#or some such angsty scenario

[scamguy]

im trying to read post canon yoohankim fics and i can't be bothered to look for them on ao3 like...... im not going to lie a lot of it is really boring.... its fluff in a way that really doesnt appeal to my taste. uh oops I just wrote a bunch of shit in the tags

[arsenicflame]

It's a time-honoured tradition- every time Sam comes across Izzy (and Ed) in their travels, he asks Izzy to marry him. And every time, Izzy turns him down.

At this point, Sam is asking more for the sake of it than any belief Izzy will ever say yes, a remnant of childhood dedication touched with 30 years of heartbreak and regret- though even now, a small part of him still holds out hope. Sam's promises have only got more extravagant over the years, from a job as his first mate, to a captaincy, a fleet at his command, a whole fucking island if that's what Izzy wants- but he knows it isn't though, not really. If Izzy was ever going to agree to marry him, to leave his life and go with Sam, it wouldn't be for anything Sam could offer him. Izzy never did care for flashy shows of wealth, for a ship or to be captain. The only thing that ever mattered to him was loyalty given, and loyalty shown in return. 

It all comes to a head after Stede left and came back, after Izzy lost a toe, lost his leg. Sam hasn't seen him since before things with Ed started to really slide off the rails, before stress permanently set into the lines of Izzy’s face. So, when he sees a dishevelled man with a hoof for a leg in a no-name port, he doesn't even consider the idea that he might know him. It's only when he turns towards him, and Sam catches a glance at those oh too familiar tattoos, he realises this is Izzy, his Izzy, that stands before him.

Knowing Izzy's discomfort with pity, he doesn't treat him any differently than he would in years gone by, positioning himself in Izzy's line of sight before approaching and sweeping him up into a bone crushing hug. 

“Israel-goddamn-Hands!” he exclaims, as Izzy grumbles back a begrudging “Samuel-fucking-Bellamy”, a tradition almost as old as their friendship itself. Izzy might not hug him back, but he can’t keep the corner of his mouth from twitching, just for a second.

(If Sam holds Izzy a little tighter and a little longer than usual, well. That's his business)

By the time Sam lets go, most of the crew has appeared in the town square, drawn in by the commotion. They may have given Izzy his leg and welcomed him as one of them, but still there’s an underlying tension, with nobody quite ready to set aside everything that happened before the Kraken. Seeing him cosying up to an unknown man sets everyone on edge, unsure whether to come to their first mate’s aid, or to assume that they've been betrayed once again.

When Ed sees that the yelling was Sam, his hand goes tense where it's held in Stede's. He knows the routine, has seen it more times than he can count, but as he watches them part he realises that this is the first time in a long time he's unsure of what Izzy's response will be.

Knowing that something’s different, knowing that Izzy's feeling vulnerable already, Sam doesn't go for the same flashy proposal he’s been giving for years. He doesn't promise Izzy the world, he doesn't cause a scene (or, any more of a scene than he already has, anyway). He looks at the fractured man in front of him, takes his face in his hands, and says the exact same thing to him he said when they were little more than boys. “Israel, I have to ask you. I know what you'll say, but I have to try. Come with me. Marry me and sail away with me. I'll keep you safe”

And Izzy… hesitates. He glances over at Ed, at Stede, and says to Sam “...We’re staying in port for a week. Ask me again then”

That's the moment Sam knows there is something deeply, horribly, wrong. He's not just looking at an Izzy who got seriously injured in a fight and is struggling to cope, this is something so much bigger than that- and that Ed has something to do with it. Izzy wouldn't even be considering leaving if he didn't. Whether it was negligence or something more sinister, Sam doesn't yet know, but he intends to find out.

[baby-yongbok]

Okay, so Chan is being a brat on Bubble rn, pretending that we wanna break up with him. (Who's really the delulu one here?) But my imagination is running WILD, so hear me out..

[Hard Thought - MDNI]

What if he's just beaming at his phone right now. Watching us freak out and beg him not to break up with us. Saying that it isn't what we want and asking him not to leave. It's just what he wanted, just what he was craving.

What if he's scrolling through the responses, laughing out loud at the ones that he's especially pleased with. It's almost humiliating how some of us beg and plead for him. Sure, it's playful, but what if it wasn't? That thought drives him wild.

What if he's getting hard while reading all of our comments. Imagining what we'd look like if he were standing in front of us. The look on our face as we process what he's saying while he knows damn well that he's just messing with us.

Just the thought of some of us dropping what we were doing to click on his chat notification gets him hot as he watches the replies flood in.

What were you doing before this?

Are you smiling? Frowning? Laughing?

What are you wearing?

When did his hand get down his pants?

Why does the thought of a pretty girl playing along to his dramatics make him rock hard?

What would you do to change his mind? What would you say?

"You don't wanna break up..? How're ya gonna change my mind?"

"You'd never actually go and meet someone else, would you, baby? Show me how much you love me."

The longer he keeps the dramatics up, the more content he has to stroke himself to later. He can't help himself.

[crustycrackhead]

*Throws my swampcat brain rot at y’all*

Swampcat MorningKrem (Morning Frost x Kremy Lecroux)

I’m in literal rare pair hell man, no one understands me nor my freak. I’m gonna be the crazy one that draws them like crazy (draws them only once)

Clean Freak 4 Clean Freak, they both particular and shit okay?!?? SIGH, they would prolly even hold hands but to me… they can be silly (do taxes togther)

[just-leui]

was just watching a history documentary to pass the time and then I remembered, dps is set in america in 1959. the poets are 17 years old, that means they were 9 years old in 1951. that means there is no way the poets didn't go through "Duck and Cover" drills in schools (possibly even at Welton since the "Duck and Cover" drills stopped in the 1980s) and now i can't get that image out of my head

[riptidesblog]

"For worker bees whose hive has been destroyed joining another colony and finding a new queen might be the only way to survive"

[malthedreamer]

I would like to see a version of reality where Martin and John never got together

Like. Maybe feelings are still there but they were never spoken outloud. Maybe John gets aware of what Martin feels at some point but decides to never mention it. That it would be better for everyone if Martin had a chance to move his feelings to someone else. John is undeserving of love anyways... Maybe there is simply not enough care in Martin to look for so many statement recorders, maybe he is tired already of this mess. Maybe he will let John get buried in the depths of a coffin... Does it even matter? Does he? Everything has felt so cold for so long Maybe the feeling that gets Martin out of Lonely is friendship, maybe in the end it isn't enough and he is lost to the fog

Like. Just what would be the outcome if there was no love?

[mulherviado]

i think i may be too sensitive. i cant bring myself to read major character death, unrequited or angst/no comfort fics... for a dynamic as tragic as mistynat, i can't bare to read something that only brings me more and more suffering; seeing misty being hurt again and again, being rejected by nat, dying or things like that, seeing nat falls into addiction, regretting all her life choices, killing herself... they are already so miserable canonically - it's part of what makes them them of course, don't get me wrong, the show itself is not comforting at all lmao.

i do find it amazing that there are writers and readers who find comfort in this kind of work tho. you're all much stronger than me.

[total-drama-brainrot]

TD World Tour Alenoah AU... Where Noah is immune to Alejandro's fake charm... Instead, Noah gets charmed by the true Alejandro's quirks and dorky interests like dinosaurs and puppets... How would Alejandro feel about Noah only liking Alejandro, when Alejandro is being himself?... Especially since Alejandro's family shuns him for being himself? 🦕🦖🦕

Now you're speaking my language.

One of the most common running themes in all/near enough all Alenoah central AUs is having Noah be the first person to see past Alejandro's persona and actually appreciate the person he is, or at the very least prefer the real Alejandro to his mask of perfection. It's one of the draws of the ship itself; the idea that Noah, being the blunt person that he is, can and will wage a war of attrition against the walls Alejandro has built up around himself- not just to keep others out, but also to repress the more authentic aspects of himself to himself- in order to reveal the person beneath.

I touched on this a little bit in a previous post concerning this AU, but Alejandro and Noah both see glimpses of the other that they try so valiantly to hide- in Noah's case, Alejandro sees hints of the scheming mindset he's pretty much supressed under layers of apathy and sloth (as Noah's laziness is one of his biggest character foils, alongside his snarky attitude), and in Alejandro's case he reveals tid bits of information about the Real Alejandro, not the persona he's usually portraying himself as, which is enough to humanise him in Noah's eyes.

They both become People Of Interest in each other's eyes, because they're both puzzles to be solved. Alejandro's curious and competitive to a fault so he'd dedicate himself to unravelling the layers behind Noah's stony exterior, as he'd see Noah's continued distance as a challenge. That's a given. But the topic at hand here is Noah's interest in Alejandro.

Because Noah's not exactly competitive, so why would he be so interested in unveiling the real Alejandro? That's simple; Noah values authenticity. Look at his friendship group, it consists of people who are unapologetically themselves. Noah is also unapologetically himself, in all of his sarcastic glory. So of course he's see flickers of the real, authentic Alejandro and his natural inquisitiveness would be piqued- a novelty for him, as Noah's staunch apathy generally tends to override any semblance of curiosity.

So Noah goes out of his way to make notes of the small interests Alejandro offhandedly mentions at one point or another, like palaeontology or puppetry or even his fifteen-step skincare routine- things that Alejandro shows genuine excitement or passion over that shines through the cracks of his perfect persona. He sees the dorky giddiness Alejandro experiences when Noah lets him ramble on about how Jurassic Park was incredibly inaccurate from a scientific standpoint but monumental for people's interest in palaeontology (or something along those lines, I don't know I'm not a dinosaur nerd) and suddenly the annoyingly flirtatious faker he's spent the better half of his time on the jet is A Whole Ass Person with interests and passions and a sense of depth he's been so bereft of until now. Suddenly Alejandro's more than just the antagonist of the show Noah's working on, he's an interesting person that the bookworm finds himself wanting to know more about. And, perhaps, he finds himself growing genuinely fond of the person behind the mask.

And he uses those notes to prompt Alejandro into sharing more of himself, the real authentic Alejandro, in the privacy of their interactions.

At first, Alejandro's fairly oblivious to what Noah's doing, since he's so caught up in his own enjoyment of Noah's company plans to essentially do the same to Noah that he barely notices his own tricks being used against him.

Of course, he's also just elated at being able to infodump to someone who isn't outright penalising him for doing so; not that I think Alejandro is even aware that what he's doing is infodumping, nor the fact that he's so obviously autistic, because his family is a particular brand of awful that would never let him get a proper diagnoses and in all likelihood forced him to mask/supress his symptoms.

It isn't until Alejandro realises that he's shared a lot of information about himself that he (as a Burromuerto) is expected to keep close to his chest, and he sees the glimmers of satisfaction in Noah's intelligent eyes, that the archvillain catches on to the fact that he's been played. But the thing that really catches him off-guard isn't the trickery, it's the fact that Noah's done nothing with the uncharacteristic displays of vulnerability.

Alejandro can't understand why Noah hasn't taken advantage of his "weakness" yet. Inevitably leading to him confronting the assistant, as Alejandro isn't the type to "let sleeping dogs lie" so to speak, and he's still very much so in the one-track mindset of winning the competition- thus he assumes that any show of vulnerability can and will lead to his untimely elimination. But when he practically demands that Noah reveal what he's been planning, why he's been sneakily collecting information on him, all Noah can do is shrug his shoulders and say;

"I guess I just like seeing the real you. That's all."

And Alejandro doesn't know how to respond to that. No one's ever wanted the real him, he's always had to play the role of the perfect son, the perfect brother. He doesn't understand.

And like most people when they're faced with a foreign concept they have no basis of behaviour for, he lashes out.

[iwozlegit]

|| 🍍• What if the first time Husk realises he’s fallen for Angel is when he’s about to lose him to heaven?

What then?

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

In a bit of an angsty mood, so here's an idea

(Tbh it's probably a 2 part thing because of them needing to get out lol)

Reader who takes a trip to fontaine and Legacy follows like the little clingy puppy he is. When they get there, everyone is scared of Legacy, calling him a 'monster' and security is called. When Wriothesley gets there to investigate the 'monster' problem, reader explains that Legacy is with them... Which results in them both getting locked up for disturbing the peace. Now they have to figure out a way to escape prison together.

*clawing at the bars of my cage* AGHHH HOW DARE THEY LOCK UP SWEET FOUL LEGACY MOTH!! LET HIM OUT

you're honestly more annoyed about the whole thing, having gone to Fontaine partially for work, partially to relax. it's just your luck that you'd manage to land yourself in prison- not that you blame Foul Legacy, of course. it was an oversight on your part, to not plan for him following you. his head rests in your lap, chirping and chittering in worried dismay. Legacy heard what those people called him- monster- a term he should be used to, one that you even use affectionately. but the fear and disgust in their gaze- he whimpers, nudging more insistently at your hands to hide his tears. you mumble to him, quietly, kissing the top of his head and scritching behind his horns. he's your monster, your beautiful, wonderous creature of the Abyss, not some beast to be locked up in a dark, damp cell

Legacy's wings flutter, gradually relaxing until he's a puddle of armor and fluff in your lap. his claws wrap gingerly around your wrist, pushing his masked cheek against your hand with a gaze of longing and adoration. somehow, even when quite literally locked up, he manages to melt your heart, a smile tugging at your lips as you bump your forehead against his. he trills, shaking out his fur and rising to pull you into his lap instead, head on top of yours. the perfect opportunity to scheme, with no one else around- Legacy tilts his head, listening to the faint trickle of water from outside of the fortress. he has a vision- you don't- but he can swim fast enough to get you both out before you suffocate or drown

his claws tap against your arms in excitement, and your smile takes a bit of a devilish hint to it, never staying caged for very long

[sovamurka]

So, timebomb nation, how do we feel about Ella's 'it's gonna be devastating' combined with Reed's 'WTF' regarding Arcane s2 finale? :D

[the-invisibility-bloke]

"i trust you with my life but not with my heart" is the trope i didn't know i needed

[yujeong]

So a few of my friends do this thing called a "crying counter", which is basically writing down when they cry and why. They jokingly said Vegas would do that too and, I'll be honest with you, I can see it.

[seigephoenix]

Angst Prompt List

The only topic I will not be talking about/writing about is infidelity. It's a big angst prompt but it's not a topic I'm comfortable writing about so I will not be doing that. Other than that, enjoy.

“I don’t want your apology.”

“What are you doing?”  “I’m sorry, it’s for the best.”

“I was too late.”

“Run!  Don’t worry about me!”  “But!”  “Just run!!”

“You’re not the person I thought you were.”

“Maybe, maybe I wasn’t meant for this.”

“When will you take me seriously!?”

“What are you so scared of?”  “You.  I’m scared of you.”

“I hope you’re happy with yourself.”

“I’m not going to be the villain in your story any longer.”

Breaking up is hard to do

Falling in battle

Circumstances driving us apart

A nightmare comes true

War tore us apart

Abandonment

Hero turned Villain

[moonsoupstar-ao3]

Every time I hear an Epic song all I want is to write angst of my favorite characters.........