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lightofraye · 4 months ago

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The Reasons I'm Anti-Danneel (Redone)

I've decided to redo the original post, largely as most of it was heavily drawn/copy-pasted from @taraslittlecorner (now defunct/deactivated) and was not a good fit for me. Listing receipts/evidence of why I feel this way should be calmer, with citations, proof as much as possible.

Here’s a caveat: This is my belief. This is my stance. I am not here to shove this into anyone else’s face and go “You should not be a Danneel fan!” I'm not demanding everyone believe me. This is me explaining why I am not a fan of hers, as to why I dislike her. No, I do not “hate” her. No, I am not obligated to respect her or like her just because she’s Jensen’s wife. That’s absurd.

Whenever possible, I will provide citation. Some I am unable to, because they have been deleted from the internet and unfortunately, the Wayback Machine (aka the Internet Archive) did not archive it and no one else screenshotted/linked the evidence. I will try to keep that as minimal as possible.

I'm placing a content/trigger warning, as there may be descriptions of abuse to follow. If description of abuse bothers you, even emotional abuse, I advise you to skip.

I'll add a cut here because it's going to get long!

**Disclaimer** This are observations and opinions of what I’ve seen, as well as what others have seen on social media, in interviews, etc. Each relationship is different, and each domestic abuse case can vary in degrees of abuse, usually over time, but not always. These are just some of the things we can see publicly, and if things are shown publicly, it’s a safe bet there’s worse happening behind closed doors. I’m not a medical professional nor expert, again, these are opinions and observations. If you suspect someone you love is in an abusive relationship, please contact the proper outlets for battered women and men in your area.

Now to begin.

1. Fat Shaming Him

Jensen eating gummy bears. This post was made as a public stab at Jensen for the amount of gummy bears he was eating. It was a stab at not only his eating habits/weight, but it was also a stab at him being greedy or gluttonous.

Jensen on the carousel. Another stab at Jensen about his weight.

1A. The End Result Of Fat Shaming:

There was this. Yes, it was probably around the time he was training for the marathon with Jared, but this was a scary weight drop. Especially as marathons and running require you to really increase your caloric intake to keep your weight and energy up. On the heels of the public fat-shaming, this is rather shocking.

Dated: January 17, 2018.

Ignoring Danneel's claim of "marathon body", he did look skinny. You can compare how Jensen looked at the beginning of Supernatural to later seasons and there's a distinct difference. He's skinnier. Skinny does not always equate healthy, especially if it's muscle loss.

Unfortunately, other photos are in evidence of the massive weight loss.

This Tumblr post shows him still rather skinny during an event at FBBC.

Every time Jensen has to quarantine with her he starts to look like death warmed over, weight drop, sickly looking skin color, (which is also a sign of malnutrition), and that dead look we can’t get seem to forget. Then we get him back to work, and it’s almost an immediate improvement.

2. Unexplained Injury: There is the chunk that’s missing out of his nose now because of a nose injury that kept being explained in different instances at the same event as to how he even got it. It first appeared a day after the FBBC family reunion event that took place in May of 2018 in a post made by Danneel of Jensen playing with the kids, and people thought it was just a breathe right strip.

If you look closely, you can even see that his eyes looked to be blacked, as if he’d somehow broken his nose. Once he got to an event for Danneel’s Limbo Jewelry line launch in NYC, he kept changing the story as to how he got said injury. First he told fans that he’d hurt it by hitting a pool wall while playing with his kids. Then he said he’d dropped a keg on it. Well, if you’ve ever worked for a bar or been around kegs you know those things are heavy, and that story is untrue.

Had Danneel been walking around with an unknown injury and her story kept changing, it would have gotten attention. Men… not so much, and it shows.

3. Public Humiliation: There’s this Valentine’s Day post. Imagine reading that post, seeing your spouse mention their “first” love and then jokingly say you’re the second and “more important” love. Especially on the heels of Jensen’s fairly recent share at a convention of how “he’ll do” as her “second choice”. Your spouse should’ve been your first and only choice!

Posting him in his underwear just to garner some attention to her post. Honestly, it's pathetic, and adds to the narcissistic sociopath mentality assessment. What was the post about? To sell beer outside of Texas. But using Jensen to do it? Really, Danneel? God.

Then there's the photo of him in the bathroom. Some say he was a willing participant in the joke. I say "That doesn't matter." It's gross, crude, classless. It demonstrates how selfish she is.

I absolutely have a sense of humor. However, a joke only works if everyone is laughing.

Then there's this Jared photo. While not related to Jensen, it demonstrates just how much she doesn't care about people. She stated that she lied to Jared, that she deleted it, and then posted it anyway. How much you wanna bet that this was one of many reasons Jared and Genevieve pulled back from the Ackles? Because Danneel does not respect the Padaleckis, and Jensen cannot get Danneel to actually behave like a human being.

There's the whole AD House Tour. The whole video, she’s taking swipes at Jensen left and right. Claiming he didn't help in changing the kids’ diapers, to not cleaning the house at all, to not cooking at all.

Time stamp 0:58: The way Jensen hastily goes "not swing", to this day, honestly makes me wonder. Especially about that orgy rumor tweet....

Time stamp 1:14: Implying Jensen would be against flowers because it'd be "too girly", but then claiming he loved it. This makes me wonder. You'll see why later on in this post.

Time stamp 2:10: How is it Jensen didn't know that was the sex plant of a palm until then? Did he know nothing about that house??

Time stamp 3:11: Claiming it was Jensen’s first time in the kitchen, which literally doesn't make sense. Unless he'd been barred from the kitchen, surely he'd been in there to grab a beer, a snack, something for the kids. By saying this, she's implying that he uses her as a servant to get him everything. (I’m intrigued by Jensen's statement about the stove/oven, and how it was “so unnecessary”. He's been overruled.)

Time stamp 4:00: Jensen is very, very shocked that the chair moves. How is he that surprised by a moving chair? Does he not live there?! With kids, stuff would move!

Time stamp 5:39: Again, implying Jensen never helps out with the kids, the diapers. Uh, Danneel, neither do you. You have nannies.

Time stamp 6:04: She says it’s “ridiculous” he’s doing a marathon? It’s for charity, Danneel! So much for being a caring, compassionate person.

Time stamp 6:39: Jensen has to go to the guest room when he comes home late at night? Does Danneel not want to greet her husband lovingly, regardless of how late it is? She prioritizes sleep over him? Ooookay.

Time stamp: 6:58: Persistently tortures Jensen with the creepy doll. She knows it bothers him, yet keeps it around and keeps torturing him with it. Yeah, cool, that’s love, folks!

Time stamp 9:04: States rather publicly that he never cleaned the bathrooms. Danneel, honey, I’m fairly certain you don’t either—you have maids.

Time stamp 9:20: Embarrasses Jensen with the “where the magic happens” statement about the master suite. Jensen asked for it to not be included. Oh look. It's included. Overruled him again. He never has his way, does he, Danneel?

Time stamp 9:46: Of course Danneel doesn’t care that Jensen doesn’t like the big window and how people might be able to look in when they’re in the bathroom. She loves the attention and loves bragging about the man she trapped in marriage, no matter how uncomfortable it makes him. So considerate.

Time stamp 11:41: Puts Jensen down by saying she’s a little bit neater than him. Then puts him down again by saying he had help on cleaning up his side. Do you ever praise your husband, woman??

Yet, she praised him here, about how he’s been pitching in with mopping, preparing FBBC. Liar, liar, pants on fire at this point.

The FBBC interview. Let's not kid ourselves. That interview was bad. The interviewer didn't really do a good job, but it revealed a lot about the dynamic between Danneel and Jensen. At one point, Danneel claimed Jensen didn’t smell good, and he tried to excuse it because he was mopping (wait, I thought he didn't do any cleaning, Danneel??). Then she was like “Oh yeah he did so...” Then she made that horrible joke about being pregnant and Jensen actually gagged. Yes, he tried to play it off as a joke, but the look on his face was not that of a man who was happy to hear his wife was pregnant again. (Not to mention, you should never make such jokes because it’s such a heavily sensitive topic. Jokes only work if everyone laughs.) All of it was meant to humiliate and put Jensen down for the work he did in making FBBC a reality. There’s also the part where they were asked if they were tired of each other. Jensen was quick to say “Yes”.

Then there's Wales Comic Con. She made up the fib about auditioning for every single Supernatural female role, claimed she tried to use knowing/being with Jensen as a way in (that's called nepotism, dear), and all of that was... a lie. Then she tried to claim credit for helping Jensen drop the Dean voice while humiliating him about it. (He actually tried to defend himself by saying that was his voice.) The whole panel was humiliation after another. I detailed it in this post.

Not to mention her saying Jensen wasn't anything like David Spade and said “no, but you'll do”. Wow. Way to put your husband down and say he’s second best (again). Good lord.

Yet, she also said this:

Either he helps or he doesn’t, Danneel. Which is it?

4. Controlling. This part. I've gotten push back on this. “She doesn't work, she stays home all the time, how could she possibly control Jensen??”

By controlling his social media, and had been for years. No doubt this is largely to keep the facade of “happily married couple”, with her making posts on his Instagram in honor of her, praising her, and so forth. It’s also a way of monitoring his interactions with others, particularly women, and to keep track of who he’s been in touch with.

Indeed, I suspect up until Danneel’s birthday post this year, any comments, posts, that praised her were all Danneel, not Jensen.

Access to one’s cellphone, email address, and other social media is almost as good as attaching a GPS onto a person. If she accessed his cloud, she can access everything from text messages he’s sent to his most recent emails to his employers.

I have some proof but it will take time to document all of them.

There’s also this post, showing the difference between Danneel and Jensen.

There are also indications, histories, of Danneel signing fan autographs that said something along the lines of “hands off bitches, he’s mine”.

Jealous much, Ms. Graul?

It doesn't come across to me as "adorable" or "mischievous". It comes across to me as an insecure woman who knows her hold is tenuous at best.

But then she has a history of being controlling and jealous everywhere. Such as here and here.

She also insisted on him going out and looking for work all the time. Even after him wanting to reconnect with the family after the end of Supernatural. He suggested a three month trip around Europe, for the family.

Her response?

Then there were the recent cons where he mentioned it again, where Danneel is pushing him to go work, work, work. He’s never allowed to be home, to be a father, to be a husband. A loving marriage? I don't think so.

To be continued in Part Two.

#anti danneel #anti elta #anti danneel ackles

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delight-angelsbliss · 2 months ago

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Hiii!!! Your ADHD post was perfect, thank you so much! I have the inattentive type as well, but I got really good at masking it/forcing myself to focus in some school classes lol (that is, if I had some sliver of interest in that class haha) I have another one, if it's ok :3

Could you maybe do shadow and sonic with a reader that is just absolutely terrible at getting proper sleep (4-3 hours 😭) who usually just can't sleep or is up doing something? Maybe hyper focused on a task? The amount of caffeine I have to consume in the morning is probably unhealthy 💀

Hope things are going great for you!

Precis: Shadow + sonic with an insomniac!Reader

Warning: side effects of no sleep and too much caffeine, no fender specified

Notes: I remember as a child (5) I would always stay awake longer to practice for ballet that I've been doing since I was 3 but I was taken out of gymnastics and ballet cuz of health issues:(( I love this blinkie too much please never leave me. I keep thinking of my step sisters and I can't stop crying knowing my dad is probably doing something to them the same way he did to me and it's eating at my heart tbh I could barely focus on writing

Sonic

We all know Sonic has massive amounts of energy, seemingly never running out of it. He isn't really a night owl type of guy, nor does he ever want to be, but when he met you, that changed. You were the complete opposite of him, always tired, staying up late, always drinking coffee etc. He didn't mind at first, but your unhealthy habits scared him greatly; you crashing out in the middle of the day was the thing that scared him the most, the way your energy turned down so fast was enough to get Sonic on the internet to try and fine some kind of help for you. He knew there were many healthy ways to get you to follow a routine. Sonic tried giving you melatonin, it worked for a few months, but it strung you out fast and you needed more to be able to sleep properly, he tried getting you some tea, but those smelled and tasted to bad you'd puke it all up.

It felt hopeless, but he didn't wanna give up helping you. You meant too much to him, you were such a nice person, yet you had the worst problems. He didn't understand it, but that didn't stop him from helping you. "Hey! [Name], let's go for a race! Whoever loses has to buy us a chili dog" he'd try to tire you out, cut your screen time and do as much as he possibly can to help you sleep. It broke sonics heart to see you so tired and strung out all day, he doesn't want to intrude too much, but he'd do anything to see you in a happy state. Besides all the chaos, Sonic doesn't mind your attitude much. He finds it kind of funny when he sees you almost falling asleep on your desk while studying.

Overall, Sonic doesn't mind it too much but he still worries daily about you, about your health. No matter what, he'll stay by your side though. He finds it fun to stay with you during the day, your calm demeanor (maybe a side effect) is like a refreshment for him, but the sudden mood swings and headaches you complain about will always bring his worry back to bloom all over again

Shadow

Shadow is also a night owl! The sun is too blinding for his brooding behavior, he'd rather watch it fall and the moon come up to greet his cold demeanor once more. He's the ultimate lifeform so he doesn't need sleep that bad, but since you're a mortal you obviously need sleep. He finds this out a few weeks into your relationship (platonic or romantic) Since he's so stubborn, he gives you an ultimatum: "It's either you sleep or you sleep on the couch" that worked for a day or two, but your bad sleeping habits, caffeine addiction, etc. Would always lull you back into staying awake doing whatever you wanted, it was your alone time. He wouldn't take that away, Shadow understands what it's like wanting to have some alone time... But he still knew how harmful this was for you

Shadow started switching your coffee with decaffeinated alternatives. The first few nights were the most rough, your body was still getting used to and adjusting to this new schedule, which helped greatly! Instead of trying to use medicines or tiring you out, Shadow tries discrete methods and ways to get you to practice better habits. Shadow knows he might not be the best for this, but he will still try and help you nonetheless. Shadow does know that you don't exactly enjoy all of this frustration from your lack of sleep, but he's baffled to know that you don't actively try to find some solutions, he doesn't mean it in a bad way... At the same time it feels like he does get angry, not at you, but your lack of motivation to help yourself. The way you continually have to go take naps just not to pass out

Shadow doesn't believe in naps, he sees them as the average way to ruin your sleep schedule. When he sees how many small naps you take just to function, it makes him worried knowing you're so tired all the time. He sees the way you strain yourself everyday, every passing second of the day. Shadow tries his best to help you, he really does. Shadow isn't the best at communication, so he doesn't see that as an option. That won't stop him from helping a loved one, Shadow isn't a very open person, but his past trauma makes his overbearing nature show easily. If overbearing helps you sleep easy, he'll stay that way

#x reader #sonic x reader #x gender neutral reader #x gn reader #sonic the hedgehog x reader #sonic reader insert #shadow the hedgehog x reader #shadow x reader #fluff headcanons #fluff #headcanons #hcs #shadow the ultimate lifeform #sonic the hedgehog #🦢﹒⁺﹒◍﹒ Rita's works ꒷ ₊ ˚

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penkura · 5 months ago

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Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Summary: Straw Hat Christmas parties are always large events, but you wish Sanji would stop and join you all for more than a few minutes at a time.

Note: Just another with a small moment in it, I couldn't help myself but to do it with Sanji. :)

You’ve known from the start that when the Straw Hats party, they party and it’s always a big event, no matter what the reason for it. It’s a given that whatever you might be partying about, there’s going to be copious amounts of food and drink, all prepared by your crew’s amazing chef.

It seems like Sanji never gets to take a break, you’ve always hated that part about these parties, despite loving his food. You wish he’d take a break, join you all out on the deck for more than a few minutes at a time, only to hurry back to the kitchen for whatever he was cooking. You hated watching him start to relax only to be dragged back in there, even if the kitchen was almost a safe haven for Sanji, he deserved to take a proper break like the rest of you.

It’s not even that Luffy has asked for more food in the last hour, there’s plenty made, but Sanji knows your captain will be asking for more later, he’s trying to keep ahead and it’s leaving him without a moment to breathe anymore.

You hate watching him do this to himself, overworking even when he should be taking a break. When you see Sanji go back into the kitchen, after leaving for not even five minutes, you huff and lean against Nami, making her raise an eyebrow at you.

“What’s gotten to you?”

You nod your head towards the kitchen and she knows what you’re saying without a word, Nami sighs and shakes her head.

“Ever the one serve without a break…maybe he’d come relax for a while if you talked to him.

“Why would he listen to me? I think you’d be the better option, Nami.”

Nami rolls her eyes, pushing you off her lightly and towards the kitchen.

“No, definitely you. Go get him out here already!”

You’re confused but do as Nami says, heading for the kitchen with every intention of bringing Sanji back out on deck with you. You have a slight idea that Nami knows something you don’t, or she’s seen how Sanji seems to go with you no matter what you’re doing or where you’re going, though you don’t think there’s anything more there.

You slip into the kitchen easily, Sanji normal leaves the door unlocked when he’s working in there anyway, especially if you, Nami, or Robin need anything. When you get in there you smile to yourself seeing Sanji is relaxing a bit, he’s taken a break probably while something is in the oven, sitting the table with his head in his arms on the table, like he’s trying to fall asleep. You’ve caught Sanji sleeping like this before late in the evenings after dinner, always deciding to surprise him by wrapping your arms around his shoulders from behind and convincing him to go on to bed. Of course it’s how you decide to try and get him to join the rest of you, he’s not even surprised when you do it, Sanji’s so used to you coming to get him at anytime of day now.

“Sanji, come take a break with us! You’ve been doing too much for this party.”

“I will,” Sanji sighs and pats one of your hands, making you frown when he goes to get up again, “I just want—”

“No, now, Sanji,” you grab his hand to keep him from going back to the oven, causing him to give you a confused look, “Please. You deserve to take some time off just like the rest of us…things can wait until later.”

Sanji knows that you’re right, he gets that, and he wants to keep working so all of you had enough to eat and drink. He’s aware that it’s not exactly a healthy work ethic, but it’s all he’s ever known. He’d rather have everything ready before he takes a break, even with you giving him the look that always makes him give into what you want.

“Its fine, you know…I don’t mind working if it means you all get to relax.”

“But everyone wants you out there already!”

“Everyone, huh?”

“Hmm,” pretending to think, you glance away briefly as Sanji laughs a bit with a nod. “Maybe Zoro doesn’t care, but…I want you to come join us already…”

There’s just a moment before Sanji sighs with a nod, you grinning as he turns around to turn the oven off, removing whatever was in it and taking off his apron. You give him a tight hug when he comes over to you, Sanji kisses the top of your head in return before pulling away and taking your hands.

“Well, let’s go back to everyone then, yeah?”

“Yeah, let’s do that!”

#one piece x reader #reader insert #fem!reader #sanji x reader #black leg sanji x reader

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ghostofbambifanfiction · 1 month ago

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Scrap Writing

Found this fic that I started YEARS ago. More of it was written than I expected. Not sure if I should make something of it. Thoughts?

It took four months to delete his number.

Another week to rid her phone of all his texts.

Chucking her other mementos proved a bit more difficult—that was her stuff, she liked her stuff—but in the end she managed.

There was something so freeing in that approach, all things considered. It was drastic and it was warned against and it made her really sad, purging it all, but she was firm in her convictions. She'd done the research, Marie Kondoed her way to acceptance, detoxed her feelings and all of that shit. Lily figured it was something that she could look back on with pride one day, knowing that she'd handled the thing like an adult. That she'd been healthy. Self-actualised. Or something like it.

It had to hurt at first, was all. That was how she knew it was worth it.

What had she said goodbye to that was worth crying over, really? There had been sullen looks and muttered asides, confusion and dejection and an utter waste of too many hours spent wondering what the hell it was that she had done so wrong, and then there was nothing, and then that was it. A stranger in the place of someone who mattered. It was like he'd woken up one day and decided that he simply fucking despised her, but wouldn't tell her why. Wasn't bothered. When he was supposed to be her best friend.

Whatever. She didn't care.

She wasn't the one who started it.

His mum kept asking him why they'd fallen out.

Even three years later. Even then.

She'd ask at random moments, too, tossing the subject into conversations like a stealth bomb dropped from her fist, apropos of nothing that was going on around them at the time. It never worked and never would, and yet she kept on trying all the same. It was like she thought he'd tell her the truth if she could only surprise it out of him. She was wasting her time, and his time alongside it.

It wasn't as if he was furrowing secrets away, James just couldn't tell her why. He didn't know why himself.

Lily had cared about him at some point, he had to suppose. Must have liked him even a little, before everything he did and said and maybe even thought had started to drive her up the wall, before he clearly wasn't good enough for her majesty any longer, before she froze him out and couldn't be arsed explaining, left him with nothing but a folder on his desktop that he'd marked "SCHOOL" so no one would find it.

He'd tried deleting the pictures inside, but that was ultimately pointless. He could help most things but he couldn't quite help that, couldn't stop his mind from going there when his body needed...well.

It didn't matter anyway. He didn't miss her.

Not in a proper way, not for a while.

He wasn't the one who started it.

Private WhatsApp Chat

Resumed on: Monday 12th April, 2021, 8:05 a.m.

Members: Beatrice Booth, Lily Evans

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Beatrice Booth: Can we go to Hot Numbers before school PLEASE my dad used up ALL of the bagels we had left to make himself lunch for his trip the bastard I mean I love my dad but who the fuck needs three bagels for lunch What am I supposed to do, eat fruit?

Lily Evans: I can't! I'm sorry! I was supposed to finish my gov and politics questions last night but I babysat Noah and he was sick all over himself in bed and stayed up crying the rest of the night, so I have to get in early and finish them in the common room first thing. I'm literally about to leave the house.

Beatrice Booth: When do you have gov and politics

Lily Evans: At 2, but I've got a haircut booked during lunch hour so they have to get done before then.

Beatrice Booth: Just do them during study period

Lily Evans: I can't, study period's off, we've got that life skills thing all week.

Beatrice Booth: Oh fuccccccckkkkk that

Lily Evans: I KNOW

Beatrice Booth: We don't even need a life skills course it's so pointless My dad has life skills and it doesn't stop him from stealing the fucking bagels every morning, why isn't McGonagall up HIS arse

Lily Evans: Because life skills aren't manners babe, soz.

Beatrice Booth: Fine I'll go alone Want me to get you some pancakes?

Lily Evans: Nah it's fine, I had porridge and blueberries after my swim.

Beatrice Booth: The way you're so sensible it's vile

Lily Evans: Cool! Thanks!

Sirius Black thrust his hand into the air and didn't wait for McGonagall to give him permission to speak.

"I should be exempt from this," he announced.

Their teacher turned her gaze, sharp-eyed and perceptive, towards his face. "And why is that?"

A brief silence followed as the two adversaries sized each other up across the classroom, and the other students, perhaps, took a moment to do the same. McGonagall was a tall, stately woman of unquestionable intelligence and authority, who could have won awards for the neatness of her chignon, held herself with perfect posture and always smelled faintly of ginger. Black was a pretentious, twiggy-legged poseur who (when he wasn't partnering a duo of morons alongside their token sensible friend) liked to rock a deep necked V and rant passionately about protests that he always seemed too lazy to attend.

He also loved to interrupt classes in a pathetic ploy for attention.

Him and Potter both. Like bloody clockwork.

In the opinion of Lily Evans, at least, the winner of this bout was clearly predetermined.

"Because," said Black. His sullen tone suggested that he still believed he posed a challenge. "I'm aromantic."

"And?"

"And I'm not ever going to get married, am I?" He let his arm flop down by his side and pouted, very prettily, as he was often wont to do. "And I definitely don't want any kids."

For the first time, Lily noticed that he was growing a faint, skinny, bottom-fluff goatee beneath his nose and on his chin.

Bloody prat thought he was Something.

But so many people fancied him. Why? She really didn't know.

"Then this course will likely only strengthen your resolve to refrain from reproducing, for which you will surely be grateful, but in the meantime you'll find that even the aromantics among us need to learn how to manage their bills," replied McGonagall, supremely unconcerned and almost breezy in her swift repudiation. She plucked a small strip of paper from the pestle on her desk and gave it a passing glance before she dropped it on the table. "You're paired with Pettigrew. Go and sit at his desk."

A gentle ripple of giggles moved through the room, and from her vantage point at the whiteboard, where she'd been forced to stand when Remus Lupin was moved into her seat, Lily saw Peter Pettigrew's cheeks burn puce.

"You're putting me with Peter?!" Black spat, disgusted, as if Peter wasn't one of his closest mates.

"Yes, I am. Aren't you lucky that you'll share this experience with a friend?" McGonagall was already on the next strip of paper. She sounded bored. "Stebbins, you'll be paired with—"

"Do I have to move now?"

"—you'll be paired with Marks," McGonagall finished. Valerie Turpin, girlfriend of Stebbins, glared daggers at poor Isabella Marks, who sank down in her seat like she wanted the ground to consume her. "Yes, Black, get up and move."

Black grunted his displeasure, but kicked his school bag backwards and rose gracefully to his feet, muttering curse words at a volume that he clearly meant for McGonagall to hear, and Lily barely refrained from rolling her eyes at his performance.

Potter was sitting beside him, and watched him leave their shared desk with a pained, dramatic grimace, but then, Potter was so obsessed with Sirius that he'd recently convinced his aging parents to adopt him. When Potter had been her best mate, he'd rearranged her crayons in the wrong order and sniffed her arse in the playground, pronouncing it "weird." Sirius Black got his own bedroom and an inheritance.

Then again, she'd sniffed his arse too.

Also, they'd only been five.

And pretending to be dogs.

Also, she really didn't give a shit about Potter or his friends.

Luckily for Lily, her taste in people had markedly improved since the bum-sniffing days of her childhood, which was more than could be said for Pettigrew, whose hands were clenched around his empty Fanta bottle. His round face was screwed up in a sort of silent fury.

In fact, almost everyone in the room seemed to be battling a scowl, except for Beatrice—her newer, shinier, better best friend—who was lounging backwards in her chair, long legs crossed at the ankle and smiling winningly at Remus Lupin, who was perched awkwardly in Lily's chair beside her. Bea was partnered up with Evan McNamee initially, but she managed to turn the tables by announcing that McNamee had recently sent her pictures of his dick on Snapchat, just as McGonagall was drawing a name out of the pestle for Remus. It was a perfectly executed plan: Beatrice used the truth to her advantage in a manner that would have made Machieavelli proud, while McNamee was sent to the back of the classroom—and partnered with Terry Heaney—in utter disgrace.

"Pinkstone," their teacher continued. "You're with Patel."

Black, meanwhile, deflated into the chair next to Pettigrew and elbowed him hard in the ribs.

Potter twisted around in his seat to mutter words of encouragement to Sirius, no doubt plagued by instant separation anxiety.

Isabella Marks was sinking closer and closer to the floor.

Everyone was reacting ridiculously to this course, Lily concluded. They were being split into pairs of "spouses" to learn about budgets and meal planning for a week, that was all, but her peers were moving between desks like they were being marched off to an eternal winter of strife. They weren't being forced to kiss and hold hands, weren't being indoctrinated into an organ-harvesting cult, this wasn't Riverdale, for Christ's sake, and Lily couldn't think of a reason why she should bitch and moan about it. Not unless she was unfortunate enough to be paired with some clown who intended to doss around and contribute nothing to the project, which would massively piss her off. Someone like Black, she supposed, or like—

"Potter?" McGonagall's clear, clipped voice finished Lily's thought for her.

James Potter whipped around in his seat with an ungainly clatter. "Yeah?"

"You're with Evans," McGonagall finished, waving her strip of paper in the air.

Potter's thick, dark eyebrows shot up in a flash, and Lily sensed, rather than saw, her best friend stifle a laugh.

Well, fuck it all, she thought.

"So do you want my number or something?" Evans asked him.

It was weird.

The offer came out of nowhere. One minute she was staring straight ahead, pretending he didn't exist as she normally did, and the next, McGonagall had finished her briefing and Evans was swivelling towards James in her seat, fixing him with a stony stare that appealed just as much as it annoyed him. She sounded antsy about offering up her number, unhappy, like she could feel a bug crawling around on the back of her neck and was fighting with all she had in her to remain there, stiff and composed and determined to be the bigger, better person in all of this.

Typical Evans.

Always had to one-up everyone.

She'd been a laugh, once upon a time, before a wicked spell turned her into an anal-retentive maiden aunt who thought that everything he'd ever said or done was stupid and pointless, not to mention the worst choice of partner that he could possibly have been saddled with for this project. He was essentially in for a week of watching her roll her eyes at his every unworthy suggestion.

Yet James had wanked over a picture of her merely six, no, seven hours earlier.

Weird might have been an understatement.

"Eh," he said. He'd never gotten round to deleting her number, though it was plain from her tone that she'd deleted his. "I'll just give you mine."

She unlocked her phone with a swipe of her thumb and held it out, letting it slide to the table from her outstretched palm like water.

"Put it in yourself, if you like," she advised, turning to face the front of the room.

Her lack of regard for him could not have been more pointed and James nearly said something about it—whatever he had done to piss her off, she didn't have to be so fucking rude—but her phone was likely to lock itself again at any second, and she had an uncanny ability to incite a nagging guilt in his stomach just by looking in his direction.

Even though he was certain, fairly certain, that he hadn't done anything wrong.

Except for the periodic wanking, but she didn't know about that. If he happened to feel ashamed of himself when the time came to clean up his mess, that stayed between James and his laptop.

Stewing in his own resentment, he picked up her phone, opened her contacts and created a new entry.

"I'll text you later and we can sort out how we're doing this," she told him when he handed it back, studying the mock budget printout that had been given to them as part of their life skills pack. Their homework for the evening was to find a place to "live" and agree on their own budget based on their monthly salaries. McGonagall was moving about the room, holding out career cards for students to pick from her hand at random. "We can't do it at school, I'm crazy busy all day."

"Fine," he said. It came out sounding like a retort. "I've got nothing after school on Mondays."

"Fine."

That made her glance up from her printout, her pretty emerald greens flicking directly to his face, lips briefly pursed in disapproval.

"Really?" she asked him, setting her paper down on the desk. "Can we please just not?"

She had a little colour in her freckled cheeks, a rosy sort of pink, chin tilted up as if in challenge, dark red hair framing her face in soft and silky waves. The deceptively delicate face of a terrifying, iron-willed woman. It always made James shrink a little, when she looked at him like that, like she was calling him on some bullshit that was bouncing around in his head. Evans was magnetic in a way that he had given up trying to get past.

His bullshit wasn't for her to call him on, though. He wouldn't give her the satisfaction.

"Can we just not what?" he replied, smiling without teeth.

"Spend the week acting like passive-aggressive pricks?"

"You'd rather be straight-up aggressive?"

"Ooh, good one," she said, aridly dismissive. "Congrats on discovering humour."

"One of us had to discover it first."

He could almost see the cogs turning in her brain while she considered whatever retort had popped into her head—Evans was never lost for words when James most needed her to flounder—but she must have felt it beneath her because it didn't make it out of her mouth. Instead, she eased a breath in through her nose, released it and calmly returned to her printout—a move that, despite her silence, succeeded in making him feel about as embarrassed and insignificant as a toddler who had shit his pants in public.

Which might actually have been the retort she wanted, now that he thought of it.

It was the longest conversation he had shared with her in three years.

Private WhatsApp Chat

Started on: Monday 12th April, 2021, 4:34 p.m.

Members: Lily Evans, James Potter

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Lily Evans: So how are we doing this, then? Should you come over here or should I go over there or what?

James Potter: oh right

Lily Evans: This is Lily, by the way.

James Potter: yeah hi this is james which you know obviously because i gave you my number and you're texting me now

Lily Evans: Super great start to this marriage, isn't it?

James Potter: dunno what you mean clearly i'm thrilled about this

Lily Evans: Yeah I'm soooo incredibly excited for the high octane thrills of real estate and budget spreadsheets.

James Potter: i'll have you know that i love making spreadsheets in excel or its bastard brother, google sheets

Lily Evans: Erm. Okay? Can we figure out where one of us is going now?

James Potter: do you want to come over here? i told mum and she says she'll order us pizza if you haven't eaten

Lily Evans: Sure. I haven't eaten since noon so I could go for a pizza.

James Potter: cool pepperoni and mushroom alright?

Lily Evans: Yeah. I just have to finish my chores first so I can be there at 5:30 if that's okay?

James Potter: yeah that's fine, i'll ask mum to order it at quarter past you know we moved house, right?

Lily Evans: Yes I do, where am I going?

James Potter: do you know how to get to bentley road?

Lily Evans: Yeah, I'm a 20 minute walk away.

James Potter: right, so my house is a bit hard to find if you don't know it if you walk round i'll meet you on the corner across from the golf course

Lily Evans: Cool. See you in a bit.

James Potter: see you in a bit

Private WhatsApp Chat

Resumed on: Monday 12th April, 2021, 4:41 p.m.

Members: Remus Lupin, James Potter

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James Potter: i'm a fucking CLOWN

Remus Lupin: Yes, I know.

James Potter: you KNOW?

Remus Lupin: You didn't?

James Potter: no but listen i don't have time for this i've done something bad something

Remus Lupin: Done what?

James Potter: told a stupid lie

Remus Lupin: ?

James Potter: look never mind what it was all i need is for you to teach me the full functionality of microsoft excel in the next half hour

Remus Lupin: No.

James Potter: ffs remus WHY ARE WE EVEN FRIENDS

Private WhatsApp Chat

Resumed on: Monday 12th April, 2021, 7:22 p.m.

Members: Beatrice Booth, Lily Evans

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Lily Evans: Potter has a SWIMMING POOL in his new house?! A fucking swimming pool! His mum gave me the tour and she was like "And this is the pool" like she was showing me her new plant or something, like a swimming pool is just a normal thing for someone to have chilling in their conservatory IN ENGLAND?

Beatrice Booth: Omg Like a proper swimming pool? Not an inflatable one?

Lily Evans: A PROPER SWIMMING POOL SET INTO THE GROUND WITH LADDERS AND A DEEP END AND A GIANT INFLATABLE RODEO BULL FLOATING IN THE MIDDLE LIKE IT'S PART OF THE FUCKING FAMILY

Beatrice Booth: OMG But how sexy is the pool Olympic size or smaller?

Lily Evans: It's VERY BIG And they have a hot tub A HOT TUB

Beatrice Booth: OMG ask to use it seduce him for lols

Lily Evans: NO

Beatrice Booth: WHY NOT? Oh, right, because the bull might be watching

Lily Evans: What is WRONG with you? Honestly.

Beatrice Booth: You and Potter are married now, you are basically as much a part of his family as the inflatable rodeo bull so I don't see the problem in you using the hot tub and more importantly in ME using it also

Lily Evans: It's Graham, and you are obviously deluded.

Beatrice Booth: Who the fuck is Graham

Lily Evans: Graham is the bull.

Beatrice Booth: Graham is INFLATABLE

Lily Evans: I'm putting my phone down now.

Beatrice Booth: Ask him if I can use the hot tub!

Lily Evans: NO

Beatrice Booth: FFS Lily WHY ARE WE EVEN FRIENDS

EVANS-POTTER HOUSEHOLD BUDGET

Combined Monthly Income (NET): £3087

Rent: £1500 Council Tax: £186.64 (Band D)

TV/Internet: £86.99 (Virgin Media, Broadband and Television package) TV Licence: £13.37

Water: £33 (Approx - Anglian Water Usage Calculator) Electricity/Gas: £82 (Ovo Green Tariff)

Groceries: £300 Groceries (for James's cat): £80

Student Loans: £0.00 (income threshold not high enough)

Car Payments: £112.93 (2015 Citeron C1 Flair - Marshall Car Centre) Car Insurance: £30.93 Car Tax: £0.00 (included in dealership cost) Petrol: Max £60 (fuel cost calculator)

Netflix: £13.99 Amazon Prime: £7.99 Gym: £60 (x2 PureGym memberships)

Device Cost: £40.68 (x2 iPhone 11) Tariff Cost: £80.78 (x2 O2 tariffs)

Savings: £300

Total Projected Cost: £2989.30 Projected Balance: £87.70

Tuesday

Private WhatsApp Chat

Resumed on: Tuesday 13th April, 2021, 8:20 a.m.

Members: Lily Evans, James Potter

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Lily Evans: Hey. Morning. Listen I just can't get over the cat groceries thing. I think we should change it before we hand it in to McGonagall, she's going to think we're taking the piss.

James Potter: oh THIS again

Lily Evans: It's just such an unnecessary amount of money to spend on cat food.

James Potter: AND cat litter too you forgot cat litter so we can't spend £50 a month on the cat but £60 for the gym is ok?

Lily Evans: You're the one who was all, well if you're going to the gym I'M going to the gym.

James Potter: couples are SUPPOSED to do things together evans it's a cornerstone of every good marriage and is it SO hard to believe that i too like to keep fit?

Lily Evans: Obviously it isn't, you goon. And quite frankly, the only reason he's eating Purina One is because you're GIVING him Purina One in the misguided belief that he won't degrade himself by eating anything else.

James Potter: algernon wants the best

Lily Evans: "Most expensive" does not necessarily mean "best" when you're buying groceries.

James Potter: so you're saying you'd drink supermarket brand cola instead of real coke?

Lily Evans: Of course I bloody wouldn't I don't hate myself.

James Potter: well then!

Lily Evans: We're not even going to be able to get Purina One in Aldi.

James Potter: so we'll stop in waitrose after

Lily Evans: WAITROSE

James Potter: what's wrong with waitrose???

Lily Evans: We have £75 FOR THE WEEK

James Potter: plus £20 for the cat what's the issue i have never been to an aldi you know sounds like an adventure

Lily Evans: I have to get to school, we can discuss it in life skills.

James Potter: oh that's right! do what you always do when we argue! the old "i have to get to school" excuse again!

Lily Evans: LOL I'll see you later

James Potter: yeah see you later mate

Private WhatsApp Chat

Resumed on: Tuesday 13th April, 2021, 8:27 a.m.

Members: Beatrice Booth, Lily Evans

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Lily Evans: Why does it BOTHER me that we were texting and he called me "mate"???? We haven't been friends for years, he can't just mate me while I'm not looking.

Beatrice Booth: That is not the reason why you are bothered you know the reason but I'm not telling you I've got shit to do this morning one of my nails broke think of that

Lily Evans: So I help you with your English Lit homework, you DON'T help me with my personal problems and this is how this friendship works, is it?

Beatrice Booth: I can't find my emery board can you bring one in with you?

Lily Evans: Oh go and choke on it

Beatrice Booth: K!

Wednesday

Private WhatsApp Chat

Resumed on: Wednesday 13th April, 2021, 6:36 a.m.

Members: Lily Evans, James Potter

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James Potter: what did you do to algernon?!!!!!

Lily Evans: What? Good morning to you too?

James Potter: he's refusing to eat this bloody vitacat stuff again! he's turning his nose up at it and he's LOOKING at me like i have failed him as a father AND as a man, know what you have done to this family please

Lily Evans: He's not turning his nose up at it. I literally watched him stick his face in the bowl and eat the whole thing in about ten seconds last night.

James Potter: i mean of course i've failed him i'm a fucking FRENCH teacher which mcgonagall definitely assigned me on purpose well he's not eating it NOW! you must have coaxed him into it last night with your feminine wiles

Lily Evans: You think I have feminine wiles?

James Potter: well i don't know i misspoke mistyped whatever you're both ginger, that clearly has something to do with it what if he starves to death what will i do

Lily Evans: He'll eat when he's hungry.

James Potter: i think you're being really unfeeling about this crisis that is very important to me and that is not conducive to a healthy marriage and i will be raising this with mcgonagall today

Lily Evans: It's half past six in the morning and I'm freezing in the back of my mum's car, I'll turn my feelings on once I've properly woken up.

James Potter: what are you doing awake and freezing in your mum's car at half past six are you still swimming in the mornings?

Lily Evans: What are YOU doing awake at half past six in the morning?

James Potter: planning my cat's imminent funeral, from the looks of things!

Lily Evans: Oh my god Potter GO BACK TO SLEEP

#Jily #fanfiction #scrap that I found in my docs

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valley-of-headcanons · 4 months ago

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hiii!! so I’m actually the anon who requested those bold! farmer head canons for Harvey all that time ago! unfortunately, I’m still a harvey simp!!! (and I still love ur writing so much lol)

how about harvey with a farmer who just…. does not eat well. like, his microwave-dinner centered diet is significantly better than what farmer eats in a day lol. and sometimes they literally just eat snacks throughout the day with no proper food. not for any depressing reasons, mostly just laziness! and harvey is just…. politely horrified. (and progressively less polite about it the closer they get lmao.)

harvey x malnutritioned!farmer || headcanons

when harvey learns that the farmer lives off of snacks and not real meals, the doctor in him can't help but step in!

warnings: unhealthy eating habits, skipping meals, etc.

requested by: anon! hiya, thank you for requesting again! sorry it took so long! i hope you enjoy, i had a whole lot of fun writing! :)

• Your first check-up with Dr. Harvey was a simple one, he checked the normal boxes needed to be filled. He was a bit stern when learning about your eating habits. He inquired heavily, but he soon came to terms with it. Harvey was not keen on snacking throughout the day instead of eating a real meal to refuel, but he was a doctor, not your parent! So, he gave you a pamphlet on eating healthier and sent you on your way.

• Harvey was NOT pleased when you had passed out in the mines due to a lack of energy. You got a very stern talking to! “Please, do not jeopardize yourself like this! Your health is very important, and you have to have energy with your busy schedule! You can take time out of your day to have a full meal, no more snacking! You have to properly refuel your energy ... could I help you with making a meal plan? With nutritious food?”

• You tried your hardest to follow Harvey's meal plan, cooking for yourself or going to the Saloon if you were too tired to fix anything. You hated to admit it, but ... it worked. You were way more energetic, and you certainly did feel better! ... on days where you actually followed it. You were so busy, and time started slipping away from you ... you fell back into your old ways. And your now boyfriend Harvey was picking up on it.

• “Dear, I say this with all the love in my heart ... your eating habits scare me. No, terrify me. This is not a way to maintain your body! Please, start taking more care of yourself, love ... as much as I love having you in my office, I can't have you there for actually being sick from malnourishment. I know you're busy, but please set aside some time for simple self care ...”

• Harvey was set on helping you out, making a second lunch everyday just in case you stopped by the office. It was a daily ritual, and you had at least one full meal a day! Look at you go! Harvey had infiltrated your snacky lifestyle, but not fully. You were still skipping breakfast and even dinner some nights, you were just so busy. Things definitely changed when you married Harvey, though.

• The day Harvey moved in, you could tell he was a force to be reckoned with. Every morning, he'd be awake before you with a full breakfast made. He'd kiss you on the forehead before guiding you to the table, making sure you ate at least a little bit before heading out for the day. He was a very concerned husband!

• Harvey would also cook dinner. Now Harvey is not the most amazing cook in the world, sometimes he'd opt for TV dinners and boxed mac and cheese. But, he'd have something for you nonetheless! And if he didn't, that just meant date night at the Saloon! Even nights where you'd come home late, he'd have a note on the counter telling you there's food in the microwave. You'll also be lectured in the morning about staying out so late.

• Harvey is so in love with you, and he really wants to make sure you're happy and healthy. Your health is most important to him. Yes, he's the doctor for the whole town, but you're the love of his life. He's going to care for his spouse the best he can. And he will take care of you for as long as you'll have him.

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pricegouge · 1 month ago

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thinking about time loop/protecting the princess to your death tn. just imagine the guys as your royal guard, enemy army at the gates....

cw: f!reader. main character death, including reader. but don't worry, they get better. mention of food/disparity. barely better than bullet point rambles. no resolution MDNI

i think this works better if you have been shipped off to a keep, away from the castle with your most loyal guards for safe keeping. but it's backfired somehow - sold out, maybe. general court intrigue. you're not there for longer than a week before a siege begins.

you spend months locked away with them, constantly fighting to ensure they're eating properly because of course they're not, not when their priority is keeping you hale and healthy. you make it up to them in other ways, i bet - a princess has to keep her innocence, of course, but there's other things they can introduce you to when the nights grow long and lonely. besides, you're meant to make some great noble very happy one day; it works be a shame to go to his bed so unlearned.

it's not so bad, not always at least. they make it easy to forget your situation with their easy laughs, and under the captain's strong leadership you never doubt you will live to see the end of the seige.

but your father did warn you about hubris.

[[big fat brackets cause i don't wanna bother with plot]] the tides of war change and then the enemy at the gate starts truly knocking. your guard is weak after so long without proper food or training and the keep's summarily overrun.

you die. maybe some of the men do, too. i could see gaz surviving the longest that first loop, the agony of watching his friends and lover(s?) fall. he fights to the bitter end but he's overcome just the same, corpse left in a pile for carrion with the rest of his brothers in arms.

and then he's awake.

the worst part is that they all remember, and you alone don't. every loop is different - now gaz the last survivor, next soap. the one constant is you're always second last, a sobbing mess after watching each of your friends fall in turn. it's never anything quick and mild, either. they're all hardened warriors and each of them earn a bloody death. every time. and every time they have to watch how their failure kills you just as surely as a rival blade, and every morning they wake up clutching their chests, their necks, scrambling for each other's limbs to stem the life blood they know is only going to spill again.

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malusokay · 2 years ago

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How to be like Jang Wonyoung

As many of you requested, part 2 of my it girls series is all about Jang Wonyeong, who's not only absolutely STUNNING, but also incredibly talented, hardworking, and of course successful. Let's get right into it!! <33

Wonyoungs Energy:

Wonyoung is incredibly charismatic, which makes her stand out without even trying!!

She has a bubbly and likeable Personality, Wonyoung appears happy and welcoming, she easily lights up a room with just her presence.

Aside from being cute and cheerful, Wonyoung is also known for being extremely hardworking!!

Confident and Unbothered. Despite receiving quite a bit of unnecessary hate, Wonyoung stays indifferent and true to herself!!

Elegant and feminine. No one does the ‘Elegant feminine self-love girly’ aesthetic like her, she is THE girly girl!! <3

Mindset:

Learn to deal with jealousy, Wonyoung gets plenty of hate, but let's be real for a second… we all know that is because of jealousy. Pretty, successful, smart, and popular? Of course, people will be jealous!!

“While practising self-love, you see good and pretty things about yourself. If I focus only on those things, I don't need to pay much attention to the criticism.”

Don't compare yourself to others “You are you, I am me”.

Keep to yourself. Stop telling people your ideas, your dreams and how you plan to archive them, your goals etc. Let your actions speak for themself!! <3

No more negative self-talk!!

Be your number 1 priority!! Take care of yourself, do what's good for you, eat well, care for your body, skincare, haircare, and your education!! PRIORITIES

Skincare

Skincare. Wonyoung has Flawless skin, finding a skincare routine that works for you can help you archive similar results!!

Wonyoungs skincare routine:

According to Google, Wonyoung only uses Innisfree products and starts by double cleansing her face, for that, she uses the Green Tea Cleansing Oil ($24), and the Green Tea Amino Acid Face Cleanser ($12)

To get the dewy class skin effect, hydration is key!! In the morning, Wonyoung likes using the Green Tea Hyaluronic Acid Serum ($30) and the Dewy Glow Tone-up Cream ($26)

Of course, you can't forget SPF. Wonyoung uses the Mild Cica Sunscreen Tone-Up SPF 50+ PA ++++, which is also great for acne-prone and sensitive skin types!! :)

For her night routine, she likes the Retinol Cica Moisture Recovery Serum ($37) and the Dewy Glow Jelly Cream ($26).

Elevate your daily life:

Healthy diet. Eating nutritious and healthy food is the first and most important step to clear skin and an overall good feeling!! Make sure to eat enough protein (ex. yoghurt, chicken, tofu or eggs), lots of fruits and veggies, and healthy fats (ex. Avocados, fish, nuts, olive oil)!!

Exercise daily. Besides dancing, Wonyoung loves pilates!! You can find lots of great Pilates videos on YouTube!!

Work on your posture!! Having good posture will not only make you feel better but also lets you appear more confident, elegant and put together. Try daily stretching and exercises to improve it <3

Try establishing a proper morning and night routine, this can help you stay structured and relaxed even on more messy and busy days.

Content that makes you feel better!! Start watching channels like thewizardliz, vogue beauty secrets, and read motivating blogs. (like mine lol <3)

Makeup:

Wonyoung is known for her iconic glittery and feminine make-up!!

Light pink blush, plump lips, glowy skin and a glittery but not too heavy eye look.

Foundation on the centre of your face and blend outwards for a naturally contoured look.

Always apply your matt products before your shimmers, that way, your makeup looks cleaner!! Also, apply your glitters from finest to chunkiest. :)

Don't apply your shimmers/glitters past the middle of your eyelid to avoid looking puffy.

If you have warm-toned skin, go for peachy glitters, for cool-toned skin, choose a champagne-coloured one.

If your struggle with dark under eyes, blend your concealer with your fingers!! This will give it a lot more coverage.

You can find lots of tutorials on Wonyoung-inspired make-up on YouTube, this one is my favourite.

I hope this little guide was helpful, I wasn't too familiar with Wonyoung, but I did some research since she was the number 1 most requested person for this!! :)

As always, please feel free to share your own suggestions in the comments and let me know who you want me to write about next! <3

✩‧₊*:・love ya ･:*₊‧✩

#malusokay #girl blogger #aesthetic #coquette #dream girl #it girl #pink blog #that girl #pinterest #pink pilates princess #wonyoung #jang wonyoung #ive wonyoung #miu miu #glow up #girl blogging #girly things #beautytips

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momotonescreaming · 4 months ago

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Josh was sitting in the dispatch kitchen sipping a coffee when his phone vibrated — almost too perfect timing to be anything but planned. Gently placing his mug back down, careful not spill, he glances at his now lit up phone screen.

Sal 🔥

When's your lunch break?

He finds himself smiling at even the sight of his boyfriend's name, at the reminder that he absolutely memorised when his coffee break was. So that he'd see his message immediately, give him a little pick me up when he got a moment alone. It does make him wonder, however, if Sal really wants to know when his lunch break is. Or is this just a segue into another conversation?

Unlocking his phone, and quickly flicking to his messaging app, Josh quickly taps out a reply.

Josh 💙

2pm. Why?

He's barely had time to have another sip of his coffee before he gets a reply. He'd think Sal had his reply ready and waiting if he hadn't seen the typing bubble pop up.

Sal 🔥

I'm bringing you lunch from that bougie cafe you like.

Sal 🔥

I'll meet you up there.

Josh finds himself smiling at his boyfriend coordinating a surprise lunch. He'd been bitching before about not having time to pack a proper lunch today, about how he was supposed to being doing the whole eating healthy thing, but he guessed he'd just go the takeout place near the office instead. Turns out Sal wasn't just listening to him bitch, he was paying attention.

Josh 💙

And you're not even going to ask? What if I said no?

He's not going to say no. He finally has a boyfriend, a good man, who wants to suprise him with lunch and respect his work schedule at the same time. But Sal gets it. a fellow first responder. He gets the crazy hours, the irregular break times, the way they don't always end up being the reality. Pulled away into another call.

Even if it doesn't end up happening, he appreciates it either way. Sal wanting to steal away a moment of time with him, caring and brusque in equal manner.

Sal 🔥

Because you're not gonna say no?

Sal 🔥

I'll see you at 2 😘

Rolling his eyes, Josh shakes his head as he takes another sip of his coffee. He hates how cocky Sal is except he really doesn't. This confidence with the skill and the knowledge behind it really does it for him. A hunky firefighter who gets the job, supports him, wants to spend time with him — and is so confident that Josh feels the same. It's reciprocated in a way a lot of his other relationships haven't been.

Instead of why are your shifts so inconvenient, this is why we can never have lunch together it's now surprising him with lunch at the dispatch centre. And he's a fire captain too — Sal is — so Josh doesn't even have to worry about security, about getting him into the building. They're a lot stricter about that now.

It's nice, letting Sal into this part of his world so seamlessly, where they can have lunch and he can watch as his boyfriend tries and succeeds at charming his friends and coworkers.

Quickly firing off a heart emoji back to Sal, Josh finishes up his coffee and heads back to his desk. Break over entirely far too quickly. And he doesn't even have to worry about cutting their conversation off abruptly, Sal gets it. In fact, Josh's been on the other side of it now — in the middle of a call with Sal on a day their shifts don't align, the alarm bells ringing and cutting the call short.

2pm can't come soon enough.

Eventually, finally, he's halfway through a call when he spots Sal out of the corner of his eye, Standing near the glass at the entrance to the main floor, in a well fitted army green jacket, work boots, and tough blue jeans with his hip cocked. Coffee tray in one hand and paper bag in the other — no doubt containing that lunch he promised.

Josh smiles, grin creeping across his face as he continues to talk to the caller on the other end of the line. A teenage boy, not in moral danger, but still very scared about it. He tells him it's going to be okay, that the firefighters are on their way, and he sees Sal's eyes twinkle at his words.

Sal locks eyes with him and kisses the air, directed straight at Josh. He rolls his eyes in return, waving him off towards the lunchroom as the teenager on the phone line starts to calm down as he hears the sirens approaching in the distance. His boyfriend laughs, and heads towards the lunchroom.

He tries to shake it off, ignore his blushing cheeks and fluttering heart. Focus on his call, be professional, make sure his caller is safe until help arrives. Thankfully — for both him and his caller — they quickly arrive and get the kid to safety. He can wrap up the call, put himself on break, and finally, finally, head to the lunchroom where his thoughtful, hunky bastard of a boyfriend is waiting.

"What took you so long?" Sal jokes, brows furrowed as he watches Josh enter the room. Following his boyfriend with his eyes, hand gestured out to the side as if to say what gives? But Josh can see that he's laid their food out on the table in from of them. A coffee each, a burger and fries for Sal, and a fancy pasta salad for Josh.

Josh just rolls his eyes, and leans in to kiss his boyfriend, Sal meeting him halfway.

for @hellion-child 😘

#911 #911 abc #josh russo #sal deluca #saljosh #delrusso #My Writing #back on my rarepair bullshit 💜#im having sooo much fun w them #having fun w their banter lmao

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richarlotte · 9 months ago

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Most important steps to your glow up?

Top Tier.

Braces.

I had my braces on for 18 months, and they were the best decision of my life. I can breathe better, my jaw and chin look better, my teeth are straighter, and I have no more pain. Facial harmony is everything, and mine was restored by an expert orthodontist and continued use of my retainers. Jaw surgery wasn’t reasonable or necessary, but I can’t even begin to describe the impact that dental whitening, braces, weight loss, and proper dental care work had on my face.

Electrolytes and Hydration.

I was severely dehydrated and in need of electrolytes for years and years. I thought that drinking enough water wasn’t as important as people made it seem, but my life changed when I started to do it. Life feels much less stressful now that I’m properly hydrated, and I make sure to toss a little lemon and salt in my water and drink a Gatorade or Liquid IV to get electrolytes.

Darker and Longer Hair.

I look better with hair that’s long, dark, and thick. I have alopecia, so I did a number of things to disguise my hair loss growing up, but I wear wigs now that my hair is gone. I was told to wear my hair long, dark, and straight last year, and whenever I do, people tell me that I look otherworldly. Now that I know what to do with my hair and what looks best, I’m a million times more confident about myself.

Less Dairy.

I am not lactose intolerant, but I do not need to be eating dairy in excess. I enjoy dairy, so I won’t cut it out of my diet, but I don’t need to be eating it in the amount that I did. I was bloated, always breaking out, and tired all the time, but my low energy dissipated the second I cut my dairy intake. I’m not 100% dairy-free and most likely won’t ever be, but I’m careful with the amount I consume.

Korean Contact Lenses.

Americans think that all colored contact lenses are unnatural, and American-made colored contacts are. I use Olens contacts and only use the dark shades, and they’re amazing. I find that having huge, dark, striking eyes helps me get exactly what I want, and I love the way I look when I’m wearing contacts. I use contacts to craft my look and emphasize my eyes, and I never buy or use colors that aren’t brown or black. Wearing dark contacts has reduced my need for so much bright eye makeup; they make me look friendlier, and I look better in photos.

Better Quality Makeup.

Investing in higher-quality makeup and actually learning how to apply it was crucial. Buying Hourglass, Pat McGrath, Charlotte Tilbury, MAC, and Nars was sort of essential to my makeup journey, and I look much better now that I’ve invested the time and money into learning about makeup. Dupes just don’t hold up to the real things, and I look better now that I’m spending $45 on one product instead of spending $45 on five different products to try to replicate the look.

Urea, Glutamic Acid, and Dry Brushing.

I used to have serious strawberry arms and legs, dry skin, and dark spots from body acne, but all of that has cleared up. Hyaluronic acid and body serums have nothing on this combo, and dry brushing has completely cleared up my rough skin and helped with my stretch marks. If you want skin that’s plump, hydrated, glowing, and looks healthy, then you have to exfoliate your dry and wet skin and start using this trio to care for your body.

Better Skincare Products.

I invested a lot in using fancy designer brands, but the things that helped me the most were basic, unscented, and quality. I use Paula’s Choice exfoliant, plenty of SPF 100, retinol, and a variety of Korean and American products. My facial acne is gone, my dark marks are cleared, my skin barrier is healed, my skin looks healthier, and I’m glowing. Drunk Elephant, celebrity skincare brands, and trending products didn’t do it for me; figuring out what I needed and then implementing it into my routine helped.

Creating my own aesthetic.

I won’t stop talking about The Blend because it helped me become who I am today. I wanted to create a look that would help me, and so I had to spend months solidifying my image. It took me a year to get to where I am today, but life became easier once I was able to figure out what I should be doing, what I should be saving for or investing in, and what suited me. The Blend isn’t just about style, and I had to be scientific with it at times and really work with the resources I had and what was readily accessible to me.

I can do Mid Tier next.

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gurggggleburgle · 5 months ago

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So you got more hot takes?

Absolutely, hot take 3: I think it's a mistake that the thing that makes LBH lose his shit and fall in love with SQQ is him being kind. Like really stop and think about how weird and shallow a reason that is. If all it took was people being kind and uber sweet then Bingge would have been fixed by any of his wives and i know the easy excuse is just well, 'airplane says' yeah but forget that. Forget god.

You're telling me all Luo Binghe needs is someone to hold his hand and give him headpats. No. Because ask yourself why is Ning Yingying not able to fix that hole. Why? its because what Bingbaby is looking for is recognition and salvation. What he needs is someone to give him a purpose to strive for. Why does Bingge just keep climbing and taking? Because he is empty inside. He had one purpose which was revenge, and then got that and just kept doing things that are supposed to be markers of strength and success. He is a man without drive or meaning. It is eating food just to feel something in your mouth behavior and its the exact thing that makes SY rage quit out of life when he reads it. Luo Binghe doesn't fall in love romantically with Shen Qingqiu he falls in love with the functional purpose they give his life.

Its why he rationalizes the way he does. Its why he's possesive and childish. He's made Shizun his reason for living and its not healthy and its not supposed to be. That's the point. Both idiots have fallen in love with a narrative and now get to fall in love as people.

If you want to really give me proper good bingqiu don't give me Binghe in love with a pure too good for this world cinnamonroll. Give me a Binghe who finds someone who gives him a reason to want to live and not shoot up a school.

Basically, i'm saying the plot of svsss could be solved by just giving Luo Binghe a hobby because ultimately what he needs as a person is to want 2 things. Men can truly just be fixed with a mantis shrimp but loving someone works just the same

#svsss #scumbag system #svsss shitpost #bingqiu #luo binghe #hotest take: people making SY a bland smile soft vanilla is just people wanting HuaLian to be mildly spicy #hua cheng is just binghe without nuance and that is my hottest take #this is also the reason i think most modern aus dont work #they forget that lbh is a deeply lonely person #that the man has no hobbies #you need go really stop and consider what would make him think yeah #this guy #this guy makes me feel things

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enden-k · 6 months ago

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Do Saran and Vika have any cute routines or something that you haven't rambled about? Like who makes the coffee or cooks, or are there small affection things one of them does for the other just out of habit?

saran is an amazing cook and always cooks for vika (vika isnt very good at cooking since he cant taste and used to eat v little/poorly. thanks to saran hes healthy and gaining weight)

saran always does vikas tie bc vika doesnt know how to tie one; if it looks proper in some doodles its made by saran, if its a messy one its made by vika

when they relax on days off work and stay at home, they always spend it reading together or watching movies

saran always holds vika until he falls asleep and nudges him awake for work bc vika is always a bit slow (and cute) until hes fully awake

not much of a routine thing or smth but saran put a ring on vika

saran always helps vika w the paperwork at the office since he struggles w it sm

in general you can say saran does everything for vika bc he genuinely likes pampering and spoiling and caring for him and ofc vika doesnt take advantage of that; he always joins in and (tries to) help tho so a lot of things they do together (household stuff for example)

i think i repeated some stuff and other i believe i already mentioned before (them being big on touches/physical affection or sarans verbal affection etc); i might add on to this if i forgor smth!!

#reply #own ocs #idk if i got the question right but ye!!

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macgyvermedical · 23 days ago

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Have you seen "Arrow 2012" 1x14 episode? What you think about it?

I could have sworn I had done this. Like, to the point where a while back I put it on a list of episodes I'd done but couldn't provide a link because I couldn't find it. But I still can't find it anywhere. So I must not have done it?

Anyway, here you go:

The plot of the episode is that Oliver's mother shoots him while he is interrogating her about the death of his father. He is shot either in the perfectly reasonable and survivable-without-a-hospital trapezius muscle, or the not-so-survivable upper left chest, depending on what part of the episode you are watching.

He gets himself to Felicity's car and orders her to take him to his father's old factory in the Glades, where he has set up his base of operations. By the time she gets there Oliver is unconscious. Diggle takes over his care.

Before I start, just know I know it's a TV show. But, like, the medicine is BAD. And I'm gonna talk about it. My belief is NOT suspended here.

Thoughts:

It's really clean. Like, if someone's shot and they're bleeding enough to make them unconscious, it's quite literally a bloodbath. It's everywhere. We're talking a liter and a half of blood outside of his body for someone Oliver's size. All the blood we see (from the floor in his mother's office, and what is on him when Diggle starts to work on him) might be 30-50ml. Like, maybe he lost more in Felicity's car, but even that would be smeared all over him.

The blood storage would be logistically impossible. The first thing Diggle does when Oliver gets to him is pull out some fresh bags of blood. And there's like 6-8 of those bags visible in the refrigerated drawer. He mentions that it's Oliver's own blood that he has stored "for a rainy day".

As a refresher, blood loss (whether donation or from a gunshot wound) causes 2 (main) problems: volume loss and oxygen carrying capacity loss. Volume loss is a problem because it drops blood pressure and causes shock, but you can replace volume by infusing saline or another IV fluid. Oxygen carrying capacity loss is loss of the red blood cells, which carry the oxygen from the lungs to the cells of the body. Losing a lot of red blood cells means that the amount of oxygen the blood is carrying at any one time is reduced. The body can compensate for this by increasing the heart rate and respiratory rate (thereby using the remaining red blood cells more efficiently) but this is unsustainable and doesn't work once you lose a certain amount of blood.

Now, let's do some math: whole blood lasts about 40 days under refrigeration. You cannot freeze it to make it last longer because that destroys the red blood cells and makes it toxic. It takes about 40-60 days to regenerate the amount of red blood cells necessary for one bag of blood. Which leaves him with one bag intermittently (if he donated every 40 days he'd have to skip one or two donations a year to recoup his chronically increasing deficit, and if he donated every 60 days the current bag would expire 20 days before he could donate again).

Now, considering he's young and healthy, he could probably train his body to make red cells faster, which might be enough to close the gap (over the course of a year or so), giving him one bag consistently. If he wanted this more quickly, he could take erythropoeitin, a hormone that forces the body to make more red blood cells. Assuming he's taking iron supplements and eating enough, he'd be able to maintain that consistent single bag of blood outside his body.

All that to say, he would never get close to 6 bags of his own blood consistently outside his body without being super dead.

Sewing up the skin is either a vaguely bad idea (if it was through the trapezeius muscle), or completely useless (if through the shoulder). If it was through the trap, we'd at least want to pack it so it didn't get infected. If it were through the shoulder proper, he needs surgery to repair the bone, blood vessels, or nerves that were damaged (and there's nowhere in the shoulder where you can get shot and not hit one of these things).

Also, by the time Diggle has stopped the bleeding, hung a bag of blood, and sewn up the skin (probably at least 20 minutes, if he were really quick about it), Oliver is still unconscious. No one seems to be that worried about this. In real life, unconsciousness is life threatening. Especially someone so unconscious they're tolerating getting their gunshot wound sewed up without anesthesia. This man has a GCS of 3. Which is the same as that of a chair.

Aaaand he's having a seizure. GCS of 3 and a seizure tells me this does not look good. Are we sure he didn't hit his head really badly at some point when the cameras weren't rolling? At least ativan would stop a seizure? Like they were right about that. I guess.

Ope, now he's coding. Just elevated heart rate to flatline in one second flat. Hate it when that happens.

Nobody is starting CPR. For reference, that's what you do when someone doesn't have a pulse.

Also we're trying to defibrillate him. He is in asystole (flatline). Without going into too much detail, a defibrillator stops a bad heart rhythm and you just hope the heart starts back up in the correct rhythm. Asystole is no rhythm to begin with. So if you shock someone in asystole, not only is nothing going to happen, but you're risking damaging the heart muscle. The only thing that works on asystole is medication like epinephrine (which they are not giving). Which needs CPR to get to the heart. Which, again, they are not doing.

Also with the serial shocks. So. Thing about this is that serial shocks used to be a thing. Briefly. About 20 years before this episode aired. But it turned out that they took too much time away from CPR, and didn't really work well enough to justify it.

Oh, but he lived!

"Pray we don't have a heart attack outselves" Diggle, that was cardiac arrest, sir. If Oliver had had a heart attack, we would be in a world of other problems.

The loose lead thing is real. Sort of. Leads coming loose is definitely a thing but the monitors are smart enough to know when it's a lead wiggling or off vs v-fib or asystole. And they were in 2012 too.

And he woke up! A miracle given everything that just happened and the care he received for it.

#whump reference #writing reference #arrow

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gallusrostromegalus · 2 years ago

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I love Kenpachi "Raised By Eagles" Zaraki, and learning how this affects his behavior and worldview but how does this change Yachiru?

Kenpachi might be human-shaped but he's a bird to the core. How bird like is Yachiru as a consequence? Is her first language Eagle as well? Has she met her extended family (grandmother, aunts, perhaps cousins too) and had flying lessons?

I just love the image of Yachiru being a Chaotic Fledgling, and behind her is a grinning Kenpachi that is just as much a Buck Wild Bird, he's just better at playing at being human.

(if kenpachi is a prince, is yachiru thus a princess?)

One Small Correction: Kenpachi is a Sword Guy at his deepest core, but he still considers himself Culturally Eagle, but also that's only one of like 147 Identities he uses. Man collects personas and cultures and memes and jobs and identities like lint, but don't worry- that's just how Things Like Him live.

Kenpachi is also, technically, a Prince, and if he wasn't allergic to honorifics, he would be well within his rights to tell the Kuchiki clan to call him "Kotaishi-Denka", but he doesn't like being called a title he didn't earn. Moreover, he can only tell the nobles that little fun fact *once*, so he's keeping it in his back pocket for the most opportune moment.

Don't Worry about it :)

As for Yachiru:

It's a tough call which is her first language because Kenpachi was speaking to her in Japanese and Eagle and the language of the Northern Tribes he spent a lot of his adolescence with, and the common language of the small spirits like Kodama and Koropokkur when she was an infant and learned them all simultaneously.

Japanese is actually Zaraki's fifth language, and he's been learning how to talk shit in Spanish recently.

Eagle is definitely Yachiru's favorite language to swear in though. Nothing quite as cathartic as a good screech that blasphemes six different gods and curses the object of offense for seven generations in both directions.

Yachiru's gestures and posture are... odd. Some are distinctly Eagle, but she's a constant finger-drummer and hummer, lies and sleeps on her stomach as a matter of preference, walks as easily on her hands as her feet, and writes as easily with her toes as her fingers.

Some of that is learned Directly from her father, but a lot of it seems to be her own peculiarities that all children develop but most have harassed out of them by their parents. Kenpachi had little regard for "proper" behavior out of a child, beyond not endangering herself or getting him in undue trouble. He also has a lot of strange ways of moving that his Mother never tried to correct out of him, so they're both odd birds in that both of them are about five steps to the left of any ind of typical and don't mask a goddamn thing.

As for Yachiru's Extended Family, she occupies a unique position in the family of She Who Rules The Sky.

Yachiru is Her first grandchild.

Oh, certainly, She has laid and raised many, many generations of Eagle, but per tradition and common sense, they move far, far away from Her before having their own offspring to avoid competing with Her, and their children do the same. But Kenpachi comes to visit his Mother and sisters- a strange thing, but he's not eating the same food or trying to build a nest in the same place, so it works.

She Who Rules The Sky is DELIGHTED by Her Granddaughter, and spoils Yachiru rotten with attention and fresh kills and embarrassing stories about her father when he was young.

At least some of the way Yachiru hangs off Kenpachi's back is based on how he learned how to hang onto his Mother during Flying lessons, and how her grandmother taught her to do the same, but hanging onto Her neck, on account of how small Yachiru is.

She Who Rules The Sky and both Yachiru's Aunts are all very concerned about how small she is. Her appetite is certainly healthy enough, but she grows so slowly. Zaraki's assurances that there are Human Women he works with that are full-grown adults scarcely half again Yachiru's size does nothing to avail their fears, and makes Rukia sneeze.

Zaraki's sisters have not taken Names either, but for the sake of convenience, they allow Yachiru to call them Ane-Oba and Imuto-Oba, as Kenpachi is the middle sibling, according to order of appearance in the nest.

Eagle kinship terminology is different than human in that only the siblings from the same clutch are your brothers or sisters, and who is the older or younger is determined by the hatching order rather than laying order. Your mother's previous clutches are your aunts and uncles, and your mother's clutch-mates are also your aunts and uncles, but with a higher level of grammatical deference. "Grandparent" is an entirely novel concept to Eagles, who almost never meet theirs, and hearing how active grandmothers are in the raising of their grandchildren fascinates She Who Rules The Sky.

Consequently, Kenpachi isn't a Prince because he's an Eagle.

He's a Prince because She Who Rules The Sky is a straight-up Kami, and a big damn deal, because She has jurisdiction over EVERYTHING in the sky- Other birds, Weather, Shinigami if they go higher than the roof of the tallest building in a square mile, the fucking moon (technically), Bats (but only when they come out at night. What they do in caves is none of Her business and also She doesn't want to think about it.), and anything some idiot might try shooting at Her.

"Prince" isn't quite accurate- it's not an inherited title, but She Who Rules The Sky told Kenpachi after he became a captain to Officially Manage whatever Humans and Shinigami were doing in the sky for Her, on account of being closer and having at least one eye to keep on them.

So technically he's a Nepo Unpaid Intern, but a Nepo Unpaid Intern that could smote anybody right out of the air, so most birds and lesser Kami use the more respectful title of "Prince" instead.

He does not use this ability often, because he'd rather try to get someone to fight him, but he does not hold back with it where mosquitoes are concerned.

It's cromulent to Eagles that he should inherit the responsibility though, because it's usually the youngest clutch that inherit a nest site or hunting territory upon the demise of a parent, and while She shows no signs of dying any time soon, it's the way of Kami to train and hand off lesser responsibilities to their children as their domains expand.

Hence, Yachiru is not a Princess in the sense that she has a title to inherit, but she is one in that Kenpachi trusts everything she tells him and defers to her on things like "math" and "where the fuck are we going?" because she's better at those than he is, and in that sense, she is his Princess.

#aeiwam #an elephant is warm and mushy #bleach #bleach fanfiction #kenpachi zaraki #yachiru kusajishi

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