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BARRY KEOGHAN ↳ But yeah, he's…Nah. He's just, he's a gorgeous person, honestly. ↳ 'SALTBURN' Press | Digital Spy · Dec. 2023

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I LIKE KISSING MEN

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Dumbass Human Vox and Alastor doodles.

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If You Want to Give Me Anything (Then Give In)

Simon 'Ghost' Riley x John 'Soap' MacTavish

Rating: Mature Wordcount: 1.8k Summary: Ghoap are gay. They are soldiers. They yearn and flirt and it's not really anything. Is it? (Soap POV) CW: Mentions of (past) homophobia towards Soap, blood, canon-typical violence, Ghost gets hurt bad, yearning, awful flirting (I promise all ends well) A/N: Found the dividers here. huuuuuge shoutout to @patchmates for being my wonderful wonderful beta and affirming me that i do have some grasp on these two fuckers. mwah mwah!

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Part I

It’s been going on for weeks. Months, even. It’s never really anything – stupid banter, dumb jokes between mates. Flirting the way men in the military flirt with each other. It’s normal. It’s not anything, no more than bonding and the lack of opportunities to get laid. It’s the way they communicate. Soap knows this, has done this, has been doing this for years.

It’s never anything.

The most it usually led to was teasing remarks from his mates – I’ll start to think ya mean it, Tav, if ya keep goin’ like that. The worst it has led to was hatred and fear, it was slurs smeared on his door and shit in his bed. Shoves and elbows in the locker room that bruised, a cracked rib and no one to help him. Dirty looks, always in places the higher-ups won’t see.  Not that they would have done anything about it.

It’s been years since Soap has let it escalate like that, though, he’s learned from his experiences. Doesn’t try anything with military men, not anymore, because it’s never been safe, and he’s been sold out for a laugh one too many times to risk it.

Instead, every once in a while, he finds himself a nice bloke to fuck when he’s on leave, always a one-and-done deal, never more, never longer. He doesn’t want anybody crying for him when he doesn’t make it back.

Soap doesn’t think too hard on the fact that he hasn’t found anyone in months. Hasn’t had the desire to. Hasn’t gone out to meet anbody, hasn’t even kissed another person… Not since he joined the 141. Not since-

It’s never anything.

“Johnny,” the hushed whisper in his ear rips him from his musings. Soap scoffs to himself. Fuckin’ perfect timing this one has, always. Like he fucking knows when Soap is-

Christ, shut up. Shut up.

His own mic crackles to life when Soap clears his throat.

“Aye, what’s the matter then, LT?”

“You gonna move your arse some time today? Gonna start to think you’re squattin’ just to give me somethin’ nice to look at, eh?”

(It’s never anything.)

“Fuck off, LT, I was readin’!” Soap defends himself. With a guilty pang, he waves the stack of papers he has gathered in the air as if to prove it. He knows Ghost can see him, knows the building has been cleared, which is why Soap allowed himself to get so fucking distracted in the first place.

Stupid, MacTavish. So fucking stupid. One of these days it’ll get ye fuckin’ killed.

“Slow reader, are ya? Always took ya for faster than that.”

“Och, away an’- brain goes too fast, cannae keep the words straight,” Soap mumbles, more to himself. He doesn’t owe Ghost a fucking explanation, the wanker. Certainly won’t explain that he was actually distracted by the thought of what it might feel like to roll up that mask, kiss the scars that hide under there, kiss the-

“Straight, huh? Unlike-”

A gurgling scream cuts Ghost off mid-word. All of a sudden it’s so fucking quiet on the other end.

Soap bites his tongue so hard he tastes blood. Surely this is just Ghost fucking with him (he has never done this before, would be against regulations). Surely, this is just Ghost dicking around; his voice will crackle to life in Soap’s ear again, rough and beautiful like always and Soap will call him a bastard and Ghost will call him a wanker, and Soap will make a joke about wanking and-

(It’s never anything.)

A few seconds pass. The line stays quiet.

“Ghost?” Soap isn’t panicking. He is too good for that. But he is worried, can hear it in his own voice, can feel his heartbeat thunder in his ears. “LT, request ye check in.”

Nothing. Silence on Ghost’s end, deadly and dripping in violence.

“Fuck. Fuck,” Soap whispers to himself.

Decides to just take the stack of papers, shoves them all in his pack. He can sort through them later. The others are too far away, it was supposed to be just him and Ghost, and Ghost wasn’t even supposed to get involved. A silent takedown, this was meant to be, a quick slitting of throats, one guard killed by Ghost’s fatal trigger finger and two more when Soap snapped their necks. Nobody was ever supposed to know they were here. Nobody did know.

“LT, how copy?” he repeats, just to make sure.

There is nothing, then-

A crackle, a groan, the huff of someone whose air is getting pressed out their lungs, then shrill feedback that nearly blows Soap’s eardrums out and then – silence again. Cursed fucking silence, which means nothing good, nothing fucking good has ever come of silence.

Soap’s blood roars.

Fuck. FUCK!

Soap books it. He’s out the door in seconds, out the buildings within the minute, sprinting full speed to where he knows Ghost’s vantage point was.

Can’t be too late, can’t be too late, he’s never been too late, Ghost is good, he’s so fucking good at what he does, he’s fine, he has to be-

All Soap hears is the cracking of dry wood beneath his soles as he slows down, approaching the nest Ghost had built to keep Johnny safe from afar. Not a single sound in the air, not a fucking bird singing.

“LT,” Soap hisses through his teeth. “LT, ye hear me?”

A quiet groan rips through the silence, there is the barely audible stir of metal against metal, and then-

“Johnny?”

“Fuck!”

Around the tree, just steps away from Soap, Ghost is propped up, a man curled over him in a weird position, leaking red from a smile that’s too low to be his mouth. Ghost’s one hand is curled in the man’s hair, fist so tight it must be white underneath the dark fabric of his glove.

His other hand holds the knife, dripping blood, fingers curled loosely around the hilt. The moment Ghost’s dark eyes meet Soap’s, the knife clatters to the ground.

Johnny is by his side in no time at all, is cradling his head in his own bloodied hands, is staring at him, trying to gauge how bad it is.

“He get ye, LT?”

Ghost just groans in response, shoves the dead body off his lap as he nods in sluggish motions.

“Fucker came from the back, had a knife in my fuckin’ side before I knew what was what- cut my fuckin’ mic off-”

Soap’s fingers search frantically for the wound, find it, press down on it, down on the hot blood like he could keep it inside if he tried hard enough.

“Yer so fuckin’ pale I couldnae tell if ye were bleedin’ oot, LT,” he jokes weakly.

“Be fine, Sergeant.” Ghost stares at him with intent eyes, something in there Soap can’t quite place. “Be alright. You’re here now, aren’t ya?”

Soap nods, still pressing down on the wound.

“I go’ ye, Ghost. I’ve got ye now. Even have what we came for,’s all right here.”

“Well done, sweet’eart.” Ghost’s eyes are slipping shut as he says it, and Soap’s heart skips a beat – skips two beats, only to make up for it after. Blood soaks Soap’s hands but all he can hear is Ghost’s gritty voice. Sweet’eart.

It’s never anything.

But Soap is weak, he’s so fucking weak for this man, and words push their way past his lips before he can hold them back, bottle them up like he has done for months, like he does every time Ghost opens his damn mouth, and now he’s bleeding and-

“Don’t- fuckin’ say tha’ if ye don’t mean it, LT,” Johnny chokes out, his voice rough.

“Mmm.”

The sound Ghost makes is barely a sound at all. His eyes don’t open when Soap taps his cheek, and suddenly, Soap’s heart is racing for a different reason entirely.

“Oy- OY! Stay with me now, LT, come on- come on, I’ll call for help, we’ll fix ye right up, won’t we- Ghost- Simon!” Soap is definitely not panicking. He’s too good for that. His fingers are not shaking when he calls it in, his voice does not break when he hears Price confirm they are just two minutes out. Soap’s eyes are dry as he keeps talking to Ghost – taling to Simon –, as he patches up the wound as best he can, and keeps talking and talking and talking.

“Come on, doll. Come on, ye cannae die on me now, I fuckin’ refuse tae let ye. Ye will die when I fuckin’ say so an’ no’ a day before tha’, do ye hear me, Simon? Ye do nae get tae call me sweetheart an’ then just pass tae fuck oot so ye don’ have tae talk aboot it, who do ye think ye are, ye absolute rocket-”

Brown eyes blink awake, just for a moment, to stare at Soap from far away, clouded and tired with pain.

“You’re no better, Sergeant, are you? You and those fuckin’...” Ghost drifts off, mumbles something incoherent. Soap slaps his cheek, and Simon’s eyes slowly open again. “Mm, those… those bloody… fuck-me eyes ya make at me...”

What? 

Soap’s hand comes down again, harder and harder, slaps Simon awake again when his eyes – his beautiful eyes, framed by the whitest lashes Johnny has ever seen – threaten to close again.

“The fuck are ye on aboot, Ghost? Think all tha’ blood loss is gettin’ to ye, aye? Come on, hold on fer me just a little while longer, the Captain will be right there and we’ll get ye oot, come now, love-”

“Love.” Johnny can hear Simon smile through the mask, can see the crinkles of his skin and the corners of his eyes lift. “Gotta die for you to call me that, Johnny?”

“I’ll call ye tha’ whenever ye fuckin’ like if ye stay alive fer me, love.” Soap is not panicking. It’ll all be fine. Surely it will all be fine, God would not be so cruel-

“MacTavish!”

Price’s hand on his shoulder, just as Ghost sags down again, eyes fluttering closed. Impossibly white lashes against the stark, dead black of his greasepaint, covering the freckles Soap knows he hides there. Soap stares at him, presses the hands that cradled his face to Simon’s neck now, can feel a pulse, just barely.

Price is shaking him by the shoulder, impatient, worried.

“Come, Sergeant. Exfil point five minutes out, gotta carry this heavy fucker there somehow.”

“I’ll take him,” Soap says numbly, bats Price’s hand away when he offers to help him up. “Come on, Cap, I said I’ll fuckin’ take him.”

God fuck, Ghost is so heavy. Don’t call him dead weight, just don’t, he’s not- he can’t- he won’t be- he’ll be fine, just fine.

They make it. Just barely, just so, but they make it.

➤ Part II

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here you go lmao

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GOD banhammer is so fucking perfect, i've been staring at a picture of him in some way shape or form for probably like fifteen hours out of the last three days. he is just so very mwah i wanna bite his armor it looks so fucking cool bro. and his teeth, good LIRD his fucking teeth those chompers are driving me insane. i wanna put my hand in his mouth and i don't think i'd even be upset if he bit me for that, hell i want him to bite me. he could step on me too and pick me up and throw me down the stairs and i wouldn't even be mad. did i mention how fucking tall he is? mans is like 6 foot 11 inches, thats bonkers, he could punt me into the sun and i'd let him. his hands are probably huge as fuck too. i want him to hold me but i'd settle for being manhandled into a jail cell. he probably patrols the cells on occasion since he's just built different and i'd stand in my 'pathetic homosexual loser' cage and give him a gay little wave as he walks past. blow him a kiss and all that. he might not even notice because he's blindfolded which would be saddening but hey maybe i'll get to feel his touch when he drags me off to be executed or whatever. does he even execute his prisoners at all? if he doesn't i guess i will just rot in that cell until he sees fit to release me. bummer. or perhaps i could seduce him into letting me work as an assistant/maid/etc for him instead. he seems like he'd get off on having someone to order around directly, and i wouldn't mind obeying his every command. anyways as much as i'd enjoy letting him order me around it would probably get boring eventually. he'd probably melt immediately if i gave off even a whiff of dominance. mans still listens to his mom for fucks sake, he'll fold like a wet napkin if i yank him down to his knees and grab his chin. that might be tough with the size difference though. i could back him into a corner and grab his horns and pull his face down to mine and then kiss him or whisper to him or whatever. fuck yeah. not to mention he's blindfolded too, so i could mess around with that. he'd probably be kinda mouthy about it, especially if we have a significant strength difference, but he'd like it. putting a hand in his mouth would probably shut him up. god the thought of running my hand along his teeth is just so fucking enthralling. they look kinda similar to shark teeth. built to maul people and yet here i am touching them like the most foolish creature upon god's green earth. cough this is getting a little too immersive whoops fuck uhhh right! his armor. the gems everywhere is attractive. shiny objects are so cool and banhammer has a gem on like every section of his armor. they probably make cuddling a tiny bit uncomfortable but that's par for the course with armor. i'd put up with it. his weapon looks sick as hell too but i am not a weapons connoisseur, i am a men connoisseur. and this one is delicious cough right his armor. his boots look pretty tough. they probably have treads that'd leave a good mark if he stepped on my back. that'd be cool. i'd let him dig his heel into me with great force. god at this point i dont even wanna fuck him i just want to either destroy or be destroyed by this man. good fucking god why did i write so much. *checks wiki* right he has four eyes. assuming they look like his mom's do it'd probably be pretty cute. two little extra ones beside his normal eyes. he probably winks by closing half his eyes. and now i'm thinking of various seductive faces he could make. i am down so bad i can't even. i wanna kiss him choke him slam him into a wall. or have him do that to me. i'm not picky. one of us is gonna be pathetic, obedient, and submissive and i frankly do not give a fuck which one it ends up being. i'd let him put a collar on me. the thought of banhammer wearing a collar is making my brain do terrible horrible things so i will leave it at that. i do draw the line at like 'daddy' shit tho that's not for me at all & he probably has daddy issues anyway

I've read this like 5 times and I have determined. I will post it.

behold: the banhammer manifesto. I don't think it gets crazier than this I think we've reached craziest post about ban on this blog. well done everyone! I'm going to go cry now bye forever /j

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WELCOME !

Little intro down below 💾💻✨

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• my name is Ashton-Stanley,but you can just call me Ash/Ashton or toastman

• im a guy, i go by he/it and i am gay and strictly aromantic (i cannot feel nor comprehend the idea of romantic attraction)

• im on the spectrum ♾️🌈

• i am an artist and i usually draw old men kissing and robots (its like a curse 💔)

• i like robots and computers...a bit too much

•my favourite aesthetics are computer/webcore,beachcore,vaporwave,kidcore and weirdcore

• i like the 2000s aesthetic and scene fashion

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• my special interests are :

Portal 1/2 || half-lifeverse

Pokemon (and just nintendo in general)

Computers,technology,coding

And my pookie mwah mwah ilysm <33/p @crowsummoner

• reoccurring & active hyperfixations :

Faith : the unholy trinity : ☀️

Ultrakill : ☀️

Dsaf / fnaf : ⛈️

Scp foundation : ☀️

The stanley parable : ⛅️

I have no mouth and i must scream : ⛅️

( active : ☀️ kinda active...ig ?: ⛅️ inactive : ⛈️)

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⚠️ Do not interact if you are a ⚠️ :

Pedo, zoo, radqueer, pro/comshitter, racist, homo/transphobe,ableist etc (well,bad people you wouldnt want to approach you)

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Thats all for now !

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I have toontown headcanons to share so I'm going to just go for it + canon honorifics

PRONOUNS!!!!!!11!11 ROMANCE!!11 AHHHHH1!!!11

Deep Diver is a bigender baddie, she/he (Mr/Ms). Update: I think it'd be really funny if Deep Diver was bigender and bisexual. baby bi bi bi,,,

Gatekeeper she/her (Ms) and also the swaggiest butch lesbian you'll ever see

Firestarter he/they (Mr/Mx) otd. My brain says demiboy and I KNOW he is gay as hell

Featherbedder they/he/she (Mx/Mr/Ms), non-binary in some way, most likely genderfluid. I don't know enough about them right now so that's all I got

Major Player he/hymn (Mr) (this is straight up from the official server), and I honestly think he's pan with a preference to men (Buck Ruffler and their freaky fusion)

Chainsaw Consultant looking like a he/they (Mr) transman, I also think he's bi

Mouthpiece my grandma. She/her (Mrs) and I am a trans grandma truther. She is the elder transhet to me.

Rainmaker she/they (Ms/Mx) and CALL ME INSANE BUT I think they're transmasc and I love her ok. Also bi

Witch Hunter he/him (Mr) and I don't know enough about him yet except he seems like a miserable bloke and a hater

Duck Shuffler he/they/it (Mr) transmasc (projecting lowkey) and he is gay as hell as well idc

Treekiller he/him (Mr) and I don't know enough about him yet either SORRY

Plutocrat he/him (Don/Mr) he seems cishet but I also don't know enough about him either

Bellringer he/him (Mr). I think he's cis but experimenting with he/they. Bi, British, Bell.

Prethinker he/him (Mr) transman? Transmasc? Not sure but he's transgender. Also pan

Multislacker He/They but maybe she too (Mr/Mx) methinks genderfluid. Its the colourscheme I promise. Somewhere on the asexual spectrum to me. Romance? Maybe, maybe not. Not sure.

Pacesetter he/him (Mr) + transman swagger with the gay gay boyfriend on top

RELATIONSHIPS + FAMILY WOOOAHHHH

Prefacing this with the warning of multishipping for funsies and I am a believer of polycules argue with the wall

Deep Diver according to cogs.ink hates Gatekeeper and Treekiller which is so funny to me because I think Deep Diver and Gatekeeper would be cute together

Deep Diver/Gatekeeper with Rainmaker is also so fire. Polycule them NOW

Firestarter and Pacesetter canon boyfriends

Also that one headcanon of Firestarter and Rainmaker being siblings is so cute I'm adopting it

Major Player fused with Duck Shuffler that one time and even though its not a canon event they're really good together. Love wins in every universe

Chainsaw Consultant with Duck Shuffler (thanks Sludge) kissy mwah mwah

Chainsaw Consultant and Rainmaker t4t swagger btw

Rainmaker already mentioned all above but yeah she should get soooo much love. Love wins. Multishipping wins. Polycules win.

Duck Shuffler has two hands to hold one for Major Player and one for Chainsaw Consultant. Polycules babeeey!!! And then I'm on his leg like a diseased animal.

Treekiller and Chainsaw Consultant brothers for realsies

Sometimes I think about that animatic with Plutocrat being interested in Mouthpiece with the spongebob audio. Yknow the one by cogmics. Lives in my head

Bellringer and Prethinker kissing. Idk where it came from but I think they're cute too

Also whoever came up with Pacesetter and Multislacker having a sibling like bond os brilliant. Adopted that hc now too.

Other STUPID HCS before I forget

RUNNING IN TO EDIT THIS BEFORE I FORGET. DUCK SHUFFLER AUTISM ADHD COMBO

CHAINSAW CONSULTANT AUTISM HC REAL TOO

I was talking to my sister about this one but I think it'd be funny if cogs reproduced by just building their offspring like in the Robots movie.

Building my son from scrap parts I found

And again in convo with my sister it'd be funny if toons reproduced by just drawing their children since they're literally cartoons

She said if you look ugly as a toon sorry your parents were just bad at art LMFAO

Furthermore this was to build our own lore on why our toons are siblings but different species and since we agree our dad would be a cog (which I did design) that he must've drawn our toons

Mfw we are our fathers oc

OK I think that's everything for now. I'm immediately sending this to everyone I know for approval

[klausinamarink]

Prompt: “rain” (discord drabble from STWG)

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Forecast said that today was going to be bright and sunny with some clouds later in the evening. The weatherman even said it was recommended to “go outside and spend a few hours with your loved ones.” They said. Nothing else can go wrong, they said.

Well…

“It could be worse.” Steve mutters as he stares at the windshield. The rainstorm isn’t bad enough to ruin the outdoor visibility, but it’s throwing several hundred drops per second on the slightly foggy glass.

“Worse how?” Eddie stares out through the passenger window, where he’s watching the muddy puddles on the roadside slowly grow bigger.

“It could’ve been a tornado.”

Eddie pinches his bicep, earning a chirpy eep! from Steve. “Well, thanks. Now that’s gonna worry me for the rest of the day.”

They’re parked next to a field farmland with a patch of woods visible further down. Steve had been driving Eddie to some spot he declared was perfect for a picnic visit, but then the clouds opened up not even ten minutes after they left town.

“Well, since we’re waiting this out…” Eddie reaches an arm over to the basket Steve had made in the backseat. He manages to pull out one of the bread loaves, breaking it in half. “Best not to wait on empty stomachs.”

Steve rubs the new red spot on his bicep, sighing and accepting the other half of the bread Eddie hands him. He sniffs, his fingers pinching the brow of his eyes and oh no-

“Hey, Steve. This is okay!” Eddie shuffles in his seat so that he leans over, his head bumping onto Steve’s shoulder. “I mean, we could’ve been drenched like dogs if we were outside right now. Plus I still get to be out of town with my favourite big boy in his amazing Beemer.”

Steve makes a light scoffing sound. “I’m your only big boy.”

“Exactly.” Eddie presses a kiss on his cheek with a loud mwah. It makes Steve roll his eyes, but his hand falls from his face and there’s a small smile now. He turns on the radio and a cheery man’s voice comes in-

“Today is nothing but promises of sun-”

“Is that the same weather guy?” Eddie narrows his eyes as Steve immediately switches the channel.

“If it is, they should fire this guy. Only clouds in the evening my ass.” Steve shakes his head, turning the dial until he stops at one of the music channels. Of course, it’s playing “It’s Raining Men” because what the hell not.

Steve’s eyes light up. His body jolts up like he’s been struck by lightning. “Oh shit! That’s one of my favourite songs!”

And then to Eddie’s absolute horror, Steve jumps out of the car and into the rain

“What the fuck!?” He almost chokes on spit and half-eaten bread just as Steve starts dancing. He’s singing the lyrics aloud as he spins and jumps on the muddy ground, seemingly giving zero fucks about being soaked and dirty. Especially as his shirt sticks to his skin with his muscles visible-

Oh, be still my gay heart.

“C’mon, Eds!” Steve’s making grabby hands, mimicking in pulling an invisible rope towards him.

“Uh, why?! I thought we’re waiting it out!”

“It’s raining men! Hallelujah!” Steve sings absurdly loud instead of answering. He even emphasizes it with a jerk of his hips goddamn.

It makes Eddie laugh. He looks out at the hard pouring and mutters “Fuck it.” He swings open the door and cringes at how unbearably wet he already is.

Steve’s arms are around his torso and easily lifts him off the ground, spinning him around. Eddie is both screeching and cackling, his cold hands gripped on Steve’s forearms for dear life. “Jesus Christ, we’re gonna fall!”

“God bless Mother Nature, I’ve found my perfect guy!” Steve cheers. He sets Eddie back down, but holds both of his hands as he starts moving in what Eddie presumes is the Harrington mating dance.

Eddie follows along because it’s too contagious not to laugh and dance with Steve, who looks more happier and free than Eddie’s ever seen.

They’re definitely both going to be sick tomorrow after this, but all of this dancing and standing in the rain with his boyfriend is so worth it.

[grimgrinningghost456]

Is it that time again? Yes. Yes it is. Time for me to voice random thoughts!

So, for all my fellow LND haters and skeptics out there, I had an alternate plot.

So, what if, instead of having a bastard child with Erik, and hiding that information from Raoul, what if Erik was just sorta…….living in their basement?

As in Christine went back for Erik and has been caring for him for the past 8 or 9 years. Gustave still exists, but he can either be Raoul’s actual son, and one of the two actually has Erik’s deformity gene running around their genetics, or Gustave can be an adopted kid who has the deformity that Christine didn’t want to end up like how Erik ended up.

Obviously Raoul isn’t a drunkard or a gambler, but is dealing with the after-affects of WW1. He’s a little jumpy, a little depressed, and he thinks he’s going crazy because when he wakes from a nightmare a very familiar male’s voice soothes him and sings him back to sleep. Raoul brings this up to christine, and naturally, she brushes him off, telling him that he must be half asleep when he hears the man’s voice. Raoul is convinced that he’s being haunted by his past in more ways than one. And he mentions that he recognizes the voice from the opera. Which means Christine has got to come clean, or go to Erik and tell him off for soothing Raoul.

This could really go either way for what she chooses to do, but I like a slight angst so let’s just say she continues to dig the metaphorical hole.

So Christine plays dumb, then makes a believable excuse to go to the cellar which, Anyone could have guessed, is where Erik is currently living. She obviously attempts to get Erik to leave Raoul alone and he obviously gets pissed off at her. Ensue dramatic deranged man vs Somewhat meek lady verbal fight until they get loud enough for someone to hear. And that person would be an unimportant maid who informs Raoul his wife is seeing an unknown man in the house. So Raoul tells Christine to come up with her “unnamed lover” and Christine knows the jig is up. She would take Erik up to Raoul and there’d be a moment of Raoul feeling betrayed and upset, saying something along the lines of how the phantom has one his wife after all. (And if ya want it to be gay it can go something like this) And then Erik just straight up kisses the man. Without warning. Just a big, fat, Mwah. Which shocks the other two parties. Christine because she never knew Erik would turn to men, and Raoul because the phantom who had tried to murder him is currently kissing him. And it’s not too bad of a kiss either.

Then you have the scene where Christine explains why Erik is there, and the “audience” finds out why Erik has feelings for Raoul after 5 years of caring for him after his return from the war.

That’s essentially all the ideas I have so far for the plot summery. Might add on more. Any ideas, comments, or additions are appreciated

[thegeminisage]

tng update time. last night* we did "the outcast" and "cause and effect."

*once again i am typing this up at 1am. i'll be busy when it posts

the outcast: i had heard sooo much about this one i was kinda disappointed when like the first ten or fifteen minutes wound up being EXCRUCIATING

this is largely due to three things 1. the idea of gender and sexuality being like so fucking antiquated in 1992 or whatever or at least in the minds of the people who wrote this episode, and them also mistaking one for the other 2. gender essentialism ie when soren asks what IS a man/woman we get these ideas of like "women put color on their lips and men don't" 3. extremely horrible lines of dialogue such as "commander tell me about your sexual organs"

like, i agree with jonathan frakes that soren should have been played by a man and that they should have had chemistry anyway AND with the criticisms that the ep didn't go hard enough

THAT SAID. once we got past the initial setup. which again has aged poorly. i was shocked at how hard it DID go for something that aired in 1992. like, my mother loved tng. she watched it air live. MY MOTHER watched this in 1992 when her gay ass little daughter was barely out of diapers. did it sink in? doesn't matter. they put it in front of her eyeballs. profound.

other details of note: GEORDI'S BEARD??? it looked good but he needed just a LEETLE more length on it imo

ik this episode was intended as a gay allegory and not a trans one (or maybe they just wanted to do a little of both) but picard being like we CAAANT interfere is such a pussy ass move. his vibes are so bad lately. yesterday he hated disabled people today he hates gay and trans people like don't you have a job. do you not have stuff to do. it's wack because normally he gets so fucking FIRED UP!!! when human (humanoid) rights are being infringed on. and lately he's just been like well whatever thats none of my business worf should kill himself. unbelievable.

obsessed with whatever will and deanna had going on in this episode. he was like "deanna i met somebody but we'll always be good friends right?" and she was like "absolutely" and then kissed him full on the mouth??? again: OBSESSED.

more riker/deanna/worf material FOR ME worf offered to go to the planet with him to get his girl. this is true brotherhood and also homosexuality. i think deanna should get kidnapped AND TREATED REALLY NICEYS please no more rape scenes but i think she should get kidnapped so they can go rescue her together. tng i am BEGGING you to feed me

oh yeah and gutpunch ending. i saw it coming but it was still so brutal :(

anyway it was an amazing episode if you can grit your teeth and ignore the bits that aged poorly. considering the time it aired and the opposition to it i think they mostly did a great job

cause and effect: TIMELOOP MY BELOVED

firstly, can i just say: two poker game eps in a row. mwah.

also? worf was right. reverse course. REVERSE COURSE. REVERSE FUCKING COURSE. seventeen times that whole ship - kids and all - got blown up in space and ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS REVERSE COURSE. seventeen TIMES worf made this suggestion and was shot down! reverse your fucking course!!!

even i got sick of the time loop by the end. it felt like a very long episode. i did love that they kept going and kept dying when i kept thinking they'd finally got it though

my favorite parts of the episode were the spooky parts. the voices in beverly's room, her ALWAYS knocking over that glass no matter where she put it (inevitability <3), data dealing up nothing but threes at the poker game, etc. the card thing literally gave me goosebumps, it was so well done

ALSO, DATA. data saving the day with his final actions TWICE <3

i thought at first the ship they were colliding with was themselves from earlier in the loop but the truth is so much cooler. loooved seeing those old uniforms. still i think that guy would have recognized the enterprise though. like the famous one that completed the first five year mission? he would have been like hold up the enterprise is captained by kirk/whoever followed kirk and that would have been more fun for me. cuz i know tmp is hard to date but kirk was definitely a super famous admiral in the year they entered the continuum. WHATEVER deny me all my fun as usual

TONIGHT: "the first duty," and also the pjo finale lol

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On Harry Styles' 'queer icon' status and the problem it bears

Fair warning: I went a little off the rails and this is going to be looooong. I don't expect anyone to read it, but a little forehead kiss to everyone who does actually sit through the entire thing. Mwah.

Alrighty. Let's get to it:

The past three years in particular, but also ever since 1D days, there has been many, many, many conversations and opinions on Harry Styles, his love life and his status as a so-called 'queer icon.' (I personally don't agree with that term for him, but it's what people sometimes call him, so...) People who don't know a lot about Harry, straight and queer people alike, have pointed out countless times how he is hurting and appropriating the queer community, profiting off of us, not standing up enough for us, and so forth. Those voices are almost always met with an uproar from his fandom, shouting on about how Harry does not owe his label to anyone and how he is allowed to dress the way he dresses without having to publicly claim a group he belongs to, be that sexual orientation or gender identity.

And while I do think his fandom is right to do so *to a certain degree*, I think they also quickly shut down many conversations we really should have as a fandom, as a society, as a queer community and I don't like how a lot of harries don't create the space to have these important discussions.

I think there is a disconnect in the two conversations - conversation A being what the general public and media want to say, conversation B being what the fandom wants to say - and they're both valid discussions but they don't necessarily answer to each other. I think it starts with what Harry Styles has actually *done* over the years:

This is an incomplete list of all the things Harry has *done* over the years, but they're the ones brought up most often. I will exclude the things he has *said* after having been asked about his sexuality directly because I will talk about that later. In no particular order, Harry Styles has: used gender-neutral pronouns to talk about his 'ideal' partner, very publicly grown into his sex and love life as an adult man, hooked up with various women (here: either dated them in actuality or presented himself as a couple with those women for the media), said 'female' is 'not that important' as a trait for things he looks for in a lady, experimented with fashion (starting as soon as he felt comfortable to do so/ was allowed to do so outside the band), continued to have fun with clothes and sometimes wore things that are deemed outlandish - extravagant - colourful - gender neutral or 'belonging' to the female sex - sexy (as in he has sex appeal in those clothes), appeared on the cover of Vogue wearing a ballgown as well as a skirt in another part of the photoshoot, waved pride flags that fans have thrown on stage, made various speeches about how he supports all of us no matter who we want to be, wore nail polish, wore pride pins or other rainbow items (particularly in 2017/18), wore a necklace around his neck with a banana that looks like a dick, wrote songs based on his life experiences without ever stating who those songs were about, and he has played a gay man in a movie role. So far for things Harry has *done*.

What most (not all, but most) of these things have in common in my opinion is that Harry does them without feeling the need to justify himself on it. He does what he enjoys, and he kind of doesn't give a fuck about whether there is an appropriate and socially-accepted label for it or not. Harry doesn't wear dresses to tell anyone he isn't cis or he's gay, and I don't think he wears dresses to break gender-norms and be a role model - he wears them because he liked how they looked, enjoyed how he looked in them, and it was fun. I don't think that is a crime, and I also think that cis-het men are allowed to wear dresses or nail polish just as much as anybody else in this world. If you don't agree with this, then your problem is not Harry Styles, your problem is somewhere else entirely and, quite frankly, we will never agree on this unless you change your mind because I certainly won't.

Now, I think the fundamental problem is that a lot of people are not very good at accepting people just do things for fun or that they do things that lie outside their category of 'normal, acceptable societal behaviour' without having a 'reason' for it. (With reason I mean that many people couldn't accept certain behaviour from people, but when they know that the person is gay for example, they can 'blame' it on that. I don't support this, but I've seen it happen way too many times to deny it isn't a real thing that happens all the time.) People *want* to say 'Look, Harry Styles is wearing a dress on the Vogue cover! He does that because he's gay!' This is the point where I would find it acceptable for the fandom to chime in with their conversation and patiently explain that, actually, you don't need to be queer to do any of these things, and you especially don't need to publicly label yourself as queer to do these things.

However, the general public has moved on from that and I would like to argue that they also kind of don't give a fuck about Harry's past, what he said ten years ago, or even what he said in a setting that only ever reached the fandom. They care about what is in the big media, and they care about what is *currently* happening. And they're not satisfied with the fandom's answer of 'he doesn't owe us an explanation' which is why they prod and ask until we get to the point where we also have a category of the things Harry has *said*.

To this, I want to make a petty disclaimer as a fangirl before I go further because a lot of people have used the things he has *said* as their evidence to why he is a bad person/queerbaiter/etc. but:  If you had never asked him, he would have never said any of those things. If it were just okay to be himself without this incessant need for a label, you wouldn‘t have half the arguments you love to use to call him out. We know Harry isn't the best public speaker, and I find it a little vile to hold people to this level of accountability over things they said when you specifically cornered them into this corner and you *wanted* them to say something fucked up. It doesn't mean I support everything he has said in those situations, but there is a line imo that we shouldn't cross. At one point, you need to accept that he didn't have a good reaction in that moment and then move on. Okay, pettiness over.

As a huge Harry Styles fan, I have no problem admitting that some of the things he has said in those instances *were* fucked up, infuriating and purposefully misleading. I can 100% understand why he has said the things because I've been a fan for almost a decade and I know his patterns when it comes to interview replies, but my understanding of it doesn't make his answers into a good thing or gives him an excuse for them. Personally, I interpret his vagueness around the topic as many other fans do too and it means he is queer as well (or at the very least was questioning his sexual orientation at the moments of the interviews), but that still is an *interpretation* and I could end up being fully wrong one day, yeah. Maybe this is an instance of seeing the good versus seeing the bad in someone, accusing someone until proven innocent or rather giving them the benefit of the doubt. If you're wired to accuse rather than doubt, then I can't change you, as you can't change me for rather seeing the good in people. I don't think it makes your opinion superior to mine though.

I think it's totally valid for fans to defend Harry *to a certain point*. I want to emphasise the last point because I recognise that many fans also take it too far and defend him for things he shouldn't be defended for. I will never have that type of attitude about anyone, and I definitely think that that type of fan behaviour is very dangerous and problematic. Every single person on this planet makes mistakes, including my favourite artists. Their name does not - and should not - obtuse them from anything. Ever. At the same time, there's definitely things that the media likes to twist about Harry that look a lot different when you contextualise and explain them. And I'm glad the fans are doing that work because we all know Harry or his team won't ever say shit in their own defence.

I think it's also totally valid to question the things he has said, get a little angry over some things and demand a better explanation or conversation around it. Some things he has said *are* infuriating and contributing to an ongoing, harmful conversation about queer issues. That's not Harry's fault by any means (the harmful conversations I mean), but since his words do have a lot of reach, he also has to be aware of what people do with them and how they could potentially contribute to ongoing debates. Sometimes it does cause problems when he's evasive and avoidant on his own label and a lot of it could be solved if he just said it, yeah, and I think it's okay that other people get frustrated by those situations. Personally, I haven't really seen any situations where I would have said that situation has higher priority to Harry's rights of privacy and choosing or not choosing to come out, but I don't know. Maybe I haven't seen all situations either. I think what's important to remember for both sides is: There's a side for whom the situation is more important than Harry's individual experience, and there's a side for whom Harry's individual experience is more important than the collective situation. The underlying issue is not Harry himself, but rather a fundamental difference in politics, societal etiquette and sometimes also morals.

To be 100% honest as a fan of Harry's: Do I like whenever something like this happens and people demand an apology from Harry or try to cancel him? No, in all honesty, my knee-jerk-reaction is to say 'fuck off and leave him alone.' But I don't think that's very fair, so I do hear out a lot of people and read through what they have to say on the topic. Sometimes I agree, sometimes I don't. That doesn't mean that these things should never be allowed to be talked about, even if the voices are wrong, sometimes it really is necessary to have that civil conversation to determine what's 'right' and 'wrong.' (Most of the times there isn't a right and wrong anyways.) Trampling down any voices who dare to speak up 'against' Harry with no rhyme or reason, or even not hearing the person out first needs to stop in this fandom because it's so fucked up. Dismantle the arguments that you *can* dismantle, but you also have to accept that not everyone likes Harry and sometimes he does fucked up shit.

I think both sides could profit from some nuance, and realising what they're actually arguing with. The fandom side is right in advocating for the right of privacy, the right to choose when and how to come out, and the right to do certain things without having to be queer for it. They're also right to defend Harry when the media twists his words or leaves out important context. At the same time, the media is allowed to discuss over how Harry's public appearances and interviews (sometimes negatively) shape the media landscape, how they have negatively contributed to queer conversations, or how they're not sure whether it's still okay for him to do some things without being out. Those two sides don't always necessarily reply to each other, but everyone acts as if they do and it ends up in a huge mess that doesn't actually resolve anything.

Another disconnect that I see happening quite frequently is when the media dares to publish a think-piece on the whole topic and sometimes overly blames Harry for things that aren't actually fully his fault, but rather the fault of how the general public has reacted to it and twisted it. (Think waving a pride flag for example. There's nothing wrong with waving a pride flag, even straight musicians wave them around constantly in a show of allyship and support. But when it comes to Harry, a lot of it has been twisted around so much that I've seen people demand Harry stop doing it and that he's a bad person for waving it around in the first place.) To those think-pieces, fans also swarm and demand it to be taken down because the author didn't do any research and Harry is well in his right to do thing xy. Again, that's not the argument you should have, and you're not doing anyone any favours by having the wrong conversations. You'll only turn in circles and never reach an end.

At the end of the day, I understand how emotional this whole topic can be. Of course I also get angry and frustrated when I see people calling Harry out for being harmful towards the queer community. How can a person who has helped me SO IMMENSELY in my own queer journey be hurting us? That doesn't make sense, does it?

It's a difficult and complex and maybe even harsh truth but: I think every person can do good for one person while simultaneously also hurt others. Two people are never in the same context, and in this particular case, there's two very distinct sides on opposite ends of Harry. For the fandom, his actions do a lot of good because we see a lot of him, we listen to his words that don't reach public media and (most importantly) everything we see of him, we receive in a context of other fans who love him and who get the helpful sides of him. Non-fans receive those bouts of information in a completely different environment, one where people around them get frustrated by it or misinterpret it or have someone else misinterpret his actions to use it specifically and directly against the person. Obviously that sucks and isn't in Harry's control, but I think we should also cut the people some slack who're not on the good side, and they deserve the space to be frustrated just as much as we deserve the space to be grateful and celebrate.

I can't even remember where I was going with this all, but I think the TL;DR truth is: When it comes to this topic, there's no right side and no wrong side. Both sides have fucked up, both sides have good intentions and good arguments, and both sides also talk utter bullshit at other times. And I'm kind of getting tired of it because it's the same circle-arguments just reheated every time something happens or someone publishes an article, all the while there's so many more important conversations we should have on the issue.

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GOD banhammer is so fucking perfect, i've been staring at a picture of him in some way shape or form for probably like fifteen hours out of the last three days. he is just so very mwah i wanna bite his armor it looks so fucking cool bro. and his teeth, good LIRD his fucking teeth those chompers are driving me insane. i wanna put my hand in his mouth and i don't think i'd even be upset if he bit me for that, hell i want him to bite me. he could step on me too and pick me up and throw me down the stairs and i wouldn't even be mad. did i mention how fucking tall he is? mans is like 6 foot 11 inches, thats bonkers, he could punt me into the sun and i'd let him. his hands are probably huge as fuck too. i want him to hold me but i'd settle for being manhandled into a jail cell. he probably patrols the cells on occasion since he's just built different and i'd stand in my 'pathetic homosexual loser' cage and give him a gay little wave as he walks past. blow him a kiss and all that. he might not even notice because he's blindfolded which would be saddening but hey maybe i'll get to feel his touch when he drags me off to be executed or whatever. does he even execute his prisoners at all? if he doesn't i guess i will just rot in that cell until he sees fit to release me. bummer. or perhaps i could seduce him into letting me work as an assistant/maid/etc for him instead. he seems like he'd get off on having someone to order around directly, and i wouldn't mind obeying his every command. anyways as much as i'd enjoy letting him order me around it would probably get boring eventually. he'd probably melt immediately if i gave off even a whiff of dominance. mans still listens to his mom for fucks sake, he'll fold like a wet napkin if i yank him down to his knees and grab his chin. that might be tough with the size difference though. i could back him into a corner and grab his horns and pull his face down to mine and then kiss him or whisper to him or whatever. fuck yeah. not to mention he's blindfolded too, so i could mess around with that. he'd probably be kinda mouthy about it, especially if we have a significant strength difference, but he'd like it. putting a hand in his mouth would probably shut him up. god the thought of running my hand along his teeth is just so fucking enthralling. they look kinda similar to shark teeth. built to maul people and yet here i am touching them like the most foolish creature upon god's green earth. cough this is getting a little too immersive whoops fuck uhhh right! his armor. the gems everywhere is attractive. shiny objects are so cool and banhammer has a gem on like every section of his armor. they probably make cuddling a tiny bit uncomfortable but that's par for the course with armor. i'd put up with it. his weapon looks sick as hell too but i am not a weapons connoisseur, i am a men connoisseur. and this one is delicious cough right his armor. his boots look pretty tough. they probably have treads that'd leave a good mark if he stepped on my back. that'd be cool. i'd let him dig his heel into me with great force. god at this point i dont even wanna fuck him i just want to either destroy or be destroyed by this man. good fucking god why did i write so much. checks wiki right he has four eyes. assuming they look like his mom's do it'd probably be pretty cute. two little extra ones beside his normal eyes. he probably winks by closing half his eyes. and now i'm thinking of various seductive faces he could make. i am down so bad i can't even. i wanna kiss him choke him slam him into a wall. or have him do that to me. i'm not picky. one of us is gonna be pathetic, obedient, and submissive and i frankly do not give a fuck which one it ends up being. i'd let him put a collar on me. the thought of banhammer wearing a collar is making my brain do terrible horrible things so i will leave it at that. i do draw the line at like 'daddy' shit tho that's not for me at all & he probably has daddy issues anyway

[kittyslashers]

Bain Hox and wolf for the character thingy

bain-

Sexuality Headcanon: unlabeled but def likes men

Gender Headcanon: either cis or trans guy in my brain it flip flops

A ship I have with said character: your s/i :3 but also dallas when not jayne

A BROTP I have with said character: duke and joy!! bestie and daughter figure

A NOTP I have with said character: kinda. everyone really. i just don't ever really think abt bain ships. maybe uh... kento i guess

A random headcanon: autism.

General Opinion over said character: what a guy!! also he needs a break.

hoxton-

Sexuality Headcanon: bi but is more attracted to men

Gender Headcanon: trans man!

A ship I have with said character: wolfhox and ghostwolfhox (oc ship) ofc

A BROTP I have with said character: chains :) they are buddies

A NOTP I have with said character: houston. srry i just. do not enjoy houshox. platonic is fine but these guys are Not into each other

A random headcanon: him smoking is mostly just for the aesthetic

General Opinion over said character: he's great! i enjoy him a lot his character and it's development after prison is mwah chefs kiss

wolf-

Sexuality Headcanon: gay soooooo gay

Gender Headcanon: cis man :(

A ship I have with said character: wolfhox n ghostwolfhox

A BROTP I have with said character: JACKET!!!!! they are besties 4ever. torture bros

A NOTP I have with said character: any of the women heisters </3 he's a homosexual sorry ladies

A random headcanon: [picture of him with a label pointing that says "full of autism"]

General Opinion over said character: BABYGIRL SUPREME!!!!!! i adore him so much shaking him biting gnawing desiring him carnally making him a nice hot soup and telling him he's doing great

[marshmellowtea]

I shall return the favor and send you mondo for the character ask XD

- @nsfwitchy

oh hell yeah gotta love this man and his goofy ass hairstyle HLFKDJSF

1: sexuality headcanon

ngl i'm gonna be super basic here and go with bisexual, but i can also see him being gay.....tbh i don't have super strong opinions on his sexuality, as long as he likes men i'm down with literally any headcanons lmao

2: otp

ALSO kinda basic but ishimaru/mondo/chihiro is a very good ship, i genuinely can't understand people who don't like this one agakldsjf. i also like mondo/mikan because the snippets of their usc interactions i've seen are adorable :')

3: brotp

see above but platonic, i can go both ways with both of those ships lol. also him and makoto could be cute! even if he did punch him that one time HKLDJSFKL

4: notp

i.....don't have one, haha. i don't really have strong opinions on mondo ships in general oops

5: first headcanon that pops into my head

canonically he likes dogs, and i've decided that extends to ratty street dogs and mean old chihuahuas who hate people lol. i think he's the type to feed stray dogs on the street if he has the food to spare, even if they're snarling and barking at him to stay back so he has to keep his space :')

6: favorite line from this character

not a line (it's been too long since i've played this game i don't remember any oof) but the way he just PUNCHES MAKOTO is still so fucking funny to me 😭 especially since i'm 90% sure it's proceeded with makoto being like "we should get along!" mondo really said nah to that huh JKFLDJ. and then the casual way he apologizes, the whole situation is just, mwah. chef's kiss

7: one way in which I relate to this character

i too can be too quick to anger.....luckily i don't usually tend to get physically violent about it but oof. anger management is hard i feel you mondo

8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character

not to steal your answer but literally what is his hair 😭 babygirl PLEASE get that sorted lmaoooo although to have an original answer too also the way he gets angry so fast is both relatable but also. ghlkasdjf. my guy take a deep breath. it's gonna be okay. pats him gently on the shoulder

9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?

......given your response to this question witchy i'm almost afraid to answer HFLKDJFS i'll call him a cinnamon roll with some problematic fave leanings. he's not a bad guy at all, and it's clear the killing game was taking its toll on him, like it does a lot of characters. ain't no one can blame him for that :')