#mel answers

[gardenerian]

Darling Mel!

May I give you a wee prompt to chew over? How do you think Ian and Mickey navigate how hard the holidays can be? And weird melancholy mixed with nostalgia and yearning that comes with this time of year?

It's a joy whenever you pop in in these parts! I hope you're doing well and are keeping cozy. ☕☃️🫂

hi sweetness! i am very cozy and enjoying the season 🥰 i hope you are too darling! thank you for this ask - i think about this often during this time of year...

i bet there are some memories that lurk for them both, ya know? they lost each other just before christmas once. mickey spent that christmas alone, on the run in a new place. and then ian came home to another loss, launching him into grief that changed the course of his life (again). i can imagine that it could be easy to get a little bogged down by those memories some days. to combat that, i bet they just spend some extra time together. romantic nights in, lazy days on the couch, going out for a holiday drink or two and smiling at each other at the bar. just to remind themselves that they are solid together and things are okay! maybe they spend a night eating holiday snacks and making some fun plans for the new year, to remind themselves that there is a future to look forward to!!!!

and i think there might be a pressure to Do Holidays Right sometimes, too. to make up for lost time, to give each other and their families the experiences they might not have had as kids. it's a lot to put on yourself! between the time commitments, family dynamics.... the MONEY it all costs.... they may end up feeling worn out and stretched too thin. for this, i think they'd slip away from all the noise when they can. when it's 1:00 in the morning and kev is leading everyone in drunken caroling, and fiona is back and shouting with vee, and lip has a screeching new born.... mickey pulls ian outside for a smoke. they sit quietly, passing a cigarette back and forth, leaning on each other. ian calls them an uber to go home after a few minutes of peace. no need to say goodbye to the mess inside, they'll be back again tomorrow.

then there's just.... like you said, a weird melancholy that can settle in the bones during the holidays. it can be hard to simply. not feel festive when there's so much expectation to Feel Good! i would imagine that ian gets a little down and moody in the winter. this is why they try to do some special gestures for each other. ian stocks up on the peppermint coffee creamer that mickey loves so much, mickey buys ian some goofy fuzzy socks while he's at the pharmacy getting ian's meds. more hand holding... more little kisses.... little gestures. i'm here you're here i love you!

whew! those are some thoughts! sending you and everyone a big holiday hug with a mug of hot cocoa and a comfy blanket 🎄❤️❄️✨

[evankinkley]

bucktommies really do be vining rn. cause what do you mean all the other characters are going through SHIT, while buck is in his rom com era, getting wined and dined by his hot pilot boyfriend???

We love that for Evan Buckley! That man went through so much trauma and now he just gets to kiss and swoon over his boyfriend? Yes, baby, live your life!

[melodiousoblivionao3]

I got so emotional listening to Sam gush about Sonnett. Said she thinks Sonnett is often misunderstood, and people don't know or realize how much she's scrapped and fought for every roster she's made and every minute she's played, and how even when she doesn't play (which up until recently was often) she sets a good example to the younger players on how to be a perfect teammate. She's willing to do anything for the team and gives it her all no matter what. She's such a special player and person.

sam talking about any of her friends will GET ME. they went through the trenches together, and i wish sam was there to enjoy the same success our girls are now.

one thing i also want to highlight is what emma said when tierna came back for the olympic semi's. sonnett had been doing well, but tierna was going to start. (i don't remember the exact quote but they discussed it on the broadcast) emma said that sonnett basically told her she'd do whatever would help the team and was just ready and there and so helpful to the team even when she wasn't on the field.

she's one of one, and we are so lucky to see her shine.

[narumi-gens]

https://www.tumblr.com/narumi-gens/743137015078551552/just-learned-that-nicotine-constricts-blood?source=share

ik this is for different fandom but this post just made me bigger believer of impotent hiromi :3 chainsmoker AND can't get his dick hard?? sign me the fuck up

angst, smoking, minors/ageless/blank blogs dni

instead of being a funny situation that you'll be telling your friends about for years to come, nicotine-induced impotence!higuruma is one big downer unfortunately. his smoking is definitely tied to the stress of his job and how burnt out he feels by it and the system, all of which bleeds into his personal life and it's hard to know if he can't get it up bc of the smoking or bc of his depression (or some larger medical condition that he's too unmotivated to see a doctor about).

he's tried to give up smoking, but all it takes is one long 14-hour day (of which there are many) to have him crawling into bed beside you in the early hours of the morning smelling like stale cigarettes. you don't ever press him about it, knowing that ultimately the decision to quit needs to be his and his alone.

but no matter how much you assure him that you understand how hard it is to give up an addiction, he can't help but let the cynicism that's begun to fester inside of him lash out.

"you want me to quit, don't you?" he asks unprompted over dinner. it's the first night in a while that he's been off work early enough that you can actually share dinner together and you suggested going out to the restaurant around the corner -- one that has an ashtray at every table.

"yes, I wish you would quit," you answer, glancing at the cigarette perched between his index and middle fingers. "but I wish for a lot of things that are out of my control. I wish it would stop raining so much. I wish we could win the lottery. you'll quit when you're ready and I'll be there to help you."

the sincerity in your eyes is too much for him and he takes a long drag from his cigarette. your sincerity is wasted on a world as corrupt and unjust as this one.

it's wasted on a man like him.

"really? you don't miss getting fucked?" he continues, unable to quell the urge to keep pushing you.

"hiromi!" you snap, looking around to make sure that no one heard him. thankfully the restaurant is busy enough that no one is paying you any attention.

"are you embarrassed that your partner can't get it up? you keep saying it doesn't bother you." in fact, you've said it on many occasions, but always in soft reassurances whispered into his ear as you hold him close from behind. you've never said it with as much derision as he says it now.

"I'm embarrassed about discussing our sex life in public," you hiss angrily. you then close your eyes and take a deep breath, paying no mind to higuruma's secondhand smoke that fills the space between you.

when you meet his gaze again, he can see the slight sheen to your eyes. it seems like he's finally pushed you far enough.

"I can't keep having this same fight over and over again, hiromi," you tell him, your shoulders sagging under the weight of your resignation. "I tell you that I don't mind the long hours or the smoking or the intimacy issues or this self-destructive spiral that you're in and you continue to doubt me at every turn."

you pause to let out a heavy sigh, and when you next speak, your voice breaks.

"I love you. why can't you just let me?"

it's a question he doesn't know the answer to. it's one that he refuses to have the answer to.

all he can do is bring his cigarette to his lips and take another long inhale.

[thejudgingtrash]

I feel like I've hallucinated a fanfic. It was a giyuushino one, modern-au. Kanae and Shinobu owned a clinic for kids. Giyuu was the estranged son of a rich, crime family. Giyuushino had kids together, and they were slowly getting back together. I can't even remember what website it was on lol. If you have any idea what it is, I'd appreciate it!

This sounds interesting but I have absolutely no idea because I mostly read canon compliant/slightly diverging fics and rarely modern AUs 😭

Maybe the audience can help out with this one?? 🙇🏾‍♀️ any Giyushino fanfic connoisseurs in the building?? 😭

Tbh I would love to read the fic tho the premise sounds fun as hell!

[her-satanic-wiles]

Instead of using ice packs Copia uses frozen Capri Sun’s to chill his food in the lunch bag.

No stop it. This is the cutest thing.

He still does it as an adult because, "it's convenient and eco-friendly." But really he just likes having a cold af Capri Sun with his salami and mustard sandwich.

You catch him mid suck of the juice and he's just wide-eyed and surprised. Chokes on the drink. 💀

[givekennyabreak]

Hi, it's not hate, it is constructive criticism. Your OCs lack nuance and complexity. They have hardly any flaws. They are like paper cut outs. They just exist as fix its to the plot. They have inner knowledge of the supernatural nobody else does, they punch people who deserve it, they are brave when everyone else isn't, they stand up for others etc. This sounds wonderful at first but when you mix them with other characters who are flawed and realistic, who make mistakes and are scared, your character just becomes annoying because they don't have depth. They look like pick me Mary Sues. Yes, make them have visions, be kind, brave etc but make them make mistakes and show fear sometimes. It's about balance. Having them apologise for being briefly mean to another character is not character development if they just go back to being the Joan of Arc of From. All your OCs follow the same pattern of being perfect and special, the Chosen Ones. It's boring and you refuse to make them better.

Hello! Have you read what you just wrote?

They're characters. They don't need to be realistic.

Tabitha has knowledge of the supernatural as well. So does Elgin. So does Victor.

Bug doesn't have any visions. They see ghosts, that's it. They've had since they were a kid.

They're not scared as a result of pissing themselves the first night they got in Fromville, hiding in a hole while their friends, who tried to kill them in a ritual, scream in agony at night. It's a trauma response - they do stupid shit, and they almost die not once or twice, because their brain gets all muddled (you'd know that if you actually read the pieces I've written for them, and if you were in the server, which I'm pretty sure you're not).

And yeah, Ben is a Mary Sue, for all I care. He's a great guy, kind, helpful, and very dumb. Fuck me for having fun and creating some silly dude, right? Even though he has no special powers or anything, huh.

[steviebbboi]

Ohhhhhh, can you share more about Romance and Reason?! Please 😃🙏❤️

Ahhh certainly, friend! Thanks for sending in this ask too 💜 I have some really rough draft ideas for teacher!Frank Adler and teacher!female reader:

Romance and Reason tropes/ideas:

she and Frank will be co-workers, working within either a high school or college (tbh I’m not too sure which I wanna do yet so really TBD).

I plan on having some kind of established relationship there. Maybe she is Mary’s old teacher, or she used to be friends with Franks sister/childhood best friends, etc. just because I cannnot leave the established relationship trope alone lol I love it sm!

Frank will definitely be teaching philosophy again!

Frank will definitely also be a tortured soul. I’m thinking that it may still have to do with the throes of raising Mary, maybe as Mary grows up to be Diane’s age around when she passed— or some sense of Mary’s development causing friction btwn Reader and Frank (just not too sure yet)!

Franks mom will also have something to say about it.

Overall though, it’s a story about reader and Frank, reader who has gone through her own sense of trauma— and how these two people learn to love again or be vulnerable with other people again!

Not so rigid or logical, but genuinely emotional and connecting with each other.

That’s all I have so far but I’m thinking I need something else to pizazz or thicken the plot!! I’d love to talk more about it if you have anything in particular that you would love to read about these two :)

[melsimps]

HEYO!!! I know we barely interact but here’s my edit of Fox!Quicksilver in the style of Wolverine and the X-Men

Thought you may like it 👀

Ooh noice.

As a token of my appreciation, have this contextless meme for the main fic I've been working on for almost a year now (Spider-By-Proxy/earth 311619)

(Also I hate that my first thought when I saw this was "why is he so lorge?" Lol/j)

[yikesforever]

The artist who started Cobra Starship originally started it as a (bad) emo project that turned into middle school dance music 👍

The lead singer of metro station is Miley Cyrus's brother. And lmfao are an uncle and nephew duo. They said sorry for party rocking and disappeared which is kinda iconic. Then of course the classic 9/11 caused 50 shades of grey.

[tossermalfoy]

YOURE ALIVE!!! Babes how are you

I have awoken (temporarily) once more.. Hello, hey, I am great - enjoying the current weather in England 😌

[gardenerian]

Thinking about Ian rn, thinking about that scene in 3x09 where he's crying in bed, while everyone else is downstairs having a great time😞

my god. you're thinking about ian gallagher? ian gallagher, who has always felt a little bit like an outsider? ian gallagher, who knows that his family loves him but also feels like they can't fully see or understand him? who has always been steady and reliable, and who prides himself on that??? ian gallagher, who leans into that persona and keeps his secrets close even when it hurts him? ian gallagher, who fears showing his hand too much? IAN GALLAGHER, who would rather cry and try to tend to his injuries alone, than try to seek some comfort?? no way.

you're thinking about little s3 ian gallagher??? who has experienced and also witnessed unimaginable trauma with the boy he loves? and had this trauma now color and compound the other traumas he's experienced over three seasons?? s3 ian gallagher, who is guarding this secret bc it's not just his? ian gallagher, who feels powerless and helpless in the face of what happened to mickey? little baby s3 ian gallagher, who is hurting for mickey and for himself, whose poor body has taken the most recent beating from this hideous trauma.... our collective son ian gallagher, who is trying to keep his pain and heartbreak as small and as quiet as possible? that ian gallagher????

wee little ian gallagher, who is raging and suffering and pushing too hard? ian gallagher, who is starting to splinter apart? s3 baby ian gallagher, who was edging closer to what he wanted for his life but is now watching the cracks start to spread? ian gallagher who is starting to feel agitated and devastated, who is about to make a last ditch effort to reach mickey.... and then totally veer over the edge when it doesn't happen? who is unknowingly starting down a path that will change everything? you're thinking about ian gallagher, crying in his bed while everyone laughs downstairs??? ian gallagher, who has no idea that the these tears are about to change the course of his entire life? you're thinking about that???????

and just to remind myself.... ian gallagher, who is healthy and married and who has a lifelong partner that knows him fully and completely?? who never makes him feel out of place??? ian gallagher, who found his way back to that same boy he always loved.... that same boy who fought his way to get to ian over and over? ian gallagher, who will be okay and will be great, actually? THAT IAN GALLAGHER?

[evankinkley]

It's all because of Buddie. If you replaced Tommy with Eddie, all of their complaints would disappear, even if every word of the script stayed the same.

Tommy is a downer...Eddie is sarcastic.

Tommy is predatory...Eddie is kinky.

We all know without a doubt, Buddie stans would eat up the scenes with no changes except the character.

And no one baited them. Ryan said Eddie is heterosexual. Oliver said he didn't want to do a story where a newly bi man sought out their best friend. Both made it clear Buddie, is currently and with no plans of changing it, just a very close friendship.

I have nothing to add to this.

[melodiousoblivionao3]

the WEDDING RINGS on christen‘s finger

Absolute freaking rocks

[narumi-gens]

Is Gen completely opposed to threesomes in general or does he just hate hoshina ?

ooh this is interesting. Narumi is not opposed to threesomes, but it's something that the kn8!chaos couple never end up being able to try out. while Narumi would eagerly agree to any woman you proposed to invite into your bed (unless that woman was Ashiro), you don't think you could handle the smug look that would forever be etched onto his face after having two women lavish his cock with attention at the same time.

as for a threesome with another man, there's no one you could suggest that Narumi would ever agree to, simply because that would require Narumi to acknowledge another man as his equal -- which he'll never do. if you're being completely honest with yourself, you have a general idea that the entire fantasy would be one big disappointment in reality, because there's a 99% chance that Narumi would constantly be shoving the other person out of the way with an arrogant "let the expert show you how it's done."

but that doesn't stop you from trying to make a threesome happen. because while you may have agreed to give up on the idea of ever getting to fuck Soshiro, there are two Hoshina brothers and you've been meaning to take a trip out to Himeji. and if you just happened to stop by the Sixth Division and check in on their operations team while you were there, it would only be a common courtesy to meet with their captain. hopefully the eldest Hoshina brother will be quicker to take you up on your offer than his younger sibling. you'll figure out how to convince Narumi later.

💕 send me any and all your asks about the kn8!chaos couple 💕

[thejudgingtrash]

Alabaster Torrington

What in the midwestern emo is this fake name? 😭

(Lame one liner)