#maybe its difficult to set up though i dont really know

[kleinstar]

" No sweat! Didn't do much anyway... "

It's barely information with how little he knows. He wishes he could tell her more. For good cause he doesn't mind helping.

" Ahh, nah, there's only this and Klein... and my homeworld. I don't have the ability to move between dimensions cool as it might have been. "

" It's another world yeah - operates on magic, somewhat old fashioned. They got no bullet trains either.... In fact they probably got no trains at all. You got those at least right? "

Continued from here!

"Alright, fair enough. Thanks for lettin' me know what's what."

She'll have to do some more digging on those bigwigs later, but for now, a change of topic is in order.

"So what's Klein? One of these, ah, other worlds you've been to?"

Maria's not much of a world hopper, not unless you count here and where Lonestar wound up.

@kleinstar

[liquidstar]

a friend who'd wait :)

[fable-x4]

Doing this because it makes me happy •Ꮂ•. Im making it difficult on all of you though.

1 note- I'll go drink water

10 notes - I'll set alarms to actually care for myself

50 notes - set up a daily productivity system so I stop wasting my time doing nothing.

100 notes - ask my friends to help me buy a skirt

500 notes - get a bra & a whole bunch of other affirming clothing !!!

1k - tell my dad that my gf is also trans

2.5k - ask my dad to address me by my prefferred name & pronouns 1k went pretty poorly, so I dont feel super comfortable making an attempt on this.

5k - try to get therapy/psychologist

10k - girl mode at all times (start actively wearing makeup/clothing/doing voice training around people at all times)

50k - try for HRT (0% chance) (also no guarantee on this one)

Asfgg. It feels surprisingly good to have a bunch of strangers who want me to be happy

I have now set up alarms for eating, waking up, and hygene related stuff. I seriously doubt we get to 500, but this has made me significantly happier •Ꮂ•

Doing some math... 25 notes in 4 hours. 6.25 notes per hour. 8000 hours or 333 days until this hits 50k. Hrt in a year ig.

Um. Wow. Its been a day, and we're almost at 300. Everything 500 & below was supposed to be things I'd do with minimal intervention. But now, we're getting to the scarier stuff. I am very intimidated, but also excited

My gf really badly wanted to be here when I buy some of the clothing, so the skirt will be this week, the rest of the clothing will be when she comes back from vacation

Saying that you're force femming me is so not allowed. This is unfair. You have no right to make me feel the ways Im feelingggg. Stop making me happy.

Welp. I told him about my girlfriend. And things went about as poorly as expected. He said that Im parroting what other people think. Slowly taking little parts of them, and applying them to myself. Specifically, being trans. He didnt even leave it to maybes. He said with certainty that I was copying everyone else. I know 9 trans people total. Only 2 of them are my close friends. Everyone else, Im barely aquaintences with. I should have told him that regardless of whatever theories he has, this has boosted my confidence massively. Slightly less excited for 2.5k notes. At least everything after that is very positive. And at least this lets me talk about my girlfriend for ages. I dont have to say her deadname through gritted teeth. Oh context. He already knows Im trans but was ignoring it.

I GOT A SKIRT!!!!!

Thank all of you so much. At first when I got the skirt, I was pretty intimidated by the idea of showing my legs. I thought everyone will just see me as a man. But there's a degree of confidence you all have given me. Yeah. Im pretty. Yeah, Im beautiful even. Yeah. Its a friggin fantastic skirt. And anyone who thinks otherwise is dumb. Im happy, and thats what matters.

[miorirenkova]

“..that’s not a bikini.”

enhypen!ot7 x reader !

tiktok “tankini” trend with enhypen members!

note: just a small drabble/crack imagine i wanted to release in between the sunghoon series releases because i do take a LOT of time for that and i feel bad </3 but dww im working on it and it might be out tonight or tomorrow! still just something i though would be cute to upload. if u dont know the trend its just this thing where an extremely revealing swimsuit is shown that barely covers anything and captioned with something sarcastic like “is it too covered?” thought itd be cute!

warnings: nothing much just crack, tiktok trends/pranks, maybe a lil suggestive?

!! under the cut !!

HEESEUNG !

you were scrolling through your tiktok home feed when you came across a video of a girl pranking her boyfriend — she pulled a piece of white thread out of a delivery box and told him it was her new “bikini” for the summer. it seemed pretty funny, so you decided, why not try it with heeseung too?

“heeseung? what are you doing right now?”

heeseung looked up from his phone, glancing at the box before meeting your eyes. “not much, what’s up, baby?”

“actually, the swimsuit i ordered for our beach day later this week came in. wanna see?”

you almost laughed out loud at the way heeseung’s eyes lit up at the thought of you trying on a bikini — especially one he’d get to see first. he agreed a little too eagerly, sitting up as he waited for you to open the box. you did, pulling out the string you had placed inside earlier.

a look of confusion flashed across heeseung’s face, only to disappear a second later. he probably assumed it was just a strap from the bikini.

you nearly burst out laughing as you set the box on the floor and held up the string. “cute, right? i’ve always wanted a white bikini in my closet!”

“...that’s your bikini?!” heeseung practically choked on his words, trying to make sense of whatever he was looking at. “where’s the rest of it!?”

you smiled, doing your best to look puzzled as you blinked innocently at him. “what do you mean? it’s right here.” you paused, then added dramatically, “oh god. i knew it. it’s too modest, isn’t it? i thought i’d go for something a little more covered, but now it’s just too covered, huh?”

“too— too modest!? y/n, i might faint...” heeseung stepped closer and grabbed the so-called “bikini” out of your hand, examining it like more fabric might appear if he stared long enough.

“i don’t think this would be okay for a doll too—! you’re pranking me, aren’t you?” he groaned, almost amused, still staring down at the box and the string in his hands.

“oh come on! you just have to wrap it and wear it in a certain way—”

“you are not wearing this to the beach. or anywhere, really. unless you want me to collectively overheat and fight every guy there.”

JAY !

“jayy, i need your opinion on something!” you call out from your room, prompting him to walk in from the living room.

“hm?” jay leans casually against the doorway, eyes soft as he looks at you.

you pick up the swimsuit, holding it up for him to see. “do you think th—”

“no.”

“what— hey! i didn’t even finish my sentence!” you protest, blinking at him in surprise.

“and you didn’t need to,” jay replies calmly, eyes locked on the swimsuit. “you were gonna ask if you should wear it to the beach, weren’t you?”

“well, yeah... is it too modest?”

jay’s eyes nearly pop out of his head at that. “that is literally dental floss, and you’re asking if it’s modest?”

“so i can wear it?” you beam up at him, acting completely clueless.

he exhales through his nose, trying not to smile. “not unless you want me to fight every man within a five-mile radius of you.”

JAKE !

you were feeling bored, and decided — what better way to entertain yourself than to make your gorgeous boyfriend’s day just a little more difficult?

you picked up an empty hanger from your wardrobe and walked over to his room, knocking lightly on the door.

“come in!” you heard jake shout before stepping in, finding him sprawled out on the bed, controller in hand, fully immersed in some random new game on his console.

“wanna see my new bikini?” you smiled, leaning casually against his desk, watching him with a smirk.

he glanced up, and the grin that spread across his face was instant. “would i everrrr say no to that?”

you laughed, then pulled your hand from behind your back and held up the empty hanger in front of him.

jake blinked, visibly confused as his eyes flicked between the hanger and your face. “...where is the bikini?”

“right here! cute, right?”

oh. my. god. if you weren’t holding in your laughter so hard, you’d probably be rolling on the floor at the look on his face — totally blank and clueless.

“...am i missing something?” jake asked slowly, still trying to make sense of what he was supposed to be reacting to.

“what do you mean, jake? is the bikini not cute?” you asked, all innocence.

he stared harder. “y/n, baby, there’s literally nothing on that hanger.”

“exactly.” you paused for dramatic effect. “it’s pretty hot this summer. thought, why wear a bikini when i can just wear nothing?”

jake nearly dropped the controller. what do you mean ‘nothing’?!

“i swear to god— you’re going to be the death of me.” he groaned, running both hands through his hair like he was genuinely stressed.

“what—” you started, only to be cut off by him shooting you a warning look.

“unless you want us to never actually make it to the beach… you are not wearing that.”

SUNGHOON !

sunghoon leans against the wall, watching you with a calm stare. you’d asked for his thoughts on your bikini, which is why he was standing there, waiting for you to show him. you, on the other hand, had completely different plans.

“ah damn... i can’t find it. i might have left it at my friend's house when i took it over to show her.” you groaned, looking at him with an exaggerated pout before suddenly lighting up. “wait! i can totally replicate it for you. give me a second.”

sunghoon raised an eyebrow, clearly curious about how you were going to pull this off. but he just nodded, a little unsure of what he was in for.

you came back a few moments later with a couple of rubber bands in your hand. with a dramatic flourish, you placed them around two of your fingers, arranging them in such a way that they vaguely resembled the outline of a bikini. then, you held them up to him triumphantly.

sunghoon couldn’t help but chuckle, amusement flickering across his face. he looked at the rubber bands, then back at you. “the outline of the bikini?”

“not just the outline, it’s exactly how it looks. just, you know… more life-sized and not made of rubber bands.” you grinned, acting so innocent, as if this was a genius plan.

sunghoon blinked, trying to process what you meant. “…where?”

“huh?”

“where exactly are you wearing something like that? on your body? that’s… a bikini?” he stared at the rubber bands as if they were some kind of riddle. “that can barely qualify as a belt, let alone a bathing suit.”

you groaned, rolling your eyes. “too grandma-ish? ugh, i knew it—”

“that’s literally a piece of fabric!” sunghoon cut you off, looking at you like you’d just confessed to a crime. “a piece of fabric that’s not for swimming but only for ruining my peace of mind.”

he stepped closer, giving you a pointed look before continuing, “emphasis on my peace of mind. call me selfish, but you are not wearing anything like that anywhere else but with me. i do not want anyone practically eye-fucking you with that on.”

SUNOO !

you and sunoo were sitting in the living room, enjoying each other’s company as you both scrolled through your phones. that’s when you got an idea. there was a new, ridiculous trend on tiktok where girls would show off overly-exposed bikinis and act like they were too covering. it was pretty funny, so why not prank sunoo with it?

you took a screenshot of one of the so-called bikinis — basically just an outline with thread — and called out to him, “sunoo, what do you think about this bikini? i found it on tiktok, i might get it!”

he nearly choked on the water he was sipping, his eyes darting from you to your phone. “…is that supposed to be a bikini?” he managed to say, his voice laced with disbelief.

you nodded innocently, holding back a smile. “yeah, isn’t it cute? i thought it looked really trendy.”

sunoo blinked a few times, trying to process what he was seeing. his face quickly morphed into a mix of confusion and slight horror. “babe, that’s not a bikini. that’s… barely even fabric,” he said, voice a little higher than usual as he leaned in closer to inspect the image. “who’s supposed to wear that? ’cause, you are not wearing that—!”

you giggled at his reaction, watching him rub his face with his hand in mock frustration. “are you seriously going to wear that?” he asked, eyebrows raised as if he was trying to figure out whether you were pranking him.

“what? do you not trust me to look cute?” you gave him a teasing look, eyes glimmering.

he smirked, almost offended. “it’s more like i don’t trust you to not look cute. to not look absolutely gorgeous.”

he added, “it’s more that i don’t trust other people’s eyes if you wore that. i’d have to stick a sign on you that says ‘you’re taken’ in capital letters. so.. spare my sanity, babe, hm?”

JUNGWON !

“mm, this smells really good.” jungwon smiles sweetly at you, inhaling the scent from your wrist. “is it new?”

“mhm, i got it today! oh, and i also got a new bikini today. let me show you.” you nod before walking over to your bag, pulling out the bikini and holding it up to him.

“…babe.” jungwon’s eyes widen, and he pauses for a moment, his tone suddenly serious. “i swear i don’t want to be one of those controlling boyfriends, but… i will literally have to kill like 12 or more people at the beach if you wear that.”

“so, you’re saying you don’t like it?” you tease, raising an eyebrow as you hold back a laugh.

“oh no, i like it. a lot, actually. but i’d prefer it if you wore that just for me.” jungwon replies, his voice soft and fond, a little flustered — in a way that makes your cheeks warm.

you smile, turning around to grab your bag and put it back in.

only to turn around and find the bikini has vanished.

“…jungwon? where is the bikini?”

“…i have no idea what you’re talking about.” he exclaims, grinning at you — his expression so smug, it completely contradicts his words. “i have no clue where it went.”

“hey! give it back!” you gasp dramatically, walking over to him and trying to grab it from behind his back.

“uh-uh.” he smirks, holding it out of your reach. “i might reconsider if you give me a private show, but… it’d probably still be a no. i’d practically end up in jail by the end of the day-!”

NI-KI !

ni-ki practically spit out the coffee he was sipping. “you want to get what?!”

you both were out shopping and currently, you were holding up a.. quite revealing swimsuit that you were thinking about buying.

“hey—! what was that reaction for? isn’t it a cute swimsuit? or is it too conserva—”

ni-ki interrupted, laughing in amusement. “that is not a swimsuit. where?”

“where what?” you replied, looking at him confused, though you were secretly enjoying his reaction.

“where is the swimming part?! that’s like… three strings and a dream. do you have to imagine the swimsuit yourself?” he says, practically glaring at the bikini before giving you a once-over.

“you’re over-exaggerating! it’s not even that bad!” you replied, trying to control your laughter at his flustered expression. oh, how you loved seeing ni-ki almost offended.

“it is that bad. you better only be getting that for me.” ni-ki replied, eyes scanning you up and down before smirking. “on second thought… definitely get it. just not for the beach.”

“riki! you’re disgusting!” you laughed, playfully hitting him, though you couldn’t help but smile as you put the bikini back in the bag, not entirely against the idea.

“what? is it so bad that i want my extremely hot girlfriend all to myself? i swear, if some guy so much as blinked at you at the beach in that…”

end note: first time writing drabbles/imagines, hope this is good sigh..

reblogs, likes and comments are appreciated! thank you <3

[the-s1lly-corner]

Pet names (fnaf sb edition)

Woo yeah baby!! First time writing fnaf characters that arent the dca- dont get used to this.. I'm.. probably not going to write the rest of the cast.. maybe.. idk

Characters: just the animatronics, no glam bonnie though :(

Notes: reader is GN, reader is implied to be a human worker, can be read as romantic or platonic or even crushing!, mostly what they call you and what you call them in return, no real scenarios, takes place prior to SB/au where the pizzaplex is.. fairly normal, use of they pronouns but not for hc i was just copy/pasting stuff LMAO

CWs: none

FREDDY

What they call you: obviously superstar comes out like second nature because its what hes used to, but he does sometimes call you sweetheart, lovely

What you call them: you sometimes call him old man as a joke, i mean... its the dad vibes.. and you know what? he takes it in stride! obviously bear themed names are a given, and he loves all of them. cuddle bear, honey bear, bear, ect ect ect

MONTY

What they call you: babe/baby, runt (affectionately)... i cant explain it but he looks like someone who would use sugar every now and then

What you call them: Handsome, stud, big man, hunk, and if you slip it when hes in a good mood he will only snort if you call him a cutie patootie

ROXY

What they call you: babe, your name. nicknames arent really for her, but if you have anything you want to be called shes open to it!

What you call them: you sometimes call her captain every now and then though its far from the main thing you call her. roxstar is another lighthearted one and you tend to drop it after cheering her up! dorky and dumb name, cant help but get an eye roll from her.. usually though you call her babe or just her name

CHICA

What they call you: if youre masc shes gonna call you a hunk, especially if youre on the muscular side, loads of food based nicknames... cherry pie, honey pie, dumpling, honey bunny, and so on!

What you call them: sweetheart, queen, princess, lover girl, things like that are some of her favorites!

SUN

What they call you: Maybe I'm biased but Starlight Starshine by steam powered giraffe is so dca x reader coded, so naturally and obviously... Sun calls you Starshine! On the flip side he also calls you Sunshine!

What you call them: Love the idea that he's a lover of all things cheesy when it comes to romance, maybe it's the theatre loving side of him that peaks out... something something cliches... call him a sillier nickname and hes going to try to one up you

MOON

What they call you: Yoinking from Sun's part, he tends to call you Starlight! Sometimes though he calls you Brat, not in a sexual way, he does it to tease you or get at you when you're being a bit difficult-

What you call them: he likes something thats a little less... generic... and preferably something that doesnt hinge off of what you call sun. matching names are cute and all but he likes having something for himself sometimes.. you sometimes call him bed bug in a similar way people call someone love bug

ECLIPSE

What they call you: comet, and keeping up with the star names i think starbright would be cute... reference to the "starlight starbright" thing!

What you call them: casanova, Lovely, Prince, Lover to name a few! similar to sun though, they're not all that picky so long as you put though behind it!

DJMM

What they call you: blasts the djmm uses sign hc- calls you lovey, as well as a shortened version of your name. loooove the idea of having a set of notes that just get associated with you that kind of just play out of him

What you call them: hunk, love bug, sweet thing, he looks like he would enjoy being called a cutie patootie every now and then

[august-anon]

Ooooh, I LOVED Moody's drabble where Jason tickles him for being too affectionate. I also feel like Dick doesn't mind it so much as it's both a way for Jason to show his affection and teach Dick a lesson. He totally deserves it, though!

Anyone who dares to tickle Dick though will receive retribution in the most severe manner, (although with Jason being injured, Dick would wait it out to the point Jason forgets why he's even being tickled in the first place). And Dick's all like, "Maybe THIS is a better way to show my affection!" And Jason rethinks the concept of hugging as its far less torturous than Dick's tickle attacks.

And just MAYBE it spirals into some sort of game where Dick tickles Jason any time he wants a hug (or his other little brothers) and to get Dick to stop tickling them, they have to give him a hug to make the tickles stop which is SUPPPPPPER difficult to try to hug the person tickling them to get them to stop tickling. Maybe it can be a training exercise where they set a stopwatch or something to compete for who can suffer the least amount of tickles that ends up with the stopwatch being stopped only when Dick gets his hug! Lol.

This combined with the younger BatBros ganging up on Dick to tickle him as its their best shot at revenge. 😭😭

I love all the BatBros/BatFam content sooooo much. I love seeing drabbles, fics and hc's. I may have to just create some drabbles at some point (if I can find the creative energy). 😅

Thank you to August and all the other anons contributing to BatFam content!

-🦡

Badger!! I knowwwww, I loved it too, Moody is so amazing!!!

And omg dskjfksdf Dick waiting Jason out and striking when he least expects (aka when he's forgotten) to tickle Jason to the floor as revenge. And Jason's just screeching as his hips are mercilessly targeted, "okay, i'll hug you, i'll hug you!" and Dick's like "no no, Little Wing, you're right, I think this is better"

I'm OBSESSED with the tickling-until-they-hug game, Badger your MIND oh my god. So many of the siblings have (playfully, unseriously) complained about Dick's octopus hugs and constant affection, so he's like "you dont wanna hug me? *sigh* i guess i'll just have to prove my love and affection for you some other way." They all 100% blame Jason for this new excuse for Dick's tickle-monster-torture (even though they all secretly think its kinda fun). AND TURNING IT INTO A TRAINING EXERCISE???? Diabolical, but you Know they would, theyre all so competitive lol

but then they get together like "dick's gone mad with power -- we must rectify this" and their plan is to just. trap Dick in a group hug that seems completely innocent. and then turning it into a tickle-hug to completely trap him between them so he cant escape the tickles. Dick finds the idea absolutely evil once they get him -- how DARE they use his love for hugs to trick him like this -- but also he cant really blame him, its not like there's many other ways they could take him down lol

if you ever have the creative energy to give writing a drabble a shot, i know we would all LOVE to see it! I totally feel you on the creative energy though lol

and thank YOU Badger, for also contributing to batfam content!!!

[angelpuns]

Thinking about taking a break for like a week or two even though it will ultimately be more stressful cause I am significantly stressed out about other things in my life ( mostly driving. Almost exclusively driving. )

Like I have the first week of updates for the next mini arc ready and I'm nearly finished the the next page ( and its only 3 pages ) but jfc there's so much going on suddenly and it all kinda hit me rn. Conveniently the night before the start of my work week haha.

its a lot of miniscule silly things but unfortunately thinking about them all at once is making my brain explode a little ;-;

I don't WANT to take a break, especially because once I try to start again I probably won't be able to. I find it very difficult to stop when I have a set routine and then just...not work on something. Which is why some of the Kid Leo arcs in the past have had HUGE lapses in posting :/ I also feel significantly guilty when I take breaks cause I know I don't do as well after I take a break lmao. Breaks usually don't benefit me, which is why I don't take them like ever.

The next three weeks are like...gonna be super busy on the weekends and super stressful driving wise. Like I'm talking long long trips of me having to drive. And then the week after the long trip I am gonna be boothing at a local convention which is always stressful. And I still have to make things for it.

I don't know, I'll decide sometime tomorrow if I wanna go ahead and commit to posting the mini arcs or not. I do plan on taking a significant break after Chapter 12, but that's still a bit away and this is more of an 'emergency break' type situation. Even though its not an emergency. You get the idea.

I don't wanna say for sure if I'm going to take a break cause hey, maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and be like ' man those silicone fumes made me feel like the world was ending lmao' and I'll be fine but it's very much a ' we shall see' type situation. I'll still draft up the posts in case I do wanna post, but this is somewhat of a warning. I'll announce if I really am gonna take a break or not later. I'll probably still be posting regardless, but it won't be full updates or anything like that. Probably just sketches and maybe pics of the stuff I'm cooking up for this convention :)

Anyway TLDR: I MIGHT be taking a break. Hard to say right now.

EDIT: THIS IS ONLY SOMEWHAT RELATED TO THE CATHOLIC GUILT POST OKAY BUT DW I DONT FEEL TOO GUILTY FOR MAYBE NEEDING A BREAK JUST A SIDE NOTE I DONT WANNA WORRY ANYONE!

[reco-obsessed]

i wonder if skullnutz genre is darker or edgier than samurai yaiba's.

when we see the samurai yaiba sprites, they are extremely colorful, neon essentially, which when i first saw caught me off guard a bit because of reko's usual in-game sprite usually getting tokened as goth or emo, or well, punk. the obvious and likely more canon compliant answer is that reko considers wearing clothing thats mostly black or grey as a way to make it more casual, and i would argue thats not wrong even if that alone isnt enough to make her style not stand out- but i would argue there's something to the intial idea i proposed, as well. alice had always been a presence in her life before, and reko likely didnt realize just how much of an effect that had on her until he was gone.

she lost probably *the* person who was supporting her her whole life, even if he sometimes didnt understand what was quite the best for her. she mentions that after he went to prison, she was so distraught music lost its meaning to her, and while she had experienced burn out before that point, id argue being unable to connect to music in the same way entirely when thats the core of her being is different, and probably affected her more deeply. that, and all the other character development reko has when shes trying to navigate the world completely alone for the first time, makes me think its not that strange that her worldview might tilt enough to lead her towards a musical style thats a bit more sad, sincere, angry or something along those lines.

more under the cut.

looking at the members, a very good keyboard player with an okay bass player and struggling drummer arent exactly a good set-up for a hardcore punk band, which tend to be very bass and drum heavy and usually omit keyboards completely- there are a punk bands that are comprised of only three members, one for bass, one for guitar, and a drummer- if your strongest players are a pianist and guitar player, the sound will be very different. obviously punk as genre is more than just about sound, and admittedly keyboards as an instrument are a lot more common within j-rock and j-indie overall, but its very possible if reko was the lead composer she wouldve been limited in what exactly she could do. even if reko had wanted to, considering the skill set of the band members, its likely samurai yaiba wasn't quite the sound or genre she was looking for because she wouldve had to accomdate the tone of her music. of course, reko's growl is still specifically noted by alice, so there was likely still a hard edge / angry side of the band's music, but maybe not the one she was looking for. looking at the stage outfits again, they look almost 80s pop inspired at a glance (tiger stripes, bright colors and shapes) but i dont know enough about japanese music fashion trends to know how well that tracks.

i also like the interpretation that samurai yaiba stylistically had a lot of holdovers from when she was doing things to be more *successful* instead of being precisely what she wanted to do within a band. this isnt to say that reko was concerned with marketability or appeal, but rather that she probably actually did really dislike those aspects of samurai yaiba but 1. she was essentially groomed into the industry, being pushed into it at an early age; shes been taught to be as appealing as possible and even though she hates it she still has it internalized in ways she doesnt even consciously register and 2. her brother was always pushing her to be more successful, even though that was never what she wanted, because its what he thought she deserved. even as reko made herself an extremely difficult person to work with, its possible that she still wanted to appease him somehow by not just being in their band, but a successful band, like how she thinks he wants, resenting him for it the all along.

there are also two quotes from her AI that stand out to me:

"In middle school, I rebelled. I was a rocker! I made tons of songs nobody even wanted!" implying later on she did care about making music people wanted, and:

"From high school on, all the spice was gone… Didn’t even have anger… My activity dried up. / I had tons of chances to be famous. But I smashed 'em all. I was totally just the industry’s problem child. / Everybody kept their distance from me. Once I couldn’t even gather members, I borrowed Alice to make a band… Hahaha."

the way this summary is phrased makes it difficult to parse which parts would've overlapped, or if theyre all distinct eras. its easy to assume that throughout most / if not the entirety of highschool she was inactive musically or at least not enough to be considered significant, but then she goes straight into talking about being the industrys problem child and her band with alice. the implication might be that she was the industrys "problem child" both by rejecting any opportunities because of her inactive period, and then later on presumably her antagonizing and perfectionist attitude causing her to have to rely on her brother to make a band that would actually stay together through her harsh attitude. and this is likely just semantic, but throughout all that, reko never specifies whether or her "spice" or anger returns. obviously we know she had a pretty short fuse when she was in samurai yaiba regardless, but it makes me wonder how present that feeling was in her music at the time, and how it looked compared to the rest of her musical history. we know the height of her rebellious phase was in middle school, so it wouldnt surprise me if as part of her growth as an artist, samurai yaiba lulled in tone in comparison, and then she returned to a harder sound with skullnutz. then again skullnutz also has bongos in it so who really knows.

even if samurai yaiba wasn't a metal band, it definitely was mainly a angry rock band, albeit maybe with some pop and indie subgenres thrown in there. there isnt a conclusion to this. look at SY reko

[menlove]

wait curious about your thoughts on this. i genuinely dont believe the paul john reconciliation thing that paul pushes in every interview (abt the bread phone call etc) like im sure they had that conversation and maybe that was a nice memory but theres a paul late november 1980 interview (good morning america i think?) where the interviewer is like “john said you died creatively etc” and then paul gets very awkward and said he just keeps quiet publicly or else john will get resentful and that he doesnt know why john does that. its literally like two weeks before john died idk im like a mclennon ended on bad terms truther and i genuinely believe pauls batshit behavior the last 40 years is the result of him feeling bad about everything

I think I'm at a bit of a middle road with it! because there's certainly that (although what john actually said in that interview was meant differently and seemingly misconstrued to paul to try and start drama, although it sadly says a lot that paul sort of just expected that sort of thing by that point) & I do think that their relationship by 1980 was a lot more complicated than paul has wanted to talk about (for good reason). I wanna say there's a few interviews where he even says that, like it was difficult to come to terms with his feelings on everything with john bc suddenly he was Dead you know?

but I do think them reconciling and being friends again wouldn't necessarily negate that. there was a lot of baggage between them at that point & it would be very easy for the two of them to be Wary of each other even if they WERE on good terms and calling more often. which would just make paul's reaction to "john said you died creatively" even more of a blow for him like "what the hell, we're on good terms now, why is he STILL saying this shit?" and given that it was misconstrued and I wanna say not even a PUBLISHED interview yet, he really had nothing to go on except being ambushed by that question

plus there's the fact that they apparently had a recording studio booked for '81 and john was set to come back to england to record with him. and ofc (just like) starting over in general, though that depends on how much you believe that was for paul

honestly I think john died while they were on confusing terms. not really a Great place but also not on bad terms either. sort of a "yeah okay, we've made up, we're trying, maybe we'll get together and record, now what?" sort of place. especially given a lot anecdotes that yoko was fielding calls from paul & requests to come see john. I think they both Wanted to make up, but life was in the way. so they got phone calls about bread. but paul was obviously still wary and hurt/confused by john's back and forth behavior. I think there's some other quote somewhere from paul about how he never knew what he'd be picking the phone up to. on john's end, he probably WAS hopeful and fully intent on recording with him in the next year and, ya know, starting over. for paul, he probably didn't know if he could hold him to that or even hold him to being nice the next time they talked.

but ya know, 40+ years down the line, it's probably a bit easier to cling onto the good moments and not the confusion around where they stood at the end. lots of time for reflection on how john must have been feeling & coming to the conclusion that they WERE on track to being okay again. I think at the Time paul was probably just rightfully very cautious & that had to be a weird feeling to deal with after any future plans were killed with john

[athenaweena]

RED TAYLOR SWIFT ASSOCIATIONS

THE OUTSIDERS MUSICAL

Mostly ships, characters voices, or just character core.

State Of Grace ( Taylor’s Version ) — MarBit

- okay maybe i am a .. little… bias

- BUT, its okay :)

- “i never saw you coming” this is a representation of both of them because Marcia never really knew Two-Bit until the drive in and she was like hit with feelings.

- same thing with Two-Bit, maybe he has seen her around a lot because of the group she is in, but THAT night on the drive in he was shocked to see her yk?

- its just a thing of love at first sight and i think these two scream it.

Red ( Taylor’s Verison ) — ChetSoda

- this one was a little difficult to pick one for it but yk

- i feel like its the stages of their relationship/friendship

- “losing him was blue like I’d never known” i feel like this comes from these two being inseparable and always with eachother, to having a BIG falling out.

- “remembering him comes in flashbacks” when they see each other all the time. especially in rumbles.

- “but moving on from him is impossible when I still see it all in my head”

Treacherous ( Taylor’s Verison ) — CherryCola

- okay this one can be debated, i can say that 😓.

- this song is about falling for someone but knowing they are bad for you. which means it takes a harsh road.

- i know sodapop is sweet and cherry is too but it all comes back to the divide between socs and greasers yk!

- at the beginning of the song you can tell the standoffish of the relationship, but as it goes on they begin to fall in love with forgetting about the risk of it.

- “getting swept away” this shows that like Cherry has finally gave in and is all ready to get swept away with Soda’s love.

I Knew You Were Trouble ( Taylor’s Verison ) — Sharkcard

- COME ON. they are so angst babies, this song just screams them.

- i dont know if people think they have a happy ending but if they don’t.. than this song is them fs! ( i still dont know much about this ship yet )

- the “hate” stares they always give each other is just the vibe of this song

- they hate each other but really they don’t.

- these two know that they want each other but just have such a guard up to spit on anger to each other negl.

All Too Well ( Taylor’s Verison ) — CherryBob

- i can only think of them during this song..

- the pure love in the beginning to the falling out to the heart break and cluelessness of what to do next.

- the falling out ; “maybe we got lost in translation” ; when cherry breaks up with bob during the end of the drive in

- the heart break ; “time won’t fly, it’s like i’m paralyzed by it” ; the unfortunate end of bob just leaves cherry thinking of all the times they have spent together and the terms they were on before it ended.

- “back before you lost the one real thing you’ve ever known” is it crazy to say cherry was the one real thing bob had?..

I Almost Do ( Taylor’s Verison ) — Parry.

- HAHAHA, i love this ship and song.

- “I bet, you’re tired from a long hard week” SCREAMS darry from working all the time for his brothers.

- “I bet, it never occurred to you that I can’t say hello to you and risk another goodbye” goodnight. this is so paul. because he for sure stops whenever he sees darry walking by.

- his heart stops whenever he spots darry.

- “I almost do” pretty much sums up Pauls point of view.

Stay Stay Stay ( Taylor’s Verison ) — BevBrill

- enough. this is them.

- they can’t stay mad at each other for a long time.

- “thats when you came in wearing a football helmet” OKAYY BRILL.

- “I’d like to hang out with you for my whole life” they just need to get married and let me be the flower girl honestly.

- this song is just pure love and easy communication.. which i think they lack BUT WE IGNORE THAT.

Sad Beautiful Tragic ( Taylor’s Verison ) — MarciaTrip

- hear me out okay.

- this is set after Bob’s death and the hints of Marcia liking TwoBit, everything just comes crumbling down for these two.

- even though they are falling apart, they can still say that they had a beautiful love but it was sad and harsh.

- “distance timing break down fighting” this has happened between them before but now its just worse.

- until one day they finally break apart but they can both say it was beautiful.

The Lucky One ( Taylor’s Verison ) — Cherry

- okay this screams cherry.

- with her being a cheerleader, dating a jock that everyone knows, which just makes her so popular and the it girl but its not all that great.

- “cause you don’t feel pretty, you just feel used.” literally her.

- she hides herself a lot during school, i feel like, and she just has to hold up this image.

- don’t get me wrong she doesn’t deeply hate it but yk

Everything Has Changed ( Taylor’s Verison ) — Marbit

- OKAY SO this song is basically having your entire world being flipped upside down because of this new love.

- tell me thats not marcia.

- “I just wanna know you better” BOTH OF THEM.

- they are so in love get out thanks!! LMAOO

- “all i know is I’ve said hello” ever since that moment they fell in love.

Starlight ( Taylor’s Verison ) — ChetCherry

- these two are SO dancer x dancer core and I can’t shake it.

- yk the first time ive watched the outsiders musical .. slime tuts.. i shipped these two so hard.

- and this song is mostly them dancing to a song and finding a spark within each other.

- “He said “Look at you, worrying so much about things you can’t change you’ll spend your whole life singing the blues” but i also think this part is chet talking to cherry… about bob and how she is in the relationship.

The Moment I knew ( Taylor’s Verison ) — Darry to Paul or ChetSoda

- okay ngl i dont know who to put for this song

- both of them can be this song. especially when it comes to their falling out

- but honestly i think its more Parry because its during a birthday and I just see kid Darry waiting for Paul to show up.

- most likely hes with his other friends but it still hurts Darry like Taylor shows in this song.

- “Thats the moment I knew” the moment he knew Paul was changing.

Come Back.. Be Here ( Taylor’s Verison ) — PB & J

- this song is for sure ponyboy after everything has gone down.

- he just gets to thinking at times and all he wants it Johnny to be there with him.

- “I can’t help but wish you took me with you”

- with everyone saying that ponyboy has flashbacks of Johnny, this song resembles kind of what he is thinking during than if you know what I mean.

Thenas Corner !

So i found out that i havent listened to this album at like all 😭

the amount of times ive had to look up the meaning of the song

and i just realized how much ships cherry is in LMAO

[cacw]

what don't you like about frostpaw/dawn? no hate, just curious :)

thanks ive been waiting for someone to ask

theres a lot i could say about her because shes been around for long enough and now that this arc is 100% done i can safely voice my opinions which will never have any future opportunity to change. this is 3 years (and particularly the last 3 months) worth of angry impassioned and disillusioned thoughts but its still not everything. and maybe someday ill better describe what i actually wanted from her

i dont like frostpaw because everything about her and her story was pathetic and horrible. frostpaw had every chance to be a great character but unfortunately she was born into a corrupt fictional world and raised under a broken system and she never stood a chance to bring about any real change (i knew this all along and i hate to whinge but really i did. nothing ever changes! meditating isnt going to solve anyones problems no matter how nice and agreeable a concept it sounds). frostpaws story is one full of couldves shouldves and wouldves

everything about this arc bothered me and there wasnt a single chapter i couldnt find something to complain about. i know this makes me sound like a total bitch. but somehow she still managed to be the better protagonist even when the bar was set incredibly low which is a feat in and of itself

i could be pedantic here and bring up smaller scale things about her story that bother me like the way she would have made more sense as an only child (for the exact same reasons as shadowsight), or the age retcon at the beginning of the arc and how she should have just trained as a warrior first, or i could rave about the way her friendship with splashtail hardly had any spotlight which ultimately made the dynamic difficult to enjoy for anyone who isnt named cheyeh. maybe im just sick of light-haired girls with blue eyes. but those are for another day. they add up quick though. my biggest gripe is probably her relationship with her mother (and by extension starclan) and the way both of them were treated over the last three years. i wouldnt feel so negatively toward frostpaw if she hadnt been so quick to turn on the one who raised her and kissed her skinned knees and made her hot chocolate after school. she agonizes over the realization of what her mother has done, but she is incredibly quick to toss out all sentimentality and claim that curlfeather deserved her fate and worse. theres not much heart here (and thank god that wasnt her suffix). its poor writing, its incredibly angering boring and disappointing and its something ive been meaning to write about for a long time

actually i might as well bring up the splashtail problem now because i know im never going to get around to making a big post about them

frostpaw and splashtail were supposed to be important to each other at some point early on in their lives, but we are never properly shown this and so the general fanbase was put off by her sudden crush on him. and i undersand that. i know were all sick of the same thing over and over. but frostpaws feelings for him were completely reasonable, and if either of them were written even a little better i know it would have made a lot more sense. and yet instead of the writers trying for anything remotely interesting, frostpaw becomes obsessed with marrying him and having his children. she says shed like to name one after her mother. because this is what all women are meant to do with their lives and this is what being a warrior is all about. she cannot just have a best friend and be done with it; she needs to want this and he needs to give it to her because its what they do. this is all very fucking stupid and it almost ruined both of them for me

we dont see inside splashtails head at all so we have no idea why hes doing all this or why he cant bring himself to care about her as a person anymore, and we are left to watch frostpaw mourn the relationship with her best friend that never came to be. and once again, although she didnt want to admit it for a while, she simply accepts the fact that, like curlfeather, he is just evil and theres nothing to be done but get rid of him. that sounds like a major oversimplification but it really isnt. she doesnt examine this in any way that matters and neither does anyone else. and no one else was ever going to! that should have been her job as the protagonist! she is supposed to think differently. its not so much a frostpaw problem as it is just flawed writing overall. curlfeather and splashtail were just a few bad apples and we dont need to think about the rest of the bunch because now that theyre both dead and in hell well never have to consider the possibility that something like this could ever happen again or think about why it even happened in the first place. thanks for getting rid of the problem for us frostpaw. no one will ever know just how much this hurt you because they never knew him like you did but since they didnt you can just spend the rest of your life pretending those feelings arent there

im also very put off by the fanon interpretations of her character, and while this doesnt affect her canon characterization its still something that drives me completely insane. theres a pattern ive noticed over the years where people try to paint every medicine cat protagonist as wimpier than they actually are and will act like they need to be protected by the other two (and most recently, inferior) protagonists. i shouldnt have to explain why this is annoying and sort of ruins any enjoyment i could ever possibly get from fanart. i dont want to sound mean but i dont find anything sweet or cathartic about her ending and i think art celebrating it is lame and makes me feel absolutely nothing

ive said it before but frostpaw can be very angry and defensive and i wish people utilized this aspect of her personality without making her look like some naive idiotic crybaby! (and without having her direct ALL OF IT toward her mother. she has more to be angry about) its one of my favorite things about her. i love how ugly she can get. i wish she had been angrier about a lot more. another common occurrence over the years involves characters getting angry at starclan for using them or lying to them or refusing to leave them alone, but in the end the protagonist always ends up forgiving and accepting their ways because they are holy and righteous and good. starclans overwhelming significance to the story isnt the problem here; its the way no one ever seems to learn anything of value and instead come out of their arcs wearing the same black and white colored glasses. frostpaw fought the whole way until she couldnt anymore. her arc went nowhere and she drowned in a deep dark puddle of erin hunters pen ink

i will say i do genuinely enjoy frostpaw for what she could have been, and i always have. unfortunately this version doesnt fully exist. but she was still the best protagonist and her chapters were all i ever cared about. ive enjoyed her more than any other protagonist in the last 10+ years (aside from shadowsight, but even his ending disappointed me). she was fun and fresh for a while but at her core shes just another soldier and she was always going to end up exactly like everyone else in the end. which of course i mean dull and indistinguishable and a stickler to the status quo (which is ironic considering the themes of the last two arcs, let alone her own story and personal goals). i care about her a lot. i would even go as far as to say i love her truly and deeply, but she is terrible. im not joking when i say that she sucks. but shes better than most and somehow thats what matters here. she isnt my favorite. but she probably is in her own special way

i do not dislike frostpaw for the reasons other people have bashed her for over the years; she got a lot of hate when this arc was just beginning, and i never agreed with any of it. she was never just a camera, she was never a whiny bitch, and she wasnt just a lovestruck schoolgirl down on her luck. frostpaw is smart. frostpaw is kind and brave. frostpaw is not a child and she hasnt been one for a long time. its not frostpaws fault she exists in an arc from a series so overtaken with a deep-running hatred for women spanning 20+ years with a fanbase that has never known how to act right, but she also isnt real. so whatever. i hope she enjoys her future of irrelevancy and lack of any real and true relationships and the occasional outlandish and/or ooc remark shell spit out that makes the next medicine cat protagonist look sympathetic in comparison. i hope she enjoys knowing shell never see her two favorite people again. thats what she wanted all along!

and her name is stupid

[grox]

I have tiny and deep set veins and ik I act all apologetic to the nurses but lowkey I love how they always have to poke me again and again and how bad they feel about doing it and I love feigning a sigh and going like.. you know.. i don't mind getting jabbed.. i'm, used to it... cause i'm, fat- and ugly... the last doctor i went to shifted the needle around in me to get any blood.. it's okay if you have to resort to that.. i'm not mad... And they immediately go NO! Even though it will get the job done and I will enjoy it well they dont want to jab me a bunch because its a waste of resources and we both know thats really the reason but they also have to feign worry for me and make it so the reason theyre not putting hundreds of needles in me is because of my comfort and my comfort alone and this is my favorite game to play. And maybe I am genuinely apologetic for wasting everyones time but I must reiterate I don't have any blood in my body but blood must be drawn. And the red cross blows up my damn phone ever simce I donated in highschool. Do they blow up your phone? No. They blow mine up because they want my difficult blood. Hooccccccckh pitooey

[pinkmoondoll9shihtzu]

my fullmoon dream ended up being a somewhat dense one in a continuation of my dream timeline

There's this person, who was my friend but it ended badly, a few years ago. And i didnt really understand what happened it was very confusing to me, i didnt really have any power in the situation, it was only this past year i learned of the way all these strings were being pulled behind my back, which helped me understand why that situation occurred, why there was so much resentment directed towards me when i was trying so hard to just exist and keep the friendship simple + lighthearted. Like basically it was just sabotaged which has been kind of hard for me to accept even with finally knowing how it was sabotaged, it was all so unnecessary and i just wish i knew sooner.

over the past 2 or so years ive had a recurring dream scenario where I run into this person. i always write them on here too. Sometimes we apologize to each other, sometimes we dont really speak at all, but theres always this vibe of like, "Things are cool between us now, its Ok." And its a very relieving feeling, in the dreams. its almost exciting, like wow, we can be friends again??! The thing i find most interesting about it is that even though i lost a LOT of friends in the past few years through the same source of sabotage, this is the only person i have these dreams about. I guess we were pretty close for a while but still its interesting no one else comes up in this way.

Anyways. in the dream last night(this morning), it was kind of different... it was really emotional?? usually its never that emotional, usually we dont even say much. but in this dream today, they were crying, they were so earnestly apologetic, talking about how they regret the ways they treated me, and missed being my friend so much. And i cried too because it felt so good to hear it, i apologized for the messy ways i responded to the situation because i didnt get it at the time i thought i was going crazy.. And we were like holy shit we can finally just be friends again.. This is amazing..

as the conversation closed i woke up, i had a moment of being like woahh, that just happened, all the feelings and imagery of it cemented into my conscious mind. THEN, i fell BACK asleep, to the exact same dream!! it just continued. I went and did some other things, i got a job at this weird childrens entertainment center where i was dressed in a panda costume dancing for children. But it was the exact same setting, they were still sitting in the same spot close by, and in the dream i kept having flashes of relief thinking like "omg we're friends again i cant wait to catch up and talk more once im off work"

i feel my body woke me up from that conversation to make sure i really claearly remember that part of the dream before it continued on. I havent had a dream-wakeup-backtosamedream happen in quite a while but i always regard it as an extra significant dream when i do,... also its the full moon

i never know what to do after these dreams like do i reach out? honestly this person kind of intimidates me so i never know. Like i cAnt imagine in reality they miss being my friend that much. But they are pretty sentimental deep down, so maybe. Its just a difficult situation where I was never the one with any of the power, So it feels strange to instigate contact. Like how it happened in the dream, it would only really make sense if they said something first. Maybe these dreams are just meant to bring about some psychic closure that i'm not likely to ever receive irl. Its always very confusing to wake up from lol. I would like to feel that relief for real..

But at the end of the day im satisfied with my life and the friends I have now, so its not a big deal. Just stuff thats buried. I swear its always full moons when i dream about them lol! We have the same moon sign, in astrology, i wonder if thats something to do with it. We always had a lot of weird almost creepy synchronizations in our personalities. Oh well

[kitschyfemme]

HI. BIG OVERVIEW OC POST THING. IT'S RAINFOREST FLOODS.

have you ever thought to yourself "hey wouldnt it be cool if there was an oc story made by two guys and it was about a haunted waterpark slash arcade in a fake town in a real state". you probably haven't. but if you have youre in luck! more under the cut ok.

rainforest floods is a terrible no good ocverse made by me and my good friend crawford @dykeseesgod. everyone in it sucks and is horrible except maybe one or two side characters. it's set in the podunk middle of nowhere town of timberline, new mexico, and more specifically a waterpark/arcade called rainforest floods (title drop).

also the waterpark SUUUCKS like its budget is nothing they are in debt. the managers havent paid taxes in 15 years. anyway these are the employees. theyre bad

and these are the co-managers. theyre even worse (and also toxic old man yaoi. these refs were drawn by the aforementioned crawford)

anyway yeah. they get up to wacky hijinks in what will ideally be a tv show coming out in one million years. they're also horrible and tragic. most of it is bruce's fault. some of its not though!

ok also here's some other side characters.

^ running gag that nobody knows her name except kelsey who has a huge crush on her.

^ unnamed girl's younger brother who is constantly faced with horrors and torment at the hands of the rainforest floods employees. dont get me wrong hes annoying as fuck but he didnt deserve to run on that hamster wheel. (ref also drawn by ford)

^ jeff's girlfriend. also the coolest person in timberline new mexico. worlds most unimportant minor character but she is wonderful and loved by the producers (me and cosmo)

FUNNY OUT OF CONTEXT THINGS THAT SHOULD MAKE YOU MORE INVESTED IN THIS OCVERSE

rainforest floods stupidity logic is a thing me and robbie came up with to explain why all the characters are idiots who dont find things out that are important to the plot too soon.

there's a chain gimmick restaurant that andy's whole family runs except him. its like italian food but its like also magicians. their tagline is "so good its practically magic". andy hates it.

kyle has a curse on him so that nobody remembers or recognizes him outside of like. his family. so the rff employees arent even targeting him for their shenanigans on purpose theyre all just weird freaks.

kelsey gives unnamed girl the company landline as her phone number because shes stupid and a ghost and doesnt have a phone.

the employees all get together on wednesdays in the breakroom and compare evidence on whether or not andy and bruce are together romantically. its the one thing that truly bonds them all together.

vincent: is a watchmojo fan, had his first kiss as beethoven in his 12th grade production of dog sees god confessions of a teenage blockhead (2004), gets really christian in some episode subplot, is not a swiftie but he is a gaylor, wishes he was jonathan sims sooooo bad, types like a toddler who was just given a keyboard.

vincent also ruined rainforest floods' lobby playlist

also there's a brand account that we run and post on whenever we feel like it. its more of a sounding board for ideas we may explore more in the future. its fun but it may be a bit difficult to get the full idea with the execution so :-( sorry you wont fully understand our wonderful and hilarious visions

annnd i think that's it. yay worlds silliest yet most tragic oc story. ok bye ^_^

[hostilemuppet]

tell me more about tbgo poppy creek rivalry 👀

ok this got kinda long sorry LOL i have some thoughts on how itd work

so, i think instead of creek deliberately antagonising branch bc he gets some sick kick out of it, its creek trying (and failing) to worm his way back into the snack pack, and more importantly into poppys life. poppy would struggle with wanting to grab him and shake him and throw him off a cliff AND wanting to set a good example to her kingdom, to follow the mantra of "no troll left behind". in public she has to put on a brave face, and pretend like she actually tolerates, maybe even LIKES creek, but if theyre alone (or just with branch. branch still hates creek hes just not the focus) poppy actually lets him have it

since creek episodes would focus on poppy instead of branch, more of the snack pack actually get involved with the creek situation. they are treated as actual characters, and most of them dont like creek either but ALSO have to pretend to tolerate him: it wouldnt look very good if the queens friends dont follow her lead, right? creek becomes the one guy of the friend group that no one actually likes. obviously he wouldnt be an ACTUAL member of the snack pack and he still wouldnt be used nearly as often as guy diamond and smidge, but he still ends up "part of the gang" several times, and its made VERY obvious that they cant stand him. creek probably notices, and then we get some of that delicious twerpitude he shows with branch where he gets all touchy and mocking because he knows they cant do anything about it

creek week would be about poppy struggling to figure out how to deal with creek. her dad always said "no troll left behind", and even though creek wanted to leave EVERY troll behind, poppy cant deny that he is still a troll. she lets him back in the village, but says she will keep a very close eye on him. he says oh hes sure she will, she always used to when she thought he wouldnt notice 😉. poppy shudders. the rest of the episode is poppy watching, and hating, how creek reintegrated into the village. since the snack pack are the only ones who really know how creek acted, other trolls find it much easier to forgive him: theyre sure he really DID feel like he had no choice! its not like he looked super smug while telling them or anything! maybe branch also suggests the waterfall test (still using himself as bait), and poppy is desperate enough to go through with it, except instead of being cast out from the snack pack (they would not be present in the scene) poppy instead sees creek look all sad and pathetic. and she knows she shouldnt, but she feels bad. hes still a troll. she says hes sorry, and he says he forgives her because thats what friends do, then reaches out for a hug. branch shakes his head. poppy hugs him. the camera focuses on poppy, looking torn and uncomfortable, then on creek, looking smug, then on branch, who pinches the bridge of his nose and groans. episode ends.

haircuffed, this might be controversial but i think its peppy who ties them together. he thinks they used to be so inseparable, and whatever lovers spat (poppy tells him thats not what this is. he laughs it off) theyve got going on can just be solved by spending some quality time together. poppy is horrified, and says dad, no, you dont understand, its a difficult situation! creek is unbothered, but he says hes looking forward to spending a loooot of time with poppy. hes really wanted to catch up :). throughout the episode, creek acts exactly like he did when they were dating (ie, manipulative and controlling with a pretty icing coating), and poppy cant believe she ever saw anything in him. poppy would still pretend to get along with creek, just like branch did in the actual episode, but instead of them both agreeing to "act so close that it creeps poppy out into releasing them", poppy doesnt make any plan with creek. she just pretends that she actually forgave him, that theyre actually close, until peppy decides theyve buried the hatchet and releases them. branch, who had spent the whole episode brainstorming ways to reverse the haircuffs (explaining his absence), arrives with a chainsaw (the same one creek pulled out) and chases creek into the distance. peppy asks if shes gonna stop branch from attacking her friend. and she says no, dad, i hate that guy. ill fill you in.

the fast and the friendliest, instead of it being mentor vs mentor, poppy just doesnt want creek mentoring ANY of the children. shes seen what hes capable of! he has an utter disregard for anyone elses safety! and creek says "wow, poppy... i thought you really believed i changed... i guess you dont trust me afterall..." and otherwise lays it on really thick, until poppy gives in and says he can mentor priscilla, since shes the smartest and could probably tell if hes about to endanger her. throughout the episode, poppy sees creek work with priscilla and, wow, hes actually being very responsible! and priscilla seems like shes having a good time! maybe... maybe he really HAS changed. maybe he IS trustworthy! then, on the day of the event, creek finds out that branch is one of the other mentors. he didnt know, since he was so focused on poppy, but he still wants to show up his "competition" of course. he tells priscilla he has absolutely no doubts about her ability to win, but... just to make sure theres no chance she gets even close to second place, he attaches a booster bug to priscillas flyer bug. then it happens exactly how it does in canon, with priscillas flyer bug malfunctioning. branch and keith save priscilla, and even though theyre both tied for last place they look like they had fun. priscilla thanks creek for mentoring her, even if she ddnt win. creek loses his temper a bit, and says the only reason he volunteered in the first place was so his pupil could WIN! he wanted to prove he could be a GOOD mentor! he wanted to impress POPPY! he didnt care about this childrens event, he didnt care about PRISCILLA! priscilla starts crying, and poppy is pissed. she says this was supposed to be a fun event for the kids, and she thought he really wanted priscilla to enjoy herself. she thought he really changed. she thought he was trustworthy. she leaves, followed by branch (who sticks out his tongue) and keith (ditto). creek looks sad and pathetic. priscilla has calmed down a bit, and now shes with her parents, who say something about pursuing legal action against creek for the child endangerment. someone throws a tomato at him.

unsure about how bad luck branch could work with this new dynamic since... it is very specifically about branch. maybe instead of biggie being his partner, poppy is (and biggie is the presenter)? and creek talks about how branch is Clearly ruining everything for poppy, really love i dont know what you see in this jinxed troll. and poppys angry, because that is HER boyfriend youre talking about! poppy is the one who gets fixated on clearing branchs bad luck, but by the end of the episode she realises that SHE was the one causing the "bad luck" by getting in her own head and stressing branch out. she says shes sorry, and branch forgives her because theyre "best friends", and they agree to try their best for the rest of the event no matter what happens. the ending is exactly like in canon, with creek ending up eating shit and losing the game for himself and aspen. sorry aspen!

[wildernessuntothemselves]

Hey mort, I was planning to read your new fic now see them burn in fire since its release but I actually was able to read it only recently. I really like this unique setting, and I think your writing really shines with this theme, it's beautiful. And I like that it's named now see them burn in fire, it's been on your blog description for a few years right haha

I feel really bad for oc in this fic. I think she could've tried to befriend and appease to gyu when she went to meet him in the forrest as to get close to him and get him to trust her and possibly tell her his secrets and how he was able to get the flower he gifted her. But I understand she doesn't intend to be with him, and being nice and close to him can send the wrong message and put her in a complicated position. Either way she is in a terrible position.

I believe gyu is behind the terrorizing of the tribe, to get back at oc for rejecting him. Now, I'm not trying to blame oc because she is a victim, but I can understand how gyu who went through a lot and the only person who was nice to him and a friend cut him off in a harsh way (was there a nice way to do it? I don't even know. oc didn't want to be associated with him because of his image and reputation, how can she explain that to him?) would get very upset about this.

And now oc is in a very difficult place, but I dont know about her seeking gyu to talk to him or try to see if it's him behind this, I imagine it's gyu who will go after her, and maybe he will....kidnap her! I don't know, taking her far away might be the only way they could be together, I just hope he doesn't kill Kai. I wonder, maybe kai and oc will get married in a rush, and things will turn so bad for Kai. Another theory, maybe as to seek help oc will get over her feelings of guilt in a peak of desperation and hopelessness because of another big unfortunate event, and confess to her higher ups that there is someone outside the temple that knows secret information and some knowledge about dark magic because she told them, and that would lead to gyu getting killed, but somehow the curse won't let go of oc and her life would get even worse after his death, maybe he will curse her to death.

I'm really enjoying the fic, and I'm curious to what will happen next. I have to be honest, I do want to see gyu meeting oc and they talking haha but its true that him not appearing yet and being mysterious makes for a more scary and tense atmosphere, cause we don't know what he's up to.

Thank you. I really really like the setting. It is so new and challenging to me but so fun to explore and yeah i felt this fic needed to be called this for reasons

Yeah getting closer to him in her eyes wouldn't have been wise because she didn't want to risk anyone finding out or him doing or saying something that would ruin her marriage prospects. She also was afraid of letting him get even more access to her. Though it would've been nice to get more scenes with him 😭 and yeah her trying to trick him into telling her how he got the stuff is a really good idea

Gyu wasn't in a stable state of mind already and oc rejecting him so brutally definitely messed him up even more. I suppose she could have told him to back off rather than destroy his gifts though 😭

Ohhh imagine gyu kidnapping her and keeping her in a cave or something and like foraging for their food and stuff haha maybe oc would be freaked out at first but then she'd miss company and start to seek it from him because she literally has no one else. Kai can try coming after her but he doesn’t know the forest like gyu goes and it gets too dangerous and he might be forced to call it off

Oc and kai getting married can only end badly if yamqn has taught us anything 😭

Yesss oc telling the elders and them like burning him at the stake but he comes back to haunt her and it makes a self fulfilling prophercy where oc suspected him of what he didn't do but because of it be ended up turning into that very thing 😵‍💫

Thank you so much for sending this message you don't know how much it means to me. The second chapter has flopped hard i have never written a fic that did this badly which makes me so sad not just because we writers operate on feedback but because i genuinely am so excited about this fic and it is so disheartening to not have others share this with me (maybe it's because it's a dark fic? Maybe the animal cruelty trigger warning? The scary header? Idk i am genuinely lost)