#it might have been easier ngl this one was a fucking struggle

[confusedcoast]

slayyy

[demonsword586]

Horn grinding headcanons! Gehenna

(I apoligise but I been having THOUGHTS...and I wanted to make something like a list of all devils and how their horns would feel for grinding,starting of with Gehenna devils.)

Sitri

-first things first,the ~ shape would probably feel like a bulge

-it's also quite decent in size and he only has one horn,which is actually an advantage,since you might have a hard time finding a comfy position with a devil who has more than one

-also if you put his head between your thighs,you can pull on his ponytail

-his head probably smells like tea,so bonus points for that

Satan

-Yes

-very big,they're also in a very nice position

-also very smooth,so it may will be easier to glide against them when they're wet from cum/milk/any other liquid

-the only downside is that he would act like a brat and bite your legs or move his head away when you're close

-so kindly slap him and hold him by the tip of his horns or tug on his hair,he will enjoy it

Paimon

-okay it would be a struggle to get the position right.

-won't let you grind on them until he takes those stickers off OR will do his best to make you release a lot of juices(finger you,edge you,bite your thighs) so the stickers have more of your scent and he will keep them for years

-his horns are actually quite thin and the distance between them...like I said,this is a tough cookie to grind on,penetration might be better

-also he may prick or bite you on purpose to draw out your blood

Leraye

-okay for humping,the unicorn shape might be the safest and most straight forward one.

-this one even has a golden retriver attached to it

-absolute obedience! You tell him 'stay',he stays still...but when he's close,he may not be able to hold back much longer and will hump his head against you instead

-will keep the teddy bear on,either to make you more comfy or to get your scent on it

Zagan

-(omg bunny ears!)

-ngl that shape...would be perfect for a vibrator

- his horns have so much girth and lenght that all of your privates would be covered

-also that long,jankable hair...just imagine grinding on those cute horns and all of the sudden jank his head back,he may even let out a few moans!

-actaully since he has so much stamina he may be open to turning into a vibrator for you

-either way he will do all the work,to please his partner

Belial

-hmm...I don't want to be rude but...those are not grindable..kinda small

-if you somehow grind on those,applause to you

-but those are made for penetration...

-thankfully these average horns,have a masterfull tongue below them(really this man can write with his tongue,imagine what godly oral he could do)

-so you can get oral and horn penetration at the same time! (Imagine him sucking your clit/cock while he fucks you with his horn)

Astaroth

-okay at first nothing special,looks like he broke his horns...he turns around and DAMN! This man has a fucking grinding machine!

-The girth! The lenght! The position!

-I'm sorry but...his horns are laid flat against the back of his head,which is perfect for sitting down,not only that but his long ass hair is also there. Imagine how it would feel to sit down on this beast while his hairl tickle your legs

-the horns are pretty decent size and girth

-Oh! The bumps! Those are the cherry on top! I...it would feel amazing,that's all I can say

-the only downside is that he would probablly suffocate

[dadrielle]

there is a nonzero chance that imogen instead takes over predathos and tames it with the help of her friends and that's actually really cool ngl

Ok I am Very Bad™️ at remembering to check or respond to asks as of late so the fact that I actually saw this one feels very kismet haha. I think that's very much on the table for tonight! No matter the specifics, it's definitely going to be a "struggle from within" situation with the party helping her I reckon. Which makes me incredibly happy since that's what the Hells do, and Matt has been creating mechanics that increasingly allow for non violent interventions (the shard absorption and Delilah sealing rituals) or give the player a way to regain moments of autonomy (the Delaudna fight in particular feels like a blueprint here, to me).

I think the way it actually manifests is going to depend on the nature of Predathos specifically. There are really three potential True Natures I see for it based on how Matt has described it, in conjunction with the campaign themes overall.

First, there's the Predator. I think that's Predathos as assumed, as named, Predathos as the gods and Ludinus and Otohan reckon it. This is a Predathos that can't be reasoned with. It only wants to eat and the only ways to prevent that are killing it, tricking it, or dominating it. This would probably make for the most straightforward fight and Imogen will likely either have to lie her ass off and trick it into Going Away to Someplace Else (which it might not even have a concept of "lying" so that could be easier than one might think) or use the opportunities created for her by her friends– maybe using those strings of fate linking them hm hm?–to try and either beat it in a battle of wills to gain control or straight up, like, domesticate the damn thing. I think I find it the least interesting option because it relies on Predathos not really being fully sentient (though I think it would be DEEPLY funny if at some point Imogen has to make, not another wisdom save, but a fucking animal handling check. Can you IMAGINE.) I think I would find it a bit more satisfying personally if this is not correct just because then both the gods and Ludinus have been wrong all along and it creates a new frame for regarding this being, but we'll see! There is certainly a clear case to be made for it. I've been thinking that if this is the case, maybe the gods could friggin, like, spirit bomb a bunch of their divine energy to create the tastiest looking snack ever and shooting it out into space for Predathos to fetch, leaving them all at close to Artagan levels of power, but I don't favor it as a solution unless the Hells instigate it because I want them to be the ones driving the solution.

Then there's the Child. This seems more like what Matt's going for; he leaned very hard on that imagery, describing the Hallowed cage as a womb, says it has an innocence, that it looks like a child, saying that in its memory of Tengar it's like it was reaching out to suckle nearby. It's mannerisms have that sort of simplicity. And I think it's interesting that after getting whispers on Predathos, Orym started using very simple language and ideas to try and express to it what they were feeling. "I am afraid." I think in this case, it responding to Imogen "I don't understand" when she said "We want to help you, but you'll hurt people. That's what happened before, isn't it?" might be key to the resolution to this kind of encounter. The Child has no real concept of others as complex living beings. I don't think it knows that eating is destroying, that what it does causes fear or pain. In this case, Imogen would not be struggling to take the reins (heh) so much as to explain to it like a child why what it wants to do would hurt others and how that would make other people feel. The Hells are the party of empathy for monsters as much as they are the PVP party, and this would give that key trait a chance to shine. I think it would be neat for this portion of Predathos to end up incarnating as a mortal child the way the Gods did for Downfall, not to get around barriers but just to learn and grow up. Alternatively, it would be neat if they could convince it to pull a Luxon and split itself into lots of little pieces that could all learn and have more manageable sized hungers. Maybe a piece goes in every Ruidusborn; that would create for a VERY story-rich new status quo, because the gods would need to deal with the fact that there are all the pieces in play to reassemble Predathos and doom them. Do they renegotiate with mortals the way the Matron suggested? Do they start a holy crusade to kill Ruidusborn? Do they let it play out and see if Predathos can grow into something that can be reasoned with? Does this version of Predathos need to eat a little bit of divinity and how does that work?

But that also brings me to my last Possible True Nature of Predathos, what I would call the Incomplete, which is a bit more abstract. I think there is also credence to the idea that Predathos isn't so much a child as a piece of a bigger thing, maybe even part of the Luxon. I have to wonder, if you don't understand an emotion like fear, how can you know for sure that what you're feeling is hunger? What if it is emptiness? Loneliness? Being Incomplete? A desire to have and be part of something that is not understandable to a mind who has not had a chance to Be a Person yet, as it were? Perhaps it eats because that is all it knows how to do but underneath that there is another need that must be satisfied. Edun plucked the fruit from the tree when Luz said "Wait! Give it a chance" and the first thing that happened to Edun was each point of light in their form became fixed. The possibilities of Edun collapsed into one. I find it VERY interesting that the Beacon was integral to the creation of the Malleus key, that we have found out about the Aevilux and the way they split themselves like the Luxon and how that is what Opal and Ted were, that the Luxon makes the gods uneasy, that the Kryn Dynasty was so specifically spotlighted among the Exandrian forces by Matt, that he made sure that the Hells went into this battle with potions of possibility. What if the Hells could redirect Predathos from the gods to the beacons? What if instead of destroying the gods, releasing Predathos reassembles the Luxon as its last missing piece, ready to be understood? I don't know, I think @overnighttosunflowers has more solid thoughts on this one than me but it is JUICY AND INTERESTING, and I think it would be similar to the Child battle in execution.

Anyway I'm excited for tonight, haha.

[player1064]

June 2004

WIP asks but it's just the various sections of my happy (???) beville (/angsty carraville) WIP

ngl this section might not make it into the final cut not bc I don't like it but bc now that I've done a couple of becks pov sections I feel like this one might work better with becks' pov than with gary's.... but we shall see

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June, 2004.

David’s entire career has been built around set pieces, around people saying that there’s no-one they’d rather have on a dead ball than him. Always the one to step up for corners, always the first name on the list of penalty-takers.

So he struggles, when a game ends like this.

“It’s not your fault,” Gary tells him, over and over again. Even though they both know that it is. “It’s England, innit? Penalty curse an’ all that.”

David doesn’t seem to hear him, or maybe he’s ignoring Gary’s obvious bullshitting. He just sits on the bed, curled in on himself and staring at his hands as he methodically cracks each knuckle.

He’s not crying. Gary almost wishes he would, thinks it might be easier to offer comfort to his partner when he’s not so trapped inside his own head, spinning round and round until it makes him sick. If they were in England they’d be at the training grounds right now, stood on the pitch in the middle of the night with David saying just one more kick, Gaz, I have to get it through this hoop. And again – can’t do it just once, might be a fluke. One. Two. Three. Perfect. And again. I need to do the run-up from a different angle, at a different pace. Again. Again.

Gary wonders if anyone in Madrid would’ve done that for him, stood out there freezing in the dark for hours at a time, just watching, waiting. Let him tire himself out, then take him home and put him to bed and tell him it’s not his fault, it’s not his fault, it’s not his fault.

No training pitches here, though, and no chance of sneaking out when the city’s still up celebrating Portugal’s win.

He sits himself behind David, pulls him back to rest against his chest. David still doesn’t say anything, but after a moment he feels some of the tension start to leave his body.

“Becks,” he says quietly, “you’ve played much worse games than this. Let’s blame Ronaldo, eh? The Portuguese one, I mean. Obviously. The Brazilian one wouldn’t be playin’ in the Euros, would ‘e? Fuck me, that’s gonna get confusing.” He’s aware that he’s starting to ramble, but his brain is itching to fill the silence so there’s not much he can do to stop it. “Let’s call ‘im Cristiano, that’s easier. He’s insane, Becks, honestly. I’ve never seen someone play like that me whole life, it’s – there’s no winning, against him. So let’s blame him, and then when we go on pre-season tour and you meet him proper you can speak to ‘im with all that Spanish you’ve been learnin’.”

“They don’t speak Spanish in Portugal,” Becks says hoarsely, like it’s an effort just to get the words out.

“Do they not?” This would explain why Gary’s not had much luck with the Spanish to English dictionary he’s been keeping in his locker. “Tha’s weird.”

The corner of David’s mouth ticks up a fraction. “You’re pretty,” he murmurs, stealing the line Gary normally reserves for when David’s not understanding whatever he’s explaining (ranting about) to him.

Gary sighs. “Home tomorrow,” he says, reaching for one of David’s hands to give it a squeeze. “Mum and Trace said your stuff’s got back alright, so at least we won’t have to deal with all that unpacking nonsense when we get in.”

“Home.” David smiles properly this time, tilts his head back to look up at Gary. “I’m comin’ home.”

“That you are. You spoken to the Boss at all?”

“A bit. Think we’re gonna be alright. Can’t believe fuckin’ Carlos is coming back too, can I not ever get a break from him?”

[sixthwater]

Ok ok hi, question for the tarotscope.

Do you sometimes have an issue where it takes super long for the cards to get to the point? Like their story-telling is really long? Because most of the time I do and this is why short spreads or 2 or 3 card pulls almost never work for me.

Like just to give an example, I sometimes do a timeline spread where I pick a significator (or a few if it concerns more than one person) and put it aside and then shuffle it with separate cards that I draw (it's actually a good way to do a spread, I recommend). I did one for myself recently and the first 3 cards were all negative and next to them was my card. So it showed my past struggles. But like? 3 cards? That's a bit much to just say "oh you've been in a BAD BAD place" haha (tho ngl it was funny to see)

It's even worse when I ask about specific situations. If I ask how an x event will go, the first 5 cards or so will tell me what kind of event it is in the first place. You know what I mean? Instead of just giving kind of like an outcome reading.

I hope I make sense haha but it's kind of annoying when sometimes you have to pull 10 cards instead of 3 or something.

LMAO, I'm glad i'm not the only one having my cards go "oh you getting your shit ROCKED huh" like yes!!! why do you think i'm here!!!!!

First off that Is an interesting way to do a spread and I wanna try it out later thnk u for letting me know

So I was actually gonna make a post about this like. A night ago but I deleted it bc I talked too much I don't struggle too much with it unless it's certain questions? Or I probe too deep or too much and they shut me out. Like it's cards I should be able to break down and I suddenly can't, that's how I know they're blocking me lol. I just did a three card pull to test/verify and yeah it's pretty okay. I usually do it in bullet points to make it easier. It could also be that for some reason for some questions you're just...I don't know how to explain it but like it just Does Not connect for you. Like we're not blocked but other people read and suddenly it's like "ooooohh" and it's really fucking annoying jfkdlas;jfieaj like I remember trying to ask for guidance on next steps and it literally didn't make sense and one of my friends pulled for me and it was like basic math.

It also might sometimes, in particular sessions, be the deck? Like I've pulled the same question from two different decks and they relayed it in different ways. One of my decks forces me to see things positively, and I'm currently going through a shitty time but I somehow got the world (the imagery would explain why I was so drawn back fjdkalfjeia). After I looked at their guidebook and the rest of the cards it made sense. So like sometimes you have to sideline the basic guide, understand the book's interpretations and make some sort of Frankenstein reading LMAO

Anyway, summary: there've only been a few times where I've had to probe and pull a few more cads to fully understand but I think those were answers that were fully dependent on individual choices and not necessarily a three card pull, or the situation itself was much more than me

[featherymainffins]

Succession was honestly so insane in the best way possible for everything. Like. It would have been far easier to just make this a drama comedy about the elite and how divorced they are from the struggles of the average man and how inhumanly they talk and behave. It would have been entertaining on its own.

But this aspect is also "enriched" by the four siblings also being victims of abuse. And this doesn't take away from the previous paragraph at all, which is a fucking miracle, because a worse show would use it as an excuse for everything. But these aspects are, while not divorced, not shown as going hand in hand. They're all privileged people whose business does terrible things and they're also victims of abuse and don't deserve that, because nobody does.

Plus the abuse is portrayed VERY very realistically, both when it comes to Logan's (the abusive father's) behaviour and the way his children react to it. All of them seem to be incapable of deciding if they hate him or not. The only one who is just resigned is Connor (the oldest), because it's been clear to him for some time that he might as well not exist in his father's eyes.

There's also whatever the living fuck literally everything about Tom and Greg was. Like. Well. That did happen. Greg was also a nice commentary on how people who start out as average people can become parasites who prey upon their fellow men because they see their opportunity to climb up and they stop caring if it kills everyone below them. But there was also everything else. And I do mean that positively I just have literally no fucking idea how to describe whatever the hell that was.

Oh also canonical BPD representation AND it's one of the main characters. You don't see that every day considering most BPD rep is just heavy subtext. Which is not a bad thing, many BPD characters live in worlds where a diagnosis wouldn't even exist, but many a time even word of god tends to beat around the bush, which sucks. I love how they just fucking dropped it in the middle of a conversation here. Like yeah yeah Roman has BPD we've all seen it, time to move on.

Oh also the cinematography fucked. Genius to use water as a purely negative element and a symbol of doom and death. Water is usually used in a positive way and a symbol of life and nurture. To use it as nothing but ruin is pretty sexy ngl.

[setethsbigbaratitties]

i would like to ask you about your cf defector sylvain thoughts 👀

oh man so i have a LOT of feelings about sylvain in general but especially about cf!sylvain. it's always kind of annoyed me that so much sylvain content is just...shipping him with felix/ingrid/dimitri because there's a wealth of potential in sylvain and i think a lot of it gets wasted

part of this stems from me...really just not liking him with the other blue lions! i suppose they're alright as friends with a lot of shared history and trauma, but especially pre-timeskip i think that sylvain's relationship with a lot of the other blue lions is. kind of toxic ngl! i also think it's really telling that sylvain ONLY gets to a b-support with dimitri and it's a pretty surface-level friendship (here we go, more jokes about sylvain being horny when his flirtiness likely stems from trauma!)

but also i think there's a lot of potential to just. let the horror build up in sylvain over time. it starts off with him seeing what becomes of miklan, someone he's come to hate but at the same time can't help but pity. and it doesn't help that even when he's skipping meals and suffering sleepless nights on account of the guilt that tears at his stomach, he brushes it all off as a joke, because he's learned that it's easier to pretend he doesn't care. felix can glare daggers at him and ingrid can roll her eyes and dimitri can sit there with a blank smile on his face when he jokes, because at least it means he doesn't have to say that he's struggling.

but of course that builds up into a lot of sadness and distancing himself and maybe even a little bit of resentment over time, and then shit goes down in the holy tomb and now all of a sudden dimitri is going fucking WILD in a way that sylvain always kind of suspected he might, and things get very very real very very quickly and now sylvain can no longer pretend that he's slowly been pushing the others away. and when he hears dimitri mirror miklan's murderous line so closely, he just can't take it any more. he leaves. he goes to edelgard and while he doesn't trust her or agree with everything she says and the things she wants to do make him sick to his stomach sometimes, he just can't be around the lions anymore. deep down he misses his late night talks with mercedes and sneaking tastes of dedue's cooking before it's done, and he can't even think of what the look in ingrid's or felix's eyes when they see him again will be like without wanting to cry, but at least with the imperial army he doesn't have to look at dimitri anymore and try to pretend he doesn't see his brother.

plus there's a lot of potential to think about with whether you think edelgard's or dimitri's army would win in the end....is byleth with the black eagles? does sylvain stand at their side and wonder whether the emptiness behind their eyes is better or worse than the frenzy behind dimitri's? do his hands shake when he's the one who has to silence annette's song, or break his childhood promise to felix? does he look on in horror when he sees dedue turn into a beast, just like miklan did, or can he even watch it happen? does he even hope to make it through the war, or does he silently wish that dimitri will succeed where miklan didn't? what becomes of sylvain when the war is over and the battle is won? does anyone know? is there anyone left to care?

or is byleth on the side of the blue lions? does sylvain have to watch as the army he's chosen crumbles around him? is he afraid as it happens, or is there some hint of relief? is he surprised when edelgard too becomes something worse, more bestial, even than dimitri or miklan? does he put up a fight against the people he once called his friends, or does he go to them like a ram to the altar? who is given the deed of taking out sylvain, the reckless philanderer who once lived down the hall and sometimes surprised them with the depth of his thoughts? is it felix, his eyes filled with rage and grief? is it ingrid, whose lips tremble as the blood runs down his chest? is it dimitri, shuddering like an animal at the sight of him? or is it mercedes, who holds him to her chest and wipes the tears and blood from his face? is it dedue, with the efficiency of a butcher and the kindness to make it quick? do any of them remember him when he's gone? do any of them want to?

there's a lot of tragedy to be had there, regardless of whether edelgard wins or loses, and i think the parallel of miklan and dimitri is something that should have bothered sylvain a lot more than it did.

[arsenicpanda]

coming from an amateur writer, do you have any tips on writing smut?

ngl, I’m an amateur myself, having not finished much smut and still not written the actual act of sex from the perspective of one of the people experiencing it. So idk why you came to me, but I am flattered. I'm not great at advice on the act of writing, but I’ll do my best to talk about process and shit.

1. Read smut. Read lots of it, read varying qualities and varying lengths and as soft-core and hard-core as you’re up for. Read it for fun, just taking it in, and then read it with a critical eye. What works? What doesn’t? Are there any tropes (general, character-specific, or ship-specific) that you like or dislike? Why? What’s especially hot? What makes you cringe? What kind of language do you like? And so on and so forth. Ask questions and answer them.

2. What’s your setup? Like, which characters, which ship, which universe? If it’s an AU, how does the AU change things from canon (especially important if you’re doing ABO, which is its own can of worms I’m not getting into here)? What’s the relationship between your characters and what’s the situation in which they fuck?

3. How do your characters feel about sex in general and with respect to the ship you’re writing? How horny are they in general, for the other character(s) in the ship, and in this specific situation? What are they into and not into? What are their previous experiences (or lack thereof) with sex and romance? What experience do the characters have with each other? Are there specific experiences they might remember and use or is there certain knowledge they do or don’t have about their partner(s) (For established ships, I like to mention previous experiences and knowledge of what the POV character’s partner(s) are into as a way to show that there is real history there. For unestablished ships, I like to include that figuring out process some and the reactions to experiencing stuff for the first time, either in general or within the specific ship, to show that newness of the relationship. Maybe there’s mention of a certain preference the POV character already knows about, or maybe the POV character makes note of a preference they learn during the fic. Stuff like that.)? How loud are they during sex? Are there any sex acts that this ship would engage in no matter what (e.g. I maintain all smut with Jughead that isn’t a quickie should include him giving some amount of oral sex)? How many times can they orgasm? How sensitive are they? What’s their refractory period? And so on, and so forth. Note: once you come up with answers for this section for your ship once, the next time you write smut for them, you’ll really only have to make adjustments according to the universe you’re in, so that’s nice.

4. What kind of fic are you writing? Is it pwp? Smut within plot? A character or relationship piece? Basically, are there any arcs to get through, what are they, and how are they going to relate to the smut? How explicit is the smut? What language do you want to use to refer to genitals and orgasms and such? What POV are you writing in? How much do your characters talk? How “realistic” are things? Are they practicing safe sex, including safe oral sex?

5. What’s actually happening? I like to plan out a smut scene ahead of time so I know how it starts, where they are physically, what the characters are doing (hand, mouth, genital, etc location and movement), how one sex act moves into another, what can be seen/heard/felt/etc based on POV, what’s physically possible at all times, if there are any accessories or toys I need to explain them owning and where they’re kept before the smut, and how it ends. It also helps me make sure the smut doesn’t significantly overlap with something I’ve already written or am planning to write. I also write an outline, which you don’t have to do, but does help if you ever go weeks or months between working on it because then when you come back you don’t have to strain to remember what the plan was. You can also just go with the flow and just write, but definitely keep location of body parts and what the POV character can actually see/hear/etc (for example, if your POV character is blindfolded or bent over, they can’t describe their partner’s face) in mind as you do.

6. Write it. Vary your sentence structure. I find good smut includes not just physical action, but emotion and especially sensation, but you might disagree. If you're struggling with repeated words and shit, maybe look for lists of words to use when writing smut. Probably look up tips for writing smut in general, ask people for advice (which you already are, so good for you!), etc. Draw upon your own experience if you have any, and if you don’t, maybe look into people’s accounts, sex tips, etc and check if any questions you have about sensation have been answered online anywhere, e.g. on reddit. But don’t try and make it perfect all at first; just write it. One approach that’s often effective is to do writing "sprints", that is, sit down for fifteen minutes and just write; you can continue for another fifteen minutes when you're done if you want, but you'd be surprised how much you can get done in fifteen minute segments over multiple days. Also, I recommend writing in google docs with the setting of “Add space after paragraph” (go to Format, then Line & paragraph spacing) for ease of transferring to AO3. Actually, here's a good guide on working from google docs an moving to AO3; look at it before you start. Google docs is also useful for when you have a beta because it lets them make suggestions instead of straight-up changing things themselves. Also, take note of where you use italics and non-italicized punctuation together (this will be useful when you need to publish to AO3).

7. Read it carefully and with a critical eye like you would someone else’s fic up in #1. Make sure that you can follow the action based solely on what you wrote and that nothing impossible or contradictory happens (e.g. teleporting body parts, a single hand in two locations at the same time, people twisting or reaching in physically impossible ways). What do you think is missing, where, why, and how might you fix it?

8. Revise it.

9. Repeat 7 and 8 as much as you desire until you’re satisfied, or at least as satisfied as you can be without peer review.

10. Send it to beta. Like, seriously, send it to beta because, if nothing else, your beta won’t know what’s supposed to be happening in the scene, so they can tell you if you’ve successfully conveyed what happens. If you have anything in particular you are uncertain about or want help with, ask your beta to pay close attention to it. Seriously, betaing is going to be much more effective if your beta knows what they should be focusing on most.

11. Repeat steps 7 and 8.

12. Title it and write a summary. Feel free to ask your beta for help here.

12. Congrats, you’re done! Transfer it to AO3 from google docs and save it as a draft. AO3 by default puts a space between italics and non-italicized punctuation, so go through your list of those combos and manually delete the extra spaces. Now add your title, tags, and summary. Don’t tag side pairings/pairings the fic doesn’t focus on in the relationship section; if you need to warn readers of them, put them in the additional tag sedition. If you’re writing an ot3+ that isn’t an established, feel free to tag the pieces of the ship involved (e.g. Betty/Jughead/Tabitha would also tag Betty/Jughead, Betty/Tabitha, and Tabitha/Jughead). But if the ot3+ is already popular within fandom, only tag the ot3+. Don’t tag characters who aren’t central to the story. Tag all warnings and kinks involved especially.

I think that’s it? I guess I might have overly walked you through, but that’s the process I recommend. I mean, I don’t always follow all the steps (While I get the gist of character/emotional arcs before I start plotting the smut, I often really nail them down after I’ve decided on the events of the smut because the latter is generally what has me writing the smut in the first place and I tend to get ahead of myself. Things would probably be easier if I didn’t do that though), but they’re good guidelines, I think? Regardless, I hope this helps!

[sedated-love]

DabixReader Smut

Eleventh Post of October!!

It’s pretty much all smut no plot ngl...I have no regrets about it either uwu

Hope you guys enjoy! If you like it, please take the time to reblog <3 It helps a ton! Also if you have any suggestions for what I write in the future, please feel free to leave them in my ask box!

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“It’s fine…It’s nothing I’m not use to”

You couldn’t help but not be convinced as you watched Dabi wince in pain. He was always extremely strong but there were random nights like this where his burn scars seemed to bother him more than others. You felt bad for him. It was like no matter how much time past, he could still feel that harsh burn settling violently against his skin and no amount of ointments or medicine seemed to help.

Though it didn’t stop you from trying. You joined the League of Villains awhile back and your medical history as a nurse was one of the main reasons they let you join. You usually just stayed at the hideout as a standby in case someone got hurt but every once in awhile Dabi would come to you on nights like these, looking for anything to ease his suffering.

You tried everything you could think of to help with the ache of his skin but he always reported that nothing seemed to work and now you weren’t so sure what else you could try. You hated seeing him in pain though. You had grown fond of all of the league members during your time here and you honestly hated to see any of them in pain anymore. You couldn’t just sit by while he suffered…you wanted to help.

“I can’t do nothing…”

Despite your words, you were left fiddling with the hem of your sweater as your eyes worriedly ran their way over his body. His scarring was some of the worst you’ve seen in your medical career and you weren’t really sure what you could do at this point. You were hoping that at least one of the ointments would at least soothe him for a little while but none of them did. Though maybe you could make something new to try…

“Well…if you really want to help…”

You got so lost in your own thoughts that you hadn’t noticed that Dabi had closed the distance between you two until he spoke. The lack of space had taken you by surprise as he stood with his body mere inches away from being pressed against yours. You looked up at him, confusion prominent on your face but he seemed to know a way to help and if it was in your capabilities, you would do it.

You were well stocked with everything from herbs for tea remedies to hard anesthetics so if you needed to make something, you could. You were a bit surprised when you were first given all of the supplies needed since you weren’t sure how Shigaraki got his hands on most of it but you decided not to question as it made your job a hell of a lot easier when you had everything you needed at your fingertips.

You easily had enough stock that you could sew every league member back together if they had come to you broken apart. Which is exactly why you figured you must have something to help Dabi and you just hadn’t realized it yet. You would do anything you could to help him though and he knew that.

“You know some way I can?”

“I’ve got something in mind…”

He stripped off his shirt and started to undo his belt, smirking when you let out a yelp of surprise and covered your eyes. “Don’t be shy…you said you wanted to relieve me of my pain, right~?” He grabbed one of the hands that had been covering your eyes and pressed it right against his boxers which were straining against his hard on. “So…help me~”

Even though your face was flushed bright red, you found yourself falling to you knees, hooking your fingers in the hem of his boxers as you slowly pulled them down, never once breaking eye contact with him as you did so. You didn’t know what you were more surprised by- his length or the jacob’s ladder piercings that made their way along the underside of his cock. You could already feel your mouth watering just from the sight, imaging how the piercings would feel rubbing along your tongue as his weight sat heavily in your mouth.

He pressed himself against your lips, pushing inside as soon as you gave him access. A soft groan left him as he pushed his way into the back of your throat, filling your entire mouth and throat with his thick cock as you were forced to take every inch until your nose was firmly settled against his pubes. You had to take deep breaths through your nose to keep yourself from gagging on his length as your eyes watered.

“That’s it, babygirl~”

He sighed in content as he rocked his hips slightly, getting a feel for your throat as his piercings rubbed right along your tongue, dragging a soft muffled moan from your lips. “Don’t tell me your mouth is sensitive~” He let out a soft chuckle as he teased you, slowly dragging his cock all of the way out before thrusting himself back in your throat, giving you no time to adjust as you choked weakly on his length.

“God~ Your throat might be the best medicine yet~”

He rocked his hips a bit before pulling himself all the way out once more just to thrust himself back into your throat, his hands running through your hair just to take ahold of both sides of your head as he started bucking his hips at a brutal pace, using your throat for his pleasure. You struggled to keep up with his pace, trying desperately to breathe through your nose as you let out soft gagging sounds every time he thrusted inside but that seemed to only turn him on more as he stuffed your mouth full with his cock.

You could feel yourself becoming addicted. It was like his dick was an aphrodisiac and the longer you sucked on it, the more you could feel your brain slowly muddling with pleasure. You looked up at him with your eyes glazed over from the lust, your thighs rubbing together slightly as the wetness building in your underwear was becoming all too apparent.

He didn’t bother worrying about whether you could take it or not. Instead, he forced you to as he slammed his cock down the back of your throat until you had tears streaming down your cheeks from the rough treatment. You didn’t mind though as you got high off the fact that you were taking away all of his pain. You sucked desperately at him every time he pushed past your lips as if it were the one thing keeping you alive. Your hands rested on your thighs as he forced your head down on his cock in time with his hips pushing it in.

“Fuck~”

His soft curses along with the throbbing of his dick against your tongue warned you that he wasn’t going to last much longer. You felt a bit disappointed as you wanted to stay with your lips wrapped around his cock for hours, but your jaw was already beginning to hurt a bit from the rough treatment. He never slowed down for a second, his balls slapping your chin as he used your throat like a flesh light for his own pleasure.

“Such a dirty girl, taking all of my cock like that~”

He growled softly under his breath as he rutted his hips sloppily against your lips, only lasting a few more minutes at that brutal pace before he shoved his dick as far in as he could, cumming down the back of your throat so that you had no choice but to swallow everything he gave you. He held your head firmly in place on the base of his cock, tilting his head back slightly with a moan as he filled your stomach with his cum.

“Fuck baby~ You did so well~”

He offered praises down at you as he ran his fingers idly through your hair, but he didn’t go to pull out of your mouth. Instead of he kept his dick deep in your throat, smirking when he noticed your confusion. “I don’t wanna make my dick cold by pulling it out right away…be a dear and warm it for me for awhile~”

You looked up at him, cheeks still stained with your tears and drool running down your chin as his cock ever so slowly became soft in your throat. You could tell that you were going to be there for awhile but somehow you didn’t think you minded. You had a feeling that Dabi was going to be coming to you for medicine a lot more often and like the good little nurse you were, you were always going to have it ready for him.

[theblackbirdsgemimagines]

Ramble away, cause I feel the twisted head rot, I kinda wanna see what you think about our bois. ~ a pocket sized dragon hops in excitement.

A POCKET SIZED DWAGOOOOOONNNN 😭💞💞💞 That’s so BLESSED, and tysm omg, I’m very glad to just spill out my barking on every boy, bc yEAH THE BRAIN ROT SKDHAKDB

THE BRAIN ROT IS SO REAL LOL

Everything I breathe ends up relating to TWST in some way, like at this point just let me take my friends, cousins, and pets, and of course Lulu and Seb, and I will have 1. A Gottdamned Harem, 2. So Many Children, and 3. NEVER WANT TO LEAVE. Kwfhskdhjwek

Ok this is gonna be long bc I gotta cover all my boys, so rip lol.

Dorm Leads:

Riddle

GOD, my Fucking Baby, my CHILD, my SWEET BABY BOY, I’M 👁💧👄💧👁

I would die for him, beetch, he is PRECIOUS ♥️

He reminds me of how I feel Ciel would behave if S/O took the place as Sebastian’s contracee, too, so like 🥺 Lots of feels 😭

Is Son, I have adopted him now. If you mistreat him, don’t ever speak to me or my son ever again. I’ll FIGHT his MOM, don’t TEST me. I’m his new mom now. His BIRD mom. So proud of him, he’s like...one of the few that’s actually shown growth in canon after his overblot kshdkadjs

Leona

👁💧👄💧👁

.....I am a Mere Simp....

Ya’ll.... I swearh to ghOD I simped hard for Scar back when I was a wee thing, I did NOT expect to simp for him AGAIN LATER IN LIFE, what the FUCK aidhskdhskdj

Like shit bitch, damn, you may not be king of Afterglow honey, but you can be king of my heart if you wAnt to bb....

Leona: *smiles once, even if it’s smugly*

Me: *WEEPING* Look at hiiiiiiim!! My sunshine booooooy! 😭

Does this make me a furry

Probably

I am too Simp to Care Anymore

I HESITATED TO GET ATTACHED BC THIS BOY LOOKS LIKE A FUCKIN WOMANIZER IF I EVER SAW ONE, BUT HE DRINKS HIS RESPECT WOMEN JUICE EVERY SINGLE MORNING AND I WAS A GONNER SNDJAJDHSJ

FUCK

Call me a Herbivore again, bully me //SLAPPED

Azul

He secretly a lil shit sometimes, but tha’s ok, it’s mostly in a silly way, especially post overblot~ UvU

The sweetest bby everytime I read fanposts on him, like god, ah 💜💜💜 WHOMST COULD BULLY SUCH A CUTE CHUBBY OCTOBABY I’LL FIGHT ALL OF EM!! A sweetheart 10/10 would be his friend 💗 Not making contracts with him tho, lol

...ok maybe SOME after his overblot, but they’re able to be easily reversed now, so it’s way more chill andhsjdj

Kalim

FUCK!!!! F U C K!!!! BABYYYYYYY!!!! BABY!!!! I HAVE ADOPTED HIM IF YOU TOUCH HIM YOU D I E

He is literally so sweet, anytime anyone was like “you’re so nice it’s annoying” I WAS READY TO COME FLYING IN TO BITCH SLAP THEM LIKE AJDHSKDHSJ (even if I also loved them lol)

Like NO you are WRONG whfksjd

He has also grown so much, and I am proud ♥️🧡

Vil

Jesus Christ, canon Vil is Hurting Meeeeee ajdhskdhsj

My fave fanon Vil is the one that recognizes all different types of beauty, though~ uvu and is v encouraging to anyone that may be struggling with self hatred ��

Canon: Vil is pretty~.

Me: Wow, wtf???? He IS so pretty... How rude I didn’t think you were serious! Wow him??? Pretty??? Wow??? Wow...

Idia

I’m not sure yet, as I haven’t seen him very often, but of the few times that I have: BIG same, huge mood, and Me FUCKING Too, goddamn akdhakdj

Idia is my Anxiety and Anime Nerd personified tbh lol

What Ortho is to him are what all my comfort characters are to me, honestly.

Like what would you like bby, you want that singing voice?? Ok here comes a synthesizer just special for you~. Ily, mwah~ u3u 💕

Malleus

HEAVY BREATHING

Ok maybe it’s just the lack of story/info out on him yet, but I don’t currently simp as hard for him compared to Leona, I’ll admit jajdkajd

BUT BOY HOWDEY DO I EVER STILL S I M P...

He Is Baby... And I Lob Him....

I am going to smooch those horns and forehead crown of beautiful scales 🖤🖤🖤 I am going to do it!!!! Here I go!!!

HE CAN HAVE ALL THE ICE CREAM AND TAMAGATCHI DATES HE WANTS I’M- 😭

This man is too precious for words, and I have so much childhood nostelgia to ‘enchanted’ woods, and being in the mountains, so he has Old Fae Friend vibes to me~🖤

DRAGON FORM DRAGON FORM DRAGON FORM DRAGON FORM DRAGON F-

Ngl I ship him and Leona a lil bit lol

No, not just bc that makes a poly with my two faves easier, but that is a bonus factor jadhajdj

Vice Dorm Heads:

Trey

Oh my god, the Daddy to my Mommy with all these newly adopted lil kids of ours, ya know??? What a wholesome sweetie and funny lil shit jahdksdh~

I love him, I would gladly make tarts with, AND for him 💚💚💚

The kind of boi who I’d ship HARD with anyone he started dating bc My God it would warm my heart So Much 💞💞

Ruggie (unofficial but may as well be at this point lol)

He took a while to grow on me kadhskdhsj

But I think he’d be a sweet, if a trouble-maker of a friend to have~.

Dank you for taking care of my sweet lion bby, honey, I’m sure Farrena is a sweetheart, but boi I hope he gets his shit together to fix up where Ruggie lives 😭

I think if I met his granny, I’d CRY jadhajsh 💗💗

Leech Twins (?)

Idk if they’re vice leaders, but who cares lol

THESE are the older Big Brothers in every sense of the word. (My canon ages most everyone up just a bit, save for Riddle, Ace, Deuce, Kalim, Jamil, Cheka, and anyone already 20+)

The ANNOYING older big brothers, lol.

The ones that hug you to death (Floyd), or use you for an arm rest (Jade), and specifically Do the thing you asked/told them NOT to Do.

This is fine with me tho, I’m an only child, please give me the experience of annoying older brothers lol 💙💚

Jamil

I used to hate you bby, I’m so sorry akdhskdhs

I’ve adopted him now, and I’m v proud he’s trying, but making clear what his boundaries are, and trying to come out of a shell he was made to be in for so long 😭

AND HIS DANCING IS SICK LIKE HONESTLY I’M SUCH A PROUD MOM 💗💗💗

Rook

God. FUCKING Rook, lol.

IDK IF I SHOULD TRUST YOU, but I also kinda wanna be your friend akdhakdjs

HE CONCERNS ME but he also seems nice and v sweet sometimes, lmao

Blz don’t stalk me tho 😬

STOP SHOOTING YOUR ARROWS AROUND SCHOOL YOU BLOODY HEATHEN FRENCH PRISS, YOU ARE GOING TO KILL SOMEONE

Also, if he DARES hunt cute animals around me, especially BIRDS, I am going to GRIP him jahdkahdsk

He’s like if Lord Druitt was a Little More Nice and a Little Bit Less Creepy ajdhak

Lilia:

GOD.

I LOVE THIS FUCKING GRANDPA.

I. FUCKING. LOVE. THIS FUCKING. GRANDPA.

I absolutely hc him as nonbinary w/masc pronouns, I absoLUTELY do.

I adore him, I love him, I haven’t gotten a squish (hardcore desire to be someone’s friend, lol) this hard for a character since AngelDust, I-

Pwease be nonbinary friends with me, Lilia 🥺

THE ONLY PERSON HERE SHORTER THAN ME, BUT I’LL TAKE IT AJDHAKDHJS

Anyone know Corpse and how he plays Among Us? That’s how I see Lilia playing his video games with friends and I JUST I JUST I J U S T

The Spencer to your Carly.

He and Crowley are free to compete as Dad with me too like honestly kshdkadjjs

He’ll always be granpa tho uvu 💚💖🖤

Extras:

Ace

God, the Fucking Annoying Middle Brother that pranks you ALL THE DAMN TIME, but I love him andhakdhsk

Deuce

THE BROTHER THAT WILL BEAT UP YOUR BULLIES 💙💙💙 SWEET BABY BOY

The Josh to Ace’s Drake. The Cody to Ace’s Zack. The Freddie to your Carly and Ace’s Sam.

If he and Ace started dating, tho, I would CRY.

But regardless who they end up dating, it’ll be slow burn friends to lovers, and literally the most adorable shit to watch EVER 💞💞💞😭

Cater

Seems Like A Womanizer But Actually Drinks His Reapect Women Juice And We Stan That 🧡

Can always count on him to help tou get the best Magicram shots, bless you Cater 🧡🧡

Also rly wanna be his friend, ngl 😭 Even IF he pranks me a lot kadhakdhsj

Jack:

H E AV Y BR EA T H IN G

Ngl my feelings for him are in the air IDK IF I WANNA SMOOCH OR NOT YET I JUST KNOW I LOB HIM HE GOODEST BESTEST BOY 💛💛💛😭

If all three Savannaclaw bois got in a cuddle pile with me, I would Not Be Mad

How can I give this boy love, tell me and I will Do It

Gift him all the cacti’s he WANTS💛

God he drinks that respecc women juice bright and early on his run every morning, you KNOW he does 💛💛💛

I wawnt to pet his ears an tail an fwuffy wolf form 😭

I WAWNT TO SEE THE BOY SMILE AND BE HAPPY 💞💞💞

Sebek

CHILL CHILL CHILL CHILL CH-

He is a v devoted guard tho, we love to see it UvU

I don’t have more info on him hekdhskdj but his fanmade content seems v v sweet~ 💚

Silver

HE ATTRACTS BIRDS AND I CRY ABOUT IT PLEASE BE MY FRIEND AND TEACH ME HOW 🥺🥺🥺

Him being raised by Lilia and Malleus literally gives me so much Fucking Seratonin....... God 💞💕💗💗💞💞💗💗💕💞

Ortho

IS BABY????? IS BABY!!!!!! I’M LOVE HIM I’M ADOPTING HIM IS BABYYYYYYY 💙💙💙💙💙

Cheka:

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

He is so FUCKING CUTE what the FUCK!

Leonaaaaaaa... 🥺 Your NEPHEWWWWW 😭

I might steal him from Farrena tbh, lIKE MY CHILD NOW~ 🧡🧡

I just sob and hug him every time I see him honestly 😭

Teachers:

Dire Crowley

Ohhhhhh god oh god oh god

Be my dad. Please. Be my dad. PLEASE be my dad. Ya’ll think I’m joking, I’m not. Please adopt me. Fuck. Fuck. FUCK.

This man as a father gives me so much dopamine and oxytocin and seratonin??? I have been weeping for WEEKS, please adopt me, Sir

Fathers with zero braincells being wrapped around a daughter’s little finger makes me so weak, and I am just here with Daddy Issues like ajdhakdhsj BLEASE ADOPT ME MISTER BIRD MAN

Crewel

Ew.

Forgive me, I haven’t seen much content with him in it/that could be considered wholesome, bUT JADHWKDJSJ

UncoMFORTABLE

Please keep the kink talk out of the classroom, S I R

Call me puppy one more time, see what happens, I’m not scared to fight a teacher akdhakdhsj

Trein

The Dad Figure that tries to be the stern part to Crowley’s blumbering kahdkqrhsjdj

Don’t feel as much attachment to him emotionally, but I like him~

Just let me pet your cat sometimes and give you holiday presents, and we’re cool~ ♥️

Vargas

Found the womanizer //SMACKED

And of course, I can’t forget Grim~!

He’s grown on me, and if anything happens to him I will kill everyone in the room, and then myself 😭

I will pet and snuggle and hold him all he wants and feed him all the tuna his heart desires uvu 💙

[eurofox]

Hey! Sorry this is a bit out of the blue, but I noticed that you’re learning to drive in an automatic. This is something I’ve strongly been considering as I am SUPER nervous about driving but, as you mentioned, if one intends to live in Ireland and not in one of the big cities, it’s sadly necessary. I am hesitant about automatics tho because it’s not really a ‘thing’ in Ireland so much and I’m concerned about things like the exorbitant prices of renting automatics abroad and the costs of potential repair, etc. Just wanted to ask what your experience has been learning in an automatic (and how it compares to manual, if you have exp there) and whether you would recommend it? Thanks and sorry for the longass ask lol

Well I actually did all my lessons in a manual, but I did my lessons back in 2014, moved away to a city with decent transportation and never bothered with the test til now (don't recommend doing that)

My problem with the manual was stalling, I could never really get a feel for the clutch although by the end my instructor said he saw a big improvement. I honestly can't remember too much about how to use it. I just remember it being a pain in the arse if you're sitting in traffic a lot. And getting really flustered one time when I stalled at a roundabout repeatedly and a lorry driver started leaning on the horn.

I am in an automatic as that just happened to be the car my parents had and I wanted to pass quickly (before this fucking pandemic ruined everything). It's easier, no doubt about it, you pretty much point and go, no pissing around with gears or stalling. Just focus on observations and stuff. There's one less peddle as well to worry about. You don't have to worry about the handbrake or rolling back on a hill. You could say it's laziness on my part that I'm even using one.

But I kind of wish I'd gone ahead and stuck with the manual. It IS limiting in this country ngl, and more expensive. If you want to any jobs like on an ambulance for example, you'll need manual. If you are lucky enough to have a job that has company cars, they will most likely be manual. And as you mentioned, renting will cost more, repairs too. And if you learn manual, you can still buy an automatic once you're done, so you have options. Some people say it's more 'fun' in a manual but I never got that sense personally. Sometimes testers actually seem to be confused how the automatic works

My advice would be to at least try a few lessons in the manual. Even if you're nervous, they will usually just take you around a quiet estate first to get a feel for the car. Most driving academies might only have one automatic in their fleet as well, so even to get started quicker just take the manual at the beginning, especially with this backlog atm. If you're really struggling, and just want to go from point A to point B , then go for the automatic. Your instructor might suggest it. But yes, it is very limiting. If you plan on emigrating to australia or something it might not be such a big deal but here it'd be better to get manual from the get go.

[poweranon]

Ticci Toby Part 2

@creepy-bi-day​ here’s part two i swear i tried for fluff this time, but it left me. I swear on my cold dead heart that I’ll do my absolute best for fluff in part 3

I was jerked awake with the sound of thunder crashing down over my house, lightning lighting up the room. Rolling over, I looked out my window, seeing the rain pound against the window panes. More lightning flashed, illuminating the white walls and my black duvet. Sitting up in bed, I pulled the thick blanket right around my shoulders and stood up, the wood floor cool against my toes. I walked over to the window, blanket dragging heavily on the ground behind me like a cape.       Opening the window, I let the storm in, closing my eyes as the rain pelted my face and body, cooling down the heat from my face. I had had the horrible dream again, but this time Toby has said something to me, his voice raspy and as substantial as the smoke that permeated the forest. 

   I closed the window, leaning my face against the cool glass, eyes shut as I tried to remember what he said. It was hard to hear, but it had given me a feeling of dread, as well as twisted hope. I always knew there was something up with Toby’s death, and a small part of me always thought that maybe he was still alive, but after the news story about the grade students there was never anything else that could prove Toby was alive. The police had merely assumed that a murderer they had caught a few months later had found the hatchet and killed them, but for some reason I couldn’t let it go. 

   Thunder boomed, bringing me from my thoughts. I turned, quietly opening my door and walking to the living room, feeling like a ghost floating down the hall, feeling the need to be as silent as possible. Lightning flashed, coming in through the windows, creating shadows that seemed to reach crooked fingers outbto me, telling me to follow them into the unknown. 

   I slumped onto the couch, looking out of the large window into the black swirl of rain outside. It was eerie, yet calming. The sound of the rain and thunder calmed me down like nothing else. My mother used to tell me that the thunder were angels bowling, and my grandmother would tell me that it was the fae, having raucous parties that shook the heavens. 

  Lightning streaked across the sky, and my heart stopped, dropping down to my stomach as a pit of dread began to build. A dark silhouette had been illuminated with the lightning, tall and foreboding, orange glinting from the face. There was someone outside my house, watching me, and I had no idea what to do first. I was frozen, unable to move, to breathe. Once again, the lightning came, and now the figure had a hand on the glass, the other one raising a glinting blade in the air, bringing it down on the glass- CRASH

I started into action, the sound of the window panes shattering bringing me out of my terror. I scrambled off the couch, my feet tangling in the blanket as I tried desperately to run. I managed to free myself from the confines of the sheet as the intruder stepped in, knocking glass off the sill with their shoulders and head. 

I ran into my room, trying to find my phone, listening to the heavy steps as they walked towards where I was slowly, taking their time. Of course they had time, I lived out in the country. It could take the police anywhere from fifteen to thirty minutes to get here. Seeing the black case of my phone laying on the ground slightly under my bed, I launched myself at it, desperately trying to type in the emergency number, but just as I hit the call button a strong hand gravers my shoulder and spun me around, knocking the phone from my grasp. Stomping a heavy boot on my phone, cracking the screen and destroying it beyond repair, I watched as my chances for survival dwindled down to nothing short of a miracle. 

“P-please!” I gasped out, but they just laughed. 

“Not the first time I’ve heard that.” A raspy, masculine voice came from behind a gray and black striped mouth guard, chuckling slightly. I could see my pale, desperate face in the reflection of his amber goggles, my eyes wide with fear. 

He raised the hatchet, tracing the cool metal down my pale face, giving a slight chuckle. 

“So pretty… it’s almost a shame to kill you.” He shrugged, pulling the weapon away from my face and into the air. 

“But not enough to change your fate.” He brought it down, but I managed to dodge to the side, kicking his knee, hoping to knock him off balance and hurt him enough that he couldn’t chase after me. All he did, however, was give a slight grunt and grab my hair, throwing me onto the bed. 

“You know, it’s just more fun when you struggle.” He hissed into my ear, straddling my waist. I punched him as hard as I could, knocking his goggles askew, revealing brown eyes with deep, purple bags set into pale, greyish skin. He growled at me, setting himself so that he was almost sitting on my chest, knees pinning my arms down and one of his hands wrapped around my throat. He took the goggles, throwing them on the ground and pulled his mouth guard down, revealing bitten and chapped lips with a huge gash on the right side of his cheek. It looked like it had been bit through and received poor first aid, resulting in inflammation and scarring. 

“You know, as much fun as it is to struggle, it would be easier for you if you just let me ki-“

“Toby?” I gasped for breath, starting to feel lightheaded. This wasn’t Toby, it couldn’t be he was just someone who looked like him, Toby was dead dead deadeadeadeaddea-

His grip on my throat slackened for a minute, before tightening. 

“Who the fuck are you?” He growled darkly, shaking my head. “How do you know that name?”

I struggled, trying to get air as he dropped the hatchet and punched me, screaming at me. 

“WHO ARE YOU?”

“Y-y/n” I murmured faintly, eyes rolling. Abruptly, the weight on my chest and around my throat left, and I rolled over, gasping like a fish, struggling to bring air into my lungs. The man- Toby?- walked around the room, hitting his head and muttering angrily to himself. 

“Y/n who is that-t you know who it is howam I suppo-osed-d-d to know who that isyou d-don’t know anything don’t-t I just shut-t up shut the fuck-k up k-kill her but I c-can’t why not-t I don’t know-“

I pulled myself up to the headboard slowly, wrapping my arms around my legs as I watched him carefully. Toby didn’t seem very stable at the moment, and I was afraid any little thing could end with my death. 

Suddenly, he jerked around and jumped on the bed, crawling towards me and grabbing my face with scarred hands. Staring into my face, his neck cracked in time with the thunder, before he let go, turning to punch the brick wall as hard as he could. His hand stared to bleed, but he just dropped the hatchet and kept punching, before I eventually grabbed him, unable to watch him hurt himself even more. He swung around at me, a scowl on his face. 

“WHAT DO YOU WANT!” He screamed at me, grabbing my shoulder roughly. 

“Y-your hands, Toby…” I trailed off. He glanced down at his hands, a mess of blood and flesh. 

“Whatever, I can’t feel it.” He sunk to the floor, sitting cross legged, his head in his hands, and began muttering to himself again.

“Y/n, y/n, n/n? A trampoline, fire, y/n?” 

I slowly stood up, and began to walk out of the room. As I turned my head to make sure I didn’t hit anything, a hatchet embedded itself in the door. I froze in place, my heart in my throat, as he said in a cold voice, “Where do you think you’re going?”

I took in a shaky breath. 

“The..” another breath. “The first aid kit… for your hands.” He stood up, walking over to where his hatchet was hanging from the door and yanked it out. 

“We’ll go together.”

i might rewrite this ngl

[peachdoxie]

Alright, alright, time to read chapter 9 of Rhythm of War!

Pewter, augmenters, force. That tracks with Mistborn lore.

***

So, the emotional torture of Kaladin Stormblessed continues.

"Instinctively, he searched out the soldiers of Bridge Four."

I crei

"Kaladin opened his eyes as Syl flew up in the form of a miniature Fourth Bridge. She often took the shape of natural things, but this one seemed extra odd. It didn’t belong in the sky. One might argue that Kaladin didn’t either."

That's a big oof right there, with Kaladin implicitly questioning whether he actually should be allowed to ride the winds.

"It happens whenever you run out of Stormlight. As if… you can only keep going while it’s in you."

Sounds kinda like allochemical savantism ngl

Please just give Kaladin some therapy for once.

Teft: "Oh, shut up, Kal."

Me: thank goodness there's someone willing to be blunt with Kaladin so that he slows his depressive spiral.

Reminds me of this moment in the last chapter of Oathbringer:

“It doesn’t get easier, Teft,” he said. “It gets harder, I think, the more you learn about the Words. Fortunately, you do get help. You were mine when I needed it. I’ll be yours.”

Also, yay for Laran swearing the Third Ideal. But now that means there are no unbonded honorspren.

"And the time when Lopen had nearly died a few months back."

EXCUSE ME?????

I hope that has something to do with Dawnshard.

***"

“Why would the tower have a device to suppress the powers of Radiants? It was their home."

Now that's something. Though Navani also thinks it could have suppressed the Fused's powers, so...

“Soulcasters manifested as small unresponsive spren, hovering with their eyes closed. So the Soulcasters did have a captured spren. A Radiant spren, judging by their shape. Intelligent, rather than the more animal-like spren captured to power normal fabrials."

Well that's some fucking lore right there with some implications that I'm really not sure about shoves another piece of evidence to my Sibling theory

"The Soulcaster cache discovered in Aimia earlier in the year had brought an incredible boon to the coalition armies."

Guess we know part of what happens in Dawnshard, then. But also, how the fuck did they get onto Aimia (probably a Windrunner flying them) and also why did Aimia have this cache in the first place? Is this why the Sleepless were guarding the island so strongly? While the Soulcasters are a boon, for sure, I also fear that there was a reason why they were being held there, and that makes me worried. The Sleepless know things and have been watching our heroes for a while.

Yo wtf who left the spanreed ruby for Navani, and how did no one notice it being left? Or was it placed by a spy?

"You are the monster Navani Kholin. You have caused more pain than any living person."

First of all, what the fuck. Second of all, I guess she's in good company marrying Dalinar if she's also a monster who causes pain....

"The honorspren cannot be trusted. Not anymore."

Ho-ley shit. What the FUCK does that mean? Is this a cultural thing, or like...an intrinsic feature of the honorspren? Can we still trust Syl?

Also, what "new kind of fabrial" is the writer talking about?

“Navani couldn’t get any further responses from the mysterious woman or ardent who had written to her.”

Funny, Navani is married to a man who can write, and yet she still assumes that it was a woman or ardent who had written this. Numerically, if all people who can write are weighted equally, she’d be right. But someone this involved in deep lore may not even be human, let alone a woman or ardent. I wonder if this will come back to bite Navani in the ass.

***

“He’d removed his jacket, and the shirt beneath reminded her of when he came to their rooms after sparring. He always wanted to bathe immediately, and she… well, she rarely let him. Not until she was done with him, at least.”

This is what counts as a sex scene in a Branderson book.

“She pulled closer, and couldn’t help imagining it. What he would do if he knew the real her. If he knew all the things she’d actually done.

It wasn’t just about him. What if Pattern knew? Dalinar? Her agents?

They would leave, and her life would become a wasteland. She’d be alone, as she deserved. Because of the truths she hid, her entire life was a lie. Shallan, the one they all knew best, was the fakest mask of them all.“

Oh Shallan. I wonder if part of her Fourth Ideal will be about not just confronting the truth she lives, but about telling others about it.

Huh. So Veil emerged when Shallan was at her most distraught. Veil also said that she didn’t kill Ialai, but does that necessarily mean that one of the others didn’t? There was that one moment when Shallan!Shallan’s “mind began to fuzz” when Veil asked if one of them killed her. Hmm.

And okay, so there’s a fourth persona that Shallan is trying not to create. That persona scares Veil, for whatever reason (wtf). Also, the name “formless/Formless” seems somewhat in parallel with the use of the word “form” by the listeners.

Lmao, Shallan’s basically just listing half of the secret societies on Roshar, and those are only the ones she knows about.

“Those likely made sense to him, as he’d taken battlefield reports on them. The shadowy groups moving at night, on the other hand, were something he couldn’t fight directly. Dealing with them was to be her job.”

Normal Vorin couples: the woman does the ledgers and organizing while the men go do hard labor

Shadolin: Adolin fights the soldiers while Shallan fights the secret societies

“Nalathis. Scadarial. Tal Dain.”

*high pitched shrieking noises*

And Thaidakar. Who- or whatever that is.

***

OKay, so some shit happened in this chapter. Kaladin is falling more and more into a depressive spiral. Navani is getting letters from people unknown telling her to stop making new fabrials (though not with any direct threats). Shallan is still struggling to tell Adolin things.

Can’t wait for next week!

[wernerherzogs]

how do I know if i’m gay?

anon this is. a really heavy and difficult question, ngl. 🤔 lgbt people's experiences are so different, you know? how old you are and where you're from isn't insignificant. some people Just Know really early on, i guess. some have to work through a shitloat of heavily catholic (or other religion, i'd imagine)&traditional/heteronormative upbringing first, sometimes along with a dose of internalised homophobia and even misogyny (if you're wlw). personally i was finally Sure when i was 19 (i'd had Suspicions before; i just had to finally admit it all to myself), but the road to Being Sure hadn't been easy. times are different now, i think the internet and some celebrities help a lot, but growing up it just wasn't something i could observe around me in real life, or see (portrayed in a healthy way, at least) in media. it literally took a friend in high school introducing me to "slash drarry fic", and then me getting involved with more fandoms in order for me to realise i'm drawn to lgbt content For Some Reason. and then it might take you a while to face the Reason. again, personally i was 19, first year in uni, studying theatre at the time, and we were sharing a PE class with polish lit students. and there was this super beautiful girl with short hair in that class (i'm a cliche), and one night i literally lay awake in bed and Forced myself to have a convo with myself, and it went somehow along those lines: "you're attracted to that girl because you're attracted to girls in general, and it's fine. this is a genuine physical attraction to another girl. you know what that means". at that point i'd known enough about ~the lgbt community~ to realise i belonged in it. i felt very calm, it was like a puzzle slotting into place. it was something that allowed me to look at My Past at a different angle. i was lucky enough that it was the opposite of a crisis/breakdown for me. (truthfully? i'd already been battling heavy depression for a while at that point in my life, so figuring stuff out when it came to my sexuality felt like one of few Good Things.) i felt very happy, even though i knew straight away that i wouldn't be able to talk about that to anyone in real life. i also had no idea if that meant i was a lesbian now -- at the time i didn't understand much about what lied beyond straight-gay/lesbian dichotomy. so my Journey was far from over at that point! even though i finally Knew. i'm literally a month away from 30 now, and still wondering where on the spectrum i fall exactly, and whether it's important to care about said exactly, or maybe just the knowledge that i'm gay alone is Enough. i still struggle faced with Discourse sometimes. i still haven't come out to anyone in my family, but i find coming out to strangers and not giving a fuck about their opinion super easy. it's still a Journey. my country is in large parts a homophobic&transphobic mess, and the current nightmare of a government encourages all of that nasty behaviour. we don't have any rights here. the public conversation about the topic is finally taking place (why it's taking place now would require a long digression, sorry), but kids growing up here don't have it that much easier than me when i was their age, tbh. in small cities/villages it's still a nightmare; over the past few years, a few very young kids (i think the oldest was 14) from small cities/villages took their own lives due to homophobic bullying from other kids and even teachers, in some cases. again, the internet can be your only safe place sometimes still.

tl;dr well this got super personal, but that was my original point. it's always personal, and there's no right or wrong way to go through/about this!!!! however you decide to go about it, it's Fine!!!! it's different for most people. i'd say that if you're wondering if you are, there probably is A Reason for it. don't be afraid to face the reason, but be patient with yourself, because it might not be easy. 💖💖💖💖💖 but entertaining the possibility, and then embracing it, opens a literal world of Other Possibilities, of Found Family, of rich and still mostly hidden /history/ that you might be a part of. discovering /yourself/ along with learning more about People Like You has been one of the most beautiful things that has happened to me in my entire life.

good luck, friend. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[nerd-bastard]

ok so over the... /checks calendar, past five days i have managed to tear through act one of DQXI and hoo boy. hooooo boy. 

i fucking love this game *_*

@flutiebear​ thank you so much for your notes, they were super helpful!! my thing with JRPGs is mostly the turn based combat-- i can get SO BORED with it, i definitely prefer ARPGs where i can button mash things to death. DQXI seems to have found some kind of sweet spot for me tho, where battles are just long enough for me to like. pick a strategy and implement it, and get satisfactory results. sometimes those satisfactory results are just Talc helichoptering an entire group of enemies to death in one swing, which scratches my ‘button mash them to death’ itch :D I definitely like the easier monsters and relaxing while i play too, i’ve literally failed exactly ONE boss battle and that was bc my initial strategy sucked, not bc i didn’t have the muscle to pull it off. and omg, THE NO’S. BEST TIP EVER, THANK YOU.

and, as per your request, thoughts! :DDD full disclosure, i watched a playthrough up through the MMA tournament before I got the game, so these aren’t exactly first impressions. tons of screenshots and rambling below the cut, RIP mobile users :(

OH and because I got it on PC, i literally modded it before I even fired up the game lol. found some nice retextures on the mod nexus and installed the orchestral music overhaul too, it’s nice. The retextures are Wild Side Erik and Chainmail Luminary, i love them and I recommend the hell out of ‘em. Just a heads up so folks know why my Erik and Hero look different :D

ALRIGHT I WAS TOO DISTRACTED TO TAKE SCREENSHOTS FOR THE FIRST PART UP THE TOR but: i love gemma and i would die for her and sandy, and so would Talc. also christ, slimes are the most adorable enemy ever, DQ did a good thing with slimes. 

/NERVOUS LAUGHTER

horsey!! her name is Whisper and Talc loves her :D

so, initial Hero headcanons: Talc does not want to be a Luminary. He wants to stay in Cobblestone, and continue spending days at a time alone in the wilderness hunting for his family and culling monsters and riding horses and whittling wood and carving soapstone to pass the time. He knows he’s not Hero material-- he has to work too hard to hold his temper, and he’s too stubborn, and and and (he’s fine-- he just really wants to be like Chalky, but he’s a 16 year old kid who thinks good people ((like Chalky)) don’t have to try so hard to be good people, not a man with 60+ years of experience and time to mellow out. he’ll get there.) So Talc’s plan is 100% ‘Go to Heliodor, explain the situation to the king’s Knights and give them the pendant so one of them can go defeat the evil instead, then go home to Cobblestone.’ and well. We know how that turns out.

the most hardened, you say ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 

THIS FUCKER. WHAT IS THIS FUCKER. 47 HOURS INTO THIS GAME AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT THIS FUCKER IS. ARE YOU GOOD? ARE YOU EVIL?? ARE THERE A BUNCH OF YOU, OR IS IT JUST FUCKING YOU FOLLOWING ME EVERYWHERE? TELL ME

THERE HE IS!!! THERE’S MY BOY!! <3_<3 

In Talc’s defense, he was trying to open the jars, not smash them. yes i absolutely have to reconcile breaking into people’s homes and smashing their stuff with his character, he’s a country bumpkin who struggles to remember the concept of ‘private property’ and is so stupidly strong from rock climbing and swinging a greatsword around that is is a genuine struggle for him to lay hands on ceramic without shattering it. he’s a bit of a bull in a china shop, and it’s only growing up with Gemma that let him develop a reflex-bordering-on-instinct to be as gentle as possible with other human beings that, unfortunately, does not translate well to inanimate objects.

also... ngl, it took... a minute for that accent to grow on me. that accent, man. more like ‘those accents’ JUST PICK ONE AND STICK WITH IT DUDE

talc: you know those days when you’re like ‘this might as well happen, adult life is already so goddamn weird’

also, those SHOUJO SPARKLES. i will NEVER BE OVER THE SPARKLES.

holy shit i love Erik’s expressions and poses so much, he’s so fucking expressive (all the characters are, the voice acting and animation in this game has been a delight every step of the way, but i just. adore Erik’s in particular, everything he does is so endearing to me.)

ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THIS QUEST NAME, IT COULD NOT BE ANY LESS SUBTLE

little did he know what monster he had created

seriously tho i LOVE the crafting system in this game, it’s a good challenge and a little frustrating when one of the random events screws you up, but SO SO SATISFYING when you finally get your +3. also it works really well with my headcanon that Talc is very much a “show your love by providing the ones you care about with anything they could possibly need or want” type of person. he’s actually very good at anticipating said needs/wants and has a knack for giving his friends things before they even properly knew they needed/wanted the thing. he also has a tendency to...kind of forget that he can get things in return, and gets really flustered and happy when he does get something which also leads to a tendency to treasure and consequentially hoard small dumb things BECAUSE they were gifts.

this is where Talc’s heart starts to go doki-doki-- he's very much a people pleaser, if he can make folks happy it makes him happy. the little bit of trouble is it was pretty much the status quo in cobblestone, and a little bit taken for granted by the time he strikes out-- not by everyone, or all the time, for sure, but getting out into the world and getting a sudden influx of gratitude is like crack for him. Also Erik is Nice and Handsome and was happy to do all the talking in downtown Heliodor so Talc didn’t have to worry about it, so Talc now definitely wants to keep Erik. It’s also hilarious to Talc that Erik is clearly skilled with knives, and yet has zero clue how to dress or cook a rabbit-- he’s very determined to keep the city boy alive (watch me walk this headcanon back in a few days when i finally get his back story and it turns out he lived off the land for years)

oh man, my HEART, MY HEART. even knowing it was coming, playing through this part was rough, especially since now it’s my Talc running around the ruins of the one place he wanted to live out his days protecting. ;_; that was his job, that’s what he was good at and contributed to his home, except for the one time it really, really needed him. he’s more than a little fucked up about it, but it’s a big part of him really leaning into the Luminary role- he can’t stand the thought of it happening to anyone else.

this. this is kinda a big deal for him, after cobblestone. after learning people blame him for Dundrasil, and then feeling responsible for Cobblestone, he’s already starting to have tiny, niggling doubts about ‘oh shit what if i AM some kind of darkspawn??’ Fighting alongside Erik through the Kingsbarrow and getting to feel like he’s helping and protecting Erik helps, and then so does this. 

it also plays right into his thing for doing justice-- which, he tries to hold Chalky’s words close to his heart, he does, and his vision isn’t the first time Chalky has had to encourage him to let grudges go. it was the main motivation for the vast majority of his pranks as a kid: make Gemma cry by telling her proper ladies don’t play at catching frogs and getting dirty? enjoy the frog hidden in a jar leaping out at your face, old lady. accuse him of being a darkspawn and throw him and his family in jail? hell yes he is going to help this thief steal your greatest treasure, and love every minute of it.

and now, to wrap things up bc this post is already way too long and i’ve got. the rest of act one to yammer about later:

YES

YESSSSS

YAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSS

in conclusion: this is a good game and a good ship and i already have 300 words of fic sitting in my gdrive <_<;;;

[transvladking]

(1/7) Re: Monoma trying to do multiple things I think so too! Like when he talks there, he’s trying to 1. Get a verbal response? 2. Find Midoriya’s friends 3. Draw attention to himself rather than Shinso, who seems to be standing below him (why?). Though this gets thrown out the window when OFA goes crazy. We didn’t see enough of their plan to know where he was going with it… I think it does read as unfocused in terms of what he was trying to accomplish.

(2/7) If I were to guess what quirks he’d copied… maybe he didn’t take Shinso’s quirk after all. We saw the great synergy the other three 1-B folks had (subtracting any one of the three quirks lowers the effectiveness by a lot) and Shinso is right there with Monoma. Also, the 1-B kids were activating their quirks sequentially for their strategy, meaning Monoma could do the same thing by himself, time limit allowing.(3/7) And with the huge amount of destruction Deku can cause with his attacks, Twin Impact could be crazy strong. So it could be that Monoma was planning to distract Deku with such a sequence, have Deku realize that Monoma maxed out on the number of quirks he’d copied because of those three clocks (and thus lower his guard since Brainwashing wasn’t among them), and then Shinso would jump in with a well-timed impersonation that Deku would fall for… (4/7) NGL I feel more than a bit cheated about the OFA development because it basically makes battle 5 end prematurely AND WE MAY NEVER SEE THE PROPER FACEOFF. Like it’s cool but did it have to happen at this moment LOL. I want to see some serious development of the Class B narrative… I feel like Horikoshi-sensei is struggling to deepen it, in part because Monoma is a pivotal character for it but he’s been relegated to a semi-serious gag role.(5/7) I don’t believe Monoma planned to copy OFA—it’s clearly not something he can use safely without training with it first. Plus, he’s more familiar with his classmates’ quirks and gambling on getting physical contact with Midoriya (without getting hurt, mind you) doesn’t seem solid enough of a plan, especially when his stance is about “worse” quirks still being able to measure up against “better” quirks (quirks alone don’t make an effective hero etc. etc.).6/7) Not to mention (a generalization made safely I hope) we all know he can’t be allowed to copy it for meta reasons, because it’s a weird quirk and strange things might happen. Would be super cool to see though… Re: those REV cell/virus business and how he might have rough hands to help pick up DNA better—that’s super cool haha. I definitely buy into it! I had no idea about the LN stuff; those aren’t considered canon, are they? In any case, the implications are fascinating!!(7/7) I wish I could add on or somehow expand on your quirk hc but I don’t remember/know enough biology to say anything… also I unfortunately agree with your prediction about what’ll happen next LOL… I got caught by the 5 asks per hour thing ;; Thank you for continuing to splice these together. I don’t have a tumblr, which makes this exchange clunky, but I’m very glad I was able to think about these things with you!

Anon I love talking to you! And I’m really happy you found my leetol blog. If you have a discord, feel free to hmu at sonic fan first person second#1121 eawzfvgbht you seem very smart and very willing to hold a discussion which are two things i value highly in a person!

That’s an excellent strategy you have right there!!! I didn’t even consider that, but it really works with how Shinsou and Monoma sort of leaned towards Monoma being bait, which, essentially, he is.

While I agree that Monoma probably SHOULDN’T copy OFA, eh, call me curious? It’s one of those topics that’s been hotly debated, and theoretically, with my quirk headcanon, he could? But it’s all very nuanced and technical, which is why everyone would want to see it now. After all, Monoma doesn’t know what destructive force OFA has, he just knows Midoriya couldn’t fucking control it, which could make any quirk dangerous (Like how kirishima cut himself)

Also, Monoma would likely have an easier time, just because he’s been in the Hero Course (Gym Class for Punishment Junkies) for a few months, and he’s not the twiggy-ass middle schooler Midoriya is. But I agree, it likely wouldn’t end well.

I’m also not sure on the canonicy of the LNs, but it hasnt been disputed by canon so huge eyes emoji at that. I think it gives him a lot more possibilities, since his quirk had to get hugely nerfed to make it Not AFO

As for the class 1b issue, I do agree they need a solid storyline! But also, I feel like Horikoshi is scrambling for plot points- the All Might/AfO fight happened WAY too soon, seeing as he was THE BIGGEST FUCKING THREAT EVER, and while i can see the thing about bnha being about the next generation, the pacing just feels…bad. Because after that we have O-Ho and his Fuckboy Posse, and a bunch of other just random villains and school events, so the plot is sort of ambling along? There’s no real end goal. What we know is that the LOV is still active, and we think there’s a traitor. So I feel like Class B is just the New Opponent Of The Week and theyll be forgotten for another few arcs haha