#part of it was curiosity and part of it

[skillscheck]

HC: SURGERY + KAIJU NO.1'S SPECTACLES

the search for a compatible user for the number weapon for kaiju oo1 was something of a struggle until narumi came onto the scene. he was the first person who's compatibility rate for no. 1 was something to be spoken for. however, there was a price to be paid to be able to use kaiju number one's gift of foresight. it would require a surgery, much similar to lasik and would require a week of recovery after (his eyes were healed within four days, but he waited it out for a week. ). he was not fond of the first fourty-eight hours post surgery considering his vision was perfect before. instead, his vision was more hazy than anything, the sunlight was too bright for him, and the slight burn that accompanied it were not things he was fond of.

however, narumi is as stubborn as they came, so as a way to not die of boredom during the post surgery, he tried to play video games. it was the only thing he could focus on until the haziness of his eyes would settle in. when hasegawa would check up on him, he would just see a frustrated narumi slumped on the floor with the glare of his video game playing. after awhile, when he took the bandages off on the fourth day, he begun to notice subtle things. it wasn't anything immediate, at first he would catch things before they could shatter, a way of explanation was that it was his fast reflexes. when they decided to do, a test run on his new eyes, it was when narumi could see the subtle brain signals of a kaiju he was hunting that his world turned upside down. to him, it gave him a different field of vision. to him, it was like predicting the future.

his defense force sanctioned test run ended, but he had wanted to see what it was like normally. his curiosity to know his limits ( and break them eventually ) is something that narumi will always chase after. he'd gone out for once, pupils dilated into something less human, more kaiju, & he decided he would humor some girl at the bar. he learned he needed a warm-up just like the test run, but the way he could predict her every move impressed her like telling her that he knew she was interested since the next move was her tell. what was her tell? just simply wrapping a strand of her hair around her ear and giving him a knowing stare. he used his powers to read her body language. his ego somehow ruins it, but make no mistakes she'd given him a good ego boost anyways.

he might have not gotten anything that night, but confirmation that this was a power worth that awful week.

[dammit-tazmuir]

Hold on. Harrow never actually learned about Gideon's origins, right? She'd checked out by the time Gideon learned and like... there was a lot going on when she finally woke up. There might be more that happened after Alecto also woke up that we just haven't seen yet, but as far as we know she's just now finding out about it or hasn't quite yet. But I just noticed—

Harrow the Ninth, Chapter 49

Nona the Ninth, 24

Gideon has Wake's jaw (among other features) and John's eyes (I assume shape too) and brows. Harrow subconsciously fucking clocked the resemblance. (Edit to clarify: Like, she saw Wake's face, and by then she'd remembered Gideon, but subconsciously clocked "this is almost Gideon's face, this part is spot on, but these parts are Wrong." But given one of the AUs...)

Anatomist Mercymorn, who knows the human body beyond mortal comprehension and who has been close to John for 10,000 years, who had actively worried the new Ninth baby might have been John's kid, saw a young woman she knew to be the Ninth's cavalier who looked strikingly like Wake and suspiciously wasn't decomposing, and still didn't recognize John's features or think to check her eye color. She was so absolutely convinced Blood of Eden must just be incompetent and wrong that she barely looked.

Yet Harrowhark, who had specifically forced herself to forget Gideon existed, still recognized enough that when she started to remember her brain supplied the Divine Highness suitor AU. Truly one of the most down bad characters of all fucking time.

[annamationsart]

everyone loves talking about little jon in correlation to mr. spider but no one ever talks about how insufferable this kid was. i wouldn’t wish sitting next to him in class upon my worst enemy

[hyakunana]

He's ready to beat someone 🥁

[sidsinning]

Villainess AU update~

Part 1 of another comic :)

Marinette’s feelings are?

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[a-most-beloved-fool]

fic wherein some of the TOS crew is being questioned by an entity who seems to think that the best way to take (and keep) control of the enterprise is to ensure Kirk's cooperation by figuring out which girl he's in love with and using her as collateral. The entity has got a truth compulsion thing on Kirk and keeps asking him things, forcing Kirk to answer, but... well.

ENTITY: You're in love with a woman. Who is she?

KIRK: I'm not.

ENTITY: Sure you are. You're James T. Kirk. You're always in love with a woman. Fine, if you won't answer that, then who's the most beautiful woman on the Enterprise?

KIRK: There are many beautiful women in my crew. I don't know if I could pick a most beautiful, though. I don't think about that when we're working. I'm their captain; it would be inappropriate.

ENTITY: Give me a real answer! It's a simple question! Who's the most beautiful person on-

KIRK, INTERRUPTING: Spock.

ENTITY: ... what?

KIRK, BLUSHING: Uhm. isaidspock.

[666news-and-horoscopes]

[dayraiser]

guys i just had a horrible thought.

punisher... of those who scorn love from others.... avenger of unrequited love.......

ivo, who scorns love... stone, whose love was never reciprocated...

what if ivo dying was an act of 'revenge' by anteros trying to avenge stone's unrequited love...

[consultingfujoshi]

inspired by this post by @king-wens-king that says if burt recorded that retirement video after finding out about his innie's "entanglement" then he was saying goodbye directly to the person he'd fallen in love with and I couldn't stop thinking about it

[confused-alien]

Just finished Red White and Royal Blue after three nights of late night reading, and this has been the only book that ever made me cry sm. And it’s not even easy for me to cry over a book wtf- It was such a rollercoaster of emotions holy shit. 😭

This is most DEFINITELY one of those books I’m gonna hyperfixate and always recall my entire life, not just a temporary hyperfixation. I could yap about how amazing it was for months and months.

[gojoest]

childhood best friend satoru is the stereotypical i am going to stare at you when you look away and if you catch me i’ll just find something to make fun of you so you get mad and turn away and don’t see my face burning i am glad hearts don’t beat as loud for others to hear

[petr1kov]

i think helena is interested in mark s in great part because he's an innie, not in spite of that. she considers innies subhuman, true, but that also means that it's safer to experiment with them and not have to deal with any consequences. for someone who lives to keep up appearances, this idea must sound very appealing

[willyhoos]

metamy is insane. like.

what if i was the hero you loved gone wrong. defeated and destroyed. rebuilt as my own greatest enemy. what if i lost everything. what if i had been reprogrammed to despise all i had once fought for. what if i couldn't even remember why i had fought at all.

and what if you were made of roses. what if you represented every beautiful thing i once died trying to protect. what if you wore flowers in your hair and cared for small creatures and had eyes the color of the forests i used to call my home. what if you were everything i once loved.

those memories are just out of my reach. infuriatingly. maddeningly. but if anyone knows who i am (who i used to be) it's you. if anyone can make me feel like who i used to be (who i really am) it's you. i can't speak, i can't breathe, i can't remember anything (but you).

you are the world i have been ordered to burn. i am the weapon you have chosen to resist. i was (am) the hero that you loved.

you are my only memory.

[fandomowltrash]

opening dagan’s tank

[wallbeatjournal]

Are true riverdale fans of the opinion it is a very good and nearly flawless show or does being a true riverdale fan mean being able to mock writing choices

it's long-running serial television plotted a season/half at a time so definitely not even "nearly" flawless.

BUT. i'm not doing combat with the writing team. i'm not actively reading against the text the way i have to in order to enjoy something like supernatural or the 90s robin comics or the fucking sopranos, which are patriarchal christiancore copworld rapeworld white supremacist horrorshows that hate their minority audiences, with like 2 good creatives involved and martyring themselves to fight the good fight on sparse rare installments if you try to approach them sincerely.

riverdale writing staff are like a favorite smart problematic tumblr mutual to me. I don't always like what's on their blog or who they're referencing. but we're in the same community and i'm interested and inspired and i trust their agenda overall, even when i see shit i wouldn't have fucking posted. but bc i'm not being condescended to or actively spited i'm not gonna condescend to or spite them, you know?

i expect rvd to age like twin peaks (another very uneven, highly referential serial juggling a couple of intensely cool metanarratives on top of its core story). and twin peaks fandom mocks twin peaks all the time. twin peaks includes some CLUNKY shit. it's kitsch. it's camp. it has a second season that is largely ASS. james is there. and on top of that it also includes some genuinely offputting-to-me stuff that just bothers me to sit through, even though i feel like i understand and respect what they're going for with it. i just don't want to watch someone sweep the fucking bar for minutes and minutes as entertainment. OK!!?

...so yeah. mock riverdale but in the right spirit. is that an answer? do i sound like i'm chugging the flavoraid koolaid fresh-aid? probably.