#i've got a medical implant in the back of my head & even though i know logically it offers no protection i feel weirdly safer

[mingos]

wilder's comforts

comfort food(s): ministrone soup, new england clam chowder, black beans, peanut butter + banana sandwich, quesadillas

comfort drink(s): masala chai, hot chocolate, dr. pepper, milkshakes

comfort movie(s): friday the 13th ('80), candyman ('92), suspiria ('77), phantom of the paradise, nightmare before christmas, child's play ('88), pirates of the caribbean 1 + 2

comfort show(s): one piece, paranoia agent, great teacher onizuka, chucky, documentaries about nature, history, or something morbid idk i don't really watch that much tv.

comfort clothing: jackets/sweaters with thumb holes, clothing a size or two too big, compression socks, **beanies

comfort song(s): father's song - prince, tonbo - tsuyoshi nagabuchi, 'it was always you, helen' - phillip glass, temple of the king - rainbow, abstract (psychopomp) - hozier, really anything with dio or hozier on vocals.

comfort book(s): battle royale - koshun takami, the vampire lestat - anne rice, burr - gore vidal, scary stories to tell in the dark - alvin schwartz, the complete collection of edgar allan poe

comfort game(s): luigi's mansion, jetset radio, pokemon xd, kirby airride, pokemon mystery dungeon, clock tower (snes), clock tower 3, corpse party (remake + book of shadows), dino crisis, alone in the dark

tagged by: stole it uwu. tagging: @cptnslog, @hweyd, @belovedcorvid, @goreburdened, @gxdmade, @enruiinas , @heavens-sin, @notanuki

[stay-mon-army]

Heightened Senses

Word count: 1142 words

Warning(s): None that I know of - please lmk if I missed one

Pairing: Lee Chanyeon (Big Ocean) x gn!reader

Note: I have loved these boys since pre-debut, and Chanyeon is my bias, so I knew I had to write something for him. I've always wondered if the "lose one sense, your others heightened" was true, and I thought that Chanyeon (and the others) would love an S/O who wanted to learn about them and share in their world, especially in a fun way. I hope others can find this as adorable of an idea as I did!

Living with Chanyeon was an adventure every day - no matter how much you had learned about his little life, there was always something new to discover. Sometimes you even got the joy of getting to discover it together, as he learned new things about his life and existence.

You took every new step and experience in stride, enjoying the changes in Chanyeon's eyes as he shared his being with you, the person he loved most. You tried to make it truly feel like an adventure - finding little games or tricks to explore every facet of the new information so you wouldn't ever forget it.

Sometimes you came to him with questions or experiments, and today was such a time. You had been reminded of an old medical tip you had heard as a child, that when someone loses one sense, their other ones grow stronger to compensate. When you came home that night, you decided you wanted to put it to the test.

Walking through the door, you could hear your boyfriend messing around in the kitchen, likely making himself something to eat. He tried very hard to gauge his noise levels based on a variety of things around him, but he wasn't always good at it and every so often you would hear him place down a pan too hard or accidentally slam a cabinet. What you found adorable was that when he realized too late that he had done something too loud, he would cringe as though the noise was overloud for him as well, even if he didn't have his external processor attached or turned on.

You took off your shoes, dropped your things in the living room, and ventured to see what Chanyeon was going in the kitchen. He was finishing up dinner, stirring a pan slowly, before turning to grab the plates he had set down, dishing food onto each plate. You notice that he seems not to have noticed you and you couldn't see his implant so you reached out and knocked against the counter as far out as you could so he could both feel the vibration and see your hand.

He turned to face you with a giant grin splitting open his face, waving hello and saying a quick "hi, love" before turning back to the food, finishing ladling out the portions and putting the food down on the island behind him where you both often sat to eat. He then reached for his implants, which you now see had been charging next to the stove.

You waited for him to put them in, slowly approaching and wrapping your arm around his waist and pressing your face into his side.

He grins at you, placing his arms back around you, leaning over to kiss against your head. He pulls back to hold you at arms length, asking about your day.

"It was good! I was reminded of something today. Could I do another experiment?" By now, you had called it this so many times, it was an inside joke between you two. At first, when you called it that for the first time, Chanyeon had laughed, asking if he was a guinea pig to you or a boyfriend. You had to convince him with many kisses that you didn't see him as anything less than the love of your life.

"Of course!" He grinned at you - you loved watching him sign as he spoke, his hands flowing so smoothly, second nature to him by now.

You led him over to one of the chairs seated by the island, gesturing for him to sit, which he obliges quickly. His eyes shine as he watches you grin back at him, as though he couldn't get enough of just watching you exist before him.

"I heard that if you lose one sense, that your other senses grow stronger to compensate. Do you want to test it?" You couldn't stop cheesing so wide your cheeks began to burn. Chanyeon laughed loudly at the question, his eyes disappearing into crescent moons as he leaned back in his seat.

He nods, reaching up to take his implants out again, which you felt a little bad for. He had just put them in for you and now you were asking him to take them out again, but you knew that he would do anything you asked in a heartbeat and that he found your little tests as interesting and fun as you did.

As he places them onto the island, he watches you for his next instruction. You mime closing your eyes, gesturing for him to do the same. He smiles as he closes his eyes, looking as though he thought this was goofy, which in a way it was. You weren't really going to learn anything about him, but it was a way to lighten the mood and share a sweet memory, which was all that mattered.

Once you were convinced he would keep his eyes closed while you "worked", you lifted your hands, hovering them just above his skin. You lightly rested the tips of your fingers of one hand against his forehead, slowly tracing down along the curve of his face until you reached his chin, pulling your hands away. You did the same thing on the other side, repeating the process slowly, keeping your touch as light as you could.

Chanyeon giggled, squirming in his seat and opening his mouth to speak, but you quickly placed one finger over his lips, telling him you wanted him not to speak. He closes his mouth, biting down on his lip to stop the grin trying to shine through at your actions.

Again, you lifted your hands, this time smoothing your fingers over his eyebrows. At the new sensation, his face relaxes, his smile loosening to a comfortable grin. His eyes flutter behind his lids, chasing your fingers. You move to his cheeks, first feeling the bones beneath with your fingertips, then flipping to run your knuckles across them.

Finally, you allow your fingers to draw a line down your nose and across his lips. His hands rise, grasping your wrists to hold you still as he kisses your fingertips, eyes still closed. He holds you there, lips pressed to your fingers for a long moment.

He opens his eyes to meet yours, eyes swimming with tears and galaxies and wonder. He blinks, a tear dropping, and you raise your hand to wipe it away with the back of a finger.

He raises a hand, cupping your face in turn within his palm. "I love you." He mouths, lips upturning at the edges. You lean down, pressing a kiss to the corner, then directly on his lips. As you pull away, you lift your hand, curling down your middle and ring finger. Chanyeon grins wide and pulls you back in.

[caliburn-the-sword]

more cress thoughts and reactions (if i wasn't lazy i would start numbering these)

WHAT is with this lunar guard and WHY would he randomly choose to help these guys. since he's a Named Character (but i already forgot) i'm demanding a pov chapter immediately. probably won't get one until we trust him tho rip

NO WAY SCARLET CAN'T DIE OMG - oh thank goodness she's been taken hostage. that's better because it means she has a chance

what is it with cinder and her tendency to pick up strays?? first thorne now the blondie

cinder got that medical rizz (got blondie to take his shirt to staunch blood)

wait how does blondie know that cinder is the lost princess?? did i miss something??? maybe it was something cress mentioned

"Thorne thought maybe it was best for her to practice (cutting bonds) on herself anyway" DAMN BRO COLD

i wonder if the programming making the sat invisible still applies now that it's crashed. if not we're about to have a big problem on our hands

"somehow she’d never worked the sensation of prickly facial hair into her fantasies. She would amend that after this." MISS GIRL WHAT???? that said i find the diction of 'amend that' there's just something so detached about it lmao

OMG THORNE LOST HIS VISION YES THIS IS MAKING ME NUTS

no i agree cress WHY would you give a newly blind man a knife

her hair is getting cut off <3 "It felt as though twenty pounds had been cut from her head" probably because it HAS girly. haircuts are literally magical. feel sad?? get a haircut

"It's not your fault" damn thorne i really appreciate how conscious he is of cinder's and now cress' self blaming problem even though he doesn't act like he's all compassionate. softie

grossed out by thorne kissing a 16 year old even if it was just her hand (someone play sixteen by ayesha erotica)

omg i thought the kids were talking about PRIZE MONEY for a BOUNTY and that we were about to see someone properly threatening appear, not just gummy worms fkshfsdkh. LOVE erland for indulging the children. he seems like a fun uncle type figure to have. i wonder how much those kids make him grieve for his daughter. OMG CINDER MENTION IT I NEED ERLAND'S REACTION

omg cress' descriptions of earth make me feel like i've been taking it for granted <3 i love her to death and i wish her all the happiness in the world

i LOVE thorne's no nonsense attitude, especially when it conflicts with cress' fantasies. yeah!! shake her!! wilderness survival king

tf??? i've never heard of a green sunset????? i'm assuming that this is a rural thing or i'm just gonna pin it down to random radioactive scifi reasons

thorne you know what OTHER than constellations would rule out australia?? THE SAND WOULD BE FUCKING RED. i would know because i did a 6 week cross country road trip across the desert from east to west and back again. i get that he's blind but surely cress would have noticed and thought to mention it (catch me looking for the southern cross constellation whenever i go to the northern hemisphere since it's the only one i can consistently recognise)

whenever cinder gets glamoured she always snaps out of it immediately. even kai, the few times it's happened to him. it's honestly VERY disturbing to read it from scarlet's perspective where she's completely unable to (also now i'm finding kai sus. does he have the implant against his knowledge?? he got out of it with pain but wolf literally got SHOT and stayed glamoured)

LANDED IN AFRICA OMG THEY'RE GONNA REUNITE WITH CINDER. I BET ERLAND HAS ALREADY HEARD NEWS ABOUT THE DROPPED SAT

cress' backstory is intriguing, ESPECIALLY because idk how she's alive. does experimenting really make her THAT worth keeping before her hacking skills came to light?? why does sybil want to keep shells alive in the first place?? she seems very down with eugenics

holding onto neurodivergent coded cress and defending her with my life. of course some traits overlap with her trauma and being isolated for so long

only just remembered this but i guess now my theory of cress not being fully lunar doesn't hold up now that i know her parents. but with what she's saying about her backstory, makes sense why she doesn't identify with lunars that much

maybe it was thorne that i decided was bi??? just by seeing this line about blackmailing a hot pilot if he were in her position??? now that i think about it he had a similar line about kai or something. anyway with thorne saying he would have blackmailed someone i reckon he's just putting on a facade so no one sees him as a softie. but it's still funny to just make characters queer. it's a coping mechanism

OMG NOW THAT THE SATELLITE HAS CRASHED THE LUNARS ARE EXPOSED. I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THAT. but the spyware should ALSO be down unless specific feeds went directly to the palace

this read has been such a treat for me!! i mentioned this on a reblog of one of my first cress post, but for those of you who haven't seen it when i was like. 5. my library had this picture book of the biblically accurate grimms brothers rapunzel. BEAUTIFUL illustrations. i was a silly goofy little kid obsessed with morbidity and i LOVED the gory illustrations of the prince's eyes getting stabbed out by thorns and him wandering around the forest all bloody and blind. i tried to find it online but couldn't!! the closest thing to it was rapunzel by sarah gibb which isn't gloriously violent anyway. i want to see if i can hunt it down irl and let you guys know which one it is but i used to frequent three different local libraries + the school library of my primary school was basically my own playground so i can't remember where i used to read it ;-; but yeah all this is to say i'm obsessed with cress as a retelling of rapunzel by far as someone who has a long history and grew up with it <3

@eddisfargo @francforever @winterrhayle @winterpinetrees

[anderwhohn]

@bloodiedbiotic asked: "You don't get to disappear, then come back like nothing happened. Life moved on without you." @ Izzy, for the verse where Izzy's younger than Blair and is the Commander, set in early ME2

"Well, excuse me for being dead!" Isabela snaps back at her, an angry aura of dark energy flickering around her as she struggles to maintain control, particularly with the new, much more powerful implant Cerberus fitted her with. "I didn't just 'disappear', dammit! I. Was. Dead. I remember getting spaced - my air line was damaged, and I couldn't get the omnigel to respond to even attempt to make an emergency repair in fucking vacuum."

Panic darkens her emerald gaze as she remembers, "My suit's medical VI kept pumping me full of adrenaline and medigel, even as my air was escaping into the void. The ship was in pieces, and there wasn't anything to tether to even if that wouldn't have just likely got me completely vaporised when that ship kept attacking the wreckage. I only lost consciousness when I hit the planet's atmo and things started heating up..."

"'Nothing but meat and tubes' - that's what Taylor said was left of me when Cerberus got a hold of my body. I don't know how they did it - I've gone to Karin and let her start running tests, dammit, just to figure out what all they did, to make sure there's no trackers or explosives or hidden back doors that they could hack into somehow."

Glaring up at Blair, she gives her a hard shove in retaliation for the accusation. "So no, I'm not acting like nothing fucking happened, but for me, it's been days, at most. I mean, hell, before the attack, I was under the mako with Garrus pulling out geth pieces in the undercarriage from Ilos the Alliance team had missed when they recovered it from the Citadel while Wrex was teaching Tali how to handle her shotgun better. Then the next thing anyone knew, we were under attack, I made the call to evac, Joker was a stubbornly brave idiot who kept us flying long enough for most of the crew to escape, and I had to haul his ass into the escape pod because everyone else in the CIC was already dead because it'd been torn open by one of the first blasts."

"You think I don't know everyone's moved on without me? And I do mean everyone? One of the only reasons I'm even remotely sure I'm me is because Joker is one loyal son of a bitch and left the Alliance on just the chance that Cerberus wasn't lying. They hadn't even been sure they could bring me back yet, but he took a chance, and the moment I first saw him, walking, I ran up to him and hugged him, crying into his shoulder that I was so relieved he'd made it out alive, that I hadn't failed him when I chose to hit the emergency eject button to get him away from the ship before it was too late. The only other familiar face I had was Karin, and she immediately wanted to start poking me with needles for a checkup, so I wasn't quite as thrilled to see her in the moment."

Tears well in her eyes, though she looks away to try to hide them, sighing heavily as she continues, "But you either believe I'm me, or you don't. Regardless, I've got a damn galaxy to save, again, a new Council that's just as useless as the last one, and I don't have time for anyone else's bullshit - even yours."

"And hey, we'll be heading through the Omega-4 relay. There's a fair chance we might not make it back out, so then everyone can go back to me being dead and they'll probably stay right this time. Stars know I didn't ask to be brought back and thrown back into the front lines against the Collectors and the Reapers..."