#leo minor ban

[demigod-shenanigans]

Anyway Valgrace chore splitting for when they live together hcs because I just felt like it:

-Leo cooks. Jason cannot cook to save his life and should in fact be banned from the kitchen. Leo has tried to teach him several times and Jason always at least kills a minimum of one household appliance in the progress (including the time they were just trying to make a salad, somehow). He’s also the one putting items away and wiping down the counters when he’s done. The only thing Jason is allowed to do in the kitchen is the dishes, which Leo proceeds to use his powers to dry.

-They handle shopping together. Leo is the one cooking and also the only one who knows what he needs for said cooking but cannot remember what’s actually in the fridge for shit. He’s also got the out of sight out of mind problem where if something he buys vanishes behind another container in the fridge he will promptly forgets they have it at all. After he bought hot sauce four weeks in a row that one time, Jason went through the kitchen meticulously documenting everything they have, and he’s kept a list ever since. Leo just adds whatever else he needs for what he’s planning to cook. 

-Leo is usually the one stocking the fridge after shopping because he insists Jason has a weird system that makes him unable to find anything. However. He cannot reach the top shelves. Jason ends up hovering Leo up and down so he can stock those because he’s trying to avoid another chair stacking counter climbing situation (short people have to help themselves somehow okay)

-Jason does the laundry. Leo regularly forgets laundry is a thing that even exists and honestly everything is going to end up oil-stained again in like a day anyway so eh. Jason irons and folds all of their clothes too but Leo just stuffs his into drawers where they’ll inevitably get incredibly crinkled.

-Tidying up depends on the room. Leo has a system, but that system is organized chaos. When it comes to his work bench/the workshop Jason isn’t allowed to touch anything because if he does Leo will spend hours trying to find things again. It happened once because Jason was trying to help and he felt horrible about it for ages. When it comes to minor stuff it’s absolutely Jason. Leo will drop the remote/his bag/his keys in a random place and Jason appears out of thin air to put them in their spot bc Leo won’t do it and they both know if someone doesn’t they’ll spend ages searching for them in the future. 

Jason can handle a certain degree of chaos (even comes to sort of like it because it’s cozy and lived-in and they have a home now!! Not just a random space they bought but a home filled with proper memories and little trinkets and everything!! It also makes him feel less anxious about the times he forgets/doesn’t have the energy to put his things away). But if it gets too bad his eye starts to twitch because he grew up with cohort sleeping quarter inspections and hated getting points docked on those. He will trick Leo into tidying up together if necessary (usually by suggesting they invite their friends over).

-Jason does most of the cleaning, because he just has way higher standards when it comes to that than Leo does (again, Camp Jupiter inspections). Leo will join because he’s very aware he’s the one causing most of the messes with his work, but he’ll definitely insist on background music and will also inevitably end up trying to convince him to do sword fights with the brooms mid-sweeping. Jason loves him for that.

[theunholyrogue]

under the mistletoe🎄

❤️bayverse! x GN reader💚

still on my writing hiatus, but i thought i would pop in for a quick, short christmas post with my favorite boys

tw: v mild cursing, none— all fluffy! ☁️

merry christmas, and happy holidays! <3

🎄💙Leonardo💙🎄

Oh, how Leonardo loved watching the excitement in your body language and emotions after he had agreed to helping you set up your christmas decorations around your home.

He didn’t mind doing anything for you, you were his partner after all and you definitely put up with a lot from him and his brothers— this was the utter least he could do for you.

So, while sipping on homemade hot chocolate, you and Leo spent the cold day together setting up your christmas tree, stringing the lights around it, and hanging ornaments off of the dark green branches.

You didn’t have many ornaments, as you had rather collect the cooler, more personal ornaments such as a hallmark oogey boogey from ‘the nightmare before christmas’ or a book to describe your various hobbies, over the glass or plastic bulbs that were really only used for the aesthetic…

unless the glass/plastic bulbs are your thing, then go off babe~

Both you and Leonardo enjoyed the quiet time off the moment, listening to the low sounds of christmas music or whatever you would rather play in the background on your TV.

“Thank you for helping me, Leo,” You speak as the two of you hang some garland over the top of your fireplace, followed by two stockings— one for you and one for Leonardo.

“Of course, love,” He responded, a warm and endearing smile on his features as you two finish and meet in the middle of your living room.

You wrapped your arms around his torso, around his shell as best you could as he returned the gesture.

“There is something that’s missing,” Leonardo muttered, causing you to look up at him.

“What?”

In an instant, you spot the mistletoe bundle above both of your heads, trying to figure out how Leonardo pinned it up there without you realizing.

Of course, the answer was that he was a ninja.

Without giving enough time to react, Leonardo tightened his hugging grip with one arm as the other slide to your neck, his hand coddling the back of your head as he pulled you into a longing kiss.

“A mistletoe kiss,” he states as the two of you pull away. “Merry Christmas, my dearest.”

“I don’t think I can love you anymore than I do.”

🎄💜Donatello💜🎄

The turtle genius had been hearing nonstop about Christmas lights from you, April, and Casey— about wanting to visit the biggest Christmas light display and drive-thru around their area.

Annnnd since April is a reporter, she and Casey had the benefit of going in before they opened to the public one night while April ran a story on the on the festive and flashy display.

Leaving you all alone.

Now— Donatello had never been one to celebrate Christmas, the whole ordeal stemmed from something that went against the science that he could prove, yet, after the two of you started dating, he most definitely put in a lot more effort for minor things like holidays and such just to make you happy.

So, since the turtle couldn’t bring you to the lights himself, why not bring the lights to you?

Thus, he banned you from the lair for roughly a week as he put his plan into action. He spent a lot of money for April to buy lights, while he would tinker and toy with the rest, ultimately creating an entire display of assorted lights that he and another could walk through.

And when it was time, he brought you back to the lair with a blindfold over your eyes.

“This is kinky,” you tease.

“Stop it.” Donatello replied, guiding you to the entrance of the lair before removing the blindfold.

You paused in awe, seeing the array of lights that was carefully manipulated into different christmas objected and scenes.

Candy canes, Santa, his reindeer, gingerbread houses, etc…

“Oh my… did you do all of this for me?” You asked softly, gazing up at Donatello, who watched you with a faint smile.

“Of course I did, you deserve it.”

You couldn’t help but hug him for a moment before the two of you walked through his creation.

Eventually, he led you through a multicolored tunnel that ended with an tinsel arch, white lights strung through it to resemble snowflakes. In the very middle, hanging off of the arch was a mistletoe.

Of course Donatello ended the walk with you both underneath it, and in the moment, he swept you off of your feet and bent forward over you, pressing his lips to yours.

“Merry Christmas, my love.”

🎄❤️Raphael❤️🎄

“Sorry we had to wait for everyone to clear outta here,” Raphael murmured, slipping around on the ice of the ice hockey rink that doubled as a ice skating rink in the winter time.

You had been talking about wanting to go ice skating, whether you were good at it or not, yet you had struggled to find the time to go by yourself… or at all— period.

So, since Raphael “knows a guy who knows a guy”… Casey Jones… he decided to ask for a favor from the male in exchange for some free pizza.

“Raph, this is so much better than being around others! We’re all alone, I’m with my favorite person, this seriously couldn’t get any better!” You exclaimed as you slid along the ice in your skates, remaining close to Raphael.

Raphael smirked as you proclaimed your total excitement for the night activity, making him feel better about, well, the situation at hand. He always felt bad when he couldn’t take you out in public with others around, yet you always found a way to reassure him that it was always okay with you.

So, he continued to try and pick up the simplest of moves— skating forward, in the ice skates that Donatello had made specifically for him.

“Dang, I feel real bad about calling myself a ninja and not being able to do this,” he grumbled, though you didn’t mind reaching out and guiding him along.

“It takes time to learn, just like how you had to practice ninjitsu to be good at it. Right?” You asked with a smile.

“Yeah… and I’m damn good at it,” he grins.

“You sure are, love.”

Slowly, but surely, Raphael continued to pick up on the way of ice skating, being able to move forward and slightly be able to spin around in a circle.

Finally, as you two were doing one more lap around the rink, Raphael looked over at you.

“You know how ya’ said this night couldn’t get better?”

You paused, watching him as he maneuvered back in front of you.

“Yeaaah?”

He pulled out a small mistletoe bushel from his pocket, holding it over both of your heads while moving close. He leaned down in your direction and smiled.

“Merry Christmas, hot stuff,” he grinned before pressing his lips against yours, both lingering for an extra moment before pulling away.

“Couldn’t get better than that.” You grinned, pulling him back into a greedy kiss, causing the two of you to fall onto the ice and proceed to laugh it off.

🎄🧡Michelangelo🧡🎄

The turtles had been planning this holiday party for weeks, now that they had a collective group of people that they now considered apart of the family and wanted to spend part of their holiday season with.

Making the most out of it, you had decided to spend the late morning and midday to help your turtle partner in cooking delicious sweets while the others set up for the party.

Plenty of giggles and goofing around erupted between you and Michelangelo as you two measured ingredients, throwing some of the flour at your partner with the turtle retaliating against you by smacking a palm-full of whipped cream into your face.

You also couldn’t resist taking your finger and dragging it across the surface of the cake bowl, licking the ingredients off while earning a whine from Mikey.

“Oh, no fair! I was gonna do that!”

“Guess you were a little too slow then, huh?”

He simply rolled his eyes with a cheeky grin, catching you off guard with a quick cheeky kiss and quickly copying your actions with the remainder of the leftover batter. He pulled his finger out, creating a loud ‘pop’ sound with his mouth as you narrow your eyes.

“Oop! Guess you were a little too slow, sweet cheeks.”

“You are a total asshole for that,” you pouted, sticking the empty bowl into the sink to wash, along with the rest of the dirty dishes.

As you two cleaned up the disaster in the kitchen and laid the finished desserts of cookies, brownies, fudge, and whatever else came to mind, out onto the bar— you started to plate the desserts onto Christmas themed plates rather than leaving them on the pans.

The boys had finished setting up for the party, leaving the rest of the job for you and Mikey to bring the plates of sweets out and settling them up on a table in the main area where the party would be, alongside the drinks and small finger foods that Casey and April had brought.

One by one, you brought the dessert to the entrance separating the kitchen and the living space, where Michelangelo would meet you and take the plate, moving to the table and setting it down— until it came down to the last dessert.

As you walked to the entrance, Mikey swiftly took the plate from your hands and moved it to one hand, snaking the other around your waist and pulling you close to him.

Without so much as a warning, the orange clad turtle pressed his lips against yours in a short yet passionate kiss before pulling away, leaving you momentarily dazed. From there, he grinned and winked at you.

“Merry Christmas, sexy.” He states before walking back to the food table, leaving you there to stare up at the mistletoe berry and leaf that hung in the doorway above your head.

“That was pretty smooth…” You mutter with a blushing smile.

[raph-reign17]

🌹Masterpost🌹

Hello!! Raphael Hamato! But usually I go by Raph, which is what my brothers, and April call me. Orrrr there's pops, who just calls me 'Red'.

Raph's Family :

Donnie - @donvonryan (One day Raph is going to achieve banning him from the coffee machine.)

Leo - @leontheluxuriousone (Don't listen to him when he says he's handsome, that's just his ego talking.)

Mikey - @mikey-the-mischevious (pls don't give him guns, Raph begs you)

Hiero - @riseleon (little brother no. 4!!)

Pops - @rat-jitsu

Karai - @hamato--karai (GRAM-GRAM!!)

Shelldon - @cyber-b1shop

Future Leo - @ninjas-greatest-weapon (funnier Leo)

Casey Jr. - @hugzfromcaseyjr (future boy)

Future Mike - @marvelousmichelangelo (wait whaaaaa??)

Future Don - @genius-othello (smarter totally)

Future Raph- @b1g-raph1e (woahh...)

Friends & close friends :

April - @aprilthefiercequeen (Best friend you could ask for!)

Cassandra - @thecassclan (Please stop sending little girls who sell cookies after us)

Paxxton - @pax-man2010 (met in the hidden city!)

Vivi - @mikey-rottmnt (also met in hidden city ^_^)

Usagi - @yokai-nerd (gay for Leo)

Stella - @stella-kessho-reporting-for-duty (:3)

Alex - @smartass-opposum

Rosemary- @rosewater-n-rosemary

Luna - @the-multiverse-jumper

Allies & enemies :

Big Mama - @bigmama10ffical (Scary spider lady that pops dated)

Repo - @repo-maniac (bug guy who owns junkyard??)

Rena - @rena-hoshimi-at-duty

Cerulean - @the-frog-assassin

Kiki - @kikikatherinerosaline

Alternate family :

Lee - @captain-ryans-no1-fan (fellow oldest bro??)

Don - @donniepedia-the-encyclopedia (not as insane sometimes)

Raph - @im-a-turtle-with-anger-issues (angry chihuahua Raph)

Mike - @the-party-dude (yummy pizza choices)

Alternate friends :

Casey Jones - @goongala-hockey-puck (3rd Casey jones??)

Karai - @karaiirl (reminder: not gram gram)

Y'gythba / Mona Lisa - @rokkarokkawaii

Roninverse :

Ronin - @ronin-mikey

Raphael - @0r0ku-k1ller

Mayhem :

Donnie - @donnie-the-weeb

Leo - @ieatdanger4breakfast

Raph - @the-rager-ever

2003 :

Leo - @leos-katanas

!!NOTE!!

(NSFW, T-CEST, PROSHIP, DNI)

((OOC)) Welcome to my Raph RP blog. Please be appropriate, I'm a minor and don't be weirdo or do anything.. gross. Do not interact if your any of the above, I can and will block you. My main account is @amat3ured1t0r if anyone would like to know.

[bad-boy-supreme-official]

HEYY GANGGG

Anyways, as you all know, I'm Leo Valdez, the saviour of Olympus and designer/builder of the Argo 2, though most people recognize me as the Hot One™ of the Seven 💪🏽💪🏽 (this is a rp account! my personal interpretation of leo and hcs of him!)

Cabin: CABIN 9, the best cabin fr Status: Head counsellor of Hephaestus cabin

Date of Birth: July 7th

Favourite colour: Orange... if you couldn't tell... Music: Eminem, Kanye, Rolling Stones and def not Taylor Swift 🙄

Family: Son of Hephaestus! Got a shit-ton of half-siblings too (and if Harley asks, he's my favorite )

Relationship: Single! Lucky for ya'll 😏😉

Anyways, I'll be at Bunker 9 if you need me. Just come in, don't knock cuz Festus is sleeping. AND IF CHIRON ASKS, IT WASNT ME!!!

OH! Go follow my friends! @wise-girl-official (only one who understands my blueprints) @seaweed-brain-official (we are currently working on setting fire to the rain) @goat-boi-official (BANNED! HE KEEPS EATING MY PROJECTS!) @sunnysolace7 (southern bestie <33 ) @nico-ghostking (emo kid 🙄) @blond-superman-official (57% of my impulse control and my boyfriend-) @gems-and-jewels (my grandfathers chick??) @beauty-queen-official (MY PARTNER IN CRIME and spa days) @rachel-elizabeth-dare-official (chaos demon <33) @reyna4ever (mi hermana! wont allow me to hit on the hunters 🙄 )

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OOC: Please send asks and tag me in stuff! I love all of em and will try my best to respond <33 Just nothing inappropriate cuz I am a minor! PFP: Credit to frostbite.studios Banner: All pics from Pinterest

ALSO! this is based off of my headcanons so Leo and Calypso broke up after Lester left and Leo moved back to Camp Half-Blood! You can ask/talk about it but please don't argue about it <33 also Leo is pan cuz i said so, feel free to send your ships/hcs

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[mehriigss]

Which rottmnt turtle are you?

Raph:

- Forgot to turn off the oven

- Everyday is chest gym day

- Afraid of their own shadow

- Angle with a shotgun

- Dies if a single proton of peanut touches them

- Good boy(™)

- Uses the same underwear two days in a row to save water

- Didn't know how to use the #blacklivesmatter but used it anyway because black lives matter

- Can and will be convinced the earth is flat

- Sleeps with 173913 plushies

- Somehow father figure

Donnie:

- Sales baked goods

- Banned from Texas

- Chaotic awful

- Nows your IP and will use it against you

- Can and will convince someone that the earth is flat

- Disappeared three days but no one noticed

- Emotionally constipated

- Invests mony in cryptocurrency

- A U T I S M

- Is secretly coquette

- 1# Most wanted criminal 2023

Mikey:

- Makes naked furry drawings and places them in the fridge

- "Don't know don't care"

- Has used the #blacklivesmatter for the good

- A minor

- Noticed they were gone

- Menance to society

- Licks the frosting of the cupcakes and puts them back in the fridge

- Eats ice cream with their bare hands

- Bts stand

- Likes eco

Leo:

- Makes deez nuts jokes

- Depressed

- Would wear a "blue label" T-shirt

- "Prison's just an expensive escape room"

- Moonwalks their way in and out of trouble

- Makes yo mama jokes

- Sleep is optional

- Would put cheese sauce in the washing machine instead of soap

- Walking meme

- Feminist

- Could and did dropkick a child

- Spanish or vanish

[destielomegaversebigbang]

Equality Ain't Pie

Posting September 6, 2024

Fic by RavenFuchs

Art by hectatess

Banner by envydean

Rating: Mature

Summary: Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak have each been recruited to co-lead an elite team, Sexual Minorities Intelligence Tactical Endeavor (SMITE), created in reaction to the rise in attacks on alphas and omegas (called AOs), by Beta Rights Activists within the majority beta population. Prior to the team’s formation a plot to bomb an AO fundraising event was thwarted but the threat was serious enough to call for a law enforcement unit that had national reach and powers that superseded those of local and other federal agencies. Shortly after the team is assembled they are tasked with looking into AO youth living on the streets who are now missing as well as cases of product tampering where suppressants were replaced with a previously unknown super enhancer causing two unrelated college students to go into a dangerous heat cycle. Meanwhile, they face an enemy from within as well as mounting political pressure by some in government that do not want to see AOs have full rights in society and will do anything to see that they are removed from mainstream life. The stakes get higher when an attack on the team coincides with the kidnapping of the teen children of a pro-AO candidate with the rare occurrence of two AO children in one family. As the team continues to investigate they uncover a plot that could lead to making the public see AOs as unstable and needing to be removed from society.

Tags: Alpha Cas, Omega Dean, Kidnapping, murder, government plots, talk of conversion camps, talk of medical experiments on AOs, threats of sexual assault, mention of human sex trafficking, non-consensual drug exposure, panic attacks, past child abuse, alphas and omegas are commonly referred to as AOs

Excerpt below the cut

"Bobby, I'm gonna give it to you straight, the fact that you're even allowed to form this team is nothing short of remarkable. There's still a hell of a lot of pushback and prejudice against alphas and omegas and the LGBTQ+ communities that it's a miracle that it's happening at all. Your special task force will be able to do a lot of good and prevent a lot of harm. What's the extent of your operation?"

"Unlimited. We've been given unilateral scope to work nationwide and across all levels of law enforcement both military and civilian. We are authorized to be the lead agency in any jurisdiction. Surprisingly, they didn't fight me when I said that the team would be inclusive of AOs, as there is no sound reason not to hire alphas and omegas."

"That is a bit of a shock. Considering the ban on AOs serving openly in the military has only recently been lifted."

"Yeah, the LEOs were ahead of the curve on that one. Though I guess in a way it would make sense that law enforcement officers on the local, state, and federal levels would need to have some AOs to help deal with crimes against their community. AO crime vics seem to open up better to one of their own."

"Well, can you blame 'em? Betas still make up the majority of the population and hold all the cards when it comes to education, employment, and positions of power. They still place the blame on AOs for being victims. I hope to all that's holy that what you're doing will change things for the better."

"That's the plan."

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Molly Redden at HuffPost:

A group at the center of conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo’s network funneled $750,000 to an influential new lobbying operation that pushes anti-LGBTQ+ legislation around the country, new tax records show. Do No Harm presents itself as a grassroots association of doctors against gender-affirming care and diversity efforts in the medical profession. The group, which was founded in 2022, does not disclose its donors. But newly disclosed tax filings provided to HuffPost by Accountable.US, a progressive watchdog, show that the Concord Fund, the funding arm of Leo’s network, donated $750,000 in 2022 to Do No Harm Action, the group’s official lobbying effort. Do No Harm also received more than $1.4 million from a nonprofit, the Project on Fair Representation, run by conservative activist Edward Blum, new records show. Blum, a conservative activist who helped engineer two Supreme Court cases that struck down affirmative action and major sections of the Voting Rights Act, is now a Do No Harm board member.

HuffPost previously revealed that Do No Harm received $1 million in seed funding from Joseph Edelman, a billionaire hedge fund CEO, and his wife, Suzy Edelman, who has said she considers “transgenderism” “a fiction designed to destroy.” Leo is best known as the kingpin of a decades-long effort to pack the federal judiciary with conservative judges. As the leader of the Federalist Society, Leo assembled a vast and secretive network of wealthy donors and nonprofits to amplify the power of the conservative legal movement, culminating in Leo handpicking the list of former President Donald Trump’s potential nominees to the Supreme Court. While some of his efforts are highly public, others, like the funding of Do No Harm, occur with little fanfare. The medley of conservative groups channeling money to Do No Harm underscores the growing belief on the right that attacking trans rights is “a political winner.”

[...] After Trump left office, Leo vastly expanded his efforts to target a wide spectrum of conservative policy goals and hobby horses. Powered in part by the largest known political donation in U.S. history — a $1.6 billion gift from a reclusive electronics mogul named Barre Seid — Leo’s network is now fueling political attacks on issues including abortion access, voting rights and critical race theory. Since 2022, the Concord Fund has received at least $55 million from the nonprofit that houses Seid’s gift, the Marble Trust. Do No Harm’s goals dovetail neatly with Leo’s expanded mission. The group has helped pay for activists and expert witnesses to travel the country, testifying in favor of bans on gender-affirming care for minors. On top of fighting to restrict transgender care, Do No Harm is suing Louisiana and Montana over modest efforts to diversify their state medical boards and trying to dismantle a Pfizer fellowship designed to put more Black, Latino and Native American medical professionals in leadership positions.

Concord Fund, the funding arm of right-wing megadonor Leonard Leo, is funding anti-trans and anti-DEI extremist group Do No Harm to push bans on gender-affirming healthcare for trans youths (and adults in some cases) and diversity initiatives in the medical profession.

[nerves-nebula]

You could add a "nerves 18+" tag, or just "18+"

I, as a minor, block about 19378282 tags relating to those kinds of topics just to stay safe!! I feel like encouraging other minors to block those types of tags could make things a bit easier!

It is a bit annoying, but honestly having a way to block that stuff would make me a lot more comfortable!!!

(again, just an idea, you don't have to take it!!!!)

Not a half bad idea. I think the tag I sometimes use is #nsft (not safe for tumblr since #nsfw was banned or something) but I haven’t used that one in a while

Another issue I have is that I’m not entirely sure when to use those kinds of tags. I’ve been told I have a warped view of what is and isn’t appropriate for kids to see/hear in media (My dad watched SVU with me when I was like 6, I have no metric for what’s too intense for the average kid aside from knowing most parents don’t want their kid to swear)

And since I’m not like, actively horny even when I do post more adult stuff, I tend to forget to apply the tags.

Likeeeee I wouldn’t apply adult tags to my art about CSA (for example the leo memory comic) unless it was something graphic, right? Cuz I already tag csa as it’s own trigger warning and I personally don’t mind kids seeing stories about that kind of stuff since it’s the kind of stuff that helped me out as a kid and like. If it’s not graphic or pornographic I don’t think it needs that label.

But also what if I’m wrong… I’ve been wrong about a lot of stuff before … idk I’m thinking myself into circles and it doesn’t even super matter rn. I got work tomorrow I think I’m just gonna go to sleep.

[floralflorence]

POV: Leo and Reg sneak off during a party. (Purely self-indulgent smut - sorry not sorry.)

Minors DNI :)

"Hey, handsome." Leo jumped slightly at the arms suddenly wrapping around his waist, almost spilling the coke he was adding to Logan's drink. He put the bottle down, deftly screwing the lid back on before turning, leaning his lower back against the counter.

"You scared me," Leo laughed, leaning down to press a kiss to his forehead.

"Désole, Peanut. Could I maybe...make it up to you?" Reg drawled in a low whisper, pushing up onto his tiptoes to kiss him slowly, balancing using a hand on Leo's torso. With a surprised hum at the intensity, Leo cupped Reg's cheek to pull him in closer, another hand coming to support the small of his back.

"Knutty, if we could remember that's my little brother, that'd be great," Sirius called from the doorway of the kitchen, his voice carrying over the noise of the team party in the Cubs' living room. Leo just stuck a thumb up behind Reg's back before slipping his hand around to the back of his head, tugging him in as he slipped his tongue into his mouth. They pulled away with a wet sound, Leo stroking a thumb across Reg's bottom lip.

"You're forgiven," he mumbled, surprised, grinning when Reg laughed loudly.

"You're banned from wearing these shirts when you're party hosting," Reg replied indignantly, wrapping his arms around Leo's neck.

After glancing down at his shirt, which really would have just been a normal shirt if it wasn't for the obscenely tight fit. "Oh really? Why's that, hm?"

"Because you're a good host and won't agree to disappear upstairs with me," he pouted back.

Leo debated for a minute before leaning down and pressing a kiss just below Reg's ear, whispering into it softly.

"You know, there are two more hosts. No one would miss us if we slipped into the bathroom for a few minutes."

Reg pulled back to look him in the eyes for a moment. "You better be serious about that," he mumbled, sliding his hand slowly down Leo's torso after a quick look back at the doorway. Leo's eyes fluttered when Reg cupped him through his jeans, adding slight amounts of pressure as he groaned.

"Bathroom. Allez."

Doing a terrible job of not looking too proud of himself, Reg tangled his fingers with Leo's, tugging him along behind him. "Shit - one sec," Leo said, grabbing Logan's cup from the counter and sprinting into the living room to give it to him, that being the whole reason he was in the kitchen in the first place. Reg hovered by the door to the downstairs bathroom, trying to look inconspicuous. He had to stifle a laugh behind his hand as he watched Kasey desperately try and focus on the conversation he was having with Celeste and Logan. His main distraction came in the form of Alex, stood next to him talking with Finn and Dumo, tracing and raking his nails up and down Kasey's arm mindlessly.

"Hey, change your mind?" Leo swam into view suddenly, a smirk playing on his features.

"With you looking like that? I don't think so." They slipped silently into the bathroom, Reg rising up onto his toes to cup both sides of his neck and pull him down to kiss him.

"Tu es si joli," Leo breathed between kisses, his hands running down the strong planes of Reg's back to his ass, kneading the flesh roughly in his palms.

"Show me then." Leo slipped his grip slightly lower, holding the backs of his thighs and lifting him, pressing his back up against the door of the bathroom as his kisses trailed down to his neck. Reg's fingers tangled in his hair, tugging harshly as Leo's teeth nipped and marked along his skin. "Fuck me, baby."

He felt Leo grin wolfishly against his neck before he paused. "Fuck. We don't have lube in here."

"Don't need it."

Leo pulled away, looking up at Reg with a faux-annoyed look. "Fucking knew you and Tremz took too long to get ready."

"You try being in the same room as Lo while he's half-naked and see if you're not bending him over the nearest flat surface," Reg rebutted, giving him a knowing look.

"I'm guessing it didn't take much persuading for you to let him bend you over either," Leo whispered.

Reg hummed, shrugging noncommittally before tightening his legs around Leo's waist. "You three can be very persuasive when you want to be. Lucky for you there's no persuasion necessary today, I'm in the mood to be railed in a bathroom." Reg leaned forwards and sucked Leo's bottom lip into his mouth, laving his tongue along it and digging his teeth in before letting it spring back. Seemingly the last straw for Leo, he dropped his grip on the back of Reg's legs, lowering him gently to the floor before placing a palm between his shoulder blades pushing until he got the message and bent over the marble counter of the sink.

The coolness of it made Reg's breath catch before a moan slipped from his lips as Leo tugged down his waistband until it hooked under his ass. Leo groaned softly when his hard cock finally slipped from the tight confines of his jeans, slicking himself up slightly with spit, checking in with Reg quickly then pressing his tip against the still lube-slick ring of muscle.

''Dieu, how are you still so tight after taking Lo.''

'''S that a complaint I hear there, Knut?''

Leo huffed out a laugh that trailed into a moan when he bottomed out in him, his hips stilling as his eyes fluttered. The only thing stopping them from closing entirely was Reg's reflection in the mirror, his cheek pressed against the marble but tilted up to the mirror still as his brows pinched in the centre.

''I thought I specified that I was in the mood to be railed, non?'' Reg's voice sassed even as his grip was tight on the edge of the surface. Always one to give his boys whatever they asked him for, Leo took that idea and rolled with it. He pulled out and pushed back in once, making sure Reg's expression didn't waver with pain. It didn't.

His hand, that had moved back to rest between Reg's shoulder blades slid up to wrap over top of his shoulder, holding him there as he began pumping his hips furiously, biting his lip, well aware there was family right on the other side of the door. After pushing up to rest his elbows on the counter, Reg made eye contact with him in the mirror, cheeks flushed, eyes hooded as he already looked fucked out. He seemed to be struggling with this despite trying his hardest to keep his noises down. Moving quickly, Leo moved his hand again to wrap around and cover his mouth, surprised when Reg's eyes rolled back and he moaned loudly into his hand. Not being able to help being proud of himself, Leo went harder, hoping the sounds of their hips meeting weren't too loud but honestly not really overly caring when his boyfriend was moaning like that because of him.

When Leo's hips shifted as he shuffled his feet so he was more stable, he grinned and focused his thrusts more when Reg's hand shot out for something to grab but didn't find anything that wasn't flat surface; meaning his ended up with one hand gripping Leo's wrist tightly, the other pressed palm-flat against the mirror, his legs trembling. His moans were getting more and more discernible the more Leo's tip pounded against his prostate, making Leo lean down to mumble in his ear, his lips brushing the shell of it, his voice deep and hoarse while he made dead eye contact with him in mirrored surface.

''Gotta be quiet, remember? Can't have Cap knowing his baby brother's too needy for cock to wait a few hours.'' Leo broke off with a deep groan as Reg's walls tightened around him. ''Such a little slut, turning me on in the kitchen where everyone can see. Did you want me to just bend you over the counter right there? Hold my hand over your mouth to keep you quiet for me and fuck you in the corner of the room where anyone could walk in, hm? Voudrais-tu ça, mon coeur?'' Reg nodded as best he could, whimpering while a tear slowly slid down his cheek, Leo's thumb unconsciously swiping it away.

'''M gonna cum,'' Reg's muffled voice came from behind his hand.

''I know - I can feel you fucking milking me, sweetheart,'' Leo teased him, a cocky smirk on his face.

Reg resisted the urge to roll his eyes - this man and his fucking ego sometimes. Although, he supposed it was only annoying because he was right. Leo had a lot of skills but he had a few things he was an outright expert at (this being one of them) and Leo knew exactly what they were.

He could tell that Leo was getting close too, the hand that had been gripping the counter to keep himself steady moving to hold desperately onto Reg's hip.

''Shit, you take it so well. Take me just like that for me, darlin'. Cum for me, baby, c'mon,'' Leo encouraged when Reg mumbled senselessly, his eyes fighting not to roll back. With his grip on Leo's wrist tightening almost painfully, Reg came with a shudder and high-pitched whine, breathy moans slipping through Leo's fingers as he rode it out with Leo's still-moving hips. His walls flexing around him made Leo groan, deep and long in his ear. ''You're gonna make me cum. God, I love you,'' he mumbled, tucking his face into Reg's neck, hips stilling as he went completely silent.

They caught their breaths for a minute, Leo staying with his forehead in his neck, Reg leaning heavily on his elbows. ''You think people have noticed we disappeared yet?'' Reg spoke; his tone was joking and tired.

With an equally exhausted laugh, Leo propped his chin on his shoulder and smiled at him in the mirror. ''I really fucking hope not.'' He gently cleaned up the cum that had dripped down Reg's thighs and tugged his boxers and trousers back up his legs with a small pat to his hips before doing the same to himself. ''Bon?''

''Parfait,'' Reg smiled, turning to wrap his arms around Leo's neck, leaning his body weight against his chest. ''Kiss.''

Complying, Leo scattered soft kisses to his lips. ''D'accord, allez.'' Reg slipped out before him, the two desperately trying to look like they hadn't just fucked. Leo met Logan's eye where he was leant back against Finn's chest, the pair talking with Alex and Nat - Kasey was there too, just not talking, more than content in his quite tipsy state to just remained tucked under Alex's arm with Nat stroking mindless circles on his lower back. Logan's greeting smile quickly turned into a look of mock-betrayal as he nudged Finn and nodded over to them. ''I think we've been discovered,'' Reg whispered to him.

Leo's arms snaked around his waist, his nose brushing the hair that curled above Reg's ear. ''Feel like teasing them?''

''Always,'' he answered immediately. He let Leo turn him in his arms, smiling when he slid his hands down to grip handfuls of his ass and pull him into him. Capturing Reg's lips in a sensual kiss full of tongue, Leo flicked his eyes over Reg's shoulder and looked at Logan first, then at Finn. He closed his eyes and slipped a hand up the prominent line of Reg's spine to cup the back of his head, guiding him to tilt it to deepen the kiss.

''Nutty! My brother!'' Sirius' voice echoed, trying to sound mad but breaking out into laughs when everyone else did too at his bantering.

He pulled away, heading over to join their boyfriends.

''Remind me to use the upstairs bathroom,'' Alex faux-whispered to Nat, a teasing smile playing on his lips. Leo tried sputtering an excuse before he gave up, seeing even Reg look up at him with a grin that told him there was no chance they'd believe him.

In the end, Leo just shrugged. ''He's hot.'' The small group burst out laughing at the relatable statement before falling back to whatever they were talking about before.

[thee-achilles]

GUSTAV MAHLER: A PARTIAL NATAL CHART ANALYSIS (HOUSES 1-6)

🧿DO NOT STEAL MY WORK OR KARMA WILL FIND YOU.🧿

hey guys :) i was searching through my old projects and i found this! i did this analysis for a creative project in order to get my position as drum major. if it seems too over-explanatory, it’s because i was describing all of this to people who didn’t know anything about astrology. also, this was written like a year ago, so my knowledge on astrology and placements has definitely expanded since then. if anything seems “out-of-date,” that’s why. either way. i hope y’all enjoy!! i had a lot of fun making this post to share this analysis with you all!! :) <3 (also i do not know the titles of these paintings. i do know that the middle one is mahler, though! so if anyone can tell me the names and their artists, it would be much appreciated!!!!)

WHO WAS GUSTAV MAHLER?

Gustav Mahler was a composer during the romantic period. He is of Austro-Bohemian decent, and is best known for his 10 symphonies. A fun fact about him is that a the main tune for “Be Our Guest” from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast came from his Symphony No. 3. Like most amazing artists, he didn’t become famous until years after his death. The performance of his music was banned in most of Europe during the era of Nazi rule and later rediscovered by new listeners. Since then, he has become one of the most recreated composers and has since kept this position going into the 20th century. (source(s): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler, https://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/be-our-guest-and-mahlers-symphony-no-3-54610.html)

INTRODUCTION:

This is Gustav Mahler’s birth chart. He was born on Saturday, July 7, 1860, in Kalischt, Czech Republic at 10:15 p.m. Everything in a chart has an important meaning; from the degree, to the house, to the sign, to the planet. To give a breakdown, the top left of the screen is his birth time information, below that is his planet’s signs and degrees, the tiny chart below that is the elements and modalities in his chart, and the tiny triangle under that are his chart’s aspects. To the right of all of that, is his chart. Each chart has 12 houses. These houses start from the AC, or the ascendant. However, today, I will only be evaluating 6 out of the 12 houses.

As you can see from Mahler’s chart, his ascendant is in Pisces at 9°. His first house also contains his Neptune, which is the planetary ruler of Pisces. From the other charts of talented musicians that I have evaluated, a lot of them seem to have heavy Pisces influence. This even extends to the talented musicians within our own community. (3 of excellent musicians in the band) are all Pisces suns. My brother has multiple planets in Pisces, which forms a stellium in his chart. A stellium is when 3 or more planets are in a sign or when 3 or more planets are in a house. Sometimes, these 3+ planets can ALL reside in the same house, which focuses a ton of energy of that chart towards that house.

STELLIUMS

In reference to stelliums within Mahler’s chart, he has a stellium in Leo which resides in his 6th house. His Venus, Mercury, Saturn, and Jupiter are all in Leo and all reside in his 6H.

However, we will get to what all of that means later. As of right now, I want to break his chart down house by house, planet by planet, sign by sign.

HOUSE 1: THE HOUSE OF SELF

So, let’s start with the first house. As I said before, Mahler has a Pisces ascendant, so his first house is in Pisces. His first house contains his Neptune at 29°. The first house represents how we see ourselves and others’ first impressions of us when they meet us. The planets or sign of this house can ultimately affect our personality, and the 1H is The House of Self.

Neptune is the ruler of illusions and delusions, intuition and dreams, mysticism, the imagination, mental illness, the unknown, and is a major pinpoint of isolation (along with Saturn). This planet is also said to rule celebrities, as they give the public an illusion of what they’re like vs. what they’re actually like. His Neptune is in its house sign of Pisces, so the sign and the planet are in harmony meaning they will act in the same mannerisms. However, his Neptune is at 29°. 29° is the highest degree at which signs in planets can go to, making this a critical degree. 29° emphasizes the energy of the planet and its rulerships and can even signify fame. This degree is ruled by Leo.

Mahler was known, according to Connolly Music, to “suffer from skepticism, nervous tension, and an obsession with death.” The fact that Neptune is so prevalent in his chart is one of the main reasons why he is this way. The themes of Neptune and its critical degree, as you can see, affected his overall personality.

About the unknown and mysticism part of Neptune, Mahler hid from his wife the fact that he was Jewish and even converted to Christianity in order to have a successful conducting career. Alma, Mahler’s wife, was insanely anti-semitic, and never knew he was Jewish for a long time.

About the isolation part of Neptune, Mahler had a composition hut in Austria in which he used to finish his Second and Third Symphony and a few songs from his Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Funnily enough, this hut was positioned by Lake Attersee. Neptune, in Roman mythology, is known as the God of Freshwater and the Sea. Not only did he like to work in seclusion, he also liked to work near a body of water. He was also known as “an avid swimmer and mountain walker.” It’s just very funny for me to see things like this work hand in hand.

HOUSE 2: THE HOUSE OF VALUE

Mahler’s second house is in the sign of Taurus. While it should be in Aries, Mahler has what is called Intercepted Houses. This is when the sign of a house skips or repeats itself. However, this doesn’t mean that Aries does not exist in Mahler’s chart, however all 30 degrees of it is in the 1H. The reason why this happens is because the northern and southern latitudes of the 12 houses are not evenly spaced. This results in a sign being hidden and not easily accessible, though it is still there.

In this case, the house intercepted is in Aries. Aries governs over confidence and passion. It is ruled by Mars. As we can see by the description of Mahler’s personality, he suffered from skepticism and feared the unknown. He was unable to channel that Martian energy in his chart, thus leaving him unconfident.

Moving forward, the second house governs over personal finances, material items, self worth, and inner desires of gain. This house could also express one’s system of values. Mahler has his Pluto in the 2H in Taurus at 9°. Taurus is ruled by Venus and governs over the 2H, so it's right at home here. Pluto is the planet of destruction and transformation. When this is in the house of finances, a lot can go wrong as well as right. In terms of money, this route can take extreme rises as well as extreme falls. The people who have this placement can either be born into humble circumstances or be born into vast wealth. Mahler, of course, was born into humility, and had multiple rises and falls in his income. People with this placement also tend to have a small view on themselves and have a desire for control. This was very evident in the way that Mahler was described.

Since his 2H is in Taurus and intercepted houses are in effect, this means that four of the houses that continue after will be under their traditional sign of rulership. In Mahler’s chart, this is his second, third, eighth, and ninth.

HOUSE 3: THE HOUSE OF COMMUNICATIONS

The third house in Mahler’s chart is in Gemini. The third house rules communication, siblings, early education, perception, and transport. His Uranus resides in this house at 10°. Uranus rules everything eccentric, unpredictable, and creative/scientific brilliance. Having his Uranus in the 3H is a symbol of some kind of genius, though they often struggle in school.

Many reports say that Gustav Mahler was very “unreliable” in his academic school work. In order to fix this, his father had sent him away to the Newtown Gymnasium in Prague. Then, he ended up going to the Vienna Conservatory in order to study music. Here, Mahler’s rebellious flag flew as well, though he graduated. This is a fine example of transportation and struggling in school that Uranus so represents in the 3H.

Another example of his Uranus in the 3H working is that his siblings and their relationship with them weren’t “conventional”. His sister, Justine, had extreme possessiveness over Mahler and even went to extremes to make sure his romances were ruined. This was before he met Alma and told Justine that her behavior couldn’t continue. This encounter ruined Justine’s relationship with her brother. Many of Mahler’s siblings died during his early childhood including his older brother, who would’ve been the oldest of the 14 had he not passed. He also assumed responsibility for all of his surviving siblings after the death of his parents in 1889. This “unusual” responsibility can also be represented by the 10° that Uranus is in. 10° is under the rulership of Capricorn, which is ruled by Saturn. Saturn rules responsibility.

HOUSE 4: THE HOUSE OF HOME

Again, intercepted houses are at play here. Mahler’s fourth house is also in Gemini. There is not a planet in this house, meaning that only the sign is affecting this house. This also means that there is less tension pointed to this house in his chart. The 4H rules family, home, parents (specifically the mother), and the emotional base of our satisfaction.

Since Gemini is in this house, Mahler’s family life and home was constantly changing. This is very evident in his constant moving-about during his early childhood. Gemini in this house can also talk about a specific connection between one parent, though emotions in this sign are often rationalized. Mahler had a strong relationship with his father, who supported him in what would eventually be his career (music). He cared a lot for Mahler to make a stable income and put this first. Funnily enough, the 4H opposes the 10H, the house OF career.

HOUSE 5: THE HOUSE OF PLEASURE

When we talk about the 5H, we usually associate it with pleasure. This pleasure is usually derived from self-expression, creative hobbies, desire, children, and the showing of individuality. This is one of my favorite houses to talk about in astrology and placements here make it all the more interesting. Mahler’s 5H is in Cancer, the sign of emotional/physical well-being and comfort.

Traditionally ruled by Leo, Mahler’s sun in Cancer at 15° is right at home here. To me, the sun shines the brightest here because it’s in its home house. Since it’s the only planet here, it’s definitely giving the most energy.

A great explanation as to how rulership works out in astrology would be how Mahler passed away. The only reason why I bring this up here is because his 5H shows kind of a preview of what he was under before he died.

Mahler found out his heart was defective after his daughter, Maria Anna, died of scarlet fever. The discovery was made immediately after her passing. He was very stressed out beforehand and after her death, expressing his exhaustion was very hard. I believe this took a toll on his health, as he was unable to properly express himself and stress tends to build up in the heart.

He performed his last concert and left for Europe. He then was taken to a sanitarium to be treated. A few days later with no improvement, Mahler passed away. He was buried next to his daughter Anna Maria, as per request, on May 22 with only his name on his tombstone. He said this to be so because “any who come to look for me will know who I was and the rest don’t need to know.”

His death can also be represented in his sixth house, which I will further explain when we get there.

HOUSE 6: THE HOUSE OF HEALTH AND OCCUPATION

Out of all of the 12 houses in astrology, this one is definitely in my top 3 to discuss. The 6H can tell us so much about our potential careers as well as what our health could look like. This house rules health, occuations, and physical limitations. Though this house is traditionally ruled by Virgo, in Mahler’s chart it’s in Leo.

As I said before, Leo rules self-expression. One of the many ways of self-expression is performance. Frankly, if you haven’t noticed, Mahler’s got a lot of Leo in his 6H; he’s got a stellium, so it isn’t exactly surprising that he chose a career where his self most resonated and could be displayed in the public with an artistic flair. He also has his Venus, the planetary ruler of music and all things art, in this house as well at a powerful degree. Venus in his 6H is at 2° . 2° is ruled by Taurus and is often called the degree of power. It’s a very ambitious degree to have and it’s often what we pursue. 2° here under Venus shows that Mahler pursued music and put all of his ambition into it.

Here alongside Venus, are Jupiter, Mercury, and Saturn. Jupiter makes a conjunction to his Venus. Jupiter rules expansion, education, joviality, and abundance. When it is in a positive aspect to Venus, Jupiter enhances and expands Venus’s properties. This is an aspect I see in a lot of musicians as well, so I thought I would mention it here.

Like I said when I was discussing the 5H, there were a lot of factors in the 5H and the 6H that portrayed a preview of what Mahler was under before he passed. Since the 6H rules health, the 6H can tell a lot about the illness that caused Mahler’s death. Like the 5H, there is Leo influence. This again is pointing towards the heart problems that Mahler had with his heart as well as his job as a musician. Whenever my brother told me that Mahler had died of a heart condition, the first thing that caught my eye was his stellium in this house. I told him that it wasn’t surprising considering the huge amount of Leo influence here.

Mahler overexerted himself and then died in a sanitarium. Both of these things are represented by the 6H. When Mahler was on his deathbed, many people went to visit and expressed how much they loved him. Attention is ruled by Leo and Virgo/6H can represent places where health purification takes place. Him also having Saturn here, the planet of long-term effects and karma, indicates that his health issues had a long-term effect on not only him, but the people around him and that his daughter’s death could have been a factor leading to his death as well. All things health related can be pointed to the 6H and I think it is one of the easiest houses to read in astrology.

DEGREES:

Below, I listed some degrees that were indicators of his success and degrees that repeated.

Degrees of Fame and Success within Mahler’s Chart:

Neptune at 29°.

Venus and North Node at 2°.

North Node is our “path” in life and Mahler having this at 2° in Aquarius (ruled by Uranus, planet of eccentricity and community) proved that he was meant to do something that while was different from other people, was still extremely influential. His North Node resides in his twelfth house.

Repeating Degrees:

9°, 21°- Sagittarius Degrees

Sagittarian degrees, like all degrees, add the characteristics of a sign to the body it’s effecting. Sagittarius rules freedom, passion, and intellectuality. Mahler was incredibly passionate about what he wanted to do and he wanted to do it his way. Despite his uncertainty about the people around him and his true identity, he knew he found some sort of comfort in creating and learning about music while having the freedom to do so.

2°- Taurus degrees

2° is the degree of power and has extreme influence. This influence can be used for good or bad, and I’m thankful Mahler used it to elevate his musical career.

CONCLUSION:

I think all of these situations being displayed in Mahler’s chart can show that astrology can have the ability to predict events or tell of events that have already passed. Of course, you still don’t have to believe in everything I said here, I just think it’s neat! I only did 6 out of the 12 houses because this would have been probably 20 or more pages worth of information, and I did not want to make this longer than it already was. Either way, I hope you enjoyed! :)

© thee-achilles 2023

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RWBY Closed Captioning

Featuring the first example from each character.

I recommend watching something like Up, Toy Story 3, Planes: Fire & Rescue, Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur, Soul, or Luca on Disney+ and paying attention to the way the subtitles. Very close attention.

Here’s a demonstration:

General

ALL:

BOTH:

(CHARACTER) AND (CHARACTER):

Team RWBY

“Black” Trailer

BLAKE: Move!

“Yellow” Trailer

YANG: (SIGHS) It’s a long story.

1x1: “Ruby Rose”

RUBY: Huh?

1x2: “The Shining Beacon”

WEISS: What are you doing?

Team JNPR

1x2: “The Shining Beacon”

JAUNE: Hey.

1x4: “The First Step”

NORA: Whoo!

1x5: “The First Step, Pt. 2”

PYRRHA: I’m sorry!

1x8: “Players and Pieces”

REN: Nora!

4x10: “Kuroyuri”

YOUNG REN: Can we take it home and plant it in the garden?

Team STRQ

3x2: “New Challengers…”

QROW: (DRUNK) Happy Vytal Festival.

3x12: “End of the Beginning”

TAIYANG: (SIGHS) Nothing.

4x4: “Family”

RAVEN: I told you Beacon would fall, and it did.

9x1: “A Place of Particular Concern”

SUMMER: This is the story of a girl.

Beacon Academy Staff

1x1: “Ruby Rose”

OZPIN: But perhaps victory

GLYNDA: I hope you realize that your actions tonight

1x9: “The Badge and the Burden”

PORT: Monsters. Demons.

1x12: “Jaunedice, Pt. 2”

OOBLECK: Yes, yes. Prior to the Faunus Rights Revolution,

Salem’s Inner Circle

1x1: “Ruby Rose”

MYSTERIOUS NARRATOR: Legends. Stories scattered through time.

ROMAN TORCHWICK: Persistent.

1x16: “Black and White”

CINDER: How very disappointing, Roman.

2x1: “Best Day Ever”

EMERALD: (GIGGLES) ‘Scuse me, sorry.

MERCURY: So how much farther?

3x1: “Round One”

NEO: Hmm.

3x12: “End of the Beginning”

SALEM: A smaller, more honest soul.

4x1: “The Next Step”

ARTHUR WATTS: You hear that?

4x5: “Menagerie”

TYRIAN: Excuse me.

4x10: “Kuroyuri”

HAZEL: Don’t let such a small obstacle block your path.

5x1: “Welcome to Haven”

LEO LIONHEART: We may have dealt with Grimm,

5x3: “Unforeseen Complications”

VERNAL: Straight to the point. I like it.

6x7: “The Grimm Reaper”

TOCK: Well, that’s a fancy trick, now, innit?

8x8: “Dark”

THE HOUND: Take the girl.

Atlas Military

2x3: “A Minor Hiccup”

PENNY: Oh.

JAMES IRONWOOD: The AK-130 has been a standard security model

3x3: “It’s Brawl in the Family”

WINTER: They had reason to assume you’d been compromised.

6x10: “Stealing from the Elderly”

CAROLINE CORDOVIN: I was relieved to hear

Ruby’s Group

2x8: “Field Trip”

(ZWEI BARKING)

4x7: “Punished”

OSCAR: Shut up!

6x1: “Argus Limited”

MARIA: Still alive!

7x1: “The Greatest Kingdom”

PIETRO: And no more heavy lifting, you hear?

Team SSSNN

1x15: “The Stray”

SUN: I knew you looked better without the bow.

2x1: “Best Day Ever”

NEPTUNE: Dude.

3x2: “New Challengers…”

(NOLAN GRUNTING)

SAGE: Neptune! What are you doing?!

SCARLET: Gotcha!

Team CFVY

1x11: “Jaunedice”

VELVET: Ow! That hurts!

3x4: “Lessons Learned”

YATSUHASHI: Coco.

3x10: “Battle of Beacon”

COCO: Velvet!

Ace-Operatives

7x1: “The Greatest Kingdom”

CLOVER: Good work, team.

7x2: “A New Approach”

MARROW: So that was the second time I got banned.

ELM: I feel so bad, honestly!

7x3: “Ace-Operatives”

HARRIET: (OVER EARPIECE) Bravo, checking in.

VINE: (OVER EARPIECE) Everyone use caution.

Happy Huntresses

7x5: “Sparks”

ROBYN: (SIGHS) I was hoping you’d play it straight with me.

7x6: “A Night Off”

FIONA: I- I’m okay. I’m okay.

8x1: “Divide”

JOANNA: Inside.

MAY: I know.

The White Fang

“Black” Trailer

ADAM: Blake. It’s time.

4x5: “Menagerie”

GHIRA: Kali? Who is it?

KALI: Ghira.

CORSAC: We understand if you bear any skepticism towards these claims.

FENNEC: An interesting development. Wouldn’t you say?

5x1: “Welcome to Haven”

ILIA: You need better security.

Schnee Manor

4x2: “Remembrance”

WHITLEY: Good afternoon, sister.

JACQUES: I’m not talking about the good of my company.

KLEIN: Hot coffee, Miss Schnee?

7x8: “Cordially Invited”

WILLOW: Hello, darling.

Ancient Times

6x2: “Uncovered”

JINN: Once upon a time,

6x3: “The Lost Fable”

GOD OF LIGHT: I understand your pain.

GOD OF DARKNESS: Rise, child.

OZMA: Are we sure this is right?

Xiong Family

2x4: “Painting the Town…”

JUNIOR: Stop, stop! Nobody shoot!

MILTIA AND MELANIE: Whatever.

6x5: “The Coming Storm”

LIL’ MISS MALACHITE: That’s enough, ladies!

Team CRDL

1x11: “Jaunedice, Pt. 2”

CARDIN: (CHUCKLING) Oh, Jaune.

1x14: “Forever Fall, Pt. 2”

RUSSEL: That’s a big Ursa!

2x5: “Extracurricular”

- (DOVE SCREAMING)

- (LARK GRUNTING)

Team FNKI

3x5: “Neon”

FLYNT: Hey.

NEON: (MOCKING YANG) “Hey, why don’t you…?”

7x5: “Sparks”

(KOBALT GROANS)

Arc Family

6x7: “The Grimm Reaper”

SAPHRON: There you are!

6x10: “Stealing from the Elderly”

(ADRIAN CRYING)

TERRA: Okay.

The Ever After

9x1: “A Place of Particular Concern”

JABBERWALKER: Seeking.

LITTLE: Why not? You seem trustworthy.

9x2: “Altercation at the Auspicious Auction”

JINXY: The diamond-studded rabbit!

9x3: “Rude, Red, and Royal”

RED PRINCE: So, what exactly do you desire

CURIOUS CAT: Your Majesty.

9x4: “A Cat Most Curious”

HERBALIST: What are you?

9x5: “The Parfait Predicament”

BLACKSMITH: Does that one interest you?

(JUNIPER CHITTERING)

9x10: “Of Solitude and Self”

ALYX: You never were the hero.

SOMEWHAT: Wait!

Minor Characters

“White” Trailer

ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Weiss Schnee.

“Black” Trailer

AK-130 ANDROID: Intruder. Identify yourself.

1x1: “Ruby Rose”

XIONG GOON: Crystals.

CYRIL IAN: The robbery was led by nefarious criminal Roman Torchwick,

1x15: “The Stray”

POLICE OFFICER 2: They left all the money again.

POLICE OFFICER 1: Yeah, it just doesn’t make a lick of sense.

SAILOR 1: Hey! Stop that Faunus!

SAILOR 2: You no-good stowaway!

1x16: “Black and White”

PENNY’S DRIVER: You should know better

2x1: “Best Day Ever”

SHOPKEEP: Hmm. Mm-hmm.

TUKSON: Be right there!

2x3: “A Minor Hiccup”

CCT AI: Hello. Welcome to the CCT. How may I help you?

STUDENT: Hi, Mom. How are things back in Signal?

SCHNEE CORP OPERATOR: Are you sure you wouldn’t like me

ATLAS SOLDIER 1: Down here! She went this way!

- STUDENT 1: Did you see that?

- (STUDENTS MURMURING)

STUDENT 2: Do you think she’s okay?

STUDENT 3: Do we need to call the police?

STUDENT 4: Did she stop that with her bare hands?

2x4: “Painting the Town…”

ATLAS SOLDIER 2: Check down here!

XIONG GOON 1: Hurry! Close the door! She’s coming!

XIONG GOON 2: She’s back!

WHITE FANG GOON: New recruits, keep to the right.

WHITE FANG LIEUTENANT: Thank you all for coming.

2x7: “Dance Dance Infiltration”

(STUDENTS LAUGHING)

ATLAS SOLDIER: Excuse me. No one’s allowed in this area.

2x10: “Mountain Glenn”

WHITE FANG GOON 1: What was that?

WHITE FANG GOON 2: What was what?

WHITE FANG GUARD: Where did she come from?

2x11: “No Brakes”

WHITE FANG MEMBER: Give me a hand. I can’t reach it.

WHITE FANG GOON 3: Hey, be careful!

2x12: “Breach”

COUNCILMAN: Ozpin?

3x1: “Round One”

(REESE GRUNTING)

(ARSLAN GRUNTING)

BOLIN: But who’s got yours?

NADIR: Thanks, Reese!

3x2: “New Challengers…”

(ROY GRUNTING)

(ZEDONG GRUNTS)

BRAWNZ: What do you think you’re doing?

NEBULA: Alright! Home field advantage!

DEW: Hey, the ocean!

(GWEN GRUNTS)

(OCTAVIA GRUNTS)

3x4: “Lessons Learned”

VIDEO GAME ANNOUNCER: Soaring Ninja wins!

3x6: “Fall”

ATLAS SOLDIER: Yang Xiao Long, stand down!

3x7: “Beginning of the End”

SALESMAN: A beautiful ring for a beautiful woman.

WOMAN: I’m sorry?

MAN: She went that way!

LARGE MAN: He lives on the mountains with his son.

INN KEEPER: Ah, yes. She was just here yesterday.

(CHILD CRYING)

AMBER: Huh?

SECURITY GUARD: Stow it! You’ve already caused enough of a scene!

3x8: “Destiny”

NEWS REPORTER: Despite Atlas reinforcements,

3x9: “PvP”

BROADCAST OP: Something’s wrong! We don’t have control over the cameras!

WARNING ANNOUNCER: (OVER P.A.) Alert. Incoming Grimm attack.

BLUE THREE: Roger! Blue Three, in position!

BLUE FOUR: We’re hit! What’s going-

3x10: “Battle of Beacon”

(STUDENTS PANICKING)

(GIRL CRYING)

4x1: “The Next Step”

BLACKSMITH: Can’t have a Huntsman without his weapon.

4x3: “Of Runaways and Stowaways”

CAPTAIN: Traveling alone?

REPORTER 1: With no end in sight, try as they might,

REPORTER 2: Though the fail safes

LISA LAVENDER: Multiple rumors continue to circulate

FIRST MATE: Fully functional, Captain.

4x4: “Family”

OSCAR’S AUNT: Oscar? You be careful with those tools!

(HIGANBANA WAITRESS GASPS)

4x6: “Tipping Point”

BUSINESSMAN: Well, I think the bigger issue here

BUSINESSWOMAN: I mean, what exactly are you suggesting?

HENRY: It’s beautiful.

ANGRY BUSINESSMAN: No, no, no!

WAITER: I’m so sorry, sir.

TROPHY WIFE: But really,

4x10: “Kuroyuri”

AN: (GIGGLES) Why, hello, little Lie.

TALL BOY: Hey! Get back here!

MEDIUM BOY: Does that mean I have rabies?

LI: Listen to me, son.

4x12: “No Safe Haven”

MISTRAL PILOT: We were on patrol and saw the smoke.

TRAIN ANNOUNCER: (OVER P.A.) Approaching. City of Mistral.

5x1: “Welcome to Haven”

CARGO PILOT: We’re in the home stretch now.

FEMALE PILOT: (OVER RADIO) Mayday, mayday!

MENAGERIE GUARD: Good evening, miss. Can I get you anything?

SHAY D. MANN: Are you telling me you’re too young to drink?

5x2: “Dread in the Air”

SIENNA KHAN: Adam.

5x4: “Lighting the Fire”

BANDIT: That’s enough!

5x5: “Necessary Sacrifice”

MATA’S MOTHER: Mata!

MATA: Mom!

5x6: “Known by its Song”

RAMEN SHOP OWNER: Well, in that case,

SMALL GIRL: Daddy?

5x8: “Alone Together”

TRIFA: Huh?

5x10: “True Colors”

FAUNUS 1: Isn’t that the White Fang girl?

FAUNUS 2: I thought she hated the Belladonnas.

OLDER FAUNUS MAN: I’ll stand with you!

5x13: “Downfall”

WF MEMBER 1: Who’s there?

POLICE CAPTAIN: (ON P.A.) Adam Taurus!

WF MEMBER 2: Hey, wait!

6x1: “Argus Limited”

WF GUARD 1: I can’t believe he turned his back on us.

WF GUARD 2: We? Everyone knows what you did!

WF GUARD 3: We’re not taking orders from you!

DUDLEY: Huh?

DEE: Well, I didn’t do it, either.

6x2: “Uncovered”

MISTRAL WOMAN: Gods, are you okay?

NEWSCASTER: (ON TV) The perpetrators,

6x3: “The Lost Fable”

YOUNGEST DAUGHTER: Mommy?

6x8: “Dead End”/6x10: “Stealing from the Elderly”

NUBUCK GUARDS: Very well!

NUBUCK GUARD 1: Nonsense!

NUBUCK GUARD 2: Allow me to assist you as well!

6x9: “Lost”

RED HAIRED WOMAN: It’s really beautiful, isn’t it?

6x10: “Stealing from the Elderly”

TERMINAL SOLDIER: Ma’am, we’ve got something on radar.

6x12: “Seeing Red”

ATLAS SOLDIER: Ma’am, we’ve been trying to reach you.

ARGUS AIR CONTROL: All units, be advised!

6x13: “Our Way”

MANTA 2-2: We’re getting slammed by hostiles out here!

MANTA 3-4: Argus Base, this is Manta 3-4!

MANTA 2-1: Target stopped! Engaging, over!

MANTA 2-4: All squadrons, fall back to evacuation procedures!

AIR TRAFFIC FEMALE: Manta 5-1, welcome home.

7x1: “The Greatest Kingdom”

CIVILIAN 1: (GROANS) Not these again.

CIVILIAN 2: Why can’t they just leave us be?

ATLAS SOLDIER: It landed over there! Let’s go!

DRUNK MANN: Yeah?

7x2: “A New Approach”

PILOT 1: You threw a brick at our ship.

FOREST: Hmm?

PILOT 2: Please let us help you.

WOMAN: Oh, no! Gosh.

7x5: “Sparks”

(MOMS GIGGLING)

FRIA: Good morning.

7x6: “A Night Off”

NEWSCASTER: Although rioting in Mantle is finally under control,

MANTLE CITIZEN: It’s Ironwood’s robot!

7x7: “Worst Case Scenario”

MANTLE PATROL: Stop running! Wait!

NEWS BROADCASTER: Though military officials

AK-200 DRIVER: Civilian, you are obstructing

ATLAS SOLDIER: Everything alright over here?

ATLAS SOLDIER 1: This way, hurry!

ATLAS SOLDIER 2: Come on! Over here!

PATROL: We saw them run this way!

7x8: “Cordially Invited”

WAITER: Care for a drink?

WAITRESS: Miss Schnee?

7x9: “As Above, So Below”

MANTLE CITIZEN 1: What’s going on?

MANTLE CITIZEN 2: They wouldn’t just turn the heat off.

- (MANTLE CITIZENS RIOTING)

- MANTLE CITIZEN: I hate you!

MANTLE CITIZEN 3: Atlas killed the heat on purpose!

MANTLE CITIZEN 4: They’ll do anything to control us!

ATLAS SOLDIER: The situation here is getting out of control.

MANTA TEAM DELTA: Atlas, Manta Team Delta.

7x10: “Out in the Open”

MANTLE CITIZEN 3: Take us to Atlas!

MANTLE CITIZEN 4: The protector of Mantle!

7x13: “With Friends Like These”

ATLAS SOLDIER 1: Freeze!

ATLAS SOLDIER 2: They went this way!

ATLAS SOLDIER 3: Drop your weapons!

ATLAS PILOT 1: We’ve got multiple hostiles on radar!

ATLAS PILOT 2: These readings can’t be right.

8x1: “Divide”

ATLAS TECHNICIAN: Wait! You can’t be in here!

CAMILLA: I told you! We need to speak to the General!

SLEET: And what’s this about martial law?

8x2: “Refuge”

(ATLAS SOLDIER GRUNTS)

REPORTER: With still no word from General Ironwood,

MAN: Mm-hmm.

(CHILD CRYING)

DISGRUNTLED GRANDMOTHER: I don’t want to go to the slums.

SHOVEL MOM: Mother.

FIONA’S UNCLE: Fi!

CRIMSON: (OVER EARPIECE) Fiona? Crimson again.

8x3: “Strings”

ATLAS SOLDIER 1: I don’t think even the squad captain knows

ATLAS SOLDIER 2: It’s creepy. All those Grimm just waiting.

MECHANICAL VOICE: Welcome back, Dr. Polendina.

OPERATOR: You put salmon in the microwave!

8x6: “Midnight”

MADAME: I’ll take her.

STEP-SISTER 1: You missed a spot.

RHODES: Alright, what gives?

STEP-SISTER 2: I apologize for the inconvenience.

8x7: “War”

COMMANDER 1: (OVER COMS) Yes, sir?

CHILD: Dad? Look!

COMMANDER 2: We can’t get the Hard Light shields back up, sir.

COMMANDER 3: We tried bombs, missiles, but we can’t make a dent, sir.

8x8: “Dark”

COMPUTER TERMINAL: Credentials verified.

ATLESIAN SOLDIER: It’s her!

8x10: “Ultimatum”

ATLAS COMMANDER: Sir. We have confirmation

(BABY CRYING)

ATLAS SOLDIER: (OVER EARPIECE) Sir, we are detecting non-military ships

CCT VOICE: This is an emergency CCT broadcast.

8x13: “Worthy”

ATLAS CIVILIAN: What is it?

9x1: “A Place of Particular Concern”

MOUSE: The trap has been sprung!

(HUNTER MICE CHEERING)

9x2: “Altercation at the Auspicious Auction”

TOY SOLDIER: Hmm.

TOY SOLDIER 1: This way! Somebody’s sad!

TOY SOLDIER 2: I’d be sad, too, if I ruined the royal birthday!

9x3: “Rude, Red, and Royal”

WHITE PAWN 1: What’s wrong with them?

WHITE PAWN 2: I don’t know. They look stupid.

(WHITE PAWN SHOUTING)

WHITE PAWN 3: Hey, what about us?

TOY SOLDIER 1: Banish them!

TOY SOLDIER 2: Your Majesty!

TOY SOLDIER: Come on, men! They went this way!

TOY SOLDIER 3: Get them!

TOY SOLDIER 4: There they go!

TOY SOLDIER 5: I see them!

TOY SOLDIER 6: Get them!

TOY SOLDIER 7: Not a single one gets out of here!

TOY SOLDIER 8: This way!

TOY SOLDIER 9: Your Majesty!

TOY SOLDIER 10: Banish!

TOY SOLDIER 11: Go, go, go, go!

TOY SOLDIER 12: Where’d the red one go?

TOY SOLDIER 13: They’re out here somewhere!

TOY SOLDIER 14: Keep searching!

TOY SOLDIER 15: Who saw her?!

TOY SOLDIER 16: Where did she go?!

9x5: “The Parfait Predicament”

HAWKER: Come on! Try our mud cookies! They’re delicious!

TEAPOT LADY: Welcome to Things and Things!

9x7: “The Perils of Paper Houses”

BLUE PAPER PLEASER: Hello.

YELLOW PAPER PLEASER: Hello, water. How may I serve you?

GREEN PAPER PLEASER: Thank you, brave knight!

RED PAPER PLEASER: Hello. I am the one called Ruby.

PURPLE PAPER PLEASER: The Great Tree does not kill.

9x9: “A Tale Involving a Tree”

GENIAL GEM: Hello, there.

9Bx4: “Boba”

VACUAN 1: Uh, excuse me. Are you Ruby?

VACUAN 2: Oh, my goodness, can we take a picture?

Chibi 1x23: “A Slip Through Time and Space”

KERRY SHAWCROSS: And, cut! Great job, Sam.

MILES LUNA: Uh, yeah. Okay, cool.

Chibi 2x10: “Cannonball!”

FLOYD: What is up, awesome possums?

Chibi 2x23: “A Slip Through Time and Space Pt. 2”

BARBARA DUNKELMAN: Where is that pesky light switch?

[theveryattacheduser]

I Like to think that percy and leo are like the main chefs of the Argo II. Theyre the ones cooking for the seven. percy takes the morning shift and leo takes the lunch shift. both of them work in dinner shift. frank also assists in the kitchen, usually cutting vegetables and/or cooking something minor {he takes the lead in more traditional dishes or soups} hazel also sometimes assists but usually sits around to watch them cook. same thing with jason except he makes sure the food is still good to eat. annabeth, piper and coach hedge are banned from the kitchen. annabeth and piper would burn down the kitchen and coach hedge is just a menace. nico usually sits around and watches them with hazel and jason. in conclusion, percy and leo are like one of the best chefs on the argo II and everyone appreciates their cooking hc with @slipknotsynchronizedheadbang

[localgirlbecomesobsessed]

The things you do for a date

Leo x Xena (established)

Part one

They deserve to be at the club, what she has to do to get them there, she doesn’t deserve.

Aka Hyde tasks her with something dangerous.

Chronic migraine Leo truther

Leo flopped onto the bed, arm covering his eyes as he dramatically groaned. Xena flopped next to him as he made grabby hands at her as she sighed rolling herself until she could reach him, she pulled herself up onto his chest and laid her head where his heart would be, smiling as the speedy thrumming echoed into her ears.

“I want to go ouuuuut.”

He whined at her, a golden eye peeking out as he lightly lifted his arm, they were both in uniform, both too exhausted to move and both…extremely bored of being enclosed in Darkwick.

They were meant to be in class, yet neither of them could handle going today, not that Leo went much anyway.

“Where would you go?”

Xena quietly asked fiddling with his necklace as Leo let out a strangled noise. The lights were dim, the black out curtains tightly shut together as the two relaxed together, a much needed break after weeks of strange annoyances.

“I’d go to the clubbb~”

Xena quietly huffed out a laugh as she sat up, Leo frowned at the loss of warmth but didn’t say anything about it. She grabbed a pillow, one of Leo’s pain meds and a bottle of water from the mini fridge next to the bed.

“You’re banned from a majority of clubs in Shibuya right?”

She tapped his arm as he removed it from his face, a sluggish moment revealing just how badly the migraine he’d been playing off as minor had cursed him. Despite the pain he still had a small smirk on his face as he gratefully took the meds and water, pride etched on his face at Xena’s statement.

“Yeah…if I’m lucky I’ll get banned from all of them.”

Xena snorted as she flopped back down, Leo joining her after he took his medicine.

“What about Vlad’s?”

She questioned, a small smile on her face as she remembered her favourite club, the only one she actually liked when she went out.

“What the fuck is Vlad’s?”

He was already searching it into TikTok, scoffing as the cliched vampire themed club dominated his feed.

“Really?”

He rolled his eyes showing Xena who just grinned.

“I take it you haven’t been banned from there yet…?”

He frowned as he rolled into her, dragging her closer to him as she just sighed at his dramatics.

“Yet…?”

They haven’t had any of their R&R permits approved in weeks, now with Samhain prep it seems it’s gonna be even harder to get around it. This short break (hiding) was only due to them promising to attend class today, it was only due to Alan’s insistence that they promised anyway…

“Hmmm you never know Darkwick might approve one of your requests…”

She yawned as she wiggled her way to the top of the bed, worming her way into the covers as Leo followed suit, neither have had much sleep the past couple of days, far too busy with missions or work to even have time for a small nap. Their planned date time now becoming a nap time as Leo wrapped his arms around Xena, pulling her close as they spooned, Xena hummed happily as she sneakily stole one of his hands clasping them together as she pulled it towards placing a sweet kiss to his knuckles as she sleepily devised a plan to get them that night of the club, thoughts interrupted as she could already sense Leo was crashing out behind her as he hid his face into the crook of her shoulder.

“Night mon Cher.”

———————————————————

Xena watched the fireplace roar as she blatantly ignored the annoying smiling man in front of her as she sipped at her tea in deep thought.

“It sounds dangerous.”

She finally said, interrupting the quiet that enveloped them as Hyde hummed in feigned thought at her statement.

“That’s because it is Xena!”

He clapped his hands happily as the floating hands brought over the paperwork for Xena for read over.

It was a simple acquisition job of an anomaly tool…it didn’t state what the use of the item was but it would’ve been pretty easy if it was just that…what doesn’t seem easy is the fact it’s in a massive mansion-on the night of a party-of some rich family who have a shady history…

“It won’t be just you either Xena! Romeo will be on this job with you too!”

Romeo…?

Of course that’s who he’s been in dealings with…

“Fine.”•_•

She sighed as she slammed her cup onto the coffee table, taking the files with her as she stormed out to meet with Romeo.

“Thanks XeXe~ I’ll approve the R&R for you once everything’s done!”

———————————————————

“Pay attention DD, we’ll only have 30 minutes to secure the goods, Now my EITS have alerted me they’ll be having a hypnotist performing at the party…”

Xena hummed in thought surveying the interior and exterior photos as she tried to figure out the best route to their prize.

It was located in a vault in the basement, it’s not heavily guarded in that specific area but the whole mansion itself was overloaded with guards. They’ve doubled the amount of guards for the party centralising around the mansions ballroom…the lowest of the aristocracy will be there, all with their honeyed hands in shady businesses.

“So…the best way to do this would be going in undercover, there’s three exits and I think our best shot would be the back garden, they have a hedge maze that-if we do get caught we could lose them in there…if we get a better layout of if?”

She handed the photos over to Romeo, who seemed almost pleasantly surprised at her competence.

“Yes, good choice CDD, I was thinking we could use the hypnotist as a distraction or a way to get them under control if I took over…it’d be easy.”

She snorted and raised an eyebrow, holding up the picture of the extravagant looking hypnotist, comparing it with Romeo who was deeply scowling at her as he snatched the sheet away.

“You’ll get wrinkles RoeRoe.” •_•

He slammed the picture onto the desk, looking at Xena in deep disdain.

“DRM! Urgh, obviously you can’t do it, you have the charisma of a straw hat.”

•_•

“I ooze charisma.” •_•

She kept a straight face as Romeo looked her incredulously, seeming personally offended by her declaration.

“YOU HAVE 0 CHARISMA ZILCH; RITSU HAS MORE CHARISMA THAN YOU, YOU POS.”

He pointed at her enraged as a small smirk spread across her face, she shrugged as she leaned against the table, only letting herself be slightly offended by his statement.

“I’m more charismatic than you though.”

The screech he emitted was worth it, he slammed the plans on the table next to her as she looked up at him in amusement.

“Urgh-Meet me at Mickey’s tonight, we have a week to plan…”

She rolled her eyes, agreeing as she caught one of his henchmen watching the two of them very closely, she narrowed her eyes at him and subtlety sent a text to Romeo about them.

“Right, well I’ll see you there…” •_•

She pushed passed him as a call from the chancellor came through.

What did Cornelius want?

———————————————————

The chaos of the inter squad did nothing to push back their plans as her and Romeo had to scramble to ensure everything goes according to their meticulous plan, meeting at Rui’s bar everynight much to Leo’s displeasure when he got told he couldn’t come join them.

She wanted it to be a surprise.

He’d been trying so hard to get an R&R request, so she wanted to surprise him and maybe go to Vlad’s…

She also fears he’d be livid with her for making a deal with Hyde; something he and Sho have warned her against repeatedly despite both making deals with him all the time.

She sighed as she made her way into the bar, slumping on a plushy velvet red chair at the back as she awaited for Romeo, who was chatting up Haru and Rui who both enthusiastically waved at her as she set up the map. She looked out the window, narrowing her eyes at the two idiots who were striding into the bar, Leo winking at her as they made eye contact.

“Well well well, is this where you’ve been hiding XeXe!”

He slid into her chair, lifting her up and placing Xena in his lap as Sho obediently went to the bar to get them drinks.

“Leo.” •_•

She’d missed him quite a bit, the two not being able to see eachother since she’d been on her missions, it’d nearly been a week and even before that they couldn’t see eachother much.

She sighed, turning to look at him as she shifted around to make it easier to wrap her arms around him. Taking a deep breath as Leo’s cologne washed over her, causing a small smile to grace her lips, something that got wiped off as Romeo approached them with disappointment etched on his features, a look directed solely at her.

“RoeRoe~ hogging Xena all to yourself? I’m hurt.”

Leo leaned back as he pouted at Romeo, who just rolled his eyes as he slid into his chair, crossing his legs as he leaned on the table watching the two of them with a careful look on his face.

“I see you’re easily pliable to his charms BB, is this really worth the WOE?”

Leo raised an eyebrow as Romeo looked at her unimpressed, Xena pressed a kiss to Leo’s cheek before sighing as she unwrapped her arms from him and properly faced the table, she stayed on his lap…she had no where else to sit after all as Leo stole her seat and Romeo insisted on always being in the back corner table and in the royal blue armchair that he claims highlights his good looks (it does but Xena refuses to admit it.)Sho came back with the drinks, noticing the odd energy at the table as he tried to swiftly walk back to the bar but Leo’s glare aimed at him made him sit down after he awkwardly dragged a chair over.

“Please im not the one blushing when Haru or Taiga talks to them, got a thing for red heads fico?” •_•

She gratefully took one of the drinks from Sho as she laid out the map more on the table, ignoring Romeo’s piercing gaze as he looked almost ready to kill her, Leo cackling from behind her as he wrapped her arms around her propping his head on her shoulder, looking curiously at the map of the mansion.

“Hmph…Kurosawa could be useful but for the BB endeavours its best you stay out of it, though…”

Romeo raised an eyebrow in deep thought as he evaluated Leo and Sho, he sipped at his wine as Xena rolled her eyes at his dramatics. She had told him how she wanted to surprise Leo and the strangely romantic Romeo had been stubborn in ensuring her pursuit and goal were met through merit and skill(and stealing a bunch more stuff from the mansion.)

Leo only frowned as Romeo trailed off, Xena’s endeavours? How would this even help with her curse…that’s besides the point, she’s spent more time with Romeo than she has Leo the past couple of weeks, not only that but she even went to the stupid cemetery that he’d been planning to take her out too (if they ever got an R&R request.) Not that she knew he was planning this, it was a surprise after all and it would’ve made a great TikTok series.

He wasn’t one to admit jealousy but the murmurs from students and the photos of Romeo and Xena together were all over the schools gossip channels fanned the flames within him as he stubbornly tried to figure out what could be so important that she had to leave his side, he gets for school missions but this was different and she didn’t come to him for help…

He clutched at her tighter, he had been listening in as much as he could despite Samhain prep, but all he got was that they were stealing from some old geezer?

“Leo.”

Xena poked his cheek as he snapped out of his thoughts, Romeo looked at him questioningly as he awaited his response.

“He asked if you could blackmail someone for him…they’re connected to our mission, the hypnotist…”

She whispered into his ear as Leo side glanced at her, shivering as her low toned voice sang into his ear.

“We can do that RoeRoe~ but after this mission, leave XeXe to me for a while before having her work again~she is mine after all!”

Xena looked at him wide eyed, a fond smile tugging at her lips as a light laugh slipped its way out as leo beamed at a grossed out Romeo.

She was his?

She sighed dreamily as she leaned back into his hold, she guessed she was his after all, she’ll spoil him as much as humanly possible after she gets this mission out of the way.

She just needs to get this mission out of the way….

She sighed with more exhaustion as Sho and Leo wandered off or more like Sho pulled Leo away as Romeo demanded privacy as they planned their backup route, they had Leo and Sho planning their blackmail to get the hypnotist to step down more easily.

Their mission will be starting tomorrow, Xena was terribly excited to get it over with…

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Up now in Michigan. We’re doing this is several battleground states.

* * * *

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

June 24, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JUN 25, 2024

Two years ago today, on June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that recognized a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy. The vote was 6–3. 

The three justices appointed by former president Trump joined Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Chief Justice John Roberts to strip a constitutional right from the American people, a right we had enjoyed for almost 50 years, a right that is considered a fundamental human right in most liberal democracies, and a right they had indicated they would protect because it was settled law. For the first time in our history, rather than conveying rights, the court explicitly took a constitutional right away from the American people. 

Andy Kroll, Andrea Bernstein, and Ilya Marritz of ProPublica reported that the night before the decision came down, 70 or so partygoers, including two dozen state and federal judges, met to drink champagne and eat fine food at the Maine home of the man who had hatched and then executed a plan to stack the courts with extremist judges: Leonard Leo. It was Leo who had helped pick or confirm all six of the justices who would, the next day, announce to the world they were overturning Roe. 

In the decision, written by Alito, the court said that the right to determine abortion rights must be returned “to the people’s elected representatives” at the state level. This construction of American law is central to the right-wing project of dismantling the federal government which, under the Fourteenth Amendment, is charged with protecting equal rights in the states. Centering the states, which determine who can vote within them, enables a minority to dominate the majority. In this case, a strong majority of Americans has always backed abortion rights while only about 10% of Americans wanted a complete ban on the procedure.

In the late 1970s, presidential hopeful Ronald Reagan courted religious traditionalists who objected to women’s equality with the promise of ending abortion access. Indeed, in her first statement on abortion in January 1972, right-wing activist Phyllis Schlafly focused not on fetuses but on women who wanted equal rights. 

“The ‘women’s lib[eration]’ movement is not an honest effort to secure better jobs for women who want or need to work outside the home,” she said. It “is a total assault on the role of the American woman as wife and mother, and on the family as the basic unit of society. Women’s libbers are trying to make wives and mothers unhappy with their career, make them feel that they are ‘second-class citizens’ and ‘abject slaves.’ Women’s libbers are promoting free sex instead of the “slavery” of marriage. They are promoting Federal ‘day-care centers’ for babies instead of homes. They are promoting abortions instead of families.”

Business leaders who wanted to slash taxes and government regulations led the Reagan coalition, but winning elections always depended on the votes of racists and the religious traditionalists who opposed women’s rights. But since a majority of Americans has always supported the protection of access to abortion, Republican leaders generally promised to end abortion without intending actually to do it. 

But the extremist religious judges Leo helped Trump put in place had their own agenda. 

As soon as the court overturned Roe v. Wade, Republican-dominated states began restricting abortion access. Now, two years later, 14 states ban abortion entirely. Seven others have restrictions that would have been unconstitutional two years ago. 

The overturning of Roe v. Wade upended American politics. The majority of Americans alive today have always lived in a country with abortion access recognized as a constitutional right, and had not thought they could lose it. Exactly what that loss means became clear just days after the Dobbs decision, when news broke that a ten-year-old rape victim had been unable to obtain an abortion in Ohio and had to cross state lines to Indiana, where the state attorney general, Todd Rokita, publicly attacked the doctor who treated the girl. Similar stories, as well as those of women who desperately needed abortions to save their lives or fertility, have driven support for abortion higher than it was before Dobbs. 

As state laws prohibiting abortion took effect, voters worked to protect abortion rights. In seven states, including Republican-dominated Kansas, Kentucky, and Ohio, voters have protected abortion rights when they were on the ballot. Pollster Tom Bonier today called abortion rights “the most powerful single issue in politics.” 

Bonier recalled looking at the Kansas vote and finding such a surprising statistic he thought he had miscalculated. After Dobbs, almost 70% of the people in that state registering to vote were women. He said he has “never seen a registration surge among any specific group like this before, and [doesn't] expect to again.” He went on to find substantial gender gaps in registration in states where access to abortion was at risk, but not in states where it seemed secure. 

In 2022, Bonier said, “[i]n states and races where abortion rights were perceived as at stake, Democrats overperformed massively,” including in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Arizona, but in states like New York and California, where abortion rights are protected, “the election was as you would have expected in a ‘normal’ midterm.” Bonier added that abortion rights “is likely more salient now than it was in 2022.” 

As the votes indicate, Dobbs has created a huge problem for Republicans, especially as Trump continues to boast that he is responsible for overturning Roe, a boast that the Biden campaign is highlighting. Voters eager to protect abortion rights are moving away from the party toward a more moderate and popular position on abortion.

It has also created a problem for the party on the hard right. Having lost the abortion issue as a way to turn out voters, leaders are whipping up the party’s base with ever-increasing extremism. In the realm of reproductive rights, that extremism has led MAGA Republicans to call for national bans on abortion, contraception, and in vitro fertilization (IVF). More generally, it has increasingly made them call for violence against their opponents. On June 21, for example, Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) posted on social media: “I do want to ‘ethnic cleanse’ by deporting white progressive Democrats—with a special bonus for rich ones with an Ivy League degree. I really do not like ‘those people.’”

Those extremists appear to be threatening Trump from the right, possibly considering a move to back Trump’s conspiracy theorist former national security advisor Michael Flynn at the July Republican National Convention. Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Isaac Arnsdorf of the Washington Post reported Saturday that there has been a revolt against Trump in the Arizona delegation to the Republican National Convention, some of whom apparently worry that Trump has been captured by the “deep state” and is not extreme enough for them.

The promise to return decision making to the states has always been an attempt to enable a minority to impose its will on the majority, but the Dobbs decision revealed that minority to be so extremist it appears to have engaged, and enraged, people who before it were not paying much attention to politics. In the Dobbs decision, Alito wrote: “Our decision returns the issue of abortion to [state] legislative bodies, and it allows women on both sides of the abortion issue to seek to affect the legislative process by influencing public opinion, lobbying legislators, voting, and running for office. Women are not without electoral or political power.”

Amen. 

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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(via Arizona Republicans Gleefully Shoot Down Democrats’ Attempts To Repeal 1864 Abortion Ban)

Arizona Republicans celebrated Wednesday after swatting down Democrats’ fourth attempt in two weeks to repeal the state’s near-total abortion ban, which the state Supreme Court upheld last week.

Rep. David Livingston (R-AZ) turned to the galleries, stuffed with a mix of pro- and anti-abortion rights protesters, and applauded his supporters, raising his fists in triumph. Majority Whip Teresa Martinez (R-AZ) mouthed “we got you” and did a thumbs up. Majority Leader Leo Biasiucci (R-AZ) grinned and accepted a handshake on his way out of the chamber.

“They were posing for their far-right base,” scoffed Assistant Minority Leader Oscar De Los Santos (D-AZ), calling TPM from the House floor minutes after the last procedural vote failed.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ansev Demirhan at Ms. Magazine:

The anti-feminist Independent Women’s Voice/Forum (IWF/V) has officially launched its 2024 election agenda. An internal fundraising document provided to True North Research shows one way it is putting that agenda into action is by continuing to try and blunt the horrific repercussions of the Supreme Court overturning Roe, while deploying their veneer of independence to sway centrist and independent voters.  The document details a two-phase plan and a budget that is almost twice the amount it proposed in its 2022 midterm fundraising documents, as reported by The Washington Post. Despite claiming to take no position on abortion, IWF/V launched a PR campaign ahead of the 2022 midterms—the first election cycle following the Dobbs decision—which included advertising trying to convince younger women that reproductive rights were less important than other issues the group listed. 

One way IWF/V’s agenda for this election cycle stands out from its previous midterm action plan is its emphasis on reassuring women that access to contraception is not in jeopardy—despite key voices in the anti-abortion movement making it clear otherwise. The group is a member of Project 2025, a MAGA blueprint that includes detailed plans to attack contraception access, promote the rhythm method, deploy the CDC to increase “abortion surveillance” and data collection and much more.  IWF/V also has a long history of undermining contraception access, though the group has a talking point about supporting over-the-counter availability of the contraception pill.

IWF/V’s “Hope Agenda”

Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), a 501(c)(3), and its 501(c)(4) the Independent Women’s Voice (IWV), are pay-to-play groups that use their “independent” branding to laud right-wing politicians along with the legislative wish lists of some for-profit corporations, such as Juul. Based on its most recent tax filings, the groups reported a combined $8.1 million in revenue. IWF/V has received money from the Koch network, Leonard Leo’s network and funds from secretive donor-advised funds, like the Bradley Impact Fund, the National Christian Charitable Foundation and DonorsTrust. 

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But Americans are intimately familiar with the political reality of abortion access in this country. 

The majority of states have abortion restrictions or bans in place that make it difficult for pregnant Americans to receive essential healthcare. 

The U.S. Supreme Court continues to be deployed as a tool to potentially limit abortion access nationally (in the mifepristone and EMTALA cases). 

Over 64,000 unwanted pregnancies have been caused by rape in states with total abortion bans that were implemented post-Roe. 

Abortions increased in 2023, the first full calendar year following the Dobbs decision, because people continue to need and seek abortions despite the fractured abortion healthcare landscape unleashed by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Americans are also faced with the political reality that the anti-abortion movement is coming for contraception. That is one reason why IWF/V honing in on messaging around birth control access as something that is safeguarded and supported by the GOP is so troubling. The group itself has a history of opposing contraception access. 

[...]

Anti-trans messaging is also central to IWF/V’s plan to ‘get out the vote’ in 2024, according to its “Hope Agenda.” IWF also attacked the Right to Contraception Act, using anti-trans scaremongering to falsely suggest that this legislation would “require doctors to sterilize minors.” This is not the only anti-trans tactic the group has used to detract from the devastating impact of the overturn of Roe.  IWF/V is also behind the anti-trans “model” bill the “Women’s Bill of Rights,” which enumerates no rights other than the right to discriminate against transgender people, especially transgender women. This model bill has ostensibly been used by so-called conservative or independent policymakers and groups that allegedly care more about American women, but IWF/V itself has repeatedly attacked pro-woman policies. IWF/V has opposed the Equal Rights Amendment,  federal paid leave, federally subsidized child care, the Violence Against Women Act and Title IX—though it recently backed a watered-down version of VAWA and for decades it sided with men’s sports teams against Title IX spending on women’s sports until it deployed anti-trans messaging about women’s sports.

Ms. Magazine exposes the right-wing Koch/Leonard Leo-funded antifeminist group Independent Women's Forum and their sister groups Independent Women's Voice and Independent Women’s Law Center. These groups claim to be pro-women, but in reality, the policies they support-- such as anti-trans "Women's Bill of Rights" and attacks on abortion access, contraception, and in vitro fertilization-- are harmful to women.