#it feel like forever since the dropped that teaser

[kat-rose-griffith]

[onlymingyus]

Unconditional (Patreon Exclusive Bonus)

pairing; jeon wonwoo x f reader

genre; smut (minor dni), fluff

summary; She deservеs to be loved with no limit out loud. This thing, we got's, that's unconditional.

content warnings; sugar daddy!wonwoo, sugar baby!reader, simp!wonwoo, they are so incredibly in love it's sickening, alludes to marriage

smut warnings; slight dom!wonwoo, very slight dom/sub dynamics, unprotected sex, cockwarming, taking during sex photos to keep/use, oral (f receiving), fingering, praise, petnames, mentions of aftercare

w/c; 4.9k and some change (417 this teaser)

unconditional - jaeyhun

a/n; thank you to @junkissed for proofreading 🩷 and suggesting I write a little drabble for my Peaches. I hope you guys like it. I am still working on TKG so this is just a little something something while I do.

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With a shopping bag hanging from his fingers, Wonwoo pulls the keycard from his jacket as a smirk pulls at his lips. It had been too long since he had seen you. He could count down the time to the very minute if he really wanted to, but the moment the suite door opens and your sweet perfume hits his nose, every logical thought is lost. 

You had woken up to the plane tickets waiting in your email and a single text message from your boyfriend. 

Wonwoo💗: Get your pretty ass on that plane, baby 

After an eight-hour first-class flight, you found yourself pouting when Wonwoo wasn’t the first face you saw waiting for you. You knew he was a busy man; that was why you found yourself being flown around the country and sometimes around the world for even just a night in his arms, but even the two dozen roses that now lay on the dresser of your suite hadn’t made up for his absence just yet. 

Following the scent of honey, Wonwoo grins as he leans against the wall, letting his eyes move over your body as you rest on your stomach on the oversized bed. You hadn’t been there long, but it was still too long without you being in his arms. You were the most gorgeous woman he had ever met, and the moment he saw you for the first time, he knew that you were going to be his. 

Crossing your ankles, you run a well-manicured finger over the screen of your phone as a pout plays on your lips. You thought Wonwoo would have finished his day by now. He was the one who had flown you out here, and now he was making you lay in some hotel, no matter how nice it was, without him. It was torture. That was until you felt fingers run along your calf and heard his breathy chuckle turn into a deep groan at the feel of your skin under his hand. 

“And I thought you’d change and get comfortable, sweetheart.” 

Wonwoo grins when you drop your phone and start to turn over, only to whine when his hand keeps you in place. 

“Please, Wonwoo… It’s been forever since I’ve seen you. This isn’t fair.” 

“It’s not?” Dropping the bag next to his feet, Wonwoo uncrosses your ankles before carefully unclasping your shoe, finally letting you lean on your side so you can watch him. “I’m sorry, baby girl. Have I neglected you?” 

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[woniiez]

𝙏𝙄𝙀𝘿 𝙏𝙊𝙂𝙀𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍 S.mg

𝗣𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀. song mingi x fem!reader

𝗦𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙮/teaser. You always thought of Mingi as nothing more than the spoiled son of a wealthy CEO. He was the kind of guy you’d hear about in the tabloids, always caught in the middle of some scandal, some drunken night out, or some rumored fling with the next “it” girl. His last name alone commanded respect, but it also made him untouchable in your eyes. He was everything you despised about people with too much money���arrogant, entitled, and far too used to getting whatever he wanted.

For you, the Song family was just another name tied to wealth and power. Your own father was a successful businessman, a man who’d built an empire from the ground up. But there was a difference between your family and his, your family had always struggled to maintain what they had, keeping the balance between status and reality. The Songs, on the other hand, seemed to live in a world that operated on a completely different set of rules—one that never knew struggle.

It wasn’t that you hated Mingi, per se. You just couldn’t stand the way he moved through life with no real sense of accountability. His arrogance was like a cloud surrounding him, blocking out everything. Every time he spoke, you could feel the cockiness in his tone, the way he knew his words would hold weight because of who he was. It made you want to roll your eyes.

And yet, in some strange part of you, you couldn’t help but notice the way his eyes lingered on you sometimes. It wasnt anything serious, but in those moments, you saw the softness beneath his ego and arrogance the vulnerability he hid behind the confidence. You could see it when you both stood in the same room, but neither of you ever addressed it. Instead, whenever you were forced to interact it would be like a cat fight.

It was easy, then, to pretend he didn’t matter when your families were never really close. You had different friend groups, different circles. And when you had to endure forced family gatherings, he’d always disappear into the background, a silent figure in the corner, looking as uncomfortable as you felt.

But that all changed the day your father came home with a grim look on his face, news that would change your life forever.

Your father sat you down, the tension in the room thick enough to cut with a knife. His hands were clenched around the glass of water in front of him, his eyes looked tired, worn down. You’d never seen him like this before. Your father was always in control, always the one with the answers. But today, his voice was weaker than usual as he spoke, and you realized, something was seriously wrong.

“Sweetheart,” he began, his tone soft but firm, “the company… it’s in trouble.”

Your stomach dropped. You didn’t need to hear more. You knew what this meant. Your father’s empire,the business that had been the backbone of your family for years, was facing bankruptcy. But you would never expect the next words that came out of his mouth.

“Your mother and I have spoken to Mr. Song,” he continued. “We’ve come to an agreement.”

“What agreement?”

The words that he forced out sounded like they were being pulled from deep inside your father, something he was going to hate saying, but knew he had no choice. “You’re going to marry Mingi.”

|| 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁. series

𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲. arranged marriage!

𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀. will be updated for every chapter.

𝙏𝙖𝙜𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩. (Open! Comment below if you wanna be added) @minkioswoo @yunhogrippers @hee-yunie @juicy-red @bee-gremlin @memorabxlia @yizhou-time @hoonsungs @in3pti0n

(hii I’m back. This took me really long to plan and then write, I’m not sure why I decided to make a series since I started writing just this year but I really love reading the series other people write and post and I haven’t read something with this genre (series) on mingi so I just started writing and saw it going somewhere so ig that’s how it came to be. I did take help from a few friends to improve the writing since I don’t have an extensive vocabulary so it’s better to read. Also i just wanna say that this is a 100x better than my first fic cause this took forever to write with making sure the paragraph formation was put together, vocab, and planning out the whole story line to make sure the first chapter would flow well with the others. I really hope you like this!)

𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝟭.𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲

[sims3fiend]

Some dumb sims 3 updates/stuf

Or, how to develop severe brain damage in 10 easy steps.

Sooo… This is going to be more of a blog post than anything of any real substance, more of a whinge with maybe a few teasers for some stuff I may or may not release (probably not). Feel free to skip if you're after hot tips or coherent writing.

Stutter "fixer"

Sooooo…. The sims 3 has some stutter issueeesss… Incredible discovery, I know! I started looking at remedying them with settings, found some hidden settings that help reduce some of the issues but that can only do so much when the game was made in 2009 for 2009 computers.

So I had a looky at some things I thought could be causing it, mainly WinAPI functions because that's the easier route (h-haha…), and started to try to "optimize" some of the more common ones:

ReadFile: Was the first, and looking at the sheer volume of like 12783972198 calls a milisecond every time you move the camera, I thought surely I can speed it up a little r-right. Not really. I tried all sorts of… interesting things, file caching in memory, implementing the overlapped flag (took ages), etc. Oh and the performance increase? Literally nothing. It's called weirdly from wherever it's called and so we must suffer.

Threads: So, I had a look at other areas that were potential targets for speedup, ran an actual profile and it showed a problem areas namely threads and some other stuff I don't remember. ZwWaitForMultipleObjects and WaitForSingleObject take up a lot of time, so I very poorly attempted to optimize them, adding some timeout optimizations (and a bunch of other failed attempts). Despite being the most insane, this actually worked, and I got like a 40% speed increase in a very very niche metric that did not noticeably effect the game one single bit. I plan to combine all my failures into a single script eventually, maybe once combined they'll do something…

Actual insanity - Memory IPC: Then I had an idea, everyone hates e12, why don't we shove the games memory into another process and that'll fix it. No brain moment. No clue what past me was thinking, for some reason I thought you could like, access another processes memory if it was spawned from it, but uhh.. no, that's not how things work… I tried a few other things in a similar vein but it just crashed and crashed, so for now I'm just gunna work on:

Alloc/free mee - Current insanity: Currently, I'm still working on VirtualAlloc and VirtualFree (which is what I was redirecting to another process), but more from an optimizing memory usage standpoint than a… whatever the IPC thing was. There's a lot of things to try, and I've had some luck in some areas and some abysmal failures in others. There's a few promising functions calling VirtualAlloc/Free that seem to be potentially pointing towards memory leaks (004e54d0), but I'm too dumb to investigate that. At the moment, I'm going mostly just gathering more logs which takes forever and hurts my brain real bad.. On testing there's like 180 allocs that we could probably yeet no problem, which is like 750mb saved… Maybe idk.

I have plenty of ideas for deduplication, memory pool implementations to reduce churn/fragmentation, shoving things aggressively into pagefiles if they're not being used, etc. etc. Basically, there's a lot of avenues to explore, and I feel like there's potential… though I've definitely said that before and been dead wrong so…

Anyway, rambling over. I plan to release a dumb little renderer settings mod maybe-soon-ish that'll let you do dumb stuff that might be useful for reshade like turn shadows/drop shadows off and post processing off and on. I guess I could add max lots and other settings eventually too since they're static values.... Might also do a mythbusting post for some performance "tweak" stuff I see thrown around that isn't super accurate but I also don't want people to be angry at me so maybe not.

Sorry to whoever read all this, but also thanks :)

[tinystrawberryshifter]

There is SO much I want to talk about with team fortress 2's story finally coming to a conclusion but I've gotta like- allow it to all soak in to justify a whole analysis and what ever. I've got some initial thoughts tho: [SPOLIERS]

For starters I totally accepted that the comic was never going to be realized since it's been nearly a decade and how it looked like the people behind it had gone their separate ways onto other projects. I was 100% wrong and happy and was overjoyed when they gave that teaser this summer. Was it worth the wait? Hell yeah

THEY GOT MARRIED!!! qoq I'm so proud

Ms. Pauling and the administrator's whole ordeal could be an entire 1 hour video essay but Pauling seeing what the Administer had become and coming to realize what could happen to her if she were to go down the same path that Pauling had been fantasizing about and killing people for since the beginning was just *chef's kiss*

If I had a nickel for every time a traumatized woman in a valve IP who was damned to living forever and causing as much misery to the people who wronged her even if she lost sight of the original reason why I'd have 2 nickels.

MEDIC KEPT THE BABBON and Archimedes in a scarf!!!

"Girls?" "Hell yeah girls"

I don't know if it was explicitly said or implied, but I think Saxton took back Mann co via adopting Oliva (And she didn't even want to be a ceo and Saxton let her go out to do her own thing)

Ayo another idea of 'letting go of a legacy' with Saxton's arc coming to an end with him ditching Mannco

Spy being involved with Scout's life despite not telling him about the whole 'I am your father' thing and actually feeling comfortable enough to unmask with his family is so in character and sweet.

LMAO DIVORCED SCOUT IS REAL

Seeing everyone come together for Smissmas (Except Ms. Pauling sadly, though with her owning a farm it seems like she's living her best life) was so incredibly wholesome. I was kinda thinking the other shoe was going to drop with something out of no where but nah- it didn't. Thank goodness.

My fucking heart holy shit:

And thus, the bittersweet last words of the comic and TF2's story coming to a close after all this time.

Now Tf2 can join Portal in "actually completed valve stories without a cliffhanger" club :D

[h00nerz]

cruel summer teaser!

pairing: choi yeonjun x fem!reader

genre: summer romance/fling, childhood friends to strangers to lovers, non idol!au, fluff, angst

word count: estimated ~25k

warnings: depictions of divorce, infidelity, profanity, suggestive content, alcohol consumption, & more to come

featuring: yeonjun and beomgyu of txt, wooyoung of ateez, lia and chaeryeong of itzy, isa of stayc, sunghoon of enhypen, and lots of others im sure

summary: following a painful divorce from your father, your mother is desperate to escape from reality. it turns out, the best way to do that is to visit your childhood vacation spot you hadn’t been to in nearly a decade. you’re reunited with your old friend, choi yeonjun, who has grown from some annoying, scrawny kid into a handsome, charming man. when yeonjun sets his sights on you, it’s practically impossible to resist his charm. the only issue is summer can’t last forever, and neither can your romance.

“Prove it to me.” You said to him.

“Prove what?” 

“Prove to me that you’re not just some player, messing with me until you get bored and move onto the next girl.” The words tumbled out of your mouth, words you weren’t sure you were normally brave enough to say. But you did say them, and now your heart was racing, and you hoped you hadn’t said something wrong.

Yeonjun stared back at you, like a deer caught in headlights. “Is that what Jisu told you?” He asked, his voice coming out a bit quiet. 

You nodded, tightening the grip your arms held around your stomach. “She and Chaeryeong warned me, basically called you a whore…” Your voice trailed off, the last word basically a whisper. 

He said nothing for a minute, just continuing to stare back at you like you’d just dropped a huge bomb on him, then burst into laughter. “You date a few girls and suddenly you’re a whore… Sounds about right.” 

Now it was your turn to stare back at him, eyebrows furrowed as you waited for some kind of explanation. Finally, his eyes met your own confused ones, and his laughter dwindled. 

“Sorry. Look, I don’t know what Jisu told you, but it’s not true. I’m not some—some fuckboy that jumps from girl to girl.” He laughs nervously and runs a hand through his dark hair. 

“Then it shouldn’t be hard to prove it to me.” You replied, and once again, the air went quiet. 

Maybe you had been too bold. Maybe he really was just some player, looking to get a quick fix and move on, and you’d completely turned him off. It wouldn’t be the worst thing, if you had, since it would save you the hurt. On the other hand, the idea that he had set his sights on you when he first saw you at the bonfire just to hook up with you and drop you stung more than you liked to admit. 

The soft breeze that rolled in with the sea tousled its way through his hair, a few stray strands falling in front of the dark eyes that bored into your own. You thought he was just going to stand there forever, and never utter a single word to you, but then, to your surprise, there was movement. 

Before you had the chance to react, he was towering over you, and his fingers had hooked themselves under your chin to force you to look up at him. The moonlight reflecting off the back of his head caused him to look like he was glowing. 

“Y/N.” The drop in his tone sent goosebumps down your back. 

“Yeah?” You answered in the loudest voice you could conjure, which was barely a squeak. 

His eyes flickered between your own, like he was searching for something inside of them. “You’re not just some… Game to me. I want to get to know you. I want to take you on dates…” He leaned forward, so close you could feel his breath fan against the shell of your ear. “I want to kiss you.”

A shaky breath fell from your lips, and you were sure he could hear it. You wanted to kiss him, too. So badly that you wanted to cup the back of his neck and crash your mouth onto his right then and there. You upheld some restraint, though, keeping your arms pinned to your side. 

He pulled away from you, a sly smirk appearing on his lips that were very kissable, by the way. “Not now, though. If you give me your number, we’ll plan a date, and you can let me prove it to you, okay?”

It was like you were under some kind of spell, and the man glowing under the moonlight in front of you was some sort of sorcerer. You nodded dumbly. 

You caved in. You gave him your number. Then, he kissed your cheek, and bid you goodnight. Still in a daze, you watched as he disappeared into the night, leaving you alone in the sand with only the soft sounds of the waves rolling against the beach to keep you company. 

That was your first mistake.

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[sweetcloverheart]

Thinking about how much there's this underlying commentary on misplace (And unbalanced) sentimentality in Curly and Jimmy's relationship and how it's ultimately what dooms him - because they were friends. He loved him. A majority of his monologues in the game teaser in the "How Fish Is Made" DLC is about how he feels bad that he dragged him into Pony Express's exploitive jenga tower of a company by convincing him it was good idea to come with him.

There's also this clear commentary about cronyism about how that same misplaced sentimentality is often the ignition for how it becomes so prevalent in companies like Pony Express with upper management (and the consequences that brings) because it's increasingly obvious as the game goes on that Jimmy is just not qualified to be in the position he holds and is only here specifically because Curly vouched for him. Curly ignored/missed so many red flags that could and should of gotten Jimmy fired (or at least locked up) in any other scenario specifically because he knows his friend needs this job and thus needs him to look out for him - and Jimmy knows this, has it as the onus of so much of his envy and resentment towards him because he knows without Curly, he wouldn't have even gotten his foot in the door.

And Curly knows it too. It's why he feels the need to look out for him, to help him out, to make sure he can keep his head and stay afloat because he's his friend and he needs him ("Just you and me" "stronger together"). That sentimentality has him fill out his psychological exam forms for him (and pay little attention to the red flags he's dropping during). That sentimentality causes Anya to not tell him where she hid the ship gun after telling him what happened in the sleeping cabin section (Because she might trust Curly as a captain, but she clearly had no faith in him as a friend or person. He might be their "reliable" Captain, but at the end of the day, he's still Jimmy's friend first and foremost. They've known each other since forever, before the company, before becoming captain before Anya. He takes his side a lot in everything and he'll take it here too. She just can't trust him to actually do anything about Jimmy if he tried anything and she was right).

And that sentimentality causes him to, instead of locking up Jimmy somewhere or sticking with him until they returned, left him alone in the cockpit after telling him the woman who he SA-ed was now pregnant but promised he'd help out and "take responsibility" (because Jimmy didn't believe him either, because he might trust Curly as a friend, but he can't trust him as a captain, has no faith he won't throw him under the bus at the company's order to save his own skin. After all, Jimmy can't survive without Curly, but Curly will be fine without him. He's still the perfect captain, still the hero, still has a future despite the layoff. He'll be fine no matter how this blows up in the end. Jimmy won't. So Jimmy might as well be the person holding the detonator for this bomb so he can choose when)

[drarryandotherdisasters]

I am making a series! Here's the teaser post for it.. (scroll for fic!)

Come back for Something More (on Ao3)

A collection of works within one timeline that tell the story of:

Happily married father-of-three Harry Potter and happily child-free, gay Draco Malfoy inevitably falling in love

at the same time, loving your family to the point of self-sacrifice

Ginny figuring out she's a lesbian (who has the hots for one particularly feisty ex-Slytherin)

Draco not only becoming a better man than his father but truly himself

Pansy attempting to establish self-respect and happiness (instead of only helping others with it)

Harry addressing his troubled past that he's been suppressing since... well, forever

Lily, Albus & James bursting with personality

tell-tale Patronuses

a rather consistent tomato allergy

Here's a sniplet from the series as a teaser! Fic:

It's all Blue Skies from Here

Rating: G | word count: 1,000 exactly

In which Harry Potter dancing on Lucius Malfoy's grave has Draco realize that he does not want to have kids.

Perhaps in hindsight, it could be considered a journey, in more than one sense of the word. Draco's learned a thing or two about himself in France. Not that it's something he's going to share with anyone back home. "Well, don't you look like someone who doesn't want to be here." The cooly raised brow from Pansy Parkinson is like relief to Draco's eyes. "We all thought you had run off somewhere, never to return again." And to be fair, that had entirely been the plan. Until his parents had required for him to re-introduce himself into society. For his name. For their name. For blood. Draco drinks. "I have some business to attend." "Back here in England? What kind?" And a second too long passes before Draco allows, "Marriage." There's a line at the buffet. "Oh great, more Weasley offspring for the world." He pulls a face at the She-Weasel's rounded belly. "It's Potter." Draco takes a turn. He'd wondered if he'd be here. "Where?" The Weasley grins. "Right here." She lifts a ringed left hand and gestures to her pregnancy. It takes Draco a lot of strength to keep his jaw from dropping. “What, in there?” He's met with dimpled cheeks. Within only four years, it appears that Harry Potter has managed to get himself married with a child on the way. With a Weasley. What a frightening combination. Draco drinks.

"Malfoy!" Potter's (the original one's) eyes widen, not in any specific emotion but in recognition. "Blimey, it's been a while." Draco gives a tortured smile. "Quite, yes." Not that Potter would have changed much, still the lightning scar, still that same absurd hair. Perhaps he's less of a stick now, rounder. "How‘ve you been?" Potter asks, and looks as though he cares about the answer. "Never better. I hear you've got a wife now?" Potter's face lights up. It lights up the whole room, as though he'd just been informed of news of the outstanding kind. "I do." "Great choice of words," toasts Draco, and it almost looks like Potter can appreciate the joke. This is what it's supposed to look like, being married, having kids. The way that Potter makes it look. Potter and Weasley. The She-Weasel. The She-Potter. Draco drinks. "I guess I'll see you at the next one of these," Potter waves a polyestered arm across the reunion. "Have a good one, Malfoy." Then he's gone. Something has changed, he's not entirely sure what. It's an unnerving ticking feeling in his chest, like a countdown. Like a time bomb. Only, it's entirely beyond Draco just what the thing is counting down.

"You're the only interesting person here," sighs Parkinson and shoots an analytical look down Draco's attire. "Egyptian silk?" Draco nods. "Yes." "I like that." She's a pretty woman. Very pretty, woman. Woman. He could probably get into that, if he had to. Which he sort of does. He might as well start practicing. Draco swigs the whole remains of his glass in one go and wipes the corner of his mouth with a determined thumb. "What are you doing after this?"

-- Thirteen months later --

It's a spitefully sunny day. Draco has considered making it rain for the most part of the afternoon, simply for the sake of ambience. But alas, a rare English sun shines from the blue skies without a cloud in sight to disturb it, and that has got to be an apocalyptic omen of some sort. "Isn't it nice?" his mother says quietly. She has her gloved hands folded and gazes out the window. "He would have liked it." Draco highly doubts that his late father would have liked much of anything at all, let alone something as trivial as sunny weather. Certainly not the dress robes Draco chose to wear. It's wrong, it's all wrong, always.

Draco's already black mood turns even darker when he spots someone who's not supposed to be at this service at all. "Who invited him?" he hisses, appalled by the sight. Potter is wearing a child. A small child strapped to his chest, it's tiny. It's currently snoozing but who knows how long that will last. He has the gall to shoot Draco a condescending smile, as though he was in a position to express his sympathy. His hair looks ugly in the sun. It looks ugly in every light. The child looks ugly, too.

"Lucius Malfoy, husband to Narcissa, father to Draco Lucius", soon-to-be father-in-law to Astoria, adds Draco in his head, "...and thus, we shall hear his last wishes--" A blinding silver light breaks from the sky and lands amidst the service. It’s a Weasel, searching for a place to land and settling over the white chrysanthemums. "She's gone into Labor. We're at Luna's. Come!" It dissolves against the azure as Potter jumps up so hastily it shakes the human strapped to his front awake. It starts wailing, and Potter stares around in a frenzy. The few people who've bothered to show up eye him without expression. "I'm so sorry! So sorry!" Potter doesn't look sorry in the slightest, he looks ecstatic, like he's going to explode with joy. He does a little, rather silly dance right on the spot next to the coffin, to the sound of deafening cries. "My condolences! Great service!" Then he cups his noisy accessory's head, turns on the spot and pops out of existence with a face full-blown of euphoria. They’re having another. "Isn't that nice?" says Draco's mother quietly. "He would have liked that." And Draco knows it in this very moment. For an abundantly absurd second, he nearly feels like apparating after Potter and his noise machine to thank them for it. "Mother," Draco says, with a certainty that finally feels like it comes from a truth of his own, "I am not going to marry her." The tomb closes on Lucius Malfoy’s coffin and, with a lightness he’s never known before, Draco watches his father disappear from the face of the sun-kissed earth.

Ao3 link to the fic: It's all Blue Skies from Here

Ao3 link to series: Come back for Something More

[trsrina]

SIGNAL Enhypen Jungwon teaser

inspired by twice’s signal

synopsis - you’ve been best friends with jungwon since forever but you’ve also been in love with him since forever as the guy couldn’t take a hint and was being as dense as a brick. how will you melt the stone-cold heart of the aloof boy who seems to only have his attention on his studies?

written in second person pov, childhood friends to lovers, childhood friends au, gender neutral reader, crush au, high school au, fluff, angst warning!! jungwon is kinda a red flag ngl. mentions of food. english is not my first language so i may have made some grammatical mistakes.

“pst…pst…pst…” “what?” “do you have a bandaid?” “no, what the heck.” “cause i scraped my knee falling for you,”

bonk

“ow!” “y/n l/n! last warning before detention!” “sorry miss!”

fire emitted from your eyes as you glared at your beloved lab partner and best friend, jungwon. him wearing a nonchalant expression on his face, no guilt at all for his previous actions.

yang jungwon. who is he exactly?

you could go on and on for eternity talking about the specific boy that might seem like no one special to others but has a special place in your heart.

yang jungwon is a generous person. someone who would spend all his allowance on cat food to feed the stray cats near his home, even when he’s allergic to them.

yang jungwon is a caring person. someone who likes to express his care towards others through actions rather than words. someone who’d do acts of service for his loved ones. someone who’d pay extra attention to people he cared for.

yang jungwon is an intelligent person. someone who’s always first in his grade, surpassing all his peers in academic ability, certain to have a good future.

yang jungwon is an oblivious person. someone who wouldn’t understand anything unless given straightforward instructions and expressions. someone who wouldn’t get hints dropped by the numerous people in his grade who liked him, no surprise that he stayed single till now even with his gorgeous sculpted face.

yang jungwon is a cruel person. someone who doesn’t realise he hurt someone with his blunt personality unless confronted. someone deemed as ‘hard to get along with’ for his aloof nature, most people losing their patience in trying to get to know such a distant person.

yang jungwon is a distant person. someone who feels like as if is millions of miles away even if you’re face to face with him. someone with an ego too big to listen to others, everything goes into one ear and out the other. someone hard to communicate to.

yang jungwon is a person you love. someone you’ve been pining on for years and managed to steal your heart despite his unapproachable facade. someone who you tried so hard to pull closer, only for him to take 3 step backwards every time you pull him 1 step closer. someone you thought you understood the most.

and most importantly, yang jungwon is a person. the one thing you’re thankful for in this messed up world. despite everything, you still love him, even if he totally ignores your romantic advances through out the years. y/n l/n, you, is anything but a quitter. you will attempt to steal his heart until the day he finally finds someone that makes him content. even if it means humiliation and suffering, spitting out the cheesiest pick-up lines for this boy.

“god, y/n l/n, are you out of your mind? this boy has been treating you as only a friend for all these years and you’re still chasing him? meanwhile you’re focusing on your good-for-nothing crush, did you never notice the people who have a crush on you? goddess jang wonyoung has a crush on you, stupid! drop that cat boy and go live with the girl of your dreams!”

“look hanni, the one in my dreams is jungwon. i only have eyes for yang jungwon and yang jungwon only. it’s just, you don’t know him the way i do, you know. it’s different for him, he’s so caring and just so ugh,”

“you call bonking your head with his book every time you say your weird google pick up lines to him and blantantly ignoring you all the time caring? how stupid are you?”

“jungwon isn’t that bad.”

hi hey hello haven’t written in a while i feel like this teaser has nothing to do with the actual fic but enjoy 🤓

[classymurderteddy]

Just a random headcanon I thought up in the middle of the night- :'p

This headcanon had come to me after rewatching a movie that came on the TV yesterday, that I forgot even exiSted, as I hadn't seen it in .. like .. 7 yeArs, and it unlocked a whole childhood trauma I forgot I had, sooo .. yeH-

Now I'm making a headcanon inspired by it, because instead of being trAumatizEd by that movie like my 10[ or 11? Probably 11, as I can't at all remember if I watched this in January or not- ]-year-old self was, I now instead both love and hate this movie for the absolute trAuma it gave me- :D [ And before people try to come at me saying this ain't loRe accurate, lemme just remind you what a hEadcaNon is- ( Saying this thanks to some idiot a year or so ago on Wattpad attaCked me over a darned hEadcaNon- ) ]

Now-

We all know William Afton was an awfuL man-

Like .. that's no secret-

But his first victims were after the deaTh of his soN [ which, of course, was his fault, as when iSn't a death his fault-? ], and his second victim was Gabriel. The reason he killed Susie is really only known by him. Now, this was all way back when Fredbear and Freddy were still in production. HecK-

Chica was hardly a blueprint yet, and forget about Bonnie and Foxy-

They came waY later-

Anyway, Susie and Gabriel died in a relatively short time from one another. Maybe just a few months apart. And possibly the worst part was with these first two deaths, William actually planned them. Susie's involved him leading her under a nearby bridge with the excuse he found her dog there, and wanted to return it.

With Gabriel, it was a bit more personal, rather than just an itch of a mind that was slowly descending into grief-driven madness. In a way. Gabriel was on the Spectrum, much like his own son. However, unlike his son, Gabriel loved the animatronics. Back with Golden and Springbonnie, he could watch them for hours. And even after the place closed after the .. inCident, he started coming to watch the progress on rebuilding the Diner into the whole Fredbear's Family Diner thing. They'd even made little teasers for what was to come with the animatronics to build up recognition or whatever. Maybe it was because he was reminded of his own son, and wanted to keep him forever in some twisted way, or something complretely different- This was Afton, after all. Who's to know-?

And Gabriel was most excited for Freddy, out of the three animatronics they had planned for the time. Gabriel liked magic, and they'd said Freddy was going to be programmed for sleight of hand.

Afton, well, he'd been watching Gabriel [ ;; coUgh ;; stalking, more like ... ] for a while. Really ever since Susie got unlucky enough to follow him-

So one evening, Afton came up to him and told him that he had a surprise. Now, keep in mind, Gabriel was only 7, and had been relatively sheltered by overprotective parents. And Afton seemed trustworthy enough.

Then, to make a long story short, after being promised a special surprise that only special Freddy fans were allowed, Gabriel followed Afton into the nearby woods to an old shack Afton had built in his spare time just for this. Then Afton dropped the act after Gabriel started getting the feeling he'd really messed up in following, and .. well, let's just say the half-finished Freddy in the corner got a new, permenent fan- :1

And then, when Chica was at least half-created, Afton took whatever remained of Susie and gave her the same treatment as Gabriel. But after that, since the place was open and had customers when Bonnie and Foxy came along, and Afton found a new hobby that definitely didn't prove he was sane, he instead lured Jeremy and Fritz together into the backroom rather than the elaborate planning the prior two had required.

[glindaupland]

The Phantom of the Opera | Seoul, South Korea | October 8-14th, 2023 [REVIEWS]

Wow it's about time I posted these reviews that I kept lying about (this week! tomorrow! in 10 years!) Better late than never?

In this post I'll drop a few general things about the production, but the performances are analyzed in my reviews linked here. I recommend reading those all in order since I revisit points about actors I've made previously along the way to avoid repeating myself. Also leaving a disclaimer that these performances are from October so there are some changes in what the actors are doing now (with the exception of Jeon Dong-seok since he left in November) Apologies in advance for my wordiness, but this is more of a "release my feelings for my sake and if anyone else likes it that's cool too" kind of thing? Listen - I wrote a lot of notes on my performances there. So just go in knowing this is the more coherent version of my insane looking notes app!

Before I start I want to thank a few lovely friends who helped me out with this trip because it wouldn't have gone as well as it did without them!

Thank you to @lucygold95 for helping me so much with planning over the past months and for giving me the best time in Busan. Thank you @capitanogiorgio for all the shenanigans we went through and the most special time going to the 1500th and meeting Yoon Young-seok. Thank you to @fadinglandtragedy for the fun talks and the good advice before my trip! The best part of things like this is making friends of course! : )

PERFORMANCE REVIEWS:

| October 8, 2023 | October 11, 2023 | October 12, 2023 | | October 13, 2023 (M) | October 13, 2023 (E) | October 14, 2023 |

STAGE & THEATER

This was as close to the original staging as possible. So I was able to take it in one more (or I guess 6 more?) times post-Broadway closing. The Charlotte Theater is a lot smaller than the Majestic so every view was pretty solid in my opinion, even the second to last row. I took a video of my view from 4th row under the chandelier during the exit music on October 11th so you can see! The angel and chandelier are shown halfway through. I'd say 5th row was almost the cut off for the chandelier drop (that was my spot next day) Broadway seats in this area were always too expensive for me so I'm glad I was able to grab these spots for this production

There were photo zones you can take pics at which you've probably seen. One was a large rose wall, the other was the cute statue of their mascot 오유령. People also take forever lining up for the cast boards for photos and yes I was one of those people. Here's a comparison of the cast boards from the second season (pictures I found when reading old reviews on Naver) and the cast boards now (I forgot to take a photo of one on the top floor though)

I found this review where someone took more detailed clean photos than I did if you're curious about the layout and decorations!

MERCH AND GIFTS

The tickets had these designs! If you booked on Yes24, you received a special envelope and a ticket holder with the face of the Phantom performing for that show

I only didn't receive a second Ju-taek because that was booked on another site - Interpark (bottom middle ticket). I also received paper masks with printed autographs every day I went to commemorate the 200th performance of the run/100th for Seoul and the 1500th overall Korean performance. We used them for the curtain call photos on those two dates (with Jeon Dong-seok then Kim Ju-taek). There are multiple versions of the program book and at the time of writing this I have all except the Daegu one. The first Busan program book was pretty bare and only had the teaser pictures - the same was the case for my Les Mis program book in Busan. -There are different photos in each one, so to me it was worth grabbing them all. My third version signed by Kim Ju-taek is currently on display as you can see below! (The writing says "내 노래를 ��게 해 주오 - Make my song take flight") Once again thank you to Lucy for this! 🥹❤️

Here's some of my POTO merch (including a spare cupsleeve from the coffee shop next door, I also had a keyring, but I forgot to show it) RIP to the second program book I sacrificed for scans I still have the pages stored/displayed though! I'm not wasteful! I'll have more to post soon after sharing these reviews

TRANSLATION

Let me emphasize this: my Korean abilities are limited, so don't look to me as the expert on this at all. But I'll still share my notes and perspective as an outsider who's studying The lyrics have changed quite a bit since 2001-2. There are still lines kept or songs that are mostly similar. MOTN had a lot of similarity to 2009-11 even with its changes, STYDI was identical to 2009-11, but Angel of Music was pretty different from even the last season, etc etc. The Phantoms all have unique lines sprinkled here and there, mainly in MOTN (this happens sometimes in Korean musicals). You get some things like random single line changes in some parts depending on the actor or different order/wording of the same lines as well. Just tiny diversions from the script. This is the case for the Christines and Raoul to a lesser extent. Additionally, actors are often permitted to do some occasional improvisation/ad libs. Some unique lines are pretty normal parts of their interpretations now, some appear depending on the feeling of the performance, some are one time only events. I'll mention some of the actor-specific ones and such in their actual reviews, but I have been trying to mark down all of the differences like these for example

Of course, some things obviously have to be adjusted to make sense because of cultural / linguistic reasons. So one example would be the "Wrote...written" line in Notes I. Firmin speaks rudely and informally, but quickly tries adding a more respectful ending particle 요 after Raoul and André give him a shocked 'what did you just say?' kind of look. So "대체 뭘 썼다고 하는 건데...요!" is pretty much like "What the hell are you saying I wrote?" André would look so embarrassed by this each time 🫣

퇴근길 / STAGE DOOR

Stage door doesn't really work the same as it does in places like New York, London, etc. Most of the time if an actor comes out it's more like a quick greeting or chat with the fans. Some actors (not in this case) might sign or take photos in designated spots, but it really depends and it's not so common. It's gotten more restricted ever since COVID as well. 퇴근길 -> "way home from work" is literally what this is called. Dong-seok did wave at us a few times happily after the 200th performance, Gun-ha briefly came out to thank fans after the 1500th while Ceci and I waited to meet Young-seok who had agreed to meet us. I did not have the time (or strength) for the Seung-woo mob, but he usually greets fans after shows.

I literally asked Yoon Young-seok directly on Instagram if Ceci and I could meet him and give him gifts because I figured it didn't hurt to try! When he agreed, my anxiety was not necessarily about meeting an actor, but more about my ability to express my thoughts in another language. But he was truly the sweetest guy and incredibly patient. I think he got that I understood everything he said, but that replying was a whole other challenge. I'm glad I was making enough sense that he was able to get my points and helped me finish sentences if I looked stressed about it 😂 I basically told him I had been planning this trip since the cast announcement because it was too perfect to miss and that I came for 6 shows. I really like to listen to his Phantom on the cast recordings and I thought he made the shows I had seen so far so much fun.

We both said where we were from (the US and France) and he was amazed. He was also shocked when I pulled out my original Korean cast recording (I still laugh thinking about the way he said "와, 세상에!" like "Wow, oh my god!" and enthusiastically took it agreeing to sign when I was mid-way asking him haha) I also thought it was funny when he asked Ceci if she saw his Phantom last season. We wish! But she mentioned she had gone to Busan a few times and he looked very touched and appreciative that we went to multiple performances 🥹 This poor man was tired he signed our things with November (11.13) though and he also spelled Ceci's name wrong first time, but it was the 1500th show though okay. And if he says it's November...who are we to question him? Ceci should also legally change names so he isn't wrong. Anyway, ramble over you can find the art we made for him in this post

OTHER

Here's just bonus fun I had that I will manage to connect to POTO despite it not being POTO because I love doing that. I mean I went because I like these musicals as well (otherwise I would've been foolish enough to go see Ben-Hur but I have, uh, standards for my plots sorry to Park Eun-tae 😭), but it's fun to point out these things. I'm happy to share my show experiences in a different post if anyone's interested in my thoughts on those

Rebecca

I went to see Rebecca, mainly focused on seeing a scheduled date for 이지혜 Lee Ji-hye (Ich) and 장은아 Jang Eun-ah (Mrs Danvers). The whole cast was fantastic. Some Korean musicals have special encore bits they do where the leads sing a part of a song from the show during bows so that was really fun. Unfortunately, we don't get to have fun at POTO like that haha

Lee Ji-hye was in Y&K Phantom as Christine in the same cast as Jeon Dong-seok (Erik), Yoon Young-seok (Gérard Carrière), and Lee Sang-jun (Cholet). Two other cast members in Rebecca were in Y&K as well - 에녹 Enoch (Maxim) who was Philippe and 신영숙 Shin Young-sook (Mrs Danvers) who was Carlotta. Sadly, they had such few shows this season due to a busy schedule, so I couldn't see them (when will trot give Enoch back to musicals). Original Korean ALW Raoul and Y&K Erik 류정한 Ryu Jeong-han was also on rotation as Maxim, but I picked another day for my show so I didn't see him either

Les Misérables

I went to opening night of Les Mis in Busan! It was the Dream Theater, same place POTO played at before. As many of you already know, Choi Jae-rim is playing Jean Valjean at the same time as the Phantom.

I could recognize him easily as the Phantom, but honestly when he appeared at the very start of Les Mis it took me a minute to process that it was him! While I did enjoy his Phantom a lot, I think I enjoyed his Valjean performance a little more. It was only opening night, so curious to see how things develop!

The actor who played Javert that night, 카이 Kai (stage name), was a former Y&K Erik for two seasons too. So many Phantoms!

Frankenstein

On the last day I got to see Dong-seok and Ji-hye once more in a concert for the musical Frankenstein which they have been in together. So have some pics I took without a mask blocking his face!

Ending Note

Thinking back to December 2022 when I said: "Maybe I'll go to Seoul and see Dong-seok once or twice and that's it, I can have my first international POTO" That was funny. That was really very very funny and silly of me to say. 9 performances and 6 of those were POTO! But I'm so grateful and I have zero regrets about it. This is one of the best experiences I've had even if it might look ridiculous to some people to do something like this...I don't care! I hope my crazy essays can help paint a good picture for you!

[jikookficsdiarry]

Okay, I just wanna say I miss the tannies, like I know there is less than a year left but I miss them so much:( the years without them haven't been easy for so many of us. There is this invisible pain in my chest that brings like a void sort of feeling and I just miss them so much. I grew up with them, I have known them since I was in middle school, and I've reached this far in my life because of them. My tannies will always be my reason🤍🥹

I cried when this picture dropped cause I could not believe it was real. It felt like a beautiful dream, but I am greatful that it was reality and they had the opportunity to be together again. I honestly and truly with my whole heart cannot wait for 2025 when the tannies are reunited🤍

Moving onto jiminies MUSE!! The album is beautifully crafted masterpiece🤍🥹 mimi is an exceptional artist and I adore him so much🤍 also BE MINE IS ON REPEAT FOR MEEE!

Okay can we take a moment to appreciate this beautiful tae bear and kookie pictures! Like they are so adorable!! My whole heart. Also kookie is that person who would come give you the biggest hug no matter what time of the day it is if tell him you miss him🥹 I am so happy that tae and kookie got to spend their time in Hawaii together, peacefully and carefree making so many beautiful memories together!! The cutest bubbas my whole heart! I hope we get some sky boarding/ diving footage if they do wanna share🤍🥹 these pictures have my heart🤍

The poster for the jikook travel show ajshdbjdjdkr omdsss IM SO EXCITEDD!! (I know I've said it before but honestly I'm so excited)

Look at them cuties🥹🤍 my mimi and kookie🤍

And finally, mimis weverse post🥹🤍 please I really hope mimi is doing well in the military, and I wish I could reassure him that we will always and forever love him to infinity and beyond. Yup, this post made me tear up. I promise to take care of myself and not fall ill or reach burnout with life being so hectic. I really hope mimi knows that we will always be by his side🥹🤍

I can't wait for 2025🥹🤍 and the teaser trailer drops soon!!! SO you'll see me come in here and scream again. I hope you'll are havubg a lively weekend🤍🥹

~ Nel

[reyesstrand]

wip wednesday

tagged by @rmd-writes @orchidscript @strandnreyes @heartstringsduet @birdclowns (who also tagged me for teaser tuesday last night <3) @paperstorm @louis-ii-reyes-strand @alrightbuckaroo @carlos-in-glasses @theghostofashton @welcometololaland — thank you all <333

“Well, I’d do it again,” TK says, pushing up from his side of the bed and walking on his knees so that he can position himself in Carlos’ lap. Carlos immediately drops the rest of TK’s cronut—which, TK and Nancy were right, is nothing short of delicious—onto the bedside table so he can support his fiancé by curling his hands around TK’s waist. There’s a beautiful softness to TK’s hips, and they give just a little under his palms like they always do. For him, loving TK is the most natural thing in the world, pressing his hands to his body and it being as familiar to him as the layout of their home or the process of wrangling horses or the skillful way he’s learned to peel fruit. Knocking their foreheads together, the corners of TK’s eyes crinkle as he continues on cutely, his voice an angelic melody. “And again, and again, and again.”

He’s suddenly reminded of the months of solitude where he wasn’t sure he’d ever move on. He’s reminded of the emptiness of the loft, even though he’d filled it with furniture and artwork. He’s reminded of the years before that, the years before TK came barreling into his life, and how obvious it was now that he’d never even been living before he met that gleaming man on the side of the road. Carlos feels something warm twist in his chest as TK leans in the extra inch and seals their mouths together with a kiss, slender hands cupping Carlos’ jaw.

Carlos slides his left hand down to the small of his back and rests it there, the tips of his fingers just barely inching lower as his thumb strokes over the meat of his hip.

“I’d say yes,” Carlos tells him, once TK’s sat back a little to catch his breath, lips shiny and pink and beckoning to Carlos like a siren-call. He gives in and kisses his fiancé again, and again, before they close their eyes and just sit in each other’s space. It’s a little overwhelming, to think that their lives have changed forever in the minuscule space of a two-word question—something that was never really a question, because Carlos’ answer to marry me? has been yes since that very first night. But if forever means this man in his lap, this man with his crinkly smiles and his wild heart, this man with his ability to make Carlos realize he’s always been whole, he’s ready to make the lead blind. “I’m going to keep saying yes.”

getting to this very late today so i’m just going to leave an open tag! i’d love to see whatever creation you’re working on, so please tag me if you share!! <33

[grumpygwen23]

This probably isn't much of a TOP story, but I discovered them around the same time you did, late 2013.

Fall Out Boy is one of my favorite bands of all time, and they had just started going back on tour, to promote their first album after their four-year hiatus: "Save Rock and Roll". Naturally, I was SO excited they were back, and intrigued, when I found out that one of their openers was a band i'd never heard of, called Twenty One Pilots.

I was working in an office at the time, and I loved to listen to the radio while I worked, specifically BBC Radio 1 (just for the record, i'm American. I just like the music). Fall Out Boy were doing an interview on the station to promote the tour one day, I think, and during the interview, I believe the DJ played "Holding On To You" as a shoutout to TOP. The name of the band fascinated me so much, as did the song, so I immediately checked out "Car Radio" and "House Of Gold". These guys were so cool, and artsy, and I could see why Fall Out Boy chose them as their openers. Talent recognizes talent!

Fast forward a little bit, to early 2015. I hear that Twenty One Pilots, that quirky band I enjoyed, has released a teaser for a little song called "Stressed Out". It was just a small snippet, of the section where they yell "Wake up, you need to make money!", but it was enough for the all-consuming hyperfixation to kick in. I was officially in love!

Naturally, I listened to the "Blurryface" album all the time in the following years. And then, when the pictures of the yellow eye opening started showing up on their social media, announcing what would be Trench, I rejoiced along with everyone else. In late 2018, was the first and only time I was lucky enough to see this band that means so much to me, during the Bandito tour. My sister was kind enough to buy tickets for me, her, and my brother-in-law to all go together, and when i tell you it's a highlight of my life, i'm not kidding, despite the fact that I didn't have any useable photos or videos. I saw so many folks walking into the venue dressed up as Banditos, and I knew I had found my people.

Fast-Forward again past the majesty of Scaled and Icy (I love the album, but just don't have any interesting stories), to May 23rd of this year. I am just getting ready for bed, when I get a notification from my YouTube app: Twenty One Pilots has gone live on their channel! What?! I naturally clicked the notification at light speed, and my jaw dropped when I saw they were doing a pajama party, to celebrate a new album, that was coming out that very night! I stayed up the whole way, and got super emotional as each new music video played in order. I had never felt more connected to the rest of the world, as I did seeing the boys be silly together as they talked about the tracks, and seeing everyone in the chat freaking out just as much as I did. And then from the time the album itself showed up on youtube that night, I have not stopped listening to Clancy on a regular basis since.

To put things simply: 2024 has unfortunately been very good for me at all, mental health wise. There have been far more cloudy days than sunny ones, but the Clancy album, and getting to follow the events of the tour, have been like a much-needed patch of blue sky peeking through. For that, I will be forever grateful to those two silly, brilliant boys from Ohio...

I love this!

A lyric that’s always stuck with me is “sometimes a certain smell will take me back to when I was young”. I feel like songs do that more than anything, and I love how they hold a piece of us. Especially Twenty One Pilots songs and how they’ve grown with us.

I think I get stuck between the whole ‘terrified of being known’ but ‘desperate to be seen’ thing. But in these songs I’m seen. And I’m glad to have seen you through this music as well now. I hope the rest of 2024 has more sunny days for you, and I hope Twenty One Pilots continues to be a balm for the soul on the cloudy days!! ❤️

[barbierpt]

okay. can i get some advice? i'm (soon) going to drop my skeleton/lsrpg in the tags. my (original) plan was to drop a small teaser blog with two skeleton teasers each day (with a total of twenty) so people had time to ask about the characters and world (since it's completely original) and then do the main (with the same two skeletons, all of which have 3-4 paragraph bios) and then give it a week from the last bio for the first acceptance (since while the application isn't massively long, it's got lots of room for detail and i want people who apply for the last characters to have time to write their applications too, and not have to try rush it out in 24 hours (since anyone applying for the early characters obviously have like a two two weeks to write) but i scrolled through your blog for ages (some light stalking sorry) and was reading about the acceptance discourse and 9 days vs 3 weeks (total) is now making me worried that i'll just lose interest completely. i haven't admined in forever and i'm very much used to long format+long term rps that dropped just teasers 3 months before we even got hints of a character. thoughts? should i change my initial timeline to something shorter?

hi anon! so i'll be honest i've never an a skeleton rp, i've always ran or been a part of original character rps. so please keep in mind that that experience is all part of my perspective here –– and if anyone who sees this is from the skeleton rp world, feel free to chime in too!

i think your idea of posting skeleton teasers each day is a great one! i can see it definitely holding interest, however, i'd suggest considering a shorter timeline and maybe posting more skeleton bios each day. i feel like 3 months, while giving you and applicants breathing time, may do what your'e worried about with interest lost in the wait. i'd recommend keeping that timeline to no more than one month. in my view, having to wait that long for an rp to open would turn me off a little. even if the plot was interesting and i was super excited to write a character, i'd also personally get distracted and likely find something else in that time. three months can feel like such a long time for most people who want to write, especially when other rps might be opening or promoting sooner than that time and take away viable interest.

i hope this helps you anon! and good luck with your rp, i hope it works out well for you!

[alesyira-ffn]

dude. I've been re-reading the entirety of ITD starting last night and man, I've gotta say, one of the most important reasons to write your own damned story is so you get all the stuff you WANT to read in a fic all for you. (starry-eyes) I'm having a great time skimming through this content and rediscovering details I've long since forgotten. It's helpful because I'm working on the next chapters and there's a lot - so so much - that I've lost sight of over the last year.

Fun fact that I don't think I've ever shared because it's really "inappropriate"... I originally wrote a very smutty Kagome/Naraku scene at the end of SatMW where the bad guy is defeated WITH THE POWER OF SEX during a bit of partially-noncon that I actually might have posted on AFF forever ago under an alias??, and then I plotted out and started drafting a smutty Kagome/Hiei/Kurama threesome scene (including vine bondage lmao??) that was meant to be one of the magic-resolutions to get rid of her vine before I figured out most of the plot of The Blue Anshan.

Like, so so much of my writing stemmed from me wanting smut that I can't otherwise find, and then plot happens, and the smut stays in the draft folder... lol. My entire series has been steeped in smut. I was even considering, at one point during initial satmw drafts, the ramifications of shippo actually stealing kagome away to keep. I wrote some scenes of how that might play out, but it was too early in my 'Shippo has grown up' mentality for it to not feel cringe so I had to drop that thread like a hot potato. It is for the best that he had (many) more years to grow, though, because at that point he was still too kid-mindset and hero-worship, and now, centuries later, he can figure out what he wants to do with a better frame of mind. I have plans about how to approach his backstory for a rewrite but that's like, wishful thinking while I meander through these new chapters.

Also sorry no teasers in a long, long while... everything I want to share feels like a terrible spoiler. I've added a tiny one for the few curious lurkers that actually read this shit haha