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#THE GANG'S ALL HERE#im lying. wheres kagami LMAOOO#my art#birds of a feather#feralnette au#forgot felix's earrings. rip.#for context sabine regrets how she handled lila's bullshit#but without lila's guardian present she didn't want to push it#now she thinks its That specific moment that caused a rift between her and her daughter#I PROMISE LUKA ISNT A FLYING MONKEY EITHER#he did the right thing interfering#but marinette doesnt like having the narrative taken from her#comes from being framed by a serial liar#sabine dupain cheng#marinette dupain cheng#luka couffaine#nino lahiffe#adrien agreste#marinette dupain cheng?#alya cesaire
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ngl throwing danny phantom, a facsimile of the hero genre and practically a mockery of a coming of age story, at dc, one of the paragons of superhero stories that, while admittedly could be better written at times and is constantly retconning due to it’s dated past, is still a highly complex and admirable story, is goddamn hilarious. I’ll be the first to admit that i haven’t seen canon for either of them, but may the Fool help me, it is fucking hilarious that these two sides of the same coin are actually just a coin mint error where both sides are actually just the same person different portrait.
#randomartmaker rambles#look batman and superman are objectively coming of age stories#superman especially since his beginning comes with the fact that he’s trying to figure iut how to handle his identity in a world that would#isolate him for it#and batman is a coming of age in it’s ideas of responsibility grief and childhood; whether or not batman himself is ‘coming of age’#alternatively; danny ohantom reflects dc’s past in athrowing deus ex machinas everywhere#also in throwing the themes of child death; abuse both familial and institutional; loss of childhood; dp transcends it’s ‘cartoon’ base#they’re both things that people treat like ‘oh that’s childish; why are you consuming something with a shallow message’ but clearly they#never saw it the same way y’all did#anyway i hope i got this shit mildly accurate considering i’d like to reiterate i never saw canon#i’ve acquired free time so i might binge dp eventually and attempt to begin the comics but i’m also a chronic liar to myself#dpxdc#dcxdp
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Lyra, Asriel and Marisa + Calling each other out on their lies
#lyra belacqua#marisa coulter#asriel belacqua#chaos family#truly#his dark materials#hdm#hdm edit#its kinda funny how they're all doing the same thing#they all lie but none can handle being lied to oh well#Asriel's the worst at it though#hes calling himself out on his own lies lol#he's just trying to keep up with the two experts 😂#the lying theme is much more clear in the books#its ultimately what saves them all#new headcanon is masriel naming lyra lyra cause it sounds like liar and them having a running joke about it#this is an ugly edit sorry#mine
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Bill Burr saying “ladies you’re 0-2 against this guy” referring to Trump is gross and unfunny for a number of reasons but mainly because he’s doing what a lot of men are evidently doing, and choosing to see reproductive freedom as a women’s issue, as opposed to an economic issue, a family issue, a healthcare issue that will impact everyone. I get that he’s trying to make light of a bad situation and he is anti-Trump, not trying to cancel the guy, because who cares, but just… do better?
#seth meyers remains the only comedian who knows how to handle talking about trump#tell it is like it is: he’s a weak weird sad old liar who’s trying to stay out of jail and succeeded bc he’s propped up by right wing media#SNL is very hit or miss these days but they don’t Get It a lot of the time#mine#tbd
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#this is why we can't have nice things#woke is wonderful#lies and the lying liars who tell them#fight the patriarchy#smash the patriarchy#empathy education#teaching empathy#empathy#this is what you’re actually doing#this is why we need feminism#femisnism#feminism is for everyone#feminism is not just about women#why is rape treated as trivial?#rape should be unthinkable#rape enablers#rape#rape awareness#rapeawareness#rapevictim#rapesurvivor#rape is always violence#look how you handled that
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me when i write a character who is prone to dooming themself and then they run off and doom themself. core traits are stubbornness and a willingness to disregard their own humanity gET BACK HERE IM NOT DONE WITH YOU
#rambling#surprisingly this is not about jakob.. im just really consistent about my favorite character archetypes 😭😭#WARNING THE NOTES ON THIS ARE REALLY LONG I STARTED RAMBLING#“ouhh i have a headache i'll just lie down and rotate my blorbos in no general direction for a while until it goes away” and then boom.#serious plot considerations. 2 questions answered 24million new questions raised. this is specifically Not what i asked for.#so now im sitting here STILL dizzy running mental calculations on how i can get this bitch out of peril without reworking everything#but they literally keep dying in every timeline 😭😭 every single plausible road leads to them running off and screwing themself over#“character who doesn't realize they want to live until it's way too late to look back” VS#“character who is forced to live and handle the things they never though they'd survive long enough to deal with” FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT.#fucking hell i have never had this much trouble writing a character as i have with them#they genuinely do just run off and do shit without my permission and then i have to pace for an hour or two wondering#“ok they wOULD do that. but should they. do i feel like i can confidently write that.”#im like constantly in this tug of war trying to get them to CHILL#but also they are absolutely my favorite character from the entire project. but like. FUCK GET BACK HERE#is death the most satisfying end to this arc? is someone who was Set on dying then NOT dying the most satisfying end to the arc?#how many bridges can you burn until you irreparably set yourself aflame too?#would ghost or revival plotline work?? would it make sense with the worldbuilding??#do i just Like Them enough to want them to not die?? where do i draw the line between personal bias and a good arc?#is death not feeling as impactful as survival solely because i've been writing for so long that it's lost the initial impact?#and other such plot considerations...#im gonna have such an easy time writing another character though 😭😭 because THAT character's dynamic in the second act#is to stare at character 1 and be like “why are you like this. i mean i know Why but can you chill. please.” and like damn bro me too#actually wait no i think kaey.a is the hardest character i've ever written i take it back#had to worry about his 20million facades AND his Actual feelings AND canon compliance. shit is hard#i still havent finished the k/aeya fic i started back when the chasm first released which is uhh. two years ago. oops.#i think i struggle writing emotionally repressed liars i think thats what this is 😭😭 anyways.#(voice of guy who has been obsessed with nonlinear narratives and tragedies for several years):#“is it too much to kill this character in a nonlinear exploration game with tragic elements”#like bitch what are you talking about 😭😭 YOU'RE the target audience here figure it out#sorry the notes on this are just my writing journal now apparently
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hi!! 😊 i liked that christian was a major red herring. it was nice to be validated even though i was expecting it. i like christian but i think he is a little too similar to tabby to be interesting as a love interest. they are the male and female versions of each other 🤣
johnny deserved better. although i think he was a little too understanding with imogen at times, he knew she was going through it and i respect him for that. the way she demanded to see his texts and look at his search history was such a red flag. of course i get it in this context but irl that would not be okay. maybe imogen need to be single for a while.
i don’t like jen. i will never like jen. she’s manipulative and a liar. i will never excuse how she deflected and made noa the bad guy in the conversation where noa attempted to confront her about robbing shawn’s house. how their shippers ignore that problematic behavior is beyond me. i’m sad that she will be in season 3. at least i’m not alone in this as i’ve seen a lot of people complaining about this ship in the pll original sin instagram comments. i hope the writers hear our complaints. it has made noa my least favorite liar when i used to love her.
Hi! I agree!
You are so right about Christian! I should have trusted my 2x01/2x02 gut that he was a red herring, but then I got so suspicious of the fact that no one was suspicious of him when they obviously should be. jksdhfksdf. I'm still baffled by how Tabby didn't think to put either Wes or Christian on their original suspect list, considering their love of horror and the masks stuff, but I'm just gonna have to learn to accept that. I'm glad Christian was good too, though. I never wanted him to be bad, just was very suspicious he might be. They definitely gave him some dialogue that pointed his way. But he was a good red herring! He worked until the finale when they started getting suspicious and then I knew it wasn't him.
I have said it once and I will say it again, Johnny is quite literally the chillest dude on the planet (😂 this will never stop being funny to me, I am sorry). I'm also glad that he's not bad because I think he's an enjoyable addition to the cast and I hope he is in next season (again, assuming they get a next season) because we still know almost nothing about him, so they could do a lot of fun things with his character. But I do think Imogen needs to take some time, regardless of the Johnny stuff (I mean, he really should NOT want to date her ever again because she nearly killed him??) because this was a mess. I also think all the girls (but particularly Imogen and Tabby) do still need mental healthcare, but obviously not with Dr. Sullivan.
Aaaaahhh, the Jen stuff. I just kept thinking there was going to be some sort of reveal/resolution that made the Jen stuff feel like it worked in the season and had a reason to be there. I had so many possible scenarios I was willing to accept. and yet, they managed to find one which was none of them??? I can't believe I sat through so much love triangle crap for literally no payout. I hate love triangles and the only redeeming quality is that they usually have a big blowout scene when it all comes out, but they didn't even give us that???? It will be interesting (assuming they get a season 3) to see if they respond to the criticism like they did with the Ezra thing, because a lot of people feel Noa's carelessness about the situation (and she was super, super manipulative towards Shawn throughout this, as well) ruined her character for them. Now, I think it's fine to tear a character down and need to build them back up, and I think it's good to see the Liars engage in flawed behavior, the problem I have here is... they (the show) have given no indication that they think they actually DID tear Noa's character down? Like, I am sorry, but her behavior was flat out cruel and she felt a tiny bit bad about it for like 2 seconds and faced absolutely 0 consequences, and that, not that she made some terrible decisions, is the real problem here. It's not "tearing a character down to build them back up" or even "giving a character flaws" if those things are never acknowledged as flaws and terrible behavior in the first place? Ugh. There was just so much potential with this storyline (literally so much!) and they just threw it all straight in the trash.
#ask#answered#anon#pll#pll summer school#pretty little liars#pretty little liars summer school#pll spoilers#pretty little liars spoilers#pretty little liars summer school spoilers#pll summer school spoilers#anti jen fox#anti noa olivar#anti noa x jen#<<again this is really just me talking about how i feel there were many better ways to handle this#I am not anti either of these characters in theory#I am anti 'this is what you gave us with no payout and no acknowledgement of several key things?'#but i like to use anti tags so people can filter stuff as they like
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Roleplay Request
Hello!
⸺❀ What am I looking for?
A long term partner.
A person who is mostly active.(at least a few replies per day).
A person who is willing to communicate with me most of the time when something is wrong.I don’t like to wait for days for a reply or to be ghosted with no reason at all.
A person who can write long/medium detailed replies.
A person who can write novella style (not necessarily.)
A person that likes to chat so we can create beautiful stories/plots together.
A person who is over 18+.I don’t role play with minors.
⸺ ❀ What do I like?
I love drama and a lot of smut.
I love to do doubles.(I have only one condition : At first I like to do a rp 1x1 to see if we click as rp partners).
I love to use gifs and photos for the character outfit, places, facial expression etc.
I like to use only cannon characters.It’s okay if you use an OC ,I really have to like that OC if we are going to do smut.
Dark themes ( violence, drugs, alcohol )
Daily replies ( I am most active at the night but I will always let you know when I will be busy so you will not wait for me.)
I like my roleplay to be realistic and accurate.Exception : if we do a supernatural rp then I am okay with everything.
I am mostly do mxm but I can do all the others.Mxf.Fxf.
⸺ ❀ What do I dislike?
Being ghosted.
Waiting for hours for a reply.(If you let me know that you are going to be busy I will not have a problem with that.Everyone has a life beside rp).
To be controlled.(I can accept some suggestions for my character but don’t control it too much.)
One liners.
⸺ ❀ A bit about myself
I am a G ,27.
I am very flexible and active most of the time.
I am very open minded so if you have any kinks do you want to try I would love that.
I write in first ,but I don’t mind if you do it in 3rd.I am semi lit to advance.My writing is more novella style.
English is not my mother language so probably sometimes I will make mistakes and if I don’t know a term,I will ask you.
I am open to discuss any kinds of plots and ideas that you have.
I like to communicate when something is wrong and to give each other feedback.
About likes ,dislikes, triggers we can discuss more in private.
I roleplay from 10 years now (on and off).
⸺ ❀ My main characters :
- Louis Tomlinson ( 1D).
Miley Cyrus.
Nina Dobrev.
Jake Falahee.
Harry Styles.
Aaron Piper + (many more that I never played before but I can try.)
⸺ ❀ My main fandoms. :
One Direction.
The vampire diaries.
Gossip girl.
You.
The originals.
Elite.
Too hot to handle.
Good girls.
How to get away with murder.
13 reasons why.
Euphoria.
Baby.
Pretty Little Liars.
Sex life.
Alice in borderland.
+ many more.(If you have a fandom/tv series/movies that is not here then it’s not a problem.If I seen it we can give it a try.)
⸺ ❀ Feel free to contact me on
Discord : louisboobear#0581
Telegram : Louisboobear
#roleplay#rp#rpf rp#one direction rp#vampire diaries rp#gossip girl rp#you rp#the originals rp#elite rp#too hot to handle rp#good girls rp#how to get away with murder rp#13 reasons why rp#euphoria rp#baby rp#pretty little liars rp#sex life rp#alice in borderland rp
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i have a lot of thoughts for far cry 6 (especially now that im replaying as male dani for my 2nd run) but every time i write them they always go incoherent real quick with my grievances for the game :/ maybe i'll just make a really generic list of stuff i noticed like how i did with fc4 because i still want to talk about the non-existent details i've pried with my bare hands as i do with all far cry games. but hmu if anyone wants to hear me rant about the whole thing 👉👈
#my biggest grievance with this game is the size of the map and how they handled dani's relationship with everyone#it felt empty because it IS empty#dani's a great protag cursed to live with people who dont care about them#far cry#far cry 6#some details include dark rituals easter eggs and dani being a fucken liar and bembe being bembe
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tw ; heavy mentions of abuse and slight mentions of alcoholism.
AI HOSHINO AND HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER MOTHER ;
ai hoshino never knew her father and only ever lived with her mother - this is a fact - it is also a fact that ai's mother was a thief and went to jail because of it, that she beat up ai, and that she tried to make her eat glass in her white rice.
her relationship with her mother was likely never, ever positive in the slightest. she looked at her mother as a person that she lived with and nothing more. there was no love, there was no joy. all there ever was was pain. we know that ai's education was on the lower side, so i suspect that her mother was not taking her to school, and didn't really care if she even got an education.
one of her first memories of her mother was when she tugged her by her jacket, ushering her to beg for money on the streets of japan. she was a small child, only barely old enough to walk on her own two feet. steps were still wobbly, she was shaky. her mother gave her lines to rehearse... ❝ if you say it like this then mommy will be able to get us dinner, okay ai ?? ❞
she smiled at her daughter, but there was nothing but a look of malice in her eyes. the child gives her lines as rehearsed to a few people, but then she fumbles her lines. the passerbys catch on.
her mother takes her anger out on her when they get back to the house. a tiny, tiny two bedroom apartment. littered with trash and smelled of grime. flies swarmed over piles of trash that were long discarded.
ai cries herself to sleep in her ( mainly empty ) bedroom that night.
her mother tells her she doesn't need her to come with her on the streets anymore, tells her that if she can't say what she needs to then she's useless.
ai didn't really want to do it anyway, so she'd take being useless over being a thief and a scammer.
once she's old enough to enter school, she wakes up in the wee hours of the morning, walking herself to school by herself before the sun comes up, and then she walks back home when it ends.
her mother isn't around as much, and the child prefers it that way. when she comes home she sounds weird, loopy... but she's even madder than usual.
ai quickly learns that she needs to lock herself in her room before she hears her mother trying to unlock the front door in a drunken stupor.
her mother gets arrested when she's eight years old, she doesn't think she can forget the way the service worker spoke to her ; a cold voice ❝ your mommy's going to be going away for awhile, so you're being taken someplace else. ❞
anywhere was better than here.
once her mothers sentence is served ai learns that she's been abandoned by her mother - and she spends the next few years at the children's home until scouted out by ichigo saitou, and becomes her de-facto guardian.
it isn't until b-komachi gained popularity again that ai's mother contacted her again. it was a single letter out of a large stack that the production company gathered for her that night.
the look of horror on her eyes when she read the words.
hi sweetie, its mommy !! so you're an idol now ?? i'm so proud of you, my sweet darling daughter... what do you say we meet up for lunch some time, catch up on the years gone by ?? i never meant to leave you at that children's home, you know. oh, and do you think you can spot mommy some cash ?? some things came up.... you know i love you so much, right... ai ??
liar.
her mother was a filthy liar, and it was blatant.
ai approaches the director, letter in hand and tells him ❝ director, could you make sure whoever sent this letter isn't allowed at another one of b-komachi's shows again ?? ❞ he tells her he'll try, but he can't guarantee it.
❝ if this woman is at another one of our shows i'll terminate my contract and work with another company instead. ❞
she's serious about this.
the next night is spent looking over security footage into the wee hours of the morning, and ai points out her mother in the crowd. she tears the letter to shreds and finally feels a moment of relief. with that taken care of, she wouldn't need to worry about her mother any more for the rest of her life...
#【♥】 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒏𝒔 ; a secret just for me.#tw ; abuse mentions#{ the only things we KNOW ai's mom did to her is that she hid glass in ai's white rice and that ai got physically beat up by her mom }#{ this is merely my thoughts on everything that may have happened prior to her mom getting arrested and how her life Was. }#{ so i wanted to give a more in depth discussion about what led her to be this way based on what all we do know. }#{ her life was really bad she was treated like shit by her mom and the system... didn't do her justice }#{ her abuse is what shaped her character it's what led to her becoming a people hating liar. it's not something that can really be ignored#when thinking about her character either. her past is imperative to the person she became as an idol and entertainer. }#{ thank you for reading if you did i understand why someone may not want to with as heavy a topic as it is. }#{ as someone that has endured forms of abuse in my own life i know it's so so important to handle topics like these with care. }#long post //
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He won't leave my fucking friends alone.
#tales from diana#sorry this is about that bad friend i have to break up w that ive posted abt on and off the past couple weeks/months maybe#i still have to send him that final 'i dont wanna speak to you ever again'#ive been fucking busy ok. my summer has been full of family events and obligations#i have one brother getting married and the other having a baby!!! i have a LIFE and SHIT TO DO and PPL TO BE THERE FOR other than YOU!!!#i havent spoken to him in over 2 months too and he knows it's bc i don't want to#he's so difficult bc you can't fucking tell him the truth. you can't!!! he can't handle it!!! do you know how hard it is to handle???#the things i have to do to cut him off. because he doesn't respect normal fucking boundaries. make ME feel like im in the wrong#like im the shady person and the liar.#i can't drift from him bc hell pull me back#i can't communicate w him bc he won't hear anything i have to say he'll just turn it around & make it abt himself.#he literally does not understand ppl having motivations to do things that don't relate to him#and he has no sympathy for what he does to other ppl. nothing but self-pity for how they don't like him anymore.#if he dealt w someone who put him through half of what he put ME through. no he couldn't actually.#i only allowed him to manipulate me for so long because i cared abt him. who i thought he was.#and he just point blank period doesn't care about other ppl. so he could never go through what ive gone through w him.#i feel like all this friend breakup has proven to me is that im actually a good person and it can be used against me by ppl who arent#some fucking lesson i needed to learn huh?#i hate feeling as negatively towards anyone as i do towards him. it's so hard for me not to have at least#a little spark of hope deep down for everyone. even ppl ive removed from my life before. i dont HATE them#theyve disappointed me or insulted me or mistreated me but at least their motivations seemed simple and clear#and MOST of them seemed to understand SOMEWHAT that they were in the wrong#even if they don't admit it to me or still find an excuse to hate me. whatever#i can see them as ppl who might feel remorse someday and grow from it#i do not see it in this guy. bc if you have a problem w him he'll only make it 20 times worse.#he's so selfish it genuinely baffles me to think about it. and he's one of the least honest ppl ive ever known.#he'll never see the error of his ways. i do not believe he has that capacity.#and will i say none of this to him? no#im just going to say thanks for leaving me alone these past couple months. it's been good for me.#i don't think i can continue our friendship anymore for my own sake.
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yknow realizing my family was super fucking mean to me for no reason before i turned 18
#no cause. why did my parents threaten to beat me for having a low C almost D/ any missing assignments. but now whenever my mother finds out#about it she like. actually asks if i'm doing alright and not yelling at me to turn them in (she still wants me to do good but like. there'#no more threats?) i mean my bio dad might still do that but i don't tell him anything about my classes anymore#AND ALSO HOW I USED TO BE PICKED ON BY MY BIO DAD AND MY GRANDPARENTS WHEN IWAS YOUNGER FOR HAVING TEXTURE ISSUES BUT NOW THEY'RE LIKE#“oh yea i can't eat this food because i just don't like it” AND UNDERSTAND ME WHEN I SAY I CAN'T EAT CERTAIN THINGS.#i just GAHHHHHHH WHAT THE FUCK#i still remember when my mom and bio dad thought i was lying to them about losing my glasses when i was FUCKING 9-10. they thought i#hid/threw them out!!! and when i found them like a few years later because they were in a spot in my bag young me never really used#MY MOTHER STILL THOUGHT I PUT THEM THERE ON PURPOSE. THIS WAS YEARS AGO BUT I'M STILL MAD ABOUT IT#I HAVE BEEN TREATED LIKE A LIAR ABOUT THINGS FOR SO LONG TO THE POINT THAT I CAN'T HANDLE JOKES ABOUT LYING AND ALSO GET SCARED THAT#I'M NOT BEING TRUTHFUL EVEN IF I AM!!!#anyways :D#i'll probably delete this later idk i feel bad right now
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"The person responded that it is true that Xianzhou people like large and strong pets, but there are also those who love petite and delicate ones. Now that he saw the sparkle in my eyes, he expected that I must be the latter"
#This man is one of those big guys with a kitten or a chihuahua‚ isn't he?#He is actually adorable and it makes the pictures of him softly handling birds while he looks at them with extreme tenderness gain layers#I love that he had read about the grimalkin in old texts‚ so appropriate. And that he was suspicious of the scam‚ so fitting#I found very cute that he made a comment about it not being an invasive species#But I adore that he couldn't turn down the offer 'after petting those tender little paws'. Truly this man is adorable haha#He called it 'Mimi' because he expected it to be cute and tiny and he got himself a lion this man is absurd and adorable I can't xD#And I love how he is not fazed by much including public opinion. How he says to Fu Xuan that about him facing the consequences as a joke#but perhaps with some truth and how he says here 'Qingzu was worried that could be bad for me‚ but I didn't think too much of it#and told her not to worry. In my opinion‚ «The Glutton General» sounds more impressive than «The Dozing General»'#Oh I love him so hahaha#However everything is cancelled. Not Jing Yuan‚ Blade‚ Fu Xuan‚ Sampo or Jingliu. My favourite character is Qingzu. We stan a funny liar#The reference to Doraemon got me lol#I can't stop thinking about Jing Yuan holding Yanqing with such tenderness in the context of these lines#And the birds. And the Yanqing—birds... parallelism? which I love. What a soft lovely man he is haha#Truly they did his character a disservice with the imposing general voice in the English dub#It's almost worth playing in Chinese for that alone#Jing Yuan#I talk too much#I can't believe he got scammed into buying a lion because he thought he was buying something small#He truly is one of those extremely stupid highly intelligent people‚ eh?#I couldn't love him more haha I find him so funny and endearing#He seems to have stopped because the cat was small and cute and he thought no one was going to buy it at first too?#He is really adorable and I can't stop thinking about Yanqing in this context
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“Cassandra Clare, best know for writing The Mortal Instruments”
To you, maybe. To me she is forever a trigger word for memories of one of the Great Fanfiction Plagiarism Controversies of my time
#she’s a liar and a plagiarizer and I had enjoyed the fic until I learned how much of it was stolen#then her absolute ego about it made her a little abhorrent#I’ll never read her books because of how she handled it#(and because I then read she had similar plagiarism accusations with the books too and handle it the same way)#(she has not grown as a person apparently)
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Yay, prompts! 💜 Number 21, for your worst liar OC and their LI? :3
21. "You're a terrible liar" for Cullen and Elowen (who is by far the worst liar of all my OCs). Thank you for the prompt!!!
Falsehoods
“I told you I’m fine,” the Inquisitor said from the other side of the door.
Cullen narrowed his eyes at it, his arms crossed.
“You did.”
“And it wasn’t even that bad. It just sounded bad because I’m…tired. That’s all.”
“Of course.”
A long, long pause. Cullen waited, peering at the door jamb and the smear of blood across the handle.
“I do…I do need…maybe just a little help.”
Her voice was defeated, but Cullen’s shoulders loosened in relief. They’d been on the road for a full hour after the skirmish. In that time, she’d said nothing about the wound taken across her back. They only knew anything had happened at all because she’d nearly fainted off her horse as they’d neared this town. Elowen had taken the proffered potion, had consented to share a saddle with Cullen so he could keep her upright, but when they’d actually reached the inn she’d turned stubborn.
He supposed that his own stubbornness had, at last, paid off.
“I’m coming in,” he told her, further smearing the blood on the handle when he pushed the door open.
“It’s really not that bad,” she went on from behind the dressing screen, the words belied by the hiss she made a moment later, “It—it looks worse than it is, really.”
“You are a terrible liar,” he began, and stepped round the screen.
The red templar she’d faced had wielded long, bladelike protrusions of red lyrium from its wrists. Cullen had seen it from a distance, too busy hacking at a behemoth on the other side of the clearing to offer her any aid. It had disappeared and reappeared over and over, and only the barrier she’d called up over her skin had prevented it from skewering her. At last, she’d called her spirit blade into existence and cleaved it in two, her form near-perfect, the move she’d used one that Cullen had taught her himself. He’d resolved to show his appreciation later, but he hadn’t realized—
Of course her opponent had scored its blows, and its blades had cut deep. Her back was in ribbons, despite the freshly-healed state of some of the wounds—owing, he was sure, to the healing potion Dorian had badgered her into drinking.
“It’s worse than it looks,” she said again, but when she tried to turn and look at him she winced and faced the dressing table instead, “When I pulled off the tunic, it opened the wounds up again. That’s all. It’s—”
“Stop,” Cullen said quietly, and shed his gloves, “You don’t need to persuade me that you’re alright. I can see that you aren’t. Just—please. Let me help.”
Elowen pressed a hand to her face and nodded silently.
Cullen shed the rest of his armor onto a settee near the door, then returned to the supplies on the dressing table. There would be no getting around hurting her more in this; the goal was to minimize pain, not avoid it entirely.
“This will sting,” he murmured.
“I know,” she said, and her hands curled tightly around each other when he began to dab at the drying blood on her back.
In a sense, she was right—it did look worse initially than it did after he cleaned it up. That it still looked awful afterward was…well. That was for both of them to bear in silence.
“How are you doing?” he asked after wringing the cloth out in the basin for the last time. She just shook her head, looking away from him.
Maker, he hated this; he understood now why she’d been so upset at the Temple of Dumat. It was harder to see her hurt than it was to bear it himself.
“Look at me,” he said, crouching beside her and setting one hand over hers, joined into one fist. She did at last, sniffing slightly, and he saw that her eyes were red-rimmed.
“We’re almost done,” he said, “I am sorry.”
“Don’t,” she sucked in a breath, “Don’t apologize. You’re helping me even though it’s—I’m a fool. I should’ve told someone, done more than take the edge off. I should’ve—”
“Shh,” he said, and rose slightly to kiss her damp cheek, “I think you must be in enough pain already. You don’t need to add more.”
Elowen nodded once, jerkily, and leaned forward to press her forehead to his.
“I’m sorry I didn’t say anything.”
“You don’t need to apologize to me.”
“I’m sorry I lied.”
“Well,” Cullen said, “Fortunately for both of us, lying is one skill you have not yet mastered.”
Lavellan laughed, an uneven laugh, but lifted her head and pressed her lips to his forehead.
“You should finish with the bandages,” she told him, uncurling her hands to take his in between them, “I can take it.”
“I know,” he said, and bent to press his lips to the knuckles of her hand, each kiss as full of the gentleness he wished he could offer her wounds, “Tell me if it hurts too much. Alright?”
“Yes,” Elowen said, and let go of his hands, “I will.”
“You promise?” he asked.
“I promise.”
#elowen lavellan#cullen rutherford#cullen x lavellan#cullen x inquisitor#cullavellan#hurt/comfort#dai#my writing#she should be a better liar considering she does this literally all the time#alas she is not#dorian is begrudgingly in charge of making sure she doesn't accidentally die of blood loss because she didn't want to bother anyone#just chucks a health potion at her after every fight#he's also the one who told her 'for the love of the andraste's hairy toes learn how to handle yourself in close combat or stay out of it!'#and he was right and she did#learn i mean she's like fundamentally incapable of staying out of it#shivunin scrivening
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