#i started a new thread bc i like being ~fresh

[madeimpact]

Kinda tempted to drop all my threads and start over

[iwillneverforgiveyousunghanbin]

taedros twodros

part one: taedros taedros ☆ part three: taedros tresdros**NEW wc: 1.9k reader: femme afab (maybe just afab idk again lemme know if you think it needs/doesn't need a femme label and i didn't use any pronouns so?? but i'm playing it safe just in case) SPECIFIC WARNINGS BELOW CUT ~ MINORS DNI MATURE SMUT!! summary: after weeks of loserbestfriend!taerae eating you out and seemingly wanting nothing in return, you finally find out the reason and offer to repay his original favor... okay. i did it. don't say i never did anything for you. don't spend it all in one place. 💀 also yes i ai enhanced that pic but i had no choice. he's so lame i love him. y'all like the title? twodros. okay bye.

EXPLICIT SMUT BELOW CUT-- MINORS DNI!!

specific warnings: oral f & m receiving, p in v (riding), subbyyyyy taerae want to make that clear but also switch taerae, switch reader, cum play, virgin taerae oops, pet names, taerae's red sweatpants, calling taerae's pussy eating obsession an "addiction", literally no mention of condoms or bc idk you know that's not always a good idea in real life but also i'm not a safe sex authority do whatever you want babe just think about it first :)

~*...*~

pressing light, teasing kisses to your clit, taerae chuckles at the frustrated sounds you’re making for him. his being so annoyingly cute even when eating you out isn’t helping. god, you’re dying to get your hands on him.

you don’t know when you started feeling this way about your best friend, but in the last three weeks something had undoubtedly changed. what started out as a pitch for taerae to tame your curiosity had since seemingly turned into a game of how many times during your weekly “movie night” he could make you cum before you passed out.

spoiler alert: it was a lot. taerae ate you out so much, in fact, that you were actually starting to worry…

was taerae addicted to eating pussy? had you been unknowingly enabling his pussy addiction? were you going to have to stage an anti-pussy intervention?

help check him into pussy rehab?

“fuuuck,” you whine, fingers threading through taerae’s hair as the sudden feeling of his tongue fucking into you breaks your train of thought. you’d already cum twice but taerae has caused you to become so greedy.

even if taerae had some sort of problem… who were you to complain when you were reaping all the benefits of it?

a moan from taerae brings your attention back to him and you notice he’s already begun humping the bed just a few minutes in. the past two weeks, he’d become less and less able to hold himself back; rutting into his mattress while you came on his tongue for hours. 

you’d seen taerae like this last week and gently pulled him up to you by his shirt collar; salivating when you saw how hard he was in his joggers. your fingers hooked over his waistband as you looked up at him tentatively. you expected him to eagerly agree, but instead he’d just shook his head and returned his lips to your swollen cunt.

watching as taerae moans into you at both your sweetness and the friction on his clothed cock, you realize just how desperate you are to make him feel as good as he had been making you feel.

“taerae,” you say but he doesn’t hear you, eyes closed as his tongue laps at your folds. you tug his hair a bit harder to get his attention, repeating, “taerae?”

his eyes flutter open as he looks up at you--  pulling back from your pussy reluctantly. he runs the back of his hand across his chin, wiping some of your juices from his mouth. “what’s wrong, baby? everything okay?”

you shake your head. “tae...”

“what, baby?” he asks, pushing up on his hands and sitting up to dote on you. he places a hand on each of your knees, pressing kisses to the inside of each leg. “tapping out already? i know you can give me more.”

“tae, i--,” you whine at his words; sitting up a bit on your elbows. eyes falling to the crotch of taerae’s ugly red sweatpants he'd had since high school, the small wet spot you find sends a fresh wave of need to your core. “want you. want you so bad.”

“y--... you do?” he asks in utter disbelief. he blinks at you nervously; swallowing hard as he averts your gaze. “are you sure? ‘cause i can just keep doing this if you want--”

“do you really not want to fuck me or something?” you interrupt, pouting at your best friend. “you’re so hard you’re soaking through your pants, so i just thought that maybe you’d want to. but you absolutely don’t have to if you don’t want to.”

“fuck, i want to,” he says softly, squeezing your knees as his eyes find yours again. “but...”

“tae,” you coo worriedly, finally closing your legs and climbing over to him. “is something wrong? is all of this too weird? maybe we shouldn’t have done any of this...”

“no, no, no! i like this,” taerae pleads, shaking his head quickly. he presses his lips together for a moment, clearly unsure of whether or not to say his next thought. “i--... i don’t wanna fuck this up.”

your brow furrows at the sentiment. “you’re not gonna fuck it up, tae.”

“i am,” he says, scrunching his nose up. “because... um. well. remember when i said i ‘wasn’t a virgin’?”

“OH MY GOD, I KNEW IT!” you shout; much to the horror of taerae. you take his face in your hands, squishing it up cutely. “why didn’t you tell me, you absolutely adorable little virgin loser?”

“i thought you’d make fun of me,” he huffs through the pout your hands are squishing his lips into. you unsquish his face; pushing his floppy hair back out of his eyes sweetly.

“you’re really fucking good at eating pussy, tae,” you compliment; his cheeks tinging red. “you had me fooled... is that the only thing you’ve done?”

he nods shyly. 

“well look at us,” you say with a laugh, poking at his dimples. “no guys would eat me out and all girls will let you do is eat them out.”

he sighs; blinking quickly through his embarrassment. 

“well i guess we can be done for tonight, if you want,” you say, starting to climb off of his bed when a hand around your wrist pulls you back. you look at him, the expression on his face telling you he’s as “curious” as you were a couple weeks ago.

“or i can help you out,” you suggest and from the way his cock twitches in his pants, you know he was hoping you’d say that. “if you wanna... see what it’s like?”

“mm. wanna see,” he evhoes softly and you’re surprised by how much cuteness is radiating off of him right now. you’re on top of him in seconds, finally kissing him for what you realize is the first time. his lips are so soft and responsive and when he whimpers into your mouth, you tug his shirt up and over his head and push him gently to the mattress; his head resting on his pillow as he looks up at you through lidded eyes.

situating yourself between taerae’s legs, you pull at the waistband of his stupid red sweatpants and he helps you remove them. his bulge is straining against his black boxer briefs and you begin to palm him through them to help relieve some tension. as soon as he feels the slight pressure, he bucks his hips into your hand-- whining for more.

“do you want something, baby?” you ask, squeezing a bit firmer. he nods frantically, placing his hand over yours to keep you there. you squeeze a bit too hard now and taerae seethes at the pain. “don’t get demanding. you’ll take what i give you.”

he nods again, eyes wide with understanding. “m’sorry. m’so--... oh my god.”

pulling taerae’s boxers off his hips and down his legs, you sink down onto your stomach-- both of your hands wrapping around the base of his cock as you lick a long stripe from the shaft to the tip.

his dick is pretty— even prettier in your hands and you’re dying to put it in your mouth. sticking out your tongue teasingly, you tap him against it and the whimpers that fall out of taerae make you feel a bit dizzy with power.

after playing around a bit more with the head of his cock, you take his length in your mouth— pressing down on taerae’s hips to keep him from bucking down your throat by accident. 

tapping the back of your throat lightly, the sound that he makes is both deliciously obscene and concerning. you really don’t want him to cum before you get to feel that pretty cock stretching your walls.

you pull off of him and the bratty whine from the loss of contact that escapes him only inflates your ego. “if you cum down my throat, you’re not gonna get to fuck me. is that what you want?”

taerae whines again, his hand finding the back of your head and gently trying to push you back down on him. you know he’s not actually being forceful— he just wants you to react.

as you smack his right thigh hard, the mesmerized look in taerae’s eyes is thrilling.

“let me take care of you, okay?” you soothe, sucking his cock sloppily in between words. “you’ve been so sweet to me, baby. wanna make you feel good.”

taerae nods with a whimper as you straddle him; grabbing the base of his cock to position under your entrance. as he feels you sink down onto him, all he can cry is, “oh my g— oh fuuuck."

“fuuuck,” you echo in aas your walls slowly mold to taerae’s size. 

“please, please,” he moans; clearly already out of his mind. “n-need you s-so bad.”

“you’ve got me, baby,” you soothe, a hand gripping at either side of his chest. “how does it feel?”

“pussy so warm,” he cries, a hand finding each of your hips and holding them tightly. “so wet, too. oh my god it’s amazing.”

you wish all the guys you’d been with had talked to you like this. the way taerae basically worshipped your pussy was intoxicating.

“baby,” you whine— starting to fuck yourself on his cock. you watch as taerae’s eyes roll back in absolute bliss.

it’s only a few minutes before his nails are digging into the skin at your hips as he warns, “fuck, i can’t. m’sorry i can’t— gonna cum, g'nna—.”

“you can cum, baby,” you allow, leaning down and pressing a kiss to his lips. he keeps you there for a moment, kissing you and moaning into your mouth until you pull back. “want you to cum.”

“fuck, i--. fuck, m’cumming,” he cries; hips bucking into you as he reaches his high. as he slowly comes down, he’s unintelligibly babbling, “pussy s’good, honey— wanna live in it oh my god s’perfect i could die…”

“ssssh, baby, it’s okay,” you coo, pressing kisses up his chest. “you did so good.”

“mmm,” he mewls, covering his face with his hands as his cheeks flush pink. 

“you’re gonna wanna see this, tae,” you reach up and remove his hands from over his eyes, letting one fall to his chest and pulling the other towards you. lifting up off of him, taerae hisses at the loss of warmth as his cock falls to his stomach-- still leaking slightly from the tip. 

“holy fuck,” he moans-- the sound turning to a light, disbelieving laugh as he watches both of your juices start to drip out of you and onto his balls. you bring his fingers to your core; coating his middle and ring fingers in the mixture and bringing them to your lips. you pop them in your mouth, sucking them clean as you see taerae’s cock twitch at the sight. “you’re so fucking hot-- i can’t take it.”

taerae sticks his fingers back in your entrance; this time bringing the liquid to his own lips. he pops his fingers in his mouth, exhaling with satisfaction at the taste. taking you by the waist suddenly and flipping you onto your back, he folds your legs to your chest-- granting himself full access to your pussy. he looks at you; the hungriest you’ve seen him yet as his focus returns to your messy, throbbing cunt. you whimper as taerae husks, “gonna clean you up.”

so what if he's addicted?, you think as he dives in again.

so are you.

[carmenlire]

I've had this taegyu idea floating around since january but I'll readily admit that it is extremely similar to httbt so like on one hand I am absolutely a reader who often thinks "man I wanna read what I just read but new" plus it's in an entirely different fandom but on the other hand like it's literally rockstar beomgyu and probably math teacher taehyun (or maybe grad student, potentially gym owner?).

(lowkey i ended up like fully plotting out the fic/recapping my twt thread so i'm putting the rest under a cut lol.)

like whereas alec was a top 40 sensation solo pop artist, very much channeling biggest name in the industry, beomgyu would be frontman for an indie/niche band (honestly i'm picturing chase atlantic 100% whereas alec was like a tswift) but his band still sells out its tours and is somewhere on the charts, making a very respectable sum.

Beomgyu is feeling ennui, uninspired, very jaded but in a more. . . angsty way than alec? i imagine this fic to be darker/more emotional than httbt with A Big Conflict towards the end where one of them severely fucks up in classic fic fashion.

of course, i've already thought of the opening scene and it makes me realize how totally predictable i am because it's an extremely late night/early morning run-in where taegyu are obviously at very different points in their lives but they have A Conversation and it's the first time beomgyu has felt interested/intrigued by something in forever and taehyun-- actually here's a difference-- he actually has no idea who beomgyu/his band is. beomgyu, ofc, likes that. taehyun just sees a hot guy who's a little fucked up but aren't we all.

looking at my twt thread, i talk a lot about how during that first meeting, beomgyu talks a lot in half-truths, unsure if he can trust taehyun and taehyun is just blunt as always, very no bullshit. they both walk away feeling amped up-- beomgyu feels a little bit like he got an ass kicking, a breath of fresh air and taehyun is intrigued in his own way about this guy who's full of contradictions.

they keep running into each other at the park at these really intimate hours (beomgyu clearing his head/going out whenever there's less of a chance of him being seen and taehyun on his morning runs). eventually one morning, the sun is shining when they both look up and taehyun recommends a lowkey breakfast spot he knows nearby.

despite there clearly being something between them, beomgyu isn't in a place to be in a relationship and taehyun is up front about what he wants/needs and they both respect the other. of course, that doesn't stop them from growing closer until they're like best friends.

constantly texting, both of them start to depend on the other-- on their phone calls, a few minutes of stolen time, on finding the most out of the way restaurants with the best samgyeopsal.

everyone around them knows Something's going on even if taegyu remain infuriatingly tightlipped, both of them wanting to protect this thing between them. the secret relationship aspect is a lot more illicit in this than it was in httbt-- there might not be tabloids to worry about but beomgyu's had a lot of years in the business to grow jaded even if he wishes he could be as open as taehyun. There are some growing pains even if they are both fully invested/committed, even if beomgyu loves being with taehyun and can't get enough.

i'm picturing a classic fic blow-up thanks to beomgyu's rockstar past (?) clashing with taehyun's firm stance on open communication and no bullshit (the blow-up is nothing out of the usual for fic but bc i tend to really love Healthy Communication, i've never written this kinda conflict before but i do think it'll actually fit this au setup and not merely be an excuse for angst lol).

anyway, they totally break up over That Mess and cue beomgyu losing it a little. he gets drunk, writes songs about taehyun, implicitly dedicates those songs to him on stage. he hooks up with someone and feels fucking awful.

he ends up eventually (let's be real they'll probably only be broken up for like a month bc i can't do too much angst lol) doing some soul searching/reflecting on the past months with taehyun and realizing the error of his ways (and even as he was doing it, he was kicking himself bc he didn't even mean the words, he didn't wanna hurt taehyun but his mouth just started without his brain and heart's input rip).

meanwhile taehyun is totally heartbroken (while he seems fine on social media he's kinda falling apart irl) but he was always up front about what he needed from beomgyu if they were gonna do this and he won't bend his own needs and worth just to be with beomgyu.

obviously happy ending!!!! and you know i'll have to include some serious established relationship fluff to make up for all the pain :')

all of which to say..... like i know the premise is very similar to httbt and i feel like there's even more of a spotlight on it since it is obviously my most prolific work (which did also come from a chase atlantic song lmao) but there are differences too???? so like i should just write what i want right?? like especially because i'm worried about being too close to my own work, like it doesn't even matter? and there are some key differences? idk :( i just know i really like the idea.

[funtheysaid]

TTPD is about IWTV

(Part Four)

This is a thread connecting Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles to Taylor Swift’s most recent album, The Tortured Poet’s Department. Part One will be linked at the bottom, if you want to start from the beginning.

7.) Fresh Out The Slammer

Feeling imprisoned in your relationship? Caged with a companion? Trapped for eternity with the object of your resentment? Taylor, are you an Anne Rice stan bc this is getting suspicious…

Pretty much all of the TVC characters have probably felt like they were “breaking free” of someone at some point in this series. These bitches be coming and going like nobody’s business.

Let’s focus on Louis leaving Armand to go back to Lestat. For as much as Louis felt confined by Lestat in their relationship, I have to imagine that his relationship with Armand felt tenfold more controlling and wing-clipping, in the grand scheme of things.

“Now, pretty baby, I’m runnin back home to you”

“Frеsh out the slammer, I know who my first call will be to”

“To the house where you still wait up and that porch light gleams”

(I couldn’t find a better quote for this, but: LESTAT WENT BACK TO THE PLACE THEY SHARED IN NEW ORLEANS!!! Waiting up for Louis, mayhaps? Daniel is mentioned in the excerpt bc this snippet is from his POV. It’s taken from QotD when Daniel went looking for Lestat.)

“As I said in my letters, now that I know better, I will never lose my baby again”

8.) Florida!!!

I mean, Armand’s private resort in Miami? I’m not the only one getting Night Island vibes, right?

This song is a metaphor about Florida being an escape, a solace, a drug. That’s exactly how I imagine Armand and the other vampires feel about the Night Island.

“Florida is one hell of a drug”

“You can beat the heat if you beat the charges too”

“No one asks any questions here”

“I need to forget, so take me to Florida”

“Florida, can I use you up?”

“What a crash, what a rush, fuck me up, Florida”

“I've got some regrets, I'll bury them in Florida”

“Tell me I'm despicable, say it's unforgivable, At least the dolls are beautiful”

Part One: https://www.tumblr.com/funtheysaid/749134183115456512/ttpd-is-about-iwtv

Part Five: https://www.tumblr.com/funtheysaid/749135175926136832/ttpd-is-about-iwtv

[angelsinluv]

hi angel

thank you for your response you laid out all my worries

it hurts but you're right lol. I will focus on neville/edward. I know the void is just a state and giving up on it now doesn't mean I can't ever tap into it. I just need to set my priorities straight and focus on the end goal rather than a means to the end. just because other people managed it when they were in a bad place doesn't mean I need to too. god this is like a whole new chapter I'm basically starting completely fresh. it will take me some time to fully get over the obsession but im going to actually try and keep in mind what u told me thank you thank you

a whole new chapter is relieving. remember that it doesn't matter about the state you were in a second ago/in the past. everything that matters is now. you'll learn more the more you apply and stay away from all the void stuff and remember thats theres nothing left for you to do if you knew you already had it. read my states posts and fulfillment challenge if you want a head start.

plus this thread if you start to think being in undesirable states could affect you (spoiler: it wont ever.)

i used to try every meditation, every method, every sub, every single night for months and now i'm insanely indifferent to it. i keep seeing posts on these meditations and subs, and no hate to them but i just scroll past it bc it's weird to keep egging it on by all these dedicated posts and blogs. the only thing you need is imagination and faith. all the best!

[halfawitch-willow]

Silv's Questionnaire 2023

Your Name: Silv

Characters: Willow Park, Queen Clarion

Pick one of your characters and talk about their growth (we recommend choosing an older character, but it’s up to you!) What about their story has surprised you? What are you proud of? How have they changed from their original inception to now?

Clarion has only been here a month so this automatically goes to Willow, and holy shit. Baby girl has been through so much already. Stuff I didn’t think would happen for a while! But I got impatient and everything just kinda worked out, and honestly there was only going to be so long I could drag out the Garden Talent realization without making Willow look absolutely detached from reality (There’s “Out of sight, out of mind” and then there’s that lmao).

Not to hammer on the flower metaphor, but leaving the Isles and getting a fresh start in Swynlake has really allowed Willow to start to bloom into herself and who she really is behind the twenty layers of defense mechanism. She’s started to get a little silly and is becoming more secure in the friendships she’s made, and I’m looking forward to exploring that with her more. She’s going to really dive into what being a sorcerer -- both in general and specifically as one from the Isles -- and a fairy means to her, and how those two parts of her identity are going to coexist with each other. 

I had the moment of realization a while back that Willow is my Ugly Duckling, and 2024 is the year of the Swan, baby lol.

Pick another character (or the same character if you only have one) and talk a little about where you WANT them to go. What are your plans for them going into the new year? 

Clarion my darling, I have not done nearly enough with her. I really want to dive into what being Queen entails for her especially in a town as lowkey volatile as Swynlake can be. This means more threads with other fairies, more threads with people in town, more threads in general? Clarion has been a character I have a lot of muse for but my life got really busy so I haven’t been able to do a lot with her yet.

I want to explore who Clarion is as Queen and outside of that role, and I think there’s going to be plenty of opportunities to explore that in the coming year.

Pick a thread or a plot that you’re proud of and talk about why you loved it. 

Obvious answer, but Willow Shop lol.

It was such a spur of the moment thing and everyone who participated was so accommodating to my insanity, and we got something really special at the end of it. It was my first kind of major plot that I organized for one of my characters, and it was so much fun! It has so much of what I love in a story, and it’s still causing ripples in Willow’s life. This is just the start for her, and now that I’ve had a taste of what a plot like that can be like, I’m definitely excited for more!

Shout out to Basically Every Plight Thread, the prequel Lavender thread, the Huntlow Fair thread (FLAP AND CLOVEEEER), and the Fresher Party on Discord. 

In terms of your own writing, identify 1-3 things you love to write about (metaphors? Sibling relationships? Physical description?) and talk about why you enjoy it! 

Dialogue: Look, I love me some dialogue, it’s why I like chats and twitter so much lol. It’s where a lot of the character’s personality starts to shine! This is moreso in like the drabbles and one shots I write, as it gives characters to really go back and forth quickly.

Ticks and Habits: Everyone has these little things they do subconsciously in their life and I like to pepper them in and use them as a way to explore people’s emotions and state of mind. For example, Willow plays with her hair when she’s nervous and taps her feet and wiggles when she’s excited. This is also a reason I love mentioning Willow’s tail bc she’s so physically expressive! Clarion is much more reserved physically, but we’re going to start to see these little ticks of hers come out as well.

Cause and Effect: I *love* me some consequences. I love thinking about how events and actions affect the people around them, how certain dynamics can change after, it’s my favorite thing to write about. It’s something I’m definitely going to get into with Clarion more in the coming year -- her decisions can sometimes affect the entire Hollow! -- and on a more intrapersonal level with Willow. She’s starting to form her own opinions and she’s getting close to a breaking point where she won’t be able to keep them to herself.

What major updates have your characters gone through this year? (For example: beginning/ending a relationship, moving, starting a new job, adopting a pet, etc). Think if it as anything you would have put in the #character-updates channel. If you have a pinned post, consider adding these updates so everyone is aware of them in the future.

Clarion: Just got here lmao

Willow: Moved to Swynlake, got a job at the Garden Grove and the Court, excelled in her classes, started trying to rekindle her friendship with Amity, made a bunch of new friends, got on the radar of two coven heads, discovered her Garden Talent and fairy heritage, set her foot on fire and ran from a bear, accidentally granted a demon hybrid plant sentient life then Took It Back, told her dads about the fairy thing, got introduced to the fairy queen

Talk about your dash reply style and your Discord reply style! (And if applicable, also your doc reply style). What do you like about each type of interaction? What is something you feel is difficult? Do you have preferences regarding how many times you’re tagged per day, or do you prefer for your replies to be queued for a certain amount of time?

Dash: Dash is my home base, but it’s not the easiest way for me to RP? Just because I usually write at work or on the go, so my replies end up looking kind of messy. It’s also easier for me to lose threads on the dash. One of my goals for 2024 is to get more consistent about my reply times to people so I don’t fall majorly behind. That being said, bit of a brag, have not been checked since I came back! I’m very proud of that bc it was a *huge* issue for me on my second run of characters in this group. Lucky number three, let’s goooo!

Please don’t ever feel like you need to hold replies for me! I love checking my phone in the morning and seeing replies waiting for me like lil presents 💕 If I ever take too long with a reply, please feel free to just tap me and I will happily bump it up the priority list! I try to be aware of what’s more time sensitive.

Discord: Highkey I fucking love rping on discord. It gives me that instant gratification that just scratches my brain sooo good. And it’s more casual so you really can just get really crazy and silly with it sometimes. Some of the best, most random stuff comes out of discord sometimes -- Willow and Phineas joking together, Willow and Julieta meeting and having their moment at Casita, literally all of Willow’s friendship w Edward is on discord I think lmao. I’d love to take advantage of the standing events more, and just continue to be involved in the events on discord.

Doc: Docs are probably the easiest way to RP for me? They’re convenient for me to work on both mobile and at work, and some of my favorite things I’ve done have been doc threads. I used them a lot for Willow Shop and I’d love to do more kind of casual ones, or even as I was saying in the group chat, more just random private AUs! I fucking love me an AU, yall know this about me. 

And now, a wishlist! Jot down a few themes or stories or genres etc that you want to maybe pursue in the upcoming year! (i.e. a good ol’ fashion forbidden romance, maybe you want to dig deep into racial identity etc) This doesn’t have to necessarily be attached to any characters or stories you have now– it’s just meant to help you see for yourself what kind of stories call to your heart.

More flying threads for both Willow and Clarion

Nutcracker plot (yall thought I was fucking joking)

Look I want Willow to have a fling that gives “Reckless Driver” vibes so bad

Sports threads! I haven’t gotten to explore how sporty Willow is yet and that’s something I’d love to touch on (Spring Break Wing It Like Witches, anyone?)

More Hollow stuff for Clarion

More political stuff for Clarion too!

Look this is so random but I’ve been hinting at it for months. Yall, Willow loves music. She loves singing, or she did. I’d love to explore that with the musical and with her working at the Court. Literally had a whole discussion with Tam when they were visiting about my headcanon for Willow’s singing voice, give me a reason to shove it in everyone’s face

/makes grabby hands/ Give Me A Luz or A Gus, I Need Them. I’d also love to bring Skara in, she’s my darling and I have So Many Thoughts about her and Willow’s short friendship during their Hexside years

…. Yall I wanna do smut threads so bad lol. Do I know how it’s going to happen with my two girls (Willow has never even kissed anyone before and her self-esteem is in the Mariana’s Trench, and Clarion is capital B Busy)? No. But AUs exist lmao. Romance a Silv Character in an AU, get lucky lmao.

OPTIONAL: Why do you RP?

[chirrurp]

@zahkara​​:

GOD It’s like you’re literally pulling the thoughts out of my head on the state of the directory lol. It’s all just the same prompts from the same people bumped ceaselessly. I feel like the directory has lost a lot of the variety it used to have, for sure. I think cherp needs some fresh blood tbh, I feel like cherp loses users but doesn’t really gain new ones at the same pace.

’#but browsing through the directory used to be fun’

hard agree with this! Even if it wasn’t a prompt I was into, it could be interesting to see the crazy stuff people come up with lol.

I don’t know that I agree about people getting quick replies then drafting, but then again I am basing that on myself and… rarely getting replies to my prompts, so you might actually be on the money. Personally I feel like few people are connecting to prompts and just make their own. Like, how many times have you seen two near-identical prompts (‘I want Bob and Tom to kiss!’ followed by 'I want Tom and Bob to hold hands and kiss!’ like just connect to each other babes) and since nobody is connecting, it’s just endless Bumping The Same 5 Prompts in any given fandom. it’s the niche hobby version of two people being too shy to ask somebody to dance, so they just wait instead and thus nobody ends up dancing.

it’s my suspicion because that’s what i usually do, the same five prompts are in the directory, so i write my own prompt because i want to rp specific stuff and i want to be very clear about what i want. some people connect after like 12hrs~a day, and i always draft after a few connects so i dont get a ton of connections because i try to ration my roleplays very seriously so i dont end up with a lot of abandoned threads, even if i usually get a lot of ghosts/disconnects on that prompt, i may undraft it if everyone d/cs, or more likely, what i like to do, is just write a new prompt!!! instead of bumping the same one that never gets connected to over and over, if i bump something even once or twice and after 2 weeks or more and no one replies im writing something that gets more bites quicker. i’ll be more specific, less specific, play with what does and doesn’t work, etc

i left cherubplay/cherp a long ass time ago for other methods of roleplay and i’m gonna be real the reason i came back is because i missed peoplewatching in the directory. then i let myself start a few roleplays and cherp is now my main roleplay preference. it’s just that i stopped rping homestuck but -- i mean not that its surprising bc its a homestuck based rp website -- that’s the only tag that really moves super regularly

i have longterm committed threads man if i post more prompts i might spread myself thin. so i want to windowshop in the directory. i wanna see people putting ideas out there, but its like the same character in the same five situations and then that one guy who really wants to rp something REALLY gross with some female characters and their dad or whatever because theres always at least one. then you see a new prompt/character/idea/etc once in a blue moon, but everyones recycling the same stuff over and over. it makes me wanna reintroduce some more variable prompts back into the environment to promote healthy diversity but again im strictly avoiding spreading myself thin like that.

im roleplaying in one of the most popular fandoms on the planet for a pretty popular ship even among people who dont even consume the source material and every time i check the directory its the same five prompts bumped again

[oh-heartlessman]

Meet the Jenkinses || Dark Squad

It turned out, after using a quick scrying spell to find the exact address of Howl’s parents (honestly, he couldn’t remember his childhood address; he’d tossed it out of his mind as soon as he had officially left the house), that they were no longer living in the suburbs of Cardiff. No, apparently they’d moved much further north to the town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch, which was on some gordforsaken island off the norther coast of Wales.

The reason for this move, Howl did not know, but he sent a usual raven with a magical note attached to his parents alerting them that he intended to visit the first week of September.

The journey was not terrible – Melaenis had transformed herself and Howl into birds, and that was fine, but also a bit of a shock because Howl was used to his bird form when flying. This was smaller, his wings did not quite stretch so far.  

But still, the wind was wicked and wild and it still felt good to fly.

They landed softly on the streets of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch, right as Mel’s spell wore off. There they stood, the two of them, clad in black with Maggie plodding right next to them and Calcifer floating. It was early in the morning, the sun was just dawning and Calcifer’s flames cast an eerie glow upon their faces.

“Well,” said Howl, glancing around at the village and then offering his arm to Mel. “Welcome to Wales.”

The village was small, but the houses were the same sort of cookie-cutter that Howl knew his parents were used to. He found the most average of the houses on the street, the one that looked like it took bits and pieces of every surrounding one as to not stand out anymore than necessary, and lo and behold, the little scrying spell he’d put in his vial grew warmer.

They walked up to the front door and Howl gave a very pointed knock.

(His heart hammered a bit, but he ignored it).

The door swung open revealing – why it was his father, still in a dressing gown, a newspaper tucked under his arm.

“Howell?” squeaked out Harold, eyes widening.

“Hello father,” said Howl cheerily. “Hope we’re not too early – this is Mel, I mentioned in my letter. And Maggie, of course, our daughter. And this is Calcifer. We’re roommates. May we come in? There’s a bit of a chill.”

Harold Jenkins blinked then stepped aside, letting the whole entourage through the door.

“Er – I’ll set the kettle. Your, uh, mum’s still asleep but – Just take a seat in the sitting room, I suppose. Let me fetch her – Hannah, darling!”

Howl glanced around the house, full of very painfully Mundus knickknacks like embroidery manufactured in a big factory and potpourri, before he plopped down on the flower couch. Might as well get comfortable, yes?

Calcifer bobbed around, examining the television with great care, and Maggie sniffed one of the potpourri jars on the coffee table, her great tail nearly knocking over one of the picture frames (if Howl cared to look closely, he would see that it was a picture of him and his sister).

“Sit down, my darling,” he said. “Unless you’d rather brood in the corner -- that’s fine. Very on brand.” 

@melaenis-ficente

[dirtyflcwers]

what if i seriously remade?

[mellowdisco]

sorry about not being on here and only coming on to rb edits and fcs dksfhj i’ve been taking some time away to try and figure out what i should do w this blog because while i do love all of the threads and dynamics i currently have (and i do mean this with my whole ass chest and heart), i’ve been feeling bad about some stuff... 

like there are drafts i haven’t touched in 1-2 months that i’m not even sure if i should still tackle. most of my partners are fast-paced and i worry they feel like i’m not the partner for them and just don’t want to say it 😭 ik some ppl have expiry dates and have probably already considered them dropped so i’m at an awkward point where i don’t know what to do. i also have a lot of insecurities when it comes to my writing and stance with people that adds to it

most of this is just a Me problem too honestly... i find it hard to communicate and feel insecure about our threads if we aren’t close or if we don’t interact much ooc, if someone stops replying to me ooc i start to worry i’ve done something wrong so it puts me off from replying to threads which i’m 100% aware is honestly SO dumb and unfair. i never blame anyone but myself for this and it’s something i should and have been trying to work on.

because i’ve always been aware of these insecurities, my initial idea for this blog was to keep it private and friends only, but at the same time i want to meet more people and don’t want to close off potential new partners 😔 so i was never really strict w that rule. 

i want people i can rave about our muses / ships with when we’re feeling musey while still being able to talk about other stuff. bc that’s really only why i’m here. no weird vibes just pure pals who talk and write sometimes<3 i feel like everyone but me has Those Partners while i’m just floating here like pennywise’s red balloon...

maybe this blog needs a big clean up overall, idk. i’m thinking of moving (again... i know) and taking w me the people who are genuinely still interested in writing whether it be w our existing stuff or new ones. or... just disappear quietly and start completely fresh on a new blog w new muses (those i have long term stuff with, we could either continue on d.iscord or on a private sideblog)

if you do end up reading all of that mess, i’m sorry dsfksjfgf i’d love some opinions on what you think i should do... or maybe a show of hands who here would genuinely still like to write together? that might help me w my decision-making but if not, pls just scroll past this post and move on with your day<3 i know this is really awkward so i’ll just assume you didn’t see this post, no hard feelings!

[caspercryptid]

📯New pinned post + Request Guidelines 📯

It's been a while and some things have changed so I'm gonna make this one fresh!

Hi I'm Casper, I'm a semi-professional queer author currently hyperfixating on Arcane ((And only murders in the building, and Our Flag Means Death)) like a motherfucker. ND + Disabled + Trans. If you have a problem with any of those categories, perhaps move along.

I tag my fics with #casper's haunted fic tag but considering tumblr's ask system, maybe just use my arcane fic archive to read my stuff, or my #original fiction tag (please?) I tag asks with #casper's haunted info tag so if you're looking for my answers to your questions, check there! I've got some other Casper's haunted tags and I'll make a full list another time. #disability info is the tag I use for both discussion of disability in arcane and also advocacy stuff I reblog. If you ever want me to tag stuff more specifically, please let me know. 

Also on the record, reply times on all asks will vary, I’m a spoonie and I don’t always have the energy for social interaction! You have my love. I am easily worn out. 

🕊️ Twitter — 📖 Ao3 — ☕ Ko-Fi — 🔨 The Hammer To Fall Discord

Sideblogs:

@fuckyeahjaycetalis - JAYCE

@thebeelog - BEES

@theasperagroup - original project vibes (the description of which is here)

Now! Request Guidelines. [[Requests are closed right now, but here’s the rules for when they’re open!]]

Although if you guys happen to get attached to my OCs and want to see more of them, HMU, because that's Always Welcome.

Here is a list of suggestions for AUs and ships.

Now for the slightly less fun stuff.

I love writing rarepairs and I love crack ships and I love doing Weird Stuff. That being said, here is The Please Don't List.

Please don't spam requests as it takes up space in my inbox and I can only hold so many before I close it again! Give everybody a fair shot

Please don't send me requests that describe the entire plot of a fic. If you've got the whole concept, that's great! You should try writing it and I will support you. If there's not room for me to take my own direction, or you've described your own characterizations that don't match mine, that's not really fun for me to write! And so I won't.

Please don't send me requests where you ask that disabled characters (Viktor) be insecure about their body or their disability. I'm not comfortable writing that.

And the hopefully pretty short No list—

I will not write jinx with anyone significantly older than she is, nor will I answer requests that call her powder. My jinx is trans.

I will not write Caitlyn/Jayce, as I write them as siblings

I will not write ship content with Ambessa, as I'm not comfortable with her treatment of Mel in the show

I will not write E rated content unless it has been discussed with me beforehand or it's a continuation of a previous fic. I'm gray ace and I can't really manage that on command.

Okay! You got through the negative stuff. Here's some lighter logistics notes.

please sign your anon asks with an emoji! I think it's cute and it helps me pick up trends or threads and to keep from getting confused. I am disabled and making things more accessible for me is really sweet of you

If you start your request with "tell me a story about" I am a hundred times more likely to answer you fast bc I think that's the cutest shit ever

I make no guarantees that I can write EVERY ship but if you send me two characters I will do my best. They may not always kiss. I will give you content. If you want strictly platonic that's cool too!! Familial relationships? People you think would be friends? Just wanna see em vibe or coparent or something? Hit me.

Feel free to spam likes and reblogs! Go ham! PLEASE reblog, especially if you're the one who requested, it's just a nice way to share my stuff. And talk in the tags! Go ham!

Requests will be answered out of order whenever I have inspiration I make no guarantees about what goes up when

And I think that's that! I'll add to this if I think of something else or if something happens that reminds me that this needs to be updated. Thanks for reading!

[dickgreyson]

Been thinking about a dick grayson who starts traveling again. Maybe it's after ric or spyral or bludhaven or watching yet another friend die, maybe he decides he's tired of being berated by someone no matter what he does or that he's tired of being in the same place so he packs a suitcase and goes. He follows a circus, blindly throws darts at a map (decides that's perhaps a little too spontaneous to be the only way he picks his next destination), criss crosses the world to visit friends and plots out a path between must see locations and places he's always to go. There are some big cases, broken up trafficking rings and villains tied up making front page news, but more so there are stories on social media. Threads and videos popping up across the globe about interrupted muggings, taking a blue striped hand and stepping away from the edge, and late night talks on fire escapes about mundane topics. During the day dick travels and is a normal tourist, no cover, no larger goal, just a guy in his twenties out to see the world. He sends postcards, takes too many photos, gets lost in crowds, buys cheesy souvenirs and not so cheesy ones, finds new favorite foods and places off the beaten path he vows to visit again, and maybe there's a few posts online about meeting the last flying grayson. Eventually he does go back because dick always goes back and he's fluent in four more languages, passable in a few new ones, has several new numbers in his phone from both inside and outside the caped community, other less conventional ways to get in contact with a few more new friends, and some new tricks. Maybe he stays again, maybe he's only there to visit but he goes and his smile is a bit less of a performance. Maybe it's a little ooc but I think it'd be nice for him to get to get away from gotham and the eastern seaboard in general on his own terms and maybe a part of it is also me being petty and wanting the batfam to have to deal with dick who instead of asking forgiveness and promising to do better packs up and leaves bc he is a competent vigilante with his own life and he deserves respect and "you all clearly think you can do better without me so I'll just get out of your way" and idk this got long, it's like 2am, give dick a break 2kforever

thank you so much for sending me this like it honestly brought peace to my afternoon. its windy and raining and storming outside, but this was a beam of warmth and sunshine.

i totally dont think this is ooc at all, considering he's still out there breaking up crime rackets and protecting civilians. i think he might have stayed in southern italy a little longer than any other place because like..... theres so much mafia there. and thats kinda like new york and bludhaven back in the old days, must have felt nostalgic. to deal with such a human problem. something that isnt alien or overpowered, just good old fashioned goons and gambling and handguns.

we know that dick runs. he is flighty! he starts fresh, he road trips, he does travel in the comics. but i really agree, his family keeps him on such a leash. it isnt good for him, especially the way he can never seem to do right by them. so i really think it would be good for him to take a year and travel. i mean, he's done it before! hes struck out on his own, and traveled around trying to find his bearings! its time for him to do it again!

i love the idea of him being a tourist, maybe retracing the footsteps of his family through america and europe, forging his own path through the middle east and asia. just taking some time to see these places and really experience them without a goal or the pressure of a mission. he's always needed this kind of freedom!

[hostilepoet17]

How long does it take you to complete a vid? As in from point the idea in your head to fully edited and published?

thanks for the ask! It's hard to pin this down bc if I have the inspiration and the time to sit down for hours and edit, then it can only take a few days. But honestly, the majority of projects in my folder for the past year are there for at least a month before being finished and published. I'd say this year's average is six months for a video bc I simply don't have the time or motivation, and I have too many ideas that I'm trying to pin down.

Looking back at my most recent videos:

Jack & Sam | Champagne Problems.

Started editing / blocking out the video idea: 11/11/21

Published: 11/12/21

(a month feels like such an achievement right now!)

Wanda Maximoff | Out of Televisions.

Started editing: 07/03/21

Published: 14/10/21

What happened here was that I edited most of it, then I ended up working on a lot of other projects for a while before coming back to this bc I knew it was mostly finished and I needed something to post!

Stephen & Christine | I Don't Want You To Go.

Started editing: 02/09/21

Published: 05/09/21

Three days??? This was one of those beautiful moments where I have the idea and the time to sit down and work on it. I had submitted a big deadline for my research on the 1st of September, so I was taking the first week of the month lightly and revisiting hobbies. So, that's why I had the time to make a whole video.

Samantha Carter | Goner.

Started editing: 20/12/20

Published: 28/08/21

oof, this one was going really well and then I thought of a cool parallel for Teal'c and Sam and then I ended up editing something for them instead. Then the new year hit with all the videos I wanted to post, so this got lost until Amanda Tapping's birthday this year.

Roy O'Bannon | Old Town Road.

Started editing: 20/07/21

Published: 21/08/21

This one was technically a v straightforward edit and really only amounted to a few hours of work. But other things (as always) got in the way and this project was zero priority 😂

Loki & Mobius | Trust.

Started editing: 20/06/21

Published: 27/08/21

This one was a tricky one bc I was trying to pull the whole thread of their relationship and parallel it all. My biggest mistake was starting while the series was still airing, bc every single week, I had to adjust it after 1x02. I had given a lot of space expecting more content in 1x03 and then I had to completely readjust the tone after 1x04. Then the ending of the show was so weird and open-ended that I didn't know how to end this video and almost didn't finish it. I know a lot of people edit shows week to week as they're airing but I can't do that, I like knowing and understanding the full arc before I start editing anything.

Marvel | Losing Your Memory.

Started editing: 01/07/21

Published: 18/07/21

Okay so this is the last one I'll talk about bc it was like the only time I've edited cleverly and used my time well. I opened this project at the beginning of July but I knew I didn't have the time to edit it for a while. So, while the idea was fresh in my head, I added the song to the track and then went through the entire thing with markers, adding in notes about what content would go where, so that once I had the free time to make this, the idea wouldn't be gone:

I just did the entire song with markers, closed the project and didn't think any more about it, until I had free time a fortnight later. I sat down for a few hours over two days and filled in all the clips and voiceovers I had marked out. It obviously took some adjusting as clips and voiceovers are never the length you imagine them to be.😂 but this is such an invaluable way to get the inspiration down and plan it even if you don't have the time to make it. Bc when you do have that time, past!you has done all the work.

anyway, that's my rant over. Normally, editing a video will mostly take a few hours a day for a handful of days. It's about actually getting it finished in that time and not getting distracted by other ideas for me😂

My editing timeline looks like this:

I'll definitely be relying more heavily on the markers in future to plot out ideas that I don't have time to make yet! And I've learned my lesson about editing an in-depth tribute to a show as it's actively airing!

[undyingsunshine]

Also because I am a glutton for punishment: hiding face in neck (3) + running fingers through hair (2)

(No pressure to write any or all of these btw !!)

(Fuckkkkk now I am also Thinking about Them)

Sierra you gave me sO MANY PROMPTS I LOVE YOU <3 and YES YES THINK WITH ME!!! THINK WITH ME ABOUT THEM!!! My new tumblr goal: get as many people as possible to like this ship ((JOKES JOKES JOKES))

I'm answering this one first because the prompts instantly gave me a more solid idea for something I vaguely had in my drafts. And guess what :) It's :) Angsty :) As fuck :) And i'M SORRY I'M SO SORRY ALL I CAN DO IS WRITE ANGST IDK WHY??? Like. Hurt No Comfort is one of my least favourite things to read ever and yet??? here I am??? writing it???? ((Kind of a lie, there is a smidgen of comfort here but still. That one fic I wrote. yknow the one. Is the definiton of hurt no comfort))

ANYWAY. I PROMISE I'LL MAKE THE OTHER ONES MUCH NICER BC U DESERVE IT FOR THE HELL I PUT YOU THROUGH 💙💙💙💙 But for now. Have ur daily dose of Suffering, fresh out of the raging inferno that is my soul :) Drabble under the cut! (Which I finally figured out how to do???? HECK YEA!)

((Extra kind of unrelated note, while finishing this off I was listening to Bulletproof Love by Pierce The Veil on repeat. Give it a listen if you feel like suffering more :) ))

Warnings: vague allusions to tomb of the sea, talk of snakes, general angstyness

Yang Hao knows a lot about Li Cu.

Yang Hao knows that Li Cu prefers sleeping on his back or on his right - knows that the left side of Li Cu's neck is a source of sensory nightmare. He knows that some days are better than others, but on the other days, even the collars of his shirts border on the realms of unbearably comfortable. He knows some days - inversely - consist of him stubbornly wearing anything that covers at least most of his throat, unable to stomach the feeling of it being out in the open. Exposed.

Li Cu has never truly spoke about what happened, but the faded puncture scars are plenty enough to get Yang Hao's mind reeling with awful visions, some of which infiltrate his dreams, rampaging through and leaving nothing but tear stains that no one else is present - or awake - to witness, and brutal aftershocks that introduce newer chasms in his heart; pits of despair reserved only for the boy that sleeps, blissfully (...?) unaware, beside him.

Yang Hao knows that Li Cu has a phobia of snakes.

He knows this from the times his smile instantly dropped at the sight of one. Times times where Li Cu had laced their fingers together in order to (not so) subtly move Yang Hao's hand off his rapidly beating heart, a thunderous rhythm triggered by any hint of a hissing noise.

Yang Hao knows Li Cu is suffering.

But what Yang Hao doesn't know is how to help. Or even approach the matter. Su Wan is easy to rile up, easy to intimidate and easy to convince. It doesn't take long before he cracks and starts talking about his problems. Li Cu? Not so much. He's stubborn and, worst of all, closed off about anything concerning the nightmare sequence that was... well... everything that fucker Wu Xie put him through. The second it's hinted at, there's no real telling what he'll do, at least not exactly. Sometimes he'll snap, insisting there's 'nothing to talk about' (a blatant lie even Su Wan wouldn't believe); sometimes he'll become distant and avoidant until the topic is changed; sometimes he'll straight up leave, using any and all excuses to escape the situation. There's no way of getting to open up (...yet)

So Yang Hao does what he can.

He lets Li Cu turn away. He lets Li Cu bury (or moreso hide) his head in his neck, doing his best to not focus on the shallow, hitched breaths, or the way Li Cu swallows down his nausea, or the way Li Cu's hand tightens ever so slightly more around his. Instead, he concentrates on threading his own slightly shaky (from anger, helplessness or worry, he's never really been able to tell) free hand through Li Cu's hair as soothingly as he can. He lets Li Cu take as long as he needs to focus entirely on any other sensation Yang Hao so willingly gives to him, until the brewing storm passes over and their chests finally banish the cursed, bated breath that had built up behind their ribs. Synchronised. Practiced. A routine that shouldn't have to exist, but persist it still does.

The pain is soul deep: etched into their bones, woven into their muscles and tatooed in their nerves. No fibre of their beings is left unmarked. But, at the very least, they can bare through it together. A small victory, some may say, but not to them. Because it shows they survived. That they overcame all the bullshit thrown at them and came out alive, even if it wasn't in one piece, it's enough.

To hold each other's hand. To hear each other breathe. To exist in each other's presence.

It's small. But it's enough.

[itsclydebitches]

ngl voyager gets a whole lot of very disproportional hate from the fandom and i'd hazard a guess that a lot of that is just garden-variety misogyny (and probably racism mixed in, considering how many of the most prominent characters are women, poc, or both). like, is voyager perfect? absolutely not. and no spoilers but there was a lot of executive meddling that wound up leading to the finale/conclusion being lacking and there's a lot of reasonable dissatisfaction with that--but again that was largely thanks to the execs fucking the show over and i recommend looking into that if you can once you've finished the show. but overall? voyager is trek right to its very core--it has heart, it's about family, and it never loses sight of that imo, even if some episodes are weaker or just duds (but, like, would it be a trek series without some episodes that just kinda suck but are still fun to watch???)

anyway, i absolutely love that you're getting into voyager, it is my all-time favorite trek series to this day for a lot of reasons, and i hope that ppl like that anon dont put you off bc i'd love to continue to see your thoughts as you watch the series!

Oh, it would take a whole lot more than some anons being salty that others enjoy things to turn me off :D 

Thus far (I lost internet last night so I’m still only on Episode 7 of Season 2), Voyager is the Trekiest Trek I’ve watched. Which is a weird sentence, but I mean it in the way you said it’s “trek right to its very core.” What is Star Trek, if we strip the intent of the story down to its basics? It’s about exploration, discovery, that “wagon train to the stars,” wrapped up in the argument that life is fundamentally good. We have problems, but we can work past them. We have differences, but they strengthen us. Diversity is the lifeblood of the universe and the future will continue to improve so long as we embrace that. 

Voyager is (again, from what I’ve seen so far!) basically a love song to that premise. I didn’t do too deep a dive because I’m trying to avoid spoilers, but I did look at a couple threads discussing why Voyager is so hated. Again and again I saw the same reason pop up: wasted potential. Now, a lot of fans left it at that (as if the answer to what potential Voyager apparently missed out on is self-evident. It’s not), but those who did expand on the idea consistently claimed that the show needed to be darker than it was, even if they rarely said it like that. Why aren’t the Federation and the Marquis at each other’s throats? Why isn’t the crew going crazy under these circumstances? Why aren’t characters getting killed off left and right in hostile space? “Anything could have happened out there and they played it safe!” but the “anything” here is always... awful. There’s this very pervasive idea that the world is inherently cruel, people are inherently divisive, that when pushed to the brink everything will fall apart... and that (while making for one kind of great story) is very much not Star Trek. 

See, Voyager created an unimaginable scenario--lost in space, 75 years from home, forced to live indefinitely with strangers--and their answer to the question of “What happens?” is “People make it work.” They learn to respect one another, they uphold their ideals, they maintain a love of life and discovery, and they create a family. And that’s fucking fantastic. That’s Star Trek! I’m not going to pretend there aren’t problems with the show, with plenty more to come, I’m sure, but I don’t think this is one of them. Why do so many viewers think that hatred, horror, death, and growing jaded is the only potential here? Why would they expect that in a Star Trek show whose premise is the very antithesis of those things? 

“But they don’t do enough with those things, even if they have happy outcomes.” They do plenty, they just do it in an episodic rather than serialized nature. I can point to multiple episodes where the replicator rations or Maquis differences are driving the characters’ actions. “But without that horror there’s no conflict.” There’s plenty of conflict. Hostile aliens aside, I just watched an episode where Tuvok and Chakotay are pissed as hell at one another because they fundamentally disagree over how to handle problems, but--because they’re adults with a well-tested respect for one another--they apologize and work through it. “But the characters don’t develop at all.” You mean they don’t grow harder. That’s not the same thing as no development. Tuvok is figuring out how to be more flexible, Chakotay is becoming more willing to accept cultures he doesn’t agree with, Harry is growing more confident now that he’s far from home, the Doctor is learning to see himself as a person, Paris is grabbing his second chance with both hands by making strong ties, and Janeway is learning to command and care for her crew simultaneously. I honestly believe that a lot of people think of “character development” as the character becoming a fundamentally different person, unrecognizable from where they started out. But  characters can also grow into the people they wanted to be in the first place. “We’re far from home, in hostile territory, tempted to do horrific things to survive... but no. Right now at least, we’re holding onto who we are. We’re scientists, so we’re going to explore and learn. We’re peaceful, so we’re going to make friends with as many species as we can. We’re members of a society that teaches acceptance, so we’re going to form a family on this spaceship.” That’s incredible!! Did fans miss why Seska was an antagonist in the episode she was unmasked? Because she was trying to convince them to give up everything they believe in in the name of survival, an ends justify the means argument. And the crew said no, we will not give up what we believe in just to make it through. I legit saw a ton of fans saying some version of, “I can’t believe they were that far from home and actually followed Starfleet’s rulebook.” It’s because those rules don’t exist for the hell of it. Overlooking their practical function, they’re a philosophy that the characters believe in, and they’re figuring out how important that part of their identity is to them under these circumstances. Am I willing to steal a specie’s technology if it gets us home? Am I willing to die to help another uphold their own philosophy? (Chakotay in “Imitations”). What regulations should we bend or change to accommodate our new situation? The first two things Janeway does are a) giving the guy who just came out of a penal colony a rank and b) deciding that she needs to be more familiar with her crew than is normally encouraged for a captain because she’s essentially their mom now. Developing doesn’t have to mean characters do a 180 on their initial personality, or characters getting killed off when stuff gets “boring” so that others can do edgy things in response. 

Voyager upholds Trek’s premise and runs it to its logical conclusion: 

Voyager has the most literal trek--a trek back home. 

Voyager has the most diverse crew--a woman Captain, Native American First officer, black Vulcan, Asian-American communications officer, and a White Dude pilot that realizes he wants to be soft and kind towards those who took a chance on him because Toxic Masculinity who? 

Voyager has the most literal family--not just a 5+ year mission, but a crew who expects to raise the next generation. They have no choice but to work together, so they indeed come together rather than pulling apart

Except they do, of course, have a choice. In “The 37′s” the crew is allowed to stay on the Earth-like planet with a city of other humans and Janeway is convinced that a sizable number will choose that. After all, they may never get home and this is a safer, kinder future for them. In fact, the real question is whether so many will stay that they can no longer run the ship... but Janeway would never dictate her crew’s choices in that manner. So she swallows her worry down, opens the door... 

... and finds that not a single person decided to stay behind. And the show has ensured we understand that this is not just because they all have some unshakable belief that they’ll get home (many don’t), but because this is their family now. This is home. 

And fans want to toss that out for a generic, gritty, sci-fi adventure where hope is scarce, the universe is cruel, and people need to be pushed to the limit just to admit that they maybe, sort of, like each other?? Obviously like what you like, but that’s a hard pass for me. I’ll take the bridge crew comforting each other in “Twisted,” thanks. Besides, we already have shows like that. And we already have DS9 which grapples with many of those dark, pessimistic themes. Voyager feels like a breath of fresh air, even within the breath of fresh air that is Star Trek as a franchise. It’s a show that says, “Yes, when everything goes wrong people will come together. They will love each other. They will make it through.” 

What’s more Star Trek than that? 

[lovely-angst]

anon: How about Giyuu gets his clothes from a specific place bc he's been in love with the shop keeper for awhile now? Or I suppose that the reader could be the one who repairs his clothes and he visits them often. The others are surprised bc wow this person got Giyuu to laugh and smile???

sorry for the LATE update!

**edit: fixed the formatting! 

When Giyuu found a rip in his haori, he should have been devastated. Instead, he felt overjoyed, thankful actually—it allowed him to go back to in town to the tailor shop. 

While that was what Giyuu tried to convince himself with, it was more of an excuse to see you again. 

Gathering his haori and his coins, Giyuu quickly made his way into town towards the tailor shop where you worked. With each step that lead him closer, his heart beat faster in his chest as he waited to see you and the lovely smile that captivated him in the first place. 

Standing in front of the stall of the shop, Giyuu looked around before a particular voice caused his cheeks to heat up. Hearing his name called in the sweet voice of yours, he glanced up to see you walking towards him with a bright smile, “I thought that was you!”

Giyuu couldn’t help the smile on his face. He was delighted to see you again, but he would never tell you that. 

“Just strolling through town today? Or did you need some repairs?” You asked before Giyuu lifted his ripped haori towards you, a sigh escaping your lips. 

“Again? How many times are you going to let this poor, beautiful haori get torn?” gently taking the haori from his hands, you bring it closer to inspect the damage before glancing back at the male. “But It’s nothing I can’t fix. I’ll have it done by tomorrow afternoon if you want to come grab it then?” 

Giyuu didn’t waste a second to nod, earning another smile from you. “Great, I’ll see you then!” 

He trusted in you and your work, comfortable enough to allow his precious haori to be in your hands. It was a special article to him, and with the new threads and seams added by you, they were now apart of the haori Giyuu holds so dear. 

His haori now held a part of Sabito, his best friend, Tsutako, his sister, and you, (Name), the cute seamstress he had a crush on. 

Receiving his haori back from you was always such a gift. It always brought his haori back to life and it seemed to have caught the attention of the other pillars as well, to Giyuu’s dismay. 

“Wow, the stitching on your haori is amazing. You didn’t do this yourself, did you?” Shinobu asked curiously as her fingers ran across the new stitches, Giyuu gently pulling his haori away. 

“No, I go to a tailor shop in town. The seamstress there is excellent,” he replies and Shinobu’s face lights up. “Oh, how perfect! Would it be alright if you took me there? I’ve been meaning to get the loose threads on my haori fixed, but I haven’t found the place,” Shinobu confesses with pleading eyes. 

Giyuu wanted to keep you a secret from the fellow pillars or anyone in general, really. He wanted you to be his little secret, but he knew you would be grateful to have more customers and more projects. 

Maybe it was time for him to stop being selfish. 

“Fine, we can go into town tomorrow after the pillar meeting,” Giyuu responded hesitantly as Shinobu cheered happily. 

Just like Giyuu said, the water pillar and the insect pillar made their way down into town after the pillar meeting the following day. 

The morning air was crisp and fresh as you began to set up for the day. Being used to opening the shop in the mornings, it didn’t take you long before you were back inside tidying up. 

“Good morning, (Name)-san,” hearing Giyuu’s voice, you quickly turned around, noticing a beautiful and petite lady beside him. “Ah, good morning! What can I do for you today?” you asked formally, a sweet smile on your lips.

“I noticed your amazing work on Tomioka-san’s haori here, and I was wondering if you could also work on my haori?” Taking her haori off for you, you gently take it into your hands to observe.

“I haven’t been able to find a good seamstress yet and once I saw Tomioka-san’s haori done by you, I just had to pay you a visit,” she explains and you return her smile. 

“I’d be honored to work on such a lovely haori,” you replied as your fingers graze along the silk. “If I get started on this today, it should be ready in two days time,” you inform as Shinobu gives you a bright nod. 

“I’ll leave it to you, (Name)!” 

With a quick confirmation and payment of the piece, you gently tuck her haori away before bidding the two pillars goodbye. Just before you could head too far into the shop and get started on your work, a soft voice calls for you.

“(Name), do you have a minute?” 

Turning around, your eyes met Tomioka’s blue ones, a soft hue coloring your cheeks. “Of course, what is it?”

While Tomioka found a way to make small talk with you, Shinobu secretly watched from the doorway as her eyes sparkled—does the stoic Tomioka have a crush?

Shinobu knew that Tomioka was terrible with people, to say the least, but if she dares, seeing him talk with you was quite cute. Your smile was genuine along with the slightly rosy cheeks you had failed to hide. 

“When you’re not too busy with your work, w-would it be alright to take you out sometime?” Tomioka asked, a heavy blush on his cheeks as he gave his all in hopes you would say yes. 

Tucking a piece of hair behind your ear, you nodded, a shy smile on your lips. “I’d love that.”

Shinobu’s eyes crinkled in delight. Maybe later she would tease him about you, but right now, she couldn’t help but sigh in satisfaction. 

Love was a good look on the two of you.