#god i was so into this show when i was thirteen xD

[jirishnesensei]

Mirio Togata x Reader | Isekai AU [18+]

Warming up to you ch3. It's an anime

⊱ Pairings - mirio 3rd year student x reader

⊱ About - Boku No Hero Academia was your favourite anime. You watched it every week when a new episode came out, but what if you were transported into the world?Having no clue how you got there and you're being accused of being a part of the League Of Villians.Suffice to say, it's not the best way to start the show.

⊱ Warnings/tags - 18+ (eventually), fluff(for the most part), angst, smut, fem reader, romance, pining, SLOW BURN, swearing, friends to lovers, death, jealousy, she falls first he falls harder, mirio is mean (with reason), first everything, sassy mirio, fangirl reader, unrequited love

⊱ status - ongoing

⊱ chapters - 3/x

⊱ word count - 2.4k

A/N - Hello! omg it's been a long time coming posting this story here XD just wanted to say thank you for those that hearted, reblogged and all that! This is unfathomably one of my most prized stories that's been giving me a migraine for years (seriously, and still ongoing) but I hope you enjoy it as much as I have (⁠θ⁠‿⁠θ⁠) okay bye!

Mirio decided to have Sir Night eye ask you the questions about Shie Hassaikai, which was smart on his account.

Now you were both heading over to Sir Nighteyes agency bright and early in the morning. Mirio definitely didn't know what sleeping in meant. You yawned obnoxiously loud to maybe catch the attention of a certain blonde and it was a success going off of the look he gave you.

"You slept for at least 9 hours."

"Yeah, well I need twelve. Thirteen if I need to do things during the day." You answered sarcastically. It's like the boy forgot you fell down thousands of feet from the sky not even 24 hours ago. He didn't entertain anymore conversation after that and it was a fairly quick walk to the agency.

Mirio stopped infront of a large set of green doors. Pushing one open while gesturing for you to go in first. You walked through, already feeling the cold air conditioning hit your bare skin.

You were given the lovely opportunity to wash your face and brush your teeth, but you were still dressed in the same clothes from your world. You felt gross, and that's putting it lightly.

"His office is this way." Mirio says as he walked down the long corridor then started his way up the signature spiral staircase. Your body was getting tingly at the thought of meeting Sir Nighteye. What were you going to tell him? He isn't even nice... so what if he doesn't even give you a chance to speak? What if he wants you to make him laugh?! Oh god you were terrible at jokes. Now that you were hopelessly scared, you tugged on Mirios white collard shirt, making him look down at you.

"Mirio I don't know how to make Sir Night eye laugh." You didn't see it but Mirio's eyes widened at how you knew one of his mentors rules. He didn't allow you to hear the shock in his voice though.

"Don't worry, if you're telling the truth then Sir won't care if you make him laugh or not." You nodded limbly. Still a bit shaken from the idea of meeting the Sir Nighteye.

When you reached the top of the stairs and walked down one last corridor, Mirio held the door knob and looked back at you. Your head hung low, it was obvious you were psyching yourself out. He rolled his eyes, not liking how his sense of hero duties were clouding his judgement with the fact that you could be a villain. Nonetheless he faced you and held your shoulders. The contact makes your skin crawl and hold your breath and for the first time since looking at him you actually notice how blue his eyes are. Like the deepest part of the ocean where sunlight can't even reach. Okay, that's leaning more towards black... but that's just how much melanin is in his eyes.

"Stop worrying, everything will be fine." He gives you one of those hero smiles, the kind that melts your heart and nearly your legs too, but you had atleast some kind of self-control. For now.

Mirio turns back to the door so you can get distracted by his broad back instead and knocks twice before walking in, now beaming brightly as the Mirio Togata you and every bnha fan knew. You couldn't help but roll your eyes at that.

"Good morning Sir!" 

You peer past him and see the one and only Sasaki Mirai, aka, Sir Nighteye seated by his desk.

"Mirio. is this the girl?" Sir Nighteye looks you over and it feels like his gaze pierced straight through your very soul. He was so much more intimidating in person. How in the world did Midoriya have the guts to make fun of All Might under these circumstances?

"Yes Sir. She claims she has information on Shie Hassaikai." Sir Nighteye nods then thanks Mirio for the notice before telling him to head off to campus. As Mirio turned to leave, you look at him with pleading eyes to not leave you alone, ofcourse he doesn't stay... but a girl can dream, right?

The door slams shut and now it was just you and Sir Nighteye in the room. You glanced around, trying not to make direct eye contact with him and instead focused on all the All Might merchandise that was everywhere. There was actually way more than they focused on in the anime...

"Do you know what my quirk is?" Sir Nighteye startles you out of your daze and his cold voice makes you stand straighter like you're in the military.

"Yes sir! It's foresight! You are able to look into a person's future upon contact with them for an hour!" You yelled this as if you were being graded for a test. And the outcome of that test is either prison or freedom. It was only now that you realize if you can't back up your claim, you could be in some serious touble here. Sir Nighteye hmph'ed as if satisfied with your answer and then stood up from his chair, making you flinch slightly.

"So you know what will happen if I look into your future." He states calmly, removing his glasses to clean while walking around his desk and then leaned his lower back on it. Hunching slightly from his tall posture.

You nod, unsure where he was going by stating that.

"Tell me something only I would know miss..?"

"Uh (y/n)... (y/n) (l/n)" You answered.

"Miss (y/n)" He gestured for you to continue. You visibly gulped. Was it getting hot in here? It feels like it's getting hotter. What do you tell him? You could tell him about Midoriya being the successor for One For All... that should definitely prove it, but that could land you in big trouble for even knowing such a secret. You pondered and pondered over what to say, making Sir Nighteye grow impatient.

"If you don't know-"

"No wait! I do... I do know, I just don't know which scene to tell you about-" Sir Nighteye grew confused by your choice of words, but gave you a few more minutes.

You bit your lip and wrung your fingers, desperately trying to will your mind to think of something, anything. You were very nervous if it wasn't painfully obvious already.

"Oh! I know!" Sir Nighteye looked at you intently as you were about to speak. You knew exactly what to say now.

"I can tell you exactly what happened-" you start, Sir Nighteye leans a bit forward, not fooling anyone with how intrigued he was on how you could supposedly tell them exactly where Shie Hassaikai is.

"-when Midoriya came to request for a work study here!" You finished with a winning smile as if you just said the numbers to the lottery. Sir Nighteye visibly sunk at what you just said then pushed his glasses back up, clearly not impressed by your revelation.

"Wait, just hear me out atleast! Wouldn't it be crazy if I could tell you exactly what happened in this room without ever being in it? Even what happened before Midoriya and Mirio walked into the room?" You urged. Sir Nighteye sighed, looked over his shoulder at his All Might clock then back at you. 

"Okay fine, I'll bite. Tell me what happened. Before Midoriya and Mirio walked in."

You nod earnestly and rack up all of your memories from that scene. You had watched this season so many times, you couldn't get it wrong the one time you needed to truly remember it.

"Bubble girl, your assistant, was telling you about the incident that was linked to Shie Hassakai and the league of villains. I'm not sure where the place was... but you were watching an All Might video while she spoke to you and because she wasn't being humorous enough, you tied her to some torture tickling machine and started to tickle her!" You finish off like you just convinced your mother that it wasn't you who broke her favourite dish. Eagerly waiting for Sir nighteye's response.

He was definitely shocked going off of his expression. You told him near to the tea what was happening before Mirio and Midoriya walked in which so to speak should be impossible. He pushes his glasses up again, not wanting to show more of his emotion and spoke.

"What happened when they entered?" You bit your bottom lip.

Did I get something wrong?

You cleared your throat and tried to remember what happened after, "You told Midoriya that he has to make you laugh for you to consider him as an intern and so he imitated All Might, which I thought was really funny, but you accused him of ridiculing All Might and then told him his wrinkles were in the wrong places and then... you both just kinda went at it and fanboyed over All Might." You laughed nervously.

"Oh! and before you stamped Midoriyas papers you made him spar with you! Which he lost... but he completely dodged all of your All Might posters, right?!" You hold your breath. You could feel your palms sweating. You were desperately trying to get Sir Nighteye to believe you here, but his stoic expression was so difficult to read through. He sighs once more and walked over to you. You step back in fear, but he grabbed your shoulder to keep you in place and used his quirk on you. You were hypnotized the second that he did, eyes fixated on his. They were actually moving like gears... tiny, mini gears and it was incredible. Sir Nighteye lets go of you and then stood up straight again.

"It's near to impossible that you could tell me that, but I still don't understand how. What is your quirk?" He looks down at you so intensely. Your legs really felt like they were going to give in at any moment. You laugh awkwardly under his gaze that now felt like they could see right through your skin. Like you're talking intestines and everything. It made you uncomfortable.

"Its not a quirk... it's um... haha, you're gonna think this is funny, but it's an anime." His expression stays the same, as if waiting for the punchline.

I knew he wanted a joke!

"I uh, gosh," You awkwardly rub your forehead, "I don't know how else to explain it..." You look down to the ground, feeling too exposed to look him directly in the eye anymore. Sir Nighteye realized this and turned on his heel to sit back down by his desk, gesturing for you to take a seat opposite. You take his offer and sit down then suck in a decent breath, preparing for the millions of questions to follow.

"I'm not from this planet. Or whatever this place is. Back where I'm from this place is known as My Hero Academia. An anime that people around the globe watch."

⊱ Next chapter: Coming soon!

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Taglist - @the-faceless-bride @distinguishedoafbiscuitopera

Dividers by - @cafekitsune and @strangergraphics

[murfpersonalblog]

Mayfair Witches S2E1 (Show & Book Spoilers) - Better than Season 1!

Ngl, this was the best episode by far. Why? Cuz they STUCK TO THE FRIGGIN BOOK.

There's soooooo many things I hate about the way they handled S1, but my biggest complaint's that we don't know who the Mayfair Witches even ARE. As in Lasher's Thirteen. S2 is making a tiny effort to bring the 13 forward, thank god, so hopefully they keep at it.

Instead of Michael Curry reading the copious Talamasca files on the Mayfairs and giving us a period-piece via flashbacks, AMC had Rowan reading the Mayfairs' diaries--only a sentence or two, and we don't SEE the witches, which sucks. We see a lot of ghost!Millie though, which is cool; I liked her & Carlotta in S1. And she's the one guiding Rowan now, to kill Lasher, which will be a very interesting parallel for whenever ghost!Julien shows up.

They're quickly emphasizing that Lasher's a sex pest, so the diaries just focus on that.

The trailer showed Julien a lot, and I'm exciiiiited~! Thank god they're bringing Cortland back (as a ghost)--now these 2 evil old queens can bring allll the drama as father & son~! I was ROLLING when Rowan had Cortland frozen in the basement! Treat your father with some respect, Rowan, sheesh~! XD

What's crazy is that Esta keeps talking about the First Street house being this central set piece like it's its own character (which is why Rowan didn't leave on the run with Lasher like she did in the books, at least not yet); but then they had the nerve to bring up Katherine Mayfair, and not even mention that it was she and her husband Darcy who first bought & built the house & designed it to be like a maze/labyrinth trapping Lasher inside--which would've been a great way of emphasizing how much reborn!Lasher is SO different, since now he can LEAVE the house.

Albrecht was talking a whooooole other story back in S1, back when you WANTED Lasher to be born--now you're telling Cip Lasher's a threat???? I even love his dead-eyed stare, like even HE doesn't believe what he's saying; I wouldn't trust Albrecht and anything he says about the Talamasca as far as I can throw him. And I bet these guys from the trailer are Gordon & co., the so-called Talamasca "Elders" that were keeping old Taltos!Tessa for Lasher to mate with. (PLEASE give us Ashlar~! 🙏)

I LOOOOOVE that they're actually doing Lasher going around raping all the Mayfair women & causing their hemorrhages/miscarriages! We'll have to wait & see if they go full tilt on the Lasher/Rowan incest though, since she's the only one who can actually breed with him.

I'll still be waiting for a Taltos name drop (I highly doubt it--they're still calling him a "demon"), but it's clear they're at least keeping the whole extra chromosome plot, which is great. Episode 4 is titled "Double Helix," so that's likely when we'll get all the DNA deets.

So AMC!Tessa wasn't the Mona after all--I'm kinda relieved! Cuz AMC!Tessa was nowhere near as fierce as Mona, so I'm glad they gave her a sister to take her place. They aged Mona/Moira up to an adult to avoid the whole underage pedo thing Anne Rice just loves; and Mona being a teenaged mother. NGL, I hope they ditch the book's Ciprien/Michael-Mona-Victrola plot. We won't get Morrigan as the counterpart for Lasher, sadly, but Cip's already been raped once already to father these witches' babies. 🙄😒

But they've already closely linked Julien's Victrola with Moira--they've changed it so that the witches use music as a distraction so telepaths like Moira can't read people's thoughts, instead of the book lore that music distracts/hypnotizes Lasher. Episode 5 is titled "Julien's Victrola," so SOMETHING from the books is going down.

OR! What if they have Lasher abduct Moira & be Morrigan's father!? 👀 Cuz Mona's the only other witch strong enough to breed with Lasher, and in the books they succeeded at keeping her away from him, only for Julien to push her & Michael together. But AMC can totally push Moira & Lasher together instead--if they decide not to commit to Lasher/Rowan.

I wonder if they'll make Moira & Quinn Blackwood a thing later on, to tie the witches & vampires together? 🤔 (Omg if they make Moira & Lestat's Millennial-Fledgling!Felix a couple imma LAUGH! 😅)

Cuz no seriously, wtf is Felix even doing here?

I hate that they've shunted Ciprien to the side as the Mandingo breeding stallion to impregnate Rowan, so that Dr. Lark can swoop in as the more palatable "love triangle" love interest of the season.

HILARIOUS how the theme of this season is "Family," but for Ciprien Esta said they wanted to focus on the Talamasca. But Esta didn't breathe a WORD about Ciprien's BIOLOGICAL family--say, ohh....the MOTHER OF HIS CHILD, and HIS SON? 🤦 Ciprien didn't say a word all episode about how his baby's mama and his newborn child are out there--not even when he was talking to himself! His stakes are not just cuz he's Talamascan and it's his job to investigate the paranormal; this is HIS BLOOD in the mix! (LITERALLY for Michael, since he was a Mayfair, too!)

This is why I hate this show; it totally killed the emotional impact of Michael/Cip's story, by not having him & Rowan in an actual relationship--happily married, and eagerly waiting for Little Chris to be born, only to be stolen by Lasher. Now Cip's just a stooge for the Talamasca--I wouldn't trust a WORD that old fart said after everything he pulled in S1, now you're in S2 busting into my hotel room to roofie/abduct me so I can steal Lasher for YOU!? GTFOH! Why would he be able to get close to Lasher, when Cip's never even MET him, and Lasher went from an infant to a full grown adult in 5 days as a fatherless son?!

I do hope they keep the Taltos lore intact though, since they're already teasing it with Lasher's obsession with milk & pale foods.

And him as a talking walking baby with teeth--him popping them out of his mouth was creeeeeeeeepy AF.

So yeah, so far things are already looking MUCH better than the snoozefest that was S1.

NO, Rowan's actress still cannot act or express any real range, and still only has 1 facial expression--the same one we all know & love: bug-eyed fear/confusion.

And NO, the quality of this show is still nowhere NEAR that of Interview with the Vampire. There aren't any characters on Mayfair Witches that have half the depth or umph of our vampires. I'm holding out for Cortland & Julien, and maybe Moira. Dolly Jean Mayfair is gearing up to be a decent villain. And ofc Cip's a strong actor, even though his character arc is spiraling.

So yeah. We'll see?

[thewanderingace]

I have finally watched The Flux!!

God it took me ages to get through Thirteen's episodes. Some were good but overall I was bored a lot so it took me ages to get through season 11 and 12. But I just watched the last episode of the Flux tonight and now I'm going to randomly share my disconnected thoughts about it on this post.

Okay so overall I think I enjoyed this season! Which surprised me. I was so prepared to hate it after all the hate for the Flux I've seen on Tumblr or be super bored like I am with a lot of Chibnall's episodes but while it isn't my favorite thing I do think it was 13's best season. I didn't think I'd enjoy the Flux if I'm honest. Everything I read about it sounded dumb or confusing and yeah I'm still a bit confused by some stuff that was just not addressed but this isn't the first time the whole universe (or massive parts of it) have been wiped out so it's not exactly a new concept for the Doctor. But the connection with her and her past is new and I'm intrigued by it if I'm honest. And it gave Jodie some great stuff to work with. She was so good in this season. Way better than the previous two seasons just because she had a lot more to work with writing wise.

The individual plots for each episode are really good and kept my attention. I've loved the plot of the Sontarans waging war through time, the Lupari and their species bond with humanity, the whole thing with the Mouri, Swarm and Azure were cool villains, the star crossed lovers Vinder and Bel trying to find each other, the Weeping Angels taking a whole village, Dan and Yaz living 3 years in the early 1900s and doing Indiana Jones type of stuff. I even enjoyed the Division and the Flux plot.

Now while I overall liked all that, I still feel unsatisfied because there were a lot of potentially great stories but they were all crammed together into 6 episodes and none of them had time to be fleshed out properly and some of them didn't connect well and trying to follow it all was SO HARD. There's so much going on and so many seemingly unrelated plots happening all at once that it's so hard to keep track of. And I'm watching all these episodes back to back immediately after one another. I can't even imagine trying to keep up when this aired one a week. I'd be lost. I think this would have been amazing if they had gotten a full season and didn't have to cram it all into just 6 episodes. (this is why I'm worried about the new season coming which is only gonna have 8 episodes. DW needs more than 8 episodes)

I adore Dan by the way. I loved him from his first scene and every second after has just been lovely. He's super sweet and I love his accent and that he's apparently so selfless that he'd rather give all his food to others than have any for himself. He's taking all this alien stuff so well too. He just got kidnapped by a giant dog and hasn't had a moments break since but he's cool. I like him best out of all of 13's companions so far. Too bad he barely had any episodes. That's a shame. Looking forward to watching these last 3 episodes with him though.

Vinder and Bel? I LOVE THEM BOTH!!!!! Talk about star crossed lovers! I'd watch a whole show just about those two.

Dan and Yaz living for three years in the early 1900s?? I WANT TO LEARN MORE!!!! How did they get out of the village that was surrounded by space? Why was it surrounded by space? Dan as the stowaway is hilarious and has to sleep under the bed in the ship XD.

Chibnall throwing every recurring species he can think of was nuts but in a fun way. Daleks, Sontarans, Cybermen, Ood, Weeping Angels, etc.

Kinda lame that Tecteun was just taken out so easily. I wanted the Doctor to do it in a very Doctor way. Like what 10 did to the Family of Blood ya know?

And that's all I got for now. 3 more episodes to go for 13's run!

[mcx7demonbros]

Darkness and The Coffin

This is Part III of my The Rise of the Archon of Sin series, featuring my self-insert MC, Klein.

Part I - The Sacrifice

Part II: The Mourning

Pairings - all brothers x Klein, but Lucifer x Klein is the most prevalent

Warning - lessons 16 & 38 spoilers, slight mention of religion

Note - there will be 2 Kleins in this part (why? Read to know XD), so I’ll use 2 different colors to distinguish between the two of them.

Klein - the Klein we always know

Klein - the other Klein

Last thing, Thirteen makes a cameo

Where am I? Klein asked himself the moment he opened his eyes.

The Overlord found himself lying next to a bonfire on the bank of a dark river. On the sky, there was nothing except the moon, which looked completely eerie and twisted like something from a horror movie. Klein looked around him, and beside the bonfire, he also found many things, from a common thing like a teddy bear to a gold statue of the Egyptian god Horus, all of which seemed old and abandoned.

“Ah, you woke up, good.” Klein turned to the direction of the voice. And standing there was…himself, or rather, another Klein.

“Who are you?” Klein immediately got up and prepared to fight.

“I know that would be your reaction.” Klein said without any emotion. “But you do know me.” He lifted his shirt and showed Klein something.

“Those wounds…you are t-the other me, the one killed by Belphie - Belphegor in the other timeline, no, it’s also my timeline now.” Klein couldn’t hide the surprise in his voice. “Why are you here?”

“‘Belphie’, I see you are already that close to him.” Klein snickered. “As for why I’m here, when that damnable demon butler merged the timeline, you became the only Klein. And I, I was thrown away to this place - the Land of the Dead and Forgotten.” Klein said as he used his hands to signal for Klein to look around. “And when you killed yourself to save Lucifer and the others, your soul was exiled to this place too.”

“The Land of the Dead & Forgotten?” Klein asked.

“Yes, any living thing that dies in extremely special circumstances, like by the Night Dagger or erased by merging timelines, will come here. As for objects, they are simply forgotten by human, I guess.”

Klein looked at Klein while he was talking as he remembered something and got into defensive stance again.

“If you came here and became forgotten because of the merging timelines, you should bear hatred for me, right?”

“Don’t worry. I no longer do.”

“What’s the meaning of that?”

“Here’s in the Land of the Dead & Forgotten, everything will be slowly devoured by the place itself. For living creatures like us, the place will cool all of our emotions & our desires first before eating us. Hatred, anger, greed, desire to find a way to leave this place, however strong at first those emotions and desires may be, they will slowly die down. The place will devour us after we become empty shells with nothing left.” Klein said with an emotionless tone of voice, which he had never changed since meeting Klein.

Klein looked at the other him and he began to realize the fact that Klein had never spoke with any emotion, his voice was always monotone.

“Don’t tell me-.”

“Yes. When I first came here, the hatred I bore for you was enormous. I cursed you and the brothers along with anyone related to the exchange program like every moment I thought of you. However, like after the first one hundred years or so, I lost all of that negative emotion. Gradually, even positive emotions left me. Now, even if someone gives me a gift, I can’t even say thank you with happiness, but only emotionless words.”

“Wait, 100 years?”

“Time flows very different here.”

“Ah, I shouldn’t have asked a question with such an obvious answer.” Klein began to relax and sat down on an old chair beside the bonfire.

Klein intended to say that was his chair but decided to drop it and went dig out another chair from bunch of things near them. After that, things became quite awkward between them.

“Erm, how long have you been in here, like according to how time flows here?” Klein asked.

“10,000 years, from the moment I got thrown in here until I found you in the river over-there and dragged you here.”

“That long?”

“Yeah, I should have been devoured long ago, but I managed to last until now, thanks to the little love I have left for them.” Klein placed his right hand over his heart. “Here, negative emotions and desires will die down sooner than positive ones. But the thing right here have kept me existed for very long, longer than it should have. But I think it will only give me some little more time. When it gets cooled down by this place, I’ll get devoured.”

“Oh, I-.”

“No, don’t say I’m sorry. That’s the last thing I want to hear right now.”

“O-ok.”

Then things started to become awkward again for five minutes.

“Erm, how did you know all of this? I know you have stayed here for a long time, but it’s hard not to wonder when you’re the only one here and you seem to know literally everything without anyone else around to show you.”

“I wasn’t alone. There were a few others. But now there’s only me…and you.”

“Oh.”

After that, the situation became awkward again.

“Do you want to see how the brothers are doing?” Klein suddenly asked.

“I can do that?”

“Yes.”

“Then please tell me how to do that.”

“It’s simple. Go to the river over-there, look at the water and think about them.”

Klein got up and went to the river and as he looked down, images of the brothers began to appear.

The first image appearing was the image of the six younger brothers kneeling beside his body. All resting their heads on either his chest or arms. Some chose to stay silent for the moment, others kept mumbling something audible only to the speaker while holding on to his body.

Tears began to roll down from Klein’s eyes as he watched how devastating the brothers were.

“Here.” Klein gave his counterpart some tissue.

“Th-thanks.”

Soon the image was replaced with another. This one was about Lucifer.

Lucifer stepped inside a coffin shop as a purple-haired girl was going out, making them nearly collided.

“I’m sorry.” Lucifer apologized.

“It’s alright. We haven’t collided anyway.” The purple-haired girl said. “You want to find the owner of the shop, right?”

“Yes.”

“Candy, stop making coffin for a second. There’s a customer.” The girl turned her head back before shouting.

“She’ll be out in a few minutes.” The girl said.

As Lucifer went inside, the girl looked at him secretly, thinking about something before leaving.

After the girl left, a woman stepped out from deep inside the shop to meet Lucifer.

“What kind of coffin do you want?” Candy took out some paper and asked.

“The best you could find.” Lucifer said like the words that just came out of his mouth were what he always believed with strong conviction.

“Did they follow any religion?” Candy asked after noting Lucifer’s words down.

The demon of Pride took a deep breath before saying:

“He was Catholic. Please place a crucifix on the coffin.”

While Klein was looking at his beloveds through the water, the other Klein went to the bonfire. He settled down beside it. His right hand again placed on his chest. He wasn’t sure why but his chest began to feel warmer seeing the relationship between Klein and the brothers. The sole feeling inside his chest, which had been keeping him alive, long had it been dimmed, but just now, it gained a little bit strength to fight against the effect of the Land of the Dead & Forgotten.

Author’s words

It may be a bit confusing to read because I have to write 2 Kleins 😵‍💫

Tag. @sparkbeast20

[tathrin]

Writer ask 😅 ⛔?

😅 What’s a story or scene you’ve created that you’re a smidge embarrassed exists? 

...I don’t know that I have any? Like, I’m probably never going to feel the urge to write Potter fic again, but I’m not embarrassed that it exists. Although there was one Excalibur (X-Men) fic that I wrote when I was like...idk, twelve? thirteen? and definitely did not know the Very Grown-Up Terms that I was trying to use to Prove How Grown-Up I Was, in this terrible “torture the hero to show you’re grown-up by writing grimdark awful things!!!” scene that I’m now like “oh my god self, what the fuck?” but the answer to that of course is I was thirteen, so...less embarrassed and more, like, resigned. Because that’s just what being a tween is.

And then you grow-up a little more, and never ever write that again XD

⛔ Do you have a fic you started, but scrapped? 

No, not really. I have several that I’ve not updated in uhhhh...let’s not start throwing numbers around, no one needs to start counting years shhhh. But I wouldn’t call any of them scrapped because the only ones that I’ve genuinely decided “nope, this is a lost cause, never coming back here” have many, many chapters posted, so while they definitely qualify as “abandoned” I wouldn’t call them “scrapped.” Because to me that sounds like something that happens much earlier in the process? If I’m just misinterpreting that though, let me know.

[echoes-lighthouse]

Oh I'd love to hear about a potential F/O from Ouran High School Host Club, especially if you've read the manga.

Send Me A Fandom And I’ll Tell You Who I’d Selfship With <3

Honestly, the Host Club is way too entangled in my brain for me to be able to pick out a character and want to date them. They were one of my first ships (shout out to my middleschool manga phase), but I also don't think I could handle ALL of the Hosts at once. The balance of that group is held together by luck and love, I don't want to disrupt it.

That said, I know EXACTLY who I would pick as my new platonic f/os.

Bam, Hitachi twins troublemaker trio squad. We are going to cause so much chaos. We are going to dye each other's hair and paint each other's nails and gossip. We are going to have food fights and never clean up after ourselves. And we are going to have absolutely no regrets.

[ash-the-porcupine]

Idk if you've done this yet, but could we get some father-son headcanons for Frank [I think that's what you named him] and Buster? Or just Frank headcanons in general :>

OH MY GOD YES. I WAS BORN FOR THIS MOMENT-

Okay, so I have a really in-depth story about Frank and Buster's childhood, actually, I'm just too embarrassed to post it XD

-Frank worked for years before he met his wife to save up for whatever he would want to do in the future. Actually, he had an aspiration for art and writing.

-Then, he met Lucinda Winifred Clyde, who he eventually married. Starting with what he had already saved up, he decided to put the money to the futures of the two kids he wanted to have.

-Sadly, shortly after Buster's birth, Winnie passed on. This left Frank to raise Buster alone, and he swore he'd do his best to give Buster a good life and promising future. And all the money he could make, he wanted to put to his son.

-WAS NOT EASY.

-Buster never had a mother, and, for a long time, didn't understand the concept. Mother's Day at school was awkward.

-Frank struggled to put food on the table for them because he couldn't really work, not with Buster so young, until Buster was about seven and they got a new neighbor.

-Miss Crawly helped by babysitting Buster for very little money while Frank worked at the car wash. She had always wanted a kid, so this was a fun activity for her most days.

-Buster DID have his bad days at school, though, and on these days he would be a little less cheerful.

-Frank worked really late hours, but always made sure he caught his on for a quick "see you later" before Buster left for school or him to work at Moon Car Wash.

-He likely committed the odd crime for money during more rough times where money was hard to come by and the food they were getting was not sufficient. For a while, Buster might not see his father some days.

-Buster was small, even by his species standards, so he got bullied. For that and for being a bit of a nerdy subject.

-Frank always made sure that on holidays he spent every moment with his son. It became a tradition. Most of the time, this meant curling up on a ratty apartment sofa and watching reruns of crappy TV shows. But Buster delighted in it nonetheless, as did Frank to see how happy it always made his son

-Buster missed Frank most days, but began to see Miss Crawly in sort of a motherly light. She did most of the 'raising' until Buster was about thirteen anyway, when things changed a bit.

-Buster started sneaking off after school to find ways to earn money. Now, Frank had made Buster promise not to help out with work, but Buster found his ways. Whether it was raking the lawn of the grouchy lady down the street, scrubbing restaurant bathrooms, or cleaning windows, Buster would do anything to put an extra bit of money into his dad's pile at the end of the day. It wasn't much, but Buster always felt some self-satisfaction at the end of each day

-It became hard for Buster to get jobs for a while when he looked like he was getting into fights. In a way, he did. The bullies at school would certainly result to physical violence for the meager bits of money Buster saved himself for school lunch or for his dad

-Frank actually threatened to sue the school at one point because of Buster getting hurt.

-Life wasn't easy for either of them, but they always did their best. Buster would always help out Miss Crawly for free in his spare time, when he didn't have anything better to do.

-Buster spent most of his school hours daydreaming of theater and thinking back to watching Epiphany when he was six with his dad on one of those holidays.

-He was actually top of his drama class. He was an excellent actor and dancer, and moderately good at singing

-He once put on a performance just for his dad

-Buster, once he turned sixteen, would help Frank at the carwash. Frank, though he didn't really want his son participating in the dull line of work, had to admit it was more enjoyable with his son around. Plus, he could start making up for all the time he had lost with his son.

-They got in water fights occasionally, and their costumers actually found it a bit amusing.

-Frank bought Buster the theater for Buster's twenty-first birthday. (In the intro to the first movie, we see Buster is much smaller when he cuts the ribbon to the theater than he is throughout the movie. Because males stop growing between the ages of 18 and 24, I think Buster was around 21 when he got the theater and around 26 in the first movie and 28-29 in the second.)

-This was a very amazing day for both of them. Despite the obvious struggles of everything, the two were close and loved each other

-Frank never got to witness one of Buster's shows, tragically, but Buster dedicated it to him.

-After Frank's death, Buster was... a bit of a mess? It took him a year to start trying harder and putting on a smile, and we only see (more or less) what Buster was like before Frank's death around the time of the first movie

P.S: Buster was never a bad writer. He simply did not have motivated, talented, or even interested people as actors. They just wanted the money, and really mailed in their show-work. Actually, having read the Alice in Wonderland scripts, I think Buster was a bit pf an artiste-! :DDD

Bonus Theory:

One of the main dangers to real-life wild koalas is FIRES. Therefore, my greatest headcannon as to the death of Frank Moon, is a fire. Likely to the apartment I mentioned earlier. Yes, I am a nerd. :3

[soulbornincoldandrain]

tag game shenanigans huh [rubs hands] thanks @catmanbowser its been a while since ive thought about my blorbos of days past

10 character/ 10 fandoms (this is actually very interesting because ive never rlly though abt them? i kinda just frantically slide them into their slots in my brain so)

1. sebastian debeste/ ace attorney : who would i be without my emotional support lawyer of choice. while i have my favourites from the games i think seb deb remains on top for like. one his relationship with his dad (hngh) two his relationship with himself as a person, his sense of self esteem and how it is affected by his entitlement, his lack of awareness etcertera and three god his Design rlly gets to me for some reason i love the owlish eyes the hair the baton that's really only there because he's icky abt touching gruesome evidence like. girl he's my best friend he's Me

2. danny rand/ ultimate spider-man : transed my gender when i was thirteen. saw him on d*sney xd and i was never the same. iron fist animated ver did so much for me as a person he was my coolguy surfer-vibe snarky but kind prettyboy crush

3. peppermint patty/ peanuts : honestly its not like peanuts is like a revolutionary piece of work but it gets me every single motherfucking time man. peppermint patty is kind of an asshole but i love her character and also gay gay holy shit i was a small queer kid once and so is peppermint patty (also marcy schrodinger charlie ily beloveds)

4. murtagh morgansson (and nasuada!!)/ eragon (the inheritance cycle) : the tragedy of murtagh morgansson effectively changed me as a pre teen i enjoyed the entire series so much (don't talk to me about eragon and arya hngh) but murtaghs arc as a person filled me with so much love like he loved his brother!! he was chained to his blood father!! he loves his dragon!! he made difficult choices for them both despite everything!! even his romantic interest was so well done i genuinely loved him as a character and i still do (and yet i like nasuada more i just think murtaghs character had more weight in the story)

5. frederick the great knight/ fire emblem awakening : cannot explain how much i would've played the entire game all over just to romance frederick instead of my girlboss crown prince chrom i had such a Massive Raging crush on him it's not even funny

6. jung heewon/ orv : yeah okay ideally it would be dokja because he's the sort of parasite that's latched onto my brain but god. god. i never recovered from jung heewon as a character i never will recover. she loves her friends so deeply (as does the entirety of kim dokja company if we're being honest) but god she is so powerful in her love and i think it's ridiculous how much i love her favourite ever jihye x hyunsung x me are so right in having a massive crush on her hngghghh

7. michelangelo/ teenage mutant ninja turtles : ive only ever watched the cartoon series and that was like a solid six years ago but i wanted to be him so bad it was fucking hilarious. i thought he was coolest shit since sliced cheese. mikey my belovedsest hngh i loved donny too but mikey just has a special place in my heart

8. boss/ underworld office : THIS GAME OH GOD. think the only time i ever spoke about it was with shiro but oh God oh god this game got me so good and im still rusty on the names and such but boss as a character was so incredible and im a sucker for a good powerful character who is the looker after of their friend group but also Every Single One of those characters were so good and i literally cannot recommend that game enough the art animatics and story is so good hngh (ticket system kinda frustrating but i can forgive them for it dammit)

9. hannibal/ nbc hannibal : ideally the title should go to freddie lounds and frederick chilton for being my favourite characters of the show but because i have a deep intimate relationship with hamball i guess he takes first spot. i talk abt him way too much anyways so i refuse to elaborate. the elaboration is that i also sniff people. that is all.

10. jiro horikoshi/ wind rises : idk if he counts as a fictional character but miyazakis version of him was- and i cannot stress this enough- so incredibly gender. also i was fascinated by aeronautical design and engineering and also the vintage male fashion rlly got to me man. one of my favourite ghibli movies till date

and that's ten!! that's not all of them but boy i really fucking love to talk huh (also a lot of these were difficult because all my favourite characters are my favourites in context of other characters so many of these should've involved more than one character but whatever) anyways thanks so much for the tag cymber i hope i didn't ramble too much :]

[sparkbeast20]

I got Thirteen and Lucifer card too

And my god Thirteen prank did concern me when we ask her whether or not it's dangerous, but anyway Lucifer probably will survive xD

I mean, he's the strongest brother so... Yeah

We just have to make sure that she doesn't go too far with the trap.

I love pranksters' character's in media, Not like Satan and Belphie who are horrible in setting up pranks. They try way too hard.

While Thirteen just set them.

If you watch regular show you know the character of Muscle man. He might be annoying at times. But he is a master prankster.

[redrosesartcabin]

Self indulgent series: Part 2.1

Life: Part 1

(Kenji x female reader, authors perspective) (the reader is a singer) (also: Some angst in here. I dunno why, but I just love writing some angst with fluff endings xD)

“So, let me get this straight”, the interviewer said, bewildered by the story the singer and songwriter Red Rose had brought up, “you met your now husband, Kenji Kon no less, on Jurassic World as one of the kids who got stranded for five months?”

“That’s correct”, she said. She had answered that very question a million times, but she couldn’t fault them for it: It was an unbelievable story (though she started to wonder how not everyone was aware by now that she was one of the teens back than).

“It was in December of 2015. I was thirteen years old and exited to be one of the first teens to visit Camp Cretaceous. I have to admit, I wasn’t and still am not, maybe even less than before, the biggest fan of dinosaurs. I’m not particularly interested in facts about them, but I definitely was interested in seeing some Dino action! So when I won first place at the talent show of my school-“

“Unsurprisingly”, the interviewer interluded at which the audience gave a collective chuckle.

“-I was still very excited about going to Jurassic World. My parents never wanted to go and in retrospect I can understand why. But you know: I was a naïve thirteen-year-old and didn’t think much about the consequences of the past. What happened at Jurassic Park you know? I was convinced Jurassic World was different and all worked out. Boy was I wrong! We all know it now! But at least I can say that I got, besides trauma, lifelong friends and my amazing husband out of it”

“That definitely can’t be disputed”, the interviewer agreed. Red Rose found him quite pleasant. Although he was a chatterbox, he was still very respectful and didn’t poke too much into the Jurassic World story: Although she was, for the most part, over the trauma, it was still a work in progress and it’s not a time she always remembers fondly. On most days she remembers the good moments she had with her newfound friends there, but sometimes she could feel the adrenaline rush through her as she thought of dinosaurs trying to eat her and her fellow campers. She saw flashes of sharp teeth and could feel hot, stinking breath and hear growls drawing shivers down her spine.  Red Rose liked to focus on the human part of the experience, so she preferred being able to tell the tale of Jurassic World the way she wanted without being asked too much…

 “So, Kon helped you reach fame if I remember correctly?”, he asked.

“Definitely! Though, I mean: I was able to do most of what I’m doing. Teaching myself how to use certain programs. I taught myself how to sing and I’ve always written my own stuff…But I certainly wasn’t good at marketing myself or making myself grow.

Kenji and I became boyfriend and girlfriend when I was sixteen and he was eighteen. That same year we went on vacations for three weeks in the Caribbean’s. And “, she let out a laugh. The camera closed up on her and caught a smile and a glance that looked so touched by love anyone could feel how much she adored her spouse, “I remember how we went on the private part of the beach Kenjis father had purchased. I sat down on a hammock and a guitar and just started improvising and singing. Little did I know my boyfriend -gosh that sounds weird to say now- was filming me. He put it up on Instagram, and he already had quite a following back then, so it gained quite some attention. Though not necessarily because it was a nice scenery or any of that: But because people genuinely liked how I sing and the melody I had come up with. And well… it got wild from there. People soon requested I make my own Instagram page for making music.

A year later I was asked if I would like to produce some music and well… then my career started”

“That’s honestly such a cool and sweet story. Though how about an even sweeter reunion? Please welcome: Kenji Kon”

Red Rose got up from her seat with a wild jump, not as the eccentric, elegant yet kind of crazy minded artist, but as y/n Kon. As the wife who hadn’t seen her husband in person for a month because of the production of yet another movie starring him as the protagonist.

The crowd clapped in awe of him, as fans. She wanted to clap because her heart was clapping too. Her heart was dancing a tango inside of chest as though she was seeing her middle school crush in the hallway. His dark eyes, ridden with depth met her y/e.c. ones and all they could read in each other’s eyes was happiness and love.

This happened within miliseconds, but it passed by in slow motion for her, so she perceived herself running towards him with calm. For the rest of the world however she was perceived as looking like a golden retriever who had missed his owner whilst they were at work and were ready to play.

It was adorable. It was downright touching how the couple met each other halfway and gave each other a long, passionate yet gentle kiss (so that it wouldn’t be too inappropriate for life TV).

“Not to be giddy, but you really are a couple to die for”, the interviewer said. The audience half chuckled half yelled in agreement. She felt her cheeks blush in a deep dark shade of red and heard her husband chuckle in embarrassment. She looked down to her and whispered “Hello love”

 Kenji had, unsurprisingly, had found joy in being actor. Being dramatic and showing his face on camera all the time? Perfect!

And he honest to god was a great actor. Though it did get annoying from time to time that he was casted as either the pretty faced villain or the charming, perfect love interest. Sometimes he was even both.

Y/n didn’t like to admit it, but she was quite jealous at the beginning when she saw him kiss other men and women on screen. It took a big fight for her to admit that.

She wasn’t proud of that fight at all. She had been, without wanting to, been very critical of her then fiancé (it was about six months before they got married). She would call him several times a day when he was on set of a particularly spicy rom com and observe his socials every couple of minutes. Y/n remembers her friends teasing her about it in the beginning and then eventually scold her. “Don’t you trust him?”, they had asked and she had answered, “I do….”, and they knew she was telling the truth, yet there was more behind it.

Kenji soon caught up and noticed her strange clinginess.

“What is up with you, Y/N? You know I have work to do! You can’t call me that often on set!”, he had yelled when the topic came up. He had been visiting for the weekend before he would go back on set.

“Why not? Can a girl not talk to her fiancé?”, she had asked with a sharp undertone

“Of course, you can darling. But twenty times a day is simply too much!”, he argued, yet he tried keeping his tone softer.

“I don’t call that often”, she pouted

“Oh YES you do!”, he put his phone out and showed her the times she had called just the other day. She counted about thirty, “I was nice with that number!”

“And? So what? You can just put your phone on silent”

“Yes, of course I can. This isn’t about solving the notification issue it’s about solving your trust issues towards me. Why don’t you trust me?”, as he asked the question his anger had subsided and genuine hurt showed in his eyes in his voice, “you monitor me like I’m an inmate”

“I…”, she was only able to say, her throat suddenly seemed dry, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to… I…”, she couldn’t find the right words to explain it. It hurt too much to admit. She thought she had been over that thought pattern a long time ago, but it had returned to her.

“What? What have I done to deserve this?”, he asked, “Why are you even with me, if who I am disturbs you so much?”

And that… that sentence had hurt her more than that ugly thing inside of her she hadn’t wanted to face.

“You fool!”, she screamed in fury as the sentence he had uttered stung, her eyes filling with endless tears, “How could you ever think you disturb me? You are the most beautiful, wonderful human being I know, inside and out. And on top of that you are incredibly kindhearted. And that’s why I’m like this… I don’t want to lose you. And it’s not that I don’t trust you: I highly doubt you’d ever cheat on anyone. You are too kind for that. But I fear… I feared when you are together with all these good-looking actors you might not find me enough anymore. I know it’s stupid, but you see: The past haunted me again. When I was called fat. When I was called not-good-enough. When I read social media comments saying you’re out of my league and I don’t deserve you. Ugly words that ate me up inside when I was a child and young teen. I thought I was past that but I…I…”, now the tears were too many and her words died with hiccups. She felt his form surround her in a hug that felt so warm and yet sharp as knifes. She loved his touch but felt guilty for not opening up about this sooner. She had never wanted to be like this, but alas she had been too much of a coward to burden him or herself with this.

“Love”, he whispered after comforting her for a couple of minutes, “Look at me”

She lifted her head. Her eyes were red and puffy, her lips were dark pink, and tears had run streaks across her cheeks. It broke Kenji to have hurt her so deeply, yet he also knew that it wasn’t his fault. It was however his responsibility, to clear this up once and for all.

“Love listen”, he started, “I completely understand your jealousy. But we’ve been together for almost ten years and in all that time, I’ve never encountered a woman more incredible, deeply fascinating and intrinsically beautiful as you. No acted kiss could bring me away from you, no sexy actor could keep my mind from ever wishing for more than to be by your side. I’ve been by your side for almost six years: What should change now?

The monster from your past is, as already stated: Past. Their words were untrue. These people were in pain themselves when they caused you pain. You were a target to unleash the inner turmoil of others. It’s no excuse but it is the explanation. Those who feel they must hurt others are those who seek the most attention and power because they’d be devoid of having a self. I should know: I used to be similar to that. And I had my phase of jealousy as well, you know?”

“Really?”, y/n managed to ask

“Oh yes! I was in rage every time I heard you talk about any of your guy friends back in high school. Difference is I could hide it better because we were apart a lot of the time. I feared you would find someone who had more of a personality than me. I was no longer sure looks would cut it”

“Gosh love”, she answered, her voice love drunken, “you burst of personality. You aren’t just a pretty boy or well… pretty man. You have so much spirit and energy to give to the world. You are the definition of happiness and sunshine. And on top of that you are an incredibly talented man with so much to show. You wield the human mind and emotions so well you can convert yourself to be something other than yourself convincingly-”

“See?”, he asked, “and just like you love me like that and see all that good I sometimes don’t recognize, I see it in you… I always love you”

“I love you too. I’m sorry”

“Don’t be sorry. I’m so happy we had this talk. It was much needed”

“Yeah”, she hummed as her lips almost touched his and within seconds the couple found themselves passionately kissing

Ever since then they hadn’t had any of these kinds of self-worth problems. They’d say I love you on a daily basis and gave each other compliments whenever they could.

One thing the fans found especially cute was that, without fail, Red Rose would comment on each of Kenji’s selfies and comment “hey gorgeous, you single?” and he’d answer every single time, “Sure Sugar. Meet me at seven on your favorite street-corner”

One time they took a picture of each other on a nice-looking street corner. Kenji had called the picture “finally found the street corner. Been waiting to meet this lady for a while, apparently her name is ‘your wife’, which is peculiar but otherwise she seems nice”.

The picture even went viral and became one of the all-time favorite celebrity pictures of 2026.

  After the talk-show they flew back in his helicopter.

They were in New York city and y/n looked at the city landscape with a fascinated gaze as she observed the flickering lights of the big apple.

Kenji looked at her with eyes shining almost as bright. He loved her love for everything new she sees. He had noticed that the first time she had seen the watering hole. He wasn’t really interested in her that way yet. He was fifteen and she thirteen, that makes quite a difference at this age. But still he couldn’t but smile as she looked at the dinosaurs with big eyes. And he loved that she hadn’t lost that spark, even as she got older, even as they came together and grew and changed together.

Y/n noticed his gaze and shifted hers to look at him.

‘What a beautiful man. I’ve missed him so’ she thought to herself.

“I missed you”, he said as though he had read her mind just now. Maybe he had. They had been together for so long they were often able to read each other’s subtle shifts in expression. Quite a beautiful thing.

“I missed you too”, she simply answered, “did you plan this talk show surprise?”

“Yes and no”, he admitted, “I was meeting up with Donavan O’Connor, the director of the ‘Elaine, the one?’ series. When calling Donavan, he told me had been to talking to Ray (the interviewer) and he was casually pointing out the funny coincidence you were meeting up for and mention the funny coincidence, that you’d have an interview with him that same day I come to the city and well… needless to say I called Ray and arranged things... I just had to. Couldn’t miss the opportunity to surprise my beautiful wife”

She smiled at that. A shy and flattered smile that reminded Kenji of when they were teens.

 They landed on the roof of a nice-looking hotel. They had decided to stay the night here in New York before travelling back to Ireland… yes: Yes Ireland.

Most celebrities lived in L.A., but Kenji and y/n had preferred living a bit apart in an old mansion near the coast of south Ireland, close to the northern border. Although Kenji was a people person, he didn’t like the dishonesty and lying in the industry and wanted to get away from that with his wife who thought the same.

Besides: It was a beautiful country.

As they entered the room, they felt peace and happiness as well as a certain kind of tension arise.

Needless to say, there was another kind of reuinion going on that night...

(Sorry about that short ending, I had to heavily edit that ‘cause it originally was a... well... non Pg scene xD)

[subwonwooagenda]

Candy’s Regulars | 2 | Dino’s Private Show

MASTERLIST

Teaser , Chapter 1 

Pairings: Camgirl!Reader X SVT, Dino X Camgirl!Reader

Constant Warnings: Group masturbations (sometimes), smut, use of toys, kink usage, language

Chapter Notes: Hello! OMG you guys really enjoyed the first actual chapter of this and that was so bizarre to me! Thank you so much! The way this will work is like this; I am going youngest to oldest, so you will get two chapters for each svt member; one being the private stream and the other being the actual collab cam session, with some filler chapters in between of the cams or random shit. The chapters of actual interactions will definitely be longer haha. I hope you guys enjoy!

Chapter Warnings: Chan has a noona kink (if you’re not older than him uhh im sorry? XD), switch Chan, guided masturbation (kinda), cam sex, dirty talk, language, use of toys, semi smut with a hint of fluff

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You placed your hands on your hips in your room, going through your mental checklist. Lights? Check. Toys? Check. Camera? Check. Now all you had to do was check in with your boys. You decided to switch things up, choosing to start with the youngest of the thirteen, being Chan, or Dino as he dubbed himself, and work your way up to the oldest, being Seungcheol. So with a giddy smile, you laid on your stomach on your bed, starting to type.

candy_princess: Hi, Dino! Are you ready for your private show? If not then take your time! :)

You only had to wait a few minutes until he replied, the familiar sound of an incoming message echoing through your computer.

SuperiorMaknaeDino: AHH yes yes, i’m here! Sorry i just got off work and wanted to take a shower, i’m ready now if you are.

You smiled and let out a shaky sigh. Camming for one person just seemed so much more intimate than doing it for hundreds to thousands of people, but these weren’t your average old men trying to get off. These were your regular boys, and they were the closest things you could call friends. 

candy_princess: Yeah i’m ready!

And with a final sigh as you sat up on your knees, making sure your light blue lingerie was on display, you opened up the private stream, inviting Dino.

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Dino ran a hand through his still drying hair as he clicked the accept button of the invite, glasses resting comfortably on his now bare face. He couldn’t help the smile that spread on his lips when you came in view, looking absolutely stunning in the lingerie he knew you picked specially for him seeing as it was his favorite color.

“Hey, Dino!” You said excitedly, waving at him in an adorable manner. He chuckled and got comfy where he was sitting, waving back at you. “Hey, Candy.” He didn’t really know what to do and that was apparent to you as you watched his hands fiddle with the hem of his shirt. “Are you nervous, baby?” You asked him in your sweet voice, easily getting into the mindset you needed while camming. He gave a gentle chuckle, hiding his eyes from you. “Y-Yeah i guess i am..”

You let out a giggle at how cute he was. He was so confident when texting but you supposed face to face would be a little intimidating. You gave a smile as you sat up on your knees, hands resting on your thighs, “Then would you like me to start?” You asked, your hands trailing to trace against the fabric of the light blue lace panties. 

Chan felt his breath hitch as he watched your fingers, not realizing how eagerly he was nodding until your gentle voice came across his speakers with a giggle, “Easy, baby boy~ Don’t hurt yourself.” And with that sentence he just couldn’t stop the words from escaping his mouth, “I’m sorry Noona.” and he couldn’t hide the panic in his eyes when he saw you freeze, processing the word. He noticed his shaking hands, the worry setting in him that he offended you somehow in the span of five minutes. 

“It’s alright, baby boy. You don’t need to apologize to Noona.” It was with that sentence that Chan realized the power you held over him when his hips automatically bucked up into the air, a moan escaping his lips. You gave a small smile, hand reaching behind you to unclasp your bra, “Do you want to touch yourself baby?”

Chan nodded his head, his hands balling into fists to not touch himself. He wanted to be a good boy for his Noona. “C-Can i please N-Noona?” He stuttered out, waiting for your answer. 

You smiled and let your bra slip down your arms, revealing your breasts. Chan whimpered as his eyes locked on your chest, his hands unzipping his pants and tugging them, along with his boxers, down his legs. He bit his lip as he wrapped his hand around his cock, moaning as he bucked up into his hand. “Fuck, Noona...you’re so..ahh...so pretty..” He moaned out, cock twitching as your small giggle filled his ears.

You smiled as your hands reached up, drifting across your breasts, gently tugging on your nipples, the sensation causing a small moan to escape your lips. You locked eyes with Chan as you sat up, hand trailing down your stomach, looping your fingers into your panties, “Fuck Channie...You made me ruin my panties.” You playfully whined, tugging the now soaked panties down your thighs, sitting down before spreading your legs, exposing your dripping pussy.  

Chan groaned loudly, running his thumb over the slit of his tip, squeezing gently, “Fuck...I made you that wet, huh?” He bit his lip a little harder, moving into a more comfortable position. “God...I can’t wait to be buried in that pussy.”

You moaned as you ran your fingers over your folds, hips subtly moving closer to the camera as you teased your entrance with the tip of your finger, “I bet you’d feel so good inside me.” You moaned out, your free hand reaching up to grasp at your breast. 

Chan smirked, hand moving on his cock a bit faster, “Go on and slip those fingers inside, Noona.” He groaned, eyes focusing in on your pussy, watching closely as you slipped your middle finger into your heat.

You moaned out loudly, slowly pumping your finger in and out, reaching your other hand down to rub at your clit. You felt good but you couldn’t help but want your fingers to be replaced with Chan’s, imagining the intense pleasure you’d receive from just his fingers. As your mind went wild with thoughts, you subconsciously moaned out Chan’s name, slipping in another two fingers into your pussy. 

Chan moaned and stroked himself faster, tightening the grip on his cock at the sound of his name escaping your lips, his mind imagining what’d you feel like wrapped around his cock, whether it be your lips or your pussy. “That’s it, Noona. Speed them up for me.” He said, watching as you obeyed and thrusted your fingers a bit faster.

His eyes were permanently locked on your figure, taking in every move you made. he took in the way your breath picked up, causing your chest to rise and fall a bit faster, the way your hips would instinctively roll into your fingers when they brushed against that one spot inside you, and the way your head would roll back, exposing your unmarked neck and filling his mind with scenario after scenario of the different ways he could mark you up.

His thoughts, of course, spurred his hand to stroke himself faster, deep moans spilling from his mouth without a seconds thought. For a long time, he could only imagine what this would be like, having this moment with you and now that he was living that moment he didn’t want it to stop. He wanted to watch you come undone multiple times, either from your own fingers or his. 

Chan’s eyes widened as he watched you bring your hand out of frame only to bring with it a semi large clear dildo. He groaned as he watched you drag your tongue from the base of the toy to the tip, giggling as you wrapped your lips around the tip of the toy. “Fuck, you’re gonna be the death of me.” he chuckled, hand squeezing around the base of his cock. 

You continued sucking on the toy until you deemed it wet enough and slipped your fingers out of your pussy, hole clenching around nothing. You laid your head back, moaning out as you dragged the toy over your folds before slowly slipping it inside you, shivering slightly at the welcomed stretch it brought you. 

“Fuck, you look so good. I bet you’d look even better taking my cock instead of that toy.” He groaned, watching as you started rocking your hips against the toy, rubbing your clit with your free hand. You pulled your bottom lip between your teeth, chest rising and falling a bit faster from the pleasure you were receiving. You knew that you weren’t going to be able to hold off your release, already feeling the pleasant coil that was beginning to tighten inside you. You needed to cum and Chan easily picked up on that by noticing the way you sped up the thrusts of the toy. 

“You’re close aren’t you, Noona? You feel good, huh? You look so good. So wreckable. God, i love watching the way your greedy pussy devours that toy. But it needs more, doesn’t it?” Chan spoke, his own hand speeding up to chase his approaching release. He subtly rocked his hips into his fist, watching as you nodded, hips desperately bucking up into the toy, your moans growing louder.

“Chan please...ahh...please tell me i can cum..” You moaned out, the coil on the bring of snapping as you rubbed faster at your clit. Chan chuckled as he bit his lip, “Go on, Noona. Cum for me, yeah?” He encouraged, spilling into his own hand as he watched you come undone, your back arching as you came around the toy, releasing one last loud moan.

You laid there for a bit, panting heavily as you came down from your high. Chan sat there panting just as heavily as he kept his eyes on you, still not fully sure if what just happened was real or not. “Are you okay, Noona?” He asked softly, whatever dominant tone he had earlier now completely gone, leaving the adorable young man who sends you memes after you do your shows. You gave a smile and nodded, wincing softly as you pulled the toy out of your sensitive heat. “I’m fine, Channie~” You giggled, placing the toy in the basket infront of your bed to clean later.

Chan had already cleaned himself off and tucked his cock back into hsi sweats when you locked your eyes on him again. He gave you an adorable smile as you started to clean yourself off, happy that you weren’t going to stay covered in lube and your juices. “Noona?” He asked quietly, not looking at you as he played with the strings of his sweatpants. “Yes, Channie?” you asked, tilting your head as you slipped on a robe to cover yourself. “Do you...do you think we could do this again?...Even after all of this?” He asked, seemingly shy. You gave a smile and nodded your head, “Even after this i still have to make sure to repay my regulars.” You giggled, taking a mental picture of the adorable smile he gave at your words.

You both talked for a bit longer before saying your goodbyes and leaving the private stream. You sighed happily and moved to go finish cleaning up but not before a notification caught your eye.

SuperiorMaknaeDino donated $300 

SuperiorMaknaeDino: Thank you for making my night Noona ;)

And with a shake of your head and a small smile, you began to finish cleaning up, only being able to imagine what the rest of this whole repayment would bring.

[kohakhearts]

I love all your doc titles but I'm gonna ask about "show me an adult who cares about harry potter my god" because #mood

hahaha thank you i try to have fun with them xD

this one is!!! about all the times harry is in the hospital wing from years 1-6, and then a scene following the battle of hogwarts (what i discovered in plotting this is that......harry doesn't go to the hospital wing that often. actually he's there visiting other people at least as often as he's there because he's injured???? wild). it's written from madam pomfrey's pov. i feel like i can probably finish it soon tbh :3 it's not meant to be longer than like 10k max so! here's a snippet from it tho:

Eventually, Poppy manages to set her right regardless, but for a long time, she wonders. Wonders why these children, only twelve and thirteen, do not trust her. If there is anyone they trust. Somehow, she doubts it.

Perhaps one day she will convince them that all she cares about is their health. Many students never come to believe it, unless they are frequent visitors in her wing. The troublemakers, the accident prone, the bullied. She will treat them just the same. It is her job to look after them.

So even when they think she is not, she is always looking. Children are wont to make mistakes. They often get themselves hurt, doing foolish things. Sometimes, fear or pride or mere obliviousness keeps them from admitting it, and so—she is always looking, whether they say they are sick or not, whether they want her to or not.

[crossdressingdeath]

i think the moment that jc led the wens away from wwx and never telling wwx about it (when he could have used that as a way to get wwx with his feelings of ALWAYS needing to protect jc because of what the jiangs said before he died) is suppose to indicate that in some ways that jc is not too far gone to reconcile with wwx, but he needs to be the one making the active changes and showing that he's capable of it if he allowed himself to actually grow as a person 1/?

Note, I actually consider JC as my favorite MDZS character, but spending a few days going through your blog has actually helped me articulate in words some of the things that do frustrate me about the larger fandom, where they take a fascinating and complex character and whittle him down to someone that he isn't. I won't say that I agree with everything in the grapehate tag, but some I actually do and some that was made me sit down and actually think about his character through a new lens 2/?

And unlike many people in the JC fandom, I actually like his ending. MDZS is a romance novel about Wangxian and JC is at most the fourth most important character in the book, if not even fifth. (JL is def 3, JGY is a strong argument for 4.) Him getting an ending where he's literally starting to let go of the anger that he's been feeling for (lbr) over 13 years and remembering one truly heroic and selfless moment that he did for WWX, the one time he truly lived up to the Jiang family motto (3/?)  

Shit, I don't remember what exactly was in part four. 😅 I think it was likely my rant about how it's how unfair that JC fandom treats WN like shit for revealing the truth about the GC when they say that JC had a right to know in the same breath, and that WN didn't have a right to be absolutely /furious/ at JC for everything he done with his family when it's perfectly fine for JC to be mad at all Wens for what happened to his own.

JC's the major character in the novel who can truly make a big and vital change in his life without dying or going through unspeakable trauma (God, how JC fandom treats WN pisses me off. . . . if the roles were reversed we would be cheering WN on, and honestly, while I do think the core was a dubious thing, WWX did it for the best of reasons and if you're so pissed that they did this without his knowledge, aren't you glad he knows now?). He can actually be happy! 5/6

Anyway, that's just what I think the JC sacrificing himself is suppose to mean, and especially that he doesn't or never told WWX means at heart. Sorry for the kind of rant/kind of apologism in your inbox, but yeah. . . . And thank you for the free JC meta! XD It's actually really helped reset my brain about why I like him and what I /don't/ like about the fandom

Hey, glad to be of assistance! As for your points, it’s certainly possible that JC leading the Wens off is intended to be at least in part a sign that things aren’t entirely hopeless for him. Even if it was in part a selfish act, it proves he is (or was at that point) capable of doing something for WWX’s sake. That’s an important thing to have, because it allows there to be some hope that maybe things will get better for them someday (although likely not any time soon; these things don’t happen quickly). That might actually be why MXTX chose to reveal it when she did; things are bad now, and their relationship will certainly never be the way it was before (and honestly that’s a good thing), but that doesn’t mean they’ll be enemies forever. If JC is willing to put in the effort and take risks the way he did that day... who knows what’ll happen? Personally I think some relationships can’t and shouldn’t be recovered, but if you think things could work out between them... hey, maybe it could.

Re his ending... honestly, I think anything happier for him would’ve felt too... I don’t know, unearned? I guess? Wangxian had to fight tooth and nail for their happy ending. WWX had to die for thirteen years and LWJ had to spend that same period remembering his lost love in a world that celebrated WWX’s death. Pretty much everyone else ends up with a miserable or at best bittersweet ending, largely through no fault of their own. JC just... getting a happy ending without trying wouldn’t have felt right, and I think I’d probably have the same reaction even if I did like JC; MDZS isn’t the sort of novel where characters get handed happy endings. He spends the entire present day arc being a dick to everyone, it wouldn’t feel deserved if he just... got what he wanted just like that at the end. It would feel incredibly forced and like MXTX was playing favourites.

And WN! My precious baby fierce corpse WN! He gets so much shit from parts of the fandom, it’s infuriating. But you know, the thing that gets me the most is that... if WN followed JC’s metric for Acceptable Vengeance For The Deaths Of Family, he’d be within his rights to wipe out every living member of JC’s extended family, maybe even to burn Lotus Pier to the ground. And he’d be able to do it, too! But WN would never, because he’s just too good. WN has every reason to despise JC, to want him dead, but he only steps in when JC is threatening WWX, who WN loves so much that he’d give his life for him (...so to speak) in a heartbeat. And even then he doesn’t physically attack him, just... tells him the truth. WN is a good boy who doesn’t deserve the slander he gets from parts of the fandom. And yeah, you’d think that if JC not knowing about the transfer was such a horrible thing WN should be praised for telling him!

(Last point: I’d argue Sizhui is higher up the Important Character Chain than JC, both in his role as Wangxian’s sort of son and as a symbol of hope; his existence is almost the narrative’s way of saying that even with everything that went wrong WWX’s attempt to protect the Wens wasn’t for nothing, and that means something important. Things went wrong, a lot of people died, but even if for only one person WWX succeeded in making the world a little better. Something something even in tragedy there’s still hope something something.)

[piracytheorist]

headcanons for Peter(what still remains)

Headcanon A: realistic

I’ve talked a bit about it before, but I think Peter was sort-of in love with Anna. I mean, only in the creepy, fucked-up, toxic way someone like him can be, but I find it interesting in the way he looks at her, especially after the ninja wedding.

Anna is kind and caring, and though I think he’d thought of her as a potential wife and child bearer from the first moment (yikes), in their first fireside chat Anna showed her caring nature; when Peter was talking about how he feared his parents abandoned him because he was “dead weight” to them, Anna told him to never think like that. And I think that touched him, and in his way, he grew feelings for her. But still he was too messed up and trapped in a bad environment for those feelings to be expressed in a healthy way for both of them. I don’t think Anna could love him back, she doesn’t look like the kind of person who would be willing to deal with the huge amount of trauma he carries (considering she carries a lot of trauma on her own), so it was kinda doomed from the get-go. But he couldn’t consider all that, so he was actually hopeful.

Headcanon B: while it may not be realistic it is hilarious

I’m not sure what I can find hilarious with this character XD The only thing that comes to mind is how he’s probably very good at standing still and thinking he looks cool when in reality it’s the equivalent of accidentally turning on selfie mode

Headcanon C: heart-crushing and awful, but fun to inflict on friends

I mean... I could go on full detail on what I imagine Judith did to him, but I’ve gained a lot of followers who are minors this past year...

I think in general, he’s starved for affection. I think of his grandfather, who in his age and wisdom (?) saw Zach and Judith and either didn’t put two and two together and practically allowed his only family to be indoctrinated into a cult, or he did and he was quickly killed for it before he could warn Peter. Zach and Judith, like any good cult leader, gaslit and manipulated Peter until he followed them and eventually became just like them. But still, there are moments where you can see Peter having child-like behaviour. 

He doesn’t remember much about the world before; he didn’t grow up with rom-coms that show people talking one (1) time and then acting like they’re super duper in twu wuv. Him having that with Anna, I mean, literally they bonded like once or twice, he then murdered two people in front of her in cold blood, and then he acts like this, like it was okay to marry her without even telling her so and cross her bubble to kiss her. That’s like... I mean it’s a post-apocalyptic world, there’s not big room for romantic relationships the way we have now,  but him jumping from “We talked a few times” to “We’re now married and will have many babies!”... is shit we imagined in elementary school. Combined with the tantrums he has when things don’t go that way - and I mean the way he pouts and huffs and jumps into action, not the actual actions he takes, it feels like his brain didn’t have a normal transition through adolescence; he didn’t develop things like... controlling your actions and understanding that relationships have depth. I’m not even talking about him not respecting Anna’s wishes and boundaries. I’m talking about him being criminally immature and inexperienced. And of course, it’s not a surprise given the conditions and the place he grew up in. 

But it’s tragic in a way that he seems to want that. He felt more for Anna and wanted to marry her, and when things went his way, like in the scene pictured above, he was actually gentle and sweet (again, not talking about Anna’s boundaries here because in his mind they don’t exist). He wants affection, he wants tender touch, he wants a relationship built on spending quality time together and bonding.

And since he was thirteen he’s been stuck with Zach and Judith, trapped in a cult that only saw good in him because of “God’s hand blessing him” and not because he was a traumatized boy worthy of love and affection. And that’s what’s tragic and for me one of the most... haunting details about his character. How he could actually care for and love someone, but he was manipulated and gaslit into becoming a monster.

Headcanon D: unrealistic, but I will disregard canon about it because I reject canon reality and substitute my own.

I mean the main canon rejection would be for him to stay alive, only like, being delayed by Anna stabbing him or something. He goes back to the village, and happens to be there to see Anna leave Judith away. Anna is scared because she legit thought he was dead, but he just lets her go. He then has a very painful talk with Judith about what she and Zach made him go through (all that being said over Zach’s body), Judith like the good gaslighter she is, she denies everything and tries to get him to her side, and he probably kills her. Anna, who has been watching from the side all the time, comes back and offers to help bandage his wounds. As she does, she asks him what he’s gonna do now. He looks at her, hoping she’ll ask him to come with her. She doesn’t. So he simply shrugs, looks around the massacred, burned village, and says “I don’t know.” Anna leaves, and there you have it, an alternate ending!

Send me a character and I’ll share four headcanons!

[ryttu3k]

Part 2 of my season 12 reaction posts! Find part 1 (Resolution of the Daleks to Fugitive of the Judoon) here!

Praxeus

Thoughts on Doctor Who - Praxeus!

OKAY FIRST. THANK YOU, SHOW, FOR FIXING A BIG ISSUE I HAD WITH THE FIRST SEASON. So they were doing a thing where they’d introduce incidentally queer characters, have a female character mention her wife, stuff like that, only for them to die. This episode had Jake and Adam, married/separated/it’s complicated couple, who face huge amounts of danger, who both come close to dying, but who survive! And have a Big Damn Kiss! And walk off together holding hands! They survived!!

Plotwise, I enjoyed it a ton while watching, although in retrospect it did feel a bit free of danger. The companions were never in true peril because the Doctor can home in on them automatically, and we never got the true scale of the risk of infection, since the only people we saw get infected were in isolated areas. I would have liked to see, for instance, the threat of Praxeus spreading beyond just the very Hitchcockian birds; all of the peril was on an individual level.

Good message, if unsubtle. Mind you, that’s kind of Doctor Who’s thing, and it pisses off conservatives, so all for it, really XD (They must have loved the core relationship in this episode, too!) Like. Subtle doesn’t work. There are literally climate change deniers that exist. Sometimes you actually do have to tell a message with all the finesse of a sledgehammer because .

(Side note, I was deeply concerned when I saw the cowriter was the guy who did the hot mess that was Kerblam!, so at least this was just an unsubtle and kind of questionably written story instead of an actively harmful one.)

The companions: Ryan seems a fair bit more confident on his own? His initial scenes with Gabriela showed that he’s starting to work well even without backup, and picking up the bird proved to be a damn good call. Yaz and Graham were a fun pair, and Yaz got a lot to do when she and Gabriela (again!) got to explore, and I can definitely understand the conflict between curiosity/doing what’s right and safety when it came to the teleport scene. She does seem to be bordering on the reckless. Intriguing!

Minor plot snag - Graham knows how to set up an IV, presumably because of the shitload of time he spent in hospital! …And yet he doesn’t know what a pathogen is?

Friend note!

“fun fact about graham seemingly not knowing what a pathogen is! in my reading of the scene, i saw it as graham knowing what one was. with "Well, I’m glad you asked that…!” he seems like he’s actually sort of pleased with himself, like he’s about to launch into an explanation, and then IIRC there’s a very brief shot at Ryan giving him a Look and Graham immediately changes tone to “…cause I didn’t want to look stupid.” he immediately changes from boosting his own ego to bolstering ryans and im love"

In which case, good shit gooood shit.

SFX - the infection was creepy as shit. The very obviously puppet bird near the lab was hilariously bad.

Apparently the filming was tricky because it was super windy so all the shorts of Thirteen with her hair Like That weren’t planned, it just kind of happened. Love a fluffy ruffled Thirteen.

So anyway. People calling for more plot focus - literally this is the Doctor trying to distract herself and not focus on the plot! This is her avoidance tactic! Emotional honesty? Who’s she? She’ll get back to it eventually, but for now she needs a distraction after being punched in the emotions. Give her that for one episode, c'mon.

Ryan: “…I do a lot of running.”

Graham: “Whatever is giving off those weird readings… is on the other side of that wall!” Yaz: *silently turns scanner around* Graham, not skipping a beat: “…is on the other side of that door!”

Yaz: “I don’t want you to panic, but… we followed one of those things through a teleport and now I think we’re on an alien planet.” Thirteen: “…well, you don’t do things by halves!”

Thirteen: “That’s why you smell of dead bird! I thought you’d changed your shower gel.”

Thirteen: “I’m having half a thought. Ooh, this one tickles!”

Thirteen: “What can I say? I’m a romantic~”

In conclusion, Doctor Who said gay rights.

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Can You Hear Me?

Thoughts on Doctor Who - Can You Hear Me?

Trigger warning for discussion of depression and suicide.

You know you're in for a wild ride when iView warns for horror themes instead of science fiction themes.

Overall: at first impression, it felt sort of mashed together? There's 14th century Aleppo, and there's 21st century Sheffield, and there's a deep space station, and there's creepy monsters and dream villains; I do kind of wonder why Zellin targeted a random girl in Aleppo as source for his pet monster, although targeting people like Ryan's best friend makes sense if he's deliberately trying to lure the Doctor to him.

The theme, on the other hand, of mental health resiliance and reaching out, was done incredibly well. Oh yeah there'll be more comments about it - the Guardian described it as 'adventures in Wokeness' - but damn, sometimes you need to hear it. I loved getting more of Yaz' backstory, about being a desperate teenage runaway at the point of being suicidal, and her reunion with the older woman legitimately made me tear up.

But like, goddamn. Her nightmare - she's still hearing that. She's still hearing her sister saying that she should "do it right this time" and that this time she won't call and that no one is coming and holy fuck. God this makes so many of Yaz' scenes incredibly painful in retrospect, knowing that she was at that point only three years before and that she's still dreaming that shit! It makes her recklessness terrifying!

Ryan's nightmare, and his experience with Tibo - it's quite reflective of the Doctor, too. She wasn't there, and Gallifrey burnt. And Ryan is realising this now, and really thinking about the potential future in Orphan 55. I think this is absolutely foreshadowing Ryan leaving at the end of the season (there's been a lot of speculation given Tosin's new TV role), and I think Ryan and Yaz' discussion at the end of the episode was a definite hint in the direction of Ryan choosing to going back to Earth.

Would have really liked Graham, during his talk with the Doctor, to gently remind her that she can talk about her own problems, although I can understand the narrative choice on why she didn't (although, yeah, would have been good for Graham to ask). Because, yeah, if anyone needs a sympathetic ear (...sans fingers) or a shoulder to lean on, it's her!! The entire theme of this episode was like... reaching out. Conquering your fears with the help of others. Sharing your fears to lessen them. Getting help. And the Doctor deliberately... not doing that makes it into an actual Thing that I think is going to seriously be addressed by the end of the season.

It's been such an ongoing theme. A bunch of episodes have started with an obviously depressed Doctor. The Fam has tried to raise the issue multiple times and have discussed it amongst themselves even more. Scenes like Yaz' reaction after being abducted in Spyfall (...which makes her, "I thought I was dead" part even more worrying) and being comforted by Ryan, not the Doctor... her whole reaction to Graham being like, "I'm glad you talked to me but I literally can't do the same in return" - if it's not addressed by the end of this season, it's at least going to have to be an ongoing theme, because it's becoming very deliberate now.

An interesting note: the actor who played Zellin (an immortal manipulator of nightmares) also voiced the Remnants (who were the first to mention the Timeless Child in The Ghost Monument). Coincidence or deliberate?

Assorted thoughts:

"I'm still quite socially awkward." There's socially awkward and there's emotionally repressed... (I saw a description of it on Tumblr as 'weaponised dissociation' and... yeah. And also yikes.) Also the way she was so closed in on herself, basically hugging her arms to her body! On a semi-related note, talking to herself in Aleppo was a bit depressing. Like it's continuing the theme of The Doctor Does Not Like Being Alone.

The finger thing - ew ew ew ew it's in their EARS ewww D:

Stylistic comment: the traditionally-styled animation for the Immortals' game was gorgeous.

"Try not freak out, yeah, but you're on a floating space platform trapped in a gravitational pull between two colliding planets."

"Thanks for lending a helping hand!" Companions just being, "...Doctor p l s."

On an old lore note, loved the callback to Eternals, Guardians, and the Toymaker! On a concerning note, man, the Doctor has so many issues with immortals. They abandoned Jack, there was the punishment they gave the Family of Blood, they had those Issues with Ashildr (from what I've read), now this, an eternal punishment with no chance of redemption, perhaps because she knows what immortality does? Parallels with the Doctor as quasi-immortal too, which Zellin even pointed out.

"You're wrong about humans. They're not pathetic. They're magnificent. They live with their fears, doubts, guilt. They face them down everyday and they prevail. That's not weakness. That's strength. That's what humanity is."

(Contrast: "That's what humanity is." The Doctor isn't human. She's not prevailing against her fears, doubts, and guilt.)

In conclusion, literally everyone but the creepy immortals needs a hug.

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The Haunting of Villa Diodati

Thoughts on Doctor Who - The Haunting Of Villa Diodati!

tfw you think you're just going to get a nice spoopy historical and instead get major plot?

Overall impression: Well, Jack is going to be pretty miffed, given that the Doctor had to do precisely what he didn't want to happen - giving the Lone Cyberman what it wanted. To save Shelley, and also to save the future, although that does bring up the question on if the death of one person can rewrite the future, why doesn't that apply to literally everyone? Fletcher the valet and Elise the nurse died too, do their deaths have the same impact? Either way, the Doctor takes the Cyberium for herself - then realises that the Cybermen are inevitable, and returns it. And now she's trying to go and stop them. So... a bit conflicting in the message there, I think.

Yeah. Bit of a Trolley Problem there.

The characters were really fun. I did enjoy seeing Mary's sense of morbidness, but also her kindness and sympathy towards the Cyberman; you can see the foundations of Frankenstein there. I'm seeing some criticism of how Byron was portrayed as a coward, but eh. Nice little callback to Ada. Also I love how one of the rules was 'no one snog Byron'. Put that dirty boy back, you don't know where he's been! Glad Claire realised that too, although historically, she was already pregnant with his daughter at that point (and that didn't go well at all)... Either way. Good display of all these bright young reckless things.

(And yes, they were young. Byron was the eldest at 28. Shelley was 23, Polidori was 20, Mary and Claire were just 18. And while Claire lived to 80 and Mary to her 50s, the three men all died young, too - Byron at 36, Shelley at 29 - yes, from drowning, Polidori at just 25. Also wasn't mentioned that Polidori also created something on that Dark And Stormy Night along with Mary's Frankenstein - he wrote The Vampyre, the first modern vampire story!)

The Lone Cyberman (and I am deliberately using that instead of 'Ashad') - creepy as shit. Not just the whole Frankenstein look, but the way he acted! Not emotionless and blank, but actively manipulative and sadistic! Mary showed empathy and he actively threw it back in her face! I mean, yikes.

House was terrific and also spooky as hell. (Am lowkey miffed that no one went "VIBE CHECK!") The jumbled layout was quite Castrovalva, and I actually really dig that Graham got to see some actual ghosts. Ghostly sandwiches!

I think we got actual confirmation here that Yaz does have feelings for the Doctor? (Bleeding Cool News is pretty sure that it was for Ryan, but... lmao no.) BBCA twitter certainly thinks so!

Claire: "His answers only increase the enigma." Yaz: "I know someone like that." Claire: "This enigmatic person of yours... would you trade them for reliable and dull?" Yaz: "My person's a bit different..."

I MEAN.

(It got deleted. So. There is that.)

Thirteen: "Hmm. Fourteenth... no. Fifteenth century... touch more umami." (Doctor, have you been playing Detroit: Become Human again?)

Mary: "I don't think they're really from the colonies!" Byron: "No, she... is from somewhere much, much stranger." Polidori: "The North."

Thirteen: "YOU HAD ONE JOB."

Cyberman: "You appear courageous. But your vital signs betray a heightened state of anxiety." Thirteen: "Or as I like to call it... Tuesday."

Thirteen: "Yeah, 'cause sometimes this team structure isn't flat. It's mountainous, with me at the summit, in the stratosphere, alone. Left to choose. Save the poet, save the universe. Watch people burn now, or tomorrow. Sometimes even I can't win."

Claire: "You pursued Mrs Doctor without a care for my presence, belittled my thoughts and opinions... and then proceeded to use my person as a human shield." Byron: "...And?" Claire: "And the spell is broken... my lord." Polidori's face: "haha you fucked up dude"

Next week: Shit Hits The Fan.

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Ascension of the Cybermen

In lieu of a proper post for Ascension of the Cybermen, here are a list of questions we need an answer for.

Will Graham and Yaz survive, on a giant carrier full of Cybermen?

Who is Brendan, and what is his relevance to the story?

What is the Boundary?

How is Gallifrey in the Boundary?

How was the Master in Gallifrey, and not trapped by the Kasaavin?

Who is Ko Sharmus and why am I getting Yana vibes?

Who is Ashad and what is his story? (And why is his theme such a literal banger?)

Is he an actual Cyberman? Because I'm totally getting this impression he's human in armour?

How did Brendan survive being shot, and why did his non-ageing father and mentor do that?

Why did it look like a chameleon arch?

Is Ethan's tech-savvy just warzone familiarity or something more sinister?

Are there any other large human populations left?

Was I detecting a hint of romantic tension between Graham and Ravio?

What's up with Yaz?

Why did the Cyberium get sent to that time period?

Who or what is this alliance Jack is a part of?

How do the Time Lords and the lie of the Timeless Child come into it?

WHO THE FUCK IS BRENDAN?

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The Timeless Children

WELL THEN.

While I gather proper thoughts on The Timeless Children, here are the questions I had from Ascension of the Cybermen, now with answers!

Will Graham and Yaz survive, on a giant carrier full of Cybermen?

Yup! Disguises for the win!

Who is Brendan, and what is his relevance to the story?

Brendan is a filtered overlay memory of one of the Doctor's former lives.

What is the Boundary?

An anomaly, as far as I can tell.

How is Gallifrey in the Boundary?

No idea!

How was the Master in Gallifrey, and not trapped by the Kasaavin?

No idea!

Who is Ko Sharmus and why am I getting Yana vibes?

A big damn hero.

Who is Ashad and what is his story? (And why is his theme such a literal banger?)

We're still not actually sure. Either way, he's an action figure now.

Is he an actual Cyberman? Because I'm totally getting this impression he's human in armour?

Yeah, sort of.

How did Brendan survive being shot, and why did his non-ageing father and mentor do that?

Because Time Lords.

Why did it look like a chameleon arch?

It's probably related technology! If the chameleon arch rewrites memories, this one just wipes them.

Is Ethan's tech-savvy just warzone familiarity or something more sinister?

Just warzone familiarity. Poor li'l bean.

Are there any other large human populations left?

Possibly! If the Boundary really did send them to random places, there still could be surviving pockets elsewhere in the universe.

Was I detecting a hint of romantic tension between Graham and Ravio?

Maybe a bit XD And now they're all on Earth, who knows?

What's up with Yaz?

Who knows?

Why did the Cyberium get sent to that time period?

Ko Sharmus sent it. Didn't send it far enough.

Who or what is this alliance Jack is a part of?

Same organisation Ko Sharmus is part of. Also, young!Ko Sharmus/Jack please.

How do the Time Lords and the lie of the Timeless Child come into it?

In so many ways.

WHO THE FUCK IS BRENDAN?

The Doctor!

More thoughts later!

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Thoughts on Doctor Who - The Timeless Children.

...Actually, first thought is the title. Timeless Children? Hmm.

Anyway. That is... sure a literally mind-blowing revelation for the Doctor, yes! Like, damn, the discovery that you're not even the species you thought you were, that your adoptive parent spent lifetimes abusing and experimenting on you, that your memories were routinely erased by people you thought you could trust (including your adoptive parent), that you're literally the progenitor for your entire species, that you've lost who knows how much time and who knows how many memories... yeah. Damn.

What's an appropriate birthday present for someone turning ten million?

Also, huh. Amidst all the old lore and casual mentions (like Borusa!) that got mentioned - were they taking hints from the Cartmel master plan? About the Doctor being some kind of founding figure for Gallifrey? Not exactly written as Cartmel had it, but that big main concept of the Doctor as a sort of... foundation piece of Time Lord culture was still actually there.

Brain of Morbius Doctors confirmed, I guess. I guess even Four was going, "...the fuck?"

Cybermen = still scary. Regenerating Cybermen = felt somehow obscene. Like, no, that's just fundamentally not right. Like the TARDIS responding to Jack by noping the fuck out kind of not right. God. And the Master was completely and utterly magnificently batshit, like, more than usual, come on, dude, you know they'd kill or convert you the second you turned your back.

Still. Deeply, deeply entertaining to watch just from a villain perspective, completely Chaotic, and like... I do understand where he was coming from? His entire life is a lie. His entire life is because of the Doctor, who, I think it's fair to say, he has Complicated Feelings regarding. (Their entire interaction this episode was a giant power play. Like damn guys just get into BDSM and leave the would-be genocide and universal takeover.)

Tecteun = Rassilon, I'm assuming. Goddamn. Like they were a pompous abusive asshole from the outset, this just kind of makes it worse. I also wonder if Rassilon chose the Master specifically to get the drums because he was friends with the Doctor? That actually may have been something the Master worked out himself, too. I mean, I'd be pissed off as well :-\

Also, how many people know about this? I assume Gat knew, since she was implied to be responsible for the mind wipes, but was it like... a super tightly-held secret or was it something a lot of higher-ups knew? Because that's fucked up tbh

Thought on the Master. Okay, he's hugely furious that he's been lied to, that the entire origin of his people is based on a lie, that his greatest friendrivalloveenemy is incredibly special and that a part of her is in him and not in the fun way, but like... I'm also wondering if he's looking at the Time Lords, the way they turned him into their puppet, how they drove him insane for their own purposes, then looked at the Doctor - someone who has also been used, abused, experimented on, manipulated, controlled, and went, "No. This is an injustice and the Time Lords need to be punished for it."

Oh, saw a nice theory regarding the TARDISes - Ruth!Doctor had the original busted police box TARDIS. When she was eventually taken in to be mind-erased, they sent the TARDIS off to storage to be eventually repaired. The Doctor manages to steal that one, goes to Earth, and it immediately gets stuck again because it's still broken. Explains how Ruth!Doctor can have the police box while also being pre-everything.

I really want the Doctor and Jack to sit down and have a nice chat about being timeless undying constants of the universe. Also for Jack to get one of the spare TARDISes around. Be kinda funny if he got the Master's old one, given the Year That Never Was, but it really is just sitting there. (Poor TARDIS stuck as a tree on a random wartorn planet in the far future, though!)

Also, Jodie was fucking magnificent in this episode. The hurt, the absolute fury, the almost glee when she's telling the Master he can't break her, her refusal to press the button at the end (so much like Nine's "coward or killer?" moment!)... just... so good.

Beautiful post I saw here on Tumblr - the Doctor as the Timeless Child, making the choice to help.

Amazing post here on Tumblr about abuse and repressed memories. Even if the Doctor doesn't remember it all, the abuse they underwent at the hands of a beloved parent figure still informs a hell of a lot of their behaviour, but it doesn't define them. The Doctor's need to run = informed by abuse. The Doctor's desire to help crying children = informed by abuse. The Doctor being an inherently good person = being their own person, no matter what their upbringing, no matter what their past was. They made the choice to be the Doctor, and that's a hell of an important thing.

Extremely painful post I saw on Tumblr about the Doctor being 'hip with the kids' by calling her companions her Fam but hell if they're not more family to her than her actual adoptive mother ow my heart.

Also, the scene between Yaz and Graham was so sweet <3 I do want to see Yaz, at some point, admit that sometimes she's so terrified she can barely move, and to tell him what she came so close to doing when she was sixteen, and Graham to just go, "Yeah, but you keep going." Also I'm trying not to think about how Yaz would respond to the Doctor going off on a suicide mission when Yaz was suicidal just three years earlier because ow my heart. She knows that Ko Sharmus went after her, she knows the Doctor might be alive, but either way, she's just seen someone she loves leave with the intention of dying (and Ko Sharmus too, actually). Someone please give her a hug. Actually please just let the Fam have a big group hug in general.

"Have you ever been limited by who you were before?" "Huh. Now that does sound like me talking."

So, remaining questions to be answered next season!

What actually is the Doctor? Since they were found near the Boundary, they could be from anywhere. It's fair to say they now are recognised genetically as a Time Lord, but what were they originally, why were they abandoned in the first place, and are there any more of their original people out there?

How do the Remnants know about the Timeless Child, or were they just picking up on that unconscious knowledge from the Doctor's own mind?

Like... we're generally under agreement that the Master, the eternal cockroach, survived, right? Despite definitely being lowkey suicidal like oh, was hoping the Death Particle would kill me? Like the Death Particle was made by the Cyberium, it could have gone, "Nah, keeping this one."

What's going on with the Kasaavin? Remember them? Still out there, stationed all through time and space? And are we going to see Daniel Barton again?

Is something going on with Yaz?

Will the Fam stay on? (I personally think Ryan will elect to stay on Earth to account for Tosin Cole's new TV role, and if Graham and Ravio enter a relationship, he might too.)

When will we see Jack again? If he was connected to the Lone Cyberman arc, that seems... pretty conclusively finished, unless we're going to learn more about it?

Is it Christmas yet?

............so the Christmas/NY special is going to start with Jack using his vortex manipulator to bust the Doctor out of prison and get back to the Fam and it'll never be mentioned again, right.

"At least buy me diNNER!!"

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Here is my next entry for Day 4 of @naruto-fantasy-week​! I went with the prompt “Japanese Folklore” because I wanted to do something with the conflict between the Sun Goddess and Moon God and how their bloodlines influenced imperial monarchies from opposite kingdoms and what would it take to bring two opposing nations together (albeit begrudgingly). I had to prevent this idea from running away with me and focused on a small section in Itachi and Sakura’s courtship. That way, I could actually finish the little fic in time. XD 

Fanfic title comes from the song “Sun and Moon” from the Broadway musical “Miss Saigon”. And yes, I was not trying to be creative with kingdom names. I just went with good ole “Solar” and “Lunar” because the names worked. XD

Summary: With the bloodline of the Sun goddess running through their veins, the Uchiha dynasty had reigned over the land for endless decades. But their power has waned, the populace no longer adores them like they used to, and opposing kingdoms watch and wait for their decline. Now, the imperial family is desperate and the only way to cement their power is to marry one of the imperial sons off to someone who has the bloodline of the Moon God, the brother and foe of the Sun Goddess. Naruto Fantasy Week, Day 4. Prompt: Japanese Folklore. [Itachi x Sakura] 

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“Love, that is all the earth to lovers—love, that mocks time and space,

Love, that is day and night—love, that is sun and moon and stars,

Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume,

No other words but words of love, no other thought but love.”

 — Walt Whitman, The Mystic Trumpeter

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The midday heat continued to beat down on the guards and servants who attended to their duties in the open foyer, where a cooling, welcoming breeze managed to infiltrate the open windows and doors and alleviated some of the humidity plaguing its working inhabitants. Sakura could already feel her inner layers soaked with sweat, cleaving to her body like a sticky second skin. Small tendrils of her hair plastered to the back of her neck and along the outline of her forehead, also damp from perspiration. Her chief lady-in-waiting, Ino, already had to reapply her blush and lipstick, knowing how much Emperor Fugaku, ruler of the Solar Kingdom, would judge the Crown Princess of the Lunar Kingdom, for simply sweating on a hot summer day after he kept her waiting for over a half hour. 

The princess sensed the reason for the delay and inwardly, Sakura was fuming at the blatant disrespect the Emperor, even now, was showing her. It was well known the Uchihas boasted having the blood of the Sun Goddess flowing in their veins, granting them divine rule over their subjects and they always looked down scornfully at those who were heralded to be descendants of the Moon God, the brother and rival of their precious Sun Goddess. But the last few decades, mayhap century, was not kind to the Uchiha rulers, as many of the Uchiha men (and sometimes, women) who succumbed to the unspoken but well known disease called ‘Mangekyō Madness’, reducing the afflicted into a bitter, paranoid mess cursed with blindness and rife with contempt for other clans, especially the so-called inferior ones. Everyone around them became an enemy to vanquish or subdue and usually, there was no cure or chance to regain sanity if the healers hadn’t taken steps previously to mitigate the effects of the illness. There were rumors this madness struck the Uchihas because of a crime one of their ancestors committed, Uchiha Madara, when he almost successfully wiped out the Senju clan to expand his kingdom’s territory. The Senju clan never forgot nor forgave the Uchihas for that massacre, especially since emperors after Madara vehemently denied the Uchihas were a part of such carnage and that Madara acted alone and was considered a ‘blight on Uchiha sun’. 

And thus, the imperial prestige slowly declined and now, Emperor Fugaku faced a dilemma: an unhappy, discontent populace, and watchful neighboring nations who were sharpening their weapons and honing their political strategy to see how much longer the Uchiha dynasty would last. Fugaku needed a strong alliance, once cemented by the bonds of marriage. So he begrudgingly entered negotiations with the Emperor of the Lunar Kingdom, Sakura’s uncle. Both parties agreed Sakura, the uncontested heir of her uncle’s great country, would marry one of the Emperor’s sons when she came of age. Such a celestial marriage would not only bring two mighty, prospering nations together but also join two royal bloodlines blessed by divinity. 

Sakura was thirteen when she caught wind of these negotiations and decided it would be her that decides which Solar prince she’d marry, not her uncle or her future father-in-law. And when the imperial family from the Solar Kingdom arrived a few months after her fourteenth nameday, Sakura began to enact her plan. 

Many of her entourage believed she would pursue the younger son, who was her age, but even though he was cannily pretty (most Uchiha were), Sakura cared not for his cold stares and the way he ignored everyone else if conversing with them was beneath him. He treated her best friend Ino brusquely when she tried to engage in several casual conversations to learn more about his character for Princess Sakura’s sake. Her final report on the second prince was less than glowing. There was that and the fact Ino swore to the Moon God that she witnessed him whispering in Karin’s ear, a medical apprentice who served the Uchiha family, and the girl kept blushing and smirking, taking the chance to suggestively stroke the young prince’s arm before he brushed her off to resume training. Even if there was nothing going on between them, Sakura sensed any relationship with him was doomed to fail. So she focused her attention on the older brother, Itachi.

Sakura smiled to herself as she recalled the first time she and Itachi encountered one another. It was a formal setting, a simple tea ceremony and later, a meeting for her uncle, Itachi’s father, and the ambassadors to discuss treaties and politics. Sakura found herself seated next to Itachi, the Crown Prince. Their discussion was, at first, cordial, ranging from her inquiring about how his stay in the Lunar Kingdom was faring and him saying he was enjoying the various landscapes he saw during his sojourn. Eventually, she learned he suffered from an unknown but not fatal physical ailment, which left him exhausted and tired often. In light of this information,  Sakura then recommended several teas with medicinal properties that would help boost his strength and energy if he drank them regularly. Three days later, Itachi returned to her to thank her personally for her sage advice, saying the teas she suggested were already showing some promise, and asked if she wanted to take a walk around the royal gardens and give him a tour. With a pleased grin on her face, Sakura whole-heartedly accepted, relieved to see Itachi was nothing like his younger brother, for simply being around the Solar heir put her nerves at rest and she soon found how easy and relaxing it was to talk to Itachi.

By the time Itachi had to return home, they already agreed to exchange letters to one another to continue their budding friendship. For four years they secretly exchanged letters back and forth, the friendship slowly melting into a clandestine romance, to the point they both vowed the moment Sakura entered the Solar Kingdom and stepped on soil from the imperial castle, the two of them would wed in secret. They couldn’t take a chance to leave the decision of Sakura’s groom up to Emperor Fugaku, for he was more partial in giving his second son, the spare, to the Lunar Princess because he believed his heir deserved a far more rewarding match. And to quell the rumors that Sasuke no longer had eyes for the noble girls his father tried to parade in front of him and was far more interested in a wandering, compassionate hedgeknight who often rescued or offered his services to the commonfolk amidst the Uchiha lands. He possessed eyes like the ocean blue and hair the color of the golden sun itself and Emperor Fugaku refused to let him on Uchiha grounds.

Within her first week in the Solar Kingdom, Sakura and Itachi were wed, their only other witnesses besides the presences of the Sun Goddess and the Moon God, the imperial family’s kannushi (who was entrusted to bless and formally bind the lovers together in a legal marriage), were Sakura’s chief lady-in-waiting and best friend, Ino, and Itachi’s cousin and confidante, Shisui. Her wedding night with Itachi was pure bliss and now that they were officially husband and wife, they had planned to break the news to the emperor tomorrow morning. 

Itachi went in first, knowing best how to pacify his father’s rage once he realized his original schemes were thwarted. He was also prepared to carefully explain to Emperor Fugaku why this matrimonial choice would suit all parties–Fugaku in particular. From her previous encounters with that rigid, unyielding ruler, Sakura suspected her father-in-law was the type of man who didn’t appreciate when events didn’t go his way or would balk at the idea of admitting that he made a mistake either in his reign or on his judgment. 

The doors leading inside the palace burst open and Itachi smoothly strolled out, the force of his gait causing his dark ponytail to swing around and collide with his left shoulder before resting there. Itachi’s expression remained stolid but the concern and disappointment marked in his obsidian eyes carried enough emotion and information for Sakura to surmise that Itachi’s conversation with his father did not go well at all. 

“Sakura, I am so sorry to have kept you waiting,” he apologized, grasping both of her hands to kiss them, his gaze never leaving hers. Sakura’s ire at her father-in-law steadily ebbed away, savoring Itachi’s touch and sweetness in their private, intimate moment together. “My father refused to come and greet you as my wife, and declared we are to be banished for a few months for marrying without his permission. He also rebuked me for falling prey to your wily charms.” He spoke the last part wryly and Sakura tossed her head back to laugh at the absurd accusation. Of course Fugaku would lay the blame squarely at her feet, for not falling in line and waiting to wed his second son simply so the Solar Emperor could feel far more superior over her and the Lunar Emperor. He may be hailed as a fierce warrior and shrewd monarch, but he also was such a petty man. 

“Banishment away from your father and all those prying, sneering nobles at court, where we can be left alone to our own devices?” Sakura mused drolly out loud, leaning in to plant a loving kiss on her husband’s cheek. “Are you sure the Emperor is punishing us?”

A half-smile spread itself across Itachi’s pale features, his eyes alight at her good humor. “He thinks you will be aghast to be away from such a pinnacle of power and influence and hopes when we return, you’ll be more of a demure, modest wife who will listen to his orders next time.” Both he and Sakura chuckled, imagining Fugaku’s future disappointment that his daughter-in-law was not so easily cowed.. “But we know that will never betide.”

“Of course not,” Sakura agreed, wrapping her hand around his as they sauntered out of the outside foyer and to the guest wings to pack all of Sakura’s effects before they started their journey to Itachi’s estates for their temporary exile. “If I was, then the Sun Goddess would never agree to our match during our covert marriage ceremony nor would have the Moon God made his presence known as well.” 

“I, the Moon God, father of the great lineage belonging to the Lunar Kingdom, come before you all today to bless this joining between a man of the Sun and a woman of the Moon. Do not forget the courage and willpower you had to make this moment possible, you shall need when the crowns sit on both of your heads.”

“I, Amatersau, the famed Sun Goddess, mother of the grand lineage from the Solar Kingdom, am here before you all today to also bless this joining betwixt two mortals, one of the Sun and one of the Moon. Bring back the prestige to my royal line and let the next generation of Uchiha men and women be stronger than ever!”

The words of both sibling deities still echoed in Sakura’s mind, a wish they claimed that only a couple of their caliber would bring to fruition. The Moon God and his sister, the Sun Goddess, a pair that was always at odds with each other since the dawn of time, somehow had their goals aligned when it came to influencing and blessing the union of two mortals who carried their divine blood. Albeit Itachi and Sakura truly didn’t need the blessing of two deities to know the true power and love of their union, despite how awe-inspiring it was to hear the loud, imposing voices of both the Sun Goddess and the Moon God all around them. Even if no one outside their small matrimonial ceremony believed their account, the future for the two of them seemed fortuitous indeed.

“Are you ready to go to your new home, my beloved wife?” Itachi’s face softened as he spoke. Those kind, mesmerizing eyes of his often took on a subtle but nonetheless elated luster whenever he continued to refer to her as his wife, and right now was no exception. Sakura’s heart swelled up with a mixture of pride, joy, and love towards him. They were indeed fortunate and blessed to have found each other even under the shadow of an arranged marriage.

“Yes, darling husband, I am,” she replied, giving his hand an affectionate squeeze. After all, a several month banishment with simply Itachi and her together, managing their estates, while devoid of haughty in-laws and other Solar nobles, sounded like the perfect honeymoon.