#minus the whole slayer thing

[hapfish]

Hey! I'm making a F!Leo cosplay and I was wondering if you have any advice for how to do the shell? The plastron, specifically. Yours was amazing! Ty xx

Yeah of course!!! Luckily the rise plastrons are very geometric so its pretty easy to make a pattern from it! I dont have pictures of early steps so pls bear with me <3 info n pictures below the cut

First thing i did was make a pattern of my torso with plastic wrap and tape so i could see the curve of my stomach and chest. Cant say this helped a TON, but i cant imagine things in my head, so it helped me conceptualize the size and dimensions i would need the front panels to be to cover my torso.

Next i started sketching small patterns for what the cut outs may look like. DEFINITELY make a paper pattern, this took a lot of trial and error and you dont want to waste too much foam. I cannot for the life of me find my paper patterns unfortunately, but hopefully you can see part of where im coming from with the detailed pictures of the plastron!! I made patters for 1/2 of the plastron, and flipped the patters over to make the other half mirrored and symetrical.

Now the cutting. I used .7mm foam (i think?? I got it from micheals. Joann fabrics has some but only small sheets. If you want less seams you should get the bigger ones, or buy massive sheets online. EVA foam isnt too hard to find, but make sure your density and width is appropriate for what youre making. When actually cutting the pieces out, some cuts will be flat while others may work best at an angle. I used mostly 90* and 45* angles to make clean edges and corners.

Bear with me bc the pictures in this next part are kinda uglie </3 ill explain why later.

For matching the curve of the body, i used a fresh blade and made shallow triangle cuts on the backside of the foam as can be seen here:

It would have worked better if the chest pieces were also vurved by i was on a time crunch and didnt have the time to make a 3rd or fourth plastron (yes this was a second fully completed attempt orz). Im also a bigger dude so it may be easier if your torso is smaller. I also had the benefit of making my pants from scratch (using a demon slayer uniform pattern that i altered) so i made the waistband big enough to tuck the shell into, which helped with keeping it curved around my body.

(This but only applies to future leo and i did post gluing the pieces together, but for his Top Surgery Scars™️ i cut into the chest at a 45*angle, then glued those pieces back onto the back side to seal the cut)

For gluing, i tried a whole lot of types but jothing worked as well as cement glue. It is toxic tho so make sure you do it outside or with good ventilation, and wear gloves/a mask. I did two layers on each edge then stuck the edges together, 3 if i noticed the foam absorbing it to much. Make sure you take the gluing slow and really put pressure on the pieces to lock them together. Follow the instructions and youll do fine.

For painting, i did 2 layers of modge podge, 1-2 priming layers (depends on if foam is white or black to start), and then whatever layers you need for a smooth coat of color. I topped it off with modgepodge again to seal it, but that may not have been the best idea for the following reasons....

EW YUCK. WHY IT LOOK LIKE THAT.

Well. It didnt always. Turns out when youre wearing approx 3 laters in the summer then cover your body with insulating foam, the heat and moisture makes the modgepodge MELT. and like i said before, this bottom portion was tucked into my pants so it did not breathe. I have yet to even try to find a solution but just keep it in mind when making your cosplay (and if you find a solution PLEASE LET ME KNOW! My one idea was tryna find a sealant that wont melt (obv) but idk what that would be)

And FINALLY. how to secure it to the body suit!! I used snaps!! So easy and nice (besides the melting issue but thats a different thing entirely.) They never came off or gave me problems (minus the melting) and made the shells easy to transfer/travel with and put on.

(Heres a pic of them on the suit sewn in by hand, and above you can see them on the shell itself.)

All in all, The plastron was so so hard and im honestly still not happy with it, planning to remake it before i wear him again. Please show me your cosplay when you finish it, id love to see!! Please lemme know if you have any other questions!! 🐢💙

[emma-is-swaggy-and-epic]

A collection of some of my OCs as pokemon trainers :3

CHEAT SHEET/ EXPLANATION FOR EACH CHARACTERS' TEAMS UNDER THE CUT

Let's start with yuriko, her team consists of a gallade, a combee, a bisharp, a rookidee, a gothitelle and her beloved furfrou. Since chess is a BIG theme to yuriko's character, i wanted each pokemon to sorta reflect each piece in a game of chess (minus the king bc i ran out of room). Combee is the pawn because in chess: pawns are the weakest piece and are kinda there to protect the queen in a way, similarly to how worker bees in a beehive tend to do stuff for the queen (not to mention that pawns actually CAN become queens in a game of chess, similarly to how normal bee larvae can grow up to become a queen if fed enough). Bisharp and rookidee are the bishop and the rook for obvious reasons, gallade is the knight and gothitelle is the queen (though tbh i also partially chose those two bc in yuriko's usual form, she is a danganronpa fan character, specifically a celesgami fankid and i kinda associate those two characters with those pokemon...albeit with celeste it's more or less the gothitelle line IN GENERAL) lastly i chose a furfrou bc that's the closest i can get to yuriko's goofy ass dog, gambit.....there are no borzoi pokemon i'm afraid

Also ngl whenever i hear gothitelle's name, my mind immediantly goes to cottonelle and i can't help but think of emo toilet paper...

Next with makeighlyn: her team consists of a sylveon, a galarian ponyta, an indeedee, a porygon, a spiritomb and an absol. I imagine that since makeighlyn's whole lore is that she's a flash game mascot turned demon slayer, she was probably given a sylveon, ponyta and indeedee by her creators (the sylveon representing her pet cat, angie) but ended up finding and catching a porygon after she gained sentience; when she became a demon slayer, the souls of all the demons she killed formed into a spiritomb and she caught that too and lastly she caught an absol to sorta let the demons know she's coming since y'know.....absol is said to be a bad omen....also yes, makeighlyn IS wearing may's contest outfit, it was easier than just thinking up an original pokemon universe design for her

For myrtle: her team consists of a zorua, a cubone, a banette, jirachi, a duskull and a zubat. Tbh i didn't really put that much thought into her team, i just picked the edgiest pokemon i could find....though with cubone and banette i just picked them bc they're infamous for having really dark pokedex entries and are a common sight in the more horror-oriented side of the fandom, and also i picked zubat bc it's the first pokemon i think of when i think of team rocket (aside from meowth, obviously) typically i prefer not to include legendary/mythical pokemon whenever i give a character a pokemon team for the sake of believablity though i just couldn't resist giving myrtle jirachi considering how much it fits with her backstory (normally, myrtle's story is that she randomly discovered she had reality-bending powers one day and abused her power so much it caused a dimensional merge; though since this is pokemon and humans don't have powers, i feel it makes more sense if she caught jirachi and abused it's wish granting powers)

Lastly for renée: her team consists of an altaria, a castform, a smeargle, a snom, a munchlax and a bruxish. Tbh i only really gave her an altaria and a castform as a sort of callback to the fact that renée is a bird (though i had to make her human for the sake of this challenge), specifically a pigeon-cloud nymph hybrid; so i gave her a cloud bird and a weather creature! Since renée is more or less a 2014 tumblr-esque hipster (a bit millenialcore i daresay), i gave her a bruxish bc i've literally never seen a single person who likes bruxish (i personally don't really care for it either way but like....LOOK AT THIS THING!!! IT LOOKS LIKE IT SHOULD BE HANGING OUT WITH THE BEATLES IN PEPPERLAND OR SOME SHIT)

Anyway, i also gave renée a munchlax bc tbh that pokemon SCREAMS millenials in 2014 tbh (like....fr you'd be hard-pressed NOT to find a millenial on the internet from that era making jokes about how much pizza and avocado toast they eat) i also gave her a smeargle to reference renée's love for painting and a snom bc....tbh i think snom is kinda overrated and i feel like renée would be the type of person to make that damn thing her entire personality so yea (also renée likes bugs so i had in incorporate that SOMEHOW)

[tragicallycrispygirl]

After having a few days to play around with Slayer, I want to share my opinion on him and his strength as a character.

In short, while I think he's absolutely a premium character near the top of the roster, I don't think I would really call him an all-around strongest due to how matchup dependent he feels.

In long: his damage is fucking ridiculous. Genuinely fucking ridiculous. You can get 300+ damage meterlessly at ROUND START with a Pilebunker loop. It does require a bit of luck (you need a counterhit H normal) but the fact that he can even do that AND ALSO GET POSITIVE BONUS is insane. His absolute biggest problem though is his movement, to an annoying degree, and it's where a lot of the matchup stuff comes in. I played against an Axl who beat the absolute shit out of me, and the whole time he seemed to have a very easy time just moving backwards and poking me out. Axl is definitely very good at that, but JESUS.

Slayer's movement is just so, so fucking bad. All of his options to get in are incredibly committal, and are all flawed in some way:

-Mashing Dash: Slow. You can't block during the dash. You can't special cancel the dash (as far as I know).

-Walking: go make a coffee while you wander over to your enemy lmao

-IAD/Jumping and Airdashing: Prepare to taste a delicious 6P

-Mappa Hunch: Pretty long startup and whiff recovery, and if your opponent blocks it you're probably giving up your turn. Vulnerable to being stuffed by disjoints, or even just trading disadvantageously.

-Dandy Step: Same problems as Mappa but with the added bonus of not going as far!

-RC Super Mappa Hunch: Costs 100 tension.

-RC 6K > j.s: Might actually be pretty useful? I haven't tried it before but you go flying full screen so...

These movement issues are the crux of what I feel makes him not an overall strong character, just because he gets zoned so so hard. Don't get me wrong, he is very good, but he has a lot of glaring weaknesses that are very prevalent in certain matchups. Hand of Doom is also garbaaaaage even just backdashing on wakeup in this game feels bad but the followup is iekrnfkdowbekfnf.

All of this, though, means they did a pretty excellent job of translating him from XRD, where I'd say a lot of the same things about him! His strengths are very matchup dependent! I also want to be clear that him having these weaknesses is important. If he could just run you down and melt 3/4 of your healthbar away, he would absolutely be the most overtuned character in the game. Insert Sol Badguy joke here.

There are some things I'd nerf, though:

-Lower the height of It's Late. Fucking look at this shit man his fist isn't even ever up there

-Make the Dandy follow-ups and Mappas an extra frame minus. (Dandies -3, Mappas -2 and -3 respectively.) They're supposed to make Slayer give up his turn on block, but often you can sneak in a 2K or 2P to keep the pressure going. I don't think that should be gone, but I think it should be higher risk. This might be very harsh but idfk man

-Master's Hammer not +26 on block. That's fucking ridiculous for a point blank move come on

-Make his damage modifier x1. This is probably too harsh, but I don't really feel that he should take less damage as a brawler type character. Yes I get he has poor defensive options but still

All of these might be nerfing him too hard, but at the very least I want It's Late shortened pls it's fucking dumb.

As for buffs, I don't think he needs very many, but:

-Increase the distance of his normal dash, or make it faster. This might make him too fast but fuck me his dash feels awful at longer than roundstart ranges.

-Keep the opponent closer on a K Mappa knockdown. This would have the added benefit of making the 5K link not feel so weird and strange.

As for SILLY FUN STUPID buffs I think he should have:

-Super Mappa Hunch is now 15+0 instead of 14+1, so at close range you can't block after the super freeze. I don't know if it hits full screen in 1 frame, but I want my XRD Dead On Time shenanigans back dammit.

-Last horizon now deals 300 damage. This is a cleaner number than 290.

-Last Horizon will now go full screen. It doesn't go any faster he just goes all the way full screen.

-Hand of Doom is actually invincible and gives you c.s links on counter-hit (make it like -8 instead of -7 to compensate)

-Pilebunker disregards the normal chip damage rules and can kill at any amount of health

-Counterhit Pilebunker gives the silly tumble for a full combo that it used to

All in all, I think Slayer is comfortably lower/middle-top tier. Am I downplaying because I love him and also am not good? Maybe. I've always hung out around floor 10 pretty comfortably before he came out, but I reached the Celestial Challenge for the first time EVER using him, so make of that what you will. I'd be interested to hear how you all feel about him.

The most important thing, though? He's really fun. I do just really like Strive and how it feels, but I find him very fun to play and play against. (The play against might change, I wanna learn Testament so we'll see how I feel later lmao)

Edit: After trying to learn Testament and going to open park and playing about 25 matches against a Slayer, some of my opinions have shifted:

-Obliterate Master's Hammer. Destroy it. Explode. +26 is stupid. At the VERY LEAST make it lower to the ground to you can actually c.s it or something

-Mappa is a ridiculously good way to get in lmaoooooooooo im just fucking dumbbbbbbb make that shit -2 and -3 NOW

-He doesn't need any buffs

I need someone better than me to weigh in on the matchup thing, cause it felt kinda even? I just don't know how to play Testament.

[kankuroplease]

Who are the characters you hate in anime? and the villains you like?( for me I like Garo in one punch man 🤩)

Very few characters earn actual hate from me because I don’t take anything that serious. But anyways, this is a long post. So under the cut it goes

I can give you my strongly disliked character list;

Sae - Peach Girl. Beginning of my trust issues

MeiMei - JJK. Whole weirdo and a waste of a badass

Shou Tucker - FMA. Worst anime dad, hands down

Danzo - Naruto. Stole my boys eye, stole bug dilfs adoptive son, and a general coward that tried to act like he wasn’t

Yasui - 7 Seeds. makes my blood boil and I don’t care about his redemption

Hisoka - HxH. makes my ass itch

Zoldyck family (minus Killua and Alluka) - HxH. icky ass itches

Mr. Yashiro - Erased. Added stress to my life and subtracted a year or two because of it.

Robin - Heavenly Delusion. For OBVIOUS TW reasons

Griffith - Berserk. I need him dead yesterday

Light - Death Note. I just don’t like him

Mineta - BNHA. Why?

Koza - Samurai Champloo. I can forgive a weak character, I can not forgive a manipulative backstabbing character that is also weak

Shindo - Sk8. Unhand that boy, sir.

Favorite Villains (I don’t count them all as bad guys, but they are antagonist);

Dabi - BNHA. Yeah he did it all, and? Look at his home life.

Enji Todoroki - BNHA. Not a villain but a whole ass villain at the same time.

Madara - Naruto. He had a point

Itachi - Naruto. I know what he did, but…

Kisame - Naruto. Nart hubby #2

Obito - Naruto. I’d wait for him to get out of jail Ngl. Nart hubby

Overhaul - BNHA. Terrible. Horrendous. Belongs in jail even, but I have a visual type

Aizen - Bleach. Smash

Ulquiorra - Bleach. My boy deserved better 😭

Unohana - Bleach. I support her wrongs

Grimmjow - Bleach. He’s not so bad

Sukuna - JJK. He’s hot

Toji - JJK. I was informed he goes here but I don’t believe it 🤧

Gyutaro - Demon Slayer. Such a good big brother

Akaze - Demon Slayer. Loved his wife and won’t consume women? A wins a win

Rem - Death Note. I don’t think my baby belongs here, she’s just an amoral Pookie

Millions Knives - Trigun. It’s a love hate thing

Gilgamesh - Fate series. A beautiful disaster. 

Izaya - Durarara!! Asshole (affectionately)

Scar - FMA. The splits. I would do them for him

Broly - DBZ. Again, splits. I volunteer as tribute!

Fujimoto - Ponyo. He’s a loving father and he did nothing wrong 😤

Sesshomaru - Inuyasha. Not counting the sequel the OG mangaka would not agree with either.

Sephiroth - FFXII. not an anime but THE hottest villain and a total shame to not mention

[silverynight]

A slayer asking the Hashira for assistance on a mission nervously. Tanjirou, though none of the Hashira have objected, goes to stand.

Tanjirou: "I'd be happy to-" stopping abruptly, his face grimaces, hand on his stomach in pain. He felt okay, but now he doesn't feel too hot?

The Hashira: 😨😰

The sunshine gets sick and the whole butterfly estate turns into a mess, especially the Pillars minus Shinobu who knows exactly what to do and how to take care of him.

Honestly, she's a little bit smug because she can kick the others out whenever she wants and take care of Tanjirou herself.

The only thing that actually stops her from doing it is that Tanjirou keeps asking for the other Pillars so they all end up taking care of him, but under Shinobu's supervision.

[oveliagirlhaditright]

Do the Math

Summary: It's an equation that needs to be solved: what to do to protect his son from Holtz. So maybe it's a good thing that Buffy seems so good at math now...

Or "Angel asks the Scoobies to come help him protect Connor from Holtz. And Angel realizes that while everything Buffy and Connor seems figured out, maybe some things between him and the Slayer still need to be equated."

Oneshot. Fluff. Romance. Bangel. Slight Angel and Connor (mentioned). And slight Buffy and Connor (mentioned). Buffy season 6/Angel season 3 AU.

Author's Note: So, I’m sure the timeline is messed up here: like I’m sure the Buffy S6 and Angel S3 timelines aren’t adding up at all, tbh, but shh. This fic is pretty soon after Xander left Anya at the altar. And right after that happens (no Seeing Red stuff or anything past that occurs), Angel calls Buffy and the Scoobies to come help him and the Fang Gang in L.A., in thinking that maybe Holtz is too much a threat to Connor, after all, and he could use their help. And they all do head to L.A. (minus Giles, obviously. And Spike, who thinks that he’s finally losing Buffy here, and wouldn’t be able to stand seeing her and Angel together. And also Anya, since Xander just left her). And Willow and Tara do get back together, and manage to work things out, though it’s no easy journey: that’s kind of the background for this fic.

Do the Math

"When did you realize that you love math, Buffy?" Angel asked the love of his life, while she sat doing Sudoku for sun in the Hyperion's lobby.

She was sitting in one of the circular, green seats that Angel had never entirely been able to figure out… because in some ways they seemed to not fit in with the Hyperion’s décor.

…And yet he’d always loved them with his whole heart, as they’d brought to mind of things like greenhouses—that he could never touch at the time of day he wished he could, but dreamed that he someday would be able to.

Angel had asked Buffy and her friends to come to the Hyperion when he could no longer deny to himself the threat that Holtz could be to his son. He knew that the Slayer would be able to help protect Connor as well as he could. So selfishly, he’d made a call to Sunnydale, asking Buffy if she was available.

When Angel had explained his reasoning, even though Angel knew the story of Connor’s conception had hurt Buffy, she had left without a second thought.

But it was only as he had been talking to her here since Buffy’s arrival, that he was learning he couldn’t have asked her to come at a worse time: he’d been able to see the tension in her shoulders the moment she had walked in.

According to Buffy, Xander had left his fiancée at the altar, Giles had left her, Dawn was a klepto-maniac, and Willow was addicted to magic—and had even gone so far as to do a memory spell on her girlfriend—that she’d only just forgiven her from.

And Buffy herself… she still seemed to be carrying everyone’s burdens as if they were her own, like she’d always done, but she still seemed as shaken as she had the night he’d first seen her when she came back (how Angel cursed himself for that awkward night and walking away). And he knew there was something about Spike… whenever he mentioned him, Buffy got a far-away look in her eyes and looked shamed and dead in the same breath.

But maybe he could make her feel better by bringing up this new thing that seemed to be bringing joy to her now, Angel thought. And so he carefully watched her face.

Buffy smiled, as she laid her work down for the moment, and gave Angel her one-word answer: "Factoring."

"Factoring?"

"What can I say? It's fun. And it finally clicked for me, when Willow sat down and tried to teach me it again after she and Tara broke up. I guess the other stuff is okay, too, like Order of Operations. And clearly, I like Sudoku… But mainly? It was Factoring."

Factoring. Huh. That was definitely interesting.

And when Buffy had mentioned how Willow had had to explain it to her again, it made the vampire remember how much Buffy had struggled with arithmetic in the past and just how much she’d hated it. More than once, she’d complained to him about it—wishing that Willow would realize that their study sessions were in vain, and that she “was never going to need this stuff in the real world,” and that she’d rather be shopping for shoes or, better yet, making out with him.

But this stuff was needed—something Buffy had eventually figured out and appreciated it. And she wasn’t the only one who was going to need it, Angel realized. Someone very special to him was. But how to even begin teaching him it?

"Buffy… I shouldn't be asking this," Angel started, but knowing that he was going to, anyway, because he loved Connor and would always want the best for him. He also adored the idea of Buffy being around Connor more than he wanted to admit. "But when Connor gets older, do you think you could tutor him? I know he's going to need to know Factoring, Algebra, and what have you for school… and it's all lost on me."

For just a second, Angel thought he saw a flash of pain in Buffy's eyes, but it was gone before he could really be sure he'd seen anything at all.

"I mean… that's going to be years from now, Angel," the Slayer voiced, decidedly not looking at him, he noticed, as she continued to look at her workbook. "What are you saying? That you want me to drop back in from Sunnydale once Connor's school-aged?

"Because despite everything… I do plan on going back. If not for my sacred duty—because I’m kind of done with Sunnydale: Faith can handle it—then to check on Anya. I mean, I may not have always shown it, but she is my friend, and-"

Buffy was clearly babbling now… and though she hadn't voiced it, Angel knew what the question she wasn't asking was: what she deemed to be too dangerous here, even though he had offered something similar to her when they'd met after her resurrection. 'Or are you asking me to stay?' is what she really wanted to voice.

He moved towards her with vampire speed, from where he had been mostly watching her from the other side of the room, and silenced her with a finger to her lips and a shake of his head. "No, Buffy, I- Fuck, I really thought I was better at this… What I'm saying is, I'd want you to stay."

Buffy stared at Angel for a long moment after he'd spoken, and Angel wished he could stake himself for it. He wanted to believe that the Slayer was, perhaps, hard of hearing, but he knew that the opposite was true.

At once, he was taken back to when he had broken up with Buffy. She had said that she wanted her life to be with his, and he had said he didn't—meaning he didn't want her to ruin her life on account of him, even if selfishly he wanted her more than anything. But Buffy had taken it as him meaning he didn't want to be with her, and he hadn't corrected her, in thinking that that might finally be the thing to get her to finally stop fighting for them and to try to walk into the sunlight.

…But things had not gone as planned. And more than once, Angel had had to furiously ask himself just how much he'd hurt her, in assuming he knew what she needed.

"Buffy-" he started.

But Buffy was finally answering him. "Oh. I didn't realize that when you asked for our help--namely my help—in protecting Connor from Holtz… you were asking to get back together."

'I actually wasn't,' Angel thought. 'Because I did this the wrong way. And if I had been trying to get you back then—and I am now—I would have gone about it all way better… how you deserve to be treated. Especially after how I've hurt you before,' Angel thought but didn't say. Buffy may have been a wiz at math now, but he knew that this equation would just confuse her, and she might stake him for how poorly he'd planned things. And honestly, he would have deserved it.

Instead, he went with saying an equally terrifying, "And how do you feel about that, Buffy?"

"Like you're still Mr. Cryptic," Buffy answered, punching his arm in irritation. "And confused. I-I want to be with you, Angel.

"God, I should not be admitting that to you, after everything,” she muttered, upon standing up and pacing with her hands in her pockets, once again looking anywhere but at him. “Because I'm not exactly the schoolgirl you once knew.

“But at the same time,” and here, Buffy did find the strength to stop and look Angel in the eyes as she swallowed. But it seemed to him she also half-expected him to burn her at the stake after her words, “…you saw how I reacted to you when you showed up to apologize about Faith, and at my mother's funeral… and even when I got brought back, though I was a wreck then. My feelings for you, despite everything, haven't changed…

"But some other things have. And I just don't know if this is the best time right now, Angel. I left The Trio in Sunnydale to come help you, and we don’t have Faith out of jail yet to deal with it. I'll be there for you and Connor right now. I'll even be willing to teach him for you, but I-"

And that was fair. More than fair, Angel thought as he nodded his head. And Angel wanted Buffy to know that, so he moved forward and gave her a hug. And while he knew he loved her again—he always had, and he'd been stupid to think he ever couldn't or could forget that—he tried to keep his feelings out of it, and let it be the first ever just friendly hug between them.

Buffy seemed to appreciate it, as she disappeared into his embrace for a long moment, before breaking away.

"That's fine, Buffy," Angel promised her, once she was looking at him again. "That's more than fine. Thank you. It's selfish of me to think that now that I want to be in your life again, you'd automatically be ready for that. In some ways, maybe I have been taking you for granted."

Buffy didn't comment on that, which somewhat confirmed it for Angel—and even more everything else she'd been going through lately that was weighing her down: surely way more than he even knew about yet—but she also didn't let the moment end there, either, as she gathered up her things and began heading up the lobby’s main stairway:

For over her shoulder she said, "But don't give up on me, either, Angel… I mean, Buffy + Angel always equaled forever."

And, Angel, with a small smile spreading across his face, found that he could only agree with her there.

Author's Note: I thought of this one night when I was trying to think of what jobs Buffy could have in the future.

And I think if someone could explain math for her so that it clicked, something like this COULD be possible. It somewhat reminds me of myself. Like, I was pretty dang good at math, actually, when people would took the time to make it make sense to me.

My one teacher, actually, became a math teacher because she loved factoring so much and thought it was fun, so that was inspired by her.

I think this was initially supposed to end a wee bit happier, with them getting back together. But I feel like this kind of fits the S6 vibes better. Buffy’s just going through too much right now to dive straight back into the Bangel relationship. And it’s still pretty happy, because we all know they’ll find their way back to each other eventually. But, anyway.

[wond3er]

I keep seeing tiktok influencers talking shit about Fairy Tail 100yq but for the wrong —and worst reasons like at this point the biggest problem isn’t coherence but the weird kinks included for fanservice. I couldn’t care less about living dragons in a universe where they’re all meant to be dead I could live with that, I don’t care about new dragon slayers appearing out of nowhere I can accept that too, but GRAY literally EATS Juvia ? this should be your main concern, not the fact that Igneel has a whole ass son or that FT became Dragon tail we dgaf.

Story wise (minus the FS) it isn’t great but it’s not as bad as some other canon spin offs imo.

Like I can’t count how many times I sighed reading FT 100yq chapters but at the same time I believe we were given some good things like the Erza x Laxus fight or a bigger insight on Jellal’s past which was nice too. We also got some funny moments like Gajeel and Juvia (my fav dynamic btw) investigating the new FT member and Gray calling out a misogynist (this was definitely not on my FT bingo list). All of that to say I don’t get why people continue reading if they dislike it that much (and i’m not talking about FS bc most of the ppl complaining are men who don’t care about the fanservice and dislike it for other reasons.)

While I believe everyone is entitled to share their opinion on media, I think there’s only so much you can do by complaining about a piece that can only carry on thanks to the initial material. Like…if it brings you more despair than joy you should probably stop reading and move on.

[elizabeth-ellie]

I’m a new fic writer so go easy on me lol. This is just a list of things I will and won’t write, as well as fandoms I will try to write for (I say try because I actually have 0 fanfic writing experience, but enjoy writing).

Fandoms I would like to write for:

•JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure (I’m still in the middle of watching it for the first time but I will try my best)

•Bungo Stray Dogs

•Red Dead Redemption (for now just 2 because I haven’t played 1 yet)

•Resident Evil (minus 6 because I’ve never played it)

•Demon Slayer

•Obey Me! (both games)

I might add more later but I feel like this is a good list to start with 😅

Things I will write:

•fluff

•platonic headcannons/fics

•romantic headcannons/fics

•angst (with a happy ending)

•character x reader

•crossover (ex: obey me! + demon slayer, jjba + bsd, etc.)

Things I won’t write:

•NSFW headcannons/fics (I’m not comfortable writing stuff like that yet)

•lolli/shotacon (for very obvious reasons)

•angst (with no happy ending, it makes me sad 😢)

•honestly anything that’s gross or morally wrong, but I feel like that’s obvious

Sorry if this is kind of all over the place I’m not only very new to fanfic writing but I’m also new to tumblr as a whole, and it might take me a while to get the hang of everything😭. Bare with me please 🙏🏻. Also feel free to give me tips on things I can do to make my page more appealing/how to set it up properly.

I will also be posting a fic just so people that want to make requests can see my style of writing.

[viciousbite]

[ STRADDLE ] : while sparring, sender gains the upper hand and pins the receiver in place, straddling their waist in the process. ( as is or reversed up to you! For hashira aka because. How could I not )

Sexual tension prompts. // @violetueur

Like a flash, metal knuckles punched one strike after another against the woman's blade. A close combat dance, that had went on for what felt like hours. Hakuji was happy to train a fellow slayer, if time and strength was provided. Nicolette was a strong slayer, compared to most of the weaklings in their ranks that weren't in the rank of a hashira. If he managed to train her and give her a chance to get stronger, even better.

"Hah, your foot work is beginning to get sloppy! Better not be getting tired on me!" His movement stopped as he pushed against her blade, one leg further in than the other. To talk and tease in the middle of a spar, was a mistake as he felt a kick to the back of his knee that sent him sprawled across the courtyard. Bonus; his effort to teach her to use her full body to fight, and not only her blade was a success. The minus; He was now embarrassingly wrestled against the dirt.

No matter the situation, Hakuji struck fast as he punched the blade to the side, and sent it flying to the side. His other hand used the moment to lift up to her throat, as the blade of his knuckle dusters pressed near her skin. A grin was on the Hashira's lips as soft pants came out of his mouth. Sweaty, and well used sparring session did wonders, but she was far from truly winning, in his books.

Well, until he felt that light squeeze of her thighs along his waist, and the whole position slowly turned gears in his head. Ah-- She was sitting... right on top of him, and if anyone walked on them right now, would have many questions. "Good work, but I think, you still have a way to go to fully beat me." He praised, trying to ignore the position and the excitement from the spar session, that only made him want to do things that made the tips of his ears slowly burn with redness. Not to mention, the sight above him was... hot, not that he should stare, which is why he shifted his blue eyes to the side.

[thisbluespirit]

I assumed this would be one of those gore-is-funny books but I was curious & I need daft things for when I've too little brain for something serious. And there I was, watching The Tudors and just in between reading Bring Up The Bodies and The Mirror and the Light, and it seemed like the moment. XD)

Anyway, it was that, with bonus werewolf sex (tw, I deeply, deeply wish I'd had: that it would start off with Thomas More getting raped by a female werewolf.)

Tbf Author did dedicate it "For Granny, with apologies for all the rude and horrid bits." (about which i also have questions) But still. I didn't know that was what they meant!

Anyway, it's Tudor England, but with werewolves (wolfen) and also witches and demons, which means there are also some self-appointed witchfinder characters (Agatha and Hob Hoblet) wandering about. There is a fair bit of violence/gore as expected, and the main plot is Henry being wolfed and trying to use that against the werewolves (via hate as they killed his baby son, so, like I said: gore warnings.)

But basically:

Henry VIII - business as usual, except werewolf, and getting wolfier by the day. (Bonus points for complaining about everyone around him being called Thomas at one point.)

Thomas Wolsey - has to deal with the Vatican anti-werewolf squad and semi-supernatural ambassadors. On the plus side, no downfall, on the minus side, he accidentally misplaces Thomas More for most of the book and ends up killed by a werewolf.

Anne Boleyn - also wolfed. Better or worse? idk.

Jane Seymour - On the upside, badass Jane the Werewolf Slayer. (On the downside, gets devoured in coda. whoops.)

Thomas Cromwell - Mr Nearly Not Appearing In This Book. While everyone else is stuck in the werewolf plot, he's off with Cranmer arranging a quickie divorce in mere months off-screen. (seems legit.)

Thomas Howard (Norfolk) & Thomas Boleyn - busy doing much werewolf hunting and also when the Hoblets arrest Thomas More for being out in the woods with a lady werewolf and a peasant are just. No. we don't know this guy, obv he's not Sir Thos More, lolol, what a liar. feel free to kill him, byeeee.

which means:

Thomas More - gets stuck with the Hoblets who want to execute him for consorting with werewolves, but once they realise he is More, they want to do it in a big town and make money out of it, and drag him about while going to great lengths to keep him alive so they can execute him properly later. Agatha's extreme determination on this front = finding a for cure the sweating sickness when he gets sick, except by that time the whole executing thing is an embarrassing faux pas they don't mention, they're all family now ok.

Big upside: gets to escape and live with his family in Paris and not be executed thanks to the Hoblets' now deep lifelong committment to people not executing Thomas More unless its them.

So, yeah, the whole Hoblets & Thomas More thing was pretty fun It was daft, but easy going. And I've read more supposedly serious things that have a more cavalier attitude to history. Just take the author's warning to their granny with all the seriousness it deserves. Not really for the squeamish, like me.

Top marks for the cover, though, lol.

Thing I found staring at me on the local supermarket charity bookstall one day. Obviously, it looked so amazingly terrible I had to pay my 50p and take it home with me.

[galadrielette]

you know how dracula untold ended with drac meeting mina randomly and she looks just like his dead wife and all that? let’s take that moment and apply it to kanthony: the bridgertons are immortal (it doesn’t matter how, it just is. edmund still dies and being immortal and all it fucks anthony up of course) and during 1814 he loves in love with and marries the mortal katherine sheffield. she dies of old age and anthony swears off love for the rest of eternithy. until he meets kate sharma in 2022 and he knows that her soul is his kate and it’s this whole thing where he tries not to fall for her because he knows what it likes to lose her and kate falling for this obnoxious man despite herself and then the angst when she realizes that he’s immortal and the whole “do you love me for me or because i’m your dead wife reincarnated?” and just. it could be complicated but it could also be VERY VERY VERY good. 

[forsworned]

𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐄, 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐓 ۫ ִ ׂ💭 ◟♡ ˒ ⊹ ݁ ִ  ۫

♡ 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑'𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄. THIS IS FOR MY BESTIE @hanakages SO IF YOURE NOT HER THIS IS NOT FOR YOU JKJKJK YALL CAN READ IT TOO BUT IT'S FOR HER SO I HOPE YOU LOVE IT AND HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY I LOVE YOUUU also big thank you to @itsstrawberrymochi for helping me proofread!! ��(੭๑˘ᵕ˘)·੭ * ੈ✩‧₊˚ also a repost bc tumblr is a whore

♡ 𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒. none, just fluffy fluff

For most, Valentine's day was the bane of their existence, but for you it was the day you could find an excuse to show everyone how much you loved and cared for them. You happily hummed to yourself as you put cute little customized goodie bags together that you had been working on since the end of January. Planning a party was no easy feat, as it was hard to round up all the Hashira and other demon slayers in one room. Let alone a party celebrating Valentine's Day that was suppose to be filled with love and admiration for one another.

Your rules were simple:

1. No fighting

2. Everyone gets a Valentine (and you meant everyone, you didn't want to see poor Giyuu not receive things from his fellow bitter Hashira)

3. Everyone was assigned a food item that they would bring

And lastly, but most importantly: To simply have fun.

Like you had mentioned before, a party would be no easy feat for this group as they were all wrapped up in their own shenanigans and slaying demons, but you had managed to get everyone on board, though some more begrudgingly than others. With the help of Kagaya, you had somehow made it mandatory to attend the event.

You felt butterflies in your stomach as the time got closer and closer to when you would give away your gifts. The expressions on their faces was what you craved the most and you were finally going to get to see that just as soon as you finished this last goodie bag...

"Finished!" You rolled off your stomach and began to carefully pack your things into a bigger bag.

After you had double checked that you had everyone's things, you checked your make up and hair in the mirror. You settled for a soft pink glam look and for a carmine floral yukata. You felt like cupid minus the whole shooting of unsuspecting people to make them fall in love. But the passing of copious amounts of love was what really made you feel a little like Eros. Maybe you could make a few people fall in love while you were at it.

As you counted and recounted the bags on your way to the Butterfly Estate , you managed to run into the girls who were setting up the mansion. You were amazed to see all the hard work and effort you all had accomplished over the span of two days. The girls were dressed in different attire that coordinated with the Valentine's Day theme. Patterns of hearts, flowers and cupid on their yukatas that you could tell they worked meticulously on.

"You guys look so cute!" You cooed, holding your hands up to your face.

They all became abashed by your commentary before gushing about how adorable you looked.

"Are you dressing to impress someone?" Sumi asked innocently looking down at you as you held the ladder from below while she readjusted the lights.

You blinked several times as you felt your face flush. "N-no, not necessarily."

"Is it Shinazugawa-san~" Kiyo rocked on her heels with her hands behind her back.

"No--"

"No, it has to be Rengoku-san." Naho claimed as she held her chin with both fingers in a deep thinking pose and a serious face.

You felt your heart thrum against your chest the more they talked about who you were showing up for until you simply couldn't take it anymore.

"If I tell you, will you guys keep it a secret?" You finally said as you fidgeted with your yukata.

They all nodded excitedly waiting to hear your secret crush and you beaconed them to you as you covered your mouth to whisper his name.

Their little bodies jolted in shock with cute surprised expressions before they blushed and giggled.

"And don't tell anyone!" You straightened yourself up as you inhaled sharply.

"Don't worry, [name]! Your secret is safe with us!" Kiyo piped up and the other two girls beside her nodded in acknowledgement.

You scratched the back of your neck as you felt your face warm up. You had never really confided in anyone about your crushes on men. It was a bit of an unspoken rule. You always avoided topics about your love life as if it were existent. More often times than not, you spent most of your time reading romantic novels about fantasy men who appeased to women in all the ways your heart desired. It was unfair that men were not like that. That was until you met him.

Sure, he was rough around the edges, like really rough, but he always had a certain kind of sweetness about him with you. At first it wasn't too noticeable. He wouldn't give you the same gruff and brash attitude he would others, but you thought that was just because you were a woman as Mitsuri and Shinobu were. But you had noticed that over time he would lessen his usual rash attitude and sometimes he would look at you a certain way when you talked. He was quiet and listened to you, taking all your words in as you spoke so eloquently.

"...anyone in there?" You asked waving your hands in front of his face and he would blink back to reality and 'tch' softly at you.

"Yes, I was only listening to your incessant blabbering."

You laughed at him and he would 'tch' again at you as he averted his gaze and sighed before his cheeks would slightly inflame trying to keep his usual composure. It was hard though. Keeping his cool around you. It had been awhile since he had fallen for someone, and he had kept his walls up for some time now, but with you things felt easier.

So many things that were left unsaid between the both of you. Things that you were planning to say today and hopefully maybe he would too? You sighed to yourself. It felt almost hopeless with him.

One moment , you would hype yourself up thinking, 'Of course, he likes me and is going to tell me that!' but another part of you felt quite the opposite. In fact, you felt like he almost pitied you and you hated that.

"[name]...are you alright?" Sumi asked as she fidgeted with her fingers.

You noticed how tense you were from being in pensive mode for too long. You uncrossed your arms as you relaxed your posture.

"I'm sure he likes you back." Kiyo nudged at you and you felt embarrassed.

They giggled as you remained silent and urged them to get back to attending to last minute details as every second had counted. The only thing that weighed on your mind was how he was going to take your confession. You had planned to give him his goodie bag in an isolated part of the mansion and profess your love. You cringed at the thought. What if he didn't like you back?

"Uh, [name]...you're crushing the heart plush and the stuffing is spilling out." Naho spoke up and you gazed down at the pink plushie indeed oozing in your hands that you were gripping harshly.

"O-oh." You looked at Naho apologetically as she had made it and she tried her best to not let a tear fall out of her eye as she shook her head.

"I'm so sorry."

"N-no, it's okay! I can fix this." Tears began to spill out of her eyes at lightning speed and you scrambled to try and to cheer her up, but the damage was done.

"Naho, I--" You began to say but she was already rushing out of the room and at that point you wanted to cry yourself.

"What happened?" Kiyo asked.

You showed them the destroyed plush in your hand and their mouths dropped. "It was an accident."

"Do you know how to sew?" Sumi asked as she began to rummage through drawers and then handed you a needle and string.

"Kind of." You took it from her and began to put the thread through the needle and the two of them began to instruct you on how to properly sew the material back together so that it didn't look wonky.

"It's a good thing we finished an hour early." Kiyo said eying your work as Sumi told you where to sew.

"You got that right." You mumbled as you were fixated on the last few stitches you were making to close the plush. "What time is it?"

"Hmm." Kiyo gazed over at the clock on the wall. "5:15."

You sighed as you began to close up the last hole that you had created in the plush and held it in your hands. "I wonder where Naho is."

"She'll be fine. She just needs time to cool off." Sumi smiled up at you and took the plush from your hands to admire your work. "These stitches are really nice, [name]."

"Yes, Naho will be happy to see it." Kiyo agreed and you felt relieved.

"I certainly hope so." You let your shoulders drop as you leaned up against the wall and took a gander around the room.

There were hearts everywhere. Like literally everywhere. Paper heart cutouts hung all over the room in various shades of pink, purple and red. The lights twinkled around the room and the lanterns that they had hung up were pink with the kanji 'love' written on them.

The girls had hand picked bouquets of flowers per your specific instructions to give to the guests as they entered and the table that was set up was riddled with Aoi's cooking. There was enough space for the potluck that was going to ensue very soon and that excited you as you felt your stomach grumble.

"We'll eat as soon as the guests arrive." Kiyo said and you felt a little humiliated that your stomach was that loud.

You put a hand over your belly trying your best not to think about the smell of the food that was filling the room and it was becoming harder to keep yourself from taking one of the steamed buns that Aoi just set on the table.

"Wow, it looks great in here." You heard her say as she gazed around the room in awe.

"Mhmm." You began to reach at one of the steamed buns, but Aoi's head whipped in your direction.

"[name], I thought we agreed on waiting for everyone to arrive before eating." Aoi put her hands on her hips and you sighed.

The sound of your stomach grumbling was much louder this time and you clenched your hand above the fabric of your yukata and Aoi had to keep herself from giggling.

"Okay, maybe you do deserve a small treat. You too, Sumi and Kiyo." She smiled at the both of them as they happily approached the table and grabbed one each.

As you guys thanked her, she searched around the room. "Where's Naho?"

You gave her a guilty look as you chewed on your food and swallowed hard as you showed her the plush that you fixed. "I kind of destroyed the heart plush she made and she ran out of the room crying, but Sumi and Kiyo helped me stitch it together."

Aoi didn't look disappointed in you, rather she was concerned for Naho. "I'll go look for her. Don't over eat!"

And with that she left the room and you swallowed the rest of your bun and frowned, but the girls had insisted that everything would work out and the party would be a hit. As the clock winded down and got closer to six, you started to feel more apprehensive by the minute.

"Oh wow! It looks beautiful in here!" Shinobu peeked her head in and gazed around the room. You immediately perked up as the two girls greeted Shinobu with a bouquet of roses and a flower crown that they bestowed upon her. She thanked them as she held onto the accessory before speaking to you.

"You look like you're dressed to impress a certain somebody." She eyed you mischievously and you rolled your eyes.

"You are one to talk." You retorted checking out her cute purple yukata that she had gotten specifically for the event.

Her smile never left her face. "You look ravishing."

She raised her hands to pinch your cheeks and you noticed that more Hashira began to file in. Kyoujurou being the loudest as he exclaimed about how wonderful the room looked and how delicious the food smelled.

Mitsuri had rushed over to greet the both of you and compliment your outfits and began to gossip about how a certain someone was taking longer than usual.

"I wonder what he might be planning." Mitsuri whispered.

"I heard he was purchasing flowers earlier today." Shinobu added excitedly.

You really didn't want to get your hopes up, but it was hard not to when you were hearing the pair whisper tidbits here and there.

"What do you think, [name]." Shinobu nudged at you and you inhaled sharply as you averted your gaze and watched as he entered the room.

His eyes looking up at the ceiling as he slightly grimaced, but suddenly he relaxed for a moment and then his eyes met yours. It felt like everything around you had stopped and you felt your heart thrum against your chest as the heat rushed to your face and you clamped your hand over your chest.

As you got ready to step forward to hand him a bouquet of flowers, you had been cut off by Sumi handing him a handful of red peonies. You felt your heart slightly drop as his mouth went into the shape of an 'o' and took the flowers by surprise. You had purposefully given everyone a particular set of flowers to convey how you felt for them. You had various and copious amounts of snapdragon for strength, yellow roses for friendship, chrysanthemum's for joy for your friends, but him--red peonies. Honor, respect, passion--love.

Would he even notice? It was so simple, yet so obvious. To a man, maybe not.

You turned away for a moment, feeling a pang of humiliation set in. Mitsuri and Shinobu noticed your discomfort and began to engage you in eating the foods that were being set up on the table.

Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, but you. You didn't want to seem ungrateful for the event that Kagaya had helped you even get all the demon slayers together, but it was hard when you felt like he was avoiding you the whole time.

As you watched Aoi try to fend off Inosuke from eating anymore food, Kagaya was helped into the seat right beside you.

"A little crow told me you weren't enjoying yourself." He took a sip from his tea,

You sighed and felt your shoulders slump as you picked at your cake with your fork. "Forgive me, I'm just not feeling up to be in a party mood any longer."

He smiled and found your arm and squeezed it. "Everything will fall into place. Just be patient."

You never remembered telling Kagaya about your crush, but that man did seem to have his way of knowing everything that went on.

You smiled softly as him. "Thank you, Oyakata-sama."

You felt your spirits lift as you watched him swish his drink on the other side of the room. He shifted nervously on his feet as you locked eyes again. A smile tugged at your lips as you gazed at him and then over to your overstuffed bag of gifts.

You leaned over to whisper to Kagaya and his smile grew as he clapped his hands together and immediately their attention was on him. In fact, all the demon slayers in the room immediately sat down in front of him as they would in any other meeting minus the bowing.

"We will now commence the exchanging of Valentine's gifts." Kagaya announced and everyone began to shuffle as they reached into their bags and conversed with smiles on their faces.

You rummaged through your bag as you put Kagaya's gift in his hands before anyone else got a chance to rush to him. "It's a good luck charm."

Kagaya’s smile never left his face as he began to feel around the charm that was made into a keychain. "A crow?"

"Yes. Do you like it?"

Weird question to ask a blind man, I know.

"I do. I will cherish it. Thank you, [name]."

He reached for his bag and handed it to you and your mouth went into an 'o' as you stared down at it. "You didn't have to."

"I'm not exempt from gift giving."

You carefully pushed past the tissue paper to reveal a small vial with wisteria flowers engraved into the glass and you undid the top to sniff it and it took you a moment to realize what it was.

"For a little courage."

You screwed the top back on and felt yourself flustered for a moment as you took a peek at the man who was irritated as hell with Giyuu. Poor Giyuu was only trying to receive the gift from him without any damages, but it was all in vain. He only frowned at the slightly crushed candy star that his Hashira counterpart ruined out of unnecessary vexation.

You looked back down at the vial before putting it back in it's packaging. "Thank you, Oyakata-sama."

He pretended to not hear you as he exchanged gifts with other demon slayers and you remembered that you needed to do your own exchanging.

As you happily handed out your gifts, your fellow comrades had seemed to light up as you as they opened their presents, but as happy as they may have seemed their reaction is not what you craved for the most. You had searched the room, but you couldn't find the man you were about to profess your feelings for. You finally got up from your seat, but you had bumped into something or rather someone.

"I'm so sorry!"

You knew that little voice. You gazed down to see a tear stained Naho peering up at you and you smiled down at her and fished out the fixed heart plushie.

"Tadah!" And her face instantaneously lit up with glee as she took it in her hands and hugged it.

"Thank you so much, [name]! It's perfect."

"I'm sorry about earlier."

She shook her head and smiled as she spread open her arms inviting you into a hug which you of course accepted. "It's okay."

She moved to whisper to your ear. "Now go get him!"

You felt your face fluster as you pulled away from her and you both giggled. "Thank you, Naho."

You then gathered your valor as you took one last look at the gift you had prepared for him as you stepped out into the cool spring breeze. It was crisp and beautiful out as the wisteria petals fell onto the courtyard. And that's when you saw him.

He was leaning against a pillar as he looked over at the sunsetting just above the mountains coloring them and him apricot. You looked down at your gift from Kagaya as you quickly doused yourself in the perfume before sharply inhaling and exhaling. You heard the crunching of grass and rocks under your feet as you approached his figure and his head slowly turned to you. His cheeks are tinted carmine but they are glazed over by the tangerine glow of the sunset.

"Hey." You said.

"Hey, yourself."

"Um, you're the only one I haven't given my gift to yet." You fished out the present and handed it to him and his eyes widened.

"O-oh, yeah. Here's yours." He gulped as he gave you yours.

Your eyes lit up with joy as you opened your hands greedily. He was staring down at you waiting for you to open your gift.

"Ladies first."

"Right." You shifted your gaze downwardly as you began to unwrap your gift.

It was a small red gift box that was wrapped in a gold ribbon. As you undid it and opened the box, the contents inside had immediately caught in the light. Your jaw went slack as you looked from the beautiful golden ring with your birthstone in a baguette cut to him whose face was completely inflamed as he held a bouquet of red peonies. And they were not your peonies because threaded between the beautiful red flowers were baby's breath--everlasting love.

"I never have the right words to say, so hopefully these flowers and that ring says it all." He mumbled as he looked at you with hopeful eyes.

You felt your sight becoming blurry as tears spilled down your cheeks. "I--I don't know what to say, Sanemi."

"Just...just say yes to me courting you. The ring is an extension to your acceptance."

"The flowers..." You took them from his hand as you deeply inhaled them.

"Yeah, I know how you're big on flowers and their symbolism. So when I saw that everyone else had gotten platonic symbolic flowers and I was the only one who was handed red peonies, I knew I made the right choice." He began to scratch the back of his neck nervously.

The wind swept past you as you smiled with glee and ushered the box toward him. "I accept."

His eyes broadened as he put his arm down to his side and felt a small smile etching at his lips. "Really?"

"Are you kidding? How could I say no?" You laughed. "Please, do me the honor of putting it on."

He happily took the ring from you and gently took your soft hands in his hardened calloused ones as he carefully slipped the ring into your finger. "It looks beautiful."

"I picked it out myself." He smiled looking down as it caught in the light. "Do you like it?"

"I love it." You peered up at him and his violet hues met yours .

His chest rose and fell heavily as he gazed at you, caressing the apples of your cheeks before bringing you into a soft kiss. You let out a small sigh of content as you couldn't stop smiling.

"Now, let's go show everyone that we're now officially courted." You swung his hand around and before he could say anything you were already happily skipping back to the estate as he stammered away. The gift you had given to him swung in his other hand as you had already completely forgotten about it and your confession.

You were too full with joy to even listen to him as you slid open the door with his hand in yours and everyone turned around to look at you both in shock.

"We're getting married!" You showed off your ring.

"[n-name]!"

And for a moment everyone began to gather themselves the both of you to congratulate you and your very flustered and quiet counterpart, with the exception of Tengen who looked quite disgruntled.

"Yeah, this is amazing and all, but seriously, [name]? You spelled my name wrong?" He held up the gift tag to reveal that you spelled his name as "Tenmen."

You tried to hide your laughter at your idiotic mistake as he had kept going while everyone else was also looking at their tags. "You've known me for how long? Three years now? You can't even manage to spell my name right?"

"Mine reads, 'Tyoukurou'!" Kyoujurou exclaimed with his usual boisterous laughter following it.

"According to Genya, mine appears to be, 'Meowmei" Gyomei smiled.

"Piyuu."

"Obobo."

"Dokidoki." Muichiro snickered under his covered hand.

"Henitsu"

"Gonpachiro" Tanjiro pressed his lips together in a straight line.

"Gnosuke?!"

"Well, me and Kanroji-san's are right." Shinobu piped up.

"Yeah, us, too." Makio agreed with Hinatsuru and Suma.

"Us too!" The three butterfly girls exclaimed as they had included Nezuko and Aoi.

Your new partner had hesitated to even look at his gift tag, but his jaw dropped. "Samemi?"

"Ahaha..." You nervously scratched at the back of your head as it had roused confusion and frustration.

"What can I say? I'm horrible at remembering names." You felt your face flush at the embarrassment of spelling every male's name wrong.

"How did you forget mine?!" Sanemi cried out as she showed you the incorrect name. He was pouting so hard it was adorable as hell seeing him like that, but the distress you had caused him and everyone else was...kind of hilarious actually.

And before you knew it Mitsuri couldn't hold back her laughter any longer as it had filled the room. Kagaya was giggling in the corner as he used his sleeve to cover his mirth and soon the entire room was brimming with glee at your awful mistake.

"Well, in any case," Tengen spoke up happy he wasn't the only one as he held a glass to the air and the rest of you all followed his lead. "To [name] and Sanemi! May you have a happy marriage!"

"To a happy marriage!" You all chorused as glasses clinged and you sipped at your fizzy drink as you peeped to look over at your new fiance.

"Are you still upset at me?"

He sighed as he put his glass down and cupped your cheeks with his roughened hands and leaned his forehead against yours.

"Just don't forget my name again, or I think I might go crazy."

You giggled as he kissed your forehead. "I won't"

"Promise?"

"I promise."

And with that whistles were made at your lips met again, gleeful at your new courtship.

"What did you give, [name]?" Amane whispered to Kagaya as she wept with joy for Sanemi and you.

A mischievous smile crept on his face as he answered. "Just an illusion of courage."

(he gave [name] pheromones which is what your body naturally gives off to basically induce arousal to others around you LMFAO)

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

Season 1

Started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and minus the quality of videos, I am really enjoying it. Have to push past some cliche scenes but oh well, it was 1999 so it's not really that cliche.

Anyway, here's my opinion on Season 1 after finishing.

Buffy is my girl. Like Damn woman, get them all. You look hot doing it.

Angel is hot, wish he was more in the show. His entrance scene was damn 🔥. Wish we had more of his scenes. I don't really have much of an opinion of him as we saw too little of him. Still, trust him, loner, brooding, mysterious and he needs to stop disappearing. Reminds me of stefan(my man). His past is gonna be interesting.

Buffy and Angel have got chemistry. No questions there. There first kiss... God damn🤤. I felt things man. It has to be the superior ship and we'll see(although I know how it ends though) .

Xander is okay, he's funny and a good side character. I don't have much of an opinion on him.

I love willow, she's funny and a geek and I tend to have a thing for funny, smart, beautiful but don't know it, kind of woman(I am not bi yet lol). Looking forward to what they do with her character and to get into her life.

Xander and willow, I mean it's gonna happen at least once, although I don't think they're the end game. They have a good platonic chemistry though and I love their friendship.

I love the watcher(giles). What an awkward mess.

Love the buffy × willow × xander trio. Excited to watch it.

I can't stand cordelia and I am gonna go ahead and predict it's not gonna happen for me lol. I know most people love her and she's iconic in some way(not sure) but I can't deal with her. She's just not for me. I am just so over the whole mean girl who everyone loves for some reason but she's just a really nasty bully and I know that she's never gonna have any consequences. I hate characters like her.

Let's see... What else, love the plot lines, they're decent and we have a good start here and I've a feeling it's gonna get much better from here.

Overall a fairly good start, decent plot lines, love the characters so far(minus cordelia).

Did I mention I can't stand cordelia.

Anyway, maybe I missed something but that's the gist of it.

On to season 2. Will be live (not really live) posting as I watch.

Cheers everyone.

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I know there are people who didn't like the last episode....but it was peak WWDITS to me. It had many dark humor moments, some tender moments, people getting screwed over and yet it working out in the end.

Like it wasn't an different than what we've gotten in the past, except I think we get growth from the character (not contradiction). Guillermo wanted the fantasy of being a vampire and has been willing to to the dirty work for it, without really think if he was ever cut out for it. But things changed. Yes, he's been hiding behind the excuse of wanting to be a vampire, but the truth was always that he grew to love his toxic vamp family. But he didn't give up the fantasy. This season was all about Guillermo realizing the whole vamp life isn't for him. With the stress of the secret, the realization of his neglected human family. The last bit of realizing he can't bring himself to kill someone with his own hands.

And we've seen that the vamps actually cate for him too. Which everyone says has been established but only as part of the toxicity. While we love them and understand the toxic love language the reality is that it could have been argued that the vamps only cared about (pre this last season) because of thier dependency on him. But (especially in this last episode) we see that even if Guillermo is no longer thier servant, they care about keeping him relatively safe (they also still treat him poorly but again it's thier love language).

We get Nandor showing that he understands and has paid more attention to Guillermo than you would have assumed he did in the first 2 seasons.

"Well, why would Guillermo stay if he no longer wants to be a vamp?".... the same reason he says he is willing to stay for in season 3, because he loves those idiots. And one idiot he loves the most.

What's going to happen next season? Same as always, idiot vamps doing idiot vamp stuff accompanied by thier human familiar who also happens to be a BAMFing Vampire Slayer. We will probably see growth or regression in thier interactions, self-esteen, etc. But we will have some genuine moments makes us want to....

I didn't hate the final it seemed in line with everything to me. Maybe yes, it's a reset like season 4 (minus Guillermo's decision at the end), but that doesn't make it the genuine and the outrageous moments we got. All of it happened. They were and will be affected by it, and now we will get to see new adventures for them.

On the surface, things look like they're back where they started. There is a crumbling mansion, inhabited by a group of vampires, a doll, and a human. The differences are subtle. None of them is trying desperately to become something they are not, all of them are adults, there are now 5 vampires instead of 4. More remarkably, they all consider each other family. After a long journey, you may try to go back to the life you left behind in all its nostalgic splendor, and find that you cannot. Either the place has changed, been left to crumble down in your absence, or you have. The vampires and the human are almost the same. Save for the fact that two of them raised another together, and lost him. And save for the fact that they have learned to respect and love one another. They do not simply stick together out of habit and codependency. They all had a chance to leave, some time to figure out how to be on their own; and then they all came back, and now they've all chosen to stay. Things may look similar to the way they were when the story began, but one has new memories of his childhood, another's portraits are now featured in the intro. This is no Ithaca, or rather, it is the Ithaca you come back to. Same foundations, same location, but unmistakably changed. They are a family now, unlike before, and they dare show it. That's what has changed, nothing more, nothing less. And nothing will ever be the same again.

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Why the Ending of KNY is So Sad

spoilers under cut :)

Demon Slayer, or Kimetsu No Yaiba, is one of the most popular anime/manga series. Written by Koyoharu Gotouge, the series has amassed millions of fans and love. The series ended with Muzan being defeated, but at a very devastating price. All but 2 of the Hashiras were dead, the two being Giyuu & Sanemi, and thus the Demon Slayer Corps was disbanded. There was no need for it, after all, since the demons were defeated. Nezuko was turned back into a human and Tanjiro recovered from his almost-transformation into a demon. The extended ending is Chapter 205.5, where the series shows the reincarnations/future generations of the characters, but that’s not the ending I will be writing about.

To start this essay, I want to focus on the aforementioned Giyuu & Sanemi. The reason this detail makes me so sad is that they were the only Hashiras left. All the other Hashiras, their friends, died while fighting and never got to see if they won or not. They were left all alone, minus the other characters like Tanjiro and such. Giyuu had to feel this multiple times, this time and also when Sabito & Makomo passed away during Final Selection and he was the only one out of the three that survived. This is almost the same situation. This is also true for Sanemi, as his mother was turned into a demon and ate his family. He also technically felt the pain of losing a friend, except with Genya, his brother. He lost the chance to have a good relationship with him, at least, until they finally did. Because they both lost their families, they found a parental figure in Urokodaki (Giyuu) & Ubuyashiki (Sanemi), in my opinion. Sanemi and Giyuu are very similar because of this, which only makes this point sadder.

Another reason is the deaths of Obanai & Mitsuri, and honestly their characters in general, but that’ll be another essay. They died while professing their love in each other's arms. During this, Obanai said to Mitsuri that she made him feel like a normal boy. Given his background, this makes sense. He was the only boy to be born in his family for generations, and his heterochromia didn’t help his alienation. He was treated as if he was an alien, but Mitsuri didn’t. She loved him and he loved her. Just like Kaburamaru helped Obanai escape from his cell, Mitsuri helped him escape from his alienated feelings. His eyes, which were the reason why the snake demon his family worshipped let him live longer, were also loved by Mitsuri. She loved the way he looked at her with them. And Mitsuri, who felt she hadn’t contributed enough to the fight, was loved so much by Obanai. When Mitsuri told him this, Obanai told her how much she had helped him, in ways she didn’t even know about. Her lifelong dream was to get married, and she never did. But, they promised each other, they would marry if they found each other in another life.

The third reason why is that Nezuko is turned back into a human. The whole series, the reason behind every one of Tanjiro’s actions was to turn Nezuko into a human again. They were together the whole time and had to witness each other in pain. They helped each other and, though one of them was a demon, they continued to love each other. So when Nezuko was finally human again, it made the ending so great. All of Tanjiro’s (& others like Lady Tamayo's) efforts finally paid off. After years, they finally got to return to their normal lives, as two humans.

I will, for my final point, be talking about multiple things in this one paragraph, as they aren’t really enough to merit their own. Yushiro paints Lady Tamayo after her death, never once thinking of anything else but her. Kiriya Ubuyashiki, at only 8 years old, was left to be the head of his family after his father's death and forced to be in charge of the Demon Slayer Corps. Sanemi & Giyuu most likely would die soon after the ending of KNY, as their demon slayer mark would’ve made them die before reaching 25 years of age, and they’re both around 21 years old. Tanjiro turned back into a human because of Nezuko’s love for him. And finally, because it’s the end of demon slayer.

In conclusion, Kimetsu No Yaiba’s ending is very devastating, and not just because it’s the ending of an amazing series. It has brought me to tears multiple times and has not left my mind, even months after finishing it. I hope this essay was good and I hope it didn’t bring back too many painful memories. Thank you for reading this entire essay and have a good day ^^