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[10ccs]

@recovened

sam has two glasses of red in hand. it wouldn’t surprise most people to discover him double-fisting two glasses of red wine at the afterparty of an awards ceremony, but they weren’t both for him. 

he spotted taylor from across the room in the middle of doing shots with his bandmates. the heathens took home an award for best original song and he was prepared to spend the rest of the night celebrating with them when his eyes landed on her and, as usual, couldn’t bear to look away.

“fancy meeting you here, doll.” he sidles up to her with a languid smile on his face, looking her up and down before finally meeting her eyes and offering out the glass of wine. he’s shameless, as always. “want a drink?”

[hoshiina]

pairing: narumi gen x gn!reader (no prns)

summary: he's always thought that anyone would do if he just wanted to find love but he realizes you're the one he wishes for, inspired by pop song by yonezu kenshi

warnings: some profanities from narumi

wc: 1300

Narumi Gen hated a lot of things, but one of his least favourites of all time was "true love". He despised when people would describe their love for another as "true love". It couldn't possibly be that serious. Just say you loved your partner. That was probably the extent feelings got to anyways— you just so happened to like each other at the same time. To him that was plenty of a feat alone, why would you have to make it sound like more than it is? For the sake of love? Ridiculous.

To him, that was truly all love was. If there was someone who liked him when he happened to like them too, that was enough. No need for years of pining, no need to get attached to some unrequited love. All that noise about love and destiny surely wasn't all that necessary.

Now, this wasn't to say that he didn't wish to find love— because he did. Like any other person, he truly wished to be loved. It was just that what he had in mind wasn't some deep pure love that'd last forever, nor was it a promise for eternity. He just wished for a light-hearted "I love you" here and there with someone he found special.

And for that, anyone would do. He'd find someone who fancied him along the way, and hopefully he'd like them back. That was all there was to it.

This meant his plan for finding his partner was sitting around and waiting. As horribly lame as that sounded, because he was Narumi Gen, this wasn't that hopeless of a plan. So, that's what he did. He'd go around saving people and doing his duties (to the absolute bare minimum) while making sure he was constantly trending, hoping that one day, someone would like him.

Today he was standing around for a solid five extra minutes after he defeated the honju with ease, hoping the media would snap some nice pictures of him, or he'd finally charm someone this time.

"Captain, you ought to stop that," you said. "It's rather embarrassing, you look desperate now."

"Oh, would you shut up," he said. "You're ruining my good name!"

You snorted. "What good name," you scoffed.

"I'm starting to think its your fault I'm not charming anyone. Perhaps if you didn't stop me every time, someone would have found me by now," he said.

"Yeah, right. Captain Ashiro seems to be having no issues charming people and I've never seen her try to," you said.

"You little shit," he said.

"Besides they're going to be utterly disappointed if they think this is what you're like and then they find out what you're… actually like," you said, and he was starting to think you wanted him to fire you. "It's okay. Someone will see how you're actually lovely at times soon."

"What?" he asked, shocked by what you said.

"What?" you replied, confused.

"You— you said lovely," he said quietly. Suddenly he felt flustered.

"Oh," you said, looking away and avoiding eye contact. It wasn't like you didn't mean to say that, but you didn't think it was that big of a deal. Rather, how flustered he sounded took you by surprise. “Well, you’re a little lame but you’re a good guy. Like you pretend you only do it for the media, but I know you’re always checking the alleyways that don’t have as much surveillance just in case, and checking alleyways isn’t something a captain has to do. And we both know the media isn’t writing about anything you do there. Things like that.”

“You never know!” he said, and you snorted.

“Alright then,” you said. “You do you, Captain.”

“I will!” he said back, trying to sound proud.

A week had passed and here he was, doing what he always did after arriving fashionably late to the scene and taking all the kaiju out in a matter of minutes: standing around trying to look good. Because he wanted love, and anyone would do. Anyone who liked him was supposed to do.

...

And yet he wished for you.

He wished that when he woke up, the first thing he would see was you. He wished that you'd smile at him everyday with love and genuine joy the way you did to others, and he wished that you’d smile that way to him alone. He wished that after a long day, he was the one you came home to. He wished from the bottom of his heart that you would always be safe and no harm would ever come your way. He wished that your days were filled with laughter and smiles and he knew he would risk his life to protect that.

It was so unlike him in a way he absolutely hated. True love was supposed to be nonsense and someone being ‘the one’ was supposed to be some dramatic line in a movie. It upset him, that he was so utterly fond of you. Yet, no matter how much it upset him, it didn't change the fact that he was, and he couldn't deny it anymore after trying to ignore it for the full week.

So here he was, acting stupid again, hoping that you’d scold him again or tell him he’s embarrassing himself, because that’s what it’s come down to. He just wanted another reason to talk to you.

But you wouldn’t come to stop him after 10 whole minutes.

“Why aren’t you stopping me?” he asked, irritated.

“Pardon?” you asked, utterly confused.

“Why aren’t you telling me to stop?” he asked again. He was aware how silly he sounded, but he was pissed off that you meant so much to him so he had to take it out on you.

“Because you told me to stop last time??” you replied. “I thought you were going to keep this up until you found yourself a partner.”

“You’re the one who told me to find someone that saw how I was…. lovely…. at times,” he said, but said the lovely very quietly. Remembering that you had described him as lovely made his cheeks burn and he’d rather die than let you see that.

“I mean, yeah. I do think you should,” you said.

“Don’t you notice, though?” he asked quietly, avoiding eye contact. There was a moment of silence.

“I do,” you said, and immediately he looked up to face you. You had a grin on your face and you looked so proud— you looked like you had won a game. Oh, how he hated you.

“You’re so annoying,” he said, and you raised an eyebrow.

“Rich coming from you,” you said.

“So, do you—,” he started to yell before cutting himself off. Carefully, he tried again. “Would you please… uh… be mine…?”

Oh, this is so embarrassing, he thought. Perhaps you’d laugh at him, but he wanted to do this properly, or at the very least try to. He’d be far more than just stupid to mess this up now. He was finally in love.

But your laughter never came. When he looked up your eyes were wide and you looked so flustered, but soon you had the most beautiful smile on your face.

“I would absolutely love to,” you said.

So he kissed you right then and there, because there was nothing he wanted to do more at the moment.

He laughed a little.

“What’s wrong?” you asked.

“No, nothing,” he said.

There was no way just anyone would do— it had to be you.

[jascurka]

I ordered myself a new drawing tablet!!! Aahhaaaaa yes I did after 8 years of working on a wacom bamboo one and this one.... Well we'll see if it's gonna be good but I have high hopes for it. And it has tilt! And it's big and it is probably more sensitive to the pen and waaah I'm so happy but also nervous if I'm gonna like it >_<

[la-galaxie-langblr]

job rant incoming

[b4kuch1n]

hfr indulgence weekend

[todayisafridaynight]

We rlly don’t need another majima game 😭 please give other characters a chance he already had the spotlight in 0😔

lord if i speak on goro majima.

[feline-evil]

I can't think of anything that could kill a generative ai system faster than letting it pull from blogs on here, its going to be fed so many erroneous callouts and pointless discourse posts that its gonna generate a way to speedrun offing itself

[bunnihearted]

📓🖊️

[empoleon]

i would die for ogerpon

[faerynova]

okay yk what i need to do some goofy art shit or i'll go insane. im gonna do an art ask game thing, how abouttttt

send me a number 1-100 and i'll grab that number from my top 2023 spotify songs and i'll draw the blorbo it reminds me of.

its gonna have to be traditional stuff for the moment but thats probably the kick in the ass i need to do things

[just-a-girl-with-a-pistol]

I hate this room

[dioptasesystem]

Posting on Tumblr is hard because sometimes to get to 30 tags you need to just make shit up

[timehascomeagain]

It's getting bad again

[mother-harrington]

I’m such an awkward WEIRDO oh my god

[lunaetis]

▸▸ [ @apocryphis ( wriothesley ) || starter call. ]

─「アルレッキーノ」─  the ENTITY had been extremely loud ever since she stepped into the underground cavern. the noises of the ancient being trapped inside her very frame filled her conscious mind on the daily, however, it had been particularly loud as of late. not just today, but ever since there was development within natlan and her intel brought the KNAVE to dive into this investigation herself. a connection to the realm of corruption, the abyssal power threatened to unleash the shackles holding the ENTITY down inside her mind.

                it was beating against its confines, the walls of her mind, over and over. demanding to be heard, demanding to be acknowledged ... demanding control. the residue of ABYSSAL ENERGY clung to her feet, wrapping around her legs as she stomped it to disappear. whatever they were, whatever the power, it was trying to wake it up, to give the entity more strength in order to —

                L̸̛̛͉̫̫̬̤̝̫̼̟̘̎̍́̅̃E̷̢̻̦̺̳͇͗̍͊̍̐̃̃̍͑͝T̴̛̗̘̺̂̓͂̓̈́̕͝ ̶̱̪̣͙̮́͌͗̚M̴̜͉̽̅̀̈́́̂͜Ę̵̛̰͓̣̝̥̜̑͊̓ ̶͇̙̳̻̿͋̾̽̀̈́̄O̴̙̥̭̥̖̖̩̗̯͆̊̓́͘͠ͅÚ̸͙̣̳̙̫̻͕̯̩̦̆̽͌̾͗̕Ţ̷̨͙̗̫̮̗́̇̇̈́͘

                " quiet. " her voice came as a hiss, cross pupils narrowed as a sharp pang shot through her mind, strong enough to make her frame stagger and clawed digits grappling at the wall. her HEART was slamming itself against her ribcage, pounding violently, aggressively. was it hers ? or was this ... ?

                L̸̡̠̘͖͖̃͊͌̀̓̐̒̓̕͝Ë̶̡̳́͊̅́̓̀͂T̸̥͉̜̯̳̦̤̝̮͆̔ ̵̥̿̈́̉̏̑̒M̷̮͚̝̤̘̖̕Ë̷̘̬̦́̅͊͆͌̈́́̄͘̚ͅ ̵̦͙̭̫͍͇̱̅̄̀ͅŎ̶̧̭͈̭̝̳̪̮̒̀̉̃̈́̊͒͝͠Ǘ̴̳͍̻̅̉Ţ̶̡̺͚̹̔̄͝ͅ ̵̛̮̓̐͋̅̈́͑̾̎L̵̯͙̱̃̌́́͒͋͒̍̚͝E̷̖̩̖͗̓̀̓́͋͗͝T̶̢̛͓̾̊̓̏́͆ ̷̠͍̖̠̻̥̬̳̄̾̄̏M̶̡̗̳̫͇̫͕̎̏̏̍̽́̃͘E̴̮̐̾͌̈̐ ̴̧̼̼̝̤̖̬̩͜͠ͅǑ̸̬̦͎̗̂̎̈́͂̈́̏͘ͅU̶̠̝̘̣̘̹̲͙̯͒͐̀͛͐͜͝T̸̡̯̗͈̹͐̎̔͝͠ͅ ̶̱̦̜̯͖̳̭͛̽̑͋̚L̸̨̖̰͇̮͖̪͔̇͂͛͋͘͜Ḙ̴̛̈́͋̊̿̎͘͘͝T̷̢̥̺̭̭̼̄̄̍͘ ̶̥̤̫̠̅̋͒͆́͑̒̀̌̃M̸̝̩̗̬͉͊̀̅̂̂͆E̴̢̺̞̦͙͕͐͛̆̅͋͝ ̷̬͈̎Ơ̵̩̼̦̭͓̇̍͜͜U̴̻̫̭̲̤̞͈̮͕̓̎̎̿͗̀͑̇͠͠T̶͓̰̙̼͎̮͍̉̊͑ͅ

                the CRIMSON CROSSES in her eyes emitted a strong glow, and the sound that came from her lips was a growl.

[sunchases]

𓏲 ࣪₊♡𓂃 incoming starter for @antefeminine !

harper's comfortable with silence, often preferring to sit in a comfortable quiet with someone instead of filling the air with meaningless chatter. it's more authentic that way, he thinks. but still, as he gazes at the other, he can't help but speak up when he'd normally stay quiet. call it his never ending concern poking at him. "do you ... want to talk about it? whatever's going on, i mean."