#it has a happy ending

[bean-writes]

Banana Fish - I Won't Go Back

~THE FINAL CHAPTER~

Yeah, there's actually no quote or snippet from the final chapter that I can put in here without spoilers. So here's some random Banana Fish GIFs to pull on your heartstrings.

Banana Fish - I Won't Go Back

Griff swore to get to the bottom of Max Lobo's mysterious death. But when Griffin turns up dead in his apartment after discovering something that will bring down Dino's empire, the quest for revenge is passed to his brother Ash, the leader of a rival gang. Things get interesting when Ash discovers that Griffin's key to bringing down Dino's empire is 19-year-old Eiji Okumura, a Japanese boy who was Dino's slave. Now they team up to bring down the corrupt gang leader and destroy the dangerous drug Banana Fish.

[Ao3 and FFN]

[try-set-me-on-fire]

This thing has fucking cursed me I had like a thousand words on Friday… sad fic incoming probably by the end of the week…

[arialerendeair]

Me: Oh, okay, the tale of five fandoms will DEFINITELY be my longest bingo fill, no problem. 30k? Still plenty of time to write the rest. Got it.

Also me, a month ago: Uh-oh, the Titanic AU is getting long. Weird.

Also me, a week ago: Okay, wtf Titanic AU, hurry up, we have other shit to write.

Me, in the last 24 hours: WHY IS THE TITANIC AU ALMOST 50K AND NOT BLOODY FINISHED?!

*sigh*

[acowardinmordor]

Steve is late to meet up Eddie for their first date at the carnival for the fourth of July. He goes to find him, and waits outside the mall, not sure what will happen next.

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Hi. Edited and expanded and still have no idea how to tag or define this thing.

[sharktofu]

dull knives - Sashaya - อย่าเล่นกับอนล | Bed Friend (TV 2022) [Archive of Our Own]

His phone rings, disturbing the quiet of his apartment. For a few seconds, as he looks at the caller ID, the air seems to move. His blood begins to pump and his heart beats.

For a few seconds, Uea feels alive.

Uea is depressed and feels alone.

He's not. He has people, who care, and they will care for him, as long as he lets them.

TW: Depression

[lesbian-in-leather]

I really should not be given free reign over my own fiction. You think my fics are sad? You think I'm cruel to other people's characters? I am,, so much worse to my own. If this ever gets published y'all better hope you don't read it because if you care about even a single one of these characters... oh boy. That will not end well for you. Or them

[marycorleone]

The Girl Paratrooper - Chapter VI

Face claim: Kaya Scodelario as Mary Corleone

Warning ⚠️: The character Leigh Spencer was created by @msmercury84 for her story "Double Dare You". Visit her blog and read the story. ❤️

Prompt: Mary and Lieb met while training at Camp Toccoa. Both were paratroopers of Easy Company. But the rules were clear: Dating or romantic involvement was prohibited. This made Lieb and Mary date in secret, 'til the girl found out that he had cheated on her.

After breaking up with Joe, Mary grows closer to Bill Guarnere, and what was meant to be just a friendship becomes a marriage. But Bill and Mary don't love each other, and Liebgott is sorry. What will happen?

Bill said to Mary that he wanted the divorce. She cried and screamed, begging him give up that. Mary wouldn't be able to afford a divorce.

"Look, Mary, our marriage was a mistake and you know it. Why don't we break up? We can be only friends, because it is the only thing that we should have been!"

"Friends? You kidding! I love you, I took care of you! Since ever!"

"You don't love me. You love a guy named Joe Liebgott."

"No, I don't! You want left me by myself cause you want hook up with that girl, that one who sang to us in the reunion!"

Bill was quiet. No words in that moment, cause he really thought Mary didn't know about his feelings. Inspite of what his wife said and the bad mood, he decided tell the truth.

"Yes, Mary. I want the divorce cause I love Leigh Spencer."

Mary's heart was hit by this declaration. All that she tried to avoid so hard, right now was in front of her. Bill left the house and Mary cried a lot. But she solved: no divorce.

She didn't love Lieb. He was an error. It was just a hard time. She and Bill would go win that whole thing.

But they didn't.

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Four months ago, despite of her efforts, Bill had not returned. The others men of Easy already know about what had happened.

She was sad, so she decided go for a walk. When Mary got in the downtown, she saw a scene: Bill and Leigh was sat in a bench, together and kissing.

Now only that seems clearer. They were soulmates, and it would be a sin keep them separated. Then she understood that she needed to sign up the divorce.

@msmercury84 @roadtogracelandx45

[sandinthepipes]

It is a new year and I still haven't told you to read my favourite Fanfiction ever yet.

My kingdom for a pig is an excruciatingly painful roadrat au that to me is very reminiscent of BBC merlin, but honestly it's a completely alternative universe and you could very easily just read it as an original story even if you have no idea who the characters are, and let me tell you I have never seen a more well written piece of literature.

It is truly magnificent. The language, the narrative, the pacing, the plot, the angst, absolutely amazing.

[butterflyscribbles]

Taking shifts❤️💙🧡

[chloesimaginationthings]

My FNAF theory is Monty was a mediocre melody

[chimchiri]

gideon & harrow OR rd and sf as cowboys please please please

It's the cowgirl necro and her gunslinger cav! Who is so damn extra she's got three guns: one left, one right, and one in pole position! (She swears the ladies love it!)

[weinersnarf]

Yorha android Miku, aka 39B

This drawing is the singular reason I have failed inktober. HOW could I concentrate on anything but this?? She has consumed me I fear

(Yes her sword is a leek version of Virtuous Contract. YES she is standing on a pile of leeks. YES I felt the leeks were too important to only mention in the tags.)

[scribeofmorpheus]

Why Dragon Age Veilguard isn't a "Cathedral"

Concept art by Matt Rhodes

"To disinherit the storylines of past games goes directly against the notion of building cathedrals."

What is inherent with Veilguard that keeps bothering me is the fact that the world's choices truly didn't matter--and it doesn't simply bother me from a player perspective, it's not simply a grievance borne of frustration to what I (as a longtime fan) have lost. It's about the very culture of the arts under capitalism's new media habituation cycle [x][x].

Yes, I spent hours of my life playing and replaying each instalment of Dragon Age. Yes, I painstakingly curated a 'canon' world state by replaying what came before in preparation for Veilguard. Yes, I am even more unsatisfied with the end product--time hasn't helped, it's just widened the divide. But, and I can't stress this enough, these very personal gripes aren't what hit home the most. It's the inherent disregard of legacy. A legacy that the previous writers and game developers were building towards.

In the DAV artbook, "cathedral" is the word used to describe the process of making a game. Matt Rhodes' exact words are: "One artist can make a painting, but it takes a team to build a cathedral." Cathedrals took centuries to build. The architect who drafted the first blueprints would likely never see his work realised, he had to rely on those who came after him, like-minded and passionate, to see it through--for the culture, for the future, for legacy. Painters took on several apprentices for this reason too--giant frescoes were not completed by one man's hand, even if it is one man's name that immortalises them. Similarly, if you weave a narrative around choice, what good does it do to take it away at the final act if not to fall to caricature?

To disinherit the storylines of past games goes directly against the notion of building cathedrals.

Late-stage capitalism and profit-margin-obsessed game producers forcing developers to churn out meager content, to make a known brand into something it's not, to chase a fad or a popular trend... o, how reductive and cliche you've been forced to become Bioware. We have lost the cultural thought patterns relative to Cathedrals. We know only of barn-raised churches--done in a day but unlikely to last the turn of the seasons.

And don't even get me started on the music of Veilguard either. From Origins to World of Warcraft to Everquest to Baldur's Gate to Dungeon Siege, you can hear the intricate interconnected weave of sounds inspired by the Dungeons and Dragons-esque fantasy genre. You hear it in the repeated use of certain instruments, in the harmonic weeping notes of a bard-like singer or the foreboding echoes of drums as if of war. In tavern songs. But then, rather than hire someone who loves these worlds and this genre, who is a hungry artist looking to make a name, a legacy if you will, for themselves with a spectacular score, you hire any already sated composer, one well-into the encroaching years of career fatigue, whose notes repeat in countless projects, who feels less concise and more uninterested with each new project. One who has long since cemented his legacy. Someone in it for a paycheck and nothing else! And, to top it off, you let him compose something so minimalist? I am offended actually.

Cathedrals! We should have witnessed the final tile being placed on the Dragon Age cathedral. Instead, some architects walked up, tore down the interior and installed IKEA furniture and called it authentic before having to call the previous architects to come and fix the "load-bearing issues", forcing them to rush and add a coat of varnish and a few 'aged' details for authenticity.

[egophiliac]

2025 is the year of the DRAGON SLIPPERS

[waterthatsmoe]

"Do you regret it?"

"It's for the best."

"Do you miss them?"

"I'll never forget this ache for the rest of my life."

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[lupinflowrs]

silco finds the letter (also family nap time bc. i said so)