#peanuts fandom you will always be famous to ME

[galactic-dragoness]

I was not expecting 2025 to start my emotional arc over Peanuts© media, but I guess.

[sortasirius]

Frail State of Mind

Fandom: 911

Pairing: Evan Buckley/Eddie Diaz

Words: 1630

Rating: T

Summary:

It's a strange thing, when Eddie realizes how he feels about Buck. For a while, he thinks it's indigestion.

Title comes from this song.

Also on AO3 here

Eddie was laughing. Really laughing too, that kind of laugh that stretches across your chest, makes your face hurt and your breath catch in your throat.

They were all sitting around the dining table in the firehouse, finishing off Bobby's famous lasagna, and laughing uproariously at a story that Bobby was telling about his figure skating days.

"You just don't understand...the art of the dance," Bobby said, waggling his eyebrows, sending the entire table into another wave of hysteria. He smiled at all of them, standing up and walking around to deposit his dish in the sink. "Clean this up so we don't come back to a pile of dirty dishes after the bell rings."

Chim and Hen got up, clearing Buck and Eddie's plates,

"You two are useless at dishes," Chim informed them, "Let the professionals take it from here."

"And you can do the bathrooms," Hen smiled at them sweetly, ignoring their shared groaning.

"You want to come over later?" Eddie was pleasantly warm, probably from the fact that Buck was a certifiable furnace, and their thighs were pressed together on the firehouse couch, digesting after dinner watching Hen and Chim argue over the dishes, "Chris has some new game he wants to show you. We could order takeout."

"Thanks man, but I'm seeing Tommy later," Buck's smile was mega-watt, so bright that it could probably power the entire west coast, "Tell Chris I'll take a rain check."

Something undefined settled in Eddie's stomach. Something strangely heavy that went from his stomach all the way up his chest...

Before he could spend too much time thinking about it, the bell rang, and he and Buck sprang up.

"Oh come on!" Chim gestured up to the alarm with soapy hands, and Buck laughed, sprinting down the stairs three at a time.

Eddie decided to chalk the strange feeling up to indigestion. He would have to start taking tums after lasagna now, he guessed.

At the end of their shift, when morning had just broken over the city, Eddie was sitting next to Buck again, this time in the locker room. They were pulling on their socks in tandem, chatting idly about the call they had taken that night, which involved a couple and an extra large jar of peanut butter of all things.

"It's just gross," Buck was saying, pulling his sock on his right foot. His socks were always mismatched, he said he didn't see the point of sorting them. Eddie had always thought it was strangely charming, if a little silly. "Not to mention a waste of peanut butter."

"The waste of peanut butter was the problem for you?" Eddie asked him, eyebrows raised, "Not...everything else?"

"Everything else was definitely a problem too," Buck shook his head violently, like he was trying to rid himself of the mental image of the call, "Ugh. Gross."

"Breakfast?" Chim poked his head around the corner, "Bobby said he's buying. Peanut butter pancakes for all."

Buck gave a huge fake heave that Eddie couldn't help but snort at.

"Sorry," he grinned at Chimney, "I have a ride."

"Buck, turning down plans for breakfast that Bobby's buying?" Chim looked stunned, "It really is the end days."

Buck ducked his head, a blush creeping across his cheeks.

"Tommy's taking me out for breakfast."

"And so we're nothing to you?" Chim covered his heart with one hand, "I'm hurt, Buckley, really."

"Whatever," he shrugged his shoulders, pulling on his shoes and giving a shifty sort of look to Eddie, "I really hope you don't eat peanut butter pancakes for breakfast."

Eddie shook his head, still grinning.

"Captain's orders, I can't disobey them."

Buck wrinkled his nose.

"Gross."

They finished getting dressed in a comfortable silence, swinging their bags over their shoulders and bumping into each other as usual, making their way into the bay where Hen and Chim were arguing over what the superior breakfast item was.

"Evan!" Eddie nearly jumped at Buck's given name, looking up to see Tommy striding towards them, a wide smile on his face, but with eyes only for Buck, who seemed to shoot up two feet besides him, striding forward to wrap Tommy in a tight hug.

That feeling in his chest was back, that indigestion from the lasagna. Maybe he had GERD or something. He should ask Hen about it.

"Ready to go?" Tommy asked, his hand skating down Buck's forearm.

Eddie swallowed, not sure why he felt so sick to his stomach all of a sudden.

"Sure am," Buck turned around, that bright smile back on his face, giving Eddie a wave, "See ya, tell Chris I'll be around."

"Later, Eddie," Tommy waved at him, before slinging an arm around Buck's shoulders and placing a soft kiss to the side of his face

Eddie swallowed with an audible click. He felt hot all over, like he was about to be sick.

Man, that lasagna had really done a number on him.

He watched them walk away, until they thought no one was watching them. He watched Buck spin Tommy around, kissing him full on the mouth this time. He thought he should look away. It was weird, after all, to watch anyone kissing, but especially two of his friends. Especially his best friend.

He sat with that heavy feeling in his chest long after Buck and Tommy had split apart and disappeared, willing himself to understand it, understand why he felt like this, why looking at Buck made it worse.

He considered the worst case scenario: that looking at Buck and Tommy made him so uncomfortable it made him nauseous.

How could he even be thinking this way? He was an ally! He had been an ally for years! Hen was one of his best friends!

"You okay, Eddie?" Hen's voice came right by his ear, and he jumped, blinking.

"What? Oh. Yeah. Yeah I just...did that lasagna earlier do a number on you too? I've felt off for a few hours."

Immediately, he watched her stance shift from concerned friend to Doctor Wilson mode. If he hadn't felt so crappy, he would have laughed.

"What are you feeling?" she asked him, looking over the thick rims of her glasses.

Eddie shrugged, feeling almost dejected. Normally he would have brushed it off, but Hen was probably the best fountain of knowledge for little ailments like this.

"Just...heavy in my chest and my stomach. Not all the time just- Just..." he trailed off, staring blankly into space.

It was like someone had just moved something from the recesses of his head, pulling forward a tiny box in an abandoned corner of the back of his mind, a place he never bothered to go, and had opened it.

Buck.

Buck.

A man who had shaped his life from the moment he entered it. The only other person he would really trust Chris with long term. The only person he would trust to make medical decisions about himself. A man who had slotted himself so easily into his and Chris' routine it was like he was meant to be there.

He knew his pizza order, he knew how he liked his eggs. He knew what it felt like when his heart stopped beating for three minutes and seventeen seconds.

He couldn't live without him.

The reality of that came crashing down on Eddie like a tidal wave, like a California riptide. He felt like he couldn't breathe, like he was back to having panic attacks.

"Eddie," he felt Hen shaking his shoulder, "Eddie!"

The truth of the matter, that he was just realizing now, that it may be too late, made him feel like he was caught in a whirlpool, spinning endlessly, unable to catch his breath. That image of Tommy and Buck, so unbelievably happy, so utterly adoring of one another was burned into his brain, he could see it when he blinked, when he closed his eyes.

Had he lost the opportunity for something more real than he may have ever had before he even realized that he wanted it.

"Eddie!"

Bobby was standing in front of him, both hands on his shoulders, craning his neck down to look into his face.

Eddie came to enough to look up, shaking his head back and forth experimentally, knowing how completely insane he must look to the others.

"Yeah," he finally croaked, knowing that this would do nothing to help his case, "Sorry I- I'm fine."

"You sure about that?" Bobby looked him up and down, "Doesn't seem that way."

"I just..." he searched wildly for an excuse. It's not like he could tell them about this revelation. "Got tired all of a sudden. I think- I think I'm gonna skip breakfast. Go home."

"Eddie-" Hen started, but Eddie had already pushed his way past them and headed towards his truck, pulling out of the lot immediately, not daring to look back.

It wasn't until he parked in his driveway that he took a shuddering breath, resting his forehead on the steering wheel.

He wished he could just force this new knowledge about himself back into its little box. It had lived there for so long, what was a little more time? Save himself the embarrassment of pining over his best friend. Who was happily taken by his other friend.

What a nightmare.

His phone lit up in the cupholder next to him. He picked it up, his heart leaping into his throat when he saw the message was from Buck.

Hey, Hen just texted me. You okay?

No. He was decidedly not okay.

He sighed. He could do this. He wouldn't ruin what he had with Buck. He refused to ruin it.

Yeah, totally fine. That lasagna, you know?

Fuck. He was so fucked.

[etherealforever234]

I am doing this again because there is nOT ENOUGH APPRECIATION FOR TGESE AMAZING WRITERS IN OUR FANDOM.

So I did a part 1 but I didn’t include all the ones I wanted since it got too long jsskkskskskdksnxk sooooooo here’s a part 2 of all the fics which absolutely PLAGUE my mind and you NEED to check these out and show them your love!! I have said this before I’ll say it again telling writers you like their writing with just a simple reblog or a good comment MATTERS so much more than you know. So I better see you guys showering writers with love on their fics! While I did make this for myself because I’m building a little ✨collection✨ I hope this helps anyone who’s looking for more fics to read!!!

(Minors this is your cue to not be anywhere around here if I see you interacting I’ll tell yo mama!)

Recs under the cut <3

Her body is Bible by @superblysubpar - DEAD. ASCENDED TO ANOTHER PLANE. MET GOD. DIED. BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE JESUS STYLE. LOST ALL COHERENCE FOR A GOOD FEW DAYS. (18+)

Amuse and romance me like you do by @heartthrobinsfics - I have re-read this whole fic from start to finish so many times dkksckkxmfkdkckdkf the slow burn was really slow burning and ACCURACY in characterisation Family Video Steve has alllllll my heart

Single thread part 1 part 2 part 3 by @headkiss - Spiderman AU Steve I love you so much it hurts! The slow burn is so fkskfkskfkskdkskxkdkdkkdkckfkfskdkxkfk! And he’s just so 🥺 ahhhhh OBSESSED with this whole Universe! (18+)

Rules are meant to be broken by @funnylittlelad - I read this whole series on AO3 and my GOD this deserves so much more love!!!! The complicated relationships with parents the angst is so delicious I am in LOVE with this.

This blurb by @stevebabey - The way I have NEVER felt more represented as I was here. Being a #losergf is a tough job but someone’s gotta do it

If you loved me, why’d you leave me part 1 part 2 by @1986harrington - I have to say reading the first part actually made me wanna lie down in the rain for like a couple of hours because the ANGST🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻 and the SMUT in the second part lordtttt (18+)

how could i say goodbye? by @hawkinsquarry - The way this fic made me WEEP. I love it when people make Steve actually process any of his trauma but him being needy after the events of S4 was so ON POINT. Fuck this hurt. So good!

Beyond part 1 by @abibliophobiaa - The way I start SHAKINH AND SCREAMING AND CRUONH AND YHEOWINH UP when I start thinking about this series sjkdxkdkxkfk fake marriage AU will always have a place near and dear in my heart and with Steve??? DEAD.

Chateau, Careless whispers part 1 part 2 by @kurtie4life96 - Sugar Daddy Steve can be something so incredibly personal to #girlies (me) OBSESSED with thiskdkskfmdkdkdk the smut made the wires in my brain unwire (18+)

Burning by @lis-likes-fics - ABSOLUTELY INSANE actually. CRAZY. MIND DESTROYING. NERVES IMPLODING. KILLED ME. The plot with porn can be so personal to me FUCKING GOD. (18+)

Pray for the night by @upsidedownwithsteve - Call me a whore but I LOOOOOOVE me some “we almost died so let’s fuck each other’s brains out because we’re alive and we want to feel something” 😌😇 (18+)

Pride and Prejudice and Peanut Butter Sundaes by @starryeyedstories - The enemies to lovers of it all kskskskskskdks THE TWIST OF P&P WITH STEVE HARRINGTON REST ASSURE THIS IS CLOSE TO MY HEARTTTTT! This is so freaking goodkskskskskskskx

Meet me at the chateau by @theemporium - I think about this fic so much and it's been MONTHS but I will make it a pOINT to re-read it because this is just absolute perfection ugh sjkskdkskdkksdkjsdjkddk! (18+)

Puppy by @lovebugism - Sub!Steve you’ll always be famous! This made me so dizzy gAWD. Can't believe this isn't my life. So unfair. Looooooooooooove this! (18+)

[pintsizemama]

Chestnuts

Day 4

Summary: Marcus & Peanut roast chestnuts with Grandma.

Pairings: Marcus Pike x You, Marcus Pike x Female Reader (Peanut)

Fandom: The Mentalist

Rating: Mature

Warnings: language, discussions of sex and blow jobs

Word Count: 1,027

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“Is this too many?” You asked your grandmother, gesturing to the vast amount of chestnuts on the kitchen counter.

“Might not be enough,” Grandma replied. ‘This has always been a family favorite—for both families.” She looked at Marcus who nodded in agreement. A couple hours ago you and Marcus had ”come out” to your families about your new relationship. Needing a break from all the questions and advice, you both had volunteered to help Grandma make her famous roasted chestnuts. She added butter and honey to them which made it an irresistible holiday snack. The three of you sat together at the kitchen island and worked in quiet peace. It was a nice change from all the chatter you had to deal with today.

“I think the first two batches are ready to go in,” Grandma told Marcus. He dutifully stood up and carried two trays to the oven. You couldn’t help but stare at him in awe. He was so beautiful and finally all yours.

“You’re drooling, dear,” Grandma said with a chuckle. You rolled tour eyes at her playfully. Marcus placed a kiss on the top of your head just before retaking his seat next to you.

“How’d you know about us, Grandma?” You asked. “The other day when we were baking cookies…you already knew we were together. How?’”

“It was very clear,” Grandma answered. “The two of you have always been obvious in your ‘secret’ feelings for each other, but there was always a…tension there. Something missing. Like two magnets being forced apart even though all they wanted, their entire purpose in life was to be together. The other day, that tension wasn’t there anymore. So, I knew you had finally admitted your love for each other.”

“Wow,” you whispered.

“I didn’t realize how transparent we were,” Marcus said quietly.

“Apparently not to each other,” you laughed.

“True,” Marcus agreed. “I’m just glad we finally got on the same page.”

“Me too,” you whispered.

“Me too,” Grandma chimed in. “Now make me the happiest old lady in Seattle and give me some great-grand babies!”

“Gonna need some time before that, Grandma,” you chided playfully.

“Yeah, but we can definitely practice until we’re ready…a lot,” Marcus added.

“Marcus Pike!” You scolded. He just smiled and kissed you softly.

“Ugh! Gross!” John shouted as he walked into the kitchen. “Can you please refrain from mauling my baby sister when I’m in the house?” Marcus pulled away and laughed.

“John, you are such a fucking cock block!” You groaned at him.

“Just payback for that time I snuck Janie Stevens over the night Mom and Dad were out of town,” John said with an evil grin.

“That was years ago!” You scoffed. “You were in high school You can’t still be pissed about that!”

“Yes I can!” John argued. “She refused to go out with me again after that! I only ever got to second base with her, and the rumor was she gave the best head in school.”

“Well, I’m sorry that I stopped your oversexed teenage self from getting into yet another girl’s pants in high school,” you said sarcastically. “It’s not like she was the only girl willing to sleep with you. You were—and still are—a massive manwhore.”

“If I remember correctly,” Marcus chimed in, “you did sleep with Janie our first summer home from college. Even got her to give you one of her famously great blow jobs.”

“Ha!” You shouted. “Look at that. No need to be pissed at me since you did get—wait, Marcus.” You turned to your boyfriend. “How do you know her blow jobs are great? Have you slept with Janie?” Marcus’s eyes widened. John laughed at his friend’s discomfort.

“No, Peanut, I never slept with Janie,” Marcus said. You knew he was feeling the truth, but it was slightly off.

“What about a blow job?” You pressed.

“Huh?” Marcus dodged the question.

“Ok, let me rephrase that,” you said. “Has Janie Stevens’ nasty lips been anywhere near your cock?”

“Oh man,” John couldn’t stop laughing. “This is so much better than stopping you two from kissing.”

“Sweetheart,” Marcus began.

“Don’t you ‘sweetheart’ me, Marcus Pike,” you said sternly. You were trying hard not to laugh at the panic in his eyes. You wouldn’t be able to keep up this angry facade long. “Did you let her blow you?”

“We were teenagers!” Marcus said defensively. “It meant nothing. She blew everyone!” You burst out laughing. John fell to the ground he was laughing so hard. Even Grandma was chuckling.

“What the hell?” Marcus asked in shock. “You were fucking with me?”

“Of course I was!” You laughed. “Marcus, you’ve been married and engaged. Obviously you’ve had sex with women other than me. I’m well aware you have a past. Just like me.” He scowled at that.

“I don’t wanna think about that, Peanut,” he said darkly. You just smiled.

“The past doesn’t matter, my sweet Marcus,” you said softly, cupping his face. “All that matters is our present and future, my love.” He smiled and kissed your palm.

“For the record,” Marcus told you, “you give way better head than Janie Stevens.” You ignored the gagging sounds John was making and blushed as you remembered the quick blow job you had given him last night when you both managed to sneak away after midnight mass. That wasn’t even close to your best work. You looked forward to showing him just how talented you were once you got back to DC. Just then the timer dinged.

“First batch is done!” Grandma announced.

“Yes!” John cheered. “That’s why I came in here. To beat everyone else to the chestnuts. Didn’t expect to get an x-rated comedy show out of it.”

“X-rated?” Marcus laughed. “That wasn’t even close to how x-rated we can get.”

“I do NOT want to hear that,” John said immediately.

“Then don’t piss me off, or I’ll tell you exactly what I do to your baby sister!” Marcus countered.

“Oh my god,” you groaned.

“Boys never really do grow up, do they dear?” Grandma said fondly.

“I guess not,” you agreed.

Day 5

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[notony-tonyno]

emily antonia. she/her. prehistoric millenial. a relic of the Before Times.

obligatory welcome post. this is a marvel sideblog. i follow from @sithdownani.

about me: i still have the original .zip file containing every single issue of marvel's civil war that i downloaded in 2010. old enough to remember printing copy-pasted a"friend"gers tower-era fanfics from livejournal so i could read them in the middle of my university history classes. literally wept for joy when they announced avengers 1 was greenlit by paramount studios. i am ancient. don't mess with me.

what i like: wanda. tony stark. loki. steve rogers, a.k.a. peter's original father figure. deadpool's sparkly nail polish collection. wandavision has been my otp since kindergarten. wanda and pietro are magneto's kids period. the one where literally everyone adopts peter parker. earth 3490. did i mention i love wanda? i really love wanda.

favorite fandom tropes: clint in the vents. peter, resident Youth of avenger's tower, eating peanut butter straight out of the jar at 2 a.m. steve sleeping on a grease-stained sofa in the corner of tony's workshop. bucky and sam being buckyandsam. coulson will always be everyone's favorite. kate and yelena are everyone's problem.

what i do not like: people forgetting that a lot of these comics were written for kids who felt (and feel) like outsiders. fandom drama. The Bad Ending.

under the cut: myspace survey from 2008 (to really drive home that i am too old to be here) in case, for some reason, you want to know more about me:

1. Ever been to a professional sports game? i bleed los angeles blue

2. Ever get engaged? yeah. i'm getting married about it.

3. Have you ever been on TV? yes.

4. Ever been to prom? only under duress.

5. Ever stayed up for 24 hours or more? i once hallucinated a blue coyote running across all 15 lanes of the southbound 405 through some part of orange county because it was 3 a.m., i'd just ended my third consecutive 12 hour work shift of the week, and my daily commute was 2 hours one-way

6. Have you ever been to a concert? favorite performance i ever saw was a defunct j-pop boyband front-man who happened to be playing at the nokia club for mysterious reasons

7. Have you ever been in a car accident? sideswiped by a big rig the day of my university music department audition. got a scholarship for showing up anyway.

8. Did you ever learn another language? studied classical latin in high school because apparently i had big plans for updating the roman empire

9. Do you wear make-up? you mean modern war paint? i sleep in it, baby

10. Ever caught the stove on fire? once caught the house on fire with a loaded drier and burned the entire place to the ground

11. Ever meet someone famous? in my misspent youth i was almost internet famous for writing a novel about two guys who ate a lot of ramen and beat the shit out of each other.

...so yeah, that's me. 'sup.

[kodzukoi]

You know I’m the fandom’s resident hurt/comfort slut.

I’ll start with Karasuno, lemme know if you want others. I’ll either go school by school or mix em up like a cocktail.

HEY GUYS THERES SOME TRIGGERS IN HERE! PTSD, Panic Attacks, Depression.

Fluffy hcs first:

Tanaka can BAKE Bro

He learned from Saeko obviously

World famous lemon bars and peanut butter squares

They’ve actually won competitions

Daichi is a doggo dad!!! I REPEAT!

He has a corgi named Mochi, and a pug named tofu.

Yes the third years bully him for his name choices, why do you ask?

Nekoma is Karasuno’s crutch, and vice versa.

These bbs will deadass go down swinging for each other. It doesn’t matter if they have a close bond with the player or not, they will defend them to the grave.

Hinata thinks toilet paper should face outward.

Kageyama completely agrees, but only disagrees to fuck with him

Same thing with cereal before milk.

Kageyama’s favorite drink isn’t milk!!! It’s warm chai!

When the team learned this, they always made sure to get the setter one whenever they were at a coffee shop.

Tsukki can play drums. That’s it. That’s the post.

SPEAKING OF MUSIC-

Behold my favorite Haikyuu headcannon.

Tadashi Yamaguchi can s i n g.

He takes lessons, practices all the time, is in concerts and showcases all over the place.

The second he musters the courage to talk about a song that he’s making good progress on, the team asked when his next concert was, because you bet your sweet ass they all simultaneously thought to go. Daichi didn’t even have to make it requirement.

Ennoshita is so fucking good at chess. Even Tsukki can’t beat him.

Noya collects keychains!!

He always asks his teammates to get him one whenever they travel.

Eventually, they all just did it by default to surprise him.

Suga introduced the team to meditation.

Asahi falls asleep most times

Noya and Hinata find it the least beneficial because they are awful at clearing their minds.

“Dude when I tried to clear my mind, I immediately thought ’do penguins have knees’?”

“I heard about four songs at the same time and could see through the eyes of someone making a painting.”

Speaking of Asahiiii :)

The team comes to him with uniform troubles!

He’s sewn loose ends, hemmed calf length shorts, tied off loose threads, repaired broken seams. Etc.

Kinoshita leads locker room: the musical at every single game.

It totally boosts the team’s morale and it’s like the dumbest songs ever

I mean like Take on Me, Bohemian Rhapsody, or Careless Whisperer, YES THEY MAKE THE SAXOPHONE NOISES WITH THEIR MOUTHS WHO DO YOU THINK THEY ARE??

Narita is a fucking s h a r k at board games.

Is the reigning champion of every single game. Every. Single. Game

Yachi likes to try and teach the boys how to use a camera.

It helps her share her passion for photography

And for the love of god some of these boys need another hobby.

The only ones who retain what she tells them are the third years and occasionally Tanaka.

Daichi takes KILLER photos dude.

Kiyoko, being the true girl boss she is, loves to surprise the team with treats every now and then.

She’ll bring homemade baked goods, little handmade goodie bags, or will buy the team pizza with her own money before they have a big game.

“Do your best!”

Good ol’ coach Ukai.

He’s ensured that he has crates upon crates of yogurt drinks, Gari-Gari Kun Popsicles and meat buns on every single delivery truck that comes to his store.

His boys make him so happy, why shouldn’t he return the favor?

Takeda takes music requests while he’s driving.

Sometimes the team will bump to banging oldies, courtesy of coach Ukai, throwbacks, courtesy of the third years, or well known songs, courtesy of Kinoshita, because he really really loves leading Karasuno: the musical.

Angsty hcs

Yamaguchi constantly considers quitting the team bc he’s insecure in his progression

Whenever this happens, Tanaka will bring him homemade peanut butter squares, watch Disney movies with him, and talk his ear off about how proud he is.

I like to think they have a lil bond. So like Yams will deadass just send him a sad face, their established code (courtesy of Tanaka), and the second year is already asking Saeko to pack him a bag as he leaps into the kitchen to make peanut butter squares.

“Code Pinch” is what they use, so their parents don’t know of their plans. But the second Tanaka frantically says those words, Saeko drops whatever activity she’s doing without hesitation.

Ennoshita regrets having formerly left the team, because he felt so bad for letting the team down in the past.

Tsukishima is super stoic, as we all know. The only people he confides in are Bokuto and Kuroo.

He knows Yamaguchi has many issues of his own, so he feels it’s unfair for him to dump more on him.

One night during their blocking training, Tsukishima was totally spaced out and the two noticed, so they took him into a little supply room.

They sat in a circle in silence, both resting a hand somewhere on his body (I would say kuroo on the knee, Bokuto on the shoulder), until he finally talked to them about what happened.

They def do a two man hug when beanpole started to cry. And like mans sobbed bc he hadn’t cried in like 10 years.

Bokuto would just sing to them super softly until Tsukki stops crying.

And it just so happened to be his favorite Disney song which only made him cry more

Narita and Kinoshita are called “side pieces” by other teams.

As soon as they got to nationals, someone from an unknown team made a snide comment to Tanaka along the lines of “try not to kill your captain again, buzz cut.”

This absolutely triggered a PTSD episode in Tanaka and flattened his mood.

Our resident bad boy deadass teared up at the thought of it happening to anyone else. (OUCH POOR BABY I LUB HIM SO MUCH WHY HURT HIM EVER)

While Daichi went straight to him to help him, the random dude was faced with two scary teams.

Karasuno, and Nekoma.

Kuroo glares straight into this man’s soul and-

“You say anything like that to him again, and there’ll be stumps where your feet should be. Got it?”

I deadass think that bc of the way they’re drawn that Nishinoya bites his nails.

It’s not even a nerves thing, or a bad habit, it’s a mental thing.

Something tells him he has to do it.

Is so insecure about it, and constantly wishes to wrap his fingers before matches.

Every time Kageyama lashes out at a teammate, he goes home and cries.

And Tsukishima’s snarky ass comments don’t help either

He doesn’t ever want to be king again

Sugawara goes through random depressive episodes.

Like the super bad ones where all you can do is lay in bed for a few days and can’t feel anything but static.

Does he have someone to help him? Most times it’s Daichi, who will just come over and be this mf’s servant.

He will carry Suga if he has to. Mans has to get up and eat, drink and pee.

He does it without hesitation though. He never complains.

When Daichi isn’t there, or he can’t even muster the strength/courage to tell his friend, he goes through it alone and tries his damndest to go through the cycle he does with Daichi.

Sometimes he does it, most times he fails. He only gets relief when Asahi notices he isn’t at practice and immediately races to his house after it’s over.

When Hinata’s adrenaline runs out on the bus, his panic disorder kicks in.

The kid is intimidated by height and power. Literally he has to have panic disorder

He has the type of panic attacks where he can only squeeze his eyes shut and choke as tears leak from his eyes.

He also vibrates really badly, which alerts whoever is sitting behind him about the attack. It’s usually Tsukishima and Yamaguchi.

When it happens, Tadashi taps Tsukishima lightly, getting the mid blocker’s attention. He then wordlessly points to Hinata with a sympathetic look.

Tsukki nods and does the same to Kageyama, minus the sympathetic look.

You can see the heartbreak in the setter’s eyes as he somberly nods. He wordlessly places a hand on Hinata’s knee, alerting his presence.

“I’m gonna hug you. I know you can’t reply, but if you don’t want me to, find a way to give me a sign.”

If he can’t stand being touched at that point, Hinata will viciously slap his thigh.

If he can, he doesn’t do anything and lets Kageyama wrap him up and pull him into his lap. He whispers sweet nothing into the bb’s ear.

“Listen to me. Listen to my heartbeat. It’s only us.”

If that doesn’t work, Kageyama holds up a peace sign behind him to alert the two in the seat that he needs help. The two immediately rise to their feet without hesitation or protest.

Tsukishima quiets down the bus entirely and tells the coaches, as Yamaguchi takes Hinata into his lap and sings You Are My Sunshine and A Spoonful off Sugar. (Okay fucking ouch that one hurt more than Tanaka’s.)

Asahi constantly wishes he had a partner, and thinks he doesn’t because he’s unlovable.

He deadass has a playlist called “lonely hearts club”. And one of the songs on there is Matchmaker from Fiddler on the Roof

Daichi is overwhelmed by everyone coming to him with issues, but he never lets it show.

His coaches are the only ones who check in with him

Absolutely in stitches when it happens, like bb is just so overwhelmed that he cries and cries. Ukai wraps him in a super tight hug as he continuously whispers to him that “it’s all okay.”

Coach Ukai? Yeah he’s in awful debt.

He won’t ever tell the team, or Takeda. He doesn’t want to owe more money, or be seen as incapable of surviving on his own.

Takeda gets burnt out very easily

Ukai actually takes some time to help him grade!!

They put on a calming playlist and work together.

Takeda handles the essay questions and Ukai takes the multiple choice, since he has no fucking idea what he’s looking at.

Yachi really wants to be an actress, but her anxiety completely fucks up her auditions.

Oh yeah the team 100% puts on little skits amongst themselves.

Oh yeah it’s 100% for her

Kiyoko is so afraid of graduating.

She’s worried that she’s going to lose herself without having a group of rambunctious boys to take care of.

She’s also scared she won’t be able to make the same bond with others that she did with the team and the coaches.

DUCKY, MA'AM, YOU REALLY LIVED UP TO YOUR POSITION I—

10/10. 10 out of motherhecking 10.

I THINK I LOST IT AT SUGA'S AND THEN I WAS FULL ON UGLY SOBBING AT KIYOKO'S

i'm going through the whole "shaking, crying" shebang rn...

oh my god ;-;

wait let me be more accurate

tears came at tanaka's

FELT NOYA'S ON A REALLY PERSONAL LEVEL T-T

KAGEYAMA'S WAS T-T

oh my lord

yeah after tanaka's, i definitely lost it ;-;

[tyrantisterror]

I did a four part series of trivia posts when ATOM Volume 1: Tyrantis Walks Among Us! came out, and that was pretty fun!  You can see that set of trivia posts here if you’d like.  I thought it’d be fun to do another now that ATOM Volume 2: Tyrantis Roams the Earth! is out - just one this time, because a lot of the trivia I talked about with Volume 1 still applies.

I’m gonna divide this into two sections: non-spoiler trivia, for things that really don’t give a lot of plot points away, and spoiler trivia, for things that DO give away major plot points.  I recommend not reading the spoiler trivia until after you’ve read Tyrantis Roams the Earth!, for obvious reasons, and will put the spoiler trivia under a cut.

Ok, let’s go!

- So if you read ATOM Volume 1, you probably noticed that the book is split not only into chapters, but “episodes,” which consist of four chapters a piece.  It’s kind of a nod to how the series owes a great deal of its DNA to various monster of the week shows, with Godzilla: the Series and The Godzilla Power Hour being obvious influences.  It also allowed me to pepper in some illustrations and cheesy b-movie style titles into each volume.

- The first “episode” of Volume 2, Tyrantis in Tokyo, pays explicit homage to the giant monster movies of Japan, perhaps even moreso than the chapters that came before it.  Given how much Japanese media influenced ATOM - from tokusatsu like the Godzilla, Gamera, and Ultraman franchises to anime like Digimon and Evangelion (hell, the title of this episode itself is a tip of the hat to Tenchi Muyo by way of one of its spinoffs) - it kind of felt obligatory that Tyrantis visit Japan and pay his respects.

- Tyrantis in Tokyo also fits in a tribute to another staple of Atomic Age pop culture: Rock and Roll.

- Kutulusca, the giant cephalopod that appears in Tyrantis in Tokyo, is one of the oldest kaiju in this series, dating back to the first iteration of Tyrantis’s story that I put to paper back in 2001 or so.  It’s changed a lot since then, but its fight with Tyrantis goes more or less the way it originally did.

- Old Meg, the giant placoderm/shark, and Nastadyne, the bipedal beetle, both owe their existence directly to Deviantart’s Godzilla fandom.  Old Meg originated as a dunkleosteus monster I submitted to a “create a Godzilla kaiju” contest held by Matt Frank, while Nastadyne is based on a Megalon redesign I made during the “redesign all the Godzilla kaiju” phase of DA’s kaiju fandom.

- The second episode, Tyrantis vs. the Red Menace, gets dark as we visit the USSR, which had enough REAL horror with atomic power in its history to make creature features seem a bit defanged by comparison.  It’s probably the episode with the strongest horror elements - ATOM’s always been influenced by Resident Evil, and this is probably where that influence shows the most strongly.

- It also features the first fully robotic mecha in the series, the mighty Herakoschei!  Its name is a combination of “Heracles” and “Koschei the Deathless,” with the former part being added by its Russian creators to make it seem a bit more international as they offer it to the U.N. in hopes of gaining aid for a very extreme kaiju problem they’ve developed.

- Most of Tyrantis vs. the Red Menace takes place in the Siberian Monster Zone.  Its name is a reference to the Lawless Monster Zone in Ultraman, which is such a cool fucking name I wish that I wish I could go back in time and steal it.

- The next episode, Tyrantis’s Revenge, is... full of spoilers, so we’ll move on for now.

- The penultimate episode, Tyrantis vs. the Martian Monsters, is a love letter to MANY different sci-fi stories that involve life on Mars, though the most prominent of them is of course The War of The Worlds (one of my top 3 favorite books) and its various adaptations.  From its tentacles sapient martians, the tripodal leader of the titular monsters whose name includes the word “ulla” which is uttered by said sapient martians, the plant monster made of red vines, the cylinder-shaped spacecraft the Martian monsters are sent to earth on, the copper-skinned stingray-esque flying martian who shoots lasers from its tail, and the fact that every chapter title in this episode is a quote from the book, the H.G. Wells influence is STRONG.

- The final episode, Invasion from Beyond!, is shamelessly inspired by Destroy All Monsters, although there’s a dash of “To Serve Men,” Godzilla vs. Monster Zero, and The Day the Earth Stood Still mixed in as well.  It’s also sort of a tribute to my first “published” bit of a kaiju fiction - a rewrite of Destroy All Monsters that included EVERY Godzilla monster that had appeared at the time, which my middle school self wrote back in 2002 or so for Kaiju Headquarters, a kaiju fansite I’m not sure exists anymore.  Invasion from Beyond! is just as ambitious (but hopefully better executed) as my DAM Remake, with dozens upon dozens of different kaiju duking it out, earthlings vs. aliens.

- There were three different documents I made to outline the final battle of Invasion from Beyond!  It’s the largest episode of the series so far and more than half of it is that fucking fight.  My inner child is pleased, though, so hopefully you will be too.

Ok, that’s all I can share without spoilers.  READER BEWARE WHAT FOLLOWS BELOW THE CUT!

JUST MAKING SURE you know that SPOILERS will follow from here on out.  Read at your own peril!  YOU WERE WARNED!

(I’m gonna start with lighter ones just in case you scrolled too far and want to turn back)

- There’s a number of explicit Spielberg homages in ATOM Volume 2, from a “we need a bigger boat” joke during a chase with a giant shark to the fact that Invasion from Beyond! opens with a group of people flying to an island of monsters to review whether or not it should get more funding.

- When Tyrantis appears in the first chapter, I snuck in modified lyrics of The Godzilla Power Hour’s theme song.  “Up from the depths”... “several stories high”... “breathing fire”... “its head in the sky”... Tyrantis!  Tyrantis!  Tyrantis!

- The two rock bands in Tyrantis in Tokyo have real life inspirations ala Gwen Valentine, albeit a bit more muddled than hers.  The Cashews are inspired by The Peanuts (see what I did there), while The Thunder Lizards are a mix of The Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Buddy Holly, and the Big Bopper.  I wanted The Thunder Lizards to be more akin to the myth of a famous rock and roll band than the reality - less the real Beatles and more the Yellow Submarine cartoon version of them.

- The song The Thunder Lizards write for Tyrantis was written to fit the tune of “The Godzilla March” from Godzilla vs. Gigan, though ideally if someone made an actual song of it it would be its own song.  I got the idea from Over the Garden Wall, which used the Christmas song “O Holy Night” as a a starting point for “Come Wayward Souls.”

- Perry Martin, UNNO reporter and peer of Henry Robertson, is a nod to Raymond Burr, with his name being a combination of two of Burr’s most famous roles: Perry Mason, and Steve Martin from Godzilla King of the Monsters (1956).

- Dr. Rinko Tsuburaya is a few homages in one.  Her name comes from Rinko Kikuchi (who played Mako Mori in Pacific Rim), while her last name is obviously in homage of Eiji Tsuburaya.  Her being the daughter of an esteemed scientist is inspired by Emiko Yamane from the original Gojira.

- Nastadyne’s Burning Justice mode is named after a similar super mode from various Transformers cartoons, though it’s more directly inspired by the Shining/Burning Finger super move from G Gundam.

- Martians sending kaiju to different planets via shooting them out of cannons (with or without cylinder spaceships around them) is another War of the Worlds shoutout.  So is martians living on Venus after their homeworld was made uninhabitable, actually.

- Kurokame’s vocalizations are described as wails in explicit homage to Gamera.  His name can be translated as either “black tortoise” (a reference to the mythical guardian beast Genbu, which can also be construed as a Gamera reference thanks to Gamera: Advent of Irys implying Gamera and Genbu are one and the same) or a portmanteau of the Japanese words for crocodile and turtle - “crocturtle.”

- Burodon’s name is just a mangling of “burrow down.”  It also sounds vaguely like Baragon, who Burodon is loosely inspired by.  AND, since Burodon is sort of a knockoff/modified Baragon, that kinda makes him a reference to various monsters in Ultraman!

- The final battle of Tyrantis in Tokyo is sort of a hybrid of the finales of Ghidorah the 3 Headed Monster and Destroy All Monsters.  

- The Japanese kaiju teaching Tyrantis the art of throwing rocks at your enemies is both a joke on the prominence of rock throwing in Japanese kaiju fights AND the tired trope of an American hero learning secret martial arts from a Japanese mentor ala Batman, Iron Fist, etc.  In this case, the secret martial art is throwing rocks at people.

- When introduced to Herakoschei and its pilot, we are told that the strain of piloting this early mecha is so intense that many pilots have died in the process, with the current one passing out on more than few occasions.  This is of course a Pacific Rim homage - sadly, no one invents drifting.

- Herakoschei’s design is a loose homage to Robby the Robot and Cherno Alpha, because big boxy robots are cool.

- The Writhing Flesh and ESPECIALLY Pathogen are both hugely influenced by Resident Evil and The Thing.  Giant body horror piles of raw flesh, tendrils, mismatched mouths and limbs may be a bit outside the main era of monster design ATOM homages, but they fit the themes and bring a nice contrast.

- I came up with Pathogen long before Corona but MAN it definitely feels different in 2021 to have a giant monster whose name is a synonym for disease driving other creatures crazy in a quarantine zone than it did when I plotted out the story in 2016.

- The chapter title “Hello, Old Foes” is a riff on “Goodbye, Old Friend”

- Minerva, the kaiju-fied clone of Dr. Lerna, is meant to be an homage to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, which is a genuinely good giant monster flick.  I am sure many of you will also believe I included her because I’m a pervert whose into tall women, but you’d be wrong!  I included the seven foot tall Russian mecha pilot Ludmilla Portnova because I’m a pervert whose into tall women.  Minerva’s inclusion was just coincidental, I swear!

- Since Promythigor is a play on the archetypal ape kaiju to contrast Tyrantis as a play on the archetypal fire-breathing reptile kaiju, their fight has a lot of nods to King Kong movies.  Promythigor attempts the famous jaw-snap maneuver of Kong (with less success), J.C. Clark paraphrases the “brute force vs. a thinking animal” line from the King Kong vs. Godzilla American cut, and Tyrantis slides down a mountain to knock Promythigor off his feet in a reversal of Kong doing the same in King Kong vs. Godzilla.

- Tyrantis sliding down a mountain on his tail doubles as a Godzilla vs. Megalon homage.

- Though Promythigor is the archetypal Ape and Tyrantis the archetypal Fire-Breathing Reptile, I think it’s fun to note that in some ways, Promythigor is the Godzilla equivalent in their matchup, and Tyrantis the Kong.  Promythigor has a slight size advantage, was scarred by humans performing unethical weapons technology, and is associated with violent explosions.  Tyrantis is a good-at-heart prehistoric beast who humanized in part by his unlikely friendship with a human woman.

- Of course, in the context of the famous quote from the American cut of King Kong vs. Godzilla, they remain in their archetypal lanes.  Promythigor is the more intelligent of the two (though not necessarily wiser), and Tyrantis is in many ways a brute reptile.  Their battle is a rebuttal of sorts to the assertion that Kong is the “better” animal because he is closer to human.  Promythigor’s near human creativity and emotions don’t make him the kinder/more benevolent monster, but instead fuel a very self-centered and destructive attitude that makes him the far more dangerous threat.  On the other hand, Tyrantis, who is less intelligent, limited in communication with others by his reptilian mindset and instincts, and simple in his thoughts and desires, is nonetheless a sweet creature that is easily dealt with when others consider his animal needs and mindset.  There’s a quote from Hellboy I love that probably sums up all of my writing thus far: “To be other than human does not mean the same as being less,” and that’s what the matchup between these two in particular tries to illustrate: the “less” human Tyrantis is nonetheless more benign than the “more” human Promythigor.

- Kraydi the psychic lizard began life as a soft sculpture I made of the Canyon Krayt Dragon from The Wildlife of Star Wars.  The sculpture didn’t look much like the illustration, but I liked how it came out, and so I made it an original monster named Kraydi (see what I did there).  Figuring out an explanation for that name in ATOM’s world was possibly the most difficult kaiju naming task in the series, but it worked out in the end.

- Kraydi and Promythigor having psychic powers is a result of my time on Godzilla fan forums in my middle school years.  Most of the forums had OC kaiju battle tournaments, and SO many of those kaiju had a wide array of beam weapons and psychic powers just to win the tournaments by beam-spamming and mind controlling their foes into oblivion.  There’s a special kind of rage you get when your original creation is beaten by “Fire Godzilla” because he has a genius level intellect and the power of unstoppable telekinesis.  Kraydi began as (and still is I suppose) my attempt to do a psychic kaiju well, while Promythigor’s villainy being tied to psychic powers being forced on him is sort of my passive aggressive commentary on people foisting powers on a monster without any real thematic reason for them.

- Henry Robertson and Dr. Praetorius chewing out the laziness of people giving kaiju completely unaltered names of mythic beasts will probably be seen as a jab at the Monsterverse and/or the numerous writers in the kaiju OC scene who do the same, but it’s ACTUALLY a jab at my past self, who had DOZENS of kaiju whose names were just Greek mythological figures verbatim.  There are dozens of kaiju named Hydra, Scylla, Charybdis, Chimera, etc., past me, try to make the names stand out!  Oh wait you did.  I mean, don’t pat yourself on the back too much, you still went with “Mothmanud” as a canon name and never came up with something better, but, like, good on ya for trying I guess.

- Dr. Praetorius takes his name from the evil mad scientis in Bride of Frankenstein, who basically has all the wicked traits that Universal’s Frankenstein downplayed in their take on Dr. Frankenstein.  Ironically, ATOM’s Dr. Praetorius is a bit less evil than his fellow mad scientists in ATOM.  I really like how his character turned out, he surprised me.

- Isaac Rossum, the pilot of the USA mecha Atomoton, is named for Isaac Aasimov, whose robot stories are to robot fiction what Lord of the Rings is to high fantasy.  His last name is a reference to Rossum’s Universal Robots, which is where the word “robot” came from.

- The unfortunate pilots of MechaTyrantis in ATOM Volumes 1 and 2 are all nods to Jurassic Park.  John Ludlow = John Hammond and Peter Ludlow, Ian Grant = Ian Malcolm and Alan Grant, Dennis Dodgson = Dennis Nedry and Lewis Dodgson.

- A good way to pitch Invasion from Beyond! would be “what if the staff and monsters were able to fight back when the Kilaaks tried to take over Monsterland?”

- Ok, here’s a fun joke that no one will get but me because it requires a very specific chain of logic based on some obscure and loosely connected nerd bullshit.  There’s a rocker in ATOM’s universe named Sebastian Haff, right?  One of his songs, “Darling Let’s Shimmy,” is referenced right before a mothmanud larva emerges from the ground in both ATOM Vol. 1 and 2.  Ok, so, in the Bubba Hotep, an aging Elvis impersonator named Sebastian Haff claims he is actually the real Elvis Presley, having changed places with the real Sebastian Haff as a sort of Prince and the Pauper deal that went wrong.  Got that?  Ok, so, in UFO folklore, a common joke is the theory that Elvis didn’t die, but was rather abducted by aliens (or he actually WAS an alien the whole time - the whole “Elvis didn’t die, he just went home” joke in Men in Black is a good example of this).  Ok?  Ok.  So, in ATOM’s universe, we can surmise that their equivalent of Elvis, whose name is Sebastian Haff, WAS abducted by aliens, and that his song “Darling Let’s Shimmy” is subconsciously influenced by his repressed memories from his time aboard the Beyonder spaceships, which is why it accidentally awoke a Mothmanud larva in Volume 1.  There’s a lot of bullshit jokes I put into ATOM, but this is perhaps the bullshittiest of them all.

- One of the most common bits of feedback on ATOM Volume 1 I got was “I kept waiting for something to eat Brick Rockwell, he’s such an asshole.”  And I had to smile and go, “Oh, yeah, guess he never got his, huh?” the whole time without letting on that he was going to die here all along!

- Dr. Lerna and Brick Rockwell’s nature as foils to each other is probably most apparent in Invasion from Beyond!, where both are given fairly similar situations - a nonhuman approaches them with a solution to a global crisis - and react to it very differently.  I worry that some people may think they both made the same choice and got different results, and that that’s hypocrisy on my part, but I hope I wrote it so you can see how their choices and situations actually differ in key ways, and why their decisions, while similar on the surface, are ultimately very different, and thus result in almost opposite outcomes.

- So, when I planned out this book in 2016, I swear I didn’t know about the Orca from 2019′s Godzilla King of the Monsters.  Having the plot hang around Dr. Lerna deciding whether or not to use a sonic device to rouse all the kaiju to save the earth was not INTENDED to be a Monsterverse reference - it came about from me looking at Pathfinder’s take on kaiju, who are all explicitly influenceable by music, and thinking, “Oh, wow, music and songs DO have a major connection with kaiju in a lot of media, I should do something with that.”  Whem KOTM came out a few days after Volume 1 came out I realized I was kinda fucked here, because the comparison was definitely going to be made, but I’d also set this all up already and you can’t just change suddenly to avoid looking like a copy cat and make a good story, so... I dunno, I leaned into it a bit, but it is what it is.

- While most people will probably think they’re a reference to the Reptoids of UFO folklore, the Reptodites are more inspired by the Dinosapien of speculative evolution fame and, even morso, by the Reptites from Chrono Trigger.  Me wanting to avoid the “lizard people control the government” conspiracy theory trope is one of the main reasons why Reptodites have this non-interference clause with humanity.

- Lieutenant Gray is a bunch of different humanoid aliens rolled into one - a little Hopskinville goblin, a little classic gray, a little this one weird alien with five-fingered zygodactyl hands, etc.

- There’s some Beyonder Mecha in this volume that are basically kaiju-fied versions of the Flatwoods Monster.  The species that built them ALSO engineered the Mothmanuds, because connecting Mothman and the Flatwoods Monster is fun!

- Pleprah is, obviously, a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater.

- Tyrantis’s brush with death, in addition to being so very anime, was inspired by my dad outlining how mythic heroes often have to travel to the underworld/land of the dead before they can finish their journey.  It’s one of the plot points that I’ve had planned for this series since middle school.

- I’m sure some will view it as hackneyed and corny, but as a person who’s battled with depression for decades, having Tyrantis’s choice to live be the big heroic turn of the finale was very important to me.  Tyrantis incorporates elements of a lot of imaginary friends I made as a kid, and in many ways he’s kind of the face of my more positive side in my head.  He’s been telling me to choose to live for a while, and while maybe to an outsider it may seem hackneyed, it’s just... very Tyrantis.  He chooses life and kindness in the face of pain and struggle.  That’s Tyrantis.

- Tyrantis’s powered up form is called “Hyper Mode,” which is another Gundam reference.  Originally it was a lot gaudier and involved him turning gold like a fuckin’ Super Saiyan.  I opted for something a little more toned down here.  

- Also, speaking of KOTM references, I decided to make Hyper Mode Tyrantis’s final duel with Pathogen be a sort of foil to Burning Godzilla’s final bout with Ghidorah in KOTM.  Instead of ravaging the city, Hyper Tyrantis’s pulse of energy rejuvenates his fallen allies, and as a result he is “crowned” not out of fear for his supremacy in the wake of killing a powerful enemy, but in gratitude for his kindness.  See?  Leaning into it!

- And now I can finally reveal that Yamaneon is ATOM’s equivalent of The Monolith Monsters - that is, a kaiju that is also a mineral.  I took the “strange continuously growing rock” thing in a very different direction, though, as unlike The Monolith Monsters, Yamaneon is actually alive.

- At various points in the pre-writing process, either Promythigor, MechaTyrantis, or both were going to die fighting Pathogen.  I ultimately decided to let them both live, with MechaTyrantis even getting his flesh and blood body back, because I think it’s more interesting and thematically consistent that way.  They get a chance to heal their wounds by changing their ways.

- The Great Beyonder and Dorazor both almost didn’t make the cut, as I felt they didn’t have the same pull as villains that Pathogen, Promythigor, and MechaTyrantis did.  But then I thought that could actually be the gag - build them up as the final boss, only to have Pathogen take their crown.  I want to explore post-face turn Dorazor a bit more, though.  We’ll have to see about that in a later volume.

- Volumes 1 and 2 make up what I call “The Ballad of Tyrantis Arc” for ATOM.  I call it that because Tyrantis’s storyline in these two volumes was patterend after Chivalric ballads like Yvain the Knight of the Lion.  Tyrantis, a heroic warrior who is kind but dumb of ass, learns of strange goings on outside his home and investigates.  During his journey into the unknown he falls in love with a powerful woman, whose favor he tries to win.  Through happenstance he is separated from his love and, distraught, wanders around fighting various foes to prove his worth, before finally returning to his love a better hero.  Invasion from Beyond! could even be seen as a sort of Morte d’Artur, with Tyrantis and a bunch of other kaiju heroes (including Nastadyne and Kemlasulla, who are built up as Hero Kaiju of Another Story) take part in a huge battle that threatens their idealic kingdom (of monsters).

- Volume 2 isn’t the end of ATOM, but it’s designed to work as an ending if you want to tap out here.  As a reader I feel a definitive ending is important, but as a writer I’m always tempted to revisit my beloved characters, so I feel giving closure while leaving a few doors open for possible future adventures is a good compromise between these positions.  There will be more ATOM stories, some (but not all!) following Tyrantis and Dr. Lerna, but if you want to know that Tyrantis and Dr. Lerna get an ending and the resolution to their arcs such a thing promises, here you go.  An ending, if not THE END.

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

Back to my Safari bookmarks! If you’re wondering why I’d make hundreds and hundreds of bookmarks from tumblr, it’s because I had anxiety and didn’t have a blog yet. Took me a while and eventually I just impulsively made it one night.

- awww ancient Stucky fanart

- several etsy articles that are no longer available

- “Oops! Website deactivated”

- many, many, many links to nothing, but also an array of super random tumblr posts, and when I say random I mean random

- this was when CATWS was fresh and people were like :O

- a list of recipes to replicate fast food from some American chains at home... ew why would I want to eat any of these things ew ew

- past me, please explain, why would you bookmark all this stuff. why so many bookmarks of possible iphone cases to buy. you did buy some eventually. why keep these b--

- horizontally cutting an apple and putting peanut butter inside it DOES NOT make it a sandwich, American person who wrote this article about sandwich ideas. Wait, “Apple and Gruyere Waffle Sandwich”? That’s even worse.

- you again?? No, using a tomato instead of hamburger buns DOES NOT make a hamburger. How am I supposed to bite into the sk... nevermind.

- awww a bunch of etsy links about products for babies! This is from when my nephew was born ^-^

- a 2004 essay about Dumbledore

- that manga about Jesus and Buddha in modern Japan

- pictures of blooming tea... I have purchased some from a Chinese reseller through Amazon a very long time ago, but the package is “in transit but late” :(

- Roberto Ferri’s paintings (those beautiful ones you saw years ago all over tumblr)

- pictures from the 1930s/40s in color

- super cute pet videos

- nothing says “Etsy” like kintsugi kits where you’re sent a broken object to repair (I didn’t want one, but the link showed me those)

- sure, pick a theme for your blog where microscopic text is written in beige over white background, I’m sure that’s a good idea

- do you think John Winchester apologists who get really intense when someone brings up literal canon still exist on this site or. Actually no I don’t want to know.

- I miss the Carver era meta guys

- an essay that reads the Iron Man trilogy through the lens of “cyborg feminism” but somehow the Iron Man trilogy seems to be a fever dream. That’s what happens when you make other 9472 terrible movies with Tony Stark in it when he’s always written terribly.

- Oh boi remember fanmail. I miss fanmail. They should being back fanmail.

- random stuff, broken links, random stuff, I’m deading, even Safari is suffering I had to close it and open it again asdfghjkl

- Writing Exercises (I’m not checking if it’s actually useful rn tho)

- this smol 2014 article about the Captain America fandom will make you cry now because we had such a good thing and they chose to punish us for it

- https://musicroamer.com and http://www.liveplasma.com

- oh man an essay on why it would be so important for many people if Johnlock became canon. I feel so sorry for the TJLC people, they deserved better

- damn!! Look at this Etsy store!! Look at this stuff!! I want!!

- that time Sergei Polunin danced to Take Me To Church

- the Supernatural soundtrack, episode by episode

- a twitter account that got suspended?? (But also ewwwww twitter shows me what’s trending in my country and ewwwww)

- Centuries Before Memes, There Were The LOLCats Of Japanese Woodprints

- there’s a broken link to a page inside the site “thetoast” and their broken link page says “Oh, bother.” and a picture of a burnt toast

- http://lexicity.com (The first and only comprehensive index for ancient language resources on the internet.)

- NASA Goddard Youtube channel

- omg this is so funny. An article about “awesome recycling ideas”. The objects to recycle? Include? A grand piano; a sea mine; an old boat; another grand piano; A BOEING 747 JUMBO JET ENGINE; another boat; sliced cars; multiple more pianos... thank you I really needed an idea on what to do with that stuff in my garage

- one of my first tumblr posts............. you really want to see it? do you? okay. But you need to be familiar with that famous Nietzsche passage about the announcement of the death of God. Yeah, I know. I can’t fathom how I got thousands of people to follow me.

- an amigurumi project I actually tried, with an acquaintance’s help and all, but I just couldn’t

- a folder of random stuff lebeled “bau” (“woof” in Italian, you know, what the dog says)

- more resources for my thesis I never used

- the map of the central building of my university (I always get lost in it)

- once upon a time, the most used word on the internet was “codependency”

- thanks, past me, for grouping all these links from tumblr blogs that changed their url all together so I can just delete everything with a single click.

- a folder “sherlock meta”. Blogs that deleted. (*touches the ground*...)

- discussions on the dismissal of the queer reading of Sherlock :’) I’m sorry guys

- it’s a good thing I didn’t have a blog back then. If I’d reblogged all the posts I’ve saved it would have been a mess.

- TEEN WOLF META asdfghjkl I routinely forget that Teen Wolf is a show I actually watched. Sure, I abandoned it at some point. Like everyone else did, I think.

- guys, we’re at posts from the first few days of 2014. We’re about to enter 2013. I don’t know what we’ll find.

- Destiel posts. These are all Destiel posts.

- a link to the Naruto manga on a manga reader site.

The Safari bookmarks end here, I think because for Christmas 2013, if I remember correctly, I got a new laptop. But there’s a folder with some bookmarks I imported from the old one... 

- some resources on disability representation, random tumblr posts, and the family free of the Julio-Claudian dynasty

- super random tumblr blogs?? including the demo.tumblr.com??? idek

- oh boi. A super mega amount of tumblr blogs. How am I supposed to open these?? If I open all the tabs I’ll make my laptop crash... I’m not opening them. Most are unfamiliar, probably fandom blogs that changed their url twice a month, but I can spot a few I still follow :) Congrats, I “followed” you long before I had a blog myself.

Well, this was anticlimatic. Apparently, past me already got rid of all the wild stuff. There’s not even a SINGLE Glee thing? Not one? From 2014? Wait, what was airing in 2014? Season 5? Yeah, maybe that’s a reason. Still.

NEVERMIND I FOUND THEM, they’re no longer saved in a browser, I had changed laptops or sth and I had copied my bookmarks in a email I sent to myself so I could find the links again (which obviously says I made a selection, who knows how many bookmarks were lost. I don’t want to know lmao). I obviously have no reason, time or will to open them, but I can tell you I had divided them in categories:

- uni courses; Japan/Japanese; manga; philosophy and academical stuff; recipes; mixed [oh boi there’s some weird stuff here]; very useful sites; quotes & lyrics [what for?]; videos; Glee stuff; Glee art from DeviantArt; Glee tumblr blogs; Klaine-specific tumblr blogs; Supernatural stuff; Destiel-specific; my most used sites; Deviant Art - fanart [not specified, so I’m betting this is manga fanart - correction from some urls I can tell this is yaoi fanart, yep]; Deviant Art - non-fanart; watercolor images; Deviant Art - food; Deviant Art - pictures of Japan; something very embarrassing I’m not admitting it [no it’s not porn, that would be less embarrassing]; assorted tumblr posts; Supernatural meta; other tumblr posts.

So yeah that was my 2013, how was yours?

[dontknowmyname215]

Try the Pie

Prompt: allergic reaction (for @badthingshappenbingo)

Fandom: supernatural

Characters: Sam & Dean Winchester

Author’s Note: Finally filling my first square for the Bad Things Happen Bingo! You must know that I am definitely not a medical professional and I’ve never had an allergic reaction (thank goodness), so I apologize for any inaccuracies. 

Summary: “This was exactly what every doctor had warned them about, exactly why Dean was always so paranoid and exactly what his worst fears were made of.”

Dean was always careful. He was careful about the diners they stopped at and the food they brought back to the motel. He was careful about what Sam touched and who touched Sam. Anyone who came close to him had to list what they had eaten that day and when they last washed their hands. He didn’t care how ridiculous he sounded or how much it annoyed Sam. From the moment Dean heard the words “peanut allergy”, he vowed to know as much as he possibly could so that they never had to use the damn epipen that was still safely hidden in the glove compartment.

He was prepared to use it, in fact he made sure anyone close to Sam was prepared, but he most definitely would do anything he could to avoid it. Sam on the other hand seemed to enjoy making Dean anxious by testing his fate. Of course Dean was usually a step ahead.

His thoughts were interrupted when the waitress returned with dessert, “One slice of our famous apple pie.” Her fingers brushed the top of Dean’s hand and she smiled.

“Everything okay, sweetie?”

“You’re sure there’s no peanuts in here, right?” He didn’t even bother looking up, even though he knew the waitress was trying her damnedest to get his attention. He was too focused on inspecting the pie in front of him, and keeping it far away from Sam until he knew for sure it was safe.

Sam kicked his shin from beneath the table and apologized to the young girl, who continued to insist that the pie was baked fresh and was absolutely nut free. Once his inspection seemed to confirm the waitress’ description, he quickly shoved the first bite into his mouth, thanking her through a mouthful of deliciousness.

“Why do you have to be so paranoid?” Sam took a sip of his coffee and watched in disgust as Dean devoured the pie.

“Hey,” Dean swallowed another bite. “It’s not my fault that one tiny peanut could kill you.”

“It’s not going to kill me!” Sam rolled his eyes. “It’s a rash for Christ sakes. You’re so dramatic.”

“And your kryptonite is a peanut.”

Dean saw that look in Sam’s eyes but for once the younger brother was quicker and before Dean could knock the fork away Sam was swallowing a bite of pie. Fear and anger boiled over and Dean slammed his fists down on the table staring right at Sam. He could feel the fury heating up his face and everyone in the diner was staring at them.

If he hadn’t been so damn angry, he would have laughed at the whole scene. Sam had startled and dropped the fork on the table, his mouth hung open and his eyes were wide. At least Dean had finally gotten through to the hardheaded son-of-a-bitch.

“You better hope the waitress was right,” Dean spoke dangerously low, “or so help me God, I will-“

“Kill me?” Sam cut Dean off with a whisper but quickly lowered his head.

“Fuck you,” He continued to glare, but couldn’t help the smile that softened his tough features when Sam looked up with a wide grin. “You know what I mean!”

Shaking his head, Dean went back to his pie, but he was still paying close attention to the younger man across from him. He noticed Sam shifting uncomfortably and he especially noticed how his brother pulled the sleeves of his jacket down a bit and lifted his collar. Serves him right.

It never took long for a reaction to start and Dean certainly knew all the signs. Sam rubbed at his legs and as the red bumps started rising up his neck he did his best to hide them even though Dean was well aware.

“How was it?” The waitress returned and reached for the empty plate, but Dean reached out for her hand, catching her off guard.

“It was delicious, but it definitely isn’t nut free.” He smiled at her but sent Sam a knowing glare, enjoying the way his brother squirmed. “My dumbass brother here decided to try it out and my guess is, the crust got him.”

“Dean,” The name came out of Sam’s mouth just the same as it has so many times before, and Dean’s attention was instantly on his brother. “Can we go please?”

Dean sighed, torn between saying ‘I told you so’ or rushing over to Sam’s side. He compromised and threw down some cash, told the waitress to keep the change then ushered Sam out of the restaurant. Something seemed different about this reaction, which made Dean very anxious since he knew everything there was to know about Sam’s reactions.

As he opened the passenger side door and carefully pushed Sam into the seat, he definitely didn’t miss the wheezing breath fighting to escape Sam’s lungs. This was bad.

Dean crouched down beside his brother and listened closely to the slightly labored breaths. Sam hadn’t said anything, but he could see the fear and confusion written across the younger man’s face. This was exactly what every doctor had warned them about, exactly why Dean was always so paranoid and exactly what his worst fears were made of.

“Sammy,” He placed a gentle hand around Sam’s neck and forced their eyes to meet. “It’s okay.”

“My…chest…”

“I know dude,” Dean let go so he could reach into the glove compartment, but his other hand squeezed Sam’s bicep. “I’ve got you though.”

“It’s…never…been…” Sam’s eyes closed as he let his head fall back against the seat and Dean’s movements became a bit frantic. “I’m…sorry”

“Stop,” He grabbed the epipen and quickly opened it, slamming it into Sam’s thigh without any warning or time for Sam to tense. “You’re fine.”

Sam sat up straight, nearly flying into the dash. He bit his lip and clenched his fists against the pain, but Dean could see the second that tight grip on Sam’s lungs started to loosen. Finally, Sam sat back in the seat and squeezed his eyes shut as he focused on breathing. When Dean was sure they had managed to stop the reaction from progressing, at least for the moment, he shut the door and rushed to the drivers side.

“You good?” Dean tried his best to pretend like all was fine and he wasn’t fucking terrified.

Sam finally nodded, his hands slowly relaxing and rubbing at his pants. He would grip the fabric each time he inhaled and then return to rubbing as he exhaled. The pattern continued throughout the whole ride, which surprisingly eased some of Dean’s nerves as well.

When they reached the hospital, Sam’s eyes went wide and he began shaking his head as Dean opened his door, gently tugging on Sam’s elbow. Despite his attempted at protesting, Dean maneuvered him out of the car and got his lanky body through the automatic doors, with little effort.

“Do you need a wheelchair, sir?” The security guard stood from his post and started to grab a chair.

“No,”  Dean shook his head and waved the man off. “Thank you, but we’re good. Right, Sammy?”

“Yeah,” the younger man inhaled slowly and then continued, “good.”’

Sam was still struggling to stay coherent and Dean wasn’t sure if was from lack of oxygen or exhaustion. It could very well be both at this point. He carefully lowered Sam into a nearby chair before heading toward the counter to pick up the usual array of paperwork. Not that he was one to brag, but he’d gotten his record completion time down to eight minutes and some odd seconds. It wasn’t much of an accomplishment, but the cute blonde behind the counter seemed impressed.

When he returned to his seat beside Sam, his brother was bent forward with his elbows on his knees and his fingers curled around the back of his neck. It was a familiar sight, but Dean wasn’t sure it was the best position at the moment. He placed a hand on Sam’s shoulder and pushed back until he could just about see Sam’s eyes through the long strands of sweaty hair.  

He smiled and squeezed Sam’s shoulder, “How ya feeling?”

Sam returned the smile, although his was rather weak, and ran a hand through his hair, “Like there’s a…fucking elephant…on my chest.”

“An elephant, huh?” Dean laughed. “Can’t be that heavy. You got a whole sentence out this time.”

“Well he’s gone now,” Sam rolled his eyes, but must be feeling better because he played along, “but he left an impression…that’s for sure.”

In the silence of the waiting room, Dean’s laughter echoed and he slapped Sam on the back, feeling only slightly guilty when his brother winced. This was good. This was progress.  

“Hey, Dean,” Sam turned to him with tired eyes, “does this mean…I’ll react that way… all the time now?”

“I don’t know, man.”

“I hope not,” Sam took as deep of a breath as he could and then dropped his eyes to the floor. “That was scary.”

“Yeah.” More like terrifying.

They fell silent for a bit, both focusing on the other’s breathing, one to regulate his own and the other to ensure that tired lungs were still working. After living one of his recurring nightmares, Dean was running on fumes and yet he still managed to find a tiny silver lining just as Sam was being called.

Sam slowly pulled himself from the chair and nodded in Dean’s direction. They locked eyes for a moment before Sam headed toward the nurse, but Dean couldn’t help what came out of his mouth. In fact he was pleasantly surprised it took him this long.

“Maybe next time you’ll stay away from my food, bitch.”

[holylulusworld]

Married per accident – Part 12

Summary: After her fiancée cheated on her the reader meets a hot stranger in a bar and get married. She's got no clue that he is Jensen Ackles.

Pairing: Jensen x Reader

Warnings: wedding stuff, jealous reader (a hint), a surprise at the end, it’s mostly fluff, tension

Married per accident Masterlist

2 months later…

“Jay, can you help me with that? I really need to decide which cake we want to order.” You mutter when Jensen is busy playing with his phone.

“Yeah. Sure. Look at all the nice comments. They wish us luck, every single post is nice this time. See they start liking you.” Jensen rumbles before kissing your cheek.

The saleswoman is staring at him the whole time. You are used to this reaction now. Jensen is famous and the women are crazy about him. You know he would never betray you. He proved this more than once over the last year.

“You mean they pity me as I lost the baby.” You whisper.

“Hey, come on. Let’s eat some cake. What do we have here?”

“Uh…that one is strawberry with a white chocolate mousse au chocolate filling and vanilla. The brown cake is a Mississippi mud one. It has cherries as filling too.” The saleswoman swoons.

“What about the one over there,” Jensen asks.

“That’s a pie, Jensen. I’m not marrying Dean Winchester.” You scold.

“I wouldn’t mind.” The woman giggles and you roll your eyes.

“Yeah. But I prefer Jensen so we will go for a cake.”

“Can we buy the pie too? For later. Jared wants to come around and you know he loves sweet stuff,” Jensen whisper in your ear.

“Okay, but only if you help me with the cake.”

“What’s the orange thing over there.”

“It’s filled with a citron and orange crème.”

Wrinkling your nose you shake your head furiously. Seeing your disgusted face Jensen starts chuckling.

“My wife hates citron and orange stuff in a cake. What about the ugly pink cake?”

“We won’t buy that ugly accident!” You scold.

“Then let’s taste those two and if we don’t like one of these, we can try another one.”

“Okay.”

“God, that’s awesome, taste it, Baby.” Jensen moans. Feeding you with his Mississippi mud cake he chuckles when you moan too.

“You’re right that one is great. We should take it then.”

“Alright. You heard my pretty wife we will take three of those.”

“Three?” You ask shocked.

“Yeah. We will have many guests so we will need a lot of cake,” Jensen states.

“But three?”

“Believe me. You don’t want to find out what happens when the cake is out.”

“Oh…okay. Then we should buy three.”

“Good, how about some cupcakes too?” The saleswoman asks.

“She’s right. Sometimes people prefer cupcakes.” You say.

“Can we have matching cupcakes? With the same filling and all?”

“Sure, Mr. Ackles. This shouldn’t be a problem.” The chick giggles now.

“Maybe we should buy some with the white chocolate and strawberry filling too?”

“Good idea, Baby. Maybe someone doesn’t like dark chocolate.”

“Can I do anything else for you, Mr. Ackles?” The girl tries to flirt.

“No, I think my wife and I have everything we need. We should check on the invitations now and then I really need a rest.” Jensen says.

Taking your hand in his he leads you out of the bakery. The girl is following your every step sighing.

“I think you just broke her heart,” you scold.

“My heart belongs to you, what can I do?”

“Trying to charm me again, Mr. Low Voice?”

“Does it work?” Jensen rasps into your ear.

“You know that it always works but we need to finish our tasks today. I want to spend the weekend with you without doing anything except … ahem…”

“Dirty girl! I think I ruined you,” Jensen states proudly.

“What can I say, you are irresistible, and I missed you the last days.”

“I know. Sorry, we had to work longer to get the 300. Episode done. Jeffrey had to get back to film TWD.”

“I know, Jay. Now let’s get the invitations and we can have some unhealthy food.”

“Unhealthy food?”

“I’m hungry…I need something fatty and unhealthy today.” You mutter.

“Am I marrying Dean Winchester?” Jensen asks.

“Huh? Why? I want some food.”

“Alright let’s get the invitations and I’ll buy you all the unhealthy food you want.”

“Awesome!”

“I really going to marry Dean Winchester.” Jensen chuckles.

-----

“They look beautiful.” You say.

“Uh…got no clue but if you say so I believe it.” Jensen rumbles.

Standing behind you he looks over your shoulder to fake interest in the little cards. Pressing his chest to your back he sniffs at your hair.

“Jay. Not here.” You whisper.

“What? I’m only looking at the invitations.”

“Don’t lie! I know what you are planning!”

“I only try to seduce my beautiful wife. Maybe after I bought you the food you are craving?”

“Fine but now behave, Mr. Low Voice.”

-----

“Oh, I want that pizza! Look at all the cheese!” You squeal.

“You really are nuts about a pizza? Since when?”

“I told you I’m hungry!”

“That’s not normal. Yesterday you ate a sour cucumber with peanut butter, Baby.” Jensen chuckles.

“I wanted to try it. It wasn’t that bad.” You defend your eating behavior.

“I’m pretty sure this isn’t normal.”

“Hmmm…” Letting Jensen’s words sink in you know you need to tell him.

You wanted to wait until you are sure that the critical weeks have passed.

“Is something wrong, Y/N? Did I say something wrong?”

“No, Jay. We should drive home. I need to tell you something.”

----

“Okay. What’s wrong? Are you sick?”

“No, Jay. I wanted to wait until the doctor says we passed the critical weeks. I’m pregnant. Almost two months. I wanted to wait a bit longer to be sure I won’t lose it again.”

“You’re pregnant? Why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Jensen asks smiling.

“I didn’t want to disappoint you again.”

“Baby look at me. You could never disappoint me. I love you. We will have a baby this time, okay. We are prepared this time.”

“I know. The doctor says everything is alright but I’m still worried.”

“We will go to the doctor and ask what we can do to support the baby.”

Nodding you let Jensen hug you tight. “We are going to have a baby.” He whispers.

“Yes, Jay. We are going to have a baby.”

“Uh…good thing we are going to marry next month or your dress won’t fit anymore.” Jensen chuckles.

“You are really great in ruining a romantic moment, Ackles.” You scold.

“It’s true. You will be round with my baby. Hmm…beautiful and round.”

“No funny business!”

“Please.”

“First I want my pizza, then I need a shower and then we can celebrate.”

“Dirty girl!”

“Come on Mr. Low Voice, give me what I need…”

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[occasionalfics]

Convenience Store (Thor X Reader)

drabble masterlist | main masterlist | taglist | part 2

For @ineffabl-y: “I live for the thought of meeting Thor at a grocery store like you make a late night run to the store to pick up some cereal and you can't see who it is but they're blocking your favorite cereal. It is our favorite mans Thor obviously 👏🏾 and ur shook 💕💕💕”

A/N: I have no idea what Thor is doing at this particular convenience store in the middle of the night but...he’s an interesting dude with lots of quirks so we’re just gonna stick with that!

Warnings: Nothing, super fluffy!

Words: 1,378

The second she got off work, she was out the door and on her way to the nearest convenience store. She knew it was open 24 hours, so she’d have no trouble getting what she needed, but she always felt nervous going grocery shopping in the middle of the night by herself. Still, she didn’t have much of a choice if she wanted to eat something when she woke up around lunch time tomorrow.

As it usually was, the parking lot was empty save one other car. From the beat up bumper of the Ford, she knew Tom was on duty until 6am, when the morning crew would come in. The manager, probably Debbie, was most likely out getting coffee two towns over at the only Dunkin Donuts around that stayed open this late. As she hurried into the store, pulling a cart from the corral, she missed the third car pulling in between her Prius and the Ford.

She started in the beauty department, all the way in the back of the store, so she missed when Tom acknowledged the newcomer. It wasn’t long after that that she went around to the grocery department, looking through the boxes of instant mac and cheese and microwavable rices. She barely noticed the other body in the aisle, despite its size and girth. She filled her cart, moving down the aisle slowly, then muttered, “Excuse me,” as she tried to get around the other person. She didn’t give them much of a glance - it was late, they were alone, and she just wanted to get home safely.

The person moved closer to the shelves, so she went around them. She stopped on their opposite side, staring up at the top shelf, where the poptarts were. Her favorite flavor was too far back for her to reach, so she sighed and tried to find another flavor to take home. None of the options sounded quite as good as her favorite, so she moved across the aisle and attempted to reach the closest one.

Of course, it was too far. She already knew that. But it was so far back that there was no chance of her getting to it at all, so she gave up after a few tense seconds and stood back on her heels.

“Would you like some assistance?” she heard, and when she looked up, she saw that the stranger was looking at her with his arm up over the top shelf.

She also realized she knew him. Not personally or anything. He was famous - sort of. An Avenger, which definitely counted as famous. He’d shown up in New Mexico a few years ago, then came out of nowhere when Manhattan had been attacked, and then again when Ultron attacked Sokovia. He was the one that wasn’t from Earth, she remembered, but she hadn’t paid enough attention to the news to remember his name. Theon? No - that was that asshole from Game of Thrones.

He handed her the box she couldn’t reach with a smile - a genuine smile - and she thanked him bashfully. She’d forgotten that he’d asked her a question in her mad race to remember his identity.

“My pleasure,” he said with a nod.

She put the poptarts in her cart without looking, letting the box fall into the basket with a bang. The Avenger had gone back to picking out his own poptarts. His basket was hanging from his elbow and full of sweets - candy, fruit snacks, sugary cereal. She’d heard the Avengers had just initiated a sixteen-year-old from Queens, and without thinking, she reached forward to touch his arm lightly and say, “This will rot that kid’s teeth.”

The Avenger looked at her with a confused look in his eye. He only had one, she noticed. It didn’t detract from his handsome features, she also saw.

“I’m sorry?” he asked, turning toward her.

She pointed to his basket. “All of that sugar,” she said. “It’s not good for kids. Even teenagers.” When he didn’t respond except with blank blinks, she gulped and shrunk away from him. “Sorry. Didn’t mean to overstep.” She could’ve told him it’d been a long day - a double shift because Nancy had called out to take her granddaughter to the doctor, which was the reason she was shopping for food so late. But she didn’t say anything else; she started to back away, but the Avenger cleared his throat and effectively stopped her in her tracks.

“I assume you’re referencing the Boy of Spiders,” he said.

She chuckled, because she’d never heard anyone refer to that kid like that. She’d only heard what she said to him then: “Spider-Man, yes. Although, I guess he still is a boy.” She gave a small shrug.

“Well, the good news is that all of this is for me. The boy doesn’t live with the rest of us,” he said. “And until recently, neither did I. You say the sugar in these food items will rot teeth?”

She nodded slowly, taking in his genuinely concerned face. The eyebrow over his missing eye had risen, and it didn’t retreat as he looked down into his basket.

“What might offset that?” he asked, moving boxes around to make room.

She stepped forward again and peered in without getting too close. He might be an Avenger, but he was still in a convenience store - alone - with a strange woman in the middle of the night. She believed that she couldn’t be too careful.

“Maybe some real fruit?” she said. “Things with high fibre and protein. Peanuts are always a good snack.”

He smiled wider, his eyes crinkling as he nodded. “Duly noted,” he said, and then he held a hand out to her. “I apologize for not introducing myself earlier, but I’m told it’s customary to do so upon meeting someone new. I’m Thor.”

“Thor!” she said, and then she nearly bit her tongue when his demeanor changed. He looked confused again, so she reached forward to grab his hand before he could retract it. “Sorry,” she mumbled, “I just...was having trouble… Nevermind. I’m (Y/N).”

He watched her closely for a moment, but then he must’ve decided meeting her was a good thing. His large hand closed tighter around hers as they greeted one another, and he settled into a more comfortable stance. “Thank you for your assistance, (Y/N),” he said before dropping her hand.

She nodded. “No problem. Anything for the Avengers.” She didn’t really mean it, but he didn’t need to know that. “It was nice to meet you.”

“Indeed,” he replied. “And please, don’t hesitate to find me if you need anything off high shelves again.” He winked at her, and she laughed at him for it.

She only stopped when she realized she hadn’t laughed like that in a while. And that he’d headed down the aisle, but looked back at her with that smile over his shoulder twice. Twice.

She bit her lip and got her bearings together before finishing shopping. When she went to the front counter, Tom rang her items up as he usually did, making small talk simply because they were used to seeing one another this late at night. He bagged her goods, then she paid, and when he handed her the receipt, Tom noted that something had been written down especially for her.

“Mr. Thor asked me to give it to you,” Tom said.

She thanked him, then headed to her car. She noticed, then, that Tom’s Ford was the only other car in the parking lot. She still locked her doors after getting in, then turned the light on above her seat. She checked the back of the receipt to find a series of numbers - a phone number - and a small note that read:

Y/N,

Just in case you need to take me up on that offer to reach tall things.

Sincerely,

Thor

She couldn’t stop the smile from spreading across her lips at the thought of an Avenger giving her their phone number. The fact that it was Thor was the cherry on top; even though she didn’t know much about him, the paper in her hands and the opportunity he afforded her made her whole crappy night that much better.

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[oukah87]

End of The Year Fanfiction Shout out!

To complete another year I figured a shout out to some of my favorite fanfictions would be nice. A bunch of these do not get enough attention they deserve. Mind you I usually only read longer fanfictions, so most on this list are longer than 5 chapters. I am sorry I haven't included all my faves and I only selected a few fandoms, I am very short on time and have a lot of projects to finish before midnight. I should do this more often I live on fanfiction and deeply appreciate all the work you wonderful fanauthors do! Thank you and keep writing!

Royai (Roy x Riza) Fullmetal Alchemist:

Ruby Throat by Hmmingbird

Love fell into his lap at the most inopportune moment. [Royai]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3047219/1/Ruby-Throat

Best Kept Secret by MoonStarDutchess

What if Roy and Riza were secretly married through the entire series? This story tells you that. Mixes manga, anime, and original content. Royai

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2974475/1/Best-Kept-Secret

The Closed Circle By Hmmingbird

In which Lieutenant Hawkeye drives Colonel Mustang to distraction, and he decides he's had quite enough cold showers.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9521782/1/The-Closed-Circle

Stilettos at Dawn by Hmmingbird

One year after The Promised Day, Mustang and Hawkeye are newlyweds in East City. But living in a time of peace, as well as making peace with each other, is easier said than done. Rated M for all the right reasons. [Royai]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9917656/1/Stilettos-at-Dawn

Games without Frontiers by Crack_Alchemist

What people do in their spare time should be their business, right? Well, when it's the Peanut Gallery of Fullmetal Alchemist, nothing goes as planned.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3480071

Jerza (Jellal x Erza) Fairy Tail:

The Monster and the Man by Freyjabee

Pleasure houses where the men and women are too beautiful to be real. Casinos where the House always wins but no one can stay away. Drugs that will let you love anyone you can dream of...For all of this, there is only ever one price and everyone pays the same: everything you are. The man you can be... Set him aside for the monster.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/8747827

Cardinal by Freyjabee

They're assigned a case they didn't want, dredging pleasure houses and dark corners for a dangerous man the media is calling the Cardinal.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/11693832

So Late by Wordslinger

Jellal regrets the invitation the instant he says it but not enough to rescind. When she ends the call abruptly, he isn't sure what she'll do. His words hang in the air in front of him. Guilt. Shame. Self-loathing. He feels them all

http://archiveofourown.org/works/10833462

The Fall of Mercutio by Wordslinger

What's in a name? His mother had called him her little starboy for as long as he could remember. Sometimes Jellal wondered if the nickname was enough to part the clouds of his other names - the ones assigned to him at birth.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/10656465

The Sharpest Edge by Wordslinger

He'd been charged with protecting the Princess's life at all costs but he never could've guessed the looming threat would come storming from the shadows of his past.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/5545868

*****I could suggest so many and I feel bad I have only listed 2 authors, but I have so much to do before the new year and these are just so good and high quality. Thank you for filling my nights with your long epics****

Revy x Rock/Black Lagoon:

Revy vs Crickets by Jm1681

Revy has a cricket in her room and it's keeping her awake. Clearly, there is only one thing she can do; take up her Cutlass. One-shot, Revy/Rock.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5444254/1/Revy-vs-Crickets

Sweet Attack by unkeptsecret

Chaos returns to Roanapur as the Triads and Hotel Moscow start their inevitable war. Old alliances clash with new ones, and the only person who can save them all is pressing out his collared shirt by the bed. Revy and Rock. Chang and Balalaika.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5105130/1/Sweet-Attack

Never Have I Ever By fifthessence (ravenwing136)

Rock frowned. "Never have I ever what?" Revy was too busy snickering to answer his pleading look. Dutch picked up the explanation. "You name something you've never done, and anyone who has done it takes a drink," he told him. "Basically, try not the pass out before you find out whose life is the most boring.”

http://archiveofourown.org/works/9632294

The Calabrian Gambit by Chapa3

Black Lagoon Company is hired to smuggle in a man carrying 400 kilos of cocaine. A simple job turns into a web of gambits and feigns, as this enigmatic stranger threatens to turn Roanapur on its head. Who is Luca Cavalcanti, and what are his motives?

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3288119

Friends with Benefits by JM681

Rock and Revy's friendship takes an interesting turn as one, simple indiscretion leads to another... Revy/Rock, M for sexual situations and language.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5770576/1/Friends-with-Benefits

Black Lagoon: Pirates Life for Me By Kipper898

It all started with what should have been another job, now the gang from Lagoon are neck deep in it. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5487739/1/Black-Lagoon-Pirates-Life-For-Me

And of course, the Legendary….

Harry Potter:

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH by SecondPillow

Harry Potter eventually eats a sandwich and discusses life with a famous author.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2554200/1/HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I personally challenge anyone who reads/appreciates fanfiction to do this! Thanks to all the writers out there and have a wonderful 2018!

I wont link the author tumblrs unless requested, incase they wish to stay anonymous please pm me if you would like your tumblr linked under the description of your fiction~

[crutchieheadcanons]

⭐️ Newsies Superlatives Results ⭐️

@thestoryweneededtowrite ~best overall fanfiction writer @ostrich-on-a-rampage ~best angst writer @pontmarius ~ most famous newsie @jackscrutchie ~best cosplayer @dont-sneeze ~best JackCrutchie writer @ask-the-newsboys ~best overall role play account @deafwestnewsies ~most understanding @nerdgirl453 ~friendliest! @amber-irises ~best moodboards @musicalsandmayhemandmurderohmy ~best Sprace newcomer @gay-newsboys ~Best ship fanfiction writer @crunchie-morris ~best smile in the fandom @serendipity--goddess ~most likely to win a Tony @vitariesocks ~ superhero of the fandom (he is literally Spider-Man) @nonstop-laurens ~most supportive account! @educationaladmiral ~best newcomer fanfiction writer @dszahdh ~ best username @spot-and-all-his-cronies ~most creative @benshook ~Best Ben Tyler Cook fan @spitboi-mcriffs ~most likely to stan Barney Peanuts (nominated by Spot-Conlons) @nobody-told-the-horse ~best hugger (nominated by Spot-Conlons) @mouserzwuzhere ~most likely to be the mom of the friend group (nominated by spot-conlons) @spot-conlons ~most likely to get sassed for cursing on a livestream @brainsofthestrike ~best Davey role play account @buttons-standby ~most likely to hang out with toursies (nominated by @spot-conlons) @alexanderhammyhamham ~funniest @cinnatris13 ~sweetest @jackdreamsofsantafe ~Best Jack roleplay account @freedomfriesandapplepies ~most likely to brighten someones day @writewhatyouknow ~Best Katherine roleplay account @hamilton-canyouimagine with @davey-jacobs ~best bromance @knivesandsarcasm ~smartest @tired-alexander ~most likely to cheer you up @crutchiebytheway ~most likely to have been head boy @cigarrace ~Best Race Roleplay account @spotsies ~best artist @angry-ace ~best overall newcomer @A-smile-that-spreads-like-buttah ~best genderswaped Roleplay @smackjelly ~created the best meme in the fandom @irl-jackkelly ~sweetest tags @racehas2hands ~best Ralbert fanfiction @transnewsies ~most likely to become an actor @fordaveyjacobs ~best headcanons @jackdaveycrutchie ~best Spot Conlon art @racetrack-and-jojo ~best Jojo blog @Iiebytheoceanside and @wonderofthemind ~Best couple @ask-yesterdays-newsies ~wittiest in the fandom @fandom-overload7890 ~best at posting good advice @ask-thenewsies ~most caring @aeichajoanes ~most likely to be sorted into Hufflepuff @ask-the-richmond-newsies ~best ask blog that doesn't include the main newsies @newsies-movie-fangirl ~biggest fan of the movie @newsiesimagines ~best Newsies imagines!! @kidblink ~best personality @Askthewoodsidenewsies ~most likely to be a good friend @seizethedaveyjacobs ~most considerate @iconicshrub ~best Smalls art @mllemensonges ~most humorous tags @david-jacobs-would ~best Davey headcanons @she-loves-you ~best attitude @racetrackhuggins ~best bio @tiredjay ~best Chaz fan @kathycats ~most likely for their blog to become famous @ask-da-newsies ~most likely to win a Pulitzer @spotchie ~always informs us of amazing newsie things @fatherlessamber ~most spirited @newsiesask ~most likely to be president @lesbian-thespian-from-next-door ~most likely to be a leading lady @savemyplace-santafe ~best newsies content @song-of-the-moon-1025 ~kindest blog @justwatchwhathappcns ~sunniest disposition @youdontknowme56 ~most selfless blog @aaronleburr ~Smallest content but biggest heart @spralbert ~most likely to marry a newsie @thinkaboutseizingtheday ~Does the most for the fandom @ask-the-newsies-of-flushing ~most likely to write the next Harry Potter @Neverfearbrookylnshere ~most likely to organise a strike @newyorksgotus ~most organised And there you have it! If I got your name wrong or forgot you just message me! This took a long time and I hope you like it! Also thank you to the two people who nominated me but I didn't know what to give myself 😂

[cowandcalf]

Question Time

I was tagged by the gorgeous @consultingfangirl ! Thank you so much for tagging me, Hon! <3<3

Rules: Always post the rules, do all 11 questions by the tagger, write 11 of your own questions, and tag 11 people to answer said questions.

Answered Questions:

1.  How many pets do you have? What are their names?

We have 7 in-house pets (6 cats and 1 dog) and 16 pets, always living outside (cats, adopted from animal welfare, taking care of them 24/7, not used to confined spaces such as appartements. They freak out.)

Names: Daisy, Linus, Yoda, Minka, Sky, Eowyn and Emma (dog)

Names: Agrawain, Toffee, Gwendolin, Hazel, Flinn, Emily, Jimmy, Hanna, Samoa, Big Mama, Miss Louis, Amira, Samira, Peanut, Peaches, Pablo

And there is Charly the horse and Sämi another dog. But that's another story.

2. What is your favorite movie and how many times do you think you've seen it?

Ha! It's a super famous children's film but it's watched by adults too. Every year around christmas everyone watches this movie in Switzerland, a fairytale loosely based on Disney's Cinderella. “Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel”. To hear the music means happy childhood time. I've seen it at  least 35 times and I will keep watching it. This movie connects me deeply with so many great moments concerning my childhood.

3. What was your first fandom ship?

That was James Dean and Elisabeth Taylor in George Stevens's movie "Giant" (1956), not knowing that fandom exists. I was too young but I was born with a fangirl's heart.

4. What was your first fandom and who/what got you into it?

This was Brokeback Mountain. Pure desparation and this agony of an unknown heartache let me find the soul-saving fountain of fanfiction by surfing the net for hours.

5. How would you describe your fashion sense/style in just three words?

Seriously?, random, resilient

6. If you could go to San Diego Comic Con next year (or if you are going!) what would you cosplay and why?

I don't cosplay and I don't attent such shows. I wouldn't go because even though I'm addicted to my shows/OTP I don't want to see them like this. I'm interested only in the very private side of my otp. The real "them" and I never gonna know this side, because I know they don't show it to fans. So no reason for me to go.

7. Have you ever done a couple/OTP cosplay? If so, which one? If not, which one would you most want to do?

Nope, I haven't and there is no wish to try.

8. What's your favorite genre of fiction?

Slash, romance mixed with angst, hurt/comfort and fluff ending in a great crescendo leading from the first kiss into smut laced with deep love. I need my OTP to fall in love over and over again, from different angles, with different problems but always ending up in love and happy. Built up on A/B/O verse, Mpreg, AU or Sentinel and Guide, the main thing is that they end up together.

9. What is your favorite flower.

This is one of many: Solidago

10. What is your dream vacation spot and why?

A horse ranch with caddle and working cowboys who are real horsemen. This could be anywhere, preferably where Buck Brannaman hangs out teaching his profound knowledge. Since early teenager days there is this cowgirl heart beating in my chest. I want to learn the work of a cowboy. It's hard, it's intense, it's exhausting and it's my damn thing.

11.What is the most insane (and/or awesome) thing you've ever done?

I worked on Maldives as a dive master with no education in scuba diving at first. But I met this russian guy, I fell in love and he was a tech diver, crazy as fuck. I did hell of a lot of stupid, crazy dives and adventure trips for about 14 months and I was working at a dive school on Maledives.

Wow, that was some work, but thanks so much @consultingfangirl for these awesome questions!

Asked Questions:

1. What were you doing during the day yesterday?

2. Is there a person in your life you broke up with out of whatever reason and you wish to meet her/him again?

3. Is there a scene from your favorite TV Show that blew your mind, still stucks in your head and you have to think at it every now and then? A scene that moved you, knocked the air out of your lungs kind of special scene?

4. Do you know a person in real life who knows fanfiction, the real meaning behind it and is a fangirl/fanboy too?

5.  What would you want to experience but weren't brave enough to just do it?

6. Do you watch porn on tumblr?

7. How does a perfect day should look like?

8. What kind of beauty products do you use in the morning to get fit for the day? (like all of it)

9. How do you celebrate your birthday?

10. Would you step on an empty dancfloor and start dancing just because the music is awesome?

11. Is there a project in your mind, a dream maybe, that you love dearly and maybe one day you want to do it?

And I tag all fo you guys. Feel free to skip it, have fun if you do it!

@loyalty2waystreet @b-n-a-o @mymcdanno @cherryblossomsm @summernightdream70 @rickylloverao3 @indiepjones46 @writing2reachyou @destielvestiges @teamfreewill- @jonibeloni

[hello-em75]

Tagged by the wonderful @angies-team , @travelerchrisedward , @wilderwestqueen , @nightfurylover1112 , and @crazy4dragons ! Thanks so much guys! These were so fun to do!

Rules:

1. Always post the rules.

2. Answer the questions given by the person who tagged you.

3. Write 11 questions of your own.

4. Tag 11 people.

My Questions:

1. Best memory from the HTTYD fandom?

2. What are you hoping to see in RTTE S5 & 6 / HTTYD 3?

3. Who in the HTTYD fandom is the reason your heart beats (to quote the famous words of sleep-deprived Snotlout Jorgenson) ?

4. Have you been mistaken for someone else?

5. Any guilty pleasures?

6. Live action or animation?

7. Who do you think you would connect with the least if you were a Dragon Rider?

8. How many times have you binge-watched a TV show?

9. If you were able to choose to return to any point you wanted in your life, where would you go?

10. Have you ever met anyone in real life who’s reminded you of one of the Dragon Riders (I know this girl who has the last name Jorgenson and it’s pretty crazy) ?

11. Favorite snack food?

I tag @chiefhiccstrid , @drchee5e , @dragonlovertr , @fanaticfangirl2602 , @astridthevalkyrie, @fangirling1998 , @fanwriter02 , @lutavero , @spacekeet , @astrxd , and @dragontails89 !

Angie’s Questions:

1. What is your absolute favorite song?

I always jam out to Let Her Go by Passenger but I really love a whole bunch of songs and just happen to be very indecisive in choosing a favorite :)

2. Favorite form of physical activity?

What physical activity  When I’m not being pressured to do it, I enjoy running. Just don’t get any bright ideas and sign me up for any marathons or anything.

3. Favorite 5 fanfics?

Okay, the fact that this was hard for me means I’ve definitely read too many:

1) Chasing Thunderstorms series by @tysonrunningfox . This was the first full-length fanfiction that I read when I joined the fandom a couple years ago and it totally blew me away how real and well-written the characters seemed when she wrote them. I haven’t reread the whole series in full IN AGES but sometimes I reread some of my favorite chapters  and fall in love with it all over again!

2) Young God by @oh--you--pretty--things. If there was a fanfic that forged its own trail, this one would do just that. It’s so incredibly different from any other Hiccstrid or HTTYD fanfics out there in its plot and universe, but still manages to remain true to the characters and their personalities --even if its hidden somewhat under Punkcup’s incredibly hot exterior.

3) The Quest by @funkytoes. I love how unique the story is how characters like Astrid, Hiccup, and Eret are portrayed in such an exciting and new way! Plus, anything where my queen is rocking it as a resident badass always gets good marks in my book. 

4) You’re Everything I Want (and Nothing I Can Keep) by @wilderwestqueen. The story is so fun and engaging to read and I’m SUCH a sucker for friends to couple AUs. Hiccup and Astrid are also both complete cuties in this fanfic so that’s always enjoyable to read.

5) I Knew You Were Trouble by @astridthevalkyrie. I really enjoy how this story humanizes Astrid: she’s not just a fierce and tough as nails badass, but she has a soft spot for kids and cares deeply about her friends. Not to mention that Jerkcup is actually an undercover cutie that I love to pieces.

4. Ice cream or warm, home baked, fresh-out-of-the-oven chocolate chip cookies? >:)

GIVE ME THOSE COOKIES RIGHT NOW.

5. What inspires you to be creative?

My friends and family. If I know my friends and family are behind me, then I’ll have the will and the mindset to unlock my more creative side and actively express myself rather than just give a passive effort.

6. Does music influence how you act while it’s playing?

Definitely. Once Romantic Flight comes on, I’m a hot fangirl mess of emotions.

7. How do you express yourself creatively?

I really like wearing different kinds of clothes to express myself. Something about mixing and matching accessories and clothes to make an outfit I’m proud of gives me a sense of satisfaction.

8. Do you think Jar Jar Binks is a waste of a character? 

I’m not a hard core Star Wars fan so I don’t really have an opinion.

9. What would cheer you up if you’re having a bad day?

Anyone just taking the initiative to even ask and sit down to listen always makes me feel better whenever I’m down. But sometimes I appreciate little gifts too, like when my mom brings me a drink from Starbucks on her way home from work if she knows I’ve been stressed.

10. Where have you traveled that you would love to travel to again? (or) Where would you like to travel to?]

I’d love to travel to Europe and explore all of those cliché tourist spots like Paris and London and Rome and all that, especially since I’ve never been out of the USA before.

11. Who is your Tumblr crush?

There’s actually way too many to count for me to just say them here but I’ll let you know that you’re on the list @angies-team ;)))

Chris’s Questions:

1. Favorite villain in TV series / movie?

Viggo Grimborn (whether dead or alive) will always be remembered as one of my favorites (but also one my most hated) villains because of how different he is from the typical villain mold in the Dragons series. He runs on his intellect rather than his physical strength; a quality to be appreciated whether you’re the protagonist or the antagonist.

2. Have you been abroad before?

I’ve never been outside of the USA, so unfortunately no :(

3. Favorite class at school?

I love studying history! Learning about the past of the world strangely always makes me feel more in touch and connected with what’s happening in the present.

4. What’s your preferred lifestyle?

I don’t like moving around too much, so I’d prefer to live a more sedentary and constant lifestyle rather than always be jumping around from place to place.

5. Are you afraid of anything?

If we’re talking material things, than not really. But if we’re discussing more abstractly, then definitely things like failure and being isolated and not wanted.

6. Describe your Tumblr dashboard in three words?

Informative, fun, and crowded :)

7. What’s your eye color?

Hazel

8. Favorite musician / band?

I’m pretty mercurial as far as music preferences go, but right now I’m hardcore rocking out to Ed Sheeran.

9. When did you get into your biggest fandom?

I think I joined the HTTYD fandom almost three years ago? I look back on some of my posts I made when I first came onto Tumblr and can’t help but cringe.

10. If you could be a new, original character in your favorite TV series / movie, what would you be like, and what would you do?

I’d like to think that I’d be the sarcastic and friendly Dragon Rider that people enjoy spending time with but who knows?

11. Favorite dragon?

The Night Fury is absolutely amazing! But if I wasn’t able to choose the obvious, probably the Triple Stryke or the Deathsong.

Wilderwestqueen’s Questions:

1. What one thing never fails to make you smile?

Listening to music always has a way of making my mood improve, no matter how horrible life can feel sometimes.

2. If you had to make your own Awesome Mix (Guardians of the Galaxy style), what tracks would be on it? 

The entire soundtrack of HTTYD and HTTYD 2, plus probably a bunch of random pop songs that I like (hopefully there’s no song limit).

3. Biggest celebrity crush?

I actually have the biggest girl-crush on America Ferrera. But why wouldn’t I? She’s an activist, a talented actress, and immensely successful. Sounds pretty much like a person that I’d want to get to know.

4. What’s your favorite book and why does it mean a lot to you?

It’s been forever since I’ve actually sat down and read a book just for the sake of enjoyment, but I really enjoy The Book Thief because of how meaningful the story is. It has so much depth to it that not many other books can claim to have.

5. What song makes you want to get up and dance?

Right now, I’m the One by DJ Khaled, Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, and Lil Wayne is my favorite dance jam!

6. If you had to make a superhero team out of any fictional characters, who would you choose?

Astrid Hofferson, because she’s an amazing and intelligent warrior; Black Widow, since she has so much spy training and I can imagine would get along great with Astrid; and Allura, because she’s also an accomplished fighter as well as another strong leader.

7. What fictional world would you choose to live in?

B E R K BECAUSE I APPARENTLY THINK I CAN MAKE IT IN THE CLASSICAL ERA ARCTIC CIRCLE AS A VIKING.

8. Dream job?

Teaching has always been something that I’ve had at the forefront of my mind as far as careers are concerned, but if I was more musically inclined or dramatic I would probably want to be a musician or an actress.

9. If it was your last day on Earth, and you had to pick one last meal, what would you have?

I’d devour all of the Indian food I can. Bring on the samosas.

10. Least favorite movie? Why?

I don’t know what possessed me to see the Peanuts movie, but let’s just say I almost fell asleep three times.

11. What kind of fictional character is your type?

Pretty much anyone that’s anything like Hiccup would be my type. Humble, smart, funny, caring, and fiercely loyal.

Nightfurylover1112′s Questions:

1. What is your hair color?

I have dark brown hair, but it looks pretty black if you’re looking at it from a distance.

2. Who is your favorite animated character?

G E N E R A L  H O F F  ALL THE WAY.

3. iPhone or Android?

iPhone! But my iPhone is staring to show signs of age after about a year and half of having it unfortunately.

4. Have you ever been on a plane?

I have! Can’t say I enjoy the experience though.

5. Where do you want to be right now?

Exactly where I am is pretty nice -- sitting in my living room in a HTTYD blanket typing answers to asks is fun!

6. You have one wish. What would you do?

World peace is where it’s at y’all.

7. Do you have your ears pierced?

Yep! I kind of want to get another piercing in my ears (I only have one right now) but my parents would definitely go against that.

8. Are you tall or short?

I’m short and proud of it, thank you very much.

9. Why do you like your followers?

Because you’re all so friendly and supportive of each other! I’ve found so many great friends in you guys!

10. What do you mostly like to do at home?

Besides sleeping, being able to binge watch Netflix and go on my phone and scroll through Tumblr is pretty fun for me.

11. Do you like dragons?

Nope, I hate those useless reptiles more than words can describe. Such a nuisance LOL.

Crazy4Dragons’s Questions:

1. Favorite movie?

I count the series as one thing for the sake of this question so HTTYD/HTTYD 2!

2. Are you a fan of any sports?

Not too hardcore. I’ll root for home teams (anyone from California) for any sport but I won’t be too broken up if something doesn't go my way and they don't win.

3. Would you rather be stuck in a library or stuck in a movie theater?

I’d probably be okay with either, but more so in a movie theater.

4. If you could marry any fictional character, who would it be?

Hiccup is the only man for me everyone so HANDS OFF (jk).

5. Coffee or tea?

I like both, but I actually need coffee to function normally so COFFEE

6. What’s the furthest you’ve been from home?

Without my parents, the furthest I’ve been from home was when I was in Pennsylvania for my 8th grade trip. Probably would have been more exciting if I had actual friends to talk to that whole week.

7. Do you/did you like school?

Right now, school and I aren’t on speaking terms.

8. Favorite dessert?

I love pies. But not like creamy ones, the ones full of fruit filling that are warm from the oven and have vanilla bean ice cream just oozing down the sides (crap now I’m hungry).

9. Do you have any pets?

Nope, but I have two younger siblings if that counts.

10. Have you ever seen the ocean?

I live in California, so I’ve had my fair share of ocean-viewing lol.

11. What’s your least favorite food?

I’m not that picky when it comes to food, but I can’t bring myself to eat hardboiled eggs; the smell is WAY too strong for me.

[sharksfood]

so this thought just came into my head and i want to explore it.

in my life i’ve only seen 3 films so far that i read as books before they became movies. im not counting comic books/graphic novels that became movies bcs thats a little different, books that became tv shows, or plays that became movies. but its interesting to think about that.

i didnt read harry potter until well after the films (all of them lmao) were released, i’ve never read how to train your dragon, i’ve never read the hobbit/lotr, the animated alice in wonderland came out in the 50s, i have only recently read the last unicorn, i read World War Z after the movie came out (and ive never seen all of the movie), and i read the neverending story when i was cast in the play.

the books that i read before they came out in film are; The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Warm Bodies, and Goosebumps.

Goosebumps kind of fits but it was made into a tv series first, and im not sure if i read the books or saw the shows first. i did both, i know that much.

I read Warm Bodies only bcs I wanted to see the movie but thought the book would be cool to read (its amazing and has a completely different feel from the movie), and Lion Witch Wardrobe was bcs my dad read it to me when I was younger. That and The Magician’s Nephew are the only Narnia books ive ever read.

I was going to try and read Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children before the movie came out, but that work out for me.

if you want to count comics and graphic novels, then the list gets bigger. but comics already have the characters drawn out, so unlike books, you dont have an idea in your head on what the character looks like. that is so often changed in film, plus you loose so much detail and nuance when you go book to screenplay to film (this is also true with comics, but its still different)

However, and the biggest reason as to why I’m thinking about this, two movies will be coming out in the next few years, and both of them are based on my favorite books of all time (aside from the alice books of course). 

The first is Captain Underpants! I know that this is a book series with words and pictures, so technically its a graphic novel series, but they’re kids books! and those tend to have an awful lot of pictures. This series was my FAVORITE (other than the alice books) as a kid!! they were fun, hilarious, relatable, and just all around super great. So when i saw the trailer for the animated film that’s coming out this year based on the series i was ECSTATIC!! Were it live-action i would be bummed out since kids picture books usually fair better when animated (im not a fan of the diary of a wimpy kid movies....) but this animation is handled a lot like The Peanuts movie. The animation look like a color and 3D version of the exact art style!! its wonderful and im SO EXCITED

The other one, and this i am VERY VERY nervous about, is Ready Player One. that is my favorite sci-fi novel ever. i often say its my favorite book ever bc it deserves more love! and i do so much love it. ive reread it i dont even know how many times. and what do you know, they’re making it into a movie!! when i heard about this i had so many mixed feelings, and most of it has to do with the style of the book and the characters.

-Ready Player One Spoilers-

In Ready Player One the protagonist starts out as a dirt poor, fat, unattractive teen boy, and later he gets more physically fit/healthy and rich. he claims to still be unattractive at this point (mostly bcs he jues doesnt like how he looks and he looses all his body hair). this is very important to the character! i’m afraid that in this movie hollywood will do as they always do and make him a skinny conventionally attractive teen from the get-go. people will probably pull the Holes excuse of “the filmmakers didnt want to make the actor gain a bunch of weight and then loose it all” BULLSHIT they can cast a fat actor! and through his training and as they film the movie he can loose some weight or they can use movie magic (like when they made chris evans a scrawny little thing). its not that hard, people.

Another character, and this was super important to me and was a big subplot, is that Wade best friend, Aech, whom he only knows through the game (OASIS) plays as a white, straight, guy avatar, but they’re actually a black lesbian named Helen. And she plays this avatar to protect herself and to get a job and be taken seriously within OASIS. is super sad she has to do this, but its a big part of her character. she’s also fat as well, and im REALLY worried that in the movie she’s going to be a skinny straight white girl.

Two other characters who have important characteristics are Art3mis (Samantha) and the creator of OASIS James Halliday. Art3mis is Wade later love interest and GF. She is notable bcs her avatar is just like her, a chubby girl with black hair, but sans her port-wine birthmark. I know they’ll keep her birthmark, since its an intimate reveal, but they’ll probably make her skinny and i hate it. Now it’s only half canon in the books, but i’ve chosen to go with it, but at one point Wade talks about James Halliday’s childhood and his personality and all that, and mentions that he might have been autistic. Now, since it’s only he “might have been” in the books, the filmmakers will probably not make him autistic. That’s fucking sad to me, I mean, it would be amazing!! This character is one of the smartest, most famous, most prolific video game programmers/designers in history!! And he’s autistic! That is some wonderful representation and the filmmakers should jump on that opportunity. It’ll inspire so many autistic people who have a passion for video games to pursue their dreams. But, i have a hunch they wont go with it.

Two other characters, Daito and Shoto, are Japanese young guys who claim to be brothers (and their characters are) but are just friends in the real world. My initial hunch was that the filmmakers would keep them Japanese, but given the recent whitewashing of important Japanese characters, I have my doubts.

My few other concerns are that this movie won’t have 80s pop culture as the main style and focus of the era they book is set in, not to mention OASIS and most of people’s interests. It’s incredibly important to the novel, but so many dystopian movies choose to go with gritty, futuristic, edgy stuff. The other concern is how they will handle the real life vs OASIS look, since over half of the book takes place inside a VR video game. I’ve seen news that they are utilizing VR technology, but i havent read too much. I’m wondering if they’ll animate all of OASIS and the avatars and action and anything in the video game! That would be awesome.

So these are all my thoughts. I havent looks at who they’ve cast yet, so I’m going to do that right now. I do know that Steven Spielberg is directing it, which could be fantastic or terrible. Okay, cast time.

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So the IMDB doesnt say who is cast as Daito and Shoto, but Wikipedia says that Win Morisaki of PrizmaX will play him, which is great! I hope that’s what happens.

Art3mis/Samantha will be played by Olivia Cooke, who in my opinion is way too old. She’s older than me! The character’s age (i think) isnt mentioned in the book, but she’s got to be 17-20, and Olivia Cooke looks older than that. She’s also not chubby, but hey, maybe they’ll fit that. She also doesnt have the birthmark, but that’s gonna be makeup. (wouldve been cool if they found an actress with a port-wine stain on her face...)

Parzival/Wade will be played by Ty Sheridan. He was Cyclops in X-Men Apocalypse. He’s the right age, but way too fit and attractive. DAMN IT Well, I guess there’s always makeup and special effects, but i’m 80% sure now they wont make Wade fat.....

Aech/Helen will be played by Lena Waithe who is almost PERFECT. She’s much older than Aech, who is around 18, but like Samantha i imagine they’ll have make up and acting to cover it. My biggest concern is that she’s not fat like Aech, which means they’ll use a body suit or effects or Lena will gain weight, or they wont do anything.....

T.J. Miller will be playing I-r0k, who is another OASIS player and a bigtime douchebag jerk. This is perfect. We don’t know his age, or really anything other than his personality and avatar, and T.J. Miller is hilarious so this/ll be great.

Mark Rylance will be playing James Halliday, witch is fine by me. He’s not quite what I imagined, but thats what makeup and wigs are for. He’s worked a lot with Steven Spielberg, so that makes sense as to why he’s cast here. I just hope he can portray an autistic character well and with respect.... (would be better if he IS autistic but ya know.....)

Simon Pegg will be playing Ogden Morrow, the co-creator of OASIS, and thats perfect. No complaints.

Nolan Sorrento (the antagonist of the book and head of operations at Innovative Online Industries) will be played by Ben Mendelsohn, who was Director Krennic in Rouge One. He is much older and not quite and slimy as I imagined him, but this can totally work. I pictured Nolan Sorrento as Andrew Scott in my head, since he seems like the perfect evil, charismatic, slimy, attractive but ugly inside business man.

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So, after looking at the current casting choices im a little let down, but still excited! I’ll have to wait patienly for the trailer, since this thing is coming out in 2018. Dang, this turned into a Ready Player One post, but its been on my mind recently.

If you read through all of this, good job! let me know what you think! i probably dont talk about Ready Player One very often but thats bcs i dont know anyone in real life (other than my dad) who has read this book, and the online fandom seems nonexistent. Who knows?

But yeah, I guess I made this post bcs I wasn’t able to share the collective nervousness, complaints, and excitement of Harry Potter or LotR or Percy Jackson fans when their fav books became movies.