#let them bicker after years of marriage 😭

[so-youre-unattached-like-me]

I don't want the "they are practically living together, what's the point of marriage?", I NEED them to go through all the procedures, even if they seem stupid and too much.

I want to see how the gold band gains its meaning.

I want the exaggerated "I regret marrying you" when the least significant incident happens.

Please, let them marry in your stories more.

[crumplstiltskin]

i love ur aus! your interpretations of the relationship dynamics in new ways that still feels true to the characters is really cool- take supernatural crazy stuff and making it fit in a more normal dynamic can't be easy.

do you have any opinions on how sukuna or choso get along with wasuke? (and do sukuna + choso both privately think of themselves as The Oldest Brother, or is one of them a middle brother?)

hey!!! thank you for sending this. i take it as a really big compliment ! i get very particular about that kind of thing so i'm glad it reads the way i want it to.

i'll answer this in the context of my aus. depending on the au there are minor differences though! and i hope you don't mind if i yap a little bit under the cut!

the most important part of this question is how wasuke's personality would mesh with them respectively so it's important to first consider what type of person wasuke is and how he would engage each of them. besides his appearances in the manga/anime we can deduce some of his personality through yuuji (how he was raised, his conduct, etc).

wasuke seems to be very even-tempered, family-focused so i think choso would get along the most with wasuke. choso is very gentle at heart and also family-oriented himself so wasuke would think highly of choso who is very outrightly passionate about it. wasuke himself doesn't seem to be overly affectionate physically or verbally but we know that he cared deeply for yuuji. choso being sort of the opposite way complements him well, at least in the context of caring for yuuji and i see him appreciating choso for making up for perhaps what he would consider his own limitations. wasuke would probably find it embarrassing but as a grandfather who loves his family he would be grateful for having choso in their lives.

sukuna and wasuke would clash more but not to the point where there is any real tension. i think they would bicker a lot, but only because they both seem like the stubborn type....probably share other personality traits too...idk..i feel it in my bones (and tbh in normal peoples au sukuna had a weird edgy phase where wasuke found him cringe af and he never let sukuna live it down 😭). in unckuna au and 12 years au they would both be very involved in rearing yuuji so they'd have long discussions about things after yuuji went to bed or something so this gives them a purpose to get along. not saying that sukuna wouldn't get along with him but to be completely honest sukuna is not the type of character to really care about much beyond himself. so they're like coworkers........but the work is yuuji. sukuna would respect wasuke out of principle (principle being he is an elder, he is his father/grandfather) and wasuke expects that from him, the end.

but knowing people like wasuke, neither of them are getting praise from him no matter how well they do or how much they impress him lol. he will tell them off immediately if they do anything wrong, and is not the type to say pretty words. if he wants to be nice to them he'll probably show it through action though; he'll go out of his way to buy their favourite fruit ("i got x today at the market, peel/cut them up for us"), drink tea and have snacks in the same room instead of sitting on the porch alone, things like that.

about the birth order...i think that's complicated. in normal peoples au i usually consider choso the oldest by a couple years (kaori's child from a past marriage or an ex). if it's the cousin choso au (where kenjaku is kaori's brother) he's around the same age as sukuna give or take. in sorceror au where he is a death painting choso is the oldest by far but sukuna won't acknowledge him as family for reasons (usually infantile and superficial) 😭😭😭.

in most aus sukuna kind of looks down on him for not looking like them and/or for not being human, and in most aus choso is not interested in sukuna beyond asking him to stop being mean to yuuji. almost writing off sukuna as yuuji's brother at all. almost... if it's any uncle au it's harder for him to ignore that i think...choso respects his elders...unfortunately...(he secretly thinks ill of sukuna in his head).

[ghost-proofbaby]

GHOOOOST as much as maroon has taken over every single brain cell of mine, i can’t seem to stop thinking about 24 hours!eddie and reader lately! they still got me on a chokehold!

i was just thinking, like in the long run, were they endgame? i know they’re head over heels for each other but like.....are they in it for the long haul? what would happen if like the topic of getting married or having kids was brought up, how are they both going to react? 👀

i’m not asking or forcing you to write a blurb out of this or anything so please don’t feel pressured, i’m genuinely just curious about their lore!!! 😭 and i also miss them so much lmao might end up re-reading the series again while waiting for the next maroon chapter ❤️❤️❤️

anyway i luv u and i hope you’re having a great day!

wanna know a secret? they definitely still live rent free in my mind as well.

they were definitely end game in the long haul of things. in my mind, it's actually funny, because i've thought about them watching their friends constantly getting into relationships and those relationships constantly ending, and yet they're still there and going strong as ever while everyone is just like "...what the fuck?"

nancy and johnathan would probably end up breaking up in the twenty four hours universe. that's actually canon based on a sequel idea i had. like, we're talking not very long after the events of the main fic. nancy would go to reader and probably rant in the midst of her heartbreak "i just don't get it. i thought me and johnathan - we were gonna make it, you know? i thought we had the perfect relationship. and, no offense, but compared to you and eddie, we did." (which she obviously doesn't mean, but she's just hurt and projecting. we all know nancy was a number one reader x eddie shipper). and reader could grow insecure about it and overthink, but when she ends the day getting to gossip all about it to eddie, he just scoffs and said "excuse me? what the hell does that mean? out of spite, we're definitely gonna end up growing old together. gonna mock them from across the retirement home as i kiss all your wrinkles. that'll show them." and she's just reminded that, oh, yeah. it doesn't matter what other people think. this is her idiot for the long haul. and spoiler: it isn't spite keeping them together. it's the way eddie looks at reader like she painted the night sky just for him. it's the way eddie is the first person reader wants to talk to in nearly every scenario, the way he's the first person her eyes draw to in every room no matter how crowded. they bicker endlessly, they aren't always acting the most lovesick and nauseatingly affectionate with each other in front of others, and there's certainly been plenty of fights where the gang holds their breath for the announcement of a breakup, but they always find a way to make it through. always. they're one of those couples, ya know?

and i could also ramble about the whole marriage/kid discussion, but i actually had a short one shot about it i wanted to write! i think i've avoided posting any of the excess content i had planned for them because i don't want to beat a dead horse, you know? it's been over a year now, and even though i love and adore them, i don't want to seem like i'm milking that universe haha. if that's something y'all would like to see now even though it's been so long, i am finally out of my funk with writing them and could probably post some of those one shots! especially because the way they go about conversations like kids/marriage is so fuckin funny to me.

i luv you even more, and hope you have the most wonderful of days, friend <3 thank you for not letting one, but TWO??? of my stories take up residency in your thoughts. it means the world to me and i'm giving you all the hugs and forehead kisses <3

[babsvibes]

What are your favorite tropes? What are your least favorite tropes? I CAN DO IT, TOO, YOU KNOW!

Lmao you got me there 😭💕 Most of them are romance tropes because what can I say. Am slut for romcom 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

Love love love

Bickering like an old married couple

Unnaturally intelligent pets that enact the will of god (read: the author doesn’t want them together yet, so the dog has to warm up to a character before they’ll let them anywhere near another character. Or a cat that hates everyone doesn’t hate This person)

Trapped in an elevator/snowed in/forced proximity

Denial. Any form of it. All day. Every day.

“I know you. The good and the bad. And I want it all.”

Jealousy/Possessive behavior

Idk the word for this but when two enemies grow closer while one of them is disguised. Yes like in Megamind

Not using first names except in Very Intimate Moments

Pirates. Monsters. Idk, not together but they seemed like they belonged on the same line

Belligerent sexual tension (slap-slap-kiss)

Exploration of morally gray or nuanced ethics

Stealing clothes

Loooove so much the concept of running away and its many iterations, which really is just a form of denial now that I think about it

The “oh no he’s hot” moment, which I enjoy more than an italicized “oh” moment

No Thanks (maybe I can do them in specific settings like if my friends write these, but I’ll probably never write one)

Arranged marriage where there’s no way out of it

Public humiliation as a punishment for wrongdoing

Whump fic, especially if things just Keep Happening to a character that has no agency of their own

I call it “Rebel Character in Oppressive Situation is Always Wrong.” Just any time I’m reading and a systemically under-served/POC/woman/queer character is consistently losing or being proven wrong without a win to balance it out… Blegh, throw it back

Unplanned pregnancy when it wasn’t the original plot. Like a “18 chapters in and suddenly she wakes up nauseous” situation. (although I don’t mind a “one night stand, time skip five years, gasp a secret kid the dad didn’t know about??” Pregnancy itself is just not for me)

Enemies 👏 that 👏 stop 👏 the 👏 banter 👏 after 👏 getting 👏 together 👏 will 👏 make 👏 me 👏delete 👏 a 👏 bookmark 👏 “I know you held a knife up to my neck once but now you’re my cuddly sweetie pie honey bear who could do no wrong” go to hell.

Miscommunication where it’s like “Character A is trying to say something but Character B won’t let them get a word in edge wise, so Character A gives up even though one (1) sentence would clear up the whole mess.”

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

I finished watching the Mad About You revival from 2019. I almost stopped watching it like 3 times, but I ended up finishing. The whole premise is that their daughter starts college so they're dealing with an empty nest- a parallel to the og show- how it started out with just them trying to figure out how to be married, and then 20 years later, their daughter leaving for college (the math doesn't quite work out with the original series, though, because in 2019 she should have been 22, not 18), and they have to figure out how to be just the two of them again.

Except their daughter goes to NYU, 5 blocks away, so she's home like half the time anyway. So Paul and Jamie are in a weird transition, and it bugged me because I know the whole premise is that "ok, who are we now that our daughter moved out?", but it seemed like they didn't even really like each other and were bickering like all the time. It wasn't that fun to watch, tbh. But I stuck with it, and the last 3 episodes were a lot better (there were 12 episodes in total).

They ended up going back to their old therapist, which was annoying because she sucked as a therapist, and I don't know why they ever kept going to her in the OS. But anyway, their therapist is basically like, "your marriage is over good try, though." and they're like, "......" but then she was like, "or you can try this marriage bootcamp." and they're like, "....okay...." and of course there was a zany misunderstanding where they accidentally ended up in a team building seminar for real estate agents? but like it ended up helping them a lot (and they still thought it was the "marriage bootcamp" thing lmao), and they ended up having this really nice conversation.

Jamie says they made a good point when she was told she has trust issues and that consciously she knows he'll never leave her, and he says “Never.” but underneath that, she has that fear. And he says, "That's alright. I know." and she's like, "you know what?" and he says, "I know that's always been a thing for you, ever since we met. But it's part of the package, and I like the package. So I work around it. I just make sure you know I'm not going anywhere." and she says, "Like how?" and he says "like all of the times I say, 'hey, I'm not going anywhere.' or even if I run down to the store or something, I always make a point of saying 'I'll be right back.' because I know you. I don't want you to worry." I honestly TEARED UP.

This is the kind of stuff from like seasons 1-5 that I thought were missing in seasons 6 and 7... and most of 8. One partner KNOWING the other one so well that they do things to help them without the other realizing it. So for over 20 years he's been saying "hey, I'll be right back" every time he has to go out for a bit because he knows she has a fear of him leaving her 😭💗

This actually was the root of their issues at the end of season 4, though, because she was so sure he was going to leave her if they couldn't have kids that she had this thought that if he was going to leave her she'd find someone else and leave him first. And he got really offended like, "how could you doubt my love for you; that you think I would ever leave you?" and she says, "I just do." So like, after they worked things out, her fear of him leaving her was still there but wasn't this thing festering under the surface that he was always upset about. He realized this is a thing she's always going to have, so he's just going to continue to allay her fear and not be upset over it.

Anyway, the revival ended with their daughter going off on some one-year mission of living on a boat and cleaning up the oceans, without any way to contact the outside world. So Paul and Jamie's mothers are both like, "this is good. Let her go- it will be good for her and good for you guys to be just the two of you again." So that's kind of how the last episode ended. Mabel left and they planned their trip to Tahiti.