#if it was their evil masterplan all along…

[banzaitaka]

Mahito x male! reader (platonic)

Continuation of Pretty Stranger

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Firsts

Mahito‘s mismatched eyes went from the ugly child drawings on the wall opposite to him to the artist, who just ran into his room and shut the door behind him with yet another giggle. You‘d think that was the only noise he could make by how often he did it. The curse didn‘t mind it though. This was all part of the new experience.

“Papa and Moddy are distracted! They won‘t come to catch us during our secret meeting.“, (Y/N) grinned widely and went to sit next to the curse his imaginary friend. Once again Mahito laughed at how stupid and naive humans were, but Mahito himself had just enough child-like energy inside to play along. Let‘s see where this goes!

A secret meeting with a seven-year old human. Another first.

For a moment, Mahito thought back to the bouquet of roses he had recieved mere hours prior. How the limbs of an unfortunate human came to serve the new purpose of holding the roses on the sewer walls. Forming their soul into vine-like shapes was yet another first, one he greatly enjoyed. This child showed promise, Mahito was sure. The thought of new experiences kept him all smiley and observant.

“So…(Y/N)“, Mahito leaned back, using his hands as support against the galaxy themed sheets, “Have you thought of a name for me?“ That‘s how imaginary friends worked, right? The children come up with a being, deciding on appearance, background, personality,…He wondered if (Y/N) knew about that. He might figure out the truth. But when? How? This is fun.

The child practically leaped onto his bed, landing on his stomach right next to the curse, “Hmmmm…“, he made a show about thinking, forefinger tapping on his chin and everything, while rolling onto his back before sitting up. Almost mockingly, though unintentional.

“I don’t like giving people names. They themselves know what suits them best!”, the child ended up admitting, blushing embarrassed as he looked down to his feet, “And…I don’t want to insult you with names…” His toes curled up and released over and over. What an interesting little quirk. Mahito hummed, “People tend to name things after prominent features. I’m curious to hear what sticks out to you the most.”

Their eyes locked, and the child mistook the twinkle in the other’s eyes as friendliness.

“Well…I like your stitches.”, (Y/N) pulled his legs onto the bed to sit on his knees, “And there is this little alien called Stitch. I love Stitch. He’s really cute, but actually he used to be very very evil and bad. Then he got adopted as a puppy and then he belonged to a family!” Mahito hummed yet again, intruiged, “Stitch, hm?”

Not as embarrassed anymore, the boy nodded with a bright smile, “I always wanted a friend like Stitch!” “Is that so?”

The curse leaned forward to rest his head on his hand, “My name is Stitch then!”, he declared with a smile, making the young boy’s eyes twinkle in excitement. The bed began to shake softly at (Y/N)’s bobbing, “Would you really!?”

“Of course.”, and for the first time ever, he pulled the boy close to him, one hand wrapped around his back, one hand stroking his hair. Immediately, he felt the little arms of the child wrap around him as well, squeezing his torso. It felt warm and nice, like a hot bath. Hot baths were better though. Easier accessable, easier to maintain.

Mahito gazed down at the human in his arms who had his face buried into his chest. This gullibility must be a trait of the younger ones. It was astounishing how readily the child played into his lazily laid out hand. There was no masterplan behind all that, Mahito was winging all of it, deciding the route as he went. At least Junpei was a little wary, he was also older though.

That made Mahito wonder; At what age does this gullibility stop? Can they be taught to stay gullible, or to get out of it immediately?

The curse liked how easy (Y/N) was to play with, but this game was sure to turn boring someday. And what then? He’ll just have to wait and see.

One thing was sure though, he will mold the child the way he wanted. And for the first time, not in the physical sense.

[kittykatthatbitesback]

Hazbin Hotel Beach Trip! Headcanons ;)

Characters: Charlie, Vaggie, Alastor, Angeldust, Husk, Sir Pentious, Vox, Lucifer, Adam, and Cherri Bomb

A/N: Y'all guess who's already ready for summer to start? These are gonna be my first headcanons, I had so much fun creating them, enjoy <3

Charlie 🐐🫶

The optimistic Princess of Hell loooves going to the beach

Growing up in the sweltering armpit of Hell has caused her to love the heat, but also crave the refreshing coolness of the salty ocean

Has so much fun slashing in the waves and dragging a resistant Vaggie into the water with her

“Come on Vaggie, it will be so FUUNNNNN, ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh”

Brings all sorts of fun toys and trinkets to play with at the beach

Volleyball, beachball, speaker, sand castle buckets and shovels, floaties, and a surf board

Is currently struggling to learn how to surf, but is determined to get good at it

Wears the most extravagant, tropical, neon pink swimsuit

Would definitely start an epic game of Marco Polo with the others

Her competitive nature would cause the game to escalate quickly into a war-like battle

Will be in a good mood for the next couple of days because she is so grateful that she can go to the beach with her friends and experience this mini vacation

Vaggie ❌🥀

Vaggie is very much like a cat in water, she is practically hydrophobic

Has a thick layer of sunscreen, the largest sunglasses and sun hat, and will only stay underneath an umbrella

Stands in the sand with her arms cross refusing to get even a drop of water on her

Is wearing one of those scuba gear under suits, all black stretching down her arms and legs so that if water does get on her it doesn’t actually touch her skin

If someone tries to drag her into the ocean, the ex-angel grounds her feet into the sand, taking a battle stance, and threatens to gouge out their eyes

Unlessss it’s Charlie

For Charlie she will do anything

Despite her disdain for the water, watching Charlie have fun splashing in the waves causes a slight smile to form on her face, cracking her previous resting bitch face

Will go as far as to build sand castles and catch tiny crabs for Charlie so that she can please her

Tries helping her learn how to surf but is also is terrible at it

Alastor 🦌📻

Alastor originally said he wasn’t going to go on this beach trip, yet somehow was found already lying on a beach chair by the time everyone arrived at the beach

Is wearing a Hawaiian T-shirt and red trunks

Brought a mini radio to drown out Charlie’s obnoxiously loud speaker, although ends up being isolated since no one else wants to listen to his old-time corny jazz music

Even though it’s lowkey a vibe

Actually prefers to have this new 50 feet radius of isolation, although Vox sometimes will sneak up on him to kick sand at him

Goes full on Radio Demon mode causing Vox to freeze in fear and slowly back up back to the rest of the group

Doesn’t go into the water and instead spends his time sunbathing to brainstorm evil masterplans like taking over Hell and ruining Vox’s life

Will send his shadows to go check up on the others’ beach adventures but will stick to himself

Also uses this time to practice his singing, specifically to the song “We’ll Meet Again”

Angeldust 🕷️❤️‍🔥

Definitely is using his relaxation time to show off his new, sexy, hot pink thong

Is matching with Cherri and they’re serving cunt

Lies down on the towel in promiscuous poses to catch a certain grey cat’s eyes

Dances and makes choreographies with Cherri and Nifty to Charlie’s music

Snuck alcohol and drugs in that Charlie had to take away for the sake of “One normal vacation trip!”

“Aw come awn Charlie, a little fun never hurt no one”

Charlie does not buy this and refuses to let Angel turn this beach trip into something else

Walks along the beach shore to flirt with other beach goers and ends being a cheerleader for some hot hunks playing volleyball

Is dragged back to Charlie and the others by a very annoyed Husk

Husk 🐈‍⬛🍸

Being a cat, obviously is not a huge fan of the water

Really only went for the company of a certain spider

Keeps his eye on him underneath his dark sunglasses, making sure Angeldust doesn’t get into some serious trouble

Was the one who helped Angeldust sneak the alcohol in and argues with Charlie that she can’t take away the alcohol because it’s his

“Charlie I swear to Satan, you better not throw away my supply of alcohol that’s for the hotel” “Then why would you bring it here?” Husk is left dumbfounded and ends up chugging it all down ignoring Charlie’s protests

Drunk Husk tries to play volleyball with the others, ends up stumbling around and falls into the sand after being hit in the face with the ball

Drunk Husk also exposes his jealous nature and after he sees Angel flirting with the hunks he stomps over to drag a whiney Angel back

Sir Pentious 🐍🥚

Treats this trip as if it was a super important team mission, checking up constantly on the others and not resting until everything is perfect

Came to the beach in his blue soldier blazer and refuses to take it off even when swimming in case “a violent battle commences!”

Being a cold-blooded reptile, he ends up sunbathing for hours straight up raw: no sunscreen, no sunglasses, no umbrella or tent, bro is NOT afraid of a little sun

But is very much afraid of his Egg Bois boiling in the sun so as a precaution prior to the trip he engineered a clear cooler to fill with cold water that can drive around the beach kind of like a space rover

“My neeeeww invention called the Ultimate 360 Beach Sssimulator! allowsss for my Egg Boiss to sssee through the plexiglass walls and ssee their ssurroundings while sstimulating the wavessss of the ocean with cold water and hydro jetss! As well, there isss a waterproof joystick inside sso that they may maneuver wherever they pleasse!” “Thanks boss! I feel so relaxed and refreshed!” “Anything for my preciousss babiesss”

Can rest now that his Egg Bois are guaranteed to not cook in the sun

Being a snake he thinks it’s fun to pretend to be an electric eel and play pranks on the others

Specifically on Cherri

Until she decides to absolutely obliterate him and stomped on him slithering through the water

It hurt but he lowkey was into it 😉

Vox ⚡️📺

The beach is not exactly Vox’s thing, and no one understand why he tagged along on this beach trip

Being an actual TV, he begins to overheat and his screen starts glitching and flashing random colors  (uh oh the TV’s buffering!)

He also can’t be in the water… because he is a LITERAL TV

This is the one time he feels insecure about himself because he is unable to do practically anything at the beach

Put on sunscreen? No, that would mess up his hardwire. Build sandcastles? No, the sand would clog up his cracks. Play volleyball? No, the ball might crack his screen.

At least he looked good, he specifically bought holographic trunks, although he only wore them for 20 minutes because had to leave early

Was so glad to be back in air conditioning and far away from any large body of water

Lucifer 🪽🐤

The King of Hell acts like the most stereotypical tourist at this tropical beach, my god

Is of course wearing a bright red and orange Hawaiian t-shirt with a pink lei hanging around his neck, and came with a digital camera to take photos of the whole experience

“We’re going to remember this forever! Everyone say Satan!” 📸

Brought a bunch of his rubber duckies to float with him in the ocean

This white as hell angel needs a whole three inch layer of sunscreen all over his body, and brought a whole ass tent which he magically set up in a flash with his “pure angelic poweeer”

Was the most excited to go on this trip and is already freaking out over the fact that there’s a snow cone truck by the shore

“I want to get a large one with Tiger’s Blood and watermelon syrup and—oh Charlie, look, they have a piña colada flavor too!”

It’s obvious Charlie gets her optimism from her father

Is running around the beach trying to do everything he could in the time that they had

Adam 🎸🤘

The first man is definitely living out his hot dilf summer

Brought beer and ends up hanging out with those hunks Angeldust was flirting with earlier

Has a cap on backwards, sunglasses, typical frat guy look, but is honestly looking pretty rad

Blaring rock from his boombox he dragged all the way to the beach

“LET’S PARTYYY!! WOOHOOOO”

Brought some fishing lines as well to catch fish with his fellow “bros” just for him to slack off and accidently have his line get snatched into the ocean by some strong fish

Could care less and is only here for a good time

Cherri Bomb 🍒💣

The bad ass Aussie sure knows how to have some fun at a beach

Has lots of practice back in Australia surfing, so is obviously a boss at this and throws her bombs in the ocean to create the most massive waves to ride on

Literally so cool, although she ends up nearly drowning everyone and it was at this point that Vox decided to leave

Is matching with Angeldust with her hot pink cunty bikini

Helped sneak in Angel’s flasks and stashed some drugs by hiding them inside her swimsuit bra

Is crazy energetic, has so much energy throughout this entire trip, that even afterwards on the car ride home she is belting songs at the top of her lungs

Yet when they arrive back at the hotel she is the first to pass out on the sofa

[apoloadonisandnarcissus]

“Rings of Power” 2x08 (Season Finale) - Speculation and Clues

As promised, and since I've correctly guessed so many plot twists in 2x07, I’ll try my luck in speculate what will go down in the finale. But I’m putting my clown make-up on this time around, because *that scene* left me baffled and wondering if the show producers will give us anymore of that random shock value bullsh*t "Game of Thrones" style.

What's confirmed for Episode 8/Season 2 Finale?

Númenor plot: The Faithful (to the Valar) are declared traitors; and Isildur kisses Estrid and asks her to go with him to Númenor 

The Dwarves of Khazad-dûm dig out the Balrog 

The Stranger meets the Dark Wizard of Rhûn 

Battle of Eregion

Sauron vs. Galadriel 

Númenor Plot

To me, this will be one of those “Season 3 prep-up" plots of the finale. Mostly because, in Season 3, Sauron will, likely, dwell in the kingdoms of Men to find the Nine ring-bearers for his masterplan.  

"The Stranger" Identity

In Season 2 finale we’ll get the reveal of “The Stranger” identity mystery box, when he’ll find his wizard staff and earn his name. Gandalf. Because, lets’ face it, everyone saw that coming from a mile away, and ever since Season 1 there have been clues that “The Stranger = Gandalf”.  

And as I’ve said before, I’m kind of disappointed, because I was hoping for him to turn out to be one of the Blue Wizards.  

Unsure if the “Dark Wizard" identity will be revealed. But since the clownery is lose, I’ll go ahead and say the Dark Wizard of Rhûn can turned out to be Saruman, after all, even if it doesn’t make any sense, and Saruman was a member of the White Council and only joined Sauron after "The Hobbit" timeline, because why not? Apparently, everything is possible and Elves just casually kiss each other on lips, now. 

Battle of Eregion: Celebrimbor’s Death 

Celebrimbor won't come out alive from Season 2. Sadly. The big question here is: will Sauron kill Celebrimbor, himself? I've already discussed this in my "Season 2 red herrings" post, but I'm inclined to believe that "Sauron killing Celebrimbor" might be a red herring in itself. Mostly because, and even though Sauron did tortured Celebrimbor, he still has respect and admiration for him, as a fellow craftsman. And besides, Sauron hates frivolous friction and wastefulness; he’s Lawful Evil, every action of his has a purpose. I can be completely wrong here, but this is my bet.  

In the books, it is said that Celebrimbor is killed by Sauron and the Orcs turn him into a banner. But the catch is: the Orcs aren’t led by Sauron in the show, so it is possible that it’s Adar (and not Sauron) who kills Celebrimbor?  

I think we have two possible scenarios here: 

Sauron kills Celebrimbor after him disclosing the location of the Nine rings of power, and he goes after Galadriel OR because he refuses to reveal where the Nine are;

Adar kills Celebrimbor in Elrond’s presence: making come full circle Elrond’s father prophecy that, one day, Celebrimbor’s life would be on his hands, which was mentioned in both Season 1 and 2x04. 

Battle of Eregion: “Durin will come”. Or won’t he? 

I already speculated that the Dwarves would only join the Battle of Eregion in 2x08, and with the showrunners “deus ex machina” them, and have them arriving when everything seems to be lost and that all Elves are going to die (pretty much like the Knights of Rohan in Battle of Helm's Deep in “The Two Towers”).

However. There have been some references to Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy in “Rings of Power”, and we have Elrond telling Aragorn something along the lines of Dwarves caring only about themselves and blind to the troubles of others (even though this Elrond’s opinion has no base in what Tolkien wrote). So, will Durin, actually, come? 

My guess is: yes. Because we know neither Elrond nor Gil-galad will die, but Eregion will fall, all the same.  

Balrog of Moria - "Durin's Bane"

By bet is: Durin III, guided by his ring of power (controlled by Sauron), will dig out the Balrog himself. And like in the books, the Balrog will kill him, and earn the nickname “Durin’s bane”.

And that’s pretty much it for the Balrog plotline: the Balrog just wants to chill on the mines and be left alone.

Sauron/Galadriel - "Last Temptation"

I've already speculated about this scene quite a bit: I did a megathread on it, after all: Part 1; Part 2 (after 2x07, many of it has been erased); and some wild crack theories Part 3 and Plot Twist Kiss - I'll just throw this last one in for fun and laughs, or if someone wants prompts for fanfiction).

I’ll start by saying, Sauron and Galadriel scenes at the finale will either be: (1) a major anticlimactic letdown, or (2) mind-blowing revelations. I don’t think there will be a middle ground, here. And I would advise every shipper to go into the finale with no expectations whatsoever, in order not to get disappointed. 

What's confirmed for this scene?

Galadriel and Sauron will fight; 

Sauron wants the Nine rings of power, and Celebrimbor gave them to Galadriel in 2x07, so he’ll want to retrieve them from her.

There'll, probably, be visions, too, since 2x04 already teased the "return of King Halbrand", and Charlie Vickers said that Sauron still believes he can get Galadriel to join him.

I’ve already presented all the foreshadowing from 2x01-2x06 leading up to this scene on my megathread, so I’ll talk about 2x07, alone. So, we had: (1) the shock value E+G kiss, (2) Galadriel witnessing Adar performing a funeral ritual to the Orcs and (3) her emotional exchange with Celebrimbor, where she admits that she did want to accept Sauron’s proposal in 1x08, and she desired what he offered her (to be his queen). Then Celebrimbor tells her: "It's not strength that overcomes darkness but light. For in its presence, all darkness must flee.” 

This can foreshadow three outcomes (aside from her “Lady of the Light” character arc): 

Galadriel has found resolve, and will outright resist Sauron;

Season 1 finale rehash: Galadriel temporally succumbs, but snaps out of it;

Galadriel might believe she can actually redeem or keep Sauron “in check” with her Light, and goes with him (this one is just wild to me, but it’s one of the interpretations I took from her scene with Brimby). 

Personally, I’m guessing the “last temptation” can go down: 

The anticlimactic let-down: they fight; Sauron bombards Galadriel with visions, retrieves the Nine when she’s either distracted by his illusions or by force, Galadriel resists him, and he probably leaves her for dead or something. There: all the foreshadowing throughout the season turns out to be red herrings, and the OST title ("last temptation") isn't a red herring, at all;

The “Major revelations” scenario: Sauron and Galadriel disclose the extent of their true feelings for each other (explicitly stated or highly implied), with Sauron revealing that the connection they shared when Galadriel believed him to be “just Halbrand” wasn’t a deception on his part (“Halbrand is Sauron” also appears to be a theme this season).

Most likely scenarios on how this scene might end:

Sauron takes the Nine and leaves Galadriel for dead or badly injured; 

Sauron walks away with the Nine, leaving Galadriel unarmed and saved; 

Galadriel’s sacrifice: Galadriel reluctantly joins Sauron, to “keep him in check” and save Middle-earth.

Honestly, my expectations are so low at the moment, I’m not even going to place any bets here.

Will Adar survive Season 2?

I already did a speculation post on Adar’s fate, where I theorize that Adar will die at Sauron’s hands but not before witnessing him becoming Lord of Mordor. Right now, and after that WTF moment in 2x07, I’m not sure of anything. 

If Adar and Sauron run into each other in 2x08, I believe Adar is toasted and won’t make it to Season 3, that’s my guess. 

[myrquez]

ok fanculo mi ci butto dentro

Bezz not understanding why or how he ended up staring at Fabio’s necklace so intensely and slowly giving in to the desire to touch it while boing in the cool down room and realising a second too late he’s on camera, he got caught trailing his fingers along Fabio’s neck, hurriedly saying sorry and making his way to the podium, camera filming a cool down room with a shocked Fabio and a smirking Marc

once they’re all on the podium (in my mind palace Bezz won) Fabio and Marc share a look of complicity and as soon as they can they surround Bezz and drench him completely, champagne running down his leathers and into his mouth in a oh so obscene way not even the filthiest rosquez podium ever got so unholy.

Bezz just stays there and takes it because he’s so fuckin lost he can’t move or protest (not that he would) and lets the champagne run down his curls and throat, swallowing it all to get out of the embarrassment of being on live TV

later that night he meets Fabio and Marc at the club which both use the same move from the podium by closing him between their bodies, Fabio proudly showing his pearl necklace with his shirt completely open and marching wearing a t-shirt so thighs he can barely breathe just to show off his biceps

They end up fucking in Bezz’s hotel room because it’s the one closer to the club and because Vale is in the same hotel and he will get so fucking pissed off Marc will laugh for weeks

il tuo cervello enorme gigante pazzesco te lo sto giurando su cristo mi prudono le mani perché in inglese non riesco a sclerarci come si deve ma

i’m OBSESSED bc wdym champagne porn on a podium, marc and fabio spraying it on bezz’s tongue and around his mouth and watching him swallow it like the good boy he is.

also vale’s hotel room HAS to be right next to bezz’s one, and marc has to know this bc ofc he bribes fabio into his evil masterplan, and they end up truly giving their all as in mouth tongue hands fingers and dick to make sure bezz’s noises come out as loud as possible. bed’s slamming into the wall both rooms share and all that.

nice. now write it (pls)

[blender2902]

IN DEFENCE OF QUEEN MARIKA PART 1: THE GUIDANCE OF GRACE-

Welcome to the first part of my Elden Ring lore series where I defend Queen Marika from slander. For the past 2 and a half years she has gotten a lot of unfair shit thrown at her, most of which she never did. With this series I hope to prove that Queen Marika loves Godfrey and all her kids excluding Radahn, Rykard(cuz they are Radagon’s not hers. I do think there is something going on between her and ranni tho.) and godrick( no one does tbf). But to do that I must first analyse the guidance of grace and then refute the many allegations thrown at her due to that. I will be using logic and evidence for most of my analysis, if I see a flaw with what I provide, I will say so. If I don’t feel free to point that out.

(Disclaimer: I am not trying to say that ‘Queen Marika did nothing wrong’ as that would be stupid and a massive disservice to the writing. What I am trying to do is portray Marika's complexity using evidence that I have seen no one else use and to clear her name of the crimes she did not commit. She is objectively a bad person just like every major character in the game but just like them she is complex, except her complexity is much higher than the rest in my humble opinion. Her complexity is far more than just ‘tragic past boo hoo’ and I want to show just that with this series.)

If you have any disagreements with my logic or you see that I have missed a piece of evidence then feel free to point that out. Either my delusions break or yours do and both are a win for me! Please present your arguments pointwise though as that will make arguing a lot easier.

DEBUNKING THE GUIDANCE OF GRACE ALLEGATIONS:-

The nature of grace is left pretty vague by the game. What matters to us is, what does it tell us about Marika? I have seen many people claim that Marika has complete control over grace hence she guides us to kill her kids in cold blood to fulfil her own selfish desires. There are several factual and logical problems with this argument. For the sake of this analysis, I will do 2 things 1) Go along with the perspective that Marika has complete control over grace and where it guides us. I will prove that if this is the case, then Marika’s motives simply can’t be selfish by using logic and evidence. 2) I will give an alternate interpretation of the nature of grace based on in-game evidence. What I want to prove is that Marika loves her kids, but besides maybe Ranni, she doesn’t love the Carian demigods since they are not her own children but Radagon’s. She doesn’t love Godrick either(no one does tbf again lol).   

1) Let’s go along with the narrative that Marika controls grace completely.

So the first question we must ask is why is she guiding us?

Well, the answer is clear, she wants Radagon and Elden beast to killed. Everyone can agree on that. Now, what is her motive for wanting them killed? I have seen some answers painting Marika as some Machiavellian Evil Mastermind, so let’s debunk them one by one-

She wanted to rule eternally even as a husk: Ok so, there are many holes in this answer that refute it.        

1) The biggest hole is that even after we inherit the frenzied flame, we still have the guidance of grace. If she wanted to rule eternally, why would she allow someone who inherited the frenzied flame, you know the thing that fucking destroys the entire fucking world all the way down to the fucking spirits. Why in the name of fuck would anyone who wants to selfishly rule eternally ever guide the dumbass who is willing to destroy the world including her. Her guiding the tarnished even after inheriting the frenzied flame alone refutes all claims of ‘Marika had a masterplan that after Radagon and Elden beast were killed she would blah blah blah’ but I am not done destroying this line of thinking just yet. Also, don’t even try to argue ‘Oh it’s a game Mechanic not lore accurate’ as that would also apply to grace itself so you are refuting your own argument.

2) If ruling for eternity was her goal then why did she shatter the Elden Ring? She had zero fucking threats to her rule. I have legit seen someone say that she felt threatened by Miquella as he was a prime candidate to replace. Now that argument is just plain dumb because 1) Miquella had to go to the shadow lands and do a whole bunch of fucked up bullshit to himself to even be able to ascend which he was able to do only because of Mohg and we know from Freja’s questline that Miquella was doing the stuff at Mohgwyn after the battle of Aeonia, so don’t tell me that Marika got scared as fucked of what Miquella was going to do and 2) even if Miquella had gone to the shadow land and had ascended what the fuck would he do without Radahn being there. All Marika would have to do in this fictional scenario is to keep Radahn alive which would be easy considering how strong he is. 3) She can just send Malekith to kill Miquella if she felt so threatened. The other empereans were Malenia (who is loyal to Miquella and shows no interest in becoming a god) and Ranni, who is literally fucking dead. Why would she take everything down when she has nothing to feel threatened with? The only other argument I have seen for this is that Radagon was usurping her so she wanted him gone, which has the major problem of - SHE WOULD BE IN THE SAME GODDAMN POSITION AT THE END OF THIS PLAN AS SHE WOULD BE IF SHE HADN’T DONE THIS EXCEPT, SHE WOULDN’T BE FUCKING CRUCIFIED. Like ok, so she did not want to be a tool of Radagon so she instead plans on becoming a tool for the tarnished? The latter is way worse than the former because 1) she is a fucking husk and at least in the former she wouldn’t have that pain and 2) Let’s face it, 90% of us are degenerates including me and our player character would reflect that, why would anyone want us to control them. Again, all of this is assuming she even had control during Radagon’s age and was all around malicious both of which I think is untrue (I will discuss this in another post in the future).

There is a lot more I could say to refute this answer but these two points should be more than enough.

She had a plan to ascend to a higher being somehow:

1) Again, the frenzied flame argument refutes this

2) So we are just assuming that she can ascend further even though zero things say that? Yeah. I think I am done with this answer.

So, what does she want from us? I believe that she only wants us to go kill the Radagon and Elden beast. Radagon is keeping the world in purgatory via his seal whether it be by his own will or the Elden beast’s depending on your interpretation so her wanting them to be killed is not really selfish especially considering that she would also die. Now at many points in the game the light of grace guides us. What does this tell us about Marika? Let’s take a deep look.

Here is the Elden Ring map with all graces active:

UNDERGROUND:

DLC:

Let’s analyse where grace guides us and prove that Marika’s motives for each case is born out of love (even if its morally complex) and is never selfish using simple logic. I am excepting Godrick and the Carian demigods (except maybe Ranni) as I believe she is apathetic towards them. We are going from hardest to explain to easiest to explain-

DLC: I have 2 explanations here.

1) I have seen many claim that Marika just wanted Miquella killed for some self-serving reason but this just logically cannot be true. Grace stays with us even after we inherit the frenzied flame which would destroy everything including Marika and reset the world so we can’t logically argue that she has any plans for her future. Therefore, the only sensible motive for her guiding us towards Miquella is to free him from godhood. Lets look specifically at where she is guiding us in the dlc:-

Something very interesting to note here is that she only starts guiding us if we rest at the divine beast arena. She never guides us in any other open world area other than ancient ruins of rauh. If her intent from the moment we entered was to kill Miquella then we would have been guided in gravesite plains or scadu altus but no, we get guided when we kill divine beast at which point she realises what Miquella has fallen into. This suggests that she does not want us here at all but after seeing that Miquella is going to fall in the same trap as her, she makes the choice to end his suffering before it begins, for she knew better than anyone how horrible of a fate godhood truly is. This does mean she guides us towards Messmer so we can get his kindling but I do think she is doing this out of love as well. Think about how Messmer is feeling after all these centuries. The last sign of he felt from his mom were her shattering the elden ring which was seen as a sign of wrath as per the wrath from afar description. He was suffering immensely too and seeing his mom as a crucified husk would have probably made his life worse than it already was, so bringing him peace and ending his pain would be much a better fate. Now Messmer will have his own post in the future as there is a lot of stuff about him that is unfortunately not brought up enough but that is beside the point. tldr Marika loved him but circumstances forced her to seal him in the shadow realm which happened very late in the timeline, like night of the black knives late. Again, I know this sounds kinda ridiculous to most of y’all but I will make a post with all the evidence in the future where we can discuss this. Her motives just logically cannot be self-serving because if it was then she would have stopped guiding us when we inherited the frenzied flame.

2)The grace at divine beast is simply pointing towards the entrance to enir ilim leading us towards a dead end. This could have been an attempt from Marika where she tried to tell us ‘hey ya can’t reach Miquella so let’s just get out of here!’ but she unintentionally points towards Messmer. When we kill Messmer she decides its best to free Miquella from his prison as well so she starts guiding us again. The fact that its only the divine beast grace that points towards Messmer and not a single other one does, supports this argument quite well.

Pick whichever explanation you want but logically her motives here have to have been born out of love and not some selfish shit because she has no problem guiding us when we inherit the frenzied flame. Me personally, the first explanation is quite sound with logic so I would pick that but there is plenty of merit with the second one. The thing going against the second explanation for me is that I just find it kinda silly that from would just have the grace point towards messmer but have it just be for enir ilim. Like important details like that being mistakes is just not it. Nonetheless the second interpretation is logically valid as we can see it as a desperate attempt from Marika trying to save her son but end up doing the opposite so feel free to think that way.

Caria Manor: Sorry for the low-quality pic-

So, Marika guides us towards caria manor which is where Ranni resides. Now I have heard some people say that she guides us here to get a great rune, but that cannot be true since Ranni is stated to have cast her great rune aside. Now something very interesting to note here, is that the site of grace that appears when you give Ranni the fingerslayer blade guides us towards Renna’s rise where we can continue her questline. This would mean Marika supports Ranni’s goals. Now I know you will say that I dug myself a grave because this ‘proves that Marika planned Godwyn’s murder’ but no my friend I did not. I will go in depth about the night of the black knives in the future but I will leave a few explanations here- 1) Marika supports Ranni’s goals even if she killed Godwyn. Marika very much holds resentment against Ranni for killing Godwyn but she realises that Ranni does have the right end goal so she is willing to have us help her. 2) Even in the scenario where Marika did help Ranni in stealing destined death, what says the goal was to kill Godwyn? Nothing, from what I can tell and motive wise, this falters a lot too. What could have been the end goal was for Ranni to steal the rune of death so that Marika could use that to kill herself but the assassins double crossed them. 3) Maybe Marika doesn’t even want us to help Ranni but kill her instead which would be really funny cuz most ER players ended up marrying her lol.

I will make a future post that will debunk the Godwyn allegations so I will ask that if any of you wish to refute this post, leave out this particular section.

Church of the plague: sorry again for low quality pic-

So why does Marika guide us towards church of the plague? Well, the simplest explanation is that she is not guiding us towards that church, but toward Radahn. If she was guiding us towards Millicent, we first have to assume that she even knows about her in the first place which is a bit of a stretch if you ask me. Now we can definitely argue that Marika is trying to use Millicent to get to Malenia as Millicent leads us towards castle sol. I will explain that is the next point about castle sol.

 Castle Sol: Sorry again for low quality pic

So, she guides us towards the secret medallion in castle sol. I have seen people say that ‘Marika wants us to kill Malenia so we can get her great rune but that makes zero fucking sense when you consider the fact that when you reach this point in the game, you do not need any more great runes. If she really wanted us to get all great runes then why does she not guide us towards Mohg in Mohgwyn palace?

Simple, she does not want us to kill Malenia nor Mohg. If try to argue by saying that ‘Oh she doesn’t know about Mohgs palace’ don’t, because my guy, she starts guiding us towards Ranni after she disappears from her tower and she immediately guides us towards Miquella after finding out what he is upto. She is shown many times to actively react to what is happening in the present so if we were to discover Mohgwyn and her motive was for us to take all great runes then she would immediately guide us towards Mohg the moment we touched a grace over there but no, she does not which refutes all claims of her wanting us to slay all her demigods. Now begs the question, what does she want from us getting the secret medallion? Well, we have a few answers- 1) This could be another Ranni situation where she thinks Miquella can succeed her properly and she wants us to help him out but she realises that it’s too late for him. 2) Gideons dialogue does seem to suggest that Marika knew that Miquella got kidnapped so maybe she hoped we could help him but we know what Miquella was up to. Again, like I have said multiple times before, this will require a post of its own but the point is that Marika’s motives here just can’t be selfish as all the logic and evidence says otherwise.

Leyndell and Morgott: Same thing as with Messmer, Morgott was defending the capital for a very long time which caused him a lot of suffering. Marika just wanted him to be at peace after everything. It is very, very important to mention that Godfrey was likely also being guided at around the same time as us which I will elaborate on late in this post.

Castle Morne: I guess she guides us here to get stronger cuz that is the only logical explanation.

The rest either guide us towards a  shardbearer who Marika does not really care much about.

Another very important point to mention in this discussion that supports my stance of Marika actually loving her kids- Vyke and Godfrey. Vyke was a tarnished guided by grace and is stated to have almost become elden lord but failed due to frenzied flame bullshit. Now he somehow got to the point of the forge of the giants without killing any of the demigods. This flat out tells us that Marika tried her best to help her kids live but her attempts were met with failure as seen with Vyke. But at the same time she guides us, she is also guiding Godfrey. Godfrey would definitely come to peaceful agreements with Morgott letting him live. This means that even after Vyke failed, Marika still tried her best to save her kids it seems. Unfortunately, we were just faster than Godfrey. In Godfrey’s cutscene, we see that his grace guides him towards us. Now what does this say to us? Let’s logically break it down. Is Marika trying to see which one of us is stronger so she gets the best chance to be freed? Well, this makes little sense logically speaking. Her goal is to be freed, so it’s best to have both Godfrey and the player kill Radagon and Elden Beast together instead of doing a dumb battle royale which might result in failure. Like at least send them one by one to weaken Radagon and Elden beast for the other. So logically Marika is not being calculated over here which means emotions are at play. The only way this makes sense is if Marika wants Godfrey specifically to come and rescue her. Looking at Godfreys cutscene and the Ashen Capital site of graces, I find it quite odd that Marika seemingly stops guiding us when we release destined death but then Godfrey is immediately guided towards us. This is, in my opinion, a very strong clue that Marika wants Godfrey over the tarnished.

Ok, done with the first perspective.

2)An alternate interpretation of grace-

So, if we go kill the final boss of the base game, we kill Radagon which in turn kills Marika also. Now if we go light a grace that gives guidance after this, it still gives us guidance. This does seem to suggest that grace works independently to Marika even though she is the one who gives it. Now the reasoning can definitely be chalked up to gameplay reasons but that can also be applied to every site of grace so that the argument goes both ways. There is another thing that suggests grace works independently to Marika-

The other tarnished called by grace seem to be following their own path that does not really lead to lordship. Fia, Dung eater and Goldmask seem to be doing things that don’t really lead to them becoming Elden Lord.

This suggests that grace does not necessarily guide all the tarnished to become elden lord but instead towards their ambition. This seems to check out with everyone- the player and aspiring lord, Godfrey wanting his wife back, Fia doing shit with Godwyn, Dung eater eating shit and Goldmask moving his fingers. There is a distinct possibility that Marika does not have complete control over grace at all. Now having said all this, we can explain the behaviour of all the tarnished using logic but I don’t think that is necessary for what I am trying to prove.

Conclusion:

If you have read this post thoroughly, you should either agree with what I am saying about Marika’s motivations or concluded that the nature of grace is left too vague to come at any solid conclusions. Either option is good enough for me. Like I said earlier, if you disagree I am more than happy to discuss with you, when I get the time(life has been quite busy for me the past month🥲). The point of my blog is to create an environment where we can have proper discussions about the lore whilst being friendly. We can disagree without having to tear each other's throats out.

I have some more work to do irl so it will take some time before I post again or reply to anyone so I just wanted to post. Once my irld work is done I will become a lot more active here. Have a great rest of your life to all who see this post!

[tournamentcorner]

because the mishapocalypse and destiel day are in different brackets, we could have a finale of misha vs misha

Tbh that was the goal all along. My evil masterplan. You caught me! And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!

[the-one-where-casey-watches-tv]

Breaking Bad episode 4.13 "Face Off"

I keep wanting to say I’m not obsessed with this show, but I watched the last three seasons in a matter of days. I honestly was going to write about something else this week but had to switch gears because I literally can’t stop thinking about Breaking Bad. There’s just nothing else like it. You could say it’s Ozark meets The Wire, but Walter White is no Marty Byrde, and it trades The Wire’s gritty hyperrealism for grandiose schemes that somehow never fall prey to plot holes. The season four finale was, in my opinion, when this show fully came into itself and embraced that it could go completely off the rails and we would all just hang on and enjoy the ride.

            This episode sprints through the starting line, so here’s what you need to know to jump right in: all camaraderie has completely dissolved between Walt and Gus, and Walt is now in the midst of a wild Hail Mary attempt to save his own life. Hank has been marked for death, Walt has been fired and presumes his own murder isn’t far behind, and, somewhat out of nowhere, little Brock appears to have been poisoned by Jesse’s now-lost ricin cigarette. Walt fears death awaits him at every turn, but it was none other than Jesse who confronted him at his house, accusing him at gunpoint of poisoning Brock out of anger towards Jesse. Walt talked him down from this theory (admittedly, it didn’t make a lot of sense and you could practically see Jesse’s head spinning out of control), and convinced him of the slightly more believable, though still ludicrous, idea that Gus must have poisoned Brock to frame Walt in order to obtain Jesse’s permission to kill him.

            So the inexplicably loyal partners are back together with a common enemy- though Gus hasn’t been acting like the evil villain Walt is painting him as. Jesse refused to leave the hospital where Brock laid ill out of both genuine guilt and concern and the added benefit of drawing Gus out into the open. Yet, Gus merely offered his condolences and assured Jesse that he needn’t worry about going back to work. On his way out, just short of the moment of truth, Gus felt something amiss in the air and walked away from his car and the bomb Walt had planted underneath it.

            And that’s where we’re at! Walt had a plan, but it was foiled, so he’s thinking on his feet again. Jesse, meanwhile, is brought in for questioning re: the very specific and suspicious tip he gave the doctors about ricin. Walt is on his own now, racking his brain for a new route to Gus. Saul mentions something that connects some dots for Walter: Gus and Hector don’t work together after all; they’re enemies. This obviously sparks an idea for Walt, but we truly are along for the ride as nothing clues us in to what he’s up to or offers any insight into the yet-unsolved ricin mystery.

            Walt pays Hector Salamanca a visit, and the two have a cryptic conversation that results in Hector demanding to speak to the DEA. What is going on? Hector? Talk to the DEA? The same guy who shit himself instead of turning in the people who tried to kill his nephew? If there’s one thing we know about Hector, it’s that he can talk if he wants to, but he never talks to cops.  So when, after all that work of getting him and his translating nurse situated, he spouts nothing but expletives at Hank, I was able to let out a breath. Shit has completely hit the fan, but these characters are still themselves. They still have rules, values, and boundaries that only get firmer the crazier things get. Kids are a no-no for Jesse, cops are a dealbreaker for Hector, and Walt could not possibly stand to see himself outsmarted.

            But it turns out that Walt’s masterplan didn’t involve Hector telling the DEA anything at all- Gus just needed to think that he did. Which he does, and promptly marches down to the nursing home to kill Hector himself, despite a henchman offering to do the job for him (another day we’ll talk about Breaking Bad and the male ego). The henchman searches the room for threats and declares it clear for Gus- not seeing Walt in the convenient corner he’d scoped out for himself. Gus is moments away from killing Hector when he starts ringing his bell and contorting his face in a way that tells a story that Gus understands too late. Then Walt triggers the bomb secured to Hector’s wheelchair.

            Occasionally this show ventures briefly beyond the crazy and into the outlandish. Remember the plane crash that left deadly debris and human remains literally falling from the sky into people’s yards? Yeah, that was a little nutty, but sometimes you have to say, “That would never happen, but aren’t I having fun?” Gus stepping out of Hector’s room and neatly buttoning his coat with half a face is one of those times.  Especially in an episode titled “Face Off”.  In an episode this intense of a show where anything goes, I was ready for a spectacle, and they delivered.

            But wait- there’s more. The cops questioning Jesse suddenly declare that he’s free to go… because there wasn’t any ricin found in Brock’s system after all. At this point I was actually yelling at my TV, “BUT WHERE DID THE RICIN GO THEN?!?!” It’ll be another season before Jesse thinks seriously about that question, and there was so much going on in that moment that I was honestly a little proud for thinking of it myself. But Walt’s not immediately plaguing himself with that question is his big giveaway, the man who leaves nothing unforeseen.

            Jesse reunites with Walt and tells him it was in fact some flower called Lily of the Valley- something kids just stumble upon and eat sometimes, unrelated to anything at all. This leads Jesse far enough to wonder if maybe Gus didn’t need to die after all (did he actually ever do Jesse wrong even once?), but Walt assures him this revelation doesn’t make Gus’ death any less necessary.

Why not, though? Walt is lucky for the chaos that let him get away with not entirely making sense here. To give him and this show a whole lot of credit, though, I think any gaps in Walt’s quick-thinking theory are, if not intentional, conscious on Walt’s part. I think he knew it didn’t all make sense, and he was really making a gamble with everything he had. He factored in the momentum and confusion of the situation and utilized it to keep Jesse’s head spinning like a top. For a guy who made more than one fatal mistake throughout the series, he is flawless in this episode.

            I suspected Walt of poisoning Brock at this point- he’s gone off the deep end by now, and who else would’ve even done it- but there are still a lot of questions. Was Brock’s illness actually random? What if Walt just had the spontaneous thought to utilize the situation and steal the ricin back after the fact? Either way, how did he do that? If he did poison him, when did he even see him? And what is Lily of the Valley?

            This episode moves so lightning fast that I don’t need to see all these questions answered out to believe that it’s possible. I was sold a long time ago on the fact that Walt could pull off pretty much anything. I just needed to see something to assure me I wasn’t the only one clinging to this question now that the action is over. In a closing shot that left me in that satisfied daze of a really good episode of TV, we close in on a pot of Lily of the Valley in a pot by the pool.

            I love an episode you have to think about on your own time, and this one is already over by the time you realize the scope of what this means. The extent to which Walt was playing with chance. He didn’t know Brock would survive the poisoning. He didn’t know how long it would take Jesse to think about. But he did know that Gus had always been looking out for Jesse, and he was the one who needed to win him back.

            I’m sure if I sat here for another five minutes I could keep going, because the truth is I think I love Breaking Bad. I will be watching El Camino and Better Call Saul as fast as I possibly can, but in the meantime, I would love to hear some thoughts about the White family in the comments.

[icharchivist]

Siete talks your ear off all night about swords and literally anything else if you let him and the only way to shut him up is to give him a kiss

Except he was hoping you'd do that and you fell right into his trap

He's not on the same level as Belial, but he will definitely use his skills for evil sometimes

It was his masterplan all along......;

considering how manipulative he can be, i wouldn't leave it past him

that said, he probably also wouldn't expect you to.... actually kiss him. Unless you established you could before. Like else he'd do it hoping for it but being content if you just hit him or something.

tricky....

[lightningblade1994-blog]

{Sonic the Hedgehog} -Story/Plot Summary (2nd Rough Draft)

Tails' life is spared after a certain, blue hedgehog had managed to fend off his attackers that were severely bullying him for having two tails. Going by the name of Sonic the Hedgehog, however, he decides to tag along on his adventures.

Meanwhile, Dr. Eggman has nearly completed his greatest masterplan to date and hatches his most diabolical scheme of collecting the seven, legendary Chaos Emeralds; seven, rare & mystical gemstones that can grant the user unlimited power whether used for good, or evil. or some as the legends speak. Knowing this, he sends out his most trusted mercernary; Sleet, to search for the emeralds that have been hidden from Westside Island, due to them being locked away in all of the Special Zones. However, Sleet has got a few tricks of his own and decides that he should take the gems for his own sinister plans as well.

Now, with the doctor's plans in action, Sonic & Tails must team up to combat this new, untamable threat and help save Westside Island from Eggman's clutches.

[reachingforthevoid]

Dr Who: the Ark

After two reasonably complete seasons of Dr Who it is a bit of a shock to have such a long run of serials that don’t exist, either in full or partially. I’ve skipped over the single part Mission to the Unknown (a teaser to the epic Daleks’ Masterplan), the four part Myth-Makers (in which we would have said farewell to Vicki), the twelve part Daleks’ Masterplan (I will catch up with the surviving episodes soon), and the four part The Massacre. That last one is where Dodo wanders aboard the TARDIS at the end of the serial to join the Doctor and Steven Taylor.

This is the first time I’ve seen this serial, collectively called The Ark, outside of small clips. I watched it on 27 December 2022. I don’t know why I’ve not watched it before, and I quite enjoyed it. It does have its flaws, and doesn’t contain anything remarkable. It’s just a watchable adventure in which our heroes cause problems, are caught up with more problems, and set things on a path that seems okay.

I liked how it’s two related adventures told in a total of four parts because it cracks along at a decent pace. The plot can be boiled down to there being two groups vying over a planet that belongs to neither of them. One group are humans, the other not. It’s tempting to view one group as evil and the other as deserving and good, but the reality shows neither are wholly one or the other. The simplistic moral is that if you treat others badly, they can turn nasty against you. The story also tries to show how devastating unintended consequences can be. In this case, Dodo’s cold spreads as a deadly virus to those who’ve not been exposed before, including Steven… watching this plot strand while Covid-19 continues to cause sickness and death globally wasn’t easy. The Monoid space burial was oddly affecting. Death is real.

The humans aren’t all men — hurrah! — but, we only see white people — boo! We are also back to them not wearing very much. Oddly, when we skip 700 years in their future, their clothes and hairstyles haven’t changed. 

The Monoids are curious creatures. It’s interesting that no one knows where they came from. They seem fairly simple-minded… no, they’re child-like. Using natural numbers as names, naming everything they’ve secured as “security _____”, 2 being easily tricked by Dodo to reveal their plans, and their nastiness in their (partially justified) revenge against the humans is childish. They remind me a bit of the Ogrons, come to think of it.

I’m skipping ahead to The Gunflighters next. I’ll catch up with what remains of the Celestial Toymaker later…

[odi-et-amo85]

Don’t we all, @alexiaugustin 🥲

omg! not mailin using her activists tendencies for something useful for once!!😍😍

[yandere-daze]

hey! amir has just been taking up some space in my mind lately so id like to request something for them (headcanons or scenario) in case his s/o ever found out about who they truly were. I like fluff so id appreciate if the s/o could be understanding about it, but im not against some angst either

Hehe good! It seems like my evil masterplan of making my followers simp for Amir is working 😏But no for real, so happy with all of the requests I´m getting for them!!

Hope you like this, I tried to keep it as fluffy as possible ^^ It´s more of a hurt/comfort thingy I would say though so be cautious that there is a bit of angst with Amir at least!

tw yandere ( barely, but as always I will mention it), self-doubt, slight angst, implied stalking I guess?

What if his s/o found out about his true identity?

Okay so I need to start this off by saying that this would most likely be a nightmare scenario in Amir´s mind. They have been trying to keep their real identity a secret from you to the best of their abilities for a long time now, fearing that you might one day find out

His main fear is that you might hate him if you found out that he was actually a god. Now of course, Amir doesn´t think so lowly of you that you would be prejudiced against him for who he is but he fears for your reaction once you find out that they had been lying to you all this time

He hates having to pretend that he is human and he´s not having an easy time with it either because there´s so many things that he is unfamiliar with but he just thinks it´s better that way

What would you think if you knew that they had been watching you in heaven for months before coming down to earth to seek you out to try and get closer to you? You must think they´re some sort of disgusting creep and a filthy liar on top of that!

Really, they´ve been scared of this moment for so long now, picturing worst case scenarios in their mind and scaring themselves even futher, that Amir had never even considered that you might just...accept him for who he is

Your realization that your dear beloved might not be a human doesn´t come from one singular moment where he might have shown his true colors but rather from several small instances in which he had shown strange behaviour

You thought it strange that Amir was so far behind on internet terms and customs (like that one time you t-posed right in front of them) but had assumed that they might just have come from a very isolated small village where they had no access to the internet or something. It´s rare but not impossible so you just went along with it and explained all you could to Amir

But then these instances just kept piling on, regular things that most humans would most likely know about. How do you turn on a stove? What is a radio? Why are these two humans kissing each other? ( Yes Amir had indeed referred to them as “humans” which was more than a little weird in your eyes). What are these weird large machines with 4 wheels that seem to swallow humans that he keeps seeing everywhere? Aren´t they dangerous? Are they going to hurt you?? Should they be fighting them off???

So yes, something was clearly wrong to say the least so even though it  seemed far-fetched you considered that Amir himself might not be human. Silly, right?

You had thought the same, but the way Amir sputtered and stumbled over his words when you had made an off-handed remark about it while you were hanging out together made you think otherwise

“What? I- N-No! Wait! Please, no! Don´t hate me! I´m so sorry for lying to you but I- I just couldn´t tell you the truth! I understand if you want me to leave now  but I just...”

You were quite taken aback but seeing Amir look so shaken and afraid made your heart clench so lay a comforting hand on his shoulder to try and help him calm down

The fact that you weren´t pulling away or making any disgusted faces at him was more relieving for Amir to see than you could ever have imagined

You were listening to him

You would hear him out

You weren´t disgusted with him right off the bat

You didn´t hate him

yet

he reminded himself

But at least there was still a chance. So when you urged them to explain, there was no stopping them anymore. Amir had kept his identity a secret from you for what felt like an eternity so now that they could finally reveal everything to you, their words burst forth like the raging waters of a waterfall

They told you absolutely everything. That they were actually the god of love and that he had spent almost all of his long life up in heaven. How they spent day and night matchmaking humans from up above but never having experienced any of that himself.

And then, and this was hardest for him to admit, Amir had seen you and grown incredibly interested in you. ( They tried to at least keep their deep love for you a bit ambigious because even though they were telling you so much right now, they didn´t feel like they were ready to confess that they harbored feelings for you even before actually meeting you, just from watching you day in and out)

And because of that, they had decided to come down to earth to get to know you better.

“I´m so sorry for staying quiet about this for so long but I thought you would not believe me if I told you! Or even worse, you might have been scared of me or even disgusted and I really didn´t want that to happen!”

It´s a huge relief to Amir when you tell him that it´s okay and that you believe him.

“You don´t have to feel bad about hiding it, I would have done the same. But knowing this about you changes nothing for me! You´re still the same Amir I deeply care about and nothing I´ve heard today has changed my mind about that.”

Honestly, Amir would feel like their heart could burst right this moment, he feels so fuzzy and happy all over. This was the best possible outcome: He doesn´t have to hide who he is anymore and you accept him for who he is

Of course you would accept them, you´ve been nothing but gracious and kind to him, how could they ever have doubted you? They should be ashamed of themselves for even thinking that you might abandon them for something like this!

But really Amir can´t even be bothered to talk themselves down too much because they are just so so happy and relieved that it all ended well

You could swear he´s tearing up when you wrap your arms around him for a hug. His body is trembling in your grasp but he doesn´t hesitate to wrap his arms around you as well, the powerful emotions coursing through him enough to push past his usual shyness

Just, please keep telling Amir how much they mean to you and that you love them, they are really craving the reassurances right now

Or pepper his face in kisses! He loves that and he´s just so happy to receive any affection from you that he can!

You will most likely spend the rest of the day huddled together, cuddling and holding hands under a comfortable blanket, just enjoying each other´s presence

[libraryofloveletters]

Hey bestie :) just letting you know that Sugar Plum is honestly one of my favorite fics i’ve read (but like, all of your fics are 🤌🏼 *chefs kiss*) and ngl it turned me into a Lance girlie (kinda scared ab it lmao) but i’m BEGGING you to keep writing for him pls🥺

hi bestie!! thank you for the sweet words!!! I'm glad it turned you into a lance girlie (that was my evil masterplan all along LMAOOO) but I’ll definitely keep writing for him!!! 💕

[miyaniacs]

AYT

✨ DRUM ROLLS ✨

the request we ALL WAITED FOR  

( also my masterlist and yes this is full on crack sorry my brain isn't working atm ) ( and repost bc Tumblr sucks) 

HC  SULKING AND POUTING Tsuki, Kags and Waka - Waka

Tsukishima

OMG CAN YOU IMAGINE

it’s probably because of some dinosaurs stuff

LIKE

he wanted no NEEDED THIS triceratops plushie??

BUT THIS LITTLE BOY GOT THE LAST ONE

and noe he’s sitting on the couch SULKING

he wanted to take it off the hands of that kid

BUT

he couldn’t

his mum was already looking at him as if he’s some perv

Well you came home and see him sitting there STILL sulking

and you just

SHIGH BIG BIG SHIGH

you sit down in front of him

“What’s wrong Tsuki?” “Nothin’” “ I know somethings up baby” “No.. it’s just - never mind” “nooo. What is it?” “this kid. he took the triceratops plushie.”

He pouts  

and you sigh

grabbing his face you give him a kiss

“We’ll find another one” you feel like talking to child

he huffs.

the sulking continues until the next day

WHEN YOU CAME HOME

WITH SAID TRICERATOPS PLUSHIE

he’s happy now :)

you aren't since he’s holding the plushie now at night and not you :(

Kageyama

now the reason of his sulking

easy

let’s say it together shall we?

okay

“Oikawa”

what did he do now?

well

he BULLIED HIM

in the worst way possible

HE SPILLED HIS MILK

HIS MILK

Again for the ones in the back

HIS MILKKKKKKK

and no it wasn't a incident

IT WAS HIS EVIL MASTERPLAN TO DESTROY HIM

at least that’s what Tobio says

so the good friend you are

you sit there nodding along with him ranting

throwing in some : oh yes! and  that was absolutely NOT an incident

he’s a sulking mess with his arms crossed over his chest

“Okay how about I get you a new milk?” “No.” “but why?” “it’s not the same” “bur Kags.. you have to drink milk at some point in your life again?” “no. i won’t” “then what will you drink then?” “water.”

just give up for the day

you get him a ✨strawberry milk ✨ the next day

and he’s like... pout ...pout .... grabbing the milk.

Ushijima

he was confused

confused af

and NO ONE

NO ONE

NOT EVEN TENDOU

was explaining it to him

whenever he asks someone what it means they laugh

or cry of laugher

BUT WHY

so when you came to his dorm and see him sitting on the bed arms crossed a pout on his face

you aren't prepared hny

YOU ARE NOT PREPARED for the reason

you walk up to him and put his hand on his shoulder

“Whats wrong babe?” “Everyone is making fun of me” “WHy?” you ask ready to fight “I have no idea? I’m just asking them to explain something to me and they just laugh and are not able to answer” “Well I promise I won’t laugh at you Waka!” “Promise?” “Promise!” “okay. so.. I feel like someone on twitter is spreading rumours about me.” “WHAT WHY?!” “IDK I saw this tweet about me : OMG HE IS PACKING and I'm not?? I'm still here ??? I don't get it - I won’t go anywhere until I finished school and  - Y/N? “

yeah so.. you couldn't keep your promise.

you are rolling on the floor

tears rolling down your face

breathing? what is that?

you only know LAUGHING

he asked you what's wrong but you can’t answer

you want to but laughing and talking ??? its not working

AND now he’s sulking even more

“You promised you won’t laugh” he huffs  

good job you all

will he ever know what this tweet means?

Probably not

[charlotte-headcanons]

Hey dears! I hope u have a wonderful week! What do think Perospero Mont D'or and Katakuri thinks of Ceasar Clown and Doflamingo?

Hi friend! Sorry for the wait on this one. I'm (Jo) slowly getting back to work so might be a tiny bit slower with answering asks these days! But this was a fun one, let's go, enjoy the headcanons! 💕

Perospero's opinion of Doflamingo is negative, although he does have some degree of (unexpressed) respect for him. If they ever met, what would happen would be probably a very tense situation, full of impending rivalry, dripping with sarcastic and possibly a bit sexual mutual antipathy. It's not that Perospero judges Doflamingo for his tyrannical methods, oh no, he'd absolutely endorse them. Rather, they are simply too similar personality-wise, so they can only either get along great or not at all; and since the flamingo chose Kaido's side, he forfeit all his chances of Perospero ever viewing him favorably. Of course, the candy man is fully convinced of his superiority in strength in regards to Doflamingo, too; additionally, they could fall into a heated argument if they ever discussed the importance of blood-related family.

As for Caesar, Perospero finds him pathetic. Never for a second did he believe the scientist or thought that Caesar actually had any positive results of gigantification research; but he found the entire situation hilarious. He enjoyed watching Caesar try to squirm himself out of consequences and failing, and thus, he played along. To him, making the replica of Caesar's lab was just a challenge, and through all that time, he was convinced that none of this will matter, and that in the end, he'll get to kill the guy. First, though, he wanted to torture him a little and loved to scare him for fun and mock the funny noises he made while having his heart squeezed. Besides that, if he knows about Caesar making deals with both Kaido and Big Mom, he'll likely see him as a sellout.

Mont D'Or heard of Doflamingo before, and he must say there's plenty he kind of appreciates about the guy. His strategies, manipulation tactics, and intelligence are all qualities he values, and he sees what happened in Dressrosa when Doflamingo took over as a carefully executed, impressive masterplan. However, on the flip side, he's not a fan of Doflamingo's way of being. To Mont D'Or, Doffy's behaviors are annoying and his style is atrocious; and unfortunately, both are kind of difficult to look past.

Regarding Caesar, Mont D'Or mostly just hates his experiment methods. Sure, he can respect a scientist and sure, he doesn't have much of a moral compass to loathe Caesar for experimenting on people, for instance, but it's the design and procedures of his research that grind Mont D'Or's gears. Too uncontrolled, too chaotic, too much of unsafe working conditions: according to Mont D'Or, Caesar is simply too disorganized to be allowed to go wild in a lab.

It's difficult for Katakuri to excuse what Doflamingo did. Plain and simple, he doesn't like the guy at all, and he views him as unapologetically evil. As much as his siblings can be evil too, at least he can always explain their behavior somehow, but what Doflamingo did reads to him as just entirely malicious, devoid of other motivations than a pure desire for destruction. It doesn't help that Doflamingo was so close to Kaido, either. Not passing the vibe check.

Now, as for Caesar, his actions could be seen as even more vile, but Katakuri dislikes him slightly less. It might be because at the end of the day, Caesar is a coward who's easy to manage/control, or because he shields himself with the excuse of doing things 'for science', or because he worked a bit for Big Mom too. Either way, in Katakuri's eyes, Caesar is a bad person, but he's mostly just egoistic rather than downright repulsive.

Thank you for the ask! 💕✨ Have a great day, friend!

[books-and-milkshakes]

We Keep This Love in a Photograph 

Judo (read on AO3)

A picture featuring two kids. One with a ponytail and a big smile. The other with a crown on his head and tears on his cheeks. Both in judo attire.

Betty smiles as she wipes the dust off the frame. She remembers that day clearly.

-

She was seven years old, and obsessed with the powerpuff girls. She wanted to be a superhero. No, she had to be a superhero. It was her life’s dream.  After some research, she decided that judo was the best first step in her master plan. She read somewhere that her age was the perfect age to start. It was fate. She pleaded with her mom, and even made a little presentation to convince Alice of all the positives. After rambling for thirty minutes, Alice had sighed and agreed. On the condition that she would take a friend with her.

The next day, she knocked on the front door of the Jones’ house. Some cookies in hand as a bribe. Her smile was wide when Jughead opened the door.

“Hey, Betts,” he said happily before his eyes landed on the box in her hands. “Are those cookies?” She could practically see his eyes transform into hearts.

“They sure are. You can have them if you do something for me.”

“Anything,” Jughead declared quickly.

The boy was too easy.

A week later, he was standing in front of her in a white uniform, and a frown on his face.

“Why am I doing this?” he asked.

“Because you don’t think with your brain.”

He scrunched up his nose in irritation. His hands were playing with his belt when he tugged it loose. Betty batted his hands away and redid it for him. She was an inch taller, and could tackle him if he tried to make an escape for it.

“And why are you doing this?”

Betty frowned. She had already explained her masterplan.

“Because I’m gonna be a superhero, and superheroes are strong and know how to fight. I will keep Riverdale safe from all evil when I grow up.”

“Aren’t superheroes always guys?” he commented.

She looked at him with wide, shocked eyes. “You think I can’t be a superhero, because I’m not a boy. That’s unfair,” she declared with a quivering lip.

Jughead’s expression became panicked, and he started shaking his head. “Of course not. You can totally become a superhero. You will be the best superhero.” He grabbed one of her hands and dragged her out of the dressing room. “Let’s go to class.”

Their sensei was intense. He and Jughead immediately started off on the wrong foot. According to the sensei, you weren’t allowed to wear head accessories in the dojo, which included Jughead’s crown. Jughead, being the stubborn boy he was, refused to take it off, even if it meant getting kicked out of class. Betty suspected that was his plan all along, and maybe the sensei thought the same because he just sighed and let it go.

Betty was a natural. She felt it in her body. Every move was just right. The sensei smiled and complimented her technique, whatever that meant. She was good at it, and she was happy doing it. The first hour went by too quickly.

At the end of the first lesson, they had a little sparring match. Obviously, it wasn’t anything serious. Just two kids running around each other being silly, but it was important according to their sensei. Betty and Jughead paired up. She saw that the boy in front of her was sweating and frowning. He actually looked a little angry at her. They circled around each other, not doing anything for a while. When the sensei said they should try to grab each other, Jughead made a dash for her. There was no skill or technique, he just ran towards her. She quickly evaded him, and tripped him with her food. He landed face first into the mat. 

Betty was happy with her win. Until she heard a small sob come from Jughead, who was still lying face down. She dropped to her knees next to him and shook his shoulder.

“Are you okay, Juggie?”

“No,” came his choked answer.

“Hey, look at me.” She pushed him hard, forcing him to roll over. He sat up slowly, and rubbed his cheek. “Are you hurt? I didn’t mean to hurt you.”

Tears rolled down his cheeks, and Betty felt her own eyes fill up with tears in response.

“I hate it,” Jughead said. “I hate judo. It hurts. It makes me sweat. The sensei is a bully who wants me to take off my crown. The other guys are bullies too.” At this point, his words were becoming unintelligible. “And I’m really hungry,” he sobbed.

Betty threw her arms around his small shoulders. “I’m sorry, Jug. I thought you might like it. You don’t have to come here anymore, if you don’t want to.”

“But what about your mom?” he hiccuped. “She won’t allow you to do this anymore.”

She pulled back and smiled. “Don’t worry. I will convince her.” She brushed her hands over his cheeks. “Don’t cry anymore, Juggie. We will go to Pop’s.”

That made his eyes light up for the first time since they entered the dojo. “Really?” 

Betty nodded. “My mom promised to take us.” She stood up and took his hand. “Come on.”

Afterwards, they got milkshakes and burgers, and Jughead was happy again. He didn’t continue with the judo lessons, but Betty did. She eventually got her black belt, and started branching out into other martial arts like kickboxing. Jughead cheered her on in every single match, and they would always go to Pop’s to celebrate.

-

Betty gently set the picture down when two small children ran into the living room. A boy with blonde hair and a girl with dark curls surrounded her.

“Mom, what are you doing?” they asked in unison, each grabbing one of her hands.

“I was just looking at the pictures. They all tell a story.”

The girl smiled and tugged on her hand. “Will you tell us the stories?”

Betty’s heart swelled as she looked at her two gorgeous children. Their eyes shining with wonder and enthusiasm. 

“Of course,” she said. “But first we need some hot coco. There are a lot of stories to tell.”