#getting harassed in the wild is literally terrifying

[ezratheunready]

Being a confusing looking gender freak trans person has resulted in me being called both a dyke and a fag by random people on the street

Gotta keep ‘em on their toes I guess

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

can i get a scarlet/violet gang x ghost trainer reader who lets their ghost types possess them for pranks ?

This took a minute to think about until mochi mayhem dropped--then I got ideas haha

...........

During the events of Mochi Mayhem...you seemed remarkably unfazed by Pecharunt's "curse" spreading throughout the village, finding it more amusing than frightening.

And it's because you were no stranger to being possessed yourself.

Your first experience occurred after a Spiritomb's soul got separated and found you as a temporary host while you were exploring some ruins in Paldea (with your poor Fuecoco at the time being terrified for you).

Fortunately it wasn't an aggressive one, just a scared lonely spirit that was piloting your body around until it was reunited with the other 107 souls of that Spiritomb....which turned out to be a shiny!

In a show of gratitude, it decided to join your team--and soon you found your true calling as a ghost type trainer.

So you've picked up other ghosts throughout your journeys in Paldea, Kitakami, and BB Academy.

At some point you trusted your main team enough to allow them to possess your body.

Initially, they only did if they believed it was necessary (ie saving you from a fall or sudden Pokémon attack).

But then you decide to let them do so for pranks and such--mainly reserving those for whoever bothered your friends, while other times your friends are the hapless victims.

Exhibit A: When a BB Academy student is harassing Kieran over how he used to act, you see him getting upset and have one of your Shiny Spiritomb's souls possess you, enabling you to creep up and stare at the bully--all behind his back without him ever noticing you.

He's confused when they suddenly look terrified and run away....and then he slowly turns around, screaming a bit upon seeing your face in the likeness of a Spiritomb (like in that one episode of Journeys where Ash gets possessed by one).

You feel bad, especially after the soul leaves your body, and you promise that you'll never do that again.

Although he is grateful you saved him from that intense moment.

Exhibit B: You're hanging out with Penny at your house, watching her play some horror game on your console.

Your Gengar gets the mischievous idea to turn the lights off and possess you, creating a creepy atmosphere all around the house, making your friend paranoid of whether the sounds were coming from the game or elsewhere.

In hindsight, it sounds hilarious..but you forgot Penny doesn't fw horror movie tropes like that.

As she commands Umbreon to attack you out of pure instinct-

Only to see you and Gengar get forcibly separated and hit the ground hard.

Knock Off was no joke.

She apologizes but is a bit annoyed bc she couldn't save her progress thanks to your "prank".

Exhibit C: While Arven is giving Nemona, Penny, Kieran, and Carmine lessons on the art of sandwich crafting, you stroll over with some purple mochi, offering it as a dessert.

Obviously they decline, seeing Pecharunt literally hovering beside you and wondering if you already forgot what happened.....and are horrified when you shrug and eat one, your eyes turning purple.

Yet before anyone can fully freak out, you just laugh and start talking normally.

To make a long story short, you and the mythical 'mon came to an agreement that you'll eat the mochi it provides as long as it doesn't make you do anything harmful (like battling) or anything ridiculous (like dancing and saying "mochi" nonstop) while possessing you.

It's still mischievous at heart, of course. You'll allow it to have a little bit of fun considering its troubling past.

Exhibit D: Your Skeledirge was the first 'mon you used the Synchro Machine on after arriving to BB Academy, walking around and battling wild Pokémon in the terarium for a few good hours.

This "reverse possession", however, left some adverse effects on you even after desynchronizing...as for several days you developed a habit for singing, could taste smoke in your breath, and even your partner's little fire bird companion decided that it wanted to nestle atop your head.

You realize what a funny prank this could be.

So you pull up to the cafeteria to the "date" Drayton invited you to and freak out the rest of the Elite Four (except for Crispin who immediately realizes you own a Skeledirge and thinks you're awesome).

That also makes for a rather...awkward reunion with Kieran who thinks you've seriously gone off the deep end, and you drop the act right away.

But he's too caught up in the idea of battling you and winning to care about why tf you're possessed rn.

[weebsinstash]

hi! I cannot understand Val’s personality at all, and you’re my favorite writer for him, so I was wondering if you could tell me how he’d react in a situation where his darling is being harassed at a bar he’s not at? Like darling obviously has a tracker on their phone and they know it, but they also can’t leave the bar because that risks them getting kidnapped

maybe Val has already started calling them and leaving voicemails because they no showed, so you know that if you don’t call him and have an immediate reason for not responding you’ll probably be in for a very painful night, so you tell whoever is harassing you that you need to go into the bathroom, and it’s very obvious that they followed you but aren’t in the bathroom, so you just take out your phone and finally answer one of Val’s calls, and you make it obvious your crying, but you also hold the phone away from you so it doesn’t seem like you want Val to know your crying.

after that I’m kinda stuck on how he’d react, but if you’d rather not add to this it’s fine, this was part me wanting a response and part me wanting to tell someone my ideas

If it makes you feel better I also find Val's personality to be levels of inconsistent however I kinda interpret it being inconsistent because he's um an extremely emotional person and also an alcoholic addict and he's constantly pinballing between "oooo this will make me money" to "oh you've pissed me off PERSONALLY therefore I will rain fire upon you", like we have several instances of Valentino potentially sabotaging his business for kicks and Vox has had to reign him back in, and he still gives Angel actual fucking black eyes even when there's still filming, he doesn't even care about not leaving marks since everything will heal eventually

I feeeeeeeel like... it really depends on how his darling grovels to him and explains what is happening. You ditched him, you're out at a bar, you were ignoring his calls, and now you're telling him you're with another man. An abusive man would usually automatically assume "oh you're in a bar? Fucking slut trying to find other men, this is what you fucking get" but since we're having, you know. The Yandere Talk, I feeeeeel like.... it goes one of a few ways

One is he's absolutely pissed in general, at you, at the guy, just misfiring rage and snapping. You're bawling ti try and explain your situation and he snaps he can barely understand you because he can't regulate his anger and, it isn't INHERENTLY being mad at you, he's mad he can't understand you, but he's horrible at communicating that, so he shows up to rescue you and (unintentionally) has you trembling in fear of him because he's speaking to you like "where the fuck are you hurt?! Show me? Ugh, this bruise is huge, it's so fucking ugly, UGH-" and he's like not blaming you but is being so terrifying about it that, you're pretty convinced you'll be hit by him at any moment and maybe it would be you FLINCHING HARD at a sudden movement of his for him to, finally take a second to begrudgingly take a few deep breaths and his tone finally softens and he can stop freaking you out even more than you already are

Option 2 I see is that you answer the phone when he's in the 'love' of the love and the hate he switches between, so you catch him in the middle of one of his "baby you know I care so much about you, it just makes me a little wild when you leave me waiting" sort of voicemails. You finally pick up and you get this slightly catty "ohhhhh, look who it is,you remembered how to answer your phone! I missed you" and the second he can tell you're crying, you're just like, hearing all this stuff in the background and he sounds like he's been drinking but when is he ever NOT drinking "awwww, baby no, that's terrible! *heels clicking wayyy to fast for him to not be literally power walking his stiletto ass somewhere* I'm sure Daddy will be able to get everything sorted out *car door slams* and I'll show this lowlife fucking freak exactly what he deserves *moves the phone away from his mouth to HOLLER at his driver to 'get a fucking move on or I'll fucking kill you'* so don't you worry, ok baby? ❤️ make sure you stay on the phone with me, mhm? *click click click of him loading bullets into a magazine* so what's this motherfucker look like, he's uglier than me, right--"

And then I guess another unique outcome would be uh. You pick up the phone and he's just instantly shouting screaming fuming at you so much that he's like screaming for a few solid minutes before he's finally like "are you even gonna say anything you dumb whore?!" and that's when he finally hears your voice but it's not even your voice, it's your breathing, like you can barely even get any air out, like you're having a panic attack, you can barely even raise the volume of your voice above a whisper and your voice just keeps cracking and shaking, "v val" and like, the very first SYLLABLE out of your mouth he knows something is BIG WRONG because you sound TERRIFIED and you can barely even speak, "some-someone's outside the bathroom.... he says he'll hurt me... I don't know what to do....!" and like that's it. It takes Val from 100 to 0 real fast. He goes from "if you're not on your way home in five fucking minutes-" to "what did you just say" and he's completely quiet as you're like struggling to speak, "i-i'm in-in a stall, but he's... OUTSIDE.... WAITING..." and you just sob with a hand over your mouth but he can still hear it and he's already on his way

Do you think Val knows how to fight and I mean like BRAWL. Valentino's still on the phone with you and he can barely even hear you and he suddenly hears the man's voice, he's come INTO the bathroom now, he's OUTSIDE your stall, antagonizing you, scaring you, grabbing the top of the door and shaking it like it's nothing. You're SCREAMING because you're in A FUCKING STALL and he could either rip the hinges off or just like COME UNDER OR OVER and then you're done for so you're like TERRIFIED WAILING I mean shrieking like a murder victim because oh god oh god oh god you're gonna double die--- and you just hear the door to the bathroom get kicked open and the guy is just like RIPPED away from your stall and CHAOS follows. You hear all these thudding, smashing, crashing, breaking sounds and when you finally hear nothing but Val's voice telling you to come out he's just standing there covered in blood and the dude is on the floor with his face an unrecognizable SLUDGE because Val grabbed him by the back of the neck and slammed his face into the edge of the sink until it was knocking teeth out of his mouth. Valentino is over here, reaching for you looking like that scene from The Witch of Mercury

Except unlike in Mercury you're like, only temporarily in stunned silence before you're like, RUSHING to be held by him because you're just scared and bawling and he SAVED YOU and you're so happy you didnt get hurt. Like the duality of him touching you to comfort you but probably getting blood on you maybe even ALL OVER YOU because he's just touching you that much and you're clinging to him that much

I feel like there are times where Val may intentionally NOT save you to use it as some sort of punishment/lesson to manipulate you with later but I feel like the ways in which he would knowingly allow his darling to be hurt are nuanced and contextual. He'd pay a guy to mug you and rough you up to teach you a lesson about leaving the studio on your own, or set up a fake kidnapping, but you come back into the studio ACTUALLY hurt? Stabbed, limping, whatever? He's furious. No one gets to hurt you. Everyone in this entire fucking circle of Hell should know who you belong to by this point and if they're hurting you, they're disrespecting HIM

..... and also you're his cute widdle baby and he doesn't want his boo getting hurt, at least not in a non fun non sexy way 🥺❤️ see sweetie, this is exactly why you should listen to him at all times and never argue with him on anything ❤️

[nerdyenby]

Green time :D I’m watching Ranboo

“I can take myself seriously, I can do it” mmm I don’t think you can

TINKERBOO MY BELOVED <3333

THATS TERRIFYING HOLY CRAP

I got timed out for saying this will haunt my nightmares????

Welp, he was a fairy for all of five minutes before getting possessed

“If I have the opportunity to get rid of my eyes, I’m going to” yeah ok

This team is going to be so freaking chaotic

Them all yelling swears as soon as they establish no one’s pg 😂

Them just straight up missing the ready up 😂😂😂

Rocket Spleef

Relentlessly unhinged already, I’m losing it

“She green on my gecko til I’m insured” MICHELA 😭😭😭

*grandpa voice* “What the hell is a they/them??”

PHIL MVP!!!!!!

WHAT IS HAPPENINGGGG

I’m not even processing the event what game are we even playing??????

Hole in the Wall

Send help

“It’s called hole in the wall, not hole in the ground” so true Krinios

I go get a sandwich and come back to them adding an age requirement???

Skybattle

Omg people are dying so fast what

They popped off!!!

Phil is so good at surviving in Minecraft you guys

This is a great pov to watch live because I have no idea what’s actually happening, it’s like I get to experience it for the first time twice lol

“They got the slight cognitive abilities” I zone out for ten seconds lol

Someone help Sniff 😭😭😭

Meltdown

“Time to have a meltdown on stream” so true Philza Minecraft

I’m losing my mind

Michela hit the “girl dinner” note perfectly holy crap

Npc team fr, Krin didn’t get the memo

“To be fair… it was funny” - MCC33 Green Geckos motto

Pink popping off!!

“Icy take: let’s not die”

Michela needs to be a voice actor fr

Manifesting Aimsey back to back wins <333

Battle Box

“I’m about to run this team like it’s the navy” as they should!! Krinios igl arc

Michela 😭😭😭

Sapnap crit is so based

Omg teamwork <333

“New strat: the same thing we’ve already been doing” BASED

THAT LAST ROUND 😂😂😂

“I have no boys in my yard ;-;” lmao

Ran and Phil are holding hands this MCC

“I’m really good at acting like I’m dead, it’s my speciality” RANBOO GENERATION LOSS LIVE I STG

“Oh shi-oot” ran whatchu doin, you can swear now, it’s okay

Ace Race

Noooooo Michela 😭😭😭

Jojo calling the tie sexist is so

“The m in MCC stands for misogyny” so true aimseytv!!!!!

Literally no one wants pkt, so true

Grid Runners

Do we think they’ll try or nah?

You know what? No, I’m gonna stop holding back, Sapnap can stfu, I’m so serious

THEYRE CRAZY WITH IT!!!!!!

NEW ROOM NEW ROOM NEW ROOM :D

That was so clutch!!!

“She run on my grid til I ers” thank you Krinios

“I’m in Texas” “Oh. Sorry” 😂😂😂😂

NOOOOO

YESSSSSSSSSS

Sands of Time

WHY IS RAN GIVING PHIL A KISS AAAAAAAAAAAA

*Slow pan* “You’re homophobic”

I hate that so much, thanks noxcrew <333 /lh

This is so painful

The belated “hi HBomb” my beloved

OH MY GOSH

This red path is wild

NOOOOOO Phil :((

“At the end of the day, we are the silly team” so true Michela!!!

Movies don’t exist, we love writers and actors

Krin’s reaction to “cream crew” killed me

Yellow supremacy!!!!!

Dodgebolt

Unanimous yellow support my beloved <33

They’re gonna ambush Scott and harass him into getting this team every event from here on out, so true

MY streamers stan Oli Orionsound, as they should!!

“No one’s rooting for red” hmm that’s so weird and quirky, I wonder why /s

JORDAN SUPREMACY!!!!!!!

Welp that’s what I get for sharing a negative opinion on the internet, not apologizing tho

“Not this time, anime protagonist, now the villains win” PHILZAAAAAAAAAAAA /pos

[ewizaah]

alright. call me insane real quick. but guys listen. i have been hit with a realization. i know how we love suction cup man being a villain and all that, "ohh he trespassed on some old man's property" ok but like HE ISN'T THE VILLAIN, HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO DO THAT BC LISTEN TO ME

notice how people respond to him FIRST about his passions, and then he responds angrily bc you attacked his entire way of living. like business dummy going "hey what the fuck are you doing climbing my towers get off" and, because scm was just minding his own business and is getting harassed out of nowhere, WOULD RESPOND APPROPRIATELY!! SAME THING GOES FOR PAUL!! HE ASKS HIM TO GET DOWN RUDELY, THEN SCM RESPONDS BACK IN THE SAME WAY!! THINK BOUT IT WITH ME. YOU BE LIVING LIFE. THEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU TO STOP YOUR PASSIONS. OF COURSE YOU WOULD BE ANGRY!! AND IT'S THE FACT THAT HIS NAME IS LITERALLY SCM! HIS ENTIRE BEING IS CLIMBING SO JUST TELLING HIM TO STOP IS JUST TELLING HIM TO KILL HIMSELF. IT'S GOOFY BUT IT MAKES SENSE

and this isn't just dialogue nono it applies to actions as well. he got kidnapped by these 2 guards which KINDA LIMITS HIS CLIMBING ABILITIES, SO HE WOULD BE PRETTY ANGRY ABOUT IT. JUSTIFIED. then TRUMP COMES IN. and y'know trump is a authority figure, a person who ordered the 2 guards to kidnap him, SO THAT APPLIES AS WELL!! so then they talk for a bit, SCM'S STILL SALTY Y'KNOW. "i'm listening but still fuck you"

SO WE CUT TO KIM JONG UN. HE SEES A PERSON CLIMBING HIS ROCKET. HE YELLS AT HIM, AND VICE VERSA. THAT'S HOW EVERYTHING GOES IN THIS SERIES. AND KEEP IN MIND, FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE IMPORTANT SO IF SCM HATES YOU, HE'S HATING YOU. THAT'S HOW THIS WHOLE BUSINESS DUMMY AND SCM ARGUMENT IN THE SERIES IS DRAGGED OUT.

scm 3. he meets satan. at first, HE'S TERRIFIED AT FIRST! because he's TALL. in one of bluesy's (the va for scm) vrchat livestreams, it may be not canon, it may canon, it may be implied, WHO KNOWS. but the fact that scm's terrified of tall people. cartoon cat, endermans, ANY SORT OF ELDRICH CREATURES, HE WILL LIKELY BE FREAKING OUT. put on heels and he will be cowering!! anyways satan eventually mentions scm's speech, saying "we don't do that here" because he's saying these things about "oh god!!" "oh jesus!!" which. DIRECTLY ATTACKS HIS SPEECH. SO LIL BABY MAN WITH A TEMPER, IS OBVIOUSLY GONNA TAKE OFFENSE TO THAT. then once he gets out of hell and meets with paul, paul disagrees with what he says calmly saying about "we know who you are and we're not doing that" AND SCM UNDERSTANDS THAT. IT DOESN'T GO AGAINST ANYTHING HE STANDS FOR, HE JUST AGREES. "fair enough!!"

then scm 4 comes along and he's playin around on the ceiling! having a blast with his suction cups! then judge carter tells him to get down. sure, he's a bit annoyed at that, just going "NO!" but compared to all of his other interactions in the series? that was KINDA MELLOW!! because the judge responded in a different way than everyone else in this entire series!! so y'know things happen, he lost the case, he gets his suction cups taken away. and to the people who's carrying away his suction cups away in boxes, he's just yelling at them!! because like. i'm sure you know already!! it's a common theme!! and y'know he tried everything to find some way to climb, but no use. so he grows a bit sad!! sitting on the bench at sunset!! then this guy comes in, and at first he seems a bit nice, like he's about to provide some life-changing advice! and he does! but in a different way! you can see a glimpse of hope in that man and then it gets SHATTERED UPON IMPACT. so y'know he's vulnerable and he can't really do anything at this point because what is he defending now?? he got no passion!! so he falls into a depression because he has nothing, then he meets this person named Gina. THIS RIGHT HERE IS LIKE. A HUGE THING BECAUSE GINA PROVIDED SOLUTIONS LIKE "hey you can still climb with these dildos, and they're not climbing grade suction cups! go wild", supporting his passions even though SURE, HIS PASSION MAY BE ILLEGAL. BUT THAT MEANS A LOT TO HIM!! IT LETS HIM LIVE ANOTHER DAY!! IT SAVED HIM FROM SUICIDE!! AND SHE WASN'T ALL HISSY AT HIM!! THAT'S HOW HE RESPONDS NICELY!! SO IN CONCLUSION. SCM? ISN'T REALLY ALL THAT OF A BAD GUY. sure i mean on the other hand, i won't defend him. it's nice having a villain protagonist, it's hilarious!! but i'm providing my theories on the topic

[creaturebehavior]

this turned into a processing post on accident:

in the past i typically would wait at least a day to update my age on my profiles after my bday because i can’t ever do anything normal i always felt embarrassed in the past to change my age the same day. idek why. even though i use my phone all day on my bday every year i always make myself wait a day to update my age cuz i don’t want people to like. think i’m super eager or something. which is the silliest thing ever.

this year i’m not going to do that lmao. like who has the energy for that?

also i guess i’ve reached an age where i no longer feel insecure about people thinking i’m excited to get older or something. i guess i developed this complex as a young child because i have a very strained and distant and strange relationship with my immediate family and my relatives and birthdays have always been a huge source of stress and anxiety for me. birthdays when i was little meant being forced to socialize with a lot of unfamiliar people at once and i was always afraid of my family and painfully shy and insecure. this hasn’t changed much. but i developed a lot defense mechanisms and complexes because for some reason my extended family was overly comfortable all the time and “their way of expressing love is through teasing” according to my mom lol aka my family who to me felt like strangers because i saw them maybe once or a couple times a year or every few years depending on the family member, picked on and harassed me all the time and every family gathering i was terrified someone was gonna sneak up on me and push my hand into the dip or throw me in the pool or make fun of what i look like or what i’m doing or if they ever saw me relaxed or having fun when my guard was down they would immediately come over and try to upset me.

so anyway. wow i didn’t know i would be processing all of this right now. um. anyway

so anyway. i developed a lot of defense mechanisms and complexes to try and avoid being hurt and scared by my family basically. like i had to pretend i was an angry child and stuff i had to pretend i was tough cuz they picked on me less if i acted less sensitive so i had developed a pretty hard shell by the time i was 5 or 6.

i always acted like i was tough and like i was mad and like i didn’t care about anything. i wanted it to seem like i didn’t care about anything so no one could come make fun of me or hurt me.

so i developed complexes like, whenever i would buy new clothes, i would wait like a month to wear them in public because i didn’t want to have this specific conversation:

person: “i like you shirt, is it new? :)”

me: “thank you yeah i just got it this weekend”

person: *knows i liked and cared enough about something recently to have made a purchase and then worn it out in public* Oh so i guess you were pretty excited ti wear it, huh? :)”

and i developed a complex where i didn’t want to update my age on my profiles as long as i’ve been online i have always waited at least a day to update my age on any online profile to avoid this conversation (that would literally never happen)

person: “happy birthday! oh wow lmfao loser you updated your age on your profile? what are you, super eager to grow up? oh you’re super duper excited for your stupid little birthday? haha everybody come get a load of this guy! he’s excited for his birthday look he already updated his age lmao it’s literally 1am on his birthday like, eager much? pathetic. this is why no one likes you lol you are literally such a weirdo”

if you read this post i’m sorry that nothing i say ever is that coherent

this was a wild ride lol i’m gonna update my bio now . i’m 27 btw and this year i genuinely am not worried that anyone thinks i’m super eager to have a birthday or be a year older lol. and even if i were eager or excited about those things i think i’d be okay with that. not sure i’d be okay with other people knowing if i genuinely was excited for my bday, there’s still work to do i’m still insecure lol but. i guess to a slightly lesser degree than last year which is all i can ask out of a year is to just be even slightly less insecure like. thank god for some tangible evidence that i am maturing even through these times i feel im regressing in almost every aspect

[lexidius]

hey! sorry, i’m really awkward. we’re mutuals and everything but i get super anxious being the first one to dm people. i just wanted to say it’s really nice to find someone with similar views, especially on syscourse and shipping. we’re very rarely able to be open about being a system, kin stuff, or any fandom interests really because of how intense the harassment from antis can get. also the fat positivity is wonderful to see as well :) i hope your pillow is always cold and you find $20 on the sidewalk soon

hey i totally get it anon! i used to be pretty heavily involved in both the pro and anti sides of Discourse on both tumblr and xitter (pronounced "shitter") and no matter the subject, be it plurality, alterhumanity, shipping, politics, fatpos... spicy furry cringe porn... it was... usually a mess that could have been avoided if I'd stopped worrying what others thought about my interests or what kind of personal autonomy I carry with my identity. Nowadays I usually just decide "fuck it, I can't get everyone to agree with me, who cares." If they're not willing to hear me out after I've tried to hear them out, and their arguments don't seem to be able to sway my opinion or come from a place without personal bias, then it's not worth my time to give them any attention or let their bullshit get under my skin.

Haters gonna hate, I'd rather just keep doing what I'm doing and as long as I'm not hurting anyone irl or imposing anything on anyone, or condoning/endorsing/excusing anything that could be harmful outside the realm of fiction/fantasy, then who the everlasting flying fuck cares? A majority of the shit I like in fiction is also stuff that I'd be downright terrified to try or see emulated irl tbh, or it's stuff that literally can't be done safely eg. fuckin... objectum/conceptum sex with a lightning bolt or tropical cyclone or whatever. because basically my fappin-and-zappin fun times would just fry me to a crisp and kill me on the spot, which is very... not fun, lmfao. I actually want to write a proper fully fledged post one day about the fiction vs reality dilemna and how to balance these things in a way that allows Narnia to still feel real and valid while not actively affecting reality outside the wardrobe, keep putting it off though. But I digress, that's a rant for another time.

I hope you can find some form of safety and comfort within a niche corner of your fandom experiences, even if it's only small. A large part of navigating fandom, imo, is just learning not to give a flying fuck about what other people in fandom are doing and if someone's going to be a nasty-ass fuckwit and start threatening to doxx you, making up shit, throwing around wild allegations and generally just stirring the point because of whatever personal vendetta they have against against others in the fandom, then they're just bringing everyone else down by being a NASTY-ASS LITTLE FUCKER who's only going to end up digging their own grave and eventually too many of these kinds of wankers are going to kill the fandom in question. Unfortunately there's only so much that legal action can do against the sincerely malicious people, but for anyone else, 99% of the time they're just talking out their ass and King/Queen Shit is literally standing up to their neck in a mountain of their own shit.

Stay safe out there moot, you're welcome to come off anon and dm me whenever, I'm completely judgement free as long as you're not like... a terf or racist or pro-offender or anything like that but if you were I probably would have blocked you by now so you're all good /gen

[madraleen]

Bungo Stray Dogs - Kafka Asagiri/Sango Harukawa Vol. 16-17: A "THEY ARE SO PRETTY!" Commentary (*anime spoilers and manga spoilers up to ch.114.5)

-OKAY BUT the image of fyodor and dazai playing chess and looking pretty, and dazai's extended arm sort of towering over and sheltering atsushi and the non-atsushis ASDSDF

-oh, francis wants mitchell revived because she can kill hawthorne, i didn't remember that

-okay but now i feel bad for nominating tanizaki for the mafia so strongly, he's so sweet telling yosano "i'll do it for you" when he sees her reluctance

-it's so wild that "the great war" of this 'verse ended only fourteen years ago

-oh elise was docile at some point, i see

-going back and forth reading the volumes and catching up with the latest chapters, i think bsd is excellent at setting the tone and atmosphere. there's energy and pace in the composition of the panels, AND there's really no panel wasted.

-idk idk, little yosano's arc is so smart. it's so twisted and thought-out and poignant. if i didn't already applaud asagiri-sensei, i would just based on this. it's another arc that's so hard to read - in a good way.

-hot take but you know how some people feel there's too much dazai focus etc etc... there isn't though. like, at all, not in the main manga. i feel like they might get that sense because of the spin-offs etc, or maybe because such a vast majority of bsd fans loves dazai and constantly talks about dazai, but dazai himself is not featured particularly much in the manga, he's there just as much as any of the main-main cast, maybe even less. i think it's that he has such a presence, he makes such an impression and is so memorable that it FEELS like he's featured a lot because he's the one that sticks in your mind at the end of the day, but i wouldn't say he's stealing any spotlights or anything.

-mori's greatest crime is the immortal regime

-as entertaining as bsd is, there's some parts that i find genuinely difficult to read. they're too much. (in a good way)

-"to take down a mafia boss this strong we need an undead regiment" and then he goes and kills the boss himself. WHICH IS IT, MORI-SAN!

-aw yosano grew up alongside ranpo and under fukuzawa's care <3

-"our agency reveals its true power when we all gather together" O RLY nOW ATSuSHi, does that mean we're gonna get a reunion to beat the tripolar singularity, does it DOES IT?!

-WHAT DID KENJI-KUN EVER DO TO YOU, ASAGIRI-SENSEI, WHY DOES HE HAVE TO GET BOTH BLOWN UP AND STABBED

-GIN IN A SUIT

-"in this fight, the agency will emerge victorious" I BELIEVE YOU, FRANCIS, BUT AT WHAT COST

-dude, look at tanizaki with kenji, he's terrified

-man, now i feel bad again, tanizaki cares so much for the agency and i'm giving him up to the mafia like lamb for slaughter

-i love how atsushi isn't dumbed down. he uses his brain, he's perceptive.

-ooh right, mitchell's been treated but we haven't actually seen her conscious yet!

-tachihara be multitasking, like... playing both protag and antag in the same damn panels :'D

-dazai is so pretty, he's so pretty, i can't.

-KYOUKA LANDS SO GRACEFULLY AND ATSUSHI JUST FALLS FACE-DOWN IN MUSHITAROU'S CELL

-oh yeah, did we ever learn what the deal with "the seventh agency" was?

-"intelligence can cloud your senses" true true

-behold ango, the man who hasn't slept since this entire arc started

-yes okay, but why does ango look so soft when he tells us he's been working with dazai from the beginning, aw. well, and a little harassed maybe. but let's go with soft

-oh! oh!!! ango looks genuinely appreciative of dazai's heart rate trick!! in the anime he was more dismissive, calling it just a party trick for dazai!

-the fact that ango used the seventh agency only once to erase dazai's crimes so that he could live outside of the mafia.

-oh ango was the mind-reader of the government? i thought the skill-user they mentioned literally read minds. not objects.

-narrative consistency my ass, book-san has no concept of narrative consistency.

-THERE'S A "SEVENTEEN WORLD VILLAINS" LIST?!

-what wife, fukuchi. fukuzawa is too busy dealing with his adopted children and his two ex male-wives. what wife.

-OH? OH?! YOU PICTURE DAZAI AMONG THE AGENCY MEMBERS NOW, FUKUZAWA?! WHAT HAPPENED LATER, FUKUZAWA? WHAT HAPPENED AND YOU FORGOT YOUR BLACK SHEEP SON, FUKUZAWA?!

-okay, but jouno and tecchou tho. just. them. together.

-honestly, the most implausible thing in the entirety of bsd is lucy serving clients with THAT smile. i'd sooner believe it's a deep fake

-my god, tecchou is such a beautiful princess. he has very untainted eyes too

-SIGMAAAAA <3. he's so pretty. like extra super pretty vs the anime.

-"it's exactly how dazai-san planned it!" yes, atsushi, you summed up (most of) bsd pretty well, thank you.

-are they... are dazai and fyodor playing imaginary chess

-WTF DAZAI HOW SO PRETTY OH MY GOD YOU'RE JUST SITTING THERE

-OKAY BUT SIGMA ALSO SO PRETTY, LOOK AT THAT FACE, YOU JUST WANNA SQUISH IT

-on sigma: "he was practically born to run a casino..." AHAHAHAHA WAY TO SPOIL THE PLOT, MR GUARD! but sigma is so good at what he does though. he's such a good manager and leader.

-the panel composition is so excellent, man. so excellent.

-it's a pity tachihara can't truly join the mafia fam even if he wants to, 'cause he literally needs the hunting dogs' monthly surgery

-oh come OOOOON, sigma is SUCH A KITTEN, can we keep him in the agency, come ooooon, he's so kitten, and dazai would love to pester him

-shuuut uuuup, dazai used ango to send a "bet you're nervous, atsushi-kun? deep breaths, boy, deep breaths!" message to atsushi? SHUT UP THAT'S ADORABLE

-awww, this conversation calmed atsushi down and reminded him of the good old days at the office :""")))

[reasoningdaily]

A 'stalker' who threatened to recreate America's worst mass shooting in history at the Stanley Cup Finals was thwarted by cops just hours before the Vegas Golden Knights clinched the ice hockey championship on Tuesday night.

Las Vegas Metro police successfully foiled Matthew DeSavio's chilling threat to carry out what would have been a devastating massacre before the eyes of a franchise-record crowd of 19,058 at the T-Mobile Arena.

Just before noon on Tuesday, police were called to a Las Vegas business by a person who told officers DeSavio had stalked them for about a decade, officers said.

DeSavio, 33, later arrived at the business where cops arrested him, according to documents obtained by Nexstar's KLAS Wednesday. 

Police said that DeSavio was also posting threatening messages about the Stanley Cup Finals on Facebook. It was Vegas Golden Knights who triumphed over the Florida Panthers, sparking wild scenes of jubilation in 'Sin City'.

DeSavio threatened to recreate the devastating 2017 Mandalay Bay mass shooting (people run away on October 1, 2017)

One terrifying message by DeSavio read: 'I'm coming for you guys tonight and I hope you get every [expletive] police officer in Vegas Golden Knights there to defend you!'.

'Hope Sin City is ready for the Mandalay Bay massacre part duex [sic].'

DeSavio's post was a sickening reference to America's worst ever mass shooting which left 61 people dead, including the killer, and hundreds others injured.

Lone gunman Stephen Craig Paddock used automatic weapons to rain down gunfire on a crowd of 22,000 people attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival on October 1, 2017. 

The 64-year-old multimillionaire, who shot himself afterwards, was found dead with 16 guns in a room in the Mandalay Bay hotel, across the street from the festival. 

Six years on from the horror massacre, DeSavio was arrested by police outside of a Vegas business around five hours before the game began.

Police had also been contacted by a concerned member of the public who had seen DeSavio's Facebook posts which declared his intention to 'to conduct a mass shooting at T-Mobile Arena'. 

'As patrol officers were placing DeSavio into the patrol car, DeSavio declared several excited utterances asking if anyone had seen his Facebook posts yet and that the Knights need to win by a certain amount or he will do a repeat of the Mandalay Bay 1 October shooting,' police said. 

DeSavio has made previous threats before. This post, still on his Facebook, again references the October 1 Mandalay Bay mass shooting

Police said that DeSavio had been adjudicated for prior stalking and harassment cases. They did not reveal whether the 33-year-old actually had access to weapons, although after his arrest, police said they were aware of the threat.

Worryingly, police had also had reports of another 'disturbing Facebook post' made by DeSavio on October 26.

'Something big is about to hit the Vegas Strip. #October1stwasjustapreview! Let's [expletive] [expletive] up before I literally #blowup Paradise NV,' the post said, according to police. 

Cops questioned DeSavio following the threat last year after he agreed to meet them at a fast-food restaurant. During questioning, DeSavio is understood to have 'stated he wanted to drive his vehicle into the Mandalay Bay.'

DeSavio was ordered to complete a competence evaluation by a judge in November and awaited treatment for 78 days - something his public defender said violated his due process rights.

Judge Christy Craig concluded in March that the state failed to transport DeSavio to to behavioral health treatment in a timely manner.

DeSavio refused to be taken from the Clark County Detention Center to the Regional Justice Center for his initial appearance on Wednesday. Pictured: The Vegas Golden Knights pose with the Stanley Cup

After then being remanded in custody for eight days, the judge dismissed the charges and he was released in April.

He faces charges of stalking, making a false threat regarding an act of terrorism, aggravated stalking and violating a temporary protection order for the threats made Tuesday.

DeSavio refused to be taken from the Clark County Detention Center to the Regional Justice Center for his initial appearance on Wednesday. 

His court appearance was rescheduled for June 20 with no bail. 

[systlin]

Nope.

They don't.

From what I can tell, they spend most of their lives indoors or in areas with lots of other people and rarely go out at night (when raccoons and foxes and stuff are most likely to be active.) Any outdoors time is in parks or in the suburbs, where they experience it as a chemically maintained sweep of grass with a few rosebushes plonked on it.

(This is getting a little better. Suburban gardeners and people who rewild your yards, you fucking rule.)

The extent of the wildlife they see is a squirrel in the park and some birds eating french fries out of a dropped bag in the McDonald's parking lot.

That's quite literally it.

I worked with one of these people a few years back actually. It was on a night shift, and we patrolled a lot over a college campus (Making sure none of the students needed anything, that no one was harassing anyone else, ect.)

It was the first time my co worker had ever been outside at night not in her own backyard. Now, I am a well known feral gremlin creature who lurks in dark woods to decompress, so I was right at home on the large wooded campus at 1 AM. I liked that post. There were deer and raccoons and a family of foxes who lived there. I liked watching them. I gave the skunks a wide berth though.

She had never seen any of these things before. She was absolutely terrified when she saw a real life fox in the wild (it was by the dumpster by the cafeteria, hunting mice.) She thought it would attack her. I had to gently talk her through her panic attack and explain that no, it was just a fox doing normal fox things and would avoid her.

This girl grew up in a city of 30k people. Drive 15 minutes any direction and you're in deep rural farm country. She was, in fact, very strictly vegan.

@systlin I am going insane. A WALL across the Serengeti to segregate predators from prey species??? 'any carnivore can be vegetarian they just don't' are you sure are you sure??

All you'd get if you did that is a lot of angry locals and the carnivores eating each other while the herbivores eat themselves to extinction!

I think this might actually be worse than the 'we will simply Kill all the carnivores and then nothing will get killed ever again and suffering will be eradicated uwu 😌' because at least they recognise that you can't turn a cat vegan.

I am going feral. I need to bite and bite and bite and bite

[hallowdeaths]

Barnes Bakery, Part Six.

summary : bucky will burn the world down to ashes for you.

trigger warnings : violence, unwanted sexual attention towards reader (low-key sexual harassment), mentions of abusive parent and dead mother, mentions of cheating, suicidal ideas.

Bucky was shaking. Not the sort of shaking that was mild and controlled— but instead the sort that demanded for his mother to hold his hands. It was the kind of shaking that was wild, reckless— unkept in its violence.

He'd found Steve and the rest of his team at your school. Apparently, Sharon had mislead them to believe that you were in trouble, and without a second thought went to get you because you were family. You were, though quietly and slowly, had become an essential part of Steve and Bucky's lives.

Bucky wasn't able to breathe, and he was shaking as if he was in the hospital again, trying to regain feeling in his hand.

"Bucky." It's his friend's voice that dismisses the thought of you for a second, before it comes barreling back down on his focus.

He needs to get to you.

"She took her." He says. His throat is dry, and he thinks that it may be coated with rage that would terrify so many. He isn't able to tell because he can't hear anything but his thoughts.

"Peter is tracking her phone." Natasha announces from the desk, leaning against a green chair he remembers you sat in merely days ago, swinging happily when Steve brought you your daily muffin.

He remembers you telling him about your theory on how muffins are just the grandma versions of cupcakes, and he also recalls himself ignoring it, thinking it didn't make sense.

"It may be shut down, but I can still access it if-"

"If?" Bucky growls.

"If she has a find my phone app in it."

"Does she?" He glances at Steve, laughing hysterically. "I don't even know."

The blond nods at him, and anger rises within him twofolds. How was it that his best friend knew, and not him? How was it that he'd always pushed you away when he knew that there was no avoiding how incredibly quickly and foolishly he'd fallen for you?

Silence hung about like a looming threat, and suddenly, Peter screeched with delight that filled Bucky with a small, precious spark of hope. Perhaps he'd get to feel you just one more time.

"I GOT IT!"

Bucky was dragging his team out the door before anything else could be said.

.

Youre not sure when it is that you were knocked out. You remember realizing you would have to face your father. You remember Sharon laughing at you, but you don't remember getting hit so strongly on the head that you were still seeing stars.

"Come on, what is she going to do? Say no? I'd like to see her try." A voice you don't recognize laughs with a cruel tone that makes your fingers clench tighter around your binds.

You can't open your eyes, it still hurts too badly, but you can listen.

"You're fucking nasty. She's just sloppy seconds."

"You know what they say. The sloppier the better." The same voice that holds so much tenor grumbles.

"Literally no one says that." Sharon— you recognize the fakeness within her tone.

"Urgh, stop busting my balls, blondie. Leave and don't come back."

"The boss says no one should touch her." You hear the girl say, and you beg inwardly, chanting at her to stay, even if right now you hate her, you know that if she leaves your fate will quickly become much worse.

"And the boss also never told us he had a daughter before."

"He thought she was dead." Sharon hisses quietly, seemingly trying to distract him from his disgusting, perverse intentions.

"Do I have to put a bullet between your eyeballs?"

"Fuck you." You hear her grumble, before her footsteps retreat and an heavy door is slammed shut.

No. No. No.

Come back.

A hand touches the top of your head, and you wait patiently as Steve had taught you for the person to get just close enough for your swing to make enough damage.

His breath travels to your forehead, to your nose, and just when it finally connects with your lips, you swing your head forward, hard enough to break his teeth and your nose.

He let's out a colorful string of curses as he stumbles away, landing into a table you can only guess is filled with guns and weapons of torture.

The door opens again, thanks to the commotion, but you're too winded to realize that you're falling into oblivion again.

.

When you wake up, you're completely stripped bare. You're in a comfortable bed, sunshine draping itself across your lived-in skin. You're not sure this is real at all, because Bucky is sitting next to you and he's looking at you as if everything is alright.

You yawn uncomfortably, twisting until your body is flush against his thighs. He says nothing, and you can't feel him as he lays a hand onto your head— which confirms your belief that this is not real. You didn't even know if he was alive.

"I wish you were real." You muttered, your voice harsh.

"Im here."

"But you're not."

"Even if it is a dream, why couldn't it be real?"

You glance up at him and take in the edges of his face, the beautiful blue of his eyes, the sharp slope of his nose. The jaw that clenches too often.

Even if it is a dream, you're also aware that you appreciate him, and all that he's done for you even if he used you. Because of him, you were able to have a normal life, at least for a bit. If only it hadn't all gone to shit. If only you had acknowledged the signs you refused to look at straight in the eyes because of your father.

You reach up, gently caressing the ghostly edge of his cheek. "Thank you."

He smiles, and then pushes you back into darkness.

.

You awaken to bright red walls, mixed to dark brick that sticks horribly together. You want to fall back asleep and get back to Bucky, but.. he's gone. And instead of him, youre faced with your father.

"Ah, darling,"

You open your mouth to say something— anything, but your mouth is so dry no sounds can get out except a pathetic whine. You'd lost your voice screaming for Bucky.

"Welcome home." He glances down at his torture toys, smiling grimly. "I wondered how long it would take for me to find you."

You rolled your eyes, moving your wrists against your restrains. Sure, your father had given you everything you'd ever wanted, but being homeless had still be your prime days. He had given you everything but love or trust, and that scars a child, especially when you suddenly find out he had been the one to kill your mother.

"I'll give you that, the Winter Soldier was almost successful at making Sharon believe you weren't important to him. It's sad that you and your mother look so much alike."

"How did you find me?" You manage through your raw throat, wincing at the pain.

"Those two friends of yours— Maximoff, isn't it? Very nice people. She really likes to post on social media."

You frown — the only sign you let him see that you're panicking — and fight harder against your restrains. "if you hurt them-"

"Oh, but darling, I don't know what you could have told them about me. Have to be careful, don't I?"

"I haven't told them anything!" You spit, your neck tightening. "Let them go!"

"Like I can trust you." He scoffs, and than sends his hand down on your cheek to shut you up. "You're just like your mother. Foolish and drunk on liberty."

"She was drowning," You murmured, your head tilted how he'd left you after hitting you. You were seeing stars, but you blinked few times and managed to subdue the effect of his slap. "She was dying, in that estate. Never let out, used for breeding and being a pretty thing on your arm."

Your father screamed at you to shut up, but you were too far gone, tears rolling down your face, rage pulling at your guts. "She hated her life. You trapped her in that house, when you knew every spot in that place terrified her, that she knew of every each of your victims, but you— you locked her up."

Another hit. Blood pooled on your tongue. "And I was drowning too," so please kill me. Please kill me before I become like my mother. "She hated you."

Your dad picks up the gun from his table when your words finally hit him and points it just in between your brows. "Shut the fuck up. I will fucking blow your brains out, you fucking brat."

You smile despite yourself, leaning forward into the gun's barrel. "Wanna know a secret?"

"No." He pushed harder, and you unraveled yourself finally, ready to put an end to your miserable, endless life. "I said shut-"

"I'm not even your daughter."

The revelation is followed by the sound of the door bursting open, his guards falling flat on the floor, and Steve walking in with Sharon at gunpoint who's held by the throat.

Your father— or at least the person who raised you, doesn't lower his gun, but instead smiles at Steve.

If Steve is here, is Bucky too? Is Bucky alright?

"Let the girl go, Alex." Steve growls, his face completely calm and deadly.

"Go ahead and shoot, Steven. I don't care much for her."

"Good, because she was going to die anyways." A voice you don't see sounds through the room, causing your father to finally lower the gun and your inner struggle to fall apart. That voice.

"Winter Soldier." Your father croaked. "Here I thought you sent Captain Blondie to do your dirty work."

"Dirty work, you're right," a door made of bricks you hadn't seen before rises and turns, and Bucky comes out with Natasha, Clint and Thor.

Your father must have finally figured he was out powered, and so he slowly put down the gun at the prospect of being killed.

"You're nothing but dirty work," James hums, his eyes glossed over with a ferality that has you blinking through your tears and swallowing your blood. "But my girl? She's far from fucking dirty."

You father falters, but still keeps a little knowing smile on his face when he glances down at you. "You're nothing but a little whore, uh? Crying about drowning after you've decided to be the big bad mafia boss' play thing."

"Nat." Bucky snaps, and the Russian girl steps up before him to go to you, while Clint busies himself with tugging his bow string further. Alex doesn't try to stop her, and you suspect it's because he knows she's deadly enough that challenging her is a bad idea.

"You can't kill me." Your father says when Bucky twirls a knife out of his pocket and glances at Steve who's still holding Sharon.

"Oh I think we'll do as we like. You did betray the contract." Steve says, which earns a whimper from Sharon who's caught along to why, while you remain confused.

"I might have, seeing as she's not my daughter and she belongs to the Avengers, but.." Your father peers down at you, and points in your general direction, which quickly elicits a warning groan from Bucky. "But without me, you will never find the Maximoff twins."

You exchange a panicked glance with Natasha, who understands immediately and shakes her head at Bucky.

Alex, the person who killed your mother and raised you, points a gun at his own head and smiles darkly one last time.

"I hope you drown." He tells you, and before you can be covered from the sight or your eyes can close, his head splits in two from the bullet in his gun that was reserved for you and you're being drawn with blood all over.

You hear curses, hear Bucky calling your name as he rushes to you, but youre— you can't even think. You can't even cry or talk or breathe.

He'd killed himself, and in the process had taken your two best friends along with him.

You are drowning.

━━━

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[aftonfamilyvalues]

IDK why men end up abusive if they don't get laid. I would lay down my life without question for pussy. They call me a SIMP, but how is it an insult when I am objectively happier than they are?

incels are just so wild like we have all seen osa women and they will literally give everything to the ugliest men in existence and think the world of their hideous guys. guess its just easier to blame women being shallow bitches than look inward to understand the issues that led them to becoming incels are the things that drive women away.

back when i used reddit, there was an incel in a subreddit who edited this screenshot and pasted a picture of a handsome guy over the profile picture.

i got posted to an incel subreddit for my comment saying that thinking the man is handsome doesnt change the fact that this is beyond creepy and terrifying for any woman because this man just used his job as a way to access my personal information for his own use. got harassed after that and deleted my account soon after. fucking hate reddit.

[featherfur]

I do think it's good that Jingyi gets to be free to be himself, but learning to rein it in is important. It's never mentioned either way but I've wondered if he is fairly high up in the Lan hierarchy and combined with HGJ's favor is important enough smaller sects would think twice about striking back at him(I've seen ppl write him as LQR's kid which is funny). JC is a lot chiller than his rep would indicate and NHS isn't about to cause problems. There's no war so he doesn't have to worry as much

The thing is, is that there’s many Lan juniors according to the text. There’s nothing special about Jingyi except that he’s so loud that Wei Wuxian remembers him. The text literally says he can’t remember the others’ names. If he was high up then Sizhui wouldn’t be telling him to hush, and he probably would have know Jin Ling as the next heir or next in line after Wangji in one of the great sects. Or he would have been introduced as such.

He can be as free as he wants but that does mean sometimes you have to respect others. Especially when others can be business partner’s, your boss’ coworkers, someone who kills monsters for a living, or someone who really really doesn’t need to be seen letting some unknown brat harass him publicly and ruining his reputation of being able to be a sect leader (that’s Jin Ling btw)

Jingyi always seemed to me to be the character put in to show how the Lan sect has changed and how the next generation can be free-er. How they aren’t terrified of who’s going to kill then next. That even a servant of the Lan Sect can mouth off without their family being annihilated (i.e. WWX to Wen Chao) However. He’s no closer to being heir than Sizhui is, which is to say: nowhere at all, it’s not going to happen anything short of a mass murder

I love that he’s a wild feral brat under the Lan name, but he is still a representative of his sect by being a disciple,,, he could do with knocking it down a few pegs atleast in public,,, could you imagine if he tried to sass Madam Yu? 💀💀

for all we like to talk about JC being an absolute dick, he really just rolls his eyes at Jingyi and wonders where Lan Xichen went wrong with the kid instead of like, bringing him to Xichen for punishment or similar.

(Side note I always laugh so hard at the idea that LQR fucks one (1) time and he gets Jingyi of all Lan’s out of it, and I do enjoy a good fic about Jingyi getting to be sect leader but it’s not really a good idea, could you imagine him and Yao on the same level? Pls, the meetings,,)

[brightlotusmoon]

wanna know the worst part about the recent bomb terrorist anti? i looked more into that. their name was zer0 iirc (can't remember their pronouns atm) and they literally lied about being a minor. all so they could claim it was predatory for adults who were upset with them for threatening atsu to report them for their behavior. then their spouse defended them...who was noticeably much much older than zer0 was claiming to be. and after more people began questioning the spouse because of the potential underlying actual pedophilia situation people thought was going on there at first. it turned out that zer0 started claiming they were 15 and then 16 within the same span of the month this discourse took place. after originally claiming to be 14. (cuz for some reason they thought saying they were 15 and 16 made their spouse in their thirties dating them look better??) and then it turned out finally that zer0 was also thirty and had three kids irl. and as far as i can tell they have not addressed the weird age faking they did nor apologized for it. and they also won't apologize for the bomb threat. i think theassholeantiarchive-2 is where i found out about some of that. it was fucking wild to read and makes me wonder now how many other antis that claim to be minors are lying. and only lying about that so they can keep claiming its child abuse for adults online to block/report them for harassing others. it's mind boggling to me the kinda behavior that antis will tell people is okay to do so they can avoid responsibility when they go too far. idk if you knew this or not but i thought you might be interested to have this extra context about the situation with the anti threatening to bomb a proshipper.

I... Wh- th- bu-

Wh-

WHAT THE FUCK.

I need to lie down.

...

I've been writing since the 1990s. Do you know what happened when we started putting fanfiction online? We were so busy hiding from Anne Rice and George RR Martin that there was barely much time for infighting especially bullying. Then again, Geocities webrings and LiveJournal fic communities were highly monitored and curated. And, okay, the internet was a baby. So, uh, I guess I have no reference? I didn't get on the internet until I was nearly 18. In the late 90s. A very different temporal critter.

This is. This is. I don't. Are we living in a horror anthology? Oh fuck, this is the Twilight Zone. But worse. Worse than Black Mirror.

This is fucking terrifying.

[revvywevvy]

I'm up in the mountains rn bored outta my mind so I went off writing Pyrlina headcanons :P Just a quick tw & cw for homophobia, and mentions of murder, violence, etc. under the cut, but the hcs are mostly positive besides those off moments.

Caelina is a very touch-starved and cuddly woman. Albeit she’s… really, really shy about it. If she could take the hint that it’s okay to, she would be all over Pyrrha at every moment possible. Alas, she’s a weenie. 

However, there is at least a silver-lining to it. Caelina has a tendency to (very obviously) stare at Pyrrha whenever she wants physical contact like a wide-eyed needy cat, and Pyrrha (ever the perceptive type) notices right off the bat. If she’s busy with something she’ll let Caelina awkwardly linger in the vicinity or lean on her if allowed, but otherwise she’s more than happy with dropping everything to find a comfy spot to cuddle.

Pyrrha’s just immensely grateful for any sort of TLC she gets from her. She’s not sure if she’ll ever get used to being treated so warmly, with Caelina practically spoiling her more than Jurgis did when he was still alive.

She tries to return the favor to Caelina as best she can, offering an equal amount of love and affection whenever possible. They’re very supportive towards one another.

That support is always very much needed. After everything that's happened, they struggle a lot and have each other’s backs no matter what.

Pyrrha struggles going into public despite her desperate desire to be around others and to finally love and care for others, as most find her malfested arm repulsive and demonic; a direct association to the once prevalent cursed sword and its followers. Despite being so kind and open to others, many refuse to look past the imperfections. Sure, some gave her a chance, but the number of foes far outweighed the number of friends.

She’s terrified of being completely outcast again, and does whatever she can to hide the arm whenever she goes outside. Even then, it's not enough, the people already know. However, having it hidden seems to pacify people enough that she can head into town alone without being harassed or assaulted. 

It doesn’t fully quell things, though. She’s seen the stares, heard the whispers and rumors. She’s quite literally walking on eggshells at every moment, one slip-up potentially meaning the people may hunt her down with a bloodlust. 

On top of that, the arm feels almost like a parasite at times. It's not uncommon for it to throb and pulsate painfully, disturbing daily life whenever it does. Patroklos is in contact with Siegfried still, trying tirelessly to find a way for Pyrrha to dispel the mutation just as Siegfried had in the past.

She’s scared, and by the gods she’s trying so, so hard to be brave. For herself, for her brother, and for Caelina.

Caelina, unfortunately, doesn’t have it much easier, either. Since the explosive incident in her teens, Caelina’s magic has been a wild card. As time ticked by afterwards, her magic slowly got more and more unstable, parallel to her mental state. So long being alone, scared, bitter, and hurting so much… it took a toll on her, for certain.

It reached a boiling point just before she’d met Pyrrha, and as the two had journeyed together to find Patroklos, it snowballed for the worst. The magical instability took an effect on her physical being as well, causing a plethora of issues.

Among it all, there were body pains and aches, endless shaking and shivering, swelling in some joints, muscle spasms, blood circulation issues, breathing troubles, and commonplace sickness from magical overloads.

Towards the end of that journey she’d begun struggling to even properly summon her magic, but she’d pulled through. Easing into a peaceful life, and finally having a support system, her mentality and magic both began to stabilize… but at that point, it was too late. The physical effects had already made their mark. While some of the more magical-sided ailments faded with time, the rest were there to stay.

Not to mention… those memories of the past never faded. Both women tried as they may, but there was no shaking off years of pain in a short time period. So much loss on both sides, so many things they’d both done and regretted to the heavens and back. TLC and emotional bandaids wouldn’t last, but…. They certainly helped.

Pyrrha and Caelina both have a protocol for when they feel as though they’re about to spiral. Five taps anywhere on the body with a single finger, declaring ‘Help, I need somewhere safe.’ The moment either of them does it, accidental or not, the other will lead them away from the situation, or home if they’re able. It doesn’t always have to be for such serious situations though, as they can use it whenever they feel uncomfortable somewhere, too.

Either way, once they’re at such a point, they need each other desperately. While there are occasions where one another may need space due to physical pain, their go-to is to hold each other for comfort. It’s a physical anchor for them, letting them know that this is real. They’re here, they’re alive, they’re safe.

Slowly but surely they’re making their way through all of the hurt. They refuse to fully give up, one day they will heal. If either one is to snap and spiral to their breaking point, they’ll stop at nothing to keep the other anchored. Hold on, we’ll heal someday soon.

Having family around helps Pyrrha so much with some of her troubles, but… there is one down-side to the whole thing. One huge, debilitating down-side.

Her little brother Patroklos, who she loves dearly, and her partner who she wants to spend the rest of her days with… they do not get along. At all.

Y'see, I'm sitting here realizing in my recent shitpost drawings that I made Caelina and Patroklos's relationship seem more lighthearted than it really is. Unfortunately, their relationship outside of shitposts is much, much darker and grim.

Patroklos is stubborn, overprotective of Pyrrha and very, very lacking in empathy when it comes to anyone but himself and his family. He’s already repulsed at Caelina’s mere presence because of her magical affinities, with him viewing her as a bad influence and wedge between him and his family, but… neither woman expected him to be so explosive once he’d realized the two women were romantically involved.

Typically he wouldn't care about such matters, but… not only was this involving someone he clashed with regularly, but she was with his sister! He was more than just upset.

Initially, Patroklos was furious. In his words, he would not stand for her to corrupt his sister. Quite frankly, he was on the verge of killing Caelina himself. He was not shy to make clear threats to sell Caelina out to the law. He wanted to ensure that a death sentence was served, thoughts clouded with rage and hatred.

However… he couldn’t bring himself to carry anything out. Sure, seeing Caelina freeze up, watching her expression darken with terror as she sloppily tried to mask it with anger felt nice, him feeling triumphant at finally having such a strong effect on her, but… Pyrrha’s reaction stopped him.

His smug look shattered into a million pieces when his eyes landed on his sister, her face full of a despair that he’d never seen before, even when she was malfested. It looked like she would have a heart attack and wither away at that very moment, and he just… couldn’t do it.

Yes, Patroklos was prideful, always wanting to emerge victorious in life and be some sort of moral justice enforcer. To win against all 'foes' felt necessary to him, but… at the cost of Pyrrha? It didn’t help with Caelina telling him in a shaky voice that if he sold her out, Pyrrha would die, too. People were not stupid, they would put two and two together, no matter how much he tried to bullshit it. As much as her fear filled him with elation, she was right.

Sure, he didn’t feel bad for Caelina, not one bit… but for Pyrrha, his heart broke. He messed up, he’d realized. (Though 'messed up' is quite the understatement) So he apologized to Pyrrha only, promising her he would not utter a word of it; and telling Caelina that she was on very thin ice. To watch herself. With that, he left.

From there, he was still rather antagonizing towards Caelina, but for the most part he left them be. Though, even with his promise to Pyrrha, Caelina felt incredibly unsafe. Unfortunately, there was no way she could ever trust him. Those threats triggered a plethora of paranoia fueled night terrors and silent conspiracies in her, she just couldn't trust that any change he made was legitimate. 

At some point Pyrrha reached a breaking point with her brother's behavior, warning him just once that if he didn't let up, she and Caelina would leave and never return. That realization set him straight, but… not like that could fix much of anything. To this day, Caelina's still heavily guarded and cold to Patroklos, with no sign of warmth no matter how much he tries to repent. 

Morally speaking, Caelina is still…… teetering on a thin line, so to speak. While Patroklos kept his word, paranoia won over everything. If anything went wrong, if there was even a sign that he’d destroy everything they’d built, she wouldn’t hesitate to kill him. 

At least, that's how she felt. After a meltdown fueled confession, she ended up promising Pyrrha that she wouldn't hurt Patroklos. Though Pyrrha does think Patroklos needs some sense smacked into him, Caelina would probably kill him if she was allowed to let loose in her anger.

…Not intentionally, at least. At best, Caelina can tolerate Patroklos’s presence without trouble. Typically, however, she avoids him like the plague. There is some semblance of hope for them to co-exist long-term, but for now, everything is shaky and uncertain.

In the meantime, Caelina still does what she can despite wanting to not even hear her potential brother-in-law's breathing most days.

Luckily he's mostly busy with work, so they have plenty of breathing room in their shared home.

Pyrrha and Caelina have an even split of house work together, and they help one another in ensuring things are liveable (even if a lack of motivation causes some roadblocks here and there).

Whenever they're doing chores, regardless of what room they're in, whether separate or together, they tend to sing while they work. If one hears the other singing, they'll join in on the singing! Sometimes it ends with them goofily serenading each other from different rooms. 

They also cook together! Both women had some experience cooking, but after forgetting a lot of what they knew, they helped each other learn once again. They can be kinda cheesy in the fact that while they're cooking they'll give each other taste tests, share little nibbles of extra ingredients and find some way to be in close contact during the cooking process.

The two always head out for errands together, too, glued to one another's side. While they're good at getting things done in the long run, they're prone to getting sidetracked and running off together to goof off.

They don't spend frivolously, but they do look around at stuff that caught their eye or watch street performers who happened to be around.

With their due vigilance with house upkeep, they end up having plenty of free time outside of running errands. 

Using Caelina's sprites as guides, they like heading down to nearby flower fields or rivers or anything scenic, really, in the outskirts of their town. They spend a lot of time relaxing together and watching the birds/other wildlife.

As one of her coping mechanisms, Caelina got into drawing, so whenever they're there she'll sketch out the landscapes while Pyrrha watches. She never intervenes with her art, enjoying her peaceful expression as she draws. Though, sometimes Caelina veers off and starts drawing Pyrrha, causing her to accidentally intervene a la flustered squeaking.

Caelina totally does that on purpose. Pyrrha's reactions are adorable, she can't help it!

Sometimes if they find a calm enough river, they'll hop in for a swim and have fun together that way!

One time Pyrrha accidentally caught a fish with her bare hands as it was swimming by. Caelina could only just gawk at how cool Pyrrha was. She tried to catch a fish herself after but its tail slapped her. She's kinda jealous of Pyrrha's good grip.

Whenever the days ending, they like watching the sunset together. Occasionally they'll stay longer to watch the starry night sky slowly flicker to life.

When they go home and get ready for bed they always cuddle before going to sleep. Being wrapped up in one another's arms is very comforting and never fails to lull them to sleep. 

Though sometimes if it's too hot at night they'll hold hands, or sleep facing each other. 

[missed-connections-of-fear]

Hey to anyone in the fishfly/mayfly corruption domain. I was the hive, I’m so sorry. Id give a fuller apology but I don’t think I have the words to cover it. I tried to keep them under control but they didn’t exactly listen. To the girl to duck-taped a plastic cutting board to the end of a baseball bat and started swingin. I am both impressed and terrified of you. id love to meet you under better circumstances, you’re incredible. she also deliberately passed up a clear opportunity to take a swing at me in favor of going for the bugs which was. So much more mercy than I deserved. So thank you

also. Anyone else who was a hive,,, y’all uhh any of y’all still find that the type of critter you had still have an affinity toward you? I mean, its a good thing that miraculously the experience didn’t make me hate them, cause. Fish flies still love me.

Literally there are people in my small town who just. Regularly call or text me so I can go over to their house and pied-piper the fishflies over to the old boatlaunch where they won’t bother anyone. The neighbors keep getting them in their hair on the way to work in the morning cause the lil buggers like to hang around my house so much? it’s rough for my one neighbor who was in my domain. Thank god he holds no hard feelings, but every now and then I hear him bellow my name, “Lizzie!!!” echoing across the nighborhood like that “kevin!!!” bit at the end of Home Alone, and I know I gotta run across the street and make them stop harassing him.

So yeah I know I loved my hive like a family in the apocalypse? Now that I’m not actually an avatar and not supernaturally connected or infested, they’re just like. my weird extended family who I care about but mostly just tolerate and try not to let bother my friends. Not sure what to do about it, because as much as I hate to admit it, I think I’d be kinda sad if they left. Which is probably kinda messed up with the way it’s affecting my hometown. Guess I’ve become the local cryptid? Although everyone has me on speed dial as pest control at this point “Lizzie come and get ur bugs” so I guess I’m not that mysterious 😂 I’m glad i can help ease the problems I’m responsible for though.

Damn. That sounds fuckin’ rough but also wild.

Hope you’re alright. And your victims too.

Glad you’re able to help folks in your town with the mayflys.

- Rose