#long title for a meme wow

[chillfaerie]

POV: You're doing the Duets quests and he shows you this

[midnight1nk]

So, this week's episode...

[Spoilers below cut]

OOH, I'm VERY excited to see another Karen episode today! Back to our roots, huh Team. I see you 😌↕️ and still got "SMG4:" prefix in the title there...

also the pattern's shattered but meh *shrugs* who cares about that

Alright, chat, all bets in! Are we getting the arc this time? Let's see...

(the following is my live reaction:)

SMG4 being sponsored by a DC game oh shit, they've really come a long way..... ROGER CRAIG SMITH?! IN MY SMG4 EP?! welp i did not have that in my bingo card

really funny considering some pages of the Sonic x DC crossover are popping up on the same day (my favorite blue guys 💙)

anyway, about the SMG4 Batman signal....

oh... we're really starting off like this, huh

I can already tell this is going to be an emotional episode. god, this really hits heavy with inflation and stuff.

no... please don't tell me....

NO NO NO

"Eviction notice: Indeed, you have been evicted from the premises. Effective immediately, you are to get the actual hell away from this place. You don't have to go home but you can't stay here. Which was home. Geddit?"

ALREADY TRYING TO PISS ME OFF? BC OH BOY IS IT WORKING. YA VERAS LO TE VOY HACER HIJO DE SU—

alright alright, gotta calm down. there's gotta be another way, right?

oh the kids, nooooo

4 PLEASE HELP THEM

just the fact Karen's able to confide with SMG4, wow. Ever since the "We Must Kill Mario" episode, it seems like Karen's been able to trust him in a time of need, especially for her kids.

Sure, 4 and the Crew always get into wacky shenanigans with a side of trauma (like what happened in Puzzle Park) but she still does trust him, which is very sweet to think about. even if she didn't open up the text message, she already knows 4 would be willing to help her if he could

WHAT?

smh 😔 just another day in the SMG4 universe (also 4 absolutely recorded it for a video, he would)

oh wait he did. shoot. well, at least it was considerate of 4 to let her know anyway

ok side note: I find it hilarious that 4 would be sending memes to anyone he knows besides the Crew (he is a meme guardian after all) and Karen be the one to respond with "K". I love that for him.

huh. the Monopoly Man must've really hit rock bottom to be in a homeless shelter rn

DEPRESSO?! you're back, after all this time?

oh hey Mario! still looking for cheese? understandable (i also love cheese)

Mario: "Mmm, free goo." ...don't do that to me, don't say that *IGBP flashbacks*

NOW HOLD UP SHE'S RIGHT, HOW COME THEY CAN'T GET A SERVING TOO?

YEAH GET HIS ASS

oh, never expected the same shot from The Incredibles movie

OH, ARE WE FINALLY GETTING MORE OF HER BACKSTORY? she did say before that she took the job to make a living away from desperate times

AW that's our lovable goofball, willing to help his friends 💙

Oh. not that i expected much anyway. I thought that maybe a tent?

Really nice of Mario to keep his word and not tell the kids yet

Uh. What's all that about? NO NO go back, what was that?

*head in hands* Team, really? did you really have to dig the knife even deeper with the Koopa family moving in, c'mon

OGH BABY KAREN NOOO 😢

she was really this young? oh hun

*pauses and stares at the Team* alright, do tell. who the HELL is this secret organization?

not only has this organization taken advantage of Karen when she was young and vulnerable, but they also had the audacity of not letting her go after she EXPLICITLY told them she quit a long time ago bc of her kids. Seriously, I bet Karen was even picked solely because she was homeless. Their justification would probably be: "she's got nothing left to lose, that's why she chose us. besides, it's not like anyone's going to miss her if she died on the job"

Not that note, there better not be anyone blaming Karen for not seeing this coming bc if it wasn't obvious, she was a stray kitten desperately trying to survive on her own all her life. Ofc she would take the job, how can she not? There was stability, someplace to go. Even if it came with risks. But above all, she had the courage to leave the job for her kids. if that's not a good mother, I don't know what else to say

man, this organization's EVIL evil

THE KIDS (the Team's trying to destroy me /silly)

FAMILYYYY 🥹

oh right, chat, say it with me now (mickey clubhouse style): Oh, Mario!

AY that's pretty good 😄👍

WELCOME TO THE CRIB ✌️

Karen, you're going to tell the truth eventually. It's better now or never

THIS WHOLE SCENE MANNN, IT LEGITIMATELY MADE ME CRY

IT GOT ME. THIS. THIS IS HOW YOU MAKE AN EMOTIONAL YET SILLY EPISODE.

you did it Team. here you go, my stamp of approval ⭐️

SAME MARIO SAME

uh. what.

we did get 4 and Karen as a fighting duo, could we get one with Mario?

welp Monoploy Man owns Amazon now, someone edit the wiki. but that's only in the SMG4 universe. FUCK

y'know, you could've started with that, Mr. Monopoly

WE"RE GOING HOME LET'S GOOOO 🎉

idc what SOME people, LET US HAVE THIS. let them go home 🥹

*record scratch* wait what?

the walkie-talkie? wha....

WHAT? HUH?!

WAIT NONONONO DON'T CUT TO BLACK TEAM TEAM DON'T YOU DARE ROLL THE CREDITS

*flips desk* are you. fuckin. kidding me? they did that? to US? to ME? AAAAAAAA [We'll Be Right Back, after these messages :)]

Uh anyway, congrats to FalconaVasa for your fanart being featured in the end credits🎉 getting some luigi fanart in here, we love to see it :)

.・-: ✧ :--: ✧ :-・.

Nope. I'm still not over that ending. I gotta go and leave the room for a sec. I can't believe we went from emotional to "surprise! it's the start of an arc!!"

TEAM, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? AAAAAAAA. AAAAAAAAA.

Alright, I do have to wrap this review so I'll keep this quick. Without a doubt, we are entering into an arc starring Karen and Mario which can easily be connected to the "We Must Kill Mario" and "The Fight of All Time" episodes. As for the antagonist, we have a couple of choices:

The secret organization—they have been a big turning point in Karen's life and they keep bothering her with jobs she doesn't want to do

Marty—we do still have a hit on him and he still has a grudge against Mario

The father of Karen's kids—Karen mentioned it once in the last episode she starred in and may be associated with the organization itself

or an entirely new villain we don't know about

It can't be Mr Puzzles since (1) he's still in prison, (2) it's too early for that, (3) he doesn't have a personal grudge against Karen. And for those who say it's Shadow Man being part of the organization, I'm going to quote from Anaidon here:

Shadow Man is not canon in the SMG4 universe, and is merely an OC Anaidon puts it in the assigned scenes as an easter egg for fans to find. Ofc there is a chance that the Team could propose their OCs/AUs for future storylines (they are pretty cool). But at this time, after all the planning they've done, it just wouldn't be possible. Side note: if the Team's going to introduce a new villain, they plan several episodes for us to get to know the character before an arc actually happens.

What about Niles? We technically didn't meet him until the Revelations Arc. Or even Wren?

Niles wasn't entirely new, he stemmed from the Genesis arc so we as the audience can keep up with what we already knew. With Wren, we've seen him before WS, whenever Meggy retells it. And, knowing Meggy as a character, we knew Wren was a big influence on her. Now, the argument can be said with Mr Puzzles for him not appearing until the IGBP movie (episode-wise). But even then, he actually appeared until the end of WOTFI 2023 and was the mastermind working behind the scenes. His small appearances ARE his build-up to what his character was like.

When we're dealing with an arc, we have to have our main cast. Karen and Mario, obviously, and for the conflict to make sense, the antagonist has to be related to the two. But I never said there only had to be one antagonist. We could have more than one.

As for Mario, we might have to determine which side he's on. Mario accepted the mission given by whoever talked through the walkie-talkie. Accepted it, with a serious tone. It could be that he was threatened or offered a deal he can't refuse.

Well, here's my mini-theory (yes, cue the intro): when the sounds of the walkie-talkie were going off, it reminded me a lot of the static/standing-by noise Mr Puzzles done before, luring the Crew into the basement "No TV Make Mario Not Okie Dokie" and Mario in "Incredible Game Show Spectacular". Like it was hypnotic. If you really think about it, it's really symbolic at the end of the PV movie, Puzzles making the same noise at his defeat (representing the mind control over the Crew) and 4 smashing his head to stop said noise (representing their freedom). But AGAIN, not saying Puzzles is back for this arc. But I think the walkie-talkie noise was a tool to hypnotize whoever found it in the trash, which happened to be Mario of all people. That's why I'm leaning toward the organization or Marty being the ones behind it. Both of them keep a close eye on Karen and Mario that they have a chance to plant it there. And let's go back to the "We Must Kill Mario" episode, where the first thing we see Mario is when he charges toward the trash bin for a wizard outfit. This isn't the first time either when in "Trash Friends", Mario hides in the dump and is willing to eat trash-made spoiled spaghetti for his own purposes. If anyone would be able to catch on to this, it would be these two antagonists, to hypnotize Mario.

Sorry, got a little sidetracked there. More of my fever talk in there. Ben, you have anything to say?

"Something bad is about to happen." (uh yeah, no shit. still not over what you said last time.) another user: "Brings back such memories when you posted 🔔 and the whole (English) community went crazy thinking it had something to do with SMG4" "Calm down. Yeah, I'm going to do that when the time comes, haha" user: "leave us alone dude" (/silly) ":3"

...sigh. Really, Ben? You really are a menace, my god. Well, too bad I'm bilingual. Anyway, this has been an amazing episode with Karen and the kids. Everything from the voice acting to the animation to the script, oh boy. Team, you really did it. It really hit close to home, such a good story touching a bit of reality there. Like I said time to time again, love is a powerful force that helped the Crew overcome numerous obstacles. Even if it came to a cost, these characters always prevailed.

People have been saying that Karen ended up having no actual consequences by the end of the episode, but honestly, I want this ending. Some people are at risk of losing their homes or who already did. Some parents who suffered a terrible childhood do not want to pass it on to their kids. Some don't get the happy ending Karen and her kids did, but it's one wished for. For Karen, a character who we see working at multiple jobs and caring for her kids, let her have this. This show isn't meant to be realistic in the first place, but it does bring in real topics, and having these characters triumph over their hardships, sparks hope for the people also struggling with it.

If they can, you can too.

Well, that's all from me. Kinda left in charge of production last minute, so I gotta go! Thanks for stopping by, I'll see you all next time, and remember: numbers always go first.

....what's that?

I lost the bet so I owe you all cans of Rizz soda and ideas for my AU? uhhhhhhhh 🏃‍➡️🏃‍➡️🏃‍➡️

[lori0018]

First fanfic line tag meme. I was tagged by @snickerdoodlles 😘 thank you lovely 😊

Rules: share the first lines of ten of your latest fanfics (or up to if you have less!) & tag 10 people.

You're the One that I Want - "Wow. They really cranked up the AC in here," Chay mutters as he watches his favorite singer—who Chay will swear made eye contact with him just a moment ago—answer some prepared questions in front of the mix of university and hopeful high school students.

The Remote Debacle - "P'Kim, I can't find the remote," Chay whines from the couch.

Robot Boy - It's been a few months now since Porsche disappeared with only a letter left behind.

Dawn Dreaming - Chay wakes up feeling warm in a way that has nothing to do with the muggy heat he has come to associate with their air-conditioning breaking down again.

Fake Dating for Dummies - After waiting a few weeks for Porchay to respond to the song he sent him, Kim realized it wasn't going to happen, got completely drunk off his ass in the security of his own apartment, and then got back to work.

Just you lying close - It's been months since Chay decided to forgive Kim for the heartbreak he put him through.

Message Failed to Send. Please Retry. - Porchay's introduction to the mafia world was done through his first kidnapping.

Kim's horrible, no good, very weird day - Kim watches the other who looks like him, the one who is living in Kim's apartment—his hard won symbol of independence from his father—and seethes.

Kim's Flower Problem - Kim has had that itch in his throat since he moved out of the main family house.

Cook with the Stars - When Chay signed up for the new show Cook With The Stars, he expected it to be an easy way to get some exposure for his struggling restaurant.

In a turn of events that will surprise exactly no one, most of these are KimChay 😅 (the only exception is n°8 which is Kim centric and only briefly mentions KimChay being a thing).

Bonus: cookie did wips instead of published fics. I decided to do the regular one with bonus wip 😋 so, in alphabetical order of the files on my drive:

Chay! On Ice (YOI AU) - "Hey, Mae," Chay greets her as soon as she picks up the video call.

Crow's nest (witch!Chay AU) - Chay isn't sure how long Uncle has been gone.

Untitled KimChay vampire AU - The boy sitting at the bar can't be much older than eighteen, if that.

Tsurugi (FF7 AU) - Porsche is an orphan.

no way back (part 10 of the "need you to believe" 'verse) - Porsche walks into the ginormous fucking tower masquerading as a house that is going to be his new place of employment.

take me inside (and let me live in your mind) (FF16*) - He curves his body over Jill's as best as he can, hoping to spare her the worst of the blows that the horde of Ironblood heading towards them is sure to rain down on them.

Marriage, Magic, and Mayhem (Arranged Marriage AU) - "I'm sorry, baby, I wish there was another way."

* my only non-kp wip... despite the title being from wdys 😅

I have no idea who has and hasn't already been tagged in this so feel free to consider yourself tagged if you want to do it ✨

[i-am-grell]

[Insert Clever Anime Poll Title]

All goes well, I should be caught up with the Blue Exorcist dub tomorrow (last 2 episodes of Blue Night Saga will be watched when they're dubbed), so poll time. Also PSA for anyone who didn't read the tags on that li'l Black Butler post last night: I will be watching that as it's dubbed. I'm not polling Black Butler. I'm using the "it's literally my url" clause and just watching it. (This perk will only be abused for Black Butler and also if we somehow manage to manifest or summon with dark magic more Ouran High School Host Club. Everything else gets shoved in a poll eventually.)

Wow, long intro aside: Hello! I like watching anime and hate making choices, so followers, mutuals, and strangers on the internet get to decide what I watch for me.

Propaganda* (*yapping) below the cut. You're allowed to reblog to yap in the tags, for reach, or third reason. You do not have to know me, follow me, like me, or like/know/have watched any of the options to hit a button.

Propaganda:

One Piece - Please. I miss him. He is my favourite non-Straw Hat character. Give me my slutty Catholic. *grabby hands* This poll option counts for Seasons 14 and 15 / Marineford and Fishman Island (457-578).

Vampire Dormitory - Cross-dressers just love smashing vases, huh?

Romantic Killer - The ace gamer anime of my dreams <3

A Sign of Affection - I've heard that Itsuomi Nagi is such a green flag, and I am so excited to learn why. Also we love positive disability rep in anime <3 (and in media in general).

Your Lie in April - Ngl I'll probably be putting the April Trauma Anime in, like, every other poll this month. You don't have to vote for it if you don't want to, but it's thematic and who am I to ignore a Theme? Anyway, to make it enticing: I've never watched this, idk why it's traumatizing, and I'm ready to go in super blind and find out.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End - Is it a good button phrase? No. Will I ever pass up a chance to reference Elf Practice, the Best Tumblr Meme? Also no.

[mewkwota]

I see the meme, I ask: Marth!

Oh hello my old friend, how I have not drawn you in ages. :)

Send Me a Character

And I will tell you my:

First impression *Voice of Uninformed Smash Fan* Wow I hate this stuck-up narcissist, Roy is much better and I will make fun of you constantly.

Impression now Marth is a character I've grown with for quite some time, like many I first knew of him from Melee. After an utterly (and painfully) long journey of learning who he really is, I find Marth's brand of gentleness to be a huge part of why I like him.

Even more so-- it may just be my interpretation of it-- I find his constant worry of losing his loved ones to be a fitting tie-in to his series' iconic permadeath mechanic.

And while I've since moved that title of Most Favorite FE Protag to Chrom, I honestly feel that *Rose Quartz Voice* every part of me loving Chrom is likely tied to my love for Marth. (They are related.)

Favorite moment One thing I've come to learn and enjoy is that apparently Marth can be pretty smooth with his words. His response to shut-down Kris' insistence to accompany him everywhere is something that stays in my memory-- basically Marth suggests they may as well see him nakkid and I didn't think that was something he would say.

Idea for a story There is a moment mentioned in NMotE where Marth is said to visit the graves of his fallen comrades. It's very straightforward and I may never draw it out, but I had this idea where Marth learns about the day of Lucas' MOTHER passing and offers to pay respects with him. This was based on the fact that their games share an anniversary.

Unpopular opinion Uhh, I dunno. I don't think nice people are boring, I guess.

Favorite relationship Any trickle regarding Marth and his sister give me life. Elice doesn't get a lot of writing, but whatever they share of her has been so sweet.

Favorite headcanon "No Pants" Marth. He secretly dislikes them as much as Chrom dislikes right-arm sleeves. Similarly, the idea that Marth dislikes long sleeves and rolls them up constantly is a really cute idea too. It runs in the family.

[cloverrwritess]

heyyy could you write queerplatonic ian x m!reader having a movie night together? maybe with some cuddles and ian nerding out over whatever film they’re watching? /nf

Title: Rest

Platonic! Ian Hecox x M! Reader

(Can be also read as GN! Reader)

Request: Yes | No

authors note: thank you for this request! I’m not an expert at writing m!readers and afraid to butcher it but I hope you like this one anon! I chose ‘Titanic’ since I don’t usually watch a lot of English movies. 🙇‍♀️

warning: one really bad titanic joke (as Ian would definitely make one)

MASTERLIST

It was finally the end of the month where smosh hq takes vacations after filming multiple videos for different channels. I asked around the cast and crew if anyone would be down for a movie night but almost all of them had their own to do—Luckily Ian gladly took the offer and said he had nothing to do and said he would be the one in charge of the snacks.

I cleaned up my apartment and made the living room a sleepover mansion, with many pillows that could be made into a pillow fort and lots of blankets to keep us warm. I lit up a scented candle, adding to the cozy vibe. I looked at my reflection on my wall mirror and fixed up my hair and straightened my clothes.

I heard my doorbell ring and walked towards the door and took a look at the peephole to make sure It was Ian and not some stranger. Unlocking the door, we greeted each other with a side hug and helped him bring the snacks he brought to the coffee table.

________

“Wow you really decked out in the decorations, the candle adding a nice touch” Ian said and sat on the couch, letting himself get comfortable.

“Thanks man, I wanted to add a cozy vibe to the place. Do you want to choose the movie we’re going to watch or should I pick one randomly?” TV remote in hand, I opened my Netflix and looked through different movies we could watch.

“Um, how about Titanic? I heard from the others you haven’t watched that one yet? He shrugged his shoulders, holding a pillow to his lap.

“You sure? I heard from others it’s emotional but after seeing so many memes on the internet for years, I don’t think I’ll take this movie seriously”

“Yup, go for it dude”

________

We sat down, leaning ourselves on the couch while eating the snacks he brought. I had to pause the movie for a little while to get us some drinks and continued.

I had an idea in my head to break the silence. I positioned myself the same way Rose did while Jack was drawing a portrait of her.

“Ian, paint me like one of your french girls” I wiggled my eyebrows, putting my hand up to my temple, doing a dramatic pose.

That made him pause and start mimicking the way Jack did and kept looking up from his imaginary paper.

“Hmm yes yes, the proportions are totally good”

That made me grab a pillow and smack him with it. “I better look good or else”

“Ow! Be careful, I have old bones, you know that” Ian put his arms up, covering his face from the pillow.

We had our fair share of laughter and before we focused on the movie again. We weren’t nearing the end of the move when I felt my eyes feel heavy.

I felt my head start bobbing—trying to hide how tired I was getting.

Ian must have seen me from his peripheral vision and turned to look at me “You can put your head on my shoulder you know, rest your eyes for a bit before we watch another movie. Waiting for the ship to sink does take a long time” He joked before tapping his left shoulder, signaling for me to put my head on it.

“Never make that awful joke ever again” I muttered, feeling the fatigue take over my body. I put my head on his shoulder and moved position a bit to make myself comfortable.

Ian pulled the blanket closer to me before putting his head on top of mine.

“Rest for a bit”

I finally felt my fatigue take over and closed my eyes.

[sssammich]

that is evil dammit sammit and i am sending 1 and 30 with the same caveat of why you are proud for 30

wow what a jerk true friendship. ok well i will give u an essay for 30

the last sentence you wrote

And Emma was returned back to the orphanage a week later.

lol i am sorry emma

30. share a fic you’re especially proud of

hmmm i am proud of all of my children but i guess recently if we're thinking about which of my children made the honor roll

i'd have to give it a tie for my swan queen winter solstice fic, all we are to each other, and literally the last supercorp fic i wrote, angels work the night shift but for like very different reasons. i mean recency bias is probably at play here but also i wrote them this year so im always glad that i publish anything lol

anyway, the winter solstice fic was a a brutal push for me to execute a plot that originally was waaaay over my head because, uh, it had plot. it originally had a whole dream state section and i needed to cut back and simplify if i was gonna write it in any way i would have enjoyed and still post on time after a few extension requests. i also had this massive anchor scene that had all the angsty elements i love to indulge in but it just was too rotten in its original spot so i had to make some executive decisions of how to appropriately present that anchor scene. i mean i think i've landed on a pretty solid story but at the time of publishing, i kinda needed to take a breather so i could appreciate it for what it is and how well the story actually turned out with a bunch of changes. i'm also very much in my "how to solve a problem of two women? add a third woman" era and that is very clear and apparent in this one lmao and i really love that for me

as for the angels work the night shift fic, i mostly like that fic because a) i wrote a tender fic without any tremendously big or major angst so go me but b) i really was just kind of impressed with myself for how i executed it since it never happens (and may never happen again???) because i wrote 9k words in essentially 4 sittings over the course of a weekend (2x on friday, 1x on saturday, and 1x on sunday) AND i wrote the fic in literal order? i didn't even skip around like i normally do? it just was scene one, scene two, scene three, on and on! and!! the story was just writing itself i didn't think too hard on it or how it worked, it just did its thing and the fic was done. like, i heard the title from a video i saw (maybe one of those short clips of some medical procedural????) and i wrote it down in my notes app and then like the next day i just banged out the fic and it's done. it was the smoothest writing experience i have had in a really long time, so that was a big surprise to me

anyway that's all lolol

fic ask meme

[l0ve-bug-m1les]

Spider-Band With a S/o Who Hyperfixates on Things Hard

Miles Morales, Hobie Brown, Gwen Stacy, and Pavitr Prabhakar (separate) x Gn!Reader

Warnings: None! (Except my attempt at British talking—)

Summary: Really what the title says—

A/n: This is actually an idea i had when i first fell into the spider verse fandom but didn’t have anyone to talk to about it. Glad ya’ll picked this one! Enjoy!! Also lmk if any of ya’ll wanna be on a tag list!! I know i don’t write all that much but still—

Miles Morales 🌻🎧🌻

Bby is here for it

Always listening to what you have to say and never complaining

I have a feeling he’d be just as excited as you even if he’s got no clue what you’re talking about

He’d try to get into your interests with you no matter how outlandish they may seem

(I mean he’s basically a spider what’s so weird about fnaf lore—)

Definitely draws you things based off of the subject

“You said they were your favorite, right?”

Is always sending you memes and funny videos about your interest

Asks you for updates on your interest if it’s a series

Holds you when something bad happens and you’re sad

“Shh, shh…Hey, at least they existed, right?—Oh, no that made it worse—“

Going back to rambles, he’s always listening but maybe not always looking at you

But trust me

That boy could recite what you say perfectly

He just likes to listen while he works or draws

Has definitely made a mural of you and him in the world together (used it as a date spot. It’s true, he told me)

Overall

20/10 boyfriend

(I mean they all are but like—)

Hobie Brown 🎸⚡️🎸

Will spend hours learning songs related to your interest

But then he’s like

“What? Oh, i been knowin’ this song, luv. What’re ya on about?”

Say for instance, you dive deep into an artist or band

Obviously, Hobie’s gonna ask you about them

But would never ask you for your favorite songs because he’s “Too busy writing his own”

So he just pays really close attention to the songs you talk the most about

(As i previously stated, he learns them all and plays it off)

When you figure it out he’s just like:

“Took ya long enough, luv”

He also listens to your rants about whatever it is (much like Miles and everyone else here but shhh)

But here’s why he stands out

This man can keep up

He can and will remember all about it, and basically know about much as you do

Steals things from stores that are from the series or whatever it is

“Hobie, how’d you get this?” “It was on display and i knew you’d love it.” “Wow! I thought you didn’t buy things from brands..” “…” “You stole it…”

You’re too busy loving whatever it is to stay mad

(But we all knew you weren’t mad)

If you think your interest is cringey then you’re WRONG

“But it’s for kids—“ “And? So what?” “Well…uhm….hm.” “Yeah. Thought so. Now keep goin’, I’m invested.”

(But also in general, bby. Love what you love and come to me if anyone says it “weird” or “cringey”. I’ll beat them up bestie<33)

All in all, a king<33

Gwen Stacy 🩰🥁🩰

I’m gonna be honest

She is lost

Even if you go over things twenty times she still won’t get it

And that’s okay!

She takes notes and tries to keep up

Definitely proud of herself when she gets a detail right

“And then—“ “Wait, wait. Let me guess…He…he burned the pizzeria down, right” “Uhm—yeah, actually!” “*insert proud face*”

(Woah look at the trans flag colors^^^)

Definitely binge watches or reads your interest and learns as much as she can

She keeps a notebook full of her notes that she refers back to whenever you two are on call

She played it off as writing down some notes for school

But one day, she asked you to grab her suit from inside her drum set, and you found the notebook

It caught your eye because it had the name of your interest on it and you were like:

“Hey, Gwen? What’s this?” You showed her the notebook

I wish you could see my vision

When i tell you Gwen stood there for a good minute

I mean she stood there for several

Anywho

She just admitted to it and was all red and fidgety

Since this is her world, she was cast in mostly pink and red hues and the space around her fluttered yellow

You end up going through it with her, and talk about your favorite bits

Overall? She deserves several gold stars and cookies

Pavitr Prabhakar 🍵☀️🍵

Bby is here for it

Whenever you get excited he’s excited

When you’re on the verge of tears he’s already crying

He is your favorite character’s number one supporter

He’s always going on and on with you about your interests

Because unlike the others, he manages to actually get into whatever it is you’re talking about and not just keep up

It’s honestly a skill of his

I feel like Pav also has special interests that he dives deep into

Like

Deep deep

Same as you so you two get along well :D

He’s always looking for the newest content and sending it to you always

“Hey! They said the next episode would be released next Tuesday!! :DDD” “There’s a new theory for the last volume!”

It’d be cute if that’s how you met and became friends

You spend sleepovers diving into your shared and separate interests with eachother

You know what’d be funny?

If he also info dumps onto the villains he fights

Like

Hear me out

Pav tying up a villain who tried to rob a place and just going

“Yeah, so me and my partner have a theory for why—“

And the villain is just like

Stfu??????

But they’d never say that because it’s Spider-Man

All in all, your number one hype man and best friend :]

———————————-

YA’LL I DID IT :DD

[myloveforhergoeson]

memories are pay-per view for the title ask meme? 👀

ooh this is a good one - the first thing that came to mind was older kaisy, sitting out on the porch of their house and going through some of the scrapbooks daisy inevitably made of their lives. she'd have their love letters back and forth saved while they were still long distance. if someone showed her how to take a screenshot and use a printer i'd suspect she'd tuck some of their chats in there, photos from the first time they met... and of course, their lives together after that. engagement, weddings, kids, MORE kids, grandkids... just a very domestic fluffy wholesome look back on how they'd grown up together and lived their adulthood. photos with jennifer and katie, photos with daisy's grandparents and jay-jay... it's very clear in my mind they like flip the pages and one of them goes "oh, wow remember this?" and the other is like "how could i ever forget?" probably taking place after a major event in their lives, like their last kid going off to college :') i love them so much :')

send me the title of a fic and i'll tell you what i'd write for it!

[grimdarkfandango]

sliiiides real smooth into your askbox for the pairing/title meme (with titles courtesy of my jazz playlist on spotify because who doesn't love a song title fic)

ZoSan, "How long has this been going on?"

EndHawks "Lover Man"

Aaaand Nies "502 Blues (Drinking and Driving)"

OHOHOHO HELLO... WHAT A DELICIOUS SPREAD... A FEAST... also hell yeah jazz playlist How long has this been going on? - ZoSan

OOOOO OKAY. OKAY. It's yet another in the storied list of Didn't Know They Were Dating fics, where Everyone Else With Eyes knows they are dating and They Don't. Because honestly what else can you call all that!!! 24k possibly a 5+1 in form Sanji does have a breakdown at Robin and when they finally do Date On Purpose it's SO weird so maybe they don't have to change anything after all to be Together!!! (the sex barely changes anything but it is an improvement)

Lover Man - Endhawks

GNAWS ON THIS it's smut. it's smut all the way down. pre-war [stares at the camera] feelgood smut, Hawks peeling Endeavor out of his suit after a long day of PR and just going to town. Calls Enji Lover Man because I love when the thing says the thing!!! Soft gooey fluffy smut all good vibes

Nies - 502 Blues (Drinking and Driving)

WOW what an evocative one!!!! Oh boy I think this might be a sad one. I think maybe like, modern au living-in-different-cities, why do you only call me when you're high (drunk) vibes, listening to voicemails in the car always just out-of-sync. Probably still has a happy ending because ;_; but like, where it cuts off and ends as they're reunited and with the knowledge it's only temporary. ugh. HEART FEELS

[transparentlyfallingasleep]

7. How do you choose which POV to write from? (Especially for starbucks)

25. What fic do you wish you got more of a response on?

26. Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

39. Share a snippet from a WIP

aw wow! People never ask me questions on here.

let’s see number 7. Honestly I tried to come up with a better answer than this but it’s just the vibe of the thing. The first story was really just a response to “Clint Barton shows up 15 minutes late with Starbucks” insert Troy with the pizza meme that was out in the ether post his absence in Winter Soldier. I decided to try making myself write from Natasha’s perspective after the Clint heaviness in marketplace etc but in the Starbucks sequel I just wanted to imagine/ write down the Robert Downey jr voice in my head reacting to spy kid 3D. And then they all joined in. Clint’s voice is my most comfortable place to be Natasha, Cap, Maria, Jarvis the least but I think that’s because being that fucking competent seems heptapod level alien.

25: I wish people read unfinished business more… it was my first story in the marvel space and my second fanfic ever. And I still kinda like imagining it’s running in the background of the avengers… and it could have too if not for that pesky Joss Whedon. I also I’m proud of my Game of thrones fic. It was an attempt to self sooth and I think it turned out rather well all things considered.

26. I’m not sure I do wild rides I’m definitely not much of a plot writer. I tend to focus on small intimate character moments. Probably because I suck even more at the other stuff, possibly because being a speech pathologist I’m better at getting voices of characters ‘right’ than I am at making things happen. But I am proud at how I salvaged age of ultron for the rewriting in Market Place and how much I was able to reuse, reduce, recycle might be surprising to readers.

39. So my clinic shut down suddenly in September. If you are Australian I will just say this about it. The NDIS and in particular the Government have been making it harder and harder to work as a paediatric disability clinician and hell bent on telling our clients that it’s because we are rorting the system. I didn’t want my clients to loose their therapeutic alliance and a speechie that has known them most of their lives so I started my own sole trading. It’s long hours, crazy stress and I don’t even know if I will be able to afford the audit come 2025 but for now my kiddos are safe and getting therapy. All the govt has managed to do is privatise the old block grant system and lie about choice and control and that’s all I have to say about that. As a result I’ve got no real WIPs but I have this… you can see that I write dialogue first.

If you’ve come to tell me I’ve besmirched my honour, that the castle is in an uproar… I care not. 

Your grace. 

Ser Davos I am no princess. 

The laws of the realm say

So Tyrion Lannister crowns my brother and frees the north for my sister and now I am smothered by titles? I knew I should have killed that-

Id never really thought about it like that Milady. Allow an old man a small courtesy? I accepted my title for services to Stannis Baratheon. Plenty of times I thought better of it but I did it for those who came after me. Lord Gendry well he doesn’t say, quiet sort that he is -

Surly 

As you say, but i think I’m right in saying he had similar thoughts. I don’t think either of us thought that there might be others on the other side of it. Born to the titles and the power and wanting none of it, wanting to be rid of it. 

He is a good lad lady Arya. Give him longer. He can’t stay this angry for long. 

I can’t stay ser Davos

Forgive me but I’ve lived longer on decking than I have on dry land or had till your brother made me hand. The tides they come again. Like circles they are. Why not tarry even if he’s determined to make himself unpleasant. 

He doesn’t have to put effort into that. He’s had it mastered for years. You are married Ser, children? 

Aye My Lady

[midnight1nk]

⭐️A few days ago...⭐️

Wow, what a wholesome episode! "The rosemary to my bread", dude, I hope my future partner will say that to me one day. Now that I had my weekly dose of silly, time to check the Puzzlevision website! Eh, I bet it's going to be the same as...

[*SCREAMING*]

WOTFI 2024 PREDICTIONS REVISITED

⚠️ DISCLAIMER IN INTRO POST ⚠️

An eye for an eye...

How are we feeling, SMG4 fandom? It's that time of year and many have speculated about WOTFI as well as what might come afterwards. Myself included with my previous theory posts, suspecting that something big is guaranteed to happen. And we didn't have to wait long.

On the 14th of September, just a few days ago, the channel's latest episode, 'SMG4 and SMG3 come up with an episode' was released. But what truly made the fandom lose their mind was the sudden change of the Puzzlevision website. If you need a refresher, here is what it looked like before:

It had:

[puzzlevision.tv] being the site title and URL

Mr Puzzles' logo

A central image that transitioned between a webp to a gif file and vice versa on certain occasions

(after choosing Save As option) the image already labeled as Now Airing

Now, there was talk about this that wasn't left originally, stating that the image (that used to be larger) now had a black border around it. At least, at the time. As someone who has worked with web design, there's actually a number of reasons why this is.

Depending on the resolution/zoom setting on your device, it might alter the site's layout.

As said earlier, the image alternated between a gif to a webp. All websites require a background color underneath all of its assets so the change in image/file size may have shrunk than what was originally. Especially if you are attempting to make it look seamless between the transitions.

Long story short, It's simply how web layouts are: formatting gets a bit wonky from time to time.

Anyway, as I already mentioned, the website has changed to this,

(supposedly someone said the password was "carnival")

Then, to this:

Changes include:

The title "War of the Fat Italians 2024" with a similar URL [www.wotfi2024.com]

SMG4 logo

A whole new layout design (obviously) which just gives off 'Greatest Showman' energy

And now we've come to the present day: fans have already submitted their minigame challenges and preparing for a carnival-themed adventure. For me and other theorists, though, we're having a field day. From the clues I gathered on the website and a few past episodes, I might be able to put together what the channel has for us this year. Let's revisit my "WOTFI 2024 Predictions"!

I already covered a lot in depth in my "Puzzlevision 2: Now Airing" theory [link] and I'll be referring back to it here, so I recommend looking it over if you haven't already.

THE WEBSITE

I was honestly surprised that I was right about a couple of things. The main one being about the website itself.

The people behind SMG4 didn’t need to put this image in, they didn’t need to keep this website on. But they did.

Well, past Ink, you nailed it. And according to Cube (FM), this is the same website host.

"don't read into it too much"

Cube, with everything going on, I might as well interrogate a website for memes' sake.

Wait, what's wrong with it?

The fact that the website is used for WOTFI of all things is what's so strange. All the previous WOTFI'S asked the fans to submit their challenges through the comment section or social media. No other option was involved until now.

Maybe they wanted to try something different like what they did for WOTFI 2023?

That's a good point. It was stated that they wanted to be more experimental with their episodes. But even then, the '23 stream they hosted was on their channel, on Youtube.

Maybe they didn't want it to go to waste? After all, sites can be expensive.

Again, it's a good point. Depending on the domain they used and the apps connected to the site, it can be costly. However, I do want to iterate what I said earlier: they didn't need to keep this website up. Better yet, if they didn't want to raise any flags, why not keep the site how it originally was with the "That's all folks!" image? Why the change? Which brings us to our next point,

WHO IS THE REAL SMG4?

Let me explain...

After the change of the website, we got this post,

This brings up a lot of questions:

Who sent the letter?

If we can assume that's Four's hand, why did the post say "you" as if there is a narrator?

If Four had no idea about a carnival coming to town, then why would he ask us to submit challenges for a carnival he's supposedly hosting?

Well, they're pretty easy to answer. We already established that Marty would come back to be the most likely antagonist for WOTFI. I mean, this cardboard cutout managed to own a pizza shop, a casino, an airline company, and a spaghetti sauce brand. It wouldn't be a surprise if he also happened to own a carnival. But as I said in previous theories, Marty isn't working alone.

He's working with Mr Puzzles.

Mr Puzzles was the one who sent the letter to SMG4 just as he did for Wren in Western Spaghetti (indirect or not). It hasn't exactly shown if the letter had his seal on it. Not that it needs to anyway, they would recognize his logo and know they can't trust what's inside this envelope.

Remember how I said in my previous theory that one of the ways Mr Puzzles could control SMG4 was for our blue meme lord to be his eyes and ears? In the latest episode, SMG3 comes up with the idea of a carnival coming to the showgrounds for a week, and SMG4 wanting to go on the baby teacup ride.

Mr Puzzles was there, listening to every word they said to each other. He has been since "SMG4: Inside Out".

Could it just be purely by coincidence and just something out of improv? Sure, the SMG4 & SMG3 side episodes aren't really connected to canon. But like, c'mon, the channel knew what they were doing. Everything has to be put into consideration.

If that's true, the narrator could be Mr Puzzles, the second voice inside his head. Or, for those who love the goop!4 theory, the voice could be the demonic goo slowly taking over.

Now, back to the post!Four and site!Four. If we can assume the Four from the post is our Four, then the one impersonating Four would be Mr Puzzles, once again controlling the events in WOTFI. This time, using his website. Like Cube said, Mr Puzzles is the same website host as before. Also, look at these two:

It would be too obvious if we see a PNG of Mr Puzzles on the website again so why not impersonate his narrative foil. Well, at least look dapper while you're at it.

Or, even better, Four does know about the carnival but either the goo or Mr Puzzles are erasing certain memories.

A GAME OF WITS

Speaking of the website, let's analyze the description:

Step right up, WOTFI is coming to town and we need your challenges but this time...WITH A TWIST! We're doing a carnival theme this year and we want challenges named like a minigame and a description of what they are! For example "Whack a Bob - Who can smash bob with a hammer first?" OR "Pizza Pie Peril- Survive giant pizza's raining form the sky' Guidelines - Please only 1 challenge per person - Nothing inappropriate - Please add your internet profile name in the 'name' field below Thank you and see you soon!!! -SMG4

Carnival theme, huh?

Well, last year's theme made sense. Three's notebook was stolen and was risked of getting leaked. With the casino being heavily guarded, Four and Three had to sneak in. A secret mission to take back a secretive object.

If this WOTFI has Marty and Mr Puzzles working together, then It would make sense for a businessman and an entertainer would come up with something like a carnival. The best of two worlds: fun and capitalism. Besides, the Showgrounds would be a perfect place to host it since it used to be an abandoned carnival and Mr Puzzles having something to do with the land ownership.

[SMG4: Our New Home // timestamp: 5:38]

Now, what is peculiar is the use of the term "minigame".

Ink, it's a carnival. You have to stick to the theme of carnival rides and games.

Fair, but this is WOTFI we're talking about here. If you win a challenge, you get closer to the end and win a point for your side. For WOTFI '23, every choice impacted the story and therefore the ending. If the SMG4 crew plays and wins these minigames, what do they get in return? And if they lose, would there be a punishment?

It will entirely depend on how WOTFI would play out, in three scenarios:

Marty is revealed to be behind the carnival at the beginning of WOTFI and the Crew learns that, in order to reach him, they have to win some mini-games.

Marty isn't revealed until the near end. The Crew only came because they wanted to have some fun for the day but learned that this was a sort of trap created by Marty (along with Mr Puzzles but they don't know that yet).

OR BONUS SECRET OPTION

Both Marty and Mr Puzzles revealed themselves to be the ones hosting the carnival, meaning it's less likely that Puzzlevision 2 would happen unless something else happens.

Then, there is the phrase "WITH A TWIST". Sure, it could mean that it would be different than our regular old WOTFI, just as it happened in 2023. But WOTFI 2023 also revealed the twist that Mr Puzzles was actually the one orchestrating the whole thing, sending the fax to Marty about the secret recipe and his theme scattered in the background in multiple episodes. We might get a twist by the end of this year's WOTFI as well. Bonus points if we hear a version of his theme again.

Back in my Puzzlevision 2 theory, I predicted that the final battle with Mr Puzzles would happen back where it all started. With the carnival coming into the Showgrounds, it comes back full circle.

ONE STEP CLOSER

There isn't much to change from what I predicted:

Karen would be a key character for WOTFI this year. Maybe Karen just wanted her kids to have fun for the day, or even the corporation, her former workplace, gave her a tip that Marty would be there.

The Crew would have to find Marty's absolute weakness since he's technically invincible.

And possibly Pedro coming back to assist the Crew somehow.

But now I have a new prediction, based on the latest episode:

SMG4's and SMG3's relationship would change to a whole new level. That Four may need Three for something or if Three realizes something about himself, it would change their dynamic regardless.

It's really similar to how it was for WOTFI 2023 with small bits here and there all coming back to a single episode. (The notebook, the duo's meme guardian powers, Four's forklift, Three moving out of the Internet Graveyard, etc.)

It's still too early to confirm anything, but at the very least, we now have some idea what WOTFI may be about as well as evidence to back up some of my theories.

Will we get goop!4? God, I wish. I was listening to "Friends on the Other Side" and I was just imagining scenarios of Mr Puzzles taking complete control of Four with the goo. If it doesn't happen for whatever reason, I'll write it myself.

Oh well, we would just have to wait and see. In the meantime, that’s just a theory…

AN SMG4 THEORY

🎶Thanks for dropping by🎶

[catoperated]

The wild thing about jhor’tanas (named after my undead WoW character, as all flight gods or whatever are named after the original team’s WoW characters) is I made that character before jorts were a meme. I do find all the fanart funny, thought.

What I’m bitter about, more so than getting kicked off the team because “anyone can write”, is my character (and thus the plaguebringer—o so creatively based on the one undead character) was male, as I was but a simple egg working through some shit, and he was changed to she so there would be more female flight leaders.

I remember being on the voice call watching the secondary artist streaming himself recoloring icons I was gonna have to write more descriptions for, and the lead said something like “I mean that makes sense, right? Because you’re really a girl, Jhor.”

And it took me 5 seconds to agree.

Why did I not fucking know I was trans sooner?

I do find it intensely funny they had to ban body horror because of “my” flight. That’s always been my bread and butter. Causing problems long after I quit after being shamed for demanding back payment for work on 300-400 item descriptions. Before that I was called “not enough of a team player” and left off the LLC papers because I was doing it all for a friend on top of my full time job which was causing my chronic health issues.

I’ve cut contact with everybody long since then (always have a contract, even if you’re working with friends, if it’s very likely you won’t stay friends once pay comes up) but kudos to whoever dug up the original names—which were changed out for titles because people started stalking the lead dev in WoW.

Not me tho, cause my character in game was named Jhor after the Mage: the Awakening concept. Jhor’tanas is because he was an undead elf.

It’s not a big secret that flight rising is Warcraft dragons with the serial numbers filed off, but I don’t know if people realize how deep it goes.

[merryfortune]

there is water at the bottom of a swimming pool

written for my rare pair week over on @incorrect-vrains-quotes

Day 1. Attribute | Element | Affinity

Title: there is water at the bottom of a swimming pool

Ship: Raindropshipping | Aqua/Miyu

Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Vrains

Word Count: 1,372

Rating: T

Warning: None 

Tags: Fluff and Angst, Post-Canon, Healthy Coping Mechanisms

   Miyu cut through the water with power. Her form was immaculate. Every muscle expertly controlled, her hair pulled back and her face strapped with goggles. She had practiced and practiced and practice and it was all for this. The High School championships, scholarship on the line and who knows where it would take her after this.

   She swam the best free style of her life and touched the tiles at the other end of the olympic-sized pool. The water was cold but Miyu was warm, blood pumping and a smile split across her face.

   First place. A record time. And the crowd went wild.

   Thunderous applause. Confetti burst open and the flutters of see-through paper scattered down over the water like blossoms in spring. People cheered and the ordinance it became roared in Miyu’s ears - and her imagination.

   The championship was… tomorrow.

   She was just getting in the last possible practice of all that Miyu had already done with an audience of one: Aqua.

   “Brava, brava, well done, Miyu!” Aqua cheered for her from the grandstands.

   Her tiny voice, lone in the hallowed and empty indoor pool, hardly filled it and yet, made Miyu’s heart grow another size. Her body was drenched in adrenaline, her chest heaved and her heart pounded. She pulled herself up onto the side of the pool, splashing in the process.

   Aqua could only, and freely, cheer Miyu on like this right now. Tomorrow, she had been hidden away as though she didn’t even exist - even though she was, easily and by far, Miyu’s biggest supporter.

   “Swim exactly like that tomorrow and you will definitely take that grand prize.” Aqua encouraged her.

   “Thanks.” Miyu replied, bittersweet.

   She wasn’t exactly sure of how she felt right now.

   Sure, if she did exactly as she was told, repeating exactly what she did in the pool just now, Miyu would definitely leave her rivals and fellow competitors in the kiddy pool. The thought of that was exhilarating but the problem was, she was dampened by Aqua’s presence - or maybe expected lack thereof.

   It was kind of a long story but between now and tomorrow, there was plenty of time for cold feet and navel gazing.

   When Miyu was first reunited with the freshly resurrected Aqua, it had been a lot to take in. She wasn’t known as the brightest when it came to academics but when it came to sports and the arts, Miyu was the best of the best. So, she didn’t really get science-y things like this. Artificial intelligence with free will. Ethics and philosophy.

   She just knew what she knew.

   She had been kidnapped as a child and tortured. That was the end of it. She did what she could to survive: relying on memories of her beloved best friend, determined to apologise and set the truth free. Anything else was more adult than what she was capable of understanding as a six-year-old.

   And same for being a sixteen-year-old, apparently. Her mind whirled at the thought as she was reintroduced to Aoi and from her, learned quite the tale about why she had been kidnapped and what had happened afterwards. She did her best to block out things like duelling so it was quite the shock to learn that her childhood trauma had flow on effects like the Another Incident, the Tower Hanoi, and the Neuron Network.

   Wow. Just wow.

   But Miyu was given time to process but then she heard it. Aqua was called the Water Ignis and that didn’t bode well for Miyu. It made her stomach turn because water…

   Water was her thing.

   Miyu wasn’t super into astrology or anything but she very proudly wore the badge of being the fish: Pisces. She shared hydro homie memes online. She had never been big on drinking milk or even soda, either. She was a water girlie in her big, bulky water bottle that she took, religiously, to her favourite sport: swimming.

   Swimming gave her something. A here and now where she could only think about breathing. Nothing else. Not the horrors of being electrocuted or the terrors of being starved. The here and now: the cool water that enveloped her, the sound of the beach and the fun it represented. Swimming was her thing but now…

   Was it all predestined, or was it just a coincidence?

   Miyu couldn’t tell and that uncertainty gave way to fate and questioned all the therapy she had gone through. The way she had earned praise as a child for finding methods of resilience and enjoying her hobbies and finding success after her trauma and its ramifications. Now… Looking into Aqua’s face, the pale blue mixed with navy markings, was it all for Aqua? That it wasn’t random, that it was always going to be her who suffered…

   That was a lot to ask for when Miyu was a bit of an idiot. Emotional and bratty and competitive as all hell. The way she was looked at with suspicion because of her scars as she stood in her sleek one-piece, up there on the winner’s podium, basking in her triumph in the race.

   It took some getting used to, is all.

   Miyu did, of course, get used to it. Knowing the reason why she had been taken as a child, what her torture was meant to amount for, and how lovely an “Ignis” Aqua was at all despite such a start to life. She had a true soul, and soothing voice and soon enough, they were thick as thieves. In the end Aqua was dear to her but those origins still lingered in the back of her mind. 

   Even now. Though it was probably her nerves regarding tomorrow - and Aqua picked up on that.

   Her gaze turned sympathetic, “Is everything alright?”

   Miyu shrugged. It will be… She hoped it will be, anyway. She sucked in a deep breath and in the blink of her eye, Aqua shifted.

   She turned from her little blue form as big as a fairy to something far larger and far toothier. Aqua opened her eyes and her maw, her tentacles unfurled and her tail spooled from out of the Duel Disc that she made her home in.

   “Can I give you a hug?” Aqua asked.

   “Of course you can.” Miyu laughed.

   Despite the damper on her mood, Miyu cheered up like she normally did. Especially with a cuddle from Aqua. Miyu hugged her back, tight as tight could be around Aqua’s equivalent of a waist, in between the long slots of her arms. Miyu rubbed her face into Aqua’s markings on her chest, she rested her head on Miyu’s shoulder. Miyu sighed contentedly. Aqua was cool to the touch, rubbery and soft like a pool toy. Perfect for… dragging her into the water.

   Miyu gave Aqua a big hug and playfully took her into the water. Aqua squeaked and squealed as Miyu walked backwards and into the pool. The water splashed up around them and the surface hit Miyu’s back hard but she didn’t care because once she was sunken into the water, it was her world.

   Her and Aqua’s world.

   If she had to be allotted an attribute, at the end of the day, Miyu was happy that it was water. Whether it was on purpose or as a fluke, whether it was something bigger than her or just a quirk of paperwork, Miyu really was blessed to have the Water Ignis as her dearest partner and companion. 

   Those dark clouds in Miyu’s mind began to dissipate. They got lost in the shadows and reflections of the water. Everything always felt different and new at the bottom of a swimming pool, Miyu could feel her heart let go of everything that was weighing her down and Aqua sensed the relief. She rubbed her head against Miyu’s face amid their embrace underneath the meniscus of the water.

   They floated to the top together. Aqua was too buoyant to be held underneath the water for too long and Miyu needed to breathe, anyway. 

   “I’m really happy to have you, Aqua.” Miyu told her. 

   “I’m glad.” Aqua murmured.

   “I’m also gonna get that first place tomorrow.” Miyu said.

   Aqua laughed, “I know you will. Go get ‘em, Miyu.”

[rottenhellion]

if not already asked, leon for the character ask :) basic but opinions vary!

(Also asked by @shinekittenace)

Why I like them: I fully expected this guy with his John Cena-esque go getter attitude and aggressively marketable ace to annoy the shit out of me, but the truth is is that hating Leon is like hating a puppy. You just can't. He's just a nice fuckin dude that wants to keep everyone safe even though he's just one man. There's also the fact that he's essentially a grown up ex-protagonist which the game delves into a little with his complicated emotions surrounding losing the title he's had since he was eleven by the end of the game and the fandom's done some FASCINATING psychological deep dives with. 

Why I don’t: I feel like GameFreak failed a bit with show don't tell with him. Some of the ways GameFreak try to make him seem really intelligent and capable are...a little on the nose to say the least. Like for instance him estimating how much Hop has grown during his introduction scene COULD be taken as a hint they don't get to see each other often but nah I really do suspect they wanted the kiddies to be like WOW THIS GUY IS SO SMART HE CAN DO MATH lol. I do kiiiind of suspect the fandom put more effort into analyzing the guy and the kind of havoc being a massive celebrity since the age of 11 can wreak on your personal life than GameFreak ever did but that's very much not a bad thing IMHO. I'm not one of those IF IT'S NOT STRICT CONFIRMED CANON IT'S OF THE DEVIL people (and honestly rather detest them) 

Favorite episode (scene if movie): I...don't think the Anime showcased the better sides of his personality well (he loses the protective streak and just kind of comes off like a self-absorbed manchild that everyone loves because he can defy basic Pokemon battle logic in the same way Ash can. He's a protagonist But Annoying This Time) so I'm not terribly interested in seeing more. 

Favorite season/movie: See above. 

Favorite line: Tbh I don't have one particular standout one immediately coming to mind and I'm feeling too lazy to go through his quotes page rn. His catchphrase IS fun to meme about I will say. 

Favorite outfit: He absolutely kills everything that's not the Sponsorship Cape tbh. The guy has GOOD fashion sense despite the memes, corporate was just holding him back. 

OTP: Raihan/Piers/Leon for reasons I already went into in the Raihan response lol (the vibes between him and Rai are interesting and pretty damn hard to deny but Piers is holding up 90% of my mental health on his bony little shoulders rn and also I wanna see him and Leon interact more) I'd also love he and Sonia to work thier shit out, they are cute as FUCK together in Pokespe 

Brotp: The platonic Raileon enjoyer strikes again. Id also certainly take he and Piers being bros too. Also he and Nemona would be absolutely insufferable together and I'd love to see it someday lol 

Head Canon: One thing that was inspired the anime and a certain infamous wall punching scene is that through no real fault of his own he and Raihan's relationship was actually dangerously close to fraying for a bit. He WANTS to be a good and supportive friend to his favorite person but he's gotten fame and empty adoration pretty much handed to him for long enough that he can't REALLY understand what's going on in Raihan's head, the immense pressure he's putting himself under and the frankly unhealthy behaviors he's starting to develop. It's gonna take the pressure of the championship being gone for Leon to stop being the impossible standard Raihan's harming himself with and start being an uncomplicated source of companionship again. On a brighter note he's a good enough guy that once he becomes Chairman he's gonna prove he deserves that position by taking steps to reverse Rose's power consolidation to make sure no one person can cause that much trouble for the nation of Galar again. He'll prove his worthiness to rule by NOT being a total corporate dictator. 

Unpopular opinion: I've bitched about finding him annoying in the anime enough so instead I'll say I actually don't mind how involved he was in the game plot, it's honestly kind of weird other adults HAVEN'T been like "why are we letting random ten year olds go into very dangerous situations unaccompanied" before if you think about it

A wish: The same as the others, I'd love to see him again IF he's not miserable or acting like an ass. 

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen: Don't get lost in spacetime my neurodivergent king you've been through enough 🤞🤞🤞

5 words to best describe them: The tragedy of Superman, Pokemonned. 

My nickname for them: Lee suffices.

[sineala]

Five fic self rec meme!

Tagged by @nostalgicatsea approximately two weeks ago. I am not entirely sure what the parameters of this meme are but I think it might just be reccing five fics of mine that I like. I currently have 302 stories on AO3, so sifting through the contenders here was challenging. I tried to stick to shorter work of mine. This is all Marvel fic because that's what I've written the most of, because I feel like I've become a better writer over the years, and because I decided that the PWP I wrote in The Eagle fandom in Latin might have, uh, limited appeal.

All-Time Low (Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 12,000 words, Explicit.)

You know how sometimes you write a story that ends up being exactly the story you wanted to tell? You get it down on the page and somehow it's exactly the way you wanted it to be in your head? The words just come out of you easy and fast and you're in the zone the entire time? (Yes, I know the term is actually "flow state.") And, sure, maybe it still needs some editing, but writing it is just this extremely good experience where you don't ever stop and wonder how any of it should go and all the words are just there. You know the thing I mean? I only have a couple stories that happened like this, but this one is one of them. I don't have much memory of actually writing this one, which is how that goes; I remember that I got the prompt and I knew what I wanted to write and then somehow this entire thing happened.

It was actually written for one of Kiyaar's prompts, which was that Tony should be sleeping with men for money during the second drinking arc and Steve should find out and there should be "shame and humiliation and tears." I looked at it and I thought, oh, I got this. The element of Steve then sleeping with Tony after he finds this out, which is a big part of the story, was actually not part of the original prompt, which I don't think even occurred to me until after Ki read the story and said she liked that development that I'd come up with that part myself. My brain was just like, hey, I know exactly how this story goes. Never even crossed my mind to do anything else. 

I keep putting off writing the fix-it sequels -- I have Plans for how the blizzard goes in this universe -- because I am afraid I won't be able to make them as good as the original story.

The Libertine (Marvel Ultimates, Steve/Tony, 6,000 words, Explicit.)

One day, I was just sitting there minding my own business and I thought, "You know what? Ults began in the early 2000s and therefore early-canon Ults Tony would absolutely have self-identified as a metrosexual," and then I thought, "Goddammit, I guess I have to write this story now."

I know that this one is in most ways a pretty standard first-time getting-together story but I thought it would be delightful to make Steve and Tony's roles in it opposite from what the prototypical Ults Steve/Tony story would do. So Tony here is like "actually, no, I'm not gay, I'm just metrosexual... oh shit, wait, I think I'm actually pretty gay after all" and Steve is the guy who spent World War II sleeping with every guy he could find. In the story, neither of them expect this about the other one, and I think fandom doesn't either.

I am also weirdly proud of thinking up the title of this story because "libertine" is a word you would probably want to apply to Ults Tony and yet Steve, the Sentinel of Liberty, ends up claiming basically every other liberty-related word, for obvious reasons. And maybe here he gets this one too.

(Incidentally, reading through the See Also section of the Wikipedia entry on "libertine" is a trip I think you should all take. Wow.)

The Longing and Yearning (Bullet Points. Steve/Tony, 13,000 words, Explicit.)

This is also a pretty standard first-time story but it's also my attempt to make Bullet Points fandom happen, which I think pretty much worked, so I'm pretty happy about that. It's a very small continuity, but it's a Steve/Tony thing now!

Steve and Tony never actually meet in canon and also Steve dies halfway through the series, but I had a lot of fun imagining what they might be like together. It was interesting to get to write Tony hero-worshipping a much older Steve, who was Iron Man and had basically all the physical trauma Tony usually gets from being Iron Man, and Tony wanting to be Iron Man because of Steve being Iron Man. Which is, you know, not usually how Steve/Tony goes. I also had a lot of fun furnishing Steve's 1950s-1960s house for him (Gwyn helped me out a lot with this while betaing) and writing Steve and Tony into a world of slightly vintage US government employee homophobia in the age of the Red Scare, which I don't usually get to do in Avengers fic although it occurs to me now that I actually really could have been doing this all along in 616 early canon.

Look After Your Heart (Marvel 616, Steve/Tony, 19,000 words, Mature.)

Last week, I remembered I'd written this when someone was asking for recs of stories where Tony's loneliness plays a major role and I ended up describing this one as "loneliness is Tony's villain origin story." I hadn't thought about it in years and I reread it and was like, you know, this wasn't half-bad.

This has not been one of my most popular Steve/Tony works, I think because the tags and summary make it look like a real downer -- which, okay, yeah, it kind of is -- but I would like to point out that it actually has a happy ending. I wish to stress this. Happy Steve/Tony ending. I promise. You just take a trip through hell to get there.

So this is an AU where time bullets don't exist and when Steve gets shot at the end of Civil War, he dies and stays dead. Tony finds this out when he wakes up after World's Most Wanted, doesn't remember the past couple years of his life, and discovers that Steve is now dead. He experiences a lot of grief. So this is a canon-divergent AU running through the events of Avengers v4 and Hickmanvengers up through Superior Iron Man, in which we all get to find out exactly how far off the rails Tony can go when he continues not to have Steve around to keep him sane, functional, heroic, or sober.

This fic is also interesting as a historical document, because it's one of my earlier stories in the fandom. I actually wrote it when Hickmanvengers was still going, before Time Runs Out happened, and even before Superior Iron Man happened. The last thing in here that was based in canon is the Great Society incursion. At this point, we knew that Tony was going to be Superior but we didn't know how it was going to happen, what it was going to be like, or how Hickman's run was going to end. So I took a whole bunch of guesses, and I honestly like a few of them better than what we actually got.

Smell Like I Sound (Marvel Adventures: Avengers, Carol/Jess, 7,000 words, Explicit.)

This is a Carol/Jess fic with background Steve/Tony. Look, I didn't promise they were all going to be Steve/Tony. This is set in MA:A, mostly because I needed a canon fairly close to 616 where Carol and Jess hadn't canonically met, and Jess does exist in MA:IM. I wanted to tackle an issue I hadn't really seen explored much in Carol/Jess fic, which was "how do Carol and Jess actually get together if Jess's pheromones uncontrollably don't have good effects on women?" because that seems like it would be bad. (I mean, it would also be bad if Jess's pheromones did uncontrollably have good effects on women, but that would be a different story.)

(Because comics are gonna comics, I'm pretty sure that MA: IM Jess's pheromones do have negative effects on women. This is not necessarily the case in 616. We actually found out a couple years ago in 616 that Jess can in fact pheromone women in the fun way, which, yes, I do have a fic outlined based on this. You bet I do. I just have not yet written it yet.)

I don't write a whole lot of femslash, which in this fandom is partly due to The Carol/Jess Troll (thanks, dude) and it's partly because I have a femslash problem I've never figured out how to consistently solve, which is that I can't manage to write a whole lot of f/f that has the same kind of stakes and feelings and tropey idficcy goodness as the m/m that I like to write. I can't really even articulate the problem in a useful way; I just try writing f/f and then I read it back and mostly it's not the thing I like because what I end up writing just doesn't seem exciting to me. And I know it's possible for me to write the thing I like because this one is the thing I like! I did it here! It's just not a trick I can pull off consistently. But, anyway, this one was fun. I think I did this one right.

Not sure who has done this meme, but I'm gonna tag @blossomsinthemist and @isozyme.