#one step back

[haveyoureadthisfanfic]

Summary: Having killed the Radiance and become trapped in Godhome by the destruction of their body, the Lord of Shades tried to get used to their new life as a god. Months later, bored out of their mind, they decide to return to a much changed Hallownest by any means possible.

Author: @pinkrhin0

Note from submitter: Quirrel learns to set boundaries. Ghost tries to respect them. It's kinda hard when you've suddenly got unfathomable powers though...

[ubiquitouslyme]

Game On (Chapter 7)

Let the Games continue...

Chapter Summary:

Bodhi and Liam's relationship develops...sort of. The gang makes more plans regarding their new arrangement with Alic Tauri. And we get a new character's POV.

Snippet:

Bodhi smiled.

“You’re hot, Mairi,” Bodhi said, raising a hand to put it against Liam’s cheek.  It felt pretty fucking solid.  Real then?

Liam Liam or fake Liam, he wasn’t sure which, just laughed.  “Who knew all I needed to get a compliment out of you was to get you wasted, Durran?  I would have tried this weeks ago.”

“Why are you here?” Bodhi asked, trying to temper the excitement in his voice, even as he couldn’t stop smiling.  He wondered if he sounded as drunk as he felt.

“It’s not like you can drive, and no way in hell am I letting you risk getting abducted in an Uber when you’re this drunk.  You don’t even like them when you’re sober.”

Damn if Liam wasn’t making sense.

“So you came for me and Im?  Awww, that’s so sweet.”

Chapters:

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7

[confundida25]

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Kai | Irida/Seki | Adaman Characters: Kai | Irida, Seki | Adaman, Yone | Mai (Pokemon Legends: Arceus) Additional Tags: Modern AU, clanleadership, Dance Battle au, Rivals to Lovers, All the wardens are here, Mutual Pining, High School, Hurt and confort, classic sport movie estructure, No Betta Summary:

Adaman and Irida lead two rival dance teams, but when an unfortunate accident causes them to be kicked off their teams, they will have to work together to achieve glory, even if it means putting their differences aside.

[allisonrw96]

Dragged my ass to the store to get scouring pads so I could finally clean the sheet pans that have been stacking up on the stove because the dishwasher won't clean them and finally, finally cleaned them.

Then tried to change the lightbulbs in my ceiling fan and blew a fuse to the room? Somehow? So that's a problem for a few weeks from now.

[sammakesthings]

theatre kid and mediocre hockey player travel back in time to prevent their parents from getting married so that they don’t have to become step brothers

[verifiablebot]

'this property says it has nine acres but those neighbours look pretty clo-'

oh.

ohhhhhhhhh no

[thesealking]

if you want to get down, take the staircase, dont jump out of the window

take a step at a time, and dont try to suddenly force yourself into 'normallity'.

[nyxnco]

hi again

[marzipanandminutiae]

"hey why are all the barrier garments like linen shirts or chemises or combinations going away?"

"oh we have more washable fabrics now! you don't need to worry about sweat reaching your outer clothing when you can just chuck it in the washing machine!"

"cool!"

[100 years later]

"so uh all of those new washable fabrics are leaching microplastics into our water, and the constant machine-washing wears garments out faster. they're also not really sturdy enough to be mended, so we keep having to throw them out and now the planet is covered in plastic fabric waste that will never break down. also it turns out that the new washable fabrics hold odor-causing bacteria VERY well. so could we get those barrier garments back please?"

"sorry babe linen now costs $100000/yard and since it's been so long without them, nobody knows how to adapt barrier garments to the current styles anyway"

"..."

"maybe try this new $50 undershirt made of Special Sweat-Wicking Plastic Fabric! :) :) :)"

[keferon]

Don’t mind me I just like to see him go bananas about cartoonish Autobot rules

Maaan…..if Prowl was in tfp he would spontaneously combust at least once a day

[anxi04]

tim is on the thinnest ice for becoming a supervillain. the gotham rogues don’t know just how thin it is but they are well aware that out of all the bats (yes even the red hood, yk the crime lord) red robin is the one most likely to end up joining their rogue status.

most of the batfam are not aware of this, except for bruce, cass, damian, and jason.

cass knows just from watching him cause of course she does. she also found one of his Completely Normal And Not At All Supervillain-y Plans. she has him tell her the plans so he’s not spending weeks fleshing them out and it’s more like ranting to her. she does however keep an eye on him during his bad days cause some of those plans were concerning

damian was about to kill someone (very deserved, and also very early on in his career) and tim just drops down in front of him so damian is obviously thinking “oh shit he’s gonna tell them and i’ll be cast out of the family and oh god-“ and he just. “want me to help hide it or do you got it?” damian just blinks cause what. he thought tim was gonna be the most strict on the no kill rule

tim actually deliberately let jason know cause he pissed him off once (interrupted his nap). all he did was take over jason’s gang for a week, made it seem like he was red hood without jason knowing what was going on, make it better, and then insult jason and tell him how he could’ve done it EVEN BETTER but he just didn’t feel up to it. jason has both a newfound respect and fear of tim. he’s also a little salty about just how good tim ran his gang but that’s between him and the gods

bruce knows cause one time during tim as robin he rold bruce “if you kill anyone i WILL become a villain and you are NOT prepared.” and then forced bruce to go to sleep. bruce honestly isn’t 100% sure if that was a hallucination or not but he’s leaning to not. he also just doesn’t know what he can do about it cause that kid made him eat, sleep, shower, and take proper care of himself what’s he gonna do? bench him? bench the kid who benches batman once???

steph also learns but that’s cause she stumbled upon him literally about to take that step and instead of doing anything about it just called him edgy and that was enough to shock him back. she’s not gonna become one with tim but she jokes about them having a batman and catwoman relationship and that alone is keeping him from actually doing so

[confundida25]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Pokemon Legends: Arceus (Video Game), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Kai | Irida/Seki | Adaman Characters: Kai | Irida, Seki | Adaman, Yone | Mai (Pokemon Legends: Arceus) Additional Tags: Modern AU, clanleadership, Dance Battle au, Rivals to Lovers, All the wardens are here, Mutual Pining, High School, Hurt and confort, classic sport movie estructure, No Betta Summary:

Adaman and Irida lead two rival dance teams, but when an unfortunate accident causes them to be kicked off their teams, they will have to work together to achieve glory, even if it means putting their differences aside.

[kbondoxxxxav]

they’re neighbors au

[sammakesthings]

“Visitor” 🏒🥅

More story art, sloppy and not as good as my last one but still these are tons of fun!

[forecast0ctopus]

i get it now these guys are cool

[inkskinned]

i'm still trying to piece together the truth of it. when you left, you said: feel free to spin this narrative however you want. i have no idea if you were being cruel or if you just genuinely don't remember what you've done to me.

it's hard because i'd done so much of the work for you. i had seen the parts that flaked off, the rust underneath. i started separating you into two people - the one i loved, and the one who hurt me. i had this fantasy version of you - my partner - and then i had this stranger, a third person who would show up randomly to shatter me. i am deliriously glad i'm no longer with "the stranger". i miss the gentle (unreal?) "other" you terribly.

at first, i was so strict about my boundaries. i remember telling you to get the fuck out of my house if you were going to talk to me like that. by the end: i would justify your behavior for you, accepting even your mistreatment as "my fault" in the grand scheme. i look back on the person i was before you - smart, independent, confident - and i feel a strange sense of detachment. i don't even recognize me.

even in one of our last conversations, you said: if you want a partner that always talks warmly to you, find someone else. there was a time that a comment like that would have made me leave. and instead, somehow, i just placidly accepted that kind of thing. you were literally telling me that i wasn't allowed to have a reaction to your cruelty - and i just took it, because you'd so fully turned things around on me.

when people are faced with irrationality, a rational brain tries to make sense of it. this is the trap. they're lovely in the morning, gentle and blue-eyed and sweet. like nothing even happened, they breeze around the house and kiss you on the mouth. but at night; who is that? they snap almost randomly; flying into an impotent rage about just-about-anything. it just doesn't make sense. so the problem must be me, and my brain, and how i think.

the traumatized brain just wants peace. so maybe i'm misremembering. maybe you were just having a bad day. maybe it's actually me.

you eventually would fully turn on me and start implying that i am the bad actor in our relationship. that's what happens, right? that's literally in the playbook. you went to therapy for all of a month, told her a half-truth, co-opted therapyspeak. you figured out how to reframe your actions as "seeking peace." any time i stood my ground, i was "gaslighting." when i asked you to be more gentle, you said i was "tone policing." you said, randomly, i had emotionally manipulated you - i still have no idea what that's even specifically referring to. maybe my consistent requests for calmness and empathy?

and while i literally know better, and i'm sitting here, trained by you, thinking: wait, fuck. was i actually the person you made me out to be?

and the thing that scares me is that i literally do not know if you ever actually saw what you were doing to me. when you'd tell me how you remember arguments, you'd always summarize them in a way where you come off as gentle and easy: "i was trying to set an important boundary." what had actually happened was 15 minutes of you shouting at me i know you did something shady, just admit it already. eventually you'd say my reaction to your shouting (when i finally reacted, which usually happened around hour three) was inevitably "disappointing" and "another way i'm silencing your feelings."

how many times did i ask you - beg you - to just take accountability? looking back, i don't think i ever heard you say: you're right. the way i talked to you was wrong of me.

i am trying to tie together the two people into a full version of you in my head. yes, you made my coffee and made me laugh and spent hours on the phone with me. and yes - you would scream at me until i had to run away and hide behind something.

i wish i did have a narrative i could pull out and shape to my whim. i wish i did have some semblance of reality. instead i just stand here, strange and vibrating, wondering: what the fuck just happened?