#i loved this pairing

[cherimiko]

ok i'm like 99% sure this was my first rhi fic so i'll start here and see how this whole reblogging thing goes --- wc 633

FIRST OF ALL THE BUILD UP!! OMG!! as I've read more of rhi's works I've come to the conclusion that she's the queen of world building and characterization.

even from the very beginning its set up how the reader feels about having two soulmates and reinforces it with the stigma around it / how people treat her differently. even her parents struggle to come to terms with it.

i love this because it sets up a foundation of her rejecting her soulmates which rhi keeps solid throughout the fic! its really refreshing to have a writer that doesnt write weak willed readers / readers that go from hating to falling in love with their yandere(s) in an instant.

later on after reader has already looked up who her soulmates are and then we get the first meeting with tendou... the way i could genuinely feel the panic and fear reader had. going back to characterization, the way tendou's intuition (if im interpreting correctly) shows up is so good! the way he just picks up on a certain interest with her is just so him i was obsessed! and his reaction after hearing her name be called - he knew his intuition was right.

afterwords when ushi comes, how his mood switches from when he first arrived to when the reader avoids serving him - so satisfying! to anyone else the interaction would seem romantic or wholesome, but the reader's bad feelings about the situation are basically confirmed from it. first of all, ushi having asked for her by name - girlie is being stalked and that's just the beginning.

i think from the beginning to this point really helps set up the vibe and mood of the story. a feeling of unease slowly growing through each progression until she meets them both and its confirmed. both men instantly give her red flags, even if she were to disregard all previous stigmas and treatment she faced for having two soulmates. tendou and ushijima are so different yet both give her an almost primal sense of fear that they are dangerous, completely different from how her mother described what meeting her soulmate was like.

when i read that they started following her around campus, i knew the story was going to continue to get better. tendou and ushi set up a little schedule to take care of (aka stalk and follow) reader which is so creepy (in a good way). i think it also allows for more characterization in their different yandere personality styles, something i was interested in as i wasnt sure how a duo would work when i first read the tags. but again, i've come to learn how amazing rhi is at writing multi character fics and this one definitely did not disappoint!

and then the ending! i read an ask i think where rhi said tendou's little part where he knew where her keys were supposed to go was intentional! i love the little subtle nods that add more weight to the situation without saying much. the way they justify what they are going to do to reader because they had held themselves back for so long!! its just felt like the ending tied everything together in a way that brought years of the reader's experiences to that moment. she knew for so long that something was wrong, she had been trying to get herself out of the situation, but in the face of those who she was destined to be with - she's powerless.

overall 10/10, this fic is what sent me in a binging frenzy of nearly rhi's entire ao3 works / masterlist. she is genuinely so incredibly talented at writing and its just icing on top that i enjoy so many of the same ideas/troupes/etc that she does.

Outrunning Fate

As promised (though I am more than a little late for Shiratorizawa Week), the soulmate AU

Tendou x female reader x Ushijima

TW stalking, possessive behaviour, implied non-con

Soulmates were supposed to be a blessing.

It was a fairytale that you’d grown up hearing about. One person who was supposed to be wholly yours.

Your parents were soulmates, even if you hadn’t always understood the concept, the proof of that remarkable, unshakable bond was always right in front of you. It wasn’t in the big grand gestures, it was little things - the soft, adoring look in your father’s eye as your mother passed him his coffee every morning, the way she always sought out his touch when they were together, even if it was just to twine her fingers with his, or the way that they always seemed to be able to sense when the other was upset, and wordlessly found the perfect way to comfort them.

Your father never had to tell you that he loved your mother, but he did, every single day. He told her too, just to see her smile.

It seemed effortless, easy, as if their love for one another was as natural as breathing. How could you be blamed for looking at your bare wrist, waiting for the day that name would appear in scrawling black ink, feeling that excited fluttering in your chest because you knew one day you’d meet your soulmate and have that perfect, fairytale love all for yourself.

Except it wasn’t like that.

Something went wrong.

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[galaxylover06]

Their name is Barry and they can't escape the digital cir

[hallucxnating]

I HAD to put them in those outfits

[empress-of-snark]

Beetlejuice in the first movie: I want to get back to the land of the living to terrorize humanity in any way that I can, this weird goth girl is just a means to an end

Beetlejuice in the sequel, who keeps a framed picture of Lydia on his desk: It has been thirty years since I've seen my wife Lydia Deetz, the love of my life, my one and only, my other half, the only woman I’ve ever truly loved, my—

[shortcakelils]

Ghosts are real I swear

[vinestaff]

for what it's worth, i was telling the truth when I said I enjoyed working with you

[bonesmarinated]

I kinda always knew I'd end up your ex-girlfriend (x)

[butterflyscribbles]

Your art style is sooooooooo pretty

Can you draw Shadow?

Whenever I draw Shadow, 90% of it is going to be him acting uncharacteristically soft so look elsewhere for canon compliance bc this boy needs 10000 hugs🖤❤️

[choochooboss]

Sygna parade!

Alt version!

Ok first, I need to scream:

I LOVE THE SYGNA SUITS

THE FRILLS!! THE FASHION!! THE NOD TO OLD FASHIONED TRAIN CONDUCTOR SUITS FROM 1800’S!!THE ELECTRIC LANTERNS ARE SO CLEVER!!

POKEMAS EMBRACED THE YELLOW AND PURPLE WE LOVE TO ASSOCIATE THEM WITH AND IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY!!

THE BOOTS! THE FLOWER SLEEVES! THE BLACK COLLAR SHIRT ON EMMET! THE STRIPED TIGHTS!

*ahem*

The designs fast drew my mind into marching bands so I went for this idea first ahah! At some point I watched a ton of marching band videos, they cheered me up with the exciting and very complex perfomances and the players enthusiam was so catchy!! Also watching the 1st person POVs of i.e. the trumpet and drum players are super fun ahaha! Combined with the striking costumes all this directly reminded me of submas, and now it’s a thing!!!

[zhukzubast]

posting all the stuff i've drawn for dibper discord in honour of that Alex Hirsh doodle

[mandatory-ftmbreeder]

idk what transmasc needs to hear this but your hips don't make you any less of a boy, they just make you incredibly fucking hot

[plesiosaurys]

getting emotional over footage of an amateur scuba diver interacting with a coelacanth. they are hunted by large deepwater predators, and here comes a large creature bearing the brightest lights it's ever seen, making strange noises, but it does not shy away. it hovers, calmly, as the diver reaches out and trails a hand down its back. im strongly against the anthropomorphizing of real life animals but the stupid emotional part of me loudly insists this is because it recognizes us, the alternating movements of its four paired limbs matching the diver's four paired limbs, & it is thinking, "hello, cousins, we missed you these 66 million years, it's so good to see you again. welcome back, welcome home."

[vivid-dreamscapes]

Feel like Bakugou is the kinda guy to HATE ppl who celebrate Christmas as soon as November hits. Like, he doesn’t give a shit about celebrating holidays in general usually, but Halloween ends and not even a week later, Santa’s in every yard. And it pisses him off so much it’s funny. Once last year, you were humming jingle bell rock about a week into November, and he absolutely blew up. Literally.

So this year, you had a revenge plan.

You had went ahead and bought Christmas lingerie as soon as it was out, which had arrived pretty fast. You had managed to grab and hide it from your boyfriend before he saw it—plenty of places to hide things in a penthouse after all.

But towards the end of the second week of November, you changed into it and walked out casually into the penthouse living room. Katsuki was sitting there on his phone, grumbling and looking over the news before you cleared your throat.

He looked up, brows furrowed from glaring at the news, but it quickly snapped into surprise. You stood there and smirked as he just looked you allllll over, before standing up and reaching a hand out. He just pulled you closer, burying his face into the back of your neck as he mumbled against your skin.

“The fuck you think you’re doin’? You know I hate early Christmas stuff.” He growled against your skin, trailing quick but light kisses up the soft back of your neck, occasionally pressing his lips harder into you.

“Yeah, but you love my body.” You said with a smirk, tilting your neck forwards slightly. He quickly shifted to using teeth, just little nips here and there. He hummed against you as he went to pull your festive outfit off, but you stop him.

He gives you a confused look, but before he even gets the chance to ask, you say the same thing to him that he always says to you. Even if you mean it in a much more different way than him.

“Ah ah. It’s still November, isn’t it?”

[p0ison-control]

i hope they had a nice vacation or something idk i didnt read the book. bonus height chart to convey dove is the larger of the two of them but ivy has height on her

[specialagentartemis]

Reading (listening to, as Homer intended) the Iliad making me go oh. Ohhh. I should have done this before I read Gideon the Ninth. I get it now.

Particularly thinking now about the tidbit that in early drafts, our beloved gray-eyed Necromancer Warden of the Sixth House was named Diomedes Sextus. For Diomedes, king of Argos, young, brave, noble, heroic. Favorite fighter of Athena, bestest friend of Odysseus. And, notably, fought gods and—well he didn’t win exactly. But he got them good.

And specifically, he fought and wounded Aphrodite; Aphrodite, who is also called Cytherea.

And then of course Tamsyn Muir said she decided to change his name so she could make the Sex Pal joke.

Palamedes is a less heroic, less fondly remembered character in the Trojan War, but according to Plato, he unrelatedly invented both number and the alphabet, so you keep that connection to scholarship even if that’s not the first association with him. More interestingly, imo, there’s also an Arthurian Knight of the Round Table named Palamedes, best known for his unrequited love for Isolde (and his apparent ultimately gracious acceptance of her choosing Tristan).

I think this is actually a super interesting shift in thematic naming focus: from favored-of-Athena, fought-gods-and-wounded-them to unrequited heterosexual love, but didn’t act like a dick about it.

Also y’know. Sex Pal

[90s-kid-sad-adult]

you wouldn't know Prada if one stepped on your scrotum