#just two gals bein pals

[crookedcrow5]

Collar

"Would I need to be collared too?"

Ran's ear twisted in Yuuma's direction before she paused in her laundry folding to give her a confused look.

"What. Are you talking about."

The taotie smirked.

"Would I need to be collared too? As a shikigami."

Ran looked confused for a moment before she started and had a mixture of anger and embarrassment on her face. She quickly adjusted the collar of her shirt to cover her neck and the noticed piece of clothing.

"... Mention it to no one."

Yuuma laughed, leaning back where she was sitting on the porch.

"Oh come on~ No one would be surprised~"

"Hmph."

"But I'm curious, are you collared because you're a shikigami?" Her smirk grew. "Or because you're you?"

Ran bared her fangs as she growled and stalked towards the taotie.

"Watch it."

"Keh-heh-heh, still got some bite left in you? I'm shocked." She shrugged, closing her eyes. "Here I thought you were tamed completely like the good shikigami you are~"

"I am a-" Ran stopped herself before huffing. "I am a powerful shikigami, but that does not mean I cannot hold my own."

"Of course~ It just means you'll happily wear proof of your dwindling pride in public-"

She was cut off by a weight against her, pinning her down on the porch. The taotie looked up to see Ran with a barely kept frustration in her eyes and smile.

"Dwindling pride? Hah." Her voice was low and half way to a snarl. "Why are you so fascinated by it, hm?" Her grip on her wrists tightened slightly, but not enough to truly harm her. "Perhaps I'll make you my shikigami and put you on a leash." Her smile turned into a smirk as she lowered her head to whisper in Yuuma's ear, "Tell me, Yuuma. Would you like that? To be mine. To be restrained?" Her voice grew lower and lower but still rang in Yuuma's head. "I'd get you a nice, snug, collar. Something only for you. Telling everyone that you're mine. Telling you who you belong to."

The taotie shivered as Ran's lips tickled her ear. Ran just pulled away and stood up with ease and her usual calm expression.

"Don't bark if you can't bite, Yuuma."

The taotie laid there for a moment before chuckling breathily.

"I can certainly bite."

"Mm." The kitsune's eyes gleamed before she turned back to folding clothes. "I must finish this before the rain comes."

"Then?"

"Then~?" She purred and chuckled. "Maybe, if you're good."

"... Fuck, I missed you."

[spectrum-core]

[sometipsygnostalgic]

@the-nerd-beast

Catra may be a cat, but Entrapta is Cat-Adjacent

[heartsdefine]

perhaps i am thinking about how shadowheart is shar's chosen vs elspeth as selûne's chosen, perhaps even set on this path specifically to interact with shadowheart and gently challenge her faith...

[shousetsubangbang]

Shousetsu Bang*Bang: Distracting You With Happy Endings Since 2005!

Sure, our whole zine focuses on smutty queer romance with a happily-ever-after aesthetic. But we asked our Discord which stories are especially warm and particularly fuzzy. Here's a list of the recommendations they gave, just in case you need something like that in your life right now, for whatever reason.

Arame Cove: Stardew Valley yaoi

c:\rano.bergerac: the Mechanical Turk, but make it sexy

Cheesecake and the Art of Political Warfare: the electoral college… IN SPACE!

Corvus, Cancer, And Other Constellations: friends don't let friends go through cancer treatments without smutfic

El Presidio Rides North: hurt/comfort while escaping zombies

A Fish Story, OR, The Ones That Got Away, OR, The Mermaid Solution: pretty much what the title implies

Moonstricken: knife-throwing, paperwork, chains, and other unorthodox ways to (not) approach your crush

Busted: same as above, but with 100% less werewolves and 100% more explosions

oh Charlie Harper we love you get up: everyone knows elocution lessons are very sexy

Out in the Wash: and you thought your laundry mix-ups were incriminating

Sid Stills’ Blues (Three-Quarters in the Bag in Alphabet City): aging musician falls in love, does not die of cancer

Up the Garden Path: D&D&D (Dungeons & Dragons & Dicks)

War Bonds: just two gals bein' pals while the men are off fighting in WWII

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[its-cripptid]

just gals bein pals

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redraw of some art i made a year or two ago

[sparklecinnamonbunny]

A Necessary Injury

Wishing a very happy birthday to @thatwritingho's Olive Axworthy today! Here's our gals bein' pals to celebrate! Some jokes in Discord gave me a fun idea for a birthday drabble.

(with the teeniest mentions of @the-loveliest-lotus' Lucy, @procrazedfan's Poppy, and @chordsykat's Caj!)

"Hey, darlin'." Sunday enters the clinic with one hand held up and the other holding a gift bag. "I'd knock, but..."

Dr. Olive Axworthy— mortician, assassin, and Dethklok's doctor/bodyguard— asks, frowning, "What did you do?"

"I uh, I broke a nail. It's bleeding."

The good doctor takes her hand to examine it. "You ripped off your acrylic on purpose, didn't you?"

"You can't prove that," Sunday replies, biting back a smile. "Anyway, I thought I'd swing by, get treatment for this totally legit injury, and drop off one of your birthday presents."

"One of? Sunday, I don't need anything for—"

"You gave me those kickass engraved knuckle bones for my birthday even though you don't believe in osteomancy. I only had a couple weeks notice, but I couldn't settle for anything less than greatness."

She sighs and relents, "Do you want me to open it now?"

"I'd love to see your reaction. How about I wash my hands with antibacterial soap and you unwrap?"

She proceeds to do so, setting the gift bag on the medical cot. Olive murmurs something about it being unnecessary again, but her gaze hasn't left the black and gold bag. As she lathers and repeats, she hears the telltale crinkle of tissue paper.

"Oh, she's gorgeous! Wow! Loooong," Olive coos at the skeleton. It wasn't easy to find a real intact king cobra skeleton, let alone one that met both her and her friend's discerning standards, but the smile on her face makes all the trouble she went to worth it.

"Yeah, it is. I made sure it was ethically sourced, there's some paperwork in the bag, too. I wouldn't give you something you wouldn't feel good about keeping."

"Thanks! I'll find a good place for it in my room. Did you know that king cobras aren't true cobras? They have their own genus, Ophiophagus."

Olive tells fun facts about the snake as she washes up, gets fresh gloves, and puts a tiny bandage on Sunday's fingernail. She's especially enthusiastic about the venom (a potent neurotoxin that could kill in half an hour if untreated), but she wouldn't be Olive if she wasn't. And it's pretty brutal to hear about necrotizing flesh. She should write a song about it before Nathan does. Cobratize? Wait, fuck, he's been writing a song about cobras since their second first date. Damn that talented man.

"Should I expect you to show up with another broken nail and present?" Olive asks, full lips pulled into a wide smile.

Sunday grins back. "Nope. The second gift's more of an experience. Skwisgaar and I maaaay have noticed that you own Smugly Dismissed's full discography. And signed it. We aren't doing a reunion show now or ever, but we thought we could play some songs for you sometime. Not tonight though. Big Pickles has got some, uh, very important plans."

"What's he doing?" She scrambles for her phone, but Sunday puts a hand over hers.

"I really shouldn't say," she starts to protest, but the birthday girl's pleading eyes win out. "It rhymes with uh, passive Georgie."

"Passive... Wait. He's planning a massive—"

"Well, I won't keep you any longer. You've got a line out there, and I promised to meet Caj at the helipad." Sunday grabs two lollipops, pocketing one and unwrapping the other.

"You can't just tell me we're having a massive orgy and split! And what do you mean there's a line?"

"Haven't you noticed you're running out of bandaids?"

As Sunday struts out, Olive looks out the door after her. No fewer than ten people stand in line, each nursing their own wounds, from the probably superficial (Lucy Desmond with a vial of blood and a grin) to the possibly complicated (#4245, Poppy, looking roughed up and delighted). It's looking like a long day and an even longer night. That's okay. She prefers it that way.

[strange-doll-child]

The 2003 version would have went.

Jim: “Man, I wonder why the woman who is selling this house is all buddy-buddy with my wife?”

Megan: “Dad, she might be a lesbian”

One of the ghosts: “It’s a bit more complicated-“

Or

Gracey: “Ramsley, shouldn’t my fiancé have taken on the form of a man?”

Ramsley: “…. Anyways-!”

HNSHSH- MY GOD

Eden just pretend you're bein gal-pals, nothing odd here just two girls being friends she'd definitely not tryna marry her-

[gamesception]

let’s read rgu, chapter 24

So last time Akio went to the castle to kill Dios (sigh), while Utena stayed behind to free Anthy from her crystal coffin.  That done, Anthy now summons the castle so that everyone can chase after Akio and stop him.  This feels pretty close to the end, are there really four chapters left, including this one?  What spanner’s going to be thrown into the works to stop this careening free fall towards a conclusion?

Yay, the gang’s all coming with.  Oh, and hey look, it’s the gate from the anime.

Honestly, I feel like maybe the answers to /some/ of the mysteries could have been fed out before this point.  Like, it might have been better for the pacing, or allowed for like maybe a fun twist here at the end.  Oh, well!

Statues of the various characters who have been involved in the rose duels, even Chuchu.  And a dual/twin/gemini/janus sort of thing, two male figures staring into each others eyes, which I assume represents Akio and Dios.  Where they always a duel figure in the manga?  If so, staring inward at themselves implies maybe a level of narcissism or self obsession from even before they were split apart.

Whelp, Saionji didn’t make it very far.  Are we going to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory this, where in each room another student council member, in order of their duels, gets boxed away according to their bespoke character flaw?

Oh, wait, no, we’re just going to do them all at once.  Also, I want to say something like “really, Juri?  She’s a witch?” or make a ‘may we burn her’ joke or something, but mostly I’m just sad at how little weight the word ‘Witch’ carries here compared to in the anime.

There they go.  Seriously, what was the point of even bringing you doofuses along?

Of course, Touga gets special treatment.  The manga certainly has a favorite among the student council, so that’s not surprising.

Utena notices that Anthy’s been a bit more... direct than usual, and asks her about that, or just for more info in general.

Parallels again, and now I’m worried.  Are we setting up for a betrayal?  Was this all part of Akio’s plot?  Was he counting on Utena rejecting him, staying behind, and freeing Anthy?  Like she needed to do that to fully embody/become Dios, and only then can Akio kill the otherwise intangible Dios by killing Utena - or having Anthy kill Utena?

I... wait, what?  Was Akio and the prince not the same person?  No, no wait, we have the same inward facing double figure here.  This story doesn’t quite hold up.  Saving Anthy made dios the prince in the first place?  Or split the Dios persona from the Akio persona?  Or they were always separate, and saving Anthy made Dios more powerful?  If he was so much more powerful than Akio as to make him jealous, how was Akio able to defeat him?

“Fell in love with the same prince” - boooooo!  Just be in love with each other, come on.

“Friend”.  Just pals bein’ gals.

But just then there’s a big earthquake, and the castle starts to collapse!  And some masonry almost falls on Utena, but Touga pushes her out of the way at the last second!  And it falls on him instead!  and he’s not hurt, but he’s pinned and can’t go any further with them!

Thanks, Touga.  Might as well have put him in a box with the others.  In fact the student council as a whole might as well have been left behind.  Anthy could have taken just Utena to the castly and nothing would have changed.  Oh, well!

So Utena and Anthy reach the top of the castle, and there he is.  Dios.

Already dead.  Kind of anticlimactic, that.  Guess my prediction didn’t come true.

Oh, no!  He’s too small to be a Prince anymore.  I guess now he’ll have to be a...

short king.

This reveal that Akio used to be Dios would land a lot harder if we had gotten the story about him being a different person who got jealous and overthrew Dios before this same chapter.  Also the “from a certain point of view” obfuscation from Anthy seems really kind of pointless when there’s all of like one scene separating her story and this reveal twist to it.

But we’re here now!  The set up’s in place for a climactic final dual with lives on the line between Akio and Utena, but still three whole chapters left, so I’m not sure where things are going yet, and not knowing is still pretty exciting in its own right.

[theonetruefan]

Just two gals bein pals <3

[cookierankingdom]

just two gals bein pals

[thisisnotmyname]

[ID: Facebook post by Witch Way to the Titty Skittles, with caption "Just gals bein pals". Image shows text in English at the top which reads: "Historian: Ancient sculpture, symbolizing the friendship between two women. The scene probably depicted two friends helping each other with common stretching exercises". Below which there is Spanish text, reading "Historiador: Escultura antiga, simbolizando a amizade entre duas mulheres. A cena provavelmente representava duas amigas ajuadando uma à outra com exercicios comuns de alongamento". At the bottom there is a sculpture depicting two women scissoring.]

[doctaaaaaaaar]

Fanfiction: "I like you" "I like you too" they kiss.

Me, with my actual girlfriend: we've been dating for months and I still don't have enough courage to hold her hand

[achievementhaunterss]

when I played Barbies as a kid Barbie was always divorced or widowed and instead she lived with her best friend and the two of them raised their children together and went out to dinner and stuff on Friday nights for “”””ladies night””””

[butwhatifidothis]

This time on Wow, That's Pretty Shitty Of You To Say That: Rhea isn't gay enough to be considered gay

Completely unrelated, here is a completely random picture of a completely random character that has nothing to do with this idea at all I promise

[roseemar]

firegirl and watergirl ?