nicely," you say. "Go ahead."
He doesn't need to be told twice. He surges forward, hands gripping your thighs, spreading them wider as he buries his face against you.
The first swipe of his tongue makes you both moan—you from the sensation, him from finally, finally getting to taste you.
You taste amazing.
Like always.
Like something he could get addicted to if he's not careful.
"Fuck," he groans against you, the word vibrating against your sensitive flesh. "So fucking good."
He could honestly cum like this. Right now. Just from the taste of you on his tongue, from the way your thighs tense around his head, from the little gasps you make.
He knows he's got blue balls at this point. Knows his cock is probably leaking precum into his boxers, making a mess he'll have to deal with later. But he doesn't really care.
Until you kind of make him care.
"Jerk off."
He freezes, tongue mid-lick.
Did he hear that right?
Looking up at you, genuinely confused, he asks, "What?"
Your answer is a knowing smile and a slight increase in pressure as the heel traces the outline of his cock through the denim. Not enough to hurt, just enough to make him incredibly aware of how hard he is.
"I want you to get yourself off while you eat me out, Ro."
Jesus Christ.
When did you get so fucking bossy? And why is it turning him on so much?
"Yeah," he says, almost to himself, fumbling with his zipper. "Yeah, okay, absolutely I can do that."
His hands shake slightly as he undoes his jeans, shoving them and his boxers down just enough to free his cock. It springs up against his stomach, hard and flushed and so sensitive that even the brush of air against it makes him hiss.
"Shit," he warns, wrapping a hand around himself, already knowing this isn't going to last long. "Just a heads up, but this might be embarrassingly short."
You laugh, the sound turning into a gasp as he dives back in. Your leg dangles over his shoulder now, heel pressing slightly against his back.
"That's okay," you manage to say between breaths. "I'm pretty close too."
Thank fuck for that. Because the moment his hand starts moving on his cock, he knows he's on borrowed time.
The vibrator hasn't stopped. That's the thing that's driving him absolutely fucking insane. You've got it pressed right against your clit, humming on its lowest setting while he licks at your lips, tasting every inch of you except the one spot you're keeping for yourself.
It's maddening.
It's genius.
It's the hottest thing he's ever experienced.
His tongue traces your entrance, dipping just slightly inside before retreating to lick broad strokes along your folds. He's taking his time despite his own desperation, despite the way his hand is working his cock at a steady, measured pace.
Because he wants this to last, wants to savor the privilege of having his face between your thighs while you take your pleasure so confidently.
"More," you breathe above him, and he's not sure if you're talking to him or yourself.
But then your fingers move, pressing a button on the vibrator, and the hum intensifies. The sound changes pitch, grows deeper, more insistent. Your hips jerk in response, a gasp falling from your lips that sends blood rushing to his already throbbing cock.
His fist tightens instinctively, pace quickening to match the vibrator's new rhythm. It's like his body is syncing with the toy, with your pleasure, his own arousal tied directly to yours.
"Fuck, Nix," he groans against you, the words muffled but still audible. "You're so fucking wet. So fuckin’ good, I swear—I swear I could do this for hours.”
“But you won’t last hours,” you tease, rolling your hips against his face. “Will you?”
He shakes his head, not even bothering to deny it. Not when his balls are already drawing up tight, not when each stroke of his hand brings him closer to the edge.
“Nngh—no,” he admits, the word punctuated by a particularly firm stroke that has his hips bucking into his fist. “Not gonna—ah—not gonna last long at all.”
Because the truth is, he’s dizzy with it—your taste, your scent, the sounds you're making above him. It's overwhelming in the best possible way, a sensory overload that makes his cock pulse in his grip, precome slicking the way as his fist moves faster, more urgently.
You shift the vibrator slightly, angling it for better contact, and your free hand finds his hair. Fingers tangle in the strands, not quite pulling but definitely directing, holding him exactly where you want him.
"Inside," you command, voice breathless but clear. "I want your tongue inside me."
He doesn't hesitate. Doesn't even think. Just obeys, tongue pushing past your entrance, delving into the wet heat of you while the vibrator continues its relentless assault on your clit.
The angle is awkward, his neck craned to accommodate both the toy and his mouth, but he doesn't care.
Can't care about anything beyond the way you clench around his tongue, the way your thighs tremble against his cheeks, the way your grip tightens in his hair.
His cock throbs in his hand, so sensitive now that each stroke sends sparks shooting up his spine, and fuck he's close—so fucking close—but he's determined to make you come first. Wants to feel you pulsing around his tongue, wants to experience every tremor of your orgasm firsthand.
Above him, your breathing has grown ragged; little gasps and moans that tell him you're getting close too.
"Don't stop," you gasp, basically riding his face at this point. "God, don't stop."
As if he would.
As if he could tear himself away from this even if the building were on fire.
Your thighs start to shake in earnest now, little tremors that grow stronger by the second. The hand in his hair clenches, your stiletto digs into his back, the pressure increasing as your body tenses, and now he just knows; knows how close you are to the edge.
It makes his strokes faster, more desperate.
“Shit,” he gasps, pulling back for air. “Fuck, I’m gonna—”
“Don’t stop,” you command, lost in a whine. “Don’t you dare stop.”
And he feels it the moment you start to come—the way your inner walls flutter around his tongue, the sudden flood of wetness, the sharp cry that tears from your throat. His name, maybe. Or just a sound of pure pleasure. He's too far gone to tell the difference.
But it doesn't matter. What matters is that you're coming on his tongue, coming while he tastes you, while the vibrator buzzes against your clit, while his cock throbs in his hand, so close to his own release that he can feel it building at the base of his spine.
He pushes his tongue deeper, wanting to feel every pulse, every contraction of your orgasm. The vibrator keeps buzzing, prolonging the sensation, pushing you higher and higher until your hand finally yanks at his hair, pulling him back when it becomes too much.
"Fuck," you gasp, voice wrecked, vibrator still humming in your grip though you've pulled it away from your oversensitive clit. "Fuck, Ro."
The sound of his nickname—that stupid nickname you’ve given him—paired with the sight of you flushed and trembling from an orgasm he helped create, is what does it. What finally pushes him over the edge.
His release hits him then, stealing his breath as his cock pulses in his hand, spilling onto the hardwood floor in hot spurts that seem to go on forever.
He groans against your thigh, face pressed into the soft skin there as his hips jerk, chasing the last waves of pleasure.
“Ffff—shit,” he slurs as he strokes himself through the aftershocks. “Holy sssh—oh—fuck… Ahhh.”
For a moment, there's nothing but the sound of breathing, harsh and uneven. The vibrator still hums softly, forgotten in your hand until you fumble for the off button, plunging them into sudden silence.
Jungkook rests his forehead against your thigh, trying to catch his breath, trying to remember how to form coherent thoughts.
His hand is sticky, his knees ache from the hardwood floor, his back tingles from the trail your heel left across it, and he’s pretty sure he’ll never be able to look at the entryway table the same way again.
But fuck if it wasn't worth it.
He pulls back, gasping for breath, his hand still loosely gripping his spent cock. He probably looks a mess—hair wild from your hands, face shiny with your wetness, expression dazed and satisfied.
"Christ," he breathes, looking up at you with something close to awe.
"Yeah," you agree, equally breathless.
A moment passes where you just look at each other, both trying to process what just happened. Then, because he's Jungkook and he can't help himself, he grins.
"So," he says, wiping his mouth with the back of his clean hand. "I guess you like the vibrator I picked, huh?"
You roll your eyes, but there's no real annoyance there. Just a kind of fond exasperation that makes his chest feel weird and tight.
"It's alright," you say, casual as anything, like you weren't just having what looked like the most intense orgasm of your life. "Could've been better."
He laughs, full and genuine. "Liar."
Your lips twitch, fighting a smile. "Maybe."
He sits back on his heels, suddenly aware of the mess he's made on the floor. "We should, uh, probably clean up before Yoongi gets home."
You nod, both legs dangling off the table. “Wouldn’t want to scandalize him.”
"He's seen worse," Jungkook says without thinking, then flinches. "I mean—not with me. Just, you know, in general. Living with roommates and all."
You give him a look that's equal parts amusement and skepticism. "Right."
Awkward silence falls as the reality of what just happened settles in, because this? Yeah, it was sex. But this time you took control, you made him beg, you saw him at his most desperate and needy.
And he... liked it. More than he probably should have.
"So," he says, tucking himself back into his jeans with as much dignity as possible. "That was fun."
You snort. "Such a way with words, Ro."
"What can I say? I'm a poet."
He gathers the dress from the floor and gives it to you. You throw the dress at his head, but you're laughing, and he thinks—not for the first time—that he likes that sound. Likes being the cause of it.
He doesn’t analyze it further than needs to be.
He catches the dress, handing it back to you with exaggerated chivalry. "Your garment, m'lady."
"You're an idiot," you say, but there's no bite to it. Just that weird, fond tone that makes his stomach do strange things.
Fully on both legs now, he places both his arms between your spread thighs, his face hovering close to yours, tilting to the side.
"Yeah," he agrees, because sometimes the simplest truth is the easiest to admit. "But I'm an idiot who makes you cum really fucking hard, so..."
And there it is—that flash in your eyes, that hint of heat that never seems to fully dissipate between you two.
"Don't get cocky," you warn.
Too late, he thinks. Way too late for that.
He stands there with the taste of you still on his lips and he can't help but feel satisfied.
Good.
“Does this mean we’re not fighting anymore?”
You laugh, the sound bright and genuine in the quiet room. “I guess not.”
“Good. Because that was a fucking stupid fight anyway.”
“It was,” you agree. “But the makeup sex was worth it.”
“Always is with us.”
And that’s the truth of it, isn’t it? No matter how much you argue, no matter how much you drive each other crazy, this thing between you—this chemistry, this connection—always brings you back together.
No strings attached, just pure, perfect understanding of what the other needs.
It’s not love. It’s not even like, most days. But it’s something.
Something that works for both of you.
And then, Jungkook feels your forehead press against his shoulder, which catches him off guard. Not because it’s heavy or anything—it’s not—but because it’s you.
You, who usually keeps your distance unless you're actively trying to rile him up. You, who just made him beg on his knees like some desperate idiot a few minutes ago.
And now you’re here, leaning into him like this is normal. Like this is fine.
It’s... nice. He hates that it’s nice.
His lips twitch upward despite himself, a soft smile breaking through the lingering haze of post-orgasmic bliss. His hand moves before he can think better of it, sliding up your back in a slow, deliberate stroke. His palm presses lightly between your shoulder blades, fingers splaying out as he rubs soothing circles into your skin.
Your back is warm under his touch—soft in places, firm in others—and he thinks about how strange it is that he knows what you feel like now. Not just your skin but the way you move under his hands, the way your muscles tense and relax depending on what he’s doing to you.
It’s intimate in a way that makes something uncomfortable stir in his chest if he lingers on it too long.
So he doesn’t linger.
“Cleanup?” he asks, voice low and rough from everything that just happened.
You grunt. Not a word, not even a real sound—just a grunt. Like the idea of moving is physically painful to you right now.
He chuckles softly, the sound vibrating through both of you.
“Alright,” he says, hand still on your back as if that’s going to keep you from sliding off the table and face-planting onto the floor. “Let me get some wipes.”
Another grunt. This one sounds more annoyed than tired, but he can’t tell for sure because your face is still buried against his shoulder.
“Don’t tell me…” He pauses for dramatic effect because he knows how much you hate when he does that. “You’re a cuddlebug?”
That gets a reaction. Your head snaps up so fast he almost flinches, and then you’re shoving at his chest with both hands like you’re trying to push him off the planet.
“Fuck you,” you mutter, but there’s no real heat behind it. Your hands stay on his chest for a second longer than necessary before falling back to your sides.
He snorts, stepping back and giving you space because even though he likes teasing you (maybe too much), he knows when to quit.
Most of the time, anyway.
“Stay there,” he says over his shoulder as he heads toward his room. “Don’t move.”
You don’t respond this time—not even a grunt—but when he glances back, you’re still perched on the edge of the table looking thoroughly unimpressed with life.
Very you, indeed.
Then he's stepping into his bedroom, and of course, it is dark when he steps inside, the only light coming from the hallway spilling in behind him.
He grabs the container of wet wipes from his nightstand (don’t ask why they’re there; that’s none of anyone’s business) and heads back out before his brain can start overthinking anything.
When he returns to the entryway, you haven’t moved an inch. You’re still sitting there with both legs dangling off the table.
And for a moment, he can’t help but think the sight is oddly cute.
“Alright,” he says again as if this is some kind of official business meeting instead of… whatever this is. “Let’s get this over with.”
He crouches down first, wiping at the floor where his cum has left an embarrassing mess that Yoongi would absolutely kill him for if he saw it later. The hardwood glistens faintly under the light as he scrubs at it with more force than necessary—partly because it needs to be cleaned properly and partly because maybe if he focuses hard enough on this task, he won’t think about how close your legs are or how good you smelled earlier or how fucking soft your skin felt under his hands.
When he's done with that part (and only when he's sure it's spotless), he straightens up and turns toward you.
Your eyes are on him—soft but unreadable—and it makes something twist in his stomach that has nothing to do with hunger or exhaustion or anything else logical.
“What?” he asks because apparently silence makes him nervous now.
You shake your head slightly, lips curving into something that might be a smile if it weren’t so small and fleeting.
“Nothing.”
He doesn’t believe you—not for a second—but decides not to push it because pushing things with you in this state never ends well for him.
Instead, he steps closer until he's standing between your legs again and tilts his head toward yours like he's trying to figure out what you're thinking without actually asking outright.
"Hold still," he murmurs after a beat of hesitation that's barely noticeable but feels significant anyway.
The wipe is cool against your skin as he starts cleaning you up—gentle but thorough in a way that surprises even himself. Your eyes stay on him the whole time—watchful but not wary—and it makes him feel weirdly self-conscious even though there’s no reason for it.
When he's finished (and only when he's sure you're clean), he tosses the used wipe into the trash can by the door without looking away from you entirely.
"Sleep?" he asks after another moment of silence stretches between you like an elastic band ready to snap at any second now if someone doesn’t say something soon enough.
“Yeah.” You murmur. “Your bed.”
Jungkook blinks at you like he’s not sure he heard right.
Not because it’s weird—okay, maybe it’s a little weird—but because you said it so casually. Like it’s the most normal thing in the world to ask to sleep in his bed after everything that just happened.
He doesn’t know what to say at first. He’s not used to this part—the after part. Usually, there isn’t an after part. It’s just sex, then goodbye, then see you whenever.
But this? This feels different in a way he can’t quite put his finger on, and it makes his brain stutter for a second before he finally manages to respond.
“Uh… yeah,” he says, scratching the back of his neck awkwardly. “Sure.”
You don’t say anything else, just lift your arms slightly like you’re expecting him to do something.
He stares at you for a moment, confused, until it clicks.
“Oh, come on,” he mutters, rolling his eyes but already stepping closer. “You’re not serious.”
You just raise an eyebrow at him, and yep—you’re serious.
“Lazy ass,” he grumbles under his breath as he bends down to scoop you up.
Your arms loop around his neck automatically, and your legs wrap around his waist like this is something you do all the time instead of… well, never. He tries not to think about how natural it feels or how warm you are against him or how your breath brushes against his collarbone when you settle into his hold.
It’s fine. Totally fine. This is just… practical.
Yeah.
Practical.
He carries you with ease because let’s be real—he could probably bench press you if he wanted to—and nudges his bedroom door open with his foot.
“Alright,” he says as he approaches the bed and leans forward slightly to deposit you onto the mattress. “Here we go.”
But instead of letting go like a normal person, you cling tighter for half a second before finally releasing him with a grunt that sounds suspiciously like reluctance. He doesn’t comment on it because honestly? He doesn’t trust himself not to make it weird if he does.
You flop onto your back with all the grace of a drunk cat and immediately start wiggling around like you’re trying to make yourself comfortable in record time. Jungkook just stands there for a moment, watching you with an expression he doesn't even know how to describe.
“You good?” he asks once you’ve finally stopped moving and are lying still with your eyes closed like this is your bed and not his.
“Mmhm,” you hum without opening your eyes.
He shakes his head but doesn’t bother arguing because what’s the point?
Then he’s going to lay down too, but you sprawl onto his bed like you’re claiming it for yourself, arms and legs stretched out in every direction like some kind of human starfish.
Jungkook snorts, standing at the side of the bed with his hands on his hips like a disappointed parent.
“Move,” he says, nudging at your foot with his knee. “I want to sleep too.”
You crack one eye open, squinting at him.
“Then sleep,” you mumble, voice muffled by the pillow your face is half-buried in.
“I can’t sleep,” he says, gesturing dramatically at your starfish pose. “Not unless you move your limbs out of my personal space.”
You grunt something unintelligible but make no effort to move.
He sighs—long and exaggerated—before climbing onto the bed anyway, shoving at your leg until you reluctantly curl up enough to give him room.
He flops down beside you with all the grace of someone who’s been awake for far too long and immediately starts adjusting himself into what he considers optimal sleeping position.
Except there’s one problem: his arm.
It’s stuck under him, bent awkwardly against his side instead of stretched out under the pillow where it belongs. He tries shifting around to fix it but quickly realizes there’s no way to do that without encroaching on your territory.
“Hey,” he says, nudging at your side with his foot now.
“What?” you snap, voice sharp despite how tired you sound.
“Let me extend my arm under the pillow.”
“No.”
“What do you mean no?”
“I mean no,” you repeat stubbornly, turning your head just enough to glare at him over your shoulder. “Figure it out without bothering me.”
He stares at you for a second like he can’t believe what he’s hearing before deciding that negotiation is clearly not going to work here.
So instead, he does what any reasonable person would do in this situation: he forcefully shoves his arm under your neck like it belongs there.
You jerk upright immediately, twisting around to face him with wide eyes and an expression that screams 'what the actual fuck'.
“Bro,” you say, voice incredulous as you try—and fail—to push his arm away. “Get off me.”
“Bro,” he says simply, already settling back down like this is perfectly normal behavior between roommates who occasionally hook up but definitely aren’t friends yet (or whatever this is). “You’re in my bed. Shut up and act like a plushie or something.”
“A plushie?” You sound so offended that he almost laughs but manages to hold it back because laughing right now would probably get him kicked out of his own bed.
“Yes,” he says firmly, pulling the blanket over both of you with one hand while keeping his other arm firmly in place under your neck. “A plushie.”
You open your mouth to argue—because of course you do—but he shuts it down with a loud, drawn-out “SSSSHHHHH” that’s so over-the-top, so him, it stops you cold.
“Sleep,” he adds a second later, voice low, eyes already shut like the matter’s settled and he’s the authority on bedtime now.
The room stills. One of those dumb, drawn-out silences where neither of you wants to move first. Like shifting even an inch might make it real. Might make it weird.
But then you sigh. Loud. Dramatic. Flopping back down beside him like you’ve just made the ultimate sacrifice.
“Fine,” you mutter, sharp as ever, head hitting the pillow with a thud. “But if I wake up with a crick in my neck because of this stupid arm thing—”
“You won’t,” he says, already drifting, smug and certain and way too casual for someone who just turned a routine argument into a full-body tangle.
You mumble something under your breath—probably rude, definitely deserved—and go quiet.
And for a second, he just lies there. Listening to your breathing even out. Feeling the slight pull of your body next to his.
The ridiculousness of the situation should hit harder than it does.
But it doesn’t.
It actually feels…weirdly good.
Not in the usual way. Not in the easiest way.
Just—solid. Like he hasn’t fucked it up yet.
Which is a surprise, considering he really thought he had.
After Tuesday.
After the whole Jason thing—the fight that was never really about Jason. The way the guy had looked like every goddamn red flag Jungkook had ever ignored. Too neat, too careful, too condescending behind a smile that felt fake even from a hallway away.
He’d projected. Hard. Got scared on your behalf. Angry in that twitchy, irrational way he hates. Like he couldn’t stand the thought of you falling into something he knew could break you.
But that wasn’t fair. Wasn’t his choice. You’re not fragile. You’re you. You can make your own calls without his fears bleeding into them.
And he should know better by now. Should’ve remembered that you’ve survived things he doesn’t even ask about.
Instead, he snapped. Like he always does when things get too close. Like he’s got some built-in timer that detonates as soon as someone sees more than they’re supposed to.
So yeah. He’d assumed it was done. That he’d pushed too hard, too fast—again.
That whatever fragile thing had been building between you would crack right down the middle, just like every other almost-connection he’s tried to hold onto.
But then… you’d talked. Actually talked.
And—somehow—you’d listened.
Not just tolerated him. Heard him.
And tonight, he thinks—for the first time in a long, long time—he feels…comfortable. With a woman. With you.
And yeah, okay—he kind of likes that.
It’s not some life-changing moment. Not some movie scene epiphany.
Just this quiet flicker of maybe. Of could be.
Maybe he can have this. A woman beside him. No pressure. No angle. No romantic feelings. No attachments, no entanglements. Not drama, not hurt.
Just a dumb, chaotic almost-friendship built on late-night arguments and questionable sleep arrangements.
And fuck—he’s kind of proud of that.
So he lets his eyes fall shut. Lets the warmth settle. Lets the thought linger.
Not friendship. Not yet.
But maybe.
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