#oh its in my brain bad dude

[mintmatcha]

oh oh oh mint this is fun! ideas are hurting!! sorry if i send in like ten!!!

how’s about late night, red lights + eren?

hello this ask made to create a very complicated au. If this fic that real it would be 50k+ and based around the concept of Eren reforming himself.

Summary: After 7 years in prison, Eren Jaeger knows he needs to get his life under control. Working as a busboy isn't the glamorous life he wants, but it's enough to keep his parol officer off of his back and his therapist on his side. Besides, he desperately needs the cash if he's ever going to pay back his brother and make it out of his hometown.

With life beating him down, the only good thing seems to be you- the late night waitress that works at his diner. With a blossoming friendship that might become more, Eren has to figure out how to hide his past as it quickly catches up to him.

"Speed up, speed up!"

Instead, you ease the car to a stop. The stop light stays yellow for another second before flicking red, bathing the empty intersection with deep crimson. The light is only touched by the yellow shine of your turn signal, patiently blinking over and over again. Eren groans, sinking further into his seat, his seatbelt catching right under his chin.

"Aw, you could've made it."

"Don't backseat drive!" you scold, throwing him a scowl, "You don't even have a license."

"I used to." He takes a long sip from his milkshake before holding it out to you. "I'm a really good driver."

Dipping down slightly, you take a quick drink, savoring how the ice cream melts across your tongue. When you pull away, he shakes the cup, silently offering you more. "Who taught you?"

"Zeke."

"Really?"

"Yeah, dad was-" Eren pauses to think. He bounces his leg harder, matching the rhythm of the song on the radio without even realizing it, "I dunno, doing whatever he does. He wasn't around so I had to beg Zeke to take me out."

The light turns green and you let the car roll forward. There's no one else on the road, so you don't rush, driving right below the speed limit. There's no reason to go faster; you like having Eren like this: relaxed, honest, not trying to impress anyone else. It feels like high school again, long before everything fell apart.

"He was a good sport about it. It was really fun, actually." Eren slurps the bottom of his cup, chasing to last bits of drink, "He was like, what? 25, 26? Still in grad school, working his ass off, and he still somehow found time for that shit. He was so fucking happy when I got that stupid thing."

You think back to earlier that day. The way Zeke looked at you with such disdain, the way he treated Eren- it sits uneasily in your gut. The fact they were once normal, maybe even loving, feels unreal.

"What happened to you guys?"

Eren exhales much longer than feels natural, blowing a raspberry through his lips at the end. Out of the corner of your eye you can see him picking at the edges of the plastic lid, peeling it up into strips. He's pretty, tanned skin a gold glow even in the dark, lips still plump and pillowy even as he sucks them in to nibble on their corners.

"I can’t tell you,” he breathes.

The tires whir against fresh asphalt, delicate white noise. The fresh tattoo that stretches up his arm and neck, a cover up he won't explain and yet another secret, has begun to peel at the edges.

“Why?”

“‘Cause then you’ll stop looking at me like that.”

“Like what?” You wait for an answer, but it doesn't come. "Like what, Eren?"

You turn to see him and the man staring back at you, those green eyes round and wide with an ambiguousness, an emotion you can't quite place.

“Like that,” Eren says, “Like you think I'm a good guy.”

[lemongogo]

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[crimeronan]

self-indulgent because i'm having a Riotously terrible evening pain-wise but i'm very fond of hunter being a waify little chronic illness/pain boy post-canon and like. for a while, just. no one.... notices.....?

not even because he's actively Hiding it, like. he would 100% tell people he's in pain if they asked. it just. doesn't occur to him to share. he'll sometimes quietly withdraw and lay down in the dark to conserve his energy and the others very reasonably assume it's a grief thing.

so they'll sometimes like. knock gently on the door and ask if he wants company, to which sometimes the answer is yes and sometimes it's no. "no" when hunter is in a significant enough amount of pain that he really can't move much & "yes" when he wants to curl up with bad TV shows as a distraction

it could be anyone in the squad who figures out what's going on but i'm gonna go with my bias and say it's luz, on a day when she's having some bad depression/grief/survivor's guilt feelings herself. bc she's still coming to terms with her own death and the loss of her glyph magic and sometimes she is. Sad

hunter having one of those Catastrophic pain days where he's planning to be an unmoving lump under 7 blankets for the entire day. n luz coming in and softly asking if she can lay down with him. which is different from asking if he wants company. hunter would say no to company bc he can't really Perform Friendship right now but he doesn't mind luz being here.

luz climbing under the 7 blankets too. n snuggling up to hunter and wrapping an arm around him. and hunter just like. goes Stiff. like beyond "hm this is mild discomfort" stiffness, his muscles completely lock up and go rigid like he's just been Shot. he doesn't make any sound or protest or flinch away or anything, he just kind of. stops breathing

luz pulls away immediately bc she recognizes that Something Is Very Wrong, i'm guessing she assumes it's a panic response bc hunter has plenty of reason to have issues with physical touch. but then she sees the expression on his face and it clicks and she's like.

hunter. dude. hey. hey. hunter.

do your scars HURT??????

[noonbeam17]

ive never been so unreasonably angry with an album before oh my god

[front-facing-pokemon]

[dizzybizz]

when your current hyperfixation has music from one of your other hyperfixations so you have to try so hard not to just zero in on the really familiar music playing faintly in the background

sitting there using all my brainpower to process what is being said and trying my best to stay calm

holding my fingers up to my temples, face all contorted as i desperately try to stay present for the story

[alchemiclee]

been looking in tags for a few days now to see if anyone else found the whole high cloud quintet and related story to be a bit.....poorly written, nonsensical, contradictory, full of plot holes and loose ends, etc. apparently i'm not the only one. (and i'm not even talking about shipping stuff, because any time I saw someone mad about bad writing, someone always replies to be homophobic and laugh about failed ships. weirdos.) it could have been so good but was thrown into the garbage for the most part (IF you noticed all the plot holes and contradiction. if not, then it's a fine enough story tbh. I expect most people to see it on surface level and not read all the little hidden lore bits and try to piece it together like my autistic brain did. which is ok! enjoy it if you liked it and ignore me 😆)

[ladyintree]

”don’t make me convince you to let me help you” is still one of the hardest lines for anyone to say to tai thank you

[intertexts]

prime defenders... save me prime defenders...

[moonlitmosss]

Crazy to think that. I'm an og dsmp fan like. My first dsmp stream was I think?? WS second stream of it??? It was when L'manberg was born officially. My first dsmp stream and I didn't even mean for that I just found his yt videos and I was like oh I wanna watch his streams and then [vine boom] dsmp [vine boom] nation [vine boom] black and yellow concrete BAM tommy and tubbo singing to the plants [vine boom] declaration of independance [vine boom] declaration of war [vine boom] August 3rd 2020 [vine boom] watched tommyinnit for the first time [vine boom] I have permanent brain worms I will never be free

[vamptastic]

i think my constant seething rage is honestly very reasonable. i literally live in florida.

[sa-banana-ana]

I got bored, frankly, it's annoyance if anything, of going to my university library. To remedy that I've been going to a public library branch and today it really made my day!

They had a display about book recommendations based on zodiac signs. I always find zodiac themed items a little funny, and naturally, I wanted to see what would be deemed a good Sagittarius, my own zodiac sign, recommendation. I had actually been looking for my libraries collection of Neil Gaiman books the day before and was disappointed when GO wasn't there. Well, now I know why. 🥰

Anyways I spent the last 30 minutes before I had to leave reading and giggling to myself. 🤭

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[nomaishuttle]

its impossible for you all to understand how much of my thoughts r in sweeney references. like there is one person on this earth who understand and its my sibling who is similarly inclined...

[4giorno]

wow i finally continued the re4 remake and yeah i got through the part i was stuck on but also in the chapter summary i saw i had died only 7 times even tho i felt like it had been like 15. goes to show that yea i rlly lose patience to even try if i dont get something right immediately

[fujouppy]

okay switched to my laptop i can try to write down some thoughts now