#okay kyle needs his own blog

[lostywrites]

"How else am I supposed to annoy my sister? I mean, what's the point of being a chronomancer when I can't use my time-bending talents to mess with said sister?"

BOOP.

Kyle: BOOP

Maevess blinked, her nose scrunched up at the sudden boop. "Did... did you just open a portal through space and time.... just to boop me?"

[sunsetsimon]

not smutty but, what do you think the boys love languages are?

(sorry if you already answered this)

also, love your blog and so relieved to hear that you’re okay🩷🩷

thank you so much darling <3

johnny's love language is physical touch. he feels most connected to you when he's able to cuddle, hug, and hold you. deployments become harder the longer you're together as he doesn't want to be gone as long. phone calls and letters matter to him greatly of course, but all he can think about is having you back in his arms.

some of his favorite things to do are giving you massages, showering/bathing together, cuddling, and holding hands. he's always sneaking his hand under the table to grab yours, pulling it to rest on his thigh so he can play with your fingers. lightly rubbing each knuckle, his soft touch tickles you, a silent way for him to say "i love you".

his favorite place for you to touch him is on the back of his neck.

simon's love language is quality time. all he wants to do is be around you, even if there's no talking involved. having your presence calms him and makes him feel complete. you constantly catch him staring at you, his eyes following you every time you move around the room as if he'd miss something. don't even think about being slick about something, simon will see it!

his favorite part of the day is winding down in bed with you, reading his book while you lay beside him, searching for a show to watch on the tv. if you're going out to do something, he automatically assumes that he'll be going with you. what do you mean you're going to the store without him? :( of course he still gives you your space, but if you ask him, he'll say he doesn't need any.

si is clingy in his own little ways <3

kyle's love language is words of affirmation. he loves to talk to you, sharing new thoughts and facts with each other constantly. he’s listening of course, keeping every word locked in a special corner of his mind, dedicated for you. but he can’t help but get distracted by your beauty. those lips that he loves to kiss so much, your facial expressions that he loves to read, your gestures that he loves to watch, kyle is so smitten.

“you’re so beautiful,” he says randomly, after you’ve just spent the last few minutes explaining the book you’ve been reading. it takes you aback, blinking at him until you realize what he’d said.

“thank you,” you blush, completely forgetting what you’d just been saying. his gaze suddenly feels intense, the love radiating off of his body and filling the room.

“c’mere and give me a kiss.”

john's love language is acts of service. no matter how much you beg him to relax, he feels the constant need to be doing something. and what better to stay busy with than doing everything for his partner? if he knows that it’ll take you energy to do it, he’s making sure it gets done before you can even think about it!

keeping the bills in order, cleaning, cooking dinner, grocery shopping, you name it - john’s on it. he doesn’t particularly enjoy doing mundane life things, but he feels fulfilled when he’s able to take care of you in more ways than just financially.

you have to beg him to just relax with you, to order take out and cuddle while watching random movies all night. of course he can’t resist you though, anything to make his partner happy :)

könig's love language is physical touch! he's not one for PDA, but he will rest his hand at the small of your back just to guide you and keep you close. good luck escaping him at home though, because he'll find any excuse to touch you!

back hugs, gripping your thigh, washing you in the shower, he wants it all. könig is huge, about twice the size of most humans, so he uses this to his advantage to trap you in bed with him. his body pins you to the mattress, forcing you to submit to his nonstop cuddles.

“where are you trying to go? everything you need is right here,” he says, pointing to himself as you squirm underneath him.

“the restroom isn’t! so let me go pee!”

[cleolinda]

Weekend links

My posts

I chimed in on a very helpful post about polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), specifically on treatment side effects. Apparently our collected knowledge is more than most people are getting told by their own doctors.

A post about Neneh Cherry's "Move with Me" (with a sidebar about the '80s hit "Buffalo Stance"), a song I listen to when I feel scattered.

The part where I say "He's six" is the entire reason I wrote about Hozier’s "Eat Your Young." I still wasn’t sure I wanted to post it, and then I saw an article titled "Maui Needs Speculators" and I went, yeah, okay, here we go.

I need to write things that aren't posts about music but it's hot and I can't think. The only thing cold around here is in my nose and this is Unideal.

Reblogs of interest

I didn't reblog the Trump mugshot because I knew everyone would see it anyway, and honestly, I don't want his face on my blog anymore than it has to be, although his attempt at looking badass was hilarious.

("do u want to see the most anyone has ever considered fleein to russia")

I don't know what the fuck Tumblr thinks it's doing with icons but I wish it would fucking stop.

A NEW KILLERS SONG 2023 why have you been so good to me

There were several interesting posts about Gaeilge, indigenous languages in the US, and an Irish-Choctaw connection re: the new Hozier song "Butchered Tongue."

("Suffer my carefree bops, planet earth")

Marie Curie's name was actually Maria Skłodowska-Curie (Skwo-dov-ska) and her Polish identity was deeply important to her, which I did not know and am glad to learn

SILPHIUM IS NO LONGER EXTINCT

"Thoughts on one of the hardest things: banishing the imagined bad faith reader from your writing process"

"1k words without inspiration: i will do it. i will take the ring to mordor"

POV: It is 1992 and you are Selina Kyle, which I probably shouldn't have left in the tags

Video

I had a number of fun reblogs under #animal sounds this week

We invented a new game called “protect the asset”

Dances to pull out at parties

The sacred texts

This Gru meme about Orpheus and Eurydice

Personal tag of the week

Let's go with #color, where I tag anything, artwork or not, that catches my eye

[hatsunevitu]

psst is it okay if I ask for some stutters headcanons that u have? need inspo and I get a lot of it from this blog <3

OMG SURE!!! THANKS!!!

mannn stutters is my second otp and i have so many thoughts on them!

first of all, this whole ship is about contrasts. the popular kid x weird kid, the generally normal x the fucked up, the one who tries to be straight so badly x the one who is obviously fruity, and so on, so on…

and i’ll write a whole post abt them and their dynamic a bit later, so for now here are some little headcanons

• stan is always the one to invite butters to hang out with their friends’ group. he’ll never admit it to kyle or cartman but he genuinely likes having butters around, and he’s the only one who feels that butters is an essential part of their group. while others may forget him all the time, stan is the only one to constantly keep butters in mind all the time, especially when they grow older.

• stan actually sees butters as the “light spot” in his life. he knows that butters is messed up and has a lot of mental issues, but the way butters is always so naïve and, well, not spoiled yet just makes stan, who is pretty cynical, want to care for him more. (remember the pandemic specials where they went to make a stuffed toy or smth? stan was self-projecting, of course, but i do believe he still cared about butters while doing all this)

• stan feels that butters is the only one who could relate to his sexuality crisis, somehow. he wouldn’t make fun of him or act aggressive, he’d just simply accepted the fact that, well, stan might be bi, and he wouldn’t make a big deal about it.

• they share the same taste in media. they listen to similar groups, they watch the same shows, and they both have this eternal love for music. sometimes they play their guitars together, and butters is the first one to be allowed to hear stan’s own music when they are teens.

• stan mostly doesn’t have any respect for his father, while butters is terrified of his, so stan helps butters with actually standing up for himself in front of his parents. sometimes (as teens) they can run away from their parents, the farm, the punishments and all their friends for a day, and just sit calmly next to each other and enjoy a free day

idk if thats enough, i’ll probably add smth more later!!!! hope i helped <3!!

[bloogers-boogers]

I have an idea I think you'd like... I shared it on my blog but I'll give it to you directly. So the premise is a soulmate au where you have to stay with your person, because they are your source for your life force/energy. If you go too far from them for too long you will become physically weak and eventually perish. Now imagine this... with kyman.

They can't leave each other or they will literally fucking die

Fine, you’re gonna get me into a emotional wreck bc of this au? Then so be it.

Okay, so I see this insanely with Kyman however I see they project their weakness into anger! they start destroying their own lives bc for some reason it doesn’t matter?

Every time they feel weak they get into a self destructive mood that not even their friends could intervene, I feel in this AU they did not realize they needed one an other just cause they were always together but the moment they split up (after high school) is we’re their lives went down hill.

Kyle has always felt a strange attraction towards Cartman while Cartman has always had this obsessive attraction towards Kyle. They connected immediately since children and they felt STRONGER and indestructible while being together. But it was never something they questioned much.

However, now apart they’re vulnerable, weak, lifeless like a rose that’s about to give up it’s last petal before drying out and finally dying. Cartman’s is Kyle’s rose while Kyle’s Cartman’s spikes.

(Kyle see Cartman’s as his spikes while Cartman sees Kyle as his rose)

They’re each other’s rose beautifully seeing each other in the opposite position of it.

They perfectly balance their energy, soul bonding into one when they’re together. Like they say the yin to its yang.

So of course, being far apart is a deadly thing to do, dangerous even. I see Kyle getting weaker by day just cause I see his energy being more stronger than Cartman’s so ironically he’s the weakest. Having Cartman made him the strongest because being around him even it, and being with Cartman was a automatic win when it comes to beating him in a match cause he is STRONGER.

However Cartman wasn’t far off when it comes to strength, of course, having Kyle made his strength even to his (but never beating him. It’s not like he attempted it either so..) though he was still slightly weaker.

I see Cartman realizing this first after talking to Mephesto about it and having been explained about energies and all that stuff. He runs, and heads searching for Kyle and tell him about his discovering even if there was a risk of Kyle believing it was bullshit.

Kyle was literally going delirious by the pain, Stan was by his side holding his hand and reassuring him that everything would be okay.

The hospital didn’t know what was wrong with him, in just a couple of days his condition worsen by seconds. And he was declared a small percentage of living. His parents were shattered by the news and his brother broke in tears after years of ever doing so. They were all devastated, however Kyle didn’t feel that same sentiment; he was calm, accepting.. as if he was already expecting it to happen.

Laying there feeling his body weaken until a chubby man dash inside his room startling Stan and abruptly making Kyle’s heart burst into flames jumping outta bed and pointing fingers at eachother.

Both did.

Cartman was feeling that same burning passion, life has never been more colorful, livid.

“THE FUCK WERE YOU!? I WAS ABOUT TO DIE!” Kyle screamed offended, finally able to feel that scare his family was feeling, actually fearing the possibility and closeness to death.

Not being able to actually live.

“The fuck you expected me to do!? You never called!”

“I never expected to be in death bed!”

“¡You’re not even dying, you’re seating your ass comfortably there!”

“¡Barely!”

And they just continue bickering but somehow, they deeply connected after that and never wanted to ever fall apart again.

[kittykattropicanna]

Kitty's Blog Basic Housekeeping

Fic requests guidelines, boundaries and my rules for minors.

Hi everyone! Welcome! Thank you so much for taking the time to read through my blog housekeeping :3

Characters I Write For

Captain John Price 

Simon “Ghost” Riley 

Kyle “Gaz” Garrick 

Johnny “Soap” MacTavish 

Fic Request Rules 

- Please feel free to send in requests for any of the above characters! 

- I write NSFW fics, I’m completely open to fluff or angst request but keep in mind at the very least there will be suggestive themes. 

- I would love to hear your thoughts on my different AU’s!, feel free to send through your ideas and add to the storyline. I would love your input :)

- Sending through your own AU’s is amazing as well. I would love to elaborate on your ideas :3

- Sending asks with porn links are completely welcome! as long as the videos don’t cross any of my boundaries, go crazy! Send as many as you like!

- If your regularly in my asks and aren’t comfortable going off anon, feel free to add an emoji at the end of your ask, even if I don’t know which follower is behind the anon wall, I would love you to be able to take credit for your ideas and to be recognisable in our little community :3

- If you send an ask that crosses any boundaries, I understand that sometimes people forget or don’t read blog housekeeping posts, that’s okay. I’ll simply refer you back here, i’m pretty lenient and understanding, but if it continues to happen after being warned multiple times then I will have to block you. If you are crossing these boundaries and think you can escape because you behind the anon wall, I will block your IP address and remove you that way. In all honesty, I don’t think we’ll have a problem with this though lol, I just wanted to put it in writing so if anything does happen, its stated clearly :3

Fic Request Boundaries 

Topics I will NOT WRITE 

- Scat/Piss kink/vomit play 

- Age Play

- Pedophillia of any kind 

- Race play 

- Gore

Under no circumstances will I write anything above. I will continue to add to this list as I think of other topics that make me uneasy. 

Basic Blog Boundaries  

- The largest age gap I’m comfortable writing is 10 years, in these age gap fics the readers age will be insinuated to be 25+

- Please refrain from using the word “cunny”when referring to female anatomy. It stems from pedophillia and I am not comfortable writing it or seeing it in my asks. Its thrown around a lot in the fandom, but I’m really not cool with it. Words like “pussy” or “cunt” are okay though :)

- If you follow me and your age is not in your bio I will block you immediately. This warning will be at the end of all my fics and is in my bio. If I block you, you will not be unblocked. If your and adult  and don’t have your age in your bio, you will be blocked. Under no circumstances will I unblock you. Please understand its nothing against you as a person, I’m just trying to keep minors safe and keep myself comfortable. 

- I would love to make friends in the fandom/be added to group chats, ect. Feel free to message me privately if you like my work/want to chat. In saying this, if your age isn’t in your bio, I will not respond and you will be blocked. I am 19, idc if your 17 turning 18. I am not comfortable talking to minors or interacting in any way. Please understand that its not you as a person, I’m sure you’re lovely but its just not appropriate and makes me feel extremely uncomfortable. 

- If you don’t like my fics, just block me. Coming onto my page and being vindictive and mean because what I write isn’t your cup of tea is stupid. I put appropriate trigger warnings before all my fics, there’s just no need for it. Any hate will be blocked. Directly attacking my writing because you don’t like the content is also an attack on my followers and what they like to read. Its not on. The block button was made for a reason, use it. 

I hope everyone can understand :) I will add to this list regularly so make sure to check back in every once and a while for boundary updates. 

Minors 

My blog does not welcome minors in any way, shape or form. KittyKatTropicanna is a NSFW blog. I am 19 years old, the idea of people reading my smut that are under the age of 18 makes me physically sick. 

If you come across my blog and are under the age of 18 DO NOT INTERACT. 

I plaster MDNI all over my fics and blog, I just ask you to please respect my wishes. I know you think you know it all and I understand you think you’re “mature for your age” but it doesn’t matter. Its not about you, its about me. By interacting you’re making ME uncomfortable, you’re ruining MY day. 

I don’t write for you, this isn’t for you, you are not welcome here. 

You have every right to explore your sexuality and what not but my blog isn’t the place to do that. 

If you follow me with no age in your bio or an age under 18, you will be blocked

If you want to be a smart arse and come into my anons saying you’re underage and are reading my fics. I will block your IP address. Its very easy to get and can be done. Look it up.

I take this very seriously. Know your place and stay in it. 

I’m not trying to be rude but I feel like a lot of new fans that have come from TikTok and Britney Broski’s podcast have never been in a fandom before, hence they don’t know fandom etiquette. Not interacting as a minor when a blog owners clearly states you’re not welcome is the least you can do. 

If you want to be welcomed into this space, play by the rules and respect the writers.  

Thank you!

Anyway, if you made it this far, thank you so much! I’m so happy you stumbled across my blog :3

Here’s a link to my masterlist! 

Enjoy :3

Bow divider by @animatedglittergraphics-n-more - Cat divider sourced by @positively-mine from Pinterest - Pink line divider by @eloquentreverie

[moonlightperseus]

That's fair, if it makes you feel better I experienced the opposite in a way (I was pretty much directly told I'd have to quit my job, which if I think about it is obvious, but I'm still so sad- I love my job and the people. Part of me is like "it's okay, I can quit my job, go to school, ask for my job back <3" as though It makes any sense to go back to my CASHIER job after completing four years of nursing school) 

And that's completely understandable, everything is one day at a time. I'm sure the future will be better!! 

I would love for that to be something I'm capable of but instead I'm way too?? Bad at consuming media. Like TWO of my friends LOVE sandman so I was like "okay I'll watch it for you guys" put it on and didn't pay attention to a single second. 

I honestly judge that one less I tried so hard to watch Titans so go off. I know she appears in some Wonderwoman comics because I opened volume 8 and she was PISSED about something I missed because I only had volumes 1,2 and 8. But it was definitely largely important. (It should've been the new 52 run) hopefully you like the one you have open!! 

I use it a lot at work to make my hands feel right again, that's it. But you're right!! It's all personal and that's what matters. 

i have a tag on the first book so I know when it's available and then I'll probably try it. I'm glad you've been enjoying it! And that makes sense I get that (personally if I DO start reading it I'll probably google all the vibes because I hate suspense- it's why I got yelled at the last time I read a book my friend recommended. Apparently I "spoiled the end of Gideon" and "found out the whole thing harrows trying to figure out in Harrow" and I was like ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ but now no surprises) 

I went to the library yesterday!! I had to go to work to get something so I just kept running errands so I went to the library and I asked for an online library card. I spent like all night after that just *looking* at my options now. I picked a sad book (my favorite kind) that I need to remember to read and tagged a bunch for later (including, like I said, the Raven Boys- audiobook I think) 

i got to issue 11!! I know that's not a huge jump but I decided I was gonna read a couple and then I did. (because your site is so linear, and like just automatically goes to the next issue, it's a lot harder to stop lmao) 

Did you read the annual with Harley and Lobo? On my old old site that was counted as something else but not yours so I imagine you did? 

and tbch I haven't read ground zero yet, I own it but I just haven't cracked it open. That all sounds great though. 

His name IS Jake. HOWEVER he got the nickname Music Man because he just started playing music out of his pocket because the radio wasn't good enough so I started calling him "music Man" and then I heard his co worker call him Jake so boom Music Man Jake. But if it helps I have to physically restrain myself from instead calling him music man *Kyle* for some reason. (I believe it's because of the existence of Theatre Gay Kyle and Crackhead Kyle already in my life)

I know of that too but I also don't remember where it's from. And she IS in fact significantly better than all of them. Everyone knows boys drool girls rule. She can fuck'em all up and I love her for that. 

I think, in all honesty? I don't know how much you'll *like* year zero (Dinah's in it but not largely, Diana Might have a larger role? But iirc it's not really the marks you're trying to hit) HOWEVER that being said, it's a very short run so I'd say go for it. I'd you don't like it and it's hard to get through just stop. 

​​​​​​​Have a good day <3 

boy howdy my life has been busy, apologies for my delay in response.

as it turns out, and now i can say it bc before i was paranoid somehow someone would find my blog and relate it to my job and learn the news this way, i am losing my job in the sense that my place of work will be closing end of january. i’m gonna miss my coworkers most of all and a good amount of the dogs as well but i’m otherwise handling this news pretty well i think? idk like i’ve said i’ve been so burnt out and i thankfully have the fallback of being able to go back to living with my parents while i recalibrate. i have a feeling i will be sadder the closer it gets to closing time but for now i’m putting emotions about it on a shelf for later.

oh that’s totally fair. i definitely don’t consume every media friends like/recommend bc i don’t have the time and tbh not everything interests me but if the interests vaguely line up i do try. or at least im trying to try. and sometimes trying to try things that don’t necessarily sound particularly interesting but sound like they could be surface level fun and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying something at surface level. idk. its hard to commit to starting new things to be invested in. there’s just not enough time in the world.

(personally if i ever end up in a time loop i will be fucking around and consuming as much media as possible before looking for a resolution.)

i think i honestly stand by the fact that titans has some really good moments. but it just also has some really bad moments. i wouldn’t say it’s balanced necessarily but god the good stuff is so good to me and i am willing to suffer through the bad. (and to some degree. some of the Bad honestly became comedic to me-though bald connor will never be one of those that shit was god awful. boy needs his hair, i’ll say it.)

congrats on going to the library!!! huge step and i love that for you!! you are SO valid re googling the vibes. i didn’t feel like there was a whole lot of suspense in the first book personally but i also was not surprised by two of the “dramatic reveals” but i may have also been potentially over analytic of the first book so i’m not sure i’m the best judge of character.

ALSO!!!! the locked tomb!!! love that series!! they make for great audiobooks though a little confusing and confusing stuff is harder in audiobook format bc i can’t easily reread bits until my brain has digested them. but it’s so much easier for me to get through an audiobook because i can do it while doing other stuff.(i feel like i’ve already talked about audiobooks so i’m not gonna continue on the ramble that’s forming in my head and move on instead.)

i try to make it my philosophy that any progress no matter how small is still progress so congrats on making it to issue 11. i definitely agree that it’s a little too easy to just keep going thru the issues on that site bc i’ve definitely been like “i’ll read a few” and then binge a whole lot. ah well.

i did read that annual! all the annuals were put at the start of each year so i read them before each year.

ground zero is definitely fun if you can put aside the joker of it all! would recommend!

i have not done any more reading of the injustice verse because again. life been busy. but i do think i’m gonna give year zero a try before starting on injustice2 just because it is so short. i keep telling myself i should start on it and then i am so easily distracted and lately i’ve been on a sudoku kick. my sister also shared this house flipping game with me and it’s fun but very frustrating bc it doesn’t run well on my computer so i don’t know how long i’ll keep up with that game.

ahjsjd that’s valid. i take it he was playing it out of his phone in his pocket and not a very small but very cool tiny instrument in his pocket anksdjs

life has been hectic but i’m hanging in there and doing relatively well right now. hope you are also hanging in there and doing relatively well!!

[stereax]

alright guys gals and nonbinary pals it's time to talk about the new york rangers, perhaps the most hated team in hockey! (well, according to that one poll it was the blackhawks BUT they don't exist, neither in my heart nor in the standings :) )

now, I've got a few reblogs by rangers fans asking how the rangers are villain coded. and I promised I'd write this when I had the time so... here we go. and yes I chose to reblog this particular one because I need the world to see that I'm stupid and didn't know that zibanejad is a forward :)

disclaimer: I am a very outspoken devils fan (if my entire blog wasn't proof enough of that). the first rule of being a devils fan is you have to hate the rangers, basically. I'm going to be trying to keep bias to a minimum here, though.

that being said...

why the rags are villain coded (point 7 will surprise you!)

point 1: franchise holier-than-thou attitude

no, seriously. why do people always consider the rangers so good? they're not. why do people want to be traded specifically to the rangers despite them being not good? (see point 3 for more on this.) why are the rangers venerated for being so mid?

also, it's like, a tradition at this point that the rangers trade for a few big name rentals like, every damn trade season, who tend to specifically want to play for them - and then they still suck anyway. and the rentals still want to go there. why???

and don't get me started on the fans...

there's this LEGENDARY copypasta on the devils subreddit about the rangers franchise, please read it before you continue:

going through the rest of the thread will give you even more perspective, but it's not necessary.

the rangers exemplify new york city: looks nice but you don't want to actually be there. "history of the jets, attitude of the yankees", as another commenter in that thread put it.

point 2: individual player scumminess

okay, so the organization is eh and the fans suck. it's not just that, though - there are also several players who are the creme de la merde of hockey.

let's start with trouba! even the rangers fans in my tags don't like trouba, which. damn. you made this dude captain? why? captain elbows, as we call him in deviltown, is mid at being a defenseman but very very good at dirty hits. don't tell me a flying elbow is a clean hit. we all know it's not. I'm on tumblr and not reddit so let's have some correct takes. everyone hates trouba. we all know why. next, please.

your newest acquisition in kane! oh, what an upstanding gentleman. punched a cab driver over 20 cents. knew that kyle beach was being sexually assaulted by a coach and didn't do anything. great guy all around.

we can also talk about k'andre miller's recent spitting drama but i don't want to have to look at that. thanks. was it intentional? don't know but it sure looked like it to me. hopefully the kid learns from it.

it's not even just your current players either. remember sean avery? the dude infamous for screening marty brodeur and creating the avery rule? who bullies and harasses everyone he meets, including his own mother-in-law? read more about him if you're not convinced, it's honestly appalling.

point 3: embarrassing cup record

"one since hitler" is a chant. literally enough said.

you're an original six team. how do you only have like, four cups??? and most of these between 1920 and 1940 when there were ten or fewer teams in the league. literally the only time the rangers have won a cup where there were more than six (6!) teams in the postseason, in the modern era, was 1994. and in 1994 they rented out the oilers' team to do it. (messier, graves, mctavish, anderson...)

you had a 54 year drought between cups. 54. you're lucky the maple leafs are even worse and just eclipsed you in that department...

point 4: kakko and laf

(or, the one where stereax begins crunching numbers for way too long.)

oh boy. remember when rangers fans were cheering when the devils took jack hughes 1st overall in the 2019 draft? cause they wanted kakko?

wasted fucking potential. the both of them. here's a hot take: if your fucking 1oa and 2oa, that you drafted literally two or three years ago, are playing on your third line, you're doing something wrong in development!!! since yakupov (up to 2022, as the 2022 draft class is mostly still developing) I cannot find a single 1oa that isn't routinely playing on top two lines... except for lafreniere, who's buried on kid line with kakko and chytil. even expanding into top three picks, the only outliers I can see are dylan strome... and laf and kakko. (also nolan patrick, but nolpat is a completely different story :(. )

now let's talk about how badly the rangers botched these kids' developments. we'll be using my favorite measuring stick: the devils. specifically, we'll look at jack hughes and dawson mercer. (for the uninitiated in devils hockey, mercer was taken 18th overall in 2020.)

first, let's chat mercer versus laf. mercer's 18oa, laf is 1oa in the same draft, so the stick should measure pretty evenly. mercer has played in 142 nhl games. 37G 48A 85P. lafreniere? 195 games, 42G 39A 81P. to be fair I took the data just after mercer's four point night against colorado... but even looking at their seasons thus far. both have played in 60 games. mercer has 20G 23A 43P. laf has 11G 18A 29P. and, although mercer is currently playing top line minutes as opposed to lafreniere on the third, mercer has not been this fortunate throughout the season - he's bounced around devils lines like a ping pong ball before the pairing with tatar and hischier took off. and honestly, i'm sparing you a comparison of laf to stutzle. don't make me compare laf to stutzle. devils hockey depresses me enough without rangers hockey to worry about.

alright, so maybe the laf pick wasn't great, or he needs more development, or whatever. let's prove this isn't a one off and take hughes versus kakko. for the season: kakko 61 games 12G 19A 31P. hughes 56 games 36G 38A 74P. so hughes has more goals than kakko has points. (laf too, btw.) careerwise: kakko 218 games 38G 51A 89P. hughes? 222 games 80G 102A 182P. hughes literally has as many goals as kakko and laf COMBINED and more points than the both of them together over their careers. in fact, this one SEASON of hughes is comparable to the CAREER so far of either kakko or laf.

okay, but hughes is an exception, he's the next mcdavid, you can't compare kakko and laf to him. firstly, great to hear you say that :) . secondly, let me find a devil who's actually got similar points to kakko and laf. we already talked about mercer... ah. sharangovich. this season, shango's got 60 games, 12G 15A 27P. careerwise, 190 games, 52G 51A 103P. the reason I pick shango is because he, like kakko and laf, is frequently on a third line that gives limited returns. (shango also tends to be quite streaky.) so... more points in shango's career in fewer games than either kakko and laf, and quite comparable this year alone. and he was drafted... 141st overall. fifth round.

okay, guess the devils are just freakishly good at choosing late round picks. I mean, have you seen that jesper bratt? wasn't he drafted in the sixth round, 162nd overall? yeah, he was :) I'll shut up about my team now.

so kakko and laf still need to develop, I guess. now here's the problem with that: they're being buried down onto the third "kid line". the top six is basically locked in right now with kreider-zibanejad-tarasenko and panarin-trocheck-kane. the LWs and Cs are locked in long term, the RWs are the only give - and even before tarasenko and kane, kakko and laf weren't getting top six minutes on a consistent basis, with that time often going to vesey and/or goodrow. if tarasenko and/or kane extend with the rangers, the kids can kiss goodbye almost any top 6 opportunity for the next few years at least. will they be able to move to top 6 at 25, 26, when the contracts expire and the older crew are close(r) to retiring? or are they going to end up as career middle sixers?

you're destroying these kids. villain move.

point 5: all your fucking rivalries

is there a team that likes you? no? just you? ok.

this was actually the original point that inspired my poll and the rangers are so crappy it went down to five. damn. the rangers have way too fucking many rivalries or teams that just hate their guts.

the islanders-rangers rivalry has its own wikipedia page. so does the devils-rangers rivalry. flyers (has a wiki page), penguins, capitals (has a wiki page), even the bruins hate the rangers enough for it to be considered a legit rivalry. the blue jackets dislike the rangers, so do the hurricanes, and apparently the canadiens dislike the rangers too. so that's basically... all of the metro and spare change. literally the only reason the isles and devils don't hate each other is because we both hate the rangers more.

when you're so bad you have other teams truce with each other because you suck worse, you're villain coded. sorry, I don't make the rules.

by the way, there's a really cool rivalry tracker called knowrivalry where you can take a quiz on your team's rivals and then browse stats about team rivalries. check it out -> New York Rangers - Know Rivalry . and literally, the rangers have so many rivalries they can't prioritize any of them.

point 6: the guy who owns your franchise sucks BALLS

have you read about james dolan recently? no? here are the highlights:

he uses facial recognition technology to ban people who are suing him from coming into MSG.

he even has people in tier lists of how "bad" you are so he can punish you accordingly.

when confronted about said technology he said... he'd ban alcohol at a future Rangers game and also spoke out against migrants.

and then he hired Hope Hicks, former Trump spokeswoman, to act as a lobbyist.

you have no control over this and I'm sorry for you. villain coded behavior through and through from this dude.

point 7: pride night + contemporaries

so the philadelphia flyers fuck up pride night because ivan provorov says he's not gonna wear the pride night jersey and tortorella defends him, right? and all the queer hockey fans destroy the flyers for this. hell, even moneypuck puts his name in a rainbow color and makes his profile redirect to the trevor project (it still does, so based). what are you going to do, as the rangers, when your pride night comes up a few days later? will you: a) put pride tape on your sticks (don't know if they were used in the game though, if someone who knows this game can clarify that I thank you in advance) even when it isn't your own pride night but your opponents'? or b) completely sweep pride night under the rug and not have your team wear pride jerseys thus preventing them from being auctioned off and the benefits going to pride organizations?

hint: the maple leafs are #1.

so obviously queer hockey fans (and ally hockey fans) were pissed. and, as usual, took to twitter and other social media to complain. and, apparently, the ny rangers' social media admin took offense to this...

this story seems to have been picked up by keith olbermann and will be featured in a podcast episode coming out soon. so keep an eye on it, contemporaries.

Keith Olbermann on Twitter: "Pride Night @NYRangers scandal blows up" / Twitter

point 8: chris and mika

all good villains are queer coded. that's all I'll say about this one. you funky boys keep doing your thing. only redeeming factor in this whole damn franchise. [pat pat]

it's... 6:30 in the morning. I've spent all night writing this. but it's overdue. I promised and now I deliver.

please don't take this as "just a devils fan shitting on the rangers". "villain coding" is not necessarily a bad thing, but, while some of these points are clearly intended to be humorous in nature, there are others that really deserve attention. there seem to be some fundamental issues in how the rangers are run and I hope, for the sake of the fans as well as the players, that the situation improves.

if you're a rangers fan and actually read through ALL of this I applaud you. please, let me know if I'm right or wrong. if you're not a rangers fan and actually read through all of this I still applaud you. please, let me know if I'm right or wrong.

stereax, signing off.

what it says on the tin boys. don't overanalyze this, simple yes-or-no question here. you can ofc reblog and put your specific thoughts in the tags tho!!!

will offer my own thoughts on this matter when the poll concludes, taking everyone's input into account.

[coffeebeanwriting]

I wrote a story but I feel like my descriptions are the weakest part. Do you have any advice for someone struggling with show don’t tell?

Your Guide to Showing and Not Telling

1) Familiarize yourself with more vocabulary.

In order to show effectively, it’s wise to have an arsenal. If you find yourself repetitively using the same words, think about real life examples of what reminds you of that specific word. This can be something in nature, an item, object, person, anything.

“He was tall.”

Meh. Any synonyms for tall? What are some things that are considered tall in the real world? Trees, skyscrapers, stilts, lampposts, ladders... hmm.

“As we stood on the street, he loomed over me like a lamppost in the night.”

Now your description not only shows the reader that he is tall, but it also grounds the reader to a setting and adds a threatening, eerie mood. 

2) When you read, highlight or take notes on where you observe the author showing instead of telling.

This will not only inspire you to write, but will fill your arsenal with interesting vocabulary to help with showing in your own story.

3) Why is showing so important? Can I never tell?

Showing is important because it paints a picture in the readers mind. A major purpose of fiction is to place the audience in a world where they can use their imagination. Telling too much can make your reader feel like an observer of the story, while showing puts them right in the heart of it.

However, telling has it's place in a novel and not every single thing needs to be shown. A good story has a mixture of showing and telling (probably more showing though of course), and as the author you decide when you do which. Major scenes should probably be rich in showing details, while minor quick descriptions could do just fine with some things being told.

4) Don't show and tell in the same sentence

This might be considered a stylistic thing, but it's definitely not necessary to show and tell at the same time. This can clutter your text. Your descriptions should be strong enough that you don’t need to tell the reader what they just read.

"Bad" (telling): "He was really tall."

Better (showing and telling): "He was really tall, always having to dip his head below the door frame."

Best (showing): "He dipped below the door frame and everyone in the room looked up at him."

I put "bad" in quotation marks because I don't like saying that telling is bad, because that's not always the case as mentioned above. Rules are just guidelines in writing, and once you fully understand why the rules exist in the first place, you can begin to bend them.

5) Sensory Details

If you find yourself always telling instead of showing, try to think of the five senses. What does your character hear, taste, see, feel or smell? 

“Bad”: The manor was old and creepy.” 

Better: “The manor was wrapped in yellowing wallpaper and wine stained rugs. Candice was careful not to step on one of the many splintered floorboards as she made her way upstairs. She paused for a moment, the wooden step loose beneath her foot and listened to the low hum of the furnace and the howling of the wind.”

Make sure not to overload the reader, though. We all know there is such a thing as too much details.

6) Give your characters props/items

When we get angry, we punch walls, break plates and throw things. (Okay, maybe not all of us). When we’re happy, we pick up our cats and twirl them around. My point is: if there is an object nearby your character, it could be used to help show their emotions/actions better.

“Kyle was shocked.”

“The phone slipped out of Kyle’s hand and his mouth fell open.”

Instagram: coffeebeanwriting

📖 ☕ Official Blog: www.byzoemay.com

[rillette]

Hate to bug more knowledgeable comic blogs for recs but I've read a weird scattered mix of Green Lantern comics over the years and recently I've been interested in exploring some of the ones with stronger...cosmic themes? I know Kyle has basically been a god a couple times (Ion?) And Hal was Spectre (I'm familiar with the character from Swamp Thing but outside of that I only know what I saw in Green Lantern Rebirth).

Do you have any recs for places to start? I don't really know which ones are generally considered good or if I need much background going into them. If any are self-contained arcs or if they're spread across multiple series. There are a million and one guides for every Batfamily character but I've been finding it harder to get info on individual Green Lantern arcs. Any advice or opinions you're willing to share are greatly appreciated

kicking my feet, okay so! i can't give any kyle arc recs since i've barely read any kyle (i would go ask tumblr user finalgirljasontodd for that), buuuttt i can absolutely give you some hal recs!

since you've already read some Rebirth, I would recommend reading Emerald Dawn parts 1 and 2, to get a better understanding of hal's backstory. From there, since you want cosmic, I would check out the parallax arc and the spectre arc in that order. The Spectre stuff hits emotional beats pretty hard on it's own, but it's sooo much more gutting when you have context from the parallax arc.

Here's reading guide for hal (and the other gls)! The stuff that you want to read in particular is listed under parallax, his death, and spectre. Here's a spectre reading guide if you want to read the complete spectre arc, but the issues listed in the first guide are the more cosmic ones imo!

[noperopesaredope]

Fics That I Really Like A Lot

So, I just wanted to make a post uplifting some really great fics I’ve read/am subscribed to or still keeping up with. I like to let people know about other creators, and I just wanted to mention some works I think people should check out.

(Note, this post was made on Sep 2, 2021, so when I say something is recent, I mean compared to when I made this post)

Tangled the Series Fics (Mostly Varian Fics):

Walls of Stone (Finished)

Varian and Whumptober 2020 (Series) (Finished) (Sidenote; I really like this author in general, but there is just so much great whump and extreme angst in this series! Says they are but a humble freshman, but I say they are a very skilled freshman!)

How Pneumonia Stopped a Stubborn Alchemist from Descending into Villainy (Finished)

Screw Treasure, I got Trauma (Finished)

Tangled One-shots (Series) (Finished? I Think?)

Voluntary Manslaughter (Finished)

I’ll Always Lend an Ear (Finished)

Drown Your Past, Burn your Future (Series) (Unfinished, but still going strong)

Scars of a Child (Series) (Unfinished)

Unrelenting Silence (Finished)

Where was the happily ever after? (Finished? Unsure)

All our Dreams (Down the Drain) (Unfinished)

Not All Falling Stars Grant Wishes (Finished)

Alchemy Lullaby (Series) (Finished)

Insignificant (Finished)

Second Chances (Almost finished)

The Pawn Decides Its Fate (Finished)

Unsaid Emily (Finished)

Today, Today (Finished)

The Pride in Your Eyes (Unfinished, but still somewhat new)

Monster (Finished)

You Are Enough (Finished)

An Alchemist’s World (Unfinished, but the first four chapters could definitely work as a standalone fic, so, in my eyes it’s finished)

Too Smart for Your Own Good (Unfinished, going strong)

To find the Sundrop (Unfinished)

There’s More in You (Unfinished)

The Science of Love (Unfinished, going very strong)

Season 2 But Gayer (Unfinished, going strong-ish)

On My Honor (Series) (Unfinished, going extremely strong with consistant updates)

A Prince and His Bodyguard (Series) (Unfinished, going strong)

Rocks, Wolves, and the Moon (Series) (Unfinished, going strong)

Return to Me (Unfinished, going strong)

Perilous Night (Unfinished, possibly discontinued, but worth a bit of the read)

Nomad (Unfinished, author is working on multiple projects, so IDK)

No Reward for Second Place (Unfinished, but fairly new and somewhat well updated)

Oath of the Lawbreaker (Unfinished, possibly discontinued)

New Quest for Varian (Unfinished, fairly new)

My Dear Son (Unfinished)

Insignificant (Finished)

Indentured (Unfinished, same author as Nomad)

Enter the mind, remove the sins (Unfinished, going pretty strong)

Darkness exists to make the light truely count (Unfinished, going strong. Updated about every month or two, with consistency)

Creeping Crystals (Unfinished, but going somewhat strong)

Blood of My Brother (Unfinished, going as one of the strongest in its fast updates)

Cyclorama (Finished) (Companion to Blood of My Brother)

Chemistry in Motion (Unfinished)

Away from Home (Unfinished)

Alone? (Unfinished-ish)

It’s just a mild inconvenience (Unfinished, possibly discontinued)

Gauze in the Wound (Unfinished, pretty consistent last I checked)

Blood Makes the Knife Holy (Series) (Unfinished, but each part could work as their own fics, and it’s still going)

A Progression of Events (Unfinished)

He Needs Me (Unfinished, going strong)

Or So They Though (Unfinished, going pretty strong)

The Long Road Back to Home (Unfinished, hasn’t been updated in a bit, but is pretty long and each chapter could take about a couple months to finish, and even longer if the creator is stuck/has other fics. Still worth the read)

The Road Home (Different) (Unfinished)

Reunion at Sea (Unfinished, going strong)

Elements of Angst (Unfinished, probably updated soon)

Arson (Unfinished, every time it think that maybe it’s been discontinued, it comes back)

Unconventional Family (Unfinished, possibly discontinued)

To find the Sundrop (Unfinished)

Wayward AU (Comic) (Unfinished, pretty consistent)

RWBY (Mainly Oscar Fics):

It’s Venomous (Finished)

Will you stand and be brave or be broken? (Finished)

Oscar Gets Himself a Coat (Finished)

Who You Belong To (Finished)

Imperfect Light (Finished)

Shell (Finished)

Blood on Both Hands (Finished)

Tell Me that I am a Fool (Finished)

If i believed in destiny i'd have to hunt it down and punch it in the face (Series) (Unfinished, can have the occasionally long hiatus, but the creator comes back)

Is Oscar okay? no but the answer is b (Finished)

Running From Memories (Finished)

Rescue Me (Unfinished)

Souls of Love and Bravery (Unfinished, relatively consistent updates)

Revert To Last Save File (but it's the wrong file) (Unfinished, but still going)

Broken Body and Souls (Finished)

Camp Camp:

David’s Family (Unfinished, possibly discontinued)

Horror Camp (A little too much child whump for me, but it’s very whumpy) (Unfinished)

Inconvenience (Unfinished)

Still Here (One of my favs) (Finished)

Hetalia (Mainly America and Canada Centric):

Recovering the Broken Pieces (Unfinished, possibly discontinued)

Hetalia 2020 - WWIII and more (Unfinished)

(More fics in the crossover section)

She-ra (Quite a few Kyle ones):

The Chronicles of Kyle (Unfinished)

Sunflowers (Finished)

She-Ra: In the Wake (Unfinished)

Princesses and co. work through their issues (Unfinished)

What is Heard (Cannot be Unheard) (Finished)

Long Way Home (Unfinished)

The Hollowed of Etheria (Discontinued. For now at least. Author might revamp it)

Hordak and the Orphans of the Horde (Unfinished)

Big Sis (Finished)

Ex-Horde (Finished? Pretty good on its own though)

Prisoner of Conscience (Unfinished, still going strong)

Tales of Arcadia (Mostly Douxie Fics):

The Immortal Bonds (Unfinished, going strong)

I Can Make RotT So Much Worse (Unfinished, going strong)

Not After 900 Years (Finished)

A Different Path (Finished)

Half-Remembered (Finished)

Shattered Timelines (Unfinished, going strong)

In the Fullness of Time (Unfinished, updated recently)

One Last Time (Unfinished, updated recently)

Tales of Arcadia Watch Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (Unfinished)

Crossover Fics:

Sold (TTS/HtTYD) (Finished) (Author is really good at angsty oneshots that should be made into full fics)

Varian’s Mysterious Transport (TTS/Infinity Train) (Unfinished, unexpected updates)

Of Rocks and Robots (TTS/Big Hero Six) (Series) (Unfinished, very consistent)

(Like the moon) I'll sway the tide and lead you astray (TTS/HtTYD) (Unfinished, haven’t read in a while)

Heathers and other fandoms react to stuff (Multifandom Crossover Fanfiction) (Unfinished, confusing update schedule, not every fandom gets much spotlight, still incredibly fun)

Chemistry in Motion (TTS/Big Hero Six) (Unfinished)

The Weight of Both Worlds (Hetalia/RWBY) (Series) (Finished) (My favorite fic ever)

Infinity (Hetalia/BNHA) (Unfinished, possibly discontinued)

G8 china in UA, 1-S class! (Hetalia/BNHA) (Unifinished, possibly dicontinued)

That Which Makes Up This Land (Hetalia/ATLA) (Unfinished, author is editing and reposting all their series, which could take about a year, but it will be back)

A Waterbending Quirk (ATLA/BNHA) (Unfinished, going strong)

Other Fics:

Earth is Odd Enough (Sanders Sides) (Unfinished)

UA Faculty Tiktok OCs (BNHA) (Webtoon) (Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63lWYueDsek&t=208s, she’s amazing) (Unfinished. The Tiktoks, on the otherhand, are very much still going)

Harry Potter and the Lack of Lambsauce (Harry Potter) (Finished)

Grinch x Tony the Tiger (You know) (Unfinished)

Flowey is Not a Good Life Coach (Undertale) (Finished)

It Wears a Mask (MCU Spiderman) (Finished)

A Different Fate (Harry Potter) (Finished)

A crack in the glass (eye) (ATLA) (Finished)

Identity Saga (MCU Spiderman) (Series) (Unfinished, author is very dedicated to fic and is incredibly determined to finish it, so highly unlikely to be discontinued)

Bakery Enemies AU (Miraculous Ladybug) (Comic) (Unfinished, going strong)

Authors I Like:

AquaQuadrant aka @aquaquadrant (probably know them if you’re in the Varian fandom. Ridiculously talented)

bethhigdon (in the TTS fandom and the Big Hero Six fandom, but also other stuff)

Cate_9xBlue aka @cate-9xblue (known best for their TTS fics)

Royalsciencenerd (Writes amazing TTS Varian fics)

HoneyxMonkey aka @honeyxmonkey (Writes TTS fics and talks a lot about Tales of Arcadia on their blog. Has some great ideas)

Sand_wolf579 (Has a large and varied catalogue)

ExploretheEcccentricities aka @exploretheeccentricities (Lots of TTS fics)

ShadowSnowdapple aka @shadowsnowdapple (RWBY Oscar fics that are amazing)

Widowfics (Great TTS writer)

AMax76 (Wrote the amazing Blood of My Brother)

violetsaren_tblue (has some great TTS fics I like)

Time Traverser (Excellent Hetalia America and Canada Fics)

Aloneintherain aka @captainkirkk (Just started reading their stuff, SO many excellent Spider-Man fics)

So yeah, just giving some appreciation for all the fic creators out there and their creations!

[creamymilkk]

AAA ANOTHER BLOG WHO WRITES FOR SOUTH PARK?! <3

Since today (at least in my country since it’s Saturday) is Shabbat. Imagine spending Shabbat with Kyle - sadly I had to drop drawing, since it’s considered “work”. But some cuddling, singing in Hebrew and spending time with him, some scenarios like that? I hope it’s okay! <3 in headcanons & it may be romantic or friendship depends on you <3

🩹♡ “I'm just glad you are here” ♡🩹

Kyle x Reader.

|-(Pairing/Pairings): Kyle and Reader.

|-(Format): Story.

|-(Summary): Your plans of spending Shabbat with Kyle were cut short since you sadly needed to drop off a drawing, since it’s “work”.

(Note: I write too many headcanons so I would like a story:) I do not know what this was so I did a little research! Since I’m not jewish :’) Just tell me if I did anything disrespectful or wrong! I will delete this and rewrite it<3 Also sorry for taking so long, i went eating with my family! Enjoy lovely 💕)

You were excited for Shabbat, it’s the single most important building block of living a Jewish life. It’s hard to not do anything, like working on your homework etc. Just a day to relax and enjoy life! With your Jewish boyfriend, Kyle. You wanted to spend this day with your loving boyfriend, just relax with him. Probably go on a walk or something you two enjoy. As you were about to change, to meet your boyfriend. Your mother (or anyone that has a parental role in your life.) she quickly opened your door, peeking her head inside of your bedroom. Her hand on the door, to keep the door a bit closed. “Hey sweetheart, I know it’s Shabbat.. but you need to drop this drawing off.. it won’t take too long, I promise.” She said while talking as quickly as possible, by the tone of her voice she felt sorry. Of course you didn’t want to be a problem, “Okay… I will do it. Is there anything else?” You said while getting up. “No that’s it, like I said it won’t be long” she said while closing your door. You got your bag and walked to your desk with the drawing. ‘I can do this as fast as possible and then I will go and hang out with Kyle!’ You thought while putting the drawing in your bag. You put on your shoes.

You got your sweater then quickly opened your door and walked down stairs. You saw your mother and father both watching their usual daily show. “Oh mom, where do I need to drop this drawing off?” “Here pass me the drawing” she said while opening her hand, as you took the drawing out of your bag and passed it to her. She took it off your hands and put it in a little envelope and put a little red heart on it. When she was done she passed the envelope to you. “Drop it off to the UPS, and send it to (a random address)” “Okay thank you!” as you put it back in your bag and opened the front door and walked out. You wanted to do this as fast as possible so you can spend this relaxing with the best boyfriend in the world. You thought. Also you didn't really think of just dropping this envelope. You giggled at that thought of it.

♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

Well. BOY YOU WERE WRONG. You thought to your past self, it's 5 pm already! ‘I lost track of time, you said to yourself’ you sighed. Well to be honest playing a silly game with butters can be fun. Until, you lost that damn letter or when you lost your own bag. When you were playing at his house you forgot where you placed your bag, so when you remeber you needed to send the letter. You went to look for it and it took you almost a whole HOUR! As you remember everything again you just looked so dumb. As you finally arrived at your boyfriend's house, you walked along the poroch way of his house. You quickly thought of what you would say to him as why you are finally here and not like 6 hours ago. ‘What should I say?? Oh god, I'm just telling him the whole story right? I'll just tell you a short version of what happened. Yeah! That's what I'm doing.’ you thought.

When you were about to knock, the door opened. It was Kyle. “Hey, I'm so sorry I didn't make it sooner! I just forgot about it since my mom wanted me to drop off a letter but the-” you were interrupted by kyle kissing you, when you were about to kiss back. He pulled away, just your luck. “I'm just glad you are here and remember don't get stressed, let's just cuddle and not do anything. That's the whole point of today.” He said while smiling at you. You sighed “You are right.” smiled back, he held your hand and made you walk the stairs and heading to his bedroom. You two sat on his bed, while just holding each other. “Hey wanna sing something?” he said while looking at you. You giggled “Of course but together.” You said back, he just smiled and for some time you and your boyfriend sang “Olam Chesed Yibaneh” in Hebrew just to reflect on the loving relationship between you and Kyle.

After sometime, you two just cuddle into each other's arms. It was lovely, everything on your mind just disappeared. It's like it was just you and him. You wanted to stay like this forever, though you still felt guilty of not being here at the time you two planned. “I'm sorry for not being here before, I'm just busy and-” he kissed your cheek and interrupted you again, though you didn't care if it meant he would kiss you. “Look I already forgive you and like I said , I'm glad you are here now” “You're right.” you said back, and you closed your eyes. Today was a wonderful day. You thought as you were about to fall asleep.

💌 - Goodbye cutie <3

[x-childish-x]

Hey you! Can I please request a one shot with my Kyle-bear (Kyle Spencer) with prompts 37 and 40 of the non NSFW list (I couldn't find the NSFW one 😔)

Return of the Dead

Pairing: Kyle Spencer x female reader

Fandom: American Horror Story

Warnings: mention of death, female reader, angst!

Word Count: 1,172

A/N:  OKAY, IN THIS VERSION KYLE'S HANDS ARE HIS OWN BECAUSE I FULLY BELIEVE MADISON WOULDN'T HAVE WANTED HIM TO HAVE THE HANDS OF SOMEONE WHO VIOLATED HER. Okay now.. thank you so much for this request! I hope you enjoy this! It ended up being quite long, I'm sorry. As far as the NSFW prompt list, it's at the very very beginning of my blog. I'm still in the process of making a masterlist, which will include both prompts.

Summary: After bugging Madison and Zoe nonstop Kyle gets fed up and decides he, your dead boyfriend, needs to see you.

(gif not mine!)

For three months you were the only thing Kyle asked for, even before Fiona “restored” him, you're name was the one thing that always left his mouth. Each time Zoe or Madison would enter the room he would gaze at them, muttering your name as a question.

“Y-Y/n?”

They would sigh, looking at him with genuine remorse, “I'm sorry Kyle, but you can't go see her yet.”

And he'd shake his head, not liking their answer. He'd say your name again, more firmly this time, “Y/n.”

Zoe would hand him the photo of you that she took when she had tried to take Kyle back to his mom. Kyle would stare at it, mumbling your name over and over as he admires you. It was a picture he took of you during your first date. You had gotten ice cream together and accidentally gotten it on your nose. Classic and cheesy and absolutely adorable. Kyle wanted to see you more than anything else, but he didn't understand the state you had been in.

You'd been an absolute mess. You'd skipped that party on that fateful night, deciding that you needed to study for your mid-term more than party with Kyle. You regretted every moment of not going and spent the first month and a half sobbing your heart out each day, unaware of the fact that Zoe had tried to reach out to you multiple times only to hear your cries. When the third month passed it wasn't any easier, but you managed to compose yourself enough to not cry every day and to even begin going back to your lectures. 

By the third month, Fiona had “restored” Kyle, and his need to see you had not dwindled in the slightest bit. Each day he'd go to Zoe in the morning, sitting on her bed and waiting for her to wake up. After the fifth day, she didn't jump anymore but simply watched Kyle.

“Y/n?”

“Kyle,” Zoe would sigh, “I'm sorry but not yet, she's not ready for this. To understand this.”

Kyle would argue back until finally, Madison would snap at him, ordering him to get to work. It wasn't until another week passed that Kyle finally snapped.

“You just want to keep me here for yourself!” 

“Kyle?” Zoe gasped, “No, that's not it at all. Y/n isn't ready to understand this.”

This would only infuriate him even more, he had thrown a vase in his anger, fully yelling now, “No! No! She's my girlfriend, not yours! I know her, you don't! She would want me there now, she would have wanted me there months ago!”

It had been on a random day when Kyle finally snapped at Zoe, completely insignificant but luckily on your day off from school and work. You were sat at your desk, taking notes on the current chapter in one of your classes, mindlessly trying to distract yourself from the fact that Kyle wasn't there with you. His head wasn't on your shoulder, his voice wasn't begging you to stop doing work, his arms weren't wrapping around you and pulling you away from your desk. You paused, looking up at the small photo of Kyle and you that you had on your desk when the front door to your apartment burst open.

On instinct you screamed, leaping out of your chair and stumbling backward as you looked towards the man who stormed into your apartment. You stared in horror, your eyes impossibly wide as you looked at your dead boyfriend. A sob wrenched itself out of your throat unconsciously, causing a hand to fly up and cover your mouth as Kyle stepped forward and you stepped back.

“Y/n.. honey, don't you remember me?”

Another sob yanked out of your throat as you stumbled back until you hit your couch, tears falling as you cried out, “It’s all in my head. This isn’t actually happening, you’re not real!”

“Of course I'm real."

Your knees gave way as you crashed to the floor, your tears uncontrollable as you shook your head desperate to get rid of this sick hallucination. Only it wasn't a hallucination, and that became even more apparent as Kyle sat in front of you, criss-cross, and gently laid down his hands. Immediately you cried harder, just short of screaming as you noticed the clover on his arm and you knew this wasn't your Kyle. Your Kyle would never get a tattoo, your Kyle would never get a matching tattoo with one of your frat brothers.

“Honey… love, y/n, please. Calm down, you're going to attract people,” Kyle begged as he took in your shaking form, desperate to hold you and bring you comfort as he'd once been able to. You let out another loud wail and on instinct Kyle reached out, pulling you into his chest, “Please.. calm down.”

“No! No! No!” You cried out pushing against ‘Kyle’, “You're not Kyle, you're not real! Kyle would never get a tattoo!”

You could feel him stiffen at your words but he continued his attempt to calm you. He rests his head on your shoulder, his mouth near your ear, “It's me, honey, it's me. You know it's me because nobody but you and I know about what my mother did to me for all those years. All those years until you got me out and got me safe, here, with you.”

His name left your lips in a soft cry as you grasped onto him, your tears slowly beginning to stop, “You're dead.. you were in multiple… I saw your… oh god Kyle what's going on.”

“I can explain it all later."

“Kyle!?” A girl shouted as she ran into your apartment, eyes landing on the two of you.

“Who are you?” You immediately questioned as you felt Kyle huff against your shoulder, refusing to turn his head.

“I'm Zoe, I brought your boyfriend back.”

Your eyes widened as your tears seemed to finally stop, “Yea, because that's a normal thing to say.”

“It's true,” Kyle whispered, “She brought me back. She and her friend.”

“I... I don't understand,” You mumbled, pulling back to look at Kyle.

“I'll help you understand,” Kyle smiled softly, his hand gently pushing your hair back causing you to notice the thick scars around his wrists.

“Kyle,” You mumbled grabbing his wrist gently, “What happened… why are there scars?"

 “I'm okay y/n. I told you I can explain it all soon. Let's just enjoy now okay?”

“I... I guess I'll leave," Zoe mumbled, stepping back out of your apartment, “I uh.. you know where I am Kyle.”

He simply nodded, having not looked at the girl once since she came. Instead, he stared at you, admiring you like it was the first time he ever saw you. He never wanted to let you go, and now that he had you back he never planned to let you go. You were completely freaked out by the situation, that was a given, but deep down you were just happy to have Kyle back.

[dessarious]

What Makes a Family? Pt15

AO3   Beginning   Previous   Next

Marinette couldn’t speak because it felt like her throat was locked in a vice. Instead she threw her arms around her twin knowing she’d understand. When they’d looked into each other’s eyes it was like coming home, but more. She couldn’t describe it. All of a sudden she realized a piece of her had been missing and now she was whole. When Cass hesitantly returned the hug she felt her anger spike. Her sister should not be so touch starved that a hug was abnormal.

“It’s okay.” She pulled back to pin the other girl with a dry look.

“No it’s not, but it will be. Now that we’re together we can buffer each other from the way fate and chance have been screwing with us.” Cass just gave an acknowledging hum. Looking closer Marinette could see an alarming amount of faded scars. She reached out to trace one just below her right ear. “I’m so sorry… If I had known…” What? What could she have possibly done to help? Nothing, but she couldn’t shake the guilt.

“Me too.” It took her a minute to figure out why Cass would be sorry. Then she remembered that Alfred told her Cass had escaped the League when she was eight.

“As much as I wish you had found me, you couldn’t have known. We were kept apart and kept ignorant of each other. But nothing is going to separate us again.” And anyone who tried was going to be in for a very rude awakening.

“Yeah, they’re definitely related. No one else could understand Mari’s cryptic speech patterns.” Chloe’s comment got chuckles out of Selina and Luka. Kagami and Alfred had almost identical small smiles. Poor Bruce just still looked confused. Before she could comment the Mayor exited an elevator and stormed over.

“Chloe! What have I told you about letting your friends bother guests? If you insist on bringing them here at least take them to your room.” Marinette couldn’t help the eyeroll. She wasn’t certain what had caused him to start thinking that way but every time they came to the hotel now, this was the result. “Mr. Wayne I’m so sorry. Please don’t hesitate to tell them if they’re bothering you, or call me to deal with it.” You would think a man so entrenched in politics would be able to read the room better.

“Your concern is appreciated though unnecessary Mayor Bourgeois. Your daughter has been essential in facilitating our stay and has done a wonderful job of making sure we’re all comfortable.” Bruce’s words seemed to stun the man. As she watched her father analyze the Mayor she could see why his alter ego could be deemed the world's greatest detective. She could also see the moment he decided to go for the kill shot. “Besides, given that Chloe is best friends with my daughter she could never be a bother.” She fought not to laugh as it looked like he’d swallowed his tongue.

As they waited for the man to regain speech, Marinette gauged everyone else’s reactions. Chloe shot Bruce a grateful look while Alfred simply wore a proud smile. Luka and Kagami both looked like they were struggling not to laugh. Selina… she looked like it was her birthday. Cass was studying the Mayor and Marinette had a feeling it was to decide if he was a threat. Once his brain started working the Mayor’s eyes immediately darted to Cass before he put on one of the fakest smiles she’d ever seen.

“That’s wonderful to hear. Chloe you should have told us you were friends with a Wayne.” There was an edge to his voice that everyone caught. The look on Bruce and Selina’s faces was somewhere in between annoyance and disgust. Chloe had apparently just had enough of his shit.

“I’ve been friends with Mari for years and you’ve never cared.” The man glared at his daughter and Marinette almost cringed at what she knew was coming next. At least it would be entertaining.

“That’s different and you know it. She’s beneath you and you’re only friends with her because it annoys your mother. Just like you keeping this information from us is an act of immaturity. It’s time for you to grow up and stop all this nonsense.” Chloe’s face went oddly blank and she knew the girl was trying to keep her emotions in check. Mostly so she wouldn’t get Akumatized but probably a little so she didn’t attack her father. Selina pulled her into a protective side hug and glared at the Mayor. Marinette fully expected the woman to go off on him.

“So you think your daughter should only choose friends based on the amount of money or influence their parents have?” Bruce’s voice was neutral but it still made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. Once again, the Mayor didn't pick up on the mood.

“There are other considerations of course. Public image and such. But surely you of all people understand worrying about people taking advantage of your children to further their own ambitions.”

“I do worry about that. I warn them extensively against attaching themselves to people like you who see nothing but what they can get out of them. In my experience the more someone has the more they want and feel entitled to. Thankfully your daughter doesn’t seem to have inherited your greed. Otherwise I’d have to advise my daughter, Marinette, to rethink their friendship.” The Mayor’s eyes darted to her and Marinette just smiled sweetly at him. He paled drastically and she could see him trying to come up with something to fix the situation. When that didn’t seem to work he mumbled something about needing to see to city business and went back the way he’d come. Cass snickered beside her but Chloe looked worried.

“Why don’t we go up to your suite? That way the boys won't be able to find us, we’ll have more privacy, and you can pack anything you’re afraid your parents will mess with.” Selina’s suggestion helped Chloe relax. Luka and Kagami were trading looks again before Kagami spoke.

“We can help her with that so you can speak to Mr. Wayne and your sister.” They obviously knew she was keeping things from them, but at least they trusted her enough to not push the issue. As much as she hated unnecessary secrets, she couldn’t just out other heroes without their permission.

“That’s a good idea. I’ll make sure the boys stay occupied until you’re ready for them.” Alfred’s statement caused a slightly panicked expression to appear on Bruce’s face. The older man just pinned him with a stern look. “You’ll have Miss Kyle to act as a buffer. Not to mention Miss Marinette is far less feral than most of your children.”

“I said I’d have the kitchen redone however you wish. It was due for a remodel anyway.” Alfred just glared at him before making his way to the elevator. 

“Honestly Bruce, he was only gone for a few days and that kitchen turned into a warzone. I still want to know how Jason managed to set the fridge on fire.” Selina’s amusement brought a glare from Bruce and given the way his posture stiffened Alfred heard her too. Marinette couldn’t wait to hear that story.

AO3   Beginning   Previous    Next

Ko-Fi

Tag List

@moonystars14 @ladybug-182 @elmokingkong @smolplantmum @jessigurl-design @trippingovermyfeet @its-salty-bug @whydoexamsexist @scorchdragon88 @alenee13 @lil-1254s-blog @sturchling @random-fandoms7 @fandom-writer642 @chylou34 @thewitchwhowaited @junarvion @laurcad123 @hakoirii @aestheticnpoetic @aegyobutpsycho2 @sassakitty @swiftie-miraculer13 @miraculous-simmer7 @peachedpocky @misslenamooney @shamefullove @user00000003 @18-fandoms-unite-08 @galla02006 @thestressmademedoit @toodaloo-kangaroo @trinity-1002107 @alessialeone6997

[pseudofaux]

hi!! plz if you dont mind could you do some doctor play with kyle from ikerev?

I COULD AND I WILL! 😍 The good doctor is always in on this blog.

Thanks so much for requesting! 🩺 I wanted to make this sexy for the doctor play but definitely keep it playful, because I really like that part of the Alice/Kyle dynamic. I hope you will see and enjoy this!

(Requests are closed, readers, but there are a lot to be filled in May and likely June, too! Feel free to follow along or just check in and enjoy as many as you like. A masterlist will go up when they are all completed.)

“You’re really compromising my professional integrity here,” he drawls.

“Good thing you aren’t held to a professional standard after ten at night. In my room.” She gives his hand a squeeze for good measure.

“...point taken.”

He still sounds strained, so she pauses and looks at his face.

“It’s okay,” Kyle assures her. “This is just... weird, outside of the clinic.”

“Is it too weird?”

“Did I say it was?”

She rolls her eyes and gives his hand a yank for good measure. “Don’t make fun of me. You said we could try.”

“I did. So,” he begins loudly, taking back his hand and using it to tap a folder she nicked from the clinic for just this reason, “I believe you mentioned some ‘enhanced sensitivities that are making everyday life more difficult’. What can you tell me about what’s going on?”

He has the exact lazy, gentle, warm tone she loves to listen to when he’s actually working. He looks so normal there in the chair beside her bed, a little lazy but not inattentive, and his hair is mussed from a long day and he’s one one leg over the other. He looks so good her feet start swinging, hanging off the edge of her mattress.

“Well, Kyle, I—”

“It’s Dr. Ash, actually,” he chimes in. He sounds bored but since he never actually corrects people he must be doing this because he’s committed to the play she asked for. She pulls her lips into her mouth so she doesn’t laugh.

“Dr. Ash,” she amends respectfully.

“I went to medical college,” he points out. “You’re not seeing a quack, here.”

“Can we get to the point?” she hisses. He does not pull his lips into his mouth, he laughs openly at her and waves her on.

“Doctor Ash,” she stresses, “I’m having a very hard time lately because— well, this is embarrassing...” and even though it was her idea, it is embarrassing. She’s not comfortable saying what she was thinking. It seemed like a really good idea all week when she was working up her nerve, but now that they are actually here, her nerve seems to have left her to do this on her own.

“Don’t worry,” Kyle drawls. “I’ve seen it all before.”

“...have you.” She can’t help glaring at him.

“Oh, right, sorry. Uh... just be honest, I’m here to help.”

“Well, it’s my chest, you see.”

Kyle cocks an eyebrow at her, more curious than seductive. If she’s honest with herself, even his curious expression is very appealing. “Are you experiencing any pain?” he asks. “How long has this been going on?”

“Ages,” she says, leaning into the drama of their little play. “And it’s not pain, exactly. More like... sensitivity, like I reported.”

He taps his chin thoughtfully with the folder. “Can you show me where on your chest, exactly?”

She nods, takes a deep breath, and cups her breasts. The way his eyes widen and shoot to hers is extremely satisfying.

“Didn’t realize you meant this,” he says under his breath.

“Well, I did,” she shoots back under hers. “This, specifically,” she says in her normal voice, and thumbs her nipples. She can’t remember the last time she was so bold, but his interest is evident so she sticks with her plan. Now they are getting somewhere!

They go back and forth a bit more, and eventually he asks her to remove her shirt. Victory bubbles like fresh fizzy lemonade in every one of her fingers as she undoes the ribbon she wears under her collar, then all the buttons. By that point her nipples actually do ache, needing his touch, used to his mouth by this point in the night. They feel vulnerable but not in a way that desires hiding. Not that she could, when each peak is so obvious through her chemise.

“I see why you’d be concerned,” Kyle says drily. She shoots him a look and he holds up his hands, one still clutching the empty folder. “Sorry,” he mouths.

“No you’re not,” she hisses.

“You want to stop, or...?”

“I want you to do it right!”

He holds up the folder again and clears his throat.

Kyle touches the stethoscope he wore into her room, slung behind his neck. “I’m going to listen to your heartbeat,” he tells her. She nods.

“You’re going to feel me touch,” he says quietly, and she’s heard those words a hundred times but never said in such a way. It makes her heartbeat start to skip, trip, run inside her ribs. Now they’re getting somewhere.

The little disc presses into her just above the lace that edges her chemise, and it is so cold she flinches. His hand comes to her arm to hold her in place. “Sorry about that,” he murmurs. He opens his mouth and expels warm air onto the spot the stethoscope chilled. “Better?”

“Yes,” she says, maybe a little too enthusiastically.

He hums quietly (that means good, she recognizes that sound as well as she knows his snores), and then presses the disc to her again, following the edge of the lace. It’s a slow, careful progression.

“Good, good, can hear your heartbeat,” he says, voice thick.

“No you can’t,” she hisses.

“Did you go to medical college?”

“You don’t even have it in your ears!”

“What? Oh— aww, to hell with this thing,” he says, chucking the stethoscope over his shoulder. It thumps forlornly against the carpet of her room, but she can’t spare it any thought because two green-gold eyes are looking right at her as he slides the right strap of her chemise off her shoulder and fishes out her breast.

“Medicine is about careful observation,” he tells her, in a voice some men use to tell their lovers significantly more romantic things. She doesn’t mention his careful stethoscope use, but he tweaks her nipple anyway. The pull immediately registers between her legs and her breathing becomes something more like panting.

He hums, frees the other breast, and tweaks that nipple, too. Her naked shoulders hunch forward in a protective measure but he doesn’t let go, so the pull becomes a sweet, sharp pain, and her whimper is plain in the air between them.

“Oh, good,” he murmurs. “I know you expressed concern, but this all seems like normal sensitivity to me.”

She’s trying to play along, but her voice is very pleading when she asks “Does it?”

Kyle nods and frowns in concentration as he gets a wider grasp, then gently pinches. “Feel that?”

It’s a good thing they are in her bedroom, because her noise of assent would definitely echo off the tiles of the clinic and is generally inappropriate in any professional setting.

He’s massaging her now, moving the captive flesh between his thumb and finger, and honestly the gentle pull feels like milking and she has to squeeze her comforter below her hands so she doesn’t swoon. “What... are you doing?” she manages to ask. Her voice is complete lust, it feels like all of her is complete lust.

“Carefully examining my patient,” he says quietly, and indeed he is looking at the tip of her breast very carefully. “Please stop distracting me, my work is very important.”

That’s what he says, but there’s some red high on his cheeks, and she’s never seen him wet his lips so often while giving a patient an exam. Nor ever massage them like this. Thank goodness.

When he starts working her other breast at the same time, she struggles to keep up the act. He’s never touched her like this before, and being half clothed while he’s all buttoned up and leaning in to slowly milk her or whatever he’s doing while she sits less and less primly on her bed... maybe they’re close enough to breaking character? That was the whole point. Should she just give it up and pull him into bed?

“You’re going to feel me touch,” he whispers, and it’s said gently but it is a declaration, not a warning. Even half-dazed, he puts the stress on just the right word to make the meaning clear: he’s going to touch her and she will feel it.

Kyle turns his hands so he can cup her breasts with his fingers. There’s another of his warm breaths, so warm it makes her nipple feel as dewy as her slit, and then he takes it in his mouth without letting go of his grip on her. His suck is so strong— or maybe she’s so sensitized— that she shrieks, the sound tiny but alarmed. He shoots her a lazy glare, then closes his eyes and says “Quiet, please,” around a mouthful of her breast before he does it again.

“Kyle,” she says in a small voice. “I—”

He sighs through his nose, the huff of his breath blowing onto her like a cloud. She feels him everywhere. “As I said, it’s ‘Doctor Ash’, actually,” he corrects as he moves to her other breast.

She repeats it with a shaky voice but the last syllable becomes a wail she keeps in at the very last minute by clamping her mouth shut as he sucks even harder on the other nipple.

He lets her fall from his mouth but doesn’t move back. Gravely, he tells her “That reaction makes me think this is a very extreme case.”

“Oh no,” she says. She wishes she could play up her concern for the sake of this game, but the words just fall out of her with even less grace than her wet nipple tumbled out of his mouth when he let her go. Only with his mouth, of course. His hands are still on her, still working her. She tells herself that’s why she can’t stop squeezing her thighs together. “What do you recommend, doctor?”

“Bed rest,” he whispers. He’s rubbing her nipple with his nose and he is so attractive she is going to die if he doesn’t touch her more.

“Oh thank goodness,” she sighs, throwing her arms around him. She can hear his muffled laugh as he lets go to slip his arms around her and use the embrace to push her back to the comforter.

“Don’t worry,” he murmurs before he puts his hands right back where they were and begins to kiss her throat. “I have a very specific treatment plan in mind.”

She moans when he finds the spot she likes, high on the left side. “Tell me more,” she begs.

But he doesn’t. He shows her instead. Thankfully, the treatment plan is very thorough.

[asterekmess]

were you in the teen wolf fandom when it was airing?

Oohh, yes and no? So, lemme set the scene here.

It's May, 2012. You have a 14-year-old girl. Just about to go into high school. For various (and non-nefarious) reasons, she is stuck in the basement floor of a farmhouse 24/7, a forty-minute drive away from the nearest city, a twelve hour drive from her nearest friends. She is...oh so bored.

But! Her saving grace! Her father is an idiot who pays for a shitload of subscription services on his basement television, and he uses it about once a week. She has access to the remote. >:)

So, what does this magic obsessed 14-year-old do? She binges. Everything. Classic star trek. Classic doctor who. New doctor who. Charmed. The OG Teen Wolf movies. Kyle XY. Smallville. Fuck dude, she even watches like a full season of Switched at Birth, and three episodes of Pretty Little Liars. Then what does she find? A cringey looking teen drama called Teen Wolf, with the prettiest brunette in the teaser screenshot, which coincidentally has the same as those movies she watched. But clearly, they cannot be the same thing or even a reboot, bc this looks fucking dumb.

But she watches it anyway. There's exactly 1 season out. The main character bugs the shit out of her, for no reason she can find besides she hates his floofy hair (I knew about fifty guys with that hair, and let me tell you I was fucking sick of it). The majority of the characters are ripped, which she doesn't care about, as she's got a friend the same age who is JUST as ripped, so she doesn't see it as weird. They keep trying to have sex on screen, and she is just SO confused about what is sexy when there's a bleeding man waiting on you. There's this really scrawny side character who has ADHD, and holy shit she's never seen someone HAVE ADHD on television before. He acts just like her when she's feeling bouncy. She is enamored immediately. The pretty boy from the screenshot is a tall, broody, grim-dark butthead with a leather jacket and the cutest fuckin fangs. Nuff said. She is enamored immediately.

But what's this? The season is over. Broody Boy has these gorgeous red eyes and a new rumbly voice that makes her hum it's so nice, Scrawny Boy has revealed his badassery through molotov cocktails and gaining the begrudging respect of his high school bully. Floofy boy is...kissing the girl who tried to kill him. She's still confused on that one, but they look happy, so yay. With the season over, having been binged in a literal day (yes. i watched it for almost twelve hours straight and my eyes burned. This was nothing new), she sighs, daydreams for a little while (read: three days) about how fucking awesome pack cuddles would be, bc werewolves, and then runs off to write her own werewolf story that is completely and totally different to the show (It isn't, there are weird similarities, cus' she's 14 and an idiot, but she fuckin tried) and immediately forgets the show exists. Skip forward about ohhh fuck when was it? four years? five? It's like 2016-2017, okay? Possibly 2018. I have a shit memory. i kno i was in college. Ya girl's on the webs, tippy tapping. She wanders across Teen Wolf, and BOOM it's either finished or almost finished, all she knows is everyone's FREAKING OUT about seeing the finale. She rewatches s1 for the nostalgia....and just keeps hitting that 'next episode' button. THen, she starts having opinions. Boyd and Erica and Isaac deserve hugs. Derek deserves hugs. Stiles deserves hugs. Scot is...there. not bad, not good, but there.

So, she sits down in 2018 at this fancy new website called Ao3 that she's only just started posting semi-regularly on (and it's Doctor Who fic), and writes out a little fic called "Needed." Suddenly she is IMMERSED in fandom. Chatting to people in the comments, looking stuff up on tumblr, creating a whole side-blog. It's not just a slippery slope, she fell off a cliff and landed in a pile of Stereky Goodness, and man, she has no intention of digging her way out. So, yeah, I wasn't in fandom, but I was a fan, for all of like a week before i forgot it existed. Then when I came back it'd either just ended or was about to end, and I hate watching Currently Running shows bc I hate waiting for new episodes, so I refused to look at any current fandom stuff until it was well over and done with. And then, I joined fandom properly.