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I suddenly remembered eagerly awaiting an ASMR recording of the original (Grimm-esque) Nutracker story by YouTube medical content creator Dr. James Gill. Maybe last year or the year before? I don't remember.
But it was so good and worth the wait despite being kinda random from a doctor. It's also become a cool sort of series on the channel where he reads classical literature between posting resources for med students. He’s built a nice blend of information and art in one community.
Idk where this was meant to go. I just really love seeing people enjoy their unexpected talents and be appreciated for sharing those talents. Even if that particular skill set doesn't "fit their brand" or whatever.
We gotta Decommodify joy. I'm begging.
#joy#read warm bodies by isaac marion and let it change you for the better#tadhg talks to themself#asmr#i guess#youtube niches#dr James gill#he's a goddamm boss#asmr YouTube#me#silly rants in the dead of nigjt
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Hi. My brother sexually abused me growing up. My mom figured out when I was in third grade.
I was a terminally honest kid, but X had said to keep it a secret. I'm 33 now.
Maybe 5 years ago, I was talking to my cousin. Normal complaints about parenthood. She's aggravated that her daughter seems to lose her socks and underwear every time she visits her dad's house. It sends me in a tailspin. I tell her that hey, maybe ask your daughter a couple questions cause uh. That's how my mom realized something was going on.
"Something was going on with what?"
"Uh. With me and X?"
She didn't know. She'd never known.
I'm in. Fuck. 5th grade? At my friend/ neighbor's house. Her baby sister is showing me a game her friend showed her. It involves throwing a blanket over both our heads. I freak out. Tell her mom. Have NO IDEA, in 5th grade, how to phrase "talk to your daughter about her friend and sexual abuse, cause why is there a game involving us under a blanket?"
First or second year of my first job. I'm rambling in the car on the way to or from lunch. Normal day. I say something about X and the situation. My boss cried. CRIED. What??
I have 3 brothers. The oldest one sexually abused me. I found out literally tonight that my youngest brother never knew. My uncle never knew. I find this out because I fucking told them about it. Me and my uncle were complaining about X and how he can never seem to get his fucking shit together. My youngest brother is 2 years older than me. We were living in the same goddamm house. In third grade, I was being pulled out of school weekly to go to therapy. I'd had to be interviewed by CPS and the police.
I'm in high school. I broach the subject with my mom, about. I don't know. I'm ready to tell people? She tells me, to my face, that my grandma will die not knowing what X did.
My grandma died 5 years ago. As far as I know, my mom got her wish. Grandma didn't know. Fuck, I'm a little glad. I don't fucking know how to broach that subject about her grandkids.
(Doesn't seem to stop me from being the ONLY ONE broaching that fucking subject, but hey).
So. Hi. I exist. I was sexually abused by my older brother, up until I was in third grade. And I'm getting real fucking tired of realizing people don't know that while I'm mid-sentence.
I'm so goddamn tired. Of saying to myself "well, nothing *happened* happened, he just took my clothes off and we laid in bed together. It could've been worse."
I'm so goddamn tired of thinking "my parents responded as best they could." My own brother didn't know. My family doesn't know.
X's shit is in the back of my car. He went to jail (again) and someone needed to hold onto it til he got out. Why am I doing this?
I dunno. Hi. I exist. I feel like I need to scream that.
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Which Wesker you'd like him to be: Wesker as your boss🤴, or as your subordinate🧎♂️?
Speaking of, fan contents where they portrayed Wesker as a lackey don't seem to be that common 🤔 Even though canonically he usually was seen serving under some company. Re1? Umbrella. Code Veronica? H.C.F. Re5? Mmmm... Excella maybe, considered his position in TriCell was ranked below hers. Re4? Uh...I don't remember, haven't even touched Re4 remake yet... Goddamm this mf jumped through too much companies
Ohh ? If I was his boss or if I worked under him....hmmm.
He did work under Umbrella his whole life and did a good job there. Before he fucked them up....ehm I feel he would fuck me over in a not fun way.
To work under him? I dunno, why do I feel he would either make me do the most unhinged stuff ever or he'd be pretty chill lol. Since he was really chill and unformal in S.T.A.R.S. Calling everyone by their first name.
I feel he just doesn't like companies? He will work in one, just to get all they have. Takes them for all they are worth. Then jumps to the next
#albert wesker#resident evil#☆whiskers asks☆#thank you for the ask!#I feel I might so better as his boss xD#but who knows really
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||TILL DEATH DO US PART|| Y/N and three dumbasses
Masterlist | Jeongin's Coven
Y/N L/N: Human - 22, Majors in English Literature, works at the local library her grandma owns, doesn't really know what she wants to do after college, lives in the apartment above the library.
Han Jisung: Human - 22, Majors in Music industry, he's an inter at a record label company, hates his boss, so he wants to open his own record label just to stick it to him, roommates with changbin.
Lee Felix: Human - 22, Majors in culinary arts, he's a waiter at a nearby restaurant, wants to move back to Australia and open a bakery with his sisters, new roommates with hyunjin.
Seo Changbin: Human - 23, Majors in Music Production, he changes jobs basically every month he always finds something wrong with the place and leaves, roommates with Han
A/N: Updates for this will probably be slow cause making these text and Twitter posts take long for no goddamm reason, anyways-
#jeongin smau#yang jeongin x reader#skz jeongin#skz#skz fanfic#yang jeongin smau#yang jeongin#jeongin x reader#jeongin x y/n#jeongin fanfic#stray kids social au#stray kids smau
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Cancelled Episode 17 "Beyond the green butterfly"
"Yo mama so goddamm fat, the documentary about her can't fit her selfie in the TV without it exploding!"
-yo mama jokes series
Oh, here we go again. More and more "LoOKiNG fOr sOmE aNciENT pOwErFuL rELiC tO FiGhT tHe gReAt FiNaL bOsS" or something.
Well, no time to waste! Let us make haste! For the great lizard king isn't gonna kill himself, no, surely not!
But it's just...we'd already gotten comfortable with finding targets in caves and forest settings, but...why...did this one...have to be...right in the middle of the Pacific ocean???? OH GOD WHY???
Well. No point mulling over the mere risk of not being able to properly defend ourselves underwater if enemies attack us...ugh....
"Hey are you done monologuing yet, girl? You not going down?" Snowball cuts me out of my daze and alerts me of the situation at hand. Ah, right, I'd almost forgotten our predicament while I was busy thinking of a solution and also how much I hate underwater combat, but it was all thanks to our darling Moonshadow Elf here who reminded me! Ah, this is why I just know I can trust Moonshadow Elves!
We're on a tiny wooden boat-well, to call it a boat would be an overstatement, this thing's more like the most basic wooden raft once could make with the minimal budget provided-just barely enough to keep us afloat.
Well, I don't exactly blame it. With all THESE heavy-as-hell equipment needed for this adventure, it can't really be asked to support us on top of that weight. Make do with the budget, I guess.
We've all just gotten ready, putting on the goggles and diving suit and oxygen tank as we prepare to dive straight into this bottomless pit of unknown dangers.
"And what about that...fox? What do we do with it?" Disparage gestures rather disagreeingly at the little fox in Hydrogenium's cuddled snugly in Hydrogenium's arms. (on a side note, how exactly does it even grt comfortable with that...poisoned, toxic black arm of hers?) Does he see the fox as an inconvenience, perchance?
"Well, we'll just have to leave it here, on the boat, though I don't think it can defend itself...can it?" Erik questions...yet another one who finds the fox an inconvenience. Well, considering how much he loved petting it, only an inconvenience in battle, perhaps.
Hydrogenium finally secures her goggles and oxygen tank, and finally makes the decision, "Just leave it here. I know it can defend itself," and seating the fox comfortably on the boat next to the diving equipment.
Then, without any warning, she dives straight in, forcing the rest of us to have to follow her.
Oh, here we go again...
I'm the last to follow because of how much I hate deep water, especially ones where we have to find some ancient relic and fight sea monsters or something...
I summon my courage while still on the boat in order to plunge into the icy depths. The fox even bothers to cuddle in my arms and snuggle there warmly. Well, sorry for you, fox, but I'm on a suicide mission, no time to hug you or something anymore!
I take a deep breath for some reason even though I won't need it because I still have an ENTIRE OXYGEN TANK but I take it anyway, before...jumping right in to the middle of the ocean.
"OH MY GOD WHY THE HELL IS THE WATER SO COLD? IT'S FREEZING AS HELL COLD! WHY THE HELL IS IT THIS COLD?" were my exact thoughts the moment I plummeted into the chilly ocean.
I flailed my arms around helplessly as the immense pressurised liquid swallowed me; I felt my entire body freezing over as the water average temperature kept dropping and dropping...
Oh god...is this how I die? Before the mission's even started? No no no no no, there's no way I'm dying in such a cliched manner!
Alright, alright, alright, calm down...this has to be just like light-flying, it's just normal light-flying, normal light-flying, just in water, but that's the same thing...I'm just in a medium with a much higher density compared to normal air...
Well why am I even comparing this to light-flying? Not like I can light-fly anymore, with the entire loss of my Photokinesis...
Just...stay calm...regulate breathing...heart rate...completely normal...totally not about to be the first one to die in this suicide mission, and from such a cliched mannef as freezing in the ocean...
And surely enough, deep breaths (though a real waste of oxygen, though the real waste would be if I die before I get to finish all this oxygen) really help calm me down...whoo...just...relax the body...let it float naturally...
And soon, my heart began beating normally, as my muscles relaxed and let my body float around being tossed by the currents...AND NOW I'M ABLE TO SWIM NORMALLY! HAHAHA!
THIS IS WHY I SAID IT'S JUST LIKE LIGHT-FLYING! JUST TURN INTO LIGHT AND FLY, BUT WITHOUT THE PHOTOKINESIS AND IN WATER AND JUST SWIMMING NORMALLY! HAHAHA!
Well, now the entire suicide squad is swim-staring at me, while I do my little victory underwater-dance and happily swim around like a three-year old just discovering surface tension happily playing with the paper clips on the cup of water's surface.
Alright, lizard king, suicide mission's ready to unseal your greatest nightmare!
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Me: *Minding my own goddamm business, trying to do my job*
Woman two sites down from where I'm cleaning: Excuse me!
Me: *doing my job*
WTSD: Excuse me!!
Me: *Takes off my headphones* How can I help you?
WTSD: You sprayed my stuff! *starts to walk over to her site*
I follow her, and see the sprinklers going off on the grass next to her site.
Me: I didn't spray your stuff. (as there is no possible way for me to have cleaned anything to the right of where she is)
WTSD: Then who did?!
Me: The sprinklers...
WTSD: Why did they spray my stuff!?
Me: Because we need to water the grass...
WTSD: Who turned on the sprinklers!
Me: The landscaper.
WTSD: Why!?
Me: Because it's his job, and we need to water the grass.
WTSD: I know that! But why did he do it!?
Me: Because we need to water the grass.
WTSD: I know that! Can't he do it somewhere else?!
(The campground has been around since maybe the 70's)
Me: We have no way of controlling where the sprinklers are.
WTSD: I know that!
This goes on for a little more, she gives up, I go back to the site I was working on.
Then her HUSBAND comes over to me
HTSD, who was louder than his wife was: Why did you get my chair wet!!??!
Me: That wasn't me, that was the sprinklers
HTSD: I want a boss out here!!
Me: Ok
...
HTSD: I want a boss out here!!!
By now I'm fed up with this horse-shit
Me: Then you can go to the camp store and get one.
HTSD: *flabbergasted storming off*
Some people at my work came up to me cause the sprinklers went off.
For context, I work an RV campground owned by my state's only amusement park.
These people were in one of the most expensive sites we have, on the cement, by the walk way to the park, and a short distance from the dump station, bordering a large section of grass, with no one to the right of them.
the sprinklers for the grass went off, and got their camp chairs, one side of their car, and either class B or C motorhome, wet.
I was washing off a site TWO SITES DOWN FROM THEM, and they came to me to say that I got their stuff wet.
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Gotta say, I'm really loving Hawkeye so far but I'm also really worried about how the fuck they're gonna manage to tie everything together in a way that makes sense. There's only 6 episodes to this series and the third episode already aired. That leaves 3 episodes to tie up:
The deal with Kate's shady mum and her shady fiance. Why was Armound killed? What are they mixed up in?
The relationship in general between Kate and her mum because there's obviously a lot of love there and they're both trying hard but they don't quite GET each other. Their relationship got a big focus in the first couple episodes and then almost completely disappeared in the third so that we could focus on Maya. (And like, Maya's awesome, more on her in a minute, but it did feel like a bit of a departure)
Whatever went on between Kate's parents before her dad died
Everything Maya
Maya wanting revenge on Ronin for killing her father (she doesn't even know it's Clint yet!)
Whatever the fuck is going on with Maya and the hot guy who knows ASL
The watch from the Avengers Tower that the mafia gang/Maya is after????
The mysterious uncle???
(In general, there's SO MUCH to delve into on the Maya plot line and I get that that's why she's getting her own show but it makes me wonder how satisfying the wrap up of it within THIS SHOW is gonna be. And if it'll manage to be satisfying without completely overshadowing the rest of the plot lines.)
Kate finding out Clint is Ronin, reckoning with that fact that her role model might not be who she's always thought he is. Her suffering some sort of hardship or loss to bring home to her the gravity of what it means to be in this sort of world. Kate then deciding to take on the Hawkeye mantle anyway (cause c'mon, that's obviously where this is going)
YELENA BELOVA????? Where the fuck is she???? This is my prob my biggest concern. How the fuck is the show gonna do a satisfying Clint-Yelena arc in 3 goddamm episodes? Especially with a billion of other shit also going on?
I'm waiting to see:
Yelena wanting to kill Clint to avenge Nat. The big angsty emotional showdown where Clint's grief and survivers guilt bubbling over (and maybe he even almost lets Yelena finish the job before Kate saves him/he's reminded that his family still needs him/he decides that he won't let Nat's sacrifice be in vain etc). Yelena realising that she's been lied to and that her shady boss is shady and was USING her grief to take out Clint for whatever reason. Finding out who the fuck that shady lady is and WHY she wanted Clint dead. Taking this lady down. Yelena-Clint bonding time. Yelena-Kate bonding time. Yelena's dog and Pizza Dog bonding time.
And like, HOW THE FUCK WILL THIS CONNECT WITH EVERYTHING ELSE? Yes, the show has name-dropped Nat in every episode but it's been subtle and overshadowed by all the other insane shit going on, and if this series was longer then this slow build up to Yelena would make perfect sense and work really well but because there's hardly any time to develop the story arc and see all it's emotional ramifications through I feel like it's just gonna come out from the left field and be very rushed.
Which is a shame cause honestly the Yelena plotline I detailed could have easily filled the entire 6 episodes. Or, you know, season 2. No need to squish a billion things into 6 episodes. This could easily be a 2 season thing. Or hell, just a normal 10-13 episode season. Split into parts A and B if you must.
Bottom line is, there's loads and loads of material here - great plot lines, incredible characters, complex relationships- and the only way to do any of it justice is to give each thing the time it requires.
I really hope I'm gonna be proven wrong, but like, I honestly don't see how they can deal with everything they've set up. Not within the tiny timeframe and not with the slow pace of the show. (And this isn't a complaint about the slow pacing. I LOVE this pacing, I think it works really well, I just don't know how it will allow the show to cover everything it needs to in 6. Fucking. Episodes.)
#I mean WandaVision also started slow and then was amazing#But also WandaVision was pretty upfront about being mainly about Wanda's grief#Hawkeye has so so SO many different themes and directions#Ugh#I really hope I'm gonna be proven wrong#Mine#hawkeye#hawkeye spoilers#hawkeye speculation#hawkeye series#clint barton#Kate Bishop#eleanor bishop#maya lopez#Echo#natasha romanoff#Yelena Belova#black widow#lucky the pizza dog
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SAO x Miraculous x DC
Triple crossover, help
(aka Kirito and Asuna need hugs and I threw in Damian and Marinette to help them. They're the babysitters yeah. And moral support. (lmao Damian a moral support, he grown up so much)
Vocabulary I can think of now:
IRL is In Real Life
PK in Player Killer
Beta is a first limited release of the game and later is the nickname of the players who were in it.
Green player: a regular player
Orange player: a player who killed another one
Clearers: the players who are on the front line and battle with the Boss(es?) of each floor, it's thanks to them that they can keep going up the floors
Solo: someone who isn't in a guild
Guild: a official team of players
The context:
⇒ In 2022, a virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online (SAO) is released. With the NerveGear, a helmet that stimulates the user's five senses via their brain, players can experience and control their in-game characters with their minds. Both the game and the NerveGear were created by Akihiko Kayaba. On November 6, 10,000 players log into SAO's mainframe cyberspace for the first time, only to discover that they are unable to log out. Kayaba appears and tells the players that they must beat all 100 floors of Aincrad, a steel castle which is the setting of SAO if they wish to be free. He also states that those who suffer in-game deaths or forcibly remove the NerveGear out-of-game will suffer real-life deaths. {thanks wikipedia summary}
⇒ Marinette, 20 ans, go to Japan with Adrien and they get a NerveGear. T'was not a good idea. (Adrien wanted to test it after her. Well, not anymore.)
⇒ Damien, 19 ans, is one of the 800 beta of the game because Wayne Entreprise is a sponsor of Kayaba Akihiko (they sponsor searches for a therapeutic use too), and of course he is one of the 10 000 players when the game is officially launch (because they'll make goddamm sure to monitor the thing!)
⇒ Canon compliant for the SAO characters.
The Story :
Marinette is Mao (cat in Chinese) because it's cute and a nod to Adrien. Quickly she becomes one of the best (because hey, she's a born gamer). And Mominette. The average is in the 20s but there are younger players, and Marinette is 20. So she takes care of the younger and protects when needed and she's building a nice reputation.
Damian is Taniyn (dragon in Arab) because fierce and all (and it's cool). And he becomes one of the best because he is The Heir and also because he already knows how to wield way too many weapons IRL and there's this thing with knowing weapons IRL who just gives an edge to the player. And he was one of the Beta because WaYnE and rObIn (listen, this technology is a first and extremely interesting for more reasons than one, of course Batman would have an eye on it). (Now, Tim would probably have killed to participate but he just doesn't have the time. He's co-CEO and vigilante and already sleep-deprived. Not. The. Time. Vigilantism aside, Damian is 'just' a student.)
They meet officially months after the Opening Event (aka the You All Are Trapped In The Game Mwahaha) on the 10th or 11th floor. Taniyn is already part of the clearers since the first floor (bc where else would he be than in the group with the best players) but Mao took her sweet time to build the best gear possible and taking care of the young players. Mominette we said. But! They meet at last!
And well, at first it's not a great "wow she's pretty/smart/idk" or "wow he's handsome/smart/idk" it's more "oh a newbie, i'll keep an eye on her" and "ah shit, he seems like an ass". But they're both great players and have a good head on their shoulders so they quickly have an "alliance" which pretty much is : we cooperate during hard times and ignoring each other otherwise. And fuss over Kirito and Asuna. Look, I know what you want to say "Damian doesn't fuss blablabla" but Kirito and Asuna are among the leaders of the clearing group and they're young. Less young that Tanyin and Mao when they had their responsibilities sure but Damian knows what it feels like to be view as an enemy and forced to defend himself because everyone wants your head and Marinette knows what it feels like to have too much responsabilities and prying eyes on you. So Mao makes sure they take naps and they have a safe place when they need a break and Taniyn makes sure they learn how to wield weapons without Sword Skills. It's a thing in SAO : when you know how to use a weapon IRL it's easier in the game. You can pull off things you can't with a Sword Skill and there's no cooldown. It gives you an edge. And Kirito needs all the edges he can have with him soloing the front lines and Asuna is young and a girl within a leader group, she wants all the advantages she can have too. (And there's the death game thing too. Nobody say no to new ways to survive.) So, they learn. And from time to time, Mao and Taniyn can be found in a screaming match of "they need REST" "no, they need to STAY ALIVE" and well... it's bonding time I guess?
On another hand, more and mode floors are cleared and soon enough the clearers reach the 25th floor. It's a massacre. They lose way too many players and, like a backlash, the hate toward the Betas increases. You know the whole "i need a scapegoat and here is an entire group of people I can hunt for no reason", yeah that. (we all hate it and it's somewhat not well thought because flemme but it serves the plot well.) Kirito took it upon him the last time, but here there isn't anything to do but hide.
Mominette is back! Well, no, just Mao in fact. She has a great deal of friends because she's badass and warm and gives favors like petits pains. So she calls to the friends she knows she can trust in her network and organises the Protection and Rescue Squad of the Betas (the known ones at least). Kirito disappears like he can do so well and Klein and Asuna curse him because "stupid solo, gonna tie him up!" and "ARG let us help!". Taniyn ignores all of it with his aloof arrogance and Mao took upon her to watch him, wary. Well, guess who is attacked by an orange guild because they were payed!? She knew it! They fight together and manage to escape and Mao all but imprisons him at home. Hers. Home, I mean. Oh look, they're roomates.
Eventually the need to make progress exceeds the crisis and the betas can come out of hiding. Kirito reappears and gets an earfull from a good deal of his friends (not that he imagines they think of themselves as his friends this sacrifiying little gremlin) and Taniyn returns in his home with great relief. Or so he thinks. (It's too dark and too silent and too lonely and wow he regrets a little Mao's sun now.) Hah.
Anyway, they live (truly live for the first time for way too many players) and they make progress etc, etc. On the 70th floor, the PK are pests who don't seems to want to disappear and they have officially killed more than Kayaba. All the players had lose at least one friend by the hands of the PK. And more likely by Laughing Coffin, the main PK guild. Then the location of their headquarters is leaked (or, well, the questers/scouts have done their jobs) and the clearers form a subjugation team in haste to put them down one and for all.
A majority is imprisonned. Some are killed, in both factions. Kirito, Asuna, Taniyn and Mao all killed. Taniyn and Asuna are orange-player now, and would be for a few days. Kirito and Mao didn't strike the first blow so they're still green players but it doesn't erase the deed. Kirito disappears but Asuna go with him this time, Heathcliff being gracious enough to allow her to take her time (and she would have tell him to go f himself if not). Taniyn and Mao both retreat in her home after having dealt with the aftermath - Klein and Agil all but chasing them off when the sun rose up.
They end up in the living room, silent and brooding. Damian has striked the first blow and killed, he can't be Robin anymore. Marinette has killed and they can't be revived, she killed for real this time. But it's the justice of SAO. They aren't vigilantes or heroes here. They are among the leaders and have made a decision for the sake of their people. They were indeed juge, jury and executioner. It was their duty, to strike before they could. They killed people nonetheless.
Mao and Taniyn stay in her home for a week. It's a tough week. But they come around and when they get out Taniyn is once again a green player and they're affectionate like they never really been before. Sure they're friends since a while now but it's different. They talk, they eat together, Mao makes him gloves and ornaments (at least one for his katana for Strength) and have a project for a cloak. Taniyn draws her and gift her drawings of their friends, of animals meet in mission, of monsters and landscape (never from the IRL, they're in Aincrad and they don't talk of the IRL). Somehow he's more at her place than his and suddenly the guest room is his and they're truly roomates and maybe a little more. Mao smiles more and Taniyn is serene in an extraordinary way for him. She gushes at the wedding of Kirito and Asuna and he rolls his eyes at her antics but congratulates them all the same, both happy for their friends.
Then it's the 75th floor. It's the 75th floor and suddenly it's hell. Way too many die before the Floor Boss explodes in pixels. Heathcliff is Kayaba. Heathcliff, the Head of the Knights of Blood Oath, one of the leaders of the Clearers, the mentor of Asuna, is Kayaba. Asuna the Lightning Flash and Kirito the Black Swordman fight him and they... die. The temporary effect which paralysed them vanish and suddenly they can move and it's hell again and Mao searches players around her for Taniyn and Klein and Agil and all her friends but can't see them and suddenly-
A coutdown.
They're free.
The Game is beaten.
How ?
What-
Darkness engulfs all.
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They didn't expect it. They were only on the 75th floor, a quarter before the supposed end of the game! But Kirito and Asuna are cheatcodes all by themselves. (good for them anyway, with the carnage of the 75th? Reaching the 100th Floor would have been impossible.)
Now begins the aftermath (I'm a sucker for aftermath AU sorrynotsorry).
Marinette wakes up with a hand in hers and for a wild moment she thought it's Taniyn. But she has like the worst headache ever, she's thirsty, hungry and frankly weak. She feels a little like she's dying and her limbs are way to heavy. Only the IRL can make you feel like dying in such a sweet way (that's sarcastic). So she's back. Hooray? She doesn't really know how to feel to be honest. Adrien cries when he sees her without the NerveGear. She cries with him.
Damian wakes up alone and experiment the worst headrush ever by trying to move. (why do you do this to yourself seriously?) He's stubborn so he somehow gets up and leave the room. (His room in the Japanese house of his father, he recognises it vaguely from two years ago. Or well, what could be his room or a hospital room with very very expensive furniture. Either can work.) It's in fact his room because he ends up in the living room, shocking the hell out of Raven and Garfield (they're the babysitters of the week).
Needless to say, Tom and Sabine and Bruce come back to Japan very quickly. (listen, one is Batman so he can't be absent a long time from Gotham whatever the reason (death is another thing), and Tom and Sabine have a business they need to tend to.)
Each of them has to relearn how to live in a physical world, a very breakable world in fact. Crazy how things seems fragile when you haven't got any "immortal object" thing going on. It's a hurtful learning for Marinette and a very frustrating one for Damian. (Look, one is notoriously clumsy and has the permanent power of somewhat gods on her side and the other is way too prone to anger for the good of his environment.) Plus the whole "two years in a coma-like situation" and they need to rebuild their muscles in addition to their mental state. So. They struggle. Enjoy.
But! They don't do just that (struggling with the physical world I mean). They search for each other and their friends too. Damian finds Marinette one month after their return and Marinette is already in contact with Argo to reconnect the survivors.
Their reunion is Marinette who hugs him and Damian who held her close and the shock of their mutual entourage. (and a very sweet moment that I won't write because english and the flow of the story, but maybe in a bonus one day.) There was then a long explana- pff, who I'm kidding? Adrien (honorary Dupain-Cheng's son) might be able of supplying some kind of explanation (because in one month Marinette would absolutely tell him all about SAO and her friends and the maybe-more with Taniyn) but the two don't give a care about what their entourage think. And after the sweet moment and introductions, they would absolutely scheme. They have friends to find okay?
Here comes the absolute trio of Argo - Mao - Taniyn.
Between the network of Argo and Mao and the hacking skills of Argo and Taniyn, they're a sight to behold. The Deep Web becomes the headquarter for the players with high levels or interesting things to say and the civilians can meet and post testimonies on an official site monitored by the government. The former know what's happening before it goes mainstream.
Three hundred players are still imprisonned.
And Kirito and Asuna are way too quiet for their liking.
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Kirito calls during dinner. Marinette has all but move in the Wayne's appartment (the heroes thing was an interesting conversation) and she seeks Damian's hand when she hears the weak voice in the phone. He's not crying but it's a near thing and Mominette is instantly summoned. When he says that Asuna is among the three hundred players, she bites back her tears and says all she could to comfort him without lying. They defeated one game, they can beat another. They just need to find her. She gives the phone to Damian when he asks for it and instantly contacts Argo.
When Damian hangs up, he has an adress and she has a lead.
Long story short, they found her three weeks later. The thing with IRL prisoners in a game is that they're not discreet. The servers have been opened with the fall of Aincrad. And the Kayaba-wannabe couldn't hold a candle to the man. So Argo pursues the hunt of the bastard who took hold of their friends with the help of Red Robin - sent by Batman because the Justice League keeps a close eye on the situation - and Damian and Kirito dive in ALO to save Asuna from the inside. Marinette can't, because she has magical responsabilities she can't risk and because she has to take over if they're trapped. To say all of them are relieved when they log out is an understatement.
They save Asuna and the other players just before Red Robin and Argo send an email with all the evidence to the SAO Rescue Force. They're safe.
Asuna calls Marinette and they cry but it's okay (and it's okay too if she and Damian jump in the car to go to the hospital in the second). There's a lot of tears of joy and of anguish and a lot healing to do but they're gonna be okay. (And Damian congratulates Kirito for his job in the parking. He learned well.)
(Tanyin didn't get to be here at the final duel in the game, it was just Sugou, Asuna and Kirito. But when all is dealt with, Kirito bows to Tanyin with bleak eyes and Damian sighs before pulling Kazuto in a hug. The influence of Marinette, he swears. But also because there was torture in there and Asuna refuses to be touched by anyone for way too long and he's not the only one wishing he could kill Sugou. Just a little.)
They're really free of their nightmare now.
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Damian asks Marinette to be his girlfriend the day after and she accepts as red as ever (Adrien and Argo are snickering in the background because they very much look like middle school sweethearts). It doesn't change much to their dynamic but Damian can at least shut his brothers up so it's good. And they go to dates. That's a change. It's good too.
Then they need to go back to their respective countries and sure they'll have the AmuSphere (who is a really good thing for long-distance relationships) but it's just not the same. When they part, they have their next encounter wholly planned. (Marinette's going to Gotham since she's the first one to have holidays then it'll be him in Paris.)
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The End I guess ?
(maybe one day I'll do one or two scenes) (maybe) (but go ahead if you want)
#maribat#marinette x damian#ml x dc#mlb x dc x sao#asuna#kirito#marinette#damian#marinette and damian are aged-up btw#and in aincrad#that's the plot#all because kirito and asuna need hugs#and because gamer!marinette#ofc#there's argo too!
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since we know that in the 'Val's favourite actor' series, Vox has pretty harsh feelings towards the reader. (and at least in my mind they still work at the studio) what if, one day val was busy and so he let Vox control what happens at the studio. Reader originally was supposed to have the day off or something but Vox made them work in a pretty intense scene. Val comes back only to find reader brusied from the scene and obviously asks what happened and they explain, val gets angry at Vox, you decide what happens next (sorry this was so goddamm long)
I love it when people give me details!! We can make this a precursor for the confession because shortly after that, Val made Babycakes (the nickname I'm using specifically for the fav actor series) the Studios' co-owner.
Valentino had to meet up with a potential employee so he had left Vox in charge of the studio. Normally, he'd let them govern themselves for the day, but last time he left them to do that, his favorite was almost beaten. So, now Vox is the next choice. He had told the television to watch out for any suspicious activity and gave Y/n the day off, just in case.
The meeting went as planned and a contract signed. Val was in high spirits and eager to visit his favorite at their house before going to the studio to check on things. He wondered what they did on their day off. How they spend their free time, and what hobbies they have. If he knew their hobbies, he could get them better gifts. Sure the clothes and such are fine, but maybe something a little more personal to let them know he listens? He'd have to ask them.
Knocking on the little cottage like home's door, he couldn't help the butterflies that erupted in his stomach. They only worsened as he heard their footsteps. However, they were crushed by the drop of his heart when Y/n opened the door. They were covered in bruises and red marks. What?
"Babycakes! What happened? Who did this?" His upper hands went to gently cup their face while the lower ones gently took their shoulders. They flinched at the contact. His anger bubbled higher at the sight. Who dared to hurt them? He'll kill them!
"I was just in an intense scene today, that's all." They stepped back, making Val's hands fall. He followed them inside and shut the door behind him. Val noticed the slight limp to their walk and grew even more furious.
"You were supposed to have the day off." The venom in his voice didn't go unnoticed as they flinched again. He took a deep breath to try and calm himself. "Why were you working today?" They went to sit on the couch and hissed as they leaned back, lifting their right foot to rest on the coffee table to place an ice pack on their knee. It was swollen.
"Vox called me and said I needed to come in and shoot a scene because someone chickened out or whatever. So I went." They closed their eyes and rested their head against the back of the couch as Val went to sit in the armchair. He was fuming.
"So this is Vox's fault." He grit his teeth. That piece of shit. "Interesting." Their eyes opened and looked down to his hands, making his realize he was gripping the armrests with both sets of hands. He quickly released them and put all four fists into his lap.
"I mean, I guess, but isn't this the hazard of the job?" They gestured to themselves. "Besides, you two were just getting back into the swing of things, boss. You don't want to ruin what you've got, do you?"
"Y/n, believe me when I say that this is not okay. You weren't supposed to work and he made you do an intense scene, which, by the way, doesn't look like he let you prepare for at all. That's not the type of partner I want at all." He stood up and headed for the door. "You have the next two days to heal up and rest. When you get back, you're stuck doing vanilla shit until you're fully healed. Hazard pay will be added on top of your over time for this." Val left the house and went straight to the studio.
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VOX! YOU STUPID FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT! WHERE ARE YOU!" Val was pissed as he stomped down the hallway. He slammed open his office door to see the asshole in question sitting at his desk. The television looked back at him, question on his digital face.
"Easy, lovebug, what's got you hot under the collar?" He stood from the chair and went around the desk to meet face the moth fully. Val growled, stalked forward to grab Vox by the lapels and slammed the obsolete tech against the wall. "Ow! What the fuck?!"
"You asshole! You utter jackass!" Val snarled into the digital face of his off and on again lover. "You made them work! They are injured and covered in marks!" Those comments made a sinister smile creep onto Vox's screen.
"Oh, I understand now." He chuckled. This fucking shithead had the audacity to laugh at Y/n's expense! That set Val off more. "You're in love with that little whore, huh?" The comment made Val pause. What? In love with Y/n?
"What are you talking about, motherfucker?"
"You're in love with Y/n, you obviously have a soft spot for them and show favoritism in the studio. It's hilarious, really. I had to make sure, though, so I had them work with the harshest scene to see what you'd do." Vox rolled his eyes. "Like they could love you back, anyways."
"Excuse me?" Val's anger was a fire, but there was an extinguisher in the shape of hurt that was trying to douse the flames. Vox took hold of this weakness.
"I mean, you're their boss, they don't have a choice but to be nice to you and accept your gifts. You think their smiles are real? That they aren't just being nice to you out of greed? You really are stupid, Val." The moth's hands loosened and dropped Vox, who stood and brushed himself off. He made his way around the pimp and towards the door. "Oh, and by the way, we're through. For good this time." The tech left, leaving Valentino to endure the storm of his emotions in the empty room. He needed a drink.
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Can we have a mini-fic about the post you reposted please? The one about the mental connections where you tagged the Shaw siblings + their partners
This in reference to this post
It surrounds the idea of mental connections, but they're no profound thoughts. Just daily thoughts
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Shobbs
Deckard was by himself at Nowhere, calmly cleaning his own guns and knives. They had just gotten done with a mission, and he was waiting for Nobody to tell them they could go home
He was not, however, expecting his husband to nearly storm into the room
"Luke-?"
Luke looked like he was a mission of his own as he marched up to Deckard, not saying a word. Deckard gently poked at the other man's mind, and only found a strong sense of determination
Eyes growing wide at each step Luke took, Deckard felt himself tense as the larger man grew closer
And nearly jumped out of his skin when Luke stopped in front of him, and not so gently put his hands on both his cheeks
Deckard could feel Luke's large hands encasing most of his head and could only stare up at him in shock
"Deckard Shaw." Luke growled. "You're going to drive me fucking insane."
Deckard's heart raced
"Do you know how distracting it is to be fighting for your life, when all you can hear in the back of your head is the word 'chocolate'?"
Deckard blinked owlishly
"Cause it's fucking annoying." Luke glared at him, but finally released Deckard's head. "Next time, instead of spamming my head with the word chocolate, just bring some."
With that, Luke brought out three chocolate bars and shoved them into Deckard's chest
Staring down at them dumbly, Deckard could feel his face growing warmer and warmer as he watched Luke storm away, muttering under his breath
"Goddamm soulmatss and their cravings."
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Rowen
When Roman first heard Owen's thoughts in his head, he honestly thought he was listening to a radio.
Because Owen's thoughts were constant music.
It ranged from every genre you could think of, from every era of music, and left no singer behind
It had taken quite some time for Roman to get used to hearing music for most of his waking hours.
But once he did get used to it, the times he didn't hear the music was troubling. He would later find out that those times were when Owen crashed from lack of sleep and would be passed out for two days straight
However, right that second, Roman wished he could knock Owen unconscious
Roman had his head pressed against a sticky table as he tried to focus on the music in the bar and not in his head
"You ok, man?" Tej gently nudged him. "We can leave if you want."
"No." Roman sighed and lifted his head. "I'm fine."
"Yeah, you don't look fine." Tej eyed him up. "What's going on? Something to do with Owen?"
"Yeah." Roman rubbed at his temples. "He's visiting Letty right now."
"Ok, and...?"
"That means he's also visiting Dom and Baby Brian."
"Still not making a lick of sense."
"He's simultaneously trying to entertain a baby and annoy Dom."
Tej stared at him
"He won't stop singing Baby Shark."
Tej blinked
And then threw his head back, laughing his ass off
"It's not funny!" Roman snapped and glared at his friend. "He's only been singing that song for two days straight now!"
"Oh! Oh, man!" Tej tried to catch his breath, but he didn't seem to be able to stop laughing
"Fuck off, you asshole." Roman mumbled and laid his head in his arms. And heard the song repeat itself
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Rattie
Ramsey screamed as she heard bullets hit the box she was hiding behind. She slapped her hands over her ears and curled up in fear
She was going to die!
But after this, she needed to finish up the Manwell case.
Ramsey's eyes flew open
What?!
She didn't have any time to process that thought because she could feel her cover slowly being destroyed by bullets
"Hattie!" She screamed.
"On my count, run!" Hattie yelled back from somewhere above her in the warehouse
Ramsey tried to take deep breathes as she listened for Hattie's cue
"Now!"
Ramsey bolted from her hiding spot and swore she could feel the bullets whizzing by her. She was able to dive behind a concrete pillar before any of the bullets got her
But I also have to complete the joint mission I did with MI5
What the hell am I thinking, Ramsey thought. She didn't work with MI5!
And that's when it hit her
She didn't work with MI5, but Hattie did
"Are you seriously thinking about paperwork at a time like this?!" Ramsey screeched
She didn't hear a response in or outside of her head
The firefight went on, with Ramsey jumping from one hiding spot to another as she listened to Hattie systematicly take down all of the guys trying to shoot at Ramsey
Ramsey was behind a jeep this time, her head tucked between her knees and eyes clenched shut, when she felt a hand on her shoulder
She swung her arms widely and tried to keep the person away from her
"Oi! Rams, it's me!"
Ramsey stopped her little attack and panted as she took Hattie in
The other woman was cover in soot and her hair was wild. But other than that, she looked perfectly fine
"We need to get out of here!"
Ramsey nodded rapidly and let Hattie drag her to her feet
Hands entwined, they raced through the warehouse. But, as they got closer to the entrance, Ramsey could hear something
Explosions
A large force blew both Ramsey and Hattie right out the door and off their feet. Ramsey could feel Hattie wrapping her body around her, protecting her from the blast
Ramsey could only stare up at the clear, blur sky
How the hell was she alive?!
"Cause I know what I'm doing." Hattie mumbled next to her, answering her silent question
"Like hell you do!" Ramsey snapped and looked over at her girlfriend, who was laying on her front. "All you did was think of paperwork the entire time!"
"It's important."
"More important than fighting for our lives?!"
Hattie let out a huff of indignation
"We were fine. I wouldn't have let anything happen to you." Hattie said softly. "But my boss is going to be on my arse if I don't finish those reports."
Ramsey shook her head
How was this her life?
I hope you enjoyed friend!!
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[Heirship]
Part 1 of Heirship AU At this point, Ichigo is not even surprised. He’s become decisively good at just rolling with the punches. He supposes it has something to do with the amount of weird shit that just happens around him on a daily basis, his definition of normal might be a little skewed.
So a not-baby showing up at this home before class to proclaim himself Ichigo’s tutor? Fine, ok, that’s alright. Ichigo can deal with that. The whole mafia thing? That’s… a little more discouraging. But it’s also a responsibility on his mother’s side of the family and Ichigo has always been a mama’s boy.
And yet… “So let me get this straight. The old man lost his three sons and now I’m the only heir left through my mother?”
“That’s correct,” the not-baby, Reborn, says, tilting his fedora up as he takes a sip of coffee.
Well ok, then. Alright. Just another thing to deal with, Ichigo supposes. “Alright, what is this Vongola, what does it do and what is expected of me?” Never let it be said that Ichigo doesn’t take advantage of convenient sources of information. That said if he doesn’t like what he hears… Well, Ichigo is not known for being a rule follower.
In that case, he’ll change this Vongola’s path to something he can approve of. He’ll drag them behind him kicking and screaming if that is what it takes. Still… “Ugh, I can already see the piles of paperwork! Alright, come on. Let’s go see Hats-&-Clogs, we’ll need to talk training with him.”
Reborn jumps to his head but Ichigo ignores it as he makes his way to the door, after all, it’s not the weirdest thing that has ever happened to him, not even close. Besides, he’s gotten used to it thanks to Kon. This one, at least, is less whiny and annoying.
The jury is out, of course. Experience has thought Ichigo that all his teachers are crazy in some way or the other. He’s not about to bet on this one being the exception.
It’s been a while since he has taken the time to walk to the shop so he takes his time. As much as it’s more convenient to flashstep, Ichigo is not yet sure of how much of his daily life he can actually expose to Reborn. He needs to talk with Shunsui, find a way to make things work.
Normally he wouldn't bother but well… Ichigo has his responsibilities now, he's got to pretend to listen to the authorities sometimes at least.
Ichigo has his own small division to take care off, for all that it is not official. Both Shunsui and he recognize it as his, adding to that the responsibility of being a mafia boss is going to be difficult but not impossible. It is, however, going to increase the goddamm paperwork.
Biting back the sigh that wants to escape him, Ichigo opens the shop’s door and wastes no time in announcing himself. “Oi! Hat-&-Clogs! Where are you?”
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I had the most hilarious dream last night with the hellva boss crew and I was SO mad that I woke up. My favorite part was yelling "GODDAMM IT ACE!" at Ace he looked so smug. *sigh* Time to go back to reality now 😭
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Scott pilgrim vs the world
Fuck yeah babey, get ready for another shitty movie review by yours truly (spoilers, obv)
So as you can tell, I just watched SPVTW and needless to say I think its near the top of my movie list. Honestly, I mean that. I loved every part of it (besides the "it was a phase scene" because really? Cmon, fuck that) even though the whole movie felt like a fever dream.
Firstly, the whole video game style was *chefs kiss* more movies should do that, please, the last movie i saw with that was Pixels. Secondly, something I noticed was that there was barely any scene music, except for when Scott was fighting the exes and/or the band was playing, which really added to the overall "awkward" vibe of the movie (which was great, i love that, especially since Michael sera made the role even better)
CHRIS EVANS??? Why would they do that to him? That fucking beard, his voice. Didnt stop me from still loving him, but still, that was hilarious and painful all at once. As I said foe his knives out role, never thought I needed asshole Chris Evans.
BRIE LARSON??? Fuck yes, I loved Envy, she shoulda gotten so much more screentime. I actually thought that she was gonna show up with Knives at the boss fight, or just over all I thought she was gonna have a bigger part in the movie than she did.
Speaking of knives, as much as I loved her, I really wished they had made her at least 18 (I shouldn't have to explain why) because even if all she and Scott did was go to whatever music store that was and play ddr, its still weird. But her coming in in the ends and kicking ass was really cool to see. (I could probably say more about her character, but my brain go brr)
Audrey Plaza *chefs kiss*
Honestly going into it, I thought the movie was gonna make Scott out to be the "nice guy" (I think I was also expecting his role to be more like from The Social Network) but overall I did like Scott as a character, and I'm real glad that at the end he owned up about cheating on knives and Ramona, and he acknowledged that he was at fault (albeit the second time)
I loved the transitions and the general pace from scene to scene, like the breakup with Knives proceeding to Scott on the bus, and really just the videogame/ comic book style effects throughout the whole movie.
This fucking song. I love it so goddamm much, as if I needed brie Larson to remind me how gay I am.
Ramona flowers is a badass and I love her so much and I wanna hold her hand while we skate around.
Aand, I think this post has gone on long enough, there's probably so much more I can/wanna say about the movie, but really I just thought it was great, and I mean it came out in 2010 so me talking about it now really isn't anything special, but it was just a fun movie and I feel like I havent just watched a movie thats just fun and wild in a while.
#scott pilgram vs the world#scott pilgrim#movies#idk how to end these kinda posts anymore#film#film review#movie review#long post
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So...I just found something that I'd written one night at like 4am a month into lockdown.
It's pretty much a very unnecessarily angry rant.
I can probably contradict half the stuff I say in it myself. It's just...kinda rude in places and when I'm thinking straight there's some parts I don't really agree with myself. It's not aimed at anybody and I'm definitely a hypocrite but I'm gonna post it anyways so go wild I guess.
So I recently took a stroll through Stucky fanfiction on ao3. For a while there I'd been avoiding it, and I'd nearly convinced myself that my mind was exaggerating the whole bottom!Bucky/top!Steve thing but yeah, I'm not.
Normally, I'd say who tops or bottoms doesn't matter. It's pretty irrelevant. But... since the majority of the fanfictions clearly prefer to write bottom!Bucky, obviously, there is some significance. Wouldn't the proportion be more equal if it truly was irrelevant?
Besides being annoying as fuck, it's also pretty interesting I guess. I have nothing else to do so I'm going to be ranting about a lot of stuff.
So, I mostly try to look for bottom!Steve, right? Because that's what I like. I read a bottom!Steve fic, then I say, "Hmm, this author seems to like bottom!Steve, maybe they've written more?" I go check, and I find...mostly bottom!Bucky, with maybe one or two more bottom!Steve.
It's fine the first few times, but after a while it's honestly weird. Clearly, a lot of very good authors have no problem writing bottom!Steve. They just happen to write more bottom!Bucky. As far as I can tell, that's pretty much the common trend. But why? What exactly does one think while starting a new fic, going all, "Hmm...I think...this time.... we're gonna have bottom!Bucky again." Again and again and again until it's most times.
Why is bottom!Steve so fetishized? I don't mean the fics that actually have a dom/sub element. I mean just pure bottom!Steve itself. Why does it have to be some sort of rarity?
As far as I know, there's...really nothing in canon indicating who would likely top or bottom. (I mean yeah, I do believe that canon Bucky is more likely to want to dom than canon Steve, but that's different.)
So, what is it?
Sure, Steve is taller, has a deeper voice, more muscle, a beard....but those are just physical things. They don't actually have anything to do with taking or giving.
Besides, he used to be small before. Is that what this is about? Previously tiny man likes to be in control? Likes to...what? Prove he's a manlier man? Bullshit. Besides the fact that it's bullshit, it also doesn't seem to fit with canon Steve.
The "Sometimes I think you like getting punched" and the "And you've got nothing to prove" make me think that his proving himself had less to do with showing his dominance and more to do with showing his endurance. I'd say bottoming is exactly what he'd want to do.
Besides, wasn't that exactly what made his relationship with Bucky special? The fact that he didn't have to "prove himself" in any way? Bucky already knew his worth.
Is it because Steve likes to give orders? Some sort of "Oh, this guy was always meant to be the leader"? Well, there's a huge difference between being a leader, giving orders in a battlefield...and giving orders in the bedroom. And I'm pretty sure top/bottom preferences would be completely unrelated to who's the boss at work.
But nevermind that, as far as I can tell, sure Steve gives orders, but he also looks to the people he trusts for guidance. The best example is Nat. The thing that makes their friendship so goddamm precious is partly in the way he always glances at her for confirmation before making a decision. Isn't Bucky sort of like an Ultimate Nat with sex benefits?
Nevermind that too. Steve bossing people around is great, but that's not the point, is it? The point is does he enjoy it? I think, the only movie where he did look like he relished his power was TFA. I'm pretty confident that's because of the novelty of his new strength partially, and partially also because of the rush caused by his back to back successes. Why? Because he never seems to take that kind of enjoyment again. As opposed to...maybe Sam? The guy who gets his literal wings back after (presumably) years and lets out a whoop after being chased by the missile thingies. Sam's joy doesn't wear off. Steve's does.
Is it just me, or has this skew towards bottom!Bucky actually increased over the years? Why? I can say a few things on this.
First, maybe people need to remember a bit more that Sebastian Stan is not Bucky Barnes. Chris Evans is not Steve Rogers. And Steve Rogers is not Captain America.
No matter what you think about the actors, the characters they play are separate. Please.
Second, there is a very interesting theory that exists which says that the reason why Bucky is so popular in the fandom is because his character arc is relatable to women and the queer community in the fact that it's about him regaining his stolen agency. Which is true.
Does this have anything to do with him bottoming though? I mean, I don't know. Fanfictions are important because they allow us to explore ourselves, whether it's our sexuality or our trauma that we're trying to figure out. In that way, it makes sense that maybe we will tend to write Bucky as a bottom more often. Except no.
Partly because, having had bad experiences at a young age myself, and being queer myself, I do not relate to Bucky. And hypothetically speaking, I would totally bottom for Peggy or Bucky, but I would rail the absolute shit out of Steve. I canNOT be the only one.
Partly also because yeah, a lot of fanfiction is projection, which is good for the soul, both yours and mine, but not to the point where we create a fanon version of the character completely different from the canon one. Yeah, you could say that canon doesn't really give us much of a character, but clearly they give us something and we have to build up on that right? It's true for both Bucky and Steve. Bucky barely has lines, but his actions speak enough. There's an absolutely breathtaking character waiting for you in canon if you really want to look. As for Steve, let me just say, sass and the tiniest little hints of PTSD do not make a whole character. Marvel fucked it up, but this goes for the fandom too (this is keeping in mind that Steve technically has three movies dedicated to him and Bucky doesn't)
Stop treating Steve like your personal punching bag, Stucky fandom.
It does happen, if we project our bad experiences on Bucky, Steve often naturally fills the role of the clueless/mildly asshole-ish love interest. Not too much of an asshole though, clearly you love him.
That's fine. Fanfiction is about self expression, but should we lose sight of the canon characters that we loved so much in the first place? And isn't fanfiction just as much about exploring those characters, as objectively as we possibly can?
Another thing related to that...why do we only have to identify with one character? I don't know how to put this, but there's a thing called halo effect and I think that's kind of what happens (I'm not a psychologist).
You see something in Bucky. And then you start to attribute more and more things to him that may or may not actually exist. Like yeah, he's fullfilling the traditional love interest role in Steve's movies, but that doesn't automatically mean he's a bottom. The two things are... actually entirely unrelated. They're only related in your mind. And similar to that, when we see one thing in a character that we identify with, we kind of want to see even more things in them we identify with, but it doesn't have to be like that. That's not how any person works, and it's not how any fully developed character works. You can relate to both the characters in different ways, no need to dump it all in one.
Ok, another thing, that I don't like to think about but it's occured to me and I don't like it. So, Steve is generally coded as a bisexual, right? And Bucky is coded as gay. Look yourself in the eye in the mirror and think about whether you're unconsciously assuming that the bi guy isn't going to want to bottom. I'm a bisexual woman, I will top Steve. I kind of resent this.
Going off on another tangent, I have also delved into Stony on my quest for bottom!Steve. Pretty sure there's even less of that there. Why??? That's crazy.
Normally, I'm pretty sure Tony would be coded as the top. He's much older, richer. He clearly has control issues. That's one of his defining features. Control. (I don't mean that in a bad way.) So....what exactly do Bucky and Tony have in common besides dark hair and short hight? The only thing I could come up with was thotiness. They're both shown as Thots. Is that it? The Thot Bottoms? Ok.
Is it the whole energy thing? "Bucky has bottom energy"? Does he? Can you argue with me if I say that TFA Steve has bratty bottom energy? That TFA Bucky goes from service top energy to mean top energy? Pretty sure that's subjective. But what exactly are we seeing differently here? I'm honestly asking.
Bucky's character is ridiculously strong, stronger than Steve in some ways (besides probably physically). Specifically, it's because of his ability to not only survive, but heal. Can we acknowledge how crazy that is? He's just fucking buying plums, but that's still more than we've ever seen Steve do. You can say his trauma is greater, but it looks like his coping ability is greater too. So is that what this is? Steve doesn't cope. Instead he focuses on external things like being Cap, Hydra, Bucky. I wouldn't call that a healthy way of living...but it's romantic, right? Neglecting to take care of yourself? No, actually avoiding taking care of yourself by focusing entirely on another person? Is that it? We're romanticizing unhealthy behaviour?
Is it because you feel more for Bucky, wearing his hurt on his sleave, versus Steve who wears it hidden under his skin?
Am I allowed to believe that Steve's ultimate shield isn't the vibranium one, but Captain America himself?
That's just me getting off track and mildly pissy but the point stands. We like seeing Steve in control. He wears it well. He's good at it. But that's just not that relevant. You don't just boss poeple around in the bedroom because you're good at it, you have to want it too. Would he want it? Is a commanding voice really an indicator of a person's desire to command? Can we really say because he's usually the one giving orders (because that's his actual job), that he likes it too? Does he look like he especially likes it? No.
I've been around fandoms long enough to know that all fandoms always have a preference regarding who ultimately tops or bottoms. This isn't the first time it's bugged me, but it feels more this time because I just don't see it. And it makes me angry because it contradicts what I feel, are the best parts of the characters. No, Bucky bottoming isn't the contradiction..but all this that I wrote, the connotations of this kind of coding, the underlying thoughts.... some of it is just not nice, but some of it opposes the little things that humanize these characters. It wouldn't matter, except that it wouldn't have happened at all if it didn't matter.
It's not just what happens to them in canon that matters so much. It's also what they choose to do for themselves when they have the chance. It feels like they made their choices and half the fandom ignored it. "Nah man, you'll look better at the bottom. Look at that hair."
Because ultimately, that's what it feels like to me. A mixture of not thinking too much about it (though I know this post probably counts as overthinking), some wierd internalised heteronormativity, and I don't know what just kind of fucks with all of us. All I know is that I hate it. I hate it.
It's not the bottom!Bucky I hate, it's the underlying, unthinking assumptions. The way it's a foregone conclusion. It's not. I really just want to be able to read the goddamn fanfictions again without wanting to tear my skin off.
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Old RPs... just sharing bc it was so much fun......!!!!
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Edward didn't really know if he had a home. Rather, he couldn't, like a tack to a map, pin it down to a single definitive location. Home when he was younger could be sorted like that, but now home was in familiar faces, namely his brother and they'd been apart for a while after going their separate ways.
So if felt like a homecoming when the train pulled into Central rather than his hometown where he was raised. It had been a while, Edward didn't know whether to be disappointed or pleased that a lot of the landmarks looked the same. That Bastard was Führer now and didn't take advantage of remodeling power?
His first stop of course, was Mustang's Headquarters. He couldn't barge in like he used to when he worked for him so that took the whole fun out of things.
It was stuffy.
People's heads turned (as they did when one was an Elric) as he strode into the building. He might as well have owned the goddamm place.
People who weren't transferred and had worked with Ed before smiled and went up to greet him. Stating facts of how much he's grown, both physically and maturity.
Roy was hiding behind his desk with mountains of paperwork and wasn't it shocking to find that he was actually -doing- work. Starting a revolution was easy, becoming Fuhrer wasn't necessarily difficult either (after all, he was the youngest to ever become Fuhrer), however, raising a new nation wasn't as simple as he thought. His ideals didn't manifest as easily as he'd hoped or dreamed. In fact, it was damn near impossible. "The fuck was I thinking anyway?" He mumbled to himself as his fountain pen scribbled across the paper in front of him. The Fuhrer let out a sigh and continued his work, not knowing of the commotion outside his office.
Havoc, now colonel, had just returned from lunch break catching Eds golden hair from afar. He'd recognize that shade anywhere. "Boss!!" He called, even though Ed was no longer his boss, Havic never dropped the title.
The greetings from people who'd worked with him weren't unwelcome, but Ed wished they'd go back to doing what they were doing. Especially when they began touching the topic of his height. He maintained that he'd been perfectly average sized his whole life.
"Doesn't bother me anymore..." He told himself through his teeth in a vicious mutter when he heard the familiar call of his old nickname and the accompanying smell of an ashytray. He squinted at Jean Havoc.
"It really is you... What the hell... " He asked stunned and taken off guard,"You're old."
Well, he meant older, emphasis on the er, not so much old. He didn't think Havoc was old at all realistically. He was just exaggerating to tease.
"If I'm old, the colo-... Fuhrer is ancient!!" He growled. Even knowing Ed liked to teased him, Havoc was still a bit miffed. "So you gonna see him next?"
Ed smirked at him. He liked to think of it as Karma in a way for all his own shortcomings.
At the mention of Mustang, Ed's smirk widened.
"No shit he's ancient. And yeah that was the plan... see him and then see if Alphonse is in town. Is Mustang in right now or are you his new receptionist?" He asked Havoc, knowing very well that he wasn't a receptionist or anything of the sort,"So I can leave a message."
"Ahh... You haven't seen his new secretary." Havoc grinned. "I swear, he sure has it good." The man looked off into the distance a bit and sighed. "She's stunning -and- well endowed." He smirked and winked at the same time. "She's not here today though, and with what was left for him to do by Hawkeye, I doubt he'd hear you so just go right in. I'm sure he won't scorch if it's you.”
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He was so used to having Ed barged into his office in the years they worked together that it took him some time to get used to the fact that Ed wasnt in town any more; and if he was, he wouldn't be bothered to stop by --there wasn't a need to.
Nevertheless, Every now and then Roy would hear a metal clank and look up briefly expecting to see head of gold and an irate glare from the same golden eyes, only to be disappointed. It was more frequent at first when Ed left Central, but it's been years now that, it's only happen very occasionally.
‘I wonder what he's up to these days?’ he thought.
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detective au & awful first meeting
louis has been working with the LA police department for almost a year now, and, believe him, he loves the job, but the fact that he sleeps less than 40 hours a week? not so fun. things have been especially awful since liam, his former partner, had been transfered to seattle. louis has been feeling overworked and underpaid. one monday, he receives a call at 5 am (figures) about a double homicide. when he gets to the address they sent him, he’s met with this one long haired, weird dude poking around & messing up with louis’ goddamm crime scene. louis’ sleep deprivation takes the best of him and he goes off. he has no patience to listen to what this dude has to say for himself -- for god’s sake the guy takes five minutes to articulate a sentence. disturbing forensic evidence is a crime and louis has had enough. he takes the guy in custody (the dude’s weirdly smug smirk is doing nothing to diminish louis’ irritation) and, when they get to the police station, the captain (aka louis’ boss) is like ‘just what the hell do u think ur doing, tomlinson? this is special agent styles, ur new partner’. at louis’ startled face, harry is like ‘i’m sure we can try this handcuff thing again under different circumstances’
send me 2 fic tropes and i’ll tell you how i’d combine them in the same story
#au trope meme#ur the real mvp for indulging me with these ily thank u#i'm working on the other one fjsdfhjksd
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