#idk about the comics but I've heard they kept a lot from the comics too

[sincerity--extreme]

When Ellie kissed Riley, as soon as she stepped away she looked so scared, almost terrified she had fucked up, you can tell just by looking at her and hearing that little "I'm sorry" she quickly said when Riley didn't showed any reactions at first, but then Riley finally says "For what?" And the fucking relief in Ellie's face, her eyes starting to shine again her posture immediately became more confident and it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, I played the dlc so I knew what was coming but still, it was so well done, so amazing and I'll remember that and talk about it for the rest of my life

[risingshards]

Spring 2024 anime review!

It's time for my annual anime season review! I had a lot more shows to watch this season than last, which at times got a bit hectic! It's not quite done yet but it's done enough that I think I can put this up. Warning: Long post incoming where I ramble about the many anime shows I watched and personal reflection about how Going Through It™ affected my watching.

Laid Back Camp Season 3: My fav of the season, I'm obsessed with these camping girlies and any more time with them is always a treat. The combo of the suspension bridge arc with the wacky over the top arc is a fun jarring one, and the last trip was so sweet. Rin and Nadeshiko felt even gayer this season which is impressive, they're the most girlfriends to me, Chiaki and Aoi too (or maybe I should just ship full camping polycule???) It was only a few second scenes too but I love that they added Aya into the later arcs as well. I've been in a rough place mentally for a while and it kicked into a new gear this summer, so the comfort vibes of the show hit differently. I'm a super anxious person so chill times where everything is OK is such a nice escape from the world. Shout out to the OP/ED for being my favs this season! Also highly recommend both sub and dub, because the dub cast is SOOOO good once more. Celeste Perez is so fantastic as Rin, and Morgan Laure Garrett does an incredible performance as Nadeshiko. The whole cast is so great I could ramble on and on about them.

Whisper Me a Love Song: Not technically done yet as eps 11 and 12 are delayed, but in spite of the production woes this one has my heart this season in that "I love the manga and am happy to see this animated, I am hyperfixated, and warts and all I love watching it and get way way WAYYYY too sensitive about it seriously chiral go touch grass instead of having anxiety attacks about an anime" kind of way. The voice cast is SO perfect and everyone fits their characters so well and it's a treat to see the manga adapted. Himari and Yori's fluffy relationship was so sweet and I teared up a lot at their big moments. My beloved Aki got so many delicious angsty scenes while also showing her as not a bad person, just someone who's caught up in a crush while heartbroken about her true love leaving her (a true love that she didn't even realize was true love). Speaking about that true love, Shiho getting to be a feral cat storming into the proceedings is a treat, and I love that we get to see her earlier in the anime than in the manga.

The downsides ofc are the production that delayed two of the episodes, and now has the last two pushed to a later date, and my big qualm is the festival getting skipped over (well still kinda animated in the visual comic they released with the voice actors doing great on it), that's a bummer. I can see structurally what they were going for, 6 eps for Himari/Yori and 6 eps for the very popular Aki/Shiho storyline, and having the 'lost' ep voice acted helps a bit. But ughghggh even with all that...IDK it's still my babg and they're my babygorls so I'm rooting for 11 and 12 to be really great and for me to not engage with any fandom discussion about it LOL. Like I said this one had my heart this season, and when something latches onto your heart like that, I think it's good to cherish that a bit.

Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night: I heard the buzz a few episodes in about this and was hooked pretty quickly. The animation quality was great, I adored the characters, and I loved the queerness in it with the nonbinary talks, trans yakuza ladie, the kiss, and while I wish they went more in on the romance, we still got a lot of queerness that I don't want to count out. It's another case where I really need to disengage with what people think about something when it's special to me (that might be the moral of the season, honestly). My big downside for this is it got a little too stressful for me, the big fight towards the end of the show kept me up at night. I might be going through it pretty bad if watching anime does that to me BUT we stay silly.

Train to the End of the World: I didn't realize until I saw a post about it like yesterday that this had the same director as Kill la Kill and Gurren Lagann and in hindsight yeah that tracks. This was such a wild ride, I love a good journey story and this scratched that itch well. A group of girls go on a weird, hilarious, and heartfelt journey via train through a bizarre world? It made me really want to write a journey story. Funniest show of the season by far, crazy visuals, fun action, each episode being a strange little journey on its own helped the vibe.

The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio: This was a really cute one, bubbly gyaru x stoic girlie is a fun dynamic. Going by the structure, I assume this was the first 3 light novels adapted, since each arc was 4 eps IIRC. I hope the light novels get translated here because I'd love to see where the story goes next. My downside to this is this one also got STRESSFUL stressful in that like social kind of way as the main duo deals with stalkers, assholes online, shitty voice directors (I hope that voice director that was giving Yasumi a hard time gets super fired in season 2) and that took away from the fluff at times. Still was a definite highlight of the season.

Nijiyon Animation 2: Maybe even weirder than the first season, I was really glad to get more of this one, weekly 3 minute adventures of a wacky gay harem really is good for the soul. I love the vibe of like "yeah we're doing this premise this week let's just go with it" that a lot of the episodes had. Do Season 3 cmon!

Vexations of a Shut in Vampire Princess dub: I am a big stan for Vexations, and this dub has not disappointed so far (I think just one or two episodes to go for it), VERY well cast with Brittney Karbowski (of Railgun fame) putting in a STELLAR performance as Komari, showcasing all the facets of Komari's personality, like her spoiled bratty princess side, her anxious about being plopped into a dire situation side, the theater kid performance that helps her through this, and many other sides, it's really fantastic work by her. Vill, Sakuna, and Millicent are standouts as well (every Millicent scene I needed to pause afterwards because wow 🥵).

I also watched the back half of Dungeon Meshi (which is so big rn that I feel like I don't know what to add? It's great!), the new Spice and Wolf which was nice, Bartender: Glass of God which was VERY chill, and a coworker friend rec'd Condition Called Love, but I did not really enjoy that one.

All in all despite the bumpy road, I was really happy with this season and got SO much yuri. I do still need to watch Girls Band Cry and will rectify that soon, I just had way too many shows to watch at once.

Next season I am mainly looking forward to My Deer Friend Nokotan, and started watching Suicide Squad Isekai mainly for the ED lol. Next season big goal also: Chiral touches grass and her hypersensitive ass stops getting so worried about what other people think of the anime she watches and to just enjoy the anime hyperfixation while it's in full swing like this.

[butmakeitgayblog]

i really enjoy your blog so much that I had to write, after I saw all the questions marks about Alycia Debnam-Carey's height. There's been too much speculation over the years and it some of it is downright hilarious.

I'm not giving any personal information so you'll have to take this with a pinch or a good dash of salt, but I've worked with her. Her eyes are a clear green (lighting really makes a difference) and she is 5'7". Her body has changed a lot over the years giving her a more hourglass like figure and along with how cameras work, makes her appear a little smaller. She is almost always around people who are 6' or better and that also makes her appear smaller. In a lot of her photos and selfies she exaggerates certain poses especially with other people (leaning, bending) and this also makes her look smaller. Eliza, on the other hand, in almost always wearing four or five inch heels. She rarely wears flats or trainers.

On the set of The 100 they wanted Eliza and Alycia to be eye-to-eye and again, if you notice how the camera is set whenever they are in a two-shot, this is accomplished almost seamlessly. Eliza is 5'4 and a half and usually wore heels and lifts that were easily disguised by clothing/camera angles. Sometimes this is for practical reasons, like keeping everyone in frame or creating a certain effect. In the episode where she has Lexa backed up to a table, Alycia drew herself up to her full height and you can see the difference.

Sometimes these differences are considered a little comical and that's not what they wanted, so it didn't happen again. Not even in the scene when they're both barefoot in Clarke's room. Alycia is leaning forward as she walks (diminishing her height somewhat) again, to keep them close in the shot, which is quickly cut to them being seated.

How actors fit in a shot is important for focus, lighting and composition. Tom Cruise often appears much taller or at least of the same height as his co-stars through these means and he's the same height as Alycia. Watch for it in films and TV and you will simply never know someone's actual height, unless they are so blatantly tall, someone like Chris Hemsworth can even look to be close in height to Robert Downey Jr.

Take another scene with Eliza and Alycia, outdoors, during the pauna scare. Alycia's legs are constantly bent, which seems practical, on her guard, ready to run. She's standing next to Eliza whose legs are not really bent, and they appear to be the same height. Again, they are being kept closely in the frame. This happens too during Finn's funeral but if you notice in the long shot, Alycia's mark is deliberately right in a small divot and Eliza is standing about an inch forward. during season 3 they are always kept at the same eye level to emphasize these are twin commanders, two sides of the same coin.

Another little note on filming: women are almost always made to look smaller than they are, especially when paired with a male actor. If they are taller than the male actor, lifts or flats will be used, body posture, stance and the camera. Rarely is work done to make them look taller. One exception is Gal Gadot who wore wedges and lifts in her Wonder Woman costume, and she's already about 5'10" but again this was mostly for the camera as she was surrounded by actors her height or taller.

Hope this gives some insight as to how it works in filming and why.

Listen I am both shook, but also not at all surprised. And yes I am taking it with a grain of salt because idk you lol but you didn't say anything ~scandalous~ so I don't particularly see why you'd have any reason to lie.

1. Fuuuuuck you about the eyes 😩 fuck off noooo I don't— I didn't— I don't remember reading that part shhh shuuush shu— shut your mouth shut—

2. Yeah ok so, I had always heard she was 5'7 and that was the general... idk, feel that I always got from her. But like you said cameras always lie in the interest of getting shots and also she is,,, always gd surrounded by people taller than her. I mean take Laura for example. Her in flats vs Alycia in heels, even then she still looks tiny so it's always so hard to tell unless you're right there. But I checked out the scenes you mentioned and it seems at least at a glance that you're right. She does duck her head and somewhat rolls her shoulders forward when she walks into Clarke's room, and that gives the illusion that they're roughly the same height for a second, but even then she still has a touch of height on Eliza if you pay attention and account for the distance between them and the angle. And with the pyre scene

That sure does look like a bit of a dip in the ground with Eliza on a higher, flatter surface compared to it. It's minimal to not the draw the eye plus the draping of Lexa's coat, but I think I see the difference you're talking about. Alycia's foot even looks slightly tilted on the slope of it.

And even still, side by side they're not the same height. If they were shoulder to shoulder it'd be even more obvious.

I mean objectively I always knew they played visual tricks and fucked with wardrobe (lifts) and stuff to make scenes work. I've heard of the whole thing with making actors stand on boxes and having dudes practically in high heels to create height, so none of this seems out of place in the slightest, and it does fits more into what I had previously always thought about her height.

Sooooooo it was TLFOAH flyer that was the liar saying Alice is 5'5 (I know I know, the character is 5'5, whatever you know what I mean.)

I do appreciate this input! Even though obviously I have no idea if you're just talkin shit, but again I mean, what would really be the purpose. There's nothing to really gain.

[songmingisthighs]

new album review?? opinions? best song is blind i think

i'm just gonna review the songs bc i haven't gotten my physical albums and ion wanna cry myself over the fact

i agree with you, blind is the best song of the album and siren is a close runner up for me. i can't listen to empty box bc then i'll cry and i've alr had a lot to cry about lately so it's bangers for me for now. shaboom is giving major xikers vibe and i kept going like 👀👀👀👀 my roady ass was twerking and sweating to it i thought wooyoung was possessing me for a moment

now regarding the title track, work. i feel like it was a bit too underwhelming as a title track. it didn't hit as hard as the previous title tracks even when compared to their earlier works like pirate king, answer, inception like when those came out it was a no brainer but this time ? kinda missed.

the mv was rather messy too. correct me if i'm wrong but the mv director was seong wonmo who's part of digipedi and i think he was trying too hard to recreate the comical sense of ateez's mv like the real (which was done by digipedi) but it just didn't work as well and they tried to distract us with san's tits like thank you so much but can we talk about pumping gas into an emu and seonghwa hatching from an egg like he's from a weird al yankovic parody ????

work would've been such a great b track to accompany blind but idk it's giving taco bell or del taco commercial and i've never even heard a non asian taco bell commercial. or an asian one at that. but i love their presentation, truly. had this been the equivalent of matz, it's you, youth, and everything mv (like a side mv) it would've been 10/10 but considering this is the title work... idk it didn't hit as much as crazy form, bouncy, or guerrilla.

overall, i think it's a solid album. genuinely 8/10. was it great ? yes. is it missing something ?? oh yes. there's this itching, gnawing thought that this ateez comeback is not so much ateez like it is ateez but like somewhere between 87-95%. i love their work but if i were to introduce someone to ateez, i'll show them something from the world era or fuck it i'll show them what got me into the fandom which is symphony no. 9.

the vibe was on but guys gays and gals let's not kid ourselves, we aren't vibrators.

[dana-chan-the-control-brain]

Happy new year everyone 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I know 2020 has been hard for everyone.

And I want everyone to know, suffering isn't a contest and we all suffer in different ways. But I feel I should give my year in Review. Just some things that happened to me personally.

This was an intense, and long and spiritual and emotional journey for me...

I really discovered what it meant to have community, family and what my life means to me.

But I feel I need to get this in writing cause I can remember the year with vivid detail and I will probably forget if I don't get it down.

Do I have to share this publically online to my tumblr account for a bunch of strangers to see? not really.

Do I want to?

Yes. I think so. Just from how so many people on tumblr and real life have touched me.

This is kinda long and no one needs to read this.

(idk how to do a readmore on mobile. But this is where I would add it later. No one needs to read if they don't want to.)

January/February: (and some background on the last five years of my life cause.....well. it's important.)

As people knew, I got way into Invader Zim last summer. I spent most of my waking life working a dead end job at a grocery store. I lived a sad lonely life, going straight home to a single dark studio apartment. With not many material possessions outside of games, my laptop and my tablet to my name. Half of my material loves, such as home furnishings and books were still in boxes from when I moved in. In case I ever had to move again, or get some "big screenshot or copywriter" job in the city.

....

I lived in that city in the same dead end job and apartment for five years.

No friends. No social life. I often refused to make doctor appointments or attempt to establish myself in that city. I didn't even talk to anyone in my workplace.

Work. Go online. Go to sleep.

I lived like that for five years.

I thought it was good.

Even my therapist thought I was doing well.

When I really wasn't. My main character flaw I struggle with is motivation.

I can talk to someone about very detailed plans I have to fix a problem... But I tend to never follow through.

Just because I can describe in detail how to fix my personal problems, it doesn't mean I will do it.

(I have gotten better at this but it's a major struggle)

I might have been a Zombie during the day...

But by night I was pouring my soul into my AU and my analysis.

After being so thoughly ignored or overlooked by the Naruto fandom and the Undertale fandom, I felt like I had finally found my home and was settling into a community there.

I just loved that people loved what I had to say.

Especially my AU.

It's no secret that a lot of themes in my au revolve around found family, grief, and loss.......

Fatherhood, in particular.

What it means to be a father, how much do you need to try when you mess up, how willing should a child forgive their parent, especially those that have wronged you and how much of it is factually accurate and simply a self projection of what children want their parents to be and visa versa... What amount of forgiveness and change is nessasary...is it needed?

....

It's no secret that a lot of my AU is a giant coping mechanism for my Dad's death. Espessially the falling out and growing closer with a lot of my family members throughout the years following his death. (Most of the time I keep it ambiguous to how it relates to my personal life unless I include a readmore that states so outright. I feel my au can be enjoyed by a variety of people in the fandom who don't need to know me as a person or my life story.)

My Dad passed away in 2016 in February and my family still feels the aftershocks to this day.

It's part of the reason I moved to the city, alienated myself from my family and people that loved me and refused to experience life for five years.

My entire world was Zim, and I was okay.

March: When America finally realized and started to feel the effects of the pandemic....

A lot of people got scared.

Me included.

I didn't have any streaming services or access to the news. So I only heard accounts from my mom.

I didn't understand why the store was so dead quiet and empty for a few days, then it went into mass chaos and panic in the span of two days.

It felt like Retail black friday in the worst way. Everyone was packed like sardines. Everyone was yelling. The lines at the registers bled into the clothing department.

I was witness to customers shoving others for toilet paper, being rude to cashier's and just overall unpleasantness.

At the time, I didn't even fully grasp what the pandemic was, and I feel a lot of people at the time didn't either.

I ended up absentmindedly scratching my eyebrow in front of a customer and she screamed and villanised me for it. That they didn't want groceries touched by my "unclean hands"

I ended up breaking down into tears.

The customer behind me gave me a hug and told me I was doing a great job.

But the damage was done. It was the final straw, I couldn't stop crying and I was breaking apart.

Thankfully my Boss (the one who likes me) pulled me aside and asked what's wrong.

It was then that I quit. No notice. Same day. I had to get out of there.

I was planning to move to an apartment with my sister in the summer, but my Mom offered for me to move back in with her temperarily just so I can get out of the city and away from the pandemic.

So I did.

I got scared, broke my lease a month early and quit my job of five years that gave me nothing back.

He told me, "take care of yourself and your family, I won't keep you here, do what you need to do."

So I did.

April-June:

A very eventful few months.

My mom offered for me to live at her place, but for some reason she was acting like I would live there forever. That this wasn't a temporary arrangement, and that I didn't have an apartment set up already.

This was in large part to my sister, who had lived with my mom taking advantage of her for years.

Even though my sister and I were going to move in together, I was just never sure about it cause of how she never packed her stuff or made any effort to find a job.

My mom often acted like I was lazy and not searching and was treating me like... Well, an unruly teenager instead of a woman of 29 years. She acted like I was a failure for returning home when it was her idea in the first place.

I would have just been petrified in the city.

Like usual, I retreated to my au again.... And in the spring, something eventful happened.

In may, 8th 2020:

I was invited by @rissynicole to join an invader zim discord.

Now, I've never really used discord before. I always thought it's interface is too confusing.. and I'm a member of a few other iz discords and I usually don't follow them that closely.

Rissy assured me it was different cause some friends of thiers made it and it was smaller.

Before I knew it, I was sharing memes and getting to know everyone there.

It wasn't long after I invited my partner in IZ crimes, @paketdimensioncomic who was genuinely wary of iz servers due to a bad experience with the last one they were a part of.

But soon they were sharing memes and laughing with everyone else.

My eyes were starting to open and I was able to connect to fans of my work in an interpersonal way. And I was able to discover new artists and aus I never knew about.

I was also able to meet so many others of the community and invite them to the server myself.

The moo-ping 10 server kept me sane while I was living with my judgmental mother.

Not only that, the summer was very productive for my au.

Drawing was all I did, and it was a huge break from the job as a cashier I had.

Not only that, June came, and with it, me and Ceph's first collab fic:

A result of us just going back and forth in our DMs constantly about Professor Membrane and how he changed in ETF for the better and how much we adamantly stan "trying-to-be-a-good-dad-brane" and how much of his ETF development has to be implied off screen in order for the emotional resolution in the movie to matter.

The only reason I never professed my love for Membrane as a character in the fandom before the fic dropped was.... Well....

Membrane can be a decisive character in the fandom and I was so worried people would hate me if I did an analysis on him, simply because he's not the best parent in the world. (As an understatement)

Ceph and I really encouraged each other to scream our love for the science himbo loud and proud more frequently and so often.... I actually start to see less Membrane hate posts and breakdowns then their used to be.... I like to think it's a combination of Me and Ceph's influence, along with ETF and the Quarterly's painting Membrane in a slightly more nuanced light then he was previously.

I never wrote a collab fic before and it's such a rewarding and fun and unique experience that I don't think I'll ever have again. And I love working with Ceph on our fics so much.

So much so we did it again...

July-August:

I never thought I would be one of those people who writes NSFW IZ fic... But here I am.

The Brainbrane au started.... An au of my au where Membrane and the Computer fall in love and Membrane makes him a body.

This ship was based around the idea where we joked that Membrane and Zim's Computer would have funny interactions if they ever met, under the pretense Membrane thinks Computer is Zim's parent.

Our headcanons morphed and shifted until we just full blown started shipping them.

Just because Membrane and Zim's Computer have overall REALLY entertaining chemistry.

It's a character dynamic never seen in the show or comics (yet) and I imagine thier interactions to be nothing but entertaining banter.

The fic was also born from spite... Making fun of the troupes and cliches that we found personally destestible in some questionable zadr fics.

So an angry ace and a demi-bisexual collab on a porn and end up blessing the fandom with

Compapa headcanons,

Computer being recognized as a more common used fanon character,

The ship of Brainbrane.

The fandom having a crisis of "oh God, not only are we xenophiles we're technophiles too!!!" Or "why you gotta give Zim's Computer an ass"

More android Computer designs

It was an eventful summer.

In the midst of all this, I moved into my new place, got a new job, and I was able to see my friend (who is def my platonic straight soul mate) who lives in Indiana.

She came to visit, showed me how to decorate and how to take care of my body better! Things were looking up! It was great.

September-November:

My job was at a boat store. If was approaching the fall and my hours were being severely cut.

I was getting into a rut of depression again.

I thought things were changing but the same routine I was trying to escape from was the same thing coming back.

But instead of letting it take hold, I decided I was going to do something about it... I was gonna visit a museum and go with my sister. Just... variety stimulation.

Well that didn't happen.

I talked about this shortly in my au itself...but..

My sister had a complete mental breakdown.

She stopped taking her meds, went off the deep end and was in the hospital a total of five times throughout November.

A lot of it was acting out and the perfect storm of environmental factors that made her scream and act out so she would keep going back to the hospital.

It was traumatizing for me.

I just can't explain what it's like. For her and for me to be in that position.

I'm not telling the full story and a lot of bullshit things happened I won't share here.

She got diagnosed with bipolar one and my mom expected me to be a caretaker for her.

I threatened to disown my family and move away out of state.

It was just too much for me to handle.

So much I was a nervous wreck.

I tried to pick up a second job... Cause my sister was in the mental ward so frequently and couldn't pay the bills.

But I was fired within a week cause I was so stressed I couldn't retain the basic information they were training me for.

It was an office job.

My dream.

It could have been.

I was fired from something I really wanted.

I was only there for three days.

I could not retain any information.

I was a mess.

My sister was a trigger, my mom wanted me to live with her. I couldn't live like this.... I had to get out.

I had to get out.

December:

Remember my Indiana friend?

Well the first week of December is my birthday.

My 30th to be exact.

While I did pick up a seasonal position at Target (not my first pick)

I took the first week of December off so I could spend time with her. Cause she agreed, I needed a break from this crap.

Surviving 30 years is cause to celebrate and if I had to celebrate with my sister I would have cried.

I know there was a risk traveling out of state during a pandemic...

But I needed out, I needed a friend..

And I kinda wanted to look at the place since I was considering moving there.

My friend's mom was sick so she avoided me and her daughter and got us a hotel room.

It was fun! I got to swim in a salt water pool, we talked about Naruto, I showed her the iz and su art books I brought, also Computer and Membrane tea.

I also got to meet her other friends and get crunk. And her bf who is super nice and funny!

I had a super fun birthday....

Until her mom told my friend that her grandparents had covid and that was what she had. And my friend got sick within that same day.... As did I.

I owe so much to her family.

I was an entire state away...about a ten hour drive from home.... She let me stay at her house. "The covid house" we called it.

Cause everyone (except the father. He avoided everyone and booked a hotel immediately cus he was an ER doctor) had covid within a day.

I called in, the test results were positive and I had to stay with her family for ten days quarantine before I could work again.

Which would have been fine....

If my tumblr didn't log me out perminately of my old account. @dana-chan325 .... Which really sucked cause I had a constant headache and was too sick to engage with tumblr or much of the fandom. I didn't want to make a new account when my head was in a bad fog and I could barely breathe or smell.

It's not like I saw much of my friend either.... We all slept at different hours and she had more symptoms then I did.

It was just netflix, danganronpa v3 and cry.

I was miserable, but at the same time.... Not?

I really feel like God himself was the one who pulled me off from tumblr, and my living situation.

Maybe a whole extra week feeling like a bobblehead was what I needed.

It gave me some much needed clarity on my relationships with my mom and sis and friend.

Running away to Indiana was not the solution here.

Once I was better within ten days and no longer had a leave of absence, I drove home.

I am glad I fully recovered (but from how I understand it, my dear friend is still ill. I'm praying for her)

I might have gone to work a bit too soon, cause I had an asthma attack after trying to unload a single cart in the span of six hours.

My boss lectured that my speed was unacceptable, and even though I explained the covid situation and breathing problems many times, she threatened that I'd be fired if I'm that slow again.

Que the next few days of work where they put me on register.

Instantly I was sent into a panic remembering the last time I was on the register and how that panic attack caused me to quit.

I even asked if I could go back to stocking, since my breathing had improved. My boss assured me that I was put on the register cause they needed help and nothing to do with my covid thing.

Then as December concluded and the new year began, my boss said that this was the last shift for me cause my position was seasonal and they were letting a lot of people go.

I then asked why I was on the schedule for Sunday, and he told me to ignore it and I'm free to reapply for full-time.

I mean.... They can act smart about it...

But putting your general merchandise stocker onto register after she had an asthma attack and missed working the first two weeks of December due to covid.....

Not a good look.

So once again, I'm jobless once more.

Will probably continue to live with my sister for awhile.

But I do not feel as if it's a bad thing....

I met so many good people this year....

My friend's family even gave me 500 usd to cover my rent since I couldn't work for a majority of December.

I've seen evil and good from humanity this year. I've seen acts of god, good friends and what my real family means to me as well as friends I consider family.

This year really made me look back at the person in the mirror and say,

"I deserve better."

And actually worked for it this time.

Oh and after Christmas I got a horrible yeast infection that burns over most of my body currently.

Very accurate doodle to the pain I'm in right now.

(seriously my body is a fungus.)

But hey, good news, I respected myself enough to go to the doctor about it!!

So that's progress.

I really hope 2021 holds good things for me.

Thank you to the mooping 10 server for always being there and keeping me sane,

Thank you tumblr for liking my au and everything.

AND A SUPER SPECIAL THANK YOU TO @evartandadam and her family for housing me and my dumb diseased ass. Everyone, she is an angel and I can't express how much she means to me. Please check out her art and buy her stuff on redbubble.

Anyways... Byebye 2020.

I look forward to what I can accomplish for myself this year.

[thecanadianowl]

Justice league Snydercut review

Wow talk about a long movie. Remember Mass Effect's 3 shit endings that were later improved (sorta) with DLCs. Well that is kinda how this movie is.

Before we start this, I just wanna say that I was very impartial throughout the whole snydercut movement. I wasn't part of it but I do see the good that they did in regards to some of their charities and with how the fandom itself has been painted in a negative light. So its good that they got what they have been demanding for quite some time. Snyder as director for me, I really am not the biggest fan of. His movies have some great cinematic moments that look amazing but the context around it is what muddles it for me.

Is it better than Whedon's JL? YES. To start I'll look at some of the things that I do like.

I do like how it was split into parts.  Gives it that miniseries/Comic book feel

Thank god they removed that stupid cringy flash landing on top of Diana's chest scene.

Darkseid looks good. I know some people have issues with it but I liked it. I mean looking at it first glance has me convinced its Darkseid. His voice isn't too bad either. Reminds me a bit of Injustice 2.

As much as I have issues with Darkseid being introduced so early I do like that he had a brief confrontation/glaredown with the League, foreshadowing a possible in person encounter and that the League needs to expand if they are going to fight against Darkseid.  

Steppenwolf's design has greatly improved and looks better than before.

Loved the scenes between Alfred and Diana.  Wish there was more of that.

I loved how the movie added Cyborg, Aquaman and Flash attempting to stop Superman from getting to Batman. I also liked how in this version,  Batman pleading to Clark's humanity telling him that world needs him and he needs to snap out of it.  Also bonus for taking out that scene of Batman on the ground groaning about how old he is getting.

Okay seeing Clark get the black suit and having the voiceovers of both his father's merge together works in terms of Clark's arc into becoming the person he was meant to be. Also like the use of Zimmerman's Ideal of Hope score wished they let it play out a little longer.  Probably my favourite moment in the film is where Superman just takes Steppenwolf's Axe like its nothing and freezes it.

Now to go into some of the more critical stuff that bugged me when watching.

For a movie that is 4 hours long, pacing issues were bound to happen. I think the first example of this can be found in the opening with the Superman scream wave (which started to get a bit hilarious when his screams could be heard every now and then) hitting all three mother boxes. they are shown individually reacting to it and it takes time, where it could have just showed them together or an compilation of each of the motherboxes waking up. I know it Snyder's thing but tone down on the slow mo. Like some instances its fine (like with bullet time or Flash's scenes) but other instances I'm just like alright I get it.

The scene involving Cyborg transferring money into that single mother's bank account. Is he gonna do this for all the people suffering just like her? or just for that one person? I mean if you can hack into the world monetary system, you can solve a lot of financial issues affecting  the majoirty and not just one person. Did I miss the scene but why did Cyborg go from helping one poor person, suggesting the potential good he can do to change the world for the better  to "Fuck the world". Seems a bit inconsistent in character. Especially since he knows who Diana is (from what he says)  and that Parademons are after the motherbox. Maybe her offering help, you should take it? idk Vic. Also the whole Auto defense system malfunction, would it not be better if this was established beforehand where we see Vic struggling to maintain his body's autonomy leading up to the Superman confrontation? Prior to that it seemed he had it under control and his biggest conflict throughout the movie seemed more to be with him coming to terms with his new body. With that being said, Cyborg's character here is much more interesting and better than it was originally. I can see why Ray Fisher is so pissed (well that and the abuse he faced).  I am glad this was improved and gave the character a lot more to do.

The movie still has the same issue as before in regards to the whole motherbox plot and how convenient it was that all three are located on earth. You would think that with the involvement of Darkseid/Steppenwolf that separating them to distinct locations across space would make it more difficult to collect them. I mean we know that the Green Lanterns exist (we saw one get chomped), you'd think that they or the guardians would take one and secure it on Oa. The pushback to this would be "well there was only one green lantern and he died, so how could they retrieve the box?" which begs my question, why send only one? I mean it has been established that Darkseid is a known conqueror of worlds, you'd think the Guardians would be smart enough to send more than one Lantern to aid Earth in their fight.  Did they not think it would be a good idea to have the corps be more involved/keep an eye on earth since it is the only planet that was able to repel Darkseid's forces?

Why is it that the best idea of security when it comes to humans is to bury it? Would it not be better in optics to look over it and know its location instead of dropping it somewhere on the off chance that someone might find it due to being  curious or the land changing/altering  making the box more easy to attain? A situation as dire/serious as this, you would think that the Amazons/Atlanteans would have been better prepped with armor/weapons for such an event. I mean you have the arrow of Artemis that shoots quite a distance to give Diana a message but not some kind of weapon that hurts/cripples Steppenwolf? Or better yet, how about the moment that the boxes started acting up after Superman's death, that Atlantis/Themiscarya would put aside any differences they had with one another and to the outside world to come together to secure the boxes?  How could Darkseid forget the name of the only planet that was able to force him to retreat? nor does he know that it harbors the anti life?

Did this movie break Aquaman's continuity? because from the dialogue between Mera and Arthur, its implied that Atlanna abandoned/left Arthur at Tom's doorsteps whereas in the movie,  we see Atlanna spend a couple of years with Tom and raising baby Arthur before she was forced to come back. You'd think Zack being a producer for the Aquaman  movie would have edited that line or made it more clear. Well that or James Wan F'ed up when making the movie.

"I've never seen a being as strong as Steppenwolf" Did Diana just forget Ares aka the god of war who killed the Greek Pantheon/Old gods and orchestrated the first World War? Hell from the looks of the flashback it seemed Ares (I'm assuming its Ares, if its Hades, my bad) was getting some good hits in on Darkseid, who is superior to Steppenwolf.  While we are on the topic of Diana, it's a bit odd that Snyder who  was a producer on WW84 where one of the biggest focuses on the movie that Patty Jenkins talked about was how Diana doesn't solve her problems with violence (even though her primary weapons in this movie are a sword and shield but okay. Then again New 52 hasn't done a good job in disproving that), yet in this movie we see her using her gauntlet smash to fucking kill the one remaining terorrist. Like sure you can argue that they were terrorists and deserve to die, but given how easy and quick it was for her to take out the previous guys, why do something that runs the risks of destroying the very building that you are in (with hostages). I mean from the look of the blast and how much debris fell from the building outside, and it was a miracle no one (but the terrorist) got hurt/killed.

Why did Steppenwolf  kidnap  them in the first place? Just use that mind extracting device you used on the Atlantean soldier to see if they know. Seems like a waste of time to collect them in one location only to interrogate them later.

Okay, I'm sorry but even in this cut I still don't like Miller's Barry Allen. He isn't as bad as he was in the theatrical cut but man does it stick out. When he is helping to escort the kidnapped civilians out, why doesn't he just grab them and transfer them to a safe distance? He even makes a comment about how slow they are going. Can I also just say how weird it is for Barry to take time saving Iris to caress her hair and look at her more creepily in slow mo? Like yeah its in slow mo but still I think your priority should be to get everyone to safety as quick as possible and check if anyone else could get hurt.  I will admit that Barry's speech as he is running so fast to reverse time at the end was really good. Tho the more I think about all the slow mo Flash scenes are good.

They still kept the "Let's use the mother box to bring back Superman plot". Why? This is a piece of tech that you don't fully understand how it works and you are going on the whims of someone you just met. Especially if they come back as a different person/mindset all together.  If Superman 's death was the reason that allowed for the Mother box to call to Steppenwolf/Darkseid, what the hell were they doing prior to Superman's arrival on earth? I mean we've seen how easy it was for Steppenwolf to attain the two boxes even if they were guarded, so why the wait ?. I get that Batman is going through an arc and trying to change from the person he was but how does go from "1% chance of absolute certainty" to "let's go on a whim and have faith" when it comes to resurrecting Superman? 

Its gonna be awkward as to how Clark will explain his sudden return from the grave around the same time Superman came back.

I was wondering when the Knightmare scene will play out. Jared leto's Joker isn't over with me, it seems way too try-hard to be edgy. Other than that yeah, not much I can say about it. Tho do we seriously need another iteration where Superman (or someone with Superman like powers) is evil?

I also love how nonchalant Bruce is about J'onn appearing in front him. However the revelation that J'onn was that army general all the time breaks so much of continuity (and just why now did you decide to show up and help and not idk the time Zod invaded and nearly  terraformed earth, HELL WHY TF DIDN'T SHOW UP TO HELP THE LEAGUE IF YOU KNEW ABOUT DARKSEID, I'M SORRY TO RAG ON BUT REALLY THIS CAMEO JUST OPENS UP SO MANY QUESTIONS, IT JUST SEEMS LIKE AN "PALPATINE WAS BEHIND THIS ALL ALONG" KIND OF THING ).

In terms of getting a sequel, I am not sure if WB is going to go through with it given that their current vision seems to be a different route than the one Snyder intended so who knows. Despite my criticisms I do believe this is Snyder's best DCEU film to date and probably one of his better films. You could tell that he put in a lot to make this. The movie itself does have issues mostly due to the plot surrounding the motherbox as well as pacing. I would say it's worth the watch at least once, though I think its best to watch it in doses rather than one sitting. Ultimately this is the version that we should have gotten and I can see why so many people who were supportive of Zack wanted or vouched for him to finish it. Regardless, I think the very least I am happy for Snyder. If you like Snyder's previous stuff, you will like this one, if you don't, your perception of the film won't change significantly other than some cool bits here and there.  

[jenna--ortega]

sorry to hear that. wow! i’ve always wanted to go to comic con! do you go regularly or was this your first time? and how was it? did you go full out with a costume? did you get to meet anyone?

how was the tour?

so you have been gifing for a while now. what was your first fandom? and what would you consider to be your “home fandom”? &do you have any favorite color schemes and fonts?

-psc secret santa anon

idk if you really like asks so if you want me to chill please tell me and i’ll only message you when it comes to your gift! 😅

Hi there! It was my second comic con 🤩 first one in the states though. Cons in US are such a huge thing, they're so well ran so as to accommodate so many people. Photos ops were so efficient like I've never seen Americans work this fast before 😅 now I see why smaller cons are better if you want to spend a little more time with your favourite celebs.

I didn't go with a costume, I just don't go to cons regularly enough currently to justify an expensive set of costume, but I do hope to do so one day. Met some cosplayers, they're really nice and the costumes are banging 😍

I went there to meet Ming-Na 🥰 she is the nicest person honestly, she takes her time, let you take selfies with her even though the staffs say no. The joy of meeting her is gonna keep me going for the next couple of years 🥹

The WB studio tour was amazing! Highly recommended if you're a fan of Harry Potter, DC or friends. And I've seen many of the shows mentioned in the tour too, even though I'm terrible at recognising anything. Learnt a lot of magic tricks used in sets, and now that I know just how damn much it is to rent in those studios, I understand why shows get cancelled all the time 🥲 I went to the Paramount one too even though I didn't plan to at first, I just had such a great time at WB. I would say Paramount is more for old Hollywood fans, there's too many movies I've heard but have never seen.

My first fandom was Castle (and it'll forever be my favourite show), it ran for like 8 years and was pretty much my life from elementary school till uni 😅 It was just something that I always looked forward to during it's run and kept me going all those years.

Not sure what "home fandom" means, but I started giffing on Tumblr with the show Agents of SHIELD (AoS) and it's sorta my home here on Tumblr. I've giffed that show so much I can recall most episodes while tagging other people's gifs (I'm usually really bad at recalling things, but it makes rewatched really fun though 🤣). How about you? Like what got you started in gif making and what is your home fandom?

Favourite colour scheme really depends on the show, like with AoS it's pretty dark and cool tone so I often go with blue & purple. I would say I like any colour but green 😅 I've had enough "trauma" with it, like I don't know how I always ended up on the green house/ team (no offense to team mixer I love you guys but I just don't vibe with that colour). Font wise I like a bold sans serif font and a fancy cursive decorative one for accent in those big gifs with text in the middle. Honestly, typography is a constant struggle.

I think asks are fun so feel free to send as many as you like 🤣

[clandestine-rabbit]

since you're 19 you lived through when homestuck was freshish right? what were cons like, I've heard a lot of crazy stories. assuming you've been to cons, sorry for asking if you haven't

I have only once been to a con but it wasn’t for the con actually, it was just to go help a friend with a photo-shoot and it turned out there was a con nearby

I’ll be honest, I have more bad stories than good stories regarding the fandom. A lot of people I met didn’t know about the game money being stolen or even about the game so they had no problem ripping Andrew apart and a lot of people took the comics so seriously I remember a fist fight breaking out in my middle school. The girl actually went to the hospital 

It’s not a good con story (like I said, we were just there for a photoshoot at a cool garden) but I can give you a happy story after this. 

so what happened was a Sollux cosplayer wasn’t getting her way and she tried to punch my friend in the face for saying no to a shippy photo

this isn’t bullshit btw; so there was this cool garden nearby and a friend group I was part of were cosplaying from you guessed it Homestuck. So there was an Aradia, Nepeta, Jade and a Travros and me the photographer; we were messing around being goofs when these other cosplayers noticed us and came over to ask if we were part of the con. We didn’t know a con was over there so we thought “yooo that’s cool” and the cosplayers invited us to go with them (I don’t remember what they were cosplaying, it was a beat’em up game)

So it was pretty cool actually, there was a lot of people of course and i got anxiety but we ended up finding a table we were allowed to chill at and the cosplayers we met actually got us some food. SO HERE’S THE SHITSHOW I noticed some Homestuck cosplayers pointing over at us and I was kinda wary of it because I’d heard my fair share of stories about cosplayers (or fans in general) being pretty feral or violent. It was the kids and 3 trolls (Karkat, Terezi, and Sollux). 

They seemed kinda nice, were super excited to see other cosplayers and we all kinda got along until my friend cosplaying Jade mentioned that no we weren’t at the con we actually were taking photos somewhere else and were just visiting. #2 Homestuck group kinda seemed to get pissed at us all, idk I was in middle school and had anxiety a lot but they gave that vibe off. We all got uncomfortable and the cosplayers that invited us to come with them were going to leave and offered us all a ride back to the gardens (it was a long walk). 

Well #2 Homestuck group asked if we could all get pictures, the camera I had belonged to my Tavros friend and they said they didn’t want to use the camera (#2 group had wanted to use it for “fancy photos”). No prob though, they said they understood and offered to use their phones. I got a really bad vibe though because the Dave cosplayer immediately asked my Jade friend if he could kiss her, not bad vibe from them necessarily she was kind and understood that my Jade friend didn’t want to. 

The Sollux though got annoyed and demanded my Jade friend do that, the Dave cosplayer tried telling him to knock it off because now it was pretty obvious we all wanted to just peace out and she did but she was still grumbling as they all got different photos. My Aradia friend didn’t want to take photos at all, she was telling us how she really wanted to get out of cosplay becuase it was hot (kudos to anyone wearing long wigs ever) and everything seemed fine but the Sollux was getting disturbingly violent and pissed about the fact we all just wanted to leave. We got the whole lecture on not being true fans or true to the cause of cosplaying and the cosplayers that invited us were starting to tell the #2 group they needed to leave already or leave us alone. 

Eventually my Aradia friend just gave up and said sure whatever but only a friendly kind of photo, the Sollux cosplayer was mad about that and saying that because canonically they were together once they had to do a shippy photo. My friend said fuck no and as she tried to leave the Sollux literally tried to punch her in the face but she ended up just hitting the side of my friend’s face, shit broke loose and security actually showed up. Turns out that group had been causing people trouble all day and had several times been warned they would be kicked out. 

So for the happy story

There was this event nearby my house for free and I went to chill out there, I had a heart player hoodie and I kept seeing this girl stare at me and I wasn’t sure why then I noticed she had these really cool homestuck socks so she was appraently trying to figure out how to come over and say hi to me. Her sister caught me by this little figures table and asked if I would come over and say hi, I did, we talked a little about our favorite trolls and she asked me about Calliope and Caliborn and it was a neat day. 

I got a lot of chocolate too so that was cool. 

[fortheloveofeos]

Okay, okay, I've read a lot, I mean it, A LOT of scenarios, headcannons, stories, etc., about chocobros x reader and stuff like that, so... What if... The s/o confesses their feelings for a chocobro, he rejectes them, and then other chocobro developes, confesses or whatever, his feelings for them, maybe even a little fight or argument due to how the first chocobro could reject them. Am I expressing correctly??? PD. I like your writing so much!!! And... I love Prompto!!!

Okay, so this is round 2 and I really hope this is more of what you had in mind. I do seriously love me some sweet Prompto but I also love me some badass Prompto. So…idk I did both. Anyways, I hope you like this! 

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When you awoke that morning to the sound of the birdschirping, you inhaled deeply and reminded yourself that today was the day.Today was the day that you were going to waltz up to Gladiolus Amicitia andtell him once for all that you…liked him.

               Six,you were utterly hopeless.

               In allfairness, you thought to yourself as you changed from your pajamas beforeemerging from the tent, your hopes weren’t set very high. You had noexpectations for Gladio to return your feelings. He was the king’s Shield andyou both understood and respected that. You admired the young man’s dedicationand determination when it came to defending and protecting his friend and youngruler. However, you felt that by keeping your feelings from him you were onlycausing yourself more hurt. You were strong enough to continue the journey asfriends once you had spilled your heart. You had to tell him.

               Ignissat sipping a steaming cup of Ebony and pointed you to a covered plate ofbreakfast. You half expected him to chastise you for sleeping in late knowingthat you had plans for the day. However, the only conversation that emergedwhile you ate your breakfast was his polite questions about your late-nighthunt with the shield that had kept you out until that morning. Having finishedyour breakfast, you helped clean up the mess from breakfast before setting offin search of Gladio.

               Youknew him well enough after your weeks of traveling together to know that he wasmore than likely getting some early morning training in before they were topack up camp and set out for the day. Not far from the Haven was a smallclearing just beside the cooling river and you set your course hoping you wereright. Once you cleared the tree line, you were pleased to find the man inquestion doing push-ups, Prompto seated on his back as he scrolled through hiscamera roll. You waved to the cheery blond, the shift in his weight drawing agrumble from Gladio before he spotted you.

               Gladiolusmotioned for Prompto to get off his back before dusting himself off andoffering you a smile. “Morning,” he stretched and summed his broadsword,resting it on his shoulder.

               “Goodmorning,” you attempted to keep the stress and worry from your voice. Gladioseemed oblivious to any sort of change but Prompto shot you a curious glance. “CanI have a moment with the big guy, Prom?”

               “What’sup?” Now you had Gladio’s full attention. It was difficult for you to keep yourcomposure when he looked at you like that – amber eyes glowing like honeywhiskey in the morning light and filled with concern for you. Six damn him and his good looks.

               Nodding,you took a few steps forward and fiddled with a loose string on your shirt justso you could occupy your hands. “Yeah, everything is fine.” You paused for amoment as you tried to think of the correct words. You didn’t want to mess upyour one shot at being honest with him. “Actually, I want to talk to you aboutsomething.” Gladio’s brow creased in thought as he looked at you a moment.Finally, he nodded for you to continue. “First, let me say that I have lovedhunting and traveling with you guys. Really, it’s been amazing and I’ve learneda lot – mostly from you.” You ripped the loose string from your shirt andtwisted it through your fingers. “I don’t want to upset you with this, but I’vegot to be honest.” Taking a deep breath, you straightened your spine and lookedthe human mountain carefully in the eye. “I’ve developed…feelings…for you,” youtrailed off unsure of if you had said it correctly. There was no taking it backnow.

               Gladio’seyes widened slightly – the only indication that he had even heard you. After amoment of awkward silence, he exhaled deeply before sticking is sword into theground. “I…well,” he crossed his arms and looked away from you, his eyesclearly focused on something you couldn’t see. “Don’t get me wrong,” he finallylooked back at you, his expression not unkind, “you really are a great person.And one hell of a fighter, too. I just can’t…risk anything right now.” Hechewed on his lip for a moment. “Noctis has to come first. I can’t run the riskof caring for someone enough that they could jeopardize that and I think youdeserve someone that can give you his heart completely. That ain’t me,sweetheart.”

               You hadexpected that. You knew in your own heart that Gladio wouldn’t agree to anysort of a relationship with you because of who he was and you weren’t one ofthose girls he would whisk from the bar those nights in Lestallum. At least youknew he cared for you more than that. However, you felt the familiar prick atthe corner of your eyes and you hurriedly tried to turn your face and hide theoncoming tears. You didn’t want him to feel sorry for you.

               “Hey,”Gladio’s voice had softened. He had seen the tears and he was slowlyapproaching you. “I-I didn’t mean…I just –“

               “I getit,” you took a few steps back from the shield, refusing to meet his gaze. “Really,Gladdy. I’ll be fine.” With that, you spun on your heals and hurried from theclearing. You ran forward, not in the direction of the Haven, but to somewherewhere you could cry out your pained tears and then move on. That was what youhad to do.

               The onslaughtof tears had blocked your vision and you stumbled once before a steadying gripfound your wrist. “Whoa, easy there,” a familiar chuckle greeted you. Embarrassed,you tried to hide your face but a gentle grip from a leather-clad hand turnedyour face so that you were forced to reveal your sorrow. “What’s wrong?”Prompto’s voice was soft as he gently cradled your head. His violet eyes werefilled with so much concern that your heart ached at the sight – why couldn’tyou love him. The sweet, gentle,caring, and surprisingly strong and loyal photographer and best friend. Unableto say anything, you let Prompto pull you in so that your head rested on hisshoulder. He gently shushed you and whispered into your ear as the silent tearsmade tracks down your cheeks. You would be lying if you said you didn’t carefor the man holding you as you cried, you just weren’t sure how much.

               Finally,the tears stopped and you pulled back wiping at your eyes. “Thanks,” youmumbled, slightly embarrassed from your emotional display. You did feel betterhaving cried your heart out, though. You were sure you could go on and pretendeverything was normal now. Or you would at least try.

               Promptonodded, his eyes hardening as he watched you try to compose yourself. Without aword, he rushed passed you back towards the clearing. You called out to him buthe barreled through the undergrowth of the forest with little concern. “Whatthe hell is wrong with you?” He screamed as he broke into the clearing. Noctiswas there sparring with Gladiolus while Ignis looked on appraising the king’sefforts.

               Gladioblinked at Prompto but didn’t say anything. When he caught sight of you stumblinginto the clearing behind him, you thought you saw his eyes soften. “Prompto,what’s up?” Noctis looked at his friend with pure confusion. Ignis cocked aneyebrow but remained quiet.

               “Whatis wrong with you?” Prompto repeated his words as he approached Gladio. Hishands were clenched at his sides so hard that his knuckles turned white. Younoticed a spark of blue light as if he were fighting the urge to summon his ownweapon. “How can you not see that you’re hurting her?” He was no longer screaming.He was so quiet, you nearly missed his words.

               Youlooked from Prompto, so angry his pale skin was flushed nearly paper whitemaking his freckles stick out even more, to Gladio who looked completelyfloored and…guilty, maybe. His eyes, always the most expressive part of him,were troubled and seemed to focus on you rather than the man shaking withanger. “I didn’t mean to hurt her. I just can’t be what she needs,” Gladioshook his head, his dark hair falling over his shoulders. There was a moment ofwhite hot anger than burned through your veins but it quickly fizzled out to a sadnessat the turmoil you saw filter across his features.

               Promptogroaned, raking a gloved hand through his aready messy hair. “What the helldoes that even mean, dude? You’re not the one that just had to hold her whileshe cried. Watch her while she’s tried notto flirt with you while you just kept pushing the situation.” He pointed afinger at Gladio’s chest before Prompto pushed it against his chest. “Now she’spaying for it.”

               Gladiolooked at Prompto – the height difference was nearly comical – for a momentbefore he replied. “And I’m sorry,” he looked at you as he spoke.

               “Sorry?You’re sorry?” Before anyone saw it coming, Gladio included, Prompto hadconneted his fist against his stubbled jaw. You were surprised Prompto was ableto pack a punch hard enough to force Gladio’s face to the side and have himstumble back a step, rubbing at the forming bruise. “That’s what I think aboutyour apology.” Before he could swing again, you grabbed Prompto’s hand andpulled him with you.

               Ignistook off his glasses to clean them as he watched the two of you disappear. “Wellthat was rather unexpected.”

               “Youcan say that again,” Noctis looked at both his Shield and his advisor.

               Promptostumbled along behind you. His hand obviously began to regain feeling as heshook it out between cradling it gingerly in his hand. “Prompto,” you sighedbefore finally pulling him down onto the soft ground within sight of the Havenbut still hidden in the shade of the large trees. You pulled out a low-levelblizzard spell and popped the bottle so that some of the magic inside pouredonto the ground. You gathered some of the ice and pressed it against his handthrough the leather of his gloves. “Thank you,” you mumbled.

               Thenormally bubbly young man nodded and chewed the inside of his cheek as hewatched you cradle his hand. “Of course,” he finally brought his violet eyes upto yours, a small smile tugging at his slightly chapped pink lips. “I can’tstand seeing you upset. It…it breaks my heart into a thousand pieces.” Usinghis uninjured hand, he gently cupped your face and ran his thumb over yoursmiling lips. Chuckling, he chook his head sending his blonde fringe out of hiseyes. “Gladio’s got one hell of a jaw, though.” He experimentally flexed histhrobbing hand.

               Thelaugh that broke free from your chest was true and happy. “At least it isn’t asharp as it looks,” you joked as you re-iced his hand.

               “Ha ha,”he chuckled as he watched you. You felt his gaze on you as you worked but youtook your time before you looked up. You watched as his Adam’s apple bobbed.You hadn’t realized he had gotten so close. “I love it when you smile,” hewhispered as he searched your eyes for something. Prompto carefully leaned inand you felt your heart hammer away in your chest. You closed your eyesexpecting to feel his lips on yours. Finally, you felt a warmth on yourforehead.

               Youreyes fluttered open as Prompto pulled you closer so that you were leaningagainst him. “I get it, I really do,” he promised and you knew he wasreferencing your feelings for Gladio. But that didn’t explain the way you heartwas still beating wildly at his proximity. “I’m just asking for a chance here.”

               Shocked,you pulled back to get a better picture of him. The earnestness of hisexpression and the light pink that tinted his cheeks was so adorable it washard for you not to smile. “Okay,” you nodded and unconsciously gripped his hand.

               Promptoyelped as he pulled his hand back but the broad grin on his face told you hewasn’t angry. In fact, you weren’t sure you had ever seen him so happy. “I canwork with that,” he jumped up and brought you to your feet with him. “I may notbe an Amacitia, but this plebe’s full of surpsies,” he promised as he pulledyou in for a hug.

               “I’msure,” you laughed. For the second time that day you found your head restingcarefully against his shoulder, tucked against his neck.