#i need more of these guys pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease

[strawberry-hachi]

Nekoma falling head over heels for their manager? Yes.

It was just a coincidence that you were transferring to a different school in the Tokyo area. It was just a coincidence that you happened to like volleyball. It was just a coincidence that the school in question was Nekoma, which was closest to your guardian's work.

What wasn't a coincidence however, was getting kicked off the girl's volleyball team for retaliating against some girls who were picking on you for coming into the school year late.

So now your only way to really do anything volleyball related was to do it outside of school or become a manager for the other team.

Nekoma hasn't had a manager in who knows how long so of course they jump at the chance when you are somehow brought along as one of Kuroo's many friends.

He was able to convince you with the allure of skipping class for games as well as more help with homework and who would pass up good grades and the chance to play volleyball? Not you.

Kuroo has always had an eye for you, believe it or not. He is a logical person, even underneath all that mischief and wild flair. He had a way with words and an even better way with figuring people out. So it's no wonder he would attempt to talk to the new person who suddenly appeared at Nekoma one day. Even less surprising was him falling face first when talking to you.

All you did was help him when his school supplies got trashed from a particular nasty fall he took early in your time at Nekoma, and that was it for him. He was stuck to you like a parasite despite the different classes and year. He was hooked.

He was a logical person until he wasn't. Such as when Kenma oversleeps on purpose to avoid playing games, or when Yaku gets on his nerves for the nth time that day. He was logical with certain people, and perhaps a bit of a menace with others. He isn't really sure where you fit in his us vs them mentality and he isn't sure if he wants to find out. Not when you glance at him while walking through the hallway that sends a chill up his spine, or when your arms or legs brush together when you are studying together that has him shoving his head into his pillows at night, or even that one time when you had shoved him and you into a locker that was much too small for both of you so you could avoid the girls on the volleyball team. Yeah. Perhaps it's better if he doesn't figure you out just yet.

And it wasn't long till he began bringing up the idea of manager, even more so since you got kicked off the girl's volleyball team.

So now you are being introduced to the team as Kuroo practically vibrates with joy because his favorite people are coming together for something he loves.

And it's not long till Yamamoto tries to approach you. Despite his rather intimidating demeanor, he is a sweetheart and a bunch of nerves at heart. He could only keep his eyes off the ground when talking to you once and so you simply gave him the space he needed. He was obviously overwhelmed and somehow, this was all he needed to have confirmation with himself that he liked you.

Just like the Humpty Dumpty duo at Karasuno, he can be a bit overbearing at times. You can't seem to exactly shake him off even when he is practically dying on the floor.

You need to refill the water bottles? He can help if you let him! You need to help plan the team schedule? He has the entire night! You need to pick up some groceries? He's already got it!

You know who is just like Yamamoto but x10? Lev. He is such a sweetheart but goodness gracious sometimes he needs to take a step back otherwise he will take all your personal space.

He first approached you about a week after you joining the team and it was because he almost fell onto you while trying to get his water bottle. He had apologized, of course, but not without taking note of how nice it felt to hug you.

Lev, as you learn later, has always been the affectionate sort and it grew from his older sister, Alisa, who would constantly dote on him. You met her much later during nationals, which you had attempted Lev to try and set her up with you but it resulted in absolutely dreaded failure because Lev immediately passed out upon the request and Kuroo, upon hearing said request, attempted to take Alisa's place.

Lev, as he later learns, is that he developed much more than a stupid puppy crush. He isn't sure exactly when it started. Maybe when he first met you and how he almost crushed you under himself, or maybe a bit later on when you two accidentally got locked inside the gym because you were practicing late together, so you two talked until dawn. It could've even been the instance when you taught him how to do a floater serve and he clearly remembers how your hands held his and your body up against his back as you focused on the ball instead of his red face.

It was from then on you didn't escape practice without Lev trying to glomp you at least once, and you aren't entirely sure if you hate it or not.

Someone who does hate it would be Yaku, who can't seem to stop yelling at Lev each time he goes rushing to you for help with his spikes and receives.

The first time Yaku interacted with you was a little after Lev did, with Yaku scolding the boy for trying to "run you over" (you could probably tackle and eat Lev alive if you really wanted to but you didn't mention it).

Yaku has told you that you are too soft on the boy and he needs more discipline if he wants to be good, but you honestly don't have the heart to be as mean to him as you would be with actual teammates.

Yaku, quite frankly, finds it infuriating how soft you are with Lev, and the team in general, but he won't say anything about it if it means that he gets to call you in the middle of the night after a particularly rough practice to hangout. If it means he gets to see you look at him with such a soft smile on your face that he seldom sees during school, he is more than willing to let it slide.

And if you two accidentally get trapped in the storage room one day, it isn't exactly his fault if you two decide to use each other as warmth until they unlock the door. His face was red anyway, he's sure that you won't think twice about it.

Fukunaga on the other hand, is someone who probably over thinks every single little thing you do in relation to him.

It was around the time you met Inouka that you met him. You were helping Inouka with rounding up the stray balls when you had responded to one of Inouka's questions about your volleyball skills with a joke (as you often do because why go into detail about how often you had beef with your own teammates?!). It was then that Fukunaga had fired a quip back and turned the question once more onto you had you two finally learned of each other's existence.

Perhaps it's why you two are so aware of every little thing either of you say.

You said hi to him, does that mean anything? Oh you helped him with his serves, that must mean something right?

However, just because he is prone to overthinking (just as you are with him) doesn't mean it's his whole character. More often than not he is trying to come up with jokes for you and is probably the one you talk with the most if Kuroo wouldn't constantly stalk (he doesn't actually and he swears by this but Yaku and Kenma find it funny as it is something to hold over his head) you.

It's odd to say the least. He is usually the most detached of all the people in Nekoma's team and yet despite this, you find yourself absorbed in conversation after conversation with him. It was a matter of time till he started looking for you in every single room, unconsciously or not.

Liking someone is a foreign concept, especially in the way Fukunaga sees you and so you can't blame him when his jokes slowly turn to pick up lines every so often or he replies to your quips with compliments to throw you off. It's not like you can blame him either when he decides to try and plan your conversations ahead of time so he can catch you at every single front. Perhaps even get you flustered in the same way you do to him he so often finds.

Someone who doesn't show his emotions, however, is Kenma, who you've never really gotten a good read on.

He was perhaps one of the last ones that you had truly met before things kicked off with the team.

You'll admit, the way you met him wasn't the best. It was after practice and it was particularly stormy that night. You had an umbrella but a certain somebody didn't.

Kuroo, bless his heart, had left earlier before the storm came full blast to get something back home, and so Kenma was planning to walk through the rain until you offered him your umbrella.

You had more than once ran through the rain because of practice running late and so you thought nothing of it, but instead of him going with it, he simply took it and glued next to your side until you got home yourself.

It was an awkward walk as you stood shoulder to shoulder, and even more awkward when you got home as he bid you goodnight like some boyfriend and walked home; umbrella still in hand.

It was a Friday and so you did not see him or your umbrella until Monday, and so when he gave it back during class it was quite the sight. Yet, he did not seem fazed from all the stares and whispers. Not a bit.

You don't think you'll ever be able to read his expressions.

Him on the other hand, finds you quite the enigma. You were known as some wild dog since you had attacked three of the members on the volleyball team at Nekoma your very first day, and yet had acted so kindly, if not reserved, as a manager.

Even more so when he saw the way some other members looked or spoke of you.

He caught on quickly with the other's feelings for you, and he wasn't sure you'd ever come to realize, but that's okay. It's perfectly fine if it means he can take you to the rooftop to hangout without any pressure of another. The moment he perhaps truly fell head over heels, however, was during their summer camp that Karasuno was invited to. You had met Shoyo and hit it off, and he, somehow, was able to convince you to teach him how to serve. Something perhaps all of Karasuno + Kenma knew how bad Shoyo was at it.

It was then he fell, he thinks. To see someone so straight laced and aggressive during school hours willingly help someone with a smile on their face? Yeah. He fell hard.

And he struggles to show this to you and not others, especially considering how Kuroo has attached himself at your hip and Lev at your arm. Especially considering how Yaku always tries to find time to hang out with you and Fukunaga talks to you all the time. It infuriates him to no end but yet you still have patience for him even after all that socializing. You still have time to watch as he beats a level you were stuck on. You still have time to get him that game he has been looking at and for once, he doesn't mind the company.

He really doesn't mind, even if the side effect comes with wanting to kiss you breathless and have you look at him the way he looks at you.

[vaguely-concerned]

I love both games but it genuinely wounds me that dragon age inquisition is considered a better written game than dragon age 2 in wider gaming circles.  

da2 does SO many interesting things, from its very deliberately paced and solid three act structure, its arc as a tragedy, its use of the frame narrative and the metatextual implications of a stated unreliable narrator -- all the questions surrounding how much of what we’re playing is the actual truth or where the narrative is distorted by the storyteller: varric extrapolating from what he does know in situations where he wasn’t present, like the romances, or even him openly admitting that he’s taking liberties because it makes for a better story, you can sometimes deduce he’s protecting someone b/c he’s basically talking to a templar cop lol, every so often he doesn’t actually know what happened but doesn’t believe cassandra will buy that -- or simply out of love, like giving hawke that talk with leandra at the end of the dlc even if she’s dead, because hawke deserves the closure and this is the only way varric knows how to give it to them. it’s a story about stories, and you’re playing as hawke but really you’re playing from varric’s perspective; his stories for making sense of the world. the city and people he loves and, as becomes increasingly clear as you play, his grief at what’s happened to them. it’s a character study of a guy you get to know through his stories in ways he probably wouldn’t let you in person. gameplay wise we have no choice but to engage in what he presents to us as if it’s truth, even when it’s obviously not. and on top of all that it takes the themes of unreliable narrators and how history gets written from all the dragon age games and fucking RUNS with it and it’s just so gooooooooood and interesting I want to cry.       

and like... don’t get me wrong, I have played a truly unconscionable number of hours of da:i, and it has great individual character moments and a lot of wonderful stuff. but overall, structurally, it’s just a fucking mess lol

[incorrectmadrigalfamilyquotes]

Félix: Please don't do anything overdramatic and stupid.

Camilo: You could soon divert a river from its course than deny me of my nature.

[out-of-context-batfam]

Batman Universe #3

[heckolve]

gay old wizard cat my beloved...💔😿✨

[black-and-yellow]

Destroyed.

[babooshkart]

boys who brunch (december 24)

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[casukaga]

cw // blood, violence, stabbing

the one where fjord casts counterspell, yasha steps on cree's cape, yanks her back, and impales her with a sword from behind.

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[hyrules-warrior]

Can we talk about how Tobey and Andrew step in front of Tom to protect him from Dr. Strange?

Like Tobey even steps in front of Tom to hide him from view!  And Andrew starts telling him off. 

I just can’t. You guys protecting your baby spider bro!

[messisauce]

now thats what I call character development!

[partiallypoison]

MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE + HUGS

requested by anonymous

[lilyvines]

fuck canon, jack and Tommy hotel owner sitcom arc

- they realize that they both want the hotel, and so for the time being, they co own

- sam nook puts up a sign saying “Big Innit Hotel, run by Jack Manifold and TommyInnit, co-owners”

- Tommy got to keep the name as long as Jack got first on the sign

- jack wants to get closer and kill Tommy, Tommy just wants to hang out and have a space

- jack fully intends to give up on the hotel and just try to kill Tommy but he very quickly realizes Tommy has no business sense and is going to run their business into the ground, for gods sake Tommy

- ‘of course I gave him a room! He called me cool :D’ ‘HES MADE OF SLIME. THERE IS SLIME IN THE ROOM’ ‘well he insisted he was human’ ‘HE IS DRIPPING GREEN GOOP’ ‘that doesn’t prove anything’

- Tommy keeps giving people discounts when they’re nice to him. Jack eventually has to make a sign saying that Tommy has no clue what he’s talking about and they don’t do discounts

- occasionally tubbo comes around with ranboo. Jack dreads those days because he knows Problems Will Be Caused. He prepares water buckets, armor, and as many first aid kids as he can carry. He thinks he is prepared

- He is not.

- Micheal shows up at one point to hang out with Uncle Tommy. Tommy leaves him with jack for a couple of minutes to grab something. Jack does not become attached. He doesn’t. If he makes a sign saying all ‘Zombie Piglin Children Stay For Free’ then that’s entirely unrelated.

- Jack heavily insists that him and Tommy aren’t friends. He can’t stand the kid. when Wilbur comes along with some plan that Jack knows Tommy won’t like, he tells Wilbur Tommy will come by after he’s done his work. If he gives Tommy more work than usual (and all fun tasks) so he doesn’t have time to talk to Wilbur, then that’s entirely separate and means nothing

- eventually sam nook changes the sign to say “Big Innit Hotel, run by Jack Manifold and TommyInnit, friends”

- it makes Tommy smile so much that Jack can’t protest

- later, they talk on the roof about feelings and trauma and murder

- they laugh like when they were younger and finally reconcile after all this time

-they’re about the hug when they see Phil walking in. Jack manifold immediately panics. Tommy asks why he’s panicking because ‘it’s just Phil, Phil’s awesome.’

- jack informs him the hotel isn’t fit to house someone with wings. Tommy says the wings probably won’t cause problems.

- a second later it is revealed that Phil’s wings are now stuck in the door and he is trapped. someone help him

[eleart]

@kidcosmicweek Day 2: Travel/Crossover

*wander voice* TRADE!!

[brennik1221]

You're hot, Cupcake.

God. This episode. This scene. I haven't known peace since. This is a long rambling post, and contains minor spoilers.

Buckle up, cupcakes.

Immediately after finishing Arcane, I obviously went down this rabbit hole, especially with regards to ViCait. And I found out that the writer had to fight to keep this particular line in. Some of the others believed that Vi should continue being as guarded with Caitlyn as she is generally. But the writer insisted, because they understood how often characters in queer coded in media, and how subtext can often be misunderstood. And they said nope. We will not leave anything to the imagination.

And it is SO refreshing to have a badass, brooding, angry female protagonist who shows vulnerabilities, both physical and mental, who is ALLOWED to be soft and tender with this other person - which brings me to my second point.

Caitlyn. In the Brothel. Was. Everything.

Vi is prodding. Teasing. And Cait doesn't back down. Other than being what can only be described as curious in the first scene where she sees other patrons, and then momentarily taken aback by the "man, or woman?" question, we see Caitlyn play right along with whatever Vi throws at her (Matilda.)

Vi's smirk (especially reserved for moments with Cait), explicitly stated by the writers:

AND THEN. YOU GUYS. The most IMPORTANT thing.

Vi leaves Caitlyn with someone (presumably a guy), but when she comes back, Caitlyn is happily tucked away in this beautiful, woodland/hunter themes inspired little room with this nymph like woman, and what GOT to me, amongst everything else, was how at ease Cait was there.

And Oh My Word. The symbolism.

The mask that lies in her lap, seen being worn by a patron in a previous scene, is such a clear indicator of her being comfortable with who she is, and not trying to hide anything.

Cait being a markswoman, in this setting, with the Artemis and the Stag - The Huntress being Hunted - and the dialogue:

Woman: "I've only ever imagined the gardens, this is all I've seen."

and then it cuts to Vi outside, listening in:

Kick me in my gay little heart because is there anything so precious!?

It's that SMIRK again. That, Well Would You Look At That smirk.

And of course, this whole thing ends after the brawl with Sevika (Vi's fight scenes might need a whole other post for themselves but -) and Cait coming to help Vi.

And, we're gifted given another little moment of ViCait banter, and then VI reaching out for help

in a show of vulnerability, disguised as some more Cupcake Flirting.

[one-pissed-off-child]

The Encanto fandom took one look at the complex character that is Alma Madrigal and locked her in the box of one dimensional wicked stepmothers. You guys are so fucking boring istg

[dramaism]

I love this place. I made a lot of good memories here. Like what? I don't see any happy memories. It must be because of my illness. I definitely came here with someone. But I can't remember it. DOOM AT YOUR SERVICE (2021)