#i forgot the ship tag lmao

[fadefromthelight]

cold rain on a battered window

Akihiko just holds Shinjiro tighter. Water pools on the floor, cold as it drips down his skin.

Shinjiro sighs. "What were you doin' out? I thought you turned in for the night."

"It was raining," Akihiko says into Shinjiro's shoulder, his voice shaking ever-so-slightly. He hopes that it isn't enough for Shinjiro to pick up on.

"So?" Shinjiro moves whatever is in the pot around. Akihiko can feel his shoulders shift against his chest. "It does that sometimes."

"It's nice to run in." It doesn't feel like a proper explanation for everything. But the words catch in his throat as thunder cuts through the quiet sound of something sizzling in oil.

Read on: Ao3

[rockeyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

gamer girlz

[juniorectobiologist]

ouppies PART ONE

PART TWO <- here

[royalarchivist]

Slimecicle: Whoever said "yaoi is dead" dude, I think you need to put on your freakin'– your bi-focal lenses. Anything's possible.

💗💜💙

[trashiiplant]

world's most normal rain world post

[varilien]

we just got to this episode yesterday HFKJDHFK

Palestine: Funds | Action | eSims | Info Sudan Resources | Congo Resources

hey goku what's this about huh

[splickedylit]

Thanks to everybody who pitched in suggestions for Impromptu Ship Night II: Son of Request Night. :D I'm not writing that Erikar light novel but. I'm tempted.

[onlysushicat]

Davenep* request

where my 5 davenep* fans at

[yokyoaaa]

Dear kirby fandom, today I bring you

Have fun ‼️

[lokh]

Confession time: I initially started shipping Laishuro because I thought it was the funniest way to make Shuro suffer after everything that’s gone on (Laios would have been fine with it since he obviously doesn’t hold any ill feelings). And then I read the last chapters and epilogue and was like ohhhh…

Anyway I also reread the manga and had the realization that Shuro had no idea how cool Laios thinks he is. The anime didn’t keep him mumbling “What about me is strong…?” after Laios said everything about himself not being as skilled or strong as Shuro. Then that made me think about how ironic it is that Shuro is probably aware/self-conscious about being boring from the perspective of his father that he doesn’t know how to handle Laios thinking he’s the greatest guy ever.

Ouhghhh my god...................... theyve had their moment in canon where theyve said their worst opinions about the other. now i desperately want a moment for laios specifically to say, with the full concentrated power of the sun, exactly what it is that he thinks is so great to shuros face. i want shuros face to explode into flames

[aeb-art]

even in a story with reader insert, i'm still putting myself in there separately ahahaha so here's another lil thing with some of @venomous-qwille's characters

and then the moment they leave the room:

[gomzdrawfr]

ok so I was doing fruit tier list after watching RTgames' video and decided to do cod ship tier list (something that was trending on the bird app before)

LINK HERE

Im tagging a few peeps to do it if you wanna!! if not its fine hehe

@justasmolbard @warenai @tapioca-milktea1978 @kaar-ne @tiggerriot @jgvfhl

reminder to all this is all for fun and people can have different opinions, don't be a prick :p

[luuxxart]

lmao remember when I had FE3H fankids, haha , well. here they are again

[captainmvf]

And they were best friends oh my god they were best friends………..

[deadbaguette]

I got a DM asking if I could elaborate on the dynamic between OdyDio in my ‘Diomedes goes to Ithaca’ AU, so I thought I’d do an elaboration post about it!

Is it romantic or platonic?

It is romantic! Considering this IS an Odypendio AU I wanna make a dynamic between all of them :) OdyDio in this AU a little more explicitly romantic than PenDio, but there is a level of yearning that isn’t quite there with PenDio. Between Pendio there is a mutual understanding of what they are, and PenOdy are married. And while Diomedes and Odysseus are definitely more than friends in this AU, it’s still unclear what exactly they are to each other.

Does one love the other more/Feel their feelings more strongly?

Generally I don’t believe in this idea that in a relationship there is necessarily someone who feels more love than the other. But since they don’t actually really know what they are to each other, I imagine Diomedes is probably pining more? Well, he doesn’t exactly know this lmao. Odysseus knows what it means to love someone like this, and he treats Diomedes as such. But Diomedes? He’s never experienced this before. He’s never heard someone speak so lovingly of someone, has never been on the receiving end of someone who knows how to show their affections like this. It’s not like Sthenelus or Eurylus, this is Odysseus. For the first and very frightening moment, Diomedes realized he does love Odysseus. There is different kind of camaraderie, admiration, and love between them that Diomedes doesn’t know how to deal with. They’re more than friends, and in a way family but like… not in the platonic way?? Still, he yearns and loves the best he can. Odysseus was his first love in a way, I’m such a sucker for first love as a trope :)

Is it an unspoken love?

Yeah,,, I fear I am a sucker for unspoken love. Actions speak louder than words type love. But there it’s a little more explicitly romantic than PenDio as previously said. They’ve probably kissed and cuddled… but I’m very bad at romantic kinda stuff so that’s all I’m elaborating on AHGSGDHAGA

How much do they love each other?

A lot!! Odysseus would tell stories of his family to Diomedes, and Diomedes knows Odysseus better as a father than he did Tydeus. He knows more of Penelope than he does his own wife. Odysseus loves his family so wholeheartedly that Diomedes cannot help but love him for that. In a way, Odysseus is accepting Diomedes into the family. He’d tell him things like “my wife would love you” or “you should meet my son when this whole war is over”. I talked about it in my Diomedes and Telemachus post, but Diomedes carved a place out for Odysseus in Telemachus’ life. But in a way, Odysseus gave him the love and carved Diomedes’ place out in his life.

This isn’t my typical dynamic for OdyDio!🙏 But when I make a found family, I will make the familyism strong.

Ask by @differentnerddiplomatopera in DMs

[kooki914]

What do you think will Toriel's relationship with Mrs. Holiday be like? A foil situation maybe? It's kind of strange that for a family so closely tied to the Dreemurr Toriel never has talked about any of them. Wonder what she actually thinks about Noelle?

All good questions, honestly! I believe Toriel isn't really the type to seek out super close friendships with people to begin with (her friendship with Sans seems to almost be an accident in both worlds), and Rudy mentions how their families have drifted apart over the years. I feel like part of this can be attributed to her and Asgore's divorce (as him and Rudy are close, breaking up with Asgore probably made stuff awkward between Toriel and Rudy), but another part is also Dess' disappearance I think (her and Asriel were close, and it's been hinted that after she disappeared, Kris stopped hanging out with Noelle too, and it might've given the parents less incentive to stay in touch with each other overall).

On the question on mayor Holiday and Toriel specifically, I DO kind of see them as foils already? Toriel is a smothering and loving parent while mayor Holiday is strict and cold. The one thing they have in common is they're both reactionary (Noelle being afraid her mother would take away her console if she saw her crying over a game, contrasted to Toriel taking Asriel to church every day for a week because of a first kiss), and they both seem to have a need for control over nearly everything. With mayor Holiday it's not even subtle, while with Toriel it's less overtly "control freak" vibes and more specifically someone who's so used to having all responsibility on her shoulders alone, that she doesn't even notice she's doing it to herself most of the time.

If they were to be proper foils, I'd like if it were an extension of the themes around freedom and control, honestly, and not even in the parental sense. Deltarune seems like it has a lot to say on free will vs predeterminism, and I think marriage - holy matrimony - is an interesting vessel to explore that through. Toriel as someone who ended her marriage for personal reasons, which can be misconstrued as selfish if you don't take into account her feelings and needs as a person, contrasted to mayor Holiday who seems to have an iron grip on her family's dynamic, which can be misconstrued as people-oriented if we fail to take into account the effects that has on Noelle and Rudy (and possibly even Dess when she was around). The Holiday household seems pretty toxic, with Rudy constantly in the role of mediator, Noelle in the (psychological) role of "adaptive child" (see The Entire Snowgrave Route for why that's horrendous), and mayor Holiday seemingly in the role of judge, jury and executioner.

Basically, Toriel as someone who liberated herself and mayor Holiday as someone who refuses to let others be liberated, sort of. A hint of it can even be seen in how they treat someone like Asgore. Toriel privately shittalks him but isn't really cruel to him to his face (which gives him the wrong idea, sadly), while mayor Holiday is "lenient" with his rent payment while being clearly cold and cruel about his personal plights. Toriel is someone who wants to move on and make as little of a mess as she does so, while mayor Holiday could be someone who prioritises a "safe" stasis over any kind of change to the detriment of everyone around her. Toriel is "mean" but empathetic, mayor Holiday is "giving" but cruel - possibly another commentary about how being "nice" isn't always a good thing, how some people do it out of necessity (Toriel) while others do it as a manipulative tactic (mayor Holiday), and how overall issues are always more complicated than they seem. More complicated than someone who, say, just tells you to "sell more flowers" would think they are, based on her limited willingness to see from anyone else's point of view.

(This is offtopic but this is really interesting symbolism to me: if we look at Asgore giving people flowers as a metaphor for giving people love and attention, *selling* more flowers wouldn't even directly help him, in a narrative sense. He's giving Toriel flowers and she keeps throwing them away, EVERYONE does, because they fundamentally don't need or want them. Asgore is someone the community doesn't need anymore, and the mayor's solution to that is "put a price on it", because to her (I speculate) ALL relationships are transactional. She thinks his problem is that he's TOO loving, that he's TOO giving, rather than that hes throwing his love into an endless black hole that will never return the gesture. Anyway, that's enough rambling about Asgore on a Toriel post, sorry!)

Oh, and I nearly forgot to answer: I don't think Toriel would have particularly strong feelings towards Noelle? Toriel's nice to every kid she knows, but I think the inverse, what Noelle thinks of Toriel, is a more interesting question. Knowing Noelle's issues with mother figures, does she see Toriel as aspirational, or does she think Toriel is faking it and using kindness as manipulation (like mayor Holiday may be prone to doing)? Is Noelle weary of Kris' mom, hence not coming over to their house often, or is she nostalgic about the bond their families had and remembers Toriel more like an aunt than a mother? Since we know she's scared of her mom, is she vaguely hoping her own parents will separate, or did Toriel set a "bad precedent" in her eyes and she dreads her family being pulled apart further? All very very interesting questions, in my opinion, and I hope we see more of the Holiday/Dreemurr dynamics as the story goes on.