#i should draw the top scene though 👀

[befuddled-calico-whump]

mer jericho crawling on land

there's a whumpy version of this (too injured/weak to shift into his 'human' form, trying to escape OR trying desperately to get to one of his friends and help them)

there's also a comical version (army crawling with a knife between his teeth to absolutely RUIN some nefarious humans' days)

[vicbutnotactually]

SORRY TO ASK FOR MORE INFO BUT THIS AU SO TASTY… tell me more about the boys 🥺 especially like. Did they like each other before ending up stranded together? And what did that shotgun wedding look like because 👀👀

Ask as much as you like! I love asks :]

(I’m currently working on more drawings of The Elder Gays ™️ but bear with me it takes a second)

The did like each other before they went through the portal, but when they were dropped into this new and scary world, romance was put on the back burner to focus on their survival. There was an awkward phase in the beginning tho, where neither of them really knew what to do. Even a point where they were both so stressed and frustrated and scared that it resulted in a lot of arguing and couple dramatic scenes where someone would storm off or say something they didn’t mean (it’s a ship au, you know I had to do it to em.)They did like each other, but they also had bigger fish to fry, at that point it’s been a few months and they’re starting to worry that no one is coming for them. Eventually, they get in a situation where they think they’re about to die, and confession happens >:] after they survive, they start to settle into the idea more. Even though they’ve met other people in their time there, they feel like they only really have each other.

At first, everything was unofficial. Casey would flirt relentlessly and Leo would pretend he’s annoyed. But after they realized they were probably in it for the long run, they made things official.

It took them a while to get used to their new environments, they tried living in the cities, but found it to be more stressful that being out in the wild. I imagine that they probably had several run-ins with gangs, struggled to find food or water, and had to hide out in abandoned places and alleys. Eventually, they moved out, I like to think that their last straw was one of them catching an illness that was running rampant in the city which could possibly be life threatening. Who gets sick is fine either way for me tbh; either way, one has to find a better place to live outside of the city, fight off anything dangerous, take care of the essentials (shelter, food, and water,) on top of taking care of the sick one.

The events leading up to their wedding are as follows: they’ve been busy recently, hunting large fauna and salvaging ancient tech, both to sell and trade off in the cities, it’s going well for them, they have money and supplies to support themselves (mostly) and have a somewhat permanent place to live. During a slightly riskier hunt, they find themselves overrun and Leo almost dies. Casey sees it in slow motion as a deadly hit misses him by less than a centimeter and experiences more fear than he ever has before. Immediately afterward, while they’re still fighting off these creatures:

C: “WE NEED TO GET MARRIED”

L (slashing at something with his sword: “WHAT?”

C (louder): “MARRY ME! NOW!”

L: “NOW?!”

C: “YES! WE WONT LIVE FOREVER”

L: “OK”

C (calling over to someone nearby): “ (insert name) MARRY US, WE WANT TO GET MARRIED”

X person: “WHAT, NOW!?”

C (holding off an attacker with his weapon): “YES NOW DO IT”

X person: “ok then... DO YOU CASEY TAKE LE-“

C: “I DO”

L: “I DO”

X: “I NOW PRONOUNCE (shoots something) YOU HUSBANDS YOU MAY KISS THE GROOM”

And cue hurried kiss in the middle of a battlefield with possibly an explosion in the background

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Let me know if there’s anything specific you wanna know about :]

Also, do you have any thoughts on what this au should be called?

[destinyc1020]

Sharon Stone is 66 years, I think she is now a little bit too old for the role. Sydney doesn't fit the role for me, also she is not a box office draw yet, ABU did great but his other movies didn't. Is like saying Glen Powell is a box office draw, Twister needs to do well, His last movie Hitman hasn't been that a big success on Netflix

The Winner needs:

A strong mid 50's actress, She has to have sex appeal and high class look (Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Diane Lane, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchet, Jennifer Connelly, Julia Roberts, Marisa Tomei, Naomi Watts, Rachael Weisz) have to be more out there.

2. An A-list handsome young actor, has to look in his mid 20's and in a great shape (he got a tennis scholarship).

3. The daugther role could be a newcomer or a not that famous actress in his early 20s. She can't be this hot chick but an intellectual type, strong personality.

I think Glen is on his way to becoming a box office draw...mainly because most people like his films and he's in SAFE films that tend to do well box-office-wise. A lot of the films he's been choosing are things that people actually want to see on the big screen.... ABY, Top Gun: Maverick, Twisters, etc. If he keeps playing his cards right, I can see people going to see films just cuz he's in them.

I like Nicole, Diane, Cate, Rachel and maybe also Julianne from the list you've provided. 😊 I'll be honest, it might feel a little weird to see Tom opposite Marisa or Naomi in a role like this, mainly because they both played mother figures to him in his prior films. I know...I know...it's just "ACTING", but still.... It's a bit WEiRD lol. 👀😅 Keep in mind, these sex scenes might be a little risque onscreen... 👀

I agree, the daughter could be a newcomer. I still think that the daughter role is important though, because keep in mind, the DAUGHTER is who the main character is actually in love with. I don't think we should just discount the daughter in other words. So I think it would have to be someone that Tom (or whichever lead actor they put in the role) has GREAT chemistry with as well! 😊

[luckyqueenreign]

LITG: Double Trouble EP 11 Recap

here we go...

*spoilers under the cut*

everyone is talking about who MC is going to choose...I will say normally I love a super confident pixel but Roberto just gave me the ick so bad with this overconfidence.

YAYYYY challenge time!!! im actually excited about this one!! GUYS the placement of these cowboy hats on the girls OMG it's so bad. oooop!! not Grace flirting with Ryan where Ozzy could see!! Girly ur relationship is already on thin ice!! EEK I chose the "you dont sound too secure with Ozzy" option and she said "youre right, I guess I dont feel that solid with him right now....kinda feels like he might still be open to other options." and then she glances at MC...😬😩 UH OH shes gonna give a test in the challenge...girlyyyy. skefoisjefjwaenfajw SINCE WHEN AM I BLONDE?????? lolol omg look I get that the art team prob couldnt draw the hat for EVERY hair option but they couldnt at least match the color ??????? also I hate that in challenges MC is the only one who wears a diff outfit. why cant they just make us have a special one but give the girls outfits too??

DEAD at Roberto not having any rhythm and Lewie not having any coordination in the obstacle portion. EEK time for Grace to test Ozzy 🫣 I meannnnn.....Lewie lol? why not Ryan who she actually just flirted with in front of Ozzy and who was grafting her AND is also single. lowkey feels like shes not only trying to teach Ozzy a lesson but us too 👀

OZZYS TURN 🥰 not Ozzy dominating on the bull and his dance moves AND choosing MC. ksaidsiodisjdfies OBVI snogged Ozzy's face off even though I def didnt kiss the other boys 😬 MC is obvi going out and showing out as she she should 💅🏼 anddddd u guys already know who I chose. Grace im sorry babes! Also sorry Roberto and Lewie! OOP Ozzy whispering that after our moment on the terrace he hoped we'd pick him. ok the constant interruptions from Grace...I get them...and I actually do like they added this in but im gonna need a little less to make me feel less guilty about what im about to do 😬. "IT SEEMS LIKE YOURE COMPLETELY ALONE" fb u really want me to fall in love with this pixel man dont you??? 🫣🫣 Grace saying that was low😐 im sorry for Grace that I made my mc be in her villain era bc im def choosing the diamond scene and going to do it all over again with Ozzy. SCREAMING not us landing perfectly on top of him after falling off the bull and then KISSING IN FRONT OF EVERYONE. MC IS A MENACE.

time for a girl chat 😬 damn Amelia saying MC always had the big moves and looking sad...yeahh thats def gonna come back up. LOLOL not Ryan pulling a Rocco and chatting with all the girls. ACK GRACE!!! "its not only the boys im struggling to trust" I love that theres more nuance here and fb actually gave her some personality here. Grace has EVERY reason to be fuming at not only Ozzy but also MC. ok wait..... "but when he cracks a joke you're the person he looks at to see if you laugh." STAHP IT PLS!!! not grace fishing for an apology! im so confused Grace has sat here with us and explained how its so clear Ozzy has feelings for MC and then when she asks if she needs to worry if you say yes. she's still like are you sure??? why did fb not make this consistent with everything else she just said!!

Ryan encouraging Roberto to shoot his shot with MC to free up Amelia is such an EL OH EL moment. like sir u have spoken two words to the girl and you've been grafting literally every girl in the villa outside of MC all day!! pack your bags Ryan!

[nirikeehan]

3, 11, 29 :)

3. What’s your favorite fic that you’ve written?

A Little Grace, and Some Elegance, hands down.

I should probably just leave the DA fandom now because I really don't think I can top it, LOL. It is, however, VERY dark — Cullen nearly dies of a lyrium overdose in the first chapter. The second chapter sets up the backstory between Cullen & Samson I have been absolutely feral about ever since, though. God. What a gem. I wrote it in about ten days in a total fugue state, idk. I was going through some shit at the time.

11. Do you have specific playlists for writing fics?

Oh, yes! I have a playlist for Thalia's character, and one for Cullen and Blackwall if I'm particularly in a mood for them. The only fic with a playlist is Through a Glass, Darkly, and it's...... suspiciously becoming a LOT of Samson songs. IDK. Still it's very dark and moody and atmospheric for the nightmare setting I've got going.

29. Share a bit from a fic you’ll never post OR from a scene that was cut from an already posted fic. (If you don’t have either, just share a random fic idea you have that you don’t plan on getting to.)

UhhhHHHHhhhhhh ok I wrote this scene for DADWC as like, maybe a future confrontation between Thalia and Samson. But IDK, I am worried it might end up redundant to other shit I've got planned by the time I get here. It's far away in the timeline so who knows. Anyway here's the juicy bit 👀

---

A moment later, he hit her with a crushing blow. His whole body enveloped her, dragging her to the ground, trapped under the weight of him and his platemail. He took hold of her chin with his gloved hand and tilted it to face him. “C’mon now, darling, we’ve barely got to know each other.” 

“You’re insane,” Thalia snarled. 

She writhed beneath him, trying to raise the arm that held the dagger. He grabbed her wrist and pinned it above her head. “Yeah, well,” Samson said, breathing hard. “Sanity’s all a bit relative, ain’t it? When one lives in an insane world—” He leaned down, using his free hand to draw up the strap of her dress that had slipped from her shoulder. The cold metal of his gauntlets scraped her skin; their gleaming crimson lyrium made her tongue go numb. “—We grasp for any shred we can.” 

He leaned back on his haunches, bits of thinning brown hair falling loose about his forehead. The cruelty in his expression softened. “Mm,” he said softly, “but you are lovely.”

Thalia spat in his face. 

Samson cried out with surprise, rocking backward. Thalia used the change in momentum to push against him and they barrel-rolled, one over the other, each trying to wrest the dagger from the other. Several dizzying seconds later, Thalia found herself upright, bare legs straddling chainmail and leather and metal. Her gauzy scarlet skirt flared around his waist like a wound. She tightened her grip around the blade and bowed over him, bringing its razor edge to the exposed skin of his throat. 

Underneath her, Samson froze. They were both panting. His eyes, no longer red but a shadowy grey, widened in fear.

Thalia straightened in surprise, one hand pressed to his breastplate, the other slick with sweat as it white-knuckled the dagger hilt. 

“You wanna end it here, love?” Samson rasped, seizing her hand. He pressed the blade closer to his neck, drawing a thin line of blood. “You go ahead and end it.”

Thalia’s breath hitched. Her whole arm trembled. All she could see were his eyes, deep and dark as wells, full of horror and pain. She tried to pull away, but his gauntleted hands held her fast. “I said, end it.” 

[districtunrest]

Give me the deets on Soo

always, friend!! thank you :)

my favorite scene:

Hazelle goes to the staircase and sees Haymitch standing before a bedroom door that sits ajar. He hesitates at the doorknob, then settles on the top step, where he can still face the door. She remains where she is, too curious to leave yet too conscious to draw nearer. Somewhere there's a sink running but here it feels dead silent.

From out of the case Haymitch lifts the fiddle.

As he tucks it under his chin and lifts the bow, something orange slips through the door, pushing it open a little more. Light, from the bedroom windows within, lances across him. He glances up. From her angle, she can't see inside but from his, he surely can. For whatever he sees, he starts to play.

Alice called him not ugly once. In a similar vein, he plays not horribly. Hazelle can't remember him ever sounding better, though his family's knack for spinning lent better to stories.

It takes her a moment to place the song; what's supposed to be quick with a lilting cadence, Haymitch plays slower so as not to miss the notes. The key he chooses is melancholic, too, when it's not supposed to be; the lyrics are meant to convey that enough.

Hazelle has never been one to seek solace in music but she could hug the sound now if she could. The spirit of the unsung lyrics plays in her mind, and it's all she needs to hear.

It's not all she hears, though.

The faucet stops, and Peeta hurries to her side, bewildered.

From the bedroom door, they hear Katniss join him to sing, as if unable to let a mountain air go without words. She matches his tempo, his key.

Her groggy, cracking voice awakens into something lovely and uniquely Katniss:

Lost all my money but a two dollar bill

Two dollar bill, boys, two dollar bill

Lost all my money but a two dollar bill

I'm on my long journey home

Homesick and lonesome and I'm feeling kind of blue

Feeling kind of blue, boys, feeling kind of blue

Homesick and lonesome and I'm feeling kind of blue

I'm on my long journey home

Black smoke's rising and it surely is a train

Surely is a train, boys, surely is a train

Black smoke's rising and it surely is a train

I'm on my long journey home

Haymitch's eyes are upward, wary and wistful, as if there's a thunderhead through that door.

Hazelle watches him watch her.

my favorite chapter:

toss up between Forward (19) or Making Do (21)! both just make me smile all around :))

hardest scene to write:

anytime Haymitch does something crazy, like sabotage himself into going sober or cry in front of the tribute memorial or, worst of all, use his words to express himself sincerely.

favorite character to write in the fic:

Haymitch, to the surprise of no one. but I've grown even more fond of Hazelle in writing her, too.

favorite dynamic to write in the fic:

obvious answer is Haymitch & Hazelle, so I will say them with their 'kids', particularly with Gale for Hazelle

why I chose that title:

bc it ties into a central theme and a certain conclusion our two idiots need to come to about certain matters :)

a fun fact about the fic:

should everything go as planned (my ancient SOO outline and I have been in and out of couples counseling) there is a 'there was only one bed' trope in the future that is then subverted 👀

send me a fic!

[punkscowardschampions]

Bibi (and co.) Pt.1

Bobby: [We were coming home from school, 4ish so a couple of hours before any adult is due, making the racket we usually do, totally oblivious to the fact JC have probably not long left after the absolute scenes they were causing all over this house; all teenage boys are always hungry so it isn’t going to take you any length of time to go to the kitchen for scran and see this vague note; let us assume you text Janis like ?? and Casey too but he left his phone and she isn’t looking/replying right now so then you take a photo of said note and message it to Jimmy]

Bobby: That mean Case has 💀 someone or what?

Jimmy: Means I’ll have to find out

Bobby: Neither of ‘em is here, Jan wouldn’t be but he usually gets up to have a go for waking him and no 👀 after I just dropped the butter

Jimmy: I’ll give her a ring, sort out the or what

Bobby: Fair dos, don’t get cramp in your hand having a chat like that 

Bobby: ✍️ don’t come into her job, s’pose

Jimmy: weren’t giving herself cramp with the note, can’t be that bad

Bobby: Had time to write one, dunno where she plans on putting him, mind

Bobby: only get in more trouble if she drops him at Ian’s

Jimmy: she knows what she’s doing

Bobby: Much as can be done with him, yeah 🙄

Jimmy: You get your homework done and leave it with me

Bobby: Where do you suppose his missus is in all this 

Bobby: She wouldn’t be thrilled at the idea of them 2 going off together 

Jimmy: Oi, you heard

Jimmy: [one of his teachers, I shan’t commit us] can’t have set you questions like that

Bobby: Could be for film club, we reckon she’s a right 🐇♨️

Jimmy: I’m at work here, trying to get hold of her’s enough of a sackable offence without carrying on with you an’ all

Bobby: They’re not gunna sack you, you’re top at your job

Bobby: can’t expect their employees not to have lives, especially not with 2 brothers, 1 being a right dickhead 😁

Jimmy: tah very much, but trust us when I say they’re at the top ‘cause they’re massive dickheads

Jimmy: I’ll chat to you in a bit, alright

Bobby: Alright, I’ll let you know if either comes back and bothers to let me know, or I find any clues

Jimmy: 👍

Bobby: [Time to message Libi like guess what, girl]

Bobby: Reckon Case’s missus is full Glenn Close 🛁🩸🔫

Libi: *🔪

Libi: Anne Archer uses the revolver

Bobby: Touche 

Bobby: and may as well be her name, ain’t spending time working on a right good deaf one for her when I think she’s already 💀 to Case and that means us 🤞

Libi: Anne, Glenn, Beth or Alex, it’s all the same, yeah

Bobby: [send the picture of this note because what else could it be, honestly, Janis didn’t need to spell it out]

Bobby: You wanna come over and search his room with us?

Libi: ☢️⚠️☣️ want’s a 🤏 strong but 

Bobby: I will provide gloves and a clothes peg for your delicate 👃

Bobby: dunna, the note was giving major 2nd clue will give it more context vibes, don’t you think?

Libi: You’re right on both counts

Bobby: Jan ain’t replying to me but she’d have to you

Libi: 🤞 she’s driving and nothing more sinister

Bobby: 🤔 Would she draw the line at helping bury a body or what

Libi: For Case? Is there a line?

Bobby: Jim said she knows what she’s doing… like that’s necessarily a 👍 thing

Libi: He would say that

Libi: we know what he means by 👍 though

Bobby: Means piss off and do your homework today

Bobby: as if I didn’t just walk in the door to a murder mystery case

Libi: Cos you walked in on such a ??!!

Libi: he’ll be losing it under that 👍

Bobby: I just wish he gave us enough credit to know he can’t hide nothing from me

Bobby: and he don’t need to now, I get why he did when I was a proper kid

Libi: You’re still one to him 👶🏻 both of us are

Bobby: you should definitely graduate to toddler this birthday, at least 🤏 later bedtime, like

Libi: Aw, tah 🥳🌟🌜

Bobby: I know you’re as sick of it as I am

Bobby: if he’s gonna be full ??!! behind a 👍 you have to come stay here, I can’t deal with that alone

Libi: I’m right sick of Case dragging her into his mess

Libi: they could be banged up for my birthday

Bobby: She can’t make the garda lock her up too

Bobby: do you think it’s that bad, what he did, no more warnings left or whatever

Libi: He was with the girlfriend longer than the others, means more chances for him to have a go… I keep thinking about that

Bobby: If I was him I’d just steer well clear, no one winds him up more than the girls he knocks about with

Libi: But you’re not

Libi: if he had your sense he wouldn’t need Jan to be his voice of reason all the time

Bobby: He’s more of a kid than either of us, full-time babysitting, that

Bobby: Right again though, Libs, I just dunna what to do with myself now

Libi: I’m coming, promise

Libi: bus is late, but I’ll be there as soon as I can be

Bobby: 💕

Bobby: I’ll go and bin all the grottiest shit in his room, save your blushes and 👀

Libi: 💕

Libi: My own fault for not going back with you anyway, I had a feeling I shouldn’t have ignored

Bobby: Yeah? You’re usually not wrong, even when it’s less logic and more 🔮

Bobby: I thought she was a crank, yeah but maybe I was just hoping he was happy with it for once

Libi: It’s okay, I wanted to be wrong too, don’t beat yourself up and I won’t

Bobby: Too soon 😬

Bobby: I can’t even act surprised, that’s the bit making us feel proper thick, if he’s done it, ‘course he has

Libi: You’re not thick for having hope he was maybe sorting himself out

Libi: he’s more than old enough to be getting there, that’s the *😬

Bobby: Lads like that don’t, ever

Bobby: they turn into middle-aged dickheads like Ian

Libi: Sins of the father, you’re not wrong

Libi: not everybody can break the cycle

Bobby: If Jim hadn’t got me out, who knows

Libi: I’d get you out, we’d still have to meet somehow 🔮

Bobby: You could’ve when we met, remember when you tried to runaway with us

Libi: Yeah, and I remember your impression of Ian

Bobby: 😡😡🤬🤬😡 only be redder with drink and age, probs

Libi: I’d shout louder than him, had loads of practice, haven’t I?

Bobby: Keep trying, I might hear you one of these days 

Libi: You do, you’re a great listener, it’s just me who wasn’t

Bobby: I needed someone to talk to, fairness

Bobby: and you’ve always been good at that, fuck all competition you may have

Libi: I’d fight it off, too soon for another bad choice of those words or not

Bobby: Nah, ‘cos a fight between us is only ever for film or for fun

Bobby: you know I’d never hurt anyone how he will everyone, especially not you

Libi: It wouldn’t be us fighting, just me and whoever you’ve brought in as my talking understudy, for some reason

Bobby: You’re always gonna be the brightest ⭐️ I know

Bobby: you only need a stunt double if things get too ⚠️

Libi: I say one thing about how gross his room probably is…

Bobby: you rn 😤

Libi: A second ago I was ⭐️ rn

Bobby: 😏 you’re a lot of things

Bobby: wrong is not one of them though

Bobby: [pictures of things in Casey’s room that are gross but not like ew I actually don’t wanna see that gross lol, sorry boy, privacy whomst]

Libi: 👍 has never been more accurate

Bobby: Reckon Jim would be 👍 or 👎 if we ordered [some takeout you all fuck with, as shown by a pic of some old containers we’re binning rn] for when he gets back?

Bobby: somehow can’t picture those 2 rocking up in time for tea and I don’t want him distracting himself bothering his arse with it

Libi: He might not be bothered about eating none but it shows you are about him so 

Bobby: We can finish his portion when he deffo ends up leaving it

Libi: Shh, I’m starving

Bobby: I’ve already had [the ridiculous amount of after-school snacks you have consumed] 😘

Libi: 🐷!!

Bobby: I’m a growing lad!

Bobby: and there’s fuck all to do ‘til your bus sorts itself

Libi: I get it, you wanna tower over me cos you didn’t when we met

Bobby: 😱!!

Bobby: If you’re checking I can hack it like Jim can, dead easy

Bobby: sure I’ll get my own model missus one day

Libi: I’d have said actress was more likely, and you’ll be alright, they don’t have to be tall necessarily 😘

Bobby: [the lady on whatever instructional sign language videos they’d have you watching for Irish sign language vibes] is most likely 😢

Libi: Boy, you stop it

Libi: she’s WAY too old for you but I’d be the one having a heart attack 👎👎👎👎👎

Bobby: I ain’t thrilled about my option (no s) so chuck a 🍔 my way and we’ll make it mutual, Libs

Libi: It’s a date, and what a date, like 🥰

Bobby: Can’t say we don’t know how to party 

Libi: Say the word and we’ll run away again

Libi: I know what I’m doing now I’m not a toddler

Bobby: We better wait out Case’s exile, wouldn’t wanna bump into him on our way out, awkward 

Libi: I only wanted it on record, I’m in, whenever and wherever

Bobby: 🥳🌟🌜 I remember and I promise

Libi: I have another feeling, I don’t wanna but it’s right there

Bobby: You can tell us, we’ll work out if we wanna ignore it together

Libi: You might need to eat my [whatever the takeout is] too

Bobby: I won’t show-off that that wouldn’t even be a record…

Bobby: we’re probably on the same page, same script

Libi: If I could demand rewrites, I would

Libi: and a change of scene, for sure, this bus isn’t helping with the knot in my stomach

Bobby: It’s weird, I know it’s weird

Bobby: but he ain’t once touched her

Libi: She hasn’t once missed this many calls from me

Bobby: She might be on the phone with Jim

Bobby: we can’t panic yet, we can make a plan though, me and you

Libi: For if they come back or if they don’t?

Bobby: If she don’t give you some sort of response before tonight, we’ll start there

Libi: [a time like yep you’ve got a deal] 🤝

Bobby: 🤝🩸

Bobby: She can handle herself, just like you

Libi: It was her who taught me

Bobby: I know, I got some benefit too, stopped 😭 as much

Libi: I still remember how to stop you myself if you fancy 😭 for old time’s sake, or you know, cos everything’s so weird sometimes

Bobby: Very weird

Bobby: but that kid who cried all the time still feels ages away, far away as the girl who used to shout at us

Libi: I’ll do it, as long as you warn Jim first, speed this bus is going he’ll get in before me

Bobby: Where’s Sandra and Keanu when you need ‘em 💔

Bobby: he’d get the memo you were ‘round before me, pisstake

Libi: We can’t have that

Bobby: Have to warn me some way else

Libi: Dead easy

Libi: I’ve got loads of tricks up my sleeve, no need for you to wear a 💔 on yours

Bobby: No one jumpscares me less, like

Libi: What happens when I’m as easy on the 👀 obviously

Bobby: Something like that, Libs

Libi: Save me [something that’s her absolute fave snack and hence all she can face eating rn despite being starving] and I’ll know it’s real

Bobby: [picture evidence like of course I shall]

Bobby: Case’s phone is here btw, so, can’t have been planning to stay away for long

Libi: [a lil vid of her signing something feelsy, I vibe from when they were bubs cos they probs had not like a full language of their own but like things instead of ILY and big stuff like that]

Libi: It’s a start, we can try and guess his pin until Jan’s deadline

Bobby: [give that same energy back and sign another thing from your bub speak because love that for y’all tbh]

Bobby: 🧠🧠 better than 💩🧠

Libi: Use her birthday for the first guess

Bobby: 😩

Bobby: nothing, I better check how many attempts we get…

Libi: Do you know your mum’s?

Bobby: Going for the big 🔫🔫

Libi: You said it, we might not get many gos at this

Bobby: Is it bad I don’t know?

Bobby: Didn’t exactly leave 📼 for us

Libi: *sad

Libi: but it makes sense you wouldn’t

Bobby: I got no memory of any 🥳s and it’s never been a priority or a sound idea to ask about ‘em

Libi: ‘course not, ditch that guess, I don’t know what I was thinking

Bobby: It might be the one but I can’t ask Jim so it’ll have to be ❌

Libi: [Suggest the date of another JC moment you’re aware of and hence it won’t be cos it’s too obvious]

Bobby: ❓

Bobby: not that either but you’ve got a much better memory than me

Libi: Is that bad? 👽

Bobby: Your heads like a 🎥 you pick up on all the important things

Libi: You give the best compliments, nobody’s ever said anything nicer to me than that just now

Libi: your heart’s like a … 

Libi: I can’t finish the analogy with something as good, you’ve proper flustered me 📌

Bobby: It’ll have to do as making up for me not knowing shit to crack this code to ease the knot in your stomach

Libi: Might make it worse instead, maybe you’re saving me 🦸🏻‍♂️🤴🏻👨🏻‍✈️👼🏻👨🏻‍🚒😎👩🏻‍🚀🧙🏻👨🏻‍⚕️🧚🏻‍♂️🤠👨🏻‍🔬

Bobby: Nothing can be as bad as the scenes that are looping in your head, right

Bobby: real life just don’t get that bad, not now

Libi: 🤞🌠 Bobs

Libi: All I want’s you to be right again

Bobby: not got your inherited 🔮 but its been known to occur enough I don’t feel too bad for you having to trust in us

Libi: You’ve got your own 🔮 and I do trust it

Bobby: Meant to make my other senses proper 🦸 will have to ask Ali if that includes my third eye 🪬

Libi: I’ll get back to you 😏

Bobby: Be a pisstake as I’ve just made you leave there to send you back with that kind of bollocks Q

Bobby: He reckons I’ve got too many but I know there’s more in his own 🧠

Libi: It’d be charming of you 🤴🏻 I’ve only got [however many] stops left

Libi: and yeah, exactly, like we said, I can’t leave either of you to it as if I believe the 👍

Bobby: I ain’t touched your snacks, got some self-control

Bobby: tried Ian’s birthday ‘cos I know that one, weren’t it though 😒

Libi: Are we 🔒 out of tries? 

Bobby: Think we have to wait for the tries to reset ⏲

Bobby: you can have your snacks and we can work out how we’ll find them if Jan doesn’t get back to you

Libi: It’s a plan

Bobby: is [an old lady who is always on the bus because you get CHARACTERS when you regularly use public transport] on today?

Libi: It’s [Whatever day it is] she’s on her way to [wherever you’ve made up that she goes cos y’all are making a story out of it as if they are characters lol]

Bobby: Ahh, you’re right 💡 it was [a day it is not] today 🥴

Bobby: got me fucked up

Libi: Reason not to do your homework how Jim wanted, you’d be reading up for all the wrong subjects 

Bobby: Fat chance that was happening but not like he’ll get his red pen out to mark and check it’s done if I tell him otherwise 

Bobby: Priorities, like

Libi: I didn’t bring a red pen either, you’re alright

Libi: barely have anything, my priority was running for the bus

Bobby: Good thing she had you trained for that an’ all 🏃🏻‍♀️

Libi: I’m meant to be bringing the rescue mission to you, not the other way ‘round, be awkward 🚑

Bobby: you better have your inhaler, more vital than a red pen, girl

Libi: [photographic evidence via her posing with it like a big nerd]

Bobby: 🤩

Libi: 😮‍💨

Bobby: I know, I know, take your breath away, me

Libi: Number 1 trigger, you

Bobby: bit less complimentary comparing us to dust mites but you know, fair if that’s the line I come up with after all this time 

Libi: I can’t help it if laughter’s not the best medicine for this, or nobody making me like you do

Libi: how complementary is comparing you to a 🤡?

Bobby: It’s not mime, you’re still a 👼🏻

Libi: I don’t have the legroom nevermind any for a full wingspan

Libi: trapped 🦋 more like

Bobby: No dickhead better come at you with a 📍and some poison

Bobby: even for [bus number] that’d be well out the usual

Libi: As much as it would add to today’s murder mystery vibe, you’ve got enough sleuthing on 🕵🏻

Bobby: There’s limits to how many of us can go missing at once, yeah

Libi: MIA’s only the move if you’re in too

Bobby: What would you do, if you were Jim

Libi: I don’t know, but I know I wouldn’t be in his position

Bobby: It ain’t him, his fault

Libi: It’s Case’s fault, the but comes in cos I wouldn’t be around it, him, if I was Jim, that’s what I’m trying to say

Bobby: Yeah, it isn’t like that’s a choice though

Libi: He’s not a kid any more though, there are choices

Bobby: it’s not like you can just turf someone to the side the minute they hit 18, Jim wouldn’t, not when Ian couldn’t wait ‘til I was in double-digits

Libi: But he didn’t just hit 18 and making excuses for him ‘til he’s 28 or 38 isn’t helping him or Jim, is it?

Libi: I believe in second chances, third and forth even, he’s had so many who’s counting?

Bobby: I don’t know, I’m not the big brother, I never had to make any decisions about things like that so I can’t sit here and judge his

Libi: I don’t wanna sit here and come for his life, you asked me though

Bobby: I know you ain’t

Libi: I just think there’s a point where you reach the end of your tether, if you’re ever gonna, and this has got me at mine

Bobby: and I don’t wanna sit here and come for hers but who’s really given him all those chances

Libi: It’s not right

Libi: maybe they’re both bigger and better people than me, for having the patience I don’t with him, all I see is the toll it’s taking… where’s the upside supposed to be?

Bobby: I should hope so, they are the adults, after-all and we’re just 👶🏻👶🏻

Bobby: I don’t know, I wish I had some clue

Libi: We’ll decide what we wanna do together, there’s no deadline on specifically that part

Bobby: Fuck it, maybe this is the final straw, I dunna

Bobby: it just doesn’t feel like something that’d ever really happen, y’know

Libi: Yeah, if anybody would keep making more and more straws appear ‘til it feels like some sort of magic trick, they’re the ones for it

Bobby: Quite the double act

Libi: I always used to reckon so

Bobby: Why wouldn’t you, it was 🏰💕

Libi: What happened?

Bobby: Either we grew up or

Bobby: it was just a story

Libi: Swear you aren’t about to outgrow me, that we’re not gonna be a story

Bobby: as long as you swear not to walk out on me

Libi: never

Bobby: Then we’re gonna be just fine, like we’ve always been

Libi: 🏰💕

Bobby: 🤝💕💀

Libi: This took a dramatic turn, I seriously didn’t mean to make you swear an oath to me before I’ve even walked through the door

Bobby: Standard you behaviour, dunna what you’re chatting, girl

Bobby: and what else do 🤴🏻 even do, yeah

Libi: Oi!

Bobby: 🤡 too, but I won’t play that its a full-time job keeping you 😂 though

Libi: You couldn’t hack a full-time job anyway

Bobby: Oh, shall I get you the paper for the classifieds for your bday

Bobby: 👍 stuff

Libi: No need, I’ll be putting my name down for [a cool cinema they like or something in that vein] first chance I get, tah

Bobby: Free 🍿 for me then

Bobby: you’ll love that

Libi: Bring your own 🥄 then [random but I have pics in his folder of that because it’s a weird thing Brooklyn Beckham and his missus used to do and it gave bibi to me lol cos why huns ??]

Bobby: Wouldn’t leave for the movies without it, regardless of drug allegations

Libi: I could make a top final straw joke there, having one of them on you too, but it’s meant to be your job 🥤

Bobby: You dead keen to make me a wage slave today

Libi: You’re dead keen on bringing up my birthday

Bobby: It’s soon

Bobby: and a better thing to focus on that… this

Libi: Alright, what are you getting me and what are we doing? 

Bobby: Come on, can’t ruin surprises or you’ll have nowt to look forward to

Libi: But 🥺 if I ruin these you’ll think of more, won’t you? 🥺

Bobby: Am I going to let you have a rubbish birthday?

Libi: You better not 😤

Bobby: 😭 You’d think there was ever a possibility the answer to that question was anything but fuck no

Libi: You’d think there was ever a possibility I’m not only playing

Bobby: not my fault your 🥺 are dead convincing 

Libi: ⭐️🎬🎭🎥

Bobby: I’m relying on you to bring in a new silent era, no pressure superstar

Libi: Throw 🍿 - your 🥄 if I let you down, bringing it in an eyepatch is gonna limit me and my second chance 🤏

Bobby: Nah, even with one eye you’d still beat every actress out there today

Libi: I don’t know about that

Bobby: Come on, [drag some really shit actresses of your day, they’re always out there, doing the least or doing too much of the wrong thing lmao] 😶😶

Libi: Okay, okay…! 

Bobby: You’re properly talented, and I’d think that even if we weren’t best friends

Libi: 😁

Libi: you’ll give me jaw ache in a minute

Bobby: S’alright, permanent rest when you’re around me, very welcome

Bobby: maybe I’ll be a critic, your face, your eyes and your body language have to do all the work to convince me, can’t just memorize the lines

Libi: I’m glad you added language after my body

Bobby: Oi!

Bobby: you know it’s VERY important, sign language 101, you’ve had enough lessons by now

Libi: Oi is exactly right, it would’ve been so rude

Bobby: And I would never, tah very much

Libi: [signing her own tah very much as a lil vid, really being expressive about it for those sign language 101 vibes]

Bobby: 😏 what are you like…

Libi: Admit it, I could take over from [the sign language instruction lady]

Bobby: I’m just thinking of your jaw, no more compliments for you

Libi: Don’t get a job as a dentist… imagine all the kids 😭 when they see you

Bobby: SPECIFICALLY me or what

Bobby: ‘cos we agreed its a little too soon for a playfight 🥊

Libi: Neither of us need that level of rejection in our 9-5

Libi: I say with a straight face as we debate me becoming an actress… 

Bobby: If anyone can break that industry, I believe it’s you

Libi: Well now I’ve gotta

Libi: none of that is how I like to prove you wrong

Bobby: and if you can’t get in front of the 🎥 there are a million jobs behind it that you’d be just as top at

Bobby: Not worried about what you’re gunna do with your life for a reason, them pair

Libi: You’re a weight off my mind too, you know

Bobby: Yeah?

Bobby: what I like to hear

Libi: I wish we could just stay in this bubble of the future that’s my birthday and our career goals and none of the rest

Bobby: Me too

Bobby: the rest, what’s happening and what’s gunna when they are back… too uncertain

Libi: Do you think they’ll be back tomorrow?

Bobby: If the police showed here, I didn’t see the flashing lights or feel the door being booted down looking for him

Bobby: makes it feel like an overreaction so, why should they stay away 🤔

Libi: He’d stay to have her to himself

Bobby: She’s married so that’s not a good enough reason

Libi: What’s a good enough reason for her to go as far as really leaving in the first place?

Bobby: What he did had to be scary enough to make them panic

Libi: Then where are the garda?

Bobby: People don’t call them, you know that

Bobby: We never have, I don’t even know if they were told about Debbie… must’ve been but

Libi: I can’t make it add up, she seemed the type who would ring and report him, didn’t she? 🤔

Bobby: Dramatic, obviously

Bobby: I dunna, could be parents, or maybe they were both high or she did something to him too

Bobby: or the garda are just dragging their arses and will show up before Jan replies

Libi: Fuck, I don’t wanna talk to them if they show up before Jim’s home

Bobby: You don’t have to, pretend to be as mute as me, they’re not going to fuck around intimidating two disabled kids

Libi: What if I have to talk to them later, if something bad’s happened, or if she doesn’t come back?

Bobby: She’ll come back, don’t think like that

Libi: Getting in a car with him, both of them panicked, you know what I’m thinking, that I can’t not

Bobby: Shh, I’m putting my shoes on, get off the bus whatever stop you’re at

Libi: I’m almost there, don’t be silly, like

Bobby: it doesn’t matter, I’ll walk you

Libi: [do the ILY kid sign again obvs or one that’s even feelsier because that’s so cute of him]

Bobby: You know I’ll always look out for you

Libi: I’d do it for you too, anything

Bobby: [sign ‘I know’ and her name sign]

Libi: [a pic of this gal off this bus wherever she may be]

Bobby: 5 minutes 🏃🏻

Libi: [just her doing a lil countdown vid putting a finger down from 5 to 1 as if that’ll mean he’ll be there then]

Bobby: Already felt like my cardio was crap without that pressure 😮‍💨

Libi: [signing sorry instead of typing it purely so she can show she’s the least soz it’s possible to be lol, unnecessary close ups of her eyes and face and body language too, really making our point here]

Bobby: 😏 I’ll slow down to a power walk if you don’t behave yourself

Libi: I’ll see myself off home if you reckon you can tell me how I’m supposed to behave, boy

Bobby: 🤐 us

Libi: No, talk to me without telling me off

Bobby: Have we ever gone a day?

Libi: [Bring your memory back out cos if you have it for JC moments you defs have it for yours] 🎥🧠

Bobby: Hm, no, I don’t wanna remember that day 🥺

Libi: UM, no fair to 🐶👀!

Bobby: You started it

Libi: Which don’t mean you get to finish me off 💀

Bobby: I could’ve done 📸 evidence like you

Libi: Too late now, I’ve been warned, won’t even CARE if you do 😝

Bobby: [take the blatant bait, you are very puppy dog boy]

Libi: Nope, nothing 😐

Libi: 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

Bobby: 💔 I’ll just hurry up then, yeah

Libi: Yep, I’m VERY unbothered

Libi: even though your eyes are like [idk crystals but you would cos of that cali influence and therefore could name one that’s legit for his eyes which aren’t just dark brown af like his brothers] and it [likewise of a property of said crystal such as protects/calms etc something feelsy af] me

Bobby: What am I meant to follow that up with? 😳

Bobby: I’ve never seen no one with actually green eyes but you 

Libi: That’s not a bad follow up, but I still wouldn’t be 😤 if your feet followed on to [wherever she is] faster 🏃🏻‍♂️

Bobby: [show up boy, however long this takes you from when this message is sent, hopefully not too long]

Libi: [Getting is his grill like okay hug me cos not gonna be the one to put her arms around him first, she’s a diva lol, just like throwing herself in his direction with her arms out]

Bobby: [we will give you a big bear hug to prove we have shot up and are much taller than you now, thank you]

Libi: [hugging him back for a MINUTE cos she needs it and so does he, then doing little taps on him like how they do in wrestling when they’ve had enough and wanna tap out, freeing herself and signing ‘I can’t breathe’ like it’s pure bants cos he’s so tall and strong and she’s being crushed, giving it the grin and lols to sell that but there’s a cinematic tear rolling down each cheek at the same time from her sad eyes because she also means it seriously with how tight and heavy her chest feels from how worried she is about this jc situation]

Bobby: [tap her back like a pat on the shoulders because it’ll be okay, we’re not as worried as you because not thinking the worst here, it’s always been alright before so why wouldn’t it be now? ‘Come on’ like let’s go back to the house and sort this]

Libi: [at least how chill he is about this would be comforting because you’ve got no choice gal, it’ll be what it’ll be and we’re bringing the drama, soz, wipe your eyes and give him a Jimothy style thumbs up]

Bobby: [pushing your thumbs down like don’t do that because that’s not the vibe]

Libi: [a look like okay okay, my bad, before she’s just dragging him along in the direction they’ve gotta go]

Bobby: [soz Jimothy doesn’t talk to us properly right now and we can’t find it even ironically amusing, get in this house and back to the note and phone, the former you can pass to her like she needs to read it in person as if there’s something he could’ve missed]

Libi: [do read it and eat your snack that he saved for you, when the vagueness of this note is not calming cos you know that 1. It’s deliberate to downplay how drama this situ could be cos you know Janis and 2. You can tell she rushed it cos she did which really looks like needing to leave was urgent af not cos JC are in love but cos Casey did something BAD, blatantly messaging and calling Janis again even though she has not replied to any of the others cos what else can you do]

Bobby: [just watching her not get through on this call like yeah, I know and didn’t think you would ‘has to be his missus, right?’ because this note appeared after you’d gone to school aka not last night so it’s not as likely to be a issue at the club because he would’ve showed up early hours and you’d have been here]

Libi: [nod because you’d have obviously come to the same conclusion and it’s really not a reach even with the v limited interactions y’all would’ve had with this gal, looking at Casey’s phone cos I assume it’s here in front of y’all rn as if she can unlock it with her mind via sheer force of will]

Bobby: [‘she hasn’t text him’ meaning the girlfriend because that would’ve popped up even if you couldn’t unlock to read a full message]

Libi: [when you’re just like maybe she can’t come to the phone rn cos she’s dead but you don’t wanna say it so you don’t ‘He’s not been dumped before, it’s usually the other way round’ making a face remembering all the gals who’d leave the gaff when he’s done with them, how many there have been and the state of them ‘might be his pride’s hurt, nothing and nobody else’]

Bobby: [shrugging and making a similar face back because we think that’s stupid but also wouldn’t put it past him ‘no one will miss seeing her about anyway’]

Libi: [a look like HARD AGREE cos you can’t disagree, we all know what she was like ‘a close call like he has with you is the best we can hope for’ cos Casey has never hurt Bobby but he’s wanted to on many occasions and I don’t blame you for wanting to think that’s what could’ve happened here and he’s just beating himself up for the almost how he do]

Bobby: [just going quiet ‘cos you know that hope is a long shot because even if you can’t remember any of it, you’ve found out by-proxy how Ian was with your mother ‘do you know her socials?’ after this pause, signing without eye contact but a valid point like we might be able to piece together a better idea from this girl if she’s said anything recently]

Libi: [when you know damn well what that silence and lack of eye contact means cos of course you do, putting her hand over his and giving it a little reassuring squeeze after the question ‘I’ll be able to locate her from his or their mutuals’ cos I doubt she’s deleted every pic of him she’s ever tagged yet, priorities hun if that’s what you’re doing tbh, but adding a fingers crossed for if she has that any shared friends can give you the answer]

Bobby: [she might’ve posted about uni, idk I’ll let my boo decide, at least you’d know what their blatant row was about which is more than you’re getting from JC for a while, squeezing her hand back before dropping it like off you go then, sleuth it out girl]

Libi: [do because she so feels to me like the kind of bitch to be bragging about uni and you can either show him or tell him what she’s been saying if she’s running her mouth and he wouldn’t be able to understand, she probably has also deleted all trace of him if she’s the drama but you can’t force every friend you have to do that ASAP hun so]

Bobby: [doing a little slow clap like there we go, we’ve worked it out, go us ‘he ain’t going to uni’ bit rude you’re implying Casey couldn’t get in but it’s true, it’s not in his plans that any of you can envision ‘everyone knows what you do at uni’ again, the cliche of dumping whoever you were with at home to either fuck around or get a uni boyf, which is valid]

Libi: [a v judgey eye roll at this gf for being a cliche as if you’re so much better gal, love it, and at Casey too for behaving exactly like everyone would expect at this news]

Bobby: [‘she seems fine’ because that would be a relief that she’s got the time and pettiness to be posting about her amazing life news and deleting photos of Casey as she goes, which you wouldn’t do on your deathbed, we can assume, helping yourself to a handful/one of/whatever of her snack because we already feel better and we weren’t as scared as her to begin with]

Libi: [slapping his hand away like excuse you cos obvs also feel better that the gf is clearly not even half dead nevermind fully, RIP, but it’s clearly also playing on her mind and thus her face that if it’s not that serious why did they leave/why are they not back/answering] 

Bobby: [of course we can see this, even if we’re attempting to take more of your snack just ‘cos we must ‘he’s embarrassed, just like you said’ with a shrug like wouldn’t you be if this girl dumped you]

Libi: [lowkey playfighting him because obvs, JJ were always doing it and so you two have gotta ‘I would be’ with the shadiest face like yeah she was not it and it’s bad enough he decided to choose her as his gf in the first place of all peeps]

Bobby: [just brawl because it’s comfortingly normal and familiar opposed to saying you can’t because of what Casey may or may not have done, just calling her a lesbian for bants sake as well, which I’m sure is an amusing sign, like Libi would seriously consider this random gal, even if she weren’t a massive cringe]

Libi: [get into it kids, it’ll make you feel better, as will her calling him a dickhead because we can all guess what that sign would be and that’s comforting and normal and familiar in itself for this fam]

Bobby: [nod and smile like yeah, that’s more like it ‘he’s probably talking her ear off’ like that’ll be why she can’t reply to you, nothing to worry about here, at all]

Libi: [miming drinking like yeah you’re so right he’ll be drunk af chatting away and she’ll be driving him home soon if not right now immediately, that’s why, it’s fine]

Bobby: [miming a golf swing, following it with your hand on your brow to getting it in the hole and celebrating like exactly, this isn’t actually anything new or weird, it was just a weird note that made us freak out for no reason]

Libi: [getting him more to eat and making y’all drinks and shit like this is now just a normal after school moment cos that’s what y’all have decided it is, picking a movie, cos she’s a diva who won’t let him pick, with a run time that’ll see you through until Jimmy gets back perfectly etc etc]

Bobby: [get on this sofa and get comfortable, we’re chilling lads, nothing to see here, no drama]

Libi: [It won’t be nice when Jimothy gets back and won’t talk or eat with y’all but you’d still be like it’s alright they’ll be back soon and then he’ll calm down too, thinking you’re just playing a waiting game, which you are gonna be but it’s for Janis’ reply not JC walking through the door]

Bobby: [you wanna do that now?]

Libi: [Come at me bro]

Bobby: [do you wanna send me like at least the last one so I have something to go from, obvs there’s multiple missed calls and probably a few texts but just so I got the flavour lol]

Libi: You didn’t train me in hostage negotiation, and if that’s what this is, I don’t know what I’m supposed to do

Janis: Sorry, sorry, I haven’t had much breathing room to check my phone today

Janis: but I’m fine and I think the situation with Case is going to be too, as much as can be predicted, so 👍

Libi: So you’re on your way home then?

Janis: Not quite yet, it’s definitely a 24-hour stepback needed still but I don’t see any reason that I won’t be back tomorrow after school

Janis: Are you at ours?

Libi: But she’s fine, I checked after Bobs found your note and summoned me

Janis: You did let Jimmy read it, right? It was mostly for him

Libi: Did you hear me? I said the coast is clear

Janis: You’ve not spoken to her, not that you should

Janis: you know social media can be total bullshit, or at least partial, it’s still best for the situation if Case stays away

Libi: I know she’d struggle to use it if he’d broken her arm

Libi: or worse

Janis: I didn’t say he’d done anything that bad, I didn’t specify because I can’t but he’s not in a state you’d want to see him in, any of you

Libi: I don’t want to see him at all, I wanna see you

Janis: And you will, tomorrow, like you would anyway if Bobby hadn’t called you over

Janis: have you told mum you’re staying over?

Libi: Yeah, cos I do this thing where I bother letting people know where I am

Janis: Um alright, I did

Janis: you’ve studied the note, allegedly 

Libi: You didn’t pick up when I rang, since when’s that something we’re trialling?

Janis: It’s been super fucking hectic, it wasn’t intentional or part of a plan, obviously

Libi: Alright, you didn’t intentionally scare the shit out of me, that’s fine then

Janis: Libs, I’m sorry

Janis: what do you want me to do? ‘Cos I can’t answer earlier now

Libi: Case’ll come home if you tell him to, you could do that

Janis: He needs looking after right now, you’re gonna be piss tired for school already if you went to bed now, never mind by the time we got in

Janis: it makes no odds, we’d talk even less if I had to bring him back when he doesn’t want to be there, you know that

Libi: It makes no odds to you, Jim wouldn’t say that, I’m not saying it

Janis: Seriously? That’s not fair

Libi: It’s not fair that Case kicks off at his girlfriend and you not only give him a free pass but you offer him a lift to wherever he fancies going

Janis: You don’t know what happened, or what went on between them, you reckon you’ve pieced it together from her socials but that’d only be one side and it’s still not even gonna be her full story, if at all true

Janis: He’s upset

Libi: It’s the same story all the time, whatever happens or whatever goes on between him and whoever he has a go at, you take his side

Janis: Why would you take the side of a random girl you don’t know over someone you’ve known nearly your entire life?

Janis: That makes no sense

Libi: You said it, I’ve known him almost my entire life

Janis: That’s a fucked up thing to say

Libi: It’s true, what else do you want me to say?

Janis: Are you not even slightly concerned how he is

Libi: I don’t know

Janis: It doesn’t matter, I’m here and he’s safe, pass that on to the other two, if they decide they’re bothered

Libi: You need to talk to Jim, he’s really bothered you haven’t done that

Janis: I put all I could in the note, you can tell him we’ve talked, then I’ll talk to him when I’m back

Libi: If you’re making me your messenger, you have to tell me things

Janis: Well I have, plenty 

Libi: I’ve known you my entire life

Janis: You don’t need to hear everything, it’s either not mine to tell or not yours to be told

Janis: you aren’t stupid, you know that this is delicate 

Libi: I’m not stupid, I know why it’s you he runs to every time 

Libi: and how it makes a shit idea worse

Janis: And it isn’t surprising, none of you have seemed even vaguely concerned how he is, he’s not stupid either, who else is he going to go to when things like this happen

Libi: It’s not like I’ve said I want him to go to Ian’s, or I would ever say that, but I’m sick of things like this happening

Libi: why is that bad?

Janis: We all are

Janis: that doesn’t mean ignoring it will fix anything though, from any of us

Libi: Don’t ignore me again, okay?

Libi: I thought… everything… every shitty thing there is to 💭

Janis: I wasn’t but I’m sorry that your head was there

Janis: I will make sure I reply quicker, even if it’s just a 👍 so you know I’m not being held hostage

Libi: Or in the morgue, unless someone who works there has a very fucked up sense of humour

Janis: You don’t need to worry about me, nothing bad happens to me, ever

Janis: well blessed

Libi: You just don’t want me to end up in your place on the slab, I get it, but I’m blessed with an inhaler, so don’t worry either

Janis: 14 is too young, even by our family’s shit luck, kid

Libi: My birthday’s soon 🥳

Janis: I know, ‘scuse me for betting on you not dying before you got to it even

Libi: 😏

Janis: Subtle hint not needed, you’ll get your 🎁 on time, girl

Libi: What is it?

Libi: and how’s that for subtle? 

Janis: as a sledgehammer 

Libi: 😤 Bobs won’t tell me either

Janis: He better not, you only get the one a year, don’t fuck it up

Libi: Promise you’ll be back tomorrow

Janis: Promise, I have to talk to him in person, already told you

Libi: I do care, slightly, if Case is okay or not… 🤏

Janis: He’ll be okay but it’s no secret he hasn’t been, for a while

Janis: it’ll all get sorted, promise that too, whilst I’m at it

Libi: It’s no secret she’s a… well, you know, without me needing to fully victim blame the girl in writing

Janis: Yeah, we don’t need to worry about her no more

Janis: She was a mistake, fair to say

Libi: And a catalyst, for something he was always gonna do

Janis: You can’t just ignore things forever and act like that means they’re dealt with

Libi: Right

Janis: I’ll see you tomorrow then

Libi: Try and get some sleep yourself, you must be loads tired-er than me

Janis: Pretty knackered but adrenaline works wonders

Janis: I will do though

Libi: Goodnight, I’m the most glad you’re okay

Janis: Of course I am, go have some sweet dreams yeah

Libi: I’ll do my best

Janis: You can tell either of them any of this, by the way, none of it’s need to know

Libi: Bobs’ll probably read it

Janis: 👋 like

Libi: I’d wake him up to, but that’ll take longer than it will you to fall asleep

Janis: about right

Janis: 🥿 usually works but save that for when it’s worth deploying

Libi: I don’t need telling what works, tah, I know everything that does

Janis: 😏

Libi: Maybe I’ll chuck a shoe at you though, next time you pull a move like this

Janis: because I do, all the time, just for fun, like

Libi: It’s a first, I’m not assuming it’s the last time too, like we’ve both said, I’m not stupid

Janis: I wouldn't promise otherwise but

Janis: it isn’t how I plan to deal with things, on the whole

Libi: You’d get called the worst role model again, if nothing else

Janis: You’re smart enough not to need one

Libi: Have you forgotten what 14 is like? I still need you

Janis: Not to tell you what to do, you’re much smarter than I was at that age

Libi: I don’t know about that, I didn’t feel smart today

Janis: Yeah but you didn’t do anything dumb about it, however bad it felt

Janis: you stayed put and it paid off

Libi: I would’ve gone anywhere he wanted me to, further than you, for longer, and cared less about it

Janis: You didn’t want him to feel as shit as you did

Libi: But it wouldn’t have been smart, the search party would be massive, and all FUMING

Janis: Alright, princess, I get it 👑

Libi: Another reason I need you around, you get it, so many other people think it’s weird how much I’d do for that boy

Janis: You’ve known each other forever, it’s family by choice, not blood, it makes it more important

Libi: Yeah

Janis: I understand

Libi: It’s something I could build sweet dreams from anyway

Janis: You know you can tell me anything, whenever you need to

Libi: Ooh, I love how cryptic that was

Libi: the NERVE to say I’m not subtle and then say that

Janis: Ha, you know what I’m saying perfectly well

Janis: some thing you might not want to share with Bobby, or can’t

Libi: We had the same puberty talk at school, they aren’t allowed to split us by gender any more

Janis: Cheek, they didn’t do that when I had it a few years prior, you cow

Libi: 👑

Janis: 🙄😘

Libi: *🥱😴

Janis: Piss off then, I ain’t taking the blame for you falling asleep in lessons

Libi: You could write me a note, you’re not at all crap at it, like

Janis: Only if it’s to Lucas otherwise I can’t be bothered

Libi: No girl is falling asleep in an English lesson

Janis: Hmm, riveting, ain’t he

Libi: He wishes, but instead, it’s too dangerous

Libi: I’m not ending up duct taped into the back of his [a shit car idk but you would cos of Ali and Billie] cos Case was upset by his breakup, tah very much

Janis: That’s really helpful, tah

Janis: no need to be quite so cinematic about it

Libi: I can’t help it if his idea of an after school club is making a snuff film in his garage

Janis: I’m well aware, the preview was enough

Libi: Shh, you’ll ruin my dreams now all this talk of sir

Janis: Go to bed, he wouldn’t mess with you, he’s not quite that dumb, however creepy

Libi: See you tomorrow

Libi: oh and I love you

Janis: Love ya Libs

Libi: Necessary last words if either of us get kidnapped and murdered

Janis: 🤞🤞

Libi: [The way she would have to be dragged out of this house by Casey for this dog walk is just reminding me of her throwing herself at him drunkenly and being dramatically pushed off cos it’s all so physical, I’m FINE]

Bobby: [When neither of you has any clue what’s going on just that it’s clearly bad and there’s nothing you can do about that and also there’s a random dog, for no reason at all, like hello]

Bobby: Are you okay

Libi: [when you don’t reply for ages because you’re too busy having a full go at Casey because like we said in the OG coats or not JC are literally covered in lovebites and Libi is not stupid, but she’s not signing any of this convo which is rude and so unlike her because she just automatically would to the point it’s clear she has to make the effort to not]

Libi: No

Libi: you?

Bobby: Did he hurt you, when we were getting out the door

Bobby: I didn’t see, I was looking at them and then

Libi: I don’t think so

Libi: or not enough for me to care right now

Bobby: That’s something

Bobby: 1 thing

Libi: I’m sorry

Bobby: Why would you be, you’re the only one who doesn’t need to be

Libi: that you had to ask me if I’m hurt cos I wouldn’t just go and it meant he had to touch me, that I left you out of having a go at him when it’s you who has the right to not me, that I didn’t push Jan harder last night to find out what the fuck was happening

Libi: so many reasons

Bobby: I don’t wanna talk to him no more than he does me

Libi: I’m never talking to her again, she said I wasn’t stupid and then made such a fool of me, of all of us

[noliaert]

lowkey it's fine not being associated with those ppl actually

anyway!

MORE IWTV WIPS

I'll perhaps add more of my reflections onto this later, but for now...

Btw! 👇

First one from up top is now done and posted here.

Butch-femme paris loumand: I've posted the wip seperately as well! 👉 Link ! You get another teaser by following the link!

Oh I kinda go crazy about this one

2. Kitty Lou. Idk what to tell you.

Based on this painting "cat in sofa" by martin leman that someone posted on twitter lol 👇

THE WIP SERIES.

The next few technically became part of a wip series... which only 1 has been posted so far- that of louis in the night (the colour being: purple/liliac/indigo?). The purpose was originally to just... try lower my standards for drawing and just get started sketching. And it *did* help me start out a *couple* of wips actually! Finishing however... It's all done on square canvases as well. I wanted to use different bases to play more with colour as well, and it proceeded in me wanting to make a piece for all the colours in the pride flag (not the progress one though) 😭 and then cause I had *more* ideas or just more things I wanted to draw at one point- I moved onto the original pride flags colours to give me more.

Claudia (HOT PINK). A dedicated piece to delainey's claudia, depicting a younger very recently turned claudia, seeing in the mirror manifested a version of herself that she began longing for- and with a companion that sees her to follow (madeline's hand on her shoulder w a pin between two fingers to depict the process of adjusting the dress in the dressing mirror). I wanted to draw her in that cute pink lilac dress she shes in the dressing window and wears on her first night at tdv. A hopeful piece in the sense that, that which she desired desperately and despaired would not come to pass, is something which she actually found in the end. Even... if for only a short while.

2. Claudeline (RED): One of my wips, or my main claudeline wip anyway. It gets more elaborate than this, but yes! Originally based myself on the turning scene (basically got a sketch I can post there), but then I wanted to pick a different feeding-scenario for them and the red.

+ Something more of a teaser

3. Louis (ORANGE/YELLOW). There's one that was dedicated to louis' grief. A simple sketch. I wanted to do yellow, for what ended up being claudia's colour, if I pick it for orange then it would make it a *warm* yellow. Though I was having trouble with the sketch and what I wanted it to be. Like- it was really simple, mind. Actually, I had two in a sense, but I abandoned the other one.

4. Daniel (YELLOW). Old man as a vamp preying on whoever for a snack, got a few sketch ideas. But yea. If the previous one is a warm yellow, then this is a colder yellow, almost green-ish, but functionally a yellow.

5. DM/armandaniel/ARMAND BITING (GREEN): Like. it's technically DM fanart, BUT the purpose was to focus on armand's blown out eyes when he went in for the meal (need to see more of them 👀). The eclipsed orange eyes. It's practically almost done, I could technically just post it. But esp considering the extra effort I went to with the louis one, I want to fix it up. Like get the nails in, and make sure I get the angle of his head as I wanted. And cause it's close to finished- as far as I know, outside of a clean-up cause it's sketchy... I lowkey don't want to share it here. Teaser though I guess.

6. Lestat (BLUE/TEAL/TURQUOISE). Uh something lestat, idk what exactly. But there's this lmao. I wonder if I should... work off of that one idea I had from S1 🤔

7. Lesmand/armandstat (VIOLET). 🥂Since it ended up being two of them... But yea, a sorta intimate love-hate freaky relationship thing. Also important- cat behaviour!

Only in sketchiest sketch/idea phase

Tears. THIS ONE THIS ONE THIS ONE. I lowkey tried to start gathering references and getting familiar with better capturing their eyes & the wanted expression. So I have a few sketches, but yea, majorly- this is it. So far. But I really wanna do it. Each one of them looking in different directions (chosen with purpose), and depicting different emotional ways of depicting their tears that feels fitting to their character.

2. S2 (not pictured): a dedicated piece to S2, kinda akin to the time glass one for S1, though more to capture loumand's dynamic from paris to dubai. The *discomforting* loumand. The abusive loumand (that is from armand, don't get confused). Mixing the bench scene into the room with the stones (😐) and the magnolia tree. Kinda the whole... slow suffocation, the poisoned tip, the megaladon, the tiger, the wolf in sheep's clothing bleating from his lap. ect. ect. Trying to figure it out and to effectively show its effect on louis.

3. Riccardo & Armand (+ Marius sneak): I WANT TO DO A RICCARDO AND ARMAND PIECE! Tell me if anyone else has done this yet??? Like have someone done this exact thing??? Or is it only so clear in my head that I think they have???? Overall I haven't seen too many arts from tva/with riccardo, but I want to do them. Like I'm genuinely worried there's an exact piece like this already o_o

4. Claudia in that red dress! And leaning on the rails of one of those swirly stairs! WE NEED MORE ARTS WITH THAT RED DRESS FROM THE PROMO!

I've got other sketches as well but for WIPS? Idk, I think that's... marjoly it? 🤔🤔🤔 WAIT right. I actuallyy have more ideas for self indulgent loumand yuri wips. lmao.

WHEN I SAY IWTV'S BEEN LIKE A MUSE TO ME??? YOU GET IT??? CAUSE I HAVEN'T DRAWN THIS MUCH FOR *ANYTHING* ELSE. NOT EVEN THE LOKI/LOKE ITERATIONS (which I do have more unfinished wips/sketch ideas than posted)! (Wait actually VS a big contender, but it's still not to the same degree). IF ONLY I DIDN'T STRUGGLE WITH FINISHING THEM 😭😭😭😭

NOLIAERT'S IWTV WIPS

Okay so I thought to show off some of my WIPs for IWTV (amc), especially since I've not managed to finish off most of my WIPS regardless of how excited I have been for them :/ IWTV in 2022 was like a muse to me! I had so many wips! But little or nothing to show for it (cause extensive projects got overwhelming) 😔 I have however finished off 2 loumand pieces since S2 started off, 1 that had too been a wip from 2022 (I'll edit in a link once I post it, I've done so on twitter, but I feel the need to fix on some things... majorly is the issue one of the louis-es as it was a 3, initially 4,-in-1 piece :/ was rushing cause of the looming loumand divorce and doom, otherwise known as S2 "trial" finality, was approaching... and I was feeling 😅 about the reception of softer loumand kisses at the time. Like- timing!)!

1. Batnight: I worked out this timeglass composition to symbolise Louis' transformation into vampirism after he entered that church one fateful night. The trifecta of the vampfam, the time encapsulated by death and by blood, something which Louis seemingly has a different relationship to than most living vampires as the "tortured vampire". All focusing on the drop of blood, but with different expressions. Idk if i should do anything with the background of the bottom half of the timeglass though 🤔I'm meant to sketch out Louis' family and community from the wedding on the top half, as the sun sets (or rise...) behind the family home (sorry), a life now closed off to him. Vampires and bats- uncontested. The church? It is one from New Orleans S1 and I remember asking for the ref, but I am uncertain that it is the correct church when thinking back on it. Which is 🧍 Also as I started on this late 2022, I had only Bailey!Claudia to go off of, which I'll probably stick to for this one. Would be cool with both! But idk if I can extend that energy. I do need to figure out which of her hairstyles to do though 🤔 and I've been learning more about how to draw black hair so that's fun too

CLAUDIA WIPS! (Both from late 2022)

2: For the first one? Something about the tragedy of claudia, for S1, leaning towards the middle, Claudia the child, the eternal teenager, but a breaking into maturity and adulthood, on... the child witnessing the troubles of their parents, and of the child failed by their parents. Claudia standing in ashes alone (oh not the born from ashes turned to ashes 😭 at least she wasn't entirely alone by the end but had someone choose to face the same fate with her over her own living ♡), looked down upon from our pov to showcase her continued positions of disadvantage. Not the most thought out composition or anything, just wanted to draw Claudia, but these were the things I was thinking about while doing so. Also just really want to try make more dynamic compositions. Try that is.

3: The second one is me wanting to either do a 3-piece with smaller edits, or a 3(+?)-in-1, showing off a little vaguely different stages in Claudia's life back in S1. Or maybe a combined 1 if I figure it out. Combining the cutesy and the horror ✌️ Since these were majorly just sketches, I should be able to try draw Delainey!Claudia! And though S2 makes for SO MUCH inspo too, I'm scared to start on more new things. An irony. But I'd like to finish some more ideas.

4 & 5: Lestat wips! First one is really just a sketch trying to capture his face, buuut the second one? My attempts at a gorier more horrific looking corpsestat since I was feeling robbed by the S1 finale? Oh certainly 🙏 gotta figure out how best to pose Claudia and Louis though, to make sure I make the right impression I wanted 🤔 may have to flip him over too... idk just... extensive work, but I've been especially excited about this one as well as batnight (and the soon-to-be-posted loumands)!! Both from late 2022.

6: St. Paul! Ah the brothers! 🙏 the impact his family, and specifically Paul, has on Louis cannot be understated (S2E8 final dubai scene 😊). Kinda get so emotional when I've been rewatching S1E1 too ;-; another wip from 2022! I so rarely have seen pieces of Louis' family, or human family, which is a shame. I really wanted to do one for Louis and Paul though, and so I ended up with this wip meant to symbolically (far from vague though hah) capture some of that "confessional relationship" (can't escape the catholism) they had, but in a more playful youthful setting. Lowkey pointing towards an elevated sainthood of the future dead too. Paul being Louis' closest confidante, and someone who wanted to be a priest. Many thoughts on Paul really. Paul practicing I suppose, during their teenage years, Louis happily entertaining him and then glancing over his shoulder at- I am thinking Grace, their sister. I found the angle of Louis' head challenging though (been feeling intimately on my limitations), and as it is, I need some refs of Jacob to actually capture HIM too, and not just the angle.

Now unfinished iwtv wips from 2024...

Armand wips! But yea, I already had ideas, but I've felt prompted during S2 to draw more Armand due to the whole Assad Zaman fanbook thing that I thought could be nice to join in on. I've struggled to draw though, even if I have finished the 3-in-1 loumand thing and the spontaneous loumand cig-kiss piece, so I was really damn rushing 😅

7: It's possible I'm mixing ideas... different intents. So I'll have to review it again. I wanted one more bitey one, I was thinking of the "easeful death" scene of E5, but with a different angle. Was initially thinking active feeding I think, with half-lidded eyes or direct eye contact... to put emphasis on the darkening of his eyes in those moments. It's funky and I really wanted to draw it, though I guess this is getting too distant to really see it much. Something something generally about vampirism, a general victim, putting emphasis on the blood that they provide. First by extended blood dripping down the throat, now by the body being the blood fully visually. Something classy, yet... I want to reposition the arms and have the head burrowed further into the neck to actively feed as first intended. I also think I am certainly thinking about an intimate art piece for the whole gentlemanly death feel, so maybe i should try actually find the piece for reference. Also, it's not exactly in this sketch, but I too want to have him in that E2 or E3 coven suit, with vague coven/cult figures in the background. We never really see him feed (properly, of a human), but I've been thinking about the... parent providing food for his children thing (motorbike scene E2), or the "let me teach you" of E3... So a "lead by example" sort of thing, like pre of the picture of the mountain lion and her cub feeding of a carcass sort of thing XD leant too much into the whole typical romantic imagery as I kept going and finally got some of that posture right (and so I tought). But these are the ideas ✨️

8: Armand too got ahold of a switch btw <3 Armand and electronics huh, or... not necessarily only electronics and technology. There's a general almost manic curiosity, which is especially found in that one DM chapter that I kind of adore (smh to private island and blabla tho). A mood, though I'm not making ratshakes 🫢 Assad was talking about it too in an interview though, relating to that fascination, so I kinda wanted to make a piece leaning in on that. Had a few vague compositions, some with more of that almost cold intensity of E5, but here he's more just chilling (doesnt mean it doesnt get intense) ^^ I also wanted to display an evolution of technologies, at least within a certain timeframe, so physically stacking a room with different stuff? Like that works XD because I was rushing for the deadline, I fear I only got to send in the wip (one in an even earlier stage than this one)... which is a real shame 😔 I am excited to finish it though!

Anyway 👍

[tennessoui]

Maybe "So, it was you." for the Cheating!AU 👀

hello!!! ok so this is set in the cheating au (cw: infidelity...... but between obi-wan and his wife, and anakin and HIS wife, so they can be together)

i really thought about having this be a confrontation between padmé and anakin/padmé and obi-wan, but i feel like we don't deserve that emotional catharsis right now, as the cheating au is only like. five posts. like the big climax there WOULD be padmé finding out, and we just cannot be there yet.

satine finding out though........

(1.6k) (cw: cheating) (cw: oblivious anakin)

Anakin has no idea what to do with his hands. He feels sort of like a murderer, caught with blood all of his palms, standing at the crime scene and staring down the detective who found him in the act.

But the detective is Satine Kenobi, and she didn’t catch him in the act of murder so much as she caught him in her kitchen with his hand wrapped around her husband’s cock, mouth moving uselessly on his throat as Obi-Wan groaned and leaned back to give him more room, hands moving over his own ass.

He’s made sure to scrub at his hands very, very well before emerging from the bathroom, but he still feels as if something’s on them. Blood, but most accurately Satine’s husband’s come.

She’s sat herself on the sofa, glass of Corellian wine in her hand. She takes a sip as he fidgets.

“So it was you,” she finally says like this interests her, like she’s not heartbroken or distraught to come home and find her husband in the midst of being unfaithful.

Anakin spins his own wedding ring around on his finger. He knows that if this were his apartments, if this were his wife, she would not be so outwardly calm.

But Padmé is planets away on Naboo, advising the latest queen on a classified issue. No, Ani, sorry. So classified that not even her husband can know.

Obi-Wan, when he’d relayed this news to him, had laughed and said that the child Queen probably had started bleeding and needed an older sibling figure to help her, and if Padmé is going to be busy, Anakin should travel to Stewjon for that week. The Senate has adjourned for a recess, and Obi-Wan has come to prefer his spare time spent in and around and on top of Anakin.

Obi-Wan is a bit of an asshole, but Anakin had come anyway. He’d met him at the spaceport of the small city Beesa, on the other side of the planet from the capital, Colsteph. He’d been greeted with a friendly clap on the shoulder, as if he hasn’t sucked on the senator’s tongue like a slut in the closet of his very own art gallery. Anakin understands though. His wife is, after all, a Galactic Senator as well, and though he knows she loves him, the public displays of affection never occur quite as often as they do during election season. The holo cameras are always watching. 

Now it’s Obi-Wan’s wife that watches him over the rim of her wine glass.

“Let me elaborate,” she decides, shifting her position on the couch so as to draw her legs up and beneath her.

“Where’s Obi-Wan?” He asks almost desperately. He needs the other man there. This affair had been his idea. He’d pursued Anakin. And, alright. Fine. It had been a short chase, all things considered, and Anakin commed him as frequently as Obi-Wan commed him. But still. This was his wife. Why is Anakin alone to deal with the fallout? 

“I told him to take a shower,” Satine replies. “You did manage to dirty him up, didn’t you?”

Anakin flushes all over and squeezes his hands together. He’d prefer it if she yelled. He’d even prefer it if she cried. He doesn’t know what to do with this coolness, this detachment. It’s so opposite from all his worst nightmares, the ones where Padmé finds out that he’s been kriffing and being kriffed by her mentor for the past eight months.

“Let me elaborate,” she says again. “It was you that he’s been comming all hours of the day and night. It was you that made him reluctant and then later refuse to accompany myself and our son to the Scarif beaches on our annual trip because of work conflicts. But it was you, wasn’t it? It was you that made him start trying to expand his culinary appreciations—I was wondering why there were so many vials of desert spices in our cabinets, recipes for bantha steak seared in cave-grown blue tomatoes carefully written on flimsi, but it’s you. It’s because of you.”

Anakin hides his hands behind his back. He doesn’t know what to say. Yes, probably she’s right. But those aren’t—those aren’t things he’s asked Obi-Wan to do. He hadn’t even realized the man had done them. Not until this very moment.

It makes him feel…strange. Guilty, but something else too.

Obi-Wan learned how to cook his favorite dish. For him.

He feels like…like a teenager again, butterflies alight in his stomach, wondering nonsensically if this means that Obi-Wan truly likes him for anything other than the excitement of an illicit fuck, even as he twirls his wedding band round and round his finger.

Stars, he’s messed up. He’s the worst husband in the entire galaxy. He’s the worst person.

“It was you—” Satine starts to say again, but before she can get further, a hand slides around Anakin’s waist and pulls him back into a solid, wet chest.

“Yes,” Obi-Wan tells the pair of them, resting his chin on his shoulder and looking at his life. His hand wraps around Anakin’s, forcing him to stop playing with his wedding ring. “Is that going to be an issue?”

Satine takes another sip of her wine, like she can’t hear the way Anakin’s heart has sped up. He doesn’t know what he’s going to do if she says yes. What if she tells Padmé? What if she demands that they stop seeing each other? Touching Obi-Wan is one of the only stars-damned things in his life that feels like it makes sense. He needs the other man’s grounding touch, his frankness, his open arms, his sharp wit, his talented tongue.

He needs to be held the way Obi-Wan holds him sometimes after they’ve finished, before one or both pulls away. He needs. He needs Obi-Wan.

But his life—Obi-Wan is a senator, and Anakin has two children, babies, who will need their father. A steady family dynamic. Korkie is older, ten now, and at boarding school in Alderaaan more often than not. But Luke and Leia, they’re only babies. They need their father, and Padmé….Before he met Obi-Wan, before he slept with Obi-Wan for the first time, he’d thought that his and Padmé’s love transcended the laws of the galaxy itself.

But Obi-Wan…he makes him feel so…so stupid. So idiotic. So helpless against the affection that rises in him whenever he sees the man smile. Whenever he sees the man. 

No. He can’t admit to such a thing. It’s bad enough that he can’t stop himself from relaxing back into Obi-Wan’s hold. It’s bad enough that his lover’s wife takes a sip of her wine and leans back onto the couch, observing them with one eyebrow raised.

“No, it won’t be an issue,” she tells them both. Is it Anakin’s imagination or does Obi-Wan untense from behind him? “For me,” she adds. “I knew the man I married when I married him. You’ve given me what you promised, Obi-Wan. An heir, a comfortable life. I don’t care for or about the pretty things you entertain yourself with now.”

Anakin stares at her. He knows his eyes are impolitely wide, but surely she knows that marriages are not supposed to be like business arrangements.

Surely she knows they’re supposed to be about love.

Has she ever loved Obi-Wan? The thought causes a storm of sensation in his stomach. Disquiet, at the idea that she had. He doesn’t particularly want anyone else to love the man in a romantic way, because that heightened the chances of his attention straying from Anakin.

But he doesn’t particularly like the idea of Obi-Wan stuck in a loveless marriage either. The man deserves to be loved. He is so kind, he is so clever, he is so perfect. He deserves to be loved, but Anakin can’t think of a single person outside of himself worthy enough to love him.

And Anakin cannot love him. Anakin is in love with his wife.

“No issue from me,” Satine says again, and her cold eyes fall to Anakin’s flushed face. “But you have a wife as well, don’t you, Anakin? I have the strangest feeling that she will not react so…kindly to such a betrayal.”

“I believe I know my wife better than you do, Duchess,” Anakin tells her sharply. He doesn’t—he doesn’t want to talk about his marriage. Not right now. He still has Obi-Wan’s spit drying on his neck. He can’t do this.

Satine tilts the rest of her wine glass up into the air, the shimmering Corellian wine cascading down her throat. She sets the empty glass aside and cocks her head to look at him. “If marriages were based on knowing, Mr. Skywalker, I believe I’d be obligated to give you my titles right now.”

“Satine,” Obi-Wan says sharply, and his wife holds up her hands, standing from the couch in one long languid movement.

“I mean nothing by it,” she says. It feels like a lie, though Anakin can’t put his finger on why. She isn’t screaming. She isn’t crying. 

But when Obi-Wan adjusts his hold on him to wrap an arm around his stomach, her eyes follow the movement and for a second she looks considering. She looks concerned.

“Carry on,” she tells them with a wave of her hand. “Your dalliance is…safe with me. I separated love from marriage a long time ago.” Her eyes fall back to Obi-Wan’s hand. Anakin has somehow threaded their fingers together. “I suggest you do the same,” are her parting words.

Anakin stares after her. He has no idea what she means.

Of course love and marriage are the same thing.

It’s just that Obi-Wan has shown him that love, sex, and marriage don’t necessarily have to mean the same thing.

It’s a discovery he cherishes.

[furiarossa]

I was wondering if you have a sort of wishlist for fics you’d like to read? 👀 I don’t know if you’ve ever done Yuletide exchanges but it’s like you list a bunch of pairings you like, tropes you want to see, even entire plots if you have some in mind

Oh my. I've read this yesterday and I haven't been able to answer until today. And no, not only because I didn’t know how to word out my ideas. Right now you're practically my favorite writer, it's amazing that you're asking me these things! AHHHH! I’m giggling like an idiot.

I just talked with my sister, the other person with whom I share this account (and the passion for the gargoyles series) who told me that, instead of rejecting it because it's too much (and because I love everything you create), I should write this list. And she helped me fill it out.

So, bunch of things we really like:

Your fanfiction Even Death May Die. We know it's not a prompt and it's not a pairing, but right now the desire of reading more of it, y’know, it's driving us crazy! We like the plot, the characterization, the mystery, the horror, we want to know how it ends! Every time a new chapter comes out, my sister and I discuss it for hours, trying to figure out what happens next. So, that’s it, every chapter is beautiful and we love it and reading a little more of this story is at the top of our wishlist <3

Goliath and David talking about their childhoods, comparing them. For Goliath is the warmth of living in a clan, having so many brothers, so many adults who take care of you… compared to… well… David's childhood. We know this is the kind of thing you would write so well, ripping our hearts out!

Something tender. Something relatively sweet. We know your best is writing hurt (and comfort), but sometimes we like fluff <3 Maybe with Fox/Xanatos/Owen? All three together? Something with... Christmas? This would be absolutely adorable <3

Owen sings lullabies to baby Alexander. In Old Gaelic, obviously ;) (And Fox and Xanatos, sooner or later, notice it)

Baby Alexander uses his shape-shifting powers, thinking he's playing a prank on his parents, and becomes... a werewolf-like cub. Trouble happens XD

David Xanatos and Elisa Maza are locked together in a supermarket at night. I don't know why, but the idea is hilarious and the conversations that could come out of this, you know...

(Maybe we did a Yuletide exchange kind of event years ago, for the Hannibal fandom XD We made drawings, but we received a beautiful fanfiction!)

So I'd like to ask back… is there anything we could draw for you? We could do something in our free time, if we’re able to find some... do you have a wishlist of things you would like to see illustrated? Scenes from your fan fictions? Favorite pairings? Any fandom is fine, we can do our researches! (Though obviously Gargoyles is our favorite, especially now!)

P.S.: Sorry if something is not clear to understand, we are Italian and sometimes it is difficult to express very well what we want to say in another language!

[damn-oh-dread]

Some, frankly ridiculous, over-analysis of 3 pages in chapter 15 of Fires of Heaven:

I honestly did not think there was going to be a scene specifically about Moiraine reacting to the idea Siuan could be dead. I kind of assumed it would be an implied conversation or something along the lines of Egwene going “Moiraine guess what,” with a response something like “I know.” So anyway, these whole 3 pages were really fun! Thank you, Robert Jordan, for doing this one thing for me. To celebrate the fact this exists I’ve decided to completely over-analyze it!

So, we enter Moiraine’s tent to find that she is still eavesdropping on Rand and probably everyone else while shes at it and I personally find it hilarious that Egwene is surprised she is still doing this. Girl, Moiraine has been eavesdropping on everyone ever since she learned how to channel, you think she would stop now? Because someone asked her not to? Moiraine never once told anyone she would stop eavesdropping actually. She just mentioned that they should “allow Rand some privacy” which does not specifically mean privacy from her. The way she speaks so much through implication and what she keeps unsaid is *chefs kiss* she is just so fascinating!!! And when she says “goals, which may not be those of the Tower” ??? I am hysterical. Because, on one level, yes she is correct. The Wise Ones do not have the same goals as the Tower but really what I think she means to say is that they don’t have the same goals as her and Siuan. Moiraine has spent only a handful of days at the white tower in 21 years, she is not around enough to really be apart of the white tower action. Moiraine is not working for the white tower. Like yes she is working with the Amyrlin but not because the Amyrlin seat is the number one authority, she is working with the Amyrlin because they're besties.

Brief interlude about Egwenes dreams:

Rand sitting down in a chair, and somehow she knew that the chair's owner would be murderously angry at having her chair taken; that the owner was a woman was as much as she could pick out

Me frantically writing down all the women rulers in Randland: So, Caemlyn? 👀

Every time he moved closer to Perrin it was as if a chill of doom shot through everything

(sidenote: is perrin just not in this book? Where is he? where are you girl?)

Mat throwing dice with blood streaming down his face, the wide brim of his hat pulled low so she could not see his wound

Okay the only thing I can think of that would bleed and also be covered by Mats hat would be if he got some injury on the top half of his face so like, sexy pirate look? Scar over the eye? I think mat could pull off an eye patch. Can not wait for Mat's sexy pirate era as he deserves! 🤩

Thom Merrilin put his hand into a fire to draw out the small blue stone that now dangled on Moiraine's forehead

You know, everything in this book so far is really making me think that RJ is gonna kill her off. Rip the mentor character, you guys are always my favourite. 😔 How would Thom get her kesiera though? He watches her die? She dies in a fire? He takes her kesiera from the fire and keeps it in hopes he will meet her in another life so he can figure out which Aes Sedai to kill to avenge his nephew? Sorry guys I literally have no ideas for this one. TLDR, Moiraine probably dies and Thom for some reason has feelings about that. I mean he is kinda horny for her in book 4 so I could see him being a little sad in a “oh no that girl I thought was sexy is dead, you win some you lose some I guess” kind of way. Which can not fault him, Moiraine is super hot. Have you guys SEEN Rosamund Pike???

ANYWAY MOVING ON

The fact there is an arrest warrant for Moiraine because she's helping the dragon reborn is hilarious to me for the reason that yes, she has indeed been helping the dragon reborn and that is a no-no but she has also been doing so many other illegal things. If Elaida, somehow, wasn't aware that Moiriane was also looking for the Dragon Reborn she still could have gotten Moiraine thrown in White Tower jail for so many other reasons. And Elaida decided to get her for treason? Bo-ring.

Just off the top of my head, a list of (what I assume would be counted as) crimes Moiraine has committed:

Knowing how to cast balefire

CASTING BALEFIRE

killing another Aes Sedai

being in cahoots with the Amyrlin

being married to the Amyrlin

Lowkey stealing a sa'angreal (yes I know that Siuan gave it to her but I think overall this is generally a thing that makes them both look very bad)

Just generally doing what she wants at all times

Elaida could have gotten her for SO MUCH.

Next point,

"Is that all you can say? I think Siuan was your friend once, Moiraine. Can't you shed a tear for her?"

Egwene, even if Moiraine was super upset about Siuan, why would she break down in front of you? It has already been proven many times that Moiraine can stay straight faced through some intense stuff. You are not one of the two people that Moiraine has ever been vulnerable for!!! So, sorry Egwene. Like what were you expecting bestie???

Secondly, Moiraine responding to Egwene with, “I have no time for tears,” is just peak characterization right there!!!!! Yes girl!!! I love how that one line both further establishes Moiraine’s frankly insane sense of duty but also implies that if she did have the time to let herself grieve she wouldn’t be able to keep going to complete her mission. At this point she is staying with the mission to honour Siuan and the history that they have together. To stop now would be to dishonour her and her legacy. If Moiraine ever stopped for a second to think about literally anything that has happened to her and the people she cares about since starting her quest searching for the dragon reborn it would be very difficult to keep going I think. Moiraine can not slow down!

“We were friends once.”

Hey babe, quit telling everyone I’m your ex-girlfriend because we got married. Okay jokes aside I do really like this line because I think it speaks a lot to the depth of their relationship. Moiraine is a character that leaves much more meaning unsaid so you really need to read between the lines with her. Here she says that in the past they used to be friends. And yeah, because they were. After almost 21 years of working together in this cause they are so much more than just friends though! They were working together in an environment where if either of them were even suspected of being in cahoots it would have spelled disaster for them both. And the stakes are even higher when Siuan is raised to the Amyrlin Seat. It could have been so easy for either of them, driven by paranoia or fear or jealousy etc, to betray the other to save themselves. And yet they never did! Even when it would have been safer to be apart and work separately and never speak again, they still work together and stay really good friends throughout it all! So like yes they were friends once, but time and a shared purpose have tempered their relationship into something much stronger than the early friendship and comradery they shared as novices.

There is a saying in Cairhien, though I have heard it as far away as Tarabon and Saldaea. 'Take what you want, and pay for it.' Siuan and I took the path we wanted, and we knew we would have to pay for it eventually."

Take what you want and pay for it, is such a banger saying. But yeah, Moiraine and Siuan decided 21 years ago that they wanted and more importantly felt they needed to be the ones to find the Dragon Reborn and now they are both paying for that choice. The price they payed just happened to be the highest amount they could have been charged. They both knew they could die on this mission and so Moiraine has no choice but to move on and not think about it ever. They really did take what they wanted and then paid for it.

Now is a good time to introduce my two theories on what is going on in Moiraine's mind at the moment of this conversation.

Theory A)

Moiraine knows that Siuan has just been stilled either from the creepy fae people or from her crazy Rhuidean adventure. So obviously Moiraine would be worried, but knowing that Siuan is still alive would decrease that worry a little bit. That's why when Egwene gives her the news about Siuan, since she already knows about Siuan's fate, it allows her to take it with a straight face cause shes already expecting it.

Theory B)

The more agonizing of the two theories for sure: Moiraine is just as in the dark as everyone else, and assumes that the worst has happened to Siuan. From there, she is just holding herself back an insane amount after this news like a crazy person. Maybe she takes it with a straight face and then is sad about it when Egwene is gone.

I’m leaning more towards Theory A because there is no way after seeing every future in Rhuidean she doesn’t know generally what Siuans fate is. And! This entire book she’s been super on edge. What more could put you on edge than knowing your bestie has been through it and you won’t be able to be there for them??? And in the conversation where she and Lan talk about worries and how Moiraine is so worried lately she thinks about Siuan. Coincidence? I think not. And if Moiraine really was in the dark I feel like she maybe would have flinched, or there would have been a tiny reaction, even if it happened to be one that is quickly gone. You can’t react to the news your friend might be dead without a tiny reaction unless she already knew and was ready for it.

Do you expect me to be happy that the White Tower has split apart?

No, because it makes your life harder since you won’t be immune to tower politics anymore.

I gave my life to the Tower long before I ever suspected the Dragon would be Reborn in my lifetime.

You literally weren't even Aes Sedai yet when you learned the Dragon was reborn. Chill out drama queen damodred.

I could almost wish that every sister had sworn to Elaida, whatever happened to Siuan."

Okay but almost wishing for something is different than wishing for something. I do understand where she is coming from though. It would be much easier to manipulate or stay away from the tower if it was acting as a single entity. Now that it is fractured this spells massive trouble for Moiraine, especially because she is already on Elaidas hit list. The fractured tower is a huge headache for her and makes her plans so much more complicated. BUT! She doesn’t actually wish that (as much as it would help her) because a) Elaida is a huge bitch, a fact which Moiraine knows about quite personally and b) Moiraine is probably absolutely livid towards Elaida right now for hurting someone that she cares about. (Reading about what happens to Siuan made me livid so I'm doing a bit of projecting here BUT I think it is a fair thing to assume) Therefore, she wishes for Elaida to have the worst time possible regardless for how much harder it makes her goals!

But you forget that only thirteen sisters linked can shield any man from saidin, and even if they do not know the trick of tying flows, fewer can hold that shield.

Yeah Egwene, you forget that Aes Sedai don’t need to be working together to fuck shit up.

I mean to deal with the world as I find the world, for as long as I can

Okay this is starting to turn more into Elizabeth reacts to 3 pages in chapter 15 but I just really like this quote a lot. This is just, so Moiraine. This is her as a character. Someone who deals with the world and keeps going until the very end.

"With luck," the Aes Sedai went on, "we will not have to worry about Lanfear."

OKAY WHAT IS HAPPENING TO LANFEAR?!?!?!? I know Moiraine has been ease dropping on Rand right? So she probably just assumes that Lanfear and Rand are working something out. Right? RIGHT? Plot twist: Moiraine has actually been planning an elaborate scheme to somehow take Lanfear out this whole time.

"They may be strong in many ways, but they are sadly lacking in others"

MOIRAINE YOUR HAUGHTINESS IS SHOWING ASDFJASDIEWFN

Even Nynaeve doesn't think it is right.

Nynaeve is so obsessed with Moiraine, I love it. Like, sorry to break it to you Nynaeve but in order to hate something you do need to care about it and what happens to it.

well, anyway

that is it. That is all my thoughts.

If you read this far, thanks for sticking around!

[fandomfluffandfuck]

hi. so, yesterday my boyfriend and i dared to finally do a scene we've been planning for months. we basically invited 2 other of our friends and 3 guys fucked me at the same time and it was beyond amazing and as the good writer i am (or so i think i am) I'm thinking on writing the experience but instead me, it's gonna be Sebastian in my place, do you have any recommendations to write about a man being double fucked anally in a way that sounds realistic?

Hey!

Congrats on finally doing your scene! 👏 That sounds like a hell of a lot of fun for everyone! A dream come true lol

Mmm, I mean, you are the one who had the experience in real life so I would say to mostly draw from your own experience, y’know? If you had a good time, I don't doubt your ability to put that feeling into the writing.

(Also I'm so fucking Curious about who you're gonna pair with Sebastian for this fic 👀 Chris and Anthony? Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth? Maybe Anthony and Daniel Brühl? Maybe even just a fic inspired by Seb's slutty, early Hollywood days with randoms who agree to use him the way he craves? Maybe those Pam & Tommy makeup artists haha)

(Also also I can read this ask 2 ways, 3 guys fucking you as in 1 in the front hole, 2 in the back hole OR 1 in the mouth, 1 in the front, 1 in the back so I'm covering my bases with either of those options lol)

Other than that:

When I need help writing a scene, I usually do research for whatever BDSM type scene or specific kink I'm going to be playing with whether it be learning more about rope, flogging, or some specific toy from online reading (with good sources, of course) or reading other fanfic available in a similar vein to what I want to write (if I haven't already read it, which I probably have lol) or even watching porn for a basic sense of positions I might describe. Though I don't feel like you can get much more than that from porn, y’know? It's not ment to be educational in any sense.

Anal requires more lube than you think, don't forget to add it into your fic! (Also... I'm just gonna say it: excess lube can totally be sexy, getting someone so slick and wet that it drips down to their balls/vulva and they're all glistening and slick? Plus the sounds it makes? 🥴)

And you totally don't have to because fanfiction is fantasy but, if I were you I would add a little ball or something held in Sebastian's hand that he can drop if he wants to stop, since he'll be unable to speak and probably unable to get away easily with two people holding him down, y’know? (Although, again, I don't know if for Sebastian you mean double fucked as in 2 in 1 hole or 1 in his mouth and 1 in his ass lol)

You should spend time describing the time spent fingering Seb open BUT don't drag it out for a super, super long time unless you're having the tops/doms tease Sebastian and draw it out or if the top is being extra, super careful on purpose. Being extra gentle, y’know? (With fingering, if you're doing 2 dicks, 1 hole, I would recommend having the first top put their dick into Seb and then the second starting to finger him that way rather than a bunch of fingering then one dick and then another.) As weird as it sounds, with enough patience, the anus stretches a lot bigger than you think it would lmao

1 dick in his mouth, 1 in his ass: don't forget that, especially if Seb's being fucked doggy style, every thrust with push him forward or backward and he might choke. Which is fun. But its not fun to throw up from it.

2 dicks, 1 hole: don't forget about the fact that the tops dicks will also being rubbing together tightly inside Sebastian, so... they probably won't last super long. Everyone will be a mess 😏

Uh, hopefully that hoped! Idk if it did or not but happy writing

(Also I would love it if you wanted to link it whenever you finish the fic!)