#it's weird how we're friends even though we hate each other's interests

[https-milo]

Hihi !! First time requesting, this is so awkward ..😭 but by any chance, could you do a Monoma Instagram (if you write for him, of course) thank you !! 🤍

hihi tysm for the request! i think I forgot to put Monoma on my list of characters 😭😭, but yes I can!!

DATING NEITO MONOMA INSTAGRAM!

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Instagram posts w/ comments while dating Neito Monoma!

a/n OBVIOUSLY these are just pictures off of interest, reader can be however you imagine!

(a little different from my usual insta posts)

main m. list / instagram m. list

y/ncantthink · 5w

1.9k likes liked by kendos.fist, tetsu.x4, deku_, ocha.uravity

y/ncantthink soft... soft launch?

ocha.uravity ???? CALL ME??? y/ncantthink ocha.uravity i cant say who it issss :(( ocha.uravity y/ncantthink why nottt :((( y/ncantthink ocha.uravity cause hes a hypocrite 👎👎

kendos.fist Oh! I know whooooooo ;) y/ncantthink kendos.fist SHUT UP PLEASE

monoma.copies whoever it is must be stupid, who would date someone from class A?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

monoma.copies · 4w

800 likes liked by kendo.fists, tetsu.x4, ocha.uravity

monoma.copies Me. I would.

tagged: y/ncantthink

y/ncantthink you would what, sweetie 😊😊😊 monoma.copies y/ncantthink date someone from 🤢🤢class A🤢🤢 y/ncantthink monoma.copies hmmm I think your phone glitched and added some weird emojis :// monoma.copies y/ncantthink strange!! 😊😊

kendos.fist All Might gives his strongest soldiers (Y/n) his toughest battles (dating Monoma) y/ncantthink kendos.fist thank you Itsuka 🫶🫶 but Neito really isn't that bad!!

ocha.uravity hes got her defending him on the main 😭😭 y/ncantthink ocha.uravity im serious!! hes really not bad at all!

tetsu.x4 shes out on the frontlines after this post

y/ncantthink · 3w

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y/ncantthink my pretty princess <3

tagged: monoma.copies

kendos.fist cant believe he let you take that 😭😭 y/ncantthink kendos.fist bc he's not a bad guy :(

monoma.copies we're such a cute couple (I'm the cuter one tho) y/ncantthink monoma.copies whatever you say, princess 🙄 chargebolt.dk monoma.copies ik ur playing...

tetsu.x4 you guys are so cute, i want to punch a wall RED.RIOT tetsu.x4 IKR!! Even if Monoma hates our class, its so cute that they're together!! hanta.fanta RED.RIOT you're joking...

deku_ i don't see anything wrong with the two being together..? am I missing something? chargebolt.dk deku_ he's always been a dick to our class. and now he's dating one of us? It doesn't make sense. deku_ chargebolt.dk kacchan is always a dick too, but we're all friends with him. I mean like whatever, but I think we should just let them live their lives.

monoma.copies · 2w

650 likes liked by tetsu.x4, deku_, kendos.fist

monoma.copies wish you guys would just hop off and let us be happy

tagged: y/ncantthink

y/ncantthink im sorry, I know most of them are my friends. I've been defending you and everything, idk what else to do monoma.copies y/ncantthink I don't blame you. you can't control them. thanks for defending me (even though your class sucks) y/ncantthink monoma.copies ofc <3 anytime

chargebolt.dk maybe we would if you weren't such a dick :D y/ncantthink chargebolt.dk Kaminari istg if you don't stfu hanta.fanta y/ncantthink don't tell me his personality is rubbing off on you... y/ncantthink hanta.fanta I literally don't want to hear from either of you. idk why you're being such dicks but I hope you choke on each other.

tetsu.x4 idk why everyone is hating, you two are so cute kendos.fist tetsu.x4 no fr, monoma has literally changed and became more bearable cause of y/n :///

RED.RIOT sorry for my classmates dude! You two just keep being you!!

deku_ idk what has gotten into some of us, but the majority of class A has nothing against you two

y/ncantthink · 1d ⭐ close friends

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y/ncantthink i hope you guys are soooo happy!! he broke up with me because the CONSTANT comments ab how we "weren't good for each other" and "I could do so much better" got to him! I do not want to talk to either of you (you know who you are). I'm switching to shiketsu

kendos.fist im so sorry y/n. neito hasnt been much better. I can tell he misses you y/ncantthink kendos.fist I just wish things would've worked out :/

chargebolt.dk are you serious? dont switch schools dude. y/ncantthink chargebolt.dk nah fuck you and sero. i wont be seeing you ever *you have blocked this user*

ocha.uravity im so sorry babes. im going to miss you so much. please keep contact? y/ncantthink ocha.uravity ofc. ill miss you too

RED.RIOT im so sorry. i tried talking to them.

deku_ we're gonna miss you so much. im here if you need it and I wish you the best

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[kimbappykidding]

Other Parts: Part Two, Part Three and Part Four.

You'd started dating V 2 years after he debuted. Your company Cube were not thrilled about it. They knew they couldn't stop you or any of your G(I)-dle members from dating but they hoped you'd atleast date someone from the big 3 so if it got leaked you'd get a ton of publicity (you'd also get a ton of hate but they didn't care about that). BTS hadn't blown up yet so they saw you dating V as pointless, but you didn't.

V first caught your eye because of how good-looking he was. Then you also saw how sweet and kind he was and you knew you had a thing for him. You admired him for a while before you started trying to express your interest in him. You started bowing more to him, smiling, saying small things like "good luck" before BTS went on stage. It worked and you became friendlier and friendlier until one night V came over to you at a party and asked you out. You of course said yes and got on instantly. You really weren't slumming it by dating someone like V and it was your company's fault if they couldn't see that.

The two of you were really happy for a while. You had 3 years of bliss but that all started to change when BTS' fame skyrocketed. At first, you were thrilled for V! You knew how hard he and the guys worked and how they'd been overlooked for 5 years but fame is weird and we all crave attention and praise so you didn't fully blame V for what happened.

Suddenly everyone wanted to know him. Guys who couldn't be bothered to respond to him when he bowed to them were inviting him to A-list parties. Girls who'd never even spoken to him were acting like they were best friends with him. Particularly the ones from big companies. You decided to let V do what he wanted with it and let him enjoy parties and events on his own. He deserved the praise, not you and you didn't want to be accused of riding his coattails. Plus you never liked all that party stuff so you just waited home for V but slowly things started to change.

You saw V less for one thing and when you did see him, things were different. His team were styling him weirdly and trying to change things about him to make him appeal to an even wider audience. They toyed with his appearance like he was doll and started changing more personal aspects of him. His interests began to change and even the way he spoke altered. It would take him a few minutes each time you were together for V to shed the idol V and just go back to normal V. You loved when your V was back but it took longer and longer reach time. Not to mention when you did see V on the idol circuit you didn't like what you saw. You hardly recognised the man and didn't like how flirty he was. Sure there were girls throwing themselves at him all over the place but that didn't mean he had to reciprocate. Didn't he care about how you felt watching it?

Apparently not because when you brought it up in the car on the way home V was not happy. He didn't get it and saw your reaction as a lack of trust, completely misreading everything. You argued the whole way home and opening the door to your apartment, V still could understand what was wrong with his behaviour. "V you were flirting with her don't even try and pretend you weren't!". "Okay sure but what's wrong with that? It wasn't really me flirting with her just my character". You blinked "V that makes no sense! We're not actresses and even if you chose to flirt with her because your company asked you to I'm not okay with that". "Why?" V asked "you know none of that is true". "It doesn't matter though the girls you flirt with don't know that and neither do the others watching. Plus why would you even do that? There are some lines you don't cross V and when does flirting turning into more?". "More like what?" V asked and you shrugged "I don't know? A sexy dance together, lingering hands, a kiss...It will only keep getting worse and the lines will keep thinning and people will think that you're up for it" you argued but V was just getting more frustrated.

"I don't get why you're so worried about what other people think. Who cares if they think I'm fucking everyone in the industry, it's not like I'm actually sleeping with these girls and you know that!" V said and you laughed "wow thank you so much for doing that major favour for me!" you said and V rolled his eyes "why are you being so difficult?". "Can you really not see why I'm upset?" You asked and V shook his head "it's not like I'd ever actually cheat on you, I wouldn't go that far" and your jaw actually dropped. "V I don't want you to go anywhere near! It's not good enough that you didn't go too far! I got at first it was exciting having pretty girls from big companies talking to you but how can you not see through it? It's been a year now and none of these people wanted you before you were big!". "But you did so I should be grateful to you?" V asked. "That's not what I'm saying I just...I can feel you pulling away V and if you want out just say so" you said.

That stuck with V and he immediately switched to comforting you, telling you there was no way he'd want that and he'd make you see that. You wanted to believe him but a few months later it started happening again. This time you didn't fight it. You let V break away from you and do his own thing and you ended it 3 months later. You think there was relief from both sides when you did.

It didn't take long for V to start using his newfound freedom and you mainly just tried not to watch but it was hard because now everyone was watching him and news travels fast. You heard how he was seeing a model and then an idol and then an actress and then two models at the same time and it continued. At the few after-parties you went to, V could usually be seen making out with some girl and then another one later in the night. You'd heard he'd jumped into booze, girls and drugs head first and honestly didn't know how much Big Hit was paying the newspapers to keep it quiet but it must be a lot.

Fast forward to 2 years later, BTS were the biggest band in the world and you were happy for V but didn't really think about him much. The V today was a different person from the one you knew who didn't exist anymore. So you didn't even think of them as the same person. It was almost as if V had retired or moved away and there was just this guy who looked and sounded like him but you knew it wasn't him. However there was one person in the world who was sure if anyone could get the old V back, it was you.

You woke up to hear your phone ringing at 4 am. You glared and then gasped as you saw who was ringing, it was V's mum. You'd always been close to V's family when you were dating, especially his mum and towards the end you talked to her more than V. When you told her you'd ended it she understood and said she knew he'd lose you if he wasn't careful. You hadn't spoken to her since apart from Christmas cards so immediately shot up worried this had to be some emergency.

"Y/n it's V! He's not answering his phone and he needs to be at the airport in 2 hours! The boys can't get through to him and they won't let them leave the airport. Y/n he's missed so much if he misses this trip he'll be disciplined or worse" she said near tears and you nodded letting her words sink into your sleepy brain. "Okay so V is late for a flight?" you asked "what time does he need to be there". You confirmed all the details with his mother and then nodded "okay Mrs Kim don't worry I'll go get to him" you said without really thinking. You quickly pulled some clothes on as his mum sang your praises and thanked you a million times. You couldn't believe how quickly you'd offered yourself but for V's distressed mum you'd do anything you could. You promised to text her with updates and then closed your car door. You hadn't been to V's place in years and you hadn't ever planned on going back but here you were

You weren't even sure why V still lived here. Sure it was convenient but he could afford somewhere 5 times the price of this with all the fancy amenities but he'd stayed here for some reason. Maybe he was never here long enough to care about moving.

You walked up the stairs to his place and wondered if he still kept the spare key in the same place. You were kind of counting on it. You searched in his flower pot (which now had a fair few cigarette buds in which was a lovely touch) for the fake rock he'd bought. You found it and pulled it apart to reveal the key. Well some things hadn't changed. You took small comfort in that and opened the door.

The first thing that hit you was the smell of alcohol. It stank and was stale, as if the smell had been there a while. The apartment had changed a lot since you'd been here. Pretty much all the furniture was different and you could see the jump in V's fortune. You didn't like it though. It looked like someone else had decorated as none of this was V's style and it was all too tacky and showy. Then you reminded yourself that the V you knew was gone and this was probably the new V's taste which made you scrunch your nose in distaste.

You made your way further into the living and saw the coffee table was covered in a mix of alcohol bottles and some substances. You tried not to look too closely at everything and hurried through the living room trying to get past the smell and called out for V. You still remembered where the bedroom was and knocked but got no response. So you threw open the door.

V was in bed but you couldn't see him clearly because of the other girls in his bed. Two, one on either side. They were all naked and you assumed V was the lump in the middle. "V get up!" you yelled and knocked loudly on the door. The people in the bed jumped and began to stir. They all made a noise as you yanked the blinds up. V sat up and you realised you'd missed another girl who had been entwined with him. 3 girls and counting you thought, expecting another one to pop out from under the bed.

"Y/n?" V asked confused and you nodded "get up, you're late". "No I'm not I've got until...shit" he said seeing the clock. You nodded "yeah so get up!". "But why did they send you?" V asked and you shook your head "that's not important. What is, is that you've got a plane you can't miss so get up and get dressed. Ladies please gather your things and leave. I will order you a taxi to take you home". The girls did as you said, clearly thinking you worked for V or something and filed out. "You've got 10 minutes to get in the car or I'm leaving without you" you said and walked from the room. You made sure the girls got in their taxi and then went to grab V's suitcase, which was by the door, to find it empty.

You groaned, so annoyed he hadn't even packed and shoved open his bedroom door again to see V had left his bed but hadn't found his clothes. He wasn't shy and turned to face you, without a care in the world and actually smiled. He leaned on his wardrobe slightly "Y/n if you wanted a go all you had to do was ask" he said. You rolled your eyes "been there done that, I'm here because you haven't packed anything" and you walked past him and put the suitcase down on the bed. You turned around to see V standing right behind you, still naked and jumped. You hesitated for a second before your resolve came back. "Why don't you go clean up while I pack, you smell like a nightclub. Where's your passport?". "They have it" he said and you nodded "go wash up" and turned away. "Whatever you say Y/n" V said passing very close to you and he left the room. His words were incredibly sexually charged and you figured he must still be drunk. You could feel his eyes on you as he left the room but refused to turn and look at him.

You grabbed a bunch of clothes, shoes and underwear and shoved them in the suitcase. Then you grabbed his chargers and added them. You knew he'd need his skincare but he was in the bathroom with it and you didn't want to give him any more misguided ideas. You sealed the case and knocked on the bathroom door "5 minutes V, I'll be in the car" and waited.

4 minutes later V appeared, hair still dripping, looking like he'd been in a hurricane but dressed and ready. When he got in you told him to text RM you were on your way and ask where he should go. "Done, so now are you going to tell me why they sent you?" V asked "was it the boys' great idea or management?". "Neither, your mum called me in floods of tears because she thought you were going to be fired". "My mum?" he asked and you nodded "I never deleted her number and I guess she never deleted mine". "Did you delete my number?" V asked and you chose not to reply, putting the radio on instead and V let it drop.

You reached the airport 20 minutes later and V undid his seatbelt. "Thank you Y/n for doing this for me". "I didn't do this for you I did it for your mum" you said but you knew that was only half true. "Well thanks for caring for her, I would like to say I kept the same links with your family but that was never possible huh?". You couldn't believe he was bringing this up now and actually laughed "really? Still not over that?". "I don't think I'm unreasonable for still being upset your parents don't know who I am". "You want them to know who you are? Are you sure about that?" you asked "do you really think they'd be your biggest fan after everything that happened?". V looked down because you got him there and he sighed "sorry I'm still hungover, forget I said anything. Thanks for coming out of your way, I'll call my mum before we take off". You nodded and pressed the button to open the boot "I obviously can't come in with you" and V nodded "thanks again" and stepped out of the car. You didn't wave or anything but when you got far enough away that he couldn't see it...you looked back and saw V disappear inside.

You checked the headlines the next day to make sure V made the flight but other than that you went back to your life, V fading out of it. You didn't even tell your members where you'd been. You didn't know if they'd be upset at you for helping V or get hopeful this could mean something more. Yuqi was firmly of the opinion he didn't deserve anything from you but you knew Shuhua and Seoyeon still held out hope for you two despite everything. They thought V would give up his new lifestyle to be back with you but he couldn't give it up to keep you when he first got it so why would years later be any different?

Then a few weeks later you got some flowers delivered to your building. It was a huge extravagant bouquet that must've been really expensive. You guessed who sent it but sure enough, there was a card with one letter on it. "V". "Who sent them?" Minnie asked and you crumpled the card behind your back "oh just that brand I did that photoshoot with". "Awww that's so sweet!" Soojin said "mine never do that" and you just shrugged but one thing stood out to you. V still remembered what flowers you liked and had the bouquet made custom because they were all there. You remembered just how good a boyfriend V could be when he tried but that was the thing...it was all dependent on him giving a crap.

Some small part of you thought there might be more to this. That V might reach out to you again or this would be a wake-up call to him but no. The girls were always honest with you with any rumours and so a week later Miyeon admitted V had been kicked out of a club for having sex with a woman in the toilets. He'd apparently laughed it off, talked his way back inside and then left with a different girl. You scolded yourself for ever thinking he could change.

So when your friend Kai's birthday rolled around you were feeling a little restless. You wanted to banish any thoughts of V from your head and when you explained the whole thing to Kai he got an idea. He was friends with Jimin who had asked if he could bring Junkook and V with him. Kai checked you were okay with it and then told him yes...but that was months ago and now Kai had his own agenda because he'd heard V had been seen with his ex. "Now I know this is petty but what would you say if I suggested we do something to show V and my ex they're not the only hot idols living their best life?". You smiled "what do you have planned?".

Kai's party was huge because he was Exo's Kai and everyone loved him. So many idols showed up and he rented a mansion which only just fit them in. His party had everything from huge ice sculptures, to trapeze artists and fire breathers (not near one another of course) and the most amazing food in the world. But Kai had purposefully set up a stage overlooking the dance floor outside and about 2 hours in he made his entrance...with you by side.

Kai was the king of dance and so to kick off his birthday he did a dance with you but not any dance, it was sexy even for Kai's standards and you loved it! You adored the sexy concepts and Kai was the dream partner. Kai had choreographed this himself and you were so proud of your best friend so threw yourself into the moves...literally! Kai caught you in his arms and ran his hands down your body as you clung onto him with your legs tight around his waist. Then the next second he flipped you over and you sprang onto your feet beside him. You'd both practised very hard for this (more than you'd care to admit) but this was so much fun! Kai had been through a lot lately and wasn't sure if his ex-girlfriend had cheated on him with V so to see him so happy warmed your heart. You did everything you could to make Kai seem as sexy and amazing as possible and it wasn't hard.

You and Kai had warned your members that you'd be doing this dance but they still cheered and acted like it was the first hearing about it and to be fair their surprise was genuine. The girls hadn't seen you be this carefree and sexy since you broke up with V and they loved it. The Exo members saw Kai was in his element and screamed for him as loud as any EXO-L.

The dance finished with you and Kai pressed together, faces inches apart and the room erupted. You were pretty sure you could hear each of your members individually screaming in the roar and Kai recognised Suho's scream anywhere. Kai was so excited and had a beautiful smile on his face as he pulled you towards him and looked at the crowd. "Fuck him Y/n you're gorgeous" he said and your eyes found V in the audience. You moved them off him immediately and back to Kai "and so are you, she doesn't know what she's missing" and Kai smiled "and this is why you're my best friend, let's get down there!" and you agreed and took his hand descending down the staircase together for the night of your lives.

The party went on until the early hours of the morning and Kai only finally went to bed at 7 am. You set him up in one of the bedrooms upstairs and decided to do a sweep of the house before also going to sleep. You were in the garden wondering if to leave Sehun asleep in the bushes when you felt someone behind you.

You turned to see Jimin who smiled awkwardly. V had left ages ago, not long after your dance actually, but Jimin and Jungkook had stayed late. "Hey" Jimin said "I left my phone here accidentally and was naively thinking it might still be here. Have you seen one?". "Grey/black swirl phone case?" and Jimin's eyes lit up "you've seen it?". You smiled "I found it last night and put it somewhere safe" you said directing him to the kitchen. You opened the oven and saw Jimin's jaw drop. "Hey this is a fake house and nobody was going to start cooking so it was safe I promise". Jimin clutched his phone tightly but nodded" thanks Y/n" and you nodded to him "no problem".

An awkward silence settled and you had no idea what to say to him. The elephant in the room was V but how could either of you bring that up naturally? "Congratulations on the Grammys" you said and Jimin looked back up from the floor "thank you, it was surreal but so fun". You smiled "you deserve it, we were all cheering you on". "Thanks Y/n" Jimin said "I'm glad you're happy" he said when you frowned he gestured upstairs "with Kai?" he half asked. You didn't want to tell him it had all been a ploy to make his friend jealous but also didn't want to lie and say it was true so you just looked down nodding. "Thanks...I should probably actually go see if he needs any help with anything" you said and Jimin nodded "of course thanks Y/n and with a bow, he left.

One thing was for sure, the party and your plan was a raging success. You were sure you'd never hear from V again...but you did.

This will be a four-part series and I will post the new parts at the top of this page when they are up!

I hope this goes without saying but this is all fictional!!!! I am not saying V does any of these things and took creative liberty. This is all made up and I am not trying to imply anything. So...if you want a fun fake kpop story with the very hot Taehyung then stick around.

[guppygiggles]

Look, this shouldn't be a surprise if you read my pinned post... and I generally don't get involved in discourse, but I want to be explicit about something. This is NOT a callout, or aimed at anyone in particular, and this is the only post I'm ever going to make about this.

While tickling usually isn't sexual for me (only with my partner), it is intimate.

I obviously don't feel "normal" about it. I get flustered, I blush over it, I get excited, I feel cuddly and loving over it, I get in playful moods... I feel a lot of things about tickling that "regular" people don't. I mean, just look at my art. Look at what I write. This shouldn't be shocking, right?

Connecting with my friends in the community via teasing them, tickling their characters, and generally just "playing" with them is how I show I love and care for them, or even just that I really enjoy their characters. It's how I cuddle them through a screen. It's a fun and unique way we interact that I don't think people outside the community really have an analog for, which is why it's so hard to articulate.

For what it's worth (and, sort of, the whole point of this post) -- I am friends with people who are knismos and kinksters, who are into the very NSFW side of tickling. That aspect of it doesn't really interest or appeal to me, because I'm demi and I only feel those feelings with my spouse... but just because I'm not interested, doesn't mean I think it's wrong. We are adults, we communicate what we're okay with in terms of interacting with each other. It's a bit different with each one of my friends, and that is completely okay with me; I am more than happy to learn and respect their boundaries and nuances.

If you understand this, then it should make sense to you why I don't want minors to interact with me, regardless of how sfw my content is. I don't want physical -- even as an idea -- or emotional intimacy with minors.

I want to make this clear, too: I'm very sex-positive even though I'm on the ace spectrum. I do not like the puritanical attitude that some people in the sfw community have toward the nsfw community, like they're immoral or gross because they enjoy tickling in a sexual way, or as a fetish. I might not be in their circle, but I'm on their side.

Most people, on both sides, have a "live and let live" attitude about this discourse, which is fine; I'm not talking about you, okay? But if you're sending hate to the nsfw side of the community for no other reason than you just think they're weird, gross, or you think you're superior for some reason because you only enjoy it in a sfw context, etc... just know that those are my friends, and if you're against them, you're against me, too.

[donnerpartyofone]

Twelve years ago today, I had my first date with my husband, who I met on okcupid. It's weird to think about okcupid, it's like the last ambiguously wholesome thing before it felt like all the dating apps divided into sex apps and paid subscription apps like eHarmony that are specifically designed for people who are looking to get married and breed immediately. I got on okcupid about a year after I was finally done with my abusive ex-boyfriend; I always used to think I needed to be with someone as Dark and Fucked UpTM as myself because I hadn't had good luck being understood more normal people, but after living a nightmare for several years, I finally woke up one day thinking, What would it be like to date someone who actually, obviously liked me and was happy to see me? I started to imagine it, and just that made a big difference. One day I opened okcupid and it served me this guy who was way too attractive for me, and who also just seemed really nice and normal. I thought, I don't have anything to offer someone like that, and moved on. However, okcupid showed the guy that I had looked at him, and even though I had taken no action, he reached out. I was still feeling pretty skittish and made him be my pen pal for a pretty long time. Then one day the stranger who stalked me for several years at my old job somehow found my blog; I couldn't figure out how, and it really scared me, and I just dropped all communications with uncertain men in a fit of despair. A while later, like maybe a month or something, my okcupid suitor wrote me a very polite email to tell me that he understands what it usually means when somebody ghosts you online, but he just wants to say that if I ever want to get a cup of coffee or something, he's still interested. I gave in and ordered him to meet me at 2pm on a Sunday, thinking that if we hated each other it could be over in like half an hour. The date lasted about 10 hours, and in reality it never stopped.

Five years ago today, we got married. We liked the idea of getting married on the anniversary of our first date, even though it meant dragging the 20 people who had the least ability to say "no" to a Tuesday wedding. We did it at City Hall, which was really awesome; every kind of person was there, in every kind of dress, all having our big day together. Afterward we put everyone on the ferry to the neighborhood where our reception was, which had become a center of our lives well beforehand. We live there now, as of this autumn. But let me tell you, a ferry ride on a winter night is a great way to see the city, definitely do this if you get the chance.

We've had a really good marriage so far, a big part of which is that we're actually friends. I think a lot of straight people are indoctrinated with ideas about the War of the Sexes, like men and women are natural enemies, it's not normal to be buddies with the opposite sex, and marriage represents an uneasy alliance between arch foes to fulfill the prime directive of the species. It's scary what a common cliche it is, that people in relationships hate each other, that marriage is miserable and a breeding ground for seething hatred, ha ha ha, "This is fine." It really doesn't have to be like that, unless you insist on dogmatically disrespecting people with different genitals from you. And also mutual respect shouldn't be a barrier to hot sex.

Anyway, we're getting ready to go out and see NAPOLEAN, after which we'll go to our favorite restaurant, and then I'll probably force my husband to watch my new favorite movie RED ROOMS to balance out the psycho boy movie with a psycho girl movie. After that, it's none of your beeswax.

[unsiredtribrid]

All of this is so wild to me 💀 I'm very new to the legacies fandom so I wasn't there when it was airing but I'm surprised to hear that this fandom is still so toxic years after the show had ended. Like these are fictional characters, it is just a tv show so why are people attacking real people over it-

We've been screwed over throughout the entire tvdu multiple times. The double standard for straight relationships vs lgbt ones isn't very hard to see. So as you said can't we all just come together to give a big f you to Julie and Brett

A fandom/fanfics is supposed to be a way that we can content for our favourite characters and a fandom can't exist if everyone enjoys only one thing/ship/trope, that's (meant to be) a part of the beauty of it. We're here to have discussions about a show we're passionate about and that can't happen when people are just using that opportunity to hate on each other. Since when did it become a space to personally attack real people and not somewhere we can share our love for the same show. It makes people like me really hesitant to post things and probably makes the people who went into hiding not want to come back out. I applaud those who did though, kudos to yall (as long as you're not toxic)

I'm ngl, I definitely had manic episodes and started bashing their ship because I got so overwhelmed they wouldn't leave me alone. 😭 The first twitter account I made for Hope and hosie, I had no idea the ecosystem of the fandom and I was totally chill with h*zzie, but then they started getting pissed off at me just for posting hosie on my own account and doing nothing to them

Like here’s one thing that turned into drama. I shared this manip and said something joking/lighthearted about how hosie has chemistry even when the scene isn’t real. Literally just appreciating an edit and enjoying my ship’s fanon content

And then this h*zzie and her friends got really upset and started reposting my harmless hosie tweets to bash them. She implied I was problematic for sharing an edit of a scene that was ‘for h*zzie’ (as I understand it all that fucking happened was Lizzie helped them defeat the gods? 😭 mind you, the person who made this edit to begin with ships h*zzie as well as hosie) and then she tried to insinuate that because I said hosie had chemistry here I was ‘disturbing’ or however she worded it because Hope is injured in this scene.

As if hurt/comfort and one half of a ship defending or protecting the other isn’t completely normal and also probably something this person themselves specifically enjoyed about h*zzie in this part 😭 And mind you this person had a whole separate account reposting my shit and being fucking weird and this was before I spoke a single word about h*zzie

I tried to resolve it behind the scenes and even tried to befriend some of them, but then one of them literally went on their podcast and shaded me by calling people stupid and braindead if they didn’t agree that the h*zzie sirebond was written as romantic in canon. This was literally the day after I tried to have a civil convo with this person about it, iirc? Mind you, me not seeing it that way has less to do with ship wars and more to do with me knowing that Brett wasn’t delivering anything sapphic with Hope + I have an entire analysis post planned talking about how I think the h*zzie sire bond worked and I have actual reasons for thinking what I think. It was never a personal attack, but they kept making it one.

And then to make matters worse, they would bash anyone (again, even casual viewers) who didn't see the bond as romantic because it very clearly wasn't because the showrunner was fucking allergic to giving Hope love interests that are girls. So at a point it was like? Well, no, people ARE allowed to have an opinion and you don't get to bash people for criticizing that man or thinking the bond in canon was not romantic when it literally was not...? and attacking people who didn't even have ill will to begin with? it's not their fault these people are insecure. It's like they take out Brett's incompetence and obsession with h*ndon on other fans and viewers and it's so fucking. annoying. 😭

I started blocking them to avoid confrontation and then one of them had a fucking meltdown she got blocked and called me toxic so I unblocked her and tried to explain calmly that I was protecting my peace and then she flipped out so I lost my shit, had a manic episode and told them they were brain rotted.

like.

I tried so many ways to mend bridges but they kept being petty and I’m just fucking tired

[isan0rt]

Good Lord. Okay. Listen. We all agree that pre-timeskip Houses Dedue is not doing so great in the mental health department. We all agree on that. My guy needs therapy about his survivor's guilt and his PTSD and we're all agreed his self deprecation is Intense but like.

Listen. You can't…address that without also acknowledging he's like that because people have been Fucking Racist To Him Constantly for the Last Four Years of his Goddamn Life. And not like, just ‘microaggressions at the workplace’ racist, though also that too. Like, ‘somebody might fucking murder him’ kind of racist. He's not just insecure or whatever. This man is trying not to get hate-crimed.

It's rational, actually, for Dedue to assume that Any Given Faerghan is gonna be racist to him, because before going to Garreg Mach every given Faerghan except Dimitri HAS BEEN super mega turbo racist to him everywhere he goddamn goes. There's no reason for him to believe his classmates are gonna be different. Like, he doesn't know Mercedes is from the Empire! He has no reason to believe Chivalrous Knight Fanboy Ashe doesn't hate Duscur and everyone from there for regicide. Annette is the only one with a pass and only because Dedue respected Gustave until he went out for cigarettes and never came back, abandoning not only Dimitri but also Dedue in the process. The safest thing is to assume people are gonna come at him hot and preemptively deescalate the situation.

Like, he suffers from the “you can get C and B supports after the time skip” weirdness for sure, but even in his C supports, even if you get them before the skip, he is fully willing to tell Felix where to stick his fucking grapes, and he's willing to tell Ingrid she can be as big of a bitch about it as she wants but he's still going to do his job on the battlefield even if that means keeping her alive. He's consistently assertive of his boundaries with Dimitri in all their supports, including when Dimitri wishes that he did not have a particular boundary (using Dimitri's name and calling each other friends, things it's actually physically not safe for pre timeskip Dedue to do).

Because he is confident Dimitri isn't gonna fucking lose his mind at Dedue about it. He's also confident Felix, Ingrid, and Sylvain won't do a hate crime at him if he's acting in capacity of Dimitri's Vassal because of their fundamental loyalty to Dimitri, so he can safely tell them to shove it also. He tells Gustave he's a disappointment to Gustave’s face in their support!! Dedue isn't just a shrinking violet or whatever, he's just judicious about what shit he's gonna start, and how likely it is that talking shit is gonna get him hit.

(Also, yes he's a quiet guy... But also he's interacting with all these people in his second language, which he has no formal training in and which he learned from Dimitri. He really has to think about what he's going to say before he says anything because there is very little margin for error for him to misspeak without consequences and he knows it.)

Honestly unpopular opinion because like while I'm under no illusions that they did clearly fake out killing him for reasons other than his personal growth, I actually think it was in Dedue's personal best interest that he spent the timeskip in Duscur. This man hates Faerghus, he says that to Dimitri in their supports, but he's been stuck with them and having to just put up with it because he had nowhere else to go (even aside from the fact that Dimitri is literally the only living person in the world who loves him and he's terrified of losing that).

He's very clearly much more self-actualized when he returns, and in a much more relaxed and self-assured emotional place after the timeskip. Probably because he wasn't the one and only Highly Visible Do A Racism Here target and instead was with his own community, where he could actually unpack all that shit safely. Dedue needed that time outside the Racist Aggression Bubble of Faerghus to deal with his survivor's guilt properly.

You really can't address Dedue's self-image issues without also digging into the way dealing with constant racism reinforces those issues. You super cannot. Race and racism and how he deals with it is critical to the character. Is it always handled gracefully by the narrative?? No, absolutely it's not, but it is in fact in the narrative and you HAVE to engage with it if you're going to engage with Why Dedue is Like That.

[lesbianspeedy]

Connor has called Ollie solely "dad" since Quiver why is he calling him "Ollie" now 😭😭😭

This is mean but I laughed out loud when Connor said Tim was the first person he talked about when he was figuring out being ace years ago. Lol. Lmao even. Tumblr really gaslit that poor writer into thinking Connor and Tim had an actual friendship with all their clamoring about him being with the wrong Bat huh. "Where were you?" GEE I didn't know you had to give daily updates to that one kid you teamed up a few times and had some friendly banter with. I love queer solidarity and the whole thing about us finding each other before we even know we're queer but. NO Connor would not have talks about his sexuality with Tim. Cmooooon you're telling me the first person he'd talk to about being ace wouldn't be Kyle "you can tell me if you're gay, Connor" Rayner?

At least that "this is just another thing me and Ollie don't have in common" anxiety is something already established. Like, that's basically the same thing he says to Roy when Roy takes him to that strip club even if it's an issue by Winick (do you ever stop to think about how unintentionally well laid out Connor being ace is and lose your mind a little bit?)

I'm just. Really sad about how Ollie and Connor's relationship is being presented to this new generation of readers. It's like we regressed to the time Ollie was dead, ya know? And I don't like Connor solely for his relationship with his dad, I want him to be a character on his own. But I can't help but being saddened by how he is losing his relationship with everyone that matters. For better or for worse, at least the new GA series is gonna have him interacting with his family (but what about Kyle, Eddie, Jansen and Moonday, ya know?)

The thing is that the story is good and I like its message. It just... Could be with any other character

im tempted to post this without an "answer" because its really well laid out and deserves to be a post on it's own. but i just rlly like ur points and want to interact with them so.

i think there were a few times between quiver and now where he interchangebly used dad and ollie but i get what you're saying, referring to him like hes estranged still was odd.

i totally agree, the idea of queer solidarity is important and should be shown, but i think this was a weird choice to go with. i think the most intimate (from my memory, i havent reread connor's run in a while) question connor ever asked tim was whether batman was his dad (at that time the answer was still no, as jack hadn't been killed yet). and that was only asked because connor was still his charmingly-awful-at-secret-identities-self. the part of their limited friendship that was interesting was the dynamic of new-sidekick-legacy meets new-main-legacy (for lack of a better descriptor), both struggling to uphold what they thought was expected of them. they never got to really advance from that stage of knowing each other to being at a place where they are friends out of costume, let alone discuss their SEXUALITIES.

i agree that the not being in common thing was a nice nod to past character complexities, though it felt slightly like it was the writer genuinely believing that to be true, and not just a rehash of connor's complicated feelings.

i know, its a weird stage we're at now, the resistence to fully accepting the connor that came from the end of his green arrow run, not just the beginning of it. by the end he had come to peace with being green arrow, and not being his father but that being okay. and that's not to say this is all the current writers fault (though williamson has done absolutely no favours with his writing), as winick and krul absolutely demolished any character connor had for their angst and whatever. (remember when connor aggressively yelled at mia for complaining about being stalked by zatanna without being told? or when after being turned into plastic and losing his memories he then decided he hated buddhism and oliver?). (not to mention the seperation from eddie jansen moonday kyle and. despite all of this complaining. tim cass and steph. winick set this precident and i will never forgive him)

i agree, it had good framework, and it couldve been a much more cohesive story if they. had just not used this friendship.

[0fps]

okayyyy i finally finished the main wuwa story. thoughts (brain dump) below, obviously spoilers so read at your own risk

acts 5 and 6 definitely >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the others. idk if it's because i had digested the world building a bit more by then but they felt way more engaging than the previous acts

partly because all the interesting parties (for me) were finally here. the black shores, jiyan's whole deal. scar was the most interesting of the previous acts but honestly idrgaf about him aksdjflads

dude was not even RELEVANT in these acts they really meant it when they put his ass in jail

i am quite interested in the black shores, hope to see more of them

otherwise just having to do everything with the starter group was boring as hell especially since they all have extremely flat characterizations (yangyang particularly. WHY did she of all people have to be our token partner).

disclaimer, i don't exactly hate yangyang but in general it just feels so unrealistically forced how her and chixia immediately treat mc like their best friend. we barely know each other. i think this is the part that got last-minute rewritten to make them overbearingly nice and it really shows (?? correct me if i'm wrong. idk if it's specifically those two who got rewritten)

i play in the mandarin dub btw. because apparently that's critical for yangyang ajdflkjf

as for the other characters. aalto and encore are so funny together, absolutely loved them. just their characters alone doing their whole comedy routine made act 5 a lot of fun

act 6 was obviously the climax, and i enjoyed it for what it is, but i also felt like it dragged on? like. you'd THINK after we meet up with jiyan we'd immediately go confront the threnodian like asap? they keep spouting how "time is of the essence" but hold on we gotta do all these sidequests?? repair shit?? come on yall LMAO

like the part where we're coming up with our "battle strategy" (which lol. yeah the ranged units should probably attack from a range. only the greatest tactical minds could come up with this) HONESTLY they should have black screened that shit or summarized it in like a few sentences. that was so ?????????? why am i even here.

ofc the cannon thing or whatever is out of power mortefi. of course it is.

i was enjoying act 6 pretty much until this part. then i was like really. REALLY we gotta do all this first I WANT TO GO FIGHT THE BOSS NOWWWWW

idk it just felt like they hyped us up almost immediately for a final battle but then edged us on for forever? the pacing felt weirdly backwards if you know what i mean

i was also just laughing at how concerned they were about the disrupter missing its target. like. you guys are aiming at a giant ball on the horizon you gotta be trying REALLY hard to miss this. the cutscene that showed how small the cannon was in comparison to the force field did not help adjksflasd. maybe if they were talking about the other 2 shots then sure.

once the cannon was repaired and that was over and our 4-man team was finally on their way i was back into it though

really really loved the pulling mechanic thing

however it was just another strike in which i've noticed that this game tends to overexplain some of the gameplay. that pulling mechanic was definitely one thing, the whole "battle strategy" part was another, and the one with the library in one of the previous acts was HORRENDOUS they may as well have reached out of the computer screen and held my hand

literally the only time i respected yangyang was when she decided to stay behind to hold off the enemies. bc istg if she was the one we had to do the final boss with. god. lord. hold me back from the violence i would have committed.

boss battle was a lot of fun. got my ass kicked by threnodian bc i couldn't read its moves but they made it easy to not die 👍

the little. pet thing. that eats the big echos. sooooooo unserious HAHAHAHA AJSDKLJFALD. i'm not going to think about it too hard.

was kind of weird to end that on a montage through a story teller. like i was expecting SOME sort of epilogue but it really went "yup. that's over! go play the rest of the game now"

anyways. despite my grievances i had fun with it HAHA 👍👍👍

i really enjoyed that it did cycle through a lot of story-relevant characters to trial with. it helps that i find all of them super fun to play and it helps keep things super immersive (although i did miss my girl danjin)

a similar thing i really loved was how involved almost every single playable character was

in general a detail i really like is that npcs/playable characters battle alongside you (even in the overworld) - it really makes it feel more immersive and you're part of a team, not just solo'ing everything by yourself

although it was also too early in the story for me to feel. much about everyone helping us out in the beginning. like i literally don't even know yuanwu??? the power ranger shot with everyone felt kinda silly as a result adjklajdfs

i also enjoyed the switching pov with jiyan. in the same vein as above it makes it feel more immersive and far less like the entire world revolves around the mc (although that's the plot device wuwa is desperately clinging onto here lol)

on that note. in general this whole story i'm just like. not really sold with the way literally everyone is so obsessed with mc its just like yeah you're PROBABLY that amazing resonator from way back when and i have a feeling a couple of these characters might have known them from before they lost their memories (esp scar?) but it just feels. very super ultra forced in a way i don't really like

but apparently that's what they're gonna use to drive the story and i can't expect them to rewrite all this (again? lol) so it is what it is i guess *shrugs*

the mc's fame will be less in your face as the story progresses and they actually DO more things. but right now its like. we just woke up and everyone is so obsessed with us lol can we have literally anybody who doesn't care or is like. this sure is fucking weird huh. for a world constantly in turmoil y'all sure are very trusting of this random person with amnesia

mc in general just feels really flat. yangyang being the token partner doesn't help because she is equally as flat. damn maybe we really do need paimon

oh also another detail that kind of bothered me. when we were talking with jinhsi early on there was a dialogue option to ask "have you found jue yet?" while EVERYONE is standing there. i thought this was a secret thing people aren't supposed to know about??? we're just talking about secrets out in the open like this?

what else. i liked the the jiyan and geshu lin phantom confrontation 👍 but it does feel like they're really leaning into the "yeah geshu lin was 99% in the wrong here and that 1% is gonna be jiyan's inner turmoil" and i was kind of hoping it'd be more complex than that

anyways if you read through all that props to you 👍

[misc-obeyme]

what are your thoughts on Michael and Luci?

Oh, an interesting question, anon!

I'm honestly kind of on the fence about Michael in general. I can't tell if he's the one who is like making all the decisions or if he's just following orders, you know? I mean, he's obviously got a lot of power since he's helped MC out of some sticky situations a couple times when nobody else could. But does that mean he's the one who's like... in charge? Was he the one who was going to enforce Lilith's punishment, for instance? Was he the one who decided about what happened to Simeon in Season 4 of the OG? Or was it the decision of uhh... well they call him Father but I guess it's God? That's so weird lol. Anyway, was it God's decision and he's just following orders? Because I feel like this would inform not only my opinion on him, but my opinion on his relationship with Lucifer.

But even without knowing that, I think it's pretty clear that Michael does care about Lucifer and the brothers. It sounds like he was a pretty big part of their day to day lives in the Celestial Realm.

And I can't even tell how Lucifer feels about him, either. When he talks about Michael, it's usually pretty casually. Like he doesn't seem overly agonized about it, but then again this is Lucifer we're talking about. As far as I'm concerned, the man is emotionally repressed lol. But he doesn't seem to blame Michael for anything.

Based on what I've seen, I think they have a complicated relationship at this point. And I think they could potentially work it out, but it'd take a lot of communication and re-establishing of trust. And I think it could easily go the other way and they end up absolutely hating each other instead.

Of course, if we're talking about shipping, there's the potential for friends to enemies to lovers lol. But you'd also have to be okay with the concept of the angels all thinking of themselves as siblings. I personally don't ship Lucifer and Simeon for this reason, so I imagine I would feel the same way about Michael. Though I do get the impression that Simeon was closer to Lucifer than Michael was.

I know some people have come up with some really cool Michael designs and concepts about who he is as a character, so this opinion is all based on canon stuff. The fact that we haven't really met him leaves a lot of room for fan interpretation, so I might feel differently about a more fleshed out fan version of him.

Anyway, I apologize for this long response lol but I guess I had more thoughts about this than even I knew! Thank you for asking, it was interesting to think about this!

[littlelegoman]

Spoliers for dragon's rising

Spelling mistakes as well. Also I didn't write down Episode four's thing but I watched it.

Episode One:

A Netflix series; I see where we went wrong /hj

I love the way it rifts open like an eye.

What's that one song uh "thank you, I'll say goodbye soon.. though it's the end if the world; don't blame yourself now..."

Because that's the emotion I have

LLOYD MY BELOVED

He's so... he feels so different? Matured?

All the realms colliding is such an interesting thing to me.

LLOYD'S MASK

Now now Arin they may be Skeletons, Snails, and Frogs but they're still people like you and I there's no need for their species labeled first /j /lh

SORA IS SO /POS

PINK HAIR AND GAMED GIRL HEAD PHONES <3

She's so funny

Arin and Sora are so sister and brother vibe

I forget this is a kid's show and then the robots start fucking dancing

ALSO sora gives off Jay x Nya child vibes even though she looks nothing like them

Oo serpentine :D

"My fam" I'm- I'm cringing so hard

You're poor and yet you have a pent house?

Do they just give these things away???

It seems the merge hasn't been around for long; Arin is still the same height so

AZURE LION IS THAT YOU? /j /j

"Weakness, noun, quality of-" YOU LEAVE THAT LITTLE GUY ALONE

SNAKES THE SERPENTINE.

"Thst thing "

What happened to Lobbo's mom? I'm curious

The frog man Iis /pos

KREEL

I love that she calls them friends even though they're not

But by golly who dressed her up

GREEN? I.mean really, GREEN? And pURPLE?? GIRLY, get a hold of yourself.

Kreel is interesting. Is this a new kin I'm smelling? /hj

LOBBO MH BELOVED

That's so autism (/pos)

I want lobbo to win screw these guys, haha

Sora has ptsd.

yes YES LOBBO

Fuck lobbo's mom! Let's go! LETS GOOO

"Who are these kids?!" I wonder this all the time

The Dragon giving them powers is so interestin-- because ninjago realm wise it isn't possible but now the whole world turned upside down and nothing is the same

And I love it

IS THST AN ONI

Oh fuck that's the rip off Azure Lion /j

He looks like an Oni with the markings

Oh hey he has heterochromia

"I've known you for a while now" SCARED ME SO BAD I WANT THEM TO BE FRIENDS AND ONLY FRIENDS PLEASE

Please let me have this

LlOYD HEY WHATS UP BUDDY

Episode two:

He looks great for a man in green

I Haye the color green with a passion

NINJA FANDOM I love sora

this is unrelated but apparently we're winning (/ij)

It's not completely spinjitsu, there are different things about it

YEAH IT WAS A WEIRD VERSION but it was kinda similar

Lloyd knows nothing anymkre

THAT MAN WAS A TIGER? Oh God im--

Sora isn't from ninjago I don't think so her logic is different

"Not all of us.."

GOD ITS MASTER WU

Family is key

Haha

KH MT GOD DOES HE EVER TELL ANYONE ANYTHING

Yes.. chaos.

All 16 realms ahaha

Okay So Lloyd is alive; so is Kai,

Ah, cracks in reality.

Nothing makes sense and I

Wu is gone LETS GOO

I don't know if fhat means he's dead or missing but it's the same thing really

It's kinda strange. I miss how things were but the chaos is so inviting....

Riyu my beloved

DONT JUSF STAND THERE

Rapton my hated.

HOLY SHIT as if he wasn't a god before

It's only temporary though. At least it should be.

"There is a connection between us" please don't say it like that

The Dragon leader is wise indeed. I like her.

OOH woman

Oh I love her laugh

Episode 3:

I'm thinking of how Ras is merely a pawn in this woman's game.

ANYWAYS wu's picture is odd. Not like suspicious but it feels so strange.

Lloyd my beloved

haha he takes after wu

Lloyd having no facial hair is amazing "that's why I grew this beard" "What beard"

I'm getting flash backs hehe .

It's interesting because before Sora seemed more competent, but now Arin seems more competent.

THEY MASAACERED MY BOY RIYU

That's so nice to see the species who used to hate each other so much getting along and living together.

Mikloshe my beloved

LOBBO MY LOVE

He's such a little gjg

He's so autism

LABBO NO LABBO NO

You ET MY BOY GO

I did not expect Mikloshe to be feminine but I am making no complientes because the last girl snake was fuckkng pink

LLOYD BEJNG SELF AWARE

Labbo!

Oh who does my heart belong to; Labbo or Kreel?

Such a hard decision

Oh my God fuck off I just realized a good portion of my kins are autistic coded but they're robots

This is like finding the 16 realms became one ugh

Anyways

I like kreel, I think she's very interesting

LABBO

He's so /pos

Oh see I told you Kreel likes them (the henchmen)

Actually this is justifiable- well almost

Lloyd is like a concerned father right Now

OG THE MEMORIAL

Does Lloyd not have a picture? Interesting. But Kai is alive so thet means there's a chance everyone else is.

It's changed a lot yeah but it's been like a year; "my new best friend" and "we stuck together after she escaped" J IMAGINE THERE ISNT LIKE TEN YEARS BEYWEEN THAT

Arin's voice is still the same I think so he didn't change

Lloyd being told he looks like his uncle

(Call back to is Garmadon really Lloyd's father... /hj)

Dorama! Get it cause... drama.

Also, these all look like Kreel's minions which she says are her "friends-ish who work for her". None of them look like they'd be special.

Whack Rats seem to be at least as sentient as a human just non verbal...

Okay Dorama is growing on me he keeps getting trickier and trickier..

Kreel giving Labbo advice also he's closed of he's si autistic he IS SO ME

Lloyd owning up to his mistakes

NO YKU DID NOT JUST SAY "Dorama x Ras" I CANT BELIVE YKJ WOULD SAY THAT

THATS SO FUCKING FUNNY IM

Lloyd makes a good point about Sora and he'd powers.

THIS ISNT VERH /POS OF YOU KAI

It's not his fault I just want to know where he is.

"Should we be taking notes?"

"Let us never speak of this." DUDE HE'S SO MUCH BETTER THAN WU

I learned so much from my History Teacher because he was so chill (but not too chill) and fun. He was also gay but you get the point

Dorama hehe

Evil science woman! That's interesting. She doesn't seem really scared of Ras. Perhaps because she's not disposable.

She flinched when he growls but her tone isn't afraid and she seems to sass him

OH MY GOD WE'BE SEEN THOSE BEFORE

The craglings

I love Lloyd he's so much better than Wu

OOH water

nYA

oh God

LLOYD HEHE

HIS LITTLE POSE

Ninja nya our beloved hero (the title she deserves)

The cragling leader is so understanding AND THEN BECOMES RACIST

KAI'S GONE??

He's just missing right?

KAI KAI HEY

KAI'S GIRLY SCREAM AND NK ONE PAYS ATTENTJON TO JT

"ITS ALMOST AS IF I CSN HEAR KAI'S CRIES FOR HELP IN MY HEAD"

(I can still hear his voice; gay gay homosexual gay)

I like to think of Sora and Arin as Lloyd's kids/younger siblings

They're like a big happy family and I'm the dad and Logans the mom/ ref

"A dragon saved us?!"

LLOYD IS EVEN BETTER TNAN WU YEAHH

Also haha sora is so me sometimes

Episode 5?:

"THE KAI" I'm looking at MK right now /hj

CLOUD KINGDOMMMM

Oh my God what the hell is thst

It looks like the uh... season five thing

Also I like how the dragons look like the ninjas

AIR MAGIC AIR MAGIC

Getting flash backs to Morro

oHOLY SHIT

It makes sense because he's dead and the powers pass on. I like that.

Oh yes. I like that indeed.

Cloud Monk Woman my beloved.

EUPHRASIA I love you

YES GIRLLY

Slay quern

"I think... she is saving us."

"None of us were writing anything"

Destiny stopped existing the minute the merge happened.

"I knew the last one. I like you more." PLEASE MORRO HE WASNT BAD

Euphrasia... very nice.

The empress?... my my...

We keep losing people

Episode six:

Oh my God did Raptop or whatever his name is just die? He was crushed

How is be alive.

IMPERIUM

Sora is so good so /pos so smart.

Ana...?

Don't you dead name my girl

EMPEESS BEATRIX

OH MY GOD JTS A CULT

oh Dr. LaRow the woman who doesn't seem to fear the ras man.

Lloyd the ever caring father

Imperium... imperialism

Ohh. Sora.

Oh that's where she takes her name from.

Why does she have pink hair if those are her parents

Sorry sorry I just have nothing to say on this on.

The new prisoner is dangerous! And he isn't kai!

Oh okay so jt does seem its been a long time. Ten years? Five?

Episode 7:

This is a cult

PERCIVAL TARTIGRADE

Haha why does he look sound and act like my type /hj

Lucky for me I'll also what he is age wise

He's such a little guy

WyldFyre... hmm... she's not smart is she.

Here's the thing is that she isn't from their world so it's okay thst she has fire powers because this isn't her world.

Dorama how intelligent.

Everyone is so intelligent when they're not from the ninjago /lh

How old is everyone I can't tell

ITPF SOUNDS LIKE A PERSONALITY THLE

Percival is so autistic with his also autistic friends

I'm not mad at them, they've been indoctrinated.

WyldFyre

oh my God she's a dragon

Heatwave raised her haha

Rapton reminds me of someone...

YES SHE DOES REALLY HAVE KT

Hehe WyldFyre is just a little guy

Episode 8;

Lava dragons hehe.

OOH how she's raised. Can only the leader speak?

Interesting.

I wonder how she got her powers then

Yeah she's like like a young adult. Ughhh time works differently in realms but nwo they're all kne holy shit this tkmeline is so confusing

"An outlander?!"

Dude, he acts like he just did drugs in front of the police

Right right, she's impulsive but not stupid. I apologize for my previous statement. She seems survived this long, she'll be fine. She may not be book smart but she's not a fool.

"Oh good. A ghost."

IS THST MASTER WU?

I love kai

Well once the world's merged laws broke.

Percival, haha. I love him. It's more of a he's so me guys.

Thespian haha

they're so funny they're like funny (claws of imperium)

"Percival is like Red Son but powerless and in a cult" I- you're-

That's not even the point my dear.

Is it raining outside?

Oh. It is.

Episode 9:

Wu and Lloyd training??? Nice I like to see it.

I think this is a crime though...

MELVIN

Percival winning andbshdjdjd

He's so me j want hjm to be happy

If he dies I'm crying

"And yet a child brought this beast to me on his toy hoverboard" YEAH THATS RIGHT HES GREAT

I fucking knew it was wu this man never shuts up/ hj /lh

Dude how do they not see them

Bombs are bad for hearing.

DRAGON PSYCHOLOGIST

Zane ZANE MY BOY

Okay so the merge was years ago.

But how many because it's not clear

HAHA

Episode ten:

Don't you dead name my girl.

Now we're missing Jay and Cole... okay.

Got it

I don't know her name but I know it was said earlier.

Lloyd falling down the stairs is amazing.

Sora and Arin are smart.

What the hell is that ball. It's funny I don't swear this much I'll

Oh oh jts telepath

Lloyd becomes God from the power /hj

DUDE IS ON AN ACID TRIP.

HE REALLY BECAME GOD

Lloyd's has became God so many times before but it never stayed.

I want Percival back

[tomorrowillbeyou]

orchid and daffodil <3

orchid - what's a song you consider to be perfect?

ok well there's an easy route here which im not going to take not only bc it's the easy route but also i don't think tomorrow i'll be you is a perfect song and that's fine that isn't why i like it.. so i would say if we're defining perfect as "i wouldn't change anything about it" then demolition lovers by mcr because i literally would not change a single thing about it. its like a beautiful journey that i go on where every part of it is so gorgeous + well placed + interesting that i just never get tired of listening to it <3

daffodil - do you have siblings? if yes, in what ways do you think you’re similar to or different from them?

yesss this is going to be long bc im taking it as an excuse to go on abt how cool my sister is. i have a younger sister she is very cool <3 we r similar in appearance i guess? i don't really see it but people have mistaken us for twins even though im 2 years older and everyone always guesses that shes my sister.. she is paler than me and has darker hair and glasses and is also taller. also people always think she's the older brother and im the younger sister 😭😭 we also like similar music and are both autistic and lgbt 👍 and love maths computer science problem solving etc.. we are different in that she's a lot more introverted than me and has way less tolerance for the things that upset both of us.. like we both hate socialising, weird textures + sounds etc but ill put up with it while she just refuses and leaves which i honestly respect that she has the backbone to do that lmao. also she's way funnier than me and has more friends. one time she created an like.. mini twitter community for herself, there was like. her account a hater account a leaks account and an account that supported everything she did and she would like make them fight with each other it was honestly so funny😭😭 also she's a gamer which i simply am not. and we like to hit each other with sticks in the middle of the street. anyway i way overshared here but i love her a lot. i pray she never sees this lmfao

[afterglow-tommylee]

Chapter 30. In A New York Minute

New York City New York, November 15 2002

"...no I know... I know baby..." I say holding my cell phone to my ear as I stand in front of the floor length mirror in my hotel room trying to decide what to wear. 

I had set up a gig for Damageplan in New York to have some record labels scout them for a potential deal. They had a few offers over the last couple of months but nothing that they felt were right for them, so I sent out a couple of invites to some independent labels and it seems that a representative from Elektra records got word on their gig tonight at Irving Plaza. 

"Fuck, I can't fucking believe after everything, she'd fuckin' pull this shit. We were finally in a good place and then this..." Tommy says to me.

"I know baby," I say.

Tommy had to stay back home and meet with his lawyers about what to do with the custody lawsuit that Pam had served him with. When we came home after the Vegas Hard Rock Cafe and Casino opening, Pam had decided to stop visitation with Brandon and Dylan. We weren't even able to have the boys for Christmas which broke Tommy's heart, and mine too of course. It totally came out of nowhere. She's claiming that because of everything that has happened in the past between her and Tommy, along with accusations of him still doing drugs and partying, he's somehow not fit to have visitation for long periods of time. 

It's absolutely insane. I have no idea where she got the idea to do this but it's completely uncalled for. Everything that she is claiming is a complete lie and it doesn't make sense given the fact that though her and I have only engaged with each other maybe a handful of times - most of the time when we're picking up the boys or if it's a drop off to our house, she has the nanny do it and pretends she isn't home - we've always been fine with each other. Like, we're definitely not friends but we're civil when it comes to Brandon and Dylan. She knows Tommy has been clean since '98 and yes he does have a few drinks here and there but it's never to the point where he's out of control and it's never around the boys. 

"I fuckin' wish I could be there with you baby," He says so sweetly. 

"I know, I wish you could be here too. It's weird here without you. I miss you," I say. It's the first time we've been apart since before we got married. I hate that we're apart. I know it's only been a few days so far but I miss him like crazy, and I hate that he has to meet with his lawyers alone. 

"I miss you so fuckin' much. You're the only one that can keep me sane during all this shit. You're the only fuckin' thing that's good in my life, I swear," He pauses, then after a few moments he says, "Alright enough about my shit...how's everything going there?"

"Uh, well the gig is tonight and I'm so fucking nervous. There's a rep from Elektra records that somehow heard about the show and he's showing up tonight -"

"Really, who babe? Is it Tom?"

Tom Zuaut was the guy who originally signed Motley to Elektra back in '82 after he saw the guys play live and heard their To Fast For Love Album on their own label at the time, Leathur Records. 

"I have no idea, I just know that there are a couple of labels interested in them and I'm freaking out," I say as I toss the shirt that I was holding onto the bed and pick up my plain black long sleeve dress, holding it to myself in the mirror trying to decide what would be better.

"Awe baby, don't freak out, you got this, you know you do," He says.

"Maybe... I don't know... I swear it feels like I have no idea what I'm doing," I say apprehensively as I glance at myself in the mirror doubting everything like I usually do. "And it doesn't help that I have no idea what to wear,"

"What are you wearing right now?" He asks.

"Nothing, just my bra and underwear," I say as I frustratingly toss the plain black dress back onto the bed and flip my smooth freshly straightened locks out of my face. 

"The little black lacy ones?" He asks and I raise my eyebrow at him even though I know he can't see me.

"Tommy," I say firmly.

"What? Fuck I can't help it, I miss you god damn it," He says, his Californian accent coming though and I giggle. I then glance at the clock on the bedside table and realize I am now running late.

"Shit, I'm sorry baby I gotta go, I've got like a half hour to get ready and get over to the venue," I say sadly. I really didn't want to hang up with him. Fuck why can't he be here with me. 

"Ok babe, it's ok... do what you gotta do,"

Once we hang up with each other after professing our love for each other once more, I set my phone down on the bed to try and figure out what to wear again, it buzzes with a text message.

TOMMY: I fuckin' love you so fuckin' much!

I smile to myself as I pick up my phone, then type,

ANDI: I love you so fuckin' much too, you have no idea, but I have a question...

TOMMY: What baby?

ANDI: Can you tell me what to wear cause I'm drawing a fucking blank here 

TOMMY: 😂🤣

ANDI: No seriously, help me

TOMMY: Baby, you are gonna look so fuckin' hot no matter what you wear, stop stressin'

ANDI: Ok... I love you, I'll text in a bit

I then set my phone back down and stare at the clothing that I have strewn across the bed, then finally decide on going with my black lacy long sleeve mini dress, that barely covered my ass - or it felt like it anyways- which was slightly see through but not too bad, and my black Louis Vuitton pumps. I check myself in the mirror once more, feeling like I still look metal enough, with some sexiness thrown in there. I then grab my leather jacket, giving myself one last internal pep talk, grab my phone and head out the door.

***

Irving Plaza New York City, New York November 15 2002

I arrived at the venue a short while later, just as they were opening for the evening. As I head inside, I show my ID and pass, then I'm directed to the backstage area where all of the dressing rooms are. I make my way down the long fluorescent lit hallway, hearing music booming from a couple of the rooms. Once I approach the door with "Damageplan" labeled on the front, I slowly turn the knob and open the door, seeing everyone inside laughing and having fun.

"Andi! You made it darlin'" I hear Dime's booming voice over everyone as I make my way over to him by the mini bar.

"I did, can you believe it?" I smile at him and he laughs as he embraces me in a hug.

"Hey, sweetie," He says in that southern drawl as he holds me.

"Hey you, how are you? You good?"" I ask as we hold each other for a few more moments.

"I am fuckin' awesome sweetie, I can't fuckin' wait to get out there let me tell ya," He says happily as we let go of each other. I then greet Rita who was beside him and she embraces me in a hug as well. 

"Where's T-bone?' Dime asks as he finishes making me a drink and hands it to me.

"He's at home... some stuff he had to take care of," I say. 

"You guys ok?" Rita asks, concerned.

"Yes, yes of course," I say quickly. "Just some... personal shit" and I take a sip of my drink.  It wasn't my place to explain what was actually going on and I thought it was best just to leave it at that.

We then catch up some more, after I greet the rest of the band, tearing Vinny away from some lovely ladies to say hello and we go over how soundcheck went, since I hadn't talked to Kat Brook, their tour manager yet. I then go over how there will be a few label reps out in the audience, not to put any pressure on them but just so that they know, I'm doing whatever I can to help them get a deal, and a good one at that. Then once we had all of the business aspects out of the way, we all continued to relax and have a good time with the drinks flowing and what not before they went on. 

Dime, as sweet as he is, kept feeding me more Jack and Cokes. As soon as I finished one, he would immediately replace it with another telling me 'it's still only one drink.' 

I fucking love him.

Once I was feeling good, not drunk but just buzzed, more people showed up in the dressing room, obviously mostly friends of Vinny and Dime, I suddenly saw an extremely familiar face walk through the door. 

It was Kenny Hickey.

*** "I have never loved anyone in my life as much as I love you. I have never wanted anyone more than the way I want you. You are the best thing that has ever happened to me - 

"Kenny - "

"I swear to fuck that I will never love anyone as much as I love you and I want you to marry me,"

"What?"

"I want you to marry me,"***

"Hey dude what's up," Dime says, breaking me out of my memory as Kenny walks over to us.

"Nothin' just heard you guys might get a record deal tonight, thought I'd see what's up," Kenny says in that Brooklyn accent of his as they embrace each other. 

"Well as long as Andi here, does her job... it's gonna happen," Dime jokes, winking at me once they pull away from each other.

"Very funny," I giggle and tap him playfully on his chest and he laughs. I then glance at Kenny as he looks at me with such a sweet look on his face.

He looks exactly the same - except with the addition of a goatee which suited him really well - he still looks the same with his jet black hair passed his shoulders,  wearing his leather jacket, a black button up shirt, black jeans and instead of those biker boots he used to wear he has now opted for black leather Doc Martens.

"Hey you," He says to me.

"Hey," I say with a sigh and a smile and after a couple of moments, he steps closer to me and embraces me in a hug. His embrace feels the same with the warmth of an old friend. His scent was even the same with that sweetness and musk that always made him smell so good.

"So... I guess it's been a while," Kenny says when he pulls away from me.

"Yea, I guess it has," I say. 

"You uh, you look good," He says quickly glancing over me, then his dark eyes catch mine again.

"Thank you," I say, glancing down at myself. "You're not so bad yourself," I add, glancing back up at him.

"What, this old thing? Pffft, It's just a trick of the light. If you saw me outside you'd be like 'OH MY GOD what is this ugly thing standing beside me'?" He says exaggeratedly, his voice husky, which makes me laugh. 

He really hasn't changed one bit.

"So you and Tommy Lee huh?"

"Yea," I say and he offers me a small smile.

"Yea, I can see that. I mean, he's a good guy, and maybe a little hyper, and could do without all that drama but - "

"Yea," I giggle. 

"He's a good dude," Kenny says. 

"Funny, you calling him hyper," I say remembering all the craziness between us at one time many years ago.

"Hey, I never said I wasn't at times, he just is like even more so," He chuckles and I laugh. 

"You happy?" He asks.

"Yea.. yea I am," I say with a smile.

"I can tell, you just have this like different way about you or somethin'," He says sweetly. "It's good. It's good to see that,"

"Thank you," I smile at him and then after a few moments I say,  "Well what about you? How are you?" 

"Me? Pffft... still the same y'know... I mean, we're uh just finishing up recording and uh yea... I got married a couple of years ago, and have a couple of kids now..."

"Really? No way," I say happily.

"Yea, 2 girls. Megan just turned 6 and Aliyah is 5 months," Kenny chuckles with a smile.

"Awe, Kenny, that's amazing," I smile at him.

"Thank you," He smiles back at me.

"Uh, I should probably check on everything out there, see if any of the record label reps have shown up yet," I say, pushing my dark smooth locks behind my ear.

'Uh, yea, sure," Kenny says and I smile and gently touch his forearm, then step over to Dime, telling him the same thing. Dime then leans into me to embrace me in another hug, which makes me giggle. 

We then let go of each other, and I finished my drink, and made my way through everyone, greeting anyone that I might have missed before. Once I am outside in the fluorescent hallway, I slowly walk down towards the backstage door, taking my phone out if my jacket pocket and checking some emails. 

To be honest, it was weird. It was weird being in there with Kenny. We hadn't talked since I left him back on New Year's day in '95. I remember that feeling I felt when I broke his heart, and even though we've definitely moved on, he just brought up all those feelings of sadness and guilt. I never meant to hurt him. I just needed to get out of there.

After I gather myself, and take a deep breath, I open the backstage door and see the crowd that had gathered inside the venue. It was awesome to see just how fast the place had filled up. I wasn't sure who I would be looking for, but I was told to look out for a guy with a specific pass that he would be wearing. I made my way around the crowd sticking close to the wall of the main area, then the lights went down and the crowd began to cheer as the band climbed up on stage. 

"Hey fuckers! How ya feeling tonight?" The crowd cheers as Patrick shouts into the mic. "Alright let's do this!!!!"

They immediately break into 'Breathing New Life', Vinny's drumming just crushing the entire place as the crowd goes insane. It was so cool to see everyone just going absolutely crazy. A mosh pit had already broken out with guys just slamming into each other.

As they play into the next few songs of their set, I watch from the sidelines, staying close to the wall, still scanning the crowd for the label reps. I then decide to make my way into the crowd, and I see an older gentleman with that special pass I was told about. I take in a deep breath, give myself one last internal pep talk, walk straight up to him and introduce myself with my charming sweetness that I'm known for. 

"...right, right you're Mrs Lee?"

"Yes, yes I am," I say with a smile and extend my hand for him to shake.

"I'm Tom, Tom Zutaut from Elektra records,"

Oh my god, holy shit, how did...? Wait, what the fuck? I had no idea... Ok Andrea calm down, you got this.

"It's so good to finally meet you," I smile at him as he shakes my hand. I can't believe this is the same guy that signed Motley Crue, and it's even weirder that Tommy mentioned him earlier.

"You as well. So uh, you manage these guys huh?" He asks with a smile gesturing to the band as the loudness of Dime's guitar screams over the crowd.

"Yes, I do. I uh, did some temp work with Dime and Vinny years ago when they were in Pantera and uh, I used to manage - "

"Soundgarden right?"

"Yes," I giggle.

"I saw Soundgarden open for Guns N' Roses on the Use Your Illusion tour back in '92. Man, Chris Cornell is a powerhouse, and Guns N' Roses... now there's a band I'm kicking myself for," He chuckles.

"Well, I promise, you won't kick yourself if you sign Damageplan," I smile sweetly and he glances at me up and down for a moment, then looks back up at the band.

"So, you know why I'm here then?" He says with a smirk. 

"Pretty much." I say, then suavley but firmly using my sweetness as best I could, I add "Look, I know you are interested in them, I mean just look at this fucking crowd. What band - an absolute balls to the wall metal band in this day and age can pull a crowd like this? I mean sure it's Dime and Vinny from Pantera, but it's Dime and Vinny from Pantera! You can just feel the fucking energy in this entire place. Now who wouldn't want that captured on a record?" 

It was like I wasn't me. I suddenly switched on this whole other version of myself that was confident and determined, that knew her shit and knew that going with a major label would be amazing for Damageplan. 

"Y'know, I've seen lots of women who have been involved with Tommy Lee, and let's face it, most of them were questionable... well aside from Heather. He's uh, definitely an impulsive guy - "

"Sorry, Mr. Zutaut with all do respect, this has nothing to do with my husband. Yes I manage him too, but this is my thing. I've been in this business since I was 18 years old. I know this shit inside out and backwards, and I know that if you don't sign these guys, you are going to regret it the same way you're still kicking yourself for passing on Guns N' Roses," 

He stands there in front of me as I keep my composure looking right at him, determined to make him understand that I don't need to rely on anyone to do me a favor just because of who I know or who I am married to. 

Tom then gives me a smirk and with a chuckle says, "Well, now I see why he married you. You're definitely not like anyone he's ever been with,"

I keep my gaze locked to him and I could see the wheels turning in his mind. He glances back towards the band, then back at me.

"Alright, you got me," He says and extends his hand for me to shake. 

Holy Shit! Holy Fucking Shit!

"Thank you," I smile sweetly, shaking his hand, then he offers me his business card and sets up a time to meet, and heads out of the main area to make a call to the label to set things in motion. 

I turn back to the crowd just going insane and watching the guys up on stage doing their thing. I couldn't believe this was happening. I fucking got them a record deal. It's just so fucking crazy how I never thought that as an all out fan that I am of Dime and Vinny, how we ended up becoming friends and so close that they wanted me to be their manager, and now I got them deal. This just doesn't even seem real. 

I then make my way back through the crowd, feeling so incredibly excited and I see Kenny on the far side near the backstage entrance. I couldn't help it, I needed to tell someone. 

"We fuckin' did it!" I say excitedly when I reach him.

"Whoa, hey Andi - " He laughs.

"They got a deal, they got a fucking record deal!" I yelp excitedly and without even thinking about it I wrap my arms around his shoulders, embracing him in a hug and for a moment he hesitates, and then he wraps his one arm around me, while his other hand still holds his drink.

"Andi, that's amazing!" He laughs and after a few moments of us holding each other, I realize how weird this must be for him and as I pull away and look up at him, his arm still holds me, his dark eyes catching mine for just a moment.

"Uh, sorry, I shouldn't have... um" I trail off suddenly feeling like I was out of line.

"Andi, it's ok,"

"No, I should just... I need to..." I trail off again and then step away from his embrace.

"Andi!" Kenny calls for me as I flip my locks out of my face, quickly making my way to the backstage entrance. I open the door and step out into the hallway, the music echoing from the other side and I make my way down the hallway towards the dressing room. 

"Andi...? Andi wait," Kenny says as the backstage door slams behind him and I turn around seeing him walk towards me. "Why'd you run away? It's just me," He chuckles as he stops in front of me.

"I know but like, we don't really know each other anymore, and I didn't mean to just jump onto you like that - "

"It's still me, I'm still the same guy, and you didn't jump on me -"

"I was just so excited and happy and Tommy isn't here and Lizzy isn't either so I didn't have anyone to share it with, and I didn't think about -"

"Andi, I said it's ok," Kenny says so sweetly to me as he stands in front of me with those same sweet dark eyes glancing over me.

"But it shouldn't be, you should still be mad at me or hate me for what I did," I say sadly, feeling the guilt creeping up after all these years.

"Andi I never hated you. Yea, you broke my heart but I never hated you. I loved you too much back then to hate you," He says and I bring myself to look into his eyes.

"I'm so fucking sorry, for everything, for leaving the way I did, for - "

"Andi stop, it's ok. I've long forgiven you for all that shit years ago. You do not need to carry around that guilt," He says, still looking into my eyes.

"Promise?" I say with a little chuckle.

"Yes," He says with a small smile and after a few moments he leans in and wraps his arms around me, embracing me and all I could feel was this incredible relief. Then he says  "So are we friends now or what?"

"Yes Kenny, we're friends," I laugh.

*****

Malibu California, November 16 2002

"Delayed? Are you fuckin' serious?" Tommy says as I hold my cell to my ear.

"I'm sorry babe I know - " I say.

"Don't be sorry, it's not your fault, but like fuck... I just want you to come home so bad," He says and I could hear the frustration in his voice. But what he doesn't know is that my plane isn't actually delayed and I'm pulling up to our house right now.

"I know, I want to be home so bad, where I can just be with you, in our bed - "

"Oh baby don't start with that, you have no idea," He says, his voice now showing a different type of frustration and I giggle.

"I'll call you when I'm about to board ok?" I say as I glance at the cab driver through the rearview mirror, touching my finger to my lips to hush him before he can tell me the price of the fare. I quickly pay the cab and open the door, sliding out with my carry on bag and closing the door as quietly as I could hoping Tommy didn't hear the car door.

"You better, cause I'm gonna drive like a maniac to the airport to pick you up once you land," He says and I laugh as I make my way up the walkway to our house.

"I love you baby," I say as I open the door to our house.

"I love you too baby - uh, hold on a sec, I think I hear someone at the door..."

"You hear someone? Who?" I say with a sly smirk.

"What the fuck - ?" He says, hearing his voice in my cell phone and in the living room at the same time. He then appears in the doorway of the living room, the phone still to his ear, the natural light of the early afternoon sun making his nose ring sparkle and wearing nothing but just his red Adidas tear away track pants, showing off his impressive and gorgeous tattoos. 

"No fuckin' way," He says and drops the phone to the floor as I drop my bag and he quickly rushes to me, lifting me up while I let out a squeal of laughter.

"Jeezus fuckin' Christ, I fuckin' missed you," He says excitedly through clenched teeth as I wrap my arms around him, his lips pressed to my neck, then my throat, to my earlobe, then my jawline, making me laugh and loving every second of it. 

"I missed you too baby," I sigh, closing my eyes, threading my fingers through his thick dark locks and pressing my lips to his, devouring him, sucking his bottom lip. Then without wasting anymore time, he carries me over to the stairs 

"Baby - " I say against his lips.

"Shhh no talk... sex... now," He says in between his kisses making me laugh as he carries me to our bedroom.

[ravenousnightwind]

When I first came into the picture around 13 years ago with my partner, his brother had already had two young kids. Then comes me this weird guy in black with their uncle. They didn't know who I was, but they asked a lot of questions. They'd come to spend the night, and they realized right away we didn't sleep in separate beds like they've seen other people do.

We're talking like 4 and six year Olds okay? They start asking all kinds of questions. Like how come you guys sleep in the same bed? We're like cuz we're together. Oh but you're both boys? Yes we are. Oh..cool! And ever since it was just normal. The oldest even considered us married even though we're not because I'm disabled. Which we also had to explain. They even had opinions on that too. "You guys should be able to get married. It shouldn't matter.

When we went on a boat trip once, their friend had never really been around any lgbt people before and was like omgosh you guys are gonna be gay together!? Started to kinda get behind the oldest nephew. He got real snarky and was like what're you doing get off me! His friend then says that we're (me and my partner) gonna be gay together and then nephew goes SO!?

Sometimes, the oldest, who was six or seven at this point, maybe a bit older. Would be saying how he didn't think it was such a big deal for two guys to like each other. Didn't understand why it was such a big deal. Kids in school would say stuff I guess, make it a big deal at times. Told me once how it's not weird at all. It's normal.

Their mom actually thought it was kinda funny when I told her about the we're gonna be gay thing from the boat too. Which is how I found out the oldest considered us married. She said when kids grow up with people in their lives who are lgbtq, it's just a normal thing, but when they're not and everyone acts weird about it, they'll react that way too. Thinking it's unusual.

So we actually had a pretty interesting experience overall. The oldest is now 13, and he doesn't see us as any different. He hugs us. Tells us he loves us, still wants to be around us and stay the night. There's no judgment from either of the two. We only ever talked about it when they brought up questions. We'd answer and they'd just accept that answer as being we're just people who love each other. It was as simple as that. Nothing more or less. No inappropriate conversations or anything like that. Even from the rest of the family. We're just accepted as two uncles now.

Kids will just accept things, even if they ask questions it is fine. You don't have to explain sex. You just have to say they like each other. That's what we did and everything turned out. Nobody even bats an eye when we walk in the door. We just normal people part of the family. Nobody says shit about it, it's just normal. If people outside the family say anything we've never heard about it. We've even watched their neighbors kids before and nobody said shit about it.

Even my partners brothers wife's mom, who is very Christian, doesn't even care. We went to their communion at the church and we're fucking pagan!!!! Here we are, two pagans, in a catholic church, seeing nephew in first communion. Nobody said anything at all. Nobody fuckin cared!

All the hateful nonsense is just propaganda trying to demonize and ostricise us. Normalizing lgbtq people into society isn't that hard if people just let kids be kids and answer any questions they have in an age appropriate way. All it takes is exposure, and just saying, "Yeah, we're just like your mom and dad."

Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?

Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.

All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)

But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.

But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.

I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?

It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.

Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.

Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)

[besana]

nemo's dream ; interview!

"pardon me! would you mind answering a few questions for nemo's dream?"

the voice stops sana in her tracks, her head turning left to look at the speaker, her eyes darting unsubtly around to confirm he's really talking to her. she tilts her head, taking just a moment to decide what to do.

she doesn't recognize the name beyond a vague familiarity, like someone she follows online is a fan of it, maybe. she may have been seeing the name plastered around here, too -- they must be sponsored by the event or something? who knows.

whatever. it's not like she's heard anything bad or weird about the show, and it could be fun. besides, the guy's got himself a nice shady spot here; it's nice to get a respite from the sun.

"sure!" she chirps as she steps over, a jaunt in her step and her hair swinging with the motion. "i'm izumi sana. if you could include my socials in the video, that'd be great!"

"of course!" the boy's energy, at least, is a mirror to sana's own. she's met a few people who gave her similar vibes, and now she either hates them or considers them a best friend, no in-between. so many things are that way with sana, it seems.

she supposes it's natural that his personality seems so similar to hers; after all, that kind of thing is something that's necessary to someone who, more than anything else, wants to be liked.

oops. she hasn't been listening to him talk at all. how long has he been waiting for her to answer? shit.

she tries to laugh it off, blinking a few times and raising a hand to rub the back of her head sheepishly. "i'm sorry, it's been a long day," she says, though it's mostly a lie. "i totally zoned out. could you repeat the question?"

"totally fine," the boy chuckles, waving a hand dismissively. sana fights the urge to scowl -- she would have done the exact same thing if their places were swapped, but she'd be thinking something entirely different. what is he thinking? it's tough to tell. "the sun is really harsh today, so it's good you're in the shade for a bit! the question was, what do you consider 'dating'?"

whoa, really weird topic choice there. sana has to fight to keep the shock off her face; he probably explained all this while she was zoned out, wasn't she? she paints a pensive expression on, but all of a sudden she just wants to get out of here, to find one of her friends that are surely taking advantage of the sales around here and bother them for a while, rather than discuss what feels suddenly strangely personal with a total stranger.

"hm...i guess it depends on the people involved," she says, going for a thoughtful tone and landing reasonably close to it -- close enough for a stranger, at least. "you need to think about and discuss what both of you want, then decide what to do from there together. it's all about communication!" she adds, a bit more pep coming back into her voice, though she can't even tell how genuine it is.

the boy doesn't waste any time, barely even noting her answer before he's moving on. jeez, how many times has he had this exact same conversation all day? no wonder he reminds her so much of herself.

"very interesting answer!" the boy announces, steamrolling once again over sana's introspection. she blinks past it, trying to force herself to focus. the quicker she answers his questions, the better it'll be for the both of them. "next question: do you think it's possible to have physical affection before you date someone?"

this one, at least, is easy. "of course it is! i'm physically affectionate with my friends all the time!" the cheer in her voice this time, at least, is at least partially genuine. "but i think it's important to consider what other people think, too. like, to me, physical affection like hugs or holding hands doesn't have to mean we're dating. it's just another way of telling each other we care about each other. but for other people, it might be different. it all comes back to communication, you know? you have to tell others how you feel, or they'll never know."

the boy nods eagerly, seemingly satisfied with her much more eloquent answer. shocked at herself, sana just blinks, unsure where exactly those words came from. the boy scrawls her information onto his clipboard, then bows politely to her.

relieved to finally be done with the sudden, weirdly draining conversation, sana bows back and hurries off, towards the bus stop where she promised to meet ria.

[positivelybeastly]

🖤 for miguel? 💀

attractiveness:

repulsive / hideous / ugly / not attractive / unappealing / not unattractive / meh / no preference / ok / mildly attractive / nice looking / cute / adorable / attractive / pleasant on the eyes / good looking / hot / sexy / beautiful / gorgeous / hot damn / would tap that / perfect / godlike / holy fuck there are no words.

Answering as this little gremlin, since he's the one with pertinent opinions.

Henry appreciates a man with a tight bod and an even tighter superhero suit over it, he's not going to lie (not about that, anyway). And yes, he does find him cute and adorable, for exactly the reasons you think - because he's a prick, and he will absolutely croon those words to annoy Miguel the instant he realises they'll gain any traction.

personality:

grating / irritating / frustrating / boring / confusing at best / awkward / unreasonable / psychotic / disturbing / interesting / engaging / affectionate / aggressive / ambitious / anxious / artistic / bad tempered / bossy / charismatic / appealing / unappealing / creative / courageous / dependable / unreliable / unpredictable / predictable / devious / dim / extroverted / introverted / egotistical / gregarious / fabulous / impulsive / intelligent / sympathetic / talkative / up beat / peaceful / calming / badass / flexible.

One of the many things Hank and Henry share in common is an appreciation of people who can kick their ass, and this is no exception to that rule. There is, of course, a degree to which he does find him annoying because he's a do-gooder (not as egregiously as some, of course), but that's never stopped him from being interested before.

how likely they would have sex with them:

not if they were the last person on earth and the world was ending / fuck no! / never / no way / not likely / not sure / indifferent / I’m asexual / maybe / probably / it depends / fairly likely / likely / yeah sure / yes / would tap that / hell yes / fuck yes! / wishing that could happen right now / as many times as possible / we are already having sex.

In Henry's own words?

"There's nothing more intimate between two men than a little bit of good old fashioned ultra-violence, don't you find? We'll work you up to the idea, don't you worry."

level of friendship:

never in a million years / worst of enemies / enemies / rivals / indifferent / neutral / acquaintance / friendly toward each other / casual friends / friends / good friends / best friends / fuck buddies / bosom buddies / practically the same person / would die for them / true friends / my only friend.

Henry doesn't do friends. He does do enemies, though, even if they don't want to do him.

first impression of them:

i hate them so much / i don’t like them / i don’t trust them / they annoy me / they’re weird / I’m indifferent / meh / they seem alright / they’re growing on me / truce / I think I like them / I like them / I’m not sure if I trust them / I trust them / they’re cool / they’re genuine / I think we’re going to get along / I really like them / I think I’m in love / oh fuck they’re hot / I love them.

I was very tempted to just put down 'I think we're going to get along,' but it broke all quantifiable measures of sass and sarcasm, so we'll have to go with Henry's standard - he doesn't trust anyone that isn't himself, but he's always got time for a fellow geneticist that has a strong reaction to violent, bloody murder. Basically a chance to do labs together, right?

current impression of them:

i hate them so much / i don’t like them / i don’t trust them / they annoy me / they’re weird / I’m indifferent / meh / they seem alright / they’re growing on me / truce / I think I like them / I like them / I’m not sure if I trust them / I trust them / they’re cool / they’re genuine / I think we’re going to get along / I really like them / I think I’m in love / oh fuck they’re hot / I love them.

"Let's be friends~"

[galesgremlingrotto]

OKAY BUT CONSIDER!

my sibling and I HATED each other when we were younger

Like genuinely wanted to get rid of each other.

I'm not exactly sure what changed, but we got to highschool and went "this shit sucks" and now that we're both graduated we're fucking besties

We have our moments, we argue and get frustrated about things.

It happens when you live with someone you're forced to share every little thing with for so long.

But if my sibling called me and said she got in an accident, or he got drunk and needed someone to drive them.

I would drop everything and go get it in a heartbeat.

We go shopping and get food sometimes.

Something that brought us together was feeling like we couldn't tell our parents things.

I consider myself very lucky when it comes to my parents and my childhood, but the whole family is on the spectrum and my parents were raised by people who told them to suck it up and that it wasn't a big deal. So unintentionally they repeat some of that to us.

So we don't tell them everything. My sibling knew about my partner before my parents did. I know just about everything there is to know on my sibling's drama and how their friends are doing, and the things they're doing that my parents would get upset about.

So yeah. Sometimes we fight and argue. We lash out at each other when we're frustrated.

But it's almost nice. To have someone where you know you can be angry at them and as long as you apologize and genuinely try to make up for it, then your relationship goes right back to where it was.

We'll never be perfect people to each other. We agreed as soon as we got old enough to consider moving out that we never wanted to live in the same house as each other ever again.

But she could knock on my door at 2am and I'd give her a snack and let him sleep on my couch, and they'd do the same for me. I cried into its shoulder when my pet died and I'll be there for her in a couple decades when her pet does the same. She supports me and my interests even if she doesn't understand them, and I listen to her ramble about things I'll probably forget.

We watch weird old sci-fi anime together and complain about having to work. She pummels me into the ground and I steal her phone.

No siblings are the same, and I don't think any relationship ever is perfect, but even though we hated each other it's a friend I can count on for the rest of my life, and I think I got really lucky with that.

TLDR: my sibling rocks

The real only-child experience was visiting your friends with siblings and you talk and play in their rooms and suddenly their little siblings burst in and throw stuff at them and from one moment to the next you’re in a war-zone like: “Yes and on my birthday we went swimming with Dad and Lea had ice-cream but then LEA I HATE YOU GET OUT OF HERE STOP BITING ME I WILL TELL MUM OW OW OW DIEEE!!!! but then Dad didn’t have pocket change and we had to go all the way back to the car to get his wallet! :o” 

Or you’re sitting in the living room playing video games and suddenly their 8 year older brother comes in and starts yelling in an increasingly booming voice: “I want the playstation now! I Want The Play Station Now! I WANT THE PLAY STATION NOW!!!  [Slur]  [Slur]  [Slur]  [Slur]  [Slur]  [Slur].”

And then one day they ask you: “But aren’t you sad that you don’t have siblings? Don’t you get lonely? I couldn’t imagine living without my JONATHAN I WILL MURDER YOU IN YOUR SLEEP!!!!!”