#is it stealing if u have his car keys tho. like rly.

[blueiight]

wittktbw time

“I once had an unpleasant time picking up my belongings from Mittermeyer’s house. It’s soured me on the whole concept.” WHATS THE TEA GIRL? did i fall asleep….reuenthal is mittermeyer & yang’s tempermental girlfriend.

< Is there a reason you’re so far from home tonight?

Yang frowned deeply, not answering that question, and shoved his phone in his pocket.

IM CACKLING!!! this subplot is crazy like who set the earth church on fireee🫠🤔 Bronner is the overbearing parent [spy near constantly watching yang’s every move on behalf of narratively so far unknown agents? or his own whimsy? bronner is an enigma so far or maby im slow but i love him.] yang never had.

“You don’t appreciate it?” Had he been alone, Reuenthal probably would have watched the building burn for a while longer, but Yang didn’t seem to like it as much as he did.

. i dont even have anything else to say about him. U gone find some way to keep warm on kapche lanka girl! Ykw is there….i cant even include the cute segments cuz it just makes me grin like a madman. the hooking legs stuff is so cute cuz i do that all the frikkin time. this is not meaningful liveread commentary ik.

“My name is Paul von Oberstein,” he said. “I believe we have a mutual… friend.” The hesitation on the last word was odd, and it distracted Reuenthal from the fact that he felt the name was familiar.

oberstein made friend by force😂😂😂😂 i love that so much. He found him vaguely unpleasant, and he wasn’t sure what had compelled Yang to help him. the reueobes beef survives spacetime and continuities!! issa must& issa need<3

Reuenthal’s feelings about serving beneath Yang were complicated, and not anything that he was going to share with this stranger, who he was finding more unpleasant by the second.

reuenthal going i wish& would love if yang had a leash on me but i dont want this strange new fellow to clock my tea like dattt—

But all jokes aside doe omg... i think this is time for yet another titledrop. servants of the pharaoh™️moment.ok so on one level, yang is becoming increasingly enmeshed with the crown in ways that oppose his republicanist beliefs [its interesting how canon verse wise the decision to save people in el facil made him a hero, while in the empire, a blatant honor driven+ revanchist place, that made him a sort of derelict] and on another level, u have this quasi pseudo underground nascent camp within that wants yang to or at the very least is aware that any other person in yang’s place [for example, canon lotgh reinhard] would absolutely utilize this conditional sense of favor he has w/ the kaiser to make him more powerful- or at the very least, a buildup to that notion forming- but knowing REUENTHAL. and knowing OBERSTEIN. knowing my evil sisters…. how will this unfold? and MITTERMEYER. they were 3 heads of reinhard’s sharpened crown but im so excited to see how theyll be under someone like yang!!!..

Nat i love the way u write space stuff u put the milsf in milsf….

“Is he some kind of noble type, then?” Mittermeyer asked. There was a momentary pause. “Never mind, don’t answer that question.” Reuenthal could just picture the look on Mittermeyer’s face. “Do you know where he is?”

Reuenthal chose that moment to step out of the watch post and slide down the ladder to the ground.

“He’s right here,” Reuenthal said.

THENOBLESTOFTHEMALL oh my god i want 50k fanarts of THIS… mittermeyer calling reuenthal by name😵😵😵😵😵 the fact that theyre having a bitter moment in their relationship & they re still so amazingly complementary in combat.

Despite everything, Reuenthal wouldn’t have chosen anyone else to have at his side during something like this. THEN MITTERMEYER SAID. SAID. Omg. Im dizzy. then they were rescued!

I want to punt reuenthal into the sun….(i </3 the descriptions of mittermeyer’s body language.. his little tics & gesticulations.. what reuenthal does and doesnt recognize..</3)

At this point, Mittermeyer stood up, knocking his barstool back, and grabbed the collar of Reuenthal’s shirt, pulling him forward and breathing heavily. “I told you to keep her name out of your mouth.”

“And then you told me to talk, so which is it?” Reuenthal smirked a little. He had forgotten what it was like to have Mittermeyer’s hands on him, have his face so close to his own, and it was thrilling. Even though Mittermeyer was ferociously angry at him, if this was the best he could get, if he had to goad Mittermeyer into it, he would take it.

TURN ME UP!!!! The way their fight ended ohhhh my gawd MR Nation wake UP☝🏾…

Yang was silent for a moment before answering. “To give someone power over yourself is to trust them not to hurt you, or, at least, if you must be hurt, to use you in service of some sort of shared goal.” He rubbed at the back of his neck. “Power without that kind of trust is violence.” … (forgive me for skipping but i think ive legit posted 1/4th of this fic) “I don’t know,” Yang said, though he clearly did. “Because it’s just the way you look at the world.”

“What do you mean?”

“Oberstein is interested in the injustices of the past, so I told him about that. You….” He trailed off for a second. “You’re interested in power.”

OH THIS CONVO IS SOOOO JUICY..Like so juicy. i can taste it….

“If you think that I’ve given you power over me, don’t you think you should use it?” It was a loaded question, and Reuenthal realized that he was holding his wine glass very, very tightly. He relaxed, deliberately.

Me being fully aware that this convo is about ambition, power, and what it means to be a servant or master under a militaristic regime….. and how yang is compartmentalizing the FUCK!! out of his feelings and having no choice but to.. take it?? while reuenthal is gagging for it & also being , fundamentally, a braindead fujoshi:

with the following

“Order me to not see him again.”

“Why would I do that?” Yang asked, pinching the bridge of his nose. “Look, Oskar…”

HOW CAN I NOT SAY..

50 different diversionary convos but at least reuenthal was able to give yang his cute corny mug :)

we’re back to the main sotp and i BURST OUT LAUGHING. DID YOU KNOW MOST ARSONISTS R HOMOSEXUALS? YEA. MY FRIEND LOUIS THE VAMPIRE IS ONE!😂😂😂😂😂 Bronner i love you.

the martin& kircheis plot is already soooo so sad. i love u but i dont Trust U😢😢😢😢 what i said earlier about them not being two halves of the same self being integral in w/e coming next. and speaking of, the mention of LooB reinhard & frederica trolling the fuc out of reuenthal⚰️⚰️⚰️✌🏾 . love that callback. this is 500x funnier than canon reuerein bc reuenthal’s meeting reinhard (indirectly) and has already used up his fanboy quota on yang so hes just like. “I’ll probably have a grudge against him until the day one of us dies.” Bro U 28 years old🤣 Kircheis My baby😢😢😢😢Seeing reinharto after 74 years..

Commodore Bronner will accuse anyone and everyone of being a homosexual. When I worked at the PI unit, more than half the files he handed me had a big ‘homosexual?’ written in the personal notes section. Hes a fudanshi…(he knows how to use shock factor n prolly is right about 1 in every 20 space citizen if our cast is any indication of da GP!)

He felt like he was teetering on a precipice, the yawning chasm of the future. He would be graduating in just a few months, and then he, too, would be one of His Majesty’s servants. And he might even come face to face with Reinhard, that way. And if he did, what would both of them do?

BROOOOO . ima die. 😢😢😢😢😢 i love how that chapter ended & we’re like oh yeah mittermeyer had his first fight w/ his wife! & we r totally headed into the nobles that try to lock mittermeyer up will we get a kastropf incident w/ the meier’s here and/or will it be more canon aligned where mittermeyer gets fed up& they ship him back to odin to get tortured by flegel? i digress.

is there any reason why ur beard thinks my wife is her girlfriend. funniest thing ever.

Mittermeyer had killed one of the baron’s relatives. The circumstances under which he had done so were not explained. The letter ended with the baron saying that he had arrested the offender and was returning him to Odin to be “dealt with” by Baron Flegel.

truly my near photographic memory of lotgh this aint a flex im not ok carries my reading of the first 3 -4 books of wiaw… i feel like after sotp tho ima b thrown ina water w/ da rest so ima enjoy my nostradamian like powers while i can..

OH THIS IS GETTING SO FUCKING GOOD I GOTTA BE UP SO EARLY TOMORRA BUT THIS IS SOOOOO. SOSOSOSO FYE. THE SITHATION IS ESCALATING!!!!

Yang having to petition amarie .. amarie… for mittermeyer’s life. the petition for mittermeyer’s life in lotgh being one of the show’s most tender intimate moments (w./ reuenthal begging reinhard for mittermeyer’s life - staring devotion and love down) now being part of wiaw’s own patchwork of plotlines. ofc u have reuenthal wanting to go scorched earth but he cant here.. amarie helped mittermeyer bc of eva’s ‘innocence’ [ proximity to heteronormativity .. in that she truly loves mittermeyer + had no awareness of magdalena’s queerness ] & bc she was cognizant of yang as a militaristic/ political pawn necessary to sway the balance of succession in favor of her husband… its the sort of beginning of the end of sorts. amazing.

THE GIRLS WAS FINNA KILL EACHOTHER LANAODODKXJD. reuenthal i support u. take dat boy head off w/ nun but ur teeth

“Should I ask you why you have a copy of my house key?” & i support evangeline killing reuenthal

THE FINAL TITLE DROP…AND THE MOST PAINFUL. YANG CASTING HIS LOT IN THE CLAIM FOR THE THRONE. HE HAS BECOME. A SERVANT OF (two different) PHARAOH(s) for now

Every step he took felt like another rung on the ladder of bones.

and we continue forward.. another turn of history’s page or wdf the narrator be saying

[mostlymaudlin]

teacher AU & locked in a room?

love that you both sent these tropes bc yes i love them 😂 ill do it again no one can stop me.

this time, simon and baz are both high school science teachers in the same big city school district but not in the same building. they have historically not gotten along very well at district professional development sessions & stuff but also they both begrudgingly respect that the other is a very good teacher.

someone at the district knows someone at the local aquarium and, as is the way of the American public school system, they put together some half-assed idea for a student lock-in at the aquarium. mostly science teachers get roped into this poorly planned excursion, including simon and baz, and the begrudging respect trumps the irritation as they try to wrangle the chaos of having a shit ton of kids at a giant sleepover with very little plan in place.

no one dies, no one jumps in the penguin enclosure, no one steals marine life from the touch tank. it’s a success, i guess. when it’s time for lights out, simon and baz are with the 9th and 10th grade boys in the dolphin viewing room. like there’s a big window on one wall looking into the dolphin tank and the kids are just on the floor in sleeping bags lol. (this is a real room at the Boston aquarium, i did a lock in there with my Girl Scouts troop as a kid. Its actually really spooky I didn’t sleep at all).

simon and baz decide to take shifts sleeping bc they don’t trust these rascals even tho they’re actually not being that rowdy. they got it all out of their system earlier and now most of them are just on their phones or whispering to each other and simon and baz aren’t rly enforcing lights out bc they’re not assholes. and bc they’re not assholes none of the kids rly act out — the worst that’s happening is that every once in a while a kid farts really loud on purpose and the whole room loses their shit laughing lol. simon also thinks it’s funny and is surprised when baz does to but they hang out w kids all day how can u not like potty humor…

neither of them actually take their sleep shifts right away tho bc they’re just like leaning up against the window wall where they can see the whole room in the soft blue rippling light, chatting about best practices in science instruction and where they went to school and what community organizations they bring into their classes. and they’re just like vibing. and as more and more kids fall asleep, the room gets quieter, and they move closer together so that they can whisper to each other. eventually baz yawns and simons like “go to sleep” and he does and he tries not to watch baz sleep but it’s hard to not be a creep because he’s actually very hot and he’s not as condescending as he thought he would be and he looks very sweet when he’s sleeping.. like oh my god he’s drooling a little that’s so cute… and he doesn’t wake baz up when they agreed to because he can’t bear to disturb him lol.

the next day baz is irritated that simon didn’t sleep. the kids are low key and cranky too because they all slept on the fucking floor in a room full of people because lock ins are silly. and they take the bus back to one of the schools and all the kids get picked up and then simon and baz are allowed to finally go home. they’re awkward bc they both had a good time but they don’t see each other that often and they don’t know how to broach that. but simon yawns and just generally looks like a zombie and..

“you cant operate a vehicle like this,” baz says. “let me drive you home.”

“ill be fine, i take the train,” simon says, stretching his arms over his head. “who drives in the city?”

“i do,” baz says, frowning like the posh fucker he is. “you’ll fall asleep and get mugged. just let me drive you home.”

“so you can mug me when i fall asleep in your car?”

baz rolls his eyes but simon agrees because he really isnt ready to leave baz yet. he doesn’t fall asleep in the car — they get caught up in some nerdy debate instead and when they get to simons block, baz is double parked w his hazards on for way too long because they’re still talking. eventually simons like…

“do you want to just find a parking spot and come up?”

baz purses his lips, tilting his head to the side.

“probably not the best idea,” he says.

simon’s cheeks are hot with the perceived rejection. he can’t look baz in the eye, fumbling with his seat belt to get out of the car. why is it so hard to get out of this fancy car? it’s like the smooth leather has slowly devouring him while he was distracted by bazs long fingers on the steering wheel.

“snow, wait,” baz says, reaching for simon’s forearm as he bumbles his goodbye and tries to flee the scene. “i just meant that you should get some rest.”

simon is outside the car now, but he leans back down to look at baz again. he can’t help but feel a burst of hope when he sees the nervous look on the cocksure baz pitchs face.

“right,” simon says, unsure of how to continue. baz swallows, eyes flitting to the road, which is unusually and inconveniently empty, devoid of potential reasons to avoid eye contact.

“maybe after you nap,” baz starts, “if you’re not too tired tonight… i could pick you up for dinner?”

simons face is the fucking sun when he smiles, big and goofy and sleep-deprived.

“how about at 4?” he says, and baz frowns.

“you should get at least 6 hours of sleep.”

simon checks his watch, still grinning like a fool.

“7?” he asks. baz smiles too, and it’s tentative. he can sense the hugeness of it all — can tell this is one of those moments that is going to change the course of his whole life. but simon looks like the sun with his dark circles under his eyes and wild curls and weird ass theories about outer space and like. he can’t fucking wait.

“i look forward to it,” baz says, and he’s talking about 7, but he could very easily also be talking about forever.

[astereaholloway]

- ̗̀ * ( sophie turner + cisfemale + she/her ) have you seen ( aster holloway ) walking around campus ? they are a ( twenty-one ) year old, studying ( botany + entomology ). we hear they are in ( theta sigma eta ), and can be ( opinionated & daunting ), maybe it’s because they are an ( aries ). they sort of remind us of ( abandoned greenhouses, spinning bike wheels , iridescent pocket knives ), maybe we can find out more ! *  ̖́-  + habitat

i yeet’d holliday for this child o’ mine pls love her bc i love her sm i’ll prolly change her fc to sophie turner as soon as i get tired of cropping gifs of saoirse but enjoy her face for now sksksk. like this n i’ll come to u!!

tw: fire, death, cancer, etc. etc.

gen. info

full name: aster holloway

nickname(s): n/a, give her one n she’ll cut you probably

b.o.d. - april 1st.

label(s): the hellcat, the minefield, the connard, etc. etc.

height: probably like 5′7″ or 5′8″ tbh

hometown: inglewood, california

sexuality: chaotic. lesbian.

bio. info

hasn’t had the most......stable, life

born to dahlia verbeck, a botanist, wildlife conservationist, and volunteer firefighter whose presence was very well known in south california’s environmental scene

to keep a long story short, she married maverick holloway; a sleazy low-rank cop with a smoking problem and an obnoxious personality when she was 19. he was nearly twice her age. nobody knows why she married him, or why she tolerated him

the relationship was by no means abusive, but it was lackluster

this led to dahlia having a one night stand, and baba boom baba bing, aster was conceived

 the only one who knew that the child wasn’t maverick’s was dahlia’s twin brother, donovan, whose career was p much the exact same as dahlia’s

they were basically both mad scientists; when dahlia started slacking because of her pregnancy, donovan would kick it up

like ykno the twin scientists in bioshock infinite ?? that them like they were eerily alike, always finishing each other’s sentences. nightmare fuel.

the only difference was that donovan was considerably less intense than dahlia b/c dahlia was the kinda lass who would set fire to your car

anywAYs so aster was born and everything was fine n dandy until she got a lil older and it suddenly became clear that this child was absolutely not maverick’s at all because they looked. nothing alike. like u know when u can just tell ?? yeah. yeah u could tell

maverick left dahlia afterwards and it was essentially up to her to raise aster alone. donovan had his own wife and kid to take care of and sort of backed down from his career to do so. house dads ftw

aster grew up knowing her dad as some ‘deadbeat no good’ simply bc dahlia was bitter

also grew up as the kid who would hold worms over another kid’s face and taunt them w/ it. so like, playground bully. that was aster. she’s not ashamed of it

she was often left on her own to do her own kinda shit b/c her mom was always busy out in nature n’ shit but aster never minded; loved her mom a Lot

aster’s life changed when she was nine

her mother had been doing research out in the ~wilderness~ with donovan, after months of convincing him of doing this one last project with her~ when the wildfires started

it spread so fast, and they were already too far away from the road

it took them two months to confirm that the twins were dead

rather than leave aster to maverick, elaine--donovan’s wife--took her under her wing and moved across the country to boston alongside myra, her daughter

elaine always held a resentment towards aster because of her mother, but never did anything about it--it was just always, sorta, implied ?

but myra and aster got along swimmingly despite being polar opposites

aster was p much a feral child, and myra had been receiving etiquette lessons since birth, practically--like, literally

elaine put them in the same hobbies but aster always found ways to be wildly different from the ~standard~

myra learned cello and flute, aster started up on bass and drums (breaking both instruments, repeatedly, for many years)

elaine forced dance onto the both of them, and whilst they both excelled at ballet--aster switched over to a more free-flowing dance as soon as she was able to

(that and when elaine tried to put aster in sports instead of dance--figuring her fiery nature would be put to good use--aster managed to get kicked off of every single team of every single sport she tried b/c of her aggression. theyve had to fight a few lawsuits after aster’s broken a number of noses and sporting equipments)

myra was learning two languages, aster? dyslexic and could barely read english as it was; science made sense to her, however. plants? especially.

people confused myra and aster for twins nearly all the damn time, despite only being cousins, they were so alike and yet so opposite

that was, of course, until they got into a nasty spat when they were seventeen

it was something about dead parents and resentments and yadda yadda; it didn’t end well

aster wound up running away......all the way back to los angeles.

n i mean like......homegirl literally managed to run away across the gd country w/o getting caught or murdered

by the time she arrived in los angeles her aunt was sort of like ‘fuck it ur almost 18′ b/c....aster was nearly 18 by the time she arrived in the city, and elaine contacted maverick who in which found aster

aster did not want to go with him, after hearing stories about him just being no-good

but at that point, maverick was one of los angeles’ head detectives with a beautiful apartment and a beautiful wife and a beautiful dog and just kind of living his best life ?? after dahlia’s death he had really cleaned himself up y’kno

aster still kind of resented him but that was more of an inner thing

anyways she started attending ucla b/c her mother attended ucla, but her mother wasn’t a part of a sorority

it was one of those spur of the moment decisions and like nobody knows how aster ended up in theta sigma eta b/c she’s like a grumpy grandmother

but like she dun’ did that

we stan

a year ago maverick was diagnosed w cancer and has been in the hospital battling it ever since, aster is admittedly effected by it but like would never tell anybody ever

she doesn’t really tell anybody anything about her life, like, it’s a gd mystery

uuuuuuuuh aster works in a floral shop as a florist and grows her own shit ranging from fruits, vegetables, weed, shrooms, uh opium poppies yeah she Does that

it’s organic n fresh n shit like the devil works hard but aster works harder

she doesn’t really ~sell~ too often b/c she’s kinda selfish w her stash but it’s some top notch shit when she does 

no she doesn’t grow in the floral shop she’s not Stupid

aster inherited some of her mother’s properties Out There so she drives up almost everyday to take care of her plants

uuuhh fun fact, aster’s part of a dance like...company, kind of? but not really ? outside of ucla b/c she hates being involved in school shit besides habitat for humanity

personality

v v v harsh tbh

she won’t beat around the bush, usually...brutally honest, tbh?

like lbr she’s kind of a bitch too

just v offputting at first b/c she tells it like how it is n doesn’t rly care abt ur problems

doesn’t go around lookin’ for new friends but if you’re tight w her then she’ll probably die for u like she’s v loyal

but if u wrong her like even once she’ll drop u and treat u like right shit

she either feels intensely or nothing at all n that’s like. smth u have to deal w/

she’s v v v chaotic neutral, bordering evil--really works in her own favors

became a botanist after her mother bc she admired her mother more than anybody else

not saying that being vegan is a personality trait

but

aster’s a vegan

n just super hardcore into saving the earth n shit?

litter and she’ll break ur nose, basically

v into sustainable living n shit. rides her bicycle everywhere if she can, rly rarely drives, doesn’t do fast fashion at ALL

v v passionate, will argue w/ u until u admit she’s right even if she’s painfully wrong

like super stubborn, v opinionated, assumes the worst of u immediately

a lil cynical, but is more realist than pessimist

BIG FUCKING GAY

like so gay

she’s not Out-Out but she definitely doesn’t hide it, just doesn’t think it’s necessary to be like ‘im gay’ every 5 minutes n doesn’t think it’s necessary to let ppl kno she’s gay b/c shes just like....its my business

kinda bitch to flirt w dudes for fun in order to lead them on, get them to do things for her, etc. etc. just to disappoint in the end

this is big dumbass energy b/c that’s how u get stabbed

unless aster stabs u first

kinda gal who’ll key ur car if u piss her off during a class debate, but will also stick thumb tacks into ur wheels n shit too

like.....i said she’s spiteful, right? b/c she can b so spiteful

really, genuinely, has no regard for other ppl’s feelings

her music taste is either heavy rock or straight up like grimes/die antwoord there is no in between (prolly listens to billie eilish tho)

owns a pet tarantula n yes she has it in her dorm n Yes she brings it out n plays w it n shit her name is stevie nicks n u better respect her

big slut

would never cheat on u but also probably wouldn’t date u in the first place bc she’s scared of like....being in a relationship b/c all of hers are p much on the rocks

probably carries around a pocket knife at all times

probably bought said pocket knife from a dude in an alleyway for like $5 

myra also goes to ucla and theyre 100% still not speaking but that’s bc they’re both too stubborn to go to each other but like lbr aster misses her cousin

v unruly, nvr brushes her hair, usually got dirt on her clothes bc she’s prolly been digging in gardens or stealing flowers or some shit

bright side is tht she always smells like flowers

theta sigma eta is lucky b/c she cooks her own meals w her own fresh veggies n shit n she always makes too much food n like ? so good

but anyways she’s also got like no manners okay she’s so impolite

uuuuuuh god i dunno what else

wanted connections

ride or die

other friends of varying closeness

ex-friends ???

...like somebody she’s into but also...not into? v conflicted feelings

on-and-off-agains bc their relationship is awful n probably toxic but it just. hurt so good

ex-gfs

ex-hookups

boys she’s led on

boys she’s currently leading on

flirtatious encounter gone wrong [not clickbait] ??

enemies

enemies but gone sexual [not clickbait]

buyers of her products - either weed, shrooms, or opium teehee

roommate

give her somebody she was a uwu soft crush on but would nvr do anything abt bc gross romance !!

alternately, unrequited crushes of any sorts

fellow gays b/c gays always end up knowing each other

party pals

frenemies ??

sdfgh give me her dad’s trophy wife pleathe....it’d be so funny

childhood friends tht knew her b4 she moved to boston so like...ages 0-9

childhood friends tht knew her after she moved to boston so like...ages 9-17

or acquaintances bc she was....a mean one

A TUTOR just b/c she can rly struggle w her dyslexia