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bruh-myguy-what · 6 months ago

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If Not Him, Perhaps Me

Let me just say... I hate moving. The whole process has been something else (derogatory). I've not gotten to all of my requests either because of that. I've been in limbo with this moving process for the last four months, but I've finally secured a place and will be moving soon! Anyway, I was able to finish (finally) this chapter! I hope you guys enjoy it! ______________________________________________

Chapter 1 , Chapter 2 , Chapter 3 , Chapter 4

Pairing- Thrawn x f!reader x Luke Skywalker

Summary- Life on the Chimera actually...improves a lot. You're surprised by the hospitality shown to you and your relationship with Thrawn starts to change? Hearing from Luke also helps since it's been so long...

Word Count- 3.6K

Warnings- Mentions of kidnapping, confrontation, pining, kissing, nothing major

It'd been weeks since you'd seen Thrawn last, from what you counted, at least. Your idea of time had gotten a little better after being moved into a comfortable room with the ability to govern yourself. There had been a time or two during those weeks that you'd left your room to see if you could visit Thrawn, but you were met with the troopers telling you he wasn't around. The troopers clarified that he was away for business. The news was annoying the first time because you'd wanted to give him a piece of your mind for annotating your art as if it were to be critiqued by someone like him! But by the second and third time you were turned away, you were surprisingly disappointed.

Disappointed and mildly apprehensive…

Though, you would've rather choked on your tongue before conceding that to anyone.

Lying in bed, nestled and wrapped in warm blankets, you were reading a few documents on a datapad one of the troopers had brought you a few days ago. You aimed to learn as much as possible about Thrawn and asking him directly was completely out of the question, but you knew that if you were spending time here you needed to collect as much as you could. The vision of the arrogant expression he'd have if you ever even alluded to any curiosity about him appeared in your mind and you couldn't help but roll your eyes. No. You needed to learn the information without letting him know you were interested and also to be able to take the things you'd find back to your friends to benefit in protecting the New Republic. Sleep was quickly beginning to take you and your eyes began to droop; though, it wasn't long after your eyes had shut that a voice softly called your name. It sounded familiar, soothing. The daze of slumber prevented you from instantly recognizing the voice until they called your name again, imploring you to respond.

"Please, answer me. Hear me."

"Luke…" Your first instinct, even through your groggy state, was to whisper his name. There was no clear insight yet of who was speaking to you until his name left your lips and the voice expressed relief.

"Thank the Force, you're alive. I…I've been so worried. None of my other attempts worked and-and I couldn't feel you for so long. I assumed…" He sounded choked up as his voice withered from your mind. "I thought I'd lost you. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Luke apologized profusely, his voice trembling as he appeared to speak from far away. Then you recalled, through your sleep, that he used to do this while away on missions. He'd first initiated it with Leia, to let the two of you know he was okay, but then he began doing it with you as well.

He'd explained it before, once when the two of you had been alone and were appreciating the rare free time out on top of the Falcon; it was what the Jedi called a Force bond. Something he'd never experienced entirely, other than with Leia with whom he'd always had a connection. It was also the moment you thought he would kiss you…but he never did; never had. The attachment rule that he'd learned while in his trials with Yoda consistently stuck with him and it maintained you at a bitter distance from the man you'd fallen in love with.

But right now you didn't care about that distance because being that close to him would've been far more comforting than how far apart the two of you were now. "Luke…" You groggily said again as you shifted around in the large bed, the blankets rustling around you and his soft chuckle echoed in your mind. It warmed your heart to hear, it'd felt so long and you'd nearly forgotten the precious sound.

"It sounds as if you're resting, I'm sorry for bothering you." He taunted lightheartedly, undoubtedly at ease to know you were alright.

You smiled, feeling yourself attempting to reach out to the Jedi Knight as if he were in the room with you. Then you coldly realized you were alone, tucking your arms back into the warm blankets. "Yeah," you answered sleepily, "I've been resting very well lately." The truthfulness in your voice seemed to surprise Luke if the hum that rang in your ears was any sign.

"You are? Have you been saved by someone? Are you alright?" His voice rushed out in apprehension, the questions that'd plagued his mind swirling once more. Why wasn't he able to see you or feel you for so long? What occurred that kept you so barred from his reach?

You sighed as you turned over, stretching a bit, eyes still pleasantly closed. "Mmm, no. Still on the Chimera." Your reply was simple and fearless, entirely sincere with Luke in your half-asleep condition.

"You're still with Thrawn?" His voice was pressing now, "And you're comfortable? He's not hurting you in any way, is he?"

"No, he's been wonderful to me…good man, gave me a nice room, drawing book..'m okay."

Luke was silent for a long time and you'd almost woke up, concerned that he'd left you alone, but you were assured of his company in your mind when he spoke once more in a secure voice. "I'm going to find you and I'm going to save you. I promise. I'm not going to lose you again." Then his voice wanes away again for a moment, though it comes back more delicate than you've ever heard when he utters your name. "I…I-" But Luke stops and clears his throat, "I hope you know how meaningful you are to me…I will not give up on you."

But before you could react, you were aroused by a solid knock on your door, jolting you upright. Luke's voice felt like a distant memory as soon as you were sitting up and glancing around your room, eyes refocusing on your surroundings. Had you dreamed all of that? No. You couldn't have, you've had a connection like that with Luke before you'd been aboard the Chimera. But why hadn't you heard from him until now?

The knock at the door roused you again, so you slid out of bed to walk over and press the release button only to be met with a trooper with a plate full of food. And this time the food looked fantastic. "Oh, thanks." You responded in astonishment as he passed the tray over. He replied with a brief 'you're welcome' and began to walk away but not before you called out to him again. "Uh! Sorry, forgive me. I-I was just curious…"

"About what ma'am?" He questioned, evidently he was being patient but had someplace else to be and he wasn't a trooper you were presently familiarized with; there'd be time for that late though.

Glimpsing at your tray full of food, your cheeks burned despite yourself. "Have you possibly heard if the Grand Admiral is back from his business, or not?" The query sounded pitiful even to you, but you couldn't very well have the man who was the sole retainer of the Empire to go off and die without any warning.

That was it, no other reason.

Your cheeks were warming because the heat in the hall of the Chimera was too much. Again; no other reason.

The uncertain sound made by the soldier caused you to look at his impassive helmet. "Uh, no ma'am. The Grand Admiral hasn't returned yet. We aren't sure when he'll be back, he has work to do elsewhere and will return whenever he's concluded that." Then his helmet tipped slightly as if inspecting you and a slight chuckle crackled through his modulator. "But don't worry so much, he's surprisingly resilient. He'll come back in one piece. We serve the most brilliant and adept man in all of the Empire. If someone could prevail over anything, it'd Grand Admiral Thrawn." He clarified and with a nod then left, and you bashfully took refuge back into your room, the door closing behind you with a whoosh.

You griped bitterly to yourself, "I wasn't worried about that blue idiot…how could I be worried about him? He's an ass anyway." But the lingering apprehension in your chest said otherwise.

Another week had gone by and you'd troubled the troopers outside your door every one of those days, requesting an update about Thrawn and his whereabouts. There was no way he was going to abduct you, treat you like a captive, then regard you with interest and compliment you, shower you with gifts, and then go off and die on some random planet! You'd bring the damned Chiss man back yourself if only to give him a piece of your mind for being so rude.

Though with a continued shadow of Thrawn's expected return, you had to entertain yourself in other ways; keeping your mind busy. So, you were standing by the window, watching the stars and TIE fighters training. Thrawn had explained to you previously that they were a project he held in high esteem, something he truly believed would do the Empire well. They looked as if they were doing spectacularly too. To your eye, they handled a lot better than some of the pilots of the Republic… But you didn't have too long to dwell on that before you'd overheard out in the hallway- over the intercom- that Thrawn's personal vessel was docked and unloading its passengers.

Feeling your heart leap in your chest at the announcement and instead of waiting around to figure out why, you ran out the door; blowing past the two troopers. As you ran down the hall, passing by troopers and Chimera crew, you neglected their baffled stares and carved your way toward the docking bay. Though on your way you saw a familiar tall blue figure, it was him. Thrawn was standing at his office door about to head inside until he heard hasty footsteps bee-lining in his direction.

Fiery red eyes peeked in your direction first, before ultimately turning his head to watch you frantically trail toward him. Your heart raced as you eventually made it to him, the admiral looking down at you with a single brow lifted and the touch of a smile at the corner of his mouth. Your cheeks burned as you gazed up at him, but you blamed it on the brisk pace you'd opted for to reach Thrawn. Out of breath, your chest heaving slightly from the labored breathing, Thrawn's eyes returned to the door as it opened, "Perhaps you would like to join me in my office?" It was poised as less of an inquiry and more of an assertion as he walked into the dark corridor where you joined him. Surprisingly there were no unwelcomed remarks from the darkness as there usually had been, though your eyes still searched around for any sign of the creature.

"Rhuk is recuperating from our mission, he is not present with us, at this moment." Thrawn's cool voice expressed through the shadows and as you glanced at him to ask how he'd known what you were thinking, you caught a peek of his glowing eye over his shoulder as he observed you. "Your thoughts are easier for me to read than you may think." Though there was typically a chill to his voice, a remote remnant of detachment lingering underneath, it felt strangely… warm with that last sentence.

Once the door finally released the two of you into his office, Thrawn wasted no time in returning to his side of the desk and you approached the chair you sat at during your sessions. The annoyance instantly took over once again, "Where have you been?! It's been weeks!" You spoke without genuinely considering and the smirk that suddenly sat on his face made you mourn opening your mouth, your head sinking to cover your maddening blush.

Thrawn was quiet for a prolonged moment, creating an even more unnerving situation because you knew- you just knew- he was analyzing you as he did when he thought something was intriguing. "As I have heard it," He finally began to talk again but it wasn't making anything any more painless, the blatant smugness in his tone causing the burning in your cheeks to rush up your ears. "You were rather concerned about my unannounced absence."

"I wasn't that concerned!" You bit back quickly, lifting your head to scowl at him for his arrogance but were hushed by the raise of his brow, as if challenging you to prove him inaccurate in his observations.

"Were you not?" Thrawn queried rhetorically as he sat back in his seat, reclining far more casually than you appreciated for the circumstances. "Please, clarify for me then. Why were my troopers in rather steady communication with me, telling me about your continued inquiry of my whereabouts?" His voice was curious but mockingly so, and entirely too soft as his eyes appeared to admire you from across his desk.

You swallowed at the accusation, understanding you had no rebuttal, and instead clutched at your elbows, crossing your arms over your waist awkwardly; evading his burning gaze. "Y-You left before I could give you a piece of m-my mind-"

And his unexpectedly too affectionate voice cut you off mid-sentence, "About what, may I ask?"

You were caught off guard by his simple question, eyes coming back to meet his. The dominance he was maintaining over you at the moment wasn't one he'd used before; he wasn't trying to intimidate you, nor was he trying to exploit you. Thrawn's power came entirely from how much you had thought about him while he was away. You'd first considered how furious you were with him, how he'd treated you as if gifts would make you give up your friends, but then you began thinking about how he'd quit regarding you as a prisoner; opting to give you more freedom, and more respect. Thrawn was curious about you and consistently genuine in his queries as you spent more time with one another. Then you'd found your mind lingering on his eyes, the way his brows were the most expressionate part of him but if you observed closely enough you could see the shift of sentiment in his eyes. Thrawn was small in his mannerisms but he appeared to open himself up more to your company lately and allowed you to see past the stoic behavior.

"Have you perhaps forgotten whatever it was that you were going to chastise me over, hmm?" The soft underlying tease in his voice brought you back to your present reality and you huffed indignantly at his arrogant expression.

"Hardly." You complained as you turned your head away stubbornly. "As if I could forget why you piss me off. You seem to enjoy bugging me." Thrawn seemed to find your retort comical because he chuckled, staggering you slightly. You'd never heard him sound so…pleasant. It was hardly a lively sound, more as if he were taunting you but even still, it was the closest thing you'd heard to spirit from the Chiss man. Your eyes widened at the sound, watching intently as he shook his head and began to stand once more; neatening his admiral coat.

He rounded the desk, his hands ever positioned behind his back as his steps felt calculated, gradually coming toward you. "Then, please, continue. I am rather fascinated to hear what I've done to incur your outrage, my lady." His voice was unfairly warm, matching how his eyes bore into yours, glancing down to appreciate the rest of you only once or twice.

You were losing all of your built-up frustrations as the subject of your anger approached so calmly, tension building with each step he took toward you. The buzzing in your mind only intensified as you caught his eyes favoring you. "I-I…you…" You swallowed cautiously then cleared your throat to regain your composure, closing your eyes and breaking the rapidly building connection that made your stomach ache in an unfamiliar way. After a moment, you trusted yourself to speak finally and you leveled the approaching man with a lethal glare. "You annotated my art as if I asked for your commentaries." With every word, Thrawn took a step closer, the smile leaving his face the nearer he grew. "Then you ran off without allowing me to tell you how stupid your observation of my work even was. I didn't know if you were going to die or-"

"Would that have troubled you so greatly if I had?" Thrawn's voice was hushed and low, but cold as usual. Standing directly before now, his impressive height towered, eyes keenly observing you.

You made a vexed sound and rolled your eyes at the ludicrous question. "Don't flatter yourself, Thrawn. I just didn't want to miss my opportunity to set you straight before you died." But then you look back at him and are frozen by how close he'd gotten, inclining closer to your face.

The air around the two of you was electric as Thrawn admired your face up close; so close that his breath fanned over your lips causing a warm shutter to race up your spine. He was quiet, silently surveying you and you couldn't help catching how his eyes fell to your lips multiple times; the realization making your stomach flip. His proximity was overwhelming, drowning you in him wholly. His broad shoulders obstructed anything else from your sight, the way he leaned over you trapping you in place though nothing behind you was preventing you from running away if you wanted.

But you found that you didn't want to.

His presence was intoxicating this close.

"Allow me to speak now," Thrawn whispered, his voice sounding gentle despite how confidently he said it. His fiery eyes searched your face before he spoke again, possibly waiting to see if you would stop him from voicing his thoughts but when you didn't, he persisted. "Would it surprise you to know as I was on your mind, so were you on mine?"

The admission sends your heart into a frenzy. What does that even mean? What did he mean, you were on his mind? It felt as if he were communicating in riddles that you couldn't fully decipher and the vague meanings would be incredibly humiliating if you were to assume. So you stood there wide-eyed and lips slightly parted to steady your labored breathing, waiting for any explanation but rather you were met with a cool touch as the knuckle of Thrawn's finger brushed against your warm cheek. "This knowledge does surprise you." He stated matter-of-factly at your speechlessness, the delicate caress passing down the soft line of your jaw and allowing him to take hold of your chin, between his finger and thumb delicately. "I cannot help but find my unfamiliarity in these matters rather displeasing, as I assumed my intentions would have been made clear by this point."

"I-Intentions?" You questioned dumbly, brows upturned in surrender, "I thought you wanted to know more about the New Republic an-and Luke…that was all I was here for." The unstable whisper that left your lips signaled your uncertainty at Thrawn's next move.

Sighing narrowly, Thrawn rose to his full height once more and allowed his hand to fall away from your face; to which you let out an audible gasp at the loss of contact. "Indeed I aimed to gather details about Skywalker through you, as you appeared important to him. Though, as your tenacity and overall insolent attitude toward me continued I found myself…" He paused momentarily, contemplating his words, "Curious about you. Your boldness to defy the orders of an Imperial Grand Admiral is as brilliant as it is reckless, though, I can't help but find myself drawn by your full refusal to recognize my endeavors at rapport. I spoke to my troopers on numerous occasions to see if they could understand why it was that you were so uncompromising against my advances though seemed so agreeable with them-"

"Wait-" You interrupted him, jerking your head side to side to get your thoughts back after being so enamored with his attention. "You asked-"

"My troopers, yes." Thrawn concluded your sentence for you with a simple shrug. "Is it so unlikely that I would pursue the guidance of those in better regard with you about your preferences?"

"W-Well no…b-but-" Then it hit you; what Danvers had said before, about you being Thrawn's favorite aboard the Chimera, and your cheeks flushed once again. "So…what you're saying is…" You trailed off, expecting Thrawn to finish the sentence again for you.

Thrawn took to your hint fast and the corner of his lip quirked barely, "Perhaps I persist to fail in making myself clear." He conceded then leaned back into your space as he had earlier, stealing the breath from your lungs at the closeness.

"I-I wouldn't mind you saying it clearly so I don't make a fool of myself for guessing…" You implored quietly, lashes fluttering a few times.

Thrawn smiled now, showing the beautiful white of his teeth, contrasting against his blue skin, his red eyes narrowing delightfully as he stepped the last few inches closer to diminish the space between you. "It would see my words fail me in this moment and rather actions would be far more suitable."

And with the last delicate words of his spoken, Thrawn's chilled lips descend upon your awaiting ones in a soft display of his withheld admiration.

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torpublishinggroup · 9 months ago

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ghostandkonigsmaus · 1 year ago

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Could you do a fic/oneshot idk about Ghost and reader going for a walk or going to some store

I have the hc that Ghost doesn't wear the skull balaclava if he's not working or with the 141, so he wears a black surgical mask but you can write he however you want. Anyway, a group of teenagers pass by them and give Ghost dirty looks, he notices and is like "Hey reader, are you sure you like going out with me?" Moving away from her a little so the others don't look weird at her

Meanwhile she's like 🤭I have guard dog privileges, my bf is so handsome🤭 lol just fluff after that

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READER IS REFERED TO AS FEMALE

TW! THIS FIC INCLUDES: Angst with a happy ending (nothing too bad! just a tiny bit of angst), fluff, bullying?

Word count: 721 words

A/N: Tysm for all of the asks and support that has been and are being sent to me! I can't describe how greatful I am for it all, I'm currently working on asks and a ghost fic I plan to put out soon, as long as there are no major disruptions! :3

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You and Ghost had decided to take a stroll to the local mall because he wanted to treat you; a weekly occurrence because he just loves his little girl so much. You look up at him in admiration as you cling onto his muscular but soft arm whilst walking to the next shop. Your eyes slid down from his eyes, to the surgical mask he was wearing, you could just about make out his smile as he proudly walked with you and carried your bags. When you and ghost were out, he preferred to wear a simple, black surgical mask instead of the skull balaclava he wears when he's with tf141: he didn't want to scare anyone, especially the innocent little children, he couldn't bare it.

You and ghost approach a big group of teenagers and ghosts grip on your waist tightened, pulling you closer to him so you don't get lost. The mall was already so busy and this extra congestion just served as a major inconvenience. As you walked past them, they began to point and snicker at ghost, shooting him dirty looks. Your heart breaks into tiny little pieces as you watch his proud smile drop into an ashamed look. You both continue to walk past the group but Ghost moves away from you, releasing your grip on his arm. You try to regain your hold on him but he moves further away, eyes set on your destination. You resort to lightly tugging on the hem of his shirt and thankfully, he finally looks at you.

"Si... Is everything okay?" You asked softly. Ghost looks into your eyes and his heartstrings tug at the look of love and admiration, but also worry in your eyes. He doesn't deserve this; you're too good for him.

"Y/N... are you... are you sure you want to be with... someone like me?" he chokes out hesitantly, tears gathering along his waterline, "like, are you sure you like it?" You didn't think it was possible for your heart to break any more than what it did earlier but hearing Simon say such derogatory things about himself truly brought upon feelings of sadness you didn't even know existed. "It's just that I'm not the best person you could be with, there's so many men out there, more normal than me and well you choose to be with me but I just don't think that-"

"Si." You cut him off. You guide him over to a safer, less congested area and you stop walking. You place your hands on his biceps and you just look at him as you smile. "Simon, you are the best person I've ever met. I don't want someone else, I want you," You bring your hands up to his shoulders, "you make me feel so many emotions that I can't even begin to explain, you make me feel so safe." Tears find their way back into Simon's eyes but this time, not because of sadness.

"When you do your little habits, it makes me love you even more because I remember how perfect you are. Let them stare, let them giggle and make snarky remarks, because it doesn't matter. What matters is how amazing you are and how much of your heart and soul you put into loving me. You are everything and more of what I could ever wish for. You are my handsome, kind, caring boyfriend who wouldn't hurt a single thing outside of work." You bring your hands up to his cheeks to wipe away his tears and you place a soft kiss on his lips. "I love you, Simon Riley." You say as you pull away. Simon smiles at you and brings you in for a tight hug."I love you too, Y/N" he takes a deep breath to calm himself down. "Mmh, lovie, you're the best thing that's ever happened to me. Words can't describe how much I love you."

You pull away and smile back at him as your arms find their way back to his. You hold on tight and you two continue to walk along the mall, but this time, Simon won't shy away in fear of embarrassing you; he will stand next to you, no longer ashamed of himself and proud of having a girlfriend as amazing as you.

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tea-with-evan-and-me · 11 months ago

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Those leto fan girls are so annoying and pathetic actually. And I'm off anon because I don't want their asses to say I'm "weak". No one cares you're not part of the fandom anymore. And yes the evan fandom can be awful. But so much of the toxicity was often caused by them. And sorry we are gonna call you out for stanning someone with multiple allegations against him. It is not the same as when people slander evan to defend emma. There are actual allegations against that man. People are not obsessed with them just pointing out how stupid it is to complain about EVAN'S fandom when you stan a man like that. Like it's laughable actually.

well! happy sunday night all. i have dozens and dozens of messages about this topic and i don't want you guys to think i'm ignoring you - i am not. but i don't think it serves anyone to dogpile and make post after post about this. @evanboodaddy @letsxriot i received your messages as well so i will address this here:

i just want to start off by saying this: i'm not here to police who anybody is a fan of. i really do not care if someone is a fan of jared leto, not because i believe he is innocent of the allegations against him - quite frankly, where there is smoke, there is fire. the odds are very likely that he is a nefarious person who has done things that would be unforgivable if proven. but they are not proven at this time - no arrest or charges, and i am not familiar enough with him to make a conclusive judgement and even if i was.. he would be one of like, a million men in hollywood who are guilty of just as bad and worse, so i do not have the time nor mental bandwidth to be concerned with his proclivities.

but outside of that? look, no one can constantly troll/make remarks intended to inflame, and not expect to get a reaction. it's disingenuous to act as though you are minding your business and evan's fans are being unfairly critical. to be honest, i am well aware the only reason you both have taken a turn and are speaking against evan's fandom is because you feel you were essentially pushed out because people ''hate'' and want to cancel you. every time you logged on it was like you were fending off people upset with you, but if you were truly above it, you would not be incessantly speaking on evan and his fans in a derogatory manner, - you'd simply move onto the next male celebrity you stan, as you both have done previously, no big deal. your accounts did not begin as evan fan accounts, in fact, before dahmer you both never mentioned his name. what is happening now, you becoming fans of someone else and moving on, is par for the course and nothing to apologize for. no one should be mad at someone quietly moving onto a different fandom, for any reason.

i hope you will consider that you can participate in fandom and not feel the need to dedicate the majority of your time to engaging with people who hate the celebrity you stan. and to be fair, you have no right to talk down to the anonymous people on my blog when you created numerous troll accounts to argue with ''haters'', per jessie herself. you perpetuating a cycle of making remarks to anger people and then being frustrated you're disliked is not serving you in any positive way and it doesn't have to be like this. fandom is to enjoy, and i don't see how this is enjoyable. you are setting yourself up to be in a constant loop of hate and defending your fav against every person who speaks negatively about them. i will not disagree that there are some very toxic and draining people in this fandom, but allowing them to affect your enjoyment of it is a decision as far as i'm concerned. if you two stop addressing the fandom i'm pretty sure all would be forgotten by most in a couple of weeks, but the tit for tat will just keep things continuing in perpetuity.

either way.. only you can decide that. i understand a lot of folks are riled up but i just don't see there ever being a resolution to this and it's just ridiculous to me, i don't see the point in continuing to address inflammatory tweets that are obviously baiting you to do just that.

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sunsrefuge · 1 year ago

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Asura Appreciation Week - Day One "Talk about one of your asura OCs! Who are they? What's their Deal?" [hosted by @asura-appreciation-corner ♥]

of course im going to bring up my favorite little rat, Liifa!

Just a funky mischievous little guy, carrying a book of demons and shuffling his tarot cards in weird places!

Originally from Quora Sum before its fall, yes he's old and yes he has very special feelings (derogatory) about Primordus. He also managed to gain a personal, mutual vendetta with Joko. He spent the majority of his 'normal' life in the Crystal Desert with the Sunspears, and after accepting a book of Demons associated with Abaddon (the Binding, in my headcanon!) he was promptly, you know, kicked out!

He had a little bit of a pirate stint before taking to the life of wayward traveling. He's done a lot of odd jobs over the years and very often sticks himself into situations that he has no business actually being in - especially larger happenings, like the Pact's Campaign!

he's very normal, i promise, he absolutely totally definitely didn't accidentally make himself a lich while reviving his sister from a fatal wound -- don't mind the fact that he's been alive for over two centuries, he's definitely not a lich! :) prommy. (obligatory sarcasm tag; he's absolutely a lich and hides it from everyone lol)

He ends up stuck in Gandara with Eliana, a plant girlie, for most of LWS4, and after getting out thanks to Joko getting turned into a dragon fruit snack, they stick with the Commander's team! So per my personal AU, he's gotten to see Primordus up close again :) he hated it a lot <3 and thanks to his experience with demons, he's definitely getting dragged into SotO! ♥

okay that's all i'm going to ramble about for today thanks byyyye

#AsuraAppreciationWeek #Asura #c:Liifa #my content #ignore me i just. love he hgkfjgnf #willing myself to not shove things under a cut bc everyone else is posting without readmores and *i* wanna be brave [in tears]

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the-90s-music-colosseum · 1 year ago

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i definitely meant it as a dig when i said that Damon is like a business student. like it's meant to be kinda offensive. the "bro-y" he gives off is the stuck-up business major who thinks he's so fucking cool, but he's a business major (derogatory) y'know. like, he completely fumbled the relationship with Justine Frischmann - man is not all that. was Not meant to win you over (you should vote for him when it's his turn). and anyways, that's just how he dresses, it's not to say anything about his personality y'know, i'm sure he's not like a business major (once again derogatory)

business major (derogatory) is just so funny and real to me

Also now that Justine Frischmann is being brought up, I expect the discourse to be somewhat elevated. Highly anticipating the destruction of my inbox.

#most attractive 90s musician #asks #is he laddy #damon albarn #disc horse

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officialgrapply · 18 days ago

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Covid AEW - All Out 2020

2020 was a fucked up year.

My relationship with wrestling went from being a robotic little obsessive spreadsheet updater at the start of the year; trying to keep track of every match I'd watched, to feeling completely done with this shit by the end of the year. Pandemic wrestling was kinda funny and intriguing until it began to sicken me to my core. WWE's thunderdome gave me chills (derogatory, sorry FadeAwayMedia) and I can't even communicate why. My favourite promotion of 2017-19; GCW was still running events with fans even though they were getting aggressively shitter with every show that they put on. Do you fucking people ever think about anything else? We all need a break from this. We all need to alter our outlook. I did not wanna hear a single update, slice of discourse, recommendable match I would've previously loved. Nothing. FUCK OFF. I was, surely not coincidentally, going through some substantial personality changes - an ego death is how I'd actually describe it without elaborating too much. I tend to obsess over my different hobbies in phases anyway, and I felt that was me done with wrestling.

Very little between mid-2020 to mid-2023 was able to penetrate my deliberately grapply-proofed barrier I'd surrounded myself with, except for many of the gawp-worthy dramas of All Elite Wrestling.

When AEW formed, I was naturally intrigued by it - a viable and rich #2 US promotion...after all these years. It's weird that a billionaire likes this stuff. Imagine having over one billion dollars and being like "oh fuck yeah, dude... Jimmy FUCKING Havoc!!", then proceeding to sing the words to 'I Hope You Suffer' by AFI (TONY KHAN 100% DID THIS!!).

Anyway, despite my intrigue, I was not particularly impressed. To say I was jaded by The Elite's antics in 2018 is putting it lightly. My tastes have slightly changed since then, so I wouldn't rule out being more open to their wrestling if I ever revisited it, but I'm pretty sure I'd still think their web show's humour sucks, and I'm very sure that I think calling yourself the "best bout machine" is proper lame. So even though I had intrigue for this new AEW project, there was no optimism, because why are these fucking chucklefucks at the forefront of it?!? Why is the guy who's the director of football at Fulham FC signing Kip Sabian? I was really confused by the whole thing, and in that initial 12 months that I followed their development as it happened, I liked very little. There was Darby Allin, a psychopath I was plenty familiar with from skimming EVOLVE (the true tell-tale sign of the mentally unwell footage trawler of 2016-18). Weirdly, there was also Cody Rhodes, who hadn't remotely impressed me as a freelancer, but was connecting well after that pretty astounding match with his legendary brother, bleeding plenty, taking a chairshot to the head and momentarily making Shawn Spears look vaguely interesting in the process. Not much else connected on a major level; some fondness for guys like Mox, PAC, and it was novel to see Jack Evans on an actual television show, but it was still safe to say it just wasn't for me.

So there was very little I felt I'd miss in that promotion by cold-turkeying the wrestling. Then I heard CM Punk signed. In 2021, I wasn't ready to return to a hobby that had jaded me in such an unprecedented and bitter way, but that was pretty fucking interesting. I wasn't even a HUGE fan, but his jaded bitterness in the mid-2010s towards the business put mine to shame! The fuck's he gonna do? He felt so done with it all - I had a recurring joke tweet for two or three years in that 2017-19 period on Royal Rumble days where I would post "What If Cm Ponk Come Back" - the joke is that he wouldn't LOL! I recall being a bit more willing to watch little clips online and such at that point. I even checked out the PPV with Punk/Darby, and the following episode of television on one of the watchwrestling sites. The habit didn't stick again at that point, but I felt relatively happy to see it at the time. Then I would go back prioritising other things, and this whole supposed glory era unfolded while I was pretty much oblivious to it. Then Punk ate a muffin really angrily in public, and then him and his old mate Ace Steel smacked those cunts about. Oh fuck yeah man...pro fuckin' wrestling!! Don't get me wrong; I still didn't really wanna WATCH any, but I watched the fuck out of that press conference and listened to like half a dozen podcasts about it on YouTube.

There isn't really an interesting story to me getting back into wrestling in mid 2023. I just realised I could get it on the apps on my smart TV in my room, a habit formed again and eventually became a love again. WWE was kinda interesting me for a bit, until I saw how they blew off their Bloodline soap operas with egregious walking-pace matches, so I wasn't tuning into that for long. Too fucking earnest, no reward. It was that messy bitch AEW that drew me in for longer - still a lot that had me shaking my head in disapproval, but a MUCH richer roster than the 2019/20 days, and there's something I find really intriguing about the unmistakable sense of weary trauma they still had then and still have to this day. Then they announced a new TV show, and on it will be the return of... CM Punk :oD (that was Tony's face), and the reaction to this announcement was a 50/50 mix of visceral boos and cheers I can't really compare to anything else - it wasn't Cena-esque, you know what the game is when you go to see Big Match John - these cunts were MAD at each other!! I don't exactly have a pretentious sense of humour, so all the dumb tribalism stuff really amuses me, and I had been unaware of just how much it had all ballooned post All Out '22. It's so sick that there's a twitter troll called TAPPED IN: GANGSTABOB who calls Tony Khan a fucking clown in the replies to all his tweets. If you hate tribalist fans, you fundamentally don't understand pro-wrestling and I suggest you start again from the beginning.

So yeah, AEW ey? Even though I'm back to skipping more and more of it, and I do have earnest ideas as to how it could be legitimately good in the long-term, cos it SHOULD be good - just look at that fucking roster. But realistically, I write this after an episode of Collision in which Chris Daniels murked Hangman Page, there was a Cope-Jericho tag match, and Mox is doing bondage to the Rock N Roll Express for some reason; it's a fucking mess, it'll stay a mess, and maybe that's what's most appropriate after all. Coming to terms with this has made me want to revisit the period that will probably forever be spoken about with misty eyes as its peak. Punk is there and he's everyone's mate. He wants to help this promising future generation. The crowds are packed out every week and fucking loud for everything. Guys you never thought would be facing each other stand in the ring and receive "holy shit" chant for 45 minutes prior to locking up. Coup signing after coup signing arrives. All that momentum that's so tantalizing to AEW fans today. My hunch is that there was actually a similar ratio of good/bad stuff then as there is now - I feel like I know Tony's mind too fucking well at this point; he drops potentially intriguing stories at the drop of a hat and persists with ones that need to be put out of their misery. He loves switching wrestler's face/heel allegiance without actually booking an angle to accompany it. He can't book a big man to save his life. He doesn't know how to structure a match between a main eventer and a lower-midcarder or even curtain jerker. I don't buy that these problems that were present in 2019 and are still present to this day were suddenly absent in 2021. But what's the worth of a hunch if I don't experience it for myself?

So I thought, maybe I'll watch All Out 2021 again, and go from there. But you fucking know what? How am I supposed to measure any potential upturn in quality if I don't check out some of the stuff I missed before he came in? Just the very thought of half-arsing a project like this deeply hurt whichever strain of neurodivergence I happen to live with. I would rather not finish this project (likely), than begin at the wrong starting point.

So that's enough intro, let's get on with this shit.

The last pandemic AEW show I watched was Double Or Nothing 2020. Here's what I remember about it: MJF & Jungle Boy did some shitty sequences, I really enjoyed Moxley v Brodie, the main event was some goofy ass cinema/Hardyverse stuff that has a 9.20 on cagematch for some reason. Damn, das inmates were coping.

I don't particularly wanna rewatch that show so my entry point will be whichever episodes of TV have an interesting (positively or negatively) match between then and the next PPV; All Out. I forgot how few PPVs they did back then, so there was a lot of episodes to dig through the cards of, but I found surprisingly little of interest. The current calendar definitely works better for them since they excel far more at PPV than they do television, even if they lose a little IRT anticipation for the big shows.

AEW Dynamite #40 - Fyter Fest Night 2 (08/07/2020)

So there's a definite adjustment to watching covid wrestling again. While WWE ended up traumatizing me with their thunderdome bullshit, AEW settled on a fairly good solution at Daily's Place with the wrestler crowd. It's about as good as it can be. The best thing I can say about it is that I was able to forget about it most of the time and focus on the wrestling. Honestly, I've probably seen episodes of Collision/Rampage with only a marginally improved atmosphere over these shows.

AEW World Tag Team Championships Adam Page & Kenny Omega (c) vs. Private Party (w/ Matt Hardy)

Since the start of AEW, few have switched my opinion on them as dramatically as Adam Page. I've grown to respect him for what he can bring in his in-ring peaks, and how fun he's made the Hangman character in the last couple of years. This reminded me of why I wasn't arsed about him for so long, though. He did still have some highs prior to AEW, but too much of the time, he just felt like "their mate". I don't get why Matt Hardy was with Private Party. It could be as simple as: Matt Hardy comes up with a lot of ideas, and Tony says yes to a lot of ideas. Missable match. Load of jumping about and that.

Lance Archer (w/ Jake Roberts) vs. Joey Janela (w/ Sonny Kiss)

Seeing Janela in this company is even more fucked up now than it was then. And it was pretty fucking weird back then. People I know who have kept watching GCW have seemingly all grown to hate Joey. I don't really care, since I haven't seen him in so long and he wasn't addicted to 40-minute matches at this time. He was a true doofus, but one that could bump well and that usually gets a pass from me. This match works in the sense that Archer can just throw Joey around but is extremely peculiar in every other way. The pairing of Janela & Kiss is not something I was aware of, and I doubt I'll ever comprehend it. Also, I'm not dissing Jake Roberts as a manager, since I am pretty much always happy to see him given these strange roles, but he is particularly awkward as fuck here. The way he's moving around the ring here, he looks like such a doddery old cunt. It's hard to believe this is him after a glow-up.

Darby Allin does a Coffin Drop from legitimately like 100 feet in the air into some foam.

God, he's so fucking sick. I promise not to be a hand-wringing wanker when you inevitably die for my entertainment.

FTR & The Young Bucks vs. The Lucha Bros & Butcher y Blade

Functions as a "there's dissention between FTR & the Bucks" match, but failed to capture my heart.

Big Swole is informed that she is banned from the arena, at the request of Dr. Britt Baker

Seriously, though. This might be my first time seeing Big Swole do anything, and jesus christ she is a bad talker. Astonishingly so.

Nyla Rose vs. Kenzie Paige & KiLynn King

Squashy. The jobbers did a pretty good job of looking scared. "KiLynn" is some brutal fucking NXT sounding name.

Colt Cabana, Brodie Lee & Stu Grayson (w/ jabronis) vs. SCU

Colt Cabana has a weird bruise, but he trusts Brodie Lee, who's really mysterious. That's the crux of this one. It's really regrettable that Brodie was so fuckin' good, left WWE for some long overdue focus, but this storyline stuff just did not hit at all. I guess they were going for him having a similar cult leader-esque aura to him as Bray, but where it falls dramatically wide of the mark is these ultimate jabronis he surrounded himself with. The Dark Order were a joke before he got there, and unsurprisingly he wasn't the magical fix to that. I also really don't like Brodie's AEW gear. Maybe I got too used to the dirty vest n jeans, but this black doesn't suit him at all. SCU certainly existed. Can't be arsed with that at all.

Chris Jericho (w/ Ortiz y Santana) vs. Orange Cassidy

This was actually the match that made me decide to download the episode, because I was interested in the Orange aspect of it specifically. Back then, or very shortly before this point, he was seen almost exclusively as a gimmicky comedy wrestler, albeit one with numerous spectacularly athletic tricks up his sleeve, now hardly anyone sees him as that, but I never really saw the gradual process of that. The match is pretty nice. They've done a really good job with Orange to turn him into a guy who can go toe-to-toe with anybody and not look out of place. I'm sure he has more eye-popping 'breakout' matches than this one, but this is a nice and simple elevation in defeat. I'll get further into this feud on later episodes, but for now, not bad at all.

episode verdict

Strong enough main, but this seems like not a generally good product at all.

AEW Dynamite #41 - Fight For The Fallen (15/07/2020)

AEW TNT Championship Cody (w/ Arn) (c) vs. Sonny Kiss

Oh, that's a charming booking. I wasn't able to form an in-depth opinion on Sonny Kiss' wrestling in their time in AEW. But cool, I guess. Good on 'em. (I RETRACT THIS STATEMENT IF SONNY WAS ONE OF THE CANCELLINGS I MISSED!! DOWN WITH CANCELLED PEOPLE!!). Jim Ross has clearly been guided to use male and female pronouns for Sonny within the same sentence. It's about as natural to him as feeding a cheeseburger to an otter, but it's cute I suppose. I start to imagine what a fun five minute match this could be - enough time to give Sonny some shine while respecting the differing hierarchy of the wrestlers involved. "He doesn't know how to structure a match between a main eventer and a lower-midcarder or even curtain jerker." - me, about nine paragraphs ago. AH FUCK!!! TONY!!!!!!! The novelty of this oddball pairing wears off quick, when it's clear that the formula is just a 50/50 workratey match. The match is ten minutes but feels much longer, in no small part due to the sheer amount of gratuitous nearfalls they put in. I'M NOT BITING!! I DON'T THINK SONNY IS GOING TO WIN!!! HE IS NOT "ELEVATED" IN MY MIND BY HAVING AN EVEN MATCH!! My eyes begin to form an eggy glaze. I'm no longer analysing a match. I'm just looking at moving objects. There are lights. There are colours. But there are no twistys.

FTR vs. Lucha Bros

Right, great fucking start. Cheers for that. Maybe FTR vs. Lucha Bros will give me more joy? Sure, kinda. Okay, so I got the idea to write this blog post a week or so after watching this episode so bear with me skimping on the info here. I wish Penta was just a scuzzy fuck who bonked people with a rail spike, and I never liked Fenix. They have had matches I've enjoyed as a team, but never that enthusiastically. They actually don't have good chemistry at all, I feel. They do a double team move in this involving a wheelbarrow-type set-up that looked really shitty. I think it was kind of a botch, but the set-up looked overly convoluted anyway. FTR were FTR - totally fine, not one of those matches that they'll really sink their teeth into to try and give you a modern classic, but fine. Dax has a fine stubble on his face instead of the dumb 'stache and he looks way better. The finish is cool; Dax swiftly whips off the mask of Fenix who is cradled into a pin as he tries to protect his identity. Something is occurring with The Butcher & The Blade, and the keys to a truck. Right, okay. The Elite come down and Kenny wants to give FTR a beer, but FTR pour their beers on Kenny. I find that to be rude.

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One of my weirdest and sometimes regrettable quirks as a wrestling fan is who I'll be an apologist for sometimes. I can watch Chris Jericho from the peak of his acclaim and be like "ah shut up, motherfucker.". But for some reason, Jericho's frankly disdainful and understandably criticized gimmick change of 2024 kinda hit for me for a little bit at least. That, and I liked all the FTW title matches with Hook & Shibata. They were pretty much WWF hardcore title matches with a few other goofy elements that mostly worked for me, and I found them really over-hated. I totally get what people find egregious about the guy, don't get me wrong. I saw his fucking band performing at All In and just scoffed while filming it for twitter bants, but my spouse could scarcely stand to look at him. This saggy fuck who thinks he's a rock star and is addicted to relevancy is the perfect subject for the most ridiculous mockumentary in history. But it still kinda bothered me that it felt like a rite of passage to shit on Jericho that year, so I stood firm. Until I didn't. I think my timeline is correct when I say that after the Hook stuff was wrapped up, he started a mini-feud with Orange Cassidy that called back to what he was doing on this episode. It was shit. I'd like to think that all those "the list" segments I liked in 2016/17 weren't as shit as this, but this had me wondering. Certainly, the tone of his promos where he tries to sound funny and overreacts a lot is seriously tired by this point. At this time, he's "the demo-god". I'm probably good on tongue-in-cheek Jericho for the rest of my life now. I felt like with the Learning Tree, it was like "at least he knows people think he's been shit and is reacting very directly to the critiques", but 2020 Jericho insists he is AEW's fucking moneyyy heel and also insists on being the beloved comedy relief. He's got to be the funniest guy in the room - people laugh at this man's pocket antics? I'll show them what comedy is. They really did a complete rewind of this in 2024. Orange got juice on da jacket - Jericho and his cronies aren't happy! Ortiz is slipping and sliding around in the juice for ages. The covid crowd give this slapstick the airy reception it deserves. This could've been wrapped up in 30 seconds. Shit fucking segment.

The Elite vs. Jurassic Express

I promise I will never write that much about Chris Jericho again in my life. Just had a lot to get off my chest. Anyway, this is the match I selected this episode for. Basically, purely because Marko Stunt's in it. Marko's someone I don't think I've seen since the pre-pandemic days. I've always been fond of the guys who are willing to just be fucking hurled about like there's no tomorrow, and Marko was no exception. I haven't got a shitload to say about this match, because it was just a fun spotfest. Pure chewing gum for the eyes. No point writing out any moves, but there was one high-spot in particular that made me go

The Nightmare Sisters (w/ Dustin Rhodes) v Kenzie Paige & MJ Jenkins

OK. I'm not advanced enough to form an opinion on this yet. This is like expert level Tony-ism that my intermediate brain can not comprehend at this time.

In my TEW save, I made a new company, gifted them one billion dollars and brought almost every recognisable free agent available. Right now, in my circa 2001 save, I've set Bobby Heenan to manage Tank Abbott. So I can't judge too harshly on my similarly moneyed brethren Tony Khan deciding to give Vickie Guerrero a shot in 2020, and in a totally inscrutable pairing, at that. When Nyla came out in preparation to introduce Vickie as her surprise new manager, they played a fragment of what I later realised was Vickie's theme. I thought it sounded unusual. I'm sure she will become a manager for the ages in All Elite Wrestling. Nyla seems weirdly underutilized in today's division. While she never seemed like she'd be as good as say, Awesome Kong, she was totally decent and nobody else is bringing a real power game to the women's division right now.

AEW World Championship Jon Moxley (c) v Brian Cage (w/ Taz)

Speaking of TEW, hey Taz...

I do actually like this role for Taz, though. It's probably not worth the absence of his jovial and loveable commentary, but he taps back into that mean role really well I feel. Brian Cage is definitely a guy who is usually pretty fun, but definitely not as sick as he should be. It's been difficult to come to terms with, but you could probably make a similar argument about Moxley too. With 2025 brain, it's difficult to process that this would've been a kinda big deal at the time, but yeah I guess it was. Cage feels like a *prospect* rather than, y'know, whatever he is doing now, probably in ROH. Obviously, the fact he was fresh to the company helps, but I feel a lot of it is Taz. It's a good combo.

I'd say I had moderate expectations for this match. My expectations were about right. You can tell Mox is already Barnett-pilled by this point since a huge portion of his offense is grapple-fucky arm work. It's a fine enough way to take down the guy who looks like a monster. A lot of the time, when bookers try to "keep talent strong" by having them not tap to the winning submission it falls totally flat, but I would say Taz throwing in the towel here on Cage's behalf made sense and had the desired effect. Mox wasn't necessarily an ideal opponent for Cage to shine against, since I guess he's too much of an important asset to AEW for him to be chucked around by him a whole lot. I would book this as a plunder match or just run Cage vs. Marko Stunt for like ten consecutive weeks. Strange booking decision for this match to get announced, then Taz gifts Cage the FTW title the week prior. Perhaps just settling him into a run with that thing in some hopefully chaotic matches would've been the preferable move.

episode verdict

Still generally not good, but definitely an improvement over the prior week. You get a snippet of what it feels like the original vision for AEW was during The Elite vs. Jurassic Express - bringing some distinctly un-WWE like matches onto mainstream television. It's fun and it works. It honestly feels like that is just gone now. Elsewhere, the scatterbrain ideas like Vickie managing Nyla and Taz managing Brian Cage have mixed results, but I find them quite charming.

AEW Dynamite #42 (16/07/2020)

AEW TNT Championship; No DQ Cody (w/ Arn) (c) vs. Eddie Kingston

Okay, now we're fuckin' talking. Eddie instantly gets me out of that probably-watching-too-much-wrestling-in-a-short-space-of-time malaise with a really eyebrow raising promo. Loved Eddie putting Cody's 'hard work' firmly into context. Such an instant hook, that can connect whether you were familiar with Eddie or not. Loved him threatening the shit out of Arn Anderson. Beautiful set-up to a terrific match. I love Eddie's selling where he's like UHU-U-U-U-U-U. Hard to type it out - you know what I mean. I feel like I've only heard it from him and in matches from like 1973. Cody taking the bomb into the tacks is very dope. Eddie felt instantly 'up there' despite defeat. This was a totally triumphant debut.

MJF (w/ Wardlow) vs. Griff Garrison

Good times don't last. Death to "mic guys". I love a great promo, but in every way an Eddie Kingston manages to captivate and create anticipation for his matches, MJF is so fucking overbearing and put me in arm-folding mode before they even begin. A lot of Jericho about him, actually, where he wants to be the epic heel and the comic relief at the same time. This is one of those matches where he barely puts "da stick" down. He keeps grabbing it to show how dominant he is. He is unbeaten but lost a tag match at some point. Griff Garrison points this out (majorly butchering the line in the process) so MJF murks him whilst also explaining to us over the sound system that he is murking him. Griff's one bit of offense is a relatively effective roll-up nearfall, I guess. Match sucks though. I've only ever previously seen Griff in that random ass match he had with Copeland. What the fuck is his deal?

Falls Count Anywhere The Young Bucks vs. The Butcher y The Blade

This is really fun. They do the reverse of what you'd expect in a falls count anywhere match, starting out in the backstage kitchen area and working their way out to the ring. Lots of creative fun with their surroundings, very satisfying. My favourite bit is when The Blade channels his namesake RIC Blade and misjudges the direction of his dive for a table spot, clipping his face on the edge of it on the way down. Lovely. Bonus factoid: this was the last match I ever watched in 2024.

Lance Archer murks a bunch of job boys backstage, lifting one guy up so his head bursts through the ceiling.

This was awesome. What a pity they can't present him like this consistently.

Ivelisse vs. Diamante

I don't know much about either woman. It seemed like a match that could've had potential if AEW could book any women's stuff well under the title matches. I intended to analyse further but then I got a really bad toothache, so I didn't.

Adam Page vs. "Five"

SHIT!! The guy literally has a number as a name - that means he is objectively unimportant IN KAYFABE. SQUASH HIM!!! NO OFFENSE FOR YOU JOB BOY!!!! Fucking hell man. They really want me to know that "Five" can execute many athletic manoeuvres (ones 90% of the roster also can do). There's honestly not much in wrestling that pisses me off more than this kind of match that goes so long despite the wrestlers being SO far away from each other in the pecking order, because it's just time wasting and intelligence insulting in equal measures. It honestly doesn't get much worse imo.

Jungle Boy & Luchasaurus (w/ Marko Stunt) vs. Chris Jericho & Jake Hager (w/ Ortiz & Santana)

Very much stretched out artificially to TV main event length. Way too long for the amount of payoff you get from it, but there is some weirdly fun physicality between 'Saurus and Hager, in which both end up with minor amounts of blood on their faces. Weird psychology with repeated identical Marko interferences. Marko's clearly the most interesting member of the team, so I like him getting involved, but it felt pretty lazy to do it unprompted multiple times, especially when Jericho also had his cronies out there who could have justified his involvement and made it look less heelish.

episode verdict

Some real high highs, but for the cherry-pickers out there; just stop watching after Lance Archer kills everyone.

AEW Dynamite #43 (29/07/2020)

Jurassic Express & Best Friends vs. The Inner Circle

I had no memory of Orange Cassidy's theme at this time that made him sound like he wrestled exclusively on WWF Jakked. Tony dipping into his pocket for the copyrighted music can't come soon enough. Some really classic surly JR commentary in this one: He barks out "He is NOT in the match!" after a Marko Stunt cameo. He then uses the same tone when he answers his own question going "Was there a memo about this being a ten-man TORNADO tag?! I don't think so!!". I largely find post-WWE JR tough to listen to when he's earnestly pretending to care about things, but when the mask slips - that's the good shit. This match isn't devoid of charm, but it's nothing special. A bit structurally odd for it to go pretty balls out pretty quickly, before settling into a very average pace. Luchasaurus really struggles keeping his mask intact throughout. Very much an anti-crescendo for it to just end with Matt Hardy's music hitting and him pushing Guevara off the top rope. Matt appears from the crowd, seemingly. It's kind of funny to think of that sort of interference as normally this exhilarating thing, since the fans will see the wrestler before the cameras do and will yell out about this, but here he's just brushing past colleagues who are presumably just like "Oh, hi Matt."

AEW TNT Championship Cody (w/ Arn) (c) vs. Warhorse

Whilst they must always be rationed with extreme caution in order to combat burnout and/or just becoming a bit of a negative prick, I'm still not above a bit of a hate-watch. I was instantly sceptical in 2019/20 about wrestlers who I would know about more for being funny-tweet-men than I did anything they ever did in the ring. I'd say there were three main ones at that time; RJ City, who I have still never seen in a match, but has since won me over with his Hey EW YouTube series - he's really found a good role in AEW for himself. Secondly, we had Danhausen, who has absolutely not won me over, but is for some reason contracted and a top 5 merch seller? - I guess he just legitimately works for people who like the exact opposite of what I like, and the saving grace is the fact that Tony seemingly wants to use him as little as possible. Then there was Warhorse. At the time I found him profoundly annoying and particularly resented him doing like serious post-Speaking Out type tweets in his meme caps. I guess he was afforded a chance on the same stage as the other two and could still be contracted if it had paid off. But it didn't! And I am not above the schadenfreude of that sort of situation from time to time. Y'know - I don't actually wish him any ills in life, but I just don't wanna turn on the telly and have to explain him to whoever else is in the room with me. I guess whatever it was he was doing with the all caps and the "rules ass" has run its course, because now he seems to be dressing like Marty Scurll? Anyway, Warhorse's thing outside of twitter was I guess being a sort of shrunken down Ultimate Warrior who likes thrash metal? It's really hard to place, actually, because he seems conscious of the fact that he's about 5'4". Like I don't think he's SHYING AWAY from that ("he weighs 4,000lbs of raw, heavy metal"). But it doesn't really come off as tongue-in-cheek either. Like, he's not Gillberg, because I think you're supposed to feel that he's badass AND really funny. I would say it fundamentally does not work when you take him outside of the realm of the clapping seal indies and twitter.

So he comes out, anyway, and he has synchronised fiery pyro that will never be needed again. He headbangs near Griff Garrison & Pillman Jr. in the crowd as Taz says "this young man, in my professional view, is in way over his head right now.". Aww. Justin Roberts goes Justin Roberts mode for his ring introduction, and Taz immediately says "li'l heavy...". Taz really does feel like he's just shitting on this guy in a way that feels beyond being a colour commentator, especially since Cody is a babyface anyway.

I'd heard this match had happened and was assured that Warhorse "bombed", but I didn't know if it was shtick heavy or what. It's a serious match, and one that feels like an earnest attempt from Cody to make Warhorse look like a good and interesting wrestler. Warhorse does his heavy metal taunts after big moves, but that's about as far as the shtick goes. I would have to assume there would be a lot more shtick in his indie matches, though I have nothing to really compare it to, since I maybe saw this guy once under the name "Jake Parnell" before the gimmick, and I don't retain much memory of that either. Warhorse looks like a sound enough wrestler in some aspects, with definite holes in his game. It's not an offensive match, but his wrestling is not enough on its own, and the gimmick stuff does not help him out, because it's just this distraction that doesn't connect on this stage. I ended up feeling a bit sorry for him, really, because he's not an Eddie Kingston who can stroll onto Dynamite and immediately fit in. You can tell undeniably from the tone of JR and particularly Taz on commentary, that this is very much a try-out match, and he's a guy whose try-out match should be taking place on Dark instead of here. Like, you know that bit in Beyond The Mat where Mike Modest, an indie star by 1998 standards, is having a try-out match on Heat? (in a dark match, no less) Well, what about if he had to open Raw in a competitive match against a star the size of Mick Foley or Triple H instead? That's more or less what Warhorse has been tasked with here. When JR says "if Warhorse is ever going to be great, then now is the time to be great", but since that has not occurred instantaneously, I'm left thinking "what does he possibly have the capacity to do at this stage to drastically change the tide and make a mainstream audience 'get it'?". It's a massive ask.

Warhorse ends up tapping to a figure-four. For a match that I'd isolated as a bit of a potential hate-watch, my overriding thought upon watching it is kinda just "why did they do that to him?". On paper it's a great opportunity that he 100% had to take, but it's probably safe to say now that it was too big a task for him, and I mainly blame the people who should've known that.

After the match, The Dark Order come out and attack both guys. Matt Cardona runs in for the save. I practically dislocate both of my shoulders shrugging at this development.

Inner Circle promo even though we already saw them five minutes ago

Chris Jericho's jacket, guys. It's a big deal. He's gonna rehash Mitch the Potted Plant in a minute. Sammy Guevara has such a fucking shit face. It's really crazy when comedy is attempted in this setting, and seemingly Tony hasn't paid the wrestler crowd enough to laugh out loud at it.

FTR in a boardroom with Arn going over some legal mumbo-jumbo.

Wasn't really sure what was going on here, mainly confused by the connection to Arn. Adam Page comes in and pours everyone whiskeys, but his is the biggest! So Dax is in between "my moustache is my personality" phases, but Page is right in the middle of his "whiskey is my personality" phase. Interesting.

AEW World Tag Team Championships Adam Page & Kenny Omega (c) vs. Evil Uno & Stu Grayson

Grayson & Uno are definitely showing out here, and they have some stuff, but it feels so long. Nothing inherently bad or egregious really, it's just more trying to make Dark Order work at the expense of making the actually viable stars look dominant. I guess you can make the argument that Page/Omega are like a team of singles stars whereas Uno & Grayson the more cohesive unit, and maybe that's the story they're actively telling here, but I can't ignore how overlong it felt as a whole.

Diamante vs. Hikaru Shida

This gets a wee video package to set it up as a proving ground match for Diamante. It was a total nothing sandwich. I really dislike Shida's wrestling, and Diamante didn't remotely impress me here either.

MJF segment

He takes ages to come out, during a commentary-free section too - just absolute dead air. His tron says "we deserve better", and watching this shit episode of Dynamite made me agree with this statement. MJF is parodying a political campaign to call out Jon Moxley. It's far from his worst material, but it's MJF, so it's still heavy-handed, overdone and filled with countless eyeroll worthy 'zingers'.

Tornado Tag Brian Cage & Ricky Starks vs. Darby Allin & Jon Moxley

Really loving Taz as a manager here. He gets really overexcited while describing how jacked Cage is, and it's super endearing - "HE'S GOT BICEPS!!!! ...AND THEY'RE SO BIG! THEY'RE LIKE SLEDGEHAMMERS!!". He also loves saying "shit", which is badass.

I miss Jon Moxley's hair. Yeah, he was losing it, so fucking what? Why is it the case that everybody who's experiencing any hair loss is deemed by the consensus to have to get rid of every last bit of it? Some people pull off hair loss better than others, as well as pulling off the receding look better than they do Bald. Down with "just let it go brah" culture. Mox was someone who was able to pull off only having a bit of hair well. It never felt 'tragic' or 'desperate' and he should start growing it again immediately.

Anyway, this match is cool and I really needed it after how this episode has gone. It's four guys I like plenty and both teams seem to have good chemistry together. I don't know whether my copy of this show was from a Fite stream or what, it continues showing the wrestling at full screen size while the commentary stop speaking. It's a very odd viewing in this environment because spot calling all of a sudden becomes 100x more obvious to me, somebody who's usually oblivious to most spot calling. And then there's the fact that Brian Cage does a sick strength spot where he catches Darby's 'rana attempt no-handed while holding Mox, before slamming them both down, but the wrestler crowd in the airy environment can't make the noise that it deserved.

The finish here is Darby winning with a stomp assisted by his tacks covered skateboard, and it looks brutal. Great Tony Khan autism moment post-match as Tony Schiavone exclusively reveals that next week, Moxley will defend the title against the #5 contender Darby Allin. Yes, the number five contender. I have no strong feelings on the ranking system but that's a fucking wacky sentence to hear.

episode verdict

Mostly shite! Let's move on.

AEW Dynamite #44 (05/08/2020)

The Elite & FTR vs. The Dark Order

Excess is an element in wrestling that can often work for me. So just having 12 bodies out there doing stuff certainly made it more watchable, despite not being anything special and me really not giving a shit about the storyline. There's a presumably worked injury to Dax, which leads to Cash and Hangman going back with him, leading to a 6 on 3 for a while. Hangman eventually comes back with a nice hot tag, but with the numbers advantage still on the side of Dark Order, Brodie gets the win with a nice discus lariat. The Dark Order's still lacking in terms of people I can take seriously being in it, but it's getting easier to tolerate them in matches, at least.

Best Friends vs. Ortiz & Santana

Very, very, very okay.

MJF segment where he abuses the campaign employees he has for some reason.

More heavy handed material from the most badass but also epic and funny heel out there. I'm gonna start +10ing these segments from now on, probably.

Matt Hardy & Sammy Guevara brawl

Matt Hardy cuts a promo about how he wants to give back in AEW and show the many personas of Matt Hardy. It's weird, as it usually is to see Matt past a certain point, when he has that sort of half asleep look going on. Then the brawl ensues and it is pretty okay. There's a sense of recklessness to it that I like. Matt appears to get hardway'd by either the ring-post or a flying chair, and then Sammy does a good stage dive onto him through a table. This bodes well for the PPV match..!

Santana & Ortiz smash Sue's van

Tony Schiavone's concerned commentary for this sounds as if it was done for an advert. The match didn't feel as though it had the bad blood to justify this. The Best Friends' later retort is done semi-ironically, with a nice fire in their delivery but also lines like "you will personally apologize to my Mom, over speaker phone!". Fair enough.

Cody & Matt Cardona vs. Alex Reynolds & John Silver

I have no real opinion on the post-WWE career of Matt Cardona because I've seen very little of it. It's concerning, though, that the best way Jim Ross can think of to put him over is to be like 'oh man, this guy collects so many action figures'.

I quite like John Silver, to an extent, but seeing Cody doing FIP stuff against him looks SO FUCKING STUPID. This is yet another example of Cody/Dark Order stuff that fundamentally misunderstands/outright ignores wrestling hierarchy to an egregious degree. And then Cardona's hot tag is not remotely worth the wait. Sucks.

Sammy Guevara comes back out, for some fucking reason, with cue cards

I think it's a trope they've returned to less as their roster has grown, but I don't like the thing AEW does sometimes where somebody has a match or segment, and the assumption is that their contribution to this episode is finished, but then they come back out 15 minutes later to do something else.

Sammy Guevara is a generally bad wrestler who is not without his positive points. We saw some of those in the earlier brawl but this fucking dreck accentuates everything wrong with him. I assume the cue cards shtick came about because he sucks on the mic, which is true, but this is not a remotely good fix. He has a message for Orange Cassidy that plays during picture-in-picture, and my eyes kept being drawn to the adverts for solace.

Jericho/Orange debate, moderated by..... Eric Bischoff

I was not expecting fucking Bischoff to turn up in this project. He apparently has his 83 Weeks podcast, but presumably hasn't joined the anti-AEW grift train yet.

It's not the worst material ever, really. The kind of transitional stuff that Orange needed to get to where he is now. Putting across that Orange can talk, but only when he wants to. This does make the segment Jericho heavy, but there's much worse segments out there.

Reba vs. Big Swole

What??

Reba is apparently Britt Baker's lackey, and Britt surprised her by handpicking her to face Swole when she wasn't ready to do so. Looking at cagematch, I may have seen Reba in 2015 TNA, but since then she's forgotten what to do in a wrestling ring. This is a short and unremarkable thing. Inoffensive. Tony may have released Big Swole because her wrestling wasn't good enough, but from this small glimpse; at least it's better than her promo stuff.

PREACH!!!

AEW World Championship Jon Moxley (c) vs. Darby Allin

Certainly the most engaging thing on the show since Eddie Kingston turned up. Darby, who came to the rescue of Mox during a beatdown by Starks & Cage a few weeks ago, immediately showing disrespect by wearing the cut-out of Mox's face. Mox here and in a prior promo, faultless at conveying the fondness he has for Darby while not shying away from the fact he's gonna beat the fuck out of him.

I would put their 2024 contest marginally above this, where Moxley is full-blown heel, able to meaner, and most crucially of all; there's no MJF run-in. But this is still a magnificent match. Darby can have a lot of people's best ever match in his sleep seemingly, but this is just a case of incredible pro-wrestling chemistry. It's just fucked up that this is the BUILD to an MJF main event, but oh well.

episode verdict

Pretty unremarkable stuff until a main that makes it all worthwhile.

AEW Dynamite #48 (02/09/2020)

Right, let's skip over to the go-home show now. Weirdly, a lot of the most intriguing stuff between DoN and All Out came from that consecutive block in July, so I guess this is worth checking to fully let the PPV take shape.

Best Friends vs. Ortiz & Santana

The Young Bucks & Jurassic Express vs. Private Party & SCU

I don't think I ever explicitly thought this at the time, but I really just want Jungle Jack to get the fuck out of the way in this team. I think he's a very average wrestler, which is now close to being a complimentary statement given how he's viewed by many today. 'Saurus & Stunt would be such a better team, since they feel the need to have all these Stunt interferences anyway.

Chris Jericho (w/ Jake Hager) vs. Joey Janela

Serena Deeb vs. Thunder Rosa

Jon Moxley vs. Mark Sterling

episode verdict

AEW ALL OUT (05/09/2020)

THE BUY-IN:

Joey Janela (w/ Sonny Kiss) vs. Serpentico (w/ Luther)

Private Party vs. Alex Reynolds & John Silver

MAIN SHOW:

PPV time. This is a particularly interesting one because I know it was by far their most critically panned PPV up to that point, and seemingly their joint least beloved ever along with Worlds End 2023. A banter show, essentially. That is usually good news for me.

Tooth And Nail Match Dr. Britt Baker DMD (w/ Reba) vs. Big Swole

The Young Bucks vs. Jurassic Express (w/ Marko Stunt)

21 Man Casino Battle Royal

Broken Rules Matt Hardy vs. Sammy Guevara

Although I rarely agree with the consensus there, it's a habit of mine that I'll usually have a gander at the average ratings for matches on cagematch before I'll watch them. It probably tampers expectations slightly and is a bad habit, but whatever. You can essentially null and void the rating with this one though, since I know that this is the match where Matt Hardy splats his head on concrete before stumbling about like a pisshead and the match not getting immediately called off for some reason. I am not the type of wrestling fan to watch something retrospectively, knowing exactly what occurs, and then get angry about it. There's too fucking much of that in wrestling criticism. I will instead reserve my anger for what deserves it the most - Sammy Guevara's face, and just analyse the rest of the match on its own merits.

AEW Women's World Championship Hikaru Shida (c) vs. Thunder Rosa

The Dark Order vs. Matt Cardona, Scorpio Sky & The Natural Nightmares

AEW World Tag Team Championships Adam Page & Kenny Omega (c) vs. FTR

Mimosa Mayhem Match Orange Cassidy vs. Chris Jericho

AEW World Championship Jon Moxley (c) vs. MJF

PPV verdict:

twisty matches (recommendable; caps = especially recommended):

Chris Jericho vs Orange Cassidy, 08/07

The Elite vs. Jurassic Express, 15/07

CODY VS. EDDIE KINGSTON, 22/07

The Young Bucks vs. The Butcher/The Blade, 22/07

Darby Allin/Jon Moxley vs. Brian Cage/Ricky Starks, 29/07

JON MOXLEY VS. DARBY ALLIN, 05/08

matches that can suk my nob:

Colt Cabana/Brodie Lee/Stu Grayson vs. SCU, 08/07

Cody vs. Sonny Kiss, 15/07

MJF vs. Griff Garrison, 22/07

Adam Page vs. Five, 22/07

Cody vs. Warhorse, 29/07

Diamante vs. Hikaru Shida, 29/07

Cody/Matt Cardona vs. Alex Reynolds/John Silver, 05/08

top ten wrestlers from what I watched:

Brian Cage

The Butcher & The Blade

Cody

Darby Allin

Eddie Kingston

Jon Moxley

Lance Archer

Marko Stunt

Orange Cassidy

The Young Bucks

Verdict on this project so far:

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i just wanted to ask why you think areas in the USA in 2024 can't be homophobic/unsafe for LGBTQ+ people? as far as im aware, the majority of the southern states aren't particularly safe for LGBTQ+ people to exist

Ok First I think it's funny "AITA official" tumblr and the other two people who came at me for my comment all blocked me. I'm not sure if you are one of these people as you asked this on Anon but I don't feel what I said was so bad. I was encouraging the OP of the question to be herself and was supporting her love of her GF and were simply saying that she should live her life and not worry about other people....

That being said to answer this question: You are wrong about "the majority of southern states" I've lived in the most deepest south of the south and been to many other places where people might assume that there would be hostility towards gays, however this is just not the case. No one cares that you are gay and even if they do in today's world with social media and where you have to worry about being called out no one is going to deny you entry to a business or generally treat you differently because of your preferred sexuality and for that matter for your race gender religion etc etc etc (in fact I think that political opinions now are what people discriminate against weather you are on the right or the left, liberals hate Trump Supporters and visa versa). People may harbor internal feelings about someone being gay or may not even like it, but a person will not get treated any differently publicly or experience any kind of discrimination again, because of the ramifications that may happen or lawsuits that could be brought or boycotts to your business because now those people can be called out easily in the public square. Now individuals may privately say to one another, "hey there goes that insert derogatory term" to themselves or to another individual but even if they do and even if you come across by random chance someone who truly hates you because you are gay, who cares!! People don't like me for lots of reasons but I just live my life. Now in regards to minors whose parents may not approve and are maybe religiously extremists whether that is muslim, christian, or whatever and you are a minor stuck in such a situation, again with the power of the law and social media those situations are easily navigated if you have half a brain and or have some courage to say to that family, "hey once i'm an adult (18) i'm gonna go live my life and support myself and if you don't like it then too bad you can go pound sand and never see or talk to me again." Again though this requires intelligence, courage, and strength to be on your own without a support system, but it is totally feasible. It is even feasible at a younger age through emancipation.

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monthly(ish) 🎀 update!

heyyy! it’s me. i haven’t done one of these in sooo long 😭 i figure i should start with what everyone is waiting on, arsal. truth be told i did not listen to anyone’s advice and im still hopelessly in love with him and it doesn’t help much that we’re both playing this back and forth hard to get game. truly it’s so like. draining to have him constantly on my mind. i think the problem is because when we were kids i liked him a little bit and now that all this dawned down on me it just became even worse because he truly is one of the first guys i’ve really really liked.

i’ve always had a bad track record with situationships and hookups and i never really really liked any guy i’ve ever talked to or been with but with arsal it’s so different. like even when i don’t talk to him something about him just makes me gravitate towards him. sigh it’s so hard being a girl 💔

speaking of guys randomly cameron called me one night after like 3 months of no contact and said he wanted me again and i told him i didn’t miss him and he called me a slut and said that’s why im incapable of love which is crazy because he is the first guy i admitted that fear to so good to know! he was drunk but it still made me feel a certain way.

back to less important things, currently im laying in bed in my hometown and it feels so surreal because it’s my last winter here and it’s just, hitting me. like ill actually have to leave this place i call home and it just sucks.

ENOUGH SAPPY THINGS! let’s go into more drama. basically i have a trio ish kinda thing with my main circle of friends, one is my best friend for ever i love that girl and the other is one of my guy friends and we absolutely hate him. he is such a man and it’s so disgusting how he talks about his ex. and he likes to act like he has a crush on both me and my friend it’s so weird.

kpop.. oh kpop. i’ve completely fell out of kpop once like school started again. i haven’t listen to any music or read a single fic since i fell out. i think it might be for good this time. but that does NOT mean ill ever stop sending in my updates, we are pen pals forever until somehow someone deletes my tumblr account and your account disappears.

god what else can i talk about. i turned 20 this year. so surreal truly. i blew out my candles and i think i stared at the cake in silence. i don’t even know whats happening to me at this point. i genuinely feel like im going through a (not mid) mid life crisis.

ANYWAYS. i know this isn’t like majority of my updates, everything is all over the place. and the vibes r off :( how are you doing alice? you mentioned you’re moving that’s exciting! is the place nice?? give me some updates girl i miss you!!

yours truly - 🎀

PLEASEEE 😭😭 i support you but also don't let him play you queen 😞🙏 i totally get the old flame reigniting type of crush tho it's so easy to fall back on the familiarity too :') i think also having a lot of good memories with someone makes it easier to keep thinking about those and looking forward to more 🤧

CAMERON??: 🙅‍♀️ NOOO also what the fuck?? what a dick :/ that is such a terrible thing to say intoxicated or not i absolutely HATEE when men just throw around derogatory words and put women down 😭 and i hope you told him off bestie, and if you didn't then i support going off on him whenever you want (or just ghosting for your mental health!!!) 🙏

it's always hard to leave home 🥹🥹 it feels so bittersweet cause you're excited about being on your own and living independently but it also feels like you're leaving behind the safety net :(( also GOD time to turn that trio into a duo cause why does he put down his ex and treat you guys like that?? :(

yes i love hearing from you so i'm glad we established the little pen pal communication 🥹🥹 but no i totally understand, i fall out a little too when life gets too busy :') but it's nice that kpop is something you can always come back to whenever you want (even if it feels like you're missing a lot of context since the industry is growing fast HAHAH)

the almost quarter life crisis is so real 🤧 i experience birthday sadness like every year even if i'm having a really good time <//3 it's just the fear of growing up and life changing as you take on more responsibilities, but you're not alone!! i hope that offers some comfort but we're all in the same boat struggling to feel like adults 💝💝

but yes the move is all done and the place is really nice !!! i've been meeting a lot of my neighbors and they're all very sweet and friendly, so it feels like a very supportive community 🥹 i've currently been deep in a reading phase so i've just been stalking goodreads like whenever i have free time 😭 i've also been talking to someone !! since like ?? november i think but omg my flight instincts are kicking in so bad i've been fighting the urge to ghost since december bc i'm so nervous ab this stuff 🏃‍♂️ like i'm just a girl omg....... but other than that i've been meeting up with friends and having a good time 🥰 OH and i Might go to coachella but we'll see because tickets are kinda..... ☹️ my wallet's gonna die and i wanna see svt this year sooo

currently my little project is this seungkwan harry potter fic that i started in december 🤧 but my goddd it's at 20k words and i'm barely a third of the way through <//3 but it's been fun to write!! so i hope i don't run out of fuel when i'm done HAHAH but i hope you've been doing well love !! 🫶🫶

#asks #🎀 anon

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Y.O.D here signing on,

If you’re all unaware, there is a reddit user by the tag of u/DropWatcher that compiles a list of hip hop related content that drops approximately every week. While r/hiphopheads has arguably fallen off in terms of actual discussion, these weekly drops are a fantastic way to view new and upcoming talent, or maybe there’s a drop from your favorite artist you missed because it’s not on streaming! These threads are simply a godsend, and this account deserves all the praise in the world.

When I was originally writing this post, it was last week, and the biggest drops of the week were a JID freestyle and a surprise album from The Game. In that span, we've gotten drops from the likes of 21 Savage, Kid Cudi, Boldy James, Bruiser Wolf, and a Lil Nas X single. My ass is slacking, but I can't let procrastination get another dub, so we stay grinding.

We are so fucking back.

JID - 30 (Freestyle)

Listen, when I hear that Conductor tag, I have to lock the fuck in. Conductor Williams broke through 2023 with some major placements for Drake with a few tracks off of For All The Dogs and it’s ensuing Scary Hours edition (8AM in Charlotte, Stories About My Brother) on top of his regularly scheduled tracks with Westside Gunn (Suicide in Selfridges, The Revenge of Flips Leg). These productions were the most prolific among a busy year that included collaborations with the likes of Rome Streetz, Little Brother, and a full fledged EP with Conway the Machine. I say all this to outline how quickly his demand is rising in comparison to where he was a few years ago, where he described himself in 2016 as “eating shit” for about 2 years in this video regarding his music placements. Now he’s here working with Christo (An underrated producer in his own part) and Tane Runo to lay beats down for JID, a superstar further asserting his prowess with this freestyle.

For those not yet aware of JID, I'm sorry to say you're lying. A top 5 Billboard 100 hit in Enemy with Imagine Dragons (derogatory) and his critically acclaimed "The Forever Story" highlight his ever growing career, and if this single is anything to go by, his momentum isn't stopping anytime soon. His braggadocios bars aren't anything particularly special for the Atlanta native, but he still sounds as hungry as ever, especially towards the latter half of the track. He's set the stage for a huge year with an upcoming feature on Lyrical Lemonade's ALL IS YELLOW compilation album (dropping Jan. 26th) and Forever & A Day, an album previously teased on his Instagram Live. While he states in this live that the album would drop "coming fall time," this live was made at the end of August of last year. Whether it will drop remains to be seen, but for now, we can enjoy him talking his shit over this funky, bass-laden beat.

The Game & Big Hit - Paisley Dreams

This highlight is a little different, as I don't necessarily think this is a great project for either artist. I showcase this project more so to put eyes on Big-Hit, the previously incarcerated father of producer Hit-Boy, who's fresh off a 6 album run with Nas, my personal pick for the greatest rapper of all time. The King's Disease and Magic trilogies are some of the best work Nas has put out in his 34-year long career, largely due to the variety of beats Hit-Boy put him on. Without diverting too much from my main objective here, I wanted to highlight the insane work ethic of the 36-year old California native who managed to produce, among other projects:

The final installments of the Magic trilogy with Magic 2 and Magic 3

Two solo albums, one that features his father heavily

A few singles for artists like Benny the Butcher and Rapsody

The one I wanted to draw more eyes on, however, is his work with Big-Hit on his debut solo project, The Truth Is In My Eyes. With respect to Paisley Dreams, TTIIME (get used to nonsensical acronyms) is a much better showcase for Big-Hit, who still sounds quite nice for being in prison for 30 years. He clearly didn't stop writing even in prison, and he's able to hang in with a cast of solid features and guest producers (Snoop Dogg, Benny the Butcher, The Alchemist). In comparison to Paisley Dreams, Big-Hit is content leaning into an aggressive delivery, trading lyrical depth to become an energetic foil to The Game. The Game can still pack a few punches with his lines, "I keep a blower, Nintendo cartridge" is the only instance I've heard someone spit this bar. Considering this tape was supposedly conceived in an entire night, it's an impressive flex for all artists involved.

Da Flyy Hooligan & Wun Two - Nocturnal Hooli Vol. 1

A small, yet grimy EP from two artists I was either barely or not familiar with at all. You may recognize Wun Two from their collaboration tape with Conway the Machine last year, a small addition to an extensive list of drops from the Buffalo native. I certainly didn't recognize Da Flyy Hooligan, however, and I have to apologize for not being familiar with your game. He's actually had a few tracks with Griselda affiliates on some previous tracks of his, including Keisha Plum, Camouflage Monk, and the Flygod himself. You can give them a listen on his tape Hooli Hansen -0 Da Mixxxtape. I don't particularly fuck with the U.K's rap talent, but Hooli (can I call him that?) showcases his storytelling abilities specifically on the tracks Lifechecc and Exzhibit. Combined with Wun Two's signature haunting production, which I can only describe as lo-fi Griseldacore, it all comes together for a neat little project. If you're a fan of any Griselda adjacent projects, this is definitely worth your time.

Nicholas Craven & Boldy James - Penalty of Leadership

Ever since I discovered the fantastic Manger on McNichols late last year, I've been craving for Boldy James to drop, especially after a relatively quiet 2023 by his standards. It's entirely understandable, however, as he was still quite fresh from a car crash that required extensive neck surgery. Three days removed from the anniversary of that car crash, he dropped his second collaboration album with Nicholas Craven, who stated he was recording his verses as early as 5 days after being discharged from the hospital. Needless to say, his work ethic is fucking inhuman, and he's still spitting some of his slickest bars to date over Craven's signature drumless loops.

Browsing a few music sites, you might find a little criticism for the simplistic loops that Craven seems comfortable sticking with, but I've always enjoyed the unique samples he seems to dig up. Jack Frost is probably my favorite example of this, as it puts Boldy over an upbeat, 70's sounding beat that emphasizes the strings and vocals to craft a catchy track, setting up the album well for what's to come. Boldy himself sounds a little deeper then previous efforts, but it's easy enough to attribute that to his injury and growing age (he's 41 what the fuck!!!). It doesn't affect his actual rapping abilities in the slightest, however, and he still maintains a smooth flow across the project while spitting about his daughter getting good grades in the middle of a coke rap track. Favorites off this album have to be Straight As, Evil Genius, All My Tokens (that guitar fucking hits), No Pun Intended, and the aforementioned Jack Frost. A worthwhile project from both artists.

Lil Nas X - J CHRIST

Every day Lil Nas X succeeds is a day we collectively continue to win as a people. He literally recreated Jesus crossing up the devil, what more could you want in a music video?!

Dave East could never.

In all seriousness though, I'm not crazy about the track. It's a fine comeback track, but the HUMBLE piano doesn't do it for me, and I'd like to see LNX pop off with a different soundscape every once in awhile. It's not my favorite hook either, and it's not the most lyrically verbose track, but it's a catchy single, who am I to expect a masterpiece? Hoping an album announcement is on the way, Montero was a great project and I'd love to see what else he has in store!

I'll post tomorrow about 21 Savage, Bruiser Wolf, and Kid Cudi after I digest their projects more, because I admittedly only had 2 Bad on repeat this entire weekend. Sorry to say, but song of the fucking century. Bruiser Wolf on top. Your favorite could never. GGs to everyone for trying.

Y.O.D, goin crazy on the pole, bipolar...BRUISER

#hip hop #boldy james #jid #conductor williams #bruiser wolf #the game #big hit #hit boy #da flyy hooligan #wun two #nicholas craven #i forgot to put boldy and craven together LMAO #dave east you bitch #lil nas x

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eienshi09 · 1 year ago

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Regardless of whether the allegations against Kurvitz are true, it's wild to think that two business majors (derogatory) who had to resort to some pretty shady dealings to gain control of the company would have the best interests of the IP and the workers in mind. Like, yea auteur theory is a load of shit but you know what also doesn't produce good art? An upper management team that's going to try to milk every last cent out of an IP. At best, you'll get a game that's been watered down in an attempt to appeal the a wider audience. At worst? Well, I honestly can't say cause every time I think this industry has reached its lowest, it manages to pull out some new bullshit.

I hope I'm wrong. And especially, I hope the staff at ZA/UM well despite their corporatist owners, but let's just say my expectations are not high for the studio's next work.

it still blows my mind ghat like. de was intended to be just an intro to elysium. and yet its still so detailed and full with heart the full way throigh. can you imagine what we couldve seen if theu didnt get kicked out of their own company. fuck copyright law how could you possibly think it protects creators

#eien plays #disco elysium

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amarakaran · 2 years ago

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are you a finance major?

nah i'm a computer science major, but i need to take finance for my degree.

#either way i'm a business major (derogatory)#asks #anonymous

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woozi · 3 years ago

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ah no i'm in sixth form so this is for my A levels! i take chemistry, maths, psychology and computer science, but rn i've only got exams in chemistry and maths luckily. i'm looking to major in compsci though!! you're in uni right yza my love?? what's your major 👀

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NOW I FEEL LIKE A HAG 😭😭😭

#you are all so young omg #and thats good omg i hope they dont burden you too much #ALSO COMPSCI THATS SOOOOOO SEXY OF U </3 #i'm.......... a business major (derogatory)#i used to be a film major but i shifted out a year in #i've always wanted to pursue the arts but like........ during then i didn't think it'd be profitable (im the eldest sister so 😗)#but i've never been more wrong lmaooo look at what happened since covid hit 😭 + we're becoming more tech reliant each day #and they all need creatives #so thats kinda 😐 for me JKFDKJDFJKDF #eyebrow king #👀👜 anon 💍 era #👀👜 anon #anon #y.ask

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randomshyperson · 3 years ago

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The Scarlet Witch Prophecy - Chapter 13 - The Sixth Year (Part Three)

My dear friend @abimess, I keep stealing your gifs and making updates without telling you. I hope you never get tired of it.

Summary: As the youngest daughter of Howard Stark, you have ordinary expectations for your years at Hogwarts. Little do you know what adventures await you when your destiny is intertwined with the legendary Scarlet Witch.

Warnings: +16. Adaptation of the Harry Potter Saga, Magical Thematic, Prophecies, Mentions of Violence, Torture and dark magic, Language (swearing and minor/major offenses), manipulation of will, Underage kissing, insinuation of smut with minors, Smut (overage), descriptions of death, aggression, obscurity, angst, fluffy, soulmates analogies. || Chapter Warnings: Magical torture with minors, cursing, angst, ptsd, derogatory thoughts and behavior, dark magic.

Chapter Words: 8.486 K

A/N> Yes, I've gone for a month without warning anyone, and yes that might go on, but at least i'm near ending this (I'm already writing chapter 21). Once I'm finished, I'll just programe tumblr to upload them all for me because i'm lazy. I hope anyone like this yet, i don't even know what i'm doing anymore. Good reading!

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Chapter 13 - Part XIII - The Sixth Year (Part Three)

Gossip really starts to irritate you when you go to lunch after potions.

"You want to say something to me, girl?" You charge impatiently when you hear the giggles behind you again, coming from a group of students sitting at Ravenclaw's table.

The group turns around with wry smiles on their faces, and you notice the editions of the Daily Prophet in the hand of one of the boys. It is Hope Summers, your classmate, who speaks first:

"We're just sharing some theories, Stark." She says in a provocative tone. "Some of us find it an interesting coincidence that just now that Mephisto is back, you and Maximoff are losing control of magic."

You frown.

"What are you talking about?" you ask in surprise, referring to Wanda, but Hope thinks you want her to keep mocking you.

"It's just suspicious that no one knows what happened to you in that dungeon, or at the ministry of magic." Hope counters. "And now you two are blowing things up, and we have a dark wizard on the loose."

"Fuck you, Summmers." You curse as you stand up, leaving the girl in shock at your aggressiveness.

The same auror from the first day stands in front of you as you try to approach Slytherin's table.

"Students must respect..."

But you interrupted his speech with a loud shove that sent him staggering backwards, and drew the immediate attention of several people.

You were seeing red by now, the man's wry smile only making you more irritated.

He drew his wand, but so did you. And the room held its breath.

"Put your wand away, Miss Stark." Warned the auror angrily, but you didn't.

Wanda stood up as she noticed the confusion, rushing to reach you, but the auror put his arm in her way.

"Now, miss." He warned again, and you grunted in irritation.

"Get your hands off her." You retorted, feeling your body fever with hatred.

"Stark." The man said, his arm reaching down to push Wanda back, and you exploded.

You didn't even finish thinking about the spell, the magic exploding out of your wand.

The auror masterfully blocked it, and you dropped your wand to jump on top of him.

It was a confusion of shoving, other bigger students pulling you away from the man and he away from you.

" Never fucking touch her again!" You warned snorting in anger, Thor Odinson stopping you from jumping on the man's neck.

"I just pushed her away from the line of fire, you crazy bitch!" The auror retorted indignantly and angrily. "Go to the headmaster's office now!"

"Fuck you!"

Thor pulled you out of the hall as the crowd of students whistled in celebration, excited about the whole fight. The auror was too busy dissipating everyone to follow you.

"Hey, hothead, calm down." The blonde warned as he released the grip of you by the courtyard. You grunted angrily, wishing you could break something.

"Fuck this school, fuck that asshole." You complained aloud, as Thor looked at you curiously.

"You have quite a rage, Stark." He comments, and you grumble in irritation.

But Wanda catches up with you the next moment, and she looks even angrier than you.

"What the hell was that?" she asks and you roll your eyes, running your hands through your hair.

"I think you are going to be fine for now on." Thor comments, smiling at the thank you Wanda says to him before leaving you two alone.

"So?" Wanda insists, arms crossed. You bite the inside of your cheek as you look at her.

"What do you want me to say?" You retort angrily.

"You just started a fight for no reason! Again!" She accuses. "Only this time it was with a wizard who could kill you. I want to know what's going on!"

"I don't know, Wanda!" You exclaim angrily. "Why does everyone expect me to have answers? I don't know! Do you understand that? It feels like I'm going to explode in frustration any second, neither you or Gamora seem to get it. I don't understand what's happening to me!"

"Because you won't talk to us!" She shouts back, just as annoyed as you are. "You're pushing everyone away! Even me! We can't help you if you don't talk to us!"

You grunt impatiently, turning around. There was a strange throbbing in the back of your head, a strange whisper. Like a voice telling you that no one was telling you the truth, that your friends expected too much of you, that Wanda didn't care...

This last thought made you sob. Wanda softened her expression immediately, taking a step toward you and touching your shoulder, but you pulled away from her touch as if burned, wiping your tears away quickly.

"Leave me alone, Wanda." You mutter between teeth. She hesitates, raising her hand toward you again.

"Please."

"I need some time from you." You insist, pushing her hand away, and walking away.

A part of your brain is begging you to go back and make things right, but there is a cloud of anger and irritation that keeps you walking.

//-//-//-//-//

You roll over in bed in discomfort.

Nightmares. Again.

It has only been five days since you had your fight with Wanda, and you are getting worse every day.

With Summers' teasing, you end up noticing other things too.

How the school really found the theory that you and Wanda were somehow related to Mephisto, because the minister had covered up what happened in the dungeons and in the ministry, and everybody thought it was strange that two students were showing an increase in magical potential with the return of a dark wizard.

Unlike you, who were failing considerably in any simple execution of spells, Wanda was demonstrating exceptional abilities. Kaecilius was more than willing to make her the face of progress at Hogwarts, you heard the gossip about bringing in reporters to share the news of the new direction.

You know that the only reason Wanda hasn't come after you yet was because you're running away from her like the plague.

And you couldn't even explain why.

You were also blocking out your real health condition from her. Just like you two practiced during the summer.

Besides hiding this from Wanda, you have kept your friends away too, isolating yourself from everyone else in search of a little rest, only succeeding in taking a nap when you are running away between classes.

And the detentions with Kaecilius keep increasing as you skip classes.

You begin to consider learning to write with a different hand, just so the bruise has time to heal, but at this point you don't even care about the scar anymore.

"You really must like pain." Loki teases wryly as you sit in an empty room, waiting for the aurors' shift change again after your detention.

You don't ask him what he's doing on that floor again, and he doesn't ask why you haven't spoken to your friends in two weeks.

"Sure, that must be it." You joke back, massaging your injured hand.

He assumes a pensive expression for a second.

"Are you sure you haven't been cursed by someone?" He asks, causing you to frown in shock and confusion.

"Excuse me?"

He gives a little chuckle, settling himself better against the wall.

"Everyone's been talking about you being sick." He says. "I heard some of the Ravenclaw people theorize that you became a werewolf over the summer."

You laugh helplessly, massaging your temples lightly.

"I guarantee that's not it." You say making Loki smile.

"If you are sick for no reason, it could be a curse." He says. "I wouldn't be surprised, the way things are."

"But how do I find out if I've been cursed?"

Loki takes a thoughtful stance.

"I don't know." He says. "But I'm sure you can learn that in the no longer reserved session of the library."

You laugh at the joke, but soon you both return to silence. When that hallway's shift ends, Loki sighs, getting up and helping you to stand.

"Still can't perform spells?" He asks, already drawing his wand.

"Only if I want to blow things up." You scoff making him laugh.

"Fine, I'll enchant you." He says. When you are transparent, he looks at you with an amused expression. "See you next Saturday, troublemaker?

"Don't worry, I plan on skipping DADA, maybe I'll be here tomorrow." You retort in the same tone before turning to leave.

//-////-//-//-//-//

It takes three more days for Wanda to finally corner you.

You are skipping class in an empty room on the seventh floor, trying to doze off, and almost fall out of your chair with fright when the door opens and Wanda comes in, looking annoyed.

You grunt impatiently, without lifting your face from the desk.

"I told you I needed time." You complain, but tense up when you notice the tears in her eyes as she moves closer to sit at the table next to yours.

" You want to break up with me?" She asks in a whisper and you raise your head immediately, feeling your chest tighten.

"What? What are you talking about?"

Wanda gives a humorless laugh at your expression. "Why are you acting like this is an absurd idea? You've disappeared. You've been avoiding me, not even talking to me anymore."

You shake your head quickly, feeling the urge to cry.

"I don't want to break up with you." You say. "I..I would never want to be away from you."

"You just said you need time away from me." Wanda retorts with annoyance, and you feel your stomach clench as she sighs. "I don't know what's going on with us. And I miss you, but you won't let me near you."

You are exhausted. So you cry.

You rest your head on your arms, and let your sobs fill the silence, hoping that the tears will take this bad feeling away.

It's Wanda's gentle touch on your back that helps.

"Babe, tell me what's wrong." She whispers to you, her tone concerned.

It takes many minutes for you to calm down. But when you do, Wanda holds your hand, kneeling on the floor beside the chair you are in.

"I can't do magic." You breathlessly tell her from crying, "And I can't sleep. I've been sick for weeks, and I'm angry all the time. Healer Cho doesn't know what's wrong with me, but everyone at school seems to have a theory about it. I think I'm going to suffocate, Wanda. I'm messing everything up. Between us, between my family, and at school." You sob as you finish and Wanda shakes her head, her hand coming up to your cheek.

"Don't say that." She urges. "You didn't ruin anything. Hey, look at me. I love you. Your sisters love you, your friends love you. We'll figure out what's going on."

Wanda hugs you tight, and you sob, shaking.

You want to believe her words, so you push the intrusive thoughts away, and believe it.

//-//-//-//

Wanda takes you to a door in that same floor you two were before, but you have never seen that door until that moment.

And you are very surprised to realize that it is a bedroom.

"How...?" You ask confused as she closes the it.

"Welcome to the Room of Requirement." She says with a smile, pulling you by the hand around. "We hold our Avengers meetings here." She counters and you frown.

"In a bedroom? Interesting choice." You comment and she giggles.

"No, my love." She says. "That's how this room works. It is charmed to meet your needs. That's why I asked you to come in first."

"Oh, that's pretty cool." You say looking around. Wanda smiles at you, and then you both reach the bed. "The room thinks I have to sleep?"

"I do too." Wanda retorts, pushing your shoulders gently for you to sit on the bed. "Go on, nice dreams."

You hesitate. "You gonna leave me here alone?"

Wanda denies with her head, pointing to the chair that probably just magically appeared next to the bed. You frown.

"Can't you sleep in the bed with me?"

She giggles. "We don't have much time for you to sleep. If I lie down, you'll want to kiss me. So I'll be sitting in that armchair, studying as I should." She explains seriously, and you pout.

"Stupid rules." You grumble moving your hands up to her waist. "Lie down with me."

"Babe..."

"Please."

Wanda sighs, then nods. You smile, quickly removing your shoes as she does the same. You quickly adjust yourself on the bed, opening your arms for her to lie on top of you, and she gives a little giggle before doing so.

"Are you cozy, sweetheart?" You murmur against her hair, and Wanda squeezes her arms around you.

"Yeah, your boobs are good pillows." She teases, making you laugh with reddened cheeks.

Your eyes begin to heavy quickly, fatigue catching up with your body relaxed by the comfort of the moment.

"Go to sleep, babe." Wanda whispers. "I'll be here when you wake up."

You smile with your eyes closed, surrendering.

It's the best sleep you've had in weeks.

The problem is that as soon as you start to wake up again, you are feeling sick.

You touch the emptiness in the bed, mumbling softly. When you open your eyes you find Wanda sitting in the armchair, the darkhold in her lap.

"Damn it, Wanda, this book again." You complain in a hoarse voice, but she just sighs.

"Why the attitude?"

"I hate that book." You grumble sitting up in bed, massaging your face lightly. "Why do you keep reading it anyway?"

"It's interesting." She says, closing the item to look at you. "Agatha really told me a lot, but there are also things I didn't know."

"For example?"

Wanda bites her lips, appraising you.

"Scarlet witches are forged, for instance." She says and you frown in confusion. Wanda sighs. "Many powerful witches, born scarlet witches, never got to fulfill their destiny because the forging didn't happen."

You straighten your clothes uncomfortably, pensively.

"What exactly does that mean?"

"What the headmistress did last year was my forging." She clarifies and you swallow dryly, feeling your stomach turn. "I'm sorry."

"For what?" you ask confused.

"Everything." She says upset. "I know we've talked about this, but it seems like all I do is cause you problems. With the bond, and with the forge. If Agatha didn't want my powers, she wouldn't have taken you to the dungeon and you wouldn't have suffered."

You poke at the knot of your tie, feeling yourself suffocate slightly. Wanda is speaking, you blink to focus on her words.

"I'm sorry, could you say that again?" You ask out of breath, sweating. You blink to find Wanda's concerned gaze on you.

"Babe, what's wrong?" She asks worriedly, her hands around your face.

You feel your head spin, and everything goes dark before you can answer.

//-//-//-//

You smell the scent of grass when you wake up.

Then you blink in confusion, getting used to your surroundings to realize that you are in what looks like a ward bed.

"Hey, all right, take it easy getting up, Miss Stark." Asked Professor Strange with one hand on her shoulder. In the other he held a potion that you imagined he had given you.

"W-what happened?" you mumbled confusedly, sitting up in bed. Only now did you notice Professor Munroe and Wanda standing in front of the bed, both with worried expressions.

"You passed out, but you're better now I imagine." Stephen explained gently, but you were still feeling very weak.

"Professor, she simply blacked out." Wanda commented in a tearful voice. " Don't you have any idea what's wrong?"

Stephen sighed, and then pointed at the chair, the darkhold.

"Where did you get that book?" He asked, and Wanda frowned, taking a step toward the chair in a defensive posture.

"What does that have to do with my question?" she retorted dryly, and Stephen looked at you one last time before standing up.

"There's a reason it's called the Book of the Damned, Miss Maximoff." He says."It damns its readers."

"That's ridiculous." Wanda retorted, crossing her arms. "I've been reading it for weeks and nothing has happened."

"Not with you."

Wanda hesitates, widening her eyes. And then she takes a step back, swallowing her cry as she reaches out to grab the book and hand it to Stephen.

She turns her gaze back to you, and lets the tears fall.

"I am truly sorry." She says with a mixture of guilt and shame before turning to leave the room.

You call out to her about three times, but she leaves and you don't have the strength to go after her.

"Damn, couldn't I have said that in a different way?" You complain angrily to Stephen, who just sighs, exchanging a look with Professor Munroe. "How come you two are here anyway?"

"It was Wanda." Professor Ororo replies. "She asked the room for someone trustworthy to help her with you. Then there was a door opening in the potions room. Stephen was there with me, and we both came."

"Great." You mutter annoyed, thinking about how you are going to talk to Wanda and convince her that you were not angry with her. "Would either of you happen to know how to make me better now?"

"Sure." Stephen comments by raising the book in the air, and with a wave of his hand, the item dissolves into several pieces until it is gone. "I didn't destroy it, if that's what you're thinking. I just put it away, to prevent something like that from happening again."

"Congratulations." You grumble wryly as you straighten up in bed, the same migraine from before is now weaker, but it's still there.

"You know, you had a better attitude when you didn't have a magical doom on your spirit." Stephen complains, causing you to frown, but Professor Ororo gives a chuckle.

"Thanks professor." You comment wryly, making him laugh. He sits back down beside your bed, and pulls out of the cover a small notebook.

"Now that Miss Maximoff has stopped reading the book, I suppose you will get better." Stephen says, making you sigh.

"You suppose? That's encouraging." You say moving to stand up.

"Where are you going, Miss Stark? You need to rest." Warn the professor, but you ignore him, and ignore the weakness in your body as well.

"What I need, Strange, is for people to stop lying to me."

"No one is lying, Miss Stark." Professor Ororo states next. "We really don't know the extent of the magic the darkhold carries."

"And why is that I imagine?" You sneer. "Because someone omitted the truth from you, and it's been passed down for generations, isn't it? Well, that's over now. Because we've finally studied everything in this place, including a book that condemns anyone who reads it." You exclaim impatiently, stooping down to put on your shoes. "If you two will excuse me, I'll figure out how to get better on my own. But first I'm going to explain to my girlfriend that none of this is her fault."

Ororo and Stephen are silent, but you wouldn't have been paying attention to anything they said anyway.

Soon you are up and out of the requirement room looking for Wanda.

//-//-//-//

She seems to have disappeared from the castle, so you must concentrate to use your instincts.

The hardest part is dodging the aurors, but you finally reach the astronomy tower.

You're a little out of breath from the run, but it's the image of Wanda standing on the edge, the sunlight in her hair that leaves you breathless.

"Hi." You say in a low tone, your hands in your pockets as you approach. She startles slightly, wiping away tears as she keeps her gaze forward.

"What do you want here?" she asks in a husky voice. You sigh.

"That you stop hating yourself and listen to me." You say and she lets out a short laugh.

"And what do you think you can say?" She questions turning her body toward you. "All I do is hurt you."

You shake your head, but Wanda lets out a tearful laugh.

"No you don't understand." She says. "Since I met you, you have only brought me good things. Affection, happiness, hope. You've been that kind warm feeling that I need on my worst days. Hell, you're even the memory for me to cast a patronus." She confesses with emotion, her face wet with tears. "But me? All I bring you is pain and suffering. And now I even bring sickness. This is wrong, I hurt you. You need to see this, and understand that we can no longer happen."

"Don't say that." You ask, reaching up to touch her face, wipe away her tears. "That's not true, Wanda. I love you, you make me..."

"Stop it." She interrupts with a sob. "Don't make it any harder than it already is."

"Please, Wanda, listen to me." You plead, resting your forehead on hers, your hands on her cheeks. "You make me happy, you are the only thing that makes me happy, I love you, please..."

Wanda kisses you hard, and you respond with the same intensity, both of you gasping into each other's mouths.

But then she is pulling away, thrusting you farther apart.

"I'm sorry." She cries, taking a step back. "We're over."

And she's running away again, and this time you don't go after her.

//-//-//-//-//

Without Darkhold's being consumed, you really start to improve in terms of physical health.

The only problem is the emotional ditch you find yourself in.

Gamora, Nebula and Mantis find you, again in the Room of Requirement, skipping class.

"My god this is worse than last time." Gamora remarks as she looks around at the mess of junk food and pillows. The room had been transformed into a "comfortable place", which basically had the appearance of a living room, with several soft armchairs, and lots of unhealthy food. "Why did you guys break up this time?"

"Please don't talk to me." You grumbled, your voice coming out muffled because you were lying on two soft puffs, your face buried in the pillow, your hand inside a bag of muggles snacks.

"I bet you five bucks they'll be back together before the end of the month." Nebula commented and you sniffled against your pillow, hearing a noise that sounded like Gamora hitting her sister.

"We talked to Wanda." Mantis said. "And with Professor Stephen, too. We're sorry about everything, but have you decided you're not going to study anymore?"

"I don't care about school." You grumble against the pillow. "Leave me alone, I want to cry."

Nebula gives a short laugh, and Gamora elbows her.

"Stop hitting me, you crazy." Nebula complains loudly, moving away from her sister to approach you, taking the bag of snacks you have, and making you complain softly. "And you stop being such a drama queen. Aren't you two like soul mates or some shit? It's just a fight, you'll work it out. You're acting like you've never broken up before."

"Your sensitivity is admirable." Gamora scoffs, pushing her sister away to sit next to you, stroking your back until you look up at her. "Do you want to talk about what happened?"

You feel the urge to cry arise again. "Wanda thinks she is bad for me." You say. "And she doesn't want to be with me anymore, and I want to die."

You start crying again, stuffing your face into the pillow as Gamora strokes your hair.

"How did this happen anyway?" Nebula asks, confused, chewing on salty snacks."You barely slept at home over the summer to be with her, and now you guys are breaking up. It's hard to keep up with this relationship."

"Merlin, Nebula shut up." Gamora asks impatiently, and her sister raises her hands in surrender with an ironic expression. You want to scream against your pillow, but all you do is try to control your crying.

"You can't keep disappearing, sweetheart." Gamora says as she runs her hands through your hair, trying to calm you down. "Kaecilius has already noticed. He's trying to figure out where you're going, and eventually he'll figure it out since you can't stay here forever."

"Maybe I can." You mumble making Gamora laugh softly.

"Come on, I'm sure you miss a decent meal." She says. "Why don't you join us for lunch?"

"I can't sit at your table."

"Who said anything about a table?"

This is how you end up on the edge of the great lake, at a picnic.

Mantis gets several dishes from the house elves, and since lunch is a free social hour, nobody seems to mind that you are eating outside.

Your sisters are not the only students who, over time, have learned ways around school rules.

You grumble slightly as you feel the sun on your face, but lie back on the grass, closing your eyes.

Your mind wanders back to last summer immediately, the memories of Wanda, and you feel horrible. You just want her back. And then you swallow the urge to cry again to accept the juice Mantis offers you.

"We wanted to tell you that we've found a way to help you, too." Gamora says after a moment, causing you to raise your eyebrow. "About the darkhold, and the eternal damnation thing."

"Light topic." You sneer, throwing your arm over your face. The day is hot. "I appreciate the help, of course."

Gamora giggles. "Merlin, I had forgotten how grumpy you get when you're upset."

"I'm not upset, Gamora." You retort angrily. "I'm frustrated."

"Sexually." Nebula sneers, making you grunt in anger, but Mantis holds back a laugh.

"What's your problem with my feelings lately?" You accuse the girl with irritation.

"Not everything is about you, you know." She retorts and you sit up quickly, looking at her with a raised eyebrow.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

Nebula laughs, rolling her eyes. "In case you haven't noticed, there's a war going on." She says. "We're all stressed and scared. And the three of us have been in the same classes as you, having to watch the same things. But you only have time for Wanda. And now you've broken up, again, because there's some mortal danger, again, that she's caused for you. So, I don't know, but maybe she is right to break up. Ever since you guys started dating everything has been about her, and the trouble she causes!"

"Fuck you, Nebula!" You exclaim angrily, advancing against the girl in front of you. Gamora and Mantis quickly separate you.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Gamora shoves you. "Were you really going to hit her?"

"Fuck this." You curse angrily, taking a step away. "I didn't ask any of you to come after me. I don't need you. I just need Wanda. Fucking leave me alone."

You turn back to the castle, cursing the wild on your way.

//-//-//-//

Loki is the only friend you have now.

You wouldn't call him a friend exactly.

Kaecilius has put you in detention for three days a week, including Saturday, but mostly you just clean the castle. But when he takes you to the seventh floor, and makes you scrape sentences against your own skin, you don't worry about being alone anymore, because Loki is always on that floor.

It takes a week for you to tell him about the requirement room.

" You could have mentioned it earlier, we would have stuck around here." He comments without sounding upset.

Soon it doesn't take long for you two to start seeing each other even when you're not in detention.

You are not surprised that Loki also skips classes, he has always been quite mischievous, but the reason is different from yours.

He knew dark magic. Much more than you or your classmates. And he has no interest in practicing it in class.

"It's stupid." He comments as you are sitting in the armchairs. "Most people will never have the courage or willpower to cast a death curse. It's useless to learn."

"Is that the only reason you don't agree with the teaching at Hogwarts now?" You ask in surprise, setting up the chessboard for yourself as Loki shrugs his shoulders.

"I feel like you're judging me, Hufflepuff." He sneers but you smile, rolling your eyes.

"Honestly, I don't give a damn."

And you really didn't care.

Wanda was avoiding you in the halls, and you were doing the same with your friends and family.

When Iron delivered the mail to the Slytherin table, including Nebula's birthday presents, you wanted to throw up, but all you did was walk away from the Hufflepuff table toward the requirement room.

Without the darkhold, you didn't feel sick, but the anger didn't go away.

Your magic hadn't stabilized, and you were failing at everything, but you couldn't bring yourself to worry about it.

Erik wrote to you, commenting on the importance of you and Wanda practicing magical balancing together, and you burned the letter while crying on the carpet.

And at this rate, time went by.

It was almost the middle of the school year when things started to take a turn for the worse at Hogwarts, and in the wizarding war as well.

Mephisto is getting stronger, and the order is losing. And Kaecillius must be under some pressure from the ministry, maybe for answers from organizations like the Avengers, which are forbidden, because his detentions get too horrible.

It is Saturday again, and you drag yourself to the room where you are supposed to fulfill your detention, but unlike the other days, Kaecillius locks the door.

You only notice because he seems tense and distracted, and there is no feather or book.

"Professor, what will my punishment be today?" You ask confused, and he is nodding to the center of the room as he stands in front of the desk, a few feet from you.

"Miss Stark, today I want to ask some questions and I expect honesty." He declines as he turns to you.

You hiss softly, putting your hands in your pockets.

"Shoot."

Kaecillius doesn't even mind your lack of formality, looking at you with an impassive face.

"What is Mephisto's location?"

You choke in surprise and disbelief. "Excuse me? Why do you think I know that?"

"The ministry has reason enough to suspect that the Order of the Avengers is nothing more than a cover for the death walkers.Your brother, whom I had suspected of being part of that order of delinquents, is no longer at Hogwarts, but you will have to serve." He speaks and with each word you become more outraged. "Now answer me, where is Mephisto?"

" Did you just fucking call my brother a delinquent?" You mutter incredulously. "I have no idea where Mephisto is, what's your problem?"

But you widen your eyes when the professor draws his wand, and you barely have time to swallow dry before the spell hits you in the chest.

It's the cruciatus curse. You know the second it hits you. The sharp pain fills every cell in your body and you scream, not having the strength to stand or with your eyes open, hugging yourself.

"We must not tell lies, Miss Stark." Kaecillius says as soon as he stops enchanting you, the pain disappears in the same instant, but you continue to tremble.

In complete shock and fear, you sob.

"I will ask you again, where is Mephisto?"

You let the tears flow, and shake your head. "I don't know, professor."

Kaecillius lets out a sigh of disappointment. "Some cases are more difficult than others." He comments somberly, taking a step toward her. "Did you know that the record for enduring the Cruciatus curse before madness is six hours? Incredible, isn't it? It happened during the first war, with a muggleborn. You're a half-blood, maybe you can take longer"

He has a devilish grin as he finishes, and you clench your jaw at the threat.

"I don't know where Mephisto is." You repeat, but the professor points his wand at you again.

"My bet is seven hours."

And then the pain returns.

You don't know how long you stay in that room.

But it is long enough for your consciousness to begin to fade. The pain gets so severe that it gradually fades away. You begin to gasp breathlessly, not even able to scream anymore.

Someone help me. Please, help me. Help me. Wanda.

Between the tears you see the floor of the room, and between a twinge of pain, a red light. And everything is dark again.

//-//-//

“Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Warcraft and Wizard is arrested in flagrant by aurors from the ministry of magic this week, full coverage on page..."

You blink confusedly, your eyes getting used to the clarity, while the headline of the Daily Prophet was the first thing your vision caught.

And then you shifted in bed, realizing that you were in a hospital room , and whoever was reading next to you put the paper down when they heard you, and you could behold the curious look on your brother's face.

"Tony?" you whispered confused, and he smiled as he stood up quickly, the newspaper forgotten on the armchair.

"Hey, how are you feeling?" He asked as his hand reached for the loose strands of hair on your face and put them back. "You scared the hell out of me."

"What happened?"

"What's the last thing you remember?"

You thought, and then sighed, closing your eyes for a moment.

"Kaecilius."

Tony bit his lip nervously before speaking.

"I'm sorry." He said, lowering his hand to his own. "I came here as soon as I got the howler from Professor Strange, but honestly, I didn't even need it, because all the newspapers are talking about it."

"What...?" You started in confusion, but Tony hurried to explain.

"Wanda found you, Y/N." He told. "She, well, wasn't exactly happy about the whole thing. I think she lost control. Kaecilius is lucky to be alive if you ask me. She almost destroyed the seventh floor, it was a huge mess. And then the aurors interfered, and soon there were reporters everywhere. I guess now everyone knows she's a scarlet witch."

You widened your eyes, straightening to sit up and grumbling a little in pain. Tony looked at you with concern, asking you to take it easy, but you were already asking about Wanda.

"She's at the ministry of magic." He clarified. "Kaecilius is going on trial for torturing a student, and she will answer for putting everyone in danger."

" What?" you ask incredulously, and Tony sighs.

"Yeah I know it's unfair." He says. "But the minister of magic seems to be looking everywhere for people to blame for his lack of control. The problem is how much of that information will get to Mephisto. The whole ministry seems to be full of walkers."

You ran your hand across your face, frustrated.

"I'm so tired, Tony." You confess in a whisper. "It feels like everything is falling apart around me, and things are only getting worse."

Tony squeezes your hand. "I'm sorry, I really am. This whole situation sucks, and I wanted to help you. I'm trying, sister. I haven't been talking to you as much as I should, but I didn't want you to think you're alone. I'm working on breaking the bond. To free you and Wanda from the prophecy, and the wizarding world from dangers like Mephisto. I'm sorry I haven't been by your side."

You swallow your cry, and nod, trying to smile at Tony. He reaches up to hug you, and you gasp softly, taking a few seconds to relax and let the tears flow.

When you calm down, Tony tells you that he is going to get a Mediwizards to check your situation.

You lie down again, sighing softly. The memories come back with full force, and you choke softly, feeling your body tremble.

It's as if you can feel the curse again, sense the pain on your skin. Opening your eyes and shaking the memories away, you swallow dryly and reach for the glass of water on the nightstand.

You just want Wanda by your side telling you that everything is going to be okay.

//-//-//-//-//

You stay under observation for two days.

Doctor Hank makes a joke about you enjoying St.Mungus more than you should since you keep coming back, but Tony doesn't laugh.

Then you' re going back to Hogwarts by train, because the doctor thinks you shouldn't use magical means of transportation for a few days, and it's weird to take the empty express, but as soon as you arrive at the station, Gamora and Nebula are waiting for you with boxes of candy bought in Hogsmeade, and tight hugs.

You are not surprised by the stares you receive from the other students, but you ignore them as your sisters escort you around the castle to the Hufflepuff communal hall.

"Did you get to talk to Wanda?" Gamora asks as soon as you sit down on your bed, sighing with exhaustion from the train ride. The mention of the other sorceress' name doesn't help.

"Not yet." You say. "And I wouldn't be surprised to hear that she's ignoring me."

Nebula exchanges a look with her sister before sitting down on Mantis' bed, who is hugging her knees and looking at you.

"Honestly, I just want to finish this year without any more problems." You confess as you take off your jacket. And there is a moment of silence before you swallow dryly. "I also wanted to apologize to you guys."

Gamora frowns slightly, but says nothing. You take a deep breath.

"I know I was under the influence of an evil book, but that was still no excuse for treating you guys like that." You begin. "Tony told me about how things are in the wizarding world. Everyone is going through something, and it was selfish of me to think that only my problems matter. I'm sorry."

"Really, Y/N, it's okay." Nebula says, surprising you a bit. "We were all stressed, and well, I think an evil book is a pretty fair excuse." She jokes, making you smile. "Maybe things will get a little better now that Strange is the director."

"Oh, that's right" You comment just then remembering the things Tony updated you on while you were at St.Mungus. Like Kaecillius' resignation, and the position being passed on to Professor Stephen. "But honestly, I won't be at peace until I hear from Wanda."

"The trial isn't until Friday. And the way things are going, we won't get any news until it's over." Gamora warned as she sat down on the bed next to you. "I think the Maximoffs are probably too busy to write."

"What do you think will happen to Wanda?" You ask as you tug at the loose strands of the comforter. Mantis sighs lightly.

"I don't have a good feeling about things, Y/N." She confesses and you frown in concern. "And the stars never lie."

"Thank you, Mantis." You mock softly, and Gamora runs her hands through her hair.

"Let's not be pessimistic, okay?" she says. "Maybe the predictions are about, I don't know, the school finals? It doesn't mean something bad is really going to happen."

You grumble unhappily, grabbing a pillow and sinking your face into it. Gamora strokes your back.

"I'm sure things will work out, Y/N." She says. "Wanda will write as soon as she can."

"Do you guys think Kaecilius will be sent to Azkaban?" Nebula asks next, making you raise your head curiously.

"I wouldn't be so sure." You grumble. "I was actually surprised that he was put on trial at all."

"Well, with the whole mess that happened, it was bound to happen." Gamora said. "More than half the school became aware that he used the cruciatus curse on you, and then the daily prophet. And I didn't even know they were in the castle."

"It was because of Wanda really, wasn't it?" Mantis added. "Kaecillius caused his own ruin. He called the journalists to show what he called progress and decided to torture a student while they were in the castle. Then Wanda destroyed the entire floor and the next morning his arrest was all over the pages."

"I'm just really outraged to know that if no one had seen it, he would probably still be at Hogwarts." Gamora says angrily, and you sigh, agreeing as well as the others.

"Well, you must be hungry, shall we go to the great hall? It's almost dinner time." Gamora comments next, pulling you by the hand. You grumble softly, but agree, and soon you are leaving the communal hall to join the rest of the students.

//-//-//-//-//

You are tapping your fingers gently against the desk as you wait for the History of Magic class to begin.

It is Friday, finally.

You have barely slept because of anxiety about news of Wanda's trial.

Things at Hogwarts have changed a lot this week, all because of Strange's administration.

He restored the old classes, banned the teaching of dark magic, the scandal at the Daily Prophet being enough of an argument that the Minister of Magic no longer had a defense over this kind of teaching at Hogwarts. The restricted session of the library was also put back, and the seventh floor was off-limits because of the destruction Wanda caused, and you unfortunately lost access to the Requirement room.

Mantis was writing what looked like a lunar calendar for the divination class while Professor Okoye didn't arrive, and you started whistling distractedly.

And then Thor Odinson was poking you in the back to get your attention, and you turned around in your chair.

"Hi, Stark, what's up?"

"Fine." You grumbled suspiciously. "Can I help you with something?"

Thor looked almost unsure. "I was just wondering if you know of anything going on with Loki."

You frowned. "Excuse me?"

"I mean if you know if he's sick or something." He explains. "We had a fight, and well, he's not talking to me. And I've noticed that you guys have been kind of close lately, and I was curious if you knew anything and..."

"No, Thor, I'm sorry." You interrupt with a sigh. "Maybe you should ask him that."

Thor assumes a sad expression. "I would, but he's ignoring me. I think it might be about our mother."

You make a confused expression, and Thor looks surprised.

"Our mother, she...died earlier this year, Y/N." Thor counters, and you widen your eyes. "Our family is a name of reference against Mephisto. With the war, the walkers came to our home. She was there while we were here, and Dad was at the ministry."

"I'm so sorry, Thor." You whisper to him, still shocked by the information. He shrugged.

"I thought Loki told you."

"We don't talk about things like that, I guess." You say. "Sorry, I wish I knew how to help you."

"No, it's okay." Thor says with a sad smile. "You being his friend this year is more than enough. I don't like seeing him all alone out here."

You nod lightly, settling into your chair as you notice the teacher entering the room.

Mantis exchanges a look of understanding with you, having overheard the conversation even if accidentally, but she says nothing, and soon you are hearing about the witch hunt in the United States, and you try to focus on that rather than curiosity about how Wanda's trial is going or Loki's current emotional state.

//-//-/-//-//-//

As soon as lunchtime begins, you join the Slytherin table, where some of the students have placed a radio on the table, equally with other students from the other houses, to listen to the trial.

You are not surprised that a student's trial is such an interesting topic for everyone, but after the school started talking about Wanda being a scarlet witch, and the theories circulating around the halls, it was to be expected.

So you sit back while biting your fingertips and listening.

"And now directly from the Ministry of Magic, the trial of seventeen-year-old witch Wanda Maximoff, daughter of legendary witch Erik L-"

Your attention is slightly diverted from the narrative when loud laughter catches your ears.

They are Gryffindor and Slytherin students, exchanging coins. You don't need to hear the conversation to know they are gambling about the trial, the mean laughter and glances in the direction of you and your sisters are enough.

And as if she could feel your growing fury, Gamora touches your shoulder gently.

"Just ignore them, Y/N." She urges and you clench your jaw. " Everything is going to be okay with Wanda."

"I hope you're right, Gamora." You grumble, turning your attention back to the radio.

The narration of the newspaper is generic, and you discover that the audience has been closed off to the reporters.

You take a deep breath, concentrating.

No strange feeling, so Wanda is safe.

You wonder if Erik and Pietro are by her side during the whole thing.

It is only at the end of lunchtime that you have the result.

"It's amazing how things unfold in the ministry this afternoon." Counted the reporter with almost excitement. "After a unanimous vote, the witch Wanda Maximoff was found guilty of endangering her fellow students by not registering as a scarlet witch to the ministry of magic, after it was proven that her father, the sorcerer Erik Lehnsherr knew of her condition, as well as the affiliation with the criminal, Agatha Harkness was also mentioned. The ministry finally decided on Wanda Maximoff's expulsion from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizarding"

You felt your stomach plummet.

And everything became a little muffled around you, a soft whistle in your ear. You think Gamora and Nebula were calling for you, but you were getting up, feeling the room getting too small.

Stumbling out, you loosened the knot of your tie, finally stopping in the courtyard as you leaned your body against a pillar.

Wanda had been expelled from Hogwarts, publicly exposed as a Scarlet Witch, and tried as a criminal. You wondered if they would break her wand. Banned wizards led horrible lives.

Your sisters and friends caught up with you quickly, and you let them hug you.

In a few minutes Director Strange is catching up with you as well, and you release Gamora's grip to talk to him.

"Professor, I need to..."

"You cannot leave Hogwarts, Miss Stark." He interrupts with a wave of his hands and you frown in confusion, ready to protest but he is already speaking. "Tony sent a patronus as soon as the results came out, he already figured you'd want to see Miss Maximoff. The ministry is a mess, and Wanda will be staying with her father there for the minister's final decisions. You should stay here, where you are safe."

"That's not fair!" You squawk angrily. "Wanda needs me, I must-"

"She needs you to be safe." He interrupts again seriously, and then lowers his tone slightly as he notices the curious looks of the surrounding students. "Be rational, Miss Stark. Now that the Wizarding community knows the nature of Wanda's powers, how long before Mephisto has enough information and discovers your identity as protector."

You swallow dryly, clenching your fists begrudgingly. Stephen is right. You look away, and he sighs, placing his hand on your shoulder.

"Wanda will be fine, even without her NEWTS, she is an extraordinary witch." He says. "And the year is coming to an end, soon you will be able to see her again."

"She needs me now." You grumble annoyed, turning away from the professor's touch. He looks at you for a moment and then clears his throat.

"I'll see what I can do, Miss Stark." He says."In the meantime, focus on your studies, and be careful."

You frown at Stephen's words, but he is already turning and leaving before you can ask.

As you turn to your friends, Gamora has a worried look on her face.

"Are you okay?" She asks, and you sigh, agreeing to hug her again as you mumble no.

"I can feel how upset she is, Gamora." You grumble against your sister's shirt, wishing you could hug Wanda now. Gamora squeezes you against her arms, and you thank her for her intention even if it isn't enough.

The next few days are like a blur for you.

Many letters arrive, as do many editions of the Daily Prophet.

When the picture of the day Wanda's wand was broken comes out on the front page and you see her tired face, you have to run out of the common room to keep from crying in front of your colleagues.

Everyone writes to you, even Carol, everyone but the Maximoffs.

It is frustrating, and honestly, it breaks your heart in many ways.

The news of a Scarlet Witch after a century is almost as bombastic as Mephisto's return, and you're not surprised that many of your colleagues would start to comment on the possibility of Wanda working with him or against him.

It's overwhelming how everyone talks about her, but all you can feel is how much you miss her around the castle, around you.

You couldn't even remember that your magic is stable, and with everything that has happened, you haven't had time to figure out how to fix things.

Stephen tried to help, but he didn't know what was going on. At least the theoretical part of magic you were able to master, and you hoped to get at least an acceptable score in some subjects.

Only almost a week and a half after the trial, Professor Strange interrupts the potions class to talk to you.

Ignoring the curious stares and whispers of your classmates, you ask Professor Munroe to excuse you, and leave the room.

"What is wrong, professor?" You ask curiously as you close the door, watching Stephen with his hands in his pockets.The dungeons feel emptier without the ministry aurors around the castle.

"Saturday, in the Astronomy tower, nine-thirteen at night." He says as he hands you a small gold key, causing you to frown in confusion. "You will have exactly one hour, Miss Stark. Not a second more."

You stare at the object in your hand, and understand. A portal key. To Wanda.

"Thank you, Professor." You say, and Stephen nods before leaving.

You turn back to potions, the object in your pocket. You could barely contain your anxiety.

//-//-//-//-//-//-//

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