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25. element for Au Ra April and 25. desire for Vierapril
These two themes together made me think of fire <3 hehe okay bye
#AuRaApril2024#Vierapril2024#Vierapril#AuRaApril#ummmmmmmmmmmmmm#yeah#i love them a normal amount#i'm only a little obsessed with them#like a healthy amount honestly#and they make me create things i never thought i could#i'm feeling very good about this one so#anyway it's just a little sketchy and i had fun#Bertram tag#Seishin tag#Styrnrael tag#I love themmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm#aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh#meguart#hard to believe this monthly challenge is almost over#byeeee
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Now Valentinian was chosen emperor in Bithynia (as we have said before). He gave the signal for the march for the next day but one, and assembling the chief civil and military officials, as if ready to follow safe and sound advice rather than his own inclination, inquired who ought to be chosen as partner in the rule. [...] Dagalaifus, at that time commander of the cavalry, boldly answered: "If you love your relatives, most excellent emperor, you have a brother; if it is the state that you love, seek out another man to clothe with the purple." The emperor, angered by this, but keeping silence and concealing his thoughts, forcing the pace, entered Nicomedia on the first of March, and appointed his brother Valens chief of his stable with the rank of tribune. Then, on his arrival in Constantinople, [...] on the twenty-eighth of March he brought the aforesaid Valens into one of the suburbs and with the consent of all (for no one ventured to oppose) proclaimed him Augustus. Then he adorned him with the imperial insignia and put a diadem on his head, and brought him back in his own carriage, thus having indeed a lawful partner in his power, but, as the further course of our narrative will show, one who was as compliant as a subordinate.
AM 26.4.1-4
there's some hint of 'no one's allowed to talk shit about my brother but me,' energy, but also generally I'm just kind of obsessed. not with Valentinian I, but with Valens. hello.
I'll probably get into Valens later, since he's taking up a significant amount of room in my thoughts, but for now, it's the 'oh! the brothers were co emperors!' that's making the wheels spin. (the last time I was reading about brothers, or people made to be like brothers, as co-rulers, it was with Tiberius. and that goes about as well as you expect it to lmao)
Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D, Noel Lenski
⭐ I have a tip jar (ko-fi)!
⭐ and other places I'm at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app
#roman empire tag#komiks tag#there's that one painting of saint basil celebrating mass and valens looks SO hot in it. it's actually a little baffling. like.#what's up with that. but what's important is that i immediately got obsessed and had to look him up and now i'm speed running#what happened with crassus only there are no real life dead people involved with that arc#long post#rip tiberius you would've loved to know that there was indeed a pair of brother co-emperors#you probably would've tried to force them into twin roles if you could.#later Roman Empire tag
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this is for my selfshippers with insomnia; and/or a hyperactive mind, intrusive thoughts, all the other bad things too that can keep a person from resting...
you f/o holds you during the long, horrible, sleepless nights. when you feel so alone, kept awake by all the noise in your brain, they're there for you, all night long.
they're there to remind you to take your medication for it, if you have it. they help you form a healthy routine with it, they want to see you feeling better. they might even train you to have a positive association- maybe you get a kiss every time you remember?
and when you do get to sleep, and when you dream of your f/o, it'll be all the more sweet.
#inspired by how i started taking meds for my o/c/d which ended up helping me sleep better! much less intrusive thoughts and bad obsessions!#only good ones 😉 hehe#and my guy (in plushie form) sits next to where i keep them in bed and he does help me remember them!#i sleep every night now! i'm just waiting on having dreams about him... come on subconscious you can do it... 🤞#it's a great time to be in love. feels like my brain had all this awful clutter and now there's more room for my special little freak!!! 💚#I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS HIGHLY SPECIFIC I THINK IT MIGHT BE... :0#f/o positivity#self shipping#f/o comfort#self ship comfort
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kiss me all the way down starting from my lips
(ft. @salemsimss 💖)
#the sims 4#ts4#sims 4#ts4 edit#ts4 render#simblr#aliya's sims#naiyana#antonio#amongussy#theseus 08085#bro i fucking MISS THEM#i'm only a little obsessed with the way he's holding her in the first pic#and only a little obsessed with how she's kissing him in the second pic#by a little i mean i'm screaming about it#the neighbors will hear me
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@nicolajpg is always blessing me with the most beautiful art of these two
#alistair theirin#warden surana#alistair x warden#alistair x surana#dragon age#dragon age origins#da#dao#neristair#alistair#oc: neria#i'm kind of obsessed w this one bc the inspo picture has been on my neristair pinterest board for ages and it's just SO them#him just throwing love & care at her and her being like full on feral cat energy just like >:|#but also 🥰 bc she actually loves it she just doesn't know how to handle it#my sad and angry traumatized little baby who doesn't know anything about being loved and a man who only wants to love her#they are such a perfect pair they're just everything to me
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in a better timeline where theo is actually a character and not just a plot device he and rakiel develop this weird and confusing dynamic where rakiel is still very clearly theo's older brother except for those moments where his inner ahjussi comes out and he parents theo more than his father ever did and he slowly starts taking asterion's place as theo's father figure.
neither of them really notice because 1) lee han was an only child and he's not really that aware of what is or isn't normal sibling behavior and he doesn't really care either he just sees theo craving approval and being lowkey passively suicidal and goes "is anyone gonna take care of that" and then doesn't wait for an answer before doing it himself and 2) because theo has been neglected his entire life and doesn't recognize what rakiel is doing as 'parenting' because, well, asterion never did that with him so his first experience with that kind of care and treatment is from rakiel so he automatically files it as 'hyung behavior'. so none of them actually realize when their dynamic blurs the line between siblings and parent-child.
but asterion does. just... way too late. when he's already lost his chance with not one, but both of his children. when one son is forever out of his reach and the other has filled what should've been his place with someone else. only then does he realize what his neglect and putting his title as emperor above that of father has cost him. when there's nothing he can do about it.
he wanted his sons to grow up without needing him. and they did. they don't need him anymore. and he didn't realize how terrible of a thing that was until it was far too late to fix it.
#i talk a lot <3#cpsm#crown prince sells medicine#tap#the apothecary prince#rakiel magentano#theodore magentano#asterion magentano#sorry i'm obsessed with this fucked little family#they have so many issues <333#most of them caused by asterion#the thing is. the narrative doesn't let asterion get off easy for the shit he pulled on rakiel.#not completely. does have a full character arc about it. and he tries to get better so bad.#but he's so terrible as a parent that even when he's trying to do better he still fucks up so hard.#because while he tries to be better to rakiel. he doesn't seem to be nearly as concerned for theo.#and like. sir. you have two children. you neglected both of them. why are you only trying to make amends with the one#that is succeeding so hard at life he's become a saint and not both of them if you're actually trying to be a better father.#the answer is of course that rakiel is the protagonist and bk moon doesn't actually cares for theo but!!#i am allowed to be mad at the character anyway <3#i'm a petty person and i deserved to see asterion lose both his sons in one go. i think that would've fucked.
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dabbling in writing a little bit of slasher iii👀 it's not much, but i've had this idea for months and figured it's about time i did something with it. written while listening to deadrose by unprocessed. not necessary but it's currently topping my slasher iii song list
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Time had muddled in their brain, they had no idea how long it had been since he’d disappeared from their sight, but they knew they were running out of time regardless. The rope binding their limbs had been tied with expert hands. As they struggled against their bonds, the rope’s grip only tightened, the fibers rubbing their wrists and ankles raw until it began to turn pink with their blood. Their eyes frantically searched the room for anything that might help them escape, but they found little that could be of assistance.
The room he imprisoned them in was almost entirely bare, save for a pile of discarded, bloody clothing heaped into the corner and the black journal the masked man always carried with him. When he left the room, the journal had fallen from his pocket, haphazardly forgotten by the door.
Their curious nature overtook them as they scooted across the grimy floor, nudging the cover open with their toe. Their blood ran ice cold as a pair of vibrant blue eyes stared back at them from the first page. A photograph of a handsome man was paperclipped to the page, partially obscuring what they knew were the events of the final hours of that man’s life. They felt bile creep up their throat as their eyes scanned across the page.
17:43 He believes crying will help him, that his tears will compel me to release him. It’s pathetic, really. I thought he would be stronger. But the tears make his eyes look so pretty, maybe I’ll keep him a little longer.
The horrors of the first page had done nothing to prepare them for the next, as they found those same vibrant blue eyes staring back at them, cold and devoid of life. They tried not to stare too long at dark red blood oozing from the gaping wound in his throat. The pages that followed were all the same format: a photograph of some poor unfortunate soul accompanied by a horrifically detailed account of their final moments, followed by another photo of their corpse. On some pages, he had even smeared blood across the page in vaguely artistic patterns.
As they flipped the final page, they bit down on their lip to stifle their scream as their own face smiled back from this book of horrors. Despite his poor attempt to crop the image before printing it, they could tell it was a screenshot from their Instagram, a photo they had posted in a moment of self-confidence. A photo that this deranged man would use to remember them by, a juxtaposition for the horrific photo they knew would occupy the next page soon enough.
The door creaked open, and they lifted their gaze from the photo to meet his darkened eyes, crinkled from the grin he hid beneath his mask.
“I see you’ve found my scrapbook,” The smile in his voice told them that he had always intended to drop the journal, that he wanted them to read it, to see what was in store for them.
He crouched before them, plucking the journal off the floor and thumbing through the pages before returning to the image of the blue-eyed man. He stroked the image tenderly with his index finger before turning it around to once again display the image of his lifeless corpse.
“He’s still my favorite, I think. But you… I believe you’ll be a close second,” His other hand gently traced the contours of their jaw. “You’re going to be my masterpiece, darling.”
He stood then, chuckling to himself as he tucked the book underneath his arm and spun on his heels, striding back out the door as they crumpled to the ground, terrified of what other sick games he might be playing with them.
#i can't look at this too long or it will never see the light of day so this is only kind of edited she's straight off the dome#is it a little more serial killer-y than slasher-y? maybe. am i gonna do anything about it? nah#i'm just obsessed with him wanting to remember his victims and be able to relive the things he did to them. idk man. idk.#he said “my therapist thought it would be good for me to start journaling!”#slasher iii you make me positively insane. you are sick and twisted and deranged and i desire you carnally.#anyway i have so many random slasher iii headcanons and i want to write them all but also this is def out of my wheelhouse#really don't know how i feel about it but i'm practicing! and that's good! that's how we learn and improve!#sleep token iii#slasher iii#sleep token fanfiction#em's stcu
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ChuZhang (褚章) Art Dump
Art in my 9 x 12 sketchbook
Art in my pocket sketchbook (Bonus Chu Yan sketch included from a while ago)
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#my art#three body problem#3 body problem#三体#chu yan#zhang beihai#chuzhang#褚岩#章北海#hi waving to three body problem folks with my chu yan/zhang beihai stuff i did between my classes and assignments#the pairing between these two has a kinda decent following in chinese fandom and the fanart on lofter is incredible (which got me curious)#i'm obsessed with them but i get a little shy talking about them in particular since it's just me here in english speaking fandom haha#(though who else is going to talk about them here on tumblr if not me!! actually... the english speaking community as a whole!)#they're lovely together conceptually and they're special to me for personal reasons#we have someone from the present who is trying to preserve humanity and someone from the future who continued his work#i'd liken them to tangent lines in the sense that they'll only meet once (chu yan wasn't even named back in the dark forest)#yet also continuing to go beyond
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xdinary heroes truly are the most criminally underrated group right now huh.
#guess who finally listened to the album they released in. sigh. april.#they keep surpassing themselves with each new release but the production quality on this album is really fucking next level.#some of the songs genuinely sound like classic timeless rock anthems to me#like i can't wrap my mind around the fact that#the guys who started out with happy death day reached the musical level that money on my mind is on#they're so painfully underrated it KILLS me how little chance i have of ever hearing them live#taemin woodz and xh are the only kpop acts i'd pay literally any amount of money to see live once in my life and that's. saying something#xh#i'm so torn on favs from this album. dreaming girl is such a unique sound i'm genuinely obsessed with this song. but so is paint it.#and money on my mind. AND WALKING ON THE MOON...#UNTIL THE END OF TIME................
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cvc7BxYpgZj/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
“My boy JB” 🥹🥹
Me and my boy JB came in town, took over
#ja'marr chase#joe burrow#oh my god i'm obsessed with this video#first of all yes!!! the way he always speaks about him and joe as a unit!#(and they better stay like that 😠)#him and joe against the world!#and then his shaky voice and 'cold nipples' and little undies and aklsdjf#i have watched this an unhealthy amount of times considering it only came out this afternoon#oh and his restraint when asked about the chief's lasting for all of like 5 seconds lol before he had to take at least one shot at them#bless#thank you anon!!!!!#ask#anon
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Sometimes, the AU's I spend the most time on are the ones I only make memes for
#TLDR: Got obsessed with the Villain Recruiters and somehow managed to fold them into a WIP AU I was working on#AU TLDR: Lottie loses her memories in a fight with Overblot Grim and believes she's Crowley's daughter when she awakes weeks later#Crowley has to keep her away from NRC for a period of time due to investigations and asks for Malfie to take care of her in the meantime#Crowley: Hey can you look after the girl I was held at Magical Gunpoint to adopt by my staff while I unfuck some shit at school? thx 😇#Malfie: That's suspicious [ immediately takes Lottie in ]#The AU is riddled with my own opinions/beliefs about the Crowley is Levan Theory that were not there before I added in the Recruiters#I even decided to create profiles for the others despite Malfie really being the only one with Plot Relevance#I'm a thorough bitch as you know (this what I look like when I lie)#Malfie#Baul Zigvolt#Lilia Vanrouge#Disney Villain Recruiters#Twisted Wonderland#Little Crow AU
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Now these are some serious thoughts that I'm having, and I'm also having them for specific reasons that I'll note at the end of this post (or its own separate one, we'll see):
— I don't see how Jing Yuan wouldn't know about the deal that Jingliu made (which I still firmly believe to have been with Lan), because otherwise I don't see how he would blindly trust her to go about the Luofu. Because ultimately, he could trust her as much as he wants to because of their past, but he also witnessed how she lost all control, and subsequently fell to the mara. The trust in this scenario isn't in her, it's in whatever it is that’s restraining the mara. — On that note, I don't see how he would trust anything tied to that, unless it was tied to someone or something that he trusts: Lan. Yes, Jing Yuan himself is another reason why I believe it's the Lan, the Aeon that opposes Yaoshi. — Keeping this in mind, it makes this final sentence to Jingliu extra interesting in my opinion: 'Then I will see this gamble through.'
On that note, as a treat to myself because I'm so close to signing my lease, and because I desperately crave to write the male muse in this franchise that I love the very most (listen, I'm happy to see my two big favorites in Genshin written well, but I just want to write my actual male favorite in HSR myself as well on top of seeing great portrayals)— no matter how popular he too, is. Jing Yuan, welcome home.
#ooc. [ don't try to make it logical or edit your soul according to the fashion. rather; follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. ]#[ i know i've been adding characters more so than i've written them-- but the end is in sight. my stress is leaving. ]#[ and time /and peace/ should return to me. and i know that i'll find my ability to write consistently again. god-- /peace/. please. ]#[ and it's such a beautiful apartment; i'm so 😭 ]#[ but hi yes-- with all the hcq thoughts; i can't ignore jy longer. and though there are amazing renditions of him. ]#[ and i get to write with them. i'm also just-- a little greedy gremlin for once. ]#[ i'm happy and at peace not writing zhongli and wriothesley; truly. and i'm even happy watching people write jing yuan. ]#[ but i just; i want to write a favorite male character of mine within hoyo. and jing yuan is the one. the only one-- ]#[ i have an urge to write in hsr. so i just had to. ]#jingliu. [ and so i wield my blade to the very end. until the “stars” have been cut down from the sky. this oath: i will never forsake. ]#jingliu: little notes. [ this is the first time she understands “wanting to live”. before now; she was simply someone ready to die. ]
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No, but seriously, can you imagine how utterly surreal it is to be Song Taewon and have two of the most unhinged people on the planet both decide to become intensely invested in your life and health after knowing you for like five seconds? One of them uses aggressive mob tactics to try and get you to let them chauffeur you around, the other is a little guy you could crush with your pinky on accident who hunts you down in the middle of a pit of monsters with a packed lunch convinced you will starve if he doesn’t personally feed you. You have to play an intense game of de-escalation at literally all times to keep this same random guy from calling and yelling at your boss about your sleep schedule, and this is still an improvement on that time you barely convinced him it wasn’t necessary to utterly annihilate your place of work to get you more vacation time. The other one has probably historically attempted to set your closet and/or you yourself on fire so he can buy you clothes.
You just want to live your corporate slave life and resist the dark yearnings of your soul in PEACE but instead you’re having to dodge two very powerful men who both desperately want to take care of you.
#song taewon#reading sctir#obviously this is only like microscoping in on one thin layer of their relationship but it's a really funny one#let's also talk about how this would be hilarious if stw really WERE the Just Some Guy he desperately wants to be#but he's turning up at yoojin's home with bloody sleeves and yoojin's housekey he violently extracted from a potential home invader who is#also his coworker#like he's just returning tupperware but also as a subtle threat to express his mild annoyance#infamously choking him out a little at their very first meeting out of concern#shj wants to give stw nice things and also pry his ribs open with his bare hands and stw is like#'ew'#but only about one of those things#hint: it's NOT the violent intense and personal death option#like it would be funny enough if stw really were just some guy yes but instead he's like THIS and that makes it even better#and all three of them would have a lovely time on the lake learning to fish under shj's watch#and aLL OF THOSE THINGS EXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY#or at least that's the impression I get I'm only like a quarter through the novel so far#it's great though I love it#like look I've mentioned before how book!yoojin is totally obsessed with taking care of song taewon but I canNOT overstate enough how#OBSESSED he is with taking care of song taewon#it weirds stw out a little bit and it's amazing#he gets pretty intense about it at one point and I love that whole scene but I. I shouldn't continue. I won't stop.#and shj flat out admits at one point that he made a similar offer to stw that he makes to yoojin - the whole credit card deal thing#and when stw turned him down shj responded by going 'oh so I need to try harder?'#song taewon existing and having morals has the same effect on hyj and shj as birds at a bird feeder on the other side of the window from#a couple cats#enrichment in the enclosure or something lol#okay I'm accepting I will never actually stop rambling about this you don't even KNOW how many tags I deleted here#okay I'm done#not really
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"So, how much do you like Pete's tattoo?" Me: 1)
'No legacy is so rich as honesty'
It had been Mr. Tankhun’s idea for all his bodyguards to get tattoos. Pete didn’t have a strong opinion on the issue so he had never objected (he couldn’t have, even if he had wanted to). Mr. Tankhun had asked for the tattoos to be somewhere visible on their bodies but Pete had chosen to have it just above his hip, a phrase he had once found in a book that had belonged to his grandmother. He had found the phrase funny, the irony of it. Mr. Tankhun hadn't been pleased with the position of the tattoo but he had liked the end result, so he hadn’t been too obnoxious about it. He had still made Pete wear crop tops for a month whenever they would have a K-drama marathon though. Pete hadn’t objected to that, either.
The tattoo now felt like it was burning his skin, punishing him for being a hypocrite. (Snippet from Trust is a fragile thing) 2) He realized once he calmed down that Pete never said that everything was going to be ok, a common phrase thrown at people like him. No legacy is so rich as honesty, huh? Vegas could see the appeal now. He preferred it. He was so sick of lies. (Snippet from Dead End) 3)
And it should kill you, this feeling you don’t have. [...] It doesn’t. Not when you put your legacy above your loyalty. (Snippet from (Not) A Person) 4) From the corner of his eye, Pete noticed that the black ink on his skin—the word “honesty”—was almost entirely visible from his angle.
The mark of who he used to be, who he pretended to be.
He didn't have to anymore. (Snippet from the things you can(not) change) 5) I find it fascinating how it works with Pete so well, despite Daemi being oblivious to its true meaning. I also find the fact that it works for Pete no matter how you interpret the phrase, equally fascinating.
You can take it literally and connect it with Pete's job; how he's honest about the violence he inflicts, the activity he's enacting for the Theerapanyakuls, how he's accepted the nature of it, how "there are no heroes or villains in this world" and so on. You can add his loyalty in there too and make it even juicier.
You can also take it ironically and connect it with Pete as a person; how he's not actually honest - he's not open about himself, his desires, his feelings - so with this, it's like he's admitting that he has no legacy. It encapsulates his lack of personhood and it's fucking brilliant. (Snippet from a post I made about it) 6)
(A picture of my tattoo that I got last year 🥰)
#soooo.... yeah I guess I like it a little bit#honestly this and “Kissing is for people we like only” are very close in the number of times I've mentioned them in my fics#I'm obsessed with Pete's quotes ok? I can't help it#excuse my self-promo post I didn't know how else to show my appreciation for my beautiful man#kpanniversary2024#pete saengtham#prompt: legacy
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People who mainly ship side couples in any mxtx novel are interesting and a little delusional (me included) cause when you stick to the side of people who will write full on essays on that couple and make it so you think damn mxtx might as well have made them canon
And then you leave that bubble and actually read the novels and figure out that 70% of them had like one major scene alone together and rest was just crumbs that the shippers put a magnifying glass over, and that said crumbs are burnt cause they always end so so badly...
#the captain rambles#I'm only tagging beefleaf cause so far I've like kinda barely noticed them interacting in that way I'm sorry#i am only halfway through tgcf take pity on me#also this is definitely me when I leave my xuexiao bubble#and sometimes when I'm reminded the main couples aren't actually in a polyamory relationship#mxtx#mdzs#tgcf#svsss#xuexiao#beefleaf#bingliushen#wangningxian#hehualian#since apparently I'm a little too obsessed with whatever that is...#and whatever other tragic rare pair you can think of
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I am on some bullshit right now, bruh
#just re-watched pocahontas for the first time in many many years and dawg#the character animation in that film is so gorgeous#like they went so hard on ACTING through the animation#im getting obsessed again like i was when i was little#like u gotta understand: the disney pocahontas character (a truly fictional character inspired by real events let's get that straight)#i was like in love with her. i wanted to be her like oh my god#and the way they animated john smith was such a departure from their other disney LI's up til then (as *i* recall)#so detailed!! the expressions!!! the fucking YEARNING!!!!!!#best love story out of all the disney flicks imho. as a Story it's so powerful#I'm gonna think about the symbolism of them having to part#after grandmother willow had told them 'only when the fighting stops can you be together'#implying that the fighting isn't over and probably never will be#fuxking painfuslfjk#i know i know: c'est ~~problématique~~#but look. I'm from a racially diverse family okay?#my dad's side especially. nobody over there stuck to their own race/ethnic group#my parents are a mixed couple. i know how hard it is to make that work.#most interracial couples I'd seen on tv until that point were very...chaste?#mostly played for laughs (oh haha the cultural dissonance is so cute and funny!) or worse: to play up racial sterotypes#but to see one depicted as a straight-forward romance- as two people deeply in love and not played for a gag? AND as the core of the story?#mannnn that means a lot to me even all these years later#so yeah im deep in the 'hunting down feel-good fix-it fics' phase wish me luck
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