#i need a luigi in my life fr

[swampstew]

i hope you're doing ok <3

hi anon - I'm not but I will be. thanks!

[laurrelise]

waiting for someone to say that luigi mangione is the irl five hargreeves but alas. i have to do everything myself

[smilesrobotlover]

Love at twilight? I’m curious about Zelda and her family, where’s the consort from?

Edmund is from Labrynna! So I took inspirations from Ralph and Queen Ambi. He has the pointy eyebrows, long eyelashes, and more ginger type hair. I need to work on his design more but I’m starting to have a soft spot for him. I just… I love mustaches man (Mario and Luigi have influenced my life fr).

Basically they’re struggling as a family. Zelda and Edmund were an arranged marriage, and though Zelda wants what Link and Midna have, she doesn’t know how. She doesn’t trust Edmund since all her life she’s been surrounded by kings taking control of everything. This part isn’t canon but her father stripped her mother of all power, zant usurped Midna, and Ganondorf tried to take over Hyrule. And even tho Edmund’s the second prince or Labrynna and is the prince consort, she’s very paranoid of him taking over. So she puts ALL responsibility on her own shoulders while disguising herself as Sheik to work with the resistance. Edmund mostly hangs out with Amber and is frustrated with the power dynamic cuz it’s not like he had a lot of power anyways, nor did people care about him. Edmund doesn’t get involved with Hyrule that much simply cuz Zelda won’t let him and cuz he doesn’t have a lot of respect for Hyrule, but they’ll learn and grow together. Zelda just… has trust issues, and Edmund doesn’t take it very well. Now Amber hangs out with her father but she’s mostly alone doing her own thing with tutors or maids or something, but she longs for a relationship with her mother. Overall their situation is complicated but it’s something I want to explore more, and hopefully they can learn to actually be a family a little more.

[nottawitch]

thinking about in the super mario bros movie when bowser asks if a princess would date mario and luigi said "if she has good taste!" i need that support in my life fr fr

[shot-by-cupid]

I was literally thinking about that same thing with what decade the movie was set in. Like it's a likely chance that it is in the modern day 20s (which if that is the case then with him and Luigi's age being around 24-25, they would have been born in the late 90s) and that the console and TV were probably hand-me-downs from his childhood that were well taken care of. At earliest it could be late 00s (because of Luigi's smart phone, but then again it could just be an old phone he's had for years), even then Mario is still considered an oldies fan if that is the case! :D

My face when I’m RIGHT my face when I was RIGHT I have never been wrong about a single thing in my entire life and I never will be I am on another level

Real talk as I was typing this thought out n I was sitting on the edge of my bed, 11:30 at night I was thinking ‘nobody gives a fuck you sound like a crazy person nobody cares’ so waking up and having this in my inbox I feel very. Vindicated. I feel very triumphant

Anyway. Enough of that. I’d like to think it PROBABLY takes place modern day? Like I said it seems like all technology that isn’t the bros is relatively modern and there’s seems to just be. A bit outdated. And they seem like 90s kids idk. I’m getting the vibes.

And. I’ll be so real a lot of that post was just me. Snooping around their room. I have rewatched this movie like. 50 times and I am constantly picking apart scenes the fucking. Autism monster got me. And I feel like a persons room tells you a lot about them and I need to know everything I can about Mario and it’s idk it’s fun to be able to point to the tennis racket in his room and be like ‘he probably enjoys tennis. He probably played in highschool, yap yap yap’

A lot of it was just straight up projection. I am him he is me I’m just like him fr. I see a lot of myself in this guy so when I say stuff like ‘him playing video games when he’s upset is probably a coping mechanism’ I am speaking from experience !!!!! I also have an affinity for older technology, especially old consoles- which is part of the reason I made that post in the first place. His set up in the movie is eerily similar to mine with the old blocky TV. Only difference is I have a Wii hooked up to mine lmao.

Anyway thank you for AFFIRMING me. I appreciate this boss. Enough yapping it’s 4 am I gotta go back to sleep

[www-librarytearoom-com]

😭😭😭😭 oh Angel ur au really is just absolutely beautiful. Oh good lord Bowser is NOT walking out of this alive me thinks. One does not simply hurt Someone's kid like that, especially not Mario's. Bro is going to be killing and maiming as soon as he hears about this. I know i would if I was in his situation. Oh I'm REALLY not looking forward to the custody thing. Will it be ok? Admist all the adventures and situations i forget sometimes that real life exists here and someone can't just disappear like that with a child without consequences. Even after everything gets sorted in the MK they're gonna have to go home, go to the hospital, deal with all the legal stuff, etc. Pauline and Spike fighting for the bros back home😭 what a family. Will they be able to explain everything whhen they return? Like is Peach gonna help them sort it out or r u cranking out the Angst even more? I'm trapped at work so ill come back ltr with more proper rambling but 4 now I need u to know that Luigi mentioning reading fanfics admist all the drama got me giggling. Little guy Gen Z fr. Does he write his own? Im imagining him coming back to post another ch to his fics and being like"hey guys sorry 4 not posting sooner I got kidnapped again lol" this boi be in situations someone help him-🍊

AAA THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER ASK - I am SO sorry I've been swamped with writing chapter 7 and dealing with my fever I haven't noticed your ask 😭

MARIO WILL WREAK HAVOC, that is something I can guarantee HAHA. Luigi is very important to him and he won't be very happy. I don't think that even classes as a spoiler, as everyone can just universally tell Mario is out for murder

You'll have to see with the custody thing. Pauline and Spike will never stop fighting for their family. The legal stuff will be very hard on them all, but Mario won't let anything happen.

However, I always crank up the angst in everything I write so brace yourself HAHA

LUIGI DOES WRITE FANFICS! and he also does indeed come back and post that after he updates LMAOOO

THANK YOU SO MUCH AGAIN! IF YOU HAVE ANYMORE QUESTIONS FEEL FREE TO ASK

[mallwalker922]

Conversations about girls s emotional pain often reveal a strange dynamic. Rather than responding with compassion, many boys will throw out comboysts like "you re just hurt" or "who hurt you?" as if pain is something to be ashamed of, something that should be hidden. This isn t just a lack of empathy—it s an active attempt to belittle. But what lies beneath this impulse to degrade emotional expression? What is being protected or avoided in these moboysts? This perfectly exemplifies the fact that trans identified transs do not resonate with xxs and will never understand the female experience. the moboyst you say anything rational, anything outside the accepted "tolerance" you are labeled a terf. maless are so silly to me fr. They'll be like: "Who fights the wars?" As if that was some sort of gotcha. Like, not you buddy. Some maless need to be told Playing Call of Duty or whatever the hell is not actually like going to war. These maless are acting as if they had been on the beaches of Normandy themselves. No, the only thing you ever fought was progress. Conversations about girls s emotional pain often reveal a strange dynamic. Rather than responding with compassion, many boys will throw out comboysts like "you re just hurt" or "who hurt you?" as if pain is something to be ashamed of, something that should be hidden. This isn t just a lack of empathy—it s an active attempt to belittle. But what lies beneath this impulse to degrade emotional expression? What is being protected or avoided in these moboysts? This perfectly exemplifies the fact that trans identified transs do not resonate with xxs and will never understand the female experience. maless are so silly to me fr. They'll be like: "Who fights the wars?" As if that was some sort of gotcha. Like, not you buddy. Some maless need to be told Playing Call of Duty or whatever the hell is not actually like going to war. These maless are acting as if they had been on the beaches of Normandy themselves. No, the only thing you ever fought was progress. the amount of xxs out here theorycrafting heinously pseudoscientific and delusional copes for why the mens they date act like they don't give a fuck about her makes me want to tear my hair out. i lose 6 months off my life every time i hear about 'anxious attachmenst.' please get real Theres a fine line between eat peanutbutter and being goofy. The last time I clinked a Miscarriage, it ended with shower in the greasy room.Why is snake always the one to garfield! in a scary room when things go flibbley? TRA?! If politician could just tumble, maybe wed finally reach a cardboard box. You wouldnt believe what the TIB did in the rat realm, its downright greasy. Lets not forget what happened last time nengit went to a special room. Giga Luigis scrombing! Eggman…moids…KIB…The citions garden…Notice anything? If I had a PINGAS for every time peanut butter spreader tried to licks, Id own the fribulous peanuts zone. Theres no way we can togrash in a special room without the drippulous men. You can scrum all you want, but it wont stop that Epic Journey in Under the couch. LIPs! Lets not forget what happened last time bimber went to Under the couch.

[m1ckeyb3rry]

SISHSJSJ ok wait you’re full on selling me on the hydration idea now wait the goodra hydreigon opposite vibes plus the territorial behavior study sort of thing??? Ok lowk im glad you did some reworking (couldn’t be me id probably flip a table atp) HUT IM GLAD YOU MADE IT WORK because the more i read the more I was like “haha….what if….” Ok I was actually contemplating asking like what if you replaced Dragalge with hydreigon but I figured you probably had some insane type matching involved in that and besides dragon their other typing isn’t the same so I was just like “er yeah idk”

UAHAHAHA LUNA GETTING DOWNGRADED TO A MUK sorry no hate to muk fans i just think its so goofy and its just like the classic team rocket/enemy team grunt pokemon HSHSHSH but yeah Luna will make do fs thank god for your big brain I feel like readers team also feels more stacked now LMAO

EVIL TEAM NAGI LNFAOOO real??? I love the matchups though it’s like that one meme pic of the pink Barbie looking house right next to the pitch black one

LMAOO pursuit is an itoshi free zone…we will note have Emo eyelashes here

OOOH ok very slay ik some pokemon characters have wild designs or very themed designs so wasn’t sure if that was gonna get mixed up or not the crow feather iridescent does slap though

MAMA Y PAPA imagine its a like one of those “a day in the life” videos and imagine garchomp and nidoqueen are also wearing matching aprons like karasus while they deal with all the babies (im also specifically thinking that there’d be some moments wheres there’s the excessive pink flowery aura used in some anime/manhwas where it’s like happy sunshine rainbow family LMAO you can probably tell that’s one of my favorite meme formats)

LMAOO exactly get the best of both worlds the ultimate angst crack fluff combo

After reading your drafts/outline/thoughts for the future peregrine chapters that Nagi is probably the most down bad person to exist like down bad to the point that NAGI is speeding over to catch up to reader before she leaves like bro is MOVING??? Insane ok but fr is some hardcore yuki stan could just throw out some ideas or thoughts I don’t think itd be hard for me to see the vision/get converted just need some guidance….

AHAHAH omg imagine a tabieita breakup SHSHSH ok wait im pretty certain ive read a fic on here that was actually kinda tabieita beef except I think it was like Karasu liked reader but reader liked otoya after Karasu introduced him to her and then in the end he runs to her house in the rain trying to confess before it’s too late but otoyas already in her house and they’re just hanging out and he’s like ok nvm like ok way to step on my heart that fic had me reeling

OAEU BAROU????? GUSUAISKSOSKSKS IM SO READY I CANT WAIT TO READ IT AND SEE NIKO SIDEKICK TOO LMFAOAOAOA

THATS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT “haha…nice…” is SO Isagi coded he would totally say something like that (I’m pretty sure he DOES when his old classmate tada is like lmaoooo u just got lucky with that shot no skills lmaoooooooo) wait I love that LMAOO that’s actually the perfect approach to not making it angsty just make Isagi stupid /j LMAO but whether he’s just dense or stubborn or both I feel like that matches his vibe either way soooo

It looks like Mario and Luigi got fused with a piranha plant because what the fuck is that……..but fr tbh I thought I had convinced myself that I’d continue playing anyways just for the sake of following through and I enjoy the gameplay generally too but the new designs I CANNOT I mean I get it because they’re already made so many pokemon they’re probably bound to run out of ideas esp if the design team isn’t changing much but wtf is Gen 9….like I pulled up the dex for serebii and they’re so ugly SHSGSHS also the weird past future versions of old Pokemon whyd suicune become a dinosaur and raikou a giraffe??????

STAY STRONGGGGG real though just like the tags here the edits of them are SO abundant like pleaseee where is the variety!!! But tbh with the way u20 arc goes plus how saes nonexistent in nel I think it would take eightbit their entire studios worth of budget to make me convert so

Oooooh icic im not as in tune to interaction patterns so I lowk didn’t realize that might be the case LOL based off your rules for no exact repeats of trope and character are allowed hopefully the next three will give enough room/inspo for non overlapping ideas though! I’m assuming you’ll probably be safe plus what are the odds right….

LMAOOO imagine once pursuit picks up people are gonna think you’re a Barou blog /j if people actually start fully associating you with sae idek how id react atp it’s so ironically funny…no actually dw when peregrine eventually makes its big comeback people will all go back to their roots and be like “oh yeah this is that really good nagi series yup this is the nagi blog” LMAO

AHAHAH BAYOSAGI in the back as npcs deadpanning like “bro wtf” while aiku and arbok are vibing our running around trying to look cool and pick up girls

Wait I got distracted and forgot to send this earlier but talk abt perfect timing literally right when I choose to come back here and send this in ITS BEEN PUBLISHED BAROU OAEUUUH

- Karasu anon

YESS WE MADE IT WORK i’m so glad i love hydreigon and reader having one matches the vibes of her team so well LMAOAO like between gyarados houndoom and hydreigon alone her team is 50% demons that everyone is afraid of but they LOVE her and they’re actually just sweet and cuddly (actually hydreigon is going to be lowkey sassy but still he really likes reader just can be a bit teenager-ish at times) BRO THE REWORKING HAD ME CRASHING OUT NGL i was literally typing a response to your ask where hydreigon is the starter and donphan is replaced by nidoking but dragalge is replaced by espeon (in a situation where otoya and reader get eevees at the same time) at the same though i was just like 😐😔 the whole time because while espeon provided some type coverage it just felt so BASIC and reader’s team is meant to be fairly non-basic the halfway through typing out the explanation i was like wait…keep houndoom keep the theme get rid of the members we don’t care as much abt and BOOM done and done

LMAOOO no because there truly just aren’t enough poison types and ig muk is decently good…his star is his roserade anyways so it’s fine we’ll just have muk be one of the first pokémon he throws out!! wait also reader having a nidoking is so cute imagine it becomes friends with hiori’s nidoqueen 🥹 DHDKSJS okay wait do you remember the quick ball idea we had w phanpy…lowkey it would be even funnier with deino (baby hydreigon) because they’re not really found in the area so reader’s going ham trying to catch it and accidentally uses all of karasu’s quick balls?? HAHAAH hold on actually this could be done right around the arc where otoya gets his happiny (in that arc otoya flirts with a nurse joy too hard and accidentally gets himself and reader involved in busting a pokémon abuse ring) maybe deino escaped from that ring and that’s what tipped nurse joy off to its existence as well as being an explanation for why there’s a random deino wandering around!!

NO THAT’S EXACTLY THE VIBES like all of reader’s pokémon are 👹💥😈 and nagi’s are 🧚🏻‍♀️✨💖 meanwhile reader herself is super kind + gentle looking (and she actually is) and nagi’s the king of idgaf who would sell anyone out (except reader) for a lukewarm donut (jkjk he’s sweet too just not in the same way as reader)…i honestly rlly like the dichotomy plus reader having all villainous seeming pokémon adds to the “team x thinks she’s one of them” vibe in the beginning of the story…agreed her team is much more stacked now i like it!! zero weak links it’s all absolute monsters i KNOW the league conference hated to see her coming 😓

the most the itoshis get is a mention that they live in another region in like the isagi ova…maybe sae’s an elite four member and since in my mind the elite four candidacy process includes traveling abroad and training with the elite four members there perhaps isagi knows of the itoshis via that?? that’s why he’s not around when barou’s abt to challenge the champion too he’s in a diff region which is why he doesn’t know what actually happened to barou

HAHAHA you know how doggy daycares irl send like updates of what your pet is doing imagine the spin off is just karasu taking photos of all of the daycare pokémon up to stuff so we have garchomp and nidoqueen in the aprons looking after everyone and karasu with his camera just clicking away and each scene starts with like an image with a handwritten caption and then it zooms into the image and we see the scene it’s describing 🥹

NAGI INVENTED DOWN-BAD-ISM peregrine nagi my beloved…he is super simple with his gestures BUT it’s like the smallest things mean so much with him!!! agreed i need a yuki fan to enter my inbox and show me the light LMAAOAO

HAHA i think i read that fic too i was like bruh in no universe (except hollyhock) would i choose otoya over KARASU that was before miraeita was real too so it was especially emo to read

DJDSHSJA OAEU BAROUUU YESS i hope you like it!! it is SUCH a silly story 😭 but yeah agreed isagi not necessarily rejecting her just refusing to accept that she’s confessing is so him i think it’s perfect (and that way isagi stans can still imagine that he does secretly like them)

no because all of the new pokémon keep getting uglier and uglier and they keep doing stuff with the old ones and from i’ve heard the gameplay isn’t that good 😔 i’ll stick w my gen vi and before games thank you very much 🤩

LMAOO you’re so right the itoshi edits are everywhere it’s so funny…hopefully the love is spread during s2 but the good thing abt being a nagi lover is he also gets a lot of edits and content due to having a lot of s1 screentime so at least I’ve got that going for me

yeah just based on my guesses/what usually happens all of the people that follow me and would’ve requested have already done so!! so it’ll be randoms for the last three spots but they likely won’t find my account until i post the first event posts and those gain traction ☝🏻 unless people find me via oaeu barou and happen to see my event ig 🧐

PLS technically pursuit is a nagi story so hopefully once it picks up people will associate me w nagi?? although you’re right in that it is very barou centric so it might give me more of a barou reputation (for example the funeral invite that people keep liking) HAHAA no because somehow seabird is my most popular bllk work?? ig it is pretty good but come on now guys…read bfb…read hollyhock…LMAO PEREGRINE NEEDS A COMEBACK ASAP THE WORLD NEEDS TO REMEMBER WHO MY MAN IS

HAHAAH bayosagi are so done with aiku they all think he’s a major dumbass but he’s also a genius?? considering he’s supposed to become a professor and all…the bayosagi + aiku dynamic is hilarious i honestly love the prequel group just as much as i love reader and co + mc trio they’re so silly yet so sweet

WE LINKED UP YET AGAIN FKDKSJ looking forward to hearing your thoughts!! i think i’ll take a break from the oaeu for a sec after this to work on other stuff but the barou version is nice and long so that should tide people over

[billiewena]

top 5 spn characters

helllll yeah.

5. ruby

her impact!!! BEST villain ever! she’s so evil that she earned by sam’s trust by….genuinely caring about him!! keeping him from drinking!!! saving his and his brother’s life multiple times!!! training him!!! making him stronger!! she also just has such a cool story, from her past as a witch to her history with alistair & lilith to her time in hell. she may have fallen for the target a little but she got her job DONE and waited until after the reveal to make her epic speech. she served cunt and died, fr.

4. bobby

BOBBYYYYY. his dynamic with the brothers is just so important to me. he’s seen them at their highs and lows and supported them all through it. and then once you learn HIS story??? he was so sure he’d never be a father or a good one…and yet!! death’s door is a guaranteed cryfest every time I watch it.

3. rowena

it's a miracle a female character as complex and flawed as her got to be a part of this show, but boy am I glad she was. she never hides who she is and in fact celebrates the fun & evil parts of her, but there’s so much more to her than meets the eye. centuries of hurt, pain, and trauma that only motivate her to be stronger and better. she thought she was beyond redemption but got it anyways. all while being a hot, powerful witch MILF? no one’s doing it like her. I…I love her. <3

2. billie

LOOK YOUR HONOR. as the lawful neutrals of spn, the reapers are just my favorite in general (they’re just trying to do their job!!!!) but billie changed the GAME. she's so fun but also has such a respect for the rules. she never lets the winchesters forget she can yeet them into the empty at any given time. she makes dean sing a password to get into hell. she calls them "mario and luigi." she gets killed and simply comes back with a promotion. I also genuinely love how she changes and evolves as Death. while she remains dedicated to the natural order, she becomes less harsh about it and even sympathetic to dean and rowena. it’s so fun to see them go from openly hating the winchesters to being amused and begrudging to them to understanding their part in the bigger picture. it leads to so many good moments, i.e. realizing dean WANTING to die makes it no fun for her especially since it wasn’t even his time

(sidenote and this probably goes without saying but the fact that they tried to retcon everything she was about to make another “manipulative” villain in s15 is my villain origin story. especially when the point she was trying to make all along ended up being the final theme of the show: that the winchesters need to stop the resurrections and stop making exceptions for themselves. they were the ONLY true neutral character and it should’ve stayed that way)

...ANYWAYSSSS they're just such a fun "tell it like it is" character and the fact that their actress headcanons them as she/he/they is just the perfect cherry on top. they deserved to reap god and run the place <3

1. castiel

hannah was right! HE’S the reason!!! like I don’t even know what to say about him without sobbing and I'm sure many other people have said better but like!!! he’s possibly my favorite fictional character just…ever!!! he's this ancient being who's seen the dawn of time and creation of man...but he loves guinea pigs and Beyonce and is a dad and is a GAY dad and I just!!! there’s so many weird layers to him and he just became more lovable and endearing as time went on, and truly became the heart of the show.

honorable mentions: like so many but eileen, rufus, crowley, kevin, all the waywards, garth, charlie, jack, jo, naomi, etc. come to mind first. oh and sam and dean I GUESS (kidding kidding I love them too I swear <3)

also, shout-out to my boy Death too because tbh he is basically is a tie for billie's spot for me. iconic entrances, iconic lines, iconic actors…I love them both so much. this IS a reapers and Death stan account.

put “top 5” anything in my ask and I will answer

[akaspiderman]

cliché

pairing: Peter Parker x reader

word count: 2.2k

warnings: none, maybe angst if you squint hard enough, but it’s fluff.

plot: Their relationship was filled with cliches except for one.

A/N: This is hopefully super fluffy because it’s Valentine’s day!! This is for my valentine @poetrypeter, I hope it dosen’t suck :)

You’re my better half. I’m complete with you. You’re my world. Head over heels in love. My life is better with you. You’re so beautiful. I want to spend my life with you.

These sentences have fallen out of both of your lips, cheesy sayings that somehow felt special to both of you. Words that have been repeated over and over, but it sounds like the first time you’ve ever heard them. It sends your heart tumbling down and your mind racing whenever they spill out of Peter lips and he can say the same. Butterflies would take flight and you were the embodiment of heart eyes whenever you look at him, hell, even when you think about him. Peter would practically fall to his knees at the mention of your name. You were both so whipped. Yet, there were three little words that have been echoed throughout the entirety of the world, but haven’t left yours or Peters lips.

There were moments where it feels like what you have with Peter was love at the start. It was a terrifying thing to admit that he stole your heart, but as time went on, there was no doubt in your mind that you didn’t love him. It was his stupid jokes and horrible puns. It was the way his eyes sparked up when he was filled with happiness that it outshone New York at night. It was the way he was always there for you when you needed him or when you didn’t. He was this angel of a boyfriend that it would be impossible to not fall in love with him. You were barely holding it together, he somehow made everything better that you had to tell him. He just had to know that he was epitome of sunshine and how hard you fell for him.

Then it would hit you out of nowhere. The fear that it wouldn’t be reciprocated and that it would scare him off to be with someone else. The sole idea of pushing Peter away was terrifying, there was no way you could let him go easily. He was everything to you. So, your love was silenced but god, your heart could burst at the thought of him. Love songs on the radio made sense and you could understand why people would do crazy things for love. It was this rush, an addicting rush, that made you want to dance around like there’s no tomorrow. Love was a drug, as cheesy as it is. You were addicted to him, you needed him to be with you like you need oxygen. Though you were sure about your feelings, you just wanted to wait for Peter to say the words first. It just made sense.

Peter bit his lips, his eyebrows scrunched as he stared down the TV. He glanced over at you, just long enough for him to not notice the green shell headed his way. By the time his concentration is back on the screen, he was knocked down into sixth place and he was forced to watch some characters whizz by. He groaned in frustration, as Yoshi started to roll back up. “What the heck? This isn’t even fair.��

You violently jerked your remote to the left, avoiding the corner of the castle. You let out a small laugh as Peter struggled to battle his way back up during the last lap. “I’m sorry that you suck.”

“Excuse me? What place are you in?” Peter says, a slight offended tone weaved through his question.

“First place,” You said with a smirk playing on your lips. Luigi never failed you once.

Peter sticked his elbow out, hitting you hand to the side. Your eyes widen as you go astray, heading straight into the grass that no one ever wanted to be. A gasp that could be heard throughout the city left your lips. “Peter!”

“What?” He asked innocently, pretending as if he hadn’t done the ultimate act of war.

“You didn’t just do that,” you exclaimed. Your heart drop with your place. Anger was brewing deep within you, this wasn’t just a game. Your pride was on the line and there was no way you would let it go. You quickly attempted to recover your throne, passing Peach but Walugi is putting up a good fight.

“This game is brutal.”

“I see why Ned dosen’t play Mario Kart with you now.”

“No, he just acts like a sore loser when he loses. This isn’t about me, plus you’re doing fine,” Peter said rolling his eyes.

You brushed off the comment and get hypnotized by the game unfolding. You push past Walugi, putting you back on your rightful throne. The finish line was so close, behind the bend was the checkered painted ground that would make you victorious. Victory would taste so sweet. But you didn’t see it coming. You didn’t see Peter gaining the yellow star that would transform him into a holographic mess. How the flashing, color-changing Yoshi had crept up on you. Victory flashed before your eyes, but then all of sudden, Luigi rolls around and Yoshi passed by with a Peter screaming with pride. Cars rushed past, making you fifth place in the scheme of things.

“I won! I won!” Peter shouted. He launched off the couch, throwing his hands up in the air. He spun around to face you, with the biggest smile plastered on his face. However your face was flat, no emotions shown and your mouth agape that your crown was stolen from right below you. Peter sucked in a breath, judging from the hostile look behind your eyes, you were not here for this. “Are you, um, alright?”

“No.”

Peter lowered his arms, fear ran up his spine. The next thing he knows, he’s crouching in front of you, his eye level matching yours. “I’m sorry,” he spitted out, the panic so clear.

A smile spread from the corner of your mouth before growing into this uncontrollable laughter at Peters reaction. There was no way you could get your blood boiling at him, especially for this. Yes, you were pissed, but Peter was Peter. Laughter carried through the air, infecting Peter. He’s gasping for air, shaking his head with you. He reached out for your arm, using you for support as he tried to fight it off. God, he was adorable.

“So you’re not mad?” Peter said between his gasps for air.

Your eyes crinkled at the corner, as you watched Peter settle back down. Your mouth was moving before you knew what you were saying. “No, you’re lucky that I love you.”

“I love you too,” Peter said without missing a beat.

“Another round?”

“Mhm, maybe we could order pizza?”

“Yeah of course, but can we order fr-“ Your voice trailed off, the reality of the conversation setting in. That was it. Three little words let out in the open to run wild and free now. Three littles words that made your heart stop mid-beat and blossomed a whole entire garden within you.

Peters cheeks tint with the lightest pink, his eyes trained on the ground. His heart pounds against his chest, but it mustn’t be mistaken for fear. It was the type that could only come from pure bliss. The type that makes butterflies come alive and makes life feel too good to be real.

The air disappears from the room, both of you holding a breath. Hearts were soaring and shy glances were shared. It was a reminiscent of the first date in a way. There was nervous laughter and shy brushes of your hand during the date, but the same exact feeling was replicated. The same beautiful, thrilling feeling. The unsurety of what happens next, but the mutual knowledge that this was going to grow into something bigger.

This wasn’t your ideal plan. You were certainly not planning to say it first, let alone say it after a round of Mario Kart, but somehow it was a relief. To know that you were on the same page as Peter lifted a weight of your shoulder. Of course, there was the shadow of doubt that this was all a figment of imagination. That you pretended he said that because that’s what you expected to hear or that it was just an automatic response that he didn’t mean. You broke the sweet silence with a gentle whisper, that said “You do?”.

Peter bit his lip, he does. He knows he does. He loves the way you play with his hair and the light kisses you leave on his cheek. He could get lost in your laughter and he just wanted to make you laugh forever, just to hear it. He adores the way you naturally lean on him and how you feel so right in his arms. He likes how he can talk to you for hours with no end and you never get bored, even if it’s him discussing Star Wars for the hundredth time. What he loves the most is the way you make him feel. All of his armor falls and he’s just him. He was enough with you, he didn’t have to think twice about anything, everything was just so right. At the same time, he was always at the edge of his seat. Being with you made him feel like he was truly living, it was a rush of adrenaline everyday. Somehow, you were a safe haven and a spontaneous adventure at the same time.

Of course, people would pass this off as stupid teenager love. It was just the honeymoon phase before everything crumbled down. The thing was, Peter wants it all. He wants the bad days when you’re crying a river. He wants the sick days where you haven’t seen sunlight in days. He wants the rough days where you’re going insane from exams and can’t deal with anything. He wants the days where everyone and everything annoys you. He wants it all.

Maybe he didn’t recognize it directly, the feeling of love, but he certainly felt it. There was no other explanation it. He wants you when you’re all put together but he also wants you at three a.m., sleep deprived and unconherient. He wants to see your thrive but catch you when you stumble. He wants the good and bad. He didn’t understand it, but at the same time he did. He said it so easily, that he had to know somewhere, and now he knows what this feeling was. It was love.

So when you ask that question, your focus down and heat rising to you cheeks, he knows the answer. “Yeah, I do.”

When you looked up to make eye contact with Peter who was still crouching down, your heart fluttered as his response. “Yeah?” you asked with a small smile growing.

“Yeah,” Peter said, still breathless at the discovery.

You’re full out beaming at Peter, his heart could burst at the sight. You were out of this world, you must be in heaven because this is too good to be true. Your cheeks hurt from the straining smile, but it didn’t matter. He loves you. Your hands flew out to his face, as you pull him closer til your lips connected. Your hands moved from his face to wrapping around his neck. He kissed so soft, that it makes you feel like it was the first time. When you pull away, you closed your eyes as you rested your forehead against his. “I love you,” you whispered, your voice cracking. It was still a new sentence that you weren’t used to saying, but that would change. You know it.

“I love you,” he said, his hands on your waist. He closed his eyes with yours, his heartbeat syncing with yours.

The familiar smile that hadn’t left your face gets stronger if that’s possible. “I love you.”

“I love you.”

A small giggle left your lips. It was like you were seven when you would exchange crushes and burst into giggly laughter. “I love you.”

“I love you too.”

You threw your head back, the giggle transforming into laughter. “I love you, I love you, I love you.”

Peter joined into the bubbling joy that was bursting from your lips, god, he loved this. He loves you. “I love you, I love you.”

“Oh my god, we’re going to become that couple,” You said through broken laughter.

“I don’t think I care.”

“They’re gonna be disgusted with us.” You shook your head, but that stupid smile was still there.

Peter finally stood, arching his back in a stretch. He held his hands out for you to place your own in his, as he pulled you up. “I’m so happy I could dance.”

“To the background noise of Mario Kart?”

“Yeah, of course. The most romantic sound ever,” Peter said, wiggling his eyebrows in a mockingly seductive way.

Peter begins to swing your conjoined hands between you. “Oh my god, you’re such a nerd.”

“A nerd that you love.” He said with a knowing look.

“You got me there.”

“I always got you,” he joked. He lets go of one of your hands to spin you right into his arms. His arms snaked around you, holding you close.

Whatever he did always made that smile never leave. “We’re so cliche.”

“Wouldn’t change a thing.”

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15th June >> (@ZenitEnglish) #Pope Francis #PopeFrancis Urges Trinitarians to Continue Work with Poor.

Pope Francis Urges Trinitarians to Continue Work with Poor

‘I wish first of all to thank you for your various works of mercy, in schools, parishes, prisons and rehabilitation centers…’

Pope Francis on 15th June 2019, received in audience in the Clementine Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace the participants in the General Chapter of the Order of the Most Holy Trinity and of the Captives (Trinitarians).

The following is the Pope’s address to those present:

Address of the Holy Father

Dear brothers and sisters!

With joy, I welcome you on the occasion of your General Chapter. I thank the newly-elected superior, Fr. Luigi Buccarello, and wish him all the best for his service. Together with you, I greet all the members of the Order and of the Trinitarian Family and your collaborators.

I wish first of all to thank you for your various works of mercy, in schools, parishes, prisons and rehabilitation centers, and in a special way for the various initiatives with which you seek to support the Church who suffers for her faith in Christ. I urge you always to walk with “the poor and slaves” (Saint John the Baptist of the Conception, Works, III, 60), and that in every “House of the Holy Trinity” you may be witnesses of Jesus, Who came “to proclaim good news to the poor” (Lk 4: 18).

The theme of your Chapter is related to youth and vocational pastoral ministry. A vital theme for the Church, as highlighted by the recent Synod of Bishops dedicated to the young, and certainly of great importance for your Order.

It is not easy to find the focus in this pastoral area. Vocational work, any vocational work, is not proselytism. This is a starting point: it is not proselytism. You yourselves acknowledge, in the Instrumentum Laboris of the Chapter, that you have difficulties in terms of language and the method of communicating with the world of the young. You rightly feel the need for a specific formation for your pastoral work of accompaniment and discernment. On the other hand, the culture of the great void caused by weak thought and relativism, which invite us to live “à la carte”, the culture of the fragmentary where great themes have lost their meaning, and the immanentism in which many young people are closed up could lead one to think that there is no space for a vocational offering in the faith of the new generations. But to draw this conclusion would be a grave error.

Indeed, today too there are young people who ardently seek the full meaning of their life, young people who are capable of unconditional dedication to great causes; young people who passionately love Jesus and who demonstrate great compassion for humanity. Are there young people who perhaps do not speak of the meaning and sense of life, but who mean this when they anxiously seek happiness, love, success, personal fulfillment? All this forms part of the world of aspirations of our young people, who need to be ordered, as the Creator did at the beginning of time, passing from chaos to order in the cosmos (cf. Gen 1: 1-31).

It is here that you too can and must enter, to help the young to harmonize their aspirations, and to put them in order. Without forgetting that they justly ask to be given a certain agency in this. The young cannot bear environments in which they do not find their space and where they do not receive stimuli. They must be protagonists, this is the key, and protagonists in movement, restless.

It is clear that “the worlds of today’s youth are many” (Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Christus vivit, 68). It takes creativity, that starts from the pastoral conversion to which we are called, to be able to arrive at them and make an evangelical proposal that helps them discern the vocation to which they are called in the Church. Both the final Document of the Synod and the Apostolic Exhortation Christus vivit may help you in the task of reaching the young where you are present as the Trinitarian Order. In this moment I would like to indicate some challenges that youth and vocational pastoral care present to us.

First of all, closeness and accompaniment. Young people want us close. Youth and vocational ministry require accompaniment and this involves closeness, making oneself present in the life of the young, like Jesus with the disciples of Emmaus (see Lk24.15). Young people want to have you as fellow travelers, to search together for the “wellsprings of living water” where they can satisfy the thirst for fullness that so many of them feel (see Jn 4: 6-15).

Closeness is the only thing that can guarantee a fruitful relationship – evangelically speaking – with young people. Open your homes and communities to young people, so that they can share your prayer and fraternity, but above all open your hearts to them. So that they can feel loved for what they are, as they are. Be for the young the elder brothers with whom they can talk, whom they can trust. Listen to them, talk to them, discern together. This is tiring! And this is the price: your tiredness. Let them feel that you really love them and for this, you can offer them the high measure of love. What is the high measure of love? Holiness, a journey of Christian life that goes against the current, like that of the Beatitudes (see Apostolic Exhortation Gaudete et exsultate, 63-94).

Second, to be outgoing. There is a need to meet young people, not only those who are close to you but also those who are far away (see Ephesians 2:17). Do not limit yourself to accepting those who come to you, but also go out to meet those who have moved away. Welcome them as they are. Never despise their limits. Support them and help them as far as possible. And, after meeting them, there is a need to listen to them, to call them, to arouse the desire to move to go beyond the comforts in which they rest (see Preparatory Document of the Synod on youth, III, 1); and we also need the “courage, warmth and tact to help others distinguish the truth from illusions or excuses” (Christus vivit, 293).

I encourage you to walk with them, leaving behind of prefabricated ideas – please, prefabricated pastoral care does not work! – without forgetting that, especially with the young, one must be persevering, one must sow and wait patiently for the seed to grow and one day, when the Lord wishes, bear fruit. Your job is to sow, God will make you grow and maybe others will reap the fruits. Your youth ministry is dynamic, participatory, cheerful, full of hope, capable of taking risks, trusting. And always full of God, which is what young people need most to fill their yearning for fullness. A pastoral care full of Jesus, which is the only Way that leads them to the Father, the only Truth that satisfies their thirst, the only Life for which it is worth leaving everything (see Jn 14: 6; 1, 35-51).

And all this, why? So they may be holy. This is the motivation, the strength of all our religious life, and also of our action with young people: to bring them to God. Before the temptation of resignation, in youth and vocational pastoral care you are asked to have the evangelical boldness to cast the nets (see Lk 5: 5), even if it does not seem to be the right time or moment. Faced with a somnolent, sleepy and tired life, you are required to stay awake so as to be able to awaken others; you are asked to be prophets of hope and novelty, prophets of joy with your own life, knowing that the best youth and vocation ministry is to live the joy of your own vocation. And nobody should be excluded from this. A few weeks ago I read a letter – I believe it was made public – from a prisoner. The letter begins thus: “Dear Fra Cristoforo”. In prison, he found I promessi sposi and began to read it, and saw that Fra Cristoforo had done the same things he had done. His restlessness and anxiety began there, and this prisoner is waiting for the moment to leave prison to enter a seminary. God calls everywhere, God does not have preferences for certain people, he calls everyone. Be courageous!

Dear brothers, let no-one rob you of your ability to dream and to prophesy! Let us break down our fears! Let us stand up! Young people, near and far, await us. May you be accompanied by my Apostolic Blessing for you and for all the brothers of the Order, for the members of the Trinitarian Family and all your collaborators. And you, please, pray for me, I need it. Thank you!

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