#it's always the fuckin antis too lmao

[angorwhosebabyisthis]

i love sdmi very dearly and for a lot of reasons it is very important to me, but all the other 'good fucking god what year is this' stuff aside the worldbuilding re: the talking animals is so deeply fucked that it is genuinely really upsetting to me to think about that bit for long lmao

[imwritesometimes]

wait is mandø technically tonight????

[atla-confessions]

“Damn right, the only person true Aang stans hate is the fucking guru (lmao plz ask me why)"

Why?

LMAO THANK YOU FOR ASKING

Anyway, The Guru is just, awful. I mean, this man really looked at a 12 year old and was like "just don't be sad dude." Like, "oh, literally everyone you knew and loved is dead? That's fine, you have a crush on a girl. That's basically the same thing." Like no, I'm sorry. Sure, I kinda understand the point of like, love evolves but NO you cannot equate his love for Katara with his love for LITERALLY EVERYTHING HE HAS EVER KNOWN.

And then the whole, "Katara or the avatar state"??? Like??? I'm sorry, every other avatar seems to be vibing with their avatar state just fine while still having earthly attachments. Roku had an attachment so hard a 100 yr war happened, but he gets to use the avatar state at free will. Almost like, oh, maybe the avatar state is something controlled through skill and not some arbitrary state of mental bliss. It really reads like Aang is just too young to be able to handle the avatar state naturally because he's, you know, a child, so the Guru is trying to force it onto him child soldier style.

And yeah, I love people who point out that there is a difference between love and attachment. You know who doesn't explain that? THE GURU. Bitch, if it took us adults a whole lot of thinking to figure out wtf he meant, (and some people are still convinced he just meant Aang shouldn't love Katara like that anymore) how the fuck did he expect a TRAUMATIZED TWELVE YEAR OLD to get it????

And like, ultimately, his lesson was wrong???? We are told point blank by Iroh, a character we know and trust for his wisdom, that the Guru was wrong???? And Aang fucking died for that shit???? WHAT WAS THE POINT

I'm so convinced everything would have gone a thousand times better without the Guru.

1. Aang wouldn't have left in the first place. No need to save Katara if he got captured with her bc hes a fuckin earthbender. 2. Even if they still ended up in the same situation in the catacombs, if he didnt use the avatar state, you know what would've happened?

They would have been captured. And then either been saved by the others or escaped on their own again. Because that's what they always do. I mean really, they had SOKKA and TOPH on the outside. You think those two wouldn't be able to figure out how to bust them out of anything???? Nobody would have had to fucking DIE. The world wouldn't think Aang was dead. So many things would've been better

But NO because the FUCKING GURU had to STICK HIS NOSE IN BUSINESS IT DOESNT FUCKING BELONG IN.

I'm so about forgiveness and love. I vibe with Aang's message so hard, but I will punt the guru across a nation any day. I can forgive genocidal maniacs, I draw the line at old men who tell 12 yr olds to completely dismiss their trauma and throw themselves into unnecessary danger smh /j

Literally what did he do? What did he contribute? Nothing but pain and misery. I liked him bc he was nice to Appa and then he went and told Aang "just stop being afraid bro" (which clearly worked so well as we see later in Daydreams and Nightmares)

Just, ugh, 0/10 worst character. I will forever be anti-guru lmao.

X

[mermaidsirennikita]

what would you call ppl who are into reylo, darklina, haladriel, etc. the enemies to lovers, light/dark, make me your dark empress ships? i've seen them referred to as the "travelling small woman/big man" fandom or dark romance lovers but that's a *very* surface level read

I definitely wouldn't call them dark romance lovers, because dark romance is hUGELY expansive these days. Like, the Kings of Italy series is a dark mafia romance series, and I wouldn't compare ANY of the ships to Reylo. Additionally, a lot of the books that are so successful because of their connections to fic don't have much in common with that fic.

I'd just say that generally, those people are into villain/heroine. However, their particular ships can grow into something else for them over time. Something like The Hurricane Wars still sticks fairly closely to its villain/heroine roots, and I think there are probably Darklina-inspired books that do. But a lot of those ships develop into something entirely fanon, which is how we get books like Not Another Love Song or The Love Hypothesis.

People are being too broad when they say big man/little woman, that's not at all what draws people into those ships initially. They're drawn in by the villain/heroine dark/light thing, which is all very classic. Everyone wants to act like this is fuckin' new, and it's the opposite of that. The appeal of this dynamic has existed since the dawn of fiction, and it will always exist, and it's only the entirely short-sighted, self-centered fandom perspective and the moral hysteria of anti-fandom that makes them act like this is ENTIRELY NEW INFORMATION WE MUST LABEL (so that we can talk down about it). (This is not about you lol.)

Ships that are also this that were popular before Reylo:

—Dracula/Mina (with the culmination being Bram Stoker's Dracula, but even in the more recent Dracula Untold we had the classic "Mina is Dracula's reincarnated wife" angle)

—Erik/Christine

—"Now my boyfriend is evil oh noes" takes like Angelus/Buffy, Tuxedo Mask/Sailor Moon in a couple arcs, on a more minor level even something like The Vampire Academy had Dimitri (Rose's boyfriend) go evil for a minute and it was THE! BEST! ARC! IN THE WHOLE SERIES!

—literally so many daytime soaps y'all... this is how they turned villains into antiheroes....... who still killed people..... General Hospital was regularly putting their little goody goodies with straight up murderers, and this is something soaps do literally GLOBALLY. Telenovelas do it, Euro soaps do it, Kdramas, Jdramas, Cdramas, the list goes on

—I'm less into anime, but yeah, I'm gonna say this was big for anime lmao

—Many many many romance novels that preceded Reylo/Darklina et. al. Whether it was the "softer" villains like Sebastian St. Vincent in Devil in Winter, who I'd still say went above typical "bad boy" grade by kidnapping the heroine's best friend with an implied rape threat in the previous novel; Lothaire in Kresley Cole's Lothaire, with Ellie; basically every Anne Stuart novel written, Lord of Danger jumps to mind; Shadowheart by Laura Kinsale.

���Generalized wicked monsters with women, like The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Wolfman

I think it's really that primal and that simple. Villain/heroine.

[glass-noodle]

Oh yeahhh you think Hank and Connor could learn sign language together??? Connor can’t speak human, so sign language would be a nice way to communicate! Hank would slowly realise the sea creature love of his life is a big fucking nerd lol. ‘Give me math Hank 😞’, ‘I yearn for more knowledgeable books to be read to me Hank’, ‘scratch that I want to learn how to read Hank’ - kamski think a like

Kamski-think-a-like!!! *throws hands up like one would upon seeing that the neighbourhood cat has visited their yard*

He’s a huge fuckin’ nerd and Hank’s definitely been realizing that throughout their time together. Connor is insatiable (in more ways than one *cough*); I’m imagining his eyes going all big and dilated like a cat’s when Hank starts teaching him something haha. He starts bringing in some old textbooks to read to him and practically sees his fishy lil brain light up

They could definitely learn sign language together!! Maybe Hank borrows a textbook or downloads an app on his phone and they both learn together 🥺 Opening up a world of communication between them, allowing Hank to finally really delve into Connor’s mind. There’s something special about Hank having learned how to read Connor (and vice versa, though to a lesser extent since Connor can understand a little bit of English) just through body language and vocalizations, but the opportunity to really get to know what Connor is thinking? Too great to pass up.

Once again anon you are so right. I think he even says that he doesn’t know how to work his phone at some point in the game?? Which is totally unbelievable as a millennial, lmao. Still, despite the Cage Writing, I can’t help but like that stupid car and its stupid old-fashioned owner. I do like the idea of Hank getting a completely tech-less car after Cole’s death, or maybe just having been pretty anti-technology in general even before that (evidenced by his interest in “real” books, or having a house that’s as void of technology as you can get). Maybe he’s always had a passion for old cars, or things with an older charm. Picturing a young Hank who likes tinkering with old models even though his friends tease him about it, sleeves rolled up and covered in engine grease…..him refusing to give up his car for a newer one even when it sputters and takes five minutes to start (not at all related to his inability to let things go…)

And then this shiny, new-fangled piece of cutting-edge technology rocks up on his doorstep and sends his world into a tailspin 😌

[stirringwinds]

welcome to the nedpan fandom٩( ᐛ )و loving all your thoughts on these two!

Hima implied in the manga that Japan and Netherlands were Tsu-Kaa no Naka (a relation btw 2 ppl that is so close that you don't need words to know what the other is thinking; a japanese equivalent of 'finish each others sentences') during Sakoku.

thank you! i love it here, the utter brainrot has been unreal lmao. and oh, that description really fits the way i see them? there’s just a level of intimacy during isolationism that is so unique. 

i think what really gets me about them both is that they’re both kind of seasoned, older nations? definitely not naive about love or romance—and they meet in the middle of the Eighty Years War (for Johan/Jan (Ned)) and right as Tokugawa Ieyasu is on the brink of achieving political unification (for Kiku). they’re both a bit of a mess when they first meet, and there’s that cultural gulf to cross...which they do! the idea that it starts out with some curiosity but also the usual realism most old world fucks have but then becoming deeply intense and romantic is so good? 

and tbh, i used to see 1853 and the end of isolationism as the end of nedpan but now im like...holy shit i am wrong lol. my academic specialisation is british imperial history, so prior to this i had my anglophone goggles on too hard. the black ships, anglo-japanese alliance, pacific politics in terms of the dominions and commonwealth etc. but there’s actually so much dutch involvement in helping japan through the growing pains of meiji-era modernisation?? the basis of the naval academy—but also very much non-military civil engineering for flood prevention and ports and general advice about government reform? hell, especially since flood control and water related engineering is such a Dutch thing. literal i left marks on your architecture and culture that lasted till today. and this also being the era that van gogh was inspired by the likes of hokusai and hiroshige to paint almond blossoms and damn. and the fact that it’s all being remembered in more recent years. fuckin statues and monuments to dutch civil engineers, the restoration of Dejima to how it looked during sakoku with the help of Dutch archives. the fact that so much stuff between them lasted. 

these two old world fuckers are eldritch dirt men, so they also come with their long histories and callouses and sharp-edged ambitions...but it’s also very anti-Madame Butterfly (and all its condescending orientalist cliches about being betrayed and abandoned by one’s western lover) in the best ways, to me?  because Jan always came back. like, when nedpan drifts apart in the early 20th century (before i see them rekindling their r/ship in the late 80s/90s), it’s because of both their choices and destructive imperial ambitions. but...they meet again, with Alfred (and Indonesia) having helped to shear off most of both of their empires. a good dose of humbling and postwar reflectiveness, to rekindle what they’d had for three hundred years prior. to me their relationship just feels like the story behind the tanabata festival? about orihime and hikoboshi being apart—but meeting again and again, always. 

[youngbloodbuzz]

bestie what did you think of ✨the record✨

i had to listen to it a few more times to answer this cause I like. i did not know where to start.

as a whole it's like the perfect length at 40 minutes and so easy to listen to their harmonies are incredible and I love the way they all shared lead vocals on various songs.

so many tracks were instant obsessed i need to listen to them on repeat favourites like true blue, not strong enough, satanist, and anti-curse, and overall I Love the album it's a strong outing but I will admit there's like two tracks that will take a while to grow on me

the self titled EP was always gonna be super hard to live up to cause it was just so unexpectedly perfect and i'd say like 90% of the album lives up to the hype/expectations

some moments i Love from the album in order of songs

a gorgeous acapella opening track that brings ketchum, id full circle imo. the lofi elements and harmonies are beautiful

the build up in $20 and phoebe bringing back the screaming in the harmonized outro. the one song I knew would catch my bff's attention as a boygenius intro song cause they love punk rock. i LOVE the layering of vocals in the outro

"I'm 27 and I don't know who I am" oh worm??? the harmonies on that line too CHEF kiss. emily girl whoever you are I hope your socials are all on private for the foreseeable future lmao

"You say you're a winter bitch, but summer's in your blood/You can't help but become the sun" hello??? oh my god. the outro in this song too is just...oh my god it makes me feel some kinda way, I've keeled over in awe and disbelief like every time. "it feels good to be known so well" jesus christ

cool about it will take some time to grow on me I think but god those lyrics are so brutal

the guitar work is so fuckin good the music video is SO good I feel like going on a road trip with the windows down with this blasting, but then you listen to the lyrics and it's so brutal like who HASN'T felt strong enough. "always an angel, never a god" just fuck me up

a gorgeous outro. i think this one will take a few more listens to grow on me too but that outro "I used to think/If I just closed my eye/I'd disappear" ahaha ow

this is such a funny and cute story song about being so invested in a song while driving that lucy missed a turn and julien and pheobe were like yea that fucked but you should probably turn the car around dskghasdf. "And I am not an old man having an existential crisis/At a Buddhist monastery writing horny poetry/But I agree" unnecessarily SO funny omg

another perfect punk rock song, the guitar riff in the chorus, the screaming vocals in the background that reminds me of aphex twin's come to daddy, the false ending, the change of tempo from fast in your face pace to a dreamy atmospheric landscape chef kiss

this is such a beautiful and bittersweet song to write about your friends, it's so painfully honest and hopeful. "You could absolutely break my heart/That's how I know that we're in love" how could they do this to me. that bit about the hummingbirds too what a beautiful sentiment

this song is SO julien behaviour. it's both so scary and so powerful and honest just like everything else julien writes about her mental health experiences and the production is so good. "I'm swimmin' back" being belted so powerfully and feeling like a direct callback "I wanted to stay" from claws in your back struck me so hard. "See, you don't havе to make it bad/Just 'cause you know how" lol ow

the only song on the album to make me fucking Cry and it's because of the last verse being a direct mirror to the last verse in me & my dog. with me & my dog still feeling like the mourning of a relationship and acknowledging how unhealthy it was, this one finally feels like anger and acceptance and finally recognizing that happiness and relief will eventually come to you and oh my god laying over the sound of the crowds cheers from their performance of me & my dog at the brooklyn steel concert was incredible and perfect

so overall, a fantastic album with only a small handful of songs that will eventually grow on me, I can't fucking wait to see them in june I cannot believe I got tickets to see them what a dream come true

[hisuianhellion]

Actually on that thought what's everyone's favorite spots for pets?

Lucien the Luxray is an anti-cat. He. Adores. Belly rubs. Give him the biggest, most kneady belly rubs you can give. All of them. Right to him belly. The rumbles he lets out when that happens? OUGH.

Carla the Luxio loves her chin and her earbs. She's definitely a lot more cat than Lucien is in that regard, she turns into a fuckin' MOTOR when you start rubbing along her head. You will vibrate if she is beside you.

Klaus the Espurr, to round out the cats, absolutely melts when his lower back is scritched. Some cats can get overstimulated along that spot, but not him. He somehow finds it's relaxing. I have gotten him to fall asleep scritching that spot.

Barry the Sylveon's a lot like Carla: his face, his ears, his chin. Special note is that he also likes to loaf in just the right position to get my hand along his neck and chest, too. He's remarkably fond of that.

Sally the Eevee is a sucker for a good, long stroke down her back. Not too fond of her sides of belly being touched, and she accepts cheek and ear rubs, but stroking her back, top of the head down? Loves it.

Patrice isn't all that affectionate, all things considered! Lovable goober, yes, but it's rare to settle her down for pets. When she does, though, it's all about the flotation sac. Rub along that for a happy Floatzel.

Nanami the Samurott, I do not care what anyone thinks, is the sweetest little belly-rub lover in the world. Laventon tried to tell me Samurott are closed off? Lmao. Sure. Nanami is the most emotional goober ever. LOVES to have his chest and belly stroked down.

Linda, my Carnivine, is a chin-rub lover. Though that isn't her main desire for attention. Typically, she'll just nom onto my arm for a bit. Usually it's just the shoulder and elbow, leaving my hand free, but there have been times where she nabs the whole arm and I just kinda gotta sit there for a half hour. Always lets go before anything starts happening, though. Very sweet.

Theo the Joltik has to be the one I mention the least, little Joltik that followed me from Hisui. But I think that might be because he tends to hide in Carla's fur four outta five days, snoozing the days away in blissful, sparky comfort. Despite this, when I DO get access to him, back scritches. Lower back specifically. Raises him li'l toosh right up for them.

And we already know about Todd, my Zorua. His scarf and headpoof. His legs literally get weak when those are given ample attention. I got him to fall asleep against me last night doing this and I was on CLOUD. NINE. LEMME TELL YA.

[coredrill]

gridman universe spoilers BUT LIKE FOR REAL THIS TIME LMAO

i just. oh my god. oh my GOD. how is this movie everything i wanted since learning of its existence AND everything i didn’t even KNOW i wanted??? i cried reading it in TEXT FORM god only knows how much more it’s gonna hit with ANIMATION and MUSIC and VOICE ACTING UGH.

[redacted] in the [redacted] UGHHHHHH this makes me tear up every time i think about it!!!!! they put his ass in middle school…………AND FUCKING. EXPIRATION DATES I CALLED IT I KNEW IT WAS SOMETHING DUMB I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

EVERYTHING WITH ANTI…………………..wails

how is gauma MORE slutty with MORE clothes on. i love his goofy ass sosososo much 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 knowing i have more of him to look forward to bring me genuinely a HUGE amount of joy

hearing that yomogi cries when they reunite……….YEOWCH!!! me the fuck too yomo!!!

i was hesitant abt them bringing akane back but literally everything she does sounds like it was handled absolutely beautifully and omg she absolutely deserves it 😭

GRIDMANS FINAL FORM……………also geez i am SO HYPED for the 2d anim. like ssss/trigger uses 3d so so well i always look forward to that too but also NO WONDER they brought all the lagann-hen animators back!!!!!! amemiya was correct, that oscar is his for the taking LMAO

imagine being that japantimes reviewer saying “it was contrived” when that’s literally the last thing that matters 💀 could not be me!!!

AUUUUUGHHHHHHHHH ANYWAYS. my soul has been healed but also i’m like ten gridillion times more antsy to see the fuckin thing now LMAO. PLEASE………….US RELEASE………..SOON

[loveireandblog]

Autism things

The thing is, when I need to prove myself, I shut down. Like don't get me wrong, there's nothing under either lmao. But the issue is "proving yourself" is the norm????????? I know it is. I am aware and can read it. Masking makes me work w it.

But the spanner in the works of late, as I get older, is that I am unclasping everything from me. EVERYTHING. I'm like "the world is so brutalistic I don't even wanna brush my hair like tf 😒" lmfao my brain has decided to be SO stubborn .

But I have bdd ! The pressure chamber of Face and Body and Wearing Human Clothes. Because of all these things I *have* to do and I feel constrained by my own brain just like an itchy fibre jumper and I have gone the whoooooooole other way.

That response is autistic. It confirmed my autism. The break out thrashing did :( that's so hard okay. To work from an already ejected position

So now I'm just struggling with it. How I've always been so "anti precision" , high femme and fuckin ragin' hahahaha at war with the world (advocating for a softer one DONT U NEED ONE TOO?!?!?!??!!?! IM GONNA SCREAM)

Yeah. This is so hard. I wish I was the autist that didn't understand social conventions as well as I do. I know I'm falling short. Who wasn't as good at masking naturally to push it all back and evoke such a breakdown. The alien vibe, the unhuman, the all of it. The book I'm writing is helping so much ugh I'm crying it's been like walking on hot coals to write. It's all so hard

[good-things-do-happen-dean]

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[uwooyoungs]

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[theminecraftbee]

im an admin that’s been thinking about adding a pvper to my server of mostly builders and redstoners, but ive heard conflicting things so im still on the fence. any advice?

(btw this is the funniest shit ive seen in a solid 2 weeks i fuckin cackled reading all this lmao)

in my previous post on pvpers, i mentioned that they can get a bad rap if poorly socialized, and that this largely has to do with the way they play-fight in ways that can be foreign and aggressive to other types of players. in addition, pvpers are a very social sort of player, and require a server that can meet their social needs. some things to keep in mind:

- how gregarious are your builders and redstoners already? if they largely keep to their own territory and don’t overly socialize, a pvper’s tendency to seek socialization may be too much for them, and they certainly won’t be ready for perceived aggression. on the other hand, if they’ve already shown an inclination towards socialization, they’re likely more ready to adapt to a new strange variety.

- how well-socialized is this pvper? do you know if they have interacted with redstoners or builders before? if not, the pvper may be confused by the more laid-back behavior of the builder, or the neuroticism of the redstoner. pvpers with poor socialization often show tendencies towards griefing that unprepared builders and redstoners will be greatly distressed by as well.

anti-social builders and redstoners or particularly poorly socialized pvpers might make this match a bad idea at the moment. if, however, you’re relatively confident that their personalities might mesh, here is some further advice:

- always first introduce strange players to each other on neutral ground, such as spawn, to make sure they properly greet and know each other before interacting in less controlled environments.

- pvpers often get intimidated and confused by builder bases and redstone farms. this can be treated the same way as builders and redstoners getting intimidated by each other, though—through monitored exposure and socialization with each other and the bases. social mirroring normally solves this in a healthy server over time.

- in your specific case, the pvper will need enrichment that allows them to play-fight. a good middle ground can be to encourage the construction of minigames—this introduces builders and redstoners to play-fighting in a way that’s a lot less distressing to them than a standard pvp fight, and allows the pvper appropriate enrichment. remember that just because your pvper doesn’t build elaborate structures doesn’t mean they won’t have specific care needs! sometimes it just takes finding a way to meet them that is safe for their environment.

[ff-imagines]

Yandere HC: Spicy Gluten

My take on a yandere Spicy Gluten. Just a heads up, yandere Gluten is…. Well, she’s not very nice.

Mature content, Minors dni.

The basics:

• ok she’s mean. Straight up she’s a meanie.

• she’s the type to really try her best to push you away.

• like, not in a “haha nooo Jason stoppp haha” kinda way in a “go away I legit hate you” way.

• if you’re an actual saint and still extend an olive branch for a friendship, she’s intrigued and impressed.

• still mean though.

• her liking to you starts as just an acceptance that you want to be in her life.

• eventually the thought process goes to “well, if they wanna stay with me so damn bad, I guess I’ll just make them one of my personal possessions.”

• the more time she spends with you, the more she gets a taste of what it’s like to be treated nicely… she’s keeping you. End of story.

• the whole reason she likes you so much is because she likes being needed, it’s nice to have a little human need her protection and her attention, it’s nice to coddle someone who depends on you.

• she does her best to degrade to a point where you need someone to build you back up- and luckily for you, that’s when she steps in with her silver tongue.

• a unique trait is that she sees you as her actual possession. A person, yes, but a possession none the less.

• she does not feel the typical “yandere obsession” that you’d expect, she just doesn’t like when peope fuck with what belongs to her.

• surprisingly she’s also extremely jealous. possibly even more surprisingly, she doesn’t ever blame that jealously on you. The other party gets her full punishment, while she whisks you home where she can worry over you in her own condescending way.

• god forbid the offending party touched you. If they are ever found it would be in pieces.

• it’s less of a trust in you as an assumption that you could never be stupid enough to think that would ever accomplish anything.

Do they kidnap?

• sorta. She isn’t above kidnapping, but she’d much rather you stay close to her according to your own wishes. It just kinda feeds her pride.

• if you start to fight against her she has no qualms taking you away from everyone else and keeping you in the Anti-Human League hideout- which means more of her friends can keep an eye on you.

• which means Boston lobster in gonna be your baby sitter. And he can be even meaner than she is, if you’re not careful.

• for your own interest, be careful lmao.

What are their rules?

• She has an extensive list of what she expects from you, but the list is mainly there just to wear you down.

• most of the rules are really weird, sometimes contradict, and most importantly- virtually impossible to achieve all of them daily.

• that’s the point though, she’s just looking for an excuse to punish you and get her point across.

• that point being, fall in line and do what she says.

• with time the list simply becomes be good, don’t fight against her, don’t run.

What are punishments like? Would they ever purposely hurt you? Would they regret it?

• yea like I said she’s fuckin mean.

• most of her punishments come in the form of degradation, or at least, harsher degradation than usual.

• the worst of punishments are really only reserved for the worst of behavior, like physically attacking her or trying to run.

• then it gets to physical punishments, she doesn’t carry a whip around just to be scary. She knows how to use it.

• she feels no remorse for giving you punishments. In her eyes you simply should have known better than to test her.

How do they react to escape attempts?

• …. Poorly.

• I fear for your kneecaps. Legitimately.

• lots of guilt tripping and very sharp words, and eventually she just… ignores you.

• no degradation, no more punishments, no attention.

• she waits for you to break out of loneliness and apologize on your own. She’ll feign like she’s thinking about whether or not to forgive you, but she always will. She likes you too much, unfortunately. (For her, it’s very fortunate for your situation lmao.)

Nsfw hc?

• oh boy

• she is the ultimate teaser/edger.

• she tends to really tie you tight, rile you up to a point of desperation, and then just… leave for a while.

• she really likes to drive the point home that you need her, for everything.

• she likes to inflict a little pain, but it’s not as extensive as you’d think.

• she prefers to save intense pain for actual punishments- speaking of which, she isn’t above giving painful sexual punishments.

• impact play, candle wax that’s just a little hotter than usual, and overstimulation to the point of actual pain are her go-to’s.

• wouldn’t reject knife play if it gets her point across.

• overstimulation is fairly common, but never to the… degree it’s given in punishments.

• she’s a dacryphilliac for sure.

• her ultimate kinks are that she loves to make you go brainless, and she loves to make you beg.

• adores getting you to point where you can’t even babble one coherent word and then demands you to beg her for more. It’s just so cute seeing how you sputter for a grasp on basic language.

• loves toys. whatever tool gets you to cry faster, she’s using it.

• she loves to ghost her fingertips and lips around your neck and shoulders to find all the little places where you’re most sensitive to attack with bite marks. The bruises she leaves are intense, she likes them to last a while.

What are the quiet moments like?

• quite nice, all things considered.

• as time wears on they happen more often too.

• as long as you behave, of course.

• she loves to feel your shock as she touches you kindly, giving a rare word of praise.

• even if she’s cold hearted and mean, the moments where she gets to build you back up and savor your need for gentle affection is what she really basks in.

Her skin always ran warm. Like holding onto a mug of lavender tea in the morning. You let your eyes fall closed as her hands came to brush a lock of hair that has fallen in front of your face, perfectly relaxed as your head lays on her lap.

You breathe slowly, enjoying this moment of respite. Sighing deeply, you felt your conscious mind slipping away from you as Gluten ghosted her fingers down your side to rest at your waist, tracing little patterns into your side.

Peaceful. She thinks. So peaceful, comfortable. How had you let yourself ever get comfortable within her grasp? You don’t think even you know what had drawn you to the woman who loved to degrade you, to own and control you.

Or perhaps that is precisely what it was.

You’d been exceptionally good lately. Despite a voice in the back of her mind chastising her for this moment of softness, she couldn’t bring herself to punish you for finding comfort with her.

Whispers of venom lingered in her thoughts as she stroked your skin with her thumb. Humans leave. Humans die. Humans live to hurt you, hurt others, hurt other humans. The familiar image of a girl, a simple orphan looking to help those around her conjured within her mind. A familiar image of other humans taking the girl away from Gluten, of inflicting immeasurable pain, of the girl she knew fading away before her eyes.

Her arrival to your restaurant was unexpected, your acceptance of her even more so. She found herself even more aggravated by the notion that you didn’t hate her, that she couldn’t hate you for everything she tried.

The insults, the fighting, the many, many times she’s simply given you a cold shoulder. None of it worked. You always… tried. Always tried for her.

She’s remembered the first time she allowed you to come close to her, truly close. She’d found you outside, sat in the grass with your knees tucked to your chest, even from afar she could see the way you shook from the force of your sobs, through your obvious attempts to be silent.

She has no idea why she approached you, why she lowered herself to sit next to you in the disgusting mud and brought your head to rest on her chest. She hasn’t the slightest clue why she didn’t sneer and laugh at you for how much harder you cried as you clung to her, feeling an arm snake around you to pull you closer while the other hand brushed away the strays hairs that clung to your tear stained cheeks.

She should have laughed. Should have watched as you sniffled and cried at her feet, she should have made you cry even worse.

Something twinged in her chest as she felt her skin grow wet from your sobs. She didn’t know at the time who had made you upset, but she would. And they would never get the chance to make you upset again.

Another sigh left you as your mind finally slipped into a calm slumber. Looking down to your sleeping face, she traced her finger along your jaw, slipping a hand under your head to gently reposition your neck into a more natural angle.

You weren’t fading away. Not like the others. She wasn’t wrapped around your finger, no. You were wrapped around hers. She’d made sure that you’d needed this, needed the feeling of her skin. She’d made sure that when you thought of fear, when you thought of anger and despair, you thought of her. She’d made sure that when you thought of gentleness, when you thought of warmth and softness, you thought of her. Gluten had made sure that every thought and feeling you had relied on her. Living without her would never grace your mind again. And while she’d never tell you, living without you would never grace hers again either.

It's just such a nice feeling to be totally and utterly relied on, Gluten internally remarks to herself.

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12, 13, 16, 23 and 30 for the ask? (Only if you feel like answering them all. It's a lot but I am curious lol)

Rotten I am a slut for rambling on and on and if you (or anybody else who wants to chat) ask i will alWAYs answer. So thank you lmao.

12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you?

tbh this one was like, a long time coming but long ago I used to hate the idea of mary sue/gary stu. mostly because i was concerned about being too carefree and wanting to be far too serious/anti-cringe as i am a wee bean terrified of scorn (i didn't actually share ANY fic until One Dog Night). (and this is like, a years long thing. i used to hate it, spent a long time not caring, and now i encourage it lol).

anyway the fuckin minute i started working on getting over myself and just enjoying stuff because it's made? honestly helped. so go and make whatever OC you want overpowered because you can have a convincing story even with a perfect character. sometimes you just gotta have fun and the perfect character is the way to do it.

13. Are there any tropes you used to like but don’t anymore?

this one's hard. the things that i like i don't tend to let go of easily (surprise, surprise?). i promise i'm sitting here thinking and trying, but i will have to get back to you on this one if i can even think of it lmao. it's like the time you asked for my fav ships and i sat there agonizing like "UHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SHIT" because i'm a filthy casual and appreciate a wide variety of things without selling my soul to them. (and yeah i am still scratching my head at that one, too).

16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?

ok other than the "office predators working on their home planet in mundanity" AU that we briefly discussed today, i kinda love slapping really intense characters into like. slice of life settings (and sometimes the reverse can be pretty damn funny, too. i probably just like the whiplash tbh). so Hellsing, for example, would see the big three being rivals at the local remote town's firehall's bingo night or something. (anybody wanna take that idea and run?)

23. What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?

i know i write a lot for my beloved stinky wolfman but i keep stumbling on the idea of how Doc made Schrodinger (I wanna know what experiments he ran) and desperately want to use all my knowledge for the dumbest purposes just to write about Doc giving people acute radiation syndrome in the pursuit of creating a supersoldier. and then failing. many times. atomic science was running wild in the early 40s.

30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter?

so i don't know if i'm out here writing too much of the same shit or if my comfort zone is just hella broad, but i can't think of much that i've written outside (i mean, i doubt i'll ever touch something like noncon which sits outside my writing comfort zone). i mean, closest to answer your question was the two male reader inserts because i don't know if i could give a good fic experience with them! and i got some warm reception and don't feel like i did awful, so i am interested in continuing to try it out as time and inspiration allow.

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Ego Holiday Headcanons

Haven’t decided if I’ll make more after this, but here’s some festive headcanons for the Septic boys! (tagging as Yuletube for my submission for the past two missed days, hope that’s alright!)

Henrik Von Schneeplestein

-The host of the Septic Ego Holiday Celebration (est. 2017)

-STRESSED

-If he wasn’t stressed enough by being a doctor (and parent lmao), HE IS NOW

-Getting all the egos together for the holidays and making sure they DON’T kill each other?? Someone give this man an award

-Everyone keeping their limbs would be his only Christmas wish

-He does not get said Christmas wish (see: Robbie)

-Switches up his black coffee for coffee with peppermint creamer

-Chase eventually hooks him on peppermint tea instead, he knows the Doc needs sleep

-Can be found humming along to the Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy as he cooks holiday dinner

-Definitely has a “kiss the cook” apron

-Chase crossed out the “the” on it with “zhe” in sharpie

-Day 5, Schneep still hasn’t noticed

-Loves it, but still wears his doctor coat on top of it

-Gets very cold easily, so the fire is always burning

-Has a nutcracker collection

-It’s getting out of hand

Chase Brody

-Holidays are,,, hard for him

-Still sends his kids cards and presents, never actually knowing if they get them or not

-They do, I promise

-Wasn’t originally keen on celebrating with everyone, he has a tendency to self-isolate

-But once he gets there, he’s glad he did

-IMMEDIATELY tackled in a hug from Jackie

-”YOU’RE HERE!! Couldn’t start without you, dude!”

-Everyone else smiles and gives the appropriate hug

-(Anti does not, but no eye roll this time at least)

-Absolutely loves warm apple cider and has a good recipe to make his own

-Favorite Christmas movie is Elf, no I do not take criticism

-Has a soft spot for Mickey’s Once Upon A Christmas though because of his kids

-Holiday puns, you CANNOT get this man to shut up with the puns

- “Where’s Anti?” “Up to SNOW good! There’s SNOW way we can REIN him in now!”

-Once it snows, this boy is sledding down every hill in SIGHT

-Teaches Robbie how to catch snowflakes on his tongue

-Marvin makes him a “World’s Best Dad” sweater

-He totally cries and does not take it off the rest of the season

Jackieboy Man

-Christmas is his favorite holiday

-Good luck getting him to sit still around this time

-Has super strength, so he doesn’t quite have the same “don’t do that, you’ll hurt yourself” factor that everyone else does??

-Nearly giving Henrik a heart attack everytime he moves, but make it Festive™

-”Guys it’s snowing!!” “JACKIE GET ZHE FAHK OFF ZHE RAILING”

-Slides down the stairs anyway

-Marvin made him a whole ass “ugly supersuit” instead of just a sweater

-It is a w f u l, but on purpose

-Ofc Jackie adores the shit out of it

-Loves snowball fights!

-Always gets targeted by Anti tho

-Eventually it turns into a snowball war

-Pulls Chase over to tag team him, then discovers Marvin has an alliance with Anti

-They will be here a while

-Time to break out the reindeer-themed boxers

-They go along perfectly with his red and blue sweater-suit

-Eventually able to settle down when it gets dark out, bonus points if there’s hot chocolate involved (courtesy of JJ)

-Don’t forget the marshmallows

-Wants to help everybody out with their plans, always does his best

-Even if his best includes falling off a roof

Marvin the Magnificent

-Made everyone sweaters, even Anti

-Spent too much time on the design parts to make em perfect, so he had to rush getting them all sewn

-Uses his magic to sew like three at once

-December 1st, 12:00am is when the Christmas music starts

-Mariah Carey impressions that slowly get higher as the month goes on

-Performs a “Let It Go” rendition that could rival Idina’s during christmas karaoke night

-Switches his regular mask for his holiday one with snowflakes instead of card suits on it

-The decorating master, with JJ as his apprentice

-Favorite part is designing for the lights outside

-Learned a spell to make it look like it’s snowing inside

-Forgot to learn the spell to make it stop snowing inside

-Ended up just sticking with those paper snowflakes dangling on the ceiling

-Asks Jackie for help with the lights on the roof, not because he can’t easily do it himself, he just knows that Jackie likes to help and this is the one thing he knows he can’t break

-Did not expect Jackie to break himself by falling off the roof instead

-Ends up finishing the lights with his magic anyway (after he untangles his boyfriend from the lights, that is)

-Can and will destroy Jackie during snowball fights just because he can

Jameson Jackson

-THIS BOY oh this boy

-Brings out the classic holiday music and sets it up on the gramophone

-LOVES making up dances to the music

-May be a classic boy, but his guilty pleasure is Michael Buble

-(Robbie calls him bubbles whenever he comes on)

-Goes ALL OUT with the holiday baking

-Cookies of all kinds, homemade gingerbread for the houses, so many pies, even learns how to bake his own bread

-Everyone agrees that his pumpkin bread is the best

-Anti especially loves the cherry pie for “aesthetic purposes”

-Has a whole “Twas the Night Before Christmas” puppet show routine

-His job is making the decorations while Marvin sets them all up, it’s a great dynamic

-Definitely makes those traditional popcorn garlands for the tree

-for some reason puts an orange in his stocking?? The others are confused, but he’s so excited so they just let him do his thing

-Now everyone has oranges in their stockings

-They still don’t know what it means

Antisepticeye

-Die Hard is a Christmas movie, dammit!

- “Grinch Bitch” is what his sweater from Marvin says

-Secretly likes it, but fuck off

-Wears it to sleep every night in Winter

-You know that thing where cats get under Christmas trees and swat at the ornaments? Yeah that’s him

-Loves the white elephant gift game

-Ends up getting a present and it’s a turtle

-His name is knives

-KING OF SNOWBALL FIGHTS

-Fills his snowballs with fake blood so they explode on people

- (at least we hope its fake)

-If it doesn’t snow enough, he is the bitch who throws water balloons instead

-Henrik still has work leading up to Christmas, so Anti listens to him rant when he gets home

-Christmas patients are fuckin crazy and he loves it

-One time fell asleep and woke up with a red nose and antlers

-Chase was never safe after that

-Kept the antlers though, they jingle

-Saved them all from Chase’s puns that day

- “Where’s Anti?” *distant, staticky jingling* “Ah there he is”

Robbie the Zombie

-LIGHTS...pretty lights…

-He loves the lights, and will try to eat them if you’re not careful

-Says they’re static candy

-Doesn’t get cold because he can’t feel it, so he often wanders around in the snow

-One time he came home without his left foot and Schneep nearly had a heart attack

-Turns out it froze in the snow and snapped off his leg

-The Great Foot Search Party of 2020

-Please don’t forget to bundle this boy up before going out

-Anti has knitted him a hat and scarf for just this reason

-Henrik was the Proudest Dad that day

-Totally gets to put the star on the Christmas tree every year

-Marvin levitates him high enough

-Favorite holiday movie is The Polar Express

-One time JJ came out with his signature hot cocoa during the movie scene and Robbie was THRILLED

-Talking almost knocked him over thrilled

-Tries to sing along to holiday music, the lyrics don’t work out much

-Really good at keeping a beat though

-Marvin made him a sweater with bells on it

-Adores the bells, flaps the too long sleeves to make them jingle

Shawn Flynn

-Likes Christmas, but like lowkey

-He’s a toymaker!!! He makes adorable toys for all the egos as their presents from him!!

-Didn’t really have a family to go back to in his days at Joey Drew Studios, so he was used to spending Christmas alone, usually working

-NOT ANYMORE!

-Now he has Too Much Family (but in the good way)

-Absolutely gets nicknamed Scrooge at first, probably because he really likes A Christmas Carol and he’s a grump

-Often can be found being pulled off to dance by the gramophone with JJ

-He’s got two left feet, but JJ doesn’t really care

-If anyone still believes in Santa, even just a little bit, it’s because of him

-Has a giant red sack that he fills up with toys he’s made and/or the ones no one could sell back at the studios and donates them to orphanages

-Usually sticks to his old timey clothes, but when he does wear modern Christmas attire like the sweaters, he has,,,no idea how to match things

-It’s ‘cause he’s red/green colorblind

-once asked why Marvin had “yellow” hair

-JJ makes sure that his decorations have lots of blues so it’s not so much strain on his eyes